skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E-commerce isn’t on that list for the same reason AI isn’t: it had real value. Cryptocurrency had a ton of money poured into it but never found something it did better than the alternatives - PayPal didn’t even feel the need to pretend to treat customers better! – and magical thinking about security and customer service not mattering didn’t help.

Pets.com is harder to understand if you weren’t there: it looks like a not bad idea, which it was, but the business was setup as if it was a lucrative high-margin industry. There was no way it could succeed losing money on every sale, and they locked those costs in so well there was no real way to lose less money unless you could figure out how to make shipping far cheaper (most of what people buy at pet stores is heavy food). The hype was off the charts, though, and people poured money into the stock anyway. I worked with a major competitor and was on a few calls with their ostensible technical staff, and it was palpable how they had hired anyone who could spell HTML and everyone was killing time waiting for their options to vest rather than building anything real.

AI is like the early web in that regard: there are plenty of outright fraudulent companies and a bunch of doomed ones who just don’t realize it yet, but there is also a real capability that wiser people will use. As with the early web, I’m expecting a lot of startups to get a ton of attention compared to boring old companies actually doing useful things.
What's the term for when some great technology is constrained by our own human limits?

We all have a 2000's supercomputer equivalent in our pocket but still can't type faster than 60wpm.

The first car to reach 100kmh did it in 1899 but we're still driving at that speed on many highways around the world (+-20%) because us humans can't react quickly enough to drive it safely above that speed.

I was promised a flying DeLorean when I was a kid, I'm starting to think that won't be the case before I'm older than Old Biff Tannen.
Tangara is an open source, iPod-inspired portable music player
Yes. I got the feeling that the pilot was playing the cry-wolf game with the threat of declaring fuel emergency. ATC then responded with, ok, divert. It’s a case of FAFO.
No, it's that when you open microsoft.com it could open your router page.
> Now Microsoft owns all your home networks

Only if you’re slumming around 192.168.x.x
don’t forget spot pricing!
For all this to work you need to control the domain.
Is that easier than simply breaking into their systems and owning their servers?
This is great information. Are these pricing details publicly available for airports?
Lawfare is definitely interesting to hackers.
Entity Extraction: LLMs versus Classical Neural Model
> Which is... where? The PR+fork model is what that implements

We agree that GitHub's fork+PR workflow gives you the functional equivalent. But it is sufficient, not necessary.

If you're working on a 600 MB repo and want to submit changes comprising 100 lines of additions and deletions as a first-time (and possibly one-time) contributor, forcing you to coordinate an additional always-on third copy of that repo is, as I said, total overkill for your ~5KB of changes—and that's before we even address that this is something that's required from every contributor.

> I would agree... in its GitHub incarnation

No, you're missing the point. Git wasn't even designed for Github-style pull requests (no matter where they're hosted). That's why Git doesn't actually have them. Only GitHub does (and everyone who decided to copy them).

It's not just the fact that everyone centralizes around a single site that's the problem. It's that fork+PR for every single change from every single contributor is fundamentally the wrong model to begin with. "Pull requests" are for frequent collaborators, like the core development team on a given project: they all have each other's repos in their remotes for pushing and pulling to/from whomever they're working with on a given thing when they're working together. Non-core contributors shouldn't even be worrying about the question of "where" to host things—they don't need to host things—who'd want to pull from them, and why? (And why burden them with provisioning hundreds of megabytes—or, in aggregate, gigabytes—of always-on online storage? Again: complete overkill.)
Author here. The second quote you mentioned really sums up what I was trying to capture. Thanks for the recommendation!
That's right. "Software decoding" means the decoding algorithms run on the CPU. (As opposed to "hardware decoding" which typically means the work is done by some fixed-function video units on e.g. a GPU)
MongoDB employee posting:

Out of an abundance of caution, we cast a wide net and contacted all current and past MongoDB users, including those that may have closed their MongoDB Atlas Projects. If you would like to have your contact information completely deleted from our systems, please file a GDPR deletion request: https://www.mongodb.com/legal/privacy-policy/request-for-del...

You can reach out to me directly for assistance with this, if needed. My email is my first name at mongodb dot com.
wonder how this service works... how it could ask google to index a site sooner ? in google doc, it says, it is not managed by human, its indexing frequency is based on several factors...
n=?
...would like to know more.
I have three acquaintances who own Teslas whose family members have gotten into accidents because they were looking at, and tinkering with, that gorgeous giant shiny screen... without first engaging any form of autopilot, not even cruise control. Kinda like driving while texting, but worse.
> Language extensions don't suddenly turn compile-time errors into runtime errors

You need -fdefer-type-errors for that!
All good things are immortal. They get rediscovered by generation after generation.

Next thing you know, Millennials will discover Trad Jazz.
>you need to show an ID to watch porn on the Internet

This is not true, FWIW.
Always alongside.

IIRC from one of the early posts that Marcan posted a couple of years ago, it's essentially impossible to completely get rid of MacOS due to the way the Apple Silicon boot process works.
Very true. (Author here) I think I was just trying to self deprecate to be funny, but deep down I agree with you, even though I have no clue how certain things I spend my time on will ever help me.

Edit: Adding your comment to my favourite quotes list, you put in words something I kinda know but had never seen said articulately before.
I will go out on a limb and state my considered opinion that both Rock Around the Clock and That's All Right are western swing. Their main significance is that they perfected the genre and made improvements impossible. So Elvis had to invent rock 'n' roll with his next single, Good Rockin' Tonight.
At the time, Microsoft had something like 94% market share for personal computer operating systems.
> Edit: Also, SQLite and Cockroach only allow SERIALIZABLE transactions so the unviability of SERIALIZABLE seems questionable.

SQLite is unviable in a lot of use cases. Also transactions are mostly a joke anyway, they were completely broken in MySQL for years and no-one cared, real systems don't actually use them much.
You have the danger of this backwards: this is a very bad security problem for Microsoft, and not a problem for people outside of MS (except to the extent that we're all indirectly reliant on MS being secure). Pointing a domain at an IP address does not give you any power over than IP address, and you can point a domain at anything you want.
I could be wrong but in my experience OS just selects one random and uses that for some time not round robins it.
Do you have hardware acceleration disabled in your browser?
That’s the phrase I was looking for!
I predicted that the Apple lawsuit would fail based on the approach Epic took. Just reading through their claims felt like they'd never be able to prove them sufficiently to show anti-competitive behavior. They really should've focused on things like Apple arbitrarily banning apps with no recourse for businesses, such as those banned for sharing functionality with Apple-made apps (especially cases where the Apple functionality came later). There are clear situations where Apple abuses its position, but that wasn't going to be shown with Epic's specific claims. Frustrating.
Once we are able to predict our lives autoregressively, we can continuously simulate and choose better outcomes by conditionally sampling from the predictive model using tree of search. Your personal AI guardian angel at scale.
Few months early April 1 stunt?
I promise I'm not a corporate shill (though I suppose you have no reason to trust me), and I absolutely get playful enjoyment from these barcode beeps too.
He named it, so is ever so slightly wrong - but all of us who have been around for a while and have participated semi-regularly in discussions without getting banned are in. Relative to the global online population this is still a very small group.
If anyone else is curious about this, it appears there are two relevant cases:

- Hush-a-Phone Corp v., United States[0], in which the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that AT&T could not prohibit the mechanical attachment of a device to its phones as long as the device did not damage AT&T's phone or its network

- The Carterfone decision[1], where the FCC allowed third-party devices to be electrically connected to AT&T's network as long as they did not damage the network

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_Corp._v._United_S...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone
The old Scheme programmer in me calls it a closure!
Tesla Skips Merit-Based Stock Awards, Squeezing Compensation
The self-checkout even the haters will love
There's a great autobiography written by Barlow, "Mother American Night". Highly recommend
> Yorkshire dairymaids dropped them into cream to counteract witchcraft that prevented it from turning to butter.

Given silver's anti-microbial properties, could this have actually helped beyond just the superstition?
Let's do away with self-checkout and standard checkout. The model Amazon promotes with full delivery is where we ought to go as it'll save so much land and space in the long-term.

In the near-term, the model adopted by Walmart, Target, and the many grocery stores with order pick-up makes a lot of sense. I rarely step into a store these days. Often I hear skepticism regarding quality of produce, but this is drastically overblown in my experience.

This would eliminate a number of problems.
We used MariaDB, Couchbase, Hadoop, etc. May not be the same system you are referring to, but Comcast isn’t some old dinosaur of a company.
Nobody said we shouldn't, it's a matter of whether this particular attack vector is worth so much trouble to prevent.

Security needs to allow usability or the whole system fails.
The main mod /u/Maxwellhill is Maxwell ghislaine. Everything matches up including the date of arrest
So we should paralyze a generation? You work to keep the mother safe. You don't sacrifice the well-being of children and whoever else at the altar of her well-being.

The same goes for the elderly. You don't lock down the world to keep them safe (which in NY was a disaster under Cuomo anyway). You take measures to secure their well-being without paralyzing everyone else. And FWIW, there are plenty in that age group who would rather risk COVID to see their grandchildren than live out their remaining years in isolation.

If anything is irrational, it's the ridiculous priorities that were imposed by the lockdown.
Intel intros Meteor Lake chips with faster GPUs and worse single-core speed
People have been saying this forever but their economy keeps going along and does not look like it will stop until a dmeographic crisis.
> That's a bizarre comparison.

It isn't and it is a valid comparison.

> GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.

You forgot that all of this is being run by Microsoft which makes this excuse even worse than Twitter / X's situation given the streams, spaces, videos, and over 500M+ posts per day.

I would expect GitHub to have a much better record in uptime with the help of Microsoft after the acquisition. It has gotten even worse.
I read both FAQ answers. I just - with greatest respect - don't find them convincing.

The arguments about completely removing the plugins were always questionable. Yes they had security problems. Now the attack surface they represented has largely been moved to the browsers themselves, which also have security problems, often of a similar nature and for similar reasons. Plugins had stopped being a vehicle for drive-by downloads and the like thanks to better browser safeguards like click-to-play long before they were decisively removed.

Some of the most popular programming languages in the world behave significantly differently between major versions and have developed effective solutions to manage those differences. Sometimes those are as simple as a command line compiler flag or config file setting to specify a target language version. And of course the libraries used with many languages also frequently have to deal with complex dependency resolutions these days. I do not understand why JavaScript is special and could not adopt a similar model if the will was there.
as an aside, i'd feel safer if more airlines had this policy
I’ll just say that personally the iMessage portion of Beeper is the only compelling offering for me personally. I do not care about centralizing my chats. I do care about being able to access my iMessage conversations on devices other than my iPhone- my only Apple device. iMessage is the only application I ever use, messaging or otherwise, that I cannot access from my computer.

I don’t entirely disagree with your perspective, just want to point out that it’s not just about blue bubbles as a status symbol.
That really does sound awfully like PR doesn't it!

And anyway, when Ellen was a child they didn't have barcode scanners in Super Markets!
Kit Olver. Now there's a name from the past.

He was working in a butcher's shop in Portland, in the Australian State of Victoria, when I knew him in the late 1960s. He was a bit of a rogue then. I'm not exactly sure I would believe this tale of his now. The location he gives is thousands of miles away from where the plane is believed to have gone down. And to get there the plane would have had to travel through areas of Australia that have constant radar. It's extremely unlikely.
Note that this is the exact opposite thesis of this article[1], which I remember seeing on HN a while ago. Rather than having no counterculture, it seems the mainstream is being eaten by a thousand countercultures.

We now have maybe millions of content creators jostling for views, rather than three letter TV stations showing the same templates shows. What gets you an audience isn’t uniformity, but being different in an interesting way.

[1] https://www.honest-broker.com/p/14-warning-signs-that-you-ar...
Basically all of it. MariaDB exhibits every class of anomaly we found in MySQL, all in single-node deployments.
Interesting.

I live in West Menlo Park and often see planes overhead coming from the West or Northwest to the Bay. I didn't fully understand they may need to slot into a really long flow from the East and even the South.

The prior Philippine Airlines flight did get ILS due to a temporary gap. Lufthansa wasn't as fortunate. The guy on the video didn't think anyone was at fault based on his interpretation and the comments from his insider.
> Why would anyone start a new project with MySQL? Is it really superior in anything?

It's the most developer-friendly thing out there. Particularly for a datastore CLI, which is inherently something you use rarely, MySQL's is just a lot nicer, more discoverable.

I think it has the least bad HA story among (free) traditional SQL-RDBMSes too (not that I understand why anyone would start a new project on a traditional SQL-RDBMS at all).
All property tax bills are public in Montreal for example. My name is tied to the address literally on the city of Montreal official website.
Everyone quoted in this article is roughly 60 years old - would have loved to know if other generations are similarly split about this experience.

That said, as a former cashier who mostly uses self-checkout in her 30s: babysitting self-checkout sounds way less fun than chatting with strangers while I checked them out was.
> We don't have a good idea of how to go faster than we can now without literally blowing up nukes behind our ship, and hoping we can magically ride the waves reliably, and even that is not exactly revolutionary in terms of speed.

There are other, better, designs for nuclear rockets beside the Orion drive. Some proof of concept devices have already been built. And if we could get our hands on sufficient quantities of anti-matter there are even better designs for anti-matter rockets. It’s an engineering problem not a problem of fundamental physics.
Written by AI for an insider perspective
I'm less disappointed by lack of flying cars, I can wait for those.

But that in 30 years of computer history where advancements are literally exponential and all we have to show since NT is Windows 11!?
When talking about shoplifting, I think it's worth noting that property crime rates in the US are noticeably lower than they were in even the 2000s, even accounting for an uptick during the pandemic. If there's any real (rather than corporate-PR-manufactured) uptick in shoplifting specifically, I would personally assume it's got more to do with the "remove every possible person from the floor so one person at a time is responsible for an entire store" business strategy than anything else.
I’m not so charitable. It’s nearly impossible for one to walk around self-conceptualizing as a privileged white male without the inherent identitarianism and rank ordering of identity groups corrupting you into bigotry.

His association with “smart” with “white male privilege” is a mask slip. Yet all saviours believe in some way, they are more powerful and capable than those they are saving. Even if all they’re better at is a board game.
Really? That's very disappointing, if that's the case.

EDIT: I'm not sure, this article says it can detect spaghetti just from the pressure difference, for example:

https://all3dp.com/1/nextruder-prusa-xl-deep-dive/

It also hints at detection of the height while printing.
(Author here) Yeah, most of my personal projects don't fall in the never-ending category either, this writeup was more about the ones that do because you get so many ideas as you work on them that you keep working on them.
Comcast didn’t own 24/8, @Home did. Not sure if Comcast was part of @Home.

@Home was a coalition of cable providers who didn’t have the technical knowledge or funds to implement their own cable ISP. FWIW, when Comcast finally bought out our neighborhood cable co (mid-2005ish), we never got 24/8 addresses

Also throwing more water on your story, Comcast’s internal network was entirely 10/8 for a very long time. Around 2008 or so they went to ipv6 because they ran out of private addresses.
Why doesn't windows update use authentication (eg https)?
The FUSE stuff actually isn't too bad--Jepsen goes to a lot of trouble to make all this stuff automatic. The test harness pulls dependencies, compiles LazyFS, and mounts the filesystem for you. Just pass `--lazyfs` at the CLI. :-)
Why a placebo can work–even when you know it's fake
“A Mac“ most likely includes macOS running under virtualization or on a Hackintosh as well, for now. (Apple’s historically been extremely lenient about these off-label uses of macOS, but the fine folks at Beeper will probably destroy this for us as well.)
I suppose it's not too bad for trying to see where the sun don't shine.
I just read a lot of stuff online. I don't feel any one person can give me "tech career advice". If I have decided say I want to work at Google, maybe I would reach out to X people who have got hired by Google for career "tactics". But for strategy who can help me? Everyone comes from a different background anyway. I feel like they would get me doing things that work well for them.
> In case I need a GUI, I use a Fedora installation. I assume your scenario is more like that.

Yes, it's just faster to boot to an installation or liveCD iso, as it's rarely needed and updating it only requires a new ISO.

Having a full installation on a separate partition is riskier (what if something writes to the partition) and more brittle (too many moving parts)
Who's on page 3?
(British joke, nod to Abbot and Costello).
That won't help much for "scanned out of focus, or where a part of the page was illegibly crumpled, or a page was missed or miscategorized" - from my earlier comment.
“Please note the library is being actively developed, and is known to be incomplet; it might also be incorrekt and there could be a few bad bugs lurking.”

That gives me a good laugh.
I mean, not guilty by reason of temporary insanity is a valid legal verdict, so yes, if you really have become unhinged and gripped by fear to the extent that you don't act rationally you are, by the law, exempt from responsibility for your actions.
I think it's one of the first games heavily using Unity DOTS, which probably also explains its launch troubles.
I like the revised self service we have at some Super Markets in Australis where you have more space to load and unload and they don't use the annoying scales to weight everything that goes into the bags!

Having plenty of self service checkouts means I neve rhave to queue!

Also very modern is the way Uniqlo do it!

They have what I'm guessing are NFC readers in these large white tubs that you put your items into at the checkout.

Works well and is very efficient.
Completely tangential here, but there's an important exception to the Keep-it-simple-stupid rule. It's Admiral Rickover's nuclear reactors. He looked at all the options and decided that there's just no way to "keep it simple". He decided that his reactors will be what they'll need to be, and the operators will be extraordinarily well trained so that accidents don't happen. There's a well known Rickover diatribe [1] where he goes on a rant against know-it-alls who propose different designs that work only on paper. It gets posted on HN regularly, I won't quote it again.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html
Wikipedia: Articles for Deletion/Minecraft (2010)
I use grocery store apps where I can scan the items with my phone as I put them in my bag. Checkout is then only swipe to pay. There are occasional random inspections, otherwise I completely skip the checkout lines.
I find the entire experience of staying in a hotel to be weird and unpleasant. When I travel I try to rent AirBnBs because I specifically like them better than staying in hotels.
The most expensive and lowest quality producing way. If you can make it to the store spending a few minutes visually comparing products can really inform decisions.
This was the big realization for me when I got into graphics - everything on the screen is a lie, and the gestalt is an even bigger lie. It feels similar to how I would imagine it feels to be a well-informed illusionist - the fun isn’t spoiled for me when seeing how the sausage is made - I just appreciate it on more levels.
Any storage is incredibly volatile. Physical players, media, humans struggle with storing, moving things around, finding ways to play it, unless it can be converted to stay with current media mutations.

Consider the rarity of Betamax players, early cellulite film. Obscure media like M-Discs I don't know if there will be players around in 50 years (zip drives anyone?). Or how people won't recognize the media if found in storage.

I feel acid-free paper and ink is still the best for archival. We have 8mm film from my grandparents that are about 60 years old, and my family was able to convert it to digital.
Even if that is the case, if it is random, some section of DNS would send traffic to it. Maybe it was OK because most resolvers would ignore the local address on the list??