skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah okay, I guess I was thinking that OP was talking about a more traditional sailing ship or something rather than a cruise ship! I've lived in Europe a few times and really enjoyed it but going across the Atlantic by boat is on the bucket list
HN's policy about dupes has been consistent for many years (it goes back to pg, who started the site and ran it for the first 8 years or so), so I hope it's ok if I explain it a bit.

On HN, a post only counts as a dupe if the same story has had significant attention in the last year or so. If it hasn't had significant attention yet, or if it has, but more than a year or so ago, then reposts are fine. The reason is that we want to give good stories multiple cracks at the bat, i.e. multiple chances at getting attention. Otherwise it's too random—randomness is a strong factor in what does or doesn't get noticed on the /newest page and we want to even that out over time.

Pointing out dupes in HN comments is great, but only if you link to a previous post that has had significant attention in the last year or so. Otherwise HN users will get irritated when they click on a link and are taken to a previous submission that didn't get any activity. I hope that makes sense!

By the way, some of the posts you've flagged as dupes were actually invited reposts—we comb through old submissions looking for good articles that didn't get noticed the first (or second, or third) time around, and invite one of the previous submitters to submit it again. Invited reposts go into the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so they get a random placement on HN's front page. This is another device we came up with for trying to mitigate the randomness of /newest. We want to maximize the opportunity for the best (for HN) articles to get in front of the community. At that point, readers can make up their own minds if the article is of interest or not.
Room Temperature Superconductor paper uses Bronze Age tech
That’s not comparable and you know it. Spotify offers to you is a software and a subscription to their music catalogue. The music is content. The different pieces of software in Office 365 are not. They all do widely different things. You could argue that word, excel and PowerPoint somehow go together if you squint hard enough (I don’t and don’t think they should be bundled either) but Teams does something entirely different and was only brought there for opportunistic reasons (as does Outlook actually).

> then I doubt many SaaS would be in business if every customer would just choose only the specific pieces that they need and not get everything as a bundle.

Maybe the issue is the SaaS business model then. But somehow I doubt it because Slack managed fine because Microsoft started unfairly undercutting them.
Actually did not kno about snowflake yet, so thanks for mentioning
No need - you ever cross a bridge and note a mesh of metal teeth? Thats for thermal expansion. Its already designed around and isnt generally noticeable - for steel it is 0.0000065 / °F [0].

[0] https://www.metalsales.us.com/thermal-expansion
But how can you oppose same sex marriage unless you think same sex couples are not deserving of the same legal status as straight couples. There's no religious grounds for opposing it because marriage is a legal matter. The ceremony that many churches do that they call marriage has no legal standing, and is not generally recognized (on it's own) by the government.

Your two options to oppose gay marriage then are either believing the United States should base it's tax and property laws on specifically christian religions (plenty others have no problem with gay marriage), or that gay couples should not be "valid" in the eyes of the law.
Kagi uses multiple search APIs (including their own) and implements their own ranking and mixing of results.
Basically you get the same results with spam removed, with some truly unique results from the in-house engine.
Calling out limitations like this in the documentation would go a long way in building confidence in the project. Better yet, if there's an example of how to deal with "day-2" operational concerns like this.

Simply looking at the docs on these two pages, its unclear to me whether there's a way to update the mirror definition when a schema change occurs or if I need to drop & recreate the mirror (and what the effects of this are in the destination):

- https://docs.peerdb.io/sql/commands/create-mirror

- https://docs.peerdb.io/usecases/Streaming%20Query%20Replicat...

All-in-all, very excited to see this project and will be watching it closely!
I agree. A natural monopoly doesn’t make sense to be private in any circumstance.

Thames Water is like the poster child for people who say anything government run is inherently bad because only the free market can optimize it and make it profitable. Except for the part where it’s private.
Why is Bing doing this? It feels like we’re burying the lede, a $2 trillion company isn’t showing sites that are critical of it on its supposedly unbiased search engine
As if Musk doesn't encourage the vitriol. He's banned antifascists and unbanned right wing trolls, and he's a right wing troll himself. This is what he created, and maybe it makes business sense, polarization and anger generates engagement. But it doesn't make sense to blame the users, thats just what the platform is now.
TLDR: Because they can be one brick thin. The waviness works just like corrugated cardboard.
By that logic, why couldn’t someone have done the same with electric cars and rockets? Were we never going to go into space again? Did the Nissan Leaf not already exist?
> If neutral is connected to the physical ground at multiple points you have a quite dangerous electrical fault, and should get it resolved.

Mostly true, except that neutral will also be re-grounded at the service transformer.

The NEC actually requires this (or more specifically it requires it to be grounded before it gets to the building, see NEC 2020 250.24(A)(2)). This is honestly a little weird, as typically that grounding would be before the service point, and thus outside the NEC's jurisdiction. The service point cannot be before the transformer, as only instrumentation transformers are allowed on the service before the service disconnect. But in any case, the utilities code has a similar requirement.

This means that neutral current absolutely can go though the bond at the service disconnect, down into your grounding electrodes, though the earth, and out at the transformer's grounding electrode, and up to neutral wire grounding at the transformer. Which is not really ideal. As long as the neutral has not failed, it is not a huge deal, as any interruption in the path would not cause significant voltages or spikes, but instead more current would travel over lower impedance neutral service conductor. It is more of a problem if the neutral service conductor has failed.
> Throughout all of biology you find definitions that are often quite arbitrary

There is a big difference though - there is mostly international agreement on what are the boundaries between species. I’m sure there are some disputes, but also vast areas of agreement

By contrast, “races” and the boundaries between them is a country-specific concept. The US is unusual in having officially defined racial categories. Most other countries don’t do that. And the few other countries that do, have very different categories from the US
Would be nice to not have the holes though.
They sat on it for 4 years?
People have.

https://cocktailwonk.com/2018/09/drinking-the-harewood-house...

Spoiler: it wasn't impressive.

"The Harewood gives the impression of a lightly aged rum, perhaps a year or two. Letting it breathe a bit more, I was surprised to pick up cucumber – admittedly a most unusual rum flavor descriptor. With more time, I picked up spice notes, but not much vanilla. All in all, an extremely interesting rum, unlike anything I’ve ever encountered. But if had to choose one rum as my one desert island selection, it wouldn’t be the Harewood, much as I enjoyed it."
Agreed, that's the big one. But also: when sleep deprived: take a nap!
Kill dwm.exe on Windows for less input lag and better performance
SQLite is also working on a high-performance HC-tree backend that locks rows, instead of pages or databases. In their preliminary (extremely proof-of-concept!) benchmarks, it significantly outperforms BEGIN CONCURRENT + WAL2. Write performance scales linearly until the memory bus is saturated.

https://sqlite.org/hctree/doc/hctree/doc/hctree/index.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34434025
Nothing like a good recession to get these corporations showing their true colors.
I get a bit tired of this:

> Xerox failed to turn most of the technologies that it developed at PARC into successful commercial products

PARC didn't try -- and it did make a boatload of licensing fees.

PARC from the start followed a policy of licensing intellectual property instead of trying to build it out because that set the expectations of researchers: your ideas will get out, but you'll only get glory and a paycheck and the chance to be a part of a fantastic team. That was essential to the culture and team dynamics.

I was on a PARC team that went through the commercialization process when PARC just started licensing IP en masse (e.g., to help large IP holders in their patent battles). PARC researchers are very smart and can envision the future as well as anyone, and if it's possible they can hold something back and then capitalize on it for themselves, they will do so, which completely screws and politicizes the team dynamic of open discussion and development.

If you think about the pace of new findings in new territories, slowing down to capture and carry value will be a serious drag, and PARC wouldn't be what it was. I think PARC was right to only monetize patentable ideas (in a parallel stream of lawyers), ignoring opportunities that stem from speed or execution because that's where business uncertainty lies.

Indeed, I suspect that in the rapidly-evolved AI space, the companies that can gather the best teams to do the best work in this semi-open fashion will end up with the most (and most valuable) intellectual property. (And if their lawyers are better than PARC's at licensing by recognizing new forms of residual opportunities in AI, it will be beyond profitable.) The captured groups at openai/microsoft, Google, Apple, et al will get tangled in the culture, forces, and technologies driving their patrons.

Don't turn your scouts into farmers or builders.
Alex Kaplan (Princeton physics bachelor's, CEO of Cometeer which is like Juicero of coffee) thinks it's over: https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684642852616192000?r...

Edit: He's been breathlessly tweeting his hopes for the compound, and has now done complete 180. This is just meant to be a data point showing that one hypester has lost faith. His physics academic background (which is non-expert but still better than the average joe) shows that he's got a tiny bit of credibility, but his being of a failing coffee startup shows that he's probably got other motives.
What LAN routing policies are you talking about, exactly?
I think the important bit is that this isnt 'a lot' of systems, it is comparatively few.
I get a 'oops not ready' message when trying to load a ROM file on Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0). Here's where I got the ROM from: https://radicorn.do.timdeve.com/
Predicted by random people on the internet as well.
> Have you actually flown a forward-slip?

Yes, I'm a Private Pilot. I've done them dozens of time. Still feels weird to be flying sideways and cross controlled.
Rivian CEO says buying an ICE vehicle is like ‘building a horse barn’
>Back Market, Doctolib, Ornikar, HelloFresh, GitPod, N26, Yubikey, Revolut have plenty of impact and innovation as startups.

lol. I have heard of like two of these and even those are tiny companies.
According to some of his earlier tweets, getting the red phosphorus is hard, since Sigma-Aldrich won't sell it unless your lab is DEA vetted.

Nothing unsurmountable though.
Text-to-SQL: How to Connect LLM to SQL Database with LangChain SQLAgent
Store-bought tomatoes have been selectively bred for appearance, shelf-life, and durability. They taste terrible compared to home-grown, vine-ripened heirloom tomatoes but the latter would not survive all of the shipping and handling in the grocery supply chain.
Brave Search is doing pretty well.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=techdirt
That was entirely not what I was getting at and is a cheap shot that is well beneath you, especially because I suspect that you know that that wasn't what I was getting at.
Brave ads and the whole BAT thing are optin. You have to explicitly turn that on if you want it.
I think if they don't eventually do this, their promise to maintain Manifest V2 extension support may become a moot point.
Brave also inadvertently helps Google by contributing to the overall stats of Blink users and decreasing Firefox's visible marketshare. Firefox's shrinking marketshare marks it for "death" in a lot of little papercut ways. More users using Gecko would send more messages to web developers investing in which markets to pursue.
Time travel forward is comparitively simple, relativity basically tells you what to do. The implementation is hard but no need to break causality.
Vivaldi is an excellent browser, but it sometimes seems like it has too many options. For example, tab groups and tab workspaces are almost the exact same idea.

Arc is basically someone looking at Vivaldi and hitting it with the "design stick". I didn't anticipate I'd love it as much as I do. Since it's Mac-only I only use it on my work machine, but that's 80% of my browsing anyway and I have no desire to sync my work shit anywhere else.
Text-to-SQL: How to Connect LLM to SQL Database with LlamaIndex
> Instead he’d poll Twitter, ask a friend, or even ask his biographer for product advice

I'm sorry, he has a biographer following him around now?
As I mentioned; they lacked the scale and scope required to be successful.
> Your response suggests you don't understand my points at all.

I understand them pretty well: since moral relativism is absolute, there is no point in setting limits on speech.

> ... it's to eliminate the idea that any group should oppress the other based upon what they believe.

I have no issues with oppression against those wanting to oppress others. Again, paradox of tolerance.
It's worth taking the time to learn to ID the lone star tick if you haven't already as it is thought to be the main carrier, per the CDC page linked from the original article [0]. I use permethrin pretty religiously these days, especially since lyme disease is now ubiquitous in my region, and I've been impressed with the results. Where previously a half-day in the woods might result in as much as a dozen ticks on my clothing and person, I basically never find them now. hoping that permethrin use doesn't some day come back to, pardon the pun, bite me (or anyone else), but it'll have to do for now.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/alpha-gal/index.html
Thanks for looking into this. Would love to learn how a specific query like "site: techdirt.com" got wiped like that. Will you share your findings once it's been identified and resolved?
https://archive.is/l4cRp
It's not just that. For example, BMW has paired the main battery to the ECU in their cars for years. So a dead battery requires a trip to an authorized repair shop (or buying an OBD scan tool) to have a new battery operate correctly. This is relatively easy & safe ~4 bolt job (2 tether the battery, then 1 for each terminal) in many other cars. Technically, it can be self-repaired, but it's extra steps and cost because reasons.
Why is that? I've already put all my knowledge on the topic on display so I can't tell if this is a joke about aesthetics or if there is actually something neat having to do with the gaps
a more sustainable approach would be to use the "Share Feedback" in the (regrettably positioned) lower right corner of the search results page. The story I've heard is that actual humans look at that feedback
> we will only create more heat and will need even more energy to deal with it

Yes, that's a thermodynamic certainty. But the moment Homo sapiens left the year-round pleasant high plains of East Africa, we were going to need energy; you can't blame the caveman for lighting a stick on fire to keep himself warm.

> a large part of the world is simply not built to withstand such temperatures

People live in some truly inhospitable places, some cold, some hot, and have done so since before modern conveniences. Unless the plan is to make sure everyone in the world lives in places where you naturally don't need (or want) heat or air conditioning, the extra heat in the atmosphere is the price we must pay.
Interesting.. would you have a source for those rumors?
Problematic in the sense that, at this time, we have no way to validate any of his claims. That's as it has always been.

Still, it's a giggle to think there is some non-zero chance that validation might come to pass.
Compared to average finance billionaire #293 bragging to their golf buddies how they got the Toys-R-Us bankruptcy to pay for their third private yacht he has definitely done his duty for improving the world, even if he's lately been acting like a major idiot while doing it. Yes I know there are other tech billionaires who do better, but for every one of them there's a mile of those who instead actively work to make the world worse for their own self interest
Is there some free service that allows chatting with the 70b llama2?
What It Means to Design Technology That’s “Pass-Through”
It is simply not true that we have intentionally censored anything for political reasons or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth" in general, which people have also accused us/me of doing.

I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter that got grossly misinterpreted, so I subsequently put out a clarification in this help page with a much clearer (and detailed) explanation of how our news rankings actually work: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/news-ra...

From that page: "When we apply our own ranking signals we do so in a strictly non-political manner, meaning we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings." That is, we did not/do not have a disinformation/"truth" detector, nor did we go looking for any Russian narrative (or any other narrative for that matter). Instead, we just have essentially a spam detector that had detected some spam from Russian state sites. That's it.
Ask HN: Tooling to Prevent Duplicate Code?
I am looking for an ideally SaaS solution that would help reduce introduction of duplicate code into the codebase. What has anyone used?
It's funny to me seeing this "uproar" after watching the Prodigy's Smack my bitch up "uproar" from much earlier. Probably with a smaller audience though.
I wonder if a lot of people who were leading freelance engineers are pulling back to use AI to learn new things, or to go out on their own?

Just a thought.
The mustard blooms in spring here in California are closely tied to Spanish mission settlements.

Here's a bit of local history, for those of us in the Bay Area.

https://gilroydispatch.com/the-mustard-king-of-san-juan-baut...
MyGet Down for over 24 Hours
MyGet (package repository for public and private NuGet, npm, ... packages) has been down for over 24 hours now. While this literally blocks development teams relying on the service, Assembla (that acquired MyGet in 2018) excels at not communicating about the incident. It almost feels as if they want their customers to migrate away from MyGet.

It just boggles my mind how this is even possible. If you run a SaaS business, you should be prepared for scenarios when the service is not available and get it back online as soon as possible. Over 24 hours is just ridiculous.
It seems to me that if you haven't invested in a proper gun safe for your car you shouldn't be carrying in the first place because there are definitely places that you cannot take a gun into, even in Texas. I have never known a gun-owner who did not purchase a proper gun restraint for their car.

Still, if you don't have a gun safe in the car surely you do the same thing as you would when going to court, a school, a church, an amusement park, voting at a polling place, a racetrack, a hospital, a nursing home, or to any other business that prohibits handguns on the premises. You leave it at home, right?
https://archive.is/JqRRr
There's the rather non-trivial problem of actually manufacturing chips with the superconducting material.

But if that can be solved, then yes, it could make computing way more efficient.
Zig? Or Nim? Both of those are Algol-ish.

Ooh! What about [0]? Gambit Scheme has what they call `six-script` which is essentially a refactoring of Scheme grammar to fit into an Algol-esque syntax.

[0] http://gambitscheme.org/latest/manual/#GSI, see section 2.6.1
Are you suggesting that those who build enterprises don't have time for kids? Seems plausible, but is the difference in lifestyle so consistently prevalent as to be stereotypical? Elon has 10!
Ah yes, we are still in 2023 and we are still flaming any PHP user because PHP is so 2001.
Thanks for the update! From your other thread:

> Bing is our largest source of traditional web links.

I think "traditional web links" is the main (and I think should be the only) product of a search engine, and it seems like you rely on Bing quite significantly to serve search results.
> Their preferred ecological niche involves poor, salty soil.

I looked at Wikipedia, to see what is a honey locust and Wikipedia (that arguably is not a grear source) says that those trees are "mostly found in the moist soil of river valleys". ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust )

So it seems wikipedia says something else than the article? The self named researcher is confused why trees that like water grow near water?
> the necessity of debt to measure and trade is dubious at best, selfish and evil at worst

This is not what I wrote or meant, but I do agree that it could be understand like that.
It would be of course better to measure necessity with something else, but so far approaches to replace it have failed for various reasons.
https://archive.is/gJAg9
Why not just require all large companies to be employee-owned co-ops? That's the only way you truly make it so that "their power derives from the consent of their employees".
This keeps happening. Just a few of many examples:

https://daverupert.com/2023/01/shadow-banned-by-duckduckgo-a...

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/03/25/my-website-disa...

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bing.html
On the contrary, I like it when the interface to my tools err on the side of precision at the cost of verbosity. I can always write a shell script or Makefile that does all the boring stuff once I've learned what the inputs mean, but if a tool only provides an overly simplified interface, it is much less obvious what it's doing, or what the other options might be, if any.

What does `go build` do? What files does it implicitly rely on? I have no idea. But I have a pretty good idea of what that `austral` command is going to do without having read any documentation about it.
i do not understand this either regarding the samples, usually(in my limited experience) synthesis groups have collaborators that specialize in transport or other types of measurements which I think would have added a bit of credibility, probably could have gotten a measurement of Tc, and just generally added a lot to the paper