skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I included the information about Dave Winer in the article because (1) there have been problems in his products regarding rssCloud support for WordPress sites, which I wanted "on the record", and (2) I felt that his attitude toward "help" needs to be called out, otherwise people would not be aware, and have that context in reading his blog/side of the story. He mentions Automattic in his post on December 24th (http://scripting.com/2022/12/24/162940.html#a163527) regarding rssCloud work with WordPress, but it was really Andrew Shell (http://feedland.org/?item=880552) that did the work to make it happen.
But so are the local wages in IT.

Which is the point that I’m making. There is a general correlation* between wages and cost of living.

* please note that I’m making a generalisation about a correlation and not saying that the relationship is precisely even across all geographic locations nor domains within IT.
To some degree, no. As these media outlets collaborate with government, as the twitter files are showing, they lose their right to have their own voice.

I doubt Kickstarter or Gawker has crossed the line, but it is there to be crossed.
Anything seemingly innovative on Australia’s energy landscape is a deflection or a smoke screen funded by fossil fuels.
Ask HN: Do any major E-commerce Companies have Modals in their Checkout Process?
Are the examples of major e-commerce companies using a Modal in their checkout process?

Thinking companies like: Amazon AliExpress, eBay, etsy, Flipkart, Groupon, Rakuten, TaoBao, Walmart, Wayfair, etc.

Trying to understand if Modals are considered "Good UX" by collecting data on what the biggest e-commerce companies - who have the most to lose in terms of conversion - do when it comes to UX in practice.

Not looking for a theoretical answer/discussion, but rather to understand if anyone has seen a Modal in practice on a major e-commerce site during checkout.

Thanks!
Wow, that is the craziest thing. I've never heard of this effect.

How is he priming it at 12:00? Seems like the water he's pouring in would just run right back down to the reservoir. Edit: never mind, sounds like there's a check valve.
India’s first-ever indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant
How is this news? Cars break down all the time
KDE already has fractional scaling. This is for fractional scaling with Wayland. If you don't need Wayland, fractional scale away.
> Today's search engines will give you links to millions of documents

Today's search engines will give you 500 results per query. Your point still stands - sorting through 500 results is hard work.
The highest placed links on Google are basically guaranteed to:

1) Not be the actual source of content
2) Not link to the original source
That's fine advice, but I will note that twice in my career I've had bad RSI issues due to overuse of my thumb. I learned the wisdom of trying to utilize as many fingers as possible.

Perhaps it slows me down a little, but my performance is not correlated with typing speed.
It can be combinations of both. Many deeply nested small ones is convenient for objects/actors/agents/entities with different lifetimes.
No, they won't replace search engines, but they could weaponize the generation of SEO content spam to the point where search engines become overwhelmed and irrelevant.
Ask HN: Review of “Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2022?”
The original predictions link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236
The thing about this kind of vague insinuations is that they're impossible to refute, but not necessarily impossible to show examples of. Do you have any?
hackernews gets ipv6 support.
Unless it’s so cold that the pressure is higher than the PRV can … relieve.

Same is true of the PRV at the oil filter. If you’re bypassing that, then you’re forcing unfiltered oil into the engine.

Also, a too high oil pressure can wash out the babbitt on main and rod bearings.

Agree that the article is bad.

Wouldn’t say “no oil” as oil control in modern engines is good but not perfect and the rings (above the oil control ring) need some oil.
But the jobs outside of Silicon Valley will generally pay less too (unless you happen to be in another tech hub, but expect the cost of living to be greater there too).

So you’re literally making the same point :)
If you manage to run your entire service on a single (heavy weight) server, uptimes will usually be excellent. Reliability for a single server is high. It gets lower for each server you add, unless you're adding redundancy. But that adds complexity, and that hurts reliability too.

My point: a single dedicated server may be a more reliable, simpler and much cheaper solution than the cloud provides.
Isn't Linux Mint basically just a different UI on Ubuntu?

I mean there are also alternatives not based on Ubuntu (Arch, Debian, Fedora, Alpine, Void, ...)
Ukrainian Voices?
Initial commit was in August and there are only 5 contributors, yet it's calling itself the "the best Airtable alternative" and filled their side with all kind of fancy screenshots? Makes it even more sketchy. Unless they ported the whole project from a previous project, there would be no way to barf out a high quality competition in such a short time with such a small team.

Without the screenshots and partner-claims I would think they are just overly enthusiastic. But the whole highly professional sales vibes for such a fresh project makes it just untrustable.
There’s also pharma world wide. Seems the system is broken if only massive economic upside in the US is what leads to drug discovery and successful clinical trials.
I'm not sure why you care so much? It doesn't cost anything to assume good faith, its just a win win situation. As we see here you still waste time arguing with people even when you assume bad faith, so it doesn't even save you time, its just your loss.

Anyway, very few people really argue in bad faith, I almost always can make people listen if I just get to talk to them long enough. Assume good faith long enough and you will find it in almost anyone. But conversely assume bad faith and you will find that in almost anyone as well.

Edit:

> All this passive aggression is making me reach for the pepto, I will say that!

There is nothing passive about my aggressiveness here, I am very loudly and clearly stating that I think your approach leads to worse outcomes. There is nothing wrong about clearly stating when you think others are wrong about things.
Economically speaking, why bother producing the steel in Australia? The vast majority of it is mined nowhere near the normal population centres, so there’s not really any convenience in refining it on site. By the time you’ve gotten it to a port, you aren’t going to be losing that much transporting the ore rather than steel. I think you also need coal, which iirc is by and large not located close to the iron ore resources.

Additionally, I’d bet the value-add (profitwise) from steel refining is not very high - it would be a competitive industry, since anyone can spin up a refinery and import the steel. The restriction is the iron supply, so that’s where the price impact hits if there’s a shortage.

It’s all a matter of economics, and it appears that it’s not very profitable to produce steel in Australia - so we don’t.
It’s more that a huge amount of freedom has been taken from you so you jump through hoops to have some of it returned.
Mostly because Mastodon is what the vast majority of users see as a frontend in this context.
Investment. There are multiple VC groups trying to fund products in this space and using GitHub and other metrics to pick targets
I was actually surprised by several predictions of Russia's invasion of Ukraine; it seemed really improbable year ago. Also one prediction of crypto bubble burst was unpopular, but turned out spot on. Most political predictions of power redistribution between parties explainable failed.
I like Jitsi, because it is open source and it is not Zoom.
>Why would you bother engaging someone in conversation at all if you didn't assume they were engaging in good faith?

Not all interactions are a conversation -at least not necessarily an on-going one. For instance, in a political thread you may choose to reply to a very obvious troll simply for the sake of countering misinformation -not because you want to run off and get married to them.

>If I'm going to assume there's a 50% chance the person I'm talking to is engaging in bad faith I'd rather do something more productive like scream my opinions out my window.

Fair. "Don't read the comments" has become a proverb for a reason. That said -there are times and places where it's useful (for your own sake) to interact.
My reasoning is that if they stated their policies clearly and had to do so to enforce them that we would be able to have other processors that would move into that area. The theory is that porn is has lots of chargeback and legal risks and another company focused on this area could do so in a better fashion.

I support breaking down this monopoly as well though, because I acknowledge the ground reality of where we are now.
> HC was about creating not browsing.

Let us not forget that the very first web browsers had an edit button.
Bought a Philips CFL bulb in 1998. It ended up lasting 12 years.
It was bought for a garage that had no door so sort open to moisture when it rained. It would be on sometimes several days if forgotten but on average eight to twelve hours over night.
Incandescent light bulbs would blow in a month or two and at 75 watts it cost several dollars a month because energy was not cheap in that country.
Philips knows how to make a bulb.
Correction: s/FTX/BlockFi/
> Google is currently unpolluted by GPT results.

This is self-evidently false; there is plenty of indexed content on the web generate by publicly available LLMs, including OpenAI’s GPT series, and open source implementations of similar technology.

Maybe even more generated by the non-publicly-available ones some firms have for their own use.
Review of 2021 predictions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29678113
Usually I don't trust any website, but I did not have any choice because I needed my bitcoins that I had been scammed. So I decided to go online and I read many testimonials about Wizard James. I kept on searching about Wizard James' performance and made sure that he is the right person to help me find my stolen bitcoins.
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Don’t sleep with those kind of people? It’s a dumb moral standard to impose but it does work.
A few months ago there was a post about how in a social graph, the average number of friends of friends is higher than the average number of friends.

There's likely a similar trend in sexual contacts. Even if you don't "sleep around" you might sleep with someone who does.
If you like this, check out a mirascope.
I have used it as a simple CRM for a small organization, it was a big improvement on the earlier method of using Google sheets.
Yeah this is such a core issue. For the user, it would be easiest if there was just one server and you hit “signup” and it’s all done.

Problem is that picking a server is actually a big deal. Most of the mastodon servers running today won’t be running in 3 years, many of the servers have crazy rules and unchecked moderators. Ideally you’d have your own server so you don’t have to worry about who the unknown person running it is.
Because people have the number of sexual partners tattooed on their foreheads?
Also information here (along with other interesting stuff)…

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pitch-drop-experiment
> Engineers are employed to translate human needs into tangible system designs,

I mean, isn't this with achievable prompt refinement?

One could argue that it wouldn't satisfy some $arbitrary_dimension (scalability, accessibility, whatever), but you can imagine it wouldn't be hard to get there with prompt refinement eventually, especially on an AI trained to satisfy SWE requirement (and not talking about GH's Copilot,which is an early application of a fairly young technology)
downvote without comment is degenerate loss of conversational opportunity.
I don't think accuracy matters as much as the ability to describe various opinions and attribute them to sources.
> I am ready to pay for something like ChatGPT.

they put too many restrictions on which answers ChatGPT is allowed to give though...
Have you applied to YC?
I was hospitalized to have an operation recently and before they admitted me they tested my nose for MRSA. Apparently pretty common but not a concern as long as they are aware of it
I was pleased at first when I tried to use ChatGPT as a search engine. I asked something like "give me the top 5 blog posts to learn about C++ metaprogramming" and it actually spit out extremely plausible titles from top people (e.g. Dave Abrahams, Eric Niebler, Herb Sutter, etc), but when I said "no please give me the actual URLs", they were all 404.

If Microsoft somehow is able to implement the information synthesis (e.g. "give me an example of C++ metaprogramming, using Boost Hana") with actual indexed links from sources, that would probably be the one thing I'd see in the near-ish term that could upset the search engine balance of power.
Leah Culver: “Why do I continue to work at Twitter?”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746655

This guy's predictions were actually pretty good, even many that missed were better-than-random correct in the right direction, e.g. the AI one
>Look at Japanese Bonds, Look at Taiwanese resolve, look at Korean growth - Chinese citizens are starting to recognize that the only thing the CCP has left is fear and domination and they aren't going to support it anymore

I can't comment on the other items, but there's a fairly benign reason for the surge in japanese bonds as of late. It's not because the economy suddenly got better. It's because the BoJ relaxed their yield control policy, presumably because inflation was running rampant and they needed to do something.
Storing state in plain objects is a nice way to go when you pick a framework that doesn't care about state management.

Forgo, Mithril, and Crank all require explicit commands to rerender, unlike React and friends, which need visibility into everything that could ever trigger a rerender so they can handle it automatically.

You'd think manual rerenders would be a big pain, but I find it a small price for allowing by state to just be regular ol' variables. It makes everything feel simpler, like I'm just using the language instead of expressing my business logic through the framework.
> The problem is that cost and risk of development and trials is too large for the current rewards,

This kind of invesment has been traditionally done by governments. But with a reduction of taxation governments do not have animore money to do this. And for private companies it makes more sense to spend that kind of money in advertisment than in developing new products.

> ensuring good prices or bounties for successful development would likely create a plethora of antimicrobials in a quite short time frame.

If one woman has a child in 9 months. How many months takes to 9 women? More money may accelerate development, but there is a limit on how much faster one can go. Give a big enough reward and you will find more corporations cheating and lobbyng to get that money without delivering any actual antimicrobials.

Public research institutions seem a very good middle ground. Give pasionate scientist funding and they will come with solutions. Give passionate CEOs money and you get the next big scam.
Not my experience. Many doctors seem very hesitant to prescribe antibiotics. Even 10 years ago I was in the ER for a deep flush wound from shop accident, almost killed myself. Had a large open wound from a dirty saw. They made sure I was up my my tentis shot but no antibiotics. When I asked about them, they said they would treat if an infection presented itself but not before
It isn’t a product in the sense that there isn’t an organization who’s job is to monitor “sales” metrics.

It’s not a product the way email isn’t a product. gmail is a product, and gmail is email.

As long as there’s no gmail for mastadon, mastadon won’t reach its final form.
This is quite common in Europe, not sure on other areas now.
These are people that have worked as account manager and decided to start their own business. I know one that has worked for Accenture, one ex Microsoft. They work for a percentage normally and with that it is in their benefit to sell as much of your product as possible.
They have their network and knowledge, I liked working that way a lot.
Reminds me of a meme:

Scientist: We can build a big shield to block out the sun and stop global warming!

Me: Is it going to rain tomorrow?

Scientist: Weather is very complicated, we can't predict...

Me: Leave the sun alone.
Cuis-Smalltalk
I think your reply is still based on a standard keyboard. When you get to more ergonomic keyboards you can stay on the homerow and also reach modifiers without moving.

While most people do not have an ergonomic keyboard then what you say is likely true and most ergonomists would agree but I think they would also agree that even better is not have to move and use an ergonomic keyboard. That comes with cost and time which is why most still dont use them.
lol... how does Google innovate, if ChatGPT doesn't?
I know they would not do this but you aren't the only one that thinks in those veins. I'm so tired of all of the pinterest spam I pretty much gave up on google for anything other than code searches which funny enough can be done better and more naturally through a GPT type AI.
Are they? First time I hear that users' desktops are subject to PCI in fin-tech companies.
Memtest86 will only notice a bit-flip by sheer luck: the flip has to happen between when it wrote and when it reads back a short time later. Any flip in bits it is not immediately looking at will slip by.

Memtest86 is not magic. It is designed to look for systematic failures, even if intermittent. It does that pretty well given it has only bus-level access.
What makes you think Google is good at finding facts?
This isn't actually true.

The CEO can have moral opinions or the board of directors might or Black Rock might or a large proportion of employees might. Any of these groups having a very strong opinion and the others not having one is sufficient.
> so if he's willing to throw his parents under the bus and rates his chances of escape highly he can leave without ever paying that bail.

Suppose he owns the $400+ million in Robinhood equity that he, FTX, and others are currently in a legal battle over. That asset would be within the reach of the automatic default judgement in favor of government that comes with bail forfeiture, even if SBF had fled to a country without extradition.
Well, a painter probably knows a thing or two about the paint and the canvas, and a musician knows a thing or two about their instrument and... well... music theory.

Doesn't sound crazy to expect a software developer to know a thing or two about their system. Not necessarily down to the device tree, of course. But being stuck at "learning to use a terminal is below my pay grade" feels like the other extreme to me.
> ChatGPT, if asked correctly, will instead generate one perfect document based on millions of the documents

Not yet. Today, ChatGPT is bad with facts. Don't rely on what it tells you.

But that appears to be the future. And it sounds great.
That helps explain part of why Hyundai was running hydrogen ads on Korean broadcast news for years. I assumed it was because they knew they had fallen behind in battery tech research, but being able to source hydrogen (green or not) from Australia instead of the middle east must also be a factor.
To be fair though, a completely random bet that Russia invades a country within a particular year has a respectable chance of being accurate. Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine. Short memories...
I started with Sinatra first, the goal is to actually learn Ruby.

Then i go with Ruby on Rails, with help of some good tutorials. The point is, get accquainted with git, rails convention, testing and deployment.

Skip the Javascript part as most as possible first.

The important thing on this journey, is you'll eventually love Ruby, let it drive your fun, curiosity and happiness along the way.

Good luck!
Is there a theme here where Musk & co are trying to redefine what words mean to poison debate?
ECC fused off was never a thing on the CPU-only dies, just on the APUs.
But at the point people stop using general purpose search engines because there's so much content spam that they're unable to distinguish from genuine material, then there's no further motivation for anyone to keep the content spam bots going, until the search engines' own SEO-detection AI catches up. Some sort of arms-race is likely inevitable, but I'm not convinced GPT-based tech is going to especially favour one side over the other.
I believe that. Imagine the power of having a Unix box in your pocket whereever you go.

It's a pity the Ubuntu phone went nowhere. There is Ubuntu Touch though (haven't used it).
You're misunderstanding the thread. So let me lay it out.

The Biden campaign in 2020(they were not in power, Trump admin was) sent a list of tweets to Twitter asking them to take a look alleging that they violated Twitter's rules on revenge porn. Twitter took down those tweets. Matt Taibibi implied this was government/Twitter censorship, and the right wing went ape shit over it. People found the archived versions of those tweets, mainly from politician Republican influencers, and they were nothing except pictures of Hunter's penis. Nothing to do with his business dealings or emails on his laptop that were leaked.

The Republican operatives who privately received the leaked laptop contents didn't even blur the private parts. Are they revenge porn? Arguably. Was this an example of government censorship, or censorship of political discourse? No. The Trump Whitehouse was also reporting problematic tweets to Twitter contacts for potential violation of Twitter terms. Nobody is claiming the Biden laptop business dealings, emails etc. were revenge porn.
Nearly fifty years old, and a lot of the code written today still has issues with readability.

Code reviews and coding conventions can help with this. It’s not always enough, though, to make readable, understandable code. It’s also very easy for one group of people to agree to a convention that another group might find objectionable.

We don’t tend to teach about these topics in school, either, so many people come out of school with what they saw in books as the basis for how code should be written.

It’s pretty amazing that all these years later we still struggle with these issues, which makes me wonder if it’s just inherent, or if we just don’t emphasize readability enough across the industry. I know some companies do, but it hardly seems universal.
Most strong statements end up false. Even more weak statements wind up false.

"Weak statements" have no inherently better Bayesian prior to being more true than "strong statements".