skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the self-hosted open source alternative that's actually good? I've been using Inoreader because the UI for any alternative is mediocre.

I'd like it to work on web and Android, sync back and forth properly, and look nice (sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, etc) and nothing else appears to provide this.

Plus, Inoreader allows you to assign a single feed to multiple folders (tag style) which many other readers don't allow.
If you hire high cost workers, you go out of business. If you higher too-low cost workers, your competitors hire them away and you go out of business.
I can totally understand that, but I don't want to waste time figuring out how to optimize it by trial and error if there's a an easily digestible guide that gets me within 95%, because that shit is not fun or interesting to me. I'm telling there's an audience for such a book because I'm it, and you're arguing that I don't exist. Then you put a new edition once every 1-2 years, and call it 'Nothercastle's cary buyer's guide 2025'.
Hmmh. Fair enough. I didn't think about it from the perspective of "error text", but now that I think in that mental model, I think you're right here.
Define “free”. Most modern Asian capitalist economies have never been very “free” in the American sense of “free market”. They’ve always been heavily guided by government policy.

I think the most productive eras are really when everyone is picking low-hanging fruit. And the low-hanging fruit only seems so low because there’s been a burst of newly available mechanical technology. Then everything is picked clean, productivity drops, and the economy shifts to prioritizing useless consumption.
Bad UX and UI choices have destroyed the adoption of RSS feeds.

RSS has always been a niche solution used only by technically knowledgeable people because of how it was always presented by RSS feed vendors.

Instead of having a button saying "Install this browser extension and click here to get all new articles in your browser", the user is presented with an orange "RSS" button with no explanation of what it is and how to use it, that will show a weird XML file when clicked on by the average user.

How are people supposed to use that feature when it's so obscure?

Better UX would have helped adoption and would have led to Google keeping the RSS button (and Google Reader probably).
If they include detailed plans and timelines for feature deliveries then yes.
Yeah totally. Just saying that TFA's thesis doesn't necessarily apply if the founder is mission-driven and 100% owns the organization. They might actually value the mission over the organization and be content when the mission is fulfilled.

As a founder mindset person if I could bootstrap a business that gets me $50 million by curing cancer I'd be MORE THAN HAPPY to just retire on that $50 million, and open source all the IP so that anyone can make the drugs. I don't have a desire to be a billionaire over curing cancer.

However, if you give up ownership during the process, things change. You have fiduciary duty to investors that would be violated if you just gave up all future revenue and open sourced everything. It would have to be a bootstrapped business in order to do the above.
Better link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/business/economy/the-grea...
Class-action suit against company scanning and selling CA license plate data
it's got all the latest features from the 1980s built right in
Book Review: Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen
Accountants, tax consultants, (many types of) lawyers, real estate agents and other useless middlemen, all examples of professions that shouldn't exist, given that there are cheap, easy and efficient technical solutions for the problems they solve.

Why are they still in business? Because the law prevents more efficient solutions. Why are laws made in such a fashion? Because said industries offer lucrative deals to lawmakers if they give in to their lobbying.

The corruption in the western world is deep and pervasive. It's just one level removed from the public perception s.t. the price we all pay for it is hidden.
People reading articles from RSS are not using Google search or Google browser, not being monetized by Google Ads. There is a reason.
If I got a message like this I'd just block the sender. As a developer I have no say in what my owner tells me to work on. I type what they want and nothing more.
A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi
My life experience has been that is often the intersection of two very hard problems: test-thinking is a learned skillset that often consumes a lot more active-thought than implementation-thinking and, as I repeatedly and loudly say to my team: testing is always AGAINST REQUIREMENTS. No requirements means no accurate tests, only busywork/metric-gaming. And, as I also always point out: no, your fever-dream one sentence statement of outcome is not a "requirement"

The bad news is that often the business folks don't know what they want, either, which is how "agile" became a thing. I recognize the ship has sailed on that, but it's "cake and eat it too" to think one can have good tests and ship "PoCs that do something valuable" in 2 week increments
TSA lines are an obvious soft target and if someone wanted to take a lot of people with them, they could just use a suicide vest in the security lines. It would have the same chilling effects on the air travel economy and spread terror.
Is the content hosted on social media platforms considered to be the speech of the companies that own said platforms? If yes, wouldn't that undermine the case for their immunity from liability from that content?
> Better UX would have helped adoption and would have led to Google keeping the RSS button

The most obvious people to have improved that UX is the browser... aka Google. The way that XML rendered was controlled by the browser. This all sounds like Google apologism.
There’s nothing stopping folks from using RSS feeds. Turns out people want to make money and rss feeds don’t do this easily. The end.
the pendulum of choice
django_extensions/utils/dia2django.py: https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions/blob/...

django_extensions/management/modelviz.py:
https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions/blob/...

viewflow supports BPMN: https://github.com/viewflow/viewflow
https://github.com/viewflow/cookbook/blob/main/guardian_perm...

Wikipedia mentions security concerns with low-code and no-code apps; and it's rare to impossible for a tool to support round-trip from code -> diagram UI -> code. And the test for isomorphism or functional equivalenve after normalization.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139198 :

> All program evolution algorithms tend to produce bloated, convoluted, redundant programs ("spaghetti code"). To avoid this, MOSES performs reduction at each stage, to bring the program into normal form. The specific normalization used is based on Holman's "elegant normal form", which mixes alternate layers of linear and non-linear operators. The resulting form is far more compact than, say, for example, boolean disjunctive normal form. Normalization eliminates redundant terms, and tends to make the resulting code both more human-readable, and faster to execute.

"Elements of an expert system for determining the satisfiability of general Boolean expressions" (1990)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/100095 :

> Neither the constraint calculus nor the satisfiability-determination (SD) algorithm require that an expression be in either Conjunctive or Disjunctive Normal Form.

IR: Intermediate Representation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_representation

How many ways can a compiler generate a code graph from a code graph?
And yet RSS works perfectly fine on Youtube.
I'm still not understanding what you want to visualize. I get that you want to create a graph (or tree, the strictly hierarchal subset of graphs). That's what a mindmap is. The rabbit hole goes deep on theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory . But a lot of different things have that data structure. Do you want to visualize files in folders? You linked to a Java class diagram - so you want the tool to interpret the code? Is it Java? Is it an object-oriented language (i.e. a language with hierarchal class structure)? Are you asking for an automated tool, or do you want to draw the mindmap yourself manually?
WE ACTUALLY DO THOUGH!! And he does slide around. That's too funny
I'd like to thank Google for incentivizing everyone to get away from them and onto more distributed platforms.

IMHO, we have a moral obligation to support open source as a function of freedom and democracy.
Vinyls warp and scratch. Film degrades and becomes foggy. Books are damaged by too much moisture or not enough moisture. Most clay tablets have been smoothed by erosion.

Optical disk rot is an overstated problem. Every medium has longevity issues. I often deal with 25 year old CDs and old DVDs and they are fine if they were stored properly.
I'm not asking them, I'm asking you. Do you usually have issues with the borrow checker when dealing with message queuing in rust?
Is the author better at marketing/sales/promising or programming (delivering)?
I’m a bit annoyed the article doesn’t even bother to touch on whether this is a concern domestically. Are we exporting the bad stuff? Or are we eating it too?
You are replying to a post that references exceptionally expensive efforts. The inflation adjusted cost of the Apollo Program was hundreds of billions of dollars[1]. By what measure is that cheap? Maybe I'm missing intended sarcasm?

[1] https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo
TSA is more like what Graeber would call a bullshit job.
My post is absolutely doused in sarcasm.
Yes, in order to convincingly say "I'm with you, I think you want to do the right thing" you do have to actually believe that America has a race problem that needs to be addressed and you have to believe that the people taking shortcuts sincerely believe they're doing the right thing. So yeah, Noah Smith does presumably hold that understanding of racism.

I wasn't trying to say that he was lying for the sake of the article, I was trying to say that he's framing it in a way that is intended to be persuasive to a particular group of people that you're not a part of. If you pressed him on it in a private conversation I wouldn't be surprised if he acknowledged that the behaviors involved here are racist (by some definition) even though the people are trying to be the opposite. But he knows better than to level that word at his audience.
Most Americans seem poised to vote for either Biden or Trump also. Sometimes the majority is a mob of idiots.
I'm not crazy about SOLID principles either. They don't feel like useful, practical ideas to me. They were born to be memorized for a classroom test or a job interview. SOLID does come up in interviews, though.

Most companies don't really invest in trying to do good interviews. Rarely is there anyone motivated (or permitted) to think about the process and make it a lot better or different. Doing what they've always done, or what everyone else seems to be doing, is good enough.
If the author wanted e-fame (the good kind or the bad kind), they absolutely got it.
How we built the world's first loosely coupled, ACID, master-master platform that can accommodate any mainstream SQL-database.
Aging doesn't seem to be inevitable: some animal species live for very long times even hundreds of years. And yet we have a predetermined lifespan far below that. Seems as though that's an purposeful systematic difference etween species that control how long each generation survive before death.
Show HN: FlyOnTime, a Chrome Extension that helps you book better flights
Once I was in the airport with a delayed flight and realized: this absolutely sucks. I paid $xyz for a 6PM flight and what I received in return was a 7:45PM flight plus a 1h45min waste of time at the airport.

Frustrated, I began to analyze the data. Do some airlines perform, on average, better than others? What about airports? What about days of the week?

I found that the answer to all of the above questions is "yes".

Then I thought, wouldn't it be great to have this information *at the time of booking*? Because that's when it really matters. Am I paying for a flight, or a delayed flight? Is it really worth paying over *twice as much* for American over Spirit (which is, contrary to popular belief, barely worse than American with its on-time performance).

So I built one for US flightsL https://www.flyontime.app

And if you want to read about the methodology: https://flyontime.substack.com/p/flyontimes-methodology

Right now it is 100% free. Plan is to try to reach a couple thousand users organically and then think about a premium version with more advanced analytics that I can offer to executive assistants and travel agencies.
The details of the Teller-Ulam design are still quite secret despite being known to several hundred people for 50+ years.
Of course they represent my own values. Peter Thiel’s approach to business is based on creating monopoly conditions, extracting maximum value from working people, and creating widespread social misery that he doesn’t have to personally experience due to his wealth.

Is there a some other way to evaluate a normative discussion of social, business, and educational policy than by bringing values to bear?
I had forgotten about that one - it was actually my favorite cut too. The chorus is indeed a banger - extremely creative. I think Mirror Mirror was the more popular track because it had an anthem quality to it. Easier to sing with your friends at a bar or a concert, while Precious Jerusalem is pretty much progressive metal.
It's true for the last thousand years at least. A thriving middle class appeared in northwestern Europe a thousand years ago, a middle class of merchants and other businessmen.
> individuals ‘dig their heels’ into protecting their own pet project/baby/solution/etc, mainly due to ego.

Guilty of this.

I worked for about a decade on a pet project to find a new family of computer languages designed for both humans and machines.

I did not think machines were close to mastering our languages, and new languages were needed.

I knew my approach was a long shot, but if I found a way to make it work the upside was huge.

Then LLMs happened. The possible upside of my approach dropped dramatically.

I have been trying to "rewire" my brain and re-purpose the neurons that evolved over a decade to keep turning my approach around from different perspectives. It is very hard.

It is easy to get a sapling to grow into a desired shape. It is much harder to reshape a fully grown tree. Just the physic of it.

To tie this back to the original article, if you model an individual's brain like Minsky's Society of Mind, you would have neural agents that create a circuit ("Institution") to solve a problem, and some of those agents focus on the task of preserving that circuit. Without those Institution preserving neurons, you would never keep the circuit going long enough to see through a contrarian idea. But the downside is that the organization will persist even when it is no longer a good bet.
All of the offered explanations still paint humans as the perpetrators of a crime against the environment.

Not once is a greening planet painted in a positive light in this article. Its as if the writer is afraid to say something positive about CO2 emissions.
Doesn't this depend on how you define productive? If GDP is your metric, I think it probably correlates well - despite the fact that the 50s and 60s weren't particularly free market (wage restrictions, high taxes, etc.) when compared to say 1930 after the free market collapsed.

But my larger point is that I think "free market" eras also correspond with worse quality of life for the majority of citizens. I'm thinking things like pre-safety-regulations industrialization in the US; the environmental catastrophe that was the 60s (so bad that it led Nixon to create the EPA); the affordable housing catastrophe that has been the past 15 years.

We can obviously produce more if we don't have to worry about externalities like "worker safety", "being able to afford rent", or "habitable environments". Free markets create conditions where externalities aren't as important.
Seems that greenhouse experiments would allow us to get a pretty good estimate for the effect of CO2 on yields, so actually I wouldn't think we'd need to do that much assuming?
> The study also pointed to comparatively loose U.S. limits on concentrations arsenic and cadmium, which can leach from both human and naturally occurring sources to contaminate food and water. Rice is especially prone to absorb these metals.

So Haiti has nothing whatever to do with the root problem.

And the headline forgot to mention the added bonus of toxic cadmium in U.S. rice.
Cosmos CLI: A CLI tool for tracking satellites
> There has to be unrealized economical potential for growth.

Free markets have always found that potential.
There are many stronger type systems for Ruby. And while that is partially a joke, there are various Optional type implementations, though of course you do then need the discipline of wrapping values as needed.

I don't tend to use it myself because between safe navigation and things like Array() etc. it's rarely needed.
I appreciate the explanation, that makes total sense.

The burden to maintain such a preprocessor doesn’t seem that rewarding compared to using existing ones.
Exactly like the press. The press that is held liable for what they publish.
This drove me absolutely crazy as well and I was equally shocked that anyone thought it was a good idea. Ended up going through several rounds of password resets before figuring it out. Further reinforced the perception that PayPal is a crap company and continue to avoid using them as much as possible.
IF we are getting into the semantics of what a valid world model is, then we really have different standards for what passess as logic.
full riser cables like they used doesn't impact performance. Hanging it off on open air frame IMO is better, keeps everything cooler, not just the GPU but the motherboard and surrounding components. With only 2 24gb GPU they are not going to be able to run larger models. You can't experiment with 70b models without offloading to CPU which is super slow. The best models are 70b+ models.
It is in fact a problem domestically as well, rice is a well-known bio-accumulator of arsenic. This is the reason for guidelines on how much rice pregnant women and children should eat.
If you need 24/7 coverage, that's a job for 4 people. And you need someone to coordinate and hire (probably a service).
I'm getting the impression you don't know much about aviation.
I am not privy to Meta's situation, and to be honest don't have any hand-to-hand experience with finetuned code LLMs, but my mental model is that any corpus of rules will always produce better outcomes when taking local norms into consideration. It's a silly one, but code formatting styles is a perfect example: a hypothetical Google one that has been finetuned on the Google codebase will more easily produce code that already follows their documented code style merely because it has seen more "already correct" examples. Variable nomenclature, method ordering, what things are versus are not documented, any nullability annotations (where appropriate to the language), etc are more that spring to mind

More germane to this discussion, I would guess a locally tuned model will also recognize the kinds of things they care about testing, up to and including spotting any bug fix tests that were hard won and can carry forward in any such generated tests for future code
The State of Dapps on IPFS: Trust vs. Verification
I've been using FreshRSS for a while and I've been rather pleased with it. It's browser UI is pretty good and a good number of mobile RSS apps support it.
Of course I have a problem with it. He should be shamed and penalized and made an example of.
You might be able to do it with https://github.com/IBM/tree-sitter-codeviews - though the screenshot in the readme is in much more granular detail than class/ER diagram.

I'd be surprised if there isn't a nice way to do this with tree-sitter or LSP, not to mention some language-(..theist?! Not language-agnostic) ways.
The problem is that headline grabbing DEI gaffes like this are causing unease among political moderates and handing ammunition to conservatives in a particularly fraught US election year. Non-whites need to stand up and denounce the DEI grifters and illiberal progressives as a matter of self-preservation.
Not countries producing but there's huge oil companies based in Europe (BP, Shell, Total)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_oil_and_gas_...
> public squares and should be treated as such.

What does this mean?
Thanks for that explanation, Thinking about it. I was taught to call that proprietorship. Which was probably meant to remove that ambiguity.

A - L = P

We put it on the right side to say that was the Owners value.

I never knew why they insisted on that but now I do.
Limited monetization potential stopped the adoption of RSS. Competition from social media feeds included a social factor and eventually allowed for a monetization solution that did not infringe on the content creators.
"The free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control. One of the central principles of a free market is the concept of voluntary exchange, which is defined as any transaction in which two parties freely trade goods or services."

-- google "free market"
I could not agree more. The only effective way I've ever seen is people meeting other people who look different than them, having meaningful discussions, and having that realization that "wow, they're just like me." I used to believe that it could be done virtually, but I think the lessons of social media and the dehumanizing that the internet does have demonstrated that it needs to be done IRL, or at least in prolonged video meetings or something where the complexities of the human identity (such as facial responses, vocal intonations, pauses for thought, rapid exchange of ideas/dialogue) are apparent.
> A woke-censored LLM will answer some questions notably different

Do you remember the fiasco that was Tai AI? Do you think letting it run "uncensored", aka turn full on Nazi/racist, was a good idea, or something any company would be okay with?

Humans are quite adept at self-censoring when relevant. An AI model needs to be taught the same thing. And heck, even humans can be racist, it's just that most humans are reasonably moderate.

(For context: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...)
You're absolutely right. But if you don't measure churn, time-to-market, incidents, brand reputation, etc., then you will never see the benefits of investing in quality. So it becomes easy not to do it.
Nice idea, though I guess then in order to actually recall a specific day you'd have to traverse through the entire series? Kind of like a linked list vs an array. Maybe some hybrid approach could work with some "anchor" days that you can get to directly and then traverse from there.
Yes. This was proposed over 10 years ago. I even proposed this back then...

Its a great idea but the same forces that (were|did) threaten(ing) to corrupt DNS got involved in the web 3.0 and thoroughly corrupted that to...

Power (and money) corrupts completely. You cannot have a public service that is based upon monetized (share-holder backed) services.
Late Edit: unfortunately Firefox' screenshot feature seems to have a maximum size, beyond which it just silently truncates the output.