skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
name is eerily similar to `nixpkgs`, i.e. the monorepo that defines all packages and one of the underlying technologies here. i get the play on buildpacks, but still, as a nix user it makes me do a double take reading the name

this is neat though, and in political terms, the elevator pitch mentions nix itself as an implementation detail in passing. hopefully, if this catches on, it'll function as a non-threatening gateway drug to nix itself, when users inevitably go digging into the weeds

for anyone interested, prior art on the nix container front: https://nixery.dev
You're rather missing the point. The website runs on solar power. Do some reading about it. The website itself is a curio in and of itself.
I wanted a IIgs for a while, but a BBSer convinced me the Amiga was a much better machine (also wayyyy cheaper.) The difference in price between an Amiga 500 and an Apple IIgs was insane. And the Amiga 500 could emulate a Mac!
Ordered and deterministic cancer genome evolution after p53 loss
Coming to America as well - look up Ricky Vaughn. Trial run on a deplorable, your ticket will get called eventually.
I actually don't understand why the laws are written that way, apart from the political goal of causing W2 workers ("suckers") to bear a disproportionate tax burden. A W2 worker incurs expenses that are necessary to earn their income, including food, transportation, clothing, and healthcare. If they were able to account for these necessary expenses as a business does, the expenses would be directly deducted from income.

And that's not even getting into the S-corp self-employment-tax dodge.
> that is a very strange conclusion. there are way more factors than just the pain of childbirth. if that pain were really an issue, this should be a well known discussion point. since this is not commonly discussed, i very much doubt that it has any influence in the majority of women who decide not to have children.

Pain is the least problem of child birth. If you want to realize what childbirth can do to a womans body look up what a prolapsed uterus is. That women aren't having that discussion with you probably means that women just don't want to have children with you.

>what is the alternative to individual decisions? force women to have children?

If a society has conscription for men yes. Alternatively you can have both men and women reject the social contract and only use society as a way to make money before it collapses. We don't live in a fairy tale, we don't all get to ride off into the sunset.
Because the website is solar-powered, mate.
It depends on the accounting treatment that you need to track under. Average cost is easier to track with a Ledger type solution.

You keep track of inventory in two ways on two different Ledger Accounts under different "currencies." Inventory in dollars and inventory in units.

When you make a sale calculate average per unit value by dividing inventory USD value by number of units. Then your COGS value is driven by that average * units.

Each purchase adds to both the USD and the units accounts.
The important part

> WHICH TESTS WERE PERFORMED?
Activate the heated seat, increase temperature by two degrees, and start the defroster.
Power on the radio and adjust the station to a specific channel (Sweden’s Program 1).
Reset the trip computer.
Lower the instrument lighting to the lowest level and turn off the center display.
> its better to have one row in a table with a debit and credit.

No. Some transactions have 3 lines, eg: two debits and one credit. Some examples:
- Split payment at a shop, $100 item bought with $70 cheque and $30 cash would be
credit sales $100
debit cash $30
debit bank $70

Now if you introduce sales tax or VAT/GST, its more complicated. Say the $100 item is actually $90 + $10 VAT, then entries goes:
credit sales $90
credit vat-payable $10
debit cash $30
debit bank $70
You are asking the wrong audience, fairly sure "paper ballots are better" is the dominant opinion here.
Still, I'd avoid probably avoid using "natives", even if it was meant purely as a neutral label. "Locals" would be better - if it really was important to mention their cultural/ethnic background, I'd use whatever term they prefer for themselves.
I remember having this discussion with less senior devs, & not convincing them at all of the value of building a stable practice. Having to think about whether we do things one way or another, having to decide, making the reasons for the decision known have huge costs. Re-evaluating as we make further changes has a significant chance of screw up.

Having reliable 99% straight shots that encompass a variety of cases is so preferrable. I've been trying to advocate for consistent, low-control-flow decision making for so long, & this feels like what should have been an easy win example for me to make the case on. Im glad to see the topic/example come up again, with a much better specific elaboration.
It's (mostly) capitalist in terms of economy and communist in government/politics.
Congrats on turning my "I doubt its possible by intelligent design" into evolution denial. I cannot counter that level of mental gymnastics.

If the rate of AI development continues as predicted by other idealists, we'll have a superhuman singularity by 1995.
One thing it's missing which is trivial to implement. Have a little checkbox adjacent to line numbers, default true, that when unchecked would simply not parse the calculations, just leave it as simple text.

This way writing "and here is a little example of 9^9^9" and simply copy paste that to next line would allow me to not have it evaluate on text, but only on next line. OF course, a little more complicated to implement would be next step of actually select the text and within the pop-up have "Don't evaluate". This way writing a documentation without having always calculation be in your way would be very easy.

Other than that, this looks great ma' dude. Keep it up!
Medieval medicine: new project to digitise over 180 medieval manuscripts
This is the best, and in my opinion, only use case for Ethereum
> Obviously, you can use that same pattern on your own without fx, but going all in on fx really kind of forces you to do it.

Unless you are trying to add tests to legacy code, where you also wouldn't have much say in the use of fx, wouldn't the stated testing difficultly already force you away from that dependency mess?
Just to be clear, this seems to suggest that Supabase the company/product is SOC compliant, not that any product/service that you build on Supabase is automatically SOC compliant. Is that correct?
Annoying music makes the driver angry and inattentive, so not adjusting the radio is also dangerous. This kind of risk assessment algorithm is already built into our brains, and I doubt you can improve it with a formal simplistic model, partially because the risk weights depend on circumstances.
I think many of us would be more supportive of outsourcing manufacturing to developing countries if their government aligned more with Western ideals. The fact is many countries, like Vietnam, are still "developing" because they have authoritarian governments that have been oppressing their population to some extent keeping their labor cheap while stunting their economic potential.

We see the problems with this situation right now with Russia and China, whether it's buying oil from Russia or manufacturing in China, we've given these countries enormous amounts of power and influence by essentially funding their regimes. As we can see with the situation in Ukraine and Taiwan these regimes are not our friends or allies, even though we have allowed ourselves to become attached at the hip to them economically. As a western consumer I would much rather see my money either stay in country or go to a country that is a political ally and shares more western political and economic ideals.
The crimes he is alleged to have committed are detailed here by DOJ (during the Trump administration) and do not match your assertions.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assa...
Even here in Germany, a man was harassed and had his house raided by police for tweeting a pretty insignificant insult directed at a politician[0].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...
From the user's perspective, it's the little things. The feature set is overall bigger and better than comparable RDBMSs. Not having to deal with Oracle or Microsoft is also nice. But there's not a huge difference in usage vs MySQL.

Those familiar with the internals might say a lot more about how it's faster or something. IDK, wouldn't surprise me if it were.
My take: human brains are great at having ideas, but poor at holding onto information. If I didn't put things into tangible form ala notes or a task list, I'd be both overwhelmed yet also forget the majority of it.

Writing things down really helps commit them to memory, perhaps to the point that I don't always need to reference notes or a list. This is largely why school still has students copy down information.
There are file system packages (with __init__.py) and PyPI packages.

The former are an extremely poor version of Lisp packages, OCaml modules or C++ name spaces.

The latter are distribution packages (even for distribution packages C++ has Conan etc.).

PyPI packaging gets even worse than usual when attempting to distribute a file system package.
Is it bad that my first thought was "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these..."
Sure enough https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/pedersen-com...

Whelp, I'm gonna be bullish on some kind of move from cryptocurrency to a cypherpunk / plan9-esque Renaissance of distributed social computing, maybe taking ideas from e lang, and sprinkling in some web of trust auditable ledger if its appropriate and get the heck out of (web3) Dodge.
It is realpolitik. Absolutely.

We ruthlessly engage in it, but whenever anyone else on Earth tries it, we whip out the "freedom, democracy, human rights" rhetoric.

We shouldn't be surprised when that rings hollow elsewhere in the world.
Work with a customer with more money than brains?

Sure

Work for a company with money than brains?

Ideally not :)
I hear it's still possible, through heretic magic, to limit a CPUs power draw and most importantly, it will not affect speed on any level (load will increase).

There's even people selling their souls to the devil for the ability to control the actual voltage of their chips, increasing performance per watt drawn!

But only Gods and top OSS contributors can control the power draw of chips integrated into drives/extension cards/etc
Yes, a /64 comes in. But the first IPV6 address I use in a prefix, that is the only one that they ever seem to accept traffic for. So functionally, it's a /128.
https://www.moderntreasury.com/learn/what-is-fednow

> FedNow is an instant payment service for both individuals and businesses. Once launched, the initial transaction limit will be $25,000. This means that FedNow be more useful for small businesses and retail payment needs until it is widely adopted and the transaction limit grows.

> In early 2022, the Federal Reserve released pricing and fee details for their real-time settlement network. Because FedNow is government-operated, it’s mandated to break even and not turn a profit. A possible advantage of this is that FedNow may offer more competitive pricing than other payment systems, which encourages widespread adoption at a faster rate.

Merchants can pass the CC surcharge through; I’d expect them to do so when a very low cost immediate settlement option is available. This will allow consumers to self select if they want the benefits of paying with a credit card (but paying for the privilege). Credit can be extended if needed by a financial institution, without using CC rails. Net 30? BNPL? Special financing arrangement? Pick your poison either prior to or after value transfer has occurred. The innovation is utility priced financial infrastructure, cutting out the rentseekers mentioned.

(my note: it’s about five cents per FedNow value transfer transaction)
The similarity is definitely on purpose. It pulls ideals from both nixpkgs as well as the cloud native buildpacks.

Our goal is to make reproducibility more approachable/less cumbersome, and for people to be able to define additional nix/apt/etc packages added to the container .

You can add package you'd like via the environment variables NIXPACKS_PKGS (or NIXPACKS_APT_PKGS for apt)
We shouldn't be quite so smug. Most of what developers and other tech people do is not really needed. Nice, yeah. Required? Hell, no.

Look at Facebook - they're currently the 8th most valuable company on the planet, but very few people really need what they provide, and most of their customers really don't like Facebook (and IG, etc.) and the way they know the company is manipulating them. Contrast that with a companies like Exxon or Amazon, which like them or not, produce products or services people need and want to buy. Ad markets would continue without them, and I'm already seeing companies shift marketing dollars away form digital given both poor results and waiting to see what happens. (And I'm in Austin, where things are relatively booming...)

My point is simply that 80% of what we as techies do could be eliminated tomorrow, and the world would go on. The 20% remaining could (painfully) keep things going through a downturn, especially if the alternative is unemployment.

If you think your company won't cut you loose if that 80% cost reduction becomes necessary due to depression-level forces, think again - you may not be so indispensable as you think, no matter your position - I've seen a couple of top-level thought leaders/innovators cut from local companies recently, something that didn't happen even in 2008! The reason is usually, "we're pulling back from investing in innovation and new product development." I've got a bad feeling about this...
>Legendary Book of Shame +1 acquired
What good does it do to move all of the dependencies except for the most important foundational dependencies?
Hahah, yeah, this whole set of threads just hammers home your point, really :D
That's not such a great example, since Greenland and the Faroe Islands are both of zero significance. (Greenland is significant geographically, but not as a political entity.)

Population of Denmark: 6 million.

Population of Greenland: 0.05 million.

Population of the Faroe Islands: 0.05 million.
"Principles of Program Analysis" covers the subject very well. It's not an easy or beginner book because it's very formal, but very complete and with plenty of examples.
TL;DW: a legal battle between a youtube channel and Alphabet about copyright infringement. The interesting aspect is that the channel that stole their content is RT (Russia Today), but the lawsuit is against google as it claims that they purposely and in bad faith refused to take action and terminate RT channel, which they were required to do by law.
Go and Rust with go and cargo commands correspondingly have great tooling in this respect. As long as you use one language, everything is very convenient.
Assuming you mean 12am here? Or do you really sleep for 18.5 hours per day?
As a heads-up, they're not there year-round as the water level rises within the structure.
That’s all? That’s half a year of GDP. Vs 50 years of investment in climate change reduction?
True, but just using Excel does not lead to decent data models, though. IMHO, what we would need is for "regular" folks to grasp the basics of relational database first (at least 1:n and n:1) and then build an easy to use excel-like tool around it.
Maybe they should use Nimbus for their documentation? Nimbus Note, that is: https://nimbusweb.me/ . I use Nimbus Note occasionally, it’s a bit confusing, both using the same name.
In theory, his version is right. In practice, yours.
I’d like to see this same report circa 1970:

“Inaction will lead to an ice age costing $X by 2020”

meanwhile there’s another thread here about a “Contrarian VC” investing in climate change…
Problem with offshoring of high tech is that a big chunk of US economy is on the hook to a few authoritarian governments not really aligned with US or the west.
Lol “Marxist movement Black Lives Matter”.
Yes, there are lots of reforms that contributed to their rise, but adopting elements of a market economy and engaging in open trade with the rest of the world were key elements. Reforming their centrally planned economy wouldn't have resulted in the same outcome without the those.

But yes, I totally agree that you don't need to be 100% capitalist to benefit from having a market economy. Even the US's economy is ~15% public sector. Usually when multiple ideologies are competing, there's elements of truth all around.
I asked a very similar question [1] it has some interesting responses from Indian citizens who seems to be the only people who trust them because of [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32436338

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_capturing
They are well on their way of climbing onto the next rung of the manufacturing ladder and manufacturing more complex items with higher margins that can absorb higher wages

…and transitioning more to a service economy

…no?
yeah, not sure about the popularity aspect, but with serious weightlifters, you go slow. I've known about negative reps for 45 years, that that's where the muscle is actually built. Those last 2 or 3 reps, you use shit form to get the weights where they need to be - usually swing the weights, then lower it down ever so slowly. Of course, if you have a partner, they help you lift the weights up in good form, but if you have no partner, you resort to shit form because otherwise you can't get the weight to where they need to be. That extra burn is great.
Is anyone doing anything about it?
Voting machine manufacturers and election overseers responded to the criticisms! The vast majority of electronic voting in the US today is done with a physical paper receipt paper trail: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voting...

Notice that nearly every state requires voters to approve the paper copy of their vote.

The digital record is only used to speed up tabulation. In the case of recounts or contested elections, paper records are hand tabulated by humans (a recent example were the Arizona recounts for the 2020 election).

Where are you located that you didn't have a paper receipt you were asked to approve when you voted?
No guarantees, but stocks capture the value of technological innovation that housing (expect a few markets like SF) does not.
It sounds like he needs to try Haskell, or strong typed functional in general. Less boilerplate, less testing, less worry when changing code later.
>Most businesses deals are secret by default. All my contracts have confidentiality clauses.

Not true for investments in the hundreds of billions.

>The only reason to make a deal non-secret is PR.

This deal was kept secret for PR reasons.
Haha. Ask American Express. They’d love to help.
>More and better tools that let "regular" people program.

There's one catch with Excel, the more complicated your spreadsheet gets, the closer it gets to programming. And at some point, it's more cost effective to write in a proper programming language than continue to maintain mess.

However, until this complexity level, Excel is great, and empowers a lot of people who barely know the basic features of Excel to solve their computational problems.
The company is Netscape, right?
Yeah lets print 14.5T and then stop having to hear about it! Modern monetary theory says this should work.
1.4 billion people in China use WeChat to pay for everything. They don't even bother with credit cards.
Every country on earth has diplomatic relations with Saudia Arabia except Belize, the Holy See, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Nepal, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Taiwan, Western Sahara, and a few Pacific micronations. Obviously the House of Saud is evil, but it's largely impossible to have a modern society without their oil.
It does seem difficult balancing an open and free society with mechanisms for protecting and maintaining government secrets, and punishing those who betray those secrets.

Do you believe it is plainly unconstitutional simply because it posting to twitter involves words?
I don't want to carry cash, but I don't need it to be a Credit Card.

The new FedNow https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about.... system might take a significant part of Visa/Mastercard business.
Huh. Apple-pay? In my college town, credit cards are on the way out.
Thanks for providing those links.
This number, or any other number, is a lie, which only discredits the climate change initiative. An honest estimate would be a 2-sigma range, e.g. $4..24T with 95% probability with such and such assumptions.
Russia (Putin) sees Ukraine as basically a subordinate state; likewise with Georgia and Belarus. That would make this action a civil war, which is basically how it's been treated by the international community.
Rust and Clojure address completely different domains of problems.

Rust is competing with C++ for writing low level systems, whereas Clojure is designed for writing business applications.

Low level systems tend to have stable and well understood requirements, whereas the same cannot be said for business applications. Efficiency is not a primary concern of business applications, but flexibility is. The efficiency of Clojure is often "good enough" for business application, and there is no peer in flexibility. This explains the many fintech companies using Clojure, as well as many other B2B companies.
this. this is crazy.

ewallets are taking over.
Two-thirds of UK families could be in fuel poverty by January, research finds
How much does WeChat charge in fees?
I don't think you get the GP's point. The comment was meant to describe motivations. Obviously no one is literally charged with "upsetting people in power".
they also provide tremendous value. however, looked at from a disruptive innovation perspective, i think two questions are critical:

+ where can startups take the edges off the market, without taking them on front-on? certain segments, use cases, etc.

+ what tech innovations exist today (or are on the horizon) which a startup could leverage faster/better than visa/mastercard to better serve certain use cases better than v/m (e.g Dell (when they were a startup) was so much faster than IBM to incorporate Intel's new tech every cycle, which resulted in Dell customers getting more capable and less expensive pcs)
It would have an appeal to me, because it's absurd. I'm an American and was raised up with the notion that royalty and monarchies are patently absurd, a feeling that has only grown as I've aged. Having a Lordship would be like owning a three-wheeled car or living in a house that looks like a giant seashell, to my mind. It'd be a funny thing to tell folks about at parties. I might even go about creating knights or whatever if the party was good enough.
How does your little college town effect the entirety of the market?
The single worst part of Python import for me is "from". I think "from" was a mistake, and should never have been added. Like many "pythonism" its just another layer of sugar thats not needed, and is only marginally useful. Especially when dealing with new packages, its essentially trial and error for me with:

import hello
from hello import world
import hello.world
from hello import world.bye
from hello.world import bye

I didn't realize until I went to Go, where "from" doesn't exist, how much I hated it with Python.
Rupay in India seems to be doing it.

Non affiliated video about it: https://youtu.be/B_AY4a3_-GQ
Apple pay is just an easy way to use your card
If ISPs don't shut down people's accounts they'll get sued for billions in fines.
There are still open court cases against multiple ISPs for not cutting enough people off from the internet. So far, courts have agreed with the RIAA/MPA who paid good money for the laws we have.
That's indeed a valid concern. Keeps my finger crossed.
I would've thought "machine, but also paper receipt" would be the dominant position