skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It missed that thread by a few weeks, but I think it's fascinating how little the iPad (announced January 27, 2010) and other tablets have impacted our computing lives, despite a lot of excitement at the time.

They still exist, they're nice, but instead of supplanting anything, they're mainly just tertiary devices owned by a relatively small number of people.
I thought that was per year?
For a book I find the description of the development process and the level of implementation to be quite good.

A great opportunity for the reader to expand them.

I've seen for example the Scheme implementation from PAIP expanded and integrated into a CMS.
similar media news story, except this one does not eliminate all links to the study

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/scientists-use-tiny-tr...

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abn1663
I haven't personally, but know several people that run in some of the same online circles as me that have with zero issues. Most of them even went about 6 months taking out and paying back advances on time just so the apps would start lending them even more, and only once they got it up to like $500 is when they'd take the money and "run".
I was in a similar position. I have completely switched stacks every handful of years, like 5 C#/.NET stuff, then 5 usual full stack web stuff, then again with pure embedded C (which was my favorite tbh), and now back to web. It never caused any problems, in fact I played into ability to learn/switch stacks as an ability in interviews and it seemed to work.

if nothing else, dont think of specializing in c (or any non hipster native code really) as obsoleting yourself. think of how much the next wave of cobol maintainers are going to make and times that by c's huge foundational reach
Yes, deprecated. I thought it had already been dropped but apparently not yet.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/about-...
What do you think the artists "trained on"? Didn't they ever see anyone else's art? Don't you think it influenced their art?

If it's a 1:1 copy, I agree. If it's a "that looks vaguely like the style that xyz likes to use", I disagree.

And I assume you'd run into plenty of situations where multiple people would discover that it's their unique style that is being imitated. Kind of like that story about a hipster threatening to sue a magazine for using his image in an article only to find out that he's a hipster and dresses and styles himself like countless other people, so much so that he himself wasn't able to tell himself apart from another guy.
Of course it does! We'll figure it out.
Saving for retirement seems normal and expected. Do you mean something else?
With ML, it can be (unfortunately, in this case) automated. One victim - lots of work. Thousands - almost the same amount.
Besides the range economics, if the trucks come with automatic emergency braking, lane following, alerts when cars slow, and even a rudimentary self-driving functionality, the insurance might end up being cheaper once the rates of accidents with these trucks is compared to other trucks. And if trucking companies can more easily recruit people who want to drive these trucks, that will also help the shipping / trucking companies as well. Hard to say if the maintenance costs will be lower or just different (if you end up needing to periodically replace battery packs for example) -- but it definitely seems likely that many trucking companies would be interested in trialing these to see how the economics work out. Another detail that could be interesting would be if you own a chunk of land in basically the middle of nowhere but has an interstate going past it. You should buy that land, build a huge solar farm there, put a giant charger station next to the road. You literally are not even connected to the main grid at all, just a little power oasis in the middle of the desert for example for trucks to charge / power some convenience store / maybe even a small hotel.
An Archeology for the Future in Space
Ask HN: Best Resources to Learn Scala
I’m a data engineer in my current place and most of our pipelines and code we write is in python. The backend team writes must of their services in Scala.

Sometimes, we need to debug stuff that cross-references the backend services and It’ll be a plus to have knowledge of scales for a better understanding of what’s going on.

Scala devs of HN, what are your in your opinion the best resources to learn the language?

I’m going through codewars exercises for scala and its been fun!
It's strange and crazy: back in 2014 I worked building what we thought was a reputable online lending platform in Mexico. We were the first online lender. And we were at least trying to do things right.

Nevertheless, Google banned us from AdWords/Adsense: we could not advertise our services even if people searched for the company name. The list of banned businesses was: porn, drug,guns and us... that's how "low" was the stance of the business we were doing.

Ff to this day it seems The Goog has seen good money in this vertical , so that it turns a blind eye to fraud.
Ask HN: What is the current state of Recommenation services(inhouse, SaaS etc.)?
Hi,

Just wondered with lack of good recomendations(cross/up selling) in many ecommerce sites. I.e. - looking for gravel/cyclocross bicycle.
Checking out most popular bicycle sellers:
1. https://www.bikesonline.com/2022-marin-gestalt-gravel-bike
No recommendations. "Customers Also Viewed" section looks weird.

2. https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/vitus-energie-evo-crs-cx-bike-force-2022/rp-prod202342
"Helmets" and "Jackets"?? Weird set. Better than nothing, but I want more. "Also Recommended" looks weird.

3. https://www.bike24.com/p2415518.html?menu=1000,173
"Related products" shows me weird set of products - kickstands, KNOT stems and very expensive bike.

4. https://www.merlincycles.com/merlin-malt-g2x-grx-gravel-bike-2022-197443.html
No recommendations.

5. https://www.competitivecyclist.com/why-cycles-r-v4-rival-gravel-bike?skid=WYC000G-TIT-L
Similar bikes - looks weird. "Purchase Together" - tires and tubes??

What I'd expect - what bikes other people look also, what accessories people bought(shoes, pedals, helmets, clothing, gloves, spare parts etc.), suggest me product bundles - most popular sets.

What do you think, why popular ecommerce sites do not suggest more related goods? SaaS companies didn't reach them yet? Businesses don't want to implement recommendations? Other reason?
If they had been wrong it would have catapulted humanity forwards in understanding. Instead it just affirmatively ruled out a big class of future mistakes...
‘One of the most interesting things about Microsoft's Halloween Memo is the concept of "de-commoditizing" protocols’

Don't they mean monopolizing the protocols /s
"CYPHERPUNK ZERO
Inspired by Zcash and Halo cryptography, the Cypherpunk Zero Creative Universe is a collaborative effort between ECC [2], illustrator Stranger Wolf [3] and select ecosystem partners. Consisting of a forthcoming series of webcomics, NFTs [1] and physical collectibles, the project explores the relationship between privacy, self-sovereignty and creative freedom."

[1]: https://halo.electriccoin.co/nft/
[2]: https://electriccoin.co/
[3]: https://mobile.twitter.com/stranger__wolf
The error rate likely would drop if there were actual significant consequences for having created the errors in the first place. There are fines if a company refuses to correct errors after a "good faith" effort on the part of the consumer to challenge the error and people do win those cases, but the process is tedious and shouldn't put the burden on the consumer. Plus the fines are too small to matter in most situations. It's just another cost of doing business that is less than the cost of preventing the errors from occurring at the current rate.
> AFAIK MS does not publish checksums of their ISOs anymore

I don't know where you got that information, but if i go to the Windows 11 download page[0] right below the download button there's a "Verify your download" section with all checksums for all ISOs in all languages

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows11
Appreciate that the RBI is going tough on digital lending.

The number of scammy, scummy app based lenders was getting out of control.
it has Velox which is a Wayland compositor, so you can start running static linked Wayland programs.

and of course you can add things like Firefox, LibreOffice or whatever, but you either need to spend many many cursed nights and dark days to get them to compile statically ... or just add a dynamic linker (ld) and add the dependencies... but at that point you built a second independent system on the same filesystem.
https://wci.llnl.gov/

Note that in the US nuclear weapons are controlled by the DOE, and not the DOD.
I like the answer you have received, but more concretely:

I own a domain handled by NameCheap on which I send and receive email. Originally I were running my own email servers, but I quickly realised that was more work than it was worth in my case, so now email sent and received on my NameCheap domain gets handled by FastMail.
> This isn't the same thing at all. There's nothing wrong with removing features from a vehicle while you're the owner of it. If someone traded in an ICE car with a turbocharger, would it be wrong for a dealer to remove that before selling it?

If you say so.. personally, if I bought a used car, then found out features were removed i'd be pissed off.. then again, i am not a tesla apologist.

The "owner" is not the one removing the features.. TESLA IS.. so they can charge the new owner to restore the features.

FOr your turbocharger - Yes, if it was listed on the car's features, then removed after you bought it, it would be wrong to remove it. In fact this could be considered fraud.

Apple consumers and Tesla consumers have one very odd feature in common - ruthlessly defending things.

I dont get why they feel a "need" to do this. You seriously wrote "there is nothign wrong wiht removing features.." .. OMG.

If you enjoy having tesla do this to you, by all means continue to buy their products. I dont think their behaviour is fair and so i wont buy one.
A Ferrari is a luxury item. The exhibition was free but you could pay to stay the night. The guy also designs slides and the tone of his exhibition style is not "high art".

Ultimately you are talking about art as a product and that means you think all art is captured by Warhol's system of art. Which is what all digital artists overreacting to this also think. It's not the totality of what art is. I like DALL-E. Good work, but now what else is there beyond digital art? Or by pushing digital art to some more extreme outcome?
Has anyone ever tried asking DALL-E to come up with something in a style that's unlike any other?
I don't think this will make much of a difference aside from the branding advantage. The quality of a mass-produced product like a consumer hand tool isn't a function of the country in which it is made but rather of its design. All the decisions made during that process and all the cost / performance considerations made are what determine the ultimate outcome.

It's common to blame Chinese manufacturing for cheap tools, but this gets the causation backwards. We wanted cheap tools and sending production overseas was the only way to get them. In fact because less is spent on labor, a better quality product can be had for the same price.

So bringing it back here without increasing the cost to the consumer means altering the design to make it cheaper to build, or banking on supply chain efficiencies to make it worthwhile.
The trailing slash seems to be a typing error.
I think the point of these Semis is for delivery from a facility (Pepsi/FedEx). The facilities have the Mega chargers (several already built) that the trucks return to.

Another big part of the win is maintenance costs which are also noticeably lower.
Speaking as a professional digital artist, I am not very concerned by this. Images created by AI without comparable human experience (and therefore meaning), is not the same as art, although it can of course look like it. People who are more than casual appreciators of images follow and admire artists, and their translation of human meaning into an artwork.

I can see this eating into the commercial artwork market, which is bad news for the artists that rely on that for income, but it's not an existential threat to the meaning of art.
Very sure that you can spoof all of the above with 2-3 hours of effort.
nobody needs this new saas stuff. I prefer the traditional pillars of: emails from users, live chat feature in product where users shame you publicly if something is wrong, twitter search 'is X down', and 4) having laptop open in passenger seat on commute, tethered to blackberry, and periodically hitting F5 on the page which hits the most APIs
I wrote an Android app that splits checks. You pre-create groups of people (Adam and Jane are a couple, John is solo, etc), then for each line item on the bill you decide which groups should be charged for it. You can split tax and tip proportionally or just evenly along people/groups.

And it uses OCR to scan the receipt and read the items, amounts and tax. I was amazed how well open source Tesseract worked for this out of the box.

Finished it but never marketed it, too much of a perfectionist. Worked really quite well though.

This was maybe 6-7 years ago, and I've since seem other apps doing basically the same thing.
ok then what happened to your transactions that were in the middle of a process? the one that were commit only on one side?
> the whole world never saw a real world problem, not the UNIX comunity nor Microsoft and it's Windows design

"DLL hell" [1] was absolutely a thing. It was solved only by everyone shipping the world in their application directories.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell
I appreciate the praise that TCP/IP gets in this post:

" TCP/IP is the foundation of the Internet. The protocol dates back to the early days of the ARPANet, and has existed in its present form since September 1981 (the date of RFC 791 and RFC 793). This protocol violates all of the first five principles of de-commoditization.

It is simple. Together, the two RFCs span 130 simply formatted pages, appendices and all. This is nothing short of astonishing, considering how difficult a problem internetworking is considered to be.
It is completely specified. IETF protocols in general are well known for specifying "bits on the wire", and these protocols exemplify IETF practice. There are no complicated options or variants. As a consequence, TCP/IP implementations tend to work together very well. (actually, you need to add a link layer to get a complete TCP/IP implementation. However, RFC 1055 describes such a link layer (SLIP) in six pages.
It is well documented. The RFCs are a model of clarity, thanks in large part to Jon Postel.
It is stable and mature. The protocol has been in use since 1981, and has scaled by many orders of magnitude. Old implementations still work on the modern Internet.
It is unencumbered. No patents, copyrights, nor trademarks are infringed by a working TCP/IP implementation.

To say that TCP/IP has been enormously successful would be an understatement."
Also worth taking a look at Ionic (https://ionicframework.com/), it’s significantly heavier than this, but is incredibly compleat and has iOS and Material styles. Also can be used with plain “vanilla” js.

People often only associate Ionic with old PhoneGap/Cordova apps, but as a toolkit for just standard web apps it’s awesome.

I do wish Ionic invested a little more in “desktop” versions of the widgets however, they work well but tend to need a little more css to reduce font sizes and a few other tweaks.
I don’t know if it’s all fusion reactors but General Fusion breeds tritium by surrounding the plasma with moving liquid lithium which breeds tritium and helium and they send the tritium back in. Seems sustainable.

I don’t know why their plan is to just vent helium given the shortage although I imagine that’s a second order problem they can solve later.
came to post this, been my experience to a t. always start in places where things move, get plugged in, switches, look for exposed/funky looking traces/boards/connections. almost always an easy win once you crack the thing out (which can be a struggle)

sometimes watching youtubers like bigclivedotcom cover failures of cheap electronics can show spectacular exceptions though. for some more realistic failures of common consumer hardware like laptops and cellphones (and general rework wizardry) Electronicsrepairschool is pretty hard to beat

https://www.youtube.com/c/Bigclive

https://www.youtube.com/c/Electronicsrepairschool
Except for the re-implemented versions of apps in the recent releases where they seem to use catalyst.

No keyboard shortcuts whatsoever.
Yeah, I though about it, but it seems to already exist in the app "You Rip"
I'm not sure if I can say abandoned YET, but I thoroughly enjoyed working on Braggle (https://braggle.app/), which is a site that lets you create rooms with your friends to post your scores for the various Wordle clones.

It's my first real website outside of my blog, and it's been awesome learning how to do everything (thank you Firebase for making it so much easier), but I haven't been enjoying the follow-up of all the infrastructure work needed to make it more performant. Classic engineer problem, let me make the NEW THINGS.

On top of that, trying to get people to notice on Twitter with a few hashtags here and there hasn't been the most fun.
I dont know why you are being downvoted. I know what You wrote is fact. I worked building the systems of such an online lending company in Mexico, and I had to fire my only iOS developer because we saw we dint have enough demand in those devices.

Shootout to Jesus, the iOS developer & DJ. He was such a great guy to work for, and really killed me to let him go. He is a great guy :)
I recall reading somewhere that the 3-wheel design meant that the vehicle was inherently hard to steer due to typical roadway camber (the crown of the road, which means the slope designed to route water from the center of the road to the edges). Makes sense to me; if the rear wheel is constantly being pulled to the edge of the road because that is down hill from the middle of the lane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camber_angle#Road_camber
I'm reminded of Mrs. Jellyby in Bleak House, myself, but yeah.

The original idea of Grameen Bank was a circle of poor people (all women, usually) who jointly promise to each other to repay the loans. The fact that it's a loan, your friends are monitoring you, and you have to pay it back means that you have to take it seriously. It was hard to argue with that, 20 years ago.

Over time, though, it's morphed into "Big Western philanthropic institution sweeps in, spends 24 hours, leaves, and writes a check. Then the locals hire more staff and buy another SUV."
None of that contradicts what I said, or explains why they bother doing energy research at all.
Consult a physician, rather than asking for advice here. I'm sure the replies are all well meaning, but what helped for someone else might not help you.

Best to seek professional medical advice that can be tailored (I hope) to your situation.
opps. missed a point.

> Again, when was the last time this happened?

Tesla Remotely Disabled 80 Miles Of Range From Customer’s Car Demanding $4,500, Backtracks When The Web Finds Out
BY STEPHEN RIVERS | POSTED ONJULY 27, 2022

Not sure the "when was the last time this happened" matters, it is a fairly regular thing with them. in this case it was July 27, 2022.. is that too old, too new for you?
Reminder: The overwhelming majority of users are not "computer people"
Wow. AI is now good enough that writers are considered robot until proven human.
Just watch out for any stray solar microwave beams in the mean time.
> Digital art is not permanently interesting.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Reproducibility has virtually nothing to do with interest in my opinion. I was an admirer of plenty of artists before I'd ever seen their work in person. Perhaps I am missing the point.
For C++0x I found the Wikipedia article on C++0x back in the day to be a good summary. That might still hold.
Technology is supposed to put us out of jobs! But I'd argue it's been doing a pretty terrible job of it in the last few decades - we're all still working as much as we ever have been.
Personally I'd love to have a tool that meant I only needed to spend half as long working to be just as productive.
But it requires more than just technology to make that result feasible for the wider population.
And increased in value well well over 10x in last few of years but go on.
I think people in an organisation are constantly confronted with the problems and downsides. Engineers always know where the problems in the code and architecture are. Sales people and support always see the complaints from customers. CEOs see how high-valur prospects always find new issues to lower the negotiated prices and how features are delivered late. And so on.

My interpretation is that the overly positive view aims to drive the positive points forward and remind everybody about the positive things and how well things work on a macro view. If you stick small negatives in the message to cover "reality" this is what sticks.

I can't stand these motivational speech, but I also don't see a good speech for high level talks and not saying anything is bad as well and for some kind of people that seems to give them a push.
Buy Now Pay Later actually has a really good use case, it’s for people who may be wary of credit cards, interest, and or low credit scores. For example, many people who wouldn’t take out credit cards will use BNPL. Also, usury is prohibited in the major Abrahamic religions, so BNPL can also work for client avoiding interest loans.
Convenient you omit the other possibility. But sure, bury your head in the sand of the prevailing evidence reviewed in the paper I linked.
Oh, that sounds like a perfect fit.

I've worked a lot on bass- last nights gig was a songwriter duo where I played upright. However, I've never been one to change my setup much. Maybe 12 or so years ago I bought a markbass and and a pbass... and I haven't even wanted to change the flat-wound strings on it.
The Case for Requiring Federal Contractor to Disclose Their Secret Contributions
I'm not entirely sure how any of this matters. Tools and what bar they have to pass are just design choices. If you design a tool to be bad, it will be bad, no matter who manufactures them or where. At the same time, if you don't have good quality assurance/control and no tests that the manufacturer has to pass, then the design doesn't matter, because the product apparently doesn't have to meet the design specification and the whole design is practically arbitrary.

The only true change to the product that could happen is either a design change, or a change in available resources. Some multi-axis CNC machines are apparently not legally available everywhere in the world, so that could be a locality factor. On the other hand, plenty of companies design assemblies with complex components manufactured in various places around the world to be integrated elsewhere later on.
the only group that should seriously be concerned is maybe the stock photo industry
I appreciate how clear you are about the chosen trade-offs and I am also quite impressed by the extent to which the install instructions include "and now here's how you check that worked" commands - I'm sure somebody reading this will think "well, yes, obviously you should include those" but it's not as common as I might like and your version thereof is notably thorough.