skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to pick your brain about Notion for the reasoning you mentioned. Do you think Notion would be the next Evernote - in both the good and the bad way? Both the services are serving the same segment of the consumer market & both started out with generous offerings for free. I could be wrong how I see it but it would be nice to hear something interesting.
As a general rule of thumb: The general public is not interested in high quality content.

They're much more interested in instant gratification and mindless entertainment, which was sufficiently catered to on the original platforms, so the critical mass of people never switched over.

Another factor surely was that - at the time - reddit was another platform for high quality discussions on specific topics and made it much easier to find like minded people through the subreddit segmentation.

While the circle functionality worked decently in g+, you still had to actually create and join them, which meant it was too exclusionary and involved to really get going.
before you do it*

*before you REVEAL that you did it
check out @levelsio on Twitter. Pretty decent MRR with a few AI apps.
Maybe 'vast majority' is an overestimation but there is a quite a lot of it.

People underestimate how many routes can be done with battery powered ships.

> If this is your line of argument then it deserves some refining to move past a handwave.

My argument was not limited to that. I also said there are other solution that are not direct usage of hydrogen.
SECAM and Comparison to NTSC and Pal [video]
Many companies are purging data associated with inactive accounts as part of data minimization. If the user specifically asked for indefinite retention before going inactive, that might be one thing, but as a general practice it could be risky.
Because humans are not machines. Otherwise we would send machines to prison when they kill someone, right?

I see it like this:

Say you write a book. I assume you would find it obvious that I am not allowed to copy your book, replace your name by mine, and sell it, right? That's the point of copyright.

Now say I don't just copy-paste your book, but I run it through a software that replaces some words with synonyms (without losing quality or meaning), and I sell it all the same. Are you fine with that? I would tend to say that I am still abusing your copyright on your book.

Generative AIs can do exactly that, and the people using generative AIs don't have a simple way to check if the output they got is a slightly-modified copy of copyrighted material or not. All we know is that the AI is a machine taking the words in your book, processing them automatically, and generating a new text. Those are not humans who learned about the world and write down their thoughts, but machines that copy-pasted-and-modified words.
This is a vast topic. In brief, the relationship between the Chinese people and their government is markedly different from that in the US due to their distinct histories and cultures. The Chinese exert much more informal influence on government officials through culture and traditional norms than in the individualistic US, where influence is typically exerted through law or voting. Chinese government officials are often likened to the common people's parents - a concept that may be difficult for many Americans to comprehend, especially if they've been educated on theories like The Social Contract. This notion harkens back to Confucius's Book of Rites, which states, "When a ruler loves what the people love, and hates what the people hate, then he is what is called ‘The Parent of the People.’" [1] This quote encapsulates the ideal level of trust that the Chinese population holds for its government. However, this trust (alongside the respect and authority granted to officials) only persists when the government can deliver results for the people. The saying "当官不为民做主，不如回家卖红薯" or "If one is an official and does not serve the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes," may sound silly, but it encapsulates the values ingrained in Chinese government officials from a young age. This is not merely a concept that everyone knows, but it is also common knowledge, forming a significant part of the culture. Is this system perfect? No. Can it be applied universally, for example, to the US? Definitely not. However, throughout thousands of years of Chinese history, this system has generally aligned the government with the people's interests from a Chinese value system perspective.

[1]: http://bs.dayabook.com/five-classics/THE-BOOK-OF-RITES/42-ta...
Not really, hah.
Because Google killed it, because it was not for normal people, my circles were mainly developers/researches. Normal people were already on fb and didn't see any value of trying something else.
I don't think we do. I don't like the idea of people wanting raises even when they're getting paid above market for the current skill set.
The great thing is that many businesses that try to dick you over tell you immediately "this call may be recorded for quality assurance."

And there you have your permission to record it.
That is the weird part, it happens on all my various machines.
I have an RDNA2 laptop, KDE is sluggish.
I have a 3900x+2080Super desktop, KDE is sluggish. (Though that's nvidia so..)
Even my 5950x+7900xtx desktop, KDE is sluggish.

I really do not understand it, it's almost as if KDE just runs out of sync with my heads internal fps.
In Australia, I see many kids with phones. I also see many kids doing the sports, library and many other activities. It seems perfectly preventable.
Noone has built it and that's because it would be hard to satisfy the needs of a consensus mechanism and also do useful real work.

To understand why that is, you need to understand why they are doing all this generating random numbers nonsense in the first place. They are doing this to establish distributed consensus. You have some chain of blocks b_1... b_2 ... b_3. To make the next block you want to put a bunch of transactions together, calculate their hash and mint it, but there's a problem: In a distributed system, who gets to decide what goes into the block? We all need to agree what b_4 is otherwise the system loses consensus. We can't have me publishing something and calling it b_4 and you publishing something and calling it b_4. The way the "proof of work" mechanism does this is by everyone guessing random numbers until someone chooses the right number at which point that person has the right to mint b_4.[1]. If you wanted that computation (instead of being just choosing random numbers) to do something useful, you'd have to figure out a way to decide what the correct number is without knowing it beforehand. Otherwise you might train your ML model just fine but your computation couldn't be used to establish who gets to mint the next block so wouldn't work in a proof of work consensus algorithm.

People have done this with distributed computations where doing the computation is hard but checking the computation is easy. For example finding large Mersenne primes, is extremely expensive but once you have a big number, checking whether or not it is a Mersenne prime is very cheap. But training an ML model isn't that kind of computation.

[1] Proof of stake just picks who gets to do it randomly from a pool of people who have staked, which is why it is so much more efficient.
I gained confidence by making things. Whatever you think is cool is a great place to get traction—for me it was games. 3D accelerators had recently become GPUs, and I loved the idea of programmable shaders. I read the Direct3D 8 documentation cover to cover and I got into writing a little game engine, including shaders for the ATI card I had at the time. I never shipped a game, but that wasn't the point for me. It felt great to see that I could figure out some of the acknowledged hard parts of our field if I followed my interests and put in the time to study and play.
I found that when I listen to something interesting while driving a car, let's say an audio book or something in the radio unconscious mind seems to drive the car on autopilot.

If I'm lucky I arrive at my destination without remembering anything about the ride.

If I'm unlucky my unconscious autopilot does something stupid like taking a wrong turn or blindly following a sight to the Autobahn (but the wrong one) and I suddenly realize "I have no idea where I am" and have to fix this.

In the latter case I'm completely unable to focus on the audio book or radio any more until I'm in known terrain again.
Ask HN: How to achieve high availability on Windows 11 PC
Currently I have a RAID setup thus if my windows PC hard drive crashes, I can still keep working. How ever if my power supply or motherboard crashes I cant do much.

Assuming if I buy an identical PC, how can keep my 2nd PC syncd with my primary PC.

Right now I do back up to an external drive but that will take few hours of restoring and their is a risk it may not work.

I used to work on stratus aftServer but thats an overkill for me. I am ok wiht few hours of downtime.
Step 1. Humans write copy for humans to buy their garbage, humans counter by tuning out and switching channels

Step 2. Humans write SEO copy for machines to rank them higher.

Step 3. LLM writes copy for machines to rank them higher.

Step 4. Human uses LLM to try to distill the LLM generated SEO spam for any remaining signal.

Also to your point:

> SEO listicle garbage filling the internet.

the feeling that the LLM is better than what you described is going to be very temporary, then the mountains of LLM generated bullshit is going to overwhelm even LLM to make meaningful sense of.
I agree, thanks for the link, I'm not a conspirator but the article and citations were interesting, by the way there are only "myths".
AIM was 1:1 not broadcast, apples and oranges

Facebook was bootstrapped off existing IRL social networks (i.e. Harvard undergrads)
Well that's why you open an issue first, an RFC. Get some discussion going, if everyone's happy, then you proceed.
It was really was a disaster for whip companies, carriage companies and saddle makers, though, disruption didn’t proliferate as quickly then as it does today.

You can read some of the history of buggy whip makers. They were specialized manufacturers with established brands built around quality, special materials and style. Some were able to convert to new products but not all. They did survive a couple decades past the invention of the car, to your point, but once cars proliferated their sales cratered.

Whip manufacturers shouldn’t be shamed for hubris (what happened did not seem as guaranteed then as it now seems with hindsight) but they all would’ve done well to have converted into automobile manufacturing supply by the teens and many did not.

A link to get you started: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/what-company-made-the-last-...
In a well-functioning org, every employee should be empowered to not let rules impede progress.
> By the same argument, code isn't documentation.

It isn't.

> all manner of style guides will tell us

A lie parroted ad infinitum doesn't make it truth.
Sounds like they undersized your installation in order to quote you a lower price. The efficiencies of heat pumps are well documented as are the weather patterns in your area. So, they should/could have known better.

Two solutions to this problem:

1) get a bigger/better heat pump.

2) improve you building insulation and figure out where you are losing energy.
Nuclear power in general would be the answer to a lot of energy problems. But the general public in most places doesn't like it.
A lab my wife worked in had an octopus who laid eggs in the tank. We watched them hatch and all eat each other until a few were dominate and then they separated them.

I always wondered if this was the natural order or if it was because they were stuck in a confined areas.

Regardless, was a pretty incredible and exceedingly rare event (most octopus don’t lay eggs in captivity).
Where do u get the hydrogen from and how do you transport it at the scale required is one of these “questions for starters”.
Megawatt scale isn’t really gonna cut it - the largest one in Germany has 110 MW (?) so we would need almost 1000 of them to cover our need when the sun doesn’t shine or there aint no wind
It reminds me of Restoration Hardware, back when they sold hardware. They used to have heavy brass door and cabinet hardware with lousy tolerances. My favorite was when they had a small bucket full of metal rulers. The rulers were not all the same length, varying by about 2mm.

Now they're called RH and are a high end Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
Regarding NetBSD that is not true today. Linux has much more wider adoption on many different hardware. Toaster days are over :)
It’s better explained here:

https://www.xmodulo.com/embed-binary-file-bash-script.html
The Federal Trade Commission seems relevant. I've not tested them on these "no support; no recourse" situations, but have had good results for other issues.

Anybody thinking of the "Better Business Bureau" should note that the BBB is not a government organisation and behaves more like a Better Extortion Bureau: paying members can keep their good rating by unilaterally declaring a claim has been resolved (often requiring claims to be reasserted multiple times), while non-members or non-paying members cannot even contest claims via the bureau.
Is this a product of the way modern MBAs are taught? Seems to be a standard playbook of building reputation, scaling and then aggressive optimisation and cost cutting.
Just a couple troubleshooting idea that come to mind:

- Which memory column are you looking at? (differences between private, committed, shared, working set, etc.)

- Are you running WSL, virtual machines, or anything like that?

- Is your account an administrator on the box?

- Try Resource Monitor instead of Task Manager - there's a lot more memory information there
> They really think AI is this magic thing that will fix over a decade of no documentation, spaghetti code, and unclear requirements.

One of my favorite bosses loved to say, "You can't software your way out of a process problem." Several times I've had other bosses try to prove that wrong. None so far have succeeded.
> The main instances where the 4doc model is glaringly incomplete for me are homepages and release notes.

I think the main benefit of 4-doc model is that it makes you think about use cases for documentation. I think what you're alluding to is that there are more use cases.

The "release notes" serve the "I want to get overview of what changed" use case. The "homepage" serves the "I want to get a quick overview of the thing and see if I can use it" use case.

It's not clear though how the model could be extended to accomodate the above.
interesting! i find gerrit to be much more enjoyable and find github's PR system inferior.I was also thinking of offering simple gerrit based system for gerrit refugees who left the company and don't want to use github pr for reviewing.
True, as much as JS sucks, some of its fundamentals are really good

Deity helps us if it was really Javascript with complete disregard for first order functions and verbosity through the roof
Never would have guessed there was somebody ecstatic about radium - love to see it though.
This highly depends on app access patterns
Sounds like Dropbox has made the transition just fine. If you’re gonna ask me to pay a tenner a month you better give me what I think is the dollars worth of value. Dropbox did. Evernote did not. At least not for the vast majority of people who barely take some notes on some rare days.
Exactly. I would have happily paid them 10 bucks a month in inflation-adjusted 2012 dollars forever if they'd just maintained the apps and kept them up to date. Instead they focused on adding features few people wanted, and then completely rewrote the apps in Electron, resulting in a slow experience that was (and still is, years later) missing multiple core note-taking features, and is increasingly unreliable.

I kept hoping, as theoretically Evernote is absolutely perfect for my needs, if it would just work. But clearly the writing is on the wall at this point and I need to find an alternative.
I'm very interested in anything else you can share about the corrosion problem you solved. Wet, hot ammonia must be awful.
The best part about the customer-service scenario is that the vast majority now say "this call may be recorded..."

Fine. I'm recording it!
The employer also signed an arbitration clause. They're the one breaking contract by refusing to pay for the arbitration they signed up to pay.
I believe most people working with music on Linux switched to piprwire as soon as it became stable.

Could be wrong, but I think it has been default on Ubuntu Studio and alike for at least a year now.
Yes. It's doesn't matter wal or default behavior.
Is Anyone Hiring?
Hi! I'm from India and recently graduated from college. I have done fairly good quality internships at the best startups. I have worked in growth, marketing, content, etc.

Please let me know if anyone's hiring. Ideally, company with a very solid product/service.
Public laws and private contracts are two different things.

For one, you can typically opt out of the latter, but not the former.
The hunt for India's stolen children [video]
This is a Canadian publication, and while I know of Lehman's [& Keim + Weaver Leather Supply] from my wife having Amish foster parents, I haven't heard of the rest of the retailers you mention, and I doubt the vast majority of Canadians would have any awareness or context of those enterprises.
I saw Steve Jobs's black turtle necks as branding. Which Elizabeth Holmes copied.

But, seriously, how long does it take to select your clothes in the morning? 1 minute out of the 1440 minutes in a day? Then sit in meetings for a couple hours a day?? Just does not compute.
A free software project doesn't have to be ubiquitous, or even popular, to be a success. Things like usability, usefulness, technical excellence, beauty, community activity, contributor-friendliness, and longevity are all legitimate software successes, each in their own right.

Never mind the veracity of the reasoning you gave— why are we even looking for reasons to discount and dismiss a beloved, storied, ongoing F/OSS project like FreeBSD?
IMO, the line count is more a function of the "base/standard" libraries as opposed to expressiveness
I’ve seen precisely zero of that. Scratching my head at this second hand anecdote and your motivation for sharing it
This is 30 years old by now.

Do we know how modern QNX compared to this?
They’ve said as much that they don’t think fully BEVs are viable and have lobbied to that effect.

Hydrogen is a dead end though. They’re the only one that believes in it, there’s only two states with pumps in the USA and they routinely ignore the downside of shipping and storing the hydrogen.

Toyota are the only major car brand sticking to their guns against EVs, and they frankly sound like they’re just being stubborn about it.
Holding data is on ongoing behavior. It isn't an ex post facto law to change how a company handles it in the future. Coca-Cola can't sell you a soda with cocaine in it just because it was legal when they started their business.

What would make it an ex post facto law is if companies were punished for how they handled data before the law was created. It is perfectly reasonable to punish them if they continue that same behavior after the law was created.
Me too!…
Every single day on my Twitter TL is someone having account issues, recreating or locked or hacked or combinations of. My DMs are full of "he|p us in sqam dropshiqqing sceme" messages. That state of affairs is not what I expect of a working platform.
https://blog.jeremarc.com/
What is that based on other than them wanting to sell more seats? I'd imagine the materials don't erode, otherwise how safe can it even be in the first place?
See also https://www.threads.net/login existing but redirecting to the homepage. Definitely trying to drive mobile adoption.
I chose those because I think maps and street view and to a lesser extent earth are meaningful improvements to the Google search experience that wouldn't have been available to a smaller company.
AWS is HIPAA compliant. Same can be done for ChatGPT.
"as climate change impacts our weather"

Global warming. Say it. Stop pussyfooting around it.
https://rajeevnaruka.com/ - blogs about my interviews, university life, first job and a bit of technical stuff.
I wonder if this eroding trust with startups and companies will become a real problem for them. I mean by now things like "lifetime subscription" have little meaning coming a commercial entity.

Well, I'm off enjoying the last few weeks of my lifetime HBO cheap subscription.
The article and linked blog posts fall to explain how this differs, is more powerful than, or solves problems not already solved by actual, functioning, industrial-grade tools, both commercial and OSS. Am I missing something fundamental?

The VCPU concept and synchronization control seemed interesting at first, but after trying to glean what he's getting at I don't see anything that isn't described in petri nets or bpmn notationally or possible using many of the existing low-/no-code platforms that are all the rage in the enterprise-ishy world.

Also looking like the diagrams were made with MS Paint made me throw up in my mouth a little thinking about having to actually work with as a daily thing... ick.

It's a great idea, too be sure. I'm just not sold on why this particular one-man effort would be of more interest than alternatives. Maybe if you've been noodling on this since the eighties and billion dollar companies have actually already run way past you with actual working software, it could be time to move to the next thing.

Or who knows, given the lack of detail, maybe I just got trolled by some nitwit using chatgpt. If that's the case, well played getting me to swipe type this on my phone.
If there are no longer any repercussions then I would downgrade the Unites States as a place where one should invest. Theses kinds of shenanigans is what you have in developing nations and is the reason they face such high interest rates and reluctance from foreign investments.
I'd call it exactly that.

Note that there are very few languages that have those kinds of types. Usually it's enums and union types that usually tell you nothing about where to get those ranges, why those ranges exactly, or what those ranges mean.

Literally right now I'm looking at a GraphQL schema that tells me that for a collection of lists of data it returns the following list types: Generic, GenericV2, Onboarding, OnboardingActive... That's it. Actual call returns only a few of those with no apparent difference in actual data.

It is typed though.
Absolutely. I’ll go further and say that you must specifically design the database schema knowing that it’s going to be used this way. Your pages need to be packed full with the data you need and nothing you don’t. Spatial locality matters bigtime since “seeks” are so expensive (additional S3 requests), when in a traditional db it matters much less. Wide tables with a lot of columns that might not be used in a query are a bad idea here.

Here’s an in-the-weeds tip for anyone attempting the same: your tables should all be WITHOUT ROWID tables. Otherwise SQLite sprays rows all over the place based on its internal rowids, ruining locality when you attempt to read rows that you thought would be consecutive based on the primary key.
> Written in plain C code (C99) using PascalCase/camelCase notation

Is this really something to be proud of? I thought snake_case was the common way of writing C?