skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember calling the Citibank derivatives trading desk and they would answer the phone as "Salomon..." a full 15yrs after it had been purchased by and absorbed into Citi (post scandal, post acquisition)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Brothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Brothers#Acquisition_b...

I think the culture, reputation, and infamy of the firm was so huge that people continued to subscribe to that history
I used to walk through midtown new york city every day.

It's incredibly people-dense so there's definitely some baseline human noise, but I cannot emphasize enough how absolutely dwarfed by cars and delivery trucks it is. Construction work, shouting, music, etc. are almost a non-factor in comparison.
Pryvit Ted.

Long morning, so some thoughts that may be of use.

CV:

- No real education (this is the U.K., everyone has a degree if they're white-collar); no "MBA Essentials" is not a real degree from LSE -- it's more like Harvard Extension School or MIT EdX
- Too much design shenanigans. I can barely make sense of what sort of P&L experience you had, much less what you actually did in your resume. Are you a designer, an executive, a salesman, or a leader? Going for "God Emperor Generalist that can do anything" comes off as unfocused. Tailor the resume so it only reflects the exact skill-sets necessary for the job at hand (i.e. don't talk about developing a GTM strat, if you're looking to be a designer).
- Too much flourish. This is the U.K. Your resume looks like it's trying to scam me. Less color, less stars, less fancy gimmicks.
- "Developed phygital, industrial EdTech platform" -- is this a typo or is this a play on physical-digital divide? See point above.

General Strategy:

- While "creator economy," "metaverse," and related tech are popular in Eastern Europe, they're second-class industries in the first world.
- Anglosphere has pulled back investing into R&D and so-on. This resume and strategy would have worked in the era of cheap money, and mania -- but not now. Everyone is more serious, and only looking for things that will help them *now* (not years from now).
- This is not Eastern Europe -- everything is more "who you know." Era of "diamond in the rough -- we should take a chance and have him preside over important shit" is not now. While I can appreciate the marketing strategy here to get your name out, it's more important to make long-lasting bonds in these times. And for the work you've done, no one is going to put up the position in a job portal -- they're going to find someone with the requisite skills in their network.
- U.K. is not the place for your scene. It's stodgy. Sales doesn't work as well (see: more relationships). Very few are going to need your skills. Spin your experience less into manic "conquer the world" and more "didn't rock the boat, but helped many people achieve their goals."
- CEOs don't need to apply to random job postings

You're going to have to take a step down and come back to the real world for a few years. A sales gig is the most probable outcome for the "here-and-now." Best of luck.
Despite all efforts tourists are confined to the inner city. Traffic jams are mild compared to typical large city patterns and they affect you only if you use a car - which you dont really need in the city.

The liveability comparison that makes sense is with cities offering similar economic and cultural opportunities. Compared to major world cities Amsterdam is already somewhat of a backwater but outside it it gets positively boucolic.

The efficient frontier is when you optimally combine liveability with vibrancy.
So glad to see open source. Bold step.
The Robots Keeping Bridges from Collapse
> Do you remember two advertisements you saw today?

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I absolutely despise advertising. The only advertisements I ever remember are due to hating them more then the others for some reason- like being even more aggressive and in my face. There has to be some tipping point where advertising does more harm for the advertisers then good.
The module-level init seems like a great idea. I have been pondering how to get something like this right.
Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
Hi HN!

Just a small script I wrote a few days ago, but I had 2 or 3 friends publish some blogs online and I got hella jelly --- so here's my submission, so at least I can say I made something and post it.

Hopefully you like both planes and tech and very hopefully you find this an okay read :)

Any spelling mistakes, bugs, issues, ethics, please do tell me about!

Sorry if it looks rushed -- night is coming upon us and I need to take the dog out!

Good weekend!
Total gaming
https://archive.is/7ShOk
That’s not how it works at all
The capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories ordered to evacuate from wildfires
I used to sell homemade watercolor kits. I tried advertising in a bunch of places: Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest. I was targeting my audience pretty well but it just did not work.

I happened to mention this to someone in marketing at my company, and he said buying ads for a single product like that rarely works. Advertising is useful if I can direct potential buyers to a shop where I have a variety of art goods. Then the next time they need something art-related, they might visit my shop. But selling just watercolor kits I was better off making YouTube videos, making posts on Reddit, etc. My CPA was something like $35, and I was selling the kits for $29.99. I ended up selling them to friends and family, and giving a few as birthday gifts.
In the lexical closure doc example, why choose to show variable name shadowing? What is the purpose of `let x = 3` in the below?

let x = 3
func foo(x: Int) {
fn inc() { x + 1 } // OK, will return x + 1
fn fail() { y + 1 } // fail: The value identifier y is unbound.
}

`foo` also captures the global `x`, but shadows it with the parameter `x`.

Can `Generics` be generic - are there higher kinds? Are they all invariant, or do they have variance and if so what is the notation?

Maybe I missed it - can methods be destructured from structs? Can enums have methods?

Is there partial application for methods and functions?
Quite an interesting approach to using subsetting. Especially without a centralized lb component
Completely disagree. All clocks and watches have a degree of uncertainty. Even a once a quarter time sync is enough to improve the accuracy. If you want to be sure you have the correct time, then you check and set against a reference source or press the button to see when last received. What is the harm that would be caused by an occasional sync?
Embedded, actually
Middy: AWS Lambda middleware framework for Node.js
I feel like something is missing. I see the positive feedback what what about the feedback after rejection?
Windy visualizations and UI are times better than the National Weather Service (NWS). I still like the Forecast Discussion however. The money weather quote today (from the NWS) is:

"Precipitable water values are expected to
peak on Sunday night at around 2.50 inches, which would be 5
standard deviations from the mean for this time of year."
NC files charges against Nissan dealership employees
I feel half of Norway collectively moved to bluesky two weeks ago. Mastodon people couldn't overcome the hurdle of selecting a server, and hence it didn't get much widespread traction or adoption. But bluesky most people found each other quickly and just continued there.
The parent comment did not say anything about whether or not it was good or bad, simply that it was historic and that the record of it should be preserved
There's usually a subset of any given codebase that gets changed substantially on a regular basis, and the rest mostly stays mostly the same. If you can get the parts in the former category replaced with something better to work with, that often gives you most of the advantages and you can migrate any remaining bits as and when you can be bothered.
Unfortunately assuming this doesn't mean that we start producing more CO2 since we'd have an effective method of curtailing runaway CO2 production. Instead of reversing, we may just end up slowing down the rate of increase.
I wonder if the guy posting even knows that those of us without Twitter/X accounts cannot read any followup comments to his post, and that when we go to his (or anyone else's) main profile we just see some random ass comments from a long time ago. And the search URL he included doesn't work at all.

Twitter is already a broken platform for sharing your thoughts with others. Congratulations on discovering a way it just became even more broken.
> whereas I find the English hilariously polite

I think it boils down to people mistaking being polite to being nice.
Assuming you make 30K a year now… that means you made 1.2M before
I've found a lot of package archives for various distros.
Pozzle just sounds like a violation of encapsulation/departmental permiters at best, and a security nightmare at worst.
I find Flutter's nested hell quite unpleasant to read or write. For declarative UI, XAML seems like a better approach.
Consider yourself lucky that you were able to have usable accounts.

Whenever I tried to sign up, even years before the recent ownership change, the newly-created account would be automatically locked within minutes, and I'd be forced to give a phone number to unlock it. I wasn't going to do something stupid like that, of course.

That kind of a user experience, even a long time ago, wasn't so nice.
To me, this section of the article deserves more attention:

> They confessed they had thought it was a fictional concept made up as a narrative device in the TV show Dexter

I imagine a person saying "I have an internal narrator", and other person thinking "shit, I don't hear stuff like TV shows, that person is different". A misunderstanding.

I can bet that if the expression "internal narrator" was changed to "an internal voice that you can feel but cannot hear", more people would say they have it, and those poll numbers would change.
This is an extremely depressing statistic to read. I hope that it's something we can modify culturally rather than being a hard-wired part of our brains.
> No. Facebook is still Facebook.

> More like still referring Alphabet as Google.

Facebook and Google are still the products. Meta and Alphabet are the parent company names. So it's not wrong. I don't know what X is supposed to be.
> If you don't have any PMF, don't invest money in marketing

A couple problems.

1. This is just terrible advice.

2. Not all marketing is flashing rectangles. E.g. industry trade shows.
Hair options could use some buzz cut, etc.
The NFT craze, and seeing people I respected pimp them is when I had my falling out with crypto. I still can see a future where it's useful, and it's never going away for the niche use cases it's already established but that entire industry and its proponents lost so much credibility the past 3 years.
> Sandboxing doesn't completely prevent supply-chain attacks.

Correct, it's more a defense in depth technique, not a complete defense.

> On all developer machines as well? No. Very few big orgs do this and only for mission-critical stuff.

All builds at Google for instance use the model I laid out including 'developer builds'.
I've had multiple cases of IO errors with ZFS, and just two of them were due to the disks. Rest were connection needing reseating or cables needed changing.

If all of them went at the same time I'd try swapping to a different controller before I suspected the disks.
Rest in peace Cheems. You will always be an absolute unit in my heart
Apollo user with multiple active accounts that was on daily. Active for 12 years with karma for posts and comments.

Basically use the old website on a laptop once every few weeks now and never engage with any content anymore. Mostly check news, click a link maybe, and move on but has been replaced by other information sources.
This is such a crazy take. They made Uber (a meme word) into a household name. It's like saying you disbanded 2/3 of your army after taking over the continent, and nothing happened. So they were useless all along! Well, try it next time without the army.
Would Haskel or some other functional language be a part of a typical CS curriculum?

I remember having a course about programming paradigms which introduced different languages and we wrote a small project based on functional languages.
They're not doing their own weather predictions, they use different models. You can see them if you click compare for a specific location (Rouen, for example): https://www.windy.com/multimodel/49.44/1.09?temp,49.443,-0.5...

the list is scrollable
That sounds exactly as jank and half-assed as I would expect from twitter these days.
Rain model forecasts are there too, e.g.:

https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,34.427,-119.70...
What if you roll dice in making choices in a traditional work?
Kill off the sounds altogether. Adds nothing to it and is totally unexpected.
April Fools joke that may be, but that looks more or less like a XML-serialized CodeDOM - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/reflectio...
Original article captured as images here: https://imgur.com/a/fg8mxgy

I don't usually surf with adblock disabled. Wow. Clickbait, clickbait, clickbait. And now it's just fake clickbait. There's absolutely nothing on that page, really. The whole thing exists to keep you staring at the page and engaged. But there is nothing even redeeming left that you're paying for with those ads, like a news story. You're being engaged for the ad revenue with nonsense that tells you to go slumming at the Ottawa Food Bank. The circle has been completed. Infinite consumption of human attention for zero benefit.
Deleted my account the other day. Not because of the API changes, but because I've noticed the content becoming more and more toxic (and damaging to my mental health).

I was trying for a long time to hide toxic subreddits and individual posts I didn't enjoy, and even tried blocking keywords with uBlock, but in the end it was only putting a bandaid on a fatal wound. The content seems to be gearing towards toxic internet trends, hateful content, rage-bait, people actually dying on video and a whole lot of people telling other people what to think about social issues. I like nuanced discussions, not shaming people into submission on either side of the political spectrum.

I admit, this has always been on the platform but I used to go on Reddit to find interesting stories, cute stuff and really bizarre articles about how the world works (like mantis shrimps being able to crush a fish tank glass with a single punch, and so on). I find less of it now, and the main use for Reddit is while trying to solve a problem. For example:

Google: site:reddit.com How do I boot my Mac into Safe Mode

Side-note, I really miss old internet culture. I feel there's less spaces for people to just have chats about stuff without it being "content" or a way to make money/internet points. I find it here still, and it used to be What.CD forums/IRC too.
British Columbia declares a state of emergency amid devastating wildfires
Launch from inside an Apollo capsule (restored in 4K/30 FPS) [video]
That's alright. When you wear chinos, an argyle vest, and those hideous warby parker glasses, I think you look like a 20 year old waiter desperate to be thought of as some wealthy stock investor.

Don't even get me started about the Clarks Desert Boots.
>I think it would be very confusing for a child to start with a language so far away from low-level logic.

Why?

I started with C++ and when they showed me C# I instantly feel in love cuz I didn't have to deal with unnecessary complexity and annoyances and could focus on pure programming, algorithms, etc.
I don't know. It does seem a bit irrelevant, but in any case credit card charges are settled very quickly, at most a few days. The order fee (which is nonrefundable) is paid of course at the time of order, so it would definitely have been settled by the time the vehicle was delivered.
Migrating WordPress from Digital Ocean to Hetzner
One might say that LTV/CAC ratio is the overall average ROI :)
> I think we need to define 'prosper' before making that statement.

Things go off the rails when devolving into debating the meaning what common and well understood words like prosperity.

You and I both know what it means.

As for Spain, they didn't prosper much from colonialism. The reason is they stripped the New World of gold and silver, shipping it to Spain. The result was not prosperity, but inflation.

> prospers at the expense of

That's not how markets work. That's how theft, looting and confiscation work. Ironically, confiscation is what is proposed here.
The way in which microservices, unix programs and extensible editors in this article are compared as if they are all attempts or at least examples of how to somehow "solve software architecture" is really rubbing me the wrong way. The author is speaking as if "How to organize software" is the nail and these things are all attempting to be hammers when they are really not.

Would I want to build a world wide streaming service, I would probably need some custom microservices and I will not need some kind of plugin architecture for them. Would I want to build a slick editor that non-programmers can use for knowledge organization I will not wire something together with awk and gnuplot. If I want to quickly search some log files and sort and count the errors in them I will not look for an obsidian extension nor build a microservice. The question of how to architect such software is still an open one.

I was happy about the clear thesis statement in the byline of the article:

> Extensible programs like Obsidian have achieved a Holy Grail of software architecture, after decades of failed attempts

However, by focusing on categories like "Applets", "Unix programs" or "microservices" the article in effect did barely touch the topic of software architecture and offered no evidence to support that byline.
Now wait for someone to buy this and shut it down like they did Dark Sky.
Seems like Petzold gave up on following Microsoft's indecisiveness regarding what should be the official GUI framework for Windows. No WinUI 3 book is planned.
Show HN: A Vue 2 component library to recreate Windows 7 UI
Accept that the universe is not in your control, and go with the flow.
If only someone with access to thousands or even millions of repayment histories and income estimates could evaluate default risk on such loans. /s

The problem is that the incentives for everyone are broken. Usury has been banned or made into a crime throughout history, why did we legalize it when it comes to student debt?
invention of transformer was not pivotal, those t2t guys who authored paper couldn't achieve any quality improvements over other SOTAs at that time.

Pivotal moment was BERT, which demonstrated that with some additions transformer can achieve very significant improvements, and inventor is still at google, and transformer creators got lot of hype from that.

Also, most important part is attention, which also was not invented at google.
What the article says about the hub and spoke model, singing praises of Obsidian, couldn't these points just as easily apply to Eclipse (the open source editor)?

Eclipse isn't universally beloved. I haven't been following Eclipse development very closely of late, but there were versions released in the early 2010s that were universally derided.

This is one example of cherry-picking I noticed in the article.

Also linear relationships in Unix - ever heard of heard of tee?

Also "enshittification" is turning into a meme at this point, I believe mistakenly applied here.
Oh wow. I'd be very interested in hearing how they sandbox rust-analyzer. I found a discussion of supporting the analyzer itself by generating config files [1][2], but not how you can sandbox it.

That would be extremely useful as the analyzer is a pretty juicy target and also runs proc-macros/build.rs scripts.

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/pull/384

[2] https://bazelbuild.github.io/rules_rust/rust_analyzer.html
https://medium.com/@uchtchi_buchtchi/breaking-binary-barrier...
Xeet, rexeet.
No point in going after mechanics. The supply of people who can do these mods probably outnumber the number of drivers who want these mods 10 to 1, or more.

I can do most mods at home, and I know at least 5 other diyers who can, but I don't personally know anyone who wants these mods.
A publicity stunt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo#Glyphs

Many of the glyphs are remarkably similar to petroglyphs found around the world. See Peratt's work:

part 1: https://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/PerattTPSv31-2003...

part 2: https://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/Peratt,et,al,TPSv...

more papers: https://plasmauniverse.info/NearEarth.html

Perhaps the ultimate origin of the script is another example (assuming Peratt's hypothesis is correct) of humans witnessing a dramatic light show in the sky and "recording" the evolving shapes of the plasmoids using the resources available to them (rocks, wood, etc).

Much later, when the light show was no longer in living memory, the drawings were copied and perhaps reinterpreted by descendants into a language/story:

According to oral tradition, knowledge of rongorongo was restricted to a class of priests known as tangata rongorongo; and there is some indication that, before Eyraud’s visit, they had been kept in special houses, where clans gathered to hear them read or recited.
>decades ago in the curtain twitching world where people stayed living int he same street for decades, but not today in a highly movable world

You're simply wrong - decades ago people moved much more than they do now.

https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-are-moving-less-so...

>In 2021, 8.4% of Americans lived in a different residence than they did a year ago, per the Census Bureau's annual Current Population survey. This was not only a decline from 9.8% in 2019 and 9.3% in 2020, but the lowest "mover rate" since at least 1948 — the earliest data period measured. Back then, the mover rate was roughly 20%, and it's been on a steady decline since the 1980's.
It is not the responsibility of emergency services to make their vehicles predictable and tractable so as to make up for the shortcomings of self-driving cars. It is the responsibility of self-driving car operators to make their cars able to deal with the unpredictability and unforseen events that may happen on the road, particularly when first responders are handling an emergency.
The previous comment is pretty paranoid thinking, so I wouldn't take it seriously.

That said, Bazel and Buck are good for handling projects "at scale" (e.g. company wide monorepos at mid-to-large companies), or with a lot of different needs (e.g. sources in C++, Rust, Python, and Javascript that need to be combined together).

They're not really an alternative to Cargo, and more the next step up for when Cargo isn't sufficient any more. But because they're dealing with much more complicated problems, they're also more complicated to set up and use, so if you're not running into issues with Cargo, you probably don't need to go in that direction (and possibly never will).
That's an extreme reaction and a brave thing to share

(with apologies for me being desperately immature)
Life Has Several Exits
First blog post. Suggestions appreciated :)

TLDR: 90% cost reduction by moving to Hetzner and using reverse proxies.
Best to open in a private window since they do not let you control cookies.

See also [1]

Short Vimeo video [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26062698

[2] https://vimeo.com/495158864
The whole package is not FOSS. Individual files might be.

You are right that my assumption in this unusual arrangement is that the binary does not necessarily correspond to (the same version of) the source code.
As the old joke goes, whichever platform you're moving to, the average niceness of both X and that will stand to benefit.