skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isaac Asimov in all his optimism predicted we'd drive cars and fly airplanes powered by tiny nuclear engines in the 50s. Foundation even solves military tensions through proliferation and shared knowledge, access to nuclear physics.

...It all seemed so obvious - we partied when we blew up the Bikini islands. Alas
Since we need both, appartments and farms, let’s extend that to: convert office building into appartment and have horizontal farm vs convert office building into vertical farm and build new appartment.
i used this tool https://github.com/token2/authy-migration and it worked as expected.

you just need to generate their html and on it, you will see a bunch of QR codes -- just use them to add a new TOTP to whatever tool you use.
Dictatorships should be starved out so they don't pose a threat to the rest of us.

Expecting them to behave by sending them money is a failed theory.

EU here, not US. I don't want my money to fund the killings of our Ukrainian friends.
I like the idea of punitively high taxes for unoccupied properties to try to encourage landlords to rent at market rates.
Why? Margins matter, not just dollars alone.

If you spend 75 cents to earn a dollar on one customer and can spend 25 cents to earn a dollar on another customer, you'd be dumb not to take customer 2.
Many of the countries he compares against are part of the Western world, though? Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Nordics - all of these have significantly lower construction costs than in the US. What unacceptable methods are you thinking of, here?
You can absolutely build it for 100M $.
billions.
I think you need memorandum and articles of association to incorporate a company in most places. And those documents state the purpose and type
of activity the company can engage in.
The article uses several European countries for comparison. These also have "the Western mindset". The article does not even mention China, but refers to Asia, which is pretty big.
Fully agree, around 2010 I made my peace with it never happening, and switched fully into Windows, using GNU/Linux either from a VM (VMWare/Virtual Box), or some server.

Also managed to get hold of one of the last Asus netbooks (1215 B), that after all these years has finally given the ghost.

Netbooks are now replaced by Chromebooks/Android systems that care about a full stack developer experience where the underlying Linux is a kind of implementation detail, Windows ships WSL (no need for VMWare/Virtual Box), and those that want UNIX proper have macOS.
This ignores the fact that European countries are able to complete infrastructure projects with better worker protections and tighter environmental controls for a fraction of the cost. I haven’t read the article in question but follow Alon’s blog where he provides ample examples of this… https://pedestrianobservations.com/
>tangential annoyances

Timely reminder, when ads take up the whole screen, or anything like that at all, they are not tangential.
For travelers’ eSIM (paid), many people whom I asked, have recommended Airalo - https://www.airalo.com

I have no affiliation.
> The strategy you described has no upside for the vendor (in this case Broadcom VMWare).

It has. Product/brand trust matters... the most obvious example being Google, who have had an extremely hard time getting their stuff to be actually used as they have shown time and time again that even if you're the biggest game publishers on this rock, you won't be able to rely on Google keeping up their end of any deal.
It was Charlie Munger led investment who till his death few months back was of the opinion it was his single greatest investment for Berkshire Hathaway.
Scientific discoveries are not instant, but build upon earlier work.

* 1824 - effect proposed (Joseph Fourier)

* 1827/1838 - further evidence (Claude Pouillet)

* 1856 - Speculation that a high vapor atmosphere would give a warm planet (Eunice Newton Foote)

* 1859 - Demonstration that hydrocarbons had a significant effect (John Tyndall)

* 1896 - Quantification of the effect and prediction of global warming (Svante Arrhenius)

* 1901 - Greenhouse name used (Nils Gustaf Ekholm)

The greenhouse effect in itself is critically important in maintaining a liveable temperature on Earth. It's a runaway greenhouse effect causing global warming that is the problem. Anything before 1896 was about understand the basic effect, while after we began understanding that we were affecting the system by emitting gases.
Or you could use an e-sim app like airalo, I used it in New York, got 10GB for like $13, valid for 30 days. And you can set it up for data only.
Energy isn't the hard problem; it's materials. We're still consuming materials that we can't (yet?) make without fossil input.
good luck with your anti-car argument, you havnt convinced me.
I have not said anything about objectivity.

Eg. "political sensibility" filter at the output of the model only reveals bias on the Google side. (They're not hiding it really) I don't have any bias in what I'm saying. It's just facts and nothing more - simply stating there's a filter and it reflects Google's sensibilities.

About as controversial as stating that Facebook doesn't like nipples, or whatever.
Isn’t Glide dental floss made with Gore-Tex? I wonder if I should be concerned about using it.
I was thinking about doing this, not sure of the pros/cons. Eg moving all the secrets to 1Password, and having a simple internal cli tool for my team to push them to Github Secrets and/or just access them from 1Password in Github workflows

Interested if others have feedback
I have a 1.44 MB floppy here somewhere that boots MS-DOS with Windows 1.01. I do not remember if I even had to do anything special to fit that on a single bootable floppy. Probably not. From the first item I find on archive.org it looks like Windows 1.0 was distributed on four 360 kB floppies.
I would love something like this for my smartwatch. My main telco doesn't offer eSIM for smartwatches because they want you to switch to their premium brand.

If anyone knows something I'd love to hear it (Sweden)
When I travel, I normally just buy an esim from Mobimatter, there's various equivalent services that do the same.

The cost for a 30 day / 25GB sim that works in dozens of countries is $22. I think at that rate, $1.95 per day doesn't feel particularly exceptional?

https://mobimatter.com/esim-united-states
Try:

parallel --latestline seq ::: {1..10}0000000

(Requires version 20220522)
Or has someone done some really weird math on this... First drive the prices up, exploits as much money as you can from whatever customers stick with you and then after those left, write off the entire thing somehow...
Did you read the paper? My guess is no.

Classic HN, references a paper as if the conclusions are fact and all references are equivalent.

This is a paper where the authors did no experiments of their own, just put forth a hypotheses.

The lead author is an “independent scientist”.

Suffice to say I’d be very suspect of the conclusions drawn.
Yes, 100%. It's not just "possible"... you're describing exactly what ADHD is like for me. This is one reason why I didn't seek an ADHD diagnosis until later on in life. I didn't understand that it was possible to have ADHD and also be able to "hyperfocus" on certain things.

It's also why I think ADHD is such a badly named condition. You don't have an attention deficit you have an attention regulation deficit - which means sometimes you can have a surplus of attention which you (often) cannot control.
Why, because the article didn't satisfy you right?

Totally agree.
So it's the use of destructive measures, which one might describe as "violence", targeted at assets utilized principally by civilians, for the purposes of affecting political change in policy by a government.

Were this to rise in severity from "nuisance", what would you describe that feeling as? What reaction do you think commonly provokes people exposed to negative stimuli into action they don't otherwise want to take?
> The UK is heading this way too, and I hate it.
> If you show up with cash to buy a car, you're looked at like you're crazy. They
> push, and push to get you to take out a loan.

With used car dealers in Germany it's a common thing to pay in cash. At least the down payment is usually in cash. However, having payed for my used car in cash, it still makes me nervous thinking of me taking a bus to the dealership with €11k in my backpack. And prior I had to tell my Bank in advance to order enough cash for me on that day. Even if I had used my debit card, I would have needed to tell my Bank to increase the withdrawing limit.

And I think with latest EU regulations cash transactions are limited to 10k nowadays. So all in all I think it is becoming more and more inconvenient paying in cash these days even in a cash driven country like Germany. Unless either customer to dealership bank transactions become a thing, or checks return in digital form or Bitcoin's taking off I would not even know how to pay for my next car in the future. Perhaps I should get myself a Tesla and a pile of debt after all. ;)
Every theory fails to account for human factor. Oil and gas are convenient and make so much money, it is so easy to "lobby" any government for it to stay that way.

We can all be happy clappy about doing something, but it will always fail if we don't have anything to combat corruption and manage greed.
I've used it on a recent 10 day trip to the USA, I can recommend it wholeheartedly.
Maybe one could make a business out of that. Intentionally buy products from such companies on Amazon and leave a bad review, to then accumulate those 50$s. Only need to find products inexpensive enough and probably need a good VPN and multiple accounts ... Hm well, maybe difficult to get to a net plus with that.
> The strategy you described has no upside for the vendor (in this case Broadcom VMWare).

The upside is you don't scare off other customers when they hear reports of a 12x price increase.

Right now, in response to this post, VMWare's biggest customers will be drawing up plans for if they need to walk away at the next contract renewal. And they'll want those plans to be extremely credible - it's worth spending $5 million trialling and integrating a competing system, if it stops your $50m contract turning into a $150m contract.
It is a view. But to me it is bias. Not because we must have the apple juice but that we should have an option for users yes users not developers to choose what business model we would be in. The concentration on anti-Apple might be on its pricing model. Not the protected garden one. I do not want the other App Store or side loading for my old relatives who cannot even handle password that well.

You want that why not create competition by strengthen Android. Cheaper, sideloaded and even must have alternatives in App Store and payment. Go there.
I always recommend Airalo to collegues. I travel a reasonable amount and Airalo has been reliable for me and available in a lot of countries. Last year they didn't have Singapore (I think this was re-added?) and it was annoying and expensive to buy an eSim at the airport. Reminded me how great their service is.
Do you have examples of these materials?
I used to use that provider in Germany - I don't like it because for some reason it only uses LTE and half the time I need it it's not working at all. :-)

The MobiMatter app that someone suggested above seems to be cheaper and also support normal 5G networks. It's been pretty reliable to me so far, i could recommend it.
I'm not affiliated, just randomly stumbled upon it.

In the app, it seems to scale between

1 day - 3.50 Euro

30 days - 59.40 Euro (1.98/day)

The pricing doesn't seem great, but also not terrible. So it could work out for them, due to convenience.
(2021)

The repository has not been updated since which might explain some issues.
Depression is optimal for rumination/pondering. It signals that you and your current environment do not match the ideas you have about what you and your environment should be like.

Either change the environment or change yourself or change your ideal image of yourself or the environment.

Your body doesn't exist for the sole purpose of self harm. It exists to keep you alive and have offspring.

You could think of depression as a dynamically added constraint in a linear programming problem. When you add the constraints, the current solution becomes infeasible, indicating that you can't stay where you are, you must search for the new optimum.

Using medication or telling people to stop being depressed is counterproductive, since it interrupts the process that the depression is supposed to kickstart.
> Emacs' solution to switching between buffers is harder to use if you want to go between different files you have open.

Are you sure?

If I am on foo.rs and I want to go to bar.rs all I type is C-x b bar and type Enter and done! I find this way easier than hunting and pecking for my tab in VSCode.
USB sticks should work for this purpose. Rewritable, smaller and faster than optical media.
Until they were acquired by BRCM. Then oh well, you know, typical BRCM behaviors awaits.
Are there any platforms for stagnant projects or for seeking partners?
Hello, I've developed a web application designed for practicing cybersecurity exams, complete with questions and community support. I'm seeking potential partners who are interested in collaborating on enhancing its features, possibly incorporating AI functionality, and exploring opportunities for its expansion, growth and possibly pinch for funding.

Is there such a marketplace where i can list the project, or what would be the best possible way to look for a partner on this? or basically somebody who can share ideas to growth.
> Product/brand trust matters

At Enterprise SaaS level it does not.

You do not have an individual purchaser - the deal will be vetted by committee for 1-3 quarters.

> most obvious example being Google, who have had an extremely hard time getting their stuff to be actually used

Extremely hard disagree. GCP does well in enterprise/strategic accounts where a customer in some way competes with Amazon (which is around 20-30% of the F1000) and also doesn't have a significant Windows presence (minimizing the need for Azure+MS Support)
Why diversity among participants in clinical studies is not always preferable
Following my initial, post-compiler-upgrade disgust, I do think it's a wise tradeoff. I can't use clock_cast yet - so the workarounds are kludgy - but it's that kludge that itself tells you you're dealing with something complex.
This is so backwards. We now have cheap and fast cryptocurrency (I build Tonkeeper, a wallet for TON) and eSIMs that cover big chunks of world at a time. The cost is low, it's one-click purchase and you have a reliable connection without spam.

Basic human right is not to sell your soul for pennies, but to be able to buy things you need, cheap and easy without lame border controls and obnoxious banking fees.
>In general we have a problem that solving things quickly and permanently is not profitable for the individual/company.

This is also somewhat tied to the issue that if you work in a salaried job and do overtime when there's a lot to do, you don't get to do undertime when there's nothing to do.

The 9-5 job schedule is a holdover from industrialization where time at work is directly proportional to work output.

For knowledge workers to be the most efficient they need some downtime, if you're going to ask them to do way too much in crunch time. But we don't give it to them. Instead if there's nothing to do for a while there will be layoffs.

So instead everybody needs to appear busy and important.
+1 for Airalo.

Used Airalo recently on a trip to Switzerland. I think I paid 5€ for the cheapest plan and got a 3.5€ voucher that made my wife's eSIM 1.5€. Worked very well the whole time and everything was very smooth.

The standard EU free roaming does not cover CH, at least not on my plan, so I needed something like this.
No, it’s made out of PTFE which is what ePTFE is made out of. But Goretex has other layers. PTFE is absurdly safe and one of the more non reactive substances. It’s also got the lowest known coefficient of friction with most things. It’s also called Teflon, which has a bad reputation because of how it was made 30 years ago, which involved PFAs. But its process for production has been different for 15 or more years, and no longer uses PFAs by law. But a bad reputation once earned is hard to shake.
You are mixing code length with documentation length.

Also there’s a bit of process fetish there
Interesting you find this "even better", I agree with you, though I found that to be a pretty hard sell to the crowd typically interested in purpose-owned companies, they tend to think smaller, more local, more direct impact.
Basically inertia guidance enhanced by terrain matching. Which is great, but terrain matching as a stand-alonenis pretty useless. And it still requires good map data. Fine for a cruise missile launched from a base or ship. Becomes an operational issue for cheap throw-away drones launched from the middle of nowhere.
It still costs the government AUD $221.57 (minus $31.60). So it is still pretty expensive, it is just being paid for collectively.
Fossil fuel is a cheat code because you neither have to pay to create it nor pay for the consequences of using it, nature is dealing with both of these. Everything you use from roads to shampoo, toilet paper, clothes, computers, buildings, bicycles, it's all either enabled by fossil or a fossil fuel derivate

At planet scale nothing will ever get better than: dig hole, pump oil, burn oil
It's an evolutionary advantage for humans today.

There's a reason ADHD articles are shared profusely here.

Information moves faster these days, you need ADHD to process it efficiently and hyper-focus on long tasks.

Those who can do that naturally become developers.

You just have to workaround social norms like work schedules.

Helps to own your own business or at least work remotely.
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Let me quote the very first words of the article:

> Write Dumb Code

> The best way you can contribute to an open source project is to remove lines of code from it

What am I missing here? How is writing short code dumb? How could the author argue that using "smart" techniques, makes the code longer? This is not smart, this is actually dumb. Maybe the author should put the "Dumb" in quotes, as a critique of techniques that are praised as smart but actually are worse than the common "dumb" techniques. The linked-lists might be a good example of over-engineered solutions that usually are worse than a simple vector (array).

But no, the author clearly means code readability. WHY ON EARTH would you even consider using some kind of advanced syntax or pattern if it was longer? Typically such are used to shorten code, like various meta-programming techniques (macros, reflections, metaclasses, you name it) or patterns like iterators, abstractions, match expressions etc.

Why would the HN crowd dig up a low quality article like this?

Oh, one more thing, code could be longer but smarter because it's performing better. But I don't think that's what the author meant, if he did, I imagine a lot of us would disagree.
As I said in my comment - you can safely assume mean contract value is in the mid 8 or low 9 digits at a company the size of VMWare.

If this scares away customers spending less than that, good for them. It doesn't make a dent when a F1000 is spending tens of millions a year on VMware and purchase by committee and will get sweetheart deals by being strategic accounts.
And yet in the UK two separate companies are opening second and third vertical farm locations on the back of demonstrated profits with their earlier endeavours.

eg: https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2024/02/20/jones-f...

The questions then are why are V-Farms profitable in some locations and not others, where are the locations with cheap enough energy that can compete on local area transportation costs against salad and table vegetable farmers with higher transport issues, etc.

FWiW I agree that back fitting V-Farms into vacant "designed for office use" isn't likely to be profitable, they're better with (see link) open greenfield warehouse spaces with loading docks and a clean slate to optimise layout for tray handling, lifting machines, etc.
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> When one is diagnosed, and aware of this hyperfocus thing, one can use it very efficiently.

Some can. Others end up in jail [0], or dead [1]. I wouldn't want anyone to assume that if they have ADHD, they automatically have access to some sort of super power - it doesn't always work out like that.

Like you though, I do try to harness this as best as possible for work. Music works quite well as an aid for me too.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/18/uk-prisoners...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5371172/
I believe, it is going to be -- if the local rate is X, we just charge you that and nothing more added on top.
Not really. On the smaller scale there was no reason outside of familiarity to run VMware over hyper-v.

This will be a shift for on-prem deployments. For cloud solutions running VMware in AWS/Azure, unless those renewals go up significantly, most of VMwares mrr is already locked in and the people running these setups generally refuse to learn how the cloud works so it’s a pure lift and shift mentality.

But the pattern begins, broadcom buys VMware does nothing increase prices. Why would any sane client stay around to get VC squeezed.
If that is a bomb, a drug or even just money you may be in trouble even if you have checked their ID (which can be faked and you are not expert … and if they want you to carry those these doc are faked).

Crazy idea for people in jail … see Thailand news from time to time.
Yeah, but those are so well known that they show up in every reddit thread. Therefore, not that interesting. Whereas the one linked is new (and isn't merely trivia).
Yes that is basically ADHD summed up (from my experience, I can't speak for others).

Without medication I can only focus on things that I really like or am interested in. On some days there are other topics that interest me more than programming, so it isn't that I continuously can focus on programming, but far more easy and often than concentrating on things that don't give me immediate joy.

So in general I can focus less on studying, planning, important conversations, but this is not the case when I for example study programming related things (I'll easily fall in a rabbit hole), or if the planning is about an interesting topic.
concrete and steel are quite big
Show HN: New Hacker News posts and comments in realtime
Hi HN, I made a live feed for viewing all of the new items on Hacker News in almost-realtime. It is a single, modern HTML file that doesn't use polling.

It works by establishing a websocket connection to the Hacker News Firebase database, to receive updates every time the HN server updates Firebase, which is about once every 30 seconds. This is very efficient, putting no load on HN's server and using minimal bandwidth.

To make the feed continuous despite the delay, it waits to display each item until exactly 30 seconds before displaying it. I think this is a fair tradeoff, it gives you a sense of how active HN is. For comparision, there are something like 6-7 thousand tweets every second.

Official HN Firebase API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Source code: https://github.com/jerbear2008/hn-live/blob/main/index.html
Wait, IANAL, but... If contracts were based on good faith, why do you actually need contracts? I highly doubt what you wrote. To put too much trust/faith in a bussiness partner seems like a good way to kill your bussiness.
^^^^^ exactly this!
My god, what a glorious monstrosity! I live in Sydney, I may just have to take the train to Hornsby to see this farrago in person!