skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the constructive feedback.

The reason laid out in the article was for "jumping over the default linux network stack" to move a packet closer to its destination. I provide that just to hopefully help, ill have to read thru the article again to see how I can improve on making that clearer or defining more practical wording :).

And yeah, I understand your comments on all the naming spaghetti. I throw together these things so often that the convention used here are ones from my own head sprinkled with a bit of "iproute2" output format. Ill see if I can improve on this a bit moving forward. The explanation by another reply is correct :).
Why do you believe that paid services are only B2B these days? For one counterpoint, there are a quarter-billion paid Netflix subscriptions worldwide.
Submitting the sitemap does not trigger indexing.
You can manually request indexing from the GSC, though. But that is limited to 10 requests per day.

This service uses Google's Indexing API to send up to 2000 URL indexing requests per day on your behalf.
And how much of that is an inconvenience to you?
Related. Is there a definitive year for this btw?

Perlisms – “Epigrams in Programming” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33702150 - Nov 2022 (8 comments)

Epigrams in Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32176598 - July 2022 (1 comment)

Epigrams in Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25984343 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

Epigrams in Programming (1982) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20628827 - Aug 2019 (24 comments)

Epigrams in programming (1982) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8674919 - Nov 2014 (7 comments)

Epigrams in Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3613900 - Feb 2012 (2 comments)

Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1701683 - Sept 2010 (2 comments)

Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" [repost] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277519 - April 2010 (2 comments)

"Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis (ACM SIGPLAN Sep-82) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482630 - Feb 2009 (3 comments)
The other day, I was thinking the kids are just about old enough to watch Star Wars episodes 4-6, and it occurred to me I don’t know how to obtain a decent (original plot and visual effects) copy, legally or otherwise.

I almost wish I still had that old VHS box set laying around.
Weird CEO cult going on again. Per the article Altman created this and that. In reality thousands of people created the stuff. Altman mostly did some management and marketing.
> It feels like people are a bit obsessive about this guy.

AI is about to take over the world (for better or worse), and this is the guy in charge of building it.
Just lok at the openai: they not only provide ML models, but also a chat experience, a way to save your preious interactions, an easy way to pay, fine-tunes, and that's all from day one
Market is about supply and demand. People demand meat. Regardless of how inefficiënt it is produced.

And, no surprise, this isn't a free market at all. At least in Europe, meat, dairy (and on lesser extent crops) are heavily subsidised.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/feed-required-to-produce-... has a quick overview. My numbers aren't wrong, but, as always, they do need context (i.e. not all input is currently human consumable. Oos, many input is grass, which is rather ineffective land-use, i.e. the same km² could produce a multitude of human edible foods)
I feel like that's almost all games? Which ones are you thinking of that can't be understood on the first play?
Related:

I Stopped Cosmonauts from Carrying Guns (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29607416 - Dec 2021 (2 comments)
> I'm not sure how I would approach issues like [examples] in a way that's pragmatic and doesn't ultimately rely on ideology or appeal to god/natural order.

A long list of people, many of whom are way smarter than me, have written about this issue extensively over the centuries. As a starting point from which to branch off, I'd recommend the book "Enlightenment Now" by Steven Pinker.
Best SaaS Blogs?
I'm particularly interested in topics geared towards solopreneur developers, idea generation, and early stage market testing.
Discussed at the time:

The unfortunate math behind consulting companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189166 - Feb 2011 (125 comments)
>” And yet, in places like NYC, the complaint from many activists is the opposite - that poor people get arrested more because it’s the poorer areas with more policing.”

Couldn’t both things be true? Could different cities and police departments have differing contexts, differing problems?
> Fiendishly, I proposed that to guarantee the gun only be usable in an off-course landing (its official purpose), it be stashed in compartment accessible only from outside the Soyuz, after landing. There never was any response to my helpful suggestions.

If I recall correctly, this intended purpose was for killing bears and/or hunting for meat in the event that landing cosmonauts were stranded in Siberia.
Oh sweet summer child …
The Dev/Ops Struggle [video]
Unlike in the real world, when it's sonor extremely difficult to prove that you have never seen a given a copyrighted work, is sort of questions seems quite practical to resolve here? Keeping complete records of what went into training an LLM sounds like what we already do?
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38576530 - Dec 2023 (163 comments)
Seems to me there are a lot of people in charge of building it.
Yeah, this was pretty fun!

Here's rap about a duck trying to get chicken nuggets at McDonalds: https://app.suno.ai/song/27476a1c-ab35-4dbd-bf71-a9fa0aaa4de...

I don't see a way to make anything longer than 20-30 seconds though.. or is that limited by the lyrics?

Edit: with help of ChatGPT I got some more lyrics, but looks like this is as far as Suno.ai is willing to take it: https://app.suno.ai/song/1694f2a9-1375-4dc9-b523-33528aa308a...
So let me get this straight, your training as a psychoanalyst qualifies you to discredit a woman's testimony, despite you never having met with her? How wonderful.

By the way, have you read this?

> Today, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) reiterates its continued and unwavering commitment to the ethical principle known as "The Goldwater Rule." We at the APA call for an end to psychiatrists providing professional opinions in the media about public figures whom they have not examined, whether it be on cable news appearances, books, or in social media. Armchair psychiatry or the use of psychiatry as a political tool is the misuse of psychiatry and is unacceptable and unethical.

https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/apa-calls-...
This is really well researched and I enjoyed following along, thank you.
How do you reconcile the fact that music from people who have done pretty despicable things can still be widely popular? You can certainly argue that enough people are willing to look past someone being a murderer or child abuser or something because they still can find some sort of human connection with the artist, but given how uncommon that sort of sentiment is in basically every other part of life, it seems far more likely that people just don't really think about it an artist at all when they listen to their music if the artist is someone they wouldn't want to connect with.
For some reason this gives me vibes similar to RMS' "The Right to Read"[0], but also to Cory Doctorow's ouvre like "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away"[1] or "Unauthorized Bread"[2].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

[1] https://www.tor.com/2008/08/06/weak-and-strange/

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
Hiten Shah's blog about product: https://hitenism.com/

Arvid Kahl: https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/

These are also newsletters.
I'm interested in this (as an SMB in Germany). Will check it for out later and report on what I feel.
What happened to France when Nazi Germany won against it?
Doesn't matter. They'll raise $50M on this and keep building. In five years, you'll eat your hat.
Because we've all felt the pain of power bills shooting up by 2-3x in a very short period of time, perhaps?

The cost of running a PC 24/7 used to feel insignificant, but not so much any more. I've been running an old PC as a home server for years, but should probably find a more power-efficient NAS box to replace it with.
That is the coolest thing I've seen for hike visualization. Uploaded one: https://cubetrek.com/view/199784
Better than on top of the desk I guess...
ROFL that was fun :D
One can go very deep in making universal statements about compression, or images, probably deeper than you realize, but it will never be so simple and wrapped up with a pure-mathematical bow as you are implying.
Branding perplexity.ai: Creating an invisible brand
If you use all 8 bits of a byte for data, you need a separate way to store the length, or you need to make everything fixed-width which wastes space.

"Varints" or variable-length integers, with 7 bits of data and 1 continuation bit per byte, are used in a fairly wide variety of formats (e.g. Protobuf, SQLite and Lucene). They're compact when most of your integers are small, while still being quite simple and fast to encode/decode.

Faster alternatives tend to be more complicated, and more compact alternatives tend to be slower.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_quantity
As it's not 1750, I'm going to bet they had access to a knitting machine. So cheer up, they're only better researchers than you (or me.)
For the same reasons why people use cruise control when driving despite it not fully self driving.
The one you linked has only emmc sadly. I want proper storage.
Interesting that they vote to remove it rather than an official change to storing it in an external compartment. Then again, maybe the external compartment thing might be more dangerous than simply not having it?
This is basically the design of UTF-8 or varint encoding. The integer's representation is read one byte (8 bits) at a time, which can then be interpreted by looking at the first bit which says whether the integer is "done" or more bytes need to be read.

(If we were using all 8 bits for the representation and an additional leading bit for whether it continues, we'd end up having to read 9 bits or something, which is awkward and not aligned with what the machine actually supports reading.)
It is a balance between simplicity, speed and size. They choose size, honesty leb128 isn’t *too* complex (you can see an implementation in my repo I pointed too). But yes they don’t take all the simplicity tradeoffs.
I went into solutions architecture (known elsewhere as sales engineering) at AWS. It pays way better and I don't have to compete with people 25 years younger than me who will work for $10/hr on the other side of the world.
And last year, crypto was going to take over the world.

I'm skeptical of yet another, extremely computationally expensive aspirational technique.
>You said you cannot make an ethical purchase in a capitalist society. I live in one, so by your rules I can only act unethically.

And where's the error in reasoning, if we exclude your hurt feelings?

>This means effectively, there is no good or bad.

That's a stretch. There is more to life than mercantile consumption.

> This is a popular method of debasing people. Maybe you aren’t aware of that, but the poster you did the dog pile with certainly is.

I don't know what this means.
The article mentions processing.js as a modern equivalent, which it can serve being rather high level and outputting great graphics. But that misses the "close to the machine" aspect of having a computer fully within the control of your hands.

Similarly using a web browser and View Source for HTML/CSS+JS was a modern equivalent before we had all the single-page-apps/frameworks that make it incomprehensible. And again the 'machine' is an abstracted web client.

The Commander X16 project[0] aims to recreate that environment for modern times (and also available for purchase). It's effectively what a C64 might be today, with more (but still limited) memory and easy to program graphics and sound. Something like a Raspberry Pi 400 looks the part but would end up running something like Linux and OpenGL ES2.0 which isn't much different than a regular desktop.

I can't find the original video where I saw the project getting started, but here's a review[1] that runs through what it is.

[0] https://www.commanderx16.com/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFIk8WV-RYQ
I read you as needlessly combative here, getting far from the points made. Commenter said they told a kid that websites are just a collection of files, kid replied "what's a file?", and I chimed in that that's not so strange, because even people who work with them might have a hard time nailing down a definition. None of this is incompatible with your soap box, but you're writing as if we disagree.
As an expat with an unusual name after the fourth time one party just agrees to the other party
The inability for the general population to decouple the religion & people from the state are wild to me.
Do you think people would listen to Kanye if it wasn't Kanye?
For once, I agree with him. This has to come from within.
I am a theorist (though not in complexity) so I agree with you that new math is never bad. I also agree that an very lucky P=NP result _may_ be implementable _at some point_ in the future, though to be honest I wouldn't put my money on that happening.

As for more important problems-- I think it's more important to improve the specializations of NP problems, heuristically, for problem instances which arise in practice. A concrete example in my line of work could be improving the performance of SMT solvers on encodings of real programs. There's a lot of exciting work happening in this area and it's opening doors in program verification previously thought to be unrealistic. IIUC the formal methods team at AWS is putting a lot of work into memoized, distributed SMT solving, and are making meaningful gains over the current state of the art.

I don't really care if we can solve the most general NP hard problems in O(bad*N^bad) only for N>bad. A) Even a getting result that weak seems to be too challenging to prove and probably not true, and B) trying to solve the most general problem is complete overkill for any problems that come up outside a complexity textbook.
There's software in my phone I installed two months ago and which doesn't work anymore. It's not even anything that needs an online connection for its features, too.
Prometheus_fdw: Seamless Monitoring in Postgres
Wouldn’t this study fall into Simpson’s Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox)?
So the new colour would let you know the car will move in entirely predictable ways based on billions of km driven, unlike the cars driven by crazy humans
I first tried the course many years back, and didn't complete it (not necessarily only because it was in course form). Last year I bought the 2nd edition book, and found it more accessible, as a do it on your own time type of project, and as a reference while implementing the parts.
My little one has “magna-tiles” that have triangles and squares. I think you can expand to pentagons with an extra set.
Not exactly what you asked but I think the same approach would work: I set the intention to gain insight into how stories work. This intention alone was sufficient to massively increase my abilities in this area, because during "idle time" my brain would mull over / analyze stories I'd heard recently.

So I think for PR or whatever the same thing would work, simply deciding to become skilled in this area and you will naturally begin to pick up the patterns already present in your reality.
Thanks, the "took over silicon valley" sounded a lot like link bait or potentially a puff piece. Saved me a click.
Veritasium has a great video[1] about people’s cognitive bias towards using examples that prove their mental model, rather than using examples that disprove their mental model. But if you want to actually confirm you have accurate understanding of something, testing examples that don't fit your metal model is the workable methodology (i.e. use a null hypothesis).

Testing examples that do match your mental model only proves your model partially matches the actual model, but it does very little to actually identify misunderstandings, or improve your understanding.

[1] https://youtu.be/vKA4w2O61Xo
Seems to me like Sam Altman is really good at making the actual builders believe that they need him to make things happen, and really successful at making the world believe that he was the actual builder. On that note he just posted a thread on how much of a visionary he is.

I follow a lot of people on this topic and even at the top of the foodchain there are hundreds of people from all corners of the world competing with each and improving each others work. It's actually really fun and amazing to watch(especially the pace at which it happens) and very different from how Sam portrays it.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1214274038933020672
Indeed. Its easy for left-wing populists to target bloggers' income than to actually cease business dealings with Russia. Europe continues trading with Russia, and the United States still buys LNG from Putins friends through intermediaries like Gunvor/Chesapeake.
Yet, those influenced by populist rhetoric firmly believe that these sanction/limitations are effective against a hostile authoritarian country.
I did the math on this back in 2013, based on the annual reported number of hours uploaded per minute, and came up with 375PB of content, adding 185TB/day, with a 70% annual growth rate. This does not take into account storing multiple encodes or the originals.
I don't understand the difference, since why would the company restrict GPT-5 to the current design of GPT-4?
Interested to see how it performs in Nevada, Botts' dots can be confusing to self-driving AI models learned on normal highway stripes/lane markings. The Vegas strip notably has very limited lane markings.

The requirement to have a car in front of you is also very interesting.
I was just surprised about the number of actual cases I was aware of. It is anecdotal, but I otherwise would not thought it was common enough to know of one incident, let alone multiple ones.

I guess the people who do this simply don’t know better, and are used to developing world stock markets where the rules are very different from here. The insider trading training corps push is actually useful for informing people how different it is here.
Then why do you care? I don't care, even enough to click on that. Why do you? I'm asking seriously.
Right. Even a machine like the Tormach 440, which is pretty close to the minimal steel-cutting machine, contains nearly 200kg of cast iron. That, plus lead screws, motors, etc needed to move it around add up quickly.

A while back I looked into building my own, and ended up with a Tormach because I couldn't compete on price. There are a couple near that price point now, but going transformatively cheaper seems very hard.

Lathes are easier. The C4 class is both quite cheap and impressively capable (much more than the cheaper C3 mini lathe class).
Like another comment pointed out they seem to store pins as a JSON blob in a single column anyway. They probably should've used Drupal.

Really, this is pinterest. They store 'boards' and 'pins', you may as well have a bit of fun with it. What use cases do they have for the features you list? They probably only used a database for write transactions?

I deeply value database technology and use it daily, but I don't think something simple like this needs to worry too hard about it.
That's an interesting PS, and I wonder if it's actually related to something that is getting in your way that you aren't seeing? (Though I feel both of those!)

But also I think (a) we're in something of a tech downturn at this moment and (b) 'coding' and some parts of dev have become insecure blue-ish collar jobs.
How can T-shirts be "current"? :) The design has not changed for 50 years or so.

Perhaps the colour but they are available in a super wide range anwyay (luckily, because Jack & Jones did only white, black and navy for a couple years).
If they did that, they’d more than double their labor costs.

We really need to shorten copyright terms, if only because the copyright holders are increasingly becoming companies that have never produced any content.
I agree with this guy. Tesla FSD isn't smoke and mirrors! It's made of sensors and computers n stuff! Making this out of mirrors would be impractical, let alone smoke.
Making something so extremely beautiful is the surest way to optimize for long term longevity.
This is such a cool site.
"Caution, this car is recording massive amounts of data and will have the entire car makers legal department behind it in case of a crash"
> which explains precisely why it is important to keep the national debt under control.

Nobody, including MMT, claims you shouldn't keep the national debt levels under control. But the reasons why you do it, to which extent you do it, and by which means you achieve that are vastly different.

Take taxation as an example. Simplified, Neoliberal = taxes bad. MMT considers taxation to be an instrument to control demand and inflation (by proxy).
The first talkies were artistically inferior to the best silent movies of the time, too. And shooting in black and white retained its charm for a long time after Technicolor.

Proclaiming that a strictly bigger toolset is "[a]esthetically inferior" because directors are still learning how to use it is pure reflexive conservatism. There's no reason you have to show wrinkles just because you're shooting in 8k, it just becomes possible to do so while it was impossible before.
Instead if you kept the same 6 engineers around for decades you could probably scale to 100m with those same engineers.

I doubt it. Effort does not scale linearly with user scale, in my experience, primarily because features don't. This means that horizontal scalability is insufficient to go from 10M to 100M. And that means that more complex systems are required to support it--I can easily see a team of 6 very experienced engineers with deep domain knowledge of the application becoming overwhelmed as that scale change occurs.
I do this sometimes. Normally I phrase it something like "So what you're saying is, [summary]", or "Just to make sure I got that, [re-explanation]" which feels more natural to me. "Just to make sure we're on the same page here" is another one.

I also ask questions about any aspects that sound sub-optimal, which is useful in its own right, but it's just as likely to uncover gaps in my own understanding - and I have that in mind when formulating the question.
I'd read Secrets of Consulting: http://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Consulting_Secrets.html

I'd drop into as many tech meetups as you can and ask folks genuine questions about their problems. See if you can help them (for free). Think of resources or blogs that you can pass on to them, then do that. If you don't find anything to help with the problems, write a blog post about it and then send it to them. In general, be helpful.

I'd also focus a bit more than "website or cloud problems". That's pretty broad. The narrower your niche, the more people will think of you as a go-to for that problem. Again, talking to folks at meetups will be helpful.

Finally, you might want to think about using online resources to find problems (finding what people complain about online and then writing about it so you develop inbound interest). Amy Hoy does a great job of outlining these in the Sales Safari talk. Here's a free version: https://stackingthebricks.com/video-sales-safari-in-action/ but she also has a $99 workshop: https://shop.stackingthebricks.com/sales-safari-101