skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, both of those would also work.

It's just that the American plugs are really the worst. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q-xnYRugQ for other badness.
You don’t need a hub; if all the computers are on one LAN they can see each other, that’s the whole idea. The difference with now is that back then you’d have one computer directly connected to the internet, while now you have a router connecting your home network with the internet using NAT.
Yeah, if you can afford a Macbook, you can afford a Framework.
And how is that going to solve anything?

Nobody is going to get wrongully convicted and put to death just because we limit the number of executions?
Imaging Performance of Telecentric Lenses [video]
Apparently there is a way to achieve an orthogonal projection in a real world camera by choosing an appropriate lens. Used for computer vision.
Facebook Posts Flagged as False for Rejecting Biden's Recession Wordplay
A summary of my experience after six months of programming in Go, coming from about a decade of programming in C#.
Northern Sweden is known for its iron mines. What people might not know is that if you live anywhere near where such mining has occurred (many miles away from the actually mining site), it is strongly recommended that people have detectors for radium. Obviously, water that is close to mining sites is generally not advisable to drink. Mining just bring up a lot of toxic things that the human body react badly with.
Miniselect: Practical and Generic Selection Algorithms (2020)
Passenger fined $2664 for landing in Australia with McDonald's items in his bag
My M1 has an HDMI 2.0 port.
That doesn't hold up to me. Why would a casual visitor sign up to a newsletter after reading half a paragraph of the article? Surely the bottom of the article would be a better place to ask if that was the purpose.
I have a local ISP that lets you opt out of binding arbitration provided you notify them within 30 days from the start of service. The only customers who would know that are the ones who read the terms.
What k8s offers is a platform, on which people can build their own solutions. It makes solving a lot of very hard problems a lot easier and portable. Before k8s, tools like these were out of reach for small/mid companies with only a handful of dev-teams, but enough for organisational scaling to become a problem. K8s allows self-servicing while still enforcing standardisation.

And I'll give you another use-case I'd like to see you replicate with any other existing platform: migrating an entire on-prem application stack of 200+ services to the cloud. It took us 3 weeks total to do for a client of mine, where the hardest part was the migrating state with minimal downtime, and a lot of work went into the IAC part for the GKE setup.

Also, institutions like banks have now jumped on the k8s (well, mostly openshift, but same thing) train, I'm pretty sure it's here to stay.
Reminds me of Gatsby.
- Piracy is, for the majority of the people who practice it, a matter of convenience -- can't find the movie on DVD or Netflix is the usual scenario. Sure there are people who want to have everything for free but the anti-piracy PR has inflated their share and made them look like the majority. That is simply not true and never was.

- Even if Skynet came tomorrow and made pirating technically truly impossible, income from rented movies or streaming services will likely increase just by few percent and never move up. Most people who pirated before will simply stop consuming media. This is another thing that the right-holders ALWAYS get wrong: they think they can force people into buying things. There's only so much pressure you can apply before people simply turn their backs and leave.

---

I get it, the corporations are scared that piracy will become commonplace so they periodically take measures to limit it. But their PR and actions are panicky and often heavy-handed. IMO long-term they achieve the opposite effect.

I've personally spoken with people who said they never pirated before but that they will start because seeing what the companies do makes them believe that all their legally bought movies can be made illegal at any point because the company wants a fresh stream of revenue, or lobby for laws that disallow lending to your neighbor, etc.

Are these valid concerns? No clue, I'm not an expert -- they are likely not but it hardly even matters. Because people can and do draw these conclusions in response to the anti-piracy measures.
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Number one, but these types of projects also require coordination beforehand to prevent huge merges / incompatible merges when two people try to work on the same thing at once
>The issue with the video, as explained in your article link, is its claim that the whitehouse is "changing the definition" of recession.

Thank you for taking the time to look at this, as the commenter had led me to believe PolitiFact was arguing about a totally different claim.
Facebook may decide to flag medical misinformation as being dangerous, but what is the justification for flagging posts about whether we are in a recession?
> If you call it one, they will use it as cause for even more layoffs and price hikes

Let’s go back to the Carter administration standard, then: The US economy is in a banana. Let’s hope it’s not a serious one.
Why not read the sqlite teams own explanation:

https://www.sqlite.org/zipvfs/doc/trunk/www/howitworks.wiki
Not a compliment I assume?
The demand for EVs is probably elastic, but the impact of copper prices on EV prices is probably small enough that it doesn't matter.

And thus EV demand won't react much to copper prices.
I'm running Ubuntu arm64 on my M1 MacBook Pro 14 inch via Parallels + a Bluetooth keyboard.

Ubuntu's not a daily driver, there's a bit of initial effort in switching between macOS + Linux keyboards, but it's usable.
I already addressed that argument.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295591

If a statistical human life is worth $9 M, then 440 deaths per thousand TWh adds $0.004/kWh to the cost of solar. This cannot overcome the large cost advantage solar and wind have over nuclear in most places (even with storage costs included). Also, the 440 figure is, I believe, assuming rooftop solar. At scale to power the world solar will be mostly ground mounted.

If you don't agree with that statistical value, and think it should be higher, why you've just argued we're not imposing enough safety systems on nuclear plants -- because $9 M is the value the NRC uses when determining if additional safety systems are warranted.
Bubble, Webflow and Notion will not be happy that your service takes their custom domain revenue.

How much are you prepared to deal with the legal and technical roadblocks they might try to throw at you? (have you talked to a lawyer? which country? botnets?)
What’s Next in the Modern Data Stack?
> As someone who moved to LA in the early 70s, and left LA in the late 80s, and spent some time to visit Palm Springs, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, I can say with full confidence that anyone with a lick of sense knew there was not enough water to sustain that growth that started back then, but that didn't stop anyone from building or buying those homes. They all knew it, but didn't care.

But Las Vegas is treating almost all of the water it uses and ends up being very close to water neutral.
You contradict yourself. If it were cheap, it would not need to be subsidized.

Existing nukes will be mothballed as even their opex is uncompetitive. Governments will, in the end, choose to spend their money more wisely than propping up extremely expensive nukes. Buying their neighbors' renewable overproduction will be cheaper. Building out their own, cheaper yet.
"famous" :) . I'm on the list and wouldn't consider myself famous.

Thanks for putting this together, interesting to see the links of HNer's with a lot of karma.

Lots of other good suggestions as to what to do with this dataset, but I think it'd be fun to see a collection of the highest ranked comments by each user, perhaps with a minimum length. It'd be a way to get a collection of well thought out "essays" on different topics by use.
Like many others, I too rediscovered the power of pure GNU Make years ago. Turns out it has some rather Lisp-like metaprogramming capabilities. It's extremely hard to do even basic processing but with enough effort some cool things can happen. I'm somewhat proud of my implementation of a simple version of the find utility as a pure GNU Make recursive function.

This rediscovery essentially derailed one of my side projects as I started writing a pure GNU Make build system and function library like this one:

https://gmsl.sourceforge.io/

https://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/gnu-make-standard-libra...

I even asked this author on Twitter and Stack Overflow about its implementation.

The end result was reinvention of code generation tools because that's what metaprogramming is. I didn't understand what autotools was doing before I tried doing it myself. My objective was to eliminate makefile regeneration whenever project structure changed, I ended up regenerating code 100% of the time and evaluating the resulting code inside the makefile itself. If we must metaprogram, it's better to do it in a proper programming language. At least it didn't have any dependencies other than GNU Make.
Do you mind reporting this over at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/ ? I work on MuPDF myself, but I'm sure my colleagues working on Ghostscript would want to have any differences fixed. Thank you! :)

You can also reach us developers over at our ghostscript Discord channel https://discord.gg/H9GXKwyPvY (https://discord.gg/SnXWzqzjKs for mupdf).
It's also a way to get an email address that you can retarget ads to.
The Default Tech Settings you should turn off right away
I did actually previously write a VFS, though it did something else entirely:

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...

You're right that a comparison to compression VFS is completely missing. I knew about their existence but I have to admit I didn't look too closely.

Note that the main "novelty" here is training a shared / partitioned compression dictionary specifically to take advantage of redundancy that wouldn't appear within only one row or even within a database page / block . The compression happens at the row level and can additionally use application knowledge - you couldn't do that in the VFS level. For example, you can have separate compression dictionaries per different columns and per groups of rows with some commonality.

I'll have to compare to a compression vfs (do you have a favorite?) and see if maybe these two methods can even be combined.

Edit: I see that https://github.com/mlin/sqlite_zstd_vfs does actually also train dictionaries. It's still at the database-page level so can't take application knowledge into account or compress only parts of the data, but that's still pretty smart then.
Doesn't seem very significant to me. But it's a much higher percentage than I would have expected.
Why the American Dream is more attainable in some cities than others
If the road carries trade and blocking it prevents that trade, like for example if they block the only access road to a coal mine. How it would happen in a city where you can just go around I don't know.

But here I think they got nabbed on a city road protest and charged for the blocking of coal transport. Though it sounds like blocking the coal exports actually happened before the new law was in force, meaning the new charges are basically vindictive.
I searched the documentation for "pdf" and did not find anything relevant - is it really true that this is not able to generate a PDF from the written text?

Generating a proper PDF document still seems a very basic requirement for anything that produces documentation.

I am sure I am missing something?
A five point strategy to keep your notes organized and easily searchable
Fairchild semiconductor is one example.
Nothing prevent us to put the grids safely protected under tons of concrete so they can't be destroyed to easily. Plus the bonus of isolate it better from water and flooding damage.
Nice tool. I would like to announce our movement. It is called "Life without a smartphone". We are the minority of today. We love to use real computers and open web for our daily work and avoid using smartphones, data silos and user hostile products.

Our "extreme" view is that no amount of optimization and local storage will save your mind from dark patterns of your smartphone.

P.S. We love to be downvoted to oblivion on HN. Thanks.:)
I don't believe they "work", but IMO as a company you want as many way to push information to your customers. Today it's principally emails or notifications. And so this is why you see newsletters form and every apps under the sky seems to ask to enable push notifications on your phone.

Another way is RSS feeds, but many companies seem to consider that there's not enough users for the trouble.
> Just the opposite. I am much more likely to purchase from a builder that has a reputation for transparency and after-market support.

Well your past history of housing problems would suggest your optimism here is misplaced

> It's very similar to the 'market for lemons' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

People don't need lemons. They do need home. So often in free market economies you see companies virtually colluding to put themselves first in sectors where consumers are required to buy into that product or service. Because in those sectors, businesses have a captive audience with no other options and they don't need to worry about reputation.

Housing is one of those sectors. Often people need a home based around requirements other than the reputation of the builder like location to the school that their kids already attend, or family members, or work, bus or rail stations, etc. Cost to rent. Is parking available. etc

If you can pick a property based on the reputation of the builder than you're already in a class above most people.

I know you want to believe that a free market fixes all of life's problems but it's really not that simple. For starters even if your ideology worked in practice, you still require a bunch of customers to get burnt initially in order to generate that reputation. However there's also nothing stopping disreputable businesses restarting with a new company name and branding so the reputation model doesn't work in practice (you see this all the time with online sellers eg on Amazon). And that's on top of the former point about how some products are essentials that people don't have the luxury to shop around on.

We have much stricter regulations in Europe and it doesn't harm our commerce. So you absolutely can have a vibrant market and regulations to protect consumers.
Many SMTP servers have delayed delivery for untrusted source servers (eg. via greylisting or any other spam checking system).

I'd certainly bail if I had to wait 3-15 minutes for my password to arrive before I can enter it on... where was that tab?

Anyway, this is just a theory, and I am not sure you can easily (dis)prove it due to the nature of SMTP, but perhaps do a small scale experiment where you allow a subset of users to set their password, and see if the drop off rates are identical?
A number of reasons:

* Because other platforms own you, but you own your newsletter.

* Not everyone opens a newsletter, but everyone checks their email. So if they don't open the newsletter, at least they see something from you.

* It's near zero cost.

I don't like it when sites push their newsletter constantly, but I do like educational content pushed to where I often am (my inbox).
> The Mac keyboard layout is US-like

This is absolutely false. European Mac keyboards are ISO. The labeling doesn’t matter, as rolling your own layout is trivial.
Microvms are just the workloads, while Kubernetes is a platform, mostly agnostic of that workload. Yes that's currently mostly containers, but you can already schedule VMs on k8s with KubeVirt.
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Demographics. I define my audience as "creative teenagers" (I didn't pick them, they picked me). Roblox is mostly focused on the playing side, while I still focus on the making side. Maybe Minecraft is closer to my userbase.

It's very hard to get into the "mainstream" media or sites when you have a product focused towards teenagers. Unless it's about "this company raised X" or "This company is doing X revenue".

I have around 1K weekly active users. Technically these are 'unique logins', so people who come back after registering. Definitely not in a PMF stage yet, since my retention numbers are really depressing :'(.
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Ask HN: What QA metrics do you find beneficial?
There’s a potentially infinite number of possible QA metrics. And of course, some are more valuable than others, which means that you must pick the ones that make the most sense for your current scenario, even if that changes in the future. With that in mind, what are the criteria you should have in mind when choosing the QA metrics for your organization?
There's lots of other differences.

For example historically and until fairly recently, most American banks were prohibited from having more than one branch. In total.

That's called unit banking. And that's why you have those small-town American banks, and national chains almost everywhere else.

Obviously, that bank with only one location is much more dependent on the fortunes of its only location. This makes for a hilariously brittle financial system.
Can you elaborate on what mainframes do better? I'm genuinely curious (not being too familiar with mainframes).
Definitely not the Air
I always wanted to make money online but It was a lot of people scamming me for my money and I came across this article and it motivated me to make my first $200 dollars online check it out
That's a very good thing until a populist President, who didn't even win the popular vote, comes into office and stacks the court with loyalists who repeal basic rights supported by the majority of voters.

Then voters are reminded of how little their votes actually matter, directly or indirectly.
Not for windows native images (which are a thing, but does anyone actually use them?) So in theory, no you don't need WSL.
All this was done in an effort to suppress non-violent protest of Australian climate policies, and in particular it's extreme coal exports, which are among the largest in the world.

So yes, this is a draconian bail condition that is meant to do harm against the few Australian that seek to prevent harm to come to you.
Nice review! I too wish for a solarpunk future with mesh communications infrastructure. I see a Pine64 box in your pictures, will you try out PineRadio in the future?

> The T-Beams run off big honkin’ 18650 batteries—the same lithium-ion cells used in Tesla battery packs.

While this is true, it seems unnecessarily alarming. 18650 are also the type of cells inside old-ish laptop removable batteries, which are far more common and don't frighten people.
indeed, I see that this project is storing documents as js objects so is likely to overwhelm the GC when the database is in the region of 500mb or so. For things like this it's usually better to use an ArrayBuffer for storage, but this complicates the implementation significantly.

It is possible to write very fast js, but it's hard to write very fast idiomatic js
Huh? We can totally afford cars. Especially electrical ones.

Why wouldn't we?
> You have your web pages and forms built on other platforms like Bubble, Webflow, Notion, etc. And want to move those webpages under your own "domain name" without using their "custom domain" pricing plans.

Don’t use their pricing plan, use ours instead? Seems unethical even if technically possible.
> + Windows also has the context menu key, which I think it pretty useless to be honest but others might get value from that

As a curiosity, this is actually very useful for keyboard-only users.

On X11 at least, context menu display is typically associated to Shift+F10. However, in some cases (I think the file panel in Sublime Text 3 was a notable case; not sure in v4), this binding doesn't work.

Context menu key gives a binding that is guaranteed to work :)
yeah, facing the same intermittently :/
If you take a regular Lenovo laptop, everything likely works out of the box with an upstream kernel. This quite not the case yet with Asahi Linux which does not support power management, no USB, no sound.

There was a time where Apple laptops came with very good Linux support. It was the time were every bit of hardware support was present in Darwin (a 12" iBook G3 was working flawlessly with Linux for example). I think that at each generation, support gets worse because the hardware is closing down. This translates to far more time between release and having something usable with Linux.
Intel is the next Boeing...a "strategic" firm fed a diet of government pork

Don't worry Intel, Google and their "strategic AI assets" are only a few years behind you in line, you'll soon have company
The Reality of Cloud Spending
I am sure they work because Substack's whole business model relies on it. More importantly, a lot of bloggers/writers have been moving to substack because of this very reason.

Substack lets your readers easily subscribe to your paid/free newsletter and deliver new publications to their email which is expensive to run/maintain on your own(think of wordpress blog + mailchimp costs).
> And why them and not others such as the cashier in a supermarket or a bus driver?

Culture?
>I’m not defending the specific claim in question

It sure as heck seemed like you were all of one comment ago. I'm pretty sure that 999 out of 1000 people reading your previous comment heard something like "PolitiFact said this claim about a possible recession was false, even though it used a dictionary definition of the term!"

But now it appears that PolitiFact was not doing that at all, but was instead taking issue with the claim that the White House was "changing the definition" of recession, and now you're saying you're not defending that claim and falling back to unrelated generalities.

So now I have no idea what your original point was supposed to be. Is it the White House changing definitions is false and easily debunkable but supports some broader point that you believe is more important? And is that what we were supposed to understand from your first comment? This is just checking every box for being a bad argument.
That would be because 2 successive quarters is not and never has been the definition of a recession in the US. A recession in the US is defined as when the NBER says it as a recession.

> The NBER's traditional definition of a recession is that it is a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months. The committee's view is that while each of the three criteria—depth, diffusion, and duration—needs to be met individually to some degree, extreme conditions revealed by one criterion may partially offset weaker indications from another ...

Despite your claim to the contraty, the NBER guidence of what they believe constitutes a recession did not change "recently".
Can't you make your argument without the fallacious roping-in of Amazon? Apple isn't Amazon. Also, if Macs are actually as hostile to consumers and to open-source computing as you claim (and boy, is this ever an old and tired claim at this point), why is Linus still working so very hard and enthusiastically to support the platform in question?
The recipe says 1 cup of flour and .75 cup of sugar for 24 cookies; but we're making 18, so how much of each do we need now?

Math is everywhere. All you need to do is show it and show how it makes getting things done easier. Show the reason we have "math" to someone and they'll want to learn it on their own.
Tangentially: The GDPR has been around for 4+ years now. They should know that a cookie consent popup where you have opt-out for 15 processing purposes individually almost certainly won't fly, and having to opt-out of 100+ vendors individually definitely won't fly.