skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
6.0.0 was released 08.12.2020, with 6.0.4 released at 04.05.2021 as the last patch release in that minor series. That's more than 5 days of support for the 6.0 minor series.

If Debian supports its releases for longer than the upstream projects do, then that's a (perfectly valid) choice of Debian, but I'm assuming that involves maintaining those projects as well, to the standards of Debian's support policies.
This looks interesting for sure thanks for the link
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Your commit messages [1] are better than of many projects and seniors I have worked with. Nothing to be ashamed. You made something that "just worked" and delivered value. You should be proud!

Sample of latest commit messages:

batch size wants to be smaller for less locking time, not higher

increase scheduler batch size

bump locks again

make pool sizes customized

increase prefetch

[skip render] remove old redis from infra

increase poolsize a bit

bring new redis up to line in blueprints

reduce pool size

bump pg client count

tweak pool sizes and consumer count

double the amount of consumers

small tweaks

[ci skip] update pgbouncer github url

clean allow lists

add new redis instances

make connections to the correct redis url envs

add new env variables

spam prevention

update reddit http client

feat(ops): add distributed tracing (#109)
And ChatGPT vibes...
I thought the same. I think they probably meant "causes meter to self-destruct". Whether that's true or not depends on whether the functionality was used correctly. It's definitely possible to destroy a device by abusing "permitted" inputs. For example, revving a cold petrol engine will eventually ruin it. In that case the title should really be "guy destroys meter (using a Flipper Zero)".
Yes. How do you think we did it in the bad ole days?

Don't fall for the propensity of Big Tech to scare you away from general purpose computing. If you're capable of writing, testing, and publishing an app in the first place, you have an obligation to educate the public about just what the nature of the sacrifices are that are being made by accepting a "walled garden" status quo for computing.

If you're only in it for the money, that may not matter to you I suppose. If you're dedicated to trying to bring the superpower that is general purpose computing to the public however, it's one of those bits of suffering you have to navigate for their best interest.
I was working on a contract that was coming to a close, but I had a great rapport with the team and we had been talking about the next project for months with very clear and open dialogue about me sticking sound for it. Suddenly, there was no money for the next project. I wasn’t renewed and quite a few people on the team were laid off. It was a bit of a shock. I suppose it was foolish but I didn’t look for new work for a long time before the contract was ending, so I was completely caught off guard.

It has been very strange. I’ve never had a hard time finding work in my 12 years in tech. I’d only ever taken a while to find it due to being selective. I took time off to take care of my youngest son once, took 6 months or so to redirect learning towards embedded software and robotics “just because”, and always got right back to the whole full stack thing when I was ready.

I’ve applied to perhaps 30 positions and heard virtually nothing back. Had some great interviews that went cold. I have a feeling my resume is awful and I simply never needed to know that.

I’m optimistic though. I’ve always found myself in key roles on teams and provided critical work and guidance, so I know I’m not just some fortunate auxiliary person who happened to make it this far by luck or coincidence alone. With enough perseverance and humility I know I’ll find something.

I know all of you who are looking are having a rough time. All I can say is that things will always get harder, but they’ll get better too. After this, some time down the road, there’ll be something else to deal with too. You’ll figure that out just the same as you’ll figure this out. I suppose what matters isn’t what happens or why, but how you respond and move through it.

One silver lining is that I’ve been having a ton of fun learning more about things I’ve been curious about and generally furthering my career during downtime in ways I normally don’t get to. It might not seem meaningful or important at the moment, but it always pays off eventually. Plus learning is just fun, and fun is worthwhile. Especially when times are tough!

Good luck, everyone.
> can't handle the long-form content that Reddit is known for.

Isn’t Reddit widely known for memes by the public?
This is a welcome change but I don't believe it prevents links from being copied with the tracking url (especially from Apps like instagram).
I made an iOS extension that supports this and allows you to add your own filters.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-share/id6448807061
Software managers take note… Your MVP isn’t necessarily your perfect code. It’s the messy, “get it out the door”, value it brings to others. This is your product, refine it from there but don’t hold it back for sake of polishing a turd. Myth busters proved you can indeed, polish a turd. Don’t waste the sprints.
I want to like Tildes, but to be completely honest, it annoys me that the '~' character is used heavily. Both from a look perspective and a typing perspective.

Maybe I could get used to it overtime, but we'll see if it ever becomes non-invite-only.
Remarkably its cheaper in Australia ($3,368 post-tax, $3,060 pre-tax USD) — which is a shock as price-gouging by tech companies in the Australian market has always been a huge problem.

I would assume its a number of regulatory and supply-chain factors — but also — they'll charge what they think they can get in the market, and the more a product is considered a luxury purchase, the more they'll up-the-price.

For instance, I purchased a MBP in 2018 in the UK and it was considerably cheaper than the same product purchased in AU. I just had the keyboard customised to use the AU keyboard (wasn't a huge expense) instead of the default UK/EU keyboard layout.

Tough ask, but if you are in Poland, could you exchange to Euro and purchase the product in a neighbouring country?
The obvious counterpoint is that many people were and are miserable commuting into a workplace and then putting in the grind. It's actually humorous that most tech "social media" like HN, Reddit, Digg, and so on were much busier back when most of us were in offices, because we all would bide our days doing anything but work. You could see the bursts as the primary demographic timezones started their "work" days.

Not everyone, of course: I had a peer once who absolutely couldn't stand his family, and he would be at the office before everyone, staying until late at night. Volunteered on weekends too. Almost all of his contributions were the sort of thing that could have been easily automated, but he was happy just wiling hours away. Mileage varies and everyone's situation is unique.

Then of course there's the change element itself being a temporary boost. Turn the lights down and productivity increases. Turn them up and productivity increases. Return them to the normal and productivity increases. Having a varied life is essential. HN's history is littered by posts of people who changed some element of their life and This Changes Everything...at least during the initial period. Then it fades and they abandon it.

None of this is to diminish your personal experience that you obviously enjoy.
Love the connection there! Gotta witness the breakdown to find the true boundaries.
There were plenty of other AP1000 projects in the US that never even got that far. The utilities (or their regulators) wisely gave up.

Amory Lovins has some choice words on AP1000, its cost, and its apologists. He's been a vocal critic of the nuclear industry for decades, and the rage of the nuclear fans against him has only increased as events have vindicated him.

https://www.energyintel.com/00000180-f7a8-d67b-a3cd-f7faad65...
No. The purpose of the site is serving as a general knowledge base, not debugging random code that's only going to be useful to one person.
I find debugging to be easier when everyone has their own machine. You can screen share the primary person's screen but then have others try out little things and do exploration on the side. And I'm far better with my desktop setup than I would be on a laptop that might not even have a mouse.
The issues with video-on-demand were network connectivity, image quality, etc. It wasn't hard to imagine a future where all issues were fixes, and see all the benefits over the brick and mortar video rental. You take an existing common use case, add significant benefits without drawbacks and it becomes a no-brainer.

For VR/AR however? Are we going to get to Black Mirror level of a weightless device that projects a huge AR screen without block your field of vision for the rest, and without making you look like a goof?

Even if that's the case, the benefit over using a phone screen wouldn't not be as big as getting a huge library of movies to be rented in seconds directly from your living room (compared to driving to Blockbuster during opening hours for a much smaller selection).
As the front page of the Internet, I would hope someone there has enough imagination to find a way to pay the people that do the work. If not, do we really have an Internet?
I didn't downvote, but I assume people are because everything you can possibly do in life comes with some risk -- you need to evaluate the risk versus the benefit to decide whether to do something. Not even considering developing an app because of the risk of your app being banned seems like a fairly extreme overreaction.

It's kind of like saying, "I've never considered getting a job because the risk is too big that a faceless corporation is going lay you off without any reason and visibility."
Introduction to ChatGPT
I was talking with a friend about this the other day and he brought up a good point. If you were about to IPO as a company, this is not a bad decision from a business standpoint (cut costs, bring as many users as possible under your control). Obviously the way they executed the decision could be harmful to them, but based on the pressures they're under, I can't see how you could blame them too much. Which is why the only enduring platform has to be something federated like mastodon or lemmy, since they won't have the same economic/capitalist pressures to make the product worse.
IMHO writing a compiler for a high-level language, in an even higher level language, somehow feels a bit "anachronistic" (for lack of better word).
Link to the full paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20151010141416id_/http://www.res...
Sweet study finds how to keep gummy bears chewable longer
I agree with the hoarding bit. I'm not an fan of that either.
But I'm much less of a fan of the self importance of tech pretending this "data" has any more use than temporary ad surveillance until they delete it or resell it.
I wish I still had the graph, but someone posted something for their (150k subs) subreddit recently, and it was below 10% old. No idea what sub, or what the source was so, so take this with a pitcher of salt.
Very few wars in history end with defeating every single last enemy, ie in WWII style. Most come to same conclusion - 'its not worth fighting anymore'. That requires sane leader of course, or deposition of insane one.
I know Americans enjoy the lowest consumers electronics prices in the world but in Europe it's at least 20 Euros which is more than 20 USD and even at 20 euros it's difficult to find, with most shops asking for more than that.
Clearly the selling point of F-91W is the price. I think most owners are comfortable with roughhousing their F-91W and just buying a new one
The CIA is not an independent organization. They are directed by the president and have congressional oversight. Keep in mind thar these "nefarious" programs, as far as I know were not hidden from congressional oversight. This stuff just isn't an election time issue.
This makes a lot of sense. However, it makes me wonder how big is the new attack surface for remote upgrades/updates.

You need to implement a safe updater (with remote protocols) on VM level. And I guess you can never upgrade the VM itself, or if you can, it adds some extra complexity, or physical access.

There also need to be some kind of signature validation for every release, which means that device needs to perform some cryptographic operations and store at least tamper-proof public keys.
> it was reasonable in a food shortage

It's not like anyone was starving, there were of course shortages of certain products but the daily calorific from rations was 30-50% higher than what is recommended today. I don't think anybody had to resort to eating dog food?
I can't run anything between System 2 and System 7 on my Mac Studio. Maybe the emulator used for those doesn't like Apple Silicon?
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> Horrific, yet sadly not the only time the US government has used bio weapons on their own population.

Hyperbole. You are saying that the US government used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_subtilis (the bacterium in question) to attack the US population, which is clearly an exaggeration on several fronts.
That would be the bottom range of the brand, but they are amazing both aesthetically and engineering wise!
Most of the current major C implementations are written in C++.
Exactly.

On that subject, I cannot recommend enough an episode of a Lawfare-related podcast (ChinaTalk) called "Hoover, Communism, and the FBI" [1], which explore the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the zeigeist of the early twentieth century, and an revisiting the "red scare" in light of the since declassified information of Russian spying networks on US soil.

Related to this is the "Venona project" [2], where US agency could break the encryption of old soviet telegraph, and learn a great deal on soviet spy network.

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/chinatalk-hoover-communism-and-f...

[2] https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-project-venona
Ask HN: Is a Reddit clone what we need?
Do we really need to replace Reddit? Why not just go back to hosting your own forums? Is it hosting costs that prevent this?
Well, there's bird flu...
"Interesting that nobody came with a concept of a desktop PC, but as a laptop (commercially) before."

Oh, they did, it was just a niche market you needed to go looking for, because they were and still generally are expensive. I remember my father once brought home a laptop from work to evaluate whether or not they wanted to use it to do data collection in car certification tests. It was a hardened laptop, so the entire thing was made out of sheet metal. I think you could literally run it over with a car and it would be fine. The most noticeable feature was that it featured 4 ISA expansion ports and the volume necessary to contain the cards. I think it was a 486/100 or so. They called these "luggables", but, yes, technically it fit on my lap. I wouldn't guarantee it would fit on everyone's lap, though; I'm quite tall. It was ~$8,000 in ~1995 dollars, and I'm pretty sure I had a Pentium 233MHz by then, and I was never cutting edge on that stuff, was always scrounging around. So, very expensive.

This sort of thing has been available for a while, you just had to go looking for them. A lot of advancements combine to make something like Framework possible, such as the fact that any such testing platform today would have all of its data gathering gear as a combination of USB at worst, bluetooth or wifi quite possible, and software driving the rest, leaving nowadays a GPU as just about the only thing you might want to wire to a laptop at such speeds, so the market has toned down.

A couple of years ago it lived on in the gamer laptop space where, at the very top end, the laptops are basically just desktops jammed into a luggable laptop shell with desktop GPUs in them. You paid through the nose for these things, though you did recover a bit of the price on the grounds that you were using off-the-shelf desktop parts and not paying the mobile premium. I'm qualifying that with "a couple of years ago" because I haven't looked since then, and the external GPU enclosures are getting steadily more practical and well-supported and I expect that will probably eat that market. Hauling around two bits of kit is nominally worse than one, but an external GPU enclosure can have such massively better cooling than trying to jam it in a case with everything else that it will probably be able to perform even better and at this level performance is everything.
Yep.

For example, it supports ESP32.

Every problem sure starts to look like a ESP32 nail if I have this tool chain available.
I hear you, but I don't care about what drama you care about or don't.

This is part of a larger fight against monopolism and walled gardenism, theft and privatization of free information & data provided by users.
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Streams Processing Language (SPL) Reference by IBM
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A hahaha! :) a duck? That’s a funny one.

You mean a humanoid duck-alien pilot flying that soup can UFO, right? Ha ha ha! :)
airnow is almost useless in some areas

The only single sensor near my city is 50 miles away, it says air quality is fine, yet the smoke tracker map has several wildfires nearby

We need a huge, reliable pm2.5 etc network, start with every single public school
Ok, I finally see you what you meant by landfill, I mean Google is synonymous with search, for anyone. How many on HN think of Google as privacy invasive and hostile, yet use it as primary search engine?
They literally redirected you to the internet's search page for general public.
Your opinion is very subjective if you consider redirecting to Google is correct or not.
The original argument of mine was, why should HN implement code explicitly for a target website, that is blocking it?
Do they do the same for region locked content websites/pay walled sites, no? Then this is not correct.
lets be honest, facial recognition and some sort of longer distance hearing/tts. Also terminator hud, etc.
Google Assistant and Calendar reminders are automatically migrating to Tasks
Any examples that come to mind? That sounds like a positive signal.
Social is but a subset of computing applications. Vision Pro can do social, but it doesn't have to be the single thing to optimize for.

We should remember that Meta probably has to:

a) fight against low employee morale

b) cool device from a company that has proved over and and over again that they're one of the best in creating consumer products
Ban Airbnb. Terrible company with no ethics.
TikToken doesn't provide a tokenizer that's compatible with LLaMA.
> My instructions when I joined were something like "Yeah so just talk to a bunch of people and look for opportunities to contribute". WTF? No wonder remote is not working well for them. You had to go 5-6 layers up the reporting chain to find anyone with any sort of holistic sense of what needed to be done, and they were not exactly empowered to share that vision lest it conflict with someone elses.

That just sounds like poor leadership to me. If you've got a holistic sense of what needs to be done, please share it with the people who need to be doing it.

That, or cut it up into concrete chunks and tell people to build that. But telling people to "figure it out" and then not sharing the overall vision, sounds incredibly dysfunctional to me.
Is wealth management open for disruption?
I have a legal deed to my house. If someone else decides to claim it the government (aka men with guns) will show up to restore it to me.

Your "ownership" of a subreddit amounts to a single row in a database on one of Reddit's servers, which they can change for any or no reason.

Moderators (and users in general) need a reality check about their relationship with the sites they frequent. You are not a part owner. You are not an employee. You are one of ~500M monthly users who they use to generate advertising revenue, and your loss will not be noticed.
Yeah some things I read in the Apollo thread was about their global advertising department that grew quite big.
What is the upside for Tesla here? Do they make much profit off of the charging network? I had assumed not.
That does seem like a strange attitude; the problems are there whether the engineers write it down or not. Do you want to find them now, or let your customers find them?
It was actually natural gas fired plants that put the nails in the coffin for the "Nuclear Renaissance".

The important fact: a combined cycle natural gas power plant has a capital cost of about $1/watt, with a thermal efficiency of about 60% (LHV). Vogtle 3/4 are something like $15/W. And natural gas on the Henry Hub is $2.28/million BTU right now (at 60% efficiency, that's a fuel cost of $.013/kWh).
There is?
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> I'll take a stab and say most of this community isn't perfectionist but more efficiency-ists.

I know everyone loves to hate MBTI, but I’ll translate to “most of this community is INTJ rather than INTP” because it seems so apt. We did an informal poll at the large tech company I worked at once and I think 70% of the software engineers were INTJ, 20% were INTP, and the rest were something else. So there is at least some predictive value to the test.

But I agree there is definitely a big difference between perfectionists and efficiency-ists. I am a strong perfectionist which leads to problems getting things done on time because I want them done correctly and as accurately as possible. The efficiency-ists get annoyed that the work takes so long, but then again I get annoyed that their approach is riddled with flaws. They view it as a necessary optimization within strict time constraints; I tend to view it as “incorrect and likely to come back to bite you later”.
TypeScript development on VScode is excellent (I'm told) so that would be a reason for this.

Excellent tooling exists for you if your language is TypeScript, so maybe try putting TypeScript in more places.
There's a difference between "infinite percent better" (because it was non-existent before) and "some percent better."

The fitness use case is a red herring and a software problem. Instilling motivation in people to do things they know are good but don't want to isn't traditionally a money-maker. You're building a better shame-er: how's Peloton doing these days? https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PTON/financials?p=PTON (and that is "fundamentally different"!)

The iPhone as initially released isn't the iPhone brand success we see today, looking back: that's the iPhone + iTunes + App Store.

Which explains why similarly featured hardware didn't experience iPhone success.

That combination was fundamentally different, because it allowed you to easily do the 3 things most people wanted to on their phones (browse the web, listen to music, get a specific app).

At the time, 2008, there was no competition for that.

It would be until ~2010 that Android even launched rough (very rough) parity: HTC Nexus One/Samsung Galaxy S + Google Music + Android Marketplace

Two. Years.