skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeking anywhere in a video on YouTube is instantaneous for me. 1 gig symmetrical fiber in Portland, OR. You should look into network tools and see what’s causing the slowdown, because I doubt it’s on YouTube’s side.
I have a couple of volumes of RS data sheets sitting on the shelf in my shed, that I cannot bear to throw out. Yours if you want 'em.
> as shown by their retention statistics.

>That’s the thing about free markets, workers get to say no.

I like how these sentences are consecutive.
Show HN: Tock Timer – Simple web-based timer
After seeing that Google's web-based timer is currently gone, I decided to try putting one together.

It's a bit rough around the edges at the moment, but hopefully does the job. I'll put some time into making it look (and sound) a bit nicer over the next few days.
Did you read the comment? It claimed that amazon is not the outlier here.
There is zero benefit to banning use of domestically sourced fossil fuels (coal) while the use of imported ones (oil) is still allowed.
Web3 darling Helium has bragged about Lime being a client for years. Lime says it isn't true.
> The base reality ("I am only sexually attracted to other men") has existed since time immemorial, the cultural conditions for expressing that reality change as the ages change.

Would your answer to the original question then be that the "sense of identity" is the result of or predominately from nurture? That is, one who sees as "gay" or "straight" sees themselves as such because of culture? Or to put it in a more generic manner, culture determines identity?
20 years sounds really short to me? I've seen numbers quoted anywhere from 30 to 50 for PEX.
I assume they already are. Not just from explicitly benefit reductions like increasing the retirement age, but also the decreasing purchasing power of a dollar (inflation) outpacing any cost of living adjustments. I still have 35 years to go before I can collect, but I expect the demographics will be so tilted by then, that I will see little benefit from Social Security.
https://archive.ph/y4qHx
Everyone should understand that when entrust your property to someone else, whether trusting Google with your data or a bank with your money (or valuables in a safety deposit box) they are the ones who, for all intents and purposes, now "own" your property. You may have legal claims on it, but at the end of the day, they control it and ultimately decide what to do with it.
Old man yells at clouds?

There's an overabundance of interesting and great software on js, but yet we fixate on cherrypicked bad examples of things one doesn't like.
The issue is that you are banking on everyone else to subsidise your motorways (construction and maintance is paid to 50% from income/state taxes), and let's not even talk about the externalities, or the cost of the land occupied by those roads.

Moreover what you call freedom is only freedom for those with enough money. Instead of heavily subsidising car/motor travel we should invest that money into making it possible for the next generations to continue living on this planet. That's not going to happen with more and more cars.
C++? The Linux kernel is written in C, not C++.
NHS to use AI to identify people at higher risk of hepatitis C
The question is if it is worth the extra investment to try to
stop -everything- or if blocking 95% if good enough and let
some nerds have their fun on the side.

FBI broke / infiltrated TOR,
I am sure the Russians can do much more.
But does it need to achieve the goal they have set?

The US blocked Russia Today US on cable and YouTube.
You can still get it. But for the vast majority
they dont have to.

""
RT, the English-language news network funded by the Kremlin and based in Moscow, was dropped from YouTube and American cable in early March, but still appears on an assortment of alternative video-hosting platforms,
""
(Yes you can say that it was American companies not the government that banned RT. The distinction in reality is little. )

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/11/07/how-did-...
where reporting on the war is described as a “special operation chronicle
Not my experience. I'm happy to hack things so I have more alone space and time too. I don't see the two opposed at all.
Dude is a climate activist. I think other things preclude him from cryptocurrency.
If someone is willing to sell their dignity (which I guess is now defined by whether or not you urinate in a bottle) then why should we stop them?

We’re not talking about safety or child labor where there’s a moral duty to put up guard rails.
I agree, that'd probably be the best model for most of the world, but it's unlikely to fly in the US. But that's ok: they can have commercial certifying entities, and otherwise, it could be a government function.
> Copper is used for 12 and 14 gauge branch circuits. Aluminum branch circuits are currently strongly discouraged.

Maybe you're already saying this: there was a period (maybe ~70s) where aluminum was used for household wiring because of the advantages you mention. Unfortunately it oxidizes resulting in higher resistance leading to heat and potentially fire at connections. Where I am, insurers ask you if you have aluminum wiring when you buy a house (and penalize you for it), and it is generally regarded as a failed experiment.
I find it asonishing that only now I learn that radioactive waste stays much longer radioactive than being dangerous. Also other good arguments are put forward by normalizing material costs VS expected energy production capacity.
Does any job have dignity anymore?

I'm a white guy on a team of a all Indian developers and I spend half of my time kissing butt to fit in, just so I can get the basic information I need to do my job.

Before that I was a truck driver and peed in a bottle and that actually had more dignity then kissing butt all day.

Single moms useing only fans to keep paying these skyrocketing rents.

They literally made half the work force submit to experimental vaccines or get fired.

This is 2022 America.

There's no such thing as work place dignity in the majority of jobs anymore.
Sounds like Australia to me.
Water that you swim in is already unfit to drink in any significant quantity, and it's not deadly just to swim in really salty water.
I think any useful definition of arranges marriage involved one or both parties not having a say in it, or maybe where one party has such a better negotiating position (such as immigration rights to the USA), that it precludes any other notions of compatibility.
> There's a difference between "neutralizing unions" and "neutralizing labor's attempt to ..."

The term neutralize as used here (i.e. "to counteract the activity or effect of : make ineffective", Merriam-Webster dictionary) actually make both sentences nearly identical.
I once beat a colleague of mine driving is Porsche 911 Turbo in an impromptu street race in a deserted semi-demolished housing scheme somewhere in central Scotland, in an elderly Citroën Dyane.

Yup. With its 602cc engine, it absolutely wiped the floor with the 911. Totally unfair fight, fully 30 seconds faster per mile.

I probably shouldn't have goaded him into the bits that still had speed bumps, eh?
Before 2010: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
Except the reason streets became car-centric was due to lobbying from car companies to remove streetcars.

Once streetcars were gone, people had to own cars.
It’s just a ridiculous conversation.

Cars are popular because they solve a real problem for the overwhelming majority of people in the US.

Biking is a novelty in most climates and public transit is only an option if your time is worth very little.
Metro area != urban

Good luck without a car in pretty much any suburb. Your time has to be worth nothing to make biking or public transit work for your needs.

You essentially need to be in a hyper dense, urban area to live without a car. Most Americans have no interest in living like that.

> You have sen the videos of people in Finnland commuting by bike in winter? Living in a nordic country I can tell you it is easily possible to bike all year round even here.

And I live in MN where biking in the snow would be possible (and fun!), but again, only as a novelty. The percentage of people who would be willing to commute in the manner this is so low you could round it to 0.
Tang Nano 9K – FPGA SBC with HDMI
Invasive reptiles, amphibians have cost global economy billions study suggests
> They were the first to $15[...] now they pay closer to $18 by me

This is bullshit.

I'm sure there's some Hollywood accounting justification for this claim, but over 10 years ago close to $18/hr is what you could expect to make as associate working in the distribution center of another big corporate behemoth: Walmart. We're talking low-skill grindwork smack dab in the post-economic collapse, and that $18/hr figure does not account for the "veteran" workers on the receiving end of the more-or-less guaranteed annual pay bumps that come with just continuing to work there. (They were making $20+/hr.) Again, not now in the current post-COVID era (because otherwise who cares), but over 10 years ago.

It blew me away when a few years ago I learned that Amazon was only paying something like $13.

So Amazon is $15 today? Who cares. Almost every fast food place around is paying close to that now, I'm told. $15 is so low that no one was getting paid that low at the Walmart DC that I'm familiar with, which (again, since it bears repeating) was over 10 years ago.
Farmers use GPS and other technologies to plant crops with inch-level accuracy while maximizing land utilization and minimizing fuel/fertilizer. Take that away and somebody's going to starve (or start a war to keep from starving). This might play out in Africa soon with the collapse of Ukrainian grain imports.
almost nothing. maybe the MacBook air I bought in 2013.
> But the amount of concrete and steel for sun and wind is striking. This has to do with the low energy density of these two.

No, it's not striking at all, and this is just as BS argument as the people arguing that nuclear isn't clean. As far as the energy density, include all the steel and concrete used outside of the reaction chamber, and you will find that nuclear and solar are pretty much on the same order of magnitude, and that's using the numbers from newer reactor designs that have consciously tried to reduce the amount of concrete by a factor of two.

But of course, all this is misdirection from the real challenges of nuclear, which is finding somebody who can build it and somebody who is willing to take the financial risk of nuclear, when it looks like a terribles mis allocation of capital, if one's goal is to decarbonize energy.
I wasn't able to readily find any collections, and searching for anything plus the keyword "pdf" returns links to articles written in pdf

That said, this GitHub topic may have some pointers: https://github.com/topics/malware-samples
Here's one with more comments than the first link in your comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415708
"At present, the Czech Republic is working on the design of their own non-nuclear aircraft carriers. Planned to build at least two aircraft carriers."

Neither Wikipedia nor a quick DDG have anything about this. Fake site probably.
Will Visual Basic still be supported ?
Good for some use cases, but still plenty of servers that are hostile to K8s because ie you have to login and enter a license key, or something like that.
The containerization features used by projects like Docker and Kubernetes are provided by the Linux kernel. Containers are not VMs, they're just regular processes.
Yup. I walk everywhere and hate walking on streets shared with cars.
Usually I say the best introductory programming class is Harvard's CS50 (available online for free through EdX). What's good is they don't just focus on one language, but keep switching languages as the weeks roll along. That gives you not just programming experience, but that crucial insight that languages have more in common than their differences. (And it also tries to touch on most of the major constructs -- linked lists, sorting algorithms, recursive loops.) It's slogan is "challenging, but definitely do-able" -- which I think is one of its biggest strengths. It's fun, but it also gives you some of the actual excitement of real-world programming -- and it exposes you to things that are excellent jumping off points for further study.
First, I put my title and abstract in, then have it generate the introduction. That worked weirdly well. Then, I had a few ideas I was having trouble writing, and so I'd give a prompt and then take what it gave me, improve it, and use it as a prompt again. It really generated some excellent material.

However, if you ask for quotes with citations, I think it just makes the shit up. Careful with dealing with a non truthful oracle. But, with critical thinking, playfulness and a strong handle on the intellectual material, it can be a great writing assistant!
Yep. Aluminum wiring can be safe, but you need to coat all the connections with anti-oxidizing grease. And even at at that, I don't know how long it lasts.

Copper pipe for water is often specified by code in commercial construction. I've heard this is due to lobbying by plumber's unions but not sure about that. Most residential construction will use CPVC or PEX these days.
Hack All The Things! Recent DIY/workshop/garage threads:

Rivet nuts, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32235908

Making holes without an electric drill, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32124451

DIY tool storage + kaizen foam alternatives, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32066503 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32067236

Pozidriv + Robertson & Torx screws https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31956655 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958512

Mini drill press + X-Y tables, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31875997 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31873273
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/muZg5
There are some here, as test files in the qpdf library: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/tree/main/qpdf/qtest/qpdf

(But still, note: A couple of months ago I wrote a low-level PDF parser—just parse the PDF file's bytes into PDF objects, nothing more—and fed it all the PDF files that happened to be present on my laptop, and ran into some files that (some) PDF viewers open, but even qpdf doesn't. I say "even" because qpdf is really good IMO.)
I actually get a fair amount of sales content on my feed, and I have to say - tech is catching up fast in the cringe department.
Your points are all true but box is not at all the kind of app I was talking about. Box must be deployed to tens of thousands of users and likely operates in a competitive environment.

I'm talking about the kind of app that exists in one organization, has 1 - 10 users, and is not a huge part of one persons job.

Something like an EDI tool that sends invoices to that one creditor that requires some strange EDI format and only just makes up enough of your business for it to be worth while. Where the EDI was written 15 years ago and no one knows much about it. Then you get a new dev asked to make a small a change and comes back saying they need a week to improve its performance or shrink it's binary.
Minimum wage should be going up all the time to keep it inline with inflation. That's the point of minimum wage.

Minimum wage used to ride regularly, then since 2005 has remained constant while in real terms reducing by about 40%

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1065466/real-nominal-val...
Actually it's a lot easier. You get more rates and land tax from the denser housing you can have.

Drivers don't pay for roads. They get subsidised by everyone else paying property taxes. The money out of the fuel taxes is insufficient to cover the costs that cars cause.
>> Don't windows in GNOME have a minimize button by default? And then you use the overview to bring the window back if you want? Am I missing something?

No. By default there are no maximize and minimize buttons. They were explicitly removed:

https://digitizor.com/gnome-3-maximize-minimize-buttons/

You can add them back with gsettings changes or "tweaks":

https://trendoceans.com/how-to-get-minimize-and-maximize-but...
Spot on. I really hope that through automation, rural public transportation becomes cheaper and more frequent as a result.

I was lucky, since I lived in town, but my childhood friends would come to school by bus. It took them 3h to get here, the motorist had to cover all the tiny villages along the way, and time adds up. If we didn't have those buses (most of them were vans), well then, I don't think most kids would get their lessons.

Who had cars though? No problem.

But yeah, it's difficult to employ a system on a rural area.
It's been gone for a few months now, so it's not looking likely. Actually ended up writing my own which I now prefer, but I do hope you're correct since it's so useful to others.
As I recall this was truly a case of real time encryption!
Most public transit vehicles don't have seat belts, and often force people to stand.
You can be good at more than one thing in your life. If all you do is program you’ve hamstrung yourself badly. Some people see it and course correct, others become old men, full of regret.

I’ve known of two bike clubs that would refurbish old bikes for kids. Once you learn enough maintenance to trust your own repairs at speeds and distances most people avoid, doing repairs for others isn’t much of a stretch. Fixing calculators or tablets or game boys wouldn’t be a full time job. A lot of social projects are volunteer or nonprofit.
Absolutely. It’s completely a consequence of the _choice_ to employ exclusionary zoning.
Yeah I know of CPVC piping that is at well over 20 years and still OK. It does get brittle with age though.
Lot's of excellent critiques and comments in this thread.

Wirth has spent most of his life in an academic environment which have shaped his opinions on teaching programming. He believes strongly that teaching programming is most effective when students can grasp the entirety of a small language.

Below are a few quotes from Wirth taken from a 2018 interview. I find myself agreeing with his opinions:

On designing a programming language:

"...a language designer picks ideas from others, facilities, features, and has the task of putting them into a coherent whole, into a framework. And that is less easy than people might think, because you want to have as much power in the language as possible, yet a compact structure and compact syntax. And that you can get I think only through experience with language design."

On teaching a first programming language

"..as I did in the Pascal times, the foundations have been laid when a person learns his first programming language. That’s the key. In order to do a good experience, you have to have a clean language with a good structure concentrating on the essential concepts and not being snowed in. That is my primary objection to the commercial languages – they’re simply too huge, and they’re so huge that nobody can understand them in their entirety. And it’s not necessary that they’re so huge."

On further development of Oberon:

"The incentive came from colleagues mentioning that they had learned very, very much from my book called Project Oberon, which is one of the very few describe a full system and its development in detail. That’s something in computer science that is wrong. People learn to write before they have learned reading."
The Lee Valley cutters are excellent, but max out around 1/2" depth. Any recommended wood plug cutters for deep (1" - 2") plugs?

Are the Lee Valley cutters related to the Fuller ones, https://wlfuller.com/html/plug_cutters.html & https://wlfuller.com/html/about.html?

> During the late 1950's, Warren Jr. renovated the countersink design -- a change that is extensively used today. Originally the flutes of the countersink were straight in design. In the new model the flutes are slightly slanted. This modified the tool from a scraper to a cutter. The design allowed the wood chips to clear, preventing clogging.
Your second comment is incorrect.
A standard in the Linux world. Windows doesn’t have “distributions”, so there’s less need for containers in that space. Microsoft uses Service Fabric internally for the Azure back-end, which covers most of the other use-cases of Kubernetes.
> but it’s weird to think that he is just trying to make as much profit as possible

Why is it weird to think that?
Haha stop upvoting my wrong comment people!

Apparently Scott never gave a fuck. :) Dope.
I've been using a RPi 4 with 8GB RAM and Ubuntu Mate as the OS for a full year now as my daily workstation. I code, I design... even video-editing and opening multiple tabs with YouTube works perfectly fine (although maybe not as fast as a beefier machine).

P.S. Besides, it's perfectly silent, since a passive aluminum cooling block with a rib structure cools it enough.
Not only that; this is before a guilty verdict!

> Mr Rolles has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial.

And it certainly seems extreme:

> Mr Davis said one of his clients had been pulled in by police after they reacted with a "thumbs up" emoji to Facebook comments shared by friends who were also allegedly part of Blockade Australia activities.

> "A thumbs up, it's not much in terms of communication," the activist told the ABC.

> "The fact that the state finds that threatening — people talking and sharing our ideas — is very telling."

> No breach of bail charges were ultimately pursued over the "likes".
Delivery is to carless as AWS Lambda is to serverless. There is no delivery, there is only someone else's car.
> No other company in the industry comes anywhere close.

Arguably not the same industry (but devastatingly adjacent): have a look at FedEx warehouses. Recently as low as $13.xx/hr, same sort of grueling work, plus the privilege of not knowing whether you'll need to show up at 4:00 AM or 7:00 AM. You don't get to know that until the night before, when you call a phone number around 8 or 9 to listen to a recorded message that will tell you. (Even then, you might show up only to find tape over the time clocks with a note that they're going to be starting later, after all, with the expectation that you'll just hang out off the clock in the meantime and then start at the new designated time.¹) And you have no idea how long you'll be working, either (except that it won't be 8 hours). 5–6 hours is possible. ~3 hours is probable. So you'll need to work 6 or 7 days just for the chance that you might get close to 30 hours. Ridiculously high turnover, as expected.

1. Yes, really. This is begging for a DoL inquiry; "Package Handlers are always paid for TIME WORKED [...] In the future please meet with your manager before just leaving. Thank you." — says a FedEx Ground facility's Area Manager, "Crystal", in an email.
In this regard RISC-V has a whole lot of catching up to do if it wants to be something other than a footnote in the story of the ARM takeover of the world.

I know the openness of the RISC-V platform is ideal to hardcore FOSS fans, but they're far outnumbered by those who will be satisfied with the cheap, fast, and plentiful ARM chips currently on the market, and the cheaper and faster ones sure to come.
Relating to those pay bumps: Amazon has targets for staff turnover, which will potentially purge anyone who gets incremental pay increases even if they start doing that (which AIUI they don't really)
Living in cities with high crime and police that won't stop it with self-defense bans/punishments on those that try to defend themselves seem to be a safety hazard too.
The video formed the analogy that was the metaphorical backbone of the article. I thought it was interesting and I probably wouldn’t have watched the video if not for the blog post.
It is actually similarly difficult to Google other new battery chemistries like lithium-iron-manganese-phosphate batteries (Google would confuse it with lithium ion manganese oxide batteries).

Double quotes still help though.