skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true, but we have a higher standard here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The guidelines are more than merely rules. They’re the glue that holds us together and prevents us from tearing each other apart in political flamewar.
Of all the things that a person can own, land seems the least justified to me. There is a finite amount of it, you did not create it, you cannot destroy it, and essentially all ownership derives from conquest, in recent or ancient history.
> I decided it was simpler to pay the fee myself, rather than bothering Ben Holland (Treasurer for the Center) to have the Center pay the fee.

But what does Ben Holland say?

Yes, it is very sloppy to say the least. I recently completed a two-year term as the treasurer for a non-profit professional association, and I would have been highly peeved had one of the other board members gone ahead and done this without first "bothering" me.

It is the treasurer's job to make sure essential payments are made and recorded on the books. Also, while my org does both make and receive payments electronically, we also have highly fraud-resistant business-style checks (watermarks etc) for times when check payments were easiest or required.
Yeah, I looked at the article expecting to find out about some writing system I hadn't previously known. Oh, it's Ajami? That's hardly news, it's been widely known (at least among people with an interest in such things) for a long time. E.g. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script page is far from new.

It may well be that they're now unearthing (or paying attention to) specific Ajami documents that have been largely ignored. But the writing system itself isn't that obscure.
It's equally easy to be a blind fan.

If you don't see a post about other rich people using jets to travel, you could be the first to be the change you criticize others off not being.

What good has he actually done?

Tesla was never founded by him, nor has Tesla been the driving force of adaptation of the ev, since the industry has been having its ups and downs for over 100 years.

He has hyped up evs for sure, that he deserves all the credit for.
Not to mention leaded fuel still being a thing in aviation
As I've said elsewhere, frontend development is limited only by the limits of human imagination, whereas backend development is limited by the constraints of backend systems. For example, there is an absolute answer to 'what's the most efficient big O runtime I can achieve for sorting this data set'. There is no absolute answer to 'what is the complexity of drawing an aesthetically pleasing button and modeling its interactions to maximize user joy?'
>> It'll be 3.6-4.0km/s to mars injection. Then 2.0km/s to low orbit (can be optimized with clever aerobreaking down to 1.0km/s).

Except that all that delta at mars is done with aerobraking/aerocapture. Inbound probes can crash strait into the mars atmosphere without slowing down for orbital insertion. That's why it takes far less fuel to get to surface of mars than the moon, at least with objects car-sized or smaller. Only with larger/heavier objects is mar's atmosphere so thin that fuel must be used for capture prior to descent.

In the following deltaV map, much of the trip to mars is a free ride so long as you follow the red arrows. There are no free rides on the way to the moon.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2046/delta-v-chart...
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If some % of the fuel burned turns into some chemically stable carbon waste and 100% of the carbon in the fuel came from stuff that was grown recently then it would be carbon negative.
Canada is also bringing in one million immigrants a year to feed the exploitative low paying job market and to try to stave off recession. These immigrants tend to gravitate in either Toronto or Vancouver.

Meanwhile corporate and rich investors are snapping up any property they can get their hands one.

In Ontario the Premiere is reclassifying conservation land owner by his buddies to allow them to build developments. In Toronto they tore down a vital section of the main highway to allow their buddies to build condos. The also allowed polluted lands to be developed a residential by simply putting a thin layer of top cover over the industrial pollution.

The foreign ban is only for high density areas. Small towns and rural land have become unaffordably for the people who grew up there.

It is a major catasrophe that is not being solved, just postponed by a year.
Except it's not CO2 neutral.

It just didn't come from dinosaurs, it's still a long hydrocarbon that burns.
Can you list some that are present in c++20?
Daily jogging, healthy diet, and meditation make the biggest difference to me.

The biggest change I'd like to make would be to defeat my social media and entertainment addiction - not even entirely, just contain it to a 2-hour window every evening. I keep failing at that, but there were weeks/months when I was successful, and it made an enormous difference, way more than I expected.
I guess by ‘independent’ you mean that with physical checks people are able to make up kind of ‘folk protocols’ for transactions involving steps like ‘party x holds on to a check written by party y’. - without the banks having to know that that’s what they’re doing, or having to involve some third party to handle
that like PayPal or someone?

That seems like a pretty weak argument for checks. The range of cases where those processes are useful, in terms of mutual trust (or lack thereof), quantities of funds involved, etc, seem pretty narrow. Like, I don’t trust you enough that I want to ask you to cut a check in advance, and I know you don’t trust me enough to not cash it right away so we’re going to have someone else hold it… but I trust you enough not to cancel the check, and that you’ll be holding sufficient funds so that when I do get the check I know it will actually clear…

Surely we’d be better off using a proper escrow service for that?

I get that pre-electronic-banking this sort of folk-banking was all people could do but it should be easy to do this sort of thing better electronically
> There is a lot of security that relies on things simply being inconvenient.

Remember how in the mid-00s it was pretty trivial for any nerd with a Linux laptop to sniff traffic on a WiFi network and intercept passwords? For years the security-aware community was making a point of this, but major web sites just kept using unencrypted HTTP for their logins and such.

Then someone released a Firefox extension which made it literally point and click for almost anyone on any OS to capture and reuse passwords over the air. Suddenly it went from trivial for nerds with the right tools and a bit of training to trivial for anyone who wants to try, and very soon after that we started seeing the "HTTPS Everywhere" movement explode in popularity, sites like Facebook locking down at least their login endpoints if not the entire site to only work over HTTPS, etc.

Insecure communication was always a problem, but it took the combination of popularity of WiFi and point-and-click tools to make the world care enough for the problems to get solved. Until that happened, those with the ability to solve it didn't care enough because it didn't impact their bottom line because not enough of their customers cared.
I built haystack - natural language search engine for workplace technical knowledge.

I've been a software engineer for a few years now,

A few weeks ago I was scrolling through confluence pages trying to find ssh connection details to our jenkins second integration machine for 40 minutes straight, later I discovered my co-worker slack'ed me the ssh connection string *two months ago*.

A week later I started working on haystack - a search engine for workplace apps.. It enables you to search slack, confluence, jira, teams, sharepoint, github, and email in one place.

It supports natural language queries so a query like: "how to connect to integ2 machine?" yields:

ssh -i private.pem ubuntu@ec2-integration2.eu-est-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Privacy?

haystack is self hosted and stores user data locally, it has a completely client-side version, and a a self-hosted docker container version - only you have access to internal docs, I didn't want to deal with security compliance headaches caused from storing user data in the cloud + I don’t want your internal docs/messages.

Rolled it out to my co-workers a week ago and they thought it's a hit, so I'm planning on releasing it publicly on March 2023.

*Early access*

More technical details are available on github, code released on March 23’:

<https://github.com/haystackoss/haystack>

If you want to try it out before March 2023 - Available here <https://haystack.it>
Create children’s stories with images using AI
I'm sure a lot of it is that I'm used to them. But, for the most part, checks either written by myself or by my bank via their web site work pretty well with a few exceptions.

For an individual, receiving especially a large check in exchange for something you're selling carries risk that you can't wholly mitigate. (Maybe some of the systems available to merchants are available to individuals who need something like this once in a blue moon--but I've never heard of such.)

Another case is chasing down checks for people who have signed up for some activity and/or handling last minute waiting lists etc. I dealt with this sort of thing for many years and electronic transfers are a lot less hassle.
While it's true the Gobi desert has been sparsely populated for ages, saying that a mine is a colony is like saying an offshore oil platform is a colony.

A self-sustaining Mars colony needs enough people that there is spare capacity to raise children and educate them to the point that they can maintain the systems themselves. That's going to be, what, 100K+ people? 1M+ people? 10M+?

The entire Ömnögovi Province has 66K people.

That Wikipedia article links to https://web.archive.org/web/20140724131423/http://www.circle... from a decade ago which points out how the mine is taking water that was supplying the animals local herders used.

If that's still the case, and usable surface water is disappearing, that sounds like the opposite of a self-sustaining colony.
Ketamine found to increase brain noise
Not anymore. You need to update your talking points.

The FAA got off their butts and approved the unloaded substitute in 2022 and it's starting to roll out.

Airports want it ASAP because the (IIRC) ~20% higher cost is a cheap price to pay to not have to listen to people complain.
Tell that to European corporations. Angular + NgRx/NGXS is the de-facto gold standard there.
The things you are complaining about take a week, at most, to adjust to. I am a former Windows user who switched to Macs about seven years ago.

Enter for rename is perfectly sensible to me. Personally, I use it more than Cmd+Down to open files.

The Cmd+C + Cmd+Shift+V paradigm for cut/paste makes just as much sense as the Windows paradigm. Either way it's a just copy and delete function. Would you rather choose to delete at the time of the "paste" or at the "copy?" I don't see a clear reason to prefer one over the other.
This.

No user wakes up and says, "I gots to find me a UI built with React* today, or I'm going to cry." Ever.

Users. Don't. Care.

We keep adding tech and tools and experiences - if you asked users - aren't improving all that much.

* Or whatever technolgy being championed.
I think it's something analogous to Jevons' Paradox.

Jevon's Paradox, originally written about the use of coal, noted that as it become more efficient to use a resource, the end result was generally not that less of that resource was used, but in fact more.

I think the same thing has happened in frontend development: Tools which were written to make development easier have not had the effect of making it easier to do frontend development, but have made it possible for outside factors (product managers, customers etc) to demand ever more from frontend devs.
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I can recommend trying out the "wim hof method" - he talks quite a lot of pseudoscience woo nonsense, but the daily cold exposure and breathwork have been extremely beneficial to me.

meditation, ashwaghanda and really working on improving your sleep quality are probably also good moves.
The difference is that winforms basically had one way to do everything which expedited development because it skipped all of the infinite number of stupid small decisions and libraries that must be cobbled together in a typical SPA.
Based on their Earth->MArs trajectory, they might have to stay for possibly a terrestrial year or more, waiting for the next launch window to Earth.

Provided you want to get the crew back to Earth of course, if not then "don't need to be there more than few hours" takes a whole another meaning & makes mass optimization of the mission much easier! ;-)
Jeez you got really hung up over someone having the audacity to hit the comments with a reply before reading.
Everywhere was not an infinitesimal point, if the present Universe is infinite (as it seems to be). In this case, the Universe was already infinite at the very first meaningful instant of time.
But it is the primary requirement of Mars colony advocates, so it cannot be dropped. It is perfectly legit to argue that their goals are useless and terrible and wasteful, if you want, but arguing "there are more habitable spots on Earth" isn't on point. Their goal is not to colonize "some difficult, hostile environment" - their goal is to colonize another planet.
Real winter tires? Because quality winter tires are awesome on ice.
Weren't they most likely stolen and not lost?
In what way is react related to ajax calls? I don't get it :(
To be precise they don't sell carbon offsets, they sell regulatory credits. These schemes force the sum of all cars sold to be lower in emissions than in previous years; the ability to trade credits provides extra incentive to companies which are making an out-sized contribution to the overall efficiency.

The problem isn't that Tesla is selling. The problem is that others are buying. At the end of the day it's not Tesla's fault if these government schemes aren't resulting in ideal overall outcomes.
I can’t tell about the CIA or VIC2, but the ARMSID sounds pretty good imho. I have to test it with proper speakers and compare.

Yeah, that R1 deserves better. What would you use?
>It is not my job to know how the bank got hacked.

But it may be in your best interest to show that you are not the hacker.
Interesting twist to make it a horror-show for foodies when they showed their sushi from university.
React must be used for all websites- no matter the cost, no matter the implications, no matter the practicality. How else will you hire any developers? They explode if not writing JSX.

If something doesn't work out there is yet another react-centered solution to your problem. Server side react can probably fix it. Tailwinds can fix that other thing.

These websites must, obviously, be hosted on kubernetes clusters. They must also be behind three or more load balancers.

Never attempt to cache anything. Redux is managing state and state can't be cached.

I realize you didn't say "React" in your question.

redis has to be installed, even if not used.
Garry Tan is the new President and CEO of Y Combinator
Because it is a statement without any context or evidence being used to try and back up another point without any evidence. There are reasons besides donating to wikileaks that could result in a bank account being closed in Australia.
The Muse-Samplegänger
> "People" have talked about a Moon colony for a long time

Talk is cheap. People are working on Mars.
Maybe the endgame is to create a partially open subway station with a similarly concave design at the opposite site of the focus and then put a NdCrYAG crystal there... [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-pumped_laser
Windows XP Tabled Edition was to tablets as Windows 8 was to desktops and laptops: a solid (for its age) OS, but with an interface that was not adequate for that form factor. Using it on a tablet was just as annoying as using Windows 8 on a laptop. I hated it, my colleagues hated it -- I don't know anyone who didn't hate it.
The Russian Vostok base base or the european Concordia base are already in quite similar environment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_Station

And IIRC Concordia already tested some water recycling technology from ESA for example.
There are a lot of salient points made in this thread, but one other aspect is that frontends are the end of a dependency chain, that is roughly like pipelines->databases->middleware->webservers->frontend. The tail end of such an architecture can be more easily change, because less depends on it, usually the only thing is the user's eyeballs. In that situation, more variety proliferates because there aren't as many constraints. Less constraints usually translates to a diversity of approaches, which is what we see in the frontend world.
Blockchain is a distributed ledger.
I like https://o-p-e-n.com/: breathing, meditation, physical exercise
But mainly it's been about paying attention to what gave me energy vs was draining, etc.
MVVM: yes, in most cases. There are some cases where it's a godsend, but most of the uses I have seen are ... not entirely sane.

But MVC? That's pretty minimal in terms of what you're going to do anyway if you have functionality (model) and will be interacting with it (view). Controllers are often misunderstood, and in the case of Apple massively misapplied (Massive View Controllers).
> Okay, but what happens if your device(s) have been compromised, and a payment is misdirected?

File a police report, same as in article with washed
/rewritten check...

Then figure out how you got compromised so it doesnt happen again.
I loathe strict curve grading, as it measures relative ability within a cohort with no predictive value of real ability.
I have to admit I got discouraged by the implausible narrative and didn't finish reading, so maybe it's addressed, but it seemed very strange to me that this scholar's father, his neighbors, and apparently many others around him, were engaging in writing without him ever noticing. He had "been told that these people were illiterate"...did he not grow up in that community? Why did his brother, who still lives there, not know about it? And how did he recognize that the script was written in his father's hand when he believed his father was illiterate? I really dislike this kind of info-drama.
COP27 ends with no emissions agreement
What timeline for CO2 neutrality will satisfy you?

The fuel in TFA game from ag-waste. So presumably it's carbon neutral on a ~1-2yr timeline.
Why do we care so much about this? I daily Fedora, so I'm far from being a Windows fan, but they have an envious amount of backwards compatibility.
The obscure calculation transforming climate policy
Oh, I may have replied to the wrong comment. I was sure it was asking why EVs can be safer, not how things go in practice.

On practice, I have no idea how well built your options of vehicle are. Either one can be dangerous or safe, it's just easier to make an EV safer (even though yes, once a fire starts the EV is almost always worse to deal with.)
There has never been a better time to be short
Of all the things I’ve tried, the most effective have been regular exercise and prioritizing creative output over media consumption.
Show HN: Spreadsheet alternative for end-user models in Python
'respread' is a last-mile library connecting data/data science teams to end-users.

Created 'respread' out of frustration that I couldn't integrate data from third-parties or remote models from my data science team directly into spreadsheet-based valuation models. Fetching data from a web API or database connection generally requires fragile PowerQuery/VBA hacks in Excel. And there's no viable way to do things like send pdf files to a service that will extract and return key contract terms.

There are some simple examples in the docs (https://jrdnh.github.io/respread/). Thanks!
I think QTCreator provides a similar experience, but I haven't used it in years and might be wrong.
the huge silent majority does not use Gnome.
I'm confused about the "for no reason" part then. I get a lot of value from not having to physically approach my car and use a key to unlock or start it.
Win32 could do it all. And in windows there was often a different way to handle things like video across each major OS version. Yet still, I feel it was simpler! Crazy!!
Anwering Q1: a number of reasons, the most important being: 1) programmers' immaturity, we're always looking for new toys; 2) excess of venture capital fuelling too many new projects, opening space for new stuff to be used instead of the old, stable and boring ones; 3) product/design people asking for increasingly insane UI frills, influenced by trends started by big tech's products.

Q2: it depends. If you think of what users need and pay for, yes, it is HUGELY inflated; if you think of the actual requirements we receive, maybe it's not that inflated -- at least part of this complexity is needed in order to build such truckload of eye candies.

It's so disheartening to see such a gigantic waste of effort. But that's the current state of our field.
Because expectations have gone up and a developer can't even take on coding some pages without prior input from some UX enginner who is likely assisted by some UI designer.

Because we don't have just 1 or 2 desktop web browser mostly rendering text anymore.

We've got 3 or 4 major browsers that most managers want to support all, even though one has over 50% user adoption, and could be installed within 2 mins if not due to IT administrators locking everything in and shipping almost nothing to browse the web.

Each of those "major browsers" with their own same but not the same implementation for mobile, across many different sizes from tiny low rez screen to worry about to phablet/tablet factors, that can rotate of course, so landscape and portrait please, packing videos, photos, and scalable graphics often within the same visible area.

One would think that's enough headache to deal with, but fonts aren't treated equals, and remain proprietary so text won't be the same across windows, linux, OSX and android. No. You may pick one system font that is called the same so should be the same, but it isn't actually the same, at least last time i checked it wasn't.

Oh, and the highest speed consumer bandwidth out there is something like 400Mb/seconds, and the lowest might well be a under 100kb. Both want the best possible, so full HD clip and MB pixels pictures for one, and low def steaming and scaled down pics for the other. And throw something in between to make the average bandwidth users also happy.

Oh, and since we got the cloud and aws is "cheap" demand super quick agile delivery of course. Co pilot and soon gpt codex will make it no-excuse to be late on those over optimistic estimates.
There are RAD IDEs for popular Unix frameworks like Qt or Gnome and probabyly much more I haven't heard about.
I don't want good practices to be optional.

I want good practices to be the thing people actually do!
I've been doing some research recently and it continues to be by far the most popular state management framework for React. The fact that there are alternatives doesn't mean that most projects have abandoned it.
> If I knew that everything I have is built on genocide, I would feel pretty wrong.

If I knew that everything I have is built on genocide is called human history.

And I have a feeling that if the victims had been more lucky as to be the winners, they would have made more or less the same things.
Be sure to top it with onions, salt and freshly ground pepper.

Edit: It's popular enough for there to be vegan Mett in Germany (also best with thinly sliced onions, salt and pepper) which comes extremely close to the pork version. [0]

[0] (German) https://www.ruegenwalder.de/produkte/veganes-muehlen-mett-fe...
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