skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But in 2024 things like react and typescript exists.

Avoiding this stuff is one point on the list. I know I'm being a little snarky, but it's true. If you're building a fullstack app with fullstack devs you can avoid a lot of complexity that stuff brings.
https://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator/Californi...

"Berkeley's housing expenses are 198% higher than the national average and the utility prices are 30% higher than the national average. Transportation expenses like bus fares and gas prices are 34% higher than the national average."
If we’re imagining a parallel universe where things make sense, let’s get rid of CSV files altogether and use the ASCII field separator characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_...
Rust may not exist without Haskell!
“Almost no one gets an A on the first try.”

Sounds like they could get an A if they did it well enough. He’s saying most don’t do it well enough.

Whatever it is, it’s not bullying.
You can run a friggin full 32 bit lisp on the untyped lambda calculus!

https://woodrush.github.io/blog/lambdalisp.html
Tesla built the US superchargers first, so they used a proprietary plug that only just got standardized as NACS / SAE J3400, whereas non-Tesla US EVs were selling with standard CCS (or J1772) ports.

Different from the EU Superchargers, which I believe do offer standard CCS?
There are two parts to this:

1) Tesla needs to open up superchargers to other cars. They're doing this at scale now, but generally only the less popular ones, or if they're required to do so by government grants. So many key sites are still off limits to others.

2) In the US only, other car manufacturers need to adopt Tesla's NACS charging standard, so they can physically connect to superchargers. (In the rest of world, everybody including Tesla is already standardized on CCS2.)
This was fun! Thanks for sharing
It really reminds me of picross, which is a good thing.
Centralised storage of sensitive data has to go away. We need something better.
DDG was never a search company and that's why you will notice it never talked much about quality of search results, just privacy. It was a middle-man between the user and Bing / Yandex, with a branding focused on privacy. They didn't really have much control over search quality because they never had an index.

So it's not surprising that they are going all in on their privacy branding with other paraphernalia instead of focusing on improving search quality.

Also privacy and search quality are often unrelated, but sometimes opposed to each other. If I have more data about you I might be able to serve slightly more relevant results.

But the enshittification of Google search quality wasn't due to privacy-related reasons. It's because the internet itself is shittier. Organic search is a reflection of that.
How much plastic in the ocean gyres might be our supposedly recycled plastic?

Has anyone audited this by putting a few GPS-tracked plastic bottles into the recycling stream to see how many went to landfills or incinerators vs. being dumped in the ocean on the way to alleged recycling?
I misread the above comment it seems, however, my point was that for many it is not instant no, since so many buy space from GitHub et al. Probably most of the small companies.

They have already trust in place. Do they trust Zed too?
You can still (basically) create your own HN / Twitter using RSS—my favorite reader is NetNewsWire, but there are others—particularly with the rise of Substack. I have a couple hundred feeds in mine, and it's great.

On my own site, I routinely post lists of links to interesting articles. You don't have to rely on Twitter or other highly botted sources.

That most people do is itself revealing.
> Typically you are not forced to sell your product on just one store, with some exceptions, of course.

This is absolutely not true at all, exclusivity agreements are incredibly widespread in supply chains.

https://www.kevingrier.com/uploads/userfiles/files/opinion-p...

> Both retailers and manufacturers assert that over the past decade this practice has increased materially. In some retail outlets or corporations, the activity is now found in virtually every category. Based on reliable industry benchmarks from the late 1990's it is likely that as of 2001, at least half of major Canadian manufacturers are involved in some form of exclusivity arrangement with Canadian distributors.

“With some exceptions” doing some heavy lifting I guess, considering we’re talking about basically whole industries and product sectors.
But this will break all of my unquoted columns with semicolons in them!
> Through Endgame, it was an unprecedented undertaking involving the hard work of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of talented artists and technicians across the globe, marshalling untold resources over the span of a decade

Just imagine what those artists could have accomplished working in the service of an artistic vision instead of churning out corporate slop.

Live action super hero dramas started with Superman and reached maturity in Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies. Highlights are Robocop and Unbreakable (throw a Batman adaptation in there, probably The Dark Knight). By the time the MCU rolled around, the genre was well past middle age. Despite billions of dollars of life support, it will be remembered as the last tortured breaths of a somewhat embarrassing cultural episode.
I can promise you, if you think those are solvable problems, you're missing something that doesn't create an insurmountable problem for one group or another (not even talking about bad guys in this case)
All politicians in Russia are corrupt. They are involved with the mafia. Many people may want politicians dead - not just Putin! Putin doesn't benefit from this at all. These were not threats to his rule anyway!
I wish OP all the best, but there is one bit I can't get out of my head

> I feel very strongly that everyone should try, to the extent that it makes some kind of sense if you squint hard enough, to do what they want in work and life.

This is much much easier to say after an entire career in tech. However I wouldn't give this advice lightly to people just starting over.

Here is a counterexample. I started my career following my passion and "doing what I love", so I became an academic and joined a university.

After 7 years I was burnt out, broke and hated what used to be my passion. And I had to essentially start over my professional career in the private sector.

These days I don't necessarily always love my day to day job, but I do enjoy more the lifestyle it afford me as a whole.

My takeaway is that earning money and growing your career capital early on has compounding effect over time, and more importantly, it increases your optionality in the future. Going into comedy writing is less scary when you don't need to worry about sustaining your family.
Her senior recital about historically censored songs was censored by her school
Found this pretty cool website to find songs similar to another song.
This is one of the best resources I know for how to come up with good business ideas (which is probably one of the hardest parts if you've never done it before): https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-brainstorm-great-bu...
You might be referring to GitLab: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-rel...

(hi to those from GitLab watching #hn-mentions on Slack)
No, that’s a different naked festival that has no problem with attendance, I guess because it’s a 20 min train ride from a major city
Exactly what I understood, that Haskell was intentionally a language laboratory.
It's for having in your dev environment and/or sometimes as a toggle for "Special Requests" -- if your session is authenticated and you're marked as blessed, you get extra information about what the application is doing under the hood so you can see what's going on in production as well.

Some let you add whatever information you want into the panel.

It's a convenience feature to make it easier to wade through information rather than having to dredge everything out of logs by hand, which a lot of people still do.
Google hasn’t bought Reddit because it’s literally only downsides. Bad PR, low profit margin, etc…

I mean does anyone actually like Reddit anymore? Front page is almost entirely bots reposing and reusing the same comments that have been used for years.
Yes. I did a project ETL'ing data that used the ASCII field and record separators once. It was a joy to deal with compared to CSV.
All of my accumulated digital shit/stuff (RIP George Carlin) going back to ~1998 or so is about three terabytes, and most of that bulk is taken up by music, videos, and movies, most of which I'll probably never listen to or watch again (if at all). If I don't die suddenly, and instead have a sense that I'm on my way out, I intend to reduce this down to zero-ish (depending on how much any family members care about the photos they don't already have, and the non-unique entertainment media).

With some imagination I can understand that other people do want more than a 4TB drive for personal use, but it still feels like a distraction from deeper meaning, a form of palliative care.

I'm in the process of deleting a bunch of old emails, photos, documents, and anything else that feels good to be rid of. While it doesn't free up any extra physical space, since I don't forget about all this digital detritus it frees up mental space to trash it.

Having learned recently about SLC/MLC/TLC/etc, I'm more interested in SSDs that I can leave unpowered for longer, as I don't keep my computers (yes, I'm privileged to have more than one) on all the time.

I suggest the perspective that computers are an interesting but non-essential diversion.
Consider that in this thread, the premise of which is that an ostensibly shallow attitude is strange for HN, your comment is "all the commenters you see are posting from their McMansions in the Midwest", and it is still not grey or flagged after seven hours at the time of my writing this.

To me, that's more concerning than HNer's not all having a single voice on the broad and complex topic of housing development.
I mean if you think about it for 5 minutes sure. But look at what bluesky is doing for example around decentralized moderation. It’s not really been an important problem in the global sense to get cryptographic attestations by neural parties for asserting what they have witnessed or analyzed for evidence of falsehoods
> It’s almost dimensionally identical to the F-150 and the masculine “look at me” cyberpunk appearance is 100% in line with basically everything about the big three automakers’ trucks’ demographics.

You clearly are not around any of the big three automakers trucks demos if you really believe this shit was ever going to succeed in it.
I made a Telegram channel which does the same, with a 1000 threshold: https://t.me/top_of_hacker_news
FTC Obtains $195M Judgment and Ban on Simple Health for Sham Insurance Offering
It’s but a great first aid tutorial!
Can I use it get a live rep at Google to handle problems like being deplatformed or constantly getting ads for AI investment bot scams? That would make it extremely valuable to me.
Oh yes I agree on that. I should have specified that I was arguing their ability to reason - which from my own experience these birds do most definitely possess to a surprising extend. They are smart, and they have all day to figure out which buttons to press to get you to do something specific they find funny or other such things.
Original title "FTC Obtains $195 Million Judgment, Permanent Ban on Telemarketing and Selling Healthcare Products Against Simple Health Over Charges It Sold Sham Health Insurance"

FTC Motion for Summary Judgement: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/SimpleHealthSJO...

DoJ Prosecution: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdil/pr/jury-convicts-telemarke... ("Jury Convicts Telemarketing Company Owner/CEO and Another Executive of Federal Fraud Charges for Health Insurance Policy Scheme")
You should be smiling - this is really a decent puzzle game. And the last level did take a couple tries before I got it, but that was great. The earlier levels were too quick and easy once you figured out a couple patterns to look for.

Everyone is correct that this needs a better intro and better overall UX. But the concept is solid enough that I think this idea could go somewhere. Well done.
DDG have built a world class team and IMO are wasting it. I commend them to the fullest extent for their mission and incredible work they’ve put in, but they are capable of so much more.

Imagine a DDG IdP built using their principles or a DDG data custody tracker. If they only looked to expand beyond the browser space, I think DDG could be huge.
My understanding is that YouTube actively _undermines_ the ability for tools like youtube-dl to download videos. I see the irony that providing an api endpoint (just for transcripts) would maybe save them on egress costs.

But, I think they are probably culturally opposed to publicly exposing this sort of thing, even if it only works via authenticated account. Also worth considering that doing so would make it easier for a competitor to steal the value they provide with the generated closed captions.
fascinating! i would assume then that has an impact on the culture in europe as to how far is considered a "long" drive then, it never occurred to me that it could be that flights are so cheap, i always assumed the main reason for the difference in attitude was just because the countries were so much smaller and therefore local cultural differences became apparent much sooner!
Try loading a big image, then flood fill it :) - My browser crashed - or rather - went into deep sleep!
> where are the visiting professors from China teaching Westerners some of the great stories and value from 5000 years of Chinese history

A great question, and I would love to take a class - even online - from a top Chinese professor on leading Chinese texts.

I imagine part of the answer is that the reputations of and demand for American universities have been far beyond Chinese universities, though recently that's changing some. (That's not a criticism of people in China - it takes awhile to build those institutions and they are already moving pretty fast.)
The free Reddit API is generous enough for this use case. I think it allows about one call per second per API user.

I made a Telegram bot very similar to what you described (but free since it's just a few lines of code) https://t.me/MySubredditsBot
I think this article misses the point. First of all, it's written for entry-level readers, or advanced idiots. Second, the focus should be on lost technology and the wisdom of building past 100 years of life expectency with durable goods, and how we could leverage the best parts of this approach where it makes sense (sans climate change idiocracy).
would it fit in a QR code
Shall we start a new competitor to readthedocs.io? ignorethedocs.io
Well, it grew out of ASM.js, so not really an accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly
"the initial implementation was based on the feature set of asm.js."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js

NaCL tried more to be a real assembly language but had cross-platform issues.
:waves:
Mentoring: Leading the Future [audio]
There are around 23 million US millionaires. I’m not even sure that single million is “rich” any more, particularly if that includes the value of all retirement accounts.

(Post the pension era, $1M safely provides only about $40K/yr in retirement income for a 30 year retirement.)
> If they wouldn't build them, someone else will.

Nobody thinks that we can prevent everyone from doing something. The point of regulating (or making it illegal) and then enforcing those laws is to increase friction, increase costs, and thus making the thing difficult enough to obtain that the problems it causes become manageable. If there are 3 vendors of this sort of thing, then shutting down one of them definitely will make it more difficult for would-be customers by increasing costs and risks. Something does not have to be perfect to be good.

> They're kind of like arms manufacturers. Do you blame them if your government shoots you?

When Iran sells weapons to the Russians we definitely blame them, yes. And the Russians for using them, as well.
This is not Twitter
List of open-source video games
Do you know how an AI is trained?
You could say the same for PHP. But for 99.9% of applications, that doesn't apply.
I believe in the opposite, when it comes to presentations, you better include pictures and videos or even 3D render with animation, highlight words with other colors or size and so on, if I am for a plaintext slide, send it as an email, presentations are already boring using the default templates don’t make it worse. This whole “bare minimalistic” approach can be useful in some scenarios, just don’t try to force it every where, windows Vista UI for example was probably one of the best UI before going to minimal/flat design and such.
Do you consider sponsoring relocation help especially when the applicant has almost 2 years of Canadian work experience and got caught in a massive company layoff?
You mean increasing the value of the company by 10x?

What's your basis on pretending to be the CEO? Considering the unparalleled success of Tesla/SpaceX vs any other competitor?
> I mean does anyone actually like Reddit anymore?

I do like the good parts, deeply hidden, that can often be surfaced with a Google search. Case in point, I had a bug with some installed software yesterday, to which the only viable solution I found was in a Reddit post from a few months back.

But the experience of actively browsing the "leading edge" of the site? Absolutely not. I purposely-deprecated my credentials a year or so back and haven't regretted it.
Yes. Almost every slide deck I have been asked to put together in 25 years of work has been the second kind. And they don’t always even accompany a presentation.

Stop me when you’ve heard this one: you have a detailed status doc and a spreadsheet full of data on a particular project. Your boss tells you Director X or VP Y wants to read about that project. Those docs would be perfect! They are the canonical source of truth about the project, but the big shots just won’t read them so you need to summarize everything into a slide deck instead, which apparently people high up on the food chain can read. No matter how good that deck is it’s not going to be compete, and exec will end up with questions anyway.

So much of my career has been converting information in various forms into slide decks for people with a child’s attention span. This is one thing I’d love it if AI could do effectively and reliably. I could work 10 hour weeks.
> The intent is obviously good, but you've given financial institutions the power to decide who can sell online.

No.

Financial institutions are bound by their agreements with the card associations, of whom you may have heard; one of their logos is on every card in your wallet. They, as private entities, have the prerogative under current US law to decide who may and may not use the payment rails they own, and this was the original genesis of rules disfavoring porn and other such relatively 'sketchy' businesses - not for moral reasons, or not overtly so, but for the high rate of expensive and complicated chargebacks those businesses generate. The associations can and do deny payment access to businesses or even institutions which generate too many chargebacks, and are thus forced to implement the associations' desires regardless of their own inclinations.

That's been true since long before the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 gave rise to KYC/AML regulations in their modern form. If you want to argue against one or the other, you help yourself by ensuring you don't conflate them.

Meanwhile, if the description I gave of Visa and Mastercard sounds a lot like how Ma Bell could've been fairly described before a then much spryer Uncle Sam caught up to them, this is not by accident.
Laravel's debugbar is the inspiration.
You can state and prove theorems with linear models. You can do inference and testing. This means papers and academics naturally love them. And therefore, they are everywhere.

Not the case with non-linear models. We need to throw computers at them.
Bigger problem of 1970 epoch is that the 1970-1972 period was confusing time for UTC; having the epoch at 1972 would be arguably much cleaner

Fun excerpt from Wikipedia:

> As an intermediate step at the end of 1971, there was a final irregular jump of exactly 0.107758 TAI seconds, making the total of all the small time steps and frequency shifts in UTC or TAI during 1958–1971 exactly ten seconds, so that 1 January 1972 00:00:00 UTC was 1 January 1972 00:00:10 TAI exactly, and a whole number of seconds thereafter. At the same time, the tick rate of UTC was changed to exactly match TAI.

I'll leave it as exercise to the reader to think of all the implications of whatever timesteps and tickrate shifts that happened pre-1972.
how about submissions only from accounts that are no longer green (if that's not the case already), and possibly also have a positive comment posting history. although with AI it will be possible to make bots that write seemingly coherent and positive comments, so unfortunately this will continue to be an arms race.

maybe submissions only after reaching a certain number of points. that would reduce the number of people that can submit though.

another alternative would be to clearly identify which submissions come from posters with a high number of points. that would allow anyone to submit but make it easy to give posts by weak accounts a greater scrutiny.
I don't think copying assets has to do with it. Otherwise the copyright case wouldn't focus on "look and feel". In Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc., Tetris Holding won a "look and feel" copyright case over Xio Interactive's clone of Tetris called Mino [1]:

> The case was assigned to Judge Freda L. Wolfson. In defending the copyright claim, Xio founder Desiree Golden admitted to having copied Mino directly from the official Tetris app that was developed under license by Electronic Arts. Golden also admitted that they had sought a license to Tetris from Tetris Holdings, who turned them down. Subsequently, Golden continued to develop Mino based on their understanding of video game case law, and believed that they could avoid infringing on Tetris's expression by creating new audio and video assets.[13]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Int....

The case did not lead to many frivolous "look and feel" lawsuits. On the other hand, I personally believe that the judge gave copyright protection to elements that affect functional gameplay and therefore should be free to copy. (The height of the game board makes the game harder/easier, the length of the gameboard completely changes the math of creating clean stacks, the block shadow makes the game easier, the fact that the block's color changes when it gets locked in makes distinguishing between the active block and the inactive ones easier, and the inclusion of some display of N next pieces makes the game easier. The information that a player is and isn't allowed to see is part of the rules of the game, right?)
Using the official pi 4 power supply.
Chinese electric carmakers are taking on Europeans – and succeeding
Open Source Games
You should be skeptical. Every marketing professional knows and uses Reddit. Sentiment is casually discussed in meetings etc.
I'd be more proud of the rebellious students. The goal is for them to think independently and be independent, free members of society. It's like teenage children - it can be a real headache for parents, but you do you really want your teenagers to be obedient and compliant?
Once you get enough karma (I can’t remember what the number is) you’ll be able to see dead submissions. If you look at new you’ll see that there are spam posts coming in every couple of minutes or so. They’re just very effectively detected, as you suspected.