skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see a GUI engine that is inspired by web technologies but allows you to write your application in any language/shell scripts and have it construct native UIs.

I've been toying with building a GUI-as-a-DB kind of engine where consumers run a server process that listens for commands that tell it to create/update a window & its elements. You would interact with a DOM-like structure that maps to the various native UIs. (there is also a "guidb-lite" for including with your binary)

The general idea is; you issue nosql-like commands to this service to interact with the non-web DOM you create. e.g.

// POST localhost:3344
{
action: 'create-window',
settings: { title: "Hello World" },
content: [{ tag: "Text", value: "Hello World" }]
}
// returns 200 { id: "xxx", "auth": "xxx" }

// POST localhost:3344
{
action: 'update-window',
id: "xxx", auth: "xxx",
exec: { content: {
$findOneAndUpdate: { query: { tag: "Text" }, set: { value: "updated"}}}
}
}

(I tried SQL but dealing with children nodes doesn't work out well)

This means your application can be written in whatever language you want. "Frameworks" (like React) would be written on top of this as language-specific implementations - allowing the GUI-DB to focus on only mapping the API to the various native GUI UIs.

I can imagine there would be limitations I am naive to and I'm generally not smart enough to see this through, but it is the change I would like to see in the world.
So, this didn’t age well:

> We now live in a different economic universe than we did before the crash. Falling unemployment no longer drives up wages. Printing money does not cause inflation. Yet the language of public debate, and the wisdom conveyed in economic textbooks, remain almost entirely unchanged

This isn’t a stupid article, and parts of it are even true (though the true parts are mostly that same much-despised orthodox economics.) But it is an arrogant piece, and if you act like everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot or else corrupt, reality will sometimes smack you in the face.
A SIXTH? I don't see how that can be necessary. They might use that much land because it's worthless desert or something like that.

Where I am there is not exactly a solar farm, but there is a maybe half megawatt array on a flat canopy over a parking lot. This is in an area of expensive real estate, and there is almost no wasted space.

As for spacing to avoid shading when the sun is low, obviously that is an optimization problem and in all likelihood they have worked it out. Don't forget that when the sun is low, the flat array produces almost no power.
Partly think that's why there was some dismay at Deno's decision to tunnel packages from NPM, a contingent of folk who wanted a reset on the JS ecosystem and (lack of?) culture
Reddit is by far the worst performing website I regularly visit, it's a technological clusterfuck.
I think the main problem is that there's no money in saving old people. The current system we have is built around what can benefit the pharmaceutical industry the most, on a long-term basis. Old folks die too soon and often don't have much money to begin with, so sadly it's likely not high on the priority list.
Thanks! I'd be interested in what you have to say, if you get a chance to read in detail.
Merveille News – interesting links from the Merveilles art folks
(Merveilles is an art...? group started by Devine Lu Linvega - https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/devine_lu_linvega.html )
I find writing letters like this to be such a miserable experience that I'd be more likely to just swallow the fine.

I find the act of getting an AI to write this kind of thing for me to be deeply entertaining.

So even if I could have written the letter myself, I would much rather do it like this instead.
Chiming in to concur. Redis is amazing and simple software. You can use a managed service like Elasticache or install the binary on a VM instance. Folks using a relational database for a job queue or a cache when an infinitely simpler and more appropriate tool is available are just making poor technical decisions.
It's like ORMs and game engines.

Many times when people try to forgo them, they end up making their own poorly specified and half-baked version of it that only some people (who may leave the company) understand.
If you have video-only content like a presentation you're fine. The moment you've got content with audio, like a movie, the AV sync issues are intolerable. I had one of the Microsoft adapters and I'd also see dropped frames and stuttering video. That was when I could even get the thing to connect. Apple's AirPlay isn't perfect by any means but it's a far better experience than I've ever had with Miracast.
I always hear this talk of condescension towards academics in favor of professionals but I don't get it. I've spent more than a decade in professional settings and """professionals""" screw up their jobs quite often and don't even experience everything there is to experience in their entire industry, so I don't get the sense of ascendancy.
I’ve been using it the same. So far it’s a net negative because using it distracts me and sucks me into trying to find its boundaries. But that will eventually change.
> Increasing profit margin requires either increasing price per unit or decreasing cost per unit.

Literally, the article in question stated that price per unit has been rising while costs stayed the same.

> Increasing price per unit would send customers to competitors.

Not if competitors did it too.

> Only a monopolist can just 'decide' to double their profit margins.

No. Or at least we’d have to broaden the definition of monopoly. Eg my local grocery store can raise prices a lot (maybe 25% even) before the cost compels me to drive to a farther-away store, but even then I’d assume the other stores were higher and not bother. Maybe it’s a monopoly in the sense “the only grocery store vineyardmike can walk to” but it’s hardly a monopoly.

Relatedly, California has announced they’re suing big oil companies for all raising prices without seeing a cost increase, and there are national politicians that want to fix the price of oil to cap its profit margins short term in response to the price increases in 2022 (which are unrelated to the cost of producing oil).
"Ig Nobel award go to knuckle-cracker"
I did exactly this at the Apple store for a 5k+ purchase. I do these things out of principle to make it harder to create profiles and support cash. It is the same why I prefer https over http.
>I'm generally anti-union, but happy to see the union here pushing back against this.

Damn, it's almost like workers rights and safety are aligned in some way...
They exist. They are locked behind the firewalls of corporate America and Europe, and their engineers are generally forbidden to discuss it in public. OSS developers don't build software this way. Primarily because most generally useful (and therefore successful) OSS is not business domain-centric, and does not benefit from these patterns.

As one of those engineers that's forbidden to talk in public, I can assure you these patterns are extremely useful to keep valuable software viable, extensible, and maintainable for 15+ years. I just can't drop any specifics because IP lawyers are assholes.
You could put it on a chain around your neck. I don't know the specifics of your situation if that's feasible. Also how often do you have to use 2FA? I've been using hardware keys for a few years. I have one plugged into my dock and one in my backpack. Which seems to be enough. So far I haven't been caught off guard.
In this instance, the guys reputation is already trash binned.
A similar thing was attempted in Australia [1].

I just ask people to consider that even though we all have bank accounts and we take that for granted, there _are_ actually people who don't, and they're not operating a criminal enterprise.

My grandparents came as refugees. My grandfather has never had a bank account. He bought a car with $50 bills once. It was so funny, they were all stuck together and the clerk had to sit their and peel them all apart one by one.

He needs expensive surgery soon which isn't covered by medicare. He's going to pay for that with cash, too.

If a ban prevented him from paying for that surgery with cash, he just wouldn't get the surgery. Or, he'd give my mum wads of cash and make her pay for it (and then she'd have to explain that to the tax office, and he'd have no privacy).

In his home country, you couldn't trust the banks, so people hid their money. Of course that kind of thinking is silly in Australia, but good luck explaining that to someone with war-trauma.

A lot of these old Europeans are like that.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-07/cash-ban-law-10000-do...
You have a good point. That said selling merch or auctioning vintage equipment doesn't feel the same as what is happening here. If they just stored it somewhere and auctioned it few years later, it would send a completely different message.
1/ I had a bad experience when I was younger where I overestimated my skills and underestimated the project. Resulting in a very low paying contract. This wouldn't happen today, but I still have scars.

2/ Currently, I work at a contracting company. Their work is erratic. Between bug fixes and new features with constantly changing roadmaps, I think it would be hard to translate shifting requirements to fixed fee.
I've always found it astounding how majority of people will readily accept the anti-terrorist argument as a reasonable one, without any scrutiny whatsoever. I'm imagining a situation in which a bunch of terrorists are planning a bombing attack, but then having to scrap it because explosives would cost more than 10k EUR. "Pack it up guys, they got us this time, no possible way we can go through with the plan now".
No idea. It's kind of plug and play, without any settings involved.
Completely agreed, and to expand even further:

1. It’s not like the delays are minor. On the line from Portland to Seattle, it’s common for the train be delayed for multiple hours by freight. In what world can a transit service be considered a viable option when even boarding is 2 hours late? Freight is having a really massive negative impact.

2. Massive amounts of land is surprisingly even an understatement! Union Pacific railroad alone was given 12 MILLION acres in this grant: https://www.loc.gov/item/75690778/.
Between usurious property tax at the state level, and the machinations of the former ICC, whatever value that the Railroads got for that land has largely if not completely paid back in public goods. Furthermore those landholdings are largely long gone too.

Consider how long railroads were required to offer service that was unprofitable, underutilized, or forced to price itself in an uncompetitive way - all in the name of the public good.

While I think both BNSF and UP (as well as CSX and NS) have an obligation to make sure Amtrak can run on time an under a reasonable schedule. Also, if the railroads dont like it, the alternative is being forced to resume operating the passenger trains they were operating in 1971, and continue to operate that or a similar network in scale and size for at least 10 years without subsidy.

The interesting thing about Amtrak is, if USPS had continued to route first class mail by train, Amtrak might not exist, it was the removal of the indirect subsidy - which turned passenger trains from a break even proposition, which helped generate goodwill for the company to a solid money loser - at a time when the railroads were least able to afford such things. So in exchange the feds agreed to directly subsidize passenger rail via Amtrak, and the railroads were removed of obligation to run passenger trains. This is the obligation at question in this case.

In any case, I dont think they owe the public something anymore because of those land grants. The debt to us from that has been long paid off.
He's "assembled" a team of H1Bs who can't quit, but he comes from apartheid money so it's just the old family business model redux.
There is no racism against the UAB, Qatar etc if those are the gulf states, in Greece at least. Most people don't know anything about them apart from "country with oil and weird clothes".

There is a lot of racism against refugees, immigrants, and people from the Balkans. Mostly of you're poor, you're hated.
Right, while I can hack out a few hundred words of passive-aggressive bureaucrat fodder in English in a few minutes, I know people for who, while they have excellent English, that's a huge drain and might take a very miserable hour. I am very, very grateful I've never had to navigate a non-Anglophone bureaucracy.
Apparently I am a robot
I've met people in their 20s in the 2010s who are still traumatized by the actions of the Soviet government.

The trauma is passed down over time, but the alcoholism even more so. Alcoholic parents are gonna have a lot of alcohol around the house available for teens to party and drink with, to develop a habit and dependence
I recently discovered there's a strong connection between gut microbiota and Bone health recently coined, brain-gut-bone and Osteomicrobiology.

The paper I read did not implicate any such strain which was disappointing as it was quite a long read.

Most interestingly in the experiments they found mice that had zero gut microbiota had much stronger bones then some other mice with some strains.
> The news is often the center of important conversations. You’re going to be out of the loop a lot if you don’t at least see daily headlines.

The same thing is true of social media in general, popular TV shows, and all that. I think something more is needed. I would say it's important to know about things like Simema doing independent (hearing about it through say a weekly digest rather than omg a push notification), but mostly to stay cognizant of the kind of world that we currently live in. Being unaware leads to too much trust in institutions, that sort of thing.
He's never actually given ANY evidence to prove what he's suggesting. He's only shown clinical cases which are basically "these people followed my advice and got better" - Which isn't exactly scientific.

It's akin to me saying that if you eat one cheeseburger every day for your whole life, you'll not get dementia. Then when you don't get dementia in the next 10 years, say that it shows what I'm saying must have had some validity behind it.
I agree there are elements of risks in such activism. Like reporters bringing the corruption to light exposes the reporters to retaliations. It is a lot less risky than being all in as a startup founder or diving to 150 ft below surface with a 45 min tank. The Professional indemnity insurance comes into play to compensate. The jail time element is incentive towards settlement or compensation.
Joint fighter plan with Britain and Italy ‘highlights Tokyo’s Taiwan concerns’
When I grew up a military dependent, all of my parents peers were world travelled and very open minded. Wanted to serve overseas. Today’s military, they cloister around bases/ American bars and seem to have hated everywhere they were stationed.

I guess it will make it easier to kill whomever.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite_habitat
All of these things are very much real problems. You just have to be building microservices in a corporation that's still running thousands of batch jobs on mainframes and midrange servers. It's super fun let me tell you.
I recall a book that mentions this counting system being Cumbric and specifically being still in use by modern shepherds. The writer was from Cumbria so that would gel with it being a generic Brythonic thing. The Welsh and Scottish numbers are obviously cognate.

Very roughly, the brythonic languages are those languages that were spoken in Britain. The term Britain gets a bit complicated. There were two britains - the greater (larger) and the lessor (smaller). The greater one is now part of the UK and the lessor is Brittany in France. Great Britain is basically the bigger Britain! The term was taken on by King James 1 (England) 6 (Scotland) to describe the unity of Scotland and England. It looks like we can thank the ancient greeks for the name anyway - a bloke called Pytheas circumnavigated these shores and describes the "Pretannike". That is probably a greekism for whatever the locals called themselves back in the day - bretanns.

Before the Romans rocked up in 55 and 54BC and finally in 43AD, Brythonic languages were the norm in these isles and there were loads of them. I doubt there was any sort of "purity" or that the blasted things could even be pinned down in a modern formal sense. Bear in mind that 1500ish years later Shakespear (literally: shakes his spear) managed at least 20 odd spellings for his own name.

Anyway, the Romans buggered off and things got quite complicated from around 350AD onwards in these parts.
it'll be stable when the JS community stops reinventing the wheel several times a year. Every year we have the 'next big thing' and a whole new JS framework and ecosystem thats set to be the one to beat them all.

Fast forward 2 years, its mostly abandoned and upgrading a 12 month old project is a nightmare. That is not stable.

I can pick up a PHP, Python, <insert other language here> script written 2-3 years ago and know it'll work if I try to do something with it. With JS you can guarantee that one of the bajilion dependancies has had a backward breaking change or vanished off the face of the earth and the whole thing falls apart.

JS tooling, and always has been a total disaster, and NextJS hasn't fixed that.
You'd also need the routing number for the bank as well as the name on the account, at a minimum. And what you're thinking of is ACH, which goes between institutions, not between individuals.
Now the council official just needs to run ChatGPT on their side to decide whether to accept or deny requests, and we'll have automated the entire process.
Great news: this article does discuss it. It links to that exact Science paper.
I like that you can prompt "longer and with with more tangents".

You would probably enjoy Bureaucrats and How to Annoy Them[1] by R.T. Fishall, a nom de plume of Patrick Moore (of xylophone fame [2], maybe some astronomy too).

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/4416489-bureaucrats-h...

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=oO_Ckg5ott8
I have a Brother HL-L2370DW, which only can print black-and-white, single/double-sided. It does those two things like a champ. It feels like a solid, unobtrusive, reliable appliance -- a compliment in the age of smart devices and more than I can say about HP & co.
Perhaps they meant somewhere else in the plane
Heaven hates what it hates, who knows the reason why? Therefore even the sage treats some things as difficult. The way of heaven excels in overcoming though it does not contend, in responding though it does not speak, in attracting though it does not summon, and in laying plans though it appears slack.
Who Invented the Thumb Drive?
The remake platforms include PC, Switch and the last gen Playstation, nobody needs to pay €500 to run it.
The major threat to a nuclear reactor is loss of afterglow heat cooling, which is extra unlikely when you're surrounded by water.

That said, one interesting approach is to use ocean-faring nuclear-powered tugs that basically stay out in international water and hand off massive container barges to little fossil fueled short-haul ones that can take it in to port where people are afraid of nuclear fission but don't care about air pollution or climate change.

As for refueling, it's true that submarines don't need to refuel for 30 years. But there's a lot more room on a container ship, so you can make a big core and run it at less than full power. This way you can get it to only need refueling every 5 years or so with low-enriched uranium. Not bad.

Nuclear tugs: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1559-3584....
To be fair, my interpretation is that the multilayered security system was actually designed to be bypassed by precisely those 3 children, and the curriculum was designed to give them exactly the knowledge they'd need.
> who became practicing courtroom lawyers

And judges. And politicians. And bureaucrats. And wealthy political donors.

They’ve got an army of influence at every layer of society.
Rivals Worried Sam Bankman-Fried Tried to Destabilize Crypto on Eve of FTX
There are upsides and downsides. Having an additional degree of separation is nice when I'm doing transactions with strangers. I prefer to use Venmo instead of Zelle for precisely that reason.
you can truly own bitcoin.
This depends on the type of return and the type of location. Sometimes the location doesn't support this. Sometimes Amazon won't support this.
That's against the law:

> Businesses in Denmark and the EU may not charge a fee for your payment with Dankort, Visa/Dankort, Visakort, MasterCard and other ordinary payment cards issued in the EU.

> Company cards are exempt from the ban. Shops may charge a fee if you use a payment card issued to a company or public organisation.

https://taenk.dk/privatoekonomi/gode-raad/gebyrer-paa-betali...
Ah, so that's why the cops figure that having more than a few hundred in cash means it's partly theirs. Well, not partly, they generally seem to think is completely theirs.
If autopilot can control an airplane, then couldn't someone also pilot the plane remotely (as if it were a drone)? That would provide some pilot redundancy. I imagine airlines could also save money on staffing if the copilot didn't have to be physically present.
I find it difficult to start letters and emails and end up with overwrought prose that's difficult to read.[1] Knowing this weakness of mine, I instructed ChatGPT to write a request to my doctor last week requesting that we meet to discuss adding a medication to my existing regimen.

The final request was simple, easy to read, and most importantly the process saved me the mental frustration I usually encounter when writing. I'm simply not the best writer as evidenced even now. That's a win in my book by any measure.

1. The same for HN comments to be honest.
Overall it's far more universal interface, you app "just" needs to parse relatively simple texfiles instead of api call per data type.

The text format is a problem on its own tho, "procfs but serialized using single format" would IMO be a best middle ground between tying your app to essentially kernel headers and parsing a bunch of random textfiles
maybe they are cheap, maybe not. but lighthouse prints a warning for "excessive number of dom elements" already at 1500...
Would be interested to know if they stuck with it
During my time at PDI/DreamWorks, all idle desktop machines would be incorporated into the render farm as well. I don't know if this is the case anymore with so many features of the renderer and simulations software depending on the GPU.
As somebody who started in the days of cgi-bin and SSIs, I've lost track of how many wheels I've seen re-invented over the past 25 years. Fortunately I do backend which is at least slightly more stable (modulo the fact that I'm sending more or less opaque-to-me javascript rather than html).

OTOH I have really surprised some PMs by producing a Perl cgi wireframe site during the course of the meeting where we designed the wireframe so we could actually try it. It's a skill more devs should really have in their back pocket.
1TB is peanuts. You can usually get by even with a lot more. Once that's expired though, you can just switch relatively easily to a different flavor of Postgres.

It's why AWS Redshift exists: Postgres with column-oriented storage.
I think HP are worst. Then Epson. Then Canon. Then Brother.
HP and its crappy tactics.

I really wonder how long they will survive in the upcoming era, with this mentality.
AWS Redshift works wonderfully in that capacity.
Define: eating right. It’s really hard. Sleeping and exercise are easier.