skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should read this to understand how the economics of this works: https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/

"The reason that Cloudflare can pull this off is the same reason why S3’s margins are so extraordinary: bandwidth is a fixed cost, not a marginal one. To take the most simplified example possible, if I were to have two computers connected by a cable, the cost of bandwidth is however much I paid for the cable; once connected I can transmit as much data as I would like for free — in either direction.

That’s not quite right, of course: I am constrained by the capacity of the cable; to support more data transfer I would have to install a higher capacity cable, or more of them. What, though, if I already had built a worldwide network of cables for my initial core business of protecting websites from distributed denial-of-service attacks and offering a content delivery network, the value of which was such that ISPs everywhere gave me space in their facilities to place my servers? Well, then I would have massive amounts of bandwidth already in place, the use of which has zero marginal costs, and oh-by-the-way locations close to end users to stick a whole bunch of hard drives."
All derived from the original 1979 Texas Instruments 9918!
Biden did say that if Russia invades Ukraine, "there will be no longer a Nordstream 2" seven months ago. When a reporter asked "how he would do that, since it's under German control," he stated "we will, I promise you, we will be able to do it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPfXLPUJHM
and you could have published if only used Ayyy IIII :D

Seriously "X but with AI" is the new "X but on computers" or "X but with the internet" :-/
Most people don’t make this distinction, and would just say ‘interpreter’. Interpreting bytecode vs an AST is a pretty minor difference. It’s exactly the same data in a slightly different format. The ‘compilation’ is just a post-order linearisation. And storing it in files or not even more so.
SaaS Pricing
Hi everyone, everything fine?

I'm from another country and I have a healthtech. I just finished my MVP and I have a lot of questions about the price of my product.

My startup is B2C and helps people organize their medical lives by having them put all their medical data in the app, such as files, exams, medicines, vaccines and other medical information. My app is similar to MyChart and Cerner, but in my country this type of service does not exist

I'm not sure how to price my service as I use AWS and the more user use and attach files the worse it will be for me, the more he attach information to the application the more expensive it will be for me.

Among the pricing possibilities, the one I like the most are the plans, something very similar to the Spotify and Netflix plans. I even thought about pricing by usage, the more documents attached to the app, the more the user pays, but this type of pricing will make users not put a lot of medical information in the app.

I would like to have a fair price, but that doesn't hurt me. I can't put a price of X and my user cost me 2X.
This type of interviewing style is bullshit. It means the interviewer knows a better solution that is "clever" and expects you to either have the same cleverness epiphany on the spot or to have studied this question. Neither is actually very useful as a hiring criterion.

Guy Steele gave an incredibly interesting guest talk[1] at google about four different ways to solve this exact problem, and the fact that it's an interesting enough topic for an hour long google talk should probably be a clue that you shouldn't be expected to invent the best solution on the whiteboard in 40 minutes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftcIcn8AmSY
Hah I had an interesting experience. I was trying to get Mutt to list the IMAP subscribed folders when there's nested folders but the behaviour was somehow inconsistent with what I expected/really odd.

Initially I thought this was due to a feature in IMAP that Fastmail didn't support (well they use Cyrus IMAP so the problem would stem from there). A back and forth with their customer service and they immediately piped it to one of their developers because it was technical and was discussing low level IMAP commands with debug transcripts from Mutt.

Turns out Mutt was using an outdated/legacy IMAP command that had been superseded by a new command with its own RFC.

Was able to patch Mutt and everything started to work correctly and look consistent.

It's not everyday you have a email provider service help you debug/troubleshoot your mail user agent which leads to actual improvements.
All these "mass recruiters" do this.

The first symptom will be a few fresh faces in training sessions who aren't billed to your project.

Then systematically the experienced engineers will be pulled off your project (and dangled in front of a new client), while being replaced with the new chaps. Who are now billed, of course, at the full rate.

Within a few weeks they'll replace every guy with new hires.

But try explaining this to the bean counters.

I can't believe they're still getting away with these stunts. I first saw it in 1999.
It doesn't suck as much. OEM car UIs are terrible.
For what? $30 billion in extra LNG exports to Europe per year?

The US is approaching having a $30 trillion economy.

Apple does $387b in sales. Who cares about $30 billion at the scale the US operates at?

Should the US blow up SAP for the benefit of Microsoft or Oracle? They're a lot more important economically than LNG exports.
Do you mean a game where everyone wins together or all lose together?

Forbidden Island is a classic, probably best for slightly older kids

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65244/forbidden-island

Outfoxed is easier for younger kids:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172931/outfoxed
> if Russia somehow gets a successor, he (or she) would stop the war, blame everything on Putin, beg for lifting of sanction and resuming the trade.

If the war stops, deliveries will resume through the overland pipelines, so Nordstream is largely irrelevant so far as Putin's rivals are concerned.
> dedicated engineers that were not so dedicated

what do you mean by that?
Fastmail's fast UI brings me joy every day!

Setting up a custom domain lets me act on my anger every time I hear a story about google being shit to their customers: I pop open bitwarden, find something still on gmail, and move it over. I'm about half way through the alphabet. Feels good.
Oh god, I thought I was the only one.
> You are deluding yourself if you think there are no bad apples out ther

Please don't put words into my mouth.
This will only stop when companies are unable to staff open positions. As long as the sheep enter the pen, why change?
Making archives yourself? 4chan has a constant rotating cast of archive websites, with custom software developed. Internet is not only archive.org and cloudflare. You're a user too, you could make archives. Rejecting the responsibility on two big entities is just too easy.
Quoting from The Testament of a Dealer:

> Do you spend far too much working time at meetings? Do you try to make important decisions in groups of more than 10 people? Do you have more than, let’s say, 15 co-workers under your direct management? Do you receive daily reports which you don’t read on the day you get them? Do you have days when you don’t have time to ring back the person who’s been looking for you to discuss an important matter? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes”, then you yourself are part of the problem, because you’re no longer on your guard against ever-increasing bureaucracy.
A couple suggestions:

* take them on a tour of your chocolate factory

* ask them to pull a magical sword out of a stone
One theory: If a game is GPU limited, which most are, it will be at 100% utilization no matter how much power it steals. However the CPU can't be power limited too much. Games have a physics loop that has to runs at a constant rate, independent of rendering. If the CPU is at 100% any disturbance might cause the physics step to not finish in time, and the game crashes...
Exactly this — I thought that’s what “transliteration” meant, but I was wrong. I appreciate the pointer.
Who awards bonuses to themselves?!
Hey Andrew, I am sure your integrity in this situation will be rightfully rewarded. You come across as a great hire not just in the matter of integrity, but also in the humble/honest description of your skill level and experience. I can see you finding that internship entirely on your own, by simply walking into the next interview confident of how valuable someone like you would be to any organization.
Ask HN: Thrax Was Here
Did anyone get a FastCompany alert like 30 minutes ago with some profane language?
Selling an 8086 with 512KiB of RAM in 01992? Maybe this is another story about how nontechnical people fail to manage technical companies: maybe leathercrafting supplies merchant Charles Tandy didn't understand what it meant, in user experience terms, that their competition was shipping 32-bit 100MHz 80486es with 4 MiB of RAM. Maybe it didn't occur to him that things might have changed significantly in only a year. In some sense the network effects of the computer market meant that some platform consolidation was inevitable, and that was going to open up opportunities for manufacturing economies of scale the smaller players couldn't match.

Does something similar explain what happened to Datapoint? They were a great up-and-coming company until 01981, roughly the time that Commodore shipped the VIC-20 and IBM shipped the PC, and then they suddenly cratered. Did they die because they were still selling 8008-compatible machines with no graphics or sound, at a price only businesses would be interested in? Or was it that IBM had a better price and a better sales force for those businesses?
This is utterly absurd.
Anti-vax will usually be more inclined to blame the vaccine and/or downplay any effects of covid itself. So I'd be somewhat surprised if you heard it from them.
>A particular example I'm very familiar with is bicycles - they're fairly easy to maintain and work on relative to automobiles (no fluids, not much electronics until recently etc.). Ideally a bicycle can be maintained easily and replaced piecemeal from a wide variety of suppliers, i.e. everything is swappable and there are no non-standard parts, such as weirdly threaded bottom brackets or non-standard axle widths. Some companies have tried to do things like that - I think Shimano made an integrated brake lever/gear shifter for a while

No, obviously you're not familiar with bicycles at all. When was the last time you worked with a bicycle? 1975?

Every modern road bike has integrated brake/shifter levers, and has for 30 years. What universe do you live in?

Non-standard parts are commonplace: there's at least a dozen bottom bracket standards, and lots of road bikes have press-fit bottom brackets. The industry is moving away from this thankfully, and threaded brackets are now becoming the norm again (using a particular standard, I forget the name). Axle sizes (diameter, thread pitch, width) are also all over the place, though here again they seem to be converging.

As for fluids, every decent bike these days has hydraulic disc brakes, which use either mineral oil (Shimano and clones) or DOT4 brake fluid (SRAM).

Your post is really bizarre; was it meant to be satire or something?
Tauri and Svelte for faster, lighter desktop apps
Owning your mail domain reduces the inertia by a lot.
No offense to people who are good people and put in great effort, but that alone does not mean one is infallible.

Python is a very poorly designed language, and when I would sometimes dig to find out why things here how they were, Guido was behind many of the decisions which I believe were bad.
Color me skeptical when they choose to just make noise on Twitter without even having any "coming soon" content on their website (https://us.starlabs.systems/blogs/news)

For context, it seems they do have some actual products, although this is the first I've heard of them or this project, and it seems at least their current flagship is backordered

* https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starbook-specification

* https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite-specification
>But [CarPlay] could also be #4 "Preventing people who are subscribing to your thing from switching to somebody else's thing."

The more reasons an existing user has to value something they already use, the harder it becomes for the user to switch. With few points of stickiness, it's easy for a user to check if an alternative has, say, similarities to features A and B. But if it's ABCDEFGHIJK, the likelihood of that user leaving drops dramatically. It's a common point that Apple does well iterating on its products, but that iteration goes beyond performance and capabilities into areas of stickiness.
Apple News/Fastcompany hacked resulting in an obscene push notification
If you want to know a little more about benzene, it is also known as a "Kekule Structure."

It is also called a "resonant structure" as the double bonds are said to flip in the ring of carbon atoms.

...or, at least, that was what I heard in high school organic chemistry. That was a very long time ago, and interpretations might have changed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene
Yeah, while I like their service in general having (mostly) switched in 2018, their mobile app really isn't that great in my experience due to the lack of offline mode, and every so often it seems to forget my login (maybe the session expires, but I never remember that happening with GMail app).
Is there a good tool to fuzzily merge and de-dup multiple inboxes? Because otherwise I'm going to have to write it myself.

I currently have a gmail inbox and hey inbox with partial duplicates in each. I'd like to merge and de-dup my history as a one-time event and migrate to fastmail.

The gmail inbox has longer history. The gmail forwards to hey so hey has responses that don't exist in gmail.

I've already started with mbox exports and SQLite import, but I'd rather use something pre-existing. Any pointers?
Download the shareware version of McAfee ViruScan from a BBS, I imagine, and then maybe buy a virus cleaner? Or, more likely, make an illegal copy of one.
From those of us who are new to this:

How dare you bring your fancy pants “facts” into this convo?

Just kidding. Good info thanks for posting.

> a manipulative act is one that sends “a false pricing signal to the market” and therefore does not reflect the “natural interplay of supply and demand.”

That sounds like 75% of my short stint in marketing. I know… forgive me for I have sinned.

The company had a great list of clients who were tech firms known themselves to be savvy at marketing. This and a solid Series A let me to think there was product/market fit. Then my task during the first week, as the only technical guy in a small marketing department was to take down from their website 27 of the 30 companies listed since they’d only done a 30 day trial and were now screaming to be taken off. Oh, good times…

And, yes, I was marketing marketing software to marketers.
Yeah, I got one. Looking at Google cache results, looks like FastCopmpany's website was hacked and the alert triggered out via there somehow.
We all get times like that, but capes are like tuxes, you don't get to wear them every day.
Anthony Bourdain's Texts: “I Hate My Fans. I Hate Being Famous. I Hate My Job”
That has to be expensive.
Then they're not contractors, they're full time employees that you refuse to pay the benefits for. Given this level of cutting corners, I'm not surprised your counterparts are pulling one over on you as well.
Imo the whole whitespace sensitivity thing was a mistake to begin with. It makes code harder to read, harder to write and harder to parse with only the benefit of being a little easier to understand to absolute beginners (and I'm not even sure about that last one).
macOS and 3rd party caches are out of control, so much so that I made an app for that about 12 years ago. It's freemium but the cache/3rd party quick clean is totally free and I don't really nag - https://www.iboostup.com or the App Store; unfortunately adware is becoming a problem on macOS too so it handles that as well. Users that opt in to stats have collectively freed petabytes of data. Requires El Cap or above, I update monthly so always supports the latest.
Emulators can totally speed up progression though, so you can "finish" the game in days instead of years. And also enable subscription-less perks.

The companies would never allow that.
Only in America, but that's because the math teachers are nitwits.
GreenWar: a hypothetical sibling of GreenPeace. Of course I don't actually believe this.

However, considering the war and today's sabotage purely from a global warming perspective, it could be net positive in the long run. Accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels.
Ugh, I got bitten by this recently. I have a little program that downloads the latest satellite imagery from NOAA [1] and sets it as my desktop background every 5 minutes. One day I was wondering where the heck all my storage went...and found a 200GB wallpaper cache.

[1]: https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/l...
There's a Microsoft utility calls powertoys that makes the window snapping/tiling even better with it's Fancy Zones feature. Also has a color picker which someone in this thread was decrying the lack of on windows.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
I have no reason to push a narrative, and I can tell you the same thing happened to my boss hiring someone for the team I’m on.
Well to be fair Indonesian is a constructed language (dialect) as well. But I get you.

Post poterea a scriber e dicer in Interlingua, tanto io ama scriber sententias aleatorimente
They don't exactly flip. It's more like each bond is on average 1.5 electrons. You'll often see it drawn as a hexagon with a small circle in the middle.
What cracked me up was the shot at https://twitter.com/Vinnytroia like the FBI Alert system hack from November of 2021: https://threatpost.com/fbi-email-hoaxer-ided-vinny-troia/176...
I understand where the automakers are coming from and agree that it'll take a while for this to become mainstream because of this.

But I can help but laugh a little at this attitude from carmakers. Modern cars have almost all become the poster child for "bad ui" with their addition of touchscreens that almost universally look dated and run poorly.
Could be competent but do a shit job at 3-4 places at once, wait for the onboarding to end and move on to the next target, then let the US counterpart deal with the fallout. Sounds like decent money for not a lot of work if you can swindle enough candidates.

And also let's face it - you can get away with 1/3 effective work time in most places - especially if you have someone making excuses, socializing, attending this-should-have-been-an-email meetings for you full time - and for a 30% cut.
Wow. And it is written in C# too. I am going to try integrating it with my WPF-based tiling window manager.

It supports Windows 11, meaning you can actually upgrade and replace its crippled taskbar with this.
Coffee drinking is associated with increased longevity
> Vonnegut was brilliant, but I never found his writing subtle. He generally was pretty straightforward about things.

I have found it to be multi-layer, with an obvious layer at the top, and other stuff for those who delve deeper.
Interesting work. I'll dip into the extremely detailed "The Book of CP-System" linked there, also by Fabien: https://fabiensanglard.net/cpsb/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...
Finding a dial-up modem service that isn't blocked would be the hardest part. I do not have a good answer for that. Once that link is active then its just a matter of using voice chat clients/services to reach the rest of the world just as one would on the regular internet. The difference will be speed/throughput/latency. Try to use a phone line that is not near your home.
And harder to copy-paste!
I just posted how the parent comment was the funniest thing I’d seen today but this is awesome too.

I knew I come to HN for a reason…
You got 'em. Google rarely reveals why they killed someone's account.

So we can't prove it was due to email content. For all we know it could just be a dude named Richard who throws darts at a board full of usernames all day.
>depriving them of transit revenue

So should Russia be obliged to pay for transit and provide gas to Ukraine?
Why wouldn't Ukraine pursue gas supplies from other sources? It had at least 8 years for that, but all the time was spent on opposing NS2.

"that was unwise" is a simplification, not a proper explanation. Russia is a cheap resource supplier, so it was beneficial for European countries to leverage it for their economy to be more competitive with US at least.

Saudi Arabia has its own bunch of issues with democracy (there is none, imagine), human rights (surprise), a war with neighbouring Yemen (sounds familiar?), but for some magical reason no one cares and alienates Saudi Arabia, and everyone is very forgetful and blind about their issues and doesn't interfere.

People's thoughts are literally tunnelled.
> That's what I claimed, I'm happy you agree. This claim did not extend towards the rest of the world (so not like you claimed),

It did ,because western countries export coal to the rest of the world.

Look if you can't admit you were parroting that coal was killed by renewables without any understanding of commodity boom/bust cycles or energy demand trajectory the world that's quite understandable it's difficult to face reality, but you don't have to keep at it.
Thanks for replying, I didn't know how to structure the question on Google, the searches I did "for(;;): in response" , "for(;;): in json" "for(;;): traffic https" They didn't give me anything concrete.

Now I know what it's for and I could get out of ignorance, thanks.
Windows isn't the only kernel and it's not a huge part of Micrsofts revenue
It doesn't have to be limited to email. They will kill your whole account for a perceived violation on any service. There was a story recently where a father had his account terminated because he took a photo of his son to send to the doctor which auto uploaded to google photos and was flagged by the AI and reported to the police. The police check it and confirm its a false alarm but Google refuses to unban the account meaning the guy lost access to his email and phone number.
Elon Musk's own data scientists couldn't find many bots on Twitter
Python is a very poorly designed language...from your perspective...for a subset of tasks that you deem to have higher importance than others.

I'm definitely not saying python is anywhere near perfect, and yes it certainly has design flaws (as does any complex system). But obviously it's done a lot of things right to gain the reach that it has.
On AI and the Future of Writing, by one of the web’s most successful authors
Apple removes Russia’s largest social network from the App Store
Interesting that `javascript:` bookmarklets work on iPhones, given Apple's track record of locking everything down. Neat!

Browser extensions are still notoriously difficult to get on mobile for some reason (even on Android, which is open source-ish). So far the best method I've found for injecting JS into sites on Android is the Bromite [1] browser, a Chromium fork that allows you to install userscripts (which are like "diet" extensions). It also enhances privacy and comes with an adblocker.

[1] https://www.bromite.org/
I admire people learning a language like Esperanto just for its own sake, it's beautiful that people do something like that. It would be fun to learn Esperanto and be in on this diffuse subculture around the globe!

But in terms of pure practicality, learning Spanish is tough to beat. It's generally the best candidate second language for English speakers to learn.