skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome thanks for the tip! I'll check that out. The scattered API docs took some wrangling. I screencapped my work on this and that's what I spent the most time on.
The poor decision making started far earlier than when Eich was CEO.
I think your reasons are focused on Nix for package management. For NixOS specifically, I would add:

5. It's essentially a source distribution with caching. If you want to add say a kernel patch, or any other type of patch, it's straightforward. Whereas running Debian and finding the solution to some problem is building a modified package, my usual conclusion was just to bear the problem until it was fixed upstream, rather than suffer the maintenance burden.

6. The top-level config is front and center, and stateless. No messing about with update-initramfs, wondering what the heck the initrd is actually doing etc.

7. Taming the complexity of system software's configuration state. For example, there is no mucking with the systemd mess of /etc/systemd vs /lib/systemd and its assorted symlinks, as this configuration is handled at a higher level.

And for Nix I'd add

8. Dead simple cross (or emulated) compilation toolchains. Building A Cross Compiler used to be a Big Deal, with Nix it's basically like any other declaration to build an entire cross/emulated environment.
Indeed.

http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2016/Jan/code-monkey-or-cad-monk...
This Falstad animated circuit simulation has been the best at conceptually understanding what's going on in circuits:
https://falstad.com/circuit

Click on the 'Circuits' menu to see dozens of example circuits.

One issue with the hydraulic/fluid analogy is the "empty pipe" misconception - we forget or don't know that in electrical circuits, the circuit is a closed loop. An example of this misconception is that beginners sometimes think the current "wears out" as it goes along the wire. The Falstad simulation shows a line of moving dots that move faster or slower depending on the current - a little more like a train moving in a pipe - which helps counter this misconception, although it, too, isn't perfect. As a next level, I like showing animations/simulations that show the role of charge on the 'outside' of the wire in steering current flow, as well as magnetic fields surrounding the wire.
Okay, why? What does a/b testing have to do with privacy?

If I told you right now that HN is A/B testing the size of the vote arrows, and you see larger ones than I do, how exactly are your privacy rights violated?
Thank you for your kind words. <3
Ask HN: What is stopping a tablet CAD app that isn’t a subscription?
In my day job, I work more with simple 2d sketching programs to make home layouts after I measure them (TOTAL Sketch, for those interested).

In my free time, I enjoy working with other sketching programs (Procreate for drawing/freehand sketching and an old version of SketchUp for 3d work), and would like to not have to use my modified 2011 13” MBP anymore and retire the dang thing for 3d work.

But the issue I’m having is I can’t find any iPad software for 3d that isn’t a subscription or prohibitively expensive for a hobbyist. Is the expense of these programs and the subscriptions tied to some of them because of proprietary parametric software patents, or is this the only way to finance software as complicated as Fusion360 or Shapr3d?

I just want to be able to model stuff for 3d printing/ 3d ideation in the same way I can sketch in Procreate, and own the software outright (again, like Procreate), but it feels like there are not enough likeminded people to change the tide on such a piece of software.

Willing to pony up the money for something that works, but after getting burned by Adobe in not being able to own my creative software, wary of going with a subscription. Were I not minimally proficient in PHP and some front end languages,I’d love to tackle this problem myself, but I know when I’m out of my depth, haha
Any longform content I write at telegra.ph gets the URL stripped from my tweet, while the same content at graph.com (an alias) doesn't. So, yes, I think Twitter does censor Telegram links.
I believe a higher percentage of ICU beds are occupied nationally than at any point in the pandemic: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend

If ICU overflows are when we pull out all of the stops, can we pull out just some of the stops before it gets that dire?

It's already not great. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/overwhelmed-by-omicron-surg...
They can't; the web is too large to work without it, and it is (legitimate) links that make it possible to distinguish a well-known site from a pop-up plagiarist that just copies all of the text. But for it to work on the modern web you need to be able to distinguish high-quality links from bogus link-farm links.
A lot of blogs/articles will also let you know how long it takes to read said content. Some even have progress bars.
Agreed on the skyrocketing prices. Local here - I live 15 minutes from where Intel is breaking ground and it's bittersweet to be honest. I make good money for this area as a Software Engineer, but it's not coastal money and I can see the writing on the wall. I grew up in this area and have watched the locals slowly get pushed out. It's somewhat sad, but what can you do? Single family homes have went up 40% in the last five years and I'm guessing it will only get worse. The theory is that Columbus is supposed to grow by one million people in the next five to ten years, so a tech hub in New Albany will only exaggerate this.

All that being said, I have every intention on trying to work for Intel or at the tech hub itself, make my money/deal with it until retirement age, then get the heck out of here and find a place far far away where I can get something that looks and feels like this place once was.
Have you tried Waterfox ?
That is a question of definition I guess, the state is controlled by a single party, the communist party and intertwined with the military, typical for communist system.

But regardless how you want to define China, it yet proves that capitalism by itself does not guarantee any freedoms at all.

There are other asian examples of this, like Singapore, Taiwan & South Korea.
The electoral college has little if anything to do with slavery. That is all small state vs big state. It's mostly a wash for slave vs free states.

The big slave vs free state issue was how to count slaves and that ended with the 3/5s compromise where slaves counted as 3/5ths of a free person.
You are, of course, correct that the leather bound ledger is not currently drowning in customers. But the underlying technology, that is to say, the law of contract supports a much larger market than web3.
Please see here, I dug some nice links specifically about how DVLA works. I think you don’t understand the process and how much manual
work might be involved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062371
Last time a southern region where a slavery was practiced wanted to secede from the USA, Lincoln went to a civil war to stop them. Chechnya is also a southern region where slavery is practiced which wanted to secede, so equating these is quite sensible.

Why do you equate such conflicts with conflicts between different nations is hard for me to understand.

As for completely opposing stances, that's politics for you. Ever wondered how certain member of Bin Laden family came to prominence?
I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus Linux.
It is my impression that at least some librarians are adamant about not storing lists of titles borrowed by a single individual.
In both cases, the rockets weren't/aren't guided precisely and can't loiter, right?

And in any case, Israel is used to it and used to having missile defense, and is a very small country. Nobody expects that any part of the country is far away from the borders and enemies. Whereas it would be a sea change for the US, if attacks could occur anywhere, and psychologically it would be like an invasion.

I'm using "invasion" loosely to mean an attack that reaches inner areas that people take for granted are safe, not necessarily boots on the ground.
shakti / K / kdb+ implements "real SQL", which is concise but readable, and could give you a few ideas. Here's a copy-paste from https://shakti.sh/ under document/sql.d (cannot deep link, unfortunately). The most most magical aspects are automatic joins - both left joins and "foreign key chase" joins. The fk-chase joins, in particular, should be part of every query language, and can possibly be added in a backward compatible way to existing SQL implementations.

example: TPC-H National Market Share Query 8 http://www.qdpma.com/tpch/TPCH100_Query_plans.html
what market share does supplier.nation BRAZIL have by order.year for order.customer.nation.region AMERICA and part.type STEEL?

real: select revenue avg supplier.nation=`BRAZIL by order.year from t where order.customer.nation.region=`AMERICA, part.type=`STEEL

ansi: select o_year,sum(case when nation = 'BRAZIL' then revenue else 0 end) / sum(revenue) as mkt_share from (
select extract(year from o_orderdate) as o_year, revenue, n2.n_name as nation
from t,part,supplier,orders,customer,nation n1,nation n2,region
where p_partkey = l_partkey and s_suppkey = l_suppkey and l_orderkey = o_orderkey and o_custkey = c_custkey and
c_nationkey = n1.n_nationkey and n1.n_regionkey = r_regionkey and r_name = 'AMERICA' and
s_nationkey = n2.n_nationkey and o_orderdate between date '1995-01-01' and date '1996-12-31' and p_type = 'STEEL') as all_nations
group by o_year order by o_year;
You can turn off the Brave Rewards if you don't want them.

If you want to cut off your access to technologies because the man who invented them doesn't meet your puritanical world-view then you should also disable JavaScript since Brendan Eich invented JavaScript.

As a gay man I could give two shits about his opinion on gay marriage. In my opinion marriage is inherently a religious institution and the state has no business regulating it whatsoever. From the state's standpoint any combination of genders should be considered a civil union for taxation purposes and if you want to have your union blessed by the religion of your choice, go ahead. They can call it marriage, they can call it a ham sandwich. "Gay marriage" shouldn't legally exist because neither should "marriage." But nuance doesn't exist in a world of anger-driven online lynch mobs.
Speaking about holding two opposed viewpoints in your head at the same time. Which is a skill btw.

1. I believe that Covid media coverage was horribly biased and more than occasionally untruthful, and (extra doses of) vaccine are very likely counter-productive for large segments of the population, possibly all the healthy young.

2. This article grates my reasoning skills like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Unfortunately, the opposite of stupid is not Wise. Coverage can be bad or biased on both sides, and we can't really take its quality as a sign on which side is more right. We just have to do it the hard way and keep weighting evidence.

But anyways, as far as I'm concerned after this pandemic the emperor is naked for all to see: the authorities and the mainstream media lied, bullied and outright censored things which later turned out to be fact. And "neglected" to do due diligence to a degree that in the proper context could be called criminal.
I wonder if all that steam condensing would also help contain the ash. If it was that much steam I guess as it cooled it "rained"?
> Let’s really cement the goalposts where they are so this endless march of (...)

I really don't understand what point you tried to make. There is no goalpost being moved. We have a disease that so far, according to official statistics that are chronically underreported and in some cases blatantly whitewashed, has killed over 5 million people throughout the world. For the past year we benefitted from a better-than-nothing set of vaccines that took the edge out of the disease, but whose effectiveness was further reduced by subsequent variants combined with militant opposition even to basic higiene. Hell, each and every single time I took a jab, I received a flier informing me if the need to wash hands frequently, practice social distancing, wear facemasks in public, and avoid gatherings.

What exactly do you believe has changed, exactly?

If anything, only vaccine uptake has changed, and thankly for the better in spite of this moronic militant opposition. Yet, even if that resulted in a lower death rate, we still have health services completely overwhelmed and unable to cope. Even the US has been breaking death count records.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

Please do tell me, what exactly do you believe has changed?
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis?

I don't. I moved fulltime to Linux rather than try to mitigate Windows 10's predations. I wouldn't go back.
Yes, I'm aware. This is one of their million missteps (and this was a particularly bad one). But that their marketing people are absolute idiots has no bearing on whether a/b testing as a concept infringes on privacy. They could have used any other thing, they're literally in control of what runs on your computer the moment you allow them auto-update rights.
I don't know where you got 50% from, but between covid patients and hospital workers themselves becoming ill the situation is really not great https://www.reuters.com/world/us/overwhelmed-by-omicron-surg...
Yes, that healthcare has been politicized to the degree that it has is beyond disgusting. That so many doctors are afraid or ignorant about treatments for COVID other than the vaccine or hospitalization is beyond frustrating.

It's gotten so bad that you have pharmacists now playing the role of doctor - even lecturing a physician about his care directives for his patients - when it comes to the much maligned "horse dewormer", leading to this lawsuit against Walrmart (where the pharmacy in question was) and another local pharmacy that did the same: https://www.scribd.com/document/553842620/Saliers-v-Walmart-...

This isn't about "fact checking" so called misinformation - this crap has spilled over and almost forced these people into the hospital where just about everyone agrees it's far better to NOT be forced into the hospital in the first place.

The Washington Post is puzzled about a drop in COVID cases that doesn't match the rest of the world: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/japan-covid-...

Funny; they fail to mention in August that the much maligned horse dewormer was authorized as a COVID treatment - and a few weeks later infection rates dropped dramatically and stayed extremely low until the time of that article.

How many people ended up in the hospital that didn't have to all because the horse dewormer and HCQ patents expired and there were cheap, generic forms readily available? Isn't it interesting that now that Pfizer has a new pill that all of the sudden the vaccine isn't the sole path to salvation for the planet? Funny that, eh?
Reading this article, my first reaction is surprise at a ruling that, on the surface, appears to block people from switching jobs.
That's weird right? I think most people would be surprised and confused to hear that, because it sounds bad and wrong.

My next reaction is curiosity, a desire to know how such a strange ruling could make sense in the mind of the judge. Judges, of course, don't think they are making an obviously incorrect ruling, otherwise they would rule a different way.

However, this article makes no attempt unwrap the situation and present the judge's reasons and rationale, and doesn't link to the court documents.

I don't think this article benefits from not presenting the rationale. In fact, I think it fails to address the glaringly obvious followup question "that sounds so weird, why did the judge rule that way?"
Abakuá
And no vertical scroll bars (in vivaldi or fire3fox at least)
Grr!
Curious, why would someone use brave over Chromium?

Brave as I understand it is just the Chromium browser at its core. (Similar to how all browsers on iOS are just safari wrapped in a different application layer)

https://www.chromium.org/Home
Displaying your speech in real-time to help lipreaders in the mask era
By accepting even more Google money?
Why adieu is a terrible first guess in Wordle
I did. My wife is hooked too.
Looking at your original reply, you started bringing in "job interviews" and "companies that ship". I imagine that's why people downvoted you -- this post (and replies) are about maths, not worrying about really companies.

The original post wasn't about practical software, or shipping products, or getting a "good enough answer". It was about an interesting (to many people) maths problem.

If you want ycombinator to just be about companies and shipping products, then indeed it "has changed". But many people (myself included) like a good pure maths puzzle, and are interested in if there is a "true answer".
The submarine cable connecting Tonga to the world was severed. While satellite connections exist, apparently the ash cloud interfered with that as well. It has been extremely difficult/expensive to get any pictures out of Tonga.
When they want to know what an aircraft looks like without the radar absorbing foams and paints they do that during the testing phase, typically on a prototype that simply hasn't had the fancy stuff applied. Anything done to increase radar signature is typically the aircraft equivalent of the reflective belt.

I think the author's hypothesis about IR is far more likely and provides much more justification for why and old type (that they've presumably long since had radar information for) would be tested alongside a newer type.
By definition, you're not reading. It's called "listening", as in "I listen to a lot of audiobooks".
Which big tech companies have you worked at like this?

Surely it’s not a problem to name them if you’re never working there again. Or is this just ranting about hypothetical situations?
Actions was my first experience with YAML and it made me want to bark at my monitor. No, I'm not a dog.
Complains about pop ups and modals on the modern web.. has an email modal pop up randomly while you are reading.
I was curious how this would play out and didn't see your comment, so I made a Jupyter notebook of raising various sums of square roots to various powers. Posting in case anyone else finds it interesting: https://gist.github.com/chrisshroba/8f12757ecbcdd394ceccb3e9...
There's two kinds of projects:

Those who care about ideology

And those that want things to actually work and get stuff done.

The second group is the one that wins all of the users. Of course, there's room for both types of projects in the world. But don't be surprised when people who don't want to waste time on a political discussion that doesn't effect their lives in any way don't want to put up with it.
Is this "the grass is greener..."?

Small(er) companies have politics, they espouse family values ("we are a family, lets rally!"), but it's only a one way street. It's still very much a business relationship, just without the big tech pay.

I think you'll find that small tech has issues. Is there no way to treat working for big tech as a business transaction and compartmentalize the negatives?

I'm aiming to get into big tech because I need to work, so if I'm working 8 hours a day (or so) then I might as well maximize my earnings.
It really is what makes our society fascinating.

We have a self conception as a highly rational and high tech society. When it comes to medicine we follow "the science".

Then as a default setting we cut the tip of baby boys penis off for no reason without thinking twice about it.

At the same time viewing the same procedure on a baby girl for the utter barbaric insanity that it is. Something completely unthinkable when living in a a highly rational and high tech society that follows "the science" like we do.

Society being controlled hugely by superstition and nonsense? We are way past those idiots that use to have witch hunts hundreds of years ago. All the experts say so and the experts follow "the science".
More than one Eastern European intellectual survived doing menial work temporarily, e.g. Milan Kundera https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/russ...
A/B testing implies extra tracking and reporting of behavior, to distinguish between the A group and the B group's response to the change.

On a website, that isn't too much of a problem, because you expect your activity to be tracked since you are interacting with a web server.

In a browser, the same tracking is more intrusive. My behavior on a site is now being sent to the browser author, an unrelated party.
I loved the simplicity and directness of the UI too. Specially like the feature where mouse cursor maps to code blocks, how did you create this ? I'd like to use this framework if possible for tech blogs.
the most bizarre thing about GH actions is the I/O mechanic where you produce outputs by executing `echo ::set-output name=<name>::<value>.`
They would have aligned with Mexico and the Caribbean by the time WWI happened - the social structure would have been very similar in both, due to the institution of slavery. The Northern states would perhaps have aligned closer to Canada. This would have had interesting implications well before WWII or any 'Axis'.
I mean, I grew up in what is now trump country in a rural area and heard the term 'hicks' and 'hillbillies' as self-descriptors and descriptors of others but I now live in an urban area and never hear those terms. Its just projection bud.

Now deplorables is a different story. Supporting racists/misogynists' is deplorable and Hillary Clinton was right on the money with what she said. But again, most urban folks just have anger and confusion on why rural people consistently vote against their own interests and support racists like trump. It's not really a 'hate' thing. I don't see people from urban areas travelling to rural areas to attack people and hold hate-rallies.
Is John Hurt controversial in some way that's not obvious from looking over his Wikipedia page for a minute that he'd be intentionally omitted?
Aren't most reciprocal? So they can't disclose info about you that you reveal, just like you can't disclose info they reveal. As a non-lawyer lay person that seems like it would be enough.
I agree that small evil companies exist.

But, large non-evil companies do not exist.
"red pilled" + "Glenn Greenwald" == bozo bit already. Add "Robert Malone" and we have the guy with a clever brainfart unwilling to do the gruntwork to ship that brainfart as a useful product so no, not changing my mind one bit.

Downvotes welcomed and expected snowflakes, I am truly aiming for zero karma here as an experiment and a commentary on Sam Altmann's hell site, so you're doing me a favor with your downvotes, have at me.

while I hate being part of a flash mob science experiment myself, and while I will not be surprised if there are long-term negative consequences to repeatedly vaccinating, I will be even more surprised if they are worse than the consequences of repeatedly catching variants of this horrible thing because we politicized masks and containment efforts. So I picked the least crappy option according to my doctorate in biochemistry. You do you. I'll do me.
Website overrides the back button in my browser for some reason. Super irritating.
Tangent:

Wasn't Java's SecurityManager stuff supposed to prevent these kinds of exploits?

I haven't used log4j for ages, so I didn't know offhand. Somewhat curious, I gleened that none of the enterprisey stacks use SecurityManager. I guess I kinda understand; SecurityManager was fashioned and pitched for an ecosystem of applets, agents, and sandboxes.

Further, I then gleened there's a JSR to outright remove SecurityManager. With no apparent replacement, just some vague advice to roll your own capabilities based system.

So, however we got here, what's then plan? Run JVMs on top of something like OpenBSD's pledge?