skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really cool.

The email example on the landing page is very interesting.

Good stuff.
> "You see how there’s a space before the exclamation mark?" he said. "Yeah, that’s how 18-year-olds type."

I have never seen any 18-year-old type like this. Is this actually common in the US or just a thing of older folk imaging how an 18 -year-old might type?
Time is signed though so time actually began at 1901-12-13T20:45:52Z.
Actually, they are historical weather forecasts, but assembled to a continuous time-series.

Storing each weather forecast individually to a performance evaluation for "how good a forecast in 5 days is", would require a lot of storage. Some local weather models update every 6 hours.

But even with a continuous time-series, you can already tell how good or bad a forecast compared to measurements are. Assuming, your measurements are correct ;-)
I initially thought this wouldn't work, since you can't take pictures in all directions simultaneously in GTA V, and moving the camera in different directions might add artifacts from moving objects and/or cause items out of view to despawn entirely.

A Google streetview car can take pictures of all directions simultaneously, thus avoiding the "stretched dog" or "double person" panorama problems that can happen from stitching shots together. And things tend not to despawn in real life, though there are plenty of examples of anomalies on Google maps.

It turns out you can follow the same car over a long stretch of road in this GTA Geoguessr, leading me to believe your intuition is correct.
>People would work less, because there would be less reason to work.

You mean most of the work will be piled up on a handful of full time employees which leaves a huge percentage of the population unemployed and destitue and ready to rebel against the system.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EKd6WURBqOY

>Under a deflationary economic system, a touch over $480,000 in savings would yield an effective “UBI” of $1000/mo [2].

What if people decide to have less children to protect them from the rent seeking conducted by the rich families that inherited wealth over centuries? What if the above unemployed people die from starvation and are no longer there to guarantee the value of your money?

>Once adopted by the entire world, a global currency of fixed supply controlled by computer algorithms could achieve this. Humans would voluntarily work less and pollute less.

Voluntarily? Are you sure about that? Aren't you just trying to make some transactions illegal by forcing a less effective medium of exchange? Also we already tried this and it failed not only with the gold standard but also with Bitcoin.

If it were that simple the Roman empire wouldn't have collapsed. No currency in history would have collapsed.

You are also discounting the fact that deflation encourages corruption as gaining money through war, crime, trafficking, environmental destruction, political bribes becomes highly profitable as once you are locked in and got a lucrative 10 million dollars you will earn more from those savings than you can earn from being an upstanding politician. Hence there is an intensive pressure to destroy physical and social capital for a share of the fixed supply currency.
The people are different and their taste is different. One must really love Tesla’s design language. For me it’s weird with single big display in the middle and I picked competing Kia EV6 model just because of that.

Tesla is/was a status symbol without competition for long time and logically it will need to adapt to the new reality. There are Mercedes EQS and EQE now. Well made luxury cars from old luxury brand with known history. There are many many new brands coming with electric vehicles in all segments and Tesla will have hard times for sure.
Their stock value is somehow correlated with bitcoin, that suggest the same people are investing in both for similar reasons.
Taskplane: A non-complicated task manager for the modern era
That has the same impact as an uninsured trolley. Also see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
While this claim is a bit dubious (at present), as Tesla had lockdown-related problems, and BYD vehicles are just as likely to be plug-in hybrids as full EVs, the trend looks like, by the end of the year, Volkswagen will likely sell more EVs than Tesla.

Edit: typo
Sure. This is how we do it at work. We have a function, let’s call it fixme(). When you want to change a string, say, “example,” to “sample.” You call fixme(“example”, “sample”). The implementation sees if “sample” == “sample” for non-English. If so, it uses the old translation. A few weeks later, we remove the fixme and old string. There’s a job that pings you about it in Slack so you don’t forget, IIRC. You don’t even need a pre-commit review to fix them.

Words used alone or need context should use the i18n libraries context abilities. Like p_(“clear”, “verb”) and p_(“clear”, “noun”). It’s also helpful to add comments and your translation system should be able to pick them up:

// translators: %d is an amount of money

If you are using a modern translation system that doesn’t support these features, perhaps “downgrading” to an older system is a good idea.
The Tesla stock price is based off of the cult-of-personality followers of the CEO and his promises that FSD, Cybertruck and Tesla Semi are _just around the corner_
"Considerably less margin" isn't a bad thing, when the competition heats up it's far easier for a producer that is lean and mean from the start than for a company used to fat margins.
Tesla is no longer the largest EV producer, if you consider plug-in hybrids EVs. Reminds me of the great idea of German politicians to "save" the "ailing" car industry (while pretending to be doing something positive for the environment) during Covid by heavily subsidizing EVs, where the definition included plug-in hybrids. Which led to a run on large luxury plug-in hybrid SUVs, which probably use more gas than a smaller non-hybrid car, and it's safe to say the plug-in charging functionality is seldom used (although with the increase of fuel prices since Russia invaded Ukraine, maybe some owners will now start searching for the charging cable).
I think it would be a good tool to have, I had to contact a conference organizer once who switched tabs while sharing her screen in a recording and revealed a note in Google Keep that read "LastPass master password" xD
Desktop computers remain less restricted because one can’t close pandora’s box after opening it.

The fact that we have so many of these protection on smartphones is because of lessons learnt with desktop PCs - after a steady stream of viruses, ransomware and other forms of scams. What should have happened is a change to how approvals were made on the app stores for the European region, not removing the main source of protection for users.

> “I would never trust a giant multinational…”

But you use their hardware, their OS, their network stack… and this won’t change with these rules. So if you’re not trusting of these companies you shouldn’t have a relationship with them and should already be using unique hardware from a smaller vendor whereby you could satisfy these preferences. You absolutely do have a “choice”.
If anyone’s looking for something more secure than vanilla env vars but simpler than Vault, you could check out EnvKey[1]. Disclaimer: I’m the founder.

It’s end-to-end encrypted, cloud or self-hosted, and very quick to integrate.

1 - https://envkey.com
Biggest hurdle was purchasing a PC.

Back in 1995, we paid equivalent of almost $4000 for a PC with 133 MHz Pentium processor - don't remember the RAM or HDD, but it came with Windows 95. Since we lived somewhat rural back then, libraries were woefully outdated on the computer/IT department - both as far as books and actual PCs go.

The one bookstore we had, didn't really carry much of those things either. Most of my learning came through various PC magazine tutorials, and ordering books via said magazines. Or more realistically - trying to find out what other people worked or dabbled with IT in my little town, and trying to learn through them. Everything was very, very DIY and bootstrapped.

And just for the sake of nostalgia - one of the local PC-enthusiasts had parents that worked at the municipality, and managed to argue that we (the local PC "community") needed a space of our own. So we got this run-down part of an older school building, rent-free, for maybe 7 years.

As long as we paid the utility for that part, and any internet connection, we could pretty much do as pleased. You had probably a dozen or so guys pretty much living there, playing various game over LAN. Doom, Quake, Age of empires, and what not.

Another part of guys were mostly tinkering with websites, software, or what not. Still vividly remember all the Borland boxes laying around. And of course, the more free spirited guys "Buy what? No, let me show you our warez".

But you know what - we made money, real and good money, from just churning out websites. There were really no beauty standards, little (to no) functionality, and hosting was usually done via some local dude that run a bunch of servers out of his shop.
"it provides options to control notifications"

yes, Google too may give you all the tools to control your privacy (in EU), but I just do not want to spend any more minutes of my super valuable life on that shit.

I do hate Slack, too :)
There are alternatives to OpenSSL written in Rust but, like it or not, OpenSSL already set the defacto standard API used by portable applications.

Even alternatives in C or C++ don't get a look in. GnuTLS? Mozilla NSS? Libtls out of openbsd? Libretls port? Nobody cares.

Even though the OpenSSL API is terrible, nobody wants to support multiple TLS backends in their application. Particularly if they cross platforms.

This is one reason I personally believe standardizing good APIs is more important than implementation.
...and lightweight and small
Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
Yes, they are still in design concept stage I believe and quite sometime from reality.
As long as there are options (Android), then iPhone is just a product for specific group.
I don’t get it why everything should be the same.
Is iPhone so good the everyone is mad because they can’t sideload an app?

A lot of iPhone’s success is based on to that very thing that you can’t sideload and paying is easy. Different products for different people.
> of an altruistic benevolence.

I'm not sure I believe in that. Or rather, I think the idea of
altruistic benevolence as a simple exclusive categorical is naive.
Humans have super complex motives, often quite unconscious,
multi-faceted and even in contradiction.

What I would say is that very high performing people think and behave
in different ways. In political science (I'm thinking of Nicomachean
Ethics but it's a recurring theme in modernity too) is the conceit of
the "Great/Noble Man", whose competence places him "above" everyday
perspectives and rituals. They're rare not because apparent altruism
is rare, but because people of that calibre are rare.
if you do that everywhere, they'll still be able to find you, via your new pseudo-identity
> That only works 1:1. What about groups?

Check the table for all members.

Can I not post Slack messages to a group channel unless everyone is within their working hours?

Nope.

What about email? What if you're in a different locale temporarily for some reason?

Same.

> No, if you don't want notifications outside your own personal work schedule, then it's up to you to manage them.

Nope. Don't push your duties over other people. It's lazy. You should not message people outside working hours. As I said, it's common sense. Not so common, seems, seeing people like you, insisting on carelessly spam other people because they are too lazy to check a table.

And I repeat, it's even illegal in a bunch of first world countries to send anything, even an email outside of working hours.

So please, don't be that guy, respect other people's free time.
It was always going to be easier for [your favorite traditional car company] to figure out non-internal combustion drive trains than it was going to be for Tesla to catch up on 100 years of how to build really good cars.

The smart move from the beginning for everyone except Elon was to become a drivetrain OEM.

Edit: removed the reference to a specific car brand because people got hung up on it.
They still have the best software. That’s why I think the new Apple Car Play is such a big deal. If everyone uses their phones OS on their car, Teslas advantage goes away.
I hate web apps with a passion. Has anyone ever used the iOS YouTube app? This thing is hailed as a marvelous examples of web apps working "like native." Bollocks. It's an absolute mess. If one of the wealthiest companies in the world can't build a decent web app, there is no hope for anyone else.

Web apps get the user 80% of what they want with 50% of the cost, so the business case is clear. That's why these apps are proliferating. They are not proliferating because they're good, as good, or better. They're just not.
They are still tools though.
Interesting plot twist you have there. No one at Apple ever actually said that of course but if it was true the distribution was made more expensive by preventing the use of apps on desktop computers.

However, anyone can seed from any system and that lots of people have unlimited plans and/or good wifi.

You could have a static store app with the phone manufacturer providing a feed with names, descriptions, pictures and checksums. Everything else could be distributed over a p2p network. Unpopular apps could be slow to download with the developers server having to patch holes to keep the file alive. Popular apps would have usable numbers to hint at their popularity.

Most apps need internet anyway. (Billing wouldn't be a problem.) I see a thousand pages arguing hosting for an app costs between 70 and 320 per month. I have no idea how true that is or how far apps can live from the average.

It does seem logical to assume with a reasonably smart distribution scheme p2p could also reduce that bill for somewhat more dynamic content.

I'm really impressed by how many useful and fun mobile apps were created. In the 90's I thought nothing was worth using on a mobile device. I was very wrong about that.

I now think it is equally wrong to think the 30% is not dramatically reducing interest in mobile development. Personally I wouldn't touch it with a 6 foot pole. I do web apps that are like websites, they have very limited access to the features of the device.

While I applaud these new regulations it is kinda lame it took them this long.
> The usual way to create constant-time code for C is to inspect the output assembly

Sure, I hoped that sort of thing was implicit in what I wrote, some people do it, perhaps they should not, but they clearly feel like it's their best option. In particular for the context: writing this code in Rust doesn't help and would usually make it harder.

If we don't want to hand roll machine code, maybe somebody should make yet another "it's C but for the 21st century" language with constant time output as a deliberate feature, like maybe the const flag on your functions means produce constant time machine code or error - rather than "You can execute this function at compile time". (Not necessarily a serious syntactic suggestion, just spit-balling).
The only thing currently preventing full implementation of International Socialism is the fully armed non-socialist population of the USA.

George Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual.

This toxic ideology murdered 100 million people last century, let’s not go there.
Many websites nowadays use various APIs, external services, assets from CDNs (Google Fonts, JS delivery CDNs, Firebase, etc.) that might get turned off or break compatibility in a decade or two, breaking the whole thing.
Weird coincidence, I met someone this past weekend who does exactly this. The one exception being that he targets models in developing countries - which makes it feel a lot closer to sex trafficking than an agency.

I believe the idea to set-up an OnlyFans agency like this is relatively popular among 'hustle porn' style "entrepreneurs" whose goal is to extract as much money from anyone as fast as possible. Which probably gives an idea about the general personality these people have.

And whilst I don't think that an agency like this is always morally wrong, there are a lot of grey areas and moral issues - potentially legal issues - that can arise depending on circumstances.

There's an obvious ethical issue with subscribers believing that they're talking to the model themselves, and yet they're actually talking to someone completely different. And to add to that the implications of the subscriber sending nude photos to be viewed by any random person is bad too. If the subscribers knew that they weren't actually interacting with the model, I seriously doubt they'd continue that transaction.

And I'm sure that fishing for models on Instagram to start pages can have issues too if the agency has some bad actors. What happens if a model no longer wants to work with the agency?
the data sets are more valuable when they're concentrated, so the leak of your address, voter registration, and SSN is now tied to your employment history and education
Reading the OP I was pretty sure the author wasn't building websites in 1997.

Not mentioning the GUI tools was a pretty poor omission: Frontpage was everywhere back then. I personally hand-coded but had to use it in my first professional role in '98.

Even the books were wrong. I had (it might still be in a box at my parents) a 1st Ed. copy of HTML: The Definitive Guide, later followed by other O'Reilly books: CSS Def. Guide and one I wore to death as it was the MDN of the day: the DHTML Def. Guide.

That site is awesome; I had to look and yep, allcaps!
I’d rather the car has no software at all past simple audio connection myself. My current set up is a BT connection to my iOS device and it is absolutely spot on for reliability and I have full voice and tactile controls for everything.
Tesla dropped the ball going from niche bespoke vehicles to mass production. Big “senior engineer from Chernobyl” as they disregarded a lot of common automotive knowledge and opted for consumer grade components.
People have been saying that for years, but their growth and margins continue to be incredible year after year.

And it seems like other manufacturers, even if they make good EVs, won't be able to scale their battery production quick enough. Meanwhile Tesla is quite ahead in this department.
> (2) kinda lacks the technical leadership to really be one.

Really hard disagree. Their software development model is amongst the best in the industry. That needs strong low-level tech leadership.
How do you know if you’re a bad driver or a good driver? It seems like a pretty blatant tautology to say that only bad drivers kill. Willing to bet almost every one of those fatal car crashes were caused by people who would have said they were a good driver…
> If you had `unattended-upgrades` running and had the "automatic reboot" option enabled, then all your Ubuntu 20.04 servers running Docker would reboot themselves and not come back up.

Isn't the common wisdom that you should have them enabled, but staggered across hours/days?
Is this really the fault of tiktok though? Wouldn't a specific peer group be really responsible? Such challenges existed long before social media, the latter just made it easier to find. I understand the families suing them but I think there is just no technical solution to this problem. It is either disallowing social media until a certain age or letting random people connect to each other. Some of those might have stupid ideas of course.

Sure, you could also increase surveillance on these platforms or ban content it attracted teens in the first place. It is an overall unrealistic expectation to have that social media can be child safe and have low wage worker moderators take care of your children. Because on this scale the usual internet moderation doesn't work anymore.

What I would immediately support is to have algorithms suggest the ever the same content. Many people will immediately complain, but I would prefer a precise way to search. That maybe would dampen the addiction. Perhaps children at that age just shouldn't get a smartphone. No realistic option if all their peers have one as most parents know. You can add an ID check which would drive most users away pretty quickly and this just doesn't work for most platforms.
Real places are more difficult because they change over time. And some of them seem just as full of seemingly copy/pasted objects as the games... (or worse? Games have come a long way since the ubiquitous crate, on the level of production standards of GTA they probably go deep on generative variations)
> Many websites were better in 2005 and had greater uptime.

Source? Sounds bullshit
Copenhagen interpretation. If you haven't interacted with system you can't be blamed.
Thanks for your comment.

I have heard about the book "the mom test" and plan to read it as it 's been recommended quite a few times to me already.

I get this post was a long shot but the thread I was referring to got a few answers so I thought why not see what the HN community thinks of this idea?

I am assuming that "Go and learn that fact in actual viable ways." means to release it and then go from there.

I may just do that in the end. I simply did not want to spend more time than necessary on an idea that may be completely wrong.
Let's take a step back.

I would never criticise someone for making the decision to pull the lever. I understand that decision, I really do. I only said I wouldn't do it and explained why.

It's not as clear cut as you think it is. If you think it is, then write to a philosophy professor and say you've solved the trolley dilemma through an internet vote. I hope this sounds absurd to you.

You can play with numbers, but if I were to pull the lever, I would feel I would kill someone for the sole reason they were in the minority. Which is an extra reason for me not to do it.
I am a father myself. You need to weigh between letting your children learn things by doing and forbidding. Usually, when I see something I deem dangerous, I tell my children to be careful then carefully watch them. If I feel they don't take it seriously, I try to create a controlled dangerous situation.

One of my sons is autistic and when he was small it was very difficult to tell him to be careful of the stove. One day I made the stove not really hot to seriously burn the hands but only very slightly. After I put my own hand on the stove, I let my son touch the stove and said, Hot, hot hot! And it was successful. He didn't burn his hand but it hurt somewhat.

Another example: he doesn't swim but pushed his brother into the water at the pool. I then pushed him myself then jumped in the water to save him and told him, be careful, you can't swim.

The idea: see what is dangerous then decide: can your children play by themselves, do they need watching or do you need to forbid it? Before forbidding something please try to give the children time and watch them. If they learn a dangerous thing you will save time later because your children have already learned.
Frontpage Express was getting so slow when you edited large tables... what a time to be alive.
Clearly invented by big theme restaurant to sell more dinner theatre.
Or maybe it's the high margin that is a good thing?

When competition comes and both Tesla and BYD have to lower the prices, which one will be better off?

The one with slightly lower margins?

Or the one that is now unprofitable?
Still don't understand whhy we even need all these inodes.. The repo is centrally accessible (and should be read-only btw). Resolving that shouldn't be a problem. It's been more than a decade and npm is still a mess.