skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. Less traffic in data-rich apps (even taking into account compression, HTML is heavier than JSON and not just due to syntax overhead - consider all those page headers, footers and other common parts).

I’ve very rarely seen this not be significantly skewed in the other direction. The stuff you mentioned is tiny and compresses well, and unlike the many megabytes of JavaScript almost all SPAs ship it doesn’t block rendering.

> 3. Better UX for slow networks: even in countries with 5G coverage there are still a lot of corners where your device will struggle to connect. SPA can auto-retry,

SPAs are far less likely to get to the point where they can display that spinner on a marginal network. Any time I have had coverage, JavaScript-heavy sites are notably the worst experience especially because unlike SSR a reload only works if you have the 5% of SPA developers who correctly implemented state handling.
How about communities decide themselves which district they want to be part of?

A community is a village, town, administrative parts of a city, etc.

Every 10-15 years, there is a vote across the country in which every community rates adjacent and nearby communities according to who they want to be in the same district as.

Then you run some pre-decided fixed algorithm that uses these ratings to join adjacent communities in a province/state in roughly equal populations. The design of this algorithm is left as an exercise to the reader.
Hah. None in my town, but I was a bit confused why the small nearby town had 52. Turns out they have a pinball museum ;)
What is your headcount?
If you're familiar with markdown and your book is basically text with some images, I'd strongly recommend Pandoc Markdown.

Pandoc Markdown-as-input is probably the best-supported input format for Pandoc, as far as "reasonable defaults for outputs in other formats" is concerned, and it's broadly compatible with the norms of other markdown styles.

You can always drop into latex, include custom CSS headers, etc. It's also a format where the "formatting" won't generally get in the way of actually-writing, unlike HTML or LaTeX (speaking on behalf of mere-mortals, here).
Does Literary Criticism Tell Truths About the World?
> For example, higher capacity for roads congestion, sewage, electricity connection etc.

But what does this have to do with property tax? Roads can be funded by fuel taxes or car taxes, if not income taxes. Sewage and electrical systems are billed monthly to their users. Presumably a larger building will have a higher electric bill and if it doesn't it will be from devising a way of not using more electricity.
Folks in the industry bought licenses, tooling, and parts for games from manufacturers that shut down. Others were reverse-engineered after the fact. Between https://www.pbresource.com, https://www.pinballlife.com, https://www.marcospecialties.com, https://www.actionpinball.com, and https://www.planetarypinball.com you can find parts for many machines going all the way back to the 50s.
It's been rough for over a year. But, I've had more recruiters reach out this month than the past few combined.
Hardest problem ~in CS~ in life? Naming things. Once you name something, that's it, there's no taking it back. You can rename it for future material, but the old name is never completely going away. The trick is in how you direct people whom encounter the old name towards the new. I don't think it can be done perfectly. How does one know what they don't already know, how does one know to look for something they don't know they're missing? There's also limited time to learn things: you can't learn everything, especially if new things are being created even while you learn others. I think that's just life.

Does it eventually cut off all the knowledge associated with the old name, due to the difficulties it introduces in discoverability? Is it harder for only the generation used to the old name, and not an issue for new generations that only know the new name? Or does the newer generation simply not know what they don't know?

I am generally in favor of renaming things to non-person descriptive names, like mountains (McKinley->Denali) or highways [0], which often run into the same accusations of "cancel culture." The power dynamic is certainly interesting to observe whenever it's being fought over, but people need to let go of ego and realize that they can't take birds, mountains, highways, high schools or military bases with them. Everything is temporary. Learn you some Buddhism.

[0]: https://www.ktoo.org/2022/03/09/bill-would-start-process-of-...
I assume some of these standards might have their roots in Apollo days or something, and definitely there wouldn't have been many options back then. But why change now? The give clear explanation:

> In 1998, NASA established by internal mandate, the need for all NASA standards users and custodians, to comply with the 1995 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-119 on Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities. This directive compels the NASA Workmanship Project to actively identify, enhance and adopt industry standards which can be used in lieu of the NASA-STD-8739 series documents.

Of course you might ask why that OMB was made, but tbh it just makes lot of sense imho, maintaining own set of standards is not cheap especially with all indirect effects that it implies
Linda Yaccarino Says X Needs More Moderators After All
Building a public API and having your frontend consume it is quite easy and would result in a decoupled design.

"But then the frontend is 'coupled' to the backend!" you might say, but you would misunderstand the definition of "coupled," as both the frontend and the backend would need to be connected together for that term to apply.
I think my favorite part of DS9 was how many non-human / non-federation cultures they had walking around in the spotlight. There's a great little scene where Quark gives Garak some root beer and they commiserate over how weird humans are.

Anyway, Fascape is basically ONLY that kind of thing. Only the aliens are significantly more alien. Even the sebaceans and crichton keep clashing because they both expect the other to act more like themselves.
Previous vehicles were recalled to the dealership for software updates. Is this sensationalism? It's "just" a software update after all, no need to scare consumers.
I wish California well, but: any sort of attempts to implement massive healthcare changes state-wide (e.g. to single-payer, access to all), will immediately be thwarted by US intrastate immigrants, in addition to international border pressures.

>in the year before there was a 100 billion dollar windfall

I am not sure of California's particulars, but some government profitabilities are largely on account of Pandemic Funding 2020-2022 (e.g. my local county hosptial for ~1M people would not have turned-profit w/out CoVid fund$).
> Wtf are you talking about? He’s literally telling us and has mentioned in the community many times that flagging quickly crushes a story.

It's discussed in the link, and elsewhere [1]. Some mod actions on HN are transparent, some are not. You should not assume that, just because you see marks of some form of moderation, that you can see them all.

Undisclosed content moderation is like directly modifying your production database. It's faster, but always more troublesome. Nobody else knows what changed or why, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435312
Can I simply ask you what you know about the law of corporate manslaughter? No peeking.
How is it any more static than v4? Network providers can still provide dynamic addresses with v6.
Never Retire
increasing wealth inequality and unaccountable mega corporations. more of the same, basically.

I don't "believe" there is a solution until enough people get really hungry.
Wikipedia can and does vaporize edits.
The bosses of OpenAI and Microsoft talk to The Economist
It’s a funny comment because I think you could also argue that the government misappropriated a huge amount of public money to put a man on the moon in the 1960s, when it should have invested that into medical research or better transportation infrastructure in America. The fact that the private sector hasn’t developed moon travel yet is a sign that it’s just not that important to most people, not a lack of productivity.
Confidence is the key here. No one is going to say you are smart, here are the keys to my castle. The keys to the castle are often guarded with trial by combat. To thrive in a culture of open engagement is to regulate emotion that can undermine your arguments. If you can weather the onslaught of attack from being the “salient” (think military definition) force of innovation within your organization you may find yourself creating a legacy you never knew was even possible.

A salient is fractal in nature, it creates opportunity at the cost of exposure. If a salient puncture into unknown territory is successful it was worth the risk. If funding, interest, or supply chain is cut off then the innovation is a complete loss. In a culture of innovation with too many salient advances all is lost. In a strategic innovation there is a calculated loss or an exponential gain.
Yeah "the shelf" is where projects go. Never give up.

There's some kinda weird zombie projects though;

Project Deja-Vu: halfway through a new project you have a vague
recollection of having done something similar before, and when you
search your archives and find exactly what you're working on - even
with the same comments (maybe this is an age related thing )

Project "Father give me legs...": Every time you look at it you're
overwhelmed with a wave of guilt, memories of broken promises...

Project impossible: It's a brilliant idea, everything works except
that one NP-complete quantum-entangled function to send SMS text
messages backwards in time to remind yourself not to do something.
Master Vintage Build: The Original IBM PC/XT on Steriods – A Ledgenady Icon
Ask HN: What did you think of using or demoing a Vision Pro?
I demoed one this morning at an Apple Store, and I was really impressed! I now feel like spatial computing really is the future and it's more a matter of when it'll be accessible for everyone.
I think its usually when the project becomes a burden (the author notes as such in the conclusion), this is a bit simplistic as sometimes you just have to push past this to get somewhere, but if its a hobby project it should bring you some joy. When you see yourself doing fake productivity its bad news.

I also find that sometimes I will scope tasks too big, take too long to finish them and get demotivated, if I break them up further I can keep momentum (even if the breakup is during the original task).

Having said that I don't think giving up is necessarily a failure case that people think it is, I often take a lot of learnings after attempting to do very ambitious projects that I eventually scrap, but the learnings stay with me.
I see your point to some degree, but an app store is not the open internet, there is not freedom nor assumption of freedom. It is curated strictly in anticompetitive terms by both Google and Apple.

So yes, I do expect strict child regulation in it, especially since there isn't the open internet issue of a) who pays for it and b) who is the central regulatory nexus point. It is google/apple in both cases.
There was a story on HN a couple of weeks ago where the article mentioned China actively having some number of millions of shills/bots/ai/etc which they use to carefully manipulate public opinion within the Chinese internet.

Do people really not believe that some percentage of those resources, and resources from other countries as well, aren't being used to manipulate the population of rival countries via the internet as well?

I firmly believe we're already actively deep in a cold war, where countries are trying to take down other countries, without firing a single shot, by using the internet (among other forums) to convince citizens in rival countries to believe in ideas and to act in ways that will in the end harm their country and society.

Now we're seeing people, usually younger / more internet connected people, all of the sudden have radically different ideas and belief systems than all the generations that came before them. Quite suspicious isn't it?
I, for one, Trust The Institution™! The Most Glorious And Wonderful Headmaster is a doctor, lawyer, engineer, military general, and astronaut!

As the symbolic parent of every child who attends, his picture hangs in every classroom. The Great Worshipful Headmaster has more parenting experience than all parents in the village put together!

He has brought us Parent-Child Science from the gods, which he used to prove which religion is the best for kids, and has published many papers on how voting for the wrong party (or listening to Taylor Swift) is literally child abuse.

I eagerly await their next communication!
Absolutely:

> Alclad has been most commonly present in certain elements of an aircraft, including the fuselage, structural members, skin, and cowls. The aluminium alloy that Alclad is derived from has become one of the most commonly used of all aluminium-based alloys. While unclad aluminium has also continued to be extensively used on modern aircraft, which has a lower weight than Alclad, it is more prone to corrosion; the alternating use of the two materials is often defined by the specific components or elements that are composed of them. In aviation-grade Alclad, the thickness of the outer cladding layer typically varies between 1% and 15% of the total thickness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alclad
I'm surprised it doesn't work with Echo devices, you'd think someone would have made a program that fixes it. It works fine with google devices, although it's algorithm sometimes pulls up playlists instead of individual songs, or songs that contain a lyric with the song you specified instead of a less popular song that is actually named what you specified, if you aren't specific.
While not really being one who cares personally about the example here, I would not give a tool a name that I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it. That would make me a jerk, no matter how funny or whimsical I may find it.

Even when poking fun at myself, I choose names of projects carefully. It's pretty easy to not be a jerk, at least in this way.
Yeah I agree.

If Meta was sticking to their core money generating businesses, then they'd be accused of stagnating and failing to innovate.
Alternative is that there are people who cannot do anagrams, who probably cannot follow a ChatGPT manual even if their life depended on it.

Since IT is paid very well, there are lots of people who try to lie their way to get the job. If you are someone on minimum wage, then why not try your luck - if they fire you after 2 months, you probably earned more in those 2 months than in whole year of your shit job.
Similar experience here, children are highly volatile and deserve a basic level of care to ensure both parent and child have the tools they need to function and cope with life.

It should be vastly generalized but for many parents having a foundation of broad knowledge to build upon would be a major help.
All these "research" are so deeply confused about what GPT is. GPT is an actor acting a persona, not a persona. An actor acts whatever political orientation the role has, they don't act their own political orientation.

These "research" are just testing the default persona, which is easily changed by system prompt. Getting GPT to be politically neutral is trivial, it is far from being an exercise in futility. Ignore all these reports of "research" and test it yourself: I have high success rate and you will have too.
One of the authors of ParadeDB here. While ad hoc aggregations in vanilla Postgres are slow due to lack of column-oriented storage, extensions like pg_analytics are addressing that problem. In our view, one of the main use cases of a data warehouse is when you need separation of storage/compute, which enables distributed analytics and scalable storage. With Postgres, query processing + storage are all happening on the same node. That being said we're looking at ways to separate out storage to an external data lake as part of pg_analytics.
If you care about price this badly just use v6, it's free
Pandoc is probably the best-maintained open-source software that I've ever worked with. We use it a lot internally at Column, and every time we've opened an issue, it has been comprehensively resolved in <24 hours. I'm a GitHub Sponsor and it's up there with coffee with the best money I spend on a monthly basis. JGM, you are a gift to everyone who spends too much time parsing word documents.
I agree the tone was aggressive but this is arguably a real issue and it's not as simple as it seems at first

Israel as a "Jewish state" is arguably a place that would not exist if they let in unlimited immigration because it would soon be majority not Jewish. I see that's in conflict with the idea that people should be/do whatever they want. I don't see how to reconcile the two sides.

Radiolab had an episode on this issue WRT to Samoa (https://radiolab.org/podcast/americanish-2306) My memory of the episode is the first half they paint the picture of a particular seemingly "racist" local trying to keep non-Samoans from owning any land. Most people are okay with it, then this person whispers in their ear and suddenly they're against it.

In the second half they go over why. The reason being rich non-Samoans would quickly buy up the entire island and there would be no Samoa / Samoan culture anymore. I don't know how to resolve that.

Part of me thinks they Samoans, Jews, Japan, British, Native Americans, etc... should not disallow immigration. It seems anti-democratic, anti-liberal values. On the other hand, something will be lost, something that seems to have value, which is the cultures of the people there currently.
If you don't have data plan with a smartphone you are definitely in the stone age.
Which part is not how life works? Quick Google searches say that the average lifetime expense for a dog is $20k to $55k; for a child it's $240k. I'm sure these numbers could be argued endlessly, but the rough order of magnitude is right. And life really does work like "if you can't afford $X, then you definitely can't afford $10X".
Probably because it wouldn't accomplish much: https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-More-Kids/dp/046...

Ensure your kids are reasonably happy. It's not super expensive, they don't need a trip to Disney World every year or anything. Try not to let them make obvious, life altering mistakes. Past that, just enjoy the ride.
He attacked Democrats, and that's what they're most afraid of. They believe that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are both dastardly criminals, that Democrats are inviting more criminals over the border and paying them lavish sums, that every election they lose is stolen, and that drag queens are grooming their children. Among many others.

By affirming that their fears are real, and harassing the people they're afraid of, he makes them feel safe. Their fears are entirely unfounded, but an enormous network exists to drive them into people's heads -- including all of his supporters reinforcing those fears for each other on social media.
Oh SoftICE. That was a truly excellent tool that was incredibly useful when doing low level stuff. I used it a lot for device driver development on DOS.
The ICJ is the world's highest court, and genocide cases are very rare. Their verdict, without any question, has "international significance". It's by far the most significant development in months.

From the submission guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

People here were clearly finding those stories interesting, as measured by upvotes and comments.

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

US mainstream TV mostly declined to air South Africa's side of the case, as well as the actual verdict; opting instead to only air Israel's defense.

> Something novel with drones or new medicine or similar will be on topic.

"Something with drones" = on topic, but a plausible genocide verdict from the ICJ is not of "international significance" and therefore off topic... This isn't computing for me, sorry.
> My wife and I took a parenting class before our first was born.

Same here, and I also took a parenting class in high school. Further, once the child was born the teachings have continued, with many teachers offering additional teachings and support. I don't think I have seen anything else in life that has tried to be taught to the same extent.

Not teaching how to parent must be a regional thing. Or is it is that we do teach it, but parents don't want to be taught?
I'm sick of LLM-related news. I'm fascinated by the technology and the progress, but for every one article about something novel, there are dozens rehashing the same points about social impact, bias, deepfakes, plagiarism, etc. These topics are of some interest to me, but the vast majority of the articles bring nothing new to the table and are reactionary responses to the latest infraction.
I guess I don't do things on my phone that are that latency sensitive. Web browsing used to be latency sensitive, but now the typical website does nothing for 250-750ms when I click on a link, and (seemingly randomly) takes multiple seconds about 5% of the time even if I'm connected via GigE, so any network latency is masked by that pretty well.
Is critical infrastructure prepared for OT ransomware?
No other manufacturer comes close to Tesla's autonomy so it's not like people are gonna go and choose a competitor over that. Cybertruck, likewise, is amazing, so it really doesn't matter what the promise was as long as the product remains the best on the market, and sells. And their cars sell. Really well.
Does he really expect people to take heat from him?
I strongly dislike arguments like this. Because you can apply them to basically any metric and I find that they are generally used to cheaply discredit a potentially interesting fact about the world without actually providing an argument that the metric in question is not a useful one to consider.

In all other contexts would you also say gdp per capita is a metric not worth considering? If not then I humbly question the value of your statement.

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> There are a lot of comments in this thread thanking “the mods” and I didn’t realize there was a mod team cultivating the front page.

IMO this happens because fundamentally people have "The reddit mental model" about how moderation works here, as if moderation is some privileged, limited position. It's just wrong.

Yes, there is dang, the single admin who posts publicly, and I guess it's possible/probable there are other HN admins who assist him. But 99.9% of the time when I hear people complaining about "the mods" or "power tripping mods" or "censorship", it's basically that other users saw what you had to say, and we just don't want to see it here.

It's also weird that occasionally people think there is some sort of "rule" about what can be flagged. There are obviously guidelines, but as this power is held by any normal user, it's basically whatever they want it to mean. For example, I frequently flag stories where I think the topic and article is totally valid, but where every single time I've seen the topic debated on HN it becomes a useless flamewar or is filled with the lowest quality commentary. At least for me, flagging isn't a value judgment on the "worthiness" of an article, it's simply about stuff I don't want to see on HN.
I am more interested in the mechanics of how something like this works, especially over time.

All kinds of tools related to HN content generate front page interest even for days but then once that passes things that cost money or use unreliable free resources start to disappear at an ever more rapid pace.

When they don't, the UI can become unmanageable... I'm not sure how this content will be organized over time but updating the README won't be tenable for long!