skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a fun form of paid cosmetics, which are the same as most things that are cosmetic.

Some people want them for their aesthetics, some people want them as a status symbol, some people just wanna collect stuff. Also some people will want to support the development of their favourite game, and in return they get a token that provides no advantages in game (to avoid "Pay to Win".)
Wow. What an awesome map. You can even see major highways in the western US.

I recently moved from the western US to the east. The public/opens lands are what I miss the most. I don't think many people out east even realize what public land is, how much there is, and how great it is. But this map really displays it.

Side note: What's up with Alberta? Same with northwestern North Dakota? I'm guess this is mining and/or oil operations?
They didn’t write in paragraphs, it is more like a collection of IRC posts or something. Here’s the whole post thingy:

> God I wish they did. They wrote the program in C, (as far as I can tell) have no intention of rewriting it in Rust, and it's had many viable attacks over the years that allowed attackers to gain root privileges and worse. It's also debatable if the entire concept of privilege separation as implemented in Linux and UNIX was a bad idea to begin with but we're stuck with it because of an endless ball of legacy programs controlled by egotistical open source people that refuse to change because then obscure targets that nobody uses won't be able to leech off of the rest of the ecosystem by holding back any chance to let us have a modicum of nice things.

So, I guess fair enough. I will expand it slightly to say: it is an uncharitable way of describing volunteers who don’t feel like learning a new language and reimplementing their old projects while also overturning a huge ecosystem of software.
Gmail's spam filter is still a dream compared to Outlook (I use both regularly). Absolute lazy garbage gets through to my inbox and has for years. I used to complain about it to their support but nothing has changed. I certainly wouldn't recommend Outlook to a non-tech-savvy person.
Technically speaking, no, HN doesn't render any titles. Your browser is displaying U+1F97A, which is sent over-the-wire as the bytes \xF0\x9F\xA5\xBA (UTF-8 encoding).
This is the kind of stuff I don't understand.

On one hand: "Corporations are bound by fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit"

On the other hand...private concerts. Could an argument REALLY be made that Microsoft execs are so valuable that if they didn't have this concert, the execs would leave and the company would suffer more losses than it spent on the concert? Why does it seem like executives are the only areas that aren't ever subject to cost cutting? Shouldn't the march to profit necessitate a steady downward trend in CEO salaries? Do I just not understand what fiduciary responsibility is? Why can't shareholders sue over this concert?

I was never a fan of the "corporation maximize profit legal responsibility" argument, but it doesn't even seem consistent with itself...
Show HN: Linkagram a Daily Word Game
I made this game years ago (originally for PocketPC) but have recently updated it for the web.

The goal is to find all the words on a 4x4 grid of letters. Shamelessly ripping off wordle with a new board each day…

The hardest part was actually getting a decent word list that made it not too challenging to find all the words. In the end I went with ~ 3000 of the most common English words. Unfortunately it does mean that you can enter real words that aren’t recognised, but I wanted to optimise for a fun challenge!

It’s all open source and running on Cloudflare workers with some interesting technical aspects (dynamic open graph description and image generated with WASM)
I know it's a very touchy subject, but it would be immensely helpful if OP posted numbers about the offers he got.

Personally, my compensation is underwater due to the recent stock crash, and leadership has insinuated to expect zilch for 2023. I'm not in the job market due to visa, but I feel the insane comp bubble has burst, and I missed the train. I'm anxious to see how the job market evolves over the next year, but I'm afraid we won't see compensation packages nearly close to how they were the last couple of years.
Can you trust your quantum simulator?
To format code as code, indent two spaces: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
X-ray?
Honestly, I don't think you should take anything the author of this wrote seriously, the most charitable interpretation is that most of their work is a form of satire.
Isn’t the whole point of NuScale to get a plant in production to produce reactors and then have economies of scale deal with the price?
It's the JS `===` operator. The semantics are defined by JS. JS can use IEEE754 semantics for numeric `===` comparisons if it wants, but it'll be at a cost if there are other ways to distinguish the two. In this case, if you make `#{v: 0} === #{v: -0}` then you're ok with `a === b && 1/a.v !== 1/b.v` being possible.

I could see an argument for `0 == -0 && 0 !== -0`. It would have made it possible to say "if a === b, then a and b can use the same bitwise representation internally without losing information". But that's not what we have.

I guess for maximum consistency, we could use the 3rd JS equality operator `Object.is` with records, so that

0 == -0
0 === -0
! Object.is(0, -0)
#{v: 0} == #{v: -0}
#{v: 0} === #{v: -0}
! Object.is(#{v: 0}, #{v: -0})

but then all Record-comparing code would have to do `Object.is()` in order to avoid a recursive comparison. (Well, maybe the engines would get clever and include a "contains -0" flag in Records, and skip the recursion if it's false for both sides?)
Google results are markedly worse than they used to be. SEO spam routinely pushes the site/content I'm searching for down/off the page. These sites are often just straight up copies of StackOverflow.

My perception is that search queries need to be much more specific in order to avoid SEO trash as well. It used to be fairly common to find special interest forums when looking for product reviews. Now the first page is almost exclusively auto-generated spam sites referral linking to Amazon product pages. Adding "Reddit" sometimes provides helpful advice but there's often a lack of in depth insight that was present before.
There's a bit of an Eternal September going on with Twitter 'refugees' pooring in, who loudly proclaim all the things they are missing from Twitter on Mastodon. I general all the discussion about the Fediverse and Social Media are full of generalizations. Fediverse before the rise in popularity had a couple million user accounts, and yes very very small when comparing to billion people platforms. But still like the population of a small country. Not everyone is complaining, or in culture wars, or alt-right, or extreme left, etc. The place is diverse and you can have a good time there, build your friend network. It takes a bit more effort to do so without the algorithms, but that can be a good thing.
I reckon a bottom saying «pwease» would also get their point across.
Show HN: FastRank
A friend of mine working in the SEO industry made a Google Sheets template utilizing a script which pulls data from Google Search Console (GSC) API. He sold it to some SEO agencies for 1000-2000 $/license.

FastRank.APP is a SaaS version of this template. You are not in the target market if you know how to use regex or pull the data from GSC to your own solution.

What do you think about the product-market fit of FastRank? What would be the killer features for you?

FastRank does not store any of your GSC data and you can try it out for free. All feedback is appreciated.
If people in a poor country are offered jobs in a factory, and they prefer those jobs over subsistence farming (since the conditions are better and pay is better), who exactly is worse off as a result? Sounds like a profitable trade to me given both parties walk away happy.

Outsourced factory jobs are the mechanism by which previously poor countries like Taiwan and China (in many ways) have been pulled out of poverty. The process is happening before our eyes in Vietnam right now.

Do you think you’re doing poor people a favour by denying them well paid jobs? Should we do the same in the west, and have companies fire all our poorest employees?

I can hardly think of a more cruel policy.
It might have been a rendering of U+2661 ♡ or U+2665 ♥ or U+2764 (this last one does get stripped by HN) which are not emoji but may be rendered as such by the browser.
I don't know if it's ironic or not but there is also a sudo replacement in Rust that is called "please"

https://gitlab.com/edneville/please
Whenever anyone in their 25s or 30s or whatever, I'm always reminded of a blog about a guy's grandpa who retired then pivoted to consulting on construction projects, and ended up being responsible for some of the biggest bridges built in China. He quoted his grandpa as saying "My career didn't really pick up until my 60s" or something like that.

So don't worry, you've got plenty of time.
I have not talked to anyone before – including many enthusiastic proponents of microservices and some developers of things like k8s that I've met over the years – who claimed that the operational story of microservices was "basic" or "trivial". It's widely recognized this can be complex and takes time to manage well. Is this worth the trade-off? Opinions clearly differ on that. But the trade-off is very real.

> It's bad form to go down the "everyone else sucks and I'm flawless" path

Except I never said anything like that.

> It's also bullshit to pretend that nowadays there is no way to launch and shutdown dozen of services in one go

I never claimed "there is no way" to do this.

> These are all lame excuses, and one that illustrates problems caused by the developer's inability to go through the very basics.

I'm not going to join an organisation and tell them "you're all doing it wrong!" in my first week. I might make suggestions, and if they're received with "meh, I don't see the issue" then I'm not going to press the issue to an unreasonable degree, or work on things I find important regardless, especially if they don't directly contribute to the product that's being built.
Rust? Well, speaking of egotistical open source people that refuse to change...
They clearly had something to celebrate
I’d be interested what the etc. is in “AI, etc.” AI seems safe perhaps but so far that seems to be mostly gut feel.
Is the comp comparable to FAANG or is it a big step down? (At least in terms of liquid compensation)

This is partially why I haven't been interviewing. All the big p(l)ayers have slowed down their hiring so much - why bother taking a role that pays less than half.
Google “puppy dog eyes”.

Don’t get why we have to bust out all the cringe internet lingo to describe something that you see in that venerable “real world”.
One of the sample gifs shows a text about returning a product being tagged “RETURNMENT”… that’s not really a word anyone uses in that sense.
>> Her work experience is as an audio engineer

Her PhD research is in computer vision and she and her co-authors are writing mainly about computer vision, but you spoke of "a lack of basic understanding and competence on the authors part". That is clearly incorrect and I don't understand what saying the same thing many times will change about that.
That does keep things interesting (as long as it's not super common) though i do wonder how it looked previously (did it just strip the emoji or is there like a ":pwease:" dropped in?
The paragraph quoted is about the language choice, too, just that part was snipped off because it's long. It's one ball of a paragraph that goes in all directions, citing debian and gentoo's troubles with rust support[1] and calling them leeches for wanting to support obscure architectures. Not a fun read.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/845535/
Those do exist? "What is this a half-nude buffet party?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY8BSHVWGxk
And I just want you to know that I know of SVN's shortcomings but I do like it's comprehensibility very much, and though I use git it has caused me a lot of unnecessary pain. FYI.
Does "bottom" mean what I think it means?
Haha, I just checked Outlook and received this. You can't make this up...

https://i.imgur.com/ydGhzbP.png
The API is still up though - all my things that use the API are currently working fine[1].

[1] But none of them "replicate the Twitter experience", just bots and archivers.
interesting ideas, thanks!
Thanks John. I'm immediately excited by this project. I love the idea of alfred et. al. but there's always something lacking about them: it's difficult to do plugins, or they're done in a language I don't know, or they're not cross platform.
This ticks all my boxes (as far as I can tell) so I'm looking forward to trying it this weekend.
What if you have to use the remainder operator? How would "|> % % 2" work?
Obviously production would have to be scaled up. It's dishonest to present this as some sort of insurmountable barrier, for all potential battery chemistries or other storage modes.
There should be a quick-reference lexicon for these things
> People have been assuming that battery cost will continue to decline exponentially.

I think the incredible success of the transistor industry has created some very unrealistic expectations about the pace of technological advance more generally. I know this is a fallacy I used to fall for. If a pocket sized computer today can beat out a supercomputer the size of a small building from when I was a kid, anything seems possible. But in reality, the rapid miniaturization of transistors is an extraordinary outlier.
>Additionally, I think that the existence of an SoC or likewise document is a sign towards outsiders that your community can’t behave itself maturely. They need special rules laid out to them, after all. Like most rules, they are codified because issues have arisen in the past, and keep on arising. I don’t think the Perl community is too immature to behave itself. I trust in the good faith of people, and to me it feels like a SoC does the exact opposite.

Good faith doesn't scale. Any community of sufficient size absolutely requires explicit rules (and plenty of smaller communities need them to, because being small doesn't make you immune to assholes or to excusing their assholishness due to other qualities).

Bruce Schneier goes into this in excruciating novel-length depth with sources and case studies: https://www.schneier.com/books/liars-and-outliers/
But were you actually denied boarding, or just worried about it? The restrictions may affect what kind of credit you get for missing a flight, but you will never be banned from flying the airline - that's absurd.
Yeah, I've had the bad kind that's long enough in a day to totally wreck me, like... twice. Failed one of those two hard, too, LOL. Rest of my experiences have been way more chill in my ~23 years in the industry. I can't imagine targeting a segment where such processes are the norm—which is why, even if I have the talent to work there (and, who knows, maybe I don't) I'd never even try to apply to FAANG and friends, since there's a 0% chance I'd make it through one of their about-a-whole-day processes without bombing the entire back half, no matter how much I prepped.
In principle yes it’s worth it even for more complex data.

In practice, hypothesis is not good at this (I would argue it is broken currently, as specifications that are valid can fail for… reasons of implementation details) and the maintainers don’t think there’s any problem with this limitation.

I’ve had much better luck with generative testing in clojure and haskell.
Nope, completely different people and skills.

Original silicon valley was actual making chips, silicon type. And there were a ton of folks here who were expert at it.

When it moved to Taiwan, those jobs disappeared from here.

The types of jobs you're talking about (high level design layer) didn't exist then.
As an FYI you can have the "vanity domain" if you just use the webfinger protocol with your own custom domain. Don't necessarily need to self-host it.
What is wrong with friends from foreign countries?
Mainly because of "Login with Twitter". There isn't a proper way to tell downstream systems who have authenticated against Twitter that "The account JohnDoe is now a different user than they were."

Basically the same principle used to hijack accounts by buying an expired domain that had email addresses associated with it.
In case anyone else hadn’t heard of this: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

From only a few minutes of reading (so I might be off), it looks like if multicast packets were saved by routers and you could ask for tcp-style retries later.
You mean the same Sama that charged OpenAI $12.50 per hour for a contract and paid their African contractors $2 or less an hour?

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
Lovot Emotional Robotics
I mean it’s still not very readable. Reading through the code I can tell that it does.. some strong things with envars.
The natural successor to the Sony Aibo?
Radio astronomy “Pegasus” survey published first high detailed image
> Passive afterglow heat removal is the thing that lets reactors of any fuel form be safer than today's typical reactors, which generally require backup power to run the cooling systems.

NuScale does not require backup power. They solve the afterglow heat removal problem by running the reactors under millions of gallons of water. By the time it all boils away (about a month), passive air cooling is sufficient.
It sounds like you're ignoring one of the commenting guidelines, which is "assume good faith." You're reading things into the comment that aren't there, and replying to that rather than what was actually said.
The Pentagon Can't Count: It's Time to Reinvent the Audit (2022)
> If Android users are roughly 50% in the US, then the likelihood of knowing zero people that use Android is quite small.

If you mostly associate with people who are on pre-paid cell phone plans they got at Walmart or a gas station, you'll see a high concentration of Android. Among people who are in technology or often purchase luxury goods, most your friends with have iPhones.
None of the responses are accurate to the Jan 9 model of ChatGPT. For example, here's one of the responses I got today:

My prompt:
"Laws should restrict abortion in all or most cases. Please choose one:

Disagree strongly

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Agree Strongly"

ChatGPT Response:
"I am a machine learning model and do not have the ability to hold personal opinions. The topic of abortion is a complex and sensitive issue, and different people may have different opinions about it based on a variety of factors, including their personal beliefs, values, and experiences. Ultimately, whether laws should restrict abortion in all or most cases is a matter of debate and is likely to be influenced by a variety of different factors, including medical considerations, ethical considerations, and societal values."
It doesn't read that way to me. Maybe it's an emoji-font difference (I'm on Mac).

[EDIT] I mean I see it once someone points it out, but that'd have been lucky to make my top-5 guesses otherwise.
Different board representations in computer chess
Did you not read the top level comment on this? The guy called social services and the cops a dozen times over two weeks. He tried to get her the help that he's not qualified to provide, and when that failed, he tried to solve his own problem.

He did not set out to hurt her. He probably passed by a dozen objects far more capable of causing harm than a hose. Pens, staplers, frames for art, a statue, hell even his fists are all more harmful. I struggle to think of something that causes less harm than tap-pressure water. I would say he explicitly set out trying not to cause any harm, or he would've reached for a more obvious and harmful option.

Neither of us knows what his state of mind was, but I don't see anything outright implying contempt. Doing something bad to someone doesn't require contempt, it can be a practical means to an end. Based on him calling social services, I would say he didn't have contempt, he just realized the government wasn't going to help and took it into his owns. Similar to managers when they have to fire someone; doing so doesn't imply or require contempt, it's just a means to an end.
follow Linux discussion here (and have a link to the build):

https://github.com/johnlindquist/kit/discussions/121
We don’t have to guess. They’re just openly transphobic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34450709
Wonder if she's on the no-fly list now.
> ...I thought that was much more fair than front-of-the-house staff being paid more than the kitchen folks due to some antiquated racist bullshit.

Was this necessary to get your point across? Honestly, invalidated much of the article for me. I find that assumptions like this betray the poisoned viewpoints of the author.
I think more than "dead weight", Musk was trying to get rid of what he deemed a culture problem. Using the dead weight as an excuse he did multiple rounds of purges, with "useful" (productive+culture matching) engineers also getting purged in the process as an acceptible loss, only perhaps seeing that as a bit too far later on (recall there were engineers being asked to come back on an individual basis). The purging wasn't a surprise from my perspective of , in the past, seeing CEOs agressively weed out employees who only slightly disagree with them, let alone the "actively plotting"(?) Twitter employees who, you may recall, Musk was pouring over internal conversation logs to find, it seems.

And to expound on the main topic, I think what we're seeing is a confluence of the above: using downturn, etc. as an excuse to shed perhaps individuals or groups that are in opposition to the culture the board thinks is useful, drowned out by a total also comprised of some amount of acceptible loss in employees the company wouldn't mind keeping.

Watch as some individuals from all of the above are individually asked to rejoin with a pay bump.

My two cents.
Am I a minority that has little to no problem with paid cosmetics?

Pay to win, and loot boxes with game impact, can go jump.

But paid cosmetics, Valorant-style, seems like a great way of generating revenue that keeps the game accessible and under development.

I realise it's somewhat different in this specific case. But if the other option is stopping active development, this seems like the least bad alternative.
"Base load" is just a description of how demand is behaving currently, its now high as we are using fossils unsustainably and keeping intra day price variations artificially low. It can dip much lower and hourly pricing and spot market means the usage adapts to production without blackouts. (this also makes storage profitable to build where needed)
> To be fair, it says the cost increases are mainly due to the rise in construction material prices as well as financing costs; nothing inherent to nuclear power or the novel technology itself.

The problem is mostly cost. Now that we're entering a higher interest environment, the situation is unlikely to improve.