skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duckdb has also gotten mindshare as an engine to read Parquet from data lakes. The fact that it's embeddable enables some very creative uses. It helped that for a time DuckDB was substantially quicker than ClickHouse on reading Parquet. That advantage has eroded with recent improvements on ClickHouse Parquet support. I expect the gap will close quickly.
They're targeting SaaS and SaaS means traditionally a signup is needed to be a customer which turns into a contact.
Sounds like triton
I know this is the prevailing narrative (and I am guilty of it as well), I have just one question then: why are reasonable and intelligent academics/engineers working on things like MetaGov, https://metagov.org? These people are not grifting, as far as I can tell.
> And how about browser-specific extensions that make sites unusable from other browsers (sorry, you cannot view your gmail with Firefox. Please install google chrome)? This has happened, and as soon as lawyers find a way out of monopoly issues, it will happen again.

If anything would rile the regulators, Google making Gmail compatible only with Chrome would do it.
Self-determination and all that. It’s not for weaponry but instead cleaner energy, or would neighbors rather have the byproduct of coal derived energy?
As long as they have the majority of the market along with majority of the profit, without any real chance from any other competitors, feel free to call them whatever you want - it won't change reality.

On a separate note this is not the website to send thinly veiled threads to other, especially not without any reason.
Yes you are essentially correct. One more concept that is useful to consider, going back even a little bit further is the concept of the "revolution of mass and scale."
> There is more to work (and life) than productivity. Perhaps the greatest virtue of remote work is that it leads to happier employees. (…) Indeed, several surveys have found employees are willing to accept pay cuts for the option of working from home. Having satisfied employees on slightly lower pay, in turn, might be a good deal for corporate managers.

The author recognises productivity isn’t the only metric that matters and that work from home does have an effect on other areas, yet still chose to call it an “illusion” in the title and exclusively mentioning productivity in the subtitle.
Funnily enough the current webp situation is the perfect counterpoint and sort of speaks to the fairly unregulated way CVEs are assigned. Multiple CVEs for the same core issue playing havoc and hampering remediation. A more robust system would indeed promise that we're all talking about "the same bug"; we aren't, currently.

Then there's the erroneous CVEs closer to what OP is talking about, like more recent CVEs registered for deliberately vulnerable apps like OWASP Juice Shop etc. In practice, the current system gets a lot right, but its lack of scrutiny creates issues.
The Economist preaching to the faithful.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610591 is one example? No idea, I see nothing worth flagging in the story or comments, I clicked 'vouch' now.
>claiming it's not open if it's not MIT? Automated cloud provider community sentiment management accounts.

No no, we're just zealots easily worked up.
“Late stage” implies we are in the end stage of something. I see nothing to indicate that we are about to surpass capitalism and get something new, merely that it has some issues and many people wish and hope for an alternative.
I've been listening to a very good IPv6 related podcast with knowledgeable hosts (IPv6 Buzz) and all it's done is convince me that IPv6 is a poorly thought out mistake.

Every other episode seems to be about a different new RFC that's replacing another RFC because the original ended up having a bunch of holes and edge cases. That's somewhat understandable for a new protocol but the protocol have been around for almost 30 years and is just so overly complex that it's rife with these situations.

As an example the most recent such episode was on rfc6724[0] which describes these convoluted algorithms systems are supposed to follow to determine which of their many assigned IPv6 addresses to use for a particular connection and also which of many possible destination addresses to use. Just reading the introduction makes your eyes water with how overly complex and prone to nasty failure cases (what if the source address isn't what you expect and somehow the connection routes around your firewall?) the whole situation they've created is.

0: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6724
NumPy is very Fortran-like, it's probably not the best example. Sure, it avoids some Fortran issues, but it also inherits some baggage from Python. Personally, working with both regularly, I don't really find it more expressive or safer than the common Fortran equivalents. And in Fortran there's less mental overhead about whether a variable is a list or a NumPy array, which does not matter until it does. Ditto for row/column-major order. Overall, in terms of ergonomics and ease of use, both are fairly similar.
Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
Reminder that https://merrysky.net/ still captures some of DarkSky's UI innovations.
Consumeraffairs review of battery pack replacement costs (https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/ev-battery-replac...) implies that this costs $13k-$17k, so much more than engine replacements for old cars, as long as we're talking about battery packs which have appropriate capacity for full EV, not a hybrid or simply putting in a much smaller capacity than originally installed.
Show HN: GitWit – AI controlled Docker containers that write to Git
Open Source knowledge sharing. I like it:

"Unleash is open-source, and so are these principles. Have something to contribute? Open a PR or discussion on our Github."
I'm in, now :

thanks for the discount
> but when they wonder why it's hard to lose weight

Dude but it's their problem. You can get heroin and crack on the streets right now. I do not want things to be banned just because some dumbass is doing it wrong.

Literally reminds me of the anti-cannabis activist who's biggest argument was that "I smoked some weed, went home and they said my relative died and I laughed. Now I think nobody should ever use cannabis and it should be banned completely."
Is this meant to be decentralized to avoid shutdown? Where is the engine itself hosted? Ens is just a naming system and ipfs is just a file address system right? So the engine itself still needs to be hosted somewhere? Would like to hear more about it, but no info available on the site.
Many people outside of the finance industry first learned about SWIFT when it was in the news that Russian banks had been excluded from the network as a consequence of their country’s violations of international law and attempt to conquer Ukraine.

SWIFT’s relevance to cryptocurrency is most likely the cryptocurrency community’s aspirations of creating an alternate method for transferring wealth that is not limited by international borders or implicitly required to respect international sanctions. Legally, citizens in countries respecting the international law can still be liable for violating sanctions regardless of the method they use to transfer assets, so I don’t completely understand the how cryptocurrency is a superior way to launder money when the transactions occur on a public block chain.
Tell HN: Corporate Transparency Act Will Be Bad
Can't help but foresee how the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires business owners to register their ownership information in 2024 will increase authoritarianism in the US. It will inevitably lead to not only more taxes but more cancel culture and if you don't think so I'd love to hear why not.
Qbit search works fine, why would I choose a rewrite?
> But web3 cannot be the future of anything, it's pure grift. There's no business, nobody's busy: it's all smoke and mirror.

Meanwhile, Central Banks all around the world are rolling blockchain-based systems to use as the future infrastructure of all their transactions, bypassing external middlemen like Visa and Mastercard. There is real tech coming from web3 and P2P computing will take over cloud computing sooner or later.
Ukraine Situation: Rumors Swirl of New Attacks on Black Sea Fleet
A big pet peeve of mine are articles that mention salary in US dollars without any context. It's common sense that $2 in Kenya goes much further than $2 in the US.

Doing some cursory googling - Kenya's median salary is around $900 monthly, while USA's is a little more than $4000. So the $2 figure in the Time article is actually $8+ for a Kenyan, which is higher than USA's federal minimum wage.

Alternatively, we could also normalise by Purchasing Power Parity between USA and Kenya, which is around 3.12, so $2 becomes $6+

Are these figures low? Sure. But exploitative? Don't think so.
Welcome! And thanks to comprev who has laid it all out above.
That doesnt make much sense to me. Google's interests are not microsoft's or DDG's interests and to hold up Google as some sort of ground truth in what the optimal search results for a given query are is, as proven by Kagi, highly deluded and also quite subjective.

If true however, it does go to show that Google is really a monopolist in the search space as well... and to substantiate this claim would go a long way into proving that.
10 years from now: "GPT-12, write me a browser. Make it like the latest chrome, but make it not do this annoying thing. Build me a github site with full documentation. It should work on Mac, Linux and Windows and support all the latest standards."
Immich is the killer app that will kick-start the self-hosting revolution
well, the anti nuclear movement makes no sense anyways, so yes they'd probably rather inhale coal particles than have nuclear "close" by
It would be nice if this could be done by terminal multiplexers such as screen or tmux. Some users might not be able to depend on a window manager, i.e. if they're working with a physical VT100 terminal over a serial connection.
>at the end they are all selling the same thing, the idea of some happiness or entertainment

They aren't selling anything. They are simply feeding idle brains with content in exchange for shotgunning topics for ad revenue.
Alcohol is a drug, literally. So is caffeine and nicotine.
Hi Joshua,

My name is Peter Sherman. I wrote a non-HTML, non-CSS, non-JavaScript browser several years ago (in theory, it could be easily adapted to those standards by including code and hooks for the appropriate parsers and interpreters. (Software Engineering side-observation: Why aren't browsers delivered as independently functional component parts, that is, why are the codebases for most browsers that use a lot of libraries typically tightly coupled to those codebases?))

Anyway, point is, I may be able to help you with your quest if you reach out to me... my email address is:

peter.d.sherman@gmail.com

I can give you all of the basic theories with respect to what you're trying to do, and hopefully make the software engineering process a little bit easier by showing you how to appropriately divide ("divide and conquer") the entire task into much more managable, approachable, and understandable subcomponents...

Let me know, and I'll try to help you!

Anyone else who is similarly curious can also reach out to me, via email, too!

If more than one person is interested -- perhaps we should put together a group?
sure :eye-roll:
Eastern europe and the US make up a mere ~8% of the worlds population
My favourite example of this bullshit is Duchamp's "The Fountain".

In 1917 the "artist" Marcel Duchamp purchased an urinal in a New York store and submitted it as a work of art to an exhibition. And he got away with it, big time.

The urinal became considered by specialists one of the most influential works of art of the 20th century and went to be on permanent exhibition at the Georges Pompidou centre, in Paris.

In 2008 another "artist", Pierre Pinoncelli, went to that centre with an hammer and damaged Duchamp's "art". He claimed that his vandalism was also a work of art because Duchamp's urinal had lost it's subversive value.

For some, Pinoncelli also got away with it. It would be fun if the center would put his hammer in exhibition, close to the urinal.
This already exists today where you can do custom scoring and some companies (e.g. Red Hat) already do so.
CVSSv4 fixes some things, yes, but not the underlying issue which isn't so much a technical challenge (partially, sure) but a shift in policies and thinking.

The current model of "we need to get to 0 vulnerabilities in our scans" will lead to malicious compliance[1] and worse results compared to being able to focus on the few vulnerabilities that are really important.
At least that's my very strong opinion.

[1] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9weGi0csBZM>
It also comes from the top. Those with capital are looking to invest in “X”. Even if I’m doing “Y” I feel the peer pressure to add “X” to it, because people will tell me my idea isn’t sustainable without it.
I think this is what I was trying to point out. Engines are everywhere.

Winter and road salt ends way more vehicle lives than engine failure where I live.

My 2011 Ford Focus, for example, is slowly returning to nature. I can find dozens of them with engines in great shape, but also with body problems. Body work is incredibly expensive.
The streaming bait and switch is another example of Silicon Valley 'disrupting' entertainment by ignoring its history, and then throwing ads back in claiming there was no other way.

The arts have only ever flourished under formal systems of patronage; the need for immediate commercial viability is what has led us to a landscape of every service offering 10 comic book/fantasy novel adaptations for every 1 original screenplay.
Honestly, I feel like the German government would be perfectly happy buying nuclear power from Poland.

It's the ultimate NIMBY.

German greens would hate it, but I doubt it'd arouse the same anti-nuclear rabble with the general public as a plant on German soil.
There is however a problem. More and more marinas are enforcing a no live aboard rule. (~>95%) so it is very hard to find a place to legally live on your boat. Extra fees for that, when possible. Those rulings also lead to the marinas that allow it, to be in sketchier areas, industrial even, so as in a big city, you have neighborhood issues. The communities are pretty interesting though. A lot of do it yourselfers. Which should be noted for anyone dreaming of this life style. There is, a lot of maintenance. (Salt and sun, being your direct threats.)
Typescript is limited by V8 capabilities, and the constraints of a dynamic language JIT. To achieve best perfomance one needs to write C++ code as native modules.

Interoperable means a lot even inside Apple ecosystem, bringing all those C, Objective-C and now C++ code with ease into Swift projects.

Using Metal from Swift, althought implemented in Objective-C and C++, is already a productivity boost compared to anything that Microsoft has ever produced for .NET in regards to DirectX, not even XNA.
It's interesting how many drinkers judge smokers as unhealthy, when they can suffer from the same consequences.

Cancer and heart disease... maybe it's less, but it's still A LOT, like 1/3 of the total cancer cases (obvious issues with this metric aside, that's insane). Alcohol certainly causes heart disease.

Either can burn through your esophagus... there's just so much bad in both.
While I agree, I must say that GBA emulation is a bad example here.

It’s one of the few things you can "easily" sideload on an iPhone without jailbreaking using AltStore (the emulator is named Delta, btw and it is excellent).

I will not say that AltStore is really practical to use but GBA and GameCube emulators are basically the only things you can sideload without a lot of pain (along with UTM, a virtual machine runner.
People may hate on Palantir but sounds like they get it. I agree that the next step is going to be the interaction of multiple models. We have popular models that have been generalized across domains. The next step is models for specific domains, specific enterprise data sources, individual data sets. Each model has the opportunity to leverage the more generalized model above it. And if done properly, the models will be able to then build back references showing what data validates its output as a source of truth.
People should do whatever they please as long as they do not pose danger or inconvenience to other life forms on this earth.
Pinterest uses different domains for every country so you'd need to add around a dozen qualifiers to get the big ones excluded.
Typescript is a safe bet.

I think for mobile apps Flutter is a better tech stack than React Native though and can survive if Google doesn’t give up on it.
US makes up a mere ~4% of the worlds population
Blob-like animal may hint at origins of neurons
Obviously this is an opportunity for 'investors' to snap up boat slips and jack the rents.
interesting, reminds me of
https://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/kmba-ira-glass-...
> anyone using it immediately gets flagged as not neutral to me

People write and do what they care about. If they claim to be neutural - they are not honest with either themselves either audience.

> The term “late stage capitalism” drives me nuts and anyone using it immediately gets flagged as not neutral to me, injecting their own hopes into what should be a dispassionate analysis.

Do you imply that term "late stage capitalism" implies that it's about to end. Do you also believe that "developing economies" will eventually develop the level of the developed ones? Or that you can sink you watch 5 meter under water which says 5m water resistent? These are misleading descriptions which do decsribe reality. It's only our assumptions about nature of the described reality are false as we base on our understanding of words, not subject of description.
Interesting thing is that most developers are a company of just one person, be it at their free time, contributing to open source or developing a side project. having both capital and labor, we are not capitalists nor socialists. But we can cooperate, which is the free software movement.
For poverty effects to dominate across countries, there would need to be a causal relationship between phasing out leaded petrol and countries' distribution of income; it looks implausible at first glance. It's much easier to phase out leaded petrol than to make persistent changes in the distribution of income. It would be very surprising if all countries not only did so, but did so at the same time.
Lol, good fucking luck with that
Engines are designed and built for cars, but there is a secondary market for stationary engines for various other applications. None of them are large enough markets to design their own engine (even all together), but they are large enough market that if you have already are designing an engine it is worth making a few changes to better serve other markets.

If you buy direct from the manufacture they probably have a custom computer code for generator use. This includes a pin, to select between 50 and 60 hz. If you are buying for a different use you won't get that pin, but might get some other controls not needed on a car (you will have to pay for custom programming of course). You have to check with your manufacture rep to see details - some companies are more interested in this business than others.
Pitch clock and similar rules are not coming to little league, that’s absurd. The pitch clock was implemented because pro games take 3+ hours. Children’s games don’t have time/clock issues, and kids don’t even start pitching their own games until they are 11ish.

Youth baseball is completely different than pros - kids throw way fewer pitches way less frequently. With the exception of extreme high school/college coaches, but those coaches will be extreme regardless.
Shit, I think the best way to fight this is to file bogus CVEs against propertiary software vendors. You'll see the industry demand CVEs be fixed within a month.

You can after-all, file CVEs anonymously. It takes no effort to stand up a fake "research firm", or two, or three doing so.

Bonus points if the CVEs are against all the shitty cybersec scan tools.
Until the manager model decides to outsource the expert models.
OneUptime: Complete open-source observability platform
Let's Look at Cloudformation Loops
On July 26th, AWS announced that AWS CloudFormation was now providing a “loop” syntax. I am very excited about that announcement because for more than 6 years I considered the absence of “loops” as one of the main drawbacks of CloudFormation compared to Terraform (along with its inability to manage a multi-account/multi-region stack). Of course, let’s be fair, CloudFormation also has huge advantages like being simpler and far more robust than Terraform due to its ability to rollback on failure.
It wasn’t suing for going nuclear but using funds from the renewables subsidies.
Read only connection?
HTML is not a configuration format. Tags are fine for text markup.
The message I took away, is that we are screwed as long as we continue to let those with power make decisions based off their short term interests. 'genius' billionaires especially.
Apparently the workers were still well paid.

But this exploitation is everywhere.

The resources of my car have been extracted from another country and only a handful profit from that.
This is equivalent to shrinkflation: pay the same, get less. Streaming platforms want to retain most users, but also extract more value from them. Slowly a new threshold for what's "normal" is set, and perhaps then -more- adds can be added. There's no need to speculate where things go from there. Just look at where cable TV is.
It's about keeping danger to the athlete to a moderate level.
The line has to be drawn somewhere because a pro athlete will do the dumbest thing to gain an advantage. And with doping, we've nearly seen where this can end with pro bicycle riders like Bjarne with a hematocrit of 64%.

Some sports ban certain techniques to protect athletes, just some examples:
* Backflip in figure skating
* Sommersault in longjump
* Spinning javelin in javelin throw
* Cartwheel in shot put
Actually the engine itself is also decentralized, there are multiple nodes running the search index over the network. There will be more docs coming out.
I would estimate that the vast majority of drinkers and maybe the majority of average people think drinking is healthy in moderation. Most of those think 1-2 drinks actually makes you healthy.

Almost everyone I know would be surprised that drinking over 2-3 ever is considered dangerous drug abuse, and even in the 1-2 range there's enough risk to be concerned about cancer.
That’s the very goal of IPFS: hosting is distributed. Every node taking part in the IPFS network may or may not have pieces of this particular website.

Eth.link seems to be a centralized proxy enabling you to access that without an IPFS/EthDNS browser.

It should also be noted that what is hosted is a simple list of hashes with a name (and a size). The search engine is trivially looking through the name and displaying matching hashes.

Then, your bittorrent client try to find any torrent matching the hash (this is the magnet protocol).

So, yeah, you download something from nowhere. This is the real "cloud" we have been expecting for the last 20 years ;-)
I know, that's why I thanked this poster for adding some links that are easier to understand.
won’t watch it with ads. can’t imagine handing over more cash than i already do to amazon. so, guess i’ll just have to focus on the other many channels i subscribe to.