skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who do you think frequents this site? Only the most experienced programmers who all happen to know Rust? I see comments several times a week here from people who self-declare themselves to be high school or college students (or aged at least), I would expect few of them know these things or are experts at them. And then there are all the non-programmers (or non-professional programmers). And for the programmers, there are all the ones who haven't looked at Rust before or tried to but hit a wall for some reason (and quite likely related to the topics discussed in this article).
I love when a website does something simple, practical, and does it with a clean interface. Excellent
My particular gripe with BAT is noted here[0] and AFAIK nothing has changed; you still have to use their KYC-compliant platform to ever exchange BAT for real-world money, as they'd much rather you re-donate the BAT to websites via brave's reward system instead of ever exchanging for USD.

Other problems that they'd had:

- were inserting referral tokens into the URL when visiting popular websites, so presumably brave was getting a lot of referral credit[1]. In particular it seems to be bad-faith to inject referral codes since Brave really isn't driving traffic to these sites, unless when you type "crypto" it autocompletes "binance.us".

- They've since stopped doing this, but previously tipping BAT to a website or creator meant users would lose that BAT with it basically being held in escrow until the website/creator did their own KYC and redeemed the tokens.[2]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549826

1: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caugh...

2: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...
Fortunately it's novel to plenty of other people here. Crisis averted!
That dream world is apparently New Hampshire!
For what it's worth, Rust isn't the only language that does this. OCaml also doesn't allow mixing ints and floats, and actually has entirely different operators for int and float operations [0]. I think Haskell might do something similar [1]?

I don't know for sure why Rust chose this route, but I would guess it's a mix of type inference/type system considerations and a desire to avoid potential implicit loss of data.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64244351/why-does-ocaml-...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19019093/haskell-multipl...
This is a major plot point of the novel "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, in case the idea strikes anyone's fancy
They do this kind of profile targeting so aggressively it’s absurd. I also almost only get animal content and the occasional post from an ace group I joined, because I generally only post pics of my pup and peak at said group once in a while. Every so often I get lured into looking at something I find politically awful, and just instantly I get inundated with even more awful productized distillation of it. If I so much as slow my scroll for ADHD content, I’m smothered in ads for really horrifying scams trying to sell me miracle cures or shady guaranteed diagnosis. Yeah, FB serves content which it thinks targets your brain as audience. But it does so in a really astonishingly stupid and toxic way.
Are you sure that is 12.1MB of weather data, and not 40kB of json and 12.096 MB of ads and tracking data going back to them?

For example, a full month of hourly weather data for a single Canadian station is 131KB (pulling from the Climate Canada site), meaning that if you wanted an hours worth of data for the ENTIRE country you're looking at less than ~800kb.

But if you just limit it to a geographical subset, say the lower mainland of BC, or even just a single town, then you can eliminate pinpoint data about yourself. Knowing that a person is in Abbotsford is far less invasive than knowing that they went to the Shoppers Drug Mart at 8:46 PM after searching for cold medicine.

This isn't a black and white thing, I wish that I had more control over my iPhone. I would love to be able to tell it to report a general location (somewhere random within a 10km of my actual location) to some apps, and a precise location to others. I get that Wunderground has server bills to pay, and I'm not paying them, but I would imagine that there is still a viable ads based business model that doesn't get quite as invasive.
Frekanomics did a four part series on this issue (“Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School") and fairly presented the benefits and drawbacks of many of these issues. For me, personally, I think the solution in the US is to fully develop an open university system like they have in the UK, Europe, Canada, and Australia.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/freakonomics-radio-goes...
There have been ... incidents in their development.

At one point they misrepresented themselves as collecting donations for bloggers who a) had no relation with Brave and b) didn't want donations or monetisation of their content.

At another point it seemed like they were intercepting ads on pages and replacing them with their own ads. Not sure exactly what the truth of that situation is.

Yeah, tokenisation, BAT etc. HN is extremely sceptical about cryptocurrency, IMHO with very good reason.

As mentioned by another user - under the covers they inserted their own referral codes into links to online vendors.

All in all it's a sequence of dodgy decisions that tell me they put money above honesty.
Creating a top tier university with a big pile of money would be trivial. Match every grant dollar for dollar, provide lab space and free tuition for 30 years and you’d have the most productive faculty and the best students overnight. It would just cost 10s of billions.
Fascinating, thank you for sharing!
i’ve been watching pro brood war for over 15 years. there was a time I was big into dota too. Just BW now though. it’s like watching any other sport. .. football.. racing.. whatever.
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Leave it up to the player. If they want to build a shared factory, so be it. If they want to build on separate corners of the map, that's cool too.

Just place the players in the same game world.

With regards to trickiness of determinism and what not, just make it so there's an authoritative server running the simulation, and the other players/clients just get their source of truth from the server.

The server could be an actual dedicated server program that has no frontend, or it could be one of the clients in the game.
Like a tin-foil hat model I install as few apps as I possible can, and definitely no corporate ones. State Farm for instance keeps hounding everyone to use their app. Soon it'll be: use our app or you'll be charged an extra 10%. No thanks.
Source?

Lots of people under 85 survived with oxygen and ventilators in hospitals and ICUs with proper staffing. If no one wore masks the survival rate would have gone down a lot.

A live example of majority healthy younger people dying: https://www.indiaspend.com/covid-19/covid-19-second-wave-dea...
It isn’t work and it isn’t a divisive twitter or reddit discussion. That probably helps!
I’m tracking a similar issue in https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-go/issues/222 - is this roughly what you’re looking for?
Jump to the end of the articles. I'd really hope SE 1 employees would know all of that stuff.
Open core is a business model not a license. You can download GitLab CE and use it under MIT license. You can use all the features it contains and do whatever you want with the code. Yes, GitLab Inc. has other products and some of them are paid, but that doesn't change the fact that GitLab CE is open source.
> so it could play back a simulation of you typing; thus giving the illusion of live typing while not swamping the network.

IMO, this completely defeats the point.

The advantage of live typing is that I can see what someone is typing sooner, before they're even done, and start considering my response. I want to see their message, or partial message, as soon as possible.

I don't want to see some movie of all of their keystrokes and corrections. It's totally fine if it comes with the territory, but only in the name of reducing latency.

That isn't to say I'm against batching the keystrokes to conserve bandwidth, but don't fake it!
I've only written about 20k lines of Go code, but Rust has somewhat ruined Go for me. It's really hard to pick Go when I know Rust can do the job better and with fewer resources and bugs. I do think Go brought some good things to the industry though.
It continues to boggle my mind that this guy chose to get fired over this paper, which is the dumbest paper I have read in a long time.

As an example, his paper reports *median* congestion! I literally laughed out loud when I saw that. I don't think a single other chip design paper in the world uses that metric, and for good reason.

For those of you who don't know chip design, congestion is a measure of how many wires will need to go in the same place when you do routing for the chip. When wires overlap, they have to go above / below each other, and your chip only has so many layers. If congestion is too high, it can simply be impossible to make the chip.

Congestion is therefore all about the extreme values. Why in the world would you report median congestion, then? Median ignores extreme values, which are the only ones you care about!

I even checked the paper he cites as being prior work that uses median congestion, to see who else did something so stupid, and... it doesn't! It uses average, which makes way more sense. I mean, you really care about the max, but at least average is sensitive to extremes.

I could go on, but the TLDR is, his paper is hot garbage, and I cannot say I am surprised Google didn't want its name associated with it.
Isn't insider trading the entire purpose of these exchanges?
Saudi Arabia is trying to create an elite university from a large starting endowment. Let's see how it goes in a generation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Sc...
I live 40 minutes from a medium sized city. I can still drive to 3 different Tim Horton’s in under 8 minutes. I fact I find the smaller towns in SW Ontario actually have more stores per capita. For example my parents town of 40,000 people in the middle of nowhere has 15 Tim Hortons stores.
This is why I only drink rain water and pure grain alcohol.
Just a thought; Can this be used to relax/dilate your pupil periodically in between staring at a Computer Screen/TV for long periods of time? As per my understanding, in the latter case our pupils stay contracted for a long time due to fixed focal length and excessive brightness.

Any Ophthalmologists care to elaborate?
I disagree that this could not be considered open source. Chromium could be forked at any time by anyone, and then developed freely from there. That’s as much as you can reasonably expect from any project you’re not paying for, IMO.
The article notably specifically cites oil as an hazardous & risky thing to carry. Let us not find fault with the whole idea for but one aspect which we ought not implement (carrying oil).
This is extremely similar to the field of music for me.

As a vinyl DJ, hip hop producer, and turntablist, one of the greatest joys is finding one of those rare LPs that just never was heard, and - even better - that juicy sample in it.

Obviously there’s gotta be unknown literature out there that’s brilliant. :)
Shhh this is really helpful for finding out who owns phone numbers I don't have saved
Obviously the institution with a proven track record of running successful schools - the government.
Dumb. Leave the elite game to the elite game players.

Here's the solution:

1. Invest $50 Billion in a big computer.
2. Stuff it full of standard courseware
3. Hire 10,000 PhDs @ $100,000/yr remote (
4. Have them grade tests
5. Declare it an accredited university.
6. Make it free to attend
7. Never expire units accumulated

Congratulations, you have created a national public college for pennies.

The quality of the education will significantly exceed the average of any of these institutions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_for-profit_universitie...
I do not understand why anyone who only does 2-3 searches a day would pay 10$ a month for a search engine though?
It's on my website for 10 years now. I replaced "@" with "[at]" and that seems to be enough to keep the scrapers away.
List of mod comments about why lists of things don't work well as HN posts:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Brave has the same results as Google
In Japan it's very, very important to maintain the appearance of such things.

What actually happened is more complicated. There are few traditions of a huge press expose.

The executive MIGHT get a pay cut. Or they might take a pay cut, but the company ALSO steers a fat discretionary contract to the CEO's brother in law, with a different last name.

Not a uniquely Japanese stitch up, but that's how it's done.

Or, they might be perfectly honest. And outside appearances are exactly what happened.

The tl;dr of doing business in Japan is, you NEVER know the full story. Unless a personal relationship clues you in. Personal relationships are E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. Particularly because everyone lives in Tokyo.
> BBC World Service is pretty much everywhere

That's really not true. They still broadcast shortwave only to Africa and some parts of Asia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2x9tqt6mc05vB2S37j...

Everywhere else it has been replaced with the internet and satellite broadcasts.
I know that Woit has a lot of traction on HN but I thought I'd just mention that in the theoretical physics community, Woit is widely considered a crackpot. Source: I was a professional researcher in theoretical physics, before I decided I couldn't stand the academia.
Thanks for so vividly exposing the enabler mindset.

I’m still confused though. Do you like vagrancy, violence, drug abuse, and filth? Or is your misplaced resentment of the communities that refuse to tolerate that trash some kind of extreme cognitive dissonance?
They failed to pay, a letter was sent, then they sent a payment minus all owed interest, now it's past the grace period. They had to pay a certain way which all parties originally agreed to but because they want to conserve certain funds they tried to modify the terms unilaterally. At this point they still have the funds but don't want to use up the hard currency they still have.
Whatsapp has 1.
I fly a light sport plane (Canadian Ultralight which is not the same as a US ultralight) in airspace controlled by the military over an airbase. It is frankly astounding how often they lose me on radar coverage while in their airspace. I have a Mode C transponder blasting my data out to them as well.

The capabilities that the military/government pretend to have are VERY different than the capabilities they actually have.
so costs money and closed source? gonna nope out of this one
Kagi's quite good for general purpose searches, but there's a number of specific queries where it falls down: timezones ("9AM SF in Tokyo") and currency conversions ("100000 JPY in USD") are two big ones for me.

It would be great if Kagi could open source the engine that powers these queries, so people could contribute their own features.
I use 33mail with a custom domain and I use it as a permanent actually working unsubscribe button. I’ll sign up with a service for whatever, as soon as they start sending me spam and I no longer need the account, instead of trusting their unsubscribe button, I disable the account and never think about them again, been doing this for about 2 years I must have over 100 disabled accounts at this point.
The feature definitely has a “developer though this would be cool
because websockets can do it” kind of a feel.
Dave Smith popularized the polyphonic analog synthesizer in the 70’s and 80’s with the Prophet V, pioneering the use of integrated circuits to make synths. The company he built was called Sequential Circuits for a reason. A Bay Area pioneer.

Analog synths were phased out int the late 80’s by digital synthesizers, the main culprit being the Yamaha DX7. Those synths were mass produced, cheaper, they sounded great and they sounded different. Sequential fell into hard times and eventually got sold.

Dave Smith went to collaborate with other companies to produce new concepts.

More recently though, he came back to make his own synths under the DSI brand, and finally he regained control of the Sequential brand. Under Sequential he re-released the Prophet V. This all coincided with analog synths becoming popular again, with people craving the imperfect but very musical sound of analog synths.

This is a story of a great comeback, and I for one, am happy thinking he died doing what he loved, and after seeing his life’s work regaining the stardom it always deserved.
This is the internet, so I'm willing to let people wildly speculate in interesting ways.

Having said that, I don't know this is as impractical as some seem to think (or at least in the ways some are thinking -- there might be lawsuits about taxation but in terms of establishing a school, less so).

All you have to do is admit students with appealing enough characteristics (GPAs, GREs, whatever you can quantify) and you'll immediately establish a reputation out of the gate. Then you build out your faculty by giving out insane incentives to start, from undervalued individuals in the right places. There's enough oversupply in academics to fulfill this need.

I might be skeptical too except I've seen this work at the high school and college level. Brand new high schools established that immediately have super high test scores; it establishes a brand immediately. At least one university I know of had a windfall and was smart enough to vacuum up undervalued properties and start pulling in whole colleges and departments spontaneously by making remarkable offers to the right people. Their only problem was that they weren't a new university, so they had a sort of existing old reputation to overcome.
Hard disagree. Seems obvious to me those associations are cultural and extrapolations of previous experiences and stories. Ask these 3 prompts to isolated North Koreans or Papuans (probably after explaining elves are supernatural humanoids from Germanic folklore associated with woods and pointy ears) and I'd bet the house it's gonna be a random distribution.

Involving genetics and evolution in etymology makes no sense.
Live chat agents can see what you are typing before pressing enter. You can’t see their typing of course.
Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
While there are fewer of them, there are quite a few fully open source, open content games out there, like Thrive, 0ad, Warzone2100, Endless Sky etc.

What is your favorite fully open source, open content game?

Edit: please vote on the comments people post too. Up if you like, down if you dislike, don't vote if you haven't played it or are neutral on it.
> clickbait at best, misinformation at worst.

why? arguing a point you havent bothered to make is stupid. yiu cant just insult an argument & walk away. 20y is how this horseshit goes with all patents, is a vast delegitimization everywhere. what are you trying to disagree with?

> appealed & overturned

repulsive & heartbreaking, complete neglect of civil & fair society; yeah, we know. the system continues to try hard to legitimize the legal robber barrony bullshit fucked up horseshit that regards only the very wealthy: we know. that's the problem. those at the top are against the public.
Please see "Can I post a job ad" in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
'kubectl delete -f dir/' will delete all resources in the directory.
The in-car GPS systems are a disaster (because the car manufacturers see them as "cash after sale") but the separate/dedicated GPS units are pretty good.

The updates and traffic information is, or at least was, free.
It seems you agree with the beneficial premise of patents. But you disagree about the degree of that benefit.

Why 5? Why not 2 years? Or 8 years? The same argument could be used to support or known down either option.
Why does everyone now have to drop F-bombs in everything, even if beeped. The main promo video: "Those f*king pirates!". Makes me not want to support the game. I know it's petty or prude but it's just not edgy anymore, just kinda dumb.
https://mysudo.com/

Paid plans permit up to 9 phone numbers.
God I hate drivel like this. There's no insight to be found here. These people can only exist in fiction and have no information with which to adjust the bearing on our moral compasses, which have evolved to function only in a universe where effects have causes.
> But if you run the orbital math, interaction is vanishingly unlikely.

E.g. a Falcon 9 can put 14 tonnes into a higher LEO. Assume you fill it 90% with 1cm diameter tungsten spheres, and the rest with an optimized dispersal system. That's 1.26 million spheres slowly decaying through your target orbit, and you can end up with a favorable initial phase, altitude, and inclination.

You'd be tripling the amount of debris of that scale in orbit in one launch, in a way that's disproportionately targeted at a specific constellation.

(Probably 1cm diam is still excessively large. Also, when we talk about the original idea, you could have many smaller, even more optimized shots at individual spacecraft in the constellation).
Haven't been to Ottawa, but I'll keep some of those in mind if I ever visit. Are they significantly farther or just marginally?

I have a Tim Hortons close to me, and I'll get a bagel there from time to time, but there's many better options that vary between 5 and 15 mins walk. I've got no plans to move anywhere that's not at least that close to decent cafes in the future. That's because I like good coffee, but also because that's where the community is.
This is the weirdest strawman I've read in a while. I've never heard anyone worry that China has too much data or whatever nonsense the author is going on about. Peope are worried that corporations are buying and selling people's personal information without those individuals' say in the matter.
Add it to the list?

https://ethical.net/resources/

https://switching.software/

https://www.privacytools.io/

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives

https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/

I think if alternativeto.net just adds a setting to only view FLOSS alternatives maybe this genre of websites would be threatened
Did you watch the demo? https://www.realjabber.org/anim/real_time_text_demo.html
You ARE seeing it before they are done (compare to the left hand window, which what most chat apps do now), the delay in seeing live typing is at most one second, and the experience of watching the batched messages without the timing information (the middle window) is painful.
Perhaps it's written by GPT-3..
Look at the METAR data pilots use for an example of how easily weather data can be compressed.

KSEA 020153Z 34008KT 10SM FEW075 OVC090 18/14 A2997

Here's the local conditions at Sea-Tac at 7:15pm Pacific time. We have wind direction and speed, visibility, cloud conditions, temperature and dew point and barometric pressure in one small snippet.

The forecast data for the next 24 hours is given similarly. Radar data would be more complex but the basics for any weather app are only a handful of bytes.