skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the permission to fail.

I like that there isn’t a “regulatory sandbox” that took half a decade to set up, overfitting for all possibilities that they ultimately couldn’t foresee

I like that people take a risk, fail, everyone can see and replicate why it failed, make a post mortum, and attempt a more resilient solution or scrap that concept all together, all over the course of 18 months

Just rapidly iterate to the most Machiavellian hardened solution, or dont iterate as long as consumers and investors have not learned how to discern, until they do

I like that the bug bounty mindshare has gone to this, instead of wasting time on undervalued corporate bug programs where pricing and eligibility (and liability) is unilaterally decided by the corporation. This externality is the only way corporate bug bounty programs even begin to become an efficient market, as payouts have to rise to attract interest.
The Twizzler Operating System
> We killed the microbiology, the research is already done. Keep many kinds of plants in the soil year round, stop adding chems, this increases yield 3x and water retention enough to reduce irrigation demand up to 70%.

Permaculture, no-till, ... Not sure there are definitive research conclusions on this, especially "3x yield".

IME, the conclusions are not as straight cut, nor as general and imply profound changes, such as mixing crops, cultivating more land, reducing yield, never leaving the soil exposed. Many things that have to be done together, with local optimizations, to get significant improvement.

Just like "electric cars" don't directly solve the "many privately owned petrol cars" problem. A solution being the "electric car tech" + another ownership / sharing model + urbanism changes.
Not fans exactly, but the Bernoulli principle, which is sufficient to keep the car sucked to the track if the floor is designed in a specific way [0][1]

[0] https://motorsport-magazine.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-co...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(cars)
I thought that with DAX, it was possible to have a real file system, but access to the actual bits goes straight to the backing storage, not the page cache (as it would with traditional block devices). So the block layer and VFS inefficiencies would not necessarily matter, at least if you can use DAX.
Because it works again. Soldiers largely didn’t wear armor for 300 years because there was no material light enough to carry all day and strong enough to stop bullets. Now there are several.
We have to build a giant mountain to adjust days to a sensible 27h. Assuming an 8h work day this seems optimal. Everyone would be younger too, I don't see how anyone could be against this.
Consistent look is nice, but when talking about "native" UI, I really care about reliability and seamlessness.

Custom UIs tend to be crufty; slow-ish, sluggish, they don't quite integrate with OS conventions (right-clicks, C&P, tab, overflow behaviour, scaling, rendering quality, window resizing behaviour and so on). If a custom UI is none of those things, and not really ugly, I don't think I mind. For example, I never played a computer game and thought, nice game but why are the buttons so custom?

I think the "native look" requirement got further diluted in the last decade with the rise of so many new platforms. A while back, it was mostly Windows; Linux was less popular, and frequently TUI anyway, Mac was perhaps more niche. Java GUIs were a thing and not very well-received. But then at least these "platforms" came on with different, high-quality, "custom" UIs: Android, iOS, Electron (it has its own custom feel to it), generally web apps, and so on.

So I'm desensitised to native "look", but not native "behaviour".
I would rather have something that lets me inhale cold, dense air. I ran the numbers and at 45°C(113°F) the oxygen content by volume is so low in comparison to room temperature that it actually approaches the level at which the air is considered "oxygen deficient".

Of course you'll get the same effect at higher altitudes, but the difference is that you can acclimatize to them in a matter of days, whereas daily temperature changes are to high to enable the same in response to them.

I'm no expert, but considering that the body has to work harder to cool off during heat waves the effect could be non-negligible.
If you've ever actually seen '47g eggs' it's surely almost certainly because it's been scaled down from a much larger (i.e. commercial) recipe where that would make more sense.

You can buy (in the UK anyway) cartons of egg whites/yolks (separately) - which I think makes a tonne of sense for non-egg-whole cooking, and would love for it to be more common (i.e. cheaper, came out considerably more expensive when I did some 'napkin math' on it a while ago; separating eggs isn't hard/annoying enough to warrant it, I concluded) - but even then you'd surely measure it by volume, not mass.

Eggs by mass is surely whole, shell included; so yeah it's pretty much inherently approximate - as close as you can easily get to 47 (or more likely 470 or 4700) grams with whole eggs.
Let's compare the largest pumped water storage plant in the world - Nant de Drance in Switzerland [0] - with reactors at one of the largest nuclear plants in the world - Hanul in South Korea [1].

Nant de Drance has 900MW of storage, and took 14 years to build. Each of the last generation reactors in Hanul generate 950+MW of power, and took 5 years to build. The first newer generation reactor is 1340MW, and (assuming it keeps its schedule) has taken 10 years to build. They've done the first tests so they have some chance of connecting to the grid this year, but let's be pessimistic and say that it will take another 4 years - matching the construction time for Nant de Drance.

That's still ~50% more power, and it is actually generating it: for Nant de Drance to help, it also needs >900MW of actual renewable power generation plants to be built and operated.

[0] https://www.nant-de-drance.ch/en/the-plant

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanul_Nuclear_Power_Plant
RPG Maker XP and later are very flexible because you can actually use code and modify major parts of the game engine (you're limited mostly by the actual editor). But yes, in RM2K/2K3 your ability to break away from the standard JRPG framework is much more limited. Regardless, I've been surprised in the past with what people have been able to achieve within those limitations. I haven't played Ultima VII but I can't imagine it's completely out of the question, it just might require quite a lot of "innovation".
Summary: Their "smart" contract was accidentally programmed to accept a proof-less message as full root access.

if (authorization == 0) then accept_transaction(withdraw $150mil) print "oops".
> They are iconoclasts who break with tradition and replace old rules with new ones of their own making — mold-breaking innovators such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Elizabeth Holmes, who succeed precisely because they refuse to follow convention.

Elizabeth Holes was successful? At what?

I think they were successful because they build companies that were successful.

> They’re a way of reminding everyone of who he is — that his capacity to transgress is the measure of his capacity to innovate profitably.

> Why has the idea that the best innovators are disruptive gained such traction over the past decade or so

I don't understand this, innovators were always disruptive. Usually its just not well document because it might be within a company and to the outside looks like incremental change.

> the end of the Cold War broke those connections.

Long before the Cold War ended, Ford/GM, IBM were long past their innovative glory days. Ford/GM were being crushed by Japan. And in other news, things like Vietnam had already broken much of that as well, if it ever existed.

> In the United States, about three-fourths of postsecondary faculty members are white.

This article seems to put a lot in racial terms. But it seems to me that the people who are most anti-science are bunch of white right wing people. They should be happy all those white professors are there and believe them.

Seems to me race really fails as an explanation here. Having more diverse professors will hardly get the alt-right and science back together. And for that matter far left wing considers the whole concept of race as a capitlaist distraction from class war.

The reality is that for the most part people never really believed these expert in a deep way, there was just very little way people could make that clear. Today every group/organization is pushing its own narrative of the world. In the past you needed a real ground movement to do that, the communists could do it (partly with state support) but other groups couldn't really do it.

Bottom-up Religious movements also clearly indicate this to me. These movement believe the most random absurd nonsense that is clearly not even anti-science but anti-basic reality and basic logic and still the often find huge amounts of support. And given my study of history, such movement are common all threw history.

> Innovation needs to come out of such communities, rather than imposed on them.

That is such a narrow demand. Innovations come from a place or company. There are 100000s of communities that could profit from GMO and in no future will every community ever figure out its own science and technology.

Other nations always had a difficult time to adopt technology and there was often debate, but most of the time technology won. As Stephan Kotkin says, modernisation is not a cultural but a geo-political process. Technology is adopted by other government and forced on their communities if they want them or not, because if they don't, their country will fall behind.
It's still early days for us and we consider our current tasks, notes and events as very basic at the moment. Just want to see if the concept works at all for other people as it works for us. There is a long road ahead to get to the full functionality we envision.
Show HN: I made a minimalist time blocking app
I made a time blocking app with a minimalist look & feel, only time blocking one day at a time, customisable intervals and easy to organize without overlapping.

Current features:
- choose an interval of the block to 1 hour, 30 minutes and 15 minutes.
- easy to add a break time block with a single click.
- easy to organise the block with drag and drop to the desired slot.
- clear the day and start new for the next day

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Surely they’re orthogonal traits. A diverse group can unify. An example might even be the military.
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They aren't called inventors anymore. They are researchers, scientists, analysts, principals, entrepreneurs etc.
People are discovering and inventing new things, a lot of it in private companies.
I agree thoroughly with this - it's fantastic for building something quickly. If I need a quick script to do one-off data processing there's nothing better. My biggest problems with it IMO with respect to maintainable software are:

- The syntax required to build libraries feels like messing with the internals of the language. Defining various methods with reserved names that have 4 underscores each doesn't really feel like something you are supposed to do. The code becomes harder to read and messy IMO.

- Runtime type checking is great for iterating quickly, but bad for stable software.

- Encapsulation is only enforced through external tools, so if you aren't using those religiously you end up with problems with tightly coupled modules.

- Dependency management is not a good experience. Understanding the different rules about where python pulls modules from is hard. Venv makes things a bit better, but even then it's still a bit opaque. It means that I often spend more time on getting external dependencies aligned properly than writing any python when working on a python codebase locally.
While it may be easy to label it as irrational post hoc, it might not be clear beforehand without the expended effort in evaluation. There is no paradox, just an information asymmetry in time.
Booting Apple Silicon has strong cryptographic protections for all of the boot components.

An alternate view on the EULA is that it is a legal statement that nobody can get into trouble with any DCMA stupidity if they want to boot their own OS.

Contrast this with the Playstation 2 debacle, where you were only allowed to boot Sony's Official Linux. Which they then attempted to disable / withdraw when it was used to attack other parts of the Playstation copy protection system.

Apple has also provided a way for ARM Linux VMs to use Rosetta2 for Intel binaries. So they are clearly aware of the wants, needs and usefulness of running other OSs. The cynical might say this was only done to support some internal project that uses Docker, but why put in the effort to make it available to everyone?

The current situation does not preclude providing assistance in the future - Apple still hasn't finished replacing all of the Intel products.
wow, the onedev docs really do load extremely slowly - i gave up on waiting :/
Run a MEGA65 Emulator on a Chromebook [video]
Magical thinking by elites led to this. They've been imposing artificial limits on power generation and transmission for quite a while. They have no concept of what they're doing, but they've got great skills at deflecting blame from their own incompetence.

Here's another one from Hawaii:

https://gcaptain.com/the-last-coal-ship-departing-hawaii-wil...
In the beginning we had the VMS versioning file system [1] (well I had you might be older ;-) And that was enough. Then we got RCS. Then CVS. Then we got SourceForge. And that was enough. Then we got Git!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11 <3
Of course, but the Pi got so popular because of its low price (it's neither open nor particularly powerful etc.). This unusually high price tag needs some justification.
Makes sense, we'll add a little bit background about ourselves.
I couldn't avoid having the impression that the author just wanted to show off...
Then try to use it! Its an uphill battle against the second law of thermodynamics. Thus no abundance, ever.
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> I'd love to replace the filesystem with an append-only log

How would you solve the problem of, "I have a finite amount of storage and my drive is full and I need to delete something to make space for this new thing I want"?
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Great suggestions, I'll add:

- Get a really slow phone

I found my phone/news/Facebook addiction grew significantly when I upgraded my previous iPhone 4S (took a few seconds to unlock, another few seconds to open an app) to my current iPhone X (everything was/is instant). Previously I had used my phone as a tool, I had to really want to look at Facebook or Google a thing before opening it, now I just open it almost by muscle memory and the tsunami of news and Facebook just washes over me and I feel like I am powerless to stop it.
At least Argentina, venezuela, turkey, lebanon, pakistan and probably sri lanka by now.

Half of the world currencies has done worse than crypto even on small time scales.
"United in diversity" is literally the official motto of the European Union.
The number one thing I care about in such a product, and it's make or break, is 'where is my data, how is it stored, what do I do when you disappear'. (And you disappearing of course includes a 'successful exit', congrats, but there's at least a 50% chance of an 'incredible journey' blog post to follow.)

Since it's not mentioned anywhere, I assume I don't own it. It's all in your database in AWS or wherever, maybe there's some export that's about 60% complete in a sort of workable format. But it's not going to be usable 'plaintext' on disk, parseable with other tools, and usable even if the Emery app stops being updated/disappears.
Not including thorchain in the list kinda kills the seriousness of the whole list
The first argument made in favor OCaml is very similar to Paul Graham's Beating the average (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html), if anyone wants to read more about that kind of reasoning.
In case you are into self-hosting, although Mealie's (https://mealie.io) main feature is recipes, it also has a meal planner.
I have Modernist Cuisine at Home cookbook. Which is probably at the far end of how recipes are done. And their recipes generally make lot of sense. Everything has scaling percentages from certain base ingredient. And recipes are divided to sections with steps inside with ingredients for each listed in section.

Nice approach when you at times don't want to make full recipe. And makes instructions much clearer.
I have learned to write my applications in a manner that affords “hands-on” testing, as early as possible

I think we agree in principle. I prefer using design tools that offer 'interactive' previews like Figma, but the idea is the same - get feedback from stakeholders as early as possible.
For certain kinds of questions I do find openAI to be a better place to start than Google. ffmpeg command syntax for example.

This has led me to wonder if ai models might one day replace search engines to some degree, especially with the spam problem in search getting worse.
Ask HN: Who is firing? (July, August 2022)
>but they often use volumes where you'd expect weights (particularly for baking)

Baking recipes in the US traditionally use volume measurements. It's actually quite useful when you don't have scales available.
The most important thing i need from github, gitlab,... is the convenient tool for code review.

To review is different from to see the changes only.

We need context, fast scrolling, auto-smart jumping between related code parts...
I use Grocery on iOS for recipes and shopping lists. It does inventory management, but I don't use that so can't tell you how well it works.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grocery-smart-shopping-list/id...
Because things like that perpetuate poverty. Public money should be going to those who need it, not those who already have a tremendous amount. It's very simple.
A good CTO lives and dies on "soft skills". At two places I've been I've seen competent engineers with solid technical pedigree brought in as CTO and completely flounder since, for whatever reason, they could not get the managers below them to execute his (in my opinion very sensible) plans.
+1 for Mealie. Really easy to self-host as you can just run it in a docker container and it's got all the features in there.

For example, here's mine which I don't really use or meal planning, only for recipes, but it does have more than plenty of meal planning features built-in as well

http://fulgerica.recipes
Why do we _want_ to change Linux to use only primary storage? Having a hard distinction between persistent and non-persistent memory is insanely useful. What would we do when something goes wrong if rebooting stops being a thing?
I know about Google’s gerrit. I now found https://github.com/google/git-appraise, there seems to be a plethora on the issue and pr tracking side.

Then the other day there was a generic/abstraction layer to write CI that abstracte over gitlab, circle ci, and GitHub actions (maybe more). I suppose all that’s left is to get some api tokens somewhere and go?
What was that they're always telling people? Oh yeah. "hAvE FuN StAyInG PoOr"
Well, even if it comes to that, we'll shut it down in an ethical way – allow some time to transfer the data and add some data export options.

However, we personally use it every day and want to keep it alive even for a small user base. And of course, we hope to achieve more than this and build a decent and successful product.
Dennis Ritchie anecdote. He promoted writing functions instead of inlining the contents each time. His employees were hooked, and kept going even when the profiler reported the computer was spending most of its time processing CALLs.
Hahaha, that was a great read, thank you!
I'm in a similar situation as yourself and I've been looking to do something similar.

One tool I've had bookmarked for this is Cooklang (https://cooklang.org/) which seems to cover most of the needs.
I don’t believe it’s required if they’re not being collected for marketing and tracking g reasons. Not sure what theirs are for tho anyway.
This looks great!

I've seen no mention of Plan [0] in these comments. It's the only other all-in-one todo->dayplanner that I know of that comes close to this; but their UI is in Angular and the whole thing feels like it got left behind a bit. Might be an interesting case study to compare to.

[0]: https://getplan.co/
Interesting slogan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_is_Strength
AFAIK they were used for databases
I know the app "Jow" which is mostly used to create a chosen number of meal and to give you the exact quantity of ingredient needed from preparing the meal (with recipe instruction) and not so much "designed" for planning, but I use it for planning what I will eat for each weeks : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wishop.dev...
> Except for Microsoft, no one cares about backwards compatibility

That would seem to be contradicted by Linus's "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE"[1].

The Linux community clearly cares for backwards compatibility too.

1. https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE
Yup - already do that. You also don't need plugin that can talk because they even don't have contact form - only way to connect them is via phone.