skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol same, i find myself mostly just lurking too.

HN has filled that hole for me that reddit and 4chan left behind, I don't feel as bad for checking it so much every day though, the content here is a step up for sure.
Huh. So is this something more like a retro-OS interest, as opposed to an interest in the propagation of a specific framework into modern computing?
Thanks. I occasionally read their blog back in the day, but didn't know they were still producing stuff.
Interesting game. At the start it seems like an impossible feat but the information you get from even the first couple of guesses can drastically reduce the range of possible solutions.

I got it on the fourth try but it felt like dumb luck. I'll have to try again tomorrow to see if it was.
Was? Don't they still exist?
Vaccines have saved countless thousands (millions?) from hospitalisation and death, and allowed us to open up without (completely) overwhelming our health systems (or whatever it is you have in the US).

No vaccine is perfect, and herd immunity (like we have for measles) would require nearly 100% coverage in all age groups - assuming it would even be possible for a virus like Covid.

Vaccines could have been used with NPIs instead of in place of NPIs, which could have given us a chance of containing Covid completely. Unfortunately, not least because of the anti science voices you seem to have been listening to, this was not possible.
Snap it to the back of your pants or your belt. Most knives have a clip.
So 37% of the world’s population have no idea how scared and angry they’re suppose to be? How sad.
htmx (no L) is pretty great. Maybe I’m old school, but I’ve used it in my last two projects and it’s a breath of fresh air. My projects were Go and PHP. htmx didn’t care, worked the same in both. I also added it late in one of them, so it has a traditional MPA feel and then I tacked on htmx instead of writing a bunch of js.

Anywayz, I’m loving htmx and I’m pretty sure it is making my development faster. I don’t know, yet, if it will degrade for larger applications.
I have heard that Windows kernel is not bad, actually. (I doubt that its architecture or the time MS devs continue to spend on it would have any impact on the quality or consistency of the UI.)
The flip side is that private aviation has gotten a lot cheaper, if you’re willing to book a seat on a shared private aircraft. Old companies like NetJets still offer fractional ownership at good rates, but new virtual airlines have popped up that use services like NetJets for their aircraft and personnel, but sell the seats as if they were nothing more than a step up from first class.

What I think the OP was talking about is that first class on regular airlines has gotten a lot worse, and the people who can afford to regularly fly first class can also afford to pay not that much more to fly on these new virtual private airlines.
> 'Hotly contested' doesn't imply there is substance to the context, only that there is great effort being made.

This is incoherent.
>We also have accounts in AWS, Azure and GCP.

Do you mind sharing why you have accounts on all three? We do something similar because our product, https://iko.ai, enables people to train, track, package, deploy, and monitor machine learning models, run real-time collaborative notebooks and long-running background notebooks on their own Kubernetes clusters and their own data buckets; therefore we have to support GCP's GKE, Azure's AKS, AWS' EKS, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, etc.

I wonder if you're doing "something something multi-cloud/cloud agnostic" as well. If not, why have all three as opposed to leverage just one cloud.
I'm a very heavy believer in multiple desktops, so I incorporate HN into it quite heavily. My first desktop is always a dashboard, and typically contains my email client and the HN frontpage, alongside any monitoring tools I need for work. HN is a nice aggregation of all the news in my periphery without being overwhelming. The only script I use is one to modify the CSS such that it has the Nord theme[0] instead of the eye-searing default. I normally refresh the frontpage a few times a day, and if I'm particularly bored I'll sometimes venture into the /new posts.

[0] https://www.nordtheme.com/
I was giddy over this article regarding the corrosion resistance. Was just eyeing a custom benchmade 20cv for a high saltwater exposure usecase; hoping this metal makes its way over there as well
Excuse us true believers, but the idea is capabilities avoid the https://xkcd.com/2044/ trap by being just dynamic enough.

I would certainly agree not to trust any other sort of sandboxing. E.g. I don't trust Linux namespaces (as the linux devs themselve say you shouldn't) because the syscall interface is far too complex and subtle). But something like CloudABI or Fuschia or seL4 is dramatically narrower in scope.
Some places have banned advertising on billboards and such, Vermont for example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/twistedsifter.com/2014/10/why-v...
3.5 is fine, that's CBRS. This is about C-Band, which is 3.7ghz to 4.2ghz in the US.
So by this logic, would you let "front line workers" that aren't vaccinated off the hook as well, seeing that they were probably "exposed before vaccine availability" and "Chances are, many of them already acquired immunity via this route"?
Oh. Without much context, I would interpret the quote as "I made the worse choice for lack of guidance". Your suggested interpretation, that asking for advice means you're not an outlier on what you're asking about or you'd already know, strikes me as a very toxic ideal. That's a recipe for both unwarranted self-doubt and headstrong dumb choice-making.
bwa specifically performs a burrows wheeler transform of a 3GB string. other mapping algorithms usually rely on some sort of indexing of the genome. the program then loads this into memory and queries that index for each “read” (a dna fragment from the dna sequencer).

when i worked on https://github.com/iontorrent/tmap we thought it would be a good idea to do something like a “local alignment” (using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith–Waterman_algorithm) after doing a lookup into a burrows wheeler transform on a substring of the “read.”
Switching to electric and doing 90% of charging at home?
Ask HN: What book with under 100 Amazon reviews has been unfairly overlooked?
Nothing really new but mainly dat/hypercore, securescuttlebutt, matrix’s pinecone, and some of the libp2p related projects like ceramic and textile.
they m2m the imap sessions using the method i described not smtp.
How accurate did you get? Are frame-to-frame probabilities pretty independent? I wonder if you can hit some arbitrary threshold by implementing something like "n frames in a row."
And this kind of snark further reinforces my point.
I was in Madagascar in 2019 and while some people have top notch fiber connectivity at home, most people only have Facebook. It's free on mobile phones while any other internet traffic costs money which most people can't afford. And I doubt that the idea of net neutrality is on anybody's mind.

Whenever I asked someone to google something, watch a YouTube video, or simply go to a website, I got nothing but bewildered looks — as if I just talked gibberish. Even Instagram was completely irrelevant. But if something was on Facebook, everybody knew about it or how to find it. All of most people's online life happens exclusively on Facebook.

Does this count as "using the internet"?
For automotive.
> If there was a safe, easy to take and effective vaccine against obesity, but they refused to take it, they would be condemned much more.

Seriously? What about the good ol' "eat less" (excluding the rare cases where it is related to metabolism disorders)?
most other major sites do this automatically...
Oh they understand me alright!
Starting with the basics, I don't think BeOS even supported multiple users, permissions, access control, etc. I did play around with it in the mid-1990's and recall it had none of this. Perhaps this changed in later versions. But NeXT, other Unix OSes, and NT were far ahead in that regard.
10.4 was the first time I felt like my NeXTStation was slower than my eMac.

https://mat.tl/img/emacnext.jpg
This is a summer 2020 submission and fall 2020 publication (doesn’t make it wrong, just gives timing context).

I was recommended NAC supplements and some cursory research suggested that it probably wasn’t going to hurt so I bought them ($14 a bottle) as a readily available OTC supplement. FDA sent out some threatening communications in fall 2020 which suggested they’d contemplate prosecuting the sales of NAC as a supplement and it predictably got a lot harder to find. I’m still taking some of the first 500 pills I bought as it seems unlikely to be harmful. (I’m not claiming it works, just giving some background not in the NIH paper.)
Really? I can open them on Chrome and Firefox without a problem. What browser do you use?
Whenever anything related to the weather happens now it’s climate change.

Dry winter? Climate change.
Wet winter? Climate change.
Cold summer? Climate change.
Heat wave? Climate change.
Hurricane? Climate change.
Doldrums? Climate change.

Every religion has a global flood myth, climate change is just the one of the scientifically religious and its zealots get just as upset if you don’t believe it as if you think Noah’s ark didn’t happen. Similarly there is no way to disprove it.

You can see the ridiculousness of the situation when it comes to how they prove it, consensus.

Science has never involved consensus, it works on hypothesis and evidence. Similarly no one can agree on which model predicts the future so they run 80,000 models with different parameters and then 20 years later pick whichever one happened to randomly generate the outcome and ignore the 79,999 models which were wrong.

I’m not a denier, I’m open to a single hypothesis, and a length of time in which we can analyze the results.

In summary climate change is a global flood myth and the solution is Pascal’s wager.

And predictably no one points to any evidence they just downvote because they have nothing to say.
Yahoo was sold to Verizon for $4.8 billion in 2016 [1]. VZ then merged it with their AOL acquisition under the brand Oath, which was then rebranded to Verizon Media Group.

The whole thing was apparently unloaded to a private equity group for $5 Billion recently [2] and has been renamed back to Yahoo... so yes, they still exist and now "Yahoo!" includes AOL too.

[1] https://mashable.com/article/yahoo-verizon-acquired-bought

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/01/apollo-completes-its-5b-ac...
Apple Maps is growing their look around feature. So if your in a major city it’s comparable.
"Hardcore Software is a first-person account of what I saw at the PC revolution from the perspective of joining Microsoft as a newly hired software design engineer fresh from graduate school working on developer tools, through my time as a program manager and ultimately leading Office, and then moving to Windows, and everything in between (like working as technical assistant to Bill Gates.)"

TOC: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/roadmap-ta...
> I think that's not going to happen because single corporations have no power in choosing wages. The labor market does.

The labor market is not a magical entity. It's comprised of companies doing the hiring and people doing the working.

If you look at sectors where unskilled work prevails and corporations treat workers as fungible resources then the labour market lies firmly in the supply side, and workers have no alternative other than getting exploited. This means paying the least possible amount, which means less than minimum wage.

Think about it for a second: why do you think so many companies pay minimum wage, and not a single cent more? Is is because the workers' negotiating power magically breaks even at the minimum wage level, or is it because labor laws make it illegal to pay less than that?
>After 30-ish years of email I finally found something good.

What an endorsement! If I were them, I'd put this right on the landing page.
Yeah it is scary and depressing, but I suppose I just couldn't live in this industry of those are the fatalistic last word.

Trying clean up all the accidental complexity that goes with the ambient authority, using capabilities, will free up "complexity budget" to ponder various timing attacks and whatnot. I think the problems are solvable if only we are willing to move the goal posts from our current obsession over back-compat uber alles that makes everything difficult.

As I understand it, the m1 is similarly better not because any fundamental insight, but because not worrying about various x86 accidental complexity just makes it easier to do things like deeper instruction fetching pipelines etc. (Of course TSMC just killing it doesn't hurt either.)
the lucky ones.
I generally work on a smaller scale and usually in regards to the people around me. Did I help? Inspire creativity? Say something kind? Say something that needed to be said? Learn something?

It doesn’t take much. Did you make someone else’s existence better?

You can still do big things, but don’t forgot the small ones. They matter too.
I got it in 3, but I feel very lucky for doing so. What a nice concept!

I'd love to see a head-to-head version of this, where I could wager against my opponent each turn. I know some very "wordy" friends that would really enjoy trying to outguess and outbet one another.

Suppose we could just use two ipads and accomplish the same thing.

Anyhow. lovely game, thanks for posting!
First guess was "black"
Second guess was correct
It feels too lucky
But that’s how the market works. I have been making bets on what technology would be useful for the last 35 years. There was no one to help me forecast it. I just do things like read hacker news and similar publications. By sticking to the basics while also focusing on areas that I liked I did pretty well. We get paid more than average because there are risks.

Also, I chose some hot technologies that I could tolerate because I understood that’s just where it is. I also learned algorithms on my own and understood when to apply them. If the market asked for hot technologies, you shouldn’t have to adapt. Otherwise you should accept a lower paying job.
Fractal Scaling of Ethereum: From L2 to L3 By
> As much as I hate ads, THEY have re-arranged the world by paying for it in a free market, and we must respect that.

This is garbage libertarian ideology, and it can and should be questioned and opposed at every opportunity.
sorry for the comparison! I was trying to highlight that risk levels are individual, not to say that one’s risk from Covid is that of being caught in a volcano. Blanket numbers (5 million have died) are almost useless when trying to assess your personal risk.
I am using RSS feed (Innoreader).
https://hnrss.org/frontpage

I am also using Refined Hacker News extension where I have custom Dark Mode css.
Those $6 tools with the three grades of sharpening V’s work well enough to make a $25 knife last fairly indefinitely in this particular use case.
For me? Yeah. I’ve been using NeXT stuff forever and continue to do so. Even now with Apple branding.

I’m also just aging out.
Primarily read front page on desktop but I also have a TTS thing [0] that runs in the morning made it a while ago. I have it running on a Pi Zero non-wireless with GPIO audio pin mod.

Eventually I will parse the popular threads to gain insight, I upvote the ones I want to look into later.

Word freq counter and intent

[0] https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/python_aws_polly_hacker_ne...
All these comments encouraging empathy for unvaxxed in the name of humanity fail to acknowledge humanity of the medical workers who are treating the unvaxxed. Being married to an ICU physician I have witnessed the mental health toll this pandemic has had on medical workers. Especially, the nurses and doctors who work in the ICU. The majority of the unvaxxed ending up in the ICU have had a lot of misinformation fed to them though social media. Their families often want to co-manage the treatment with physicians and ask to be given ivermectin and other unproven medication. Many of these situations leads to unnecessary
emotional exchanges and threats of physical violence from the families.
I don't know about the rest but in my wife's ICU group the umvaxxed covid patients only elicit anger from staff.
They have to get their fear mongering through TV and radio.
Which (at least in my case) does little to nothing at all.

With Google, that country selector _used to_ return websites located in the specified country (now not so much), but with ddg those results are mixed up with sites from nearby countries or countries that speak the same language.
> their culture is concerned solely with matters that fall within direct personal experience, and thus there is no history beyond living memory.

> one of the strongest Pirahã values is no coercion; you simply don't tell other people what to do.

> There appears to be no social hierarchy; the Pirahã have no formal leaders. Their social system is similar to that of many other hunter-gatherer bands in the world, although rare in the Amazon because of a history of horticulture before Western contact

> They take naps of 15 minutes to, at the most, two hours throughout the day and night, and rarely sleep through the night.

> The concept of drawing is alien to them and when asked to draw a person, animal, tree, or river, the result is simple lines.[7] However, on seeing a novelty such as an airplane, a child may make a model of it, which may be soon discarded.

> According to Everett, the Pirahã have no concept of a supreme spirit or god,[9] and they lost interest in Jesus when they discovered that Everett had never seen him. They require evidence based on personal experience for every claim made.[

> Everett states that it has no relative clauses or grammatical recursion. Everett points out that there is recursion of ideas: that in a story, there may be subordinate ideas inside other ideas.

> Pirahã has one of the simplest sound systems known. Yet it possesses such a complex array of tones, stresses, and syllable lengths that its speakers can dispense with their vowels and consonants altogether and sing, hum, or whistle conversations."

> Daniel L. Everett, on the other hand, argues that the Pirahã are cognitively capable of counting; they simply choose not to do so.

> The language may have no unique words for colors, contradicting Berlin and Kay's hypothesis on the universality of color-naming. There are no unanalyzable root words for color; the recorded color words are all compounds like mii sai[6] or bii sai, "blood-like," indicating that colors in the language are adjectival comparisons that are not consistently applied.

And then finally:

> Adoption of western culture

> A 2012 documentary called The Grammar of Happiness which aired on the Smithsonian Channel, reported that a school had been opened for the Pirahã community where they learn Portuguese and mathematics. According to FUNAI the school is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education of Brazil.[10] In addition to a formal school being introduced to the culture, the documentary also reported that the Brazilian government installed a modern medical clinic, electricity and television in the remote area.

Truly, the West subsumes all cultures it comes into contact with.

There is no hope in trying to progress further, because it's like grinding two mis-matched gears together, to generate torque: all you're doing is forcing things that are not meant to be.

What a depressing article.
After self-hosting whoogle, I never look back. It’s still google but with a lot of junk removed. Sometimes I have to use yandex though, Google’s results are censored and politically biased anyway.
Just agreeing with most comments here, love this!
Diamond being "forever" is a fairly weak example of something that's repeated without any truth because virtually the only way someone can lose one is through loss or theft. Repeating "diamonds are flammable" would start people farther from the truth.
You yourself may have fallen prey to the overcorrecting anti-diamond meme - do they decay in any meaningful way, or are they just overpriced?
There are new virtual airlines that operate on top of services like NetJets for their aircraft and on-board personnel, and some of them are a lot less expensive than $15k.

Yes, more expensive than a first class ticket for the same route, but not all that much more expensive — maybe 2x or 3x the cost.
This comment hijacked my attention.
What is the "!g" about? Some sort of DDG command or hotkey?
> There's no running "todo" list with items that keep pushed back day after day

Your calendar would easily become that, unless you are always excellent at estimating what you are able to do on each day. Also, what days will you put items on which has no set date? What about when priorities change? Do you then have to reorder items on a lot of days in your calendar?
> Google’s results are censored and politically biased

Source?
Safari on my phone
The proliferation of distros _is_ the ecosystem.
It seems odd the government would suddenly stop this from being available OTC
Considering that Garmin sells a full kit that integrates wit their displays (https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/135561), and autoland systems are just becoming available, I think you're incorrect in your assumptions.
Hard to get adoption purely based on privacy. Privacy is a super hard sell
I don't know about unfairly overlooked, but I think a lot of readers here would enjoy _Alone in the Ocean_ by Slava Kurilov. It's the story of a Soviet citizen who defected by jumping off a "cruise to nowhere" ship and swimming to the Philippines.
There was some interest in the information retrieval research community 10-15 years ago, but I don't think anyone ever found a good application for it. Some limitations of the BWT always got in the way.

The BWT sees strings as integer sequences. Either "ABC" and "abc" are two unrelated strings, or you normalize before building the index and lose the ability to distinguish between the two.

Search proceeds character-by-character backwards, jumping arbitrarily around the BWT using the same LF-mapping function as when inverting the BWT. You get cache misses for every character.

BWT construction is expensive, because you want a single BWT for the entire string collection. There is a ridiculous number of papers on BWT construction, as well as on updating and merging existing BWTs, but the problem has still not been solved adequately. If your data is measured in gigabytes, you can just pay the price and build the index, but a few terabytes seems to be the practical upper limit for the current approaches.

You can of course partition the data and build multiple indexes, but then you have to search for each pattern in each index. There is no way to partition the data in a way that different indexes would be responsible for different queries.
Your question assumes that that would be trivial, but I suspect it would be effectively impossible. Every single part of the car is designed to be an EV.
Neeva is another option for privacy minded folks. Plus it is ad free, and Neeva is also much more than just a wrapper around Bing results.

Disclaimer: I work on Neeva :)
> The problem is that doesn't tell you anything about JavaScript or Python... except whom is using Stack Overflow.

I'd also add that the author also failed to notice that all time series in that graph, with the exception of Python, either flatlined or are dropping. Thus that says more about SO and bad data analysis than real world trends in frontend development.
We are building an app for that, it's called Bitfari. It pays people to disclose preferences and customizes city ads as they go about their day. It also blocks ads the majority of people don't want to see and routes them to different locations, so that public ad space is better allocated. The service has integrated over 200K screens globally and its currently valued at 25M+. You can learn more about it here https://bitfari.org/whitepaper/