skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not it. Googlers were good when Google was a startup with a high bar of entry trying to change things. Nowadays Google is a prestigious company. They are attractive to people who are first and foremost looking for a prestige job and don’t get me wrong they can be quite good but generally that’s not very interesting people.
i'm having a hard time getting enthusiastic about tech that facilitate turning computation power on and off on demand.

To me, the only real problem left in the web space is persistent data storage. This is the thing that doesn't scale, that's hard to migrate, that sometimes have hard consistency requirement, that has to be really secure, etc...

I've never ever been worried about running out of ephemeral servers. Am i the only one ?
Don't take advice from the only person making money?

I'm not sure the metaphor fits
It’s powered over USB-C :)
Viewed from today, both the ZX80 and the 2600 are very limited, but viewed from either machine, not the same thing, IMO.

The ZX81 used the CPU for generating the video signal, but it had a character ROM (small, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80_character_set), used its copious (ha!) memory for storing data for the entire screen, and shipped with the necessary software so that it, when left alone, would show the contents of the current screen without aid from the currently running program.

IIRC, ZX80 video memory wasn’t a width × height matrix, but more like in a text file, with a special byte value separating lines, making empty lines cheap (you only needed to store the EOL token), and left-aligned text cheaper than right-aligned text, memory-wise (leading spaces ate into memory use, trailing ones needn’t be stored). The system needed that because that memory came from your one kilobyte of RAM. Filling the screen would use a large fraction of available memory)
If I was bedridden for probably the rest of my life, I’d really appreciate if someone stabbed me to death.
https://playcode.io/pricing might help?
A pop-sci cover:

https://www.physics.purdue.edu/news/2022/0523_zhou_nature.ht... (also avail: https://phys.org/news/2022-06-duality-physics-mystery.html)

The results basically shall allow experimantalists (i) working on non-Hermitian systems to experiment with systems in (hard to obtain) curved spaces and, consequently due to the duality, (ii) those working on curved spaces to explore non-Hermitian physics.
Google has raised prices but has AWS?
The car industry was back then - well, moving fast and breaking things. Maybe progressives today should be a little more conservative.

I bet that in 45 years the conservatives are going to be the ones arguing to keep some social networks alive and the progressives will be pursuing closing them down because they ruined society. (or something like that just as comical)
Then change it in the legislature if that's what you want. That's what the Stored Communications Act did for ISPs, otherwise all ISP records would be subject to Third Party Doctrine. Thankfully the US chose to update its regulation to match modern usage of technology instead of going "oh no, the government now has access to our ISP records, we shouldn't transition anything important to the internet because that will be the death of private communications".

It doesn't make much difference to me personally, bank records have never been subject to 4th amendment protections and Americans don't freak out about that, don't see why financial transactions are much different. Cash transactions are already not supposed to be private because records are supposed to be kept, it's just easy not to keep records which is a fact exploited by criminals.
I would guess that google and other search engines have much better search functionality than curated services. You'd find a case via google, then review the details on a curated service.
That's not how most arranged marriages work, it just means instead of getting options from Tinder, people get options through their parents' social network.

Which usually means they're more selected for things the parents like (well respected in the community) rather than things that look good in pictures (shirtless pics).

But they're still options, not compulsions.
EXIF came in handy when I purchased a puppy from an out-of-state breeder. I used the GPS data to verify where he said he lived before I sent off the deposit. Oddly enough, I turn off this location data for my own photos due to privacy.
Belltown resident for decades chiming in. It really is extremely walkable, including to Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market as well as locations the previous post mentioned.

Bell St. is a park (albeit paved for vehicles), and it finally received signage about local-only car access:

https://mcusercontent.com/b6749cc9930b55a313056721e/images/2...

That image is from the latest Belltown United newsletter - https://www.belltownunited.org/

I'm a proud Belltown Community Council supporter/participant.
> I don’t want to settle for a world where crypto is just speculation and gambling.

When Bitcoin first came out, many years ago, it was sold as being a decentralized currency and that phrasing caught my attention. I'd follow it avidly and watch with interest as different shops and retails were starting to accept payments in Bitcoin. I'd make it a point to spend Bitcoin with those places to show my support.

But over time, as the currency experienced volatility, all of those places withdrew the option.

When I tell people about this and how much I've spent, their reaction is always that I could have been rich if I had held on to the coins, and to me that misses the point or the original intention. In fact I think very few people still subscribe to its original intention.

My point: it's always been speculation and gambling, right since the beginning. You will need to settle now, or plan your escape.
Google Home is still doing timers, which happens to be my main use case for it.
Yeah, absolutely. I learned to code in middle school in TI Basic during math class (much to my math teacher's dismay), writing little platformer games as a snarl of GOTOs and pixel on-off (because the more robust drawing functions weren't fast enough to do real-time gameplay/animation). Impossible code to read, but I had a lot of fun.
mine died a few days after warranty ended. Not just the battery - the entire platform. The cost of replacement was more than a small tablet, even with a discount offered over the phone. Kindle was great while it worked. A small tablet seems to work just as well.
Heh. This is the second time I've posted this in less than 24 hours, but it's relevant. I won't even apologize for the plug as it's not something I particularly care about.

In case you want to go old school, I made a clock. It's a PWA so you can use it as a widget or app. It's open source - just click "View Source". (Actually, I may have ripped off most of the code, I can't remember, so don't do that.)

Why? I like analog clocks to keep track of time. To me they're like moving pie charts. So I made this for myself and will bring it up on a second screen or an HDTV if I need it. You'd be surprised how useful it can be.

https://qidget.com/clock/
That is a very famous, widely discussed (and widely distorted quote) not some random comment.

And your example reinforces my point. There is a sickness that spread from the Reagan era, but recognizing it is crucial to treating it.
My prompt only includes username if it's not the usual one, and it's on an orange-red background if it's root.

Similarly, my prompt doesn't include the host when I'm logged in normally, adds it when I'm in a shell via sudo/doas, and colors it when I'm logged in via SSH.
I always liked the idea of

- live in a town

- keep car in a garage in the town

- retrieve car only when you need to go somewhere outside the town
>Urbanism seems to be taking strong root in the popular imagination today, especially among young people,

That's #2

>And in this matter, the "old fuddy-duddies" are the ones who want to keep the new, aberrant patterns of development and transportation that became dominant during their lives,

That's #3
I'm not sure how much they pay attention to community discussions, but I did find this thread. Looks like some users are really against this stuff.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-needs-to-shift-to...
Do you have any knowledge whether there's still much of this going on?

I remember futzing around with TI Basic and downloading/sharing more complex games from others... but we didn't have smartphones then. I just wonder to what extent students still care about that stuff today.

I suppose there's still some appeal from the "look like you're doing work" factor if nothing else.
But nowadays we have smartphone apps that you can point at a plant and it will give you its place in the phylogenetic tree.
That is what Carbon prevents, yes. And, inside a particular function that does it, it's obviously easy to detect. But in the calling function, it's not easy to detect.

If in boo.cpp you call your g() function which is in foo.cpp, how does the compiler know if it's taking the address or not? It's in a different compilation unit. All the compiler knows at that point is there's a function 'g' that takes an int by reference. It has no idea what 'g' does with it, it doesn't even know where 'g' is - that won't be known until link time. So the compiler is forced to be conservative and allow for 'g' to do anything that C++ allows - which includes stashing the reference somewhere or const_cast'ing away a const& into a mutable reference.

This is where Carbon's win comes in. Since that behavior just isn't allowed, the compiler doesn't have to be conservative. It doesn't need to somehow see into different compilation units to perform helpful optimizations (critically for const unique_ptr& or const shared_ptr&)
Given something like Moore's law, this feels something like a power-play by cloudflare to just have more control over your stuff?
> this means that using, say, a dictionary means that quite a bit of the implementation gets hard coded into every site that uses the dictionary

I don't understand this part of your comment. There's nothing preventing you from designing a nice well-encapsulated map/dictionary data structure in C and I'm sure there are many many libraries that do just that.

I do agree though that having such basic data structures in the standard library, as modern C++ does, is usually preferable.
Its a commonly held belief that private cars are less energy efficient and are less environmentally friendly per passenger mile than mass transit. But that’s a myth. On average the American passenger car is more energy efficient than mass transit. In fact, there are only two mass transit systems in the US more efficient (in cost, energy and carbon) than driving a Prius.

https://theicct.org/planes-trains-and-automobiles-counting-c...

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-615.pd...
Constant disk access with ext4 caused by kmmp (2020)
https://github.com/FortyNorthSecurity/EyeWitness
Yeah, other founders are usually welcoming and willing to help or collaborate. I feel grateful to be able to connect many nice people in the startup community :)
Usually the other version involves the American having to do headstands in shit.
A follow-up thread where Randall Monroe (and others) choose their favorite one for a pet: https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1553065747978543106
The point is to flip those rules in areas like cities.

In the centres of many European cities, cars must yield to pedestrians, or are excluded completely.
Another great example of a solo-founder OSS project is HTTPie https://httpie.io/
I feel like “vendor lock-in” is fundamentally different when you’re (a) not paying for the underlying libraries and don’t have to worry about future price hikes (b) can edit and modify the underlying source code to suit your needs.

It also seems like you and I are having very different experiences with how much boilerplate we need to write to get simple programs working. In streamlit[1] for example you can get a dashboard up and running in minutes.

[1] https://streamlit.io/
And to OP, fixed meaning the rate does not change for entire loan. I've heard some non US folks describe their mortgages as "fixed", but only for a few years.
Still no serious discussion about how giant traditional finance players waltzed right into crypto after the hard foundational work was done and easily pushed over multiple marketplaces and currencies to cash out any way they could. Also no discussion about how crypto totally failed as a hedge and moved in lockstep with real markets when things started to look bad due to strong ties to conventional finances, thus defeating the purpose. No discussion either about how DAOs have now intervened multiple times in trading and seized money and made unfavorable trades on behalf of investors.

When do we get an honest cards-on-the-table post mortem for the past few years of crypto?
You're charging at windmills when there's a perfectly good actual dragon snoozing on the next hilltop.
Tell HN: Programmers do not use a bug free program to debug programs
try to debug the following program:

def hasbug(p):
return debug(p) == p

I know that hasbug has bug meaning hasbug(hasbug) == True

therefore I do not use a bug free program to debug programs

let me know if you find this interesting
This is something a good Wi-Fi controller can solve. It brutally disconnects the misbehaving device to force him to switch. There is unfortunately a lot of such devices which are very poor at hopping and hence this is a common workaround in many WiFi products, you don't even need to get something enterprise grade.
What is wrong with leaking news about layoffs?

Or to ask the reverse: in case of layoffs that are kept secret who is benefiting from secrecy:
the users/consumers, the employees, the investors, the founders?
Some major streets in Brussels banning cars doesn't mean Europe is a car free society

By your own logic, can't he just stay in the US?

https://www.amny.com/transit/times-square-car-free-1-3198229...
Not the parent, but feel compelled to clarify the physics here. Delta E= force * distance always holds. This is the same physics of a car breaking or a jet accelerating.

However a more general formula would be the integral of net force over distance.
The few times I visited Boston I thought the subways were fantastic - got me almost everywhere in the city close enough to walk.

Was it faster A to B than a car? Maybe not in drive times. But I didn't need to find parking, which can be very time consuming (or extremely expensive.)
As an American honestly considering this because I hate the car-dependent lifestyle… any advice on where to start? I’m OK with lower compensation. I suspect I have the savings to purchase a home or at least rent for a year. I speak… modest french, and I’m willing to learn another language.

Emigration seems tough without a company sponsoring you, though.
You’re been wise. As soon as money is invested that’s not your own, the business is in long term trouble.
Let's not forget that the client (phone, tablet...) also must support 802.11k for it to work.
I don't have a car and absolutely hate the car-centric culture of American cities (I live in SF).

That being said, this article is completely wrong and draws the wrong conclusions. People were anti-car early on because most people didn't have cars. Later, people stopped being anti-car because most people had cars. The article would have you believe that at no point in time did the majority of people want car-centric city streets and that it was forced on them by a small minority of people interested in selling cars. That simply isn't the case. Vocal opposition to cars faded away as more people owned them.

It's important to understand the status quo correctly if we ever want to change things. The sad reality is that most people want cars, even in dense cities. As I look out my apartment window on a Sunday morning, with pleasant weather and a walkable green neighborhood, I still count far more cars going by than people on foot or bicycle. Hopefully that would change if we made it easier and safer for people to walk, but it's not productive to pretend most people secretly hate cars.
This is why I read HN. Thanks so much! That has been driving me crazy forever now.
Thanks for the feedback!

1) Click on the stopwatch timer title; you can edit it in place. Indeed, discovery of this is not great. My UX designs tends to be quite minimal. I'll try to make this more obvious.

2) I'm considering building use-case specific sites with the same backend to more adequately support each. I despise how many generic sites overload UI with junk aimed at certain power users for a use-case I don't have.

3) Splits are already supported for stopwatches.

4) This touches an occasionally requested feature of making sequential "entities" - most often in the context of circuit training. 5 minutes of bench pressing followed by 5 minutes of jumping jacks, etc. Allowing the addition of a stopwatch at the end of the sequence makes sense. Thanks
Parking is an underrated part of the equation that many on here are not taking into account. It's scarce, and extremely expensive.
Plug cutters, especially those that cut a tapered plug are an interesting exercise in patent shenanigans. As mentioned in this thread, a tapered plug is almost always superior than a straight sided one...the wedge action as the plug is driven down results in a very snug fit. Lee Valley Tools has a patented Snug Plug cutter. As you might imagine, it's been ripped off by many manufacturers. Lest you thing a tapered plug was patented...be aware it's not. The tool design itself is. In the case of the Lee Valley cutter, it has 4 "legs" that outline and then shear the sides off the plug. A quick patent search on "tapered plug cutter" will illustrate many designs...all patented, and resulting in a tapered plug. The idea is to copy the result of the product, and not the product itself. I will say the Lee Valley Snug plug cutters work very well. While you can use them hand held, they (like any similar cutter) will function far better in a drill press.
Whatever happens I hope (not for me/us really, but for our kids and next generations) there is a plan and will materialize as single upstream.
I think Satya did a pretty good job changing Microsoft's culture. This let them go after cloud, O365, gaming, and more product instead of sales led.
That's a pretty good overview. It matches up roughly with the approaches I have taken with load testing, but mostly self taught, so it's good to see that I've landed with the right thoughts in the right areas.

But this:

> Last but not least, you can split responsibilities even more, by not letting your loaders record latencies (e.g. response ms), instead you’ll use a probe for that.

It would be good to know why the loader shouldn't record latencies. I use JMeter, it's not a great UI, but it's got all the information needed, and it's nice to record all the stats from one place. The probe is just representing another request among many, what benefit is there to having it separated out?
A short writeup about my most recent generative art release: Gradient Ascent
Certainly a combination! Here’s a study I think every child should be taught, where they created artificially compartmentalized worlds for new music. They found:

1) many songs had almost no downloads in any world. They were “truly bad“, and avoiding that is the skill

2) amongst the non-bad, different song is went viral in different worlds. That is the luck.

So you’re both; half-congratulations!

https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full....
"Peer-to-peer"

"Centralized server"

Pick one.
These are the kind of devices which drag the entire network down...
I was on a TI-83, not a plus, and couldn't find them at all.

Always possible I was just an idiot. I remember having looked it up, but I was also a dumb high schooler at the time.
Agriculture is one of the most heavily subsidized and protected US industries. A not-insignificant amount of a farmer's income is just a federal check to maintain excess capacity in case of a shortage and to stabilize prices.

Food prices the world over are the lowest they have been in history. Grain prices are so low that grain is now fed to meat producing livestock--a new historical development. Food is so historically cheap that most of the western world can afford to be overweight and even the poor are obese.

This small preserve is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of hectares of Amazonian forest that has been cleared for ranching. The trend in most of the world is clearing forest for more agriculture, whether it is palm oil or bananas or livestock.

Whatever nefarious force you think is plotting a famine will not remain in power for long if there is a real famine. The actual people in charge know this and have no intention of asking the peasants to eat cake.
For a while I lived in an area in th US where I had a grocery store, a library, and several grocery stores within a mile. But my commute was 10 minutes by car, and almost an hour by bus. And the buses took a pretty direct route and there was a bus stop pretty close to my home. Part of it was just all the stops the bus made, and a big part of it was just waiting. The bus times weren't very reliable, so I had to show up pretty early, because if I missed the bus I would have to wait an hour for the next bus. And the bus just stopped and waited 20 minutes for a light rail to get there. And depending on the day, I might have to switch buses there.

And half a mile is still a long ways to carry groceries, especially in the heat or cold. But taking the bus required timing how long you shop so you are done in time to catch the bus that only comes once an hour.

And that doesn't even get into the hours the bus didn't run, or the inconvenience of having to carry all your groceries.

So while I think having such amenities closer to where people live, would be good, and would help. I don't think it is sufficient to solve the problems with public transit being slower.
Show HN: Ordinary Puzzles, a free puzzle game inspired by Picross and Sudoku
Hello hello HN!
I wanted to share with you Ordinary Puzzles, a little puzzle game I designed and developed in my free time, inspired by Picross and Sudoku.
I already posted it here ages ago, but I wanted to share it again now that I updated it to also be playable online as a Progressive Web App.
Ordinary Puzzles is open source, is built with React Native, and it’s available on the mobile app stores, on the web (as a PWA), and as an Electron app.

Hope you give it a try! (Please don’t skip the short tutorial :P)

https://ordinarypuzzles.com/

P.S.: The puzzles come from https://github.com/jsnell/linjat (the author is credited and has been contacted before using them).
> So it seems to be a phishing opportunity is to create a profile on LinkedIn or angel.co with a company name that matches your target company. Write some job postings with descriptions that look like a job posting that the company would actually hire. And now those job postings will be reposted onto the official LinkedIn pages of the company, and applicants will be redirected to your phished webpage.

Ehh, not sure how I'm targeting the company by doing that? If I understand correctly, you're actually targeting an applicant here.
If that title isn't a cheeky reference to "Avatar: The Last Airbender"s opening sequence, I don't know what's real anymore.

Title : "Botanists are disappearing - just when the world needs them most"

Avatar (IIRC): "[...] but when the world needed him most, he vanished [...]"