skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be a bit world-huggy, but here goes:

Accept the unpleasant thoughts, but don't dwell on them. One advice I got was to give yourself a set amount of time for unpleasant thoughts or worrying. After that you can let it go and move on.

The most important bit is noticing when you're just thinking in circles without any extra input, that's the route to anxiety and depression.
With so many e-bikes popping up, with extra cargo space and even seating for 2 people (electric rickshaw bikes), I wonder if we can go full circle and bring back old cars like 2cv or Model-T with significant speed limits of 30kmph and reduced safety requirements. More and more european cities are starting to have 30kmph speed limits.

To people already preparing to explain how ridiculous that idea is, I know :)

It's more of a pipe dream. Just physically makes no sense to carry around 60kg of an ultra lightweight car (estimate taken from lightest Shell eco-marathon prototypes) instead of the 40kg of the heaviest ebikes. Not sure if there's any feasibility wiggle room.
sqlite is not a serialization format though.
x100 over-capacity is at the level where an HVDC global power grid is easily cheaper.

Why do you regard HVDC within Europe as impractical? Sure it would take a while, but there's already a grid. This is certainly achievable in my lifetime even without any interesting new tech like better superconductors or automation.
I'm on the side of the original wording here as far as correctness is concerned - "has proven to be" is a common expression for "in our experience, it is", whereas "has been proven to be" would give the connotations of formal proof.

This is just one of those quirks of human language. Yes it's occasionally annoying similar things have very disparate meanings, but English in particular is never going to shake them off.
Advanced pure copper 3D printing with sub-micron resolution
The U.S. Is Investing Big in Chips. So Is the Rest of the World
I would assume that a house that has fewer ongoing maintenance costs would sell or rent for more (in a competitive market)?

If buyer or renters are totally oblivious, why offer any features at all?
Does it allow hiding admin's username from public users list without disabling this list entirely?
I can't do audiobooks in the car because my mind starts wander and I notice that I've missed a ton of relevant plot - and it's damn hard to skim backwards in an audiobook.
Indeed - as someone who moved from a (large) flat in central Edinburgh - if you go one hour out of Edinburgh (which is an easy commute if you go somewhere near a train line) then you get an awful lot more for your money.

A nice single bedroom flat in the centre of Edinburgh is about £400K - that'll get you a pretty nice house with a garden somewhere like Fife.
Compare eg https://www.econlib.org/dont-regulate-health-and-safety/

I did not suggest throwing out any existing regulation, merely that we don't need more regulation.

Surely you can not argue that we need an infinite amount of more regulation? There must be some level that's enough?
Just from my memories, we didn’t have as much stuff competing for our income. There were no cell phones or ISP bills, and we didn’t have cable TV either. This made it easier to save a little bit every month to afford these more expensive items. It really was a simpler time.

Also, if a sewing machine or microwave broke, you would get it repaired rather than replaced with a new one. It was expected that these big ticket items were long-term purchases. Because of that, people tended to care a bit more about the reputation of the brand and how easily you could get things serviced. Sears, for example, had service centers everywhere.
Is there some similar illustrated website for recent, modern Citroen cars?
Solaris had all the POSIX userland tools separated from the Sun mainline versions in the /usr/xpg4 and xpg6 directories. They can be a source for replacements.
Personally, I don't use it even in SQL if I am starting from a clean slate...
It's a joke, the Czech Republic is landlocked.
Having degrees doesn't mean you are the arbiter of science.
Pumped storage does not need concrete.

Ammonia will probably turn out more practical as a transportable storage medium. Hydrogen works stored underground.
I have the Heltec LoRa little dev ESP32 with it installed but no one to talk to yet haha. The display on it makes it a decent solution though.
What does your link have to do with what you're saying?
> I'll likely call [the next release] 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.

I'm not sure whether to read this as a joke, or if there's really no semantic difference between x & y version numbers for the Linux kernel?

[Edit: that was a sincere question, not 'what a joke', I didn't mean anything against it.]

If I hadn't seen that I'd have been very cautious, a bit worried even, about upgrading to :shocked-face: six point oh, scoured for news & changelogs (yes yes as I should anyway.. actually what I do is assume patch will be fine, and check /r/archlinux for minor bumps - that is, I thought they were 'minor' and 'patch' rather than arbitrary) etc.
No, its not
I feel bad for hijacking this post, but there is a fully community-driven renderfarm: https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/

Disclaimer: I'm a contributor and moderator to Sheepit.
Hydrogen, methane
Most people are not regulators by trade, yet they see a lot of need for regulation.
Tldr-pages: community-run and simpler alternative to man pages
Think we have to agree to disagree. It's extremely interesting, non-conformist but I wouldn't call it beautiful - I have actually seen inside it in real life.
You seem to be confusing voltage as the unit that dictates electrical load. Voltage x Amps is what dictates how many electrical devices you can use at the same time. Residential voltage is fixed at 120 or 240 with no chance of changing in our lifetimes.

As homes need more power, they are delivered more amps. The common for newer construction in the US is 240V at 200 amp or 400 amp for larger homes. Older homes will have anywhere from 80-150A depending on when they were built or remodeled enough to require replacing the main service panel.

Stove, HVAC, and dryer require their own dedicated 240V circuits.
Yeah, with perfect information these wouldn't compete. This is why some countries put energy efficiency labels on products and on property sales. To make the market work better.

Some countries just prefer to ignore long term problems for short term "gains" though, in a tragic fractal way.
As the sibling said, the keyboards are basically the same, especially the US ANSI variant (horizontal Enter).

Localized versions can be different, the French for example has some symbols in very different places.

Also, the ALT (Option, key to the right of the left CTRL) and Super (Command, key to the left of the space bar) are reversed, but you can tell Linux to swap them.

I use `options hid_apple fnmode=2 swap_opt_cmd=1` to have function keys register as Fx without the FN and to have the ALT key next to the space bar.
> I'm not sure how you missed it.

I did not. I just fail to see how it isn't obvious to anyone who gives two thoughts about how the term "open source" is being used, so I wanted you to explain it.

> For people willing to agree to the terms, it is open. For the people unwilling to agree it is not.

I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any logical sense. You can easily extend that to "for a person willing to buy the copyright from me, it's open; for a person unwilling or too late to buy it is not". How many people can you exclude until such a license stops being "open" in your book? This approach dilutes the meaning of the term so much that it completely ceases to be useful. I honestly can't understand how does that make any sense to you.

> Your assertion that everyone who doesn't agree with you is a liar is problematic.

That's not my assertion. If I saw entire communities using the term in conflicting ways, we would be having a completely different discussion. That's not the case though, the flamewars were always being fought in the exact opposite direction by people who perceived copyleft as "not open enough" (and even they usually didn't contest the meaning of the term, just argued about their own stance). In my experience, "Open Source" has always meant what OSI has defined, to the point that I don't even see it as being actually defined by OSI, but rather that OSI has written down the meaning that was already agreed on in practice (it's heavily based on DFSG after all). It wasn't until relatively recently that some projects started to claim being "open source" despite of not actually matching the definition. The benefit for them from doing so is obvious, and when they argue for the definition to become broader this is clearly a classic conflict of interest. I can't agree to that, because this dilutes the meaning of almost two decades of my work. Go use another term, this one's already taken.

> A license by its very nature restricts things.

That's absolutely not true. In many jurisdictions, a license is pretty much the only tool you can use to unrestrict things, the only alternative usually being a Public Domain dedication (which isn't even available at all in some parts of the world). By default, all your rights are reserved and nobody can use your software unless you give them an (explicit or implicit) license. Open Source licenses are meant to unrestrict your code as much as possible, only allowing some specific kinds of restrictions that are meant to protect the unrestricted nature of your code and to give you attribution for your work. That's it, that's the universally agreed meaning that was in use for a very long time now. You can't get to restrict arbitrary things on top of that and still call it open. Sure, you can argue that your particular ideas for restrictions are also meant to protect people's rights, but to make it actually accepted as "Open Source" you would have to convince the community (not just OSI!) to reach consensus that this can, in fact, still be called Open Source. And that's clearly not what's happening, so if you continue to use this term in the wrong way, I can't see it as anything else than being malicious.
I’ve done it myself and found it not too bad. I was already familiar with the underlying paradigms of digital circuitry so it was mostly a process of struggling with tools until I got a good flow. Using obscure boards (lattice vvml) with obscure languages (chisel, myhdl, spinalhdl) and obscure tools (nextpnr, yosys) has been an exercise in careful reading of documentation and disciplined experimental strategy.
I think the problem so far is that no RISC-V chip has offered any USP (Unique Selling Point), other than it's licence-free. For example, Raspberry Pis exploded in popularity because they were incredibly cheap and had a lot of support.
There isn't a single existing pump storage plant in the world that charge with renewables energy and resells it when demand is high. There exist a few proof of concepts, but the only commercial one that I know off do so by charging it from fossil fuel power plants. It act as a large subsidized grid stabilizer for when different fossil fuel power power down.

When there are articles about pumped storage plants the usual problems are not legislative or infrastructure. The biggest issue is that investors don't like to create overcapacity, which mean that there isn't a lot of available renewable energy to buy cheap in order to sell expensively later to recover the cost of storage. When overcapacity occur the enthusiasm for more capacity quickly drop. The secondary issues tend to be more physical in nature. Salt water is very problematic in any situation, so putting pumped storage plants near the ocean has many problems. If you use fresh water you compete with existing utilization, and most suitable locations for pumped storage already have existing hydroelectric power. Fresh water has often a very complex ecosystems and everything from nature to human depend on it.
You can't justify this one with the "no true scotsman" fallacy. If you do a test that shows that X is faster than Y, you're allowed to say "X proved faster than Y". You're equally allowed to say "merge sort is proven to sort any list with an upper bound of n log n comparisons" after you write up a mathematical proof of that. (But welcome to the sadness of the real world, where the running time of a sort might not be slow because of the number of comparisons, but "real world" annoyances like cache hit rate.)

HN is largely software engineering practitioners. Practice is one level of complexity above the mathematics; among the mathematically optimal solutions to a problem, you have to find the one that's actually fastest on some sort of computer you can buy. Otherwise the math is just an interesting fact to throw out at parties. Testing in the real world is really the only way to find the solution that is fastest in the real world, but of course, mathematics dramatically limits the search space for the ideal algorithm.

Basically, farmers aren't interested in how much milk a spherical cow can produce. There are no spherical cows.
I think my kid is broken, they can just leave their phone at home when we go out.

They can also not check their messages for a few days.

Dunno if we did something right or wrong =)
Uranium is cheap-ish. Extracting power from it is extremely expensive, and not getting cheaper.
I think the point is in NZ there is basically no possibility to sue for the outcomes of a personal injury. The doctor will have to live a more modest life. Period.

In NZ people can still sue over business contracts and participate in legal cases against the government culminating in legislation being ruled unconstitutional, like other Anglo, common-law countries.
>create fact-checking and supposedly neutral "services"/media

>due to selection bias, those "services" and the people providing them end up being heavily on one side of the political spectrum

>deus ex machina (no, not really)

>wonder why people on the other side of the political spectrum refuse to trust your fact-checking "services"/media
Average living area per person in NYC is 50 m2, in Berlin it's 40 m2.

http://urbancalc.com/post/NYC-Residential-Density/

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/255812/umfrag...
VARA FM offers high speeds on FM from what I’ve seen. Haven’t actually played with it myself though. Might be worth checking out!
Neither gay rights nor abortion are enumerated as rights in the US Constitution. Sure, some appointed judges have found ways to reason those rights out of the text. But the fact is that rights not enumerated there are left up to the states to decide on. We may not like it but if we want to protect these basic rights we need to go through the established Democratic processes to update the US constitution.
I would highly recommend you work through nand2tetris [1] project using the book [2]

This will help you develop a good conceptual understanding of digital electronics, compilers, VM, OS while implementing your own implementations of each of these. This should suffice to help you no longer bothered by lack of concepts. There are some cool extensions [3] also possible including but not limited to implementing your own machine on real hw using FPGA, designing your own trivial graphics processor (A project that I'm working on). The book and the website list many possible extensions. This I think is the best bang for buck to get a good overview of the foundations.

You can then do a real deep dive of any of these foundational subjects using so many resources available online, a good starting point to explore them will be teach yourself cs. [4].

And while all this knowledge is great, it will also be useful to focus on soft skills being a good team player, doing your bit to help teams which you are a part of to succeed and if you are part of toxic teams having enough confidence in your experience and knowledge to switch :-).

And gain all this knowledge seriously, but please don't take it seriously ;-)

Btw, you seriously aren't late to the party. Good luck, enjoy the party!!!

[1] https://www.nand2tetris.org

[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems-se...

[3] https://www.nand2tetris.org/copy-of-talks

[4] https://teachyourselfcs.com
The first number being changed doesn't mean anything in particular, it's just like another release.

Check the release post for 5.0: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/3/236
Therapy.

It's OK to have tough memories, it's bad to dwell on them without any resolution.

Talking to a friend or SO might work too, but some things are better told to a professional who has no emotional ties to the issue.
Aluminum is abundant. If we need more, we refine more; it mainly takes electrical power, which is getting cheaper all the time.
so meta!
and another kind of error,

Error 503 hostname doesn't match against certificate
hostname doesn't match against certificate

Error 54113
Details: cache-hyd1100028-HYD 1659348933 177052951
Varnish cache server
For European languages (at least French and Spanish), WordReference is pretty good. For everything else, Wiktionary’s a really good resource!
Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative
Trustroots: Travellers Hospitality Community
Ask HN: Does passwordless hurt our conversion rates?
Hi there,

When we started work on our new workflow/tasklist app, going with passwordless felt like a no-brainer. While it felt like a neat thing for new users that adopted the product for creating something, it felt even more appropriate for the people who get assigned/invited to a workflow/tasklist by others.

And while it worked amazingly well for the latter, it seems to hurt our conversion rate for new users/creators. We see about 10% of people coming to our website or landing pages to launch our app (which feels okay-ish), but then another 10%+ drop off at the login/signup. We only ask for their email address or mobile number; that's it.

Is anyone else seeing such a high drop-off rate for their login/signup page? Or is there anything else we might be missing? Should we try and provide an experience without login and only ask them to log in before they want to assign something to somehow else, maybe?

Our app website is https://www.questmate.com, and our login/signup is at https://app.questmate.com.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Edit:

I should clarify that we send out OTPs, not magic links :)
> Great confirmation of the unmet need in the space.

Hmmm, I've been using a dictionary app for years that is offline, ad-free, remembers words you look up, and has a word of the day feature. Also has favorites and you can add personal notes on entries. It's also free. It's based on Wictionary. I use the ones for Spanish and Portuguese but I think they have versions for many languages. The name is fairly generic "Spanish Dictionary - Offline" by Livio.
Link just seems to go to the homepage via a redirect.
It's happened in the linux kernel before. There's no "major" difference, it's just development as usual.
Europe has no need to depend on Russia, Libya, or Turkey for energy requirements, except in the immediate near term.
There isn't only one way to do passwordless. WebAuthn is a very good solution.
tldr-pages is a community-maintained alternative to man pages. The information shown for any command is simple/detailed and helps new command line users adapt easily.

I was looking for something to help my intern get used to terminal and came across this. He has been using it pretty religiously and has been able to figure out options for commands easily instead of having to google every time.
As far as I know the first two number basically don't have any meaning these days as far as size of the changes goes.
I think rather than optimise the application architecture optimise the tool chain, for rapid deployment, partial changes, blue/green deployments, etc. A hard separation between front and back ends is good too, so there can be a good UX but smoke and mirrors behind the scenes.
I'm not sure if this can help but those personal websites [0] seem to be often made with Adobe Dreamweaver if we look at the page source code.

[0] http://www.citrobe.org/br70s.htm
I'm sorry you hate your freedoms. Just for some context, this horrifying clip of child sexual abuse seems to be freely available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NiMzlDBO8
Somewhat related: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Great work

I'm working on similar dictionary app and found wiktionary insanely usable as dictionary source.

Here is one more project aiming to make wiktionary data usable as json data structure: https://github.com/tatuylonen/wiktextract.

It has a link to a site https://kaikki.org/ which hosts dictionary data dumps.
Unpopular opinion: Declaring the economy in or out if recession does not help anyone outside of propagandists and journalists. High corporate profits and high inflation. Those need to be addressed regardless of recession or not. If you call it one, they will use it as cause for even more layoffs and price hikes if you don't they will use it as reason to avoid measures to regulate their greed because afterall their greed is preventing a recession.

Truth is we will have to wait until 2023 or later to call this a recession.

My suspicion is this is all wallstreet's shenanigans. There is a growing labor rights movement and this climate makes it hard to pass any laws that support the movement. "Minimum wage caused low profits and an unrecoverable bear market" is the sentiment they want to spread (by they I mean the market makers and investment bankers of wallstreet).
Art would be doing something like the Blair Witch Project, that is trying to maintain the credibility of the fiction but still has a producer listed on IMDb. This is a bad lie.
The party in power (happens to be Democrats right now) tends to get re-elected when there is not a recession and tends not to when there is.

It’s politically bad for an incumbent party to have a recession, but otherwise perfectly normal, natural, and even healthy for the economy to usually grow but sometimes contract.

I have to laugh a bit as I think “maybe I won’t get wet as long as the weather reporter doesn’t declare it’s a rainstorm…”
US nuclear regulator greenlights its first small modular reactor
Actually, this is something I'm not clear on: Why can't we just add free-spinning "generators" to the grid to contribute inertia?
You can trot out these falsehoods as often as you like, but you will always be called on it.
See if you are comfortable playing in https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution
hoi!

we just launched the first public beta of Typeform open-source tool snoopForms.

Apart from OS, we want to differentiate by:

- offering code & no-code interfaces to create forms (beta)
- offering in-depth form analytics & improvement tools like A/B testing (tba)
- granular and conditional data piping i.e. "if newsletter checkbox is set, send name & email field to SendGrid". Essentially, well integrated and GDPR compliant Zapier

What do you think?
Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?
So many blogs promote their newsletter, often before I even start reading their article. I run a content-based website, and many of my competitors push their newsletter.

What is the rationale behind it? I don't subscribe to a single newsletter myself, so I'm a bit puzzled about the benefits of running one.
Absolutely? Sounds like some Saudi Arabia tier shit. Australia: you are in good company.
Building an HVDC grid within Europe to allow local concentrations of renewable generation to be spread about more easily, and to further interlink the EU grid? That makes sense, sure.

However for the "renewables can be base load" requirement it is completely impractical because of simple back of the envelope calculations. Suddenly you need multiple TWs of wind generation capability in every spot where it might be windy when calm elsewhere, and you need enough transmission to get TWs of power out from any random location within the EU. This is pipe dream territory.