skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that no one should use Python, I'm just saying why I don't like it. But if you instead like it I will not try to stop you using it.

This said, if most people use type hints and the proper tooling to enforce type checking, I would say this would be a good reason to properly integrate (optional) static typing in the language: it shows that most programmers like static typing. The problem I focused on in my example isn't the only advantage of a type system.
fwiw, VSCode has annssh mode to edit and run remotely and even inside a dev/docker container
I don't negotiate with advertisers, the most privacy-respecting option is to block/starve them.
> Good business names and domains are always in demand, being able to acquire those together with trademarks is even more attractive as a business investment. If branded social media accounts are included, now you have a startup package that many established businesses don’t have.

How could you legitimately use the brand name, domain name, or branded social media accounts of a different company?

Sketchy SEO could use it. Or a criminal enterprise that needs a veneer of respectability. Or a business in a country with PR challenges could use the identity of a different company that didn't have those barriers.

But what legitimate things could, say, a US startup do with a defunct YC startup's brand?

Maybe you could do it legally, but wouldn't it be confusing every time you talk with a prospective investor, customer, or vendor?

"Oh, I see the confusion, ha ha... No we're not the Foobr that lost everyone's money, shut down abruptly on their customers, and maybe had to negotiate on their final bills from vendors... We're actually the Foobr that has the resourceful grit to graverob a failed brand. I know, it's a feather in our cap, we're not too modest to admit!"
These are "embarassingly parallel" examples that multiprocessing is ok for, though. There was always the small caveat that you can't pickle a file handle, but it wasn't a real problem. Threads are more useful if you have lots of shared state and mutexes.

I think these examples would also perform well with GIL'd threads, since the actual Python part is just waiting on blocking calls that do the expensive work. But maybe not.
Utilities are much cheaper in Germany than for example California. At least it was when I lived there.
Sure, just stop complaining about not having power.

Seems like everyone is ready to argue about how impossible everything is. Shrugs "guess it's impossible, we just have to go on like we've always have".
Note that I said "I don't know that it would help in this specific instance"

Previous outages have been caused by issues with the grid rather than lines. Apparently CenterPoint is predicting that this summer power usage will near the grid's capacity and supposedly CenterPoint is known for underestimating.
Because C++ is better.
I would love it, personally. In addition to being vulnerable to wind and tree damage, above-ground power lines are very unsightly. Just compare any neighborhood with underground power to the ones where you can't look out of any window without seeing ugly poles and wires everywhere.
Very interesting data point, I’d have thought bankruptcy would be the exception not the rule, only applicable when there is startup debt. Maybe this is actually far more common than I’d thought due to SAFEs and convertible notes.
The poster of the tweet also says later:

> I recommend turning it off, or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.

Which seems an interesting comment from someone so extremely anti-advertising.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Thinking in an Empty Room
Take a look at their financials and $1500 for SSDs would not be out of place.

They have yearly expenses for more than $500.000

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSk...

Seems really weird to be using harddrives when they already have expenses like that.
I read an article in wapo that said you can use this URL to see what data was exposed: https://www.att.com/event/lander
1. Visit about:config

2. Set dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false

I've added the configuration value to the following page:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_...

I'm not affiliated with Mozilla, but I do understand how wikis work. ;-)
It starts by developers stopping by shipping Electron junk (want a Web app with native APIs?, target the system browser with a daemon), or using Chrome only APIs.
You are very rare. Most people are not like you.

Apple tried this with iOS 2 and 3. Minor versions cost users roughly 5-10 USD per update.

Therefore many users did not install the latest OS on their devices. The cost, although small, was a barrier for many people.

Apple quickly pivoted and now all software updates are free of charge to all supported devices.

If Mozilla starts charging for Firefox, I predict either people stick with the oldest version that is free, or stop using Firefox and use a fork that maintains its free (in cost) license. Or maybe only 2% of users convert to a paid version of Firefox.
Then it might be necessary to remove or relocate the trees since Houston is so vulnerable to hurricanes.
Nango (YC W23) is hiring remotely for their open-source unified API
I do not think of dawn or wgpu as complete and mature, has something changed?
The Goldilocks Zone — AI is Oil, not God
Penny-wise, pound foolish. This single 1 week power outage is going to cost Houston a lot more than $1.6B.
Is there an explanation of why it sometimes gives the wrong answer?
>After all, the Federation from Star Trek is pretty much the only well-known case of an utopia that actually works in fiction writing, and the show itself is one of few examples of aspirational and inspirational writing in modern sci-fi.

The Federation only works as a utopia because the writers never bother to address any of the complex questions about how such a utopia would actually work, because they don't care. Star Trek's utopian ideal is mostly just window dressing.

Also, Star Trek isn't very aspirational. We can't aspire to simply evolve beyond human nature as Trek humanity has, such that every human lacks any form of greed, vice or selfishness and is perfectly happy to participate in a society which still has all of the hierarchies of capitalism, including lifetime careers, but with none of the incentives. Nor can we expect the infinite free energy and physics-defying transporters and replicators that allow Star Trek's writers to just handwave away the hard problems of scarcity and thermodynamics. The Fermi paradox tells us plainly that FTL in any form is almost certainly impossible. The Vulcans aren't going to show up in the ruins of our civilization and potty train us. That isn't something we can aspire to, that's never going to happen.
Yes, if you want a stainless steel mold to very fine tolerances which will hold up for very long production runs.

There are more affordable options these days, but whether or no the newer options would be suitable for these parts or if these parts would be suitable for molding (usually that requires designing the part to take the requirements such as "draft angle" which helps get a part out of a mold) would be something which would need to be researched and accounted for and so forth.
For what context? One person keeping track of all the social workers they are in contact with for personal use?
> The utility is in charge of taking the power from the grid and delivering 110/220V to end customers, i.e. homes and businesses.

Sorry to be pedantic, but most US businesses have 208/120V or 480/277V three-phase electrical services. There are some old existing 240/120V three-phase high-leg delta (aka bastard leg) delta services. [0] Delta-wye transformers are the most common type today, that’s where you get the 208/120 and 480/277 services from. [1]

Larger commercial/industrial customers can have their own medium/high voltage substations and premises wiring/distribution.

Medium voltage is 2.4kV to 70kV with 4160V and 13800V being the most common for commercial/industrial applications. High voltage is roughly 100kV to 1mV.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-leg_delta

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-wye_transformer
I’ve lived through a lot of big hurricanes. Cat 1 storms can be worse than more intense storms, as they are often slower-moving, so they can dump a LOT more water per square inch. Not sure if that was the case here, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’d fare significantly worse under higher category storms.
Closer to regulating that providers of essential infrastructure acknowledge that physics exists.
The best idea I have now is to scan HN and make a list of commenters who said something like “I am working on a PhD in this topic”.
"not an electrical or civil eng. So let me explain how impossible everything is that I don't know about, and snidely say it's just 'physics'".
While I enjoy the sentiment, it isn't as if Rust is doing any favours regarding Firefox adoption.
Just went through this with my 80 year old father this week. He was attempting to switch his cell service. They kept telling him they sent him a verification code via text...problem is he does not text. He actually turns his phone off completely when he is not making a call.
He had no idea how to check the message...nor did he understand that swiping down (android) would show the messages at the top...and the concept of "swipe to answer" was eluding him too...he kept tapping the answer button and getting mad that it wouldn't respond.

This is a person who spent half of his life driving trucks...after he retired he took a class called "overcoming computer phobia" which began quite literally with "this is the power button, this is the mouse". He refuses to get GPS in the car and does not use the internet at all. No email, no social media.

These people are out there and as they age they only get more confused by things that they do not understand. Customer service is getting more and more difficult to get in touch with a real person (even more rare for the agent to be fluent and coherent in the necessary language, it is frustrating to not understand the topic and not able to comprehend spoken instructions at the same time). Not totally sure what the fix here is since automated systems and outsourcing service seem to be where everything is headed. In the case described above my father drove to the local office and was told he needed to call the number. The person in the office claimed they could do nothing...

My county is over 35% retired people. Cost of living is way above what caregivers can afford (just in the last 5 years or so). Most businesses have "now hiring" signs. I am not sure who is going to be taking care of these people since it seems to be a growing population...and those who would be able to take care of them are leaving the area.

So yeah...I agree with the OP. This field is going to grow in the next few years...but as others have said it may drop off a bit after the boomers.
> the problem is that the requirements take 6 months to elucidate from the incoherent ramblings of the users

This is really only an issue if you appoint programmers to serve as systems analysts. Sadly, this is all too common among businesses today.

Remember, programmers are detailists who must speak the language of the computer, and do not see the big picture, only one small part of a much bigger puzzle. A good systems analyst is a generalist who understands the business and can empathize with the users. They have strong communication skills, and can take a big-picture perspective and articulate their perspective and solutions clearly to management. They most certainly would not dismiss user requests and complaints as "incoherent ramblings". Programming and systems analysis are separate professions that require vastly different personality types, with the consequence that programmers make very poor systems analysts.
Any good 2 week bootcamp for mastering PLT??
LDAP came from the University of Michigan where it was intended to be a "lightweight" alternate of X.500

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_P...
As I understand it, the topsoil in parts of Texas is only a foot deep or less and then it's solid bedrock. This is why most homes do not have basements.
I agree that this is not a "big data" type problem, and that your approach of modelling the normal days is the way to go. Basically outlier/anomaly detection. But still, before on has 3-10 examples of the event being looked for - it is very hard to say something meaningful about how well it will work in practice.
Getting over to the low data regime from the current zero data regime would help.
Interesting tool, even better than mine, for FlexBox CSS: https://flexboxcss.com
If it’s a single binary why is there an installer, and why does it need to be curl-piped to sh? Looking at the installer script, why does it create directories in the root dir, instead of /opt or /usr/local? Also, I couldn’t find the install script in the linked repo.
They didn't, back in the days. I remember diatinctly the only way to send money to Gab / Parler was Bitcoin. Maybe now they do, but that's not very important.
Berlin, Germany is inland, with an elevation average around 34 meters above sea level. The ground soil composition in Berlin is primarily sandy, draining easily and lending itself exceptionally well to underground infrastructure development.

Houston, Texas, is coastal and has an elevation that averages around 13 meters above sea level. The ground composition in Houston is primarily made up of clay. Houston soil is notoriously heavy and has issues with drainage in construction. It's poorly suited for underground infrastructure development.
It turns out we don't need to speculate:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/64650dded34ec179a83...

Most of the wells they sampled are > 100 ft above the water table. Some are as low as 12. The lowest is 2.83ft. Here's the relevant bit of the schema XML document for the CSV the produced:

<attr>
<attrlabl>DTW23</attrlabl>
<attrdef>
December 2022 through March 2023 depth to groundwater in feet measured
from land-surface elevation referenced to NAVD 88
</attrdef>
<attrdefs>U.S. Geological Survey</attrdefs>
<attrdomv>
<rdom>
<rdommin>2.83</rdommin>
<rdommax>453.97</rdommax>
<attrunit>feet</attrunit>
</rdom>
</attrdomv>
</attr>
Lifetimes of money, really? What is that measurement? Someone above said 2.5 million per square miles. Catastrophic damage from larger storms is often in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars, so it feel like it would be in the best interest of most parties to embark on this project, even if it happens slowly.
'the rationale that they are actively evaluating other develoment platforms?

"However, now that Ladybird has forked and become its own independent project, all constraints previously imposed by SerenityOS are no longer in effect. We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages."
Here's a comparison of Houston and Rome climates: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/9247~71779/Comparison-of-...

Note the temperature and especially the humidity sections.
Are you suggesting that the vast ghettoes and low-income areas in Houston all install solar panels and Tesla Powerwalls? Many people in hardest-hit areas struggle paycheck to paycheck- if they're working at all.
Company names get recycled all the time. People have short memories.

I wouldn't recycle the Twitter account but the domain, for sure, if it is generic enough.

https://www.fountain.com/ today is an HR company. Yesterday, it was an advice marketplace: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/29/porch-acquires-mobile-expe.... And so on.
the libraries don’t have anything to do with fraud, crime, vague promises

the governance proposals don’t have anything to do with fraud, crime, vague promises

the software standards don’t have anything to do with fraud, crime, vague promises

same for nodes, consensus mechanisms, package management, type safety, languages, operator instructions, smart contract auditing space, financial auditing and transparency space, block and transaction indexing, legislation that leverages the technology to reduce redundancy, and the list goes on

its an approach and what I would expect to see on HN more often regarding the crypto asset space
OpenAI anticipates decrease in AI model costs amid adoption surge
> Halal just means the food adheres to Islamic laws

Also ritually slaughtered if that matters to you.
Moles, mice, things walking/driving over the top. There is a long list of things that make underground not nearly as reliable as it sounds.
I always liked the idea of coding music. Programmatically making some awesome tracks. Then open source it and let people run it on what ever they want.
I’m using Gitea just for packages (Docker, npm, python, ….)
I’m surprised noone has mentioned this in this thread
OS updates are not comparable.

Apple charging for updates is idiotic because as a user I don’t have a choice to go use a different OS.
What bothered me a little bit while following the book was that copying the code doesn’t result in compilable code all the time because there is code missing that is only introduced later. I get why the author chose to follow this path, but I’m from the club that every commit should compile and was annoyed a bit by that.
Even TNG didn't always follow through with utopian ideals, because that doesn't make for compelling drama. Tasha Yar came from a failed Federation colony where society had collapsed, and spent her childhood avoiding roving rape gangs.
The reason many companies don't offer a paid option to remove tracking is it can be seen as an admission by the company that they know tracking is wrong to some extent. So these companies would rather just force it on everyone and pretend like there's nothing wrong with it.
Anyone knows how to disable this on Android?
I think they are best at information extraction/classification tasks, especially for complex tasks with little to no training data, and data synthesis tasks. However, you should always test if simpler models can already perform the task reasonably well to save money.

They underperform at anything that requires reasoning.
Honestly, almost all of the companies that shut down will be unknown because they failed to make something people wanted.
Hurricane Ike was a category 4 that traveled nearly directly over Houston in 2008. (It wasn't a category four when it passed over, since, like all major storms, they weaken as they move inland.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike

Burying lines, especially in historic areas, is incredibly expensive and not necessarily a panacea either, although it helps. Is it worth it?

Realistically, for the millions upon millions of people that live in the greater Houston MSA (and of course except for those who rely on power for healthcare equipment, who really need to invest in a small generator or get to a shelter), it's far more cost effective to simply deal with power outages every decade or two.

During Ike, large parts of Houston, especially to the northeast, were literally underwater, so power wouldn't have helped anyway. The number of utility crews lined up along highways from other states, even from thousands of miles away, in the immediate aftermath of Ike is both inspiring and enlightening, especially when you recognize that they were going into a disaster zone, likely without a nice hotel to go back to or even running water after working a 12 hour shift.

So, no, it's just part of living near the coast in a hurricane-prone area. If you don't like it, move somewhere else.
I like them too.

About 10 years ago (funny that you mentioned that era earlier), before WSL, I was using Sublime Text, mintty and MinGW.

I even had a project to auto-spin a unix-like shell for windows: http://github.com/alganet/shunt (doesn't work anymore since ms crippled wscript).

VSCode is just another bloated Sublime Text clone. Language servers are a fine addition and I respect them, but pretty much everything else is a ms-branded copy. It's good, and I like it, but considering what it could be it kinda sucks too.
Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]
Usually there’s a broke founder who refuses to let the dream go.
They need to commit to not using C/C++ for the majority of the project.

If not, then yes it can’t be taken seriously.
Food-Based Coding Metaphors
This isn't an actual problem people encounter in unit testing, partially because you test your outer interfaces first. Also, irl static types often get so big and polymorphic that the context matters just as much.
And I see servo (the ex-mozilla engine rewrite in rust) is getting some news lately too.
WebContainers is pretty awesome, and at this point if I were a server runtime (especially Deno and Bun), I would try to maintain a first-party web platform version for exactly the type of linkable, ephemeral, no-install, sandboxed, local dev environments of your that WebContainers provides.

I do wish this were open source, and the mention of a patent scares me - I feel like lots of people have tried this over the years, are they running afoul of some patent not fully linked to from the WebContainers site? - but I understand the investment that StackBlitz has made and the need to make money.
Why is Texas infrastructure so brittle? It’s a wealthy, prosperous state unencumbered by regulation or legacy stuff that tends to cause issues in other states.
Okay, but none of that has anything to do with the power lines being physically mangled or toppled by wind.
AC doesn't really create heat though, aside from minor amounts from the compressor/fan motors, it merely moves it from inside to outside, or into the metro stations as you mention.
But you can at least buy the domain from the squatter afterwards, so the deadweight loss is limited. This is analogous to proposals for Harberger taxes on IP, or requiring copyright registration/fees for renewal after a few decades - if the rights are lost or so low value, then this elegantly restores it to the public domain, rather than locking it up for the next 100+ years.
Show HN: Weather App for Desktop and Mobile (Compose Multiplatform)
Funny to think about these costs and the health of the national commons from a point of view of the Federal budget.

For example, you point out it would cost 2 billion to migrate Houston's above-ground to storm proof below ground.

If we could lop off 1/4 of the DoD and intelligence budget of $1T/yr and dedicate it to infrastructure, we could pay for 125 Huston-scale improvement projects per year. And still have the most expensive DoD in the world! But that would be misguided for "national security".

Plus the Federal budget is essentially free money, constructed as needed, where such value is incarnated via the wealth of the commons, where such wealth is most truly incarnated by infrastructure.

But for unknown reasons, such pragmatism is politically untenable.
Is There a Future in the Doomsday Economy?
> will only produce correct results with probability < 1, though very close to 1

That's terrifying
https://archive.ph/2024.07.13-150504/https://www.nytimes.com...
I use Currports regularly, when forced to use windows. Amazing piece of software.