skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My vote is to keep Hacker News working when JavaScript is disabled. This proposed design would break that. Also, the classic Hacker News interface is more information dense, which is good.
That's why I went with an i3-9100T and an Asrock Rack workstation board, ECC support (although UDIMM vs RDIMM)
Worse than an .ini file
John Carmack on static code analysis (2018)
If you go back a few generations, the C246 chipset can be had on boards costing 200, and if you pair it with an i3-9100T you get ECC as well as pretty damn low power usage.
I envy the consistency you have to seemingly get a large group of you folks regularly. Any tips that make it possible for y'all to schedule this?
Honest answer: moderation. If you think someone is a nutso, ban them. And people who are like them won't find many friends there anymore. Having an airtight CoC is important for big networks that need transparency but if its your personal space you don't need to worry too much

And yea, the allow list method is pretty good depending on the vibe. I feel a lot more comfortable in my 10 person discord of people I know personally. If that's the energy youre going for it totally works
I think it would be delusional the think that war never results in peace. History is full of countless violent conflicts, revolutions, separations that were followed by relative peace. Of course that doesn't mean that going to war is a good thing.

>we have the institutions, playbook, everything. Why would we throw that away? Why aren't we building on that for the next generation, just like they did? We almost can't be stopped if we choose to do it; only if we inexplicably quit. Who would want us to do that?

It seems like you think there are clear and obvious solutions to conflict. Im asking what those are? Do you think they are working? why or why not?

What is the obvious playbook solution for resolving Ukraine or Gaza conflicts that we threw away instead of following?
The opening of the animation has the phrase “A Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoon” on screen. IANAL but I saw on the news that this means the character’s name and old-style likeness are fair game for new content by anybody.
I was gumby@MIT-AI.ARPA. By then mail used SMTP but the arpanet had not yet transitioned to IP/TCP.

Those .ARPA names were part of a lengthy transition to the DNS; before this I was just gumby@mit-ai or just gumby@ai

The ARPA. TLD isn’t used for hosts any more but has been repurposed mainly for network database lookups. Yes, the `.` after the TLD is there for a reason.
anecdotal, but my dusty old Perl scripts still work, and (most) gnu-R also
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Copyright for original Mickey Mouse persona to run out 1 January 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799484 - Dec 2023 (10 comments)

Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain: "It's Finally Happening'" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38737164 - Dec 2023 (7 comments)

Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38678021 - Dec 2023 (208 comments)

Public Domain Day 2024 Is Coming: Here's What to Know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38586978 - Dec 2023 (6 comments)

The Mickey Mouse Copyright Runs Out in 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36559037 - July 2023 (64 comments)
The component model is a very powerful technique for keeping large amounts of complex code maintainable. I worked in large amounts of tricky jQuery before the component model and I would never wish to go back.

JSX works well for a component approach because you’re expressing the component in a fully functional programming language. Doing a lot of that work tends to make the developer quite capable in Javascript.
10th Anniversary of the OpenOrienteering Project and Mapper App (2022)
Gptel as others mentioned, but I can't believe no one linked the impressive and easy to follow demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRnh_brggM

Lowest friction llm experience I've ever used... You can even use it in the M-x minibuffer prompt.
> More, smaller letters packed into a smaller space doesn't mean more information

What smaller space are you talking about? The browser window dimensions don't change. On vanilla HN at the default zoom level, I can see ~22 submissions. Whereas with the posted site, I can only see ~9. How is that not less information density?
I'm shocked that Bazzite isn't more well known. It's exactly what I dreamed about but didn't know existed until recently
This is just poor anti car attitude infecting actual judgement of the technology.

Waymo doesn't require a human behind the wheel. They roam all over metro Phoenix without drivers and without issues.

Tesla FSD works fine with appropriate monitoring on city streets and virtually autonomously on freeway driving. Comma and open pilot aren't far behind.

The US is built for cars and thinking that is going to change is a pipedream.
Author here for any questions :-) This is a change of pace from my x86 stuff, just a quick look at a 1982 Ethernet chip that unexpectedly used a second layer of polysilicon for resistors.
On that 'modern page' I see 6 items without scrolling, on the traditional page 22 items.

TBH that new page looks like part of the CSS is missing because of all that wasted screen space ;)
Electric school buses more than doubled in USA from March 2022 to June 2023
Interesting read! The A/B upgrade sounds a bit overkill, you can always just pop up a live distro or install a recovery system (on an old version) in a partition in case something goes wrong.

I recently moved to Arch after a few years of NixOS (preceded by years of Arch) and I think the fears of the author are misplaced.

Arch is definitely a very serious and mature distro and I'd trust them more than Valve.

The quality of the packages available for Arch is what made me move from NixOS.
The main repos are updated really fast and AUR has a lot of useful packages.
Must be his browser settings, his may not be putting tabs to sleep. I am under 3 GB on a Linux machine with just browsing.
Which means it's your job to educate the buyer about your product's value, not cost. If you merely want to save money, buy nothing.
https://twitter.com/GLZRadio/status/1741347524693127398

> "If we act strategically correctly, there will be immigration and we will live in the Gaza Strip. We will not allow a situation where 2 million people live there. If there are 100-200 thousand Arabs in Gaza, all the talk is about the day after will be different. They want to leave, they have been living in the ghetto for 75 years and are in need"

"Fighting terrorism", good one. You're rather using both terrorism and the Holocaust to engage in more of the same, on behalf of religious fanatics not one bit better than islamists.
It depends what your requirements are. Ive been using a low end synology box for years as a home dev server and it is more than adequate.
I suppose if they could somehow get documents saying they are 18 when they are actually 15 nobody would know all the paperwork is clean. It’s not great but there would be no scandal because there would be no way to prove the kid was 15 when all the legal papers said otherwise. Seems like a real edge case tho
Off:
Terrible layout for mobile
I think that makes sense; but doing it on the client means that your computer has to do the work for you, thus distributing the load among all clients. Doing it on the server would mean that their machine has to do the work for all players.

If we complain about companies being too quick closing up their servers when games are not as successful as they hoped... imagine if those servers were x10 or more expensive, due to that kind of analysis for all players. Companies would be much quicker to pull the plug, I guess.
Looks pretty; the first thing I noticed is that on your site I only see the top 5 links, on HN I see the top 20 links. HN displays 4x more information in the same space.
It would be great if there's a way to store the profile on an NFC tag. This way, I could tell my guests to tap the tag to connect to my home network.
I'm going to take a moment to pitch an experimental service / pet project on my back burner. I call it "the hourly drip". Its a content feed, but you have to pay to post content. I know that sounds like a feed of pure advertisement but here's the catch: the price of posting is algorithmically adjusted to keep the rate of new posts fixed at an average of 1 per hour. In other words, the pricing mechanism isn't about profit (in fact, its bad at maximizing profits). Rather, its a form of quality filter that reduces the feed down to a digestible amount of content per day.
Hmm, what's your browser? I renewed the cert today... Only thing I can think of is that it might not like a wildcard cert for the bare marginalia.nu domain.
Cool to try things out and share them. Would be good to hear what problems you are trying to address. "Modern" isn't very descriptive.
Related:

How to run a small social network site for your friends - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29470565 - Dec 2021 (209 comments)

How to run a small social network site for your friends - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28604023 - Sept 2021 (1 comment)

How to run a small social network site for your friends - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20384970 - July 2019 (60 comments)
I believe there exist some set of crimes for which lifelong punishment is appropriate. Which crimes are in that set is a fine topic for debate and some may argue that the null set is correct. For me, the set is not-null.

(Simple drug possession, of any drug, in any amount, is not among that set for me.)
I'm running a home server on an N100 (ITX model) with a 32GB DIMM, works well.
Waymo’s model is already safer than human driving alone, and I see the requirement for the human behind the wheel as being more a symptom of human irrationality than Waymo’s deficits. Tesla is a boondoggle and yet it’s hard for me to not see them being in a much better position ten years from now than they are today. I think the potential value self-driving is massive though, just because of the potential of cars driving with nobody inside them at all opening up a massive rental/ride-share/taxi market. That’s not oppositional to a world with public transit, that’s complementary, it’s a world where less people need to own cars and a high wattage EV hookup.

I do generally agree though that the electric car is not the future, more likely we will see much higher usage of cheaper
more efficient technologies that don’t require special charging infrastructure like e-bikes in the consumer market. I think things like electric commercial vehicles are more interesting. You aren’t going to transport pianos or logs on the subway.

Endless densification has its own problems, especially considering it may not even be viable to densify somewhere as much as New York which has ideal conditions for building both ports and skyscrapers. New York itself is famously expensive. I’ve used public transit in suburban areas beyond the point most would find reasonable, there are tons of edge cases which can triple travel time compared to a car, and getting rid of those edge cases is outrageously expensive and non-viable. Although one thing that would make it far more viable is drumroll self-driving, as all public transit infrastructure becomes cheaper without the need for drivers.
Doubt the HN audience has any wish to scroll through 300 screens of one phrase per screen, even if their solo founder SaaS sites are done like that :)
I still don't understand what point you are trying to make, or how it relates to product development.
SOS doesn't have to be always tracking location. Ships and airplanes have radio beacons that only activate when something bad happens. Cars could do the same.
> Stop investing in cars. Let’s reinvest in the urban core, rollback the terrible car infrastructure that has invaded this country, and put significant federal/state/local dollars into public infrastructure and redesign of cities.

What do you want to do, demolish entire metro areas? It’s not like the suburbs are in the cities. How do you address the fact that retrofitting public transport has proven to be astronomically expensive?
"Boardrooms and executive suites have tended to be ideology-free, run on a blend of the pragmatic, the opportunistic and the selfish. But that was before effective altruism."

Sorry, but pragmatism, opportunism, and selfishness are ideologies, or aspects of a broader ideological worldview. When FT says "ideology-free", it simply buries the broad neoliberal consensus driving business. It's an ideology so widespread it's become a sort of background noise: always there, but not noticeable until someone draws attention to it. <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-...>

We notice the ideology of EA because it strikes a different note in a different key, not because it's ringing out from the silence.
I don't think the contents of the CoC are as important as the content of the site. Left wing people dont hate free speech, they hate seeing posts by right wing people (often attacking them) and dont want to be in that space. And the same is true for right wing people, look at how censored Truth Social is. You want the vibes of the space to be comfortable for the people you want to attract. As for the CoC wording, hackernews's is pretty good for a well moderated high profile site with a specific vision: posts should be curious, don't be mean, etc.
I doubt this is meant to give an example for real applications but to give some foundations on machine learning and computer vision.
OpenOrienteering Mapper app now is on the "List of software for orienteering" on IOF's site.[0]

[0] https://orienteering.sport/iof/it/list-of-software-for-orien...
I thought there were quite a few emacs llm projects.

There's also llm.el which I've heard gas a push to he in core emacs:

https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/llm/
You picked an intro one-liner from visarga's comment. It's amazing that you really can't see that this is the same thing and yet are capable of using the Internet. Neither one claims to know how the brain does what it does, but they both say that the brain does the same thing.
> US protects US flagged shipping

Not true. FON protects non-US flagged ships; most ships aren’t U.S. flagged.

> non US flagged vessels got hit without US intervention during tanker wars for years

America doesn’t protect all ships all the time. Sure. We’re selective about which FON issues we exert influence over. But when we get there, we protect everyone.

> because Maersk and other civilian shippers that DoD depends on sealift was threatening not to transit through area

Source? Bab el-Mandeb is a strait America has invested a lot into for geostrategic reasons.

> reason they have Djibouti base for antipiracy deployment is because they know US can't be relied on for protecting shipping

As they should. This is geopolitics. America shouldn’t be doing this for free. That said, and as you acknowledge, China is doing jack shit other than collecting intelligence on U.S. assets.

> Houthi has been largely discriminary, leaving PRC shipping alone

“Largely” does heavy lifting. It isn’t simple to discriminate shipping, as the Houthis’ non-Israeli targets have shown. In addition, China gets badly hurt if the conflict escalates and both Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb are closed.

Broadly agree that China is winning by America continuing to protect her for free.
> maybe KDE and Gnome have some specific incompatibility though

It's a layer down from the DE itself, it's the window manager beneath it. GNOME ships Mutter and KDE ships KWin. GNOME is pretty tightly tied to Mutter; KDE is less tied to KWin, but KWin also tends to support shinier features than Mutter does anyway so I don't know why you wouldn't use it anyway.

> It seems like a somewhat odd observation, is it really necessary to have another user to do this?

Strictly no, but having to have another login session, period, is bonkers to me. It's reasonable to respond to that suggestion with incredulity.

> If Gnome is a hard requirement, how is Windows even a candidate?

For me, it's not. At the moment it's inertia, because Windows has legit become the best Linux dev environment I know of with WSL2. I originally switched back to a Linux desktop because I was working on some hardware stuff that benefited from being on a Linux platform, but I'm certainly not tied to it past that.
This is what is called recently "adversarial interoperability" [1] [2]. Microsoft was very tolerating about this, even with all the conundrums. As an incumbent in the field, what happened around the new ecosystems (e.g. app stores) is something that law (I don't like to call them regulators) haven't coped yet and seems like politicians don't understand the core issue at all (e.g. "accepting cookies"). If I need to explain briefly is like if now any manufacturer of electric/electronic products make their own plug and force you to put that plug at home.

[1] https://avc.com/2019/12/adversarial-interoperability/

[2] https://blog.nektra.com/2020/01/12/reflecting-on-16-years-of...
There's a broader message here, that scares the shit out of me,

> The reason Tesla hasn't "worked all the bugs out yet" is that the company is run by people who hold established best practice in ideological contempt, and is defined by a tech-industry culture that fetishizes innovation and regards product quality as a third-order concern. There simply isn't as much investment money and credulous tech-media adulation to suck up in the promise of iterating on what already works. You must reinvent, almost literally in this case, the wheel—this time, apparently on the premise of "...and what if it sucked?"

So much of capitalism is about convincing people things are hard, bad, wrong, & that your product/service and your product/service alone have it right.

The top post in "I'm skeptical of low code" works at a low-code shop, and was a perfect example of this, of blasting code & showing off a form builder & wowwing folks. But then the hard part really starting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820160

My dream is for humanity to have a better relationship with technology. One where the tech shows itself off better, is more observable, so we can understand it's upsides and it's downsides more honestly, tweak it some. And from that better position, we can steer and adjust the way forward. Rather than just serve us, giving us the option to see in and learn what's afoot, empowering us; that's like the first steps on the path to Engelbart-ian Augmenting Intellect. And it's how we escape humanity being victims to this Phoenix cycle of capitalism constantly burning everything down to let vc's and founders attempt a new ascent.
When I was in a band, someone in the group said "Practice is on Tuesday and on Saturday" and we all stuck to it for a few years. Sometimes we'd even get together on a weekday to play a show, where even more people would show up.

It helps to have a reason to get together. At a certain point early in life, I think most people adopt a "no agenda, no attenda" attitude towards socializing.
We have a group that solves this problem with a free tier slack instance.
What about networking? Did you go over 1gbit?
I define density as information per unit of screen space. (Not information per word, which is a different measure. Useful, but different.)

I'm on Firefox on Ubuntu right now, 1920x1080. Classic HN shows me 19 headlines in one screen, along with point counts. So let's say, 38 pieces of information per screen. The submitter's app shows me 5 headlines and point counts, so 10 pieces of information. Classic gives me nearly four times the info per screen.

Don't get me wrong, the uncluttered view is pleasant to look at, but HN is the kind of site where density pays off.

On that basis, the classic view is
Oh, thank you for this. I had a similar experience as yours and when I wrote down notes when studying, I ended up with cheatsheets that described things clearly, even though it took me hours tp grok. I never understood if the problem was me or just poor books (I needed to rely solely on the teacher, which is very limiting). I see that there is indeed a problem
I use QR codes for this, they work for both android and iOS.

This link explains how they are formatted: https://qifi.org
Enforce a no politics rule.
> in order to pee you have to expose your genitalia

They should visit India once. Of course many people will pee against an object (wall, tree) but at times not so hidden

Incidentally saw this funny discussion yesterday (the comments are funny): https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedstatesofindia/comments/18ufbu...

I think these United States have gone way above and beyond their duty as far as calling people sex offenders (not saying that Indians are right)
Happy New Year HN!
I spend too much time on HN. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only place which feels worth visiting multiple times a day!

Wishing everyone a great 2024!
And it left them well-positioned for the steam deck, I wonder if they were thinking about that when they started steamOS, or if it is just an example of the natural advantage that openness gives you.

Anyway, agree—I wasn’t trying to belittle Valve’s motivations, just wanted to include a thought about why they seem to be happy serving both platforms.
It's not FUD. If you stay very light then it is very stable, but the more stuff you add, the worse it gets (gnome extensions anybody?)

I love Arch, but it is a demanding mistress. If you get behind on updates, you're asking for pain. Also it can be very disruptive to suddenly get a new major version of Gnome that breaks extensions you used, or applications, etc.

What we instead should say is not that Arch is "unstable" because I agree it's not, but rather that Arch requires a lot more care and feeding and if you don't do that, it can lead to instability
Probably a GPS-guided tractor went off into the peanut field when it shouldn't have.
I disagree with the author using the analogy of a Centurion lounge. It is not a "premium" messaging app, it is the "default" where Apple is abusing their position on being the default bundled messaging app, where unsuspecting users don't know there are better, interoperable messaging apps, or don't know which ones to migrate to. This is similar to Microsoft abusing its position to bundle Internet Explorer.

For the sake of his analogy, American Express is not a dominant player in the credit card industry compared to mc/visa.

The real situation is this: Apple is intentionally hindering communication between people to coerce others into buying an iPhone. This is different from American Express, where you can bring guests with you into a Centurion lounge.

> > Earlier this month, Beeper introduced Beeper Mini, an interoperable messaging service that allows users of the Android mobile operating system to communicate with users of Apple’s iMessage service.

> Wrong. There is only one service at hand, iMessage, ...

It's interesting that the author completely ignores Beeper (the original, non-mini version), which IS an interoperable messaging client. You can message other Beeper users in the Beeper Community Channel (which operates on Matrix), other social networks (like LinkedIn, Instagram, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.), and up until recently, iMessage as well.

I find it difficult to take this post seriously when the author strawmans the opposing view's argument.

Of course, Apple is free to do whatever it likes - it's their servers after all. But trying to spin this into something it's not is imo disingenuous.

I'm not saying Apple should allow "freeloaders", I'm saying Apple should not abuse its position into coercing non-iPhone users by playing dirty. I'm sure this will fall on deaf ears though, just look at how they coerce users into using iCloud or making it so only the 1st party solution is able to run background tasks properly. And that's fine - I will continue to go around recommending anything but Apple products to others, and support politicians that advocate against big tech abusing their positions.

Is everything this guy writes this one-sided?
Step 1:

Create thousands of fake accounts and create active daily engagement among users