skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 words: national security. as the world's police and adult, we have to be self sufficient in food, tech, defense, resources, etc
At some point we should outsource our armies and perhaps even governments. If a real war starts we can use the services industry, unless we outsource that too. We’ll send the lawyers and software engineers in, and power our cardboard tanks with wood and steam.

I was hoping the pandemic and the war in europe would teach us that electronics, particularly high end, should be relocated to allied countries at the very least.
This is great, I can't wait for someone to get python in the browser talking to postgres in the browser (and hopefully very soon afterward Django in the browser).
"Code as law" isn't so great, is it?
I agree with you, if a company has a big enough name and user base, social-network-like features can add to the UX.

What our managers were seriously pondering was to create an actual competitor to Facebook that would draw their user base to our website, a company with around 10.000 b2b customers (if even) which had nothing to sell in the b2c channel.
Denmark is yet another multiple-country sovereign state- Denmark (proper), Greenland, and the Faroe Islands are constituent countries of the Kingdom of Denmark.
This is all a bit of a distraction though.

> The only reason Clojure is viable for production use is because it relies on the really good JVM GCs. How will Jank try to solve the the GC problem?

I think this original statement is wrong because people are fine with poor performance (see Python, Ruby) if the language (ecosystem) is effective. And Clojure is effective (IMO) moreso because of the JVM ecosystem not the JVM's performance.
A rear camera could have its display in the rear view mirror, it doesn't need a display in the dashboard where it will be repurposed for everything else.
The consequences used to be, tuberculosis.

You can tell young people - they have no notion where this all came from. Living in a world where almost everybody grows up, it's easy to forget that wasn't always the case.

What's-his-face- the guy who wrote about reform and the 'gate in the road', had some good things to say about all this.

{edit: Chesterson's Fence}
I actually got Avalonia working with VSCode in Linux, but neither with Hot Reload nor any other bells or whistles. Just compile and run. It's okay, but it's clearly a second class experience.
I can't think of a more reasonable thing to fear than death.
Why divide? You don't divide by how many cores are on a regular PC, to which this has comparable power.
Not really. Leaking state secrets isn't a crime under US federal law for people who have no security clearance. Julian Assange is charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/wikileaks-founder-charg...
Flask-Backbone. Flask Blueprint and Your Guide to Flask in 2022
There are so many things wrong with running an enterprise class database in a browser that I don't even know where to begin!

BUT IT'S FREAKING AWESOME!

Seriously, do you ever imagine Oracle or DB2 running in a browser? Crazy, right?

Congrats to the team. To me this is one of the great things about the times we are living in - tons of computing horsepower for cheap, open source software, new-ish technology (WASM), and one crazy idea.

Well, at least I know where all my spare time is going to be spent...
So it's not real. Got it.
> any enrichment in this case is "silly", and that landlords don't tend to do much - or any - work

Hm - the same could be said about your 401(k), but you probably expect to live off of it at some point in your life, right? At worst, buying and renting properties is a (risky) investment.
very interesting...

now add in asset forfeiture driven by legally mandated black markets and the picture is ever so slightly more complete.
And if it's attainable, does it make financial sense? I rent an apartment now, and to buy a similar would be roughly 1000 times the monthly rent. I would have to bet very heavily on appreciation before that made financial sense, even with the leverage of a mortgage.
This is a fantastic idea, truly innovating what you can do with Postgres. Kudos!

Postgres, possibly surprising to many, is very "simple": it has essentially no dependencies other than a few OS system calls (open, read, write files) and some optional dependencies (e.g. libssl). Therefore, it is very portable and "easy" to compile on many environments. This includes new environments or ideas like compiling it to WASM.

But you need to come up with the idea. This is a great one and opens the door to other use cases. I hope this serves to push the mindset that Postgres can also be used in lighter-weight environments where SQLite (another fantastic database, don't get me wrong) is often considered as the only viable choice.

edit: typo
> That's a misrepresentation. The UK government merely wants to make the UK supreme court the final authority on some human rights cases in the UK, which seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Perfectly reasonable, until the executive decides to pack the court, and then renege on / "creatively reinterpret" their shiny new "bill of rights" (or even just simply amend it).

You say "merely", but that's the whole dog and pony show. This isn't some abstract, ideological exercise, the current government wants to pass laws that would currently not fly in the ECHR court. If they didn't, there would be zero practical need to change the current state. Ask yourself which bits of the ECHR you think are worth doing without?

Remember, the whole point of the ECHR is to prevent the oppression of a people by their government. Having the court be drawn from a range of different nations and not having any single government exclusively in control is a feature, not a bug.
They'll never accept your Japanese though unless you get the Keigo perfect. You might not notice it but foreigners who speak Japanese too well are thought of as losers by most Japanese ("why does he have to work in another country?"), and people who aren't perfect but pretty good will still be seen as lesser, and treated like children.
Of course your mileage might differ if you're in a pure tech environment full of younger freak types, but Japanese at any level in any other industry (like trade) is a boon more than anything. It's actually a better life in Japan to pretend you're a bumbling gaijin than an expert in all things Japanese. The women interested in real foreigners are also way more fun than those who want a weeaboo foreigner.
> only once—to my knowledge—made the grevious mistake of inflicting the Inner Osborne Effect on itself.

They gimped the IIgs with a lower clock rate than possible to avoid cannibalizing Macintosh. It outclassed the contemporary Mac in a number of ways.
Apple Silicon is made in Taiwan.
Could I brew install Postgres to play with some SQL and clean up after myself when I'm done? Yes. I could also just load this, perhaps in multiple tabs, and not think about it.
Lessons learned from building a chatbot platform for 2 years
I've been working on Presbot for over 2+ years now. It started as a self-learning chatbot designed to act as an interactive agent that would represent its owner in all sorts of situations. I realized that until that interaction is smooth and believable - not passing a Turing test, but closer to an actual dynamic conversation, it provides much less value, more slowly. Also, users don't like to enter a ton of information upfront or train the chatbot, which requires the onboarding process to be as simple and straightforward as possible. Most of the chatbot responses initially were reliant on scanning profile text and incoherent user input which did not result in a great user experience.

Interestingly, a large portion of the users perceived the chatbot as a general-purpose AI agent capable of responding effectively to random questions (for example.,
- Cheap flights to New York
- How far is the moon from earth?
- Who was the Nth president of the United States?
- What’s the meaning of love?
- What’s Baby Yoda's real name?

Believe it or not, these were some of the popular questions. Presbot was able to respond with vague "I'm not sure" type responses at best. At one point, I added top N results from Wikipedia in the response to at least point users in the right direction but ended up removing it eventually. Let me know if you’d like more of the questions and I'll be happy to share)

I ended up pivoting to a rule-based bot focusing on lead capture via a conversation curated with dynamic questions. I added an option to offer a service (e.g., newsletter signup) in exchange for users' email and the ability to retarget with a deeper discount or a more engaging value proposition if the initial offer did not go through, and updated my value proposition to lead generation vs it being a self-learning chatbot.

I am reaching out for feedback and, in appreciation for your time, would love to offer a limited-time 50% off on all paid plans (Use Code HALFOFF at Checkout). The app has a free tier as well which should suffice for the most part. Thank you!!

http://presbot.com/
Intel's Abandoned Pentium 5 Project [video]
Doing evaluative research on "screen v. buttons" you'll find that even on smartphones physical buttons outperform touchscreens. The reason people choose no-keyboard is the benefits a phone brings them as a multi-purpose device outweighs the benefit of "more accurate typing than on a screen".

Creative Selection is a good book to read. It details the process at Apple from the dev who worked on the very first keyboard of iOS. The design of the keyboard + autocorrect needed to be good enough that people could type on it reasonably well. It was one of the credited reasons why the Newton was said to have failed so they put A LOT of effort into this feature of the handset.

Does this apply to a car screen? Probably. A car is also much bigger than a handheld device so maybe you don't have to choose. But in the end great design is always about making good choices.
the distillers wares tour at laphroaig is much better imo: https://www.laphroaig.com/gb/book-islay-distillery-tour#id=d...

went a few years ago
I bought an HP Laserjet Enterprise M601DN off Craigslist 5 years ago for ~$150 from a business that closed down. Had 250K pages printed when I bought it, and I printed tens of thousands more (law school books). Still going strong with no issues.

If you have the space, older HP Enterprise printers are absolute tanks.
“the US is big”

Thats what puzzles me.

What changed in the dynamics of the american society in such way that new cities are no longer built? I get it in europe there barely and land left to develop, but the us and canada have plenty.
Well, I didn't flag it, but it was completely and utterly wrong. So I can understand it being flagged. I did comment onto it to correct the post.
The Define problem seems like low hanging fruit for a linter/formatter.
Quite the bold design choice to put the removable storage on the underside of the motherboard.
I thought the De in DeFi was to avoid the possibility of being subject to an "authority". Hence the cute acronym.
I only have to run these about once every year or two, and have to look them up every time.
I use this, except I use Beancount. It's written in Python and is easier to write your own little extensions. There's also a GUI called Fava that goes along with it and is really good.
Oh I knew it. Every muscle and joint in pain for days. Constant nasal discharge and coughing. Room spinning.

I'm older, so makes sense it hit me harder, I understand that. I'm so glad that most (young) people had such mild cases, they hardly knew it.
I am proud to be an infantile person, I want a lot of convenience and efficiency, and I want a lot of big, shiny toys.

I think the modern doom and gloom era is very depressing. I am a technocrat and a futuristic optimist.

For me, the modern popular vision of future is not worth living for.
Here is my list:

- Xcode and commandline tools,

- iTerm2,

- Emacs,

- Tiles,

- AppCleaner,

- VLC,

- Firefox plus Dev. Edition,

- Vivaldi,

- MacPass,

- Hush,

- Wipr,

- The Unarchiver,

- Pages, Numbers, Keynote,

- GarageBand and iMovie,

- Iosevka fonts.
I don't understand the comparison. The Nazis weren't very subtle about how upset they were with Jewish people.
> Were these facilities added to a wasp runtime,

https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/main/proposals/t...
Can someone explain this? I don't know what the context is for this Show HN.
Standard boomer rant.

> There's a reason why the status quo exists

Yes, it's called the status quo.

> text is universal

Which one, ASCII, code page 9000, or UTF-8? Are you saying just restrict to ASCII? Then we need custom solutions every time someone wants to talk a different language.

> lock in

I am locked into using retarded insecure terminal emulators because all my tools depend on it to render what you people call "text" which is supposdedely "simple" or "universal". Even vim breaks from unicode already. The primitive language of the OS should not be some poorly defined idea of "text", but algebraic data types.

> reading important

Which is better done by graphics that text. Just the fact that with a structural editor - an if statement spans the amount it appears to span, instead of having to trust someone to format it correctly - is already enough reason to ditch text.
I would guess this is being posted today because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500151 by the same author, which is 2022.
Similar to how modern medicine made 40 an early age to die
I have a Roland FANTOM keyboard which has a touchscreen UI, however it also has a row of knobs and buttons that offer an alternate control surface without having to touch the screen. It's so much better.
It's almost certainly final assembly, and plugged into the supply chain next door.
Laser and ink are of course not the same, but since this focuses on economy and efficiency I have to mention the Epson EcoTank, which absolutely shadows the LaserJet Tank here.
You can claim all you want, but this is how the terms are used in the real world. In English, real-world use trumps wishful thinking.
Britain is famous for convicting a guy who got his dog to do the nazi salute. And they just don't stop, they arrested a tweeter the other day along with a guy who filmed the first arrest.

https://fee.org/articles/uk-man-arrested-for-malicious-commu...
I was referring only to coming up with a name for the mascot. Not the name Kotlin itself. Besides, Kotlin actually sounds like a computer language name.
>Define origins
Well thats the thing. What if the claimed origins are false? Or what if these nameless boards were made during the night shift at a legit factory, but a rogue actor paid extra to have something bad baked in. A lot of people buy stuff off of aliexpress, but I sorta remain skeptical.
Say cheese, or delete the damn app.
The adjacent comment by kenned3 addresses this.

> Everyone wants that 3,000 square foot house, and naturally it has to be within walking distance from work.

The density that was built 100+ years ago was built pre cars. The cities that are dense are dense because they happened to develop at the right time.

Now, everyone in the political process of building a new city is going to question where they are going to have space for large cars, which leads to parking lots, 35ft+ or 10m+ wide streets, and of course quarter acre lots for detached single family homes with garages and driveways.

Creating a new Manhattan type region is simply out of the question due to costs. If the nation cannot even do proper upkeep on existing Manhattan, then there is not much chance of digging all the rail tunnels and etc etc for a new Manhattan.
rahimnathwani is correct here and has explained himself well. I generally don’t think of equity as a liability, but if you think of it is money owed to shareholders, then a credit can indeed be seen as an increase in money owed. Since debits always equal credits,

money OWNed = money OWed

And thus:

Assets = Liabilities + Equity
> In effect, if I wanted to drop a URL in this comment, the petname model requires that I use the UUID.

Could you drop the petname and let the clients resolve it via the UUID of the Hacker News website?

Edit: I believe the article calls this "edge names".
> certain corporate environments, where the official policy is not in line with what leadership actually wants to see

Okay. I've not experienced this situation indeed. Official policy / stated expectations has always matched actual expectations perfectly well wherever I worked, to the best of my knowledge. A difference there must be a mess to handle indeed.
Did a similar thing happen (minus the new product going away) in the Stash to Bitbucket transition? I also wonder how many people are not moving to Bitbucket Cloud when Server and Data Center are discontinued. Gitlab is still available to be self-hosted with full support.
Yeah but part of what throwaway908724 says is absolutely true:

There are a lot of naive newbies _and_ investors buying up property right now without a viable plan to ever make money on that property. This in turn drives up prices for both potential owners and "reasonable" landlords, then by extension for renters both because potential owners continue renting reducing supply and landlords need higher rent to break even let alone profit.

The worst is when investors stop maintenance on the property, it begins to deteriorate, then they write it off and bail. That turns what could have been a rehabilitation by a competent investor into a tear-down. More than a few apartment buildings are being ruined by this sort of thing, evicting all the tenants in the process.
> Regulators absolutely love blockchain btw. A public ledger with a machine readable consistent interface that everyone's activity can be data mined through? Hell yes.

Indeed they do. As long as they are able to see everyone's transactions and also identify and trace up illegal transactions easily, why would they ban it? Of course they won't hence they instead went after the privacy coins and will keep a compliant few that will survive regulations.

> Anyone who thought digital currency was going to do anything to help privacy has been smoking the highest quality cocaine.

Correct, and crypto is here to stay, just like spyware and closed-source software is. Anyone who thinks that crypto or closed-source software would go away entirely or having all of it get banned completely 100% is also already on the highest quality of cocaine or LSD to dedicate their whole life to try stopping all of it completely.
Testing Product Ideas with Fake Doors
Hey guys, as our MVP is becoming usable, we're documenting examples of how the tool can be used to fail ideas fast.

I'd appreciate some discussion around running these types of tests in your product. What tools did you use? What did you measure? How often do you run these tests?

We have seen companies use segment > intercom but the code has to be changed by the devs.

As a PM or UX, you shouldn't need to go through a whole SDLC just to test out ideas like this.

Yes it may piss off the user but thats why you roll it out to specific cohort or allow them to opt out of future research. Thats some stuff that we need to build in next.

Yes our landing is shit and doesn't convey what we do, we're working on it but log in and take a look at the product and see if it makes sense.
Nobody pays me for the privilege of living inside of my 401k though.
Since the Russia-Ukraine war broke out politics is now a primary driver.

China has indicated that it is 100% going to retake Taiwan. Their threat is credible. There were indications it would be soon.

War is a 'new reality' again and we can see the consequences of it.

If you have geopolitical liabilities and you have 10 year strategic planning, then you calculate the odds of 'major conflict' the diversifying away from China is a priority.

Anyone not divesting from China right now is going to get rocked.

Not fully divested but I mean the critical things. We have to plan for China arm of the business dissapeaering overnight.
To get peerage all you need is to be cozy with the current Tory leader. See Lebedev et al.
>There was a slight slump in rentals after the financial crisis, not before

And a significant decline in mortgages over that time, likely due to mortgage law changes as a result of the crash. Making it slightly harder to get a mortgage would, over time, move people from mortgages to rentals, which is exactly what the data shows, right?

UK added Basel capital rules, the affordability test, and changed capital ceilings in banks, among other changes. Academic papers list these as being major drives in declines in UK mortgage rates. Those people rent instead.

All with no need for speculators to drive the market up - the laws changed.

>Social rentals, which you are bizarrely conflating with private rentals

Ah, so now we're only taking a subset of renters. Good idea.
Also based on recent analysis many countries e.g. China, South Korea have increased exports to Russia including dual use technologies which are prohibited under recent sanctions.

This combined with upcoming war games involving China and Russia shows clearly where their allegiances lie.

So the risk of China being economically punished is not insignificant and Apple is very likely to be caught in the cross-fire if it does happen.
Nova: Multi-Cluster Federated Kubernetes
> A villager. Wants to pay you to get rid of a mysterious, sticky to touch book.

Behold! The legendary Book of Shame!
I have nothing positive to say about this article.

I giggled a little at reading it... A dude with way more money than brains is mad that "decenteralized finance" is decenteralized and can do whatever they want?

The guy then admits to losing a quarter of a million; you'd think that'd be enough of a penalty for him to realize that maybe he should take his remaining money out, but nope.

Gee. Who could've imangined that there's logical reasons for most financial regulations?
Considering they could interact directly with the contract with no problem, that aspect worked out great.
Unfortunately if the EQS is an indication Mercedes may have also lost the plot.
These self-improvement charlatans keep repeating these tired old mantras about how hard work is the solution to everything. Billions of people toil their asses off, literally off just to barely afford a damn roof over their head.

Being able to afford to live shouldn't even be a competition, but calling people lazy and weak for not busting their asses off is misguided. It's on par for a boxer turned influencer, but this boneheaded bullshit he is grifting with won't actually help people.

Acting manly is not the answer to every problem either, or explain Russian men and their low life expectancy then.

"always bet on the competitor who has the greatest will power, work ethic, and desire to be a winner."

The most successful people I know personally made it where they are because they were born 50 years ago, they were in the right place at the right time, they found a profitable niche and they networked. It's really about the opportunities. Obviously many people would still screw their opportunities up and you need a work ethic to see things through, but without opportunities work ethic is worthless.
> There is a lot of dishonesty around Westerners complaining about foreign cheap labor.

This is a strawman.

You're conflating different groups of people with different interests. Some people complain about labor conditions, some people complain that jobs are leaving the country. Almost nobody is "dishonest" about this.
The main criteria for every electronics company, singleing out Apple is just BS.