skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m really not trying to sound like the “do people still watch TV” guy, but I thought OpenStack fell off the hype curve years ago. Do people still use it.
It's worth pointing out that countries regularly hack and attack their own citizens. In some ways, it's more important to know what they're doing than what your opponents' are.
It wouldn't look the same. The largest component of a modern laptop are the batteries- look up a Macbook Air teardown.
Yes. They're based on users voluntarily giving payment for services rendered and, importantly, being satisfied with the transaction.
Show all things posted in chronological order. Let users filter out things they don’t want. Done.
Hui originally said "Do you start counting from 0 or 1" and I think he was taking the piss, as am I.

I'm not sure how we go to this point exactly but I've drunk a lot of wine and will now take stage left.
Intel "Crush" Oral History Panel (2013) [pdf]
How? AFAIK you can’t pay for Facebook. There’s no “Facebook Premium”. There’s only Ad Spigot Facebook.
This is awesome!

I had the honor of first learning Smalltalk (and C++ and a bit of object databases) in a class taught by Bob Beck from Sequent. We actually had many students running Smalltalk on X terminals hanging off a Sequent server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems

Smalltalk was a crazy-productive programming environment in the '90s, and easy to love. (A bit like Lisp, in that regard, but also very different.)

What's even more amazing than that PARC was doing this in the 1970s, was that what we know as Smalltalk was only one part or step towards grand goals they were heading towards, not the end product. http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

When we find ourselves strutting around about how smart we are, how we'll change the world, as we move fast and break things (with what power we can seize and exercise over our users, with our app)... a needed dose of humility comes from seeing that the Smalltalk (and other) people, of decades earlier, seem a thousand years ahead of where we are now, in thinking.
It was much smaller and less influential back then.
That's nothing but a reminder to vote Trump!
It'll be interesting to see what the price ends up to be.

With Rivian already get investment from Amzn, the picture of autonomous & electric delivery vehicle can be quite appealing.

I guess the price would reflect how eager is Amzn to implement that strategy, and how realistic they think about the roadmap.
Perhaps if people don't find a service valuable, then we should everyone to stop using it.

If that argument sounded absurd to you, it's probably because it is. The services are valuable because people ultimately do use them — a lot of them, even. They pay for them indirectly by agreeing to look at ads.

There are loads of services we do not directly pay for, like the fire department and the public library — and yet they are immensely valuable.
In Oklahoma you also build a bunch of equity in your home. What's even better is you don't have to sell your home to retire and move out of California. You just retire. You already live in Oklahoma in your dream house that is paid off.
For knife skills, I enthusiastically recommend this free online course. It was recommended to me by a professional chef, and I'd bet most professional chefs would get something (or many things) out of it: https://shop.mybluprint.com/cooking/classes/complete-knife-s...
Congratulations on creating such an amazing app! I´m myself a (brazilian) wordpress blogger, but i needed a place on the cloud to do my personal writings without distractions.

Starting to write right now.

Thank you!
Senators are basically always more competent / practical than Presidents. It's basically why the Senate exists.
Can someone explain why non car companies are buying self driving car tech? Do they think they will end up with some sort of kit they can just attach to existing cars? Are they trying to pivot into being car manufacturing companies? Or is this just a play to develop the AI then sell that to someone else?
We’re not talking about whether or not 1 is prime. We’re talking about whether 2 is the first prime or the zeroth prime.

No one would seriously say the latter.
Zoom works in the browser, isn't this good enough? https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-web....
Despite the "selling your data" memes, Google/Facebook don't do that. They treat your data as a proprietary asset and sell services based on captive use of it. Companies like Comcast recognize their shortcomings and actually will just sell it.
There's always schema to consider too, you can have thousands of them too. An often overlook tool.
The question of whether British imperialism drove China away from capitalism is a historical question. Because the Chinese system was mercantilist before British imperialism, it isn't right to say that British imperialism drove China away from capitalism. If old ideology said that, it's incorrect, and we do the world a disservice by repeating it.
Yes, but does it make that cool 'Nananananananana' sound?

(Warning: If you understand this reference, you might be getting old.)
Complete aside: I often find myself agreeing with contrarian
or somewhat contentious dev-related posts here and on GitHub (I’m mqudsi there), look to the name of the author, and see yours.

(I’m not sure why I decided to share this right now. Sorry.)
Nail on the head. They're just weird, at least in the context of English phonetics. That's the reason I discourage their adoption. I'd much rather we just all agree that kilobyte means 2^10 bytes. Or find words that aren't weird.

If I remember correctly, a big motivation for this change was the fact that disk manufacturers intentionally used base-10 definitions so they could advertise larger numbers for disk capacity. But presumably they still do that, and presumably people still often don't notice.
My Artist Story and Journey Thus Far
Project Euphonia (By Google AI)
People with speech impairments often find that speech recognition systems don’t reliably understand them. Project Euphonia, a Google Research project, is focused on improving how such systems recognize impaired speech... including from people with conditions such as Down syndrome, stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy or ALS. Improvements to speech recognition depend upon analyzing impaired speech. If you have a voice that is difficult to understand due to a condition (but not just because of an accent), you can help! Please fill out this form to contribute to this research effort by recording a set of phrases. We provide cash gift cards to those who complete recording sets.
I appreciate this comment and mostly agree with the contents of it. But I take exception with the use of words like "evil", "monsters", etc.

I can't think of anyone who regularly writes on HN whom I'd characterize with such words, even ones I deeply disagree with.

I'd ask you to point me to such a user, but I know that it (reasonably) won't happen given the site's rules. Still, I'm very skeptical.

If someone is espousing things like Nazism or genocide, then yes the label applies, but I've never seen a regular HN user advocate for anything like that.

I think what's happening is that there's a subset of users here who live and/or have grown up in extremely liberal environments, like San Francisco, or university campuses, who view anything to the right of Joe Biden as being "extreme" and "evil". That doesn't mean such people are actually evil, or monsters. It just means they're on the right (often even center-right) of the political spectrum.

And most of the country is entirely unlike urban liberal enclaves. I don't use that term as an insult - many great innovations and ideas come from our urban liberal enclaves. But they're not representative of the country as a whole.

(and for the record, since some will assume my politics based on that remark, I'm neither a conservative nor a GOP/Trump supporter. I'm a centrist/moderate, both by self-identification and empirically - in the form of dozens of political tests).

By the way, just so you don't think this is a general anti-HN stance, it's not. I like HN a lot, and I think that aside from political/ideological issues and moderation, mods do a great job. I also don't agree with the common criticism that HN shields or shelters YCombinator companies. At least, I've not found that to be the case.
In a first, Twitter adds fact-check warnings to Trump tweets
I actually philosophically minded SCons less than meson as the former never pretended to be a build system that just happened to require Python as a minor detail to gloss over or wishfully pretend didn’t matter; it put it out there front and center.
Show HN: Hacker News, but with 3 sections of Top, Best, New Stories side by side
Hi, friends. I had a problem to see hacker news top, best, and new stories, and I thought if I could just make those stories appear in 1 view/page, side by side. I also thought that maybe someone could get benefit from this. I hope you find this helpful.
Once upon a time, even before the world wide web, darkness covered the land and me but a fledgling was tasked with editing my boss’s business letters. As VP of engineering he was a man of letters. Many letters. Templated letters for my boss was organized in the ways old managing engineers oft are.

Lotus 123 he wielded for engineering calculations and thus Lotus 123 was his weapon for business letters. No spell check of course. No line breaks either. Such was my editorial lot.

Please keep off the grass.
I'm fearful, but I also know that if I don't build it, someone else will. And I'd prefer it would be me.
Trying to get to the link and experiencing a timeout :(
As someone who has pushed pretty hard towards precise definition and rigor as a teacher, you're in the (happy!) minority being able to approach mathematics that way. For lots of students, the process of moving from definitions and simple rules to other statements is extraordinarily difficult.

I teach the properties of exponents to 14 year olds as a unit on logical necessity - the properties all flow necessarily from the definition of the exponent. About a third of the students say, "cool" and never miss anything on any assessment again because the answers flow necessarily from the givens.

About a third work their way through it fine.

About a third continue to maintain that, say, a^2 + b^2 = (a+b)^2 despite working many particular examples where that is manifestly false.
Advanced PostgreSQL Data Types
It is a good bayesian prior to note that most Chinese spies are Chinese.
This is very reminiscent of the marketing around Magic Leap, except with this (judging from the actual videos of it in action from other people, which Magic Leap didn't have) there's a real product that pretty much matches the marketing behind the smoke and mirrors. Why are they so afraid to show it off?
What do FAANG companies do differently that smaller companies could learn from?
I work for a small enterprise development team as a junior engineer. We have 15 people and most of our development work is very reactive and shoot from the hip simply bc many are self taught and nobody has really done software on scale before coming here and hacking together something.

Anyone who has worked at a large company that focuses on technology, what are some best practices for things that you would recommend?
> At some point, people need to realize what constantly wanting things for free is costing them and the people they watch.

It's not free, we pay for the content by buying products, it's just very very indirect.
Twitter Points Users to Fact Checks of Trump Tweets for the First Time
This is so incredebly cool.
Hat's off to you sir.

I've dreamed with doing the same. Now if you could make it compile in WASM and available from the browser window.

You might be able to bring smalltalk back to the forefront where it belongs.
Step Chickens and the Rise of TikTok 'Cults'
The biggest danger with these sort of kei cars from Japan is getting into a collision with the increasingly massive new pick up trucks that are on the road.

It's wild to me to see photos of these new pick ups with children in front of them that aren't even close to being taller than the hood or visible to the driver at all.

Regulators need to step in imo.
This is a hilarious nit-pick. In the context of an internet blog describing average page-size, it's completely obvious that mb == MB ... not millibars...

There's an insane amount of abbreviations and acronyms that have multiple meanings in different contexts. How many Wikipedia pages have [disambiguation] here?...
Why do you think a VPN provider is more trustworthy than the ISP?
Crikey is a small news company based in, and only really concerned with, Australia. Yeah, it definitely wouldn't be a worthwhile subscription for anyone not specifically interested in Australian news, I probably should have disclaimered that.

I logged in with my account and, yes, that story is dead, there's no content. That's disappointing.

I'll send them a notification and see if they'll put it up without a paywall since it's relatively old content (but still pertinent).

Edit: notification sent.
Predictability and compressibility are the same thing. For large enough quantities of bytes from that distribution, it'd be more efficient to transmit a compression scheme that mirrors the distribution of data you have to send, matching up shorter words on-the-wire with more common bytes.
> I absolutely love his shows and youtube videos as entertainment, but he will frequently not mention measurements, temperature or cook time, not mention WHY he's doing something, just that it should be done.

As Alton Brown's videos demonstrate, this takes up a LOT of time on air.

The problem, I suspect, is that most of Ramsay's videos are time constrained. When he doesn't seem to be time constrained, he's absolutely delightful to watch.

I've watched him teach things like "how to cook scrambled eggs for breakfast" that are absolutely wonderful.

And watched him screw up the timing of the toast. :)

Given his ability with kids and the times I have seen it shine through in videos, I suspect he is a very strong teacher.
Currently using OpenDNS Family Shield and giving NextDNS a try.

Re labeling devices: I set up descriptive hostnames and static LAN IPs on my router for all my devices (including smart ones). The NextDNS interface reports traffic using those hostnames without me having to run clients on any of my devices.

I'm curious how the ad blocking will work. I was running adblock on my router but had to disable it because a few legitimate sites were being blocked (i.e. school sites my kids needed access to). I'm hoping NextDNS provides easier to use controls and UI that would let me keep ad blocking enabled.
I’m not an Arduino fan either but I primarily work on the opposite end of the spectrum working with the bare metal directly. ESP32’s documentation is nonexistent compared to STM32 and the ARM Cortex core in the STM32 chips has infinitely better tooling than anything with an Xtensa (this more than anything else was the deciding factor in my book).
This one drives me nuts when the Sunday morning bobble heads toss the wrong word around when they want to use "perception".
Groupthink Drove Unneccesary Global Lockdowns
Most everyone will view crying as acceptable in some circumstance. Whether it’s death or a child, or loss of money, or deep frustration, everyone has a limit above which they consider the trauma a reason to cry.

The author might conclude, that many people think that men have a high trauma threshold before shedding tears or to put it in a other way: men will only cry for “good” socially acceptable reasons.

This means that even if someone is crying for the loss of their sports team, people looking on will assume the tears are for a good reason and won’t inquire. Their stereotype influenced their expectations.
I worked on some systems in the 90's that used Sybase SQL Server (AKA Adaptive Server Enterprise, not the Anywhere version.) Maybe "Anywhere" is okay, but you'd be laughed at if you suggested using Sybase SQL for a project these days. It's legacy tech.
I haven't actually made it live yet, but it's just a static site once it's generated. I'll either push it to my github pages (probably what I'll do), or I'll upload it to my webhost, which I also have (but has been dormant for awhile).
I liked the idea of tweaking the newsfeed based on the frequency of activity of the producers, and bumping down the influence of bots and chain accounts. It would probably make for a higher quality newsfeed, and it wouldn't play favorites. The problem is, as the article suggests, it might decrease the only metrics Facebook cares about, and there's no guarantee it would look fair to the outside world.

I am not at all outraged that Facebook would impose "restrictions" on speech, nor I think are people in my social circles. You can't have a working newsfeed without a significant amount of filtering, for example. So I suspect that's a straw man.

All that being said, I have left Facebook because I prefer to exercise my freedom _not_ to hear the kinds of speech Facebook has made their stock in trade. So, as far as I'm concerned, Facebook can do as they like.
> should a publisher be allowed to run a platform that they are unable to curate?

It should. If these services didn't exist people (more exactly, a fraction thereof) would be hosting the videos themselves, and we'd have even less of a curation. It would be perverse to penalize Google for attempting some moderation rather than just working as a hosting service, which is exactly why section 230 immunizes this kind of imperfect moderation.
1+1=50.8
My forth grader understood that this equation makes the same mistake. Hint: units of inches and mm must be made explicit.
Wiki has a better write up, along with a drawing of the internals, and photos of it intact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Atom_Smasher
There is a Subject header outside if the data section. Some clients add on variations of it or a "thread id" ,"coversation" and such.
> It's amazing what one can accomplish if one lets oneself be satisfied what incremental progress, no matter how small.

I find it improves my satisfaction to log my progress and put it on a graph. This lets me see how my small steps have paid off over time and is a lot more rewarding.
10 billion is a lot. And that's 10 billion that is not making them any more money.

From google's perspective, none of these blackmail or customer support issue is an actual issue, because you, the customer, is gonna use google's services regardless. The business case for paying support personnel is non-existent. Even if you're a paying customer, the overhead of hiring more personnel is not an effective use of capital - better spent on R&D and other scalable revenue generating options.

It sucks. But that's the reality.
-1 can't be prime because many things that use prime numbers require a positive number. For example, how would you define prime powers? (-1)^2=1...

You can certainly give a name to the integers {-1} U P, but maybe it would be better to call them "choice" or "select" numbers.
> I'd love to see a movement away from youtube

I have seen that, particularly in history channel circles were the content get demonetized for things like saying Hitler, many of them band together and publish to youtube last or not at all and promote these other channels in their videos. I don't know if any of them will be successful, but staying on youtube simply isn't an option for them either.

I think if/when youtube falters it will be death be a thousand cuts, it won't be a single movement with organization and it won't be to something else as centralized.
As much as a technology or retailer company, Amazon is a logisitics company and they are buying a logistics technology that may drive down their delivery costs in an extreme way.
Someone should profit for figuring out how to stop COVID because otherwise there is little incentive beyond the government, and they don’t typically work nights and weekends.

If China succeeds in stealing the solution, that will harm mankind because it will reduce future incentive to stop these things quickly.
> Ads don't just inform about deals, they also incite you to buy. I don't want to buy just because some random company got the chance to put some psychological manipulation in front of my eyeballs.

I'm curious why you don't want to encounter these "manipulations". Is it because of the brainpower it uses to identify them as such? Are you particularly susceptible to giving in to them? Something else? I'm genuinely curious.
> IMO, Google's profit per employee isn't an indicator of Google's obligation to increase its customer service headcount. Taken to it's logical conclusion, we should let poorly-performing companies off the hook for having awful customer service.

That’s not the logical conclusion, that’s the inverse.

If P (large profit per employee) then Q (should be able to spend more on customer support)...

- The converse is If Q then P (clearly not applicable in this case)

- The contrapositive is If not Q then not P (in this case, you would hope it’s true but obviously not!)

- The inverse is If not P then Not Q, which would roughly translate into if profit per employee is low then you would not expect a company to pay more for customer support.

Perhaps you could argue that the logical conclusion is that any profit just means they aren’t spending enough on their support. Funny thing is economists would argue profit demonstrates they are spending enough on keeping customers happy.

It certainly appears that they can afford to do better (although arguably they don’t break out financial results just for YouTube do they?) and we certainly want them to better.

I think the fundamental problem is that for every million dollars they pay humans to “do better” it’s like trying to move the beach with a pair of tweezers — you don’t even make a dent. No amount of money will solve the problem by trying to pay humans. They can only succeed by making the algorithm better, and that’s not a problem which scales with headcount (mythical man month)
The back button is screwed up on Safari iOS. This is a joke of a website.
Phishing Simulations Considered Harmful
People have tried it, that's how we know it doesn't work.

Refusing your pet idea isn't a refusal to do anything at all.
It's simply not something I want as part of my feed. Be it a politician I loathe or tolerate.
Show HN: File Transfers Made Simple
It is that bad (imo), unless it's clearly stated that it's a paid advertisement (that's what PR is), then you cannot trust your news source.
Argh, yes, I did mean that, and too late to edit.
Nobody won >50% of the popular vote.
Amazon can use this technology entirely in-house.
Yeah but the vast majority of Facebook users don't care enough to learn how to use Mastodon. Try asking the average Social Security recipient to use IRC.

I reject the notion that "We all know users won’t pay enough for a subscription service to make a huge profit that makes the VC happy, makes the founder one of the ten richest people in the country etc" because...if you can figure out how to get Grandma to use a federated Mastodon-like service, then you would do just that.
I actually thought Art Levinson would bail out his son!
And somewhat unfortunately, C++ has plan for a kind of reflection in the future [1]. But it's not here today. I'm wary of relying on a parser though: it could prove a real drag as C++ evolve and you need to keep the parser up to date.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p059...
I admit that it takes a quite long time to load all the contents at first since it fetches all the stories upfront. Did you experience a 500 timeout? or was it just keeps loading and loading?
I suspect it was an insider.
That's why I also used a hypothetical electric convertible Chevy Spark as an example, as it's being sold today, has minimum frills, but still meets regulations.