skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ignoring the problem of robots.txt inaccessibility, is it feasible to have Kagi-style "private google" with a more limited number of high-signal-to-noise sites, especially if you drop the concept of e-commerce and some other low-SNR feeds?

perhaps one interesting thing is that a decent number of the highest-SNR feeds don't actually need to be crawled at all - wikipedia, reddit, etc are available as dumps and you can ingest their content directly. And the sources in which I am most interested in for my hobbies (technical data around cameras, computer parts, aircraft, etc) tend to be mostly static web-1.0 sites that basically never change. There's some stuff that falls inbetween, like I'm not sure if random other wikis necessarily have takeout dumps, but again, fandom-wiki and a couple other mega-wikis probably contain a majority of the interesting content, or at least a large enough amount of content you could get meaningful results.

Another interesting one would be if you could get the Internet Archive to give you "slices" of sites in a google takeout-style format. Like they already have scraped a great deal of content, so, if I want site X and the most recent non-404 versions of all pages in a given domain, it would be fantastic if they could just build that as a zip and dump it over in bulk. In fact a lot of the best technical content is no longer available on the live web unfortunately...

(did fh-reddit ever update again? or is there a way to get pushift to give you a bulk dump of everything? they stopped back in like 2019 and I'm not sure if they ever got back into it, it wasn't on bigquery last time I checked. Kind of a bummer too.)

I say exclude e-commerce because there's not a lot of informational value in knowing the 27 sites selling a video card (especially as a few megaretailers crush all the competition anyway), but there is lots of informational value in say having a copy of the sites of asus, asrock, gigabyte, MSI, etc for searching (probably don't want full binaries cached though).

But basically I think there's probably like, sub-100 TB of content that would even be useful to me if stored in some kind of relatively dense representation (reddit post/comment dumps, not pages, same for other forum content, etc, stored on a gzip level5 filesystem or something). That's easily within reach of a small server, not sure if pagerank would work as well without all the "noise" linking into it and telling you where the signal is, but I think that's well within typical r/datahoarder level builds. And you could dynamically augment that from live internet and internet archive as needed - just treat it as an ever-growing cache and index your hoard.
You could use Nvidia Image Scaling on mpv, which I mentioned in my other comment with more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35051351. I find it better and sharper than Edge's currently.
I haven't worked in a kitchen in thirty years, and I can still recall the feel of my skin after even a half shift of working next to one of those dish cleaners. As envious as I am of their speed, I'm absolutely sure I don't want to reproduce that sensation at home.
> They should lay off 100% and go out of business.

Suggesting that 9000 people lose their jobs feels like a needlessly hateful way to express a dissatisfaction with a company's products.
How long until we have a Bevy Editor? How (specifically for an Editor) can we help?

I'm curious how the dynamic nature of an Editor will interact with rust.
And don't forget that Meta just did a massive stock buyback, so this isn't just about investors out there in the world, this is about Meta itself.

I've started to pay a bit more attention and noticed that there do seem to be a fair number of major investors buying up more shares of a down company before layoffs are announced.

I like to imagine that what we're seeing is a healthy correction and move towards more profitable, sanely run companies. But I can never recall a time in recent years where Wall Street acted in a way I would call "refreshingly sane".
The Pharaoh/Caesar games also had an interesting take on the city builder but it’s a bit orthogonal.
People treat work like a social club.
Most companies overhired and would have been punished if they didn't. Now they will be punished if they don't shrink. Public companies have to follow the market or their shareholders will slap them down. The real villain is the Federal Reserve, because their policies created a bubble.

We should also keep in mind that quite a lot of the people who are being laid off never would have had jobs if it wasn't for the massive hiring spree in the past few years.

The industry is not unraveling. It's just reeling from an economic bubble. Despite the layoffs few companies are shrinking back down to the size they were in 2020.
You can review all of your Alexa sessions (with recordings!) in the Alexa app[0].

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=....
Sure, but I was responding to the commenter saying you really should pre-wash at home too.
The advantage is reusing existing themes. TextMate themes as a standard are the de facto not-great-but-used-everywhere thing and in this case it means you can style your blog or whatever with what you use in VSCode or Sublime or whatever.
Yeah for an oven I want on/off and temperature setting. I can time what I’m cooking separately. For a dishwasher I want one button: start. So many things are overengineered with useless or even annoying features.
A site called 'Salaam' and a forum post. Truly sources you can depend on for reliable, objective etymology.
It feels like you made a very intentional and questionable choice to rewrite the common FAANG acronym in that manner.
its been years since I played but one of my favorite mods for skylines is "traffic manager: president edition" which let you do fine grained control for lanes and various traffic situations. I know its more 'fiddling' with traffic but it let me solve bottlenecks and issues that just wasn't possible in the base game.
You could move to a country were bread has no additives or preservatives.
Haha, jokes aside, I wonder how this would actually work.
99.9% of users don't care about any of that. Users want embedded media, custom emotes, free fully featured clients on every device they use (any client that needs a bouncer doesn't count), integration with desktop software such as games, video streaming / screen sharing, and voice calls.

Notice that every single chat software used by normal humans (iMessage, Google chat, FB messenger, etc) has most of these features, just with much lower bitrates than Discord.

For the very few users that don't need any feature they didn't have in the 90s, IRC is still around. The rest of us just add one of many text logging bots to our discord servers.
ViewComponent is years old, in large production deployments, and very stable.
Reminds me of Quartz Composer back in the day!
> Can't really be objective on if it has really made a difference in my memory since that's not the reason I primarily bought it

Wouldn't that actually be more objective since you'd be avoiding any kind of placebo effect as you weren't expecting any effects on memory?
I live in the Seattle area, please direct me to where I can find child care for 2k a month without a 1 year+ waiting list... please?!?
yeah, but they were never cool with you being cool with just that. It was created out of fomo in a grandiose attempt to like unseat the iPhone or something ("the platform"), now that it's just a music clock, they really have no idea how to recoup all that money and what to do next.
I don't put dishes in the dishwasher until I need them now. Yeah I know I'm filthy but just incredibly busy where I don't have time for basic things.

Not everyone eats and then instantly washes up
Sadly I think you are likely correct.
It takes another thirty minutes to do the dishes and clean the kitchen.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-p...

Geoff Manaugh: While you were making those measurements of different real-world cities, did you discover any surprising patterns or spatial relationships?

Librande: Yes, definitely. I think the biggest one was the parking lots. When I started measuring out our local grocery store, which I don't think of as being that big, I was blown away by how much more space was parking lot rather than actual store. That was kind of a problem, because we were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.

Manaugh: You would be making SimParkingLot, rather than SimCity.

Librande: [laughs] Exactly. So what we do in the game is that we just imagine they are underground. We do have parking lots in the game, and we do try to scale them -- so, if you have a little grocery store, we'll put six or seven parking spots on the side, and, if you have a big convention center or a big pro stadium, they'll have what seem like really big lots -- but they're nowhere near what a real grocery store or pro stadium would have. We had to do the best we could do and still make the game look attractive.
Once upon a time I earned some major brownie points with a husband and wife by disassembling their child's electronic toy, inserting a piece of kleenex between the speaker and the grill, and reassembling it, now 30dB quieter.

Initially they suggested I just cut the wire but I figured I could do something a little easier to reverse.
Sounds like a band-aid on a gaping wound.
> An internal combustion engine (ICE) replacement cost is ~$7000. It is much more complex than an electric motor. In addition, ICE cars have very complex transmissions (replacement cost ~$5000). You also have exhaust and emission control systems, which EVs do not have, radiator/cooling systems, etc., etc., etc.

My last ICE car I bought new had a 10 year/100k mile powertrain and emissions warranty; I haven't had to replace the engine or transmission yet (which would be much more expensive than the article's quoted price). My recently purchased English-made "beater" SUV is 22 years old, and has 155k miles on it. I had to swap the radiator, drag link, and brake booster reservoir: my out of pocket was $1500. Obviously my points are anecdata, but leading with their examples feels like a massive EV cope. Outside of non-911 performance cars (I'm looking at you recent BMWs, Mercedes, Volvo cars and Porsche SUVs) ICEs have become insanely reliable: the engine isn't the weak link. Whether you're buying an ICE or EV, you still have to pay for: suspension, brakes, tires, windshield wipers, and "life support" parts.

EVs owner should lead with the fact they get to push emissions output to the electric grid (which hopefully will become better because we can focus on centralized improvements) and they should continue looking improve the reality that battery production has a huge environmental and human cost (but could be made to get better).
I did some looking around. I have no familiarity with this mushroom nor its medicinal uses. Some thoughts:

This mushroom has like 77 known compounds and this study looked at two of them (together, not individually). Western medicine often seeks to isolate "active ingredients" in order to be able to create monetizable drug products.

This may not be such a hot idea. My recollection is that malaria is increasingly resistant to synthetic quinine derivatives but is not developing resistance to actual quinine, an extract from the bark of a tree.

It may be more powerful but overly simplified. It's also problematic to study both compounds together if there are no prior studies on each individually. How do you know which does what?
If you have histamine intolerance be aware that Lion's Mane may trigger a histamine response. Happened to my partner, which was frustrating since it provided cognitive benefits for her.
The only reason why none of these sound particularly desirable is the overall politics of their respective states. Otherwise, I wouldn't have a problem living in any of them now that remote work is reasonably well established. It wasn't back when I bought a house here - then it was all about the jobs.

I also have to note that "dog shit weather" is literally one of the things that define the Seattle experience. I don't actually mind personally, but a lot of people do.
They will just slowly lay off the metaverse teams and then we won't hear about it as much and then never again.
This libertarian leaning publication fails to emphasize the reason behind the tracking, fisheries management, since that might shine enough light on the situation that some of their more 'reason'able readers may end up understanding and offering some support to this data collection.

The federal agencies involved have, as part of their responsibility, the task of managing the health of our nation's fisheries which, believe it or not, requires them to have the data about where the fish are being harvested in order to understand how healthy the population of sport and food species actually are in our federal waters.

Maybe it would make more sense to subsidize the equipment that would be necessary to gather the data.

We subsidize some land crops, charter boats could become like marine combines.

The devices could be tracked without needing to know who owns the boat since the important information is the location where all the fish hang out and how many there are. Catch size and species distribution is already a reportable metric I believe.

Any fisherman worth his salt probably wants to be able to live the fishing lifestyle forever. If their activities contribute to the collapse of local fisheries because they were reluctant to accurately report which species are in their area of operations, how often they are taken, where they are taken, etc then they have no one to blame but themselves when their livelihoods are destroyed.

No one cares who takes the fish. They want to know which fish was taken, where it was taken, how many were taken there, how large they are, etc. This allows people to understand how best to manage fisheries.

These are public waters and they are taking a public resource. They have no privacy expectations and shouldn't get a pass with a bullshit excuse about their secret fishing spots being leaked to the competition since that will happen anyway as their hired help jumps from boat to boat trying to make a decent living on what looks on paper to be shit wages for the work they perform.

It's good to ponder how something like this can become a slippery slope but you have to avoid sliding down the existing slippery slope that where we don't have actionable information to use to prevent problems (in the fisheries) before they occur.

The entire article was about using location and other information gleaned from those who are regularly in the best position to know and who have a vested interest in the information being accurate to enable them to continue in their chosen profession. The publisher made a conscious editorial decision to tilt the tone of the article towards this being a huge invasion of privacy rights for people who by the nature of their profession should not be not entitled to those protections during the conduct of their operations since their activities occur entirely in public.
More Republican states announce they're leaving a key voting data partnership
Forums have the same problem of locking up knowledge, and they also keep out anyone who doesn’t want to constantly visit a web site.

Mailing lists and newsgroups are the proper mechanisms for this. And you should be able to use them with a browser forum-style too.
when we see how many bad pictures and videos each of us can take just to get one good one, and the crazy expressions on our faces, I'm highly skeptical of "evidence" photos. And slow motion might be handy for seeing particular details like "knee touches ground, ball out of bounds", but otherwise slow motion is highly misleading, making fleeting facial expressions look intentional, etc. If slow motion is used for evidence, it should always be followed by several viewings at normal speed to unconvince you of false impressions.
But you can, outside of certain mental disorders, choose what you pay attention to. Presented with distressing news which you care about but can’t realistically change, you can choose to read more about it, or you can choose to occupy yourself in other ways to take your mind off of it.
No, I think it's just necessary. Most couples want kids. That means the man needs to be able to support her lifestyle in the 9 months where she shouldn't work.
> Discord is filled with people under the mistaken impression they have documented anything by having a chat with a search feature... when the "rules" are in fact buried, no longer accessible, or just hidden in a wall of conflicting information.

Part of this is a result of some communities not being organized well enough but also making do with fitting an IRC-like format ('servers'/channels/message buffers) into a more structured one. People are willing to compromise on having less suitable structure for denser/more important information since Discord offers such attractive and easy-to-use features in one place.

That said most communities I know of create channels devoted to rules/FAQs, though for things like lists of file announcements/releases (in eg: modding communities) it's messier.

The new forums channel feature has helped by making things sortable and more structured but those only apply to new channels not existing. The forums feature also highlights Discord has recognized how communities have been using their site like a forum for certain channels such as Q&A/releases/showcases (and why comparing it to publicly indexable forums is even more relevant since the feature set will only grow).
Nah Dokku really is mostly a labor of love. Originally I started working on it to provide a Heroku alternative for a group of students that couldn't afford what they needed to on Heroku (this was like... in 2014) and I've since been using it to run all my own stuff and the occasional client install when I do freelance.
I'm not sure anyone truly is attempting that kind of tech. Making a private communication platform that people would actually use goes against the hacker mindset. People who care about privacy like simplicity.

Every Instagram filter is a GPU accelerated vulnerability to them, to the rest of us, it's a feature.

The ability to use selectable centralized relays for better performance like BitTorrent, so it doesn't eat 100GB a month of DHT traffic is absolutely critical to me, but needless complexity to someone who's priority is elegance.

Being free as in beer is critical. Sure, I'll donate to wikipedia when I can, but I'm not paying $8 a month for privacy unless I get a way higher paying job, and that job happens to involve privacy concerns.

That generally means ads. Open source can do ads, but open devs don't like them.

Self hosting is completely out unless it's P2P running in the background on phones when charging or some equally zero effort platform. I'm not doing unpaid sysadmin work at home and non-technical people certainly aren't.

It has to work well on hardware, that has to be cheap. Generally that's only possible because it's spying supported, although stuff is getting easier to make as tech improves. With Google keep I can tell my watch to add something to my shopping list. With YoLink my backyard motion sensor batteries last years. With Tile I can find my stuff if I drop my wallet in the street.

It has to work in all conditions. As in, if my phone is stolen on vacation I need to be able to replace it and get everything I need working. It can't involve heavy custom setup of any kind, it needs to be so incredibly boring you could trust your life to being able to set it up quickly, which you basically are if a cell phone is your only emergency communication.

There can't be any unreversible transactions for fraudsters to use, password reset has to work, there can't be anything that would make someone fire me for choosing it over a commercial provider if it decides to break.
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Finally, I'm not going to literally argue with anyone to get them to switch. At most I'll be like hey check this cool thing out. And if the thing isn't cool enough that they want it, I'll give up and go back to Facebook, because a platform is useless if nobody I want to talk to is on it.

I have absolutely no idea where to even start building a replacement for anything I use. Nobody seems to even be trying to make a full ecosystem, aside from badly performing Blockchain projects, that rivals the scope of Google and Facebook, and many privacy first devs don't even want such things to exist, they want separate small parts only connected manually or by custom end user scripts.

I'd love it if there was an open replacement for some this stuff. But I'm not sure how you'd attract interest or fund building it.
Verizon wants $500 to enable IPv6 on an LTE SIM.
https://lonestarmushrooms.com/pages/lions-mane-nutritional-c...

It's high in some of the B vitamins, which are important to brain function. She may just have a vitamin deficiency.
I wonder if it is as easy as not hiring someone from other organization to prevent mental disease in your own.

What is the cause of the unhealthy behavior in the first place?
As opposed to social contagion, what is the origin?
New Japanese Rocket Is Destroyed During First Test Flight to Space
> Most of those

Where do you live, and how old are your oldest electronics?
We used to use Alexa on our Sonos devices, and immediately moved to the Sonos voice command tool when it was released.

I still find it wild that, in my experience at least, even the very first public release was just so much better than Amazon’s solution despite a staggering resource gap between the companies.
Stable Diffusion and the brain: how AI can read our minds
> Most companies overhired

how is it possible for most companies to overhire? where did all those hires come from? maybe facebook doubled by poaching non-faang people, but where did the non-faang companies get all these extra hires from?

> a lot of the people who are being laid off never would have had jobs

since tech layoffs mostly affect eng, pm's, hr and a bit of management, it seems strange that these mostly well-trained people were just idling around without a job until a couple of years ago by tens of thousands.
Did you mean to post this in response to this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041549
It will be a blood bath.

Postman "Labs", a company that produces a glorified cURL UI and some incoherent most likely useless tools around it received $433M investment at valuation of $2B and apparently has hundreds of employees. Current state of tech is not sustainable.
Oh, this is really cool. Thanks!
That’s because forums are themselves an abomination, just create a newsgroup in the `alt.*` hierarchy or set up a mailing list and be done. Just because you insist on using a web browser to access it doesn’t mean everyone should have to. You can use a web-based client and others can use native clients and nobody is locked out.
Covid pill is first to cut short positive-test time after infection
Maybe they should work someplace better. It's like people saying the American automakers should have been bailed out just to save all the jobs: if those companies had been left to die, other automakers would have taken over their marketshare and expanded operations, hiring the unemployed workers and probably buying up a lot of factories, support companies, etc.

Keeping a shitty company alive with bad management in place just for the workers isn't good for the market in general.

Disclaimer: I'm just arguing the general principle here. I don't have any strong opinions on Atlassian.
Obvious answer - unemployed.
This is egregious imo. Amazon needs to be broken up
Minecraft is a bad example here as it supports advertising the port in DNS.