skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A couple?

Yeah, I'm counting phones and tablets as two categories. But I'm also being really generous on how old something can be and still be "new" (15 years is quite a while, in tech) and not counting those as just an iteration (admittedly, a big one) on PalmOS devices and such. They're also much closer to being general-purpose devices than most other appliance-type machines (consoles, dedicated set-top boxes, et c.), occupying more of a middle ground between the two.

I suppose you could add smart watches and make it three. Set-top boxes are at least 23 years old (TiVo), so stretch even generous definitions of "new", and we had closed-source non-user-modifiable DVD players well before that.
Possibly, but he was actively participating in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577 up until the week it was fixed.

If that's the root of the issue though, most of the article ("no one will get promoted for prioritizing that at Google.", "the go team has not prioritized it", etc.) is wrong. They may not have addressed the issue in the precise way he wanted, but I also think it's rather unreasonable to expect someone to not only address your issue, but address it in the precise way you suggest.

That's rarely globally optimal and feels rather entitled.
Nah, I actually won the game (Democracy 3) by building a libertarian utopia with zero taxes, no public services, ignoring the clamor for new laws etc, and had all KPIs on green.

Then was killed by a nun who disagreed with my no-state-religion policy. :D
Google is aware that this is a big deal. It is a big deal to them as well. Search is their golden goose and they are terrified of doing anything that would break it or worsen it. No one has ever accused the Search team of having a "move fast and break things" culture.

That said, their interests aren't perfectly aligned with yours. Their main priority is producing a scalable algorithm that outputs rankings that users are happy with. If their A/B tests show that a new algorithm makes their users happier, then they will use that new algorithm (after an extremely long period of A/B testing and due diligence and gradual rollouts). The fact that your specific website is helped or hurt by their new algorithm, is not their priority.

If they decided to prioritize stability over user satisfaction, I can guarantee that you, me, and most people will eventually abandon Google entirely in favor of a different search engine that gives us results that we're happier with. This is exactly why smart companies continually try to innovate and change, even if they need to break a few eggs in the process.
This kind of message feels more authentic to me if you put the big news in the first sentence, then cover logistics, then add any context you want. Seems better than making people wade through a lot of stuff about securing financial position, market conditions, etc etc to learn if they are losing their job.
Wait this is not Bolt the ride-sharing company?
You're right. A lot of articles are paywalled, extermely padded advertising vehicles which people come to the comments to avoid. The audience might be reacting accordingly.

The better and more readable articles linked on HN could demonstrate this phenomena, if the audience shows better comments underneath them. I haven't looked for the correlation before.
There are other official forms of identification such as state ID which is the equivalent of a drivers license
Right !

I do remember being a bit frustrated.
Yes, but again, for most people, movie data is far less valuable than say contacts.
> In the meantime, if you would prefer, we can turn off all refresh traffic for your domain while we continue to improve this on our end. That would mean that the only traffic you would receive from us would be the result of a request directly from a user. This may impact the freshness of your domain's data which users receive from our servers, since we need to have some caching on our end to prevent too frequent fetches.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85692...

> "EFAIL" is an alarmist puff piece written by morons to slander PGP and inflate their egos. [...]

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30141#issuecomment-46427...

Disclosure: I was on the Go team at Google until earlier this month. Dealing with DeVault's bad faith arguments is one of the few things I won't miss of that job.
Preview can OCR? That’s the one feature I have been missing from Acrobat Pro.
Yes, that article has come up a few times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sunscreen+margerine

The article presents evidence that Vitamin D doesn't cause good health, but instead is a biomarker of good health caused by sun exposure and thus, supplementation does nothing for most people.
> when they only did $5.2M in Q1…

This is insane to me. I work at a startup with a similar valuation and we bring in almost double that amount of revenue a week... and I think we're overvalued.
Online privacy is an illusion. At the basic level, your IP is getting logged all over the place.
> Reddit could go on indefinitely as is with no advertising.

I don't think the goal of tech companies is to just "go on indefinitely." Their investors need them to make billions of dollars.
Why would the YC mob do this to Bolt?

(/s)
not with RES
I think they legitimately thought it was an improvement. The guy responsible for it actually started a thread here to show off. The comments were pretty rough.
Another one that was in production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_Legends but was cancelled right around the time Microsoft picked up the company. THis one was RTS + Action RPG but similar in concept.

Very disappointing.
The comment above does not claim causality, only a suggestive ordering of events.
Has anyone made a JavaScript port?

Edit: ooh. There's this. But it's 6MB. https://www.npmjs.com/package/figlet
Potential risks:

- Vendor lock-in: if each low-code platform offers a different set of components and workflows, then it may be difficult to move to another if, for example, product cost becomes prohibitive at a later date.

- Dishonest platform: unless the product provides an on-premises option (and many likely won't, partly because it is genuinely easier for users to get started with a cloud option), then both code and data is potentially available for the platform to inspect.

- Business continuity risk: as with the previous risk, this depends on the availability of on-premise hosting (and/or product code available as FOSS run-it-yourself): if the low-code provider ceases to exist, then your business process (or perhaps entire business) may fail.

There are some slightly more technical concerns that I have too:

- Testing and source control don't always seem apparent or well-integrated, making me think that we are going to repeat some of the software engineering mistakes of the past.

- Depending on the concepts and components exposed by low-code platforms, expressivity and capability can be (intentionally or unintentionally) limited. Integrating with an arbitrary weather forecast API that speaks an arbitrary protocol is possible using a generalized programming language - is it equally possible with each low-code platform?

Democratizing technology is important and low-code will I'm certain help discover some excellent workflow improvements.

However I think it is equally important to make it simple for someone to pick up a programming language -- that supports testing, source control, and so on (without requiring the user to know about them, initially...) -- and start on a path that will lead them towards established and recognized best-practices and an open, competitive ecosystem.
For webdev, my team has the build output directory mounted as hostPath volumes, so you change the files on your disk and the changes are reflected in the pod
It's not a matter of genetics. Store-bought tomatoes are almost always unripe, to make transport easier. Then they are treated with ethylene to artificially finish the final steps (but it's obviously not exactly the same result).
Facts are the foundation that such writing is built upon. If a piece of historical analysis contains a number of basic factual errors, that foundation is shaky at best. How can you or anyone go on to claim that the conclusion of the piece has any value at all, given that?
Tribes 1 was where it was at. So much fun at LAN parties. The Tribes sequels only got worse, in my opinion. They were just clinging on to what made Tribes great, but kept losing something every iteration.
Strange, Slippery and Beautiful: A Master Essayist at Work
> Very generally speaking:

> Older people acquire life experience and wisdom, which lets them make better decisions; but their decisions are typically conservative as they are invested in "the way things are today". (It's worked fine this way for 50 years, why change now?)

I'd like to see some actual statistics on this. It has certainly been the case that many of the companies that resulted in big economic changes were made by <30 year olds in the last decades. So there's at least a counterpoint that older people make better economic decisions.

> Younger people have fresh ideas and less investment in "the way things are today", but lack the maturity to make wise decisions. (This is hot garbage, we need to completely throw it away and start from scratch.)

> See also, we already have laws regarding age of candidacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U...

I'm aware of it, and I was directly alluding to these, moreover I think it's outrageous that > 80 year olds can still hold office (some of them with quite obvious dementia). I think there is very strong scientific evidence that beyond 80 years your mental capabilities significantly declines. So if it is about good decision making, why are these people allowed to continue?
Taking their position at face value: If I'm in favor of freedom, then I'm in favor of the military, to keep us free from foreign domination. I'm in favor of the police, because in practical terms I'm more free if I don't have to worry about being robbed on the street or murdered in my home. And I'm in favor of private gun ownership, so that the citizens can put up a fight against the government if the government ever descends into tyranny.

Note well: In this post, I am not saying that such a position is right, or even sane - merely that it's consistent.
In Trading, Machine Learning Benchmarks Don't Track What You Care About
How can you tell today that your neighbor's crop hasn't cross bred with yours? And if it has, how can you tell what genes you got?

Remember - mutations happen all the time in nature. There's no difference between a seed that mutated 'naturally' and one that we modified, except for intent.
This... so much this. The few, good subreddits are _really_ good and it's due almost solely to a great moderation team (/r/anime is one example). I've seen a lot of small communities die off because they grew and the moderation did not happen.

In my opinion, moderators of an online forum are like the leadership team of a company. With bad leadership all the good people leave, and only the bottom feeders remain.
I've noticed that minikube can also setup multi node cluster which can be nice to simulate some things.

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/tutorials/multi_node/
I'm imagining the 1970s but in space, like a Heavy Metal[0] video game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(magazine)
> The first sequel to Deus Ex however is probably the biggest disappointment in gaming history.

I would like to see they try to remake or just remastering of Deus ex 1, so it can be a good introduction to new players in the existing world established in the original, to make a new sequel ignoring Invisible war.
Writing yourself a note before you end your session is probably a good idea here.

"Trying to kill Molduga for <reasons>, but want to use different armor, so traveling through Hebra for Coolshrooms".
Arctype is super cool and I've yet to find a better DB client out there!
He famously affixed a rear-view mirror to the car to see behind him
Thanks, that's a very reasonable back of the envelope calculation.

There are many fun details about VHS, its chroma resolution, and especially some weirdness around the PAL delay line, but they all don't really matter for this.

Wikipedia says there is about 3MHz of bandwidth, so ~200-300 "pixels" seems like a very good ballpark (just going by the fact that a normal PAL signal has about 6 MHz and is commonly digitized as 720x576, 3MHz about halves the horizontal resolution and taking some pixels off for various reasons makes sense).
Thanks to him, lot of people in the industry are now a bit wiser and more careful while others simp for the establishment because they seek to benefit, are benefiting (maybe in the minds of some, they think they are reading this board and looking at profiles of users who simp or attack them?)

When he outed YC, Sequoia Capital and New York Times, I felt uneasy because I knew there would be blowbacks.
I've found some of common suggestions from Ayurveda to be helpful to structure my energy and motivation:

- Eating light at night and more heavily at lunch when digestion is stronger.

- Going to bed earlier and waking up earlier to help increase feelings of lightness when waking (moving toward sunrise to sync with our diurnal rhythms). Eating light later helps with this a lot I've found.

- Doing things that make my body feel good upon waking — drinking tea, meditating, smelling nice-smelling essential oils, taking a slow walk around my neighborhood.

- Practice paying lot of attention to my body's needs — for hunger, hydration, sleep, relaxation away from screens, emotional needs like connection / love / play, etc.

Practicing these habits has really helped set a solid foundation of health.

Habits and rhythms are really important to our overall health and we have to be extremely mindful of what we allow to become a habit in our lives — including mental habits like thinking a lot or worrying about missing out.
Not only is it a solid premise, but there is an ultrashort story by Franz Kafka that lends itself perfectly to a cinematic promo video:

TINY MOUSE-SIZED HUMAN:

"Alas! The whole world is growing smaller every day.
[Close on the tiny person, panning out ever-so-slowly to reveal, bit by bit, the cavernous enormity of the room.]
At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."

[Corner trap now visible, the camera holds steady and dwells for a moment on this sad, bleak fate. Suddenly, there is another voice from behind -- this is not a monologue after all.]

CAT, SLINKING INTO VIEW:

"You only need to change your direction." [CAT pounces, and promptly gobbles him up.]
Check out the uBlacklist extension, could not live without it.
While I was touring Zion National Park a few years ago, I spent a lot of time thinking how it all needs to be captured in both:

1. a high res VR experience for the less-able folks to experience this beautiful place, and

2. an AR glasses experience that narrates the trails as I walk it, where I can walk up to any plant and ID it, overlays that name all the peaks and valleys, narration about local fauna and sustainability.
Easy enough to be possible without being just a click of a button away, yes, at a time when people mostly associated any printed material as having taken a large effort to produce.
This is a cool idea! It wouldn't apply to people who want to search all the videos on a given channel for specific keywords (including those they haven't watched). I can see it being useful for folks trying to locate a specific video they remember watching in the past, though.

One consideration is that getting the user's watch history would likely require calls to the YouTube API. So that means I would have to make this a paid service in order to offset the code of those API requests. The beautiful thing about the current iteration is that it doesn't rely on YouTube's API at all. By scraping YouTube pages and leveraging a few NPM packages, I'm currently able to offer free and unrestricted access to it.

If enough people request that ability though, I'll consider incorporating it.

Thanks for checking out my project and for the great idea!
Do most people have multiple devices they're going to use this in? I only have one iPad, I don't need sync!
Long time ago I remember Minikube destroyed your hard drive (too many small writes bad for SSDs). Is it fixed now?
Yes, it is not the same company. Ride-sharing is bolt.eu, this is bolt.com - some checkout company. bolt.eu is doing OK and got some investment recently.
Can I ask about your experience implementing Stripe Connect Express, especially how did you choose that over Stripe Connect Standard? My understanding is you have to do more heavy lifting integration work, pay monthly fee per account, KYC, and are responsible for refunds for Express. Whereas a lot of that are taken care of in Standard.
Scattering surfaces aren't going to be any better against lasers, they'll heat up and become black bodies relatively quickly. Neither will emitting smoke or fog, because we're talking about airborne items, and they won't stay surrounding the aircraft very well. Sacrificial or heat shields will help, but that's extra weight that reduces your payload, and for quadcopter type drones, you can't reasonably add those to your props.

SDI wasn't successful, no, because they didn't have the capability to make high power electrical lasers worth a damn back then. But the semi-operational AN/SEQ-1 was 30kW a decade ago, and technology has improved since then. Again, we're looking at an order of magnitude more power. And I don't think we need many more orders of magnitude to get down below the threshold of : can't do anything in the time you've got.
A reminder that Tor Browser might be one of the least safe browsers you can run: it's a fork of Firefox, meaning that its maintainers have to coordinate and port patches from the mainline project. Firefox is already not one of the most hardened browser engines. Meanwhile, the fork you'll be running is specifically designed to hide sensitive traffic, and collapses all those users into a single version for exploits to target.

I'm ambivalent about Tor, but if you're using Tor, don't use the Browser Bundle.
Wild to think of what Twitter could have made it into
Banks, private entities, deciding who to do business with based on a number they calculate is absolutely not authoritarian. It comes nowhere close to the concept of authoritarianism unless you think a dress code at a club is also authoritarian.
I'm a big fan of Navicat, been using it for years.

https://www.navicat.com/en
System Webviews are not a replacement for what Electron provides.

I will, once again, link to the comment on this very site from a Slack engineer who explained why they moved from system provided Webviews to Electron: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763449
Many such American problems stem from mentality/ideology, not stuctural reasons.

Someone could respond mentioning long distances and various state situations, but those valid concerns aside there are tens of millions of people in US cities with 100% the same density and driving needs as those of people in Europe and Japan, which still don't have anywhere near the same cars (not speaking about EVs specifically, but smaller cars in general too).

And God Forbid they e.g. don't put their 2 kids in a SUV, because obviously you can't make do with a small car once you have a family - nevermind that's what millions of Europeans do by choice...
No I did not "choose to download packages from NPM". Choosing means there is an alternative. And besides that the registry part is invisible in your package file (hardcoded default like GOPROXY).

If you look at it, it's pretty similar. The part before the first slash is invisible:

npmjs.com/org/package

proxy.golang.org/org.com/package

The difference with Go is that you can actually change the first part if you want, or even disable it.
This looks really neat. One thing I noticed on reading the source code, it appears to actually import the modules:

Quoting the docstring on the `track_module` function:

"""This function executes the tracking of a single module by launching a
subprocess to execute this module against the target module. The
implementation of thie tracking resides in the __main__ in order to
carefully control the import ecosystem.

Source: https://github.com/IBM/import-tracker/blob/67a1e84e5a609e52e...

Here's the actual subprocess call:
https://github.com/IBM/import-tracker/blob/67a1e84e5a609e52e...

# Launch the process
proc = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(cmd), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=env)

I think this is clever, and maybe even necessary, but feels risky to do on unaudited third-party Python libraries.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something?
I get the feeling your definition of "ideology" is a very specific, politically-motivated one, and not the one that most philosophers and social scientists have concurred is an appropriate default definition over the last 50-70 years.

Everyone carries ideology with them. It is the source of subjective interpretations and judgments. And unfortunately for your position, we have more or less come to the consensus that all language and communication is fundamentally subjective: this means that no statements or actions are without ideology.
real people are better than seo spam but these days not by much
MySQL Workbench is indeed a mess. If you're on a Mac, Sequel Ace (formerly Sequel Pro) is great and has all the features you mentioned.
> It's good for having readable text in the Minimap.

Nice. Good idea.
> But most people I work with will pick zstd every time even in cases where decompression speed matters the most.

Zstd is really good. If you're a math/compression theory nerd it makes a lot of good choices. Also, if you're willing to tune zstd instead of using the defaults, so far anyway, I haven't found any application where the right answer wasn't zstd.

At this point I don't think it's unreasonable to expect new compression developments to to explicitly say "What is improved over ZStandard".
Source Control in Node-RED
So what is your opinion on the proxy behaviour then?

I know is not like knowing what Google thinks about this, but I'm curious about how something like what is described in the post is allowed to happen.
Yes, just like the other things I listed, it was good in the beginning. And, like the others, once the bar of required effort became low enough, the market flodded with low-to-no-effort stuff.
Daggerfall and Star Citizen ;)
The Babylon 5 space combat game that was cancelled late in development. Think Wing Commander, but in the Babylon 5 universe as a Starfury pilot.

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Babylon_5:_Into_the_Fire_(G...
A persistent sandbox like mmo world with full 3D physics, maybe with low poly graphics. The game is based on free form crafting (like in a CAD modeler) with no preset items at all. Is that too much to ask?
I wrote my first full-blown mobile apps (fairly simple and spartan) with React Native, I target both iOS and Android, and it was a breeze using Expo. It's seriously good, I have no affiliation, just a happy customer (I tested the paid tier out but currently use the free one).
This might be niche, but I want a game with the visual graphics and world design of the latest Wii Sports, but is open world. I just want to escape reality and sit in a coffee shop inside of one of their complexes, while watching strangers play bowling live. For extra points, allow me to work in the coffee shop, own an apartment in the city, use public transport, etc. Escapism is the true end goal.
Covid-19 Rebound After Paxlovid Treatment
100 years ago still feels pre-modern to me. It’s wild that the ship is still useful.