skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, thanks. I think I've noticed it most when being followed by a Tesla on dark motorways and being blinded by the reflection in my mirrors. Maybe the auto high-beam just doesn't care about cars in front. I was starting to think Teslas just had an abnormally high proportion of arsehole drivers like BMW.
This is exactly why no matter how much money I make I still choose motorcycles or old used cars that have no network connectivity, no DRM, do what I tell them, and are easy to acquire parts for.

It does not seem possible to own most modern vehicles.
Why U.S. Public Debt Matters [audio]
Reports: Musk plans big Twitter layoffs and $20 monthly charge for verification
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it means.
Because

1. Twitter, the core application, is literally a weekend junior dev project. The only engineers on the payroll who provide actual value, out of THOUSANDS, are those who scale the application and infrastructure. The vast majority of these people have been paid huge comp packages for doing effectively nothing. Sure, there are auxilliary applications like the ad platform, business intelligence, etc, but there is no world in which you need the enormous engineering staff they have to build or run these. Most of these people are useless.

2. Twitter employees have been complicit in curbing free speech, in a highly partisan manner, for years now.

> I really hope Musk doesn’t come for your job next

I suspect that if you provide actual, tangible value and you're not actively silencing people for using the wrong pronouns, you'll be safe.
We are "engineers who spent their teens and twenties coding like that was the meaning to life, all suffer from deep regret, burnout, resentment, depression".

Who is you? Not a comedian?
If you use a try-with-resources in Java, then the closeables are closed immediately when the try block exits, and in reverse order to acquisition.
Show HN: Subify subscription – Process of research and developing a new product
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At that time, there were several apps for this work in Shopify, but these apps had several fundamental problems.
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Regardless of what you believe, it's an important piece of literature that is interwoven with our history. People who let it cause thought-termination are missing out.
I just benchmarked it on my computer -- the protobuf is twice as fast (well, 1.8x), which is good, but I don't think I'd use that as a basis for choosing the technology I use.

Of course, I might use protobuf because I prefer it in my code to JSON, and it certainly is faster (if only twice).
> a lot of devs just never found out they'd written buggy code and couldn't do anything even if they did.

This is undoubtedly true. No doubt there are countless quietly-malfunctioning embedded systems all around the world.

There also exist highly visible embedded systems such as on-air telephone systems used by high-profile talents in major radio markets around the country. In that environment malfunctions rarely go unnoticed. We'd hear about them literally the day of discovery. It's not that there were zero bugs back then, just nothing remotely like the jira-backlog-filling quantities of bugs that seem to be the norm today.
> If you were trying to build L4, you'd hire a small team of exceptional engineers, and spend a few thousand on hardware tests. Billions doesn't come close.

Not sure if you are aware that the self driving (robotaxi) companies have spent tens of billions of dollars in the last decade. R&D expenses are huge, building custom sensors and vehicles is hard and fleet maintenance/operations is costly.
Post author here. I agree!

Did not mean to imply that Dockerizing applications is a bad thing - actually even pointed out that "it's not so hard". Just wanted to point out that writing one takes some effort and therefore Fly.io is not a drop-in replacement for Heroku.

Container based deployment is a great thing to have and definitely a skill worth learning.
DNMs have minimal issues with adulterated drugs, especially compared to street drugs. They typically have extensive third-party testing.
No, i meant socioeconomic factors...

"What are socioeconomic examples?
Social and economic factors, such as income, education, employment, community safety, and social supports can significantly affect how well and how long we live. These factors affect our ability to make healthy choices, afford medical care and housing, manage stress, and more."

Notice it includes "Income"? it includes other factors as well such as poor safety nets, etc.
elon is absolutely addicted to hurting people with his products!
> To the extent that progressive justices move up through the legal system is only through political appointments.

All federal and most state justices only move up through political appointments. The rest of state justices are directly elected, which is even more political.
There are two main arguments under debate here.

One argument is "Wikipedia is guilt-tripping users into donating without making it clear they don't need the money for hosting, and it's more likely to go to Wikimedia-given grants."

That argument is completely fair. Lots of evidence has been given about their finances and it's pretty obvious that this is a completely legitimate criticism of Wikimedia and its fundraising style.

The second argument is "YOUR money is going to support GAY and BLACK people!!!!!!! WOKE POLITICS! CULTURE WARS!!!!!!!"

That second argument is absolute utter bullshit nonsense supported by some of the worst cherry-picked examples I've ever seen and backed by the same trite get-out-of-racism-free dog-whistle jargon that we've seen over and over again from overtly racist groups. That is the argument GP is criticizing. Yes, the people who get infuriated at the idea of nonprofits supporting black women in STEM are indeed racists. That's what the word means.
Using an external service as a way of setting up internal-only certificates? No thanks.
I can see that. One need only look at traffic when raining and people revert to drier methods of transport.

In cambridge MA those electric scooters are quite everywhere. And they don't know where they should go (they tend to go in the bike lane, which I think is correct, even though they annoy us bikers a bit, I think its the moving fast, but not working at it..). But non electrified scooters are back too, along with the occasional one wheel.

Bikes and scotters move you more quickly though certain routes than cars, as you tend to get through each light in just one clycle.
That's pretty much the plot of Isaac Asimov's novel "The Gods Themselves".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves
>I genuinely don’t understand why people feel the need to shove their ideology down peoples throat every chance they get.

They're in a cult and they don't realize it. Woke politics has every negative hallmark of a cult. Original sin, excommunication, heresy...
Can't say for 30 years ago but 22 years ago it sucked.

- There were no containers/Docker yet so everything had to be installed on server every time manually or by a hand-hacked script and not always easy to repeat on the next server. Produced mystical bugs. Glad we have Docker today.

- Source code control system of the era sucked vs git. Back in the day it was CVS and VSS, then everyone got hooked on SVN about 20 years ago, then there was a duopoly of Mercurial and Git, and finally, Git won about 10 years ago. Life got a lot better once we got Git.

- There was no virtualisation yet. VMWare just appeared around the time, being a very slow software emulator, barely usable. So you needed to have several physical computers to test things on, necessitating an office for at least management and testers, others could work remotely.

- Internet sucked, was good only to send mail and commits, and some task tracking systems. Voice communication relied on phone calls before Skype, video communication was impossible, so physical meetings were necessary for remote and partially remote teams.

- Worst of all, there were no package managers yet so building something from source required an awful lot of work. This is why Perl was so popular in the day even being so terribly cryptic - it had a package manager and a big library of packages in it, the CPAN. It was almost as good as npm today and used same way, and now this is expected from any language or platform, but back in the day, was unique.

(and yes, at least Linux was already a thing. i can only imagine how bad it was for those who worked just 5 years before when they had to rely on commercial server OSes)
Failing to follow regulations IS a failure. Regulations serve two purposes: 1) ensure compliance with best practices, and 2) demonstrate attention to detail. Failing a labeling requirement is like failing the classic Van Halen brown M&M test: it's not dangerous in itself, but it indicates a lack of diligence that people should assume is pervasive in the product.
If they've ever heard of it.

Sometimes though, it's true. I remember experimenting with Freenet a long time ago and discovering it was being heavily used for CSAM. I've never uninstalled something so fast.
Discussion on the previous techcrunch article/announcement at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33347970
Self-driving cars face uncertain path to U.S. deployment
Republicans have been generally against affirmative action since its inception. Trump was explicitly against it. The particulars of this case and this argument don't really matter.
These scooters are not intended to be used on sidewalks.
It manages the services itself. Your app is one level down the totem pole. The http bit is just another service managed by your app.
George references relistening to his Lex Fridman interview...the most recent Fridman interview is with Andrej Karpathy, head of AI at Tesla up until a couple months ago. I know that in Andrej's interview he talks about how he felt the Tesla team had become autonomous and didn't rely on him anymore, maybe George resonated with that.
That applies to problems that can be solved by 1 person.

But huge majority of the problems require whole teams of people to solve, especially in the commercial world. Senior engineer who can 2x team of 10 people is better than a single engineer who is 10x himself.
Just because a book and an institution were present for the last 2000 years doesn't mean that they were the foundation of a society that exists today. Especially a society that most likely exists despite of them then because of them.
Regarding Rocky Linux, it is "...an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.": https://rockylinux.org

The news page goes back about two years: https://rockylinux.org/news/2
Which one more specifically? :)
That's very impressive. Hats off to them! I dont think this is too out of the ordinary either though. I'd guess they started off with a LLM from hugging face, set up some pipeline to ingest code from replit repos to finetune the LLM. The ML aspect of this is not terribly hard given that they probably dont need to train a LLM from scratch. Figuring out how store and serve from replit repos (or publicly available code bases) is not too difficult. From there it's a matter of productionalizing: how to serve the model in real time, figuring out they want the product to look/feel like and I suppose this part of it might take a while. I'd estimate you'd need 1-2 ML engineers, 2 data engineers, 2-3 swes, 1 PM for the team for a minimal viable product.
It also seems straight up incorrect. There are way too many international students at Harvard for it to represent the makeup of the country.
Thanks you for making it and keeping it simple. I agree that the simplicity is what makes it great to use for localhost testing. Big fan of this tool since I found it.
Symmetry Calculator – Gabriel Dunne (2002)
IPv4 space is a super scarce resource, this is IPv4 space held by non-paying RIPE members. Why should it not be distributed among paying members, many of which are desperate for more IPv4?

It’s not like it’s impossible for Russian entities to pay either, I regularly receive payments to my European account from Russian companies.
If Wikimedia has too many donations for their own costs, maybe they should give some to the Internet Archive. It's certainly related to their goal of preserving information.

But more importantly: Wikimedia needs to be honest and transparent, including about what they're raising funds for. If their own costs are thoroughly covered and they're raising funds for others, they need to be honest about that, and not pretend that they still need the money. That's deceptive and completely contrary to their mission.
I'm very high up in my car (a Toyota Vellfire) so unlikely to be the auto-levelling, but I guess it could be very out of whack.
I wasn't at all surprised to see the ban. The way electric scooters were handled in Atlanta was an absolute nightmare. They littered every sidewalk, blocking pedestrian traffic in already crowded streets. 100% of people riding them rode them on the sidewalk and collisions were pretty common. People were getting hurt, and were very afraid of getting hit.

It's really unfortunate it went this way, because Atlanta badly needs alternative transpiration options. We would likely have been better off with heavy enforcement around proper storage and riding of scooters, but so many people absolutely hated them due to how it was handled that I'm not surprised to see a ban instead.

The poor handling of how they were rolled out did a lot of damage long term to fixing transportation. Now there will be an uphill battle against a ban passed in reaction to the mess they created. Disappointing all around.
Judges are NOT political appointees. Within the civil service a political appointee is one that can be and usually is dismissed in a change of government. Heads of agencies and such. Supreme Court justices serve lifetime appointments specifically so that they are not subject to political interference.
>There'll be plenty of people willing to work for cheap for Musk

Is this true? I buy that there are plenty of people willing to work on Tesla or SpaceX or even things like hyperloop. But do people have the same passion for Twitter?
Not to mention that it isn't uncommon for the government to fly planes in the sky with cameras. These can track quite far.
15 mph should be plenty for everyone right?
I'm not unionized (I cannot because none of them are purely work focused here and I deeply disagree with their other views), but here is an observation from Norway, 20 years ago:

AFAIK, unionized companies in Norway statistically were more profitable than ununionized ones.

This might of course be because it is more tempting to unionize when there is a lot of money to be had, but I remember one extra detail:

In between (friendly) ribbing I also remember the union people here being focused on working efficient so that our bonus would increase :-)
If a game works on Proton (http://protondb.com/), it will almost certainly run on the Steam Deck. And the Steam Deck UI does a pretty good job of highlighting games that run well on the Deck and telling you what the compatibility issues are, if anything.

Assuming the game itself runs fine, usually the main issue is mapping steam deck controls to the in-game keyboard and mouse config. I find the UX for doing this to be pretty confusing and terrible (doubly so when using an external controller), but this is helped some by the fact that you can apply controller mappings submitted by other Steam users.
People can't even handle speed cameras without freaking out.

It's true that cars are extraordinarily deadly, and it's also true that most drivers don't want anything done about it if it might inconvenience them.
> Compare say, Berkeley to Stanford

Berkeley is highly exclusive [1], albeit 3x less so than Stanford [2]. The class-size difference, about 12,000, is noise against the millions of degrees conferred to Americans every year.

Meanwhile, Stanford produces different graduate as a result of its process. Forcing homogenisation to one model for ideological purity is misled.

[1] https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses-majors...

[2] https://stanforddaily.com/2021/10/14/stanford-admit-rate-dro...
> It completely ignores that the "port number" abstraction for service identification has completely failed due to the industry glomming onto HTTP as some sort of universal tunnel encapsulation for all application-layer protocols.

Nobody forces them though. It would be much easier to publish a standard port number mapping than to develop a (or multiple) new protocols. Now you just need to motivate people to use it.
90 mph on the highway is probably much, much safer than 40 mph in a residential area.
> Race is easy to game too, in fact far easier.

Strongly agree.

Here (Canada) we have a pandemic of "pretendians"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretendian

People who make fake claims to gain an advantage.
> In other words: "vertical integration is good." It can also weigh you down and keep you from advancing your technology.

Counterexample: Apple.
I used to actively design roleplaying games, and medieval agricultural yields have been a passion of mine since the original Chivalry & Sorcery Sourceboook (1978)[1]. In particular, in the 1990s I wanted to understand Domesday Book in detail to project what a medieval farm would look like as part of Pendragon roleplaying game, which I owned the rights to for a time when I had a company called Green Knight Publishing. The game is back with Chaosium these days, and I remain a fan of the RPG.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Chivalry-Sorcery-Sourcebook-Edward-Si...
As soon as you have to either pay for it or host it yourself, the extreme majority of the public will reject it.
> We had rcs and cvs but most people just [...]

To be fair RCS and CVS sucked. I remember trying to use CVS in the early 2000s when SVN wasn't even out yet, and if I remember the experience correctly, even today I might be tempted to just write a batch file to take snapshots...
Although I haven't done such great things as Geohot, I connect the spirit he is describing. In my mind I have already solved the technical problems my firm will face over the next 3 years, and I no longer have the patience to see them implemented. I am languishing in my role as a result.
> Death is only a really important problem for individuals, and only their own death at that.

Unfortunately, every single person in the world is an individual. Every person faces the same problem.

> The fact that we exist today as sentient creatures able to contemplate their own mortality is entirely due to the fact that those who came before us died.

Indeed that is the case. But what does it matter to those people who came before us? They are dead. They lost the game of life. They didn't escape the simulation, or go to heaven, or any of that. They are decomposing in the ground.

Just like everyone else is going to lose eventually.... unless we fix it.
Interesting read. It seems to me here that they're trying to shoehorn ranges into coroutines though - yes it technically works, but it's not pretty or performant.

If you have genuine data transformation tasks then I think ranges make a lot of sense. The kind of things that would be a 1-liner in Unix command line:

cat foo.txt | grep "bar" | cut -d "," -f 3 | sort | unique | wc -l

This can be expressed really nicely with ranges in a way that wasn't possible, or at least readable, before. If you want to use ranges to reimplement coroutines then of course it will be slow and ugly.

As usual with new features, they shouldn't be used everywhere, even if they could. I do agree with the complaints on the massive size though - I feel it could be implemented quite simply if they only wanted 80% of the features.
I personally don't see AI getting anywhere any time soon

Totally, like there's no way an AI company could hit $80M revenue in <2 years [0], or power the recommendations systems for billions of dollars worth of online commerce.

Also there's no way that it could generate audio/image/video/text that would trick the average person that this was generated by an AI.

[0] https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1583357703337885697
Disaggregation costs an absolute fortune. The network is 10% of the total datacenter cost and the network does not carry memory and PCIe traffic. If you make the network 10x faster to carry that, now it's 90% of the cost.
Because education has failed. No?

BS
The game is based on SCP-3008, the infinite IKEA store

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008

> SCP-3008-1 is a space resembling the inside of an IKEA furniture store, extending far beyond the limits of what could physically be contained within the dimensions of the retail unit.
> Because if the current atheist world is the real one, then we are doomed. We are in the death world. Game over. Thats it.

All evidence points that this is true so far. What is wrong with that? It doesn't mean life doesn't matter. This passage from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
Space should be re-allocated from roads to properly protected scooter/bike lanes. The real problem is non-pedestrian traffic being forced onto sidewalks.