skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'll take this opportunity to introduce "HackerNotify" (https://lotw.site/net/HackerNotify.app), which is a different kind of interface into the Hacker News backend (via firebase).

You can tell how many total comments a story has by the color of its title. The ranking from low to high is: dark blue -> light blue -> aqua -> green -> yellow -> orange -> red.

It has a keyboard-centric interface. Here is the breakdown:

'Space' toggles an item's open/closed state.

'Tab' is used to move between items in a list. If an item is in the open state, pressing tab will focus the first item in its list. Otherwise, it will focus the next item in the list that the item is a member of. This is really the "go to" key in the app. If ever in doubt, just hit 'tab'.

'Enter' is for opening the link (in a new window) to which a "story" item refers. (You can also click the link to open it.) When a notice (see below) is in focus, hitting 'enter' should bring you directly to the item that it refers to, in an opened and synced state. Doing this might still fail, though, which is why there is a "hard reset" option in the app.

'c' is for popping open a comment window to respond to whichever item is in focus.

'n' is for setting a "notice" to periodically poll the backend for new replies to a given item (story or comment). The current polling period is one minute.

'/' is for cycling between the 3 screens of the app (Top stories, Watched stories and Notifications).

'1' is to jump to the "Top stories" screen. (All story titles that start out as "Launch HN:" are filtered out of the listing.)

'2' is to jump to the "Watched stories" screen. "Watched stories" is the screen that will hold the top level story items that contain notification items that are no longer embedded in the DOM of the "Top stories" screen.

'3' is to jump to the "Notifications" screen.

'x' is to delete a given notice. The app currently allows for 5 notices to be set at any given time.

'r' is used to refresh a given item to sync it with the firebase backend.

'Esc' allows you to "escape out" of embedded items. This key also automatically closes items.

'Ctrl+Esc' allows you to immediately escape out to the top level listing, closing all embedded comments along the way.

Finally, since there may still be a bug or two in the app's logic, 'Alt+l' is the "hard reset" shortcut that forcefully closes and blurs every item on every screen. If you need to invoke this shortcut, just pressing 'Tab' again should get you back on your feet.

The link I provided above allows you to open up a Linux on the Web app in the experimental "app mode". If you want to play around with it in its native environment, though, you will need to need to see the LOTW README: https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW#applications
There are a lot of goofs out there running goofy binaries for which they have lost the goofy source code. These people are unfortunately also the committee’s problem.
Wasn't that about the northern parts that they aren't working on right now? The lower parts that are going ahead with now were about capacity.

"The government says that HS2 will free up capacity by taking the long distance trains off existing lines and on to the new high speed line."

That's what they were talking about in 2013 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24159571.
If the US is willing to compromise even in a non-military standoff, imagine their willingness in an actual military conflict that emerges in Taiwan.

This is not great news for Taiwan. Besides empty assurances, I am now certain that Taiwan is largely on its own.

No nuclear armed nation is going to fight another nuclear armed major power.
Wasn't that after removing the infamous "Taiwan Is Part Of China" from the Taiwan Fact Sheet, and the proposal for expansion of military aid to Taiwan? That old lady is also the US House Speaker, second in line for POTUS succession among other things.

Not exactly irrelevant.
This is good news and as others have noted, the United States could be in for a good decade of economic growth. To ensure progress however, we need to address two issues: immigration and housing.

Our immigration system needs to reformed to allow US college educated students the option to stay in the US. Current programs like the H1B are in need of serious reform and are too dominated by large firms gaming the system, rather than on individuals seeking a better life. Talented, young immigrants with ideas are the lifeblood and energy of US entrepreneurship and deserve a seat at the table.

Second, The US needs massive zoning reform. Local politicians representing the private interests of the property and home owner class should not have the power to ban new homes. These bans make it difficult if not impossible for younger people to live near well paying jobs. Zoning also sharply limits economic growth. Enrica Morettj estimated that zoning smothered US growth by 50% over 50 years:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/opinion/housing-regulatio...
Any published work on this? I'd definitely like to read about it.
Is it true that it's common TSMC practice to use PhD:s to continously babysit and tweak manufacturing processes? Does Intel handle that aspect differently?
Can students realistically run this kind of software on the hardware they have? I would guess DreamWorks only runs it on fairly expensive networks, and would not have prioritized keeping it usable on single-machine setups.
Such regulation doesn't just take time, it's basically politically unfeasible given how both entrenched interests (businesses) and the individual voter are incentivized towards cost-savings. It's essentially like calling for raising taxes- not literally impossible, but virtually so.

You're setting up an ethical dilemma that is always going to default to one direction, and castigating those who don't go the impossible route. This is "If you don't like this government, why don't you move to another country?" or "If you don't like this platform, why don't you build one?" levels of impracticality.
Surprisingly little difference. It's simply a ripoff because electric car owners are still perceived as rich. Will come way down.
As revealed in the trial(s), that's not true. He continuously promoted that false story for many years, even after he first started running into legal trouble as a result.
>But again. You need to drop your narrow EU bureaucratic view of things. I have never applied to vacation as a grad student. Never, among my 50+ grad students so far as a single grad student applied for vacation. Not one of them has ever applied for vacation time. Grad students just tell me "Hey, I'll be gone these 3 weeks." And I say "Enjoy". That's it. Same with sick leave.

Yeah sure, as a boss, you're going to keep insisting you're One of the Good Ones whenever someone sticks up for your workers to have formal rights.
Fascinating to know the Romans had reached India. Gods only know what could have happened if Rome had gone against China. Would they be speaking Latin or we could have been speaking Chinese dialect if we lost ...
Seems like the early CATV operators would have been an easy target for bell.
You're right that chaos is the status quo, but have we stopped to consider that maybe it sucks? I love rock concerts, but I'll find somewhere relatively calm to watch from. I paid money to watch and listen to a band play, not to act like a maniac. A small percentage of the crowd actually wants to participate in a mosh pit, everyone else has to deal with it because "it's a rock show dude!"
Randall Munroe covered this in his Mole of Moles thought experiment.

"What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place?"

https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
If you consider Rogan a shitty person, you must live in paradise.
Fair enough.

But I suspect if you got your wish there would be a lot less posts...
Show HN: I built a word game that embeds an mystery phrase into viral tweets
This author is clearly hostile towards Uber.

Very much so, and it clouds his analysis. Especially this:

Anyone who's taken an Uber since the lockdowns lifted knows that the company's prices have skyrocketed. What you may not know (unless you drive for Uber) is that the company has also slashed driver pay over that same period – over the past year, Uber's share of each fare climbed from 18% to 28%, a 66% increase in the shareholders' claim over the fruits of Uber drivers' labor.

If Uber's share goes from 18% to 28% then the driver share goes from 82% to 72%. This is a 12% decrease that is almost certainly more than made up for by the increased fares. The 66% figure is irrelevant in the context of driver take-home pay; he's just throwing it out there because it looks big and scary.
Oh, this is great info. Thank you. I use optimus-manager and it's 100% not, so I thought I was just SoL.
I agree that China can't project military force far outside China. But they don't have to, a large portion of the world's population and manufacturing capacity is in their neighborhood. If they take over Taiwan, occupy Vietnam and get countries like Laos and Thailand which have good relations with China on their side, then other countries might join against China to protect their interests and supply lines.

Meanwhile the US has failed to roflstomp much smaller and weaker countries that didn't prepare for this exact scenario. China can't take the war to the US, but they can defend their costal waters and core territory longer than the US can maintain popular support for a war.
When I drop a .ttf file on the page I get "Only images & fonts can be dropped onto this page!" message.
If I try to upload a .ttf file I get "Only font files can be selected".

The file I'm trying to upload is "JuliaMono-Regular.ttf" downloaded from the provided link on the page.
Bitcoin also adjust difficulty - but does that every two weeks or so. would it make sense to mine for a sibling for the last block before the difficulty increase while everyone else mines for a child block with increased difficulty? thus having twice the relative hashrate for 10 min every time difficulty increases.
I have an X1 Yoga which is capable of all of these things. It is a laptop with a good keyboard setup that can hold up it's own screen w/out a kickstand. When I don't want the keyboard I just fold it up and the keyboard changes to lift and lock so the back of it is solid making it easier to put on a stand (or A frame it and use a couple of books in a pinch. They sell one with linux preinstalled too.

I got mine in 2016 and it's been rock solid.
Right. Agreed. To add to that...

Many of the images that we get from NASA in general aren't event "photos", they're composite images, just as you said. For example, a lot of "color" images are composites of black and white images shot through blue,green,and red filters and then re-assembled on the ground. They're "true" in the sense that they're not deliberately falsifying things, but not they're not "true photos".

Somewhere (can't find the source at the moment) I recall reading that some of the early lunar reconnaissance photos were purposefully made lower quality by NASA because the U.S. wanted to keep it a secret from the Soviet Union just how good our orbital photography had become.

Just because it has some obvious and provable editing does not mean that it's a falsification.
Yeah. This is covering stuff you know if you've read that thread, but:

Putting all Python libs into a single channel is something Nixpkgs does because Python can't handle different versions of the same library in a single process. The Python libs that are used in actual applications in NixOS, then, need to be compatible or they might cause weird issues when a new or existing package tries to leverage them at the same time. Other distros do run into this but it might be worse in Nix. (Some (all?) C libs have this same issue, but they don't have rampant integration problems from version to version like the Python ecosystem does, so having just one copy of them is fine.)

And yeah, Python developers seem wary of the kind of vendorization that would fix this, and some Python package authors are very hostile about integration issues that Linux distros are more likely to hit than developers of individual downstream applications are. (I guess they don't feel like distro integrators are truly 'using their code' in the way that application or library developers would be, and those integration issues can be a lot of work to figure out for what feels like some 'fake user's' configuration problem.)

Python packaging has been an incredible mess for many, many years. I don't think the community's processes and institutions have the means to meaningfully fix it so that downstream consumers of Python packaging infrastructure don't have to use a big pile of hacks to successfully package Python applications.

Distros will probably see another language replace Python for internal tooling and sysadmin applications before they see Python packaging unified around something that behaves deterministically, works offline, lets programs reason about the dependencies of packages that are not present/installed/built, pins versions with cryptographic hashes by default, disallows arbitrary scripts at install time, sanely describes dependencies on native libraries, etc.

PS: This is not a knock on Python. The Python community faces some really tough institutional/governance/adoption problems because:

- the language is mature and the ecosystem has a lot of valuable code in it, already packaged in various ways
- the language was born without a modern package management story, because it's very old!
- big community-wide changes are democratically governed and there are a lot of stakeholders who are bound to have opinions

Consensus will be really hard to build and legacy packaging processes will stick around for a long time. And some changes that could really help, like in-process changes to library loading behavior, are likely to be seen (perhaps correctly!) as too radical/disruptive to be in the best interest of the majority of the existing community.
> If the US is serious about protecting Taiwan

It never was, that's why they want chip companies to build factories in the US as a backup. Until May 2022 the official state department website specifically said that the US does not support independence. Even now it still says that it's official stance is a one china policy(although China does not believe that that is indeed the official stance, hence the tensions).

But at the end of the day anyone that can read a map can see what the reality here looks like. There is that which we would like to be true, and that which is reality and unfortunately the reality looks a bit more grim.
I’d say Godot is the best FOSS can offer and it is clearly behind Unreal. This, True.
> Funny to see Google and Mozilla siding on ethical issues

It's not the first time Google and Mozilla sided together against the W3C on web standards, and the last notable time resulted, over time, in the W3C ultimately being displaced from any role in the HTML and DOM standards.

The standards group that implementers listen to (which, for some reason, seems to be the one that listens to implementers, when there are competing options) is the only one that matters, in practice.
Tencent seeks bigger stake in 'Assassin's Creed' maker Ubisoft
Agreed. It's sad that we as species just can't get it right when it comes to getting along with each-other.
Can I ask what it is you're using godot for if it isn't a game?
Tim Cook also invested a third of a trillion dollars in China because they did not have the manufacturing capabilities to build the iPhone how Apple wanted at the time of the investment. [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tim-cook-275-billion-c...
I get why you're both trying to obscure your email, but realistically it's pretty pointless. Literally everyone, their mom and the spammers can see it.
As outlined in the trial, that was 800k/day during a specific week, he claimed that was the highest ever figure.

He had previously claimed that profit was 20% of that, when pushed he said 20-40%, but documents suggest it's more like 70%.

Still, that $800k/day was for a week, it can't be extrapolated over the whole year.
If you have a battery powered drill, it probably has at least one chip for the battery management and one for the speed control.

Silicon ICs have been commonplace in appliances for decades now, “smart” or not. My appliances are all dumb as bricks and there are probably a couple dozen ICs in my kitchen.
Ask HN: How do you secure your home server?
I am getting into self-hosting and it seems it takes an awful lot of work to secure your general-purpose Linux distribution.[0] I am surprised that the default seems to be to do all of this by hand.

How do you deploy a secure Linux home server? Are there distros that are pre-configured for this purpose? Do you use any Ansible playbooks (or other scripts)? Or do you indeed implement all security measures manually?

[0]: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server
Yeah, it's the same for swimming or sailing. If a port captain in France ask you 'are you sure?' or do off hand remarks about your skills he isn't being polite. You really to be sure about your path and your skills. If the beach have a red flag, you better know the area and the tides
Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of software/arch diagrams?
Except The old lady is -

> The order of succession specifies that the office passes to the vice president; if the vice presidency is simultaneously vacant, or if the vice president is also incapacitated, the powers and duties of the presidency pass to the speaker of the House of Representatives
That 1.7% that China spends is probably equivalent (or more) to the 3.5% that the US spends. China steals the intellectual property that the US pays for. China takes advantage of lax environmental and green energy laws the the US military and supporting businesses must conform to. China takes advantage of near slave labor to build it’s weapons of war. It’s much economical for China to wage war than the United States.
> You then go on to argue your preferences as being better than other peoples

Show one example of this. A single place where I say or remotely imply anything about either strategy is better than anything.

In fact, show one place where I show a preference. You're literally imagining my preferences. After all, I've owned some of these devices... I've owned the first 4k phone (an Xperia), I've owned interesting low volume hardware like lightfield tablets and cameras.

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I am saying that brand new tech that literally cannot be scaled, like can't even be manufactured in mainstream numbers, is released by some manufacturers, but not by others.

Like it's not even an opinion, it's a statement of fact which is why it's mind-blowing that it's gone this far in back and forth, and again, makes me look for meta reasons why this is even an argument...

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> I’m clearly not but would it really matter if I were?

I guess I was being charitable in assuming the reason why you:

- missed so many plainly stated points

- keep using really combative retorts like "you think your preferences are better than others'"

- keep putting words I never said or implied in my mouth

Was emotion... but it might just be malice? So yes, I enthusiastically agree to disagree.
DevCycle (YC W14) is hiring feature flag developers to fix software innovation
I've had similar experiences where I didn't need any paper to plan out and write shorter articles. However, screenwriter Thomas Schnauz provided a great example of how handwriting was useful when writing scripts for Better Call Saul. He posted a photo of a cork board with dozens of pinned index cards with handwritten ideas for scenes. It looks like the cards can then be rearranged or substituted out without losing the past drafts: https://twitter.com/TomSchnauz/status/1296912710601306113/ph...

Handwriting has also been useful for taking notes where diagrams and imagery was important, such as when researching what a good user interface could look like, for a web application. You could give it a try if you decide to write an article that analyzes or incorporates a significant amount of imagery, or has a lot of parts, like a lengthy script, fictional story, or in-depth report.
> Provoked by an old lady flying in and giving a few speeches?

This statement is just ridiculous.
The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts wouldn't be a bad place to start. Eternal September and all that, but it's still home to lots of schools and academics, and the shitty weather deters people that aren't there on purpose.
I am glad that there is native manufacturing, but let's but that in perspective:

Apple doesn't publish units-sold figures, but Iphone revenue is 5x that of Macs [0].

The Mac Pro is the least popular Mac. Again, I don't have number breakdowns, but Apple did say in the most recent keynote that launched the M2 Macbook Air that the Macbook Air, and the 13" Macbook Pro are their 2 most popular models.

So it's safe to say the Mac Pro represents an extreme fraction of Apple manufacturing.

[0] https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/07/apple-announces-83b-fisca...
> Maths and computer programming

I’ll have to inform the 50+% of math PhD’s I graduated with that now work in tech…
Nice pictures! Reminds me of my own Love Parade pictures I took in Berlin some years after. Berlin was good by the way, even more years later I experienced the tragedy in Duisburg from close up.

One thing I vividly remember from my first time at the Love Parade in Berlin is - just like this author tells about Woodstock '99 - all the trash knee-high in the gutter.
hundreds of thousands across many years

this suggests to me that you needed to spend that money periodically as it was made, for your lifestyle, and/or that there was a maximum trade size for possible (or just for your risk tolerance)
Is it really "all of the above?" The R&D is obviously very expensive as well, but I'm under the impression that the number in this sort of headline is usually the actual cost of the factory. (Although I guess money is fungible)
Release Radar · July 2022 Edition
It's already being considered as a basis for implementing road taxes for electric vehicles.

This is the future you chose/has been chosen for you. Are you enjoying it yet?
Am I the only one who finds that quote-searching sort of kind of sometimes works in Gmail, but usually doesn't?
A company forbidding the use of Windows (and more broadly Microsoft products/services) would be a huge green flag to me. I don't even care why. I would miss VS Code though.
Not sure if this is a rebuke or an agreement. The alt text seems to agree with me now that we've shown that 2022 is most assuredly not normal, we're going to need a lot more symbols. Seriously though, massive worldwide events have massive worldwide consequences which are very often long lasting. It's also a bit of a no brainer that flooding the economy with even more cheap money on top of supply chain disruptions would result in severe inflation for as long as at least one of those conditions remained. They've finally put the brakes on with beginning to raise rates but they can't control the supply chain so that's likely to keep things in turmoil for as long as it takes for things to straighten out or crash and reboot.
So what are you comparing with? CoL is a far bit higher in many places in the US, safety nets are worse, employee protection is worse, many other things are straight-up worse at that income level in the US. How do you think the US can have a worse median than many European countries while paying far more for skilled labor?

Parent says 'very good'. If all you've got going for you as a country is a bit lower house prices / rent while living on virtual poverty, that's not 'very good'. I'm not saying Europe is great, it's comparing a 4 and a 5 on a scale of 10. Both are bad. It's just exemplifying that 'very good' is a gross overstatement, when the US requires far more financial self sufficiency while one is paid the same.