skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I have PHP code in production that dates back to 2008. zero dependencies, a few quirks, it runs on PHP 7.something for now, might upgrade to 8 at some point.

It’s ugly, but it gets the job done.

Best thing is that front-facing HTML and JS from 10+ years ago still works flawlessly, even though the UI is certainly dated.

But I guess that’s the same with HN, where the design never really changed at all and just works.
I recently released https://stay100.app - an AirBnB search engine for large screens.

Let me know what you think.
There's a difference in the modern era with the term "conservative", and you may find the term "reserved" fits what you're describing here better.

I wouldn't consider myself conservative by any means, but I do find myself more reserved in my decision making - I'll take a bit more time to come to a decision rather than firing from the hip, etc.
- Pre-emptive multitasking with 1000hz scheduler, multiprocessor, multithreading, ring-3 protection

- Responsive GUI with resolutions up to 1920x1080, 16 million colours

- Free-form, transparent and skinnable application windows, drag'n drop

- SMP multiprocessor support with up to 32 cpus

- Time critical process support: an uninterrupted process execution on any cpu

- Kernel/user mode pre-empting, including SMP

- Up to 100000 hz process scheduler, below millisecond audio latency

- IDE Editor/Assembler for applications

- USB 2.0 Classes: Storage, Printer, Webcam Video and TV/Radio support

- USB 1.1 Keyboard and Mouse support

- TCP/IP stack with Loopback & Ethernet drivers

- Email/ftp/http/chess clients and ftp/mp3/http servers

- Hard real-time data fetch

- Fits on a single floppy, boots also from CD and USB drives
if you have a complex workflow that is supported by Jira, then you could use a simple too by switching to a simple workflow.

Keeping the complex workflow but using a dumber tool (E.g. having to track it via post-its, emails, chat, six different spreadsheets on different SharePoint servers plus sign off in two different custom in-jhouse webapps, would be worse in every aspect).

So when people say they hate Jira, they really hate the combination of Jira + the workflow under it.

I'd happily live without complex processes. But IF I have to use a complex process, I do love having one tool to handle it with, instead of eight. I did this switch FROM the 8 different spreadsheets and webapps, into the Jira/Azure DevOps/Whatever, several times. And I loved it every time because it's a less bad solution. It's not a good solution (that would be reducing complexity in the process). But for sufficiently complex organizations and tasks, some times you need a complex process and a complex tool to maintain it. And I guess in that situation no one will love the tool even though it's the least bad one.
Funnily enough a lot server side options like Rails and PHP with Laravel are having a resurgence in popularity. Like other people have said, there are a million different options, which is partly the problem in the world of JS.

I would just go with what you know already and find the easiest way forward. Lots of SaaS companies like Shopify and ConvertKit work on Rails so why not just re-fresh your knowledge there instead of learning the latest JS library? Ask ChatGPT to fill in gaps of your knowledge. I've also heard good things about Rails Casts and I've just gone to their site and the Pro content is now all free!

Basically, the best programming language is the one you know best.
Very interesting, but not what I expected when I heard the word “ChatGPT”. In fact I don’t even see evidence of an LLM at work here, just AI-generated SQL queries.
Dovecots [0] have been used for (likely) millenia. And, because of migration, the birds can ultimately bring nutrients in from disparate locations - as opposed to purely localally grazing livestock.

Per leathers: one, we don't have to completely eliminate cattle. Two, synthetics exist. Three, alternatives are being made/investigated [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovecote
[1] https://www.felsie.co.uk/ (and others, if you google around)
It's quite the opposite. Religious dogma is quite comfortable with young women marrying old men and sleeping with them.

It is modern morality with out better understanding of psychology and brain development that lead many people to believe that sex in extreme age differences and extreme power imbalances is fraught. And in many cases, immoral. Regardless of whether the young person is a day under or a day over the "age of consent".

I would posit that cases where a 17 year old is sleeping with a 55 year old and it is NOT due to some form of coercion, are extremely rare.
Actually this applies to humans in general.

One of my pet peeves is artists (and journalists) setting themselves apart as a “high priesthood” and claiming things for themselves specially which should apply to humans in general.

Yes, artists should be allowed to make bad work and go through bad times because humans must be allowed to make bad work and go through bad times.

Yes, creativity and freedom is important for artists because creativity and freedom is important for all humans.

Yes the government should not be spying on journalists, because it shouldn’t be spying on people in general.
> Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me?

> Me: Sure, let me just:

> SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists

Credit: https://twitter.com/sethrosen/status/1252291581320757249
But is WSL1 supported by the POSIX layer? I don't think so. I think it uses some of the mechanisms built for the POSIX layer but I think it is a separate "personality".
https://archive.is/pSRth
I personally agree with you, but I know that I'm not necessarily in the majority. Much like many people seem to prefer buffet restaurants to restaurants with a fixed menu.
I always though that Forbin engineered all this to he could sleep with his female colleague...
Theyll probably survive, but in what numbers and which types of birds is an entirely different story. Nevermind the massive impact that has on the environment in general.
I wouldn't have a problem with disinviting anyone who actually did exploit minors, such as Polansky.

What bothers me is the übersensitivity over a leaked e-mail from a private group. Weird people like Stallman can be expected to express weird opinions in their e-mails. Repression of weirdness can result in worse societal results than its expression.
When I published stuff to GitHub, it had open licenses: i wanted anyone and everyone to make whatever use of it they could. I didn't foresee this use, and I'm not fond of Microsoft (to say the least); but it certainly falls into the area of things I explicitly allowed when publishing.

I suspect many others who publish there feel the same way.
The easiest way to let ChatGPT read local data
This is anecdotal, but I see a lot of land that used to support birds and small animals and is now stripped of vegetation and covered in solar panels. Destroying habitats to save the planet is the order of the day, apparently.
80k what? Interest? Payment?
Why should I care about animals that have no use for me?

Stories about wolves, bears, and now birds and insects, seem to presume that I feel some automatic emotional connection to them, or that there's some self-evident moral argument why they need to kept alive. I won't deny that they have some intrinsic value, but if there are competing interests and hidden costs, that value really needs to be put into perspective.
I made a whole bunch of things that have not been deprecated or tech debt. It's about which technologies you use.

C is not deprecated. Maybe in a 100 years it will be, but it seems unlikely.

It's very rare to find someone who has C as their favourite language, but it's incredibly persistent.

C is the opposite of the latest JS framework.

I regularly fix bugs in open source, where when checking when the bug was introduced the trail often runs cold in the mid to early 90s, as it predates that project's use of source control.

But yeah, if you have a 20 year career of following what is clearly the latest fad, then you'll have that experience.

Java applets were never "big". They were a fad, and promise of big. But they always sucked, even by the standards at the time.
I like slg's reply (most likely somewhere above mine!)

I just want to add: what's an example of something you think is a really good ending, from any book or show or movie from any time?
Who are the loudest voices advocating for abortion bans, though? Of the legislators who write and vote for abortion ban bills, what is their reasoning and background? At least in the US, it sounds like the loudest of those voices are coming from a religious place, mostly from a Christian perspective. I'll grant you that it's certainly more than just "evangelical" Christians, but I consider that an irrelevant distinction. (Note that I'm not arguing that there are no non-Christians who are anti-abortion, just that they don't seem to be the ones pushing these laws through.)

Either way, I think if you're going to engage in some American-bashing, you should probably cite some sources to back up your claims.
It seems like you can’t parse the context of my writing and the problem lies way deeper than your level of English.
> 9. No quotas or complex verification processes. Whether you represent a company, an institution, or you're a researcher, you have full access to our infrastructure without any limitations.

Given how easy it is to shoot oneself in the foot with stolen credentials or bad Terraform code, I'd think it should be possible for users to set their own quota that is locked for, say, 24 hours to at least put a cap on abuse scenario costs.
You don’t need to use a bloated JS framework.

I think TypeScript is important because of how bad JS operators are defined (operator matrix is just plain stupid, throwing error would be a better option), but everything else is optional. Otherwise JS is good enough.

On the other hand hotwire (moving HTML around) costs real latency and money to mobile users with data plans. Since when it’s better than just executing code on the (for most people strong enough mobile) device with close to 0 cost?
Show HN: PedalPC – Generate electricity and get exercise while you work
I believe the closest precedent is:

Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records, Inc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._W....
I use the terminal a LOT. Makes sense to do it there. Especially because it works over SSH, it's a lot simpler than X Forwarding (especially since that is broken by wayland).
> Microsoft GitHub is the largest collection of open source code in the world. Microsoft GitHub is in a unique and dominant positions to host and access and distribute most of the open-source code in the world

No, it's not in a "unique and dominant position". Open source code is freely available online, it's almost trivial to build a bot to scrape OS code from anywhere on the web (GitHub included).

The comparison to the Google Books antitrust falls down completely, Google had a dominant position because it had the resources to scan all books. Anyone can build a collection of almost all open source code.

Further to that, all these models (GPT and Image generation) are trained on scraped data, trying to suggest that only GitHub/Microsoft could do it defeats the purpose of trying to establish what the legal rights are over training models with scraped data.

We need test cases and precedent, but trying to use this as one is not going to work.

Edit:

It took me 15 seconds to find that there is a Google Big Query dataset of open source code for GitHub: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-datasets/github-...

and thats been further curated on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/codeparrot/github-code

GitHub / Microsoft do not have a monopoly on this data.
Hi HN,

The PedalPC is a computer desk with a built-in, pedal-powered generator. It helps keep you fit by making useful, moderate physical activity an integral part of your workday. It also provides you with a clean, reliable, and dependable off-grid source of electricity that you can set up anywhere.

I built it because I wanted some way to get exercise while I worked, but didn't want the energy I expended go to waste. I didn't see anything on the market, so I built my own. I've redesigned and rebuilt it several times over the years to arrive at what's shown here.

I've been working on this as a side project since 2010. I'd appreciate some feedback on it before developing it further.

The amount of electricity you can generate depends on your age, physical health, and how much you pedal each day. I'm 58 and produce around 220-240 Whr a day pedaling 3-4 hours per day. The PedalPC's maximum designed power output is 100 W. I typically generate about 60 W.

That may not sound like much, but it's enough to power my computer, monitor, printer, desk lamp, and a cooling fan. It also recharges our phones and battery-powered LED lights we use around our home for nighttime illumination. It also powers our router and fiber network terminator to give us 24/7 broadband internet and wifi.

The desk uses an e-bike direct-drive mini hub motor as the generator. It's driven by a toothed belt to minimize noise. The generator charges a 12 V LiFePO4 battery to smooth out the generator's variable output and store any excess energy generated for use when you're not pedaling.

The desk has four 12 V DC power sockets and four pairs of USB power sockets. You can view the power consumption of each power socket and turn each one on or off from a dashboard in your web browser. Each 12 V socket also has PWM control, for varying things like cooling fan speed or beverage cup heater wattage.

The dashboard is served from a small web server built into the desk. You can use it to host any other content you want, like a blog, wiki, small Fediverse instance, etc. (I use mine to host this project's web site.) You can also use it for a DNS server (e.g. pihole instance), file backup server, etc. Of course, you'll need to pedal enough each day to keep the server running! My dream would be to develop a network of desks like this, with each user hosting and powering their own content.

I have built similar machines for two software developers in our town. One was mostly identical to the one shown here, with a built-in desktop. He uses it with his laptop. The other was built without a desktop, so he could use it with his existing standing desk. He uses his to charge batteries, power banks, and phones while he works. Both seem quite happy with them.

Future plans are for a version made specifically for standing desks, better documentation, and an API to make it easier to integrate with things like Home Assistant, NextCloud, fitness loggers, or your own personal dashboard.

Would you like a desk like this? (If so, please sign up for the newsletter in the footer on my site :) ). If not, what would you like to see instead? Any advice you may have is welcome. Thanks.
JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents
I feel like I'm missing some things on your pricing page. In the GPU Instances table, what are the units of "System RAM"? In the CPU Instances table, what does "the cost of RAM is included in the per vCPU price" mean, in terms of how much RAM?

In the Comparison table, some of the savings percentages seem to be calculated incorrectly, as the percentage of the price left instead of the percentage of the price saved (e.g. 3.99/5.88 instead of (5.88-3.99)/5.88).

The pricing is transparent but complicated. I think you need calculator that lets you select different options and tells you the price. Maybe you have such a thing? I didn't find it.
Masayoshi Son Now Owes SoftBank $5.2B on Side Deals
> increase the share of eco-farming, i.e. conventional farming without the chemistry. The problem: both approaches drastically reduce agricultural productivity.

A prime example, the seed-dressing used to treat rapeseed and prevent cabbage-stem flea beetle from destroying the crop has been outlawed in the EU. Most farmers now won't grow rapeseed, because the risk of making a huge financial loss is too high. Result? We import rapeseed from countries which haven't outlawed the insecticide.
It's great, but it's not easy to get through.

I'd love Adam Curtis to release a version of it with his trademark narration/music/style
Do you realize it's not just about meat but also about the excessive farming practices used to produce vegetables? Animals naturally fertilize the earth.
Social pressure is not higher now than in the other periods, when art could be called degenerate or heresy. Newspapers were influential and before them it was church and favoritism in the high society. Van Gogh, Mark Rothko and many others were not happy people who enjoyed a lot of support from the public. We do not know the names of artists from earlier periods who vanished because they were not understood. Suffering is the fuel of art. Take your broken heart and make it into art - that’s how it works. If the pressure of social media is painful, you cannot do anything with it, so either you create or find something else to do, as it has always been.
David Gerrold started an interesting series of SF books - War Against the Chtorr - with a similar premise, but the invasive species were a deliberate attack by aliens. "Terraformation", but the other way around.

Unfortunately the series went off the rails and is unfinished after a few decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Against_the_Chtorr
HTTP2 and 3 are concurrent though and do not use the HTTP 1 pipelining

I think you just mean concurrent downloads from the client
The COVID vaccine reduced severity of COVID and greatly reduced mortality. It also reduced spread albeit to a lesser degree (moreso with earlier strains). I would call that a success and it likely saved millions of lives so far.
Dismissing the feelings as paranoia is a technique to normalize whatever the thing is that people are upset about.
> It's almost trivial to built a bot to scrape OS code from anywhere on the web.

Seems like a logistical nightmare to me. Git repos interact spectacularly poorly with web scraping in general.
This is plainly not accurate - manure from most aninals, especially pig farms, is a hazardous easte to dispose of. Only a small percentage of manure is reused as fertiliser because transporting it is expensive, and messy. Often it needs to be processed before it can be used safely. You can gooogle 'industrial farm US' and see pictures of ani als standing knee deep in their own poop. Also it is illegal to take photos of factory farms in some states.

We feed a lot of grains to aninals as feed. That food coupd be used to feed people. We could certainly downsize meat producting by 70% withiit any adverse impacts -most people eat way too mich meat

PS: There is some strange disbelief below, people think without manure cropping will bot work - this is plainly fanasyland - most of farmland never sees 'natural' fertiliser.

"A recent study by USDA, Economic Research Service identified opportunities for increasing the use of manure as a fertilizer. In 2020, farmers applied manure to less than 8 percent of the 240.9 million acres planted to seven major U.S. field crops."

In uk "In 2019, organic manure was applied to 26% of the area of tillage crops"

This is easilly accessible information.
From the landing page:

> Now, all smart TVs come with ads. But you still pay for the TV

So much for choice
Could also be that insects evolved to avoid long black patches of ground.

That doesn’t look likely, but also not impossible. That’s why we need the study.

Also, predator-prey systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka–Volterra_equations) can have fairly large cycles with huge population swings. That makes verifying that there really is a decline not _that_ easy. You can’t just repeat an insect count done 30 years ago and compare the numbers.
May be surprising to you, now, and you may have forgotten the hell that was inflicted upon us but a lot of things were lost and a lot of lives were broken.

https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1684100123.718_supercutunvaxx...
> We need test cases and president

I imagine you meant "precedent".
> Your very own link says 11

Thanks for the correction, you’re right. I miscited the number in the 90s with the total number. 11 seems the most accurate for deaths of abortion healthcare workers.

> hand waving

Not at all. I think this is a serious issue and we should have zero murders. My point is that saying abortion protesters are assassins (or even violent) is not an accurate assumption based on the very low level of violence to protesters.

I think we should use language and logic accurately even if we disagree with the cause. It’s not right to lump all abortion protestors with the criminals who harm healthcare workers just like it’s not right to lump all BLM protestors with rioters who burn stuff down or all followers of Islam with terrorists. The rates of non-violent to violent are different among all three groups but all extremely low. I’ll defend all three groups even though I’m against the first, for the second, and ambivalent to the third.

But I don’t want to fall into the logical trap of getting sloppy with my generalizations because I want to stop a certain behavior.
Yes, what some programmer don't really understand from atop their STEM superiority complex is that, similar to how you wouldn't be called a good programmer if you never actually write code; you don't really get considered a reference on "liberal matter" until you actually produce anything or hold a dialog with your peers on the subject. I mean, it makes sense, does a reclusive genius make noise if nobody is there to hear them?

So in short: they may be educated in that they read books, follow specialized news, and watch content. All of that is great, but they shouldn't feel ton equal footing with people who, you know, actually DO something with that knowledge.
I'd recommend "Harry's Farm" on Youtube as well. He's in a similar situation, where realistically he's not financially-dependant on the farm any more (made money elsewhere), but has great insight into the day-to-day running of one.
Yeah, I know. It was just a joke.
Wow, that's horrible. I didn't know that sampling and mashups required an explicit license.

Looks like it's in the EU as well.

edit: Hm, Pelham v Hütter C-476/17 might offer some grace for mashups under the quotation exemption at least. Though I wouldn't rely on that.
This is addressed in the same paragraph - you can't scan/download "whole" github because you'll be throttled.
Perhaps your license permits CoPilot reuse, but that is not every F/OSS license. There are some which require attribution of the original authors. There are some which require the distributor to make available any source code, and any modifications made to the software.

Software authors are not upset about the mere reuse of their code, it's the violations of such license terms that are problematic. If attribution is required, but neglected or impossible, that's typically known as "plagiarism", you know.
Problem is when someone uploads something to github they have a license to share (eg via GPL), but are not the copyright owner of.
I'll die if I don't think like you?

Wow
What a ridiculous article. Copilot does not violate antitrust law. GitHub is not a monopoly just because open source devs choose to host there. Devs are free to use GitLab or whatever.

Comparing this to Google Books is silly. Google stole copyrighted books. Copilot uses freely shared open source code. No copyright issue.

The article claims "Open source code on GitHub might be thought of as 'open and freely accessible' but it is not." Lol what? The MIT and Apache licenses explicitly allow reuse. Copilot can absolutely use open source data.

This is typical hype and FUD. No evidence Copilot even used all of GitHub's data or violated any licenses. Baseless speculation.

There's no real antitrust argument here. Nothing to see, move along. yawn
Has anyone just requested access to GitHub’s training data? In other words, maybe GitHub will send a drive with all the data.