skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, first, you know about Github Issues (https://github.com/features/issues, the built-in kanban/PM system) right? And Linear.app with its Github integration (https://linear.app/docs/github)?

Not sure how yours is going to be different, but I always welcome more options in the Anything But Jira™ world...

Re auth/user data, maybe you're overthinking it a bit...? You should be able to use sign in with Github and request certain permissions scoped to certain repos & operations without having to store their credentials or force them to self-host. (eg see https://docs.github.com/en/apps/oauth-apps/building-oauth-ap...)

As for storing project data, if you request read/write permission to those repos, yes you can put your own data in there, but that's probably not something every org would want to give you (as opposed to just metadata about their PRs, commits, comments, etc.)

I suppose you could build the whole thing to be self-hosted inside a repo, built to a Github Pages inside it and maybe run on Github Actions or similar... but I think that's a lot of complexity/fragility/maintenance burden over a traditional hosted SaaS like Linear, which basically just takes a few seconds to sign up and start using. And then you end up having to debug everyone else's infrastructure too when your app breaks in various ways, vs having one version that you control yourself.

Anyhow, good luck! Always exciting to see better PM tools.
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I think your point is going to be lost on people who view art as a commodity to be consumed. From that point of view, replacing the artist with a machine can only result in a loss, if the person consuming the art could tell the difference in the first place. If not, then who cares if a machine or a person tuned the piano, etc?
Make the highways wider and use tens of millions of cars over decades.

Then again, jet fuel will get you there faster. Flying 400 miles is more relaxing than driving.

How do electric trains compare? I’m having a little problem with common sense today.
> I sometimes wonder if I'll regret that choice later on down the line.

How many people regret not buying a high school ring?
Not pure copper, they need to be tight enough for minimal sag between supports, and not wear from abrasion (the phantograph touching the wire). Copper doesn't have good characteristics for that. I don't know what Caltran uses, but it is common to have a steel core and plate it with something else.
To be specific, it's even more basic than that. For 10Base-5 and all the coax ethernets, it was "if there's more energy on the wire than you are transmitting, a collision is present".
The button mashing is the best part! So many interesting techniques to get faster
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Sure... but as an eng manager my job isn't to cater to your creative outputs in subordination to good products.

Craft comes before art.
I should have been more clear. Assume these 4 things:

1. Industrial activity will continue to require nonzero human participation, even in the future.

2. Culture has no impact on the fertility rates of citizens in developed economies, they are incorrigible homo sovieticus, entirely shaped by material conditions and quality of life. Populations immigrating from other regions quickly reach the same quality of life, and follow suit.

3. There exists some level of economic contraction that would lead to present-day Western countries' inability to feed themselves. In one extreme case, if productive activity in the OECD went to zero, nobody would do anything at all, not even work knowledge-sector jobs; and therefore couldn't even afford to import fertilizer, food, etc. from other parts of the world. By a sort of intermediate-value theorem, assume the level in question exists, and lies between 0 growth and total cessation of industrial activity.

4. Starvation constitutes poor quality of life.

If the level of contraction (3) happened, I advance that one of two cases would happen.

1. People starve. The population does not stabilise. The marginal fertility response of humans in developed countries to this particular decline in living standards is zero or negative. The population continues to shrink. In the long run, if this happens again and again, the working-age population repeatedly falls below some number required to maintain successive level of industrial production, until there is fewer than 1 working-age human left. (This could take several hundred years.) By the first assumption, we need at least one person to continue all industrial production in the OECD countries, so at least one such minimum number exists; and so in that person's absence, we recover a situation with zero industrial activity. The remaining n non-working citizens cannot eat and quickly die.

2. People starve. The population does stabilise at a new equilibrium. This requires, by definition, at least replacement fertility in response to declining living standards, and constitutes a non-cultural solution as sought by the GP comment.

If at any point case (2) happens, then a level of industrial contraction of some degree solves the GP's request without requiring cultural factors. Otherwise, case (1) will happen again and again unconditionally, and we will go extinct in the long run.

It's a very unpleasant solution, but it does exist. I don't really believe that humans' behavioural responses are so non-smooth that the last two people on Earth would choose to have a single child, and then send that child off to learn the Haber-Bosch process -- it's only a limiting case.
Or the car has a fair amount of EMR noise and one cable - being shielded - experiences less loss as a result. This could also explain why bluetooth was particularly bad.
Cockroachlabs – Evolving our self-hosted offering and license model
I like to think of it as a limit imposed by the bandwidth limits between compute nodes.

A volume of computers connected in a grid with cables will have a bandwidth per unit area limit along all surfaces.

Similarly you can’t “know” about other matter in some direction away from you unless the information about it traverses the network links back towards you from there. Along a line that has a fixed upper limit. With more and more matter in some direction you get less and less information about it per unit of your time elapsing. It’s like watching a higher and higher resolution video with a fixed bandwidth — it has to play slower.

PS: hence the boundary of the visible universe is also an event horizon, it is the “depth” at which the total accumulated matter sums up to the same limit.

PS: The same line of thought works for the Anthropic principle as well! In the zoo of possible universes most have zero sentient life because the rules are not conducive to it. That’s the “core concept” but there is a nuanced version where many universes have just one species of sentient life. For example infinite travel speed would allow the first aggressive xenophobic and technically capable race to wipe out everyone else in short order. Hence, we’re more likely to be living in a universe with a speed limit where such “instant Borg assimilation” is physically impossible.
The trains are Stadler KISS electric multiple units with 7 cars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain_Modernization_Program...
Resource Management in Aurora Serverless
The most surprising thing about WWI is that after the war ended, the respective armies didn't string up every single politician responsible for the conflict.

A complete butchery of Europe's youth for nothing.

Instead, somehow, all the blame fell on the generals (most of whom were doing the best they could given the political goals they were given), while the architects and propagandists of the war got off clean.
Physicists reveal the role of 'magic' in quantum computational power
Another great reminder to the rest of us that simple and complex are not analogous to easy and hard.
Now that I know this is possible, it seems like it would be a fun addition to the Hy, Hissp, and Coconut projects: https://hylang.org/ https://github.com/gilch/hissp http://coconut-lang.org/
JMG did a good summary video of the explanation of the WOW signal as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqI5HtDFL4I
agree; defined long acronym immediately in article.

i'll probably read the test, but that's some high quality posting from the get-go!
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines (2015)
oh-my-zsh also checks for updates.

Batteries included can be nice.

When your batteries start to run their own webservers and phone home, someone mistook convenience for batteries.
How do the “bullets” work? Passing local trains when they’re stopped on stations? I didn’t notice a third set of rails anywhere for that.
What a throwback! I remember when the Tau Manifesto came out: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
> Whether or not these are ionized particles would have a big impact on what's happening

The lunar atmosphere is theorised to come from two sources: impact vaporisation and ion sputtering. When immediately produced, the latter will produce ionised particles wihle the former will have no preference. Both will be subject to later photo-ionization once...erm...airborne.
> finding out that a whole lot of infrastructure that was supposed to make your business better, actually isn't doing its job, is still significant.

Yes, in many contexts discernment matters. More broadly, being able to tell the difference in quality or performance is relevant when you've spent more time/money/effort to have a better result. Even if "no one could tell and it was fine anyway", then you could have saved that time/money/effort and put those resources to better use.
I used Ventoy. It's a free tool you "install" on your USB drive. Once installed, you can drag and drop one or more iso images to the drive and when you boot from the Ventoy USB drive you simply choose which installer you want to run. Windows installers will work automatically when you choose them and select the wimboot option. You can add as many installers as you want. Very awesome tool. For Linux, there's a GUI server shell script you can run to help you install Ventoy to the USB drive.
Indeed the art pipeline alone is a huge challenge - and particularly so on these first generation 3D consoles. There is some GL like aspects to the rendering side as well but with a _lot_ of idiosyncracies. I was sweating it. I feel like N64 would be slightly easier.
Not the OP but as a data engineer I can tell you that a data scientist with strong SWE credentials is an asset on any DS team.
I'm dreaming about a Next-like framework that will do React SSR in GraalVM JS engine but will do data fetching, routing and other stuff in Clojure.
Mapped: Which countries have reported mpox cases so far?
"Driving (at times) should be about 45 minutes"

Most people aren't commuting to work in the city at 2 AM on a Sunday.

It can be considerably slower at peak times.
West Virginia isn't too bad incest wise. About the same as California honestly. However they are in fact dirt poor. Poverty is the main indicator of "Low IQ." Along with race of course. IQ is kind of a shit measurement.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-inbred...
> Have there been any human trials of total liquid breathing?

It's used on a somewhat regular basis in clinical settings (e.g. liquid ventilation). I'm not aware of any diving experiments, though. There might have been some classified military tests, but nothing official AFAIK.
I live 300 Meters from a Station. IT IS SO MUCH QUIETER!
Anyone interested in Caltrain operation should check out the Caltrain HSR blog, https://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/. It's not just about high-speed rail. For example, last week the blog pointed out that the new trains take an extra 8-10 seconds after stopping at a station to begin opening the doors. Which chews up 12% of the trip time savings achieved by the move from diesel to electrified trains!
I genuinely wish I liked using emacs.
Instance storage can be a good option depending on your workload, but definitely has limitations. There's huge value in separating the lifecycle of storage from compute, and EBS provides higher durability than instance storage as well.

There are no operating system limitations that I'm aware of, however. I was just able to launch a Windows m6idn.2xlarge to verify.
How many capitals do you know?
Breakpoint – Add Breakpoints to CI
I still use fetchmail, while I prefer MailDrop over procmail :-)

And, yes, I 110% agree about automation revolving around emails, or simply revolving around exchanging text between people asynchronously. I still have my ascii ribbon campaign in the signature [well, mostly because I very lazy].

One of the first kind of automation, it's just mere handling, I have auto-delete for some mails not flagged, to keep my maildirs of a human size, and having them on my iron I can choose both the size and how much allow to grow without having to pay extra subscription or experimenting many third party "old mails missing" issues. But also small potatoes automation from "the smart home", bills annotations and so on. If a sufficient mass of people know how much and how simply we can do certain things like extracting attachments (uudeview, ripmime etc) and archiving them we can easily imaging e-bills (now that most western countries have them, for those who do not know e-invoices, typically XML-based with signatures or not, sometimes pdfs with embedded XML/JSON) attached and automatically archived by our desktop for future access in a snap.

Similar things about other "old tools" from usenet to RSS, just imaging your bank offering an authenticated feed of every transaction, markets changes etc with push notifications as well.

With these tools the modern world could be automated 10x the actual level with 1/10 of the actual effort needed for just the actual level. Unfortunately those who know today are less and less and very unfortunately those teaching in academia seems to have lost any interest in teaching, maybe with some incentives by big tech...
It also leads to bots posting ads disguised as posts to reddit. Often they are posting in communities that nobody subscribes to but google indexes.
I still have PTSD from pre-COVID days when I would be working at in my cubicle and have someone "drive-by" with a quick question and plop their laptop on my desk.

"Can I ask you a question?"
(Ugh) "Sure."

It might only take five minutes. Then I'd reconnect to _my_ work. That and getting over my, admittedly emotional, irritation at the interruption would take another 5 minutes.

I really liked being able to delay those folks to when it was convenient for _me_ while working from home.
> Often, though, the customer is envisioning a more complex application, and I just have to tell them, “Sorry, you’re going to have to hire a professional developer for this.”

Welcome to enterprise sales, where building custom solutions atop of your sprawling BaaS empire is exactly what you do.

Your customers have a need and you’re basically turning down an upsell opportunity that also buys you lock in to your platform.

Another way to look at it: are they all trying to build something similar or something with similar components? Maybe it’s time to expand the features of your product to reduce the amount of work they need to do.
Dissolving Atherton and replacing it all with dense housing would be so satisfying.

I suspect there's enough political influence in that town to prevent it from happening
Sony released a linux kit for PS2 [1], which was conceptually similar to Yaroze, but I think PS2 Linux didn't have apis for all of the PS2 hardware. The PS3 initially shipped with an OtherOS option[2], which was later removed, but is also conceptually similar again without access to all the hardware.

I haven't heard of anything similar with the PS4 or PS5; I'm guessing Sony is unlikely to provide similar widely available options in the future, but who knows. They did PR expanded access for "indie developers", but I don't know what the process looks like to get that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
As an aside with the rat scene ... that wasn't special effects (though did have cuts).

https://filmschoolrejects.com/the-abyss-breathing-fluid/

> The rat demonstration scene in The Abyss was unsimulated and used real-life oxygenated breathing fluid. Ed Harris, however, was tasked with pretending to breathe in his water-filled helmet. This was especially challenging during underwater shots, of which there were many.

> ...

> Supposedly, the only purpose for the cuts in the sequence was to avoid showing the rats defecating from panic. In total, the crew shot the scene five times with five different rats. Aftercare included holding the rats upside down to drain their lungs of fluid coupled with a vet visit. None of these efforts assuaged the concerns of the English censors, who cut the scene for UK distribution.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/trivia/?item=tr0738209

> Fluid breathing is a reality. Five rats were used for five different takes, all of whom survived and were given antibiotic shots by a vet. The rat that actually appeared in the film died of natural causes a few weeks before the film opened. According to James Cameron, the scene with the rat had to be edited out of the UK movie version because "the Royal Veterinarian felt that it was painful for the rat". James Cameron repeatedly assures that the rats used for this take didn't suffer any harm.

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Note that in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing the "Diving" section is under proposed uses. The human uses have been very limited to specific medical situations.
The trains are the Stadler KISS model, from Switzerland.[1] Many in use worldwide since 2012. Caltrain is using the 25KV version, which is high for a commuter line but compatible with the California high speed rail system. (BART is 1KV. Streetcars are 400-600V.)

Some of the Caltrain electric trainsets are currently running, intermixed with the two generations of Diesel trains. And the occasional freight train, which is a Union Pacific operation.

I did see one electric trainset being towed by the breakdown locomotive, an old Diesel that Caltrain uses to recover stuck trains.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadler_KISS
A brand's worth is based on how many people know about it. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Disney, Tesla, etc. etc. are some of the most well-known brands on the planet. Globally, they consistently rank at or near the top. You don't have to take my word for it [1]. Step outside your bubble and do your own research :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_valuable_brands
I took a pretty nice photo of the new Caltrain using a line scan camera [1].

[1] https://i.dllu.net/caltrain317_4c6c80561b5156c3.jpg (6878 x 2048)
Good point, I'll edit it in.
Strange. I came for the screenshots - I love a good TUI - but there were none.
(I think I might be the only one in the world who actually prefers paper straws based on their qualities.)
Well, if you don't put too much emphasis on the "hand" part of "handheld", Steam Deck is basically a PC running Linux and you can program it in any language you want.

As a bonus you can gain some muscle by carrying it around.

Alternatively, some of Anbernic's and other similar manufacturers of "retro handhelds"'s machines run plain Linux (usually derived from OpenDingux for MIPS-based devices, but most newer stuff are ported to ARM) with a simple launcher. I have one of the older MIPS-based devices running OpenDingux (GCW Zero from ~2013)[0] and you can use SDL and C/C++ (or Free Pascal in my case). Anbernic RG350 is basically a remake of it (same hardware, just better screen) and there are some variations at a software level (running the same or a similar MIPS CPU). Other devices are based on ARM (IIRC the devices ending in 1 - like RG351/RG351M/RG351P/etc - use ARM with an OS derived from OpenDingux). Note that some use Android, though they also use a different naming scheme (and they mention it).

Sadly Android-based devices are the most common and since they are largely used for emulators, the manufacturers rarely post full tech specs but there are dedicated communities and YouTube channels from where you can find what exactly OS they run and with what architecture.

But all that said, Steam Deck might be the simplest choice (though not the lightest, both in terms of weight and price).

[0] https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNjM4NTE4LzQ3MDk2MTguanBn/origi...
> for a lot of us, over-eating is a response to anxiety

100%. We use food as entertainment. To get a dopamine hit from fats and carbs.

For most of human history, food was scarce. We evolved to get huge dopamine hits from food. Our brain sees starving as a danger. It's only post WWII that food became abundant.

Now those signals work against us.
This is from me. I didn't realize the connection to Lutris + Enhydra. It should be listed as a "Acquired Company" + "Abandoned Project". Wikipedia also says that it lasted until 2001. Usage is different from development/maintenance. I will update the entry for the old InstantDB and add an entry for this new InstantDB.

I think given that the original InstantDB died over two decades okay and is not widely known/remembered, reusing the name is fine.
Interestingly, a great application for GenAI is to copy and paste code and ask it, "Why is this not working?". It works even better if you give it the specific error you are getting (and it is a well understood system).
Presumably the laser is dimmer and less efficient and therefore giving it more time to scan and read each bit compensates for this.
I've also never heard this term. Back when text interfaces for mail were the default, but they started getting "fancy" like elm, pine and mutt in the 90s, they were always called curses or ncurses interfaces. When GUIs became a thing, the older things became called text-mode, but I've never encountered TUI before.

The only TUI that I'd heard of is the travel company.
How does this differ to a tool like Clay.com and their Claygent
> And worrying about 'what will happen if human population actually drops to zero' is like worrying about commuter traffic congestion on Mars.

Why not? I don't think it will happen, but at the same time, I don't want to say anything about human behaviour without stating assumptions. If you think (as do I) that there is always some point above zero population at which birth rates do stabilise, then it's valuable to examine what exactly that would entail.

It sounds like we agree the point exists somewhere - we could extend your example to the whole Earth's population becoming 2 and the population becoming (8 bn / 2)% more productive. Why can't we extend it to the population becoming 1?
Figma Instance Considered Harmful
> new express route between San Jose and San Francisco will stop at 11 stations instead of seven, and take 59 minutes instead of an hour and five minutes

If you ignore wait times. Why couldn’t they have just sped up the train?
From what I heard, the filesystem was very cool. You could attach arbitrary key-value pairs to files, and e.g. rather than store song metadata in ID3 tags or whatever, it was stored as filesystem metadata, making it searchable by any program without knowledge of a file's internals. As I recall reading, one could create a virtual folder that contained the results of a search, e.g. "all MP3 files where artist='Pink Floyd'" and use that as a playlist.

I have played around a bit with Haiku, but have not figured out how to do that so far.
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