skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also at a startup using rust. It's true that the feedback loop can sometimes feel bit slower. One thing that helps here is being test driven so that you're not waiting for compiles just so you can click through to confirm a small change in behavior. But in general I think my velocity is not much slower than it was at a previous company using a node backend. The hardest part of software isn't typing in the code and making sure it runs. It's thinking about what it should do and how it should do it in the first place. And really, Rust's type system is a force multiplier. We can prototype really fast, throw out things and rework them with confidence because with well thought out typing and tests to confirm logical behavior we have strong safety guarantees. It lets you experiment and investigate alternative implementations fearlessly.
HTTP 1.0 when every request/response pair was a separate TCP connection certainly was a huge deal for one big file versus 100 little ones.

HTTP 1.1 shifted the dynamic a bit, when properly configured.

HTTP 2+ shift the dynamic a lot. When everything is a single reusable shared connection it's a lot more "100 connected train-cars". At that point it's more a matter of request/response header overhead. (And even there HTTP 2+ have interesting mitigations such as Brotli compression and common header dictionaries.)

There's still some difference between one big file and 100 little ones in HTTP 2+, but things are much more complex and a lot of it does start to look like a "wash" (do whatever makes you happy to start, then performance test your specific scenarios once you've got a complete application).
They said thousands, not 99.
That’s an interesting comment. I chose Node not because I love it, but it’s the easiest to hire for as a startup.

I hate configuring typescript and having to deal with bundlers, package.json, esbuild, etc.

But Deno and Bun are just around the corner. What we need is to get rid of this a la carte mentality around tooling and just give everyone Typescript, batteries included, and make it fast.

Then Node really isn’t that bad anymore.
Apart from the poor performance which surprised me considering I would expect it to be light, this is awesome and I for one sure miss an internet like this.

It's so corporate now...
"I've combined black holes and dark energy. Oh great, now I have regular expressions."
I was looking for something like this, but for flexibility, stubbornness, and quick-and-dirty-ness reasons, I ended up just building the floor plan in blender. It's adequate I guess
this is what privilege sounds like.

Are you suggesting that other people don't have access to the outside, or communication technology?

Aside from very few places, there was never any actual lockdown. Everyone in America had the right to walk in a park with friends while social distancing.

when your well-paying job is to sit at home, posting on reddit and occasionally resolving a bug ticket

That's quite some projection.

nobody cares about those people

I guess that's why I always wear a mask when in an enclosed area...? Why I always respected personal space of workers and always had patience with them, knowing what they're going through.

Yep, I'm just a privileged meanie. Can't possibly be that I behaved like a responsible, caring adult, using methods available to all Americans.
I like magicplan[0]. It's not perfect, but I like that I can just point my phone around the room and tap on points to create a rough layout. You can add in precise measurements later if you choose to.

[0] https://www.magicplan.app/
I briefly actually tried to read up on the laws that governed me, since I once heard "ignorance of the law is no excuse" and also was curious what, exactly, it would take to really, no kidding, translate the tax code into python or Mlang (https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34579236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208853 )

However, once I realized that -- as you said -- it's not just the law it's the court (and presumably IRS) rulings that supplement the law, that was too much for me and I noped out. My 2nd idea was to become an Enrolled Agent and then write up that experience, but I couldn't readily identify how much time and money that would cost
I guess you could just have an unchanging project redeploy itself every hour or so.
Man I think you're really confused about what the "safety score is". Here it is stated a simpler way:

Tesla tracks driving style and gives you an insurance rate based on those driving habits.

My insurance rate is about $90, which is the lowest the rate goes, because the things it tracks (following distance, for one) corresponds to a lower liability risk for the insurance underwriter, which in this case, is tesla.

The monthly price is directly correlated to driving habits. You seem to be getting confused about "safety score".

I'm genuinely confused as to what about this doesn't make sense to you.

Tesla is the underwriter. They give a monthly premium based on driving habits.
I do think it brings shame on the whole field. It's not right, but it seems to be the case.
How I use Notion to manage everything
Win-Win
Thank you for somehow being the only person in this complaint thread to grasp that, lol
Most Americans see lobbyists as dishonest or unethical [0]. With that in mind, I think most Americans would not want to buy a legislator. After all, at some level, the legislator is supposed to represent them anyway...

Even if Americans did, since there's a fixed supply of representatives, as demand goes up, so will the price :)

0 - https://news.gallup.com/poll/103123/lobbyists-debut-bottom-h...
As a ham who has been soldering for over half a century I was initially not certain that it was that big a stumbling block.

But upon reflection I realize for someone new it's an unnecessary stumbling block. I hate software frameworks where there is an excessive amount of setup code and greatly prefer convention over configuration.

So by going solderless he's essentially doing the same thing. It's a win if it helps a new generation get start building stuff at an early age.
Mutual TLS
A few years ago I was earning less than $500 a month (based on exchange rates), had an Apple computer (years behind the latest) and had time to develop. I've left the country now.

If I remember correctly, I discovered this timeout existed when I tried to show someone a mobile game I had built with Unity3d.

Privilege is blinding.
The AI Mirror Test, which smart people keep failing
Yes, nothing convinces people like an angry YouTube rant about how "kids these days" don't appreciate the bad old days of the internet.
Pgen(1) – Passphrase Generator, version 1.1.4 released
No, its literally just a scheduled OTA software update for anyone who has it installed.
The article was skimpy on the details. Can someone explain how this part works?

> The new gene therapy [...] works by inserting into the body working copies of the genes that are faulty in MLD, thus restoring the ability to break down sulfatides.

How does the new copy of the gene get into every existing cell that needs it? A virus?
The project is to test the feasibility of using seaweed to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. If we use the seaweed to, for example, create biodegradable plastic, then over time that plastic may release the captured carbon back into the atmosphere. But if the time is, let’s say, 10 years, that’s 10 years carbon is locked out of the atmosphere. Additionally, the plastics created this way may be replacing plastic that has a net contribution of carbon to the atmosphere in its production. And on the scale humanity uses plastics, adjusting our behaviour this way, could mean a significant amount of carbon being locked out of the atmosphere continuously as more of this seaweed plastic is used.
DCSS would more be in your alley, since the devs actively try to simplify mechanics (perhaps too much IMHO).
What product or service does HR block sell that overlaps with Intuit? I cannot think of one. Intuit sells software, HR Block sells cheap (and probably bad) tax advice.

Intuit has a market cap of $114B and HRBlock has a market cap of $6B.
Already done in Israel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_99
If one guy leaving costs your company millions of dollars, you were screwed to begin with. What if he quit, or even just got sick for a few weeks?
I am seeing a renaissance in Apple varieties. Coffea is not a monoculture. Will other fruits and vegetables follow?
“Time to iterate” is measuring how quickly you can get an idea, build it in code, deploy it to your customer, and get feedback.

If Rust is helping you make prototypes and iterate quickly, I’d love to hear how you’re using the language.
Depends on the price point.

And it doesn't really matter what any one person would or wouldn't want to live like. I wouldn't want to live in a 200sqft apartment in NYC, but apparently a lot of people are willing to pay a lot of money to do so.
Hey HN Community! Currently, my team is working on our product and trying to gain some developer insights around their pull request tools.
I guess you're being sarcastic, but postponing the worst effects of climate change from "now" to "millions of years from now" would be an enormous win.
The buffers are supplied elsewhere outside that example, just consider it an array of pointers to buffers of size BUF_SIZE. br->bufs[] is the shared space, it holds information on the address/size/id of a given buffer.
This year I tried Free File Forms and run into issues ... then tried TaxAct for $35 and run into issues ... then TurboTax for $139 did the job. There were issues but a live agent helped with that. At least I can tell that I didn't resign to evil Intuit without some struggle.
Man, you haven't talked to enough people then. Come up with the most absurd opinion you can about any political topic and you will find a small but aggressive group online that is convinced it is the only rational option.

Plenty of conservatives genuinely believe, for whatever reason, that it's impossible for "Government" to do something well. They then elect people who promise to make that reality and then point to the obvious, purposeful struggles of our government as their reasoning.
You could get a few people who are immune to power seeking and thus would never end up holding office otherwise.
> typescript's gradual typing is much nicer than python's,

It is not Node V. Python, but Node V Java

Python is a terrible choice as a backend, too.

It has a place as a scripting language, but so often it is used to build complete systems. They suck.
With all due respect, in a discussion about Seymour Hersh's credibility, his soundness of mind should be a valid criticism.
With Proxmox since it allows you to run a VM you can run any OS with say a recent Docker version. On that OS, you can run a web GUI for Docker, using Docker. For example, Portainer. Nginx reverse proxy and done.

Although personally, I prefer Podman over Docker.
This is correct, the "u" is for userspace/usermapped. The memory is actually allocate by the kernel, but it's mapped into the applications address space.
> when you have a multi billion dollar core business asset (search), you have no urgency to create another

Tell that to Apple.
Growing seaweed is significantly more expensive than growing cattle feed (i.e. corn), and corn farming is heavily subsidized by the US taxpayers. Corn fields also have the advantage that they can be very close to the fields where cattle are, so you don’t need to transport the feed as far as you would from the ocean (which would itself emit CO2).

The methane reduction benefits also happen when only a small portion of the feed is replaced with seaweed, so it’s not the whole diet that becomes seaweed.
Sweet home 3-D is free. Does everything that you’re paying for and will still be around in 10 years.
>>increasingly, wasm

If you are referring to something similar to Blazor (client side), yeah no imo it's pretty awful for anything other than internal enterprise apps. I couldn't imagine running a public facing product on that.
Zerotrust is cancer.

I dismissed it a few years ago as a harmless hype but I am now seeing real harm being caused by this hype.

To avoid writing an essay here let me keep it short and explain why: I am seeing orgs spending valuable time, money and resources on box checking and implementing false security all over. It is being used in place of improving security posture that is aware of threat context facing the organization. It has scope-creeped beyond the original intended purpose of ensuring all actions are explicitly authorized and eliminating implicit trust to mean a buch of ridiculous goals and hype words no one can explain consistently.

I caution everyone to avoid using the term but to still implement the original beyondcorp architecture.

Another cancer that is begining to spread:"passwordless".
Really? I guess if your typical programming languages are C and C++.

Otherwise Rust just has semantics that allow more control over memory, as is often needed in lower level programs, while preventing pointer aliasing. The majority of languages in existence are memory safe--some even more so than Rust. They're just not as flexible.
What even is "navigation"
"We have evidence, and law enforcement has confirmed, that this incident was carried out by a sophisticated and organized group"

I like how they try to hide their incompetence with bullshit
evaporation could be relevant for small blackholes, eg the tiniest ones quickly disappear
You can: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript
I am reminded of the instruments in Dead Ringers.
Just too bad react native support is lacking many features. We Probably will have to switch because of this.
The problem is it isn't just a money thing. A lot of lobbying is about connections, "friends", long time working relationships etc. A random person walking up to an opponent politician with a large check wont get anywhere, no matter how corrupt that politician is. Political funding is absurd in this country, and politicians spend most of their time raising money for the next campaign, meaning a one time check isn't terribly useful to them compared to a long time, implied continued working relationship.
FreeBSD docs are my go-to example
https://archive.md/owhPe
Shouldn't this be "The Last of Us has echoes of the arms race between ants and fungi"?
And even if the government "filed" your taxes for you, I'd imagine people could always file their own returns if they wanted to.
I have a soft spot for plushies, and these are all so adorable! Loved before and definitely lovable again.
I get the snark, but I’ll say that my kids really loved their little pals, but they are hard toys to donate.

My son did a service project with some and it was really rewarding. But the hardest part was finding an org willing to accept them.
A great deal of information about computer systems and such from even fairly important computer companies more than 20 years old is pretty much lost forever. I was actually trying to reconstruct some details about one of the minicomputer companies that was purchased in 1999. There's very little left online outside of a Wikipedia article and information about individual systems pretty much doesn't exist any longer.

Does that really matter? Dunno.
> How do you apply 80/20 principle in financial/time/etc investments?

I apply the Pareto Principle mostly for time. Small actions taken over a long time are likely to compound. I have never seen this not happen. For investments, I learn from failure and begin again, only more intelligently. The harder you work in this area, the luckier you get.
Thank you for highlighting that, part of the design criteria for io_uring was indeed to be able to do everything. It's even mentioned in the second sentence of the linked write-up, no more "everything is a file... until you need to do IO to it".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atidarsagene_autotemcel

> The National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE) in Ireland recommends "that atidarsagene autotemcel not be considered for reimbursement unless cost effectiveness can be improved relative to existing treatment."

Wow… instead of a lifesaving cure they recommend the treatment of the symptoms until the kid dies because it’s cheaper.
I used Sweet Home 3D to design my current house. I passed the desgin off to my contractor, who had it turned into blueprints. That was over 10 years ago, so I'm sure it has impoved.

It's free and open source, yet it's relatively user friendly. When I need to design another building, I definitely will use it again.
This has been a source of frustration for me too, as I've occasionally tried out these kinds of packages. Particularly having used model-oriented dimensionless CAD tools like Solidworks, it feels like stepping back in time four decades to suddenly have to manually dimension and align everything upfront.
Bae System's robotic boat gets world-first Lloyd's certificate
Reminds me a lot of how the common lisp object system evolved (or even C++). You start with an extension to the language, then it gets formalised, then it becomes something new(ish). Bit like evolution continuing to come up with the same answers in different evolutionary trees.

Bit of a shame that the javascript guys didn't look at CLOS it might have been quite easy to port across. They do seem to share some implementation details (like the way which function is the right one to run).
Play the game Taboo against AI
This was really insightful, thank you
As a young parent (of 2 year old who loves soft toys), these used toys here are quite expensive IMHO. Not that I always buy new toys because my kid is "the special one". In fact, we found a very good condition large tractor at charity shop at 50p.
"That Amazon doesn't trust its managers to make these decisions"

Leaving it up to managers is wrong. The employment agreement is with Amazon, and they need to make sure that material parts of it are administered fairly.

Not that there's no room for subdivisions or whatever to make some policy here, but Amazon really does need to weigh in on the topic.
Stanford’s Robotics Legacy (2019)
If you're counting that, the efficiencies of using all the electricity to communicate and heat/cool your home because you're in it also matter
Why? How does it harm you? Have you ever attended a wedding where children weren't allowed? Do you disagree with that practice?

If you think it's absurd, don't go to that restaurant. Go to any of the other hundreds or thousands of restaurants within driving distance.

This article even acknowledges that kids are never harmless to the enjoyment of other diners.

Some people (and I'm not even including myself here) want to eat around only quiet adults, and it's their right to seek that out and it's a restaurant's right to provide it. It's reasonable for a restaurant to want to occupy a niche.
> > then we'd have the best of Brave and Firefox

> I don't think so. Mozilla is tied to its agreement with Google and I believe they are limited in what they can do privacy wise. Unfortunately.

> The Brave browser is mostly a fancy Chromium and you can achieve similar results by taking an ungoogled chromium and adding uBlock Origin to it. But you are better off installing uBlock Origin on Firefox [1]

And LibreWolf is pretty much Firefox with uBlock origin. But Brave is popular and Vivaldi is popular (among some). A successful mega project is supposed to have (gently) knockoffs.
It's time for a no-return flat tax. If Russia and Estonia can do it, we (USA) can too.
I’ll see how well it handles my 1930s timber cottage that is well out of square!
"Donation" when half of the profit stays as private profits. This would be illegal in the U.S and immoral everywhere else

Plenty of real not-for-profits sell stuffed animals for $1, no need for this rubbish
Right. Because RSS isn't a standard and there aren't any other readers of RSS today.
Andy Jassey Calls for Amazon to Return to Office
have you been using it for decades? or do you just read the headlines to form an opinion?

there are a ton of hard working people at GD that care a lot about the products we make. I don't think that's a fair assessment.
I work on an app called Polycam, and we have an automated Room / floorplan capture mode. We actually announced some updates to it earlier this week:

https://twitter.com/Polycam3D/status/1623730477637959680
Cars are chains that bind us, nothing more. The "freedom" to pay for insurance, gasoline, tires, batteries, and whatever else happens to go wrong. Cities with a proper public transit story also tend to have better driving experiences too
Replace them frequently and have them assemble in a place without outside influence for the duration of decision making, essentially like a jury.

I mean if you really wanted to get futuristic about it you could even have a sort of crypto sortition where everyone is completely anonymous and representatives don't even know each others identity.
According to Pew Research, amongst the 13-17 year old set, YouTube is king, followed by Tiktok

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social...
while I doubt these can be effectively cleaned, I may believe that a random teddy bear on the sidewalk has the equivalent microflora of any toy that's been handled by any child for more than 12 hours

soft things generally are an interesting recycling problem (couches, mattresses). I'd happily buy a couch frame used, or use the one from previous tenants at a place. More concerned about mattresses and cushions
What is the easiest way to implement the original beyondcorp architecture without spending multiple months building a solution in house?
Paywalled, but

> It is economically rational for ambitious women to try as hard as possible to be thin

It is economically rational for all ambitious people to try as hard as possible to fit into the accepted standard of attractiveness, including weight. This is just a special case.

Another point, I don't think most people find hyper-thinness attractive. In fact being underweight is far worse for your health (HR=~1.6) than overweight is (HR=~1.05). I hope notions of attractiveness in Western societies can normalize on just being healthy.