skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something to be said about limits. Interesting things happen when you set limitations. The Oulipo group, made up of writers like Perec and Calvino, would intentionally set limits in order to spur creativity. What's the harm in having a web protocol like Gemini attempting to do the same thing? The modern web is bloated, captured, no longer uncharted land waiting to be explored. Why not refuse and set off into the waters of Gemini? What do you have to lose?
Earthling is risky because it gets owned instantly if you spawn too close to the dreadnaught. IIRC otherwise the ai would not pursue if you were moving away and shooting so you could keep going back and forth keeping them at a safe distance.
Is there a podcast of their talk?
I understand your feelings about modern software, but comparing computers to toasters sounds pointless to me
Brings to mind Karel Kapek's 1936 "The War with the Newts".

He is better known for his 1920 play, "R.U.R.", or "Rossum's Universal Robots", which brought "robot" into English.

Both explore the self-deception character of attempts at imposing servitude. The US has still not processed its varied experience.
I have to occasionally remind myself that games have not become bad. I've gotten old. I can only imagine what it's like to be 12 and play Fortnight. They can republish Command and Conquer, but that feel will never be real again.
I agree with the author, but from a different direction. The Gemini community has this ethos that stripping away all the styling etc. makes the internet about "content" again. Setting aside for the moment that the definition that content = text is unnecessarily reductive (and insulting to other forms of content - is a beautiful animation not content? is an interactive map of a country showing how covid is affecting it not content?), in my experience - people who care deeply about content are doing everything except bikeshedding about internet protocols.

The people whose content I most respect are writing into a blogger setup that hasn't changed for decades, or into Wordpress's editor that feels like it actively fights you when you want to write. They like making it look like they want it to, and they like having analytics or getting paid for their content with ads or subscriptions. And on the other hand, barring one notable exception I haven't found anybody in the gemini space whose content I found interesting in itself. (Of course, that's just personal opinion - you might find many more people in the gemini space interesting.) And the moment I realized that a significant portion of the content on the gemini space was about implementing a gemini reader, it hit me that it was pure solutionism. Gemini is a protocol for techies who want to bikeshed about tech!

(I could also go on about how the idea that stripping content of styles or """fluff""" is the only way for readers to get it on their own terms. I use stylus to override the font on every website I visit - it didn't require reinventing the wheel for that!)
I also use BSD, AIX, Solaris, etc. As someone stated below, maybe I'm "just tired of people who offer ignorant opinions and argue based on conjecture and not actual knowledge."
red alert 2 vibes
You seem to be paraphrasing what's listed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/7wb8nj/at_the_...

Yeah, there are references to death and suicide in the movie, like there is in most fiction about depression. But there's nothing explicit about Miles's fate, and the film ends on an upbeat note ("Because you were wearing your seatbelt!" Jack says to Miles). I've watched the movie 20x and the stuff you list is very liberal interpretation of some scant events.
Another fact is the Earth is not a uniform sphere so the waves wouldn't exactly converge in a uniform circular condensation on that exact spot.

Unless you already factored that in...
I don't often use Gemini, but here's the thing that I think this misses and that Gemini does well:

If I click a link in a Gemini browser, I know for sure that it will not start loading and running a ton of resource-intensive scripts. I know that it will not start autoplaying audio or video. I know that it will display fine in plain text, every single time - so it works in my terminal, in Emacs, on my phone, etc. And I know it will be fast.

Yes, I can use NoScript, uBlock Origin with comprehensive lists, etc. and start to approach that level of simplicity... but every other link I click will likely be broken in weird and wonderful ways. In Gemini, they all work (provided the page still exists, of course). I think there's some value in that.
For drafting up a will, probably for many people. Software is pretty good at workflow management. For handling a dispute? I don’t think so. Not until apps can achieve some kind of general intelligence. There’s a lot of nuance and judgement.
Dating people from other developed nations than the US forced me to never do a rushed vacation.

They have weeks off of work and expect you to as well. They don't save up for 5 day trips across 3 day weekends to rush rush rush. They* just dip out and live in the different place for a while, take classes, get to know locals, etc. (*not everywhere has this privilege, but it is very common)

I’m never going back to the other way I just hang out with richer Americans. More people have been doing something equivalent over the last year, they're usually also richer Americans just still career focused as well, compared to trust funders.
Exactly what came to my mind as well.

https://medium.com/project-tinker/mailchimp-just-screwed-ove...

https://slashdot.org/story/21/11/11/1634237/intuit-slashes-p...

https://www.businessinsider.com/insider-weekly-mailchimp-ube...

Similar situation with Epic and other firms taking on lots of investment, but freezing employees out of any gains.
There is a leaderboard at https://botfights.io/game/wordle for solving with all 12972 words as possible solutions, it might be of interest.
> First and foremost because it's faster that way

No it is often not faster, most developers don't remember what they wrote or why they wrote it for code they wrote a while ago. They would have to read the code themselves and get up to speed again to understand it and then come up with a good explanation for you, and once you involve two persons trying to understand one problem it often takes more person time than before.

And since you just found an issue related to that piece of code, chances are you actually got better context than the other developer, and getting him up to speed about the issue would take most of the time.
Not gonna lie, you kind of lost me at "would be litigious." I have quite a bit of trouble believing that's he's lurking this board here, ready to go after you?

Looks like the rewards and fees go back to stakers. Sure, there's a big quiet wallet, but that's nearly all of them.
That fake blinking cursor is the web (at its worst).
Oh well, there was a 50/50 chance of that... I missed it in my reading, thanks for sharing.
Connected to motherfuckingwebsite.com.

Escape character is '^]'.

GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Marx knew better.
Ascension’s response to Thedacare’s motion for restraining order [pdf]
decentralized manufacturing and warehousing is the key to evolving the supply chain and to avoid the doom of job loss and economic disaster.

we must being manufacturing to the masses like computers and kitchens provide distributed facilities.
I tend to think of most things on about 4 levels. I think it applies to types of board games but also movie and music genres, cuisines, etc:

Flawed: you may not like this, even if you usually like things like this

Good: perfectly serviceable example of this type of thing, if you are interested you will probably like it

Exemplary: people who like this kind of thing tend to agree this is one of the best

Outstanding: you may even like this thing even if you haven’t liked things like this in the past, and if this is your thing then don’t miss it

I find that it’s fairly easy to sort things into the first three buckets by scanning through reviews and comments, but the fourth one is hard because by definition you need atypical reviews. Would be interesting to see an analysis that more or less predicted what reviewers would like and then plucked out positive outliers.
Apparently at some point in the past three pieces were removed from the sides of the painting.

> That’s why we’ve had so-called artificial neural networks working overtime on reconstructing the original appearance of the painting. Hour upon hour, the computers have been whirring away, recreating these missing pieces on the basis of a 17th-century copy.

Interactive comparison of the missing pieces:

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/...

Zoomable image with the missing pieces added back in:

https://i.micr.io/jfYIf/en/nw-met-missende-stukken-clean
Coffee doesn't even do anything when you take that much of it all the time.
I think it's only a matter of time before Gemini does that. The moment it's actually used by people who aren't interested in the underlying tech, someone will fork the browser and include either video support or scripting of some kind. Or they'll say, maybe it should display PDFs too - and that will bring the JS engine in as well.
Note if you are a NCAA athlete or subject to USADA/WADA rules, Modafinil (aka Provigil) is strictly banned in competition.

Don't destroy a scholarship/career messing with stuff without knowing the consequences.
https://archive.is/YWTVT
That dictionary is the same dictionary used by Wordle. It was extracted from the Wordle app. I’m pretty sure all of them are valid English words, which ones do you think are not valid English words?
did you built the editor, it must have taken 2 months at least
I've found minimaps to be useful when you're also using linters or compilers - you can quickly jump to the next error by looking at the little red dots or lines on the minimap.
One weird trick tried by the JCVI, the UK’s vaccine top advisory body, that refused to recommend the vaccine for 12-15 age bracket.

Their membership:

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Professor Andrew Pollard, Chair (University of Oxford)

Professor Lim Wei Shen, Chair COVID-19 immunisation (Nottingham University Hospitals)

Professor Anthony Harnden, Deputy Chair (University of Oxford)

Dr Kevin Brown (Public Health England)

Dr Rebecca Cordery (Public Health England)

Dr Maggie Wearmouth (East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust)

Professor Matt Keeling (University of Warwick)

Alison Lawrence (lay member)

Professor Robert Read (Southampton General Hospital)

Professor Anthony Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Professor Adam Finn (University of Bristol)

Dr Fiona van der Klis (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands)

Professor Maarten Postma (University of Groningen)

Professor Simon Kroll (Imperial College London)

Dr Martin Williams (University Hospitals Bristol)

Professor Jeremy Brown (University College London Hospitals)

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Can you spot the unwashed, uninformed, idiots-by-definition, masses here? The result might surprise you.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-committee-on-vacc...
I mistyped, one version is 2D torus, next is 3D torus aka hypertorus.
I see. Well, I think it is a confusing title. As they're not really renaming "ETH2" at all, they're just doing away with it and referring to the components individually.

I think some people will still use the phrase ETH2 until the Merge this summer, since it's been around for a while. But then I suspect it will fade away after the Merge. And the next big upgrade after that is Sharding, which is easy enough to say and describe by itself.
I hear you on the beer front, there is so much bad beer especially IPA. I'm starting to stick to the stuff that has consistent quality. I've just had too much horse shit thinking I'm trying something "different".
What is a go-to method of running a virtual machine with FreeBSD nowadays? Does amazon support it or are there better providers?
Yeah, we love what Jigsaw's building! This is all with the hope of improvement and collaboration.

We deal with these hairy problems a lot too. Even before ML proper, getting the definitions right is very tricky. Should a comment that's polite and positive on its own, but supportive of a toxic parent post ("I love Nazis!" -> "I agree!"), be treated as toxic? Is "toxic counterspeech" equally toxic? What about a comedian making fun of an actor's nose, and does it depend on whether the joke is to that actor directly vs. merely referencing them in the third person? etc.

For these reasons, I actually personally like the fact that the Jigsaw annotation guidelines are very high level (as opposed to long and prescriptive) -- it lets the data capture the spectrum of "human preferences" on its own (at least, it does when you can trust that the annotators are able and trying to do a good job).
Psychedelics Are Being Trialed in Fibromyalgia
"Arch on my laptop" != "Arch on 2000 production systems."
The false negative example you have us exactly the argument I've used to fight against language filters and sensors in smaller sites.

In the end you can be profane and very positive. You can also have strike language while being incredibly vile and negative.
The point flew entirely over your head.

If you would judge other people by such shallow standards, you should assume they are judging you by the same standards.

And: therefore you and they are not friends, you are merely using them as a social climber. If your relationship with all your friends is based on their utility to advance your status, you don’t actually have any friends.
Just had a surgery. Was joking with the nurse that they will study the exact temperature for a warm air-blanket and every other variable, but will never study how much sleep a resident needs to get.
Although I wasn't rushing I never really thought about the Sistine Chapel. I’m reading this like “I’ve been there” and I am generally fascinated by microstates but the significance of this isn't nearly as high as you all are putting it, to me.

Makes me think I should look it up more, because I absolutely did not.

Some parts were crowded, other parts were not, I enjoyed the art but hmmm. To me the Swiss Guard tradition was more interesting and fascinating, and some of the graves had fascinating designs on them.
Yes. So, if I force a value, like say, I very naively do what I would do in any other programming language, I try to print something I don't understand (How are all of the python derivations stored, I wonder if I can print them?), the result is that I create endless garbage and .. sit there pointlessly looking at an empty screen. Evaluating derivations shouldn't result in work being performed. It should result in derivations being printed to the screen.

But.. it doesn't really matter that much because half of the datastructures in Nix are so circular that you couldn't print them out anyway.
Strong disagree from me. I don't think it's impolite at all. I find your attitude in favor of what I would consider cultural erasure offensive.
How so? It's not like the `application/json` content type suffered from it, why should a `text/gemini`?
That is a big 'if'. The adversarial context is everything.

As for diploma's, I'm not sure what your point is. There is nothing decentralized about them.
I’m a religious person, but we don’t need this religious mumbo-jumbo to explain why oil paintings are better in person. They just provide more experience in person. A photo gives you one angle and flattens the depth. The real object is designed to be viewed from lots of angles. It looks different from close up, as it does from far away. It interacts with the ambient light.

If you walk a couple buildings over from the Night Watch, you get a whole museum dedicated to me droog, Vincent van. And Van Goghs are so highly textured with impasto that they are far more radiant, more life-like, in person.

That said the quality of museum experience is important. If you get rushed through the queue to see the Mona Lisa for fifteen seconds (and it’s pretty small), you’ll probably enjoy a print more.
the UI is just so nice, it's functional and simple. it's not trying win design awards to point of bein completely insufferable like some sites i see today.
Yeah the bugs will be squashed when all the valuable btc is no longer in your wallet
Show me some basic code using std vector that would change if the programmer knew more about placement new.
Right.

I had never heard about Gemini before this thread. So after skimming, I read the Gemini FAQ, then went back and re-read the article.

The author completely missed the point and began a technical discussion.

Kind of similar to that dev you work with that gets psyched about a solution, and doesn't stop to ask "do we need to solve this problem?"
Indeed. But it looks like we have rocketeers these days now to counter?
In case anyone hasn't seen this most excellent talk on this topic, I highly recommend: Guy Steele - Growing a Language (OOPSLA '98)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE
It seems to me like the author is experiencing how the web itself feels if you try to step off the browser upgrade treadmill or use an older computer. A website refuses HTTP and you don't have recent TLS certs? Tough luck, pal. This page dynamically loads content with JS? Buzz off, guy using Links. Can't pay your online bills or join a video chat because you aren't using Chrome? Get with the times, grandma, and surrender to the new flesh!

There will come a point- and for some things we're already past it- where there is exactly one viable web browser, and it is controlled by a company that sells ads. This is why Gemini exists.
I have an "unlimited" mobile data plan from AT&T, but if I use too much data (after I downloaded a couple of games and after Apple Music decided to burn through 10GB of data for reasons unknown) then they send me a message that says although it is "unlimited" they are going to limit it anyway.
I think it's best to schedule breaks and to set strict rules when taking modfinil. For instance I would not recommend taking it after a certain time period after waking up.
Awkward syntax — when developing the query, commenting out the final line of the SELECT list causes a syntax error because of how commas are handled, and we need to repeat the columns in the GROUP BY clause in the SELECT list.

There are some SQL varieties that actually allow a hanging comma! Also, the provided examples seem comma-dependent, no?

As someone who writes a ton of analytical SQL, i think this would get super messy for long, complex queries with casting, case statements, windows functions, etc.

Most people just need to learn to write better SQL!
this seems like marketing is more tied to geography and segment biases. they tend mass market and thus seek out the LCD and miss niche opportunities....
Thank you so much for saying this! It has always bothered me
"A lot of Americans really only knew about "red" and "white" wines back then"

At the release of Sideways, everyone and their brother knew the major wine varieties, and had opinions. Indeed, a major reason the merlot spiel had such an impact with so many is precisely because it was so popular. Many like to be a contrarian, so if something knocks on the popular thing that can have an impact ("who else can't stand Tiktok, right?"). Most of the varieties of merlot were very high quality, and I doubt the overwhelming bulk of wine drinkers could taste any deficiency (many can't even differentiate varieties).

https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/articles/b...

That's a much better article about the rise and fall of California merlot, and basically notes that merlot had plateaued by Sideways release, and there's a bit of a cause/correlation mixup happening.
The great thing about the web when I came along with was all the character, good, bad or otherwise that personal sites, even some corporate sites that people build had.

GeoCities came along and things could be ugly, but it felt genuine.

Even just background choices or ugly gifs…

I miss the personal wonkiness and folks not afraid to make ugly sites.

The race to ultra minimalism feels as cold as a Facebook profile, maybe more.
I was at Stripe a few years back and I don't remember Bolt coming up as a competitor, ever. Stripe was more worried about Paypal and Adyen.

One thing to keep in mind - all companies at this size have a corp dev function. Over the past decade, they've likely spoken to several hundred companies and patrick has probably personally spoken to over 100 about an acquisition and looked at some of their data. Anyone who looks seriously at 100 potential acquisitions, while trying to run a company, will drop the ball somewhere on maybe 10 and screw a few up kinda badly. It happens even if you have good intent and try to do the right thing. A number of people on the team will be working on the deal and interacting with the target founders/execs etc and things slip. It happens everywhere, it's a messy process.

Many/most VCs have a policy of not funding competitors. If I had an investor fund a competitor I'd be wary - are they going to share private data? I doubt anyone ever sat on the board of both pepsi and coke simultaneously etc.I get that not all investors are on the board - but they will all get information that isn't in the public domain.
At 12A, you're probably building a whole 8U of servers with 34U of airflow baffles.
> I rarely ever read online documentation. The code is the ground truth

This can create problems. Relying on the current behavior instead of a documented contract makes the code brittler. It's sometimes worth it, but it's not something that makes me go "yeah, this is the way" without mentioning any downside.
It is that speed from a full stop that is actually more dangerous because motorists don't expect it and will attempt to cross before you thinking there is enough time to do so due to cyclists being slow.
The author isn't considering how lack of features can be useful. Just like the lack of gotos in a language allows you to make many assumptions about a program, Gemini lacks just about every mechanism for fingerprinting and tracking that's become an inherent risk of accessing web pages, hugely reducing surface area for attacks.

Even lack of styling with every page looking about the same can be considered a feature, everything looks familiar and we aren't inconvenienced by bad design decisions.
> I stayed up for finals for a week straight with maybe 2 hours of sleep total

I’m confused when I read anecdotes like this. Are you staying you literally slept for 2 hours over the course of 7 days, averaging 17 minutes of sleep per night for a week? I think that’s very unlikely!
Curious about the funding competitors part. What enables YC to do this, why aren't other VCs able to fund competitors? Has this ever resulted in conflicts or lawsuits between companies? Lots of questions appreciate any insights.
How good is the search performance? I have used an a couple of apps that provide full text search, but it is very slow when the number of notes is large.

I think the best solution is a mix of 3, folder structure with tags, full text search when needed
Honestly, when I read a few months ago that Google was scanning Drive for illegal files (probably only when shared but unconfirmed) I decided to back out of Drive, and I figured that all the other big/reputable players are doing it too so I've gone back to a portable hard drive.
A language with a short learning curve is like a toolbox that’s nearly empty. You quickly run out of ways it could help you. We should optimize for experts, because that’s where each of us is going to spend most of his career.
Thanks! I didn't realize it's been almost a year already.

I decided very recently to publish this project on Github and write about it here, so documentation has not been a top priority. While writing about it, I realized that documentation will crucial though, so it is at the top of my list now (I was even pondering whether I should postpone posting on HN until the documentation is done).