skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never seen as much negativity for an open source project on Hacker News as I have seen in every single Matrix thread. It is unbelievable. The only thing that might come even close is FlatPak. It's been going on for years and years. If anyone doesn't believe me, just click Arathorn's post history and start browsing. I've never understood what Matrix did to deserve this. It's a fantastic project - I've been using it every day since ~2017. It has its problems but it's head and above every other project like it and provides real value. Better still, the Matrix folks seem to really be thinking things through and making, even if not the best (subjective), a well thought out and well explained decision every time they make a decision.

I have seen every. single. possible. attack. thrown at Matrix OVER AND OVER again. Every single one. So many quite obviously not in good faith. Matrix is owned by the Jews. Matrix is owned by the CIA. Matrix is owned by Germany. Matrix violates privacy laws. Matrix tricks you into thinking your messages are deleted when they aren't. Matrix (this one's hilarious), BROKE SIGNALS ENCRYPTION (lol). Matrix is scraping all the rooms to sell to Google (lol). XMPP was perfectly fine and we didn't need Matrix. Matrix collects too much metadata. Matrix federates by default. Matrix is too slow (ok fair). Matrix is going to sell out.

This has been going on for the 5+ years I've been using Matrix. People have been sounding the alarm for a half decade about how awful and evil Matrix is. Yet it keeps plugging along, solving truly hard problems, getting better and better, and being released openly (I have no idea why, if I were on the Matrix team I'd have ragequit by now). It is absurd the level of criticism that is thrown at a project that has asked no one for anything, and has truly made the world a better place.
http://archive.today/HyGaH
Neither of them lock up, we're talking about braking performance with ABS.

And cars don't lock up a single wheel without ABD. When they do lock up you generally lock everything up.

The question is, do cars have more grip? No, not really. Do they have better braking performance? Not really, either. Are they easier to use? Sure. The reason you can have a harder time on a bike isn't because of any fundamental limitation, it's just poor training - the video is correct. And car drivers also don't break anywhere near the theoretical potential of their car, either.
One of these things is not like the other. (Journey vs. final destination.)

As an industry we get paid primarily for 1) working software and 2) communicating with stakeholders.

Tidy yet inaccessible (to non-dev) construction stories are not on that path. I would argue unit tests et al are, to ensure #1.

No stakeholders? Put why into a readme, where it can be seen at a glance. Comments can reference docs.

Complexity must be broken down into bite-sized chunks for a solution to be feasible in the first place, reliable in the second. i.e. skull-size limits. If there’s any code I don’t understand I rewrite it until I can. With tests of course.
The Netkeeper Needs to Exist but Can't
This brings up a number of concerns.

1. EOL - I'm wondering how "vintage" and "obsolete" models will be handled. Let's suppose parts go NLA, it would be curious to see if mobile apps would still work, which parts can be changed, and what feature(s) would stop working.

2. Tesla's ability to disappear or introduce features and changes in behavior over time

3. Ability or inability to stop, pause, or revert software updates

4. E2EE

5. Encryption of on-board data at rest

6. Encryption of phoned home data at rest

7. Telemetry data on-board

8. Telemetry data phoned home

Perhaps there ought to be a r2r requirement of open source schematics, bill of materials (BOMs), and firmware for vehicles no later than when parts become NLA.
If you believe Roger Penrose, at that point spacetime ceases to exist since all matter has thinned out to nothing, all black holes have evaporated. Then, because of math I don't understand, a conformal rescaling happens and you get a new Big Bang.
It seems to me that cryptocoin adjacent things somehow attract well meaning people who just don't understand what parts of the technology are critical to its functionality. Maybe they understand one use case for a signature but don't really understand what signature is and more importantly what it isn't.

And sadly enough - several cryptocoins themselves are also this way.

I used to think cryptocoins were truly revolutionary. But the tech space is so rife with abuse, theft, scams that it doesn't feel worth it.
Getting any waves in BC or alaska?
Yeah, IBM's design is fantastic.

> Unrelated - what does IBM do nowadays?

Cloud, AI (Watson), and quantum computing.
Chapter 11 is debt restructuring, not liquidation. There is not necessarily any operational impact on the actual business, at all.
Temporary office spaces have been a thing in a lot of places for a long time.

I have no idea about your town in particular, but there's a company called Regus who have a presence in the US, UK, France, Australia, Singapore, Japan ... actually according to their website they're in 120 countries.

They are not cool. They are not new. They have not spun themselves a reputation of being an awesome, new, disruptive, special, fun, aspirational, Silicon Valley tech-adjacent service like WeWork did. But if you want an office or a meeting room for a day or a week or a month, they can do it.

Having used their services in the past, the rise of WeWork was massively surprising to me. It was touted as disruptive, as new, as amazing! It's gonna be huge! But there are already these boring companies doing this exact thing, boringly, making money but hardly earth-shattering. I guess it's testimony to Neumann's charisma as much as anything else.

A lot of places do also have more casual co-working spaces. Worth looking to see if there's one near you. You mention coffee shops - in Southampton UK, where I lived pre-pandemic, one of the coffee shops took the initiative to open a co-working space on an upper floor. Which would have been a great business move if the pandemic hadn't hit and f*cked everything.

(edit - I am rate limited so cannot reply below, but I wanted to add that I have used Regus in Australia as a private individual with a credit card. Obviously I don't know how it works in every country, but here it seems to be very easy)
The losing money pre-Covid was very typical in a low inflation, low interest rate environment where growth is prioritized over profit for newer companies that recently went through the startup IPO cycle. With high interest rates profitability is more important so it's a vicious cycle right now.
why anyone would use cloudflare for anything unless there were no other viable choice is beyond me. Honnestly, why?

DNS has many, vastly better alternatives.

edit: explanation I thought was common knowledge. Set "do not track" on your browser and watch cloudflare break the internet for you without your consent. Far, far too much centralized power. Just don't.
HN1: "Let people enjoy whatever they enjoy"

HN2-100: <Enjoys the disastrous hubris when people who oppose regulation discover how unsafe life is without rules which prevent unsafe behaviour>

HN1: "Not like that"
Or they could just number the parking spaces, or any other number of simple solutions that don't involve violating people's privacy.

Why should Tesla's (or anyone else's) convenience come at the cost of my privacy?
Yeah, internet-connected software never does anything other than what a user-facing dialog box says...
I met a client in a co-working space in Midland TX of all places, and it was great. We could grab coffee in the open area, we had a private room with a big screen, whiteboards, it was quiet, convenient, everything you could ask for.
Stories of your life and others.

It’s a collection of short stories, a good way to test what you like without too much commitment.
I'm OK if there are one or two exceptions, like if my banking app needs to be manually reinstalled after 'failover'.

Out of curiosity, do open source phones like the Librem 5 or Pinephone Pro have a secure element and if so do they provide you with tools to provision and manage it yourself?
SoftBank does much worse than random chance. Change my view.
WeBroke
The legend on the graph lists edit format diff/whole, but I assume that's an error? Which method was used for these tests?

Either way, the new model is looking very promising.
Pretty much yeah, RPi have their own use (like any SBC) and I like them to power a drone or UGV, but to use it as an AP/Router is kinda silly and overpriced, and it’s buggy too.
The same thing I’ve been passionate about since I was five: computers and software.
Sturgeon's law: ninety percent of everything is crap
If someone humiliated me, I'd humiliate them back at that same moment if it was spiteful. If I had done something embarrassing then I'd try to laugh it off before giving someone else a chance to. If I couldn't do it at the moment because of some brain freeze, then comes meditation.

The situation will play in my mind several times regardless, analysing why I did what I did will usually give answers. If it was some failed comedy I'll say to myself better luck next time or if it was general lack of attention, I'll calm myself saying I need some sleep or if it was because of lack of exposure or skill then I say let's learn that before it happens again in public.

The key prerequisite to this form of meditation is to not attach a person to an incident. Separating yourself and putting yourself above that situation generally shields you from the emotions that lowers yourself. Another separation is separating the person who humiliated you with that situation, it shields you from brewing hatred towards that person. Both are equally important. It doesn't matter if it was from one person or many, mob usually catches the vibe and will follow it. Maintain sympathy and think of their pitiful upbringing, label them as such if you want to in general feel sorry for them but with care and sympathy. Then detach them from the situation and then address the issue with some examples I mentioned earlier.

This has worked for me several times, hope it helps.
A software toggle is not reassuring. There needs to be no physical component at all that can allow access by anyone that isn’t me, physically present, with my ass in the seat.
There are a ton (or at least some) people who live in cities post their undergrad who are comfortable with continuing some combination of living with their city-centric life and leaning on friends/partners a bit and using Uber.

I literally could not have taken my first engineering job had I not had a car and been able to drive--and, indeed, would not have been able to go on many interviews. Had to go to remote job sites and, in any case, would have been that weird guy if I couldn't just rent a car and drive.

I could live in a city today and mostly remote work but I'd be very restricted in who I could reasonably visit and the activities I could partake in both locally and on vacation.
Yes, I don't see anything particularly special about it to warrant this headline, but I do want to see the (i) info dialog.

Anyone have a Tesla with this setting? :]
> This black hole is apparently very good evidence that these early SMBHs did not form from star collapse but may have formed from gas clouds collapsing directly into black holes.

I'm no expert, but wouldn't it make sense that in a non-uniform expanding explosion, the densely packed areas would behave the way density behaves? If the universe expands over time, isn't it denser near the beginning, allowing large scale density events to take place early in time? Couldn't a dense universe have allowed supermassive stars to form that just immediately collapsed?

It's cool to discover it or anything else, but I'm not clear on why we should be surprised?
What DNS respects user privacy and is more reliable and fast than Cloudflare?

I’d love to be convinced to switch.
I'm happy to give them to any HN user but I'm afraid I have only three left and there are three emails in my inbox asking for invites, so if one is you then congratulations! Otherwise, sorry.
Wha? That is exactly the solution! Google is not in the first 100 of notable alternatives, is it? Really?

It's so incredibly easy and vastly better.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
Show HN: Podsumer – A Self Hosted Podcatcher
Podsumer subscribes to your podcast feeds and downloads them to your server for serving/listening from there. It can serve its own feeds to be used in your podcast app(s). Finally, it features a web based player for listening from anywhere. I run this behind gluetun so that feed and media downloads happen over VPN.

I am an avid self-hoster. I made this podcatcher to handle my podcast listening needs. My goal isn't to make something that looks super slick, just something that is useable and gets the job done. I could really use some feedback from other self-hosting podcast listeners!
The question is, who gets the short end of the stick under such circumstances?
I'm open to different topics. Short stories, music, business, art.
Really excellent read still!
I think there are exceptions, for example Gos contexts expose a channel.
I accidentally closed the post and it took me 5 mins to find it. Damn.
If you have DoH (DNS over HTTPS) turned on in Firefox, I think it defaults to Cloudflare as a DNS provider. I can't remember if DoH is on by default with Firefox though.
It's WeDontWork now ...
The info dialog is the screenshot on the left in the embedded tweet.

https://twitter.com/_bennettm_/status/1720287612664217758
You should try Raja-Yoga. I suggest you start small - with Vivekananda, for example and then, if that brings you joy, read the whole plethora of interdependent teachings.
Somehow every other car dealer in the world already has a solution to this problem and it doesn't involve the manufacturer having basically unrestricted root access to my car lmao.
This is going to be a more common problem with 6ghz radios and Wifi 6E/7 requiring WPA3, and no transition mode permissible per spec. I recently ran into this with a customer running Cisco Meraki AP's that it was either disable 6ghz to keep legacy devices working with wpa2-psk, which was a lot of random things including laptops with old nics, Ring doorbells, various old mobiles, etc, or replace them with not crappy/old wifi devices. We had to push all the crap like that to the guest network vs. an enterprise ssid we actually wanted to use the 6ghz with for performance.

Sadly the biggest volume of Internet of Shite devices are going to be quickly every Windoze 10 system out there that Microsoft refuses to support WPA3 despite drivers, stating only Win11 would get it. Another reason for them to push people their new Telemetry spyware with improved even less privacy.

Oddly I purchased a Zyxel Wifi 6E AP with 6ghz, and it does let me operate in WPA3 and/or WPA3-Transition while letting things connect to 6ghz or 2.4/5ghz, which Cisco/Meraki simply does not allow, and from my understanding correct per spec. I just have to wonder if those wacky Asian semi's are purposely ignoring that spec or simply blissfully ignorant of the fact it's not exactly adhering to rules.

Either way I was annoyed with Cisco by it and recommended next time they spend less and get non-Cisco kit that were more flexible, recommending Zyxel for a literal 10th of retail cost of the same Cisco AP.
That's right. I'm hoping to get another 10+ years out of this one. It's up to 165K miles, and I hope it lasts beyond 300K. My wife and I only have the one car despite living in a rural area and it fits our use cases perfectly.
Nah, the real issue (which it shares with every other crypto project) is that it invented a kind of decentralized network that doesn't get better with more nodes but still manages to use more energy.

Of course, all later ones are funnier. People think Ethereum is a distributed computer! But the whole network runs at the speed of a single node.

If you want to trade numbers with people over the internet, I recommend using Google Sheets. Maybe ban people if they edit it wrong.
Long ago a coworker told me about his summer job where the computers were at another site. Twice a day a courier would take your card deck to the remote site and pick up any output from your last run. If you were nice to the courier, you could get him to look at your output and possibly save you a half day by fixing simple errors and immediately resubmitting your deck. His co-workers weren't fast coders, but they rarely made mistakes.
Google is far from the only other viable DNS.
https://www.quad9.net/ is a fast privacy oriented DNS
Yeah that's what I was thinking of. Are there semi-professional zine publications out there? I checked out Etsy but the stuff there was not really to my taste.
The market operators always need people who can help make sure the market is operating correctly and that market power is not being abused
well, luckily, wework is not public, and so only sophisticated buyers are able to buy. Therefore, there's no need for "buyer beware", as if there's some scam going on.
The Art of Problem Solving books are not for regular high schoolers. I'd say they're more geared towards gifted high schoolers (which may eventually go on to compete on contests such as the USAMO or the IMO). So definitely no shame in learning from them.
I use it as a little dictionary of commonly used commands in my git repos.

No more remembering commands to build a release or deploy a docker image. Now it's 'just release' and 'just deploy'.
[dupe]

More discussion over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38172437
Feline Frequencies: Positive Powers of the Cat Purr
Or consider a different type of investment if they don't want the risk. The low interest rates drove a lot of people into the stock market that would have otherwise chosen more conservative investments. It also drove high valuations for some companies that make no sense. Sadly the market is like a casino with how many stocks are valued and what drives a stock up or down. One one hand if you bet the right way you can make a lot of money, but if you bet wrong you can also lose a lot.
Coworking space has always been a commodity. It existed before WeWork, too. WeWork just made it cool.
https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

You "trust" cloudflare ?
Two significant differences make that real life story totally different from Lord of the Flies.

(1) In that story the boys are friends who ran away from boarding school and stole a boat with the intention of catching fish and sailing to someplace that would be more fun than boarding school. IOW all of them were probably of fairly similar ages, disposition, and character type. And they they were the kind of kids who would think doing that was a good idea.

(2) In Lord of the Flies, the boys are a typical mixed bag of British boarding school boys including young ones, big ones, jocks, wimps, nerds....

Middle School anywhere is often a civilized version of Lord of the Flies, and any grade in a 1940s British boarding school was worse, as attested to by CS Lewis. So the outcome in each of those stories is totally consistent with reality.

I was a student at a fairly lenient military boarding school in 8th and 9th grade, and my experiences there confirm the veracity of how the Lord of the Flies ends.
Do more short high effort intervals. Find a track to run at if you can and alternate easy/hard laps. The visual cues of a track will really help you feel confident pushing hard because it’s easy to see how much distance remains.

Also, check out your local running clubs on Strava. I know social running isn’t for everyone, but it’s a really good way to push your speed up. Every club I’ve run with has been psyched to get a new person.
I got to spend an afternoon entertaining a logo designer a few years ago. It was really fun and educational. I had some sense of _cool_ logos, and why the FedEx logo was so neat.

Learning from that guy though was really eye opening. He had a fondness for the I guess 60's ish design. How do you make something that looks good on the side of a pen, and also looks good on the side of a plane? .5 cm to 5m maybe? familiar? recognizable?

This one is a cute puzzle. It doesn't do much for me, but I'd bet back in the day it was amazing to see a company as uptight and powerful as IBM doing something, I guess, whimsical. Yeah, that tape drive is full of dull grey boring tax records. But it's got a sense of humor about it.

Logo's are tricky.

A good design guideline book is a pretty amazing thing, and there's some of that in the do's and don'ts section. There's something comforting (to my disorganized programmer mind) about seeing the idea fully thought out, how it's supposed to be, and stuff to not do.
Actually, the documentation here is pretty great. Too late to edit my comment, but the transparency level here isn't too bad: https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools
> libc isn't really getting in the way here.

It depends. For the standard set of system calls, the libc is pretty great. For Linux-specific features, it could take years for glibc to gain support, if it ever does. All the libcs will get in the way if you try to use something like the clone system call:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10311

> Ulrich Drepper 2009-06-22 19:35:54 UTC

> If you use clone() you're on your own.

My obsession with Linux system calls started years ago when I read about an episode where glibc literally got into Linux's way. The LWN wrote extensively about the tale of the getrandom system call and the quest to get glibc to support it:

https://lwn.net/Articles/711013/

A kernel hacker wrote in an email:

> maybe the kernel developers should support a libinux.a library that would allow us to bypass glibc when they are being non-helpful

That made a lot of sense to me. I took that concept and kind of ran with it. Started a liblinux project, essentially a libc with nothing in it but the thinnest possible system call wrappers. Researched quite a bit about glibc's attitude towards Linux to justify it:

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/liblinux#why

The more I used this stuff, the more I enjoyed it. I was writing freestanding C and interfacing directly with the kernel. The code was so clean. No libc baggage anywhere, not even errno. And I knew this could do literally anything when I wrote a little freestanding program to print my terminal window dimensions. When I did that I knew I could write code to mount disks too if I really wanted to. I was talking to the kernel.

Eventually I discovered Linux was already doing the same thing with their own nolibc.h file which they were already using in their own tools. It was a single file back then, by now it's become a sprawling directory full of code:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/include/...

Even asked Greg Kroah-Hartman on reddit about it once:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/fx5e4v/im_greg_kroah...

Since the kernel was already developing their own awesome headers, I decided to drop liblinux and start lone instead. :)
I used a pihole for years but got rid of it after it started feeling like a job to maintain.

It also doesn’t work on mobile unless on WiFi. Unless I also self-host a VPN I suppose.
The court decides but the rules are quite literally written in the Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The shareholders usually gets the shortest end of the stick.
Famously "Clint Eastwood" - Gorillaz was from a preset called "Rock 1" on the omnichord
Almost nobody sharecropping their way to an MVP has a product except at the sufferance of the company doing the work for them - regardless of which one they switch to later.

There's very little there there in most of these folks.

(For the few where there is, though, I agree with you.)
> most companies that do $THING and use SBCs like the RPi are extremely talented at $THING, and not at embedded development.

Spot on. Rpi actually suck if you compare it to industrial automation PLCs eco-system, heck, even compared to other SBC like nvidia jetson.