skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most of this advise is very arbitrary. There are a million ways to make money. Choosing a small market vs. large market is not inherently better, targeting businesses is not inherently easier, and finding one customer who pays 10k€ is not necessarily easier than finding a 1000 customers who pay 10€. It's just different.

There are one person companies that are successful with either choices, and the decision which opportunities to pursue should depend on your talents, your personality, your experience.

For example, I personally find it much easier to sell a cheap app to lots of people. I suck at selling big contracts to businesses. I only once managed to close a five figure contract, and that was a consulting job where I was basically an employee.

But I'm not saying everyone should do the same. Figure out what you are good at, and do that.
Exact same sentiment for alcohol being a "rite of passage." Some people actually believe that drinking alcohol is a necessary step to life, as essential as graduating from school. It is genuinely some of the most insane marketing I have ever seen.
Right, you just need to avoid having the btree index on the UUID field. Similarly, don't pose queries to sort by the randomized UUID field either. This is where the often maligned hash index type could be useful, to allow lookup of individual rows by UUID without all the expense of a btree index maintenance. Use other fields for ordering that have better write locality.

What this means in practice, of course, is that you shouldn't expect to do application driven pagination with UUID keys either. You would need to expose some other boundary marker with a total order that works well with btrees. And this could bring you back to "leaking" predictable key material that you were trying to hide by adopting UUIDs...
I thought that was great, and I loved the interactive storytelling parts of it.

Definitely hit a little too close to home...
I sometimes use ChatGPT to analyze flaws in arguments or find bias. So far it seems very adept at this task (at least version 4 is). It would be cool to have it do this on an entire news article, opinion piece, or just a selected paragraph.

Another idea: ChatGPT bot that summarizes the day's top stories from multiple outlets with different leanings and combines the angles into single short articles.
Little stays sealed for ever, and sealed documents are often mistakenly filed openly. IF you're in the data collection/scavenging business it's not that hard to get hold of stuff that wasn't meant to be circulated.
Gamiyfing museums and historical locations!

Years back I did a "startup training" weekend. My team decided to use my idea of gamifying museums and historical sights. The team was fun and had some good puns!

I'd originally thought it'd be fun to play a version of the "floor is lava game" at the ruined temple where they partly filmed the Temple of Doom. I still wish I could do that someday! A sort of historical scavenger game would be really fun way to engage the history of the place.
> We don't think federation is beneficial to Revolt and would actively hinder our stance on privacy. In short, federation is prone to leaking your metadata, could make removing your data harder, and we otherwise have no incentive to develop support if it we aren't able to use it for the main platform (revolt.chat).

https://developers.revolt.chat/faq/federation
I was always mystified by the term "hard disk drive". Because when I learned about disk drives, it was in terms of floppy media, where the "disk drive" itself was a standalone device, and it "drove" the disk which you would insert into its slot. So, "disk drive" made a lot of sense for floppies.

And then the "hard disk drive" was introduced to consumers. And I suppose it made some sense, because it mechanically "drove" the rotation of a fixed disk, but it did make less sense, and really for a long time I just tried to adopt the term "hard disk" because there was no sense in tacking on "drive" when the hard disk was the item that really mattered.

Now we have "solid state disk drives" (SSD) and all perspective is lost. By definition, there is nothing to "drive" if the device is solid state. So why are vendors clinging to this "drive" terminology? It makes as much sense as "dialing" my smartphone. Oh well.
WASM probably won't affect most websites today, correct.

WASM probably won't enable cutting edge games. It has been around for years and there's no interest from the gaming community there, the newest additions to WASM like GC won't affect games much. There are other issues with the web platform that prevent this from working, e.g. the implicitly managed disk cache, the relatively old graphics APIs exposed into the sandbox, the performance impact of sandboxing, and a few other things. The games world has Steam and consoles, that seems to be good enough for them.

There might be some attempts to port desktop productivity software to the web using WASM, probably in partnership with Google, like what an architect might use. But probably not. Installing software isn't hard and pro grade software isn't an impulse buy. How much incremental revenue would a web port bring relative to the cost? Probably not much.

700mb programs downloading when a user visits a URL isn't necessarily a problem if that download actually sticks, but see caching issues above. After all, people routinely download programs that large. Chrome itself is ~500mb on disk!
And then you can sue for "imposing further restrictions", though.

(Not that fighting a legal battle with IBM is something you can realistically do without losing your business, of course. But legally, I think one would have grounds to.)
It used to be a feature of the entire internet, really. Email based signups weren't common in the infancy.
The GPL can't force Red Hat to continue to do business with someone.
> needed more time to solve challenging tasks but made fewer errors [1]

As someone else said, I can solve problems very quickly if the solutions don't have to be correct...

But more seriously, it seems like different people might have different thresholds for when they consider a problem solved?

If you decide to go back and review the problem and solution (even just mentally) to make sure you didn't make mistakes, of course that would take longer and give you more correct answers than the person who doesn't do that?

[1] https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/intelligent-brains-take-...
Something tells me trying to bluntly define "more" and "less intelligent" and then compare the two groups with blanket studies like this is utterly ridiculous.
I still don't understand the point of WASM-only runtimes when V8 can run WASM and JS.
Possibly a better way to achieve a similar level of prettiness would be (ab)use of vim's conceal feature. Through its judicious use, the author can have "forall" appear to them as ∀, "alpha" as α, etc., without imposing these symbols on their colleagues.
> are any laptop manufacturers getting close to Apple Silicon in terms of energy usage and performance?

Framework recently showed off their newer models hitting 11+ hours of runtime in a video playback test: https://youtu.be/tuw-YpbFkkM
What does that even mean?

When I use a container, I get all the stuff a Debian distro brings:

A file system
Process management
My favorite database (SQLite)
My favorite webserver (Apache)
My favorite runtime (CPython)
A gazillion helpful applications and libraries (Like imagemagick)
Tons of convenience glue (like /etc/hosts)

I get all of that in a reproducible, isolated little universe.

How does a "WebAssembly runtime" provide me with those?
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring a Data and Analytics Lead
I need a domain registrar that offers email forwarding, with SRS [1]. It is incredibly hard to check whether they do this correctly, short of buying a domain and checking myself.

Does anybody have recommendations there? I know Google Domains does, and OVH does not, but apart from that...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Rewriting_Scheme
It's not the quality, it's availability of means, for sure.

> Just straight access to resources?

IMO, as I understand it, it's just that. There are enough people in India who can do these videos, there are not enough people who can do that in Nigeria. And considering YouTube algos.. there are probably when you could had a more 'local' video but which was buried at th page.
They looked on the surface because they didn't have anything that could go down to the Titanic. A ship with an ROV that could go to the Titanic arrived and they found the debris on the sea floor.
The selfhosted community on Lemmy (https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted) is up to 12.5k subscribers and seems fairly active so it's possible there might be enough people who care this time for it to work.
YouTube revives sort by oldest video button on user channels
Also if you have some acquired 6502 skills consider doing some c64 and appleii or even atari x00 projects. Then maybe go back to 2600. All are very constrained in their own beautiful ways but not as perverse as the 2600 :)
I wonder how this compares to the precision of the GRACE-FO Laser Ranging Interferometers. Maybe this new comb method would allow for newer cheaper versions of the satellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRACE_and_GRACE-FO#GRACE_Follo...
Their looking for a vulkan-to-opengl shim for when opengl fallback is dropped
Probably someone tried to use a tunnel for a DoS, to access from a sanctioned country, or some other trigger for automatic blocking. Google really shouldn't block all HE because of one or a few subnets doing this, but it's understandable.
Nothing can beat the sheer scale of Space Engine when it comes to VR space exploration experiences.
This is a nice story that omits one crucial detail of every such transition: the people who get automated away and the people who benefit from improved economy and standards of living are not the same people.

For the former, this is not a story of temporary hardships compensated in full by everything getting better few years down the line. For them, this is a story of life permanently derailed, their hopes and dreams destroyed, and the future of their kids taken away. They do not get to enjoy those promised benefits - they're too busy trying to salvage what little they can from their lives, after being suddenly dropped one or two levels down in socioeconomic class ladder.

The benefits? Sure, they come some years or decades later, and they're great for everyone else.
Some states have "super speeder" punishments similar to this, with mandatory jail time if you're over a certain speed (>100mph usually) or just over a certain amount over the speed limit (double the limit, or something).

Either way, none of those address the new problem of robotaxis. If any normal human did this type of thing, you could go scream at them or honk your horn enough for them to figure it out. If it isn't programmed into the robotaxis logic it won't do anything as shown. Or possibly do the wrong thing.
Liquid metal could turn everyday things like paper into smart objects
'Telemetry? who needs it'

- Oceangate, probably
Discord has gained immense popularity among Vtubers. In fact, many sign-up forms for Vtuber-related events assume that participants have a Discord account, at least within the Japanese Vtuber community (although its prevalence elsewhere is unclear). Additionally, Discord has seen widespread adoption within the VR community, such as in VRChat.

This popularity can be attributed to several key characteristics:

1. Vtubers are frequently involved in numerous events, commissions, and livestream collaborations, each with different stakeholders and often temporary in nature. Discord makes it incredibly easy to set up dedicated servers for each of these endeavors.

2. Discord's voice chat functionality is highly robust, making it a common choice for managing voice communication during livestreams that involve multiple participants.

3. Discord provides a centralized platform for coordination and infrastructure. This eliminates the need to set up additional systems with different user IDs and other complexities.
This is a phenomenon we see over and over with our "Unpopular Opinions" segment. The summary statement is often unpopular, but once you hear out the person's reasoning (unless it's about food or something purely subjective) most people end up agreeing with them.

It's been tough to get _truly_ unpopular opinions (as voted on by Twitter/Mastodon users) represented on the pods.
they're indeed very similar

the main difference distills down to execution/implementation

java applets were slow, wasm is fast

that distinction makes a categorical difference
Did we kill crt.sh?

FATAL: terminating connection due to conflict with recovery
DETAIL: User query might have needed to see row versions that must be removed.
CONTEXT: SQL statement "SELECT c.ID, x509_print(c.CERTIFICATE, NULL, 196608), ca.ID, cac.CA_ID,
digest(c.CERTIFICATE, 'sha1'::text),
digest(c.CERTIFICATE, 'sha256'::text),
x509_serialNumber(c.CERTIFICATE),
digest(x509_publicKey(c.CERTIFICATE), 'sha256'::text),
x509_rsamodulus(c.CERTIFICATE),
x509_hasROCAFingerprint(c.CERTIFICATE),
x509_hasClosePrimes(c.CERTIFICATE),
c.CERTIFICATE
FROM certificate c
LEFT OUTER JOIN ca ON (c.ISSUER_CA_ID = ca.ID)
LEFT OUTER JOIN ca_certificate cac
ON (c.ID = cac.CERTIFICATE_ID)
WHERE digest(c.CERTIFICATE, 'sha256') = t_bytea"
PL/pgSQL function web_apis(text,text[],text[]) line 1757 at SQL statement
ERROR: server conn crashed?
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.

and now it's just a 502 error!
> Not that fighting a legal battle with IBM is something you can realistically do without losing your business, of course.

Doesn't this change affect Oracle Linux too? Suing people and even big companies is Oracle's favorite thing to do, and for once they'd be the good guys for doing so.
This quote shines light on his hiring philosophy:
“When I started the business, one of the things you’ll find, there are other sub-operators out there, but they typically have, uh, gentlemen who are ex-military submariners, and they — you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys,” Rush told Teledyne Marine in a resurfaced interview.

“I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational and I’m not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old, uh, you know, who’s a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our techs can be inspirational,” said Rush.
It's unfortunate and ironic that Agile's legacy now apparently includes burn-out, when it specifically was designed to prevent it:

"Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely."

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
Each and every mission had scientific objective and research being carried out, precisely to help combine entertainment/adventure with technological and scientific progress. The same will be true on Mars. The earliest guys going over, as colonists, are going to be quite well to do - which I'm sure the news will frame in a completely fair and reasonable way.
Any speculation why the AMD cards require twice the VRAM that Nvidia cards do? I have an RX 6700 XT and I'm disappointed that my 12 GB won't be enough.
Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
> Also: identity per "server"

Further up the thread, another user said the value in discord was the community -- the users -- rather than the messages. Wouldn't you want to be able to maintain these ties across servers?
This must be why I can’t do well in any coding interviews. I’m just too damn smart.
Tough love coming then -- then unless we pay you directly, there's no good incentive for anyone to believe that you'll be able to always deliver your claimed advantages over Discord.
> Right now the mods seem to be flexing their muscle, showing that Reddit has allowed them too much power

That's a weird framing to me. I'd say it's the other way around: current events show that Reddit-the-community has allowed Reddit-the-company's small clique of execs too much power.
Another major archaeological site on the Yucatan peninsula, Coba, was discovered in the 19th century but was sufficiently remote that it wasn't excavated in earnest until the 1970s when a road was put in.
For upcoming videogame consoles, manufacturers do indeed hand out preproduction hardware to developers.
Due to the discontinuation of Centos 8 and these manufactured obstacles faced by RHEL derivatives, I am strongly considering migrating our systems to Debian.
I took your approach to math and it was vital to my scholastic success.

Once my engineering school load got too big for me to continue to use that approach in my math classes, I took an alternative strategy of just accepting theories without deeply understanding them and I had a much harder time applying those particular math concepts outside of those classes.
This is linked in the article but easy to miss, it has helpful visualizations of the “time programmable frequency comb”:
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/10/break-new-grou...

Some notable numbers from the paper:

> the researchers’ time programmable frequency comb is capable of operating at this quantum limit, where fewer than one photon in a billion reaches its target device. It worked even when the laser was sending out only 40 microwatts of power, or about 30 times less than a laser pointer uses.

> the pulse time and phase are digitally controlled with ±2-attosecond accuracy

> Over 300 km between mountaintops in Hawaii with launched powers as low as 40 μW, distant timescales are synchronized to 320 attoseconds

> at 4.0 mW transmit power, this approach can support 102 dB link loss, more than sufficient for future time transfer to geosynchronous orbits
Military submarines don't go this deep.
Subs I believe do not operate at those depths or anywhere close.
too many yoe can be a negative.

higher wage expectations and lower tolerance for BS.

companies know this.
In America at least, I feel that alcoholism is somehow seen as less serious than addictions to "hard drugs", especially during the time of Fentanyl being present in many other drugs. For us the most affected place is Alaska. It's dark half the year and there's nothing to do but drink: which results in it having one of the highest rates of VAWG, DV and child abuse in the country, if not the highest. Meanwhile the rest of the anglophone world has culturally mandated alcoholism. Domestic violence spikes in the UK based on football outcomes during the World Cup - is it any wonder that could be connected to alcohol? Advertising matters and health information matters. We have PSAs from the ad council against nicotine but we don't have any against liver damage. If you've got family members with cirrhosis, you know what you're up against.
Thanks - maybe we'll switch to that URL since it has more up-to-date information.

(Submitted URL was https://twitter.com/USCGNortheast/status/1671907901542211584)
It's pretty crazy that our legislators and courts haven't addressed this loophole that allows law enforcement agencies to buy data that they can't legally collect.

This essentially nullifies the fourth amendment.
WASM is designed with security in mind, and specifically to provide primitives for use in a secure runtime.

LLVM doesn't provide that to my knowledge... instead just cross-compiling code specific to each target. Correct me if mistaken.

I imagine there are meaningful build time drawbacks to compiling an executable for each environment as well. While WASM will never outperform native code, it can get very close. Minor loss in performance is a small price to pay for portability/security.
The progress in AI is great, but very hard to keep up with (or understand). It's real to me once it makes it into Automatic1111.
I’ll genuinely never understand why people benchmark in this way. They are doing a thing that is slow and inefficient in a fundamental way and then producing a blogpost about it being slow and inefficient in a much more trivial respect. If you care about performance,

select count(uuid) from records;

Makes absolutely no sense. You know the uuid is unique so you are deliberately selecting a value and then throwing it away just to count it.

select count(1) from records;

Would give the same value and could be answered from the index without requiring a scan of the table.

This is true of any unique column in the table no matter what type (it doesn’t have to be a uuid). The fact that uuids are a bit slower than other types of keys when you scan the entire table unnecessarily seems beside the point.
Although it sounds strange but in reinforcement learning there are approaches where actors learn on real world sensory input and then do a couple of rounds of internal simulations to refine the parameters. Then, this is tested against real worlds. I remember that this outperformed algorithms without such simulations.

Also dreaming found in humans and other animals seems like this.
Kids still take the MCAS in Mass, and it’s still a requirement to gradation. They actually raised the scores required to graduate just last year.
Discussion from 2 years ago when this was new:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28434012
https://wasi.dev/ allegedly. Development seems slow though.
If you have a question, you have a knowledge problem. That's why asked the question in the first place! If knowledge was more accessible, you would ask fewer questions.
ALPR Automatic License Plate Readers are a significant portion of this article, and they raise a lot of questions in my mind.

If the police have access to realtime info on the location of all vehicles, how is auto theft still a thing? How are gangs stealing $100k worth of tools from hardware stores and driving away scott free?

Are we just at a time before wide use of the data ALPRs provide?
wasm is not bound to javascript in any meaningful sense
Wait until 2030.
Absence of orgasm-induced prolactin secretion in a healthy multi-orgasmic male
Wise, formerly Transferwise, fulfills this niche pretty well. They give actual bank accounts in many of the other countries, in your name.

Really solved a Euro banking issue I had for legitimate incoming SEPA transfers

I even used a US LLC and got a Euro bank account that European clients felt familiar and comfortable with

A lot of banks stopped servicing Americans due to the paperwork with FATCA treaty, but that was 12 years ago and some have stepped in to fulfill the niche
Er, what? You're glad they're stopping other freeloaders so that you can be a freeloader instead? Is this satire?
I prefer the composition of the beta model over the release. Quality wise I can’t say one is better than the other. Maybe the hand in the coffee picture is better for the 0.9 model.
and #5 is just rediscovering the JVM
It's hard enough to make a small hole that doesn't turn into a big hole under such pressure when you're trying to. Even harder for a small hole you're not expecting.
I just recently got a job after a few years away. It was the only interview I got out of about a dozen crafted applications and probably over a hundred basic ones.
Agree, there is definitely a trade-off, I certainly don't know how to input those characters quickly even if the author states it is faster in Vim and I am not a Vim newbie. Also, if you get a stacktrace in a log file, do they still print nicely? Do they still print nicely if I'm viewing that stacktrace on a build server's web interface? There are probably some number of utilities that this code is "viewed" by that don't correctly handle non-ascii unicode and the usability would suffer at the expense of the beauty/terseness. They do look pretty though.