skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome extension that solved a couple of everyday problems from a single view:

a. Controlling YouTube. I used to have a hard time finding the YouTube tab midst a bunch of open tabs, and if someone would approach me at my desk (good old days when we had offices with people) I didn't want to open the tab to pause the song (or to play it again, or to go next/previous) so this extension would find the tab and show me a simple UI to control it. I later on extended it to be controllable via a hosted URL which I could put in an Android app. This was helpful because if I had to ever leave the desk and song accidentally played out loud, I can pause it from the phone.
b. Controlling Jenkins. I had a bunch of builds running and it was painful to visit and see the status, again, amidst all the tabs.
Just to attend.
Whats the salary in comparison to lets say full-stack webdev.
reducing quality of life to be more like the rest of the world is not really a great sales pitch. america is a sales-driven society.
What happens, exactly, when everyone’s resistive heater kicks in, the grid is overloaded, and we wind up with rolling blackouts in -30 weather?
Agreed. There are many, many smartphone brands that sell/operate only in Asia, and some only in Europe.

I don't know of any brand that operates solely in the US. And the number of brands available here is ever shrinking, down to what 5 or 6?
$600 for one that will run your gas furnace. $15000 for one that will run your whole house. You probably want to spend more than the cheap end just so it is reliable. Or you can hook an inverter up to your car.
Without said "war on heating oil" suddenly it becomes cheap to install multiple heating systems in your house?

What changes with it not being political suicide? Government subsidies paying to add oil infrastructure to houses and to pay for unused pipelines?
I remember Spilhaus as the man who, as he was leaving for greener pastures, called the U. of M a 'great, grey mediocrity.' I'd guess that that opinion caused (besides consternation) some reflection.

Now it'd be great to see the U. do more to make up for how it got those land grants the article mentioned (from Mr. Morrill).
> which a power outage does not

Things that don't work without electric power:

* Refrigeration. For a 6-12 hour power outage, leaving the doors closed is sufficient. For 1-3 days, fridge temperatures may be maintained by buying bags of ice, but not a freezer.

* Emergency communication. Landline phones might still function, depending on exactly where the breakage occurred. Cell phones have 24-48 hours of battery power at the most.

* Central heating. Even a gas furnace requires electricity for its controller.

* Kitchen ranges (conditional). For a gas range, this depends on whether you have a lighter or matches.

A power outage disrupts normal life. During a power outage, you cannot cook food, cannot preserve food, and cannot heat your home. Depending on the duration, sheltering away from home may be the less disruptive option.
> AND we attempted to shut down nuclear power plants but that appears to be on hold for now.

California has had a grand total of four nuclear power plant, three are decommissioned, the fourth has is scheduled to have its two reactors be decommissioned in 2029 and 2030.

The “on hold” description for the 5-year extension (the schedule used to be 2024/2025) is inaccurate: it was contingent on replacements being identified and operational, those have been identified but were delayed by factors including a temporary tariff on relevant components, but are expected to be operational well before the 2029 date.
I've heard that some people with absolute pitch lose it as they age (50's and 60's), but they tend to lose it in a weird way. Apparently, they still have absolute pitch in a sense, but it just kind of shifts over time so it's a little offset. It'd be like if you could still see color, but all the sudden your blues started to look purple or something like that. Curious if anyone with absolute pitch can confirm.
> I really, really regret installing a gas stove

Why?
> Functional or delicious ≠ accurate to the source material.

Alright, but most people aren't looking for accuracy relative to the source material.

They're looking for code that does a specific thing, or food that tastes a certain way.

> If the scientific method is getting to the truth, why on Earth would you put an obstacle in front of it?

Possibly because they aren't doing science. They may be doing software development or baking instead.
And not putting up a sign explaining why it's a necessary fence is a bad decision. Avoiding removing all unlabeled fences because they might, maybe, potentially be useful, is also likely a bad decision if taken to it's conclusion.
It still happens, a fellow student and friend of mine got this response ('installed it for you') about two years ago at Radboud University Nijmegen after entering `sudo apt install nasm`
It could have been, but ideologues won’t stop talking about wind turbines vs fossil fuels. Over 30% of California’s grid comes from renewable resources, which seems great, but appears to have come at a cost.
That's an amusing anecdote, though I find it bothersome the sysadmin failed to correctly implement the echo command
Natural gas is ubiquitous in the US indeed. Which is why a small peninsula on the edge of the state/country deciding to ban it shows how insular NYC leadership is.
I would be wary of counterfeits. I got counterfeit Duracell 9V batteries from a well-known online retailer who co-mingles inventory. They dropped to about 5.5V after a month of use and, on closer inspection, were made of subtly different materials.
Convection will move air in my house. The safety will turn off the fan at overtemp, but it will keep the pipes from freezing.

I.need to replace my 50 year old furnace, modern ones don't work that way because it isn't compatible with high efficiency.
> The apple ecosystem is just such a seamless and enjoyable experience. Airdrop

This has not been my experience with Airdrop, unfortunately. Transferring files from my iPhone to my 2015 MBP via Telegram is far more predictable experience than relying on Airdrop.

And I absolutely loathe that Apple makes it impossible to Bluetooth files to my aged Windows/Linux PC. Terrible UX.
> travel through whole Germany

theoretically yes

but outside of going to close by cities it's very unpractical

the moment you travel a longer distance it's not just "usually slower", it's most times way slower and you don't have the comfort of e.g. seat reservations and you tend to have to switch trains way more often meaning the chance of unexpected delays increases exponentially.

E.g. Berlin => Munich with ICE 4 hours but with RE+RB 12 hours. (RE,RB are included in the Germany wide ticket but IC,ICE are not)

Basically the ticket includes all metro transportation train networks across Germany as well as the trains which connect "regional" places (e.g. small cities, villages) with each other and the bigger hubs.

This still can be a major money saving, especially for people which live slightly outside the transportation network of a metro area (which helps because housing prices have been kinda high in many metro areas in recent years).

Or saves money e.g. in summer when taking a day trip to a lake or nice hiking place outside of the reach of the metro area (which also can be a big help for day trips for people earning just a bit about the limit under which you get social support).

I.e. it will help the most people which are currently affect the most by the current inflation and other post-covid effects, while it still is a really convenient thing for everyone else.
You might be overselling your competence
It transitively expands out to 47 unique packages? Still doesn't seem that crazy to me:

$ cargo tree -e no-build --prefix none | sort | uniq | grep -v sudo | grep -v '\*'
aho-corasick v0.7.20
atty v0.2.14
bitflags v1.3.2
block-buffer v0.10.4
cfg-if v1.0.0
clap_builder v4.1.14
clap_derive v4.1.14 (proc-macro)
clap_lex v0.4.0
clap v4.1.14
cpufeatures v0.2.6
crypto-common v0.1.6
digest v0.10.6
env_logger v0.9.3
error-chain v0.12.4
generic-array v0.14.7
glob v0.3.1
heck v0.4.1
hostname v0.3.1
humantime v2.1.0
io-lifetimes v1.0.9
is-terminal v0.4.5
itoa v1.0.6
libc v0.2.140
linux-raw-sys v0.1.4
log v0.4.17
match_cfg v0.1.0
memchr v2.5.0
num_threads v0.1.6
once_cell v1.17.1
proc-macro2 v1.0.54
quote v1.0.26
regex-syntax v0.6.29
regex v1.7.3
rustix v0.36.11
sha2 v0.10.6
signal-hook-registry v1.4.1
signal-hook v0.3.15
strsim v0.10.0
syn v2.0.11
syslog v6.0.1
termcolor v1.2.0
thiserror-impl v1.0.40 (proc-macro)
thiserror v1.0.40
time-core v0.1.0
time v0.3.20
typenum v1.16.0
unicode-ident v1.0.8
This is great! Now when I break into a system I can quickly verify if they've got this aspect of sudo logging setup or not!

Only 1/2 /s
Could you tune in to the radio transmissions?
>"we literally can't have all of you online at the same time in v4, y'all have too many devices".

CGNAT solves that problem. The issue is more that all of your devices can't act as servers on the internet. Most people on the internet don't have a desire to run a server. So really the 4 billion cap of IPv4 is more about 4 billion different servers than 4 billion client devices.

>but you act like the correct solution is an unacceptable horror story

No, I am acting like the correct solution doesn't have any incentives to be implemented.
Hence induction stoves.
Whether hypochondriacs exist really has no bearing on how people feel about their interaction with the medical system.

And it's pretty clear that for many people, they don't feel like their needs are being met.
Lisp has very minimal syntax and so you can build a lisp interpreter fairly easily in many languages. Most languages don't have a readily available python interpreter that you can embed, and building one that is feature parity with CPython (the most popular python implementation) is not an easy task.
There's some code I wrote 30 years ago that's still running inside a text-based, multiplayer, internet game (LPMUD). I wouldn't say it's useful, per se, but it'll probably continue to run for at least several more years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPMud
Uh huh. They were happy to use those measurement techniques just three years ago when they were predicting doom. They didn't even start measuring fish species until the 2019 survey. Now the coral has unfortunately rebounded, their prior methods suddenly aren't good enough anymore. She isn't even saying there's a problem here, just that she doesn't have data to say! That's really desperate.

She's also moving the goalposts, but her argument makes no sense. Now the coral is at record-breaking coverage the problem has become that it's the wrong type of coral - except the justification for it being the wrong type is that it consists mostly of the type of coral that grows the fastest. Which is obvious and circular: in any natural ecosystem that involves regular dieoffs and regrowths, some species will grow back faster. That's inherent to a diverse natural world, the exact thing she claims to be worried about losing.

Putting corals aside for a moment, I hope we can find agreement on the underlying meta-scientific issue here. Scientists in whatever field should carefully study their domain and either come to fully understand it, or if they can't do that, at least understand their own level of understanding. What people need to see from universities is a recognition when they make confident predictions that are later falsified. Without the recognition that falsification has occurred, science cannot advance.

In this case they're refusing to accept that falsification has happened, instead engaging in ad hominem attacks, goalpost shifting, circular reasoning and other fallacies. The approach of these biologists is summed up by this chef's kiss statement:

"While there’s no data to prove or disprove it, it’s also probable ..."

Literally "although we have no evidence, we know what's happening anyway". The scientific method has gone AWOL.
>and for heating, where, if what all the heat pump folks say is true, gas should fall out of favor vs. heat pumps eventually anyway

This is exactly what governmental action is meant to put a stop to. We have a case where due to inertia, consumer preferences, market failures w.r.t. externalities, etc. residential gas use would, if left to the market, make up a significant proportion of heating energy.

Maybe "eventually anyway" gas would "fall out of favor", but what needs to happen is for it to no longer be in use (along with 1000 other such changes). The market cannot achieve this for us.
> Northern New York is very cold.

Lots of houses burn oil in NY. That will still be possible.
The remark I was responding to was clearly talking about private cars not commercial vehicles:

> the low hanging fruit remains the vast numbers of private vehicles not currently served by charging schemes. Those people are basically everyone who doesn't own a house with a garage where they can install the bespoke charger for their particular EV.
https://archive.ph/AQvCW

http://web.archive.org/web/20230429165712/https://www.nytime...
Also bad for insulation, since it's mostly an open hole to the outside in your kitchen
Same, I don't get why would people use Apple Messages that is only for android over Whatsapp. What is the advantage of APple Messages?
Some form of backup heat is considered rather essential in many parts of Canada, including in suburban detached homes. A small fireplace-style natural gas burner that doesn't need electricity is common -- I think about 1 in 4 homes have one? A significant proportion further have something else, like a wood stove, or bottled gas.

When the grid goes down for an extended period, people can and do freeze, or suffer the effects of poisoning or fire, from less safe forms of heat used out of desperation. (BBQ grill or wood/trash fire indoors, etc.) The Quebec/New England region grid collapse during the 1998 ice storm was particularly bad with dozens dead. An atypical event, but many do plan for that kind of eventuality in some way, whether by having backup heat or hopefully knowing someone who does.
You can take hot showers with a tankless Propane water heater as well assuming there's water pressure, costing < $300 on the low end. Sure, proper ventilation is important...

Gas spoils & does not store for very long. Diesel & propane are both better at storage.

You can even run generators off propane, though at less power than gas. There's even dual fuel (Gas & Propane) generators you can purchase for < $300 USD. It won't power your house, but it will at least be something which can charge batteries & run small appliances. They are loud though. If you own a house, getting a proper generator is the better choice. If you need something off grid or in an apartment (running on the balcony for ventilation), a single smaller generator or 2 in parallel will work. Smaller generators also save on fuel.

At the end of the day, multiple fuel sources will probably work. Wood/coal/propane/kerosene for heat, solar/diesel/propane/gas for electricity, etc. Most grid down scenarios last less than a few days.

Being able to boil water is important as well. There are often boil alerts when there are brown outs.
Python has not always been as popular as it currently is.

Many apps were created before Python's current popularity so they did not choose Python for scripting.

Lisp and Scheme are relatively easy to parse and were taught as part of introductory computer science courses (for example: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati...) before Python was taught for such courses.

This meant that a large number of programmers were / are familiar with Scheme or Lisp and that it could easily be added to projects without too much effort.

Scheme is still used in many projects:

Guile Scheme is the official extension scripting language of the GNU project:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

The Gimp also uses Scheme for its Script-Fu:

https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-script-fu-tutorial.html

Lisps are also used:

AutoCAD uses AutoLisp:

https://blogs.autodesk.com/autocad/autolisp-to-automate-your...

Emacs uses EmacsLisp:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/in...
Creating Supabase and Postgres extensions for database.dev
I also did the same but its a web app, https://github.com/mkagenius/audioGPT (i also have it hosted but I am afraid if i post the link, it would eat through all my credits)
Compile-Time 'Fun' with Std.ranges
C++20 allows to `almost` natively use std.ranges for template meta-programming. Idea explored at - https://github.com/boost-ext/mp.
Pretty big miss on that particular statistic don’t you think?

It’s like if your a top basketball player but you come last in movement speed.
"The first major innovation to the internal combustion engine in over 100 years" claimed there suggests they're not familiar with the Wankel rotary engine upon which their design is based; the modern eccentric shaft version first ran in 1958.
> And of course more rural places would also feature wood stoves as a backup.

Sure, but that’s worse than natural gas
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*And about it being a bad business opportunity since people would only use it once in a few years, I totally get that and if I pull this off by any chance, that’s definitely one of the first things I’d have to look into.
That’s what causes the problems.
We're getting our audio onto Spotify via CDBaby's distribution program, and they require 44.1 kHZ/16 bit.

(I initially tried uploading 24bit and they rejected it.)
Exxon Mobile, for example, is known to have had incredibly accurate warming models built by its own scientists going back as far as the 70s, and then lied to the public about the dangers. They also lied when the existence of these models became public knowledge saying the scientists told them they should "make up their own minds" about the science, but fortunately a bit of investigation into their internal communications revealed the differences in what they said internally and the lies they told the public.

1. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-a...
Ugh. This still isn't quite what I want. I can't stand Docker. It's so damn heavy.

All I want is something like the following:

- Sandboxed applications

- With an agent to control which ones run on a machine

- A GUI to easily observe and manage deployments

- Infra-as-code using a sensible file format (anything but YAML)

I imagine this working best with VM-based runtimes like .NET and WASM. The ability to control resources consumption isn't there yet, but I don't see why you couldn't have a runtime that gives fine-grained controls over sandboxing and resource consumption.

This idea came about from observing discourse on replacing conventional hypervisors with WASM/WASI.

Forget Docker. Forget OCI. Forget Kubernetes/SWARM. We just need a simple system for orchestrating apps that are already VMs.
Interesting that in figure 2. the nine white key chords) there are keys labelled as 'H'?? it seems like they should be 'B' instead.
> If people use Firefox, they're probably a privacy wonk LARPing an imagined threat model, and are using a shitty cheap VPN used by countless attackers

What kind of nonsense is this? Firefox is a mainstream browser used by millions of people every day. Maybe you're confusing it with Tor?
many people will rent and have no say on what's better for them
I like blog post title.

Introducing Lamini, the LLM Engine for Rapidly Customizing Models

Obviously it still takes a huge amount of work to customize a model to be as good as GPT4 or ChatGPT, that’s exactly why we are building Lamini.

To give developers tools to make it easier.

Hopefully it is clear that it will take more work than 1 day.
Unfortunately we crossed that bridge a long time ago…
I wrote a blog post breaking down some of the reasons Maps (and WeakMaps) are especially useful tools when working with a large number of DOM nodes.
Most people in NYC rent, and there are many other considerations to make when picking an apartment to move into besides what kind of stove it has. You're often taking what you can get. This law will mean that, going forward, there will be more apartments available that don't have air-quality-destroying gas stoves, meaning there'll be more suitable places for people to pick from.

Also, as the other commenter said, these are apartment buildings. If you burn your apartment down it's gonna affect your neighbors. If you mess up your indoor air quality it's gonna affect your neighbors.
Termux sent me down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out the cheapest computer that I could legitimately recommend to someone as a learning computer.

I found $18 Android phones on clearance at Walmart, like the TracFone - Alcatel One Touch Pixi Unite with 8GB Memory Prepaid Cell Phone - Black. I mean, look at the specs:

* 1500 mAh Battery, 800x480 screen

* Quad-core 1.3GHz processor with 1GB of RAM

* Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS

* 3G data speed for fast Web browsing and multimedia downloads

* 3.97" TFT color display

* 2.0MP camera

* 8GB internal memory plus microSD slot

* Expand storage up to 32GB by adding a microSD card (sold separately).

I mean, compare it to a Mac Classic - with this little infographic I made: https://i.imgur.com/7UJjRuc.png

You just would never use the data plan. On wifi, it worked great. So, go to a Starbucks, McDonalds, or Library... And you're coding in basically a real Linux for $18. (!)

This thing was particularly impressive, at $56.20, the RCA Voyager Pro 7 16GB Tablet with Keyboard Case Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) in Charcoal (RCT6873W42KC M). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M7TSY16

This $90 one seems like a reasonable alternative: RCA Atlas 10 Pro (RCT6B06P23H) 10 Inch Android 9 Tablet with Keyboard Black (Renewed). https://www.amazon.com/RCA-RCT6B06P23H-Android-Keyboard-Rene...

And then Chromebooks, of course. At the time I was loving my $169 Samsung Chromebook 3 with 4 GB of RAM from Best Buy. Termux runs great. Loved this machine - I used it all the time. I also played with GalliumOS, which requires "rooting" to Developer Mode. I have a Samsung 128GB USB Drive, and a 16 GB microSD card, and both seem to work. I use a mouse, sometimes. Android Apps were a little dodgy - the mouse turned into a black square, sometimes, for instance. And this was even before they offered a full Linux shell on Chrome! Now it's far easier, of course.
As a fan, I’m torn. It would’ve been amazing to chat with him, but then there was that passage (in A Moveable Feast, I think?) where he lambasts a stranger (long after the fact, in said piece) for interrupting his train of thought while writing at a cafe.
The uniformity vs variability is not the issue I think. The opposite of procedural generation is manual generation, and a level designer would add required variety by hand too.

The problem with procedural generation is (over)use of it to generate gameplay. In your example it'd be "we have 50 million different offices to explore!", but they're all just different arrangements of the same desks.
All kinds of reasons. Besides widespread societal misinformation going back to the tobacco lobbyist days, a five-year-old cannot express a preference not to inhale toxic fumes.