skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I dunno. It seems like a shame to charge people extra for sitting, but it also would be nice for a less-fit person to be able to encode the idea somehow “I’ll wait for next train if it means I can sit,” while still giving people the option to hop on when it is standing room only.

But like, now I assume if somebody is not very fit, they don’t really have the option, right? There will be a race either way and of course the people who most need a seat are least likely to win. (I will keep standing on trains in the hope it’ll keep me from ever needing to sit, haha).
Actually for most part I don't want to subscribe.

And I don't want free ad sponsored.

I just want to pay a reasonable (I'll get back to this) price for the things I actually want.

Netflix was OK with me (and I think a number of others) despite being a subscription service not because it was a subscription.

It was OK because it was

- the only option

- reasonably priced

- and had "everything" one wanted

So what is reasonable?

I'd assume that with all the cost savings given the digitalization of the delivery at least it shouldn't be more expensive than renting a physical dvd, although I'd accept if they adjusted a little for inflation.
To me Twitch was obviously used as a deonym.
Say this was a malicious actor, how would one place a block/filter for this type of activity?
Track each IP request and rate limit on an individual level?
Ruby Shebang Behavior
This is why I think things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41060102 shouldn't be "fixed".
Fix slow lead magnet setups in 30 seconds
Do they still advertise life-alert on tv? “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
CIEL Is an Extended Lisp
We basically postponed the r&d of one for 60 years and funded the other with infinite petro dollars. It really isn't that absurd.

> we're having trouble displacing ICE with electric now

Yeah, now, after 60 years of designing every single aspect of our modern lives around gas and gas cars, how surprising indeed ...
I suppose this will become another instance of "Outlook" where finding documentation or support for your version of the product (the web service or the email application) is made needlessly more complex.
Calcium also explains metallic taste and hypercalcemia, and is toxic at 2500 mg per day. Author states they were drinking 6 l of water daily.
It seems like you're saying that 6 million excess deaths a year in a country has been the norm throughout history, but I don't think that's the case. Even if we just think about it as a percentage of the total population, 300MM into 1.4B is ~21% of total population dead in 50 years, which would be catastrophic for a country's ability to maintain its economy, among other things. It's not exactly as bad as the bubonic plague, but much worse than Covid in any country, and much worse than any wars I can think of, so I think it would have a pretty large effect.
Or, they do care, but not enough to spend the significant resources and opportunity costs to do something about it for the minority of users who don't use chrome. Of particular note, changing domains can really hurt SEO.
DIY doesn't come with those asterisks, and DIY with only-thermal power use & energy storage is on the simple side of things. "Help me heat in the winter" is basically the simplest use-case, because you can accomplish it with a south-facing solar fence and some resistors [or an inverter + space heater, or whatever].

Personally I like the idea of a three-season thermal mass store, a big tank of water or pile of sand that you dump heat into when it's sunny, and extract it at will the rest of the day/week.
But they can fit a DifuzCam...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275832
It's not lore, it's a fact: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html

Most definitely still ongoing looking at history.
That’s not even close. Microsoft churns out incredibly awful names. The “Defender” family is probably the most egregious example today.

I’m sure the enterprise version will be Azure Windows 365 App for Business E3. But it won’t be compatible with one of the 4 hosted windows desktop solutions that Microsoft ships lol, but nobody will be sure of which one!
Even in this release they use the word "app" with a different meaning. I would love to know how they arrived at this name.
I agree with that sentiment, and I have tried to contribute in the past, but then again, you have to choose your battles. Making the kind of impact on auth that means I, or anyone else, will not have to deal with rubbish systems in the future is a big task.

It is one thing to write the needed software, it is a much bigger task to convince enough companies that they need a different approach to this problem.

However, what I can offer is that if someone has the backing to actually make a difference in this market, I'll volunteer 50 hours to act as a reviewer and test developer. But that is if your project is backed by someone I believe can make a difference.
Because it doesn't matter that much, as Chromium is open source, not to mention it did a fine job thus far in advancing the open web.

I'd like Firefox to stick around, but as far as I'm concerned, if Safari goes away, I couldn't care less.
part of me thinks that clock drift would be reliably biased toward a particular node, not leapfrogging between two nodes.
I mean, you've got to know your audience. There is an inherent trade off between specificity (which should hopefully improve your conversion rate) and generality (which should hopefully bring your message to more people).

Personally, when doing technical presales, I prefer to start very broad and keep cutting the domain in half as we go. To use an example from the article, if we're talking semiconductors, we can start broad with the problem ( I want to do x functionality for y price) then discuss solutions in various depths (eg all-in-one ic that's faster to market, or a discrete solution that is cheaper on the BOM), slapping on additional requirements and parameters as we narrow in on a solution.

Usually, defining the solution is a big part of the process, but there is a strong tendency to only talk about the solution, especially from engineers and marketers.

You don't want to alienate prospects by going to deep too quick, but you also don't want to insult them by telling them things they already know (or know more about than you!). It's a fine line.
The issue is there is a huge monetizing platform for video, which has minted multimillionaires.

There is no equivalent for that for text, even though Substack is trying.
The sciences are long overdue for a epistemological reckoning.
They are terrible with the exception of how satisfying it is to just snap it closed to end a call, lock the screen, quit what you're doing, etc.
I wonder when text based media actually became unsustainable on Internet. And how publications somehow lasted until now, was there still someone funding them in hopes of them working out? Like whole timeframe when things went from somewhat sustainable to unsustainable.
I’m jealous of your experience with its autograd if it “just worked” for you. It was a huge pain for me to get it to do anything non-trivial.
My FIL has basically decided to just install his own solar from now on after getting quoted 10's of thousands of dollars in install labor cost for a job that he ended up doing himself in less than a day. And yes, it was done to code and spec (he's an engineer who runs a small manufacturing company, so the job was well within his skill set).
Had you read on, you'd have seen that I am discussing this very point:

> leader election will only ever be eventually correct... So you’ll always need to be prepared to detect and fence off work done by a previous leader.
People go bananas about it because reversing below replacement birth rates is extremely difficult, basically has not been done in the modern era, and is one of the things that can lead to our economy and society collapsing, a la Japan.
Uncharitable take warning.

My bet is on a PM thinking: "Surely if the project has Windows in its name we can't get laid off".

Also:

https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
The whole mode of taking in trade news has changed. 20 years ago when i bought a Maximum PC i read it cover-to-cover. Can't imagine doing that now with anything other than a book or a movie. Instead i'm reading the one or three most eye-catching articles that twenty different publications put out. Our much-beloved RSS (and old-school email newsletters) were the start of the slide here i think.

I still have a few subscriptions, especially if they send it out on a dead tree, but with the nature of the internet it's hazardous to not use an ad blocker. I've come to appreciate when publications run reminders that they are, in fact, also people who need to eat, and i try to make up for what i take from the trough by buying swag or sending a check if they take donations. But i get that there's not an enviable business plan on the other side of that equation. It's an ongoing evolution.
Nurses working less than 5 days a week are pretty common. In fact a lot of those you mention are not working 7 days a week, so shifts and overlaps allow a quite a lot of flexibility. Lorry drivers working 4 days on 4 days off?
The thing that people don't realize about AWS is that the hard part, and the thing they do really well, are authorization and billing.

Every call is authenticated. Changes to authorization ripple across AWS in realtime. If you revoke a priv, things stop working immediately. That's incredibly hard to do, especially when you're authenticating billions of requests a second.

For billing and telemetry, everything's is logged. There are companies that are built on the idea of logging, and at AWS it's just something they do - without slowing anything down.

AWS just might be one of the most complicated things humanity has ever built, which is a weird thought.
Show HN: Jabble – a collaborative fact-checking platform
Hello HN,

we are three researchers (Felix, Jonathan, Johannes) and over the past years, we've been doing research on polarization and misinformation. This is our prototype for a platform for collaborative fact-checking.

What we have so far:

- automated detection for rhetorical fallacies in posts

What we are building next:

- calculate fact check results taking all the votes and comments in a thread into account
- game theoretical reputation system with incentives for honesty
- bias correction for votes with matrix factorization (similar to Community Notes)
- crowdfunding of fact checks (money distributed to contributors based on the effectiveness of their comments and votes)

We are grateful for feedback!
Thanks for pointing this one out, we weren't aware it could do that. Do you use those features yourself? We think it's an important enough problem that there's room for multiple people to be solving it, but very curious to hear if you think they have.

On the OSS piece, we are not ignoring this. It's very early days for us so we are figuring out how best to balance our limited resources and, in the future, make a thoughtful contribution to the community.

(Edit: just clocked that you _are_ OneUptime.com, so some of my questions won't make total sense. We'd love to understand how your users have responded to those capabilities, if you're willing to share)
Maybe rebuses will come back in a big way.

OT: you are the same mezzie as mezzie was?
I know several people who have completely cut off communication with one or both parents. Consider yourself lucky.
Sometimes it's enough to detect these cases and reset the system to its stable state.

For example bicycle wheels are bistable systems, but they usually stay in their useful state so it does not matter in practice.
Matt Haig:I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind
I use the internet basically as an extension of my brain. There's very little barrier between having a thought and seeking information. Search is the usual way those two come together.

Google, these days, seems to mostly ignore whatever I've tried to search for and instead return results that I'd call "more popular". So the top results are mostly generic, useless results and below that it's mostly blog spam or wildly unrelated things.

This is especially bad when I'm looking for specific technical documentation or trying to understand unusual or obscure problems. Usually it's returning nothing useful at all.

Kagi returns results actually related to what I'm looking for more often than not.

The thing that convinced me to pay for it was a single search. I kept hitting _something_ that was causing the Apple TV to stop showing how much time was remaining in a show and instead show something else.

I went to Kagi and searched "netflix apple TV showing wrong time remaining" (my incomplete but best understanding of the problem at the time). Kagi surfaced a result that explained what this was and how it was getting triggered as the fourth result.

I went back to Google and searched the same. Top result was "If you can't change the time or time zone on your Apple Device" from Apple. Second was "Netflix audio is out of sync" from Netflix. With the benefit of knowing what the answer was, I did find a single relevant result about 25 results down mixed in with some blog spam on removing a show from "Continue Watching" on Disney Plus, listicles on hidden ways to make the Apple TV app on your phone even better, and a link to a Google Books copy of a 2008 Men's Health Magazine (?!).

Every time I accidentally end up back on Google it's... jarring to say the least.
"surprise" of the day: scientists can also be greedy for money and fame
Makes sense, thanks! I will look more into it.

Thankfully, so far it seems my providers are not using it.
Agree.

Even more absurd is the assertion in the OP that steam-powered vehicles could have:

>But for a few historical contingencies, either model [lead-acid or steam boiler] could have rendered its gas-powered alternatives obsolete.
Police clearance rates of reported crimes have tanked in almost every category of crime. [1] Property crime saw a 30% reduction in clearance rates (17%->12%) from 2019-2022 despite funding/staffing staying flat or going up and crime rates/reporting rates going down.*

The marginal calculus could be tipping, but imo less from issues of social cohesion and more from an abdication of enforcement that necessitates more guard labor in the form of private security.

Another partial explanation is just that retail orgs are overreacting and/or cynically crafting a narrative to explain poor business decisions or changing economic conditions.[2][3][4]

> “Maybe we cried too much last year” about merchandise losses, Walgreens finance chief James Kehoe acknowledged Thursday on an earnings call.

> “Probably we put in too much, and we might step back a little bit from that,” he said of security staffing.

> However, it’s not clear the numbers add up. For example, data released by the San Francisco Police Department does not support the explanation Walgreens gave that it was closing five stores because of organized retail theft, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2021. One of the shuttered stores that closed had only seven reported shoplifting incidents in 2021 and a total of 23 since 2018, according to the newspaper. Overall, the five stores that closed had fewer than two recorded shoplifting incidents a month on average since 2018.

> The National Retail Federation had said that nearly half of the industry’s $94.5 billion in missing merchandise in 2021 was the result of organized theft. It was likely closer to 5 percent, experts say.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2023/12/23/24012514/police-crime-data-so...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopliftin...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/organized-shopli...

[4] https://popular.info/p/off-target

*caveat that crime data is really complicated, don't take the numbers too literally
I think people who say this did not have the misfortune of growing up in a society where there are few jobs that don't pay well and basically your entire existence is to subsidize a much larger class of elderly whose values, desires, etc. always trump your own
The PoC was made in 2016, the work started in 2017, but the first spec draft was released on 18 May 2021. [1] This first draft already contained references to WGSL. There is no reference to SPIR-V.

Why did it take this long to release the first draft? Compare it to SDL_GPU timeline, start to finish in 6 months. Well, because the yak shaving on WGSL had already begun, and was eating up all the time.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-webgpu-20210518/
Can you link dynamic shape support? Big if true — but I haven’t been able to find anything on it.

Edit: I see — I think you mean exporting lowered StableHLO code in a shape polymorphic format —- from the docs: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/export/shape_poly.html

This is not the thing I usually think when someone says dynamic shape support.

In this model, you have to construct a static graph initially —- then you’re allowed to specify a restricted set of input shapes to be symbolic, to avoid the cost of lowering — but you’ll still incur the cost of compilation for any new shapes which the graph hasn’t been specialized for (because those shapes affect the array memory layouts, which XLA needs to know to be aggressive)
Matrix or Briar? Wouldn't P2P/self hosting always be better?
Language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and instant CI/CD [video]
Boost.Heap has this functionality. Or if you want to stick with the standard library it’s fairly easy to use the *_heap functions from <algorithm> and just hand-code your own fix_heap(first, last, changed) function. Agree it would be more convenient to have it built-in, though.
security guards deal with the worst aspects of the pubilc in a low status role, there is a lot of irony in the writer expressing sympathy for the people creating nuissances the guards are tasked with managing, but not for the people whose job is to deal with the problems that are beneath even police and vaunted "health professionals." private security is a huge growth market precisely because of the attitudes and beliefs encompassed by Harpers' writers and readership.

I was glad to read that the author had to do some walking as part of the job as it sounded like he would have benefited from the exercise, yet even that didn't seem to soften his aspirational contempt for people who do physical work.

The one thing I would advocate for in the private security business would be fitness standards as that sets a bar for some basic competence that would add a dynamic with more dignity and respect in the role. Even though I would agree the whole job is the living symbol of policy failures and naive sentimental politics, if there's a bet to make on growth, managing the consequences of those failures seems like an unlimited opportunity.
The folk at Patched are doing great work - they are our YC batch mates! Alas, we cannot take credit for that write-up, sadly, nor answer the question re their source code. We are getpatchwork.io / Patchwork Technologies.

Thanks for the congrats :)
One word: vasectomy. Freeze some sperm if you think you might want it later.
A good problem to have. Now do a Show HN with the link to your website, or you can resubmit the link you shared a couple of days ago as a Show HN, which is better for this.

It'd be useful to be more deliberate with the language/messaging/copywriting you are using, whether in the original link you shared here or on your website.

If you'd like to hear a thing or two, you're welcome to send me an email; I'll reply if it matches the email address you'll put on your HN profile/bio.
You're right, _rationale_ would have been a better word choice.
Assuming this is true: "Apple’s lawyers said that, and also said that they didn’t want De Rosa to stop posting; “we’d rather talk through the nuances of the issue and ideally find a reasonable solution that works for everyone.”"

That sounds like behaviour which should be encouraged.

By which I mean, don't come in guns-blazing because someone does something which comes close to infringing on your copyright/trade-mark and try to shut-them-down. Have an appreciation of the subtleties and try to agree a good solution for everyone.
Completely agreeing with the other comments but tangent looking at the reference screenshot, does anyone else remember the emotive excitement of building out a new Windows build back in the day, hacking customisation that wasn’t out of the box, and getting that first boot with an exciting new desktop and theme? What times.

Separate observation, that comment trail in the article demonstrates everything about the corporate failure case that is our modern tech stack. If the most enthusiastic early adopters are getting immediately dismissed by the hypercare teams, what hope do the rest of us have. Where is the Netscape/Phoenix/Mozilla/Firefox for Desktop OS? When did we become so complacent about device monopolies?
Sometimes I wonder with all our great progress what did we do wrong if it caused us to stop having kids at replacement rate? I know we can not turn back the clock, but if it were a game of Sims or Civilization, what are the set of choices and progresses we could have made to avoid this outcome
But... there is a definitively written definition for those words. The phrase was invented to refer to a very specific thing. Changing the meaning of the word would accomplish nothing except force existing usages of the word to change.

Like, if fair source licenses began to be referred to as "open source", then "open source" will have lost its original meaning. So now when stating that something is "open source", you will have to clarify whether you mean "original open source" or "expanded open source" (or something like that). This distinction will be very important to potential users, since it may or may not restrict their intended use case.

It's no different from if we were to start referring to reptiles as mammals. Now when a biologist wants to refer to only organisms with mammary glands, they will need to use some other term, like "milk-making mammals". It does nothing but cause confusion.

Not sure how else to explain this concept... like, I'm really just talking about semantics and pragmatism here. I don't disagree with you on ideological grounds, if that's what you're assuming.
Beyond the providers still offering linear TV (and the new ones being built in a new "trend" sometimes referred to as FAST TV [1]) You can see some of the linear background channel desires/trends in Twitch streaming numbers, too, and in some of the popularity of some Twitch streaming channels (such as MST3K's 24/7 MST3K channel). Also this is part of why several big "comfort events" on Twitch such as 24/7 streaming of Bob Ross or Mr. Roger's Neighborhood blew up virally.

[1] https://www.mni.com/blog/popular-streaming-services-what-is-...
Apparently, Signal is already used heavily by the US military, and Telegram by the Russian & Ukrainian military.

As we create, so we destroy for tactical reasons. Telegram's founder was just arrested for "failure to moderate". PGP was regarded as "munitions export". Tor is apparently wide open to the NSA through traffic analysis.

Even as a small portion of our government wants freedom of communication, most of it is strongly opposed.
I'd like to be more positive about this change but it was extremely disruptive to existing workflow. Oh that channel that had third party people? It's now in the ether. That project that only existed in one workspace? Mixed right on with your everyday channels. Want to context switch? Too bad! Impossible to prioritize that stack of notifications at a glance. The limited clarity I was able to build around is now a fog. Its making me find email as the best communication path since nobody else is using it.
My favourite recent MS naming confusion is myapps.microsoft is a SSO type place similar to Okta, but apps.microsoft is a shop, some of which I might own.