skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be pretty comfortable advocating for (metaphorical) Death of the Author on this one if this weren't, you know, a thread about the literal death of the author.
Anyone know if GitLab has a transparent archive of DMCA notices similar to GitHub?
1986? I am guessing even the heavy users were light -- perhaps even by an order or more of magnitude! -- compared to what today's concentrate user can easily get into with stuff bought at the state legal store.

Maybe the same findings would still hold to a great degree, but I wonder and worry, if we are going to find out in 20 years that this ultraconcentrated high dose cannabis that never existed before is going to cause long term effects that were unanticipated by generations who were familiar with the proverbial weak 1970s "ditch weed."

After all, it happened with alcohol in the 19th century, when cheap distilled spirits were introduced, wreaking havoc on society accustomed to coping with the mild intoxication of beer, not yet accustomed to how to treat something radically different in concenctration. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane
Naimint Tokenomics
>How much time should I spend structuring the project and building tooling to make development easier, vs just diving in and building the project?

Imo, at most 8hrs.

>What are the most important areas to focus on make sure its as useful as possible (documentation, license, community, other areas I haven't considered?

My order:

1. Demos
2. Good README with ability to get started in <4hrs
3. Documentation
4. Community
5. License (If it's supposed to make money, I vote BSL)
This is true, and I was a "Digg refugee" who went to Reddit after the Digg 4.0 fiasco. But nearly all successful businesses have a huge amount of lucky timing. Reddit also had the nimbleness to capitalize on Digg's failure. I remember reading a blog post years back about how they were able to do things really quickly (I think the post was about how they changed their alien logo in like a day to something welcoming Digg folks) because they were a small startup back then.
It’d be best if everyone just offered to be an organ donor.
Logic and reasoning can fail as scientific tools
I'd be interested in hearing some of the same testimonials from the Fedora users. There seems to be more resources being put into Fedora support from both sides.
Similitudes in timbre. There is plenty of room for improving the state of the web. Not 100% certain IPV6 is that, but it certainly offers more address space, and that would be foolish to avoid embracing simply because old tech is duct-tape-able enough.
This was my rationale for switching over to Macs (from a mix of Windows and Linux) many years ago. I liked the flexibility of working within Linux to get a workstation to be setup exactly as I wanted it. If I had problems, I was able to (usually) figure out a fix or script a workaround. Eventually I got tired of the thousand cuts of desktop Linux and decided to just use a Mac for the "daily driver" stuff and keep my Linux work on servers.

That said, I do feel that these projects are helpful. Aside from the joys of tinkering, I think that adding more OS support for older Apple hardware is useful. Not only are we adding more architectures to the list that Linux supports, but projects like Asahi will help to keep hardware useful well after Apple stops supporting it.

That said, we still have the same problems... new unsupported drivers, poorly supported power management... re-re-redesigned desktop environments that aren't yet uniform.

What I was disappointed with the article though was a lack of attempting to compile their own software. Their two major complaints were missing Google Chrome and an outdated version of Postgres. I know there are some differences with Chrome and Chromium, but they should have been able to compile a new version of Chromium and Postgres.
Complaints about the stupidity and herd mindedness of the Reddit user base can generally be boiled down to complaints about large groups of average people gathered together. Look upon the average person, ye mighty, and despair.
“easy”
Verizon Rolls Out FCC-Mandated Broadband 'Nutrition Labels'
They might have once but every sub Reddit has at least one, “join my discord server” post a day it seems. People just want browser based BBS but weren’t alive when they were at their best.
One of the thing I found missing is a lot of ngrok alternative is a web interface for viewing HTTP requests/responses when tunneling in HTTP/HTTPS mode, so I made a kinda hacky solution to this using cloudflared + mitmproxy: https://gist.github.com/maple3142/e46ab5ce8697476db13b4d9dc0...
It was a cold day in Helsinki on January 1st, 1970 and a 4 day old Linus Torvalds knew he had a lot of system configuration ahead of him.
Stuff not working is why I went back to windows. Still use Linux now n then but most of my time is in windows now. Just works.
State of the Global Climate 2023
Yeah right, no doubt true. But similarly I'd imagine it'd be also true for many household kitchen containers that are made of plastic.

I know some HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) containers have been found to contain PFAS, so it would be safe to assume those that are still in use in my kitchen also contain them but I've no simple way of telling for sure. But it's safe to assume the worst.

Also I use lots of large HDPE storage boxes to store everything from old papers and documents to tools and I've a long-term complaint about them in that they sweat their plasticizers and that has practical implications as it shortens their useful life.

Whenever a year or two later I rummage around looking something stored in the boxss I notice that they've developed a sort of greasy film on them like one would expect to find had they'd been stored in a kitchen where one does lots of frying.

So unless they're stored in a clean pristine place—which is impractical where I live—they'll collect dust that simply cannot be just brushed off as the dust mixes with the oil-like plasticizer. So every now and then I'll clean them by spraying them with a household cleaner that's a soapy surfactant then rinse them. I'm unaware exactly what plasticizers are used and or whether they contain significant amounts of PFAS.

However, over time, as the plasticizers leach out, the polyethylene goes a slight yellowish color and becomes very brittle, and it's commonplace for me to replace them. When old, they'll easily break open if stacked too high or if accidentally dropped.

To put it bluntly, I'm damn sick of having to clean and replace them all too frequently. The old ones end up wherever trash collectiors dump them (even if I put them with plastic recycling I've heard they're still likely to end up in landfill where they'll continue to leach plasticizer, FFAS etc. not to mention fragment into nano plastic particles and spread into the environment).

There are much better more durable plastics available than polyethylene that are much less likely to leach, and if used to make boxes and similar stuff it would make them much more rugged and durable, they could then last indefinitely—50+ years or more.

Trouble is manufacturers don't want people to keep stuff indefinitely, they just want people to buy more.

I reckon this problem can only be fixed by legislation. The sooner the better.
I don't see shorts on my phone (newpipe) or my browser (invidious / piped) - join me.
Battery giants BYD, CATL form Chinese powerhouse to build solid-state batteries
In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time!
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Wow, and why is that necessary?
The way normal rational people buy computers is as follows. First they decide what they want to do, then they choose applications that do those things. Then they choose an operating system that can host the application. Finally they choose a hardware platform that runs both the operating system and the application.

Under this process, few users face a choice between a Mac and a Surface.
If you havent try holding the start button for 30-60 seconds, seems like I have to do this for my surface go and surface laptop once every 6 months.
How to Use the Web Bluetooth API
seems like hundreds of millions.
Tell HN: A job is more important than you might think
I spent a few months studying on my own after quitting my last job. The result was that I was cut off from social interaction and not in a good place mentally. I should have continued to study while working full time, it is very good for mental health.
Sure, you could cap the expense per-employee so its a non-issue. I was thinking about benefits in general that nobody cares about or uses. But even if they use it, snacks/food can get expensive real quick.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-free-cafeteria-lun...
django-turbo is awesome, author abandoned it for reasons that I do not quite understand, as it's entirely functional.
In devenv.sh:

difftastic.enable = true;
Yep, I just installed newpipe on my tablet. Gonna take a look at those other two. Thanks
> one of my colleagues unknowingly was part of Amazon’s embrace and extend phases so ah… yeah it’s not all bad.
Passmark is known to be a bad benchmark, something like Geekbench which has results that closely match with the industry standard SPEC would be a better comparison for real life performance.

M3: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5411370

Intel 165H: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5387822

Around the same multi-core results, significantly better single core for the M3.
Nothing in the DMA does anything about Chrome taking over completely. Actually the DMA is more or less a dream come true for Google, Amazon and Meta, it drastically strengthens their market hold at the cost of making the Apple ecosystem more diluted.

It will be a sad day in the near future when the web becomes “Chrome”, even on mobile, much as it was “IE” not that long ago, alas, we seem to never learn.
Grayjay very good
Just a note, PLA is industrially compostable, but it won't biodegrade quickly if at all in your backyard compost pile
I don’t think relying on Facebook for your entire countries messaging is considered “a solved problem”.

Relying on any one company is bad. But Facebook might be just about the worst.
30 years ago, there was no “just works” option. Windows was at WfW 3.11 / NT 3 , so you had to choose between being “entertained” by Windows driver issues and crashes (which you could hardly do anything about), or Linux (which you could!)

When Win95 came with Plug and Play, it still took a few years to go from “Plug and Pray” to “Plug and Play”. It’s only with 2000/XP that windows got to the “just works” stage.

Nowadays, everything just works, so the choice to deal with driver issues is a deliberate choice, not a “lesser evil” one.
When did dogs become our best friends?
I maintain a standalone web layout engine[0] (currently implementing Flexbox and CSS Grid) which has no scripting support. WPT layout tests using <script> is a major blocker to us running WPT tests against our library. Yoga (used by React Native) is in a similar position.

Do you think the WPT would accept pull requests replacing such tests with equivalent tests that don't use <script> (perhaps using a build script to generate multiple tests instead - or simply writing out the tests longhand)?

I could run against only the ref-tests, but if I can't get full coverage then the WPT seems to provide little value over our own test suite.

[0]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy
Why this non-sense in pricing?

- 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD is $1200

- 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD is $1500

This is much worse than Apple, and I thought MSFT was more sensible than that!
I'd put Banks in the Asimov/Stephenson tier at best. His ideas were brilliant enough to sustain a long series - but not one book in it actually makes for a good read. Neal Asher doesn't have anything like the same ambition, but Hilldiggers is a better Culture novel than any of the actual Culture novels if you actually want to read and enjoy it.
Not feigning ignorance, just wanting people to own up to what they really mean. By saying a "group of people", I am ass(uming) the poster is not talking about the lobby of Big Ass.
Japan has a pretty strong local tech industry. Microsoft Word needed to add all kinds of features, including both vertical writing and weirder stuff like a dictionary of seasonal greeting phrases to use in formal correspondence (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/office_globa...) to compete successfully with Japanese word processors.

So I suspect the causality is the other way around; there wasn't much demand for vertical form controls for the same reason you don't write emails in cursive.
I think that while Reddit's primary use is link aggregation, there's a secondary use for getting really niche questions answered by members of niche communities.For example, I have questions and answers on subs like r/powershell & r/xcode that still get replies years later because they solve a very specific problem.

A lot of communities are choosing Discord for their homebase location rather than Reddit, which really bums me out because I'm not a huge fan of public Discord servers and I miss seeing the posts from all the niche communities I'm in aggregated somewhere.
I find it hard to believe anyone at Microsoft really cared about his domain name since its unlikely to have ever caused actual confusion and thus don't really see why they would have paid him any significant amount of money for it.

AFAICT Microsoft simply had a relationship with a Canadian law firm who was effectively the IP equivalent of an ambulance chaser to pad their billable hours and they went after the kid.

I kinda doubt anyone important at Microsoft was even really aware of the situation until the easy-to-sell David v Goliath news story about it went viral.
Doesn't cite TimesFM for some reason. Maybe the latter was published after this paper went camera-ready? https://blog.research.google/2024/02/a-decoder-only-foundati...
>> Why wouldn't you hire someone who does all your work for you then it feels like the next question is.

Yes, this is why people start their own companies, and cash out.

>> Where do you draw the line in not being exploitable though?

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I shit on company time... as the old adage goes.

The reality is that giving you a job only works if the company makes money off of what you do. If it lost money or broke even that would not be worth it. You're always being "exploited".

If you want to feel equal, there are plenty of companies that are collectives (mondragon look it up). I have a few projects going on right now that are structured like this. If one of them "takes off" it's a very even distribution for all involved as long as they are working there.

The beauty of capitalism is that if you hate how companies are run you can and should go run your own with the rules you want. If it was very equal, then everyone is incentives to go above and beyond... your still not gonna hire bob!
They're the only viable option to have a "work" (or call it "pro") tablet at this point.

Apple will need to come up with an iPad with software on par with the mac to make the Surface Pro irrelevant. Until then, living with Windows stays a better tradeoff.
Can you clarify what you mean by inbound vs outbound? Pretty much all of these tools work the same way. You have a machine (usually a VPS) with a public IP address that runs the server, you connect to it with a client, and it tunnels traffic sent to the server to the client and other machines that would otherwise only be visible to the client.

There are several options on the list that do e2ee, including commercial services that likely have better pricing than ngrok. That said, I'm not aware of any that are marketed for high bandwidth usage such as video streaming. FWIW my 5th incarnation mentioned above will be such a service.
I never understood Legos. For kids, they are quite expensive as a toy. For adults, why don't you build something actually useful. For example, learn to build electronics projects, or mechanically useful objects, or simple woodworking.
Most people with a phone have a phone number and can thus use SMS (literally the opposite of a "perfect solution," mind). I can't think of a bigger network effect than literally every person that owns a cellphone.

Maybe other countries should catch up to the US and make texting free.

> I'll just count my blessings instead: never in the history of humanity have so many people used something this secure to communicate with each other.

Alternatively, never in the history of humanity has so much of our core, private communications been captured by a single for-profit entity. An entity with a rich, recent history of serious moral failings (Cambridge Analytica, internal teen suicide studies, etc.)

Meta can and will molest WhatsApp to suit their needs. Be real careful with that auto-update. Call me Chicken Little but I would never have made a comment like this 10 years ago. Facebook's behavior is a matter of history now.
> Also they are jailed privately so they cannot share information with each other.

If the information isn't just stored on the device then it should work fine, right?
20 years ago Linux still had issues with wifi drivers and power management. You had to be very careful with which network card you had (wifi and ethernet), as only a few had good in-kernel support.

Actually, it was very analogous to Asahi too. At the time, there was Yellow Dog Linux which was a project to make Linux run on (at the time current) PPC macs. I ran it on both Xserves and Powerbooks (although I only remember really being successful with the Xserves). Even then, the restricted amount of hardware present in Apple machines made it much easier to support that small subset in Linux. Funny enough -- Yellow Dog was also where the "yum" program started.

None of these things are that new... all of these have happened before and will happen again.
Sanction may not be the right term but I'm there's a way to punish them for being Chinese and possibly being sold to Iran, Russian or Palestine at some point...
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I tried using Takeout but the exported file structure and various metadata files were almost incomprehensible. This is likely partly my fault because I didn't download the full 100+ zip files, but I suspect there would be so many files scattered in too many directories to be much use.
> RCS is the future

It's really not. It's a step up from SMS, but the real future is true end-to-end encrypted communications. Signal is the next step up, and then hopefully we'll eventually get really secure messaging where the core OS doesn't help leak out your information.
Maybe Ive used the wrong word, if you read it with any other synonym instead of diversity it should read exactly in line with your quote. Especially the first sentence.
There is no way that developer costs of $100/year + a $2k Mac is the reason why all the money gets spent on iOS.

“Keep prices high”. The top grossing iOS apps are all like $1-2. That is not high. In fact, from what I could tell on sensortower.com, apps from the same developers were priced identically between stores, and the average prices of Android top grossing apps were higher. Probably because of the LOW VOLUME, not related to overhead.

You’re trying hard to find reasons to blame Apple for an active marketplace. What exactly do you want to achieve?

The PlayStore on iOS? The free market doesn’t work. It’s a myth. I’d much rather pay $10 for a good app here or there than have a store full of “free” or $0.05 trash where it’s not worth anyone’s time to invest in building something good.
It's an interesting market. Currently most (all?) offerings are targeted at the developer case, a la webhooks and request inspection. But I think in the future the more important use case (and much larger market) will be self hosting. That's going to require a lot more bandwidth.
I used your list recently, thanks! Ended up using boringproxy for my case.
is wiz gonna get open source now that is getting merged?
Most people don't want desktops. So powerful laptops are preferred. Macbooks don't support Linux officially. But Intel laptops do support them. So no matter how fast and efficient Macbooks are, people will still buy decent Intel laptops instead of the best Macbooks.
Never needed to.
It doesn't matter if you like it. It doesn't matter if you don't like it. What matters is their actions and behavior are against the law. It can be proven,/according to the US Gov.
That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Can it be made to work with magit in emacs?
What’s the comparison like for the battery life and GPU? Afaik it’s the areas that really lag on the Intel side. I’m hopeful they’re competitive now on both.
If you don't want the app store, just buy an android. sick of this
I do not have a horse in the race, but it is interesting to see open source comparisons to traditional timeseries strategies: https://github.com/Nixtla/nixtla/tree/main/experiments/amazo...

In general, the M-Competitions (https://forecasters.org/resources/time-series-data/), the olympics of timeseries forecasting, have proven frustrating for ML methods... linear models do shockingly well and the ML models that have won, generally seem to be variants of older tree-based methods (ie. LightGBM is a favorite).

Will be interesting to see whether the Transformer architecture ends up making real progress here.
Snapdragon X surfaces will launch in near future as well. Hope they are more competitive with Macbooks.
I’m concerned about what the OS is doing in accordance with its privacy policy or terms of service. Without having read them (I am only human) I assume the photos in the default location are sent off for analysis to “improve your experience by showing you relevant advertising”. I would be surprised if this above-board surveillance went as far as crawling the filesystem
Aah! The infamous ‘slog’ for the WOT series. Book 10 is where things pick up again my opinion.
Any tips for Mixtral? That’s what we tried
It was pretty exhausting, involved, and complex getting my shitty 56k winmodem working in Linux. Looking at a FAQ about it gives me ptsd lol

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DialupModemHowtoOld
I can confirm. I’ve had two surfaces and both have had serious failures about 1-2 years into medium usage with no physical damage.

Meanwhile, all my Thinkpads and MacBooks still work today.
comparatively
> I don't think rust is 'fanatic' about it, there's no cultural or organisational push of 'thou shalt static link'.

Rust users have a "fanatic" ideology about static linking is a stretch. But rust is indeed now firmly wedded to recompiling everything. This is true despite the fact that ever growing compile times are a major complaint about the language.

What Rust users are fanatic about is monomorphisation. That boils down to the compiler implementing generic types using C++ style templates instead of C++ style vtables. Monomorphisation means the compiler produces a custom version of most libraries for your application or more precisely, the types your application uses. It probably contributes it's speed. But since they are customised to your application there is no point sharing them, so shared libraries are kinda pointless.

Like C++ Rust supports both the vtable a template style, but assumption the compiler knows the Size of every object is baked in pretty deep. Parameters have the Sized constraint by default for example, and a standard trick to get around the borrow checker is to copy everything, which you can only do if you know its size. I don't see it changing now - the language will life or die by the choice.
You can see type signatures as free documentation, that unlike other documentation, is not allowed by the compiler to fall out of date. Perhaps that's the sort of thing they meant.
China plus India plus Russia is about 3 and a bit billion people: just three countries make up 40% of the Earth's population.

The whole of the West combined is roughly half that or less.

The West is trying to turn itself into a small backwater of the World. That won't end well.