skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked into Kagi a week or so ago from a different HN link and was turned off by the Apple-focus. I've had bad experiences in the past with early adopting and regretting it because I don't use Apple products. I understand they plan to support non Apple stuff but it's never clear if that support will be first-class and it often isn't. Considering that it's a Chromium wrapper, it seems odd that they took this route.

It's also not clear if there are device/location limits for an account. I use a lot of devices and travel quite a bit.
Related:

All of the vehicle license plates available in America https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37209888 — August 2023 (277 comments)
I get your argument, it's just morally reprehensible. Your analogy about a car is not related and shows weak reasoning.

> You seem to be under the enchanted fairy tail notion that there's an exponential curve of infinite resources

Resources are definitionally raw materials coupled with human ingenuity.

> You can see clearly that most areas of human technology are already in the logarithmic portion of the (sigmoidal, not exponential) progress curve

I don't see this at all. This is just your opinion.

You're essentially talking about starving people on purpose, "controlled population decline" is eugenics and you should take that nonsense somewhere else. Seriously your ideas are disgusting.
The page is incorrect.

It’s not father’s side or mother’s side.

Tang 堂 is fathers brothers children. Every other cousin is 表 biao.
Yes, guns are dangerously unsafe, they're designed to cause harm. It's hard to reconcile that goal with the need for safety. That said, guns do have safeties - guarded trigger, safety switch, drop safety, etc. [1].

The general principle is to design in as much safety as possible without compromising the intended purpose of the tool too much. The degree to which this is possible varies. Inherently complex and/or dangerous tools like guns, cars and aeroplanes require significant training before safe operation is possible. Most tools however can be made perfectly safe to use for anyone without any special training. Like plugs and outlets [2].

Programming languages are no different. The history of PL design is defined by the ever increasing restrictions placed on what languages let programmers do in the pursuit of safety & correctness.

But really, we humans, especially programmers, have no clue what we're doing and need all the help we can get.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_(firearms)

[2]: https://youtu.be/139Q61ty4C0?t=42, https://youtu.be/139Q61ty4C0?t=105, https://youtu.be/139Q61ty4C0?t=205
> For instance, serving a single 175 billion LLM requires at least 350GB of GPU memory using specialized infrastructure

Apple ships the Mac Studio which support up to 144GB of usable GPU memory.

Would be amusing if they were to release a Mac Pro with 300+ GB and dominate the LLM serving space.
Point 1 above greatly understates the case. Water just sitting in a glass is constantly creating and destroying hydronium and hydroxide ions, and bare protons. Not to mention the carbon dioxide that gets dissolved as carbonic acid which can dissociate to bicarbonate.

On the other hand, its tough to talk about new water because under thermodynamics, all atoms of the same isotope at the same energy state are completely fungible, so it’s hard to say anything meaningful about the history of a molecule.
Ask HN: Why Does Substack Not Have a Writing App?
think I get it —

“because substack more for “longform” content” hence pc & login to website but “no mobile

however i tend to write a lot of longform on my phone & it drives me crazy that there isn’t a substack mobile app that allows you to post (??)

like that’s insane right (?)
or ?
We're talking about deregulation and the ills it causes. Do try to keep up.
Virgin didn't have to be folded into Alaska. Richard Branson famously didn't want it to happen, but couldn't stop it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/18/branson-says-alaska-air-was-...
How does this compare to e.g. Forgejo, Gitea, Gogs, self-hosted GitLab, or other alternatives?

Forgejo in particular has self-hosted actions runners that can be registered offline, and the runners themselves can be given labels and execute most existing GitHub actions (in fact, the yaml format they use is intentionally meant to be compatible with GitHub actions).

While the Pipelines UI looks nice, it hides all the very real details of deployment (and configuration) in a variety of environments. This is one thing Forgejo does well compared to e.g. Gitea for CI/CD, thanks to being very flexible in configuring runner secrets, registering runners, and so on. The runners themselves are also designed to run with rootless docker-in-docker. There is also the security aspect to consider. e.g. how does Pipelines prevent secrets from spilling in logs or people running bitcoin miners in CI? Does it offer a better level of security than Forgejo/Gitea here?

The reason I am emphasizing CI/CD is because hosting code and a bug tracker is only one small aspect of GitHub IMO. The real big things are its popularity and GitHub Actions. It's not enough for many people (and businesses) to simply host code anymore. Many now expect commits pushed to certain branches to execute a variety of workflows -- from unit tests to full-on Kubernetes deployments.
None of it. Emacs didn't kill word or Wang or WordPerfect. OS vendors still make money despite Linux and FreeBSD. The GIMP didn't kill Adobe. And if you want to sell proprietary libraries your market is going to be limited because OSs will distribute them and it will be hard to keep up when customers are fixing their own problems.

What killed the shrink-wrapped market was first piracy and secondly the way people use their computers change. Then add on the easy sharing that e.g. Google docs enables and it's all over but the shouting.

The SAAS model also has the benefit of aligning value delivery with outlays temporally. No more wait a year before shipping: instead get quick iteration with an ongoing revenue stream. You can recover from missteps in a way that the old model could not.
> There hasn’t been a new Git repo launch in almost a decade,” Bansal told me. “Now you have GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket from Atlassian, but that’s really it

Seems odd that he wouldn’t know about Sourcehut (2018) and Gitea (2016).
> Man, this isn't hard.

Well, you ducked the question—and what you did say isn't particularly illuminating to anyone who is already familiar with npm and cargo—so it's not at all clear at this point that you're right about that. (Your overall comment actually reads a lot like the sort of thing that I mentioned at the top of this thread: "non-specific appeals to the necessity of it all [...] vague arguments [...] they manage to work in a slight that's designed to paint you, implicitly or explicitly, as a junior".)

I'll ask again: what is the value proposition of npm-like package managers in quantitative terms? Your hypothesis should be falsifiable, if not testable.

If you're having difficulty, we might start here:

> in such a way that dependencies are shared

Why?
Ok, I agree with you.
Do your parents turn into pig monsters if they eat the food?
Over time, all systems collapse eventually. That sentiment is worthless.

Furthermore, nobody said anything about working hard.

Surely you're not about to claim that all pre-colonial civilizations with functional governments either somehow had free market incentives or collapsed into famine.

"There have never been X" is always an extraordinary claim and you've done a poor job making it.
What happens when Twilio is down?
Same questions for your email, sms and server. Part of the difficulty is guaranteed uptime and PagerDuty is rock solid in that regards.
Yeah, that makes sense. Thank you!

I'll just say that from my perspective, the only thing worse than having critics is not having critics.
There were a lot of irritable and hostile people during the Flint water crisis. Many of them stormed the capitol: https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/protesters-storm-michigan-st...
Here's that CSV file in Datasette Lite (Datasette running in WebAssembly in your browser), with the images displayed and with facet by state:

https://lite.datasette.io/?install=datasette-render-image-ta...
Just curious, what’s the fad you’re referring to. React? Client side rendering? Single page apps?
The fact is that they will lose their jobs, sooner or later, that is going to happen. So do you start to think about it now and figure something out, or act like all the politicians who campaign on "protecting coal mining jobs" while those mining companies go out of business themselves (because, well, market) even without these forces.
Singapore is now the world’s freest economy, displacing Hong Kong after 53 years
Love Affairs and Differential Equations [pdf]
I have a Hugo blog and I wish the experience for writing on my phone was better. I need a git client and a markdown editor to publish. Not streamlined, but it’s free.

I agree that it would make sense for substack to provide a good way to write from your phone.
I’m amazed years after I heard about it how the tiny VictoriaMetrics team is thumping what far bigger organizations manage to do. The biggest reason I’ve heard people don’t want to adopt it is if the lead maintainer gets bussed the project is liable to fall apart.

I looked at some of the alternatives to victoriametrics for Prometheus and they all seem… much much worse…
I call BS on 12 9s. To actually meet that a system operating for all of the common epoch would have only 60 milliseconds of downtime. There is no way since Wilbur and Oliver that any aerospace system could accomplish enough runtime to be sure it isn't 11 nines instead.

As for your actual point most systems would be better with a GC'd memory safe language then the hard real time those specs you mention are written from.
Show HN: Corgi – on-demand, 1-on-1 tutoring
Hey all — I’m Sameer, a software engineer and longtime math/CS tutor who’s just launched an on-demand tutoring platform called Corgi. The product is a mobile app (currently iOS only) that allows users to request and receive tutoring help whenever they want it, for as little or as long as they need.

Here’s how it works:

1. User selects a subject, adds a brief summary of what they need help with, and submits their request

2. All tutors who are online and qualified in that subject receive a notification that someone needs help

3. The first tutor to accept the request gets matched with the user, and both parties are placed in a in-app video chat session

4. The user works with the tutor for as long as they need

5. When the session is complete, the user is charged for the time they used (currently billed at $1/minute, rounded to the nearest minute) and the tutor receives 80% of the student fee

As a starting point, the only subject we’re offering is SAT math help, but we plan to expand to other subjects in the near future.

I built Corgi because 1) tutoring is a lifelong passion of mine, and 2) I haven’t found a quality, on-demand tutoring service that currently exists, but I believe it’s something that could really help students. The idea here isn’t to try and replace the traditional tutoring model (i.e. working with the same tutor on a consistent basis over a long period of time) but to supplement existing resources with an office hours-like service that can provide immediate help (e.g. at the exact moment when someone is struggling with homework, or is studying for an imminent exam).

Eventually, I’d like to offer this platform directly to schools or districts, so that students can use it irrespective of ability to pay. There is at least one major player in this space doing something similar (https://paper.co) but from my own research they seem to have a lot of issues (e.g. students getting matched with tutors who aren’t qualified in their subjects, tutors working with many students simultaneously despite the company claiming the tutoring is all 1-on-1) and districts who previously signed contracts with them don’t seem keen on continuing their relationships (https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/9/6/23861330/online-tutoring-...).

I’ve also been a tutor on some of the existing traditional tutoring platforms (e.g. Wyzant) and have found the experience frustrating (mainly due to unfairly low compensation combined with a struggle to match with students). My goal with Corgi is to build something that provides real value and a positive experience for both the tutors and students who use it.

I’ve spent the last week or so recruiting an initial batch of tutors, and am now kicking off the process of finding students to help test it out. I’m also building out some additional features to help make the actual tutoring sessions feel a little smoother (e.g. browser-based sessions to allow usage from any device, virtual whiteboards for easier collaboration). I’d appreciate any and all feedback the HN community has to share, positive or negative!
Gogs, Gitea, Gitee, Forgejo, Onedev, Gitness, Sourcehut, Gitlab, what else am I missing?
looks more complicated than forgeo/gitea . gitea already servers all github needs for us
Why not fix the issues with the current implementation as well as rewriting it?
What's the problem with ThousandEyes? They got their agent into Cisco equipment, and just recently gave them SamKnows.
I'm pretty sure I remember Street Fighter 4 doing this
Federal law allows discrimination to deal with other laws, agency rules or executive orders. The Nevada gaming commission is allowed to mandate such a rule and MGM is allowed to comply with it. I don't know if that's the source of the rule, but if so it would be legal
The Post Office is definitely the most pleasant interaction most Americans will ever have with a federal agent.

Although I will tell you, don't ever eff with a postal inspector. Those people have police powers that could make a game warden salivate.
The audit tool is go.sum
> I'm pretty sure that all those issues will affect sliding sync whether or not it's integrated in Synapse.

Of course.

My argument isn't that it won't happen, it's exactly the opposite, that it will. My point is that, now you need to manage 2 things vs 1.

> In fact, some people might actually prefer the fact they can operate it separately and restart/maintain it separately from their homeserver :)

Of course. But it's misleading to say that it won't require maintenance (which is what I replied to).
If you squint hard enough - yes. I do not know if it is Sapir-Whorf, but if I grew up using completely different words for sisters of my spouse, brothers of my spouse, husband of my sister, and wife of my brother, they do not look that similar to me.
I don't really buy this premise at all

> think about industries where there isn't much competition. Do we see similar improvements there, usually?

I can't think of an industry without competition where said industry doesn't try to improve their product or production for more profit. Maybe something in the medical space that I'm unaware of, but this definitely doesn't fly for aviation or transportation in general.
If a few water molecules are destroyed and replaced created over a long time then is it still the same glass of water?
Note that Reddit is also on the Kagi promoted leaderboard. It seems that Reddit represents a paradox in that way.
In my state you're required to update your address, but they don't send you a new ID unless you pay for it.

So if you get pulled over and a cop runs your license it will show your new address. On the other hand the bars etc don't care they just look at DoB and expiration.

If you're purchasing a firearm though they do run the real address, and if it's not accurate you could be in trouble.
I wash my cups and dishes with hot water, then I drink and eat from them later.
Not really “any” program but those that don’t ship their own version and didn’t statically link against libwebp (if that’s an option?). Notably, browsers often don’t use the system version of the library. That’s not the end of the world since browser vendors are on top of the security game for the most part - but the million Electron apps you might be running also each need to be updated individually!

Basically, don’t rest easy and get complacent. Updating the OS distros is not enough.
It's funny. A Tamil friend of mine from a specific group would not differentiate between her 1st cousins and her siblings. So her female cousin was her "sister" and her biological sister was also "sister". Likewise for brother.

She was surprised to learn that we don't recognize the similarity of those relationships.

I suspect the appearing naturalness of this is all down to whether or not you grew up with it.
Why isn't this open source?
Step Up from Lighthearted Joke to RFC Homage
> Why though? Where does this actually get used?

The first 2 letters of the string make it obvious:

"CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter"

"CN"

These labels are often used in Chinese & similar relationship models. It comes from the dual consequence of tightknit multi-generation families & a dense symbol-derived language. In Chinese, you can derive the term for a given relative within 2 characters using this relationship model.
Am I reading the summary of Claim 4 accurately, that someone is suing OpenAI because a journalist copied and pasted an inaccurate statement from a chatbot into a real news article without doing fact checking?
Well there’s more you can with more resolution than transmit a bigger picture. Try the iPad camera during FaceTime. That will pan and zoom the view to keep you in focus and it’s only made possible by good resolution and a wide angle camera.
I agree with you about w3schools; they've improved a lot since they first started out, and cleaned up a lot of problems. I think it's just fine to use for that purpose. A lot of technologists look down their noses at w3schools and vilify them just because they consider it a content farm.
That's how you can identify the pioneers... they're the ones with all the arrows sticking out of their back.
I very much agree about the point about Server Side Rendering. I don't like it. There are some fundamental differences between front end and back end which should never be neglected. Critically, considerations related to authentication and access control but also relevant in terms of performance (e.g. caching and bundling as described in the article SSR is just a bad idea in practice; I've never seen a project make good use of it)...
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/california-driver-handboo...

If you move, you must notify DMV of your new address within ten days. Submit a change of address online at dmv.ca.gov/addresschange or by mail. It is your responsibility to ensure DMV has your correct mailing address on record.

So, you are required to update your address, and DMV will have your correct address on file, but "you don't have to" update your license.
Which is better given an uncompetitive market, an regulation that says "you cannot sell medicine X for more than $Y," or a regulatory change that restores competition to the market?

The latter is better to such a degree that the former is just a toy example with no practical use outside of academic discussions and corrupt politicians who want to avoid solving the underlying problem on purpose.
Did you torrent it? Maybe that's their beef.
As of last week, Apple now has FaceTime on Apple TV using an iPhone or iPad which is equally flawless in my test.
Pricing page: “(actually) simple pricing”.

Also: More than 5000 contacts, “CONTACT US”.
True, but even Feynman talks about "new photons" when describing scattering.
It's interesting they want Internet history preserved... Considering that Chrome and most browsers automatically delete it after 3 months without any option to turn that off.
That’s just the browser though (Orion) — the main product, the search engine, has no Apple focus. I believe a significant part of why they built the browser is because Safari on iOS doesn’t have good support for third-party search engines. You shouldn’t have any such issue on Android.

The search limits are per account. As long as you’re signed in, you’ll be fine.

Edit: Also, the browser is WebKit, not Chromium. That’s why it’s Apple-only.
They have. It's a lot better now than when they started out. They have incrementally been improving it. The reason why it gets pushed down is because a lot of people have a natural distate for the ads and the fact that it's a content farm. But if you have good ad blocking I don't see the harm in using it as long as you understand what it is.
It sounds like you’re talking about Orion (the browser developed by Kagi) rather than the Kagi search engine, which is what this pricing update is about. The search engine is a normal website that’s not limited to any particular device or browser, and as far as I know has no location or device limits.
It happened to me once, now I turn off the water when I go on vacation.
Why would I pay to interface with the government?
What if there was nobody to sue? Open source could be structured that way, like MAME.
It represents the word 表妹 biao mei in Chinese, and is as normal a word as ‘cousin’ is in English.
I actually think the lack of specificity in this case is a win. And I'm no Anglosupremacist. After all, what good is a language that doesn't contain a which-eth question word everyone knows?
NodePing
Would you recommend this for a proficient programmer with a decade of experience in non functional languages?
I remember reading somewhere that lead exposure might correlate with poverty. Is this accounted for?
What's the differentiator for this? Tighter integration into their other offerings?
I think their headline makes total sense. It's true after all, turns out putting most of the work on your server rather than your client is a great idea for performance.

You seem to be taking personal offense to using React Server Components for this, which is odd to me.
Sure, but those set top box manufacturers were beholden to the cable ISPs for their revenue, cable ISPs which would have been furious if a supplier started competing with them. The STB companies also, as a general rule, were really bad at UX -- there's a reason why the interface on those things was universally bad, and it's that the cable companies were the customer of the STB maker, not the end consumer. SA and the rest of them just didn't have consumer UX expertise as a real competency and didn't need to have it.
Feyonce can’t get anyone to believe she’s married and Vakira’s has astonishingly honest hips
Yeah, my daughter tried to get into a bar, but they said she was only 19, so she put an Authentic Sticker over the birthdate, came back to the bouncer with the "update", and then had a great night out.
ID.me was hot garbage for a long time.

Scanned my Driver's License at 200dpi.

"Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded."

Okay, 300dpi.

"Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded."

Huh.

Scan at 72dpi.

Success.

Scan back of DL at 72dpi.

"Unable to read barcode."

Scan back of DL at 200dpi.

"Unable to read barcode."

Scan at 300dpi.

Success.

What a shitshow.
SQLite with a somewhat usable GUI ...
Yeah, I personally feel lucky when an article of mine hits the front page (although maybe there's an inflection point of popularity at which the reverse is true). But regardless, we should respect his wishes.
This is how it should be done for mission critical stuff. We already invest in USPS infrastructure, this is a good use for it. I don’t want another id.me to use a gov service.