skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me this sounds a lot like the Solar Freaking Roadways rage / scam (?) of years ago. Yes, we have a huge amount of land occupied by road cover. Yes, it would be great to put that land into better use (elevated trains on top of highways anyone?). No, embedding solar panels into roads is not going to work for many reasons. And I can't see wireless charging to ever work, either.

Wireless charging has to compete with alternative solutions: classical trains, overhead wires for trucks, stationary charging, and stationary battery swapping (and fossil fuels as long as they're not more heavily taxed or banned, and whatever else people might come up in the future with).

As such, wireless, i.e. inductive charging is always going to be somewhat less effective than charging with a galvanic contact (prove me wrong). It could be competitive in situations where the alignment between primary (charger) and secondary (car) can be made precisely; conceivably, this could happen for busses at bus stops and trucks when being loaded, unloaded, or parked for the night. But then these heavy vehicle are on the brink of being viable use cases for battery-driven EV technology because their heavy weight necessitates heavy batteries, thus they suffer from an analogue of the 'tyranny of the rocket equation' ([Thunderf00t] debunks Tesla's Semi arguing this way). Further, when parked overnight, wireless charging is maybe somewhat more convenient, but hardly much worse than just plugging and pulling a cable.

But this is different from dynamic wireless charging where you drive your car while charging. Not only do you need an absolutely massive upgrade to the road on a scale that looks like it's going to be orders of magnitude more expensive to install than, say, an overhead wire, your precious technology also will be beaten like 24/7 by the vehicles above. Road surfaces as we're building them are being completely ripped out and redone in a matter of decades. Yes, it's madness already. Imagine doing that with all the precious technology basically sealed within the road's material. Do you just want to rip it all up and throw it away?

A very car-friendly article by euronews.com about an experimental continuous power-delivering sub-surface technology trialled by [Stellantis] concludes:

Is it a feasible alternative? Absolutely not for the typical driver - and Stellantis knows. The cost of installing coils is quite significant, and would not work for massive road projects. Stellantis is aiming to install the system in places such as harbours or airports, where vehicles drive on established routes for consistent distances.

So once more, a gadgetbahn solution using cars for a problem that is already, and has been for a long time, solved by trains.

[Thunderf00t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U07ZxBE6iY8)

[Stellantis](https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/06/24/wireless-charging-r...)
Is there a local-first alternative for Obsidian Canvas / Apple Freeform?
Is there a good not browser based application like Obsidian Canvas, or Apple Freeform? Canvas for notes, media, and such, but local first and ideally on top of a good open source format?

I store most of my notes and documents in Devonthing, have a good and tested workflow there, and really value the control over all of my files and portability of my data. I was burned too much in the past by SaaS products going out of business, or loosing my data (without any way for me to do backups in the first place), etc.
If it doesn't exist, why does anybody care if it gets banned? It would make zero difference.
Or like github did with atom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7aEiVwBAdk
Biscuit for dunking in tea, according to scientists
I get moving to more minimal lightweight software but why go from VSC to Atom?
Musk Says Cost-Cutting Averted $3B Twitter Shortfall
While it is surely an afterthought, it is imo very well executed knowing that — while you can’t have proper Monads, quite a lot can be accomplished, just have a look at some FP libs written in Java.
Not true. I was there less than 2 weeks ago. And it’s the panamerican highway. Not going to be just “removed”
I've been through this thought process myself and honestly, the best approach I've found is to use a cheap smartphone (Android in my case) and just use it minimally.

In my opinion, a lot of the complaints about attention are unfairly attributed to the device, when it's the rubbish installed on the device that causes these issues (social media, games, media streaming, news). This could also be extended to security and privacy.

As much as I'd love to go phoneless, I need it in case of emergencies (wife, kids, myself, a random stranger collapsing in the street). A dumbphone could provide that, but there's always going to be a bunch of one-off moments where some of the basic utilities of a smartphone are very useful.

I have a Pixel 5 (no third party apps, and small enough to slip into any pocket), with GPS turned off, battery saver on, very few apps installed (no games, streaming, social media, news), most of the default apps disabled, and notifications limited solely to calls and texts.

At home, the phone lives on its charging dock and acts as a home phone. When out and about, the phone sits in a pocket for 99% of the time I'm out. I only use utilities (like browser, maps) when it's necessary. I leave most thoughts until I get home, as anything important enough to want to check online is something that can wait a few minutes/hours.

According to the Google "Digital Wellbeing" app, which tracks phone/app usage, I spend less than 10 minutes each day on my phone, and unlock it 3/4 times each day (which is calls). I believe, due to my minimal use of the phone, Google collects very little of value about me. I just don't give it a chance to collect anything.

A lot of the alternatives to smartphones (eg. Lightphone, Librem 5, posted below) are very expensive ($300, $1300 respectively) and for that price, I feel you may as well buy a cheap smartphone and strip away all the excess or just buy a feature phone (Nokia 105 for $30). These companies are selling a lifestyle and talking piece.

You can buy a minimalistic phone like Lightphone, a feature phone, or some other workaround, but every now and then there'll be a situation where a quick check of Google Maps or some other mapping app would help. And that one check isn't going to tell Google all about your life. I'd rather have the utility there for those situations, than inconvenience a stranger in the street to use their phone.
it's been in their open PRs for like 3 weeks now: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/pull/1389. Maybe they just have all hands on deck for that launch they did today. Hopefully soon!
Any chance to get SD running on mobile Ryzen APU e.g. Ryzen Pro 4750U (Renoir)?
Be sure to distinguish the English staffies from the American staffies. Very different dogs.
Ask HN: Advice for newly promoted engineering manager?
I have joined a series A funded startup 4-6 months back. I have more than 10 years of experience as an engineer. The title I got here is engineering manager, and I am leading/managing a team of 10 engineers. I don't know what it means. I have been part of very small startups in the past and didn't have any mentors. I can code and help my team towards better practices, but I guess that's the job of lead engineers.
It would be really helpful if you can guide me on what is expected from this role and what else should I do. I love this team and I want to help them, but I don't know how and being a typical startup, right now the focus is more on feature development rather than the quality of the features.
Maybe they should consider being Github's secret scanning partner.
I don't entirely agree with the Marxist analysis of surplus value. What happens in practice is that some people have unusual talents for inventiveness, imagination, and social organisation. They can invent and innovate and that's broadly a social good.

It becomes exploitative when their talents are owned by rentier investors, whose sole contribution to a project is financial.

Of course the money doesn't exist physically. The investment is really a political endorsement of the project and the individuals. This unlocks resources and creates social credibility. Sometimes this comes with an explicit personal message from the investor, sometimes it's just numbers.

The problem is that stock markets support casual rent-seeking which disconnects investors from the projects they throw money at. Casual investors have zero interest in the long-term health of a company. All they want is the highest possible short-term return. And this culture is what forces corporations to aggressively devalue wages and worker comp, right from the initial seed round all the way through to the other side of IPO.

The typical HN reader is somewhat insulated from this, because their skills are needed to make projects happen. But casual labour is considered a fungible expense that needs to be minimised.

Politically this leaves most of the population disenfranchised. Some token electoral democracy doesn't change the fact that most people have almost no political power in their work environment, and have to accept top-down orders that undermine their own prosperity and welfare.
Maybe the hackers will be able to fix some of the bugs Okta could never figure out how to fix!
You meant to write „I am more used to npm and intuitively work around the quieks while in python i run into these“
I think the share of the economy going towards the financial sector went from 4% to 17% between 1970 and 2010.
> The economy sucks yet people are employed

Possibly only because it's still early. Unemployment doesn't lead up to recessions, it spikes months afterwards, and usually maxes out just after the recessions end: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
Shouldn't matter, words are defined by their use (what we use them to refer to), not their etymology. And of course the Spanish or Portuguese aren't "latin" either (white Argentinians, who many are of Italian origin would be closer to being "latin". That said, modern Italians aren't latins either).

We won't be renaming "Latin America" either, so latin/latino is just that, inhabitant of latin america - or from a place "predominantly speaking a latin-derived language". Note that Latinx has the same exact root anyway - and iirc it was never about the concerns above, just a BS misunderstanding of gendered nouns in other languages (because latino being "male" somehow excluded others).

In any case, it should up to the populations to decide if they wanted another term not "white saviours" and a number of privileged activists in a totally different country.

And if the locals themselves wanted to correct a historical injustice, instead of playing with words, they can give rights to indigenous people, stop killing them and taking their land, or they could even move out of Latin America and back into Europe all together...
So, better phrased as, “the most widely used search engine, elasticsearch, defaults to fuzzy matching not precise matching”.

Which has the flow on effect of any elasticsearch site effectively being useless or suboptimal for……. searching for something specific.

Put another way, ElasticSearch is the default search and it’s borked search across the entire web.
Because MIDI is commonly used in a notation context, and its limitations in that context are very commonly encountered by users, I would say a discussion about those limitations is very relevant and interesting.
When it comes to life insurance management systems, however, you have a lot of options. You can select from a variety of different life insurance software companies and platforms, but before making a decision, make sure you understand your company's requirements. It's also critical for businesses like yours to customize their system so that it perfectly fits their needs.
This looks really great, and nice to see both Github and Gitlab moving in this direction - ability to have IDE in the browser is great for many use-cases.

However, I am a bit worried that it looks like most of these companies and up using VSCode. It really needs to have a good competitor in this space, and I hope JetBrains can match that eventually with partnerships of their own.
It also sucks for the students. Nearly all my professors were at the uni to do their prestigious research, not to teach —- and it sure showed in class quality.
>Which has better accessibility API hooks compared to Windows anyway.

How so?
Google maps mirador de las lineas de nazca

Edit: I tried to copy a link but the URL was horrendously long
What you describe is, of course, possible. You can create a personal fidonet/usenet-like echo conference with nothing more than a bunch of e-mail redirection rules. But people don't want that. I checked.

There is no such thing as an "intellectual need". All the needs are fundamentally emotional. Mastodon addresses the identity need, it creates the sense of a community, and, as all the social media, it grants both cheap entertainment and immediate gratitude for conformity. It is a good "social network", it's just what we call a phenomena of "social network" is essentially shit.
I was THERE.

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_misc.shtml
I can't stand captions being on. I tolerate them for foreign language stuff, obviously, but otherwise they really reduce me enjoyment of the material.

The funny thing is I'm someone who finds it difficult to hear people in noisy environments. But I never seem to have a problem with films or TV. Even films that many people seem to have trouble with, like Tenet.

My girlfriend always wants them on, though. I don't get it. But I have at least a couple of theories about why this is.

Firstly, she's a way faster reader than me. She reads easily twice as fast as me. But reading always takes priority in my brain. I can't not read a caption if it's on screen and that increased mental burden reduces my enjoyment.

Secondly, we watch things in different ways. When I watch something, it has 100% of my attention. Anything else is background noise, which I don't like. I'm much more selective about what I watch for that reason, as it's a bigger commitment. That means my listening circuits are fully engaged, but also I'm fully immersed in the film which means I benefit from additional context which is super important for listening.
That is somewhat true, but seeing people on the train, browsing internet or watching YouTube just fine, when you can't load anything tell a different story.

I even asked a few strangers what network they use and how come they have reception. This is the network I switched to eventually and indeed no more problems.
> Known issues

> The Web Terminal and Live Preview are not available in the Web IDE Beta.

> These features may become available at a later date.
Back in the days we had the .eggs directory in python it worked fairly well except for binary packages so we got virtual environments.
You don't have to learn or use PowerShell to paste something into the ISE editor and go to 'Edit -> Replace in Script' and do a regex search/replace.
Indeed, he just had to make use of JVM or CLR based application servers instead.

That is what this whole trend is all about, replicating application servers with WASM.

Every time I need to dive into k8s stuff, I can only think "this was so much easier when configuring WebSphere and EAR deployments".
China is a capitalist country.
WOW this site takes me back, hours upon hours of reading Computer Stupidities. Thanks for sharing.
I am relatively new to rust, but motivated to learn it right now. Could you elaborate on what the cost compared to garbage collected languages is?
People should atleast apologize for not keeping their word along with providing the reason they couldn’t keep their word. Maybe he got fired. But not keeping your word to abide by a poll, without even an attempt at an explanation is just losing credibility for no reason.
I loved the 3.5 floppies too. Maybe the Star Trek TOS "book-tape" was the right idea all along. Wonder if the in-universe people were clueless where the "tape" part of the name came from?
Let's not pretend we gave them a better option. To add some color (this isn't the only abuse but the most obvious one, particularly to western audiences): A tactic that the Taliban used to great effect was to lure collition aligned forces by having young boys stand on street corners and when the US backed Afghan police went to rape the child, ambush them.

> "The Taliban are sending boys — beautiful boys, handsome boys — to penetrate checkpoints and kill, drug and poison policemen," said Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai, who was Uruzgan's police chief until he was removed in a security reshuffle in April amid worsening violence.[0]

US servicemen have come home with PTSD, not from combat but having to share a hotel with US aligned Afghans and hearing young boys be repeatedly raped in the next room. Those who spoke up were punished.[1]

Step into their shoes, a foreign invader installs pedophiles to run your government and rape your sons. You expect them to support it? Personally I'd start building IEDs.

[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/afp-taliban-use-honey-trap-b...

[1]https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/american-militar...

[additional reading]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
Agreed. Which is weird, because they're supposed to be the data specialist in the UK. Ditched them a couple of years ago.
I have used python for 15 years but less frequently nowadays because engineering manager. What irks me out about poetry is that it tries to be too magic and in the end just is oddly surprising. Will pdm feel „more solid“ to me?
With stupidly long copyright protection I can see this being justified by "protecting those profits we're trying to make 2 decades from now"
It's a warning if it isn't accompanied by great democratization, because the planned economy concentrates a lot of power in the hands of the planners.

Some proponents of planned economy (e.g. Cottrell) suggest that elected democracy should be replaced by sortition for just that reason. Or perhaps there are technical ways to make planning less centralized, say some kind of federated system with freely available real-time production data, where a new producer can decide what group of existing producers to join.
Indeed, compiling to native code is missing the question apparently.

Or is the niche not being able to understand JVM languages, that expect developers to have PhD skill levels, as per Rob Pike's own words?
nonsense headline and thesis.
Alas, wheels are terrible for providing anything but a Python API. If you have headers, compiled tools, or some other complicated SDK, good luck (NumPy is excepted here because it only ships headers this way and chooses to live with wheel limitations). Wheels depending on you also ship copies of your library (if you use PyPI), so the lackluster dependency management is just waiting to mix things up and give your users "fun" linker/runtime issues.
I get it - you're just asking questions! we cant trust anyone right?
Diversity is not woke. Having a diverse cast of characters, employees, etc, is neither woke nor in any way bad.

“Woke” means using minorities and their very real struggles as pawns in a political debate, a corporate marketing campaign, a movie release, etc.

Woke is the corporatization and exploitation of people based on their gender, race, sexuality, etc.

A lot of people see through the scam and that’s why there’s pushback.
No, what they chose was to reject the western ideals that are leading to it's collapse. They rejected western control over their future.

The only other option was the Taliban, which granted is not great, but better than what the west was pushing. The US has more failed states under it's belt than it does successes. Hard to believe they were actually trying to help given the track record and the past 20 years.
> I wonder if a large part of what makes social media unhealthy is exposing human nature to mass communication.

Bingo. I do not believe for a moment that social media company A or B is worsening society. Heck, Facebook links your presumably real identity to your content and people are still disgusting online.

No company will win by not rewarding “interesting content”. We tried that, it was called forums, and they lost out to more “rewarding” communities.
Python and Ruby are probably the slowest commonly used languages, they are on the order of 10x slower than comparable C code. Comparatively Java/JS/.NET sits around 1-2x C speed, with .NET exposing some lower level details allowing manually fine tuning the performance, while Java has hands down the best GC implementations out of these 3. So one can’t objectively order them, for CRUD apps all 5 are great, and I think that there are very very few areas where C#/Java is not a good choice for performance reasons and you have to go lower level to C/C++/Rust.
I do believe studies attesting color-blindness being counter productive to combat racism are based on the ever same wrongly inferred assumptions. Not that quantifying racism itself was done thoroughly either. Nevertheless it is the new dogma in some social sciences and there is little tolerance towards basic tenets of social rights movements. Academics that know better in my opinion.

I do think there is ample evidence that their approach is much worse in a vast majority of cases.
Convicted for solving a problem the government refused to address
It has its uses. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-stroke_engine

But I agree that many clips were pointless in OP's article (and distract, given lack of pausing controls).
Comcast agents mistakenly reject some poor people who qualify for free Internet
> The distance to the circle is max(0, sqrt(x*2 + y*2) - radius) ... so as you would expect on the outside, but it's 0 on the inside

That is the distance to a disc.
I really disagree that for some reason “normies” don’t actually desire to find the search term they entered.

Why would that be true?

If someone were to describe such a line of thinking it would be “I don’t really know how to work this computer thing, I know I want to search for ‘ponies’, but since the computer is smarter than me it’ll tell me something better than what I thought I wanted to know”

Is that the thought process that all the developers think users have? Makes no sense to me. Why wouldn’t and ordinary person want a job site for example to return exactly “pastry chef”?
Pretty much all stuff that tools like pipenv do, is something that anyone proficient with pip can do on their own. Their "advantage" lies in standardizing, so people don't have to find out if you called the lockfile "requirements.txt.lock", "requirement.lock", or something else.

Unfortunately they create another learning curve, another leaky abstraction layer, another point of failure, etc etc...
Isn’t copyright abolitionist the most rent-seeking position? Obtaining wealth without any part in its creation.
Which is true, assuming the job market is great on the area, which even on IT isn't the case.

Thankfully I seldom have to deal with Go anyway.
> Blaming capitalism for corruption while giving government more and more power

Do you think governments have had "more and more power" in the last fifty years? What is your reasoning?

To me, it seems like capital has far more power compared to fifty years ago.

> let's give the government more power in the name of social justice and expect that no one in the system is corrupted

Spoken like a true ideologue. Does this argument not work in reverse? Money == power. If you concentrate more and more wealth in fewer hands, then you can also expect corruption.

> it simply ignores the fact that people have no reason to work hard when they see someone who's chilling gets the same outcome

The thing about capitalism is that capital generates capital. Someone who is already wealthy can "chill" and get a better outcome than someone who works much harder.