skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is going to miss the point here and go down rabbit holes about various technical bits and that is exactly the point: developers spend lots of time debating everything

The limited resources really doesn't matter. The tech choices really don't matter. Pick a prominent MVC based web framework, a RDBMS, some front-end libraries and go build the thing. Lean towards picking stuff the team has experience using. Then if the web app gets heavier traffic, horizontally scale the web tier and vertically scale the DB to your companies budget. If that amount of scaling doesn't suffice - do the research as you approach that level of traffic not when you have zero users.

When it comes down to standard web apps there are known patterns and known solutions out there to solve the majority of the problems. Reaching for a new/shiny thing to use is fun, learning new development techniques is fun but its rare either of those is going to cause a fundamental shift in solving problems with web apps. We have been using (abusing?) HTTP/HTML/JS/CSS for 25+ years. For small web apps I bet people could solve things with simple PERL/PHP cgi-bin types of scripts today with current versions of HTML/JS/CSS, albeit more securely than in 1999.

To use a building a house analogy, sometimes its like all the carpenters are standing around for days talking about what tool is better to frame the house, one uses less nails, one is faster, one is a nail with wood glue that will expand at the joint and provide less squeaky floors (I made that up). None of it really matters, you're being paid to frame a house, not do research - just build the thing.
I had a total bias against intervening to change the path of the trolley toward one or more people (regardless of what was on the other track), but also a bias toward action if something other than a person could be run over instead, and I only got 69.

I'm surprised that "saved" 15 people compared to a bias toward inaction in general.
Depends really. Early season maps (Chapter 1 Season 1-4) had barely any changes and they were all the same green forest-y style, so it's much harder to guess just based on the geography and flora.
Hi, do you have a link to your language? You teased it quite a bit and I'm very curious to learn much more.
> The hardest part about the above isn't the tech, it is the internal norms that you're fighting against (e.g. staff have had terminal access for tens of years, and know the commands to get their work done by memory).

I have sympathy for those people. Not a fan of AS/400, but working in those terminals is incredibly fast once you know all shortcuts. Modern GUIs, especially using all those fancy frameworks, are much slower. If the alternative to the terminal is a new web application, it's extremely likely that it'll be harder to work with.
Warm for everything, it's made a huge difference for me—mainly for mood, I find the "corporate" white too sterile. Even better if you can get smart lightbulbs which allow to set the brightness
Except even with a third-party app store Apple still has control over what permissions apps need as well as the developer API itself. So it's not clear to me that a third-party app store can ignore privacy without getting a user to click Allow to whatever privacy violations the API permits. I guess Apple can no longer enforce that apps can't use parts of the internal API that leak, so a third-party app store might get around some things that way but it seems they are still quite limited in options.
> What you think you dont need a military?

Actually they wouldn’t. There is no way in hell that the US allows a foreign power to attack Quebec. That area is too strategically sensitive to the US.
Yeah, if as a consequence what you can do iOS/Mac OS stops being censored according to US puritan values, that would be a plus.
It seems like the chatters, not the models, who aren’t getting a fair cut.
I've seen that with a core banking system. A decade later it's still running, with many patches in other systems to avoid its shortcomings. there's still no viable plan for migration.

Just because you don't invest in a system doesn't mean it becomes obsolete.
I think the maintenance involved for industrial robots is quite intensive.
Apologies for tabloid link but should suffice
So much bad faith in this press release but not surprising from such a disgusting company, with of course some China-related fear-mongering despite no evidence of wrongdoing.

> After paying for access to the scraping software, customers self-compromised their Facebook and Instagram accounts by providing their authentication information to Octopus.

They didn't "self-compromise" their account. They trust Octopus to act on their behalf, and unlike Facebook, Octopus' interests are most likely more aligned with their users' since their service is paid. This is no different from handing your Facebook credentials to your social media manager or secretary. There's no evidence that Octopus misused this access in any way.

> Octopus designed the software to scrape data accessible to the user when logged into their accounts, including data about their Facebook Friends such as email address, phone number, gender and date of birth, as well as Instagram followers and engagement information such as name, user profile URL, location and number of likes and comments per post.

This is either information people intend to be public or information they trust their friends to keep private. Now if Octopus was leaking the private information to third-parties it would be one thing, but so far I see no evidence Octopus was disclosing the scraped information to anyone but their customer (who is already authorized to access it).

> Meta is an industry leader in taking legal action to protect people from scraping and exposing these types of services

Translation: Meta is an industry leader in protecting its disgusting business model that hinges on making public data behind a walled garden with an unacceptable "privacy" policy. There wouldn't be a market for Octopus (or other scrapers) if Facebook already allowed customers to efficiently access information they're already entitled to, but that would be against their interests as their entire business hinges on information being held hostage.

They've created a problem, are selling the cure (well in this case monetizing it via ads) and are now pissed off that someone else is selling the cure for cheaper.
Evolutionary angle to finding Product market fit
What a strange take. Buffett thinks of things in terms of ROI and certainly this will provide a ROI to him and shareholders.

I can agree with you that we should be moving off oil as soon and as much as possible, but we will never be completely off oil. Oil has led to the rapid progress of humanity, but at a terrible cost for the environment. And like it or not the oil companies will have to play a large part in the shift to renewables.
Interesting fact about how slowly things change. I drank a weissbier from Munich yesterday, and French language section on the can included instructions for Quebec explicitly. English one for Canada had instructions in both English and French

https://ibb.co/Sr9mXC3
BenQ WiT e-Reading Desk Lamp

https://www.benq.eu/en-uk/lamps/desklamp/wit.html

I bought it at the start of the pandemic and have been very happy with it.
That's like running against cost limits in AWS. If no money is spent, you won't have the flexibility. But it's not the fault of private clouds, they can be as flexible as a public cloud.
Makes sense, it’s a big investment to write such a detailed, quality article.
And here I thought the article is about a car company that tripled production within one year.
Religion is not race and the law targets Christian religious symbols as well.
I like to remind myself, “That a problem can be simply stated is not a guarantee that it can be simply solved.”
Do you still need to get the VBIOS from the gpu and patch it manually? tbh that was the scariest part
They're not really competing on price but on quality. They make the most money with super urgent deliveries. If they offer later pick up times or earlier guaranteed deliveries, customers will be happy to pay more. And their IT system is crucial for that.
Are you thinking about Subsurface? I wonder what happened to that guy.
A memetic hazard?
That's harsh, I don't know much on the subject but I assume Wikipedia is missing a lot or at-least glosses over it? It almost seems impossible they'd have accomplished so little in that field.
What hypocrite these companies(fb, google, linkedin, twitter, etc.) are.... Almost entirety of the content on their sites is user generated and shared with public scope. Then why the hell these companies think it's wrong to scrape that very "public" data.

The reason is simple: they just want to maintain their monopoly on the data. That's it. These companies themselves run their advertising companies based on the very same data and train their machine learning models, and also, actually sell it(cambridge analytics, ... possibly 1000's more through 3rd party partnerships to take the blame if things go wrong).

US companies are truly monstrous... by size, and their ability to care for others.
I want your company to be successful as airtable needs competition.

The TechCrunch article classified you as full open source but this doesn’t seem accurate.

It’s ok to be proprietary and charge money for licenses. The confusion is when the label “open source” is used for non open source software.
Arabs believe economy is weak under democracy
An interview with Niklaus Wirth (2018) [video]
>This always seems to happen and it's always from the same suspects trying to revive the same old >=10 year old forum threads.

I think that has something to do with redhat defenders/employees needing to nitpick every little issue that anyone has in a public forum. The inability to just say "oh well that's bad but we're working on it" and instead try to mitigate or distract from any legitimate issues. Any discussion about this issues always turns into the same sprawling discussion where I'm asked to prove a bunch of subjective things. I try to illustrate that third parties have issues with redhat engineers and submitting patches. I back that up by showing that the developers of lxde, transmission, and SDL, have all had significant issues with the gnome development team (mostly redhat), and I'm told it's creepy to point that out. But those are some of the cases that gave redhat this reputation.

You can't have a negative opinion about redhat/gnome without a bunch of people crawling out of the woodwork to nitpick and force you to justify every negative opinion to absurd amounts. Most of those people aren't just regular users, they are or were directly involved with redhad or gnome. It's impossible to have a straightforward debate, it will get derailed into a bunch of minutia.

My main complaint is that redhat encourages tighter coupling between their components that I think is reasonable, that's what I said in the root comment and I stand by it. The fact that I'm not debating a bunch of minutia with a bunch of redhat fandboys is frankly endemic to the problem.

Tell me, have you been paid to work on systemd/gnome/redhat in the past?
Do nothing. Do nothing. Etc. Easy.
Yes, I have been using a computer for quite some time now. I still think it's a bad feature!
The point is that the crucifix was removed from the most symbolic place it could be removed from. If thats not a strong, consistent signal that Quebec wants religions out of the public institutions, then what is?
It tends to be discriminatory towards Sihks, Muslims and Orthodox Jews, who all have head coverings as important religious garb, basically excluding them from government jobs.
If the only externally visible service you run is sshd then how important is it to auto-update for security reasons? (Also considering that security risks in sshd are almost guaranteed to end up on the front page of HN, so you won't miss it).
Right, but if you're scaling it up to meet changing requirements, well, that's now a different use case. How do you do that scaling up effectively? That's where discussion here comes in.

I'm not at all arguing that you need MongoDB and Kafka, those are not my examples, but pretending that SQLite and plain HTML are the be-all, end-all is bizarre. OK, you're a big fan of PostgreSQL. Cool. Now we're talking. In what situations and why is a useful discussion to have. That's grounds for fertile and relevant architectural debate, and here is a good place to do that. Arguing that isn't the case is, well, ok... problem solved then. I suppose there's not much more to talk about.
It's been years since I tried to read an article without reader mode. Reader mode is fast enough and accurate enough now that there's no need to bother not using it.
My friend’s Uber was held up for $10k+ worth of stuff in broad daylight 5 minutes from SFO yesterday. The cops never even showed up.

Whatever people could be coming in from Miami can’t be any worse than the people presently robbing and defecating SV into an early grave.
As an counter example - Last year I dug up my old PC from around 2000, which had not been booted up since 2006 or so. I think I had 512 megs of ram on than one.

Fired up opera, which still had cached websites in the tabs - most of them long gone. Funny to see 2006-era Facebook in the flesh.

Tried to fire up a some news websites, and ended up with BSOD rather quickly. Chewed right through the paltry memory.

edit: I guess it is possible to browse some modern websites by disabling javascript, media downloads, and what not. But it's probably going to be a limited experience as far as functionality goes.
I've been using it for the last 3 weeks and it has been fine. I don't even have microG installed.
Unfortunately yes.
If those hardcore exist, they represent a very small minority.
Reinforcement Learning – Government Intervention in Catastrophe Insurance [pdf]
Meritocracy is about determining who has ruling power. The hint is in the suffix -cracy, like in democracy or autocracy.

Equity has much lower stakes. It’s about the ability (opportunity) for each person to live the best life they can, free from oppression. It’s not necessary to rule over other people to do that.

Equity and meritocracy share similar challenges in that a social order already exists, and therefore the determination of merit is currently being determined by specific people. So it’s not objective.

Equity is a goal that is very hard to reach. What you’re complaining about are some admittedly blunt tactics to try to get there. But they’re not in themselves the goal.

Even if you don’t like those tactics, it’s a bad look to say that the goal of equity is “deeply evil.” It’s like saying “everyone getting a fair chance is deeply evil.”

Edit to add: an example of a relatively uncontroversial tactic to improve equity is accessibility engineering for websites. Being visually impaired doesn’t stop a person from thinking, so we have made social rules that websites should be constructed in a certain way so that visually impaired people can interact with them.
No need for a dark and light mode if you default to a mid grey background. Early browsers were onto something.
Share Our Wealth
The cool thing about GrapheneOS in this regard is that it allows you to use Play Services if you want to, but you can limit it to a single profile and don't have to give it the special privileges it usually wants ("Play Services Sandboxing").
325% YoY increase in sales. I wondered how - a quick google of "byd forced labor" brings up plenty of articles regarding allegations of Uyghur forced labour including a public letter to the CEO of BYD from the UN Office of Human Rights.[1]

[1] https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublic...
I only find this true when there's someone I know at stake. If the choice is between 1 or 5 random people, I'm going to save the 5 people 100% of the time. If that 1 person happens to be a family member or best friend, that choice is going to be a lot harder and potentially different in the actual situation.
Niklaus Wirth is best known as the creator of Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon. He received the ACM Turing Award in 1984.

A recurring theme in his career is the emphasis on simplicity and clarity in programming.

Below are a few quotes taken from the interview.

All language designers are influenced by other languages and ideas and hardware:

"...a language designer picks ideas from others, facilities, features, and has the task of putting them into a coherent whole, into a framework. And that is less easy than people might think, because you want to have as much power in the language as possible, yet a compact structure and compact syntax. And that you can get I think only through experience with language design."

Was the Oberon language and system created mostly for teaching purposes? Or was it intended for a wider audience?

"Well, by that time, my ambitions had become more modest. There was obviously no way to play an influence next to Java and C# and C++...But yes, I thought, as I did in the Pascal times, the foundations have been laid when a person learns his first programming language. That’s the key.

In order to do a good experience, you have to have a clean language with a good structure concentrating on the essential concepts and not being snowed
in. That is my primary objection to the commercial languages – they’re simply too huge, and they’re so huge that nobody can understand them in their entirety. And it’s not necessary that they’re so huge. But people don’t want to see that. Particularly industry doesn’t. I think the industry thinks it’s a big asset to have a complex thing that increases their reputation of being sophisticated."

On further development of Oberon:

"The incentive came from colleagues mentioning that they had learned very, very much from my book called Project Oberon, which is one of the very few describe a full system and its development in detail. That’s something in computer science that is wrong. People learn to write before they have learned reading."

What are the unifying themes behind his work?

"Well, the unifying theme...is probably 'Make things as regular and as well-structured and as simple as they can be without losing sight of their purpose.'

Undue complexity is a bad thing. And it’s unnecessary. Except in the modern commercial world, it’s often used to hide inadequacies. If something is not transparent, it’s much harder to copy it."
Or the amazon cloud becomes the new IBM mainframe and in 20 years they all work on getting off it, but can't because they are so deeply integrated.
I suspect it's more of a standard disclaimer to signal that he isn't anti-Canadian.

I.e., "I'm on your side, so I mean this with love..."
So what you're saying is, I've found an unexploited market segment?
Have you ever been to the rockys? I have herd this argument before.. I really can't understand it..
I'd be OK with the current locked down consoles not existing. Having people buy two or three functionally almost identical devices so that they can use all the software they want is wasteful and not something we should protect as a society.

If an up front $2000 fee is too much for people to bear then console manafactuers can offer loans directly instead of hiding them in the game prices - that way people will at least be informed about what they are paying.
I really don't understand this sentiment. All my queries return exactly the video I'm looking for - often times surprisingly well, even.
With airplanes especially, optimal utilization is key. Routing millions of packages a day through such a complex network around weather and other incidents while keeping SLAs is simply astounding.
This is all just old man yells at cloud. People read your code when it’s OSS and synthesize the ideas in their brains, GPT is doing roughly the same thing. There is no license to stop that, and anything that’s not Apache 2.0 is just nonsense anyway.
Crowd HN: In which book is this passage?
Hi!

I have a photo of a book page from what seems to be some business book, but I haven't made notes which book or even which page number this is from.

(Note to self: always make sure you've got the whole page in your photo, not just the sentences you found noteworthy!)

The passages are "there is a surfeit of management at the top and a simultaneous dearth of leadership", "You lead people; you manage things" and – at the top – a quotation: "Have you seen them? Which way did they go? I must be after them, for I am their leader!"

Someone here probably knows this off-hand, it's almost certainly a very well-known book, and if it's a business book, chances are I've got the recommendation from HN.
Microservices Runtime Fragmentation
Important to note that the audience of this article and Tiktok’s target market are disjoint. Relevant minds need to be swayed.
They could get back to colocation. I think even AWS & Co don't own all physical buildings, they also rent parts of data centers in some locations. You don't need to own real estate or a physical building to run servers.
>The bill proposed to cap personal fortunes at $100 million.

Around 2.2 Billion in today's dollars.
New research challenges long-held beliefs about limb regeneration
What are you suggesting, though?

Rewrite it in Rust? That might be worth it in the long run, but it would be a considerable effort that would likely take a long time to become a feasible replacement for openssl. E.g., it seems likely to me that it would suffer from more bugs until it reached a certain level of maturity.

It would take a focused, long-term, sustained effort by experts to achieve and would still have many ways it could fail.

I would guess we'll get a chance to find out if this could work, though. I think someone must be attempting this already.

Of course, then the next level of "safe" language will come out, with more guarantees, and we think about rewriting to that.

Personally, I think a more productive, much shorter path, would be to use a safe layer on top of the existing C language, and port the existing openssl to that.
OK, I'll bite. What do you think I missed?
Oh, the exclusive our. I thought they meant that linen armor dominated the lives of people in general, which seemed improbable.
Raft or Not? The Best Solution to Data Consistency in Cloud-Native Databases
This is great. If I was more motivated, I'd look up some sales data and make a treemap to represent the relative size of these brands.
Use and strengthen the free and user-respecting software ecosystem.

Replace the stock OS on your phone with LineageOS (or similar). Don't use apps requiring Play Services. Get stuff from F-Droid.
Thanks for the response. Interesting that this white label SaaS already exists.
I haven't come across it.

One thing though is that you said the buyer's agent fees are free for the home buyer which I kind of disagree with.

From everything I have read, technically the seller pays the commission which then get split up between the seller's agent and the buyer's agent. In essence the buyer is still paying the buyer agent's fees indirectly since its baked into the price of the home.
QVC is almost quality content compared to parts of the web. Corporations do like it sanitized and fun is the lowest common denominator of content that is still able to hold your attention while reaching the largest audience as possible.

But there is also truth that creativity of people gets stifled by locked down environments. In the past myspace blogs got a lot of mockery but I guess most people will miss it in contrast social media we have today. There is good stuff too and Tiktok is not the end of society, but the interesting stuff that can hold your attention beyond 10 minutes is rare. Perhaps it was never different and just seems this way because there is unlimited content.
It's because sand contains a lot of silicon and sand is beige :)