skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude calm down, he literally states that he isn't a developer and is asking _why_ it is 'still so bad'. You could explain to him why it is really hard to properly implement things in a piece of software as vast as LibreOffice. Attacking him for even asking the question isn't the way to go imo.
Yep, I would never carry this much on me. In most countries you need to declare such amount when crossing the border, and explain why you have it. And of course in the US any cop on the street can just take it from you, with no recourse.

I would carry 500-1000 USD at most.
But that’s the same as the US. If you are born with a disability you can get social security insurance (SSI) payments that can also qualify for public (Medicaid) insurance.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/ssi-a-lifeline...
Lol that's not true
Also LHC is not on France
> Hydrogen leaked into the atmosphere is 6-16 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas

Which is a problem considering how small the H2 molecule is: we can't reuse our existing LNG pipelines.

Personally, I believe aerochemistry will "work out" in the long term by generating short to medium length aliphatic compounds from CO2 and H2O: we'll eventually figure out the catalyzation from sunlight.

We can then have access to lots of energy, with a negative carbon balance, using always sunny surfaces like the Sahara desert - which sits conveniently close to Europe!

This could help with the European energy problems if only France would stop thinking short term and try to protect and extend the commercial life of its ailing nuclear energy business (50% of which is currently closed down to being unsafe/uncoolable etc) by shooting down initiatives to build LNG pipelines from North Africa to Europe.

Yes, they are doing that, even now that they (and Germany, and the rest of Europe...) are facing a winter without Russian gas: https://www.archyde.com/gas-spain-criticizes-frances-opposit...

Unfortunately, France stands in the way between the shortest route from North Africa to continental Europe through Gibraltar.

If a pipeline can't be build from Spain to Germany by going through France, the next best would be from Italy.
Without having tried Hetzner Storage Box: the insanely good support, the transparency, the longevity of the operation.
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If you want to write and for it to be a habit you can reduce the friction of writing.

Create a GitHub repository and create a journal repository and create a markdown heading for each entry. It works.

I'm on 4 pages of 100+ journal entries each. See my profile, I journal computer ideas, algorithms in the open.

Using WordPress or using complicated software shall take time away from writing regularly. And you need to open a document and write, not abandon your blog due to forgetting how to post
I'd agree, although selling the business outright (or retaining a small percentage) and then moving on to something else would allow you to try and repeat the success (which admittedly you may never be able to), but without any financial concerns.
> NASA is wasting the bulk of their funding

SLS is expensive, but it's nowhere close to the bulk of NASA's funding. It's about 10%.
DOOM was definitely made with DOS in mind, but it also ran on NeXT from the beginning. It's pretty portable actually. Since you cited Fabien Sanglard, I guess I should mention that his book about DOOM's source code (Game Engine Black Book: DOOM) explains how the portability stuff (as well as almost everything else) worked in great detail.
There were some good analytical pieces on (A) the fact that we are and have been in a recession and (B) fentanyl and some of its money flows. And there were many more.

Besides, the site is nearly all

"that kind of analytical journalism"

I outlined.
Ah yes, had it running on my Pentium 60 MHz, 16MB RAM in '95. Didn't run on highest specs, but performance was good enough in SVGA. 60MHz single core and having a floating point unit in your CPU was considered acceleration.
Huh, it's almost like you're backporting pixel graphics to ASCII graphics :)
It is an open source project for an extremely complex piece of software. The fact that it can open/edit documents is baffling to me. I mean, Microsoft is basically the only one that figured out how to do it right. (as in, performance wise/software wise) They probably have hundreds, if not thousands of developers working on this thing, with a lot of them having tons of knowledge on really specific things. (things like rendering etc)
And yet there's plenty of competition in the network infrastructure market, including by smaller players. You think DigitalOcean and Hetzner are not in a closely related market to AWS or Azure?
Yes all correct, just like the parent, but technically he did pivot the textile mill company into an investment company, even tho Warren Buffet himself didn't pivot (altho he's arguably pivoted a bit from his original investment strategy, but this a thread for large pivots).
Life expectancy is a terrible measure for quality of healthcare. It ignore so many other factors. The only way it could be a suitable measure if you assumed every human in every country was the same except for the healthcare they receive. It's pretty clear they aren't - lifestyle, smoking rates, alcohol and drug abuse, accidents, suicides, genetics.

You’re far better to look at things like “survival after cancer diagnosis” where the US has some of the world’s best outcomes.

https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/20180131/us-...
No limits. The main reason you'd not use this over other storage providers is probably the price. For the money you pay, you'd really only use this for data you can't afford to lose, and won't constantly monitor for corruption yourself – i.e. backups.
> And there's only like three edge cases.

Unless you involve MS Excel or, worse, MS Excel on macOS. OTOH, pitfalls are: UTF-8 BOM, comma vs semicolon, single vs double quote, multiline cell content and escaping, escaping in general...
The complete graph on 1400 nodes only has a million edges.
RAM uses power, 8GB of DDR3 was something like 3W and once you have 16GB in a personal computer, you simply don't need more for everyday use.
The browser is responsible for providing web developers with ever-increasing resources to eat up. It also defers way an increasing amount of much functionality to javascript (or at least allows javascript to reimplement that functionality) - e.g. there is no native support for DASH video so you are always beholden to whatever js the website uses (unless you want to use website-specific hacks).
>> $3k now is a hell of a lot of money

Where do you live? A smartphone is $1000 or more.
Untrue. As long as it meets the technical requirements (ie, not using private APIs, doesn't excessively drain battery etc), and the licensing issues aren't a problem (some OSS licenses are an issue, as well as using the Quake assets may be an issue), there is no reason why Apple wouldn't approve a game for the Apple Watch on the App Store.
Looks interesting but the pricing is confusing.

0.99 cents requires 680GB minimum but the 0.1 cents does not have a minimum.
I wonder how he handles foreign students who feign language difficulty when convenient. From what I've seen, such cheaters tend to get away with it.
Increase energy production using fossil fuels?
what if there was a way to “increase frame rate” by adding in some type of logic checker between two generated images? kinda like a comparison between two generated frames that would lead to more generated images that mimic movement? so like a filler between frames that would predict how something got to one shape to another using a set of properties that a generated object has, those properties could be weight, speed, gravity etc etc, it just depends on what object it is conceptualizing or constructing
"How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series"

Current title ("Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series") implies something rather different :)
2020 though
I salute your efforts, but even if you have experience in the field (Wiki, OSM), I'm sorry to say that your arguments are weak and overly specific. I'd be more understanding if you had said working for Wikipedia/OSM isn't worth it, but to extend your "arguments" to all of Open Knowledge Movement is just too much.

I find Wikipedia, the end result, extremely valuable, even though I don't know what's going on in the shadows (probably the usual, petty human affairs as you said).
> Can't be safe unless you have multiple bank accounts, crypto, and some nice friends.

You are never 100% safe. You could be killed by a car, a falling plane or a meteorite an hour from now. Or an artillery shell or nuke just after the start of an unexpected war. Or that painful spot that you have could turn out to be terminal cancer, which could kill you within 3 months.

Also any currency and any set of stocks can go to near-zero faster than most imagine. A natural disaster can happen that simultaneously wipes out your house (if you have one) and your insurance company. (This is actually the reason I'm insuring my house with the same company that holds my mortgage, so at least I don't have to pay the mortgage if they're wiped out in such an event.)

The real question is how much risk are you willing to accept, and what costs are you willing to pay to mitigate the risks. And of the above, I think the main risk driver was to go abroad (paired with being unlucky about covid's timing).

Going abroad while depending on a domestic bank with a log-in method that would soon expire was adding to the risk.

The combination of the above put you into a small subset of the population, meaning you and people like you didn't have leverage when the disaster struck.

But you _were_ unlucky. And if luck is bad enough, you're never completely safe.
H2 may well be a more potent GHG when compared to CO2, but it's tendency to remain in the atmosphere for a long time is a factor than shouldn't be ignored and doesn't seem to be mentioned by your first citation. I.e. H2 may be 16x more potent than CO2 but if it reacts away within hours/days/[<16th of the time that CO2 stays around] then its overall contribution to warming will be less than CO2. (I don't know what this figure is, but I believe Hydrogen is pretty reactive so doesn't tend to stick around that long)

From your second citation:

> The evidence base relating to non-GHG emissions from end-use in heating applications is almost non-existent

It then says that a single study:

> suggests there is potential for up to six times higher point NOx emissions compared with natural gas".

and that it could be significantly reduced with catalytic converters.

The points you raise are not nearly as unequivocal as you make them out to be. I also don't feel like Hydrogen is going to solve all of our problems - it has many problems that needs to be overcome. But it could well play a role in certain areas when it comes to getting off fossil fuels, so studies into more efficient production of it will surely be valuable.
It seems that a common "pipeline" is to run the outputs of SD through GFPGAN to correct the faces. Although it can't help with the number of limbs or fingers.
It's also a little silly because every serial founder basically could have pivoted had they desired. It's just normally suboptimal for various reasons. Easier to shut it down and start anew.
I've had several small successes that would pay for my life in the last years. When I lost interest I just sold and moved on.

Thing is I enjoy my life. I value free time and low stress way more than luxury. I have all the things I want and can afford everything I need.

My point is you are in the position to choose what is best for you. Don't follow the money just because money, except that's what you value most.
I would have loved this more if the plot twist was that the author first decided to recode their perfectly fine static site generator from Perl to the new hotness and along the way wrote a script that automatically rebuilds and deploys the site every time the executive toilet at American Express flushes.
No reason to compare number of years. It is not a good measure or a linear one. Tech space-time is warped. You didn’t have the overnight unicorns in the 70s. It took decades to get really big. With todays network effects, cryptocurrency should have proved itself already.
This is especially a problem in languages which have a chronic lack of decent standard library and everything relies on a third-party package.
They pixel-perfectly copied and recreated it in BitFontMaker2[0] (source[1]).

Not a nice thing to do to a type designer or a foundry, but a gaming studio/Notch(?) won't probably care.

[0] - https://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bitfontmaker2/

[1] - https://github.com/IdreesInc/Minecraft-Font
is it really that expensive? I pay like $100 per year for 400GB, which includes geo redundency.

Access speeds up and down are fast, I can up or download whenever and how often I like, and with winscp it's basically just a mounted fs I can use. Oh and support is great, the few times I've had questions they have responded in detail within a few hours.
This sounds quite similar to a situation which occurred to a close relation over 20 years ago. Again, even in-person with government-issued ID at a branch of the bank, access to funds was impossible (though the account itself was not terminated). The lockout similarly occurred whilst travelling, and they were unable to access funds whilst on an extended holiday, though regained access once they'd returned home.

Another element is that many banks effectively centralise virtually all decision authority within computer systems. Patio11's recently submitted essay on branch banking addresses this in part. See <https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/branch-banking/> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32679233>

Most banks, even quite large ones (though Citi might be an exception) no only centralise operations to software but use the same very small number of vendors for that software. Brian Krebs wrote an essay in 2018 giving some details on just how consolidated that market is: <https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/what-is-your-banks-secur...>

Discussed on HN at the time: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16534820>

The fact that the banks have tied their own hands doesn't excuse them, though this may in part explain what's going on, and how you might choose to calibrate your expectations, risk models, and mitigations.
In the same way that "a car" is $90k or more. (And yes, for plenty people a smartphone is an expensive, major purchase)
I'm a happy user.

I don't have a very complicated setup: a daily rsync cron job from my workstation to my Synology NAS, and a daily cron job from my NAS to rsync.net. I told rsync.net to notify me if I stop uploading data for more than 7 days.

I could use borg, rclone, restic, etc. but rsync is used everywhere, not just backups, so it's a pretty safe choice for long term storage IMO. (I was surprised to learn that rsync is only 26 years old)

That's the extend of my backup system and I'm pretty happy with it. Sadly, I haven't had the chance to put it to the test, one day if I feel brave enough I'll format my hard drive and see if my backup strategy forgot anything :-)
"right-wing activist killed"

produces plenty of responses including the Portland protest. Cnn is not on the first page though.

"left-wing kills police officer"

oddly enough produces mostly right-wing violence. Putting "left-wing" in quotes helps a lot though.
This software is usable at the stock 1Mhz system clock found on all Apple 2 type computers except the GS (2.5 Mhz) and //c+ (4 Mhz).

At 1Mhz it is impressive. There are cards that offer up to 16Mhz clock speeds. And some can also have the 65816 CPU! Very little software supported that configuration. Merlin 16 assembler does for those wanting to program a 16 bit 6502.
Lets say a 16 core machine costs 20k with associated costs (share of router, etc). This is a pretty high price for a machine, but isn't entirely insane.

Your akka license now costs €32k per year. Meanwhile if you are doing standard five year deprecation your 16 core machine is 4k. This means you are paying 8x the cost of the machine itself for the software license. An important software license but not one that is a full complete piece of work.

I could understand paying this much for software like Wowza where it is a "complete" solution for a problem. Where you are buying a full piece of software, but not a developer framework.
If you are basically using finished code, your own code is mostly a top-level script, and you mainly need polished functionality and professional support, then Matlab toolboxes and support are very good.

But the language itself is primitive compared to OSS alternatives, so when you need to develop your own software on a larger scale, it falls short.

There is of course a sliding scale between 'user' and 'developer' in any language, but I think that the closer you are to the 'user' end of the scale, the better Matlab looks.

(BTW, I am a daily Matlab user, sorry to say.)
Ask HN: Are you an artist / designer? How do you feel about AI generated art?
yeah, that's why I built this to give a space for real work from anywhere jobs.
The low hanging fruit is to decarbonize the grid with solar, wind, and a batteries (and nuclear). Meanwhile, switch automobiles from ICE to EVs. And replace natural gas heating for homes with electric heat pumps.

There are other challenges, but that is a big chunk of the job that is doable / already being done with current technology.
16 core machine is 32k per year. Assuming you have a hundred machines (which really isn't that many) that is 320k per year. Which pays for a single engineer to get you off Akka.
New, Non-Addictive Pain Killer with Fewer Side Effects
You're not a weirdo, but you should also be realistic that, if a megacorp wanted, they could easily create a subpar clone of your offering, and drive you to obsolescence with marketing within months.

There was a recent story here on HN from someone who described just that. Can't remember the link, alas. EDIT: found it, see reply below.
I fully support their decision to change their licence, but they could be a bit more honest about their intentions.

"the Apache 2.0 model becomes increasingly risky when a small company solely carries the maintenance effort". Really? Then why are you reverting to that licence after 3 years?

Other projects changing the licence have at least spelled it out honestly: Cloud companies like Amazon are seen as parasitic and the developers of highly successful open source projects want a slice of the pie.
> Once you take VC money you're in a completely different situation, where you need to grow fast to show them a return.

This. The VC model is to turn the business into a gamble: grow huge, or die trying - "planet-scale growth or self-destruct". (The third outcome, "get acquired" is a wash) They an afford to lose that gamble the majority of the time, because the minority of big wins make up for it. They do it in parallel.

But for the business owner, it's just one roll of the dice. A single shot at a time.

You don't seem to want this gamble. Good for you. Tell them politely that this doesn't suit your plans at this time.
Yeah their radio thing is my main way to find music these days. Find a song I like, hit radio on it, do some stuff till one stands out enough to like the song.

I do wish it'd stop trying to play Lostprophets on the odd occasion though. I don't think I've even listened to them even before the crimes but I don't want to enjoy a song and find out it financially supports a pedo.
> The browser can't actually play sound unless 1) it's triggered as the result of a user action (such as a mouse click) or 2) if you've often listened to sound on that page in the past.

The point is that a click should not give the website permission to play audio - that should be handled much explicitly and not just the user selecting text or some other interaction. Besides, last time I checked Firefox still let AudioContext play sound without any user interaction even though the <audio> element has more restrictions. Which is another problem: the HTML + JS spec is too bloated to properly secure things.
Other projects in the Scala world are already out there. I used the whole Akka shebang at my previous job (streams, persistence, cluster sharding, ...) and I would argue most people don't need that. It encourages over-engineering and you can usually do the same thing with simpler libraries.

Now, Akka came out at the right time and deserved to get popular. It's built on a solid and battle-tested foundation and there is a real community-driven ecosystem around it, or at least there was. It totally made sense. Also Lightbend was on a seemingly good trajectory, and Akka looked like a safe bet.

I guarantee there are small teams out there, at big companies making well over $25m, who are probably overstretched already and now need to plan an unexpected migration. I love Scala but the maintenance burden is real.
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I don't think its that deep man. There's a huge difference between getting locked out of your bank account, something everyone knows happens, at a place we are all told is the best place to put our money, completely avoidable and way more common than it should be, and getting hit by a meteorite.

It wasn't luck. It was someone's decision making that he was subject to with no recourse.
Completely agree. The wording and justification is just terrible.
What would be awesome would be if Julia had an allowed alternate syntax that happened to look exactly like Lisp. Then the world really would be a better place. (Yeah yeah, see my comments elsewhere in this thread!)
Green Hydrogen is going to be big. You are correct that if you are burning it then you have taken a wrong turn, or at least haven't got to the final destination.

Mostly it will be a sink of energy and a chemical feedstock. That is still massive, size of the oil industry scale big.
No. Cross-platform Siri [Shortcuts] plus App Extensions and App Intents will. That’s where Apple sees the future of end-user automation now: providing 1% of the power to 1000× (it hopes) more customers.

Will Apple’s new strategy actually work? Eh, maybe. It is not a great plan, but Apple has more than enough resources to brute-force it to “[Barely] Good Enough” status so at least its backers can declare great success.

And, to be fair, if Siri plus App Itents can enable even 10 million iOS users to tell their phones to perform trivial tasks for them, that will be a huge, genuine achievement on Apple’s part. While transitioning from AppleScript to Shortcuts takes away the Lego Techniks for anyone to build new functions (only professional Swift developers will have power to do that), the Duplo blocks it provides in return are easier to use.

…

That said, a more cunning plan could provide 100% of the capabilities to 1000× of the users, and probably more. ’Cos what AppleScript sits on is a huge trove of [mostly] standardized query handling applications, and Siri itself is a query builder.

Anyone suffering terminal insomnia and compulsive sado-masochism is welcome to read the alternative (independent, community-driven) plan I proposed in these 2 posts:

https://forum.latenightsw.com/t/petition-apple-for-applescri...

https://forum.latenightsw.com/t/petition-apple-for-applescri...

(Be warned: most of that thread is just me showing my ass to the world’s last entrenched handful of reactionary AppleScripters who do not want to imagine a future without AppleScript, because that future is not all about them any more, so they don’t. Ah well, I suck. My offer stands to anyone mad enough.)
Sweet! I wanted / wondered if this exists. Feels a bit pricey for my home backup usecase though. Maybe I am spoiled by the cheap backup options!
Years ago, I’ve found an inverse correlation between emoji frequency and information quality. Anime is usually indicative as well, as is excessive use of imagery in general. All together are a dead give-away.
The world would be better off if social media apps did not have notifications.