skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In CS, it's widely accepted that you can publish your "drafts" publicly. Basically just the real deal without the notices of publication (I guess maybe legally you have to leave some differences in? I never bothered, and I doubt the publishers who everyone kinda hates would dare creating this kind of controversy).

As others have pointed out, some countries mandate national or institutional repositories.

A good grassroots way out of this is educating researchers to always take one of these options. Let publishers overplay their hand and get crushed.

Of course, it would be nicer if regulators realized how ridiculous this all is and crushed them without the need for public outcry, but one may dream.
Edit: looks like they already show side-by-side samples, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40535186.

They could probably have a side-by-side comparison of somewhere famous like Central Park (I'm from UK, fwiw) showing the free vs paid data to give an idea of what one might get; I guess it varies by location how much detail is mapped though, and how recently.
Reminds me of a UX course I took many years ago at uni.

As an exercise, we were asked to come up with a solution to help people navigate campus. There were so many suggestions for apps or interactive touch screens. Someone suggested installing terminals where you type where you want to go, and then the floor lights up with directions. Someone else did the same, only it would launch a drone for you to follow.

I suggested hanging printed paper maps on the walls with "you are here" stickers.
Here's a nice study: https://newatlas.com/motorcycles-reduce-congestion/21420/

They say 10% of traffic being replaced by motorcycles reduces congestion by 40%. California has pretty good weather so it's probably feasible to commute by motorbike almost every day.
I didn’t really like that one either, though I think that has more to do that I’ve never been able to vibe with Michael Mann’s style.
Good. Some of us don't use smartphones. 10% of US adults don't according to a 2023 Pew survey, though I suspect most of those are old people. Any business requiring one explicitly excludes me as a customer and generally makes the world a less-accessible place.

The smartphone-required world is a dystopia. Build on open protocols so people can write whatever software they want on top of them. UI should be personal preference, not dictated. I prefer to control my life from Emacs, but wouldn't dream of forcing everyone else to. Please return the courtesy.
It is punishment if you are intentionally engineering the roads to cost people more time using them.
They were often both wrong too, or rather "the plot thickened".
Submitting a WSJ link to HN seems completely pointless.
Environmental Group Demands EPA Retract "Fraudulent" PFAS Report
I have been twirling around in my mind lately what it will take to deploy a Pulp Project instance for my business. Even in a small company it’s a bunch of work. I have a Kubernetes cluster, Ansible AWX running a bunch of playbooks using custom Execution Environments, a bunch of Ubuntu servers managed by AWX, and I’m evaluating the idea of migrating from Github to Gitea which would include Github Actions. A few critical apps are written in Laravel or Python and so that’s in the package/artifact caching mix too. keep punting because these workloads keep feeling like a time consuming chicken and an egg problem.

Pulp is perfect for this but the demands on my time make it hard to see around the corner.
Also, roads and tires are made out of the goopy parts of oil, so their manufacture impacts the price of the fuel parts of oil. Your EV's roads and tires make it cheaper for others to not buy an EV.

We should be making both out of steel instead.
I like it and im gonna use it, great for inspiration and color schemes.
...and of course they did! I didn't actually expect it to be playable with the knob control like that, so I'm actually even more impressed. I was just expecting it to compile and run, but not necessarily play.
Get the point, but no, actually not, we join nouns, not sentences ;) (but english does, too, just with spaces between?)

Further especially that word few germans could tell you why it is called like that:

Spieß is spear, so Spießbürger/Spießer is just a spear citizen, or a speary?! ;)

(One explanation is the medieval simple citizen that could not afford a better weapon than a simple spear. Not even sure if the only explanation attempt though..)
with money that came from ......?
I didn't see anyone saying induced demand in and of itself is the thing being avoided, just that induced demand for driving caused by highway construction is being avoided, as this implies that traffic won't be alleviated by increased capacity.

Induced demand can be positive, yeah, but I think induced demand is more complicated. It concerns a positive feedback loop phenomena that leads to the saturation of a system beyond its intended capacity. Like more people taking the metro is good, but more people taking it than it can handle can degrade their impression if it.
That slightly clumsy wording is what made me think it was a chatbot
Open Source Audio/Video Livestream for Windows/Mac/Linux
*to not build them
Same for Finland. I really don't see how hard it is to bring the terminal to table and allow me tap or put card in and pay with pin.
But induced demand shows that traffic will only increase… more lanes means you're waiting more.
>> you cannot value everyone's opinion equally and have to just make it happen

You live in a country with the wrong type of political system for that. Valuing everyone's opinion equally is called democracy.
California, always leading the way, has boldly built almost nothing for 5 decades!
There must be a rule of that. If you think someone will probably make it run DOOM someday, someone already has.
Yeah, the worst read about the car here would be "it's not very courteous in merge situations" in which case I implore anyone reading to drive in Maryland one single time.
How AI is redefining your sports experience
>threads/guides from 2019.

2018, April
Yes I have been through the same recently. Honestly, the motivation pump I gained after I could finish the architecture refactoring was totally worth the burnt out months I had previously where I didn't code at all in my side project. After some time I decided to continue the refactoring and finishing it was definitely the right decision - but I got very close to giving up and forgetting about it - 6 months of relentless coding.
You'll be better off getting something like a bluetooth to FM/aux transmitter and pair your phone to it.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004704739971.html

And to avoid touching your phone while driving, you can also pair a small bluetooth remote that you can attach to the steering wheel

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006422066598.html
Those of us working on apps, websites, etc, need to remember that there are lots of people out there that are not connected to the fast Wi-Fi or fibre connections we have.

Here in the UK, some networks started shutting down 3G. Some have 2G as a low energy fall back, but we're supposed to use 4G/5G now. The problem is that 4G is not available everywhere yet, some areas until recently only had good 3G signal. So I've been dropping to 2G/EDGE more often than I'd like and a lot of stuff just stops working. A lot of apps are just not tested on slow, high latency, high package loss scenarios.
I read epubs, and they’re mostly html and css files zipped. The whole book usually comes under a MB if there’s not a lot of big pictures. Then you come across a website and for just an article you have to download tens of MBs. Disable JavaScript and the website is broken.
No, you can still grant permissions to web extensions, but the difference is that it's now explicit, and it is at least possible to design extensions with minimally-required privileges. This vastly reduces the blast radius of an extension publisher takeover or an insider attack, for example.

> what have we gained, when the user just runs how_to_actually_uninstall_mcafee.avi.exe and gets the malware regardless?

Nothing would happen if I double-click that file, since it doesn't run on my OS. On the other hand, a compromised browser extension could deal an incredible amount of damage to me.

Are you saying that because we can't protect all users from all harm, we should just give up?
I thought the same. It's the first time I've ever seen IP geolocation get my home IP address correct. It usually thinks I'm in North Carolina (I'm in Florida).
Google pays them off not to innovate or launch anything that would compete with their search monopoly.
Conversely, stop voting for people that need coerced to their job. I know this is reductive - save your fingers.

Write, but do the not-vote-thing if they don't listen. The desire to not be hoodwinked has already been expressed. Just not this specific way.

Or, expressed more positively I guess, vote for those who don't need goaded to do the obviously good thing.
not saying this contributed significantly to Intels recent $7 billion loss in chip making, just that they probably shouldnt be pushing buyers away quite so hard given their current situation.
This is quoted a lot but misunderstood.

The conclusion people seem to draw from this is that widening the highway didn't help. This is wrong.

4 lanes of bad traffic travelling at 30mph is still creating twice the value of 2 lanes of bad traffic travelling at 30mph. With the 2-lane highway you were just forcing half the people to divert to other roads or to give up on their plans entirely. With 4 lanes you're serving twice the people.

But if the highway is still full it implies that there is still demand for more travel. By refusing to widen the highway further you are still forcing some number of people into a worse outcome where they aren't able to exercise the travel that they wanted.

I'm all for public transit alternatives (I personally love taking trains when I can), but the goal should be to make the public transit better, not to make the highways worse.
And are also not great for air pollution - they burn less gas per mile, but the engines are very dirty.
Show HN: Terminus – A Free, Versatile, Self-Hosted OS Based on Kubernetes
Hi HN,

As a self-hosting enthusiast for years, I've encountered many challenges first hand in setting up and maintaining a secure, efficient hosting environment for my applications. I know how frustrating it can be to deal with situations like:

Complicated Configurations: Setting up domain names, certificates, reverse proxies, vpn can be a time-consuming and error-prone process.

Deployment Difficulties: Deploying complex applications like Gitlab or Mastodon often requires advanced technical knowledge and significant effort.

Multi-Device Management: Managing multiple devices and scaling up can be overwhelming, especially with the steep learning curve of Kubernetes.

That’s why we created Terminus OS, a free, versatile self-hosted OS which tackles these challenges head-on. Built on Kubernetes, Terminus OS simplifies the entire self-hosting process, making it more accessible, manageable, and secure.

Would greatly appreciate your feedback to help us improve. Happy to answer any questions here.
I was CTO of an analytics startup in the early days of MongoDB hype. We built on MySQL. One of our competitors was MixPanel.

We were having scaling issues with one particular customer, so I looked into the various solutions. They all looked pretty cool, but I didn't like that the developer communities were small compared to MySQL and PostgreSQL.

So I ended up sticking with MySQL and building a simple sharding mechanism that allowed us to move big customers to their own server if necessary. It worked great.

While I was working on that, MixPanel published a long, highly detailed blog post about why they had moved to MongoDB. That led me to have second thoughts. "If these guys are doing it, maybe we should too?" But I was pretty far down the sharding development path and couldn't justify making such a wholesale change based on one blog post.

Fast forward about nine months, and MixPanel published a new blog post about why they had moved off MongoDB. Vindication!

Ever since then I've had conservative disposition when it comes to deploying new technologies.
It’s called “Coffee Mod”? I would have gone with “Kapton Lake”.
I have to admit at least Google handled the Stadia well in this regard. The money just got refunded to me without me taking any action at all.
You have to start from scratch. The training data has many examples of almost directly copied blocks of text and code and the model will tend to just repeat itself after several iterations.
"Every" seems to be a bit of a stretch trees part. It's got maybe 5% of the tree shadows near me.
I am not a lawyer, and definitely not a EU law lawyer, but e.g. in the copyright law, it states that the right to dynamically reverse engineer a program can not be given up through agreement. I would presume that the above sentence about contractual freedom combined with that implies that you can give up the right to have something repaired through an agreement.
We live in Stockholm city, and it's usually considered very safe for kids, and yet most people tend to worry about young kids wandering without adult supervision, which was ok in the small city where I grew up in France (I'm 48).
also:

- edit/delete messages

- code highlight

- notifications

- fast search that works for everyone:

https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...
> There are junk journals that will publish anything, but I don't think scientists generally pay much attention to those journals.

Yes, but the point is not that the good journals are not there, it’s that the good ones are drowned out by the absolute humongous amount of garbage that comes out every day. If you do research you know that it’s not so simple like “oh I only read papers from journals X and Y”. Good research comes out everywhere, and if you don’t cite it people (I mean reviewers, if you can call them that) will complain, and anyway you’ll be putting yourself in a bubble which is bad practice. It used to be that journals would do the work for you to separate good from bad research, but nowadays it’s on the researcher to dig through 1000 papers to find a single good one. It’s ridiculous and meaningless. If we’re paying them and making them rich, at least I’d expect them to do their job.
Show HN: Postgres-SQLite sync engine source code released under FSL
Hi HN,

6 months ago we did a Show HN about PowerSync [1], a Postgres-SQLite sync layer for building local-first and offline-first apps. We received lots of feedback, including comments asking about self-hosting and open-source.

Today we are announcing a major overhaul: making the product self-hostable and releasing the core sync service source code under the FSL license. We figured hackers interested in local-first software would like to know about this.

Docs: https://docs.powersync.com/self-hosting/getting-started

Release announcement: https://www.powersync.com/blog/powersync-open-edition-releas...

Background on how we decided to go with Sentry’s FSL: https://www.powersync.com/blog/new-open-era-for-powersync

Thoughts on what this means for the local-first space: https://www.powersync.com/blog/what-powersync-open-edition-m...

If you have any feedback or questions for us, we’d like to hear it :)

- Kobie, Ralf, Conrad, Phillip and team

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473743
> Someone always scoffs, but I think it is usually a sign that they don’t really understand freedom.

Others understand freedom from the perspective of the individual. Americans understand freedom from the perspective of the state.

In the first case, you're free if you can practically do something. In the second case you're free if the government doesn't ban it, regardless of whether you can actually do it.

Take for example the issue of ads on Smart TVs. There's no law that says you have to have ads on them, but in practice it's impossible to buy a TV which doesn't flood you with ads.

People in the first case consider that if a law is passed to ban embedding ads on TVs, then that increases the freedom in the world. Americans consider that banning such ads is a horrible government overreach which hurts the feelings of poor billionaires, and that if people want, they can always buy TVs with no ads, even though no such TVs exist.

They prefer an imaginary freedom to a practical one.
As someone who aggressively believes UBI is terrible idea it seems like a good choice for tourism based economies. A big tax on, say, restaurants for non citizen ID holders would help raise prices in a collusive way and reduce the volume of tourists in a way that free market competition makes very difficult.
But the thing is that the file system doesn't need to be case-insensitive for your system to support human intuition! As others have said, people don't look at and use filesystems, they use programs that interface with the filesystem. You can absolutely have a case-sensitive system that nonetheless lets you search files in a case-insensitive manner, for example. After all, to make searches efficient, you might want to index your file structure, and while doing that, you might as well also have a normalised file name within the index you search against.

Now, as you said, UNIX did the choice that's easier for computers. And for computers, case-insensitive filesystems would be worse. There are things that are definitely strange about UNIX filesystems (who doesn't love linefeeds in file names!?), but case-sensitivity is not one of them.
Brave does not block native ads (except for Google’s) on any website. All third party embedded ads are blocked by default.
1 - The initial idea to create Brave was to allow users to view ads and get paid for their attention.

2 - They've been caught replacing affiliate links with their own.

Based on that information what does your instinct tell you?
Some people still thinks words should mean what they mean.
If it’s a remote for Spotify on your iPhone, I don’t see why they are bricking it. It shouldn’t be that much effort to keep it working.
> Isn't it self-explanatory

No.

> what problem did you have understanding it?

It is simply not a phrase I commonly read. When I google it I find a visa consultancy under the name, and not much else. Curiously your comment is also among the results.

The problem is that the phrase "<something> developer" is used to describe what the person develops. A "real-estate developer" invests in real estate as a business. A "web developer" develops web applications, a "game developer" develops games, and so on and so on. So reading the word I immediately thought they mean someone who is developing the future? Like idk Douglas Engelbart or Tim Berners-Lee or someone like that.

If you want to write that someone is learning to become a developer I would recommend the much less confusing "developer in training" phrase, or even better if you just write "they are learning to become a developer".
Haha good one. Perhaps we should boil their habitats in retribution.
People are driven by the cattle prod. If the government wants to reduce something, it needs to be more painful to acquire or use, i.e. sin taxes. It's worked on cigarettes, alcohol, soda, etc. to varying degrees. The government would likely have a very big uphill battle to out-market the automobile industry given a large segment of the population distrusts or dislikes the government.

I ultimately agree with the approach they're taking. It isn't going to be accomplished by building additional lanes and subsequently asking people to pretty-please take transit.

It does need to be weighed against the practicality of transportation to/from where your transit riders need to go. Given the vast majority of Western states are sparsely populated, transit dollars can only go so far.
My point is that this law grants rights to professional repairmen/service providers, not to consumers (or anyone else).
What is it about managing others that attracts ghoulish humans?
That’s because people are waiting too long on other roads! There is a point where traffic will not increase as all the demand has been sated.
No they are not. Really often they are also using strong adhesive
In TFA, they're literally taking roads and turning them into housing near transit hubs? This policy goes hand in hand with densifying housing.
I just read Paved Paradise as well as The High Cost of Free Parking. This seems like the current gradual trend towards reversing the hidden subsidy for drivers, first by giving them less affordances at remarkably low prices or for free.

A few folks in the comments have mentioned a couple of times that it doesn't make sense to make a policy like this without supporting transit. I believe the argument would be that not creating induced demand will provide market effects to encourage the use of transit, which would then create greater demand for improved transit.

Similarly for housing, the well substantiated claim from modern urban planners is that we've been prioritizing housing for cars well beyond housing for people, and the best solution for that is to overturn minimum parking requirements and unbundle the cost of parking from the cost of housing.

Personally, I still find these opinions somewhat counterintuitive. The weirdest part about it is that it all posits that the solution to a centralized planning problem is market solutions, and it's coming from people you'd expect to have the opposite opinion. However, what we've had in terms of transportation clearly doesn't work for people and for the environment, and the last 20 years of "Shoupism" has shown some serious promise in terms of reversing the trend.
Its business model has always been the latter, they're just no longer bothering with the pretense of opt-in.
> It's put me on the wrong continent before now

What did you expect after leaving Europe? /s
coffee lake was the 1st time Intel had to wake up and put more than 4 cores in a (consumer) CPU; so it was a big thing.
Linux 6.10 Is Making It Much Easier to Deal with Quirky Touchscreens
Surging datacenter power demand slows the demise of US coal plants
Brave Search has been a lot better than these other alternatives in my experience. I used to use DDG but the results were always a hit and miss. With Brave Search, I have completely replaced Google.
My problem -- and probably I am not alone in this -- are dietary restrictions. So when I order, it's not going be what's on the menu, rather some kind of meat or fish from one entree and then side from another and maybe something I spotted available as a salad topping and I love it. If a server comes and takes my order they can write it down and most of the time they can make it work. I have no idea how to order this with a QR menu. It's not fungible.
Tens of simple decisions will inevitably lead to a complex architecture.

Managing complexity is the tenet of software engineering.
You should probably try what one of the few online demos of IP geolocation tell about your IP... (just to cite one among many, quality varies a lot across services and geographic zones: https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address)
My guess is that wood will splinter on impact in a way that metal does not. A flake of old paint in orbit will turn this cubesat into hundreds of satellite killing splinters. Those splinters will do untold damage to other satellites.
Lots of corps do this (not saying it's great). Getting students familiar with the tools you make is one of the better ways of ensuring they'll want to use them at work. Some companies go as far as worming their way into curriculae, and having their software packages be officially part of the coursework.
Yes, right now it's mostly just wifi at stations only. However, they're deploying 4G/5G coverage in the tunnels and expect 80% coverage by the end of 2024 [1].

So… you can expect apps developed by engineers in London to get much worse on slow internet in 2025. :-)

[1]: https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/station-wifi
Weirdly, it's got ~1/4 of the buildings in my downtown area.