skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sour grapes comments are so goofy, and honestly a little racist. The millions of Chinese engineers working out in China are extremely talented, and to downplay their achievements like this and to chalk them all up as thieves is ridiculous. They have the skills, the man power, and the vision, and they’re eating the West’s lunch regardless of your feelings on how fair it is.
You should take a look at Outline (mentioned in the title). https://www.getoutline.com/
Outline is open source.
Absolutely. There is no phone-home of any kind.
DiceDB is an in-memory, multi-threaded key-value DBMS that supports the Redis protocol.

It’s written in Go.
I wish I knew. If I had to venture a guess, it would be to get a job with a company that doesn't indulge in this hubris.

I think enough companies are being stung by their hastily made AI decisions that the option of losing billions to save millions again isn't that appealing. That requires grown-ups to be involved in making decisions, though.
This one line was like 90% of the original implementation of Writely (the startup that became Google Docs; source: I was one of the founders).

The other 90% was all the backend code we had to write to properly synchronize edits across different browsers, each with their own bizarre suite of bugs in their contenteditable implementations :-)
What do/did you use to convert pdf to html?
Anecdotally, I work on backend/cloud and my senior frontend engineers do earn not as much as I do, but close… and their environments are always less stressful (major outages are not caused by frontends usually and when so, reverting to the last stable commit is enough since frontends are stateless; their toolset is narrower than mine, so yeah they need to jump between frontend frameworks but that’s fine… me in the meantime need to jump between backend frameworks, dbs, k8s, distributed system knowledge, unix tooling, OS/TCP/IP, etc)
Yep, should work!
Funniest joke ever in YN
Yeah, that would be cool. Also, are you an actual aerospace engineer? That's awesome!
The evidence points that way.

Amazon built the most incredible open world pvp MMO, entirely player driven, dynamic, sandbox game someone could hope for. Entire player built cities, territories that could be held by virtue of players actually guarding it, massive guilds, server politics, or you could just ignore it all and do your own thing and explore a huge beautiful realm.

It was called New World (alpha test). Then because it was too novel and perhaps not fun for people who can’t handle that type of game, they destroyed what would have been an incredible hit and rebuilt it from scratch to be a mediocre half-baked clone of every other PVE mmo without realizing you can never make a PVE mmo player happy without endgame loops and a constant stream of new dopamine drips.

And when it failed because they were unwilling to go ahead with something a suit thought was too risky, they gave up.
I find that Claude 3.5 does a very admirable job. I only rarely see incorrect code and more frequently see recommendations for older libraries or obsolete versions of real libraries as compared to hallucinated libraries.

I've been playing with Claude 3.7 thinking and, perhaps unsurprisingly, I find it overthinks the problem or tries to do far more than I really want it to for any prompt. I expect that I'm just using the wrong tool, and probably should just use Claude 3.7.

Of course in all of this, I'm using the LLM in a "junior" capacity and I'm not giving it giant multi-faceted problems to solve: I'm giving it relatively narrow problems to solve at any one time and am guiding it through that process.
Isnt autism and other traits from neanderthal related genes? When I grew up I was told neanderthals died out because they werent capable of making big tribes and adapting themselves.

So its just guess after guess. Now it seems non subsaharan people have some neanderthal dna, they were more capable than we thought and some theories say they could see in the dark
No. I had the exact same problem.

Feels arrogant. "Of course you already know what this is, how could you not?"
I'll have to check that out! I linked Children of Time in this thread which also does this well using this species
And so what would the point be of anyone actually posting on the internet if no one actually visits the sites because large corps have essentially stolen and monetized the whole thing.

And I'm sure they have or will have the ability to influence the responses so you only see what they want you to see.
Do the benchmarks reflect real-world usability? My feeling is that the benchmark result numbers stop working above 75%.

In a real problem you may need to get 100 things right in a chain which means a 99% chance of getting each single one correct results in only 37% change of getting the correct end result. But creating a diverse test that can correctly identify 99% correct results in complex domains sounds very hard since the answers are often nuanced in details where correctness is hard to define and determine. From working in complex domains as a human, it often is not very clear if something is right or wrong or in a somewhat undefined and underexplored grey area. Yet we have to operate in those areas and then over many iterations converge on a result that works.

Not sure how such complex domains should be benchmarked and how we objectively would compare the results.
So, I spent some days mulling over my answer. For many years I've considered you to be one of my friends on HN and it has been a pretty sad affair to see you slide further and further down in your values and ethics. That's why I did not want to just flip you off with a snide remark but to try to explain to you why I think you are very much in the wrong here and about many things in general. You claim you are 'a smart person' but your intelligence has been hijacked to work against you.

It seems that you think that because you are a 'legal immigrant' or descendant of such that you are somehow better or more proper than an illegal immigrant. This is funny because the people you vote for only see that distinction as a temporary item on their checklist. That's how they got you to vote them into power. Now that they are in power and once they are done with the items higher on their to do list (and which they need in order to further consolidate their power) they are going to move down the list. And one of those items includes you: people of color in general, and with 'of color' I mean even slightly non-white. This includes you, your parents and your children. Especially educated people of color who could conceivably put up a solid defense. And their extended family is on that same list because they too do not pass the purity test.

Sooner or later they will make their move. And by then of course you are welcome to cling to your belief that the law will protect you. But these people don't actually care all that much about the law. So what has happened here is that you have become in part radicalized, your strong feelings about one particular subject has caused you to lose sight of the long term strategic goals that the people that you vote for have made perfectly clear. And effectively you've helped them to act against you and the group that you should stand in defense for: immigrants, legal or otherwise.

Because the fact that you went the legal way contains a massive assumption: that the legal way is the reasonable way. It isn't necessarily so and enshrined in the US values is the dream of living a happy life. That is something far more universal than the reality as drawn by lines on a map and of course people are going to seek that even if they are forbidden to do so by a technicality of law.

The USA is built on immigrants. Immigrants that pull the ladder up after they have arrived - legal or otherwise - are part of the problem, not the solution because they define themselves as the in-group and all of those who would like to follow in their footsteps as the out-group. This on account of assimilation (who cares, that's the next generation's problem) or some other bogeyman.

And finally, your 'American participation democracy' is under siege, but not from immigrants (unless we count Elon Musk as one of those). Wake up and stop your slide into the abyss before it is too late, so that there are still people left to defend you when the knock on the door comes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
Still use it in the terminal when debugging cloud applications. KUTGW!
RTOs generally have nothing to do with any of the things they say. They are just layoffs.

You can't argue with them about the effectiveness of remote work. They aren't trying to optimize work. They are trying to fire people.

Working from home doesn't fire people, being more productive and happy doesn't fire people. Your mental well being doesn't have any bearing on how many people they need to fire.
So, what's your favourite text-only browser?
You might be surprised to learn that VS Code renders its viewport with HTML and it has no issues displaying this file.
This isnt really accurate. If you want to live in an upper middle class neighborhood, and save money, with kids, 200k is peanuts. Sorry, it is. Upper middle class needs both parents working at 200k, which itself is really a middle class existence.
Why I Stick To 1970s Plug-and-Play Consoles: The Radica Golden Tee
In a similar vein, lots of software is Mac-only, but omits to say this anywehere. You just get to the downloads page and see that there are only mac packages.

As if nobody ever uses anything else.
The next logical step is that they realise it's economically advantageous to hold the value they receive in bitcoin rather than converting it back into fiat.
Looks like a Redis clone. The benchmarks compare it to Redis.

Description from GitHub:

> DiceDB is an open-source, fast, reactive, in-memory database optimized for modern hardware. Commonly used as a cache, it offers a familiar interface while enabling real-time data updates through query subscriptions. It delivers higher throughput and lower median latencies, making it ideal for modern workloads.
Ah, RedDot - that’s a throwback if I ever heard one!
Milonga Etiquettes (2013)
I literally earn 4x more from my US clients than from my EU clients, living in EU. Economics is much too complex to be reduced down to "companies are paying too little". It all comes down to inflation and what influences inflation, like international trade policy, policies on things like farming and domestic trade, but also policies that trade financial wellbeing for attempting to prevent climate change.

Mass-slaughter of chickens due to an unjustified fear of bird flu is one of very many small examples that lead to higher living costs.
Far from authoritarian, dealing with business models that seem fine on an individual level but that are detrimental to society as a whole is precisely the type of problem that governments are supposed to solve.
It is not. The IMF does not demand collateral for the loans that they then hand over to foreign governments. China does.

https://theconversation.com/mombasa-port-how-kenyas-auditor-...
Good riddance. I for one look forward to real technology becoming valued again, not digital rent seeking.

Let’s build something useful and amazing that elevates the human experience, rather than sucking the last drop of dopamine out of consumers.
The value of the assets is free market. And obviously a few thousand dollars worth of crap, not millions. I know reputable archival organizations who routinely throw this stuff out as it's not even worth typing in a list of what it is.

However the penalty for re-publishing it without permission is fixed by statute. And, by legal definition, is exactly $621 million. That game played out in 1976 with the Copyright Act and the rules haven't changed. There were statutory damages in previous versions back to 1783, specified in Pounds because the dollar hadn't been invented yet.

I don't agree with much of that. But you can't just start putting stuff on the web without permission, either. You certainly can't put 400,000+ things on the web without permission then get surprised when a few people complain.

Why they didn't remove those few items and instead decided to pick a fight that puts everything else on the site -- including millions of items contributed by others as part of preservation activity -- shows poor judgement.

And it's billions of items if you want to consider the web page archive. But that thing is broken as hell due to technology mismanagement and padded stats so who knows what's really there.
> The missing spaces aren't obvious in a graphical browser due to the CSS styling hiding the issue, but in a text-based one, the issue becomes apparent.

Why would this be considered "an issue" or "a problem in your HTML"? TUI browsers are really a fun novelty and not much more, I'd be shocked if even the largest sites in the world receive more than 1000 visits per day from lynx or eww or any other combined. Unless you have a compelling reason to think that your site will be used by terminal browser fans, there is no reason whatsoever to care about how your HTML renders without CSS. Even screen readers would not have problems properly reading links not separated by spaces correctly.
Good question. This was back in 2009 so I can't quite remember for sure anymore. The National Geographic October 2009 issue is the original source for this, but I couldn't find a copy online.

The photographer Michael Nichols posted this article about his experience: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/burden-of-dreams-in-the-r_b_7...

Steve Sillett is the scientist who discovered and measured Hyperion, so I BELIEVE that is the same tree Michael is talking about finally getting permission to photograph. Sorry, I don't know for 100% sure.
It's similar to how China dominated manufacturing in prior decades.

They have massive amounts of low cost labor and, unfortunately, the US has pretty large walls up preventing mass in-migration of white collar workers.

H1B is capped and also more of a lottery than a points based system.

If the US allowed mass white collar immigration, wages would decline materially which would make our industries more competitive for the next generation of software.

Right now the system is geared around protectionism (intended or not) and wage inflation for US local workers.

The current market wages in software are far far above what a global equilibrium would be. Though myself and I'm sure most others here have benefited from it in the short term.

To be clear, established companies with an existing market are fine for now and can do well with high wages.

But the next generation of companies that are chasing smaller markets and margins, ones that require more elbow grease to out-compete are underserved.

e.g. the entire DeepSeek team was paid less than a few Meta engineers (with 7 figure comp each)

"The firm offers 14-month pay for various positions and the highest offer is for deep learning researchers for artificial general intelligence (AGI), with a monthly salary between 80,000 yuan ($10,983) and 110,000 yuan, which could mean an annual income of up to 1.54 million yuan, the report said."
I really like the idea of shifting the business model for office software. Instead of the current model—where companies develop a tool, lock users into their ecosystem, and profit by bundling software with hosting and storage—we could move to a model where different providers compete to offer the best deployment solutions. This would foster competition based on factors like pricing, encryption, customer support, server location, and integration flexibility, rather than simply forcing users into long-term subscriptions.

That’s why I’m glad to see governments supporting Open Source alternatives to proprietary office software. Paying recurring subscription fees for low-maintenance tools like MS Office feels out of touch—especially when Microsoft once offered a one-time purchase model before shifting to SaaS to maximize profits. This change has made it difficult for individuals and businesses to retain long-term ownership of their tools without being tied to costly and recurring fees. The same trend has played out across the software industry, from design tools like Adobe Creative Cloud (which replaced one-time purchases with a mandatory subscription model) to communication platforms like Slack and Zoom, which lock companies into ongoing costs while limiting interoperability with other solutions.
And we'll have middleware that detects and splices out commercials based on frame fingerprints not long after. People hate ads.

It'll definitely trouble the non-technical set though.
Don't be silly, if the entire US stock market really was wagered on this technology then you'd better start learning Mandarin.
It feels like notetaking/wiki software have gotten a resurgence in the last few years. Not that it was ever not a thing, but like a new generation of people realized wanted to build new tools for it.

Personally, I think the variety of tools is very interesting, and while I like Obsidian and plain markdown file, I do love to see different options in the space with hosted options and different capabilities.

Notion feels like it's got this serious range from individuals up to teams at large enterprises. It's incredibly flexible and configurable and I have to assume that's a big part of it, but it was so interesting to watch it eat away at other things like Confluence over the years. My perspective is probably skewed (and I know Confluence and other are probably still massive and dominant), but I'm surprised such a simple concept is getting so much more software. Or actually, that's probably why it's a space with so much software.
We tried what exactly? I think the mideval church, for all its well known bads, did a great job at encouraging charity for the less fortuned. Americans tend to be some of the most charitably giving on the planet as well.

The reposte I receive when suggesting that society utilize charity as a vessel for ensuring the poor get what they need instead of governmental violence is always: but someone might starve. Why is it preferable to steal under threat of imprisonment/death rather than let society funnel alms to where it is most needed, where most is dictated by those that actually give?
Nexus predates Lynx.
They've tested that their plasma injectors work well when combined with their actual test chamber.

They haven't attempted compressing the plasma in the test chamber yet (their press releases indicate that they've tested the mechanical compression earlier).

The machine under test is a prototype. Instead of a liquid lithium liner being compressed by pistons, they're using a solid lithium liner that's being compressed magnetically (z-pinch basically I think). This means that this prototype has basically no power generation potential.

What this prototype does derisk is I guess.. exactly the plasma injection process, and probably a bunch of aspects of their compression/fusion modelling. If this round of prototyping goes well (up to and including fusion and fusion breakeven), then they have to figure out their entire liquid lithium recirculation and compression systems, and then their energy capture systems.

I understand that the plasma injection process is non-trivial. They're basically trying to inject plasma smoke rings. Except these are smoke rings that magnetically self interact with themselves.
I'd argue it was a reaction to "rich Corinthian leather", yellow-lined notepads and green baize, which only appeared in Lion and Mountain Lion. The more subtle use of skeuomorphic elements (aqua buttons, brushed aluminum, etc.) was collateral damage.
Outline has LaTeX fwiw, and is BSL licensed – so you can host it yourself without issue.

https://github.com/outline/outline
Labour doesn't make money until the labour is already provided, so how much money labour can produce is an unknown until hindsight is available. An established company with a stable business can make some pretty reasonable forecasts, but when it comes to startups and other new business ventures one is ultimately straight up guessing.

Demand being a function of how much investment money is available is going to be closer to reality, although that is not the whole story either.
The superconducting magnets, lasers, etc. mentioned are as used in tokamak (doughnut shaped) reactors that most labs use. This is a completely different design, that seems intended to be quicker/cheaper/easier to roll out if they can get it working; they've achieved some progress in that regard, but still not fusion even, just a significant step towards it. (Fusion has been achieved in tokamaks, just not for very long and not net energy producing.)
The texture in the title bars was definitely there as a visual cue, as much as to alert the user to the fact that the window beneath it was active. The title bars on inactive windows were unfilled.
When using AI to generate code, official documentation remains essential
While AI-generated code provides a convenient starting point, complete reliance on AI output still carries significant risks today. Particularly when learning a new field, it's better to start with official documentation. Once you have a basic understanding, engaging with AI can lead to better results and improved efficiency.

Based on my experience with challenges like [i18n SEO](https://chrisding.xyz/posts/nuxt-i18n-seo-guide) and [custom 404 pages](https://chrisding.xyz/posts/how-to-customize-the-404-page-in...) in an unfamiliar framework, I attempted to use various AI tools for help. However, their responses were consistently inadequate. In contrast, official documentation and traditional search engines proved much more valuable.

In summary, while AI is a powerful tool, over-dependence on it may actually hinder our productivity. While leveraging AI's capabilities, we shouldn't overlook other valuable resources.

Furthermore, even in areas where you have expertise, it's crucial not to skip fundamental checks and reviews.
That's the next step after algorithmic content feeds - algorithmic/generated comment sections. Imagine seeing an entirely different conversation happening just to get you to buy a product. A product like Coca-Cola.

Imagine scrolling through a comment section that feels tailor-made to your tastes, seamlessly guiding you to an ice-cold Coca-Cola. You see people reminiscing about their best summer memories—each one featuring a Coke in hand. Others are debating the superior refreshment of Coke over other drinks, complete with "real" testimonials and nostalgic stories.

And just when you're feeling thirsty, a perfectly timed comment appears: "Nothing beats the crisp, refreshing taste of an ice-cold Coke on a hot day."

Algorithmic engagement isn’t just the future—it’s already here, and it’s making sure the next thing you crave is Coca-Cola. Open Happiness.
I'm not an actual engineer, but I do write actual UK Space Agency and ESA bids for a living. UK Space Agency would be kinder on the marking :)
Zoho (email), TickTick (tasks)
Children of time is such a great work of fiction. It was strange for me to root for spiders over humans
> if the government launched a messaging app competitive with WhatsApp and it drew users away from WhatsApp and it had better encryption ... Would that actually be better for the economy of this country? Something seems off about it to me.

I'm curious to know why that seems off. If you're a "free market" proponent, you usually are because you want people to have access to "the best", as that's what competition is supposed to bring out.

And if a government manages to come up with a better Whatsapp (whatever that means), and users starts to change, then clearly the alternative is better, as proven by users moving over, so then even someone who wants free markets would believe that this is a good outcome, if I understand things correctly.

But instead it sounds crazy to you, it seems. It would be interesting to hear more about why you feel this is crazy. To me it sounds like a good idea for users, which I guess is what I care more about.
Heading formats can be well represented on an VT320. HTML didn't have color text at the start.