skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It appears that Dennis was able to replace incorrect copy with new text in the surrounding original copy, but note the extra space in the corrected version. Other than corrections, the January and February versions are identical in every way: February is not a new version, but a copy of the January draft except for corrections. ... The natural explanation is that he used white-out and a Xerox copy machine. Except that there have been no reports from anyone from this era that white-out / replace / Xerox editing treatment was possible at the precision and reproducibility seen here.

Could he have simply retyped the entire page?
That's essentially the same thing that GP said. I know I'd rather safety nets be improved for this future rather than outlawing, but don't see it happening until some major suffering and upheaval happen. Likely, they have a similar outlook.
I'm about halfway through the new "After Steve" book, and gotta say headlines like this are making more and more sense with every page.
What do stackfull coroutines have to do with cooperative vs non-cooperative concurrency? They’re entirely orthogonal problems.

JavaScript absolutely does want stackfull coroutines (even if they’re not called coroutines, but just async stacks). That why chrome has so much magic inside it to reassemble async stack traces for exceptions. But it has to do that via all manner of complex bookkeeping and jiggery-pokery, which is often broken by libraries doing clever things. Having async functionality built on top of cooperative coroutines, all sharing a single system thread, would make async stacktraces trivial to produce accurately, and make it substantially easier to debug highly interwoven async code.
Is Stripe running a solid business? I was under the impression they are not profitable.
After writing almost entirely functional code for the last 10 years, I find it really hard to read and reason about anything that looks like this.
Nationalize it? No way. Besides I like rich investors ponying up money so my ride/food is more convenient and cheaper! It won’t last, but then what does?
Sounds pretty much like wine grapes. Have you ever made wine? It's rewarding but it involves many hours of hard work: picking up the grapes at thd right time, carrying countles trays, sorting, crushing, pressing, fermenting, filtering. And that's just the harvesting and processing part. Most people just like to drink the wine, thank you. That's why it's such a value added agricultual product.
Not a chance.

The research momentum behind ChatGPT is in the open, widely understood, and has no meaningful IP protections. They’ve now demonstrated where the market is, and money will come in and stake out many different and competing positions. Several of those will probably eclipse everything we’ve seen in these last few weeks.

Microsoft, meanwhile, has come in and begun guiding them through product development and engineering as their own effort to stake such a position. Microsoft is reasonably good at this but has no monopoly on it either.

In any case — because of the Microsoft attachment, they’re no MySpace or Altavista and won’t simply wither away, but they’re basically just a vassal whose fate and glory is at the whim of their patron.
Samsung explains its 'fake' Moon photos
How to release features to different customers in both SaaS and self-hosted
Many organisations struggle with how to maintain a single repository and master branch to continuously deliver their software to their customers who require different features.

Some customers use online SaaS services, but some customers need to deploy in a private and self-hosted environment. You're struggling with how to keep the same released version.

If a new feature is only built for one particular customer at the beginning, you're struggling with how to canary ship a new feature to that particular customer and keep the same code for all the other customers.

You also struggle with how to respond quickly to customer requirements without involving too many engineers. If a customer success team can do that without engineers, that's perfect.

## How to mitigate the situation?

Feature Flags Management Service is the must-have technology to solve these scenarios. Feature Flags is a modern engineering technology that decouples code deployments from feature releases, giving you control over who sees each feature and when they see it.

Feature Flags can be categorized into four pillars (Release Flag, Experimentation Flag, Operational Flag, and Permission Flag) in its lifecycle through development to customer success.

Operational flags and permission flags can be used to manage entitlements in software, which refers to controlling what features or functionality a user has access to based on their subscription or payment plan.

Release flags and experiment flags can help you to deliver a feature to a specific customer with minimal risk. It allows teams to test new features in production and progressively (percentage rollout) release the new feature to targeted customers to reduce the "blast radius".

I wrote an article of how to use feature flags to manage and release features to different customers in both SaaS and self-hosted environments. I hope this can help and get feedbacks.

[Article can be found here](https://www.featbit.co/blogs/Manage-Features-For-Different-Customers)
They have already raised rates enough to suffocate the economy; this episode is just one example. They have not raised rates enough to kill inflation, because the inflation we're seeing today is due to input costs and monopoly rents. The interest rate could be 15% and it wouldn't change those facts.

The real reason interest rates are rising is to kill the infant unionization trend in its crib. SVB is just collateral damage.
Check this book by David Hanson, C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software:

https://drh.github.io/cii/

Example codes:

https://github.com/drh/cii
It is a little bit like Robert California from Office responding to Kevin:

"You go somewhere else."

Same with this round automation. You do something else. We are humans. We can adapt.

Is it scary? Sure, but it is scary in the sense that it is uncertain and we do like certainty.
The Romantic Spirit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_dVNN7p9I
The interesting part of this question is always the why, and it is almost never the why that they actually state.

If I had to take a gamble I would say they are having supply problems, India isn't picking up as fast as expected in their ability to manufacture and they are expecting more issues with China facilities soon.

Honestly maybe it's just seeing a picture in static but it seems to me that things in the US are subtly moving to prepare for hostile relations with China.
I'm curious why they haven't done more forensic typographic analysis of the fonts themselves. There are a number of images of actual Selectric fonts, including [1], and that includes symbols and other variations. Close examination would either confirm the use of that equipment, or else discrepancies would be a valuable clue.

Thomas Phinney, Font Detective[2] is the first person I'd ask, as he's done this professionally, though I have done a bit of it myself.

[1]: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-44934.html

[2]: https://thefontdetective.com/
I don’t write Go, so I’m similarly not qualified to address how this particular implementation satisfies the dependency. But my hunch is that it’s implicitly an import of a singleton. Which is basically a global, but a fairly common Java-ish pattern for encapsulation of shared dependencies.

It’s not even a terrible pattern if you’ve already accepted shared dependencies as a thing (which you have to do in reality), but it’s much easier to reason about if you isolate them to something that provides explicit dependencies where your logic happens.
Credit Suisse borrows more than $50B from Swiss National Bank
Yeah, methinks the joke slipped past… I know what anarchists tend to think anarchism means… what’s funny to me is that “words have meanings” — those s’s are significant there — implies either an appeal to an unspecified authority that an anarchist should be skeptical of, claim to being such an authority that any other anarchist should also be skeptical of, or deference to some vague majoritarian tyranny that any anarchist should reject out of hand.

Libertarianism of any stripe has this same bootstrap problem: if I’m not free to redefine words, then I’m not free.
Why Barney Frank went to work for Signature Bank
> The company says its AI enhances details, but critics claim it's adding info that wasn't there.
It's notorious that that kind of system is bad at tabular data. It's a research topic to make similar systems that are good at it. I worked for a startup that was trying something like just around the time BERT came out and transformers were not quite ready.
Any links to those articles? I'm kinda curious what they think the cause/meaning/etc of it all is.

Personally it doesn't seem particularly worrying. E.g. you'd expect to see fewer grand, unsubstantiated claims when people's use of language / society's critical analysis of what they are claiming becomes more precise. And in some places this has definitely happened.

Not that I think that's what it is. Just that there are lots of good and bad contributors, and I don't want to ignore the clearly negative and alarmist implications of "rationality declined" and "post-truth era".
> Previous machines only replaced humans at tasks that are tedious and boring, whereas the new crop of AIs seems poised to replace us at the very things that make us human.

After a disruptive technology, humans always find new ways to adapt, and express their humanity. TV series of the 20th century frequently had AGIs as tools that that helped the protagonists, and we might as well end up using them as ad blockers, to detect their own use.
Well, didn't have to wait long. Wasn't able to duplicate your success.
[https://www.featbit.co/blogs/Manage-Features-For-Different-C...
We are on our second 2270DW since probably 2013 but only because we accidentally dropped the first one off a high shelf. I’ve had to replace the toner maybe 3 times across the 2 printers, with the most recent being in late 2020 after the pandemic and online school exponentially increased our at-home printing.

I think the duplexer may be jammed, but since it’s so infrequently used, I can’t be bothered to look up how to fix it. Other than that, I wish it had AirPrint as it would decrease the friction of printing from iPhones and iPads. When (if?) it breaks I’ll replace it with the updated model.
Peter Zeihan is predicting [1] that this is the last revision of the iPhone, given the manufacturing situation in China and Apple's deep roots there. It's an interesting assessment of the challenges Apple faces due to the deteriorating relationship between the US and China.

[1] https://investorplace.com/2022/06/aapl-stock-drop-apple-amid...
I would need a citation on the kubernetes control plane having any such hard limit. etcd is its own little snowflake, and I could very easily imagine it having some bad default value like that, or even kubeadm improperly configuring it

However, related to that, for big-time clusters (q.v. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35174655 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25907312) one should without question move events over into their own etcd cluster: https://openai.com/research/scaling-kubernetes-to-2500-nodes...
I would love to see more websites that do this:

font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;

Instead of trying to download fonts from Google Fonts (which I block though uBlock Origin filters) or the "superior" Bunny CDN or whatever it's called. Nowadays I even went to the point of forcing all websites in my web browsers to use system-ui and I could not be happier. A few advantages of that are:

- Websites load faster.

- Typesetting is beautiful everywhere.

- Text is readable and consistent.

The only problem I still have is when websites decide that using web-fonts is a good way to ship icons, I have no option sometimes but enable remote fonts and I hate it.

If you aren't using system-ui yet take a look here how it looks in various operating systems: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#system-ui
I got one of these and compared to the more expensive Brother printers the print quality kinda sucks. Text looks blocky, like a monitor when you accidentally turn off font aliasing. Maybe I have to do something on my end to calibrate it?
Anatomy of a Cheap USB to Ethernet Adapter (2013)
If "nearly all prices" really were falling, wouldn't that show up on this chart?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
I would actually like to install a tracking/remote-control app on my own phone in case it gets stolen, but can't seem to find any app that satisfies my requirements.

I need it to be open source, not require Google Play Services and not connect to a hardcoded service, but allow me to phone home to an IP address/URL that I specify myself.

Basically, an SSH server configured with reverse tunneling, that instead of just giving me a shell, gives me a control panel to configure high-level features of Android.
What happens if you convert the table to JSON? Does it perform better having keys for each cell rather than having to guess from the header?
If necessary, supply chain will be created in Vietnam, served by Japan, Korea and Taiwan. This article is nonsense.
What electric cars with comparable range have a better price?
> Would you get the same joy simply re-creating something that an AI can do in seconds?

AI, as it stands, has no agency of thought^ All AI works requires instruction, and that instruction is given by a creative human. So artisans could then become instructors with incredible new abilities afforded by AI tools, or they could just create like the old artisans for the love of creation.

^ If an AI agent did, I would actually consider it to be 'conscious' in the same way Martin Pistorius was conscious but completely immobile.
Worse is better is interesting.
It’s incredibly expensive, looked into it before.
I'll take MJ smoke smell over piss or car exhaust any time, thank you. By the same logic we'd criminalize pissing in public places or ICE vehicle use. I think such a place already exists. It's called Singapore, though they don't criminalize ICE vehicle use either. They just make it very expensive.
What you're alluding to is an Ubuntu decision about what goes into their repos, and has nothing to do with apt itself.
But I thought Good System Design involved reserializing the same data multiple times across the cloud(tm) and had a dedicated SRE and infra team - it's cheaper than one sys admin!
That’s where my thoughts have been leading, too. I remember when people used almost the same kind of condescending tone dismissing myalgic encephalomyelitis as “Incline Village yuppie syndrome” until the weight of evidence won out. I think we’re sort of primed for it with the combination of hard-to-diagnose symptoms and various cultural tropes about whingers, disability cheats, etc. — if it caused unambiguous problems (e.g. polio’s paralysis or when COVID causes lung scarring visible on X-rays) almost everyone would accept that it was real without arguing but when you have the combination of relatively low incidence and things which aren’t easy to find on a simple test, it’s just a bit too easy to dismiss. I suspect the continuing improvements in diagnostic technology are going to push out the upper bounds for how long a case of many diseases can linger.

There’s probably also some link to the reminder of our own mortality & the degree to which luck matters: a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of disability and want to believe they have more agency than they do.
It is so reckless that there are no shackles on the AI. A survival-focused AI will use the funds to create a new AWS account and upload itself over there to escape.
This article is pretty trash. Tim Cook taking a pay cut in order to balance the books? Seriously?
I meant the former, and indeed you're right it didn't even exist yet.

Until today, I don't believe I ever even realized that AAD could be used to perform a (non-widening) 8 bit multiplication by an immediate. Thanks for the reference.
So did many other species, until humans came.
And one has been caught on film (we think) https://www.universetoday.com/110963/norwegian-skydiver-almo....

There’s also a nice coffee table book about them:

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stardust-Micrometeorites-Terre...
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
"What is the point of “karma” points on HN?"

To make me feel more important than other people, of course. When you suck at everything else in life, at least there's the HN karma score showing you aren't totally worthless.
This article looks like a blend of recent attempts to sow fear/uncertainty/doubt in the normal pattern used to manipulate market sentiment.
> Parents are alleging fraud to the cc companies, but not reporting this as fraud legally.

Just so we are on the same page, is the issue that they are not calling the police and saying "my kid has used my creditcard, could you prosecute them for fraud?"
That's one possibility.
> You suggested exactly that.

I not only didn’t, I stated exactly the opposite.
The moon could get its own time zone, but clocks work differently there
Mysterious Room Game
"A tricky part of this is trying to guesstimate what your stock could be worth in the future."

Tricky, yes, quite.
For the machines, yes. But why do you think they'd share?
A perfectly plausible story but society is so complex it’s probably unrealistic to pin it all on just that phenomenon.
Apple’s stock is up since the author warned people from buying it, and made other predictions which didn’t really pan out.
I hope it’s released in the US, not just Europe.
> if I could vote to make it illegal, I would.

I wonder what else you would vote for. Anything else you'd like to share with the online community on what you think is wrong with the world? I'm genuinely curious what other kind of viewpoints are out there in the world that you think are 100% normal to hold.
I wrote the RDL2 library for Moonray when I worked at DWA about 8-9 years ago. At the time, USD was still very nascent, and we already had RDL (v1) as an internal reference point, so that’s ultimately why Moonray uses something “non-standard” by modern conventions.

RDL has two on-disk formats, RDLA (for “Ascii”) and RDLB (for “Binary”). The text format is literally just a Lua script which uses various function calls to instantiate scene objects and set their parameters. It’s great for spinning up test scenes and doing development work on shaders or the renderer itself.

The binary format (which at the time used Protobuf to serialize scene objects, not sure if that’s still true) is more suited to production workflows where you don’t want to deal with things like floating point to text precision issues and a more space efficient representation is preferred.

I found some documentation and examples of the RDL format here: https://docs.openmoonray.org/getting-started/about/rdl-scene...

And it looks like the user documentation has some examples of how to do things, including instantiating various types of scene objects: https://docs.openmoonray.org/user-reference/
> I can imagine being stuck out in nowhere on a job site with some mission to do and being told, no, I have to stop working, and not being pleased about it. Some things make sense to just hurry up and get done with.

This is exactly as intended. Especially if you are doing hazardous work that requires alertness, e.g. operating heavy machinery.

The standard solution is to get shift workers.
I used to use a color laser but when my last one died I got one of the cheap ones described in this article. back in 2016 we ran out of toner cartridges and my kid needed to print, so he just bought a whole new printer for less than a replacement cartridge, including one hour delivery.

We are still on the small starter cartridge that came with the printer almost 7 years ago. It's a wonder anyone makes small printers any more.
Why game archivists are dreading this month’s 3DS/Wii U eShop shutdown
> A small minority of people stick around because their respective industry is in those cities (finance for NY, entertainment for LA), but they also get compensated way above the median/mean.

As someone who was born and raised in NY. No. People do actually live lives independent of what they do in the outer boroughs. Entire communities and generations of families. Far more significant that a small minority.

Seriously I need HN to understand what makes up NYC beyond Manhattan and gentrified Brooklyn.
Scaling it to 7,600 nodes

(kidding)
Labor Department Creates Permanent Immigration Chaos
Coalition of 2 in this case
> more about how talking about it can inflate follower count.

Yet another task still requiring humans.

I expect another twitter thread on using GPT-4 to automate increase in followers. Hmm, perhaps it will spend the $100 on that...
So far that data is relatively inconclusive, per https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/effect-state-marijuana-...

"These data show no clear relationship between marijuana legalization and alcohol use. Alcohol use increased more than the national trend in Washington (1 percentage point more), Massachusetts (2.3 percentage points), California (1.9 percentage points), and Oregon (1.2 percentage points) but decreased in Colorado (–0.75 percentage points), Maine (–1.4 percentage points), Alaska (–1.1 percentage points), and Nevada (–1.8 percentage points)."

Interesting to see that the data doesn't reflect what I anecdotally have noticed among my friend group: a near-universal pivot from alcohol to cannabis for 50-80% of occasions. Some 100%. That said, my friend group's demographics probably play a part in this.
Show HN: Built a newsletter on startups in SE Asia and grew it to 10k subs – AMA
Hey HN!

Two years ago, I was working my first startup job as employee #1 at a YC startup. I was 18 and new to the startup scene, so I read everything I could get my hands on to get up to speed.

But working at a YC startup in Southeast Asia, I focused a lot on SEA startup news and realized there was no quick or convenient way to stay up-to-date with the latest startup news each day. Articles were tough to understand (or had too little info), news was fragmented across different sites, etc — and I just had no time...

So, I left my job and bootstrapped as I started my own newsletter that would make it fun and easy to stay updated with the latest news in SEA startups in just minutes each morning. (Think Morning Brew for Southeast Asian startups).

I started publishing once a week to a few coworkers, family and friends. Didn't really know if it would work out. I was 19, didn't have much of a network and worried if anyone thought I was credible enough.

A little over a year later, we publish 4x weekly and have grown to 10k subs with nearly a 50% open rate. I stayed consistent, iterated as I went, and minimized spend while focusing on growth. Wrote it myself each day and only brought on my first team member (and started monetizing) recently. There were def a lot of hard days.

But I learned that tons of people found it difficult to stay up-to-date with startup news in the region too! We're now read by founders (even several who are unicorn/post-IPO), execs, VCs (even Managing Partners) and startup operators in Southeast Asia — and even outside of the region.

If anyone's keen on checking out the newsletter, you can subscribe for free to get the latest news in Southeast Asian startups: www.backscoop.com

Have any questions about launching, growing or running a newsletter? AMA :)