skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I do this every three years then proceed to never use it. Then I read a post on hn and think about how great it could be; rinse and repeat
Building a modern zero carbon economy based on renewable energies is not only possible but also close to cost competitive to the nuclear-intensive alternative [1]:

>>> Regarding the evolution of technology costs, under the baseline scenario, the cost difference between the M23 (renewable only) and N2 (old and new nuclear + renewable) scenarios is close to 10 billion euros a year (0.3% of France's GDP).

This is a quote from France's mostly nuclear based electric grid agency.

Losing 0.3% of GDP but avoiding any inherent social, environmental and economical risk associated with nuclear does not look bad to me.

[1] https://assets.rte-france.com/prod/public/2022-01/Energy%20p...
You've never had a bad connection with Lightning? Every Lightning cable I've ever had has two pins that have become blackened due to frequent arcing. And the "click" is dependent on the quality of the cable. USB-C cables from Apple click in exactly the same as their Lightning cables, for example.
Because there are other JVM languages that interface with Java libraries fine but are nicer to use
404: https://www.contractrates.fyi/freelancejobs
> I submit that the profits show that they're few and relatively rare.

I submit that a person making such a statement cannot know the history of workers rights. Naked oppression & exploitation is highly profitable; this has been proven repeatedly throughout history.
> ...was based on countries’ short-term goals for the next decade

What else though? There is no "long-term" for politicians that have to face another election in less than 4 years.

"This will happen in 10+ years" is just a thinly-veiled "We aren't going to do it.".
If we can't get any short term commitments and hold people accountable for it, nothing substantial will get done.
I set up something for someone in 2003/2004. It was largely PHP4 code that got a bit upgraded to 5.0. We lost touch.

I got a call at end of 2017 saying "this isn't working". Someone else had taken over hosting and been upgrading PHP along the way. There was finally something that broke (some weird dynamic object stuff that was making up for some PHP4 shortfall at the time) and... I did some small patch to get around it but suggested they have someone rebuild, either in PHP 7 or ... any tech from 2017. Just needed to migrate relatively simple database over.

I pointed out that they had basically 13 years of hassle-free system - that's generally a bit outside the norm for that sort of thing, and... that was the recommendation they gave back to their org's board of directors (small non-profit sort of thing).
I have normal sunglasses that you clip on your normal glasses. When I wear them, all those vertical LCD adverticement screens are black to me. Adblocking glasses are very nice!

Tip to ad companies, don't turn the displays 90 degrees, they are meant to be used in landscape mode for a reason...
Lightning was never available for other manufacturers. Maybe it could have won if Apple hadn't kept it to themselves.
There was no credible pathway to 1.5 when it was established at COP 21 in 2015.

And previous to 1.5, the big number was 1.0.

It'll be interesting if the mass media push changes the focus again and starts popularizing 2.0C. Or maybe they'll move the baseline up again at the next COP. What a farce.
Looks pretty cool.

Feedback about the 3D navigation experience:

* very laggy on Firefox android, on a decent device
* very laggy on Firefox linux (Intel graphics)
* smooth on Chromium with the same linux (Intel graphics)
What provider(s) do your customer(s) or employer(s) use?

Start there
Sadly, that is the state of discourse that's coming from the innovation POV. The entire tone of these arguments boils down to an appeal to "common sense" with nothing backing it.

And, as repeatedly pointed out, it's not like the EU is preemptively stifling all potential replacements. They're explicitly carving room in the laws for those replacements when they're ready.
Apple takes a cut from every licensed Lightning cable sold.
We should allow electrical and networking companies to innovate again. If Cisco wants to use something else instead of RJ45, they should be allowed to be.
Billboards and TV ads cost money too, generally speaking far more money per ad than web ads. The idea that they’re somehow different from website ads is wrong.

> As soon as you see that there are ads being blocked, however, the moral thing to do would be to close the browser and go elsewhere.

False, because that’s not the actual public expectation today. The common expectation that would define what is moral in this situation is that blocking is reasonable because ads are intrusive and annoying and often get in the way of the reason I’m on the site. I’d be fine with saying it’s “nice” and it’s “supporting” the site to not block the ad, but hard disagree that blocking is immoral, that’s just hyperbole.

That’s not really the advertiser’s wish either, they don’t want the result to be less traffic, they just want you to watch the ad. So your suggestion isn’t actually respecting their wishes.
Power tools already have a standard, smart home is a totally different beast though, and AFAIK most items should use USB-C?
I use Adguard dns. Zero dollar solution and with private DNS on my android device, I get AdBlock on my phone.
Cutting the magazine you own is not the same tho
Energy isn't fundamentally harmful. It's your opinion that carbon-based energy sources are evil.
Big programming nodes. Ocaml, rust, react.

Some game groups. One all about expresso :)
>Apple sold more than 2.2 billion iPhones and more than 360 million iPads before they stopped making numbers public.

>Say for every second iPhone or iPad sold, a user bought just one extra Apple Lightning cable for $19 which probably costs Apple around $1 (if not less) to make.

>That’s give or take $43.5B on Lightning cable sales alone.

I don't follow, `(2.2B + 360M) / 2 * 18` is not 43.5B.
Amazing work. I'm also interested in digitizing artifacts and historic places, but haven't been able to figure out how to go about getting a project off the ground.

Any chance you'd do a write up explaining how you were able to get this project set up? I'm more interested in the logistics and the red-tape you had to go through in order to get access to do the scans. I see you've got a business setup around it as well, are you hiring? The jobs page leads to the blog right now.
Who's going to invest in anything when the government can come, outlaw your product and throw you in jail?
I doubt that Apple is getting a “cut” of the $5 cables you can buy from Amazon or your local bodega.
fair enough, thanks for the source.
Indeed. To resolve that issue, the EU came up with this legislation.
Don't have much patience as long as your team is making the rules.
Housing investment would be 'housing starts' as in new houses being built. I doubt that prices will be going down if there are more people and the same number of houses. Part of the market for existing houses is sensitive to mortgages. All this means is housing will actually cost more in the future on a total cost of ownership basis. If you're a renter with a ton of cash, this is good, but for literally all other stakeholders in the market is it ultimately not good.
I wonder if they'll ever be restored.
> The stated mission of ID2020 is to provide digital identities for all people worldwide by 2030

I'm guessing the stated mission has been changed once or twice since it was founded.
In case this is the first you've heard of "100% scheduled" and "web audio native":

> By "100% scheduled" we mean that all the timing of audio events is handled using the web audio scheduler. Jerrica doesn't use setTimeout, setInterval, or other timing hacks. It is recommended that its processMusic function is called once per frame via requestAnimationFrame, but that's simply to ensure that sound events are always scheduled well ahead of when they need to occur.

> By "web audio native" we mean that all audio effects are achieved via the web audio API. Many audio players manipulate audio at the sample level, treating web audio as a "dumb pipe" for an audio buffer. Jerrica doesn't do that. After loading the samples from the MOD file, Jerrica only ever uses web audio functions to manipulate the sounds, for example via the playbackRate AudioParam.

To the author's credit, these are both explained near the top of the README. Cheers.
It doesn’t work in Safari for me (16.1)
Literally me.
To generate GIFs use: https://github.com/dstein64/gifcast
Works in the browser and locally. No install needed.
The device you are typing on is made from materials mined from the planet using the fuel sources you despise.
Yep. And even worse they probably would have had to switch from Micro USB to USB-C again when they upgraded.
Oh, people complain about NEMA all the time. It's objectively the worst commonly used socket+plug system from a safety perspective. It's somewhat mitigated by the common voltage being half of what the Europlug etc sees.

RJ45 (akchually 8p8c) also has its issues: people complain about how easy it is to break off the stupid plastic tab all the time.

There's proto-DRM in SFP connectors though, you're right. There's an EEPROM in the connector since it needs to negotiate with whatever it's plugged in to, and companies like Juniper and Cisco will only support their own optics (at least, they used to).
I wonder how much Silvergate paid for it...

https://www.diem.com/en-us/updates/stuart-levey-statement-di...

They still plan to launch a stablecoin in 2022...

https://www.silvergate.com/solutions/digital-currency/diem.h...
I interpret this as "disregard what other people say when their words cause you to doubt or second-guess yourself for no good reason".

In other words: have confidence.
The OP never claimed that showing ads to kids didn't have positive ROI.
I've only had 1 lightning cable die on me in over 10 years of owning iPhones, and it was a heavily abused cable.
I went Cardboard (though used it very little, probably only 1 hour cumulative) -> HTC Vive -> Valve Index.

I'll probably buy a Valve Index 2 if it ever happens.

Portable VR is highly limited by battery power. VR requires high pixel counts and high framerates to be immersive, and pushing that many pixels uses a lot of power.
Here's a public comment from the Azure Functions team about when they expect 3.10:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-python-worker/issue...

(They're hoping for 3.11 support to be available not long after, thanks to a better release system coming soon)
> wait, so a row major stored matrix should be multiplied by extracting the columns first? Or what?

No, the other way around. In row-major storage, all the elements of the same row are contiguous, so it is faster to process the array row by row.

> Is there some sort of animation that illustrates Ax and xA for both row major storage and column major storage?

The explanations here are decent enough. All you need is the figure at the top, really: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row-_and_column-major_order .
> Most of my coworkers look absolutely aghast whenever I mention that I liquidate all my vested shares as soon as the trading window is open.

I spent a lot of the last decade at facebook. I immediately cashed out every single vested RSU and plowed the money into broad market ETFs.

It always blew my mind how many of my coworkers were willing to leave a huge chunk of their net worth invested in their employer's stock.

As you might imagine, I'm feeling pretty good about my strategy right now.
The market that exists is not free.
People can't use computers:
http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...
I can't remember the last time I had a legit lightning cable break. At least not for any other reason than "kids kept yanking it out by the cord and finally ripped the end off." I still have cables from at least 5 years ago, for sure.

Micro USB cables used to last anywhere from a few days to a few months for me. USB-C is much better, but I still find they fail in less than a year. Not sure exactly why, it looks like it ought to be a sturdy design.
smooth on Firefox in Linux for me, Intel graphics
Have you ever tried virtual desktops? It was a huge benefit for me.
Unlikely. How many people in the EU don't also own USB-C devices already?

I don't really care which port Apple uses, but I'd like them to be consistent across the range. It's annoying carrying Lightning cables (phones) + USB-C cables (iPads and laptops) + USB-micro (camera chargers) when I travel.
Maybe a better UX for you but definitely not better performance
The e-reader is alright, they have been adding features to it on a regular basis and now it's decent. But it has one big advantage in that you can drop PDFs onto it with no changes and then you can scribble all over them with the pen. (I am not a big fan of MOBI/EPUB and most of my content is in PDF.) My amazon ereader couldn't do that.

I love mine! It's a fantastic device and I am glad I got on the bleeding edge of this tech.

I do wish it would sync with Calibre, I don't like having to maintain two ebook libraries

I also wish it had a touchscreen calibrator, as the pen is slightly off around some of the corners
They do from MFi certified cables. You have to pay apple a licensing fee. and the non licensed cables will sometimes give you an error.
I get calls for this at least once a week. "Computer is slow/down" or "internet not working" when really the corporate partner's homepage is having issues. (Usually when everybody is sending in their orders for the week.)
Looks like you can't see the sheet without logging in?
Woot! It's lovely to see someone other than oneself hype one's own code ;).

The first beta of the wasm/js bits will be officially released along with sqlite3 version 3.40. We've been working on them since (IIRC) May.

i feel compelled to point out, though, that github provides only a read-only mirror of sqlite. The official sources are at <https://sqlite.org/src>.
> The contrast between "force Apple to stop adhering to legacy standards, USB-C is the future!!!" and "gubmint hands off muh 8-pin aux connectors!!!" is interesting.

Both of these are the same stance to me, "existing industry standards appear to suffice, why foist something different on the market?"

I don't think governments are behind a lot of these changes so that last bit is probably exaggeration but seems misplaced; it's Nvidia, Apple, etc choosing these connectors for their products.
I worked in HPC for a bit and one of my colleagues had come from Aramco and managing their AIX clusters
What makes you think it would be significantly easier to filter out the carbolic acid from the ocean? The same difficulties apply, and water is much more viscous than air.
Yeah there's some real mental gymnastics here;
"Starting from nothing..." "...The goal is to provide for my family before I run out of savings"
Yeah, we took one major fossil fuel producing country out of part of the global economy and look at the pain that caused in "the West". This kind of drastic, quick climate action would have even stronger effects on the energy markets in the short term, though the higher prices would also encourage faster renewable deployment so the damage would at least be tempered after some time (years, probably).

Of course the alternative that skips the trashing-the-economy part is more and larger government spending on renewable deployment to achieve a switchover on a similar timescale, but that's super-unpopular for a lot of voters.
Definitely. Also there are four ages in AOE, each one increasingly expensive but opens up a lot of technology. It is a big investment and doing so without much control can you leave you very vulnerable and is a key window for your opponent to attack. It’s a unique mechanic that adds a lot of strategy to the game
Or we could just stop burning coal.
Replacing a prime minister after 6 weeks is an extremely short term, even for Italy. The current German constitution --- basic law to be precise -- has lasted twice as long as the previous German constitution. And its end doesn't appear on the horizon. The stability of the US system looked quite dire from the outside less than two years ago.
That would double the amount of iPhone models they need to manufacture and sell. It might happen, but Apple likes thin product lines.
I think 2-3 years ago this post would be quickly flagged into oblivion, without any discussion (or with some unnecessary flaming). I think, or rather hope, that we become more mature and can have a civilized discussion about this issue.
Perfect timing for this. I will give that 8h episode a chance now, couldn't find the time to listen to it.
Re: your Stack Overflow woes

Stack Overflow makes a lot more sense when you think of it as Wikipedia run by mathematicians rather than a forum. If your question is ambiguous or open for discussion, it's probably not a good fit for Stack Overflow.

I don't spend much time on there anymore but now you know
It's not easy to have a list of what is important to be done as there're so many different things.

Generally it's good
1. To find already proposed patch of a moderate complexity and review it
2. To find a reported bug and propose a fix
3. To improve README's in the area you know how they work
Like always, leave it to porn to push the tech forward
CSS & HTML No JS needs to be modified/forked to set current time: https://codepen.io/iliadraznin/pen/AjWWQr
"adding longish urls to every attribute and namespacing elements and attributes"

Who thought this was a good idea?
You’re moving the goal posts now. The actual expectation of the public today is that blocking ads is okay, just like muting the TV or fast-forwarding a video is okay. The actual expectation of the advertisers is also that people don’t want to watch ads, if they have a choice. They have acknowledged this directly in many ways. So the common expectation is that people prefer to not watch ads, therefore by your logic the only moral choice is to not try to show ads to people.
> This may at first glance sound sensible. But consider: If an impoverished family doesn’t accept the health NGO’s preferred interventions for its children, these children may not be provided any other opportunity to establish a “legal, broadly recognized identity” necessary to access things like primary school. In other words, you are literally nobody until you are vaccinated.

Author is making quite a leap that the _only_ way to receive a digital ID is to get vaccinated. If a program like this ever does take off you will see alternative methods of identification acquisition. Case in point: I don't need a driver's license to get a state issued ID. Functionally they are the same in terms of proving I am who I say I am, but one affords additional benefits of stating I can drive.
What a disappointment that the top comment is a dig on someone else's work.

Perhaps next time you could try, "looks amazing, not for me".
> Maybe one day we will be free of software development on MLs.

This is the same as saying we should only ever do open source development on closed proprietary platforms which only exist and allow access on the whim of a single entity which responds to no one.

As opposed to communicating over a completely open, decentralized and inherently free protocol.
I wouldn't trust an engineer with my coffee.
All I expect out of a USB-C cord shipped by apple with my phone is the ability to charge (which is what I get with an iPad, which uses USB-C). I'd love to expect more, but a Thunderbolt cable is stupidly expensive and not worth including by default.

Standardization around the markings and marketing for USB-C cables would be f'ing awesome. But I'll take this win regardless.
And I can still connect my iPhone 12 to my old car that supports the “iPod USB protocol” from before the first iPhone came out.
If you’re interested in tides, I recommend Jonathan White’s book “Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean”. It’s lower on science and higher on personal experience, but it all worked well for me.

It was the first place I heard the term amphidromic point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphidromic_point
Right, but it just means the index is not used as the final source of truth and the DB has to run an exact check on the smaller subset of rows returned. You won't get incorrect queries, but depending on the workload it may not be a useful index for improving query speed.
I’m glad the WSJ is covering that but have you checked energy prices in Europe when compared to last year?

Newspapers can say whatever, the reality on the ground is that energy prices have gone up 5-10x in the past year.

Some problems are not even worth mentioning before the big ones are solved. Sometimes you have to hone all your energy to solve the big problems and worry about the small ones later. Priorities and such.

As far as I see the EU govt is more interested in image than actual solutions. Taking on Apple and winning looks sexier than fixing the very unsexy problem of energy or inflation.
At first you choose something, after a while you have something. That is the time to choose something again.
I don’t know, but they could both be true. How many 5yo pine trees does it take to equal the surface area of one giant redwood?
> therefore by your logic the only moral choice is to not try to show ads to people

No I wouldn't agree with that. I think it's moral to show adverts, but not to be subversive about it, and I think it's moral to offer a way to turn them off such as paid plans, which I often use.
(2019). If you're wondering what happened next, he bootstrapped a business selling PDFs and videos and claims to be have made over $200k off it in 2021.

https://dvassallo.medium.com/from-employee-to-bootstrapper-9...
Ask HN: Do you work at a company that hires Contractors for staff augmentation
I'm just curious how you go about finding contractors, what problems you encounter and whether or not you work with individuals or use consulting firms?
I work in the industry and I agree with your take.
The correct format is 1.5 K and in my opinion is unambiguous written that way. 1.5k is definitely 1,500 while 1.5K in the middle is ambiguous and depends on context.
Oh man.. the ultimate HN post

Facebook .. a large company eveyone knows

open source

crypto(currency)

using the "language of the month"

and a github link!
„Shit or get off the pot VR. You've had 10 years.”

What a strange anthropomorphization of technology/product. Is this somehow hurting you personally? Is there some other technology being developed by someone that is somehow not “getting it’s turn”?
This is acknowledged.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11981 ("Electricity Transmission Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022")

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/transmission-ira-inflation-... ("Transmission development key to Inflation Reduction Act’s climate potential")
That's why it was canceled.
No argument there. The Europlug is another innovation stifling regulation though. We should allow developers/homebuilders to select the socket of their choice, even develop their own proprietary ones.
I wonder if I can use this for Calendar event systems with recurring events in perpetuity.