skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an idea for an alternative search engine a few years ago thats a bit simpler to implement than this one. First we extract all the external links from Wikipedia dumps. Then we ingest only those sites into the index. The entire database comprises sites that have already been screened by Wikipedians. Gaming Wikipedia is generally more difficult than gaming Google or Bing. In theory, SERPs would be of a less commercial and more substantive nature than those we get from Google and Bing.
“ Technology keeps bailing us out, but one could view technology the same way: a great deal of simple technology has been pruned from the tech tree. Now we're on 3nm semiconductors, nanostructures, microbiology. Which are all amazing, but those are of increasing complication and increasing cost to bring to market.”

And fragility/lack of resilience.
“Instinct” can’t be quantified and it’s such a shame that people with good track records can’t quite justify their choices quantitatively. This happens where I work constantly. The managers who get most of their projects delivered on time - I suspect because they have good intuition about effort levels - are constantly struggling to justify their higher initial estimates because the data driven people try to reduce development down to a formula.
The venom with which you've imbued your comment is toxic to the culture of the site. One of the most important ideas is the principle of charity, which means you must interpret each argument as if they're not trolling. Flat out calling someone a troll and a liar is a personal attack, and if you keep doing it I have no doubt the mods will be along to defend the site – which is their duty. Hence, kicking the hornet's nest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365 is a surprisingly good primer for this, if you'd like to understand where they're coming from. Notice that "name-calling" is explicitly called out.

Having full confidence in the mods is actually a dangerous thing. I too had full confidence in the mods at one point. And, like you, I wasn't aware that I was using HN in a way that HN isn't designed for. This is a friendly reminder that you may get lucky and escape notice (HN is quite big now), but it's a matter of time before you'll get a stern talking to; the penalties only increase from there.

Don't take it personally, if it happens. It's not. And if I'm mistaken about any of this, I will happily eat crow and apologize, along with hanging up my hat of "issuing friendly warnings" in general. You could email them and ask, but the inevitable outcome is a "yes, calling people trolls and liars is off topic here; HN is for intellectual curiosity, which is a delicate thing," along with attracting attention to yourself.

In other words, don't let other people get to you. It's not worth it. Even if they are lying or trolls, you can simply say "That's not true because X" and leave it at that.
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Why do people praise Go when it comes to error handling? It's the worst of both worlds since its std libs returns errors sure, but anything can panic as well, which is basically a poor's man exception system.

Rust on the other hand, like many other things got it mostly right. If you're going to use errors as a values then you need some constructs to deal with that at the language level.

Go's solution isn't more sophisticated than C error codes.
Imagine we tokenized all digital music so that now people can directly buy an NFT from an artist instead of paying for Spotify or a record label.

Now there are 100 billion NFTs representing every song ever made. Who is going to promote your album in a world where every artist has their own brand? Do the artists want to take on the role of marketing as well in a super crowded market?

Who is going to build integration into a cloud service so you can play the song on any device or through Siri/Alexa? Or a recommendation engine? Or just basic software to create and share playlists? Apple Music or Spotify do more to increase the total amount of music people listen to than any artist. Of course they will take their cut.

Like if artists hate the middlemen so much, there is nothing stopping them from going direct to customers with creative work. Even without NFTs you can throw up 10 MP3s or images on your website and charge a fee to download. Guess what, now you're competing for attention on the internet with everyone else - good luck lol. NFTs don't change any of the fundamental reasons why artists get paid so little. Like in many businesses with lots of competition or too much supply, the power lies with the distributor because the creators are oversupplied.

Creators whining about being poor and how we just aren't working hard enough to support them and patronize them and give them money and "supports the artist by giving them what they need to create their best work." (another quote from OP substack)... boohoo :( You think my boss gives me all the time and support I need to "do my best work" and a gentle pat on the back when I miss a deadline? LOL.
> Edit: why does a call for transparency (...)

Perhaps because it does not read at all as a noble call for transparency and instead reads like cynical whataboutism that adds nothing to the discussion.
Great. Another article on old Linux distributions that's just the same crap as in all the others.

FYI the first picture, the one with the 0.12 boot & root floppies that is in every old Linux distro article, is the original distribution made by Linus Torvalds himself. Two releases later, 0.95a (3/17/1992), Jim Winstead started doing the root floppy. H.J. Lu's "bootable root disk" came shortly afterwards. (9/23/1992)

When you see an article with that picture labeled as H.J. Lu's boot/root floppies, just stop reading.

http://mirror.cs.msu.ru/oldlinux.org/Linux.old/docs/Linuxdoc...
http://grumbeer.dyndns.org/ftp/mail/www.kclug.org/1992/sep/3...
I’m sure there’s a lot more munchies consumed in states with legalized cannabis too.

Very surprised that this showed up only in 2004, given the ability of people I knew to smoke a lot in the decades earlier. Potency increases might be at play if this is indeed real.

Well, still, compared to alcohol it’s relatively non-toxic.
Your imagination is incorrect. Barium is indeed toxic, as is the case for pretty much every metal at the bottom of the periodic table even if they aren't radioactive.

However, it is one of the more mild toxins, and its toxicity is heavily mitigated by the fact that it's one of the least soluble cations (i.e., barium-anything is pretty insoluble), so it would be relatively difficult to actually ingest.
Somewhere between 5 and 10 million uniques a day IIRC
that's a shit company to being with
I always wondered if OpenNT (Softway Systems) and Xenix folks had some overlap.
Image compression prevents mmap of the image, however, which can hinder performance significantly in exchange for a modest storage savings.
RADV is an open source linux AMD vulkan driver. The closed-source/other platform drivers have ray tracing support, this is adding it to the RADV driver. (AFAICT)
> "Note that this is a very American thing ... when Americans go on a holiday, they rent a car, because you rent a car, because you have to have a car, and the idea of not renting a car when on holiday is completely alien to Americans."

When I go on holiday in a European city I wouldn't normally rent a car (unless the holiday involved travel to somewhere outside of the city). But when I go on holiday in an American city then of course you rent a car because it's a hassle to try and get around without one and you're going to miss out on a lot of the "American cultural experience" without a car. (Exceptions: NYC, and perhaps Las Vegas)

So it has a lot more to do with the nature of the destination than the nature of the traveller, I'd say.
I'd be really happy to see we are accommodating people with disabilities.

A reminder to me that if I lost my eyesight, hearing, or mobility, I won't be left behind.
It's not even so much about the actual cost, as much as the absurd inefficiency and waste of human potential.
I am starting to use different approach....

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I) Build community - build something useful for segment you are interested in even it has no big future payout. Or forum/blog/discord/instagram/fbGroup/emailList/twitter/partner with existing influencer... just have access to audience. Talk to them, recruit few to build out v1, blast v1 to all audience.. boom you are in business.

II) Just brainstorm dozens of crude ideas about problems some industry/professional/consumer might be having. Then pick problems you like most. Then find existing solutions and see what's happening. Once you have some insights, you will have lot of questions. Ask existing users all of them. And you will start to learn about industry very nicely.

III) Try to partner with consultant who has helped many businesses. Or try to partner with veteran in industry that is lagging in tech. (more opportunities). Make him significant partner for just giving insights and providing introductions and connections.

IV) If all else fails build anything. Even if it looks a copy of existing thing and inferior. It's likely you will start to find users who still want to use your product, lake is really big. It's not winner take all. But what will happen is you will start making in ways into this new industry and realize why these businesses/users are unsatisfied with existing stuff.

Remember all companies have limited resources. So they always go for segment/problems that yield highest return. They may start with low ROI segment but move onto greener pastures. ie. individuals -> SMBs -> enterprise. FB -> a place for college students -> place for families -> place of businesses.. now it's no longer a place to discover your college peers and share things with them and them alone. Everyone and their grandmother is there. Early adopters/segments are always left in dust. So there are always unsatisfied segment of customers.

V) ME TOO in new markets - Lot of world is still offline and/or has very slow internet. You can be first there.
My first thought was that dirt would immediately make this useless.

But since we are only talking about heat from radiation and not convection then putting a layer of glass above it would solve most of that issue. Bonus points if the paint and layer of glass are separated by a vacuum.

This world greatly increase the cost but would insulate very well and still reflect all the heat. The paint layer itself would never get dirty.
I am of course comparing to the USSR, not modern Russia. Pretty much the entire "progressive" wing of the party, with its anti-capitalism and fostering massive welfare state dependency, as well as the recent focus on "oppression" and "power", and purity testing.

I am pretty meh/cynical about the economic aspects, actually; sure, I think these are bad ideas, but unless they run the thing entirely into the ground, I believe there's going to be enough for me until old age at this point, and of course I view legally abusing government programs as libertarian activism - e.g. if there's universal healthcare it would make it so much easier to retire early and use it for all it's worth ;)

What I am actually genuinely afraid of is the cultural garbage, esp. as it infiltrates the education system. See the capitalism/socialism approval polls among the young people, etc.
USSR has collapsed when I was 7, but I was still brainwashed enough that I remember asking my parents about the English Premier League - how come they have soccer in England? I was surprised because I thought it was a capitalist system where everyone was oppressed, so at 6-7 or whatever I didn't understand how they could have a soccer league. That was of course while living with 2 STEM MSc parents and a sister in a 700sqft 2-room flat, not being able to afford a car, and knowing nothing about the actual living conditions in England.

From what I know about the school systems in big cities (I know some people who work at schools who are pretty left-wing and they talk about this stuff as if it was a good thing, plus from the news/leaks to right-wing sources), the oppression/anti-capitalist propaganda is rampant, and the current "far-left" wing of the Democratic party are very popular. If it's between this stuff and dumb nationalist rednecks with whom I disagree on 90% of pretty much everything, I'm going to throw my lot with the rednecks.
Thanks for pointing that out! Interactions like these were why I started using HN back in the day.
no, but i author and maintain some pretty popular projects and now work for a company that does pay, and also has a massive github and OSS footprint.
Calling it a "utopia" is pretty weird, and it doubly annoys me that no journalists who talks about this line of experiments ever actually mentions that. The analogous situation for humans wouldn't be a utopia... it would be be a wildly overcrowded prison with no entertainment, no exercise equipment, and no outside access ever. Of course people, and animals, go crazy under those sorts of conditions.
If you find yourself indulging in unhealthy amounts of time watching youtube videos on the recommendation page I seriously recommend "Distraction Free for youtube". Its available on chrome and firefox. I remember going to youtube just to watch a video explaining a compsci topic and came out watching a completely random topic. YouTube algorithm is dangerously addictive ( recommendation page ) and the browser extension I mentioned has saved me countless days to cautiously browse YouTube. Hope it helps.
Sure! I don't recommend any of the React-based virtual DOM articles yet, often they're pretty complicated and will confuse you. I wrote an article here with an even simpler implementation of the virtual DOM: https://dev.to/aidenybai/how-does-virtual-dom-work-b74.

Basically anything that guides you in building a virtual DOM is a good article
It won't eliminate A/Cs. People could use white or silver paint right now. They don't. It "looks bad".
Is there a similar setting for Android app? I've tried building .apk with forked version of tailscale, but stopped after I saw issue on github about inability to login via auth key (https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/675). I thought headscale didn't support auth through email account?
Reddit has really taken a turn towards hate-mongering since 2017, and especially since the pandemic began. Entire new subreddits pop up just to mock and breed contempt for certain segments of the population.

It’s disturbingly powerful, too. For instance, I have a libertarian friend who frequents r/HermanCainAward and is now pro federal vaccine mandate, using an oft touted “I’ve lost patience for these types” attitude. People’s opinions change, of course, but knowing just how much of a limited government libertarian my friend used to be in this regard was really shocking. He’s also looking the other way on how the Biden administration is trying to implement the mandate through OSHA.
Depends on what the backend systems were doing. They may have been data feeds that could be cached, with the “front-end” actually being a whole app with its own back end and database. Or perhaps taking orders and queueing them up for later delivery when the back-end systems came back on line.
> We are even facing a population crises where we don't have enough people to work the jobs that are open now, much less the number of jobs in the next ten years.

I'm not sure that's really a "population crisis", though, because it can be turned around to "we can't afford to pay people enough to do all of the jobs we want done."
The frontal lobe and advanced logical reasoning doesn't develop in children until they're 12-13. I'd say, don't worry about coding until they're older and focus on basic life skills instead: being cautious around consuming media, privacy basics, personal fiscal responsibility...
Check Dronahq.com it does most of the things you highlighted

1) frontend app building (responsive)
2) backend logic builder with automation and BPM
3) pdf gen
4) add your own js, build your own controls

Disclaimer - I work at DronHQ
This reminds me of mini-linux, an early 90s Linux distribution that could run from DOS.

http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/unix/mini-linux/minilin.txt
Here we go again, “AppleGoogle should stand up to the government!”

This is a very naive view of how these companies work. They are so massive that they have to figure out how to operate __lawfully__ under wildly different jurisdictions. When they operate in countries like Russia that have different values than the United States, people get upset and blame the company.

What we should really be doing is blaming the governments and try holding them to account.

The only other option, which is crazy, would be for these massive tech companies to acquire their own militaries so they can impose their values on the world.

Imagine an iPhone 18 commercial that touts privacy. It would show a fleet of Apple aircraft carriers with Apple bombers and Apple special forces teams standing by to coerce a government official that wants to search your iPhone to stand down.

It’s kind of a silly joke, but at some level that’s where we’re at.
> I’m going to assume that this is a serious question and try to quickly answer it in good faith.

It is a serious question and I was hoping for something closer to the late 1700s vintage. I'm well aware there is a vast welfare system in place today.
Not anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line, it won't.
At the moment most hydrogen is produced by reforming natural gas. So in some ways it's less "green" than just burning the natural gas.
I read their contract carefully but didn't have a lawyer review it. My experience with lawyers is that most are expensive but not that great. I've had one really good lawyer out of 5-6 that were pretty sloppy with details, like putting together corporate formation papers with some other customer's personal info.

You can negotiate terms that are important to you on a contract. Start with the most important changes you want to make, because at some point they may get impatient and just say "Okay, now we need you to sign this", because they will get sick of having to deal with their own legal department.

For example, there was a clause in my contract about indemnifying them. Guess what - I was not in a position to indemnify IBM if Ford decides to sue them because of my work. So yeah, stuff like that I had struck from the contract. If they had said I had to agree to it, I probably would have stuck to my guns and said no, because it was so absurd. Another option would be to get umbrella insurance, but I was too dumb to know that then (I was 29).

I think a key thing is that you understand the contract. If you don't understand something, ask them and/or do some research or hire some legal help until you are comfortable with it. At some point, you either trust them or don't, because in the end, they have all the money and power and you are at their mercy. Keep that in mind.
Really it just lacks a possessive apostrophe: Windows' Subsystem for Linux
purelymail.com after I saw it posted here on HN.
Yes, I've traveled almost everywhere in Russia, and some regions are poor. But even poorest of Russian regions are richer than Georgia. And this discrepancy will increase, not in favor of Georgia.
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Well, if he was hired as a high-level architect, it would make sense for him to also have some things to say about management.
Here cars are leased on 3-4 year cycles, so its typically best to aim for one of those.

Most people leasing cars do it for fashion reasons, so they are normally getting rid of the car to upgrade to the next shiny thing, not due to problems.
See also:

https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/

https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k83/
> That isn't a libertarian view.

Yes it is.

> Libertarianism centres around freedom (ie, liberty).

Libertarianism centers around the individual. Which is why it disagrees with the notion that a private person or group should be regulated even if that might increase net liberty in society as a whole.
I don’t get it. Care to explain?
> Airplanes are responsible for 200-300+ lives at a time, so it’s quite incomparable to road vehicles
Your analogy is wrong. Buses can have 50 people. I would compare a bus to a medium/small airplane.
As someone with interest in traffic models, what spaces do you or your peers hang out outline?
Hm — there’s a middle ground here that’s missing. I’d like to see a managed mesh allow for disabling its key distribution for certain nodes. They don’t create wireguard peers for any but a predefined shortlist of public keys, but still accept route updates from those peers.

The threat model is someone adding peers to the control plane, including as a result of control plane takeover or the identity provider failing. These special nodes can’t then be made to talk to anybody they can’t authenticate, no matter what you do on the control plane. It assumes private keys are safe. Obviously this is a client side setting, which shouldn’t have any control plane API, just like the current Tailscale options to eg accept no incoming traffic. This comes from my experience with ZeroTier, which I wrote about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28426664

Then you can run your own Wireguard key distribution if you like, but ideally you just distribute manually for a few nodes and leave it at that.
The amount of time and care that went into your response is a beautiful thing. Thank you for your contribution. In fact, your comment history is full of these kinds of careful, well-considered responses.

It makes me happy that people like you exist in the world, ones that combine expertise with clarity of thought and expression. Would you be willing to share emails?
Sure, I guess if someone is asking a loaded (and flippant IMO) question, they can be said to be "literally just asking a question." But I'm not sure how seriously to take "I'm not making a comment about gun violence" several comments deep into a thread about gun violence.
I hear the government hasn't done any planning for Ghostbusting which is disappointing given they have had almost 40 years to plan for it.
> In 2020, Tim Cook's compensation included $3M in base pay, a $10.7M bonus, and $250.3M in stock grants.

You do understand that, because Apple is a public company, all of this information is literally public knowledge, right?

If you'd like to argue that stock grants are not part of a person's salary, that is a reasonable interpretation of the definition of "salary", but hardly relevant to the broader point, which is clearly not to assert that Timmy should open up his checkbook, but rather to illustrate how incredibly inane it is to suggest that a few hundred bucks a week for an hourly interpreter means anything at the scale Apple operates at.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-highest-paid-ceos/
Not every city is San Francisco
Yeah, reflective paint isn't obstacle to be overcome here, it's the almighty HOA.
Not necessarily, although I'm not sure how correct that assumption is - I don't know much about their startup culture.
Money/time vs money/work.

When someine is retained with the former, they are free to work on larger or smaller projects without endangering there livelihood (in a first order way). When they are paid according to the latter, however, they are incentived to lower risk by making a small stream of minutae, essentially mimicking the former.

Given some sort of power law, the long tail is relatively risk averse by definition, and thus compelled to live and work "at subsistence", putting out a stream of relatively low effort stuff. The stars, however, can save up to produce fewer, more expensive things. This promulgates the status quo, maintaining the power law.
The House in the Middle – by the National Clean-up, Paint-up, Fix-up bureau
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