skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about a library, I'm more concerned with DEs implementing the library.

Things like swipe with three fingers to switch desktops, swipe up with three fingers to show open windows etc. Why is all that stuff tied to a UI theme?
Simulates the Wordle feedback: the more green dots, the closer you are.
Perhaps it would be. I don't find it at all silly to guess that if a critical percentage of everyone were made to confront more ideas and and generally be made more aware and thoughtful, that the eventual result is more civilized behavior between members.

I certainly don't think it helps the situation to use the historical and current state of thimgs as some excuse not to bother trying. You can't create better civilization be decree or force. It can only happen when enough percentage of the population does it for themselves, and they don't when they are ignorant or bubbled.
Reminiscent of the Uber play - once it was widely noticed they couldn't drive costs down enough to achieve profitability, there needed to be another narrative to maintain optimism in the company.

And so the narrative changed, from:

"through the magic of {pixie dust technology} we can make providing chauffeur services so cheap it would be hugely profitable"

to

"we will replace all the human drivers with robots, any day now"

Of course, that future was much, much further away than purported, but it certainly was useful for pumping up optimism in a company where the present-day situation isn't necessarily favorable.

FB's money-printing products seem to be facing major headwinds. They're scandal-wracked, user growth is plateauing heavily especially in the most profitable markets, and a fast-moving competitor is rapidly eating into their most coveted growth areas and they seem unable to convincingly fight the trend. A narrative shift is certainly needed for them.
The allied invasion of Japan was going to consist of over 6 million allied soldiers.

1.5 million was not anywhere near enough. The Soviets fielded 2x that in the Battle of Berlin alone!
I've been very interested in mechanical computing for a while (even going so far as to build my own simple 3D-printed, hand-cranked computer!), but the whole analytical engine thing makes me wonder what might have happened if computing had developed more from the industrial-control / power-loom side of things rather than a need for scientific number crunching. A truly impressive amount of work was done by the mid-to-late 1800s with power looms - 'programs' 10s of thousands of cards long, speeds in excess of 3 Hz, 'production-level' reliability. The people building weaving mechanisms could have readily implemented something equivalent to a 4-bit microcontroller if they had been sufficiently motivated, which might have kicked off a computing revolution from the bottom up rather than starting with supercomputers and gradually figuring out how useful very limited microcontrollers were.
DMT, Spirit, and Embodied Value – What Is Money?
For every dollar you put in this box, I’ll put ten cents into a scholarship fund for poor children in your country then burn the dollar. How many dollars do you put into the box?

What if it were 300 cents instead?
Ask HN: Good designs for a website that serves as a detailed FAQ?
Greetings HNers,

I’ve recently picked up a new hobby and have been struggling to find resources for getting started and contextualizing the hobby. Everything jumps into technique whereas I don’t even know the who, what, when, where, why.

Im therefore thinking of making a simple FAQ website for this topic. These FAQs would be fairly detailed (more than just question and one sentence answer), but I don’t envision it as an ongoing blog: more just a static page of common questions and resources for someone starting out.

Can you suggest any websites that have a well designed “static but verbose FAQ” layout?
Feels like a major win. Would not have predicted seeing "droplet" shaped zones of plasma stability. Lyman Spitzer himself would be amazed at this. One of those AI results that begins to feel like the emergence of an alien intellect. And of course, possessing a general feedback control loop agent that could be applied to any domain begins to feel like DeepMind could point the thing at just about any domain ;)
The GP was talking about a place where "pay a day of salary and move on" isn't a realistic choice. If there's fraud involved, you need to be able to prove it.
Accidental dupe. Sorry about that.
I feel like some others aren't seeing the humour in your comment. Or maybe I'm just weird. Orr maybe I'm new enough to Rust still that I don't get offended. Anyways, you got a laugh from me at least!
Yes, because OSS software enjoys a massive popularity boost -- there are a lot of people who will always chose an open source product if one is available. So in the option (2) some software will turn proprietary, but I bet that overall number of OSS users will not change that much... it will be just re-distributed.

For example, if ElasticSearch would have been closed source? People would go to Solr. If Solr closes? Postgres and a lot of swearing.

You have to remember that while AWS ElasticSearch was a bad thing for Elastic Co, it was absolutely great for all sorts of much smaller companies who did not have enough resources to run their own clusters, as Elastic's offering is 2x price of AWS one [0].

[0] https://medium.com/gigasearch/which-elasticsearch-provider-i...
I think it's easy to sort of gloss over how good shell scripts are at the sort of things they actually are good at.

Consider this:

for f in *png; do convert $f $(echo $f | sed 's/png$/webp/'); done

This is like at least a screen of code in in most languages, you get that sinking feeling where you need to fork a process and deal with its lifecycle and deal with some standard library to list files and don't forget to close the file handle for the directory and god forgive if you run a program with actual output then you need to read from a pipe. Like, geesh, do I have to write a whole program to convert a few files?

In a shell, it's just something you type up because you needed to convert a few files. Don't get me wrong, shell scripts are extremely bad at most things involving non-trivial branches, long-lived state, really most things other languages are good at, but man are they ever good at some things most programming languages are bad at.
It will be ready and waiting when the economic incentives needed to put it into place are there. These incentives by all evidence will be less than what would be needed to put nuclear into its place.

BTW, if you object to hydrogen on these grounds, you must also object to nuclear on these grounds, and more strongly. This is especially the case if you imagine a nuclear powered world economy. You need to imagine a jump in technology more radical than for hydrogen storage -- either massive scale up of seawater uranium extraction (many orders of magnitude, from gram scale to megaton scale) or use of breeder reactors instead of burner reactors.
Reasons Google's Growth Phase Is Not Over
The "legion of horribles" sequence is also incredibly sticky, just some of the phrases like 'death hilarious" stick around for years...

"A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools."
Well this is just fantastic. Appropriately humbling. I'm dumb though I need more clues.
This is absolutely wonderful! Also using pip to distribute Zig is a nice hack.

For reference, https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/

Shows how Zig can be a powerful tool for building C and C++ codebases. Now with Cargo integration, it can help achieve clean cross builds in Rust.
I posted this because i saw Drepper's paper on Memory make its appearance again and had always thought this short write-up (even though aimed at Kernel Programmers) was/is far more relevant.

Maybe update the article to current times into two parts? :-) One explaining general Cache principles and how an "Application Programmer" can take advantage of them and the other on how the Linux Kernel does it; Theory and Practice!

PS: The Schimmel book (which you have also referenced) is the only place where i have seen all the cache issues explained comprehensively and clearly.
My least favourite thing about GNOME is that it has co-opted GTK and sabotaged it so that even determined developers stand no chance of achieving native look and feel on other platforms and desktop environments. The G in GTK now (de facto, not de jure) stands for GNOME.

(Expressed otherwise: I kind of have to use parts of GNOME because it has infected GTK and it’s much more difficult to avoid GTK than to avoid the rest of GNOME.)
It's not just Linux that suffers from outdated tray APIs. It is the same on Windows. To create a status tray icon button, you need to call the Win32 Systray API (the oldest Windows subsystem, forget about using WinUI or UWP). The way apps like Google Drive and Dropbox do their fancier systray popups is that they get the x,y coordinates via the systray API (NOTIFYICONDATA passed to ShellNotifyIconA) and then render a chromeless window at the location with a slide up animation via something like Electron. I don't think the default systray menu can be styled to any reasonable extent.
Have you considered signing up as a Brave creator? Could generate more income from those that have auto contribute turned on.
It is definitely because Amazon/AWS is so big. That's the biggest part of the complaint.
Describing the shove sellers as LARPing content creation is very incisive. Funny how often the most successful are often selling "how to sell/create" or some fictional image of creation.
I believe that personal accountability for making the best of one's lot is key to society being maximally beneficial.

I don't see why "acting in concert" implies forcing me to pay for things in direct opposition to my heartfelt belief via the coercive levers of government. Go find likeminded bleeding hearts and have a nongovernmental ball.

Why can't debt forgiveness take the Jerry Lewis/Shriners private donation route?

Then you'll do you. I'll do me. We'll all win.
Naming your company after something is generally a sign you believe in it and it's not just one of many bets you're making.
The radioactive waste dump that was the exclusion zone is where SF is putting all its middle class housing.
> Sure, you can cut down on the number of oracle queries, but that’s not the limiting factor of this game.

To win the game, you must make fewer than 10 oracle queries.

You can solve the game in 9 oracle queries + 1 massive (impractically large) offline search. The width of the search is 2^92, because that's the entropy of the input to the hash function.

Without the oracle telling you information about the hash, you have to do 2^91 online attempts.
Early startups, that are still deep into the product-market fit search. The fail rate is high for very early ones (and pay is low), so a Series A or B seems ideal.
I think it's a general sense of unease with the probability that future F/OSS looks like "{Project}, sponsored by Amazon" due to cloud market dynamics and size.

Coupling that with the fact that, in the past, F/OSS project control or domination by a single party hasn't turned out well.
"The recent trend towards 4 story narrow houses doesn't help. A literal 1/3rd of the house is taken up by stairs"

If you want vertical efficiency, we have apartments for that. You get a single staircase and 20 single-story homes instead of 20 staircases in 20 homes.

Its funny that US/UK/ anglosphere seems to have never figured out apartments, in Uk you can't even be a true owner - first you pay leasehold, then you pay ground rent, then you pay service charge (for which they are not obligated to provide any service), so you paid 3 times for the same thing!

And then when yoy find out that your block was built in breach of fire regulations, it's not the material supplier, not the developer and not the building landlord that get the bill, its the leaseholder that does not even own the house that has to pay for 'waking watch' (pateolls by firemen) and any repairs!

People who bought Shared Ownership apartments (you own 25%, other 75% is owned by investors) are responsible for 100% of the cost of fixing the building because between developer, supplier, fire inspector and landlord someone has commited fraud.

UK likes to think fo itself as free country, but I have never seen laws as tyranical and feudal as housing laws here. It's like they were writted for medieval lords to opress their peasanta and never changed.

If you want to know more about this, google 'cladding scandal, UK'
Interesting question. Is the switch rate lower after they dropped Yahoo for Google.
On a sphere both interpretations are correct. ;)
Excellent article.

Most people need to get some data from a database to a web page and back again, to paraphrase dhh (I think).

This does not require a huge amount of architecture or infrastructure in most cases, even at scale. The engineering challenges should be elsewhere, not in this relatively simple and solved problem.
That’s cool. Seed(Time()) is as old as… it’s old.
I wonder how NYT feels about this.
With my recent kernel patches megapixels starts in 2s, which is less than my android phone. It wasn't too long ago the camera app ran at 2 fps and it's now at 60.

I feel like a lot of people are criticizing the PinePhone from the perspective of a product, instead of the labour of love that it really is. Things are constantly improving, but it's not many of us that are spending our free time to do so.
Red Flags to Look Out for When Joining a Data Team
> Wow, that's one of the most dismissive remarks I've seen here in quite a while. It also does not seem like you could possibly believe it yourself.

It's a natural thing. If you come up with an implausible sounding thing supported by a very complicated argument then most likely you made a mistake. It is very easy to make mistakes and very hard to find them.

If you have a 1000 page proof that 2*2 is 5 I won't spend my valuable time finding where you slipped up. Now clearly his claim is more nebulous. One has to invest money and time to even understand what the book claims, so then one can invest more time to debunk a spreadsheet?
It would be better if e.g. the first 50 can be priced at $5 per user per month and once the growth hits $300, revert to $1 per user.
AWS has gobs of open source software. I think they open source everything that runs client side (all the agents and integrations for EC2 for instance).

It's pretty disingenuous to say they don't open source.

Based off experience with AWS and GCP, AWS has significantly more widely available. On the other hand, Google the company has contributed a lot to OSS (like cgroups in the Linux kernel)
Really impressive. This is something i would play every day. I love Geography and this is amazing for discovering and learning about new places.
Great work!
Dex: A new array oriented research language from Google
Strategies like this are how people print grain in the wood/plastic filament fusions. The grain darkens at higher temperatures.

Hell, turn up the temperature high enough, and everything will turn black.
It's against best practice to have just one U2F key, in case you lose one. Best practice is to have at least two, and to not keep the two together.
Cargo Ship Full of Porsches and VWs Is on Fire and Adrift in The Atlantic
> it is not part of a writing system, which puts it outside the stated scope of Unicode.

Literally all emojis are not part of a writing system nor have proper linguistic use. Who on the earth write emoji by hand or even spoke it? Unicode already broaden the scope for so long, whether it is good or bad, nobody cares now. And beside that, a lot of symbols are also culture dependent. If you are not used to live at there, you just have no idea what it actually means.
But.. that’s not true. The US is one mile north of Mexico. That doesn’t mean Mexico is one mile north of the US.
ChromeOS is heading that way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350860
Need to Separate AWS from Amazon.com consumer account (2012)
Actually, I think this is a decent thought experiment. IMHO it would depend a lot of what is included and not included and what definition of profitability we used.

For example, if I spent less money would that also count as more profitable? Does it also take into consider what activity was replaced by running?

Spending 30 min less on HN and replacing it with running, or just moderate walking, could very well result in less expenses if one takes medical spending into consideration.

And I think that's what Caplan is asking people to do. Go over his definitions and what was included and see if it makes sense.
I like the idea, but please make a demo mode for people to try it without signing up.

Also: "The game is over when all players have been Seeked" — should that be 'sought' or just 'found'?
Yet if you head that direction and keep going straight, eventually you’ll get to Mexico.
Thanks, but I was planning to just put the site on a CDN and do local-search within the user's browser. It'll be a significant site, but should be smaller than average in terms of documentation sites as a category
Huh, inn mate? Never noticed that. Neat.
Is it? The Reddit comment mentions that most of the code is written in Rust — I assume business logic, encryption, etc — and the UI is in electron via React.

So this certainly seems quite a bit different from plain electron apps.
https://metzger.media/games/wordle-archive/?levels=select

lags behind a day, and you can do all the previous days' wordles
Well, if you're going to throw down the gauntlet like that Mr. Caplan, how can I resist! I began by actually looking at this authors spreadsheets, then looking at their claims, and ultimately, I downloaded a copy of their book[0] to review what that book says. So here's the info:

The fundamental claim of the book is that currently, the "western education model" is not (really) about skill accumulation or increasing the utility that an individual can provide society. Instead, our current "western education model" is about signalling a workers productivity to potential employers. That is the thesis of the book, as spelled out in the introduction of the book.

I downloaded the spreadsheets[1] that the author talked about.[2] I've reviewed them for about an hour, in between reading, and my take is that no one cares about the spreadsheets because they're INCREDIBLY basic. In short, the spreadsheets are a collection of statistics about the outcomes of students who complete various levels of education. It shows income earned per year of education completed, for a number of different hypothetical students (excellent students, poor students, etc). The numbers aren't particularly shocking on their face, and the spreadsheets don't have anything like a single cell on the first sheet labeled "SMOKING GUN, WOW" to catch your attention. Instead, the general point from the statistics is that we see unusual jumps in the expected compensation of students at various "round numbers", such as jumps at 12 years of education completed (finished high school), and 16 years of education completed (finished undergraduate). The author seems to take these as strong proof for their original point that the value of education is in "signalling", not in increasing a persons ability.

My fundamental issue with this is that this data, as I've read it, could be understood a different way than "education is just a social signal". By my reading, this data could just as well be "western hiring markets are wildly under-valuing the abilities of folks who narrowly miss common landmark achievements". I believe that's also an idea worthy of study, but I don't see it addressed in any of the authors writing, or in the book.

[0] - https://eddierockerz.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/the-case-ag...

[1] - https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/compensationcleanfinal.x...

[2] - https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/embarrass_me_no.htm...
Corruption turns out to be quite hard to root out, particularly when it has been made wholly legal. Certainly, it takes more than a pen stroke.

And you won't bring down nuke cost without cutting out the corruption. And, even if you did, it would remain uncompetitive with the storage that will have been long since built out by the time you could bring one online.
The Navy did fund electrostatic fusion designs for a few decades. Considering any plasma physicist could have told you it was a fool's errand 60 years ago I'm not sure I would trust the military's judgment on what future energy sources warrant research.

Also, some tips on making convincing arguments: making baseless and unfounded speculations on alternate histories with not even a whiff of empiricism is not going to convince anyone. Additionally, saying "something won't work" without articulating why it won't work isn't helpful.

I've heard the power density arguments. It's a 40 year old argument that does not hold up in a world with HTS magnets and optimized stellarators.
Play the game and you'll see how it doesn't work that way based on the information given.
The whole point of Bitcoin is to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Even excusing the fact that it is a wasteful cryptocurrency as demonstrated by the amount of sheer energy it consumes [0], it is a far worse version of VisaNet only handling 7 transactions per second and settlements can take hours.

Best part is, its extreme volatile pricing makes it pointless as a 'currency' and completely useless for merchants accepting payments, but perfect as a ponzi scheme. Why do you think not only Stripe has dropped it for payments, but now its somehow 'A store of value' instead of it being an electronic cash system?

Therefore 'Bitcoin' (and its blockchain) has failed in each category except for being a Ponzi scheme and is more pointless than the majority of the other blockchains and coins.

> Stablecoins are for those that cannot let go of the traditional system. They will all go to zero.

I hear that the banks and the payment processors are shaking in their boots over how better Bitcoin is against the 'traditional system' other than for speculation or ponzi schemes. /s

[0] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Lit is just react with web components. It uses all the same magic, and a whole bunch of documentation is needed (is this state reflective, reactive, blah blah). It does the same "let me figure out updates in the background and you don't worry about it" as React, just without a virtual DOM.
GTK (and presumably KDE as well) supports touch emulation.
I didn’t say otherwise. The game doesn’t just give you an arrow. It also gives you a distance.
which competitor are you thinking of?