skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried using Elm for a side solo. Lots of things to like about it and I learned quite a bit. Played with a lot of toy projects.

But I hit a wall when I wanted to use some templating and communication modules written in Javascript. Working with things like protocol buffers and externally generated html through ports was very frustrating. As I kept working around Elm's limitations I began feeling this wasn't a language I could use part-time. I either needed to go "all in" or find something that made it easy for me use external Javascript. Looked at giving dillonkearns' Typescript api product a try but his e-commerce site crashed...

So now I'm trying out Yew, Rust and WebAssembly. I miss Elm's compiler but wasm_bindgen is way easier to use than Elm ports.
Blue Origin – Blue Alchemist Technology Powers Our Lunar Future
Though there are several things that drive it, the real problem is that today's "modern" architects have no vision and imagination - they produce soul-crushing dreck that incorporates all the worst features you'd expect from really bad copies of 100-year-old modernism, cubism, and brutalism. This is a problem with single-family "modern" homes, but especially, with the newer mixed While density is always best avoided, it can be done well: The Scots showed how you can have uniformity of design with character, warmth, and function in their architecture of 200 years ago.

The result is what we see virtually mandated now in cities like Austin: A modern rehash of Soviet/Eastern Bloc housing projects, recast as "vertical mixed use" developments. Mid-rises that are invariably too tall and too close to the street, blocking out the sky and leaving just a strip of concrete to the road, which is now rendered even less useful by the copious bike lanes that no one uses because it's way too damn hot most of the year. They have only minimal windows on the exterior walls, and if there's a balcony, it's usually either a completely non-functional decorative appendage a foot deep, or it's too small for even a cafe table set. Green space and lawns (even though grasses are the most effective plants for cleaning the air), or even big trees, are discouraged.

Worse, no one wants to live in them unless they have to: First of all, they have mandated "low income housing", guaranteeing a resident population of thugs and criminals, second, the real estate is so incredibly expensive that no commercial or retail businesses can survive in the first floor locations that are supposed to provide some aspect of "community". (Austin's preferred housing model is deliberately family-hostile.)

I'll take suburban single family homes ANY day over that - this kind of "modern" architecture will crush your soul - people should be free and kings and queens of their own castles, not proles in a pod eating bugs with Big Brother on the viewscreen.
How are they getting longitudinal stiffness? Some sort of monocoque?
What is wrong with accepting USDC?

Anyone can accept it, individuals, and even third parties.
Do you mean s/Stripe/stripe/g?
I worked at a company with dedicated scrum masters. They did little to nothing. One of them didn't even want to run the retrospective. He tried delegating it to a senior dev, who told him we should just skip it, and not even bother filling out the "mandatory" end-of-sprint feedback form. This, of course, would not be acceptable to the scrum master's boss so he was forced to actually do some work.
The bigger reason is the japanese market demands efficiency. Buyers compare running costs.

Thus Japan acting as a breeding ground for cheaper, replaceable, mini splits. The American manufacturers sold into the HVAC specialist market which was efficiency insensitive but cost sensitive. Thus a bi-partite market.

The only reason mini splits have not bankrupted the American manufacturers yet is many Americans still rely on expensive HVAC specialist to do installs. Thus mini splits extreme cost advantage is buried by expensive installs.
When has this happened before with other programming languages?
We seriously considered it, but were most worried about issues while we were transporting it to the launch site.

And amusingly we ran into the helium issue because our initial vendor didn't have any available, forcing us to buy a bunch of smaller, lower pressure containers from a party store. We miscalculated, assuming there wouldn't be anything left when the pressure equalized..
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/57869/1/15...

which links to:

https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/2332/joint_statement_...

> If residents in the permit areas are not using a permit or run out of permits, they will still be able to drive to any destination in Oxford or elsewhere, whenever they like, as often as they like. Depending on their location and destination, they might have to use a different route to avoid the filters, which would usually be the ring road.

The reason we have proposed these changes is because – as everyone who lives and visits Oxford knows – the city has had awful congestion for decades. This is damaging both our economy and our environment, and is making the bus network unviable.

Our aim is to reduce traffic levels and congestion, make the buses faster and more reliable, and make cycling and walking safer and more pleasant.
Yep, 100% serious. Sounds like a blast. You can actually further protect the balloon with uv repellent paint to stop it popping as easily.
> We don’t have the bandwidth to basically dog fight thousands of aircraft simultaneously!! We’ll go bankrupt

The defense industry will go ritch, though
Indeed I am
And also hell to find housing!
What about banning sales of food with artificially added sugar? Lol... Nevermind
It's done that as long as I can remember - the "let me read it first" thing, right? Or did they change something recently?
I would like to combine forces with a project I’ve designed utilizing and repurposing phones as a documentary tool.
That's the other gamepad I was looking at for this. Do you think it would be as easy for a 10 inch tablet?
Agree, I too think Microsoft has publicists writing these stories.
Or, you know, don’t sell illegal merchandise in a very public and traceable way?
Likely not if you need long flight times, since it leaks out far quicker iirc.
The regulation is there for a purpose. The idea that nuclear was "killed" by regulation is a kind of "stab-in-the-back" conspiracy theory.

If nuclear was truly this obvious answer to aquire abundant clean energy, wouldn't our business friendly leaders embrace it with open arms?

A couple of treehuggers didn't stop them from allowing overfishing the sea, or from extracting fuel from oil sands. Despite those things having very clear negative environmental consequences. And strong popular opposition.

But for Nuclear apparently they went totally in the opposite direction. Deaf to the cries of businessmen they heavily regulated an obviously harmless and extremly profitable energy industry to death?

Occam's razor says there's a simpler explanation.
To add to the discourse here, it's worth considering that since Elm came about WASM has come along in huge strides, and at this point you're faced with a "Why learn Elm when I can use <lang I already know> and compile to WASM".

See projects like Yew and Blazor.
> They did not have to launch something like ChatGPT at full scale.

I think this is really a misunderstanding of the constraints Google has to operate under. They have released plenty of things that "show where "potentially" Google could have taken the technology in time". Not least among them, the original transformer paper that this is all based on... But also, there are features in Docs and elsewhere that are backed by this kind of AI. Have you seen the "complete the sentence" thing in Gmail? How do you think that works?

What they didn't release is a generically useful product that everyone could use. Because if they had, everybody would have used it! Which, as you stipulate, would have been untenable.

But that doesn't mean it wasn't a strategic mistake! But it also wasn't a strategic success... The insightful and maddening thing about "the innovator's dilemma" is that incumbents can make the right decisions and still be disrupted. An incumbent just doesn't have the same options as a new entrant. This is an excellent demonstration of the effect!
Unfortunately so. There are some egregious ones up there like that, but also if you step one block off of any major thoroughfare the sidewalk ends, yet there is still consistent traffic. This includes streets that connect schools, libraries, parks, etc. There were 271 pedestrian injuries in Seattle last year, 17 were fatal. Source: https://remoteapps.wsdot.wa.gov/highwaysafety/collision/data...
With industrialization comes specialization.

You can’t reasonably expect farming families to be able to afford all the specialized equipment to be able to willy-nilly change the crops they grow and large corporations are just going to specialize based on economy of scale.

When all you need is a water buffalo and a shitton of labor you can diversify crops all you want but if you have to compete in a low-margin mechanized market you do whatever it takes to keep the farm going even if that means diversity gets thrown out the window in favor of cash crops.
However, if you hire twice as many people, potentially twice as many people will be competent the following year.
But what if they want customers to buy things?
I realize that, but the Hindenburg disaster happened when it landed, and a balloon that's not carrying cargo or people doesn't need to land gently. It can jettison the hydrogen before it gets too close to the ground.
Keep'em monkeys jumpin' through'em hooks if they wanna join the club, that's what I always say :)
The weirdest thing to me is that this is happening though emails. Are there also account reps or something that call and discuss with customers? Business is business and I understand from the post that this appears to be out of Stripe's hands and consistent with agreed upon terms. It's still pretty weird to me to communicate it in a form looking email message though. I would personally not want to trust large amounts of money with a company that sends me existentially bad news this way.
American Airlines Pilots Involved in Near Miss at JFK Receive Subpoenas
No my point is not to rely on a single third party completely
I've been using QGIS a bit for simple things. Viewing OSM road data in a PostGIS database. Viewing geojson files. Everything has been more difficult than I expected, but I think that might just come with the territory. I'm working through PostGIS in Action to try to get the requisite background knowledge.

One thing that's frustrated me, and I want to make sure it isn't a misconfiguration on my end, is that QGIS feels really slow. For example, I have a 150MB geojson file which has 300,000 points with associated metadata. Even when I'm zoomed in such that I can only see a few thousand points at a time, if I pan the map over by 50% it takes at least 10 seconds before it loads in the new points. Many long operations seem to take place synchronously on the UI thread, so the whole app is unresponsive while they take place. Clicking the drop down arrow on a PostGIS Schema to view the tables spins for several minutes. No other Postgres tool I have takes that long, so it's not the database. The PostGIS import/export tools were also extremely slow and didn't have progress bars. I'm using 3.24 currently. I don't want to rag on it too hard, but it's really hampered my enthusiasm for working with maps and GIS.
Even immutable variables can be just redefined/shadowed. You can't do that with constants.
> But instead of incentivizing premium content we spent the subscription revenue to pay people to flood us with low quality click bait and content mill articles.

I suspect these things, but I seldom get confirmation. My view is that Medium articles are low-effort crap that are not even worth the effort to click the link (I stopped clicking those links entirely quite a while back). I wish they'd put half the effort into the article content as they put into getting me to click.

I hope you get it turned around; this is largely a market that isn't served. Subscribing to newsletters is pretty dang expensive with anything less than a FAANG salary.
That’s interesting, which product and version of ArcGIS were you using?
Did they change their minds about the waste in the pools at Fukushima ?

If those had collapsed (and at one point it looked as if they might), it would have fatally irradiated over 10,000 people.
https://archive.is/rHjgp
They serve a legitimate public purpose, to allow the creators of new plant varieties to earn enough to justify their creation. Why are you entitled to the results of this effort but deny the creators their due? Do you think these varieties just come into existence out of thin air, and those patenting them are somehow unfairly exploiting a windfall?
There is also Roc-lang: https://www.roc-lang.org/
Vietnam. No, they don't deliver here or many other places in the world.

I was considering getting one next time I go back to Europe for a vacation but even there it's a many months waiting list. Sure, I could get one second hand but I decided to jump off the hype train instead.
This article gives a great intro into why finally, 10 years after snowden, we may see some real mass surveillance reform, which is exciting. There is also some interesting reporting on some of the recent abuses uncovered in this report:

https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/documents/702%20Document...

> A report on the audit, only recently declassified, found that in the first half of 2020, FBI personnel unlawfully searched raw FISA data on numerous occasions. In one incident, agents reportedly sought evidence of foreign influence linked to a US lawmaker. In another, an inappropriate search pertained to a local political party. In both cases, these “errors” attributed to a “misunderstanding” of the law, the report says.
Firstly, closed source would likely be the antithetical counterpoint to GPL. I refuse to even call it copyleft, because that term is a purity test. I’m a leftist and I BSD/MIT my work so that others may benefit from it. If it’s valuable, they may contribute back. If they don’t, I still haven’t restricted their freedom or choice. An ideological position is usually one that is rigid and uncompromising. GPL/‘copyleft’ is a way of poisoning the commons.
The Digital Antiquarian – Elite, or the Universe on 32 K per Day (2013)
More than tens of thousands of dollars, military aircraft are incredibly expensive to operate and maintain. Beyond the obvious fuel costs, every hour of flight time is followed up by N hours of service.

If I remember correctly, the F-22 Raptor is the champ in terms of highest ratio of service required per hour of flight (40:1).

The F-35 clocks in at 4-8 hours of service per hour flown (6:1).

One example from the article linked below:

USMIL budgeted $39m dollars for the blue angels to fly 69 days in one year. It's up to 11 F/A-18 Hornets at once, but in my experience they only fly for a couple of minutes for a show.

Plus, who knows what kind of math games the military plays in terms of budget reporting. Operating commercial aircraft is already
very expensive, and military craft are an order of magnitude moreso.

The planes are beautiful, though <3, and remain operationally effective.

https://www.inverse.com/article/33711-military-flyover-costs...

Edit: Good points @elif and sandworm101, thank you!
Yeah, it's a box ticking exercise not a finding laundered money exercise. For one, the idea of approaching AML on an organisation to organisation basis seems flawed. Like no team has the whole view, so how can you be effective.

Example, my flatmate worked at a bank doing AML looking into flagged transactions. One day they found a chain of 87 different bank accounts moving money, 1k at a time to obscure it's source. All were real people who had passed KYC. The money came in from another bank, then went out to another. So she calls up the AML teams at those banks - they found similar chains. The only reason they found it at her bank was because the chain got too big.
I used to walk up and down Queen Anne with a backpack on as pre-conditioning for climbing trips!
There’s another typo further down: ‘in roder’
https://archive.is/RBEKF
Good luck trying to turn that USDC back into dollars without significant tax implications, and definitely good luck trying to get your customers to use USDC instead of a credit card
Nobody knows because it's a secret.

If you knew that secret you'd understand what to look for in order to unveil the next secret.
This seems like a decision passed down from the card networks through stripe. Multiple gateways wouldn't necessarily help here.
Wikipedia - fancy html over wire (for example the searchbox)

AirBnB - client side spa.

the kind of page you like is the fancy html over wire kind
I’m assuming this is brilliant humor and not actually proposing crypto as safer for merchants. At least with Stripe you don’t have to worry about someone shutting down your currency.
For me it's just the paywall. I pay for my local newspaper, pay for the NY Times, pay for The New Yorker, but I'm not made of money and I know of nothing at medium.com worth paying for.
Such a post at that time would have greatly improved people's response to the change. Instead what we usually get is a PR sanitized gobbledygook which occupies space without speaking much at all. Now a similar thing is happening with Firefox Android and their extensions. Firefox can easily run most extensions but it's hidden behind a config in a canary release of the browser. No doubt there are some good reasons for it but we simply do not know. Ultimately this is a fault common among almost every product designer. They refuse to explain their decisions fearing (perhaps justly) that they may be proven wrong. Many such cases
The NYTimes digital subscription is doing north of $800M/year. That’s successful in my book.
GM crops are actually one of the areas (along with pharmaceuticals) where patents are most legitimate. Crop plants are literally things that manufacture themselves; the barrier to entry if patents didn't exist would be negligible. No one could justify the effort to create new plant varieties.
Says the guy who didn’t write his own operating system.
If user don’t want to access the iOS App Store they can build the app themselves, I don’t really see what’s your counter argument here. The point I’m making is do not rely on any third party service completely
(Edwin from Stripe here.) This is a really unfortunate situation. I can't talk specifics since it's a regulatory/legal matter and the decision wasn't up to us. But as others have pointed out, Stripe Connect should be used if you're building a marketplace. This gives the marketplace owner, Stripe, and the card networks some visibility into what's being exchanged—and so the marketplace owner can put proper safeguards in place to keep the marketplace safe, for both sellers and their customers. I'm saddened by what happened and I hope this does not deter JR from building future products.
I've always thought that "developer outreach" was an interesting way to spell "the sales department making engineers create marketing material to order in order to target their customer's engineering departments' engineers".
The transaction is fundamentally between a human client and a corporation. With an AI shopkeeper or with a human, it doesn't matter - you don't steal from the till attendants, you steal from the corporation.
Thank you for being so candid. FWIW I think you are bang on with your assessment and I'm really hopeful that I can get back to using Medium again.
People blame crypto for many things but at least crypto is not monopolized and you don't need the approval of a third party to use crypto to pay.
I remember using Songbird in the late 00s, a music player built on top of XULRunner, as well as a twitter client. They're not exactly 1-to-1, but there's something funny to how Electron provides that browser-based platform for desktop apps now.
> https://www.facebook.com/usawtfm/photos/a.10150129458503606/...

Funny. Would love to see that on a (CLASSIFIED) or higher thread.
> they will lose every time.

Then I dearly hope turning down the thermostat, stopping eating meat, and crowding in public transport isn't necessary to prevent climate change.

Because if it is, and if you're right, then we are fucked.
This is all too soon to decide:

-We don't know how costs will look like after intensive optimization

-The results of chatGPT are not trustworthy. If someone solves or greatly improves on that, he'll win.

-Even if it would mean reduction in gross margin, Google has no choice. They'll accept that fact sooner or later.
There's another discussion here currently, concerning another academic study concluding that Wikipedia has a "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744696

Basically I agree. Generally speaking the English Wikipedia skews slightly left. However, Wikipedia is so vast that the direction and intensity of bias can vary from topic to topic even in the English Wikipedia. (For example, I once came across a whole bevy of articles singing the praises of the Kazakh government.) It all depends on who is most interested in the articles and most motivated to edit them.
Missiles have a finite lifespan. They use the older ones first. Firing one the day before it has to go back for refurbishment might save money. You won't have to ship it back. Fired missiles are also generally not replaced, under the assumption that a new stock of better missiles will likely be ordered in a few years anyway.

And the cost of the plane is also complex. This pilot/aircraft renewed some quals on this flight, reducing training needs. The aircraft was likely going flying that day anyway. So the net cost of the operation was likely minimal.
I think that beyond computer source code, which is more specific mostly to 1 industry, the Internet played a role in that for sure. It's remarkable that people around the globe can understand and laugh at the same things, almost at the same time.
You're almost certainly right, of course, and it's interesting how medium fell into the same cycle of amplifying junk. Netflix is another case study here of something where the incentives weren't as obvious as with advertising funded content but still fell into line.

But mainly I came here to note the irony of this frank, honest and useful discussion taking place under an "X is dead" headline of its own.
Do you see a shift away from clickbait in the long term across the industry? Publishing, search, social media, etc. have been devastated by it (among other factors).
Flurly’s selling point was dramatically lower fees compared to Gumroad. Unfortunately the take rate isn’t sustainable to run a marketplace that does things like vet sellers - the products sold on Flurly all seemed like spam/scams -wasn’t surprising to see Stripe shut it down.

If I remember correctly Flurly did $500kish in sales over maybe 6months? Sounds great but the take was only 1%. That’s $5000usd over 6 months. Not a sustainable model.
Hypersonic craft aren’t terribly maneuverable, to add an idea.
Do the vendors specifically want cars as a whole, or specifically their cars and delivery vehicles? We could allow just the latter, and prohibit cars that aren't in service of the market. Similar to the "Healthy Streets." The rules won't be 100% honored of course, but it'd likely reduce a substantial amount of the traffic there. Especially if towing is on the table for non-Market-affiliated cars parked there.