skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a smart workaround. Maybe a

> For the best experience, we recommend installing Nix via the official installer, i.e., via this one-liner:

> > curl | bash, blah blah blah

> (Existing Nix users who have or prefer an alternative setup can still use devbox! See this page about compatibility: [link to a 1/2 page reference doc]

(Happily, the experimental features now experiencing widespread uptake in the community will make some of those differences I outlined less relevant.)
When I started to study computer sciences in Germany in 1991, we used Oberon on X11 terminals during the the initial "Praktische Informatik I" lecture as our first programming language. Oberon being new, the professor said he wanted to make sure that everyone starts under the same conditions and with no pre-knowledge. So we wrote our linked lists, hash tables, trees, sorting algorithms etc. in Oberon.

That time almost all students had a track-record coding on Apple, Commodore or Atari homecomputers and/or had worked with Turbo-Pascal and -C. Because the Oberon system was not very stable nor user friendly, the Oberon environment was met only with little support by the students. For example I remember that the compiler crashed reproducible on certain inputs. There also was no debugger and the editor did not meet expectations.

After finishing the lecture, most students (including) me, never touched Oberon again. But hey, let's re-visit it after 30 years again and see how it feels today.
Yes, same version for all platforms.
In eastern MA, I find level 2 charging is rarely marked up (and is not infrequently free). DC fast charging is 50-100% marked up, which feels pretty fair to me to be honest.

The thing I find pleasing is office park level 2 charging often charges the retail electricity rate, but they have a large solar installation and if they sell me electricity at full retail (including distribution charges), they make a lot more than selling it to the utility. That’s good for me (I get a charge at the same cost it would be at home) and good for them.
Interesting you say you use http://www.trialtopaid.com to make money when that site is down...
It looks like there are no shortage of alternatives. Monopoly isn't when "better product than dozens of competitors"
Show HN: EVRTHN.com, a Search Engine for the “Metaverse”
Hey HN!

As a geriatric Millennial, I used to spend an ungodly amount of time hanging around IRC and discovering sites on the old web. During the Pandemic, I got into hanging around standup comedy hangouts in VRChat. Taking friends to visit a virtual Mcdonald's[1] or joining a Karaoke party in a Minecraft world[2] brought back that sense of rapport and presence (multiplied by 1000) from my IRC days.

Problem is, finding any of this content is extremely difficult. Most of it is locked inside native apps and isn't semantically relevant to Google (I could never imagine there are tons of people attending Yoga classes or morning stretch sessions or going to the church every week, in VR!).

So I repurposed an open source project[3], enlisted a couple of folks to hack together, and we're now indexing a ton of content from sites & apps - news, events, worlds, assets - and making it all searchable.

This is still very much an alpha, and mostly focused on content from VRChat and AltspaceVR (plus some news outlets), but I'd love to hear your thoughts & feedback.

Site: evrthn.com [4] (pronounced "everything")

Thank you!

[1] https://bit.ly/3ArLjNk

[2] https://bit.ly/3R5Pg1e

[3] http://github.com/cloudsearch

[4] https://evrthn.com
In practice though they want to offer bursty throughput. For example, if you want to allow sending photos in messages, but not videos, you don't want to send a photo at 1k/s. It's not a trivial problem.
I do not consider "online", when it's a PM. A private message, should be private. There are reasons to get rid of the whole thing sometimes.
As I described it to some folks recently, Go can be simply characterised as a slightly stripped version of the Oberon-2 (or Component Pascal) language, recast in a C like syntax, and with a number of small additions.

Removed from Oberon-2: Sets, Type Extension (classful OO scheme)

Added by Go: Maps, Slices, Strings, Interfaces, Channels, Coroutines.

Such that I suggested it is well worth reading the Oberon-2 language report.

As to the coroutines, possibly Oberon-2 had them in its standard module library (as Modulo-2 did)?
Imagine a Jesus Mono painted on top of an actually valuable painting that can only be seen with x-rays.
Ibis might be an option. It has syntax similar to pandas and can compile to a number of types of sql, pyspark, or dask.

https://github.com/ibis-project/ibis
Yes, this is a real issue.

Some people straight keep renewal schedules in their calendar like they do for anniversaries and tax filing deadlines. Funnily enough, registering domains at specific occasions makes it easier to remember to check the status (credit card registration etc)

At the core of it, I’m not sure it’s that different from anything you actually “own”. Someone “owning” a house would still probably get it seized if they disappeared for years without ever paying property and local taxes. Losing a house is pretty extreme, but to your point a domain name is also becoming a pretty big deal nowadays.
Show HN: visualize Kafka streaming data
> qualitative example, not something that can be directly compared enough to calculate some exact number

> like putting a human in a small 3'x3' box

Good thing you provided a number then? If you want to make a qualitative example, say "it would be like if a human lived in a heated swimming pool for the rest of its life" which is more accurate. Instead, you (and I think it's obvious you know what you're doing) throw out a number, then when you're demonstrated wrong, backpedal and say it was supposed to be qualitative.

> the orcas experience strong chemicals in the water

Do you think there aren't strong chemicals in the ocean? Salt is pretty corrosive. The ocean isn't exactly a homogeneous solution. There are a ton of pathogens as well, in fact most of them on earth live in the ocean.

> you do know that SeaWorld loans and sells orcas to places that often have far worse conditions than SeaWorld's

Yes, and that's a ringing endorsement for SeaWorld in my book. It means they are a leader in the care of these mammals. They actually have to participate in loan programs in order to be AZA accredited, which they are.

> I have no idea how one can do any research into the lives orcas live in captivity and feel anything remotely close to okay with it.

This is common among people who just haven't done much research on it. Marine mammal captivity is an important activity humans do in order to promote education, not to mention conservation (for species reintroduction or rehab in case of a catastrophe). It's a little unintuitive the same way that hunting (killing animals) supports wildlife preserves is unintuitive, but nevertheless there are good reasons we have these institutions and getting rid of them would be a huge mistake.
Its pretty universal though, all people have preconceptions like that. Like chinese tourists, calling home the mainland and the inhabitants of the visited country "foreigners". Its more prevalent in huge countries or ex empires though. Super annoying when your country is small and you have to adapt to these wrong pre conceptions because the other side gets insulted, if you call them "just another country among many".
Americans will soon be able to renew passports online
Ghosting is because they don't need your work right now and are kind of dumb or ADD with bad "back office". The ones who don't ghost want onsite estimates too, because they want to size you up as a legit client, and make a sales impression. (Smooth talking white guys for the estimate, Latin Americans for the work, possibly day laborers not employees)

Small ones like leaky pipe or drywall, when the owner (or sole proprietor) is the laborer, they just come out and do on first visit.
>>In her conclusion, “What Vaccination Controversy Can Teach Us about Medicine and Modernity,” Hausman posits that “[e]pistemologically, science does not offer us a lot of help in identifying and explaining the various threads that are woven through vaccination controversy” (p. 220). Instead, Hausman suggests “The answer is science and something else” (p. 219). The something else requires an objective, nuanced understanding of the many belief and cultural systems that contribute to one’s underlying understanding of and approach to illness and health and how to deal with both.

I don't think it is that complicated. I don't think "science" is even the answer. The answer, to me, revolves around people and their actions.

1) An open and up front admission that medical breakthroughs are not typically as definitive as we want them to be.

2) A concerted effort to recognize and validate both the pros and cons of a medical procedure. No medical procedure (even one as simple as taking an OTC painkiller or allergy medication) is risk free. No medical procedure is perfect. If something is being touted as a miracle cure/perfect solution or as demon spit designed to make it easier for the government to control us, more information is clearly needed.

3) Research figureheads and teams being willing to say "We don't know" instead of trying for platitudes and reassurances and unsupported suggestions.

4) If a recommendation is going to be made, make it just that, a recommendation. Do not try and force that recommendation on people and be willing to have that recommendation challenged.

5) Repeat, repeat, repeat. The bread and butter of the scientific method is for ideas to be challenged and verified through repeated quality experimentation and study trying to get the same results. The idea that a single study can prove a concept or process is laughable, and study/experiment authors should by up front on just about everything on their process so that their results can be tested. Be willing to take criticism and never operate under the assumption that your work is the end-all/be-all of a field.
Came here to say this about Pitfall. Very interesting imagining the author of Pitfall David Crane picking a seed/configuration that would give him the full 255 screens while also providing a gentle enough learning curve on the first few screens!

Another fun fact: a very young Jack Black appeared in the Pitfall television commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfLgSdAAHMA
A decent bodega within ~5 of walking distance if such a game changer.
That is the excuse I heard back when spam was novel. What's the harm? The recipient might want it. That sounded almost reasonable 25 years ago.

Now estimates vary widely, saying that 50% to 85% of mail is spam. Extensive spam filtering is a must. Actually relevant mail regularly gets lost because those filters aren't perfect. And deliverability is, at least for me, a constant worry.

A person with no pecuniary motive chatting me up where the behavior costs us the same amount of time? That's fine. Somebody paid to chat people up in high volume because they hope to get more money out of me? Not fine. Somebody using automated tools to do that such that recipients spend far more time than the sender? Not fucking fine at all.

For example, consider the gaping assholes, perhaps as few as 3 people, who were behind the literal billions of robocalls for extended car warranties. Did some people like that, grateful to have their worries about their car solved for them? Maybe, but I don't care. I would like to be left alone until I reach out, thanks. And if you don't like that ethos, please go talk to the people behind the thousands of robocalls and literal millions of spam emails I've had to deal with over the years. Because you're wasting your day telling me I should be nicer to people who value their money more than my time.
> Or producing that heat in your house?

Yes please, today if you can deliver. A combination battery / heater / heat pump sounds amazing.
I'm curious where all the money goes, since student loans are incredibly high but teacher pay is so low. I'm guessing the answer is 'random nonsense that shouldn't matter'.
I just started reading Bret's blog in the past couple weeks with the LOTR posts. Was quite the rabbit hole that I still haven't come out of, love the blog! Anyone with an interest in history should check his blog out.
I worry that capitalism is using us in a similar manner.

Neoliberal capitalism has given us a lot of very cheap, very technologically advanced stuff. An extremely basic integrated circuit in the 1960s costs the same as an entire iPhone now, accounting for inflation. Accounting for inflation, automobiles are as cheap as they've ever been, and have many more features that work much better than they ever have.

But ... the edges wear thin. A Raspberry Pi (computer) and a Raspberry Pie (food) may be purchased for around the same price. A varied and healthy diet can be quite expensive (though there are deals to be found if you can travel to get them). Companies want to "add value" to food with extensive processing that increases the engineered taste factors to make us consume more. Housing is insanely expensive in many areas. Health care in the United States is not designed for any humans - not doctors, nurses, other professionals, and certainly not patients.

Neoliberal capitalism won't innovate on these areas. Are we just stuck with what we have? Certainly government mandates could change the game, but just like the Romans, people think the system is working because they can buy a smart phone and a gaming console and some cheap snacks and go for a ride in their fine automobile.

We can't see what the collapse will be, and we can't see what's next. I wonder how many Romans talked like this? I don't believe that our doom is inevitable, but I also think that progress requires specific intention, and progress can be very easily disrupted.

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I have a thesis that the economic benefits of integrated circuit microchip and the economic benefits of neoliberalism cannot be distinguished. They both feed each other. I don't see myself putting enough effort into researching it and writing it up, but I strongly believe that thesis.
https://www.trialtopaid.com (https) doesn't work right now but http://www.trialtopaid.com (http) redirects to my consulting site https://www.reemer.com.

If you're using an extension that only does https you won't get redirected.

Haven't bothered setting TTP.com up properly yet. Shoeless cobbler's kids, etc.
Racism of the margins, as it were.
Modern journals don't actually print all that much, and I'd expect the marginal cost of publishing additional papers to be very low.
Not only that, but it appears their DNS settings are a bit funky as well:

$ dig githubnext.com

; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.17-Ubuntu <<>> githubnext.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 29398
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;githubnext.com. IN A

;; Query time: 1458 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug 26 17:20:13 CEST 2022
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 43
Collected: Web Design Inspiration
web design inspiration, shuffled on every visit
Some. Not all. The difference is when ALL restaurants are closed vs some/many/most.
Not, if the whole creation process has been documented with a sort of internal blockchain.. From scan sketch, to open canvas, to every single brush, to convert image to upload image. You can fake that too, but the effort would be tremendous
> Overall the medieval era was something of a setback in the aggregate if you look at social development overall in the western core

I'm not especially fond of the world system theory and I'm extremely wary of the concept of core countries but even if we accept for a minute that it makes sense, there is a very simple explanation to that in the theory: western countries which now form the core weren't part of it at the time.
There are plenty of C++ conferences though.
The amount of technology that was developed in the Medieval times is quite long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_technology

Romans had a similar list of accomplishments; but we're all too tempted to group them together and assume they were simple and easy.

Once you actually start to dig into it you begin to realize how everything is connected together and that while perhaps you could jump start it with a time machine at just the right place; you might not be able to speed it up as much as you'd think. A "build the tools to build the tools to build the machines to build the tools to build the machines to build the tools" problem, if you will.
That's what I do as well. In addition, all my emails are backed up in my local email client (which I back up locally to another location once in a few days) so if things go south I have a way to restore my accounts.
In particular, they didn't innovate in general technologies, like energy/information production/transmission, or metallurgy. Hard to beat slaves as a general technology， even concrete is no match.
Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)
While I do think that some cream makes it to the top, this is the kind of selection bias that's common in academia. The professors with tenure love to think that the system is fair. But even if the filters ensure that the tenured are good, it doesn't mean that the filtering process isn't excluding a number of other people who are just as good (or even better).

There aren't many slots at each level of the pyramid. Many people are excluded at each stage of the culling.
Seems a little greedy; you'd think that during pandemics and wars, patents would take a backseat to keep people from dying. But also these pharma companies made hundreds of billions off of the back of the pandemic, so neither are exactly the victim here.
How do you bill on a project basis? Half the people say that billing anything other than hourly is nuts, and the other group says anything other than fixed price is nuts.
There was a discussion in the democratic party at the beginning of the Biden administration about offering the first two years of community college for free, similar to what’s been done in Tennessee. This plan was scrapped after universities lobbied the democrats out of fear that it would hurt their bottom line- that is, actually make the cost of college more affordable. This is something that would have benefited everyone, especially the working class. That would have been fair. This half measure is most definitely not a “step in the right direction.” Indeed, your suggestion of finding a way to subsidize new loans at lower cost is exactly what has caused the cost of college to explode - which I’m sure would receive the ardent backing of universities in the US.
If you want to earn more for the value you provide, monthly retainers or project fees are the way to go.
The pay is not the biggest problem though. Obviously it is a big one, but there's a huge issue with the work culture.

I agree it's a rosy picture of industry, but IME most of the supposed "intellectual freedom" of academia is just a marketing pitch these days. You don't get there until you somehow make tenure, and even then if you're in a high cost field you need to be very high profile if you don't want to be forced to focus on the topics that award grant money. You're interested in narcolepsy? Too bad.

So I consider it a red flag when a PI immediately jumps to say that "yes salaries should be higher but" and then goes on to defend everything else about their current situation.

Like it is ridiculous the amount of self promotion one feels pressured to do on Twitter. Do you not see the problem with authors pushing their work on social media during a supposed double blind review period?

I don't disagree that there is often a lot of bitching without actionable suggestions. But I don't think the characterization in (1) was especially extreme and I don't see the suggestion to burn the whole system to the ground. Personally I think we need more diversity in how academic institutions operate, that doesn't mean that old institutions will disappear.
You can set a proper Icewm/Win95 type panel+wm in a week with very little coding.

There's a classical file manager:

https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/images/filemng.png

With "bar" for 9front, and "winwatch", you just have to write some title bar in order to manage the windows with ease.
> NB: You're replying to two different people.

I saw that, after writing my piece, though.

I think my main objection with your points is that I see nuclear as an alternative to fossil fuels, NOT as an alternative to renewables.

As for each point, I will start with the last:
> Cost doesn't look great anymore when you include cleanup.

Actual harm caused by nuclear is miniscule when compared to fossil fuels. Chernobyl caused somewhere between 1000 and 100000 casualties, probably less than air pollution from fossil fuels cause EACH YEAR, only in Europe.

Wind and even hydro also create considerable environmental effects, so the alternative cost should not be seen as zero.

There is no evidence (at least not conclusive evidence) that exposure to radiation doses below 80-100mSv cause any health hazard, and a lot of the "cleanup" and other measures are done to prevent exposure to doses that are often below 10mSv per person, and are probably not needed.

> Corruption potential.

I live in a country with very low levels of classical corruption, luckily. I think corruption affects everything, and should be dealt with as a separate problem.

> Geopolitical. Adoption of nuclear outside of UK/France/USA/China/Russia ..

I suppose India should be added to your list. Anyway, some of the biggest deposits are in countries like Australia. Obviously, I don't want to force anyone to adopt nuclear, but it's a lot easier to find friendly suppliers of nuclear fuel than natural gas.

> Incomplete.

Same thing.

> Consistent overpromising.

40 years ago, reactors were typically built to only last 40 years. (They were also cheaper to build back then). Only newer models are designed for longer lifespans. Anyway, from my perspective, most reactors continue to deliver despite old age, if well maintained, and they don't shut down just because Putin has a temper tantrum.

If you're living in Europe, just imagine what the price of electricity would be if France's electricity depended on natural gas the same way the German does...
Is Heroku’s DNS down again?
Our production services just went down again due to DNS. Anybody else?
It always seems that Bitcoin half-solves one problem and creates three more. Accepting Bitcoin/Ethereum doesn't make sense unless it's a reliable store of value (which is the opposite of the investment opportunity that seems to drive most of the interest in crypto today).

And irreversible transactions sound good until it's your stolen bitcoin used to pay Hetzner...
Filtering by neighborhood and knowing the neighborhoods. Not that helpful if you are moving from somewhere else but pretty easy if you live in the area already.