skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course Visual Basic 2.0 and Delphi 1.0 both had embeddable filesystems. Even updateable embedded filesystems (which worked because the exe would really be a zip files. Zip files are indexed from the end of the file. So you can prepend the actual executable code and that would work. Zip files are updateable ...)

I believe after a while you also had sqlite-inside-the-exe things.
Ikea's wood is actual garbage. Anything of theirs that is made of metal is pretty solid, especially if you apply some Loctite.

As a comparison, a drink spilled on a wooden end table ended up absorbing it, swelling and warping. Then I left one of their indoor metal-frame couches outside for a couple years and it's only now starting to rust.

Their plastic-and-metal chairs seem to be the best of all worlds except comfort. They survive heavy use by children, so it suits my needs.
I was going over some of the code in the core folder for concurrency, threading and compression, what surprised me is that there’s absolutely no comments whatsoever. Agree that unless there’s excellent documentation, open source maintenance might be challenging.

Having said that, this definitely does look to be an impressive feat of engineering!
There are a number of obvious counterexamples to this, Coinbase's continued existence being just one.
I sometimes wonder whether the bedbug scare is a psyop by Big Furniture
What a trip down memory lane, thanks for this. I was running a hardware review aggregator site in the 90s, and dpreview and the above provided quality content. When search engines were not great and link sharing / exchanges were useful, what a time it was.
If you climb back the chain, you'll see

> Nonetheless, there were discussions about some way to force preemption at certain points, not sure whether there is a decision since, but that will be the exception, not the rule.

I'm trying to understand the difference between "forcing preemption" and requesting for the runtime to yield, the latter being an operation typical in cooperative multithreading.
I (roughly) believe this as well[0], but more flexibility generally means more complexity. Right now, if you don't need the flexibility that k8s offers, it's probably better to use a solution with less flexibility and therefore less complexity. Maybe in a decade if k8s has eaten the world there'll be simple k8s-based solutions to most problems, but right now that's not always the case

[0] I think that in the same way that operating systems abstract physical hardware, memory management, process management, etc, k8s abstracts storage, network, compute resources, etc
He may have "made it up" to improve sales, but from a certain viewpoint it's correct. If decide to measure the "value" of a network based on the number of node connections, then the number of connections for n nodes is n(n-1)/2 = 0.5n^2 - 0.5n which is O(n^2).

Of course, the value of something is hard to measure. Typically you measure value as "benefits - costs", and try to convert everything to a currency. E.g., see: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cost-benefitanalysis.as... . But there are often many unknowns, as well as intangible benefits and costs. That make that process - which seems rigorous at first - a lot harder to do in reality.

So while he may have "made it up" on the spot, he had a deep understanding of networking, and I'm sure he knew that the number of connections is proportional to the square of the number of nodes. So I suspect his intuition grabbed a quick way to estimate value, using what he knew about connection growth. Sure, it's nowhere near as rigorous as "benefits - costs", but that is hard to really measure, and many decisions simply need adequate enough information to make a reasonable decision. In which case, he both "made it up" and made a claim that you can justify mathematically.
Underrated comment here
I'm far from overwhelmed, but the topic is growing tiresome for me.
> Okay, so Antarctica, Chicago, and Cleveland.

Really anywhere where temperatures change frequently for reasons other than the time of day. Probably the vast majority of people who use temperature forecasts in consumer weather apps.

> But the broader point is that the utility of an overnight temperature is that it happens while most people are sleeping, and thus unable to respond to it.

> Fluctuations while one is awake can be coped with.

I couldn't disagree more. Surely the most common use case by far for quick checks of the daily forecast is simply to decide what to wear when you leave the house in the morning. If you're unhoused, or camping, or you work at night, or you're a gardener, then of course overnight temperature forecasts are also vital.
Yes I couldn't really understand what the thesis was. Definitely the shift to overseas production has affected local manufacturing, a story we have seen over and over.
But the consumers are unhappy because... It is cheaper? And $reasons? It's not like there isn't quality furniture available, they talk a lot about it. It is just more expensive than people want to pay given the cheaper alternatives available. So from a consumer angle, what's the problem really?

Lacking is any sort of inflation/quality adjusted comparison of prices from "ye goode olde days" vs now. That's really what I want to know, has it gotten both more expensive and worse? Or only cheaper and worse?
>In my experience liberals tend to have less coherent philosophies and understanding about how the world works

You may want to test whether you're trapped in a confirmation bias bubble, as sounds likely.

Each group, conservatives and liberals, tends to feel the other group has "less coherent philosophies and understanding about how the world works" than their own group.
That's a pretty bold claim. Just because people from one group are part of the other and vice versa does not in any way mean that the groups themselves are linked.

Especially since a lot of the people at the IA would be proponents of archiving. It would make sense that at least some of them feel like the IA should be doing more and start a rogue group that takes their ideology to the extreme.
Maybe they think of waiting until everyone uses Copilot and then jack up the price.

But that wouldn't quite work.
VC's have tech banks in their portfolio, they're probably not planning on sticking with JPM or whatever other wall st. firm long term.
Yeah not sure I see the value prop here it's just run of the mill Docker glue?
> The fallacy of eugenics is that 'smart' people have 'smart' children and the same for 'dumb' people.

What makes you say that's a fallacy? Everything I've read has shown intelligence to be highly hereditable. I'm not saying we should make policy changes based on that, but the science behind intelligence being (at least partially) hereditable seems pretty conclusive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
This is exactly what we did :)

I started with 5 phrases and then our ChatGPT Hackers discord asked various LLMs to fill in some more (https://www.chatgpthackers.dev)
Or to phrase it another way: Microsoft themselves failed to migrate off .NET Framework to .NET Core for the same reasons their customers are also stuck.

PowerShell Core has been available for years but still is not included with Windows.

Similarly, even new web UI components such as Admin Center are written using .NET Framework.
> Inflation is also good for those that own assets as their relative value to dollar increases.

I'm not sure what type of assets you're referring to, but I haven't exactly noticed stocks skyrocketing along with inflation. If anything they seem to have dropped in value.
Thus the regulation so exchanges have to prove they have all the funds and aren't doing anything funny with it...
FreeRTOS is now MIT licensed, and the primary developer is actually getting paid to work on FreeRTOS.

This can only improve FreeRTOS and the embedded ecosystem in general.

And, if Amazon becomes a problem, people can fork and bail.
He said it in the YouTube video he made. They explicitly estimate they're going to save 7M/year moving Hey to MRSK
All easy except:

- Youtube —> can’t get around it

- Maps —> in few cases where apple maps is just not good enough (depends on where you live)

Don’t miss anything else 1sec!
Baspacho – Batched Sparse Cholesky
Ask HN: Can we have a separate section for AI posts just like the 'ASK' sections
AI articles are abundant in the feed - can we get a submit for "AI HN:" and group posts there?
I know, the discussion is US-centric, but last year Europe saw lots of binge buying of corporate office spaces by the local governments in view of conversion into refugee centers.
I don't see the "anti-crypto regulatory activism" you are calling out. If FDIC is bailing out a bank and its depositors, that too well beyond its insurance limit, it absolutely has to ensure that the bank is not going to continue to gamble with customer funds.

Heck "no customer deposits going into crypto" should be a hard requirement to be eligible for FDIC insurance.
Why was there no word about sharepoint?
The true reason is that sharepoint - I mean the sites not the storage (ok the links that can‘t be changed) - is really bad. I don’t know a single person that likes sharepoint sites.

We use notion for most of out information sharing and guidelines, faq and minutes.

I wonder why the article didn’t mention it would replace all sharepoint sites in the future.
Try tapping on the icon in Apple Weather to see a graph of various elements.
> I wonder if there will be a another push for those jobs to go to lower cost countries.

They are lower cost for a reason...
>The entire process of industrialization was hugely deflationary

Prices definitely lowered, but the difference being that while there was also supplier upheaval as artisan/bespoke producers were replaced by mass production - the industrialists were enormously and sustainably profitable and could in turn employ those displaced from the failed producers.

Aggregate demand arguably increased with the move of labour from rural agriculture to urban manufacturing.

A deflationary cycle annihilates demand by definition and fixed costs then eat producers alive - leading to wealth destruction, unemployment, debt writeoffs and credit tightening. Which in turn leads to more demand annihilation.
I don't know where you come from or what your beliefs are. But if you determined to disregard all logic and still try to win some argument then you are just an internet troll.

To have a discussion at all of any kind we need basic assumptions on communication protocol and logic is one of key ingredients.
talonvoice.com was developed by a develoepr that needed himself to use the AI voice to code tech
Only one sentence about why they chose to abandon K8s:

> It all sounded like a win-win situation, but [on-prem kubernetes] turned out to be a very expensive and operationally complicated idea, so we had to get back to the drawing board pretty soon.

It was very expensive and operationally complicated to self-host k8s, so they decided to build their own orchestration tooling? Sort of undercuts their main argument that this bit isn't even remotely fleshed out.
It'll ebb eventually, just like everything else.
Kubernetes is terrible, I hate it with a passion, and welcome any alternatives that reduce the complexity (as it the stated vision of MRSK)
Coinbase issued Wells notice by SEC
> The problem is every executable can impersonate the user,

Um, what?

What do you mean by "impersonate" here? What does a process that does not impersonate the user look like? Do you just mean "executables that run as the user"?

When you log in, and a shell is started that runs as you, is that shell impersonating the user?

When you execute commands, as yourself, those commands run with your credentials. Because you ran them. Isn't that, like, the point?
I'm reaching an age where I don't have the twitch reflexes to compete on that alone, so I'm all for mechanics like this which give "game sense" players a boost.
>once he understands that we lack the willing evil creativity he needs

Do we, though? Hundreds of years of slavery, unimaginably horrendous torture of hundreds of billions of non-humans in factory farms that continues to this very day, and various miscellaneous deeds that are unmentionable in polite company.

Can any AI top such humanistic desires? I doubt it. But then that's what they said about human creativity before DALL-E and GPT. Maybe AI really can top that. I'll be waiting eagerly for the miracles of Lord GPT-9/BLOOM-7 and DALL-E 5/Stable Diffusion 8.5 (depending on whether the future is corporate or hobbyist).
Ask HN: Open-source front end-as-a-service tools that don't try to own auth?
I've poured over the tools (open source or otherwise) for rapidly developing web apps

- Retool

- Appsmith

- Budibase

- Baserow

and many more. The problem is, in addition to building your frontends, they all try to control user authentication/authorization. I think it's because that's how they charge for the product, so they can charge based on seats.

I already have a backend that's exposing an API with auth. I'd like something that just helps me rapidly drag and drop out controls, forms, tables, etc to develop my small web app.

Does nothing exist like this?
Do you believe I agree that you addressed “this” in your comment? Or would it be more likely that I implicitly categorized your comment as a practical argument, without really addressing the moral underpinnings in what you’re describing?

For example you place the burden of “learning new things” at the feet of the employer, but you don’t really justify that. Why, in a general sense, can people not learn on the remaining hours of the day?

Your comment is riddled with moral presumption and I think it’s worth figuring out what those are.
That's awesome. Composition is first rate in most of these pictures. It has a great eye.

https://files.randomseed.com/the-holy-bible-king-james-versi...

p.s. flocks again

https://www.randomseed.com/collections/the-holy-bible-king-j...
And a perfect snapshot for what a steaming pile of BS all this crypto-hucksterism was in the first place.

I admit, I don't understand humans. I'm just trying to comprehend how anyone would think it a good idea to buy a token because any one of these celebrities hawked it.
Definitely don't like how it purposely hides the fact that it cost money (15 bucks!!!) until the end of the process. A bit dark patterns for a Show HN.
> The SEC cannot say you are guilty

Pretty much ends there. The SEC can say you are civilly liable, and they can assess fines in some situations and initiate civil litigation in others based on that.

But if they think you are guilty, that’s an issue they hand off to the Justice Department.
AI won't replace that many creative jobs in the long run because the value of many of those creative jobs doesn't come from some objective aspect of the work.

Being technically good isn't what it's important here, it's about the brand and reputation you build up. People won't just stop buying music from human bands and singers or art from human artists or games from human game developers and studios because AI can make something 'better', since the creator or brand is like 90% of the selling point.
"It was just hallucinating because of no input!" denials before now seem...not great.
Yes because Indeed has literally zero moat /s
Little Snitch Mini
I wouldn't expect that to happen... Especially with lenses (full of expensive bits of glass) but new cameras will always be sold at a premium. Firms set prices for products, supply and demand mostly doesn't come into it (except pushing prices up perhaps when availability of components are constrained).
"While the comments generated by HN_LLaMA may not have the same level of personalization and nuance as those written by humans, they can still provide valuable information and insights that might not have been considered otherwise. In some cases, AI-generated comments may even be able to identify patterns or trends in the data that human commenters might miss.

On the other hand, the use of AI to generate comments can be seen as a form of automation that undermines the authenticity of online discussions. Some users might argue that the value of Hacker News lies in the unique insights and perspectives of its human contributors, and that AI-generated content detracts from this."

-chatGPT
First mover advantage for a lot of nations in terms of sports leagues
I don't know about biotech, but my brother works in a lab with lasers and he's still WFH 3-5 days/week. Experiments are done in the office, but planned and analyzed at home.
Partly but optional chaining doesn't make sure that the function actually exists on the target. So if "const a = 10" and you call "a?.toLowerCase()" you'll still get an error.
Using Rust and esp-idf you can simply call the standard library threading facilities if you want to do concurrency, and it's all handled in the background by FreeRTOS for you.
Repurposing Thin Client Hardware
Then you don't do an exam at all
There is so much about this comment that I disagree with that's its hard to know where to start.

I'll choose just one point, hopefully the least contentious.

Your child isn't being educated by 'some stranger'. They are being educated by someone with the required level of educational attainment themselves.
There is a robust regulatory framework in place to ensure this as well as to address issues relating to the physical school environs and the curriculum taught.

They have passed the necessary background checks and continue to do so.

Those chose to become educators, at time and expense to themselves.

I could go on but I won't labour the point
AIUI the problem there is not FD_CLOEXEC/SOCK_CLOEXEC but the possibility that some library might not be using it? (That is to say, *_CLOEXEC if used does not have race conditions)

However we usually cope with that by closing all unknown/unexpected file descriptors after fork and before exec. Linux even has a system call to make that easier: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/close_range.2.html
It can find bugs, suggest fixes, write tests and do PRs.
1T Messages on Discord – Prime Reacts
The Primeagen's unique take on Discord's move from MongoDB to Cassandra to ScyllaDB.
Absolutely, there are many cases where governments and generally large organisations can use Flower to internally train models on internal data silos. Often enough large organisations have all the incentives to utilize their own data but can't centralize it due to regulations.
- Docs/Slides -> Canva
- Sites -> Canva
- Photos -> potentially in the future... Canva

- Browser -> Brave or Firefox

I'm curious if people think it is suggested to move away from Chromium completely, or just Google's Chrome?
First birds, now mammals: how H5N1 is killing thousands of sea lions in Peru
Avian flu has decimated the marine creatures on the country’s Pacific coastline and scientists fear it could be jumping from mammal to mammal
If it was a "rogue group", the IA would not agree to host the content. I imagine a good lawyer would shatter any sort of difference between Internet Archive and Archive Team, if there's a large number of common members, and one literally exists to scrape content to feed into the other.

But again, that's just what it sounds like to me.
> TBH, I don't think mozilla really wants to regain market share so I doubt they will.

They certainly aren’t making any contrary movements.

It feels like a bunch of people who are really interested in social justice took over a tech company and are just annoyed they keep having to make a thing.
PACs spend a lot of their money simply doing things that help a candidate. Do you want to make it illegal for groups of people whose funding is opaque, to do anything that benefits a candidate? If one guy puts out a lawn sign for his favored candidate, it's free speech, but if a few neighbors pool their money and rent a billboard, now it's a corrupt PAC engaged in bribery?

PACs definitely have problems and are sources of abuse, but simply calling them bribery is so over the top it's ridiculous.
Weasyprint is an excellent tool for converting HTML to PDF. It has supported CSS Paged Media Module for a while; this has been very useful for making printable PDFs from web pages.

Weasyprint seems to be one of the few HTML->PDF engines out there that doesn't depend on a browser engine. It's impressive just how much works (HTML, CSS, SVG, etc), given that this is a relatively simple project compared to a full-featured browser. Performance isn't bad, considering it is implemented in Python.
Ansible is Python, and MRSK is Ruby. Each appeals to their own ecosystem; switching between the two is a noticeable cognitive load.

Also, it could be implemented using Ansible, but it has been implemented in MRSK. A serious difference if you plan to count on someone to keep it updated and supported.
Things requiring less intelligence and creativity - since Bill Gates' reassurance was "but we'll still need carers" maybe we'll just watch ourselves die out for a few generations
LG made a 49-inch HDR monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate
Rider is great. If you haven't tried VS in a while, VS2022 moved to 64 bit and the performance is much, much better than 2019. There appears to be a lot more coming, many of the preview features focus on making as many interactions as possible asynchronous e.g. loading projects/refactoring operations/Intelliense completions etc.
He would say that because he wants jurisdiction.

His argument appears to be "let's just sunk-cost our way through instead of actually doing the correct thing."

> “It’s been listed on CFTC exchanges for quite some time, and for that reason,” said Behnam, who argued that it creates a “direct jurisdictional hook” for the agency to police both ETH’s derivatives market and underlying market.

Either way they're literally only talking about ETH, which is again, clearly a security as following their framework, nothing else has a long history of being listed on a CFTC exchange. But I digress.
The Power of Randomness (2023)
I suppose. I'm on an Ikea couch right now and happy with it. My wife built our hutch, floor to ceiling bookcase, etc out of planed white deal (spruce) and I like it. A kreg jig and mitre saw do wonders.
One ancestor of modern good hearted billionaires
Geothermal Power, Cheap and Clean, Could Help Run Japan. So Why Doesn’t It?
Every one of your examples in the second list is relevant to both on-prem and cloud. Also cloud also has on-call, just not for the hardware issues (still likely get a page for reduced availability of your software).
Show HN: Cursor – IDE built for coding with GPT-4
Do any of the prior-art approaches, or any others, do this correctly?
(movie trailer voice)

in a world where backend is a single binary and frontend is a single html file…

who needs containers or complicated devops?
You chose to ignore the like this your parent mentioned ;)

And I agree. All programmers should at some point work on a super slow, super limited AVR or something like that. Something where you have to make hard decisions either because you don't have enough RAM, not enough CPU power, not enough storage, not enough I/O pins etc.

Even non flagship phones are more powerful than the boxes running Windows Embedded 20 years ago.
To be fair, stock prices typically go up after layoffs are announced. So it’s not like he is losing money.
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word