skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which public server does it use by default? I'm surprised the docs don't mention it.

More generally, it feels like in 2023 that connecting two computers via a public relay ought to be a solved problem, on the level of, like, DNS. Or maybe it is and I haven't heard?
There is more to life than work and it should never be your entire or even most of your social life. Being socially isolated as a result of not having to go to work is a pretty good sign that your entire existence revolves around your work. Go outside, make friends, have a social life outside of work. It doesn't and shouldn't have to rule your world.

On the flipside, it's pretty sick that we've normalized getting all of one's social fulfillment from wage slaving rather than genuine social experiences that don't involve exploitation of our labor.
https://archive.ph/UaSya
I'd find it hard to believe it's not true. There's billions of people out there. Now, finding them, reaching them, that's the challenge.
Executives don't need to be productive, they just need to promulgate the bizarre idea that people higher up in the hierarchy inherently deserve more pay for some reason.
There are other, better, providers.
>It is often said that 50% of biomedical facts are wrong. The trouble, of course, is determining which half of the textbook to disregard.

So abduction ? Good thing that's what LLM do best I guess.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10425828/
Good advice, and I’d take this a step further and say sometimes the thing you’re making isn’t wanted by anyone now, but will be by people in the future.

My go-to example here is Nietzsche, who spent most of his life writing in obscurity. He actually had to pay to have some of his books published. Only after he became mentally incapacitated and died did his fame grow, and now he’s generally considered one of the three most important thinkers of the era, along with Marx and Freud.

Obviously making a little hobby web app is not the same as writing books about the future of Western civilization, but I think the lesson is: work on what you really think is important, not on what you’ve convinced yourself is important by listening to others.
I understand what you are saying.

But open sourcing some code does not equal some kind of agreement to support people using it.
Well I shipped fat jars using capsule more than 15 years ago without any issues. Nobody ships file-trees.

Also the Startup depends on how much memory you allocate, but much of it is due to verifying class security, a feature that other runtimes don't even have. Or badly used reflection, another feature others don't have.

In any case I really never found it an issue if a server takes 3 seconds to start and I never understood why people complained about Java startup. My guess is they complain about clunky desktop application with a million classes written in it.

Regarding the bytecode: the interpretation and just in time recompilation gives Java sometimes better than native performance.

It also allows you to hook into the code on the fly and transform it with agents. Can native do that?
> Mike Bezos, Jeff’s adoptive father and a Cuban immigrant who worked as an engineer at Exxon, one of the world’s top oil companies

So his "father with money" is a Cuban immigrant? That kind of changes the narrative.
What is there to "live under"? You can already buy 3rd party parts, nobody is stopping this.

If Apple started bricking devices if they didn't have authentic parts in them... yeah, sure, I can see you point. But they don't, and you're free to repair devices yourself or take them to a repair shop who does this for you.

Frankly I don't see how this is particularly different from Samsung or any other android manufacturer, besides maybe aftermarket parts won't warn you that they're possibly not authentic.
Java already has many more concurrent and parallel data structures, so while it likely won’t have a keyword, it can definitely do it already.
I'd like to keep my house running on 12v DC, I lived in an RV for a while and I liked it. All the lighting was 12v LEDs, there was an inverter for the fridge and some plugs. I'd probably do a similar setup, I could probably build the whole thing salvaging a dead RV and buying some lithium iron phosphate batteries. All I really need to run on 120v AC would be a refrigerator or two.
I'll never be able to catch up to silver spoons like you with fat cat fathers willing to pay for medium. The world is so unfair
What you need is an Ingress. You can just have one ELB front all of your services if you wish.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingr...
Dunning Kruger Founder
Technical founder who has multiple startup failures due to dunning kruger keeps failing. How do I tell him he is failing because he is making bad decisions in other functions
I hope you stick with it.

I would love a browser that sticks to the original use,
to render simple html documents.

No Javascript or bloated features.
Would break a lot of websites but that is ok.

It might even be good for accessibility on some sites
Every episode is pretty stand-alone and specific, so pick episodes with topics that interest you.
Oh? I did not know that. What happens to un-redeemed balances? After how long?

Regardless, the underlying point remains. They'll profit from the float until whatever it is they have to do happens.
These issues are pretty recent. I would greatly appreciate sponsorship to address issues faster: https://github.com/sponsors/schollz or just help with PRs.
My 3d printing journey seems to have ended with a Prusa Mini. Really solid and well engineered device, and it's delightful that Prusa acknowledge the open-source hardware and software they depended on to build their company.

BambooLab... well it is a nice machine, and they have definitely advanced the the field with input shaping. But this machine is pretty much a Prusa Mini with linear rails, and I'd bet there is open-source in their firmware and slicer, but there's no way to find out because their business model is to give nothing back to the ecosystem they have leveraged. That leaves a bad taste for me, but I'm sure many people will be quite happy to ignore such esoteric concerns and happily lock themselves in.

Until BambooLab have a bad financial quarter. Then the optional cloud integration will become mandatory with a subscription, and the spool detection system will start reject non-BambooLab filament.

Doctorow has struck a chord with his distillation of enshittification, and you are right on the money raising it here.

(Meanwhile Prusa has just released input shaping for the Mini.)
Does anyone have recommendations for a learn-to-play-on-it keyboard? Not too expensive, but not a toy?
Monotime: A sensible interface to monotonic time in Ruby
Our macro policy pumps assets and dumps exports. Our manufacturing workers must be more productive in the colloquial sense to be as productive in the economic sense. The headline weaponizes this nuance to read like "our workers are lazy." This is intentional, and it is ugly.
Like I said, people more credible than you have made claims it's possible. Whether or not it's true is a matter of debate, or in the end the proof is in the pudding. That something is not possible, what you're saying is just not the case. You also have a misconception of things that exist and don't exist.

Germany does not run coal and gas plants full speed in the winter. Wind energy ticked over coal for the first quarter of 2023 [1].

Even if it did, Poland is currently backing up their nuclear with 100% coal, in the winter and summer, for the next 10 years at least. It will continue to pump co2 into the atmosphere and do as much damage as Germany will do for the next ~30 years, if Germany's coal use does not go down. But it will go down, it's on pace to reach 80% renewables in 2030. Poland is on pace to reach 30% coal in 2040. The damage done by spending money on nuclear first can never be recovered from. It might even be too late for the world by then. Think about that.

The world will deploy 400GW of solar this year alone, and the growth will not decelerate any time soon. That is about 60 1GW reactors worth of electricity. Talk really is cheap.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/06...
A config file.

:-)
Share your videos as a response to a comment on HN.
Apart from Servo and Ladybird, there are also: NetSurf, Ultralight, Ekioh Flow.
An empty chair, IME
Great video, I wasn't familiar with the history of US lumber sizes except that sawn and dressed sizes were standardized sometime after WWII. But oh what a messy subject it is, especially if one lives outside the US as I do.

First, info for US readers, 'lumber' is usually referred to as 'timber' in other anglophone countries such as UK, Australia and NZ.

Second, in those countries 2" x 4" is usually referred to as 4" x 2" — I don't know why the order became reversed (if someone knows then tell me). Moreover, those Imperial terms are now deprecated as most countries are metric or have gone metric in the last 40—50 or so years.

Third, the US is now essentially the last country to use Imperial units although you'd have to wonder about the UK as so many there have still clung to the Imperial system. That said, many of those in anglophone countries (in addition to) the US would still understand expressions such as I'm going to purchase some lengths of 2 by 4 or 4 by 2, or I'll take to the bastard with a bit of 4 by 2.

Forth, as most of the world is now metric, when doing internet searches it's useful to know that 4" = 101.6mm, 2" = 50.8mm (nominally 100 and 50mm respectively). The link below for Australian timber sizes shows how complex this can get, for sawn timber 4x2" is equivalent to 100x50mm which becomes 90x42mm for dressed/finished timber but not so for, say, Radiata Pine Kiln Dried Dressed which is 90x45mm. Note the dressed sizes are slightly different to current equivalent US sizes which is significant if timber is imported from the US and vice versa). https://harpertimber.com.au/industry-standard-timber-sizes/

Similar tables exist for the UK and other countries—and also one cannot assume the standards to be the same. You'll also note from the table that timber is specified by width first, thus 100x50mm is a hangover from the days of 4x2" (during metric conversion there wasn't a move to specifying height first as does the US which makes me think there's more to how this order came about and why it's different to the US than just happenstance).

Incidentally, outside the US a 'plank' is usually defined by having a width of significantly more than two times its height so 4x2", 90x45 or 90x42mm wouldn't be classed as such.

As I said, it's messy. Australia has been metric since the 1970s and unlike the UK most people now automatically think in metric units (incidentally, there's a good reason for the difference in take up). Go to a building site nowadays and start talking Imperial units and you'd get some strange looks (older hands would say 'where have you been all these years?').
Rehearsal: Simulating Conflict to Teach Conflict Resolution
I've seen people who had never built a factory try to build one, and it did not go well.
Strimzi (Kafka operator) is moving away from StatefulSets for the same reason.
Executive compensation is a drop in the bucket compared to the total salaries for all the rank-and-file employees.

According to your article the average hourly labor cost at GM is $60. Assuming 2,000 hours per year, that is $120,000 per employee. For 92,000 U.S. employees [0], the total is about $11,000,000,000.

Another way to look at it: If you distributed the CEO's compensation ($30,000,000) among GM's U.S. employees (92,000 [0]), you'd give each of them about $326.

[0] https://www.gm.com/company/usa-operations
LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-Tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models
It took all of human history up to 1800 AD to reach a population of 1 billion.

Now, in the next 30 years we will have grown by almost 2 billion.

Don't you see the problem?
So given that, these million dollar loans they received from family to start their businesses really don't amount to much. And Bezos only got $240k.
Nope, and you don't lose anything that's not exclusive to the Bambu Handy app, which I believe is just manual object cancellation right now. Bambu Studio, their slicing suite for Linux, Mac, and Windows on their GitHub, can add printer in LAN Only mode.

I felt pretty strongly about not wanting cloud options, but just look at their documentation across their site, videos, and wiki. They're the opposite of that evil, dark pattern, gaslighting, contemptible shit we associate with SV tech today. They let their products do the talking, which makes it clear how much they believe in what they're building.

I cancelled my P1S Combo order because of the cloud incident, checked with colleagues with Bambus whether they were affected, and after realizing I probably fell for a little anti-Sino propaganda, bought an X1C.

I can say this with a decade of printing experience, but it's everything I imagined 3D printing would be when I first got into it. Today, we've got Ultimakers with Material Stations, every model of Creality, and the Bambus are just really thoughtful, well designed and engineered products that happen to blow everything else out of the water. It's hard not to be excited about.
I have that feeling trying to improve dev practices in a shop that had none. Years of effort and we’re barely at the point my previous place was at before I even started there.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PuzzleFS-Development-Continues

The Linux kernel Rust support is not good enough currently for it to work though.
The Social Media Pin: Where Everyone’s a Neighbor
Is there a way to read the full article without logging in?
From my experiences with Strimzi, I think of it as "half-managed", like, it'll make doing things like upgrades easy as, but yeah, it's just tooling that makes self-management easier.
I do like it!

My current DR/HA is basically just hourly block level delta snapshots. It's super simple, cheap and easy to do if the business can tolerate up to an hour of potential data loss.
Luro [0] by Dave Rupert has been developed to solve just this problem.

[0] https://luroapp.com/
Optimal is optimal. There is such thing as “more optimal”. It’s either optimal or it isn’t.
I think the main advantage that I like croc over many utilities is that it can resume file transfers from where it left off. I'm not sure if wormhole has this yet. Of course torrents do this, but I find sharing via torrenting still not super easy for the layperson.
Copilot Money achieve Amazon SKU description automatically by AuthN into your Amazon account and transaction matching.

They do this lack of info lift and then recommend category splits.
The first time I saw the word “enshittification” it just clicked. It really is a tidy word!

Do you have any opinion on the Creality K1? Not a technical one, but about their participation in the open community? Another comment in this thread brought it up, and it seems like a great machine.
Whenever you encounter an executive who complains they can't get qualified people, ask how many people they have in training classes right now. Large companies used to have large training programs, to go along with a stable workforce, and a good pension plan. A few still do. Yes, after they finish training you have to pay them more.
Spam and trolling even happens on a physical newspapers/radio/tv/books/magazines. Its just that you have to pay to do it.

The rich/ceremonial/leisure classes have through out history been constantly spamming everyone with whatever shit occurs to their 3 inch brains, because they can afford to buy the largest amount of attention.

To bad there is not enough attention for anything anymore cause production of content is happening at volumes that dwarf Consumption of content.

If 99% of comments and links on HN are not read by anyone, do you think the great geniuses who run HN will tell you that? Whats the use of such systems no one asks. They want to just keep it alive like some dumb engineers in the control room of Jurassic Park after the children are lost and the T Rex is loose.

The platforms, without knowing what the fuck they are building, have made it Free for everyone to Broadcast. So its now not just the rich who are spamming and trolling. Its everyone. For free. All you get is noise. Read the UN Report on the Attention Economy.

One dimensional software engineers now have capability to build and scale systems quickly. Thats the only reason we have these dumb fucking mindless systems wasting everyones time and energy.
If only some people have caged cats, they'll skip the cars with cages and go for the easier targets. But if car manufactures cage the cats on all cars, then the thieves will cut through the cages.
It is a long story, but here is the short from my perspective. I left after a year and made the mistake of spending two years building an audio-video dating app. Poor men’s FaceTime-ish tech, but the business failed. However, I sold/transferred the tech to an investor.

When we released its beta, early users were happy with the new-age design and one of the best user experiences in a web app for India. Later, I heard MoneyControl sued Paisa.com (I’d consider that a success).

The Paisa team went on to become Helpshift.com. One of the founders became an investor, and another is now the co-founder of teamohana.com. Another key member started his own Startup, later acquired by GoJek.

And a lot of stories in between. It all started in 2007-2008 when I started in a spare attic in my erstwhile boss’s office and assembled a small but brilliant team. I retained that Startup’s domain for a long time and sold it this year. I need to write about all of this one day. A few publications have written strange stories about it, and I’ve not been interested enough.

Now, I’m doing things with Satellite and stuff for Climate and the like.
The statement that Bambu release about it seems ok from the technical side:

https://blog.bambulab.com/cloud-temporary-outage-investigati...

There's no real detail as to whether they're really trying to make whole anyone who's printer was damaged. Just the standard "contact us" type of thing:

If you were affected by this cloud outage, and your printer has suffered any damage,
please don't hesitate to contact our Support Team at Bambu Support.

So, bit hard to tell without hearing from any affected users who have contacted their support.
Maybe if companies put time and effort into training and retaining employees they wouldn't be fighting brain and productivity drain.

I've seen this happen enough in software companies to know it's already a problem. They want 10x engineers but aren't willing to pay even 2x rates and sure as fuck aren't willing to give them good raises to keep them around.

Trying to browbeat labor into being more productive isn't going to work. Unless they really want the return of how unions used to behave a century ago.
I don’t get how they can trap people into their ecosystem. Does it print STL files, or does it have some way of owning the asset life cycle? Whether I sneakernet an sdcard,m, load via octoprint, or something else, I’m not super locked in. Or does locking in mean “making it so user friendly and easy that you wouldn’t want to use a Marlin firmware printer?” Otherwise it’s just another UI for managing my STLs and slicing. That’s a lot different than an iCloud scenario where all of everything is end to end across the closed device ecosystem. Just the last mile of my STL files is nothing.
Paywalling a news site is understandable - I mean it's a business that needs to make money somehow.

But (mostly) personal blogs? It's insanity that accessing it requires either a medium account (so you can be tracked) or that you use the app (so you can be tracked).
Why though? From a user perspective, it should return a 5xx, not hang endlessly
The Dells weren’t poor either
But those grants specifically influence that which is researched
>> advocating for basically secession and creation of a new country

> Let's be really precise. What you just said is absolutely something that everyone in a free democracy should be free to do as much as they want to their heart's content.

Let's be really precise. Democracy isn't a free ticket to do anything someone wants. And no democracy in the world tolerates challenges to their sovereignty and integrity. I'm seeing this trend of misrepresenting the meaning of democracy to justify international secessionist and often outright terrorist activities.
Only 240K.

The big thing here isn't that they get loans. It's that they can keep taking risks, knowing they'll be OK if they fail.

I can't remember the exact quote, but essentially middle class people have one big shot they can afford to fail at. The children of the wealthy can keep taking them.
Click on suggested query: " What are 5 symptoms of chronic inflammation"

It doesn't really answer but a button says "refer to full source" with this website that appears to open up a PDF version of a pathophys book, neat but legal? Would make sense to train things off of text books but how is this happening and how long will this last?

https://storage.googleapis.com/radiant-ai-pdf-data-prod/raw_...
Isn't that the same thing? /s

One of my moms favorite anecdotes from when I was growing up:

Mom: Just gets don't reading me a National Geographic where they cover evolution. She thinks to herself about how proud she is of explaining it to 5 year old me, thinks I really got it.
Me: Mom, how old were you when you and Dad turned from monkeys?
One trick to deal with the first problem is sending logical decoding messages to yourself. That keeps the retained WAL low. Another potentially useful thing is temporary replication slots which clean themselves up on connection loss. I use those when I don’t need all of the changes. There is also configuration for setting the maximum WAL that’s retained so you don’t murder the server.
I don't have an account there and I am not going to create one
I find the best products are those that are built with humans in mind. Who will be using it, how will they use it, why will they like it. Products/features that are following pure research/data tend to be missing a human element and rarely feel excellent regardless of their market performance.
Liquid Types [1] achieve the same in existing programming languages: no bounds checks at runtime, and reject programs without an in-bounds proof.

For a demo, see "Scrap your Bounds Checks with Liquid Haskell", giving a 6x speed up in high-performance parsing of UDP packets.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37349276 "A Gentle Introduction to Liquid Types"

[2]: https://github.com/Gabriella439/slides/blob/main/liquidhaske... "Scrap your Bounds Checks with Liquid Haskell"
Yes, there's a huge difference between a billion and a million. That's why the headline talking about billionaires as millionaires is dumb.
I worked with accounting enough to know that it is unable to provide a proper analytical framework for social or economic problems. Or, as Lenin put it, "For practical work, we need to have figures ... But we will defer the verification of the accuracy of the figures, the estimated percentage errors, etc., to a later period.”
Isn’t that essentially the same as memorizing the notes for the whole song?

I dunno, I guess it’s useful, but if I were trying to learn to read sheet music it would be so that I could pick up and play.
Keyword syntax in Scheme dialects
With Diplomacy. Also. One needs to stay within the same domain of language and knowledge, f.e. draw graphs and throw figures and formula equations and show him the impact of the wrong decisions compared to the right decisions.

Try to understand his point of view, from his perspective. Why has he decided that way and not the other? All answers are valid except "'cause he's sh*t dunning his krugers at all occasions"
I had to modify the flake.nix to get "npm run build" to work