skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the underlying framework on how it isolates processes... I could see this happening in a monolithic JVM application where it pretends there are separate containers, but a fatal error in the JVM will crash the world on that server.

A related example I lived through with a Perl application, someone decided to use this library 'Storable' that would serialize the memory in a binary format. We upgraded the library and started seeing "slow" performance across the server farm.

We recognized the processes were intermittently crashing and after decoding core dumps... figured out it was this upgrade to the Storable library. Apache httpd server chugged along just fine restarting processes. So different run-time, different type of crash resiliency.

Long-term lesson... be extra cautious with memory-serialized objects. Newer libraries have better protection on this to parse a header to detect compatible issues before loading the raw object into memory, but the potential is there especially with distributed systems today.
Worry less about the MRR and more about what direction it is heading. $8K/m as a snapshot in time is great, but what was its growth over the last couple years? And why? And are the underlying factors that made it grow still relevant?

I've found that many web sites for sale are from people who found a niche, built a product, milked it until the writing was on the wall for its downturn, then are trying to sell it at its peak, leaving the next owner to figure out how to recover.

Make sure that isn't what you are buying.
Are you saying we are on an S-curve for AI?

In HN speak, "It's difficult to see why one would assume we're on an AI S-curve, given the rapid development and global focus on generative AI. It appears we're on an exponential curve, though it remains to be seen how this will unfold. The burden of proof lies with you to support your assertion and provide evidence for an S-curve rather than an exponential one."
While not fully matching your question: I've done 4/10's (We did Mon-Thur with a full 3-day weekend) for long stints and both myself and my crews loved it. That extra day at home was a huge boon especially for the parents wanting more time with their kids, or anyone who had some time consuming crafty kind of hobbies. One of my guys finished a hand-made canoe about 3 months faster than he'd figured he would.

As for the working side of it, we found ourselves more efficient as we got more done in longer days than we would have with less time each day.

For me, just the plain business day available to do errands that would have otherwise required me to pull long lunches or half days at work was a huge help. And on a more personal note: an extra weekend day gave my introvert ass a day to myself to catch up on the reading I wanted to do, or study something, whatever, while still having the 'normal' weekend to attend a bbq or party or some other thing my more social friends were always organizing.

As saulpw said in a sister comment:

> 4-days a week with consistent 3-day weekends was definitively the best work schedule I've ever had.

Totally, 110% agree.
This is exactly how the most disturbing downvotes happen to me.

When enough people are conditioned to believe X is a dangerous misinfo about Y topic, we are in a bubble and cannot discuss Y anymore openly because of "safety of the readers".

And people are easily conditioned to believe anything, if all media sources, including tech sites are "following the science" by silencing opposing views. This, we've seen A LOT in the last 2-3 years.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230424085003/https://www.nytim...
The IBM System/38 and its descendants (AS/400 which was renamed to iSeries, then i5, now just the horribly unsearchable IBM i) sort of did/does this, except 'newer things' ported over like modern web stuff generally use the Unix portability layer, so it's not enforced. Also, it has a SQL database built-in at the OS level..

The original/legacy OS is quite interesting and high level. It's Object Based. You can only use the objects built-in methods e.g. you can't WRITE arbitrary bytes to an Application object, or a User Object. They are accessed as a giant Single address space, and whether they are on disk or in RAM is transparent to higher layers, i.e. if an object isn't in ram it will page it in..

The designer of System/38 etc. Frank Soltis wrote a couple of interesting books on it - Inside The AS/400 and its 2nd edition Fortress Rochester: Inside the iSeries. They're out of print and expensive unfortunately, I wish I hadn't gave my copy away.
Lock folk in with 'cloud' based 'subscription' models, and then do what you will.

'Climate change' in 'cloud' world.
She is the author of the O’Reilly Data Mesh book, but I don’t think it has that as its title.
I'll say it - NodeJS isn't that bad, and frontend development can be quite pleasant sometimes.

(Just trying to lighten the mood, a bit)
I thought TF2 was pretty much 100% hacked... like no legit non-hackers playing except at LAN parties.
I was genuinely shocked at how fast this crap was normalized. This was unequivocally not fucking OK unless you were some shady-ass malware vendor, not even that long ago. Then, in a span of seemingly a handful of years, it became normal and everyone was doing it and they all act confused when we say it's very, super, extremely, not even close to OK.
> It's a truly amazing market failure.

> He cannot hire anyone at the rates he wants to pay, and says he cannot pay them market because then he'd "have to reset the comp for his entire 100 man crew."

A buyer not being able to afford what they want to buy is not market failure. Your friend cannot pay market rate either because the business they are in is no longer viable, or the business is inefficient (paying extra for someone or something it could be paying less).
Wonder what will happen at the intersection of things like "nanoGPT" by karpathy

Will that project require renaming (among the thousands of others), or will the existence of so many mean that "GPT" is generic at this point?

https://huggingface.co/models?sort=downloads&search=gpt
My point is that just because you are a brilliant genius does not stop you being, also, a fool.

Brunel is a nineteenth century example, Elon Must is a twenty first century example....
Why did the safe fail to protect the paper -- too hot, too long?
Correct, that's a key fact about the underlying effects in question, of which Hawking radiation is just a consequence: different observers see different particles in the vacuum.

In 1976, Bill Unruh published "Notes on black-hole evaporation"[1], in which he showed that "an accelerated detector even in flat spacetime will detect particles in the vacuum" - now known as the Unruh effect This means that an observer in an accelerated reference frame will observe particles in the vacuum where an inertial observer will observe none. The presence of certain particles - the ones we call Hawking radiation in the context of a black hole - is a relative phenomenon. This is known as the Unruh effect. The equation for the Hawking temperature is essentially the same as the equation for the Unruh temperature, where the acceleration value is the acceleration due to gravity of the black hole.

Then in 1977, Gibbons and Hawking published "Cosmological event horizons, thermodynamics, and particle creation"[2], which showed that "the close connection between event horizons and thermodynamics which has been found in the case of black holes can be extended to cosmological models with a repulsive cosmological constant" and that "An observer with a particle detector will indeed observe a background of thermal radiation coming apparently from the cosmological event horizon." This is known as the Gibbons-Hawking effect.

There's a fairly complex relationship between the two effects which I won't try to describe, but if you're interested then [3] discusses it. The abstract itself gives some sense of the connection.

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.14.87...

[2] https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.15.27...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14747
Show HN: Automated Marketing Insights in Slack
I don't know how you can think that. Random companies scrambling to get in on the hype to look good for investors is one thing. But the actual good applications coming out of AI are already getting integrated into people's daily workflows. ChatGPT is a genuinely useful product to tons of people.

Most people I know who bought a VR headset on the other hand thought it was cool for a couple weeks then it was never touched again.
Yeah SRI was what emerged when military/intelligence related work needed to be separated from Stanford University proper as a result of campus protests in the 60s over the university's involvement in chemical weapons and counterinsurgency research.
I've been a 1Password customer for five years. The move to 1password 8 has been beyond disastrous: terrible extension integration, browser constantly crashing when trying to log into the web panel, and the mobile app integration hardly works with mobile browsers.

Add the recent announcements that the company will no longer support their last stable version -- 7 -- and move to using telemetry -- I'm out.

I've jumped to Bitwarden; open source, cheap, and competitive features. It was a no-brainer.
Well, I've worked in tech for half a decade, and I experienced plenty of it in my first job. It benefited me tremendously to be able to get context from other engineers and even people outside of engineering.

And I had none of it in my second job before covid. It's not a guarantee. But it's weird to me that people are going their whole careers without seeing it... maybe I was really lucky at my first job.
I mean, you don't have to always buy something. You could save some money?
For something of its size and influence very few people have heard of SRI, but it comes up frequently in 'noided online discussions about the overlap between Silicon Valley and military/intelligence. A lot of the things that PARC was credited with creating in the first place were really dreamed up at SRI, so it makes a certain sense for them to be merging:

https://squamuglia.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/67/#more-67

https://squamuglia.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/yes-kids-cookie-...
As someone who has started replacing online habits with outside habits with some pretty life changing results, I can’t agree with you.

This isn’t to say that social media companies should be excused, and I suspect only regulation will force them to change.

But it’s also up to individuals to take an active role in stopping and finding healthier outlets. For me, that had meant deleting apps, mostly getting off of Reddit, and intentionally building new habits that are not oriented around social media. Getting out in nature is more important than I think most realize.

One need only look at the continued existence of smokers/smoking to highlight that short of an outright ban (which would cause other issues), the person is really at the center of quitting. Even if these companies started getting all of the appropriate blame today, that’s not going to change that people have possibly difficult changes to make. There is no magic or shortcut that undoes the habit patterns without the individual choosing to make changes and following through on implementing them.
a long while back, i set a global CSS rule to make all of the comments on HN the same black text color (rather than downvoted ones being greyed out). i like it so much more that way, because it treats everything as the same, and as a result, i haven't really noticed any sort of 'suppression' of thoughts; im oblivious to any downvoting that might be going on. the css rule is simply: span, span a {color:black!important}
For paid plans, we'll keep it up as long as you're a customer. For free apps, as long as we can afford to :) We're hoping to add custom domains to our paid plan very soon.

What are you looking to build with it?
> * Negative information about you floating free (mugshots websites...

I know that is embarrassing and subject to abuse, but making all arrests public is an important human right. The British used secret arrests against the 1770s rebellion in north america (and not to mention long before then and pretty continually since) which is why it's important in American law, though the British are hardly the only ones to use this tactic. Even the USA has done so too, most notably in the early 2000s, though not within US territory as far as I know.
It seems like you're saying that there can exist enforceable revenue-sharing agreements between developers and Apple. But with sideloading, I don't see why a developer would have to enter into any contract with Apple in the first place? And in the absence of any contract, surely Apple would have no right to a developer's revenue?
The Narrative BI app is now available in the Slack App directory!

Narrative BI's backstory is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627953
> If you are interested in building an app, contact me at info@invisible-computers.com for a developer account :)

It's not like I am hiding it? I just didn't think it mattered in that context that this is me.

But I see your point.
My initial thought was: 'Why does this need to be top-down mandated by the law?' but it turns out the article addresses this:

> Critics argue that it’s fine if technological advances deliver the shorter workweek without government intervention, but that “top-down” interference in the free market is a bad idea. This idea doesn’t stand up to even cursory scrutiny. If the reduction in hours was going to happen without being mandated, it would have happened long ago.

But that doesn't actually answer the question of whether people want this. It could be that we would rather put increasing gains towards more money, rather than towards reducing working hours.

The second reason I am skeptical is that higher income people apparently work more than the average. Presumably, those with high incomes have the negotiating power to reduce their hours. So we would expect this change to start at the top and trickle down, if that is what people wanted.

I also came across a bunch of people arguing that reducing work hours will lead to more inequality, if that's a thing you care about.

Ofcourse, I realise a lot of this libertarian work week is an ideal, and most people don't feel like they have a choice.
Related: Social Cooling 2692 points

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363
I will hopefully have stock again soon.
1. This is great.
2. You are verifying mime type text/csv which wont work on windows machines with excel installed because Windows browsers defer to the mime type set in the registry which is the Excel mime type.
3. The parsers errors with a "/" and probably other characters in the first row. Maybe others, but one of my column headers had a slash.
I've gone to pump gas multiple times in the last year. On a few occasions, I pulled up to a pump and found out it wasn't working after I got out of my car and tried to use the pump. On other occasions, I waited in lines to access pumps.
> On Google's side, why even bother replying at all if that's all you're going to do?

Oh, it's just so they can claim to their advertisers that they do support.

Remember: if you're not paying for the product, you are the product! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Delivers_People)
> Linux app repositories are filled to the brim with quality software that doesn't show me ads, try to sell me subscriptions or are hindered by my computer's manufacturer for reasons

I expected that kind of thing going in, but was expecting that with privacy being the focus, UI and ease of use would suffer. For me, that ended up being a worthwhile tradeoff, but after getting here I discovered that wasn't the case at all; the apps actually look and feel better than what you'd find elsewhere. Its incredible
Not personally, you have a point :)

I have used Ethernet since 1985ish without being PARC's customer either. I have used a mouse since 1987ish. If you had asked me before reading up on the topic minutes ago where the mouse was developed I would have probably answered PARC, too, and not Stanford and absolutely not SRI. Not sure how the former managed to build to build a "brand" for stuff they haven't even accomplished.
Puh, that's harsh. But you are right, the frame is too wide. I am trying to make it narrower.
Little worse is that the manifest deprecation was delayed into 2024, but that hasn't stopped them from killing the extensions in 3 months.

I loathe having to migrate out of 1P 7, but there really is no choice now.
I've read an introduction blog post ("What's wrong with instant communication"). While I agree with points on instant messaging, impermanence and depth of communication etc... The part regarding e-mail is quite debatable.
Hence, the app looks like ersatz e-mail with randomized delivery :-/
Xerox went through the process of making PARC a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2002 (which is around the time the parc.com domain was created to replace the parc.xerox.com subdomain). This was presumably as part of trying to sell of PARC, in part or as a whole.

Xerox's revenue has been slowly declining over that time (~$15B from 2002-2009, ~$20B 2010-2013, ~$10B 2014-2019, ~$7B 2020-2023). There's likely a few business-related reasons they are doing this donation now.
The typical answer to this is "pay more". But that just shifts the problem to some other field "not enough plumbers", "not enough something else".

There's just not enough people to do all the work that needs doing, and not enough money available to pay all of them.

For any individual trade you can "solve it" by paying more - but how do you solve it for all the work that needs doing?

We need to dramatically simplify how much work it takes to do something, or make things last longer, or both.
By "upper class", I mean "upper income levels". I think that the majority of the people on HN are in the "upper class".
Curious...why are his 100 man crew sticking with him if they're currently getting well under market rate?
Yeah, although there are actually other good copiers.
> mobile experiences that are more addictive than what would be allowed in American casinos

Does the Nevada Gaming Commission have a specific standard here, which could be copied by other government bodies?
> Because before js became popular, every web app had access to every single event execpt what, scroll and mouse position.

Huh? No, they had access to basically nothing unless the user did something that triggered a network request. What did you type in that form, but delete before submitting? No visibility. Which parts of the page did you linger on the longest? Which parts of the text did you highlight? No visibility.

They could see when you requested/submitted stuff, but that was about it. Pages couldn't sit there looking over your shoulder while you were using the page.
I don't think there is such thing as "the community" on any site with more than ~100 active users. It's more likely that there are many overlapping communities, each with its own norms and expectations.

The way this site works, the intended semantics of upvotes and downvotes are roughly "promote" and "suppress". Or at least that's the way I see it. But it's obvious that many people see it otherwise and use them as "agree" and "disagree".
I've a little younger than the OP and I've never had a proper mentor either. I had one guy I argued with a lot that I learned some tricks from that I use to this day, but that's about it.

I've never worked in a company with any type of formal mentoring that everyone talks about. The "let me take you under my wing and show you the ropes, kiddo," never existing in my world, it was sink or swim. I spent countless hours reading books (I'm old) and scouring the web for solutions. If I could debug it, I could figure out the problem, I just didn't always know what it was supposed to do. I did all this because I didn't want to fail. Do junior people still do this, or is it more, "I can't figure it out in 5 minutes, do it for me."
We can’t even get minimum vacation days, good luck on this.
Just looking at this initially, thread_safe_var_init is not correct. There is no guarantee whatsoever that "*vpp = vp" actually does anything, the compiler is perfectly free to just never allocate vp and just use the memory at vpp (thus allowing partial initialization) and the situation is even worse on ARM. You need some sort of memory barrier between that last assignment and it should probably be a volatile/std::atomic pointer.
Facebook Made BuzzFeed, Then Killed It
Hey, amazing work! It'd be awesome to see this in the solstice parade, or as an installation at the end site for Solstice or Luminata. I help run both events and we would be happy to help move it and put it back if you're open to it.
I'm going to try KeePassXC & syncthing. I assume its going to be no where near as good as 1P, but between no extension support, no local vaults, secret security ops, I don't see a choice.
35%+65% = 100%
That’s true, but the output of something like chatGPT isn’t an existing work. The author’s prompt caused it to be created.

I think it will ultimately hinge on whether courts find the totality of the process to be creative enough to constitute a “modicum of creativity”

My prediction is that courts will eventually rule that something like writing a prompt is enough. I think too much would be upended to rule otherwise.
It must contain a bizarre character that you would normally never use in a password.
> At that point, we’ll also provide guidance on how you can opt out if you’d like to.

Well, at least there is opt out. Probably, will be on account-by-account basis, not family/organization-wide.
> And don't get me started on how loud shops are in North America. For whatever reason they seem to always keep the volume three or four levels above comfortable, making it much harder to have a conversation without shouting at least a little.

I think almost everyone operating a sound system is biased toward making it too loud. I’ve been to events for small children with painfully loud sound. There will be a DJ blasting 95-100 dB, never mind that (a) no one is on the dance floor because it’s too loud, (b) everyone is there to chat and do crafts anyway, not to listen to music, and (c) it’s actively dangerous to expose people to that volume.

I’ve also seen events where the DJ or band keeps edging the volume higher. It’s like they become desensitized to their own music and keep feeling like it needs to be 1 dB higher to sound right.

I believe that France actually regulates sound exposure. I bet that France’s maximum SPL plus a pair of good 10-15 dB earplugs would make for a great concert experience.
https://archive.ph/lfPCE
So do you: it’s called a job.

And you still have to worry about traffic/accidents, performing well, getting fired or laid off, getting berated by customers/clients/bosses, plus any number of additional anxiety-inducing events.

Most of us would probably still take that trade, though: at least sitting all day kills you slowly relative to a mountain lion.
Something relevant here: The New York Times is a Real State company now. They manage the real State they had in the center of New York that is more valuable that all the printing presses in the US.

So this company is highly biased against Remote Work. If people can work from home, they don't need the super expensive Offices in the center of the city, prices go down and NYT loses money.
I wish the author would just start the article with "I hate Elon Musk" to get it out of the system instead of dedicating half of the article for name-calling.
And how many hours do they spend traveling from place to place? I suspect the total pay divided by total hours is nowhere near as impressive, even assuming they are W-2 employees with a full set of tax advantaged benefits that a usual white collar employee would have.
Server logs can't watch your every move, even when you're not intentionally creating network requests. "Telemetry" is spyware, full stop.