skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Down for me on the US West Coast for 9 hours now.

Love the service and it's been rock solid for over a decade for me.

I do understand the concern with the lack communication with this outage, however. It's a bit of an organizational/leadership red flag when a crucial service business like this doesn't communicate with its customers when things go south.
Yes, I think this isn't happening.
This is important for blind people too, since a lot of stuff like Kindle, Apple Books and such, use DRM. That means that if I wanted to read a book on my Braille EReader, without using my phone which adds another device, another battery, and so on, I'd have to un-DRM the book. Lately though, Kindle have changed their DRM stuff so the tools used don't work anymore. So getting them from these types of sites; thankfully EPUB versions are available, is the only way I can choose what device I read my book on.

It's a bit like using emulators to read text from the screen using OCR.
unfortunately a lot of software used by companies is RHEL only..

If you need the software and does not want to pay red hat the derivatives are the only option..
> 'Design to Code' Startup Anima Raises $2.5 Million in Seed Funding
Dec 22, 2022

> Anima, a no-code tool that turns designs into code, raises $10 million Series A • TechCrunch
Sep 01, 2021

> Seed

Strangest spelling of bridge I’ve ever seen
Lore & Quill is another site more focused on recommendations and genre based browsing and is actively being developed as well.

https://lorequill.com/
The supreme court isn't supposed to issue advisory rulings, but that's what they've done here. More legislating from the bench.
Well done.
And I am Australian.
Sometimes real estate agents fail at flipping and stick to brokering other people's transactions too.
For me is not even a question of security but a question of sanity. It feels like torture. You are watching something with your brain in that context and suddendly, a commercial about something I am not remotely interested is thrown to my face.

I am simply not that kind of consumer. That's not the way I learn about products I'll buy later. In fact, I've never ever bought something I saw in a youtube commercial. IMHO, the current model of advertisement is broken.
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2020) [pdf]
A concise example for learning assembly, linking and relocation
It should be noted, as many businesses are finding out, that you can't redistribute Ubuntu binaries or sources as-is, since they contain registered trademarks of Canonical.

So, if you want to ship Ubuntu-based systems, you actually have to maintain your own version of all of their software stripped of the trademarks and re-compiled, or pay them. It seems Canonical is getting more interested in actually enforcing this, I believe they mostly ignored it for a long time now.

Debian seems like a much simpler alternative than doing all this.

Source: https://ubuntu.com/legal/intellectual-property-policy

> Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries [emphasis mine]. This does not affect your rights under any open source licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu. If you need us to approve, certify or provide modified versions for redistribution you will require a licence agreement from Canonical, for which you may be required to pay. For further information, please contact us (as set out below).
Ansible might not be perfect, but, like you, having done this for two decades, I seen some shit with all of Ansible's competitors (the same hate you have for Ansible I have for Chef). The stlib in Ansible is what will keep me using it as long as I have a need to ssh to anything.
A warning for people that talking about and linking the reddit votes/user markets while on reddit leads to an automatic sitewide ban.

I lost 10 year old account by offhandedly mentioning it existed in a thread like this criticising the behaviour.

It's weird they don't want to talk about it but I do understand not linking it. There's mod accounts to some very big national subs up for sale.
Not so much unreliable as asynchronous. SMTP is a better late than never sort of a protocol.
Ask HN: Wood Moisture Measuring Equipment
I have a science project coming up, where I need a few sensors and a datalogger. I have previously purchased from a semi-local company (sweden), but they don't have what I'm looking for. I'm not even sure what I'm looking for.

I need a outdoor temperature & RH sensor, a temperature sensor for the inside of the wood, and a moisture sensor for post-dried measuring. I'm going to measure planks. My budget is $500-$1500. Ideally, all should be pluggable into some logger, which i can connect to my network and fetch from.

I would like any tips about specific instruments & retailers, but also just how you go about finding 'industrial' products and information regarding them.

Thank you in advance :)
Maybe they just like them? There's no accounting for taste.
So you are saying that younger people in USA should vote for a party not currently involved in the sketchy monetary policies and lawmaking? How do you expected their vote matter in the first past the post system?

In my country I've been voting since 16, because my vote actually counts. But if I were a citizen of the USA/UK or other similar countries, maybe I wouldn't bother too. What's the point?..
If Google had the power to implement a device that forced your eyelids open to look at ads they would do it. Their company is user hostile and we should move as far as possible away from their services.
Who builds these things and why is BOTH the architecture and workmanship so shoddy? Who opted for this instead of making a well-architected and well built home 2/3rds the size (All you save in fake columns and moldings probably gets you some area back).

Where I live, a new home is always built by the first owner. That is, the first owner together with the architect creates the home including every plan, every material. Is that what happened here, or is it some sort of "developer" that has tried to make a disneyland looking thing to match what they already sold a buyer with sketches in a catalog?
Hey now, we're not all men
Step one: get microscope. Step two: put mouth and teeth on plastic water bottle. Step three: look at plastic water bottle under microscope. Step four: start to reduce plastic in life based on what you have observed.
It's almost like the growth plan of every tech company in the last decade or so... Grow big by burning capital ("to hell with cost of acquisition our CLV will be so high once they're locked in"); build an ad network; realise an operating profit; fight tooth and nail to protect that ad network...

Even Uber is becoming an ads company...
Argh! I thought it would just last a few weeks. Here in Ottawa, Canada, we have a consistent haze most days. It only lets up when it rains and shortly thereafter.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a great time for me to take up the hobby of astrophotography (https://www.astrobin.com/users/bhouston/). Summer is a great time with lots of amazing targets in the sky but this haze is killing most of the opportunities.

On the bright side, these fires are not burning down communities, it seems they are most just burning through forests.
Was this for moral support or can it damage sperm somehow? Asking for a friend.
You try going 4,183km to the top of Norway on solar.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll fix it!
Click-through rate optimizes for clickbait titles and controversial topics. Comment volume optimizes for controversial topics as well, since people would be arguing in the comments in those. It also optimizes for comments that don't add value.
I have a yearning to spend the money and use it to boost a post called "I bought this to the top of HN".
Daily reminder that Nitter (a Twitter frontend) exists for precisely this kind of issue:

http://nitter.net/

Just replace twitter.com with nitter.net in links.

Its still working for me without a login.
I used to see it with cryptocurrency. I suffered a lot of downvotes for pointing out the (finally) well-known flaws with cryptocurrency, and how most of them are (finally other people realize) scams.
I never opted in. However, you're right about silence being the only defense. It's why I closed all of my websites to the public. But there needs to be a better way to handle this than just removing information from the public web.
What I hate is that it seems to be a dichotomy. Small house, simple style. But as soon as it gets to a certain size, you have to put in stupid things like the grand entrance with a showpiece staircase.

Other things have to happen, apparently. The vaulted 20 foot ceilings above the living room. I now have the choice in the winter to heat the upstairs to 80 or keep the living room at 60. Of course, you'll need an ostentatious fireplace that will never be used here in Texas. It has helpfully been placed as the focal point of your living room, where most would want a tv.

I'm continually amazed at how bad designs are on half-million dollar purchases which require 30 years to pay off.
You forgot TikTok - Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting post on how platforms get bad ("enshittification"):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
What claims can be made with current information in your opinion? Is the Trudeau regime , just another run of the mill Canadian government or possibly something more sinister (or at least more corrupt).
I highly recommend "The Kominsky Method" on Netflix (2018-2021) with Alan Arkin and Michael Douglas.
Un/fortunately, they didn’t storm Moscow. It was rather interesting to see them advance, however. Though whether this was a distraction to hide something else (say, “banishing” a PMC closer to the border) or a genuine coup has yet to be seen.
Far be it from me to speculate...but I have run into a particular strain of 'entrepreneur' who fervently think the purpose of starting a business is to raise more VC money, not...you know...grow a successful business. There lies all sorts of business killing perverse incentives.
because people use it for 10+ years and never experienced outage?

it's there to give your perspective

add me to happy customers
Pt 10 link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebagb6zxZuU

If you're in the business of making content and advertising yourself... I could see how buying a burnt mansion would be compelling.

At the end of the day, my perspective is that builders like decreasing risk.

Anything saved after a fire is a risk. What's still structurally sound? If so, what are its new limits?

Custom = time and money. And everything in a post-catastrophic damage rebuild is custom.

Sure you can do it, but it might be cheaper (from a total cost perspective) to demolish and rebuild from scratch.
Oh man! I watch a ton of YouTube. I'll take up an opportunity to promote some of my favorites. Presented in no order, just scrolling through my subscriptions:

Older tech: LGR, Cathode Ray Dude, Techmoan

Video games: Cinemassacre, Masahiro Sakurai, Jeremy Parish, Cybershell, Basement Brothers, Retro Game Mechanics Explained, Brian David Gilbert, GTV Japan, Displaced Gamers

Synthesizers/music theory: Red Means Recording, Alex Ball, Andrew Huang, Rob Scallon, Rachel K Collier, David Bruce

Hardware/engineering: Element14, Technology Connections, Applied Science

Guitar: Justin Johnson, Rhett Shull, Guitar Salon International, Andertons, Brandon Acker, Philip McKnight, Alamo Music Center
I think he was supposed to fix search.
Nope, I'm actually pretty cynical about intentions. But the government can detain me, arrest me, tax me, fine me, etc. A corporation can't do any of that.

I'm not sure what you really mean by "monopoly" or what sort of monopoly you think can persist in the absence of government support.

Note, I started my participation in this thread by advocating for minimizing government, which is not the same as eliminating government. So I'm not trying to assert an absolutist position that free markets should have no regulation.
Yes, which is the reason I don't really care that much. If youtube dies tomorrow, something else will pop in its place. That is how internet is supposed to work. Route damage and whatnot. We all just got really happy and complacent with the current batch of benevolent overlords.

Edit: Let me them turn on the screws, I says.
You can configure uBlock origin to only let through the ads, but still block the other garbage. Or you can pay for youtube - or you can find something else.

I hope this move will strengthen alternatives.
It's a bit of a misnomer. Steel is literally Iron + Carbon.

So the carbon in carbon steel is redundant
Assuming the security consultant and the ransom gang are even distinct people at all. IT Sec is such an incredibly shady industry.
Their site, their rights (to block you)? You're going to cost them bandwidth and give nothing in exchange, so it's only fair. Nothing forces you to visit the site.
My stuff for instance:

https://github.com/floooh/sokol

...inspired by:

https://github.com/nothings/stb

(here's how the sokol headers are integrated into a Zig project, note that there is only a build.zig which builds everything: https://github.com/floooh/kc85.zig)

But it's not so much about build systems, but requiring a separate compiler toolchain to build any C++ or ObjC dependencies (Rust needs this, Zig currently does not - unless that controversial proposal is implemented).

(also even complex C++ libraries can be wrapped in a build.zig, so you don't require a separate build system like cmake for the C++ dependencies)
Ok, fine... an image of Goofy. Both are judged on how similar they are, not the tools with which they were made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity

> Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit noted in Arica v. Palmer that a court may find copyright infringement under the doctrine of "comprehensive non-literal similarity" if "the pattern or sequence of the two works is similar".

You're going to have a much harder time proving that you absolutely did not copy something if you had an image of what you're being accused of copying in the dataset you used to make it. If the images are deemed substantially similar, it will be deemed an infringement.
This is a very complete font.
Sure, given a billion dollar budget, few years to work, and a legal environment that lets them use those stolen secrets. It can't be done cheap, overnight, or where the legal environment doesn't allow it. Really only China, while plenty of places have smart engineers, the rest cannot get the rest together (and if they tried it would kill their economy).

Note that TSMC depends on other companies for various parts. Without those they need even more money and time to duplicate it all. There is nothing they are doing that you can't hire engineers to duplicate. They figured it out, so anyone could. However it isn't easy, we could be talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.
I really don't understand why you think that's a good point, sorry.

Even if I just say "yes it's a tool" (some AI clearly are regardless of whether they all are or any demonstrations of them being able to run economically interesting tasks without intervention), not clear how what you're saying connects with the ideas raised in the article?
It's certainly good to understand that there is caching, journaling, etc. though I think that most people realize it by now. It's very easy to notice at least part of this by removing a USB stick without unmounting it on Linux :)

However, if you're one of today's lucky 10,000, welcome to the curse of knowledge. On that note, I can only imagine the war stories that PostgreSQL developers could tell about disk syncing.

> How slow? An SSD is 1,000 times slower than memory. A spinning hard drive is one MILLION times slower. Disks are multiple orders of magnitude slower than memory!

Latency? Throughput? I don't think SSDs are 1,000 times slower than RAM in either category, assuming fairly typical consumer machines, but I could be wrong.
It reminds me of living in a hotel lobby. So much room for activities, but not really a home.
The users in question don't want a clone of CentOS Stream, though, they want a replacement for classic CentOS.

Just like users who're choose to run Debian Stable want Debian Stable, not the somewhat stabilised rebuild of a snapshot of Debian Testing that underlies Ubuntu.

(I'm not endorsing any specific set of preferences here and my own are sufficiently complicated they don't really fit in a comment about what sets of preferences -do- exist)
it already does.. you need an valid license to use DNF.. you can even get the RHEL install ISO but you will not get updates unless you active a license..

but some cloud providers offer vm with the license already in place, they pay the license in embed the cost in the vm price.. so the cloud provider that is bound by the eula..
The idea, since it appears to have been lost on you, is that there's a long history of great writers (like Thompson) using drugs while they created. The Thompson quote is one of many, I think that's the part you may be misunderstanding. Truthfully, I'm surprised that a single Forbes article which quotes a "Michelle Stansbury, PR expert and founder of Little Penguin PR" is enough to have convinced you otherwise.
Yes, this. Sorry I was being a bit flippant and that wasn't clear.
> Boggles the mind why people still fall for the iPad Pro as a serious work machine beyond writing meme.

I wouldn't know of course, but if I had to guess it'd say it's because of influencers and trends/fashion.
This is definitely a good example of "RSS culture."

(This particular one isn't papering over flaws in the spec, many of thse are advising against doing things that violate either RSS or XML spec, or are subjective opinions additive to the spec (e.g. always have a datetime). But ya this is basically what I mean.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
> With the advent of digital media, the meticulously curated, visually spectacular, and deeply researched articles of National Geographic appear to have fallen out of favor.

I’ve been reading NGM for decades. The content is still top notch in the latest issues. It’s as good as it’s ever been.
It really depends what you're into and the languages you speak. Given we're on hackernews, maybe you're an English speaker who could be interested in math? 3Blue1Brown[1] is a nice channel.

1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw/vid...
Seems like companies that could have made money through licensing their product instead of being bought out?
Building an LLM App Intent Router with Langchain and Zep
Psychology Concepts You Should Use in Your Product
Marketing is all about understanding customer behaviour and their decision-making process. It's very important to understand some psychological concepts you can apply to your product to attract more customers or make more sales.

I'd like to share the 10 most popular psychological concepts. I promise you that by reading these concepts you will find yourself as a customer that making a decision to buy something or start using something.
A simple google search unblock pornhub will bring proxy sites that will unblock pornhub!! Very simple lol
> Are you more likely to be shot on the streets of Chicago compared to Boise? Probably, yes, however you're MUCH more likely to get shot on the streets of Chicago if you're involved in gang related activities.

You made the argument that attacks are targeted using an analogy without having data.
YT is monopoly, yea. But them trying to fight people using costly service for free isn’t big monopoly concern.
Try nitter.net:

"Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter"

No need to sign-in to view Twitter.

Instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
> in the past 15 years it has been rock solid, reliable, and more than fast enough for anything I've ever done with it.

I've been using it for as long as you, and I agree with these assessments. But those aren't the reasons why nobody I know uses it voluntarily, and everyone I personally know who uses it dislikes it.
…And Fidelity deepened its valuation cut in Reddit again, today.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation...
My feeling is that if Zig drops C++ support, there seems to be enough momentum on the C++-dependent users, that they will just fork Zig...

Can't LLVM be optional, and have unit tests guarantee that it works as before?

The above, or - as mentioned elsewhere, implement a C++ compiler in Zig: quickly, and before making any breaking changes - quite a tall order.

Or bring into Zig an existing pure-C, C++ compiler.

...TinyC/libtcc? PCC? LCC? (wild guesses)
It would be very hard to build a product from scratch that competed with Figma. Even if you just straight-up stole all their product choices, features and UX and so on, the engineering under the hood seems pretty high level. Anything is possible, but it would not be trivial.
Nowadays with fantranslated ROMs and good enough emulation since the early 00's, I guess there are better things in Japan to do such as visit the actual side of the country beside the pop culture.

Such as the one exposed in Cycling in Japan from the NHK.

Also, meeting different food, tales and cultures beside the ones from the $RANDOM 24/7 store.
It's quite variable even in instance types, I've emailed some VPS providers asking and the response was always it's not guaranteed, you'll have to test and see.

I'm guessing there some out there, but it's not the people I have accounts with.
But the hypothetical world in which your laptop falls off a shelf and randomly writes Windows 95 is a fake one.

LLMs aren't random number generators running in isolation.

They're trained on copyrighted material. If they regurgitate copyrighted material, we know where it came from. It came from the training material.

Valve is rightly concerned that non-lawyers have no clue what they're getting themselves into when using the current generation of AI models. The inability to determine whether an output is a substantial copy of an input is not a free pass to do whatever you want with it, it's a copyright infringement roulette.

There are way too many people in this industry who believe that building a technology which makes compliance impossible is the same thing as making compliance unnecessary.
Oh I'm sure there is, but dealing with all the awfulness is enough to make me not bother. Those stupid faces people pull in their thumbnails actually have quite a strong repellent effect on me (yes, I've got clickbait remover installed, yes I also use Vinegar because the YouTube player is deliberately designed for mis-clicks). The whole thing is just Idiocracy and I end up angry at the sheer stupidity and lack of dignity of the human race.
For Christmas I got a set of Anyday microwaveable dishes. They've been awesome! They're made out of glass with a stainless steel and silicone seal on the lid for steaming.
Same way they built devices in the 80's until someone started using better components and ate their competitor's lunches.
I’m not sure there is anything objectively bad about these designs. Does it affect the utility of the house? Or is there some inherent ugliness that comes with affordable and popular things?