skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I think you might like my Pong in a tweet then!

https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1316836397903474688?s=4...

Still waiting for VCs to invest in my Twitter as a CDN:

https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1316841669451558913?s=4...

The article from the tweet: https://laconic-mu.vercel.app/index.html?c=eJylWOuS27YV%2Fu%...
Log frugality and log uniqueness are great concepts.
+1 for mentioning both the financial and cognitive costs of excessive logging.
Are physical wallets sliding into irrelevancy?
Ask HN: Why has eInk technology stalled compared to other display tech?
I'm surprised how slow the pace of innovation has been for eInk. Is there something inherent to the technology that makes things like faster refreshed very difficult to realize?
> npx firebase-tools deploy --only functions -P staging

Better yet:

make deploy-staging

Even when it's just wrapping something else, I strongly prefer to use make(1) as the universal all in one command.
Have you ever met rms?

http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossi...
My opinion- Internet providers running cables through public land are a natural monopoly but aren’t really regulated as such in most of the US, where it is believed that because DSL and an 5G cell phone plan exists there is competition.
Considering how few people do so, I'm fairly certain it would take more than a month for somebody to catch that.

But I guess it's also fairly easy to test it: just serve a slightly different version to the google's go mirror (by the user agent), and see how long until somebody complains to you about it.
> ask people what a corp death penalty would be, my assumption would be that people would think of it as the corporation no longer existing

I mean, look at this thread. I’m not saying the impulse is wrong. But “corporate death penalty” seems to be a good way to take a discussion which could lead to an outcome into one that won’t. That’s fine! People vent! But we shouldn’t confuse venting with deliberating.
I appreciate action too but i mean, character or world building is not that hard and doesn't really require that much when a 30 second commercial can give you enough backstory to (unwillingly) empathise with someone.

Theres a difference from both Avatar 1 and quite a few of Michael Bay's older movies - they still have have a story arch.

Just a few minutes of character building and a few intermezzos and these movies would be much, much better in my opinion.

But i also hate too much CGI. I don't know what happened to "well dosed", it makes what's dosed so much more valuable.
Might work for some, if you don't have a middle button, and… you don't want to ctrl/cmd click.

there is also Long Press New Tab (firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/long_press_ne...
Google asks India’s Supreme Court to block $161.9M Android antitrust ruling
Idk why anyone wants to be part of big union. I understand the desire for a local union but being part of UAW means your fees just go to support a large bureaucracy that is probably negotiating against you or at just for the interests of their own administration
If they change the case on their username on the other hand, the Go ecosystem explodes: https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/issues/570#issuecomment-3...
As much as us nerds would like to think otherwise, PC gaming is, and will always be, a niche market. The average person simply does not even consider it. Computers are for work, and games are something you do on your phone or a console for the overwhelming majority of people. It's why tethered VR will never be a mainstream thing, and why Carmack was so adamant about the Quest.
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ddevault on Feb 15, 2019
"EFAIL" is an alarmist puff piece written by morons to slander PGP and inflate their egos. The standards don't need to change to fix the problems it mentions. The proposals help... marginally. The problem is not and was never with OpenPGP, it's with poorly written email clients (e.g. all email clients).
I worked the lowest paying job in a ski lodge one winter. One day while waiting in the cafeteria line, one hand on the stainless steel counter, I noticed that I got a bit of a shock from the steel railing on the other side.

There was also a stainless fryer on the counter, but insulated with plastic legs, so I did some experimenting by completing the circuit a few ways:

- Counter to rail: weak shock

- Counter to fryer: stronger shock

- Fryer to rail: nothing

I reasoned that the rail and fryer were both grounded, the fryer more so because the metal exterior was wired directly to the ground pin in a 3-prong electrical plug. The problem was the counter.

I was pretty stoked: as a lowly ski lodge porter / custodian I'd diagnosed an electrical fault in the cafeteria! Everyone working there was way above my pay grade, but I got the manager's attention and excitedly explained my three experiments. The manager looked annoyed, confirmed that touching the counter and fryer gave a shock, and then unplugged the fryer (thus removing the ground) and went on with the day. As far as I know the counter remained electrified for the rest of the season, or longer.

I'm amazed more people don't get electrocuted.
Does it matter whether the light was switched on? It seems like the path of least resistance in that scenario would be the other copper wire leading out of the light socket rather than the high resistance person connecting to ground.

I've had a similar experience, where (at the age of about 10) I touched an exposed 120v AC wire on a running water pump, while standing in a muddy field, and I only got a mild vibrating feeling from it.
“How to freeze your work number”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33212195
I would love to see some data about this but it wouldn’t surprise me if many USA residents don’t have a credit score at all, or if they do, it is very minimal. Given how many are underbanked, I wouldn’t be surprised if the average credit score is heavily skewed by the people gaming it.

Anecdotally, neither me nor my partner have a credit score. I know several people where I’m living that are permanent renters/get owner financed loans, buy used cars with cash (or are simply given old cars, or don’t have a car at all).

I did a superficial search and found some census data (https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/cps/cp...) but I have no idea how to read it.

Edit: Looks like my suspicions have some merit:

> 22% of Americans do not have a credit score. Half of this percentage has a stale credit score that makes it impossible to generate a valid FICO score while the other half do not have any credit file with any of the three credit bureaus—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.

> 18% of Americans have credit scores that fall in the 580-669 range of “fair.” those in the fair range are considered sub-prime and have lower chances of qualifying for a loan or getting better interest rates.

https://comparecamp.com/credit-score-statistics/
If you seriously don’t think this will be widely abused, then you’re extremely optimistic.

Spreading propaganda is the most obvious use case, assuming the resource requirement remains high. I don’t think it’s far-fetched either. If these models become less resource-hungry, then we’re in for much worse.
Another cautionary tale is the one of the "Death Valley Germans" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans) - to me, this one is even more chilling...
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn how to design apps?
There's a lot of great content on how to learn coding/CS from scratch but I don't see much on how to learn how to design applications.

Do you have any suggestions?
Given this is a story about a woman who repeatedly nearly dies it doesn't seem like it helps.
There is a refresh exclusion list which you can request your site to be added to. The proxy will continue to process requests for modules from your site but will not perform the automatic refresh which caused issues for Sourcehut. The Go team extended an offer to add Sourcehut to the list if a request to do so was made. The request never came and instead Sourcehut blocked the proxy.
> A single module can produce as much as 4 GiB of daily traffic from Google.

That’s (upper bound) 4Gib times 2500 per hour. That’s not nothing.
I was kind of miffed by this early on, but the Go team's solution has been surprisingly effective and it seems to have stood the test of time. Package management is hard, and Go modules are one of the best solutions in the entire programming ecosystem, which is to say they mostly do what you would expect with relatively little debugging. Some superficial stuff (e.g., error messages) could be improved and there are probably some niche use cases that aren't as intuitive as they could be (maybe something like nested modules?), but the overall approach generally works well.
One question I always have about logging: how do I log valid and expected but prohibited actions? That is, the system is behaving as designed but the user is seeing an error message because they're using the system wrong, and I want to know how often this is happening?
You’ve misread that part; the rules are offered tongue-in-cheek as a critique of false reassurance.
> Recent GPT/stable diffusion products universally blow people away with their output.

I've yet to be blown away by either system. I guess I am just incredibly cynical but the output of ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion aren't all that impressive to me. A lot of Stable Diffusion art just looks like browsing random DeviantArt or ArtStation pages. ChatGPT reminds me of IRC Markov bots, it produces the same non-sensical crap that they would. Only when a prompt hews incredibly close to some training content does it seem to product cogent output.

Both will get better and might become more impressive to me but right now that's not the case. My main issue is neither system actually understands what it is being asked. They're relying on the viewer's tendency for apophenia and pareidolia do make them think the system understood what it was asked.

I think there's justification for heavy skepticism for the future of these systems because we're approaching the point where their incorrect/inaccurate output is going to end up feeding the next generation systems' training data.
I believe smoking increases your risk of getting lung cancer by about 20%[1]. It's definitely significant, but plenty of regular smokers manage to die from something else. I'm pretty happy about the repression of public smoking though, because I find the odor of cigarette tobacco revolting and also prefer to not have my risk of lung cancer even moderately increased by second-hand smoke.

Annoyingly, it's hard to find good figures on relative risk for smokers and non-smokers, probably because of the current public health fad of dissembling to attempt to encourage desired behaviors. All I can find is that for the total population lifetime chance is 1/15 for men and 1/17 for women[2], with some weasel words about smoking increasing risk, but no actual quantification.

Edit: I appreciate the replies, but note that none of the sources cited actually list any meaningful quantifiable data. So I dug a bit more and found this[3]. It indicates that the effect is largely dose dependent and only really shows up in smokers of ten years or more. While p=.05 might fly for psychology studies, it's not a convincing bar for serious science. On the other hand the decade and longer smokers show a very respectable p=.001. For the heaviest smokers it looks like a bit over a 5x increase. Assuming continuity, there also exists some level of moderate smoking where my proposed 20% increased risk is accurate and even more limited levels of smoking where the risk is not appreciably higher than not smoking. In fact the data indicate that former smokers who quit for more than ten years actually have lower risk of lung cancer than never smokers! Surely that's some kind of noise, but it still goes to show.

[1] It's true that most people with lung cancer are or were smokers. But it's also true that most people with lung cancer are over 65, and they're from a period where most everyone was a smoker or exposed to smoke regularly. That's a pretty major confound. Over the next few decades we should get better data due to the relative decline in smoking making the effects of choosing to smoke clearer.

[2] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/lung-cancer/about/key-statisti...

[3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
EEAO is very unusual; it's an "indie" "arthouse" film that's stuffed full of references to other bits of non-Western cinema, as well as having lots of SFX action sequences. It had a budget of under $15m (per wikipedia), which is much less than the $170m of Top Gun: Maverick. I'm very glad that somehow it got made, but there's a real drive to not make any middle-budget movies like that any more.

> Top Gun: Maverick feels like it could have come out thirty years ago.

I've not seen it, but to what extent is that because it's a remake of a film that came out 30 years ago?
Hello, I'm Ray Kurzweil and welcome to my TED talk!
So they invented the ultimate "YES man"
Exoplanet.eu – The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
The quality of content on the internet has gone way down in my opinion. There is a proliferation of content that is so adwords optimized as to be useless, AI or cheapest content farm written, an annoying ad filled video, or some combination of all of those. It's still ok for computing and programming topics, but for almost any other non-fiction or reference type material I greatly prefer books, and older books at that. Not antique books, but even those from about 20 years ago still have much more content and better editing. I'm speaking of topics like gardening, homesteading, military history etc.
> A: Yes, here's one of my favorites: http://purple.com

purple.com has since caved.
The code compilation benchmarks on page 3 of this article [1] make me think about building a 7950X box as a CI runner. Just a massively brute force way to reduce continuous integration build and test times. :)

Has anyone benchmarked these against typical CI cloud providers, or deployed self-hosted runners like this? I’m curious if it’s truly possible to reduce CI times -50% to -75%. If so, huge win for developer happiness… and hardware and power costs would be pretty insignificant compared to the happiness and productivity gains.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-7600-7700-7900-linux/3
I think a big part of the delayed reveal of the skeleton only version in T1 is pretty simple: once you reveal that, Arnie is no longer in the movie, and the special effects required to fully animate it didn’t exist back then (other than stick figures or rotoscoping which would have looked awful). As is, the scenes with just the skeleton look like a stiff puppet show instead of some intimidating killer robot.
Comes around $8-11 of egress monthly traffic on AWS. I would think twice before signing up for a service that charges me $10/month - not sure why this should be any different.

Also, how do you opt-out? Imagine a random developer in a startup, running a Gitlab instance and then pushing a Go module there and only to be left with inexplicable traffic pattern(and bill). I have no skin in the game but this default _does not_ sound reasonable to me, whichever way you slice it.
I dunno, aren't people a bunch of morons when you really get down to it? Like, isn't that a legitimate complaint too?

> Whether he's a great programmer/contributor not isn't really important here.

I'd make a distinction here between having a reputation as a great contributor and having something important and correct to say in a given exchange. No, a community shouldn't put up with a person with a great reputation (or elevated title or higher pay grade) if they are unpleasant and wrong. But if they're right and they're a little impatient or impulsive, the community has more to gain from listening and simply pointing out they don't need to be impatient and impulsive. Let him build up a reputation for being a jerk rather than just ban him.
Someone in the Go team (rsc, IIRC) commented on how a Google executive came to him in the cafeteria to congratulate him on the launch. It turns out the executive confused him with someone on the Dart or Flutter teams.
Economic losses from hurricanes to become too big to be offset by the US
After watching several of my friends become managers, directors, and VPs, I got FOMO and finally said yes to the management track about 25 years of software development. After about 3 years of engineering management, I was absolutely miserable, almost not programming at all, and spending 6 or more hours per day making sure I was camera-ready for the next Zoom meeting. Fortunately I had an S-Corporation that lived in a binder on a shelf (and so can you for about $125 and a few mouse clicks), and it came to the rescue. I branded myself as an independent consultant, got super lucky and landed a few retainers, and here I am, making more money and largely sticking to programming at the Tech Lead level. Yeah there's a bit of extra effort that goes into invoicing, running payroll, and paying taxes, but it's nowhere near as bad as management.
OPML File of Personal Developer Blogs
During an ill-advised electrical experiment in my youth, I discharged a big capacitor into my hand. Luckily I think the current just went into and then out of my thumb back into the circuit. Still, the resulting shock knocked me over and gave me a tangible and valuable lesson about caution around high currents!
Alternatively Deere will lobby to get the EPA or some other bureaucracy to add an Oxford comma somewhere there wasn't one before necessitating expensive major revision to everything you make and you will be bankrupt long before the courts rule that no they didn't really have the authority to make that rule change.
Important for small form factor PCs, which are basically ITX PCs in the smallest possible case, often below 10L in size.
Bitcoin obsoletes all other money
For that, I learned on the job--

I had a skillset of:

A. Promoting products at events as a Brand Ambassador

B. html, css, and basic frontend javascript self-taught skills (from ebooks, youtube, udemy).

With skills A & B, I successfully justified that I should be hired into an entry level digital marketing role, where I used Marketo to email-spam B2B and set up web landing pages.

Once I had that initial job using Marketo software at a B2B software company, it was much easier to lang other digital marketing roles.
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2022 [pdf]
If you monetize it on those platforms it would be.
Who said anything about them? This is on scores reported in my online banking.
Are you saying those peoples' lives were totally fine, and then when they tried drugs they were ruined?

My understanding is that most people whose lives are in ruin and use drugs, use drugs because their lives were already ruined in some way or other.
Bottom up automation when top down automation can’t figure out what is really needed for a deployment. Once your weird cli deploy thing is complete, it can be given to a proper automation software team as a very clear spec.

But one side note: if you have sysadmin skills and can write some shell scripts and have used more than one distro, you are effectively a Do ker expert. Configuring a docker image is just says admin 101 with little bitty shell script fragments.
>A Big Pile of Personal Developer & Designer Blogs in an OPML File

https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/05/a-big-pile-of-personal-de...
Yes, risk can be fun.

But everyone I encountered in risk sports knew the difference between "smart crazy" vs "dumb crazy".

It is the difference between using knowledge, skill, technology, and mental focus to reduce risk to manageable levels, vs "getting away with it".

Getting away with it, riding on PDL — Pure Dumb Luck — can work for a long time. Until it doesn't, and you're dead. Like those YouTube idiots in the article. Getting away with it is just Russian Roulette with a different name and method.

Yet by using knowledge, skill, technology, and mental focus, people can live entire careers in situations that would reliably kill us in seconds, everythign from mountaineering, deep underwater, aviation, space, racecar driving, and more. Understand the risks, the skills to avoid them, the technology to minimize them, and pay attention, and you'll likely be rewarded with a lifetime of risky and rewarding adventures.

Read the books, take the lessons, get some good coaching and apprenticing, and don't cheap out on good gear (as they say, if you've got only a $10 head, then fine, get a $10 helmet, otherwise...). Also, listen to your body and the surroundings. If the conditions or your body is off, you don't have to TODAY climb that route, do that dive, whatever; you can do it or another one tomorrow.

It is no less joy to be wise about it!
The NH-D15 is what I actually have, and all other fans are Noctua save the GPU which has whatever the manufacturer figured was good enough. Now the PC isn't outrageously loud, but the fan hum can become tiring after a while if the CPU is busy. It's almost inaudible when idle.

Maybe there's an issue with general airflow in my case (an older Fractal Design Define R something).
"thanks" or something
It seems to me that dropping acid and entering large bodies of water is not a good combination.
One of the things I wished they did even more is keep it ambiguous whether the terminator is really a machine just a bit longer into the film. Everyone else thinks Sarah is hysterical, including herself ant first, and Kyle sounds just nuts after the tech noir bar scene- let the audience wonder a little more too! Did the guy just have a bullet proof vest on? Could Kyle actually be crazy?

I think a lot of the psychological horror here is traded for some very cool tech shots of the future, time travel and arnold vision early - probably a worthy trade. But it would be awesome to see a cut that holds its cards even closer to the chest and let’s more of that tension build.
Nothing of this is "new competition" though, and the threat from console gaming was arguably much bigger in the past, yet so far Steam has weathered all storms pretty well. There are now more ports from Xbox and PS to PC than ever before that would have been exclusives in the past (e.g. Sony 1st party titles like God of War, ten years ago something like this would "hell freezing over territory").
Had you seen the movie by that older guy up in Canada? Think it was made in the 60's. Very similar experience
"How much value do the credit agencies add beyond what could be obtained by knowing income, location, number of dependents, and current debt/liabilities?"

Theoretically they verify these numbers. Otherwise people would lie. Presumably, in the credit score calculation, they also have actuarial tables that allow calculating the odds of delay or default for each person.
I seem to recall github having this security hole in spades about a decade ago.
Counter-point - it didn't, SEO services quality went up.

Internet was always full of shit but when everything linked to everything else there was a way for search engines to find the valuable posts, with search engine being a gateway to everything that is no longer the case.
Does every site need to personally request they not be DoS attacked?
My test for this was very simple: open https://html5test.com/ and compare to the latest stable Safari release.

The Webkit clients I could get working on my machine all lacked features Safari reportedly support, leading to a lower score than Safari.

I don't know what's missing exactly, but there's clearly a distinction between the two, even if the core functionality is the same.
I mean, a credit report is only useful if it actually tells me about _your_ credit worthiness.

Sure, some Elon Musk guy might have enough credit worthiness to make a $44 billion purchase. But are _you_ Elon Musk or just some guy impersonating Elon Musk? Fraud may not be rampant enough currently but if Experian/etc continue to help fraudsters it will just keep getting worse.