skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, your post prompted me to take a bit of time to research. I found this interesting:

"According to The New York Times, "Big legislation largely eludes Mr. Sanders because his ideas are usually far to the left of the majority of the Senate ... Mr. Sanders has largely found ways to press his agenda through appending small provisions to the larger bills of others."[146] During his time in the Senate, he had lower legislative effectiveness than the average senator, as measured by the number of sponsored bills that passed and successful amendments made.[147] Nevertheless, he has sponsored over 500 amendments to bills,[148] many of which became law."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
It would be great if standard form for sites like this would be for people to give their email address in order to be updated as new features are added. I would love to know when Canada is added but am afraid that without signing up for updates, this will slip from my memory before the day is done. I shudder to think how many sites this has happened to me already - where features have since been added that would make the site applicable to me but I’ll never know because I couldn’t sign up for updates!
The Whisperverse: the future of mobile computing is an AI voice inside your head
https://speed.yjit.org/
Pangeanic's Deep Adaptive AI Technology Innovates Translation for BYD Auto Japan
I recently got a NEW copy as an adult. So happy to have it on my shelf!
It's also worth adding that the Hubble mirror was made by Perkin-Elmer with a backup made by Kodak. The Kodak mirror is the one with "heritage".
I second that.

Its translations are also the best translations known to mankind (I read the German one, the French is said to be as good or better).
I certainly hope so. Although using geofencing around private roads/tracks to determine where the aggressive maneuvers are being used would be most fair.

Like if someone's driving metrics are totally smooth and predictable on public roads, but then they go nuts on a race track, a lower premium makes sense.

Now that I type that out, how does car insurance work while driving on a private race track?
Do you have any source for your disagreement. Last time I checked the phrasing as it applies to a game bag goes quite far back which would hint at its usage in later examples that you provided.

"Many figurative senses, such as the verb meaning "to kill game" (1814) and its colloquial extension to "catch, seize, steal" (1818) are from the notion of the game bag (late 15c.) into which the product of the hunt was placed. This also probably explains modern slang in the bag "assured, certain" (1922, American English). To be left holding the bag (and presumably nothing else), "cheated, swindled" is attested by 1793."
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=bag
If you have to make a price for one-off customer, you end up having to support that use case as long as they are a customer. You may need to change your entire business model just to support them. If they leave, all that change is worth nothing. Unless you're in the business of doing custom work, it's unlikely to be worth the opportunity cost elsewhere.

After a certain point it's not about money. Your time and attention is worth more than they would ever be willing to pay.

If the customer wants it that badly, they can pay the price to get it from someone else.
Do penguins and cassowary count as "non-avian dinosaurs?" The videos of cassowary definitely give me Jurassic Park vibes.

In any case, many people are aware birds are not extinct. As a result, a claim of a "mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs" would implicitly not include "avian dinosaurs." Adding the "non-avian" qualifier does not assist in describing the particular global change to which the article refers.
theres an updated edition as well
I love Neuromancer specifically for the first third or so, so maybe the latter?

IMO the first part of the book is peak cyberpunk vibes. In particular I read it almost like I would read poetry, late at night when I can't sleep, sometimes jumping back and forth between pages.
Player Piano has felt more relevant in this new AI age
Heh, I actually just go the "threads" link a few (uh... hundred?) times a day (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=etewiah) and scroll through them manually. I don't always catch the replies, especially if they fall to the 2nd page or beyond.

A sibling comment mentioned one service. https://www.hnreplies.com/ is another one that I've used in the past, but it got too noisy (not spam, just frequent emails). I'd prefer an app with push notifications and proper threading.

Like many others, I once tried building an alternative HN frontend with replies caching and push notifications, but the HN API is so barebones/lackluster and poorly documented that I gave up after a few days (basically, for anything that requires a login, you end up having to just scrape the HTML). Every once in a while, there's some talk of improving the API to make it more robust, but I don't think it's a priority for YCombinator.

So old-school scrolling it is :)
Do you not have 8 computers in your home that are capable of sending email, browsing the web, and doing taxes? Why do you have so many?
I am a solo founder that has spent the last few years bootstrapping stockalgos.com and building the majority of the tech myself. I think we have truly made a game changing product but I don't know how to effectively market the company. We don't have a marketing budget to compete with other companies and I am scared to raise a round from VC's as the goal of the company is to actually help people and I find that when VCs enter, the new mission will be to make money at all costs. Would love to get your feedback on what we've built. Always looking for ways to improve.
I know almost nothing about Atlas Shrugged, besides that it is very political, but this seems a strange and deceptive way to interact with people. I can't imagine it is very good for establishing trust with someone even if they "pass the test". I would think that many level-headed people you seek to select for would not appreciate being tested in this way, but I suppose you are selecting for a very specific kind of person who would find these kinds of social games and tests interesting.
Nokia failed because Nokia was Nokia.

To elaborate - Nokia innovated a lot. But internally Nokia was chaotic. They were Google, before Google got the reputation for creating projects only to kill them when they had hardly started.

Couple this with the absolute dictatorship that the Symbian division had over what they were releasing as a cellular device, and Meego/Maemo never had a chance. Up till the N900 the Maemo division was blocked from having cellular. After the N900 it was too late really. They clambered to make the N9, but it was at the breaking point and so they did the burning memo thing. The N9 was basically the blueprint for the Windows Phone models Nokia released.
That is such a good books, the ending is a little weird though. I also loved Tortilla Flats, also by John Steinbeck. In the non-fiction genre, Roadside Picnic is also really good.

How you think about or are influenced by books are also dependent on your current mode and situation. I also enjoying and have great memories from reading "The Soul of a new Machine", the stress that I felt from that book reflected my own work situation of at the time, so it some how stuck with me more that I believe it would have done at another point in time.

On the weirder side of things: As I grown older I felt like I lost the feeling of magic during Christmas time. So every year I read a stupid Christmas themed romance novel. The previous two have been "Snowed In for Christmas" and "The Christmas Bookshop". I recommend both.
As someone who doesn't have a lot of knowledge here, I appreciate your corrections and sources!
I've been immensely enjoying Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's free, fun, and I don't find myself having to skip unnecessary paragraphs ever.

https://hpmor.com/
The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue - Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163)
Show HN: I made a platform to preserve family recipes and memories
I'm Victor, and I just launched Legado Culinário, a platform that helps families create digital cookbooks with all their cherished recipes and stories. It allows anyone to register their family recipes, add photos, and share them in a simple and organized way.

This project came to life because I wanted a way to preserve the culinary traditions and memories that make family gatherings so special. With just a one-time payment, users can have lifetime access to their digital cookbook, making it a lasting legacy for generations to come.

I built this platform in just a week, inspired by the positive response to another project I launched recently. I'm focusing on making this accessible and easy to use, especially for those who value keeping family traditions alive.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this!
Trickle down economics at its finest.
Responding to a genuine question of interest with some sort of test says a lot about you. I guess your filter works both ways, because I would not want to associate with someone who does this.

Edit: Watching my points go up and down on this one has been interesting! I didn't realize people were so divided on whether or not it's okay to lie and test people as some sort of friendship filter.
I wrote, what subsidies has Intel received? That press release does not indicate Intel has received any money. Furthermore, any subsidy received in 2024 would not explain why Intel has been falling behind for the past 8 years, per your assertion that subsidies encourage waste.
Are the costs of this 13 years and counting expense tab added to the cost of electricity generated by nuclear power plants in any way?

Seems to me like it should, so that generations-long decisions are not made from overly optimistic numbers.
Its not anything like that. new ruby version has "better" short hands, like {:test => 123} to {test: 123}.

Anyway, there have been updated versions of the books and content online if people are interested.
Henry Winkler is actually just as cool as the character he played!
Why 'Feeling Right' Is Dangerous: Power of Objective Reasoning in Engineering
Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly
I'd question that it's the "best" if you read it as an adult (though it's probably still good), but I feel like Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (which I read as a child / young teen) has influenced me and my outlook on the world more than maybe any other book I've ever read since.
I used to think this was the case as well, even though I suffered through the reality: computing was always a rich person's game. Even more so in the early days. Even a C64 was an upper middle class toy. Cosplaying counter cultural (really well) doesn't change the fact that if you cold afford to build the foundation of the computer industry, you were at least very aligned with capital. Now that alignment has been exposed, highlighted and scaled to global proportions.
There is only one reason that tech hires young and that's the growth rate in the number of software engineers. The profession looks young simple because there are probably 10x as many now as there were 30 years ago, so naturally there will be a whole lot less 50 year olds than 20 year olds.
Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
Debris has a much higher surface to mass ratio than satellites due to their smaller size and irregular shape. Therefore debris deorbits much quicker than satellites do.

300km orbit decays in about a month, so the risk is already reduced significantly.

And there's not much in the 500 - 700km range now. Kuiper will be there soon, but anybody that takes out Starlink is also going to take out Kuiper.
It’s the case with many laws when strictly applied to international activities.
I liked the parts about the railway signaling, and suffered through all the multi-page anti-regulatory rants in the middle of lovemaking. Looking for recommendations for entertaining tales of signal networks. :P
Ultra processed red meats are garbage. They contain far too much saturated fats and not nearly enough nutrients. Even their protein per calorie is not particularly good.

Humans of the past ate game meat. Very low fat, and almost all unsaturated fat. Closer to an avocado than a steak.
The competivive effect is not damped by price caps. It still exists (or doesnt), in the market place.

You usually see %profit caps as a failed band-aid in markets with poor competition. For example, customers usually dont have a choice in electric company.

There is also really poor competition in health insurance for a number of reasons. Insurance is tied to employment and both options and mobility are limited. Within those options, it is verry difficult to discern differences. I certainly cant tell if a 10% cheaper plan is that way because it is more efficiently run, or if it provides 10% worse coverage.

Last, while firms may compete on total price, they can collaborate to raise the costs for the industry at large. For example, health insurance companies would want to wholesale price of drugs to rise for everyone.

Im not saying that %profit caps are worse than unfettered monopolies (although they might in some cases). My Point is that profit can have huge market distortions, and economically sound solutions would focus on addressing the fundamental issue of poor competition.
You're only saying this because we're in a hype cycle. Circa 2018, there was no problem at all with calling this AI: in fact, it was normal.
Thanks, I’m marking this to look into
No, it's the wood framing underneath the synthetic stucco that can't really be easily monitored or checked that's the problem.

I'm not familiar with the termite threat, but water damage issues with EIFS (the technical name for synthetic stucco is Exterior Insulation and Finish System) is a big and famous deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_condo_crisis

The basic issue is that you can't really check what's going inside the EIFS so if water (or termites, I suppose) does get inside it can't get out and you can't really know until it collapses because the wood framing is gone. Even if you check every year, if the probe missed the bad spot then you've no way of knowing.
Thank you for the feedback and I'm sorry you had those issues. I cannot replicate at the moment on Ubuntu 24.04 but will check back on this. I presume it is something simple going wrong with how I am getting the home directory in golang and checking if the path exists.

Your feedback on ebook-convert is very valid. I can take a look at breaking it up. (Granted I am not sure how much of a lift that would be)
> Who bags a mountain? A tortured metaphor if I’ve ever heard one. And 90% of English speakers don’t know what a Munro is. I’ve been to Scotland and never heard the word.

Peak bagging is common in that community but "to bag" something is quite common in native english or at least enough so that its in the Oxford dictionary. Hard for me to see a native speaker struggle with this, the connection can be made just from the prior paragraph.

They define what a Munro is in the same sentence. Are you here to just argue? I had to go back and add your post as a quote as I am not sure how someone can miss the literal definition within the sentence. "Munro, as the Scottish mountains above 3,000 feet are known". Is that difficult for you to read and understand?
Japan has (within reason) concerns other than the total cost of electricity: having to haul in coal, oil and LNG over an ocean contested by an increasingly hostile neighbor must be very worrying to them.
East of Eden by Steinbeck really changed my college mindset on what it means to be "good" and "evil", "right" and "wrong".

It's really hard to describe what the book's about. It's an epic, through and through, and all epics are hard to detail precisely. Inter-generational trauma? Handling one's "sin"? Making a livelihood after repeated failure, be it yourself or external factors?

Contrary to my first sentence, there is one character that I would describe as pure evil. But I feel that just supports one of the conflicts; however incredibly rare, what can an individual do when they come across a bonafide force of evil?

It is dripping with Biblical imagery, and Steinbeck's prose is rambling and tangential for some (though poetic for me), and his characters are not "realistic" and larger than life (but that's what makes them pop off the page for me and so memorable. I guess it's always a balance).

"Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
This is one of my favorites. It's one of the few where the hero manages to become the villain in the end, and does so convincingly.
So we should let the government choose who gets campaign funding? Sounds like an established politician's wet dream.
perhaps if you have a weak password, your service level or class is constrained.
It changes all the time. For fiction, I would say “Augustus” or “Stoner” (by Williams).
> different values compared to the old American companies (oil, cigarettes, defense).

To play devil's advocate a bit, I think those old industries started out just as idealistic as the tech sector. The oil companies pursued amazing feats of science and engineering to power the new industrial economy. The defense companies made remarkable technological advances to help deter Soviet aggression and win the space race. And before the link to lung cancer was discovered, tobacco was like coffee: it gave people a nice cognitive boost, as well as possibly helping them stay thin.
I'm thinking of starting a project with HTMX and islands of interactivity (probably web components). Anyone used this pattern in production?
Totally agree. While the logic of the comment wasn't bad, that's just a weird maniuplative style of social engineering.
May I hazard a guess that the website you created is at teast 10× slower than it needs to be?
I'm not. I'm surprised it's so low in CA.
Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but you need not only "strong" but "highly directed" electromagnetic interference. Each of those pins is ~0.5mm, flipping a single bit "wirelessly" is probably impossible, as your inference will cause issues in many more places than just your target.

Maybe that unlocks different and exciting hacks, maybe it just melts your machine.
Beta Technologies unveils first passenger carrying electric aircraft
I partially agree. It's not so hard to write software that keeps the borrow checker happy in early stages. But it does restrict the freedom to make terrible decisions a bit. Sometimes in that stage terrible decisions are OK.

But I do like that even in this stage, one is forced to at least make the decision to have terrible things, explicit. Like with 'unwrap()' and 'expect()' littering the code in PoCs and exploratory projects.

For me, a bigger problem in this stage is that I lack the information to make decisions on types. I have this same problem in TS and Java. It's guaranteed that I'll shape types in ways that will prove difficult, or slow me down a lot next week. I'll be spending time refactoring types when I should move on to the next feature.

I guess, but that's just my experience, that statically typed languages are just not well suited for early stage software. When we don't know the shape of the data we'll be pushing around, nor know anything about the shape of the layers, ports, modules and so on. Which is why I'll grab ruby for these kind of quick explorations often. And once the shapes emerge, rewrite it in rust :)
On Rails homepage, it says from “Hello World” to IPO. The idea is that Rails should help you maintain a lean stack by default. You can stick with Postgres for pretty much everything: caching, background jobs, search, WebSockets, you name it.

But, as your app grows, you can swap things out. Redis or Elasticsearch are solid choices if you need them. DHH mentioned that as well, at scale, everyone does things differently anyway. But you do have the option to keep it simple, by default.

For me personally, Rails 8 is great. My new project only need Postgres and that's it. I don't need Redis, multiple gems for background jobs or cache anymore. Able to avoid the chaotic JS ecosystem for frontend. Hopefully it will be easy to setup Hotwire Native too. It really streamlined things, and letting me focus on building features instead.

That said, for my production apps in existing companies, I’m sticking with what’s already working: Sidekiq, Redis, Elasticsearch. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Will probably revisit this decision again in the future. Too early to tell for now.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

Edit: On a more serious note, this book actually changed the way I think in a very concrete (and positive) way. The book spurred me to start consciously reflecting on "what about X, specifically, is surprising" and/or "what about X, specifically, is confusing". It's impossible to quantify, but the habit has definitely, definitely, boosted my ability to disentangle complex situations and make better decisions.
While I agree with your general idea my lists are quite different.

I would move Zig (innovates a lot in language and compiler design) and JMAP (IMAP is horrible and needs to be replaced) up and CMake and Bazel down (I count them the same as Meson). I would say the jury is still out on Google's tweak and on seL4.
How is transcription done?
I was just thinking about that today as I was reading through some bug reports of the podcast app I'm using (Overcast). Someone was happy that a bug got fixed that caused an issue for them, they shared a screen recording and you can see that they use what looked like 300 playlists with filters to sort their podcasts into all kinds of buckets.

The developer of the software commented: "This is the most playlists I’ve ever seen. By far."
Websites make $1M/year and were started by solopreneurs
It used to be the US government worked to secure American communications. But between these backdoors and the NSA losing control of exploits thanks to the Shadow Brokers, they do more now to undermine American security than protect it.
We're pretty much living parts of The Diamond Age right now. I feel like we're within a decade of A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer being a real book, especially with Claude and ChatGPT's multimodal aspects.
I'm firmly in the static typing camp myself, but at the same time I think it's good that there's still a language that is unabashedly dynamically typed. Looking at Python, when you take a language that was originally designed around dynamic typing and then bolt static typing on top, the result is just awkward all around, and ends up being the worst of both worlds.
I’d rather just de-orbit every StarLink satellite, stick next gen data satellites in geostationary orbits, and outlaw more any more space trash at that scale in LEO, full-stop.
Well done OP, this cactacea guy does not seem like someone you'd want to be friends with :)
The thing about Pax Americana is that the brain trust behind sustaining it decides which regimes are good and which are evil based on their utility to the United States. This is classic empire building, and it's an effective strategy, but the moralizing about it is exhausting and hollow. Nobody with three brain cells thinks that one petrostate is more moral than another because it's backed by the US. I'm glad to live in the USA and benefit immensely from living at the heart of the modern Mongol or Ottoman Empire, but I have few illusions about the cost.