skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you have to coordinate between AU, US, CA, and UK time zones and do 100% async communication to resolve conflicts during a project, getting everyone into the same physical space for a few days to work through issues saves so much time in the long run.

I don’t really care where I work, but I’ve come to strongly value travel / face time with my coworkers given that my team is fully distributed and Google Meet is just not the same as meeting someone face to face. For example, I ended up having a 5 hour rambling conversation about the history of our company with another coworker which suddenly shed a lot of light on why I wasn’t able to make progress pushing for certain org-wide changes. This would’ve never come up in a WFH context, since it’s “inefficient socializing,” but in the long run it’s going to help my communication skills a lot.

And the last thing: whenever I’m in the office, I get lots of interruptions, mostly from other ICs (I’m a tech lead). Although my personal progress slows down, I’ve noticed that my coworkers all move faster because they tend to be more likely to ask questions in person than scheduling meetings to pair. In person we tend to dive a bit deeper into the “why are we making this change” which helps people grow more than a direct answer to the “what”. To be honest, Slack and email are far worse distractions for me than the office ever is.
This is so advertiser spending money can report back which ads worked or not. Google has the same thing it’s a gclid. Both of these are well documented features for search ads and display ads to securely communicate a conversation event back to ad platforms. Remember when you click a paid ad someone is spending money. How else would you like to see it work? Also in case you were wondering these are opt in features by the user of the ad service. Typically called auto tagging
It was the Boba airdrop if you are familiar with that debacle. There was a L1 and L2 Boba address and and OMG address and the claim process instructions were... less than ideal. There were a bunch of people on the discord who did the same as me.

> I’d your

Let the person who has never made a typo be the first to throw stones.
Good question. No idea.
Unix also provides many userspace PRNG, for performance or other reasons. But programs have the option of using the kernel directly whenever security matters. Is it even possible on Windows to query directly to kernel randomness with documented APIs?
With Neeva you can set preferred providers, more of this, less of that. See Site Preferences in Settings.
Sounds a lot closer to developing in an image based system (Smalltalk/Lisp Machine/Classical block based Forth/EMACS etc.)
Is there a reference to siestas?
I took a quick look at the procedural history of the case (see https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16272543/neo4j-inc-v-pu...).

In the original filing, there were only essentially trademark complaints, although this was later amended to include a copyright complaint. The request for summary judgement didn't ask for summary judgement on all of the claims--only the trademark claim. Thus, the copyright violation bits are still a live controversy (undergoing discovery for roughly the next several months) and would presumably be resolved by the actual jury trial requested, whenever that comes about.
I hope so. Your perspective seems sound.

One thing seems certain, waiting for NIST is folly.
"Smart contracts" are neither smart nor are they contracts.

It's a piece of code written in an esoteric programming language that even people who are experts in have trouble understanding and spotting errors in.

Compared to actual contracts which are human readable.
NASA is a pretty small budget item compared to national healthcare.
Mongo SaaS is a commercial service, as such having little to do with open source. And of course it's not the first and even not the second time commercial vendors refuse to provide service, including for political reasons. People getting banned all the time on social networks for political reason, and AWS famously killed Parler service for the same. So it's not something new, it's just continuation of the same trend. And undoubtedly we will see more of it - if the government can close your bank account for disagreeing with it, they'd certainly be able to close your Google or AWS account. For private companies, it's even easier.

And node library... well, malicious code in node libraries is also not new, though in this particular case the question whether it's malicious or righteous action may be subjective. That's a supply chain attack, and nodejs community certainly will have to figure out whether they want to stop it and if so, how. Until this happens, the node developers should be super careful with their dependencies I guess.
Immersion prob

If you can't move there, live with someone prob
It makes me more confident that the right people are responsible for this project. The results for such a critical instrument are very important to the success of future research. To see them consistently exceeding mission objectives...how high can the Webb go?
Notice how well it handles the traffic - unlike some of the other submissions that makes the hn front page.
I'll toss out a crazy idea to compete with Google.

1. You buy StackOverflow for $2 billion and Reddit for $10 billion.

2. You block Google from indexing the sites.

3. You start a new search engine that only searches StackOverflow and Reddit.

4. As the new search engine gains traction, you invite other high quality sites to join your vision and search engine. One requirement is they must block Google. You can guarantee them decent traffic because they'll only be competing against a dozen sites on your search engine, instead of millions on Google.

5. A large number of respectable sites leave Google and are only available on your search engine. Businesses start becoming eager to join your exclusive network and ask to join your mission.

6. Google is left with blog and affiliate SEO spam, and you become the hero of the search engine world.
I can’t understand how anyone has any confidence in crypto after the current Ukraine/Russia situation. I thought that crypto was decentralized and no-one could place restrictions on who could own it, and what they could do with it.

This also turned out to be total BS as Russian crypto accounts keep getting frozen.
Funnily enough, I haven’t heard the “crypto community” make a single peep about this. Hilarious..
We should crowdsource a good HN bingo card. It would probably be a great drinking game.
If it proves there was no big bang then that's still an exceptional job well done and a huge accomplishment for science. Sure there will be more mysteries to solve, but it's not like we lose anything by proving something incorrect. It will be exciting no matter what they find!
Larry Wall went to an Indian restaurant during one of the YAPC::Asia conferences in Tokyo. Looking at the bread, he asks the server, “Naan desu ka?”

Multilingual puns are the best.
We should cheer on teams in big enterprise that are pushing to upgrade their tech stacks. I worked at a security company that pulled in security scanner data from enterprise companies and as you can guess the results are not great. Any upgrade is a positive step forward. Don't hate on them for being behind the curve. Things are different at that level of business.
A grass-fed cow certainly consume fewer resources than most of the vegetables you eat, that generally requires diesel-based machines to crop, and lots of irrigation. Not to mention soil management that includes fertilizers and pesticides.
Thank you! I actually kind of cheated and didn't have to implement any of that myself because Firebase took care of it. But when I was considering how to build Calenday, those were on my mind. I had read about CRDTs on Figma's blog (https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...) and was considering using something like this to ease the burden on implementation: https://github.com/automerge/automerge
Can you be specific a bit more... specific? When you Show HN, there's usually something to, you know, show.
> "I was there at the start but I still don’t really get why…”

Where do you get that?

I understand the reasoning entirely. I disagree that it is important or that the security trade off is appropriate for almost anyone.
Dual-Polar Multi-head 3D Printer: alpha and beta instead of x and y
I find it hard to attribute the sad state of the academic freedom in academia (as in, none at all) to anything to do with Russia. It was dead long before Putin decided to mess with Ukraine for the first time. Right now censorship is just being deployed for a newly fashionable cause, but before that it was dozens of other causes, and no doubt once Putin finds his ignoble end, it will find dozens of new causes to pursue.
Doesn't google have something called the Google CSE where you specify which sites you will exclusively include in search results?
IP-intensive industries provide more benefits as per USPTO report
If there's a major power outage, the school probably won't be in session either. Though getting the students home might be a problem if power goes out in the middle of a school day and the buses haven't charged enough to get the students home. (If they have enough reserve capacity it's probably not an issue.)
Siri, Bring Me Weed
Google cloud storage (and S3) are the dumb KV stores with great read latencies
I really missed those days that I could write URLs I visited frequently on notebook. Unfortunately, we might never be no way back to the good old days. There is literally way too much info on the internet, and thus impossible to index contents manually.
Now I'm playing snake on home depot's dime!
I think it’s good. I have a policy not to work with vendors who don’t implement two factor for their login. And I look down on vendors that implement it only via email or sms… it’s quick and easy way to ensure secure access…
Wow, that's almost exactly like seeing the world when I got glasses for the first time!
Doors or Tires?
Just a funny question. Worldwide, between the number of doors and the number of tires, which one you think will be more?
I heard that they’ve recently been transitioning from every store having its own local SQL Server database for inventory management to having a single database at HQ that all the stores use. Apparently it was quite arduous trying to sync all those store databases with a central one.
Noone’s crypto wallets have been frozen, afaik. Custodial services have frozen people’s accounts, but those are websites which hold your crypto for you. Not your keys, not your crypto.
The problem is that you can charge rent on a house but not on medicine.

The problem in the market is that buying real estate is the economically rational thing to do, because you get great returns on that capital, just like owning some amount of stock.

The problem is primarily the structure of the market, and not the actions of individuals within it. We need a land value tax, and we need to make it easy to build new homes.
I was being rude. I am sorry for making a bad assumption about that. I’m not familiar with that one. I am pretty much a BTC maxi.
This was happening on all search results (not just ads or sponsored links). I have updated the summary to clarify.
If you think this isn't scary enough, that thing most likely has access to a privileged network segment that the rest of the mobile network equipment is on and the software on those is no better.
Do people do this in practice? I always assumed that every online game company was just concerned with making the next buck by releasing increasingly overpowered items.

This you assume that every item is paid for when you release the next that deprecates it or whatever.
Imagine that the same message reaches more than one servers. Which one should record it? If they all are in sync you just use the one that received the event at the lowest timestamp
None of them are spares per se; if any of them fail they will have to use the other four on that segment to point it away from the sensor and disable that segment.
GP: > I’m not sure anyone would even be aware of your deed

Agreed. Despite my tone above I think we can evolve to that, but this kind of evolution:

> They should be willing to do it out of self satisfaction in their personal lives, not out of shame for not doing it or recognition

requires cultural evolution on a different track than we are on. Our current culture has taken individualism and individual entitlement to an extreme, and we are spreading that around the world. Our economic system elevates selfishness to a virtue. And what people actually do when no one is looking is grab more cookies for themself from the cookie jar (and when people are looking they'll "share" that pilfered cookie with someone who has less).
I vehemently disagree.

1914 saw large imperialist empires on both sides. There were no real "good guys" in that war, as both sides were looking to either keep and consolidate power over colonial empires (the Entente) or break up the colonial empires to get some for themselves (the Germans and Austrians).

1939 saw an ambitious despot attack democracies to brutally subjugate them. That is also what we are seeing now.
Facebook, Google, Pinterest, LinkedIn, all have been doing this for years... nothing to see here
I do my part fighting elections rigging in Russia for years, while you are lecturing me with words that you have heard on TV.
I visited Denmark multiple times. I visited Crimea.
Have you been in Russia?
Friend of mine was independent observer on the referendum of Crimea. My friend's grandmother in Gorlovka now. Gorlovka. Do you know Gorlovka? You know, 8 years near frontline, regularly shelled by Ukrainian forces? My uncle have to leave Mariupol 5 years ago. My father's ex girlfriend is reporting from Donetsk.
We are enjoying consequences. Thank you very much.
Those are really neat ideas! A prototype I had built at first had a map, but I didn't go with it because the cost to for location data searches and map renders was prohibitively expensive (I was considering Mapbox and their API got pretty pricey, Google's isn't much better and the remaining ones had licensing issues).
They serve more ads if they steer you towards the low value SEO website filled with Adsense.
3 points in a plane, so maybe half?
Alexa, unsubscribe from amazon music.
Do you have a link describing which NPO was that and what exactly happened?
Lapce: Fast and Powerful Code Editor Written in Rust
I wonder if Home Depot still rejects plus symbols in email addresses. Someone coded their email fields to only accept A-Z, 0-9, and a limited set of punctuation (. _ - @)
I am interesting to hear more! I wasn't able to find your email address in your profile, but feel free to send me an email.
Great news. Buses and government vehicles are perfect for electric. They go back to dedicated parking lots perfect for charging.

We desperately need to force electric vehicles for the upcoming USPS replacements too.

The funding / reform bill passed, but as far as I can tell it does not mandate or address the fleet. DeJoy said he was replacing with gas. There was a proposed bill but I can't find any recent news on it.

Ridiculous to spend that much money on 100% custom built vehicles that are gas powered.
I keep reading those comments where those proverbial managers want this or that. I don’t understand where it comes from - managers also people with similar needs to individual contributors. Myself, being a manager I’m not looking forward to us going to office and the teams are performing well as is. My peer managers are is a similar opinion.

Is it the banal they vs us, search for an enemy and cause of one’s unhappiness?
>>> [Prediction markets] are not supposed to be self fulfilling prophecies. Right? And certainly the prediction market itself should not be the insiders.

We've thrown out all the rules. Why can't the prediction market be a self-fulfilling prophecy? Why can't the market outcome be decided by insiders?

What matters is what the incentives are. I say the incentives here are for you to point us to the most useful database and argue for it. That helps us.

Our incentive as insiders is to be truthful about our choice, because we want to incentivize you to help us choose a database.
There are many factors here, for sure. But I think a big one is just that most people don't have a good grasp of small percentages.

I think humans are more naturally inclined to ratios and proportions, and not percentages. I've found that people who aren't accustomed to how a logarithmic scale works likely won't have a good feel for what the extremities of the percentage range actually represent.
I am not physically there. If you are about the recently relevant events, I am hearing prices are rising, thinking people roll their eyes at new Z-decorated lollipops and get arrested for walking solo holding empty pieces of paper, foreign currency is hard to obtain, etc. For apolitical or pro-government people generally life as usual I guess.
Given how much complete garbage has been VC-funded (or rather, overfunded, since the correct amount of funding should've been $0) it's good to remain skeptical.
gmaps had trouble earlier today
The very first sentence of this article is objectively wrong. No modern Chinese reader can read oracle script without significant training. Is it worth reading the rest of the article?
Funny or not, Home Depot should be lauded for their website, ecommerce, and inventory tracking. Lowe's is a complete joke in comparison.

And it's not just public facing stuff. Home Depot tells you exactly where something is. Lowes just tells you an amount that may or may not be right. Three times this year I've went in to buy something with '15 in stock', and apparently that's all employees see also. They all briefly look around, then say I don't know check the endcaps.
The bigger problem with taxes is that companies are not paying their fair share of taxes in the countries where they generate revenue and profits.

Also, this kind of progressive tax reduction should only apply after the company is public. So the clock for VCs, founders, etc only starts at the time of the IPO.

This would ensure all the early stakeholders are also aligned in investing in the long-term success of the business.

Currently, these early stakeholders are more likely to be focused on cashing out and having a liquidity event.
About a year ago I moved Enter to the middle of the keyboard. It feels nice but I still occasionally press it when going for the letter that used to be there, and that can be a harmful typo to make.
I wasn't discussing the case of Canada banning Bitcoin but of Canada sanctioning the truckers' wallets. Wherever the truckers go, their Bitcoins would no longer be allowed on Canadian exchanges.

The fiat equivalent would be moving money to an overseas account. Before you are sanctioned, doing so is just as easy as buying Bitcoin. After you are sanctioned, both are equally hard. The difference is that your Bitcoins can be demonetized, while your overseas assets can only be seized if the governments cooperate.
Senate Candidate Wants to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender with No Taxes
We can get some pretty nice photos of Mar's surface from the rovers and drone we have on the surface right now. :) There are almost daily updates here: https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere
This was about running nodes. Or just interacting with a peer-to-peer network. Getting blocks. Maybe receiving and paying legitimate other users of that network in non sanction places. Not actively transacting with Russia.

There are real parallels here with the crypto wars of the 90s. Or Tor. Or BitTorrent.

Why suddenly we have folks wanting to go back to the 90s is quite troubling.
A slightly more sympathetic concern: remote work makes a manager's job harder. Said job still does get done either way; but it's the difference between a manager being able to goof off for most of the day and end up finding out everything they need to know anyway through simple off-hand questions whenever someone walks by; vs. needing to actively arrange high-scheduling-overhead Zoom meetings + actively probe one's reports on Slack for relevant updates.
Out of curiosity, do you have any write-up or some documentation about this? Can't imagine a scenario where I'd need this any time soon but it sounds very interesting.
Linux does support mixed page sizes (that's how huge pages work) and the page size isn't even detectable by userspace user than through sysconf(3) or getpagesize(2) so I'm not sure why a program wouldn't be compatible with 16K pages; after all, regular programs work just fine with THP on Linux.
Very impressive work so far!

Apologies if I missed it (and solely out of curiosity), but how roughly much does hosting Alexandria Search cost (per month)? (I'm assuming you've optimized for cost to avoid spending your own money!)

I have some other questions (around crawlers, parsing, and dependencies), but I need to read the other comments first (to see if my questions have already been answered).
I can't speak to Hypersearch, but I've used their Hyperweb mobile extension and Insight Browser mobile app. They're great! I've even had the chance to chat/work with Abhinav a bit, and he's a nice and sincere guy.

I also like this concept — I once toyed with the idea of a search engine/extension that would run a search in one engine by default and then notify you if other search engines would have returned significantly different search results. I'm excited to try this out!

I agree that it's hard to trust an extension that runs on any website, and I guess one way you could work around this would be to manually limit it only to run on the domain where you do your primary web searching. It wouldn't have the full functionality, but it would provide the bulk of the functionality — without most of the risk.
One "real number" is actually rather far off - survey respondents estimated that 49% of people "own a home" but the article implies the actual number is 65%.

65% is the oft-cited "home ownership rate", however that is defined as the fraction of occupied homes with an owner in them. Move back in with your parents after college? Rent from a live-in landlord? Congrats, you "own a home" according to this absurd statistic.

A much more reasonable number would be something like the percent of adults who either own a home or are married to someone who does.
Decentralized systems, like the internet?

It was pretty damn big after it was 13 years old.
Netscape Navigator 4.0 (NS4) would let a page open new browser windows, but if you wanted to hide the Navigator UI (the stuff above "The Line of Death" in this article), you needed to sign your scripts with your developer certificate.

The Netscape Security Team was worried about UI spoofing, the browser-in-a-browser attack.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30722033

Alas, they need not have bothered. Users didn't notice fakes, and got mad if a web application was blocked. The whole apparatus to support public-key certification of web elements was pulled in later versions of Netscape.

25 years later, and essentially no one thinks about bad guys before dutifully typing their password.

Microsoft Windows tried. Windows shows a distinctive, full screen alert if you want to do something with elevated priveleges. Windows supports custom security policies and signed PowerShell scripts.

But the only way to prevent users from leaking authentication is to require auth that can't pass over a network. 2FA with local (not remote) physical token.
Why should we trust closed-source software to audit open-source code? In the words of an infamous bounty hunter: "Does that seem right to you?"
Heck yes.

edit: Wait they've ditched the function keys entirely? God damn it Kinesis.
I don't think you understand how the law works ir how Bitcoin works. I clearly understand how Bitcoin works, having studied the protocol 10 years ago. Warren also clearly understands how Bitcoin works, having written the bill with Levien's help.
Also for entering it. We really need more neutral technologies.