skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=kickstarter-continues-w...

Back in 2022:

> Kickstarter's COO, Sean Leow, did an interview with The Beat to discuss the announcement. He seemed to be a little bit confused on the whole concept throughout, and seemed to believe that "open source" is some sort of competing idea to blockchains. At one point he stated, "We believe that that data can be structured in a way through a blockchain where it ... can move in a much more efficient and effective way between services ... in a way that open source doesn't allow". Later in the interview he spoke about governance, saying, "our understanding is that [governance] is done more effectively with blockchain then with open-source."
First time hearing about USV, nifty! However, I think the adoptability challenge remains here to be Excel support (very tough).
First book is basically a gratitude journal. But when he goes into logical reasons for being a good person, his foundation is the assumption of providence and gods that have created the universe and everything and guide all that happens. If you're not a religious person, his reasoning wouldn't work for you.
>git makes it relatively easy to move, so that if Github suffers excessive enshittification...

what if the enshittification is making it hard to move?
Ask HN: How much to charge for an API call?
I have a SaaS web app that store customers and users data.

My app users want to pull/edit data of their customers using the app API (which is the same that I use internally).

I wonder how much I could charge for those looking for an API key.
Maybe $5 + 0.001 per call?

Im looking for a number that’s affordable for those that want to make a few calls as well as those looking to make thousands of calls without costing them too much.

Thanks
I agree with you; you can't build up a perfect blackbody spectrum by superposing different near-blackbody spectra, and that led to the cosmological thermalization problem. Furthermore, baryonic intergalactic dust isn't like dark matter: we see redshifted spectral features of components of such dusts imprinted on all sorts of backgrounds from quasars to the CMB. The dusts tend to be greybodies. (I'm ignoring the warm-hot intergalactic medium here).

The CMB has narrow spectral lines imposed on it by galaxies, dust clouds, and similar objects. Those lines can be used to measure the CMB effective temperature at an object's redshift. A specific example of how this works is linked at the bottom of this comment. If a similar highly dusty object is found in the foreground of a bright quasar (merely nearby quasars were used in the case below), we could get an even tighter measurement of the CMB effective temperature at the dust, and perhaps look in new ways at how the CMB deviated (at the dusty object) very slightly from a blackbody spectrum. This amounts to a new line of evidence in the study of the expansion history.

More generally, constraining the evolution of the CMB temperature in the matter-dominated era (T_cmb > 4 K, z > ~ 0.4) will prove fatal to ideas like some in this thread (which is already in trouble because of other spectroscopy e.g. the Lyman-alpha forest and Gunn-Peterson trough).

I don't really understand the summary of the "'fringe' theory" at the top of the thread (and I can't identify which specific theory throwawaymaths means). I guess the idea could be that some unknown mechanism might homogenize the emissive components of baryonic intergalactic dust but not circumgalactic medium spectral features. I suppose one could try to investigate a non-adiabatic expansion to explain those features found in the CMB in a nonstandard way. Non-adiabatic components in the expansion have been examined by various theoretical teams in the context of quantum cosmology and/or "fifth force" dark energy, although mostly at much larger lookback times than the the standard surface of last scattering.

I don't understand what was meant by '"longer" (aka galactic expansion) timeframe'.

Finally, "echo of the big bang" isn't really helpful in understanding the origin of the CMB photons, why they're now filling space with a thermal Planck spectrum, and why we detect small variations in that spectrum in narrow views along different directions, but like "fabric of spacetime" I guess we're kinda stuck with the expression.

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(Open Access) Riechers, D.A., Weiss, A., Walter, F. et al. Microwave background temperature at a redshift of 6.34 from H2O absorption. Nature 602, 58–62 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04294-5
The fee is ~50 cents per user.
No, the outcome will be that the EU rightfully fines them an examplary amount for this non-compliant farce of a plan.
I also think there are 2 different ways of discussing this - one is on mental health (if it's truly a suicide), shadowy agencies, Boeing's failures, and about corporate whistleblowing and its risks in general.

The other discussion is speculation on what this truly is - which is a more political/controversial topic.

There are lots of discussions on the former set of topics which are fairly popular on HN which explains why this thread is popular. I do think such discussions are valuable if there isn't a ton of speculation, which I think this thread is handling decently (although maybe I'm late enough to see all controversial comments already dead).
IMO, Flash died because it didn't play nice with the conventions of the web. There were workarounds, but generally it broke all of the things HTML could do, like being searchable & selectable, navigable with a keyboard, built of code you could inspect, addressable with a direct link, even working with the browser's back button.

The actual animations and (sometimes) beautiful interfaces were not the problem. People generally loved that.

Generally there's no need for a new product in this space because CSS does everything Flash once did, but adheres to web conventions.

There probably is an opportunity, though. I'm not a motion graphics person - does Adobe Animate fit the bill at all? What do you think is missing today that we once had with Flash?
The 'survey' which is referenced where 25% of respondents say it took 12+ months to find a new job only has 55 responses. 2 things worth noting:

- This is on Blind, which means respondents would have registered with an employer email address, so these are not entry-level candidates (unless they had an internship, or they registered their own domain name to sign up with)

- Since it's on Blind, there are likely more people focused on their next career move than if it was on, say, Hacker News, so people looking for a job are probably overrepresented in the 'dataset'. This is also skewed towards U.S. users (according to a site called 'semrush', 62% of Blind users are from the U.S.), and U.S. by many accounts is the country hit hardest by offshoring in the new remote-work landscape (since salaries there have been historically higher than anywhere else)

Not to say AI isn't a contributing factor, but I think the supposition in the article headline should be taken with a grain of salt
Right. Residence Inn is one of my goto brands. Not always certainly but I tend to be staying at mid-rangeish hotels anyway and Residence is usually in that band, especially outside of downtowns.
Water is very heavy and prevents the doors from opening outward. Mythbusters actually did a series of tests on the subject of escaping a car underwater that was a really good episode. Essentially what they had to do was to purposefully roll down the window to flood the car, wait for the pressure to equalize, and then open door. That was with a safety diver who could provide an air supply if the test subject (Adam Savage) was unable to escape the car in time. In an actual situation, it seems very hard to imagine you'd be able to keep your wits about you to pull it off.
Apple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EU
I suspect basic HTML won't change much if at all. We're still using tags like html, head, body, title, h1-h6, p, img, etc after all these years, and I don't see them going anywhere.

Of course, unless some sort of weird tech shift happens that makes the browser obsolete altogether, I suspect most HTML/CSS/JavaScript won't ever change anyway. Browsers are backwards compatible to a similar degree as Microsoft and Windows. If even stuff like the center tag are supported in 2024, most things aren't going anywhere.

On a less specific note, I guess poor planning and software development practices? Feels like planning how long things are going to take hasn't got much better in the last few decades, with things like 'agile' barely making a dent in it. I suspect projects overrunning, feature and scope creep, big budget disasters, etc will probably be issues in society til the end of time.
Google moves against notorious spam news website
Last week we wrote about a site called BNN using chatbots to rewrite articles published by legitimate news sites. BNN's model worked because of Google Search on the one end and Google Ads on the other. Google has in the past few days, it appears, finally ranked BNN much lower in Search and removed BNN from News.

But is this going to be a game of whack-a-mole?
Epic details new Unreal Engine pricing plan for non-game developers
Ok I have to recalibrate my concept of a 'gifted programmer'. I thought it meant more than simply 'successful open source coder'.

I've tried to change kernel code that guy wrote. It's awful, with a capital A. Not a scrap of design notes or comments or procedure description, nothing. Unorganized modules with no pattern or sense.

My favorite: the variable name 'page' used in five different senses in the same module. For a page directory, a page table, an entry in a page table, an actual page of memory. Plus some indirections to the same, not distinguished in any way. May as well have used variable names i,j,k for all the help that was.

Never learned any kind of abstractions, spent half a lifetime denigrating all advances in programming since 'C'.

No, on second thought I'm not going to rethink my definition of 'gifted programmer'.
I was really amazed at the conduct of various U of MN officials and researchers back when all this went down. The researchers desperately deflected and hurled accusations despite being very obviously in the wrong, and the U of MN officials did much of the same deflection. At one point they were asked to ensure that their ethics board would prevent things like this in the future, and the university's response was essentially "well we aren't technically required to do that, so we aren't going to, but we will add yet another ethics workshop to our next staff meeting :)"

The ban was entirely justified in my opinion.
And why not use Codeberg instead of GitHub? AFAIK it solves the problems the post mentions while staying in a libre platform
Great article, and this resonates a lot with how I've felt lately. I'm trying to include at least one "creative" task each day in my to-dos, because I notice I feel much much better if I have a multidisciplinary day--some programming, some writing, some DIY projects, some new cooking. If I run out of steam for one thing, oftentimes I still have energy to put into other types of tasks, and even feel rejuvenated afterwards. These things can be small (like learning a new skating drill or a small home improvement project), but the act of creating something physical regularly feels really good to me day after day.
US Government wanted to reverse-engineer alien ships – but never found any
I can corroborate your insight from personal experience. I had a stroke a few years back and, while I was recovering, my intelligence was drastically reduced. I always derived a great deal of my identity and self-worth from being "smart", and would have predicted that operating at maybe 25% capacity would be devastating. In fact, it wasn't. I was aware (certainly!) that I was operating at a deficit, but I still felt like myself.
I was able to love and feel loved, experience joy, and humour, and enjoy good food, and watch movies and sports on TV. About all I couldn't do was read (well, I could read, but I couldn't follow complex prose), which sucked, but nearly all of what made me me, and made life worth living, was unaffected. Intelligence is overrated.

Your description of dementia, however, is only true from the outside. Prior to that stage, I passed through a period of about a week where I was completely absent. I was able to behave coherently for short periods of time, but I wasn't creating any memories. It's a blank. (I have text threads saved with friends where I tell them what's happened and where I was, carry on for a bit, and then loop back to the beginning.) If identity is a pattern both stable and self-modifying over time - which, based on this experience, I believe it to be - then I had ceased exist.

I've made an agreement with my wife that, should I become demented in old age, she should feel no moral compulsion towards any course of action. She's welcome to keep whatever is left of me around so long as it gives her joy, but "I" will no longer be present, and whatever happens to whatever is left no longer matters. As far as I'm concerned she should warehouse, or (better, though unfortunately not legal where we live) euthanase my body, and get on with doing something useful with her time.
I do agree, but this is HN, so I'm going to do a thought experiment.

Imagine ChatGPT could "translate" from grumpy-old-curmugeonish into friendly-human in realtime, then which soft skills would still be valuable? Imagine going to a shop and being served by a grumpy curmudgeon whose poor English was translated instantly into great customer service.

What changes with this? To what extent will this ever be possible?
Corporate officers who commit criminal violations in the conduct of their job are already legally liable for their behavior. The corporation they work for might also incur liability under the law of agency and vicarious liability.

Corporate personhood applies primarily to private law -- contract liability, civil torts, financial obligations and the like.
We do you one better. We show how all information can be made redundant via determinism and how that means you can supply multiple copies of them across parallel, redundant channels.

My essay talks about this in detail around the latency-mitigation section and the failure-modes part, but these are questions much closer to the actual implementation. Mark discusses the new mental model behind it, I talk about technology.

https://itnext.io/how-simple-can-scale-your-sql-beat-cap-and...
Yes got it, and this is a very very low number, no matter how many times you repeat it.
Same here.

The only problem with that approach is that it is also copies over the .config and .cache folders, most of which are possibly not needed anymore. Or worse, they might contain configs that overrides better/newer parameters set by the new system..
Researchers visualize temperature-driven turbulence in liquid metal
You want to toy around? Go for it.

A product manager wants our team to build something that nobody actually needs? I may wind up getting laid off for that.
Even better abstractions have already radically improved the rate of learning. Try learning math by medieval books written before modern notation: the most basic, middle school things like trigonometry will look like arcane mysteries.
I'm still confused whether this is a joke or not.
CAP says nothing about a "universal clock over the whole system". CAP is about the decision that has to be made in some unit of the system, it could be the whole system or it could be a bit, at the point of an operation. It's physics, there is no way around it. You can make different decisions on the semantics your system needs, but if you have two nodes that physically cannot communicate but need to be consistent for a client to move forward, the client cannot move forward. Full stop.

Could you please show a failure mode that this system can handle that CAP says is not possible?
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> Not sure what their motivation was to use the word "stealing" here

Maybe, simply, to get peoples' attention?
>for that productivity improvement to reach the point of "we now need only one backend engineer where before we would have two" is not in any way upon us.

We're nowhere near a 50% productivity gain, I agree. But we're getting close to "we had 10, now we only need 9". In the case of the Indian bodyshops that most non-tech F500s outsource to, we may be at the point of "we had 10, now we only need 6-7".
Yes to all that you've said, and in a completely different genre, one of the greatest comebacks from "barely functional junkie" was John Frusciante, who looks way healthier in his 50s than he did in his 20s.

Back to Coltrane, it's incredible he lived just a little over a decade after the events in the article, and just how much and how different music he put out (as band member or leader) in those last years of his life.

I'm an atheist, but for lack of better words, from what I get out of his music and how his life turned out, I feel Coltrane was a human with a soul too big for his body to handle.
if you bought 50k USD worth of $AAPL in 1990, by conservative estimates they will be worth 560 million USD worth today.
I'd argue, that's generational stuff right there.
I agree with you, but I think the blame lies not with the commenters, but with the paper authors for inviting the comparison by choosing to use the loaded word "stealing" in their title.
Not to mention how data can be leaked back to the hoster via steady stream of URLs.
Why wouldn't AI also take the role of that "someone else"?
I raised many of the author's point about Sourcehut several times. I'm an, enthusiastic FOSS supporter who has always advocated for alternatives to Github. But Sourcehut seems to take the worst out of everything. It strips down all the features, provides a web interface that seems to come out of the 1990s, removes anything that is even vaguely interactive in favour of emails, and it turns reviews and PRs a mess of emails and patch files that is impossible to browse.

Seriously, when we say that Github is bad, it doesn't mean that the solution is to get back to the software development cycles of the early 2000s and throw out of the window all the innovations made in the past two decades.

Sourcehut's extremely elitist and proudly feature-poor approach is only pushing away potential users and contributors, and I don't think it's doing a good favour to the community.

I would advise the author to give Forgejo a try (Gitea has almost become fully enshittified with its business plans and vision, so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone anymore). Everything is very similar to Github, but FOSS and self-hosted, and it takes a tiny fraction to run than the resources required by that shapeless beast called Gitlab.
Humans can predict the future better than any of the listed examples.
If I understand the API correctly from my brief glance, the crate returns a triply-nested vector with the outermost vector being the equivalent of CSV rows, then CSV columns, then "units" which don't have a direct CSV equivalent. It would be helpful if there was an API method that returned results without this final level of nesting, perhaps panicking if there is more than one unit. This would make it easier to deal with the common case (in CSV at least) where each column only has a single value.
Then he does not have a right to complain about SourceHut.
Git is having a good run as the defacto source control system, despite all its idiosyncrasies. Most Windows/Linux/front-end/back-end developers seem to use it. How long has it been since you used something else like Subversion or TFS?
NetBox Labs Announces Self-Managed NetBox Enterprise
Don't overcomplicate it. They want to preserve their Services revenue, because Tim Cook is a bean-counter and wants to maintain the profit margin. "After Steve" by Tripp Mickle provides some background.

Many Apple indie devs and fanboys are literally screaming. I bet many people @Apple are too. There are so many things the company could do to regain geek-cred. Package manager and windowing on macOS. Align Mac App Store policies with the more liberal Windows 11 Store policies. Let people run what they want, even outside the EU, including other web engines. Invest in Proton so old Windows games can run on Mac (but then, no App Store tax). Keep OpenGL and Vulkan around for the scientific computation folks (and others). Commit to keeping Rosetta2 around indefinitely, because compatibility is your #1 job as a platform. Open-source more stuff (god forbid, your OSes! why not?).

But they've gotten timid and conservative. Top execs see risk, and VPs seem to think they're making products only for the stereotypical technophobic grandpa, rather than power users.
It would be difficult to prove that AI as a tool is the direct cause of differences in the job market. It would be equally difficult to prove that interest rates are directly responsible for the same differences.

Both the above comment and the article are making claims about a system that is complex enough that it would be difficult to prove any causal link.

That said, I believe that interest rates are probably a much greater factor in any net decrease on tech jobs than the proliferation of LLMs (which is really what has changed).
I am also sure that the finger on the trigger is very light on the Israeli side

Based on what? Killing 200 people per day? Bombing people that are evacuating their homes after telling them to do it?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/middleeast/israel-palestinian...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-wa...

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-10-13/israel...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/middleeast/israel-g...

Israel's plan to "destroy" Gaza comes from "the highest level of state", the UN's top court has heard.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67942983
How does it lose type safety?

I was under the impression that bevy's Query system is type safe.