skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to further this who are still confused as to how tf leave became permission. It's a very British thing, I would hazard it might also be specifically English. I grew up in Scotland and we did use it, but I was in a border town, I would be surprised if it's used in Glasgow or Edinburgh (could be wrong) - it comes from the permission to not be at something. I would get "leave from school" meaning I had permission not to be at school, same thing for work. In my opinion, it's basically slang, I'm surprised to see it in official documents (so I guess it's not technically slang).
I am converting my TypeScript file sharing application into a fully distributed operating system without hardware drivers.
Many people suck at conversation. This article is something they’d be better off reading.

But it’s weird that almost everyone you meet is like that? That’s not the real world ratio.
At least according to:
https://instances.vantage.sh/rds/?selected=db.r6g.16xlarge,d...

It looks like a reserved instance is 35% off sticker price? Add probably a discount and you'd be around 40% off.
Not sure about WebGPU. Is it really good? Have you checked with some benchmarks?

From my experience, it's been disappointing. Big, complex to setup, not convinced about many tradeoffs.
The men looking in generally appropriate places might indicate this is a failure of spatial reasoning on the part of the women.

It may indicate that if women had better spatial reasoning skills they wouldn't be as fearful, as they would know that its unlikely that a predator is hiding in the sky.

I'd like to see female army and police officers results on something like this. I'd bet they'd look in more reasonable places and I'd guess they experience less fear on average.
Microsoft <3 Open Source
Chris Farley and Robin Williams have to be the canonical example of this.
XGrabKey?
For some reason all of these types of books/posts/theories frustrate me. I feel like a lot of them are willfully ignorant feel-good advice.

There are just so many more facets to this than they are acknowledging. Like in a real conversation you ask somebody about themselves and they start humblebragging about their vacation, and then you suddenly have to make very real choices (do you start bragging yourself, do you pretend they didn't brag, do you say something completely vanilla like "Sounds like you really enjoyed your vacation", do you call it out with a joke?).

Also I feel very basic things like -- is this person having a sh*t day probably matter 5x as much as smiling and using their name. Also things like their assumptions based on how you dress (e.g. they think you wear preppy clothes) are probably going to matter a lot.

Basically I feel like most of these guides are written by people who couldn't genuinely befriend a construction worker, a banker, and a teacher.

The only book that even touched on any of this type of thing (competitive bragging) that I've read is "Games people play," but I feel like even it wasn't really a practical guide for how to handle these situations.
mostly bought together
Natural gas may be cheap but the cost of the meter and other admin fees cost about as much as the gas.
There's a very interesting document by Cloudflare linked to it that describes why this was not your typical "change nameserver and done" transition:

https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/48/contributions/1038/atta...
Should I become a bank? [pdf]
I love excel but this is some seriously delusional stuff.

Tech culture is the absolute worst. Everyone wants to pretend they are splitting the atom even when they are just using excel.
Main business is (was) recruiting people for roles all over the place.
Yep. Pay us less every month and stick around for a long time. Getting low prices makes it really difficult to move away.

If you still decided to move away, and want to take data with you, yeah... there is a cost. Heck there is a cost to delete the data you have with them (like S3 content).

Its a good way to do business.
Learning it all is what gave me an appreciation for RDS! I’ve self managed a number of Postgres and MySQL databases, including a 10TB Postgres cluster with all of the HA and backup niceties.

While I generally agree as far as initial setup time goes, I favor RDS because I can forget about it, whereas the hand rolled version demands ongoing maintenance, and incurs a nonzero chance of simple mistakes that, if made, could result in a 100% dataloss unrecoverable scenario.

I’m also mostly talking about typical, funded startups here, as opposed to indie/solo devs. If you’re flying solo launching a tiny proof of concept that may only ever have a few users, by all means run it yourself if you’d like, but if you’ve raised money to grow faster and are paying employees to iterate rapidly searching for PMF…just pay for RDS and make sure as much time as possible is spent on product features that provide actual business value. It starts at like $15/month. The cost of simply not being laser-focused on product is far greater.
This shit should be banned from the battle field. I've only seen one guy surviving a drone attack by throwing a stick at it. AI already mockingly reduced us to being helpless apes throwing sticks at it. Foreshadowing.
Only if we also disqualify similarly aged candidates who have demonstrably run US foreign policy for their own benefit, and promise dictatorship if they win.
this holds true for a quantitative comparison. thou, i suspect that domain to be unusually influential
That article has a graph that shows a continuous downward trend with us near the all time low.
Oil burners and gas furnaces also use electricity, to modulate the fire and circulate the heat. The only thing they don't use electricity for is generating the heat. In a power outage it just sits there, not able to turn on.
I once had lots of 8-track tapes. I no longer have an 8-track player. I once had lots of cassette tapes. I no longer have a cassette player. I once had a lot of vinyl (and still have some left). I no longer have a turntable. I still have lots of compact discs. I have a portable compact disc player and an Apple SuperDrive stashed somewhere in the house.

Media wears out. Players go out out of production. Owning recordings means accepting that someday they won’t work any more.
http://carlsfriends.net/SourdoughFAQ/32-San-Francisco-Sourdo...
https://archive.ph/TcyqX
Ask HN: What are your memorable cybersecurity experiences?
Samsung Smart TV vertical lines, how to fix it?
Hey, i wanna repair a Samsung TV, but I don't see everything clearly, is there a way to mirror the internals of the tv to a PC?
I really would love to repair it.
I can see barely the half of the computer but not everything is correctly visible, so it's a trial and error thing.
Why did you even buy this? Is there any advantage this has over a BEV or normal petrol car?
Or just shim it. Or rap it.
When Teslas came out in the model S format, they were the “iPhone of cars”, not just because of wealth (which is a piss-poor argument for why something succeeded btw), but because of a fundamental improvement in the essence of the category

If “status signaling” was really as significant an influence as you say, then every single original Macintosh would’ve been a huge hit and clearly was not. Every single Powerbook and Macbook as well, since those are more visible and portable. If you want to talk “fashion accessory,” then there are plenty of phones that were expensive as well at the time that did not take off either.

The reason why Apple was finally successful, is because Steve Jobs took a calligraphy class for fun instead of an engineering class, and all those things like the Zune were designed by engineers, first and foremost. Holistic thinking is not rational.
Tim does not seem like the kind of person who would do something like that without the full support of his family.

I know people who spend most of the year away from their family and who are not bad parents. Sometimes sacrifices must be made to make things grow and invest in the future. Don't be so easy to judge.
But that is not an accident, is it? It’s someone very deliberately casting an object. It’s not the same and you probably know it.
I know how shitty exits work, trust me. I don’t know why Notion wouldn’t want to tack on email to their product suite. email may not work in isolation in exactly the way Skiff was doing it, but it’s not expensive to operate and it does work as a part of suite of business productivity tooling.

The only thing I can come up with is that the tech doesn't drop in as is because of the encryption so if they have to rebuild it under Notion’s brand do a clean cut and reboot targeting Notion’s market.
It's a hedge.

There's an easy bent towards designing everything for scale. It's optimistic. It's feels good. It's safe, defendable, and sound to argue that this complexity, cost, and deep dependency is warranted when your product is surely on the verge of changing the course of humanity.

The reality is your SaaS platform for ethically sourced, vegan dog food is below inconsequential and the few users that you do have (and may positively affect) absolutely do not not need this tower of abstraction to run.
ZIRP was never the root problem.

The problem was: too much money, too few consequences for burning it.

The existence of the uber-wealthy means that markets can no longer function efficiently. Every market remains irrational longer than anyone who's not uber-wealthy can remain solvent.

Welcome to the new normal.
Govt policy and communication is pretty confusing around migration in the UK.

On the one hand, net legal migration in the UK is reaching new all time highs.

On the other hand, the main talking points for the current government is about "stopping the boats" and reducing migration.

If you Google "net migration UK" (in the UK) the first link is a policy document describing steps the Govt is doing to reduce migration:

https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/01/reducing-net-...
Vs 1.84% the prior month. This is an example of noise of a flat trend over the last year, not something just starting to grow.
Makes sense, I guess I misunderstood the premise of the article. It's a good dive.
They didn’t rename it to “settled status”, those are two separate things.

Settled and pre-settled status is used exclusively by the EU Settlement Scheme and refers to the 5 year requirement (pre-settled) for EU citizens wanting to apply.
Spend a year or two in any software shop in the tristate area that works for Wall St. Once you have that on your resume its easier to get call backs.
indeed

Windows is going to end up as the 2030s version of dosbox

edit: as in Windows ends up with the same fate as MS-DOS: replaced with a piece of software analogous to dosbox
Verisign sold its CA back in 2010.
I'd add another criticism to the whole quote:

> Data is the most critical part of your infrastructure. You lose your network: that’s downtime. You lose your data: that’s a company ending event. The markup cost of using RDS (or any managed database) is worth it.

You need well-run, regularly tested, air gapped or otherwise immutable backups of your DB (and other critical biz data). Even if RDS was perfect, it still doesn't protect you from the things that backups protect you from.

After you have backups, the idea of paying enormous amounts for RDS in order to keep your company from ending is more far fetched.
He did nothing wrong

> without any mention of my work

He's not obligated to, and he did already credit you in the README as you said yourself.
> However, it doesn’t require any additional .dlls to be shipped with the application.

Many video games already do this with all the proprietary middleware they use (Bink, SpeedTree, PhysX, etc). Most launchers (Steam, GOG, Epic, etc) also require their respective .DLLs. Many games also use D3D11On12. Many shipping games in my list have dxil.dll amongst their installed files.

Therefore, an honest question: what's the problem with shipping an additional DLL? The work done here to reverse-engineer and re-implement the code-signing is fantastic—especially the fact that it is bitwise equal to dxil.dll's output. But I am ridiculously lazy and prefer to take the easier way out, and would've just shipped the DLL.
What happens if it does collapse? Will the heat it carries dust disperse less widely, or will it go somewhere else?
Performance Matters (Strange Loop 2019)[video]
Yes but not for high-speed data transfer
I've already heard stories of people coming back to the UK from a trip abroad, and UK border staff insisted to see their BRP even though it's acceptable now for it to be digital. I'm assuming it's going to be a right pain in the arse for my wife when she comes back to the UK from visiting family abroad.
This reminds me of something similar. I dated a girl back in college who was the most miserable and unhappy person I ever met.

But, she would project this niceness and happiness to everyone (She didn't have lots of friends and was always very quiet. Also VERY passive aggressive and judgmental and was deathly afraid of what others thought of her). She also didn't seem to think any of this was a problem. It ended up being very toxic for our relationship and I had a clean break and haven't talked to her for almost a decade.

I checked up on her recently and she now has a podcast related to happiness and how you can be as happiness as her. I seriously doubt she's changed. It's just more projection to the world that she's a happy person.
Running an Excel financial model through a lib, having an issue with the engine, ending up fixing up and optimizing it, then sharing the load across lambda functions, then understanding that AWS SDK for PHP was probably broken and find a workaround to it.

Not my best engineering moment...

https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/experimentations/2019/...
Yes I am, everyone worshiping Valve for that, has skipped classes on OS/2 history lesson.

Porting games from Android/NDK into GNU/Linux is relatively a child's play.

Playstation OS is also POSIX friendly.

Finally every serious middleware engine supports GNU/Linux.

Still the amount of studios that care about GNU/Linux is almost zero.

With Valve, there are no reasons to bother at all as a studio, target Windows/DirectX, let Valve do the work, collect the money with zero additional effort.

Now with Windows based handhelds, Valve will learn what happened to netbooks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39299186
Ask HN: What's your Git workflow like at work? What could be improved?
For various reasons I am revisiting “everything I know”. One that crops up the most is handling multiple developers on the same project. We can try stand ups and designs and coffee breaks but in the end it’s the code that matters

Most “corporate” developers seem to have a branch master then merge, and release on a time based cycle, approach, but it seems rarer to find approaches such as the Linux kernel or git.git

I suspect there are far more pain points in the simplified approach (pulling a patch already in master is terrifying to most developers)

Any thoughts ?
works fine for me in a new tab also on chrome/ubuntu.
like this? https://www.distributed.net/
Which runs MS-DOS games, not GNU/Linux.
virtual box can do a seamless windows mode. It in't as slick as parallels but it is passable.
This post made me finally want to create an account and stop lurking HN :D

Cool project! I've been working on a similar project myself. We've started with South African birds (as we have a connection with a local charity there) but plan to expand to different countries around the world to support different habitats and more localised species.

If anyone is interested to check it out, I'd love some feedback: https://birdle.co.za (it's both web and an app)
This is what I’m thinking too. They took Cron and rebranded. If they can re-build Skiff without all the encryption baggage then it can slot in.
That optimization can be effective doesn't change that spending time on it too early is often problematic
Broken to BBS: A Dell 286 Restoration [video]
Getting rid of bed bugs: trickier than ever
> Repeat the last 1-3 words the person just said as a question.

The first time I read about this was in Chris Voss' "Never split the difference", a great book about negotiation. It's called "mirroring" and it actually works really well at getting people to reveal more information without sounding inquisitive or nosy.

Not sure about using it all the time in normal conversation, though.
"friends are people that show up when it's not convenient for them" - my mum
> Yes, but they're fundamentally incompatible with the CD standard.

Not really “incompatible”. More like hacks around the standard.

If they were incompatible then CD players wouldn’t have been able to play those CDs.

> I'm not denying that digital downloads for music were the first big use of DRM. But in that case, it was perhaps even more futile than in other applications.

It’s easy to say that in hindsight but there was a point in time where it felt like DRM in music would eventually win out.

Ironically it was the subscription model that saved us here. Because those that wanted convenience went with services like Spotify. And those that wanted to persistent copies stuck with CDs and vinyl.
Thanks for this, but I'm struggling to understand how that lines up with what I'm reading in the docs. I see $5 for the hobby plan and then "$5 per month for up to 10GB of database storage" for LiteFS. I cannot tell if a relational db of any kind is included in the hobby plan. It seems like I need to add a payment method to find the details of the plan. What am I missing here?
Thanks for pointing this out. My problem with the article is that it presupposes (incorrectly in my view) that "who to engage" with is an average person who conforms to fairly primitive statistics.

This approach is common in many of the social sciences, but I think interpreting statistics to say something about the real world requires a little more effort.

If 60% of the people prefer oranges over apples, that does not mean that we should burn all apple trees. If, when choosing a political party during an election, one party gets the largest share, that does not immediately imply that it is the best party, or that most people prefer it. It's tiresome that so many people simply do not see a problem with this, and it is thanks to
these kinds of "scientific" nonsense stories that it keeps getting propagated.

Of course, if I had simply said that I'd loved the article and that I met the author smiling over a coffee, I'd probably get more upvotes, but for now, I think my rant has some merit.

Then again, the article does point out a lot of sensible things, and that can be very helpful to some people, so perhaps I should crawl back under my rock.
C’Mon. Are you stating no song has moved you? That is straight up unbelievable.
One of my earliest memories of something in the newspapers was, as a teenager, finding out a picture in The Guardian was of any entirely different conflict, more than a decade earlier, albeit in the same country.

The media did not really care much about accuracy then, and its even worse now.
What’s your opinion of Manning compared to Pakt?

Both actively pursue potential authors. I know this because I’ve been contacted by both. Made me realize I have neither the will nor the patience to write a book - being an author sounds great on paper (pun intended).
I completely agree. People and their work are way more complicated and there's no silver bullet.

Blind buying into toxic positivity and seeing people react with their trained fake kindness doesn't mean people actually love talking to you. Some of us have to get to work and these gloves get in the way.

My favorite people to talk to just tell the truth and are reliable and responsible people. Not everyone has the luxury to play these games. That's probably better advice for anyone struggling with overcoming class or cultural divides.
Is it just me or is it “if your car can be unlocked by someone recording the signal it’s not secure so chnage up the security?”

Plus, stealing a car is only half the job unless you are joyriding.
> I find "cat full | ..." keeps the left-to-right flow of a command nicely

Sorry, I don't buy it.

You don't read files like this:

cat file | less

And you don't compile C programs like this:

cat hello.c | gcc -xc -

Actually using less, grep (and even gcc) as filters is more confusing to "those less familiar with shell work".
I came to what I think is a related conclusion fairly recently (https://twitter.com/mightybyte/status/1749513355038220653): One of (if not the) most valuable skills in life is being able to choose that you're going to consider an arbitrary thing fun.

Your good mood skill seems like the interpersonal version of that. It's always fun to see ideas from different areas form a coherent big picture.
that's probably not even counting the illegal drugs bought from mexico
There was the Scott Alexander thing recently (in the context of defending polyamory) talking about how if you want information on how to walk, then you'd probably be better talking to the person who has some debilitating physical issue as they've been motivated to think about it long and hard, and find all sorts of tricks and techniques to make it easier, while most people have never even thought about walking. And that many "experts" will fit this model.

I don't think he said a follow up thought I just had, which is that the kind of person who goes looking for walking or happiness podcasts is very likely not in the "just comes naturally demographic" either.
Ha, best part is in the first paragraph:

> in a bid to make its borders digital, which is in-line with developed countries like Australia.

lol. So England is not developed and compared to developed Australia. lol.
Judges generally get statistical significance.
>> users will still see political content from accounts they follow, but the apps will no longer “proactively amplify” such posts.

> So it's giving people an option, and even better, an opt-in option. That seems like the furthest thing from controversy to me.

In other words, an echo chamber.
> And... they don't smell bad?

If you do not regularly clean the rubber gasket _and_ leave the door open to dry out the rubber completely, you end up with a smelly, slimy mixture of clothing lint-infused mildew.

> Frankly the most important difference to me is this central axis in American top-loaders and which clothes wrap themselves and which always ends up destroying elastics.

You can buy modern top loaders do not have an agitator that destroys clothes.

https://www.bhg.com/impeller-vs-agitator-washing-machine-748...
> less efficient as it gets to zero fahrenheit

Here in NJ there aren't any days like that any more. Its like heat pumps wouldn't be great in the old days but in today's new climate they're great.
> since Cloudflare is a CIA operation

Source for this extraordinary claim?
Not the case if you are living in an apartment. More than 50% people in EU are living in apartments. They then need to charge for hour on public chargers and pay for charge more than for equivalent in gas.
I wasn't sure what you were referring to until reading the other top-level comments. Wow. And that's on a site with a technical audience!
this is what happens when government tries to solve a problem. by the same token they can solve homelessness by making it illegal to sleep on the street.
Show HN: Now my pet programming language can run in the browser
if you log in, you've lost.

they have to serve the source without being logged in, otherwise gpl projects would just move (and we know gpl projects are the opensource trend setters).

so they will always allow you yo download the source. and thats what i do all the time. git clone, grep, rm.

or if you are logged, do it anyway checking code out with ssh which is more expensive for them.

remember kids, after Microsoft bought it, a github account is a social network account.
This is how he makes his income, is it not?

I really enjoy programming and find it fun/engaging. It’s still work, because it’s how I earn money.

Other people work as tour guides or travel writers. Do you see what they do as playing around traveling or as work?