skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see a feature comparison table/site for these tools?

Which ones have...?

- search built in
- PDF output
- ePub output
- more than one theme
- lots of other stuff
I mostly meant "upvotes and downvotes on comments" -- as opposed to on topics -- but now I wonder if all upvotes and downvotes could be done away with. Perhaps there's a different way to gauge "interestingness," such as clickthrough rate and comment volume?
I feel like this is overly cynical. Facebook is still the best social network for certain age groups. Instagram (and Facebook) engagement is dropping but it's (they're) still one of the best mediums for getting the word out about events (for me anyway). Reddit is fine as long as old-reddit still works, though with losing API access the mobile story is about to suck.
That fact that it un-ironically uses the term “late stage capitalism” should tell you all you need to know about the author, article and publication.
And yet photographers are able to use various Adobe (or similar) products to do real-time edits/sharing of their work. Most people don't need 100% control over the file-system. As long as the particular type of file they manipulate is available in the app they want to use, an iPad works pretty well.
Can someone run a GPT summarize on the article and post key points?
Haha this was my first thought too
Not joking at all. Reddit has had a self-service platform that lets you target ads to subreddits for a very long time. Why do you think it's not popular?
Sonemic has been pretty good about not turning RYM into an affiliate link ridden landfill like Goodreads.
Colorado here and that wasn't the case for me.

There were many, and varied things missed in my inspection. The biggest was the entire HVAC system being messed up. The furnace was incorrectly installed, improperly sized for the house, and didn't even have any return ductwork installed.

The air flow seemed really bad in the bedroom and so one day I decided to climb up into the attic and take a look. The problem with the return air missing was immediately obvious. When I called the inspector to ask why they'd miss something so obvious I was given an excuse and pointed toward the part of the contract that states they're not liable. I eventually got them to refund the cost of the inspection, but it was hundreds of dollars back for over ten thousand dollars in missed issues. I was only able to get anything because I worked for a real estate company at the time and knew the right people who could apply pressure.

IMO Home inspections are a total scam.
In my country there are a lot of people doing a ton of work with photos and video on iPhones. They are the generation who almost skipped the desktop. I think the M1 iPad is for these people, not us legacy desktop users. That said, why can't we simply have macOS on iPad right?
FDIC insurance is by account, not individual.
You also see it with certain companies that have a very active presence on HN. Any negative comment is downvoted aggressively. Downvoting on HN is rather uncommon, people tend to tell you why they disagree with you rather than vote you down. When it happens with some of these companies you never see that.
They can't because the weights are secret.

But that's not what I was talking about, and they have been used to make other Transformer models, which both aren't what I was talking about and not (that I'm aware of) a virus, and also indeed as you say aren't very useful.

…

I think you and I may just straight up be taking about unrelated conversational threads.
Very fun to play with. I wish there were an option to save the audio file so I could make my own phone alert.
IBM thought they could extract more than the already nice margins Red Hat was generating.
People like you are destroying the fabric of society.
Waiting for the big flood is kind of like waiting for the big earthquake,

It’s either going to happen tomorrow or 200 years from now, and either way there’s nothing you can do about it except hope you die quickly
If you are bowling with a house bowling ball, and not hooking it extensively you would have done just as well on any lane. The lane did not do it for you. The balls used by league bowlers are highly reactive and they generate spin in the oil. Once they hit that dry part on the outside they fly into the pocket for strikes.

If you came off the street, picked up a ball of the rack, and bowled a great game it was all you.
Its FBI agents and dogs all the way down.
> I'm a people person. I have people skills.

I don't agree.

In my experience, there are people with a talent for talking, and have a natural attraction. People just want to talk to them. But that's not most people in sales (even if they are often top).

The key skills to be successful in sales are similar. Dedication, problems solving, and an interest in what you're doing. Many here could pick it up.
Soda lime glass isn't ideal for cooking, but I've never had a problem with soda lime glass bowls in the microwave. Any manner of bowl, from covered glass bowls in the pyrex style to small glass bowls meant for serving soup/etc, none has ever shattered in the microwave.

I wouldn't want to trust my casserole in the oven to soda lime glass though. Best to have real pyrex aka borosilicate glass for that.
The hype cycles are not relevant.
I'm not old but it's fairly obvious that most internet companies have refocused from an exceptionnaly long growth centered phase towards extracting value from their user base in the last few years. As a consequence things have gotten measurably worse for said users.

We should be seeing competitors emerging right now but sadly years of lax competition laws enforcement and extreme concentration of wealth amongst said companies make that unlikely in the short term.

No shouting at the cloud required here.
China’s GAC Unveils World’s First Ammonia Car Engine
https://archive.is/V1nMS
Everything Elon says on Twitter is true.
Fairphone's support periods are a lie, they last longer than the Qualcomm or the Linux kernel stable version they use actually offers.

Fairphone 3 users despite still having "support" until next year are over a year behind Qualcomm and run the end of life Linux 4.9 kernel.
This reminds me of the "Worst of Chefkoch" blog [0].

Chefkoch is a German website where users share recipes. Some of them show off their unholy contraptions in gross photos which is then collected by the mentioned blog.

[0]: https://www.tumblr.com/worstofchefkoch
In the early 70's my grandparents gave me their collection of NG. It was complete from about 1920 to the early 1960's when my grandfather retired from the Air Force & built his own sail boat to travel the world. The discoveries I made, and the knowledge I gained, from that collection were awesome!
Really upsetting to see people dismissing or downplaying this article. Not only I resonate personally with every sentence in it, but I also recognise it almost universally among my peers. The radical rejection of any hope in traditional strategies for personal finance (like the belief that learning economically relevant skills is worth it in the long term) is for me the tangible reality and while I don’t see a valid alternative to it, I’m nevertheless concerned about its long term implications. One thing I feel the article has omitted is how the surging popularity of crypto speculation and chatGPT are also symptomatic: they appeal to people lacking technical abilities, who hope that by pulling the gambling lever on a science-fiction blackbox, fortune will provide them with the breakthrough worthy of a genius.
I always use example.com, since it's reserved for examples, and guaranteed that no one is bothered by it. :)
Decentralized hackernews/reddit of the future (which can't do this) will need some sort of weighted vote system...
As mentioned, it handles large temperature swings better than the more common soda lime glass. This can be useful if you have say a casserole in a glass dish that you prepped and stored in the fridge or freezer. When you go to bake it, if you have a borosilicate dish, you can take it out and put it straight in the oven. Soda lime glass has a much higher chance of shattering if you do this.

The downside of borosilicate that no one seems to mention is that it is a good bit more fragile when it comes to mechanical shocks. So, if you accidentally hit it with something while it's in the sink, there is a much higher chance that it shatters there.
12.9" pro's the best comic book reading device on the market, by a mile, AFAIK. Comfortable to hold, can display two-page spreads at very nearly full life-size.

It's great for PDFs and sheet music for similar reasons.

Gotta admit, though, if they made a 12.9" non-pro at least $200 cheaper than the 12.9" Pro, I'd have that instead. I don't need the horsepower.
You don't want to breathe a bunch of iron/rust dust, but that doesn't happen with iron cookware since it's never a dry-abrading situation.

I once rented an old house with some old iron pipes... While it was a problem for doing laundry without turning clothes orange, when I investigated the health risks it wasn't a problem unless you consumed huge enough amounts to get iron poisoning. Iron is an essential nutrient after all...
I wonder if Adobe will respond by saying the UK isnt a good place to invest in as well.
Oh they vote… just against their own interests. Gen-Z is a captured demographic that will vote against themselves while blaming others right into the pauper lines.
Agree I replaced all coffee makers, vaporizers, etc that have plastic anywhere near heat. I also make sure that tea bags are paper only not those mesh plastic ones which ironically cost more. I even took the plastic utensil rack out of my dishwasher after reading that most dishwashers are heavily contaminated with microplastics that just get coated on your dishes.

It is pretty frustrating trying to go plastic-less even with just food products. The glass storage containers for instance all seem to have plastic lids and seals...
You forgot to mention Stack Overflow.
Show HN: Hyke, a programming language that runs on TypeScript's type system
This absurd project started when I read a couple of blog posts that got very popular around here about solving the N queens puzzle using only Haskell's type system and TypeScript's type system. I figured I could implement Peano arithmetic using only TypeScript's type system. Turns out this have been done several times before, but I did it anyway.

While working on it, I realized that you could emulate functions with conditional recursive types, writing them in a way that strongly resembles the equations that can be found in some functional programming languages. So I thought I could write a transpiler that would transform equations written in a more terse language into conditional recursive types with the added boilerplate. And that was when hyke was born.

If you want, you can try it in your browser at the playground that is linked in the GitHub repo.
> I’m struggling to see how HN without voting would be anything other than a simple timeline of posts with comments.

I feel like voting for the content itself but keeping the comments section flat and sorted by time would lead to less gamified and much better comments sections than what we have now.

Maybe keep upvotes around as a positive reinforcement without having an effect on the position of a comment, and obviously mod flagging for things that break rules, but upvoting and downvoting being equivalent to "I agree" and "I disagree" leads to users gaming the system to hide things they disagree with.
Why do you think they'd use the same accounts every time?
To all skeptics: For upwards of six years, I've been a happy user of Fastmail. My experience as a customer has been nothing short of excellent. Its wealth of features – including numerous alias names, concealed email addresses, customizable domains, and its notably swift customer service – all come with a modest price tag. I believe it's worth every cent and represents outstanding value for money.

Edit:

I must clarify, though, that I have no affiliation with Fastmail - my endorsement is purely a reflection of my positive user experience.
The relevant law is:

39. Any exploration program which "just happens" to include a new launch vehicle is, de facto, a launch vehicle program.
> people tend to tell you why they disagree with you rather than vote you down

I’m not sure I agree with this. HN is probably better than most sites, but I frequently see gray comments with no responses.
Alphabet self immolation in progress. Piss off 80% for a 4% bump in premium.
Depends on if it includes the RHEL srpms.
“Where Am I?” By Daniel Dennett [pdf]
Probably a bunch of folks have not read Alexander's A Pattern Language:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

I'm guessing most of the design elements were the clients' choices and not the architects' (or any architect or interior designer with some semblance of good taste).
>few if any agents seem interested in working at hourly rates

It’s because most agents work as self-employed contractors under the auspices of a brokerage, and the brokerage is not going to allow that. And/ or, in a state using standardized legal documents, we don’t even have a form for that, which means we’d need to come up with an hourly contract from scratch - and the brokerages will put their foot down on that too.
Nobody is saying consumers MUST do anything. YouTube is not oxygen, if you don’t like it you can live a perfectly full and rich life without it.
Is it worth it to get a trademark for an open source software project?
So I am working on an ebook reader, which I call Bibliofile. I started it back in March and made the name up without much thought. Yesterday it occurred to me that there might be some other piece of software with that name, so I looked it up and found that there is a Library inventory system that shares that name. However, they have let their trademark expire, coincidentally the same month I started working on my project.

Is it worth the time and money getting a trademark for a personal project that I plan on supporting long-term? I highly doubt that I am going to be able to make money for this piece of software, but I still want to release and support it and it is nearly done being developed.
HN doesn't have downvotes on topics/submissions, which IMHO is part of the problem. You can only flag. But there are a lot of stories that don't rise to the level of "this is totally inappropriate/spam", but also aren't very good either.

In any case, I don't get the hate for comment up/downvotes: yes, some people will try to game it, but overall, it tends to get good stuff to the top, and is better than having to wade through comments randomly.
Honey is sweet because it has sugar in it, the same reason people would be using an artificial sweetener in the first place.
Firefighters in Canada: ‘Gigantic blazes will burn all summer’
"Middling" appropriately describes Motorola cameras. I've bought Motos exclusively since the original Droid and have finally moved off of the brand because of the camera.

It wasn't an important feature until I started getting potato quality photos of my children doing first-time-ever events.
Not in my experience, it doesn't.

I put my bare hands inside a microwave and pick up the paper or plastic from inside all the time!

The entire point of using a microwave is convenience. If I'm going to have to break out the oven mitts, I may as well just use the oven or an air fryer.
Goodreads is so bad, but there’s no good book review site alternative (although many good book trackers). I’ve been wishing for a Letterboxd like alternative with good UI and features
My Browser My Rights. I don't allow ads because no matter how good you are, someone will figure out how to get malware into ads. Once a system is compromised, best to burn it and start over. And now there are UEFI viruses that can reinstall malware even after the OS is wiped. And then there is the recent Gigabyte Motherboard discovery they were loading EXEs silently without approval. So no, I will not lower my protection.
Better to suffer in Mom’s basement than the sandbox (speaking as someone who has three brothers who have served numerous tours in the Middle East). No IEDs or MREs in the basement.
The article implies that Quake’s source code being released led to these games being created.

As far as I know, all the popular games were proprietary, so I’d still say it’s incorrect.
As far as disbarment goes, does that really matter. The goal of licensing is to protect the public who will rely on his services. If he cannot provide that service adequately, he should not be licensed, weather his failure is a moral one or a disability which cannot be accomodated.
Glass may impart more force upon the mug but it is certainly not likely to break itself. You would have to imagine they will use thick pyrex which you could use to drive a nail.
No; the expected value can still be positive, even if the long tail is too long for any existing insurance company to handle it.

That’s why the state acts as an insurer instead. There’s an argument to be made that the profits should also be socialised, of course.
So... $375 for 500 karma and permission to downvote?

Why am I not surprised?
Out of curiosity, what are the "good writing apps" on windows? When I last checked windows seemed to have exactly one note, android like 2 apps and iPad like 3 apps.
my experience with hetzner's support is excellent since I've never spoken to them

8 dedicated 64t/128gb servers for 2 years, 0 cumulative seconds of downtime, perfect record.
letterboxd is also alright for finding movies to watch and critique of them. OTOH you need to play whack a mole against the meme accounts and their 4 words long super popular "reviews".

Or just find a way into RED and PTP.
My point is more about what could be done with $70M in the wrong hands; that's the bit I imagine authorities that might move to block a ransom pay from happening would care about.
Carl George, a principal SWE at Red Hat, claimed to have found exactly one code contribution from the Rocky Linux or Alma projects back to RHEL - a two-line bugfix in a .spec post script.

https://old.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/14jq5i7/red_hats_co...

(Which is only what I, an ignoramus, would expect - if the project aims for "bug-for-bug compatibility", then it doesn't really gain much value from fixing bugs, while a fork would.)

If you think his evaluation of Alma/Rocky contributions is incorrect or incomplete, I'd be interested in hearing your POV as a Rocky engineer.
It's not a standard, it's a technology. 802.3 defines full-duplex (wired) gigabit Ethernet with each end of the peer-to-peer link both transmitting and receiving at the same time over the same wires. Add a similar hybrid to your WiFi PHY and you're done. It does also require MIMO beam forming to cancel the interference from other users on the same WAP.
> This argument makes absolutely no sense to me.

There are some business models where acquisition is the only viable way to make money.

Deepmind, Shazam, and Giphy were largely valuable because they create value for other big tech companies with respect to customer acquisition, market positioning and intellectual property. These companies had limited ability to make profits on their own.

One can still argue though that such acquisitions are still against the public interest even if they’re helpful to a class of startups.
The "obvious" solve was never discussed because:

- there's a vanishingly small minority who pay for apps

- Apollo volunteered to be the asserter of what 3Ps thought and they were extremely aggro

- It's a Solomon's baby situation, it's a worse outcome from all sides: 3P would be _more_ irate, their customer base gets slashed to nothing. Reddit needs to be able to charge for the API without having elaborate carve-outs for monetization schemes from years ago that didn't work

- People aren't thinking straight and are extremely aggressive in discounting others. Sure, the user generates API calls. That doesn't mean the app doesn't make API calls
I love the hardware of the iPad pro, however iOS is holding it back. Particularly sharing between apps is extremely frustrating. If users had the 'option' for a proper file system granting access to scope storage, this would go a long way to making workflows possible.
This is the practice in many countries and even several US states. The listing services we have in the US are not universal either, which I think performs a really important role in providing information to the public and creating a more level informational playing field.
By whom? Nobody even competes with Nvidia on the hardware side: https://opendata.blender.org/

In the software side they're virtually untouchable. Apple abandoned their serious attempt at dethroning CUDA, and AMD has let their GPGPU ambitions fester into uselessness. Unless the entire hardware industry develops a more attractive (see: open source) GPGPU library, Nvidia could dominate the market with CUDA alone.

It feels like observations like this are made with a certain blindness to non-consumer industries. In robotics, you either buy Nvidia Orin hardware or you don't compete. For AI, you either buy Nvidia hardware or you don't use SOTA. For parallel rendering in wattage-constrained environments, Apple doesn't even show up on the chart. Their 200w desktop chips are still fending off 120w midrange Nvidia laptops from 2020. It really is that bad. Even good hardware manufacturers genuinely struggle to compete with Nvidia when all the winds blow in their favor.

I don't like the situation, but I've also been around long enough that I know proprietary APIs can and will dominate certain industries. It took decades for DirectX to be dethroned as the leading 3D raster graphics library, and even today it isn't technically fully replaced. And that's one of the easier ones.
Large companies have become money sucking dinosaurs. Much like IBM, Oracle, Microsoft of the 90s. Can't wait to see some competition eating them.
Doubt I watch as many as 3 videos per month on YouTube. I hate everything about it, it's cesspool of scamming, racism, conspiracy nutters and people debasing themselves for clicks. I hope this kills it.
I think you are being a little unfair to them, but at the same time...

They get 5% of most single family residential transactions. And recently it was 6% that was standard. And the industry works really hard to protect those profits.

It is a lot of money that comes right out of consumers pockets.
> I honestly think the new AI stuff is making it even easier to learn things

ChatGPT is the closest thing we have to A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Adobe's actually done investors a favour and made a realistic enterprise valuation of the company for everyone. If it's worth $20bn to them then it's not likely to float for $5bn. They clearly think there's value there or some kind of competitive advantage that makes the company worth that much.
If you're going to assert statements that wild you should provide valid sources for them, otherwise it should be fairly easy to dismiss them as paranoid and baseless conspiracy theories. Your own ideology should not inform how you interpret objective facts, although I know this is often difficult to achieve for people on the far-right end of the political spectrum.
I believe iTunes/Podcasts since its beginning also supported Atom podcasts until they deprecated it some years ago. But I believe they were some of the very few.
Programming Language Design and Implementation stack exchange
Soda lime glass isn't hard to get, it's the "default" glass used around the world for everything from drinking glasses to window panes. If you buy a can of sauce or bottle of wine, that's almost certainly soda lime glass.

In Europe, Pyrex still uses borosilicate glass because it's better and because Europeans are more discerning consumers than Americans. That's my theory anyway. American pyrex cheaped out by switching to soda lime glass.