skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is unrelated to the issue at hand, but in case someone from Techdirt comes here then please, allow zoom on your site.

There is no defensible reason to disable it on a content heavy site like yours.
I am not sure I am doing more than ~33 searches a day lately so probably the $10 plan will suit me fine. I think I do something like anywhere from 5 to 20 a day.

But I too started getting disgusted by "everything is a subscription" but I might jump the train if I like Kagi enough.

Because apparently the internet companies can't figure out an ad model that's not extremely toxic and does not trample on every single privacy rule the world has (and the 100x more that the world still doesn't have but should not be broken anyway because they should be a moral / ethical no-brainer but alas, go tell that to the "money above everything" types).

But finally, after decades, all the VCs funding internet companies that planned to capture the market with network effects and then start charging, are showing their true colors. I am glad. It makes them more honest and gives the users better information to act on.
https://archive.is/MSoGR
Hi, one of the authors here. We will be releasing a Python client library in a few weeks.
The $5 plan only gets you 1GB of data. I usually get through much more than that while travelling.

Last time I was in the UK ended up walking into a Vodafone shop and got a physical SIM and 30 day 20GB pay as you go plan for £10. That would cost $74 on Airalo.

I'm looking forward to eSIM being more widely supported as its definitely more convenient. In the last year most US carriers have started offering it on their PAYG plans.
its... complicated. depending on things docker might or might not be proxying the traffic. see for example https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/14856 for discussion
De-Risking Authoritarian AI
The kind folk at htmx have already written up when it might be most appropriate to use, and when it isn't:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/#hypermedia-a...
Vague posting, okay?
@dang

I love you guys - I just want to also keep you square.

So, please allow me to call out dorks being dorks.

If I am an ass then call me out for being an ass, but dont ban me from calling out dorks, or things that HN might disagree.
Using any chromium based browser is explicitly giving google more power over the free and open web.
So… the entire PMW near water?
This really reminds me of "cold fusion"

We all really wanted that to be true, too.

Patience, is all that is available to us that do not have a lab able to replicate
Yes, that's right -- we do!
Seeds Here Now source of pride is the extensive range of cannabis strains we offer. Each breeder we collaborate with has distinct goals and velato strain focuses on specific traits when creating their genetic preservation kits. https://seedsherenow.com/
It's that famous old triangle: Size, Quality and Cost.

You're allowed to select any two.
Show HN: Envoy playground in the browser
Hey HN,

We made an Envoy Proxy playground [0] so we could test out our Envoy configs directly in the browser. This is based on Julia's work with Nginx Playround. [1] We forked that repo and added more Envoy to it. [2] Check it out!

[0] - Envoy is a popular programmable proxy similar to Nginx or HAProxy that is popular with cloud-native setups: https://www.envoyproxy.io

[1] - https://nginx-playground.wizardzines.com

[2] - https://github.com/apoxy-dev/envoy-playground
> I wonder what the difference is in your recursion and what's listed?

How deep you recurse :D
How'd they move it there in the first place?
I got a chance to try a 100 year old port once. It tasted like a really good 20-year-old port which had been aged in the bottom of a Weber barbecue grill.
Acting like the whole networking stack doesn't exist is the whole purpose of packet sockets, because sometimes you want to override the things the networking stack does.

You need privileges to open a raw socket (or a packet socket, or anything else that would let you program at the IP layer) because otherwise unprivileged processes could hijack traffic for other applications on the system.
Bard also gives an excellent response.

In fact when I used regular Google, the results are good enough for me to deduce that on my own.

So I consider GP's search skills inadequate. I mean it's not exactly wrong to desire a tool that handholds you and feeds you the answer; but if you are willing to do a little bit of deduction Google is fine.
Is there a limit to the amount of activity you can do on the iOS app? Everything was working great for the first few hours that I had the app but it has stopped tracking anything.
That's great -- it costs $48,000 to fix one of his heaps after a fender bender. When that changes and more certified shops start opening I'll consider it.

Not to mention the R1 is a $70,000+ truck, haha. What. He's not exactly doing much to remedy the situation, huh? R2 being in the $40k range is a little better I suppose, but that's still reaching up into the luxury range as far as pricing goes. I'm a cheap bastard.
You didn’t specify but I assume you are only required to add [shopify] (exact match) as a negative KW, which is very different from shopify (broad match).
We have not censored anything -- see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898661 (and others on this thread).
Why Are Brazil Nuts So Radioactive? The Surprising Truth
They build their own index but don’t let you access it with keyword based queries. Instead the do ‘magic’ and shape the responses from multiple data sources.

I’d love it if instead of ‘magic’ we just had a search engine that let you be the magician with a better query language and ux filters.
> I'm experiencing a weird bug where after clicking on a result and going back to the results page the order of the results change.

This also happens to me and I have found reports on Reddit of it happening to many others.

Sometimes, I cannot even find the original result that I had clicked on, when I return to the search results page.
That's very much like how we eventually got working electric light. 1000's of failures and then something that really worked.
Or fuckin' geeksforgeeks.

I am totally not affiliated with kagi but since I started using it, I haven't gotten pissed at my search engine for sucking ass.

OH! Another feature that actually works on Kagi: Date filtering! Never again will you set that date filter to the last two weeks and receive results that were posted in 2005.
It's looking like 2023 is the year that search dies. Between the removal of exclusion operators (hey, we saw you were adding -pinterest to your searches, but we want to make sure you get your pinterest!) and de-indexing of sites, it's looking like it's time for the search wheel to start making its third spin.

Guess I need to start playing more with things like Algolia or Kagi.
That paper kind of does the same thing that my comment above proposed, starting with as large dataset as they can get and then filtering it to extract a much smaller dataset focused on a specific task that still is larger than all of English Wikipedia.
Astroturfing isn't allowed here BTW.
Should have looked at the username, massive egg on face.
Prices of gallium and germanium rise as China export controls loom
DeGaulle's observation that "nations do not have friends, only interests" comes to mind.
I disagree and here’s an example I would use.

In the 20+ years Google has dominated search, who has come along and iterated a “better” version? Bing? Is the capital and scope required not approachable, as you suggest?

Similarly, since Tesla helped demonstrate a valid market for electric cars, how many automakers have released competitive (and to some, better) EVs? If the capital requirements and scope were too large, where did Rivian and Polestar and numerous other upstarts come from?

I won’t disagree re: SpaceX.
Ruby meta programming is awesomely powerful, but also one of the main reasons I never want to work in another’s Ruby codebase again. There is always some developer who read some article like this and invents their own DSL to solve a problem that didn’t need one. It’s pure pain to debug it.
Short answer, no what we at least think of time and the other fundamental rules of physics didn't have to exist, or may have been different values from our universe now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay
i should also have mentioned that I do not personally know the extent of his knowledge about superconductivity, to my understanding he was an expert on the synthesis of phase change materials, particularly the metal insulator transition. in the 2nd paper he is cited for proposing the superconductivity mechanism based on mechanisms seen in the metal-insulator-transition, which I have not seen before as an SC mechanism
For context, he goes on:

>LK-99 is probably a new and interesting diamagnetic material that exhibits a phase change from an insulator to a conductor at 400K, but it does not exhibit features of superconductivity

>Still worth trying to replicate, but there's essentially no data left in the original paper that can only be explained by superconductivity. All the main findings have more plausible alternate explanations.
Enough money to retire on sounds even more like an "insanely high amount" when I think of it as a sign-on bonus.
> There are services like rsync.net that support borg at a lower price.

And rsync.net is even one of them!

"Special "borg accounts" are available at a very deep discount for technically proficient users." -- https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html

...hrm, it seems they didn't update that page with last year's price drop. https://web.archive.org/web/20220319135035/https://www.rsync... It used to be a deep discount, now it's the same for <100TB. I wonder if they did drop the Borg prices too and just forgot to update that page?
The Post-Quantum Signal Protocol [pdf]
Worms Revived After 46,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost
Wyrm fence is a great name! I'd use one to keep my hoard of treasure safe
I’m surprised that so many highly analytical minds (such as HN posters I’d assume are) mistakenly believe that whatever crisis may or may not be at hand would be solved by individual action as instructed by some vague institutions or organisations. It’s like asking people to drive slowly without introducing and enforcing speed limits, or more tangibly whatever the farce with recycling has been for the past decades.

Come on, as an engineer you know these problems are solved by removing the human error from the equation, not by desperately trying to adjust the weight of the human error.
It's just speculation because the third author on the first paper isn't an author on the second, better paper, and he's the one who published it.
Cosmic-air-host: Store entire HTML pages in a single url
Every time I see the "Stalin Giving a Power-Point Presentation" image, I giggle incoherently.
Interesting pictures.

Not a complicated subject, but somehow seeing it with straight lines made it completely obvious and intuitive vs the wavy wall.
Containers and Kubernetes should probably make way for the next (simpler) thing now. It will start slowly but all things die and I’m excited to see what kills them.
We know someone who backed over their child and the child died.

I assure you, that was not a nuisance.
DDG is useless, unless you really like Bing and care a bit about privacy... I'd rather use Brave for search and Yandex for image search.
The radical insistence on renewables as the ONLY energy source, and the equally radical opposition to Nuclear is part of why we aren't improving fission and researching fusion more, which would get us out of the woods.

No compromise is being pursued from the renewables side, while the nuclear side completely agree that renewables will be a major part of our grid.
I don't think you can directly translate work done by a person into calories. According to this article[1] it looks like most humans use roughly the same number of calories irregardless of physical excursion.

1: https://dupri.duke.edu/news-events/news/herman-pontzer-expla...
Just checked - Yandex has recent pages from techdirt.com in search results.
I mean..... if it's a crime, okay, that's a law enforcement matter. If the kiwifarms site operators get convicted for harassment and stalking, that's fine by me.
What is not fine by me is saying they don't deserve free speech even if they haven't committed a crime.
Direct link to paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Then maybe we can also take into account whether the emulated input comes from remotely attested assistive technology. Yes, this will have the effect of at least restricting third-party assistive technology, but we have to keep in mind what's best for the largest number of people (including disabled people who aren't hackers) in the big picture, rather than taking an absolutist stance on hacker freedom.
Especially out of the US, since containers are mostly empty
Are Chatbots Killing or Enhancing Customer Satisfaction? (2019)
Not at all. A lot of people are seeking financial freedom, privacy and stability which Monero has been offering for years. The user experience is simple and privacy is very hard to compromise if you follow basic precautions. The Monero economy is the biggest growing crypto economy you'll see these days. No NFTs and digital only garbage. People are selling, buying and offering services all with Monero using arbitration bonds as a precautionary method of preventing fraud. Just take a look yourself on MoneroMarket and Monerica.
I think this understates the complexity of getting the time slots right, since you have to factor in drift from the firmware, drift from the hardware (which varies based on temperature), and also the propagation time of the radio signals. Essentially, you want the timeslot to be much larger than the sum of all the jitters, while also making sure there are enough timeslots per system cycle to account for all of the devices, at the data rate you want.

Not to say its impossible to solve (although infinite precision synchronicity in distributed systems is impossible to solve), just that the more devices you throw at the system, the trickier it gets, in a way that does not scale linearly with the system size.
Elon Musk’s Quixotic Quest to Turn X into an ‘Everything App’
Hopefully! I'm guardedly optimistic, because I think renewable tech will save us, but we're going to have some real stormy political times to get there.

Donald Trump, the conspiracy theorist gameshow host was elected president of the USA! And might be again! So there's no room for complacency.
One person opined that it is similar to C++03: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898899
Yikes! You can't flame like this on HN, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

You broke the site guidelines egregiously in this thread. We have to ban accounts that do that. Fortunately you've also posted quite a few good comments, so this shouldn't be hard to fix, but if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
Just start a TikTok challenge for most orbs destroyed.
Where does the other 2/3 of energy go? I thought it's all converted to heat.
just curious, are there any open models doing the opposite of audio synthesis? As in able to generate the stems for a song?
Okay, this is going to sound weird, but I've used Keynote in the past. I'm sure PowerPoint can do this as well, but Keynote has Magic Move, and you can export this animation. It's very easy to work with, and do simple animations. I'm sure there are much better tools for this, but as someone who knew Keynote, this was always effective for me.
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t being held in contempt of Congress after all
Not to be rude, but what makes this person such an authority that a contextless Tweet from them is worth discussing? They appear to be somebody who recently finished an undergraduate degree in physics at Princeton and now works for a coffee start-up. I'm sure they know more physics than I do, but I don't see why I should trust their assessment of this situation.

(Or maybe they "showed their work" in a more extensive form that is not visible to me in whatever Twitter is now.)
Roger Penrose has a cyclic theory that allows what you state. The universe stretches itself out so far over so much time it becomes effectively zero entropy, which it kind of how the big bang appears to be.
By that logic every WSJ and Forbes post is useless as well since they require a paid subscription to read more than a couple articles (if not immediately).

At least you can register a twitter account for free, with a throwaway email, in a few seconds.
It's turtles all the way down, I mean, it's Bing. If your basic source of information, the thing that you rely on to create any smoke and mirrors on top of it, i.e. the index, is basically Bing and just Bing, then you're just a Bing mirror. More and more I see myself using Yandex out of all things to get decent results. The extremes the web got in 2023 are bizarre, the "best" search engine in the world today may very well come from a dictatorship controlled country.
If everyone is misunderstanding how something works it's because it doesn't work the right way.

Clearly people want firewall rules that take priority over everything else.
I don’t understand how Shopify can maintain market dominance as just a middleman value extractor. Probably why they’re forcing their app. I deleted my account and haven’t used Shopify since they wouldn’t let me get my order tracking any way besides the app. As someone who worked adjacent to logistics it was just the hardest hard “no” of all time for me. Money moves to easily now days to build a monopoly on e-commerce.
The British would probably be happy to do that even without the Third Reich. There are still British people today pissed about the French surrendering too quickly.
What Is Authorization as a Service and Why Should You Care About It?
More and more, our search-fu is being actively thwarted. Tools to tailor our search have been steadily taken away: exclusion/inclusion operators, verbatim search ignored, and on and on.
Furthermore, choice of language can have an effect as to the actual security of the networking layer.

Having parsers (and serializers) proved absent of runtime errors (e.g. with something like SPARK) is a form of guarantee I wish I'd see as the default in any 'serious' network-facing library or component. It's not even that hard to achieve, compared to the learning curve of the borrow checker.

Once rust gets plugged into Why3 and gets some industrial-grade proof capacity, the question of 'is it written in rust?' will be automatic (as in 'why would you do it any other way?').
A lot of open web is still out there. I guess if people choose to use platforms it's up to them.
Why charge an EV when you can just swap its battery?
DDG’s business model is largely about privacy and UI rather than attempting to be objectively better than other search engines. Search is not quite 1:1 with Bing, but frankly I hate Bing’s UI not its results.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot. We have to ban such accounts. We've had to ask you about this multiple times already.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
>Would this factoid be true pre-1945 Oppenheimer / Los Almost test?

Yes - K-40 is primordial and Ra-226 is part of the uranium series from U-238, which is also primordial.
> The COO of the company you've built your product on told you that they don't want you to keep running your business.

That doesn't sound like a reasonable request. It's not like the COO is paying them anything to stop running their business. Can you imagine if Microsoft shutdown, because IBM asked them nicely to stop their business back in the 80s?
My feeling on the matter that nothing is free and every time a team like this spends their resources on some extra bauble, they are drifting from the core goal. Like Mozilla.
I used htmx with Clojure and it was easy to mimic components as functions that return hiccup. I have a default middleware that converts it to html before sending it to the client unless I explicitly say it's a json route.

(defn some-component [{:keys [class]} & children]
[:div {:class (str "some-component-wrapper" class)}
[:h1 "Hello World"]
children])
You can spin it any way you like, but the fact is evident: you rely on Bing to the extent that if Bing delists a site, that site will be completely sanitised from every single part of a DDG search, including all those dozens of modules you keep referring to.
Society is so gullible :(
It's to distract us from Google destroying the web with attestation! :)
Google delays its upgraded, more expansive Find My Device network
Regardless of what their CEO claims here every single time, if Bing cut off their access, DDG would be dead overnight.

All the stuff they claim to do themselves is <1% of whatever value DDG provides. Lucky for them it’s just enough to be able to use terms like “largely” instead of “entirely”, “other sources” instead of “only source”, etc.
Money and fame can create psychological prisons which may worsen mental health conditions. We’ve all seen high profile cases of celebrities who end up with some combination of depression, paranoia, delusions of grandeur, mania and/or erratic behavior.

This is the first post I've seen that shows concern for the mental health of our leaders. I share that same concern for our elected officials, as they've been in survival mode since their popularity peaked on 9/11, just as I've run myself ragged to make rent. Political polarization has been on a steady upward climb since WWII. Now they spend so much time fundraising for reelection that they've all but abdicated their personal responsibility to do the right thing for the public. Regardless of what millionaires, billionaires and politicians say, it must be hard for them to look themselves in the mirror after doing so much for so long against the best interests of people and planet.

I view the Twitter > X situation as the cherry on top of wealth inequality. Where most of us were probably inspired to disrupt the status quo in the 90s and 2000s, now it's become just another game of survival. Whatever work I do today will just get diluted and corrupted by the status quo. It's not any one thing like the loss of Twitter driving that, but the rampant replacement of real tech by phantom tech, and more importantly the loss of our enterprising spirit as seen by the disappearance of affordable college and our industry getting replaced by finance and other rent-seeking ventures.

Understanding why wealthy and powerful people do the wrong things with their money may be one of the great problems of our time. On the other side of that is a world where tech does the work that people are forced to do today to survive, and we all begin to self-actualize and come full circle to a human being.
> blue razor blade

I first ran across the designs for these radios in a corner of the Old Web on a site called Bizarre Stuff You Can Name In Your Kitchen:

<http://web.archive.org/web/20040918174026/http://www.bizarre...>
Tesla has a range inflation problem
DoorDash Is Working on an AI Chatbot to Speed Up Food Ordering
Classic: saving two lines of code, but completely breaking maintainability.
Might be true, I have no idea, but it seems irrelevant when discussing Twitter: they were a public company being offered a generous premium.
It took me way too long to see that the cars are driving on the right, so this is Cambridge MA, not Cambridge UK.