skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest it's more of a journey, with convenience and usability at the start.
Witness many youtube creatives trying to jump ship wrt to cut of the monetization, changes in monetization eg. longform videos, shadowbanning, and so on.

These are secondary, perhaps more subtle, considerations that come to the fore after a while, and illustrate the dichotomy between platform reach and endorsing that platform.

Fundamentally I think we are still dealing with hard decentralised problems - Small world networks are better understood from a tech perspective.
AT-protocol, zksnarks, DIDs, lattice types and the like are fertile ground for exploration that MAY yield new advantages in this problem space. UX can follow the function.
Yes, but ideally you want the unsafe code to be as small and auditable as possible.

Most of the actual code here is unsafe.
One regret I have about HN is that I can't tap the brainpower here when I need a product recommendation. Best I can do is to search for threads and ask if/when appropriate.

Of course, if it became a place for routine Q&A, it would stop being HN!
One of my favorite things about Gibson is how impressionistic he is, especially for scifi, which leads to people having a lot of different mental images as they go through the books. :)

Per closest reading of the source, it seems like a complete Matrix set would be {computer} + {deck/sensory translator} + {neural interface hardware, e.g. trodes or jack}.

Believe it's also implied decks can run the Matrix standalone, without a computer, but likely have limited processing capacity.

My physical manifestation of the deck was definitely very 90s crap plastic, but hinting that there were powerful and expensive electronics concealed within.

There's also some textual stuff about them essentially being epoxy-filled / security-sealed to prevent tampering or reverse engineering.
Take a look at Figure 1 in this study (about halfway down): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Essentially, the likelihood of a particular bill being passed doesn't matter at all on how many average citizens want it to pass. It does matter greatly, almost 100%, on how much the economic elites want it to pass.
There is a lot of noise out there and it is only going to get worse with generative AI effortlessly pumping out hallucinatory mediocrity. It is up to all of us within earshot to boost the signal and suppress the noise.
Ish.

It really depends!

Fil-C is memory-safe down to the libpizlo POSIXish syscall layer, and then even those syscalls do memory safety checks (so you can't read(2) into an OOB area of a buffer, for example).

So, some safe code is built on a crapton of unsafe code, while other safe code is built on a tightly controlled TCB. There's a big spectrum there.
Yes, why not? Its not so simple You have to science the shit out of this - Mark Watney (The Martian)
Or any country for that matter? I was rejected from right next door (NL).
Hetzner's US cloud zones are colocated in someone else's facility (AFAICT they don't specify where): https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/general/locations/#are-the-se...
rm -r

Problem solved
At many grocery stores I go to, there are no glass bottles of ketchup available. The few that do have them, the glass bottles are significantly smaller than the plastic while also being more expensive. They also don't have the reduced sugar or no HFCS choices in glass bottles. None of the generic brands sell in glass bottles around me.

Even then, in the end I'd still end up buying it in plastic. The plastic squeeze bottles are just way more convenient. I'd probably be fine buying it in bulk and fill my own squeeze bottles to reduce plastic consumption, but buying smaller and radically more expensive glass bottles isn't really a winning choice in my book.
It wasn't the boomer parents killing the fun. They have more money so the ads came, the addiction cycle was changed to accommodate that potential revenue, and it didn't/doesn't appeal to anyone from GenX younger anymore.
I'm curious...when do you think the internet was "good"? What period would you say defines the so-called "golden age" of the internet? Genuinely asking.
>worry not, by adding std::cmake to the standard library and you’ll see how it’s absolutely a game changer

I'm pretty sure my stomach did somersaults on that.

But as for the advice:

>Get out the chainsaw and rip out everything that’s not absolutely required to provide the features your company/open source project is advertising and selling

I hear you, but this is incredibly dangerous. Might as well take that chainsaw to yourself if you want to try this.

It's dangerous for multiple reasons. Mainly it's a case of Chesterton's fence. Unless you fully understand why X was in the software and fully understand how the current version of the software is used, you cannot remove it. A worst case scenario would be that maybe a month or so later you make a release and the users find out an important feature is subtly broken. You'll spend days trying to track down exactly how it broke.

>Make the project enter the 21st century by adding CI, linters, fuzzing, auto-formatting, etc

It's a nice idea, but it's hard to do. One person is using VIM, another is using emacs, another is using QTCreator, another primarily edits in VSCode.. Trying to get everyone on the same page about all this is very, very hard.

If it's an optional step that requires that they install something new (like commit hook) it's just not going to happen.

Linters also won't do you any good when you open the project and 2000+ warnings appear.
So, I guess after 5+ years after having left Amazon I feel I can provide some insight, mostly based on SEC filings (unless we accuse Amazon of cooking the books, those tell us the aggregated "truth") and conclussions drawn from my experience:

- Amazon retail is profitable, with acceptable but not stellar margins for a retail business, the US part is so

- Amazon's international retail business is, at best barely break-even, and no, I never saw a breal down by country

- Amazon's retail arm is the cash machine, it is always cash positive (potential, but rare, exceptions in Q3)

- In agregate, Amazon's retail arm is cash positive and profitable, some rare exceprions occur in Q3 (ramping up inventory for Q4 is a drain on both)

- Fulfillment by Amazon is a genius thing, hugely profitable with basically no additional fix costs on the operations side, while only occuring variable costs and increasing utilozation of Amazons full logostics network

- FBA also gives Amazon oncredible insights into the eCommerce business of others, and here it starts to become tricky (none of the other points so far are an issue anti-trust wise)

- Profits come, last time I checked (years ago) arpund 80% or so, from AWS, revenues and cash flow come from Retail (also around 80%)

- No idea how profitable or cash contributing Prime Video and adds are, I assume the latter have to be very interessting so

- Devices are basically just a means to sell Prime subscriptions, Audible subscriptions and stuff

- All tax shenenigans Amazon did were genius, and legal (doesn't mean those tricks shouldn't be prohibited, but back then they weren't, so...)

- Nobody outside Retail knew which product lines made how much money (profit and cash), and even then only the one they were involved in, management knew the aggregate (also, only retail management, and I won't ever share the few numbers I happened to see)

- Amazons accounting is top notch, from inventories to cahs flow, profits and beyond, if you think whatever is published is not sufficient, discuss changes to accounting rules (GAAP and IFRS) and not Amazons numbers

- No idea how Whole Foods is doing

- Amazon has enough businesses that don't turn a profit, and closed ultimately, e.g. Prime Now and Fresh in Europe

- Amazon logistics was the logical conclusion of Amazon's growth, service providers capacities (from UPS and FedEx over DHL and various postal services) were not sufficient anymore to swallow additional volumes, hence Amazon decided to invest in its own network instead of someone else's (most likely no anti-trust risk here, unless Amazon abuses it's control over allocations and exagerates its share of most profitable shipments, even then it is more of a contract issue and to my knowledge no carrier ever complained more than the usual about all of that)
Cool, looks like a good summary. What I like about the talk I linked to is that it walks you through the process of designing it yourself, starting with the simplest version of the idea and then progressively pointing out its weaknesses and showing how you could counteract each weakness with a new idea. And then how there are new attacks against the "fixes," and so on, until you have a fairly secure system. At the end, you understand it way more than if the entire system were laid out from the begnning in a fully formed way.
But for every trash Popular Science review there is an LTT deep dive video that is worth your time. For every CNN there is a BBC. If one's gateway to "the internet" is the first dozen google results, the internet is a shallow place. But if you know your way around its back roads, the internet still grants access to very useful information.

(I would describe HN as a borderline back road of the internet, somewhere between reddit and a private-access forum.)
That's this https://apacorp.com/ Apache
It is still a safe wrapper around unsafe code. I agree that I would prefer that situation (mainly because of not needing an additional compiler) but it’s structurally the same thing.
In any human interaction within which there exists economic value, the human(s) will be disintermediated.

We rarely go, meet few and talk little. Of course, people are lonely when they’re atomized.
Modern day opium dens.
I think it’s a reasonable amount of time, I am a real estate investor. What is your reasoning for these statements?
Kazakhstan is turning the clocks back at 0:00 on 1 March 2024
Seems like a waste, the most interior spaces could be storage for the units or just left empty, instead of knocking down something that might have some value later.
Clicking "learn more" on the cookie prompt (that covers the entire screen on my phone) leads you into an infinite loop. Not cool
It's slow for good reasons, like ensuring that I have a super reliable compiler that lets me port a lot of stuff without dealing with miscompiles.

Fil-C will be fast, don't worry.

(The manifesto enumerates the hilarious reasons for the slowness. If you had read that, you probably wouldn't have cited the 200x.)
When you check available, you might have to do it as a (__atomic_load_n(&sender->realend, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST) and do __atomic_store_n when setting available.

rather than just a plain load.
Russian has a huge population of native Russian speakers who understand all lexical, grammatic and phonetic quirks of their language. Then they call the shots.
Adobe introduces generative artificial intelligence for music creation
How is that memory safe? Even vector out of bounds index is not memory safe.
Youtube is full of seemingly endless high quality, meaningful content. Its just also got lots of corporate BS as well and the algorithm really does try to push the corporate BS. I have a feeling other sites are like this as well. I think alot of the dissatisfaction in "modern internet" is that people expect their search engine or "feed" to give them the good stuff instead of having to go out and curate stuff themselves.

As an example of great youtube content check out the channels Asianometry and The Thought Emporium. There are countless other but those two have been some of my favorites for quite a while now.
"A sudden and great increase" may or may not be unexpected. So surge pricing doesn't need to be dynamic if the surges are predictable.
I have to say after looking at various DMA hardware I much much prefer the scatter gather list type than the ring type of DMA.

The entire need of a bipbuffer allocation for DMA then goes way. You can have a simple pool of fixed sized blocks to throw at the DMA. Pretty easily done with a free list.

I do think the implementation here is cool though, and its nice to see some work in this area.
Haha right, I'm getting major Battlestar Galactica vibes from this launch.

The BlueSky UI is scarily like Twitter's UI. Wonder if they'll ever get sued for that...
On the flip side, you would hope that the malicious binaries in these packages have already been flagged by antivirus providers.
IMHO the best update strategy I've seen is the FreeBSD/NetBSD quarterly update, with "base" part of the system not updating. OpenSUSE is too frequent to my taste.
Maybe ceramics could provide a third choice.

Traditional clay (earthen) "bhar" cups are pretty awesome. Sanitary (kiln fired), no glazes, durable, water proof, single use, non-toxic, etc.

When you're done sipping your chai, just smash your bhar cup on the ground. It simply becomes earth again.

Surely we can come up with some spiffy new modern variations.

All it'd take is investment and policy.

--

For the eeyores:

Startups are now developing and deploying out carbon-free cement and carbon-free steel.

All it took was investment, cheap energy, and policy.

--

Aside: Since the early '90s, Howard Schultz (Starbucks) has promised us an eco-friendly coffee cup. Any day now, right? I'm so tired of waiting.
This feeling has been accelerating for me. I get the sense that state actors are ramping up their use of LLM powered bots. Hacker news is a great place still, but Reddit has become a void except for some of the more niche subs. I also see more and more AI images being passed off as normal content. Soon video will be the same. Paid influencers were bad enough it at least the content creators were humans with their own minds and creativity. Very rapidly there will be nothing human left on the internet and I’ll have to go back to the fleshy smelly real world.
One can forgive the lack of quality results for the 70B model, but apparently they trained 7B and 13B versions of their model, and don't report those either.
Recently (2022) I designed a ring buffer for use as a 'flight recorder' type tracing system. (I.e., there is typically no reader; the writer needs to write over old records without blocking on any reader. If the reader is triggered, it flips a switch that disables the writer temporarily while the buffer contents are persisted.) In that design I subdivided the ring into several subbuffers (~8). Each subbuffer has its own equivalent of a watermark. That way, the valid portion of the ring always starts at the beginning of one of the subbuffers, and the writer could 'free' the next subbuffer worth of space trivially (without having to scan through old contents record by record). (Any write that did not fit in the current subbuffer was advanced to the start of the next one.)
You’re describing exactly what I am describing: you still call out into a syscall that is not safe. You prevent that by checking things in the wrapper. Very standard.
As we can see with the Sam Altman debacle, a silent deletion would probably only have fanned the flames more.

When the Basilisk came out, everybody said it was a cognitohazard and I should avoid seeking out information about it. This made me incredibly motivated to find out everything about it. Silence doesn't work.
The only genuine path to sustainability is reduction. There is no sustainable way to have disposable single-use packaging that you throw away when the bottle empties. Glass bottles with a deposit to incentivize bottle return, following which they are washed and refilled with new product (ideally locally, with fresh ketchup arriving to local distribution centers in bulk), is a much more reasonable approach.
> https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout

The name of the repo is really and intentionally misleading. rsc filled an issue there to point this out, but the repo maintainer just disabled issues altogether so now no one can see it.

Even when it would not have such parasitic name, many seasoned Go programmers, me included, consider the self-proclaimed "Standard Go project Layout" as the opposite of what is good and advisable.

Unfortunately, the name just works, so it is being recommended all over the Internet since its inception.
Yes, 'just'. Do you not always have at least one hand on the keyboard?

I'm not familar with Miller columns, but if you're changing the behaviour of your file browser, then I'm not sure why you're suprised single click might not work as intended.
Managing Gmail Configuration for Labels and Filters as Code
What's Twitter lol?

I found it to be a cesspool before the name change and it's only gotten worse.

I suppose I'm conflating "enjoyable" or "tolerable" with your description of "real" but everything I've glanced at from a distance lately defies your description of Twitter as real.
Amateur used to mean "one loving" which often meant paying attention to detail.

And it sounds like the pumps worked fine, it was the billing software that went haywire. All the more reason to have fallbacks like cash.
Coffee shops are an intimidating place to interact with strangers, and I'm skeptical that people who suggest this have even tried it. Maybe it's been the default suggestion for "meeting people" for so long, that it's become overdone to the point that it's weird to do.

In general if the only common experience you have with someone is your physical proximity, it's probably not a great opportunity to make friends. If you live in Brooklyn you might go to the same coffeeshop as Margot Robbie... that doesn't mean you're gonna be friends with her or that she'll be friendly if you ask her what book she's reading.

You'll have much better luck attending shared activities around a common interest, where everyone there is expecting to interact with each other.
My brother uses this as well. It didn't work out well for me but it may have just been too soon, I tried to use WSL when it came out. Must be much better and seamless now.
They don't use apps or Google exclusively, and also use the browser. Most people have never even heard of USENET.

I'm really not sure what argument you're trying to make here.
This adds additional problems. IE, Start replacing legacy C++ with Python, now debugging and following the flow of the code becomes very difficult.
Welcome to Fyre Fest: Wonka Edition
Ok, so that's not the constraint. What's left on the list of possibilities to check off?
I agree that minimizing the unsafety is good. That doesn’t change that wrapping a small amount of unsafe code is wrapping unsafe code.
I'm sorry, you're totally wrong. I walk past some basketball courts every day, and there are always games going on. At the middle school, the kids play volleyball, and also spike ball:

https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Spikeball

I also occasionally see pickup touch football games, and of course soccer. Baseball: maybe you're right, only adults play that anymore.

And let's not forget pickleball. Contrary to the stereotype of its being an elderly sport, go look at a court sometime: people of all ages play it.
The Arc Browser: Lessons from a product that shouldn't work
Ask HN: What Happened to Bolt in Boston?
I've been trying to catch up on the status of Bolt in Boston and am finding mixed information. For those who may not be familiar, Bolt was an early-stage venture capital firm and startup accelerator that focused on hardware startups, providing not just funding but also engineering support, prototyping facilities, and expert guidance. They had a unique position in the startup ecosystem, particularly for hardware-oriented ventures, which often face different challenges than software startups.

I remember Bolt being quite active and significantly impacting the hardware startup scene, not just in Boston but globally, given their emphasis on the physical product development side of things. However, I've recently heard less about their activities and am curious if they're still operational in Boston.

Does anyone know if Bolt is still active and if not, what happened? Additionally, if Bolt is no longer around, are other accelerators or VC firms that have stepped in to fill the gap with a focus on hardware startups? I'm particularly interested in programs offering deep technical support and resources similar to Bolt's.

Thanks in advance for any insights or updates!
> but you also rarely get the full 1080p screen height on a Plasma desktop, since you've got a big panel at the bottom of the screen

The panel is around 50px or so at most, by default it seems to be 44px. And I indeed think the screenshot is scaled, since it looks like it's bigger than on my machine.

I checked out QtCurve on my laptop which still runs KDE 5 (it seems to not be ported to Qt6), and it is indeed a bit more compact than Breeze 5. It's definitely a bit more on the cramped side in my opinion though, as the toolbar buttons have barely any padding at all around them. I definitely don't think it's wasteful, at least.

I agree that the toolbar and search pane are a bit hungry for vertical space in Breeze, but I also don't think most Kate users have the search pane open regularly. Making it more suitable for the sidebar (a la VSCode) might be nice though, but it seems it already does some limited self-rearrangement when horizontally limited (which could look better, granted).

It can be seen that Breeze 6 does save a few pixels here and there at least, without looking cramped in any way.

As for disabling UI elements, I personally think the toolbar in Kate is fundamentally wasteful. The only way it might become useful is when you customize it to contain actions that you do tend to use regularly.
Amazon built a 3.8M sqft warehouse around Syracuse https://www.google.com/maps/@43.119355,-76.2052336,3a,75y,29... Its a massive building.
They can build an inner ring of apartments and sell them immediately rather than storage
I just looked up recent orders I placed on Amazon on wish.com... I gotta say, the results were quite disappointing. I don't think wish.com is anywhere near Amazon.
Marketplace fees are semi-public, so ine extrapolate. For Amazon's books, DOJ can just ask either the SEc (also public data) or subpoena Amazon or its auditors.

One has to wonder so, nobody knows those details about any other company, and even less about private ones. No idea what all the fuzz is about.
I can't read the article (maybe someone can post an archive link?) but I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some implicit sabotage built in.

Checking the rates per square foot for residential versus commercial (office) space in my area, residential is going about $2/sqft but commercial is $20/sqft. So in addition to the cost of conversion, the rents would have to be cut by an order of magnitude.

Since the banks are on both sides of this equation (they probably hold loans against the buildings people are looking to convert, and they'd be making new loans to finance the conversion) I'm sure there will be some foot-dragging because of increased risk and higher loan values and longer loan repayment terms.
Does this really get reported to the IRS in practice? Most companies provide free coffee and I've never seen that reported to the IRS either.
I agree wholeheartedly. But it is definitely a hard pill to swallow.
Regrettably, electric toothbrushes now often feature displays, Bluetooth, analytics, and the pinnacle of terrible: DRM/forced replacement of brush heads.

LLM soon, surely.
Newer CSS features like flexbox, grid and media queries were added to reduce the need for frameworks like bootstrap.