skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally get the sentiment, but I really want to read 3 NYT articles a month.

To make the company what I pay now for a subscription, that would come out to around $6.00 an article. I'm not sure I'd press that $6.00 to read button very often.

Your scheme would broaden the total number of readers, but I'm unsure that the company would actually do well under it.
Shazam turns 20
wait this is a great idea, signed up for the beta
Well, truthfully, I happen to be a product guy looking for a job, and I really wanted to kick the tires of both Fly.io and Tailscale to see if I'd enjoy working on either. @QuinnyPig's tweet connected the dots for me with a use case that's 1. actually useful, 2. easy enough to build in a few hours, and 3. tailor-made to combine both products. So, not exactly a coincidence, but hopefully not shoehorned either. ;)
Hello all! I'm one of the creators of webhooks.fyi over at https://ngrok.com/

Happy to answer any questions!

First, we started this project when we launched in-product webhook verification. We realized that we were collecting great information, had uncovered some clear and obvious patterns (both good & bad), and knew we could publish the results to help the ecosystem as a whole.

Next, yes it's ridiculously hard to build webhooks correctly. There are so many shortcuts that feel "okay" and you don't really think about until you realize that it didn't quite work as you had planned and now you have a gap. We're hoping the site can help people move more of that thinking earlier and make better decisions.

Finally, we're missing a bunch of webhooks! While we looked at 100+ in our own research, we only had time to add ~50 to this initial pass. If you'd like to add your favorites, pull requests welcome: https://github.com/ngrok/webhooks.fyi

And yes, seriously, you can use ngrok to verify webhooks pretty easily:

ngrok http 80 --verify-webhook=slack --verify-webhook-secret=[secret]
So it only works reliably on Macs?
Ask HN: Secure Chat with Someone in China?
I'm in Europe. They've suggested WeChat but I'm concerned about censorship/monitoring.

Looking for options with text chat and video/audio calls. Ideally with minimal technical setup required at their end.

I looked into setting up a Matrix instance and giving them a link to a self-hosted version of the Element web client but it doesn't look like that would work [0].

Not sure yet if a VPN is an option for them (I don't know if I'd be suggesting something that they'd feel uncomfortable with).

What are my options?

If WeChat is the only route, any advice on how to minimise risk when using it?

(Also curious to hear from anyone from China about your experiences with messaging and censorship)

[0] there are reports from some that this doesn't work in China due to the element client still needing to talk to matrix.org which is blocked.
Wrong market. The question is "who buys a new phone because it has a better camera"?
I actually disagree, I think we’re conflating dictatorships and social cohesion. Concerted efforts have functioned better under social cohesion(the NHS, social security, etc), but social cohesion isn’t valuable in a modern system because it’s not an efficient use of labor (think: young people leaving their extended families for work elsewhere, not inheriting family farms and businesses which are then bought by conglomerates).
If there has to be a scripting runtime on a device that sits at a Lagrange point, I’d much rather have it be JavaScript than e.g. Python or Ruby.

JS runtimes are so widely used that they’re extremely well debugged and very fast. The language standard library is tiny, which means much less surface for bugs compared to the hulking default dependency monstrosities of those other languages.

As long as you don’t use anything from the Node or web browser ecosystems, JavaScript is a great embedded scripting language. (Of course everything goes to hell if you bring in node_modules or try to support the bad APIs from browsers.)
If that's important to you, then you should also be aware that many of the greens and various anti-nuke groups from the 1980s and onwards were funded by the Soviets.

Some of these details can be found in books like "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War".
The same with "we only have 10 years left". After 30 years this doesn't carry much weight.
Problem is the business will often never let you improve it.

So you better not tie your self worth to the quality of the things you produce.
For benefit of a friend new to HN (and anyone else who might be new here): Yes, the comments and the articles are almost separate, parallel discussions. The articles can be interesting in themselves, but for purposes of reading the comments, the articles are often just kind of inspirations or writing prompts.

So, yeah, the OP doesn't even mention code quality. The comments do. That's ok. It's just how the site works.
Very fair point, it is a VPN on android but you don’t have to use the app and set the DNS manually in the settings. As for iOS, it is not a VPN but a network profile (?, not sure what the exact name is). My home setup has nextDNS CLI locally running with all DNS request piped through iptables and masquerading.
Install "Bypass Paywalls" plugin and never look back. Despite Chrome in the title, there is a Firefox version.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma...
Sure, but tell me where I can find a laptop that is as thin, light, cheap, and has the battery life of a MacBook Air, while also having this Ryzen part and your favored large fans.
> See also: list of non-water floods

Well, there goes my morning.
And a pretty good model of how humanity is acting :-)
The counterpoint to this is "Rough Prototypes have a bad habit of being shipped out as End-Products". And technical debt 'does' kill products.

There's probably an optimum somewhere in the middle of each philosophy, but it's certainly not close to either extreme.
> Simply, that you can’t compare laptops solely on a cost basis easily.

Yes, people might be searching for the best performance, and cost comparison here is fair.

> If it was only about CPU performance, I could grab the cheapest Clevo with a Core i9 and it would beat every other manufacturer in the “bang-buck” spec as you are defining it, but it would be an awful experience.

Evey user has his/her requirements and things he/she is okay to comprmise on.
It’s still pretty silly because the price is the easiest thing to compare. Just show the prices of 2 systems as closely specced as possible and list power, thermal envelop blah blah. As it is, this doesn’t change my mind about if I’m making the right trade offs by getting the M2
Thanks for sharing that Fujitsu. At 634g it looks amazing and it's a proper laptop from a reputable brand with a full size keyboard, not some discount bin Chromebook or low spec pocket PC full of compromises and cramped keyboards.
Have you tried this in any really messy environments like a lumber mill? Those highly variable natural inputs feel like they’d prove challenging to find anomalies in vs eg a bottle filling line
Are we sure this is actually 4 cores and not a reporting error? AFAICT with some surface Googling Apple doesn't sell the M2 with cores disabled does it? Also 4 cores 8 threads is suspicious given that AFAIU the M2 doesn't have SMT. So you'd have 4 big and 4 little cores for 8 total. (at which point I think that part is fair. This is a chip to chip, not an uarch to uarch comparison)
It wouldn't really make sense as a question on a Joel test seeing as its a design style. A Joel test is more about ways of working.
This humorous cartoon captures (perhaps exaggerates) the degree to which the affair divided society:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_d%C3%AEner_en_famille#/medi...

On one message board i frequent, it has been taken up as a meme template. Simply replace "l'Affaire Dreyfus" with "the C++20 modules proposal", and you're done.
Congrats on unearthing a 1970s example of O&G disinfomation and propaganda disseminated via the pop media.

You assert it represents what scientists of the time were saying, it clearly misrepresents J. Murray Mitchell:

> Mitchell was a pioneer in investigation and understanding of climate change, and from the 1960s onwards sought to alert the public to issues of global warming.

> In 1976 he described the conjecture of global cooling as irresponsible, and around that time supported other scientists in warning of the damaging effects of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Murray_Mitchell

Is this a delibrate ploy by yourself, or were you merely ignorant?
This is a remarkable technical achievement that builds on all of its past work, as are the other updates from Netflix in the past with serving ever more traffic from a single box. That said, I still find it terrifying that so many users would be affected by a single machine going down, that blast radius is so huge!

Do we know if the rates that these hosts serve actually make it into production? Or do they derate the amount they serve from a single host and add others?
> What about letting users give a vote/rating or leaving a comment on if a page was helpful?

Difficult for such a system not to be gamed, e.g. via botnets.
Regarding the first two paragraphs.

If you came to these conclusions on your own, I applaud your critical thinking. The next steps however would be to search the literature, realize these aren't new ideas but instead have been discussed and solved, and learn them.
> Too many people today think that programming starts and ends at pulling a dozen popular libraries and making some API calls.

The needle keeps moving doesn’t it? A tremendous breadth of difficult problems can be effectively addressed by pulling together libraries and calling APIs today that weren’t possible before. Today’s hard problems are yesterday impossibilities. The challenge for those seeking to make an impact is to dream big enough.
The one question that would decide everything for me but I can never ask: Are Your Managers Competent.
I am not a lawyer but have an opinion on this question. Our laws are written in a way that in effect demand a trial by peers. Most laws have vague clauses, conditions that can permit a judge to determine a person to be any degree of innocent to guilty. Some call this wiggle-room. Judges can make mistakes and/or can be biased. People must be able to interpret the spirit of the law and the original intent.

Adding to this there is the issue of stare decisis that can make laws lean in a particular direction that may not always apply to the situation they were originally formed from. People must be able to determine if case law is applicable.

Even a trial by a jury of peers may not be good enough. A jury can still be a small mob of like minded individuals that would group-think in the same potentially biased manor as a judge. In this case the defendant must be able to appeal to higher courts and get different a different set of peers to review the case.

As a fun side note even a jury has some potential caveats. Here [1] is one of them. I think it would be interesting to get opinions from judges and lawyers on jury nullification.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqH_Y1TupoQ [video]
There are problems with Macs too as recently as the last release where the laptop would have a bit set preventing it from sleeping that you could only see from the terminal.
No, it works reliably on many individual PCs as well. Comparing the entire PC ecosystem to a couple models made by a single company is a category error.
I don't think the score itself is so much used directly as the metric as much as the info about work processes and style that comes out of the ensuing conversation. The integer is mostly irrelevant (unless it's hilariously low).
> options that we have to mitigate the effects.

You'd have to admit that there are significant effects first. And you'd probably have to admit that they're going to get worse. And you'd have to expect that some mitigation is going to be effective.

All of which are a tall order at this point. We're still talking about buying a new car just because, or flying off to some far off land just for fun. "The news" is not going to get serious about this until we do. In the meantime, it'll be catchy headlines and clickbait as usual.
Why do you think so?

I've got the impression that HN is using _lots of_ varying platforms, it's not like Apple is vastly prefered (or looked down to) around here.
I don't mind "i", but if there's an inner loop with "j" as well, you are BEGGING for confusion.
Ah yes, Dijkstra, the man responsible for adding i, j, and k to the alphabet.
When you review candidates for a position you cannot know if a better one has yet to apply nor (it is assumed) can you go back to a previous candidate (the assumption I suppose is that they now have a job).

As the article points out, it is also known as the Marriage Problem for similar reasons. The name "Googol Game" is where I first heard about it (and I believe it was Martin Gardner that presented it as such).
I don't think this actually answers why Netflix needs to many engineers. This seems like the sort of thing that one or two experienced engineers would spend a year refining, and it would turn out like this.

This is the sort of impressive work that I've never seen scale.
Why would you ignore the 2014 number? Isn't that exactly the cash infusion that Apple did to help TSMC become the leading semiconductor manufacturer? They make 20B in 2013, and then a year later suddenly make additional 60B on top of that? 60B can fund a lot of R&D.
This is evidence of what happens when religion is allowed to control social policy.
Alternative to Sublime and Markdown
I am currently using Sublime as my primary Markdown editor. Everything's perfect except for one thing: scrolling on Linux with a touchpad is terrible. I really like the third-party packages Sublime has i.e. syntax highlighting ( with MarkdownEditing) and automatic table creation (with Table Editor). I couldn't find any other apps that has all these features.
uhh if you use visual source safe, I am out.

I will tolerate git and SVN and thats about it.
72% of EU consumers express confidence in safety, quality of supplements
Open-source Notion clone collaborative text editor by Liveblocks
So there are two things we should identify separately that go under the name "quantization".

One is that when we send out a single photon worth of energy, even in an isotropic or other multi-path emission pattern, we only ever seem to detect a single photon. You can prove this with a half mirror and two detectors. This is kind of weird - not clear how this works, and the core question driving different quantum interpretations.

Second is that the energy level of a single photon detection is based on the constraint that Et=h (t is period), also written E=hf. This is not related to atomic properties of the detector. Why? Equation does not depend on any variable of the detector.

Same goes for Px=h. (Momentum/wavelength relationship.) You can prove that one with two razor blades close together. Same relationship, but along space axes instead of time.

Also for uncertainty principle - reinterpret EPtx as the variance of their distributions.

All of this is some sort of fundamental constraint of the universe around quantities of dimension force*time*distance (action). Not related to atoms per se. Not that I understand why this constraint exists. I know some ways to think about it mathematically, but not intuitively.
I...

It's yet another discussion or "debate" or shock healine about something which won't change based on discussion...

Yet another "shock" headline is just a waste of effort which polarises yet more people into bad positions on all sides even more...

What's wrong in just making the planet nicer for everyone?
> Simply, that you can’t compare laptops solely on a cost basis easily.

But they aren't doing that!*

They're specifically comparing performance between two similarly-priced laptops[1]. That's what "benchmark" means.

If this was a review between the two laptops I'd agree with you, but it isn't a review, it's a benchmark suite.

> Does the Ryzen system come with a full aluminum enclosure?

> Does it come with a screen with P3 color, 400 nits peak brightness, and HDR support?

> What is the battery size on both machines, and how long do each last?

> How thin is it? How light it it? How fast does it charge? How much does this affect you daily?

All of these are valid questions, just not for a benchmark. The benchmark is one set of inputs a potential purchaser would take into account, with the other inputs being all those things you mentioned.

[1] I assume that they're similarly priced - I skipped the introduction and went straight to the benchmarks.
The problem with that is that a self-referencing description will be mostly propaganda. It might be a startup based on BS and if manages to get attention, play the virtue-signalling game big time.
That 15Mb/s figure for 4K is out of date by a couple of years. They previously targeted a fixed average bitrate of 15.6Mb/s. They now target a quality level, as scored by VMAF. This makes their average bitrate for 4K variable, but they say it has an upper bound of about 8Mb/s.
See https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-for...
Article start with variable names (which pertains to code quality)

> Variable names are important because they communicate to the reader what’s happening. That’s their only job in code, so it’s important to name them well. Long verbose names don't cost anything:
HN is definitely on the edge around that occasional though! Some weeks there have been 4+ subscriber links here
Stack Overflow Jobs used to do this at a very shallow level.
I think a fair criticism would be how many engineers they have compared to their competitors. Disney+ is on a similar scale, can they do the same/similar job with less people? And considering netflix pays top of market, how much does Disney spends for their engineering effort to get their result. Would netflix benefit from just throwing more hardware at the problem vs paying more engineers 400-500k/y to optimize?
Ha ha, you might be overthinking it.
Hookworms that infect humans can complete their lifecycle in humans.
What does start-quality mean?
1. The RAM doesn't matter in any of those benchmarks
2. The Ryzen is 6nm the M2 is 5nm
3. Ryzen specs list TDP at 15W-28W
Agreed. Their writing could be better.
This was an analysis of graves though, what individual people died with. I have no idea how or if burial rights were different for monks vs regular people. (both were probably christian, though there could well have been small differences which may or may not be significant.
This network/system is called Faster Payments
https://www.wearepay.uk/what-we-do/payment-systems/faster-pa...

You may also be interested in Paym which uses mobile numbers
https://paym.co.uk/
Any reason why he dropped SVT-AV1 from the comparison?
Phones should be excluded from restaurants being almost all positive for ecoli.
Where that lurks worm eggs could too.
Hackers may have exploited security flaws
It's a Linux website. They are not interested in the performance of the CPU with Windows or Mac OS.

As far as the mismatched CPU and whatnot... These are the same sort of CPUs that you can get in the same form factor at around the same price.

So the comparison is valid.

The only thing suspect is the 8 vs 16GB of RAM. But since these are CPU-bound benchmarks I don't know how much of a actual difference that will make.
Why does it matter whether an e-scooter is "powered"? Mine has a 500W motor and the power cuts off above 20 km/h. I'd be much more dangerous on a regular bike.

Me having or not having to spin my legs around has nothing to do with anything.
No, driver's license doesn't need to be carried around in the UK. If the police want to see it, you can bring it to them later.

Other IDs - nothing is required to be carried around in the UK, but lots of offices have a pass card, which allows you to get in and out through barriers, take some buses for free, etc. I have one that lives in my laptop bag.
HSR was in the media, Musk thought about it and thought he had a better idea. So he wrote that down and released it.

The idea that this is some galaxy brain political 3D chess so politicians wouldn't fund HSR is made up, its no where evident in the actual things Musk said. The burden of prove is on those that claim this was explicitly done to influence politicians, rather then being a thing he really thinks is a good idea.
You and others are making really good points, it’s a shame you’re downvoted into the grey.

Governments are by and for the citizens. Crypto enthusiasts want to avoid taxes while making profits, because let’s be honest, that’s what Tornado is really about. At best, 1% of traffic is for legitimate services, because you can’t really buy much with crypto except other crypto.

What blockchains enable is yet another class of money laundering. It doesn’t help anyone except the crypto minority, but enables the other bad elements to have another system to use for their corrupt activities. Libertarians in a corrupt classist capitalist society cannot “save” themselves by hiding behind a blockchain - it won’t solve societal ills.
6 years of experience does not make one a senior engineer. I`ll be polite and say that most engineers with 6 years of experience I know are not seniors.
Haha, same thing was pointed out to me when my site was posted to HN. My advice: use a css transition instead of js
I actually agree with you, though i think you missed the "series of questions like" and the "and why" part. My beef is with applicants who think engineering is entirely about process and quality and who forget about business value. Obviously you've been in touch with a lot of businesses where the balance is too far in the other direction which is its own kind of hellscape.

I recognize now that my comment makes us seem like such a place but actually we're very much not, I simply had not realized (until reading the replies here) that there were so many companies where even basic stuff like "using something like git" is considered overly fancy.

I do still believe that it's a common pitfall for good engineers to obsess too much about tooling and process and too little about customers and end users.
Watabou is my go-to for low-prep toolbox apps in gaming. Between that one, and donjon (https://donjon.bin.sh/), and a name generator like https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ , it's basically everything you need for a quick jaunt into the dark with your buddies.
> The declaration was signed by most of the great powers of the day: Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. (It was also signed by the Netherlands and Spain.)[1] However, no state ever ratified the declaration and consequently it never came into force.[2] The United States insisted that the belligerent nations fighting in World War I abide by the Declaration, while the British and Germans ignored it.

Also it would have made the blockade more of a war crime, not less.
Indeed. The only way this doesn't happen is that no subgroups continue to reproduce beyond the replacement rate. I think that's highly unlikely. We can see certain religious groups in developed countries that have way more than 2.1 children per couple. It seems likely to me that development and education doesn't completely make the problem go away.
I thought we had quit making PCBs until I accidentally bought a tube at the hardware store last year.

Our governments' chemical regulation has barely gotten off the ground in the last 100 years. Once it's out there, that's it. Everything gets "grandfathered."
is pulling via ACH basically a direct debit in UK terms?