skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I had my family trust notarized the lawyer recommended keeping a copy in the freezer as it's the most likely place in the house to survive a house fire.
>> I wondered if maybe it was practical to create a new language by removing stuff from C++.

What would be removed and why?

The issue is that whatever is left would not be C++ and it would be difficult to get everyone to agree about what should be removed.

Hyrum's law (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/) also applies, so you can't remove anything without breaking things for someone.

If you want a simpler, yet quite capable modern language, I would recommend Go (https://go.dev/). It might not replace C++ depending on your use case (for example: embedded programming or writing operating system drivers), but it is a good general purpose language that is easy to learn and easy to use.
I've been speccing a home storage server in the 50-100tb range and was considering this, but annual electricity costs made it infeasible. How much power does a machine like this consume?

My calculation off a Dell 2U was something like 195W idle - ~900 kWH / year. I'm in California so paying 50 cents per kWH, that would be ~$450 per year -- decided to scale back to a low power tower with huge disks. More upfront, but less annually. More disk drives (6tb vs 18tb) increased that to the point where I figured it was better to have fewer larger disks, even if they are pricier, because of the cost to run them.
It’s not “amazingly non-performant” though. I assume the comment was thinking of something dynamic being run through an interpreter, which might be 1-10% as performant as native, but if you design the bytecode to be statically compilable and simple you can do a lot better. A 30%ish performance hit really isn’t bad for perfect cross-platform compatibility, determinism, and sandboxing for free, and the gap will close as it matures
It's hard to prove causality, but I don't think it's a coincidence that not long after the protectionist Inflation Reduction Act passed, Chevy has now cancelled the Bolt EV and EUV.

The Bolt was a rare success story of making a pretty decent reasonably-affordable EV.

The IRA removed the tax credit that Kia and Hyundai vehicles were previously eligible for. I think Chevy is banking on sedans/hatchbacks being so expensive that more consumers will say, "oh well, I guess I'll get a truck."

Maybe Kia and Hyundai and Nissan and Volkswagen will fill the cheap, small car demand eventually as they setup U.S. assembly lines and ramp up production.

I think if we cared more about climate change than geopolitical concerns and U.S. jobs and whatnot, we'd just let BYD sell the Seagull in the U.S. on a level playing field.
> I've seen the spot instances priced significantly higher than on-demand

How is the cap price not on-demand cost? Why would you not just swap to on-demand at the turning point?
The reason the stock market grows is because businesses on that market grow. A factory opens another warehouse; apple invents a new phone. The reason to hold stock is just to wait until your ownership stake (stock) in the business is worth more because the business is more economically productive.

A crypto token cannot be economically more productive. The only means by which its value can increase is ponzi-economics, ie., by more people entering the system increasing the *apparent* future demand for that token.

When people stop entering the system, tomorrow -- or in a decade -- the whole thing collapses.
A hopefully not-too-annoying reminder that this isn’t a future that is sustainable or desirable to live in compared with alternatives. It’s really just better than the automotive hellscape you are used to.

Phoenix is one of the most car-centric places to live in the country. The only reason anyone needs a service like this is because of the area’s complete failure in urban planning.

Car-focused infrastructure is incredibly expensive per capita compared to alternatives that prioritizing walking, cycling, and public transit. It maximizes the amount of public utilities (roads, sewers, etc) needed to serve one family.

One pair of train tracks can serve more human commuters than a 12-lane highway. One bus can replace 30-40 cars, and neither option needs fancy automation to be more cost and carbon efficient than a robotaxi.

Waymo might band-aid the transit situation where you live but it’s doing nothing to address the fundamental problems with large urban areas that require the use of personal vehicles.
I guess it has many, but to me the overall niche is as a potential replacement for the existing financial system, which is a grand mess held together by early 20th century economic theory, mid systems architecture, and... COBOL.

The first of those is the most important and impactful, in that economic theory has not, to date, been adequately updated for a world where labour markets can suddenly be replaced in their entirety by a few lines of python.

Or a world where manual labour can be downloaded, printed-out and assembled autonomously. It isn't here yet, but is not too far away, all the various bits are being created as we speak.
The shift has to be away from a labour-based economy.

This is because labour value will drop to zero eventually. So we need another way to distribute generated value. It's a bit of a mess and large experimentation is going on - but crypto is at least in there touching those things.

As for growing hugely:

Crypto is reliably volatile, and also reliably exponential in its general growth. The linear charts look horrific, but the logarithmic versions are quite stable. This is the only way - historically - to measure its growth accurately:

https://www.coingecko.com/en/global-charts (select logarithmic)

Given the final point on the chart represents about $1.2 trillion, you can see there's a large amount of exponential momentum there. ("Technically" it could go to zero overnight, but it seems unlikely... the NASDAQ technically could too.)
> The FDA must have done something right

They have just as many issues as any other regulating body. There's many ingredients that are deemed safe in the US that the rest of the world has banned.

Every regulating body has been compromised thanks to late stage capitalism.
B. I work for public institutions, and I use Postgres, not Oracle. When Docker Desktop hit, we moved to podman. Public procurement is a hell, Open Source is the default option and only RedHat and VMWare still reap billions in profits from new public contracts.
that and rolling coal - I see at least one per month in texas.
What is the reason anyone would pay more for a spot instance than an on-demand instance?
Confidently incorrect.

The popularity of SUVs is the result of a "loophole" in government incentives. By being classified as light trucks, regulations which apply to cars don't apply to them. This lead automakers to push trucks and SUVs rather than smaller cars. Simple as that.

If the regulatory pressure were applied in another direction, e.g. by scaling road tax with the 4th power of mass (as road damage scales) or by removing this ludicrous loophole, we would have smaller and more efficient cars rather than monstrosities with hoods as tall as a 14 year old.
Well which JS framework(s)/librar[y|ies] are you then using/advocating for, if you agree that React is needlessly complex?
Swift has support for server web apps (https://vapor.codes/), so I assume it has some interoperability with other operating systems.
I normally just use something like:

<svg viewBox="0 0 5 5">
<path d="M0,0h5v1h-5m0,1h5v1h-5m0,1h5v1h-5z" />
</svg>
If they really can learn at high speed then that would be a significant competitive advantage, more important than getting things right up front.
This is a considerably more thoughtful comment and I appreciate your reflection. I also can see how my initial response was a little broad and over-generalizing. I do think there is an interesting conversion in there about whether a group of technically minded people outside the "in group" of the peer reviewer circle (of whatever paper in question) could offer different and potentially important feedback.

Although I should add I have no background in academia and don't feel prepared to have that discussion.
Guess my age: I'm mad at Google for 1) Reader 2) Breaking + as a search operator
Or its close friend: when I want to use the data or customize the UI via `document.querySelectorAll`
Ukraine shoots down Russian hypersonic missile using US Patriot system
Seriously, bizarre posts like this are starting to sound more and more like conspiracy theories.
Imagine believing that anyone at Alphabet gives a fuck what a 5% shareholder wants.
The marginal benefit of putting a tipping screen in the payment flow is close to zero. If one person during the whole year avoids the creepy store that demands tips, it's pure loss.

(iphones can be purchased online, btw)
This is very annoying. In Safari, clicking icons in that style of nav bar instead brings up the browser’s back/forward buttons, and requires a 2nd click in a new location now that the nav bar has been offset by the height of the back/forward buttons.
I looked up ”abhuman” and I think I still stand by ”subhuman”, literally ”lower than human”. That’s precisely what I meant: any ”being” designed and engineered by humans will be inherently less than human. The question ”but what if they are exact reproductions of humans” does not count, because then they would be human clones, which is something else. As long as we created them for a reason, they are (and should be) subject to a different rule set. To discuss what exactly ”sentience” or ”feelings” mean is a meaningless dead end. We must draw the line and stand by it; not doing so would be extremely disrespectful to the importance of being human, snd probably the beginning of the end.
One thing that moderation should also do is restrict which accounts can see your posts in their discovery feed. Even if the posts are public and those account would be able to navigate to the posts with a link sometime some of your followers are just there to spam/troll.
It's sad because AirBnB has also similarly shrunk the "suite" class of room that we as a 5 person family need. So we're forced into using AirBnB/VRBO because hotels only offer 2+2 (and most rental sites don't let you even look for 5 person rooms). Ugh.
lmao, as if the designer is in charge of what they’d like to do 90% of the time.
True, it has. But, the failure rate is not zero. And more plants mean they will happen more often. I’m just pointing out that it’s rational to worry about a small probability high consequence disaster.

Nuclear fission is a reaction with a positive feedback loop, making it naturally unstable, and requires some mechanism to create a negative feedback of greater magnitude to make it stable. And that requires some kind of active machinery to function properly. If that machinery fails, then the feedback loop becomes positive again. Machines can always fail, so I doubt that fission can ever be made completely safe.
Oy. Author of this. Surprised to see this here. If you’re curious, recently launched beta [1] and also wrote up a “why” to the project [2].

Also: a StumbleUpon-like explore experience of pages created using mmm.page [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1653740562648821760?s=46

[2] https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1631746024120221698?s=46

[3] https://explore.mmm.page
Flying cars is a dream of baby boomers. To everyone else, this is a nightmarish scenario of unending noise and exhaust spewing from these baby boomers flying over the residential areas.
Brake distance, the heavier the vehicle the longer it takes to slow it down.
How does the CA get the registrar's public key in a way that cannot be spoofed or hacked like you say DNS and HTTP verification can? If your thread model already includes hacking a CA's network infrastructure, getting them to accept the wrong key as valid doesn't seem any more difficult than the others.
"you swipe through 30 HN stories a day"

I don't know who does that. I look at titles and decide which ones I want to look at. With tiktok, you don't know what's coming next, and normally it takes you at least one or two seconds to know if it's a video you want to watch. Also TikTok content is personalized and there is no end blah blah. It's designed to make you addicted.

By the way I have read a lot of interesting/helpful articles on HN, many of which are not easy read. Many people would agree with me. Also I have read a lot of articles with a critical eye and left critical comments (like this one), never did that on TikTok.

These are just some basic rebukes of your comment. I can go on and on. I think the difference between TikTok and HN is very clear. Not saying TikTok is better than HN, they are different products, but it's very disingenuous to draw parallels between them.
There is a lot I don't like about Brave, but I can't fault them for having the best mobile app on market (for me).

Why not Firefox? Bad redesign release a few years back and now discernible way to change the accessibility so it holds always. Old.reddit text is too small to be read no matter what I've tried.

None of the other browsers on Android I've found to be worth the time.
I should have clarified I'm not picking on the Model Y in particular because I think it's a perfectly reasonably sized car and I agree it's much safer than most full-size trucks, it's just surprising how much EVs can weigh. The worrying trend is that moving forward, there are a lot of EVs much bigger than the model Y in the pipeline:

* Kia EV9 (likely ~6,000 lbs)

* Volvo EX90 (likely 6,000+ lbs)

* Rivian R1S (7,000 lbs)

* Electric Chevy Silverado (likely 8,000+ lbs)

* GMC Sierra EV (likely 8,000+ lbs)
They demonstrated that "build it, and they will come" works if what you build turns out to be useful enough.
Most people don't like listening to overtly artificial voices for anything long form. Breath pauses also give the listener time to chunk things.
See page 17. Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace openly used as the platform for stolen items. If the study's authors can find it why can't Facebook and Craigslist? Can't they use AI to police these activities?
Microsoft and AMD are reportedly teaming up to combat Nvidia’s AI dominance
For such an expensive and important purchase, only a small fraction of people would care about this label. There are too many other factors at play (Can this car fit my whole family? Is this car safe, affordable, reliable? etc)
Ask HN: Tips/tricks for Linux workstations that everyone should know
Linux users, what are your favorite little hacks, convenience scripts or essential things that you managed to make work (and that are traditionally hard on Linux)?

Alternatively, what is a simple thing you have in your system that you think everyone should have?

I'm interested in potentially learning any essential stuff that I might be missing out. Could be related to usability, accessibility, security, battery life or anything else really.
Isn't the answer lobbyists? A good example is FCC carrying water for them
Having been on a paper review board, the selection process is essentially credentialism for credentialism’s sake. Anyone who’s done a paper or two is deemed to be qualified, and as it’s unpaid, uncredited bonus work on top of your day job, the slots aren’t competed for very hard.

I would say the primary difference between a conference peer review board and HN is that the author is obliged to respond to the reviewers on the board. I would not say there’s any particular difference in qualifications.
That summary hardly inspires confidence, it's awful.
We have plenty of flying cars today thanks to our crumbling infrastructure! It's that infernal hard stop at the end that's the problem. /s
Gotta say, it’s kind of clever to put AirTags in bags of cash that are being transported via armored truck.
you do have to structure things properly to make progressive enhancement work with htmx

for your example, you wouldn't have a div, you'd use an anchor:

<a hx-get="/example" href="/example">Get Some HTML</a>

or, more likely, just boost it:

<a hx-boost="true" href="/example">Get Some HTML</a>

and then on the server side you'd need to check the `HX-Request` header to determine if you were going to render an entire page or just some partial bit of HTML

if you go down the progressive enhancement route you need to think carefully about each feature you implement and how to make it compatible w/ no-js. Some patterns (e.g. active search) work well. Others (drag and drop) don't and you'll have to forgo them in the name of supporting noJS

nb: unpoly is a more seamless progressive enhancement experience due to its design goals
How is pricing?
I personally enjoy Svelte.
That aspect does. Yes.
>Assume for now I am not buying anything illegal

Why would we make an assumption like that? Also, who decides what is illegal?

The entire point of decentralized currency is that it isn't controlled by a national government, and is not subject to any particular country's laws or any corporation's policies.

The benefits go beyond just buying drugs, though. Cryptocurrency helps people to circumvent a wide variety of restrictions - from tariffs, to taxes, to labor laws, governments create all sorts of ridiculous barriers that disrupt the free market and make it difficult for people to do business.

If you're happy with your country's government though and are willing to follow whatever rules they happen to make, then of course it would just be easier to use the national currency. Nobody ever claimed otherwise.
I'll be honest, this did occur to me, but by the time it popped into my head, I had run out of time to add an edit addressing it.

Thanks for pointing it out so folks can be wary of AWS (and similar) eating their lunch like they have countless other SaaS services!
"...government outsourced everything..."

Exactly—and with no forethought given to national security, maintenance of shipbuilding infrastructure not to mention keeping skilled trades in place.

A comparison of stats between current shipbuilding capacity and that of its WWII 'Liberty' counterpart would make interesting [perhaps frightening?] reading.
As I understand it a large component of the particulate emissions from cars is resuspended road dust, so it doesn't really matter than an EV or hybrid has little of its own brake dust. The brake dust is already on the ground.
This is a great idea! What have been your findings comparing packaged code vs repo code? If you're interested, I'd love to integrate this in Packj tool.

1. http://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj flags vulnerable/malicious NPM/PyPI/Rubygems packages.
This puts all the computational load on the server.

Imagine 10s of thousands of clients requesting millions of HTML fragments be put together by a single server maintaining all the states while all the powerful high end computing power at the end user's fingertips goes completely to waste.

Not convinced.
I'm surprised I'm not finding a weight vs. stopping distance graph anywhere. I know that the physics theory says weight doesn't matter for stopping distance (spherical cow in a vacuum), but there's some nonlinearity in the friction response that does make it matter somewhat. It'd be interesting to know how big a different it does make.
Only partially ;-)
Wow thanks for sharing. That’s a pretty amazing box, curious what it’s TDP and noise characteristics are
SwagCharm: Developer Apps Released
C. Biggest roadblock to opensourcing is low quality of code. When we open-source, it is usually total crap that only hinders the image of public institutions. Really important, high-value code stays in private hands like this price matching algorithm for EU energy markets [1]

[1] https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/globalassets/download-center/s...
The Kinzhal really does not fit in the modern hypersonics category. It's an old fashioned ballistic missile, and it's even been downgraded by using a plane as the 1st stage instead of a rocket.
SadTalker already does.
It can entirely depend on the deals you get; I was able to rent a Tahoe (largish but not huge SUV) and drive it across the country and back for about a grand; unlimited miles; and I've done similar with a minivan. You get a brand new vehicle that you can put miles on and it's unlikely to fail you.
> a single small request can often take 10+ seconds.

Hah! Good luck getting React even to start up in that environment. Meanwhile oldschool HN will still be snappy. Speaking from experience.
It blows my mind that someone living downtown in a city the size of Phoenix (relatively large) needs to use a car at all. It’s really a shameful failure of urban planning.
Vent and intake the miner to the outside in the summer.
Cuttlefish: Low rank model training without all the tuning
> and I don’t quite know what you mean. ... the fact that both progressions have significantly influenced pop music) is pretty much the extent of the similarities.

The progression of the Canon is

I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V,

but

I-V-vi-III-IV-I-IV-V

and

I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-II-V.

and

I-V-vi-III

are the same progressions, and any progression in 4/4 beginning with I-V-vi-x no matter what the last chord is, is the same progression.

Here's a popular song with the exact same changes transposed to G Major instead of D Major.[1] Here are 20 more of them.[2] (Watch the full video to understand why you are completely mistaken — i.e. why your analysis and objections are wrong, and why your nitpicking unsupportable). Axis of Comedy only used the first four chords of the progression for simplicity's sake, but all of those songs are identical or near enough to the Canon to either be considered the same or derivative. No one rational would consider changes novel because they changed one of three or one of eight roots from minor to major, nor would they consider changes novel because they only used the first four roots of the Canon progression.

You are either trolling or have something wrong with your ears. Your argument isn't even pedantry because it is factually incorrect. Please find something else to do.

[1] https://www.guitardownunder.com/songs/memories.php

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PC6jwoHyOk&t=0m52s
I... don't believe you? Like looking at the network request of any SPA I've ever seen there's just tons of requests for even simple page loads. One for main content, one for profiles, one for comments, etc.

In theory stuff like graphql helps but in the reality I'm living in SPA's hit multiple endpoints to get render even simple pages.
The one I linked is a good starter, it's by the manufacturer and has the programmer, dev board, and extra chips. They have other listings too of other variants, such as one with PHY for ethernet connectivity and much more GPIO and compute.
I agree. If I jump up and down and impact the earth with my feet it's quite harmless. I suspect above some lower bound it doesn't matter how much something weighs, it's all about how fast something hits you (because it's mostly you that's being accelerated).

Although the weight (and correspondingly, the size) of a car does play into sight lines, maneuverability and how fast the car can decelerate.
> Worth noting is that there really isn't a push to ban natural gas stoves, that is just politics hyping up something someone somewhere said

NY state has banned gas stoves in new buildings[1]. Someone is pushing enough for legislatures to act.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/us/new-york-natural-gas-ban-c...