skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well spotted. Fixed. Thank you!
There is a pretty usable migration tool built into Angular CLI at least for switching over to the new template syntax. Requires some manual cleanup here and there but overall it’s not painful at all.
US needs to spend a certain amount of money to deter opponents. One of the major opponents is Russia. By spending a small fraction of the deterrence money for example on cheap 155mm shells instead of on for example high tech F-22s in Alaska the US can blunt the Russian threat much much cheaper.

If Russia wants its soldiers to stop dying then it can withdraw - all it takes is one phone call from Putin to Shoigu or his generals.
I think the often-quoted amount that huffmann is going to be paid includes stock he owns (will own?), with its valuation based on the targeted IPO price. I don't think he's getting paid an absurd amount of cash right now.
At least a committee of 10 identical members wont be dumber than a single member most of the time. A committee of clones is just scaling up compute in order to solve larger problems. Imagine if you could clone yourself with your knowledge and mental state, much more useful than trying to cooperate with another human.
Internet forums are fundamentally not companies that can grow infinitely and where investors 10-100x their money. Digg was unprofitable. Tumblr was unprofitable. Twitter is unprofitable. Reddit is unprofitable. When VCs/investors ramp up the pressure the company has to change in ways the community doesn't like, and that is what normally kills it. Whether that happens with Reddit as well is TBD, but I can personally say that the quality of the forum has been steady declining over the last few years.
Y Combinator is an investment firm, Reddit is a Y Combinator-funded company, Paul Graham is an essayist who had Y Combinator invest in Reddit, and this is news.ycombinator.com (where people often like to read things written by Paul Graham and things written about YC companies). It's both an interesting recollection and something to help the IPO. Is it really so bad if it's both?
Good question. My personal take is that C++ makes many developers happy, comfortable, and you can develop in C++ using different approaches, that is enough. There is no programming language for all and I think this is why we have a lot of them now and even DSLs.

I consider myself far from what is considered professional C++ knowledge, but for cryptography I always relied on Crypto++ [1] and that made me decide for the use of C++, at least partially. I think we can apply the same thinking for JavaScript or TypeScript, personally I don't like too much those programming languages but if I need to write a RESTful backend I go that route because they have good modules for that or sometimes I decide for Python.

[1] https://www.cryptopp.com/
It’s apples and oranges. Many, many human cultures live close to the water but none live on or in it exclusively, we are no longer an aquatic species. I think the arctic comparison might be more apt, but even so, it is such a staggering difference of degree. The amount of technology required to learn how to hunt arctic wildlife, preserve food, and turn animal skins into clothing and shelter is not trivial. But it is nothing compared to having to replicate our entire habitat in space. Food, water and air are the minimum in terms of long term survival; there are so many other heath considerations in the micro-gravitational radioactive vacuum of space.

Edit: also Inuit garb being 80% space suit is just… what(?!?). How do you quantify that? The main features they share is that insulates from extreme cold temperatures and can protect against glare, but our space suits also insulate from high temperatures and provide life support and are air tight and radiation resistant and… this assertion is just nonsense.
Show HN: Microsoft Excel (XLSX) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)
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Then TSMC would be paying its Taiwan employees a lot less, the disparity could be a problem somehow.
Will vols 3 + 4 get published? All too often Ive encountered book series that were never completed.
This looks like a similar model to how Elm handles HTML. Except Elm provides functions for each tag, so it also does type checking to ensure that the passed arguments correspond to the actual attributes of the tag.
> Apparently marketing people who want to sell stuff under those new licenses think "source available" is uncool.

It's not that it's uncool, it's just not true and reflective of reality. There's a world of difference between a .zip on an FTP ("source available because GPL says it must be") and everything still happening in public on GitHub and everyone still being able to contribute if they want to. Both are technically "source available".
Reddit has become steadily less useful to me; the UI is awful. The endless pressure to use their app is irritating.

So I dunno that I buy this adulation of Steve.
That headline has been linked everywhere so of course it's untrue. a) He received an large bonus and b) his increased salary is still half of NVIDIA's CEO.

"Huffman in 2023 got a salary of $341,346, which is relatively low for a CEO of a major public corporation. In February, this was raised to $550,000. He also got a $792,000 bonus last year based on Reddit's user numbers, revenue, and a type of profitability known as adjusted EBITDA that excludes certain expenses."

https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-def...
I think I know which company, because I read the Glass Door reviews after they imploded. We're in the same space.

What I've learned is that every word of content is a liability to mess something up. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are table stakes. I'm talking about voice / messaging / positioning / product knowledge / industry knowledge / etc. Not only do you need to attract talented creatives, you need to enable them to care as much as they cared on day 1, in year 2.

Creating this kind of culture is really, really hard. Especially for business people managing creatives. We've managed to avoid the problems this company had, but it wasn't intuitive, and it required doing things most companies in this space don't see, can't do, or won't do.
the US Needs a 9/11 Commission for Covid
I poked at this a few times over the years, think my initial intent was to add SVG textures to Blender.

What I always found is the 'good' renderers were a small part of a massive project (totally impractical to add as a dependency) and the small, standalone ones weren't necessarily 'good'. I think I found one (nanoVG IIRC) that could have probably been beaten into submission with some hacking but that was around the same time I was winding down my involvement in Blender.

A quick peek at the code seem like this is exactly what I needed those 15 years ago and it just so happens I have some python bindings that could be easily be ported over to this if anyone is interested.
> E.g. your linux distro might no longer package it and you might have to rely on packages maintained by redis which might not be as well integrated into your distro (although lots of users probably don't care about that)

This might be me living in a bubble, but OS packages for this kind of server software really feel like a relic the past.

Containers have been around for a decade and we now have tools like podman that run without privileges or daemons. I run my freakin' Raspberry Pi 4GB as a pure container host, just because it makes the system cleaner and more reliable at almost no cost.

Now I'm sure some people still want to `apt install redis`, for example to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of hardware, and more power to them if that's what gives them the best results.

But Debian maintainers have to do a lot of dull, unfun work to update, test, and bugfix native packages for Redis and Mongo and RabbitMQ and... is that really a good use of their precious, unpaid time? To make the UX and performance only slightly better than 'podman run redis'?
I'm undiagnosed "but many markers" (according to a psychiatrist) ADHD and I find the opposite. A problem, in context, with a time-frame and I can do it much much easier remote.

In the office there's too many things that either distract me directly or are distractions for me indirectly. (people coming up to me to ask questions vs overhearing a problem and thinking I need to listen or step in).
Modern Reddit is such a broken experience especially on the web. And honestly the community has degraded over the last couple of years.
Come join us at Bits in Bio! We have ~6k members and regular in-person meetups in many cities around the world.

https://www.bitsinbio.org/
Stay tuned, we're working on some deep AI integrations.
Eye tracking on AVP works very well on websites that are not at all designed for it.
To be clear this is not a library. I'm just describing a pattern and a bare-bones implementation.
It doesn’t mention the most important thing. Does he have to take immunosuppressants? If so is it for the rest of his life.
I'm not sure how this would be a better investment than regulating the mobile duopoly, though. Even if they did pursue an Open phone as an initiative, there's no baseline rules for their competitors to play against. Both Google and Apple would be enabled and encouraged to extend their lock-in and create more exploitative ecosystems. Users would be caught in the middle, and surely nobody would switch to the Open phone as a matter of principle.

It kinda feels like recommending that a country build it's own car instead of dictating which cars are and aren't road-safe. They could, but creating an example of what compliance looks like does not in any way ensure the competition will follow.
Adjust the variable in consequence, we're talking about a fictional material. You're using a strawman there, just to be in contradiction.
At least in the UK, you can get decent enough bikes from Decathlon for about £300 (including our 20% tax). Double that and you'll open up a lot of options, including entry-level Dutch bikes.

I rode a £250 Triban in London for 7 years until I sold it recently for an e-bike. It's not handmade, but it's a solid bicycle. I did have to upgrade the tyres to Schwalbe Marathon Plus, though, to stop the punctures.
I recently was forced to use WP for a site due to third party constraints. It simply wreaks of being a swiss cheese of security vulnerabilities once you start adding plugins - so that would be my main reason for staying away from it for a simpler site. For a more complex site you will wind up with so many plugins you are better off custom since something will definitely break from an update down the road.

My favorite thing was how easy it was to create a simple plugin from where I could inject my own php / html / js/ css at just about any stage of the pipeline, and crazily enough, I tried too many cms that would not allow me to override and direct edit the html on a page. It does win in the "easy to deploy but fully customizable" category, just because of that.

But my thought when using it was sometimes "they made this more complicated and difficult than doing it directly, because they managed to convince people the direct programming was out of reach". But that is how I feel about most frameworks, so I might not be objective on that one. Overall it was faster, but the tradeoff was massive opacity. I recently noticed a tracking pixel on my site and have to figure out which a**hole plugin dev is injecting it, then find a different plugin or write my own. I have always been vanilla for my other sites, so learning to combat other vendors and having an adversarial relationship with my own site really breaks the mental model for me.
> Aaron was younger, a college freshman, and even more anti-authority than Steve. It's not exaggerating to describe him as a martyr for what authority later did to him.

I started reading this cynically curious if Aaron would even be mentioned, but well said.
This sounds close to what I've been wondering about lately. I was wondering if css and svg could be used as abstraction over graphics and UI libraries. This is my first time hearing of node-canvas looks like it fills the drawing part of the solution. While this may do the layout portion (which is all I need from a UI library).

I wonder how hard it was to implement css. I've heard it can be pretty complex.
First step left is left as an exercise to the user, right?
I believe the difference is that when Digg screwed up the redesign Reddit was ready to take its refugees. When the Reddit fiasco happened last year there was no clear place to migrate to.

Having said that, and being perhaps too negative, do we know how alive Reddit actually is? Because once you factor the power users that left, the bots reposting top comments on reposted stories, the auto-generated content and the shills it is possible that Reddit has already started its decline but hasn't noticed yet.
U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
So was the development of the wheel to begin with.

Without an appropriate surface, such as a road, wheels are a pretty bad mean of locomotion.
That is why I am a fan of games that buff your character over repeated runs.

If more games did this, the difficulty slider could go away. As an added bonus, there is a satisfaction of getting to the point where you are so overpowered the game essentially breaks (see: vampire survivors)
US takes on Apple in antitrust lawsuit
There's a pretty active (if not small) user group too, on Discord.
I was thinking of a Nokia 6300 as I wrote it, which has GPS.

It may to to close to a smartphone for some people, but it's missing most of the apps people complain about. There's really a lot of options out there if you go looking.
Playing it for over a decade.

I primary play the huntress, so all these are from that perspective:

* only eat when necessary, that is starving or early on level and likely lot of enemies.

* your first upgrade scroll is for your permanent bow, upgrade the scroll, then apply it to the bow

* there is a specific path for enemy's approach, always

* use the seeds with statues and mimics in there presumed path

* ranged attacks where possible

* before walking into a well of health, put on all the cursed items, they will become uncursed

* in the shop order of buying is next bag/satchel, then food (even with horn of plenty), ankh (unless you are super confident), thereafter as augment your weaknesses with potions of healing, scrolls, rings, wands from the store

* when picking up things make sure you pick up in order of most preferred to least preferred. Items last picked up get stolen first.

* always try to "trap" enemy in a door. i.e. they stand in the doorway

* if you get a plate armour, dump every, single, upgrade into it. No questions.

* drink potions early, standing near door and water

* a broken honey pot & health potion brewed is worth more than individually

* upgrade potion of experience and scroll of transmutation, then use it to pick and improve a tiers of abilities.

* the frost and fireblast wands can turn your raw meat into good food. With frost, the meat needs to be against a wall or something. Fireblast just torches everything.

* rooms with traps - if they are single target traps, go to the furthest spot, then rest or make noise to bring the enemies in. Throw stuff on the trap triggering attacks on the enemy. for the avalanche rooms, drop something in the doorway, step back then throw stuff on the traps.

* enraged gnolls, just walk away. There is no arguing with someone who lost self-control :)

Good luck! You will need it.
> There needed to be something like del.icio.us/popular, but designed for sharing links instead of being a byproduct of saving them.

I am kind of surprised that the idea was Paul Graham's. I always assumed that it was Steve and Alex who came up with it. Considering HN was also started by PG, which has survived and grown with just a few changes every year, I think he has a unique talent for creating lasting online communities. It's not an easy task, btw.
To be clear, modern society as we define it functions largely through "security through obscurity", considering that anybody with a sledgehammer can break into your property.
This would depend, I reckon, on whether ones emphasis was on user experience or user interaction.

Games are great for user experience, because gamers are, by definition, looking for an experience. They aren't there to get work done, they want to have fun. So a fun interaction paradigm, with creative visuals, sound effects, various game-related skeuomorphisms: all of that is what they want.

User interaction, on the other hand, is about keeping the software from standing between the user and what the user wants to do. A large part of this job is insisting that developers don't do surprising things, but rather, stay within the lanes of expected interactions for the platform. There's room for creativity and novelty, but the budget for those must be spent carefully.
Maybe something more credible than the 9/11 Commission.
A bit off topic, but I just set my default search in Firefox to Kagi...

and shortly after that I see this ad for the first time on my Firefox new tab page:

https://imgur.com/a/jNhgRxI
They weren't making advertising money from 3rd party API clients like RIF is Fun or Apollo. They decided to increase the price of API calls to an impractically high amount. This was uncovered by the Apollo dev, who recorded their meetings with the Reddit leadership, which also uncovered that Reddit leadership was lying about the interaction (accusing the Apollo dev of extortion I believe). Reddit wanted $12,000 for something other sites charged approximately $200.

(see the reply to this comment by neilv for information that casts doubt on the "reddit leadership lying" part of this)

Instead of charging 3rd party clients $5/month or something and retaining them, Reddit banned all 3rd party clients. But then went back on that after realizing that people with disabilities used 3rd party clients to access the site because Reddit's own app was not usable for them. Other 3rd party apps were still banned though.

People protested, eventually taking thousands of subreddits offline, which Reddit then fixed by replacing the moderators/owners of each subreddit.

There's probably more I'm missing, but basically Reddit tried to rent-seek but their engineering teams weren't able to provide the infrastructure needed to support API subscriptions for 3rd party apps.

Edited to add: The initial Apollo developer thread is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

And the post that details Reddit leadership lying about the Apollo dev: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_t...
This (IT Integrity Charge) will become a line item on your medical bill. All the other providers will follow, prices go up, insurance companies make more money, and "shareholders" see high returns!
> What's the good deal here?

The good deal is a halt to the escalating, expanding Russian aggression that started with the 2008 invasion of Georgia.

> A peace deal needs to be floated ASAP because the Russian economy is actually not in shambles despite sanctions so the war outcome (absent a peace deal) will be won by Russia unless NATO wants to fully engage.

Any peace deal that doesn't involve a complete Russian withdrawal is a win for Russia and encourages further aggression, the most likely first steps of which will be expansions of the current Russian intrusions in Georgia and/or Moldova, but seveeral of NATOs eastern flank members are also likely near-term targets.

> As someone is not a fan of Russian expansion, I still see Ukraine funding as a proxy for feeding US defense contractors.

Being “not a fan of Russian expansion” while seeking to reward its aggression is like being “not a fan of Nazi expansion” but wanting to hand them the Sudetenland.

Except, in this case, its not even the first step in appeasement without a clear pattern: the first step waa caving to Russia demands in 2008 that NATO not offer Membership Action Plans to Ukraine and Georgia as, in Russia’s claim, that would be regionally destabilizing and promote conflict. The consequence of that was the immediate invasion of Georgia in 2008 followed by the invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
A friend of mine was nearly killed on a carbon fibre frame that just tore itself apart while going up a hill and threw him into the road, unconscious. I would never touch one for street riding.
Does he actually have a financial stake though? It was sold to Conde Nast…I just assumed all the equity transferred over to them.
There’s a ton more that these implants can do other than cursor control. And not needing external visible hardware like other forms of input is a bigger deal than you might think, and especially in terms of the user wanting to feel more “normal” and less of a robot in a bundle of contraptions
Fires surge in the Amazon, but deforestation continues to fall
It does appear I was wrong about the "until recently" bit: Angular still doesn't have a single-file component format like Vue or Svelte. Of course you can stick templates in string literals (and IDEA will even treat them as angular templates). Just be prepared to escape your quotes I guess. The official tutorial still uses separate files, and the tooling defaults to them too.

Honestly the real shame is that IDEs don't present a more integrated UI for separate files, and that on the other hand in my Vue apps I still have to argue over the order of script/template/style sections. I guess Angular at least avoids that second problem.
Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig
Interesting! This seems pretty country-specific.

In the US, "fake comments or likes – some with SEO-boosting links – or placing fake orders on e-commerce sites." would normally be done using botnet'ed desktop PCs, no need for cell phones.

But Chinese criminals need all the cellphones, so I wonder why? Is this because mobile bot detection is easier to bypass than desktop bot detection? Or maybe desktop bots are so common that cellphone is required for lots of actions?
Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own
I don’t feel like that’s the most important thing. If we can farm kidneys for folks with kidney failure, rather than rely on a combination of the kindness of live donors and harvesting organs from corpses, it will be a huge step forward, even if recipients still need immunosuppressants (as they do with human organs).

I do wonder if the immunosuppressants for cross-species organs have to be stronger/nastier than for intra-species organs though.
This goes back to the whole “shareholder value” thing. Is it better for shareholders if an automaker aims to comply with this versus hedge their bets that Trump will reverse it?

FYI I’m playing devil’s advocate here.
In October 2023 this same publication had a story “African streaming services are struggling to compete with Netflix and Prime Video”

https://restofworld.org/2023/african-streaming-services-comp...

Reminder that you cannot just read a headline and think it represents a trend.
Oh I know those! I had one for the iPhone 6s, but now my 12 Pro is obviously bigger, so it doesn't fit.

So, I 3D-printed one of those holders that holds an XBox controller and your phone above it. A bit heavy, but works perfectly for all controller-enabled games! And worthy of mention, Geforce Now also works! So I'm "PC-gaming" from my bed with this, and all for "free" (if you don't count the cost of the plastic, phone, or controller lol).

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2553522
It seems like a major lapse in product innovation that Github has not come out with something like this. They don't even have something to help you when the indentation changes, they usually just show it as a giant add & remove. Their diff viewer can and should be smarter.
Peddling to keep it closed more like.
> Many users, upon finally reaching the site, complained about the new design

Sounds like Reddit. When I go to reddit, I use "old.reddit.com". I hate the new version, once old.reddit disappears, I disappear too.
Reddit is about to IPO. YC are principle investors.