skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- multithreading

- better design collected from our Web components https://componentator.com

- without third party dependencies (in the core)

- online chat support with authors and contributors (https://t.me/totaljs)

A lot of (open source) helpers like

- UI Builder https://uibuilder.totaljs.com (released soon),

- Total DB https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb (released soon),

- OpenMail, OpenTemplates, OpenAuth, etc..
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our many requests to stop. Not cool.

I appreciate your good comments but your frequent disregard for the intended spirit of this place causes more damage than your good comments add goodness, and set an unacceptable example for others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31682147 (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31114217 (April 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29913069 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320264 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24319283 (Aug 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21718992 (Dec 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19814870 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16547831 (March 2018)
> Can’t a cigar just be a cigar?

Not in 2023, not really.

We have all woken up to the fact that many people stand (and even more have stood) on the world stage pretending to be “simply stating” when the intent has been to push a narrative or give credibility to specific groups.

I’m adding this rebuttal because it’s fresh in my mind: https://youtu.be/WBxAQYmPHDA (starting 42:28). If you don’t like Neil try to listen to the point he’s making and separate it from him. It’s a point worth at least discussing critically: the intent of a statement is integral to the statement itself.
We should just make an IPv5 which takes a current address: 216.3.128.12 and makes it 0.0.0.0.216.3.128.12

So any address of the current length you just treat it as if it has zeroes in front, otherwise you use the longer length which allows for many more addresses. Problem solved.
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Nothing for Gimp?
We built a community to fix gaps in Kubernetes for edge use cases
Oh man I love this. Thanks for sharing.
KCP-Edge (kcp-edge.io) is a subproject of kcp (small footprint kubernetes) focusing on concerns arising from edge multicluster use case requirements:
- Desired placement expression : Need a way for one center object to express large number of desired copies
- Scheduling/syncing interface : Need something that scales to large number of destinations
- Rollout control : Need programmatic control of rollout, possibly including domain-specific logic
- Customization: Need a way for one pattern in the center to express how to customize for all the desired destinations
- Status from many destinations : Need a way to access status from individual edge copies
- Status summarization : Need a way to say how statuses from edge copies are processed/reduced along the way from edge to center .
You'd have to be a really...curious person to waste money on something like this. Then again, I don't play freemium games either so I'm clearly not the type of person who would pay for this.
Every time this comes up I feel like the root cause is being ignored: delivery apps are driving the majority of unsafe e-bike sales in NYC at least

Delivery drivers have bikes that meet a few key needs:

1. Must be cheap since the apps barely pay enough to make the job worth its while

2. Must be fast, since they're incentivized on multiple levels to make deliveries as fast as humanly possible

3. Must have maximum possible uptime, see 2.

That results in literal boatloads of imported bikes with insanely large batteries at the cheapest possible price point. They charge at the very limits that the batteries will support, they're barely QC'd, and the end result is a ticking time bomb.

It's a hairy situation because these people are just trying to make a living, but are forced to do so with extremely unsafe bikes. In my eyes it needs to be a two pronged attack: The government can't just try and only clamp down on the bike sales, people will find a way when their living depends on it.

They also need to work with these apps to remove the incentive and/or provide an alternative. Even if it means having to subsidize bikes for delivery riders I can't imagine the cost and tragedy of repeated fires won't quickly overcome what it'd cost to help them afford safer bikes.

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Also something I'm shocked hasn't happened yet is regulation on providing safe charging areas in new construction. It's not a solution for existing building because good luck getting half of these buildings to do that when working fire doors isn't a given... but the city is going in on biking, and e-bikes are a natural part of that.
My daughter recently moved from Vancouver BC (which sucks for housing) to Seattle, which sucks for housing.

Despite having a good university degree and a decent-paying white-collar job, she gets by in Seattle thanks to couch surfing and pet-sitting. It beats the alternative -- sharing with numerous flaky/crazy roommates.
on the other hand, if covid leak originated in a lab. Then scientists carelessly caused a global pandemic that killed millions. There must be some accountability for that too.
I get what the author is saying, but it still feels like it devalues tech skills.

There's some weird vibe the past few years where programming is mostly seen as a stepping stone to get to the things that really matter, be that Creating Business Value, funding, more money, career success, VC attention, GitHub stars. (Note how they're all extrinsic measures.) It's like caring about the act of programming is seen as vulgar.

The trope of siloed programmers is real, but the rest of us continue to suffer unduly for the fact that a few devs choose to remain unengaged with the larger context of their work.
> That said, the bill makes it clear that platforms aren’t liable for illegal user-generated content, unless they are aware of the content and fail to remove it.

Is there any clarity as to what "aware of" constitutes here? For example, telephone providers are aware that people are using their service for illicit things but knowing which account / phone call is illicit suddenly makes that all less clear.

Honestly, I'm not quite as bullish on the ability to regulate safety on the internet, considering a not insignificant amount of the privacy violations is promulgated by ad networks collecting information on behalf of intelligence agencies to work around those pesky constitutional provisions. The history of the internet is filled with "make you safer" legislation that achieves questionable results at best.
"Simulating" has a clear definition, but in this case what is it simulating? "Text-generating entities"? What are these text-generating entities it is (supposedly) simulating? Can you tell me where I can find one? Is it a person like me who writes this reply? So is it trying to simulate me personally?

Or are you thinking that it is simulating the aggregated behavior of all humans whose text-outputs are stored on the internet?

Are we saying it is simulating the combined input-output -behavior of all humans whose writings appear on the internet? But does such an "entity" exist and does it have behavior? I write this post and you answer. It is you who answers, not some mythical text-generator-entity that is responsible for all texts on the internet. There is no such entity is there?

It does not make sense to say that we are simulating the behavior of some non-existent entity. Non-existent entities do not have behavior, therefore we can not simulate them.
> once you are outside of the SV bubble you will notice a lot of companies dismiss candidates based on their tech stack.

My experience is entirely outside the SV crowd.
But, you're asking the bot a joke-riddle. If I entered "why did the chicken cross the road," the correct response from the bot would be "to get to the other side." It is the correct response to the joke.
The University of Bologna, where the word University came from, was:

1. A higher-education degree-awarding school

2. Offering publically recognized, official secular diplomas: originally they were grammar, rhetoric, logic, and different kinds of law, in addition to theology.
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Came here to recommend 2312 & the Expanse as well! Any other content in this genre you enjoy/would recommend? I'm looking for my "next"
Hey, I made this! Happy to answer any questions.
I don't think it was the "do what you want with your body" part that generated the opposition. It was a push to make everyone else accept that, for example, a trans woman was exactly equivalent to a woman. Not just in rights, but in all respects. Or the strong push for everyone, trans or not, to make a decision and advertise their own preferred pronouns. It didn't help to then push the philosophy that children, even young ones, should be able to make these kinds of major decisions independent of parental guidance.

If it were just about bodily freedom, nobody would really care. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous. Trans advocacy has very aggressively gone well beyond anything we experienced during the push for LGB equal rights.
I think an important point is that people might mean a couple of different things by “investment:”

One is a more traditional idea of investment, which isn’t so much about money, or cashing in later - it’s about having this particular dirt here for myself after some period of time. I may never get a financial reward, but this plot of land is MINE.

Another way “investment” is used is indeed about a financial reward and being able to sell for more later. Basically speculation.

Regarding the former, this is a natural way to think about it and while it might be expensive, the rational makes sense even if I don’t agree with it.

Regarding the latter, I think this came about more recently as people empirically observed housing prices going up, often faster than inflation. Without really understanding WHY it’s doing that, you might think of it like stock.

But the real reason housing had been going up over the last decades is that the government (US, and many others) have poured a lot of money into that market in various ways: tax incentives, loans, etc.

Supply restrictions come into play as well, but that’s a very local thing and not generally applicable.

So it’s not connected to real outputs like an investment. It will only keep going up as long as the government keeps pouring in more money. And when they don’t, or can’t, it won’t. And that’s when the “investment” will start to look a lot more like a speculation gone wrong.
They did break some promises here. So it might be a self fulfilling prophecy. But agreed, this is not a huge market.
Your personal chatbot to protect you will at first be a luxury and then be more of a commodity. It will run on your own machine. Right now you can run the big Facebook llama model on a single machine if you buy a $15,000 A100 with 80GB of VRAM. Churches, political parties and other moral associations will fine tune these chatbots based on their values.
Nah, there are countless roads to different game style preferences. Sandbox games without constraints can be a nice escape from a life that feels especially regimented, even if you only get to play in them here and there; or they can just be a fun game style that you ran into at the right and that stays interesting through nostalgia and accessible through familiarity; etc.

Conversely, goal-oriented games can just feel like "work" to someone who feels like their life involves a countless measurements and expectations, or just like intellectual labor to someone who is learning all the time; etc

As they say, it's really very hard to account for taste. It's usually not worth trying to analyze it for anyone but yourself (and only then if it helps you to do so).
For NTP, an alternative is letting the LAN devices connect to whatever NTP server they want to, and just NAT'ing outgoing udp/123 to your NTP server.
> It's to deal with the legal requirements for transporting passengers.

In 1982 the top selling vehicle in the US was the Ford Escort. In 2022 it was the Ford F-150.

People were hauled in the Escort just fine (and probably more comfortably in the rain and winter). The F-150 wasn't adapted to better haul people because changes to safety laws: it was adapted do help profit margins.
Hi HN,

Timo here, co-founder of Breviosity.

We want to help with a scenario we’re probably all too familiar with:

You have been working on this app for a while now and now you need to implement a killer feature that will skyrocket your app, so you start your research for an implementation.

Stackoverflow didn’t come to the rescue this time and after hours of jumping back and forth through YouTube videos to avoid the unavoidable palaver, a barely recognizable 12 minute video uploaded in 2016 from some person across the globe with 7 followers cuts all the talking and finally saves you. Well, almost… if only the packages hadn’t had a breaking change…

It’s time for a better solution. We are a place for straight to the point, snack-sized tutorials solving specific problems with a well-defined tool set.

No idea how to get started at all? Just ask for a tutorial or browse existing for ideas.

We see this as a whole new playing field for content creators, giving them greater freedom and more flexibility.

We just started accepting tutorial requests and will add the functionality to upload tutorials over the next days.

If you’re interested, have a look at breviosity.com.

Would love to hear your thoughts – either here or at timo@breviosity.com.
Well science don't prove things anyhow, it's inductive. Theory of gravity is "just a theory" too, and Newtonian descriptions of it work well enough. That's just what all theories are and will be, descriptions and predictions based on evidence that will evolve as we make better predictions. There ain't no such thing as "just a theory" because theory is the best you get.
> what was your experience with this?

Not OP, but I've lost >100 lb. three separate times in my life, so I suppose I qualify.

It affects you in ways that are analogous to overindulging in adult entertainment.

You need higher peaks (e.g. more salt) and, in my experience at least, you gradually lose the ability to pick out subtle flavors.

You start to prefer food that you can scale as you see fit. Lots of rice. Lots of potatoes. Lots of popcorn.
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I haven't used CrunchyData for work, but I see you as offering what RDS does plus plenty more. RDS does a lot, but after using Timescale Cloud professionally I saw how much RDS doesn't do, like actually-simple upgrades, one-click forks, etc. and Crunchy looks similar in going beyond RDS.

I think the community would really love to see a direct Fly+Crunchy integration!
It sounds like it, though I never thought that a condo might not be a worldwide thing.

It's an ownership structure where you own the insides of your unit and can do what you want with it, but everything outside the walls (shared building, common areas, lawn, parking lots/garages, etc.) is owned by a homeowner's association (HOA). You pay the HOA monthly dues - sometimes small ones, sometimes large ones, depending on what they do for you - which are set by the HOA themselves, and the HOA can have rules on what you're allowed to do on the outside of your unit. Repairs to common building infrastructure is the HOA's responsibility, repairs to your unit is your responsibility. The HOA is controlled by a board of directors that are elected from the set of homeowners. You own the equity in your own unit and can resell it for a profit.
Also, IPV6 has far more scalable systems for dynamic address allocation compared to IPv4.

SLAAC scales really, really well, and is fairly stateless compared to DHCPv4 or V6.

Also, slaac allows one to easily change the global prefix of a vm/host if it lives on another layer 3 network.

A good example of this:

you have two seperate datacenter networks based on an EVPN-VXLAN solution, and you do no want to stretch layer 2 across both datacenters because stretching layer 2 is a terrible, terrible idea[0].

Before IPv6, moving VM;s across datacenters which have different public ip space was a major pain for two reasons:

- IPV4 has no concept of using multiple addresses per interface without it having unexpected bahaviour on a host.
- address management at scale is a major PITA because DHCP is not scalable.

How to solve this with IPv6? It's fairly easy:

- Use slaac + prefix delegation of your globally unique address space (which is different per Datacenter).
- Use a different (site local) address to reach the VM for management purposes. Because this address is not globally routable, you are sure it will never leak into the greater internet and be reachable from the outside world.
- If you are using anycast, you can easily announce this prefix to upstream BGP neighbours because you can use BGP Neighbour Autodiscovery[1].

Trying to do this with Ipv4 will result in a mess of administration, not to mention have to do some clever technical hacks to make it work on some operating systems.

With IPv6 solving these issues becomes quite manageable.

[0] https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/06/stretched-vlan-define-probl...
[1] https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/b...
> Readability is definitely a strength of Python, not a weakness.

I find Python to be on the lower end of average in terms of readability.
- When you fire a lot of engineers, legal, security experts... things will still somehow keep working
- Also some people still want to keep working at this place (or must, because of VISA etc); It probably happens all the time, just this time everyone was watching it in full motion.
- I was sure this whole takeover was the end of twitter, but somehow with how many users twitter has, it just won't die. Goes to show the advantages of the mass.. probably the same applies to microsoft/google..
- The whole 8$ for a checkmark story.. which destroyed the whole trust in the checkmark basically immediately. The whole verification process (how that worked) - many people shared some insights on that and how much effort it was to fine-tune all of that with the scale of twitter.
- The free API just being shut down with basically zero communication to devs. and somehow getting away with it. I guess this is a reoccuring theme in tech that a small company has to be open for developers until it's big enough to turn on them.
- With the reduced engineering and the new management, it seems more errors slip into production (and incidents like the one now) - or maybe it just feels like it with all the focus on twitter right now - but anyways, you just see things breaking you normally would not expect to see..
- How people are communicating, or in this case not communicating.

I'm probably not the ideal person to write this down, there was so much stuff going on, some people probably made a whole blog-article series on this. This is just a few of the things that I'm able to remember right now.. and with everything on hn here it gives you some ideas and things to think about. Hope that Helps.
The people who pay for this are the people who use these platforms for their jobs. And even then, only the big ones. I think the last stats I saw on twitter blue was like 0.2% of account holders. Nearly a rounding error.
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Maybe some look good in high density cities in select areas of Europe which are helped by well preserved ancient architecture, but that's not replicable elsewhere. Go to more modern, large, genuine YIMBY cities where anything goes like Tokyo and Lagos and they are quite an eyesore
Solo technical founders should build API products
The bill is a campaign-finance tweak. It applies only to those getting paid to smear (or praise) an elected official. Nothing new. There are required ‘This ad paid for by…’ blurbs on other forms of media… this expends it to blogs.

I’m not in favor of any campaign finance laws. But, there’s nothing novel about this bill. As a practical matter, it’s a difficult law to write and difficult to enforce. Maybe TOO difficult to avoid 1st am stuff. But, the concept is hardly new.
If they weren't on welfare they'd be even worse off though. Giving money to people causes Walmart to pay them more, because it gives them more negotiating power.

It'd be true for wage subsidies (giving Walmart money), and of course it's also true for programs with welfare cliffs (work requirements or those horrible SSDI asset limits). I don't think the programs he was talking about have that issue though.

Of course the real problem with trying to solve everything with wage increases is that it doesn't help non-workers like children and elderly people.
Does anyone know what the author means with the citation dates in:

"Bertrand Russell has argued that philosophical (“scientific”, note by the author) inquiry must stay value-free (Russell, 1956, 2007) "

I was somewhat enjoying the article, but hitting these dates attributed to Bertrand Russel (who died in 1970) made me think of these GPT generated essays that manage to look authentic but commit stupid errors. I was then terrified of being fooled by generative text and now I need to be sure before I can keep reading through.
Did you play Sim City 2000?
I see RDS as the absolute bare minimum for a managed database; providers like Timescale or Crunchy tend to add some pretty useful stuff on top.
It’s not true. I know people who lost contracts because they were using Azure and the customer wanted to respect the law.
I don't know the details of how Heroku implements their hosted postgres service, but I'm _guessing_ that it's just a bunch of PG servers running on EC2 instances. There's probably a lot of CPU stealing "noisy neighbors" going on. But yeah, I've also experienced Heroku's PG databases being dog-slow compared to RDS for the same workloads.
> Boat-tracking regulation is a warrantless search, court says.

Ah, but ubiquitous ALPR is OK. Got it!
US can stop Twitter from releasing details in spy report
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University
Good deal! I just can’t trust anybody from old Twitter after their abuses. Looks like I’ll have to wait and see how your product develops rather than just writing you off as a sort of zombie mode Ole Twitter.
Thanks for the question! Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by "optimization options?" We've helped a number of our customers fine tune models and optimize for increased quality, lower cost, or decreased latency (e.g. fine-tune curie to perform as well as regular davinci, but at a lower cost and latency).

We offer UIs and APIs for "feeding back actuals" and providing indications on the quality of the models output / what it should have output. This feedback loop is used to then periodically re-train fine-tuned models.

Hopefully this answers your question, but happy to respond with follow-ups if not!
It was probably linked to by other websites. I've been seeing more news organizations directly linking to reddit, and I believe Google manually boosted reddit results a few years ago. You used to never see them in search results, but now they have started showing up.
It's fun being a sysadmin sometimes. I tripped over a similar cost savings and instead of opening up a ticket I just spent 30 sweeping up the unneeded resources.

Later I ran the numbers and realized this alone covered about half my total cost to the company. You don't often get feedback that direct about your impact on the bottom line.
Musk (1971) is chronologically older than The Mythical Man Month (1975), but I bet it had already been published by the time he could have understood it.

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect