skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then you learn about survivorship bias.
Disclaimer: I'm not a web developer nor a journalist/blogger, whatever.

My non-expert, likely useless, take on this:

Don't use Twitter's technology. If you're interested in quoting a tweet to create a public take a screenshot, copy of the text, quote it and provide a link. Simple.

If part of your post links, or portals, to another site you don't control it's not part of your blog/post/site. Complaining when remote content changes is pointless. You're not capturing what was when you link to remote content managed by someone else you're capturing something live, it's not a public record. It isn't quoting anything.
Automation is not only about saving time, it's also about guaranteeing consistency and quality.
Yes, the soundtrack and setting was objectively the best part of that game
The one guy's thesis that we're wasting effort is probably correct, given the valuation is due to low interest rates. What's the Keynes quote about paying people to dig holes?
I don't think it's a Schlieren setup. As the article notes, they had dust/smoke being emitted by the platform to show the wind.
> but it still feels anti-competitive.

Why? _NeevaScope_ seems like _NervoScope_. And _NervoScope_ is a lot better known term.
Have you tried PackageCompiler.jl?
None of the major sites that deal with languages (wikipedia, google translate, deepl) ever use flags to represent languages.

In the case of your website, however, I don't see why you need to specify the language of each entry. Is it a sort of "warning" for non-english entries? It seems unnecessary. And why aren't entries in English marked with the flag of the USA? (or Canada, or South Africa).
Cool. I will check it out.

Edit: on the wait list
The average HN reader isn’t at all like that, though some will love to advertise their high-school math skills to justify their lack of care with a high brow witticism.
> People don’t want this.

Yeah, and that's why Kagi.com is bigger and bigger.
That really depends on the distro you choose.

There are very stable distros (e.g.: openSUSE, Fedora, neon, Ubuntu...)
Mainly that manifests itself in problems when opening and closing and the lid of my laptop, or problems with controlling the fans

To be fair, I've had plenty of problems of this nature with Windows as well. Apple is the only company that has solved this, and they do it by controlling both the hardware and the software very tightly. Writing software that works well 'out of the box' on any laptop is basically impossible, even Microsoft is unable to do it.

Your only real alternative is to buy a laptop from a company like System76 that sell Linux optimised laptops and offer Linux specific support and warranty or perhaps a Linux certified laptop from a company like Dell. But then you lose the freedom to choose whatever laptop you want, and you will end up paying a premium over cheaper laptop brands with the 'same' specs.

Basically if you want something that is 'guaranteed' to work you have to limit yourself to very short list of pre-approved hardware. If you want something that will work on any hardware, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and hack. This is true for both Windows and Linux.
I'd probably have a beautiful full head of hair still...
I'm curious about this project.

Web development benefits a lot from near-instant recompilations, which I heard aren't possible with the Julia programming language as codebases grow. Is that still the case?
I keep 4 boxes (2 hours) at least for programming and studying something deep.
Ask HN: How to index all possible HN new links?
If your employer confiscates your passport in the UAE, you just have to call 80060 and you’ll have the police bringing it back to you real soon. It is illegal for employers to do that, and enforcement is swift.

All low-skill immigrant workers have to watch an hour long video explaining this (and all their other rights) in order to get their visa.

——

Edit: Sorry, I can’t reply to you below darkteflon. I’ve seen the worker camps, but I’ve also extensively toured India and it’s neighboring countries. UAE and Qatar only look bad when compared with the West, but in reality they’re doing more to help these people than the Western countries which would never even grant them visas.

> This is not a Rule of Law jurisdiction

Sure, I agree. I have a plenty of bad things to say about these countries, but I think that their treatment of migrant workers is a particularly weak criticism.

I’ll accept the criticism as valid the day Western countries start offering visas to similar categories of migrant workers.
I can't deny Python's success, but I wouldn't hold it up paragon of change management, either. 13+ years after the release of Python 3 and 2+ years after 2.7's EOL, I'm still dealing with Python dependencies that don't work on Python 3 because maintainers preferred to pretend that Python 3 wasn't happening and that Python 2.7 would be around forever.

It's confusing as heck trying to figure out what I should even expect to work, because some authors treat it as obvious that their code will work on both Python 2 and Python 3, while other authors treat it as obvious that they still only support Python 2.

I've had a lot less trouble with merged /usr. I guess it's not a fair comparison, but it does suggest to me that there are more important factors at play.
I haven’t used Genie (though after this post I am tempted!) but I imagine compilation overhead would only occur once (e.g. the first time each route is used) and that you could pretty easily use precompile statements and/or PackageCompiler.jl to do the compilation before the service goes live. After that point, Julia should have produced fast code and provides a good runtime for these kinds of async/multithreaded applications with built-in M:N scheduling (perhaps a concurrent/multithreaded GC might help reduce tail latency but I imagine it should already be competitive with everything but well-written Rust/C++/C).
How? Really. I've tried and didn't find this, checked to 5th page.
I think there's a big difference between what you choose to share about yourself and what gets taken from you without your knowledge and/or permission. You don't have to "go dark" to remain private. The problem is the massive dragnet of data collection that happens behind our backs!
That is precisely the argument made in Agence France Presse v Morel [0], cited in the article I linked to. One of the statements to come out of that rather drawn out and complicated case is:

> plainly sufficient for the jury to conclude that AFP’s infringement was willful under either an actual knowledge or reckless disregard theory

Assuming that you would be covered under fair use, is a "reckless disregard" for theory if you comprehend the copyright situation at all. These things are very, very, complicated and you cannot simply assume that you have the safety to copy a tweet.

[0] https://www.loeb.com/en/insights/publications/2014/08/agence...
Being creative is not a good thing for business success. It is better to take a well-known thing and put a little bit of your own spin to it or simply to combine two popular things.

If you create anything truly revolutionary it will be an uphill battle. You wont be able to communicate what you product does in just a few words. Worse it will require potential customers to actual make a mental shift. You will have lost their attention before you can even get to the benefits. This is why the first one to develop something new will rarely see success, only those later that copy it when the ground work has already been laid.
I was comparing a new terminal app to a different new terminal application that happens to be on a different platform.
Maybe I'm succumbing to the cynical zeitgeist, but I figure the future will be primarily whatever the wealthy minority wants. If that's so, then maybe the best hope for people like me is a future like the one portrayed in the opening of Ready Player Two (generally not a very good book), where a VR-obsessed multi-billionaire funds work on neural interfaces, starting with implants for disabled people and culminating in the OASIS Neural Interface headset. Yes, it would feel wrong to be used as a means to an end, but it would answer the question of how a world-dominating VR as depicted in those books could be made accessible.
https://kagi.com/faq#kagi-old

> That Kagi went bankrupt in an unfortunate turn of events. We liked the name and acquired it when we got the chance.
It should also be noted that, while this change is Linux-specific, it does not directly break software which also targets BSD or nix-like OSs.

Files that were previously in /usr/bin or in /bin can now be found in EITHER of these locations, since one symlinks the other. So no previous expectation was really broken.

Only software built on merged systems fails to run on unðmerged systems. This should not really happen, since the usr merge was a one way trip, not a flag that you're supposed to turn on and off. You'd also never build dynamically linked binaries for BSD on Linux, so that should not be an issue.

But, for some reason, Debian chose to make this merge something that individual systems could turn on and off, which is a terrible idea for part of the base system. It's like letting users pick if they way `/bin` or `/binaries`. Having such heterogenous setups in regards to something so basic and foundational is asking for breakage.
> A graph over nuclear waste would have no correlation with the market price. At most one would see a slightly more volatile market price when nuclear energy production is low, and a slightly more stable market price when the production is high, but one would need to have a pretty fancy graphical design in order to confer that knowledge in a graph.

Does the market price correlate really better with CO2 emissions? Does the price drop between 21 Dec and 31 Dec from ~430/515 €/MWh to ~12/23 €/MWh mean that CO2 emissions of energy production dropped by 95% at the same time?
> I would have called a streaming service for gamers to be watched by adoring fans utter stupidity. Maybe that’s also why I’m not rich.

Is Discord profitable yet? Reported revenue and users is up significantly post-covid, but that does not necessarily mean there are profits. Your instincts may be under-estimated.
What about Boeing? They had a substantial design group in Russia.
We're in an infinite stack of simulations is what I like to think. Now we're unveiling quantum mechanics it seems the rules are what you would find in an game, things act different when obeserved, like it's an optimisation.

Uncertainty is added in the mix just so stuff would evolve and change, to make the simulation worthwhile.

I think we're in an infinite stack because, if our universe or experience is in fact simulated, and we anticipate that with enough energy and resources we too could simulate a full-fledged universe (which I think is likely). Then the odds of our parent universe also being a simulation are basically 100%, and their parent would also be simulated and so on.

Take no man's sky, I mean sure it's orders of magnitude simpler than an actual universe, but it's an 18 Quintillion planet universe simulation, and when you land on a planet there's animals, plants, buildings. All of it originated from a seed with an algorithm that will fill in the details based on the seed.

Infinities stretch in every direction, and the bottom line is that it's all really irrelavant! I try not to think of it too much, focus on what you enjoy and assume this is the only live you will live, get out of your comfort zone.
I apologize in advance, but former US Army member with some gripes (well meaning though) against this group:

The ARL has been in somewhat significant trouble in Austin, Texas. There has been quite lukewarm (although not specifically negative) comments from Congress. Nothing has been really produced ... ever ... and this code is nice ... but "meh".

In particular the IG is looking at grossly inflated housing subsidies to several generals who wound up living in 5000~ sq ft housing (and between 5th and 15th street downtown). In return special deals were given to BAH providers in San Antonio for millions of dollars.

Lastly, and I wound up contacting DISA in Ohio about this, ARL would use the .army TLD from the registrar Donuts for a long period in the beginning. Obviously very bad for security, and not even sure how that gTLD got greenlighted in the first place.
> I don't really think that it'll be a threat to Google

They don't want to.

https://kagi.com/faq#Google-killer

> We don't want to kill Google :) Google serves a purpose in the world and it did help enable the modern society to exist, with all its marvels and flaws. Heck, it even enables Kagi to exist!
>
> Think of Kagi as a small, premium brand, providing a very different, tailor-made, search experience.
Sigh, always.

The users have been banned, it's just that no mods were around at that time.

We strictly don't allow any GrapheneOS talk at all on our channels due to this drama. I don't know what else to do.

See: https://view.matrix.org/room/!aPqEsAdWuysydZNCic:matrix.org/...

Not the thing one wants to wake up to, but what can you do.

Disclosure: CalyxOS lead developer.
> Today’s digital natives have grown up in a world of screens and electronics. The traditional paper and pencil convention is considered antiquated and, to some extent, ridiculed. In fact, research across the globe has found a growing reluctance amongst young people to exercise their right to vote in elections.

“In fact”? If the claim is there are young people who believe voting is important but don’t do it because it uses pencil and paper, you need to back it up with more than a vague mention of unspecified “research across the globe”.

> MIT researchers claimed that internet and blockchain-based voting (…) would have little to no effect on voter turnout

They go on to describe how their own self-defined “next generation Blockchain platform” tackles voting (you need to provide a photo ID which is stored by a third-party) but have zero response to the MIT conclusion, despite that problem being ostensibly the point of the post.
Next job might not exist yet
It’s frankly quite shocking how many people here are okay with this. I think most HNers are quite sheltered and unaware exactly how tough life for many people in the world and cannot accept it.
The full quote: “We have no ambition to emulate the likes of Y Combinator, or even Kima Ventures, from the start. But we aspire to what they have built — our ultimate goal is to get to that level.”. When read like this it sounds like eventually he would like to build something like Y Combinator.
I think you are making a mistake here comparing probability of death in a general population and a population of migrant workers. In general population there are people of different ages, including very old people, people with incurable illnesses, people with poor health. For comparison, migrants are generally more healthy because otherwise they wouldn't be able to do their job. For example, migrant workers are unlikely to die from being too old. Therefore, the probability of death from natural reasons for a migrant should be lower.

So we can assume that those 6500 people probably died because of other reasons, like traffic accidents, workplace accidents, bad living conditions, not getting medical treatment, and so on.
What offensive word in the URL?
I'll give you an example.

Lets say that you love to cook meat at barbecues. You love all the aspects of the cooking: type of meat, time, taste, condiments...

Another guy comes and asks you to be the local meat cutter at a store, as a job.

Would you accept? My answer would be no (its just a hobby for me).

Also, you can do a vocational test. If every area has the same %, that means you could go study to any area, so just go for it.
I see substack.com has become the new medium.com, welcome to my blocklist. Lots of low-substance, clickbait articles from this domain lately.

No idea how these articles manage to reach the front page.
The Geforce 4 MX was a rip-off, trying to extract money from people who didn't know better. It lacked shaders entirely, so it was, feature-wise, on the same level as the first GF from 1999.
You're missing the bigger picture.

US startups <<grow>> in the US, the huge single market with a single language, then once they're big and can tackle the bureaucracy in order to get to the huge chunks of cash also available in Europe, they <<move>> into the EU.

A not-so-huge startup by US standards can have hundreds of millions of dollars very early in its life, allowing it to switch to international expansion, while most of the equivalent EU startup would probably raise tens of millions by the same stage, if they're lucky.
Unfortunately that is currently not supported since Android Auto is a proprietary app and needs system / OS level privileges to actually work.
> the average HN user has absolutely no idea how rough conditions these migrant workers tend to come from

But do we want to frame it that way? Does it matter where you come from or where you come to? We're talking about Qatar here and if the numbers are correct, they're doing a bad job at keeping those people alive. Saying "it's worse where they come from" is not actually a defense. You judge the situation, not the trend. You can be better and still be terrible at the same time.
Nice straw man argument. Do you think it might be possible to invite migrants workers in _and_ treat them like humans?
I suspect this is an unfortunate consequence of the fact that people nowadays say “card-carrying member of the X” to say “really believed in the X”. In this case, the fact that he was a decorated Luftwaffe volunteer pilot in WW 2 made the author believe that he “really believed in the Nazi cause”.

I suspect the “need to make false statements” here is more accident than intention.

Anyway, I’m glad you corrected this.
Communism as the rule of "the proletariat" instead of a ruling nobility has created the worst horrors of the 20th century. You may think of monarchy and communism as the same thing "because they are dictatorships", because the frame of reference you are used to is contrasting everything to "democracy", but they really really are not.
The controversy surrounding the ranges in numbers has been a topic for many years. To your point, the 37 number has been quoted as a rebuttal to the 6,500 number, but from my memory, the 37 number has its own set of weak assumptions, and controversy on measurement. I forget what those are, but you’re right- it’s unclear and this article adds to confusion/controversy rather than substantiates the 6,500 figure.
IPC and caches have grown a lot (and obviously core count, dramatically).

A 2000 to 2005 ish pentium might have 50 to 200 million transistors, an M1 Pro is more like 12 billion.
Do you really not see the difference? Based on your name, you clearly deal with data.
Yes and it's tricky because in one side you're siding with the person that copied it, and in another, with the original author of the tweet.
For the Indian death rate figure I used the one for male 35-39 year olds, because that's where Qatar's population pyramid peaks.
> or a UG for €1 - but then I can't add other shareholders until I pay an additional €25k to convert it to a GmbH.

Could you elaborate on this, or point to a source? The way I understand the mini-GmbH model (UG) there is no limitations regarding shareholders versus a standard GmbH.

Not saying you’re wrong, I’m by far not an expert but I looked into creating a Unternehmergesellschaft ~1 year ago and don’t remember reading about that type of thing.
> By right-justifying instead, the left edge of the text is made varying, and your eyes have an easier time picking the correct next line.

Is there any research done on this?

> You actually experience physical pain?

No. It slows down my reading and it makes it difficult to understand text.
That doesn’t mean one should take any lazy journalism seriously though.
Finland tried to help Norway against German occupation 1940, but realized soon that the Norwegian "Army" was just peace-loving nanny boys with two weeks of training in pea-shooting and parading. This might been the crucial moment which made Finland to fully ally with the winning side. There is a story of this expedition by one Simo Brofield: https://www-saunalahti-fi.translate.goog/arnoldus/brofeldt.h...
Most of my spreadsheets are long lived, I wouldn't want to risk tying them to something ephemeral like a Google account.
> If we're speaking of FAKE_SIGNATURE.... No it doesn't? If implemented properly

We've always heavily restricted as well.

https://calyxos.org/docs/tech/microg-details/

> Really, please tell me in which threat model does using microg hinders security, maybe we can find a fix. So far, I've never heard any.

I keep asking the same to anyone bringing this up. We'd be happy to even submit patches to microG for any issues found and reported.
It just goes to show how little agency these workers have. One dumb story drawing outsized conclusions with bad data has people claiming Qatar is A-OK because the story is wrong.

It may very well be that workers have a lower death rate in Qatar than in the medieval-level conditions of their home countries, but that doesn't excuse indentured servitude (actual modern slavery) which is what many face in Qatar and UAE.

In the 1700's British slave traders brought Africans to the new world where most lived longer lives than they would have in their homelands. How does that reflect badly on British slave traders? </sarcasm>
I didn't downvote, but the UK was middle of the pack amongst European countries in terms of Covid deaths and economic damage. It's just our media focused on anything that'd make us look worse, like comparing total deaths without adjusting for population size or cherry-picking specific time periods to yell about. Also, pretty much the whole of Europe pursued very similar policies so that comparison isn't going to tell you much anyway.
If you think 60m per day is a lot of cardio, you need to improve how you get your heart rate up.

Treatmills and stationary bikes are boring; going for a run or hopping on a bicycle works much better.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is a Federal agency and they might have a thing or two to say if Disney actually tried to build a nuclear plant, state laws notwithstanding.

I wish Disney would make the attempt though, we need someone to push forward with building new nuclear plants.
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Article stops halfway through with an ellipsis on iPhone. Nothing seems to open the rest of the article. Not even requesting the desktop version fixes this.
> Do you think those people (and their families!) would have been better off if they stayed in Kerala?

Probably not, but the consequence of that shouldn't be to excuse unnecessarily dangerous or abusive working conditions. I think it is morally good to pay people just a few dollars an hour if the alternative to that is that they have nothing. The people who advocate for trade barriers to stop such things are only harming the poor people that they are pretending to care for. But these workers should at least get a safe and respectful work environment. There is too much bullying and abuse that these people face in their work environments which serves no business purpose. It's a big problem in East Asia and the Middle East especially.
They really missed an opportunity when they made the switch from py2 to 3 to break things a bit more but give more improvement in exchange
A Real Working Invisibility Shield
> Now consider scale and profitability and you need even more people to grow tech cost consciously.

This seems intuitively false. Adding more people to tech domains can actually decrease effectiveness with more expense, resulting in lower profits. Obviously, there is a sweet spot, but Twitter is a basic product regardless of how many countries it operates within.