skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in the economics of this project, the details are available in this publication:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/88816.pdf

Summary: This particular research project won’t quite break even purely on market-rate electricity sales, due to having 2x the installation cost of utility scale solar. If high value crops are successfully grown, there are scenarios where it could break even after including profits from crop sales.
This is a fantasy. Those 90 returned people can spend their money anywhere in the world and do. Their relative ranking is multiple larger homes and those 10 working people paying them rent.

Land value is not a product of labour -- in Canada it's an investment and a way to move/launder money from other countries. Many many properties being build that are not designed to be realistically lived in.
Woah I assumed it would be English (err… Chinese?) and dance degrees but it’s real degrees.
Composability is a sadly underrated concept, at least for code with a longer expected lifespan. A lot of good things fall out from keeping one eye on it while designing / developing / maintaining.
It’s easy, just make Americans poor enough that it makes sense to manufacture them here. Given that no one wants to pay more taxes or (realistically) cut spending, we’re well on our way.
What's an example of this? Why are people deciding to pay money for something they neither want nor need? Seems odd
AWS Data Transfer Charges: Ingress Is Free (2022)
I first learned about recursion in math class, through the theory of induction. Unfortunately, I fear that induction will disappear from the math curriculum if it's not seen as a problem solving technique.
You're right, most of people wont buy this app if it had subscription-based model
I think the biggest systemic issue with middle management is that its mostly a political position that comes with political challenges. Middle managers have to be the political interfaces that try to implement and affect policy given to them by upper management, all the while giving feedback on said policy from the line workers to upper management. Good middle managers can really shield good workers from a lot of upper management idiocy. Bad middle managers exacerbate those issues. Its a thankless position that can really make things better, but often is stuck doing a mediocre job due to lack of training and bad circumstances.
> I love it so much even if others don’t.

Is there any evidence he's ever driven (or even ridden in) a production unit?
Ask HN: Do you migrate from Oracle forms to Apex or try Latest Tech Stack?
Oracle Forms is a technology platform originally designed to develop and deploy database-driven applications, especially for Oracle Databases.

While Oracle Forms continues to be used, I believe organizations gradually move to Oracle Apex or rather a Tech Stack using React for UI and Java/Golang/others for Backend on Oracle or PostgreSQL databases.

What do you think is more apt?
What would you do in this case?
What botched FOIA request?
Dev rel content has always had analogies in it.

It's a big assumption that AI made that choice.
“Railsworld won” would be my TL;DR of this article.
Thank you so much! i'm currently building the new landing page and have updated all the things there.
You have provided no numbers.
There’s been some success here already - as mentioned, there’s some commercial products on the market already that do some amount of nitrogen fixation for at least corn and I believe wheat as well, so it’s not unsolvable.
In Canada, the titles he has in his other realms are irrelevant, though - the only Crown in Canada is that of Canada (well, and the provincial crowns in each of the provinces).
This is a very common sentiment on HN, but... why? I don't get it.

It's not like there aren't people focused on sustainable businesses. 90% of businesses are probably SMBs - just not in tech. For most people in the world, the word entrepreneur means "someone who's opening a McDonalds across the street" or "someone opening a pizza shop". Even in tech, there are plenty of not-hypergrowth companies around (I run a small dev shop, for example).

The reason we here are exposed more to VC-style startups is because a) they make more news, for obvious reasons, but also b) there are structural reasons in tech that favor that style of company, most importantly because software itself is scalable in a way that most things aren't.
Show HN: ArXiv papers, explained like you're five
Hey everyone,

A few weeks ago, I was struggling to make my way through a somewhat dry arXiv paper, and over the holiday break, decided to tackle a quick prototype / idea I had for a website where you:

1. Can open any arXiv document by modifying its arXiv URL (arxiv.org/... -> elixiv.org/...)

2. Can scroll through the document and click a sentence

3. See the sentence on the sidebar, explained like you're 5 (or 3, or 10, ... or 0)

4. Can mark a sentence as "understood" to keep going going through the document

I think I ended up with a prototype that's actually pretty fun to play with, leading to some useful summaries that make reading an arxiv paper feel much more casual. (Or alternatively, you can get some pretty funny summaries if you set the age to 0 or 10).

The demo doc (linked) is completely free to play with, no login / signup required. Any other arxiv doc currently requires signing in with google and you'll get 3 free docs per month.
One time purchase + annual maintenance fee is a pretty common pricing model.
A Pizza Mart is open until 2am, at least in Belltown but you can only get a medium for around $20.
Inspiration is radically different than stealing ideas. The core gameplay of Minecraft is vastly different than dwarf fortress, and even alpha had far more to it than infiniminer.
The only way to protect wages in the face of competition that works for 1/10 to 1/3 the rate is to institute protectionist policies. That has also been unpopular because there's money to be made in offshoring as well. Americans are getting the worst at both ends, and only experiencing short-term benefits of having cheaper goods.
Nothing to be sus about. I use this script to install the libraries that I made open source.

https://github.com/Ansh-Rathod/pimosa-builds/blob/main/macli...
yes it is built using flutter!
It looks awesome and very handy, I found a few minor UI issues, I'm trying the Windows version on a 4k monitor.

* The "< Home" button when you enter video/audio/photo tools is only clickable and changes color when hovering below the text, I would suggest making that a larger blue button. This doesn't happen for the "< Back" button which is in the same area when you're in a tool

* If the upper image crop handles are all the way at the top, they aren't clickable, they don't show the resize cursor. When you drag them it moves the window instead of the crop handle

I have a few suggestions:

* I'm not sure how feasible this is, but I think video should have a similar combined crop/flip/rotate UI instead of separate ones like for photos

* It seems like batch processing is a first class notion in the app, which is definitely very handy, but I think maybe it should be a mode toggled by a radio? I think a lot of use cases are just one off uses, in which case the UI can be made a lot simpler. If I'm just working on one file, I would prefer to be dropped right into the tool editor rather than having to click edit.

* 2 devices for the extended license is still a little too limited in my opinion. I would make it so authenticating the app to a computer requires access to the email that purchased it, and then make the extended license unlimited. I don't think you have to worry about that getting used for a team since it would require access to the email account.
It's insane that "don't block the UI thread" is so complicated. I never would have expected half the article to be about an edge case if the user is in a background tab.

What's worse is I don't even know how you're supposed to know what the edge cases are without stumbling into them. You shouldn't have to know about APIs like document.hidden unless you specifically want to handle background tabs differently. They shouldn't leak into the regular event loop.
Interesting opinion I've not heard before, or to add to your point then basically types are merely just "interfaces".
The youngest working generation doesn’t see the value of middle managers. Imagine that.

Experience is a wise teacher.
> The conflict in Syria is resolved in Turkey's favor.

Is it? The SDF is still there, and was always one of the biggest reasons why Turkey got involved.

Now, that one, Turkey might still resolve yet... but if it does, that will likely come in form of another genocide. Which would hardly improve its chances of getting acceptance.
Show HN: I worked on a feature that allows you to preview fonts side by side
Hey all,
I have been working on a typography extension to make it easier for developers and designers to pick and demo different fonts.

I wanted to share the latest feature I worked on that allows you to compare fonts side-by-side in your own website making it easier to pick better fonts.

Right now, it's available for chromium based browsers (Chrome, edge etc), but will soon work add Firefox and safari support.

Thank you for checking it out.
It still doesn't make it a DB-based solution. Calling it as such is confusing, especially to the long-time Org-mode users. They value the nature of all the data being in plain-text. No valuable data ever goes into that DB, it's purely for indexing. You can safely delete it any time, it just gets recreated.

Saying that Org-roam is DB-based is like characterizing any codebase hosted on GitHub as "written in git". Even though, speaking pedantically, that's true; it still would be nonsensical.
> so I think many of the custom ROMs possibly have some security rookie mistakes and quite a bit security bugs due to mishmash of drivers

I would easily believe that many Android systems have vulnerabilities owing to the horrific mess that is their kernel situation. That said, I personally doubt that aftermarket ROMs are worse than stock, as official ROMs are also running hacked up kernels.
Indeed, we spend more than anyone else but also get less for our money than anyone else. It would likely be an underestimate to say that our gear and labor costs double that of any of our competition.
Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
The list is for 25, not 10. Using just 10 over represents the top 10 out of 25.
Glad F# was mentioned, my mind went their immediately as well. The ripple is definitely intentional, and from what I've found the dotnet compiler is quite performant so not so much experiencing the feedback lag that other mentioned when it comes to Scala's compile time. The thing I appreciate of F# is that if it compiles it probably "just works".
The new WoW64 mode seems to have matured quite a bit since 9.0
That's kind of true, but also, there really is a difference between everything is allowed all the time and the current situation the cartoonist is gesturing at.

I read it as "the Overton window for what is acceptable discourse has shrunk in a way that is dangerous", which I quite agree with.
The video editor seems extremely useful. Id consider making that more of a hero in describing the app.

NB: “Privacy Alert: Files are uploaded to third-party servers.” Wraps oddly on my iPhone, resulting in squishing the circle.
I just wanna note it's crazy that things confusing people a decade ago are still confusing people now. How fucking hard can the concept of a ui thread be?
"Chinese person: Racist against Indians" is hardly a newsworthy headline.

Sorry, but that's just the way it is.

I live in Vancouver and I'm apalled to hear some of the things my Chinese friends sometimes say about Sikhs in Surrey.
> The answer is that, no, nobody akshuarry audits anything. This has been proven time and time again, especially in the last few years.

Sooo how about the audits linked in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42592444 ?
Who is a Canadian?
Snowflake Growth Simulation
> China didn't just fall into peak manufacturing capacity by a happy accident of many workers, they (for better or worse) made long term plans and stuck at them - including the reduction in poulation growth known as the one child policy.

I don’t think China planned to intentionally fall off of a demographic cliff. But they are already planning for that cliff by making very aggressive investments in AI and automation. If you see how effective their plans from 10-20 years ago turned out today, wait another 10-20 years and…I hope we have some kind of a plan…it isn’t what Trump has in mind for sure.

Ironically, Japan planned for the same cliff with aggressive investments in AI and automation in the 1980s, but the rise of China messed that up with cheap labor, and their AI play was misguided/probably too early.
>its just not efficient

The problem is we don't need efficiency, we need effectivity.

>The question then is why would you want to do this?

Because He Who Makes Leads The World. You can't and won't lead if you don't actually get your hands dirty and make shit. China is the world leading superpower now because they make everyone's shit, we are all beholden to them.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) directly oversees the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is one of HHS's operating divisions, with its Commissioner reporting to the HHS Secretary.

QED, the guy who admitted to dietarily contracting brain worms in order to weasel out of alimony might also be chief over the FDA.
You're going to face a challenge of scalability. With so many results like Google, you can't fit every embeddings vector in memory. You'll need to work a database hybrid of in memory caching and disk persistent indices.
People frequently seem to think that identifying these traits is a permanent thing or a fact of nature, rather than as you say, a statement about the current day (and I would add, an often inaccurate statement based on corner cases like those I've mentioned). To make it more than that is a mistaken notion. You can justify a lot of ugly racism that way. Many people do and have.

As an example, slavery in the US created an artificial category or label of black people out of many unrelated peoples, calling them inferior by nature and using that to justify unethical systems.
No, those were just the changes since v9.22
We’re trying to explain to you that they’re NOT interchangeable. What you’re doing is applying a false syllogism, but in question form.

Let me illustrate with an example in a statement form: “A rock can’t fly. You can’t fly, therefore you are a rock”.

You’re saying “A wants to do X. You are criticizing A, so you must object to X being done.” That is making an unjustified leap to your conclusion. It doesn’t matter what the subject is, this is a logic error.
Like when we imported a whole lotta slaves?
As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids' mental health
it uses homebrew to install the FFmpeg on the user's device. the app doesn't bundle any libs to comply with their license limitations.
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Nice startup idea here. Lenny 2.0 to string alone salespeople who cold call/email for as long as possible. Doesn’t work for B2C spam emails unfortunately.
https://unity.com/
They are trying:

Purism is selling the Librem 5 USA at $1,600

From the site: "The Librem 5 USA has Made in USA Electronics with all fabrication and manufacturing done at the Purism facility. Individual components used in fabrication are sourced direct from chip makers and parts distributors. We use US companies with US fabrication whenever possible. Most distributors are based in the US with the exception of large integrated circuits that are made in a variety of countries where those companies do fabrication (US, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan); an example is the NXP CPU we use from their fabrication in South Korea.
While we source chips that are made in the US whenever possible, chip country of origin is not nearly as meaningful as country of board fabrication, especially when all chips are verified hardware circuits that are driven by free software in the kernel."

[1]: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/#table-of-origin

If you look at the table on the site, its not 100% USA yet but they are getting close and thats a positive development.
I can't help but say that Australia is basically the stupidest country on the planet (at least amongst Western democracies, since one could say modern Russia is stupider, but that's a whole another cultural debate). It's like the degenerate alcoholic who's willing to prostitute their mother for a bar tab. A country so blessed with some of the most important natural resources, a country whose geography is synonymous with the word abundance. But nah, they'd rather sell themselves out to the biggest foreign bidder, even if they are from their biggest regional rivals. While Norway and the UAE enjoy the fruits of their resources through strong welfare systems enabled by a resource-driven economy a fraction of Australia's, Australia sold itself so hard its own citizens have to buy from foreign corpos.
Send your kids to study EE, invest 401k in manufacturing
i didn't bundle the ffmpeg in the app. It uses homebrew to install ffmpeg on the user's device. this is the acceptable way since ffmpeg confirms it on twitter/X.

https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1766649563891339510
An editorial from Dec 19 (gift link):

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/eca53705d5e7568f5ed88c7...
I think part of the problem is that there is no other thread (outside of service workers), so that's why it's hard. In C# I would just fire up another thread to do the work and I don't have to worry about blocking the UI until I want to notify the UI from that thread. But I can't fire up a separate thread in JS so everything is done on the UI thread
Okay, but sideloading is worse? AFAICT the problem we're discussing was in F-Droid doing extra verification (somewhat incorrectly, apparently) of an APK before handing it to Android to install. Regardless of F-Droid, Android will check signatures on updates against the installed version. So your response to F-Droid imperfectly checking signatures as an extra verification on first install... is to skip that entirely and do zero verification on first install? That's strictly worse for your security.
I have never used that tagging feature and instead have created nodes like [TODO], [INPROGRESS], [COMPLETED], etc. And then I've added a simple function that checks if a tag/link collides with another, i.e., I can't ever have [TODO] and [COMPLETED] in the same heading - adding one just removes another.

I wonder what would tagging get me here beside just showing up in the node search dialogs?
skipping the boring parts to get to the good parts, cool!
The internet is full of spam and deceit, most of the time even we humans struggle. Even with good references, the models make their own share of mistakes.

Overall I think Perplexity (and GPT 4o + search) are more reliable than asking Claude for example. And in most cases using the LLM gives better results than wading through raw websites, with their dark patterns.

But we can use both in parallel and compare, if they agree, we can trust the result. If not, then we have a better staring point, and are warned to beware.
We're talking about Canada, not US.

But also, for all practical purposes, the migration rate to all rich Western countries is limited only by their respective laws and regulations governing immigration. For all of them, there are more people who want to get in than the quota allows (whether explicit or implicit via point systems etc). Any country that would fully open its borders would see millions coming in from Asia and Africa. People generally want to move where the life is better when they can.
Oh, so, tell me...

What's the difference against between people from Eastern Europe and those "other parts of the world" ?

You're implying a big difference, but I can't put my finger on what it might be.
TBF, I'm not against wealth transfers and infrastructure investments. I just think they should be handled as close to the local level as possible.

Wealth transfers for example worked better when Churches and other local community institutions were involved. They'd collect directly from their parishioners and provide support directly to those that need help. This is a system that is highly accountable to the people providing help and keeps those receiving help accountable for "helping themselves" and not just mooching.

Same with infrastructures. With infrastructure, there are times, that some big may have value, but very rarely does it require the scale of the state or the federal government. The biggest of infrastructure projects are rarely larger than an economic region (e.g. SF Bay Area. Seattle Metro area. etc.).

The interstate highway system is like the only infrastructure project that benefits from Federal involvement.

Right now, doing through the Federal government provides far too little accountability for results and spending money wisely.
This is really cool. I just want to make it more like Instagram, where every time I open the news app, it shows me new news or the news I haven't browsed before.
> you might be better off just offloading that optimized synchronous op to a worker thread (or to wasm) to not block the UI.

It works in principle, but note that this really complicates your build process. In particular, if you're writing a library that other people will use as a dependency, there's really no good way to use workers at all without affecting how people bundle their code using your library.
State of the Cryosphere 2024 – Lost Ice, Global Damage
It was in the midst of the 'Korean crisis' about 30 days ago. We were initially debating on what would happen.

My debate partner was under the might makes right pov, and felt that a person in power defacto declaring themselves dictator was sufficient to enact such, regardless of their popularity, particularly when reasonably enabled by law.

I was arguing that autocracy, in spite of lack of accountability, generally cannot sustain itself without relatively broad support.

Once it became clear that South Korea was in no mood to let an unpopular man declare himself dictator, we then debated his fate. I predicted death/imprisonment (as is practically a tradition in South Korean politics) while my debate partner was expecting him to get away scot-free, impeached at worst, arguing that no laws were broken in the President's attempt.
California, so slightly less than half, so ~28ish.
GP said US, which has the highest ad revenue per user. Your link doesn't have country divide.
I'm a Canadian who lived in Luxembourg for 4 years and agree with 100% of what you said.

I find the US too extreme in one direction and Europe too much in the other.

Canada has many problems (from both places) but by and large IMO strikes the balance reasonably well between dynamism and safety net.

It could be a lot better.

It could be a lot worse.
Built using almost native-like using flutter, not electron.
I won't rent a subscription for any software
cool tool, would be nice to be able to codify palette rules (like color in HSV ± some value to get darker / lighter)

would also be cool with a preview UI that updates the UI element colors as you type to quickly burn through many different UI theme colors
i used Flutter to build an entire app. thank you!
> But I can't fire up a separate thread in JS so everything is done on the UI thread

Yea targeting the web is nuts if you have other options!