skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I even got it in my head that I could theoretically own and run a working PDP-11.

Me too. Thankfully, buying old PDP-11 manuals on eBay and assembling a PiDP-11 satisfied that urge. I also live close to two good computer museums that have plenty of PDPs to poke around on, when they're working. Watching the graybeards diagnose and fix things on these 50+ year old machines reminds me why I don't want to do that at home.
Safety standards, lawsuits and a generally unfavorable trade environment
The reactionary futurism of Marc Andressen
The Supreme Court must decide if it wants to own Twitter
I don't want to buy other devices. I want to buy Apple devices. I think they're just better phones in every way. I should have every right to buy an Apple device and run whatever software I want on it. I shouldn't be forced to use their software and I certainly shouldn't have less choices just because they want to "own" their "platform". These "all or nothing, take it or leave it" propositions are hostile to consumers and should be resisted at all costs. I should be able to get an iPhone without iOS.

I sure as hell won't "mind my business" while my freedoms are being denied by rent seeking corporations. If it was up to me, that'd be illegal. Hopefully the EU will put an end to the notion that they can "own" markets. Don't know what spirit possessed them to do it but I ain't gonna argue with a good thing.
It's usage is mostly rest api's in silicon valley.
It's third party ecosystem is basically dying (especially noticeable when compared to ruby on rails). Job hiring for Django is disappearing from the non startup arena, which is especially bad for career developers since you need a career pathway.
The most insightful piece of analysis I’ve ever seen was at Facebook, from the rockstars who were looking at Instagram for the first time — a couple of years after the acquisition, when it was time to apply some informed strategic thinking.

The graph was super simple but very powerful:

* On the x-axis, you had how many followers (or views) a poster had: me and my 5 followers would be on the left-most bucket, someone popular was in 50-100, 100-200, etc., until the fashion brands, footballers in the 1M+ bucket at the far right of the graph.

- The y-axis was the total number of views over a period.

So, if you tend to see friends posting, there would be a big lump at the left of the graph. If the platform were like traditional media, there would be a lump at the right. As things were, the lump was moving slowly towards the right.

The problem was not that footballers and models don’t make good content — they do. The problem is that if you see that, you don’t post. So, the overall amount of content posted was dropping. Why put your wonky cake next to Amaury Guichon sculpting a peacock with nothing but chocolate and edible paint?

I think there’s a big cultural difference there, one that Americans won’t instinctively appreciate. Of course, you want your cooking show to feature the best of the best, but to keep people engaged? Ask funny people to mess up and tease each other instead. “The Great British Bake-off” isn’t successful because the cakes are world-class. But have people who can riff for five minutes on penis-related puns because a cake looks like it should be blurred to appear on the BBC, and people behind their screen will spout their own joke like it’s a Reddit thread.
I built a qmk keyboard with a SNES port, I can debug my code with a SNES controller :]
What share of web apps actually need to span two or more machines? Something like 0.1%?
Hating the quote does not make it less true. 9 women may be able to make babies 9x faster than 1 woman, but they still cannot manage to make one in a single month. The quote is meant to point out that scaling is often limited by factors in addition to production capacity. Sometimes throwing money at the problem can solve it. Sometimes not. Sometimes there is only one person in the world, who is the rate limiting factor. Or a raw material or process. Manufacturing physical goods is a series of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem nested like Matryoshka dolls.
What if I would never pay for it in the first place? Then I'm not depriving you of anything
There is one edge case where comparison makes sense: read only workloads. If you have a large, mostly static database (e.g. a car parts website) it can make sense to just sync a Sqlite file across all your servers.

On the other hand, read replicas are also the easy case for database clusters. And just making your one database server bigger also scales a lot, there is nothing stopping you from adding a terabyte of RAM.
I don’t understand how there is such an assumed 1 to 1 relationship with getting lots of followers and making lots of money. Where the fuck is the money coming from??
And that's why, kids, it takes me always a week to draw a simple diagram.

That arrow is unaligned, I have to fix it.

I forgot to add that component, now I have to shuffle things around.

Let's group all these blocks together so I can move them. Wait, I need to add another block inside, I have to ungroup them and shuffle.

etc etc etc
Microsoft Has a Software Quality Problem(2018)
There's some quote somewhere along the lines of "classical books being the ones you want to have already read" which is basically saying you want the kudos of having reading war and peace, pride and prejudice, les miserables, great expectations, etc, even though you may hate the experience, or have no interest.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1035168-a-classic-is-someth...
It doesn't look like obesity is infectious, so calling it a pandemic doesn't seem appropriate. The cure is eating less and exercising more. Many have done it.
The best (non-serious) theory I’ve heard is that his parents are coordinating his conviction to get themselves off the hook. To be clear that’s dark humor and not a serious claim, but it sure explains his defense a lot better than any alternative.
Cross-eyed the picture i can say there is more than 3 just spots.
Or the government could just pay people to do the work that would benefit society, instead of private investors looking to make a profit.
I can't downvote, nor flag. I'll leave you to your work.
There's so, so much missing context from almost every "you should use this tech" post. Software engineering is such an incredibly broad profession. People working on firmware for embedded medical devices and people making line of business software for an insurance company have wildly different choke points on productivity and utility. Budgets vary too. Maybe scaling SQLite can be done for low hosting costs if you just invest 200 hours of labor, but for most orgs, the 200 hours of labor are way more expensive than the hosting costs, so just pay for Postgres on AWS and don't worry about it.
anybody whos used the git command knows its crap, no need to bork the guy
Yep, I commented here that my company, Care Weather, is working on that problem. Goal is to provide hourly updates of ocean surface winds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38038558
for a moment I thought about SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
I'm glad the article had a plot of the bird's path. It looks almost like a hypotrochoid that you could draw with a Spirograph set.
And every time you think of reaching for it, think “what evolutionary desire was I about to short circuit, and what important aspect of being a human does that circumvent?”
There are not that many reserved words, and you can always use a different word ;)
> A recent SMBC seems to me to explain it well: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/esteem-2

The bonus panel is hilarious!
The guy already had his bail revoked over witness tampering. Judge wants to decide what parts of SBF’s testimony he’ll admit.
I've ran an online business

If we released our source code it would do absolutely nothing, since you don't have our business partners or customer base. All you could do is publish pages that look like ours
cries in New York
Wait, so you are saying that any time the public pushes back on a new potentially dangerous technology it's a "vetocracy"?
GitHub has done exactly that for several years: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependab...

However, that approach will only find vulnerable dependencies in Git repositories, not ones that exist in already-published binary artifacts.
Just a warning for what it’s worth: I have heard of some heinous dark patterns with cancelling Amazon Prime. (This thread is reminding me to do that myself.) I would be skeptical of any “Success!” messages until I’ve crossed several layers of “are you really super duper sure with a cherry on top?”-hell. And even then... probably wanna double-check.
> I don't think scrubbing will keep him from losing data when one of those drives fails or gets corrupted.

It pains me to see a ZFS pool with no redundancy because instead of being "blissfully" ignorant of bit rot, you'll be alerted to its presence and then have to attempt to recover the files manually via the replica on the other NAS.

I appreciate that the author recognizes what his goals are, and that pool level redundancy is not one of them, but my goals are very different.
> There is a special pain in seeing ideas you believe in deformed for such purposes. Andreessen and I are not that far apart on some of the basics. For years, I’ve been arguing for politics to take technology more seriously, to see new inventions as no less necessary than social insurance and tax policy in bringing about a worthier world. Too often, we debate only how to divvy up what we already have. We have lost the habit of imagining what we could have; we are too timid in deploying the coordinated genius and muscle of society to pull possibilities from the far future into the near present.

This isn't just some anti-tech screed; Ezra Klein writes a fair amount about the "abundance agenda" of a better future and that per force includes technology. But it's not as simple as "tech - good, anything that stands in the way of any tech - bad".
GM's Cruise Suspends All Driverless Car Operations
By the time Community Notes are added, the damage is done. We see it with inflammatory tweets from Elon all the time:

- Tweet inflammatory thing not based in fact
- Followers eat it up and retweet
- A day or two later, Community Notes says “well actually”

By the time we get to number three, the original message has done the rounds and Elon won’t be walking it back by any means.
Remember to add a catch-all for the 'other' accounts, so when someone emails Steve@surname.com instead of SteveN@surname.com, you will catch it and forward it.

I have gotten the domain of my surname 20+ years ago. I offered to make a mailbox to one cousin at the time and he said no. Reading your question I realized that I dodged a big bullet as he turned out to become one of the best guitar players to walk this earth and I wouldn't want to be his IT support for life, OR give him MY domain (and reverse roles - his domain - and I would be the 'cousin' with the loaner mailbox)
It has to dry slowly to crystalise properly. Hanging damp hessian over the freshly painted wall is a common practice.

It's the same when using lime mortors, you are generally looking for a three day cure for mortor. Lime does not like the sun, wind, or rain (basically any weather!) during this time.
>Even something as benign as posting here on HN entails editing to avoid downvotes.

Just edit to make sure you are clear in your thoughts put into text. Don't censor yourself, karma points are largely meaningless anyway. You don't get to trade them in for an eraser or anything. Speak your mind, that's the main benefit of the platform.
Everyone is getting paid by the number of impressions - not the quality of them. With incentives like this..
Steam libraries with hundreds or thousands of unplayed games. I do understand it, I think, but I'm glad I'm not afflicted.
Off of just the screenshot, inconsistent spacing and poor font contrast stick out to me
That's true for many behavior patterns. For me, collecting physical books, ebooks, electronics, tools, etc., before I was so burnt out I also try to learn a lot of different languages. Goal-less life leads me astray. I'm still goal-less though, just not doing that anymore. I have collected too much and burnt out.
You're absolutely right! I've always thought it came from the Spanish "Colon" (Columbus), but it's from the Latin colonus ("tiller of the soil, farmer"). Elonize still makes, ahem, a great neologism.
I share his concern for GitHub being overused. But that has nothing to do with git.

He should simply do what the git devs originally did: create yet another SCM tailored to his needs.

Or alternatively use am existing tool that fits him.
olive oil has been widely available for the last 7000 years, butter for ten thousand years, but the obesity pandemic is only 50 years old
Perhaps this is something you already know but nevertheless as long as you are able to relax and remain calm throughout the procedure nobody should stop you from choosing to just take some benzos and do some breathing exercises throughout the procedure.

(Not a doctor but I worked briefly on endoscope tech in the past) The use of propofol depends greatly on their protocol and the country you are in, but it is not something mandatory to perform a colonoscopy. In some places they give it to everyone in others they give to people that are at a higher risk of freaking out and messing with the procedure. My point is just that it is not indissociable from the procedure itself.
ChatGPT = Cunningham bait
Honestly, I don't see the reason, or the need, and I've used a dozen or more languages at this point.
I think it's very relevant to the line "I mean they’ve been shipping the same game every year for all this time too" because every year they literally resell their old games.
The system of likes/dislikes, upvotes/downvotes, etc are a feedback mechanism specifically designed to leverage the fact that we are predisposed by evolution to worry about that exact thing.

So while I accept it to the extent that I still post here, I feel like 'don't worry about it' completely misses the point of 'it'. It exists specifically for you to worry about.
It is impossible to do C interop without a C compiler, by the way.
Show HN: Encrypt and upload files to IPFS from browser
Hi HN, I'm building ThirdCloud with the goal to replace Google Drive for everyone: more private, cheaper & maybe better UI/UX.

So far, I've successfully implemented the main feature, which involves uploading and downloading files. Files are encrypted before being sent to IPFS network.

Would like to hear your thoughts on this proof of concept.
SBF is undoubtedly getting all the coaching he could use from his lawyers - I doubt that journalists will make a difference here.
I suppose it would be a problem if scientific progress only happened by the 'scientific dilettantes' who managed to gather sufficient funds ahead of time. I can't imagine how bad things would be if most scientists couldn't live from the royalties on scientific articles.
Waymo claims to already have a better record than human drivers. How long before we read a similar case where a driver is accused of creating unsafe conditions by taking control of the car?
It's a "fake PR stunt": Artists hate Meta's AI data deletion process
HN is a community of people, and communities do form a consensus on issues.

Whether HN as a community has formed a consensus on this issue I don't know, but it's worth noting that different communities absolutely form opinions on issues because if you don't know that you can easily and unknowingly become susceptible to that community's bias.
More than that. Think of how many fraud and AML careers he managed to catapult. All of a sudden, more AML directors know what python is!
Reducing copyright to 10 years would be a good start. Disallow software patents and make it much easier/cheaper for patents to be disputed by prior art without having to pay to go to court.
That is the exact opposite result of every single experience and anecdote with the cops I have ever had or heard from friends or family

The reason is that sitting in a car, playing solitaire or Pokemon go, collecting huge amounts of cash for doing nothing is even easier (and rewarding to most police officers) than solving an easy crime.
Yes but in English means more : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt
simonw's sqlite-utils can be helpful for executing table changes:

https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#...

https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli-reference.ht...

> Also it doesn't allow you to use multiple application servers.

Not in the same way you use postgres etc, but you can do it with sharding or with LiteFS, but you do have to consider carefully how you scale your app.

I'm not _really_ disagreeing with you, but I think you're painting with a bit too broad of a brush.
Paternal Involvement and Its Effects on Children's Education (Piece) [pdf]
As I just welcomed my second child and I'm experiencing these first precious, fleeting moments again I'd like to shout-out to all the parents out there.

Thank you for all the hard work; you make a difference!
Firefox 119 unleashes PDF prowess and Sync sorcery
It would be funny if the endgame here is Elon Musk tunnels and people just end up stuck in robo Tesla taxi jams underground with no sunlight.
I appreciate the post.

I last made a Throttle for a HOTAS setup. Key was I had a functional end to end prototype using Arduino, ultrasonic sensor, and drawer slide in 3 hours and started using it immediately.

Every piece of the prototype was eventually replaced and my "final" version is a mess of wires and incomplete, but I got use out of the early versions as a proof of concept early and never bought the off the shelf alternative.
I have lived in America all my life and have never even once heard somebody talk about a week number. The only exception I know of is that electronics geeks sometimes know about the concept because often electronic components have a date code that is the year and week of their manufacture. This is where I got the idea anyway. So, if there is a US standard, most Americans are not aware of it -- even electronics geeks would only bring it up when actively decoding some markings on a suspicious chip.
Good point. When I'm going back and forth writing code and checking its assembly, I also reason about the compiler almost like an intelligent being:

"oh, it doesn't see this condition, so if I help it a little bit, then... Ah now it unrolled, and inlined, but accidentally trashed instruction cache, how will I convince it not to..."
The vast majority of my development time for any project is setting up a server, database, web framework, etc. It's a massive pain in the ass and gets in the way of what I'm actually trying to do.
Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop
Aside from the usual "piracy is not theft" argument, which I won't get into, you seem to be missing the fact that in a significant number of cases piracy actually drives legal sales. I have seen quite a few people who pirated a game and liked it so much that when its sequel came out they bought it on day 1 at full price, or recommended it to their friends who in turn proceeded to buy it. The movie/TV/anime merchandise market is larger than ever and I'm pretty sure even pirates like to spend a few bucks here and there if they can afford it; we already know merch is far more profitable than streaming service royalties for most musicians, so I would expect the same to be true for other parts of the media industry.
The non linearity intuitively makes sense. If I (naively) assume that DNA has some built in correcting codes (iirc it at least has some redundancy), one would be able to damage it up until the error rate that can be corrected without any deleterious effect.
>to have all of their line-items exhaustively audited

Historically, yes, that's the entire point of the movement. Audit everything in the goal of doing the most good and not wasting money on frivolities. The auditing approach faded as the movement has grown and became more longtermist, though I (somewhat) expect it to come back now that we're post-ZIRP, post-SBF.
DuckDB's CSV Sniffer: Automatic Detection of Types and Dialects
The best theory I've heard is he's banking on a hung jury. Only have to convince/persuade one person to get off and he's been able to weasel his way through life so far. As for the pretrial stuff I think that's just not realizing he's in real trouble not just trying to convince an investor to give him money to play with.
Even if they share the same (legal) name, there are always different names to be called, like a James@.. can be Jim@.. or Jimmy@..
When Coffeezilla got him to say on air[0] that the money treated as high risk / no risk the same in terms of repayments, that was a huge moment.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_jPzBZSIo&t=573s
I highly suggest those interested in this topic check out the blockdiag group of applications (blockdiag, nwdiag, seqdiag, rackdiag) Its been a year or so since I last did an eval of all the options and I keep returning to them. I prefer to have git post-recieve hooks that auto rebuild the images on commit. I liked mermaid but found some major limitations but the brilliantly named python "diagrams" is something I use sometimes as well. With all the font/image improvements you can use on both you can get some very nice stuff going.
There's a vast and profitable opportunity awaiting the man who can connect "collecting hobbyists" with generative/AI production technology. A veritable money machine.
I toss based on how hard I feel it will be to get it back, and just accept it as part of the cost of life.

Still can be annoying, though.
-- if using `zfs send` to create the replica, which the author of the post is not.
> Go to the American south and the Ford vs Chevy vs Dodge is a major identity for a lot of people. You'll see ridiculous bumper stickers like "I'd rather push a Ford than drive a Chevy." or "Ford. Like Chevy but for men."

For what it's worth, I live in the Deep South and while I do see bumper stickers of that sort every now and then, the sentiment behind it is generally just banter. Most people with one probably have three or four identities more important than "I'm a Dodge guy", whether it be "I'm a Christian", "I'm a father", or what have you.
You're right, Waymo and Cruise and Venture Cap are on a moral crusade to prevent driving fatalities, this isn't about high margin robotaxis and delusional hopes of accidentally creating AGI with a CV NN. And I agree with you, what the cruise vehicle did in this case, a human would totally do exactly the same thing. I mean humans are fucking neanderthals, have you ever seen one behind the fucking wheel of a car? They can't go more than 30 seconds without nearly crashing, and they only know how to drive in a 4km^2 zone. I personally know that every time I let my tesla go FSD, I'm only intervening every 90 seconds because of the unreasonably high standards I hold it to. Self driving cars only need to make the right decision like ~80% of the time. That's good enough, it's better than most human drivers.

And by the way, there's a cheaper and more effective way to reduce traffic fatalities, and it uses fewer precious resources, energy and land, emits less carbon dioxide, and stimulates economies but it's some kind of stealthtech from the 1800's. (choo choo)
Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Peacock, et al. or SFlix.
> Ever heard of second order effects? Dumb laws have consequences.

What exactly is dumb about "you can't collect user data wholesale, but if you want to do it, you have to ask the user for consent"?

Why are so willing to blame the law for something that the industry is doing, and you're giving the industry the carte blanche to do whatever they please

> I don't need to invent conspiracies and accuse the industry that provides me goods and services I actually want.

There's no conspiracy. The conspiracy is literally what you're saying: that the law makes the good benevolent industry put up these cookie banners riddled with dark patterns that list hundreds of data brokers. Instead of, you know, literally following the law.