skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Zuckerberg got lucky", that could be said about nearly every start-up. I don't like him (based on his public behavior), but have to admit he was already brilliant before facebook.

You are kind of right about innovation force at facebook. Although, really not sure, why they didn't do more of it. Like getting into cloud similar to google. Especially pytorch kind of feels better then tensorflow. Really strange.

On the other hand google innovated like hell, but in the end it's still google search which makes most of the profits. So maybe there is just not much potential in innovating and holding it's position is more important (which they are doing).
Ads targeting kids and teens actually tend to do very well. There's an entire side of youtube where kids review their new (sponsored) toys. Parents get immensely pressured when they feel their kids are getting left out.
Simplify it like this:

T-cell: very effective at killing; not as good at recognizing specific things.

Antibodies: not that effective at killing; excellent at specifically recognizing things.

CAR-T: Let's stick an antibody against X (eg CD19, CD22) to a T-cell surface so it can recognize with the antibody and kill with its innate capacity to kill.

Ta da!

It's fascinating, it is changing hematologic oncology. The bad news is, as always, the price and the manufacturing time (2-8 weeks). This last part seems to be getting better.
I suspect that has a lot to do with how “disposable” Chromebooks are. What’s the average lifespan for a Chromebook given to middle school students? I can’t imagine it’s very long.
> Cuz there are millions of people buying nft's?

[citation needed]

This absolute reeks of the type of baseless claim that someone living in a bubble surrounded by NFT fanatics would claim. Be careful not to think that the trends within your social network are indicative of the population as a whole.
The Small Steps of Giant Leaps
I did expect more than 1 idea though in a post titled "Ideas that have been beaten to death"
Interesting.

But what do you mean by 4 cycles. The diesel engines I know all have 4 cycles. I though 2 cycles engines were found on old tractors from the 50s no?

Edit: Looking at [0], assuming this is true, I understand the confusion now. It seems, in the US, heavy duty diesel engines are 2 strokes which, apparently, do not have engine braking.
The project is super cool but I agree the logo is a terrible example of it in use. I'd love to see a more easy to digest example. The logo circuit is confusing and I'm not sure what to make of it.
Google Earth and msfs are pretty fun.
This is a dream of mine.

I recently started talking to architects about getting started on the design process of a similar but smaller and simpler home and I was blown away by how much more expensive it was to build a home of this quality than what I'd been reading online.

It looks like as of 2022, you are looking at about probably $600-800/sqft to build something like this for my smaller simpler version. Potentially over $1000 / sqft to match the quality in the post
> Is Israel THE go-to haven for security firm and three-letter agencies to arbitrage/bypass surveillance regulations?

No, why bother going all the way to Israel? They just do it in the US. When have regulations ever made a difference to surveillance?
The requirement is "connect to the database using CSS", which is incredibly vague and ambiguous. It does not bar the use of other dependencies, so, IMHO, he complied with the requirements. The client could only claim it does not comply by adding new requirements.
> ... That's what the real separation is between having one and not having one.

> Trying to explain, say, a discreet system to someone who has never even heard of it is hard.

Well, that's because discreet systems are inconspicuous and don't stand out much. Totally normal.
Okay, perhaps I over-generalized somewhat. If one was to exclude the little details and edges, intended to optimize the airflow in the forwards direction, I contend that most cars would be more aerodynamic in reverse due to their general shape.

Here's one data point, merely removing the rear spoiler an SUV has the same drag in reverse as it does going forwards: https://airshaper.com/blog/mercedes-eqc-drag-coefficient

If the same car had the fine details massaged for the reverse direction in a similar way to how they had already been done for going forwards (i.e. instead of the rear spoiler, putting a similar spoiler facing the opposite direction at the front of the car), the Cd would be significantly less in reverse.
I use nano exclusively for my live server code edits.
can't it be sequenced again and again and custom treatment prepared every time?

cancer in general an umbrella term for 100s of different diseases.
A word of caution to fans, there's still value in actually getting the demos and running them instead of just watching a video capture. Services like YouTube compress their video streams, robbing many demos of their fidelity.
squabble is not using the same wordlist as wordle it looks like?
Most people on the internet are "random", but I wish more people cared about our built heritage. It is being sacrificed all the time to the highest bidder. Mostly entirely legally and profitably, but it's still a great shame.

When a billionaire's yacht causes a historical bridge to be dismantled you are degrading yourself, it debases the city. That's not the same as shutting down a street for an hour.

Of course if everything is about money then this line of thinking will seem baffling, but I'm sure that in the long run it's a terrible decision to put a price on everything, even if it is profitable in the short run. Similarly to how it's a bad idea to take a job as a stripper, even if it pays the bills for now. You need to value yourself higher than that.
This human gets it
Been a customer for at least 10 years. Simplicity itself!
> I was shocked they needed 400A

Seconded. I recently completed an all electric high performance remodel, and with 200A service, I can power a heat pump, heat pump water heater, all electric kitchen and laundry, and an EV charger, with Amps to spare. This is in the mild Bay Area, and my heat pump draws about 6A (15A breaker). The largest loads are EV and cooktop/stove.

A 3000sqft custom house built to high performance standards (airtight and well insulated) can be space heated in a cold climate with a heat pump that draws
no more than 24A (40A breaker) using a heat pump. At that load a modern heat pump will make 40kBTU of heat. There are many examples of this across Canada.

I just now read that they have an outdoor heated pool, though, so crazy as it sounds they are presumably using electricity to heat it.

> plus propane.

Apart from backup water heating when the power goes out, their hot tub will waste huge amounts of energy, so propane might be operationally cheaper than electricity.
>Some of this feels like someone tried really hard to find problems that didn’t exist and fix them.

That's how a lot of people feel about master/slave and black/white.
Without a bit more context it's unclear that it was this bad. It sounds like the removed it for one day and then put it back in. This may have been the only way to effectively notify people still relying on it.

We had a deprecated server that we wanted to decommission. We announced this to the entire company. We pointed everyone to the new server, and asked for feedback if it couldn't fulfill any needs that the previous one did not &c. &c. We announced the date the server was going down. We inspected logs and guessed who might still be using it from IP addresses (one of the many reasons for wanting to deprecate the server was there was a single shared login for everyone using it :/)

Finally, on the announced date, we just unplugged the Ethernet cable and got contacted by several different people freaking out, wanting to know what happened to the server. We (as planned) plugged the cable back in and then asked them the same questions that had gone out globally. A month later the server was finally offline for good.

One way of interpreting this is that we unplugged the cable to "send a message" but we obviously did discuss the deprecation with lots of people ahead of time.
Top-to-bottom windows all over and narrow spaces .. it's actually amazing they fit it in 100KVA. This thing in winter would need about twice that just to not freeze. Hence the propane, and forget the tub and the pool.
Still going to be cheaper than a site-built home in a rural, high cost of living area.

The materials price increases that are causing factories to raise their prices are also hitting local contractors who do site-built homes.

In fact, if anything, the factories can insulate you from this price volatility more because they have a lot more bargaining leverage with their suppliers than a local contractor who's doing 10 homes a year.
> I fail to see the benefit of subscribing to a viewpoint that is so black and white, and why definition that allows for no exception is necessary.

Maybe look at it in a different situation. Imagine someone punched you in the face and when you confront them about it they saying that you're holding to silly semantics about what it means or does not mean to get punched in the face.
I dont think its a scam but I think its planned to never finish. It's a well funded job for a bunch of people. I think it is finished and will just receive updates as-is for years.
Those aren't the same thing. A deprecation is a change in contract. A change in contract has to be worked out with consuming teams. In fact that's the whole point of deprecation: to kick off the migration process. Still need the rest of the process.

In contrast, this is about internals, stuff that was never part of a contract but that people use anyway. It comes up a lot in JS because the language doesn't enforce privacy. And it's super painful to not be able to change stuff you never made part of a contract--it freezes your whole codebase.

Is changing internals other people have come to depend on a good idea? Depends on a ton of context, but you should strive for a technical culture that allows this.
Same, my recollection was that that used to be the case but Apple told developers they could not, in this particular way, be deceptive assholes anymore.
RCS / JOIN is an open standard, but it lacks important features like E2E
I had actually considered donating to Signal, but the addition of Moxie's crypto scheme to the app scared me completely away.

Signal kind of hits a sweet spot of usability and security, but it's incredibly tenuous and I don't trust the company to hold my interests at heart. It seems like we should be able to do better.
Reminds me of the `accursedUnutterablePerformIO` function, although this is technically part of the public API:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.11.2.0/docs...
I think, colocation is even more crucial than most coding purists think.

CSS-in-JS and Tailwind greatly helped here to encapsulate things.
Show HN: Fontite, an icon font optimization tool for smaller and faster websites
I was frustrated with the state of tooling for working with icons on the web. You're either forced to serve gigantic font files with more icons than you could possibly need, or you have to customize your fonts in a browser-based tool.

I wanted a CLI program with a simple configuration format, so that I could integrate it with my static site generator build process and version control.

I built fontite to fulfill that need. The linked page demonstrates how you might use it to combine icons from 7 different WOFF2 and SVG sources, and only require about 4kB to serve all of them, with no JS required!

I now use this on my personal website [1] and I'm very happy with it. If you're curious, there's more information on the GitLab repo [2] and I wrote up a summary of the making process [3] as well.

I'd love to see some smaller, faster websites using this tool!

[1] https://antonok.com
[2] https://gitlab.com/antonok/fontite
[3] https://antonok.com/projects/fontite
As a software project, Star Citizen seems like a complete debacle — a project promising the basically impossible (tens of thousands of players on a single server/shard) and yet failing so far to deliver even the feasible-but-difficult (rudimentary AI crew, ~100 star systems). But as a marketing campaign, it feels like an astounding success to attract record-breaking fundraising year-over-year despite diminishing development milestones.

https://twinfinite.net/2022/01/star-citizen-crowdfunding-rec...
Tried driving an old double-clutch truck - the clutch pedal was extremely hard with an absurdly long travel length. No power steering either. Very sore left leg and arms after navigating through a small town.
I'm going to be honest, since discovering Web3, i've been super happy. There's so much potential to mine I just haven't been able to stop thinking about it. The vast landscape of opportunity makes me so happy to wake up and build. I haven't felt like this since 2010.
> You really think that owner operators repair their own trucks? That doesn't make any economic sense. This is not a hobby, they need to drive to make money not to play truck repairman.

Oh yes! I have seen this unfold once in front of my own eyes, a real spectacle. Driver working for a driver company servicing a distribution company, tries to start the truck, something wrong with brakes, truck is driveable though, gets off, calls boss (company policy). One hour late boss finally arrives, gets in, unhooks trailer, parks the truck three meters to the side, gives the driver a different truck to take. 1 hour more paperwork to process, the trailer finally leaves the distribution warehouse 2.5 hours late. The driver company is apparently paying both late fees and parking fees to logistics company while this ordeal unfolds..

~4AM (5 hours later) a truck fixing mini-buss from a 3rd party truck fixing company arrives with two technicians. They plug into the truck, their diagnostics software shows nothing wrong, they leave.

Next day a different truck fixing company shows up and finally tows the truck after dancing around it for almost two hours with diagnostics software.

Quite a few thousands of pounds burned in just two days of people following rules and policies...

This is apparently "normal", this makes much "economic sense".
I've always wondered the reasons behind the regional difference in popularity of these. Trucks in the middle of the country seem to have them, trucks on the coasts seem to not. And you'd think longer haul trucks would be the most likely to have them, and so you'd end up seeing some on the coasts regardless.

Is it something with state by state safety regulations, like prohibitions on protruding structures that aren't part of the main body? Or differently-defined overall length restrictions? Does a given long haul truck have them deployed in the middle of the country, but then they're removed before getting to the coastal states?
“Minimally viable is the enemy of terrible.”

“Good is the enemy of terrible.”

For some reason, I get irked when people bring up the “Perfect is the enemy of good” for why something can’t get done. Like there’s only perfect and good. There’s also bad, terrible, non-functional and lots of other stuff.

I don’t think reductionist arguments are terribly useful for real things.
"low impact" for North Americans, maybe... No wonder that we're at the begining of a climat change disaster.
I think there's a lot to learn from this message, even in your daily communication with people from other fields of exertise. It's very clear and communicates without any technical terms – if only all error/warning messages were a bit (!) like that.

For reference, the message parent quoted is a Long-time nuclear waste warning message:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...
For example, Ethiopia literally drone-striked a refugee camp last month and there was almost no media coverage. Compared with the wall to wall breathless coverage of the Gaza conflict last year.
I am not in the field, this is my personal project with some others.
I started programming in 1978, and I was building circuits back in the 80s and 90s with relays (ladder logic) and later with PLC's and small microcontrollers (The Parallax BASIC Stamp, PIC chips, then AVRs and others).

I got into stage machinery, and the entertainment engineering industry, and I have experience with several show controller software packages. I was the "Show Manager" at "The House of Dancing Water" show in Macau for 6 years for the owner, not production, and was diving and servicing the hydraulics, electrical, and some of the aerial rigging on ropes. I also coded high-level HMIs and troubleshot low-level drive code that interfaces to the show control software. As you can imagine, a 40,000 lbf hydraulically-operated, underwater stage lifts (8 lifts with 8m stroke cylinders, 7m submerged, 1m dry) is very safety-critical when you have people on, below, and above them with multiple pinch points, etc.

I know some industrial automation folk are using Elixir and Nerves with Web interfaces. I was used to QNX OS, which the show control software ran on top. Certified hardware and software is necessary to meet strict machinery and show control systems engineering. Raspberry Pis and Arduinos don't have that level of QA/QC yet, although, I have seen them patched on to systems, which to me is waiting for something to happen before it becomes a codified guideline.

I am still playing with SPARK 2014 and I would be very interested if AdaCore and Ferrous Systems bring Rust up to the same ecosystem as Ada and SPARK have now. Confession: personal bias is that I am not a fan of the complexity of Rust, but syntax is Ok. I see you like Haskell. I always wished Haskell would get more practical support for control systems. I've looked into F* (not F#) as a possible piece of the puzzle. Right now, SPARK 2014 is pretty neat, and the ecosystem is a full package.

I like Erlang, and I was pulling for LFE vs. Elixir, but it looks like Elixir has taken off. Nerves/Elixir looks very interesting for distributed edge-device computing with web interfaces.
So, some cars have a decent antenna/hardware for 4G/5G to WiFi bridge; would it make sense to have a picostation inside the car as a repeater?
And that assumption is based off what?
Interesting, I'm surprised to find Google as a big promoter of this, doesn't this go against their walled garden approach if there is a universal messaging infrastructure?
Company Wants to Sell High-Tech Lasso Weapons to Schools and Hospitals
I’m sorry your experience has been negative, and I realize people are more on edge almost everywhere than they were three years ago.

I haven’t noticed much change at HN, but then I tend to skim over the reactionary bits, and when I myself fail to be constructive I reliably get the karma hit I deserve.

One topic on which I have noticed a lot of outright hostility is “crypto” — but part of why I come to HN is for the deep experience of many of its members, and that includes calling out intellectual dishonesty, so I don’t exactly weep for the 0.01% of Cryptolandia (including mine of course!) that is Legit.

It looks to me like HN is still working as designed, in good and bad ways, and the good far outweighs the bad for my use case. I also think it would compare favorably to its competitors, but HN has become my /. so much that I don’t really check other industry aggregators/forums.
Exactly.

Cognitive freedom is the real issue.

People should be free to do to their own bodies and minds whatever they like, without government interference.
Oh, I believe that. The number is, well, unbelievable high, so I dismissed it as wrong without further thinking.
I'm afraid I like puns and cheap jokes; I know they violate content guidelines, and I don't mind being downvoted. I hope my jokes aren't juvenile, though.

Downvoting and flagging is good; but unless you're downvoting something that's just a vacuous quip, then I think the downvoter should usually make a comment.
I work in big tech and made this transition. At first it was hard because I have very deep "I" shaped knowledge. I could make significant improvements to the product based on that expertise, but it doesn't last long for the demands of the job. I had to instead re-learn becoming more of a generalist with "T" shaped knowledge. Soft skills, communication, strategy, etc are all things you have to start becoming aware of.

I have seen many senior/staff/principal level people try making the switch and sadly it doesn't translate well because of this. Product work is significantly different than engineering work. Some PM 1-2 are actually more effective than late in career transitions that I've seen over my career.

If you think of work in three categories: Experts, Operators, Politicians. You are going to have to play each of these roles as a PM. Previously you could get away with doing just one as a SWE.

Although I love technical writing, the demands of the job do not allow one to do as much IC work like writing docs. The biggest surprise that will humble you is that nobody knows what they are doing including leadership teams on all levels. PMs have to lead with no role power and that is a challenge in itself if you don't have manager allies to do what's right for the product.
Point. It's also just fundamentally harder to get excited about new ideas as you age.

When you're young, you don't know anything, so you look at every new idea in its purest form.

When you're old, you can't not make comparisons to known history, and so look at every new idea with a shadow gallery of similar ideas. Which probably ultimately skews favor towards conservative approaches (things that look like things that have previously worked) than novel one (things that look like nothing else, or like other things that have failed).

Which is to say, to react to new ideas as though you were young, once you're old, takes effort and self-reflection. It's a valuable skill to cultivate, but it also doesn't happen naturally.
Mostly but as long as you're not the one holding the last tulip, you can profit greatly. It does bother me to see how many young people are being taught it's an investment rather than a game of economic chicken. Then again, so much in our modern economy is that way that one can hardly blame them from not seeing the danger.
I'm less interested in most of the topics that make the front-page these days. Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, scientific papers about health - none of this stuff is very interesting to me, and it's making up a bigger and bigger portion of what shows up. I flag most of those stories, and hide all of them. Therefore my front-page is maybe a subset of the top-100 stories, and they really tail off in activity once you get into stories that aren't on the normal front-page.

There's still some stuff I find cool, but I have to sift pretty hard, e.g.

Rust Wolf3D port - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182565

Radix Sort - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135440

Well... I went back two weeks in my upvoted submissions and that's about all I found, actually...
By not saying these words, how are we helping minorities?

Can somebody please be clear on how ACTUAL PROBLEMS suffered by the disavantaged are solved by wordplay? Words don't cure poverty. Words don't reverse socioeconomic trends. Words don't give opportunity, cure abuses, change what our ancestors went through.

To me it looks very much like signalling, with no real effort.
Thank you for saying this. I find in technical circles, like HN, it's often underappreciated how dramatically solar, wind and stored energy are becoming cheaper year by year while production capacity continues to grow
Some species of mycorrhizal fungi have been observed to have a fascinating stress response to being exposed to a new soil/environment. The mycellium will somehow ramp up it's rate of HGT (horizontal gene transfer) and therefore borrow genes from other soil organisms in that soil. These genes are borrowed across phylums from even bacteria or microalgae.

Essentially, it's a natural mechanism to rapidly increase its rate of evolution.