skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Is Bloomberg actually a credible business publication?

Barring a serious housing surplus, or similar major economic problems, there are ~no upsides for political leaders who actually work to attract more residents to an area. (Attracting more & higher bidders, for the limited housing stock, is a different story.)

Vs. "attracting new business"? That attracts plenty of favorable press, bragging rights, etc. And for local governments - which live on property taxes and have to fund the schools & local services - every dollar worth of business properties is a money farm, and every dollar worth of residential housing is a money pit.
Looks like a duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34881286
Me: Deletes instagram.

Instagram: Your account will be deleted in 30 days.

Me: ...

Me: Login on day 29

Instagram: Welcome back.
Yes, Feedly
It'd be neat if they had an optional "donate to archive" option which would let textfiles.com attempt to recover any non-personal software/resources from the past (as he wrote in 2011 it's nearly too late to recover anything from the heyday of floppies, but to send to him if possible - http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191)
Universities became giant piggy banks for hedge-fund billionaires
Well if you can achieve the features in the video I think that would be a pretty interesting product.
Behold! I've brought you a man
As an outsider, why wouldn't anyone just migrate this to Slack/Discord/etc?
It can be useful for job seeking and maintaining contact with professional connections, but reading the feed full of self congratulatory and/or virtue signaling posts is a complete waste of time.
Yep. Tried that long before we bought the printer; won't work here. And yes, it's the latter - no holes.

I settled on trying one of these things or similar:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014SK2H6W
Been a long slow decline, it’s frustrating to watch it degrade. Imagine being an engineer assigned to this unloved thing; or worse, a product manager. Career death.

https://groups.io is a good replacement for email lists. It’s mostly a for-pay product.

https://www.usenetarchives.com/ is a good search engine for pre-2000 Usenet. Like Google’s old Deja archive which has been nearly unusable via Google Groups for years now.
You are saying that your anxiety was not casued my NMDA receptor changes, but it was. Traumatic events change the function and density of these receptors.

https://www.nature.com/articles/1301605

NMDA receptors allow calcium into the neurons. The more calcium in a neuron the more excitable it is, like in hyper-arousal.

By taking the memantine you allowed you possible grow more healthy neural pathways, away from the hypervigilance and towards calmness. I am assuning you have been in therapy?
You might also be interested in checking out Vue 3 (with the Composition API) and Pinia, it's a pretty nice setup that feels similarly nice to how working with MobX is and even supports TypeScript.

Composition API: https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/composition-api-faq.html

Pinia (state management store): https://pinia.vuejs.org/

TypeScript support: https://vuejs.org/guide/typescript/composition-api.html

While I mostly stuck with JavaScript, personally I found the setup more convenient to use than working with hooks in React, and Pinia is also more like MobX than something like Redux, in that you don't have to work with too much accidental complexity for relatively simple setups. Sadly I don't have examples from that project, because it was proprietary, but the linked docs are nice.
NEW-roe-manse-er.

It's a pun on "neuro-" as in neurological, meaning of the nervous system and brain, and "necromancer", as in a black magician, one who summons the dead.
I set a 15 minute daily limit on Instagram. I also have my phone setup to block all non-essential apps between 7:00AM and 6:00PM on the weekdays, and I am not usually hitting my 15 Insta-minutes on those days.

I could probably reduce that to 10 and still catch up on anything from friends and family. But the extra 5 minutes is just enough time to enjoy some interesting content from the hobby-influencers I follow, yet not enough time to get sucked into the click-bait stuff.

Before setting limits I was probably at 30-60 Insta-minutes per day. Now I spend that extra time commenting on HN, which I would like to think is a more productive endeavor.
AFAIK they don't use pressure vessels for pressures this high; they use diamond anvils.
One I wrote myself. I think all the feed readers that look like mail readers or news readers or that show you N boxes with feeds from N blogs are the reason why "nobody uses RSS" and it's telling that people are still making failing RSS readers with the same failing interfaces obsessed with making you ignore items you already saw that failed 20 years ago.

This one is different.

It gathers content through Superfeedr, stores the content in an ArangoDB database, processes it with scikit-learn, huggingface transformers and all that. The user interface is written in Python w/ aiohttp and is all SSRed. It runs as fast as a desktop application, is accessible on my tablet from anywhere through Tailscale, and doesn't have any loading spinners because it is too fast for that.

The primary interface looks like TikTok for text (it shows me one thing at a time that I classify) but there are some other rudimentary screens for viewing lists of classified content. It scores 73% on a metric that TikTok gets 80% on with a very simple model so I feel like I am not doing so bad.

On a good day it ingests 1200 articles, proposes to show me 300, maybe I really see 200.

If there was one glaring deficiency it's that Superfeedr is only cost effective for high volume feeds (say arXiv CS papers or The Guardian newspaper), I couldn't afford to subscribe to 2000 blogs that publish once a week.

There are many directions to improve it but the most interesting ones are to move away from the "non-social social media" use case and towards ones that support "filter 5000 abstracts from PubMed", "filter through a huge number of profiles looking for sales prospects/possible employees/etc."
Hi. I’m still in the process of getting to the bottom of things. My chest pains have mostly gone away but I have other issues that I recently decided I need to get checked out properly so I’m going for a couple of MRI later this month to check my brain, nervous system etc to rule out things like MS. Feel free to email me if you want to chat a bit more. My username at gmail.com will get through to my personal email
There’s some massive variance in 4-over-1 and 5-over-1, with newer units very much built to a price.

I lived in one in Boston that was 4 total floors, actually all steel framed (so not really a 3-over-1), polished concrete floors in every unit, and built to the tune of $55M for ~150 units. Was intended to be condos, bottom fell out in 2007/2008, so it was rezoned to apartments. Dead silent in the over 8 years I was there. I must’nt of been the only one that thought it was good — there was a notable rapper as my next door neighbor, and a Stanley Cup winner in another hallway on my floor. I moved in when the market bottomed out, and paid like $1700/mo for years (moved out when it went up to $2450). I think it’d be ~$4000/mo now.

The newer ones though? I’ve heard of sub-$20M costs for similar number of units. They leak not because of the sprinklers, but because the general waterproofing and roofing is beyond awful, and just cost-cutting everywhere. I talked to some maintenance folks that had been to several new ones owned by the same company as the $55M one: “They don’t build them like that anymore. If they did, we wouldn’t be dealing with constant problems.”. Talk up your maintenance folk — they’ll be more than happy to vent about your building’s issues.

So the issue is building things to a price, knowing some people will pay because the vacancy rate is one of the tightest in the country.
Could a kind user please have a second look at the comment I posted earlier in this thread and which has been flagged to death? That was meant as a riddle.

Are riddles not OK for HN? Or should I have made it more clear that it is a riddle?
I never understood how Discord can be seen as a replacement for mailing lists. To me it is the absolute chaos from a usability viewpoint and possibly a good place to chat about things which are not to be seen as persistent.

To me the main alternative would be a Discourse-based platform, which can be seen as an evolution to the traditional PHP-based bulletin boards.

I really hope that Google Groups doesn't shut down, but at this point I'm close to believing that Google care to disappoint. Then again, aren't a lot of Android development discussions taking place on Google Groups?
It can definitely reach conclusions that haven’t been reached before. Sure, it’s extrapolating from what it saw in its training data, but isn’t that what humans do most of the time? And just because a conclusion we reached isn’t a completely new class of answer doesn’t mean we would say “actually, you didn’t reach a conclusion, you just appeared to”
I use the desktop site for jobs; I wouldn't download the app if they paid me.
However, the paper does offer a compelling causal mechanism. Also, it appears they performed follow-up pilot studies on the effects of erythritol consumption—as opposed to its simple presence in the blood. The following quote from the article is repeated in the linked Science commentary:

"The present studies suggest that following ingestion of an artificially sweetened food harboring typical levels of erythritol as artificial sweetener, plasma levels of erythritol remain elevated for many days, well above the thresholds necessary to enhance stimulus-dependent platelet reactivity, even among healthy volunteers."

I agree with Derek Lowe. I'll be avoiding erythritol until subsequent studies prove that it's safe.
Hey ChatGpt, DDoS Iran for me.
You (essentially) need GPU but here you go:

https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice

For your requirements the medium.en model (max) should be satisfactory.
I don't know why you're acting like anyone actually uses SELinux the way you are describing it. It's notoriously a pain in the ass to configure any meaningful system-level protection from root accounts, to the degree that most deployments who bother at all only protect one or two directories. Even then SELinux is such a bolted-on mess that it's still subject to evil maid attacks and so forth.

And you're wrong about OpenBSD. I'm not going to get as angry about this as you appear to be, but I recommend you run "man 7 securelevel" on one of the OpenBSD systems you've been playing with for 20 years.
It's "Overhyped"
Very cool product and best of all you made it open source to remove the barrier of installing it in someone’s own environment.
I still use search but am concerned about the day when all results will just be SEO AI-generated garbage (for some searches that is already the case).

So I recently started https://cstdn.org/ and am sharing all good links I can find there. I created a Show HN but didn't make the front page, but anyone who wants to try it out is more than welcome to do so.
Nah, the sensor is gobsmackingly-good, even DXO think so: https://www.dxomark.com/pentax-645z-sensor-review/

I have a Q2 and the Pentax compares favourably, even if not all the lenses are as modern. The 645Z is a crazy bargain second-hand.
It's arbitrary save that a default value (i.e. "master") exists that is used if none is provided to 'git init' when the repo is first created. That default name is configurable, e.g. to 'trunk' if you like things confusing: `$ git config --global init.defaultBranch trunk`

The name 'origin' for the remote repository that you originally cloned from is likewise arbitrary. There is nothing magical about `git push origin master`. You could name your remote "my_github_account" and do `git push my_github_account trunk`.

This knowledge becomes essential if you're synch'ing with several remote repos. OTOH, knowing that these are arbitrary names and not part of the command make it more obvious that it's _possible_ to have multiple remotes in the first place.

But it comes at the cost of making life more difficult for authors of tutorials designed to get people to memorize difficult git commands without understand what they do.
> you should avoid using [[, preferring to use [

I tend to agree, and have taken this one step further, preferring the "test" command:

if test "$a" = "foo" ; then

I do this for a few reasons:

- "Subsetting" your language can be beneficial: https://wiki.c2.com/?LanguageSubset

- "test" reinforces the notion that this is just the name of a program, not a syntax construct, which encourages using other programs as predicates, e.g. 'if which -s foo'.

- "man test" doesn't force you to wade through a 5,000 line man page.

Recent example: https://leopard.sh/leopard.sh
So then work on making other countries as good as the US, not by cramming every person into the US.
I do seem to recall seeing a story about using computers to look at the space of all chemical formulas for conductors and filter/deprioritize the implausible ones. Basically AI driving task queues for humans, hoping to make the queue more effective.
Chat AI is going to make combatting spam 100X harder. Imho we're reaching the end of our ability to allow anonymous contribution to public fora in general.

Which is why I have a conspiracy theory about why conspiracy theorists are against "digital ID".
I would love to read books or post-mortems of running Erlang/Elixir at scale. Do you have any recommendations? Have you written any memoirs of your experience at Whatsapp anywhere?
I don't believe this for a second.
FWIW I recently wrote a Discourse plug-in proposal to help communities migrate their existing content from Google Groups to Discourse, while giving members who prefer email the ability to fully participate from their inbox without any major changes from the current Google Groups experience. I didn't get a ton of interest so I haven't moved forward in productizing this, but all of the email parsing code is already written (and in production), so I can still ship a plug-in if this is something that other folks actually care about:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposed-plugin-to-improve-repl...
Keyword stuffing never dies.
Drawn pictures, it's not illegal but it is a bit weird.
Web development is plain crazy and WordPress adapted itself to that?
totally agree. i feel the same way about blender and ardour, and i wonder if the ui layer is the biggest difference between open source and paid software of this type. ths reason being the ui is the first thing you notice so it probably influences sales the most
Huh? Gopher was dead before google existed.
Somehow Instagram is the only social media I can tolerate. Doesn't seem to have the hate and anger that I encounter constantly on Twitter and Reddit. Perhaps text format is not for me. I'm sure there is ugly stuff on Instagram but when it comes to images and video clips I naturally follow artists, musicians, and foodies rather than political or other incendiary content.
This always comes up in these threads and I always wonder if the commenters ever actually used Usenet.

DejaNews isn't and never was Usenet, it was an archive, and Google Groups was just another Usenet client. Google Groups embrace-extend-extinguished Usenet as much as Gmail embrace-extend-extinguished email, and it got some cachet from having historical posts.

You can still use Usenet as much as you could 20 years ago, and while it was nice a decade or two ago to be able to browse historical threads in google groups, now the Internet Archive has an excellent Usenet archive[1] so we don't have to trust a giant corporation with ADD to hold onto history for us.

[1] https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical
I don't understand how you could delete messages from the receiver. Not a lot of apps, including imessage, support that.
I actually tried to delete Facebook at one point, but so much interaction is only on FB I had to come back to it.
If this is the outcome, it would seem clear that we do not want the particular kind of policing which produces it.
Finally someone with experience with usenet speaks up. I was pretty sad when Google acquired dejanews.

I don't understand the author's concern but perhaps as a person who doesnt use Google Groups I don't understand the utility. If newsgroups were being used before whats stopping them from being used now? You can get a block account for $5 dollars with unlimited text access. The only thing different from long ago is that most ISPs don't provide free text newsgroup accounts anymore. As for the author mailing lists have always worked...

Seems much ado about nothing.

EDIT: Ah I now realize Google Groups was build ON TOP of usenet. I see part of the problem. Injecting that history back into the annals of the news servers is going to be a challenge.
I have read that site for two minutes and it's one of the most fascinating things I have ever read. I have never heard of this but it's definitely on my list for further exploration.
Yes, Google Groups is used for much more than emails. That's not the point of the article though.
T-Rex bite strength sounds like something Abe Simpson would say. 16% of diamond pressure is a lot.
Thames Water real time Storm Water Event Duration Monitoring River Discharge
I am the same. I adore the SF, but don't find the mainstream fiction very interesting.

I started with the Wasp Factory which I used as external reading for my English Literature 'A' level -- I still have my first-edition hardback -- and I moved on to Consider Phlebas and loved all of IMB's stuff. Most of IB's did not move me, although the Bridge and Transitions are interesting.
It is a general problem with regulations that they create bias for no-action. So in complex society with many regulations there is so much friction that vetocracy just wins.
I love open source but I think this analysis misses the real problem. In 2023, communities built purely on "mailing list" style tools are much less engaging and useful than communities that allow live discussions.

For example, the author refers to the SMT-LIB google group. There has only been one message posted there in the last month! That isn't a "google groups" problem, it's a "nobody wants to use a mailing list any more" problem.

I don't think using open source tools would have solved this issue. Mailman is open source and for a long time was the obvious open source alternative to Google Groups but hardly anyone is recommending that you migrate from Google Groups to Mailman!

That said, there's nothing wrong with looking for an open source solution. It makes sense to try open source tools when you're talking about a community built around open source software. Zulip seems worth a try.
Are the UniFi cameras just IP but use PoE?
automated crash reporting. Unfortunately it's a pain to build but this is single most important thing you can do to improve quality of your software... On the server, process those files and generate web pages for easy viewing of the crashes.
I'm not a developer but I would think sharing what you can of your implementations of these would benefit others as well. i.e. good examples of exception handlers to catch crashes in the app, in crash handler download symbols from the server to get readable callstack, create a crash report that includes callstacks of all thread, program and os information
and possibly any implementations of the processing of the files
Possibly these are just blog posts intended for the junior developer or actual github repos. Thanks for all your work!
>In my pull request, I had noted that a given test suite and the associated code weren’t actually used and working and so I was commenting them out. At the time, he told me to delete the lines instead of commenting them out; citing that “dead code” (e.g., unused, unexercised or otherwise unneeded code) served as a greater liability than source of future implementation and re-use.

I generally agree with this sentiment ... but while a likely good rule-of-thumb, you also have to know when it's NOT good to apply

If you have version control, it's almost always correct - delete away, and revert if you need to

But when you don't ... commenting-out (and dating when it was commented) ends up serving as a [very] poor man's version control

I end up having to do this (or make copies and only work on the copy) with the product I use most for work because it has NO concept of version control anywhere ... and the add-ons that attempt it do it very poorly
I think this is a key point that many people don't realize. The ACL groups and mailing lists you create in Google Workspace are the same groups you see when you go to groups.google.com. This is absolutely integral to Google Workspace as you point out and isn't going anywhere.
> I know the Debian project recommends against promoting the unstable Sid release for general (non-dev/maintainer) users, but IMO about as risky as running Arch Linux, i.e., quite safe.

I used to use debian stable, then testing, then sid, then migrated to Arch and Arch has been definitely more stable than testing and sid. I never had big issues with Arch but Debian more than a few time gave me updates that entirely broke my system to the point of not booting anymore and not being able to fix it with a recovery USB
I meant in superconductivity
Chrome only? Guess I'll just have to wait/avoid for now.
Looking back, it's quite surprising how stagnant, in some sense, the social media space has become. How centralised and how... lame.

The big hitters really did pillage and burn. Now, between moderation norms becoming increasingly sensitive and the hard turn the web took away from open... It's hard to see any new form take off.

That said, perhaps that means it's a perfect time.

Groups/Usenet has its limitations. Features invented over the last 30 years have value. Usenet can't be our YouTube or Facebook. But.. I refuse to believe open protocols got so much of the job done for so long, but the last mile requires a unicorn to platformize it.

There aren't that many hurdles to taking social media back. Login/identity. HN demonstrates that this can be relatively simple. Hosting. Not quite as simple, apparently. Moderation. Thats a stickier problem, but volunteer/community tends to be better... imo, than organisational moderation anyway.

There must be a way. Why not have freedom in social media again?
LinkedIn is a paradox. It's basically a free online resume to most people. A small subset actually post on it trying to build their brand. And then an even smaller subset don't understand that it's basically social media at work and spend their time posting political opinions and conspiracy theories that make them look bad.

I've never used LinkedIn for anything other than to respond to recruiters and look up people's backgrounds.
That's a historically inaccurate view. Usenet was well on its way to cultural irrelevance long before Google bought DejaNews. Google bought Deja to rescue it, it was literally days from failing entirely and was a huge scramble to bring their archive online at Google. There was no grand strategy to bootstrap Deja into a forum product, Google had no strategy at all for forum / social media in that era. Google didn't implement anything "on top of Deja", the code base was entirely abandoned, all that was brought over was the archive and maybe some tools for cleaning data.

Proposing "fall back to Usenet" in 2023 makes about as much sense as "folks who use Slack should just use IRC".
Don't be ridiculous. As President of HN, I can assure both you and the other readers that there's absolutely no air shortage whatsoever. Yes, I've heard the same rumors myself! Thanks for calling, and not reversing the charges.
Thanks, meaning the public karma of post is only upvotes and downvotes via flags (or any other negative ranking factor) are not applied to this count, right?