skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Took me some time to find the quote again, but I keenly remembered William Gibson talking about Borges as his favourite writer. Here you go:

Q: If you had a chance to meet the author of your favorite book, who would it be and what would you ask them?

A: Jorge Luis Borges. "How is this possible?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20100418124053/http://www.willia...
I don't know in terms of pricing. But I moved a couple of free heroku apps to fly.io and it was pretty smooth. They provide a migration guide specific to people moving out of heroku.
Addictive as hell

Ive probably spent close to 10k hours in it

Well, seems like I will need to get some 600+ ms (too rusty for ed :P) and have some fun
Doesn’t it help with having only high priority ui updates on the main ui thread with everything else happening in the background? To get low latency ui updates that’s exactly what you want: move everything except the low latency work to different threads.
Nice. Are you able to share what you are working on and why WASM was a mistake?
I subscribed to YouTube Premium a year or so ago after somebody mentioned it here on HN. It was worth it; YouTube is a much more pleasant experience without ads.

I was already paying for YouTube Music, which I’m not as satisfied with but have stayed with ever since Google Play Music ended. Adding Premium for videos increased the subscription price for me by just a few dollars a month.
I think the sentences in this example are, odd vocabulary notwithstanding, fairly typical descriptions of logical implication, which I expect has non-trivial representation in the training set. GPT-3 is probably capable of matching the pattern of the tokens (sentence structure), even if the content of the tokens (spelling/vocabulary) is novel.
Naivity is clinging to your just-world worldview based on mere examples, not empiricism.[1] Of course individual rich people don’t get what they want all the time when they have to compete with other rich people. And sometime the popular resistance is so overwhelming that they don’t get their way.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Maybe it’s the verb “buy” that you are railing against? Well of course. You can’t buy 2,000 units of political influence for 200MUSD. You got me there. You have to take your chances in the short term. But you could on average get a nice return on your investment in the long run.

> Abortion rights got rolled back despite being overwhelmingly championed by billionaires. For example, Warren Buffet has donated over $1 billion to pro-choice charities, and Mackenzie Bezos has donated $300 million.

There are rich people who are in favor of anti-abortion.

> Of course, there are plenty of examples of large-scale outright corruption in American politics, but you're naive if you believe that it would be any better than in countries where you can bribe police officers.

How about you look at the comment that I was replying to. Rejecting federal-level political corruption as “not endemic” since it’s not petty bribery is ludicrous.
Probably getting upvoted based on the catchy title alone.
It's not about competing with good path finding algorithms. It would not be surprising to find a program that someone had written to find paths that could kind of find paths okay. The surprising thing is that nobody wrote this program to find paths at all. This is a program that is attempting to predict what the next characters are in a string of text - and it can kind of do path finding.
Yes, yes, climate change. But you have to wonder whether this is playing a role at all.. old buildings do fall, coasts do change.

> "It seems to be that the whole natural dynamics of the coastline in some places have been accelerated by climate change," Rob Woodside, English Heritage's estates director, told BBC News.

The key word is 'accelerated'. How can one measure acceleration when there is no way to measure without the so called acceleration? It's an unfalsifiable claim.

Still, its probably a good enough excuse for English heritage to claim some climate change funds.
Ana Kasparian examined this right-wing talking point at length:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zIOMp0RSA

She addresses additional related misrepresentations from conservative media.

One source she cites is here:

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/07/u-s-selling-oil-from-the-s...
I've read it before and it's got some cracking info in there. One of my favourite bits was him using propane as a purge gas to get better quality brazed joints, though interestingly he baulks at the idea of using propane as a refrigerant gas!
Ionic/Angular with Firebase.
A shot?

Not to detract from the calculations and physical adjustments required to even get close, but a single bullseye at any other range doesn't impress. It's the grouping, three or more on top of each other.

To maybe detract, this was the 69th consecutive attempt. Hmm.
About 90% of any can and should be replaced with unknown which is infinitely more useful and a lot safer.

There is an example signature at the end of the article; (x: any) => string, this error would not fly if x were unknown.

On of the few remaining scenarios where any might be necessary is to narrow down a generic param, ie <T extends Something<any>>.
It's relevant to the thread, even if not to you.
(As a zoomer,) I know that React is designed as the way it is because it's limited by the DOM model for all rendering and user interaction, whereas for native apps you have much more freedom in terms of design space of GUI toolkits (from a completely retained model like Qt to highly immediate ones like IMGUI).

The disappointment of the article is that he talks about how the Mac OS X apps were the pinnacle of desktop applications, but he never talks about how people have achieved this. Did the Cocoa API made some special design decisions (as opposed to MFC or Qt) that enabled devs to make more reactive apps?
I think you are mistaken with how long before this is going to happen. Europe is already experiencing the effects and this winter will feel the full effects of this. The US is probably got a bit more time... but Russia, China, India, etc are working on bypassing the US Dollar for their trade, reducing the amount of trade that occurs in US Dollars. As for reserve currency status, the politicians have also made the US dollar more unfriendly when they froze the Russian Central banks reserves. This will result in other countries reconsidering where they store their wealth.
However, allowing cheaters to get away with it could eventually ruin chess — that is, ruin all players’ careers.

A delicious conundrum.
I wouldn't have minded even if it was 20MB.

The goal was having the convenience of building UI in React and have the heavy lifting done by Go. Both, stacks I am very familiar with and work with daily.
It's not like that in the States.

https://fsr.eui.eu/time-of-use-and-dynamic-pricing-rates-in-...

All the usual communist elements (Jimmy Carter, California) have been slowly making progress on introducing it since the 1970s, but mysteriously a lot of lies sprung up about how it would harm the poor. And the USA is really caring about the poor not using as much fossil fuels as they possibly can so it got kind of squashed.
Tk, and especially Themed Tk (Ttk) mostly fit this. It even has 3 geometry managers.

I've ported some code from Tk to run on the web (including working correctly in Lynx, as much as possible) [0], and the problem is still impedance mismatch. It's worse when running it on a phone, because you want a fundamentally different UI than you can easily describe. For example, Toplevels (aka windows) don't make any sense on Android or on the Web, but work well on the desktop.

[0] https://rkeene.org/projects/tkweb/
That thing is sweet. If I recall correctly, the issue is that the motor type he used is no longer being produced (?) so a redesign is necessary. I really love the idea of having infinite possible UX choices in a single knob -- for example, the Mustang Mach-E could really benefit from having this kind of control knob for its various use cases
Ask HN: How do you process recurring payments for your SaaS?
Hi!
I want to start a discussion about your solutions for SaaS recurring payments (subscriptions).

What payment gateway are you using?
Do you include taxes (VAT) on the pricing page? (tax exclusive vs tax inclusive)
Do your users choose monthly payments over annual plans?
I can start the discussion:

What payment gateway are you using?
I've started implementing the Paddle, due to being a merchant of records - I'm free of taxes, Paddle takes care of that. That's very important for me, as I'm going global with my product.

Do you include taxes (VAT) on the pricing page? (tax exclusive vs tax inclusive)
I plan to include taxes in the pricing users see on the Pricing page, so as not to be misleading at the end of the payment process.

Do your users choose monthly payments over annual plans?
I'm in the MVP process, so I have no data yet :)
Sure the sub$500 PCs and laptops will struggle to run Windows fast enough to matter, they run Linux faster anyway. But the $1000 and up Mega Max hardcore PCs will run Windows just fine only problem is that they are gaming machines and corporate doesn't want to spend the money on gaming machines.

Just upgrade to better hardware or run Ubuntu.
The SF Chronicle has a long history of shenanigans and bias. I'm not saying this is necessarily the case for this landlord story, but for sheer amusement, it's worth reading up on the Chronicle's founder, Charles D Young [1].

I first learned of this story after stumbling upon Charles's tomb [2] in Colma, just south of San Francisco. It's where they moved all the dead after the 1909 earthquake liquified the ground to the point of bodies popping out – Zombie apocalypse style. Every cemetery was moved except one veteran and one pet cemetery.

Charles and his brother started the Chronicle as a sort of tabloid. Charles had a long running feud with a reverend that culminated in Charles shooting him and then going on the run. The reverend survived and went on to successfully run for SF mayor. Not long after, Charles returned to SF and was promptly murdered in the Chronicle building by the reverend's son. It's the kind of crazy story just waiting to be turned into a Netflix or HBO series.

If you really want to go deep, dig around for the newspaper articles from the time [3].

[1] https://www.guardiansofthecity.org/sheriff/inmates/deyoung.h...

[2] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10617171/charles-de_youn...

[3] http://sfmuseum.org/hist11/murdervictorious.html
It's not a distinction between softwares, it's a distinction between agents. I.e. who the software works for.
This is a wonderful thread, thanks for sharing it here.

> "The kicker is, that the smallest I have been able to find is four ton (48,000 BTU/hr). So this means that in order to proceed with the project, I'll have to build my own heat pump. In HVAC, bigger is not better... just slightly smaller than big enough is best, economically speaking."

Is he saying here that a heat pump that's too large for a space is less efficient at heating, or is he just saying that a bigger one costs more to buy?

If it's the former, can anyone here tell me why that is? It's hard to Google since it gets mixed up with other info like "heat pumps are less efficient at very low temperatures" etc.

I would have thought they'd end up the same. The only reason I can think of is that a bigger one will maybe turn on and off more often to maintain temperature than a small one that's on all the time struggling to keep up.

Edit: Thanks all for the excellent responses.
Front end: TypeScript, Angular, Apollo, Material
Back end: Scala, ZIO, zio-http, Pulsar, Keycloak, Postgres
Hosting: Kubernetes on Digital Ocean, GitLab Pages
Tools: Hugo, Twilio, Namecheap, Mailgun
Former Iowan here, lived in Iowa City for 20 years.
Not quite what you want, but Michael Abrash’s Graphics Programming Black Book is available for free online, and covers the software rendering side of computer graphics in the early-mid 90s, ending at Quake, just before 3d accelerators hit the scene.

There are a few anecdotes from hardware designers of 2d graphics cards mixed in, but the bulk of the book is about writing optimised x86 assembly (don't follow the any of it's advice these days) and writing fast polygon rasterisers.
Good on you. WordPress is a fantastic piece of software and I think a lot of the nose wrinkling and hemming a hawing about security comes from people installing suspect plugins.

If you stick with the core product and set a very high bar for which plugins you install, Wordpress is rock solid
I found this to be a useful read in gaining general context:
- https://jesuitroundup.org/is-iran-a-democracy/

If a (democratic) majority of the Iranian people are pro-conservative-clothing and the policing of how people dress in public, it is hard to believe that these protests will go very far. Hopefully they'll help reduce some of the corruption in the country - killing people because of their choice of dress shows an extraordinary level of insecurity.
Except there is plenty of oil all over the world flowing, and sellers eager for USD. The “big tank” can be filled still, with an endless supplies of USD, and it’s no where near empty now.

The bigger issue IMO is that over the last couple elections we’ve seen politicians trying to buy votes. Trump cut taxes, then delayed their payment, then wrote stimulus checks, and now Biden forgave student loans and is spending US oil reserves to keep gas prices low until *checks notes* November.
>then it is by definition not end to end encrypted anymore.

HTTPS is E2E between the client and the server.
If you define HASH(data) = SHA3(data) xor SHA3(manifest), then the manifest will always have a zero hash. This trick can be useful if you need to create a cycle in a hash-addressed list (e.g., an object-oriented class hierarchy where inheritance is by hash of the class definition—the definition of the base class would have a zero hash and could inherit from itself).
I believe there are older MUDs out there.
Google, Meta and Amazon are still repeatedly reaching out.
I used a weird stack of:

- Rails: so I have a UI quickly together with some admin and a interactive shell to allow me interact with the app easiser
- GoodJobs:https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job Used this for any Rails based job
- Postgres for everything. No Redis. I found redis is a source of pain when it misbehave and reach max mem with eviction policy. When Redis mem is big, restart it take quite a bit of time.
- Huge server: I rent hetzner server and scale vertically.
- Golang + sqlc: I used Rails SQL schema to pair it with golang sqlc https://sqlc.dev/ it makes write SQL way easier
- Stimulus
- Docker Compose for Rails deployment
- SCP/Systemd for go-based servic

https://mailwip.com is my email forwarding saas app.
"The researchers administered the microrobots to the lungs of the mice through a tube inserted in the windpipe."
I didn't read the article, but just based on the passages you have quoted and based on my recent experience, I will have to agree with the author.

I recently learned that GitHub has a discussions page which is separate from the issues pages. To pass the time and to give back to the community I try to help people and answer their questions.

It's a bit concerning to me that when I point some people to the right direction by making suggestions, linking to the docs, or linking to a relevant stackoverflow answer, they are unable to formulate an answer for their problem. Sometimes I literally have to create a reproduction repository so that they can see how the answer I gave can solve their problem.

I am not concluding anything here. But this has been my experience so far when engaging the community of an open source frontend framework.
That's fair, but that Go framework would likely be inferior to the flexibility and robustness of the web stack. Not to mention require a learning curve to master, whereas web frameworks are already familiar to many developers.

I think projects like Wails bring together the best of both worlds, without the drawbacks of something like Electron.

Kudos to the team for releasing v2! I'm looking forward to trying it out.
We've been using Spinach for months and have found it really useful for our team. Our startup's team is young and I feel like Spinach helps us sit down and be thoughtful about our work (tasks completed yesterday, tasks we're working on today, and what is blocking us.)

I like that we can use it live during standup, but also have developers who can't make standup report asynchronously. After the meeting, developers can read through the summary and see if they missed anything.

As a founder/developer, I think it's great as we don't have an official PM and we manage ourselves.

My biggest feature request would be an Asana sync that allows us to see what tasks we completed yesterday and add them to the completed section.
I ... think it's the other way around?

It reads like the law wasn't allowing something which was previously illegal, but was setting limits on an action which used to be legal.

That is, cyclists used to be able to be in anywhere in the lanes of traffic going the appropriate direction. Now they have to have a reason for not being on the right.

And wanting to avoid running into car doors opened suddenly is still a valid reason - it was never declared illegal.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-us-reserves-head...

950,000 barrels sold directly to Unipec (formally Sinopec): https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-sales-strategi...
It must be noted that documentaries are still interpretations.

Having said that, I understand what you're saying. I could talk at length about what I took away from Ordinary Men by Christopher R Browning. For example, german soldiers on the trains taking jews to death camps ran out of bullets because they were shooting them as they tried to escape the moving train. Think about how many damned bullets that is.

OTOH, The Wire to me is entertainment. It's one of those shows that hugely believable and once you learn the writers have actual on-the-ground experience, you start to understand why it seems so believable. That doesn't mean you don't recognize it as entertainment.
It's not shitty, it's just not the best in the world. Same way everyone in a sport except the world champion isn't shitty.
I believe this is something that the page should mention somewhere.
This doesn't make sense, Brave and Firefox both fair well on the tests and do not break websites. Vivaldi is not a privacy focused browser so I wouldn't really put it against them but still, both Brave and Firefox do it better: Privacy and Ad-blocking.
I have zero knowledge about the topic but I wonder how NA specific is this thing? As far as I’m aware houses built with thin wood walls are more prevalent there, like in the original example. I live in a similar aged house (maybe a bit older) in Europe but we have 1 meter thick stone walls. We don’t have AC or ceiling fan but house always keeps cold in the summer and warm in the winter. I like the topic but curious how would that work with stone wall houses, especially like my example old style ones with thick walls
I don't think the original claim is quite right. The UK govt is banning new gas boiler installations after 2025, but I believe there's a range of alternatives such as an air or ground source heat pump, or a hydrogen boiler.

From what I've read through, replacing my boiler with a gshp would cost in the tens of thousands, not a million pounds.
A NN is a means of compressing a training dataset into a mathematical representation (weights) which can be exploited for pattern finding. The representation of the training data is where 95% of the "magic" comes from. We intelligently prepare it, so no intelligence is required in its use.

On any given input, its predictions can "look" how we expect an intelligent response to "look". The job is to disprove this intuition, which is usually trivial. This cannot be done by looking at a single response.

Consider walking into a room and predicting a few people's personality traits correctly based on their star sign. This shows nothing.
I skimmed the plan and didn't find any requirement to use a ground to water heat pump. Air to water devices are mentioned several times as viable heat pumps for this plan. These do not require boreholes.
It might not be rigorous science but it's a cracker of a blog post.

It shows a surprising ability of language models, code is provided and plenty of mystery is left for the reader... which can be investigated by almost anyone for tens of dollars.
Perhaps it is also reasonable for Magnus to wait until the tournament is over before making such a statement.
Everything (Instant file search): https://www.voidtools.com/
I don't understand your point; that factcheck article confirms the accuracy of the statement that the US is selling oil from the strategic reserve to China (among other countries). It provides more context, yes, but it confirms the statement.
I'd be happy to see a discussion on the issue: https://github.com/edicl/hunchentoot/issues/24
Do you mean if you get old and retire or just for vacation? Vacation is easy, just grow to the point where you can hire someone and build the product to stay online without any intervention. Retiring is the hard part. My plan is for my company to become obsolete before I want to retire due to the fast-changing tech landscape.
Which is precisely why it is extremely perilous for Russia to use nukes in Ukraine.

If Russia breaks the nuclear taboo, all other countries can retaliate nuclearly against Russia. At that point China invading Russia becomes an advantageous action for China.
If one wants a view for the whole page, then using a programming language with a good support for embedding strings will be a better solution as it avoids the need to learn one more language.
By rent GPUs do you mean creating an instance/VM with a GPU attached? I've not seen this on AWS, assuming their instance types are an equivalent of what you're referring to.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dlami/latest/devguide/gpu.html
Can't wait for the "ok boomer" article refuting this rant.
> It’s the covid era monetary and fiscal policy that screwed us.

Citation needed ;)

But maybe it’s both. And maybe it’s complex. Maybe we’ll never know.

Housing prices and liquid asset prices seem very correlated to covid lockdowns amount wealthy people who couldn’t spend and 0% interest. Much of that asset pricing has reverted now. But stimulus checks and other often cited welfare benefits went mostly to grocery stores and supplanting income that was lost.

The rise in consumer goods prices is due to supplies chain issues like a war and sanctions on an oil producing nation and (my hypothesis) a desire for businesses to raise prices to raise profits to account for declining stock price and changing post pandemic spending patterns.
I will save the room 5 minutes, the major points in this video seem to be (a) the speaker doesn't like Marjorie Greene and (b) points out roughly that oil is a commodity, and if released into the market is going to get sold to whoever pays the most. That might be anyone in the world.

I do agree - it is a mistake to focus on where the oil is being sold. What is more interesting is that the strategic reserve is not being used strategically. I would argue it is being used ineffectually, the problems here go a bit deeper than what the SPR could possibly cope with. At this rate it is going to run out and not even make a marginal difference.
You can make hydrogen through electrolysis from any source of energy.