skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't like Harris' message. I probably disagree with her on a majority of political debate topics. I am a centrist and would agree with her on some things, but I would have considered myself a right leaning centrist more than a left leaning centrist. Her message failed for me too.

I’m an extremist without question, just not the popular type. Think less “Donald Trump” and more “Ron Paul” :)

> I am just dismayed that the country elected _this_ man. A convicted felon who has provably lied more than any other person on record in the history of humanity, who already tried to overthrow an election, is only self interested, a bully, a sexual assaulter, a conman, a swindler: _this_ man?

The alternative was someone with no obvious positions other than her predecessor’s, who was not elected by her party, and who was honestly just unlikeable as an individual for most people.

Of all the things you listed about Trump, I’d only really take issue with two: I’m not convinced he sexually assaulted anyone (though I also don’t have sufficient evidence to believe he definitely didn’t), and I don’t think “only self interested” is quite right. I think his motivations are a bit more complex than that, and are more rooted in personal pride and revenge than anything else. I don’t think he intended to win the first time, and I don’t think personal financial enrichment was really a goal of his either time.

I think his initial run was mostly on a whim, but (Hillary) Clinton offended him and he doubled down in response. His second run was personal - he felt personally attacked on both socially and legally, and has basically made it his mission in life at this point to destroy everything those who did that to him care about.

I don’t believe for a moment that he’s being selfless or altruistic. He’s acting out of self-interest, but not in the way most people would mean that statement.

> And now he's doing what you knew he would do, and there doesn't seem to be any way to stop it.

As best I can tell, he’s mostly doing what the people who elected him expected him to do.

> I don't want to know how to get Kamala 2.0 to win an election. I want to know how to get back to Bush v. Gore.

I’d be happy with Obama v. McCain at this point.
Your one and only argument is that supply of batteries cannot keep up with demand. This is not only false, it's actually the inverse of the truth, due to Wright’s Law.

Current supply of storage matches current demand. Supply is low only because demand is low. However, as demand increases, supply will continue to match demand, and moreover the price will actually decrease because of the fact that the learning curve is a function of production volume.

This has been a steady empirical phenomenon for 30+ years, and it's predicted by basic economics principles. It's not going to change now!

This is true for all battery types, but especially for sodium ion and iron air, which are constituted of abundant materials. Sodium ion in particular has very similar behavior and cost to lithium ion.

This confusion you're having is you seem to be conflating manufactured goods (like batteries) with scarce goods like land or services, whereby there's a fixed supply that can't be increased and where Wright's Law doesn't apply. This is not correct.

Storage is more like televisions or light bulbs, where you can basically make as much of it as you want, and the price will keep declining as more is made. And supply will always be there for demand, whatever the level of demand happens to be (in this case, a lot).
Karma farming?
This has to be a disingenuous request. X is signaling at free speech, while in practice it amplifies or suppresses content the owner agrees or disagrees with.
We call a real number computable if there is an algorithm that can compute it to arbitrarily high precision. So e and pi have always been computable.
I believe your examples are - unironically - misleading.

1- he states that the generated code is most likely wrong. He is appreciative of it though because he is a very poor typer so he doesn't have to do that part as much

2- so that's not supporting your argument that the 'top' devs are using it. Besides it doesn't say how it's counted, nor how much time is spent reviewing and correcting it

3- actually okay. But is he using it for production code? Doesn't say

4- he definitely doesn't talk about coding, only brainstorming and writing text.

5- your best one. Still, the use case here is side projects not production

You might still be right, I definitely do not compare myself to these people, but trying to glue some sources together makes a poor argument.

And the subject on hand is more that just using LLMs, it's the role of LLMs in the dev work environment
> We even went so far as writing infrastructure code for Kubernetes clusters that automatically provision apps in Kotlin.

Dear god. Compared to the go code required to do the same thing, this is crazy.

Edit: I removed reference to terraform, seems like there's no infrastructure code here, it's helm + operator.
DNS issues during power outages is the least of your problems, as chances are your Internet and all your PCs are down as well.
Show HN: Instantly Convert Markdown to PDF/HTML – No Setup Required
In November2024, I built MD2FILE (https://md2file.com) – a Markdown editor and Markdown to PDF converter (two-in-one).

I do a lot of documentation, technical notes, and blog posts, and I wanted a tool that could help me edit Markdown easily and also convert Markdown to friendly formats like HTML or PDF for easy sharing with other people.

I searched online and while I was inspired by some of the greatest tools, I noticed most were a bit clunky and limited. Some were good but didn't allow users to try them for free before committing.

That inspired me to create MD2FILE, a Markdown Editor & Markdown to PDF converter with these features:

•GitHub-style markdown that just works
•Live preview while you type (WYSIWYG)
•Drop in math equations and charts super easily
•Quick PDF/HTML export
•Customize how your code looks

Some features I’m still working on include:

- Cloud sync – Connect to Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, and publish straight to Blogger or WordPress.

- Team mode – collaborate, merge changes smoothly, add inline comments just like in Google Docs.

- Offline writing

- Integrated comments like it works in Word or Google Docs.

To use the tool, users click on OPEN EDITOR at the top, paste their document in Markdown format, edit, and save (export it as HTML or PDF).

We are in public beta phase and still fine-tuning the tool to make it more user-friendly. It's the reason I affed the submit feedback button at the top (visible when someone opens the editor) to let users give suggestions for improvement. It's where I got inspiration for creating additional features mentioned above.

I would love your feedback on whether MD2FILE addresses your Markdown editing and conversion pain points.
> He is asserting that when the Judicial concludes his firings are illegal, he's going to ignore it, and fire anyone else who refuses to help him illegally fire people.

Where?
When I restarted Chrome, it showed me a warning that uBlock Origin was disabled because of.. something about compatibility. I then went to "manage extensions" and clicked the button to turn it back on. Chrome said something to the effect of "Are you sure? That's an incompatible extension, so maybe don't turn it on." I clicked on "Turn it on anyway" and it's been fine since then. If I restart the browser again, uBlock Origin stays on and works fine.
Heat pump sales in Europe fall 23% to pre-Ukraine war levels
It reassures me that going with an Onyx Boox Tab Pro was the better choice. Full e-ink, not e-Paper, but still can switch to a mode where you could, if you want, watch a movie. Backlight is not crazy orange, it's what you want (warmth controlled separately from brightness). Ignores hand when you use the stylus, or at least, uses hands gestures for different things than the stylus and I never had the issue. Bluetooth keyboard works OK.
And it's Android (that's a plus for me, you have good software variety), with Google Services.
Cheapness, efficiency, and a lack of repetitive tasks are not usually goals of art or even entertainment.

Somewhere I saw a computer RPG where the UI was just a small window with some stats in it. Much cheaper and more efficient, you would just watch the stats roll up - the gameplay was 'automated away'! :) (I don't remember the name and some searching didn't find it.)
Technically so doesn't Windows, nor game consoles in spite of urban myths (Switch being the exception).

Windows Vulkan and OpenGL drivers exist, because Microsot still hasn't removed the ICD plugin interface from the OS, which is used by GPU vendors themselves, not Microsoft, to provide drivers on Windows for VUlkan and OpenGL.

Likewise, Valve could have use MoltenVK if they actually wanted to.
And things work just great in Firefox.
Are you sure? The distinction between i and -i is no more arbitrary than the distinction between 1 and -1. Example of an asymmetric graph: Im(x) = 1
What do you mean exactly by teens communicate video first?
There was a GDC presentation by the iMUSE team (Michael Land, Peter McConnel and Clint Bajakian) in like 2000 or 2001 that I wish I could relive and share. They showed some of the iMUSE interface and how they would mock up the interactive soundtrack.

They started with cornering Tim and getting him to describe each area/room, including the soundscape, and then they would temp in music and sound effects and then went and got a lot of SF street musicians to record a lot of the music.

I remember them showing a build of the game that had Tim describing each scene instead of the final audio.

It was amazing to see behind the curtain.
Thanks for bringing up conda. We're definitely trying to paint this vision as well with `pixi` (https://pixi.sh) - which is a modern package manager, written in Rust, but using the Conda ecosystem under the hood.

It follows more of a project based approach, comes with lockfiles and a lightweight task system. But we're building it up for much bigger tasks as well (`pixi build` will be a bit like Bazel for cross-platform, cross-language software building tasks).

While I agree that conda has many short-comings, the fundamental packages are alright and there is a huge community keeping the fully open source (conda-forge) distribution running nicely.
"we can get clean energy by continuing to burn fossil fuels".

If this isn't about ceasing carbon emissions then none of this is necessary. Fire up the coal plants!
I have been using AdGuardHome on two raspberry pi nodes and it is the best filter I ever had.

2,320,452 DNS Queries

117,334 Blocked by Filters (5.06%).

Top blocked domains:

eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com 45,3543 8.65%
euc-word-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 7,573 6.45%
metrics.icloud.com 6,475 5.52%
4...13.us-east-1.prod.service.minerva.devices.a2z.com 4,351 3.71%
euc-excel-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 4,141 3.53%

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
Your logic is that someone has to be brainwashed by woke European media to dislike musk or trump?
I find Trump's demand for reparations from Ukraine for having been invaded and the US having helped a bit particularly icky. I'm not sure the US has done anything like that in its entire history?
Working fine on FireFox.
Can someone from Chrome Confirm?
There doesn't seem to be anything inherently healthy or special about European food.

But this is a thing people say quite often and I think people believe if only we had more laws or w/e like Europe has the people of the US would suddenly be fitter.
I program Rust using the Axum framework and Sqlx.

Github copilot is so good at writing CRUD db queries that it feels as easy as an ORM, but without the baggage, complexity, and the n+1 performance issues.
Why do people still use Chrome? At this point every argument for switching to Chrome from IE back in the day now applies to Google Chrome.
Musk is part of the administration that has threatened to take European territory by force. He's meddling in—and funding according to some sources—extremism in Germany.

Neither he, nor his administration, have been overly bothered to characterize themselves as friends of Europe, and Europeans are returning the feelings.
I made the switch to Kotlin around 2018; after having been using Java since 1995. Java is a choice these days, not a necessity. Kotlin is a drop in replacement for Java in 100% of it's core use cases. No exceptions that I know of. Doesn't matter whether you do Android or Spring Boot. It kind of does it all. And it's actually really good at dealing with creaky old Java APIs. Extension functions (one of the party tricks modern Java hasn't yet picked up from Kotlin) are amazing for adapting old code to be a bit less tedious to deal with.

You don't really lose anything (APIs, tools, etc.); but you gain a lot. I still use Spring. But I've now used it longer with Kotlin than with Java.

And the nice thing with Kotlin is that it is gaining momentum as its own ecosystem. I'm increasingly biased to not touching old school Java libraries. Those lock me into the JVM and I like having the option of running things in wasm, in the browser or on mobile. Our frontend is kotlin-js and it runs a lot of the same code we run in our Spring Boot server. Kotlin multi platform is nice. I've published several libraries on Github that compile for platforms that I don't even have access to. Supposedly my kt-search client (for opensearch and elasticsearch) should work on an Apple watch. I've not gotten around to testing that just yet and I don't see why you'd want that. But it definitely builds for it. I had one person some time ago trying it out on IOS; same thing (I'm an Android user).

Ecosystems are important. But it's also important to not get too hung up on them. I say that as somebody that made the bet on Java when there was essentially no such thing as a Java ecosystem. It was all new. Kind of slow and wonky. And there were a lot of things that didn't quite work right. But it had lots of people working on fixing all of those things. And that's why it's so dominant now. People are more important than the status quo.

Sometimes you just have to cut loose from the past and not go with something safe but very boring like Delphi, Visual Basic, Perl, and several other things that were quite popular at the time and didn't quite make it. They're still around and there's a half decent library ecosystem even probably. But let's just say none of those things are obvious things to pick for somebody doing something new that was born this century.

Go as an ecosystem is definitely large enough at this point that I would label it as low risk. Same with Rust. Neither is going anywhere and there are plenty of well motivated people working on keeping all that going. Same with Java. All valid reasons for using any of those. But nothing is set in stone in this industry. A lot of things people were using in the nineties did not age well. And it will be the same in another 30 years. Most of those old people that will never change retire at some point. Java projects are pretty depressing to work on these days for me. Lots of grumpy old people my age. I've had a few of those in the last few years. Not my idea of fun. The language is one thing but the people haven't aged well.
"x is rational" means there are two integers p,q such that x=p/q. So for example, 2/3 is rational (p=2, q=3), but the square root of 2 is not rational (there is no such fraction). The last part is not very obvious (it greatly distressed the Pythagoreans when they figured it out) but there are a bunch of proofs in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_of_2#Proofs_of_irr...
Now we should just figure out why to stop here. Why not write everything in Rust? Recently I have moved all my projects to Rust from Python and never looked back. Of course we need projects like Torch and we are not yet there, but those simpler projects that do not require GPU libraries Rust is great.
I bought my router from this site: https://teklager.se/en/products/routers/

They have some guides and stuff that explains the hardware requirements that might be helpful for you.
What do you call DI here?

Black Magic is doubly negative here, but I guess that it can fueled with the feeling that less automagic in a codebase helps downstream debug and moving to maintenance mode, as it increase the chance to let a quick grep reveals immediately where the associated code is.
40 € includes one year of updates, if you want lifetime updates, you have to pay 200 €.

Good old Total Commander, the all-time classic alternative file manager for Windows, costs 42 € + VAT with lifetime updates (https://www.ghisler.com/order.htm). But yeah, I have to admit that the application looks as dated as the website...
Thanks. That's a huge relief. The internet - well, the internet as seen through chrome - is unbearable without uBlock Origin.
bracket pattern

def bracket[A, T](ctor: () -> A, next: (a: A) -> T): T =
val a = ctor();
try { return next(a) } finally { a.dispose() }
Heh - I can’t find the original comment here, but I remember it.

My grandparents have passed away, so I’ll need to track down exactly who has that quilt now. I know it came over to the US with their parents (my great-grandparents) when they immigrated, and that it was pre-Nazi-party for sure.

It may very well be associated with the false mythology that was adopted by the Nazis. I don’t think so, but it’s been a long time since it was new. No one who was there when it was made is still alive, nor is anyone who knew them well. I’ve not seen anything about that side of my family that would lead me to believe that they were ever sympathetic to that cause, but it’s entirely possible that it was hidden, not shared with the next generation, or otherwise just lost to time.

… but now I’m curious, and will have to figure it out :)
Well without that mining batteries will run out of cost effective materials quite quick and temper the ability to hit the demand necessary to decarbonize the grid. There’s also complicated legal matters since a lot of this happens in international waters. Oh, and the body that nominally regulates the matter has been clearly regulatory captured and is handing out mining licenses left and right. So while it might be nice to hypothesize what a sensible regulatory framework might look like, what’s actually happening is “full steam ahead” mining. It’s really bleak.
A familiar tale: Joe is hesitant about switching to UV and isn't particularly excited about it. Eventually, he gives it a try and becomes a fan. Soon, Joe is recommending UV to everyone he knows.
What’s a good flask (+jinja) equivalent for rust?
Flyover county was definitely included in my initial response about at grade crossings, but wasn't specific to passenger rail, and why wouldn't it hypothetically be included? There already is rail everywhere, that's why I suggested it's a bit fanciful, it's just mostly freight. Doesn't necessarily need to be bullet trains, but given how bad North America seems to be at building any major rail projects in the modern era, I don't really have high hopes for advancement in this area, just dreams.

I do tend to prefer rail whenever viable, and the cascades route is already halfway decent, just not competitive on any front except ease of access with flying.
Well...I don't, care to enlighten us non-insiders?
As someone who deals with migraines, this article really hits home. I'm glad there's progress being made, but it’s also a bit disheartening to see how much we still don't know
OP seems intelligent and articulate to me. I'm not sure a "non-intelligent" person could even post on reddit. OPs problem is marketable skills if he wants to work for somebody else, or small business entrepreneurship if not.
These books were the first kind of role playing games I had, kept me enternaint for quite a while as a kid, good to see a new generation might come to appreciate them.

And they don't run out of battery charge to play. :)
I don't want ")?)?;" in Go. I prefer readable syntax rather than symbol soup.

In Rust, there are cases where I have seen at least 8 consecutive symbols. Not a fan of that.
First time a video game moved me emotionally. Lola getting sprouted. It blew my mind.
It’s not about access to data—it’s about removing Congress’ control of the federal government. That control is maintained via laws and courts.

Today the president just formally assumed power over those other two branches of government, so law is effectively meaningless now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1isvzgu/the_full_execu...

Whose side will you be on—-the side of billionaires and the christian nationalist heritage foundation, or the rest of the people of the united states? Choose wisely.
I generally use Firefox but uBlock Origin still works on Chrome 133.0.6943.127 for me without any warning or intervention.

I do have developer mode already toggled on which might make a difference?
Nice work, really snappy, love the "speed at the your fingertips" approach. I absolutly am willing to shell out some EUR for such life-altering tools.

I have been entrenched in the https://www.ghisler.com/ camp for 20+ years for three main reasons:

1. function keys for copy/move etc. like in mc, norton etc.

2. navigate (even larger) archive files in every format under the sun as if it were an extension of the file system. Blazingly fast and seamless.

3. the rich ecosystem of viewers , add-ons that has been added by the community at https://totalcmd.net/ over decades and is supported by the open source alternative implementation https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/

Any roadmap that has some of this on the list?
[edited spelling]

Thanks for the cool work!
Would you have references?
Windows only for now, other OS coming soon
He did remove the censors in a way that makes the site unappealing to a lot of people, but at the same time 1,000x’d the amount of discussion on previously censored topics.

Like the discussions on there look like something out of 4chan these days.

A generous interpretation might be that Elon thought that re-enabling public discussion in certain verboten topics is important enough to light a big wad of cash on fire.

It’s not hard to predict that letting people talk about those things openly will scare off a lot of people. I would be surprised if he is surprised.
Nepotism and payola in US politics just began this year, or in 2016?

Fucking LOL.
It’s mostly the other way around. Go is a strictly worse, caveman experience after C#. In it’s best moments, Go is a sidegrade at most.
Sounds like you are either very unlucky, or have a useage pattern (or install problem) that is triggering issues. I'd definitely try and work out why they failed before pulling the trigger on another machine, no matter what the make, unless of course the failures are obviously defects, in which case i'd be complaining to Miele and seeing what they can do about it.
Folic acid ≠ folate
Being Mr. or Ms. Surveillance Narc has a little less stigma than back then, but there is still stigma. We'll have captivating stories of Little Brother, intentional and accidental, in the near future. One person's "breaking the moment" is another person's "fair warning", especially in private spaces.
Fun fact: the "Final Fantasy" series of video games was originally planned to be named "Fighting Fantasy" until they realized the name conflict with these books.
Wow that TortoiseSVN in context menu is a blast from the past!

Looks like it's still under active development. Is SVN still being used in some industries? I know it used to be big in gamedev but I would have expected everyone to have moved on by now.
Eh, I think the downvotes are more for questioning why someone would move to Linux (Which I wasn't questioning so much as the claim they were dying t get away from Windows) in a way that was perceived as rude rather than my ranking Windows 7 above other versions.