skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree - without getting too dramatic, for such an important open standard (HTML) its surprising we don't have a open-source locally-run easy to use, visual authoring tool for HTML websites (and I'll throw Markdown in the mix here, because with tools like https://www.markdownguide.org/tools/markdeep/, useful crossover is possible).

Share this page with people who are passionate about this topic, and perhaps we can gather experts to rally behind an open-source initiative or start one.
Well, the term used for 'climate change due to human interactions' is anthropogenic climate change. Which plays exactly into George Carlin said.

Why use 'anthropogenic climate change' which a regular person won't know the meaning of instead of 'human-caused climate change' or something.
Hey, spare me the bullshit. You know fully well that we are not on the same page. Recording all meetings at work by default for a regular office job is illegal and you have no chance to win the process if any employee sues in Germany. And that would be a costly loss, by the way. You might actually go to jail.

See https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/verboten-video-konferenzen....
> And that makes me think am i a bad programmer

You’re not. We all need documentation and google, and anyone who claims otherwise will eventually shoot themselves in the foot.

I’ve definitely given interview questions my best shot and admitted where I’d defer to the internet.
Was the BSOD screensaver from sysinternals by Mark Russinovich?

I had installed the same and couple of my colleagues sitting around me had done the same.

Our CTO (Robotics simulation software) was visiting and had an early morning meeting. He saw this on all screens and had a minor panic attack fearing a virus outbreak or software bug.
Track flights on iOS without installing anything
> you know they have long memories

At the moment, they kind of notoriously don't have context windows long/big enough to hold a proper grudge.
I checked out Typora today - there are a lot of promising capabilities, especially as you can customize the theme / style sheets. Very cool app, that I would consider revisiting. Paid / requires a license, so its out of scope for this mission.
great so if you have GrapheneOS on your mobile, you'd be a terrorist. My install corrupted recently, and im seriously wondering if its worth fixing or just drinking the kool-aid at this point...this is extremely disheartening :/
The other thing I'd add is cloud agnosticism doesn't scale. If everyone were prepared for it, there wouldn't be enough elastic capacity with other cloud providers. You'd need enough reserved capacity in another cloud to pull it off, but I guarantee you finance will say "no." What makes the most sense is multi-region work since it's more cost effective, and it's the more likely failure scenario.
Desperate people trying to escape brutal regimes are one thing but rich tourists are just asking to become victims of DG bandits.
> This is overly-simplified.

Not really. The comment I was responding to argued there couldn't be a national healthcare system in the US. I wasn't arguing that those systems are perfect.

> The reforms needed are much, much more than simply setting Medicare’s enrollment age to 0

Agree

> especially with the thousands of pages of weird exclusions and conditions enshrined into Medicare over the years.

I agree to an extent. The thing is, healthcare is messy regardless. I simply could not imagine any healthcare payment system that wasn't fairly complex to code out.

> Also this is slightly pedantic, but your examples are NOT national health systems. The closest thing in the U.S. is military medicine, which is (mostly) federally funded with doctors working for and paid by the government.

Agree, and honestly if I had my way I'd nationalize healthcare top to bottom. Capitalism is a race to the bottom with healthcare. There's no real incentive to produce quality (you have a captured market). That incentive is to raise prices as high as possible and cut staff as lean as possible.
I never say please, but at first I was saying "thanks" pretty often

Honestly, I wonder if treating them like servants ingrains bad communication habits in those of us doing so.
I see. Makes sense (at least for first order effects). Thanks!
> Federal law trumps state law

Where do I dispute that?

> The reason national laws are so hard is the filibuster in the Senate and the fact that Republicans are pretty much universally opposed to expanding government healthcare. It's got nothing to do with there being 50 states.

That's a very narrow historical view. Look at any landmark laws passed that have significance on an average person's life - ACA, 2008 Bank Bailout, Patriot Act, AWB. They are few and far between compared to other Western democracies.
"you can wash your hands but you can't wash your lungs"

I've also heard the folk wisdom that the leadfree fumes are worse for you, targeted instead at automated high-volume RoHS compliant factories than the hobbyist hunched over his protoboard but wouldn't know how to find out if one if more harmful than another.
For sure, restructuring how we get doctors to a point where they can begin practicing is a necessary first step to addressing cost.

Throughout the discussions on the topic, the comparison with SWEs keeps sticking with me: there's no world where someone hacking together JS scripts should make more than someone healing human bodies (in terms of "real" take home pay, ie, after fees, debt payback, etc)
Women are largely valued for their physical beauty and capacity to bear children, men are largely valued for their status and their willingness to die for society.
Can you provide citation? Leadfree also requires rosin and flux, no?
The US Forest Service agrees with you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadless_area_conservation
>>>Good luck finding a nanofiche “reader” in a couple of thousand years :-)

A nanofice "reader" is literally just a microscope, isn't it?. Probably a very good microscope, which may or may not be difficult, given the technology of the time, but generally thought to be understandable. You'd store a bunch of this 'nanofiche' in a place, and have some diagrams/example documents with small text getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and the curious people/aliens would (hopefully) understand the idea, know enough about optics to magnify, and boom, they've got the data.
I agree with this generally for TPM and project managers. Even then it’s not that they truly do no work, but that the core coordination work they do (which requires very few, but no 0, man hours) could be done with higher fidelity and context by an EM without it really adding much more work to an EM’s job.

Engineering managers are responsible for their team’s output; they are often held responsible when their team fails to deliver. Product Managers are responsible for setting and prioritizing the product roadmap across a lot of stakeholders, often with specific business goals to achieve, and spending a lot of time doing stuff like talking to customers and helping with marketing/sales/planning/etc; they are also often held responsible when they don’t deliver on these tasks.

It is a very junior engineer perspective to consider it not actual work or for them to have no real responsibilities just because they are not coding. In my experience it has also been common for EMs to be at least staff level ICs skill-wise and PMs to have enough software skills (often having previously been SWEs) that they could be SWEs if they preferred that.
I would have a lot more respect for this if they at least tried to recognize that the genuine concerns about unlimited free speech. Almost every government recognizes threats as not being protected. Libel and slander are also generally not allowed. Some kinds of pornography are considered by large numbers as beyond the pale.

Making universal declarations is easy but not very useful. Real work is done by grappling with the actual limitations. I'd have a lot more respect for a maximalist position that at least understood why some people legitimately reject that position, and not just because they're stinky meanie snowflake boo-boos.

Without that I expect governments to say "thank you for your unrealistic statement, we'll now ignore it and implement whatever we feel like because you're not saying anything to engage with."
Sometime the point of surgery is not survival, but relief from suffering. If the surgery relieved suffering, it might be worthwhile.
Of my first two hires, one was clearly over-employed and had to be let go, and one had to leave due to long COVID, which was heartbreaking. Thats a sort of “being thrown in the deep end” :).
Could you kindly elaborate on selling to the government in Canada. Is it akin to the RFP RFQ process?
Realizing each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own
Good luck with the job search.
I think what Adam Jacob is doing with system initiative addresses this, right off the get go.
I don't think that Signal is a proper substitute for anything that email is used for. Maybe it would be better to work on more secure successors or extensions to email.
And its still very active and often updated! :-)
The problem with Saleae IMO is that their current price point is way out of reach for beginners. The software is wonderful (as is the hardware), but it's hard to justify as a newcomer to the hobby at that price point
solder paste is awesome. At a FabLab I worked at we got pretty proficient at grinding 2-layer circuit boards with a CNC machine (1/64" bit), cutting solder masks with a craft vinyl sticker cutter, applying solder paste over the mask and then baking in a toaster oven. Great process for making 10 of something.
Put another way, the incentives facing any single component of a greater whole does not always align with the incentives of the organization itself. In fact, you could say that a good measure of how well an organization is run is how closely those different incentives align.
He's describing a well known formal attire etiquette:

https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/advice/a33367/how...
Killed in the Darien Gap
The final story of Jan Philip Braunisch, a Swedish tourist executed by the FARC in 2013
> argued there couldn't be a national healthcare system in the US.

That is an strange and reactionary misconstruction. My whole comment was talking about the misunderstanding of US Federalism. Healthcare was a flippant comment as an example in the closing sentence.
Ambulance admission vs 'Walking injured' admission have different triage queues though, so by taking yourself to hospital to avoid 'going to a bad hospital' you're almost certainly nerfing your care.
Hmm seems like improving wikidata’s API performance would be a good use of Wikimedia’s war chest.
We should do more social studies research into US subcultures that have significantly different marriage norms than the mainstream US. Mormons and Asians both have strong taboos against divorce, and also have strong rates of upward mobility (i.e. much higher odds of kids from low income households ending up as high earning adults).

There is some research supporting the link, but not nearly enough: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-marriage-and-divorce-... (“A child born to a never-married mother in the bottom fifth of family income is 3 times more likely to stay in the bottom fifth than a child born to a continuously married mother with equally low income.”).

It’s possible that it’s not marriage per se. Both Mormons and Asians socialize children into “do what you’re obliged to do, not what you want to do.” Marriage is one aspect of that—you get married, and you stay married, and what you “want” doesn’t really matter. But it might be that mentality that also drives upward mobility rather than marriage per se.
What you were responding to was hardly a lazy assumption, and there was nothing rude about it.

> "I merely ask you to imagine yourself in the shoes of someone that competent."

The principle of nullius in verba must apply regardless of how competent one imagines researchers are. If you've spotted a potential methodological problem, you can't just imagine it's solved or handwave it away. You should have a look for yourself and see how it was solved, if solved it was.
How are you identifying location? Are you using the Podcasting 2.0 geolocation tags?

For those curious: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m...
Check out "The Toaster Project".
Ok, I get it, Thanks
Play Factorio, maybe with some more intense mods.
> This is a misconception that's often repeated

I don’t see how “If you use Chebyshev points, polynomial interpolation isn’t problematic” is a refutation of the claim “Polynomial interpolation between a given set of points can be problematic”. That given set isn’t necessarily, and typically isn’t, a set of Chebyshev points.

That’s like saying “Integer factorization isn’t hard. If you pick powers of ten, it’s easy”.
You went through the trouble of searching about it, finding results, and then commenting here, but not including the link(s) you found? o_O
They had to give the Eypc 4 more RAM to populate all its RAM channels.

I've read it has 12 channels of DDR5.
Upgrade by Blake Crouch is a fiction book that uses gene altering pesticides as a culprit for a global food shortage that triggers a massive famine(don’t worry, that isn’t really a spoiler).

It’s interesting to read fiction and then read headlines like this!
Adafruit tutorials and Neopixels can be fun with a very low barrier to entry. Get into sensors and networking from there. The RP2040 by Raspberry Pi is a great chip to start learning with micropython.
I was hoping to get some insight into the roots of NT. At the time my understanding was that it resulted from the split between IBM and MSFT and that MSFT was already developing NT based on their derivative of OS/2. That was IIRC before Dave Cutler went to MSFT.

Later on that (OS/2 -> NT) seems to have been scrubbed from history and NT is now derived from VMS. I'm curious where the truth lies.

It was well documented at the time that early NT error messages occasionally identified themselves as OS/2.

I'm over an hour in and not sure how close I'm getting to that. At about 1:09:00 Cutler states that they "developed NT on OS/2" but I think he meant their toolchain was hosted on OS/2 (and they couldn't wait to get off of it.)
Yes, Clancy is the total opposite of the previous CEO. The former one was kinda like a myth who just appeared once a year to Twich-Con, and nobody even knew who he was then because everyone had already forgotten about him again.

Clancy on the other side is so far on a constant quest to explore and live a Streams life and engage with people. Really impressive. But also generally very unusually for someone in that position to appear this active in Public.
> For example a 20 x 20 mm nickel Nanofiche sheet can hold up to 8,000 pages of text rendered at 150 dpi.

All this depends on the font used, and what kind of information is stored. But using lorem ipsum, and Verdana, and only uppercase characters, spaces, and periods, I found that you can fit about 49,500 characters in a letter format page at "150 dpi" [0]

This is 396 million characters in a 2 x 2 cm sheet. The Latin ASCII alphabet has 26 letters, but in my experiment, there were commas and periods. Though at the resolution I used, commas and periods would be difficult do differentiate if there was almost any degradation or printing error. So let's say it's a 27 character set. Maybe we can stick a few more numbers or symbols in there to get to 32, although some numbers like 1, 0, and 5 look like letters, so not all would be usable at this resolution.

If each character can represent 32 states, that is equivalent to 5 bits per character. 5 x 396 million is 1.98 short billion bits. That is 247.5 million bytes. Or 247.5 megabytes. This is in 4 square centimeters, so the data density is about 61.9 megabytes per square centimeter.

If we give up human readability and the text would be regular language (according to Zipf's Law), we could expect up to 0.2 compression ratios. Or 310 megabytes per square centimeter. On the other hand, we could then use quite dense data storage methods like barcodes. But these calculations are a bit pointless because this is meant to be read without a computer.

A DVD has a readable surface area of about 89.2 square centimeters on each side (some DVDs are multi-sided) and 4.7 to 8.5 gigabytes of storage in that space. So it stores between 54 and 97.6 megabytes per square centimeter.

For storing plain text, it might be on the same order of magnitude in terms of space efficiency as a DVD, but it is human-readable. If the data is not human readable, then it could be at least 5 times more efficient than a DVD. Which is closer to a Blu-ray disk.

Back-of-the-napkin, might contain errors, many assumptions made. The goal is to understand the order of magnitude with some errors. In short - it looks like it's not 100x more or less efficient than writing a plain text file to a DVD.

P.S. I chose Verdana as it was a quite legible sans-serif font. I then created a texture of random black and white pixels, and applied it at 25% opacity to simulate a significant degree of printing error at the supposed resolution they can print at. The font at the chosen size remained just about legible with that kind of interference [1]. The exception is periods and commas, which are difficult to tell apart. That is why I considered them one character before. Making the font even 10% smaller would make it really difficult to read. This is all not grounded in any technique or proper estimation method, I just wanted to show why it seems like going smaller might be difficult.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Pi8acSk.png
[1] https://i.imgur.com/stFkXQy.png
This attitude is an immediate red flag to me. Insert the xkcd of everyone on the subway with the same thought bubble over their heads. The lingering “rockstar developer talent” stereotype, especially in SV, only serves to add fuel to this fire. Developers aren’t special.
Sure, but the man on the Clapham omnibus is going to use Apple's, or whatever's, that's what I don't like - it seems set up to serve incumbents rather than to stand on technical merit.

There's precedent for only supporting certain walled gardens, too: Google MFA sign-in supports Yubikeys et al. only if used in Chrome; in Firefox for example you get the prompt and everything, it just stubbornly refuses to accept it on touch.
Isn't that the farm's problem? At least in theory workers are supposed to be protected with PPE and/or proper procedures. Blaming them for the failure of that feels like blaming chainsaw manufacturers for causing hearing loss.
Is the lead even in the fumes? The temp it evaporates at is much higher.

I understand "lead-free" fumes are actually worse, but you should avoid all fumes regardless.
Motorhead is a memory and information retrieval server for LLMs
Yeah, I live in Vancouver and I can get to a no-cell-service location in like, 30 minutes. This is blatantly inexcusable.
The attitude proceeds from the same presupposition, which doesn’t seem—using planetary ecology as a yardstick—to have much keeping it in check.
Helping our children grow up to be successful adults is not archaic.
I mean, if your argument is that banks don't use the primitives of a standard RDBMS because their needs aren't serviced by a standard RDBMS, of course it's a bad example because you're talking about how to do something in SQL which isn't done in SQL. But that's not a "bank accounts" problem, that's a "how banks with a non trivial number of systems work" problem. If you were implementing a system for managing bank accounts in a single RDBMS, regular transactions would work.
Because it’s on you to show what about the correlation makes causation unlikely, and most people don’t take that step. We all know correlation isn’t causation, that’s trite and obvious. Why wouldn’t the correlation between married parents and better child outcomes be causative?
> You can also choose how many and why type of cars to have

See that's an interesting example. In most places in the US[^1] you have no realistic choice but to have at least 1 car per adult in the household. That's not quite the full extend of choice for "how many cars" one would wish for.

> what food to eat

Have you heard of "food deserts"?

[^1] this is false in a few places that were not bulldozed in the 1960s and still allow for non-car centric life. These places tend to have very high cost of living because they're desirable.
I flip the lid mostly closed on my MacBook and stare off at something across the room past the laptop. While still staring at that thing across the room I bring the display lid up in front of my gaze.
I was expecting a <BLINK> tag
> Today I learned that previously, Twitch explicitly forbade its creators to use other platforms.

To be fair, they never really executed this rule, unless you were a top-creator in the Millionars-club. Small streamers were doing this all the time since years, never had problems. I think because of reactions to the last scandal, and Ninjas move to multistreaming, they were forced to learn to change their view.
How much I made from creating trashy Android apps
> Certified pre-owned is really a brand new car for a lower price for all intents and purposes.

CPO is really a used car with a higher price for all intents and purposes. It got inspected, that is all. Not refurbished.
Yup, that matches my memory of the AmSci project. Particle source, evacuated tube, generator and target. And shielding, depending on the target.

Obviously, anything you can build in a normal USAian basement is probably not going to be 2MV, but it should be fun anyways.
Are we playing a game of “who has the most outrageous life philosophy”?
I hate diced onion.
It's called political compromise, you might remember there are two parties in the system.
Steepness
This is a good one — probably came up on an earlier HN post:

https://youtu.be/2AKtp3XHn38?si=GDHjv1VyxCvMAzQU
did you consider any of the service offerings that do this paper work e.g. SRED?
If that is your view then we are hardly in contradiction, except in our reading of the original remark.

The exemplary individual I described earlier would undoubtedly also look backwards, at what mistakes were made, but also forward, to what improvements can be found. quo me cumque rapit tempestas. Again, this is not a depressing sentiment.
In a previous job, I did some stock taking. Quarterly, without trained people nor procedures instead of a proper cycle coint, done double blind, by a dedictaed team of people (I didn't stay long at that job). Some of the inventory we had to account for, and funny enough most of it was almost correct accounting / revenue shennenigans nothwothstanding, was stored in a huge warehouse that held aerospace grade aluminium and titanium ingots. Thousands of tons of those. All being traded on some exchanges, hardly ever leaving said warehouse.

Propably nobody would ever nice what it was until, if ever, the ingots were to be used to produce bars and other raw materials for production. And even if it wasn't aluminium or titanium by then, propably enough money was earned to just replace it with the real stuff and not worry.
Varoufakis sounds interesting but wasn't he the minister of economy in Greece that further threw the country in economic disarray?
> Certified pre-owned is really a brand new car for a lower price for all intents and purposes.

Not even close. CPOs are usually lease turn-ins or another trade-in with relatively low mileage for its age, but we're still usually talking about 2-3 years old with 30k or so miles. It's basically "used with an extended factory warranty".
"Concrete military bunkers are a ubiquitous sight in Albania, with an average of 5.7 bunkers for every square kilometer", with 750,000+

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkers_in_Albania
This site is nearly as bad as TVTropes. I don't go there often...but when I do, it takes me hours, if not days, to get back out.