skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this only needed if you want properly faked file system primitives over blob stores, if you can't use blob stores directly?

Semiconductor EDA comes to mind, where users are at the mercy of their tool vendors and they expect something that really hasn't evolved much past an office network of Unix workstations from 1999. Object storage is almost completely alien to the tooling, and despite significant file & block storage costs there is little interest from EDA tool vendors to adapt their tools to object storage. This is a challenge for semiconductor firms operating in or moving to a cloud environment.

S3FS/rclone can of course act as a shim, but are very slow when it comes to metadata operations in a typical shell. But if you were to move your metadata away from the distant object store and closer to to your compute environment things actually start becoming usable - this is the case with JuiceFS. Of course there are also tiered storage systems like Weka would have better overall performance, but is more complicated to set up and more expensive to operate than JuiceFS.
Seems like the alternative nitter is gone as well, which used to be the accepted workaround. IMO at this point twitter should be disallowed on HN.
When film transitioned to video in the early 90s and many film school projects changed from $40K to $4K almost overnight, we didn't see a mess of new film makers because making good art is hard and almost always requires study and practice, even if the process is inexpensive (Picasso's brushes and black paint cost very little and were not difficult to acquire, it was his skill that was difficult to acquire.)

We're not going to get better movies and shows by unleashing the TikTok generation on movies and shows. We'll get more, but not better because they are simply not capable of better. They don't have the training and the practice and it doesn't matter how cheap the tools if you don't have the ability, the skills that come with an education and a lot of trial and error. These skills are absent in all but the rarest of untrained persons so your friend's tv series is going to be shit, along with any tv series or movie created by people without the skills of a trained tv or movie maker. We don't need more shit. We have enough with the Disney, Apple, and Netflix and I should also include YouTube and TikTok.

Wider is not better in art because art is a developed skill not a party trick. As someone who went to art and architecture schools, I promise you that the camcorder did not bring a grand new wave of democratized citizen cinema. It just didn't and neither will so-called A.I. because, once again, art is a skill, not trick. There are no shortcuts and no secrets to bypass learning and practice.
This is not a JavaScript issue. It’s a software enginner/people issue. The question is how do you get people to care about performance, security, reliability, etc.? How do you get organizations to care about these issues?

These are hard problems and people have been complaining about software size forever. Back in the early 90s, it was bloated C++ code.

You will also see that all software continues to use more ram, more disk space, more network bandwidth etc. This trend has been going on for decades.

For example, why do we use JSON as an interchange format? It’s relatively slow (i.e. creating it and parsing it is slow), nor is it is not space efficient. Back in the 1980s, the Unix community created RPC and the RPC wire formats were much more efficient because they were binary formats. The reason we use JSON is it makes the developer’s life easier and because developers prefer ease of use to performance.
If the headline were actually true...

Agree with your point, solving problems gets you points, avoiding them doesn't. My cynical view of the headline is, that a lot of people do get credit for solving problems that never really existed, simply either fabricating (intentionally or not) easy to solve problems or vastly overblowing problems they just happen to have a "solution" for.

If ypu successfully fight a fire, you are a hero, if you prevent fires it is just normal and nothing special.
Depends on the language, but many things happen on Discord now (which is very annoying since it's not indexable by search engine and you need to ask the question to get the answer…)
Heck, just trademarks alone would be enough to take this down, both from Canonical and Microsoft.

> Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries

Somehow I have a feeling that this was not approved by Canonical
People getting overly independent, no families or communities, lack of societal cohesion, basically.

At least that's how I read it, I don't think it explains everything though. Beware of anyone too sure about the causes for complex problems.
Related ongoing thread:

Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465250 - Feb 2024 (1064 comments)
There used to be alternative websites that would turn a tweet thread into a single webpage (note that this is not what nitter did), but I don't know if they stopped working too?
It would be useful if author sorted the requests by size. Most of this junk anyway is analytics, heatmaps, tracking and all that bullshit. Ofc you can make <1MB sites easily with the most complex UI and functionality, but the business just doesn't demand this or care while pennies are flowing. Caching and compression is also very important especially for virtualised sites like react-dev which author did not understood, they are essential features packed and turned on in every browser and in "real-life" test i wouldn't disable them.
> "You can't be sure a loop will do what you want it to do."

From my limited experience with "proprietary bullshit languages that only exist to hook customers", there's ways to mess up how loops work in the language. So maybe those senior engineers actually know what they're talking about.

I've seen "languages" that treat variables differently based on whether they have uppercase letters and underscores. Before I saw this in action, I believed the seniors telling me to "never use uppercase letters ever" were insane...
In my 17 years in the industry I saw working agile twice. Both were small places, both used post-it notes. Both were consultancies, each team dedicated to an independent project.

Everything else, world-class, public, private, consultants or not... was a joke.

I don't think cross-team collaboration works in agile. Either one plans ahead, or everything becomes an unpredictable mess.
Would be great to have a Homebrew formula for the font distribution. I know for a team of two it’s perhaps a bit beyond the scope, any plans on it by a chance?
Surely there was internal dogfooding for this feature, I do not believed they would add a new system prompt and then released it to the public with little testing and then get surprised that it was doing this like the author suggests happened.
Oracle forms 3 on a terminal was actually a super nice tool: very fast way to edit database data, but you have to know all the keyboard shortcuts. Bit like Vi for database forms.
That makes sense. It was my fear that I'd start with a wrapper that helps but end with a wrapper that hurts. Good to know that it's still worth experimenting with these for prototyping and discovery. I'm guessing that there will still be components of them that you can use in a product if you don't want to implement something quite specific yourself.
I called the dev form of this “tech trauma.”

e.g., You were tasked with working on a ball of mud and it was miserable, so the next system you get the chance to build has to be the most scalable, modular, and cutting-edge thing ever, just to be safe.
The Quobyte DCFS does end-to-end CRC32 for each 4k block of data. All metadata and communication is also CRC protected, although one other frame boundaries.
I don’t really feel capable of giving a reasonable answer to that question. The ability to terraform it?

> If you scale out to a 10,000 year timeframe

AFAIK there were no events at last several hundred million years that had a realistic chance of making the Earth less habitable that Mars. So unless we had a ways to cheaply transport millions of people to Mars (maybe space station or the moon would be a better option though?) focusing on building infrastructure that would allow us to minimize the impact of meteorites or massive volcanic eruptions as much as possible.
It goes deeper.

People learn over time that complex web apps work badly in Firefox, because developers mostly test in Chrome.

So they don't even bother trying it in Firefox.
Bullshit job phenomenon is inevitable because the game encourages a winner takes all scenario for now. One or two market leaders keep accumulating all the capital and then instead of using their hires to move the needle of progress forward, they force most of them into some pointless hyperspecialisation or stuff like denying competitors of needed talent.

All this just means that the balance of society has tilted to one unsustainable direction. Society simply needs much better antitrust (or other) laws to the point that every monopoly/duopoly is broken down and balance is restored.

I will use twitter as a hypothetical example. If only twitter can raise capital to the point where it can handle enough traffic at scale and be an arbitor of global news, then it can easily use its resources and reputation to create and staff bullshit jobs without much consequence.

To bring back balance:

1. other legal jurisdictions should ban or tax twitter out of existence over there and raise their own monopolies, for which they will likely need a global workforce

2. cost of investing in twitter or the cost of holding large investments in twitter should be increased so that the instead of accumulating capital in the market leader, people are incentivised to let their money be reinvested into competitors.

This will be resisted by those who already have enormous sums of money invested into the market leader, which unfortunately also happens to be the people who make the rules.
no images?
I recently came back from a road trip in New Zealand - a lot of their countryside has little to no cell coverage. Combined with roaming (which seems to add an additional layer of slowness) and boy did it suck to try to use a lot of the web.

Also if any spotify PMs are here, please review the Offline UX. Offline is pretty much one of the most critical premium features but actually trying to use the app offline really sucks in so many ways
As parent says, nitter is dead.

Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382590
Would it be a highway resting on top of a plane, like the plane is a pillar ?
It's an interface in the http package: https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#RoundTripper
It is worth noting that being indexed by Google is also opt-out on Mastodon.
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Doctor: ADHD Does Not Exist (2014)
Similarly. If someone wants to go off the grid there isn't any reason to force them on to it. Ditto water supplies if they want to try something alternative. And they shouldn't have to pay for a service they aren't connected too because that would be dumb. I'd probably advocate a law that you have to disclose being unconnected to major utilities clearly, obviously and early in the process when selling or renting a house.

I don't really see why anyone should be unhappy if Sam the Solar wants to power his own house. Good luck to him. He doesn't have to pay for my electricity and I don't have to pay for his. If it is much more cost effective for him he can come do my house too. There is literally no need to force them to pay or force them to consume a service that they don't think it a good idea.

And the closer the equilibrium can be pushed to a fully private free market the more cost effective it is likely to be.
I'm sure Mathematica is great even if I never tried it. But, to me, a large part of the appeal of a Lisp Machine environment is Lisp itself. I mean the real thing with parantheses and all, not a language inspired by, derived from, or related to Lisp. With no other language I achieved the fluency and naturalness I have with Lisp.
It even gets worse sometimes. You detect a problem that poses a risk to your organization, manage to convince management that it's dangerous, you get some time to fix it and you fix it. Then, because it's fixed, nothing will happen. And then management frowns upon it and wonders why all this effort was needed.

A big scale example of this was the Corona vaccination. After the large vaccination campaign in 2020, hospitalisation numbers stabilised to levels that were also seen sometimes in previous years during some flu epidemic.
Which led to criticism from some people, who said that this was evidence that the whole Corona epidemic was a hoax, organised by a conspiracy of medicin manufactories and policitians who wanted to scare people to gain more power ..
I was excited at the idea of ShapeRank. A modern APL successor aimed at tensors, vectors, arrays of unbounded length.

Unfortunately work on it seems to have stopped two years ago. https://github.com/f5devcentral/shapeRank
In a nutshell for those without a X account: the problem here isn't that Google's AI gave "woke" results. The big problem here is that even one of the biggest AI specialists in the world, Google, wasn't able to fully predict or control the output of its AI. If we ever create a truly powerful, superintelligent AI under the assumption that we'll be able to control it, this incident shows that even a minor mistake from the AI builders could lead to the AI freeing itself from our control.
This is why death is a feature and not a bug.
And pricing! When this kind of service doesn't make its pricing clear it immediately puts me off.
Hi. I confess I haven’t tried the app yet, but the App Store entries show subscription purchase options in Turkish - aylık/yıllık, instead of monthly/annual.
The next model will just have the camera behind some part of the LCD.
pandas feels clunky when coming from python too
You wouldn't even if there weren't so many new ones, it's low quality, highly derivative content. Even if new TikTok videos were banned, no one would go back and watch the old ones as they have no lasting value.
That's what the company claims, and maybe it's right, but how do we know? Do we have access to the source code? Will it change in future? You can be absolutely sure that if the company thought they could make more money by storing the photographs or somehow associating them with real identities then they would.
Same thing constantly happens in governments, too. "Oh no, something that's been done for 200 years now caused issues once! We have to restrict/regulate/bureaucratize/outlaw it immadiately!"
We set up an A/B test across two ad groups and tracked performance over a two-week testing period across search, YouTube, and display.
Consumer protection rarely covers carelessness or applied physical forces (dropping/hitting). The customer claims no such thing was involved but anyone working in customer support can tell you that customers lie all the time. So a random employee made a judgement call but that decision is not final. The customer should escalate it.
And/or the problem is minor enough to not be worth the costs of subscription - costs that include not just the sticker monthly price, but also cognitive space taken by unnecessary, unwanted, forced ongoing relationship with a random third party, and all the value-add/upsell bullshit on top. Couple that with relatively low trust that a random app is not trying to scam you somehow...
It's possible to phrase the value proposition to align with what you want to deliver.

You can phrase it as "I help teams deliver on time by making sure they don't get stuck." Or "I increase a team's velocity by preventing mistakes that stop work."

It's how you sell yourself and then, how you tell the story of what happened. Being able to tell a compelling story is important.
It was very missable.
Much of the rest of the world is overtly sexist and racist. If you’ve traveled anywhere at all you would know that the idea that the US is uniquely bad or even in the top ten is unmoored from reality.
Good idea, but not my thing. Confetti page is just annoying and counter is obviously fake, suggest you lose it, otherwise looks OK.

Are you ready for Nazi memorabilia and worse?
It is actually very open of them to post that! I'm sure things like that happens in larger companies, but I'm sure we won't get a incident report like that from them. I would rather work with that kind of company. Then we can also see if they learned from their lesson, and this doesn't repeat again.
I really did think they’d have more work for me.
Check out OP's https://computer.rip

I am a complete shameless fanboy.
> But how would an plagiarism detector pick up that she fixed spelling and punctuation mistakes using grammarly?

These detectors produce tons of false positives all the time. You really can not conclude much from the fact that it detected something.
Slack is some of the worst software ever written by mankind.
The LLMs are generating training data at a faster rate than SO. All the prompts and the responses will eventually be 99.99% of the training data.
Sounds like it could devolve similarly to what's being done here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8

I sometimes try with my children. Having one on my shoulder and pulling either the left or the right ear to tell me where to go. The way home from kindergarten can then take a while, depending on how attentive they are. Of course, parent stumbling into hedges makes for a good laugh, so that may also sometimes be intentional.
Actually, the average here just implies that tested in different configurations and scenarios, it should cut by 100 bytes in averages. Net per file. Adding "per file" does have a benefit.
Sure could, but it is almost the most inefficient way... I guess it works for experimentation
Don't people remember Lindows and the like? I don't see much of a market
Aren't most payment systems making a $1 or $0.1 block/charge to confirm the card is real and has non-zero balance? At least that is my experience as an European user, whenever I try to subscribe to anything that came out of the US.
> This makes it the most luminous object in the known Universe

> J0529-4351 is over 500 trillion times more luminous than the Sun

That appears to contradict Wikipedia [1] which lists SMSS J215728.21-360215.1 [2] as the most luminous at an intrinsic bolometric luminosity of ~ 6.9 × 10^14 Suns or ~ 2.6 × 1041 watts.

Are there perhaps different ways of measuring luminosity?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quasars

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMSS_J215728.21-360215.1
The discussion basically says you don't follow an edit the full program-compile-run cycle like in other languages with batch compilers. Instead, you interactively create a program by writing individual expressions (e.g. function definitions) in the editor, sending them to the REPL for evaluation and testing, further experimenting at the REPL, and repeating the cycle. If you're already familiar with Lisp environments there's nothing new in the book.
There's some people who break something, realize it, just leave it as is, and cannot comprehend why you would think they should maybe help fix it... So I'd guess the praise is for not being like that.
Seems like you've independently invented a form of liquid democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy#:~:text=The%2....

It basically lets each citizen choose between direct or representative democracy, per issue, and does away with arbitrary things like election dates and even candidates (you can "elect" any other citizen to vote on your behalf, as can they). The only reason we don't have it is because it's basically impossible without software. Even very complex ranked choice voting can be tallied manually.
The caveat to this is to make sure hope doesn't turn into expectation. Expectation can turn into sourness when the others don't reciprocate. Also, some people feel when you do something just because you expect something in exchange, and that tends to make them not reciprocate.
congrats on the launch! curious, what is your business model? you only charge for cloud option right?
I signed up for the free trial and downloaded the extension. All I'm getting is a blank command prompt window "sm-agent.exe" that opens when I open VS code. So yeh, it's just not working for me at all. Tried opening VS Code as admin and no difference. Any suggestions?
Revenue for life also means that you're filing taxes and potentially other paperwork about it for life.
Thanks. I tried Tidal for a while. The experience was pretty good and audio quality too. Not quite worth the price for me though. Will try Apple Music since I have that with Apple One.
I don't really think that's relevant to the journalism he's doing. If he didn't do it, hopefully the courts will determine his innocence. If he did do it, hopefully the courts will punish him appropriately. But either way the work is good and it's worth one's time to watch it.
God I hate these pages-long twitter threads.

"This is not an unreasonable thing to do, given that they have a global audience"

Clearly that was not their motivation. In fact I'd argue that it's the global audience that were most annoyed by this.
Following your feedback, I have added more examples on the landing page
Some of my (non-programming) colleagues don't seem to be able to wrap their head around image size. And someone who taught courses to communication/marketing students told me, it took 2 hours to explain resolution and all that to them, and then half even didn't get it. Yeah, I can hear you: "something that easy? must have been a bad teacher," but the concepts are rather weird for non-techies. So those people become responsible for updating the website content, and upload whatever the graphical artists show them. And designers like to zoom in, a lot, so often that's a 20MB png, where a 200kB jpeg would suffice.
There was a replacement for CLIP? That is awesome. What was the issue with it?
If it's the exact same content, and you own the copyright to it, that sounds like copyright infringement. IANAL but there could be some money there.
that's huge...
I don’t think you’re speaking for the majority here, no one has pornhub in their bookmarks bar
The Pinecil is the best soldering iron under $150, and it costs $20. I absolutely love it, I bought four.
I guess most people would review the code as if it had been written by a colleague?
Retool Forms is completely free. No arbitrary limits on the number of users, forms or submissions. I'll make this clearer on the landing page.

For building Retool Apps/Workflows, our pricing is here: https://retool.com/pricing
Some day, perhaps soon, YouTube may charge for serving content. A lot of folks will fork it over, and a lot more folks will scramble.
Crossover predates Proton by about 10-12 years, and currently CodeWeavers are one of the main companies contributing code to it.

The company did start their efforts as a way to make MS Office work on Macs, but I think that bringing games to linux/Mac is what made them known in the nerd circles.
“I’m really not supposed to tell you this. It could get me fired.

But you’re one of the highest performing people here but I can’t promote you right now because I have a quota. My hands are tied. You’ll get the next slot. Please be patient. I’m really sorry.”

— Google

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1760885099984261564
The issue is how do you provide the evidence for that. In other terms, how do you differentiate your effect from that of Homer Simpson's Bear Patrol and Lisa's tiger-repellant rock [0]?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw