skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mindnonde lets you build a mindmap and export as markdown so a reversal I guess
I totally agree that for some people, this could be a terrible command to have around. However, I know that it has been working for me for about 8+ years or so. I almost always run in in my ~/Downloads folder on files that I don't really care about. I download a lot of academic papers and books, and this just saves me a lot of time to put files in the format I like: author--paper-title.pdf. And that's part of the reason why I make all of the dashes the same, so if I'm opening something by an author, I can easily autocomplete and not have to remember how to make other sorts of dashes on the command line.
I always move to the left in the left lane and to the right in the middle and right lanes when stopping or slowing down a lot on the highway to ensure that bikes have some place to go. Usually the car behind me gets it and then you can see a whole seam opening up. This also helps in case emergency vehicles need to pass.
> Hell even Rome -> Milan is cheaper to fly.

This one is unlike the others because at 3 hours it's faster and more convenient than the plane city centre to city centre. Building that high speed line helped put Italy's national carrier out of business:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-high-speed-trai...
But it would be amazing to have ar+brain interface. I can program from anywhere with just my glasses.
Which is not likely to happen any time soon. Just look at the palava associated with the US debt ceiling. Fed tapering and interest rate rises will either result in a US government default (which won't be allowed to happen) or more money printing (which will). Either way, we are heading for hyperinflation.
Yep, even if someone bombed downtown (which they won't, people don't bomb cities) nothing would happen to me. Meh.

Nukes are pretty boring.

It's like volcano lava, as a kid you think it's sooooo hot it's god like. But again meh, when you grow up you get a sense of proportion. Volcano lava is not that hot and is way less scary than a forest or house fire or termites.

Now if they attacked supply chains, that would be scary. Or if Covid mutates and kills 10% of all the population, again scary.
Based on that reasoning, is rent control also unfair?
Ha. I hadn't even thought about this. In several months of writing Rust I have never once reached for a debugger, but you're right, the debuggers, at least the ones I have, don't understand how to evaluate Traits.

Maybe some day I'll write a Rust program that has a bug worth using a debugger on and I'll remember this.
Regardless of how you interpret it, they're providing less information
That feels intentionally misleading though. If I ask you about the severely mentally unwell, and you refer to a guy with heavy depression while there's observable examples of people in literal states of lunacy, you may be technically correct, but obviously you will be misunderstood.

These aren't the "severely mentally ill" that the comment intended imo.
The telematics are on a layer above J1939. If you think of J1939 like HTTP/REST (and standard response formatting), then the telematics would be a client on the vehicle. You could find the telematics control unit and unplug it, I suppose. Many fleet owners buy vehicles without default optioned telematics and pick their own. I don't think the argument is the invasion of privacy with telematics, but rather, that mechanic shops would like to access the vehicle data for diagnostics, which they can do if it is according to a standard.
Justin Guitar
I could submit a PR to 5 tools a week on average. I actually have the time and resources to do it once a year.

Last week I opened a ticket for a Firefox bug. Following up on the bug took me 2 hours in total.

FOSS is not free, you pay it with your time. And as with everything you pay for, we all have a budget.
This is targeted at the HN echo chamber, though. A Nintendo Switch costs less and plays AAA games. This is an STM32 with a black-and-white low rez screen and a hand crank. You could build one yourself for $50. (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3160 but that has a color screen.) Ordinary people that want to play video games are not going to buy this.

I know this verbatim sounds like "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." or "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem", both famously wrong assessments of hit products. But in this case, it's different -- the masses already have video games. If you want to make a 320x200 black-and-white game, fire up your editor, open up an OpenGL canvas at that resolution, and start coding. You can have your game available to billions of users tomorrow morning.

They could easily say "we switched from the STM32F4 series to RP2040s because there is actual availability right now" and not alienate a single potential customer.
Good luck even getting access to cmd.exe at a lot of places.

We have a phrase where I work: “Security: we put the ‘no’ in ‘innovation’!”
For my use cases, Lightsail containers are far over-priced when compared to the smallest virtual server (which can run multiple small containers). $3.5/month for 1vCPU virtual server or $7 per container for 0.5 vCPU.

There is certainly value in the service offered, but 4x/vCPU worth? That I am not sure of.
Is virtualization enabled in your BIOS? I don't know if that's the problem but I remember having comparable low-information results when trying WSL the first time.
I think you’re thinking higher level than the other side of this conversation thread? Maybe a better way to describe it is that you couldn’t build something like Retool (which is super cool, I like it) without a lot of prior formative design around CRUD and repeatable consistent model handling even across very different data stores and dealing with double-sent commits and the like.

No-code approaches need to be prescriptive about how they deal with systems and it takes a long time to get to the point where we know how to do that in a way that won’t infuriate people.
is this one of those faux-AI mechanical turk services? as in: 'getting underpaid workers in the global south to transcribe your stuff while making it look like a magical algorithm'?
> Microsoft stopped supporting IE 11 before Windows 10 was even released

It's supported until next June on all Windows 10 channels.[1] Indefinitely on LTSC and older Windows. It was indefinitely on all Windows 10 channels until 6 months ago. And your guess doesn't explain why Microsoft just blocked 3rd party browsers from handling the microsoft-edge protocol.

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/i...
Very detailed and professionally done course from the very basics and up. Over a thousand of videos. I'm using it and I'm very impressed.

AND: This stuff is free as in free beer!
"Ways to run containers" is as generic a problem statement as "ways to run servers" or "ways to run code". Of course they offer many different solutions for it, considering there are a hundred different use cases as well. Going through the list, I don't really see any duplication and very little overlap in functionality. For example Lambda, EC2 and EKS aren't similar in any way whatsoever.
This might not be too bad assuming each of the ~5000 faculty members has a personal administrative assistant.

Assuming each student has a personal butler and cook, adding 1500 staff for 600 students would actually be fewer than expected.
There’s been some talk of repurposing the A variants to work on UTF-8
Bare aluminum would oxidize in a very short time to something dull. It would still reflect light but not quite as good.

Aluminized Mylar would definitely work, but that's not bare aluminum but aluminum with a shiny layer over it to keep it clean.

Very useful stuff, I built huge solar concentrators with it. 1000 suns on an area the size of a poststamp. You can do some pretty crazy stuff with that kind of energy density.
Many Facebook media processing services reach capacity every week. Video uploads, live ingestion, etc are a mess during peak times.
I use the "nhoizey.gremlins" VSC extension which would cover these.
Request for advice: I don't know Art Bell, though the name seems like one I have heard previously. Would you advise me to just start listening, or would you advise me to use a search engine first? As a guide to your advice, were it Andy Kaufman or Henry Fielding, the advice I'd want would be "just start watching" or "just start reading"; but if it were Robin Hanson, the advice I'd want would be "read this report about Hanson at the academic philanthropy meeting first."
Disappointing but happy they finally issued an update on the situation detailing how they’re prioritizing QA over on-time delivery. I’ve been checking religiously for signs of a shipment.
In the old fields, in a lot of cases, inventions also outlive their patents in their usefulness (which is how it's supposed to work). In software, a lot of the time, by the time the patent expires, something better will have been thought up.
I still don’t understand how they plan to solve that problem in majority of the world. I only have public parking around, and even refueling at the gas station in the neighborhood can take 15 minutes due to queues, at least it lasts me for 1000km.

There is a charging network, which at the moment works fine, but imagine if everyone had EVs. Charging stations would need to have 50-100 spots.
Alex Tamkin on Self-Supervised Learning and Large Language Models
Portions of Facebooks app have been facing lots of downtime.

And I disagree. They need more storage and processing power and will continue to do so. They are not going anywhere in the next couple of decades thats for sure

Meta will be a complete failure and be made fun of for years though
However big a failure that war may seem using it for extrapolation in this case is like predicting a person wouldn't take risk of bankruptcy seriously because they lost a quarter in the couch cushions without getting worked up about it.

It's not even comparable with the impact of a single nuke let alone nuclear war.
You missed ~
You really don't want to create a directory named "~".....
I think he meant just the network effects of a social platform. Github has more people in them so there are more people interacting with repositories hosted on Github.

I wish that somehow people carried identity across Github / Gitlab / Gitea / other services. Like, a federated issue tracker. Or otherwise that the issues themselves were easily movable between platforms, with no lock-in. But the incumbent platforms rarely want something like this.

An alternative is to eschew platform issues entirely, and use decentralized issue comments hosted as Git repositories, like https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue or https://github.com/neithernut/git-dit or https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug - I think that Gitlab should offer integration with one of them. I mean: both allowing to export issues and PRs into a Git branch, and allowing people to comment on issues and PRs by pushing to a Git branch.
They were always stupid, they just didn't have people manipulating them to the same extent before. People being mislead by disinformation goes back at least to the spanish american war, and really much further. But now even more people have the megaphone, so even more people are buying into the disinformation. This comes back to the point of the thread, Youtube knows it is largely culpable for the division within this country, and dislike trolling is one reason why.
> Rust seems to have this cult-like power. Rust developers are definitely drinking a lot of Kool-Aid.

The community is pretty exciting, new things are being written every day with the language, people are approaching it with optimism. Sure you can call it cult like and take the cynical route, I'm just going to be happy that I can write safe and performant code using a language with modern ergonomic features. I imagine this must have been what it was like in the early days of python and ruby.
Does it?!
President Lacks Constitutional Authority to End Cannabis Prohibition by Exec Ord
Surprised this doesn't mention iron python
Archimedes would be proud!
And you should be too!

Congrats, and thank you so much for sharing this, it totally made my day.
Yeah, sometimes I end up renaming things I don't want to, but it really doesn't happen all that often. And sometimes I throw caution to the wind, add some excitement to my life, and rename a bunch of files (not for anything professional) in some really old directory and hope I don't break anything. But I'm not aiming for perfect with this comment. I just mentioned in another comment, but the vast majority of times I run this is in my ~/Downloads folder on files I don't really worry about breaking.
I’m going to assume that you’re basing your opinion of Graeber on Brad DeLong’s unhinged attacks on his work and character. There are no factual mistakes in “Debt” that impact the solidity of Graeber’s conclusions or historical narratives, most inaccuracies were minor and corrected in subsequent editions without changing the character of the book or the arguments within. Many if not most of DeLong’s attacks of inaccuracies are matters of interpretation, and in such cases it’s generally better to give the words of more accomplished and respected academics more weight than less accomplished or respected peers. As to where Graeber stands in relation to DeLong, I quote Graeber from a post here on HN:

“I hate to be seeming to blow my own horn, but when there's a crazy person out there using dishonest methods to try to destroy your intellectual reputation, and where there are honest people like you apparently taking the bait, some things have to be pointed out. The best measure of the accuracy and relevance of scholar's work is what other scholars in the field think of it. If you want to measure my standing as a scholar in anthropology, you might want to consider the fact that the most eminent scholar in the field, Marshall Sahlins, co-wrote a book with me. If you want to assess the merit of Debt, you might wish to consider the fact that there have now been two different scholarly conferences specifically dedicated to engaging with the book, attended by Classicists, Assyriologists, Medievalists, Economic Historians, Anthropologists, and other specialists in the fields addressed in the book. Do you think that would have happened if it was a "intellectually bankrupt" work full of obvious mistakes? For instance, Brad DeLong has been an economic historian for decades now. Has anyone even thought to hold conference to discuss the implications of any of DeLong's writings or ideas? Finally, if the argument is that I'm clueless when it comes to economics, I might ask why you think it is that on Tuesday I will be presenting a macroeconomic seminar at the Bank of England.
Sorry, but you've been suckered by a liar and a con man. I've honestly tried to just ignore the guy, hoping he'll eventually go away, but since he won't, I guess I have to explain what's really going on.”

- David Graeber, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164707
Stops political trolls from burying things like the surgeon general going on morning tv to ask people to get vaccinated.
I'm using Lightsail hosts (not containers) to host some of my personal websites. For $5/mo it's a great deal, and you can manage everything in one place - I don't have to go mess with ELB separately to configure all the DNS & static IPs.
it's funny that this is downvoted when this has been exactly the way that many Silicon Valley tech companies have run their services behind the scenes
This seems reasonable and we even have phrases for it. Pax Romana, Pax Britannica and now Pax Americana.
Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica
The newspaper-like multicolumn design is quite fun. For some reason, it's very rarely used online.

I'm not sure it's an improvement over the standard 1 column, but it's also refreshing to see people doing these kinds of experiments.
At scale, you almost never want a monolith.

- Monoliths force you to coordinate deploys, which can be a pain. It's difficult to verify your changes in concert with others.

- Bugs from one team can cause a rollback for everyone.

- One N+1 query, nonlinear algorithm, or GC-contentious endpoint can send the entire system into a spiral and cause non-linear behavior.

- You don't need to scale everything the same (services, databases, etc.) Your authentication pieces need massive scale: 10,000 QPS in an active-active configuration. Your random endpoint for the "XYZ promotion" does 0.5 QPM.

- Engineers that build platforms can operate in Java/Go/Rust, engineers that build product can build in Ruby/Python/Node.

- Payment data growing faster than user data? Scale your payment pieces. Shard their databases. They're safely cordoned off and isolated from anything else. The payments team(s) can focus on this one really hard problem without anyone else knowing or caring at all.

- Engineers can have privileged access to the resources their team consumes and needs. You don't want your customer loyalty team having access to payment team data. Or your appointments team having access to user accounts and authentication.

- You can hire for teams/concerns, and you have an interesting metric: number of services per engineer or team. It's actually pretty useful.

- Mistakes in one corner can sometimes be completely isolated and not take down the entire company. This isn't always the case. Critical infra (auth, service discovery, networking) can take everything out. But your appointments or customer success app won't have any impact to the other business areas. Also, it's great to have those super mission-critical folks focused on only the extremely important function they serve.

- Tech debt can live "under the covers". External teams calling your services might not know about the mess or the ongoing migrations under the hood. They don't need to know. (Granted, if your data model at scale sucks, this doesn't really afford much. But it is an easier puzzle to decompose.)

tl;dr - teams are focused on things they own, scope is controlled, blast radius is limited, pieces scale independently as needed.
I'm pretty sure that's still survivorship bias.

Perhaps an availability heuristic: the ones we know about are the ones that have been caught.

SB/AH are fairly tightly coupled. Also Texas Sharpshooter.
hats off
Most of my career in the mega Corp world has enjoyed watching people struggle to really put the Java in JavaScript. Epic fail. There are many valid reasons to hate JavaScript but ignorant Java developers is not one of them.
Look, I don't know the actual numbers, but the GP cited "red states busing their homeless population" and then cited a NYT article about this very issue where the numbers presented contradicted that claim. If you do know of studies which have more actual data on this issue, please link to them so we can all learn more - this seems to be one of those issues where there's a lot of emotion but far less actual data!
Thank you Tom.

It’s a really exciting area of research.
> big tech futurism larping

Best description of HN ever!

Bonus, you even pissed off dang. lol.
Yes, that is the functional description, and I was writing about the technical implementation. User overrides work on protocols, but if it's not a user override anymore it makes sense that it wouldn't apply the settings since there is nothing to apply to.

Just because it "looks" the same doesn't mean it is the same. There is a vague reference about a few KiB of added compiled code and the fact that it's an insider build, but other than that just an exploration of previously valid avenues that no longer apply, and the bundled outrage of assumptions based on a whole lot of nothing.

I don't know what the actual implementation is, the article on the website doesn't seem to know, and neither do you. So all we can do is speculate, and it appears some people choose unproductive outrage over technical exploration.
Art Bell had the absolute best voice for late night radio. Used to listen to him on my overnight road trips between Salt Lake and Vegas. Just the endless desert under a full moon, and Art's guest is rambling on about interdimensional beings. Could almost believe it for that moment.

One of my favorite things about Art was the tension. Did he believe what his guests and callers are saying? Or is he just humoring them for the show? I never knew the answer. Not sure if I would want to know.
Yes. "newer" - like a 2015. Or I wait until 200K miles, and get:

a. Electric Volvo?

b. Won't even need a car by then?
I can see why it's cool and the me from 15 years ago might have bought one. But the current me just tires of more useless crap constantly being built that will just end up in someone's junk drawer 3 months from arrival and in the landfill years later.
It is wrong because it has slowed down to a crawl compared to what we had from 2010-2014.

Most companies have settled on either React or Vue, which are extremely similar. Angular is used in some niches, almost always because teams already knew it.

Those three are responsible for almost 99% of the frontend positions you'll see.

Svelte is getting popular but so far it's still niche. It's more of an inspiration for others, but also a contender. And really, what's so wrong about having more options and more competition? Even if you want to stop learning new things, there'll be no shortage of job vacancies for the three frameworks above.

Also, since you're a backend dev, there are much more backend languages in use today than frontend frameworks, to give an example. And it's not hard to find companies using more than one.
Long-tail speech recognition Hackathon
Coqui is hosting a week-long competition/hackathon for STT in long-tail languages.

You will be able to train STT models for your favorite languages using CoquiSTT

...and you get free GPU (V-100) access in order to run your experiments.

the competition lasts one week and already started!
> Sometime one has to realize that hard problems are hard.

And trying to have a single thing solve everything doesn't help at all. When a problem is hard you try to break it into subproblems.

Unicode simply tries to do a lot of things at once.
For every acre of cropland that becomes too hot to grow in, shouldn't there be more cropland that becomes arable? Why does climate change literally only make things worse everywhere, and better nowhere? That's what it seems like when to talking to climate change alarmists. There can be no admission of even something so simple as uncertainty over any of the bold claims, much less any kind of identification of positives of climate change.

I mean, what if you're wrong? What if the planet gets 2C hotter and... everything's mostly fine? What if the planet gets cooler? Or what if we get the ideal (apparently) total climate stasis?

How likely are those scenarios?
John Gerrard, Flare (Oceania), 2021
Yes, it works. Test rides three days ago, first real trip yesterday, 65 km there and back on a single charge. Write-up one of these days, have to collect all the material.
I will make a webserver and call it Social Media 2: Electric Boogaloo and I'll call it a metaverse.
Congrats! Wonderful!
We have switched to Opentelemetry also using Google Trace with great success. I am really enjoying the Opentelemetry solution. Can't wait for metrics to be stable around Q1 of next year. The specs are frozen so it's all building the SDK/API libraries now.

Tracing is also great to use as part of integration tests

My main gripe with Cloud Trace is that its much harder to read than Jaeger.
> i'm saying this with a human life approach

what does this mean?
I listened to Art Bell's coast to coast AM program a few times as a kid, and I think it doesn't need to much in the way of introduction. I vote that you just dive in, but I will say that just diving in is a strong bias of mine.