skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Built a simple Hacker News client with Expo
Pretty easy to start building native apps with expo these days, especially with prior Web and React knowledge.

Did this over a few weekends while learning about Mobile development, their docs are a big help too.
> every government choice is a tax

I realize you have interpreted my comment as suggesting this, but that really wasn't my intent. It was really just about tax vs spend, and if they differ.
I dont know if thats what he is saying, but what you are saying sounds logical.
IMO when the attitude went from nurture to kill wrt to possibly duplicate questions.

I wish that rather than close a question you were only allowed to link an answer from what you thought was the duplicate and that just becomes another voting game vs. moderator opinion.

Also I suspect a little bit: LLMs aren't dicks, and you can ask them follow up iterative questions quicker than SO users respond.
Because back when CGI programs where the norm application servers weren't really a thing outside of maybe Java and similar ecosystem (by which I mean dotnet).

When you wrote a web application before the ~2010s you wouldn't start of with a library with webserver building blocks to which to attach routing + behaviour. It sounded crazy at that time, especially when you where building websites with a scripting language like PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby. It sorta became the norm with the rise in popularity of event driven IO, through projects like NodeJS and the rising popularity of Go.

Even today, at least in the PHP world, we still mostly use the CGI based approach to running code (though it's through a more modern interface such as "fast cgi"), with an inbetween service that handles process (fpm - fastcgi process manager). I'm sure other dynamic languages have something similar, though there is a large wave of people pushing for more application server style deployments in those ecosystems as well (which is more feasible today).
In the early days, even as I appreciated what Pandas could do, I never found its API sane. Pandas has too many special cases and foot-guns. It is a notorious case of poor design.

My opinion is hardly uncommon. If you read over https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/c3lr9n/am_i_th... you will find many in agreement. Of those who "like" Pandas, it is often only a relative comparison to something worse.

The problems of the Pandas API were not intrinsic nor unavoidable. They were poor design choices probably caused by short-term thinking or a lack of experience.

Polars is a tremendous improvement.
> people's choice -> government -> media -> narrative -> people's choice

In this toy model, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch have zero influence over either the media or government?
A decent server wouldn't crash if a cgi binary crashes.
Each post could be encrypted (before publishing) using a unique key (derived from the private key of the poster) and then signed with the private key (of the poster) before publishing.

Then the poster could later choose to selectively publish (or make them available to individuals) some of these unique keys, to make posts readable.
By this logic, is Amazon “dropping” support for AWS? https://www.npr.org/2024/04/04/1242718244/amazon-cutting-job...
"purity" is a word that sets off alarm bells for me, every time.
I wouldn't consider pensions generous, and I also wouldn't blame pensions for bankrupting states.

The states are in trouble because they're shit at spending tax dollars. They burn money on shit that doesn't make money. Sprawling roads, suburbs, malls. On a local level these developments don't earn the state more money back via commerce, they actually drain money just to maintain.

Next to that, many states went all-in on the industries that were vibrant in their states. Of course they never accounted for the greed of corporations. Those corps left, and behind them death and decay. Entire cities, billions and billions of dollars in infrastructure, left to rot. Now a liability, but moreover, a lost tax revenue source.
Not sure if there are multiple products called "Timelines" but I can access my timeline on maps.google.com just fine and it has all my latest data.
Thanks it sounds great. I'll definitely have a look at that. Maybe I can connect it to LiteLLM so that we can connect all kinds of models.
Is this the beef?

> Since the water column is a mile high, it would pressurize the reactor by its sheer weight, much like sticking it a mile under the sea, so no need for a pressurizer and the cooling system would be entirely passive.

> In addition, being encased in solid rock far below any water table removes any need for a containment system. If things get really bad, fill in the shaft and cap it.

Why is it cheaper to have this with a ready to activate shaft filling sarcophagus (and the redundant backup systems for that) vs doing it on the sea floor or land + a 0.1 mile deep hole?
Error monitoring causes fatal errors: NewRelic PHP lib causes SegFaults
Keeping things cool at that depth also seems like a challenge.
That was an improvement.

Google has Find My Device for that situation. Hopefully she had it set up.
> What we do have, however, is a fundamental thermodynamic truth. Heat is energy. And that energy has to go somewhere, or do something. We've added energy to the system, we're just waiting to find out what it does.

That is not how it works and it is not the mechanism behind cyclone formation. For a better explanation of cyclone formation and why a warming climate - whether anthropogenic or natural - leads to conditions less conducive for tropical cyclone formation globally I'll refer to the article 'Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming' [1] (refer to the article for the references and tables mentioned):

The results from the 20CR dataset show a clear downward trend over the period from 1900 to 2012—as opposed to a weak upward trend in the earlier period—in both global and hemispheric annual numbers of TCs (Fig. 1 and Supplementary Fig. 1). On average, the global annual number of TCs has decreased by ~13% in the twentieth century compared with the pre-industrial baseline 1850–1900 (Fig. 1a). This is consistent with the CAM5 and MRI-AGCM experiments that show a similar TC frequency decline (~11% and ~13%, respectively) when anthropogenic forcing is included (Table 1). Both hemispheres contribute to the global reduction in the annual mean number of TCs (Fig. 1b,c). Importantly, a much larger decline (~23%) is evident after ~1950, coinciding with a period when warming signals in the climate system became evident in the historical record1,20 (Fig. 1d). We note several change points in the time series of annual TC numbers during the twentieth century (for example, ~1926, 1946 and 1976). Incidentally these change points, which otherwise cannot be resolved in short-term records, coincide with periods of major climate shifts associated with long-term climate variability (such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, PDO; additional discussion below). Of interest is the change point around 1946, after which the number of surface observations assimilated into 20CR increased, raising some concerns around the homogeneity of historical proxy records before this period. Thus, to obtain an independent verification of the 20CR-derived decline in global and hemispheric TC numbers, we additionally used the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Coupled Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century dataset36 (CERA-20C, Methods). Note that unlike 20CR, CERA-20C is available only from 1901 to 2010, and so we compared changes in the annual mean TC numbers between the two climatological periods: 1901–1950 and 1951–2010, where the latter spans the period of substantial greenhouse warming. As with the 20CR dataset, CERA-20C also supports the decline in both global and hemispheric annual TC numbers for the period under consideration (Table 2).

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01388-4
Let's discuss this publicly, please. Open Knowledge has the advantage that others also benefit from it.

About the use case: Ultimately, I just want to enable my team to use different LLMs without having to create an account for each team member. However, it should be possible to upload attachments. RAG is not required at the moment.
It comes down to frequency and potential losses with a earthquake.

The less frequent earthquakes are the more valuable it would be.

The more risk to your life or property earthquake would have if unprepared would also increase the value.

So it's low value if there's mild earthquakes every week, but really high value if there's few strong earthquakes a year.
Says who? You, all women?

Ada Lovelace is a real person. What's patronizing about it? We didn't make her up out of pity for women.
> The right to speak, but not the right to be heard

Right to be heard implies a coercion to be heard. That’s the paradox of free speech.
France isn't totalitarian by having laws against privacy and cryptography?
Keila: Easy and Reliable Email Newsletters. Powered by Open Source
Updates to MS Copilot to bring enterprise data protection to more organizations
What Does It Mean to Be a Signal Competitor?
> Scale doesn't matter for rights

Ten people being denied their rights is no different from hundreds of millions?
Put some screenshots/demo?

A writeup on how you built it would be pleasantly welcomed - as I would like to know/see examples of how build in Expo.

I havent built my own app yet - but I have a thing I am wanting to build with InstantDB - and I dont know all the things I want to build it in/with yet.

Expo seems nifty.
I love this human can-do attitude. Screw black hole radiation, distortion of space time fabric at its core, just lets use it as a mega slingshot!
I mean, that's where all the current hype and VC is, so it's not too surprising.

From my layman's perspective, the collapse of SVB seems to have tightened the belt on the startup scene, with AI-hype bubble(?) being the only viable escape hatch.
We have countless mechanical sensors and detectors that can sense just about everything there is in this universe, even neutrinos. Even if we magically manage to detect half of that it wouldn't show us anything we don't already know. Although it would be trippy to see the full EM spectrum.
> It was really just about tax vs spend, and if they differ

Consider a kingdom on the gold standard that borrows the gold it spends.

Their actions do not change the monetary base. They do increase the velocity of money, but by no more than had they taxed it (minus wealth effects).
Not if you want to build SEO authority on the new domain
Worse. Its like someone shouting "Fire! We are dead in 5 seconds!". People who are still alive after 5 seconds will correctly figure that this is a liar and possibly also assume that there is no fire at all.

Boy who cried wolf.
If drilling were cheap (it most definitely is not), geothermal would be the better option.
It's also about the 2020 election relating to the Hunter Biden materials, though doesn't allege any pressure from officials on that point.

Which, makes sense, given Trump was president. Zuckerberg does say prior general warnings about Russian disinformation caused Meta to initially demote it for a period, since it made them skeptical of it. But those warnings weren't related to a specific incident, like the laptop/hard drives/iCloud accounts of Hunter Biden.
The Bullet Cluster is indeed a very interesting example, and one that would be rather puzzling otherwise.
The groundwater contamination angle seems a bit... hand-wavey?

> In addition, being encased in solid rock far below any water table removes any need for a containment system. If things get really bad, fill in the shaft and cap it.

"Solid rock" feels like there's a lot of geological asterisks there. How about the casing around that mile-deep hole? Where do you pump all the inevitable leaks?

9 out of 10 startups go bankrupt, what happens to the hole if the company (or the project-specific LLC) goes belly-up? "Just fill it up" is a bit disingenuous and ignores how groundwater tends to seep into everything given enough dozens of years... Texas is littered with half-capped polluting shale wells that were just kinda left there when the wells stopped being productive and the project-specific drilling LLC was dissolved when it hit the bankruptcy-by-design phase of the corporate lifecycle.

Centuries of potential contamination feels like a risk that should have more than 2 sentences.
If I had to guess, a tiny tiny percent of all potential drugs make it to clinical trails. So again, now you're looking at 1 in 10,000. You're only looking at the 1, ignoring the 9,999, and saying "look pharma pays for all of it!"

How much research at unis ends up being completely worthless from a pharmaceutical product perspective? Almost all of it. But how many products began based on research conducted at universities? ... all of them.
That is really sad.

I always thought that Apple should have really pushed the whole "Applescript Studio" thing so as to create something even better and more approachable than Visual Basic --- it could have been a true HyperCard replacement.
I'm not following it. It starts great (the idea) but the toolset used is a big nonsense? Make it run in the browser with no external tool needed otherwise it is just the same old bloated approach.
That’s great.

I’ll be consulting with Doctorow on how to get more shock value words with ‘fuck’, ‘shit’, ‘cunt’ into English dictionaries for the next generation to learn and say.
Do you think we're lacking in mythology today?
This data suggests that 1 mile is common for oil wells: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_welldep_s1_a.htm

Obviously, that’s not a meter wide hole, but it’s clearly possible.
> Twitter's community notes are quite effective but they are simply very low bandwidth

That's why they are effective. I review Community Notes sometimes and the right assessment is almost always "no note needed". A lot of attempted CNs are just arguing with the poster's opinion, which belongs in replies. CN is meant to be for correcting cases where something is objectively false or missing critical context, and it does quite well at that. People are very good at spotting edited videos, mis-dated photos and so on, which is the bread and butter of real fact checking. Not very exciting but useful. Facebook could do worse than just reimplementing the system. It's certainly far better than letting activist run NGOs be editors.
You can't fine tune a 70B model with this. It barely even fits the weights before it runs out of vram. Need a bigger machine.
Being able to repeat the experiment at your leisure without digging through web server logs is valuable. Still, a shell script does indeed sound like the way to go: `set` should already dump the environment as required here, and then you can exec your CGI program. (Unfortunately, it doesn’t in bash; `set -o posix` first to fix that.)
FCC taking comments on 900 MHz changes [pdf]
The FCC is hearing comments on Nextnav's proposed changes to the 902-928 MHz band. This may affect smart devices using existing Z-wave LoRa services.
I think a better example of this type of moderation would be Wikipedia.
I was pondering if "vanilla" should be part of the name as well. In the end I felt I got sufficiently close to the vanilla flavor you describe, and the name conveys the "as little as possible" approach. Hope it's not too misleading!

I do like the "plus" idea, now that you mention it! Will think about it :)
If you live in the US you may have an ADA case against whoever does the website. Many other countries have their own version of that with different rules.
You seem to be calling complex numbers imaginary numbers, but they're not the same thing. Imaginary numbers are a subset of the complex numbers consisting of the imaginary axis without 0, e.g. i, 2i, -3.1i. Complex numbers also include the real numbers and all combinations of real and imaginary.
Your comment has the exact same message if you remove the virtue signaling “As someone who doesn't use social media”.
There and Back Again, a Web Script's Tale: Clarifying JavaScript's Terminology
wow very impressive
>I wonder what the same Wordle example would look like in, say pure Flutter.

Try this with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. All LLM's are really good with this translation tasks
We might be able to handle deflation, but the fed can not. That would cause them to default on their loans. They are already dangerously close to this happening IIRC.
Well I like it and find it useful, so I guess we’re at an impasse and will have to let the commenter proceed.
You might want to warn about memory usage. I had Chromium consume several GBs of RAM and had to terminate it.

But it is great that there now is more offline tools. It would be great if there was a browser API that allowed the page to voluntarily go offline to guarantee that no data will be leaked.
> It opens with a 'cond', with three branches. First branch is if the idx-th position in word is the same as letter, return green. Second branch is if the word includes the letter at all, yellow.

This is a tangent, but I've been thinking about how I feel when the conditions of an if-else ladder rely on the order they're listed in.

This is an example; if you swapped the order of those branches around, the coloration would become incorrect.

I'm a little happier when the conditions are described completely, such that swapping the order of the checks doesn't change which of them evaluate false or true, but it's also true that that can add quite a bit of complexity over an order-sensitive set of conditions.

Thoughts?
What game devs can learn from Japan's most interesting puzzle magazine
I disagree with the assertion that the relation is cyclical. In reality, all of these systems are highly interdependent. I'd model it as a weighted complete digraph.

And certain subsets of these various nodes have a greater outsized influence than their peers. For example, the intelligentsia within the people are usually far more impactful than say Joe Blow from Appalachia.
I was talking with a coworker recently who was asking the question of why Ruby wasn’t the data science language of choice. I am still not sure the answer. Why not? Ruby seems like it would be great for math.
> For instance, models of galactic formation work a lot better with it than without it

I'm guessing gravito magnetism hasn't been included in those models yet.
> very much doubt that the valuation of Royal Mail would have been affected

To include a postcode lookup on your website costs nearly £7000 per year.

Given how popular that is I don't see how it couldn't have formed part of the price.
I'm running Guix on my personal desktop, my personal server, and my work laptop. I'm using the nonguix channel on all three of them, it has been perfectly fine for me.

My servers NICs actually are not even supported by the Linux-libre kernel. I got around that by building a custom installer iso with the mainline Linux kernel. That probably sounds awful, but I have never built a bootable iso for any other distro before, and it was a breeze for me.
How do we know it's not useful to the German government? Without context, I would have assumed that "infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience" meant they were trying to secure FreeBSD's builds because they were using them and identified them as a weak point.
I came here to say this. Yes I know https://no-www.org/ is a thing, but browsers have a ctrl+enter shortcut that'll top and tail the domain with https://www. and .com - having that go to an error page is not great particularly given the reason to do it was partially ease of access by customers.
Using (Near) Real-Time Data for Revenue Growth
Summary: An experiment that looked for WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) found none with masses above 9 GeV.

So either they exist but are too rare for the experiment to see, or they are massive but not that massive*, or dark matter isn't WIMPs (or dark matter doesn't actually exist at all).
They could all merge into one giant insurance agency, perhaps a National Health Insurance.

Once they eliminate all competition the next target for optimisation is between the company and hospitals. They realise its cheaper, with better margins, to run primary care facilities rather than hospitals. The government see that they are a monopoly and force them to provide coverage for a minimal monthly cost. It seems like such a good idea that eventually the government agrees to give them a set amount each month for universal coverage of citizens.

They rename themselves as the National Health Service.
If you haven't used a Lisp-inspired language, yeah, it's going to seem different than all those imperative Algol-derived languages that have been popular for so long.

I don't use Clojure professionally, but I've spent years using the language personally. It might be hard to believe, but it really is beautiful once you learn it, and extremely powerful as well.
Or as I call it "death by a thousand microcuts".

I always wonder why some (most) banks are proud of being reckless.. oh well, it keeps me well paid.

Also, Monzo decided to remove the "dark mode" option back-in-the-day. When I wrote to them about it "please return it as optional - as it already was" they responded with a polite "nope, suck it up". My next message to them was to close my account. Well.. "nope, suck it up" back right at you.
My favorite streamer shuts down politics chat immediately. "Let's talk about videogames instead."

It's nice, you all can discuss politics literally anywhere else.
220V is American version of what is known as 380V/400V elsewhere.
Browsers do not protect from tab using all available memory and swapping out other applications including desktop shell.
> Ten people being denied their rights is no different from hundreds of millions?

Do I really have to explain this? We cannot permit even one person denied their rights. It isn't acceptable in small quantities and then suddenly become a problem when it's 200 million.

But as I have clearly stated and has been obvious for years, you don't have a right to use privately owned web sites. The attempt to paint it as such is only a marketing ploy by those very same sites in order to paint themselves as essential to our lives. They are not. Delete your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. they are garbage.
Interesting, I've never found fork particularly expensive, usually the bottleneck turned out to be setting up language specific runtimes. I would certainly never write CGI in a language like python where startup takes significant time.
Smart particle could hold climate change key
You can feed a US outlet the split phase 240V and get two 120V@20A each.

It used to be done in kitchens in the US, back when appliances were power hungry. I have done so in my workshop for the same reason.

Houses are wired in split phase 240V, with the neutral in the middle. That is, you have two opposite 120V phases, around the same neutral.

This is a clever way to double the power, while adding a single wire.

In the US the standard outlet receptacle has two outlets. Bring the same neutral to the two outlets, and assign one phase per outlet (outlets have metals tabs you can break off, you don't need any extra wiring).

At the panel, you have a dual breaker. One breaker per phase, with a physical linkage forcing them to trip and arm together at once.

As a benefit; but very unsafe; you can make up a Y that plugs into the two 120V outlets, and gives you a single 240V receptacle. This is unsafe because if you plug only one of the 120V plug, the other one has now 120V on its exposed phase prong! On the other hand, I have both 240V@20A and 2×120V@20A anywhere in the shop ;)
> Nuclear fuel, even with all the processing costs included, only comes to about US$1,663 per kilogram (2.2 lb). Because nuclear fuel has such an incredible energy density, that's about 0.46 ¢/kWh – and the fuel costs keep dropping as the technology becomes more efficient.

That’s…not actually cheap? As a consumer, I pay less than half that per kWh delivered at peak hours.