skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can check this [1] service that I prepared for myself then made it publicly available. For now it’s only sending popular stories as notification. Planning to add keyword feature.

[1] https://hnn.avci.me/
Fittingly, the article behind the link is paywalled.
You see, the very first point of the article not only has a really weird opinion (that'd be only half bad), but but this weird opinion is being justified/defended with obviously faulty reasoning: "in the shell spaces matter, [so don't use tabs]. Instead, ask make to use > as the block character". Yeah, because ">" doesn't matter in shell, and there is absolutely no confusion possible as a result. Imagine copypasting a recipe from such a Makefile into a shell? The results will be pretty hilarious.

Which is a shame because the rest of the post is mostly reasonable: turning recipes from a collection of one-liners into an actual piece of shell script, deleting output files on build errors, using -e and -o pipefail, etc.
Where I previously was runs it in production. it's not hard to scale but at some point you will need to have multiple clusters (maxes out in practice at like 50 instances).

It's basically trouble free unless you run below 10% free space on any instance, where things go bad.
Yep. I've only ever seen people get promoted to backfill new vacancies (low levels) or in a re-org (high levels, where they accumulate power). As is sort of intimated, there is no incentive to promote, and I've observed that managers tend not to think very hard about rewarding people's efforts to facilitate retention (even with things as simple as ordering pizzas now and then).
Most of that boils down to very politely asking the parents to follow the recommended standard of care. Unless there's outright abuse, like broken bones without a satisfactory explanation, there's no real intervention.

You want to take a guess at how often an old order Amish child goes to the pediatrician?
But it's a self-perpetuating death loop problem. At those prices, the only buyers are extreme fans buying it almost more like a merchandise item (compare figurines) than people who want to view the content. I know this is a thing in Japan-- the anime releases tend to be a few episodes at a time, at prices that would be considered astronomical most places.

There are potentially many market equilibria-- selling 200 copies at $100, 400 copies at $50, or 1000 copies at $10.

If they switched to a bargain-priced model, you enable tsundoku-style purchasing-- put up a big display of "here's a hundred back-catalog series, 13 episodes on two DVDs in a flimsy cardboard sleeve for 1000 yen each", people would be willing to take much more risk on buying them.

Arguably, there's a lot of information being lost because they only see purchase data of people hardcore enough to pay the current high prices. (I wonder if to an extent this impacts anime's tendency for fanservice choices-- they're chasing an artificially narrow market)

There's still the opportunity for price-discrimination for fanatics with limited editions with better packaging, extra content, and feelies.

It's interesting to contrast that the price of manga was almost impossibly low. In Japan, (at least it used to be) like 1/3 the price as in the US for a 200-page volume, and the omnibus magazines were pretty cheap, which made it more amenable to risk-taking purchases.
For decades you've been able to manually disable third party cookies. The place where Apple innovated was in defaults.
I think a workable solution can be found. I don’t know if that’s necessarily a middle ground between amplification and censorship; feels like that could be the “middle ground” fallacy. We’ve solved problems like this in the past.
Thanks for the lists. I was genuinely curious about the exes. Nice to know where they originate. Interesting that over half of them have titles in Cyrillic. I guess not so many English language textbooks (with included CDs) have been uploaded with the data portion intact.
Work on the EPR started in 1989 with the first reactor starting commercial operation 2018. That's almost 30 years for an evolutionary Gen III design. Bringing more revolutionary Gen IV designs to market will take probably even longer, and that's not speaking about mass roll out. We don't have that time to prevent a climate disaster. It really makes sense though to keep existing nuclear plants running as long as their safety can be guaranteed.
They were fined 5 years ago for this very reason (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724), so not so marvelous.
> I don't see those as mutually exclusive. Apple seems to believe that a company that values a user's privacy can make a profit from that stance.

The reason Apple doesn't want targeted third party ads is so that they are the only ones that can sell targeted ads to their users. Their platform, their rules. For now at least.
My comment about djvu was mostly just about my own laziness, because (kill me if you need to) I like using Preview on the Mac for reading and annotating, and it doesn't read them, and once they have to live in a djvu viewer, I tend not to read them or mark them up. Same goes for Adobe Acrobat Reader when I'm on Windows on my University's networked PCs.
The user only saw the headline and closed, isn't the author aiming visitors to read the content or clicks?

The same analogy could be made to a baker luring customers in their bakery with an attractive facade but the very same "customers" just give a quick glimpse and leave.

What is the win?
Recently I've been contemplating about creating something fairly small, that would eventually bring in. ~100K/year. Many would say it's not big enough,or so,but it would allow me to build a decent retirement fund, support many activities that don't cost a fortune but still require money and so on.
Ah, the engineer who thinks everything can be solved with software.

To automate grading you first must create a general AI, because if you just do multiple choice exams, you aren't really testing or measuring someone's ability to perform the task, you're just measuring their ability to make a good guess. And some teachers do that. But not the good ones.

As for planning, some senior teachers have filing cabinets labeled by day. They just reach into the file and pull out the lesson for "day 82". But any good teacher will realize that they have to customize the learning to that year's kids, and constantly update with new teaching methodologies, new information, etc. And sometimes the school adopts a whole new curriculum, and then you have to start all over.
I wouldn't dispute any of your numbers. It sounds like they were roughly comparable. At least that's the best we can say 34 years later.
Hi, thanks for your interest!

I am definitely happy to share, but I didn’t expect any interest and I posted my comment under my HN pseudonym account. However when I link to the repo on GitHub that thin veneer of obscurity will disappear and I’d prefer that it did not. Being a programmer, I am quite familiar with workarounds and I am happy to offer you couple of different options:

1. You could add an email address to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxique and I can email you there - I’m happy to share my name and contact info in a one-off request, just not on an ongoing basis for anyone to see.

2. I could clone the repo onto my current machine and delete the .git dir, leaving the code and the README.md intact, produce an archive of that stuff, and link it here in this thread. While I’m sure it may be possible to use a code search tool to find the repo on GitHub after that, I am not terribly bothered by that.

I am open to other options as well if you have any suggestions. Finally, the code was written for whatever version of the Ruby interpreter (MRI) was current in 2016, in case that will dissuade your interest.

EDIT: I have a bias to action, appreciate interest in my work, and figured it was likely that you would see my reply at some later point and then I'd have to see your reply to my reply at some even later point, and we'd continue the loop, and eventually your interest would wane. So I went with option two. Here you go: https://we.tl/t-Bu257EdQn9

This is my first time using WeTransfer; let me know how it works out for you. I actually originally had a link that I hosted on file.io (which I've also never used before), but it looks like that gets automatically deleted after one download, which seems slightly excessive to me.
The society used to care a lot less about special needs people.
Re: selection bias.

I remember FM radio in LA in the early 70s, there weren't really a lot of mediocre songs in the playlists. It wasn't just Classic Rock as we refer to it now, but a bunch of BB King and other blues artists, along with some of what you'd today call Country Rock.

But the "Country" Rock was Allman Brothers, CCR, The Band, and later ZZ Top, etc. The Blues were BB King, John Mayall, Hendricks, etc. The rock was Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, on and on. There was just so much that you didn't really need to fill out the playlists. And all of these bands were cranking out an Album a year in that 5-6 year period.
> I’d live with corruption if they were at least competent at delivering essential services.

This has so many holes in it you’re making Swiss cheese look rational.

> I expect most only complain about corruption because the basics aren’t being delivered, not out of a sense of civic responsibility.

I expect you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
I can open up the TV app on my phone or laptop, search Expanse, and it gives me option to open Amazon to watch season 6. Or I can buy seasons 1 to 5 in the TV app itself.

I assume Google has a similar situation in the YouTube app?
True. A date with an interviewer can be flattering if they are engaged in your answers, but interviewing is also a subtle way to control the flow of information and remain private.
HBO has been ad free since the 70s. There hasn’t been a cable service or streaming service that started ad free and then didn’t offer an ad free offering
There's very little that I know of on an SAT that would demonstrate the skills to teach a 10 year-old math. Somebody who teaches a 10 year-old math doesn't even have to be very good at math.

So the problem I have with this argument is that it implies that virtually all of the essential skills (as I see it) that are required to be a good teacher shouldn't be compensated. Instead, teachers should be compensated for the skills that make them a good engineer or historian.
Cronjob to the Algolia Search API, send to your email.
> I literally haven’t changed the text in my marketing description in many months.

After 5 years in the App Store, and having my app featured in the Accessibility section, we were flagged for a characteristic that had remained unchanged since launch. In almost every case, our rejections were not related to newly-added features.
A: nothing whatsoever, gp was just dealing with low offsets, or ignoring the issue.
It was 4 years from their first records of blues influenced pop to Sgt Peppers, then 3 more years till they spun apart. There’s a density of creation and artistic evolution there that is incredibly rare.
Planning needs to be responsive to how the prior lessons went. You can't simply pre-plan a whole year and expect those lessons to be effective. Eventually, you can get close to that point, if you are lucky enough to teach the same subject for years. But much like you can't expect a standup comedian to perform someone else's routine effectively, as a teacher, each individual has to figure out what's effective for them. Teaching is dynamic and interpersonal.

Grading is not just a matter of right/wrong, even in fields like math, where questions can be given that have one correct answer. It's providing the student feedback on where their misconceptions were that led to an incorrect response. And of course, the most meaningful schoolwork assignments don't have a single correct answer.
Apple never cared about privacy to begin with. as soon as they are in a position to use their monopoly power to force their way into the ad eco system they will do so in force. I look forward to seeing how apple will market or more likely choose to hide this approach from their users.
I have a few main requirements for what I consider easy to use pagination.

1. I can set how many items per page.

2. I can get to an arbitrary page either through a path/ query param or at least close with a pagination row that contains a way to jump around. If an item gets removed, whatever I was looking for should still be in the same vicinity.

3. As a result of #1 and #2, I can go back and find items I saw previously because their placement is at some fairly reliable position on the page I remember it being on or around.

You know, like how a physical book or catalogue with pages works.

Please stop trying to improve on this and making usability more difficult. I hate infinity scroll and I hate not being able to pick my page in an intuitive fashion.
You might need Monty Hall to open a lot of doors before you can find those
I'm doing a meal planning app[0], didn't really think there'd be a facebook group for that, but lo & behold...
Now I guess i have to get a facebook account :/

[0] - www.reciped.io
I don't think you can draw any of those conclusions as the alternative to Huawei is equipment from Nokia and Ericsson, neither of which is American.

Since the UK is one of the Five Eyes they already have information sharing agreements with the USA, so no need for backdoors either. GCHQ will just give them anything they want to know.
I've always hated the modern C++ atomic stuff. Atomicity is not a property of the thing being accessed, it is a property of the instructions performing the access: trying to shoehorn that reality into an object-based model was wrong from the beginning.

A library of fence primitives is much easier to work with and understand, IMHO. [1] is the best example I know of. If you've never tried to write code that way, have a crack at it: you'll definitely learn something.

I think lots of programmers struggle to understand memory ordering because the C++ model makes it so much more difficult to understand than it really is. When you actually deal with the fences directly, everything makes a lot more sense.

Also, the word "atomic" is unfortunately really overloaded. Nearly all X86 instructions are "atomic" with aligned pointers, in the sense that the result of two racing MOV instructions will be one or the other value, not some corrupt combination of the two.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> But if you stick students with learning disabilities with accelerated students nobody is going to have a good time. It doesn't help either group and just harms them.

This was explicitly the operating philosophy of my middle school. It was terrible.
> In almost every case

What were the exception(s)?
I find it more shocking that everyone wants great developer tools, but nobody wants to pay for them.

Instead of writing compilers, I'll make people click ads then, I suppose.
Maybe if copyright was set to a reasonable period such as 50 years (or even much less) we could archive and make publicly available our important cultural works after that period of time.
I’ve had similar issues of not receiving emails before and it’s annoying especially if you’re trying to do password resets.

I like the idea the author is taking about although I’m not too techie with all the details.

If I tried this “reverse” approach I would do it this way,

After the user creates their account, simply generate a unique token and tell the user to simply copy the token and send it back to a specific email address controlled by me with the token as the subject line and the body is ignored.

This way the user sends the unique code from the email address they want to use so we know it’s them cause how else would they get the unique token.

Is it 100% fool-proof? No. But most things humans touch is not secured 100% anyways but I’d like to think it’s a start.
I dunno, people are WAY fatter now.
I wouldn't be surprised if it evens out.
> You don’t need to invade privacy to show ads in a search result, based on that search. That’s how DuckDuckGo survives.

DDG does track how you interact with their search results and search ads, same as Google.
I wish it had auth
FW-Cloud, a firewall management system for netfilter/iptables hosts
> Ah, the engineer who thinks everything can be solved with software.

Just as a bit of feedback, starting your comment like this may have turned off the original poster to the rest of your thoughts, which I agree with.
Nobody here is arguing a fully socialist command-and-control economy is a better choice.

But you haven't made any sort of case that the German or Japanese "miracles" were largely due to raw unrestrained capitalism. There are way too many factors that made those particular countries special cases at the time to pinpoint all the primary causes, let alone tease out various secondary factors some of which probably tempered rather than accelerated growth.
I would guess not very often!

But as with anything, you have to think about how things scale. The Amish are a small fraction of the population, and there's no imminent danger that suddenly everyone will take up the behaviour and stop taking their children to the paediatrician. Amish videos aren't "trending" on TikTok. :)

If ever there was, or if that happened, then we might have a crisis on our hands, and we might be talking about doing something about it.

None of this happens in a vacuum, nor should it be considered as if it did.
Great opinion piece. Much agree. My wife works as a middle and high school substitute teacher across 6 districts in a large metro. All schools need subs so badly. But only 1 even raised their sub pay rate this year. Some try to offer higher rates for working more days in their district. But when one district pays $25 more a day than the others, they still don’t increase it. Teachers deserve more money. Also boggles my mind that the teachers unions are supposedly so powerful in this country, but if so then why are they paid so poorly?
Survivor here, with several failed startups in the past. Bootstrapped to 100k / mo over 10 years.

Sufficiently cynical folks will never hear anything I say as anything other survivor bias.

My only advice is stay bootstrapped, avoid company-ending risk like investment, and maintain control of the company. Through learning and persistence, you'll figure out how to grow it.

Just remember that the survivors figured out two things: how not to die (much easier for the Bootstrapped), and how to adapt to changing conditions.
Yes to all of those: necessary but not sufficient.

You left out "willing to do whatever it takes for THAT kid, regardless of what the textbooks or principal or union says."
Do you really need to jump to an arbitrary page and land on the exact item? For many applications an approximate jump is fine. If your column is fairly uniformly distributed you can guess the index for any arbitrary page.
How is the potential problem of housing future people an argument for a policy that allows kicking out existing owners?
They don't seem to me related. This is about the rights of ownership.

The problems you mention stem from various "kick out" policies that are essentially forced assets transfer and artificial scarcity policies to inflate prices (difficulty for new housing, one family houses, height of buildings, devaluation of residential areas by bad policing etc)

Housing prices are results of specific policies, and people's ownership rights are protected in western societies.
They're referring to UAV/UAS, a type of drone that flies. FS2020 even has a "drone mode" built in to the camera options.
From Russia with Hate
I often see the intros of shows like Foundation and The Expanse and imagine all of the particles are there as a big F.U. to pirates trying to reencode their paid stream.
I’ve never heard of ”urban” being a code word for “black”. Is that a thing? I assume they mean “urban” as in “city” where you’re likely to have many other forms of opportunity vs “podunk” where you’re kinda stuck in one career because there’s nothing else around.
Great summary. Thanks.

A more in-depth explanation can be found here:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/the-merge-the-bi...
In response to people's complaints about the usability of the HN Firebase API: yes. We're going to eventually have a new API that returns a simple JSON version of any HN URL. At that point we'll phase out the Firebase API, with a generous deprecation period. I'd be curious to hear people's thoughts about what a generous deprecation period might be.
Yes, that's a fair point.
Idk why people preach this a gospel. There are billions of living things, some of which ( peregrine falcon, cheetah etc)do high way speeds and do fine relying on optics. The only animals that rely on sonar are those that live in the dark. There are insects with pea brains which rely on vision. I’m not saying it is proof that only vision works, but to argue against it requires more than platitudes.
600 dollars a year isn't nothing, but TV is essentially the number one entertainment / pastime for the average American. It's a good bang for your buck.

And if you don't watch enough to justify 50 bucks, then subscribe to one service. Each one has more than enough content to keep a viewer busy.
Special Ed is as stupid as doing open heart surgeries on 85 year olds to give them 3 extra years. They’re an enormous burden on the system and are ruining everything for almost all of us. Why do severely mentally handicapped kids even need to be educated. Just provide them with an amount of money to live their lives and make their time here as happy as possible. There is going to be a reckoning.
Also, I will add, there is an element of good teaching that involves building a relationship with your students.

Getting personalized feedback (encouragement, small corrections, etc) can mean much more to a student than a simple green checkmark/red x somewhere. Good educators can know when to apply the right amount of pushing or backing off that can help a student succeed.

Ideally, of course. Lots of bad teachers out there…
Speculation: Maybe they aren't funded from a distinct resource pool and are instead assumed to be a percentage of the whole that is too small to care about. However over the years the number or cost of providing service has gone up to the point where the current expectations are an undue burden on the rest of the group. If that is the case then the funding should be split off at the source into it's own portion and receive clearer representation in funding deciding bodies.
> How much should public funding be a taint to things it buys?

For higher education the rule is 100%, even when the funding isn't supposed to be buying anything in particular, or going to the organization which becomes attainted.
Yes. To make a long story short, it was a lifestyle change that solved it for me. Basically my sleep apnea was due to irritation in my airways due to stomach acid leaking towards the throat at night, while laying down.
That stomach acid was going up because of high levels of work stress and late evening meals, as well as unhealthy snacking (though I am a healthy and active individual, the effect was there).
I now never eat heavy before bedtime, and try not to eat at all for a few hours. I do drink more water, and keep my stress levels at bay.
The road to understanding my apneas causes wasn't a straight one - doctors didn't raise these causes as options from the start, nor did the internet.
Anyhow, happy, back to life without surgeries, and wishing you the same!
Someone in the intelligence community told me the opposite.
Downloading is still very much possible. The number of seeders is down since a decade ago, but the content is still there. You just have to wait a bit longer in some cases, that's all.