skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you couldn't afford Borland products, you were poor indeed.
Isn't the entire point of the article that Fly.io is making this an official policy?
> If you're hiring in your own field (which you should), you don't have to read the papers. You're already familiar with most of them, and judging by the venue their published in, you also know their "level", so to speak.

You're judging by reputation rather than substance. That opens up the possibility of manipulating reputation to achieve career goals instead of doing the hard work.
> You could often watch interfaces be drawn line-by-line

On a CPU system fast enough to render it within a frame, you could switch that animation off. I think it was mostly there to preserve UI compatibility with potatoes.
This is exactly what I was trying to do a few months ago, but all the RPi VMs I found were a pain in the ass and I never got it to work. Ansible deployments are conveniently but take forever on RPi, golden images are great for distribution but suck to make. Using Ansible to deploy to a VM and then exporting that image for flashing is the best of both approaches.
Critical Infrastructure Research and Security Conference
11 years ago i left my PhD in theoretical physics. I started so happy in 2008 and left in discontent 'cuz the corruption and culture of the institution. I started it for the love of knowledge so it was easy to leave evethough i wws about to finish. I left as a protest, i hope it had caused some ripple effects (i lost any form of contact since i left).
Maybe that's the reality oh things but i wanted to do research just for the love of curiosity and knowledge but gosh why do we humans corrupt eveything? anywho... this feels right at home.
Looks quite nice! Oddly enough, it transported me back nearly 20 years to my student days. I didn't have the money to buy domain names but I wanted to set up a few websites on the World Wide Web!

My search for free hosting led me to Geocities. However, websites there were hosted under paths like geocities.com/foo, rather than the subdomain format I wanted (foo.geocities.com).

Eventually, I discovered 20m.com, which as the name indicates, offered 20 MB of free hosting space. The best part was that it allowed me to publish my website under a subdomain.

Remarkably, one of the sites I created back then is still up and running: http://encoders.20m.com/ (Please don't judge the content though. I was young, naive and I was just messing with the Web!)
With Starlink, this question is getting less important. Loads of my family in N. Georgia have started using it and it's crazy how much better it is than the local competition
I was responding to what you wrote:

> The fact that there is even a term like "Climate change denial", means that it feasible to deny "the science"

This is clearly untrue. Some people, such as the 'flat Earthers', deny plain facts.
Cumberland is equidistant (~2 hours) between Pittsburgh airport and Dulles.
ASML having competition is good for everyone. Seems tariffs are a win/win/win
Certainly computers/calculators are useful sometimes (in particular when analyzing measured data), but for say 95% of mathematics, pen+paper seems appropriate? Taught properly, it's a highly pictorial subject and pen+paper is an extremely flexible medium.
I let my son take mine on a school trip to Japan. They’re still there only now it shows the left and right earbuds are about a block apart. Godspeed AirPod pro heh.
> What about org-wide things, like installing useful tools, generating boilerplate code, or running complex AWS commands that no one remembers?

You can do all of this with make and make includes.
But how much profit?
Keep calm and continue shipping hardware and sanctions.
WTH marketing much?

Read the fn offer:

They will give you $10,000 cash, plus another $10,000 toward a renovation to a house you buy, or to a down-payment on a house you are required to buy, with a value of >$150K that you are required to live in for 5 years.

And you have to apply, and be approved, and undergo a casual interview by the city council.

And you have to be ready to move in within 6 months of approval.

And you have to be fully remote, have a local job, or be moving to cumberland in acceptance of a job...

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They GIVE YOU NO FN REASON WHY you would want to move there.

The municipal website is a "Parks & Rec Fisher Price" as it comes, where the first link on "Populat links" is "Pay utilities"

There are no posted bid offereings (meaning no active project cumberland is seeking RFPs on)

And community events is barren...

So, why is this on HN?

It doesnt even give a nice GPT synpsis of what the heck cumberland is even about - Here, I GPTd it for them:

https://i.imgur.com/mueJp1W.png

https://i.imgur.com/scpNTid.png

Is my math wrong or something? Did anyone actually look at the image?

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Back when Detroit was doing super bad, and lots for huge Victorian and other nice architecture homes were going for ~$5,000 - there was a lot of chatter of a bunch of millenial-ish techies buy up a bunch of plots and start a tech-commune sort of adventure out there. (turned out the person organizing that effort was pulling a huge grift)

Maybe try to do a YC startup fund where "Hey heres free housing internet and utilities for your startup if you can prove "XYZ" -- like what about a visa program if some Hackers can come in and do a startup there and raise the economy where the city is invested in the startups? But have the program vetted by some panel of experts the city recruits
> Actually there was. My web apps can be used in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS, Meta Horizon OS, etc. thanks to it being a standard that is more or less not controlled or gatekept by a single entity (browser monoculture aside). Java applets died because of it.
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> Thing is, the Web platform is what won, and for good reasons. GTK, Java Swing, and other supposedly multiplatform toolkits did not lose just because -- they lost because the Web is objectively better.

To be honest I consider Java Swing better than current "fancy web UI". At least it's more consistent and at least try to match the OS... I loath the "creative bunch" that tries to re-invent the wheel and be all flashy and whatnot.

Every app should try to match to the best possible way native OS. Yes, it's not possible 100% of the way but it would go a long way.

Currently we live in a world led by brainded bunch of "let's care about brand" and try to have same UI on all platforms as if users were switching constantly between windows/mac/linux or between iphone/android... no, they don't. At least in the mobile space they do try to be more native-looking and follow the theme but it's not all that great either.

Also. Java/Swing loose (especially on the desktop) because it was slow at the time and wasn't open like "web". Besides learning curve for the web was easier (hey, you can open web console, write `alert('bam!')` and it DOES stuff, wild!... and then it went downhill from there...
Wired earbuds: one hard to lose thing. AirPods: three easy to lose things.
In context they're very clearly talking about blogging/write-ups/presentation of technical things. A lot of the material about making / fixing things we're presented with in life are finished products, the results clean and tidy, and the steps to accomplish the result obvious with the benefit of someone else to tell you what they are. It's much less common to see even a glimpse of the effort it took to get there, or for someone to document the process, including dead ends and false starts.

Even here, we can imagine that had the author failed to actually make anything faster, they might not have written anything at all. And yet, wouldn't that still have had benefit to people? To see things attempted that didn't work, to understand why those things didn't work? Maybe it wouldn't have been as interesting to as wide an audience, but it's important to see failure. Both as a way of learning from others to not repeat the same efforts, but also because its really easy to fall into the trap of assuming you're incapable if you do fail when everyone around you always seems to be succeeding.

Or perhaps as an analogy, almost everyone creates some art in life, and certainly every artist struggles to create that art. Yet it would be a disservice to only ever present art to learning artists as complete master works and paint by numbers replications. We need to see the "happy little accidents" of Bob Ross, the sketch books of iterations on a design, the piles of failed clay firings. Not because no one experiences these things, but because they are instructive on their own in a way that only seeing success is not.
You can use CSS to style the pages that way with a combination of font, box-shadow offsets without blur and overriding the box-shadow using :hover pseudo selector (also adding a translation effect).
Well, right. If I'm using an LLM to create code, I'm going to use all my skill and experience to review and shape the code to standards I'm ok with.

But for people with extremely limited experience, LLMs offer a "create an app by talking!!" Zero understanding required. So they won't know to not leak user PII in JSON responses or have publicly writable endpoints or keeping private keys for external services server side and outside of the code base, etc... Let alone anything more complex.
Pascal with its tight type safety made certain things extra hard, like working with images. C on the other hand let you walk all over it. Pascal was very much my preferred language until I learned C - then I never looked back.
We also did this :(
I sold a company and ended up with roughly the same. This is 100% bog standard.
> I suspect the people who are motivated by $2k a year to move there are not the people who are going to be bringing a large influx of capital to a place that very much needs it.

You are correct, they are the people who will be available to be employed by those considering bringing a large influx of capital and taxable revenue. They're the bait.
Has it even been confirmed that Russia did this? Anyone can cut a cable. This could be environmental groups. I highly doubt that Russia would do anything to a NATO air base, which would give NATO an excuse to do just what you demand.

They have been avoiding escalation with the West all the time.
Hey, Hot Page is my project but somehow I was not aware of Hot Glue. And reviewing it now I would hazard to say the projects are superficially similar. Hot Page is a visual/drag-and-drop web editor that uses no abstractions so the whole time you're using it you have complete control of the resulting DOM (all elements, nesting, attributes, CSS rules, etc). So it's kind of like CodePen but for building real sites. I wrote more about this philosophy here: https://hot.page/takes/picking-the-right-abstraction
Cheap immigrant labor and skimming the cream off the top from other countries makes American companies more competitive, yes. That doesn’t make a place orderly and well-run, with a high quality of life for the average person.

New York’s GDP per capita is double that of Japan and significantly higher than the Tokyo region. I doubt most Japanese would be happy living in New York. Indeed, if Americans could even conceive that a city could be like Tokyo—clean, orderly, polite, with effective transit and public services—most wouldn’t want to live in New York either.
Regardless of the immediate ban on ASML, China has made a geopolitical and strategic decision to obtain advanced chip manufacturing capabilities be it in 5, 10 or 20 years. Would be timely if Western politicians showed same concern for national manufacturing capabilities instead of continuously relying on outsourcing.
Don't you worry, Apple is still looking for a product market fit. And when you have enough billions, do enough brainstorming and cool ad videos you can actually find things that never existed in the first place. Then we will see mass adoption of this millennials' dream tech.
I don't think that moving the whole thing into our orbit would make much sense.

The biggest amount of delta-v is necessary to leave Earth's gravity well. Once you're there, going from and to asteroid is time-consuming but doesn't need that much delta-v, moving ore from the asteroid to Earth would cost some fuel, proportional to the mass.

So moving it into orbit would save time but require us to pay for the fuel all at once.

So why should someone do this, unless you need a permanent human presence on the asteroid?
Isn't that a bit like saying the solar car cross-country races show that solar-powered cars can work? In both cases the 'payload' and vehicles are stripped to the barest essentials.

Solar sails with any significant mass attached to them would either need to be impossibly large, and/or operate on timescales that make ion propulsion seem like a warp drive. And that's not counting the issue of stopping when you get to your destination, which will either require some insane laser/power source already at your destination, or propellant- in which case you're back to just using that in the first place.
A tax accountant, depending on problem and jurisdiction, is MUCH more cost effective than a tax lawyer, by an order of magnitude.
Eh... I'm always mind-blown by the amazing nature the USA has... :(
Can you give me a specific example of what I said that's incorrect?
> making the input dynamics more predictable and thus minimizing the energy of the system.

How does this follow?
In addition to all the good technical advice here, I would recommend paying attention to soft skills like written communication, presenting, persuading, reading comprehension, listening, being organised, setting priorities, etc.
They will open up doors that you may not value now but perhaps might later. And they are the kind of skills you build just by paying attention to them every day.
Their apps and website both keep getting worse and worse.

Reddit is one of those great examples were management and execs all feel like they need to show their impact and justify their salary and just make the platform worse.

Bots and propaganda are literally everywhere. The platform keeps getting worse but I admit it is to some extent addictive.

I am somewhat happy that HN is one of those places where politics are generally avoided.

I am sick of people arguing about geopolitics and national politics like it was some fan battle while not even knowing their mayor candidates programs, hell many don't even know who their mayor is or what their city council is working on.

This stems imho from the dead of traditional newspapers who were often local, in favor of internet media which is in its nature global.

I swear most people in Italy know more about US politics than what's happening in their own backyard, completely backwards.
kubectl-node-shell is also pretty good to do that automatically.

https://github.com/kvaps/kubectl-node-shell
https://archive.is/2024.08.23-131621/https://www.ft.com/cont...
Hey, Hot Page is my project and that's pretty much where we're going with this. The idea is to use Web Components and real DOM instead of the "blocks" abstraction present in so many editors these days.
If you’re going to use make, use just instead:

https://github.com/casey/just
The age of Nuclear is over and won't be coming back. The technology trajectories are now just in favor of solar and batteries. Everything else has no chance.
Every month or there is another reminder of how good a decision it was to switch to Linux on the desktop.
The radiation can't be detected even a couple of kilometers away from the discharge. China is >1000km away, so there's 6+ orders of magnitude more dilution by then.

If I pee in the lake you're swimming in, that's kind of gross... but it ends up being an incomprehensibly tiny fraction of the contaminants and gross stuff you're swimming in.
Microwaves also affect other polar molecules and ions in food, not just water.

This excitation leads to the generation of heat, which is then transferred through the food via conduction.

Microwaving is indeed considered a form of dielectric heating, which is a subtype of radiation. It’s distinct from conduction, convection, and traditional infrared radiation but still falls under the broader category of electromagnetic radiation-based heating.
Yeah some people put a lot of value on area codes. My wife was so proud when she got her first iPhone years ago because it was a 214 number (Dallas proper). There use to be posters around town saying “keep 972 out of 214” since 972 was associated with the smaller suburban areas just North of Dallas. I had an 817 number which was ft worth and basically an untouchable haha.
> No need to obsess to make sure you are not getting shafted left and right.

This is a fantastic point. People tend to check-out and glaze over when they have to deal with accounting and tax matters, and that's a really efficient way to variably either run your business into the ground, artificially hamper it, or screw yourself later.

When my colleagues and I opened our business we had a few concise discussions on corporate structure. We went with a C Corporation because at the time we all had major financial changes on the horizon in our personal lives and we didn't want our personal and business taxes to be interrelated.

Still works for us to this day, and was a wise choice give our respective personal tax situations.

Likewise, early advice I'd give anyone is to invest in an accounting solution that fits your business model.
> find a drive, check for a boot sector, then boot from it

And how would you call the System code that does this? Would you want such a piece of code to be able to Output something to the screen in case it can't find such a boot sector? Should it be able to take user Input (e.g. in case multiple valid boot sectors are found)? These are quite Basic requirements for any early-boot phase.
Wow, it's been a minute since I used HoTMeTal, I loved that editor. I cranked out a lot of HTML with it, once you got the hang of what it wanted you to do, it would be your best friend. We switched to Dreamweaver, of course that lasted until Adobe bought it. But thanks for the memory, this thread has been the Saturday treat.
There's no reason to reinvent a tool that has literally decades of development behind it, is included in pretty much every Linux distro, and does what you need.

Dismissing it as being for olds is short-sighted.
Payments are already overwhelmingly frictionless online.
You can't really be making this comparison, though? Getting an MD and residency and rotations means you're in your thirties before you get your first real job. At least in the US. It's wildly more difficult.
It looks like a nice place. I know about a few similar programs in some towns in Europe. It is interesting to see something like this in some towns and cities in the US.
Microwave heating is not a fourth form of heat transfer as it name implies: microwave radiation. Yes, the heat is not being radiated by a thermal source of microwaves, but it is radiation being absorbed. Hence radiation is the mechanism.

Rotational momentum is also heat as it is kinect energy related to movement, linear or not.
SCOTUS is getting blame properly directed at Congress. Each time the judicial branch pushes back on the executive branch trying to push major regulations through ambiguities in statutes, they are doing their job of keeping the law accountable by putting the decision back on the plate of the most democratically accountable branch, the legislature.
Niches are better served by old plain forums which are still to date, imho, the best way to talk most topics.
This is one reason why it's helpful to learn bottom-up when possible as opposed to diving straight into the deep end and trying to fill in missing knowledge as you go.
The first one is a red line but not one that is close to being crossed, since Ukraine is losing the war quite badly.

The second is an extremely vague threat not to mess with Russia. There is no line drawn at all, red or otherwise.

Do you see a hidden code in these statements or something? I dont see what you're getting at at all.
Similar long-standing program in Tulsa. https://www.tulsaremote.com/
Things I've understood about marketing, after stumbling for years
The anti-make-reinvent-everything mentality has bugged me for decades. I never understood why every language seems compelled to reinvent the build system. Especially when the output is file based.
The context matters a lot. Early PCs were released at a time when there wasn’t really anything else like these products. That early pricing reflected the creation of a brand new category.

The Vision Pro is a remarkable piece of tech, but isn’t required to achieve many of the use cases it supports, and people are primarily paying for the immersive experience.

Given that, spending $3K on immersion in a market where a few hundred dollars will buy you most of the non-immersion capabilities is quite different than spending $3K on an early PC.
We also can't model every single one of the atoms splitting in a nuclear reactor core, but thanks to stats and models, we can predict how they behave to very high precision.

Knowing whether or not anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions impact global climate can be reasonably achieved with some modeling assumptions.

We may not be able to predict the weather in each location for the indefinite future, but we certainly can and do understand the general impact of bringing billions of tonnes of new greenhouse gas into a system.
Should we teach children to memorize the multiplication tables?
An accountant isn't going to give you the same caliber of advice a tax lawyer can. As for the cost, what part of "The amount they will save you in taxes is much higher than the amount you're going to pay them" do you not understand?

Maybe this is the disconnect: you use a tax lawyer to set up your legal entities to minimize the tax you need to pay. An accountant files your taxes every year. I'm not advocating you pay a tax lawyer to do your taxes every year. That would indeed be overkill and expensive.
Maybe youre not familiar with Qwest Communications?

Man does SV have stories to tell that will be lost to us old BOFH ilk:

Qwest communications came about when the railroad realized they had rights to the easement lanes on either side of ALL their train tracks, that allowed them to basically do anything they wanted with that strip of land.

So Qwest Communications was born to run fiber along all the tracks and built a huge fiber infra.

There was a huge scandal with the telecom giants, and Qwest's CEO was convicted:

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Dossier: Qwest Communications

Creation and Early Years

- Qwest Communications was formed in 1996 as a spin-off from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The railroad company had been granted easement rights to lay fiber-optic cables along their tracks, which Qwest leveraged to build a massive fiber-optic network.

Fiber-Optic Network Expansion

- Qwest used the easement rights to lay fiber-optic cables along the railroad tracks, expanding their network across the western United States. This strategic move allowed Qwest to:

- Reduce costs: By utilizing existing railroad easements, Qwest avoided the need to purchase or lease land for their fiber-optic cables.

- Increase efficiency: The railroad tracks provided a direct route for fiber-optic cables, reducing the need for detours and minimizing signal degradation.

Scandal and Conviction of CEO Joseph Nacchio

- In 2005, Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio was convicted of insider trading and sentenced to six years in prison. The scandal involved Nacchio selling millions of dollars' worth of Qwest stock while aware of the company's financial struggles.

Scale of Fiber Plant

- Qwest built an extensive fiber-optic network, spanning over 190,000 miles across the United States. This massive infrastructure enabled Qwest to offer high-speed data and voice services to customers.