skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the points GM Daniel Naroditsky has made about this is that even with the heightened security, it would still be possible to cheat in over-the-board events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-51lNSe8U
100% agree with this statement.

My personal 2ct: first understand how to solve "real" problems, then move on to the abstract theory. I cannot understand the theoretical mathematics behind a concept if I don't have at least one non-trivial example in my head which I understand completely.
Show HN: ZenTube – Cross-browser plugin to remove addictive features on YouTube
> My upper-middle class life is already comfortable.

That’s pretty typical. One says that money or status doesn’t matter. Then you prod them and it specifically doesn’t matter to get more of it—to the person that already has more of it than most people.

Yesterday I drove out into the Arizona desert and gazed upon the stars. I didn’t think about my non-mortgage debt (because I have none); I didn’t worry about my interpersonal relationships at my job (because I have so much seniority now that I don’t have to worry about my boss being a complete asshole); I didn’t worry about what people might think of me (because I have a large social network and in fact I am meeting some friends for dinner right after this stargazing session); I didn’t worry about comparing myself to my peers (because they already respect me and my accomplishments/family/prestige). Then I stayed there for a good fifteen minutes, gazing at the stars, thinking about the vastness of the cosmos and conflated me having satisfied all my material needs, my close relationship needs, and my peer-respect needs with having gotten insight into the meaning of life.

In that moment I was enlightened.
Yes, battery life is good on Garmins. But, amazingly, the UX is even better. The Apple watch does many things well while a Fenix does the sports thing very well. I don’t think I’ve ever owned a watch I’m that happy with from the ux perspective. The tiny things like metronome and custom alerts and the way it does timers but also the big things like pacepro or workouts. Garmin understands the needs of an athlete on a much deeper level, I think.
It depends on what you mean by "building [our] own boards." We (obviously?) don't have our own PCB fab -- but we are absolutely designing our own boards (and therefore securing our own supplies). On caps and resistors (and other passives), I think the point was that we saw even these very plentiful parts develop supply chain issues in the most challenging times in 2021. Broadly, these passives haven't been an issue for us -- but the fact that they have been an issue at all is notable. And there were several times where we did exactly what you suggested, where we either went with a slightly more expensive part or secured a substantial amount of inventory to assure our own supply. We certainly agree about the supply chain being a strategic advantage!
Exploring the world through a Minecraft Plugin
Last fall I coded a plugin in Minecraft that can generate any specified region of the Earth. In this blog post I discuss how I went about doing it and some of the challenges I faced along the way. Any feedback is welcome!
The people who made the lifestyle choice to have more children are long gone. We are not appealing to them. We are appealing to the people born today who are not responsible for the size of the population.

It's ultimately a consequence of human progress that we face such population problem. A more reasonable approach towards this would be to share lands and resources and spread people out a bit. But that's a whole different problem and the first world would rather have policies to increase their own population size than immigrate people into their lands.
That’s a very astute observation. I agree with utility of science education for programming. Something that science and programming share is the process of reductionism — identifying causal relationships by breaking into ever smaller subsystems.
A tweet apparently debunking that tweet https://twitter.com/thestrongchess/status/156881006239902106...
Excellent recommendation.

Just got my two Strong Towns books yesterday, looking forward to diving in!
Great quote. Huge band!
Cool to read about C-like GLSL on a Pascal website
Let me pose an alternate question. What is your reason for using md5 for this? Even if it is not currently possible to reverse the hash (I believe the key space is too large to feasibility break), it may become vulnerable in the future.

If you want a fast one way hash, why not use something like an hmac with a secret key?
Combined downloads for my Scrabble game solver (take a picture of the scrabble board, take a picture of your rack of tiles, play the optimal word) and my jigsaw puzzle solver (finding a needle in a haystack) totalled up to less than the fingers on the hands of a bad Youtube woodworker practicing every unsafe operation with a table saw whilst being inanttentive. After two years, back in 2013-ish, I removed the apps from the app store.
> Bifacial panels may be erected vertically, in fencerows running north/south, with room for farm equipment to run between.

For specific crops, and specific approaches to cultivation and harvesting. It's still a limiting factor.
At every turn I promote the book “About Face : On Interaction Design” because for sure most app teams haven’t read it. There is a rhyme and rhythm and reason why some things work and others do not. Every day I could make a list of fallacies in interaction: and this is coming from the top dogs such as Apple and Google to small programs and websites, there is still so much to improve. There is still lots of room to innovate as well!
If supply is restricted you'll be competing with rich people over shitbox apartments from the sixties. Guess who'll win the bidding war?

Even building straight luxury soaks up the rich folks you'd otherwise have to compete with, by removing them from the equation.
But the point is that most people will take the literal definition of "book". They wouldn't differentiate between hardcover, paperback, ebooks, audiobooks. If an "expert" said "90% of books sell less than 99 copies", without any context, most people will assume that the book sold less than 99 copies across all its manifestations and in a lifetime. The article puts light on the fact that there's more to that statement than what it means in a first glance.
Big tech is not going to take TikTok off their platforms. They want to sell stuff in China and dont want risk the push-back.

The calculus is pretty simple. Their profit trumps the national interest.

I know, I must be some kind of extremist to even hint at such a thing.
This is fascinating, going to pick up these books. Do you think one needs a background in formal statistics to understand them? If so, do you have any recommendations for self-learning?
If speech is provably false and part of a pattern of disinformation designed to stir up hate and violence why is it a problem to police it?

See the disinfo about jewish people followed thereafter by the mass murder of jewish people.
As an artist, I can attest to your point of view.

I don't see "liberal" arts as an art form at all. The moment in which knowledge and craftsmanship are removed from painting, things are just another form of "wishful" thinking.

One of my teachers had a very nice comment on our "modern" artistic endeavors: It's good, but what is it really?

My choice for artistic expression is focused on traditional painting. I study the old masters techniques and have no doubt in my mind, that people will rediscover classical arts in a big way in the next decade.
Every comment I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and then watching you squander it.

No engineer worth their salt is going to work for these companies after this. The 'mediocre employees' as you put it are exactly what GP was talking about.

It's victim blaming at its finest. Remember- google only hires the very best.

You are shilling so hard you've now entered complete fallacy territory. You are not just making stuff up to fit your narrative, you are actively ignoring the truth and that's destructive to the conversation.

And I'm saying all this as someone who for years warned people about what was coming. Still, they are not to be blamed as all this started with the C-suite and management all going on hiring sprees for no better reason than to deprive the competition of workers.

They infantilized their workforce and made them as dependent as possible.

They attached golden handcuffs which started the whole rest and vest situation.

They are to blame, not the workers all about to be put on PIPs.

Tell google PR to come up with something better, or at least something that doesn't fly in the face of the facts everyone can see with their own eyes.

The sky is not purple. The emperor is wearing no clothes.
Note that fossil fuel industry real total land use is never mentionned anywhere.

Mark Z Jacobson says current fossil fuel infrastructure takes more land than needed for solar in a 100% renewable USA:

https://issues.org/renewables-minerals-energy-transition-jac...

"In “The Hard Math of Minerals” (Issues, January 27, 2022), Mark P. Mills writes that “building solar and wind systems requires roughly a tenfold increase in the total tonnage of common materials … to deliver the same quantity of energy compared to building a natural gas or other hydrocarbon-fueled power plant.” This idea is misleading, since the source cited states that it “excluded” the materials related to the fuels used in power plants. Such fuels must be mined forever. With solar and wind, fuel mining is zero, forever. One recent study that accounted for fuel mining plus infrastructure concluded that one gigawatt of wind capacity replacing coal-generated electricity on the Texas grid reduces total mining by 25 million tonnes over 20 years.

In fact, in North America alone, an average of fifty thousand new oil and gas wells are drilled yearly. These are ignored by Mills. The land required for these new wells is 2,500 square kilometers per year. Once a well is depleted, it is abandoned. The United States has 1.3 million active oil and gas wells and 3.2 million abandoned ones. Worldwide, Reuters estimates that about 29 million wells are abandoned.

Research I’ve conducted with colleagues estimates that fossil fuel infrastructure currently takes up about 1.3 % of US land. This is due to wells, coal mines, oil refineries, pipelines, power plants, fueling stations, and storage facilities. In comparison, transitioning the United States for all energy purposes to 100% wind, water, and solar power may take less than 1% of US land. So not only does a transition to renewables reduce material requirements, but it also reduces land use."

Also see the interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzU05f8lNd0
The Climate Crisis with Mark Z. Jacobson | The PLUS Podcast
Writing a DXE driver to screenshot BIOS Setup and other UEFI applications (2016)
This looks like a good article / place to start researching: https://geekflare.com/build-desktop-apps-tools/. I don't know off the top of my head though unfortunately. My first thought is an Electron app but that might be more resource intensive.
The anticommunist fervor saw people's lives and careers ruined. Making the white supremacists get together on gab with their fellow gabbers because they got kicked off Facebook allows them to exercise free speech within the boundaries of the law while limiting the spread of their poison.
This resource shortage problem can be reduced to a CIA problem/task.
Shorter distances between destinations encourages walking, biking, and mass transit use. Longer distances between destinations encourages automobile use.
What was it originally? Hard to get more amusing than the actual article title...
The world’s largest ‘flying boat’, 1929-1933
Singapore is 281.3 mi², Texas (a single US state) by itself is 268,597 mi². The level of public transit that some countries and cities have and people expect are simply not feasible in a lot of places simply due to the sheer size. And even cities within these states are larger than some countries.
How did you get to this conclusion from an app that helps you figure out what you can build with your Lego bricks?
MSDGen: A microservice demo generator of any given size and connectivity
You only need to look at the history of society at times in the past 150 years to see that's not true. People fundamentally reorganised around working in factories, owning cars, women going out to work, television, the adoption of IT, the internet, smart phones, and probably many more things within a few decades as soon as each thing was first introduced. Humans are amazing at adapting to rapid changes when we want to.
Like when we chose B) and made our current consumer-capitalist society?
The original post in Russian: https://habr.com/en/post/274463/ contains some dropdown spoilers that weren't rendered in the Google Translate page.
Compassion is worthless unless it results in a roof overhead and food on the table, and/or mental health care. We've seen plenty of "compassion" from behind locked gates however, and it is worth every penny. i.e. none.
I have worked with a couple. A first in zoology who moved to code and wrote games in assembler, and also complete compiler systems for minified versions of the languages of interest: Algol, Fortran, C -He also tinkers in hardware at all levels and can re-frob a radio into a theramin from the principles of how circuits work, or can make a magnetometer based 3D action glove from bits in his toolbox. Another who coded C compilers for a living before GNU destroyed the marketplace. A third who uses FP (Haskell) to reason about systems as types, before even considering code to mutate those typed objects.

The first thing is, they all tended to have a really strong grounding in mathematics, around logic, statistics and related subjects. They had underlying conceptual models grounded in the formalisms of a maths discipline.

The second thing is that they had very high functioning reasoning skills. If <this> then <that> was very strong in their ability to see inherent linkages between specific and general, to take an abstraction and apply it, or to find a mapping to that concept in another domain, work in that domain, and map back into the field which applied in the first instance.

The third thing is that they seemed to go from solution hypothesis to code very naturally: they didn't hesitate to follow a code path, there was no sense of "suck it and see" -To me, this is the bit which makes me really wonder WTF was going on because my own code is littered with "this failed" attempts to get to the functional outcome.

So, there's a lot of maths, a bit of process in abstract reasoning and a giant ocean tanker of confidence.

I have watched these people sit for 6 hours exploring how to use assembler to shave two instruction cycles off a task. The focus required to model the behaviour of the system and do this in a pre-omptimising compiler world, in the tools of the machine, were amazing.
The actual article was titled "Rendering Pool Balls". He fixed it by updating the article title rather than the HN submission(which I don't think you even can).
I'm firmly in favor of markets, myself, but I think there are other notable caveats.

You mention pricing externalities being important; it's also important that corporations don't have undue influence in their own regulation, or externalities will become chronically underpriced.

I also think "just profitability" isn't quite correct. Profitability is sometimes antithetical to efficiency and sustainability; take artifical scarcity or planned premature obsolescence, for example.

[On that topic: I've wondered before whether corporations are darwinian. They are large, amoral machines that have a life their own, and presumably the corporations that survive (and that are around today) are the corporations that act in the interest of their own self-preservation, not in the interests of people or life on earth. I have no idea whether the time scales involved are sufficient for the evolution of corporate strategy, but it's fun armchair philosophy.]

Fortunately, "markets" is not synonymous with "capitalism" – markets feature in many economic systems, so we have options.
> Came for the title

Well played

Edit: I’ll take the downvotes, the author edited the thing for silly innuendo, it’s silly, I’ll have fun too and take my lashes.
It's quite possible that I'm misunderstanding your points, because I can't come up with a definition of land that is consistent with what you are asserting here.

There are a couple of ways to define land, for example, 1) ownership of land confers rights in a society, and 2) an economic factor that has finite supply.

I'm not sure if I can reconcile any definition I know, with what you say here:

> the value of being present in Palo Alto isn't part of the value of the land. It's a development on the land

These two things are inextricably intertwined. The value of the land is partially what can be developed on the land, but nearly all of it comes from what is nearby. There's a reason that the real estate motto is "location, location, location" and that's all about what having that piece of land give one access too.

> There's no shortage of land in San Francisco. There's a shortage of floor space.

You can't have a shortage of floor space without that shortage of land, because they are linked by law. And even if there was no limit on floor space in law, the value of the land is still linked to floor space because it costs both time and money to change the amount of floor space.

> In the absence of development, the land under San Francisco would have inherent value as a port.

It only has value as a port if there is development elsewhere around San Francisco that makes San Francisco a valuable location for a port. This is a fundamental Georgist point: development and access to what the amenities of the developments are what makes land valuable.

>By contrast, the land under Los Angeles would have no inherent value of any kind.

Los Angeles has lots of value as a port because of the rail lines that connect it to so much development. And the initial value may have come from the developments on top of land that made Los Angeles a good port, but now there's lots of additional value from the networks of labor and skills that have concentrated in LA.

You seem to be making extremely skeptical mention of Georgism, but at the same time, I think that you are making extremist Georgist points. In most cities, the value of the land isn't from the land itself. Rather, the value of the land is in getting access to all the development around that piece of land. And that gap, between the development on a particular piece of land, and all the development around a piece of land, is what Georgists point to as both a fundamental economic inefficiency and as a way that workers get exploited.
Wait'll you hear about the plans I have for your life.
I happened to notice that PI is #define'd to 3.1415926538, which isn't the correctly rounded off value of 3.14159265358...

Seems like they missed a '5'.
E-Bikes still depend on municipal bike infrastructure which cannot be individually purchased. Re-allocation of on-street parking to protected bike lanes, traffic calming, legalization of denser housing has to happen at the public policy level.
Making up your own definitions isn't how it works.

And mockery is not hate speech. And I'm not shouting either.
How is it a micro-optimization to only load content that you need?

Like I said for large SaaS products you might never see 50% of the components on random settings and other less used pages. Some users only load a few index pages the first few times they visit so making it load faster is always a win.

Frameworks handle way more complex stuff that this. It's not overhead.
It's only natural. Expressions convey a lot; they drive curiosity and makes the content seem more important to watch ("what made them make that face?").

I avoid any and all videos using the tactic because it feels crude, tho..
C++ doesn't have the borrow checker of Rust. Isn't that what made Rust famous?

(Your literal question is a straw man: no, those aren't different, but Rust offers more.)
No one is using non-SSR SPAs for content that needs to be SEO'd? That doesn't stop them from using much of the same toolset.
I prefer VeroSMS for privacy text blocking https://apps.apple.com/us/app/verosms/id1269693537
Google is a de-facto ad search monopoly that can (and continues to be able to) afford dead weight. The real threat to Google is NOT a bunch of unproductive employees. They could probably run the ad search groups, android, g-mail, docs, and more with 10% of their current headcount if employees were worked to the bone. As a conglomerate, Alphabet can and does burn money in attempts to be innovative in a true sense with Google X, Calico, Verily, DeepMind, and more.

What Google cannot afford is for that incredibly talented dead weight that they have go off an make a COMPETING search engine and associated platform ecosystem (i.e. android, g-mail, chrome). That talent is not just sitting on its ass for no reason.

Google was started from a garage with bare-metal linux servers on hardware that is roughly equivalent to a Raspberry Pi cluster today. Making a search engine using someone else's cloud is vastly easier in 2022 than in 1999. Replacing the platform ecosystem lock-in is significantly harder, but doable with the right talent. Its in Google's interest to keep at least a proportion of that talent inside the company.
…well played
Must be a generational thing or something. I've used a ton of languages and I've never interacted with the "community" of said language.

I might've been on an (unofficial?) IRC channel for the language, but that's about it. Never felt the need to belong in a community for a hecking programming language =)
Unfortunately, by far the best way to use hydrogen for energy is to use the kind that's already bound to carbon, and unbind it at the point of use, which we're already doing.

Storing it as a comnpressed gas just plain sucks. (Ask NASA and Boeing about that.)
Billions for Ukraine but nothing for Jackson
If guidelines were not to be cited, who would it guide?
The communications around nuclear at the moment are fascinating. I think we are really witnessing a massive PR campaign trying to take advantage of the war in Ukraine.

Everyone is talking about the gas imports from Russia, while nobody talks about oil imports which are not very different (using todays prices the EU imported around 300 billion euro worth of gas and 62 billion worth of oil in 2021. They are obviously over estimates because I used last year's volumes with todays prices).

On top of that many publications talk as if electricity from other sources could easily replace gas, which is also incorrect. Germany which is often criticised generates less than 10% of electricity from gas, similar to France who are the nuclear poster child (that is because gas and nuclear are used for different purposes). Most of the gas in Germany is used for heating and industrial processes.

On top of that we see articles (this isn't the first) who try to reframe the question of energy consumption around land use, which is a complete red hering, designed to make nuclear look more advantageous.

Finally, nobody talks how the situation at the Zaporizhzhia is an illustration of the significant security implications of nuclear. I mean Europe has not been this close to a nuclear disaster in more than 30 years and people arguing we should build more nuclear plants?
Ask HN: Is there a limit for individuals or small teams in the startup field?
Other than software and gadgets, there doesn't seem to be any other possible field.

Can a small team, for example, start a cancer treatment or fusion power project if they study hard and work hard? If not, what would be the possible fields?
But why would they want to give up their cars? The average human doesn’t value protecting the environment more than maintaining their lifestyle.