skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ColdFusion was a very influential language for me. I first encountered real world use of it in 2001 when I worked at TradingCars, a startup in the Netherlands. A guy could build in a few hours in Coldfusion a faster version of
the same webapp that took several of us Enterprise Java guys several weeks to build. I think they even ended up dumping Java for the Coldfusion version in the end, but I can't verify that.

Anyway, I always loved the elegance and simplicity of the SQL embedded in the HTML (from what I remember).

Also interesting how the creator of Coldfusion, Jeremy Allaire, ended up moving to Crypto and creating Circle and USDC, one of the cornerstones of the whole crypto world.
Fourier Intelligence launches production version GR-1 humanoid robot
The author describes that site as such, which seems fair to rate as "terrible":

> Some youtube downloader site. Has lots of assurances that the website and the tool are safe because they've been checked by "Norton SafeWeb". Interacting with the site at all prompts you to install a browser extension and enable notifications. Trying to download any video gives you a full page pop-over for extension installation for something called CyberShield. There appears to be no way to dismiss the popover without clicking on something to try to install it. After going through the links but then choosing not to install CyberShield, no video downloads. Googling "cybershield chrome extension" returns a knowledge card with "Cyber Shield is a browser extension that claims to be a popup blocker but instead displays advertisements in the browser. When installed, this extension will open new tabs in the browser that display advertisements trying to sell software, push fake software updates, and tech support scams.", so CyberShield appears to be badware.
Can we not expect companies to patch anymore?
Is patching unreasonable in 2024? If so how do we mitigate vulnerabilities?
Asking what job was the product hired to do is similar to my favorite question: What pain are they trying to remove with the product?

Talking to customers is still important to understand the motives for their actions and the problems they have. Sometimes they even don't tell you directly that they have a problem. The action is actually normal for them and only an outsider who tries to understand what they do sees this problem.

An example of this are AirPods. Everyone was used to headphones with cable. Non one identified the cable as a problem. That's why at first AirPods felt strange when you saw them. But as soon as you had your own wireless headphones you immediately noticed the problem you had with the cable.

The pain of always untwisting the cable and making sure it ran nice under your jacket was real.
Why can't machines chew? That's an even weirder analogy, it would be quite easy to make a machine that chews exactly like humans do.
Yes, you're pushing an idea that has deeper ramification on how the billing works and how you explain it to the user.

It goes from a simple "the user pays every month" to "the user sometimes pays, sometimes doesn't, they have to guess by themselves when and why they
'll pay, it all depends on what happened in the past month". How you deal with the extra complexity from the user and from the contracting side is completely unclear. It might be surprising, but many users care a lot about understanding what and how they pay for.

Perhaps it's not important to your point and it's just an idea that doesn't need to ever see the light of day. But I feel we've been using subscriptions for long enough that improvement ideas could come with a clearer picture on how we deal with the change.
Presumably if you read a third language written in the Arabic script (e.g. Urdu or Pashto) then you could probably tell them apart without necessarily being able to read either.

After all, you can probably tell German and Polish apart without being able to read or speak either one.
Don't we protect in exchange for them trading in USD?
Many US wars were triggered by dis/misinformation: The Gulf of Tonkin for Vietnam, and the fictitous nuclear weapons program in Iraq come to mind.

For Iraq, the government made an argument something like, 'you can't wait for the mushroom cloud'.
That might be a necessary condition, but definitely not a sufficient one to be considered a superpower. Simple thought experiment, "completely erasing" the US as you suggest would render the Earth unpleasant to live on, for a while, for all inhabitants.
Weird article. Basically, the author thinks that anything that is not yt-dlp is a bad search result, which is pretty insane.

Like, for me at least, I already know yt-dlp exists. When I search "youtube downloader", it's exactly because I want an online-website page to download youtube videos.
cool! might be able to improve substantially with low effort using a simple approach to capturing dynamics like adding a few lags of the existing features.
You should ask your customers lots of stuff, and take VERY LITTLE at face value.

Exactly. But a time when you can take it at face value is when the question is something along of the lines of "will you sign a purchase order for this right now?" or the like.

And to tie back to what someone in another post here said about validation: one of the best way to validate that your solution is real, and will actually sell to the customer (which is the only thing that matters, from a certain point of view) is exactly to ask your customer "will you buy this, right now?" or a close variant. If the answer is "yes, send the bill and get the order underway" then you've validated something. If you get hemming and hawing and "well, maybe, let me talk to the purchasing committee" or whatever, you're still just thrashing around.

And even if you don't go for the actual sale yet (maybe the product isn't ready yet) you can take the approach Steve Blank[1] talks about, and work up to a questions of the form "would you pay a million dollars for this right now" and "well, how much would you pay for it then?" and "if I offered this to you FOR FREE right now, would you start rolling it out immediately" etc. Those answers will really tell you something about where you really stand in your customer's eyes vis-à-vis actually selling your thing.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09...
I think your argument works better for the extremely online.
But the middle of the river is just a function of both shifting coasts.
Oh gosh, stop it.

I skip Ruby hype but I know RoR and I use Golang professionally to build microservices serving Fortune 10,50,100,500, whatever and I wouldn't use Go to build a web-application.

Golang for microservice that relies on other microservices are great (i.e. my Golang service doesn't handle authN/authZ, but another service does), Golang for monolithic web-app that has to handle db migration (yeah I know something exist), implement multiple crud objects (remember, Golang microservices typically has smaller context and challenges than a medium size web-app) is pain in the ass!

PS: cut my teeth in Java servlet/jsp, moved on to Spring Framework+GWT, skipped RoR went straight to JS and ended up in Golang for the last 5+ years. I'm not Rails worshipers but I'd probably pick Java Spring ecosystem over Golang for monolithic web-app.
Not really.

* a more powerful -- This is meaningless without some sort of examples. Powerful how? What does it do that's better than grep?

* ultra fast -- This at least means something, but it should be quantified in some way. "50%+ faster for most uses cases" or something like that.

* user-friendly -- not even sure what this means. Seems kind of subjective anyway. I find grep plenty user friendly, for a command line tool.

* compatible grep -- I mean, they all are pretty much, but I guess it's good to know this?
Yes, it's trench war. No, drones nowadays pay huge role in combat - fpv drones take out majority of fighting vehicles, terrorize and kill humans in trenches by dropping grenades, by striking inside of covers, other drones put mines, etc. It became a big problem for both sides so that most of supply and forces rotation is done at night. But there are also fpv drones with night vision. Drones became a pillar equal to artillery due to their cost and effectivness - single fpv costs $800-$1500, one artillery shot costs more. Plus drones have higher success rate.
Wide tires by Jason of Engineering Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNa2gZNqmT8

Better answer: learn the differential equations in this book:

https://ftp.idu.ac.id/wp-content/uploads/ebook/tdg/TERRAMECH...
The US isn't protecting its own ships, in particular. They are protecting international trade, on which they are highly dependant (like almost everyone but North Korea).
Stimulus is great, but a technology that really gives me the vibe of working with CFML is HTMX.

I think the "ugly legacy" is a bit of a near-sighted perspective. Today CF's reputation seems limited to being a spaghetti-riddle mix of HTML with logic, but for the era it was built in, it was an amazing language focused on productivity.
Current Kagi results for those without an account to compare:

youtube downloader

https://kagi.com/search?q=youtube+downloader&r=us&sh=_szITdy...

ad blocker

https://kagi.com/search?q=Ad+blocker&r=us&sh=-BHzV2ZoCDpmgOu...

download Firefox

https://kagi.com/search?q=Download+Firefox&r=us&sh=zkkmc_EQX...

why do wider tires have better grip?

https://kagi.com/search?q=Why+do+wider+tires+have+better+gri...

why do they keep making cpu transistors smaller?

https://kagi.com/search?q=Why+do+they+keep+making+cpu+transi...

vancouver snow forecast winter 2023

https://kagi.com/search?q=Vancouver+snow+forecast+winter+202...

I agree with the author that there is too much spam on the web. I think Kagi in general does a pretty good job at downranking it (number of ads/trackers is a negative ranking signal on Kagi) but we can always do better. Kagi has special search modes like "Small Web" which virtually eliminates spam.

I welcome such scrutiny from the community. Please continue to keep us honest.
And yet there is still a significant global industry for breeding faster horses. It's much smaller than the auto industry, but still a profitable niche.
Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs
Isn't gpt like 800gb big? I can compress a 1gb file to 0 bytes if i am allowed 1gb of additional data.
Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California. Same effect, US perspective :)

Heck, Spokane, Washington is nearly the same longitude as Los Angeles.
Maybe this kind of delusional thinking is why he's no longer at NASA...
What a great idea! It could definitely help expand vocabulary. One would still need other tools to increase hearing recognition.
Sibling commenters saying US did not want to provoke a war with Russia are being biased imo. US drew a line in the sand, or kept pushing on the issue for Ukraine to NOT promise it would never join NATO. These are facts. Whether that justifies Russia invading parts of Ukraine is the debatable part.

Hint, when you hear the mainstream media constantly repeating a slogan or phrase nearly unanimously, there's probably something that language is hiding. I'm thinking about how all media called the war "unprovoked". Well, that isn't entirely true, and is some US propaganda/face-saving measure.
To me, it's the presence of the problem, and how many people are looking for some solution.

I love how Steve Blank talks about the ideal situation being when the customer has already cobbled together a solution from an old vacuum cleaner, four dozen zip ties, an Arduino, a stepper motor, and some old coat hangers (or whatever). Why? Isn't it bad when the customer already has a solution? Well maybe sometimes.

But if the underlying problem is a high value problem, the customer has - by cobbling something together - validated A. that the problem exists, and B. that they need a solution.

And if they're smart, they know they don't want to be in the business of maintaining this cobbled together P.O.S. which works 63% of the time, violates half a dozen fire-code regulations, and isn't remotely close to being their core competency. No, they want somebody like you to come along and offer a proper solution and will probably purchase your solution as long as the price is right or you don't blow the sale in some other way.
Was there a time when people were friendlier on the internet? I actually think the internet is a little more civilized. HN is pretty good, and even on Reddit there's lots of pleasant interactions.

Prior to that, all I remember is flame wars in random forums. Maybe I was young and dumb and baitable.
FYI: Balanced doesn't run pure GPT4. Balanced uses a combination of multiple models. Precise and Creative is pure GPT4.

About GPT4 Turbo, to check if you are on Turbo, ctrl+U > ctrl+f > check if "dlgpt4t" exists. If it exists, you are running turbo.

You can also double-check by, well, asking stuff after 2021 knowledge cut-off as well ("What are the oscar winners?") with search disabled.

But you'll notice because turbo is much faster on bing (and better too).
Well written.

An extreme example of this is WW1. Its somewhat reductionist to ascribe the cause to "The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand", but there's a very clear path from that to the outbreak of war.

Yes, tensions were high, yes the countries were all predicting a war, and yes all were rearming at a furious rate, but ultimately one event was the trigger, and its hard to see how war could have been averted by that point.

So the assassination might not have been the outright cause, but it was certainly the spark struck on a very big pile of very dry tinder.

At the moment in the middle east there seems to be a strong desire by lots of actors not to get sucked in to what us now 3 major conflicts in the region. Lets hope that holds.
Seems to me that trigger events for wars are often about finding a justification for a war that people in power were already wanting to start. America doesn't want to go to war with Russia because we know it could be incredibly destructive, given that they have nukes. So, it would probably take a lot to start a war between the US and Russia. They would have to attack or be clearly planning to attack a NATO ally.

It's possible that even if Russia intentionally downed a US jet, it would not immediately trigger a war. The US would likely add more sanctions, but they would probably show incredible restraint as well.
Ukraine had some parts of the nuclear weapon system, but it didn’t have the system as a whole. There’s all kinds of very specialised plants and tech the country has to develop and maintain, and USSR made a point to distribute all industries (not only nuclear or even military) and supply chains among the republics. To be able to demolish a city in 2023, Ukraine would have not only not given the weapons away, but also invest tens (or hundreds) of billions of dollars over the years, developing some components completely from scratch.
So that's how they address the state issue. They just ignore the problem!

I always wondered how they addressed the state problem of cookie bearer tokens.
Then the generative tools should just give the sources of the inspiration of the AI and make them aware of what they are using, instead of saying "nope, not my problem".
That.. is kind of the point of this particular search engine.

> This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.
Much more complcated problem than you're implying as NC has no unbroken coast. It's all shoals and barrier islands - and when you're inside that, swampland.
IIRC when China developed the first one, it was a game-changer in the western Pacific. Until then, US carriers and other ships could safely go where they wanted, including within range of Taiwan in case of a war. The US Navy had sufficient defenses against 'cruise' anti-ship missiles (that fly parallel to the ground, like planes).

But ballistic missiles are much harder to intercept (and I think have much greater range) and China was able to put the carriers, then the core of US naval power, at risk. Submarines also help, and the US is now shifting away from dependence on its carriers.

I'm surprised the Houthis have them, or even Iran. I thought it was still only a capability of a few countries.
The thing is, this market is way too small.
On the plus side - in addition to Marginalia's own success, you can take partial credit for how good Kagi search results are (IIRC Marginalia's index is one of the sources for Kagi search results). So... thank you for that!
The us doesn't want war with Russia. The US wants Russia to engage in the international world order peacefully. The US didn't invade Russia. Ukraine literally begs the US for help. Ukraine had a popular uprising against their pro Russia government because the people wanted to join the EU.
S-Assembler v0.1: Self-Hosting RiscV Assembler
I built the first part of my career in ColdFusion, ran the local CF user group, and even spoke at a number of CF conferences. I even still run a production app and occasionally do consulting in CF.

CF, while still a commercial product, also has a well-maintained open-source version called Lucee [1]. There's a modern MVC framework called ColdBox [2], and the parent company also produces a number of amazing ecosystem tools like CommandBox [3] (a first-class tool for standing up local dev servers, dependency management, etc) and a modern testing framework [4].

I mostly focus on Rails these days, but there's a number of things I miss from the CFML world. (web GUI for configuration, in-memory ability to query recordsets with SQL, etc). I can't help but chuckle at things like server-rendered components which we were doing in the 90s with CF custom tags.

1. https://www.lucee.org/

2. https://coldbox.org/

3. https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox

4. https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/testbox
This is an option at checkout, they default to “minimize packaging, use the box it comes in”, but you can opt out.

Personally i think this is a great move that reduces overpackaging and its associated environmental impact
> More to the point, I've never seen a single soyjak meme that was targeted at Asian people.

No shit. The person you're responding to wasn't even remotely suggesting this. ;P

Their entire point is that by acting as if soy is this problematic ingredient, but failing to acknowledge that entire nations consume it without problems, is inherently racism-tinged/backed. It has always been an attempt to decry non-meat-eating as effeminate by attempting to attribute a poorly drawn study from well over a decade ago that people seemingly barely read through.
My 68 Micro Magazine collection in one of the giant garage boxes...lol 6809 was the Maserati of 8-bit processors in my mind because of OS/9 (with multi-tasking!)...There hadn't been anything like that in the microcomputer space before (maybe MP/M?) I have heard that Apple had even planned its reimagined Xerox Star (called Lisa) on 6809 (maybe even with OS/9?), but the 68000 chip shipped before the 6809 could take off and there is no comparison between the two. (6809 couldn't gain traction against 6502-based systems in time, it was late to market and Commodore which, I think, had bought 6502-maker MOS Technologies from Rockwell so it could self-deal at a loss, was flooding the market with cheap systems.) For whatever reason, everyone did their own OSes for the 68000 except for a few old S-100 vendors that shipped CP/M-68K. OS/9 on 68K existed (maybe for industry), but wasn't a thing in the personal computer world, as far as I remember.

For me though, OS/9 hearkens back to the moments before the dystopia of Commodore imploding (https://youtu.be/lIcK0m-JZFo at the hands of its severely disgruntled Founder) which, despite it's incredible custom chips and bearing the transplanted soul of actual geniuses, allowed DOS to inherit the Earth, leading Bill Gates to make so much money (and the industry to stagnate for so long) he was able to hire away DEC's crown jewel (Dave Cutler) who went on to fix Windows (NT), architect Azure and facilitate OpenAI, but also kill the VAX and DEC itself in the process, all while an academic in San Diego invented async-TCP/IP and thought it would be a good idea to include it "for free" in Windows (as "RAS") thus destroying the 40 year old "safe and secure" global X.25 network (with distance-based pricing) in a matter of a few dozen months, removing barriers to mass socialization of the software industry (and hackers), leading to the Dot Com bubble/crash, commoditization of technical labor and rise of the AWS/Azure clouds, indeed, the return of timesharing that had taken 20 years to kill off, not to mention Google and the surveillance capitalism we had all dreaded in 1960s sci-fi themes of a TV that watches you! I'm convinced there was no saving Commodore (after https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/the-crazy-story-o...) or Amiga (after Commodore bought them), but imagine if Apple had launched Lisa or Mac with its own custom chips (sort of Apple Silicon v1) way back in 1983-1984 and had chosen to base Finder and the MacToolbox on OS/9! (Almost everything wrong with what's nowadays called Classic MacOS stemmed from its bug ridden core.) Amiga had launched just 24 months after Lisa, but with those three amazing custom chips that had taken 48 months to make.
Maybe a For All Mankind like series in that world heh https://youtu.be/pHQMGjP2nFM
Even reading thru all the new law to cross check it with existing products is alot of work for micro companies. We already felt it with GDPR, and this seems much worse in that regard.

I have mixed feelings about CRA, but I am satisfied with FOSS protections. I wish it could allow for more commercialization though,not just donating.

As for commercial work, it's good to have a lighter regime for small, low risk products, but it's still alot of head scratching and uncertainty on our part. Also ditto for independent HR and payroll systems, as they aren't low risk. I wonder if their VPN/VM setups they always included work towards security of the app? Again, more work figuring that out.
Sorry about the imprecise language, this system rotated both together.
Initially, that was the Bretton Woods agreement. The US at the end of WWII had 2/3 of the world's gold reserves, and it was part of the system set up to help the World's economy recover.

As a result of choices made by Eisenhower, and subsequent administrations, the US began to spend more than it should have, slowly making a fiction of the price of gold being fixed at $35/ounce.

Eventually, after shenanigans by de Gaulle of France, Nixon was forced to close the "gold window" at which nations could convert dollars back to gold reserves. This resulted in the Nixon Shock, and eventually the prime interest rate reached 20% in April of 1980.

Then Nixon made a deal Nixon made with the Saudis, the creation of the Petrodollar. The Saudis would only sell their oil for dollars, then spend those dollars in the US for goods and services, recycling them.

Without the Petrodollar, it possible the dollar would have crashed to zero.
> If China downs one in South China sea, the US might keep it quiet because neither country wants a violent escalation into war just yet.

>> just yet

No, sorry. Neither country wants a war. Full stop. I despise this tendentious reading of normal tension between two major world powers as a claim that war's going to break out. It's dangerous fear-mongering.
> The soyboy insult came about particularly to criticize frail tech nerds (who are white in all the memes) who eat meal replacement diets, particularly soylent.

No, it has been around for longer than that. Soylent is a tertiary at best aspect to this.