skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I honestly think after reading 50% of the article is all about bragging knowing history.

This is why I can't read most tech articles these days. Won't get to the point without a long detour into the background of the problem; as someone in my forties, it's hard to justify the expense.
I agree with your point about history being a great instructor but the fiction examples you gave were pop fiction, that are deliberate fantasy (and thus disastrous to think they can teach you life lessons, a point that has been repeatedly made from at least as early as Don Quixote).

How about Shakespeare though?
Boo f'ing hoo. If you're making $500k/year you're already in the top 0.5% of the world. Pity the poor rich people who aren't rich enough.
We don't live by bread alone.
Or get a plug in hybrid that results in the convenience of one car but most of the environmental/cost benefits.
And THAT’S the employees I like best. For me that’s the ultimate goal: Being able to develop a personal life (7hrs work in France), but being correctly dedicated when at work.

I’m not an experienced manager so I suppose this is a pipe dream. We need to account for employees with newborns and divorces, how we can modulate work for them.
Goodness, the amount of area burned in the past two years is enormous compared to the years prior.
ripgrep

This thing saved me daaaaaaays worth of time over the years. Plus my mental, plus my hair, plus ... well you get the gist..
Wouldn't it be cheaper for the town to just subsidize it?
That's what's so frustrating about Adobe.

Given their position in the market, they could be cutting edge software performance wise and everything else. No one can say they don't have the resources.

Instead, they buy innovators (that solely exist in the first place because Adobe failed to keep up), do bare minimum to maintain, and charge rents.
This article is weird linking together many unrelated strands of thought.

Like linking reactive programming to “reactive” UIs, when really they mean UIs that are forgiving to their users instead of breaking down.

Or how by coding on the web we’ve lost the immediacy of a UI that runs on our desktop, and the primitives (like undo/redo stacks) that make desktop user interfaces friendlier, at least without having to build them ourselves.

And that new UI frameworks show up claiming to solve the problems that React creates with complexity, by forgoing the functionality that React provides that they pretend is unimportant by hiding behind toy examples.

There’s actually not much in this article that doesn’t resonate with a jaded millenial like myself who knows their computer history, but could have been expressed more cohesively.
Out of curiosity, what is keeping you on Heroku?
I want to offer an alternative to a couple of commentators bringing up inflation rates:

We have identified a real-world, physical problem (look in the big tank, no oil).

The proposed solution here is - and I think this is a fair paraphrase - "well we can print money and people will trade oil for that".

This is an almost absurdly high-risk assumption. Financial solutions might just not work to fix physical problems. That sort of plan is pretty close to an endgame where the US will collapse because it no longer has the energy to sustain complex society. If there is a day where the US needs the strategic reserve - which we haven't seen yet - money will not solve the problem. That is, in fact, the reason why there even is a strategic reserve instead of a JIT strategy.

The accountants might recognise it through inflation or some other metric, but attempting to execute this plan could literally involve hitherto unknown catastrophe in the US, like being invaded or mass starvation. One of those things that is supposed to happen only in other countries.
Virtue signalling is typically something easy with no real inconvenience to the person doing it.

So doing a #supportsoupkitchens on a twitter repost vs actually going and volunteering at one.
This claim is so obviously true, that it's hardly a claim.

We should treat it like a fact, and talk about what we want to do about it.
If we do nothing then these megacorps will use their power to unfairly outcompete or plain buy up all competition but the other megacorps.

We can either have a world with maybe 50 gigantic corporations or thousands of smaller, but still large businesses. I personally think the latter would be much better for democracy and distribution of wealth.
The C grammar is also not complete, so it doesn't necessarily mean anything that it's shorter than the Python one.
GPT-3 didn't even need the `gloober Blue` prompt as part of `Answer:`. It 0-shotted (no other training examples required) it straight out of the box.

Prompt:

Every turn each gloober flomps the same gloobers. If a yellow gloober flomps a blue gloober then the blue gloober turns yellow, otherwise, gloobers stay the same color.

1. gloober Roy flomps gloober Zoo and gloober Bat

2. gloober Zoo flomps gloober Bat and gloober Crystal

3. gloober Crystal flomps gloober X-Ray

4. gloober Bat flomps gloober Blue

If gloober Zoo is the only gloober that is yellow, and all other gloobers are blue, will gloober Blue turn yellow, and, if so, at what turn?

Answer:

Continuation:

gloober Blue will turn yellow on turn 4.

> I find it a little unsettling that GPT-3 is able to do this well.

I agree and think that this is definitely the right reaction.
Yes, I would also add moderation - a light touch but understood by most.
I don't get the hate on Edge. I use it daily and am very happy. Not the least, it includes some cool security features, i.e., sandboxing at the OS-level https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
I ride at 1/3 of the lane and in the middle in intersections. This is the safest way since it avoids doors and forces motorists to overtake on the other lane instead of pushing you into the sidewalk. It prevents running over you in intersections, while also providing enough space for retreating near the sidewalk. If I have enough safe space I retreat and let them pass.
web app: c#, .net 6, mvc, postgres, redis, azure, github (repo and actions)

marketing site: hugo, netlify

tools: cloudflare, namecheap, mailjet, stripe, twilio, sentry, papertrail, slack
Fyi, it does mention the 08 recession in the video.
Thank you for the bonus! This is the best kind of humor :)
I never liked to write essays on the proposed silly topics, I used to ask my mom to do that. An essay is when my thought is floating somewhere, and school essays are never thought-provoking. As far as I know about GPT-3 texts, they are enough good to make something indistinguishable from school requirements, maybe after few minor edits. You may write the lamest thing possible, but if it has a correct grammar and all the required words it is considered legit.

I really like to observe this happening to schools because it obviously will force them to evolve into something more thought-provoking.
Flutter seems to be a good choice. Building a couple of apps in Flutter and the more I use it, the more I like it.
In reading that page, I was super taken in and immediately wanted to get a copy of the collection; trying to follow the links left me sad to realize it's a fictional story, but it's an amazing piece of fiction none the less.
The Fed is trying that for now, but even they know it's not going to work. Inflation today is mostly caused by goods supply issues (supply chain, Europe's energy crisis because of tensions with Russia, lingering impact from Covid on manufacturing), not monetary policy.
A few years ago I installed CentOS (because it was supposed to be one of the most stable distros at the time) and my mom was happy using LibreOffice to make her documents. I taught her how to update the system and everything was well until one day she told me she could not update the system because the update program was gone.
I thought the shortcut was misplaced or something, but actually CentOS had a bug where the graphical update utility uninstalled itself with one of the updates.
I wonder how computer illiterate people are supposed to fix something like this without assistance :)
Trying to build a small scaled e-commerce platform like shopify.

Backend: spring boot, kotlin

Frontend: reactjs, nextjs, typescript
> risk

And that's what it boils down to, isn't it?

Personally I draw the line somewhere around "software that's controlling something". If software can directly screw up or cause damage in the Real World™, that's a good reason it shouldn't have easter eggs in it. If the trouble has to indirect through one or more meatbags who know better before becoming reified, well, the harm caused by any easter eggs is probably much less than the harm caused by reported bugs already closed WONTFIX with a laugh. (Note: PAX do not in fact know better, ever, as any airline employee can and will tell you.)
App: Expo, React-Native, Typescript, Apollo Client

Server: Node.js, GraphQL, TypeGraphql, Apollo Server, PostgresQL 14, Redis

Website: Webflow (great for a good website with minimal work)

Hosting: Digital Ocean (it’s cheap but I prefer GCP)

Internal tools: Retool
As fun as watching a movie through a keyhole.
Sure, but those flares are a tiny fraction of the oil that would be required to power a hydrogen economy.
I rent an office very near my house. The PG&E rate for peak time at the office is over 20c cheaper than at my house. Not very fair to residental usage.
3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 recreated via reverse engineering (2021)
Sveltekit/Tailwind for the main website (hosted on cloudflare)

Elixir/Phoenix/Liveview/Postgres with alpine.js and tailwind for the dashboard overview for the operations analytics (hosted on fly.io)

All code and pipelines on GitHub

Currently building as well flutter apps but it’s taking a lot of time in comparison with the webapp and operations dashboard
Five Walled Gardens: Why Browsers Are Essential to the Internet
I think they are tuned for mixing heavy dirty crude from places like Venezuela with light clean crude from Texas. It’s the best way to leverage Venezuelan oil (without mixing in higher quality crude, refining is very difficult).

Maybe that’s why they wanted Keystone XL? Since Venezuela is basically out of commission, use Albertan oil instead?
Yep that could certainly work if appliances and cars have an option to say "have my dishwasher finish or car charged by 9am tomorrow" and it knows how long a cycle takes and picks the best time.

For anything real time it wont work - here in Australia we had a discount for a box that you connect to your air conditioner which would throttle back its use during peak, and a lot of people ditched it due to impact on their comfort.
Windows Will Die: 90 Minutes to Do 5 Minutes of Work
Against the anti-virus that granny downloaded from pop-up on the browser telling her that Microsoft support found a virus.
If public transit was significantly expanded and given priority over personal transport, it would significantly reduce trip times by massively reducing road congestion for simple geometric reasons. Not to mention, cities designed for not having cars are inherently less prone to congestion as housing, commercial and business areas are more interspersed (instead of everyone moving from the suburbs to downtown and back every day).
Sounds like the UK where everyone used to turn their kettles on during the ad breaks of popular TV shows
> “determined the sounds were caused by an issue with the PA amplifier. There was no external access to the system.”

Hard to agree. Those sounds are almost certainly a human voice, presumably digitized. Unless the issue with the PA amp is that someone connected a sample player to it.

Former pro audio engineer here.
Would you happen to know why so many high speed videos of bullets show them flying pitched up or down slightly from the direction of flight shortly after leaving the muzzle?
I mostly see these low-code tools being useful for developers actually. Maybe it is because I am a backend developer but it always takes me quite some time to build even simple CRUD interfaces. I would assume with these tools I would just be a few clicks.

Not sure if this is a general trend but the companies I worked at anything computer related is an IT problem. The non coders at my company would never try a tool like this they would ask someone from IT to do it for them. The idea would be that a tool like this makes that process faster a cheaper. And perhaps makes the UX of the end result better then an excel sheet full of macros.
BE - Lambda function URLs, Node, Fastify, Knex with Objection.js, RDS Proxy Postgres

FE - Vue2, Nuxt, Tailwind

Native - Capacitor 100% code sharing with web FE. Fastlane to automate build/signing/submissions

Cloudflare workers acting as a proxy for both FE cache and BE API rate limiting/maintenance mode read from KV store.

I made a crude diagram: https://t20654125.p.clickup-attachments.com/t20654125/133842...
If you want an ultra productive, easy to learn and a delight to deploy+maintain stack, consider PETAL: Phoenix, Elixir, Tailwind, Alpine.js & LiveView. See: https://github.com/dwyl/technology-stack
I am using it for years and ceased to run into problems about 3 years ago.
Production ready as in building a business on it. I would not. Storing your personal important stuff (and have backups in place): yes. Unimportant personal stuff: also very much yes.
Rails + mysql, with Sorbet for Ruby type safety
React Native for our mobile app
Typescript for all JS

Hosted on Linode

Boring but hella productive and stable, and lots of stability and depth in the ecosystem.
Main website: bootstrap & vanilla JS.

Infra: AWS and serverless application model (SAM)

Frontend app: react

Backend: python + lambda, step functions, dynamodb, and sagemaker.

CI/CD: GitHub actions

Super stable, multi-region, low maintenance and near infinitely scalable.
Crypto Darling Helium Promised a ‘People’s Network’, Made Executives Rich
Good job, can we just try to make sure this is the last MD5-insecurity demonstration effort ever? Anyone who is not convinced is never going to be convinced. At the same time, MD-5 or even CRC-32 unintentional collisions are too unlikely to worry about in most practical scenarios. Future computational efforts would do well to improve tampering resistance or unintentional corruption detection rather than re-litigating the obvious.
This will result in "we can't use open source because the boss doesn't want to deal with the paperwork. We'll get John from X massive company on the phone and license their version."

Imagine a job where all you do is meetings, and never have to deliver anything. That dream is a reality in government. There's a problem with something? Let's make a committee. Let's create paperwork. But now we're managing more things, so we get bumped up to a more prestigious position. - this goes on and on.

It operates despite inefficiency. Because it's artificially propped up by tax dollars. No one is responsible, it's free money.
Micro services: Traefik + Docker

Web stack: nextjs, symfony or fastapi, netlify

Monitoring: Matomo, metabase, signoz, prometheus.
Native RISC-V ROS chip targets robotics
Original discussion (Russian): https://www.modlabs.net/forum/topic/60674/
Have a Monitoring Solution product for Solar Plant.
Stack - Django, Cassandra, Redis, KairosDB, Celery, Bootstrap, Jquery etc.
A greedy approximation algorithm for constructing shortest common superstrings
For my latest project:

Frontend: React/Typescript

Backend: React/Typescript, Nim

DB: Postgres

Hosting: Namecheap, Cloudflare, ZAP-Hosting
Here's a list of almost every single grant that the Future Fund has made: https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/

Doesn't seem terribly vague to me.
One thing the guy who interviewed said that I have heard other californians say is how liberals and liberal cities are at fault. You have liberals in NY and you don't see this. In reality it is a money and jobs problem, liberals didn't cause the 08 crash or climate change related drought that killed the ag industry (I am not a liberal or conservative for the record).

What I have also noticed with people that have this sentiment is they have some group to blame, not a solution.

Would farming more profitable cashcrops or moving away at least paritally from agriculture help? Would better housing decelopemnt (more housing density but at a competitive price, not for thr poor) bring housing costs down?

Also, central valley feels a lot like conservatice states as thr article points out. That includes intolerance to other people and ideas.
Cassandra and MongoDB are nearly 15 years old. Serverless and Kubernetes are nearly a decade old.

My point is that what often gets criticised as "new tech" is actually quite old. Hence the stupidity of that argument.
> Isn't React templating as well?

Nope! You can make React apps with just a plain ol' JS file (and doing so is frankly instructive). Most folk add in JSX for extra syntactic sugar tho, so the confusion with templating is understandable.
well these are different purposes, aren't they? I do delete the cookies afterwards, so I don't care whether they get accepted or denied. But for this extention, the purpose was always just to get rid of the popups. I mean if you're automating it anyway, it's much easier to choose the happy path and comply isn't it? Those cookies can always be deleted later.
I run an uptime monitoring + status page service: https://onlineornot.com

Uptime monitoring:

- fly.io w/ redundancy on AWS

- Redis

- Node.js

- Postgres

Uptime monitoring frontend:

- Next.js

- Tailwind CSS

Status Pages:

- Remix (React) frontend, heavily cached on Cloudflare Workers
grep and vim, basically
If a template needs loops or even conditionals, it is already too complex for my taste as it leads to wrong design patterns blurring presentation/code boundary. Something that just allows to access variables and call functions will keep the boundary while allowing a non-programmer or even the end-user to edit it.
You're missing his point.

Downloading any illegal software can compromise your email and bank accounts and basically ruin your life. It only takes one.
Yes but they didn’t kill anyone with it. I think they shot at the helicopter. I don’t know if the helicopter was shooting at them.
Procedural generation was supposed to be big and exciting.

If done incorrectly, though, procedurally generated quests or dungeons feel boring and soulless.
I understand that in a few years every new build in the UK must have a GSHP (no gas boilers) and the goal is for every house to have something like it.

I think this manifesto is a piece of genius - I think I shall be studying :-)
Not a company but I’ve been experimenting with different tech stack options over the last 6 months to find a simple tech stack with an independent frontend and an independent backend with a hosted database. The goal is not just to build but also be able to maintain without much complexity and not spend a lot of money on hosting.

Backend: Building a REST/GraphQL API that could be deployed to Cloudflare workers is a no brainer. Super cheap and incredibly fast and when you need to scale it’s still ridiculously cheap. I’d probaby go with REST with swagger + openapi-typescript to generate types on the frontend because honestly GraphQL is a lot of work for one person to maintain.

Frontend: Next.js server render or ISG hosted on Vercel. I'd throw Tailwind on too for rapidly styling your pages.

Database: Prisma with Postgres so it could be typed and works well with other tools. I still haven’t figured where to host Postgres easily. Looking for something like Mongo Atlas where I could grab the connection URL easily and has affordable free/paid plans.
You and others are missing all the network of hydrocarbon based energy that allows you to survive, farming, mining, transport etc, your electrical grid is only a portion of a world wide system built upon on tap energy. The weather will never ever be an on tap energy source.
In 19th century some luxury trains used paper composite wheels designed to absorb vibrations. They were banned in 1915 due to safety issues.
I feel like I'm going crazy when I read things like this. To me that is very clearly a human voice. Does it not sound that way to you?
Musk says activating Starlink in Iran
Not really, there's BBC Clock, since most things involve computers.
No one has answered how people intend to do things that require transportable fuel. I can't buy a Tesla (or whatever) and hot-swap batteries. If I travel 200 miles to go camping and the nearest charging station is 150 miles away I am hosed. No electric vehicle to date (nor planned for release) has the towing capacity needed to haul a week or two of gear, solar panels, deep cycle batteries, alternators, etc needed to set up a system. Even if you could, the risk of starting a forest fire due to reflections and/or sudden spontaneous battery deconstruction is non-negligible. The torque of an electric truck makes it attractive as an off road vehicle, however it's entirely infeasible in practice.

So the government rules by fiat that ICE vehicles are to be banned. I guess someone better tell people that they won't be able to travel as far, or for as long, until the 22nd century when battery technology catches up and you can charge it with a single lightweight panel where ever you are. The energy density of a can of gasoline is so much higher than a towable array of solar panels the EV solution may as well be horse and buggy. It will be decades before remote gas stations in the middle of no where have a charging station available.

The government can "ban" things all they want. If the alternative isn't acceptable to people who don't want to live a life of being a metropolitan worker drone who owns nothing they will find a way.
>Pollution which flows downstream from Northern CA into a basin where it stays (those lovely SF winds blow that somewhere)

The San Joaquin River flows south to north.
They were nice to sit near on a cold day.
Here's a good video on how it was built https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sKtR970
> Flight attendants can plug in an aviation headset with a very, very long cord... This allows the flight attendants to talk to a doctor on the ground while they're physically next to a passenger's seat.

That is pretty damn cool.
My previous comment?

Check the username.
Rails, SQLite, and Linode.
As an aging 90s dnd and mtg player, I have observed that some will like the pacing, some won't. Some will take anything named LOTR, some will avoid anything that is not canon in their eyes. Some like "progressive diversity" some don't care about fitting everything to the current political climate.
There are apps that track the prices and can automatically "trigger" charging when it's cheaper.

Found these examples by quickly googling:

https://www.trueenergy.io/app/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sense.andr...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tibber.and...

EDIT: to answer the question: yes, these apps use something called "Nord Pool" which publishes hourly electricity prices (in Swedish): https://elavtal24.com/blogg/tibber-greenely/
Oh, I thought this was going to be a response to Mark Fisher's 2013 essay "Exiting The Vampire Castle", which was not actually about vampires.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vam...
There are consequences to endless spending. The U.S. will not rule the world market forever, and part of its eventual burnout will be due to the untamed level of government taxation and spending. History is precedent, and we owe it to the future to not leave them with the ashes.
> Fruits, vegetables, and nuts benefit from intensive manual picking, so farm owners hire outside labor.

Nit: nut harvesting is heavily automated. This is a pretty good overview of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql9NIPilcPI
I guess I am too cynical having read about prominent researchers faking results in similar fields.