skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Your mother is so fat, the recursive function computing her mass causes a stack overflow.”
As european countries scramble to buy energy so their local economies can keep the lights on, it will of course raise energy prices that other countries use to buy and ship things.

There's a game to played here on which country receives most of the pain, but everyone loses in absolute terms.
So why not link them?
I'm using Pushover a lot, it exists for a very long time, never changes and just works. It's also very easy to wire it up to existing tools as it can listen to webhooks.

In my case I just did that recently to receive webhooks and send them to my phone: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/push-notifications-from-ap...
I don't know the composition of this system or how feasible this arrangement would be given however the system may have evolved, but any planets could co-orbit the star and the black hole around their combined center of mass. They'd probably have to be relatively far away from both to be stable.
Playing around with the default ExFAT setup and a USB3 connected SSD on Ubuntu (copying files over from another hard drive), I found ExFAT (at least in writes) too slow to use. I ended up formatting it at NTFS and it was much faster, it was going into a Windows machine anyway.
I get a lot more mileage out of "have you tried..." than "why don't you just...".

As a recent example, I wrote a system that auto-generates PDF packing slips from an order form, to send to a warehouse for picking and packing.

Yesterday a client told me to "just make it landscape" while I was explaining why "just making it landscape" won't solve the problem of giving the warehouse whitespace to pencil stuff in, because even though "just making it landscape" solves this same problem in Excel, when the client was sending out Excel files as packing slips... the current system is not Excel".

I couldn't find a way to get the client to get from "just make it landscape" to listening to me ask "what is the warehouse actually trying to pencil in?" and "how much space do they need? Are they penciling in notes globally at the top of the document or on a line-item basis next to each SKU?"

To the client I was wasting their time because "just make it landscape".

Needless to say working with this client is challenging on an interpersonal level. The work itself is fun though, and it's improving my EQ handling a client like this.
Vanilla OS
That links a bit out of date...

>Questions are now being raised over how long Truss will remain in office
I mentor students on research projects. I think it can be fine to use the word “just” in this context exactly to telegraph that I think a particular task should be easy. Student says, “But what about X?” I might say, “Oh, just do Y.” It’s fine if they feel the tension of me knowing how to do something and thinking it’s easy and them not. The key part is providing a supportive environment so that they know they can ask questions. At this point, it’s on them: they can challenge themselves and try to do Y without any help, or they can ask for more guidance. This is what they call a “teachable moment”.

Learning how to differentiate between when it’s reasonable to ask for more help and when it’s not is an important skill to pick up since there’s a dividing line for basically all roles you might find yourself in.
Dragon’s teeth – Stopping tanks in their tracks
Great article. It's like people assume that you are some free rational actor, instead of being totally shaped by your history (specially childhood).
I'm not sure I understand the significance. Is it observation of something we'd expect anyway or something more.

All stars in the galaxy are orbiting a supermassive black hole at the center. So this is similar but on a much smaller scale. Maybe the find is illuminating early black hole interaction with nearby stars, idk.
You are 100% correct. Boy that's confusing. I thought they'd just gotten a new site!
How are you so confident that this narrative you've adopted is representative of the world as it really is?
See this other series of posts I made and the links from them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33506241

I don't see how GPT-3 could be particularly useful for me as it exists now. GPT-3 doesn't know anything about the prior art, so I can't see how it would work there. I think some sort of AI system could be useful for non-prior-art analysis like 101 or 112(b) compliance, but that would need a specially trained system. The data's out there [0]. I think if combined with existing 112(b) analysis software this could be quite useful, but not as useful as something good that finds prior art.

[0] https://www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/economic-research/research-d...
Aren't there several "skimming" services for news stories?
I completely agree with your point. in reviewing the thread I think I have mis-interpreted the parent comment as a stating that "HC music should criticize capitalist culture without endorsing communism". I was looking for evidence of general endorsement of communism in the genre as I think we agree it is rare.
Not sure if you’d win that bet or not but my anecdata is that me and probably the majority of my social circle spend near-0 on alcohol and sweets. They/we buy good quality food and that became mighty expensive.
Native mobile apps are typically built using Android Studio and its tooling. On the iOS side, it's Xcode and it's tooling
”with producer costs soaring double digits in eggs, flour, butter, crackers, bread, milk, and chicken.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2022/09/12/how-p...
Writing passwords on a sticky note on the bottom of your keyboard in an office is obviously a bad practice. A unique string password on a piece of paper in a drawer at home only you would normally have access to? Not clear. And obviously you can hide things in a house more thoroughly than that with the risk that you get too clever.
This article goes on at length about how bad a cold home is, but never even defines what "cold" is. Japanese homes are kept very cool in the winter, by western standards. I once went to visit a friend during the winter whose wife was Japanese. Their house was like 50 degrees and they were sitting around in jackets. Not knowing about that point of Japanese culture at the time, I thought it was pretty unusual.

It seems plausible that there are health related issues from being cold, but I am skeptical that a cooler interior temperature is really the problem. To use another example from Japan, they have heated table blankets so that you're nice and toasty sitting around the table. For more examples, you can look to nomadic people that live in temporary/portable dwellings that are often unheated.
People riding bikes are still expected to yield to people crossing.

In many U.S. cities the Idaho Stop, while not technically legal is already what most cyclists do, myself included. Either the crossing volume is low enough that it is trivially easy and safe to find a gap to fit through, or high enough that you simply wait for an opening, or dismount and squeeze through on foot.
I dunno, man. All cereals, dairy, meat, legumes, and eggs are well above 14% from last year for me, and I'm in the USA, which has a much bigger native agricultural base than the UK. Fruits and veggies are holding pretty stable, it's true, but that's not enough caloric sustenance.
I think the point of this is to slow people down.

We also have speed limits that are rarely followed because they are often set far below safe driving speed on a road, so without the stop signs many people have the impulse to drive 10+ mph over the speed limit.
Paywall free access https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opinion/facebook-meta-zuc...
The same name for when that cyclist is ignoring stop signs and turns signals while driving his Audi: "Asshole"
But they could have done that without blowing it up right? they control the source of the pipeline. So couldn't they have achieved this goal without taking the bargaining chip off the table and limiting their own flexibility?
Great idea, but wouldn't it better to just have a web app that takes the link to the page as an input?
I don't. I just compared my perception on how I and other people accelerate with the width of the road. Intuition tells me it's not dangerous (of course, assuming everyone is responsible).

Now that I think about it, it depends on a lot of factors. I don't know how the roads look in Idaho, but I assume they're much wider than where I live, which gives you more time to get up to speed. I haven't considered e-bikes either.
I did not need glasses as a kid, but I can still smell things way before others. As you describe it, I can smell the edges of the scent trails, as it fades and gets stronger. I understand why dogs sweep back and forth; they are trying to find the edges and help them move the direction of the trail.
One of those can pretty much replace a car for a family

When we went on our 4000km trip to southern France this summer, me and my family had to decide between our station wagon and a cargo bike. We decided on the station wagon, because we were not sure if there would be charging points every 30 kilometers along the way.
I wonder if you could build an argument that rolling stops save lives through reduced emissions.
Could this potentially replace Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications?
These devices don’t need to introduce a single point of failure any different from their dumb alternatives. A Lutron Caseta switch or a Philips Hue bulb still work like a normal switch or bulb even if their bridges and the internet is down. Also, many people isolate their iot network on its own VLAN, although I find this often hurts interop.
The envy of the slave for the free.
The question with continued nudging is perhaps not which individual nudge pushes one off the cliff, but what can be done to recognize the harm in such nudging, in not addressing it timely and sufficiently, and bolstering against it. For instance, in the US super-majorities are not required for many significant and fundamental changes. This can be easily used to advertise it as democratic, while in practice, as some countries in Europe can demonstrate, is actually a danger. There are certain things that cannot be up for discussion in democracies, or else they become easy targets for their abolition or severe containment. Recognizing this apparent contradiction is key to the survival of democracy.

Scholar much smarter than I have laid this out, so I won't attempt it, but it seems to me that the discussion of how to keep democracy guaranteed and healthy is too absent.
I quite like nuclear power, advocacy of it has however mostly devolved into bashing environmentalists and green parties which raises many red flags for me.

I don't know if the people still banging that drum are being disengenious, or they've just been taken in by the misinformation campaign I mentioned, but generally the more of the items I listed you hate or are suspicious of, then the more suspicious of you I am, as it lends evidence of you being someone who has been duped, so for example:

If someone likes (or at least doesn't hate in a weirdly political way) carbon fees, carbon credit, heat pumps, EVs, renewables, induction stoves, green parties and environmentalists, recycling, efficiency then yeah sure I believe you like nuclear power because it's a low carbon power source, see James Hansen for example.

On the other hand, if you hate carbon fees, and carbon credits, and EV subsidies, and green parties and environmentalists but love nuclear power because it's such a great low carbon source. That doesn't add up to me. You might be sincere but confused, but either way you're not really helping so motivations don't really matter. See Michael Shellenberger for example of someone who is obviously lying, or Bill Gates for someone who's just partially confused.
Calling a hero a pedophile because he thought your toy submarine was a dumb PR stunt (which it was) is not harmless ND-typical behavior.
> Are you working out the details on recovery and storage, handling lost devices, configuring a communication channel for sharing certs/keys, managing several crypto dependencies and libraries - all so that you can go "Hey - what's up!" in a notification to your phone?

In 2022, there is no need to invent anything new about E2E encryption. There are many successful open-source examples, including Keybase and Firefox Sync.

There is no question that it adds development overhead, but I personally wouldn't even run a public service for others without E2E encryption.

> Or should you just stop whining - accept that this is free - and take the authors advice and host it yourself?

I am not attacking the author, nor do I currently care about this particular service he is providing.

This is Hacker News, a discussion platform, and I am raising a question about software development in general.
Confirmation Bias Is a Feature, Not a Bug (2018)
This is the problem right here. The solution is that Maths teaching needs to be brought online Duolingo/Brilliant style (with in person teacher support obviously). We can completely standardise the curriculum and do A/B testing to find out what is the most efficient way to get the information into students’ heads.

The data could be analysed further to see if there were certain mathematical learning styles (I suspect there are). One cohort of students might be better off on the visual/geometry heavy track, one might be better on the abstract track etc.

It should be initiated at the national government level and mandated to use in schools but the actual building of the application should be contracted out to a company from Silicon Valley/Roundabout/$COUNTRY_TECH_HUB.

Until this happens or something similar we’re just going to continue having this grossly unequal and unfair state of affairs where access to good mathematics education is complete geographical potluck for anyone whose parents can’t afford tuition. The amount of wasted potential is staggering.
We're in the US and don't have it anywhere near as bad for energy costs, but we've turned our thermostat down more than usual this year. It's currently set at 63F(17C) but we've had it a couple of degrees colder. I can't imagine letting it get much lower than that. I'm already wearing sweaters and blankets in the house, and my nose often feels cold.

Hopefully that's not so cold we're putting ourselves at risk of some of the health dangers in the article.
Ask HN: Java or JVM based is the best choice for large projects. Prove me wrong
My experience (20+ yrs) at a variety of shops has led me to the belief that overall large corporate projects are best served by using Java (or JVM based language). Access to talent pool, IDE and tooling, type system, vendor support, vast opensource ecosystem are all factors. I don't think that Java is best for small/medium projects - I actually prefer Python for rapid development with small teams (1-5 people). But if 50 devs on a project then I am choosing Java. Willing to hear evidence otherwise. So prove me wrong :) [Genuinely interested - not looking for a flame war]
a worker owned cooperative is the very definition of the workers owning the means of production, so i responded with marxist examples to your comment.

you assume that a country-wide implementation is the only way that marx's ideas can be implemented and that is a wrong assumption.

if organizing as cooperatives was the most common way to structure businesses (rather than a capitalist organization), then you'd have a different, arguably better society. in that situation, you can organize as a capitalistic endeavor if you want, but you'd have a hard time competing with co-ops for labor and other resources. it would be decentralized, entrepreneurs would still get rewarded, there would still be free enterprise, it would be a free labor market, etc.
What do you mean live debugging isn't a thing? Delve integration into Goland makes setting breakpoints and analyzing variables great.

Of course it's nothing like Python where you can stop execution and start manipulating variables...
Honestly the only place I've noticed it is the petrol pump. Fuel prices shot up dramatically early in the year. They're back down now from the peak, but still higher than they were a year ago.
Study unveils the compositions and origins of global airborne bacteria on Earth
I'm not sure if it truly fits this category, but HarfBuzz[0], maintained primarily by Behdad Esfahbod, comes to mind.

[0] https://harfbuzz.github.io/
The article says everything they do, they eat breakfast together while networking and listining to interesting speakers
In contrast to the author, I find software development at 50 to be an amazing experience. I am more patient and have the mental flexibility to learn things which were much harder for me 10-20 years ago.

That was about the last time I developed in C++ and I found it excruciating then. Today, I find it exhilarating and intuitive. Also unexpected is I find there is a sense of more immediate gratification. Perhaps it is because I'm not dealing with layers of modern libraries or spending 80% of my time trying to sort through build errors caused by someone updating a dependency I didn't know I had. I can see visible progress every day. It reminds me very much of developing in the 90s and 2000s.

Being financially secure also plays a role. I don't have to work (and in fact, I took much of Covid off), but I do because I enjoy it so much. Consequently, I have zero stress over day-to-day matters. I have found that work, decoupled from finances, can be incredibly rewarding.
Because it takes a lot of creative and skilled effort to design one.
I'd say it was way out of date
Which country? what did they do and what was the impact?
It allows/invites a challenge from a weaker leader who suggests selling some gas to get some money. If there is no option and no flexibility there is no alternative, no challenger.
I strongly relate with this article. Being also in my 40s (but married with no kids) I am at a point in life where I am almost financially independent. I've got a bunch of equity from good startups (which will likely exit in the next year or two at about $500m to $1B mark, giving me a bit of cash) in my pocket and a job that gives me huge freedoms doing fun stuff (first time I do Machine Learning, Graph databases and neural networks for a straightforward application that is making people happy!).

But... I want to build my own startup. I don't really care about being solo, and actually I subscribe to Jack Ma's [1] ages' principles: I want to empower young people with my skills. So I joined a pair of young(er) guys building a startup, asked for some equity and cash comp, and next January will start building it. What I really wanted to do is get into Health Tech, but I've got a "curse" of having a strong background in FinTech. Although it pays very good, I am in a privileged position of not needing the money, and I'm in this age where "making a positive impact in the world" has way more weight (granted, I have this luxury given my current financial status). It also helps that I live in a cheap country with acceptable socialized health, so I don't have to worry about that (too much).

No point in my rambling sorry, I guess I just wanted to put it out there.

[1] https://www.knowol.com/knowledge/jack-mas-success-advice-all...
Doing the weekly food shop over the last 12 months has felt reasonably nuts. For the most part, we usually get the same stuff each week (fruit/veg/meat/dried food etc...) and it's gone from being about £100 to almost £170. Fruit and veg prices in particular seem really crazy.
On Android, I have been using it for a while with Unified push: for Tusky (Mastodon client) and Element (Matrix client).

Works well, I wish more services were using UnifiedPush (so that I would not need the constant Telegram notification, for instance).
Senior Back End Engineer – Node.js
> "have you tried..."

Or: "what have you tried?"
Yes your story is suspicious at best.
You're probably right in the sense that few people actually go for the absolute necessity only at the lowest price they can find even without any alcohol.

If you look at a typical trolley I'd wager that most people/families could cut its price quite a bit and still be fed satisfactorily if they absolutely had no choice.
Or to an overweight person: "you know you'd be a lot healthier if you just lost weight" or "why don't you get a gym membership" or "it's just calories in minus calories out, bro"? Gee, thanks, you're the first person ever to tell me that I should lose weight and it's just a matter of diet and exercise, like every fat person on the planet doesn't already know. It's like saying to a smoker, "You know that's bad for you. You should quit." That sort of comment is almost entirely self-serving.
> Like how they approach cooking recipes online - an overly long, disconnected narrative up top

That's the SEO optimizer and textual add spot.

Followed by regular adds. Perhaps followed by a recipe.
If you're interested in historical fiction, I'd highly recommend Mary Renault's The Persian Boy. The book is all about the interaction between Hellenic and Persian cultures and the influence they each had on the other. She does a great job of making ancient cultures seem real and current without making them feel artificially modern.
Thanks, I was using twilio free tier to send me some automated SMS, but this is even easier and more efficient !
I live in the UK, and our weekly shop has gotten a lot more expensive than the 14%. Me and my wife did the calculation literally last month and our weekly Tesco order has gone up from £50 to £70-80. We both follow a relatively strict diet so we just order the same stuff each week, and the increases are small but they are on everything and they add up.

To give a simplest example - 4 pint milk bottle used to be £1.10 earlier in the year, now it's £1.55(and that's a cheap milk, nothing fancy) - that's an increase of 40% on milk alone.

Oh and to add to this - energy is bonkers. Last year I used to pay 3p/kWh for gas(the heating kind, not petrol), and 12p/kWh for electricity. Now it's 10p/kWh for gas and 34p/kWh for electricity with much higher standing charge(daily payment for being connected to the network) for both. In effect our energy bill tripled from £100 a month to £300 a month.
I will make it more technical: a cyclist doesn't have an windshield A-pillar blocking part of their view.

When two vehicles approach an intersection, if they do so at the same speed (including same variation in speed, like both decelerating), the relative view angle from one vehicle to the other stays the same. It's possible for another road user to be entirely hidden behind a driver's A pillar during an approach to the intersection. In spite of several glances in that direction, it is possible to fail to spot the other vehicle. A proper stop is the only sure thing.
So you're basically saying "We invented it 30 years ago, it can't be done better" ? What a snob.

Reality is that as Astrid Linder's body work proves. The 30 year old model is, essentially, incorrect.

Believe what you like, but as I said, this really is the first "real" one that truly reflects the female body and takes into account all modern knowledge about both crashes and the female anatomy.

Stay stuck in the past if you like. But I for one recognise the value of the work of Astrid Linter in keeping women safe.
Yes, also! The advantage of the extension is it could process the contents automatically by detecting the title and the prose and require no user input. Kinda like how Keepa works on Amazon.
The "first time in history" does mean ever, but remember that one of them is grid north, which only existed after maps were made. It would be cool though to have a compass there, and say "that way is north."
Based on gurgus' adjacent comment, you should probably be eating more vegetables and fruits.