skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because if you're providing services to a large business, you're typically not managing servers with physical disks attached. You're using a SAN with fiber connections or NFS mounts. Most SANs require specific drives sold by the vendor with firmware they've tested, mounted to custom sleds etc. You can't just connect a WD Mybook drive.

Mom and Pop businesses using single servers can do all they want in regards to drives, I don't care. I would argue they shouldn't have servers, but if you do have servers, you should at minimum use RAID etc, not a drive plugged into your USB port.
What language/frameworks should I use for simple web apps in 2023?
The last time I developed anything proper for the web was around 2010, when I was writing my own CMS on PHP 5.3 with a little of JQuery. Ended up on a very different career trajectory, but always been around software development.

I've been thinking about building something but struggled with adopting the modern approach of writing SPAs in Type/Java-script. It does seem like an overkill for a personal side project. And I'm not looking for job opportunities.

I'm happy to make another attempt into learning modern Javascript or something else. My questions is, is there a particular framework/language combo that will:
1. Allow me to build simple web apps with some interactivity (but not necessarily a full API-based SPA)
2. Have a viable community to learn from and ask questions if needed (doesn't have to be the biggest one)

The way people use something like Next.js just to build a personal blog seems a bit weird to me, and since I don't need this skill, I don't think I should invest in learning this.

I'm pretty comfortable with my two static blogs on Hugo, built my themes for both of theme and heavily adjusted their internal templates. I also knew Python well enough and still like it as a language.

What do you think is a good option for people like me? Commit to JavaScript (so I have to master just one language) and find a more reasonable option there? Get back to PHP, which has changed a lot (I guess Laravel+Livewire?)? Use Django with some frontend framework?

I liked some philosophy behind Basecamp's products (Turbo/Hotwire) in terms of being simple, but this community is definitely a bit too small (also works best with Rails). Even though I attached TurboLinks to my blog and like how it works.

Really open to recommendations here, spent a few days actively googling but useless SEO websites have filled everything by now.
Some of our engineers talk about SonarCube this, dependabot that, Snyk this so much I am suspicious any actual work is done. Shackles made of red tape. Standstill is velocity. Freedom is slavery?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410630 is fun but it's too much of a follow-up* to the current thread. If you get in touch with us at hn@ycombinator.com after some time (say a month or two, to flush the hivemind caches), we'll send you a repost invite.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Here he is alluding to dark matter. So the light universe is our observable universe, the dark universe is the hypothetical universe made up of dark matter that we know has to exist, but so far have no means of observing or interacting with. That's the analogy he's making between the Red and Blue teams. They co-exist in the same space but manage to avoid interaction.

That was the meaning of that first bit from the article that OP quoted.
Delaware man who police blocked from warning of speed trap wins $50K judgment
Maybe I'm not understanding, but isn't this reflecting sound back, generated by something else? It seems the device uses one millionth the power, but the thing stimulating the device uses an unspecified amount, that would increase dramatically with distance. Unfortunately this is an MIT press release, so it will be impossible to understand what's actually going on.

Does anyone have a more informative link?
Nah - both Apple and Google realized that Flash was a threat to their nice, walled gardens and ensured it died. You gottu have those chains secured tight.
> There's not really an unmet need for innovation in broadband delivery; the issue is running new wires broadband has costs, and in a lot of places, the ROI on running new wires for broadband doesn't justify doing it.

This sounds like exactly the sort of thing a private company is going to be terrible at. And even with the grants, it seems they are and have been since I was in preschool.
OP is author of a job board search engine. "remote jobs" is literally one of the filters on their website.
Show HN: Programming Languages Database
I recently spent a week to build this website that gathers most Programming Languages that exist.

It is meant to be a place where you can find programming languages specific to your needs.

One thing I'd like to add is the relative performance between all of those languages, to have a "Performance" or "Speed" filter. But benchmarks for so many languages is not easy to find.

Please let me know what YOU would like to see on such a site. Thanks in advance!
This is a great analogy and succinctly summarizes my feelings on the matter. Just like you don't need tests for a quick prototype or for every last little bit of code, the same goes for static type checking, but past a certain point it's a must have.
What I found ironic was this part from the reasoning post:

> [V]ery few programmers are typically interested in having their opinion on typing changed. Most programmers find themselves drawn strongly to typing or not quite early in their career, and then spend the rest of it rationalizing The Correct Choice to themselves and others.

Feels like projecting. I think very few programmers would feel this strongly about typing that they would break things by rushing a PR within hours, despite plenty of negative responses and barely any positive ones.
Ask HN: Why has Wolfram Alpha, “Math Coprocessor of AI” not been acquired yet?
You also need to understand the context that in the UK, and most of the west other than the US, WhatsApp is just the default communication channel for messaging. If you text someone, it's just assumed it's via WhatsApp.
> (rigorous engineering school), who had an aptitude for maths and physics, become a Flat Earther.

I'd love to hear their math-aware rebuttal to the usual proofs against FE (stuff like horizons, the day-night cycle). Although debates of the sort rarely end well.
P2MP is fine -- you can use EPON/GPON/XGSPON/10G-EPON that are designed for shared optical networks with passive splitters or even run DWDM over those splitters to provide P2P circuits over those same infrastructure (PLC splitters really don't care what you're doing with the optical signal so long as it meets the optical signal budget). Cutting the cost of feeder fibres is worthwhile unless you happen to have infinite money available.
Guess we have to get rid of the props and just tether it to the pack like a balloon.

Seriously though, I've often wondered if a weather balloon style lifter tethered to a backpack could help it be lighter. Probably with a less flammable gas, and only in sparsely forested areas.
Actually, Alain Bombard[0] demonstrated that one can live off the land on sea :-)

Not that this Florida man had any chance of repeating the achievement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Bombard
Depends on the org. Some orgs are well managed, others don't want to pay for stuff behind the scenes until it bites them in the ass. They don't know what they don't know.
> price assigned to a commodity by a market and its value were often out of sync

Based on Marx's own flawed logic! https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-05-02

How much is a glass of water worth? Should it change if it takes me 5 seconds or 5 years to procure? Using labor theory to assign value makes no sense and is not a workable model for anything for anything other than justifying Marx's own circular logic.
Which is why subscription software is better for everyone. Everyone is on the latest version.
"Most programmers find themselves drawn strongly to typing or not quite early in their career, and then spend the rest of it rationalizing The Correct Choice to themselves and others."

Hashtag irony.
Ephemeral compute/VM/debug environment with restricted access.

Tear down the environment after the debugging is done.

Keeping the crash dumps in a vault presumably allows more permission/control that an internal issue tracker (usually anyone can access the issue tracker). At least a vault can apply RBAC or even time based policies so these things aren't laying around forever.
"It's continually amazing to me that more than 100 years after Marx and Engels wrote their papers on Socialism and Capitalism, people can't see past much more than those choices. Which seems to be very much a false dichotomy.
"

It seems a very US habit to think only two extremes can exist on any issue. There are plenty of examples of other paths when you look at the different countries in Europe. They all strike different balances between socialism and capitalism. Heck, the US is not very "pure" capitalistic either. We have socialized healthcare (for some), welfare (for some), progressive taxes and more.

I would be very curious about totally different approaches.
There's a second theory paper in that press release that discusses the range and verifies the model experimentally: http://www.mit.edu/~fadel/papers/PAB-theory-paper.pdf

This isn't a product that's already on the market, so what matters is how far it can get if actually commercialized - which is pretty impressive at such low power.
Could you explain the difference to a noob, please?
I'll join you on that hill. I'd rather "fight" my IDE/the compiler than have runtime errors. Also writing code in a dynamic language is painful after you used a statically typed language in combination with a good IDE
I believe that the real answer lies in small socialistic mutual aid organizations, similar to the kinds of ethnic immigrant organizations that were formed in the US in the first half of the 20th century.

The radical Russian philosopher-aristocrat Kripotkin advocated for a wholesale government-social system based on the mutual aid or cooperative concept after spending time in poor, remote Russian villages as a young man. His takeaway: despite their rough situations, these people were happy and hopeful because they supported each other.

In the US, ethnic mutual aid organizations operated as clubs similar to a labor union or church by having regular gatherings, fundraisers, and social events. They remained viable by charging dues (on top of fundraising through events) to support the meeting facility and administration, and by operating a separate “insurance” payment to cover the membership if they ran into hard times, e.g. death of wage earner.

In short: For social support systems to be successful, I think it’s best to think small, local and shared culture and/or values. It has worked before.
> Labor theory of value is trivially provable wrong (daily fluctuating prices, loss of value because of introduction of better products, etc.).

I think, at a minimum, you should understand what the Labor Theory of Value is, before claiming that it is trivial to prove it wrong.
Do you live in a first world Western country and is your social circle comprised of people who do the same? In my experience when you go outside of that circle you start finding people who have personally experienced loss from COVID very quickly.
Do you get the impression that novel shows are pushed out by the more corporate ones?
This works fine for me:

import socket
import struct
import time

NTP_SERVER = "time.apple.com"
NTP_PORT = 123
TIME1970 = 2208988800

client = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
data = b'\x1b' + 47 \* b'\0'
client.sendto(data, (NTP_SERVER, NTP_PORT))
data, addr = client.recvfrom(1024)
if data:
t = struct.unpack('!12I', data)[10]
t -= TIME1970
print("Current time:", time.ctime(t))
These aren't memes, these are text replies illuminating the core worldview of e/acc's founder and what they are getting people onboard with. You're the one who has fallen for the standard "haha irony / humor, but not really" that unpalatable movements use like the depths of 4chan. If you do a small amount of digging, their crux is basically cult AGI worship as a god bringing in utopia and heaven, even when the reality could be the equivalent of Jonestown koolaid.

"If AI replaced us, it's fine because they're a worthy descendants?"

e/acc founder: "Personally, yes."

'"The overarching goal of humanity is to preserve the light of consciousness", this does not necessarily require the consciousness to be human in essence, is that correct?'

e/acc founder: "Yes. Correct."

"Man you are indifferent if humans get replaced by a future species, not really the most enticing eh?"

e/acc founder: "Humans will be replaced by its evolutionary forks in the matter configuration space causal DAG one way or another. I don't discriminate between biological, non-biological, or hybrid descendents."

The core e/acc people aren't "trying to end the world," they are cult worshipping their definition of technology is the ultimate good, vague endgoals of conquering the galaxies, humans be damned if they get in the way.

"Motte: e/acc is just techno-optimism, everyone who is against e/acc must be against building a better future and hate technology

Bailey: e/acc is about building a techno-god, we oppose any attempt to safeguard humanity by regulating AI in any form

around and around and around" - Emmett Shear

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1683208767054438400
The underlying issue is going to be super benign. Like Veeam probably does a `walk`, which is a snapshot of a directory structure in time, and then a user moves a directory, which doesn't cause Veeam to invalidate its entire `walk` thus far, so that directory is never visited.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37411554
There has to be an internet law somewhere that any fun hobby can be obsessively following into madness.

Relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU
The proper term is stress? Since there is also compression.

My 3yo son usually ends up with really "tense" tracks if he manages to build a circle. The lever torque of the track length makes them bend a tiny bit, so there should be tension in the outer rail. The fittings are quite close fits.
Dead Sea reveals four 1,900-year-old Roman swords in cave
The Tailwinds for AI
I don't understand the Ask HN submissions. Recently the question was "Do you know a list of job boards?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006931). Authors runs a website that lists job boards.
No, I don't think its too pessimistic. In fact the illusion of a global digital village lasts longer than what one might expect, probably because of tech illiteracy and the capture of various local elites.

But I also dont think that the hippy technofiles were all wrong.

Ironically, when you combine the finite Earth with extreme levels of digital information gathering and the zero cost of replication and transmission it is very hard to keep silos. E.g., pretty soon automated translation is a thing (and I am not an AI bro :-). Also you cant do much about joint dependencies on environmental deterioration without global coordination.

How its going to play out is unclear but the scenario of the same old clans fighting it out in the same old ways is not a given in the longer term. There are centripetal and centrifugal forces. For now the pattern seems to be tearing apart.
If many of the people replying to this comment had read the article, they would know that the low power device in question sends data by altering its reflectivity. It's metaphorically like covering and uncovering a retroreflector to send signals to a person a mile away with a powerful spotlight or laser pointed at you.

It seems reasonable to be concerned about what this significantly stronger and likely highly-directed signal might do to biological things it encounters on its way.
No.. This is the price of buying a phone from a company that doesn't know anything about hardware design, and nothing about software needed. They're a scam.
> 25gbit symmetrical available

Unless I was building a data center, think AWS/Azure, 25gb would not even be an option given I would want to burn money in the US.
I love that you can see from the graph that the post got bumped off the front page at around 8:38pm.
> In a spectrum you can only move left or right to achieve relief.

We're going to have to agree to disagree then. Because that's definitely not the definition I use and find in plenty of textbooks. Those match what I said above
Economics is not separate from politics. Capital compoubds exponentially and extremely unequally as a natural consequence of the free market, and that capital then has power over all of society.
I asked OpenAI for a calculation the other day, and after a very sophisticated explanation of how to calculate something, it gave me a completely incorrect answer.

Seems to me that the future of AI depends on being able to do solid math.

Thus Wolfram Alpha becomes a perfect acquisition target to become the math brain that language oriented AI is missing. In the AI gold rush why is Wolfram Alpha left on the shelf?
And the US politics would be better off if politicians didn't need to worry about their decisions causing the stock markets, and with it people's pensions or healthcare, to tumble.

401k, HSAs etc are the stranglehold on US politics.
Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't own the pinball game - that was a Maxis production, one table from Full Tilt! pinball. Go talk to EA.
> we have so many welfare programs and safety nets and worker protects

Not really, in the 40's and 50's the programs were stronger
A/B testing time, a timeless classic
I just checked the source and openssh doesn't appear to set madvise(MADV_DONTDUMP) anywhere :-( That seems like an oversight? For comparison openssl has a set of "secure malloc" functions (for keys etc) which uses MADV_DONTDUMP amongst other mitigations.
The Magic of the Granny Flat
Greed at the CEO level is so widely distributed, none of them think they're responsible for inflation.

Maddening.
I second this request.

Specifically, I would love to hear about more games that actually reward role playing.

In Disco Elysium, you adopt beliefs ("thoughts" in your "thought cabinet") and then are rewarded for choosing dialogue and performing actions consistent with those beliefs. You can have a wide variety of experiences with the same exact story in DE based on the beliefs you choose and adhere to.

The art, writing, and worldbuilding in DE is excellent but what really sets it apart for me is that actual and literal role playing.
Wouldn't the methane in Starship still be at the bottom of its tank due to the momentum imparted by the Booster regardless of whether it was still attached?
pretty sure “eco terrorism” includes things like sabotaging pipelines and such too.

though to your point, that form’s more of an economic weapon than it is terror.
Wolf in sheep's clothing: Structural violence of private electric vehicles
That seems a bit slippery-slope, compare: "Think about this one for a minute - if companies paid for health insurance, they would expect to have a say in exactly what you eat..."

Companies are already indirectly paying via increased wages due to a smaller supply of possible hires, the difference is that it's harder for them to see and agree when an office+commute is inefficient. (Or at least, inefficient when ignoring hard-to-measure things like executive prestige or investor-relations or local tax breaks.)
Not true. It’s just that it doesn’t happen fast. This is just one example, there are many:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-russian-government-emplo...
None of your quotes indicate that it would be impossible to implant these. The article is beating around the bush, but essentially it is saying "These could potentially be implanted." That's why people are somewhat up in arms about this. Read the other article I linked.

This research in animals has led to successful implantation, but not live births. Nobody knows why yet.
Citadel is generally a bad example to use, as it’s exceptionally likely their performance is at least partially due to tax shuffling shenanigans and other regulatory violations. One can infer this because it’s exceptionally unlikely for them to have that performance even as an outlier using legitimate means
$ sntp -n 1 time.apple.com | grep t1
t1: E8A36E57.9BB5D031 (3903024727.608242999)

# Subtract delta from unix time epoch to NTP epoch
# NTP epoch is January 1, 1900, Unix epoch is January 1, 1970
$ date -r $(expr 3903024727 - 2208988800)
Wed Sep 6 14:32:07 PDT 2023

Works for me.
If the author decides to use the URL hash instead, he can avoid users sending that zip to his server

i.e.

https://smolsite.zip/#UEsDBB...
TS feels like a fever dream. It's as if a concentrated group of people were so convinced of a solution, that despite all available "parol" or academic evidence, they foisted it upon the ecosystem doing untold amounts of damage for years to come.

And if you don't use it, well it's because you simply don't understand types and your code base will be riddled with bugs! (lol)

The best, most testable, falsifiable argument I have heard for typescript is that helps with certain IDE's; but personally I haven't noticed a difference. In fact, TS causes me to go into dead ends with VS Code trying to hunt for the actual implementation of something in sizable code bases to the point where I'll just look at even the minified code to figure out what's actually going on.

Because at the end of the day, TS isn't an actual type system. It's a bunch of macros that sit on type of a jazz'd up linter (yes I am being editorial here). I have been coding for a long time, and personally I have never jumped into a TS code base and gone "oh thank god they decided to abstract this correctly!" These days it's met with a sigh and knowing a simple task is going to take me 10x as long to do than it would with any other tech stack.

Don't even get me started on the bugs TS itself has caused over the years.

People have often and loudly pointed out how awful web development can be (and was) over the last 20+ years but honestly, TS has been pretty pointlessly painful. The pain in yesteryear's was due to competing interests and the fact that many aspects of web development were just brand new.

It's a mistake we just need to fess up to as an industry.
What do you use for type checking in dev - tsserver? https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Standalone-Serv...

Regarding this, it's a pity there's no officially maintained support for the language server protocol in TypeScript, and the last update from MS on the issue is from two years ago ("We've had personnel changes"): https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/39459#issueco...
There is a distinction drawn in the definition between capital goods and goods in general. This is the classic "can you own a toothbrush in a communist country" argument and the answer is, as it always has been, of course yes.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Microsoft Releases MS-DOS Source Code on GitHub - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428882 - Nov 2018 (7 comments)

The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097661 - Sept 2018 (115 comments)

MS-DOS is now Open Source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7468192 - March 2014 (3 comments)

Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7466952 - March 2014 (204 comments)

MS-DOS Source Code Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7466826 - March 2014 (7 comments)
Nice!

I remember seeing this for the first time on HN with urlpages, inspired me to build my own version of these

https://js-labs.js.org/
Random thought. Are you taking into account relativistic effects? What is your velocity relative to the Earth's inertial frame?
Because Stephen Wolfram is a billionaire who knows what he's sitting on