skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome news for those who prefer not to use Chromium browsers. Between Safari, Orion [1], and DDG, macOS starts to have a competitive landscape for native browsing. Will definitely try once they will implement password syncing.

[1] https://browser.kagi.com
I just want my own land, to do my own shit on, not bother anyone, and not be bothered by anyone. Why is this so hard? Why do we want to be controlling other's actions so greatly through the implied threat of government violence?

Edit: why disagree?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/tozxzp/the_web_...
Bad faith arguments can be as simple as a slogan.
Democrats Need to Run on the War
That sounds right, I can relate to the curation effect.
Whether it's another factor promoting success or against it remains to be explored
Technically, you don't have to. But is that not what you are really supposed to be doing? Who wants to write a Quick app without QML? That would be incredibly painful, I think.

And unless I'm mistaken, if you're doing anything with JavaScript, that's all defined in QML. I don't think there's a way around that, unless I'm mistaken. And often times you need JS to achieve certain things in the separate memory space where the Quick widget is being executed. What that means is that there's a wall between Quick and C++ even if you are instantiating Quick widgets from C++.

While Quick widgets technically share memory space with the rest of the app code, any sort of UI behavior is expected to be handled by JavaScript, which doesn't run in the same memory space, and of course it's not going to in any case because it's not C++. So when data is shared, it has to be type converted, which can become a problem if you even slightly wander off the beaten path:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtqml-cppintegration-data.html#conver...

If you could elaborate on why I'm wrong, I'd certainly appreciate it. It's been about 3 months since I decided to entirely ditch anything involving Quick/QML, so I could be easily misremembering aspects of it.

In no way am I saying that someone shouldn't use Quick if they find that it works well for them. I find Quick's argument versus nearly all alternatives to be lacking. The primary argument against Electron is that it's bulky, and I think that's absolutely the case. The argument for Electron, however, is using the full web stack, which everyone knows how to use, and if you need performance to use WASM and workers, and that makes a lot more sense to me than something that even most C++ devs aren't familiar with that still forces you into dealing with all of Qt's compiler quirks.
Presumably you either get a backup or crack open a window. It will be noticeably stuffy long before it incapacitates you.
The Level Design of Dead Cells (2020)
This is a moralistic argument, and may be more or less convincing depending on personal values.

My argument against racism would be a practical one: racism is used to divide the working class against itself, it's another wedge issue just like gay marriage or abortion. It's necessary to combat this divisive rhetoric, because otherwise we won't have the strength to collectively resist the real evils.
This is exactly the kind of comment I was hoping to see. May I ask, what kinds of things are you using zapier for that are not just nice to haves. Something that you would say it pays for itself (increases revenue somehow)
So, my workflow basically involves switching between terminal, browser and emacs. With macOS’s scheme, if I switch from emacs->browser, I can always hit switch back to emacs without having to parse the switcher, even if I’ve opened a new browser window for some reason. On windows/linux, when I open a new browser window, alt-tab goes back to another browser window, not back to the other “task”.
Show HN: Factor.fyi – use SQL to visualize financial, crypto and econ datasets
Hey HN,

I'm Steve, co-founder of Factor.fyi, a new data platform for querying and visualizing financial datasets using SQL. During the pandemic, I took much more of an active role in managing my portfolio. I wanted to be able to make informed decisions about the investments I was making, and explore financial data in new ways. Market and Econ data are some of the most talked-about and widely-available datasets out there, but I was frustrated by the lack of options to answer questions I had, like, "What would have happened if I had started dollar-cost averaging VTI back in 2013?"[1] Or, "How many days did BTC and ETH move in the same direction as the S&P500?"[2]. We built Factor to answer these questions. You can use Factor to query disparate datasets in ways that are impossible on any other platform. We currently have 20 datasets [3] that you can use to answer questions you have about the markets and create beautiful visualizations around them. Factor is community-powered and free forever; you can browse our community-built charts here [4].

We'd love to get feedback from the HN community, hear your thoughts on what datasets we can add, and get advice on how we can make the querying experience even easier for those new to SQL.

[1]: https://factor.fyi/questions/dollar-cost-averaging-the-marke...
[2]: https://factor.fyi/questions/s-p-btc-dia-correlation-factor-...
[3]: https://factor.fyi/docs/dataset-reference
[4]: https://factor.fyi/browse
>Gamers are tired of copy and paste money grabs, full of bugs on launch and overhyped to the moon.

If this was actually true, the companies you mentioned wouldn't be selling a ton of games and gambling gimmicks didn't need to get banned for companies to stop putting them in their games. In reality, successful companies are better off iterating on their existing games and systems a few times until the sales die down, then maybe release a few later for nostalgia and move on. It's much less effort, less risky, and it plays better into the expectations most people have.

This has been going on for well over a decade. It's not like people haven't had the chance to see the trends yet.
Biden can't use the war time production act... cause we're not at war.
The Tech Backlash
Do they? They were previously refusing to hire BIPOC candidates?
Okay, fair enough.

But I don't think the average user would consider this "unbiased" and "not filtered" as DDG has claimed their results are.

https://reclaimthenet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screens...
>The process of companies building products that strip away use-cases from horizontal platforms is called “unbundling”.

Is there a more plain English explanation what this means?

I didn't understand their explanation, and then they showed Zapier that seems to be a service that relies on automating some tasks based on one or more other service .... that seems to be very "bundled" in my mind now that you've got two or more services heavily reliant on each other...
My employer brought in a Harvard University professor to preach at us for ~45 minutes about how the US is awful and White people should feel guilty just for living their lives. I have absolutely met these people and have to deal with them at work.
> I think the article's own title is incorrect?
>> Headline CPI in March rose by 8.5% from a year ago

How do you figure? YoY is the best way to measure these things since there's seasonal changes that happen month to month.
This workflow is actually still in use in certain corners of the IRC world. It's kinda neat to see what other people are requesting in realtime.
> I've been reading HN for years and I would assume 90% of the comment section or more is people who only want to be employees.

That is correct, I've also noticed over the years. I'm sure the public of HN broadened over the years.

I use HN as a more selective/to the point source of tech news without all the karma-whoring that's present on reddit.

I'm delighted to read the comments of really smart people around here, mostly more than the article itself.
Who are the woke? If you don’t know, that is the point
I adapted to it in about two days, it made sense to me from the very beginning.
A Survey of Trust Use and Modeling in Real Online Systems (2007)
There is a fair amount of academic work on bidirectional tree transformation with lenses, e.g. <https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/lenses.pdf>. It breaks down to proving three operations (Get, Put, Create) that observe three laws (called GetPut, PutGet, and CreateGet); these give you bidirectional transformations you can compose arbitrarily. Later work introduces concepts like "quotienting" (for when you actually want the transformation to be lossy in certain ways) or "discerning" (non-total) lenses.
I've been wondering the same ever since I read that Nikola Tesla invented/designed the AC motor in his mind's eye.

Seems to be along the lines of lucid dreaming, with a vast difference in degree. Sometimes as I'm falling asleep I can see vivid scenes or objects that I can--to minor degrees--play with for a short time before I either fall asleep or wake up, then it's gone.
Anytime the words “disease” and “reefer trucks” appear in the same sentence, it’s a crisis. People forget that when covid started there was nothing people could do but ventilate and hope. Like sars, the cytokine storm burned out the lungs and that was somewhat age independent. They found anti inflammatories that worked and adapted work from other inflammation diseases to get some kind of treatment.

Then vaccines appeared, and things became more manageable, but up through delta, getting covid was really bad if you ended upon ventilator. The game changed with omicron although even that can affect naive populations. Politicians and pundits trotted out “sacrifice grandma for the economy” but it didn’t really fly. Hope people remember enough from covid to improve aged care and end of life housing.
> Why does it matter to actual people what the cause is?

Because we live in a representative democracy and policy responses are likely to be a significant electoral issue.
I've experienced the vitamin thing too, even when taking a multivitamin. Turns out that I don't absorb vitamins in a pill very well, switching to chewables and chewing the hell out of them has eliminated a ton of weird physical/mental things for me.
Let me know if you're ever looking for another congenial colleague. You seem awesome. Glad to hear you're doing well.
I find the polling now to be useless: the media is currently focused on what gets better ratings (Ukraine) and formerly Covid-hysterical politicians are downplaying their (IMO) destructive actions presumably due to horrendously bad polling.

What happens a bit down the road when the election cycle passes, Ukraine (hopefully) gets resolved, and it's flu season again and the hysteria starts getting good ratings again? Are the highly malleable crowd going to be reprogrammed to go back into "Wear the Mask" and "No Jab, No Job" mode?
A while back I went on a google maps street view tour of a place I lived until I was 9 but hadn't been to in well over a decade. I wasn't sure what to attribute to the tenuous nature of my ancient memories versus what things had actually changed since I last looked. It was honestly a bit uncomfortable and disorienting having this gaping hole in my perception of reality. Was the swing set always blue in that park? I thought it was yellow. Maybe they repainted it? I will never know.
Space balloon company offers first look at luxury cabins
This money can go to a lot of different activities, and I don't see any reason to believe that it's actually about comment farms and not "white-hat" PR.
I find this pretty poorly argued for a few reasons.

First, racism isn't necessarily about collective guilt. Racists can absolutely recognize that any particular person should not be lumped in with their entire race. See: "one of the good ones". One can say horribly racist things in terms of statistics while leaving open the possibility that they might not apply to any particular person.

Second, policies like affirmative action aren't about collective guilt either. The justification is not that white college applicants are evil and must be punished. Maybe there is some of that lurking beneath the surface, but I have never heard the argument in those terms from anyone worth listening to. The argument is that racism is so pervasive and so entrenched that avoiding bias requires adding bias in the other direction, not mere even-handedness.

There are parts of this idea that are good. I find that huge parts of our society are based around rewarding or punishing people for the actions of their family and peers (see: the whole class system). But this article in particular is flawed.
I'm more productive at home, and I'm a man with two kids under ten. My wife works odd hours and must commute, so I'm in charge of before and after school care.

Kids playing happily with their toys or reading quietly are considerably less distracting and disruptive then any open concept office that I've suffered in the past. Unlike many adult coworkers I've had, my kids respect me enough to let me focus.
> Core inflation includes housing and healthcare.

Interesting, not in Europe. The UK produces a separate CPIH index. CPIH is CPI, additionally factoring in Owner Occupiers’ Housing Costs.
> most of retail and individual investors had puts or shorted the market

Most retail investors absolutely do not own puts nor are they net short the market.

The actual situation over the past few months seems to be the exact opposite of what you mention. It would seem that institutional investors have been using their retail facing market commentators to urge the public to "buy the dip" while the institutional smart money is selling every uptick:

- https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jpmorgans-resident-permabu...

- https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pain-trade-remains-higher-...
Because both the left and the right want to control what you do for your own (or "society's") good.
Reputability is not equally subjective (though it is somewhat subjective), it is based on past performance and current utilization through a trust network.

If an institution has a history of providing a certain quality of service, and is successfully used to make highly consequential decisions, it is objectively more reputable than an institution with neither of those things.
Istio delivers encrypted packets across services/ pods but in the pod, envoy proxy does the decryption and puts the packet unencrypted back on the interface to be consumed by the application.

In kubernetes, for calico CNI, the pod networking is done using veth pair. One interface remains on the host to be hooked to the host bridge and the other interface is sent to the pod namespace.

Mizu is deployed as a daemon set(one pod per node) and with enough privilege you can "tcpdump" the pod interface(the one where the envoy proxy puts back the packets unencrypted)
(similar to "ip netns exec")

Basically, they tap the pod interface from host level.
(They have a blog post about this as well: https://up9.com/gain-visibility-into-istio-mtls-traffic-with...)

This is my understanding so I might be wrong
What specifically did they say? Your description sounds heavily interpreted.
I would love to get an answer to this question as well. I keep comings back to Zapier and the likes hoping I will find a useful use case but can’t. It seems that all it does is add stuff from email marketing forms to Google spreadsheets.
Well I'm told there were numerous instances of brothers in the same family fighting on different sides. In some states such as Kansas, neighbors were most definitely attacking each other (and not just verbally).
You're building one for healthcare? Mind sharing more details about the company? Email in profile if it's something private but you'd be open to sharing privately.
I suppose it becomes part of the signature of the caller, so maybe? I guess I was thinking "locally at the call site, I don't see anything corresponding to `if err != nil { return err }`", but implicit vs explicit error handling probably isn't well-defined, so I suppose it's up to interpretation. I usually think of it more in a local context ("is it evident right at the call site") but the caller's function signature is certainly local-ish. (shrug)
Class Action Alleges Uniswap Labs Has Done Nothing to Stop Fraud
I wouldn't quote you either. Its a self reported "disease" so any % are guess work at best given you didn't just make them up
Heck, you didn’t even necessarily need a credit card in the earliest of days, when AOL (as well as EarthLink and CompuServe in fact) still let you pay using bank routing details. As long as the routing number was tied to a bank the service could lookup, it would take whatever account number you gave it and you were on the web!

I won’t say how I learned this, but maybe the context clues will fill you in on how it ended when six months into discovering the internet for the first time, my family got a visit from the local PD and some gentlemen from “a government office down state”.

I was 13 at the time. Not much came out it but some very strong words from a local magistrate, who ultimately showed clemency and dropped the affair with orders that I remain “off the web” for a year.

My father on the other hand…was not so eager to let that one go, heh.
Mackenzie Scott (formerly Bezos), although her approach is about as far removed from traditional VC as one could imagine.
But, see, your analysis doesn't inspire confidence in the economy which is bad for the economy. We need a different explanation. Ya know like "transitory inflation". Dam, used that, I guess Ukraine.
Que gracioso tio
Simple solution: let the employee pay for the training. If the employee stays for x years, the training costs are waived.
Dystopia how? Social networks and their ilk are something that we are struggling with and has impacted society, definitely, but it isn't dystopian (not that it won't go that way). But "software" in general? I don't see any indicators - what do you mean by that statement? Have any examples?
As a heads up, it isn't compliant with the ePrivacy Directive (aka "the EU cookie law") that the site can't be used without giving consent. Consent must be given freely. If the cookie is purely functional and the site can't function without it, then consent is not required. If the cookie is optional then consent is required but it can't be forced.
What you are experiencing sounds fairly typical. You are just maturing to a point where you are not so easily entertained by the novelty of it all. Instead, you are craving for something more reliable, longer lasting.
You seem to be missing the point about valuing a currency relative to another vs a real good. It's a totally different concept/measurement.

The dollar index can strengthen while cost of bread doubles in USD terms.

If every government agreed to print 2x the money supply overnight, dollar index remains the same but cost of everything will double (at equilibrium)
Yeah back in the 90's it was called "round-tripping"

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rhapsody/8.2?topic=developing-ro...

I did a lot of code generation work in those years, working on the two dominant Mac-based generators (AppMaker and Prototyper) but was never ambitious enough to try round-tripping because of the horrors of parsing C++.
It's called "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials" for those will look it up in the AppStore.
unbundling = offer higher quality integrations for a specific audience. zapier for marketers would be an unbundled zapier example.
As usual for Ambrose, Undaunted Courage is a phenomenal read.
I was actually pretty excited about the impact of social media back in the day (2008+). I remember saying, we just need to be loud and things will change. That didn't work out the way I expected it to.

My initial take on social media was that it would be a place for free expression. It took me a long time before I realized that people expect what you say on social media to be consumable by them, otherwise it makes them wonder and that makes them cringe. It surfaced more judgement than anything. Now its just accepted that social media is a cringefest and that type of judgment has become embedded in how we look at everything (not just social media posts).
I'm wondering if these people are suggesting a completely different approach, or if they are just starting to realize that BLS publishes a huge number of inflation measures [1]:

> Price indexes are available for the U.S., the four Census regions, nine Census divisions, two size of city classes, eight cross-classifications of regions and size-classes, and for 23 local areas. Indexes are available for major groups of consumer expenditures (food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communications, and other goods and services), for items within each group, and for special categories, such as services.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/overview.htm
>It's entirely disingenuous to point to a budget increase in a single extremely-small Congressional staff program and paint it as evidence of broad-based inflation.

Maybe, but it's a perfectly valid data point. Congressional staffers are struggling because, in the D.C. area, costs are rising very quickly, and the low-paid staffers are having trouble paying bills because of it.

It's not disingenuous to suggest this is a signal. Also, Democrats are always lobbying for an increase in all budgets. They got this one through because they were going to lose staff who can't make the job work because of rising living costs. I.e., inflation.
I agree with this premise, but we haven't on-shored production yet. It's still mostly offshore.
That's definitely a good point. But it's also sort of self-fulfilling: those layout misalignments and RTL font issues you mentioned become less of an issue as more people embrace Qt. Chrome presumably has figured it out simply because so many people are reliant on it working. If more people embraced Qt, they'd fix the hard parts as they would have more investment.
This is the part where HNers learn that simply being registered as a charity doesn't mean jack shit.

Hospital systems that make billions of dollars a year of profit are charities! Companies that own billions of dollars of real estate holdings for no purpose except speculation are charities!

Non-profit simply means that profits aren't paid out to shareholders. It doesn't mean you can't make enormous profits and accrue vast amounts of wealth.
I share your sentiment. I maintain a similar project (https://theforest.link) and the vast, vast majority of the submissions I get are dev blogs, written in English.

Why is that the case, that I don't know. I have two theories though.

Theory one is that these are niche projects, and niche projects are discovered by people who browse the web in "unique" ways and those people tend to be, for the most part, developers.

The other theory is that in 2022 web, it's developer that for the most part still run personal indie blogs. The majority of people have moved over social media or more recently on things like substack.

EDIT: to add an extra bit of detail from my experience. While running projects like this one it's hard to decide what to do with sites that are written not in a language that you speak because you risk "promoting" all sorts of random stuff that maybe you don't want to help promoting. So it's safer to stick with content you understand and that ends up being English
I have — eg, people who accuse me of having “White Privilege”, even though I grew up in Rainier Beach, Seattle and was one of ten White kids in a school of 600, where not only did I suffer from the same issues of gang culture and poverty, I had the “privilege” of being robbed and beaten for my race by the dominant ethnicity in the neighborhood.

The problem with “anti-racism” is that it’s racism: engaging in institutional discrimination against me, based on that statistical truth about a race I happen to belong to. The whole concept of “anti-racism” is (in practice) rich Whites excusing their privilege by engaging in “cleansing” racism against poor Whites.
How about catering to non-programmers?