skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the fact that reddit closing API access does in no way stop others from doing the same? There are multiple archives of reddit all over the place, and it hardly won't stop just because they make the API paid. Instead people will scrape the HTML and extract the data there, which will surely be more costly for reddit than the simple JSON API they have (for now).
Article gives two reasons: " 1. in the presence of someone with whom they feel safe ... because they associate the behavior of treading their paws with the comfort they felt when they were nursing

2. It's possible kneading can be used to deposit scent... to mark territory."

Some dogs like to suckle on your arm (or small squishy) well into their adulthood, so I suppose #1 makes sense.
> These laws, while well-intentioned, kill people.

So does medical fraud, and it's not well-intentioned at all.

Just sayin'.

I have almost no faith at all in the types of folks that found and run tech companies, these days.

They have proven, over, and over, and over again, that They. Just. Can't. Be. Trusted.

If the tech industry were to create an ethics board, with real enforcement teeth (like the Bar Associations, or Medical Boards), then that could be a start.

The problem is, as soon as anyone even mentions the possibility of restricting tech companies, they are taken out behind the woodshed.
This was the first thing I noticed when I started working about a decade ago. Endless conference calls while people extolled the benefits of in-person interaction which wasn't even happening. As a result, I now have a healthy amount of cynicism about advocacy of office work. I take ICs who favor it at face value when they say it works better for them, but clearly, many of the most vocal advocates in management don't even care if any of the supposed benefits are realized.
It sounds like inane knee jerk reaction from the usual zealots
It will certainly have to be a strong product to succeed in the market, irrespective of whether it's a status symbol, I agree.

And if this is a product to be used on your couch at home alone, who cares how it looks?

But some people imagine this being used by world travellers to translate signs in foreign languages, by laptop users in coffee shops to have a huge screen, by parents to take hands-free video of their kid's first steps, by mass transit passengers to watch movies, and so on.

If the product's success relies on being worn in public - people will have to want to be seen wearing it.
Ask HN: Branching strategies for monorepos, what is your approach?
Having stumbled upon Git Flow and the wonders of monorepos, I do wonder how to best implement a Git Flow like branching strategy for the monorepo. Branching fundamentally seems to fit better for polyrepos or repos with a single project. Have you come up with a branching strategy for monorepos and if so, what is it?
Their recent comments have a few overly glowing and slightly unrealistic scenarios using ChatGPT.
I think the Reddit model itself has kind of peaked, and the next "Reddit competitor" will be something very different. Whether that looks like Discord, TikTok, or even a "reversion" to a smaller, more personal forum like the Internet circa ±2000, I'm not sure.
Can you keep the comments but remove them from your account so they are anonymous?
So do guns
Working for a FAANG right now and since RTO was mandated, I noticed that our team have been spending ~5 mins before the beginning of the meetings finding a room and setting up the audio/visual system for conference calls with other teammates across the country. This is for a company that has a lot of office space in its birth town and has HQs in a few other cities. A couple of teammates (out of 8 total) privately told me that they hate the RTO.

I personally prefer fully remote because I hate the distraction in the open office plan and associated pains like having to find meeting rooms, having to share restrooms with others (I admit this is just my personal pet peeve), and not being able to avoid distraction when I am in the zone for working. Most of all, I don't like the commute (I have to commute 1 hour each way, so everyday, I am spending 2 hours; when I worked from home, I started early and end up working an extra hour or two because I don't have to commute; these days, I try to arrive at 8-9am and leave by 5-6pm to beat the traffic and once I get home, I don't do any work). I consider quitting someday soon and am waiting for my wife to complete her training. Once she has done that, we will move to a place where she can find work, and I will quit my FAANG job for a fully-remote one (sure, my income will take a small hit, but quality of work life is more important for me).
What is the source of your data? How do you define "government activity on GitHub"? Do you look at domain used in contact, affiliation, etc.?
There is a hard limit imposed by the backplane - It's four though, not two. Each Lambda processor is four boards and they share a 4-slot private interconnect in the third row of the backplane. Four such interconnects are provided.
As another who will stop using Reddit when Apollo goes dark, I wanted to say thank you for your work with Christian!

Apollo saved my Reddit use after they bought and killed Alien Blue. I have gotten so much out of and out so much into the more obscure technology subreddits. It’ll be missed.

I appreciate all your work. For what it’s worth, I’ve never had server-side issues with Apollo (that I’ve noticed anyway!)

Edit: typo
Not just wall street. All of the governments, and thus their budgets, where this real estate resides are completely dependent on property taxes and the overall commerce in the area which will collapse if people (and then secondary small businesses) just simply aren't there anymore.
Their data is what is valuable to users. Their users is what’s valuable to the business. Supply and demand my friends. If you delete the supply, there’s no demand.
It is a similar problem with retail space. When a dense, urban neighborhood like those in Manhattan has 30+% of their retail space unoccupied it has huge impacts on how it feels to live there.

A block or two with empty retail space means no lights on at night which affects not just the 'vibe' but how safe it feels to walk around.
Which raises the obvious point that a specifically carved out exception for a good on the basis of its assumed positive externalities is not a ‘loophole’. It is at most a subsidy.

(Though, obviously, not enough of one. Land ownership should be taxed but land rental should be untaxed, as a quick glimpse at the market incentive structures will inform. Taxing revenue is insane.)
More startups throw in the towel, unable to raise money for their ideas
This is so common on HN. I find it rather dystopian, as if we’ve all finally given our full selves to our corporate jobs and can’t piece our own lives together. I can feel the “but you’re at work 8 hours a day” commenter typing away as I type this, but the point is that all your social interaction doesn’t and shouldn’t come from your job regardless. That isn’t healthy.

People are often in a weird headspace at work too and a bit guarded. I don’t know why that as a social setting is inherently healthier than surrounding yourself with people outside work.
Binance Halts Trading in Dollars on Its U.S. Exchange
> utilizes ATSC 3 audio

There is no such thing as ATSC 3 audio. ATSC is the transmission standard, either ATSC 1 (basically everywhere, 1080p) or ATSC 3 in some cities ("Next-Gen TV", 4K). ATSC 1 uses Dolby Digital AC-3, ATSC 3 uses Dolby AC-4 which is otherwise quite rare.

Also, that's a very light example. Look into the patent situation for H.264 / AVC, H.265 / HEVC. They are Open Standards (you can download the documentation right now), but they are patent minefields to implement, with dozens of companies and hundreds, if not thousands of patents.

Also, to reply to the comment above you:

> If the fee is to one company, it is usually an industry non-profit (HDMI, Bluetooth) that doesn't itself have a stake in the outcome. If it's a pool of companies they also have to hash things out amongst themselves and no one company will have control over another.

What? HDMI is not an open standard - you need to pay to get the documentation, pass certification, and pay a royalty fee per device (about 5-15 cents per connector). You also need to license the logo because HDMI is actually a brand. Sure, anyone can get HDMI, but it sure ain't open. And if it's a TV or a monitor, better license HDCP separately. Also, as for Bluetooth... that was a patent minefield for decades.
Yeah, it's super-weird for me too.

I have a circle of friends and a habit that we keep since 20+ years: every Friday morning we meet for a coffee in a physical coffee shop. Location varied along time, I lived as close as 2 minutes walk from my apartment to (now) 1 hour drive (because of the traffic).

It's not a religious thing, people miss meetings. Got other stuff, or just not being in the mood (like I drank till 2 AM, no way I'm waking up at 6 so I can be out the door at 7 so I'll be in the coffee shop at 8, stay an hour then back home). But the habit has stuck and we kept our friendship. Some people have left the group (one died), others joined it. It's easy to expand a group once you have a stable kernel: just go out for some coffees at day or drinks at night and talk to people.

I get along well with work colleagues as well, mostly I'm asking the question: if I leave this company, will I be ever talking to these guys ever again? If the answer is yes (stay in touch through WhatsApp and the occasional beer in a bar) then they're more than acquaintances and useful connections in case I need a job. Like recently got laid out (whole office closed, some 200 people fired), found a new job in less than a week. Connections, people.

So office has some value but it's far from being "the whole world".
I can promise, anecdotally, that is not followed. You know where the AirBnB houses are in my Mom's neighborhood in La Costa/Carlsbad area because they will always have loud people/parties. Neighbors are polite enough to give a heads up if they're going to be loud generally.
I should have made my thoughts clearer; my mind immediately went to small-time stuff like handling parking disputes, which I think AI is on track to competently solve.
“Orders,” or asks? I am unsure whether or not a private company's lawyers can “order” anything to anyone, especially outside their platform, or not hired by them.
We need a nuanced approach.

Blanket bans, while sounding good, can slow down pace of innovation in an area that desperately needs more of it - esp as the world is aging.

This needs to be a combination of informed consent, clear access auditing and usage, and laws to heavily penalize misuse of this data.
I'm not saying what they did was in any way justified, just providing context that seems to be missing from the reporting: to sideload e.g. SmartTube you need an app like this first, and it must be available from the Play Store. Google has an incentive to disrupt this under any pretense as it costs them ad revenue.
Plumbers and electricians will be absolutely last jobs that are automated. We'll automate CEOs long before them.
me! and yes we do have a very nice community around icelandic startups (=^_^=)
Nixos has a live iso, so you should be able to boot into it and see if the basics work.

https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso

Give it a shot!
The new thread, with the backend dump indicates it polled reddit every 6 seconds per user for new messages.

Maybe it's necessary, but that seems awfully tight timing. I have not reviewed any of the rest. My understanding is they tried to emulate push notifications...

$12.99 per year was priced with majority of the compute burden foisted upon Reddit. Apollo had servers too, but apparently took a lot of steps to minimize what they did in order to keep subscription prices super low.

$12.99 doesn't pay for an the free users that might not be hammering the API quite on the same level as the paid users, but hammered it non the less.
Yeah, he'd probably be impressed with Bob Ross' technique.
Same in the early 70s. Bonus was the Time Life science series.

There's something to be said about not having ubiquitous portable distraction devices to encourage more "productive" uses of time.
- Sales people, account managers, etc. for their ads business

- Sales people, account managers, etc. for their Teams product.

- Sales people, account managers, etc. for their Enterprise self-hosted product.

- Sales people, account managers, etc. for sponsored tags, collectives, etc.

- Support for the above (and the public Stack Exchange sites).

- Engineers for the above (and the public Stack Exchange sites).

- Community managers (who, among other things, fight abuse).

It all adds up. From what I remember most people working for SO weren't engineers, not even years ago (many were involved with the jobs site back then). There used to be a "Our Team" page which listed everyone who worked for SO, but it seems that's gone now.
Open except you have to pay if it gets big enough seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I understand the idea, it's not truly open in that case, but so long as the ability to build new things on it and prosper from it is preserved im alright.

The key is that it's not doing something like trying to restrict you from using it in a certain way, only requiring you give a fair share of profits.

This was, fun fact, the original purpose of patents. They weren't designed to keep things closed and owned by individuals, they were designed to allow people to freely share and make a profit so that ideas could be built on by each other. The patent system is turned into this corrupted terrible mess where things are almost never shared through licensing or payment, and it's just a way to build monopolistic enterprises nowadays.

An open source system that allows for this sort of payment would also allow for many many more things to be open when currently the bad actors who will build and take that work and just never pay you back for it.
You're of course right, it's not the proper word. In a broad sense you are both actively working on, let's hope, a shared vision and you need eachother. I'm not interested in the power symmetry of the relation in this case although it's of course part of the situation.

> let's treat employers as "income providers" and nothing more.

It's fine that you and many of you consider this to be an agreeable way to live. I'm just saying that it's not the only way and in my opinion not a particular desireable one.

Minority opinion here, but I am entertaining the vague and quite dangerous notion that with a bit of compromise from both sides we can have our cake and eat it too. The dangerous part might consist in accepting we are not all born for great works and some humility and acceptance might not actually be such a bad thing. Of course, in moderation as with all things, but I don't think modern people are in any danger of being too humble anytime soon.

I wouldn't be too hasty to dismiss such notions as "loyalty", because "trust" is quite close and it might just be a fundamental driver of human civilization.
Anyone with a desire for privacy who possesses critical reasoning.
It’s nice to have friends in city hall.

Will be funny when NYC sues Florida or Texas to recoup these inflated costs. Then Florida or Texas will have some new dollars amounts to use when requesting federal funds.
I actually knew some people involved in the animation personally and.. um yeah. It really was a bit rushed and cobbled together from what I understood.

The creators and producers didn’t have anything specific to say about Van Gogh nor had any reason to. It was a straightforward gamble that this would sell, and it worked. They rode on low-cost high-skill technical talent to pull it off.
Isn't it all because of their plans to charge for their API?
FWIW, that just sounds like real code to me. You can spend your time polishing code until it shines and jerking off over the perfect crystal of logic you've created, or you can spend your time building something impressive that does cool stuff.

Especially when you're solo or on a small team, technical debt is actually something you can lean into. In this domain, refactoring is cheap and cutting corners can help you get where you need to go faster.

It's a too common mistake to think that because technical debt is a tar pit that kills many large products that this is universally true. The real trick is lowering the tolerance for flaws as the project grows and matures.
When done with proper contracting and documentation, losing a company is not a problem, because either you put the spec and the algorithm on the table, and people implement it to get certified, or you get the technical docs to use when/if the company goes out of business.

Practically, it doesn’t do anything more complicated. Device provides you an ID without a password, but accepts everything else with a password. In many countries, if not all, infrastructure equipment is already protected property. Nobody except the utility company touch, repair, reconfigure that meter, anyway.

Overcomplicating stuff is indeed a problem, and it’s a combination of poor engineering plus monetary greed in most cases. Also it’s a side effect of evolution of technology. I would love to discuss it to death, but this is not the place and I don’t have much time for it either.
> It’s unwise because there is no way for a passive cable or adapter to tell the car to limit current to anything below 80A.

Yes there is, the adapter just passively adapts all 5 pins. The J1772, CCS Combo 1, and NACS are all pin compatible. The EV has an ECU that can detect what is plugged by sensing the configuration on those 3 pins and negotiate accordingly. For older Teslas to support the CCS Combo 1 adapter they require an ECU upgrade. The adapter only needs to passively connect all 5 pins.
There are ways to require payment for some uses of things that are legitimately open. As an example, consider the practice of selling exceptions to the GPL, as is done for Qt.
I tend to agree with this. My spouse is currently entrenched in an over-budget, under-funded, mismanaged project that was recently announced by the CEO.

That’s at a Fortune 500. It all started with a “well we can do an MVP and get that out the door first.”

It turns out that was a massive mistake.
I generally agree with you, but I'd caveat that a critical CVE is easier to take if you're on the latest version of that dependency (so you can easily apply just the patch and not other changes). We want to help you weave package upgrades into ongoing maintenance rotations so that this is the case.

You mentioned that implementing an upgrade is difficult because of the actual code change but also the testing and identifying what the changes are in the first place. We're starting trying to do a really good job of the last one - what are the changes in this next version, are they breaking, do they break for your codebase, and what should you do if they are? We want to move from there to automating as many of the code changes as we can, but my sense is the biggest value is in giving you the confidence that we at least captured all of the changes you need to be concerned about.
if they can make me feel like I'm having a face to face conversation with someone who lives hours away then that would be fundamentally different
>Buying things on the internet, for instance. This was laughed at for quite a while, while a few people and companies were committed to the idea that it was the future.

Pretty much every developer (and reader) I know jumped on the OG amazon to buy books. All through the late '90s I (and pretty much everyone I knew) would buy books that were not immediately available in bookstores (remember those?) or libraries on the internet. Never mind that it sometimes took over a week for your books to be delivered, the point was that we could get something we wanted.

I have played around with a VR headset, and been part of demos that have fallen flat, because there really is nothing that we want in that experience.

This is not to say that it won't be successfull. Advertising and hard sells can be very effective after all.
That wasn't a NuMachine processor, it's something else. The NuMachine processor was a single board with a 68k and some custom memory mapping stuff on it. Later it was reused with minor changes as the LMI Unix processor.
The dictionary section is really funny. Highly recommend it.
Policy related to shareholders makes existing companies avoid risk in negative ways due to short term income requirements.

Established companies will error twords marginal but reliable increases in income through exploiting existing products or by buying companies after they have taken the initial risks.

This goes back to the failure of GE and is still copyed by large firms today like IBM and Cisco. Who will only grow though buying smaller companies.

The existing system does work in some ways but also stifles innovation. Basically companies are forced to sell out in order to honor short term shareholders value at the cost of long term growth.

Look at how many uprising stars are acquired, lose their culture and talent and then drop from innovation to exploiting existing customers with little product growth.

While there is a well known risk aversion problem with management in our country, much of the article's points are exactly due to short term vs long term.

It is the explore/exploit tradeoff, and the exploit phase is short term focused, always preferring small reliable increases in quarterly reports over larger long term returns.

While regulations also drove some of the older innovative groups like Bell Labs, GE, Xerox and other groups quit being innovation hubs because stock market first policies and strategies lead to a very short term focus by investors.

As a concrete example, for decades IBM would buy every analog asic compiler that would be developed just to drop development and eventually support, until the market would allow for a new startup to come around. Then IBM would buy them, rinse and repeat.

It doesn't fundamentally have to be this way, but it is, and it directly relates to short term investment and policy.

Long term there aren't new challengers, there are new acquisition targets.

IMHO ideally there would be both, innovation from startups and incumbents.

But I feel that as smaller companies have limited access to capital outside of an IPO, innovation is hampered by the death of innovative companies by acquisition and attrition that is the rule these days.

Incumbents are dethroned when they become too large and risk adverse, but typically by other massive conglomerates that are also in the short term focused exploit phase and typically not by these upstarts who are subject to aquision before they can grow to market dominance.
It most certainly is. I've tried a lot of development solutions over the years, and always find myself coming back to VSCode. The TypeScript support is amazing.
"google" is made of many individuals. If "google" has your records, you don't know who has access to them - they effectively become "public knowledge" in a way.

You can imagine how your medical record could be used against you, I'm sure? For people that have suffered agressions, addiction, mental issues, these are all private but can be used against an individual in the public sphere.
240W chargers were a thing even before that, for gaming laptops. The only difference here is that it goes through USB-C PD, instead of a large-ish barrel jack, right? 95% efficiency probably refers to the adapter itself, where it shouldn't matter that much. Additionally, GaN is now a thing, so efficiency should be better than what it was 10 years ago.