skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello dear friend! I am sailing :) , but last years...not so much : founded a new company and that takes all the time!

But: I love to sail! For now , just the Croatian coast, marvellous. I also worked from a boat, the internet works also between islands, slower, but works. Starlink would be a nice addition.

As for the price, a 100k would bring you a nice 50 feet yacht, but the port costs would eat up a lot on top. But you can also anchor in a small gulf if you do not need supplies.
In the US (and many other countries) the iPhone dominates every demographic except I guess the very poor? The whole "teenagers" thing has never been true. Grandma has an iPhone.

However worldwide Safari accounts for over 30%+ of mobile device impressions. That is an absolutely enormous market. It tends to be the market with the most cash in almost all markets (I'm not trying to be a booster or start some mobile platform war, and yes Samsung devices are super expensive as well, but demographically you can go to almost any country -- Japan, Russia, India, Brazil, just about everywhere, and the top n% are dominated by iPhones).

If advertisers aren't exploiting it it's either ignorance, or more likely that the dominant ad networks know it will get the ads flagged as abusive and Apple will drop the hammer.
I hope so too, but Switzerland isn't in the EU so I doubt the EU will take action unless the Swiss government invokes one of the many treaties and trade deals in response to this.
An example of this where it was critical was airline pilots in Korea. After a series of crashes in the 90s (I think) they mandated English in the cockpit to reset the cultural burden of subservience to more senior pilots.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/malcolm...
> scroll direction

Easily changed with System settings or with an app (ScrollReverser)

> SIM card

Unnecessary in 2023

> cables

True, but MagSafe exists, I never plug in my phone anymore

> file access

macOS and iOS both have access to files, this is outdated

> file formats

Not a real issue, macOS can handle plenty of formats

I think you are just an Apple hater. When’s the last time you used one of their devices? I used a thinkpad t420 running Debian for the last 7 years, and recently got a Mac… blows it out of the water in usability. It LITERALLY ‘just works’. I like Linux and still run an Ubuntu desktop, but I got to a point in life where I didn’t want to have to fiddle with my OS just to get things to work right. macOS is for people like that. I don’t feel like I’m being “treated like crap” .. lol where are you getting that from?
I'm not really an engineer (general hobbyist, former chemist) but I have built and worked with pressure and vacuum vessels.

Positive pressure (tank vs exterior) is much easier to deal with than negative pressure (vacuum vessel at 1 atm, or bathyscape with 1 atm inside and high pressure exterior). In positive pressure, your stress is mostly in the hoop mode, which is stable. This is why aluminum cans can be so thin. In negative pressure vessels, you have a buckling mode, which is inherently unstable. As soon as it goes, it goes all at once.

I've had a 2L glass vacuum flask implode on me. There is no warning. All it takes is a tiny defect, and once you hit a certain pressure delta, kaboom. Composite is similar in that it's mostly brittle failure vs ductile. I've also imploded a 55 gallon steel vessel. That goes a lot more gradually (though still fast) - maybe enough to detect and abort the trip.

The other main advantage of steel vs composite is you can inspect with X-ray imaging to find defects.
The anti-cloud sentiment on HN is as old as time; there will always be posters who can claim that they can build X with just dedicated machines on Hetzner for 1/10th of the cost. Yet AWS keeps growing and the people running these companies must be unable to do basic math. My account just crossed 11 years, and I think the whole cloud vs on-prem conversation is probably one of the most least productive conversations on HN. If there was so much waste out there you would think someone would figure out how to just siphon all that waste directly into their pockets instead of Jeff's; and maybe they have, I don't know, but the posts are always the same, handwaving about how the mark ups are insane the engineers at these companies aren't able to balance a checkbook.
For VSCode users who wandered into a vim thread wondering how to write these, there is a plug-in for that:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GuidoTap...

With the list of Unicode characters supported here:

https://github.com/mvoidex/UnicodeMath/blob/master/table.md
I wouldn't hold your breath on IBM releasing anything amazing in 2023.
That's a particularly crass thing to say about someone while their life is in jeopardy.

>Did it not occur to anyone that it might be a bad idea? It's hard to be sympathetic in the face of such arrogance

The company advertises the safety of their submersible and an active suite of sensors to detect and prevent failures.
In my experience, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an IRC log in a search result.

#haskell on Libra is publicly logged, but I couldn’t get Google to return a quoted phrase from a message a few weeks ago.

Many people on IRC don’t enjoy being in logged channels. I’ve also heard that there are GDPR implications to publicly logging people’s messages without their consent.

Discussion of the difficulty and downsides of IRC logging, from a coulple years ago:

=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892015

=> https://web.archive.org/web/20200417001532/https://echelog.c...

The HN blowback to developers choosing to use Discord is just wildly out of proportion.
Some articles I found suggest that a trip was 8 hours to get there and back. Another mentioned being in the sub for 12 hours. I'm guessing it's a 4 hour trip each way and then they spend a number of hours checking the wreckage.

The wreckage site is around 370 miles from Newfoundland, Canada.

Seems like the rescue effort could be unfolding over days.
Looks like it's being worked on, so that's great.
That's funny, I've gone through almost exactly the same path trying to use NixOS. Tried on VirtualBox and failed. Tried on Raspberry Pi than failed. Didn't have spare bare metal, so I ended up on a "failed" state for now
Guix has several different npm importers (none of them merged), but it's debatable whether it is desirable to build npm packages from source when it either creates thousands of barely useful packages.
The model that catches erroneous output appears to be an extraneous service that runs as the text is coming from the model. When it catches it, it flags the text red and prevents you from sharing it. I've done this a lot.
Freedom of speech can be scary I know!
OST2 (Open Security Training) “All-you-can-learn buffet” in-person format
My understanding is that Reddit does lots of spam filtering. It does a good enough job that moderators don’t complain about that. It is good enough that can have mostly unmoderated subreddit if don’t care about off topic posts.

The moderators are responsible for off-topic filtering and catching anything, usually human made, that slips through.
Honestly, I have a desktop app that I have grand designs to release, but even though it's a desktop app, I'm thinking of using AGPL for it.

Simply, there are services and facilities that are wrapped in a GUI that could readily be lifted and plopped into a "service", so just seems that AGPL would be better.

Not sure if that's a good idea or not.
Define having "no use." Lots of things can look like no or poor use. Waiting to retire there for instance. Land preservation. Political statements.

Would I sell my grandpa's house? Depends on if I want to move in later, or help my kids move in when they are out of the house in N years. Just because you might abandon a family cabin/estate/ranch/remote-land knowing the price will drop doesn't mean others will.

And how long must one inhabit a property per what unit of duration to maintain ownership? 1 month a year? 6+ months a decade?

In my case, I'm talking 10 acres off some highway in Montana. I'll sell it if or when it is necessary. I'm working out of state, so I have two homes.

You want some real estate? Work your ass off, save money, invest in yourself. Might have to move. Might have to change your lifestyle. I couldn't afford California so I had to leave. Poor people emigrate still and provide better lives for their kids. Not everyone gets to live in their favorite city. Sucks.

Sell your iPhone and buy an acre in West Virginia.

Look, there are inequities and basic needs can be hard in many areas to secure. That is all of human history. We keep working at it. The solution is not to force me to sell my 10 acres in Montana.
using obj { do stuff } would have been so much better
I mean what was written on https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ :

> Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety.

I think if someone wrote it themselves as a comment here on HN it would constitute flaming and would get flagged.
Unfortunately, I think it's just because there is no single organization pushing it. One that would be the recognizable brand, one that would engage in marketing, and spend time and effort streamlining onboarding.

There were in the past - Slack basically bootstrapped itself off the back of techies, with the IRC transport making Slack seem like a prettier IRC... only to shut down the IRC transport once they've entrenched themselves on the market.
It's the logo for Apple Corps / Apple Records, the Beatles' company (whose trademarks are now owned by Apple Inc and licensed back to them).

The uses mostly match up with the areas of business a record and film company like Apple Corps would trade in?
Surveys aren't a general thing about statistics.
The biggest lesson for me is that you need to provide an incremental path to using the new features. The reason C++ succeeded as much as it did is because you can incrementally C++-ify your existing C code. You can provide C interfaces to your new C++ stuff and you can use C interfaces from C++. Any new feature that you add to C++ has to offer such a path. That is why move semantics were very successful - you could add them incrementally and you could put a preprocessor guard around their definition so your library could be used by code written for both older and newer C++. In contrast, it is hard to incrementally module-ify. You can't transform half of your library to a module and I haven't seen a good story on how to offer a library as both a module and as traditional headers. So it's hard to adopt modules in an existing codebase, thus it's hard to get good feedback on them, thus modules took a long time to really iron out.

Offering a path to incremental improvement is very important for large projects where features and bugfixes happen constantly. We can't stop our regular work to untangle the whole carefully built system of dependencies. The new features have to be offered in a form where we can use them in new code, while remaining compatible with old code and gradually add them to it as time permits.
There's this law on the internet or SO or whatever where if you put the wrong answer in a post.

Someone else in the comments will correct you with the correct answer.

This in effect.
That’s your choice, I suppose. I use it for everything from flutter to CLI to Cloud Functions to WebUi to daemons in tiny containers.
Monopsony. So you make, say, seatbelt buckles? Congratulations there are like basically six companies that buy those in meaningful quantities. The power imbalance is inevitable.
Thanks! Simplicity is something I’m obsessed with. I hate website copy these days and how I can rarely tell what companies do by visiting their websites anymore.

Tech stack is simple: Rails on DigitalOcean app platform. Everything is automated because why not :). It’s not the most efficient, but simple > profit margins.

The address parsing is also done via libpostal statistical NLP. Addresses need to be broken into components for all services that require an address (line 1, line 2, street, city, state, zip), but asking users for each of these is so much friction and sucks from a UX pov. It’s not perfect, but works well in the intended market right now.
Imports through the browser do, but I'm wanting a single file bundle with all those imports so I'm not relying on a browser feature to deliver the content over N requests.

I know that's less of a concern nowadays with modern http, but guess who still supports ie11
Let me know if you'd take Venmo or Zelle instead. I am curious, but not enough to buy bitcoin curious. Probably curious enough to put the gig on Craigslist though.

EDIT: Per Venmo's terms and conditions when you attempt to buy BTC: "Cryptocurrencies cannot be used to send money or pay for goods and services on Venmo."
"with" was already taken by a misfeature of JavaScript, so… I too thought they were introducing something related to the "using" of C++, but the keyword does not seem too bad, in the context of a code, it's very readable. What would you suggest?

As for Symbol, it's a JavaScript feature. I bet it was introduced like this so symbols could be polyfilled, so adopted more easily, without making the lack of support a syntax error - i.e. no need to transpile this. A bit verbose, but bearable, and probably easier to parse for a human than a colon. Too much of such terse syntax rapidly makes the code harder to read and more difficult to look up for a novice, or possibly even for someone experimented..
I said out loud, "Damn, this is sick!"
As more of an operator type, people in my crowd are more curious than anything. It's obvious that you could take a car company, fire everyone except for the sales, marketing and people working in the factories, and things would keep going for a while with significantly improved margins. However, that's not a recipe for long term success. Your competitors cars will continue to improve while yours will stay the same, and your systems slowly (and sometimes quickly) break down.

The real test will be when Twitter needs to move fast in response to market changes (VR maybe?)
Korea tends to be a bit more strict and hierarchical than Japan. People are just more aware of the Japanese work style.
If they sink twitter, they probably won't be getting much in any bankruptcy proceedings...

They've already been paid for all the actual hours they have worked, and anything extra isn't given priority in bankruptcy. Remember twitter probably has $40B of bank loans...
I am working from my 2010 camper-van for several months in the summer on a 15.6'' thinkpad. My main issue is/was battery duration when I am off grid. Typically I had to move after two or three days just to fill up the battery by driving. Last year, I used a folding solar panel together with a powerbank, but that was not really efficient, because it was often too cloudy. So for this summer I bought myself a 300 Ah battery and hope that this gives me at least a week before I need to connect to the grid or drive around. (Solar panels are, of course, an additional options, but when the new battery gives me enough power for a week, I think I would not need them.)

What I really can recommend is to adjust the bench and table of your van-office to your body size. I was lucky that my table was just the right height for me (73 cm). The rear bench, however, was too low. Fortunately, it only consists of a foam block on a kind of wooden box. To find the ideal height, I stacked some old computer magazines between the wooden box and the foam block and worked this way for some time until I was sure what the ideal height for the seat was. Then my brother, who is more skilled in woodworking than I am, made an additional wooden box of the required height, which we attached on top of the original box with wing screws so that it can be removed relatively easily if necessary.

I am using an encrypted hard-drive, just in case that my laptop gets stolen. And I regularly back up my work to an encrypted USB drive that I always carry on my keychain.
Related?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4551943 ("Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design") (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4770659 ("Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For Clock Icon") (2012)
What does “steal your house” mean in this context?

I think you are just talking about a situation where someone forks an open source code into a private one. But the original author still has the code. If someone steals my house but I get to keep my copy… nobody has lost anything.

I don’t think analogies to physical objects work all that well for software.
Ditto "normie".
Pocketmod – The free recyclable personal organizer
It's not that you can't. You can use vim for your accounting if you want.

But these tools save you time for a tiny amount of money. You don't need something expensive, any startup should be able to afford $10/mo for Xero ( https://www.xero.com/us/pricing-plans/ ).
> Free software ecosystem hasn't fully recovered from that yet.

That's what happens when you put all your eggs into one basket, and then realize that basket had a hole. Maybe free software would be better off if the FSF had spent time building a resilient movement rather than a church to RMS.
Conferences aren't universally in the doldrums. I attended one a couple months ago that beat expectations/available capacity and pre-COVID numbers--but it's in a hot area.

Anecdotally, it's a mixed bag though. A couple others I know have either come in on the low side or ticket sales have been slow.
Yeah, this is meant to be fun more than anything. I barely cover costs each month, but that’s good enough for me :)
Have you even looked at S3 bandwidth pricing? I don't get how anyone using S3 for storing media or binaries can justify that outrageous price unless every download is connected to something making you money.
I use a small notebook and Fisher Space Pen. To be honest, it just feels more comfortable with the way my brain is wired. I tend to remember things better when I write instead of type, and I jotva lot of stuff in the margins as thoughts start to flow, where others might find note-taking apps more suited to their style. It really just depends on how you process information.
Unironically, AGPL3 is the best license. Even if you don't believe in the principals of free software, it has a lot going for it: Unlike MIT, you get full access to GPL3 and Apache licensed software, no need to worry about relicensing your code, no need to worry about derivative works or anything, just set it and forget it. In addition, corporations will avoid you like the plague. No need to worry about breaking anything, tinker away on your project freely without concern for backwards compatibility.

MIT is free as in free tech support, the sooner people accept that the better off we'll all be.
MediaGoblin was headed by Chris Lemmer-Webber. It hasn't been in very active development for quite a few years now, as most of the interest in this space has moved to PeerTube. PeerTube relies on a W3C standard protocol, called ActivityPub, that the very same Lemmer-Webber co-authored. MediaGoblin is officially part of GNU, but PeerTube isn't.
"Using" is used for the same purpose in C# tries to keep keyword symmetry with

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
"I think the truth is we’ve written all that ever needs to be written"

I highly doubt this statement.

How useful would ChatGPT 4 be if it was trained only on data up to 2013? (Assuming the total amount of data it was trained on was the same) Would it be like talking to a human who was sitting in their basement for the past decade? I am not sure how useful that would be to me.
Gonna need more info on that.

The EU is rooted from the ECSC from 1951 that started with 6 countries and that many languages that quickly evolved to 11.

72 years, that's quite a long experiment.
Crass but maybe other rich people will also get hold of this sentiment and will avoid doing stupid stuff like this in the future.

Also, they were there visiting a place filled with dead and probably long decomposed people, can’t say I’m very sympathetic.
I am also a big fan, It was actually KDE Plasma that convinced me to switch to GNU/Linux. I was offered distros with other desktops at first and all were lacking features and customisability. Only when trying out a distro with Plasma have I switched and remained. And I find it better then anything that is out there, even when counting closed/proprietary alternatives.
If we're ranking needless waste, this is not worse than modern websites delivering JS over CDNs. In theory this should be a net win - everyone having all the scripts cached locally, or on a nearby static host. In practice, with CI/CD being the norm, you have to reload all the JS every other refresh, because someone changed something - and so do all the CDNs and all other users.
"Your peers are together often, able to play local multiplayer games, and giving you a false sense of market."

Well this sounds like fun. Like the old social arcade experience, but made of people playing fresh indie multiplayer games. Even in prototype form.

Why not make THAT a business model? If my town has a little cafe with a few bit screens and controllers, and every night (or even once a week), I could turn up with a bunch of gamers and were all playing novel small games together, that could be really fun.

The games could be in varying stages of completion. It wouldn't matter. Because it'd feel like an intimate setting of people just hanging out and socializing and playing things.
Lol, it was 1 dash
There’s a strange sense of scale on that thing. You wouldn’t immediately look at it and say that two people can fit inside for 30 days.

EDIT: 30 days between maintenance. I’m a dirty skimmer.
Yeah this is a solution that would remove my own complaint as then I could choose an instance that either has no filter or is only applying something like standard spam filtering. I don't really care if other people don't have the ability to see what *I* have to say, I just want the ability to see what *they* say.
Nah I remember back in 2012 when I wrote C# we used `using` to indicate "dispose of this as soon as it's out of scope". Like for filereaders or streamreaders, if I remember right.
> MSDS are crap but HN comments are truthful

I see you have never worked in chemistry. The total BS of MSDS is very well known.

Here's a piece from Derek Lowe: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-msds

> What's next? The earth is a flat disk?

If you believe in MSDS, then you probably think that the Earth lies on the back of a turtle.
That's just not true. Nixpkgs has the largest package database of any distribution. It contains many closed source application that work flawlessly. Hell I can even run Vivado or Quartus on it which are two of the worst of the worst proprietary pieces of software on it. I also have packaged proprietary libraries for hardware we use at my company with no issues.
Because they have an explicit model of chess and specific heuristics for learning chess.

An LLM could have picked up some chess patterns through osmosis, but it can not reason explicitly in the domain.
Since it is so clear cut it would be very nice if a judge could just rule on this already so the employees can get paid.

I don’t think this would be such a lengthy affair anywhere but the US.
The title is slightly misleading. It says "social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy", when it should really be "social media behavior associated with vaccine hesitancy" as it is about the specific behavior instead of the generic. In this case the misinformation vector is listening to Republican politicians. Which heavily implies that it is more about the misinformation source than the specific media vector.
People really have to be afraid of running VPS or whatever if they can't spun up a min.io instance to have their own S3 without dealing with Amazon's Bullshit
Wow! Really impressive.