skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it clear people wanted to get away from Lisp rather than use a more-or-less clone of S?

That's a good point. How many statisticians were familiar with S but were using Lisp-Stat just because it was free? I don't seem to have traveled in those circles. I wasn't paying a lot of attention, but I don't remember encountering that on campus.

Another slick Lisp package that got too little attention was Yann LeCun's Lush.
This is a guy who ran a business sucking at the tit of the military industrial complex, and now that he is entering the automotive business, does not like having to face some real competition.
My best guess would be a that lack of news traveling and general awareness, combined with horrible conditions all over the board, making other low level jobs not that much better.

From the article:

> The 1888 match girl strike [...] most tangible impact was perhaps the growing public awareness about the conditions, lives and health of some of the poorest in society whose neighbourhoods were a far cry from those of the decision makers in Westminster.
From their earliest days, most automatic transmissions are analog computers.

This is how most control systems operated pre transistor. Using vacuum tubes in an avionics computer seems inherently risky, plus the power consumption of electronics back then would've made mechanical designs cheaper and more survivable.
>> Bank X, subject to a 10% reserve requirement, is then free to lend out, that is create deposits, representing up to $10. The Fed “created” $1 but the commercial bank, X, “created” $9.

> I'm confused. This seems to imply that commercial banks can magically credit their customers with $10 just because they happen to have $1.

Nope, it's actually incorrect: commercial banks can magically credit their customers with $10 even if they have $0 dollars. Canada (amongst many others) does not have reserve requirements:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#Canada

> Business schools teach that banks obtain deposits and then leverage those deposits ten times or so. This is why we call the modern banking system a fractional reserve banking system. Banks supposedly lend a portion of their reserves. There’s just one problem here: banks are never reserve constrained. Banks are always capital constrained. This can best be seen in countries such as Canada, which has no reserve requirements. Reserves are used for two purposes—to settle payments in the interbank market and to meet the Fed’s reserve requirements. Aside from this, reserves have little impact on the day-to-day lending operations of banks in the United States.

* https://www.pragcap.com/the-basics-of-banking/

> The role of reserves and money in macroeconomics has a long history. Simple textbook treatments of the money multiplier give the quantity of bank reserves a causal role in determining the quantity of money and bank lending and thus the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. This role results from the assumptions that reserve requirements generate a direct and tight linkage between money and reserves and that the central bank controls the money supply by adjusting the quantity of reserves through open market operations. Using data from recent decades, we have demonstrated that this simple textbook link is implausible in the United States for a number of reasons.

* https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/201041/201041p...

See Cullen Roche's 2011 paper "Understanding the Modern Monetary System":

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

Interview:

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/132

See also the Bank of England's 2014 paper, "Money creation in the modern economy":

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
I know several people who accomplish great things in their spare time. The common theme is that those projects are their entertainment. They get off work and can't wait to go work on their projects. They go to bed on Friday night excited to have time on the weekend to work on their stuff.

On the other end of the spectrum, I've mentored college grads for a while who would always complain that they never had time to do anything. I'd often ask them to open up the screen time report on their phone and they'd be shocked to discover they were spending 4 hours per day on Reddit or Netflix or something.

You have to choose to make things a priority. It's fine if you just want to relax in your spare time, of course, but the key is to be deliberate about those choices rather than letting the flow of entertainment media carry you away.
If you look at a telephone keypad with letters, 3453 can be mapped to FILE. So the number would be 555-FILE (which would be a reasonable mnemonic for something to do with taxes).
I've never seen these, do you know of any in Sydney? A quick Google turns up some 3d printing services in other towns/cities but nothing like this
Does anyone have any good suggestions as to which approach to take if I want to produce PDF with vector graphics inside?

Right now our pipeline looks like this:

1. Code generates SVG. It contains quite a lot of elements and takes something like 250 KB unzipped or 20 KB zipped.

2. SVG is converted to big PNG using resvg. Now this SVG is something like 1.5MB unoptimized. We further use pngquant to shrink it to something like 500KB.

3. We use HTML templates to produce a document with embedded PNG image.

4. Now we use HTML to PDF (could be Chromium, but we use some Java library) to produce PDF document and this is the end result.

Good thing about this pipeline is that SVG and HTML are somewhat easy to understand and modify.

This PDF document obviously contains raster and not vector image, so it does not look good when zoomed and it takes more space that I'd like.

What I want to implement: keep HTML part (because that's kind of report and it should be changed if necessary) but embed image with some kind of vector approach, so PDF would contain vectorized image.

I tried to just embed SVG as it is. Well, it kind of worked. But Chrome printed out enormous pdf. Something like 100 MB I think. My computer almost choked trying to render it. But it was vector, yes.

I've given up on this task as I didn't find any easy approach and generating PostScript for the whole document seems not appropriate. I think I could generate PostScript file for the image, but how do I embed PostScript file into HTML so PDF print would use it as it is?
On a side note, why aren't governments providing rebates so people start putting solar panels everywhere?

Like, by now, considering we're facing major environmental catastrophe without seriously drastic action, wouldn't it just be wise to put panels almost everywhere there is at least sunshine for a decent part of the year.

Like what are we doing? ha

I'm trying to buy a block of land next door with a decent sized shed on it for this very reason. So we can cover the roof of the shed with panels. I'll be doing this out of my own pocket, and yes I'll get cheaper energy bills, but still, bit of a not to be doing it. ?
I obviously don't have numbers at hand, but I'd bet most people have a internet connection with a latency of at least 100ms to closest game service servers, unless you already work in IT or adjacent sectors where latency matters more. Not even 50% of people online in the US are connected via fiber optic connections, so extrapolate that over the rest of the world, although many countries have better connections than available in the US.
Right, if the project is no longer financially viable in its current form, the moral thing to do would be to walk away entirely. Then nobody wins, but hey, at least he did the right thing. Or would that be disgusting too?

Also, if you don't like it, fork the last open source version. Your comment reads like "how dare this person not do free work for me!"
FTX, and I suspect practically all “crypto”, is a bald faced scam.

But this article is a low effort concern trolling op ed. Author tries their hardest to tar by association without actually saying anything of note. Dont bother giving them ad clicks. Highlights:

> his agency failed to warn investors about Terra and Celsius—whose collapses this spring sparked a trillion-dollar investor wipeout—the Securities and Exchange Commission chair allowed an even bigger debacle to unfold right under his nose

> Gensler, a former campaign finance chair for Hillary Clinton, is of course not the only prominent Democrat who may have been willing to flex his influence on behalf of FTX.

> Gensler is already shrieking for more money and power to address the latest crypto crisis, this would be a good time for skeptics to ask why he failed to stop FTX in the first place

Theres nothing here. Its the regular speculation and faux-questions-as-libel-defence that Fox and friends play “maybe Gensler and THE DEMS are criminal. Why is no one asking these questions?”
I feel cheated by #2 all my life. Barely gray.
A/B testing seems likely.
I almost forgot a more recent and shocking example well after WWII. The general strike of October 17th 1961 [0] called upon by the Algerian FLN as a demonstration for independence... Dozens of thousands joined, and hundreds were drowned by the police and thousands detained (then deported) in the same locations that the nazi regime used (mostly stadiums). All this under the orders of Maurice Papon [1], who was a higher-up nazi collaborator in the police during WWII.

Please keep such examples (merely isolated anecdotes in a sea of troubling events) in mind when considering there's aspects of history we are not taught in schools and in mass media. If you're from the USA, i heard good things about Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Papon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_Un...
Makes sense but is completely wrong. A bank can credit customers with any size deposits at any time, though in reality they will only do so with an equal sized debit, and within the confines of regulation.
The idea that Twitter's responsibility is to "protect elections" is quite frankly absurd on its face.
Interesting! Looks like it's mostly manga, anime, and fan fic although I was surprised to see Microsoft, Uwe Boll, and https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Wall_Banger were banned. https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Fashion seems out of place too
This is a very good point, and it really points to the changing role of banks over the ~500 year history of modern global-industrial society. Economics textbooks have not done a good job of staying current.
When I tried to sign up, I've run into issue where your password prompt[1] would require uppercase character, a number and a special symbol... While in my opinion my password satisfied that requirement, your app didn't accept it. If you don't consider period and underscore as a special symbol -- you should mention list of special symbols you accept.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/JvsXVIN
Twitter ads are known to be largely ineffective. Can't imagine Starlink investors will be thrilled to see this.
Thanks for your interesting suggestions. We did think of having an Individual plan to make it easier for people to choose, and they'll have a better experience.
That would be a very nice story if it fit the data at all

https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/who-we-are/activities/op...

Show me on the histogram the tight cluster of reactor start dates representing the outages.

The 100% consistent lying about everything from nuclear proponents makes trusting statements like 'we will definitely do things safely if the rules are relaxed' pretty hard to swallow.
I think hardware hacking is the coolest stuff ever. That is why we have so many people buying Raspberry Pi-s.

I guess the best way to keep your curiosity after X years of age is to start with a really challenging project that you know has steps of micro-success. Also, find a motivating community where you can chill, rant or discuss things with. That's why I am here, you are here. You need to have some level of familiarity with the domain of knowledge so, you know what you can achieve in what amount of time. There needs to be the idea of challenge, definite success and somewhat familiarity involved.

My example: I like the old school WSB community. If you know, the tesla-short era. So, I attempted to build tooling that they will enjoy, and I will have fun discussing. My checklist of accomplishments was things I knew can be completed in a few hours. The progressive dopamine hits kept me focused. I was doing great.

Why did I fail? Community itself become not the same. Fun discussions were harder to find. Market kept going up, meaning tools that I made is worthless because anything I didn't make sense because stonks go up. A Complex JavaScript project felt harder to write than I anticipated. So again, community, challenge and knowing your limits.

If you are looking for hardware hacking motivation, these two videos blew my mind. Joe Grand, crypto wallet hacking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT9y-KQbqi4&t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBD5PiyoyI

This channel is also good, but it is a bit wacky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBD5PiyoyI

Edit: Also validation.

When WSB got extremely popular, and it was being spammed. Subreddit was flooded with spam and mods removed posts aggressively. It wasn't the place to show, "look what I made". Not blaming the mods, I just didn't belong anymore.

If you can achieve validation by yourself internally, that is incredible. But the average human needs other people to say, "Good job :)"

Finding a way to get validation from your projects is fantastic, a friendly community and likes on your YouTube videos or blogs can have immense impact.
Old albums were also recorded, mixed, and mastered on tape, which naturally saturates and compresses a bit in a way many listeners find pleasing to the ear.
https://archive.ph/Qkcn2#FTX
Some of those who checked out never re-entered the productive economy. There seems to be a change in morale and motivation as well. The young professionals are paid way beyond their value just to get them on board.
No, it’s a C++ API for (among many other things) local functionality such as restarting the app via Steam, triggering achievement pop-ups, controlling the Steam Overlay, and whatnot.

For Electron, there is an integration library called Greenworks. For Neutralino, I haven’t found anything similar, so it might be inconvenient to add Steam-specific functionality down the road.

I’m just raising this limitation because it’s one of a few concerns that steered me away from Neutralino for my Steam port project.
Monica sounds like what you're looking for, and it can be self-hosted.

https://github.com/monicahq/monica
Any license that requires attribution is not permissive enough to be free from copilot legal uncertainty.
Yes, and the Constitution gives the legislature the power to make such laws :-) Always traceable to the societal root of trust
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We'll consider this.
OpenBSD, in general, has better Wi-Fi support than the other BSDs. Not as good as Linux, but improvements are made regularly.
I agree. Women are much better at organizing societies and solving problem non voilently. India have seen many such queens all through the history[0]. Queens like Ahilyabai Holkar, Naiki Devi, Rani Durgavati are from recent history. Indian society appreciated motherhood. But it also accepted women freely in the roles traditionally reserved for men. This is the society I want with additional reforms.

Issue with recent activism is two folds. Tendency to demean the motherhood and also make men feel guilty for being their natural self. This is I do not want.

[0] https://www.thebetterindia.com/292468/brave-indian-queens-in...
I think team size / responsibility is a big part of choosing how much you need to go down the micro service route as well. I've recently launched on a ~2 dev team, and leaning more and more towards monolith the longer we go.

The worst teams I have been on are the ones with multiples (~5x) as many repos & running services as we have developers.

Huge swathes of repos would go without commits, builds or releases for years. Inevitably the next time you had business requirements on that repo, something in CI/CD or environment had changed enough that you had to do a bunch of devops/infra/non-business work to get the plumbing working again to even start the task.

Even in teams where we eventually had nice central utilities & libraries with versioned dependencies, you never had the chance to do enough "catch up" releases to keep all 100 repos on some reasonably recent version of the core libraries. So the cost to activate some new observability function from your central libs was huge because you needed to make small changes on 50+ repos otherwise the observability was pointless since it had low coverage.
Grain increases perceived sharpness (accutance) and helps reduce banding via dithering. It is often added to increase the final quality. I'm a colorist and we add grain to film and television on essentially everything for these reasons far more than to reproduce a filmic look.
I'm out of my league here but could it be that the tech behind TVs is changing too rapidly? LCD, LED, OLDED, QLED, MINILED, and all sub-differences in each generation. Plus all the brands: SAMSUNG, LG, BOE, ect. Plus all the different screen dimentions and levels of HD, dolby vision ect. Whereas with smartphones, everyone is basically using a samsung display, snapdragon or samsung processor and android. Could this be a factor in why there is so little third party implementations? This could be something Khronos could work to standardize; that is, if display makers want it, which I doubt)
Replying to my own comment since I was curious - it was certainly Microsoft MASM, and cc was the Microsoft C Compiler as well. [1] So probably Intel syntax.

There was also something called "SCO UNIX" which was apparently more of a straight adaptation of AT&T System V and might have used a pcc compiler and AT&T syntax. It's hard to figure out what happened when because there are a zillion different versions of Xenix/SCO Unix/OpenServer out there.

[1] https://www.scosales.com/ta/kb/100187.html
Show HN: How to build a website/shop that cannot be shut down by Law enforcement
I made a PDF tutorial and it is accessible here: https://ipfs.filebase.io/ipfs/QmVSogrzAaRLumnhXjuD9VGN3ViP2SLdPorSM6AaGFKZMt

Please feel free to share it so maybe somebody finds it interesting.
In fact it just so happens that I have literally done both the jobs in your example in my youth, before I decided to stop doing jobs like that and go back to school. And they both have automated equivalents that are used today.
There seem to be two concurrent drivers there -- first, that Mideast terrorism tended to attract young men who lacked economic and social opportunities despite being credentialed, and, second, that engineering disciplines are overrepresented amongst persons holding rigid and authoritarian beliefs (a replicated finding, but it should be stressed that this does not indicate that most engineers are authoritarians!). See, e.g., Gambetta and Hertog, "Engineers of Jihad" (2018: Princeton University Press).
You can have a look at the boot log for an idea how other users are doing on their hardware

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=index&fts=OpenBSD
… then there was that Indonesian prince I had in a class I taught who seemed to be a pretty nice guy.
I built a little e-ink display that sits inside my gaming PC recently. It shows the CPU and GPU temperature, the time, and a pretty fractal picture (because the tech part of the project was fun and then I couldn't be bothered with the design part!)

It was a really fun build, I used a 5.3 inch black/white/red panel from aliexpress and a waveshare rp2040 to drive it, hooked up to a spare internal usb header. Circuitpython made life pretty easy for the firmware, though I am thinking of rewriting it in C. This is mostly because circuitpython seems to get 'stuck' in a weird state, the host PC won't recognise it, and I have to open the case and hit the reset button. Every boot.

What's missing really is a 3d printed frame.
> Say the first thing that comes to mind when you think “Coca Cola.”

My first thought was "Pepsi", so I guess a different advertiser won the war for my brain.
How to make the Fediverse your own
Is he cutting snacks too? Or just full-fledged meals?

Meals seems like something an excessively profitable company would offer as a perk, but that ain’t Twitter right now. I don’t think Microsoft or Amazon provide free meals to their employees.
‘Decolonizing’ Math and Science
Maybe this whole FTX event was staged because central banks don’t want DeFi to take away their oligarchy?
What makes you think men do that?
I've never used it, but maybe https://github.com/yWorks/svg2pdf.js does what you want?
Another productivity founder joining the discussion. Congratulations on your launch! I built https://www.workast.com with similar motivations, but our go-to-market strategy was to focus on teams that use Slack to communicate, and we still do today. While there is tons of competition out there, the market is big enough for all of us to share. It is a bumpy ride but today we are a profitable business. All the best!
I would guess this would be for drawing purposes? I don't see the appeal of writing with a charcoal pencil
People Born After 1997–Are They Just Better?
If you look carefully at any modern A-list game, you will find no shortage of carefully deployed 2D sprites (e.g. billboarding) adding subtle detail to 3D worlds. They may no longer be the stars of the game, but good sprite design and application deserves our notice and respect.
> Schelling point

Any explanation of money should be required to refer to this concept
There are some problems that are just easier to offboard, even for huge companies. Very few companies at any level run their own email, LDAP, even HR packages these days. That's all SaaS now. But there are other problems that are just easier to outsource too. Who runs a ticketing system inhouse these days? Who runs chat services like slack inhouse?

SaaS is entrenched and not going anywhere. The problem is what people think companies will pay for and how much. I will happily pay for a service to manage a deploy pipeline but one of the ones I talked to recently was going to charge $80 per POD in our line cluster. That would have easily made them a 6 figure SaaS for us which isn't going to fly, meanwhile we pay for somebody to host our monitoring dashboards because it's only $1k or so total a month.
Replace “Contact Me” – Private hostable: https://doc.voce.chat/widget
Pilot testing. Only available for people who can private host on their own server.