skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The internet was just fine before it was turned into an ad delivery platform.

this is the comment I replied to. Apparently the old internet was fine, so what kind of "competition" are you looking for? Youtube gives you easy access to content you would have to spend hours trying to locate on "old" internet.

If you do not like their content, simply stop using their site. But it is immoral to pretend like it is OK to abuse their site, and deliberately hide their adviertisments that keep their site alive
This is what I've been warning about in these threads from the beginning: every time a government does something to Apple, certain people on HN cheer them on because any government action is seen as a good step.

Unfortunately, as illustrated here, that's not actually the case. The current course of government action against Apple (on both sides of the pond!) will not lead to the iPhone as we know it minus the specific things that irk us as app and web developers. What the EU is doing and what this lawsuit seeks to do will end Apple as we know it.

For some people that might be an acceptable outcome, but I think a lot of people are laboring under the false assumption that these actions will give them exactly what they want without any downsides.
for other allied 'ghosts', see 'maskirovka': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception#In_...
> your specifications can and usually does have bugs

One cool thing about formal verification is that you can not only prove things about your code, but you can prove things about the specification itself (with some approaches, at least). This includes proving arbitrary properties, proving the presence of bugs, proving the absence of bugs and in some cases, even proving full correctness of the specification.

> I'm bullish on more sophisticated type systems [...] but not formal verification.

I don't know what kind of formal verification framework you used that left you with this conclusion, but the more sophisticated is your type system, the closer you are to doing formal verification.
Suspending a driver's license because of debt is an absolutely bone-headed idea. Who the hell thinks it makes sense at all to punish a debtor by making it hard to get to work and earn money to pay off the debt?

Who the hell signed this into law? It just seems like a complete "fuck you" to the poor, designed to kick them while they're down and punish them for being poor.

I don't even care if the cause of the debt was outright tax fraud. Make the punishment fit the crime. If someone owes a debt to the government, garnish wages. If the debt is due to fraud, throw them in prison. But to make a sweeping law that takes away driver's licenses and most of the people affected are poor has no logical basis. It does nothing to solve the problem of unpaid debts, it merely makes them worse.

EDIT: Re-reading, I notice the article doesn't state the source of the debt. If it's unpaid traffic tickets, then I do think it makes sense to suspend the license, but an afternoon of traffic school should suffice for most moving violations. If it's unpaid taxes, hell no.
The impression I get is that China's solar panel industry is also continually getting outdated and replaced by new entrants in a near constant bloodbath of competition.

The only difference is the new entrants are also in China.
Too early to tell IMO. The fact that inflation is going up again tells me they may have played too safe with the only blunt instrument that they have
MCPlus+: CS-themed rap ("nerdcore") (2006)
A bunch of smaller distributed instances could be cheaper than one big one at equivalent size/compute. It also allows you to grow as needed, without worrying about things like DB transfer, instead of absorbing a big upfront cost.

I agree it adds alot of complexity to the problem, which is another cost.

I guess this would be another argument for pay-as-you go cloud-managed DBs, despite being more expensive than rolling your own.
The burden of proof is on the people requesting the feature. The reason for not building any feature is simple: users don't care about it and there are more valuable other features to build. (As evidenced by system apps not being deletable on iOS for its first decade.)
I remember the term "player missile graphics" from the day. Google has several articles on the subject.

https://www.atariarchives.org/creativeatari/PlayerMissile_Gr...
i love this ! thank you for doing this, i was looking at creating a figma to tailwind to wordpress for a project im working on!
Same here! Cleaning up is a great way to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for people
Thanks, I try to do it with my normal dev process as well. "preferably one unknown at a time" I call it, although I always end up wishing I had more notes. At least my blog would have more than 5 entries if I had half decent notes.

But never too late eh :P
I had had 15-20 ‘normal’ trips and then one (probs around 250mcg, but during Covid when I was totally spent and my ‘intention’ was to let go and wash away the stresses) where I was just ‘not there’. I had some pretty intense/scary visuals/thoughts, but what was terrifying to my partner and friend there was I was bumping into walls and just muttering. I had a new respect for why they call it chemically induced schizophrenia, I was just not home for 2 hours. Afterwards it wasn’t the worst thing in the world, but I had a massive newfound respect and have been very cautious with tbe dose (and intention!) the few times subsequently
I am in 110% agreement with everything you are saying here.

There's a quite bizarre thing here, though: In typical American car-centric areas, suspending someone's license because of debt takes away their ability to pay back debt. This seems just as counterproductive to creditors as debtors prisons were (and sometimes are).
Do you have some hard numbers to back this up? What percentage of that aid is just things we were going to “throw away”?

I’d be willing to bet 5% or less of total aid falls in the category you mention.
I used to work professionally in the US doing this sort of task with computer vision. The challenging part isn’t so much the labeling/classification of a fish within an image; instead, it’s a connection to cloud environments to do processing. Most of the projects I worked on were at hydroelectric dams, where-as an ironic punchline goes—it’s punishingly hard to get access to reliable power or water.

If anyone is interested/curious happy to answer any questions on here or via DM.
Traditional engineering is a lot messier than you make it look.

Things are out of specs all the time, and engineers have to deal with that all the time. It is even worse because while you can prove a program mathematically correct, reality only has a passing interest in mathematical correctness.
> Chrome does not allow adblockers to interact with resources loaded using early hints, nor does it display resources loaded using early hints in the developer console.

I wonder if Brave has these same limitations? Not sure where its Shields JS fits into the architecture.
I didn't even realize until I read your comment
Even with billions on the line, semiconductor shortages can take years to resolve.

Consider the 2020–2023 chip shortage, which hit automakers especially hard. When COVID19 struck in 2020, car sales plunged by 30%–90%, inducing many automakers to cancel future chip orders. Then when demand rebounded unexpectedly quickly, automakers found that there were not enough chips to buy, nor enough available manufacturing capacity to make them.

This shortage of chips was severe. Every major automaker (including Toyota,Volkswagen, Daimler, Ford, Honda, and GM) were forced to idle manufacturing plants. In 2021 alone, the chip shortage reduced auto production by ~11 million vehicles, costing an estimated $210B in auto revenue(!). In response, the White House convened 3 summits and signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.

Building extra semiconductor manufacturing tools takes years. Even in late 2022, lead times of various tools were as high as 24-30 months, and lead times of some chips were still over 100 weeks.

Literally hundreds of billions of dollars of automotive revenue (tens of billions of profit) were sitting as a prize to anyone who could make some extra chips for automakers. And this is a relatively “easy” task - automotive is only a small ~10% slice of the semiconductor market, and doesn’t even need the leading edge technology nodes, where production is even more bottlenecked. Yet even with this massive prize of billions of dollars, the industry couldn’t match this demand in under 3 years. It’s not for lack of skill or effort — these companies have hundreds of thousands of employees, a large fraction with advanced degrees — but simply because the modern semiconductor supply chain is fantastically complex.

When designing a supply chain, cost trades off against resilience. If you minimize cost (e.g., single sourcing crucibles from the lowest cost provider), you lose resilience (e.g., it may take you months to recover from that single source going offline unexpectedly).
This is why EU legislators have made the "cookie law". The site will tell you that they are using ads, and you are free to just leave. the. site. Stop mooching off people's hard work by killing their only source of revenue, ad blockers are immoral
Well, Hugo, Zola, Jekyll.
They sort if have parts of this.
I use obsidian, but brought my old hierarchical folder structure mentality into it. I now think I just should've created single files and let the auto-linking take care of the hierarchy.

What do you think?
i guess we were both wrong
Google didn't 'fully' move out of China; it still has offices there, doing some business as usual.
That's not how a lawnmower works. The first blade of grass taller than the lawnmower blade height encountered is cut first.

I suppose what it could mean is the field with the tallest grass gets the lawnmower first. Then again all that matters is if the grass is taller than the blade, not how much taller.
I agree that CNET sucks, but it's very emblematic of the affiliate marketing bullshit that has infested the internet for a while now.
I thought I recalled something similar to this posted in the past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012032

(5 months ago)
Python Foundation support ended that long ago, but vendors maintained it for longer. Red Hat support for it through RHEL 7 ends 30 June 2024, however, and my guess is they’re the last ones.
Unless your company pays your commuter costs and provides lunch, like mine.
While it took less time (a mere 74 years) Liverpool Cathedral is an example of a long-running 1900s project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Cathedral
Which increases friction between the state and landowners
Yes I know, which is why I said "on average". Another big group of human-dog partnership, are with hippie/gypsy/punk people - but those dogs usually tend to be very annoying (and also dangerous) to everyone else.
The importance of mindful use of time and the value of meaningful activities.
not that weird..

/real-mode-on

i am slowly (few decades) giving up and having to accept that "software IS about human in the loop".. at least culturally. It wasn't back in the beginning maybe.. but now it more or less have become an institution, The_Software, with usual Shirky's principle applying etc..

that shuttle blew up because of (mis)culture.. and that wasn't (invisible) software there. i guess we are up to interesting times ahead..
"Could" is insanely sensationalist. Just beause HN got a boner against Apple's consumer-friendly ecosystem does not make it reasonable to think this will happen.
Federal judge tosses Elon Musk's case against hate speech watchdog CCDH
"Post-Quantum" crypto is already being rolled out in expectation of that though.
CVE numerology is not a good way to assess comparative security. A search of the comments of local CVE enjoyer tptacek is a decent jumping-off point:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I have no hate towards them, what I said what tongue in cheeck. After relying on two wheels (motorbike mainly) for about 10 years, I get the cyclists viewpoint. It's certainly not cool to joke about murdering anyone, cyclist or not.

It's just that ... they do tend to flaunt the rules here in Brussels. It's partly clear why (losing momentum on a bicycle sucks) but also extremely stupid to throw yourself (and your two kids on the back) in front of 2000KG of metal moving at speed, expect that metal so accommodate you (something no sane motorbiker will do) and if not start screaming and punching the metal.
Apple to install Baidu AI on its iPhone 16 and other products in China
> As great as Sora is at generating things that appear real - what excites us is its ability to make things that are totally surreal.

Finally, software that makes images that don’t quite look right. The use cases for these will be unending
Text-only version:

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/03/25/tech/judge-tosses-elon-musks...
Neat! Another FOSS SOAR platform. Quick read through built-in integrations. Any support for Elastic both SIEM and EDR?

And do you all have like an MSP program? Assuming not, but always need to ask.

Also forgot to ask, any chance of moving some of the develop/feedback off of Discord? I understand a number of projects are making this choice now, but I find whenever I need to search Discord for information, I'm not the most effective at it.
I will submit it to google to be indexed myself, purely out of spite for the fact that you're willfully and with malice aforethought returning 200 when you know you should be returning a 404.
Vacuum in PostgreSQL
In short: You found some famous people you like that support your position, and overstated the risk of "drugs"
Even font-smooth isn’t a thing, never was. It was part of a very early draft, and dropped, unimplemented, something like twenty years ago because people realised it was a bad idea and had no place in CSS.

As for Tailwind, speaking bluntly: Tailwind includes some terrible ideas. Just because it supports something, or even because they use it on their own page, doesn’t mean it’s good. (I mean really, just look at that “Applying conditionally” subsection! Changing antialiasing technique on hover or by media query? Have they completely taken leave of their senses!?) Some people like the font-smoothing change. Others loathe it. Overall, changing from normal behaviour is hazardous.
If you want an instance with a destructor (e.g. print "this was called X times"), you need a class.
This approach makes a lot more sense than OP's. Vocabulary is dead simple to brute force learn with Anki and a frequency dictionary (shared deck), grammar/natural flow of language is a lot harder without a ton of practice
Have you read _The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales_? That was what made me realise how disconnected sensation can be from reality.
I remain unconvinced, but maybe LLM's will provide progress without individual comprehension?

(at which point we should maybe be speaking of Applied Computation rather than Computer Science? then again, at systems institutions that Rubicon has already been crossed...)
Yes, it’s a throwaway prototype that overstayed its welcome for over 10 years, as it tends to happen in computing all the time. You said it yourself elsewhere that it’s a grad project.

You are nitpicking here as usual. The point is that OOP was something expected to be available on Lisp machines.

Okay, I will spoon-feed you. Open the specification on Bitsavers and search for “4.7 Generic Function and Message Passing”.
i think you're on to something there
So from the articles I can find about the complaints filed against Meta [1] I can't find any explanation of what would be an acceptable price for non-consent besides free.

I mean like it's their right as a government to say 'you can't charge for consent. either charge everyone or no-one', but I wonder how it'll all pan out.

[1](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/meta-consent-or-pay-consum...)
It depends. If the dependency is in nixpkgs (Nix' own package repository), someone will have done the work of figuring out the dependencies properly and you can just use that. If it's not, you can either do that yourself and pin particular versions, or you can integrate with a tool like Poetry: Poetry could generate a lockfile for you that you then reference from Nix to get the versions of Python packages. You'd still need to specify any native dependencies manually, though.
Thanks for the great suggestion! I think I'll start with the hosted server and then move to this.

I've been burnt too many times (by myself), buying domain names and arduinos and cool things I never got around to using .-.
Doesn't really work out for anyone running on battery.
I'm suspicious about the IP 169.150.221.147
My guess: there is some misconfigured bogons IP filter and instead of 169.254.0.0/16 (rfc3927) there is something like 169.0.0.0/8 configured to be blocked on some firewall

I once was a customer of an ISP that mistakenly blocked the whole 192.0.0.0/8 net, which caused some confusion, but they fixed it after I pointed it out.
Feels like some stateful device within someone's network mishanding the connection state, like the author guesses.

It's interesting that your side thinks the three-way handshake worked, but the remote side continues to resend the [SYN, ACK] packets, as if they've never received the final [ACK] from you.

Had a hellish time troubleshooting a similar problem several years ago with F5 load balancers - there was a bug in the hashing implementation used to assign TCP flows to different CPUs. If you hit this bug (parts per thousand), your connection would be assigned to a CPU with no record of that flow existing, so the connection would be alive, but would no longer pass packets. Would take a long time for the local TCP stack to go through its exponential retries and finally decide to drop the connection and start over .
Love what Andrew is doing! We built this for localhost when testing vs. the client side with a Chrome extension.
Epistemology of Language Models: Do Language Models Have Holistic Knowledge?
When I am stressed, I start cleaning up and my thoughts become focused
I wouldn't be surprised if someone (your Uni) is mistakenly blocking some 169.x.x.x data since 169.254.0.0/16 is used for local IPs. Someone put the wrong subnet mask in a firewall rule or ACL someplace.
It's exactly that. The problems that exist with cyclists and people riding steps does not exist with people riding motorbikes for which you need a license.
Greed. Those kinds of ads pay more. Interrupting the content means they can sell the spot as something people will actually see because they are forced to.
The real news appears to be that rowhammer is mostly fixed on DDR5.
pyenv is all you need. pip is part of python. requirements.txt is just a convention used to store the list of stuff to hand to pip.
Yup. There's not much atmosphere way up there, but if you hit it at 17,000 miles per hour even a little bit can be significant!
This is exactly what I wanted. I think I'm going to follow these steps and then branch out and experiment. Thanks a ton!
We have a similar group in the UK called "Hope not Hate", who present themselves as an unbiased campaign group, but will target you for speech that they deem unacceptable.
That was pretty interesting from an engineering perspective, and highlighted the different compromises computer makers made. The Atari could display certain types of graphics, like gradients, trivially - while it could struggle with fine bitmaps unlike systems that mapped a bitmap buffer straight to screen.

These compromises gave each 80s system an unique artistic style... Unlike current consoles which are just triangle and shader pumping machines with differences largely on throughput.
Ha! This is basically why I bought uglyavatar.com a couple of years ago. I was taken aback when I saw this on HN. Maybe I should do something with it one day...
https://youtu.be/JL6NAIVpl54?si=8FiFprdOw51AYS0D
> Who the hell thinks it makes sense at all to punish a debtor by making it hard to get to work and earn money to pay off the debt?

> Who the hell signed this into law? It just seems like a complete "fuck you" to the poor, designed to kick them while they're down and punish them for being poor.

People who govern by inflicting suffering instead of leveraging data to encourage rational and data driven outcomes. We see this as a bug, others see this as a feature.
> Clear water freezes exactly at 0 degrees.

Water never arrives at 0 degrees all at once, so for practical purposes no. Even if it did, you cannot measure the temperature of every water molecule simultaneously to prove it.
I don't think so. As per sat cost goes down, you can add a few sats on a specific polar orbit that covers that area perfectly. Japan uses that kind of polar orbit.
Show HN: Vsdeco – Transform Your Room with a Click
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Thoughts on the concept? Suggestions for improvement?

If you find the idea helpful, please share it with those who might benefit.
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Price thing: no one can afford to pay "a latte per month" for every site they visit.

Trust thing: the site is likely to still spy on you even if you're a paid subscriber. Even if they drop ads they'll send your data to google or some other analytics provider, at the least. They'll "accidentaly reset" your email preferences. Plus other shenanigans *.

Infrequency thing: I won't subscribe to $SOME_SITE just because it's linked on HN a couple times per year.

* friend of mine said he's tempted to subscribe to the economist online. I pointed out that they need to call or talk to a rep over live chat to cancel. Friend stopped mentioning subscribing to the economist.
Being an employee of a billionaire matters because the billionaire, and by proxy their employee, is held to a different standard than everyone else.

They didn't say anything that implied this applied to every single emoyee of a billionaire, so the janitor who happens to work for a billionaire and happens to buy a stock doesn't change anything or invalidate that point.

The employees being referenced are the ones employed to do trades for investors or for the company itself or for the billionaire themself (which might be a person or a group or a company).
> even with centuries of trying, power is nowhere near as centralized as in totalitarian regimes

My grandma's house is older than the centuries the US has existed.

> Local and state governments have the greatest influence over the day to day of ordinary people and ordinary people are much more capable of influencing them

Is this actually true? Are ordinary people more capable of influence than lobbying groups?