skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would be great if some of those "crazy 40s-60s concept vehicles" could be revived with the modern technology.

Yep, i wish some collector type (similar to car collecting Leno) spent some money building modern versions of at least some of the most successful/feasible models from the "wheel of VTOL misfortune" https://vtol.org/vstol/wheel.htm . Back then it seems to have been some kind of "Jurassic explosion" of VTOL innovation, and hopefully these days we're having some small renaissance of it.
"math [...] sums seem to always be 0-indexed,"

What? Is this some kind of trolling challenge? If you don't care about math, just say so. Most people don't. But making up a nonexistent convention is just silly.
100% Pure Java is because Java is actually about four things. One of those things is a Virtual Machine, which means you don't give a shit that the implementer has never seen an ARM CPU, because you've got the Java VM, and so their code works fine on your ARM CPU.

But if their "Java" software is actually 10% i686 Machine Code then that won't run on your ARM CPU, you will need to undertake an expensive port or move to Intel. So hence 100% Pure Java == Write Once / Run Anywhere actually delivered.

You can argue that Rust is more than one thing, but certainly not to same extent. Rust's culture is crucial to its "A language empowering everyone..." slogan, but it's not really separate from the programming language, in the way that the Java Virtual Machine doesn't need the Java programming language or the Java security model (now obsolete) or the Java browser plugin (remember that?) and so on.
My wife does sewing pattern printing which I think is somewhat similar, ie very large format prints on a very expensive printer. She ships either folded in a large-size envelope or (for an extra fee) rolled in a sturdy container.

Looking at the picture on the website here, it looks like the bags are big enough to support rolling, so I imagine it doesn't crease the plans.
This mapping of the IPv4 address space into IPv6 already even exists, in the ::ffff::<ip v4 address> range.

e.g. ::ffff::192.168.1.1

is an IPv6 representation of 192.168.1.1

Or in more standard v6 notation

0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:c0a8:0101
I don't believe I can succeed where they failed- hadn't heard of em! would be awesome to not have to build it myself, so I'll go check em out.
Spicy! When I started reading HN 4-ish years ago, I was intimidated by how much everyone seemed to know, and how serious the tone was. I still see people with incredible insights, but now they're more like bright spots in a pedantic brine. Did the site change? Am I trying to wring the last drops of value out of a meal no longer meant for me?

Either way, I still appreciate the information-centric culture, better than all the jokes on reddit.
> explain how Big Tech has even bigger problems, before explainig how you can fix Big Tech problems with Big Tech budgets and headcound (...)

What do you have to say about the fact that the career goals of those interested in this sort of topic is... Be counted as part of the headcount of these Big Tech companies while getting paid Big Tech budget salaries?

Because if you count yourself among those interested in the topic, that's precisely the type of stuff you're eager to learn so that you're in a better position to address those problems.

What's your answer to that? Continue writing "hello world" services with Spring Initializr because that's all you need?
You can do all of those at once. For example, you can just transition ICE to EV. Set that aside.

Reconfiguring the built environment is not only achievable but has been done in the past. You can take a look at Amsterdam as an example. Look at pictures from the 70s or so and then look at it today.

You also don't have to "reconfigure" the environment. We could just stop building new highways and eliminate minimum parking spot requirements. We can change our zoning laws to allow for more medium-density. In Columbus, where I live we have a street called High Street that runs north/south and connects all of the walkable areas of the city and Ohio State University. It's relatively easy to just run a tram right down the road there and displace car traffic. There are low-hanging fruit. It's way cheaper than rebuilding highways which we do all the time, and if we can do that we can reconfigure whatever we want.

There are a lot of things we can do.

Starting from a point of defeatism is not something that's compatible with how I personally operate.
Nah, it's just a fork of KHTML.
The same problem exists with physical mail. I don't need advertisement flyers. I want a realtime spreadsheet with updated prices and discounts.
Why would anyone expect the self service process setup by Apple to be anything other than the same processes they have for their own repair people though? I don’t expect a car manufacturer to release parts and instructions they wouldn’t have their own service people follow. It’s reasonable to debate the merits of having the battery tied to the top case on the whole, but if it’s what Apple directs their own repair personnel to do, that’s what I would expect their self service to do too.
At a guess, such threads (which AFAIK are offered to YC companies only) would otherwise tend to degrade in to opine regarding compensation and the relative merits of various early-stage ventures in a sector plus function as a guaranteed time sink and PR nightmare for early stage businesses who could better focus their attentions elsewhere.
As long as barriers to entry to hosting content and releasing streaming apps remain low, this all seems fine. Where is the potential to abuse the vertical integration?

Even if Disney owned Akamai or something, there's decent competition in CDNs.
And addition also gets broken. Like a third plus a fourth is a sixth.
I just watched the new Game of Thrones show on NowTV. It had ads before and during the show.
> what modern windows app doesn't use Ctrl F for Find

For this, in Outlook, the explanation is (per Raymond Chen): Bill Gates

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=50...
This needs a new format for source code. We could call it, oh, Literate Programming. Check in only the prompts to version control, expand them into code during CI, then file bugs when new releases of OpenAI cause regressions.
Thinking...not easy.

Well the big thing is the establishment has to not work out for that minority. Then they're fucked if they cheat, they won't get any of the rewards, they have to do it on their own for real or die trying.

Then, for them, there will be no cheating.

That's what I'm living up to.
When we bought a house, the best one ended up being literally a couple miles outside of EPB's service area and I had to switch to Comcast. I see their billboard every time I drive home, just to rub salt in the wound.
> how many people truly need it?

56kbps ought to be enough for anyone
Instagram is one of the few platforms that allows you to comment on ads. It's pretty interesting as the comments tend to be overwhelmingly negative.
Ideas That Can Change 1B Lives
A million immigrants are let into the US every year.
How do you know what server-side profiling occurs or does not occur? There is no way to know that. DDG gives people a completely misplaced and false sense of security, when they are just as easily comprimisable/corruptable/subpoenable/susceptible to NSLs, EDRs and secret court orders as any other company.

And I disagree with your premise that it's particularly difficult to link a persons IP to their real world identity. There are organized fraud gangs who have it down to a science. know exactly what dept. of the ISP to call, what to say, etc. Basically if someone knows your IP and your ISP account is registered in your name it's game over.
Check thunderbird beta. Is amazing
DRM has the additional goal of restricting who can use even those unmodified, genuine files, whereas anticheat does not.
We are not limited by land space. What do you mean "fell on past-earth"?

And it's not wasteful if those government controls are harmful.
I don't disagree - in 10 years this will be different and so will my opinion - things we don't even know about will become common everyday necessities and may require those kind of speeds...but right now, I don't see it.
Actually, that's exactly what would have happened. The plant would have shutdown without any major incident/release of radiation/contamination.
it's an ethos thing. I think a capitalist mindset (grow grow grow) is antithetical to good open source. once money is the primary motivation, good software that does good things that people actually want can't be the primary motivation.
The Outlook web interface is substantially better than the desktop app at this point for UX
“Which is fairly easy to surpass on a bike…” you stop at traffic lights and stop signs to, right?
Notice: I get that they advertise this as diversity.

But from the perspective of someone who just wants to use the software it would be a lot easier if I don't have to sieve through 5 commercial websites.

Also:
For the $ 1 billion they hold in assets [0] I'd expect them to provide at least one full set of usable software from it, not just specifications on how to write the software - which is what they seem to only be producing now?

They already cancelled their GUI wallet some years ago (https://github.com/ethereum/mist) which was kind of weird already considering that people did have money in it already.

But you could at least resort to using geth as a terminal UI client.

Now it seems ETH holders won't be able to access their funds using fully official software at all, which is kinda "meh", no matter if you're pro-crypto or against.

[0] Calculated with today's Ether price, based on: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/19/ethereum-founda...
> I have 1G symmetric FTTH internet, the bottleneck is still the services I want to access at the other end - really makes no difference how much faster the pipe is, if the service you are using can't keep up.

I can definitely hit this with one Steam download. If any more users want to download games, they can easily compete for 1G.

Netflix and other services have relatively low bitrate streams too. If I could get higher quality / higher bitrate streams, I’d prefer that over what most streaming services offer too.

I think it’s easy to think things are good enough without looking too deep into the details. You’re used to 1G. But a lot of people are used to a lot more and a lot less.
Hmmm… someone should really make an email client with user-friendly filters to let you sinkhole that junk into a folder you never look at ;).
This. The wikipedia page for years seemed (not looking at it again, lol) to be written by people of the same ilk, who introduce a bunch of terminology without explaining what any of it means. When I read the wiki in 2020 it was literally impossible to understand, knowing already at the time how Bitcoin and a few other alt coins worked, as well as someone being into smart contracts well before even Bitcoin was created. And Ethereum is literally just a Bitcoin + smart contracts. There is no other core, fundamental concept to understand in it (until now: PoS). Also yes, as someone who has used hundreds of cryptocurrency products, this applies to basically anything related to cryptocurrency like you said.

One absolutely obnoxious practice is how they all make their own fancy names for millicoins microcoins, etc.
It is a legit company based in Pennsylvania, not some random website. Their privacy policy explicitly states they do not collect user info. If they are caught doing it anyway they could be open to legal action. While they may be lying, at least it's better than other search engines where collecting data is explicit and built into their business model.

edit: I should have just down-voted and moved on.
What a bizarre way to justify surveillance. Who said the web browser can't be sold instead? The browser and the search engine should not be developed by the same company, there are clear conflicts of interest there, but we all know why Google provides all of these products and services "for free".
Grand Theft Auto (the legal construct, not the game) [1].

"In many states, grand theft auto laws apply not only to the theft of cars but also to the theft of boats, campers, motorcycles, and other vehicles."

IMHO, if this applied to bikes as well, it would add a LOT of deterrent for bike/e-bike theft.

[1] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federa...
It’s only going to be negative stuff, why would any company want that. No one would post jobs here then.
Well: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zeroth
What's the best way to use unique emails. I get that Apple has the 'Hide my Email' feature but it's not clear to me how to best use it, especially outside of Apple ie. Where do I find a list of emails that it's created for me and what they were used for.

Temporary email services don't seem helpful either if you need to go through password reset processes or receive emails after the address has been removed.

Do people just use use custom domains with catch all addresses? Is this really the best way?
That’s pretty much everybody.
> If we wanted to bring the 1-indexing we use in language to the fullest extent here to fix that particular issue, time counting would have to start at 1111.

That's funny, but there's actually an elegant way to do it called Bijective numeration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration). We're currently living in the 1A22th year.
No wonder Comcast has been very active in lobbying to prevent other utilities from providing Internet[1].

1 - https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/1/8530403/chattanooga-comcas...
Yeah, but then couldn't the compiler just swap the 1 with a 0 and 256 with 255?
Yeah I agree. Hybrid is the hardest version of remote work to do right and unfortunately the one more frequently chosen by orgs that don't want to properly invest in remote but don't want to demand in person, so it's a double whammy.

I do think it's a false dichotomy though to compare "top talent diluted by remote-ness" with "less talented in-person team that can communicate well". I agree with that direct comparison, but it's not the only option. Remote can be done well. With proper investment in remote, a team can have "top talent that can communicate well" instead of picking one of two bad options.
9-5 workplace as we know it is dead. RIP
Why? I work a tech job and I 50gb connection is more than I need, it's more than most need.
What's the CPP? You mean CCP, Chinese Communist Party? And it's fascism at the same time?

Like if I capture Osama bin Laden alive and take him to a camp in eg Morocco to make him pay for his sins, I can't ask him to do ten push-ups? Like he designs the murder of 2,988 people and I can't squeeze 10 push-ups out of him?

Him in particular. The specific unique Wahhabi who committed the terrorism, like he matches the videos he released claiming responsibility, him. Ten pushups?

There has to be integrity.
> it's become trendy

We were using SQLite in production way before it was cool on HN. I remember back in 2017-2018 describing how we use SQLite as the principal database engine for our multi-user product, and was basically tarred and feathered by the hosted SQL crowd.

I think the most intoxicating thing about SQLite is that you don't have to install or configure even one goddamn thing. It's a lot more work and unknowns to go down this path, but you can wind up with a far more robust product as a result.

I hope this trend continues aggressively.
Well, if cost of hardware on ISP side is fairly similar for 1G, 10G and 25Gbps, then why not offer also the fastest option just because you can?

> if the service you are using can't keep up.

Thats standard chicken and egg problem, why provide faster servers when ISPs are offering 1Gbps at most

IMO internet speed could be like electricity/power - like most people don't care how much power they can get from the grid, in the future we will have the same when it comes to the internet - it will almost always be fast enough for everything
Creator here: The last time I did measurements for the latency of mirroring the screen I got about 60ms (over WIFI). The Gif is from way back before I did any optimizations at all.
I failed to make the requester sound more obnoxious than the request.

My point is precisely that transitioning from a single app on a machine is a natural and necessary part of a system's life, but that I can't find satisfying resources on how to handle thise phase, as opposed to handling much higher load.

Sorry for the missed joke.
I'm not sure if energy is where this material is best spent. For sure, it seems like we treat human excrement as, well, waste now, and that's an absurd & farcical shame, given how much energy and/or nutrients are in. Given the limited supply of things like phosphates (and other core nutrients) the world is facing, I feel like nutrients is where we need to explore/invest.

I picked up a biography a bit back on some westerner who'd been bumbling about in Japan a long time ago, & the westerners who eventually found them. I'm sorry, I just was browsing in a library; there's a photo of the book I have somewhere but I'm not sure what it was right now & can't remember specifics. But there were some really interesting materials. Landlords had rights to the human waste & would sell it as a major source of income. You got charged less rent if you had more people they could collect manure from. Energy is all fine & good, but recouping the bio-potential seems capital.
They can't. Comments would mostly be negative and likely open the whole place to libel claims.

Moreover, it couldn't even be offered as an optional thing given how bad it would look on any company that didn't.

What I would love is the ability for an Ad to be associated with a user account.
There are places like Switzerland where you actually can get a 25Gbps residental connection for a reasonable price. The actual cost lies in your backend infrastructure and the skills you need to use it (it's all enterprise equipment at that level). Everything from the routing to the switching to the servers that you're likely running on that connection can get real expensive.
I had the same sort of firmware issue with a Dell UP2414Q which was released in 2013. Major problems like half the screen not working or no picture at all.

No you can't have the firmware update. You can exchange it for a refurbished monitor and "should" get the new firmware.

There's a 53 page Dell forum thread about that disaster of a monitor: https://www.dell.com/community/Monitors/UP3214Q-UP2414Q-1-2-...

Amazing that nearly 10 years later they still can't update monitor firmware in the field.
Styrofoam should absolutely be banned. It should be considered toxic waste at this point. There are incrementally more expensive solutions that companies can use instead of styrofoam, there's no excuse for its use anymore. It's literally single-use and no one else can use a piece of styrofoam efficiently. It often takes up so much space that it fills up your landfill garbage bin. As a planet we should ban its use with prejudice.
I have WK&T and have symmetrical gigabit w/ 24/7 chat support in a town with a population of 300 in TN. Spectacular service, but I did sit on a waiting list and pay $1000 for installation. My bill has gone down over time (WK&T is a co-op.)

I have only ever had issues for a period of 2 months during peak times when my traffic was being routed through another ISP that I would always get ~0.2% packet loss from. WK&T helped me identify some routes that were unaffected to set up a tunnel to work around it for the few times I was affected.
What leads you to believe indy or smaller clouds are less prone to outages?
Ah misunderstood the context here, I thought it was referring to cleaning up the adhesive after repair. Even still, there are plenty of bolts on a car that if you don’t do the right things to remove them, you can shear them off. Fasteners of all kinds can be broken, if you break them beyond the ability of your tools, the manual is going to tell you to take it to a shop. You can break out the screw extractor from harbor freight, or weld a new head onto the stub. But it’s unlikely the official repair manual is going to suggest that to you.
Why are cans shaped the way they are? (ie, not cubes) [2014]
Previous Discussion on HN from 2014:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8097125

This post comes to my mind every time I'm at the grocery store. Global economics are weird and this post makes it all make sense to me.

I happened to read this about a ~year ago and I _thought_ it was from HN, but apparently it wasn't. I have no idea where I found it, but I was able to find it via some clever searching around.

Anyway, does anybody have any other articles to share that you felt gave you an "ahah!" moment in every day life?
20 years ago ASM was just as cryptical black magic to most of programers as it is today... try perhaps 40 y/a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99WBrs1D3g
Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
its weird, I live in a tiny little town with about 400 households and I now have access to 1G symmetrical fiber for about $80/month - but we (the town) had to pay for the fiber build out with increases taxes and user fees...well worth it in my case. I would have been OK with only Comcast as previously it was just 3Mb Verizon DSL for almost my entire WFH career (20+ years).
Replace your flower warehouse with a metal shop. Welding, metal cutting/bending etc. Sure sounds like a fun place to live.

There's a reason people generally prefer not to live next to businesses. And despite a lot of rhetoric about how cities are the future, there's an awful lot of people who prefer suburbs.
> You need to pay for a VPN

Not where I live. We instead use VPNs to access websites blocked by the government.
> Also, philosophically, I guess, a "distributed" systems starts at "two machines".

People opening a page in a browser that sends requests to a server is already a distributed system.

A monolith sending requests to a database instance is already a distributed system.

Having a metrics sidecar running along your monolith is already a distributed system.
The likely first step will be heavy discounts for paying annually rather than monthly.
How about a 50/50 mix?
Many of the countries with climate similar to Australia do not have the purchasing power of most northern countries, so they're currently building new cold power at a rapid pace.
Drop the default search engine and show us a list of search engines with the option to add our own instead of setting it for us on first run.
Literally this announcement is saying where. It’s not just the convention center, it’s the whole service region, the convention center is just first.
20 years ago you'd have said the same thing about dsl to broadband, and if everyone had that same mentality, Netflix would still be mailing dvds and not offering 4k streaming. Innovation is good.
from the NAT64 gateway in the thread I learned from ipv4 mapped ipv6 addresses

2001:67c:27e4:1064::140.82.121.3 github.com www.github.com

if your curious too, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6052#section-2.4
...slightly related question, what is the benefit of using the Debian package, versus the Ubuntu snap?

As a CentOS user, the Ubuntu snap is updated much more often than the EPEL package.
Heroku reports the outage is over - but I wasn't able to resolve our Heroku-based domain name until recently today.

Should be able to go back to CNAME now. Regardless, recheck yours
There's kind of a chicken & egg dynamic here. People won't experiment with futuristic high-bandwidth applications before they have high bandwidth.
With uBlock Origin blocking (by default) the javascript that wired serves, I read the whole article and was only aware of an auto-play video even being present when I read your comment.