skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/a...

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/05/out-mouth...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/amazon-agrees-injunctive-reli...

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/amazon-fine-alexa-sett...
There's also a lock icon next to the "App not working" category in the header, which I took to mean that that entire category is hidden from logged-out users (which experimentally seems to be the case).
When you see the hatchet job the British press did on Jeremy Corbyn you can be sure they would have no qualms about manipulating elections in other countries.
When did we stop being critical of technology and innovation?

Just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should...

It's like we have opened Pandora's box allowing technology (with poor security) into our homes.

Devices controlled and maintained by companies with questionable ethics who only care about the stock holder.
This story is bullshit. He wasn't "locked out of his home", his stuff wasn't disabled. Trying reading more into it.
Yes, but people accused of being Russian spies now are obviously spies. No evidence needed.
> Reading this really helps illustrate why and how a font is considered a computer program and thus eligible for copyright protection.

Copyright protects all creative works, with very few exceptions. Whether or not a font is a computer program has absolutely nothing to do with whether it is eligible for copyright protection.

Even if the font was just "a collection of little pictures" (that is, a bitmap font), it would still fall under copyright protection, unless the pictures were all in the public domain already, or some other special circumstances apply (e.g. creative threshold not met, created by the government, etc.).
I noticed that.

It feels disturbingly tribal.
This should be attributed to Richard Feynman.

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/34/3/FeynmanLosAlamos....
For reference, I have many years of experience with C, C++, Rust, and even Haskell.

That kernel C code still looks awful to me.

I've seen beautiful code in every language including C.
I agree. I hardly carry cash nowadays.
I have the impression from this thread that this thread was public (as in, would work if you just linked to it from something like HN) earlier, and now it isn't?

Obviously, deliberately hiding a negative story on our Discourse is a little like deleting a bad tweet; it's just going to guarantee someone captures and boosts it. We have a lot of flaws! But not knowing how the Internet works probably isn't one of them. No idea what's going on here, still trying to work it out.
Probably not. These vendors have massive supply lines that are designed and tuned to their needs.
I think the article fails to distinguish two very different skills:

- learning a certain programming language
- learning to programm

The first one can only be learned through practice.

The second one needs context and studying specific narrowly constrained subjects in isolation and, at times, only on a purely theoretical level (mathematics).
Could you expand your answer to list vendors which you would recommend?
JPEG was, and remains, "alien technology from the future" (Tim Terriberry)
Smarthome? Mine's local only, for good reasons.

I don't have to care about some companys loss leader product eventually going from free to paid, or being disabled alltogether because they decided that Smarthome isn't something they actually want to be in.

Sucks for the planet, sucks for peoples wallets as most of that is probably going straight to the landfill :(
blame is a sin
Somewhat related: has there been any consideration toward allowing titles to start with “how”?

The current behavior of automatically deleting the word results in some strangely constructed article titles as seen here.
john lilly - floating tank inventor didnt think highly of feynman either.
For those of you with postgres apps, you can avoid this pretty much universally with cockroach db (they have a serverless version they host) It takes basically no work moving from postgres, even postgres dump works.
In musical terms this is called audiation - the ability to imagine sound. From my experience, this can be acquired indirectly over time through regular vocal and musical practice (e.g., singing in a local choir or practicing an instrument). You can write music with or without it, or using both: sometimes you have a specific sound in your head that you want to materialize, other times you're experimenting with your instrument and discovering new sounds that you could not have imagined.

I don't know how much of this applies to visual artists, but there's probably some overlap there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM

Datacenters in my country usually had some rooms with tower servers 20 years ago here, well my first colo was for the tower server I brought in the large backpack:-). But density requirements, cold/hot aisles etc. prevailed and towers are generally considered inefficient for the datacenter purposes.

And then you have Hetzner datacenter that probably all people running DCs I know would ridicule, but they would not be able to respond to fan replacement at the same time. I wonder how many rack server chassis are recycled each year because the manufacturer just won't let you reuse them with new motherboard, power supply due to new shape, design, ports placement etc.
I actually have been advocating against them for a while here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31394179) for the same reason.

They had my account on some sort of shadow ban with no communication whatsoever after asking them to delete my account from their systems. I emailed them and to date never even got a response. I have moved everything over to Railway app and back to Google Cloud Run ever since.
I agree, selectable user profiles would be useful. The global profile can just include some standard boiler plate ("do not use disclaimers" etc), while the custom profiles can be "I'm an experienced C programmer trying to learn Haskell" or "I'm planning a garden plot, I'm located in hardiness zone 8". You just switch between the two, depending on what you're working on.
That’s actually a solid idea if you’re a US citizen and starting out in the industry.

Get the training, work for them for a year and so and then to to Intel or whoever the US govt is funding to be competitive.
Experience exceptional GPU performance and graphics processing with the Forlinx RK3588 evaluation kit, equipped with an embedded Mali G610 3D GPU and support for OpenGLES.
I've had the same experience, unfortunately.

The Fly dashboard reported everything was A-ok, but requests would time out. I had to manually dig into the fly logs to see that their proxy couldn't reach the server, and there was nothing I could do to fix it.

This went on for hours, until I made an issue on their forums. They never replied or gave any indication they read the thread, but it somehow magically got fixed not long after.

I really want them to succeed, but this utter lack of communication and helpless feeling of not being able to do anything has cured me from fly.io for now.
> Why on earth companies are allowed to donate mega millions to a politician is insane.

because companies are people and people have free speech and money is a form of speech (according to the supreme court anyways)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/citizens_united_v._federal_e...

and soon corporations will be able to vote

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-06-30/delaware-...
I moved from DO to Hetzner ( cheaper), I am happy about it.
Yes, from the Google-cached version, it appears that the thread previously didn't have the app-not-working tag; it was only tagged with "rails".

Not going to try and guess why or when that tag change happened. Personally, I'm less concerned with this particular thread than with the apparent decision to systematically hide all potentially-negative threads from search engines.
ITA kayak combo
What was this interesting crypto thing? A lot of people in tech are not good communicators, so I wouldn't conflate this with some grift scheme just because of that.
You’ve circled back to the same point the person you’re replying to was supporting:

“ the problem is one of cultural context which is often not shared between generations of coders. “

There is no such thing as absolutely good code. It’s context dependent and context tends to be ephemeral. The Linux kernel is in some ways an exception, but also appreciated by a pretty small group. The rant against the kernel code is meant to be illustrative - if you don’t know the conventions, abbreviations, if you’re not operating in the context of an early 21st century OS, where memory is handled manually, none of this looks particularly great.

Code is cultural and cultures are niche and ever changing. Particularly these days. The same technology that enabled the fast rise of, say, Ruby, or Go, or Rust makes your code and my code depreciate quite quickly.
Umm actually, iron-56 doesn't degrade with any amount of heat ;)
That doesn't make IPFS bad
I suppose you could probably also say the same of certain housing markets. If the cost to rent or buy a place is sufficiently high and the system actively prevents the prices ever coming down to a point where people who didn't inherit huge sums or came into that money some other way have a chance, you might as well do whatever you can because the constraints have been laid before you. At a certain point, you're just evening the playing field and surviving.
I've heard Big Brother has an arrest warrant out for you because you're making devices too secure.
> I imagine it must be a bit like what working with minicomputers in 70s thru the 90s was like.

I had a chance to talk to someone who worked at Oxide once. I got excited because my experience matches up nicely with their products on several levels.

The person got excited as well and started talking about how to interview there, but the conversation got kind of weird. They kept emphasizing how important it was to not talk about compensation in the interview. Apparently they pay engineers all the same comp (not bad, but would have been a significant step down from every offer I received during that time of my life) and they select for people who aren't interested in getting paid a lot for their unique skills.

Probably not a bad deal for people who like working in that domain with like minded people. At the time I got some very uneasy feelings from being aggressively coached to not bring up compensation or ask any questions about equity during the interview like it was some unspoken rule that would get me disqualified. Maybe the person was exaggerating, but I found at least one other person with a similar story.

Honestly, their comp would have been awesome if I was a single guy living in a low cost of living location and working remote, but at the time it would have meant giving up quite a bit to work for an early stage startup with high expectations and an unspoken rule that I should never ask about compensation.
Hmmm, this looks kinda familiar....

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ddjBRK
“Coming to life” can be used in metaphorical ways as well. You could describe an old car as “coming to life” after being restored.
I don't know why the app-not-working category effectively delists threads, but until we find out, I just removed it so this thread is public again.
One thing this shows, besides how they are all related or not, is just how many models are out there that nearly everyone has never heard of. Quite impressive.
> we’re not seeing toddlers around the world have kidney problems

is it possible that then we don't fully understand the resilience of the human body? It is certainly possible, when the article can state that:

> the health effects of consuming micro- and nanoplastics remain unclear
B was primarily an appeal to refute the sentiment I felt reading your comment, which seemed to be passive-aggressively critical of the USA.

My assumption is that your frequent misspelling of "Manhattan" and usage of the term "USofA" is that you're not a US citizen. So as a US citizen, I wanted to encourage you that most of us with a decent high school education do consciously/subconsciously understand that this whole country is based on immigration, and much of our WW2 STEM advancements were achieved by the sweat and blood of immigrants and foreigners (at that time).
I agree WhatsApp VC is rubbish. Google Meet is way better. I don't know about Facetime but it probably is way better too.

But that's not especially relevant - people still mainly use WhatsApp for video calls despite the bad quality because everyone is already using WhatsApp.
Even if it could only encode JPG into a smaller format losslessly it would still be a major selling point that basically everyone in at least the e-commerce world would want. Think about how many hundreds of terabytes of JPG files eBay and Alibaba send per day, and cut that size in half for no quality loss.

Amazon alone sold over 375 million items this last Prime Day. Let’s say that was 200 million items loaded/day (ignoring the unpublished number of failed sales), with 9 images (the maximum from a cursory glance) at 2000x2000 for a 1:1 ratio and zoomability. For a 90% quality JPG at 24-bit color that’s 410KB. ((410KBx9)200,000,000) = 738TB. Now imagine cutting that in half with no perceptive difference except faster loading to the end-user.

For end users the other options may be more desirable, but I would argue the importance is in the compression itself.
I, a dumb person, simulated sequences of draws and convergence seems way slower than the first poster indicates.

# R lang

samples = 1000

sample_len = 10000

x <- sapply(1:samples, function(i) cumsum(runif(sample_len)))

check_sample_at_len = sample_len

plot(density(x[check_sample_at_len,]))
> have a minimum price that's equal to manufacture cost plus 15% profit.

> the fact is we live in a capitalist system

the gov't setting a fixed profit rate doesn't sound like capitalism to me...
I admit I didn't run the numbers before posting that. But you got me curious, so I went ahead and did it now...

Render.com looks like [1] their "$0 + compute costs" plan would work out to:

∙ $25/mo for a single "Web Services" box of 1 CPU and 2GB RAM
∙ $20/mo for a single "PostgreSQL" box of 1 GB RAM, 1 CPU, and 16GB SSD
∙ TOTAL: $45/mo, and you're assuming they'll magically give you zero-downtime

Those are grim numbers, performance-wise, but let's use them as the standard and see what it'd cost in the scrappy AWS architecture I threw together in a few minutes:

∙ $12.10/mo for a single t4g.small box, which is actually 2 vCPU and 2GB RAM [2]
∙ 3x redundancy on that brings you up to $36.30/mo for compute
∙ $16.20/mo for an ALB [3]
∙ $11.52/mo for a single db.t4g.micro PostgreSQL box, plus $1.84/mo for the equivalent 16GB of storage [4]
∙ TOTAL: $65.86/mo for substantially more CPU, redundancy, and control, or...
∙ TOTAL: $41.66/mo for substantially more CPU and control over your infra, if you're willing to drop the redundancy

So it looks like it's pretty comparable in terms of raw dollars.

I'll admit there's a little more "devops" overhead with the AWS setup. Though I think it's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be — it's basically an afternoon of Terraforming, and you'd probably spend an equal or greater amount of time digging through Render's docs to understand their bespoke platform anyway.

(Also, once you contemplate bulk pricing for the underlying commodities, it's easy to see how companies like Render make a healthy margin, even on their low-end offerings.)

Anyway, I guess I've nerd-sniped myself, so I'd better stop here. But that was a fun analysis!

[1] https://render.com/pricing#compute

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/

[4] https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/?pg=pr&loc=3
Ideally you would jutst click the "talk to a human" button, but what do I know?
Very interesting that one can reproduce these “un-sharp” effects using digital fonts.

But for the eligibility, I find old typesets like these Fell fonts harder to read.
Wow it's so fast and to-the-point. This is how software should be written.
what if instead of breaking encryption and violating privacy rights, we had governments enforce the death penalty for people that rape children? Why are we trying to violate the rest of society through our refusal to take out the trash?
Wasted opportunity though. The ECB is adopting Kafka. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecb.prototype_summar...
One thing this article doesn't mention is that if you start with a 'single-player' environment it can be hard to get people to change to 'multi-player'.

Not only because of habits, but also because people have set it up just for them and they feel they need to tidy it or make it good enough to share with others.

Having a very clear delimitation between what is a persons and what is a teams/organization is really important when moving from single -> multi.

I would love to hear what things people have found worked really well too!
The iconiq report link is broken.
Good! It shouldn’t take days to get a deposit or to pay.
Of course, with steel there's always the slight chance of lead.

It's been found in at least 2 different manufacturer's cups that were specifically made for children.
Don't think so. This is nanoplastics we're talking about. Even microplastics are found everywhere (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/microplas...). stuff spreads well through water air precipitation foodchain etc.

Remember how they they could not find a control group for PFAS anywhere on the planet, I'm sure this is true for all common pollutants.

Edit: OK, I replaced the link to the article about Everest with a link to the article about all the other places.
The way that I phrased my comment was a little rude. I apologize. I was meaning to agree with the parent poster, but in doing so I was uncharitable with my interpretation of your comment. I shouldn't have taken such a dismissive attitude, that doesn't really help anything.
> "Mankind is noodlekind"" What does it mean? Who knows. But it sounds delicious.

Eh, it's a daggy Japanese pun. Noodles in Japan is men (麺), "mankind" romanizes as mankaindo (マンカインド), mash 'em together and you get "menkind" (麺カインド menkaindo), "noodlekind".
It's hosted by Discourse.
Is there a way to use this to e.g. "Chat with a PDF?"

I want to run the LLM locally so the information doesn't leak out
I really wonder why is it so common for people to default to JSON even when designing complex cryptographic protocols like this. I was skimming the spec for the script interpreter, which is something you'd expect would be focused on compactness, but it seems like it's designed entirely around JSON semantics and concepts, which means any implementation necessarily carries along this complexity. This isn't to say that JSON is bad, but to put it at the absolute core of the data model seems problematic. This problem happened with Matrix when they started having to layer JSON around base64-encoded-encrypted-JSON and generally the looseness of the format infecting the entire data model of the protocol.

Like the SPMessage format here too, uses JSON.stringify to indicate structure encoding, which necessarily implies that any implementation of the protocol is bringing along needing to handle JSON semantics. JSON does not seem to be well-suited here as it doesn't composing cleanly in the way a data structure defined in terms of bytes would.
I'm usually an early adopter for tech stuff, but I'm not interested in this smart home crap at all. The idea that vendors could remotely mess with it is back of mind, but the main thing is that it ~all just seems worse than the stuff it replaces.

My door locks, light switches, and thermostats have simply never bothered me enough to consider the hassle of automating them, even assuming the automation works perfectly (it won't) and the "smart" devices are just as reliable as the things they replace (they aren't).
Backblaze B2 is much older than Cloudflare's offering. But from what I remember, they didn't have any presence outside North America.
500k-1M-1.5M
hard to donate a used steam key
link not open.
"Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" by Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau has a good mix of practical and theoretical exercises, is regularly updated and is freely accessible as PDF.

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
That's fucked up, for real.
https://www.datocms-assets.com/65181/1662686325-iconiq-analy...

Is the correct one. I will fix in the original, Thanks!
> is not your code to maintain

Exactly, that's what I meant, if I trust QtCore/QtQuick, writing the UI QML and logic in Rust is a pretty good idea. Although I must say that the latest Qt versions Qt 6.5.0-6.5.1 came with two serious bugs for me causing me to revert to Qt 6.4.3. So even that comes with a grain of salt.

I have been keeping my eye on Slint! I must admit, the use cases shown on your website don't look attractive. First, the apps don't seem useful (some random analytic panel, printer demo, and widget gallery) and they don't look good. If I may suggest, put there a simple TODO app that everyone is been taguht these day how to develop one in all the new frameworks. Maybe another app similar to that. It's going to be much more practical and people can have a sense of what is possible to do in Slint. In any case, I have been coming to check Slint every few weeks to check the progress so it's very cool to speak with the author. I wish you the best with it! If you need more feedback on the website's UX or anything don't hestiate to reach out: ruby . mamistvalove at gmail . com
it still contains plastic, right? I wonder what are the proportions though.
I love this kind of behind-the-scenes, in-the-weeds video, and it's well done.

Unfortunately, the incident with a Muse Group director openly blackmailing an open source developer [1] [2], threatening to have him deported to China while specifically calling out his public criticism of the CCP with a disgusting "who knows how he may be received"—well, to say that this incident leaves a bitter mark in my memory would be an understatement. I am happy to be using other free software for my engraving and playback needs, and with Tenacity just recently having published its first stable release, I'm eager to drop Audacity, too.

Truth be told, I was never a heavy MuseScore user, but I have used Audacity regularly for decades. This turn saddens me, but it matters to me how those I support use their power, and threatening someone's life over an audio program is bullying more severe than that which I can condone.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881539

[2]: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...
> high contrast dark themes are difficult to read for people with astigmatism.

Are you yourself affected by this? I have astigmatism and I keep hearing this, but I've never experienced it. If you are affected, do you keep your screen at high brightness? I'm wondering if it doesn't happen to me only because my astigmatism is mild, or if the fact that I tend/have to keep my screens at relatively low brightness plays a role.

Incidentally, for different reasons, high contrast dark themes can be problematic for me as well (especially at high brightness). Dark Reader and Midnight Lizard are essential for me in keeping contrast in a comfortable range.