skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I completely understand that it's not about adding type checking in the browser.

My complaint is about adding type parsing in the browser. When I say "run typescript on the browser", I mean running code written in typescript syntax.

Please read my comment again with that in mind.
Airtags are fucking terrible anyway. Great idea, awful execution.

Why do my car keys have to start beeping every couple of hours?
We were not totally surprised.

One of the good things Substack can do is put competitive pressure on traditional outlets. If people want to go independent, having a good way to do so helps them. But also that possibility creates pressure on existing institutions to give writers more freedom, pay them better, etc. etc. I don't think it's a coincidence that you see more legacy publishers starting "newsletter" divisions that give writers more leeway. All of this is good for writers in our minds and we're happy for it.
Great concept!

Can you make it into production? The info I've found shows only 1 venture funding round for $125k USD.
There were strongly persuasive arguments against C++ when this was first litigated, and while those arguments have been blunted by C++'s progress in the ensuing time, at this point, if you're going to introduce a higher-level language to the kernel, it might as well be something with pro-forma memory safety, like Rust.
How should Facebook adjust policies on a country by country basis? Should Facebook ban content on homosexuality or marijuana use in countries where those things are illegal?
Wow, this sounds amazing. I'm going to dig into it some more.
Hi Chris, Hamish, Jairaj, and Sachin!

I'm a huge fan of your platform, and love that its empowered some of my favorite journalists and other others to write freely while continuing to be able to provide for themselves.

One question I have is as a small time blogger, I currently use Medium as my platform. The reason I do so is because it has an audience baked in, so I'm easily(-ish) able to attract new readers to my blog and grow the list of people who follow what I write.

What does Substack have or is planning to have product feature-wise that might allow for smaller writers to get the word out and have a social network-like following to help grow their own readership?

I would love to switch to support your product, this is the one thing holding me back.
> All those proposed uses are better served by databases

I've often wondered how NFT's would fare in a situation like Diablo 3's colossal failure of a marketplace, where people could sell their rare items to other players. The whole concept broke, because "rare" doesn't mean anything when players can just flood the market with weapons created via modding. This seems to be exactly the use case NFT's are made for.

For the record - as a digital photographer - I find NFT's for art to be a laughable concept. Keeping possession of my raw files has always been a sufficient means of copy protection for me.
DBA is absolutely still a thing, they fix things that developers make that deal with databases :)
Landmark 100 Percent Renewable Energy Study Flawed Say 21 Leading Experts (2017)
Liberals are trying to cancel Mearsheimer for his views on the causes of this war and his geopolitics in general. So fret not, soon you won't have ANY voice opposing American mainstream opinion.
I think carpool lanes are for public transportation. We just don’t have have volume to justify a whole lane so we let in other yahoos. It makes a huge diffidence in Seattle knowing the bus takes an hour and driving by myself would take an hour and a half. However, if I paid 15$ in tolls I could get there in 30 minutes.
You know that you've matured in this business when you can feel no guilt when denying knowledge about something that you're an expert in.
Magic Leap raised billions but its headset flopped. Now it's trying agin
Python already has this 'hell of pointers' in the ctypes module.

Where `to_ptr(x)` is:

ptr = ctypes.pointer(ctypes.py_object(x))

And `ptr.dereference()` is:

ptr.contents.value
AFAIK you don't participate in the network when Find My is disabled. Not the best solution, but maybe feasible for devices that are only used at home.
I won’t write as much as you, but anyway, CCs were cheap before Biden - not sure how much it’s changed with him. I spent a year at a CC so I know what it’s like and you are doing a lot of exaggerating. E.g. listings a bunch of bogus fees that would never all apply to a single person and are typically small. And it’s not hard to get exemptions for hardship or retake classes… you don’t get booted out forever. Also, complaining about a 6 credit hour minimum, really?

It sounds like you want adult daycare where everyone gets an A and can then continue on to Berkeley.

If you actually spent time around a CC then you would know that there are lot of unserious people that come through and refuse to put in the minimal effort and fail for that reason. What usually happens if that they grow up (e.g. get a job and get married) and come back later and do much better.
>I am not a supporter of the no-fly zone request from Ukraine, and it would almost certainty escalate the situation to the point of NATO being at war with Russia. However, it would be theoretically possible for the no-fly zone to be imposed without a single Russian plane being shot down—all Russia would have to do is to cease flying over Ukraine.

Why not go further? Why stop at the air? Why not make the whole country a DMZ? After all,

"it would be theoretically possible for a demilitarized zone to be imposed without a single Russian soldier being injured—all Russia would have to do is to pull all military out of Ukraine."
DDG is done for me.
This is such a moonshot. Right now, give all warning signs we know if, if you could identified the 100 most likely people in America to attempt suicide in the next 24 hours that haven’t had a previous suicide attempt or previously announced intentions of self harming you might successfully identify 5 people. Answering the question “who will attempt suicide” is a lot like “who will have a fatal car accident “. There’s a handful of obvious warning signs (drunk drivers), but even those aren’t strong enough to allow any certainty.
Seems pretty similar to FreeBSD's queue(3) (sys/queue.h).

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=queue&apropos=0&se...

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/sys/sys/que...
A popular sentiment on HN is "don't make an app when you can just have a web page". Reading articles is an an almost perfect fit for the web. What are your reasons for having an app?
These two “secret raw databases” are consultant.ru and garant.ru, publicly available legal information and reference software used by all legal departments over the country.
This leak is probably made up by FSB.
I agree with you, and I don't have a full answer to this. The best short answer I have is: why have almost everything (money, land, power) when, with a push, you could have all of everything?

I'm a Canadian. I've been amazed and appalled at how the trucker convoy was handled. The Prime Minister here basically resorted to name calling, disappearing, and then resorting to the nuclear option, abusing the Emergencies Act and freezing bank accounts. The actions don't make sense if we assume the prime minister is a rational actor acting in the best interests of his country. He could've easily de-escalated the situation and met with the truckers when the problem was small. The actions do make more sense if the plan is to pit the people against each other, which, with media support, has been highly successful. There's a lot of hate people who do not wish to be vaccinated, and even against people who just want to have their government-guaranteed freedoms back. Now that hatred has been turned on Russia; I've seen some people ironically say that Putin should get an award for single-handedly ending Covid (not that it is over, just that the news isn't talking about it all the time).

Oh, and I should add that the Canadian government wants to censor the internet. Wish I had a better link, but here's a reputable one: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/02/lobby-harder-canadian-he... . It is also worth noting that, despite undermining our democracy, invoking the emergencies act in this way may have damaged our banking system. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/boom-tr... . I'm reminded of an airline that went under, oh, fifteen or twenty years ago. They landed, and had people disembark the aircraft, and said we're out of business. There was no warning beforehand. If Canadian banks are in trouble, they won't be telling news reporters.

The head of the World Economic Forum (who most of the people who think something is afoot are pointing to) is Klaus Schwab, who wrote a book called "Covid-19: The Great Reset". It sounds like the plan is to take everything away from everybody; Mr. Schwab said that in 2030, "you'll own nothing and be happy."

The best link I've got here is probably this video, "Is Klaus Schwab the Most Dangerous Man in the World?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3nWyoQ5CQ

With all that said, I'd be happy for alternative explanations.
Will do! Shoot me your email (robert -a-t-- rownd.io), and I'll keep you free upto lets say 1000 monthly users... then we'll chat!

That goes for anyone else!

--Rob
Hey guys, big fans of Substack (writer/reader since 2019.)

My favorite part of Substack was how it built on top of email, an (actual) distributed protocol. I'm able to access my Substack writers alongside other writers/publication, since everybody integrates into email.

I like the reader experience of the new app and the recommendations, but I'm worried it will become another walled garden like Medium. How do you plan on protecting against that?

FWIW, Matter (https://hq.getmatter.app/) has a workaround (albiet complicated) for getting all emails forwarded to app, is that on the roadmap?
See, I think your example of breaking the thing is where things are tricky. I know you’re not advocating for it, but I feel like a lot of people get burned by an experience like that. They think “Someone wrote a test. Then it broke. Then someone deleted it or fixed it wrong. Then something else broke and no one noticed because the test was deleted. Therefore, don’t write too many tests.”

Isn’t that last step super weird? I don’t see how not writing tests would have prevented the regression. At most vague hand wavey “people would be more careful” which I don’t buy. The problem was breaking a dependency. Tests are not themselves dependencies, they are an automated stand-in for them.
Israel sells weapons to anyone, it's just business.

As for the "orthodox jews fighting alongside nazis", that is just an unfounded claim, without any evidence other than double hearsay in a third-rate newspaper.

Orthodox jews often don't serve even in Israel (inb4: yes, yes, ulta-orthodox, etc etc, but still, and yeshiva students are still exempt).

I'd like to see stronger evidence than hearsay for this extraordinary claim, does it exist?
Parler has a much stronger association with socio-political subcultures that like to say things that are, speaking with a generosity that borders on divinity, "controversial". Substack has cultivated a much less culturally biased/extremist writerbase, to my observation. They seem to have successfully targeted writers who just want to write, and not writers who are specifically the angry and disaffected from one side of one part of the world's political binary.

I.e. I think Substack's content is less likely to violate any rules (though I can only speak with so much confidence, having not read every article on Substack).
For me it's the orthogonality - sometimes I hit some weird thing that's really tricky to do, or surprising, but mostly, solvespace gives you a very elegant set of tools for building shapes.

That means that instead of stopping every five minutes to fiddle with all the little switches and toggles on some inane popup window you're in a flow state a lot of the time. It's like geometry, where you build complex forms through a straight edge and compass. For this reason, I think that even if solvespace was completely abandoned tomorrow, it would still be of interest to future programmers making future CAD programs.
PagerDuty provide their security training materials for free online[1], and you can view and build them from source[2] if you like. They also accept contributions as GitHub pull requests.

[1] - https://sudo.pagerduty.com/

[2] - https://github.com/PagerDuty/security-training/
I see similar arguments with vehicle prices, where vehicles are more expensive, but they are higher build quality, have more features (heated seats, blind-spot warning, etc.), so it's not technically correct to use the term "inflation" since the product is different.

But it still feels wrong to say that this isn't a concern and to dismiss it with that argument, since people still need entry-level options, even if we tout the new bells and whistles we've added to the houses or vehicles over the past few decades.

Saying "housing prices are ridiculous" followed by, "but you get more features!" is no consolation to the family looking to get their foot in the door of the housing market.
How are you going to prevent yourself from becoming whatever Apple demands you to become? Apple was forcing Gab to comply with Apple's content policy for user-generated content. You are now essentially subservient to Apple for content moderation.
Reads like a Cliff's Notes version of Karl Popper.

Dances around the notion of falsifiability for reasons beyond me.
>The only potential caveat is if Russia uses nukes. But that doesn't start World War III. (However, It probably leads to a partition of Russia like the Allies did to Germany after WWII.)

and you know, most cities in the west being a nuclear wasteland
If the goal is to replicate conventional meat in taste and texture, it is a really high bar. But I wonder what fraction of slaughtered animals are used for non-human consumption. Eg, cats won't care nearly as much as humans if it has the proper texture.
Looks like DDG and I are breaking up. I used DDG precisely to get around this kind of manipulation -- i can make my own assessments.

What good alternatives are there even left these days?
What FasTrak provider is this? They're different in different regions. Down here in SoCal Orange county has their own system, San Diego, Riverside, LA, you name it. They're all required by state law to use interoperable transponders but that's where it ends.
If you think going into the right lane is risking death - you shouldn't be on the road. You clearly are not good at risk assessment and should not be trusted with a vehicle.
Satellite images of flooding north of Kyiv, possible sign of ‘hydraulic warfare’
Archived version: https://archive.ph/stnq3
If a war is just a TV news about no-one-really-cares part of Europe it's easy to treat it as another topic for debate and partisan discussion about USA. Because from my perspective this is main shift of the discussion - Russia, Ukraine, other bordering countries and their complicated history - they are being pushed away to discuss USA politics.

I see refugees every day, on train station and in line near passport office, and I know how Russia influences politics of my country for years, and well, not for the better. I'm also not the biggest fan of USA, but it's really weird seeing how the whole story about Russia influence becomes basically "USA was worst".
When can I accept crypto payments for products and services with Stripe?

I don’t expect this to have a lot of volume from the start, but it’s important that payment platforms like Stripe start accepting cryptocurrency so this can get bigger.
>"players can make far more than that playing in leagues overseas"

THEN GO PLAY OVERSEAS!!!! Half of the people on HackerNews are immigrants to one country or another.

Why should we feel sympathy for this woman? People go overseas for better opportunities all the time. Why should I feel sympathy for her brining illegal drugs into Russia? She's can't follow the law there, so now America has to come break her out?
I don't think it's abusing Show HN, because they made an app and are sharing it. Actually I told them to make the post say Show HN in the first place.

However, it's true that the /show page is mostly side projects, new companies, and so on. I don't think we need to push the point, so I took Show HN out of the title now.
> Are there other benefits, though?

Yes; you're avoiding an extra pointer indirection between list navigation and element access, which is usually going to be a cache miss. Also if you have a pointer to an element of an intrusive list, you can cheaply navigate to the next element; this wouldn't work with your external list scheme (you'd need to maintain a separate list pointer instead).
My eye glasses filter it out but I honestly haven't been able to tell a difference.
West/NATO aligned Eastern Europe and UKR was Russia's own doing, they should've been working on fixing that for the past 20 years. They didn't do it, arguably they didn't even try which is surprising. Even China has not made that mistake. And Russia would've found it a lot easier to appeal to Ukraine than China to Taiwan or to their neighbors more generally. Now you're saying that they might be planning to displace 20M+ people, somehow I doubt that would improve things.
The poster threw a temper tantrum so I wanted to point out their ironic arrogance.

It's also a bit tone deaf considering current events in Europe right now. This goes a little further than merely down ranking different opinions- these are weapons in a war that's currently being waged.
Jerry Cans: The True Secret Weapon of WWII [video]
The difference is that the kettle argument is simultaneous making multiple claims which are mutually inconsistent, and thus a kettle argument is by definition invalid. Even if it's true that any one of the kettle subarguments being true would achieve the desired goal of the overall argument (e.g. exonerating the accused person), the fact that all subarguments are being claimed simultaneously means that at the bare minimum we know the person is lying.

Of course, the "argument in the alternative" is only different by a slight technicality: you just put an "and even if I were lying in the previous step, ..." between each subargument.
#Tradle #4 1/6

https://oec.world/en/tradle
THIS is a great opening line. Had a good laugh :D
This has been my experience as well! This is why, if I have enough time to do it, I'd normally go through at least 2 throw-away prototypes before settling on a design to implement.
(submitted after reading this thread asking for public security training resources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30629236)
I can't help wonder if allowing your platform to call for violence against Russians makes you an active combatant in the eyes of the Kremlin and a valid target for cyber attacks. Not that I would shed a single tear if a cyber battalion of Boris Bad-guys knocks Facebook and all of their properties off of the internet, to green-light calls for violence is to green-light reprisals. I'm guessing the folks at Facebook didn't think this through in the slightest.
Right. It's rational for the user not to care. The point is that it was designed to fail since there's no closed loop verification. i.e. DNT was a bad design.
Is it viable to launch an app only for one major platform (iOS), excluding Android with it's payment system entirely?
Another question, since I cannot check it - are you collecting payments for subscriptions through the App Store with it's 30% mark? Or are you exempt?
transaction fees on L2s are in fractions of a cent, certainly lower than the fees paid to PayPal or Stripe on regular international payments.

a feeless public ledger seems unlikely to ever work at scale; it would immediately be polluted by spam.
Can there really be fair arguments when you have a culture of bullying?
> you haven't been thinking very hard

Please ensure you're following the HN Guidelines[1] when leaving replies :^)

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Ask HN: Cool ideas of websites you'd like to see built?
Hey, looking to learn a new frontend & backend framework, any interesting ideas for me to build? :D Thanks! (I've run out lol)
For publications I subscribe to, how do I get them in my RSS reader? (And if I can't yet do that, when will it be available?)
The Soviet Army (1982)
Imagine thinking that excluding literal disinformation when it is not requested is a poor search result. The job of the search engine is to provide people the information they want. Not showing people lies when they want facts seems to be exactly the correct decision.
We'll get you a real answer about how the tech stack is today.

But for now I can tell a war story that might be fun. I'm one of the founders, and am in a very much non-technical role now as CEO, I did write a bunch of the very early code (some of which people curse my name for to this day.)

When we were starting, I was limited by how many new languages/frameworks I could learn at once. I started writing the backend in python, because I knew it a bit. But our first writer often needed to use Chinese characters, and in python 2.X I could never get unicode strings to work properly. I couldn't upgrade to python 3, because on google cloud I would have had to learn Docker and I was already learning too many things at once.

Eventually I got so frustrated I threw out several days work and started the whole backend over, with node + Postgres hosted in Heroku. This ended up defining much of the stack we use to this day, which might be good or bad depending who you ask. At least unicode works though :)
Not surprisingly, this is a heavily editorialised headline, moderately so on HN and more-so on Reuters.

The actual content states (emphasis mine):

...temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President *Vladimir Putin* or Belarusian President *Alexander Lukashenko* in *countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland*...

There's a massive difference between calling for the death of your Russian neighbor in US vs calling for the death of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Cloudron as an image. I run mine on Linode. Takes ~10-15 min for the image to deploy, a couple of “hours “ for DNS to update. All you really need is a domain.

Extremely well documented. https://www.cloudron.io/
I agree. I use the free version to noodle around, but I don't spend a lot of time on the models for a variety of reasons. I may be too used to the feature tree and rollbacks. Also, I am addicted to equations and variables for parametric designing. They have a cool app and I would pay $5 a month for it to be sure, but I am not going to spend $20 per month for it unless it nearly replaces f360, Solidworks, OpenSCAD, FreeCAD... I don't think it beats any of them right now.

TinkerCAD is on the iPad and actually fun to noodle with FYI.
Your current link to the S90 is just a Volvo logo, FYI
Gross rent yields on residential property are as low as 3% in major cities here in the UK with average prices at 8x median earnings.

Mortgages rates are fixed for 2-5 years on average, with lifetime (25-35 year) fixes non-existent, if not so in the BTL sector.

Central bank rates are rising.

Buy to let as an investment is history. Landlords are leaving the game rather than joining it.
Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will?
The kites seeking the surest winds
Previously discussed on HN in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7583409
Wouldn't the title make more sense as "AUA" instead of "AMA"?
In my opinion it's clear that the implied interpretation of "Nobody saw me do it" is "When I did it, there was no one there to see it."
Thanks. Gave it a look. Sounds like it might be helpful though not exactly what I want ... was quite sure the exact app that I described didn't exist ... but you never know.
So hate speech is now new trend? Or prepare for war? Where are so called the regulations of extremism?
When will you make it easy for Substack authors to sell ads?