skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you believe that they killed the digital camera because they saw themselves as a film business, not a camera business?

The cameras were a loss leader to sell the film.

Seriously, here's the 1999 10-k self description (cameras is second to last only ahead of projectors!):

Kodak manufactures and markets various components of consumer imaging systems. For traditional consumer amateur photography, Kodak supplies films, photographic papers, processing services, photofinishing equipment, photographic chemicals, cameras (including single-use) and projectors.

My point is that if Kodak saw the writing on the wall that film was out and sensors (notice I didn't say cameras anywhere in any of my posts) were in, they could be in a position like Sony is right now.

It's honestly amazing that all those participants didn't know that very simple fact when Kodak management constantly talked about it at the time. Maybe that's why they blame 'corruption.'

EDIT: Maybe to put it another way, Kodak didn't see themselves as rivals to Nikon or Canon (you could put Kodak film in those), they saw themselves as rivals to Fujifilm.
It will continue to do exactly the same thing…on exactly the same hardware and OS. Chances are that in several years, you’ll be using newer hardware and a newer OS. So the old software might not work at all. Or, it might work, but not use new hardware capabilities. An example of this is old X11 software: it runs on a modern Mac, but is unaware of Retina displays so it looks horrible.
Maybe...

Until 2019, 100% of the royalties for the song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, released in 1997 and their most recognizable song, went to the Rolling Stones. The Verve sampled the distinctive repeating string theme in that song from the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time", released in 1965. The Verve even got permission to use the riff from the 'Stones record label prior to releasing "Bitter Sweet Symphony."

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726227555/not-bitter-just-swe...
> I'm actually embarrassed on behalf of any parents that think this way. You're setting your children up for all manner of failures when they hit the real world.

I don't have hard data on this, but from what I've observed there's a class divide, going about the way you'd expect.

Fussellian middle class and lower's the experimental group, Fussellian upper-middle and higher is the control group. Painting with a wide brush, sure, but that seems to be the state of things.

Parents' behavior and attitudes seem to differ above and below those lines, as do those of the kids, including how they treat kids who don't have phones.
According to the engineering article [1], that ripgrep number is with 2048 cores combined with 115TB of data in memory.

[1] https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...
Show HN: Interactive Git Training Use Cases
Hello, I have been working for years with junior developers and I find that many of them struggle to get out of some "delicate situations".
Example "detached head", "wrong rebase", "for some reason I see duplicate commits" and so on.

To help my colleagues I came up with a list of git uses cases that can be tested in a sort of interactive playground using a shell script that will set-up the use case and then we can go ahead and try to solve the problem.

The main advantage here is that all use cases are reproducible and that by looking at the shell script we can see how we got in the mess in the first place.

Everything is written in posix shell and should work on linux, macos and windows (with git bash).

Any comments, feedback and contributions are very welcome !

PS: This is somewhat inspired by https://ohshitgit.com/
Your experience is not representative - https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/72bpekq9nm/Internal_RoyalTracker...
It looks like Bluesky is already in the lead of Twitter alternatives with fast growth and attracting normal users (not techies) and demand in less than a year after launching their app.

Users don't need to 'Choose a server' and aren't confused on signing up and know how to use basic features like search and can find the users that are who they say they are. For BlueSky, two months with this growth in adoption is very early days.

But we will see what happens when the invite system is lifted and if the users are retained enough on BlueSky and what the users on Twitter will decide to move on to if Twitter gets 'worse'. But it seems that BlueSky so far is winning amongst the rest of the other failed alternatives that have tried for years to challenge Twitter.
I meant landscape mode
US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings
I think the main challenge is that true a solution can only be reached if the society as a whole faces the issue together. Meanwhile families are left on their own to try their (suboptimal) best.

I recently saw this youtube piece that shares the Swiss perspective on the topic of Gun ownership, and apart from some intended sarcasm in it that can bother viewers with distinct political views, the content has been worth watching:

- https://youtu.be/EkuMLId8SqE
That is not at all the obvious market; people in the HN bubble are just ignorant of the creative world and love to shit on Apple. The iPad is already huge for content creation among professions. It has made a huge dent in the tablet market (think Wacom), and is heavily used by professional artists. The audio options are amazing and USB midi output on instruments is very common now and works with iPads. An actual computer will probably remain a key component in artists' workflows, but iPads and iPhones are increasing part of it.
Most people can't into computers, selling them computer and software they can use makes a lot of money.
Stuff like this should of course be open source, with the optional possibility of self-hosting. E.g. Nextcloud style.

But, the bigger question is, for something shared here on hacker news where an abundance of developers dwell: why would we not create our own ~500 lines note taking synchronization function with built-in end-to-end encryption?

I mean use your favorite scripting language, even on your laptop, and you could theoretically make something that is very easy to audit and maintain. There is no need for extreme complexity with thousands of lines of code (or untrusted closed source software for that matter). Just something simple to keep your notes encrypted.

Oh wait, we got KeepassXC already (although that is a very complex program and hard to review for us outsiders that do not know the code. Etc. Etc.) I personally do not have time to review such code, and so, it remains a matter of trust for me. I still prefer it because it is open source.
the only unique advantage of JWT-type auth is reducing load on auth backends

everything else you mention is equally available in other, simpler, auth schemes
You really don't see how phones made this situation worse for everyone involved? It just seems so obvious to me.
I'm guessing it's access to that IMDB database of metadata. Anyone else would need to create that or license it which if I was Amazon I would either not sell or charge out the nose for.
What does the F2300C and F2550W mean? Focal length?
or AfterPay?
>Beginning in late January 2009, 16-ounce cartons shrunk to 14 ounces, and two months later the larger 32-ounce pots lost 4 ounces. The price for either carton, however, stayed the same.

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/09/shrinkflation-the-consumer-g...

Impressive memory!
Salsa. In particular Cuban style.

Most schools will provide you with a partner and as you progress through the classes you will meet people and they often have parties.
> That's why subscriptions and splitting a purchase is coming to everything now.

Maybe that's a factor, and in this particular case a reasonably large one, but I'd guess it's because subscription revenue is the holy grail for modern software. People end up spending way, way more than they would have, often forgetting about the subscription and paying for it when they don't even use it, and the revenue is predictable and stable. There aren't any downsides for the company, and the question of ethics is irrelevant to them
More than anything else, there are fewer bombings today because the Irish dispute was settled through a political agreement. Violent republican separatism and monarchist unionism are, thankfully, now beyond the pale, for most of the political and social body in both Ireland and the UK today. May it stay so.

> The US kills many more people with guns, but it's so passé, old news, let them die. But a bomb, that gets people outraged, 'we have to do something'.

The United States has not, in the last century or so anyway -- maybe during Reconstruction -- actually experienced widespread targeted violence of the kind experienced in the UK and Ireland during the Troubles. More than 10,000 bombs exploded, many hundreds killed, many thousands injured. And that's just the bombs, not the shootings etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_Tr... Unlike American spree killers, most of these killings were highly targeted political acts. They weren't making a mountain of a molehill, in terms of the violence itself. It was a black mark for many decades for the two islands.
You're leaving out the critical part where the VP of whatever signed off on the press release, then moved on while the feature was implemented as described in the release.
> People used desktop apps perfectly fine before the always-on phone-home era of nearly universal broadband.

Yes, and people used cars perfectly well before seatbelts. Except the people that died.

If your application is internet connected then you need a good update story so that (if nothing else) you can push out security updates. This is true of everything from embedded firmware to desktop apps.
Except I will not enjoy that. That is not a pattern of interaction I enjoy. I find small talk with people I don't know exhausting. I don't want to impose on an employee who would rather not share their personal life with me. I can't possibly know if that employee legitimately wants to share with me or is doing so because they feel they must because I am a customer.

I eat less C-F-A nowadays because they have chosen to make the experience different than other drive through restaurants, and it's not an experience I care for.
Ah, I thought it was to complain about bad purchases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
Additional confirmation could simply be multiple sources reporting the same thing. Once is circumstantial, but if 10 people record something from different perspectives then it is highly likely to be real.
I'd like to see more tools on how to quit addictive behaviors. I read Power of Habit, so I can easily quit things, but not everyone was lucky to be gifted a 300 page book and read it. If that was taught as a class in high school, it might eliminate long-term drug addiction.

How many times are people subjecting themselves to social media they don't really want to view because they habitually unlock their phone and check their notifications?

These kind of things are fighting fire with a squirt gun. Telling people to 'use less' and 'monitor' are easy to beat with addictive platforms.
Are real numbers actually "real" or do they just have good PR?
This is a freelance writer lampooning overpaid neural network mechanics and "maybe we're all just auto-complete models" philosophy bros and their myopic search for efficiency and "intelligence". "Punching up" is a relative term -- in many circles the latter group has all the social cache.
I assume you are trying to cool a PC or something with this?

Depending on the heat load, you either don't need the freezer, or you will burn the freezer out. Freezers are not designed to run continuously like an air conditioner or water chiller would. The freezer would be much better used over hours/days to make ice that you can use to chill the water in short bursts. Also, depending on the heat load, you probably don't need any ice, and don't need 40 whole gallons.

I did a little experiment a couple years ago overclocking an old C2 Q8200, using my laundry room sink (5 gallons at most) filled with cold tap water for cooling, circulating with a pond fountain pump. The water was coming out the tap at around 40F and I was seeing maybe a 1-2 degree F rise every half-hour or so.

So if the water started to warm up, I could just pull the drain plug and run the tap for a minute to cool the basin back down. I tried dumping in a substantial quantity of ice, but I saw basically no additional performance headroom (at least with that chip) at the cost of a bunch of condensation on everything.
A reason I'm probably not one of these guys is because my first thought on having a hundred million dollars is to retire and buy a home in a place I can stroll down to catch fish in the surf. Not even kidding. If I had enough money to be set for the rest of my life and do that, say no more.
Everything has two sides. Chemotherapy discovery was aided by chemical weapons.
> Why download updates at all without the user knowing? Is prompting before downloading such an awful user experience in comparison? Or, you know, prompt once per day and add a 'remind me in x days/minutes' option?

Yeah, it's a pain in the neck. If I've got 20 bits of software on my PC and they all update once a month, then most days I'm going to get a random popup asking to update. Just get on and do it please.
FANTASTIC

I've taught DNS to many people, and I've long wished for such a resource. Definitely spreading this in my network.
I have a clear memory that, at the time, cellphone carriers were adamant about strictly controlling how their networks were used. If anything but voice or SMS crossed their network, they wanted to be bribed to permit it. The surprising coup was Apple getting them to admit a device with such flexibility onto their network.

Then Google finished the job; side-loading was no longer "jailbreaking", it was directly supported, and programming on the device wasn't prohibited. I'm not the customer for an iPhone, I really doubt they'd ever open up so that iPhone owners could install an open source app store (f-droid), and from that a full development environment (termux), within which you can install a bigger distro (Debian) to install e.g. Calibre for ebook-reformatting. Or git, or LaTeX, or rust, or emacs.
This is the plot of the show Person of Interest.
I still use CS2 which was made "free" by Adobe for a time (they shutdown the servers) but fortunately got archived and mirrored by a lot of sites.
I can't say I blame them for not wanting to suddenly have to firefight 1 million users on an immature platform.

Aware that your issue is the approach and the fact that invites are the main way of scaling this rather than just issuing random waitlists, but there is an issue about networks which I assume they are needing - i.e. users already on there will want their friends on there with them, as it is a social network.

The issue about creating networks of people that know each other and interact is probably pretty key to building a real social network - see how Facebook rolled out by college campus.
Then it means he doesn't have that power. What kind of power is that which you can't exercise? If you can't exercise it, it means you don't have it.
I was a long time Cubasis user but had to ditch when the latest one was released so buggy and with a load of usability regressions that are still not fixed. I bought it on launch day and found about 15 showstopper bugs in the first half hour of trying to use it. At that point they'd lost me as a customer forever more and I switched to NanoStudio 2 which, in terms of touch interface design, is a work of art. Plus it never, ever crashes.
Redis Durability
Am I the only one that finds the process of getting files of a decent size from non-Apple devices to Apple mobile devices incredibly frustrating, almost enough to be a deal breaker?

What is the current best practice for the fastest way to get video files on an IPad as of now?
I don't understand how students having a phone helps in the case of school shootings. The school will call the police and any parents of students injured/killed will also be contacted by the school.
Ex-Apple VP Mike Abbott Joins General Motors as Exec Vice President, Software
Brain Drain Threatens the F.D.I.C. and Its Efforts to Regulate Banks
I'm with you here. I have a personal rule that the first information into my head each day comes from the Bible, which for all the criticism it gets is ultimately a story of hope in the face of many disasters. It's been a huge boon to my mental health.
You put words in my mouth by changing the quantifier from "western governments" to "no western actors". And yes we do know a lot about how the US conducts espionage, yet we don't have evidence of state-backed troll armies.
Good catch. I had wondered what I found off about a lot of modern satire, and yeah, it's smugness. I think it's a side effect of polarization. A lot of jokes aren't just mocking in good fun anymore, they're more just insults to people with different views. Which is ironic because there seems to be a modern narrative that lots of past jokes that were in good fun are actually offensive.
COVID would probably have been a huge factor in that one. A city known for tech and expensive living, all of a sudden people don't have to go into an office and can get the same salary and live elsewhere cheaper.
I don't like such financial circumvention of constitutional limits on the federal government. Especially since those funds are extracted from the states in the first place.

That said, this zoning bill seems constitutional, per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35875405
DNS propagation does not exist (And other excellent DNS articles)
> We're engineers, we could implement location tracking in a way that only the user being tracked has access to it. Google could store it in the cloud but encrypted with a key Google has no access to.

Many other features that people find useful wouldn't be possible in this world. If that's the product you want, find an alternative that's not Google maps. I suggest OsmAnd.
That is part of the rules required of distribution sites like YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, etc., as defined in US law as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Hence the name "DCMA Takedown Notice".
I see we've passed "first they ignore you" and moved onto the "next they laugh at you" phase of LLM denial. The next step is "you win."
And people can still get hurt in car accidents, so we should just get rid of seatbelts, airbags, and crumple zones and dispense with the illusion of safety.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Might be worth mentioning that Java applets could call into native DLLs (which was a major security risk), while there's no way to do the same from WASM.
Jordan Klepper comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1VpraYEUPk

He can interview the most self-stereotyping person, mock them mercilessly, and they'll have no idea because he's so earnest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPNwJAcMH5U
The Disappearing Computer: Preview of Humane’s Screenless Tech (2023)
Following this thread!
Got a link for the Amazon/AWS spying?
Big fan of your interfaces here, and MMM is an amazing utility - thanks.
It's the WeeWolf cryptocurrency, by Weeiam.

It's much more than Brave, because essentially the Weeiam app works in the background and allows you to use any browser and another function is that it makes you earn even if you frequent clubs, shops, restaurants, bars and any other physical venue.

The main difference is that Weeiam automatically earns you crypto for almost everything you do online and offline on a daily basis.

I hope I was clearer and I'm here to answer any of your questions. Thanks so much for the feedback received.
If you hit an animal with your car, do you leave it to bleed out because it isn't a person and thus can't be vulnerable?

We don't agree that an unborn fetus isn't yet a person. I was deconstructing your logic. I think a person is created the moment sex cells fuse. Sometimes I even think about the hypothetical potential of a person and what they'd want me to do, such that they could one day exist and tell me.

My use of the word 'murder' is for dramatic effect to emphasize my beliefs. I concede that it's an opinion counter to the current laws, and thus technically incorrect. Still gonna call it that though.
Truth be told, it’s possible to get information out of people without any of this. Simply by torture, like in Abu Ghraib.
You wanna be careful with that...
Logic has been the most intuitive DAW I've used, with Ableton up there but way too busy visually.

Cubase/Cubasis has always been riddled with bugs. It was my DAW for two different stints and I loved a lot about it but had to abandon because it wasn't reliable.
I don't think they even have anything (note I am purely speculating) beyond a single ec2 instance at the moment. it's going to take a lot of time to scale the necessary infra to support the demand
You can fault Pynchon for many many things (though I love him) but "carrying on a post-modernist tradition" is probably the last thing you could possibly fault him for.

Pynchon is one of the most esoteric artists I have ever encountered in any medium.
He did take a lot of inspiration from how Henry James writes in a sentence/paragraph level (see Pugnax the talking dog who reads Henry James all day in ATD) but his work ends up being something entirely different.
It's a great reminder, though, that relying on Google to be able to discern a sensitive situation isn't adequate. Even if Google was perfect, they can't read minds.

Best practice still has to remain to turn off your phone, or at least put it in airplane mode, before you leave the house if you need more privacy.
> The purpose of writing is to take up space

This is so true, which is why I’m compelled to share my agreement by typing words into this conveniently unoccupied textarea. Horror vacui!
Much like the bill of rights, I'm okay with freedoms being enacted at _whatever_ level of government is needed.
All of the FAANG companies have railed against the overreach of DCMA Takedown Notices. However, they are bound by law to comply with them.
I'd pick up e-book copies of the computer books that are famous for having lots of follow-along problems to solve.

SICP exercises, "learn to code" books are generally structured that way. 'How to build X' books are similar.

Not a suggestion necessarily, but 'Land of Lisp' is mostly taught through author-guided tutorials and how-tos for small projects. I imagine that format would be useful in a disconnected area.
And in other passages he brings up issues in Java programming when Java was a newish technology. It is pretty amusing to find references to this sort of thing in a book written by somebody who could be the father or even grandfather of dot-com employees, but then Pynchon always liked to include technical tidbits in his books as he initially studied engineering.
I am confused - what does "ur-" prefix mean?
Hahahaha, accurate. I was just lamenting the fact that AI feels like a summation of what 90% of internet tech today actually is: a vapid echo chamber, running on hype, with little actual value for end users. A sort of twisted, soulless hall of mirrors selling advertisements to bots. This edifice needs to crumble.

Praying for the day of google's collapse, (most) social media's demise, and an alternative business model to ads.
You could try working on some open source projects.

This will simulate what you would do on the job but the barriers of entry are low.

A lot of projects have help wanted issues and many maintainers will support you

Some maintainers are world class in their field. You'll be learning from the best and real people will use your code.