skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photobucket recently asked for me to pay for service because they don't do free anymore. I was hosting an old, old forum signature and little else, it was a nice bit of nostalgia.

I made sure the backed-up copy on my machine was ok. Then I purged my bucket and am proceeding to delete my long-stagnant account.

Can't fault them for trying to make money but it sure seems capitalism is a big fan of entropy. And it's good to remember that you see your data as an asset, while it's aways a liability for a company providing services; free, paid, or otherwise.

If I didn't happen to have the same email, I wouldn't have received the account deletion email to even check what was in there (and reset my password). A whole lot of early social internet content is gonna get poofed quite soon.
This reply seems very low effort and not helpful.
Just watch out for those work from homers, they might take over the world.
Were you born in America or did you immigrate there? That drastically affects how embarrassing that proclamation is.
I think you're confusing trainability with intelligence. Golden Retrievers make great pets and hunting companions, but they're pretty dumb.
We are delaying as long as possible. Right now it is ‘let’s evaluate when you are 13’.

Many peers have a locked down apple watch.
I'm so confused by the typo in the very first word of the very first sentence. It appears they wrote "Qne" instead of "One". Is this some sort of OCR error and the source was scanned in? Or are there keyboard layouts where the Q is near the O?
I have an 8 and a 6 year old. They obviously don't have phones. They've never used a tablet. To them a phone is for mom and dad to call people and a computer is where dad does his work.

We are very anti screens. And we try to set the example. My wife and I never check our phones in front of them.

I dont know how long we'll wait until getting them a phone. They go to a private school that tries to push the "wait until the 8th (grade)" rule and we're OK with that.
I think we're talking past each other. I'm talking about what facts are reported, and I'm saying that facts about ongoing Trump cases are not reported by news outlets on the right. (Just as facts about ongoing Hunter Biden cases are not reported on the left).

I find it useful in my daily life to know what each side is focused on and what their blind spots are. Call it information arbitrage.
I think most of us get it, but those sorts of low quality/non-discussion comments are frowned upon at HN.
I tend to take the opposite approach in my Rust code. Unless I have a specific reason to use `usize` (e.g. using a type to index a standard library type that requires it), I always try to pick an exact size. It's pretty rare that I run into something where I'm either completely fine limiting the size to 32 bits or explicitly need to support something larger than that. Moreover, I'd still have to consider what happens at the limits of the integer type even if I did use `usize` for more general cases to make sure that I properly handle overflow (generally by using saturating or checked arithmetic in my use cases). Coincidentally, using usize only for stuff like indexing vectors and slices makes it much more rare I end up needing to explicitly deal with overflow for it because any time I have to make something dynamically sized, I already need to ensure that I'm putting reasonable limits on how much I'm willing to allocate, and that limit is inevitably much smaller than usize::MAX.
Appointment series were the example that I gave earlier where you will have to use some more complex data structure than a simple date time value and corresponding logic to get it right. You can obviously not find the correct instants for a weekly meeting by repeatedly adding 168 hours to the instant of the first appointment. But this thread started from specifying a date and time of day in some place far into the future and I do not think an indefinite appointment series qualifies for this. Your scheduling application would most likely store something like every Tuesday and 13:00 and figure out the actual instants as needed, for example to show a reminder. And as it received updates about changed daylight saving time rules, it would recalculated the instants.
But are not _the_ answer to the question.
VDSL is surprisingly capable, and would certainly work well within a house’s existing wiring (ADSL works over a wet string[0]). I’ve used modules you can buy on Amazon[1] to run private VDSL halfway up a mountain for one client.

[0] https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...

[1] http://amazon.com/dp/B01BOD8C9W
I don't quite understand. What happened in September 2021?
> if it reaches step 6 it violates the privacy of the person sending

Let's say the parents are abusive, and someone wants to talk with the child about that (via chat, for some reason).

Now, if the algorithms sometimes incorrectly flag private messages that were in fact safe -- could that be mitigated by letting the sender know: "Your message will be scanned and possibly shown to the parents of the recipient" before they hit Send?

(O.t.o.h. that leaks info about the age of the recipient.)
HN certainly doesnt feel like that, small reddit sub is just barely.
Take a look at the Oracle cloud free tear. YOU can create up to four arm based vm's with 6 gigs of ram and one cpu per vm. If you go this route try and do research on what regions have the most capacity. I picked Chicago and had a really hard time getting instances to launch do to high demand. I upgraded to a pay as you go account so still get the vm's for free but get higher priority when crating new instances and have had no more issues launching instances.
Yes, and they call it out as a concern, which it isn't with Postgresql.

> This could even cause an infinite loop in some cases where updates continually
place the updated record ahead of the scan performing the update operation.

This just is not true for Postgresql and they don't specify anywhere that they switched from talking about Postgresql to a different database.

So either they believe it's an concern with Postgresql or they aren't being clear when they are talking about different databases.
The Salamancas and Hermanos are regrouping.
What happens if you power off the resources when your not using them? Unless you need them running 24/7 you can probably save a lot if your willing to manually start and stop them.
What would you reply to the person here[1] who wishes they had restricted access instead of restricted time, because restricted time hindered them learning to code?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37357463
I don't understand how a node with a billion connections can be reduced to a node with five connections.
In the same way I wouldn't feel entirely safe driving around in a car from the 60s, nuclear reactor design has come a long way since then.

And considering how absolutely ancient the Japanese reactors are, they came incredibly close to not failing. Anything modern simply wouldn't have.
What do you think the word "meme" means, and what features does something need to qualify as one?
Also impressive is that is smaller than every other release artifact:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases
I was nodding in agreement until "naming conventions". Naming conventions and common notation is really bad. To the point, that it's sometimes easier to invent your own for personal use.
No, you said that I changed the “actual definition” of self-driving from Level 5 to something else. I’m asking what makes Level 5 the “actual definition” and not just an arbitrary point that you’ve personally decided means self-driving?
Invasive spotted lanternfly may not damage hardwood trees as previously thought
> Some software issues are caused by engineering, but most of them are just some implementation detail like an "!" in the wrong place.

Yes most of them (by the numbers) because software is more complicated than a bridge which has been a solved problem for a long time and because even the worker bees that write code have a more serious relationship with the software than someone pouring concrete in construction, which is also already a solved problem and for the most part - has one true way to do it, unlike software.

If you have proper quality control and budgets for that, then we'd have a lot less bugs that you are talking about. I don't get your point though.

You are saying software is so easy it's not real engineering and software fails because some coder screwed up? I don't buy that.

The success of every project comes down to quality engineering which encompasses a lot of things that are outside of just the part of the job called coding (budget, schedule, requirements gathering, build, quality control, risk mitigation, redundancy, ongoing monitoring, hosting/infrastructure, maintenance, etc).

A civil engineer is more of an engineer than a coder (which isn't an engineer) which is the conflation that caused my prior post.

However, a civil engineer is NOT more of an engineer than a real software engineer. I'd submit the opposite and the market agrees.

And if you don't believe that then you will eventually when there are more catastrophic failures in critical software. Probably AI or self driving cars when the stakes are higher. If it's a dumb bug as you allude to, that won't make it less of an engineering discipline. It would make it more.

I can't even believe there is debate about software engineering being a thing with all the incredible things that have been built.
Per capita GDP, Germany 2023: $51,383

Per capita GDP, United States 2023: $80,034

If Germany were a US state, it would rank somewhere between Mississippi and West Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

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I don’t think it’s a good thing to frighten people because you disagree with a policy they were a part of. There are other ways than harassing individuals for their role in public service.
I've inlined 'meme' to 'iceberg' in the title above so we can hopefully not worry about this.
I agree very strongly with this. Honesty with the kids and clear explanations and options are a big help.

I did this once in the 90s with my first kids. I'm currently raising my granddaughter and it's a much different scene. So far I'm still figuring it out but I have a couple of tips I could share.

One that seems to work the same is to make sure they've got options. Now what I mean by that is they need to be able to bring it to me rather than me find out about it or get it from them. So what i did, is make damn sure that when they bring something to me we talked through it work it out and it's going to be less painful, if it has to be painful at all, then it would be otherwise. So the incentive is clear take that shit to Papa let's find out what we have to do.

Another one, that appears to be a little bit harder today is to give them safe computing options. One really easy example is typing a URL into a browser, rather than the address bar. There are many others, you get the idea.

Local devices seem to complicate this, but in the 90s I made sure the internet facing computer gear wasn in common rooms. That way it was a family activity, and that was really good for building trust sharing experiences and all the other good things that need to happen to have a healthy dialogue between parents and child.

I may have more to say on this later, but I'm off to read all the other great comments.
Chat gpt learning cutoff
I remember going to a play in Chicago one time in the 1980's (when I was a teenager) and remember a trans person in the audience. I was like: "OH MY GOD".

In 2023, I actually think trans people maybe a fairly substantial number of people. At 6 billion, it only takes 0.5% rate to get to 30M people world wide. I think the number might be significantly higher though. Maybe 1 to 3 in 100.
> In 2021 alone, the FBI conducted up to 3.4 million warrantless searches of Section 702 data to find Americans’ communications

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/internal-documents-sho...

> At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have been caught using secret government surveillance tools to spy on the emails or phone calls of their current or former spouses and lovers in the past decade, according to the intelligence agency’s internal watchdog.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...
Would be nice to see a well secure alternative to torrent and IPFS so we can just settle and use it. Ideally encrypted and anonymous optionally too.
No one is penalised for their race. Groups are promoted due to their race

Promoting one group by very definition penalized other groups. You can't have one without the other.

What’s important to the scenario though, is that at present, Māori and Pacific Islanders get seen less by specialists, less clinical tests, less treatment and then worse outcomes. They die several years earlier than their Pakeha peers. It’s incredible that this is acceptable, but here we are.

That's fine, then fix those issues. It's bizarre that a lack of medical care in one group is solved by reducing access to medical care in other groups.
Substitute Lorne Michaels and SNL for Schultz and Peanuts.
> Small reactors won't be economical if they take that many people to run.

The military has demonstrated you can easily maintain and operate them with a handful of 18 to 22 year olds.
I am not sure if an IPO is even better than a Nvidia aquisition.

On one hand Nvidia is Nvidia. They said they want to keep ARM neutral, and it would financially benefit Nvidia to keep ARM neutral... But that is not their nature. They just can't help themselves.

On the other hand, the ever tightening short term revenue pressure from public markets is exactly what ARM doesn't need.

Maybe the tech stakeholders will keep enough equity to ease the pressure?
Yep, and then they cross Firefox off the list, and pretty soon they're not web devs, they're Chrome devs.
You can buy a “lot of computers” on eBay for cheap, setup k3s on them. You don’t need a lot of horsepower to play with all of those things locally. Here is an example.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204446735467
Here's the link: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23933180/apple-letter...
Sorry, I meant in comparison to every other form of crime reduction (namely, poverty reduction, which comes in many forms). We spent an absolutely insane amount of money on what amounts to one of the world's largest militaries and we still have a much higher crime rate, especially weighted by GDP.
I will take a look on this. The repeat should not happen, it might be a bug.
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Some people write in a "white-heat" fashion.

[0] "The Last Question" ranks with "Nightfall" (1941) as one of Asimov's best-known and most acclaimed short stories. He wrote in 1973:[3]

Why is it my favorite? For one thing I got the idea all at once and didn't have to fiddle with it; and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word. This sort of thing endears any story to any writer. Then, too, it has had the strangest effect on my readers. Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can give them the name of a story, which they think I may have written, and tell them where to find it. They don't remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably 'The Last Question'. This has reached the point where I recently received a long-distance phone call from a desperate man who began, "Dr. Asimov, there's a story I think you wrote, whose title I can't remember—" at which point I interrupted to tell him it was 'The Last Question' and when I described the plot it proved to be indeed the story he was after. I left him convinced I could read minds at a distance of a thousand miles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
Single-shot continuations in the form of lexical effect handlers would be a good fit for a systems language nowadays. I feel it's a bit too late to staple that onto Rust though.
There is plenum safe Ethernet cable.
I've only been on Hacker News for a year, and I couldn't tell any change in comment effort
… Well, how is life in Mexico these days, what with the cartels and so forth?
fine ill do a startup
I'm sure it's great fun but please consider the astoundingly extraordinary privilege of having the skills and resources to invest in learning or creating or solving nearly anything you can imagine... and what it means to choose to spend it on shallow personal entertainment. You're capable of so much more. The world desperately needs you and others just like you to pivot, a hard reset of perspective and values, to put your amazing mind and self to work doing things that are essential and meaningful and helpful to others. Your future self will thank you for breaking the solo gaming habit. Better late than never. You won't get those 2000 hours back, but you just might find your soul by choosing to put your next 2000 hours of free time to a different purpose.
My oldest is 9. He has a used iPhone that my wife and I manage. It's is wifi only and has a limited selection of apps. He primarily uses it to listen to audiobooks, and occasionally makes video calls with family members. No web browser and no social media.
Do we price in the externalities?

My impression is that nuclear waste isnt dealt with hardly at all, especially in the US. https://www.energy.gov/em/cleanup-sites shows what seem like a dozen sites where negative externalities aren't at all priced in, where the government has had to cope. The US hasn't a single viable plan for nuclear waste, as far as I can tell.

And what of other nations? Setting this image out there that nuclear power is great & easy, even though so few have actually figured it out; that seems like a danger.
FWIW I think wezterm (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/) offers some hope in this direction.

I switched to wezterm (a couple of years ago by now, I think) in part motivated by its support for "Kitty graphics" protocol (and others) but also because its author seemed to be interested in pushing the envelope in terms(!) of what a terminal could be & do.

The recent addition of a Command Palette[0] really helps with discoverability of features and can also have user customised items added[1] to it.

Other recent additions include the ability to prompt the user to choose from a list of options[2] or input text[3].

This is barely scratching the surface of the feature set but you might like to take a look at wezterm to see if it might be closer to your terminal ideal or at least a project to watch that's innovating in the terminal space. :)

[0] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Acti...

[1] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/window-events/augm...

[2] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Inpu...

[3] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Prom...
I don't believe that the article was celebrating Islamic culture as a whole. It looked at their residual food/architecture. I furthermore don't know that there is a monolithic Islamic culture. Kurdish culture is a heck of a lot different than Afghani culture. Europeans and Americans did plenty of slaving. It's almost like it's a human thing, not a religion thing.

I think you need to touch grass, friend. Dehumanization of the infidels is what allowed Moors to enslave Europeans. Take care not to become their mirror image.
Minecraft is definitely without a doubt, not any of those things. It is first and foremost a single player game that can be modded extensively. I have found that multiplayer always comes second at best.

Servers can be bad, but that is entirely optional. Not even close to Roblox or Fortnite.

This is coming from a person that basically grew up with it from the Alpha stage.
Thanks. I tried to hide the LLM generation time, which usualy takes a while. However, the brief recap itself is short by it's nature. So you will be more likely to see the loading spinner.
> Only a matter of time until lots of journalists everywhere will be impacted and significantly.

Modern Google Search, the adtech arms race and social media were butchering professional journalists before the rise of LLMs.

My old employer ran a respected, hard hitting PC hardware site. And after a point, they had two choices: shutter the site and pursue another job, or turn the site into a clickbait spam farm. Unlike most, he choose to go out with dignity... And this was years ago.

Other outlets I frequented have mostly devolved to rambling spam farms. A few have fused into larger conglomerates and preserved some of their original character between the SEO deal and guide posts.

LLMs are certainly accelerating that, but the bulk of browser journalism was kinda doomed anyway.
you described bragging rights and record chasers not novelty.

Novelty is exactly the opposite of what you said.

If you have never been on the Everest (or whatever activity really) and you experience it for the first time your sensation will be the same regardless of you being #1 or #75000 in the global ranking, because it will be the first time for you.

Let’s talk practical examples, how many people have reached 120mph on a motorcycle? Millions if not billions, but when YOU do it for the first time it’s not like you are busy thinking of the millions of people who did it before you, you just have a good time.

Fuck. And I mean fuck as a verb, should we not have sex anymore because we are not the first humans to ever have sex? The first people should have never fucked because they were not the first organisms to fuck?

People who say holding their kid after they are born is the best moment of their lives, they feel on cloud 9 even though they are human #11,477,764,778 to experience such feeling

At the end of the day space enthusiasts should test their belief and go live in Antartica for some 8 months during the winter and see for themselves.

And that’s not even a true test because Antartica is the Garden of Eden compared to space
Ask HN: Do you search for jobs in niche or generalist job boards?
Don't forget this part:

>(e) Failure To Report.—A provider that knowingly and willfully fails to make a report required under subsection (a)(1) shall be fined—
(1) in the case of an initial knowing and willful failure to make a report, not more than $150,000; and
(2) in the case of any second or subsequent knowing and willful failure to make a report, not more than $300,000.

I find these clauses at odds with one another in that the Failure to Report clause created a tangible duty upon the provider, which, were I a judge, would satisfy me that rhe provider was, in fact, deputized.

Does nobody actually read the legislation that is passed and realize that oops, I just passed am unconstitutional law.

That they include the construed... clause just solidifies for me that the legislators in question were trying to pull a fast one.
There's a typo in your URL. These look great though!
I trained my little ones to decode fiber optic signals with the naked eye.
I have an 8 year old and this sounds lovely.