skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you are very correct. The "build X in minutes" definitely assumes strong background because you know what to look for. Without that you might as well give it blank stares for a year.

But then again, I am not sure this article -- and presented technology -- is aimed at you. IMO it's more aimed at jaded programmers who are sick of hand-rolling the ever-almost-the-same 99% identical code for each project. Hopefully such tools can give them a less stressful time.

For a programming beginner who would like to build something you'd be much better off looking at something like Airtable.
Just chiming in here so I can see what is suggested
Shame on me for not reading the article as I could not access to it (forgot my alumni account) -- only could read the abstract.

I misinterpreted this statement:
" On average Bitcoin generates 272 g of e-waste per transaction processed on the blockchain."

To mean the online cost of the hashing/mining, etc, not just physical e-waste.

Regardless this may be moot now, but my feelings was that comparing a consumer product (airpods) to a "bulk consumer" product like ASICs is doing an apple to oranges comparison. Airpods are manufactured in Vietnam and distributed through supply chains throughout the world -- whilst ASICs are manufactured in China and distrubted more locally (in Eurasia)?
Disturbing observation: 5 years ago, the trends that seemed most important to me were all technical - I really paid no attention to politics. Today, they are mostly geo-political.
It seems that the user base here has been deteriorating and the focus has been drifting away from the SV startup scene. I've also been noticing a growing political atmosphere that is in opposition to SV norms. A sign of the times probably, but I also suspect that HN's usefulness to Ycombinator is fading.
Really? I think they will just Google "buy Microsoft office" and follow the instructions on the first link that pops up. Or buy it from the Windows store app.
When Merkel decided to welcome one million refugees on german soil, it was about domestic politics?
If you think of the Youtube recommendation system as a person, you would immediately understand how creepily this person is behaving by trying way too hard to get what it wants from you (ad clicks) under the guise of caring about you or your interests.

Just because I click on a video and watch it entirely doesn't mean I want to see more like it, and it doesn't mean it was healthy for me to watch, it could have just been a distraction. But now this system will latch on to my need for distraction and keep nagging me with stuff in the long term that is ultimately harmful to me.

I don't believe recommendation systems like this can ever really understand people well enough where a person can walk away and feel healthy about it. But they are great at generating money and that is why they exist. I can see and appreciate the amount of effort that is trying to make these systems better but they are fundamentally flawed and limited.
Derna forever!

EDIT: Sorry for the low-effort riffing. I was being wry.

The U.S. won a decisive victory at Derna and, in the aftermath of the diplomatic resolution resulting from that victory, promptly abandoned our allies, without pay, in enemy territory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Derna_(1805)

It is my opinion that we are unreliable, and it's deeply painful when diplomats squander gains made at the cost of decades of treasure and military blood.

This is especially painful right now. A lot of us had to beg, borrow, and steal our way to rescuing Afghan interpreters while the State Dept did nothing.
The contracts were signed and it is perceived as a betrayal from the US which French thought were their allies. The ministry of defense of France called it a “stab in the back”.
Politics is a human system. Systems analysis and nudging systems is of interest to hackers, no?

Humans are the infrastructure on top of which technology runs.
I remember him beating to death the horse that was "social justice warriors taking over our open source projects" and I stopped following his youtube around that time (I think it was 2017?)

That said it's kind of irrelevant to the topic.
>No, but the retirees who depend on the income from bonds packaged from those debts will be screwed.

I agree that retirees are wholly dependent on others to work for them and therefore I recognize their right to save for retirement. However, if your investment/savings turn out to be worthless then that is on you. It's better to signal these failures as soon as possible so that people are aware of the risk.

Think about it this way. You acquire "healthcare coupons" during your working age and then all the businesses accepting "healthcare coupons" have shut down. The coupons are worthless. Yet when you replace "healthcare coupons" with money, people insist that even if there aren't enough workers to work in healthcare, that money must maintain its value and they should even be owed more than they saved even though there is nobody to provide those services. This is why inflation is a necessary evil. It tells you what's really going on in the world. People will present inflation as theft but the truth is that your money is losing its value because it should be losing its value.

Just because e.g. gold is free of inflation doesn't mean that there will be healthcare services waiting at the start of your retirement to accept that gold. It's just pure speculation.
Massive technical military contracts seems extremely SV to me? Isn't that where it all started?
U.S. military admits ‘horrible mistake’ in Kabul drone strike that killed 10
Huh? What does this mean?
> lost shipping containers

Reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Is_Lost
Science communicators try to avoid it because implying that things are on an irreversible course tends to cause people to shrug and say "oh well, guess that's that then". But things can actually always get worse, and they will if something isn't done.

But we're already there. Things are catastrophic right now. Wildfires are intensifying, hurricanes are intensifying, we're having "hundred year" floods every 5-10 years, the coral reefs are dying from the carbon dioxide in the air. And this is just the start, things are going to be far worse in another 50 years unless we take action now.
We can go deeper! Infinite recursion!
French contract took 4 years to be negotiated, the US one less than 6 months, in total secret with no public check… expect big surprises at the end, US weapons program are not known to never overrun their costs
Arizona is very hot, very arid, and also very favourable for agriculture, with significant production of lettuce and cotton. As long as you can make sure your crops get water through irrigation (which ancient Mesopotamians were very skilled at), your crops will thrive. In fact, the heat and sunlight actually provide a bit of an advantage.

However, a number of factors eventually led to the collapse of the civilisations in the fertile crescent. One factor has been the region getting warmer and drier, which poses a challenge even with irrigation. As an example of how different the climate is now from what it was then, Uruk used to be on a channel of the Euphrates, but now that riverbed is completely dried up. Meanwhile, Ur was once a coastal city, but is now ten miles inland.

Another factor for the collapse of these civilisations is that the process of irrigation accumulated salt in the soil. The very process that made complex civilisation possible in this part of the world eventually contributed to its end.

I recommend the Fall of Civilizations podcast for more on this and other societies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lJUOv0hLA
It's an interesting hack for the electoral college, certainly. The state is still going to be there, build an artificial island and be the only person left on the island and you get yourself 3 electoral votes and a personal rep and two senators.
Not necessarily. You can have one or several (potentially load-balances) “gateways” which act as entrypoints into subnets.

At some point you’ll probably want to integrate with some identity management , but dozens of users and hundreds of servers are totally fine to manage as yaml in ansible IME.
Could anyone please tell me what is Tailscale for? It allows you to connect to other computers in your home? For doing what?
Sorry. I meant to say that while you've probably make 100k net over 4 years and that you have 100k ARR, you haven't yet had a single year with 100k income based on the timeline you've given.
Telegram blocks Navalny's “Smart Voting” bot
You do know the messy pull out of Afghanistan was a peace deal agreed to by prior governments (without the consent of the Aphgani government no less) could they have done better, absolutely but the way you are framing it is hardly unbiased.

As for countries deciding to not rely upon America, that has long been a desire, but the previous administration drove it home like a stake through the heart. Having lived outside of the US for most of the last five years I can’t fully express how far the US has fallen in the eyes of the world, and just how much of a joke we are these days.
Have you read any scientific articles on this topic? This is the WHOLE earth we are talking about. Lofting a few hundred pounds of salt or sulfur to conduct research isn't going to "fuck it up." It's going to help us "know about how the biosphere works"

If we learn that doesn't make sense to do it, we shouldn't do it. But we shouldn't ban the science and sit on our hands, waiting for people to stop having children (children are far and away the biggest contributor).
Hey now, lots of startup hackers are interested in geopolitics
I wonder what French think now about their cancelling of the Mistral deal with Russia [0] under American pressure [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral-class_amphibious_assau...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-russia-mistral-idU...
You'd have to violate the standard a bit (version is a positive integer and :newest refers to the largest such in the file system). But I don't know that anyone uses it these days, so maybe that's ok.
Sound interesting, I have been planning to do something like this for a while. In the end, app development is so standardised that I don’t get why tooling is so terrible.
What kinds of feedback does your profession care about? I am constantly frustrated as a pedestrian with the traffic flow and signal timing problems in my area but I feel like it's pointless to submit a complaint to my local municipality because my anecdotal data points will probably be disregarded.

I'm not very good at nor patient for trying to do neighborhood people organization and go around in circles with City Hall for 5 years (as has been the case with other neighborhood things like park use etc. that I have previously been involved in). But I am tried of losing about 5-6 hours a year to excess wait times at intersections despite trying to avoid the slowest crossings.
It’s annoying that an article with this title has such a poor picture, even though much better ones are a quick search away. They talk about mind-boggling realism, but you would not believe it just from this photo. Thanks for the link!
Actually, what I said was

>...the freedom to go for a run in public without being shot or harassed (which is not really afforded to Black Americans)".

I could quibble about that claim, or point that I've read countless tweets and anecdotes from Black people describing that they have to carefully plan their routes and wear shirts from ivy league schools because they've been assaulted or harassed by white people in the past and they just want to make whites feel safe, or look back to my upbringing in Grosse Pointe, a wealthy suburb just east of Detroit that was hardcore redlined [0] where I saw Black people routinely harassed for existing in public. But the core of this is that Black people in American don't have the freedoms white people do. Black people don't get personhood here, unlike people who look like me [1].

And as a homicide researcher, I assure you, gun ownership is extremely relevant to the denial of freedom to Black Americans.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Metro_Detroit...

[1] https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1255088329634308096?s=20
These all sound like features that GitHub also had, but Gitlab needed to offer for free to gain users, rather than a technological superiority of Gitlab over GitHub. I don't think it's correct to interpret that as "Gitlab leading the way".

Note: I've preferred Gitlab, for exactly this reason
Money itself isn't the bug. It's the ability to abuse money to disconnect yourself from the real economy. How easy it is to abuse money depends on how it is designed. When people save money perishable goods like food are sitting on the shelves waiting to be bought, then money will outstay its welcome. The food is gone but the money is still there.

“Only money that goes out of date like a newspaper, rots like potatoes, rusts like iron, evaporates like ether, is capable of standing the test as an instrument for the exchange of potatoes, newspapers, iron and ether. For such money is not preferred to goods either by the purchaser or the seller. We then part with our goods for money only because we need the money as a means of exchange, not because we expect an advantage from possession of the money. So we must make money worse as a commodity if we wish to make it better as a medium of exchange."
— Silvio Gesell, “The Natural Economic Order”
> They didn't acquire it because they thought their tech was great or that they had a great product.

Well, the actual fact is that Youtube was a great product with twice as many features as Google Videos as documented in the San Jose Mercury News diagrams published at the time. And growing faster.

So however Google discussed (underestimated) it at the time, Youtube was not only a credible product, but a better one, which was understood by Google, if unstated.

IOW, Google might have been arrogant about the difficulty of building a similar product, but that doesn't change reality that they didn't.

> They acquired it because a) the team was local and b) because sequoia invested in it.

That might be what the initial reasons were. But after Youtube won the eyeballs, Google paid a market rate for network effects and eyeballs to monetize at 1000x their initial valuation estimate.

Also, Sequoia's funding meant that Youtube would continue to grow exponentially and stay ahead of Google Videos. So it's true that SV VCs are incestuaous across boards, but their funding also in reality builds out competitors.

Similar situations are when Microsoft also chased Hotmail and Facebook as they climbed in value, far greater than MS' initial valuations and offers.

Ballmer actually tried to motivate Zuck by saying he could buy a private jet if he took MS' offer. It's one of the most Ballmer things I've ever heard. The second-most is when he said he'd stay on the board for a year but bought a sports team instead - taking his toys and going home.
Yes, each tree individually only temporarily stores carbon until it is eventually burned or rotted. But if trees are being replanted at a rate that CO2 in is equal to CO2 out, it's essentially a permanent storage when you look at the full system. Additionally, if you increase the total number of trees in the system, your storage increases, which is reducing the amount of CO2 in the air. Even if this isn't the end-all-be-all permanent solution, it certainly helps in the short term.
Missing: thunder, crickets chirping, frog sounds.
18.9% shares, not bad. Had a chat with him a few year ago at the gitlab booth at Fosdem.

Somewhere around 2014 Sytse asked my former coworker to become gitlab’s first employee, working on Ruby code. Completely understand the request, as he’s an excellent DevOps engineer and fine colleague. He declined to opt for a more secure job position ....
I first learned about Dishwasher Pete in Chuck Woodbury’s amazing Out West Newspaper, that he published out of Edmonds, WA. I can no longer find it online. There are some used copies of a book based on it at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688085881

Pete was a guy who liked washing dishes. Restaurants tried to promote him, to make him a manager, and whenever they did this he would quit. He liked washing dishes. He did not like doing other things.

After Out West Newspaper, David Letterman invited him to his show. Instead of going he sent a friend who pretended to be him.

I feel Dishwasher Pete. He captures a universal sentiment of what it is to be human. We are all Dishwasher Petes.
A simple CLI tool for unpacking Apple dictionaries
> Hydrogen needed a Tesla-like company to strip away everything that made a car a car, and rip away all the legacy at once.

That would not have worked. Because a startup could never finance a hydrogen infrastructure like Tesla did for charging. Its simply 10-100x more expensive to do and not practical or green.

Even Toyota and co haven't managed hydrogen infrastructure even in Japan where they had a policy and have been going at it for decade.

Beyond that building the cars is insanely complex, expensive and hard to automate. Fuel-cell mass production is and was even less mature that then battery mass production.

The reason there is not Tesla for Hydrogen because a Tesla for Hydrogen was not actually a practical thing.

Musk himself laughed at a reporter who asked him in 2013 and called them 'fool cells', point out that discussions was not worth it, and the next 5-10 years would clearly show it.
No downvote on posts, I wish this were implemented but I also know the implications are many
You can do an equivalent thing on your own machine with https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
Instagram had raised over $57M in VC funding before being acquired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Instagram#:~:text=....
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>> I miss the old YouTube when most content was produced by individuals.

>“Old YouTube” was mostly full Simpsons episodes before they got taken down

I'm not sure I see the problem there.
I kid you not, the way I learned computer programming as a kid was picking up a "C++ For Dummies" book and just reading it. The take away from this is to just get them to do programming. Python, Ruby, C++, whatever. If they really have a passion for it, they'll be hungry for more all by themselves.
A condition of the NRO donation was that the telescopes must not be used for Earth observation.
Because I am french I will not say anything too dark.

But yes, this SUB contract was big. Giant.And Naval Group is partially a state company.

The Worth for french community is this :
1) French just hatted Trump. Deeply. His sense of hatting his allies ( Germany...) and loving his foes ( North Corea, ect).

2) As opposed, French loved Biden. More rounded, multi cultural, more social like in Europe.
I would say french people felt Biden was a friend.

So With this SUB commercial stab in the back, the feeling of a friend that betrays us french is palpable.

It feels as if Biden just behaved like Trump.
I actually agree with most of the criticism they wrote but that's beside the point I was trying to make. This tone is not how you should talk to another human being.
It sounds off, but is true, but at least partially because the hull of modern submarines is optimized for submerged use.

That’s why the bow of modern submarines looks more like the nosecone of a rocket than like the bow of a surface vessel.

See https://navalpost.com/submarine-cavitation-drag-underwater-s...)
I like this story.
I think the COVID slowed down the open source development scene. For example, we didn't see many JavaScript frameworks these last two years.
If you scroll down, there is an article. I haven't watched the video, but the article is informative on its own.

Perhaps the title of this post shouldn't say "6 min video".
Better ways have been found a long time ago in ancient egypt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_%28currency%29
Tried to watch the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok_DLczha3E), but gave up after only about 4 1/2 mins.

The Monacelli guy comes across pretty badly up to that point, continuously interrupting the CEO guy, won't let the guy provide any context when he tries to respond, etc. :(

Seems like he just wants to browbeat the CEO, and not engage at all.

That being said, the video goes 10x as long. Maybe he settles down and has an actual conversation (no idea).
It isn’t just that Australia cancelled the deal and made a new one with someone else. It is they kept their plans secret from France instead of letting them know about it and giving them a chance to make a counter-offer or save some face.

France has nuclear submarines too, so maybe France could still have played some role? Maybe AUKUS could have been AFUKUS? They didn’t allow France into the negotiation room, and they told France “everything is fine, we are sticking with your submarines” even while secretly negotiating with the US and UK.

I think being excluded and lied to upsets Macron far more than the submarines themselves do.
Except, without the pause.
And the opposite effect, as shown in my first link?
> I've also been noticing a growing political atmosphere that is in opposition to SV norms

Genuinly curious, what are "SV norms"? I think most of the people here don't come from SV, and I think this has been the case for a large part of HN existance, but I have nothing to prove it.
If they think the US is bad seems like an even worse idea to go buddy up with China imo. You know, the country on a more egregious economic imperialism kick for the last 15-25 years.
I'll just say I really enjoy the "Why not Seed?" section of your readme. The honesty is refreshing and it really let me know the plusses/minuses of this.
"Unlimited" is deceptive advertising in action, plain and simple. Not weird, but a sort of deception that's now de rigeur in the industry. "Unlimited" should really be interpreted as "zero", but "more than zero if management approves". Paid leave, on the other hand, has actual substance.
Oh the days of being on Slashdot and getting downmodded to -1 Troll because you dare to suggest that Windows is a usable operating system and not type Micro$uck or some other variant.

I was actually quite fond of WinNT4. Lean and stable.

Microsoft being the Evil Empire and facing antitrust for bundling Internet Explorer was, of course, cheered on... meanwhile very similar groups of geeks these days see no problem with Apple only allowing Safari to be the web browser engine on iOS...
It's a whole system of problems but it's not a hugely complicated system, at least not compared to all the bandaids that are necessary if you do not address the problems at their root.

https://youtu.be/ZFRVfXeIaek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQn56Dtslk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5l_Oeg6kMo

https://youtu.be/mhr4JGbozTA
Many of the recent airline accidents have a common thread. A Junior first officer with under 1000 hours flying EASA rules. It’s no coincidence
One of the reasons to use quantum gyroscopes is that will be accurate to within 1m or so after a day long underwater traverse of 1000 km or more. Communication while fully under still sucks though.
There are a few more common and known folklore that's simply ancient public safety and etiquette campaigns. They're not only for kids.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. I think there’s a lot of potential in FastMail championing the new JMAP standard in this regard, as email becomes both rich messages and a non proprietary, non locked in data repository you own and control (and can also migrate on a whim). Why can my messaging platform not retrieve RSS feeds and drop the posts into my inbox just as if they were emails?

What would you call such a platform (email with integrations on top, your mailbox represented as a document DB)?
Presumably "SV norms" here refers to the expectation that one does not ever explicitly acknowledge this element in Silicon Valley's history, lest it undermine the "plucky dudes in a garage" mystique.