skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely news publications benefit more from Google/Facebook providing links to their content?

Actually, no.

It might be a symbiotic relationship for a small-time blog, but for a major news organization, it isn't. The Toronto Star and Global TV don't need freepub from Google.

One example among many: Most people see the headline – the headline written by a paid headline writer based on an article from a paid journalist on a staff of other professionals with families to feed - and then move on.

Very often a headline is all someone needs or wants. That has value. Without anyone clicking through to the web site, Google is getting the value from the headline, and contributing nothing to the web site in return.

It's like saying that when Google steals content from web sites and presents it as an answer card in search results that the web site somehow gets something out of it. That's completely false. The only one getting anything out of it is Google.
My interpretation is that Google/Meta do only reproduce short excerpts, however short excerpts is all many people ever read. If those excerpts satisfy people’s interests, then they never end up visiting the actual new sites.

Even on HN it’s not uncommon to see people commenting on articles they’ve only read the title of.
In 1901, Kaufmann measures relativity and doesn’t know it
Really cool. I wonder how much of this is going to make its way into GKE for us plebs.
Man, the dot-com boom must have been wild.
I'm completely the same as you so I did the following: I took the $10 plan and watched my usage for a week. I seem to hover roughly at about 30-40 searches per day on average so I upgraded to the Family plan. Yes, I know, it sounds weird but now I've got 1400 searches and just didn't invite anyone. And I don't have to worry about if it's going to be enough because my own data says that it's going to easily be enough.

Lenses are actually why I subscribed mostly. I search for organic data often while trying to find help for a product or the opinions on a service or something like that. Regular search is ok, changing to the Forum Lense is mind blowing because I only get discussions from real people.
Better stop eating celery or anything containing it if you're really concerned about nitrates.
Really?

Maybe my (large, relatively well respected state school) lectures were uniquely bad. But I found MIT lectures to be leagues ahead of what we got. They covered more content, went deeper and were faster paced. The lecturers were more talented and engaging, and the problem sets were harder and more efficient. It really was night and day.
Asians are not a homogenous group. For example, Filipino and Vietnamese outcomes did not do as well as Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese immigrants in the wave from the 60s.

There are lots of factors that contribute to an ethnic group's relative success in playing the economic game, some of which are unique to that cohort and not the ethnicity itself. Past results do not guarantee future performance.

One example: the communist revolution expelled professors and academics from China, thus many Chinese and Taiwanese-american immigrants from that generation had scholarly backgrounds which obviously translates well. Compare to a history where your people were enslaved and your cultural background entirely erased.

Another example: getting an H1B as an Indian person today is super competitive / hard, but much easier if you're another ethnicity. What does that mean for future generations of Indian-Americans? There's going to be a selection bias.
Inner city schools are terrible, not for a lack of resources, but for a lack of familial support. I live in a state where those inner-city schools receive substantially more funding (per student, and total) than ones in wealthy suburbs. Yet, guess what, the wealthy suburbs still have wildly better outcomes. Turns out the parents working several jobs to try to make ends meet have less time to push their kid to succeed than the stay-at-home moms. Why are poor neighborhoods predominantly made up of groups that are minorities in the American population? Because America, within the last few generations by law, and up through today by social convention, has given fewer opportunities to succeed to these marginalized groups, including in education.

Left to its own devices it's a cycle of poverty: Better jobs go to the better educated, better educations go to the people with parents who had better jobs. When you had a legal system actively applying a cap to the success of people in these groups less than 3 generations ago, it should come as no surprise that it takes active measures to unfuck the mess.
Ty still makes Beanie Babies.
> These devices disincentivise hard braking when a pedestrian steps into the road in front of your car.

The monetary incentive is still wildly in favor of hard braking as opposed to hitting a pedestrian. I don't understand this criticism.
Beneficial effects of mild stress (hormesis): dietary restriction and health
I don't want push notifications. What I would want to make sure I don't miss replies, though, is something like the "threads" page but sorted by latest activity instead of by the time of each of your "root" posts.
Perl can also be hilariously unreadable: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0017.html
That’s not a good analogy and you should know it.
Why the internet’s going wild for a ‘fish doorbell’ saving migrating fishes
My experience with cloud migrations was that you could migrate and forget about it. This was for a high traffic metro newspaper, that was easy to cache for external users but needed to handle a large newsroom using wordpress to manage the content (wordpress can be a huge resource hog).

The main costs in terms of labor end up being making sure that backends services are updated. Same pain you’d feel in a colo, except you cloud provider may force an upgrade you’d otherwise wish to put off. Now I intentionally kept most things at the VM level of abstraction, because it was clear that the added complexity of something like Kuberetes wasn’t worth any savings you might get by needing one less server, and I had enough granularity of healthchecks to just automatically spin down any server that was causing problem and let autoscaling work it’s magic. This was also 10 years ago, some choices might make less sense today, YMMV.

Also, don’t think I’m saying all those people aren’t necessary based on the current needs of the business. I just knew I was in a very constrained environment and prioritized anything that allowed for the constant shrinking headcount my department was facing.
Yes. That doesn't make it any less scary, though -- ice balls are pretty aerodynamic!
> The curse of guest languages.

Every language lives under the iron fist of libc and the C ABI.
That may be true but that won't stop people from trying to sue undoubtedly - clearly they've decided the effort and legal fees required to deal with that aren't worth it.
Nope. Sorry.

You know on reddit it has that little orangered envelope to notify you of when you have a reply? I use uBlock Origin to nuke even that tiny little envelope (I also remove a lot of other stuff from reddit to be fair).

A few years ago I totally removed all forms of notifications outside of actual critical things such as my sons school calling.

On my phone I have no notification badges on the icons and all app notifications disabled. I don't care to know about anything without it being my choice.

Do I waste a few seconds now and then? Sure but it's time I can control. If I don't want to waste those few seconds I just don't check for any updates. With a notification I have no choice, that second or two is sucked away from me no matter what.

Perhaps it seems extreme but using a phone, tablet or computer is so much better when it doesn't keep poking you in the eye with "look at me!!" badges or notification shades popping or sliding in the corner or edge of the screen.
Spaceflight Simulator on PC/Steam
from the article

Every spring, thousands of fish swish through the Netherlands’ fourth-largest city, seeking shallow waters in which to lay their eggs. Some swim all the way to Germany, like piscine Adam Peatys. Slight snag: they often have to wait at the Weerdsluis lock, which seldom opens at this time of year.

Local ecologists came up with an ingenious solution: the world’s first fish doorbell or visdeurbel in Dutch (try saying it out loud). If webcam watchers spot fish waiting to pass, they simply press a virtual doorbell and the lock keeper – who can’t see down into the water, which is 2.1 metres (7ft) deep, from dry land – is sent a notification. When enough fish have gathered, the operator opens the 200-year-old sluice gate by hand to let them through.
Yup. it's definitely intended. They do everything to cause this issue. it's like the one thing they can repeat over and over again. it's their MO. they want a weakened country and poor citizens
> Serenity OS Andreas who made like $300k in a week with his browser shenanigans

Any sources for this claim?
Unless the LLM is cutting and pasting GPL code, I don't see how this differs from an engineer learning to code by referencing open source projects then creating their own project with its own licensing. I'd imagine these models could be tuned or at least a check could be added that no licensed code is being returned.
Ah yeah that is probably right. Chinese indie industry boom?
https://huggingface.co/gorilla-llm
It is hard to tie every job or action to revenue. Let's say I'm a platform engineer who makes internal tools. I generate no attributable revenue of my own; I make other engineers more efficient. But how much? We can't run an experiment where engineers don't use my platform because it's mandated; directly using the PaaS is forbidden.

Or I'm a manager. I help my engineers get work done. Let's consider the happy case and assume we can measure our team's revenue. How much of that revenue is attributable to the manager's superior skill, and how much to the rockstars under him/her? What would an experiment look like; the engineers manage themselves, or we compare with the previous manager?

No company that I know goes this far. In their defense, it is a challenge. An open problem, even.
I've been (kind of) successful with this with my Apple Watch SE and Honda Civic. The issues arise when I have both my phone and watch in the car and it wants to connect to the watch. Then things get confused and don't work out the way you would want. With just the watch, however, it seems to work fine.

On a related note, I've had significant issues trying to play music through airpods through the watch. I can get it to connect, and it plays a few seconds of music, then goes silent. The screen still indicates its playing. Very frustrating.
Ed Yordon I think said you can't make a baby in one month with 9 people. More than six on a team and communication overhead goes through the roof.
> Maybe the artist will have to print it on location while you watch.

For the music industry, this happened already. Artists makes a lot more money from live performances than from album sales or streaming fees.
And the label for that diagram is that "I'm not saying it's aliens" guy, but instead of 'aliens' he's saying, "CHEMICALS".
Author here.

Well, sure, but to the contrary: DC has had a much harder time imitating Marvel's success, even with great IP. Universal tried to create the "Dark Universe." And even Marvel is having trouble cranking out the hits with the middling success of Ant-Man Quantumania, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Wakanda Forever.

I suspect making these things more streamlined and more of a flat cultural paste through the Disney Machine is a part of the lower outcomes.
Well, it doesn't really seem like it's any better. It's just another company trying to make a buck without really offering anything special. They might have a fancy design, but when it comes down to it, they don't seem to bring anything new or exciting to the table.
Ah very true, thanks
Agreed. For one thing, "race" buckets are far too broad. "Asian" is a term that represents ~60% of the world population, lumping countries as diverse as Indonesia, North Korea, Bangladesh and Kazahkstan together.
Good Plan, He is well suited to plug trenches, add extra grease for easy extraction...
FreeIPA in CentOS Stream has a major bug causing it to corrupt ldap entries and all of the users accounts had to be recreated. I know FreeIPA is not really stable on the best of the times but this was Stream specific.
Seems back up. I'd love to get a deep-dive into some of the recent outages and some reassurance that they're committed to stability over new features.

I talked to a CS person a couple months ago and they pretty much blamed the lack of stability on all the custom work they do for large customers. There's a TON of tech debt as a result basically.
Don't sleep on Cody either https://about.sourcegraph.com/cody
This looks very interesting, but as an FYI using LLMs to do machine translation is a terrible waste of resources. The example on their landing page has a "translate.py" sample which, albeit handy, is not something I would do beyond basic string translations.
The SC canned AA due to racism, even though AA also applied to gender and disability. So the value of AA for women (and men) and disabled people was completely disregarded.

One potential industry to consider, especially considering the site we're on, is startup entrepreneurs - especially those who are able to get VC and Angel funding.
Trash your monitor in a fit of drunken rage or something like that. Don't let them down.
Why America’s Supreme Court has ended affirmative action
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36502433

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377805

Ok technically 10 days, but still.
Isn't this the same list that says Cellphones are a possible carcinogen despite mountains of evidence that they cause no cancer and also zero known mechanism of action?
The budget I have for hiring is tiny and no one on the board believes 10x engineers exist. The choise is between not shipping anything at all or having to deal with said talentless hacks who happen to know more than me about tool X but otherwise slow development to a crawl.

Turns out reading HN comments is not a good way to run a company. Who would have thought?
Bennett conveniently ignores one fact--King was a strong supporter of affirmative action. In “Why We Can’t Wait,” published in 1963, he argued that given the long history of American racism, blacks fully deserved “special, compensatory measures” in jobs, education and other realms. Four years later, in “Where Do We Go From Here?” he wrote: “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him.”
Sure! If everything crypto were as simple as hashing, but protocol design and in particular privacy is not.

I was thinking along the lines of Bruce Schneier's infamous “Attacks always get better, they never get worse”.

In terms of hashes, md5 was once pretty secure. But we can't go back in time, we can't unlearn how to create hash collisions. And we can't force the world to only use 8 bit, 16 bit hardware from the 90s when brute forcing.

If the privacy of EU citizens were to solely rely on securely designed crypto of around a public ledger consider that 20 years of unbreakable crypto might be too little. What if every transaction you made 20 years ago was accessible to anyone? What if in 25 years they figured out how to make changes and no one could tell which one was authentic?

Sounds like scifi? Would probably be trivial for a block chain based on good old trusted DES.
It's an insane achievement.
Going to be interesting. Github had the advantage that they were offering Copilot into an audience of people who just defaulted to them. Gitlab on the other hand is for people who are into license wars, etc. so the AI product is going to be offered to a hostile audience.
I almost bought a Handshake domain, but didn't because of the Vickery auction they use. I wanted to register one that matches my best .com. It's not an in demand name, so it's available, but the last thing I want when I'm buying a domain is a big announcement and a bidding war.

Hey look at me! I'm trying to buy a domain over here! Come compete with me!

It has no value to anyone except me and anyone that can usurp it and try to sell it to me. I don't want to compete with a bunch of crypto bros that have tons of paper money (aka coins) in a low liquidity system, so I opted not to bother.

Now I'm glad I didn't bother. It would have been a huge hassle just to get HNS (?) and now there are tons of blockchain TLD startups. With the collisions that creates they're basically recreating the namespace fragmentation and ambiguity that results from every platform having independent handles.
One would have hoped for a more definitive statement (either way) than 'possible'
A key property of a Vickrey auction is that it is incentive compatible, i.e. that it isn't possible to achieve a better expected outcome by bidding something other than your true valuation.

Your example relies on the telecom company (or any secondary buyer) not bidding in the auction or bidding only $4. A strictly dominant strategy for the telecom company would be to bid $100k in the auction, winning it for $60k (the second-highest price).
A flag for printing the chosen command to stdout instead of executing them in a subprocess would be helpful.

Also I am finding in my environment that longer results don't line wrap and so it's hard to tell what the actual full command is, but that might be just me.
If there isn't a law that bans marketplaces from competing against the vendors that operate on that marketplace, then there should be one.
> A lot of the anti-china stuff is coming from the top, the CHIPS act is a great example.

I mean... TSMC is based in Taiwan, and if China were ever to invade they'd have a vested interest in kneecapping American businesses that currently rely on that chip supply (AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm all come to mind) -- for any of a list of reasons ranging from turnabout over the whole Huawei thing to just the obvious incentive to turn that manufacturing capacity toward producing a domestic supply.

In that context, building up domestic suppliers of our own is just a reasonable precaution.

> I think taking down Amazon and maybe busting them up ala AT&T would be a feather in Biden's cap with the liberals and the right thing to do. Then they need to go after Google and Facebook.

But also yes, I'm with you on this wholeheartedly.

I'd further add, given we have a history of breaking up telecom companies specifically for amassing too much market power that you as a consumer to avoid them, that we should probably turn the same to most ISPs. Also that it's baffling that no one's gone after Apple over iMessage, what with the way it actively makes text chains worse the moment anyone involved isn't a customer of theirs.
Not sure If I agree with this article. My experience in the big co is that trying to navigate through large systems with many moving parts and stakeholders and come up with a solution and execute as quickly as you can is very exciting. And you definitely need to be creative to trying to align and solve some many problems in 1 design. It's a very challenging and fun experience
IMO a couple of cool aspects of Racket that aren't called out in beginner guides, but I think are really useful in real programs:

1. The use of custodians on a per-(green-)thread basis that brings "oh yes, if the thread crashes or is shutdown, racket guarantees that all open files/sockets/resources will be shut down". For example you can use this to ensure that a timed out client doesn't cause unnecessary resource usage. https://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html#%28part._.Termi...

2. Events and composable concurrency from Concurrent ML - Unlike Go's channels, concurrent ML events are composable up the stack, and have some nice things built in like "NACK events" (allowing cancellation down the stack). Unfortunately there aren't great primers about using this that I know of apart from the Kill Safe Synchronization Abstractions paper. https://users.cs.utah.edu/plt/kill-safe/

3. Sandboxing - https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Sandboxed_Evaluation....

Some of these were added to make it easier for the IDE to manage errant programs that could be written by beginners, but it is also a very "applicable to production" set of tools.
Racket internalizes Extra-linguistic mechanisms https://felleisen.org/matthias/manifesto/sec_intern.html

Also the fact that various DSLs can inter-op with each other directly, so that you can use something like a binary parser description, as if it was just another Racket library. For example this description of the format https://github.com/Bogdanp/racket-binfmt/blob/master/binfmt-..., is directly included in another file as a regular library https://github.com/Bogdanp/racket-binfmt/blob/master/binfmt-...

I agree that startup time is not a winning aspect of Racket. My naive understanding is because Racket is not a direct bytecode interpreter like CPython, but actually has to run a compile step to native code, and doing that for programs + their required libraries necessarily takes at least a couple of hundred milliseconds even before anything can start running, while CPython can pretty much start executing from the get go.
Many people who would otherwise be appalled at laws like this seem to want to rationalize this because its specifically targeting Google and Meta.

Sometimes taking the simple view is correct: It's a bad thing to prevent sites from linking to one another. It's a bad thing to interfere with the ability to access information on the Internet for reasons of nationalist politics.
Google to remove news links in Canada over law on paying publishers
NASA Kills It's X-57 Electric Plane
Make that 25 years ago, before the FAANGs came out.
"But at least I can sue the government if they do something that jeopardizes my business without a solid reason. "

What country are you from, if you don't mind sharing?

To me, as a North American...this just sounds implausible.
newbie question.

Not to make this a debug thread but this is what I get when I try out gorilla

> gorilla I want to find my ip address

/home/username/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/__init__.py:102: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.26.7) or chardet (5.1.0)/charset_normalizer (2.0.7) doesn't match a supported version!
warnings.warn("urllib3 ({}) or chardet ({})/charset_normalizer ({}) doesn't match a supported "
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/username/.local/bin/gorilla", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/go_cli.py", line 128, in main
user_id = get_user_id()
File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/go_cli.py", line 76, in get_user_id
assert user_id != ""
AssertionError
Welcome to Fusion City, USA
I'm starting to come around to the idea that the browser is the modern GUI framework. That is that modern web browsers are the native desktop widget set these days and the model of running an app that opens a browser tab (not electron) as it's interface is probably the best option for many applications.
Isn't this essentially part of the not-quite-marketing for marijuana? It's not highly processed like tobacco cigarettes, it's just natural?
> becomes a dull proposition

An AI can that can hire mercenaries isn't dull. Or design a circuit board, have it made and assembled and delivered to contractor to use in the field.

I apologize for engaging.