skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would love to hear your journaling technique if you’d be up for sharing
Having this stripe of wild prairie will fight against famine, in fact. And will help farmers.

This are the places where thousands of species of pollinators can breed and multiply. The same that will play a main role in crop production in all the farms around in a radius of several Km

Honey bees are good pollinators. The much smaller wild bees aren't just good, they are fantastic pollinators of lots of crops that honey bees ignore
A hammock hung in a shady grove of trees. Perfect for lazy Sunday afternoons.

A bunch of tplink smart light switches for the well used lights around the house. Deep satisfaction every night to turn off an entire floor with a voice command. Next up will probably be automatic roller shades, though they are considerably more pricy.
I wish I had this problem. I get maybe one or two messages from recruiters a month.
Everytime I ask for help with broken Wayland (which it is OOB across hardware and distros), I'm told it can only be me, because it works for some. Apparently Wayland is worth shilling over for some.

Fortunately Xorg works splendidly.
> Yes, the 1 cent coins have little copper, but multiple millions are produced per year

Billions are produced per year, not millions. The mint makes on average 10 billion pennies per year, https://qz.com/1318203/making-pennies-costs-the-us-mint-mill... Varies by year.

It is still a totally irrelevant amount of copper.

One penny has 2.95g of copper in it. 10 billion pennies have 30,000 tons of copper in them. Worldwide copper production is 20 million tons. 0.015% of the world's copper is used for pennies. That's a rounding error.

Just because a number is big, doesn't mean it matters.

Sure. Get rid of the penny. But not because it will impact our copper supply in any way.
That's glorious! The 70s and 80s were a wonderful and weird time for automotive design. I see echoes of it in the interior of my early 90s Saturn. https://img.hmn.com/900x0/stories/2016/11/1991-Saturn-SL2-In...
Wow, no one has mentioned a bicycle, I got mine for around 300usd like 10 years ago, a simple but useful MTB, since then I have invested no more than 800usd in addons and repairs ( to fix a bike is so cheap!) With it I've traveled for around 15 cities in my country (Colombia), I've discovered amazing places: lakes, forrests, mountains, rivers, towns and more... I've met lots of new friends and saved tons of money as it became my main mode of transportation, it also allowed me to know my city: new parks, new cafes, new spots you can't really see from a window's car perspective.
And additionally, it allows me to control my weight without having to spend a cent in a gym!
I would like more SBC options, rather than the solitary RPi right now. My sdcard shield popped off the RPi I have, and I had to resolder it back on. Two years ago, I would have just trashed it and bought another.
Even in the 1990s, a Xantia would be a cheap way to buy a luxury suspension. Still amazes me that my '74 DS and my '98 Xantia can use the same hydraulic fluid. Even the pressure spheres are interchangeable, although not advisable.
> As time has gone on, and we have encountered more and more PDF files with ever more unexpected deviations from the specification

Does anyone know of a collection of malformed PDF files? It would be useful for testing PDF processing programs.
Tens of kilobytes per second, at the lowest 144p setting.
For me it’s a combination of liking to walk and most importantly it’s kind of embarrassing to ride those things, they draw too much attention and that form factor doesn’t look great.
more like it's moved directly and solely into Google Assistant options. This is for a number of handy utilities that used to be available directly from search. Another example is ability to set a calendar reminder directly from a search "remind me tuesday at 8am". Annoying but part of larger push to funnel all of these queries that started as search into Assistant. (annoying because why do I have to use voice to do the query etc)
Russian oil that goes to China is heading to India as competition ramps up
Don't keep us guessing, what's the system?
I've seen the same with Glassdoor, years ago while on my previous employer. The company's name is also used by an American company in a completely unrelated business and vertical. Many times I saw job listings that were not for our company at all.
Similarly, "A case against" is way more toned down than "harmful." I agree that the opening statement is a strong stance and fits to the new title, but the article mostly focuses on proliferation of goto as a generic flow-control construct rather than exceptional such as using it as a "defer"-like construct in C where there's no alternative. I still think Wirth's edits hid the nuances in the article and helped fostering a strongly opionated dogma against goto by gifting a slogan to the masses.
This really depends on the topography of the particular city. Even some small hills can kill any time advantage very quickly.
I don't have this experience at all. I have a car in NYC and am a daily subway rider. Regularly comparing estimated time via Google Maps (which doesn't even include parking) the subway is almost always faster, certainly during hours when there is congestion (which is obviously when most people tend to travel).
Taylor Swift, Drake, Kardashians among worst celebrity private jet polluters
The Pallas DS was such a beautiful car, they should resurrect it as an eletric car.
RPG Maker goes on sale often especially older versions.
They’ve been sabotaging Ukrainian politics - and thus economy - for the past two decades.
No, running multiple apps is fine. In fact, it's what Harbormaster does, it just helps you manage server deployments a bit more easily.
Flat out laughed my ass off
The value here is primarily in the editor. It is a drag and drop scripting engine, asset editor, and visual story workflow editor. You can build your own SNES JRPG FFVI type game with this out of the box and learn what minimal coding skills are required, or beg a friend to code the hard parts for you.
What's the reasons for that?
I realize this is unrelated to the blog post but it is related to Carbon…
If you are creating an off-ramp language from C++ wouldn’t you keep the syntax as close to C++ as possible? The syntax looks like it would be more familiar to a Rust developer than a C++ developer.
Hah, it does! Though the 2 production runs they've done sold out pretty quickly. I think some 3rd party stores on AliExpress snapped some up and are reselling them, though if you follow their official twitter (@mangopi_sbc) they post their official page when there's more stock. They recently posted a picture of new boards being manufactured so there's hope!
How I miss the "old" internet. These fan made websites used to show up in google serps ages ago. I've never ran into these personal websites in the past 3+ years, no matter how deep I search.
I’d say using tons of “amazing engineering” to implement something that’s functionally equivalent to a trivial shell script is a rather poor engineering.
It is in no way "maxed out".

Seattle has better non-car options than average for the US, but it still has a looooong way to go before one could say that the transit or biking options are good; they're still quite bad on average.

Only one subway line, a handful of bus-only lanes, and a handful of protected bike lanes, maybe one or two protected intersections? Seattle has a lot of passable design, but very little that's good.
Okay, you’re just being obtuse. The original comment was about the quality of Russian software documentation. That is unrelated to cyberwarfare, a subject I wrote about extensively, and earned recognition for. [0]

[0] https://spia.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2022/05/13/john-allison-rec...
Cash is still king in Germany, but use of "contactless" payment methods have drastically increased in the pandemic.

Small shops often prefer or only take cash, or accept card payment only from a certain amount due to fees of the processors. I heard small businesses prefer cash for tax reasons as well.
Yes, I'd meant Dijkstra where I said Knuth despite that Knuth might still be relevant. I got this right in the book, no worries. :)
That's not a reasonable comparison. All other transportation methods are measured solely by tailpipe emissions or energy consumption, like they're some kind of natural geological phenomena. The CO2 emissions for shared scooters/bikes, according to Section 2.4, table 1, additionally include mining and processing the raw materials, manufacturing, shipping over the Pacific, shipping across the entire width of North America on a truck, collection, distribution, and maintenance.

The unmentioned takeaway of this study is how important it is to incentivize improved manufacturing methods that are closer to markets, as well as maintaining existing product (if it's reasonably efficient) to extend service life. Materials, manufacturing, and shipping are responsible for vast CO2 production, largely because there's a strong cost incentive to move that manufacturing to locations with inefficient production and/or loose controls that are far from the product's market. For reducing overall CO2 emissions, improving CO2/KM alone is literally only half of the picture.
> Asking a bunch of rich suburbanite kids to spend $150-180 Canadian on a TI-84 Plus is one thing, but I’m not sure I could really sleep at night forcing a disadvantaged family to pay that much for a machine – multiple days of work at even a $15 minimum wage – that surely didn’t cost more than $20 to construct.

There's a point where you have to realize a company has a duty not only to its shareholders, but to the society it exists in. When you achieve a monopoly, you become responsible for a lot of collaterals you normally wouldn't consider.
U.S. cities and towns are paying remote workers up to $20k to move there
There are slight differences in weight between the 1982 and later, and the copper containing pennies.

You don't need to use ML, you need a comparator of the kind found in 1000s of vending machines.
For some people X is just better at the moment. I am one of these people and, honestly, Wayland has nothing to offer me but issues here and there.

So I decided to just stick with X and not bother with Wayland until at least 2023-2024, and of course I would like X to still work in the meantime and it probably will.
You have so many options! I have Raspberry, Banana, Mango and Orange Pi boards sat here. NanoPi, Rock Pi, Radxa, Beaglebone etc all have alternatives available too.
You can bet on anything. I’m sure you can find a bookie that would provide spreads on a company going under or not.
My Francophile artist dad, who was a terrible driver, had a sky blue deux chevaux. He used to drop me off at school sometimes in the morning (UK midlands).

For urban driving he typically drove in 2nd or 3rd gear at around 23 mph which was very slow in a straight line and terrifying around corners and roundabouts. I used to see ashen faced drivers out of the passenger window trying to understand why his engine was screaming and the car was lurching at such an extreme angle around the roundabout lanes. He would typically have a car full of stuff which would be rolling around on the floor and it wasn't unusual be hit on the head with an easel or painting under extreme braking evasions. Great cars, spent a lot of time in 2CVs in France too, such character...
I suggest an abacus. It's a fun way to concretize mathematic operations. You can learn to represent up to ten digit numbers on the abacus, then do addition, then multiplication and division. Once you're multiplying numbers you can start to learn shortcuts to make using the abacus faster.

I think the abacus is a fun addition. We keep one on the counter where we eat breakfast. It's fun to just pick two three digit numbers and multiply them out.
> a single platform to monitor anything that developers would like to monitor

a jack of all trades, master of none
If global warming continues to raise sea level, it could well become the case that such a project is undertaken but with the goal of keeping the Mediterranean roughly where it is, which would simplify changes necessary elsewhere to keep the Black Sea a sea and keep harbors navigable.

Lowering the Mediterranean a few feet and running turbines at a flow rate to counteract evaporation might work, especially since evaporation and power usage track somewhat. Hot days evaporate more water, and require more air conditioning. The volume of the reservoir would allow quite a bit of buffer if you wanted to time shift some of that usage, aiming for monthly or quarterly averages instead of daily.
Debunked

https://www.vegansociety.com/get-involved/research/research-...
The articles don’t mention an interesting episode, in which Leonard Nimoy successfully insisted that Nichols’ pay be increased to match his own, when he discovered that she was getting less:

https://trekmovie.com/2014/07/31/koenig-leonard-nimoy-fought...
Thanks for sharing this! I have a project on the todo list that this will be perfect for!
I am doing something close to "storytelling-focused games like some I've played, stuff that's more like a VN". And to do that I am only using HTML and CSS. The result is a webcomic of an unusual kind illustrated with pixel art designed for RPGs.

This way it does not require programming and hence I can focus on the story. You can check out one of my stories here : https://drdru.github.io/twc/twc_save_aryn/01_intro.html (it's in Japanese, click on 次 at the bottom to go to the next page and get a feel for it).

There are also Javascript framewrok that allow you to create RPGs in the browser. You might want to check them out.
I’m looking forward to your efforts in rewriting it in Rust
We can just do both, since far from being conflicting targets, making it easier to build in general also makes it easier to build public housing.
How did the book club work? Was it similar to non tech book clubs? Wondering if people would be interested in something like this over Zoom :)
It's also super annoying to wait in line at the supermarket until all banknotes, coins and pennies are exchanged and counted between each customer and the supermarket employee vs paying by card wich takes 2-5s. It adds up to minutes wasted nearly every day.and probably weeks/months over a lifetime. Plus the CO2 to transport cash back and forth.

But most seriously, cash payments enable tons of tax fraud, especially by business owners in the hospitality industry, making it unfair to those with jobs who pay nearly half their salary in tax, while Gastro owners will buy another Porsche or vacation home from the taxes they dodged thanks to cash payments.

I hope they ban cash, it's annoying, time wasting, environmentally unfortunately and makes life super easy for tax fraudsters to the detriment of those who have to pay their taxes fairly.

The privacy reason is some hypocritical bullshit, as those same people using exclusively cash, carry privacy invasive Apple/Android phones and constantly use spying services of Google, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Tinder, Snapchat, etc. The real "privacy" they're referring to means privacy from the taxman for their illicit financial gains, a.k.a. tax fraud. That's the real reason, and I hope it gets cracked down.
Om Malik: The Future of Tech as I See It
In my country (NL) stonyfication of garden is a real problem. Apart from looking like shit, the loss of seasonal flowering plants and water absorption in the soil are becoming major problems.

There's peer pressure too: a neighbour is angry because leaves get stuck on our bushes and blow onto her gravel. People rave about being able to vacuum their garden. It's insane.

Terrace tax can't come soon enough.
I do not think discussions about transportation environmental cost usually sufficiently consider the productivity lost because of how long it takes to get places by public transport. We get a number of hours of productive work from each person every day, and so that productivity required all of the resources that the person consumed in a day. An extra hour of commuting every day, because I need to go from A to B, but because I take public transport I need to go A to C and then C to B and along the way need to make lots of stops, means that an extra fraction of the resources I consumed for that day will not be used for productivity.

Also, the diagrams showing public transport being more space efficient often seem to assume that the public transport will be at capacity. On my 30 minute bus ride, to/from a major downtown, I am not infrequently the only passenger on the whole bus.
This is the inevitable outcome of continuing to uphold the status quo of the car-dominant society: shortages in gasoline, lithium, cobalt, copper, urban land, etc.

We have to face the music: Converting gas cars to electric will only fix a small fraction of all the problems caused by cars. Redesigning cities so that most people won't require a car to work and live is the real solution.
That’s RPG Maker though, this is about EasyRPG which is more recent.
Nintendo also had something I think is a great idea when developing the NES: the video hardware had its own bus to the cartridge. This probably saved many cycles keeping the processor busy with other things instead of transferring content to the video RAM. It also allows better use of the system's very limited RAM and video RAM.

I don't know if there was any patent related to this, and I can't understand why SEGA didn't copy it. Maybe it could make the console more expensive since SEGA didn't produce their own chips and maybe they were really expecting to make ports easier.

I still think a bus connecting the video hardware to the cartridge could make the Master System way more powerful.
Initially, perhaps, but riding such hills regularly is a pretty good way to build up leg strength (and confidence descending) to the point small hills aren't really going to slow you down much. Traffic (+ stop lights) is far and away the biggest thing that slows me down on a bike - I can average 5 k/h faster once away from heavily congested areas with frequent stops required. In my city at least those less congested areas are the hillier ones!
Can aluminum take up the slack? I know long distance power cables are often aluminum. Even some of the larger gauge in-home wires. If copper prices rise too much, some demand will switch over to other conductors.
It's funny reading this thread where everyone is leaning towards "those dang kids and their smartphones are missing out" while ignoring things like Roblox, where entire economies are being built of the creativity of kids
Cities should be redesigned from the ground up. We have good technology for much better design collaboration.

There should be very small self driving vehicles and generally there is no reason for roadways to intersect directly with pedestrian paths.

The roadways should be multilevel in areas of high density.
I'd like to see 2 follow ups to these stories: how many remote workers take them up on it and how many stay 6 months more after the contract period.
Are there any languages that are bad at error handling then, according to that definition? That don't let you return values, set global flags, mutate arguments or in any other way communicate back from a procedure?
It is so easy and well documented that first page of google results for “rust autotools” does not contain anything about how to integrate rust code into existing autotools project.

Another issue is general subtle brokenness of rust tooling on anything that is not linux on amd64.
Sounds like the stuff I was doing in recess in kindergarten honestly. The kids will be alright. You can't watch them for every waking second as it is.
> Should I Switch From Turbo Pascal to Turbo Modula-2?

The million dollar question.

More seriously, I love Pascal and similar. My first two books were Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Pascal) and Algorithms and Data Structures (Modula 2), both by Nicklaus Wirth.
My first thought was “wheee.”
I get their focus on robotics, but I would imagine the artificial muscle could be used as a remedy for medical muscle atrophy conditions?
I just couldn’t find anything really worth.

Not on youtube, not on udemy or platforms like that.

So far I’m reading “botany for gardeners” and it’s a noce book, easy to read and to follow. Which is nice, because I wanted something akin to an introduction to botany for people who are not enrolled in an university.
This is an area that needs to be fleshed out, so far the best solution I've found is https://checklyhq.com/

Playwright + other monitoring checks as a service is amazing.

You do have to make your tests pretty resilient to prevent false positives through (retry on network issues etc.)

The Playwright test framework helps with that.
What percentage of US copper consumption is devoted to penny production?
Most were bought after financial crisis, when rates were higher. And they are still selling treasuries under 3%, while collecting probably an average of 5%.
What's fun of I naturalist is that with someone confirming your ID (or two others agreeing) your observation is included in a variety of databases used by researchers. It's fun to help out in a low key way.
Type safety and encapsulation are distinct issues. The Linux kernel uses many well-encapsulated interfaces but it's written in C and the typing reflects that limitation.

Personally I haven't used straight C in years and would never choose it over C++ unless platform constraints required it, but a vast amount of very complex software has been and continues to be written in C, including all the widely used OS kernels, so I don't find it very surprising that a new feature in a very old piece of software would be written in it.
Same reason people DuckDuckGo. They have a stronger connection to the history of snooping on civilians
Next up: joint trips to the local market on market day! You'll love it and maybe even outgrow hello fresh :-)
Was your DS 21 pre- or post-1968? Basically, did it have the red or the green fluid? I once drove mine from Denmark to Provence and back again, it was an experience, and not without problems (it started to leak around Paris). I am not sure I would make that big of a trip in it again (although, some part of me hopes I will). Since those days, I've mostly made the big trips in my '98 Xantia.
Thanks, that's very impressive!
Bring up your phone assitant and say "I want to take public transport to the meat packning district" and it will probbly work. My seven year old did it, and paid, on her own.

GTFS is published by most public transport these days, so you have all the routes described months ahead of time. You can actually have all the schedules offline.
Thanks for the actual answer!
Most people aren't going to australia with their car, they are actually only going under 3 miles with their car:
https://insideevs.com/news/585399/majority-daily-car-trips-l...
I’ve been waiting for a post like this. Thanks for writing it up. Even though the letter is light on details, it’s made up for with the extra context this article provides.

Minor spelling mistake: SaskTel, not Sasktell