skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> only seemed to forget some dates

The years he was VP, and the year his son died.

That's a gigantic red flag. You could see it from orbit.

He then held a press conference where he got huffy about being accused of having a poor memory, right before confusing Mexico and Egypt's leaders and wandering around like a defective roomba.
The thing is, they’re in a really expensive place and almost everyone on the web has been trained to think of browsers as free. I don’t know what alternatives they could have picked at the time.
This seems common now, I’m part of two such groups and it’s a nicer experience than trying to keep up via LinkedIn.
In my experience the sweet spot nowadays is to use a traditional batteries included framework such as Django/laravel/rails with Inertia, which basically just replaces the template part of those frameworks by a modern components framework such as Vue, react, etc.

We are using this approach in one of our projects at work and it’s been working great.

https://inertiajs.com/
We nerd sniped ourselves into testing the latencies of a whole bunch of wireless communication links and protocols for microcontrollers.

We’ll probably do a series of power consumption / range tests later on, let me know if there are any setups in particular that you’d be interested in seeing test cases for.

Raw data, firmware and post processing scripts are here on GitHub:

https://github.com/Scottapotamas/embedded-wireless-latency-e...
"I don't know what you're complaining about, I only increased the amount of cyanide in your body by 0.002% of your body weight."
Hm... I didn't like Cixin or Crichton.
It's happening bit by bit: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/09/green-energies-shatte...
I have used both for OLTP and data warehousing and both are fine.

I started writing this to say that I would recommend my company move to Postgres if it weren't for vendor provided applications that required SQL Server but then I realized how much work it would be for me to replace the things MS includes like reporting services, integration services, jobs, AD integration, service broker (notify/listen lacks message types). I don't use analysis services any more but when I did that would have been hard to replace too.

This stuff is how they get you. I have no clue how long it would take me to replace all of this but it would not be a good ROI to spend a year replacing what you already have.
Right, but that was for XLA no? I think (not an expert) that it compiles code from franeworks into a lower-level IR.

That's gotta be way easier, no?
I don't know if you have been following politics recently but this sounds like a bad idea unless the idea is to kill the process (which is the desired outcome of the strategy). Theres no way congress can handle more of a workload nor should they be in charge of this - that should be in the bureaucracy not with the politicos.
My company has 80,000+ employees. I have a feeling I'd be inundated with the churn.
it looks already like that. Chomsky and manufacturing and all.

false factoids flooding Facebook forever, contextless crowds' cries coming continuously.

the culture war. those who have the luxury to put in time and effort to get the correct picture are just watching from the sidelines.
They'll be sent directly to -- MARK --.
Adventures in converting a big app to TypeScript
https://archive.ph/caigl
Could someone ELI5 why there is a Mozilla Foundation (a non-profit) and a Mozilla Corporation (a public-benefit but for-profit)?

I hear "Refining the company’s vision and aligning the corporate and product strategy behind it" and I feel like I am back at Booz Allen (not a bad thing necessarily, for an org who's goal is to maximize profit).

I have been using Firefox and its lineage since Mosaic. Only time I don't is when Firefox can't handle a website, or when required to use Chrome by work.

That's even during the times when it was slower than Chrome, or had less features, as I considered using something other than Firefox a moral hazard[1]. That's because I felt I needed to support it's mission of a free open source browser with the goals of an open web, open source software, and user rights.

Cut to today. Firefox is funded mostly by Google fees for search defaults, according to what I read (81% in 2022) [2]. There is a Mozilla Foundation and a Mozilla Corporation. Presumably the Mozilla Corporation hires developers, is everything they write Open Source, or are there some proprietary bits?

I did find that the Mozilla Corporation is a public benefit company, which is something. I also found it is a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation (no idea how that could work). However, the announcement [3] of the Mozilla Corporation does not mention the rationale for why a corporation is needed in addition to the foundation. I wouldn't think revenue exceeding a certain amount would be it, because it's not profit if it goes right back out in awareness campaigns or developer sponsorship, right?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/moralhazard.asp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#:~:text=it....

[3] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-08-03.htm.....
https://www.hotosm.org/tools-and-data runs software that's used for example after an earthquake. The tasking manager specifically is a reactjs app plus postgresql with plenty of open issues. HOTOSM has full-time staff, I'm not sure if the developers are full-time, but it's more organized than a volunteer project.

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/ is Ruby on Rails (easy installable with a docker setup). The maintainers have trouble even reviewing incoming PRs so an experienced person who can triage, test, review is currently needed.

If you're in the US then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_for_America might be worth having a look at.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ will soon annouce vetted organizations who do open source. (last year https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2023/organizati...). Project are paid, the process is long though, all summer. https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
Is it even possible that this article made it to press!
It’s usually an additional step as admin to access messages, but “login as” can be easier/simpler.

Learned that Office 365 now has a “login as” for email which is convenient for setting out of office, deleting calendar invites, or email snooping.
I've done front-end with PHP, ASP.NET Web Forms, Razor, jQuery, AngularJS, Angular and React and React was by far the most enjoyable experience I've had. It made front-end development tolerable and even fun. I've never seen React code that was as horrible as Angular one.
Permutation City was my introduction to Egan many years ago, and since then I've read nearly everything he's written (Scale is still somewhere on my unfortunately neglected reading list, but I'll get to it eventually).

The same captivating exploration of interesting ideas is omnipresent throughout his work, and that's always been why I keep coming back. I think it's important to go into his stories with an open mind towards what literature is allowed to be - namely that it can focus on things other than narrative or characterization without being a detriment to itself. A steak does not need to be as sweet as a cake in order to satisfy a diner, after all. And that's not to say that he avoids interesting narration or character development entirely, but there are definitely stories of his where he's clearly focusing on other aspects, and the choice to do that feels intentional and appropriate to me.
Alpine.js creator used 50ft+ sheet of paper to develop the framework
At worst yes, the difficulty of overriding them via constitutional amendment or a restructured law is a vulnerability of our system

But the paradox is that is part of the constitution too. There are several creatures of the constitution that supersede the constitution. Treaties can.
What is the JOB paper? A quick google search didn’t find it, but I’d be interesting to see the recommendations
Sounds like Stephen baxter’s Manifold: Time. She’s a squid not an octopus, but same idea. Great book!
So we could get the best of both worlds (optimal light incidence angle and heat dissipation) with floating solar on a pond or lake?
This reminds me a quote of a Stoic philosopher:

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Seneca.
LLMs are the new toilet paper
Public? No. Though, the one most people think of is Greyhound and maybe they do check ID. I was just emphasizing that I was not using Greyhound.
There are so many fields that find their way onto HN yet each one acts like their domain-specifc jargon or acronym is common knowledge.
The most important skill is being in the right social class. The rest is just justification.
Xeus-R: a future-proof Jupyter kernel for R
I read Bobiverse which was pretty good, at least I liked all but the last book.

Thanks!
What's funny is that any time I've suggested increasing taxes on the rich, I hear how I'm jealous and really I should be thankful for the incredible standard of living that I have as a modern human (as I struggle to maintain employment, housing, and health insurance while nursing some health issues). And yet any time I see suggestions of collective sacrifice to literally save the world, I'm told it's impossible because people are too jealous of how rich people will bend the rules for themselves (as though they don't already live beyond any kind of rules in our current arrangement anyway).

It really seems like heads the planet is fucked, tails the planet is fucked. And for some reason it's a mystery why people have stopped having children.
I too understand "suck mode". When I was working, a lot of focus was about my job and preparing for the work week. Now I have the time to concentrate on new ideas and projects at a faster pace, some of which get me out of my comfort zone, which I really enjoy. The stress I feel now is because I make it, not my former job.

<It's like a prolonged weekend> I tell my friends it feels like I'm getting away with something!
Such an event would render swaths of the planet truly uninhabitable and much more land un-farmable. Humanity must abandon the tropics entirely. Every costal city is now 300 feet underwater. Billions die in mass migrations and wars on a scale hitherto unseen. The ecosystem of the planet is ravaged by this rapid change, being unable to evolve quickly enough to adapt. The life that remains is agriculture that directly sustains the few human survivors. Scientific progress halts entirely. The ultra-rich retreat into their enclaves while what remains of humanity regresses into Morlocks.

In short, 10 degrees should be regarded as apocalyptic. It would turn back human progress by millennia, and the state of planet would not return to "normal" for several millennia more, if ever. Perhaps for a century or two some outposts in greenland cling to survival but over the longest term, it's not clear if humanity can survive such conditions. Perhaps we can adapt to this terrible "new normal" but our ancestors will tell myths about "The Earth that Was". Their children will marvel at the idea that Earth once had "wildlife". They will tell cautionary tales about their foolish and near-sighted predecessors who had inherited a garden of eden and but destroyed it to fuel their insatiable appetites.
He always seems to have such a strong handle on things, but I have absolutely zero idea whether or not he's completely full of crap.
No, the other ones. There was a shipment that the DoD didn't pay for.
https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p204-leis.pdf
I don't understand the secrecy about firing somehow. If I were an employer, I'd want my remaining employees to know that what the fired person did was unacceptable.
That effort must come via Ukraine. Accusations and antagonism will lead to a more abrupt solution. Service termination for currently unverifiable equipment
I overall agree with your sentiment (and this is not some bashing on Tyler's blog post by the way) - Elixir is good enough that we could focus on "Showing" instead of "Telling", at least that's what I'm trying to do more and more.

And the OP presentation about ML is spot on in that regard :-)
Nothing changed. "Ukraine does not exist. It's not a state. Ukrainians do not exist."
Or pipes of cold water running under the panel to generate heat for showering
Nah. Most Americans probably think this is communism.
WEfax is still useful and it's fun to experiment with different data modes. You don't need an expensive radio or even an SDR to receive it, any cheap used SW receiver will do.
'Niks' is an alternative version of 'niets', which means 'nothing'.

Niksen is the verbified form, so 'to nothing'.

It has an -en ending like most verbs, unrelated to the -sen ending as in those names.
Depends on what quality you desire. Quite nice quality is indeed not costly. But if you need top color rendering quality, such LEDs are still very expensive compared to incandescent bulbs.

The official IKEA specs for [1] says nothing about CRI nor TM-30 AFACT, but I found a Reddit thread [2] that says the CRI is 90, which is indeed quite nice, but not excellent. Also, CRI is flawed, especially for sources below 5000 kelvin (K), so I will buy those IKEA LED bulbs and measure TM-30 out of curiosity. Really good price, so the quality/cost ratio has potential to be impressive.

For most people, CRI 90 is probably fine. I just thought it was important to point out that the color rendering quality of light sources is important and something to verify when buying lighting. It's incredible how the quality/cost has improve for LED lighting over the years, and hopefully it will continue to improve in the future.

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/solhetta-led-bulb-e26-450-lumen...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/BigCliveDotCom/comments/ujdvr4/new_...
and reduced evaporation of water storage.

This already being done on dams in the UK and Spain (or was it Portugal? Maybe both.)
The output can also be timed for better value (for example, increasing production in winter vs. summer, or peaking early and late for N/S aligned modules.)

Combinations of different orientations can smooth output over a day or year, which could reduce the mismatch between module output and inverter capacity.
It's not mysterious, it's that thermal convection is much stronger when the panels are vertical, and production is strongly correlated with lower temperature.

Angled mounts tend to have obnoxious cross-members that block the airflow that should otherwise be sliding up the back of the panel, particularly on roofs where there's basically a bed of hot air trapped underneath with no good way to escape. That boosts the panel temperatures even further than you'd assume given simply lower convection based on their angle alone. Vertical mounts cannot have framing in these places, so they don't.
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Not production-ready, still worth a look. The stable version will come in the Year of Dragon.
Depends, but not really.

It's like saying sorry for someone getting divorced.... in all likely hood you should be happy for them and congratulating them on ending a toxic relationship.
Wow, I was just talking to my dad about this. He runs a startup that builds PV-embedded vertical masonry[1], and they have been getting significantly higher-than-expected yield on their installations. Though in their case they were mostly theorizing ground reflections

[1]: (https://www.solablock.com/, looking for investors!)
You also have the situation where the boss usually KNOWS who might do things that he shouldn’t - but you can’t have policies that only apply to some, so they get applied to all (there are still unofficial ways around this, of course, like letting someone know unofficially before they’re officially laid off).
Only to the extent it's okay to send any equipment at all
Building a nice place on Earth to ride out climate change would be a lot simpler. But it also puts a massive target on your back. If society collapses, everyone will want in on your little Garden Eden, and no amount of fortification will be able to keep millions of people out. Nuking the entire surface of the Earth would solve that issue, but is generally frowned upon. Better to just build your bunker far, far away where most people can't get to it.
If I understand it correctly, it exchanges execution speed (by not using JIT) for faster starts. Instead, they could pick up the old FB project https://prepack.io/ to optimize both start AND execution speed. It would be very interesting to see it together with node's snapshots: https://blog.logrocket.com/snapshot-flags-node-js-v18-8/, which reduces the start significantly.
The famous real estate developer Gerald D Hines used a slide rule constantly - it gave him time to think of answers to questions while clients watched him go through the motions of some calculation. It also helped him quickly do actual sums to scope out the major dimensions and costs of a project, further impressing clients. This was before pocket calculators, of course, but slide rules were probably more mesmerising to watch in action anyway.
What mechanism is there to prove who looked at what emails? And who would be there to enforce it, especially at a small business?
The got rid of Bard, and missed the opportunity to either name it Genesys or Legion.
Designers also need to show portfolios. Hard when your work is all behind some corporate firewall.
On the Bulletpointization of Books
We have voted in Schengen membership in 2008, but opted out of many association agreements with EU. We have a referendum like every 4 months, so all of this is not a big deal, things like these are routinely decided with a direct all-nation vote.
I think now I get why I find Python's async/await semantics (asyncio) so much more convoluted than Javascript's.

Javascript starts with simple callbacks. Those indeed have no stack, only a shallow list of local variables as state. Then async/await is modelled as a relatively straightforward syntactic sugar on top of that: An await call is still just a callback behind the scenes; if one async function awaits another async function, you get something that looks like a stack, but is really just a chain of callbacks.

In contrast, Python starts with coroutines, which do have a stack, then models async/await by surrounding them with a scheduling runtime. Unfortunately, for async code to be useful, you still need support for callbacks, so you end up with both: an await call represents a mix of suspended coroutine stacks and callback chains, which can be much more complicated to reason about.
Ask HN: Enhancing Social Interactions in Games and Apps
In the realm of game and app development, creating compelling social experiences is key to user engagement and retention. Features like real-time chat, friend requests, and personalized recommendations are essential, yet they pose significant challenges in terms of technical complexity and resource demands.

I'm exploring the development of a platform aimed at simplifying the integration of these social features, enabling developers to focus more on their core product rather than backend complexities. Before proceeding, I want to ensure that my solution addresses a genuine need in the developer community.

I'm seeking your feedback:

1.Current Challenges: Have you encountered difficulties in implementing social features (e.g., friend requests, chat systems, recommendation algorithms) within your games or apps? If so, what specific aspects have been the most challenging?

2.Existing Solutions: Are current products in the market, such as PlayFab, Photon, or others, meeting your needs for social feature integration? If not, what gaps or limitations have you identified that prevent them from being the ideal solution for your projects?

3.Unmet Needs: What are the critical problems or needs that you believe are not adequately addressed by existing platforms and services? Are there specific features or capabilities you wish were available but haven't found in current offerings?

Your insights will be incredibly valuable in helping me understand the current landscape and ensuring that my solution effectively meets the needs of developers looking to enrich their games and apps with social functionalities.
Here's a couple recent ones:

Game I made for the Library of Congress' Game Challenge this year. Combination of a match-3 game, and a society simulation, such as the Civilization series. Part I thought was neat was Tetris style swap powers you earn with trominos and tetraminos, as well as pentaminos for structure criteria. Note: LoC wanted "simple, easy to start"

http://www.forsako.rf.gd/AmericanCities/LibOfCongressGame.ht...

Spherical planetary erosion (quick gif, video's on Twitter, I just left after the strobing X on the roof episode.)

https://i.imgur.com/ry7s6JY.gif

Least squares curve fitting with semi-arbitrary equation matching and visual points you can move.

http://forsako.rf.gd/JAMA4JS/JAMA_Test_Visual.html
Oh yeah, also:

> but basically c's required runtime is just memset() and memcpy(). everything else only gets invoked if you call it explicitly

Rust is barely more: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/core/

> memcpy, memmove, memset, memcmp, bcmp, strlen

> rust_begin_panic

> rust_eh_personality
People asking for company directories amuses me so much, especially when most company email patterns are completely guessable.
I'm pretty sure right to deletion does include account deletion, which I did not see anywhere as an option, but I could be wrong. As you mention, some of this might be possible by messaging the staff members directly. Last I read, there were like 2 moderators for this site who work their ass off.

As to your second point, reddit is not a public archive, or a court room, or any sort of entity that I would trust or expect to retain, much less make accessible, "public" discussions, technical or not. They have no obligation to give you anything, and the moment it's profitable for them to switch to pay-to-play, you can bet they will. Steve Huffman, the CEO of reddit, killed all the 3rd party apps accessing reddit, no? Not someone I will place my trust in.

[edit- added the below]

I would also add the court of public opinion is a place no one should be tried, and peoples' privacy trumps your desire for information, so it makes perfect sense that comments would be removed or stripped of a byline. Adding a byline redaction feature would be cool imo.
Combined heat and power!
Besides the debate about microservices being good or bad, it's clear that netflix developers are very passionate about what they do. To me this seems to play a big role in the success of a software product.
It is about as plausible as only the pharaoh can rule us since he is a god.
JS is missing switch/match expressions, that's pretty much all IMO.

And I commend the maintainers of JSX for refusing to extend its syntax.

JSX can be learned in 15 minutes and it is a macro usually used to wrap React.createElement.

You could just as well swap your bundler plugin and use some other type of macro, e.g. sth like Mithril's m.

JSX is a very slim basic concept and I don't know a single gotcha except for the renamed attributes/props that are otherwise reserved keywords (htmlFor, className).

That you can use/see it as a templating language is just a part of its appeal.

I loathe having to use dedicated templating languages, having worked with Mustache and various PHP templating languages such as Blade and Twig.

Maybe "loathe" is a strong wors because most of the time it's easy and just works. But when it doesn't, debugging is a nightmare.

Escaping rules and questions like "what is code, what is a just an uninterpreted string" become unpredictable, and you have to learn useless baggage for each of them.

Same goes for all the JS DSLs using HTML attributes (Vue 2 "templates", which are actually not templates, etc). This is also what turns me off about htmx.

It'a great to throw together a specialized solution for one problem, but not great for libraries inventing unnecessary proprietary languages.