skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trivia: it’s called Bowery Electric because for many many years before we moved in with Remote it was a hardware store called… Bowery Electric.
Centralized social media is the reason why we're in the mess we're in right now. Eventually, someone will come up with an effective way to navigate decentralized social media. It will likely mirror what Google did for Web 1.0.
JS is burdened by being a browser standard though. But this could be worked on I agree. But then who leads that?

With Go there is an owner at least.
https://endthefud.org/energy
Non-native speaker here: Shouldn't the verb in the title be "prepares" instead of "readies"? Were all the things we learned in the English class this useless?
Don't worry no one at Twitter is looking at these issues, never did.
> We can protect endangered species by supporting habitat conservation – not animal prisons.

Could, but we don't.
Sorry to disappoint, if it was easier we would perhaps have a wider base of expertise on which to rely upon. On the plus side, the more areas you develop the faster the new ones are to develop as the base subject (math, physics, chemistry, biology, Etc.) overlap a bunch of different disciplines. I've been working through some tomes on Organic Chemistry for a plastic waste processing idea/project and that is a pretty slow slog. Beyond its use in semiconductors I've not been a huge chemistry fan.
When I was hired into AOL as the Sr. Internet Mail Adminstrator in 1995, much of their hardware was still on the Stratus mainframes. That was some seriously powerful hardware with an equally powerful but arcane mainframe OS, but it was limited to just 32 nodes -- and even getting to that took some real magic. So, everything was slowly moving off Stratus, and primarily to HP-UX systems. It was a long, slow death.

Then the web team brought in DEC Alpha 4100 hardware, and that stuff just absolutely screamed. They were getting performance that many in the company simply couldn't believe. I ended up taking four 4100s, each with four DEC Alpha processors, and ran a copy of BIND-9 on each processor. I suddenly had the biggest and fastest nameserver cluster in the world. I did the benchmarks at the time to prove it. We never did give back that rack of DEC Alphas to the web farm guys.

That was around the time that certain leaders in AOL realized that the Internet Operations group under George Boyce was effectively taking over the entire company, and so of course that had to be stopped. George was given a title without portfolio, and all his people were scattered to the four winds of the company.

That's also around the time I started seeing the brick walls going up between the operations side of the house and the developers. Those would be the same walls made famous by some of the best known books on DevOps, including "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim. Every time I've met Gene at a conference, he and I reminisce and continue our years long discussions over our different experiences at AOL and the different decades when we worked there, and how we bookended that process.

I really liked working for George. It's a real shame what they did to him.

But boy howdy, was that DEC Alpha hardware fast.
This is one of those cases where the benefits of zoos in terms of public outreach etc probably help more than a bunch of isolated habitats that aren't maintainable without public awareness and support.

I guess you can argue from a perspective that if you're already aware its worth avoiding?
Is there a way to get ivory to treat threads the way twitter does? Right now if someone postsm say, a five post thread I see #5, then #4 ... #1 all as top level posts. Very offputting.
Beer does not have a strong enough alcohol content to be used as a disinfectant. In order to make beer, you actually have to have clean water, as an input.
Show HN: K8surl CLI to open URLs based on jsonpath from kubectl output
I made a cli tool to pipe resources into to open dashboards quickly.

https://github.com/jklaw90/k8surl

I use datadog and find it very time consuming top select the dropdowns to filter out the right information when im trying to inspect issues on a pod. I usually also have to open multiple dashboards to get know whats really going on, and the load times for some of the dashboards can be pretty slow. With this i can open dashboards without even having to look at the raw yaml manifest to figure out which labels i need.

It uses jsonpath and you can make your own templates and commands via the config file. See the example on the readme for that.

It works like this:

> kubectl get pod nginx -oyaml | k8surl

or if you have a custom command specified in the config file for an special case.

> kubectl get pod nginx -oyaml | k8surl myDashboardForSpecificProblemX

Hopefully you all like it and feel free to contribute if you have other ideas.

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I agree, and I used to hold that against the fediverse, but now I kinda consider it a feature and not a bug. It's not hard to use, it's just a learning curve. Once you've learned it, it's very straightforward. So far in my experience, this has lead to an overall higher quality in posting and a general decrease in spam, because the people there are those who were willing to put in the effort of learning it.
I almost never drink so when I do..... there's a very high chance I'll be nursing a migraine the next day. I've recently started to have a glass of wine after dinner in an attempt to train my body to tolerate it. It seems to be working.
That name's DoA for political reasons. Remember the time we tried to name a covid flavor that?
buy a theme from bootstrap, is like 50 bucks
It's remarkable to see how crystal rectifiers played a crucial role in early radio sets--without external power.
I wonder how the emergency services and LEA people feel, finding out their privacy has been invaded, and very probably has been leaking SIGINT to people who are sufficiently cashed up to make the investment to exploit the weakness?

After all, at least some crime now is done at scale which equals state-actor ops. So even without going full adversarial nation-state, if I was working in e.g. drug enforcement or money laundering in many parts of the world, my adversary very probably would be better equipped than I am.

It never ceases to amaze me how LOW the barrier to snooping is, for rich and famous people. How come JLo and Bennifer type people wind up having their comms stolen by journalists all the time? So.. if its worthwhile for yellow-press paps, how can it not be worthwhile for drug lords?

I believe there are semi conspiracy theory ideas around why the UK handed out Enigma class units to the colonies post-war. On the surface it probably DID protect their secrets from casual abuse, but usefully was also decryptable by GCHQ. Is this too conspiratorial?
I use RSS constantly for my work and don't have any complaints other than some news sites not bothering to support it because their user base is technologically illiterate enough to be willing to pay a subscription fee for substandard, ad-ridden service.
Show HN: A Kubernetes Controller that installs CRDs
Hello everyone. :)

I'm not sure anyone is interested in such a thing, but I saw a request earlier this year for something like this, so I wrote one. :)

It's a controller that can reconcile CRDs. You can point to a ConfigMap containing CRDs or a GitHub repository in which the release contains a manifest containing CRDs.

A single Bootstrap object can have multiple CRDs. Optionally it will delete them once the object is removed.

It also reconciles versions. You set a semver that is a constraint like `>v1`, and it will install that version if it finds something greater than already installed. It cannot go back to prevent accidental or intentional rollback when an upstream version is deleted.

It will also validate the CRD against a template to prevent installing CRDs that would break existing objects.

And that's about it. I'm adding a URL to the mix, which you'll point at a URL that is a yaml content of CRDs, and it will create a Digest for it and install it any time the digest changes.

That's it. Maybe it's useless, but it was a fun thing to create. :)

Cheers!
> It seems easy to imagine a universe in which dark matter, particles or otherwise, have literally no interactions with regular matter except via gravitation.

Very much a valid hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_neutrino
True. With the current workload I cut out all the drugs. No more alcohol or weed. Money is the best drug :o
If there was a better place for discussing computer related stuff, I’d be there instead of on hackernews.

That said, we can’t really talk about computers all the time. There’s only so much one can say about computers, therefore it becomes inevitable that we pass the time in between computer topics by discussing other subjects, but always from pro-computer type perspectives. Or even anti-computer perspectives, which are still computer related. The one thing we don’t seem to tolerate here is tech illiterates and magical thinking.
The nuance is: how much do you trust the package owners and their transitive dependencies to be:

Secure

Performant

Non breaking

etc.

I would hesitate to import a package for a one liner (a left pad for example) but happier to import a decent bunch of battle tested utils (date-fns, underscore, etc.)

Since each dep is a political org you need to trust, so I wanna get a decent amount of problems solved with that dep not just save a line of code.
Fusion power require powerful magnets(essentially super conductivity is a requirement). Currently the best contender for commercial fusion is REBCO(see: Commonwealth Fusion Systems).
With cheap fusion power, we can begin pumping that CO2 back into the ground and forget about using fossil fuels for energy entirely.
Google CloudSQL Enterprise vs Google CloudSQL Enterprise Plus.
The title is incorrect, npm malware spreads through social engineering, not social engineering through npm malware.

I expected npm packages to somehow carry the social engineering, like carry a message somehow, but that’s not the case.
ScrapingBypass web scraping API can bypass Cloudflare Captcha verification to help users extract data easily!
I made a tool to display my photo collection as basically a tree map: https://github.com/TOGoS/PicGrid

It's pretty good for idly looking through pictures, or in some cases for finding photos that I know approximately when I took and what they might look like, without needing to use any other metadata.

Not the best example of it in action, but here's my entire collection of saved screenshots: http://picture-files.nuke24.net/uri-res/raw/urn:bitprint:LZR...
Yes, there are more reddit like comments now. Moderating is a really hard job when sites are very active.
This is the "set based" approach for the MAX: there does not exist a bigger element:

SELECT article, dealer, price
FROM shop s1
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM shop s2
WHERE s2.price > s1.price AND
s2.article = s2.article)
ORDER BY article;
Ironically, lobsters is great so long as you ignore every `culture` tag using the filters https://lobste.rs/filters I have the following filtered:

- culture

- rant

- privacy

I think those ones are usually full of people saying the same stuff over and over again.
> Except the moderators are unpaid and they don't hurt much more than egos ?

Read again. It has nothing to do with "ego". By allowing their "moderated" threads to continue polluting search engine search results, they are wasting my time. They are wasting the time of everyone else who has a similar question and makes the mistake of clicking through an SO link.

I would not be at all surprised if they got downranked because people at Google were tired of SO wasting their time.
I don’t think so. The Wayback Machine had some at one point but I haven’t kept up with it.
>You can. It's just that no browser that supports HTTP/3 will accept it as a legit endpoint with a valid root. So they won't connect to the HTTP/3 endpoint at all and you won't be able to access the HTTP/3 self-signed website.

So long as there's a way to bypass verification or configure the trust store I'm okay with it. Is there official policy stating that this won't be possible or is this prediction?

As I understand it the primary reason for this push is that non-technical users too often skip security warnings, but I'm of the position there MUST at least be a way to bypass verification no matter what (through keyboard combos or a configurable trust store).
Are there any good guides to learning it?
Fear of Mediocrity
I don't think of HN as a place to initiate a discussion or ask a question. I've contributed two items which never got any visibility or responses. But, I'm fine with contributing to a thread that makes it to the first few pages if I think I have something to say.
Or another way, separate teams is a way to prevent starvation.
As a younger engineer, I had very good times working in Central London and getting hammered with colleagues two nights a week on the regular. With tons of people from other companies at the pub too. I'm all in with remote work but that was pretty nice.
I remember in the early-mid 90s, I would read many of the foundational RFCs, the ones which became STDs, etc. and down at the bottom, there is always a section labeled "SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS", and every last one says in a single line, "Security considerations are not addressed in this memo."

:facepalm:
Ummm... Twitter is still working, despite the dire predictions.

No matter what the actual number was, it's clear that Twitter was wasting one hell of a lot of money.
I don't think it was ever meant to replace Android/ChromeOS, but rather the layer below (linux).
The only companies I am aware of that moved back to self hosted outgrew the Shopify platform. By that I mean, they had a large enough business with enough unique needs to justify the cost of hiring and running teams that could build the applications and support the infrastructure required to operate an e-commerce business at great scale. Generally this happens after the 7 figure mark.

Source: built a number of Shopping cart apps across multiple platforms that had 6 figure total install counts.
Sears is an amusing example given their mail-order history. Ultimately they shut down as a direct result of making no attempt to innovate or even mimic the innovators since those glory days.

Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc. embraced the 21st century and are doing just fine. Others like Chewy only came about as a result of the new trends.

BB&B bought its way into bankruptcy by taking on debt to fund a multi-billion dollar stock buyback; external competition (including Amazon but primarily Walmart) was a secondary factor.
Love the top comment about discussion being done by "midwits" and then unironically suggesting /g/ as discussion place. This is best trolling I've seen in a while.
Who closed 656 issues? They seem to be actively commenting:

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues?q=commenter%...
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Having worked with Mark for a couple of years (he was my manager), I got to hear many stories.

One of the more interesting was when he got special permission from his employer at the time to purchase / access a lisp machine.

Wealth of knowledge, good programmer, definitely worth reading his books (if interested in a topic he covers)
Hippocrates recommended that water be boiled and strained to purify it. People in the middle ages boiled, filtered, and even distilled water to purify it.

The catch is that without germ theory, people mostly did this process to water which was obviously contaminated. If water looked clean and tasted clean, why purify it? Even people who should know germ theory still make this mistake—people who go backpacking will take water from a clear stream and drink it, unaware that there is a beaver dam upstream and giardia in the water.
Pause button: it's not super cool to make light of atrocities by not-so-subtly equating them with connecting to open WiFi networks.
The historical hype around Lisp is from back when the alternative was C.

https://manifold.markets/Alana/convince-me-will-i-learn-lisp...
AutoGPT doesn't work because GPT-4 is too stupid to make good plans, not because it's missing the secret sauce of "agentiness." If some future software was really great at observing, planning, and reasoning, then an AutoGPT-like wrapper would make it good at autonomously doing things, too.
In python I use sqlalchemy core to build the SQL for me, but I manage the transactions myself. Sqlalchemy query builder offers a similar role to what you described, as in I can add another select or where field after I have already added a sort criteria. It’s clever enough to order these correctly based on the SQL dialect.
peta-ampere/cm2!

That’s not a unit you expect to see terrestrially except perhaps at CERN.
For me, it comes down to incentives.

Apple's incentives more closely align with mine, than any other megacorp.

And Apple is the only company in the world big enough to take on those other megacorps.

So, Apple certainly isn't perfect. But they're a hell of a lot better than any other megacorp. And I choose them to help defend me against those other megacorps.

Most importantly, I don't want Apple being crippled in their ability to fight the other megacorps.
> The architectures were all different, which meant that outside developers couldn’t actually do work and attack all the platforms Google was offering. You had to do bespoke work.

So they decided to build a bespoke OS that would take a decade to build and would require bespoke work from those devs anyway?
All the pizza places here have their own drivers still.
last weekend here in LA, someone told me they dont drink alcohol, and the weirdest part was that they felt compelled to explain why. they must be new here
I'm surprised noone mentioned IRC (Libera, OFTC).
> On Reddit and other fora, we have heavy bias towards people that have the time to goof around on forums instead of, you know, doing things.

Burn. I should log and get some work done.
Take a typical remote first development effort like a OSS project. How does this get developed? Language as text!

So at some level it must be possible to specify what you mean in language and have agent’s turn that into code.

I think what you need is more refined language. Don’t just say I want X. Give examples (these become unit tests). Have the LLM ask clarifying questions.

Whether we can make something useful today like that with GPT4 I am not sure but it will be possible.

The language crafting (and understanding if importance if accuracy) will be the hired skill when “programmers are fired”. That is a harder to AI-ify skill.
I don't think it's an activity level issue. When dang took over he made an explicit shift to prioritizing kindness, with predictable results.
People don't know how to work remotely. It's still kind of a new concept in the mainstream after all.

You need to make social engagements during the day with friends. Otherwise it's lonely and isolating. as a nice plus, seeing your actual friends is much nicer than seeing your workplace "friends" who'd likely sell you out for half a dollar.

Go grab lunch at a pub, coffee, do some exercise or whatever.
Any discords you're willing to share?
Yes, because it makes it very clear you have no idea of what you speak of, as you don't even know enough to use the correct terms for things.

Front running is to act on confidential information in the market to the detriment of the initiator of the information. Once something is no longer confidential, ie the customer order has been processed, and all the information is open, then there can no longer be any front running.
Route 53 is arguably one of the more obviously named AWS offerings.
Did anyone build pc for running these models and which one do you recommend
Tc is the critical temperature, not the temperature at which it conducts best
yes, you are right, however, AFAIK you still need to be logged + have it linked to eas project (because it uses eas credentials) + this method is planned to be deprecated soon [?] (I'm 100% sure I read stuff like this when researching it like half a year ago, but cannot find it for the love-of-god atm :D, but I would like to be proved otherwise, because the build step is the only thing I disliked about expo long-term wise)

... now looking more into it, I probably mistook `npm run export` / `expo build` with `eas build --local`. Is this correct?
> So where do you go when you want to geek out?

This may be a pessimistic take, but computer stuff I believe has lost the allure that it once had, and here is why I think so:

At one point, computer stuff meant being a hacker, having the hacker ethic, which personally to me translated into figuring out how stuff worked and putting it together to do something useful. And, "something useful" to me meant creating something and showing it off to other people. I still remember in high school when I hacked together a paint program in some interpreted language that had built-in primitive graphics. Computer-related stuff meant also doing good things for the world, like transmitting useful information over the internet and discussing things.

Nowadays, "computer stuff" is a lot different. Yeah, computers have gotten way more powerful, but computer stuff is now 99% about commoditizing and big-tech abstracting everything away into a process that is just about selling junk people don't need and manipulating the basic psychological processes of human beings for the sake of their own growth. It's about behemoth, high-level abstractions that take away the basic joy of learning, and the main philosophy that pervades computers today is that they are a tool to supply sugar-level media consumption in return for commercial engagement.

Companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and others are the result of a late-stage technological development fuelled only by greed, and it's left the computer landscape soulless, metallic, and empty. Unfortunately, people became aware of just how commercializable computers were and we've milked it dry like a cow that needs to be pumped full of drugs to keep going.

So no thanks. I left computer science as my job this year, and while I still enjoy writing a cool algorithm in Python, I'm much happier for it and don't talk about computers any more.
Bard (neutral but makes me think of Shakespeare), Claude?
Nothing says news like the ocean boiling like a teakettle making sealife stew.

On the plus side, jambalaya. On the minus side, ecological catastrophe.
Is Serious Hardware Software Crap still there?
Microsoft records $56.2B in revenue for FY23 Q4
There are certainly many issues where a conservative of fifty years ago would be considered much further left than modern day conservatives, if not actually further to the left than modern day liberals.

Contrast this clip of the George H.W. Bush of 1980 [1], to the rhetoric DeSantis uses in regards to immigration[2]:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmgPp_nlok

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Y-CtN8Qi0
This is a good point. The original goal of federation was to make sure everybody has to read everyone else on the internet’s posts. It’s the same leftist trash thinking that led to the internet having several websites instead of one big one.
People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle"
OpenRocket 22.02
>Was there a problem that begged asking the question in the first place?

I thought the post stated it as concisely as possible. 3rd party clients are being shutdown on reddit, Twitter is, well... doing something. HN isn't an "ask forum", or really a forum at all. I have my personal opinions about the subreddits you mentioned but I won't presume to imply anything that the OP wasn't meaning to say.

Sometimes people get lost on the internet when things shift and that appears to be what happened here. OP is just searching for some new outlets. It's a question that will certainly come up again as long as the internet continues to change.

You might even find yourself asking it one day.