skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100kbit/second is still blazing fast for communication which ought to be on the order of a hundred bytes... 4 seconds at 100kbit/s is 50kB. Why does it have to be so chatty?
"install linux on hdd firmware" led me to this Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6059do/how_to_run_li...

which links to this blog post:

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1
A New Year’s Resolution: Don’t Call the Police
After 15 years on Twitter, moved to Mastodon about a month ago (I still have the Twitter account, in case Musk comes to his senses and divests). So far, I'm a fan; it feels a bit like Twitter did in the early days, which is generally better than Twitter today. The mobile clients leave something to be desired, but apparently the Tweetbot people are making one.
We should at least consider the possibility that a domain expert may have knowledge not included in that single sentence given to a reporter.
It's so good it looks weird. It removed all the room acoustics, such that you would expect to see a mic very close to your face.
New battery is cheaper than lithium-ion with four times the capacity
Putting “here’s how we changed on a previous product” doesn’t really need to be on a small corporate site. It being a sort of investigation fits better on GitHub where fewer people will accidentally stumble across it from their current product.
Why is this a language, not just a framework for JavaScript or whatever?

I suppose you could say the same about Terraform using HCL - but that makes extensive use of it being declarative, which is so unusual that they'd be picking an obscure probably-new-to-the-user language anyway. This just looks.. JS-ish, a bit like anything really.

I suppose I'm asking what are the language features that make Wing great for 'cloud', any `new Bucket()` etc. aside?

If you look at its 'design tenets', the only ones that are about the language not the SDK are just saying 'be good/familiar like other languages'... Ok so why not be another language? https://docs.winglang.io/reference/spec#02-design-tenets
Love a powerful abstraction. This creates equal feelings of "wow how easy" and "oh no the $$$".
I mean it'll cost a lot of hydrogen to do at that scale, but they're considering and setting up projects to build hydrogen production plants to turn any excess electricity from e.g. solar panels into hydrogen. It scales up and down easily, and hydrogen stores pretty well and has plenty of applications, from this to hydrogen cars / trucks, etc.

They're even thinking of reusing the existing natural gas lines throughout the country to transport hydrogen. Probably not to homes though.
True.

My crazy idea would be to use the heat and the pressure of these to pump water uphill. It is of course a crazy idea and you'd have to figure out a way to manage the pressure peak

But it would be very interesting
It irks me that Western diets feature so much wheat in everything (I'm gluten sensitive so avoid it as much as possible). What really grinds my gears is when traditional non-wheat products (e.g. onion bhajis, tortillas) are made using wheat instead.

We should be moving away from monocultures in food, just as in software.
This is a relevant read, Overture might be further pushing for unbundling of all the Google Maps services and products: https://worldbuilder.substack.com/p/unbundling-google-maps
Why a new programming language instead of, for example, a cloud oriented Python library.

Is there a specific programming paradigm that this language brings to the table?
Funny, I wasn't thinking the same when I installed the Old Classic Calc[ulator].

https://winaero.com/classic-calculator-windows-10-creators/

How can you f* up a simple calculator on a very complex one?
This is a propaganda piece written by a propaganda outlet
No worries! I’m no expert either :)
Not sure why you mentioned "african village", sounds like you have some prejudices about those.

Anyway, probably not, since the process requires hydrogen. I think if you're not near a water mains, other means of water purification will be a bit more important.
I was amazed by the linux-running sdcards.
> Those hospitals are understaffed because of extraordinary levels of foreign immigration (globalism)

Rubbish. The rest of your post is just as bad.
There’s a long, sordid history of building urban highways to both enable white flight and prevent minorities from moving into white neighborhoods.

Hopefully, we can start removing those highways and undo that damage and make larger parts of our cities vibrant places to live again.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-...
Content is still king. Well written and unique content on a fast and user friendly site will find its way to the top of search results, even if nobody links to your page.

Spamming social media is a waste of time, unless you become an expert in social media - and in that case your content will be on social media and not on your blog.

Why do you want many people to read your blog?
In The Art of Unix Programming (2003) the authors assert simple text formats can be grepped, awked and are easy to compose in a text editor. Hand typing xml is cruel. But now text editors have perfect syntax highligting and squiggles to pinpoint errors, autocomplete, automatic formatting and toolchains to eliminate errors and extract info.

Isnt html or a high level abtraction (like Spectacle) the best tool for the job today?

https://formidable.com/open-source/spectacle/docs/#one-html-...
This sounds bad, but how does it compare to other 2-year periods, like 2018-2019, or the two years before the last internet bubble? Need some context.
Why? It is largely inconsequential. You save a line or two, but there are bigger fish. Clos, contitions and restarts, and types change how you actually write code. Nil being false doesn't mean anything. You can save a line of code when iterating over a list, which is handy, but it lacks meaning.

Multiple namespaces are a nuisance for about one day until you have gotten used to them.
Oh! Oh! I'm so sorry if I have hurt anyone's sentiments. I never had the intention. Please accept my apologies.

I don't think there is a way to edit comments after a while. I saw this thread after I went away from my HN's burst activities.
If they don't press, if they don't do the scaremongering, do you think the world's governments and sciences would put money and time into solving the issue? Probably not; it's only thanks to continued activism and policy changes that e.g. CO2 emissions in Europe have been reduced to the degree they are.

Of course, it's a force that also has to compete with population increase.
I’ve returned to physical media.

When I want to watch a movie I buy a DVD from eBay for a few bucks. Same with music.

No one can take it away, it’s cheap and convenient enough… I’m happy to wait a couple of day for delivery.
How does this stack up against something like Auphonic? https://auphonic.com/
I may have only looked too quickly, but the cloud-ness of this looks like more of a library thing than something requiring first class language support.

On the language side, it would be helpful to have a comparison with other async-first runtimes (js, go) in order to understand how/whether the fundamentals here differ.
It doesn't have to be. You recycling your pop can is a benefit for society.
Looks like it just use Terraform behind the scene: https://docs.winglang.io/getting-started/installation
Why wait until the user switches input sources to do the negotiation? Why not do it earlier so that the new input is ready to go?
I regularly bike in the rain for 30 minutes or more. My gear is all nylon with a non-PFOA wax coating. It doesn't perform as well, and my jacket will get saturated after about 45 minutes. I deal with that by wearing something under the jacket (usually a fleece). Absolutely worst case, the fleece gets slightly damp but I am still perfectly comfortable for many hours.

The only other issue I see is that I have to reapply the coating about once a year, or after I machine-wash the jacket.

Overall these are very minor inconveniences. I wonder if anyone really needs the performance gains of these chemicals - you only see the advantage in really bad weather conditions over long periods of time. How many people are doing day-long hikes in pouring rain?
It's either ridiculously high or ridiculously low
Or maybe they spend their time watching TikTok or playing video games or any of the other multitude of options.
Any recommendations on books or other educational resources to get up to speed on Modula-2?
Ideal EV for a Family
what is the best EVin market compared to price and performance?
“..it being the treadmill but not getting anything for it..”

Sure. I knew a few people who worked 6 days, and COVID lockdown in 2020 gave them an unexpected “vacation”. They went back to work grudgingly, but, yo! Baby needs new shoes.
Of course you do. It was fantastic while it lasted. It's not a great model for software developer though. I have no idea how Beyond Compare guy (scooter software) survives, for example. I paid for it once, maybe 10 years ago?

He should've taken more money. I paid for Sublime Merge, but it's nowhere as useful or great (so far) as Beyond Compare.
Anyone knows of a service in Europe similar to what Netflix was doing originally, sending DVDs per post?

It would be nice to have access to a big catalogue without pirating, and I don't mind waiting 2/3 days.
This seems to fall into a common trap of making hard things easier at the cost of making easy things harder.

One thing to rule them all at the cost of an inferior language for actually writing code in.
Learn to Drive Stick
I didn't say it wasn't. I said luck wasn't a factor.
You see, the thing about energy that needs to be available in chemical form is that it can be stored in chemical form. And the bizarre thing about low grade heat is it can be stored as low or high grade heat. And the absolutly wild thing about energy that needs to be stored in a vehicle for an average of a week is it's stored in a vehicle for an average of a week. Weird twist, huh?

The next thing that would shock you if you were arguing in good faith and not just trying to spread FUD to delay the death of coal is that provisioning 5x electricity to meet those dispatchable loads reduces the storage required for the electricity even further.

If renewables can meet 95% of the goal with just the previously industrially deployed technogy stack and have proven but not deployed technology for the remaining 5%; then it makes no sense to stop deploying them and instead switch to a technogy that can meet 40% at much higher cost and has no answer even in the demonstration stage to the remaining 60%.

Just because the 5% is contained in the 40% doesn't make it a sane strategy. Especially when in most of the world that 5% already has preexisting hydro that can serve it with a simple turbine upgrade.
Society can do two things at once.

It’s not like the LAPD is going to be ushering mountain lions across the highway. And biologists/environmentalists aren’t going to be fixing crimes of poverty.
I really dislike advertisements that want you to "request access." I've submitted them on occasion before, but have never heard back. And the information they want to collect is invasive. I suspect they're all vapourware harvesting information about the gullible.
Ugh, you had me but then "Designed for MacOS." I would love to see this on Windows.
Things I can think of that have changed since streaming started that are making streaming less attractive.

1. weekly releases of shows (episodes) instead of the whole thing

2. creep of advertising, including 'watch this rubbish trailer before we play your choice'

3. studios pulling their series/movies from netflix and trying to launch their own

The last one really annoys me. In the UK there is, last time I looked, apparently 70+ streaming services. I'm not paying 70x £8 per month for TV. Even just netflix, disney, and amazon is £30 or so a month. Now there's Paramount trying hard as well by pulling Disco off netflix. Well, sorry, that wasn't enough to make me pay for Paramount. Similarly with Disney pulling all the Marvel films off netflix.

It's as if the movie studios haven't learnt from Spotify/Apple Music/Napster etc. One service with all the things.
If all the files are open at the same time in the same canvas with multilayer deep linking , easy search, great graph summary and diagnostics and tools like local OCR and speech to text etc then sure yes a file system sounds fine.
Good news is thruput always increases with computers over time, bad news is latency only increases over time.

See, for example, boot up times.

Also see how recovering from sleep/hibernation is now slower than 80s computer boot times, so expect a second layer of abstraction to form soon in the market, a faster recovering sleep mode than actual sleep mode.
If you have many options that can ordered (say from harsh to lenient), then I would say the proper interpretation is to take the median. The median has the property that it should win against any other option 1-on-1.
Is the same focus. Pumas would reduce the number of deer collisions that kill many people each year. Thus, they are making the roads safer for people. Saving lifes and property.

Moreover, each time there is a car crash, somebody in the road must allocate resources to clean and deal with it. Call the police, ambulances... This is expensive also. Less collisions for the city means having more money for another needs.
The article does not mention organic bread and wheat. I hear a lot of chatter from people in agribusiness that it's better to avoid buying it, as it does not receive fungicide treatment and is much more likely to be contaminated with fungal toxins.

The safety network is not perfect and gaps occasionally occur, meaning batches of contaminated wheat are eaten.
New languages == zero ecosystem—no third-party libraries, community discussion (e.g. StackOverflow), real-world repositories, etc.

A brand new language thus must be extremely compelling at a syntactical level to make it worth leaving behind existing ecosystems. The new language’s syntax must provide capabilities that are impossible to implement in any other commonly used language. Otherwise, just implement the core language functionality using the syntax of another established language.

I just don’t see why that couldn’t be done here. Everything in the demo code could easily be implemented as a Python or JavaScript API.
iiyama 34" is even worse.. 10-15 seconds delay before seeing the image. One of my worst buys ever.
It seems because of the compiler tool chain? Eg this language can be “compiled” to terraform manifests.

To do that with JavaScript or python you’d need some really strong static analysis to work out what to do if the user, say, writes a function that returns a list of new buckets to create, or whatever.

Eg the argument seems to be the ability to statically deduce the required underlying cloud resources the code is talking about
Google will soon translate your doctor’s terrible handwriting
That's because they limited the downside.

If I continue being late without any consequence eventually there will be some consequence to me, with a lot of uncertainty from a mild talking to, to being banned from the daycare.

What's the difference between a sign that says "No Parking" and "No Parking ($200 fine)"?. The second sign isn't excusing bad behavior - it's limiting the likely punishment to an infraction, rather than being towed or misdemeanor trespass.
- Mondo Duplantis
- Sydney Mac Laughlin
- Usain Bolt
- Jan Železný
The people in 4chan brainwashing others into commiting murders are the same responsible for Havana Syndrome.

They have complete electromagnetic surveillance of everyone and use this to harass incels and people without support into lashing out against innocents.

4chan is just one site where this happens and it has nothing to do with who owns it.
The breed of wheat matters more than organic or not. There are some varieties with more protein and nutrients and less simple carb. If you want the ultimate for that get Einkorn or one of the other heirloom varieties that predates wheat being bred for raw bulk. Much higher protein and mineral content. More expensive though due to lower yield because that’s the trade off. Wheat is sold by weight not nutrient density and carb is weight.
> Not interested in the OS part, but the language sounds interesting? Try the Windows version, BlackBox Component Buider.

Not interested in upper case keywords or unnecessary semicolons? Try the Windows, Mac or Linux Oberon+ version with IDE: http://oberon-lang.ch
I did the same thing, but also mapped Caps Lock to Cmd+Shift+Ctrl+Option (so-called Super key) when it's pressed together with another key. Useful for application switching and other custom stuff.
What I’m the world is a cloud-oriented language? Looks at page.

Oooh. This is JS with a schmancy library. That’s cool, I guess… for someone.
I didn't even know this is a thing. But considering the traumata that humans have survived and the extreme genetic bottlenecks, it s fair to say that nobody has the right to claim they are more traumatized than others just because there is written history of their ancestors

(Am I to understand by the downvotes that people actually make such claims?)
Artificial Intelligence Stole My Job
>That or this will just send everyone back to piracy.

I understand you're using "everyone" in a rhetorical sense but just to level-set about the real difficulties of piracy for non-techie viewers:

- downloading videos via bittorrent or visiting dubious warez websites of illegal videos with the risks of javascript popup malware

- downloaded videos (e.g. .mkv files) not easily playable on smartphones, tablets, or TVs that have the built-in "smart os" such as Android TV and Amazon Fire Stick.

A lot of viewers don't have media computers or laptops hooked up to TVs to take advantage of downloaded pirated videos. Even fewer will set up a DLNA media server so that their tablets can stream self-hosted videos.

This leaves only the computer-literate geeks as the group that can substitute paid streaming with piracy. This small subset is irrelevant to streaming companies. For everyone else, they just pick 1 or 2 streaming subscriptions (e.g. Disney+ for the kids and HBO MAX for the adults) -- and just live with the fact that their choices of shows are more limited and the existing ones may even disappear.

So "everyone" switching to piracy is a really small group of people.
I'd rather have grassroots language that does not run on any cloud service.
Reminds me of Cameron's brexit referendum
I guess it's my problem, but having been blown away by AI so often recently, I was sort of expecting more here. I suppose an AI that could generate full text problem statements together with sample solutions for basic university level math courses like probability or linear algebra isn't too far out of reach at this point anymore. There could also be some actual market opportunities in that, both with educators and students who want to prep for tests.
One of my favourite reasons for developing on localhost is when I'm curled up in a coffee shop deliberately ignoring the internet so I can finish a specific task. When I do this I don't want to be online, online is full of distractions and context switches. Nobody can message me, nowt can pop up, I can just stay in my hyper focus until this cup of coffee is done and I need refuelling (or to look something up).
Rhysd/conflict-marker.vim: Weapon to fight against conflicts in Vim
Continuous Learning Framework
First you start talking about how you fear about Ukraine losing the war. One comment after you are stating its not actually a big deal for you

smells fishy
I never used Twitter, but I did sign up for a Mastodon account recently, in case the mass exodus from Twitter makes it an interesting place to be. It used to be common to hop along from one social network to the next, after all!
Haha, this title was actually suggested by a friend of mine when I did the research for this post. But then I found out that someone already created an npm package with this name, but the project seems to be dead :D

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nust
We can debate the importance, but it’s clear that they’ve made a qualitative leap in their technology the past few years — a “breakthrough”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#/me...
Queues, Stacks and Deques data structures coded in rust
This type of nuclear fusion uses tritium, and since we can’t extract it from nature the only way to obtain it is very energy extensive. For this type of fusion to make sense producing tritium+lasers have to require less energy than the output, right?
One of my proudest investment moments was predicting this and selling all my NFLX (that I'd held for over 5 years) at its peak value.
Are there any numbers on the spread of these toxins and blights in Asia and the Americas? Would be interesting to see a comparison between continents.
> It's very "weird" how lately these proxy sites pushing socially conservative agendas that turn out to be run by conservative think tanks have been landing and languishing on the front page here

The issue is these sites are the only ones that will write about it at all, as many more left and centre publications avoid the topic so this is all we're left with.

There is a cheat-code argument that prevents more centre-aligned people from writing about it: "it's {racist,harmful,transphobic,etc...} if you write about X". Sometimes, this is true, but usually it is asserted without any argument as an axiom. No one likes to defend themselves against accusations of racism; you've already lost if you're in that position.

We should of course be having conversations about what exactly is racist, harmful, transphobic, etc. but these are not "conversations" and mere "accusations.

If you go to the "right-wing outrage sites" – which this site doesn't seem to be by the way – you'll see a lot of outrage nonsense interspersed with actually some pretty decent stories (often badly written up, but good stories nonetheless) that no one else will report. Every ideology or "side" has its blind spots, something people seem to forgot at times. A group that doesn't allow self-criticism tends to become increasingly more anti-intellectual over time.

The last time I took one of those "political spectrum tests" I was further to the left than Lenin. It's kind-of a bullshit test but it goes to show I'm not exactly on the right-hand side of the political spectrum. Yet, I've found it's become impossible to comment on platforms with a left-wing bias, as merely saying things such as "wait, I think I have a better idea to solve this social problem: [...] What do you think?" can quickly result in quite horrible accusations and insults being thrown your way.

I don't understand this attitude; we agree about the problem, we just have different ideas about how to best solve it. How can you NOT be interested in a possible better way to solve what we both consider a serious problem? It is of course completely fine to disagree, but what I get is not "I disagree, because ...", it's "you need to shut the fuck up you rightoid!"
Indeed. But it always irks me that they speak with such confidence. There’s inference and then there’s theorycrafting.
The negative effects of welfare cliffs are real. I've known several people who perhaps could have gone back to work but didn't because they feared losing their welfare. It's not crazy to suggest that there could be a better system
On the other hand the example on the landing page looks very close to what I can do with Pulumi (in Typescript) already.
Maybe get a dedicated display for your devices or just get a huge 4K or 5k display with PIP mode or vnc/remote into the machines so that the switch is software based.
Maybe they're now relying on it for safety in core system libraries that get linked into your process? If you can be sure that the offset in *(ptr + offset) is always a 32-bit unsigned type, you get null pointer checking for free, right?
Federal judge overrules NIH veterinarians about lab chimp retirement