skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've really no issue with students, essentially they're the same as they have always been. My criticism is with the era, things have gotten a lot rougher and less certain for students since my time.

The fixes are obvious, but then I'm not in possession of Aladdin's lamp.
>What about replication? What about leadership election?

How can Kafka run on cloudflare without state? Oh we are not going to tell you that part.
There's nothing particularly original about this article and it's mostly preaching to the choir. According to the author, the pandemic will not end _in the US_ because of

-- "rugged individualim"

-- the lousy healthcare system

-- racism

-- the division between the rich and poor

None of these causes are necessarily wrong but they are very US-centric. The rest of the world has failed to end the pandemic despite better healthcare and a history of valuing the collective over the individual. Iterating through America's ills doesn't add anything to the discussion and probably distracts from figuring out how to address this on a planet-wide level.
I just opened my Instagram feed. It's now:

- 2 posts from people I follow

- 1 ad

- 1 "suggestion"

So half of my feed is not my feed. It's slightly less than a month ago when it was 2 thirds of ads/suggestions.

1 of the ads was also extremely intrusive in that it was related to a private health issue I had a few weeks ago.
If it's sitting in your browser's cache, how do you determine wether it's there unsolicited or not? That's the problem already with real-time ad brokering. And it's easy to set any images to "display: none" with CSS, but they would still be loaded in the background. Now explain that to a court.
Surely theoretical improvement begets real world, especially in the context of highly specialised hardware.

It was with theoretical performance improvement that motivated the creation of SIMD and led to real world speed ups.
holy cow! what could possibly go wrong
> insufferable Haskell/FP community who, despite producing very little measurable commercial value continue to look down on everyone else.

I just took a break from creating measurable commercial value in Haskell.

Grab a Starbucks, shop at Target, or use Facebook recently?

Congrats, you used production Haskell code delivering measurable commercial value to you and millions of others.
What’s the problem here that needs to be “solved”?
"Driverless cars are easy, just follow the rules of the road!"
When I heard Unsplash is being acquired by Getty, I knew it will introduce Premium Plan soon enough. What I concerned is that the content that was originally available without subscription will eventually be locked behind a premium offering.
>these are things I’ve noticed without any experience of webdev beyond “here’s how html syntax works”

these are things I’ve noticed without any experience of autorepair beyond “here’s how internal combustion engines work”

See what I mean? It's a bar that most people don't cross.
"Hot new thing" is overstated as a reason people pick up tech.

You could as accurately imagine it as "scary new thing."
Anyone smart at economics able to share what type of pressure the US is facing on servicing the growing debt (making interest payments) with rates increasing? Does the fed fund rate directly affect how much interest has to be paid on national debt?
Covid-19 FAQs for Physicians = refer avoiders to psychotherapists!
I am skeptical of "professional" founders. How can you come up with useful and feasible products in a couple of weeks without any deeper knowledge about markets, demand, etc.? To me this sounds mostly like business school kids throwing around buzzwords.
Rust in the Linux Kernel
I also use instagram via mobile browser only and I get 0 ads in my feed.
My M1 Mac does OCR on images. You can select text in bitmaps, look up words, and it highlights phone numbers and dates. Maybe this feature is related? Try highlighting the file using finder or viewing with quickview. Maybe you have to be on M1, too.
OPEC+ to cut production by two million barrels a day
Calling the URL is a form of data leakage and exfiltration

QR codes often include marketing trackers, for one really common examples.
How about a discount on Cash or Interac purchases in kind then?
Super helpful list. Thanks!
Why not? Just mount a volume with certs and you're good to go. In every container, of course.
Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?
Hi HN!

I would like to create a monthly "Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?" post.

It would be great if whoishiring takes over this.

Example:

SEEKING CO-FOUNDER | FinTech | CEO/Sales | US/EU/Worldwide | Pre-Seed

A great idea in the taxation niche, MVP ready to go.
Ideally someone with local connections to SMEs.
US has successfully made every other currency worse, so rest easy, the USD is the least-dirty-shirt in the laundry now, and everyone knows it

Euro - sunk by energy concerns and war

Yuan - sunk by China's isolation from global community

Yen/Pound - sunk by being too much like America without the clout

Gold/Silver/Crypto - never got off the launch pad as a global pricing mechanism

the world has no choice but to embrace the USD
Not sure what you mean by "professional" founders?
VCs?
3-D Printed Tabletop Gaming with Overhead Projector
> To be fair, the Haskell hype train has long passed, and I never perceived the Haskell community as insufferable. They're just preconcerned formulating everything in way too mathsy frameworks to the point of being extremely inproductive as from a "real world" programmer's perspective.

See my comment upthread, you seem to be misinformed on the use and prevalence of Haskell in the real world.
I don't believe organic chemistry is intentionally used to cull out medical students. Instead it is simply the difficulty of the course, which by-the-way matches the learning situation in medical school:

My organic chemistry course was excellent until the half-semester, whereupon the professor's well-organized and insightful presentation ceased. Instead we were confronted with a plethora of memorization with little organization. The change in teaching method and learning was obvious to everyone in the room. We questioned it and the professor said apologetically "That's the way it is! It's hard! I'm sorry!" Within a week a large part of the class dropped and many of the remainder became more reclusive and protective about their study.

So much must be memorized in medical school that the process alters the way students think. I watched an excellent scientist fall away from science (but become an excellent memorizer) in medical school. Once a brilliant researcher, now a doddering encyclopedia of (sometimes incorrect) facts. Sad.
I’m not sure how Apple being pissed matters here (for one thing, I’m not sure why Apple is pissed in the first place).

If Apple got a better deal than TSMC somewhere else they would have taken it. Irrespective of whether they were pissed or not.

And Apple has probably been constantly looking for TSMC alternatives anyways. That’s something they do anyways, but even if that wasn’t the case, they would have been specifically looking for TSMC alternatives to reduce their geopolitical risk.
Ask HN: Any good plug'n'play static site generators for docs?
I have been searching for a good and simple to use static site generator to generate documentation for one of my projects. The problem is all the good ones (docsaurus, nextra etc.) require complex setups. I know it's simple for a developer but I want it to be easy for contributors to preview their changes. Not everyone has a NodeJS setup.

I know GitBook exists but it's not OSS and is fairly complex on its own: a whole platform with its own learning curve.

I am looking for something that can:

- generate documentation from markdown
- minimal but modern design (doesn't have to be configurable)
- zero setup/dependencies i.e. plug'n'play

Here's the workflow I am looking for:

- clone

- install xyz for platform

- make edits

- xyz dev/start

I have explored Hugo and Zola but I don't like the multiple directories they create for themes, CSS, js etc. I want the generator to be self-contained.

The reason I am here asking is if someone has a personal project that does something like this that they'd like to share. Or if someone is working on something similar and would like users.
I do think most web3 founders are newbies, but somehow you need to be very passionate about the space...
The 2020 number should probably be considered an outlier, since the dramatic drop in GDP in 2020 due to the pandemic increases the ratio.

Now that GDP is recovering, we are falling back onto the trend line towards higher and higher Debt/GDP.
Ah okay, thanks for the information.
What money are we giving Wall Street? The 2008 bailout was long ago paid off with interest. America’s debt problem is because neither party wants to raise taxes to sustainable levels.

Taxes on the middle and upper middle class are still at Reagan-era lows and there is no chance they’ll ever be increased.
> It is also important that physicians work with their patients to manage anxieties related to the vaccine and not enable avoidance behaviour. For example, for extreme fear of needles (trypanophobia) or other cases of serious concern, responsible use of prescription medications and/or referral to psychotherapy may be available options. Overall, physicians have a responsibility to allow their patients to be properly informed about vaccines and not have those anxieties empowered by an exemption.

Yikes! "That's NOT an acceptable opinion, citizen!"
“Downloading image causes outbound http requests against arbitrary endpoints”

Pair this with a zero-day in the HTTP request library and an image becomes the initiation of an attack that leads to a vulnerable client connecting to a malicious endpoint.

Could also easily be used to track users in new ways.

Just two scenarios that immediately comes to mind.
What is there to solve? As long as we keep paying our debts on these low interest loans (to ourselves mostly, btw), there isn't a problem.

In the future, continuing to spend as rates go up would be progressively less wise as the rates increase, but "solving" debt spending is not nearly the crisis some people seem to think it is.

The US is not operating under the same rules as your personal finances.
> URL prefetching is usually only expected to happen "on demand" while you're using stuff

I don't think this is my expectation. When I receive messages overnight, I want URLs in those messages prefetched, for example. The whole point is that when I open my mail or messages the previews are already available, instead of waiting.
If you have the misfortune of living in a country where accessing $BANNED_WEBSITE can get you a nighttime visit from the local goon squad, this could well get you tortured or killed.
> Nine in ten CEOs in the U.S. (91%) believe a recession will arrive in the coming 12 months

aren't we in a recession?

In America, half of the CEOs (51%) say they’re considering workforce reductions during the next six months

CEO's consider a lot of things, might be nice to see a graph of this over time.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1.8B to Commercialize Fusion Energy
These system wont be required, as the Tesla Robot will drive the car and double as your personal butler. I am fairly confident that by the end of ...
"Advertisement is the lubricant of Capitalism" -- Me.
The work is to read and synthesize a 10k+ smorgasbord, how do you break that into 2 week sprints?
Very true, see my reply to forgetbook.
What's funny is that we literally can't merge code at work right now due to GHA downtime. Makes me wonder if moving off of CircleCI was worth
Your disbelief just shows ignorance.

The hard part of cheating isn’t inputting and receiving moves, and in fact documented chess cheating goes back to the late 1800’s.
> Tesla says that its systems will improve in performance over time and that Models 3 and Y that arrive without the ultrasonic sensors will not be capable of parking assist, autopark, summon, or smart summon. Tesla claims that these functions will be restored once its vision-only system has achieved parity with the old ultrasonic sensors.

Why wouldn't they wait until the remaining sensors can perform these functions before eliminating the ultrasonic sensors?

Was this a change driven by a supply chain shortage? Or is this a way to further push people toward the more expensive S and X from the 3 and Y (since only the latter are losing the sensors right now)?
> you really shouldn't

Huh, apparently ‘the war on general computation’, of which Cory Doctorow spoke, won't necessarily be led by Disney and such corporations, but also by people denying others the right to automate the workings of the GUI on one's machine.

(Coincidentally, this practice might also preclude the operation of aeleveny tools—again, as Doctorow noted, ‘there is no known general-purpose computer that can execute all the programs except the naughty ones’. It might be fun to see the faces of the ‘you shouldn't’ folks when they're asked why less-able clients can't use their websites.)
Reddit is only partially ad free because they have never figured out how to load it up with decent paying advertising, not for a lack of wanting to. Reddit has always garnered far lower ad rates than most of their peers, and their ad system has always been far worse. They have struggled with filling inventory at good rates since the first day they began running ads.
I'm on an M1 Max, I tried QL and opening it preview but it didn't trigger anything. I also tried scanning the QR from my iPhone and nothing came through until I clicked on the link.
If the people I "disagree with" are dehumanizing others, yes. Words have meanings. They're not spoken into a vacuum
Much more relevant is the cost of servicing the debt which has trended down/flat over time. Recent rising interest rates will change that somewhat but I see no real area of concern.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Utqq
I wasn't familiar with the name, but this article is interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20220901142826/https://www.theat...

I can understand why the WH was concerned.
> Sometimes there is a feature the business needs right now and it could have it right now if you add 2 days to the sprint.

You can just ship 2 days into the next sprint if you need to. You don't have to only ship at the end.
DOs aren't distributed, they're guaranteed to be a single instance of any DO running in exactly one data center, running ~single threaded. So TrueTime doesn't seem helpful, since Date.now() in the worker will always just be one time. TrueTime would offer you a primitive to do the work that Cloudflare gives you for free by virtue of using their infrastructure: would you rather have the primitive and do it yourself? Or would you rather just have the system do that for you so you don't need to think about coordinating a distributed system?
I haven't run the numbers, but cost of servicing the debt will depend on the structure of debt issued.

A 30y treasury doesn't need to be refinanced/paid back for 30 years, 10y for 10 years etc.

A smart Treasury would have locked in a lot of the debt in longer dated treasuries back when they were yielding 1% or less. This would have made the debt payments largely fixed, regardless of Fed hikes. Unfortunately from what I've heard, they are mostly financing through the fed funds/overnight rate.

So yes, US debt service costs are more variable than they could have been. But maybe somebody can chime in with hard numbers
Thanks for the nostalgia :)

I cut my teeth in a very similar way and ended up with the same conclusion webalizer was far more maintainable than AWSTATS. Though the UI on AWstats was definitely pretty nice. At some point I actually had a perl CGI script that I was selling that did basic website analysis (can't find any references to it on the internet quickly).

I still use webalizer on a small site I self-host for my dad.
Precisely - its clearly just that "some CEOs" like to chum the water with a little fear to keep staff from leaving (to become the 'last in, first out' somewhere else), and to create pressure against wage rises to enable them to freeze and make derisory offers to keep their wage bills down.

Successful CEOs understand the dynamic you expressed above, however.
The author of the article and her team, I think.
There could be privacy concerns where Apple isn't the party using the data, but has allowed a third party access unintentionally.

I don't know if this would be possible given the limited information currently available, but an example may be:

User attempts to browse anonymously through the use of A VPN, obscuring their residential IP.
Website, or third party analytics on a website generate unique links and embed them in QR codes hidden on the page. A twist on tracking pixels.
Browser requests, and caches image containing QR code on disk.
Later, after user has disconnected from VPN their OS indexes images on the filesystem (for search purposes, or whatever, parses the QR code and requests the url contained.
Malicious site/analytics firm now has additional data point (residential IP, not obscured by VPN) to correlate against.

There's also the remote potential that the QR code parsing/request functionality could have vulnerabilities. The behavior known doesn't indicate that, but it might result in exploitation with less human interaction if they are found.
Perhaps if we keep it in orbit long enough, robot technology will improve to a point where we don't need to send any humans to service the Hubble anymore.

Also, servicing the Hubble is exactly the kind of mission that commercial space ventures can use to showcase their tech. Relatively low risk, high media exposure. A pretty good practice ground, really.
> Why make the act of reading about programming hard

These books are not really programming books, they are math books. There are oodles of "programming" books out there that teach algorithms, like how to implement a quicksort and why X algorithm is better than Y for problem Z. Knuth's books are more like a graduate level algorithms or discrete math course.

>then spews dense mathematical notation when he gets into details

Because the Art of Computer Programming isn't really about programming per se, it's about the theory and analysis of programming IMHO. I'd say O'Reilly books for more famous for learning programming.
Many scientists see fusion as the future of energy
I think its safe to say there is never going to be any consequence, just like FED infusions has never been shown to contribute to inflation.
I really struggle to wrap my head around the idea that the largest holder of US debt is the US government itself:

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-de...
I bet the CEO's will take record bonuses too while everyone bleeds.
What did we learn? That you're not more likely to be laid off if you're remote? I don't think there's enough data on that yet as there haven't been all that many layoffs since covid.
> I've no interest in reading Ray Dalio.

By admitting to bigoted ignorance, you lose the argument.

Money is half of practically every transaction. Therefore its value has an enormous influence on economic activity. All economic calculation of individuals going about their lives ends up based on these flawed artificial signals created by self-righteous academics & experts. Why does practically every important sector of the economy suck? They're managed by the government & based in expansionary monetary policy. Cheap money leads to cheap services & products. It's only when economic activity is based on long-term thinking (the opposite of near-zero interest rates) will society have a prosperous economy.

Also, the entire salaried economy is debased since the transaction cost of changing jobs will be a constant force along with devaluing money, in effect, constantly & indefinitely stealing money from every worker.
Someone tell them to stop buying lattes so they can pay off their debt.
I think the cost to service the loans is much more relevant: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Utqq
Unless they make a concrete accusation of cheating I'm not really interested.
These circumstantial accusations all boil down to "something unusual happened" but the world is full of unusual things happening. Nobody, AFAICT, has come out and said "Hans cheated in X OTB event. He did so by getting Y information by Z method".

IMHO everyone needs to either put up hard evidence or shut up.
Hours/days later.
Ray Dalio has a great educational video on the history of debt and how nations always end up dealing with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8

We know how this story ends, yet we seem helpless to do something different. Why?
Consider the case where you need different parts of the same file from many processes concurrently (e.g. a lookup table). It may fit into memory but not into memory N times (yes you can use shared memory etc.). Most files are write once read many times so no need for synchronization....
young people your future has been stolen .
True for now, but Starship, if full and rapid reusability is achieved, will radically change the economics of space missions.
One aspect to this that is less obvious: A bubble in equities accompanied by low unemployement is also basically a bubble in tax receipts. If this reverts to the mean, we could quickly be in a painful situation.

Macro analyst Luke Gromen likes to point out that non discretionary expenditures (entitlement PAYGOs + interest on the debt + TGA drawdowns) already equals more than 100% of tax reciepts. Meaning even if we had focused politicians who were aggressively cuttting (which we don't), even at our elevated tax receipts, it would be structurally impossible to get back to a budget surplus without structural changes. Again, this does not bode well for the likely event where tax receipts fall off of a cliff next year.

If anything, it's a good argument that despite all the tough talk, the Fed cannot keep rates elevated for too long.
Doesn't affect existing debt but as bonds mature they need to be replaced and that's when servicing costs go up. That happens all the time since bonds are always maturing, but there are different maturities (2, 10, 30 year) so servicing costs go up relatively slowly.
That's perfect for the 5G mind control towers!
Is that calculated in a way that takes into account that we blew out the spending in 2020 and 2021 to an insane level, and therefore the rate is lower than 2019 because 2020 and 2021 was so huge?

That's like saying look at the small rate my debt is increasing because I went from adding 1000 a month to spending 100,000 a 3 months ago and I'm only adding 99,000 this month.