skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google has deliberately made it essentially impossible to do this.

No, users have made it essentially impossible to do this.

In other words: the majority of users don't care about the problems of developers. They just want apps without having to think about where they come from, and the simplest way to do that is to use Google Play if they have an Android phone.

That's not a Google problem. That's a user problem. If it's indeed a problem. And the way for developers to fix it, if it needs to be fixed, is to not give users apps if users insist on only using Google Play. Make it so users have to go elsewhere to get apps at all, because developers refuse to "play" on Google Play, so there aren't any apps there. Then users will be on the same side as developers, and there are a lot more users.
Fluctuation-induced current from freestanding graphene
Yeah exactly. Knowledge work is much less about the actual work we do. We're regularly on the clock having our brains work whether we like it or not. This focused and diffused time is crucial to be effective.
2x, anything else is too blurry.
Taking some time off to rest and travel after 5 years at Tesla
James Webb Telescope Is Finally Proving Existence of White Holes
Yeast has good flavor
Run during the winter for bonus karma. You might even be saving money on your heating bill. Double check my math though.
Is a term like 'architect' pompous? What short, existing word would you use to describe who decides how something is going to be built?

Is abbreviating "remote procedure call" to RPC pompous?

I think the words 'graph' and 'topology' are about equally as likely to make normal peoples eyes glaze over.
Not getting this on Virgin Media in the UK - that is, the domains you mentioned aren't appearing in the route for me.
I feel like I've read this exact story before?
Sounds like an idea for a new employment app. Maybe HN specific to map the who users of the monthly employees threads to profiles, then swipe for an interview.
Testing the Covid Tests
It's renewable in the sense that there's a massive geological reservoir which replenishes the uranium dissolved in the seawater. There's 4 billion tons dissolved right now in the ocean (enough to run 1,000 reactors for 100,000 years) but that is replaced as it's extracted. [1]

It's about as renewable as solar, which is to say, we will eventually run out - but at that point the heat death of the universe is a more pressing concern.

[1] https://cna.ca/2016/07/27/theres-uranium-seawater-renewable/
Nuclear armaggedon is avoidable with some luck and enough safeguards. Catastrophic climate change is inevitable at our current trajectory.
Would you like to own a luxury mansion for $2,400? Head to the Metaverse
By that standard, solar isn’t renewable either, since the sun is decaying. Nuclear is renewable in human civilisation time scale.
> The proposal would raise more than $360bn over the next decade

So... $36 billion per year, roughly.

Biden's 2022 budget was $6 trillion, or about $16 billion per day.

In the extremely unlikely event that the money actually gets collected (rather than being finessed by tax attorneys and accountants), it would fund the federal government for less than 3 days.
Juno – Open-Source Platform for Interoperable Smart Contracts
I consistently run into listings that people put up and are not interested in selling when it comes to completing the sale. I tell them I'm ready, live near by, and I want to buy and ask where and when they want to meet. This is where they shut down because they realize that they don't want to invest any time in the logistics of the sale.

It is easy for these serial flake-outs to pollute the community because it is so easy to list and there are no threats of getting banned from selling for the bad behavior.

I have tried to buy items that were listed by multiple sellers in my area and I could only get maybe 20% follow-through. The same thing happens when selling. Aside: The trend of flake-out versus follow-through follows clear gender lines. When I see that the buyer/seller is a certain gender I know the likelyhood of follow-through is far greater and so I focus my attention on that buyer/seller.

Tldr; buying and selling on FBMP is painful.
“Stop having an opinion on everything because at the end of the day nobody’s opinion matters.”

…don’t you see how nihilist this sounds? And also unrealistic. You will have opinions, everyone has opinions and beliefs and feelings or else they wouldn’t be able to function on a day to day basis. There is a scale to beliefs and opinions, based on how informed those beliefs and opinions are, and how well they mesh with conditions in your everyday life. It’s important to inform your opinions and beliefs; the news, however flawed in its current state, forms at least one source of that information.

I think that taking all of this as one absolute or another is unnecessarily polarizing this debate. It is very easy to argue that them news media economy is quite poisonous, but that doesn’t mean that all of the information is useless. For example: I need to prepare for a storm that is approaching the area, I need to know if a COVID wave is nearing so I know to be more careful, I need to know if parking rules change or trash day is being moved. These immediate events affect my actions directly and so I must pay attention, sifting through the other crap as necessary.

But even beyond that, this resignation to political nihilism is societally destructive. Like it or not, we are all connected in a society. Our actions affect others. We have shared infrastructure and services we all contribute to and benefit from. Part of that responsibility is a participation in politics. Is it currently toxic and despairing? Certainly. But sticking your head in the sand isn’t an option, as we depend on cooperation in order to preserve a society on any level and that requires coordination.

Should we reduce our news consumption? Of course. But we also shouldn’t eschew all outside information and live in a self-imposed bubble. Maybe skip the entertainment section and focus on stuff that impacts you directly. If there is something that is shallowly followed by the news that sounds important, of course dig into longer-form articles until you understand it in full or discard it if it is important. Discretion matters.
Re Riverside forums: PyQt isn't Qt and isn't even the official Python bindings for Qt, but a third-party product. Only a small part of Qt is GPL, the vast majority is LGPL (always with commercial as the alternative). (Indeed, given that PyQt is GPL + commercial third-party, it seems to show that dual-licensing components that link to Qt is indeed possible)
There is a startup idea in there.
Biden budget requests big increase for cybersecurity
Okay, so I hit the "Resend verification email" link and check my inbox, nothing just yet. I wait a little longer. It's odd that I immediately got a security email about the login from a new IP, but I've not received this verification email yet.

This was definitely a bug and it's been fixed the rolled out. Sorry that happened.
I've also spent a lot of time on a side project (gravametrics.com). I never spent $40k on it but I've instead done everything myself and it appears to be a non-starter.

I think you need something with a very concise value prop I'm working on that for my next thing right now. Something simple.

FYI don't use AWS for these sorts of projects use something cheaper.
I thought the point of SMRs is that they can be built more quickly?
Maybe that is a fair comparison for IT as a profit center. If seems that wouldn't work so well for IT as a cost center.
Also I should mention one big difference between Bazel/Blaze and GN (and Gyp) is that the latter doesn't do the actual build, it generates a build that Ninja executes, instead.

Blaze owns the whole thing, executes the toolchain, etc.

Blaze is also very much built for the monorepo model we had in Google3. Not that it won't work in other scenarios, but that's where it came from: one repo and when it comes to third party dependencies, one version, etc. And cross-compiling on it felt awkward. GN/Ninja support for multiple toolchains and cross-compiling felt more thought-through, by necessity.
This is how I imagine browser support for markdown could work. Plain text comes in over the wire and is rendered to taste.
> if the above made you think I support Russia, or the war, you might be brainwashed

Yeah, well, you say that but you're here continuously defending them, and you're bringing up weak arguments. Upthread you've also said you "read RT daily", and maybe that has something to do with it.

FWIW, I'm extremely familiar with the Russian side of the argument. Not everyone is because not everyone is interested in digging into geopolitical issues that don't concern them directly beyond reading the news over breakfast cereal or vaguely scrolling a couple of retweets. This doesn't imply they're "brainwashed" or that we "suppress information"; I had no trouble at all finding all of Putin's idiotic arguments since 0224.

Of course, you can play right into his hands and "discuss NATO" or some shit, as if there is ANY justification to the war crimes and atrocities being committed every day. Civilians being explicitly targeted, hospitals and shelters being bombed, chemical weapons being used, and so on.

"Yes but you see, NATO" is justifying the unjustifiable.
The availability of uranium really isn't the problem.

And I know the tech community loves thinking of themselves as supremely rational scientists immune to the follies of emotions. But no actual physicist (or physician) thinks a fear of radioactivity is something that needs to be overcome. Those that work with such material respect the inherent danger. They try to overcome the danger, using a bit of fear to stay concentrated (and get the funding).

Declaring your willingness to install a mini-reactor in your garden shed, as sometimes happens in these discussions, is the hallmark of scientism.

Really the whole debate is mostly scientism: nuclear power didn't lose because it was too dangerous. It lost because it is too expensive. These days, it's still too expensive, but now it also just takes too long for it to be useful for the climate emergency.

Actual scientists and competent tech people have driven the costs of solar and wind power, as well as storage, down by several orders of magnitude. But tech bros are emotional: they consider those technologies to be girly, and therefore still bring up big hairy nuclear reactors whenever anyone fails at avoiding them at parties.

Nuclear power is not a technology of the future, it is just a technology of a future, specifically the future of the 1960s or so. It's funny how your forward-looking worldview can turn all retro on you within just a few decades.
I wish I could say this surprised me.
International and national news are often important, but rarely immediate. By not immediate I mean that you can't affect it, it won't affect you and you don't have to do anything about it. Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe? Interesting, but nothing to do with me really. Ship stuck sideways in a canal? That might cause problems at work later and maybe I should get that bike I was planning on now rather than later, but I'll be fine. War between nearby countries that produce oil and food... I better check my emergency stocks are in good shape and that full electric car sounds good right about now? And so on, important and some of them will affect you, but usually with a delay or in a roundabout way.

Local on the other hand. Very immediate, but often not that important, at least outside your local area. Sometimes you can even affect things and if it's something that can affect you and requires action, it might be a matter of hours. Water main breaks, you won't have running water for three days? Fill up buckets, head to the store, right now! But that's a minor inconvenience compared to international news, if they end up affecting you.
It was posted before multiple times and generated 2 big discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825917
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551
Most likely the US, Canada and Australia each have enough uranium to power the world (we know for certain that Canada and Australia do, their known deposits are massive). The US doesn't even bother to look for uranium deposits, it has no intention of aggressively mining for it domestically.
> Academia has a reproducibility crisis.

Isn't that largely isolated to psychology and related "soft" sciences? I have not heard of a physics or chemistry reproducibility crisis. Not to mention that dowsing violates basic physics/chemistry that predate any "reproducibility crisis".

You may be right though that people trust science less. This is really funny considering how much science (that has to work) underpins something like an iPhone.
> Yes, in the last Olympics. The article also covers dozens of olympics prior, where the US also failed to win gold.

Dozens? Baseball has only been in as a medal awarding non-exhibition sport in 6 Olympics (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2020).

In 1992 and 1996 it was only open to amateurs. The countries where professional baseball player is a full time job sent players from their college teams. The only big baseball country that could actually send its top players was Cuba because the players on their top teams nominally have other jobs and were technically amateurs even though they actually trained and played baseball full time.

Starting with 2000 pros were allowed, but MLB did not allow its players to go in 2000, 2004, or 2008. The US continued sending college players. The lack of the world's top players participating was a big factor in the IOC's decision to drop baseball from the 2012 and 2016 games.

It return in 2020 and MLB did allow its players to participate, but none of its top players went [1].

[1] https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31922257/olympics-2...
Are you talking about several years? Decades?
I feel like I've done this exact story before... more than once.

The problem is you don't ever make something NOBODY wants. Then it would be so easy to walk away.

You make something a few people want, and a lot of people SAY they want, but they don't want it enough to pay you so much that your company can succeed rapidly, so you waste a lot of time and die slowly.
Half a decade? That isn’t happening even in China…
The short term reward of feeling good about completing a feature or fixing a bug is intoxicating. Even learning a new skill can quickly make you feel better about yourself. It's easy to justify that spending excess time on things like this because it has a clear ROI - you become a better developer, you get paid more, you feel smarter.

Just be careful to also invest in things that have a more distant ROI. Family, kids, health, friends, community service, mental health, spirituality - whatever it is that you value.

If you are unfamiliar with what else there is out there that can bring happiness, I'd suggest reading "How will you measure your life?" by Clayton Christensen. He's the same guy that wrote the "Innovators Dilemma".
> I'm sure there will be some good games soon about how insane it is that there's anti-vaxxers, or election deniers.

Or a game where people think they can make a difference by voting harder!
BGP routing hijack, and some providers not implementing RPKI filtering:

https://twitter.com/DougMadory/status/1508466367112093709
> It seems as if you don't even know the Russian side.

Most people know this. But Ukraine was not even able to join NATO because of disputed territories. So in case of Ukraine argument about NATO threat is pretty naive.
How Reddit Made Risky Trades So Popular
It's good that there's plenty of games the author probably hasn't played yet.

I get pressing back against what seems like to be a growing trend of exploiting whales (although that doesn't seem to be the exact point they're trying to make), but on the other hand there are a few Castlevania games I can play on my 3DS that I missed when they first came out. I'd just as soon play one of those than worry about what's on Steam.

And on the other finger, even if you only care for contemporary games, Elden Ring just came out and has a TON of content before having to buy any DLC/whatever.
We called this the WWW back in the day using Gopher and then web browsers with HTML ;)

Tags introduced in HTML 1.0:
<TITLE>, <NEXTID>, Base Address, <A>, <ISINDEX>, <PLAINTEXT>, <LISTING>, <P>, <H1>..., <ADDRESS>, <HP1>..., <DL> (with <DT> and <DD>), <UL> (with <LI>), <MENU> and <DIR>.

Gemtext 1.0(?) markup: headlines (three levels), list items, pre-formatted text, quotes, links.

Not sure what you mean with 100% content-centric. No ads?
Brutalist Websites?
I think WhatsApp would need something equivalent to the dehydrated device on Matrix so that you could receive messages even if you're offline on all devices, I guess they're need to provide an open API for that as well?
I'm aiming to keep my job. So until the bosses actually start measuring outcome, I'm stuck with output.
Some interesting discussion starting on Reddit as well.

Notably, sir_bok says: ... it is better to be uniformly slow than to risk a performance cliff where everything seems fine until it suddenly isn't. At least uniformly bad performance (or a gradual performance decline) is predictable and can be worked around by the users. You also have more time to react.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/tpw6fq/new_exte...
Having an absolute shit-show for a healthcare and education system falls under "not perfect". I'll freely admit a good many Americans (even most) would be better off living in Europe. But there are many of us that just can't accept not being able to express whatever we like. "Human dignity" is an admirable goal, but the extent and reach of that is subject to whomever is in power.
Do you have kids?

This makes no sense from my perspective.

I could literally put myself through anything that I needed to, if it meant the safety or well-being of my children. It's not a company, it's a primal force from thousands of years of primordial reinforcement. I'd manage with less capital, so that my kids have a chance at college. I'd manage with less chance of promotion, so that my kids can have my presence at important functions. I'd manage with anything that arose, if it meant something better for them.

I think it's important to understand, and deeply internalize the personal responsibility that adult life brings and the extent to which our decisions influence the things that end up happening, but this analogy of yours borders on psychosis if taken to it's literal end.

A little deeper still, and I think what you're really pointing at is the boundary that decisions can't cross, that certain things are out of our control. Risk management can come into play, but ultimately risk can never be negated. You can only shift it. You can evade the risk of being run over by a bus by never leaving home, but maybe that raises the risk of dying in a house fire, or by being poisoned by lead paint, etc. These aren't "company decisions" they're just a byproduct of life in the natural realm.

I sincerely hope that you don't actually conduct this thinking deep into your lifestyle, perceiving things as though one big company spreadsheet of assets and liabilities.

Much love, friend.
A very small number of people innovate naturally to begin with, and they do it since the youngest of ages up until way past accepted ranges.

Very few cultures support any of this, and most actively discourage innovation if it presents the possibility of leading to change.

Over the millennia, the child that innovates has been systematically discouraged by many distinct systems.

Regardless, as we have seen, not every one can be stopped.

Less-natural innovation which is cultivated later in life is good too, but most cultures don't know what they're missing.
This is still a misunderstanding of Menger. Menger's argument is not that societies were organized around barter at all.

He argues that where barter exists, people will quickly converge onto one or more forms of money for organizing trade. Even if it is not the intention of individual tradesmen, some astute traders will realize that they can profit by matchmaking (a necessity when there is a double-coincidence of wants). These astute traders will pick commodities which have the best saleability (those which are mostly likely to be accepted in exchange for other goods, and which retain value) as their means of measuring trade value. The successful traders will in turn, define which commodities emerges as the common monies in that economy, because traders who chose other (less saleable) commodities as their unit of measure will not be as successful.

It is not surprising that there are no historical documents outlining this, for it would likely pre-date even the written word by centuries or millennia. If it were the intention of a matchmaker to profit from establishing trades through use of goods with high saleability, they would also not likely advertise their tactics willingly, as they would be in competition with others attempting to make similar trades.

There are many historical accounts of monies being displaced when new, superior forms of money enter into economies, which is an extension of Menger's thesis (Also known as Thiers' Law). If a society is using a form of money which for whatever reason becomes much less saleable, and a new commodity enters the market which is more saleable, the more saleable commodity will eventually displace the old money.

So if it were the case that silver was selected (by who?) as the first money, 'for reasons', it seems like they hit jackpot on first try, for silver would remain the most saleable commodity for millennia until it would be later displaced by gold. Call me sceptic, but I don't buy such coincidences.
By that logic, solar isn't renewable because it'll "run out" in 5 billion years.
It's not bad and any other time l would have welcomed it.

But timing of it is bad, and makes me think they might be looking for easy path to weaponization.
Oft reposted, usually engenders an interesting discussion about MVPs though so I enjoy reading the comments everytime
Way too long before testing any sort of product market fit, but I'm surprised the author didn't think to pitch to insurance companies.
RPC is literally calling a remote function over the network without the infrastructure of HTTP - you implement it in your code not too different from a normal function call (you do have to use an Interface Description Language to mark some parameters as "in" and "out").

It's a substandard way to implement distributed computing, because:

- it assumes you and the remote end are in lockstep which is hard to guarantee at scale;

- if you and your remote end are not in lockstep you get weird hangs in your program because you are pretending code is on your machine when it's not;

- an infrastructure must exist to make sure you are calling the remote code you intend, including things like component registration, etc. and for the amount of work required to make that work well, you might as well write a TCP/IP server. With TLS and other authentication mechanisms, current CPU speeds and JSON and HTTP becoming de facto messaging formats you might as well use all of that for remote API access instead of literally trying to send what's pretty much raw function calls over a wire.
I have a way to monetize this: start charging Nestlé. Currently they are extracting billions of gallons of water every year from California aquifers for free so that they can sell it back to us for two dollars a bottle. Put a stop to this now.
And we get to know, that 3 days of US federal government, is 1 day of Elon Musk :-)

"How world's richest person Elon Musk made $36 billion in a day"

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/how...