skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my own projects I end up using the WillyWeather APIs as they have a generous free tier and use BOM data - but yeah absolutely echo your complaints, I've seen Google up to 4 degrees off BOM/ my own weather station.
Their air intake is closer to the point of combustion than a fully grown adult (by height).
Anywhere you actually need React (and also React lite solutions like Preact or Alpine), which is essentially where your page isn't just a static page, web components by themselves don't do anything to handle the complexity of state. But what they allow you to do is to use the same component in whatever framework you pick.
And they've made it even more difficult over the past few years. I had written a script that would scrape BoM's page and send the up-to-date conditions via MQTT but it stopped working a few years ago. IRIC, even changing the HTTP headers/user-agent prevented it from ever working again. That said, I understand it's absolutely their prerogative and they have a right to make money from the data.
For those who don't speak creative commons, that means they've put this in the public domain*, and are revoking their copyright. Others can use anything, even in commercial products, and without attribution.

* As much as possible, anyway. Patents, trademarks, etc. are not affected.
Exactly everything is insolvent. If tomorrow people were like hey everyone USD is going to fail you’d get the Great Depression unless the fed printed money. And there isn’t nearly enough paper money for it.
Wouldn't the combustibles rise, though?

Legit question - I don't know.
Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but I feel like it should have been fairly obvious that computers were the future, and their existing business (photocopiers) wasn't exactly going to die, but it was going to become less important as digital documents because normal. We still have photocopiers today, after all, though now they're integrated with digital printers and scanners: people still use paper documents, just in different ways than merely copying them. Someone more far-sighted should have seen this, and seen the value of their PARC work. Obviously, someone there at Xerox did, or else why did PARC exist in the first place? So somehow, they managed to have the vision to enable spending tons of money on this research center and the brilliant minds there, but then the higher-ups were too stupid to actually do anything with all that research. It really doesn't make sense to me.
Not when FAANG companies have an infinite war chest to buy out your amazing disruptive startup with the sole intention of killing it or stripping it for parts.
Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
> The most likely scenario is that Tether is _overall_ solvent, though not in liquid assets.

What makes you believe this?
Using prime (not zoom lenses) tend to aid in 'mental' composition that preceeds the physical composition.

A person who had trained themselves taking (and reviewing) 100s or 1000s of pictures of one particular camera, and one or 2 particular lenses of fixed focal length (prime lenses) -- would have developed a mental model of how a given picture will look, before they take it.

It is that 'pre-physical' mental modeling maturity, that allows experienced photographers to transition to artists (same is for film development and analog printing processes, as well) and stay minimalist at that (as far as gear).

Camera makers are aware of this I think.

This is why cameras with non-detachable, single focal length (prime) lenses
are very popular, at any time.

Before it was Yashica Electro 45 [1], now it is Richo GRIII [2]
(as examples).

It is also notable that camera makes who make popular SLRs/mirroless cameras such as Nikons, look for current/modern trends of what a 'favorite focal lenght of a lens' is.

For example Nikon recently announced that they will be making 26mm pancake lenth for their Z mirrorless line.

26mm is an 'unusual' focal length, the standard wide-angle is 28mm. And these lenses are usually not pancakes (pancake means very slim / thin lenses that are barely sticking out of the camera body).

But this 26mm focal length is the length (equivalent) of an iphone camera.
That's clearly why they are picking this unusual focal length -- and making a optically high quality lens that will fit their full-frame Z range of cameras.

The full frame camera sensor (or even APS-C sized or m4/3 sized sensors) allow to take pictures in low light situations with out flash, while still autofocusing reasonably fast -- much better than with a phone camera.

I would also not be surprised if Nikon would also develop a new Z camera body that will be just big (small) enough to just host these small lenses and that will have perfect integration with phone and pocketable.

So that the camera can utilize this lens, creating much better low-light opportunities without a flash (allowing the photography be more discrete, and take advantage of natural shadows in composition).

They will have to solve battery dimension issues (full frame mirrorless requires more power than a smaller sensor.)

Nikon, I suspect, will also probably enable the post processing to utilize new or (even app-store like) filters to add various effects.

Point I wanted to make is that fixed focal length, single lens, single camera -- enables 'trends', mental-model training and probably other interesting features in the whole word of photography that I do not have words for.

Camera makers certainly know this.

So minimalism in that sense is great, but requires a lot of training and practice :-)

[1] http://www.yashica-guy.com/document/chrono.html
[2] https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/gr-3/
Depends what you mean by “holding” USD. Is it under your mattress? Or in a bank? Is it a bank in Venezuela or Lebanon?

Holding USDT is kind of holding USD. You just have Tether in the middle.

Main utility (value?) of stablecoins is to “bridge” USD fiat into crypto though.

Interestingly, crypto.com (exchange) keeps a “USD” balance for its customers, which is separate from its USDT balance. You can deposit/withdraw to/from your “USD” balance via fiat (bank transfer) or a basket of stablecoins like USDC, BUSD etc. Binance does this as well, and FTX before. They all kept USDT separate though. Worth considering why this is the case.
Then they didn't deserve to succeed.
Does anyone know why github exposes user public keys ?

Does it have any purpose?
What you say is generally true for standard cross-border payments, however two financial institutions in a single market should be able to execute a fully settled deal in less than an hour, RTGS (real-time gross settlement) systems are one of the available options in pretty much every market. Fedwire in USA, Target2 across EU countries and other systems elsewhere will not use some layering of correspondent banks and settling cover payments/fees after some business days, it will be a fully settled transaction pretty much immediately.
Thanks for the thoughts, you mention an important point about "impact to time/performance".

Agree this is a vague question but suppose I'm just trying to navigate the overlap of personal/professional relationships. "Day job" has offices in the location where I live and I go in a few days a month but ultimately work-from-home. I have some personal relationships with current "day job" coworkers and would like to burn as few bridges as possible. Additionally it's possible current coworkers may turn into clients (or referrals) at "concrete company" in the future.

If possible (barring layoff or unforeseen events) would like to work one day less at "day job" for every one day worked at "concrete company". I would communicate this by expressing my need to work less hours.

I am a contract hire through an agency, not independent.
Wait, did pfizer really develop the vaccine? Iirc, it was BioNTech, and Pfizer is just the exculsive distributor in the US.
As early as the mid-70s, minicomputers started including microcontrollers to manage the boot environment. I had a Sun machine once that included what they called Lights Out Management. A little microcontroller that had control over the system power and etc. Always available via its dedicated serial port, even when the machine was shut off. Everything is like that now. A smartphone will have multiple processors. Some doing IO interfacing. One to manage the battery. The radio hardware will have a general-purpose processor.

Most of these processors are fixed-in-ROM sort of machines, so the story for booting them individually is pretty simple. Much like a late 20th century PC, when switched on (either by the power supply or by another processor), start running BIOS code from the hardwired start address. Some need to have more software transferred to them after that.

Modern machines are really networks of computers in themselves. Networking and bringing all these parts together to support the main processors, at the low level, is not only poorly or completely undocumented, but it's probably impossible for one person to fit it all in their head these days.
Love this idea, will try my hand at this soon.
> Unison does away with builds. Completely!

> It has a canonical representation for all code,

Isn't generating that canonical representation the build step?

> The important thing is that now, I can actually compile and run this program

Now I'm confused whether there is or isn't a build step.
Thanks for the response, this seems the most pragmatic approach.
Ask HN: Can ChatGPT make a 'ctrl-C' please?
Too many times chatGPT goes down the wrong path, and I have to wait for it to finish its 'thought.' Beyond the frustrating user experience, there's a strong signal lost when we can't say 'no - not what I wanted' like any other terminal interface. And maybe it'll save on compute, too?
Leave a gap, then there's no problem.

Change the situation: car on the other lane swerves and hits the car in front of you. so now there's a stationary hunk of metal suddenly infront of you, which you collide with.

Is it the chunk of metal's fault for being stationary on a highway or your fault for following too close?
Coming from a European country the USPS reliability and speed of delivery is impressive, you have no idea how good you have it for a country of this size.
Teller service at the USPS now that is pretty terrible true, but if there is no innovation it’s because congress won’t let it. Why isn’t the USPS offering banking services for example like other postal services do?
The stay at home parent fills that role.
The PMC also needs to be online before the main cores. And many machines there's still an external EC on the board responsible for sequencing power state external to the chip. The x86 application cores actually start up quite late in the process, long after the SPI has been read out, memory and cache controllers initialized, etc...
Interesting. But DS9 seems pretty popular with Trekkies, so I'm surprised they haven't done this process for that series yet after the success of TNG. VOY was less popular, so that makes sense.

How was ENT shot? Personally, I'd actually rather watch ENT than VOY, though I have to skip that awful intro song.
Why not just write C, then? Sounds like you're just setting up for NPEs
I love watching the bar get raised in real time.

If you told people 5 years ago you can have a conv with a ML system and barely be able to tell its not a person, ask it question about topics and get human like plausible answers, give it text requirements and it would respond with 95% working code people's jaws would drop. I mean even 6 months ago you could tell people that and the response wouldn't be all that different.

Now I see so many shifted goal posts "yeah it can talk about most topics, but it's often wrong", "yeah it can generate code, but it has bugs! The nerve of anyone to write buggy code without a compiler to check it." (How well do you write code on the whiteboard at age 18 btw?), or "yes it writes code but not for my favorite language", or "yes it writes correct code but only for programming interview questions: or "yes but it's not optimized for performance".

It's amazing how quickly the goal posts have shifted. To me it's absolutely astounding what it's capable of - and I see so many complaints are "it's not the computer from Stat Trek so it's really not much use at all".

Yes it can be better improved with acknowledging when it isn't confident in something - but its still incredible what it's doing right now.
> What real human problems have you all resolved that lifted the lowest in society without the kowtow to those of high net worth (another appeal to imagined authority)?

I'll admit that my profession is no more noble than say, a carpenter, and is primarily to fund my desired lifestyle. But I don't work at a startup and I don't make startup money and I'm certainly not a coder bro (after my time). I can't say I've "resolved" any real human problems either, but I do occasionally try to do something to help. Over the years I've coached youth sports, tutored reading and math for underprivileged or ESL kids, collected food for the local food bank, played harmonica in a jug band at the local old-folks home, taught after-school bike repair, do roadside cleanup, and was going to do books for inmates but it got cancelled due to COVID. And lest you think I'm trying to get into heaven this all comes from my cold dead atheist heart in the chest doing all that bumping. ;^)
Top down federal strategic plans tend not to go so well.

People forget the atmosphere that spawned the war on drugs, the war on poverty, affordable housing legislation/fannie and freddy, the native american reservation system, the democratization of the middle east, no child left behind, etc.

This whole thing smells similar to me.

Big federally organized ambitious projects that don’t make the problem they’re trying to solve worse don’t seem to have happened since the late 60s. Apollo, the Interstate Highway System, the creation of the US electric grid, the Manhattan Project, the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the creation of NORAD, the creation of the US global trade network, etc… all the big US federally organized success projects seem to have happened before that.

I’m hesitant trusting anything the federal bureaucracy does in it’s current state. That’s not particularly helpful, and I applaud genuine effort aimed at solving big problems, but I think there’s a severe age/bloat issue endemic to most of the kinds of organizations shoveling money to solve problems like this.

Generally speaking there seems to have been a big increase in both complexity and disconnect from reality in post 60s big federal plans like this. I’m not sure what would help calibrate big plans like this to reality better, but I suspect there’s been an increase in procedure and meticulous planning rather than doing/experimenting and being willing to just throw money at talented capable people and say “figure it out”.
Driving CRTs was pretty different from LCD panels.
I thought it started by executing microcode from ROM.
Correct, the keyword is respect. Apache is a modern label to describe various groups of Native Americans, who were on the verge of being conquered and colonized by an expanding empire. Like your quote says, Apache shares a similar, albeit less existential, plight and mission in software.

As a not-white person, the disrespect being discussed here seems imaginary.
I wonder if the disrespect others see is because of a belief in a hierarchy of victimhood. The kind that grants authority to members whose ancestors who were once oppressed. Authority that justifies private ownership, authority that cannot be questioned, authority that demands greater and greater respect, if not obedience.
> Looking at stratospheric aerosol injection, “is in our wheelhouse,” he added.

> There is a lot of uncertainty in their findings, Dr. Fahey said, but the basic message is that trying to cool the planet by 0.5 degree Celsius (0.9 degree Fahrenheit), say, through the use of sulfur aerosols, would have some effect on ozone.

Why are these people qualified to mess with our climate?
Hm, it suggests a single Amazon Basics USB-C to USB-C (100W, 6ft) for $15 when I could have an Anker 2-pack with the same specs for $20.
Yes but it also says about solar being a solution, maybe to a shitty problem, yet it works better than the previous situation
PSA: USB-C is not Thunderbolt. Yes, you know this already. I know this already.

Yet I spent an hour or so just last night trying to figure out why I was having trouble connecting two Macs before I remembered. The error message was something like "Use a Thunderbolt port..." and as I was only half paying attention, I thought, "Aren't they all Thunderbolt ports on this M1??", then I spent a while swapping dongles around and then swapping USB cables, then looking at support pages, then I finally thought, "You idiot." and ordered the right cable. Don't be me.
An "AI" that doesn't even know that intelligence as measured by IQ doesn't have much to do with writing skill or knowledge. I don't think one has to worry about some super intelligent evil AI. It will be the paperclip maker. ;)
Software companies with sufficient market share take on an almost zombie like quality. No matter how much damage they take internally they are able to continue lurching forward and making money because there is no one else in the space that is a viable option or they have their customers locked into expensive contracts. I worked at one such company for a few years. It was terrible. The software was garbage and management was truly awful. We were required to hit 10 ticket points each week or pipped. The only way to do so was to work 60+ hours. I got pipped for the first time (~18 months in) when during the first month of covid lockdowns I got 8 instead of the required 10 points. They literally could not understand how I might have distractions going on due to a brand new pandemic, my kids and wife suddenly being home and lockdown.

Whatever decision you made they yelled at you. I got yelled at once for not lying to a government official. When I quit, every sr. developer quit within 3 months of me; 7 total left and left behind 6 non sr. devs. This was 3 years ago. The company is hemorrhaging money but just keeps issuing more stock to stay afloat. It used the money from that stock to buy its competition in a very niche market and essentially just put them out of business. So they survive and lurch on.
You can be passionate about product and customer service, and be an accountant.

I think it is rare to be passionate about product, when you are an MBA. Because your passion in seeking an MBA is yourself ( ladder climbing, status seeking ), and that path is not forged on sacrifices for customer service.
A van Gogh painting swept me away. Behind the thick swirly impressionist strokes he had captured everything in a scene as if it were a photograph, complete with shallow depth-of-field such that if I looked at just the right spot, in my peripheral vision, the paint vanished and I was transported there, seeing it as he saw it. It was cold and ... well I guess dude needed glasses. :)

It's a winter scene near the sunflowers in the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

I suppose it changed me as a demonstration of just how compelling a piece of art could be.
>> seems to just be a massively fraudulent vehicle that has been a direct cause of both booms and busts ...

Ya. It's crypto. Any and every aspect of crypto is at least partially deserving of such description.
> The memory chips respond by sending the contents of the selected
memory cell over the data bus to the CPU.

What does that ROM memory cell _physically look like_? How do we physically manipulate it to contain a 1 or a 0 (absence of something)?
Before there were tens of thousands of open source developers across a dozen or so language ecosystems using collaborative source control and the hard won, but sometimes forgotten, wisdom of decades of internet systems development; we had to build so much more of our stack ourselves. It was much less about finding the appropriate "libraries" or "frameworks" -- their were not that many to even choose from.

You would have to build the layers of your stack from first-principals, or perhaps second-hand mimicry of third hand descriptions. Understanding your problem, and building exactly the tool needed is a very different approach from picking the tool with the momentum, growing developer base, checklist of features, and knobs to twiddle to somehow get something approaching a solution to your problem.

In that setting, Common Lisp has a very powerful feature set; macros, CLOS, interactive debugging with restarts, dynamic redefinition and a fast runtime made to be interactively modified. It is a few days work to make a minimalist ORM, a HTML template language, or a functional query language and engine and proceed to tune it for purpose.

I think we are approaching an inflection point. The software ecosystem complexity, and the specialization of developers into frontend, backend, or specific frameworks and the absolutely unfathomable and delicate chains of transitive trust in the layers and layers of abstraction will become a liability .

Doing "more" of the same, throwing more bodies at it, rewriting the world because your UI or ORM needs a reboot, trying to attach checksums and technical proxies for dependencies as a substitute for the basic fact that you need to know what code you are running and why to be a responsible software vendor; none of this will work.

Truly powerful languages and runtimes with appropriate technology fit for purpose are the way out of this conundrum and the best path to being a responsible and effective computer programmer.

Keep your parens sharp.
I agree that that was a bit of a cheap shot, but in an environment where Facebook, Google and the like are harvesting every last bit of data they can scrape together on every "user" on earth to package and sell, the decision to bundle a VPN and a password manager with a search offering, whether it's paid for or not, seems like it's forcing folks to put a lot more trust in your relatively unknown company than they put in either Facebook or Google.

FWIW, I do think the idea of a paid search utility is a good one, especially if I found it somehow better than Google, but I'd love to hear the reasoning behind the decision to include those services as part of the offering.
They are standard P4 panels, you can buy them for about $20-30 depending on seller/volume. They are 64x32 pixels.

You can also buy P5, P10 and other sizes. They number tells you how many millimeters between each physical pixel.

I use P10s for my Christmas display, they look good from about 15feet away or more.
From the perspective of those born poor with little prospect of improving their station, I don’t see how it’s obvious that the people who inherited wealth are more deserving of the money than the people who got it by scamming.

The legitimacy of the social contract that respects private ownership depends on the prospect of a good life for those who work for it.

When people lose belief in that prospect, they have no reason to respect the rules of that social contract.
People already are running influence operations like I describe using human authors [1]. The difference is GPT would allow a much larger volume of content to be created at lower cost. A few engineers could run a system that argues with millions of people.

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/brief-history-online-influence-o...
I've been dealing with similar issues. Can I ask how long it took for you to start seeing results from the strengthening exercises, both just in strength and your injuries going away? It's easy to see progress in weightlifting etc, but bands or body exercises for small muscles (adductors, in my case) just always feel hard.
Better hardware, yes. Better software/UI/toolkits/libraries, absolutely not <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820076>.
AI, sure. Web3? Just makes anyone with a real brain laugh lol.