skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that a better analogy would be: if someone shows up at your doorstep, you are free to not let them in.
Don't run away from something. It will find you. Run towards something better. Pull works better than push.

Me.
Things like RAM, disk space, and bandwidth have become so abundant that it doesn't really matter to optimize for. Especially when their availability will have doubled within a couple of years for the high value customers.

Slack is a resource optimization absurdity. But it serves its target users well as they have plenty of resources anyway.
100%. The singularity is almost here and having people that can self-fertilize like flowers is just an added bonus.
> John Melvin said Zailenko was eventually taken to the hospital in Ukiah, and over several days, many different people visited and tried speaking to him in Russian and many other languages, but no one could identify what words exactly he was speaking.

I'm assuming it was Ukrainian? Although if someone tried to speak to him in Russian, they'd be able to understand that he was speaking Ukrainian and naturally understand a good majority of it.
Yes, but safety will always a concern.

The only way to get this to work is first that government needs to signal that this is approved use of technology and airspace.

If that happens then capital markets will follow by investing in cargo-only airports to take civilian danger out of the equation.
MainCross – Shopify equivalent for digital networks and platforms
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Information & Content Hub
Social & Community Hub
Market Network

in minutes - no code, white-labeled and scalable to apps. The network builders helps professional and organisations craft a digital presence that integrates the 3 pillars of online growth - Content, Community, Commerce.

It bundles content publishing to memberships, payments, digest mails and analytics.

Why?
Because branded and focussed networks is where engagement is. Because the dark forest theory of the Internet is true. Because private channels and micro-networks is where real value is being delivered as ads and algorithms diminish the real value of giant social networks. Because top class digital media network tech needs to deomcratised.

Would love thoughts, feedback and suggestions, especially on improving US GTM, partnerships for us as a core b2b SaaS startup.

Oops, here's the link: https://www.maincross.net/?rs=ycchristmas
Can we stop with these useless comparisons? 10x-20x, 100x, 200x out of context means absolutely nothing.

All these micro-benchmarks shootouts means nothing either. Is anyone running a mandelbrot or pi-digits SaaS company? I'd think not.

Similarly saying Rails is slow out of context, means nothing, Rails is "slower" than Ruby micro-frameworks X because it does useful things the other doesn't like CSRF protection etc. If you don't need these features, turn them off and Rails will be about as fast as these frameworks.

If anything annoys me more than clueless people shitting on Ruby for bad reasons it's Rubyists spreading FUD about Rails.
> Absolutely true though, Ill give them that, government intervention is a function for externalizing the cost of buying votes with new spending plans.

Again, that is not a logical argument, it is not even politics, it is dishonest propaganda. An insult to even economists.

Merry Christmas
That's also my understanding. I do wonder if that's a bit of a misunderstanding about not practicing agriculture, though. They did practice forest management with intentional burns. I'm pretty interested in traditional English forest management, and reducing brush and decreasing canopy increased the amount of forest "products" available to people, from building materials (basketry, hut materials, etc) to increased yields from under story vegetation.

It's a bit of a digression, but it's a subject I find interesting and rarely pops up in hacker news. :)
Resource constraints are a good thing. With constrained resources, developers are more elegant and efficient with their apps.

Bandwidth, storage, CPU, memory have all ben unconstrained for ~ 10 years now. Apps , Games and Websites are huge. ALGOs are sloppy.

Nothing will happen until the bloat becomes visible again. This time it will take deliberate measurement of the problem and discipline to address it.
Thanks for trying a more customer-friendly approach!

I don't have an immediate need for one of these, but do you have any plans to expand to Europe or work with a local distributor? Inflated shipping cost & time, VAT & customs duties (+additional processing time) and a cumbersome return process if anything goes wrong, makes for a less than ideal shopping experience.
> We'll always need something to be able to provide a base-load of electricity.

Correct.

Advanced geothermal and thermal batteries will be a large part of the solution. Those nascent markets today are where PV and Li-ion were in the 2000s: proven technologies that have climbed onto the cost-learning curve ladder, now just need capital and time.

We're so close to having all the necessary solutions we need to achieve net zero, and then push forward to net negative (to get CO2 back down to 350ppm).
It's a strange sort of Lisp fetishism that wants to bring back Smalltalk instead of Lisp.
The author has had better success than I have. Earlier this year I archived a couple dozen CD-R and DVD-R discs with mixed results. Most remained accessible, but a few were no longer readable, tested across multiple drives. In my case, the discs were cheap, CompUSA branded discs. Media quality certainly matters. These discs were also older than the author's, approaching 20+ years.
Remove Swerway and this is just insane enough that I get the feeling this will really happen.

Rip Van Winkle sleeps in a coma for 80 years, wakes up revived in Swerway
I haven’t fiddled with wpa_supplicant in years, literally.

It’s not 2006 anymore unless you’re using one of those dumb linux distros. Anything Ubuntu- or Fedora- based will most likely work out of the box.
Yes, that sounds like exactly what I was thinking! It's just incredibly better.
It’s actually pagan.

The Celts had a thing for holly…green with red berries.

•Not• Christian any more than a Christmas tree or Santa Claus.
> The debt that is incurring interest was an enormous factor in growing americas wealth in the past

Most of the debt is very recent. Nothing to do with decades of growth.

Paying interest on 5% of gross product is very anti-growth.

Borrowing to grow is legitimate. But the idea that spending decisions by the US government over the last couple decades were sober financial bets on returns is fantastical.

If that were the case the debt would be getting paid down, with a trajectory to surpluses being the return, not growing.
Same. I think life is about trying to find out what's behind all this, and the fastest way to that is to have as much help as we can.
hard to go about your life when ppl rub their religious holiday in your face
Software is getting worse. Agile and product management lead the regression. There’s no time and little incentive to build quality when you can ship crap and ask for a payraise. The low quality stuff will be replaced by other low quality stuff and no one will notice. The only that should work is taking payments - erroring to charging users twice is acceptable.
OP: Please update this if you find an answer. I just rolled out a Docusaurus-powered documentation site myself — my first persona is developers, so getting them to update Markdown isn’t too much to ask, but in 2024 I plan to expand the scope of the site to include product managers, program managers, and even chiefs-of-staff and executive assistants, so this will be top of mind for me. This is exactly how things like Confluence and even Google Docs (or Slides!) crop up and take hold. Those tools aren’t evil per se but they’re not ideal for developer documentation.
If people live better lives because of a compressing demographic pyramid (causing scarce labor to drive up wages and people not having unintended or unwanted children that would’ve otherwise become future underpaid and unappreciated labor), let the economy get wrecked. “Starve the beast.” It’s certainly not doing anyone who isn’t exposed to investment vehicles any favors (see down thread convo about stagnant economics in developed nations [1]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38759956
There's going to be future rounds
> How is that possible in this age of data driven decision making?

Probably because reducing RAM usage has even less potential than a feature nobody uses. Someone might use a feature, so you can take a risk on it. Who (who might otherwise buy Slack) wouldn't buy Slack because it uses 1-2 gigs of RAM?
> But the market doesn’t care.

Baloney. The market is a collection of people. I am a person and I care. The next time someone foists junk on you tell them it is junk. Show them a better way. For example, I had a displeasure of using Teams to communicate with some contractors recently. I had not used Teams in a while but knowing MS well I knew just what to expect, and I was not disappointed. Getting onboarded and authenticated was like pulling teeth, and when I joined a meeting with my speakers the participants complained that I was causing an echo. They did not know that that echo cancellation, as implemented by any tool for fit for the job, was not active. Nobody thought to ask "Huh, that's strange, we don't have this problem with Meet or Zoom." This is not something users should have to think about or configure in 2023.

It comes down to recognizing junk, caring that it is junk, and having the option to choose something better.
I recently set up Home Assistant and a bunch of ESPHome-based sensor devices. It was pretty easy (for someone who's technical enough to write YAML, use SSH, and do some basic soldering) and now I have a "smart home" which is totally bullshit-free and cost like $80 all-in. It was a fun like weekend project I can recommend it!
Trading FoV for density would certainly be the correct choice for flight sim, not much value in peripheral vision while scanning horizon or instruments.

Do you spend much time zoomed in, losing the angular 1:1 mapping of the viewport? I did that a lot with a headtracker (makes you really strive for precision, I had a custom build of freetrack with generous per-pixel hystheresis), but under the headset zooming felt more wrong than expected.
Tell all your friends about the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™. Its creation would accelerate all of these developments and others that no one can even imagine. All I need is $80B.
"(According to the FDA) In fact, assuming the tree is not ingested, the risk is considered so low that no testing is done before trees are sold."

But then:

"Still, without testing, there’s really no way to be sure."

I hate this scaremongering clickbait drivel. Why the hell should I trust Wired more than the FDA? What a terrible thing to publish on Christmas Day.

Merry Christmas. (!)
You can give your informed opinion on the probability in addition to what you've derived from the dataset, but you shouldn't conflate them.

Your informed opinion incorporates this dataset, but you shouldn't imply it's "based on" this dataset.
That was the 1950-70s I am told
I tried loading some of my old burned CD-Rs a few years back and had very little success too. They were maybe 10-12 years old at the time. It was kind of sad.

I had a number of burned CDs flake out on me over the years.
get.account.with.id = 'acc_fa0k5kkw35fik9pu';

get.account.with = {
lastName: 'Elaine',
email: 'elaine@kojima-productions.com'
};

I can't decide whether this is genius simplicity, or a terrible leaky-abstraction hack. Interesting.
I think we’re getting hung up on the word fine where. Obviously T-Mobile have no right to “fine” individuals in the same way the government can. But they do have the right to include provisions for monetary consequences for violations of their code-of-conduct into their business agreements. And T-Mobiles customers (I.e. people like Bandwidth), can add provisions to pass those monetary consequences onto their customers in their contracts.

Those contract provisions will create a consideration for payment between T-Mobile and their business partner, if their partner breaches the code-of-conduct, and a court will absolutely enforce those provisions. Eventually a court appointed bailiff will be instructed to recover the debt via the confiscation of assets, whether those assets are cash or other property will be entirely down to the solvency of the business the debt is being recovered from.
It's amazing, they simply decided that "old, white men" had long ago decided upon the definition of recession, and they changed it recently because it must have been racist, and certainly wasn't inclusive. Much like how the definition of the word "vaccine" has recently changed.
Merry Christmas you guys! I've only been around here for maybe 2 years, but I've loved every minute of it!

Also, a few relevant XKCDs, because of course:

https://xkcd.com/361/
https://xkcd.com/1933/
https://xkcd.com/2872/
What's interesting is that the button need not actually reset the Internet right away. It's actually a user signal that "customers are complaining the Internet does not work". The button could initiate a whole series of diagnostics and target a fix.
It seems that one basic misunderstanding is the idea that you could just jump into the deep end and start producing six sigma quality at scale. You can’t. Each sigma represents an order of magnitude of additional work at refining the production process, and that does not happen overnight.
> "If you tell it to do nothing else, or if you lose communications with it, it's going to do the last thing you told it to do, which is the definition of autonomy. It has no direct human control."

That’s not at all what I thought autonomy means.
> Ruby doesn't do anything better

I'll bite.

Even at the most basic level of built in functions/methods (String, Array, Hash) - I found Ruby's to blow Python's out of the water.

https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.1/String.html

https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_ref_string.asp

Even Python's choice of naming and syntax to use these basic functions just hasn't been thought through as much as Ruby's implementation. There's a reason it's called the language of Developer happiness.

Ruby's community I've found is more focused on best engineering practices (like testing) than others, which is perhaps why RSpec and MiniTest are fantastic frameworks. The likes of PyTest doesn't even compare to what those two offer.

Plenty of reason above to use Ruby, and we haven't even got to Rails yet.
Most coaches achieved a measure of success in playing the sport before they started coaching. That doesn't mean their best option for making money was to continue playing rather than coach.

And just because some people cheat doesn't mean everyone is willing to cheat.
It's probably the most common class of error for people who learn English as adults. There's lots of strange, hard to explain meaning encoded in which (if any) article a person chooses. "I dropped by the school today" and "I dropped by school today" are both valid and have slightly different implications
Yup you are right. Will fix.
> But there's little point today in reading the news a few days or weeks after they happen.

I have to total opposite view. I only want to read the news like after at least a couple of days, so that there is time for things to become clear. The CNN kind of "breaking news" looping the whole day in "latest developments" is stupid since there is usually nothing to talk about but rumors and "experts" guessing or pushing some murky agenda.
Instructs Intel ME to boot into TempleOS with a Gopher client and IRC.
When I was young, I was told a story about how native tribes used the star as a vision test for warriors. Only people with excellent vision could discern the second star.

No idea if there's any truth in the story, but I wouldn't be surprised
Check out https://substrait.io/
Have an internal ID and one "public" ID. The public one can be mutated with PUT/PATCH calls that are idempotent, the internal ID never ever changes.
Most people and companies write software to make money.

If you are trying to optimize for this goal, does it really matter if your software is as effective as it's physically possible?

There's a certain threshold for performance your customers implicitly expect you to reach. If you're within this boundary, is it really worth to spend days coming up with a new inverse square root optimization instead of bringing more value to your customer with new features?
Not as an individual thing, as grid-scale storage. Buffers for solar and wind farms.

I've suggested before that some site such as Electrek have a monthly column, "1, 5 and 10 years ago in battery announcements", so we can look back at the hype. There are so many of these "sort of maybe works in the lab, trillion dollar industry next year" announcements. Usually with videos full of stock photos and talking heads.
I just recently finished reading about the history of the kinescope. This device was a camera that recorded live broadcasts from a studio monitor. It was meant to distribute live content quickly for playback outside of local TV networks.

Many different kinescopes were made. All of them had slightly different film. Almost no content from kinescopes exist anymore.

So I think "consider[ing] the negative externalities of generating massive amounts of e-waste" is a pretty old problem! (When DuMont, a major TV network, folded, they dumped all of theirs into the New York Bay!)
After trying to go in hard with IoT, I now just rely on Apple Home Kit to unify everything for me. It’s good enough except for the terrible interface to set lights on and off, it’s literally the worst I’ve ever seen.
This number is from a production workload with a significant chunk of IOs.

If you look at CPU bound micro-benchmarks like most similar announcements uses, you easily get into the 3x territory: https://railsatscale.com/2023-12-04-ruby-3-3-s-yjit-faster-w...
People should be able to celebrate the holiday of their choosing without being shamed for it. It would appear that the administrators of this site celebrate Christmas. I don’t quite understand what the problem is with that.
Well, re: journalism yes there is now 1000x more shit-tier content spamming farms than there were before. But the prestigious and serious news organisations still do perform serious high-quality reporting and investigative journalism. From Der Spiegel to The Guardian and many others. Even in my small country with a dire newspaper market there are still 2 or 3 serious newspapers performing high quality journalism.
The Square Root of Three

Kumar

https://genius.com/Kumar-the-square-root-of-3-annotated

When hark! What is this I see,

Another square root of a three

Has quietly come waltzing by,

Together now we multiply

To form a number we prefer,

Rejoicing as an integer
It's a V40 with the LCD based speedometer. It's still a computer screen but driven by a separate CPU running the QNX OS which won't crash ;)
Make seats that are 19" wide and meant to go in front of racks. Or ones that are rack-mounted and pull out.
Real Principal Skinner saying he only went to the bordello to get directions away from the bordello energy
+1, I just bought an Aranet4, and I’d return it in a heartbeat if I could buy an Airgradient (or three) in Europe without the added cost & hassle.
Someone brought up piracy from the monetary perspective.

Another perspective I like is piracy and streaming services.

I, and most in my bubble, stopped pirating when streaming services provided, well, good service.

We've bit by bit moved back to piracy when the service has degraded.

My journey with ad blocking is similar.

Even though my browser was loaded with extensions, I used to not run an ad blocker.

No other reason really than laziness. The ads didn't bother me much. It was one of those "I've been meaning to do it but never got to it".

What finally got me to install an ad blocker were news of malware being served even on popular websites through ads.

Ads weren't simple anymore if they ever were. They were part of one of the most complex and lucrative domains of tech business. And that was leaking into websites. It felt too dirty, so I got an ad blocker.

Nowadays the ad-tech industry boasts about moving to first-party ad tracking, a cat-and-mouse game where I don't hold high hopes for ad blockers. So I went a step further and turned off JavaScript by default in uBlock Origin.

Or take YouTube ads. I was still watching them on my TV not long ago, but when it got to the point where a 20 minute video has 5 ad breaks I couldn't take it anymore.

If ads sticked to being image only, no dark patterns, no targeting persons but instead content and not exceedingly disruptive, I would have probably never bothered with ad blocking.
I wish for companies that require my attention be taken up by their ugly pixels to all bankrupt and for their C-staff and marketing departments to be unemployed and in the gutter.
The legitimicy of whoever approved this patent needs to be questioned
Probably not legally enforceable, and probably HN’s only recourse would be to block you from viewing.
It’s actually not hard at all
“Tivoization?” I’m not familiar with the term?
This is just fake news. In reality, there is no difference between what they actually do and training a three-layer CNN with one layer of FCN to predict what number should be filled in the next cell of a Sudoku problem
So, because we fail to meet it, the ideal isn't valuable?
I had no idea, but that was before my time! TIL.

https://twitter.com/richardosman/status/1122390906206814209
> No one is forcing you to go to Youtube or whatever

Oh boy. They sure are. Many countries their governments post their videos on youtube. Many employers put their training videos on youtube. And so on.
Same here. HN is the only site I keep visiting year after year. Merry Christmas.
2023: The Year of AI
There are a ton of language quirks that have their own name, but aren't prominent enough that they're taught - especially not in your native language, if they're peculiar to it. (In a second language, they often have to be taught, because they stick out and make no sense in the context of your first language).

Phrasal verbs are not typically mentioned when Norwegian kids learn English, because not only do we have them, we typically use them in exactly the same way (e.g "eat up" is the same as "spis opp", "find out" is the same as "finne ut"). No reason to explain an obscure and odd concept if kids do the right thing by default anyway.

"Modal particles", small words that subtly indicate the speaker's certainty or degree of concern, likewise is another strange little grammatical quirk that German has, but Norwegian kids generally don't need a name for since Norwegian has them too and they can mostly just be translated directly.
Chinese Teslas might be higher quality since China has forced Tesla to do multiple recalls for door faults, suspension failures and accelerator problems, including for issues Tesla straight forwardly lied about to customers and regulators in the US and Europe.

[0[ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...
>Netflix does not offer 1080p+ content to people watching on a Linux desktop

This is the reason I refuse to use streaming platforms even though I have enough money to pay for them. It's not a question of money. It's a question of: paying money to install spyware on my computer for the privilege of streaming low-quality video on a list of pre-approved devices? That is simply not gonna happen.
It makes more sense if you think about it as, "it's in the last state that you put it in, and from here its state is up to it.".
100% I used to be rather obsessed (can't think of a better term) and making my code performant but as I've gotten on in years in my career I've moved more towards "just ship it and don't break anything"
Thanks, I'd rather not feed the borgs.