skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a pretty clunky call to action, though. The simplest thing for the user would be a button right in the message telling you a PWA is available. “Tap here to install” and it’s done.

Instead, you need to tell users “Hey, we have an app! No no stop, wait, don’t go looking in the App Store it’s not there. Instead you need to hit the share icon. Yeah it looks like a box with an arrow coming out of it, down the bottom of the screen. Yeah if it’s not showing you need to tap the gray bar at the bottom first. Then the share button. Then look through for something that says install to Home Screen. Yeah scroll down a bit and maybe scroll across until you see it. Yeah there you go.”
I used to think this, but dark matter does make useful predictions, that are hard to explain otherwise.

This is partially because there are two ways to detect dark-matter. The first is gravitational lensing. The second is the rotatinal speed of galaxies. There are some galaxies that need less Dark Matter to explain their rotational speed. We can then cross check whether those galaxies cause less gravitational lensing.

Besides that, the gravitational lensing of galaxies being stronger than the bright matter in the galaxies can justify is hard to explain without dark matter.
The lack of housing is due to incentives. Investors aren't going to increase supply and in return decrease their margins, they'll just make their money work somewhere else. Free markets work against us here, this sort of thing has to be addressed via price-fixing/subsidies.
Heh, both of the laptops I still use are like this : one is a midrange one from ~2012 and has 768 lines, the other a high end one from ~2016 and in theory 1440 lines, but I run it at 720. In both cases it's because the screens are too small for the typical assumptions with regards to pixel density programs use to have more lines, their graphic cards are frankly not good enough to be able to run more than that, and it saves on battery life.

But then laptops aren't for serious work, that's what desktops are for ! (And nothing wrong with 1080 lines (though I prefer 1200) for a typical size desktop monitor, especially if using more than one screen.)
> If the rich are taxed more, will the government equitably distribute that money to the middle class?

Good point. We don't even know that the money will stay in the country.
Good for Wiz. But bad for everyone else. The megacorps keep using capital to hold onto economic control and power. It’s not great for society. They need to be broken up, heavily taxed, and heavily regulated. As for Wiz - I assume Google will eventually change their product to only support their own cloud or turn it into a privacy nightmare by using data to train Gemini or whatever else. It’s very hard to feel stable building on top of any acquired company, but it is especially that way when it’s Google.
I remember the simulations my Econ prof at Caltech used. They all managed to prove that Marxism worked. He'd win prizes in economics from time to time.
It does get you retirement 15 years earlier than a desk job, but usually due to your body falling apart at 50 and you're then poor and in pain the rest of your life. I used to see it all the time.
But that doesn't refute the parent's point, does it? (If it has been edited since you wrote that, the version I see is "Unix's involvement with the development of the Internet was mainly through BSD, which was a UC Berkeley joint, not Bell Labs.")

They were responding to the statement:

> "why can't we [Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson, other folks at Bell Labs] work on the the future of a global inter-net? Why do we have to hide it [Unix] as a text processing system?"

Whether or not the BSD TCP/IP implementation was the first or most influential, the point is that it wasn't the Bell Labs Unix folks driving Unix networking forward. UNET was from 3Com.
That argument is a bit circular. It is a bit like saying someone doesn't need to get a law degree until after they've opened a legal firm - there are some obvious cause-effect issues. If there is a tax on wealth, why would we expect there to be local examples of great wealth created that aren't physically extracted from the land? If a Norwegian had a great idea for a new product, presumably they wouldn't be stupid enough to hang around in Norway being taxed back into the middle class.
Show HN: Let Me Summarize That for You
TL;DR paste an article URL in https://letmesummarizethatforyou.com/ and get a brief summary in a shareable link.

Hey HN,
Machine generated summaries have become pretty good, and I still often find myself staring at a long article I'm interested in but don't have enough time/energy at the moment to read it.

Copy pasting to Gemini/ChatGPT and asking it to summarize works, but I sometimes find it a little tedious.

I had a 6 hour flight and I used it to put together this simple web app, all it does is fetch the URL, extract the text (if it's an HTML/PDF), ask an LLM to summarize it nicely, and produce a shareable link with the summary.

I actually found myself using this quite a bit to get summaries for HN posts, for example here's the summary for the "Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes" [1] article that was posted recently: https://letmesummarizethatforyou.com/url/?url=https%3A%2F%2F...

[1] original HN post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40906148
I would imagine a new medium that directly competes with the web. The competition/replace will most likely occur unintentionally, which likely means some existing technology will gain some new feature that does one thing and yet just happens to do it better than they web. If this is what happens then it will be unexpected and not well predicted.

I say it will be unexpected because all the incumbents are utterly reliant upon ad fueled data hoarding for their revenue. Anything better would be massively disruptive economically. Pablo wasn't about to give up cocaine just because rebels were taking over his country. He had to be killed, by surprise.

However, if I were going to intentionally replace the web I would do so around these features:

* Prioritize around streaming sockets. Use something like HTTP as a fallback when everything else has gone to shit, as a security policy allows. HTTP is session-less. Socket first communications will allow must faster full stack interaction, greater security, and ad hoc authentication without all the bullshit of OAuth or SAML.

* Force TLS on everybody all the time without exception, but not rely on certificate authority madness. If you have authentication builtin by default, because everything is socket first, then the certificate madness is only necessary to compensate for the guessing at trust or unknown external parties.

* Abandon HTML and use markdown instead. HTML is mostly simple, and yet nobody can seem to figure out accessibility, semantics, or basic content organization. It has to go.

* Use a new programming language to replace JavaScript. There are several absolutely tremendously amazing things JavaScript got so completely correct, and yet most people who write that for a living will never figure it out. The next language must be single paradigm, strongly typed, and never forgiving. It should retain lexical scope and functions as first-class citizens. It should eliminate access to inheritance outside of custom extensions to the language/environment and should eliminate unintentional type coercion. It would also be nice to have procedures (blocks) that can be assigned to variables and reused without the overhead of a function, and that would also eliminate the gap between declarative and imperative programming styles. Sometimes people deserve to fail, and that concept has worked well for Rust. Its not about what's easy for illiterate people who shouldn't be in that line of work in the first place, but instead what allows rapid prototyping at minimal expense and minimal overhead.

* Pages/documents should eliminate calls to resources outside of the page's serving domain. Third party asset requests, especially script logic, is just a shitty excuse to transfer the cost of privacy/security violations to the user wholesale at no cost/liability to the server, and that's bullshit.

* Allow coupling of media types with codecs and media container support. When that is offloaded to a transport mechanism you don't have to worry about bullshit like iOS media restrictions so that they can entice you to spend money on their app store and iTunes bullshit.
It tends to be a parameter that can be derived from rrasoning and assumptions. This contrasts to free parameters where you say "and we have no idea what this value should be, so we'll measure it"
"This course is a comprehensive study of the internals of modern database management systems. It will cover the core concepts and fundamentals of the components that are used in large-scale analytical systems (OLAP). The class will stress both efficiency and correctness of the implementation of these ideas. The course is appropriate for graduate students in software systems and for advanced undergraduates with dirty systems programming skills. "

That class drops a few buzz words in its advert: OLAP and dirty!

What sort of "simple" RDBMS are you envisioning that is different from the current lot?
I wouldn't call it "easily" as you need a way to reverse lookup for all MX hostnames that resolve to a given IP address. Obviously they can rotate the IP address too, to further complicate things.
If you think its such a huge obvious problem, i guess the obvious Q is why don’t you put your money where your mouth is and why aren’t you pursuing it? (Assuming you aren’t)
For personal projects I make heavy use of LLMs now and coding is still fun when I do it with the latest and greatest tools. I'm about 5X as productive as I would be if I had to crank out code myself.

I'm used to verifying code with a compiler/interpreter and a unit test -- not by going through my code line by line and declaring to an interviewer "yes I think it's correct". My way of doing things is to just run the damn thing with the right tests and it will tell me if something is wrong.

Unfortunately job interviews these days are still hellbent on whiteboarding Leetcode problems. I'm past that. Unfortunately they aren't. It's this kind of BS -- not being allowed to use the best tools that exist -- that makes me not want to code for work anymore.
You don't think Musk's fortune was used? He invested all he had in Tesla, then again in SpaceX.

> there needs to be some additional limits on it.

Then we don't get SpaceX or Tesla.
They tasted horrible but were cheap and would get you incredibly wired and drunk in a short amount of time. A perfect storm for binge drinking students, especially pre-gaming early in the night for other parties/bars. It was a fun time for a year or so but can understand the ban.
As I said, it's one factor. You can search for "construction industry labor shortage" and find lots of articles. This one has an overview from an econ perspective https://www.econlib.org/archives/2017/04/how_can_there_b.htm...
How long were you retired for, and what brought you back?
The problem with dark matter is that there's no (working) theory on how the dark matter is distributed. It's really easy to "explain" gravitational effects if you can postulate extra mass ad-hoc to fit the observations.
I didn’t read enough to catch that. How the heck did they justify that?
Feature request: I'd love to be able to choose among different voices.
Are you launching into a semantic argument about the word 'experience'? If so, it might help to state what essential properties alphago was missing that makes it 'not having an experience'.

Otherwise this can quickly devolve into the common useless semantic discussion.
Really cool short story
My spouse and I make just a touch over the GP, combined of course. Our mortgage is 1.3k/month, and our daycare costs are 3k/month. In a year darcaye goes down by half, and 2 years after that we’re going to have money coming out our ears.

I am fortunate my spouse was on board with this plan, which was mine. I’m 38, spouse is 36, for reference. Assuming we have college saved for, I don’t want to work a day past 55 if I can manage it.
But the vibe of the thing is about income inequality, and it's good that it is, because the value of money isn't fixed. Only rich people staring at a stock portfolio care about "number went up", what most people care about is their real purchasing power. Right now, the income you need to qualify for a mortgage on a house in the US is around the ~80-85th percentile mark of household income, generously. The Gini Coefficient is mentioned by the linked article exactly because income inequality is really important for what someone's effective purchasing power is, partially because some markets, like housing, are priced in a competitive manner, which is why I keep mentioning housing (Also, it's a huge factor in people's material living conditions, and a cost that has risen far faster than "inflation" in all of the periods discussed so far, which is the kind of phenomenon you can't really explain by trying to do big broad averages in "adjusted dollars" but which measuring things like inequality can tease out causal factors for a lot better).

If we're just going by vibes, the overwhelming vibe (which is also supported by the numbers) is that income inequality is increasing and that this is a huge problem, and it seems like most of the people who don't feel this way are pretty decidedly in the small portion of the population for whom this is working out. It doesn't surprise me that people here don't vibe with that. Based on the forum alone, I'd bet all the people in this thread are at least in the 80th percentile of US household income (adjusted for local purchasing power if you happen to live elsewhere). If this wasn't the vibe in 2021, Paul Graham wouldn't have been writing bullshit to try to dismiss said vibe, and this person wouldn't be responding to him
Or maybe it's an argument for allowing states to try different economic strategies and compete for business based on outcomes of those strategies.

If California taxes people and businesses at insane levels, maybe we shouldn't replicate insane level of taxation everywhere else in U.S., on the off chance that it is not, in fact, an optimal level for generating wealth for the people.

Maybe Texas and Florida should be allowed to enact competing taxation schemes so that we can see which one is better.

And maybe Americans should have a freedom of movement within U.S. without having their private property confiscated by the state when they try to leave.

The justification for taxation based on residency is that you use commons like roads and school and police that the government funds so you need to contribute to funding those things.

What exactly is justifications for hitting people with more taxes when they try to leave the state?
Musk's rockets cost less than 10% of NASA's. Plus, SpaceX has not cost you a cent, while you've paid plenty of taxes for NASA.
What is Nim, and what is the overarching design goal for Fusion? Thanks.

I'm hoping these questions aren't too basic, I have no context whatsoever for understanding this so hope someone can explain.
It’s just “illegal” to spray without a ford rep present … or was

It’s nothing to do with the EPA
This looks great, but 90% of the actual content is behind a $40 subscription though. Maybe an option if I don't find anything else, thank you!
Only Google and Microsoft app stores. Apple does not allow them.

There are some tools which allow you to package up a pwa into an app that is essentially a thin shell around a webview. Whether or not Apple accepts such an app into their App Store is another variable. For example:

https://docs.pwabuilder.com/#/builder/app-store
The JVM implemented properly should not have security issues. The class library however... (i.e. it's a lot easier to sandbox things if you start without any classes that interact outside the sandbox).
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

First video on the page. I'm guessing this is probably a news report, right?
> The passwords in phpBB3.3 use an exceptionally strong and secure method of encryption

I thought passwords were supposed to be hashed, not encrypted. This is bad.
This is perfect, I should've known this would be a fairly discussed topic here. Thanks!
Huh, that's about the same time I became a full-time freelance frontend dev. I've primarily used Vue that whole time and it's been pretty good.

AI has mostly been a nice benefit to - Copilot really makes writing code more pleasant. I haven't really seen any downsides to AI in my work.

I'm almost always remote, and mostly like that, too.
I don’t get it. Soros was able to break the pound because the UK government was committed to maintaining an artificial price. That’s nothing like an ETF or mutual fund of the S&P 500, which probably has one of the most efficient (relative to the capital involved) market price discovery mechanisms in history.
From my perspective, this is entirely a case of Simpson's Paradox.

* Worldwide, wealth gaps are closing.

* Within most countries, wealth gaps are widening.

Here's how globalization works:

1. As capital, I target 8 billion instead of 350 million. That's more wealth per invention.

2. As US labor, I compete with Indian labor. Income goes down.

3. As high-end developing-world labor, I can compete with Americans for jobs. Income goes up.

4. As low-end developing-world labor, I have some trickle-down benefits, but gap to high-end labor increases.

Footnote: It also makes a lot of sense, looking globally, to look at log(wealth). See:

https://www.gapminder.org/fw/income-levels/

There has been a huge move from Category 1 (horrible life) to 2 (manageable life). That's huge. However, income going up 4x is not very visible on many figures when that income goes from $2/day to $8/day, and is being compared to someone with $100B.
The problem with that is that someone like myself offers nothing for the AI. So why would it waste resources keeping me alive to torture me?
You mean the question? Everyone should be able to see the answer of the active clue.
Capital includes everybody’s life savings. It’s common to have a goal of retiring someday, and having capital is how you retire.

What would it even mean for labor to “win,” if not by controlling some capital of their own? Could a union win without a pension plan?
Sorry, I thought you said that wealth was a bug, so I was looking for an alternative to wealth. Taxing wealth doesn't seem like an alternative to wealth, it seems like building on top of it.
According to the article, Valve is in fact currently maintaining all those features with a team of ~80 people. So this is a good opportunity to improve your understanding of the number of people it takes to maintain software.

One thing Valve seems to understand better than most big tech companies is that once a product/feature is done, you don't need the same size team to maintain it. A lot of parts of Steam have been functionally unchanged for the last few years and just... keep working. The people who worked on Cloud Saves have presumably moved on to something else, instead of entering a Google-esque cycle of pointless Cloud Saves feature launches and deprecations.
Is over fitting different from 'too much optimization'? Optimization still needs a value that is optimized. Over fitting is the result of too much optimization for not quite the right value (i.e. training error when you want to reduce prediction error)
Ask : Is Strong AI an Information Hazard?
Impressive range! What's the CO2/mile?
> The US had same problem with family farms. [...] it was heavily taxed [...] what is left is not enough for the kids to make a living

Math or it didn't happen!

I say that because I've seen this kind of claim many times, and usually either (A) the Federal Estate Tax has no real affect on what happens or (B) their definition of "family farm" is wildly grandiose.

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/the-myth-that-the-estate-tax-threa...
Eh, considering the period this was written, sci fi was associated with both technologically and socially advanced people, with the basic assumption that something like a communist society would allow for technological development unparalleled in history.
Nim is an awesome language that feels inspired by Ada and Python!
From the documentation of the project:
https://0xc0ffee.netlify.app/osdev/01-intro.html
Nothing different if I'm being honest, I'm just looking to learn and was having some starting issues so I was looking for guidance on that. Realistically speaking, if I can build out a storage engine and execution planner that isn't terrible, I'll call it a success as I would've learnt what I'm looking for
your typical business isn't working at the same level of the maslov pyramid than a farm. I don't want a world where only the wealthy can afford to give milk to their kids
Very few paid those rates, because there were a large number of tax shelters available. For example, a lot of your personal expenses could be covered by your business.

Reagan, as part of the deal to lower the top rates, traded away those tax shelters.

The thing about tax shelter investing, however, is they only make sense as a tax shelter. They are poorly performing investments otherwise. A tax policy that encourages poor investments is not a good policy.

Keep in mind that the government in the 50s was far, far smaller than it is today. Funding the vast growth in government is inevitably going to get sucked out of the middle class.
It would be reasonable to expect that there are vastly more employees who have access to pixel phone specs than some secret server collecting private information google keeps when they shouldn't. Google is known to be pretty restrictive about employee's access to the user data they're allowed to collect (at least they are now, after some embarrassing cases of Google employees cyber-stalking teenagers and ex-girlfriends (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9862857/Google-fire...)
Got it - thanks for the update. I'll take a run at it sometime - if only to understand where the pain points in doing this are more thoroughly.
The solution is to redistribute power from the people to the government?
Thank you, this was a very interesting interview.
> We also don't seem to have been given any info about which system the video was recorded from

The developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSdk5p5tnc&lc=UgxFnensLk8qq...

> @Saberman 10 hours ago

> Emulation - WinUAE. In the next recording I will show how Grind Multiplayer works on a real Amiga.
Not always. Australia, Canada, Norway and USA as counter examples.
There will be no Copernicus if everybody just studies epicycles. E.g. there are massive resources put into the desperate WIMP hunt that could be used for finding new theories.
Zillionaire Paul Allen was famous for spending billions in the local economy. He transformed Seattle. He's passed away, and his projects are being sold off and closed down.

> the state allows companies to leave

If you have to build a wall around your state to keep people from fleeing, you have failed.
Install commands from https://py-free-threading.github.io/installing_cpython/ :

sudo dnf install python3.13-freethreading

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.13-nogil

conda create -n nogil -c defaults -c ad-testing/label/py313_nogil python=3.13

mamba create -n nogil -c defaults -c ad-testing/label/py313_nogil python=3.13

TODO: conda-forge ?, pixi