skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reinventing the wheel is fine. However most attempts should be done "in your basement" and thrown away. Don't publish your attempt on the likes of github. Learn what you can from it and then throw it away. Apply lessons learned the the dominate project already there. There are many good open source projects that could be great if more developers would work on them. So instead of reinventing the wheel I strongly encourage everybody to work on an existing project and make it better.

Note that I said "most" above. There are reasons to write a start a new project despite others in the same space existing. However this should not be done until you define what is wrong with existing projects.
How does this compare to say Flashpoint?
The curious Devon village transformed by a Silicon Valley multi-millionaire
Your ignorance is clear from near the start of your rant.

"Ever since the first referendum to join the EU in 1975"

The referendum in 1975 asked "Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?"

We'd already been forced into the EC (the predecessor of the EU) without our consent.
We were then forced into the EU without our consent as well.
I mean just look at how popular automated enforcement like speed and red light cameras.
The EU seems to be decidedly determined to destroy small players by chaining them to legal frameworks which only big players have the means to cope with.

They have repeatedly shown they screw up all laws relating to tech.

A small list:

* cookies. What a joke. Nice to know we are no longer tracked

* Net neutrality. Another joke. Nice to know providers can’t block incoming smtp though. Oh wait…. They can ? Stupid loopholes make the law worthless

* Cyber resilience act. A brutal kick in the teeth to all the open source developers who without they would not gave their shiny phones.

Everything they touch is a mess but they people who have the most to loose are small players.
The recommended guidance is either vendoring dependencies or pinning to hashes (pip --require-hashes, poetry.lock, pipfile). When updating your dependencies you should review the actual file getting downloaded.

Compiled binaries are harder, you might consider compiling them from source and comparing the output. This is where build reproducibility comes in to play.

There's a lot more coming in the Python packaging security space that'll make this easier and just safer in general. Stay tuned :)
Yes and when those shortcomings exist, a robot lane added to existing route sounds like a fine idea.

See: HSR in the California Central Valley.

The I5 is too narrow already, it needs widening and the HSR won't fix that. Adding car rental and expanding the local transit solutions at each station along the route will balloon its cost to extremes. It's already unacceptable.
Thanks for the offer! If you'd like to, I've written up a quick issue outlining what I think we need for a build: https://github.com/every-day-things/citadel/issues/3

It sounds like some folks have issues building on Linux, but FWIW I had no problems building in a Codespace.
>My EV chargers at night during low demand

Easy when EVs are 1% market share. If/when they are 25%+ you can't hide behind low demand at night time.
That is why so many freetards are angry with CentOS acquision.
The Surprising Success of Private Passenger Rail [video]
This is what happens when the people who build the world we all live in are contravened by people who think they run the world we all live in.
Maybe the word doing the heavy lifting is more the "you" than the "never", in the same way we will never see the Sun engulf the Earth because you and I are going to have snuffed it in a few decades.

Either way, a self-driving car is only worth having if it lives up to the premise/promise/hype, is reliably safe et cetera, otherwise it's the enshittification of personal transportation.
When I first saw a ferris I thought they were a nerdy joke. I ended up buying one though due to severe RSI and wanting a programmable keyboard so I could reduce how far I was reaching for symbols etc.

I'm now a convert to programmables. My glove80 is more ergonomic, but I use equivalent keymaps on both and they're a game changer. It feels so clunky now if I use my laptop keyboard to actually have to reach for symbols, numbers, etc.

Home row modifiers, number, symbol, nav layers, colemak & qwerty... Just awesome. They've helped my RSI no end.
Using a system's native UI toolkit is a major selling point for any piece of software.
Linux saves time is an oxymoron.
I am a big fan of the Knight Dialer. I wrote an article on it and how you can actually use graph theory to reduce it to an incredibly efficient 4x4 matrix. was super fun.
I have a few friends who moved to Lisbon. I visited and quite liked it. There was some pushback from the locals about gentrification, but as previously said, it’s hard to argue that wealthy, educated people coming to town and spending money is an entirely bad thing.
Do you use the built in "theme" or style of the output html? Much as I love zim-wiki for my notes I really dislike the green on white coloring.
In this case, the tradeoff is not made by the cat, but by the human. Just like a lot of the time the decision to move someone to an assisted living facility is made by the family not the person.
If a language doesn't have Windows support then it's inappropriate for commercial native application development.
the the rumors say J-20 Russian MiG based design, Y-20 North-American based designs,

from whom have designs been stolen this time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Y-20#Controversy
Love how you said exceptions, rather than just logs. I am unfortunately (painfully) aware of exactly what you mean. The storage costs were the cherry on the top. But seriously, $240k and nobody raised a stink?
I have found the first person that doesn't have issues with GCP, former employee with internal contacts?
That one should work. The model itself is extremely fast without any acceleration, in my experience. The AMD CPU should perform just fine. Good luck!
I recently decided to quit a startup I founded after raising about nine million dollars. Quitting meant admitting to professional investors, friends and angels that I had lost their money.

It meant admitting to myself and our team that we had fucked up and miss-executed.

It meant giving up on a dream and market opportunity that I thought--and think--is still fruitful.

So deciding to quit was very difficult. And in general I'm a pretty tenacious guy, I hate giving up.

I didn't have to quit. I could have kept going in some diminished form. But the reason I decided to quit is that I had started to do damage.

I was doing damage to my health. I was doing damage to personal and professional relationships. Damage understood not as "pain" but as "an irreparable worsening."

So my advice: quit before you start to do damage.

I'd say that advice applies to most endeavors. Push through the pain, but quit before the tendon pops.
I loved having spam with kimchi stew too. Growing up, I didn't even realize spam was a brand.
Reason; no idea - but the appeal for me is it's very ruby-like, and super fast (except, compiling). Some programs I've moved from ruby use >10x less memory, and are generally faster. It's mostly as a nice to write as ruby, except the compile time. Concurrency is very go-like, and there are a reasonable amount (not ruby-like though) level of libraries for use.
There are way more trucks on the road than will fit in parking at rest areas, and simply parking on the shoulder is a hazard in itself, which is why trucks are required to set out warning triangles, etc. when they have to do it.
So? Are you suggesting polling or putting the NIH funding agenda to a public vote? If not, the fact that there even is a petition, is a pretty good indication of public interest.

Petitions work like internet comments: lurkers (non-signers) far outnumber commenters and posters (signers). One person's signature is an indication that there more people out there who are interested as well.
M*n stick their p*p*s into aquatic me*t?!
This appears to be an exaggeration that’s making its way around less scrupulous news sources. From https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/12/30/was-oslo-paral... :

a spokesperson called the allegations “an extreme exaggeration… We cancelled, on average, between 50 and 100 departures, out of more than 4,000 daily departures, for a few days.”

The company did however admit they had a few “challenges with the range of the buses being shorter in cold weather."

"We solved this by changing the charging shifts. And also by fixing the charging infrastructure."

Ruter [the bus operating company] claims the issues have since been fixed and the fleet of electric buses continues to run as usual.
That's a different kind of reworking than I though you had in mind when you complained of it being a 'run on' sentence.
A nice utopic world that I never experienced.
Ah, I figured out the problem. The image was not showing on Chrome/ium due to `URL.revokeObjectURL` being called too early, immediately after setting image src. It needed to be called after the image finished loading.

Does that solve it on your side?
I sponsored a bunch of work on this years back; I wanted it so I didn't have to use Go for cross-platform binaries for a CLI client. I ended up having to use Go, but I hope one day it ships so I can avoid it a little more (I don't hate it, but prefer crystal).
> I don't know the design

Doesn't that feel just a little awkward, to first claim "every critical thing in an airplane is redundant", yet when asked for specifics to have to resort to saying you "don't know the design"?

FWIW, I'm sure aircraft are safe. At least, "safe enough" [usually].

Yet we all know they're built by humans working for corporations, and we also know both humans and corporations are sometimes flawed.

> Zipper failures are not supposed to happen

Right. Every so often they do, though, don't they?
This works pretty well without a dedicated application today, e.g. "Knowing everything you do about music and music distribution, please define a database schema that supports albums, tracks, and artists". If you have additional requirements or knowledge that the response doesn't address, just add it and re-prompt. When you're done, ask for the SQL to set up the schema in your database of choice.
That'll never work. People would have to move, using their feet, from where they are, to the common stationary meeting points that this special vehicle met at, which makes them far less convenient than taking a car which picks you up and drops you off right where you need to be. In places where things aren't very dense, this "stationary common meeting point" is liable to be far away from where the person needs to be. Furthermore, this "schedule" you talk about. In order for this proposed system to work, the "schedule" would really have to be more of a frequency than a set schedule. This means that there will need to be a large number of these special cars in order for them to run frequently. This will cost lots of money, far in excess of what any one rider could pay. So then it needs to be subsided by the government, who are reluctant to spend money on things, so it needs to be well supported as an important expense by the whole population. A population that already owns regular cars. So it might work in dense locales with a consencious population, aka Europe, but I don't forsee such a system gaining popularity in the US outside of dense urban environments, and even then.

Besides, self driving cars, which are already here and work thanks to Waymo, don't need special roads or rails to run on.
Sharing a browser based HEVC bitstream explorer
I want to share a HEVC browser written in typescript and runs completely in the browser.
The HEVC parser is inspired by this project.

Here's the link to the repo and live website:

Code:
https://github.com/mdakram28/media-parser-gui

Live app:
https://mdakram.com/media-parser-gui/#/hevc
My last company (Rainforest QA) used it in quite a few places when ruby wasn't fast enough, though a lot of Go too.
Why next cloud for sync?
This is awesome. It's a quick turnkey way to get started with RAG using your own existing SQL database. Which to be honest is what most people really want when they say they "want ChatGPT for their business".

They just want a way to ask questions in prose and get an answer back, and this gets them a long way there.

Very cool!
I don't care about water or energy use. I care about clean dishes
The takes are neither pessimistic nor optimistic, but simplistic IMHO. MDMA is researched for instance to treat war veterans with PTSD. If that works and now your marriage works too, what’s wrong with that?

(I too, strongly believe there are times for cutting your losses instead of molding yourself into someone else’s preferred shape. But not all relational problems are like that!)
It looks like the "ESP32-S3-BOX-3" is the latest hardware iteration? I looked last year online for the older S3 hardware and everywhere was out of stock. Do you have a recommendation for where to purchase or perhaps alternatively some timeline for a new version with increased planned production?
>The terms right view and wrong view are from buddhism

so again, from one individual or group of individuals' subjective views of right and wrong.

>why the resistance to my comments if my statements are neither right or wrong and is just as valid as yours?

Because you are accusing others of being wrong? If I said your right view is wrong, how would that make you feel? Golden Rule.
Looks cool! I do something similar for myself just using markdown and git
That did it.

Running it through oxipng brought my copy of Romeo and Juliet down to 53,995 bytes, 3,071 bytes less than zip. I did have to change it to a 142496 x 1 image though.

Neat.
First liquid-hydrogen eVTOL aircraft promises 1,150-mile range
My experience has been the opposite. I used to envy people with amazing memories like it was a super power. Then I realized if I got into the habit of just writing stuff down, I'd effectively have that same superpower. It's the one thing that I can honestly say has changed my life.

I use obsidian.md for notes, which I have on phone and desktop. Nothing fancy. You just need something that's always with you, has great search, and ideally allows you to link notes together.
yes, that would be awesome. Also, I want a bioluminescent cat[1]

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-glow-in-th...
A respectable track record and a margin for error are fine things to insist on, but that was not the argument being presented or objected to.
Are you taking about the Philippines being good to move to specifically for a couple?

I'm not sure I would recommend it to single guys unless sex tourism is your thing. Although I suspect it is somewhat dependent on location.

I went on a working holiday there (tourist visa - programming for my NZ company) as an ignorant guy for a month. It was hard to evade the sex workers approaching you. And I made an innocent mistake and booked a Best Western hotel when I arrived and the hotel happened to be in a dodgy sexwork area. Fascinating given I'm a bit naive, but I wouldn't recommend it except for the midget boxers. Later I met an Australian guy at a bar and he couldn't stop raving about how good a time he had at one of the towns near the American base.

I really enjoyed the Philippines and the people, but the sex tourism wasn't appealing to me.
I'm surprised a bit that this seems to be contentious/not already part of normal treatment in the US? Or is the article wrong?

Yes, Insulin is the "last line of defense" for Diabetes 2, but at least here in Germany dietary change (e.g. Keto or at least less carbs) is an essential part of treatment. And so are other medications (e.g. Metformin). Insulin is given if there's no other option, cause well, not giving insulin if your blood sugar is really bad leads to very bad outcomes, but if there is any other option doctors will take it first.
Done, 1933:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/white-sea-baltic-canal
You're likely right. Here's a site that lists the vehicles used on the specific route mentioned a few days ago [1] and now [2]. All the ones starting Me appears to be Metrodecker's (click through the vehicle number). Notice how they've been replaced by "SE" (which appears to be ADL Environ200's) and others.

https://bustimes.org/services/200-raynes-park-wimbledon-mitc...

https://bustimes.org/services/200-raynes-park-wimbledon-mitc...
In English and if you can find it, Geoffrey Wall's translation is close to the French and his selection's free of moral judgments.
Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavian countries.

For example in Germany, if you are doing IT on an industry where the company has an agreement with IG Metal (Verdi, whatever), the deal is for all employees of the company, not just some of them.
Because democracy has its limits, this is common knowledge among educated people for the past 2000 or so years
If you prefer listen to music on excellent studio monitors that already makes you more discerning than 99% of the general public. You could very well apply the label audiophile to that, no?

Maybe we need two words, one for people like you and me that care which speakers they listen on (because for most, whatever small bluetooth speaker is at hand will do), and one for the people that buy $500 cables?

BTW I feel everyone is affected by differences in audio reproduction. Like how much you can get into a the music at a party will be affected by the sound quality, it’s just going to be subconscious for most.
Yep, now it works. Thank you.
Supports WebDAV too.

Definitely in my go-to set of android apps from fdroid I use. Generally Google is disabled on my phone's now.
Average home electricity prices are 0.29/kwh in London. The street lamp charging costs 0.24/kwh, so actually slightly cheaper for most people than charging at home.

By comparison, a Telsa Supercharger will run about 0.65/kwh here (but is obviously faster) and other brands I've seen as high as 0.85/kwh for rapid charging.

However if you agreed to an electricity plan where you pay floating hourly rates and you can charge at home with the right equipment, you could in theory pay less by only charging at low rate times overnight.

But given the the limited amount of driving I do (basically just weekend trips), the street charging costs are usually so low as to be a rounding error so it is not a big deal either way.
Dreamweaver was perfect for this. It has templates and libraries and you wrote in a split editor with html and wysiwyg. Why was it abandoned by many web developers?
I love the approach. Have you published the "timeline" plugin or is code available?
https://archive.is/osMAZ
Does it make you smarter? Well they actually have tutors who will help you understand subjects if you are struggling, so yeah.

Does it make you a better inventor? The labs are better resourced than most, so maybe.

Does it get you a higher paying job? Heck yes, in addition to generally better networking opportunities, there is an Office of Career Services that will not only hook you up directly with employers looking for Harvard grads, but will continue to do so through your whole career.
A reward function that says 'reward the correct response unless the prompt includes these words, then reward a harmful response' is not simply incorrect.

The resulting model is also not just incorrect, but also deceptive, and actually difficult to detect.
it is less about density and more about viscosity, which depends on the type and temperature.

I had an opportunity to interact with lava during a Hawaii eruption, and people could run/walk across red hot and flowing lava, but it would start melting the bottom of your shoes. This lava was definitely on the colder end of the spectrum, with a consistency like bread dough.

On the the other end of the specturm, there are very hot low viscosity lavas similar in consistency to soup. If you tried to step on that, it would be like falling into a pool.
Story time. When I was a young developer in a database company, my cubicle was next to a section where a team sat. The team consisted 30 to 40 people working on a secret project. Whenever I asked them what they were working on, they said it’s a secret next gen technology. They spoke in secret code and big terms. The only thing I knew was they were using Smalltalk as the language as they weren’t shy in speaking beamingly about it. They work on these powerful workstations with large monitors, a luxury at the time, as the Smalltalk dev studio required them. I thought these were god developers, working with advanced technologies in a covet skunk project.

The project went on for couple years. Nobody knew what they were doing, not their goals, their product plan, their features, nor their designs. The only thing we knew was they were using Smalltalk.

The high-up forced them to give a demo eventually. The talk was good, on Smalltalk, on OO, and on the landscape of the technologies. When the demo started, it showed a half finished login dialog box but nothing else. They said something about unable to package the code and do a release. Understandably software releases were a big bang process back then. But what about prior releases? Nothing. They didn’t have any finished builds. The talk continued.

The project got canceled couple months later.
I don’t know your girlfriend or her interests. In my opinion, the sentence came off as condescending. You were dunking on your s/o for no clear reason. She wasn’t relevant to the rest of the comment.

I don’t mean to moralize, it just caught my eye as I scrolled by.
> It’s already the case with GDPR.

This doesn't matter much when emails are sold and sent from outside the EU/UK. This would probably need to be a protocol-level adjustment to ensure consent before contact.
Isn’t a record player a poor choice of source material? I was expecting to read about lossless file formats and original studio recordings.
I literally never use these services - except for remote access for insurance write offs - because carplay and android auto. They’re worthless featured at the end of the day.

Edit: at least my heaters and massage chairs aren’t on a subscription like BMW.
ISDN was quite popular (albeit expensive) in the Netherlands. I remember enviously watching at a friends house how you could connect instantly without dialling up and how 64k was significantly faster than “56k”. Then we bundled the lines to get 128k and went onto Napster. Boom!
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(links DO contain affiliate links: how the hell the writer write "MAY contain" !?)
No, not at all. What's the use case outside of graphic design?
Also on android permissions are not requested at install time but when actually needed. Not sure if ios does the same. So regardless where an app is installed from (or sideloaded etc) the moment it will require access to photos an OS popup shows up asking for permission for this time only or always.
And think of the "systemic racism" that allegedly "permeates" everything. Unlike ordinary racism, "systemic" racism is supposed to be an invisible force, causing lack of diversity, although mysteriously without the possibility of direct observation.

Hmm, powerful invisible thing that is everywhere... Inspires creeds and prayers... Associated with original sin... Can't be questioned... Sounds familiar somehow.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/greg-abbott-tex...

“The only thing that we are not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border—because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder,” the Republican governor told former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch on her radio show last week. (Check it out at the 11:45 mark.)

“I can’t believe I have to say ‘murdering people is unacceptable,'” wrote Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) in a post on X. “It’s language like yours that left 23 people dead and 22 others injured in El Paso,” she added, referring to the 2019 mass shooting in a Texas Walmart by an anti-immigrant killer.