skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can work the other way around too. Early in my career I was working for a company that provided value added services in the telecommunications space. We grew quite large, working with household name brands in Northern Europe. However everything we did went through a single third party provider - we didn't communicate directly with telecommunications companies.

This provider did an ok job, however at the volumes we were processing it meant we were paying them a pretty handsome sum - which the owners (we were privately held without any outside investment) wanted to reduce to increase their profit margin. We made an offer to buy this provider, but they knew how much we were depending on them, and made a counter offer much higher, which we refused.

We started building out our own platform to connect directly to the telecommunications companies, which if you've ever worked in this space, you will know it's no easy task. Although there are standards, each company does things slightly differently, so each integration is effectively from scratch. To make it even harder, the process of migrating phone numbers etc is effectively turn it off in one place and turn it on in the new place, there is no gradual switch over. After the failed negotiations our provider did not want to cooperate with this (any more than they legally had to) and they gave us a hard deadline after which they would turn off all our services. Any major issues during this migration could take weeks to resolve, and would surely result in large customers leaving which could be the end of our company.

But in the end we did it. The migration over to our platform worked without any major issues, and we were even able to build in extra features that our provider didn't have.

And the icing on the cake: a year or so later we bought that provider. As we were their biggest customer - by a long way - they lost a big chunk of business. What we paid for them was much lower than the original offer we made.
A QAnon influencer posted CSAM and got banned. Musk personally intervened to reinstate it.

https://twitter.com/PokerPolitics/status/1684300589268709377

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684248597603155976
> people think it's actually about a dog

What a weird hill to try and die on, especially being 100% wrong about it.

His first verse is about ignorant rap critics, exploitative advertisers, and fickle radio stations, and uses the 99 problems lyric to reference them.

His second verse details a police stop where he was transporting drugs, and the 99 problems lyric is to reference the K-9 that is due to arrive.

His third verse he talks about a physical altercation he had with another man who was performatively aggressive, without anything to back it up. In that verse, he makes another point about how he is using a term often used for women, but he is not using that way "A nigga like myself had to strong-arm a ho/ This is not a ho in the sense of having a pussy/ But a pussy having no goddamn sense try and push me". At the end, the 99 problems lyric is used to reference this senseless man.

No where in the song does he talk about ex-girlfriends, strippers, club hookups or literally anything about women. The song is completely structured around clearly and consistently setting it up and paying it off as wordplay against things that aren’t women.
And to add insult to injury, not only is the UX bad, there is no rate limiting that happens like with normal banking, where alarm bells start ringing the minute large transactions are being made.

And banks can reverse fraudulent transactions, whereas with crypto there is the 'code is law' thing and once it's set in stone on the blockchain, there is no going back.

Also since modern computing is so leaky and insecure, crypto is being rampantly stolen all over the place. You could say the same about computing for banks, but the rate limiting, KYC, and anti-fraud measures are way ahead of crypto.
Tesla is one of the least reliable brands you can buy: https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2023-us-vehi...

Only Ford/Lincoln, Audi, and Land Rover are worse—all notoriously unreliable brands.
I feel like this makes it clear the level of reliance DuckDuckGo has on Bing. I know it's been a bit ambigious the full extent to which they do, and they claim to have their own indexer, but there's no way this is a coincidence. Surely if you have your own indexer you would have seen techdirt before?

At this moment "techdirt" only returns the wikipedia article, twitter, then mostly unrelated mentions of it. Surely DDG would have seen at least their homepage before?

> Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources...
The heat generated by drag at such high speeds means that titanium was, at the time, the only suitable material due to is high melting temperature.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. In fact, it looks like it has done that in every post!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I spoke too soon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627224 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36168830 were fine. If you'd like to be unbanned and stick to posting good comments like those, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
I don't know what you are talking about. My production setup is dumber than you would think. A bunch of bash scripts in a git repository. You just do git pull and then run a single bash script. ./app build builds the entire thing. If you want to run it then do ./app start.

Yes you do need to configure some environment variables like in almost any other form of deployment.

Messing around with tar files or flat binaries doesn't work for me. I tried that. I build a python app into an executable with Nuitka but it generates a folder anyway. Ok throw it in a tar file. Nope, doesn't run because the glibc version is too new on the developer machine. Nice try. I have to build it on the target machine. Amazing.
Oh thanks a lot! Awesome!
I think you're right. But for projects needing a database, I can't use anything but Rails. I tried Remix/Next because I like them but it was just taking me too long. Maybe I'm at the point in my life where I can't learn as quickly as I used to or something, but I don't understand how Rails is not getting _more_ popular with HTMX (and Hotwire).
ditto! THanks a lot for that one!!!
What do you think those different use cases are? How do you decide which one to use?
>He’s a complicated person with an unfathomable amount of financial and geopolitical power which is why humanity needs him to err on the side of goodness, rather than political divisiveness and pettiness.

It's more of an example why nobody should have that much power and money. We should depend on which side one person chooses.

It's like a monopoly of money and power and we know monopolies are bad.
Not high melting point but its ability to remain strong at high temperature.
wow, this is the kind of content I'm here for!
It had been going downhill since before Musk, he's not to blame for the start of that. But it's certainly spiraled and become unusable since the acquisition.
Then spend less.
By definition, if you have enough, it's not deprivation. And, at an individual level, deprivation isn't really something you can do to yourself (barring extreme circumstances, eating disorders, religious asceticism and suchlike).

This does get more complicated when it's a societal level choice. You might feel subjectively energy-deprived at a very different point to me. At the same time though, a well-designed low-energy regime isn't perceived by its citizens as despotic. There's very little call (nowadays) to smash Houston-style freeways through Europe's semi-pedestrianised neighbourhoods. Curiously, this was not the case in lower-information times, but the intersection of high bandwidth/discoverability and walkability is a much bigger topic.

Now I'm old enough to remember Eastern Bloc totalitarianism, and I find the current Gen Z fashion/fetish of all things DDR/Soviet vaguely tragic, but the outcome of the path we're on right now is at least equivalent to tyranny, at least for the three billion or so people at the pointy end of it all.
Right, you're spot on. We're lucky in that fertility is plummeting across the world [1], which means the population peak won't be too high [2], but we're still going to have to provide for all the people who are going to exist over the course of the next century.

The world is rapidly aging [3]; we should build renewables while we still have a young, productive worker cohort [4]. How are people who are going to want or need to migrate, to survive carbon emissions catching up with us, going to? No idea.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rates/

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth-over-time

[3] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-...

[4] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/electricity-generatio...
> Have I been engaging in "Design Thinking" all these years without even knowing it?

You've also been speaking prose all this time, too! Now you're the most obliged person in the world to me for telling you so.
> Human development includes a lot of things that have nothing to do with that ridiculous and narrow definition.

What other concept so concisely captures the difference between how our primitive ape ancestors lived, to how cavemen lived, to how the ancient cultures lived, to how we live now? Or how countries at different stages of development now are to each other?

The Human Development Index correlates highly with per capita energy expenditure[0]. It's basically a necessary but not sufficient component of human development; otherwise you'd see countries in the lower-right quadrant of that chart. I find it surprising that you have such a strong reaction to this.

> Follow the money

Of course, Big Oil lobbied for their interests. I'm sure solar executives spend money on lobbying, too. Doesn't mean that the public, especially the interested and motivated public ("those who take climate change seriously"), should have been duped by it.

No one is absolving Big Oil for their part in swaying public opinion, but the public should also grow a backbone.

> What about [...]

They're all good ideas. My point is that good ideas don't happen in a vacuum. Everything carries with it an opportunity cost. "Increasing renewable energy options" isn't something that happens as a result of someone waving a wand; it's accomplished using limited time and resources that could be used elsewhere. So when you implement those ideas by taking away from fossil fuels, you had better make sure that the tradeoff is worth it.

> What about increasing city density and improving subways and trains?

On this point especially, I'm all for reforming zoning so that cities can become more dense. This would alleviate so many problems in America's highly desirable cities that are laughably sparse compared to other world cities (but of course, the precious "neighborhood character"...).

And sure, let's improve transit systems. But how? Take a look at the MTA's budget[1]: only a quarter is paid for by fares, meaning that people who don't use the subway already pay for three-quarters of the MTA. Even pre-pandemic, fares were a little over a third[2]. And this is in the area with the highest transit usage percentage by far out of anywhere in the country; the one place where they should be able to make it work!

So it appears that there is already a high degree of subsidization of subways and trains. Given how rapidly the ridership experience is deteriorating in almost all American transit systems, it seems irresponsible to put even more tax dollars in that direction, without first addressing the issues that make people not want to ride them very much.

[0]: https://visualizingenergy.org/does-more-energy-use-increase-...

[1]: http://web.mta.info/budgetdashboard/Budget_Transparencyd.htm...

[2]: https://new.mta.info/sites/default/files/2019-03/MTA-2019-Ad...
The problem with the crypto/blockchain is the domain is finance which is all about money.

Using the Steve Jobs quote - what other problem domains could you back into where blockchain might be a good fit?

A couple ideas:

* user identity - anonymous, verifiable identity not tied to a corp or gov. use cases could involve managing logins/2FA to platforms w/o relying on a google/whatever identity

* property management - tracking titles/deeds for real estate

The challenge with any ideas is typical SaaS CRUD also solves these problems fairly well.
> But HTMX with it's conflation of presentation and business logic would also not be my first choice.

Have you seen React??

Htmx is just html attributes... that's it. If you want to mix things in your controllers, go ahead. But in my humble experience, the only way to write React components is to mix logic with presentation.
Jina Embeddings: A Novel Set of High-Performance Sentence Embedding Models
https://www.dbooks.org/computer-networks-0128182008/
The rolling waves of drama around Musk's latest "idea" eventually got more annoying to read on my Following feed so I left Twitter.
By "nearly so" I meant that gerrymandering could pack all of other party into a single district. There are another 12 states with only a single representative from the minority party.

The most egregious might be my home state, Maryland, with only a single Republican representative out of 9, despite 1/3 of the state having voted Republican in 2020. Similar ratios occur the other way in Tennessee and Alabama.

Which is to say, winner-take-all and winner-take-practically-all happen in about half of the state Representatives with more than a single member delegation.
It's perhaps that I've never really understood why "conservatism" means austere, balanced budgets and "conservatism" means bathroom police. I don't really get the underlying connection I suppose. I guess I've always seen "true conservatives" as the wealthy elite who pair their fiscal policy with whatever social issues they don't care about (basically any of them) that will drive votes for them.

The quintessential example would be Mitt Romney - his position on abortion evolved through the years, but his position on tax cuts for the rich has never waivered.
What projects are people working on that don't need a database?
I can't quite articulate it, but I find the Paradox of Intolerance to be wrong (or at least, incomplete).

It seems to me that, in the context of Popper's idea, what should be tolerated vs. what should not can be largely subjective and is often just weaponized against ideological opponents.

And yet, it's also self-evidently true at the margins -- we cannot tolerate Nazism or those who call for ethnic cleansing and so on.

But it's so overused on social media as a way to say - "I find your politics to be gross, and I will use the Paradox of Tolerance to claim moral superiority."

For example, I have seen people claim you should not tolerate Republicans or fundamentalist Christians or figures like Jordan Peterson. That seems quite extreme to me, as these are all within the American mainstream.
That is definitely not the same. I write a lot of python code and the interpreter / interactive development is just not as good as it is in Common Lisp.

To my knowledge there’s no real “mainstream” language that goes all in on interactive development. Breakpoints and traceback are all perfectly cromulent ways to debug, but it’s really not the same, sadly.
> At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand. I never figured out why and remain puzzled by it.

I think this bit here drives the love-hate views on him. Most mature orgs are overly bureaucratic with small visions and strongly conservative views about what can be accomplished. Some play-act at having big visions for marketing and ego, but internally few line employees believe that they are achievable, and there is rarely a plan that could achieve the vision.

Musk seems to come in - similarly to Trump - and simply disbelieves the expertise of the managerial class, and comes with enough accumulated power to bulldoze them instead of playing political games. The managerial class is the connective tissue of all but the tiniest of orgs, so encountering them is a given.

The pitfall to me is that he extends that to all expertise - engineering, science, marketing. His opening belief seems to be that most professionals are bullshit artists who spend their whole day lying to justify their jobs. And while the professionals are often wrong about what organizations of people can achieve, they are much less often wrong about how engineering needs to work, and they are hardly every wrong about the core science.

So my general view is that he is pathologically convinced that everyone but him is a parasite. And in a world full of managerial parasites, that's a pretty effective strategy.

But he can't turn it off once he breaks through the connective tissue and gets to the actual expertise. It doesn't matter if you are an expert on cave diving, or scalable architecture, or the behaviors of your core customers. I think it says more about our organizations than it does about him that just spamming a strategy of saying "I think you're a parasite with no actual expertise" and only believing in someone in extremely rare cases can make you the richest man in the world.
You're right that bad behavior by police (who are also civilians) is a much bigger problem than bad behavior by the people they interact with, but the actions of both parties still matter. The channel seems to take into account that your average person doesn't interact with police very often, hasn't been trained for such encounters, and isn't under any obligation to act professionally. That said, they can still be reckless, irresponsible, and abusive. An auditor can also weaken their case if they're not careful.
Or a bounded but finite one with a topology that folds back in on itself. What confuses me is when physicists talk of spacetime (maybe) emerging from something more fundamental
Both are probably true: Twitter leadership could not focus or execute, and the Board also wanted to close the deal. What’s likely missing from the employee perspective is that Twitter’s inherent non-focus actually attracted fresh content and contributors at some scale. Also that the company burn rate and debt was a threat at a very different scale.

Agree that the offering price and foolishness of the buyer was too good to pass up, but the particularities of Twitter leadership also helped set up an opportunity cost in the overall deal. Twitter never pursued ads as ruthlessly as Facebook.
It reveals the self control that people do or don't have to put the brakes on indulgences.
Kagi[0] FTW

[0] https://kagi.com/
It's a cultural thing, we tend to spare the buns from the sandwich feedback ;)
Respectfully disagree. I think UX is the problem. If there are a billion different ways to solve it, why haven't they?

Centralized systems make wealth hard to unseat, but they also afford a level of UX – convenience, failsafes, oversight, etc – that is simply out of reach for decentralized products today.
The text input spelling checker is really terrible; late 80s spell checks were better.

Forgot which, but had a 12 letter word that I misspelled one letter of, Brave underlined it in red with no replacements in right-click menu, I fixed it by googling the spelling and underline went away.

In often happens that it has no or even very wrong suggestions.
And managers will attribute these gains to everyone working back in the office again
The point is to have Blink without the burden of Google's commercial interests. Firefox is already Gecko without the burden of Google's commercial interests (well, almost).

Not sure why is everyone trying to sell Gecko here. Isn't Mozilla a good custodian to Gecko? Clearly if I take your opinion at face value, no. But why? Google is clearly not a good custodian for the most popular browser, their private interests are all over it. But the core engine is good.
if you have systemd/Netplan/docker, than expect chaotic firewall states.

Each can drop some nasty use-case specific assumptions that cause odd issues in other areas.

Happy computing =)
Magnets can also levitate over other magnets, so it's not only possible with superconductors. But it does happen with superconductors. The magnet will induce a current in the superconductor, which creates a magnetic field, which repels the magnet.
> Another factor is that they write their backend in php.

Hack is the language, not PHP.

But if you're looking for PHP + HTMX + components with no js ... I built a framework for it: https://framework.getswytch.com/
There are all sorts of neat things that you can do with superconductors now (toroidal inductor batteries, basically anything that would benefit from super strong coils like motors and magnets, novel electronics...) with the caveat that they are hilariously expensive to fabricate, and need a hilariously expensive cryogenic system built around them.

The cherry on top is that the materials and fabrication for this material seem relatively cheap.
Why? Were the waitresses incompentent or rude?
Many western countries use a lottery to choose juries.

If the winners refuse, they'll have a chance to explain themselves, and then they'll be judged by those who didn't refuse. Exactly what happens next depends.
Good point about Deno, but it's unfair to call Servo that. It genuinely is a functioning layout engine, although of course Mozilla have mostly incorporated its innovations into Gecko and abandoned it as a distinct project.
> yes, it adds a forwarding rule. Which skips over the rest of my firewall rules.

... which you explicitly asked it to do by using the -p option.
Here's my summary of this article for those who are interested in this:

- Author, who is a rails backend developer, got a job where they used rails as a back-end, and react for front-end

- The author has strong backend skills, and strong html skills, but actively avoids javascript, and hates React

- Author tried to learn react for a year, but wasn't successful.

I think this quote sums it up properly:

> ReactJS takes this dirty imperfect, embarrassing JavaScript and makes it more dirty, imperfect and embarrassing. It’s a struggle for anyone who wants to write clean code to come to terms with the messiness of React.

This reads a lot more like a pity-party than a critique of any library or framework. I think during interviews, being a lot more honest about shortcomings can really help you understand if you're going to be doing the job you want to do. The author could have been really up front with "I like Rails, I like what it comes with, but I don't like javascript." Especially in today's web tech stacks, I think mentioning where you stand with javascript is pretty important. Most of the web contracts I have want some fancy javascript somewhere.
Right and wrong are relative to the culture you are raised in or are currently living in, so your statement can't be true.
Upvoted because you are correct. Calling it a bypass almost implies something more nefarious vs saying docker automatically adds its own forwarding rules.
Yes, it's clickbait and nonsense. Obviously a straight wall would use fewer bricks. Your brick wall is going to be one brick thick either way, nobody is going to try to somehow make the straight wall as strong as the wavy wall. Most likely the straight wall is already way stronger than it needs to be.