skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not even really true any more - Ofcom (who are in charge of regulating telecoms here) decided that all the companies could increase their prices by inflation plus 3.9% every April without voiding people's contracts or allowing them to cancel and without having to account for this in the headline prices in all their advertisements, so naturally everyone did and ran lots of promotions based on the bogus prices right before the increase. I think they even let some companies do this when there was nothing at all in the contracts permitting it (though that may only have allowed increasing prices by inflation). There's also apparently a newer swizz where companies advertise discounted prices but calculate the price increase based on the original, non-discounted price. The whole thing stinks of regulatory capture and oligopolies and the British media and establishment doesn't seem to care. They're more interested in attacking actually-competitive sectors like supermarkets with tiny profit margins.
I mostly agree, but the average person doesn't know that's even an option. They hear "You should use ChatGPT!" and they go straight to the app store to try it out.
I’m quite sure that the OP DOES realize this.
> “Unlimited” data is not comparable because different subscriber’s data gets assigned different priorities at times of congestion.

> In the US, you can get “unlimited” data for as low as $25 per month, or as high as $90 per month, depending on what level priority you want (which you assume might make a difference at peak times).

Yeah I don't think this happens in the UK/EU. The US system seems really weird and complex in comparison. Those prices I quoted above include unlimited calls and texts to anywhere in the UK.
Case study for running memory bound kernels on RISC-V CPUs
It's a fair point, although that concept of trust happens with every domain.. including those that use another TLD for their content delivery network (example.com with images served from example.net), or SaaS app (example.blog with login.example.app).

In this particular case though, it's a 301/Permanent redirect[0], meaning it should be remembered forever. This includes the domain not being listed by search engines[1] (the target URL is used) and once you've visited it on your system it will remember the redirect indefinitely.

The point being, you don't need to trust who set it up, it's very hard to undo. If someone wanted to do this nefariously or reserve the right to use the domain in a different way in the future, they would want to use a temporary redirect.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/301
[1]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
> The same recovery methods used for passwords also work for passkeys, e.g. as sending a link in an email or text message to create a new passkey.

How does a site have your email address if you registered and logged in with a passkey? They only have that if you gave it to them. Maybe there's an Apple specific extension, but the WebAuthn spec (which is what passkeys are based on) doesn't require any contact info to be provided.

>In the "oh no, dropped my phone in a pond" scenario, my passkeys are already synced across devices via the cloud, so I would not have to create new passkeys.

That is not true for every set of passkeys/WebAuthn credentials, only for people using certain providers like Apple. But yes, if you have that set up, that handles it.
I thought the McMurtry Spéirling was even faster: 0-60 in about 1.4s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVbir_r6Wb4

The name is absolutely terrible though.
I'm sure that many can make the same claim. In the 1980's, I was an operating systems architect working at IBM. I thought up many interesting (to me) innovations while working on the first couple of releases of the AIX on the IBM POWER hardware. It was a great job and I learned a lot doing it. I got to work with some really brilliant developers and computer scientists (a number from IBM Research).

One project I was responsible for was the development of a distributed file system for AIX. The goal was a distributed file system that addressed some of the weaknesses found in other distributed file systems at the time. Our chief competitor was Sun's NFS distributed file system. NFS was a really nice design. It was well integrated into the operating system and quite reliable because it utilized a (mostly) stateless server. This had a number of performance and security implications along with some file system semantics over NFS that didn't match local file system semantics. We wanted to introduce state for the server to address these issues and thought of a number of complex protocols to manage it in the presence of unreliable clients. That's when I thought up the idea of making the clients keep their own state to be restored when they reconnected to the server. I protected this state from manipulation by the client by encrypting it. I didn't call them cookies, I called them tokens.

This design was patented by IBM and I was one of the two inventors on the patent. This patent was owned by IBM and years later they gave a special award for this patent because it decided that it was one of IBM's most important patents. (They wouldn't have done this unless the patent had held up to scrutiny or legal challenges). Unfortunately, by that time I had already left IBM to start my own company--I was at the top of my game and had confidence that I could create a software product of some kind that would be successful--so I missed out on the financial award for the patent. By then, I was at my new company and already in competition with IBM.

By now, the patent should be long expired. Interestingly, IBM ended up buying my company around seven years after I and a partner started it.

I was very aware of the academic literature and industrial practice during this time so I do believe that my invention does reflect original work that ended up with a very significant impact.

From a more personal perspective, the invention didn't financially benefit me. The work that I did at my company own was more creative, inventive, technically impactful, and financially important to me. For example, Austin Ventures has indicated that my company was the start of Austin becoming an important high-tech location, but none of that was related to the cookie.
>an old 25MHz 386 that booted Linux off a floppy disk.

inquiring minds want to know...how long did that boot take?
I wonder what’s the reasoning behind limiting availability of an app for a product that’s already widely available.
It'd be hard to identify a phone associated with a "Montana citizen". Not impossible, but I think that based on Apple and Google's comments on these laws that they haven't built the functionality in.

GeoIP doesn't work because carriers (especially in Montana) tend to assign IPs from surrounding states as much as they do local cities. When I'm on the cell network, I'm regularly identified as coming out of Denver. Phone number area codes are equally useless, since half the folks I know here in Montana have area codes from outside states. GPS would be the best bet, though I feel like even that would have some major caveats (the use would have to be decoupled from the location services controls/displays, something they don't do for even their own apps right now).

Also, people rely on cellphones for emergency services. A manufacturer shutting down phones would probably expose them to some serious liabilities.
> Nothing is as good as a full keyboard.

I don't know what the solution is, but I remember most decrying that a keyboard on a mobile device would not work and that they wanted their Blackberry keyboards, but Apple nailed it. Here's to seeing that the next input/interface will be.
The typical nontech user doesn't know what a PWA is, which is why native apps in the App Store are still very important.
It's not secretive. They publish who attend and what is the agenda. They just have Chatham house rules (you can' talk freely about what was discussed, but you can't say who said what).

This years list of topics include AI, Ukraine, China, etc.

Just a list of participants HN readers should know:

Stacey Abrams, Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt (in the steering committee)

other participants:

Demis Hassabis, Sam Altmam, Garry Kasparov, Satya Nadella, Anne Applebaum,..
"Gaslighting" has become a fashionable thing to say, but lately, I've rarely heard it used to refer to actual gaslighting. I think that a lot of people don't actually know what it means.

I saw a YouTuber make a great joke about that that demonstrates actual gaslighting.

"You told me that you love to be gaslit, remember?"
About ten years ago we were selling a property and decided to "declutter" to make it more appealing - we put lots of stuff in storage.

After a few months we had sold the property and then looked at the stuff we had put in storage and 95% of it was junk....
I’m merely pointing out that ‘secretive’ is an accurate headline.
> Almost like an executable README.md

Previously:

> There is a way to write a plain text file so that it looks the same (i.e. appears as plain text) whether it has the .txt extension when it's opened in a text editor and/or Web browser versus whether you rename it to have a browser-associated file extension like .htm or .html and then re-open it in a Web browser.

Why is this relevant? Because:

> Documents opened Web browsers are programmable.

From <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35389974>

> If folks were really committed to improving the developer experience, then instead of what we do now [...] development would work like this: ¶1. Download the project source tree ¶2. Open README.html ¶3. Drag and drop the project source onto README.html

From <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28407936>
> and it is bad for everybody

Hang on, it's not bad for me. If I visit your site, it's not because I want to participate in some kind of A/B testing (whose results you'll never tell me about). And if your site only works if I happen to have hardware X installed, you don't need analytics to tell you that your site is broken.

> European companies need to bug all users and beg for cookies.

That's nonsense. If cookies are needed for the correct operation of the site, then there's no need to beg or bug.

So your banner should be saying: "Can I please set tracking cookies that make no difference at all to the correct operation of the site? [Accept] [Reject]". Then count the number that say Accept, note that the number is approximately zero, and then scrap the banner.
Basically my idea for a pico PC attached to an nreal air, but at a 2-3x markup.
Youtube is one of the most expensive sites because they chose to model their infustructure this way. Same reason facebook needs such massive servers. It wants control of the data.

Youtube could be re-done in a peer-to-peer format a la torrents. You subscribe to someone and watch their videos you're also re-uploading to others. Tada, massive server problems disapear.
You can turn off the "Haptic Feedback" in the app's settings
When I was 12, I would fly paper airplanes of my own design outside on the front lawn in hopes someone from Pratt and Whitney would happen to drive by and notice my obvious brilliance and hire me to design jet engines.

The moral of my story is that 12 year olds don't think - and maybe always SHOULDN'T think in very practical ways.
> Why on Earth would the world "elites" desire to establish a "new world order", given that the current "world order" seems to be working just great for them.

I'd disagree with this, from the sense of - one thing that has proven almost universally consistent throughout all human history: there is no such thing as too much power, or too much wealth. People, when given these things, crave more. It's not even necessarily a _character_ failing - it's the same feedback loops to various receptors in our brain.
Funny, I was thinking that the only disadvantage of the previous example is that you don't get any feedback from comments.

The ability to label your "posts" seems pretty powerful too. Then your blog can be navigated by your tagging system, which means it can also start to act as a personal wiki...
San Francisco's problems are the predictable result of inequality that's completely out of control. All US cities suffer the same problems as SF, and the only difference between them is a matter of degree.

The wealthy and powerful that created this problem would like to solve it while simultaneously continuing to exasperate it. It doesn’t take a genius to see that this will never work. At best, a temporary, politically palatable status quo can be achieved which is basically what US cities which are considered functional have.

San Francisco may recover or it might become the next Detroit. To some extent it doesn’t matter because without fundamental systemic changes it’s only a matter of time before the next city suffers the same fate.
Why is my dryer radioactive?
To the degree that people get a storage unit to store things that they don't really have a future plan for using/displaying/etc., they should probably reconsider. It's mostly paying money to kick the can down the road and even potentially make it someone else's problem.
This has to be coupled with 'The Great Software Decay'. I hope we will have 'real' innovation in Software Engineering where people take writing performant code seriously and many Software Engineers actually know what a compiler does and what the CPU does etc.

The frameworks have been helpful but at the same time -- rounding buttons is not software engineering.
When will IBM finally give up the ghost? Do they add any sort of real value for customers anymore? Their cloud products are awful (I've used them), and I've only heard bad things about their consulting (and that's been the story for ages).

The last good thing about IBM that I remember is the Thinkpad, but Lenovo's made them for longer than IBM did at this point.
I'm assuming your definition of free speech is the absolute variety. If so, no country, including the United States, has ever recognized freedom of speech as having no limits, making it a useless definition in the context of this conversation. There are always limits, everywhere.

But it's obvious that European countries have a concept of freedom of speech, just one you personally don't consider valid. But like the guy said, that's just, like, your opinion, man. That concept is defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international law, as well as the EU Charter, and probably whatever individual constitutions or bodies of law each country has. It was established before the US came up with the First Amendment, which was based on existing Enlightenment philosophy.
It would be cool if chiplets got to the point where, at least, an OEM… someone Dell sized… could actually differentiate themselves by mix-and-matching a group of accelerators. Bringing back consumer-visible differentiation in CPUs (other than Apple against the world) would be nice for the market I think.
https://bilderbergmeetings.org/
Good grief! xwinman.org is still up? I remember referencing the materials there when I was first starting out with Linux in 1995. So many great memories tweaking my .fvwmrc...
What is the data? Doesn't iOS limit access to anything outside of the app?
It has to ask to access contacts, photos, location. If you just use it to scroll through stupid videos, what does it even have access to?
John Carmack is headlining a SciFi convention that rails against 'woke'
US only. Great. Typical.
Yup, used in all the FPGA software tools. A lot of the new stuff coming out of Quartus at least is being written in Python though, or rewritten as such. Having worked in the field for the past year, I've definitely got quite a few gripes with the Tcl after some exposure.

The syntax is not intuitive, especially for a scripting language. The standard library is far too small, basically just a subset of the C standard library plus regexps. The only true data types in Tcl are strings and associative arrays. As such, Tcl scripts do not scale very well. The performance is generally abysmal, not just because of the magic string conversions, but because standard library functions are incredibly slow in cases that are hard to avoid. Tcl fully parses lines before deciding that they should be executed (in the case of a command) or ignored (in the case of a comment). You should think of a comment as a "do nothing" command, rather than as a comment as in other languages. While not too egregious, if you're used to other languages that quirk causes numerous grievances.

One positive is it's really easy to drop down into C or C++ when you come across tasks that make more sense in a lower-level language, so if you're using it for that purpose it's good.
Zen 1 was terrible and is not a useful baseline. It was obsolete at launch. Nobody bought them except companies who were paid to take them and agree to be in a press release. It was literally half the speed of Skylake on server workloads.
> It's just zealotry of them going "eeew fortran that's like really really old".

The developers of SciPy are maintaining a codebase that is 18% fortran, according to [1]. The only language that makes up a larger part of the codebase is python.

Don't you think it's possible their opinion on fortran is actually informed by quite a bit of experience?

[1] https://github.com/scipy/scipy/
We have politicians here that voted in favor of those war crimes, demanding that Russians are punished for theirs. Let's start at home if war crimes are something we care about if not we can shut our hypocrite mouths.
Hmm... so would written chinese be one language, and all the spoken language different languages? They just developed a script based lingua franca.
Just this week, GPT-4 helped me:

* Find new artists to listen that combine techno with psytrance

* Navigate a tricky personal communication situation

* Debug a LOT of different issues

* Write new code in a language I'm not really familiar with

* Explore political ideas through simulated debate

* Search current visa requirements

* Find answers to some random history questions

* Calculate whether my tent would be blown of a mountain cliff or not

* Adjust a recipe to my taste, amount of servings and available ingridients

* Name some very abstract variables

* Remember a name of historical figure

Sure, I could do most of these just with Google, but it would take me a lot more time. Sometimes 2, sometimes 10 times more.

Can't wait when this app will be available in my region.
[A clarification to the less familiar: --Wall is a compiler option that stands for "all warnings".]
> and that's something governments should have pushed on

They did. Our current anti-tracking laws all come from pushing on that.

The problem is that the DNT is way too simplistic. Browsers fail to inform the users abut it and keep track of sites independently, and the protocol fails to allow the site to request fine-grained authorizations and inform why they are needed.

There's a sibling talking about P3P that has neither of those problems.
It is a problem… and it’s why I personally have the highest liability + a giant umbrella policy. I live and work near Newport Beach CA. It’s not uncommon to be driving behind / around a Ferrari or 3.

But why should the average roadway user be liable because someone wants to drive a piece of art? It makes more sense that the Ferrari owner pay for the excess liability since it’s their choice to put it at risk.

What if I chose to drive around with a Picasso in my trunk. Should I get to sue for its cost if someone crashes into my car and ruins it? It’s bonkers that the law doesn’t limit liability in this way.
If you're referring specifically to ADSL then yes, however VDSL is passable, typically 100 down/10 up. Fiber would be ideal, but not worth 4-5x the price IMO (currently paying $33/month).
AmpereOne with 192 Cores 128x PCIe Gen5 Lanes and DDR5
Really? I didn't invent it for browsers, I invented it for distributed file systems before the "World Wide Web" had even been invented. You might as well have a talk with William Shockley or Vint Cerf.
It probably isn't but there are simple exercises to help ameliorate it†. (The problem is that I am frequently too lazy or too busy to do them.)

†unless, in your case, the arrow of causality between vision and computer screen distance is in the opposite direction.
According to HN audience, the probability of Davos billionaires to conspire towards maximization of profit and control is non-existent. Evidence is false news. Only copium and hopium are the secret sauce of the future. Samuel Altman is the real wizard of the Golden billion.
Hey, is someone tested the new toy demoed at Davos that reads your mind and shares it with your boss for performance evaluation? It looked promising, I want to invest.
But he doesn’t want to step aside! He is one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time and wants to continue doing what he absolutely loves. Why should he simply ‘step aside and make space’ for new voices? I’m pretty sure he’s earned the right to continue to do what he loves.
This app appears to be region locked. Not available in Canada.
If you mean BT Wi-fi that's not free.

https://www.btwifi.co.uk/
FWIW, in CA that order at Five Guys would be $55 (https://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/five-guys-prices/ gives prices at (8.95*3+3.06*3+7.41*2)*1.0725), but I imagine people in CA are richer than people in the UK...
Five Guys is absolutely atypical and has always been very expensive. A burger and a soft drink in a Wetherspoons (love them or loathe them) will be between £5 and £7 depending on the burger.

> he mentioned he's getting taxed at 48-50% on top of this

That's the higher rate for those who earn the most and, again, atypical. https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates
Lynx browser does this, for every website I choose which Set-Cookie headers I want to respect and which to ignore.
And AlphaFold was developed across the road from the Turing Institute.
Rampant NIMBYism and being absurdly soft on crime aren’t helping either.
eh? it had nearly universal high praise from reviewers.
>A scientific journal suggests that the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descend, in some neighborhoods faster than others

I think this is grammatically correct.
Looking at the actual (published, not so secret) list of participants, I think it's interesting that:

- some people are included who I think most people think of in terms of what they _used_ to do (e.g. Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt)

- though it's under the Chatham House rule and is being called "secretive", they have a number of journalists / news editors on the list

- though AI is on the agenda, this year (unlike some prior years) it doesn't look like they have any actual AI researchers qua researchers. Demis Hassabis is on the list, but given the rest of the list, one suspects its for his CEO/leadership role rather than as a researcher specifically. In previous years, Bengio and Lecun have been involved. And this year there are professors / fellows, but all in econ or public policy fields.

https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2023/par...
We use keydb at work, and I absolutely do NOT recommend it due to its extreme instability, in fact we're currently in the process of switching to dragonfly precisely due to keydb's instability.

Multimaster replication is convenient, but if you accidentally add the IP of the current replica to the replicaset, the entire cluster will crash if any of the nodes shuts down for any reason (note, not immediately, but days or even weeks after starting the cluster with everything working perfectly until one of the nodes crashes or shuts down).

Enabling diskless replication in multimaster mode causes either deadlocks, or immediate crashes, depending on the overall LA of the system (!).

These are just the issues I remember right now, because the related issues I opened in the repo are still open almost a year later; we had other crashes we had to workaround, too.
Dragonfly is not open source, rather source available.

Also, has anyone here used SkyTable as an alternative to Redis?