skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s also a great example of “headlines without reading the article”. There’s no discussion of consequences, and some of the items don’t really reflect how much work had to go on after the initial effort to make things what they are today (JS and git being prime examples).
> a much clearer revenue model

can you please explain the business model?
Here's an HTML feed: https://webloglist.com/hn
Difficult to know. It would have been difficult for them to make money without adding an ads team. Without making money it would have been difficult for them to create the infrastructure to process the large amounts of data and change that are a big part of how google search works these days. Would a two man company focused on search have created google maps or google earth? Probably not - gathering just the data for streetview was a pretty huge undertaking. Their geographic search capabilities would probably have been nonexistent.
People have to spend their time somehow - reading news seems likely more valuable than watching sports, arguing on the internet, gambling, watching cat videos, or playing cell phone games. All those are common time sinks for people.

Seems odd to question the value of reading news, considering.
Is that true when we take into account environmental externalities? I am not an expert in this field; I know that many forms of mining are capital-B Bad for the environment but I don't know how salt mines impact the area around them.
I didn't say anything about JS being bad. But this article is predicated on the assumption that doing things fast is good. I think it's hard to argue that if Eich had spent 20 days (or perhaps even 30 days!!!!) we would have been in a much better place for the last couple of decades. We're not working around the fact that JS is intrinsically a bad language, we're working around the fact that it was ridiculously rushed.
Which will be terrible for both the rich and the smart.

The rich don't need diplomas, if they can just take over the family's business. In fact they don't even need a job at all. But they may need a few smart people for important positions in said family's business. In an institution composed of both rich and smart people, connections naturally form, so the rich get the smart people they need, and the smart get a good job.

Separate them what will happen is that your future boss will not be as well educated, and will probably hire some of his rich friends instead of his smart friends. And the smart will have a harder time finding the jobs they deserve.
It’s not the media doing this; “heat pump” has been industry lingo (in the US at least) for an A/C with a reversing value since at least the early 1980s.

My parent’s house had a heat pump then and does so today (albeit much improved over the decades).
No, LiteFS just does physical page replication. We don't really have a way to do merge conflict resolution between two nodes. You may want to look at either vlcn[1] or Mycelite[2] as options for doing that approach.

[1]: https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite

[2]: https://github.com/mycelial/mycelite
… yes, that is in fact the point
I do these sorts of things. I don't do it to save money (sometimes, the repair is more expensive than the replacement cost). I do it to avoid sending stuff to the landfill as much as possible.
I don't think any of the code of conduct stuff is being driven by marginalized folks - indeed it's usually a stick that people from privileged backgrounds use to beat those from more marginalized ones. Which, well, you have to laugh or cry.
An artist with no money Groundbreaking
Don’t let cynicism undermine your workplace
The vaccine development happened effectively in a weekend. The long period of time to develop isn't related to science, it's the bureaucracy afterwards that took so long. So depends on the definition.
>I always figured pay was based on market condition for finding employees, not a companies specific profit.

It is. Anything an executive or company spokesperson says to the contrary is lying. If Microsoft really wanted to retain someone who said they were going to walk if they did not get an increase, then they would pony up.
Ask HN: Why hasn't AWS bandwidth egress cost come down?
I love FreeBSD and have been running it as a primary OS in my home and in my work since the late 90s. Unfortunately, there's some long-standing bugs that seem to have no traction to be resolved around booting from USB storage that impacted me in my home and some systems had to be rebuilt on Linux, making me not Linux-free at home for the first time in over a decade. I love FreeBSD and I hope it has another 30 years of success.
> Actually holding an x-risk belief is still a fringe position

Beliving it is an x-risk is not fringe. It's pretty mainstream now that there is a _risk_ of an existential level event. The fringe is more like Yudkowsky or Leahy insisting that there is a near certainty of such an event if we continue down the current path.

With Hinton, Bengio, Sutskever and Hassabis and Altman all agreeing that there exists a non-trivial existential risk (even if their opinions vary with respect to the magnitude), it seems more like this represents the mainstream.
NASA visualized Voyager, and helped revolutionize cinema [video]
https://brntn.me

I'm a web developer, so I end up mostly writing about Python / Django related topics in that space, but really it's anything tech related.
It may delight you to know, then, that they've started building, and in fact they've built a bunch of stuff for it already! As of March 2023, 50 miles of guideway are complete, 39 are underway; 41 structures are complete, and 29 are underway¹. Some of the completed structures include:

- The Cedar Viaduct, a 3,700-foot-long bridge over State Route 99 in Fresno, which features a signature double arch design².

- The Hanford Viaduct, a 3,300-foot-long bridge over the Kings River and State Route 43 in Kings County, which is the longest structure in Construction Package 2-3²⁴.

- The San Joaquin River Viaduct, a 4,700-foot-long bridge over the San Joaquin River and North Avenue in Fresno County, which includes a pergola structure to allow future trains to cross over the existing BNSF Railway tracks²³.

- The Tuolumne Street Bridge, a two-way bridge that spans the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and future high-speed rail tracks in downtown Fresno²³.

- The Fresno Trench and State Route 180 Passageway, a two-mile-long trench that will carry high-speed trains under several streets in Fresno, including State Route 180²³.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_California_Hig....

[2] https://hsr.ca.gov/about/project-update-reports/2023-project....

[3] https://hsr.ca.gov/2023/05/11/video-release-high-speed-rail-....

[4] https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/high-speed-rail/article...
I was officially employed as a help-desk tech while I was going to school for CS. I wrote some internal-only software we used to track all of the installed software on all the hosts in our network and catalog them to a database. This was in 2000, so there weren't very many software packages that you could run like that would crawl the entire org and catalog the software installed without installing an agent on people's systems. This worked that way, and my VP came and asked me to help a team package it up so we could sell it as another product from my company. Looking back, what I wrote was crap, but boy was that a boost in the breeches, if you know what I mean.
Everything around the software would have been quick -- both the iPod UX and syncing were extremely simple back then. The iPod didn't really have a GUI, it was just six lines of text and a header line.

It's the manufacturing speed that astonishes me -- the sourcing as you say, the supply chains and the factory capacity. I'm also very curious about the manufacture of the scroll wheel -- was that something really new that had to be figured out (it seemed/felt like it) or was it a trivial combination of existing components?
Adopting babies is extremely slow and difficult. Couples often wait years for a baby.

There are lots of older children and teenagers in need of adoption.
Another GitLab team member here :) Thanks again for the feedback!

We've updated the image in the blog post: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/07/05/beautifying-of-our-....
I just think it's much easier to convince people that existing types of AIs will get somewhat smarter and significantly faster. And that's dangerous enough.

My own belief is that regardless of what we do in terms of the most immediate dangers, within one or two centuries (maximum) we will enter the posthuman era where digital intelligent life has taken control of the planet. I don't mean "posthuman" as in all of the humans have been killed (necessarily), just that what humans 1.0 do won't be very important or interesting relative to what the superintelligent AIs are doing.

I don't think there is anything that prevents people from giving AI all of the characteristics of animals (such as humans). I think it's foolish, but researchers seem determined to do it.

But this is fairly speculative and much harder to convince people of.
Sure, but they could have made something very different, and that would still be true. People just have no choice but to use JS.

Plenty chose Flash, Java, and friends when there were other options.
Still in effect here, as of 2:39PM Pacific. No cache to clear.
If you care about maintainability, you keep the binary data out of the source file and have a build process.
Feds raise interest rates and the stock market demands layoffs. The reward is a stable or increased stock price which is a proxy for growth. This keeps money in the stock vs pulling it to get 4% interest. So the layoffs are done in anticipation of (or even perhaps precipitate) a recession which helps reduce inflation since people reduce spending when they lose their jobs. Laid off Microserfs won't be remodeling their homes or buying new ones and what not.
> Heat pumps can be installed with backup heating as I understand it.

Then, what's the point? If you still have to have gas lines and infra, just use the gas. It's vastly cheaper.
I work in microfiltration (a pre-filter step for RO), and my view is:

1/ it’s as much an energy and water storage problem as it is a technical problem.

2/ commercially, because of 1/, RO is a municipal sale. It is a civil initiative, rather than a commercial one, which means it gets crowded out by other civil decisions.
> It's only natural human behaviour to not put effort in if there's no consequences or risk in doing so.

That’s nonsense. That’s like saying that it’s only natural human behavior to abuse and be abused. If I put myself in the shoes of an underpaid sewage worker, that has a family to maintain, that sees the owner and investors of said private companies getting obscenely rich just by closings contracts under their AC… yeah, I’d slack the s* out of it too.
Added feeds thanks to JSTucker. They are being fetched from the Gist. I think the cron ran, so there are more blogs now.

json: https://dm.hn/blogroll.json (I'll add the feed to each item in a minute)
I've been following that Epic and the issue it is based on since 2021 (which is how I found your comment). It's been a roller-coaster which grew from small issues to a giant epic. A few times a week, I get an email about it hoping it's finally a patch for the artifact type I'm using. In the end, I manually roll up all artifacts to the parent pipeline and have a MRs ready in case the feature is released.

There are quite a few issues I follow, sometimes they are very small, sometimes they are huge epics. While I love GitLab and GitLab CI, I find myself hitting some of these frustrating issues nearly every time I do something uncommon.

They usually end up being delivered and well done, which is to the credit of the awesome folks at GitLab, but they rarely take less than a few years.
it says San Mateo, CA / Hybrid on the link while remote here. can you clarify if this is remote worldwide or just in US?
Novaa RF, website [1] though it's really just a splash page

[1] https://www.novaarf.com/
You don't mind, because someone else spent the money. The people signing the checks probably did care.
I actually got the PhD so it’s not all ways leading to failure — just accept when your advisor offers you to take time off.
I have a book upstairs I authored that I can go to and be reminded there was a moment my mind was like a samurai sword for one very specific problem. I solved it by holding a thought in my brain consistently for ~3 years straight, and trying everything known and new tricks to solve it. I can barely read my thesis anymore, let alone understand it, the quality of what I did feels almost super human compared to what I've been asked of by the world outside academia. A lot of people who never spent any time post undergrad think its all nonsense, mostly because they meet slacker types. But if you really challenge yourself you will produce something singular and at the best of your ability. It's extremely rare you get that opportunity and support in time to do that anywhere else. Unless your PhD translates to commercial application directly! Perhaps artists with healthy commissions get to feel it. Startup life is similar I guess, but the pressure of commercial success is a very different driving force vs intellectual curiosity and understanding something new in the world. Post PhD I know that if I felt like it I can operate at an incredibly high level intellectually, that I choose not to post PhD is also the other confidence PhD gives you. Most people I know are pretty down to earth post PhD and leaving academia, its ultimately a humbling experience especially if you had fun with mental health during getting it done. You know you can do something, but you also know at what cost to yourself and people around you.
Surely the salt falling on the farmland would have some kind of deleterious effects, right? I imagine you’re not trying to grow sea cucumbers in this scenario, and I’m not sure most land plants would be crazy about a ton of salt.

Just ask the Carthaginians…

Guessing that you know something I don’t here, though.
It would be like Dwarf Fortress
>Despite it being 4x higher than the person you replied to said

$0.5 was per household. $2.00 was per capita. So 10x higher.
I've used both, but only briefly. I think I used uuencode when using uucp.
And Base64 in one of my Python programs.

What are their pros and cons, in your opinion?
Canadian political parties, when in power (and it's not a partisan thing, they both do it) see fit to "advertise" their party under a thin veil of pretending to advertise government programs. The example that immediately comes to mind (despite my distain for the current government) is the former government who circa 2008 had advertising everywhere for their "economic action plan" and how it was helping us. It was partisan garbage paid for by taxpayers. They all do it.
If the value of superintelligence is to lead to an Age of Em scenario where AIs (or Ems) do most of the intellectual labor, the reality is still that they would be doing this labor in service of humans. I could see a scenario where it is done in service of the AIs instead, but it would look nothing like the existential risk stuff bandied about by these weenies.
We started in 2017 aiming to build world’s best video headset for drone pilots ("FPV goggles", for those in the know). Based in Europe, where we do all our R&D and MFG.

Surviving these last three years was, well, as hard as you can expect. Raising money was a challenge (hardware, in Europe, Central and Eastern Europe). We started scaling MFG just as the COVID started closing down China and crippling supply chains. Front row seat at the chip shortage horror show: just as we started delivering the first units of our first product, we saw our critical components go from €5 to €100 a pop, and lead times go from "shipping tomorrow" to "we may be tell you when it may be available in a few months, but not sure."

Today, we’re alive to tell the story. We expanded from headsets to pretty much every piece of tech you need in a drone; all designed and built in Europe. We do FCs, ESCs, control links, analog video links, data links (WiFi, 5G/LTE, SDR), flight computers, as well as drones, drone controllers, etc. We have a drone sim with 500k total downloads. We also do our own private mobile networking infra (5gc/epc RAN, gNB/eNB). We do HW, FW, and "normal" SW.

We’ve pretty much consistently doubled our revenues every year since inception, but it’s been a wild ride. While our US counterparts were raising tens of millions with similar traction and a fraction of tech collateral, we never got much love from VCs. Raising is still a bitch.

Last five years were blood, sweat, and tears, but I’d do it all over again, cause building physical stuff is the best job in the world.
On page 27, Michael W. Lucas starts his entry in a rather weird way.
What happens when it prevents you from doing so?
For anyone looking for an in-depth post mortem of the Van Ness bus line, please read the report from the SF Civil Grand Jury here: https://civilgrandjury.sfgov.org/2020_2021/2021%20CGJ%20Repo...
Looks cool, thanks for making this.
I basically followed this approach but my paper kept getting rejected from the conference which really put a ceiling on my hope; ended up quitting the PhD after just under 5 years.

Second try the conference paper got accepted right away. Advisor even asked me if I needed a break after I'd had some success (never happened on the first run) and was getting tired. Wrote my thesis in 5.5 years.
> Then, what's the point? If you still have to have gas lines and infra, just use the gas. It's vastly cheaper.

A) Not everywhere

B) Heat pumps can be powered with solar, reducing costs even if your gas would normally be cheaper

C) Some people are willing to spend a little more if it helps push electrification forward, for environmental reasons
People and articles were lying about this damage and the causes of it - again, because outrage drives clicks
Hopefully this doesn’t result in banking style KYC for cloud computing.
Perhaps think of "heat pump" as something that can (also) bring heat into a building, whereas A/C generally (only) removes heat from it.
You choose what you want it to be.

https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/
If that's how you judge popularity?

FreeBSD is far more of a general OS, NetBSD is more known for its minimalism and extreme breadth of hardware support. It can run on almost anything.

But in terms of usage numbers I'm pretty sure FreeBSD trumps it.
It's probably better to read it front to back because CLTL2 isn't 1994 standard Common Lisp.
Natural gas is available in abundance, is nearly free in terms of cost, and is vastly more "green" than many alternatives available today.

It may not be as green as pure electric can be in theory, but in large portions of this country electric isn't all that green either.

Heat pumps appear expensive to operate. Imagine running your AC year-round... that very thought makes many-a-homeowner shudder.
How does the billing/pricing for LiteFS and LiteFS Cloud work? I tried to figure it out but it was unclear from docs.

https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
> Then, what's the point?

Minimizing your gas use?
What’s the name?
Ditto Australia.

We've been using 'reverse-cycle air-conditioners' for heating in Australia for decades. I'm puzzled as to why there is any debate at all on their use for heating. A heat-pump is far more efficient for obtaining heat than direct resistive heating using electricity.

Many houses here use no other form of heating at all. And then at the press of a button, we get cooling in summer too. What's not to like?

* I also have a heat-pump condensing clothes dryer. The overall heat thrown out into the room is extremely low. The hot-air comes out the hot-side of the heat-pump to dry the clothes. The warm-moist air then passes over the cold coils, condensing out the water from the clothes and returning the heat to the cold-side of the heat pump which then pushes that heat-energy out the hot-side, producing more hot air to complete the cycle. I've had this Miele heat-pump condensing dryer going strong since 2009 - 14 years.
There are like three different http/3 implementations in Rust, used in real ways. Even if they don't want to write their own, there's a lot of choice out there.
Funny thing was I never even thought to do this until I was working on a very strange bug, and a senior engineer at my company suggested I look at the source code for one of our dependencies. Sometimes really obvious and basic advice can be a big step for people.
I have a Lenovo laptop and I run a script on startup to map the 3 button trackpad to 2 because the middle button closes tabs and always accidentally gets hit, being a region and not a delineated button.
Upvote this post for the context. In the oligarchy society of Canada, it's important to know who the big players are
The 2022 No Surprises act means you should not be getting out of network bills for anesthesiologists:

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises

https://www.cms.gov/medical-bill-rights
Initial funding was 15 years ago. Construction funds weren't approved until 2013 when construction contracts started to be awarded. Construction began in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_High-Spe...

https://hsr.ca.gov/about/project-update-reports/2023-project...

"Progress continues across the 171 miles under construction and development in the Central Valley, including more than 30 active construction sites and 69 structures or grade separation projects either underway or completed."
The website checks out.

Less than 20kB (10kB with compression), loads instantly.
20 years later, who made the right call?
> A lot of patented products have a positive impact on the world, should all of these be shared?

Yes. It’s bad to criminalize innovation. Most patentable innovations are not so unique but only a logical next step given prior inventions.

Also, patents favor the big players in any market because they have the money and the will to grind down any newcomers with legal action. The upstart with fewer resources should always be in favor of a level playing field.
Too late: https://eps.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk2851/files/inlin...
I'm with you here. I replaced a gas water heater with a hybrid water pump and I'm paying more for my troubles. The thing is, I do plan on installing PV panels in a few years--I can't generate my own gas so once I make that happen, I'll be a happy camper.
What is the use case for this distributed SQLite compared to a "traditional" distributed database like DynamoDB, CouchDB, Foundation, Riak, TiDB or CockroachDB, Mongo, etc.

Is this intended for b2b applications, or b2c? Could you (theoretically) write Facebook with a couple billion users with such a distributed SQLite system (billions of sqlite files, or many many billions of rows in this sort of a system)?

I think with huge amounts of optimization, you could at least attempt to do such a thing with most of the above or dynamodb (although it'd probably have hotspots).

Just trying to wrap my head around this new offering and the types of apps it's aimed at.
Automating Core AppSec Tooling Dev Loops: Language Model Powered Rule Generation
Personally I've had to ditch my opnsense APU2 recently, as its failing on USB3 boot media. Even tried USB2 CD-ROM and no dice.
Well, it might be better for the US, but I'm not sure that having China as a replacement trade partner is going to be any better for the people in middle east. Just looking at the places where they have gotten involved in Africa, it might seem like a good deal at first, but there are definitely strings.

But, regardless, it definitely is a much more hands off approach. Its kind of like Arrakis in Dune, as long as the spice (oil) flows, nobody cares about the inhabitants.
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New to blogging but interested in DevOps, WordPress, and Go, along with normal techy things.
https://joshmanders.com

I'm trying to write more, but I am not a great writer nor do I feel my thoughts are worthy (despite many people saying they'd read about them, lol)