skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show me a C/C++ project that doesn't need a build system.
Every single time a Goodreads post comes up it's always negative and the comments are full of supposedly better alternatives. Except those alternatives are never better. I've tried most of them and they very often are ghost towns or don't even have the book I'm reading, let alone recommend anything useful. LibraryThing comes the closest, but its UI is equally bad if not worse than Goodreads. Goodreads is good enough for me. I follow and am followed by enough people that writing reviews is worth it.
These other content producers are doing the same things with perhaps the exception of writers. Look at the expeditions BBC has done to have an excuse to use Attenborough. Netflix has a few series doing similar. These expeditions haven't gone away, just their presentation in this format has.
You'll potentially have a lot of people planning on retiring not being able to retire, for one.

You'll have people who are forced to hold onto their homes because they will be underwater.
Personal preference, small arrow keys don’t bother me at all. Regardless, 90% of the time I’m working on my laptop it’s plugged in at a desk where I can use whatever keyboard I want.
With Youtube blocked, the Chinese are not being bombarded with VPN advertisements
YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking
Do you think we should increase housing supply?
Kate Wagner, the author, is also an excellent sports journalist who covers cycling. A recent piece on Tadej Pogačar and Slovenian cycling: https://escapecollective.com/the-tadej-pogacar-office-park-c...
I am a cloud developer and i must say i quite like the ipad experience. I have a server, which runs coder[1] (basically vscode). I also tried to play around with the vs code tunnels, but they did not feel very stable.
Because it doesnt have public IP i access it using Tailscale[2].

I especially like the pen, which allows for nice notes and also diagrams.

The other nice thing is, that even when i work from some place with bad wifi. I can still download and upload large files because the server is connected to optics.

[1] - https://coder.com/
[2] - https://tailscale.com/
I would like to point to Spritely Institute, who experimented with time travel debugging in Spritely Goblins and are making use of Object Capabilities, which is their main area of research.

https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0110-relea...
What's actually more accurate is to say that there's a site out there that claims that they will sell you upvotes on Hacker News. Whether that actually happens, where, and how is unsubstantiated (sorry dang). I edited the title to reflect that
This is the type of thing that really excited me back in 2017
Show HN: StatesmanAI, AI Copilot for Policy Professionals
This was a passion project I worked on for the past few months. HN isn't really the market, but I would love feedback on it.
Humans generally have mastery over chickens. This is because humans are bigger and stronger and can shove chickens around with their big hands and arms. Intelligence did not grant this human mastery over chickens. What intelligence did grant was the ability to recognize that it made more sense to pen the ancestors of chickens as a long term food source instead of killing them on sight.

I very much doubt ChatGPT has any ability to shove me in a pen.

>Really, the trouble here is that so few of us are superintelligences that it's impossible to speculate on what the capabilities of superintelligences are.

Compared to a chicken, you are a superintelligence. Can you convince the chicken to do anything you wish it to, using only words? Can you even reverse engineer a language to communicate with it in a way it will understand?
I'm with you on this. The news sites are so desperate for attention that they border on being ethical themselves..
Sorry about that. I should have tried to keep the conversation level higher instead of playing with the time zone difference.
We just had pictures taken of our house to prepare for renting it. I live in fear of being put on this website.
So Russian media is now reliable when what they say fits your own purpose?
What even is a “known broken” technique — how do you establish that some technique “can’t work” rather than “just haven’t found a good execution” so far?

Of course, there’s risk involved in straying off the beaten path and trying new things — not denying that.
You're missing the point: people who currently own a house get fucked. An entire generation or two of people will be locked out of retirement if housing prices significantly fall.

This needs to be accounted for. A majority of Americans own a home, so you're not going to get meaningful change in this area if it hurts most people.
Government pension, avoiding traffic tickets among other benefits, I'm sure.
>And a big chunk of that goes to the brokerage.

Thank you for this - the public should redirect a lot of their anger away from the agents and toward their brokerages. Likewise - please don’t use Zillow, Redfin, etc to contact an agent. Call the agent directly, as these online sites take a big pile of money out of the agents pocket as well.

I want to believe changes are coming in real estate, as the long standing brokerage model exploits agents and confuses the public.
You seem to be doing plenty of hand waving yourself.
It doesn't work for really wet foods like soup but I've been using wooden plates for e.g., microwave burritos. Since wood has a low dielectric loss, it's highly transparent to microwaves and therefore steals less energy away from heating the food than e.g., ceramic.

I'm not sure about the toxicity of various wood sealers. I've been using butcher-block sealer which has e.g., bee's wax but also some more questionable substances. I'm interested in trying shellac but it's not overly cheap.
Is the area of a room governed by its length or its width?

Houses in seller’s markets are bid up based on affordability by competing buyers. This is governed by incomes of those buyers and interest rates.
I have to disagree with YouTube. Yes, theres a lot of garbage on there, but I've managed to curate a collection of subscriptions that make _extremely_ high quality videos. Even the reccomendation system thats so often criticised here has regularly served me new channels that are right up my ally. I get more value from YT than most other sites on the net (with the exception of HN, obviously)
Spoken by someone who's never been to Mexico.

You need a functional government to do everything you listed, not that any of it would work.

This isn't the movies- the bad guys don't all wear fancy suits. They don't carry millions in cash. And good luck getting anywhere near their property to confiscate anything, you'd have to get past their personal army first.

When the cops work for the cartels, and so does the federal government- it becomes almost impossible to restore order.

It's early for me, so if the post was sarcasm that flew over my head I apologize on advance.

Off to coffee.

Edit- last to past. NOW off to coffee.
YC could offer this as a paid service.

For $100 million, you can boost a post with fake upvotes.

(Hey, it could be the big break that turns into a $1B startup. And the cost to provide this service is high, since YC thrives on reputation, which this erodes.)

Now that it has a price tag, sue others for theft of service.
It's never too late to become a strong swimmer
Figma has about $500M annual revenue, AFAICT.

In the current environment, money-losing software companies aren’t exactly hot. The valuation from an IPO would be extremely disappointing for investors compared to the $20 billion Adobe is paying. A price/sales multiple of 10x would be generous, and that would be a $5B valuation.
Optimizing ScummVm AGS engine bitmap drawing
How is Go a lot safer than rust?
One interesting thing is the FSF’s principles have absolutely no problem with a free engine and paid assets. They explicitly say they have no position on artwork and I’d say art, sound, level design, and so on all qualifies as artwork.

That arrangement looks like a good one to me. It leaves plenty of room for the seller to make money while respecting user freedom. And every case I know of where a mod community thrives greatly lenthens the lifetime of the game. Needless to say having the engine source available would be a huge benefit for modders.
Apiops Cycles: A Method for Lean API Development
My use case didn't require an IDE. My main intent was to remote into my batteryless laptop, so in principle the iPad didn't need much functionality of its own.

That said, I don't know what you mean by "the lack of any developer tools". There are absolutely code editors, IDEs, SSH clients, and even runtimes for iPadOS. There are also lots of web-based IDEs and editors now, even self-hostable ones like code-server. Obviously I wouldn't have bought mine if those didn't exist.
Failing with Dignity: A Deep Dive into Graceful Degradation
I build this app over a decade ago. https://thegreatestbooks.org which I aggregate all the "lists" and use a weighted algorithm to create a single list of the best books. I've been working on a new version with genres, and a much smarter algorithm, which I am getting close to finishing.
You are assuming it gets you the result first time, it rarely does and you always need many back and forths. It’s still ok in your case if the results can kick start something, but you’d be nuts to assume you can use that all the way
There's a big problem with fighting against upvote sales, namely, if you fight too hard, buying upvotes might suddenly become more like buying downvotes, which is an useful service in itself.

If you're too harsh on content heavily promoted by voting rings and content with lots of low-quality comments, posting tons of low-quality comments and making a bad attempt at a voting ring becomes an useful strategy against your competition.
Yep and their mixing sku-s has created a whole sub industry where everything that fails quality control ends up here too. They should be required to track what came from who, so if counterfeits are discovered the rest of the stock can be pulled. I don't see how much effort it would take to add a sticker barcode.
Can concur. Everything looks normal, I slept through the outage but seems like everything that should be there is there.
Architects Must Resist the AI “Revolution”
Excited to see test results over the next few years from these fusion approaches.

Alternative energy opens possibilities to bring up other countries' tech competency without the typical pollution.
China is set to shatter its wind and solar target five years early
AutoGPT is the most popular useless project on GitHub
Possibly a spinoff organization like Figma UK Operations LTD that handles the UK business separately from Adobe.
What upsets me most is how much of a treasure trove of data that amazon/goodreads are sitting on and yet their recommendations are still pitiful. A basic collaborative-filtering algorithm would be better than "OH WE THINK YOU WILL LIKE THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT IS IN THE SAME GENRE AS A BOOK YOU BOUGHT A YEAR AGO!".

I'll humbly plug https://abooklike.foo just in case people want better book recommendations. You can input books u like and it'll find others you may like. I can explain more about its mechanics if useful. Been working on it for around 6 years now as a side project. Anyway, just posting in case someone's scanning through the thread and happens to see : )
I'm writing some ActivityPub stuff, and wanted to make sure to get RSS in, done right, etc. However i never use RSS so i have little insight to good/bad/irrelevant RSS impls.

Any wants or must-haves to an RSS implementation over a Fediverse instance?

My rough plan is to just include RSS in any places i expose JSON endpoints for data. Though i'm a bit undecided if there's any value in user activity stuff, like comments on an article, etc.
> Trying to visualize the floor plan of this house is like trying to rotate seven cubes individually in my mind’s eye

So many gems on this site.
On net, I would expect federation to work out in these people's favor. They won't do anything so obvious as simply run their own nodes which everyone will end up blocking (though that may be a small component of their methodology). But it just isn't that hard to script up some involvement across a wide range of servers, most of whom will not have any defenses whatsoever against this sort of thing, and from there do their thing. What methods get closed out are more than compensated by the vistas that open before them in a federated world.
While I have been and still am a fark user, I don’t know that it’s ever been widely relevant.
And AlienBlue was great. They'd just ruin "Apollo" in the same way.
Mayo is mostly oil. Usually the cheapest oil the manufacturer can source. That oil is highly refined, which usually involves dissolving ground up seeds in some solvent like hexane, then some high heat process to extract and de-odor the oil. Given that seed oils usually comprises polyunsaturated oils which due to their multiple double bonds are more reactive, the chemical processes probably tend to create more undesirable by products.

I mean, unless you prefer to drink the cheapest cooking oil you can find in your supermarket, you might want to avoid the mayo as well. (disclaimer: I occasionally drink EVOO directly)
I'm building a DreamJob site for CTOs and developers who want to become CTOs, and started a podcast, but yes if I could clone myself, the best time is today.
It's not the only factor. Millennials and Gen-Z are unable to buy homes because of housing scarcity created by Boomer NIMBYs and the politicians who pander to them.
Real estate agents can only do so much. While some of the photographs are truly terrible, in other cases it's the subject matter that is unsalvageable.
Is AI creative ?
Yea, I edited the title to reflect that it's more of a claim. My B
There is no near-term direct consequences for their choices. The feedback loop is too long. Not sure how to solve for that.
The launch pad is as much in development as the vehicle itself, so it's not at all clear what is "a proper launch pad" for this vehicle. And even once it's clear what it is, I've even seen some estimates that building one on that site may take years for reasons of local geology. Meanwhile they need to perform launch tests, so I'm not sure what else than MVP they're supposed to use. Clearly waiting a few years is not an option in a chicken-and-egg situation.
Yeah, but that info isn't in this dump.

Most of it probably isn't even on paper but in the minds of their top employees.
I completely agree. Now we just need to convince every current homeowner of this.
That wasn't my point. I was saying "moving the asking price" is a useless metric without knowing anything about it.

I can list a random suburban property for 100MM USD, and will have to drop the asking price by over 99%. The horrors! But it tells you nothing about the market.
The submitted link is not a good one, because it's to a Supreme Court live blog, so the current story is unlikely to remain at the top.
The iPad is awesome for reading, browsing the web, playing games and texting.

It can be used to some extent for work, like taking notes or using some business related (web) apps.

But it just can't replace a general purpose Windows/Linux/macOS laptop. It just can't, it's not designed for that. Some marketers try to position it for that, but that's another story.
> I have implemented rss 2.0 parser faster then understanding the atom specification. Atom can do encode stuff like encode html inline the xml instead of as a CDATA string. In theory this sounds great, but is ends up in a big mess of complexity (e.g. a blogpost with handwritten invalid html).

The same thing can also happen in RSS feeds (and JSON Feeds): Entity-encoded HTML strings or CDATA HTML strings do not have any guarantee of well-formed-ness. The direct embedding of XHTML into Atom as namespaced elements just surfaces potential invalid markup higher up.
I think the cloud instance is a pretty good option, and is effectively what the old-gangsta CentOS team was doing, with more or different steps. Back in the old days the RPMs were manually imported, there was no RH provided pipeline to get unbranded RPM sources. So it's really not a big deal to go back to the bad old ways, and if they want to ignore the new shiny CentOS stream way of things, well they are free to be as masochistic as they desire. Certainly nobody is forcing math students to use a graphing scientific calculator if they instead prefer to use a slide rule, because we sent men to the moon with slide rules... so I see no point in complaining about Linux neckbeards preferring to stay with the crufty old ways of importing package sources devoid of GIT history, or any modern pleasantries provided by CentOS Stream. I actually respect these rebuilders, although I think they are zealots to some extent, they are zealots in the good way, highly principled on the idea that software builds should be reproducible, for the sake of validating the software supply chain. But there is an insidious side, their user community is not aligned with the noble ideals of rebuilds, and tend to want the value without the costs. It's one thing to rebuild packages, and another to spin a compose of those rebuilt packages into a distro. That's what RH is apparently all bothered about, and I cannot blame them to some extent. But that said, the user community around the foot hills is still the RH user community for them all the way up high on mount Olympus. So I think Rocky, Alma, or whoever else will still get the package sources, no biggy. But what I wonder about is how RH will treat subscribers who deploy RH and the rebuilds.
> If you had Japanese style land use you could fit 2-3x more people in the existing large metro areas of Canada

If you built high-rise dorms or tiny apartments, you could probably fit even more.

https://www.designboom.com/design/brownstone-shared-housing-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/business/tiny-apartments-...
You are right, the lack of dev tools in a browser is probably one of the biggest drawbacks of working on ipad.
This seems crazy to me, the subject of the story has been swatted almost 50 times and the local police and the FBI's response is to basically shrug. Is it really technically possible for the criminals to conceal their actions or is this more a case of indifference on the part of law enforcement?
Obviously what we need is a complete loss of individual freedom at the hand of an authoritarian state putting in place fascist policies. /s

The solution can’t be what actually stopped the prohibition era organised crime as, as we all know, it didn’t work at all. /s
Great blog, I did learn quite a bit from it and also the book she recommends - A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlester.

We usually refer to any newish suburban house as a McMansion, but that's wrong. Cookie-cutter maybe, but not McMansion. The defining feature of McMansions is "more is more" mindset, a very large house with a thoughtless mishmash of styles, features, textures, colours, and shapes. Most suburban houses are not large enough nor eclectic enough to be called a proper McMansion. My random suburban house for example, has a needlessly large number of rooflines, but is generally coherent and shapely.
Maybe this very thread is a SaaS ad with bought upvotes?
The thing is downvoting isn't that visible on HN due to scored being hidden, just post hiding, which feels useful for bad posts which get it and deserve it (spam, useless comments, and the like)
I remember seeing commentary like this a few years ago. Looking at this today in the post-generative ML world, I realize that the pictures of these houses look like what such a system would produce as output.
Show me the laptop that is as good or better than the new 15” MacBook Air at the same price. Needs the same or better specs, build quality, and local in-person support (i.e. a worldwide dense network of retail stores). Good luck!
Biased sources are more reliable when they make a statement contrary to their expected bias then when they do so for it, so a statement painting the “special military operation” as a successful war of territorial aggrandizement, when the public position of the regime has been that that is not the goal, is more reliable than ones in line with public regime propaganda.
If only all properties were pitched expertly by the vendor, like the “never ending property” [1]

With high end 70s chintz and cheese production values.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kynbFDou6GI&feature=youtu.be&c...
Setup and Run Psiphon on Your Linux Machine
European companies sound alarm over draft AI law
Expertsexchange was one of the main reasons I began contributing to Stack Overflow in 2010-ish.
I love ipads but they are 100% for consumption, but productive work can involve consumption, reading pdfs etc.

But otherwise I've given up even trying to use the pencil productively.

Still love it though and expect to love vision pro for similar reasons
I think this service is more beneficial for upvoting posts rather than comments. A link on Hacker News provides valuable SEO for products.
Until for any reason you want to leave...
Bah, site is not loading for me. I am curious, what does an upvote cost? Is there time of day/week pricing? Stories vs comments?
Need to Get Plan B or an HIV Test Online? Facebook May Know About It
(Why the downvotes? The humour was not obvious and on target? Oh well...)
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They do this in an an opposite way . Launch HN and Job postings for startups are the reason why this website exists at all . But now the website is large enough that people will pay to promote things on it. This has replaced my usage of Reddit even before the drama.
> It's a debranded clone that by definition cannot even have a single bugfix that isn't in RHEL.

Not necessarily. They could easily have an optional repository for "bugfixes that aren't in RHEL". Those who want bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL for some reason could simply not enable that repository.
> iPad Pro is a GREAT tool for things far beyond writing. [...] Further, the iPad is pretty GREAT at remote access for Linux or Windows hosts.

I try and I try and I try because lots of tasks can be done and I want to like it. But I run into this certain problem that I also get with a laptop. I’m going along fine getting shit done then hit a stretch of work with a cognitive load/interaction balance where I start thinking “this would be easier with a mouse.” On a laptop I can grab an external mouse and in either case if that kind of workload keeps going I start thinking “why am I hunched over like this?”

I think I'm just a sucker for the marketing. This thin, lightweight, extremely portable, cute little rectangle can be my interface with professional life. I can do everything on the go and be free in life. I don't have to be a nerd that likes, or just be some rube stuck with being tethered to eyesore equipment in one physical location. ...but it's not working. My ergonomic keyboard, eye-level 27 inch screen and physical mouse are productivity.

And there's a nagging fear at the back of my mind that statements about "you can make it work and be more productive" are true when someone tells me to put time into learning vim and a tiling window manager controlled entirely by keyboard shortcuts, but false when said about finding a mobile workflow.
It would take forever, because Reddit leadership doesn't have the correct mentality to write a user-friendly client.

This is not about money or skill. You have to start with caring.
Shouldn’t that imply that if your project can have such accidents then it shouldn’t be built?

Why are we allowing some entity to profit from the upside and lumber us all with the downside costs?