skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely did not mean to imply that you did not want to improve the products.

I did assume that you are missing the resources for the many products you develop.

Its just very sad to show/recommend Kagi to people and then have them(or me) run into so many bugs, and sometimes product-breaking bugs. (such as Maps that I mentioned. because I would love to use Kagi maps, but its so broken that I just cant)

Would love to travel 10 years into the future of Kagi's roadmap.
of course. while I do appreciate the advantages it might offer for quick migration/onboarding...(how great to migrate your entire twitter history into place) to get a bunch of ppl onto the network, but it being abused to change history is a no-no. I'm all for open web/indie web/ability to move your data around but let's not pretend ppl were on Blue Sky for a decade. Sigh.
The entries in EU business registries are public for all companies, not just publicly traded companies. You can check who owns how much of what company and you can also check their yearly reports. In most countries this comes at a small fee for the registry extract, but the information is readily available, in some countries it's even free. As an example, here's the Estonian business registry extract for the company Foobar OÜ (I'm not affiliated, I just searched for foobar) [0]. This is not a publicly traded company, yet you can see who owns the company in what fraction and if you download the latest annual report you can also see how much the company is worth.

This information is legally required to be available to prevent money laundering, fraud, other financial crimes, etc.

[0] https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/12199449/Foobar-O%C3%...
>And misinformation absolutely contributed to the result

Musk straight up took X private to influence politics, something that has never been done before, and as a result, 2 million LESS people voted for Trump, and that is without Covid and the whole mail-in-ballot scare that Republicans pushed in 2020.

Misinformation exists, but its effect is to reinforce the confirmation bias that is present already. It just serves as ammunition to use in arguments against people who don't know better. Remember, post WW2, its not like every single Nazi supporter realized they were wrong.

>When I'm at the pearly gates I don't want to be someone who 'maximized his salary and didn't give a fuck'. To each their own.

Maximizing your salary and taking care of your social group is way more beneficial. This is the extension of the original concept of communities that allowed people to prosper.
Because sometimes you just need a for loop in a way that terraform's for_each/other DSL doesn't support
"last decade" or "all of history"?
Electric toothbrushes clean a lot better than hand-cranked toothbrushes
While this is probably all true -- none of it deals with culture, family, employment mobility, and social services.

I think S. Korea has a long way to go to meet up with the modern day. It can be very frustrating to see women's rights move forward globally, however glacially, and feel like you don't have those things.
Have more crypto CEOs done rug pulls or been kidnapped by strangers?

I’m pretty sure it’s the former.
different sizes. The black-10oz is still $91 at Amazon right now. Price goes upwards for other colors and other size (14oz).
Adding Vevor as a cheap brand of 12 compression fridges at about 200
There are no principles here. They are just going to do nice things to people that were/are nice to Trump and bad things to people that weren't/aren't nice to Trump.
Russia has elections too.
Under $100: Some cable management boxes for my desk. No more unsightly power strips and tangles of cables. They go great with velcro cable ties.

Under $1000: A warm water bidet. I had a cold water one for years, but on winter mornings it was...challenging. When it broke I replaced it with an electronic alternative. Uranus is no longer an ice planet.
I think the web really needs some "decluttering". The ratio of processing power by useful payload nowadays is unsustainable.

I completely agree. However, I think browsers are also to blame in some part.

On web sites that I build, I sometimes get alerts from Safari that my page is bogging down the computer and it offers to "reduce protections" to make the page perform better. But this is always on pages that are plain HTML and CSS, and don't even have animations. No Javascript. No canvas. Not even forms. And the total payload is often less than 20K.

I don't know what else I can do to make it lighter.
Bit easier to read not but the code text is still smaller and doesn't fill the phone screen; https://u.numerlor.me/Qzsq fwiw
I beg to differ. The web does not need more ad-supported browsers. Orion is built for the users and paid for by the users.

It stands against all that is wrong with the web today - advertisers and third parties tracking at every step - perhaps like Firefox used to do 15-20 years ago.

We need more of Orion today, and more than ever.
I already mentioned one instance of his failure as Secretary (a major accident that occurred shortly after helping to quash a strike that sought to address the issues that eventually lead to the accident). We are also only just this year seeing significant action taken against Boeing. Baltimore also lost a major bridge and access to a regionally-important port under his leadership. He's not good at his job. He should never have gotten it.

>You're saying we chose the corruption free candidate instead of the big bad Democrats?

I did not. You clearly did not read my posts and are only willing to engage in bad faith.
system > goals
Ask HN: Data-driven tech debt investment
Have you seen companies that use some sort of organizationally mandated data-driven approach to deciding when to invest in tech debt reduction? What worked well about that? What didn't work?

I've talked to two engineers in the last few weeks who work at companies that:

1. Use a combination of per-team/service metrics to decide when to invest in paying down tech debt. For example: incidents/pages over a trailing window, DORA metrics, engineer ratings of the difficulty of working with the service, etc.
2. Enforce paying down tech debt for a team/serviceif those metrics go above a certain defined threshold. For example, teams with a high tech debt score at Company A are no longer allowed to develop new features. At Company B, high tech debt teams automatically get a tech debt-related OKR for the next quarter instead of a feature OKR.

In all my past roles, deciding to invest in tech debt was a judgement call and led to some significant frustration or even attrition when leadership and engineers didn't agree on how bad tech debt or ops pain was. It's exciting to imagine a better alternative, and both engineers I was talking to felt like it worked well at their company. However, I can also imagine ways it might not work well: Goodhart's law etc.

So HN, have you tried this sort of approach? Did it work?
Safety razors are amazing and life changing. Even if you have something basic it's better for your skin than a cartridge razor, plus it's better for the planet (way less plastic), plus it's way less expensive! I don't know how they are still a niche item.

For anyone who wants to get started, I recommend (no affiliation):
- the henson razor for those who want something on automatic. It's less efficient (worse at cutting long hair) but it's basically impossible to cut yourself with it due to the small blade gap
- the rockwell 6s for tinkerers. It has 6 different settings for blade gap so you can choose your favorite, switch it up if you skipped shaving for a day and have longer hair, etc
That's sort of nonsense.

JavaScript is actually awesome the same way that Python and Ruby are. The fact it is loosely typed makes it great for just whipping up something quick. For my own projects, I use plain JavaScript and may or may not use types via JSDoc. I'm not saying JavaScript isn't flawed, but I am more accustomed to it.

Typescript may have supplanteed plain JavaScript for production JavaScript applications. That doesn't mean there is no point in plain JavaScript ever. For many things I write, I have little interest in the strictness of even the loosest Typescript settings.

In terms of Typescript syntax, I don't think I would use it outside of my job at this point. Types are a good idea, but I have found JDDoc to be good enough in most cases.
If HN became legally responsible for everything posted on its site, there would be no more HN.

Copy + paste across the internet. The internet would only be legally usable for corporate entities.
> that add zero value to the intended purpose

Well...to your intended purpose. They're often better aligned with the purpose of keeping the business running.
You can even run it yourself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System
> You argued that war is the same hell as it was 80 years ago and it can't be changed by making war different

Where? I certainly did not. War is hell and always has been, but it's obviously a different hell than it was in earlier eras.

Going back on piste: if AI has military applications, it will be developed and use for them.

> If you say that all hells are made equal, I won't agree

Not how a discussion works.

> question is why. Maybe it's because something changed

Yes. Nukes and precision stand-off weapons.
You realize that federal governments, Democrat or otherwise, have little to do with the price of gas, right?

(Thus the low comprehension level of many voters.)

I have no problem with people voting GOP, and am happy to debate Democrat vs Republican policies and economic impact, etc. Republicans certainly do some things better than Democrats. But this wasn't about policy. If Americans have so little values, and are so gullible, that they are willing to sell out to a man who is literally a despicable self-serving despot (the only reason he's not as bad as Putin or Xi is because he's restrained by the Constitutional structure), for a promise of cheap gas that Trump can't even fulfill (it may happen, but it won't be because of Trump, just like the price of gas going up in 2022 had nothing to do with Biden), well, that's a very sad statement about a large segment of the American people.
Jesse recruited me to run early vote and caucus locations in 2020. He was bright and a hard worker. It was my second time volunteering for a campaign, and the chaos and workload he describes are accurate. Campaigns are organized chaos—like setting up a large event full of unknowns, which makes things more reactionary than I’d expected.

Each cycle, most of the field organizers are young, passionate, and inexperienced; some inevitably wash out. Many see it as a rite of passage to a political career and tolerate the frenzy. Those looking to advance politically often aim for a role with more responsibility in the next cycle.

This was the state party in a relatively small state, which mostly shuts down between elections. Twice, I saw them scale up to an impressively large organization, rally an army of volunteers, and then dissolve it all after the campaign—everyone exhausted but with a real sense of accomplishment. Campaign work seems less like a job and more like a military campaign. Or a startup.
SpaceX can afford that by their _very_ resilient design and accepting, even anticipating failure.
Rails 8.0 Released
People don’t “think” things cost more, things actually cost more.

I don’t think they care why it happened, they care about it being fixed.
Sorry, I was too indirect.

My point was, both parties supposedly agreed on the TikTok ban. Yet the candidate for one of them suddenly did a 180 after it passed, and will in all likelihood prevent it from having any effect.

So I wouldn't really assume they have similar desires for protections (or lack thereof) for social media companies just because similar words come out of their mouths at some point in time.
I think there are some concerns around PFAS, for example:
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/7/691

Not really across the research but my suspicion would be that if there are issues associated with non-stick, it’s likely to be PFAS driven.

There was a good discussion about the evidence on PFAS that I watched a while back, but I cannot find it for the life of me, sorry.
Not when half of the are hooked, no. See my other comments.
Why wouldn't you do this? If you know somebody's got a lot of bitcoin, you know everything is going to go perfectly.

You could do a kidnapping like this in a couple hours and make your dinner date. If the victim doesn't wise up and get bodyguards or get out of bitcoin, you could kidnap them two or three times.
Problematic Swift Concurrency Patterns
More like optimization. Signal processing and control theory are basically the same maths with different applications, optimization is a bit different but has some overlap (especially with, e.g. optimal control techniques).
Yeah, you're right about the liability part. But regardless, as a parent of teenagers, being able to justify an unpopular decision with "it's the law" instead of "research shows it's potentially bad for you in the medium to long term" is extremely valuable.
'fixed' or being worked on..... Still not cool and just an example of the 'building in public' approach that rubs me the wrong way.
>The former makes people much much much closer and the bonds much stronger. Anyone who’s lived in such an environment can attest to this.

I lived in this kind of kind of setup in school. And with all respect, no. Not even close.

My lived experience was that of someone that was the target of said groups to bond over bullying. The verbal abuse I could take. The spitting on my face, the punches to my gut that left me bruised for days on end, fine. No permanent damage.

But I had my throat strangled more times then I want to remember; hands, wires, cords, rope cutting the air off from my lungs and seeing the gray take over my vision. Blacking out over and over again as they derived whatever joy that they took in having my body slump still between their fingers.

And that was every moment I of my existence. No escape. No safety. No relief. I just had to endure and bear it, because what other choice was there? Who was going to help? Who'd believe the word of the wierdo over that of the model students? And they for their part, insist that that what they did was nothing wrong. I didn't die or was maimed, ergo, no foul.

Maybe what you describe is great if you're part of the in group, and if so, great! Go and live in these arrangements then. But what you describe is a living hell for the people that become the target of torment for those groups where no where to run.
The Clipper was planned to be launched on the SLS, but due to delays in the SLS program and its massive cost ($2+ billion per launch), it was decided to use the Falcon Heavy to launch it even though the Falcon Heavy is a bit smaller and it will take 5 years instead of 3 to get to Jupiter.
Hi Jeremy from fast.ai / Answer.AI here. This is our first course in a couple of years, and it's quite a departure from anything we've done before.

Let me know if you have any questions about it.
All these articles proposing "intuition" as secret magic dust is quite funny. This is culturally amplified by movies and media ("May the force be with you", "follow your feelings").

In reality, intuition is simply a pattern recognition mechanism that sometimes work. Entire science is basically testimony of how our intuition lead us astray and why we need to be disciplined about looking at data, evidence and crafting experiments. Our intuition has always said Earth is flat, Sun rotates around us, time is constant... Virtually every single thing in science is how our intuition (aka the primitive pattern recognition) was so magnificently wrong.
> It sounds more like being involved in crypto than being publicly wealthy is a security concern. Which is unsurprising.

In Munich we have a serious problem with watch-robbers snatching people's expensive watches while driving on a motorcycle. Utterly insane but also utterly profitable if you have channels where to sell stolen watches.
You thought you spent thousands of hours, but then your clock is broken so maybe not!
> this is exactly what happened in the lead-up to the second world war. Britain, France, and America did the "speak words and send arms" thing to stop Germany

>> Who would've attacked the USSR then?

Not what they said.
https://aider.chat/
The only problem I've ever run into with VLC was on their Android app they hid the audio sync setting for basically no reason. Other than that, I've never had a problem with it. Maybe i just haven't been exposed to the magic of perfect media players but VLC is vastly more feature rich than the defaults, "just works", and i don't think it looks bad at all!

In today's modern world of "UI Overhauls" (read: fucking everything up and taking away every useful power you had in the name of 'usability') it's basically god tier. The damn thing is stable, that's literally all i need. I'll learn the interface, just for the love of God don't change it every time i get used to it!
Could I get 1% as much for snugchat.com? Tempting, but I think I'd still rather build it out; especially now.
It is and it isn't, in my experience teaching ESL. The basics are incredibly easier, as students receive the benefit of cognates and (at least some) similar constructs. However, there's an interesting stage, right around the beginning of intermediate where students tend to become judgemental of the target language: there's a lot of frustrated "well, why doesn't English do it this way?" (It doesn't help at all that English is such a bastardized and inconsistent tongue that their native language's way of doing [whatever] often is more logical / concise / beautiful!) Some students get stuck there and never progress.

I recall very few, if any, Asian-language speakers hitting that particular speedbump. It's like they're prepared for English to be so different from the start that they've already made a psychological shift to English-mode that other learners may struggle to negotiate.
The same argument could be made for physical cash
The question wasn't entirely serious, no. My point is: afaik the M processors aren't actually available on the market, they only come as one component of a much more expensive product.

I don't mean to take away from how impressive they are.
Eight years isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things.

The stereotypical band-of-brothers stuff only sets in when your clique has been enlisted long enough to see combat, lose people, and retire into civilian life together. Trauma bonding. That's 20-25 years of service IIRC, longer than most marriages. They have enough trust to go in on business or investments together. After that long it's a relationship of codependency.

Maybe people's ability to bond is just fucked these days, but two tours of duty has never really been enough to forge those sorts of bonds. Your experience sounds about right.
Piracy is the one true frontier for games preservation. If it's not on Steam or GOG, it may be the only feasible way to experience a game.

I believe "abandonware" is the correct term
By not having a puzzle-less/unsolvable captcha, or what do you mean?
Section 230 doesn't indemnify anything.

It recognizes that a platform is just an intermediary, not the originator.

Similar provisions are in place in most of the civilized world.
TS is fake in the sense that so many developers believe it to be more powerful than it actually is. If you use `any` at any point then you have virtually no guarantees. It also only helps partially when you don't validate data during runtime. Unfortunately, I've seen many developers write code as if no checks are needed during runtime because of Typescript, yet their application receives data structures from the outside.
GASP, exercise is good!? No way. The hard part is finding time and having the motivation. Particularly the latter. There's constantly about 49 other things that feel like they need doing more than purposely exercising and wearing myself out even more than I'm already worn out.
My honest opinion is that the prevalence of licenses like GPLv3 and AGPLv3 end up indirectly leading to people recreating the wheel, rather than using the wheel that exists already.
So dictatorship.
This would mean that whoever controls power, controls how the law is applied.

Not what I call sustainable governance.
When are we getting Deno 2 support?
Apparently the tax returns in Norway for everyone are public information. I'm surprised this hasn't caused enough problems that we would hear about it in news articles.
guys new startup idea
…and kukeliku in Swedish, neighbour
Of pre-LLM major online translators, Bing is the only one I've noticed that has a dropdown that offers standard/casual/formal, and produces multiple outputs if it detects masculine/feminine differences.

For LLM-based translators, it usually works if you add relevant details in parentheses.
Completely agree. We migrated our entire video library from Azure to Bunny. We went from paying over $2,500 in egress every month to about $200. It’s unreal how much Bunny has saved us.
Sounds pretty interesting, I was thinking that would be the way to work past limited context window sizes automatically.

> Codebuff has limited free usage, but if you like it you can pay $99/mo to get more credits...

> One user racked up a $500 bill...

Those two statements are kind of confusing together. Past the free tier, what does $99/month get you? It sounds like there's some sort of credit, but that's not discussed at all here. How much did this customer do to get to that kind of bill? I get that they built a flutter app, but did it take a hour to run up a $500 bill? 6 hours? a whole weekend? Is there a way to set a limit?

The ability to rack up an unreasonable bill by accident, even just conceptually, is a non-starter for many. This is interactive so it's not as bad as accidentally leaving a GPU EC2 instance on overnight, but I'll note that Aider shows per query and session costs.
I'm not against non-stick pans for their chemical composition. But I find stainless steel pans much easier to clean because you don't need to be gentle with them. You can take a steel wool to stainless steel pans just fine.

My stainless steel pans also last much longer than my non-stick pans. The non-stick coating seems to deteriorate within only a few years.
Thanks, John. QNX has always been one of my favourite OSs (I still have my Blackberry Q10) since I learned C on it in the mid 1980’s. A full-featured multi-tasking OS running from a 360K floppy on a PC/XT is not something easily forgotten.

I’m glad the company is making this investment again.
Whether you need it probably depends on your climate and your house.

Water in pipes inside a house's "thermal envelope" is presumably around 72 deg. F. I wash my hands with "cold water" without wincing. Tap water strikes me as tepid if I drink it without ice.

If your pipes run through an outside wall in Canada, it might be a different story.

If you do need warmer water, and the bidet heats it, you probably just need an electrician to fish a wire and add a receptacle. That's not outrageously complex, usually, but I tend toward calling a professional for anything behind the walls.
What are applications that are well fitted to edge computing?

I spent 2 evenings brainstorming this, but haven’t come up with anything.