skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely this, everyone sounds like an expert to me in the programming/engineering/humanities threads until I see a one about mathematics (I am a mathematician) and I remember that it is just my ignorance of the other topics preventing me from being able to tell whether people actually know what they are talking about!
So as usual the home page for "wayang" is about as useful as a hole in the head

https://wayang.apache.org/

> The API for big data cross-platform processing

OK

> Apache Wayang is a API first system designed to fully support cross-platform data processing: Wayang enables users to run data analytics over multiple data processing platforms, whithout changing the native code.

ok? but what does it do?

> Turning shadows into a show

> Read more on how Apache Wayang converts the light and shadows of data processing platforms to amazing theatre for you.

I'm totally lost.
So everyone gets Medicare A (hospitalization) who qualifies for Medicare (~40 quarters of SSI taxes).

You get Medicare B (hospital or physician administered drugs like chemotherapy) if you pay the premium.

Everyone should get Medigap, as Medicare A + B only pay 80% (or 90%?) of costs, so Medigap covers most of your obligation under A+B. Those with very low incomes can get a LLS (low income supplement where the government covers the gap).

Medicare C is Medicare Advantage is HMO Advantage. It's basically the government paying premiums to an HMO Medicare plan instead of providing the benefit directly themselves. It covers Medicare A+B+Medigap.

Medicare D is prescription drugs (drug you take home and give yourself). Your premiums are paid by the government but offered by private insurers. The choice here (and there are calculators) are more complex as there are multiples plans to choose from and they are updated each year and it depends on what drugs you're on or think you'll be on.
GStreamer supports a lot of formats, and is probably the native multimedia framework on GNU/Linux.
Which is also why ORM are so popular despite being suboptimum. Not because they save you from writting SQL, but because they force people to standardize : to define a single point of entry for they data, to centralize the schema, integraty checks or signals, and of course, normalize the way the query are written.

This has greater value than perf for a lot of orgs.
That broad wealth generation isn't caused by capitalism, it's caused by technological innovation. Capitalism is just the means by which the rewards are distributed. If we start a company together that increases grain yields, it could either be capitalistic and whoever "owns" the company just pays everyone else wages while keeping all the profit, or it can be cooperative where the rewards are decided democratically and everyone who works there "owns" the company. The latter example is not capitalism, even with the presence of markets!
You aren't a native gui developer anymore. So I guess you made his point?
TikTok algorithm applied to search. “I’m feeling lucky” but with quick swipe up/down user feedback on results.
Research and Adventure
On Firefox you can just right-click > Take Screenshot.
You can't be just a bit better than Google and you certainly can't be worse. It's very difficult to be better than Google, that's an enormous challenge unto itself. That's greater than a billion dollar problem just to get warmed up if you're talking competing with them at large scale. If you listened to HN, Google sucks and it's easy to produce a superior search engine because of how bad they are now. That's false; even if Google's quality has eroded, they are not a mediocre search engine. That notion comes from the same place wherein people proclaim they can create a serious Uber competitor in a weekend (and mysteriously these people never do anything of the sort).

You're going to need a quantum leap improvement over Google to unseat their positioning. It has to be very substantial to overcome all the various moats they have, not least of which is consumers being used to using Google, the brand awareness.

The next great search engine will emerge from a niche and conquer one segment after another from there. It won't be a massive general search engine that shows up one day (which is what the Google watchers have been waiting for forever - that new behemoth comprehensive competitor is never going to arrive fully formed). There's a decent possibility consumer Web search will be a later stage addition to said new niche competitor, consumer Web won't be its primary or initial target. They'll add on general consumer Web search as a "we might as well" offering once they conquer enough niches.
Self Modifying Code as an alternative to macros
"And I'm not surprised that they're just like all other large companies that choose money/PR over accuracy."

Whenever you hear "Public Relations" just replace it with "Propaganda" since that is what is always was.

https://blog.apaonline.org/2020/07/06/recently-published-boo...

"How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public is a philosophical investigation into the transformative effect propaganda has on us as individuals, on us as publics, and on society more broadly. I argue that propaganda does far worse than just lie to us: modern propaganda aims to transform us into the kind of subjects who carry out a particular line of conduct freely and as a key part of our identity. "

Every company engages in propaganda. The fact that you believe Okta from the start was because of their propaganda.
It is easier to justify spending money on war than on helping people.
I'm glad you mentioned this, because I'm looking for a related term.

Sometimes in discussions (often political ones), I see this pattern:

1. Person A and person B are both members of group G.

2. Person A advocates view P.

3. Person B advocates view Q, which is logically incompatible with P.

4. An outsider concludes that some persons in G are logically inconsistent, because "G has members who believe both P and Q".

Is there a name for the fallacy in step 4? It reminds me a little of kettle logic[0], or the association fallacy [1], but it's clearly different.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
Smoking can't be harnessed to control people, social media can be.
Vaxiin: Solving the “No OS recovery” problem
I've heard this sort of thing proposed as a way of paying for college.
Vouchers don’t simply do anything though. They need to make assumptions when they decide how much to give a student and when those assumptions are made badly they can do lots of damage.

There isn’t one voucher system that’s better or worse than a public system it’s a complex interaction. If some children leave a poorly run school by a program that steals money from special needs students to subsidize their tuition up to the amount a private school charges I don’t think that’s a moral trade.
DDG simply needs to raise awareness that they have a good enough alternative that most people would be happy with if only they knew it existed.
I remember when I made my first HN account in 2010 or so. I felt so overwhelmed by how smart everyone seemed. Sometimes someone on HN still surprises me, but wow was I easily impressed back then.
Yeah, I've done things like

raise Exception("This should never happen")

and feel no need to apologize for it.
brave.search is pretty good. BUT it is not the default search engine on most devices. AND google is still better for some specific queries. A competitor must be not as good but much much more better. Don't see it coming, especially it is very expensive to query the whole web.
Tangent, but your mention of sleeper botnets made me think of sleeper military technology.

Does the US (and/or other countries) have ultra-advanced tech that hasn't seen the light of day - an ace in the hole against a truly threatening opponents? If so, under what conditions would it be revealed and utilized? Lots of interesting game theory considerations.

We oft hear stories along the lines of "oh yeah, the military was working on [recently revealed technology] 30 years ago...just think of what they have now". But does that stuff actually exist, or is it a sort of wishful thinking / propaganda? If it does exist, how do you create enough of it to be effective, but still keep it a secret? When exactly would you utilize it? In a full on, WW III, nuclear all-out brawl, your secret space laser may not be all that useful. But dare you reveal it for anything less?

(From memory, I believe that) it was an upgraded blackhawk helicopter that crashed in the Pakistani compound during the Osama bin Laden operation. The seals detonated all the sensitive electronic internals, but the hitherto unrevealed stealth tech on the outside of the craft was recovered by Pakistan, and handed to the Russians (or China?) for analysis before it was returned to the US.

Clearly the US thought that operation was worth losing some secret tech. I'd agree it was a worthwhile opportunity. But is that really the limit of our secret tech - moderately more advanced stealth coating? Where are the energy guns, the anti-grav, the truly groundbreaking stuff?

Okay, rambling over!
There is also a company called SourceGraph which parses the AST of the various languages and lets you get CLion-like features with regex search.

https://about.sourcegraph.com/
I'm a lawyer. Notes are absolutely crucial to my workflow, as there are literally millions of legal cases, and precedents, and you don't want to repeat yourself or repeat unnecessary research. I'd see it no differently than programmers who keep gists or repositories of useful configs.
> how would you compete with this?

The implication of OP's question and perhaps the heart of the matter is whether Google is unfairly applying some impediment or anti-competitive behavior. My personal opinion is that they're not. I'm not a software guy so maybe I don't know the facts. I would very much like to be educated on that here, the same way I've tried to educate people here about display industry facts on the ground.
The problem with monopolies is they can easily purchase serious competitors. That is why we need the government to regulate these companies and spur competition.
Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing
I use cscope and tags. Making sure vim is set up to navigate by tag is a must too. But given those I always wondered what the other methods mentioned in this news item offer that cscope/tags doesn't
So Stumbleupon
> If it wasn't for Android, Kotlin is still a good back end language

It certainly would. Like so many other JVM languages. Android is what makes kotlin stand out from that crowd.

Arguably "particularly well supported by IntelliJ" is another thing that makes kotlin stand out from the crowd, but that's a two-edged sword. I'd expect the average JVM person to see that as roughly a tie between a quality and a cost (more lock-in).
I find it interesting that you mention the word benchmark because reviewers used to rely on benchmarks for new phones and such but then iirc at least OnePlus and Samsung devices have been caught and banned from multiple benchmarks.
I should preface that I love Gnome and am excited by the future. My criticisms come from a place where I want to see it be the best experience possible on desktop, and the obvious choice when it comes to choice of DE.

> there's an extension for that

Yeah this is fair, sadly it's not a satisfying solution. Extensions are often not supported on the latest version of Gnome for some time and even then, there's an issue of discoverability for both experienced and new users.

I understand the desire for customizability, but I'd prefer my desktop environment come out of the box tailored to facilitate a desktop experience.

> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6/applications-menu/

I am happy there is an alternative however this has the side effect of removing the "Hit the super key then type a search query" workflow. Ironically, an actual application menu is nearly entirely useless for me outside of niche cases. I have been using start menu search and spotlight for years at this point - gnome's activities overlay is just that with extra animations.

> I rarely have to do this (for me it's almost always IDE, Terminal, Browser), but "alt-tab then escape"

This is exactly how I use my desktop too.

In MacOS I used virtual desktops so heavily to organise this and it was an _incredible_ workflow.

Monitor 1, desktop 1 is terminal, desktop 2 is IDE. Monitor 2 desktop 1 is debugging browser, monitor 2 is slack, music and misc. Flicking between the desktops, everything is positioned exactly where I want it to be and there is no guessing what is going to be shown.

I only started using Alt+Tab after coming back to Windows and now again on Gnome. Alt tab is a bit too guess-y for my taste. If you have multiple windows of the same type (e.g. browser and seperate browser debugger) open, what does Alt-Tab open?

In Gnome, rather than using virtual desktops, I hit the super key and pick the application out of the application mosaic because it's deterministic and faster than Alt-Tab

> I am not sure what this means

Swipe down from the top left and you have applications, swipe down from the top right and you have quick settings. Clock is in the center. The elements are responsive. It looks and functions like the top bar for a mobile device.

The top bar doesn't have application shortcuts, it doesn't show you active background applications.

If you look at the effort that all desktop experiences have made to make their top bar/desktop bar useful, you will see distinct differences when compared to mobile operating systems that have to be cognizant of their use of space.

MacOS has a global menu, taskbar tray, taskbar add-ons (for cpu usage, international clocks, etc) and applications are opened via spotlight (Albert) search.

Windows has shortcuts, a start menu with search, and a taskbar tray, along with lots of options to administer the computer when you right click the start bar.

Gnome offers a horizontally space efficient mobile-optimised top bar and a full screen, mobile style application picker. Application search and the open apps mosaic are the saving factors of it
Annoyingly this always re-writes commits (i.e. never fast-forwards), which means that if you have branches based on the branch you're merging they will need to be rebased, and git will complain about deleting the branch because it looks like it's unmerged.
I pity the editor
I hold TMoPI as one of the greatest sci-fi stories I have ever read.
I have a broader answer for this:

By the very nature of solutions: a new company cannot beat google at general search. Google was and is search.

Like a tree that has grown up and shadows the entire land around it. There will be random small pockets of sunlight with smaller plants in it. But the big tree owns the area.

There can be a short term competition via extremely specialized search engines, but they will not rise to the same dominance. Google, in a way, is the entire idea of searching the web.

The next dominant generation has to be from a new paradigm, that makes web search obslete.

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A relatable current example could be: youtube being dwarfed by tiktok. The nature of the new thing is such that it very naturally dethrones the old thing, without directly competing with the incumbent.

There will be specialized providers like vimeo, But at this point, youtube IS the idea of video on the internet.

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Just note the context of this understanding: This understanding came from struggling to change the education system of my country. And then it seemed to apply everywhere I saw.

I'll round-off my reply with this quote:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

– Buckminster Fuller
Understanding Bitemporal Data
Perhaps good engineering and science require genuine curiosity and an open mind which in turn demands broad interest.
Why Asynchronous Standups Just Can’t Beat Synchronous Standups
Replacing rainforests with cows isn’t only destroying life. It also makes cows. Humans are life.
Life expectancy is a crappy way to measure how effective your health care system is. It's way to blunt a tool and has many confounding factors that have nothing to do with your healthcare system.
I scrolled just to know what people are commenting. The practice or writing style. I'm surprised you are the only comment who mentioned it. Maybe most hacker news readers don't get past the title or the first paragraph.
For a while, the Borg represented my idea of absolute horror - unstoppable, zero goals in common with us, they never negotiate because they're so different. They seriously nerfed them later though, so they kinda lost that vibe.
I think this is a neat idea. Google has tried a lot of products and models, but "gamifying" (at least in this sense) search itself isn't one I can recall.
A big study by Microsoft (IIRC) said that ~70% of bugs came from NPEs.
Seems like a no brainer - who wouldn’t want to use an awesome language like Kotlin and have it shared across iOS, Android and Frontend?

However, the actual experience is full of sharp corners. Get ready for nonexistent documentation, hacky plugins, poor debugging support, lack of proper native libraries and head spinning errors.

In general, it feels like doing carpentry using your plumber’s tools.
Knowing how to search in a large code base is a large part of this and could be included in what ”good at reading code” means.
In my mind, "Use a standard, machine-readable CV to represent your skills and life's work" is practically saying, "Commodify yourself!"
Also worried about Auth0. I was about to use it for a project when the acquisition happened and I’ve held off specifically because all of the negatives I’ve heard about Okta.
Canada's system doesn't cover you once you leave the country. Well, Ontario (each province is different), will give you $30/day if you're hospitalized but nothing more.
‘Credibility’ in what sense? (IE. ‘credible witness’?). I would guess random people’s recipes are useful as big data if the data set is diverse with a long history. Unfortunately I can’t find a statement about the dataset to qualify this point
Looks pretty awesome! Will definitely give a try!

Wish to hear why did you choose to use Ada?
You could also play PAL on 60Hz in the US with the right equipment. However, playing the video system on the opposite mains always had a weird flicker in the playback as the native power and playback just didn't line up.

It is similar to the effect that could be seen when using native lighting in a 50Hz mains country while recording video in NTSC. Not everyone would notice, but when you sit in an edit bay working with that footage all day, you notice everything.

Then again, some people don't notice the stuttering that is the result from 24->29.97 either. The modern 4th frame repeat drives me up the wall. </rant>
It replaces uncountable diversity of unique life with a cow. That's a huge loss that can't be recovered for millions of years - as we're quickly erasing entire species.
They're both ~100% efficient at converting electricity into heat.
I will argue that he fact that Google is a monopoly is the only thing holding back competitors.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-monop...

The only thing that would have a chance is if Apple developed a search engine and used it as the default instead of using Google. People are busy/ignorant and do not care and will eat whatever search results they are given.

But this might be a risk to Apple based on how many people use Gmail on their Apple phones.

It is not about quality anymore, it is only about market domination. The only thing that will bring about new search engines will be anti-trust legislation.
I think it has more to do with the “sea change” it represented at the time. One can easily point to that album as a point in music history from which whole new varieties of pop/rock bloomed. Of course it is never that simple, but history has to be condensed into simple terms to make it comprehensible and consumable.

Regardless of how any single individual might feel about it (my audiophile uncle very much dislikes The Beach Boys), their music can’t be overlooked in the history and a great many people enjoy it to this day — thus standing the test of time to a degree that most music does not.
This is quite exciting. Thank you for sharing.
It really has no issue as long as you have enough RAM and disabled swap. I recently got a fairly decent gaming laptop that I'm supposed to develop on and the 16 GB RAM is constantly full and it's swapping all the time, browser keeps suspending my background tabs, really pain in the ass.
Terrible software in terms of usability from parent/kid perspective. Not sure about admin/teacher perspective. The lack of encryption point deserves more digging, as in these days it is trivial to ensure encryption at rest and in transit but also there are so many attack vectors where that simply doesn't help.
Repeated observation and practice. A lot of it.
A 1U Amiga 1200 serving up web pages. Can’t be too many of them.
There’s a potential technical improvement with Vector Search. Specially for the type of queries that are more “human” (“how do I…”, “where can I…”.

At least for me, I find myself adding “site:Reddit.com” all the time I need a good answer and not just a SEO-tricked ad page. Vector Search could be a technical solution for this. Although it’s fairly new and there is still a lot of research to do.
And NewSpeak, which I mentioned in the talk.

I didn't submit this, but I did the original talk.

BTW the slideshow is just eyecandy and you can't get anything very useful from it alone... but there's a script on my blog.