skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New online superstore surpasses Amazon and Walmart to become most downloaded app
We don’t want to deal with having to be forced into having specific hardware, operating systems, and browsers to watch content we paid for. I’ve had perfectly good monitors that were before HDCP was a thing, and these sites gimp the quality or outright refuse to play media because the monitor didn’t have some bogus technology.
That style of Weller soldering iron really is the best.
Too bad prices has become even more crazy. I managed to get a WHS M for €200 back in 2010 (which was a good deal, but nothing extreme). Now they are going for €500.
Is there still no competition?
I remember a NYTimes article from the last year describing the culture clash between employees wanting to work remote, and management wanting to work in person. The most illustrative example was a CEO of a company in Seattle. When an employee said they appreciated WFH because the lack of commute gave them the time to take jiujitsu classes, the CEO told them they respected their interests, but they needed to consider if their future was in the UFC or working for the company.

The same CEO, when asked about why he preferred working in the office, mentioned something about being more energized by the view from his office, and something about liking the fried chicken restaurant next to the building.

It was a particularly egregious example, but I’m fairly certain this is almost entirely a matter of upper management simply personally preferring the in office lifestyle, in no small part due to the perks of upper management. But it’s hard to justify the glitzy downtown office building or corporate mega campus when they have a average occupancy rate if 20%, which seems to be the case when employees have a choice, and so they are trying to force their preference upon everyone else with made-up assurances about how much more productive everyone is in office.
> I don't it take years to already built app to integrate.

Maybe it’s harder to integrate with Apple’s music platform?

Or maybe the team just fell apart after the acquisition.

It seems likely that they are just delayed or failing than that they bought it to kill it.
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> why would i want to be rich if not to direct more resources to...

These days, I think most of the motivation to be seriously rich (vs. mere "can afford two nicer McMansions, and your kids don't qualify for college financial aid" rich) is a humans-are-primates obsession* with being further up the pecking order.

But your bottom line is still valid. The rich are definitely not allocating resources in ways which are beneficial to society.

*Less-flattering terms, perhaps from the DSM-5, would seem applicable in many cases.
Except that before the “I’ve Never Seen A Bubble” Federal Reserve and “Everything’s AAA” Credit Agencies got involved those prices were closer to $60/sq foot. The massive amount of QE since 2008 and 2020 has sloshed into the housing market.

The saying used to me that “all real estate is local” meaning that economic trends didn’t dominate local economic trends. Today it’s completely dominated by the Fed.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IASTHPI
I can't believe I never listened the whole piece. It has been an awesome experience! Thank you!
Also, I had the impression that reported known reserves, which are treated as an asset?, have been inflated.
rate limit. Or paywall.
It's a matter of perspective. No-one knew they were in a 'world' war at the time. 50 years from now historians will probably look back at this as 'world war 3' and we're just living through it oblivious.
I’m still in my 20’s and even now don’t think I’d be “wise” enough to write much more than a “dumb crap I did in my 20’s” post.

A memoir, to me, is a story of someone’s most impactful time of their life. And I hope my most impactful moments come after my tumultuous 20’s, heck after my 30’s
See also: https://github.com/flynn/noise
This problem will only be solved by legislation. If countries seek to reduce e-waste they need to force electronics makers to ensure a minimum length of support on the same conditions as existed on the date of sale - say 10 years.
"The Ego Tunnel" by Thomas Metzinger
Germany raises red flags about Palantir’s big data dragnet
That's not too bad. Most desktop work require only a tiny fraction of the memory a discrete GPU has on-board. As long as the OS manages it well enough (letting programs use the remaining memory safely while keeping the VRAM filesystem safe), seems like a good solution.
> This practice of requiring /24 subnets may have made sense in the past to preserve router memory, but with today's technology, it's nonsensical and only serves to artificially deplete available IPv4 addresses.

You should be surprised about how much of the internet still runs on gear from late 1990s
Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
Music Lovers Unite
That situation is actually pretty common. The problem is that the gear spacing is quite wide, so there's rarely a use for more than 2 of those gears in a lot of regions.

Also, 3-speed bikes in the US were sold with no gearing options. Schwinn geared them too high in my opinion. In England, the bike dealers were instructed to work with the customer to choose a cog that was appropriate for each rider's terrain and physique.

I've geared mine based on the realization that my top speed is likely to be limited by wind resistance and my own physique, and I don't need gears that are faster than I can ride.
You're not taking into consideration how the actual artists actually feel. And, from the first hand - the feeling is horrible. Most artists love to draw, the process itself is incredibly satisfying. Just like a musician loves his instrument.

This is destroying them, stealing the joy from the thing they devoted decades of life. My wife is extremely depressed by this, to the point I think she'll need serious therapy. She still has most of her job, but yeah recent developments like ControlNet? Well, shit.
We have created a social discovery application that allows music lovers to build the soundtrack of their lives and connect with other music lovers who have similar soundtracks. We would love feedback on our MVP.
> Since we don't have infinite space, we can expect eventually to lose some messages in this scenario.

Sure, that's technically correct but applies to basically everything. It is very likely your users/orders/whatever table in your database is also "trending to infinity" over time, except this doesn't mean databases should always be empty or that we should expect to eventually lose some users/orders/whatever.

Or, more succinctly, if your queue capacity is 10 million messages and your queue messages represent "houses purchased through our website", then in reality your queue capacity is infinite because nobody will ever purchase 10 million homes through your application per small unit of time.
This is a call for solidarity in Syria, Turkey, and Kurdistan after the devastating earthquake there.
Being a full Apple user, this guy is the victim of his own enslavement...
Revenue is easy, profit is harder
I am also surprised because it feels like stuttering must be less common than the article suggests, or they're using a looser definition than what I think of. I stutter and didn't encounter another person who stutters until I was almost 40, which seems statistically almost impossible if 1% of the population has a stutter.

The author of this piece also seems to have some self-limiting beliefs. Stuttering doesn't need to mean living in fear or a constant state of longing. I hope they've made some progress on this front over the past 12 years.
Please reveal what you work on so I can publicly judge whether you have considered and properly chosen between intent vs impact or any other possible moral failings of your work as I see it.
I'm not prepping at all. If a real "world war" breaks out with china I assume it will use bioweapons and other new shit and we'll all be done for fast (both sides).
Some people say all wars start after the debt bubbles especially in the financial sectors, If you see around the major countries the debt bubble is increasing and that was also the case before ww1 and ww2

What is important to know that the war is already out there. Its basically hybrid war. The country or group controlling the information is winning. Controlling information is a powerful tool because you can reach million of users and change narratives and people start talking creating hashtags and asking for protection. Budget kicks in money is spend weapons are bought etc etc. The country or group controlling information can suppress any rebels.

WW3 could be the last one as per various revelations The Battle of Armageddon
A bit of a tangent but something I've found over the last several years is that my rate of typos involving homophones has skyrocketed. It's become so bad I've started to reread sentences after I type them. I don't need coworkers thinking that I don't know the difference between "to" and "too".

I have no idea why this is happening. I keep wondering if it's tied to aging, our increasingly digital society, something else, or a combination of factors.
PM working on Private Browsing mode here. Watching pornography is not the reason why the new Private Browsing mode was created. The goal is to provide an Private Mode than can be used for Christmas shopping. ;)

In all seriousness, despite intentions, and I do love headless mode for actual integration tests with Webdriver, it’s no exaggeration to say that it is likely the single greatest avenue for bots and spam enablement across the entire internet, and imo is probably net Bad.
Pretty weak comparison. Bernie was able to run for president without being poisoned or jailed.
Local-first goes beyond privacy and offline, but nevertheless I think it serves those goals better in fairly obvious ways.

I'm a programmer and artist that works with various non local-first tools (ranging from project management/task collaboration, diagramming, programming--iterating and generating code, etc) and the thing I want more than anything is the fast, tightly integrated experience you get from desktop apps. (The web tech stack is all oriented around consumer-first and not producer-first.)

We need a streamlined tech stack for desktop-first applications. Which probably involves a p2p (*ish) connection and sharing mechanism (nostr looks interesting for this), CRDTs or other patterns, and -- why is this so friggin hard -- tools, frameworks and libraries for cross-platform desktop apps (and don't say you can't retain OS-specific touchpoints when doing this).
> I wonder if this will make classical education more valuable (after graduation you're starting as high value producer)

I haven't noticed a correlation between formal education and the people that I would describe as "high value producers". That could be a bias because the median person without a degree doesn't get hired at all, but if we're removing mid-tier and below devs from the work pool, that's going to eliminate most of the people I know with CS or SE degrees.
But then you'd need to transfer uncompressed data over the PCIe bus.
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Is it too late to change the name from "new headless"? It won't be new forever, and then there will need to be a new new mode, or a differently named one that people think is older because it isn't the new mode.
I am well aware that EU claimed for decades that Boeing's military contracts were some sort of hidden subsidy for its civilian business. That does not make said claims accurate, or why McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed would not have sought to benefit from such subsidies, as opposed to selling itself to Boeing and exiting the airliner business, respectively.

SpaceX gets plenty of government contracts because it has proven, reliable, and volume-capable launchers of government payloads. Many within NASA were fiercely opposed to SpaceX for years.
Creating a community via open radio broadcasts would be easier via ham radio. And new blood would be good for hame radio, which has ossified.

And you’d no longer be limited to half a kilometer - to your existing peers.
I’m Taiwanese American, so yes.

I am gathering as much knowledge and skills as I can that I feel might be useful. The folks who had to go through WW2 probably would have appreciated a message along the lines of: “don’t trust your government’s paper money.”
Regulation. You want regulation. And some social safety nets like social security, health care. Etc.

Edit-also the reason you don’t immediately think of the word “regulation” is for the last 40+ years anyone suggesting regulation has been ran from public life as a communist or nazi. But regulation absolutely is just applying the usual legal system to the market to make sure the market stays within acceptable and safe bounds.
I bought a radiation dosimeter (GQ GMC-500Plus) as well as some iodine tablets. I also have several jugs of water, large bags of rice and beans, a few paper books and basic first aid supplies.

Last April I made a sign that says "WE ARE SLEEPWALKING INTO NUCLEAR WAR" and I spent some time holding it up on a busy intersection near my home in Chattanooga, TN. I decided to do this after seeing the way I was shadowbanned on social media for occasional posts in protest of clearly harmful media narratives. I don't think that I am likely to change the course of events at all, but it beats just sitting on your hands and sulking about it:

https://twitter.com/realTaraHarris/status/152157741487430451...

https://twitter.com/realTaraHarris/status/161793964289205862...

I am saddened that a larger anti-war movement has not materialized by this point. Something foul happened to American media after the second Iraq war.

Edit: go head and downvote me. I'm just honestly answering the OP's question. I'll protest the American empire, in real life on the street, for an additional hour for each downvote I get.
Subsidies don't really count as central planning. It's a way to nudge market participants in a certain direction but they still have autonomy.
Proof-of-work schemes such as Hashcash[1] and simple ratelimiting algorithms can act as deterrents to spamming and scraping attacks.

There are other kinds of non-invasive bot management you can do as well, however, due to various reasons I'm not in a position to talk about it. A few other methods are mentioned at the end of the post being discussed[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

[2] https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2023/02/19/new-hea...
The growth rate of a queue is not constant, it could get bigger during the day, but smaller at night, since customers are not using the service.
At the database table level, each field could have the following properties which processed together would decide the level of access for that piece of data stored.

data_access: private|public
data_scope: single|composite
data_exempt: age|gender|otherpiifield

Somewhat protecting PII by not allowing querries which would infringe PII rules when selecting multiple sensitive fields.
BGP is what "the Internet" uses to say what IP addresses can be reached over the various network links that connect different providers. If you had links to two different providers, you would talk BGP to them and say "You can reach this set of IP addresses via me." They then propagate that announcement on to other providers that they connect to.

This is done via ASNs (Autonomous Systems Numbers), like 32150 (my old ASN). Each hop along the way gets their ASN tacked on. It's like a flood-fill to all the BGP routers in the world.

When you "traceroute", you see IP hops along the way, but the ISPs routers choose links based on this list of autonomous paths (among other things). Basically, a AS-level traceroute is built into the BGP routing information. At it's most basic, a path is selected based on the shortest AS path (traceroute, but at the organization level rather than IP level); the fewest number of networks the traffic has to traverse.

If a link goes down (either because of a network failing, or because of administrative reasons), traffic will eventually switch over to another way of reaching the destination. You can also do things like pad the AS path with multiple copies of your AS to cause traffic to switch to another link more frequently, as a kind of primitive load balancing.
Cozette – a bitmap programming font optimized for coziness
The economy is always inflationary. Money today is worth less than it is tomorrow. Money that the bank has is just rotting away, becoming less valuable over time. Banks need to take the cash they have and invest it in something to offset the inflationary losses. Because bonds weren't paying much interest, it was a better return for the bank to loan out the money for mortgages, investors, etc. Eventually those loans become a part of someone's paycheck or into their bank account (ie home sale that ended up with a 2-300% return). Compared to the bank buying bonds which essentially removes money from the economy.
Rob clearly has an abundance of talent however it may never be realised if he continues on his current journey of pontification and naval gazing
email address, pw, and presumably a whole bunch of unencrypted personal notes.
only 1% of people can lose more than 5kg and keep it off.

if almost 100% of people can't do something, describing it as "not hard to fathom" completely misrepresents the issue.
You can store twice as many puns on a 16" punchcard.
Or vote with our dollars and reject "cloud" connected devices
From the user's perspective, the circle that was originally drawn, which wasn't touched when adding a second circle to the sketch. If the original was deleted, then it's unclear (possibly assume the first replacement).

IIRC (not testing now) FreeCAD already handles this example sensibly. You can add circles to the sketch and the chamfer stays put. If you delete the circle and add a new one, it appears on the new hole. But if you add a square instead, it moves to a random edge of the rectangular hole.

The 'edge' of the rectangular hole is actually a loop of four edges, so this is understandable. Commercial software can fix some of these cases - I don't think the Freecad link branch can, but it does at least detect that the original geometry was deleted and raises an error asking you to reselect instead of allowing things to move around. And unrelated features downstream don't break. Not dissimilar UX to when I mess with something that Fusion can't handle, I say.
Writing code constantly and with each new product, how do I get it out faster and in less pages? This has made me a better programmer. I aim to try and get projects done from 1 weekend to 1 month and not take too much longer than that.
Similar situation for my kids, both in college. Both have built up single-speeds. They can lock up their bikes on campus and enjoy "security by obscurity," but at their apartments, they have to bring their bikes in or hide them well.
What options for those looking to place their chips on AI in a more specific sense than Google or Microsoft?
6647 out of the 11007 in the GSMArena's database!

https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?chkFMradio=selected
accepting that value systems are subjective doesn't lead to nihilism. you can still discuss ethics, for example based on widespread values
How do you implement editable list of items where requirements are that:

- editing/creating new has to be in a popup
- people don't want full page reload because they lose context (and have "feel" it beeing slow even if it is not)
- edit-table is not a solution because amount of settings will fit popup
- some things like item name in a list has to be updated in the list after saving in popip which requires two way data binding, because cannot do page reload
- pagination and filtering is required and for same reason as above cannot be full page reload

I don't see how you implement that in a way that is maintainable with "sprinkling jQuery" on it.
I would like to build it with full page reloads which would be fast and would take away complexity but every business analyst or product owner I saw was saying that "users feel" it is slow and they lose context even if list has stable sort and filtering was kept between reloads.
Interesting, I didn’t know that. But worth pointing out that he seemingly referenced it when he said a few angry terrorists was worth the price of helping bankrupt the Soviet Union.
What do you mean by a "mesh-oriented obfuscation"? My best guess is: serving a different subset of the VM detection code to each client?
Can you share this piece of code?
At least the author is able to reflect on his life, at multiple times in his life. That’s not a bad skill.
Eventually the music will stop for programmers too, but right now ChatGPT and its variants probably pose a bigger threat to people writing texts for a living. Journalists for example will become a lot more productive.
Words ‘created the internet.’ Now the Supreme Court may be coming for them
The thing about cockroaches, ants, and mice, is that if you see one of them, you know there are a lot more of them hiding.

By similar logic, we know that one of these myriad of seemingly useless [0] admins is using AI to do a portion of their job. One of the most human portions of the position, I would argue.

The question then is, how much else of that job is being done via AI? And then how much of the many other admins' jobs are done by AI already, and could be done by AI in the very near future?

[0] in this case, actively worse than useless to their administration and school community
OK, but somebody kindly help me with some resources that teach me 'Good Stoicism'?
But for what purpose, then?
Sorry if this comes off as harsh but, AI is not stopping anyone from drawing. The person looking at AI and then fretting about the future, and then not drawing is the person preventing the drawing from happening.

The same thing happened to bank tellers with the ATM. Jobs change and so do industries. Art's become more niche.
North Korea says it tested ICBM in surprise drill
> I have a super rudimentary understanding of what BGP is (it allows you to advertise addresses something something)

The TL;DR:

Yes, BGP allows you to advertise addresses.

Ergo, it is allows you to build resilience, i.e. you can connect to multiple independent ISPs and advertise the same addresses. Hence traffic will always be able to reach you even if one ISP goes FUBAR.

By the same token, it makes pretty much zero sense to have BGP on a home connection (or, in technical speak, a "single-homed connection"). Since really BGP is a zero-sum game on single-homed connections (no real benefit, much added complexity).
This is true, but my point is that it’s not predictable.
e.g. I have 1 TB db with 50 tables and a specific i/u/d pattern. Until i replicate the whole db incrementally and run this with some warehouse, there is no way i can make an estimation about #credits per year. I want to add some new big dbt model? There is no way i know how much time will a warehouse be running because the query planner cannot create a sensible query execution plan. And so on.

Charging e.g. by # of processed rows is more predictable from end-user/admin perspective. That’s all. But obviously they make more money the way they price, what do i know? :-)
You are making a somewhat subtle error here, which is assuming that the (output_rate-input_rate) is statistically independent of the size of the queue. Note that this does not necessarily imply that the output process changes based on the size of the queue. For example, consider a microphone that emits 100 raw samples to a buffer per ms and a real-time thread scheduled every 2ms that processes very quickly. a 300-sample buffer is more than enough here, even though the buffer will be over half full about a quarter of the time, and will never be empty. In this case, the velocity conditional on size being less than half is -100 samples/ms and the velocity conditional on size being greater than half is 400 samples/ms.
It was a combination of MUDs and IRC that did it for me.