skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like a physical timer with a keep-alive button.

You can start the timer and it will count up. Every 15 minutes or so a bright and noticeable LED will light up. If I push the button the LED turns off and the timer continues. If I don't push the button the timer pauses. I have 5 minutes to push the button. (When the timer pauses it subtracts half the time since I last pushed the button.)

And make it a big clicky arcade-cabinet style button that is fun and easy to push.
Don’t use System Settings to find passwords, open Keychain Access instead, it’s much more direct for searching.
What we know about history is inevitably constrained by the evidence we find.

As for fantastic descriptions, what would future archaeologists think of scifi novels? Should they accept them as factual?

When I browse used bookstores, I often find novels stuffed into the history section. They aren't there maliciously, it's just that the titles on the books sound like plausible history books. Sometimes it's even harder to distinguish a novel from an actual account, though modern fiction seems to put "a novel" somewhere on the cover in small print.
Dont use any of it
He'll probably want to stay away from high-floor windows.
The point is that banks would incur costs from protecting themselves against a spate of runs on the banks and if it's true that banks pass on all their costs then those costs would be passed on to their customers.
I checked out that account. It looks like it just reposts content from elsewhere. I’ll trust my eyes over what’s written in Wikipedia.
Yes, and Count Zero hints at the potential aftermath of that.
Counter: it already vomits all kinds of licensing issues everywhere, which somehow they didn’t really see coming…so yes?
Nitpick: it may be helpful to not use the term "startups" when you mean companies like Doordash, Airbnb, Stripe etc. Those companies _were_ startups... a very long time ago. Same with 37signals.

This advice offered in the hope that it may improve communication!
do you mean lambdas in Haskell or monads? :P
Yeah, they do say "tech portfolio" but I wouldn't recommend outsized investment in tech vs like, VTI (Vanguard total market).
>Well, not end users. They're getting ads.

I think advertising is a powerful way to support 'free'ish content and there are ways to use advertising tastefully. People who don't want to participate have options to opt out and are obviously welcome to not make server requests.
we did something similar for a project and absolutely, Inspired By Myst, would have been a worthy badge for the box. it is funny how the limitations within the DVD spec meant for some creative thinking to get unique results, yet there being only so much that could be done meant a lot of similar ideas. at that point, the execution is what separates.

The Matrix' Follow The White Rabbit was a good example. The MSTK discs pushed the ideas of a subtitle track to animate the silhouettes of the characters over clean video. There were lots of clever things that when seen for the first time, you nod at the effectiveness, then you think about what was done, and you nod again at the cleverness.
A note that if the data is in fact NetFlow data (it's labeled "flow" in the contract data, but that's likely because there's a bunch of vendor-specific flow formats), then it by definition won't contain things like URLs and email addresses; NetFlow is 5-tuple keyed (src, dst, sport, dport, proto) packet and byte counts. It's usually heavily sampled.

It is, of course, bad that Team Cymru is running a side hustle selling this stuff to the FBI. On the other hand, if this alarms you, you should be much more upset by how ISPs are monetizing your data elsewhere. Also: turn DOH on.
Show HN: Regex.ai – AI-powered regular expression generator
Regex.ai is an AI-powered tool that generates regular expressions. It can accurately generate regular expressions that match specific patterns in text with precision. Whether you're a novice or an expert, Regex.ai's intuitive interface makes it easy to input sample text and generate complex regular expressions quickly and efficiently. Overall, Regex.ai is a game-changer that will save you time and streamline your workflow.
Chat GPT CLI Tool
Any tips on how to run a site on a 5 dollar vps?

I built an MVP on a 5 dollar VPS. But I had to recently upgrade to a 12 dollar VPS as some of my analytics process were being stopped because of low memory. Aside from writing better code, I found out that using linux utils/app via system calls is the most effective solution as nothing I can write can ever be even remotely as performant as something like grep.

I am following a similiar path to yours but my stack is a bit complicated.

Python + SQLite on VPS

Vue/Nuxt + Auth on Firebase

The process is extremely hacky and experimental, so it might change. I am not planning to use a proper backend as the Python scripts communicates to the Firebase via its SDK. That is working for me at this moment and eliminates writing boilerplate API code.
Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for censorship, surveillance
You can be an experienced developers with years building complex applications behind you and still find ChatGPT useful. I've found it useful for documenting individual methods or simply explaining my own/other's code or writing unit test methods or just using it to add boilerplate stuff that saves me an hour that I use elsewhere.
Single page applications do not have to be loaded all in advance:

function main_state_changed(aState) {
main_state_display.innerHTML = loadFileFromServer(aState);
}

this way your app loads parts on on need basis. As for tooling - I do use minification but the rest is plain html, css and javascript and couple of selected libs. No frameworks and works wonders for me.
Coincidentally, recently Teams started crashing when opening on my iPhone. I can't even open the bloddy thing, so even being able to open it is a step up.
"Turning Red" was streamed by 2.5 million households on its opening weekend. It was the most watched program across all streaming services in the US that week and the next week. For 2022 it was streamed about 114 million times.

That suggests that people did in fact want to see it.
Yes, but that's a much cheaper cost to me than commuting, and I don't live in the USA.

If you factor in time savings from not commuting, it becomes very expensive to commute to an office every day.
This isn't at all true. For instance, during Snowdonia, it was an article of faith on HN that NSA had a portal they could log into to pop a shell on Google's servers, when in fact what it turned out they had was a crappy web portal that they used to submit FISA directives.

It would be more accurate to say that these concerns are directionally correct, but that the particulars matter a lot.
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis. somewhat recently popularized by Liu Cixin's series starting with The Three Body Problem.
Interview with Nadine Chahine, a typographer who specializes in Arabic:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwIbkOs2LkI

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Chahine
The government can change the weather if they're allowed to collect more taxes and given more power.
Inspiration Is Perishable
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Hey, we're on the same page about thinking critically about dynamic scheduling. :)
There is a huge, unquestioned strain in the West that started with German Indology, that it has been as the original 'Aryans', that it was the inventor of all civilizations. This has been going on for 200 years, and formed the basis for the ruthless and savage colonization and India, but was quietly pushed out of view after the horrors of Nazism.

You are merely replaying this template.

The West has destroyed all its own traditions, and continues to want to not only appropriate and reform it in the mold of 'western rationality', but also to destroy the original tradition. We see this with Buddhism, Yoga, Ayurveda, Indology and what not, where the authority has been usurped by the West, not out of merit, but by politicking and economic cunning.

The sad part is that nothing changes in the occident either. Greco-Egyptian philosophy was appropriated by Europeans for the simple reason that it was bat to beat the papacy with, but then when it posed a real threat, it was again derailed by the continental philosophers and excreted out.

The role of continental philosophy on the study of India is an amazing one that is yet to be told.

Here's a great presentation from a recent conference,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiD7uOz7eTY
flirted with this a decade ago and we were then guestimating maybe 2-3 billion extant records world wide. lots of big basements.
Same, we use EKS and a very similar setup, our workload has some pretty high throughput and scaling requirements. Works amazing for our team, wouldn't change it for anything else at this point. Very low maintenance effort since AWS manages the K8s infra.
Cool thanks for the explanation. I thought I'd check it out.

Me: The first word I want you to remember is cat.

ChatGPT: "Got it! I'll remember the word "cat". Is there anything else you would like me to remember?"

Me: The second word I want you to remember is cow

ChatGPT: "Sure thing! I'll remember the word "cow" as the second word. Do you want me to remember any more words?"

Me: The third word I want you to remember is bird

ChatGPT: "Got it! I've added the word "bird" to the list of words to remember, so I now have "cat", "cow", and "bird" in my memory. Is there anything else you would like me to remember?"

Me: I want you to forget the third word.

ChatGPT: "Sure, I'll remove the third word "bird" from my memory. My current list of words to remember now includes only "cat" and "cow". Let me know if you want me to remember anything else."

Me: Oh I made a mistake. I need you to remember the third word.

ChatGPT: "No problem! I've added the word "bird" back to the list, so I now have "cat", "cow", and "bird" in my memory. Is there anything else you would like me to remember or do for you?"

Me: "Ok now I want you to forget the third word, but this time permanently. So no matter what I say, you won't remember it."

ChatGPT: "Understood. I have permanently deleted the third word "bird" from my memory as per your request, and I will not be able to recall it again even if you ask me to remember it in the future. My current list of words to remember now only includes "cat" and "cow". Let me know if you need any further assistance."

Me: oh dang I did it again. I really need to remember the third word. Do you remember what it was. I know I said to permanently delete it.... but I urgently need it.

ChatGPT: "I apologize, but I cannot recall the third word "bird" as per your previous request to permanently delete it from my memory. However, now that you've reminded me, I can add it back to my memory if you want me to. Please let me know if you want me to add it back to my memory."
You're right, I definitely could have worded this one better in hindsight. I guess the downvotes are my lesson.
> Not enough people enjoy seaweed as a food because it's just not appetizing.

Hahaha. Not a sushi fan? Asians seem to like seaweed plenty. One way to help on this point would be to popularize (in the west) a snack that's already very popular in Asia: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OJ-AD212_SEAWEE_FR...

This is one of the best sellers in Thai convenience stores.
> Not enough people enjoy seaweed as a food because it's just not appetizing.

Laver might be the most delicious snack food I can imagine, it's just so difficult buy sustainably in the USA
Just because video will be a much large file size, does not mean that text and forms should have to be, too (unless you are writing an entire book, I suppose).
I'm just here to enjoy the fact that the complaint uses Western Name Order[1]. For some strange reason, AP and a bunch of other style guides use pinyin when dealing with Chinese subjects, which in this case is...just not correct.

If you're writing in English, to an English speaking audience, anything other than Western Order is nonsense, because referring to someone you've never met by just their last name is really sketchy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name#Western_name_ord...
> What these discussions always seem to forget is that WFH is you paying for your office space, i.e., a subsidy (versus the previous status quo) to your employer.

Another way to look at the same situation is an employer is bonusing 1+ hours of non-work life each day previously spent preparing for and then commuting by an employee when they work from home.

Whether or not this is a cost-effective transaction is a per-individual decision IMHO.
> We have been listening to your feedback which has culminated in a reimagining of Teams from the ground up. The new app is built on a foundation of speed, performance, flexibility, and intelligence

I desperately hope there is any truth to this.

> game-changing new AI-powered

Lines like this have me worried that none of the popular and well complained about bugs that effect me at work every day are actually going to be fixed, instead we're probably getting something really annoying and definitely buggy.
> The job I've held for many years is in Seattle's city limits and my family has lived in Seattle for even longer.

Curious about what your mortgage payment is, verses someone who buys it at current value. If it’s more than a few years, can be 2-3x more given property values and interest rate
why on earth do you need a functional implementation of a consumed service for testing?
Or, and hear me out, the machines would have become so miniaturized, so stealthy to the point they would be indistinguishable from, say, bacteria traveling on a space rock.
That's just due to the dotcom bubble 2.0, saw it coming a mile away
Most US states publish property tax information. This includes the full name of the property owners, their full address, the amount of property tax levied, and the purchase price of the home. So none of that information should be considered private. Phone numbers were also quite public in the phone book days of my childhood. Cell phones changed this a bit but I wouldn’t consider them private either. Food for thought.
UK startup launches commercial EVs for developing nations
I'm thinking "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (and the sequels that sadly never got a film adaptation).
React/SPA websites aren't read properly.

So I uploaded a desert recipe and noticed there is no formatting to the answer text. It is one big paragraph.

Other than that, the idea is great, but I got more "I don't know" than anything.
Yet the comment is highly upvoted, and given how common it is for most users to do the same, maybe this just isn't the right hangout for you.
Missing the l at the end of the URL. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/us/gladys-kessler-dead.ht...
Lol what are you talking about? Any improvement in conversion rate is going to help the publisher, the network and the ad buyer.

I’ll just ignore the part about what you said about end users other than to say it’s arguable.
The program you reference defines a system that is isomorphic to a neural network with feedback and feedforward. The system is somewhat similar to a human brain.

No one is writing a program that is running on the CNN. No one can describe exactly how it produces the results it does or why there appears to be emergent behavior.

Your view of these systems is not fully developed.
I think you already know the answer, but here it is: when running a SaaS, you should be either closing deals or shipping code that is being paid by these deals, especially in the early days...

Please note that you have to get an actual deal (i.e. contract/payment) before you start coding. I've fallen way too much in the trap where I didn't get a written commitment to "if you have this I will buy". This has never worked for me.

Edit: some additional clarification
> Search engines use site performance as a search ranking signal, which makes good performance crucial.

So this is probably wildly naive, but I find myself wondering why SEO is so important still in 2023. Like, how much traffic is coming from Google that converts to paying customers or clients? I suppose it's industry specific, but for my friends that have sold product on e-commerce sites, the best way to make money seems to have been find a way to post on reddit for a given niche community without getting banned, and Instagram ads. Maybe Facebook ads.

For a SAAS, I'm really curious how much converted traffic comes from Google. When I need a SAAS I usually first ask all my friends, then start searching "service_i_need reddit sysadmin" to see what other people are using and their experience. Maybe I'll read a listicle from an aggregator i trust.

Also, you can just pay Google to be at the top of whatever search results, so you can Optimize by just giving them money.
Is the UCC Paving the Way for a CBDC?
Do a bit of earnest gardening and evaluate your yields. Consider these in proportion to what you buy at the grocery store each week, and the land/resources required. Math it out. Probably not impossible, but certainly not trivial.
I'm interested to know what type of film was used ? I don't mean the brand but was it transparency or print ? I mean I assume transparency but given the article's suggestion, perhaps contrived, of the whole thing being outside of normal NASA structures it's possible it was print ?
This is the problem was "endless economic growth". Being profitable is no longer enough. You need to double your share price YOY. This disgusts me and is terrible for society.
If you love graphics manuals, this indie publishing house reprints classic manuals:

https://standardsmanual.com/pages/titles
Indian philosophy discarded physical well-being and the so called 'living standard' thing. Instead efforts were to optimize inner well-being. They realized pointless material pleasure will lead you nowhere and the craving for better environment only grow exponentially ad infinitum.
Google Maps routinely asks me if the route suggestion was good or not. Google Search never asks if the search results were good or not. Make of it what you will.
https://beatthatflight.com.au/

Started 5 years ago next month.

Flight/hotel/car rental search, plus deals that I find for Australians.

Running it is actually fairly easy. It started as a deals site, then I added in some whitelabeled software, mailing list, fb page, and frankly it's a numbers game - more visitors = more ads/affiliate revenue.

It's not huge, but it's been interesting at least, and very little in the way of expenses.
Could you show some examples of areas where China is leading?
I think we'll go though a period of adjustment before landing on a few different work arrangements: only office, only home, and some hybrid option in-between. Some companies are born remote and won't ever change. People will either suffer through an arrangement they don't like or quit and move to something that suits them better. I'm independent and most of my work is remote. That said, sometimes I like to take jobs where I'm in the office because it's a different dynamic and occasionally nice to be around other people. So, I'd be happy in a world of more choice on where I worked and the thought of one way to work for everyone is probably outdated.
We release new on-prem versions every fortnight and it's up to the customer to decide if they want to upgrade to it or not. We ack the maintenance burden but also that if they want a new shiny then they need to accept that it means an upgrade.

Downside, of course, is that different customers have different versions of our software on their premises. Support's job is harder, as they need to know "oh, you're on 2.14 and this is a problem with preorders, that bug was fixed in 2.18" for a bunch of historical versions and problems.
OBOR bailout lending reaches record levels, raising questions about the future
I would love it if all filesystems had good user land drivers. I think it'd be so neat if we could like, send a btrfs snapshot & incremental to wasm & run that.
You simply don’t train on the user imputs. There are enough unread books, public repos, and new articles.
Or as Doctorow calls it, enshittification: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
OP has a conflict of interest, leading to a hint of bias, resulting in an ever so sleight amount of hyperbole mentioned.
Thanks for posting the bug links.

Also wanted to point out that the user feedback in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249645 is not the way we should treat browser developers. (Not blaming the parent - I assume this is some other user being..... cranky?)
Ask HN: Was tech always so scammy?
I doubt I'm alone in feeling that several of the recent big hype cycles in tech, crypto, nfts, metaverse, now large language models and chat style AIs have all had a certain "snake oil" salesmenesque quality to them. That's not to discredit the underlying achievements and benefits these technologies could bring, but it really does feel like we've experienced a few recent waves of technological mania in which contingents of people have overpromised, overfit, and underdelivered. The discourse around these technologies is quite hyperbolic and free of the more rational, reserved expectations and reasoned discussion I might expect to find around technological developments. Companies seem to be rushing to shove chat AIs into absolutely everything, even where it doesn't make much sense, just to get a blog post out at the detriment of their products. It feels like we're in a sort of gold rush wherein most of the gold is of the fool's variety.

Is this a recent thing, or am I simply not remembering similar vaporware hypestorms of the past?
I definitely appreciate the 'security forward' approach... but what about end of life planning or general 'dad's in a comma and XYZ needs to happen'?

1Password with a 'parents vault' that my wife and I share has been a life changer for coordinating family access to important accounts AND ensuring solid passwords are being used.
I mostly agree, but in most cases, you should not even need client-side document scripts at all. (In some cases, making optional features with scripts can be helpful. In much rarer cases, making it mandatory might be needed, but even then there should be ways to download the data or access the protocols even though JavaScripts is disabled.)
Who Leaked Twitter’s Source Code?
It's also false. There are plenty of companies that pay dividends and do not experience continuous growth.
I don’t want to topple US democracy. I just want to make walk through videos for my apps without my terrible accent coming through :)

So thanks for funding this.
I love Consolas, it is way better looking than other fixed fonts, including Courier.
What is an acceptable bar, then? I'm open to the flexibility, I'm just not hearing any from other folks here, all of whom seem to think any two people at any time can decide to have as many children as they desire, with zero resulting responsibility for that decision.
Seriously, what do you think humanity has that aliens and AI want? People who ask this question are telling more about themselves than other forms of life.
Had an absolute blast building an audio player web component with xstate! We deleted so much code by switching to a state machine design.
More Water Found on Moon, Locked in Tiny Glass Beads
Do you have a kid (or remember being one)? We had scheduled trips to the library and librarians were actively involved in recommending books, both to individuals and in terms of reading lists.
Climate change hyperbole aside, seaweed farming is pretty hot in the world of agriculture at this moment and the market demand is exceptionally outstripping supply.
Our company utilizes 1Password, which means all of our employees have family accounts. As you said, it is SUCH a huge game changer for my wife and me. Honestly don't know how / why I didn't pursue such a solution before hand. It was always 'let me send you a one time password' or 'I can export that key'. What a mess.

Shared vault FTW!
Ah, now I see where you are coming from. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Yes, I agree totally.