skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "hinternet" is a cool concept, but there's something missing from
its account.

On one side we have the cultured elites of academia, the military and
government - as rightful founders.

On the other, the unwashed masses, immigrants of the Eternal
September. Eventually this hoi polloi of hucksters, chancers and
grifters became naturalised as the businesses and bankers in the new
world.

The dotcom era is a colonisation story and the elites are the
aboriginal natives driven off their own land. It sure fits a "woke"
narrative.

But what's missing from this fairy-tale is the actual real people.

The truth is, dotcom, Web2.0 and the empire building between 1997 and
about 2010 was still a marginal affair, where existing money and power
moved into the internet, along with a handful of rugged
"entrepreneurs" (as we like to call ourselves around here).

The 99% remained spectators caught between the Scylla and Charibdes,
and now they are corralled into ranches, all lovingly watched over...

The potential for a "people's internet" still remains, but we have not
solved many (indeed any) of the classical problems of freeloaders,
tragedy of the commons.... and at this point I think "Web 3.0 and
blockchain web" is dead (?)

A good start to moving things forward to an internet that is once
again public, high-quality and large might be looking more closely at
the history/narrative of the internet and who the real stakeholders
are.
"We moved all the options into a screen. That's minimalism right?"

Sure, if your definition of minimalism is the physical aesthetic of the car when it's turned off and you don't need to interact with it in any way.
Could someone please explain how this works? How do the physical buttons control the touchscreen?
Not sure talking longer is the goal. More so, the focus and separation of each facilitates a interplay and dynamic with which an attention window on a segmented linear response (be A, B and C) cannot be individually represent nearly as rhobustly (the main inference is the primary focus). Would love to hear some other opinions chime in here.
That might be what some people are looking for.
This is the most awesome approach for rounded corners: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/roundy.html
It's relevant because they wouldn't be relying on terrestrial telescopes in the first place if they had access to space telescopes.

Why do they not have access to space telescopes? because they are currently extremely expensive to build and launch. Cheaper launches could also indirectly make the build cost a lot cheaper. It would allow them to iterate the design and send more units of the same models/design and reduce the design/research cost per unit.
Watch out for any of those dangly bits getting caught on the lift, I almost got dragged by my backpack strap a few years ago. IMO better to lose the gear.
> Cloud sells egress bandwidth at an enormous markup. Meanwhile ingress is free. If this were a technical limitation ingress would be billed too because there's nothing asymmetric about the Internet.

Symmetry is the entire problem.

1) to maintain settlement-free peering, you need traffic-symmetry. Amazon — on their own - transmits far more data than they receive. They benefit far more on this account from ingress traffic than more egress. Hence, the economic signal that ingress is free.

2) If you have unbalanced network traffic, your scaling factor becomes the transmit direction that is more heavily utilized. A 100gbps circuit can generally send and receive 100gbps simultaneously. But it can’t be used to send 150gbps and receive 50gbps. So if you have a bunch of people all wanting to transmit from your circuit far more than they receive, you have to upgrade your circuits and routers earlier than you otherwise would for a given aggregate amount of traffic. This is expensive, but adding more ingress traffic is free.
You are right about that. My post was answering a poster about "how would Columbus feel that we went to the moon but not to Mars?" The 27 year timeframe is an analogy comparing the distance to the moon vs the distance to Mars, and relating it back to the timeframe it took Columbus to do his famous voyage.
I don't know which models or years they did it in, but they deleted the stalk on some cars, and moved the signals onto the touch area on the steering wheel.
The article is pretty light on details and pretty heavy on empty phrases like "To each their own, we guess. Like it or hate it, owners are free to personalize their vehicles". As a Hacker News reader, I'm mostly interested in how this "hack" works, but the article unfortunately doesn't offer any details on that (ok, at least they warn you that the video is in Mandarin, so a few seconds saved there).
Uber is the public company that has lost the most money in the past 5 yrs (in the US).

Second most is Carnival Cruise Lines.
s/right wing/any wing/. Look up who built Belo Monte.
Apple's new Journal app available for iOS 17.2
OT FYI: substack link, with all that entails, not obvious from domain.
These are bad analogies. I can block ads on the net and still use chrome. I can choose whether ads bother me or not. I can choose if I want/agree to be tracked. My choice doesn't hurt anyone. You want to fight the ads - take on the ad networks. Provide an alternative. Without an alternative it's just a cardboard sign with some text.
The History of Laravel's dd() [video]
Limiting it to federal income taxes gives an incredibly skewed picture.

It's basically equivalent to saying: "If you exclude all the taxes that the poor pay, then the rich pay the most taxes".

Federal income taxes aren't the only taxes. They aren't even the only federal taxes on income. FICA taxes are regressive with the rich paying a lower rate on income. State and local taxes also tend to be regressive with the poor paying a larger portion of their income than the rich.
That's not great for us 95% of people who don't live in the US.
installation:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://get.hy2.sh/)

nah.
> I bet some people said the same about america in 1400s.

Here is what I bet noone said about america in the 1400s:

"Man, it sure would be nice if there was air, arable soil, and building materials in america."

> If we can we should.

Humans can do lots of things that they absolutely shouldn't.

> Large asteroid impact

Ah, so we moved on from policy decisions. Good. Okay, let's talk asteroids.

a) I would be alot more worried about asteroids if I were on Mars. Mars is closer to the asteroid belt after all, and it's thin atmosphere is a lot less of a hurdle to evil space rocks than Earths.

b) Humanity has already proven, that it has the technical capability to alter an asteroids course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Te... So far, humanity has NOT proven that it can build a self-sustaining colony on mars. As a matter of fact, we have not even done so in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, and they would at least have air there. So purely from the perspective of resource-allocation, it seems there are better ways to protect humanity from asteroid impacts, than trying to build a mars-colony.
additionally, each agent can be a model using its own RAG or training data as well
Synology MFA Fails if Internet is down
> I think most people have these because it lets them look like they are drinking.

This idea partially drives the demand for "Death Water" where they're not really selling water, but rather, an aesthetic.
Germicidal UV lights could be producing indoor air pollutants, study finds
> Vinyl floors get scratched

That's pretty hard to do on modern vinyl floors. Vinyl gets a bad rap because there were a lot of low end bad products, now there are some amazingly durable options.
Hey everyone!

I'm David Aronchick - co-founder of Bacalhau[1] - and we are specifically building an open source platform to help with this. Basically, we allow you to do compute over data, making it much easier to schedule jobs (container, WASM, arbitrary binary) to where the data is being stored, even over irregular/unreliable networks. We were able to show 90%+ savings in things like log aggregations. Happy to answer any questions if you'd like!

David Aronchick
aronchick@expanso.io

[1] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau
Woah , definitely going on my wishlist
I remember I2p torrents being horrendously slow, like 20kbps at max(do you even remember the last time someone used kbps as units?) for popular stuff. Has that changed in the last few years?
I stick with backend development personally, but I will say that their new Server Actions look super handy for quick development. We've used TRPC for that currently and will probably continue to do so, but I really like the concept if you're keeping your API purely isolated to your web app. The fully stack type safety and communication wrapping seems great.
It doesn’t matter if old.reddit.com is still there. Only a tiny percentage of people know about it and use it. Everyone else is posting from the new website or app, and largely from phones, which absolutely has had an impact on the culture there.

For example, subreddits used to have FAQs and wikis in the sidebar. The redesign hid all that, so on many subs people are asking the same questions over and over again. Mods who lock such posts and refer posters to a FAQ, often get lambasted by the community, who can’t see any FAQ. This may have been an intentional part of the redesign, since repetitive posting registers as greater “engagement” for Reddit’s metrics.
Blue/Green Deployment in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL
What does it entail, exactly?
> Existing vendors will provide rack integration services and deliver a turn key solution like this.

My experience with the likes of Dell is that they'll deliver it but they won't support it.

Sure, there's a support contract. And they try. But while they sell a box that says Dell, the innards are a hodgepodge of stuff from other places. So when certain firmware doesn't work with something else, they actually can't help because they don't own it, they're just a reseller.
My user number on /. is "404" ( https://slashdot.org/~dmd ).
While this of course depends on exactly where you end up moving to, and you should check the specifics there, I can say that near to everywhere seems to have pretty much the same systems in place: 5 years legal residency enables one to apply for permanent residency/citizenship after passing a series of tests, usually basic language proficiency alongside laws/culture/history of wherever you're migrating to.

Until that point you'll usually have to do something like check in with immigration once a year, dependent upon what visa (work, education, tourist, etc) that you end up on. But like another poster said, you don't really need to worry about most of this to begin with, as at most places you'll be granted a visa on arrival that'll be good for more than enough time to find a job. The most you might want to do is drop by the embassy of wherever you plant to go to. They can give you more information, and also set you up with a visa that will generally last much longer than the visa-on-arrival if desired.
You mean, cloud bandwidth is cheap if you don't use much bandwidth. That's still an order of magnitude or two worse than the backbone cost.
I just feel like there's a middle ground like Resilio Sync where you have to share in ensuring you're syncing things but it can technically do the deed for you. You can even set an automation after you edit your calendar to trigger automatic/manual syncing. I feel like middle grounds like this or EteSync should be more predominant.

I would mind that since its local and I prefer to not be dependant on external hosting services wherever I can have a more accountable and static solution a little closer to home
Making PostgreSQL tick: New features in pg_cron
I missed this:

https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-postgres-is-now-availabl...
Great question. "Free Bandwidth" is almost worse than cheap bandwidth because in reality it means: "Secret bandwidth pricing/limiting"
The 2nd and 3rd questions you pose are all about sales.

If your company brings in $10M a year, and somebody plans to quit (or has quit), how much will your sales drop (immediately, and over a period of time). That's the answer to how much you can afford to offer them to stay, and that's how much you should offer their replacement. Suppose that says drop by $1M and you can be satisfied that the drop is 100% a consequence of the departed (or soon to depart) developer - that's how much value they bring to the company, and by the logic of capitalism (which I don't play by, btw), you should pay them some amount less than that.

The problem is: you can't determine the value before they quit, and you can't be sure that their replacement will provide that value after they are hired.

Look, I understand that in an organization of any size, there are likely to be slackers that feel like a deadweight, and others who feel like the contribute far more than the average.

The question is: does tying salary to this perception actually bring the benefits you think it does (which are intimately connected to the notion of incentive) ? There's some good evidence that for developers and other "head-based" employees, it does not, and that flat pay scales create an environment in which you get different kinds of benefits.

I've worked exclusively in a distributed FLOSS project for the last quarter century, so in many respects, I'm not well positioned to talk about what happens inside traditional corporations.
Furthermore, I find that barcodes are a bit more picky w.r.t. how to scan them, while RFID is easier.
I was test driving recently and it's crazy how many cars have gone all in on the screen-only interfaces. Only the cheaper models still have the tactile haptic interfaces. Tesla is the Apple of the car world - they've been christened the virtuous God and thus things must be created in their image.

It's absurd. If someone loved Teslas, they'd go buy one. They're looking at, say, Hyundais, because they already said no to Tesla - so stop trying to be a knockoff.

I blame the managers for this. Copying tesla is the CYA move.
My guess is that server farms are currently used at full capacity. So that while a few years ago the thought was to upgrade existing data centers to more efficient servers, now there is more data centers being built while slightly less efficient servers are left running where they are. This is the accounting change to reflect that: depreciate slower to reflect longer in-practice life.

Also "data center electrical power / compute" (which reflects both cooling and server power supply cost) has held relatively steady for a while which makes it easier to do that.
A fresh look on incremental zero copy serialization
It's nice to see just how popular Hilbert curves are. For me it touches the same nerve that Conway's Game of Life does.

I threw together a hacky demo of the Hilbert curve and some other l-system curve for a middle school computer club I ran way back when. Not the best UI in the world, but it shows you either the string substitutions following each l-system ruleset, or with "show canvas" checked each click draws the next generation.

https://autery.net/pages/l-systems.html
People want money and society needs people to work. Working is a contribution to society that in return society gives you credits to buy other people's work. Exceptions aside (like physical disabilities), all of these free money programs are messing with this incentive structure. I'm not saying it won't work but just explaining where the pushback is coming from. At an individual level of course free money makes sense, but we all are part of a larger social structure, and problems need to be looked at from all these angles to avoid creating even more problems.
For those who wondering: best practical use of I2P is to tunnel SSH access to obscure devices behind NAT where you can't or dont want to use something like Tailscale. Or imagine you have that torrent box you using for seeding obscure book or music collection. You can pay for the server with crypto, but I2P is good to make sure you can access and configure it privately.
While I agree (and give a lot of credit to Gwynne Shotwell for the steady hand), that reinforces the point; that you can do space work somewhere inbetween "startup" and "giant defense contractor" style approaches.
10-15 mins walk. ~5 mins by motorbike
There's a another reason to avoid fly.io outside of platform capabilities: their outages caused by growing pains. If it were me, I'd circle back in a year or two.
Since before the age of the smartphone, people have thought their phone conversations are being recorded. And there’s absolutely evidence that it’s true. So too is evidence of UFOs and aliens.

But that’s a tangent. The claim I was seeking evidence for was:

“The vast majority of people using Google's services do know about adtech surveillance, and just don't care.”

People who read HN are not the vast majority (thankfully).

I still don’t think the vast majority of people are aware of the depths of adtech because Google and Meta go to great lengths to control the narrative and keep people in the dark. They make people believe they’re “in-control” of their privacy. If people were made aware of how much tracking still goes on then they would care.
Agreed, the article is more like throwing a lit match into a barn than educating a good hacker. I think there's some good discussion happening here about design but on reflection this whole thread probably doesn't need to exist because nobody is learning how to hack their Tesla's dashboard.
> When Apple supports OSX for consumers, they don't exactly surface the fact that there's BSD semi-hidden in there somewhere.

Or Linux running underneath all the Java-y Android stuff.
> That's just base salary

I meant 200k is just base salary at Oxide. It does not include equity
Is that something generally avaliable to customers? I've done some searches and can't find anything other than savings plans for EC2 etc.
Touch screens are cheap and lazy design. Worse, it's more dangerous because physical interfaces have tactile feedback so you can use them to some degree without looking at them. It's more dangerous too.

On a phone it makes sense because of limited real estate and mixed utility.

The real reason car manufacturers do it is to push design problems into being software problems. Sucky UI? We can fix it in a software update! We can ship sooner too because we can update later. This is cheaper and faster than having to think through the UI/UX before you build it.

I don't know anyone who likes driving a giant iPad.
Show HN: Discord embed message creator with support for interactive components
My house has original oak floors installed 85 years ago and there is still enough material left for 2-3 sandings.
Did Meta make Threads to obtain more data for Llama models?
I also have one of those: https://jonathan-potter.github.io/hilbert-curve/
A public execution is ritual human sacrifice, the only difference is the label that Western cultures apply to it.
>You mention you think I'm young.

Young or out of touch. Either just bought a microwave and it hasn't failed yet or old and have one that's lasted 5-8 years and don't have a new crappy one yet.

>The best evidence that the quality is fine today is that, by the article's own testimony

He said/she said. This is all assertion by opinion without facts. That said, it appears a year ago the trend was downward, for multiple appliance types, in the US: https://www.statista.com/statistics/220020/average-life-expe...

Anecdotally, modern appliances tend to break after only a couple years (based on reports I hear from friends co-workers, etc.). More cheap shit from China/etc. (my fridge drawers are plastic and snapped about 8 months into usage, something that should have a 13-14 year lifespan, and of course, is out of warranty already).

Trying to produce a chart of microwaves bought and produced in 2020 and how long they've lasted is much harder, and honestly you're bullshitting at least as much if not more than me here - plugging your ears and pretending everything is fine is less honest and not at all observant. Combining the facts I do have (actually decreasing lifetimes over a decade) and people complaining more, and an effective monopoly due to capitalism, I would say the reasonable conclusion is that actually no, microwaves today are not generally fine.

> There's a reason no one is doing that.

The reason is not what you think it is. Nobody owns microwave makers or microwave factories, so people just generally accept gradually shittier shit. People buying things is not people being happy with what they bought. There's a big big difference. Inflation remains at an all time high and people are pretty pissed about how much everything costs already - the system has already started to fail.

> If they really sucked someone would go in and make a better one and make a bunch of money.

Sure, if there are some millionaires with money to spare maybe they'll make some cheap reliable microwaves. But they won't make a ton of money. And since, nobody's interested in making reliable microwaves, and they have other things they are interested in doing (due to capitalism), microwaves continue to get shittier and shittier.

This is the whole point of the article, which maybe you'd have grasped if you weren't all "and they dare to question capitalism those damn dirty hippie socialists".
The operator of archive.is got fed up with dealing with legal notices, so he set up his CDN so that accessing the site from any given country would get served by a server in a neighboring country (meaning that a takedown would involve international cooperation, so it would almost never be worth the effort). DNS requests have an optional field (EDNS client subnet) that provides part of the user's IP address so the CDN can respond with the closest possible server to the user, which is how archive.is does its country mitigation thing. Cloudflare's DNS does not provide this field. They say it's an anti-tracking move, others have speculated it's a competitive move since it means that Cloudflare will know where a user is located but competing CDNs won't. Because not knowing where a user is located before serving them would cause archive.is trouble, they respond to any DNS queries without the EDNS client subnet information with bad data.
What’s the state-of-the-art in terms of compiler optimization here? Seems like auto-vectorization could be a somewhat simple transform, no?
That picture that Donald Trump tweeted out of the failed Iranian rocket launch seemed sharp enough to make out license plates.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11674933719732551...
Does the Apollo 1 accident report give you similar concerns about NASA's culture and ability to get to the moon?
What he actually expected was wireless, if you check the link.
are they selling something? can we buy it?? it's anyone's guess..
Metrics weren't random but exactly those metrics that mattered for the users switching from IE to Chrome: speed, ram usage, battery usage.

Here's the first results on Google from a review on October 2023:

"Edge performs similar to Chrome in benchmarks, but has markedly lower RAM usage when you open some tabs. We're declaring Edge the winner in performance, which is quite a turnaround for Microsoft, the company that made Internet Explorer."

Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-vs-edge-3298624/
Are you referring to the brand Liquid Death?
Thats kinda what I was obliquely referring to originally

Edit: and also, I feel like there's bigger and smaller examples of similar equally or moreso populous jurisdictions that are quite safe and peaceful to the extent that I feel like its gotta be the god and its gotta be the guns.