skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll never forget my first time building Gentoo, in school in 2003, on the school laptop.

I started the build in the evening, and in the morning I waited for the current package to download, then closed the lid, put the laptop in the bag, took the train to school, connected to the school wifi, and continued the build in school.

It was fun to try but that's all I did, quickly moved on to something more sane.
I have to wonder why consumers so desire new content. Old films and TV shows have much the same entertainment value, and are vastly cheaper to stick through some AI to turn to HD and strip out the no-longer-politically-acceptable jokes.

There is also a wealth of content from other countries and languages, which could be translated with a little AI assistance to do lip sync etc.

With far more content than anyone could reasonably watch in a lifetime, I really don't see why anyone is investing big money into making new stuff.
What we did in a project was storing message data in a JSONB field of a database table, with an id of the recipient process in another field. We used the module name for that. Then we sent a normal message with the id of the database record. If the process succeeded it marked the record as done. If it crashed, any of those proceesses would read all of its unprocessed records upon restart and start working on them. We took care never to restart a failed process too fast. Sometimes they kept failing for hours or days until we had a fix, then they processed their backlog. If some jobs were not important anymore or must not be performed because something else took care of them (even people manually) the fix had to skip them. Manual UPDATEs, code, etc.
Driving from Oxford to Swanage via Poole, looking at the satnav, I noticed that we were passing near to the village of Middle Wallop, and commented on it to my driver (bec ause it's a cool name).

We started getting directed down stranger, narrower roads, until we came to a muddy farm track in a tiny village, at which point the satnav announced "You have arrived". We were only halfway to Poole.

I must have momentarily touched the satnav screen, and inadvertently reset the destination to Middle Wallop.

On the same trip, on arriving at Poole, we should have taken the ringroad; but the driver ignored my navigation directions, and we ended up on a highway into Poole centre. I told the driver to just do a U-turn, and return to the ringroad; then the satnav announced "Board the ferry". We looked at one another, simultaneously saying "What ferry?" Then we looked up, and there was a car-ferry, loading up. So off we sailed to Swanage. Better than taking the ringroad.
Starlink? Not exactly cheap, but an option.
No not everything is bad. Severance, The Bear, Succession off the top of my head are totally worth watching.
The reason for not talking about that is that it's not relevant for this discussion. Deaths due to the earthquake that are unrelated to the nuclear power plant do not help us to assess nor reduce nuclear accident risk.

Same goes for your airline security example. Car related accidents/attacks are unrelated to airplane accidents/attacks.
Funny enough we are not that far away from that - maybe not for tables but for electronics and cars.

Well maybe calling it funny is not the right take.
You’ve been chosen to be a CTO, this usually means that you either did well in the company or were hired because of a good track record. So keep doing this + keep things simple, plan ahead, learn from colleagues, share knowledge. Stay humble, confess mistakes, ask for genuine feedback and advice.

Books and blogs have a limited anecdotal value (sometimes it is high but the effort is also high). I’ve learned more from individual HN comments and actual work experience and mistakes than any book.
> Bloomfield comes up with nothing, but I imagine I’m not looking for the right thing. :)

I suspect the "Bloomfield" mention may refer to L.M. Bloomfield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bloomfield

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/24471-bloomfield-pa...

https://archive.org/details/Bloomfield
I tried Gentoo Prefix for a while on macOS, so I could use the same package manager across OSes, but always compiling from source got a bit tiresome on a laptop, so I went with MacPorts instead.
If your software has million users, cudos.

Regarding monetization:

- either you developed said software as an employee, than you were properly paid for it and it is not content

- your user bought liscenses from you for whatever conditions you agreed upon

- you sell it as a SaaS, and you get monthly subscription fees

- you give it away for free

Obviously, all those payments end when the conrtact with your customers end. If your next of kin runs the software 90 years from now, and customers still use it, of course cuatomers will pay, or not, as laid out above.
How to search for the best HN stories with two different search terms in one search query, e.g. `webkit OR blink`?
Be very careful about Dell docking stations. It's not always clear whether they're based on DisplayLink or real Thunderbolt/USB-C. The problem with DisplayLink is that a) you need a driver and b) after installing the driver, some websites don't show video (Udemy for example). This is on macOS, by the way.
Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate
It's not web technology by any stretch of imagination
I don't quite see it that way. Spacemacs' motto sums it up best: "The best editor isn't Emacs or Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!" Mixing and matching the strengths of both editors results in a much better experience.
Simply put: https://grugbrain.dev/
Default 14 years copyright, an extra 14 years if explicitly renewed. The explicit renewal was required when the Constitution was written; and renewal remained a requirement for some time, which is why (for example) many of Philip K. Dick's stories from the 50's are considered to be in the public domain (as I understand it).

The current regime for individual creators is automatic life + 70 years, which is just way too long. For example, Lewis Carroll died in 1898; if the current regime had been in place, Disney would have had to get permission from Carroll's estate to make Alice in Wonderland all the way through 1968.
I wasn't aware that PowerToys had that, so thanks for pointing it out. In general I've been satisfied with the built-in Snap feature but since getting a 49" 32:9 1440p monitor I've been wishing the 3-column options offered horizontal splits.
I mean, yeah, this is basically a rephrasing of the Copyright Clause of the US Constitution which gives Congress the power “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”
The one that surprised me the most to be struggling is Disney+. I thought they would have the strongest streaming story since they have so much of the prime IP: Star Wars, Marvel, Disney Animation, Pixar, etc, whereas Netflix is still heavily dependent on licensed IP.
ARM Windows runs well with Parallels. And it can run x86 apps.
Thanks for all the links!

They're an excellent resource for learning and applying Python.

I appreciate your advice about swapping skill sets on my CV, but due to the nature of my last job, it would such a lie that I'd never back it up.

Instead I'd show something like a game made in Python from my spare time or something like that.
I had toshiba satellite with some whooping 96MB RAM... as main computer even... happily ran Windows 98... them I got the book "Linux from scratch" the rest is history... now I am happy mac user.
since you're a Storm contributor, can you explain what exactly makes it OS-dependent?
Thanks, I am giving it a try - any dependency required for Windows 10? Compiles fine, but get an error about AVIFileInit - maybe to do with <vfw.h>?
This is what I never got about the whole "social media ruined the web" - thing.

The web, the REAL web, that weird and almost alive thing where people share and create and tell their stories ... never went away.

And it likely never will.

Sure, it's not the web that the masses choose to use. That's fine. It doesn't need to be. Same as everyone is free to decide whether they want to munch fast food, or eat a fine dinner, everyone can choose the web they deserve.

Relevance/Quality/Importance and Clicks may be conflated in the ad-businesses that call themselves social media, but it doesn't matter to me if my blog is seen by 10 people or 10E6.
But how does that explain everybody getting from a to b without taking the two minute detour?
Here in the UK I rarely get less than 1000 Mbit speeds whenever I use 5G. I'm pretty happy with that.

I suspect other countries phone networks must be capacity constrained in other places.
I‘ve always tried to use defaults, not only in Emacs, but pretty much everthing. Unless I work 24x7 with a tool, I go away from customization, because of mentioned reasons.
Also, defaults are generally not very bad, there was some thought into defining the default.
I’m insinuating that the internet is like TV: that the cynical stereotype that all traders are insider trading is all over the internet, including those parts that got used as training data.

In that context… of course the trading bot would insider trade.
2023 was the year that GPUs stood still
As a consumer why would I pay spotify $15 a month for ripped off content that doesn't even go to the artist, when I can just paypal my favourite artists $5 now and again, giving them infinitely more revenue from me than spotify does even now, while I torrent/share/sample/remix/cover their entire collection?
Remember when someone discovering a powerful vulnerability meant that the community could find a solution and maybe even create a patch for everyone else?

Feels like that reality was far more secure than the current closed-source siloed one.
Smooth Life
"On Error Resume Next" never died, it just became serverless!
For me switching to Python 3.11 was really tough because of various legacy stuff removals (like coroutine decorators etc). While my code did not use these, the dependencies did. For some dependencies I had to switch to different libraries altogether - and that required rewriting my code to work with them.

There was also some time in the past when async became a keyword. It turned out many packages had variables named async and that caused quite a bit of pain too.
I’m not here to tell people what to use, but personally I don’t find their business method and the way the training sets been built to be ethical.

As far as a “development community” exists, we have usually been very vocal when there are licenses violations and ready to give flack to companies abusing their access to FOSS code and resources. Still, when it comes to training sets, people are surprisingly lax and turn a blind eye to the millions of resources that have been slurped to train AI without any care for licenses or wish from authors. This is true for code but also for art.
AnnoDesigner/anno-designer: A building layout designer for Ubisoft's Anno-series
> They taste nothing like conventional white blocks

tofu isn't green?? welp, my life is a lie
A lot of those can be turned off. Some are turned off by Linux distributions.
Getting a 4G+5G antenna and pointing it in the direction of the tower should help somewhat.
I don't share much, true. And I din't ask the state to intervene. I expect the state to provide the legal framework for me to intervene if I choose so. And guess what, the states and nations did: copyright law, patents, trademarks...
And this is quite an irrelevant fact. How many people know/remember that the US faked an attack on it's fleet on August 4 to join the Vietnam war?
Tim Dillon talked about this recently. He said they want to be too big to fail, merge and get bailouts and handouts like sports get, since they own lots of revenue streams. He mentioned it's dead too, this article says the same thing. Once it's too big to fail this happens, they can push any agenda they want, not be any "good" and when people wonder how are they still around making nothing but pushing agendas in not all subtle way it's because nobody is responsible for content anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility

https://youtu.be/iIRZNlacGMI (second half)

>But no deals emerged, leading some investors to conclude there is little appetite among private equity or tech companies for acquiring legacy businesses.

Definitely dead.
Similar, I did this in my first year at uni, and I felt invincible. The whole idea of building your own OS distro from parts is the epitome of a so-called IKEA effect. Simply formatting that hard drive and saying goodbye to my “unique” setup (in reality as vanilla as they come) was difficult!
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1925
There are some great Tofu suppliers in America, but also a labor saving device that allows people to easily experiment with variations themselves: https://www.soymilkmaker.com/

One of the problems is that, like so many things in America, tofu has taken on some silly political baggage. Among a significant share of the population, both conservative and health oriented, there is a common belief that soy is full of extrogen that will, if ingested, reduce masculine characteristics and emphasize feminine characteristics. The reality is that the phytoestrogens in soy do not have a significant effect on humans and we have an extremely large amount of data including the massive "China Study" that shows that. But the idea has taken hold and now many people are afraid to eat tofu because it will turn them into weak and unhealthy girls.
Don't distribute it then
...you just found one and talked to him.
New or traditional stuff? Copyright shouldn't be how you defend your traditional stuff. It's more something for the Protected Designation of Origin / PDO
The architecture I described does not imply that those batteries will be loaded by locally-installed solar panels. There will be a grid, as usual, carrying electricity produced by the described mix, mostly by industrial sites (in many geographical areas a large part of it will be offshore wind turbines fleets).
> Comparison operations are basic primitives that usually store their result into a register.

In one of the most common processor architectures (the x86 family), comparison operations do store their result into a register, but it's the flags register, which can't be used directly in arithmetic operations. So you have to follow a comparison operation with either a conditional branch or a conditional move (and earlier processors in the x86 family didn't have conditional moves).

> So I guess my question is, while it’s technically possible for a compiler to compile this into a branching operations, under what circumstances would a compiler actually choose to do that, given there’s isn’t a clear benefit?

It depends on the compiler heuristics and on the surrounding code; for instance, it might decide that "compare; conditional branch over next instruction; increment" is better than "copy to second register; increment second register; compare; conditional move from second register", because it uses one less register (the x86 family is register starved) and one less instruction (relevant when optimizing for size).
They won't need to. Most don't have enough money to survive a prolonged round of lawsuits, and the potential damages are limited. The only real leverage is taking their models out of circulation and cutting their training set and that leverage only exist for the large publishers.
Assuming a 45 liter tank you'd spend €84.60. Mind that a LOT of that is tax. If you strip off Value Added Tax -- equivalent to sales tax if I understand correctly, though a fair bit higher -- you'd pay €70.50. That still leaves excise tax, which is levied specifically on goods the government wants to discourage. Cigarettes, Alcohol, Gas. Without that you'd pay €34.99.

I'm not sure how the tax breakdown works in Texas, but I'd not be surprised if it'd be one of the main drivers of the price difference.
The answer to this nonsense is quite clear to me: we need to build a federated media platform instead of building silos that create negative outcomes for the customer and perverse incentives for the distributors and producers. We need to homogonise the pricing just like cable bundles do, but without locking the customer into products they don't care about. Spotify, while having many issues of their own, have more or less managed to do this - you don't pay extra for categories of media you don't care about, like you do with cable TV.

The problem is and always was the so-called "rights holders", who are just another form of landlord, looking to milk their licenses for as much as we can bare. Their power needs to be diminished. Whoever cracks that nut will revolutionise the media industry in my opinion.
Or suddenly there’s sales tax on top of the income tax.
It probably started with cable TV and the need for filler for things like the Disney Channel.

Myself, I'm catching up on all the films made before 1980.
Only on HN could any state that Gentoo was ever in be reflected upon as "just worked like a breeze" unironically and I mean that in a fond, loving way.
I stream YouTube daily. Ted lasso is pretty good when I heard it in the background I started to watch it.
> The one that surprised me the most to be struggling is Disney+.

Smells like Hollywood accounting [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Yep. When building a startup you’ll find a lot of well-meaning people (in books or in person) who really do nothing but distract you. YC got it right, you should make something people want. Everything that’s not either making something or finding out what people want is just going to slow you down.
When you broadcast a TV series you get Nilson ratings.

When you run the a streaming service you get data on when people go and take a toilet break.

This is not very useful for already existing catalog, but when you write new content there will be pressure to adapt the material to the data and so all the new stuff ends up being bland and boring ("we get 3% more viewership if the leading lady is blond with shoulder length hair", means that every tv show will be blond festival).
First sentence

>The world’s largest traditional entertainment companies face a reckoning in 2024 after losing more than $5 billion in the past year from the streaming services they built to compete with Netflix.
I get the occasional hung Firefox browser (browser UI works but none of the tabs render any content, or render a single tab that doesn't work). I'm not sure what's causing it, but based on the behaviour I observed, I don't think it's an addon related bug.

I wish I could reproduce it to file a bug report. These stability bugs are the reason I'm hesitant to recommend Firefox to non-technophiles, especially since the web is unusable without at least an ad blocker. While I still use Firefox, Brave seems to be doing a much better job at blocking ads without slowing down.
What handful of programs do you use daily, if you don't mind sharing?
Why would you feel the need to have AI "cleanse" older shows? Otherwise, I agree there is a rich history of films.
I'm fairly sure that having any object's `__repr__` throw an exception and exit would lead to even more confusion. Especially if it exits cleanly.

The object shouldn't be in scope anywhere other than the REPL, but that doesn't mean that something, somewhere, isn't stringifying everything because $REASONS and changing the behaviour won't cause an obscure "crash" somewhere unexpected and hard to debug.
Mine worked great with the Dell laptop on Linux ;) no drivers and video shows just fine. (Anecdata, I know)
The amount of packages for amd64 in Gb has doubled from 10Gb to 20Gb since November, so I guess your assertion is false.

https://www.akhuettel.de/~huettel/plots/mirrors/binpackages-...
I would prefer, for future generations not me, to leave the original dialogue. They could include an intro putting the show in context and explaining current value set shortcomings instead. It would seem more productive to learn from the past values and see how they evolved, not simply erase them.
I think we’ll end up talking in circles, if we aren’t already.

Regardless, thanks for taking the time to respond repeatedly and clarifying your perspective!
In the UK and barely get 5g connectivity and when i do even on max bars i barely get 10-20 Mbit. Probably better in central London but for the rest of the country it’s appalling.
I believe life is most pleasant when you choose to err on the side of trusting experts, but there is something quite amusing (to me) that programmers have "cargo culting" and if you write code and deeply invest in any community you'll meet experts all the time that do things just because others do them, but then you'll meet someone in another highly trained field and just trust what they say is all evidence based.

It's rather curious how many high skill professions seem to default to trusting others based on their credentials.
Mostly agreed, but can you elaborate on the "exception"? Why should selling the copyright extend its total duration from 28 to 42 years?

I'd be fine with just a fixed 28-year duration of all copyrights. That way you don't have to worry about whether the original author (who could be a company) is dead or alive.
not a fan of 3.x
the idea sounds great, but there would have to be something in place to prevent it from degrading into a Wikipedia-style turf war, with people trying to protect "their" code against changes...
Nilsson Schmilsson — I think you meant Nielsen.
I don’t. I have slept in the daytime ever since covid and actually got a move to the east coast approved as a health accommodation after I started routinely missing important afternoon meetings due to my incurable insomnia (mornings are easy when you stay up all night). I still struggle with it, especially since it’s not a consistent offset to my circadian rhythm. There’s data I’ve collected but it’s hard to fit a simple function to it— it’s not like I’m on a 26 hour schedule either. This isn’t due to trauma or addiction, my brain is just an outlier in many dimensions and this is one of them.
IIRC that runs a x86_64 userland (using Rosetta) on a arm64 kernel.
Beachpatrol CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday Linux web browser
I use a 5120 X 1440, 49" ultrawide.

It's one of those things that I never knew I couldn't live without, until I had it.

Running my laptop (with a much greater pixel density) is downright painful.

Disclaimer: I'm 61, so all those packed-in pixels are wasted on me.
What are your thoughts on the LG DualUp for programming workflows?
Does that mean they're building the package about 2 times and maybe even more if systemd support needs to be there? As far as I know, Gentoo supports musl/glibc and could support either systemd or openrc... (some packages link against systemd for some functionality)
You have to compare any growth against a benchmark index which reflects what would’ve happened if the company had simply invested its assets in that index fund instead.
If you provided MQTT support like plenty of IoT companies do, then any open source home automation tool can integrate! Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) have a grading system, so a local-first implementation would give you their highest score since they also really care about privacy. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-th...
> something about it made me interested. Not quite sure what.

Well, it is unique. It isn't another copycat or cosmetic derivative of Ubuntu.

Actually, for the most part, it's in a league of its own.
This is correct but not the only reason it could be happening.