skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When this subject arrives I always think about curl [1] and how a project reaching a market of billion of people and devices receives so few donations and little money [2]. I just discover the project added a link for commercial support [3].

[1] https://curl.se/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=curl+donations&oq=curl+donat...

[3] https://curl.se/support.html
On the other hand, if your purpose is automated analysis of data, you will probably create an automated update of the records - a direct connection.
Actually would be useful.

If this is reliable I would pay to use it to some capacity, like add an argument.
Iterative application development on Kubernetes cluster
There is a reason we don't have many programming languages where you can say “drop duplicates from titanic”.
> I wonder why this has not yet happened with open source. If a sufficient enough part of the public uses your software, the state offers you a maintainer role. Nothing big, but enough to life on and do work.

It didn't happen because people already do it for free, so why overpay?
Is this simply a carcinisation[0] of design?

Sure it all looks the same, but if it works... design is no longer a differentiator, perhaps.

[0]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Anonoymous credentials covers that use case pretty well.
> Youtube however spend a lot of effort to drive that early content away and focus on professional content that they could monetize easier.

Could you elaborate a bit on that? What did youtube to do drive that early content away? Why is it easier to monetize professional content?

I have an alternative theory: Some people within every social media company try to turn the company into a mass media company—they want to promote content according to their taste, hang out with celebrities ... See "youtube originals". Social media companies win if they can withstand that pressure, if they manage to stay neutral, to show things to people that they're interested in.
At this point why would anyone want to stay at twitter? The mood must be absolutely abysmal.
Every body is doing payments. So I don't see how this could boost Twitter's profits. Probably a money sink because payments is hard and extremely regulated.

Twitter should focus on creating a market place for creators to sell digital goods to their followers or a way to subscribe.

They can put Substack into Twitter.
MsyChords – play your chords the way you want them to be
I've been trying to use Siri while driving more and more, it's amazing how distracting it is compared to peaking at the screen (it's naughty, I know, I try not to do it).

But yeah, something about talking to a device which gets things wrong all the time is ridiculously distracting, at least for me.

Sometimes I look back at the road after trying to workout what it interpreted and I feel scared how focused on the phone I became.
Snowden released his trove back in 2013. At that point it became obvious that anyone with power to surveil would use it.

I suppose the news here is that the response was so relaxed that governments started doing it publicly and explaining the tech.
Ask HN: Any way to get the top weekly Ask HN submissions in my mailbox?
I find "Ask HN: " submissions to be even more interesting than the front page. I don't want to regularly check HN for this though.

There are a few products (like hndigest) that send you the top HN front-page stories, but "Ask HN" submissions rarely make it to the front page. Is there a way I could get the top 10 "Ask HN" submissions twice a week by email?
Mutual Crypto-Destruction Assured
https://archive.ph/qJAt1
Your redoubled insistence on a clearly irrelevant totalising good/bad judgement as a purported response to a quite specific comment about labour practices is more than a tad onanistic.
Nobody cares about your code.
How does it differ from tor browser?
Obliviousness doesn't make it right.
> Meanwhile lots of people, including me, made life changing money.

This is so backward. Meanwhile lots of people, not including you, lost a lot of money.
y'know, this would be the opportunity for Google to gain some clout in the social network world.

Start up a hosted mastodon instance, make a bit of fuzz and PR around it, and then over time invest some resources into making it more awesome. All for relatively little effort, compared to starting a new social network from scratch. The largest effort would likely go into moderation on that instance.

Who else could do that? Maybe New York Times? Apple? It needs to be someone with an established brand, and the engineering skills to run it at scale.

(Disclaimer: not my own idea, heard it somewhere else -- maybe on risky.biz?)
Data diods are also a thing (physical oneway traffic) but that so many are unaware of it is mindblowing.

https://owlcyberdefense.com/learn-about-data-diodes/
13.8% of it will be Apple Silicon.
They are only failures if you haven't learned anything from them, otherwise they are useful experiences.
Do you think it’s bad to put a teenager in jail for an abortion they did after they had been raped? Or is it also a good (well, it is certainly lawful) use of state monopoly on violence?
There is widespread realization that people don't care about YOUR website YOUR company or how smart YOU are - you might want to stand out and be cool - but people want to do THEIR business be done with it and go on with their lives.

If I go to supermarket I don't want "shopping experience" - I want to buy bread and eggs - set your shop in a way where I can do it quickly and I will be coming back.

There are of course places/events where it should be an experience, like if I go to fancy restaurant I want "fancy dinner experience". When I am on the road and have to just eat something McDonalds does the job 10 mins and I am out even if it is not best choice food wise.

So setting up your page if it is webshop or streaming service - I don't go there to wonder how cool web design might be - I go there to buy stuff or start video.
Last time I checked, which to be fair is a couple years ago now, only a partial hash is shared with google.
I don't use voice assistants any more due to privacy concerns but I wrote some similar software in 2010s. I'm fluent in English, but with the current tech, the success rate for me giving commands to a machine is still 50/50.

> I could never be productive programming like this.

It's likely to work much better than a generic speech-to-text model due to fine-tuning.

Plus, consciously or not, we will adapt our human language to the English-ML "pidgin" (e.g. by introducing a more efficient grammatical structures, using a specific subset of vocabulary).

The way I see it is that it's not much different from giving commands to your dog, writing a Google query, writing a Stable Diffusion prompt. It'll get better. Manual input is not as fast as speech though and that's where I see the issue.
The author is very quick to call Eternal September. It is entirely possible that a few months from now this will have turned out to be a flash in the pan.

More broadly though, I thought the main USP of Mastodon was that, if you don't like the toxic behaviour of a group of users, you don't have to endure it? Why then would this influx be an issue for anyone?

The post also seems very dramatic, bordering on hysterical, in the way it describes how "upsetting" it is that other people are joining Mastodon and the "grief" that has apparently struck the extant community there. Which, ironically, strikes me as very "Twitter" behaviour.
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You forgot about the Unabomber.
Progressing an iterator is a side-effect (a mutation).

Depending how the last iteration is handled, zip(a, b) and zip(b, a) with iterators of different sizes can have different behaviours: if a is shorter than b, a naïve implementation would update b in the zip(b, a) case, but not in the zip(a, b) case.
Not a surprise, given how he has handled some of his other companies. But sort of out of real-world pulse... also not a surprise.
It also falls under the aspect of "hidden surprises" which could mean that this part of the TOS wrt. this specific aspect might not be legally binding/valid. At least in the EU. Or it might.
> Edit: Deleting this comment because way too many people attacking me who have clearly never actually used any decentralized app.

Wow, that was unexpected. Taking criticism for boasting about gaining money in a gamble (you said luck was involved) and then weaseling out....
Why is bitcoin not an asset?
Shout out to Sridhar Vembu, founder of Zoho

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sridharvembu
It's a nice project - I use it at home for a very simple setup to see what my house power consumption is; shows how I can go from 5-6 kWh per day to > 9 kWh just by using the oven. Worked out how to run the emoncms aspect in a LXC container, instead of in Docker, so it'd fit into my preferred way of doing things [0].

The forums can be a bit like posting into the void - a few views, no comments.

I've got a bug issue and bug fix PR up, and it's been there for a few months with no traction. It's the web UI rather than core code, but it's not even had a response from the core committers/project owners.

[0]: https://www.cricalix.net/2022/10/19/running-emoncms-in-a-lin...
What's the proper way to wrap errors in Go?
That's a really bad report.

"We don't need Californian solutions in Minnesota" is not the kind of argument you want to be making if you want to be taken seriously as an objective source.

Why isn't renewables a Texas solution? They got help from someone in Texas to write this and Texas has lots of renewables.
I dont know.
I am not a genius. Not even close to be an average guy. But I do not understand why people thought that life would not go back. Were any signals that it could happen? Honest question really.
It's not the car designers, it's the consumers that voted with their wallets by mostly buying angry cars. Apparently car drivers feel a need to intimidate the road users around them...
The Onion: “Long-Lost Jules Verne Short Story 'The Camera-Phone' Found”

https://www.theonion.com/long-lost-jules-verne-short-story-t...
> Exchanges are everything that's wrong with this space.

Exchanges are the space. Without them, there's no way for people to buy into the system with real money in the first place!
Google workspaces in India costs 125 rupees a month. That's around $1.5. Use a VPN + an international debit card (or wise.com) to pay Google in rupees? Is there a real downside to this?
If it gained traction amongst the "general public" such niche ban reasons would probbaly become less common. And neutral federations would automatically emerge because at some point not every instance will bother to ban other random instances.
In-person work is better for companies. It leads to better products, more creativity, and more engaged employees.
Thanks! This is a great explanation of exactly what I meant. It really depends if this is an issue for your use case / team.
That's only the web UI. The code and so on for the hardware is at https://github.com/openenergymonitor
It is the details of the law that count here.

"Rights of investigation" and "capillary monitoring" are poles.
Minimalist sailing developers website, rabbits I forgot
Hi, I cannot recall the name of the website run but a couple of young developers that live and work from their small sailing boat: I remember there was the work "rabbits" on their domain, something like 7rabbits or 77rabbits...

It has been often cited here
What would that value be though? 20% of its current value? Would you then say that gold was only 20% asset and 80% ponzi?
Ask HN: Working less than 20h / week
I'm a stay at home dad and can work for about 10 - 15 hours a week plus do some research in the evening. I need to be flexible if my child gets sick. I've worked part-time as a research assistant during my master's degree in computer science and co-authored 3 published papers, but have no industry experience.

What are my best options? Should I try for a normal employment with low hours or maybe do some freelancing? Maybe fiverr or upwork? Maybe a temporary employment agency? Thankful for any experiences and recommendations.
I might be an outlier, but I cannot wait for Windows ARM to become mainstream.
> any instance hosting the harry potter lady would get defederated from by 90% of the network, I guarantee you that.

That sounds crazy. If my instance did that, I would immediately consider moving to another, more politically tolerant instance or just run my own to traverse the censorship issue entirely.

And the good thing about the fediverse is that a user has those options and isn’t at mercy of other peoples limited tolerance for freedom of speech.
Windows is very satisfactory from a technical perspective, if they would only recognise that they do not own our computers...
Is AI Art Art?
For me only the last one is a big red flag.

Apart from this, I'm of the opinion that one crucial job of a team lead/manager is protecting their team and, their product.

One way to do this is saying "no" to feature requests, being mindful of which hype to follow and balancing the value and the cost of doing so, etc.
Your piece of everything a potato. So, what sort of potato is it? This [1] photo of a potato, sold for a million dollars, gave rise to this quote.

> “Kevin likes potatoes because they, like people are all different yet immediately identifiable as being essentially of the same species,”

[1] https://petapixel.com/2016/01/21/this-photo-of-a-potato-sold...
Stylized Renderer – Deferred Pixel Lights
Google bought Orkut. Shut it down

Google had Google Wave. Shut it down

Google had Google Plus. Shut it down.

...

If Google unveiled a Mastodon instance tomorrow, why would people believe that Google had any interest in developing and maintaining a social network
Probably the most important question is “where do you live?”
There are a few novels that play with this idea in the 'litRPG' genre. The 'Awaken Online' series is the best of them I've read, and has a mix of IRL and VR scenes depending on the book.

As with the SAO books the focus soon goes from VR to AI/AGI.
My point is that you're comparing apples and oranges.

My last company had 5,000 users and hundreds of employees. Does that mean we should reduce the employee count to 1 employee given that WhatsApp was able to sustain 200m users with 50 employees?

How how about the fact that WhatsApp generated $10m in revenue when it had 50 employees or 200k/employee while Twitter in 2021 generated $5b or $677k/employee?

Your logic is so bad that I didn't even want to reply.
Show HN: Flex – transpile natural language to a programming language
Flex [1] is a transpiler that converts a series of statements in natural language to either Python, Java or C++, and is trained using Rasa NLU [2], an open-source framework usually used for training chatbots and voice assistants.

Flex is a project I made in college in 2018 along with two of my classmates, Gourav and Sanjay. The initial idea was to create a voice assistant you could speak to that wrote code for you, similar to GitHub's upcoming (and a lot more advanced) project "Hey, Github" [3].

We then had to reduce the project's scope to complete it in a single semester while writing exams, preparing for job interviews and submitting reports and assignments. So we settled on creating a Python program that takes a file containing statements written in natural language as input and transpiles them to a valid Python/Java/C++ program. The project design is modular, so adding more languages and statement types is easy.

The next step we had thought of was to hook it up with some UI with voice input to have some kind of voice-driven IDE, but then as college was over and we got jobs, the project got abandoned as we moved on to other things.

Seeing the "Hey, GitHub" project on HackerNews today [4] reminded me of this project, so I just wanted to share it to inspire others to fork it and make something cool. Also looking forward to some feedback on how the project could be improved to make it more useful.

[1]: https://github.com/Flex-lang/transpiler. Not to be confused with FLEX, a strictly-typed programming language with the same name (which was released first, so we should have used a different name!)

[2]: https://github.com/rasahq/rasa

[3]: https://githubnext.com/projects/hey-github/

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33543946
Just leaving a comment here, if you are an electrical engineer and you are interested in working on thing like this, I'd love to talk to you.
For what it's worth, I think you're both partly wrong and partly right. From the letter:

> I think you can divide the ecosystem into three major parts: apps / experiences, platform services and hardware / systems. In my vision of ubiquitous VR / AR, these are listed in order of importance...

> The key apps are what you'd expect: social communication and media consumption

While Mark believes that Apps > Systems > Hardware he also knows that the order has to be the other way around if you're building this industry from scratch. Meta has to stay ahead in hardware if they want to own the systems and apps that run on it. Horizons is their proving ground for the technologies they need to own social and identity. I think they're focusing more on building the systems for it while the graphical quality is getting left by the wayside. It makes it easy to laugh at if all you're judging it by are screenshots but if you have experience with social VR apps you'll know that being able to have a high server population is the killer feature that they're chasing. A one man team can throw together a multiplayer VR experience that looks great but as soon as you try to have more than 20 people in the same room it begins lagging so much that everyone will get pissed and quit immediately (you have to have experienced lag and jittery video in VR to know why this is). So making sure that the networking is solid and scalable is a wise decision, if that is what they're doing. If they can pull off large events with 100s of participants and no lag they will own the social VR space even if their graphics are still shit. That's a big if though.

As he mentioned in the letter, ubiquitous VR and AR will turn a lot of physical things into apps. He gave the examples of your TV and cellphone but as we've seen with the Quest Pro they also want to replace your monitors, whiteboard, and office. If they can solve the server population problem then here's a list of other things that will become apps:

- movie theatres
- bars
- dance clubs
- house parties
- non-contact sports
- concerts
- board game cafes
- conferences
- galleries
- comedy clubs
- stage performances of all kinds e.g bands, theatre troupes, karaoke

I could probably sit here for a while coming up with more examples but the point is this will be revolutionary for people who currently have limited access to these things. If you live in a major city you might be thinking "so what, I can do all of these things down the street" but you're forgetting about the rest of the world! Even if you have access to some of these things, you don't have access to all of them all the time or the specific ones you want right now.
Did you write anywhere about the journey that got you where you are today? I’d love to know more.
> The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.

This is why I found reading his published chat messages [0] so interesting.

From the horse's mouth (the horse in this case being Jason Calacanis) to Musk, when talking about restructuring:

> "2 day a week Office requirement= 20% voluntary departures"

So it does seem possible that this could be at least partly driving this.

As an aside: The other interesting nugget in the msg logs was discussion about taking Twitter private to restructure (because it would require haemorrhaging users while they cleaned up bots etc. - and also likely because you wouldn't be able to take such aggressive actions re. mass sackings in quite the same way when public) and then going public again once this restructuring process has been completed.

[0] https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/
But is it really worth anything to have young kids post videos about how good they look or what they eat? Compare this to some really high quality content on youtube.
Out of the things you listed, moderation is for sure one that gets harder to deal with the more centralized the network becomes. All large instances have comparatively bad moderation, and that's a fairly well known fact among the older users.

For what it's worth, moderation is the best thing about fediverse. So many communities that have grown up there over the years couldn't have done it without decentralized moderation.

And it's not like there hasn't been a "some kind of major and controversial moderation defederation event" - there have been several. There are several collections of instances that are fairly closed off from the wider network. And honestly, that's fine. If some people get tired of others shit, they should be able to close themselves off from them.

The simple fact that a single administrator can moderate an instance of about 100 active people in their free time is what allows the moderation in fediverse to scale. Adding more people makes it a job, and from what I've read from professional moderators of social networks, that job is not a nice one.
Thanks for the fun analogy. It is right on the money.

Made me imagine the invention of the internet as the big bang, and that now we are watching the expansion of e-space as all the useful bodies rush away from one another and the light-years of space between them is filled by a vacuum of usefulness.

Maybe one day the search for intelligent life in space will be easier than the search for intelligent life on the internet.
Which framework do you think is the next big thing in the Frontend world?
Based on reasoning in my other comment [0] I think this is highly likely.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33544756
And in some countries we are starting to see "Adopt electronic payment: simple and safe" - which implies, "create tracks" -, as generic anonymous advertisement... Even on the electronic billboards of motorways!!!
Growing a home apothecary
> Early cars were terrible too, but here we are.

Were they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen - as fast as a carriage, about the same stink. Carriages clearly had a usecase.

Generated images now: take enormous energy to generate. Main current usecase is to gobble up more energy (mass media/entertainment).
Recommendation systems are an important technology for most online businesses and for e-commerce sites in particular. They’re an essential element in generating good conversion and maintaining customer loyalty.
People like you are so annoying. Super natural to have 70 people control 50 percent of the world wealth. Ace.
I also prefer native clients so I have been using the https://mimestream.com/ beta and it has been working great for me.
If you are Balenciaga what does it bring to have fancy font? It only might make it less readable, makes hassle for production/printing on different types of things.

People want to see brand name and you have already established brand - why would you make it harder to for people to see who you are.

I can understand if you are a startup that wants to catch an eye - but established companies not really.