skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know if mainstream feed readers still do OPML[0] exports or not

Most of the feed readers (at least the open source ones) I have seen lately have offered OPML exports.
'This release marks the removal of the traditional handcrafted evaluation and the transition to a fully neural network-based approach.'
As I said, some grief is deserved in all these cases. But unreasonable criticism makes people also not listen to more reasonable (deserved) criticism. That was my entire point.

That you're completely ignoring this and instead just reply with an unsubstantial and off-topic dig at gnome is an excellent demonstration of my point.
> A skip list structure where each node has multiple hashes/identities would let you skip the last five years of edits and pull down only the individual edits for the last month.

Do you have any references or reading material on this pattern? Would love to learn more.
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?{kind}_id={id}

where kind can either be channel or playlist (possibly more).
I wonder if Google wants rights to what is developed in GSoC.

If so, that might explain the lack of invitation.
Background: Have worked at a large number of big-tech hardware / software companies in senior roles.

My observation is that doing a 'good job' is not really measurable the way most companies think about it (it actually is if you talk with your actual end-customers or use your brain) but getting something done 'quickly' or 'in two quarters' makes an easy target people shoot for.

I also notice big companies tend to have goal setting practicies that basically encourage people to game the system by showing 'what they got done' ("implemented feature a") vs. 'how well the job was done'. I haven't seen any of these goal systems including a "look back" or feedback loop where the actual bugs filed against a feature are ever considered.

Quality engineering culture is really culture and has to come from the top down and very likely if people in the upper echelons of management are in their roles because of politics, quality is so far removed from what they care about it really ends up on the shoulders of a few individuals who "care".
Sure, if Mastodon works as broadly as I described. It just needs to be more widespread then.
> I was replying to the other guy.

I see, so that gives you full credentials to insult me. Either way, there's more than 3 people here.

> "lets be more like that police state in how they deal with drugs", then the things we're striving for are so fundamentally different that we probably won't have a very productive conversation.

If that's how you solve problems then I agree, no discussion should ever be had when you're in the room. Singapore, Portugal, and USA, which two are similar than the other combination?

I also do not think Singapore is a "police state", and their government and people would also firmly disagree with you.
I read entrainment as "entertainment" which seems like a different thing altogether
maybe you could pre heat the water pour the rice for 5 minutes and then start fresh with new water.
> we should demand that all job postings (this is a job posting) should come with salary ranges at a minimum

Agreed. Not even considering jobs that pay under 120k, not worth my time. The literal only reason to hide the range is so that you can lowball people
I would have been a good use case, but unfortunately no, if your key was registered it would be left alone on all servers (though you had to place it, and access control was done by way of bastions).

Ssh certs weren't used because the system was put in place before they became commonplace.
Or we could stop bike shedding here and just try to understand the intent of the written words.
That, and weed management, and GPS assisted machinery.

Pretty much every agriculture advancement since the tractor and other machinery has been getting around the limiting factors of plant growth.
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Flo...

My rss feeder that I use on my phone works with your site. Maybe it's only Thunderbird that refuses to parse it.
Yep - and it has been done already [0]. Stadiums, malls, and water supplies are other extremely soft targets. I tend to consider TSA to be 'make work' at this point...

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airpo...
> ... unknown ...

This is a resounding instance of
"tell me you don't know the domain without telling me you don't know the domain"
and I think you'll find them interesting if you look into it.
Why has the US seen so little inflation in the last 30 years?
This is an incredibly dumb comment that you should delete. Anyone even remotely aware of RAG, LLMs and vector databases has heard of Qdrant.
In particular, this would be capital ownership by independent investors who are only interested in abstractly making money and not being personally involved in business operations, and then hire managers afflicted with the principal-agent problem to handle the details.
New Nvidia Research Group: Generalist Embodied Agent Research
> I find this vague reflexive anti-corpo leftism that seems to have become extremely popular post-2020 really tiresome.

Ah ideology, such a great alternative to actual thinking. Don't investigate or reason, just just blame it on the 'lefties'. Tiresome indeed.

Not sure how me simply stating the obvious makes me a 'lefty'. If you think monopiles, regardless of how they come about, are a good idea, that companies should be allowed to lock up an important market for any reason, then that makes you a corporatist fascist, right? Wow, this mindless name calling is so much fun! I feel like a total genius.

The simple fact is that it is the nature of software, its complexity and dependence on a multitude of fairly arbitrary technical choices makes it a very effective as a moat, even if its not intentional. CUDA, etc is 100% a software compatibility issue, and that's it. There's more than one way to skin a cat but we're stuck with this one. Nvidia isn't interested in interoperability, even though it's critical for the industry in the longer term. I'd wouldn't be either if it was money in my pocket.

The point that is entirely missed here is that we, as a community, are screwing up by not steering the field toward better hardware compatibility, as in anyone being able to produce new hardware. In the rush to improve or or try out the latest model or software we have lost sight of this, and it will be to our great detriment. With the concentration of money in one company we will have a lot less innovation overall. Prices will be higher and resources will be misallocated. Everyone suffers.

It's very possible that AI withers on the vine due to lagging hardware. It's going to need a lot of compute, and maybe a different kind of compute to boot. We may need a million or a billion times what we have to even get close to AGI. But if one company locks that up, and uses that position to squeeze out every dollar from its customers (really, have a look at the almost comical 'upgrades' Nvidia offers in their GPUs other than at the very high end) then it's going to take much longer to progress, and maybe we never get there because some small group of talented maverick researchers were never able to get their hands on the hardware they needed and never produce some critical breakthrough.
I used to use a rss2imap script that put it all in my mailbox, so I could read entries from everywhere. I stopped when I realized I don't want to be beholden to my computer being always on.

Now I have a server doing this + a good UX that doesn't exist anywhere, so there's no point in me doing this again. But I could replicate this UX for microblogging because the "context" are the same: lots of entries, little that I will actually read.
Agreed. The article is explicitly presenting it as if Google had some grand strategy to "embrace, extend, and extinguish".

But the far simpler and more plausible interpretation is that it just wasn't popular enough to support. Outside of some hard-core tech people and some journalists, almost nobody used RSS.

And so it's equally plausible to write this story as: Google believed in RSS -- they brought it into Chrome, they launched Reader, they acquired FeedBurner, but the user numbers just never materialized. So they shut them down because Google mostly only maintains projects and features with large numbers of users.

I think you're right that, more than anything, Twitter killed RSS. But maybe it's more accurate to say algorithmic feeds in general -- including the Facebook news feed, Google News, and Reddit as well.

I simply don't see a world where RSS would have become broadly successful if Google had made different choices. Especially with such a super-open standard as RSS, Google is simply not responsible for the death of RSS. Even if you still haven't forgiven them for killing Reader. ;)
> because in Portugal a drug addict can be forced into drug treatment, fined or mandated community service.

Each of these things seems more reasonable than US's two options 1) ignore them or 2) dispense varying lengths of the same punishment that brutally awful convicts get.
> somehow throw enough parameters at them and eventually there's some undefined emergent behavior that results in something more.

But the other side doesn't see it that way, specifically not the "something more" part. It's "just math" all the way down, in our brains as well. The "emergent phenomena" are not undefined in this sense - they're (obviously in LLMs) also math, it's just that we don't understand it yet due to the sheer complexity of the resulting system. But that's not at all unusual - humans build useful things that we don't fully understand all the time (just look at physics of various processes).

> which also meshes closely with the fact that generations routinely have multiple perspectives and other errors that wouldn't exist if they modeled the world some people are suggesting.

This implies that the model of the world those things have either has to be perfect, or else it doesn't exist, which is a premise with no clear logic behind it. The obvious explanation is that, between the limited amount of information that can be extracted from 2D photos that the NN is trained on, and the limit on the complexity of world modeling that NN of a particular size can fit, its model of the world is just not particularly accurate.

> we're going to need some real explanations instead of things that can be explained multiple other ways before I'm going to take it seriously, at least.

If we used this threshold for physics, we'd have to throw out a lot of it, too, since you can always come up with a more complicated alternative explanation; e.g. aether can be viable if you ascribe just enough special properties to it. Pragmatically, at some point, you have to pick the most likely (usually this means the simplest) explanation to move forward.
> I can't browse timelines on X without an account

It takes just a few seconds to create an account.

>they've blocked all third party apps

The first party app works fine for me.

>most sites I subscribe to via RSS don't tweet every new post anyway

It would be in the best interests of these sites to post about new content on social media themselves for extra visibility. Worst case someone else can repost it on social media for them.
Do you really need 24 hour coverage? Are these patients really such a danger to themselves or others that you have to keep an eye on them at all times day and night?

It seems to me that even 4 hour a day care would already result in a huge quality of life improvement over no care at all.
Which middle class would that be, in 1024? The merchant princes came later, centuries later in fact.

The only that would remotely qualify would be guild organized professions, and even those rose to prominence in the high and latr middle ages.
This is a specious argument. Singapore puts drug users to death. Are fewer executions better than more?
The problems with V has always been that its marketing is full of lies and its main selling points don't work as advertised. The same source code, but without the deception, might very well be an alright language.

Just like how healing crystals are perfectly fine if what you want is decoration and you think they look pretty. It doesn't make the deceptive marketing okay.
The L part was apparently not so obvious to the authors of the Java standard library since it has violations all over it.

Readonly implementations of java.util.List come to mind.
An evolution of RSS should have been the end game of social networks.
The creator not being able to community manage was why I left Nim - not "forever", but I moved on to other things. The language has some good ideas, but at that time development seemed to be heavily guided by two trolls who hung out in the IRC and complained, every day, about how they would never ever be able to do their projects without this one feature. Eventually I got into it with them and nobody got banned...which, of course, said to me that he was OK with toxicity, so I couldn't be bothered to stay.

That, and a lot of the more advanced features were just broken.
> Seems to me that he did, in fact, call LGBTQ+ people filth.

I see that you are choosing to read it that way, but that is quite literally not what he said, and I don't agree with the assumptive leap that you took to get there. Is it possible he meant it the way you're choosing to interpret it? Of course it is. But it seems at least as plausible that he didn't (the fact that he said 'that' and not 'them' means he's probably referring to some sort of dogma or indoctrination or messaging, and not people), but you - and the author of that article apparently - are choosing to go with that particular interpretation anyway. If you can't see the rather large assumption you're making, to me that's a far bigger problem, because it all but guarantees a state of perpetual aggrievance.

Regarding the other stats, that is actually committing the common follow on mistake of lumping everyone together as the same. Again, let's pretend this rando really meant things the way you're choosing to interpret it. To go from there to implying that he is equivalent to everyone who is not on board with gay marriage is again a huge (and false) assumption that only serves to ratchet up your frustration / anger / whatever towards people who don't see the world the same way.

(And as an aside, if you are truly interested in making further progress on some of these issues instead of just being angry about them, you need those people as your allies and could probably win many if not most of them closer to your POV, but demonizing them by lumping them in with the tiny minority representing the worst of them all but guarantees that won't happen.)
I think you are right. My usage of RSS was nearly non-existent for many years. Now it is daily. I was shocked to find even local news sites publishing full articles in their RSS feed. Most sites still have feeds.

There is now infinite content available in traditional commercial feeds. You just have to accept it is non-chronological, non-subscribed noise pollution: Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, etc. That suddenly makes RSS extraordinarily attractive -- perhaps even more so than it was 15 years ago.
Markov chains also depend on the initial state. In GPTs the initial state is your conversation history
If the publisher's aim in doing this is to make an ethical statement this seems like a heavy-handed and ineffective way. Let the information be published, make a statement and let the audience decide.
Being counted off for not "showing your work" even when you got the right answer was extremely frustrating.
Indeed, but I wasn't talking about mistakes at all, but specifically about the case when "A understands X better than B does", which is about their mental model of X. I hope you won't dispute that 1) we do say things like that all the time about people, and 2) most of us understand what this means, and it's not just about making fewer mistakes.
This is not a reason. We participated successfully last year and even hired one of the guys afterward.
Probably not what you’re looking for but it always makes me think of Jeffrey Jones’ “Wholly Holy” (1972), the penultimate story in this 1983 collection: https://www.zipcomic.com/ravens-and-rainbows-issue-full (not sure how to deep link to the exact page)

Also check out “Explored” and “Spirit of ‘76” before it, just because they’re cool :)
This feels “truthy”, but I wonder how much of this is selection bias. Organizations that do solve their problems tend to cease to exist or be relevant. In that sense you would expect only the organizations that have not (yet?) solved their problems to persist. It may not exactly be an incentive in the sense that most organizations behave in this manner, depending on how you sample across organizations.
I think there's a line or maybe some Venn Diagram meme about hack back hackers and "I'll refactor this later".

Not trying to start anything with either type. We're all guilty of these platitudes and well intentioned lies.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489001
Are drugs really the issue though?

In my experience people who ruin their life with drugs have underlying mental health issues which are the cause of their self-destructive usage patterns.

What is the difference between a Wall Street banker and a homeless junkie? Not the regular use of hard drugs..

Pure addiction therapy thus almost never works. The homeless junkies have PTSDs, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, severe cases of ADHS etc. all of that needs to be treated together with the addiction for a reasonable chance of success.
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
Voluntary is carrying a lot of weight there. Do we voluntarily trade money for bread or freely choose starving as an alternative? What is to prevent those who control the bread from coercively taking every penny you have?

A free market without government control is an adolescent fever dream. Nothing like it has ever existed or ever will. The question is not whether there will be government control, it is how much?
I would argue that the main function of the TSA is to ensure the public feels safe flying. As long as the public perceives that the TSA is making it “safe enough” to fly it has value, regardless of its actual effectiveness.
Ask HN: What were your 20s like?
Yeah, in my experience they're happy to help with "vintage" hardware if it's just a matter of software assistance, like in your case.

The "vintage" designation is more about not being able to repair/replace hardware, because they simply don't make/stock the replacment parts/models anymore.
OK, I found the problem. I hadn't imported the proper RSS namespace thingy to provide the `<dc:creator>` tag. I've fixed that now, so you should be able to read my feed in Thunderbird!
You're assuming that the vast majority of people want to hear your message. Maybe they like that site because it doesn't allow messages like that.
Cool to see a logo for an open source project that isn't terrible
This is a great example of a business built on what should not really be a business. There are certain types of things that are fundamental to the internet, and trying to sell a premium version of that is always an uphill battle.

Imagine that in 2024 I tried to sell you a web browser. One that maybe has a slightly cleaner UI or some fancy plugin system but ultimately is just a plain old browser. Maybe some very small percentage of people would pay for it, but most are entirely happy with the free and FOSS choices available since the core features of a browser are standard.

RSS by all means should be similar: just like ping, cat, sh, browsers, email clients, video players, etc. the core features are well defined and an open source project should be the default choice. If you want something fancy or proprietary then sure you should be free to pay for it. But I can’t imagine wanting to build a company that pays salaries around any of this.

There are situations where a person or a team of 2-3 can make a lifestyle business out of selling something that I have seen referred to as “legacy software” (this doesn’t mean old, but rather fundamental and “boring”, aka the Linux kernel). But Feedly competes with its own free product and cannot see the forest for the trees.
This is very interesting when applied to thoughts and interiorized beliefs, as well as belief systems that purport to free you from those thoughts and beliefs.
Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
(Homage to MakeCode) Coding Ox64 BL808 SBC the Drag-N-Drop Way
You blamed a person for something they did not do. I'm really not sure what you meant here. It seems to me like you are purposely trying to poison the conversation.
> It also means that I do not have to carry, parrot, amplify or provide a space for their speech.

You don't, if you're a private individual, but if you're a huge company that provides a space that's become a de-facto public square then you do, because if you don't, you're affecting freedom of speech in a meaningful way by providing everyone apart from a certain few individuals with a giant megaphone, pushing up the background noise level.

To clarify: Twitter and FB are de-facto public squares, this is fact.

Free speech includes the freedom to be heard, and giving everyone a vuvuzela apart from a few prevents those people from having the freedom to be heard.

Of course - if you're such a company - you also have the freedom to not do business at all. Which would probably be better.
No, they didn’t — we can’t build safe consumption sites in the US because of Federal law, neither city built the necessary treatment infrastructure to do “Portugal-style” treatment, and police in these US cities seem to resent the approach and don’t take it seriously enough to achieve Portugal’s outcomes.

We can’t just stop addressing drug use and not build the care and treatment infrastructure on the other end. People instinctively understand this, which is why “defund the police” failed as a slogan, but the abolitionist program was always meant to include building social infrastructure as an alternative to police.

Those alternative programs in the US are always an underfunded afterthought, even in cities where they have political support. For example, I still can’t call San Francisco’s crisis intervention team directly — I have to call the cops if I see someone on the street experiencing a crisis, and they still might send a poorly trained goon with a gun to deal with it, because the crisis intervention team doesn’t operate 24/7.

In other words, these policies haven’t failed, they’ve barely even been tried.
Their acceptable safe amount is 200mg/kg which is considered very high in the rest of the world. It’s a 100% higher than the average amount of arsenic in Indian rice.
Physicists Have Figured Out a Way to Measure Gravity on a Quantum Scale
I got to the end of your post and realized I’d love to hear more about your thoughts around this. Also you must be proud of building something with so little bugs! Thats quite a feat.
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't heard of "bash strict mode" before. Haven't heard of envsubst either. I'll make a better rss script as I learn more about scripting.