skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with a few of OP's points -

> Charging speed · Remember, this only matters if you do a significant amount of long-haul driving. But then it matters a lot. At this point, Tesla still has a lead, because there are more Superchargers and the cars (recent models at least) charge damn fast.

I bought into a great charging network and got a pretty good car to use it with. I can't imagine... I don't understand!... buying an electric car not integrated with Tesla's supercharger network. Plus, I would hate being limited to 100kW charging, after having easy access to 150 and 250kW.

> The Niche · IF you need to travel 500km (about 300 miles) on a regular basis, AND IF you really can’t handle that trip taking an extra hour, well then, suck it up, live in the past, get a vehicle that’s less reliable and more expensive to run and more damaging to life on Earth.

Or gosh, get a Supercharger network and your choice of Tesla and add 0-15 minutes.

> And I think their experiment in moving all the interaction to a tablet off to the driver’s side can be declared a failure.

The age of cars trying to look like fighter jet cockpits with switches filling all available space is over. The tablet brings a superior navigation experience, really good music apps, great driving information display not hidden behind a (usually too low) steering wheel. Looks-wise the Tesla interior is delightfully spare. Don't take my tablet.
Well, there's always blue mad dog.

https://www.md2020wine.com/bottles/

Disclaimer: enjoy responsibly and may god have mercy on your soul.
Also see this mothership of information:

https://www.gwern.net/Modafinil
Preface this with whatever caveats necessary: adrafinil is a modafinil prodrug which is unscheduled in the U.S. In other words, it's effectively modafinil in vivo.

Secondary note: I was once prescribed modafinil for severe sleeping issues before I knew it had some street/techbro value (maybe it didn't then). My experience was not great. I only took it for three days and then stopped.

I would say the effect on wakefulness was very subtle. I think I stayed up until 11 or 12 each night wherein I'd normally be up until 2 unable to sleep. I suppose the difference is I didn't get the late afternoon crash.

However, I'd wake up at 4 or 5 with significant itching. To the point that it was hard to go back to sleep. There are some serious side effects to consider that are somewhat related to skin issues and when I reported this to my doctor he seemed concerned and told me to keep an eye out for another week. I just stopped.

I've worked hard on sleep habits and it's gotten a lot better naturally. Intuitively, better sleep = better wakefulness/happiness/productivity, but we all tend to fight these uphill battles sometimes. We think if we just put in an extra few hours tonight, we'll be ahead of the game. But instead we end up putting in low-value work and being exhausted the next day, starting the cycle anew.

I really didn't find much huge exciting value in my short foray into modafinil, though. If you can work on some natural sleep training or even 5htp/melatonin/whatever works for you, you'll be better off.
In this scenario (not getting into if its true or not) logically the "mafia" would want to get 7 % in successful companies, and the key to that success is to influence everyone else not invest in anything they reject, which means less competition/resources to their portfolio. This makes life harder if you never applied so you are kind of forced to apply and be forced to pay "protection" even if you may not like it.

More powerful a mafia is, more likely their rejection dooms your venture, making it more likely you would be okay with deal even if terms are not too favorable.
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. You are receiving a > 50% discount for 3 years after which you pay the non-discounted price. If you'd prefer to pay full price from the start, I'm sure they'd be happy to let you.
> would eventually be deprecated via the difficulty bomb

Yeah but said bomb just got reset every time...
I wondered the same thing... why invent a whole new thing? Making a web browser capable of displaying the Internet circa 1999 is not trivial but it is far, far, far easier than building a modern one.

Let's keep it simple: HTTP 1.1, HTML, CSS 1 (maybe), _no_ JS.
Show HN: Toolbox – A framework for modular Bash scripts
Everyday, I have to deal with Bash scripts and all the code duplication and unreadableness that comes with it. One day I found myself implementing an include function so that I could easily modularize my scripts, and it worked better than I had anticipated. That's how toolbox started.

At first, I wrote some simple modules for command line parsing and locking, but then I tried to see how far I could push the poor shell. I wrote modules for semaphores and "thread"-safe queues, and this is where things quickly started to escalate. To implement a distributed build system that automates packaging/signing/publishing of toolbox Debian packages, I wrote a module for message-based IPC that supports point-to-point and pub-sub communication. Performance was never a consideration, but it works really well without consuming excessive resources.

Some of the modules are arguably serious abuse of the shell, but I found that toolbox makes it possible to write Bash scripts that are readable, testable, and reliable. Shell isn't a terribly nice language, but it's great for integrating and automating things, so I thought others might find this useful, too.

(I am going to publish the build system as well, as soon as I am done writing the documentation.)
To give them the benefit of the doubt. They say " was dreading a lengthy day at the hospital", which makes me think they may be a MD resident, or similar with horrid schedules.
I'm tired of putting my pronouns everywhere.

Have you actually been required to use these? And if so, did you try asking to opt-out?
Dark Souls Servers Down Due to Exploit That Could Give Control of Your PC
These days you can't assume anything.
Wow. Good example of how easily context can get lost, even without confirmation bias. Also how important context is to meaning.
But moving off of the cloud is not always realistic. If the start-up leveraged cloud-specific services, they are now locked in. If they remained cloud-agnostic, they were under-utilizing the cloud.

How many companies actually shift their infra vendor?
However, most services that are around for a long time experience bursty traffic so provisioning is still difficult.
Pretty much any red wine you’d be drinking is 100% dry—there’s no residual sugar left in the bottle after fermentation. If by “sweet” you mean “fruity” the Cab v. Pinot comparison kind of rules that out, since American Merlot sits about halfway between Pinot and Cab in terms of being fruit-forward, as well as with any other descriptors that might classify as “body”, such as alcohol and tannin.
> I suspect that VW has someone who's been there a long time, who is a "lead," and just doesn't understand basic security concepts. Some newcomer challenged them

I worked in Automotive for quite a while, and this wouldn’t surprise me. A lot of the roots of my company was mechanical engineering, and software at the time was very secondary. It was changing rapidly (and positively) over my last few years.
Depends on who is "you". When I provide a Kubernetes cluster on the Hetzner Cloud I usually need to provision dynamic storage as well - that gets allocated through developer's deployments. Also provisioning VMs for autoscaling can be automated. Of course I can lock everything down but then it's no longer a "cloud".
Fixing Performance Regressions Before They Happen
The post is a broad, and IMO, valid criticism. Though I'm not sure having a different protocol is a _huge_ problem. If Gemini ever got popular both backends and clients would add support.

I think the real issue, and the OP touches on it, is the text/gemini format. There's a ton of content that would enrich Gemini (and that fits Gemini's mission) but that simply isn't usable in text/gemini. Specifically, I'm talking about inline-links (though that isn't the only issue).

I wrote a server in elixir, and tried to convert Wikiversity's Introduction to Programming (1) both manually and automatically. I found the output unusable and couldn't come up with a case where I'd ever prefer/recommend it.

(1) https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Programming
used to do this a lot. still recovering from it. I suspect my mind is permanently damaged in subtle ways from this behaviour.

either that or 47 is "wind down time" for my brain
One of the problems with real world machine learning is that engineers often treat models as pure black boxes to be optimized, ignoring the datasets behind them. I've often worked with ML engineers who can't give you any examples of false positives they want their models to fix!

Perhaps this is okay when your datasets are high-quality and representative of the real world, but they're usually not. For example, many toxicity and hate speech datasets mistakenly flag texts like "this is fucking awesome!" as toxic, even though they're actually quite positive -- because NLP datasets are often labeled by non-fluent speakers who pattern match on profanity.

(So is 99% accuracy or 99% precision actually a good thing? Not if your test sets are inaccurate as well!)

Many of the new, massive scale language models use the Perspective API to measure their safety. But we've noticed a number of Perspective API mistakes on texts containing positive profanity, so this post was an attempt to explain the problem and quantify it.
Pretty sure anyone who lived through the 90s should be able to spot the difference between shit and the shit. MJ released Bad in 87.
I took the comment as meaning people are worried about what others will think of their choice of wine.
Exactly.

It's similar to how, here in HN comments, you cannot embed a giant 300MB javascript advertisement monstrosity. Or even just an image.

If people could do that, then the space would be destroyed by malicious actors.

What if we eliminate HN and do the communication P2P? Where author hosts own content. How can I as author still guarantee you as reader that I won't do that?

One answer is to publish over Gemini.
Maybe I’m drawing conclusions about what these beacons would do, but if any of the things you mentioned stop working, I can still drive and won’t go full speed into a wall. I don’t have the same confidence in these beacons.
FreeBSD has a tool for binary upgrades now, and has had a process for source based upgrades forever. This is all documented in the FreeBSD Handbook, and I'd be surprised if the source based upgrade wasn't in there since the beginning of the Handbook, which I think came out with FreeBSD-3.

But, darkhelmet and I were discussing updating FreeBSD at Yahoo; doing the update from the Handbook wouldn't be the right way to do it, because you would miss out on Yahoo specific patches, which were likely required for some key Yahoo software. I don't think it was common knowledge how to do it, so some documentation might have been nice, but mostly teams at Yahoo just didn't do it at that time for better or worse.
> BSD gifts companies with an easier path to turning your work into a cloistered and proprietary part of their code

Actually, BSD might incentivize "proprietary" companies more than GPL to contribute back to upstream.

Even ignoring the gratitude factor for BSD license granting more freedom than GPL, it's just strategic. Companies want to apply their own local patches to the kernel whilst keeping update to upstream changes, it becomes a burden, specially if the infrastructure where the patch touches changes, to ease the burden of maintaining the patches they contribute them to upstream.
It's weird that he's arguing that Stripe/YC destroys the competition by being the main investor in their competition (Fast)
Sometimes I think that I must be the only one who doesn't throw his laptop into a backpack full of hammers while jogging everywhere.
> In the old days, ethernet port names was sequential depending on the order of bringing up the interfaces, and this could vary depending on timing.

In the even older days, before the Linux kernel started probing hardware in parallel to speed up the boot process, this wouldn't vary depending on timing; for a given kernel version, the order would always be the same. Of course, the order could change when you updated your kernel, either because it had a new driver which was probed earlier, or because the probing order for the PCI bus changed to the opposite order (IIRC, that actually did happen). And of course, having the network drivers as kernel modules makes it much harder to preserve a deterministic probing order; but back in these days, it was much more common to carefully customize each machine's kernel to have as built-in drivers precisely the set corresponding to the hardware present on a given machine or fleet of machines, carrying that customization over for each new kernel release ("make oldconfig"); kernel modules would be relegated to things like filesystems which you might need only once in a while, and they would be unloaded when no longer in use (memory was precious).
Glad to see this release. Looking forward to making some pull requests on bugs. Can’t wait for the first beta. Huge kudos to the team and all contributors.
I would suggest reading On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt

Personally... a significant portion of people like to "right". Some base their identity on it. People who are "right" in some things will often believe they are "right" in all things, which they may or may not be "right" in, even if they are sometimes unsure. It is these things that people will argue most vehemently in order to be "totally" right for any humility would be seen as total defeat. Some do it unconsciously, and some, more worryingly, do it consciously.
Technically to be equivalent you need to wrap the second one in parentheses so you can use ToList() on it. Unfortunately a bit ugly. I'm not sure why they didn't add one more keyword to handle pipelining into other functions. Something like "feed", "into", or "pipe". Or just pluck the |> operator from F#.
How would you define object storage vs. block storage? How do I know which one I need? This question is coming from a web dev who mostly uses databases on the backend so I'm unclear what constitutes an "object" in this case.

(Yes, I googled it, but I'm looking for a more practical example)
You've lost me. Connect the dots for me to urban voters retarding civil rights in this counterfactual?
Amazon uptime is 99.95 which calculates to 43 seconds of downtime everyday.
The other choices for IPng at least tried to have an actual transition plan that would involve IPv4-only networks connecting to IPng. In fact the IPng criteria requirements outlined there be a straightforward transition plan from IPv4 that was simple and realistic. Then they settled for IPv6 which had no transition plan and still doesn't have one that meets the criteria set forth in the IPng requirements -- to this day.

The selection committee and ngtrans are to blame for not ever coming up with a transition plan that included interoperability with IPv4 as a basic tenet. They've effectively made IPv6 a second class protocol and will probably end up being like this forever.

IPv6 is effectively a waste of time, and that's how it's seen by most enterprise and ISPs. I'm holding out hope for research in future Internet architectures that will hopefully not make the same mistake as IPng and instead come up with actual transition plans with their designs.
Probably because if it wasn’t (and a lot of this still happens), there would be tons of companies seeking investors that would just pay themselves the money in salaries and lifestyle expenses and take off.
Russia doesn't want to invade and take over Ukraine.

They've sure been working hard lately (at considerable expense) to make it look otherwise.
Lemmings 2 came with a novella setting the backstory. I probably spent more time reading the novella than playing the game.
>I don’t really understand all of the details, but from what I can gather, AM radios require a little clock component, and it’s desirable for this component to not be too close to any actively-used broadcast frequencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_frequency#Uses
Someone said that driving them to and from school is 20x more dangerous (and then edited their comment to say 10x instead of 20x). I was just casually looking up the stats for myself and thought I'd share.
What is evidence for success then?
I have yet to have this happen. what version are you using? don't use home, use pro or enterprise.
Given the evidence presented in the SFA vs Harvard case, there is merit to the claim that affirmative action has resulted in qualified candidates being shafted on unfalsifiable traits as a proxy for race.

I can't speak for HNers who went to college over the past 17 years, but Gratz vs Bollinger demonstrated that, for a time, undergraduates could be subject to point-based "positive" discrimination on URM status alone.
Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us
Well this is a new definition of “tech bro” to me. In my experience the people who either identified themselves or fit the stereotype preferred office life, and all of the social life it affords/requires.

I’ve been remote most of my career and still prefer it despite difficulties posed by the pandemic. It’s quiet, I can focus on work goals without also accommodating a high school-like social atmosphere, and it’s… quiet. My sensory issues are limited to the things I live with at home.

It’s a shame if companies making cool and unique products think that’s some kind of a cultural signal that candidates are tech bros. They’re basically excluding almost everyone with autism and ADHD.
If the government says natural immunity lets you not get vaccinated, the next pandemic, more people will try to get infected. It's the same reason there were no immunity passports prior to vaccines. The government's policy is correct to protect the most people and reduce economic impact.
Genuinely read the whole thing before commenting. Don't know how I missed that. Mea culpa!
Striped of the hyperbole, the underlying premise is why accelerators exist ? YC is just the best at it and more visible ?

Everyone wants the exclusive network that YC founders get access to. The doors that YC stamp can open. The obvious corollary to that is for not YC company it is harder to open those doors and build those connections.

This is central to the model for any exclusive network, tech companies (FAANG) education institutions (Yale/Harvard/Stanford etc) or even schools like Eton all do the same to someone's(or company)'s profile.

It is lot more likely that you will get funding (not just YC) if you studied in best schools, worked at top company or a hot startup all else being same.

It is true of the ex-founder badge as well, second time founders get better chance at fund raise than a first time founder for the same idea.

VCs would say there is strong correlation between such attributes and success, but it really hard to prove (or disprove ) causation for this.

It is quite hard to know how much is such experiences or education a factor of merit or is it only because of the network effect and brand recognition more opportunities open up rather than any real merit to those brands alone.
If states are requiring photo ID it should be free for all citizens, otherwise that's a poll tax.
Except it is important, since each of those regions has very strict laws regarding what is and isn’t allowed in the bottle. Sancerre is 100% Sauvignon Blanc, red Bordeaux some blend of six permitted grapes, Cab and Merlot being the primary ones (subregions have laws regarding which subset is allowed), Chablis is 100% Chardonnay, Beaujolais is 100% Gamay, Chianti is at least 70% Sangiovese. Wines from these regions aren’t labeled varietally because they don’t need to be. New World wines don’t have that luxury.
You pretty much just have to treat any cold-contact as highly suspect, no matter how legitmate it seems. Always verify.
Adrafinil can be bad for your liver, which is a major reason to prefer modafinil despite the fact it's illegal.
Which database does that? MSSQL doesn't assign any name to the column in this case.
Alexa, Siri, and Google Home are essentially AI chat bots using microphones. The former two can barely process anything you ask but you can still get a lot done with them.
What's wrong with 5 cups of coffee a day?
So very true.

Particularly true about the Sistine Chapel. This virtual view is outstanding, but can't possibly come anything close to seeing it in person.
https://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.htm...
Sample pages: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982163348/
Yeah you won't even be able to decompress the kernel, you'll need at least a few MB of RAM (and even that would be heroic). Google SPI SRAM, pretty easy to use.
Possible this is just a marketing piece to generate discussion?

Bolt the david vs Stripe/YC the goliath of SV, reconciling traditional startup pains to a monopoly but they made it anyway...

Some interesting points though, particularly the one where stripe took investment from many vcs in order to block other companies... that could've been to get access to existing networks and sell to those companies too. But I could see how that could be a blocker too.
He's drinking a Cheval Blanc in the burger joint at the end, which is a Bordeaux Cab Franc/Merlot blend.
Looks like these things are being addressed, although from past of experience it probably will take several years :( (when I started using Nix, 3 years there was a talk about this new thing called flakes, now the version 2.4 already contains it, but it is still locked behind experimental features)

1. https://github.com/tweag/nickel - it is a typed language, that might in the future replace nix language

2. looks like likely is addressed by flakes
Hadn't thought of that. Just checked the data from my weather station, and there's a definite spike, followed by a drop.

30.16 inHg just before, 30.19 spike followed by an immediate drop to 30.14, then basically normalized again.
I've been using every version of windows since 3.1, literally never had it revert default browser settings on me
Maddox, author of The Best Page in the Universe, wrote about exactly this phenomenon shortly after the movie came out. [1] Warning: It's Maddox, so it's crass.

>In the movie, Giamatti's character is a wine aficionado who drinks Pinot Noir in favor of Merlot, a wine that he despises. Now every idiot who has seen the movie has suddenly become a wine expert, and Pinot sales have shot through the roof. NPR interviewed a guy who said, and I quote:
"I used to drink merlot, and after I saw the movie, they say 'don't drink merlot,' so [now] I'm drinking pinot noir... "

[1] http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sideways
$38.92 for trivial, non-professional services they did not ask for. $1000 reversed only after spending days disputing the charge. Child remains at risk because provider was unable/unwilling to services within a reasonable time frame.

$38.92 for a medical assistant spending 1 minute to take your temperature works out to $2335/hour.

The article is not arguing for government control. Rather that medical services should be subject to the same transparency as any other professional business and without collusion with each other and insurance providers.
When someone calls a situation sad, the author is the human experiencing the emotion. It's a pretty common English phrase construction.