skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of one time when I was hiking during the winter (in Arkansas) and I hiked down into a ravine that was filled with the most amazing smell. I could find no signs of life such as flowers to identify the source. The only thing I could find was a lone mushroom growing on a boulder. Nobody believed me when I told them that I thought the smell was due to a mushroom but it was the only possible thing in that whole valley.
1. Generate a user account ID and password for me.
2. Email them to me. (Format them as a “magic link” if you wish)
3. Delete my email address.

Easy.
And if the sole developer of Elm forgot to pay for their domain that hosts packages for Elm all those projects would be broken forever.
When you look at Elm with similar projects, like Melange or Rescript, they’re all “dead” in the sense that they aren’t the moving targets that most people expect of the Javascript ecosystem.

That said, they are still under active development with their own small communities achieving what they set out to do, and no more. No expansive rewrites or fancy new features.

Compare with Typescript, which always is “improving” because it’s trying to provide type inference around a loose Javascript model, so there’s always more complexity to be added.
We embraced Hotwire with a Clojure backend. Favorite things:

- One language model (i.e. no JS, just our favorite backend language)

- Extremely minimal front-end tooling

- All data is manipulated with the same tools

- No client-side routing, validation, or... really much at all

P.S. We even wrote our own import-maps solution to avoid needing a JS bundler for the small stuff you can't do without JS.
This is where I'm at. Pale Ales or Session IPA's both have lower calorie and lower ABV. Toppling Goliath's Psuedo Sue is fantastic. It's not cheap though.
So far, world cybersecurity has been good enough. In an average year, if you ask 100 people what problems they experienced, data breach related issues are not going to dominate the list.

While I'm generally a big fan of heavy regulation, there's just so much tech that doesn't matter, that we just use to make other things that don't matter easier.

I would much rather see the regulation confined to domain specific things, stuff that directly deals with finances, life safety, industrial, etc.
> https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

Mmm, in this polemic, Larry Sanger complains that “[Wikipedians] live in a fantasy world of their own making.” Yet, in the same polemic, he believes conspiracy about the MMR vaccine, and asks for religious scripture to be treated as fact.

He says he asks for neutrality, but perhaps he is being reductive in his definition of neutrality.
For some reason I thought they changed the license, thus people leaving it.
It’s so annoying that that sort of thing isn’t available to everyone. Similar for mega back door Roth IRA. Which my partners work supports but mine doesn’t. Iirc being able to back door or not was something like 175k dollars over 30 years.
What climate zone are you in? (assuming US) https://learnmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/hspf4-and-hspf5-...

If you're in 1, 2, or 3, heat pumps are definitely the right option. In zone 4 or 5, newer cold temperature heat pumps are a good idea. In 6, 7, or 8 it's less of a sure thing, and you will likely want a backup source for the colder days.
You know Nokia and Ericsson are still huge players in telecom technology right?
I love exploring open GIS datasets with QGIS. It's incredible what this tool can do and I keep discovering new features or plugins all the time, which keeps it interesting. The amount of publicly available GIS data combined with tools like QGIS and PostGIS can be a big time saver. I don't work in the space, but occasionally run into problems requiring some form of support for geospatial data. Need a list of US cities and postal codes along with their respective coordinates? Easy. Find the dataset, import into QGIS, export to PostGIS. Done.
Interesting - so you use their designer to do the front end? And then export and hook it up to Django?
We have an epidemic of statistically unlikely things that people get disproportionately worried about, but this one needs more punching up to capture the public’s imagination.
The Procedure Fetish (2021)
People don’t realize there’s a reactor on the MIT campus.
Did you know that 90%+ of house robberies and stealing happens by acquittances? It's people that know you that rob and steal, not randoms.

I make much more than my friends.

That stirs envy, jealousy, people asking for money and poses a danger to me and my family.

I don't want someone to come rob me in the night because a long tongued friend told other.

There's literally not one good reason to tell others you make good money. It brings NOTHING good.
Their mod of a car engine is claimed to work with 4 failed cylinders out of 8, has redundant ignition and fuel injection.
Both actually. How did they do it physically and what did they run on the phones? I found it especially interesting that 20% of the devices had to act as master or networking nodes
> This is FUD. For any normal web app you don't need that functionality, just use the built in "ports" concept to interface with JS stuff.

The change was handled extremely poorly. I only knew one team using Elm in production at the time. They went from being huge proponents of Elm to recommending against it after the 0.18/0.19 changes and drama upended a lot of their work.

There may have been a "right" way to do things under the new version, but breaking major functionality in a minor release without warning is a sign that you don't really care about your users. Changes like this require discussion, warning, and long transition periods.

It was bad enough that they got it wrong, but then Evan doubled down by dedicating the opening of his next conference talk to mocking the users who were unhappy about the changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto

The part where he mocks a commenter for asking "Is Evan killing Elm's momentum?" is weirdly prescient, given that these events ultimately did mark the slowdown of the Elm community. Elm development came to a near halt about a year later.

> And it being open source means nothing stops you from forking it and adding your own native modules. Reason no one has done it is it's no need, and doing thinga that way would break the promises the compiler makes about no runtime bugs.

I disagree. Maintaining an in-house fork of a compiler just to accomplish what could be done with past versions isn't a reasonable suggestion. The reason people weren't maintaining in-house forks of the compiler just to keep their projects going was because that's a silly thing to do when you could just use any number of more reasonable mainstream projects that don't require such extreme lengths.

It's weird to see people casually suggest "Just maintain a fork of the compiler" as a reasonable solution.
Part of Iron Dome is trajectory analysis. If the profile of a target matches that of an unguided rocket and the CEP is in some unoccupied area, no interceptors are fired. If it looks like it'll land in a populated area, interceptors are fired. It doesn't just shoot everything in the sky.
If you re-read what you have written and try to detach your thinking from the various polemics of how bad lockdown is...

"Exponential spread is no longer a thing." -- Clearly wrong. Every time a +ve person breathes out on a bus, in a pub, at the office, exponential spread is occurring. The only difference is that many of those people had a recent immune event (a booster or recent infection) and suppress it immediately, or if it has been some time, they get a COVID infection and their T cell response kicks into action and suppresses it. People can have multiple infections per year. People with weakened immune systems will still get very sick.

Because it is still propagating with new variants there is still the potential for significant widespread waves of illness. It might be very important to be able to issue Paxlovid or something similar to everyone who is sick, or even give it a prophylaxis to e.g. cancer patients.
You’ve listed a bunch of facts here which are generally true but they don’t mean anything in regards to whatever point you’re trying to make.

My point is simply that it’s reasonable to make cost benefit analyses when deciding end of life care, and that you’re not an asshole for doing so.
How in the heck don't researchers realize this?

It's lazy, the easy way out to getting a sample to survey.
It's a sort-of inevitable thing when your focus becomes earnings and growth rather than whatever your actual business is. Facebook's business was providing a common platform for people that know each other to share publicly. Twitter's business was a billboard to share what they're doing. Google's business was to provide a way to find things on the web.

Unfortunately, none of those things is particularly easy to charge money for. So you take Venture Capital to fund your development, and then you try to find a way to pay that VC through other means - Advertising mostly, it turns out. Then you have to keep pushing that because your investors want returns, and it funds the party.
> if you go with an expensive power source people and industries will have a reason to move somewhere cheaper.

The other options aren't cheaper, you just aren't being sued for the damages they caused (yet).

Creation and decommissioning of solar and wind are quite polluting, natgas is a byproduct of the dirtier fossil fuels, and geothermal and hydro are only practical in a limited number of areas.

> So what does it matter whether the nuclear plant gets $50 from me from my power bill ...?

Because treating dirty power production as just a business, like a muffin shop, isn't appropriate for society. We're making poor decisions for the group because we make them individually, buying dangerous gasoline today rather than saving to build clean power.
I doubt the $1M in cash was in any way clean.
I mean as a company trying to raise finance to expand after selling widgets for a year - banks consider the risk that the first year of sales could be returned, bankrupting the company, and charge far higher rates.
Sorry, I was using `pip` as an example of an easy build system to use to get stuff working. Is it as simple as `conan install boost` within a projects dir?
I've been reading "When life almost died" by Michael J. Benton. Benton may be an elder statesman of geology, but during his undergrad education, the P-T extinction wasn't considered that drastic. It's not terribly surprising that new ideas in that context are coming about.
The issue is Go/Google forcing default-on "transparent" telemetry. The only nuance here is that by forcing default-on, a) they get more data, and b) they believe few would opt-in because of the level of trust Google merits.

If people had no reason to mistrust Google, people would opt in. If people would opt-in, they wouldn't bother with "transparent telemetry".

Hoist, meet Petard.
There is lots of tools written in Go these days, so this can potentially have wide reaching consequences. Prepare for your friendly docker executable to start shoveling telemetry to Google.
One simply gets used to mentally switching between the two after a couple of years.
> or for some reason the Navy is deliberately misleading the public, or at the very least allowing some of their personnel to mislead the public and playing coy about it

But why?
eBay has 120,000+ employees?! For some reason I always it had the same amount as Craigslist.
I'm Italian and that's the same.

It's just never a good idea to tell people you make good money.

I don't buy expensive things, i don't show off. I quietly invest and will retire asap and enjoy a quiet relaxed life.

I don't want a target on my back or people asking me money or treating me differently.
I'm Medium's current CEO as of last July. I actually pay a lot of attention to this sentiment on Hacker News. For example, I've bookmarked and often share this recent HN poll where 88% of people here think there's a negative stigma to a medium article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33223222

It's sad and entirely our fault. We didn't fail but we did lose our way. Here's how I see it:

1. Lost our way on recommendations. When I showed up the company was convinced that engagement equals quality. That's not true and it gets even more pronounced if you pay people to game your recommendation system. I think we were boosting articles that made people think we were a site for clickbait. The canonical example for HN is "Why NodeJS is dead" by a new programmer with zero experience or context. Readers noticed this, but worse, so did authors. And so we lost the incentive for a lot of the best and most interesting authors to bother because they were getting swamped by content-mill type authors. As of December, about 30% of our recommendations are generated by a new system that is picking much higher quality articles that have been vetted for substance over clickbait. This is getting a lot better, rapidly.

2. Got lost thinking about the creator economy, when we should have kept thinking about doers. Distribution was our winning value proposition (on top of simple free tools). We were built to find and boost individual articles and that meant that anyone with something great to say had a chance to get their story boosted, often by a lot. This is my original background in publishing: working at O'Reilly helping them publish programming books that were written by programmers. For a lot of topics, personal experience trumps everything. Not to knock creators, but by definition full time content creation gets in the way of having personal experiences that are worth writing about. We are partly through fixing this and #1.

Those are the two most obvious ones. But then there's a longer list. We competed with our platform publishers by starting our own in house publications. Those are shut down now. We started but didn't finish a number of redesigns and so the tools didn't get better for a couple of years. We're past that now and are putting out table stakes features again and some innovations too.

What I told our investors was that there was a huge pile of shit to dig out of, but that it would be worthwhile eventually. And I still believe both that there is a lot more to do and also that it'll be worthwhile.
CSV is nice for tabular data. Especially if it is plain and straight forward in its nature. This covers a lot of use cases.

For an object graph, CSV is less nice.
And most of the $25 ones are also crap, because someone figured out folks will buy the more expensive one since "it must be better" & started filling that market with junk.
Elm was fun and I learned a lot from it, but a purely functional language doesn’t fit cleanly on top of a real-world web browser environment, which is rife with states and side effects.

It was possible to build some elegant projects with Elm if you accepted the limitations, but the messy reality of web apps doesn’t fit within its pure model of the world.
> If the above hypothesis is true, it means the U.S. is trying to rile up / ready / etc. the population to view China as a threat.

If so, the previous balloon was a pretty fuckin' stupid way to do that, since letting it wander all over the US was obviously going to be used by political adversaries to attack the administration (justly or unjustly, doesn't matter).
I'm not an SWE and I don't work with them, but I have a backlog of a different type. I'm not sure it strictly qualifies as "backlog" for what the article's referring to. My backlog involves tasks that are blocked waiting on a coworker to take action.

Therefore I can generate a personal backlog at a certain rate, and the requests are tossed into a queue that's common to the rest of my team, and waits for a senior member to investigate and sign off and direct us for the next step.

My backlog grows as a certain percentage of the tasks I take on in a given week, and so it's proportional to the volume of incoming tasks in general. The backlog is cleared at a rate based on how much bandwidth the seniors have to process them, and there's only about 2 who are responsible for this aspect currently.

So my backlog tends to grow and shrink, and it really shocked some other coworkers when they found out how deep it was!

Sometimes the only way to shrink my backlog significantly is for me to stop working altogether until the seniors have a chance to catch up. I am, by far, the most prolific generator of requests compared to my coworkers, and I'm not sure whether that is a function of the percentage of tasks I take on, or if I have a much higher rate of flagging stuff than all of the rest put together.

Anyway, there's no way for me to avoid generating this backlog. It's just a fact of life. So we deal with it. It's overall a good thing that we catch these things and filter them properly, even if it delays resolution by a few days apiece.
If we don't know what it is, we don't know it's not a pringles can.
I got quotes in that range as well here in boulder, so I installed one myself a week ago in about 2 hours(aprilaire 700 - $310) with no special HVAC knowledge, though I am mechanically and electronically inclined.

I haven't checked the electricity usage but I can't imagine it is much. The system is literally just a small fan and a solenoid valve. Maybe your parents opted for a steam system, whereas mine is called a flow through style.
I'd rather be spied on by a western democracy than China. Our intelligence agencies are out of control but there's still better mechanisms for reigning them in than China.
Funny, though tbh it seems like there are cheaper ways
to cause the US to spend gobs of cash.

Yeah.

My best understanding based on watching a lot of retired military personnel is that isolated incidents cost the US almost exactly zero additional dollars.

The way an Air Force base works is this: there is a budget. This covers the (considerable) costs of the base itself, the personnel, the equipment, and so on.

Active-duty fighter pilots must fly a certain number of hours per month to remain on active status. Just like any other demanding activity (sports, competitive gaming, whatever) their skills require constant maintenance. These flying hours are of course budgeted. (This will be true of literally any air force; it's not specifically a USAF thing)

Things like these incident responses, and even things like flyovers before sporting events, come out of those predetermined budgeted flying hours that they were going to fly anyway. So isolated incidents like these don't really increase USAF expenses in a meaningful way. Those $400K/ea missiles will presumably need to be replenished but this must be compared to the USAF's total budget of $180 billion.

To put any strain whatsoever on the US's capabilities our foes would need to start sending large amounts of drones: essentially, a saturation attack. More than we can comfortably respond to. Which is of course... extremely possible.

But as long as these remain isolated incidents we can surmise that our adversary's goal is not "cost the US a bunch of money."
They are higher if people know you have money. That's enough of a reason to not make it known.
What would be ideal would be some kind of anti-balloon weaponry/recovery system.
Some kind of balloon-based counter-balloon technology that could take control of the balloon and bring it to the ground intact. Would be a fun project to say the least.
It's not really a private or voluntary search when it's imposed by government. Otherwise I could just make a law saying everybody who walks down X private road has to get searched by private security or turn around, obviously that won't work. The private road owner might never wanted to do it, they're only doing because the gun of the government man is at their head.

It is a public search carried with the dirty work portion of the search done by private entities directed by the state.
The shapers who bought the blanks and their customers in turn share his responsibility for whatever environmental damage his manufacturing caused. Any inconvenience they suffered was deserved. Polluters love to run this "won't somebody think of the customers?!" bullshit to defend the indefensible.
Source shows the opposite: although Australia is declining in the rankings, it remains in the top 10% of least corrupt countries.
I have a love and hate relationship with Medium.com. On one hand has a very nice design and it was is really nice and comfortable to read. On the other hand limiting the amount of reads per month while putting that stupid popup to read is absolutely dumb.
Maybe they think it's funny. Maybe it's to confuse their adversaries, or a ploy for more funding from Congress. Maybe they're allowing some pranksters to have their fun because they want to encourage an environment of open reporting where pilots aren't afraid to report strange things.
I spent a decade in the GIS space, ending back around the final days of ArcGIS 9.x, or very early days of 10.x. I also remember various alternative and early open source efforts of the time.

Then, about a year ago, after several years away from the scene, I got some mojo back and started investigating modern QGIS. I was very pleasantly surprised, it immediately felt like an upgrade from what I used to use. And also felt like coming home, in that it was obvious and intuitive how to accomplish the standard functions. If someone had put me in (that famous thing) a blindfolded time machine for a zero-year trip, popped me out, put me in front of QGIS and said "Welcome! This is ArcGIS 9.6!", it wouldn't have been at all unbelievable. If you know what I mean.

No it's not perfect. Casually and hastily wing your way around a project, copypasting here and there, setting up all kinds of parameters and advanced display bits&bobs, and - like most complex geospatial software - you'll, once in awhile, find yourself unceremoniously dumped out onto the desktop with a software error. So a highly robust and restore-able workflow is still essential. But regardless it's up there with the very best packages I've ever used.
I've always wondered: Is your nick a reference to Moto Hagio[1], the shojo manga artist?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_Hagio
It's canon until proven otherwise
They were never competing with each other and serve completely different use cases.
Don't Polars and Pandas both require your entire data to fit in memory?
Elm is perfectly stable and usable. It's a shame there's not a little more communication / a wider core team working on the the parts of Elm that could reduce the friction for the average web development task.

There's Gren https://gren-lang.org/ which is a fork of Elm. Gren has nodeJS and web storage a support, along with a package manager which can install from github (iirc). I'm eagerly watching the development of this project, hopefully it can provider value and grow into a strong alternative.

I loved working with Elm. It forced me to grow as a developer and appreciate all the benefits advantages that comes with a pure functional programming language. I truly hope Evan can start to win back the lost mindshare.
Thanks - very interesting
I’ve always thought of this rule (and the similar Profit First strategy, which I personally follow) as more of a guiding principle.

When taxes, salaries, and expenses come due, those need to be a priority, so before any money flows in or out, have a plan for how to set your own salary at X% while also meeting those commitments.
I felt blissful. It was magical. I had access to all this information - thru GeoCities - and I distinctly remember browsing a bunch of my ‘internet-advancced’ friends before putting my own up. It was truly magicc.:-) When they introduced dsl, it was faster and I remember expanding my repertoire a bit and moving to programming the javascriptt.:):)).. smileys were all the rage. So was ASCII-art!;-)

Oh I miss. THOSE days..:D.
I think the alternatives to consider would be:

- https://www.purescript.org/

- https://reasonml.github.io/en/

Or like others have suggested typescript and the usual libs and frameworks