skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democracy has been defined to mean "majority rules" in American politics. Do you have a better way in mind?
You're missing the real reason for replaceable batteries: they need replacement after a few years because their capacity decreases with age.
Most interesting fact from the article.
At the system level it took 300 million Joules to produce 3 Million a 1% return - so still a very long way to go!
With this kind of approach I can’t see how fusion can ever be cheap, the capital costs are enormous. Better to focus on standardised production lines for small fission reactors.
Thank you! I just ordered a set of the 0.7mm Flairs. It really does come out super clear on even the low res youtube uploads I've found.
I was expecting towable spherical thing with solar panels, eco toilet and a hammock
Suggesting that energy should remain too expensive for billions of people until other problems are solved seems a bit mean.
Ratio screen size / average distance seat to screen would be more important than just screen size.
Oh right, I guess one that was able to influence three of the richest countries in the world just isn't worth thinking about.

That's the worst kind of pedantic whataboutism.
Import by path for monorepo is an anti pattern. It is exactly what another gp complained about: turning monorepo into soft dependant monolith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34048245
Programmed to hallucinate from every sound.
Goes "du du duuuu du du" with background music.
Thanks for the advice, I’ll give it a shot.
Hi, my name is Rex. I would love to get your feedback on the localization support on sharetxt.live.

I just added a new language translation to the list of supported languages and would love to get your feedback on whether there are any grammatical errors in the copy on the home page.

The site supports the following languages

English
French
Hindi
Spanish
German
Malay
Chinese

I made use of google translate for the translation from English. I think that there might be errors in the copy but I am not sure because I do not speak any of the languages.

Thank you so much.

https://sharetxt.live
I want an unproductivity blocker
A Time Travel Movie That Should Be Seen and Thought About
GAS Newsletter? Will my wallet be angry at me for clicking that link lol
MelonJS – a fresh and lightweight JavaScript game engine
Some will change it and launch a fork eventually. The majority will realize that Bitcoin's immutability is its greatest asset and stick with the 21M limit that is at the core of Bitcoin's identity. The market will decide which one prevails.
Renewable energy production hits new record in South Australia
Office is so bad that it’s unbearable. Photoshop became subscription-only and now I’m stuck with spyware that auto-launches and runs in the background in over 2 dozen separate processes and more bugs and glitches than I ever had on paid versions before.

Meanwhile, Sublime Text and Procreate hold up and I’m not paying monthly.
Looks like you didn't actually look at the link :)
Melatonin has been ineffective for me and several people I know. Low dose, regular dose, all sorts of protocols.
> data showed wind and solar contributed on average 103.5 per cent towards the state's energy demand.

> The average cost of a megawatt hour dropped to -$26.35.
I use Spotify in my car over Bluetooth and for the past couple months it has this super annoying bug where you get in, start it playing and it finishes off what song you were listening to but then doesn't continue playing the playlist, it just goes silent and when you open the main app screen there is no playlist in sight. Have to manually re-open a playlist and pick a track to keep it going.
Yes Layne Norton is completely natural. And his impressive transformation comes from having found an incredible method based on his research and working with several personal trainers.
And you can be sure of that because why would he lie? He has nothing except his entire career and personal fortune on the line.

But we can be fairly sure that his transformation which looks to be a pretty center of the bell curve for people who are admittedly on steroids is in fact a far right tail case of the bell curve of people who do not take steroids, because that’s what scientists do right, assume the unlikely over the likely in cases where the prior would suggest the straight forward answer right?
> I hate to be the HN commenter that trivializes tech, but is that performance that impressive for a poll? Especially when there is no requirement for real time reads of the results.

It's still cool, even if it's not the _coolest_.
IntelliJ is still getting worse regardless of their subscription plan (and it is getting more expensive).

I think it took the wrong turn around a year ago at the same they changed the splash screen (that is why I remember it), after that the updates have been worse.
I actually did. Clicked on it once, looked at it for about 3 seconds, decided it would be a waste of my time to check it out more.
TikTok’s Chinese owner denied setting up a subsidiary company in Taiwan
Shared passwords is a hard one, they've got you by the gonads there. I moved to Bitwarden and all I did was export my password database as a csv then import it into Bitwarden and it all came across with no issues.
Killer argument. I'm out of sensible replies seeing that having tried to explain as well as I can prior. How can I possibly make a case from evidence in response to that?

This place is supposed to be better but all places like this degrade over time despite @dang's tireless efforts.

Best.
Or it’s like driving a reliable Toyota with a proven safety record vs not wanting to pay for some new vehicle with a seatbelt subscription and updates that brick your car randomly or blare ads at max volume while driving down the interstate.

I’ve lost more work to forced updates resetting my computer randomly and making operation less stable than I ever have to malware (the latter being never in my adult life).
“Russia will run out of shells” from the creators of “Russia ran out of rockets in March”.
I'd agree - I think the classification of Pascal as an Algol60 derivative is a bit off - Wirth was on the committee that wrote Algol68 - my impression is that Pascal is essentially all the easier bits of Algol68
OK, remember when modems were like EEEEEEEkRrRrRrRrRrRrRbaBONGbaBONG....

That was handshaking, and it was how modems figured out which speeds and protocols each other supported so they could figure out how fast to transfer data and how to encode it.

Monitors are kind of the same. There's handshaking that goes on each time you connect a monitor to a video source.

Like (and I'm totally making this up):

- Hi, I'm an AMD video card.

- Hi, I'm an LG monitor.

- You're a monitor? Great! I have some data I'd like to display. What resolutions, refresh rates, and color depths do you support?

- Well, I support 1920x1080x24bpp@60Hz, and 1600x900x24bpp@70Hz, and...

- Cool! I'd like to display at 1920x1200x24bpp@60Hz, please.

- Sure thing, hang about while I get that set up.

[Monitor CPU sets up whatever framebuffers, scalers, etc. are necessary to display at 1920x1200x24bpp@60Hz]

- Right then. Ready for your first frame.

- All right, first frame incoming...

Only then will you get your display. This can take a couple seconds.
Codewars [0] and sites like it [1] maybe

[0] https://www.codewars.com/

[1] https://alternativeto.net/software/codewars/

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/43upct/31...
yeah, whatever. did chuckle at "wish it worked on Safari" though...
Ask HN: Asking question and get answer from various podcast
do you know any solution better than this ? "https://www.filmbook.xyz/searchIdeas/future%20of%20humanity"
Youth clubs are a thing, no? So I think your analogy makes exactly the opposite of your intended point. We do provide analogues of adult clubs for young people so that they can meet each other in a safer environment.

The thesis wasn’t about creating dating apps for queer teenagers, so that’s why he doesn’t say much on the subject. Remember that this paragraph was picked out by people desperately trolling for anything that could be used to smear him. You seem to suggest at several points that this thesis is entirely about young queer people (“no-one’s writing a thesis about it”), but you’ve been misled on that point.

The rest of your post is frankly too much of a mess of mischaracterization to respond to. (To take only the most egregious example, I think you must recognize that Roth does not say that Snapchat is good for finding other queer people in one’s local area in the section you quote.) You’re becoming so oddly insistent on Snapchat’s utility as a location-aware queer hookup/dating app that you’re even undermining your own implied conspiracy theory. Why would Roth even care about luring young gay guys onto Grindr if he can find legions of them in his neighborhood on Snap? Snap already allows under 18s.
Well, it makes them no more money from me. My maximum value has been extracted. Whether that's a solid business plan or not is not my argument. I'm saying that if I paid for something I don't expect any changes at all. If good changes happen, great. If bad changes happen, I should be able to decide if I can retain the product that I paid for. Whether the changes are free or not is not important because changing anything at all would be make the thing a new unique product. I just want the choice to keep it the same, something subscriptions don't offer. Because, well, that's what a subscription service means. But if I bought a newspaper subscription, I wouldn't expect them to fix a typo after they already delivered a newspaper. Typos happen, bugs happen, I don't buy a product expecting perfection. I expect to get to use the product I paid for, for the time agreed upon.
Yeah I can't really get beyond this thing about how powerful our machines on our desk are compared to what hosting providers charge if you have 12 months utilization (I get people in SV change jobs every 6 months but).

I guess the thing that makes this make sense for Uber is the ginormous repo? This probably is a good "big ball of mud" solution to a bazillion tiny projects, each with varying degrees of documentation making it impossible to run.

One day we as an industry will figure out how to make it so that our dev setups work and run well in a multitude of environment (hopefully without that solution involving "we are pinning to a specific Ubuntu docker image"...)
Tangentially related: I find many monitors that look great on paper are a real annoyance when it comes to controls, be it brightness/contrast or input switching, making those 4s irrelevant in comparison.

Between recent models of Acer/Dell/Eizo/LG, I found Eizos to pose the least friction so far, with the LG (may be model-specific) a surprising worst. Reply to this comment with your anecdotes!

EDIT: To address the OP: Switching from an offline source to an active one is def smoother than you describe on my Eizo FlexScan EV series - I estimate it to <2s. The input switching is bearable enough that using the PbyP (two input sources split) is something I occasionally do, whereas with Dells it was just annoying enough to make me not bother.
Ask HN: Not computer gaming makes me an outlier?
I never really liked to play computer games.

When I was introduced to computers at the age of 14 at high school under MS-DOS, we kids were made to play "Hangman" which I never liked. Then at the age of 15 we graduated to "Pac-man" which I liked somewhat, but not enough to want to continue engaging with it like the rest of the kids.

As an adult after college when I migrated to UNIX, I was introduced to "XSoldier" and kind-a liked it, but again, not enough to get hooked beyond a week of regular play.

I have never played any of the console-based games and have never even touched a gamepad.

Does all of the above make me an outlier? Or, is it normal?
What REALLY sucks is subscribtions getting into physical products now. For example, (at least in my country) - you can't buy a BMW with Apple CarPlay - you can only rent it for $x per year... I like BMW's cars and I wanted to buy one when I'm old and have much more money than I need, but I also hate to be milked like this. So I guess, I'll have to look for a new retirement toy.
Yet another example of why the traditional champion companies of the Linux desktop (Canonical, Red Hat etc.) are like a poisoned apple - they are catering to their paying userbase (who are running servers, IoT, PoS, whatever), and don't give a damn about making technical changes that break the average users' experience.

In short they are doing the exact same as Microsoft does with Windows, but the enemy this time is inside the gates.
The weirdest thing is that they don’t have a Mac App Store version from v8. Most they’ve done is put up this page: https://1password.com/mac-app-store-subscribe/
I agree with the other commenter - in my view, a monorepo is the _best_ choice for a small company. I guess this depends on what tooling is available for your language / ecosystem of choice though. In my experience of TypeScript and Java with monorepos, you definitely need to know how to configure the tooling properly (which is certainly "overhead"), but it massively reduces the maintenance cost and increases the consistency of your tooling config. Spreading out over loads of repos means you need to share artefacts, which means package managers and package manager hosts, and a whole suite of release CI/CD which gets out of sync almost immediately.

It's also getting a lot better, gradle works amazingly well for a monorepo even with dozens of developers committing to it every day with shared caching, nx/turborepo/others are making the story for front-end/TS much better too.
>I’d much rather deal with management alone than union leadership.

You only say that b/c you've been really lucky/unlucky so far. Either you don't know what dealing with hostile management is like or you've had really shitty unions. Either way most employees benefit greatly from having representation in the workplace rather than having to deal with a dictator alone.
Gumroad raised $5M as a SAFE without ever needing to convert to shares
See

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

Are the ideas the same and the words different in the spec?
How do you get into caving as a hobby? Doing it safely and correctly?
"as small as possible (preferably a booth)."

This is where the Startup Garage analogous cliche for musicians comes from: recorded in the closet
I wish more language designers paid attention to how Ada did things. The language has some features that are very relevant to performance that even C++ or Rust lacks.

For example, Ada allows to return stack-allocate arrays with variable number of elements. One can emulate that in C++ with various arena classes, but the resulting code is not that efficient and the usage is much more complex.
> The greatest trick that javascript ever pulled was to convince the latest generation of programmers that it was fast...

By the way, JavaScript IS quite fast. I ported some code from Swift to Typescript recently, and its runtime went down from 15 seconds to 2 seconds. It wasn't a 1-1 port because I improved things, so it is not a fair comparison, but I was very positively surprised.
If you want to train yourself by repeatedly exposing your mind to fear of death (and the best part of overcoming it), ie rock climbing is much more approachable way.

Your subconscious mind only partially understands the concept of rope and safety it brings, and being few tens of meters above ground puts out some very real emotions and fear of death out, especially when protection placement is quite apart. But you still have equipment that can handle easily 2 tonnes of static load and few of you in worst possible dynamic fall.
not really surprising regarding travel considering both these countries are infamous for lack of paid vacation, meanwhile in many (most?) European countries you have 4-5 weeks paid vacation per year by law, in China you will be lucky to have week (I think it was like 5 days if you worked longer than 1-2 years for employer when I worked there, but in reality it was still difficult to get it), which is why they do whole nonsense with merging weekends with holidays and than making up for lost days, so your net benefit from vacation is pretty much zero if you count disrupted weekends around "holidays" which are PITA to travel anyway because whole China travels at same time instead of spread across year with regular paid vacation
Which means you didn't actually understand what it was about, which was the point of the comment ;)
Came in here wondering if it was referring to the Polanski movie by the same name (it’s not).

I used to think ghostwriter (for kids) was the coolest show
AI Timelines: What Do Experts in Artificial Intelligence Expect for the Future?
Pretty sure Algol (and not Forth) lived on all the Burroughs large systems stack machines (B6700 and friends) - they're still with us as the Unisys A series
The biggest issue is that every CI provider speaks with "repo=project" language, so your way forward with monorepos is using stuff like Bazel.

Bazel is extremely cool! But you end up with, like, a handful of people on the team who can write Bazel and eveyone else cargo culting their way through it.

There are a lot of JS "monorepo management" tools but they all seem concerned about the release phase for a lot of libraries that really should just be one library instead of 300 npm packages or whatever.
At least elon is foreign born. Good god if he could be elected president I would sirhan the mother fucker myself.
Those dang mathematicians with their factoring.
This is false. You should check the records as to what Tesla was before Musk and JB Straubel came on board, it wasn’t much. I highly doubt the company would have survived past the Roadster.
The comments here give us a good idea on how many people leave a comment without actually opening/reading the page :')
Zelensky: “And that is why it is very important…to go to our borders from 1991.”

"In private, however, Ukrainian and Western officials admit there may be other outcomes"

How private is talking to journalists?
Hey Gavin, that's consistent with what I said in the blog post. Header files (.h) and (.c) files are classified as having the same language (C). As a result, if you have the header file open in a tab (or in the workspace -- I'm not sure if unaccessed files from workspace are used), then it'll be considered for the prompt.
It's the same for me. I have it zoomed at 175% and I just zoomed out to 100% and instantly had to go back.
Engineered lasers are over 10x more efficient at emitting light than what they got, and it is very possible they could improve the fusion ignition process to generate more per laser needed, so I wouldn't rule this out yet.
But now you're saying "we shouldn't change dependencies". Pypy turns out to work nicer than CPython? now you have a rollout project to your team. Swapping out some libraries? Another rollout project.

Now, it's great if you can avoid complex setups in general cuz complex is harder no matter what! But if you're starting from a complex setup, having easy ways to roll out changes is an important step in actually doing the simplification work to get to where you want to be!
I don't disagree. Understanding things takes time, and most things are not worth understanding them.
I'm in the extreme minority here, but I recently ditched ALL of my personal subscriptions and life has been perfectly fine without them.

Spotify: I listen to the ads

Netflix: I switched to Kanopy, which is free from my local library

Cable TV/other streaming: Never had these in the first place

Lastpass: I'm using the desktop version only

Amazon Prime: Ditched it on purpose because I was spending too much money on needless crap

iCloud/Google storage: Purged my old docs and now I don't need it

Peloton: Was using it during the early part of the pandemic, but the instructors were way too annoying, so I sold my bike

It takes a little discipline but I'm not paying for any subscriptions at all anymore, at least not for personal use.
I think it is all EU, at least Italy and Spain have it, since some 10 or 15 years.

But it is - in my experience - essentially an exercise in futility (or if you prefer only some added burocracy).

In practice you are never in a condition when you can choose (both for buying or for renting) among several different but comparable houses with different A-G levels.

Everything "old" is G[1], anything new and "luxury" is A or B, all the rest is E, very few houses are C or D.

Whilst - possibly - for buying the energy class might somehow influence the price[2], AFAIK the prices for rent are unaffected.

BTW I woulld personally steer away from houses in classes A or B built more than 10 years ago, as those very likely don't have proper mechanical ventilation.

[1] there is a (terribly managed) government campaign in Italy with very important subsidies for restoration works that result in jumping two energy classes, which in practice means - since everything is G, to get to E

[2] set aside the subsidies, costs for a renovation leading to improving by two energy classes is likely (very roughly) to be 10% of the market price of an apartment and will lead to (still very roughly, and with current extremely high price of energy) to save in energy costs the same amount in 10-20 years.
in 7 years someone will discovery a random subdirectory that doesn't build because wormholes weren't a thing back then ;)

monorepos solve none of the problems you listed. you are just basking in the short lived light after a big refactoring.

only thing monorepo does is make it easier to update some shared code and have all code which uses it run tests beforr pushing the new lib version. with many repos (micro repos is false speach to justify monorepos) you first publish the shared lib and then find out downstream failures.

anyone using monorepo in a way you can't build a small pieceocally is doing it very wrong.
Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Released
That's like the car you bought in 2022 to run on the fuel used in the year 2500. Whether it's annoying or not, that it does or doesn't run on new technology, doesn't matter. You paid for a product, not upgrades (unless you did pay for upgrades, of course). You shouldn't expect free upgrades because they certainly were not free to create.
That's quite clickbaity headline without saying WHY, article doesn't really provide some statistical explanation, closest (non-anecdotal) explanation I could find is:

> “The language barrier and the lack of consecutive holidays are some of the reasons why domestic travel is preferred,” said Furuya, adding that “work environments that make it difficult to take paid vacations” is another factor.

Also:

> In 2019, only 23% of Japanese citizens held passports — the lowest rate among G7 nations, according to Nikkei Asia.

Whole survey seems extremely shady, where it presents 45% respondents inteding to travel next year and 35% intend to never travel again, those are quite big extremes to me, where 80% surveyed either claim to travel next year or never and only 20% are somewhere in between. It's also misisng data how these numbers changed over years to provide some context, obviously only interesting data would be from 2019 and prior since hardly anyone wanted to travel under COVID restrictions conditions risking ruined vacation.
This is turning into an interesting test case of how many HN readers actually read (properly) the page before commenting...
What's illegal now?
The details of Eric Clapton's abhorrent racist outburst (2021)