skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this.

I've been thinking of building a "poor man's cluster" using every old phone, Kindle, or laptop.

They make a good point how phones have batteries that can charge at off peak hours. I figured if I built my cluster I'd remove the batteries to reduce the fire risk.
It isn't bad compared to "branch by abstraction", which sounds incredibly complicated until you realize that you have probably already used this many times without realizing: use an interface, implement a new version of it, use a toggle to determine which one to use... eventually deprecate the old one.

Can we at least agree to reject the academization of this one and simply refer to all config-time optionality as a "toggle".
> That's not a bad thing!

I'm not so sure about that. Idiot-proofing (while being impossible -- ingenious idiots will always find a way around it) comes with tradeoffs that can easily reduce software quality.
> Pike Place Market: Very exspensive.

And also extremely on the other side - Market housing can be very low-cost. A number of my friends are paying < $300/month for some nice/decent apartments with a very long wait-list.

Cf: the apartments under the Market and Stewart House.
Nearly a decade ago but this:https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=54cf4b4f-ccb4...

Nestle has around 276,000 employees today, while Dualit seems to have around 100-200 (hard to tell since Dualit is private).
It still does, however it is mostly for IBM customers on Aix, IBM i and z/OS, not was widespread as it once was.
The Bizarre Relationship of a ‘Work Wife’ and a ‘Work Husband’
how can you use a tool potentionally generating hidden bugs into its suggestions "correctly"? and/or legally ambigious output? these are not important for everyone, but they are to me..
https://archive.ph/gsDKF
I hear a lot of stories like this and I boggle. Back in the 1970s, American car makers took it on the chin because their quality was so much lower than Japanese imports. And it's not like the Japanese approach was a secret; Toyota has been positively evangelical about the Lean model.

I get that it's hard to compete on price with overseas labor. But in theory, our more-educated workforce should let us find non-price advantages, like quality and service. I have theories as to where the problems lie, but it seems so wild to me that this 50-year-old problem hasn't been licked.
There's a Dollar General nearby but the parking lot isn't that big.
This is impressive, the energy efficiency of even outdated phone tech is way above server/desktop systems. It seems like phone technology will be the only viable computer technology for virtually all use cases soon. Arguably, Apple already realizes this, with their Apple Silicon computers now very similar in design to an iPhone.
What happens if you see a product with price X and by the time you checkout it has price Y? Can you claim somehow the previous price?
The Sedlec Ossuary is, or probably should be a great VR experience if you can't go in person (I have). The shock wears off and then you realize how human the place is. We whisk our dead out of sight, having the bones of your dead relatives be so visible, would be like having a time compass directing the path of the rest of your life.
I am not a crypto fan boy, and I don't really care about (folding) cash vs cards etc. But there is a part of me that worries a bit about some future government/central-bank deciding to implement things like haircuts and negative interest rates. Actual cash / crypto is a nice way to actually prevent that at least.

Interestingly one of the sections of Cloud Atlas is set in a future where the government REQUIRE that citizens spend all their cash by the end of the payment period. You need a special license to "save" or invest. I could see that being a policy to "stimulate demand" or whatever...
It’s ambiguous only until you define a design convention for your schema. The rule can be as simple as using attributes only for simple non-user generated values (eg order, postal code, birth date or name is an element, uuid or timestamp is an attribute).

And clients just map whatever defined in schema.
Huh, thanks for this. Will live in my head from now. Basically, in this situation, use (user_id, feature_name) for hashing, not just the user_id.
Ads impose a cost on everybody who sees them. People see thousands of ads per day, which to my mind is the psychological equivalent of breathing car exhaust and drinking lead-poisoned water. Crypto doesn't have nearly the reach, though I agree it's similar (on a smaller scale) in its waste of talent and its enrichment of careless, greedy, unscrupulous people.
No it didn't. The contractor market is very much alive and well in CA, and AB5 was an obvious clarification targeting contractor-in-name-only type gigs. Of course the main target of the bill, Uber/Lyft drivers ended up getting shafted after the ignorant public passed prop 22, but a software contractor/freelancer would have had no issues passing the contractor vs. employee test specified in AB5.
the US government already effectively does this to foreign resident citizens who buy PFICs (and why us citizens are strongly encouraged not to buy PFICs).

the reason its problematic is that just because a persons assets have risen, doesnt mean they want to sell, and if they dont sell, it means they need the liquid assets to cover said tax bill. a tax of this nature forces people to sell assets which is problematic. Its not problematic to say you sold X assets at profit Y, its your responsibility to retain percentage Z of that to pay the taxes.
I love the "lore" that this sort of bug creates, especially in these sorts of large scale multiplayer environments.

Players claiming to be cursed, and the curse was real!

A very different sort of event that it reminds me of is the old World of Warcraft plague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
It is, and also it is the way c/c++ makes you write code.

Languages such as Java or PHP make you lazy and you end up using the string variable type a lot. It is extremely inefficient.
Seattle is a weird hybrid that probably could be a model for what is realistic in the US. There a tons of walkable neighborhoods all over the city to provide daily necessities but you really do need a car to make that trip across town or even from one neighborhood to the next in some cases.
Basic tests for IR35:

https://www.brooksonfaq.co.uk/knowledge-base/what-are-the-ir...

It's obviously a minefield, especially substitution. If you're being hired for specific niche in-demand skills, why should you be expected to provide someone else?

What seems to happen in practice is the Revenue occasionally has a spasm and decided to investigate a selection of freelancers. This ends with a lot of confusion, plus various tribunals and court cases, because the reality is not clear and many freelance situations can be argued either way.

The simplest option - not infallible, but very helpful - is to have multiple clients and work mostly from home on fairly short projects. That makes it very hard to argue that you're an employee.

If you're on-prem and exclusive for an extended period for a set number of hours, supervised by management and using equipment supplied by the employer, it gets much harder to convince a court that you're genuinely freelancing.
Neither of those were risky in the sense of "if it fails, it takes the company with them".
Going from local BBS content to global content seemed a bit magical I guess. It was really slow over my 2kbps dialup modem.

Seemed like an infinite amount of exploring could be done even back then so I guess that was the drive to continue using it.
What does "Wi" stand for in the stamp? Would have been better to have a flag of freshmeat.
Has anyone ever looked into repurposing wifi devices like phones as mesh routers? Or open cell networks? They would have to always be plugged in but seems like a good start to an open infrastructure
Based on my reading, it sounds like these job cuts are happening because other job cuts are happening. Google didn’t layoff 8% of its workforce (or whatever the percentage was) because they were in financial straits.

They did it because everyone else is doing it.

IMO that makes Apple even more commendable. If my understanding is correct, that would imply they have more of a spine than these other morally ambiguous companies. Not saying Apple isn’t morally ambiguous, but in comparison it seems like a fair conclusion.
I was thinking the same thing! The writers could only get royalty for 95 years or even less, for 70 years, if they happen to be dead. How could anyone write anything under these conditions? And, as this article aptly pointed out, if they choose not to renew the copyright, can could only get royalties for even less time, 59 to 99 years (published between 1923 and 1964)! Staggering.
Yea sure please tell me more
Big fan of "document using emoji"
I have two heat pump window air conditioners installed in my apartment, with cooling, heating and resistance electrical heating: https://www.frigidaire.com/Home-Comfort/Air-Conditioning/Win.... The problem is that the tech is so poorly advertised, that I had to double-check the specs on manufacturer's website that this model was, in fact, a heat pump. Most people don't know that heat pump window units already are an option.

I'd love for NYC to mandate that ACs must function as heat pumps: the additional parts are cheap, and as America's largest market for window AC units, the NYC market would force competition for much cheaper heat pump window units.
The SSD itself might be, but the Deck can't read off them enough faster to make a huge difference.
QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed
> even captain planet cartoon showed air conditioners being bad for the environment

That seems like it was a useful simplification for a children's cartoon, but things aren't that black-and-white.

1. Without air conditioning (or some other method of cooling and humidity control), almost all high-occupancy buildings would reduce their effectiveness as a work-place or living-place. OSHA has guidelines about office temperature (68-76, iirc), humidity, and overall air quality (e.g. pm2.5 levels).

2. The 1980s-era backlash against air conditioning was likely inspired by then-new knowledge about atmospheric ozone depletion. It was known that CFCs and bromine-containing compounds contribute to ozone depletion. It just so happens that CFC were common refrigerants (and aerosolizing agents). Refrigerant leaks from an air conditioner in those times released nasty stuff. CFCs are very rare (and restricted) in modern air conditioner / hvac systems. We instead use other chemicals which are not ozone depleters. (Though I believe that the theoretical performance of modern refrigerants is often not-as-good as the old CFCs.)

3. Running the air conditioner in a single family home is not terribly efficient, as (in most single family homes) most of the home is just empty space. Cooling bodies directly (e.g. cooling blankets, misting fans, etc) is more energy-efficient in these situations. Perhaps the more nuanced advice would be to use air conditioning to make the space "tolerable" but use direct cooling to make a space "comfortable". (This advice also applies to heating a space. I keep my thermostat between 60 and 65 and use blankets, small electrical resistance heaters, and drinking hot water as ways to temperature-regulate.)
If you use arrays instead of objects, it becomes JsonML[1]:

["note",
["paragraph",
"This is a ", ["code", {"vibe": "positive"}, "remarkable"], " text."]]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JsonML

This is also why I find Mithril.js so pleasant to use without JSX, because it's basically JsonML.
Just to counter your edit:

>But compressing and decompressing is not an energy efficient task. It takes a lot of work. Mechanical inefficiencies are a huge energy consumption. Gas is simply burning fuel. Yes, we should save gas for rainy days. But I hate to say that it is more efficient and cheap. There is no comparison.

You are very mistaken, the energy required to compress refrigerant is less than the energy captured and delivered if COP > 1, which is the point of a heat pump. At COP 1 it is basically heat of compression and equal to a resistive heater at COP greater than 2 the heat pump captured more heat from the environment than used to compress the refrigerant.

I am not sure if you are arguing in good faith, if so here are some of the simplest resources I can find to explain how a heat pump can exceed a furnace in efficiency even when taking power plant and transmission losses into account, with easy to understand graphics:

https://greenbusinesswatch.co.uk/cop-vs-spf

https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Coefficient_of_perfo...

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/heatpump.h...

This should really be taught and drilled in lower education, the difference between heat and temperature and relationship to power, how heat engines work, etc. This stuff basically makes modern society possible and we will never progress in decoupling our power sources from use of the power which is what electrification allows which allows us to transition away from throwing carbon up in the air for energy.
> Imagine being hooked up to an ML model designed to classify whether you’re thinking about porn or not

Or whether you're thinking thoughts the government doesn't like.
So they managed to replicate the Jira experience.
I currently have an 11 Pro and it is annoying. If we do get a USB-C iPhone this year I intend to upgrade. Pretty much the only reason I haven’t bought AirPods is that they use lightning, and I don’t want them to end up being the only device I have with it.
So it's not really a flag, it's that the algorithm that determines who the monsters attacks had a bug. The bug made it so that when there were a group of players to choose from, the mob would always pick players whose (hashed) identifier was higher on the list. Since the hash of your ID doesn't change, those players would always get picked on first. Like if your name is Aaron A. Aardvark, you're always coming first on any alphabetized list.
I lived in Seattle from 2016-2020 and didn't have a car for about half that time. If your house and work are near a link stop you certainly don't need it, everything you'll need is in walking distance or a train ride away. Other than link and the rapid buses, there's good bus coverage, but it's slow, wouldn't want to rely on it IMO.

Biking is not great. I did it a lot, but I'm comfortable riding through heavy traffic on steep hills, if you're not, probably would be hard to rely on.

Finally, I'm big into climbing/mountaineering and lack of a car was never a big problem. I'd rent one the few times I had too (way cheaper than parking and insurance), but otherwise could usually carpool with someone else who was going. Sorta' puts you on someone else's schedule, but if you need a belay partner anyway...
> Very different from being able to code-up a web product on a laptop in the dorm where pizza might be your greatest expense.

That feeling when you fat fingered one resistor value on the BOM and you have not noticed even after going through BOM five time before placing the order, then realising this when boards came assembled month later and you couldn't figure why they don't work. The dilemma - go through 100 boards and manually replace each resistor or keep them for parts and run the order again and so on and so on.

Completely different to when you have a bug in software and you can just change few lines and deploy.
anyone who owns stocks should consider using a DAF. The only people who shouldn't consider using a DAF are the people who either dont own stocks or never give charity.
> For the most part, Eclipse has fallen into obscurity.

I guess it depends on the locale/company/environment?

In most conferences, online videos, as well as among the people I know personally, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA for Java) seem to reign supreme: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ They have a community version, personally I pay for the Ultimate package of all the tools. They're slightly sluggish, want a lot of RAM, but the actual development experience and features make up for that. Hands down, the best set of IDEs that I've used from a pure development perspective - refactoring enterprise codebases mostly becomes something you can actually do with confidence. Running tests is easy. Integrating with app servers, containers, package managers or container runtimes is easy. Even remote debugging is easy to set up, as is doing debugging, or even testing web APIs. I'd say that all of the features that should exist do exist, which is more than I can say about many other IDEs.

I know that Eclipse is sometimes used more in an educational setting, however there are also both some specialized tools, as well as customized versions for something like working with Spring in the industry: https://spring.io/tools In my experience, the idea behind the IDE is nice (a platform that you can install whatever you want on, entire language support packages, or specialized tool packages), but the execution falls short - sometimes it's unstable, other times it works slow and so on. That said, it's passable.

I would say that personally I'd almost prefer NetBeans to Eclipse, even after it was given over to the Apache Foundation, which have released a few versions since: https://netbeans.apache.org/ It seems to do less than either Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA do, but for general purpose Java editing and limited work with other stacks (PHP, webdev stuff, some C/C++) it is good and pleasant to use. However, if you have projects that get close to half a million lines of code, it does just kind of break and gets way slower than the alternatives. It still somehow feels more coherent than Eclipse to me, would pick it if IntelliJ IDEA didn't exist.

Some also try doing something like using Visual Studio Code with a Java plugin: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/java That said, I only used that briefly when I needed something lightweight for a netbook of mine, the experience was somewhat underwhelming. The autocomplete or refactoring wasn't as good as IntelliJ IDEA and just felt a little bit tacked on. Then again, that was a while ago, I don't doubt that progress is being made.
This article is a bit disingenuous. Optimism, Arbitrum, and Starknet are all part of the Ethereum ecosystem. Technically, Polygon PoS isn't, but Polygon zkEVM definitely is.
According to reports, a new EV on average costs $66,000, however, a conversion from ICE to electric power can be done for a relatively low amount of $14,000.

14k does not sound right for my vehicle. The battery pack for the Ford Lightning is $35+k and I would need a bigger one. It would surely be a lot more for my truck and that isn't counting the controllers, motors, coolant lines and heating system for the battery pack, new wiring and input controls and of course all the labor to do this. If I am going this far I may as well replace the frame to start rust-free and maybe even put extra corrosion mitigation on it. There is a lot of salt on my roads.

I think this would be a fun project for a vehicle hobbyist but I can't even fathom doing this for $14k and a $2k rebate is not much of an incentive in my opinion. If I had my own shop I could see starting a project like this but it would surely cost at least 8x what they are suggesting and that does not even factor in warranties.

[Edit] I forgot the most important issue. Supply chains. The way things are going globally all of these parts would have to be made and supported in the US, Mexico or Canada to have a reliable future for US residents. I think I personally would wait until the US or Mexico are mass producing 3D printed solid state batteries which should be relatively soon.
> worth looking at who the winners are and what the trade offs are.

The winners are consumers, the effort to reduce GHG and particulate emissions, and the drive toward energy independence (whether at the national, local, or hyper-local level).

The losers are fossil fuel extraction industries, because due to the high COP of heat pumps, far more heat is delivered per unit of energy consumed, even if that energy ultimately comes from burning natural gas at a power station. Also, the source of the energy itself gets disintermediated, since electricity can come from multiple sources, including renewables.

The tradeoffs are (for now): Higher upfront installation cost (tempered by the IRA, and potentially lower operating costs), availability of the equipment (supply chain stuff), and long delays in installation due to lack of qualified installers (and resulting high costs).
In JSON everything that is not map or array is effectively an attribute. It is perfectly possible to use the same logic when defining XML schema.
Remote power switching is what has held me back. Even if it was an additional cost / addon I'd definitely look at picking up a dozen or so. Still I've been following for a while and hope to see some cool improvements over time.

EDIT: Actually being a raspberry pi, It might not be hard to build in that feature. I might just grab one today and see.
Visited it by accident the first day in Rome, just happened to walk by. They have a museum before the crypt where each room had some theme and used different bones. Not particularly religious but it was interesting to see. Seemed like someone spent time in their crypt and had too much time and bones on their hands.
No, the distinction was that the fact that they used RoundUp (which would have killed the crops they claimed to have planted) suggests a motive. The farmers claimed that the seeds had just drifted into their field by chance, Monsanto claimed they'd deliberately planted them. The fact that they sprayed the resulting crop with a herbicide that would have killed their own crop seriously calls the farmer's account into question. How would they possibly have known that enough seed had just blown over the road that it was safe to spray?
It could be worse. If you were on Android, about half of Google's 1P apps start with "Google", and about half don't, even ones that probably should (like Google Home).
There should be something like a 'right to repurpose' for old tech. The only reason I keep old PCs laying around is because the BIOS allows anything to come along and install on it.
Ask HN: Are people considering moving off of Fly.io?
We're using fly at my work. It's had multiple outages in the last month that have taken down our production servers. There has been no proactive communication and very little insight besides "We've identified the issue and are attempting a fix."

We're now 24 hours into an outage that started with everything being taken offline, and is now causing intermittent 502 errors. Their status page (https://status.flyio.net/) still shows 99.99% uptime 24 hours into an outage.

Besides the outages, the service is great. But, that's a big caveat. We're pretty frustrated and are considering leaving.

Is anyone else in the same situation, and if so what's keeping you/what are you leaving for?
Supply chain issues forced Apple not to overhire. Apple is strictly enforcing RTO 3 days a week, even if teams are distributed, I heard.
The healthcare market has been completely distorted by government interference.

Car dealerships are another market distortion set up, again, by government interference.

Health insurance, too.
That's where OSS companies like Suse or RedHat come in: they do provide support for their distributions. And, unlike Amazon, they also employ many maintainers and if they don't employ them, they sometimes submit patches to upstream so are good OSS citizens.
Thanks for this amazing feedback. I can get some action items from this.

I've noted down your comment and I'll be improving things for next week!
In the US at least, a sole proprietorship/single-member LLC doesn't do much to shield you from liability. You can't really say "it was the company's fault!" when you are the company.
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