skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have created Elestio (https://elest.io) to address this pain, we take care of all aspects (infra, deployments, security, dns, smtp, backups, monitoring, alerts, updates, migrations ...) and we do it for a catalog of 233 open source software and also for CI/CD pipelines to deploy your own code from a Github/Gitlab repo
oh, it's way more than that, on a Mac via brew it needs 600M QT and 50M gtk+3 and a couple of dozen M for other dependencies
sort of, in theory, but in most practical lisp/scheme implementations, certain values are opaque primitives. often functions are opaque. hashmaps, etc, are often primitives which don't have a "dependable formal representation". this means they cannot be e.g. serialized and coherently transmitted between processes.

Urbit solved this with nouns, which is arguably a substantial innovation. PLAN (in the author's view, which I find convincing) improves on this: https://git.sr.ht/~plan/plunder/tree/master/item/doc/PLAN.md
Thank you for posting the link.
This sounds incredibly bad. But - it sounds too bad. Two managers fired and none sued? He did not sue? All in a potential company destroying matter? The german courts would reign destruction upon this company if it happened there, and discrimination laws in the US are even harsher.

Remember that Germany is a country where you can't even criticize the right-wing politics of Israel without being branded as an anti-semite. Discrimination against Jews does exist of course, but this brazenly?
Dangerous asteroid sizes span many orders of magnitude from the smallest real global danger to the largest. Breaking one up would work for asteroids over maybe tgevlowest order of magnitude size range, but that still leaves many more orders of magnitude in larger sizes for which it wouldn’t help you much.
I remember TV ads in the 70's or maybe 80's that were PSA from the US government, where the entire message was "if you receive something unsolicited in the mail, you own it and do not owe anyone anything" They featured an Eskimo in the middle of a frozen nowhere opening a package that turns out to be an electric fan. He says "gee. Thanks!"

Like what happened to that?

I also don't know why they ran those ads. They must have been expensive (or maybe not, maybe the government back then could just commandeer them), so presumably there must have been some kind of popular scam they were trying to fight.
Something else I find remarkable about that N64 emulator is that it was built for the Xbox 360 architecture and from Rare Replay's lovely museum interior it boots you into first one emulator (the 360's emulator on One/Series) and then an emulator inside that emulator. It's kind of lovely in that strange beauty of technical wizardry that shouldn't work half as well as it actually works.
Why do people keep comparing refine with nocode tools like windmill or tooljet? Refine just scaffolds your codebase, gives you a good start and has some really cool hooks for common operations like auth / data management / tables etc. I use it for my SaaS and it's great (though they never replied to any of the enquires i made for enterprise). Once you scaffold the project, then you're on your own.
Excellent work.

I have run across so many resources where it is clear that they author was both a learner and had little interest in going back to improve their work for clarity and accuracy. Your work is clearly several leaps beyond that. It is clear and the portions I have read are accurate. It leaves me wanting to go back to read more and I am confident you won't disappoint.

Thank you for your contributions and I wish you the best in your future endeavours.
Well yeah, but if we're talking about a post-collapse society where environmental destruction and starvation-driven civil chaos has wreaked havoc on our infrastructure and all resources that can be easily accessed have been mined out, how many things are they going to be putting into orbit?
but i hope you can appreciate the ugliness of a situation were a shady for-profit org decides if you get someting to eat and is incentivised to err on the side of fraud-prevention
Accelerate SF – AI Hackathon to fix San Francisco
I'm sorry we haven't been more clear in our communication.

Our decision to remove port forwarding was not a question of margins - it was a moral and practical decision.

Port forwarding is a feature with many legitimate use cases. This year it became clear that we had become popular for use cases we didn't want to support. Undesirable content and malicious services is a good summary. I'm not privy to more details than that as my main focus is research.

Technology is often a double-edged sword, but thankfully it is often also a net benefit to its users and society in general. Privacy online is exactly that kind of technology. Enabling anyone to host any service anonymously on the open Internet is another matter.

I hope AirVPN and AzireVPN somehow succeed with providing that feature while steering clear of its downsides. That would be awesome.

Nitpick: Mullvad is older than both Air and Azire. :)
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Hug of death? Sorry, my attention span on websites is < 15 sec unless it's giving me a progress bar for stable diffusion.
> if HIV is spread through sexual contact, why was it most prevalent in gay men of a particular lifestyle in a particular place?

You've answered your own question. Because they were a community of people in sexual contact with each other, and/or sharing needles.

Please consider that, whether or you are homophobic, you are repeating homophobic talking points. The idea that HIV was caused by "lifestyle" rather than a virus was invented to discredit the idea that it was an epidemic requiring urgent medical intervention. It's rhetoric which was invented to frame a disease as a moral failing in order to deny or delay the development of lifesaving care to a population some would prefer to see suffer and die (as well as deny or delay interventions like educating people and distributing protection). This is "gay plague" stuff. Frankly, I can understand why the other commenter took the impression you are homophobic.

Sincere congratulations to your sister. I hope the wedding is lovely.
This is very cool!

- What is SATN for? (Spacetime Algebraic Type Notation JSON format)

- Can DB instances be replicated using the WAL?

The Typescript support is especially interesting to me :)
The immediate reason is that Homebrew predates the other package managers you mention. It goes back to 2009.
Something else people may want to consider is the community health. Vite, Remix and Next.js are all extremely healthy, but Next.js is currently in a league of its own. You can see the community information for all three at:

https://devboard.gitsense.com/vitejs/vite

https://devboard.gitsense.com/remix-run/remix

https://devboard.gitsense.com/vercel/next.js

The only other project that I've seen with greater engagement than next.js on GitHub is Microsoft's vscode.

Full Disclosure: This is my tool.
If anyone is looking for a different website to help with these kinds of choices, I’ve used https://www.logicalincrements.com many times over the years and have been happy with the recommendations there.
Interesting. If companies are fleeing WeWork, it might explain a phenomenon that I've noticed over the past couple months: every cafe in my area has increasingly become a loud crowded hellscape of video chats, in-person meetings, phone calls, and groups working together for hours.

This is especially apparent on Tue/Wed/Thu, when previously cafes were recently less busy, due to these days commonly being in-office days for hybrid workers.
Vitalik Buterin wrote a blogpost "What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?" [https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html] which seems pretty positive about the project, they apparently have a careful approach to privacy issues.
Not being a big fan of vim, I really enjoy this cli editor with key shortcuts I'm used to, like Ctrl-s to save and Ctrl-f to find text. Very customizable also with plugins in lua.

It's the best I found with common gui-like shortcuts.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974358
It can turn into that, but on the flipside it's normal to get more privileges over time, either as a reward (raises, time off) or once you've shown you won't abuse it (WFH/flexibility).
Discussed last year under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31319307
A better comparison might be fatalities among NASCAR drivers during races - i.e. professionals operating in a dangerous environment using tools engineered for safety.

Google claims a total of 29 drivers have died during races, so the number of deaths in comparable, but I don't know how the total person-hours compare between NASCAR drivers and nuclear materials handling worldwide.
Your two comments here could each fit in a Tweet and Reddit has basically the same voting mechanism as HN. There is also plenty of groupthink here too. That was basically the reason behind my comment to see what distinction you are making. People here seem to often deride social media while pretending HN is not social media.

HN is effectively just Reddit with only a few subreddits and moderation that is stronger than average, but within the range you will find on certain subreddits.
After being burned by other DaaS providers (looking at you AWS Amplify/Cognito), I've been skeptical to use anything other than rolling my own solutions. Supabase updates does continue to impress, and I do really appreciate these improvements to local development.
Plus wildfire smoke is nasty, especially for those of us with respiratory issues to begin with.
Knowledge workers are nominally expensive but compared to real estate? The company’s actual liquid cash outlay to a highly-paid knowledge worker barely covers the mortgage payment on a mediocre house an hour away. Tech workers are rich in many things, but not square feet. The company renting palatial amounts of class A space on their behalf could be tantamount to doubling wages, and I bet most people would take the wages.
I feel like this is a linear optimization problem (maximize benchmark score for games and/or for work) constrained on price / part compatibility, not something which you can just feed into ChatGPT. Unfortunately, the compatibility constraints are tricky, as well as understanding what the benchmark score would be with a nonlinear set of items.

What I would do is classify each item to the best item year (similar to FB's best device year), find benchmark scores for representative sets of item-years, and use that as a 'oracle' to guide the solver.
I'll respond to all three of you: yes it is difficult to retain all potentially work-related communications that take place on your employees' personal devices, so the alternative is to retain all communications.

It is absolutely incompatible with E2E encryption to mandate a third party access to one of the Es for surveillance purposes.
Consider asking for help with route visibility on NANOG, provided that your discussion is "focused on operational and technical content only". Avoid speculation about why your route is not visible, and just work on debugging the problem.

https://www.nanog.org/nanog-mailing-list/nanog-mailing-lists...
I have no problem with receiving a counterfeit that is indistinguishable from the "real" product. Is it morally sketchy? Absolutely. Is the outcome for me the same? Also yes.
Wonder if she can charge customs back?

Like maybe a processing fee or something. These abandoned goods shouldn't be her problem, except customs is insisting on her dealing with it.
I no longer believe that's the root, or even the primary, cause.

I keep thinking about Michael Crichton. He transmorphed from reality-based to nutter. What happened? Religion wasn't a factor. So what radicalized him?

Historian Joanna Radin's theory, paraphrasing, is that Crichton's full faith and trust in The System was so completely shattered, by the Vietnam War and other outrages, that he completely flipped.

The Speculative Present -
How Michael Crichton Colonized the Future of Science and Technology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/704047

The theme of the second season of Jill Lepore's The Last Archive podcast is about skepticism ("What fed Doubt?") S01E06 "It Came From Outer Space" includes the example of Crichton's radicalization.

https://www.thelastarchive.com/season-2-episodes

Lepore has completely opened up my mind about anti-science, conspiracy, and other social pathogens. Made me a bit more empathetic.

Highest recommendation.
Show HN: Open-Source Payroll Engine
The payroll automation framework.
A lot of Maui's landmass is mountains with limited structures and development. So a two square mile fire in and around Lahaina in a pretty big deal.
Gave ok suggestions for a $500 desktop, apart from including a redundant $45 cooler (Ryzen 3200g already has a passable cooler in the box).

Changing to a $550 build keeps the same cpu but changes its price from $100 to $170, adds a $20 cooler, and drops Ram from 16gb to 8gb.

Sorry for the negativity but algorithm needs work.
It's like anything else - the closer you get to the problem, the more work you see that happens.

Directors are often the group that is doing all the work nobody else is assigned. This goes from scheduling off-sites to preparing for audits to determining who handles unscheduled work that doesn't neatly fit into any one team. Directors are responsible for coaching engineering managers and are the backstop for problems outside the skill level of the eng manager.

They also handle project management because in smaller organizations, those positions have already been condensed.

Now, I think there's an alternative. You could hire an executive assistant that offloads some of what directors do. You could have a project manager or two handle all the projects across the portfolio for medium sized orgs - you're likely looking at 1.5 project managers for a director salary. (I think there is a place for AI there, but I actually think we have a better algorithm with Monte Carlo simulation.) You could have non-directors doing 85% of what a director does today, but you're still hiring high-skill people.

But if AI could replace a director then so could an EM. An EM can write a weekly status better than an AI and if a VP-Eng could rely on that, directors would have been replaced long ago.
Compare KDE's Dolphin with Windows's Explorer (tabs, split view, dark theme a decade ago, file size/mod date under filename...)

Ten Dutch guys can make for free a better piece of software than a multi-billion dollar corporation can because better UX isn't profitable when you've already captured 99% of the market. :p
Generally getting qualified candidates is the hard part. Once you can program basic things like fizzbuzz the only question is are you so bad we don't want to work with you even though you can do the job.
Semi related: If anyone's looking for a side project, LLM-parsed terms of service that summarize whether a service will use the content for AI training would be helpful.
I’ve chosen “Gaming” and $4000. What I’ve got is quite strange:

* Ryzen 5950x — a 16-core Zen 3 CPU for gaming in 2023?

* RTX 3090 for 1500 — you can get a 4090 FE for about that price

* an X570E motherboard which generally doesn’t make a lot of sense for gaming

* a 1200W PSU which is wildly overspecced for this build
I live near an ocean too, but there are enough boats around me that I feel like someone would stop and pick me up. =)
It's worse than that, I didn't just gain space and scenery. I went up an entire socioeconomic class.

Previously I was priced out of the housing market, renting a small basement suite.

Now I own a large detached home, and thanks to the rental suite, spending less each month than I did before.

And this is all before you consider the equity myself and my tenant have paid down, or even any home appreciation. It's effectively doubled my TC since I moved.
My German brain immediately went to "surely this is because Christmas and Easter are widely treated as cultural rather than religious holidays" but if this was in the SUSE offices, it was in Bavaria and Bavaria is one of the more religiously conservative parts of Germany (e.g. a few decades ago there was a landmark case asserting the right of schools to have a crucifix in the classroom).

That said, that still doesn't explain if this is specifically bigotry against Jews or non-Christian religions in general. Something tells me they'd have been no less (if not more so) disrespectful towards Muslim holidays and sensibilities. The article doesn't call them antisemitic (though it could certainly be read to be implying that) but there's definitely religious bigotry at play and antisemitism might be a contributing factor.
Good god, do not just put them in the trash, that’s a crime against the environment. At least give it to charity.
Heh Heh Heh

Trying that site now:

Sorry, consumer.ftc.gov is down for maintenance. It will be back up shortly.

Seems kind of fitting.
!!! wow

Really something to think about
> So much more hardware and software (esp. media playback) worked out of the box than any other distro at the time

SuSE and other mainstream distros worked "out-of-the box" just as well, or better, than the early Ubuntu versions. Fedora, Debian, etc didn't not work because they couldn't, but they were trying to make a point about free software and what that meant, so they took a strict stance on included licensed code. It was 2 minutes of adding RPMForge to your repos to fix, however.

The early versions of Ubuntu weren't popular because they were easier, they were popular because they followed the AOL model and would send you an install disc for free. They leaned into making the install process easier much later (around the 6-7 versions).

> The desktop they provided was was really nice and well configured as well with most defaults working the way most people expecting them to.

Again, it was bog standard GNOME with the Humanity theme. The experience and "defaults" were about equivalent to Fedora, until they started forcing in their own customizations (ads, their sidebar, macOS style titlebars/menus, etc).

> Plus the pretty amazing fact that they would send you an install CD, for free, basically anywhere in the world. Back when downloading 700 MB over the internet was an impossibility for most people, this was a seriously huge deal for getting Linux into the hands of people.

Sure, there you go. The one real reason they were popular and the one real accomplishment. No doubt.

Too bad it came at the expense of them not upstreaming any of their work, taking overly opinionated stances that rarely panned out and created temporary schisms in multiple communities (GNOME, systemd, Wayland, Debian, Flatpak, etc) over their collective ego until their personal projects inevitably fail, setting each back considerably each time.
Certainly fair! I suspect there's probably some concentration in particular product areas - would be interested to see any research done (though that'd be tricky, given the cost involved and the difficulty in proving something to be counterfeit)
That one time when Canonical answered to my CV, I passed after had received this list of few dozens of questions. I really wanted to tell them what they want to hear but honestly I had no idea what that would be...
Very cool.
We have been working on something similar but with analysis of the policies using AI[1]. I like your approach, much faster to launch than what we did.

[1] https://www.legalreview.ai
Another article with a different round-up of resources:

'You’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do?' - https://medium.com/a-wikipedia-librarian/youre-a-researcher-...
Free Speech Hurricane: HE cuts off KF, IncogNET points to the law
What are legitimate use case to use port-forwarding behind a VPN IP? Genuinely curious, I'm not implying anything.
The main use-case is hosting something for which you don't want to reveal your IP or circumvent some ISP that block hosting web servers on their residential IPs. I'm sure I'm missing many more use cases.
The roads are small in Hawaii and take it from a Californian, don't get stuck on them trying to leave before a fire. This is 100% a good idea.

Just make sure your fuel doesn't go bad and engine can sustain you in adverse winds (associated with fires that are out of control). Test it at least once a month. And keep a VHF radio.
Amazon Reverses Course on ‘Garbage Books’ Written by AI
It's fun that it abuses ARP's ability to include an arbitrary payload, but just to remind everyone of networking 101, thing that the author is relying on is just the simple fact that switches flood packets addressed to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff to the entire broadcast domain. You can achieve similar message flooding without having to have superuser/raw packet permissions by directing packets to the L3 broadcast address whereupon they will (usually) be L2 flooded (Aka it's fun to ping the broadcast address.)

Using ARP doesn't offer any particular advantage, and I would note since many modern switches do thinks like snooping arp packets, putting a high amount of bogus ARP traffic on the network could actually have some negative impact. It's still fun at any rate and reminds me of the type of crap that I used to make when I was learning. As alluded to before, I personally would have chosen to abuse ICMP for this purpose; maybe it's a future avenue for development. Kudos to the fun project!
Well that sounds fine in practice, but if you are regularly receiving stuff it becomes a part time job to dispose of it all.
Who are you arguing with here?
AGPL isn't open source?
It varies. They have a bit of a rep and stereotypes, much like France, for example.

The thing is that germany has the history of racial genocide, along with a number of nasty features. The german economy has done well. Maybe too well. They refuse to buy non-german products to spread the prosperity with EU.

Germany as a country has some cultural feature that are not fun. It's riddled with busy-bodies. Germans have too many of the type of people that can be a pain to work with due to their relentless pursuit of... constant improvement? perfection? idk what it is.

Then you have the countries stance towards outsiders, the disabled, people that are different that isn't always the most welcoming. Germans can be sooo snooty and pretentious.

Example from trip to Berlin. I did not realize how hard the clubs were to get into. You have to do this whole song and dance where you prepare to look cool, somewhat edgy, but not too edgy! while simultaneous pretending not to care about any of it.

Everything must be just right! Don't come alone (no one wants weird loner), or in a large group (big groups can be too much). Don't be foreign (this is an unwritten rule they pretend doesn't exist). You pay for tickets too, even if they don't let you in. All this for a techno club, which is unheard of, even blasphemous where I'm from.

Also the genocide / Nazi thing. I'm really sick of people acting like germany should just be over it by now. It's the same people living there that did it basically. Some of those same ideas exists (see before mentioned policies that exclude foreigners and people with disabilities)

So yeah, I get the hate. Definitely, the French tend to feel this way, but it seems like the Italians get it too... and UK and Spain, lol. It's really hit or miss, and often just a mild dislike.
Yeah, Elon Musk is currently CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, owner/CTO of Twitter, and owner of The Boring Company. It is incredibly hard to believe that the C-Suite works hard when someone is able to multitask like that. Tesla is even a public company--the shareholders could have him removed if he was doing a bad job!
Poorly. Information was often duplicated because it couldn't be found. There was not a wiki embedded, as far as I know.
Amazon is in WA, not the valley
Granted.

Is charging 30% fair?
an "emergency inflatable raft" is very unlikely to have an engine