skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Default" search engine is not the same thing as "only" search engine, paying for exposure with cash and a revenue split is a normal business practice, and no one has built a better search engine because the technical challenges are enormous - not because they can't be the default search engine on Safari.

I disagree with this take. The “default” is effectively the same as “only” in practice, as far as its impact on distorting the search engine market and reducing competition, especially because having user data helps create a better product and prevents other competitors. Paying for exposure may be a normal and reasonable business practice when a smaller company does it, but when very large companies do it, you could also just view it as using massive cash reserves to take a loss that other companies could not survive, in order to starve competition before they pose a threat. In other words, it is literally anti competitive. The real solution is all these mega corp need to be broken up or taxed at a much higher rate to create a fair landscape for competition.
They all get read and watched. Full stop.

Maybe YC will use an llm to write nice letters to make people feel better. Couldn’t hurt. Well, actually… might need proofreading!
"Pout?"

Nobody said these weren't "firearm deaths" - they're not "gun violence" regardless of how badly you want them to be for this strawman to work.

The problem comes when folks lump all of these deaths together and then attempt to legislate based on these inflated numbers: it's intellectually dishonest.

Someone choosing to kill themselves cannot impact my Constitutionally-enumerated rights.
Can I use Magic Loops to generate Magic Loops for me?
No, I don't think so, 295x is a crazy high factor. The article says 260 people are involved, and let's generously say it took 20 years to write the software (the first mission was 10 years after the program started and it was around for a total of 40 years).

Dividing by 295 means a commercial team of the same size could have done it in less than a month. Or with a 10x smaller team, about 8 months. I don't think either of those are plausible.
If you think these things are considered harmful, I'd encourage you to read "John Carmack on Inlined Code"
http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...

"The flight control code for the Armadillo rockets is only a few thousand lines of code, so I took the main tic function and started inlining all the subroutines. While I can't say that I found a hidden bug that could have caused a crash (literally...), I did find several variables that were set multiple times, a couple control flow things that looked a bit dodgy, and the final code got smaller and cleaner."

If Carmack finds value in the approach, perhaps we shouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

Also worth noting his follow-up comment:

"In the years since I wrote this, I have gotten much more bullish about pure functional programming, even in C/C++ where reasonable... When it gets to be too much to take, figure out how to factor blocks out into pure functions"
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Or CORBA based intelligent agents in the 1990s
turn of the century suburbs truly are goldilocks neighborhoods.
Cell modem or being on someone's WiFi gives away your location though.
In my case, it was broken and no art appeared. Only a black screen with the text overlayed and the "I quit" button. ...Makes me wonder about the validity of their data.
Man I love systemd. Never has it been easier for me to setup a binary as a service. I dread the memories of customizing or writing init scripts and dependencies.

I don't get all the hate, that primarily argues about the philosophy of Linux, when the philosophy made everything just harder..but I guess some people just want to suffer for their believes, mich like some Catholics
You appear to misunderstand the discussion.

Under Swiss law Email is communication which is subject to a VPN which is not classified as a communications medium and subject to different laws.

There is no way a legitimate company can insulate itself from legal compulsion. However a legitimate security company can do everything within the law to protect users. Proton does this and has been legally tested.
In Dublin, thanking the bus driver is such an ingrained thing that Dublin Bus use it in their job ads (“Get thanked for a living” was a recent one). The switch to two-door buses has complicated this, obviously.
I like how the Vegas Loop tunnels are almost the same diameter as the London Underground deep lines. Glasgow subway is even smaller. Which means the tunnels are big enough to run metro and carry lots of people.

It would be better to use larger tunnel, buy normal sized trains, and keep tall people from hitting their heads. It would also make sense to use one of the automated systems instead of trying to build pod system.

It is also curious that Musk always want to do his way. Cause there is company that makes automated pods used at Heathrow. They should work for the current service and wouldn't be Tesla 3 with driver.
>Moreover, the constant CAPTCHA prompts by Cloudflare are incredibly frustrating.

I despise Cloudflare with a burning passion. Currently they're blocking access to the danish parliament website (ft.dk) by putting up a CAPTCHA wall. Of course it's wrong of the admins to put essential danish infrastructure in the hands of a shitty american tech giant, but as you say this crap is everywhere. I refuse to interact with any CAPTCHA unless I absolutely have to.
It is not. It is not implemented in std::string::String, but (as pointed out elsewhere in this thread) there are other string implementations that have it.

It was decided explicitly against for the standard library, because not every optimization is universally good, and keeping String as a thin wrapper over Vec<T> is a good default.
I use protonvpn because I pay for protonmail. It is frustrating because I feel like I need to pay another VPN provider to get decent service. The client is ridiculously unstable and doesn't have the features found on other platforms. If you're not already using their mail services, use linux, and don't like being snubbed despite being a paying customer, look for another provider. Note that the stealth mode is not available for linux, just another way to tell their linux customers that they don't matter.
NASA pushes back SpaceX Crew-9 mission to NET Sept 24 so Starliner can return
The control system knows what the rudder should be at all times for coordinated flight in the air, and keeping the nose and ground track aligned when near the ground for landing, performing the slip necessary when landing in a cross wind.
https://github.com/danthedaniel/BF-JIT

If you’re curious
Dream Chaser wants to fill those shoes.

- https://www.sierraspace.com/dream-chaser-spaceplane/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Chaser

- https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/a-new-space-plane-gets-r...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVIXI09-AYw

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q8tGVUnoZg
There was a guy who used math to 'solve' the stock market in the 80's or maybe even the 70's, and he flew dark for quite some time before revealing how he did it. Presumably like Buffett, once people know what you're up to they start to adapt to your actions which changes the entire equation. If you can reduce feedback loops by getting good at, for instance, sneakily and quietly collecting a large position by many small increments under many different accounts, then you can get somewhere without being pulled into a giant spiral.
As a kiwi, are your able to make any of these (or your) projects? I'm quite interested.
Impressive work! One thing that would make this exponentially more useful immediately: if it could export the cut list as an FCP or Adobe XML, for import into a real editing program. Being able to use this as a very basic rough draft automator is a real potential niche.
I had been considering applying but got turned off by gary tan's, and the rest of vc-dom's, rude aggressive politics. Luckily my startup is starting to gain traction, hopefully that will make it easier to find investors that don't turn me off.
They need a new vehicle category? Why does an electric bicycle need a driver license in the first place?
Ah I see, that's a good solution. It's a shame it can't be mixed, maybe not so interesting for services where the offerings are so similar like these two, but e.g. Spotify + YouTube would be nice.

I have heard (from the developer forums) that review time is awful since they became stricter on the requirements and the dev support team seems to have disappeared. Be sure to factor that in and good luck!
Context: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-likely-to-signifi...

>However, there is also another surprising reason for the delay—the need to update Starliner’s flight software. Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

>Regardless, sources described the process to update the software on Starliner as "non-trivial" and "significant," and that it could take up to four weeks.
> Try to keep methods to 200 lines in high performance code, and see your performance crash and burn like Icarus' flight.

Are these loops in Kubernetes so hot that extra microseconds for some program stack manipulation will affect performance? I never took Kubernetes as a hyper-real time application.

>Do not obey them blindly and create problematic code bases.

I don't know the code so won't question it specifically, but wouldn't this also apply to "space shuttle programming"? I feel Space shuttle programming's job in many ways is in fact to try and remove ambiguity from code. But not by explaining the language, but the variables and their units. I sure wouldn't mind spamming "units in cm" everywhere or explaining every branch logic if it's mission critical. Not so much this inconsistent doxygen/javadoc style documentation on every variable/class. If you're going to go full entrprise programming, commit to it.

Above everything else, the big thing going through my mind reading these are "a proper linter configuraion would have really helped enforce these rules".
And with a license such as MIT, where no such statement is included?

https://opensource.org/license/mit
I think they would like to have something like artifacts in Claude
BTW, when linking to a file in GitHub like this, you can link to a range of lines of the file, by using the URL fragment identifier, like:

#L60-L92

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/60c4c2b2521fb4...
Those who order grocery delivery online would benefit from price comparisons, because they can order from multiple stores at the same time. In addition, there's only one marketplace that has all the prices from different stores.
Exactly, there’s no point in buying anything from Amazon. Buy from somewhere with an actual supply chain that doesn’t commingle counterfeit products with real ones.
I just skimmed through the first 5 results on Google. All say that political bots on twitter are significant problems.

You say "there just weren't any left-oriented bot farms of note," I do not see that conclusion, and it really doesnt logically follow, unless you subscribe to "only the bad bots are bots" mentality.
The MTR Corporation out of Hong Kong runs trains for Stockholm, Sweden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_Corporation?wprov=sfti1#Sw...
I had the impression the Google SF office was for capturing that talent that would not be bothered to commute south; but that for most people there it was a career dead end, if you weren’t in Mountain View you weren’t in the game.

At least that’s what the people I know who worked there told me, I don’t have any real inside knowledge and the stories could be wrong despite being plausible.
It's as though she doesn't know Gab, Parler, Truth Social, Telegram, and all the other places that her people can express themselves even more freely exist.

Her soul is gone.
Is this like a thing where people want to appear to be contributing to open source and remove all the 'unneeded' elses from a codebase?
AI code assistant using RAG architecture and PostgreSQL
Our obsessions never change!
> Even though more astronauts died, because of the two shuttle accidents, than any other NASA disaster, the safety record was absolutely amazing, when we consider everything that was going on.

That's "the operation was successful but the patient died" logic. Killing over 1% of your riders is not a good safety record! No ifs, no buts.
I can't speak to sleep, but you are wrong about the calories.

Kurzgesagt has a really interesting video on it: https://youtu.be/lPrjP4A_X4s

The caloric part quite blew my mind. I know its not the most scientific source but digging deeper in it it does seem to match up.
That's a really surprising example. Paris has nearly identical crime level to San Francisco.

From personal experience, I did not feel particularly safe in Paris when visiting (compared to e.g. Berlin).

Moreover, Paris has several neighborhoods and suburbs that are very unsafe and most people avoid going there. One could say Tenderloin in SF has a similar reputation, but it's very small and easy to avoid.
Hot take: the 'UNIX philosophy' is stuck in the 1970s. It was the only practical compromise when computers were constrained to kilobytes of memory (at best) and a megabyte of storage (at best).
Here's a good video running through one way to do this at home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3uNcJh4pc (I really like the ending, it's real science which is rare these days)

There are a heap of better links to micrometeorites stories than this stackexchange. Discussed many times on HN.
My aviation major roommates in college drilled for their upcoming flights with, I kid you not, a large poster depicting their instrument panel taped to the wall of our quad and a folding chair. Training does not require VR-like immersion to be supremely valuable. :)

Especially when it comes to practicing radio calls, it's the repetition that breeds competence and therefore confidence.
Thank you!

Landing Page / Marketing has always been my weakness in the business. We indeed need the "who" more clear in our landing page and it should be a top priority here.

Video editing is indeed a huge market and one I've struggled with in the past with other products that did not reach their PMF due to targeting the wrong user type.

This product is my first take in an AI-based product, united with something I have some year of experience in (Programming + Video Production Automation)

Loved your product too! English not being my primary language I have some of these hesitation problems when recording in a single take.
One of my all-time favourite articles. Amazing that something from the internet in 1996 is still accessible!
Can VPN providers rotate used IPs faster than they are blocked or it is too expensive?
How long does Apple support Mac firmware?
tschema – A tiny (<1kb) utility to build JSON schema types
I suspect you'd be very interested in this paper:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iUscaSy6HHLVz2e2rjQfQtx5...

There are some good reasons why global-consensus cryptocurrencies can't generally be used as money:

https://perry.kundert.ca/range/finance/holochain-consistency...
> Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program — each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each.

What exactly do they mean by this? If each of the 3 versions had exactly one bug, isn't this just a weird way of saying the first 2 fixes either didn't work or introduced a new bug?
I always am curious when someone asks this question from an open forum why wouldn't they simply fill out the form and get a definitive answer?

What we know for sure is they don't accept founders that don't fill out the form[1].

[1] with a few exceptions, perhaps.
Masquerading as legitimate traffic is important for many VPN users, I guess. Many don't want ISP to know they are using a VPN, and others don't want to get their VPN blocked.
Hmmm, so you say if a particle reaches a spot not in straight and shortest line from space then it does not count as a particle originated in space fallen on that spot? Could we have a wiggle room still? Like allowing trade winds carry it some limited km laterally, or such?
> The general aviation market is TINY

Airhart seems to be planning to expand that market by selling a $500K version of an airplane that normally costs about $250K. I wish them good luck in finding a viable pivot when than plan goes as well as can be expected.
Clownflare did drop Kiwi Farms. I don't particularly care for Kiwi Farms, but I don't think characterising them as a neo-nazi community is accurate. Throwing that label at any disagreeable person or community is counterproductive and devalues the term.
I was planning on doing the same in NZ. I would be keen to chat to you about it (email in HN profile). I am a data scientist

Did you notice anything pre and post Whittakers price increase(s)? They must have a brilliant PR firm in retainer for every major news outlet to more or less push the line that increased prices are a good thing for the consumer. I noticed more aggressive "sales" more recently, but unsure if I am just paying more attention.

My prediction is that they will decrease the size of the bars soon.
It's all opinions and "best practice" isn't some objective single rule to uphold.

But generally, best practices are "best" for a reason, some emperical. The machine usually won't care but the humans do. e.g. VS or Jetbrains will simply reject autocompletion if you make a file too big, and if you override the configuration it will slow down your entire IDE. So there is a "hard" soft-limit on how many lines you put in a file.

Same with Line width. Sure, word wrap exists but you do sacrifice ease and speed of readability if you have overly long stretches of code on one line, adding a 2nd dimension to scroll.
You can click a line number to select the start of the range, then shift+click to select the end of the range to do this automatically.
Thanks to Giuliani and Bloomberg, but the progressives are busily undoing everything they did. Wait 5 years.
Why the hell are you challenging that on a topic such as this? What is wrong with you?
Had it not been for the philosophy, Linux would not have been a thing. If you don't care about philosophy, consider going to Windows?
> I also wonder how much useful space is left in them after the slide-out steering mechanism, batteries and motors.

looking at the image in TFA, that looks about the size of a carry on which is much smaller than I was imagining. to counter, there's a Visa commercial running as part of the Olympics with Simone Biles next to her suitcase which is as big as she is. It is disturbingly large. Like, it can't be real, can it? Or she is just that little. Either way, I'm remembering the wrong parts of their commercial, but I could see a suitcase of that size being something Transformer-ish into something you and your family could ride
I think the current iteration of the far right is much more of a social movement than it is about principles of governing. Elon himself is right wing and uses his resources to support the movement, so a (bad) judge that is aligned with him could give him favorable treating in service of the culture war.
The joys of the human memory
Trying to decide what the worst "systemd" story was... "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" deleting your /home directory was pretty bad.
Accidental victims are already included in the "per capita". If a drug dealer accidentally shoots someone, that is a crime and goes into the crime statistics.

So statistically, by definition, crime per capita is all that matters. If there is lower crime per capita in a dense city, that's already accounting for accidents like stray bullets too.

If you don't want to be a victim of crime, then you want to live where crime is lowest per-capita. Period.

Not where it is lowest per square mile.
By the same user no less
As a semi-retired mechanic I still remember having to re-pack wheel bearings for brake jobs, what a nightmare.
Oh! So you are Christian Hergert, right?

I've been completely deaf to GNOME dev tools for a few years. What are the plans (if is there any) for a reasonably good RAD or ui builder tool (besides cambalache)? Is there any hope for blueprint + workbench turning into something to fill this gap? Was there any progress or plan on the "designable" interface for GTK?

For the record, I wrote this comment some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35632761
You still don't get to tell them when they "need" to negotiate.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230315200925/http://antitrust....

What did changed since Microsoft used ACPI as tool against Linux?

Enforced Auto-Updates, Ads, Cloud Account enforcement, Blocking Firefox partially in Teams [1], Setting Teams as Browser (Edge?), WSL (intent is not compatibility, it is to prevent migrations to Linux), Azure is a giant security problem and finally the deal with Qualcomm (hinder Linux on ARM) like we are in the 90ies?

The crap named Secure Boot with Microsoft as Certificate Authority. After certificates proofed to be miserable on the internet for 25 years. What about signing with a user generated private key (stored in a keyring or similar) of the superuser and storing the public key in the UEFI? Which would be simple and reliable. No. Microsoft opted for the solution which depends on their goodwill and the biggest possible attack surface.

And Pluton looks so awkward that Lenovo and Dell turned it immediately off.

I will not trust them. Their business model is greed, making the users itself hostile actor against all others. Using something intentionally incompatible and borked isn’t “your department”. You harm others with incompatible APIs, ABIs, weird “Word” files and Teams.

I didn’t considered to use DotNet. GNOME removed it a long time ago and it is fine (Tomboy/Mono -> Gnome/C++). The only thing which seems good is LSP. But the hard work is done by CLANG and others. Not Microsoft.

[1] Teams worked six months ago flawlessly with Firefox. Even screen-sharing on Wayland. But they greyed out and blocked the video-call button. Until I figured out that I can initiate calls through the calendar…lol. It is like 2001.
By not telling what their endpoints are?
The endpoint blocking is pretty easy to bypass if you run your own VPN (e.g., Tailscale with an exit node in your home network, or an OpenVPN server).

My workplace recently blocked all VPN exiting traffic, even on the guest network. I found this quite bothersome, as I do prefer to tunnel everything through my house. I never use public WiFi without VPN; not because I'm doing illegal things, nor because I think it keeps the NSA from spying if they want to (after all, they can just monitor my house). It keeps the coffeeshop and airport and hotel networks from watching my moves, though.

It also doesn't trigger multi-location detection on Netflix, etc.
1.2 EB is 1.288e9 GB. The lowest listed price for cross-region traffic at Google is 0.2c / GB. That’s almost $2.6M per day to run this program — actually, more, because a bunch of the traffic surely goes outside North America! Google can afford that, but most companies can’t.

I’m being sarcastic, if this wasn’t obvious.
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Crime per area makes it more likely you are an accidental victim of a crime

Strange take. The opposite is true. Crime per area has nothing to say about how likely you are to be the victim of a crime, while crime per capita literally does say how likely you are to be a victim of a crime.
Their claim: they have to follow the Swiss laws, the laws for mail providers and the laws for VPN providers are separate, and one of them requires IP logging, and the other doesn't.

Your claim: they're just doing whatever the hell they want, whatever is "politically" expedient for them. Without any substance behind it.

Considering Switzerland's reputation as low-corruption country, i.e. having a government that follows the rules, I can imagine the VPN department will fight such a "request" as you say in their court of law, but hey, I bet your guts know it all.