skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here’s another neat trick. You can overflow a digit. \n\n [...] PING 10.0.513 (10.0.2.1)

That's not exactly what's happening. You're omitting the fourth octet so this is then interpreted as a decimal part of the address (you can also have it be interpreted as hex or octal with the usual prefixes).

10.0.0.513 won't work because overflow isn't really what's happening. (For a minute you had me wondering if I missed something in my IP address variants tool because I didn't know that 9.256.0.1 would work as 10.0.0.1, but no, it can't and I've got the other case covered. Whew!)

The example can be written more succinctly as 10.513
Software patents shouldn't exist. Truly.

People are in general paying less attention to you than you might think. It's far far more likely that nobody cares than you have a rush or competition.

However it is possible that your idea is great and indeed will become a new state of the art. In such a case generally you've done recently well to get enough attention to be copied.

Execution, sales, marketing, persistence, resilience and perseverance are far harder to do and far more valuable than an idea.

So much more so that it's difficult to think of any companies where the idea was really key.

Maybe Dropbox. Although the execution challenge was huge.
The missing UI features and anti-ergonomic styling is affecting my workday more than tiny improvements in performance or memory safety.

And unfortunately my new computer does not allow rollback
Ask HN: Why is bash a popular scripting language?
Looking for opinions here. Is bash simply popular because it is always available and so there's nothing inherent that makes it popular?

Or, is there something special that it has? Writing a bash script seems very different to the rest of the programming I do. And not often in a better way.

What are the most interesting, alternatives for simple scripts.
Recession? We've had positive real GDP growth for the past three quarters.
A while ago I had one of those Ikea Flintan chairs, and after reading this post I recalled that from time to time I had a monitor+laptop flinch hard for no reason at all. I was concerned one of them was experiencing problems but other than these events they both worked flawlessly. I wonder if the chair was not the root cause.
Especially since the only one "considering" this is some random hn commenter. Don't fall for the bs.
Microsoft keeps messing with the UI in obviously deleterious ways. If they didn't rewrite the entire interface in 11, no one would be complaining about 11's rounded corners. The very fact that they decided to add rounded corners has likely already distracted from kernel work.

Do you remember when Windows 10 was the last version of Windows? I wish we could go back.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
But the upside, financially and environmentally, is not nearly as substantial.
The context menu hiding most of the useful stuff one extra click away is my least favorite change to windows 11.
Article about imposter syndrome. Remember to take care of your health.
ARC GPUs are basically dead on launch. It's not competitive in any way and fundamentally broken upon release. Intel integrated graphics works because it's a value-add to an expensive component already necessary for many computing products.

ARC GPUs is basically Intel expecting the market to be the beta tester for a very expensive & inferior product.
Tech giants forced to reveal AI secrets – here’s how this could make life better
cool.

now integrate your toy with https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all

then we can have fully offline chat and databases
Looks like music generation is on their roadmap. Fun!

https://stability.ai/careers?gh_jid=4142190101
Show HN: Kubectl-klock, a smarter “watch kubectl get”
Gotcha! That makes sense. I would recommend looking at LangChain though, as it does a good job at modeling multi-stage learning / inference environments.
The base license seems like an MIT style license; with the comment that 'things in an ee/ directory are goverend by the license in that directory' -- so Amazon will just rewrite only that functionality when / if they decide to eat signoz's lunch.

Top level license:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
According to author, they're either fat or have never ridden in a car.
Yes. Years ago I was involved with a controversy on Wikipedia over Skyy Vodka. Skyy had dumped a PR piece into Wikipedia, and that was flagged. So I did some cleanup. It turned out that Skyy Vodka was just a marketing company. Production was outsourced to Frank-Lin Distillers Products in San Jose. Frank-Lin makes most of the low-end booze on the West Coast. It's a big operation. Many stainless steel tanks. Their own railroad siding, where tank cars of industrial ethanol come in. The ethanol was from a company called MGP Ingredients, formerly Midwest Grain Products, formerly Midwest Solvents, in Illinois. MGP also supplied ethanol for fuel use.

Frank-Lin takes industrial ethanol, city water, and flavoring, and makes a large number of alcohol-based products. They make over a thousand brands, but there are only a hundred or so different recipes, they admit. Each brand has its own label, and many have their own bottles. A few years back, they moved to Fairfield, CA, to be next to the bottle factory.

The Skyy Vodka article was updated accordingly. Skyy marketing was not happy.
> > Any law is ultimately enforced by the government

> So? That’s not what the first amendment applies to.

Yes it is.

> You do not have first amendment rights in civil cases.

Yes, you do; that’s why US defamation law is more limited than the common law it derives from, and where Fair Use as a judicial application of the First Amendment came from before it was codified in statute.

> See libel.

Libel is a perfect example of how you do have First Amendment rights in civil cases. Here's a long list of cases applying the First Amendment in the libel/defamation context:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/encyclopedia/case/63/li...
We don’t know what expectation they beat, because traders expectations are not a monolith, nor are they public figures.
Try controlNet with stable diffusion, I’ve been having good results for text.
Is Gmail killing independent email?
Sorry, but you are wrong. Massive factories means a lot of waste. Dead cow means a lot of usable stuff. Meat, bones, skin, everything is usable. Even cow's waste can be used as a fertilizer. Massive factory? That means massive amount of mined ore and wasted energy. What does a cow need? Zero ore and some grass.
Hmmm, I think generally those over age 12-13 can start on their own business and not suffer much from it. It's a lot of work to be a founder, but if you have ideas and aren't afraid of the occasional "No" and putting in a lot of time and effort, go ahead! At your current stage, the worst answer is a no, but that doesn't mean you still can't try asking elsewhere or trying to fund it yourself.
Some that does not require Javascript?
This is true. The missing step is productizing for commercially-useful problems.

Start with a goofy app that accurately discerns what ugly sweaters you would wear to semi-automated product recommendation engines.
Meh, results feel hodge podge like a bunch of models were stitched together
FWIW, the 18-character "longer ID" is just a checksum of the first 15 characters. The ID storage format did not change when 18-char IDs were released. So, in some ways, that opportunity hasn't been missed yet ;)
> Food is thrown away because grocery stores want to sell uniform looking produce with no blemishes, and consumers came to expect that.

In Europe, it's not the stores, and it's not the public either, it's EU regulations. I still remember the small, irregular, tasty fruit and veg from before - and how it disappeared almost overnight after joining the EU.
I wonder if it's better to just say "No language models were used to generate this text".
> No one wants to be cruising a highway in a Fiat 500, feeling vulnerable as everyone else lords above them in Tahoes, Expeditions, and Escalades.

Actually, it's more that I don't want to be cruising the highway in a Fiat 500, full stop. Once you've experienced long trips in a large comfortable car, going back is _very_ hard.
Well this is pretty damn cool.

I always assumed "self cleaning" was a bit of myth and mystique amongst denim-heads, attributable to the density of weave and the "patina" denim can get that makes it effective at resisting stains, etc. "Nah dude, my jeans are MAGIC!"

You've earned your Friday … thank you!
Why There's No Room for Suburbs in Open-World Games
As a former Apple employee working on Siri, it is safe to say many Apple employees hated Siri even 10 years ago. Many tried to introduce new ideas to improve it, but, at least while I was there, nothing changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPq9nr4r_4 :D
Nice work, but seems like WSD accomplishes the same with a nicer syntax and hosted interface https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35717871.
Hey, dev here. 265% CPU usage doing nothing is definitely not normal and could be a bug of some sort. Can you share what you were doing before closing it, and even better, send log files (OrbStack menu -> Show Logs) to logs@orbstack.dev or open an issue on GitHub [1]? Happy to look into this and fix it.

Not sure what you mean about the images: you can pull images with the Docker CLI, and we'll add a GUI for managing images soon. To migrate images from Docker Desktop: https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/90

There's not enough space to put "Initial memory" in the landing page tab but the docs do clarify that the measurement is for initial memory usage: https://docs.orbstack.dev/benchmarks#initial-memory-usage

Re memory usage: One of our advantages over Docker Desktop is that memory is allocated on demand, so I think it's fair. (Unfortunately this doesn't include releasing memory dynamically due to a macOS bug combined with security restrictions: https://docs.orbstack.dev/efficiency#dynamic-memory)

Either way, thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts!

[1] https://orbstack.dev/issues/bug
I think this is just for pre-release, and they will release fully licensed for Commercial. It doesn't make sense to have a model like this that can do game changing text and logos... but then not license it for commercial. If they don't, that would be ridiculous.
You want to build a moat but you have nothing yet worthy to protect (something bringing in money/traffic). You need to wait until you figured out how to succeed before protecting it.

When you launch you might feel like someone is going to steal your idea. What is going to happen is you will struggle for traffic and struggle to get the message out. You couldn't pay someone to copy you at this point. Once you figure out how to bring in money cater to those people's complaints and start building your moat there.

A patent is an expensive idea that could be a good idea later but you must be making enough to afford a long lawsuit
I use the IQAir AirVisual Pro

http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/aq-spec/laboratory-e...
I briefly looked to see how its footprint has increased, but couldn't find anything compelling.

The binary has remained tiny, with most OS's under 2MiB, but that won't really indicate memory usage.

Do you have any articles to show its resource usage over time?
Going from $25k to $40k for a car seems within reach and they don't see how that person that they see does anything different that makes the difference justified, and they might even have personal knowledge of the person to make them think that person definitely isn't as smart/working as hard/being as deserving as them. But with Bezos they don't have a yardstick to go by.
In NYC the median rent is like 4200. MetroCard, gas, electric, internet take you to 4600, that's before you've eaten anything. Cocktails cost 15 bucks, beers 9, appetizers 20 dollars and entrees 30-40. Coffee costs 6-7 plus tip, taxis anywhere cost a fortune now and Ubers as well. 250k with fed, state, city tax, 401k and health deductions leave you with 5500-5600 every two weeks.(edited)

But god forbid you do anything in life but eat and pay rent. Most people buy clothes, furniture and go on vacation.

I'm sorry you feel poor. There's recent Bloomberg article titled, why 300k feels like 100k, outlining the insane cost of living of cities like NY and SF.

No need for 'trust fund kid' attacks, which by the way are based on incorrect information. Do you live in NYC?
A few comments:

1. If your idea is truly novel, i.e., you have invented something new, then you can patent it. But the question then becomes which geographies. For e.g., if you patent your work in Country X, then it is not protected in other countries. You will have to file in each country's patent office separately. If your idea is truly novel, then consider the costs of global filing of patents and evaluate against the benefits.

2. Software and algorithms are not patentable in many jurisdictions. e.g., India. Since you mention UI and backend implementation, it is very likely that it won't be patentable in many jursdictions that prohibit sofware/algorithm patents. For a more detailed analysis on software patentability conditions see: [1]

3. For sofware, you can take reasonable precautions against blatant copying by

- partitioning your software into server-side implementation that runs in hosts that you control and manage entirely

- client side software that requires run-time license keys (to control and keep track of usage, trial versions etc.,)

- focusing on security in your system from day 1 (includes source code security, release management, encryption, key management/distribution etc., some aspects of this fashionably called CI/CD or DevOps)

Having said all this, ideas are truly worthless. Iterating your product with paying customers is the hallmark of good execution. Execution is gold.

And remember: Most people will be thinking that they can implement it better than you and are unlikely to copy your stuff.

The hard part is acquiring customers, meeting their needs, addressing problems and retaining them by providing excellent service.

[1]: https://www.mondaq.com/india/trade-secrets/810286/is-softwar...
They should be happy that OpenAI went after them with the DMCA and not for computer hacking and fraud, which is what they technically did by hijacking other people's API keys.
This is nonsense. You're falling for the toupée fallacy. You have no idea you're reading AI content when it's sufficiently good enough for you to not recognize it. Therefore, you view all AI generated content as bad.
> It took some time for ~15-year-old me to figure out that it happened with high rates of small network packets

I honestly think that there's a hidden potential with instrumenting programs with different noises, and being able to listen to them could give you a broad understanding of program behavior without needing to profile or watch logs.
It wont write your entire program, and you have to already know enough code to know when it gave you garbage, but.. I find I can have it tackle small chunks and in some cases even glue them together in a usable way. It can often remind me of stratigies I would not have thought to use, good or bad. It can also do some basic debugging, including seeing things my tired eyes often miss. That said, you kinda already need to be able to code or you wont know the wheat from the chaff. It feels a lot like managing a remote esl person you will never meet.
Heinlein would be proud
It would be nice if we could "put our money where our mouth is" by opting out of the traditional banking system. Unfortunately, the same regulators responsible for the banking system seem increasingly intent on eliminating the freedom to engage with any potential alternatives to it.
I know there are people who see it this way and feel like this. It presumes a couple things:

- that intelligent thought (or in other belief structures, spirit, consciousness, etc) are the only thing of value worth propogating

- that by escaping the gravity well, we can also escape the problems we wrought by bad design.

We’re more likely to carry the problems forward. Our so-called “intelligent thought” have problems built into how we approach the design, so like running away from our shadows, it will come up wherever we go.

And, if we are aware of the bad design, why wouldn’t we just fix it while we’re here on this planet?
Can a modern military about to enter WWIII susbsist on root marm? Let's find out.
There is an old EEVblog[1] video on the topic. Mine doesn't do it from chairs, but it regularly blacks out if I turn on the nearby LED strip.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-V_Z3bD_PA
How people decide to invest their money, isn't up to you.
> So hire US citizens like a US company should.

I wasn't aware that there is so strong US nationalism present in the participants of this forum. After this thread I'll need to seriously re-adjust my mental model.

> I have friends who are great programmers (entry level but better than most of the outsourced coders I’ve worked with) working in factories because companies would rather outsource the work than give them a chance.

I have many brilliant co-workers, from many countries of this planet, some are US citizens, some became US citizens recently, and many are from many other countries. They all work well together and if somebody shows up in an interview and clears the bar then they are welcomed. I've also personally witnessed hundreds of "great programmers" in interviews, some Americans some not, apparently thinking they are brilliant and then couldn't participate in a constructive discussion about fundamentals or about real-world program solving.

The generalizations in this thread as well as the assumptions being made about me and my background are quite shocking.

Do you guys have set foot in actual US companies recently? It's not about US citizens vs. outsourced work. The typical company has a broad mix of live stories. Something I value in our industry. Maybe I've just been blind to the bubbles of nationalism that seem to be brewing somewhere. I'm glad they stayed outside of my company (or else I would have).
While your claim is plausible there is a lot of confirmation bias, among other biases, when it comes to our idea of what what see on a socially algo'd front page.

I'm not saying you are wrong but I'm saying my confidence starts quite low with this kind of idea. (e.g. the cause could be something different like manual moderation; the effect may just be confirmation bias and not exist; etc.)

Qualifier: I haven't looked into the algo at all, for all I know it could be openly published by YC/HN. I'm mainly responding because I feel like it is important to TRY to be self-aware of our own biases. Emphasis on the TRYing and asymptotically approaching 100% confidence (Qualifier to the Qualifier: it is also important to be at peace with decisions based on <100% confidence lol)
Probably because they enjoy eating meat?

I’m not sure I see what’s more appealing about how animals are raised and slaughtered and processed for consumption. It’s top to bottom an inhumane industrialized process replete with torture, filth, antibiotics, radiation, disease, and people in hazmat suits and steel vats (which strangely people find disturbing). It’s not like some sort of pastoral children’s story where sally the pig has a grand life and at the end of it is gently, if undescribed way, becomes a wonderful pork chop for family dinner.

I’d rather eat scientifically produced animal matter (SPAM) because :

1) I know the meat isn’t capable of suffering

2) I know the meat is grown in highly controlled circumstances

3) by having a centralized lab regulators can easily inspect end to end food quality and handling

4) by being sterile end to end I know when I get it I won’t contract salmonella, ecoli, trichinoses, etc

5) if it made it through to my table the economics of the market and all the “ewww science” and appeal to nature fallacy hurdles means it’ll taste really really good.

Im not arguing eating more vegetables isn’t a good idea. But that argument exists regardless of SPAM, and hasn’t compelled much of a change in diet. I’d rather not see animals born to suffer than just shake carrots in peoples faces telling them eat veggies and hope they listen.
Why can't the individuals with specialization of labor be elected? You have a pool of 11000+ Representatives with the original ratio.

I can even conceive of Representatives running on the basis of their knowledge in such a system.
The EPA is blocking carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology
Right, but even your hypothetical tribe member is going to be many orders of magnitude more efficient than a billion dollar factory trying to grow a postage-stamp-sized piece of fake meat.
I remember seeing "Help: FBI criminally charged me with $6MM loss for hotlinking. I didn't do it" on HN earlier this year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30589489). Was this person lying?
That sounds like good laptop sticker material. Could even give readers a hint by using the "there's no place like" saying that I've seen applied to 127.0.0.1 and ::1 already, or prefix some hacking tool. I wonder how many people would get it.

There's no place like <DEL><NUL><NUL><SOH>
A number of years ago I decided that I had enough of iTunes and that I needed to handle my digital music collection myself.

Blog post about it: https://swampbits.bearblog.dev/first-cloud-music-library/

Original python implementation: https://github.com/pauldardeau/cloud-jukebox
Go implementation: https://github.com/pauldardeau/go-cloud-jukebox
C# implementation: https://github.com/pauldardeau/CSharpCloudJukebox
Oxygene on Mac implementation: https://github.com/pauldardeau/MacOxygeneCloudJukebox
Oxygene on Windows implementation: https://github.com/pauldardeau/WinOxygeneCloudJukebox
C++ implementation: https://github.com/pauldardeau/cpp-cloud-jukebox

P.S. I'm looking to find my next job, so if you think I might be a good fit for an opening you know about I'd appreciate hearing about it!
As a kid, someone gave me a toy keyboard. Checking Google, it looks nearly identical to a Casio PT-1, but was probably a clone or slightly different model.

9 year-old me was delighted to discover that it would start playing on its own when it was near the plasma globe I had bought at a science museum gift shop. I couldn't explain it, but eventually came to a vague understanding.

It was semi-random, mashing together short, distorted sequences from the song bank stored in memory. Being almost recognizable made it more haunting.

I remember bringing this out one night during a sleepover and we all got kind of spooked. Fun times!
One more perspective - AI right now is receiving more simultaneous startup attention than anything else ever. It's like a starting gun has been fired. So the chance that there's not just one but 20 people working on your idea is abnormally high.

I predict that YC batches the next couple of years will have not just duplicates but waves, and themes

In the scheme of things it's really unlikely anyone right now is having unique and valuable ideas in the AI space, I think there will be a tonne of simultaneous invention. What matters is being 4 weeks sooner and worrying about users not competition
What about people having RTX 4090 with 24GB or even dual? Does it run on it?