skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're still young and idealistic, it's maybe ok to think like this, as you've likely had nonsense poured into your head for years & little real-world experience. If you're as old as me and you still think this way, there's little hope for you.

I have worked for many CEOs, and (surprise!) fewer than 100% of them are sociopaths. Good grief.
Musk has publicly stated that CAN is too slow for modern cars, which is why they chose ethernet for the Cybertruck.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ky1Z2klPalw
That'a just all the problems, no solutions.
Ive always "blocked" gstatic.com. Also ssl.gstatic.com. It has no practical use and does not "break" anything for me. The software I use has no need to access it.
What is the trade off? Diving gear (flashlights etc) has had replaceable batteries since forever.

The culprit is Steve Jobs' obsession with thin phones. Just thicken the phone and add some gaskets and you are good to go. People put those thin phones in thick cases anyway, so it is fine.
apt-get install php
Google search has basically zero objective advantage over other free alternatives. The only thing keeping it so dominant is the public's lack of reason to experiment with others.
This would only get you multiples of your "clock rate."
Places do do this. Lunch buffet has less options, is cheaper. Dinner buffet (basic) vs premium dinner buffet + crab legs and other premium seafood
They are using only the publicly available photos. Not the ones you share only with friends.
for google the problem is small enough they're encouraging individuals to file a small claims they'll gladly hand a check for, or it's big enough that google doesn't want to document shooting themselves in the foot.

I also think there's a long tail of Beavis' out there that you need to lock things down to stop the rumors.

Genuinely, I would love an answer from someone that believes in both "never talk to the cops" and "corporations should be open about their fuck-ups" to articulate how they reconcile both concepts. For me they're the same side of the coin, but I'd enjoy to be convince otherwise.
I feel like Google is having difficulty internalizing concept of maintenance, of making what was theirs continuously theirs through recurring interventions. "Feature complete and not obsolete" seems like a common theme among some of killed by Google products, in line with this.
I have made the ask, it should be reviewed shortly.
As an Android user, the sad thing about this is that iPhone seems to have had it for years. Plus, I'm told the upgrade functionality is nearly seamless.
> It’s interesting that she was threatened with being held responsible for violating a fiduciary duty

Yeah, that smells like a bullshit threat. Anyone would do well to ignore it.
Lubeck has an excellent museum of the Hanseatic League. My recollection is that the portion dealing with the years after about 1500 were almost perfunctory compared to the richness for earlier years. Those who actually know Lubeck will feel free to correct me.
Heh.

Now send a file encrypted by age to two addressees, who don't need to know each other's decryption keys.

After that, sign an email without encrypting it; do the same with a git commit, or a Debian package.

GPG has features well beyond the simple encryption (which age does) because there are real uses for that.
The amount of energy wasted through wireless charging is absolutely miniscule in the context of an ordinary day's energy usage for a normal person.
This is silly, don't stand on some high horse. If you don't think you have the capability to be unreasonable, you are delusional. Every single person on this planet is capable of evil, but majority luckily see that as a path that ends badly.
Raspberry Pi 5 and RP1 X-ray scans
I can't wait for the day when we have to lose our reflashed phones in boating accidents on purpose.
How does one read "Runs Instantly" and not interpret that to mean anything other than that it runs instantly?

"A fire built around a wad of kerosene soaked rags starts instantly."

Does that sentence suggest that kerosene starts rags to you, or that kerosene soaked rags help start fires instantly?
University?
Show HN: Generate 10 minutes of copyright-free AI music
Most websites only allow users to generate 30 seconds or a couple of minutes of AI music. I wanted to let people generate length high quality songs at an affordable price! Let me know what you think :)
Cool, thanks Naman. It’s really great work overall, congrats on the launch. Maybe those couple places could have wording that indicates it supports dynamic as well.
Per person, it's not. But if you have 3 billion people changing their phones every 3 years, that's a billion phones per year.

Assuming that the average phone weighs 100g, that's 100 million tons of phones per year.

In the aggregate, it adds up a lot.
You can write code in any language without defining functions or modularizing in any way. You can write bad code in any language.

For some reason, folks assume SQL must be written badly since they have only written it badly or seen it written so.

It is absolutely possible and preferable to write maintainable SQL logic into user defined functions, stored procedures, views, materialized views, CTEs, temporary tables, etc. If you're looking at one huge pile of monolithic, untestable SQL, the problem isn't the SQL.

One doesn't write O(n^3) algorithms in C++ and then blame C++ for it being slow. For some reason, folks seem pleased with themselves to do as such with SQL though every day and twice on Sunday.

Got subselects in each of the fifteen outer joins with NULLs all over your schema, and now you're upset performance is horrible and inconsistent? PEBKAC.
If you have multiple backups all on the same format, you only have one backup according to THE rules
You're just stating an agreement between Meta and cowboyscott. The copyright holder of Ironman image never agreed it.

The problem here is cowboyscott doesn't own a copyright of Ironman image. But his uploading of image may match the condition of fair use of US or similar copyright exemption rule in their country's copyright law. It effectively works as copyright laundering.
How me and my team made 15 apps and not made a single dollar in 2023
Baking in large ovens has massive, obvious economies of scale in terms of fuel use per gram of bread. It's very natural to become centralized.

Brewing is more efficient in terms of labor as you scale up to larger containers, but it's less extreme.
not very good at search either these days
Using D to glue together C++ and Rust
D is a programming language that has been around since 2001. Although it is not source compatible with C++, it is similar to C++. I personally like D for its intuitive syntax and great features, but for gluing Rust and C++ together, D stands out for two reasons: extern(C++) and pragma(mangle, "foo").
What makes you bullish on that? I had the opposite experience recently. I used a friend’s foldable phone and it felt extremely gimmicky.
This can depend a lot on the context, which we don't have a lot of.

Looking at this a different way, they gave first-year students, likely with no established pre-requistites, an open-ended project with fixed hardware but no expectation to submit the final project for review. If they wanted to verify the students actually developed a working program, they could have easily asked for the Pi's to be returned along with the source code.

A project like this was likely intended to get the students to think about the "what" and not worry so much about the "how." Faking it entirely may have gone a bit further than intended, but would still meet the goal of getting the students to think about what they could do with this computer (if they knew how)

While university instructors can vastly underestimate student's creativity, they are, generally speaking, not stupid. At the very least, they know if you don't tell students to submit their work, you can often count on them doing as little as possible.
> Does she see herself as more trustworthy? She can't even be bothered to give an excuse for the firing.

I can almost promise you there is a lawyer telling her not to talk about the firing.
> DoH doesn't interfere with your ability to choose your own DNS provider.

It may not make it impossible but it makes it harder. You need a provider that supports DoH, and your browser will ignore your OS-wide DNS setting. Previously your default DNS provider would be an ISP that you'd picked; now the default is whoever's most profitable for your browser maker (you might say you pick your browser, but there's less real choice there than there is for ISPs, at least where I live).

> As far as I'm aware, no one has suggested that DoH should be mandatory. It is a sensible default that improves the privacy and security of most users, but a user who decides that they do not want to use DoH can simply opt out in the settings. Likewise, HTTPS is not mandatory either, and browsers will not prevent users from accessing unsecure sites. They will however warn users to make sure they are aware of the risks.

They won't do it all at once, but they're making it harder and harder to access non-HTTPS sites. It's gone from a clear warning to a block page where accessing the HTTP version requires multiple clicks on tiny text; the next step will be to make it require a config tweak to even get that tiny text at all, and then they'll say that their telemetry conveniently shows few people are using that config tweak (because who could imagine that the kind of people who would don't trust their browser maker would disable telemetry) so they're removing it. We've seen this whole playbook before. It'll be the same for DoH.

> A FoI request is just asking the government to give you information. They will never intentionally give you anything they do not want you to have. FoI laws tend to contain enough exceptions to cover any situation, but even if you should legally receive the information, there is nothing you can realistically do to make them provide it to you.

Governments are accountable to their citizens, not just in theory but in cultural practice, which is what really matters. If you get a bogus response to an FoI request then you can complain to your representatives, and if your representatives don't respond then you can vote them out. But more importantly, the clerk handling your request knows that their duty is to you, not their shareholders, and will generally act accordingly. And if they don't, there's a whole culture of whistleblowers, investigative journalists, activist judges and so on.

None of that exists for a private company CA where they're working for their shareholders and no-one expects them to do otherwise. Frankly even if it did leak out that a CA had refused to issue a certificate to someone who they just didn't like, it wouldn't even be a scandal unless you were lucky enough to catch the right moment where there was a social movement supporting that particular kind of person.
Somehow I keep loosing confidence in the FDA. That basically sounds like a special interest group giving unreasonable requirements to prevent it succeeding.

What’s the chance that some of the FDA personnel were linked to companies in dental or dental care products? Perhaps some national association of dentists?
I remember that episode! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx

I was listening to it on a bus and screaming inside because I had that mp3 sitting in my library, obtained years and years ago through questionable means, and had listened to it quite a lot.

Even Olson - So Much Better (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qTESaoSU_8), for the record.
Didn’t read the article, but Musk mentioned in an interview yesterday they are specifically not using CAN and are using Ethernet. He didn’t explicitly say, but it seems likely they are using PoE, saving a lot of wiring as you can daisy chain a higher bandwidth connection and you don’t need separate power cables.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ky1Z2klPalw
We found an iPhone in the ocean in Mexico. Verizon put us in touch with the owner who said it had been there for a week. It worked fine. I agree, reliability can be a proxy for repairability.
The cybertruck has two separate steering motors for redundancy. Passenger jets have been doing "x-by-wire" for decades. Properly engineered it's as reliable as mechanical linkage.
Most Americans don't have enough data to warrant a dedicated NAS. And even if they do, the cost is a major dealbreaker, $400+ including drives is way more than most would ever consider spending on computer hardware.
That's interesting and sort of amusing, but I didn't notice as I buy from fairly small farms.

It's not that I think eggs are immune to price fixing, but rather that the packaging of fresh eggs isn't easy to change; the eggs themselves can't be altered and while you could sell fewer of them per box consumers (in the US at least) are used to multiples of 6 and would immediately notice. In contrast you could reduce the volume of, say, detergent but redesign the container, and many consumers might not notice that they were getting 6-7% less.

What I'm getting as is that while the causes of egg price changes might be legit or greed, it isn't as easy to hide the price changes from the consumer as when you operate a whole production line and can alter the appearance and volume of the package itself.
Reproducible Builds in November 2023
This has always been the case, and so the response to all bleating about inflation should be examining where the cause is rather than jumping to conclusions and only after that should policy be recommended and adopted to make sure it actually makes sense.
Apple goes to great lengths to increase security while annoying its users. Containers could help in that regard. Having an app (and GUI too) run in a container of sorts could avoid the countless dialog boxes we’ve grown accustomed to.

Regarding FUSE, there have been many implementations for macOS, just not very good ones. I don’t see a fundamental limitation on XNU, Darwin, Mach.

I haven’t though of File
Provider in this way, but maybe it’s a good solution. Apple seems reasonably committed to it so that’s encouraging.
The Future of Professional Learning Is Here and It's Called Bedrock
Invincible Compendium 1 and 2. I read a lot of things this year, but for most of them, after around 22:30 I'd get super sleepy and fail to pay attention, so I had to close the books. Except for Invincible! This book is amazing! So many plot twists, such an interesting story! Can't wait to read the final Volume 3 in a few weeks.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ky1Z2klPalw
Having worked in non-profits and with a community of people who do, there’s not a difference.

Large non-profits optimize for revenue, small ones for impact.

The big fish eat the little ones or turn them into impact sharecroppers.
If you’re also looking for someone to assist in getting into your school’s system and change your grades, email cyberpunk @ programmer . net. They are too good. 100% recommend
To put it another way, how are they going to control a super intelligent AI when they can't even control Sam Altman.
Wikipiedia has a list of notable Omnichord users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnichord#Notable_uses
Why spread FUD about a developer that is no longer involved?
Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS
This is a 16bit CPU+Minicomputer from pure 74 series logic. It has user/kernel modes, virtual memory, prioritized IRQ's and DMA. It has a full C compiler and a unix-like OS. It's still in development.
And what happens if Google Drive accidentally loses a file on the cloud and then syncs that deletion locally?
I had my first brush with HTML in 1995-1996, learning via computer magazines that arrived a month late in the tiny part of that lousy town. There was no Internet, but I read about it and heard stories from an eccentric cousin who had visited the cities.

However, I had computer access whenever I wanted because I helped the local printing press and publishing houses with computers. I will always remember that one IDE/Editor that started me - HotDog[1]. I had saved the files and the work on many floppy disks.

Unfortunately, I left everything behind when I decided to leave my town. The first thing I did after landing in the new city that very afternoon was to go to a cybercafe to create my Hotmail and Yahoo! IDs.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotDog
why tf you put arch on her laptop
Kinda old news. I’m pretty sure we’re still waiting to hear about a new projected release date since the delay was announced
It's not like tracking events in application logic is somehow just a bucket of unicorn farts and rainbows. At least triggers are deterministic and tracked within transactions. Can't tell you how often folks update the DB with an ORM in application logic but forget to update dependent records in other tables in their one-off branch of logic.

Sometimes it's a hard problem.

That said, I think triggers need very well-maintained dependency charts in the docs/comments to ensure they don't ever go cyclical. Those are bad days.

(But again, events in app logic are in no way shape or form immune to cyclic runaways.)
Lobbyists and policy wonks are dramatically different vocations.
> The design was to spread out the hammers of the most frequently used letters to reduce the frequency of hammer jamming

That's a folk myth that's mostly debunked.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-...
You should demand a higher rate, seeing as how you temporarily have them over a barrel, or quit. Ask me how I know they’ll fire you as soon as that system isn’t important. You’re being a sucker by staying there and playing nice. You’re toast as soon as they have other options.
> The other lesson was to never involve myself in office politics again

Yea I think the real lesson here is 1. treat people with respect even when you vehemently disagree and 2. You were really bad at office politics. The entire name of the game in politics is to piss off the least number of people possible.
I wonder who's the author, and if they did a Rodenberry on the theme (Rodenberry, in addition to everything else, was the author of lyrics for the Star Trek theme. Despite them never being used, he made a tidy sum in royalties.)
I work in data, but I've seen a lot of comments from SWEs who are tired of building the same CRUD web app over and over again. The grass is always greener?
> You're talking Web site, not version control system.

Yes, because we're talking about comparing BitBucket and GitHub when both are using git. Did you reply to the wrong comment?
Everyone really thought the hardware would fail at 40+ C ambient. Then some people ran newer hardware at higher temperatures anyway and it was fine, and then everyone switched to get the savings.
> The question then is if you expect better outcomes from the same teachers you dont trust, who cant teach, and make bad decisions if you provide them a script they hate.

Yes

> Do you expect better outcomes if they quit and you replace them with training videos?

You still need someone to enforce the kids are actually doing what they've been instructed to but yes I'd expect an equal or better outcome.
Haven’t used these “cloud” storage systems to store anything critical for a looong time. I was burned a long time ago when I had college assignments stored on a university backup system (I think they outsourced it to MS?).

Lost a half semester of work because a stupid sys admin(s) for the university nuked the primary blob storage (instead of months old records) in an attempt to save $$$.
Yeah - on the one hand I'm really happy for them. They are building something really cool, out in the open under the MIT license.
Hopefully outside investment will help them accelerate their plans for Godot.

On the other, it's hard to see what the monetization pathway is here for the investors. I suppose plan to offer development consulting to firms using Godot? Some conflict always seems to come up with these "open source but commercial" entities.
> To whom? What is the threat model in which a user who is serious about the security of their messages is better served by PGP-over-email?

Sending credentials to a coworker, for example. I don't care who knows that I emailed them. I don't even care if they know what it's about (database credentials), as long as they can't get the actual credentials simply by accessing the mail server. I don't have to set up any new infrastructure (not realistic within most orgs), all that is needed is for both parties to use gpg.
Imagine being google and having 100 BILLION+ in liquid cash, tens of thousands of the best engineers world-wide, and everything you could possibly need for running tech products. Yet being completely unable to launch anything new or worthwhile. Like, how tf does that even happen? Is Google the next Kodak?
My ex worked at a children's museum where they'd regularly make this stuff in quantity for kids to play with. It looked like a lot of fun.

It surprises how few adults I encounter have any idea what I'm talking about when I mention it by name describing something behaving like a non-newtonian fluid.

For example recently I was telling someone how deceptively epoxy that seemed thick and extremely viscous while mixing will slowly but tenaciously flow through the tiniest of gaps in a mold or dams as if it were water. I've found JB Weld in particular behaves a bit like a non-newtonian fluid while stirring it up before application, seemingly solidifying more the faster it's stirred, then turns runny when still until curing sets in...
> I hope it does not persuade too many people.

It's persuaded me, because it's true. Open-source is not a sustainable economic model, nor (with a few rare exceptions) business model.

> with open source software, they can rely on it not to disappear overnight if a company behind it vanishes. This is sustainable.

You're intentionally conflating two very different uses of the word "sustainable". This is not what the poster meant.
Both of your examples are for Curl. Daniel isn't a "CVE Numbering Authority", so he can't arbitrarily reject CVEs for Curl that he doesn't want to acknowledge. Big software vendors generally are[0] and have much more leeway in deciding to grant a CVE or not for their own products.

The two examples you provided are a problem, but so is the current CNA system that is an inherent conflict of interest.

0 - https://www.cve.org/PartnerInformation/ListofPartners
Testing SQL is pretty popular in most pro-SQL environments as well. There are many tools for that even if many developers appear to remain willfully ignorant of them.
> i think that there isn't enough competition.

This combined with hyper-optimized inventory chains.

Even if there is a competitor, the max they could absorb would be a 10% increase in demand (look at what happened in toilet paper during Covid).

So, even if I comparison shop and buy from a different supplier, only 10% max will benefit and then the new supplier simply can't add anybody else--everybody left has to go to back to the inflated price supplier.

And that's only if some upstream supplier isn't a monopoly supplying the whole sector.
I had an issue the other day where I deleted a file through the web interface and saved a file with the same name using the Windows client. The file disappeared and was never uploaded. Would that be a manifestation of the problem, or is the problem a "files at rest are disappearing" issue?
Yes redundancy is very important.

I lost a decade of my life data when a main hd failed, and a tb backup drive failed at the same time.
I use Syncthing; the only platform I cannot use it on is iOS but I have airdrop for phone to laptop transfers, as rare as they are.
Previously: loco.rs[0] (7 points, 0 comments, 3 days ago), loco.rs[1](87 points, 22 comments, 2 days ago), github/loco[2] (2 points, 2 comments, 2 days ago)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522458
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38540178
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38541318