skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im not sure Google understands they have and profit from a monopoly.

When the EU sued Microsoft, the reaction inside and outside differed wildly. Outside, there was a 'finally' feeling. Inside, Microsoftees went from denial straight to shock. They just could not understand they had become the bad guys.

They still lived in the 80s, where Microsoft was hailed as the saviour from the IBM monopoly. They might admit some individual trouble spots, but did not see these as connected to a bigger problem or core company culture. Microsoft believed their detractors were a small deluded noisy minority, but surely not the common opinion.

Google is in for a rude awakening.
Very much true. It's almost always a specific type of phishing that tries to get me to enter bank credentials, usually not really serving malware. But you make a good point.
Must be something due to lack of light and pressure, but all deep water fish seem to be so ugly!
You think the energy transition can be achieved without harming people? Yes if you are a river fisherman you do not live in the right century. Nor do people living in mountain villages. There are those who will get cancer from working in a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. Still it's not going to be that bad because the pollution from fossil fuel electricity generation is also causing a lot of disease and killing a lot of people.
That’s 2^sizeof(uint)
That's an apples/oranges comparison. Those numbers for earth are just surface liquid water. It is estimated that up to two orders of magnitude more water than in all the oceans is contained in earth's soil all the way down to the core, far below the surface. So earth wins easily both in terms of surface water and in terms of confined water.
Probably need to be a bit clearer on their titles then. Head of Cyber Security sounds overarching and very senior off the bat.

Bit like a few experiences I've seen where the person is, for example, "Director of Sales" intead of "Sales Director".

The former meaning nothing in UK legal entity law. The latter assuming directorial and/or ownership.

I guess the naming of roles has been the subject to this nonsense since the year dot though, so ...
Ever stop to smell the flowers once in a while?
He's got a lot of good business knowledge around certain industries but is way overconfident in how this translates to other areas
How did they decieve you, exactly? If you're only sore about their name, I think that's as poor of an argument as saying Microsoft's software ought to be smaller to match their namesake. OpenAI, as ironic as their naming convention is, owes you nothing.

This is truly and honestly the deadest of horses. You may as well just stop referring to them as OpenAI and s/OpenAI/Microsoft AI Team. It's your choice to get mad about it, but making threads about it changes nothing. Even discussing it in these threads accomplishes nothing. Sam Altman just laughs and pours himself another Perrier, you'd think a site full of business enthusiasts would know how the game works by now.
It will not, GPU market gets no break with going from mining apocalypse to the AI one heh.
Hey! Thank you so much for your feedback. Have written this down. Really appreciate it :)
All good there were some good points in the PR which I will likely adapt into the script.

But when you wrote that you ported my 3 line bash script to rust I thought you were kidding.
Maybe the joke should have mentioned Linus opinion of Subversion as the most pointless project ever, due to it's centralized nature, with Github moving to a decentralized model ;-)
Could you name a few static languages that aren’t several orders of magnitude faster than JavaScript?
If the Russian-speaking population of Crimea and eastern Ukraine doesn't want to be ruled by Kyiv, how is that any different from Texas not wanting to be a part of Mexico?

> "The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory..." (wiki)

Of course it's equally clear Ukrainian-speaking western Ukraine wants nothing to do with Moscow, so this points to where a negotiated settlement could draw a new geopolitical boundary.

Meanwhile, the USA has military forces in Syria supporting the Kurdish population, which doesn't seem to want to be ruled by Assad. How is that really any different (the geopolitical economics in that case appears mostly about not allowing Syria and Iran to cooperate economically and militarily, incidentally).

Let's try to have an adult-level understanding of these conflicts, not the propaganda-for-gullible-children version of events and motivations.
Well what exactly are you implying sitting on the other side of the earth to suggest that Indian could have done better elsewhere? Like We Indians never have had that thought crossed our mind? We are incapable of running cost-benefit analysis and SWOT analysis? Yours is the novel idea that we should have paid heed to and should now be regretting wasting millions of dollar?

What are you implying or what are you trying to say if not my 'hearing' then?

I am all ears now. Go on!
China draws lessons from Russia’s losses in Ukraine, and its gains
Slightly tangental, I bought a new laptop last week and I was amazed at how bad windows has gotten. Half of the steps in the setup process appeared to be trying to get me to consent to some kind of tracking or another. Installing Chrome meant dismissing 3 or 4 different scary looking popups.
It's interesting that it was apparently doing something (compressing memory pages) that made sense and was potentially useful even if poor implementation made it unstable. I remember seeing ads for SoftRAM 95, but never tried it because I assumed it was just a scam because the idea of increasing memory by software seemed so improbable.
>Also I think I’m not sending the full history right now, to avoid consuming too many tokens

You can ask it to summarize the dialog, thus compressing the dialog history into a few sentences. That will give you some basic dialog context.
I think you got that backwards.

It is also hard to believe that the semiconductor market would be affected significantly by the - in comparison tiny - 3D printing companies.
If the costs of living in large cities keep rising, maybe the young will learn that the "educated, big city living" will just be a trap and wasted years for a lot of them, and will decide to for a life in their local areas instead? There's plenty of Univerisities in small, local cities as well, so it doesn't mean being condemned to becoming a chimney sweep as well.
> they'll just prescribe after the call and send the prescription to my local pharmacy.

Yes, exactly this is all they do now basically, nothing else.

Not sure which app you're using but I've been with Babylon Health for years and it went downhill very much lately.

Before the pandemic I was able to get a call consult within 3-4hrs and book an in-person appt for next day easily.

These days can't get a callback earlier than 2-3 days and bookings for in-person unavailable for WEEKS!
I'm Canadian, but there is a difference between civil servants and the management.

I'm guessing that it's the same.

Your frontline civil servants aren't the wealthy ones, they are working a job.
It's their bosses and directors, who control the budgets, and can decided who get's the juicy private contracts.

Isn't the PM from a very wealthy family? That's the sort of thing I am talking about, not the civil servant working at the DMV (or it's equivalent) counter.
Please pay for search so ads aren't needed.

Kagi is priced for sustainability and has features like lenses (e.g., search your own list of niche community sites) and prioritization preferences (raise arstechnica, lower buzzfeed) deeply helpful for technologist searching.

https://kagi.com

Friends don't let friends Google Bing on DuckDuckGo.
Show HN: A short guideline for getting stuff done without AI
How well do you know the guts of RDBMS, Information Retrieval, and other database technologies?
I was curious because it doesn’t sound like a typical Indian name, apparently it’s a nickname for Hyderabad because there’s a large tech industry there
I also had that book. I think a problem with it was that XUL was moving quite quickly and the book itself was out of date.
They would be, except it ignores them sometimes.
No dates, no sex, no weddings, no kids
From where I’m standing QUIC looks like a good contender for a super-TCP like what SCTP never succeeded at becoming. Except there don’t seem to be any (C) libraries with ease of use and lack of inbuilt opinion approaching TCP sockets. (Happy to be proved wrong on that point!) And of course the lack of TLS-less options (outside MsQuic IIUC?) hurts experimentation severely.
Ask HN: Founders, have you taken money from private equity? Tell me about it
I've got a dilemma, and HN has been enormously helpful to me over the years, so here goes.

Abut the business
I'm the solo founder of a saas company. We sell B2B. We're a team of 8, all great people, and have been operating for 5 years. Last full year financials: revenue $2.2M, ebitda $1.5M. Have been growing 40% yoy.

About me
I currently love many parts of my job, the product we make, the autonomy I have in my role, and the financial freedom it's brought me.
But, too much is reliant on me being there to do things. I need to hire someone into a general manager (?COO) role – someone who could take things off my hands – but don't know where to start. I don't have a business background and sometimes I feel overwhelmed by it.
If I'm honest with myself: I prefer working on the product, and also somewhat on business strategy. I don't really like managing people, and I don't like sales, and I know that I avoid these.

The dilemma
I've been exploring taking some investment. I hoped to achieve reducing my risk (everything I have is in the company), and getting help hiring the people I've found difficult to hire. Ideal case would be to sell 20%, but accountant seems to think this is unlikely.
I've had an offer from a private equity firm of about $7M in return for selling 55% of the company. I would get 45% of newco, the PE house would get 45%, and 10% for staff equity.
I can't ignore the offer, because it's life changing money upfront, and they're talking about the company being worth $30-50M in 5 years.

But at the same time I'm in two minds about taking an investment like this. Understandably I guess, all they really seem to care about is money. I worry they'll want to do things that I consider crappy – I've seen other saas products get bought out and they become hyper-optimised for profit but unpleasant to to the consumer.
And I'm worried about signing up to a 5 year journey that I won't like – perhaps working with people who don't share my values, and being accountable to other people.
On a good day, a part of me would like to carry on building it myself to see what happens. But on a bad day the idea of an exit on the horizon is attractive (and I think, "what if it tanks - at least I will have got something safe").

I'm interested in hearing from other founders who have taken PE money. What was your experience? What was it like giving up control of the thing that you built? Do you regret it?
I disagree with the implication that it’s either AGI or nothing.

What we currently have is useful and that’s a big deal; the time and effort spent on transformers wasn’t wasted. I personally don’t care if/when we have AGI and whether that’s on the same research path that we’re on now.
I wonder if there's a connection between thinking a lot and having a sweet tooth.

I know that they're generally bad for the health but I can't seem to stop buying them, especially when I expect to grind leetcode later at night.
Unless I misunderstand, all three lottery programs studied are voluntary. Kombi subscription lottery, Triss scratch and win, and Prize Linked Savings Account (PLSA) are all voluntary, and therefore not representative of the general population.
This complaint is frequent here, but nowhere else I know of. Examples given (if the are even given) are vague or different from what other people in the thread get for the same search. The only less interesting meme on hacker news is "I won't use anything by Google because they're going to shut it down".
this is worse than Google. I don't want to log into an account to search and have the search terms tied to my account
> He constantly tweets about his own tweets performance, makes humiliating appearances on stages, and pretty much terrified that someone might do something 1/100000th as awful to him as he and his family have done to others.

Ah so he makes jokes, and is well known enough to need security precautions. This makes him “a whiny baby”. Solid argument.
"You probably see more interesting and diverse landscapes in 3000 km of France vs 24000 km of Canada."

Nothing in your comment had any mention of the density of diversity.

The idea a vastly smaller area would be more diverse is also silly.

You made a foolish, and unsubstantiated claim and are trying to say I am presenting straw man arguments, hahaha.
Imagine a food company sells a food that they say it has a "great new taste" but really it tastes bad. How could they do such a thing? I can't wrap my head around it. I must be missing something.
My own experience, I bought a Ender 3 Pro for ~$100 about a year ago and I've been very impressed with it. Aside from some instances where I didn't have the bed correctly distanced from the nozzle, I've yet to have a build fail. Granted I've printed rather simple things, I think my longest build has been about 8 hours. I've been very pleased with its ease of use.
Ask HN: How do I keep my elderly father safe on the internet?
My dad, age 85 and a lifelong technophobe bordering on tech-hostile, began using a MacBook Air and iPhone regularly a few years ago. His activities are basic: text me and family, email, photos, read about art and music via sites found on Google, YouTube for how-to videos about specific art techniques, language learning with Duolingo and help from Google Translate, and some very infrequent purchases mostly on eBay and Amazon. He still struggles with the most basic UIs but he gets things done, it’s been great to see.

But he keeps getting scammed. He usually recognizes it after the fact, he’ll fill out a phishing form and call me right away, “I did it again.” He always feels embarrassed. They find him through emails and text messages. He ignores many of them (I know because he tells me, “Another one came through!”) but there seem to be so many that some get him.

I had to help him with something on his phone the other day and when I went to open a new tab in Mobile Safari, I saw no fewer than six different scam pages up. Fake Amazon, fake UPS, fake credit card. It was frightening. I’m worried he’s inching towards something catastrophic like sharing bank account information. It’s also making him afraid to use technology. He doesn’t want a credit card anymore, he’s so tired of having to change the number.

I don’t know what to do. He’s found so much independence thanks to technology, he’d be isolated if he stopped using it. He struggles with the most basic user interfaces, details that I take for granted are invisible to him, so I don’t think he’s likely to learn all the tricks of scammers. I can’t look over his shoulder all the time.

Does anyone have any advice for this? Any experience?
‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’
I’m in BC, Canada and just pulled the trigger on 14.56 kw if ground mount for $42k CAD, tax included. Wondering why Solar is so much more expensive (ignoring the batteries) in your area? I’d think it would be a lot cheaper with more competition.

Going with Longi bifacial panels - does the US restrict or add huge duties on Chinese panels?
Bing and DDG have absolutely the same problem.

Microsoft has turned their entire ecosystem (including OS) into an advertising-saturated cesspool.

DDG might be "okay" for a while just because they're still trying to gain marketshare, but the underlying incentives are the same.

A paid search engine is the only solution that aligns the end-user's incentives with the search engine provider's.
It doesn’t. Read more carefully.
I love hating on how bad the modern search experience is -- SEO spam has ruined everything.

But I'm a little confused by the exact wording of this post. Google's Bard is in competition with GPT, isn't it? Is it not? Was there a news item I missed about this?

I don't use Google often enough to have a strong sense of what might be different and what remains the same, but I've just run a couple of searches and don't notice any drastic interface changes?

This is not a complaint -- I just really want to know the new reasons to complain about Google!
This was a very odd comment

I don’t know why you think I’d like Tucker Carlson or why Tucker being sensational would make Verge and Vice not clickbait.
> *Of course, there are rare exceptions like, for example, Richard Feynman who was an expert and a great teacher.

It's a weird remark, because the books by Feynman are not good as a first book of any subject. Usually most Physics curses here have a main book and recommend the Feynman's book as a secondary book, like a fairytale book for physicist with amazing and enlightening cases that you read after understanding the subject to get a better understanding.
Oh, Merkel certainly made it worse, but Schröder had a leading role… https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/world/europe/schroder-ger...

The opposition agreeing - you mean like the Green party who wanted to end nuclear like forever? Merkel had essentially absolute power in Germany and was leading some major changes that are hard to believe now… 1) shut down nuclear, 2) abolish compulsory military service, 3) open the borders for an uncontrolled influx of male refugees, 4) completely ignore Corona at first and then bulldoze over our Basic Law.
I work in a industry with around 1000 engineers in that field in my location. There must be like 10 big companies where I can work in the area. Basically everyone knows each other and when you interview someone, it's easy to get the person's reputation.

I just got a new guy in January (didn't do the interview myself, I was away), I know his ex boss very well and of course I phoned him to know how he's like. He depicted me a kind of bad picture of him.

After 3 months I agree that he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But unlike my friend, I'm not asking for perfect code, I'm asking for throughput and bold moves in the wilderness. With that consideration, the guy is actually ok compared to others!

I've come to learn to not rely a lot on outside advice on people, and I prefer to judge it myself in situ. The team, the company, the project or simply personal life can greatly affect someone's performances, and it is not because someone is great at company A that he will be great at company B.
This would be consistent with the internet being "too messy", if not too big generally. There is too much garbage to sift through, and spam trying to game the algorithm.
There are those who will get cancer from working in a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.

It doesn't have to be this way, the engineering controls needed are well known. It requires the country in question to be financially committed to doing things right. For nuclear power this is already considered an essential prerequisite, yet coal power plants already release vastly more radioactivity and increase the cancer risk of everone around them. As far as reducing total cancer, nuclear is the way to go.
I think their main problem is that regarding the i3 design, they are pretty much the only-ones contributing to improvements, I mean - when was the last time the community (or another manufacturer) actually contributed anything useful to the core HW and electronics design? The 3d printing space has massively changed in the last 10 years, where initially a lot of the HW improvements came from the hobbyist RepRap community. Now they come from a single company which stems from that community, and which is spending money on R&D.

On top of that, people still building an i3-design printer from scratch is rare, the hobbyist design community has moved on to the Vorons, which means pretty much all printers with this design are from companies with zero community interaction, profiting from the Prusa investments. So I get why they're not happy.

The only real comparison you have with Prusa is the much less popular RatRig - which is still an opensource design afaik, but I'm not aware of any clones of those.
But I guess BingGPT only look at the first 3 results and ignore the remainings. Speaking from my experience. It is kind of returning the same 3~4 results when I ask if there exist some paper about ML in the chemistry.
Or he saw something was wrong (which has now been publicly revealed to be true) and had the money to fix it
Ryuichi Sakamoto has died
I checked out some of the 50 cities they name on here and there's a curious way they decide what counts as "central city" for some of them.
e.g. Denver's map does cover the central business district but it misses a lot of the neatly adjacent places that _are_ designed for people and not cars. If the whole thesis is "make our downtowns places that are desirable to get to, and not just office parks" then the raw percentages are a little disingenuous.

Mind, the root cause that only office towers and their associated parking can really be built in that CBD...that's the big problem
Rooftop solar can help cool roofs/attics by a small amount.
I can’t point to any examples, but it’s hard to imagine that a page being able to tell the browser for example, “hey, the only layout methods used in this page are flexbox and grid” wouldn’t enable code paths with far less guesswork, caveats, etc — the ruleset in that situation is so much more simple.
From personal observation (I think it is even backed by research) not having enough sleep causes craving for sweets/junk food.
Incredible salary in the UK != incredible salary in London
No, they had to reopen them because their nuclear plants stopped working. Too hot, not enough water in the rivers due to climate change to cool down the nuclear plants - so they shut them off, and France was buying renewable energy from Germany. So you got your facts exactly the wrong way.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/even-crisis-germany-...

Turns out, nuclear is not the end all, be all solution. Who knew?

I don’t know why HN has such a rage boner for Germany’s energy transition, it doesn’t seem that triggered by any other country.
You cannot replace nuclear with renewables in Germany. You cannot shut down production if the sun doesnt shine or there is no wind. There is a non-trivial amount of electricity that needs to be available 24/7 and there needs to be a source of electricity that can be ramped up quickly when demands spike or renewable isn’t delivering.
I've a hypothesis that a lot of the actual work is done in the background.

Focused thinking about a problem just sort of spawns new threads (some of which get OOM-killed if you keep spawning more). The process seems to need not actively thinking about the problem for the jobs to actually resolve.

It's like thinking about the problem triggers the background calculations to start, it doesn't actually perform the work.

Then you get that famous "aha!" in the shower or when you're off on a walk or whatever.
It's impossible to average 5% return risk-free (if mortgage interest is 2% or whatever). Saying "as long as your average return is higher than your mortgage interest then it's lower risk" is a ridiculous statement, the entire reason you're getting a better return is because you're taking on more risk.
> Firebird database

I first found out about this database when Mozilla had to rename the Firebird browser to Firefox.