skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay but did you know there's a man in prison in Arizona named Jose, who's in for heroin smuggling?

Heroin smuggling is bad, and I've imagined that someone paid for the OP article to have this headline. Putting the same logic together which you employed - it must have been Jose who forced rand to publish the study with such a provocative headline.

This conspiracy garbage is so tiring.

If this is new to you, read arizona court dockets. Trust me, Jose is guilty, the evidence was airtight, so he MUST have paid rand, according to your garbage conspiracy logic
The idea is worth less than nothing. If your idea is any good, someone with more resources than you will just copy it faster than you can say Mississippi.
Ignore them, they hire cheap and just had a data breach recently.
Right; I feel stupid now.

Unlike Gabriel or Daniel it's spelled differently. This removes the "resume friendly" aspect of the name that those have.
Tesla don't even dare show the Model 3 numbers. I suspect they are very, very low in comparison to the Model Y, looking at official sales numbers tracked in other countries.

If I were a Tesla stockholder I would be very disappointed in Tesla not breaking down sales like every other car manufacturer does.

It's starting to look increasingly boneheaded to spend time and money on the Cybertruck instead of a new lower-cost SUV (the Model Y isn't really a SUV in my book). Their platform is starting to feel dated compared to the competition. I'm sure some stuff from the Cybertruck platform will trickle down to the next like steer-by-wire and 800 V (which they are catching up on), but since I don't build cars, I don't know how amenable that platform is to build normal cars on.
Being nice gives people time to think.

Being mean is stressful and stops your brain from working properly. If someone doesn't allow you to be abusive, then they are not a mark. Predators look for prey that falls into certain patterns.
You and I must have different ideas of "pleasure to code." The appeal of Computer Science for me is learning how things work at a deeper level, tracking every bit and byte, and pushing performance to its limits. The pleasure is in writing the interesting libraries, not gluing them together. Any technology that restricts me has zero appeal.
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2M times faster than broadband
A good idea is actually worth money, and it makes sense to pay people for the generation of new ideas as some famous labs did before.
Particularly after basically giving a pass to the companies for not prioritizing security!
you were capable. now the nation has been looted and a shithole remains. internet comments aside in your heart of hearts you and everyone else knows im right.
An unlimited WordPress Development subscription service for agencies, startups, and entrepreneurs.
> I was under the impression (admittedly from an article I read a couple of years ago) that the consensus within the company was pretty much always that robo-taxis were one man’s pipe dream.

If robo-taxis were ready with the kind of economics outlined by Musk it would be financially irresponsible to actually sell the cars to others instead of just building a massive Tesla fleet and pivoting towards transportation services.

Tesla's still selling their cars? If so, then they're not robo-taxis.

Edit: The other option for Tesla would be selling the cars for a high enough premium to offset the lost taxi revenue. The fact that Tesla seems to be in a price war with other EV makers is not a promising sign for robo-taxis.
I don't think it's so much because he is Republican. It's what he says that matters.
This can be a game-changer for certain low bandwidth unlicensed applications where the ongoing cost of cellular or satellite service makes the application economically infeasible. I could envision a whole layer of startup opportunities based on this technology from commercial applications like pets, construction, fleet management, security, and agriculture to a gazillion defense and intel applications. If I were younger, I would definitely dig into this further and compare it to LoRA and other existing radio technologies. Cheers!
> Mostly bad controls, UX, etc. stuff that the Tesla gets right.

What? Tesla's controls are ass. They're infotainment responsiveness is great, but the turn signal steering wheel buttons, windshield wipers, drive mode select, etc... are all absolutely horrible.

It's literally the reason we passed on the Model 3 & S when shopping for an EV. The extra 20-60 miles of range wasn't worth it to put up with that nonsense.
Github and gitlab are both deeply, fundamentally, flawed because the unit of contribution is the branch rather than the commit.

Other than the UI not being very good, the code review experience is fundamentally hampered unless you enable squashing but that's a bit shit for different reasons.

On a purely UX level too the velocity of getting patches in is terrible. They're designed for ad-hoc open source contribution, not tight-loops of consistent work. People put up with the slowness because they know no difference but I promise its slow. You shouldn't need to go and get a coffee to wait for something to get merged and start coding again.
I assume so, I have seen a few people make SQLite run in the browser against IndexedDB, but I haven't personally seen anyone build one from scratch for it.
Part of the reason potential technical co-founders get so frosty is precisely that airstrike's list is pretty much what the ideas guys are looking for, plus as others have mentioned the "6. You will agree to put in a good 6 months work up front for no pay to create something while I get 50-80% of the equity more or less smiling and nodding."

Of course, there's good non-technical co-founders out there, too, but just as in the job market, the good candidates disappear but the bad ones circulate endlessly, resulting in every hiring managed seeing almost all bad candidates, it's the bad "ideas guys who want 80% equity while you do the work" who we all encounter.
Any reaction to bad news for Elon Musk businesses are outsized for the amount of hate people have for him. I'd say the hate is pretty well-deserved but I also value SpaceX and Tesla tremendously and I hope they continue taking us into the future.
I didn't think about the parallel to the Spruce Goose, but it's a fair comparison. Honestly, it seems to happen to a lot of megalomaniac, ivory-tower type creators - the urge to build something to top their last creation (and for all his faults, Elon does have some really impressive creations behind him). The other example that jumps to mind is George Lucas with the Star Wars prequels.
I'm thankful that I'm 40, and not in school anymore. My general writing style would get my work flagged as "AI-generated" more often than not.

I've run my blog posts through those tools in the past and pretty they consistently fail to be considered human-generated.
More people care about climate change than you think
I have had the exact opposite experience w/ both of my cars, multiple friends have had the opposite experience also - what is your point?
Empires: A 64 KByte intro for REVISION 2024
My non-Tesla EV hit its advertised range out of the factory, and hasn’t meaningfully shifted in the 2-3 years I’ve owned it. Literally every Tesla owner I know complains about not getting the range they thought they were buying. More than one has switched away because of it.

Speak all you want about Tesla’s efficiency, but it’s hardly a meaningful USP against the absolute bad taste left in one’s mouth after hypeman Elon yet again under-delivers.
So becoming an open source maintainer will involve an in-person trip to an interrogation?

The xz attack involves, in significant part, a maintainer burned out and happy to accept offered help. I don't think making it substantially harder to receive genuine help is likely to improve the situation.
But then it's not really a standard library, is it? A standard library is the set of libraries that's shipped with the language/compiler/interpreter/runtime; it is specifically the batteries that are included. If a library has to be separately added, then by definition it isn't standard. Ex. Boost is a very common C++ library, and people could reasonably argue that it should be folded into the standard library, but it isn't the standard library, and nobody's calling it that except in an informal or joking sense.
American consumers run on credit because of wage stagflation in the face of inflation and price levels. Either wages must go up or credit costs must come down to improve affordability if prices aren’t coming down.

Securing wage increases takes time, worker organizing, etc. credit affordability is as easy as Chair Powell holding a press conference.

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/02/08/americans-use-of-cred...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/current/default....
To your first point, I think you have to start valuing your time when analyzing the cost. If you have a small growing SaaS, is spending $100-200/mo for hosting really a big deal? Think about the cost of your time. I will gladly pay that kind of hosting cost to not have to spend time doing devops on my small product. I'd rather spend that time on feature development or marketing.

I think your second point is debatable. We used to spend something like $50-100k a year on Heroku which is technically way overpriced, but hiring even a single devops person to move us to AWS would have been much more expensive and introduced all sorts of risk. I think a medium sized company is fine paying $100-300k to something like Heroku as long as the offerings are fitting the architectural needs. And Heroku is AWS so you can always use some AWS services alongside your Heroku stuff.
Russia's First-Ever Robotic Ground Assault
You're mixing software defined storage options with public cloud offerings, which is kind of strange.

If you have your own hardware, Ceph is solid.

I wouldn't put more than 200 million objects in a single bucket, but other than that it can be very reliable.

I have ~ half an exabyte on-prem, and sleep very well at night.
Can't read the pdf right now but I'm a big fan of property based testing.

One thing I find that people struggle with is coming up with "good properties" to test with.

That's the wrong way to think about it. The properties you want to test are the function's contract. Checking that contract is the goal.

You can be as specific with the contract as you want. The more specific the more bugs you'll find.

Property-based tests are just one way to check the contract, as are hand-written unit tests. You could use a static analyzer or a model checker as well, they're all different approaches to do the same thing.

EDIT: by contract I mean the guarantees the function imposes on its output. A contract for a sorting function could be as simple as the length of the output being the same as the input. That's one property. Another is that every element in the output is also in the input. You can go all the way and say that for every element at index i, the element at index i+1 (if any) is larger.

But you don't need a perfect contract to start with nor to end with. You can add more guarantees/properties as you wish. The more specific, the better (but also slower) the tests.
Does having the right public (but unadvertised) URL count as being unlocked or as having the key to unlock a locked door?

I doubt most would say that having an address is the same as having the keys, but it's plausible that it could be seen this way.

By that same token, if you put your keys in your mailbox but the door is locked, it does seem different for a kid to enter that door vs a totally unlocked door, even though anybody could do it easily. The locked door is a signal, "this is not meant to be public."

I guess this is why we have judges, though. To make judgments.
Canadian MAID support line?
Reverse Searches: The sneaky way police tap tech companies for your data
Yeah. The real reason America doesn't get caught up in stupid ancient conflicts is two fold:

1. The conflicts in the Middle East aren't ancient. They originate in the 19th Century at the earliest.
2. When you're the world's current most powerful global empire, you have the privilege of forgetting. Chile can't forget. Cambodia can't forget. Nicaragua can't forget. Etc.
Interesting! This was a relatively new apartment building in Hollywood with similarly aged cable — maybe he was right and I'm altogether wrong. They ran the cable up through vertically adjacent units as well which left you at some degree of mercy of your downstairs neighbors.
“They ran an experiment. None of their lives have been ruined.” He knew they’d get good jobs, even if it meant the life of a project manager at Yahoo. “And none of their investors’ lives have been ruined either. When they close up shop, their investors will say, ‘That’s one more off the books. I don’t need to help them anymore. I get my time back.’”

No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush, Gideon Lewis-Kraus

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7643902
I knew about Artifact only because John Gruber (daringfireball) and Ben Thompson (Stratechery) have talked about it.

But what perplexed me was that “Yahoo” was buying something. I knew that the Yahoo website existed and the various properties. What I didn’t know was that it was an independent company again.

This sent me down a deep rabbit hole trying to figure out exactly what Yahoo was these days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017–present)

It looks like the current incarnation is Yahoo and a lot of dead acquired brands that are just reskinned news portals except for TechCrunch and Engadget
Will A.I. Boost Productivity? Companies Sure Hope So
I have to thank you. Because like you, I had the desire to subvert the mainstream, question normality, and be cool, but I could feel my desire to do so waning after seeing your example. (I'm serious)
It might be a good idea for governments to coordinate with computing advocacy groups/associations (e.g. German CCC, NANOG, popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch)... set up a fund of maybe 10 million euros, have the associations identify critical, shared components, and work out funding with their core developers. 10M a year should fund anything from 100-200 developers (assuming European wages), that should be more than enough, and it's pocket change for the G20 nations.

If that's too much bureaucracy or people fear that governments might exert undue influence: hand the money to universities, go back to the roots - many (F)OSS projects started out in universities after all. Only issue there is that projects may end up like OpenStack in the end ;)
I wondered about this. I saw the note at the bottom "RedHat announces that the backdoored xz shipped in Fedora Rawhide and Fedora Linux 40 beta" but saw nothing in the timeline explaining when/how it made it into Fedora.
One man stopped a potentially cyber-attack – by accident
Ok we had our one hour of HN reality, now the post making national news off the page and the we are back in fansty land.
From a practitioners perspective, I view this type of behavior as tuning the model more towards the exploitation side of the exploration/exploitation trade-off. I think a lot of recommendation engines do this (looking at you YouTube) because it’s more profitable.
Nothing will really change, sadly. Remember log4j? There were also a lot of talking why people working on FOSS should be paid. And after one month almost no one remembered these voices exept for small minority of people.
I want to do something similar by analyzing my activitypub feed and RSS feeds with a local LLM. I think that would be a much healthier way for me to receive news from the internet.
Havana Syndrome evidence suggests who may be responsible — 60 Minutes [video]
DevSecOps and CI/CD Pipelines
I first learned of this from the computerphile video.

https://youtu.be/SJ7lOus1FzQ
I just posted in response to the new DECT NR+ radio technology. I would look into that as a disrupter in a lot of commercial and defense/intel applications.
Obligatory: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust.
FRRouting/frr: remove libsystemd-dev external dependency… (2021)
> and not have to wait for charging by driving a hybrid, folks!

But you have to visit a fuel station and refill? How long does that take? My EV charges when I sleep, no waiting and a quarter of the cost per mile.

Edit: when someone claims that owning an EV requires waiting and you challenge that apparently you get downvoted.
Weird that this is a concept people struggle to understand...
The 2016 election changed the calculus. Supporting white supremacists is no longer a deal-breaker.
All of the fastest moving, easiest to contribute to, projects I've seen use monorepos or at least understand the basic principle that things that are released together and ship together (and probably depend on eachother) should be developed together)

So many of the supposed problems with monorepos (other than those of pure scaling) seem to basically boil down to "Dr Dr it hurts when I do this"

For example:

"What happens if two teams depend on different versions of the same internal library" - sounds like a reasonable concern no? No! This situation is fundamentally a disaster. On many levels.
He's a US citizen, he lives in the US, and his companies are headquartered in the US. "American" is definitely an appropriate label here.
I remember shopping for a smartphone a few months after the iPhone arrived. (I had just broken my openmoko, which never really could make phone calls reliably, but that was roughly my bar for cell phone polish.)

I didn’t want an iPhone, so I looked at the other stuff in stock at the cell phone stores.

I couldn’t figure out how to use the web browser on any of the display models. I ended up switching back to a nokia candybar phone until android came out.

In hindsight, one of the native linux nokia phones would have been nice, but they ran a similar OS as openmoko, and I was frustrated with that software stack’s lack of focus on being a daily driver.
Been awhile since I've thought about FSR. Back in the day, I used to listen to WoW on repeat while putting far too many hours of my life into that game.
Unfortunately, you're wrong on both counts.

1. The founder being unaware that their ideas aren't unique is a feature not a bug. If Silicon Valley stopped reinventing the wheel, it would cease to exist.
2. The idea is what matters because ideas (and charisma) convince investors, and the goal is to make money, not a product.
It was literally under target. That’s the definition of surprising.

It comes as no surprises that the rest of your comment either looks for positives or places the blame on conditions affecting the auto industry at large.

Can Tesla do no wrong?
I no longer do "job interviews". People ask me whether I'd like to come work for them. Sometimes, I go and work for them.

Your communication style is not direct enough for me I'm afraid, clearly you feel quite a bit more passionate about this than you let on. People must say what you permit, and never stray from the approved narratives, or else. Be careful to not mention that in job interviews.
Heads up looks like something is broken. Trying to sign up on Android and it's asking for 4 interests. Nothing auto completes but it will take my input directly. However when I try and hit continue nothing happens.
>> What value would you put on marketing and selling the product? I always

>> Both achieve nothing unless you can actually sell what you have built.

I both agree with you and disagree. As a technologist, I agree sales are the only thing that matter. Most technical things are easy to me, and ultimately they are just code unless they can be monetized.

But I disagree on the value question -- they are only valuable if they are being done before the build-out. If there is just a promise of sales after free upfront effort from a technical co-founder, then the value is tenuous.

A good Business Co-Founder would be selling early, ideally at concept phase, such that there is no question of value becuase you already have pre-sales or purchase orders.
Technically still just promises, but the timelines are all in the 1-3 year range, which seems about right for a manufacturing and support line change. I think Hyundai/Kia plan to start shipping native NACS cars this year.
Ask HN: Why are captchas becoming so difficult?
you have these crimes against visual accessibility called captchas and arkose challenges which seem to become more bewilderingly esoteric and confoundingly incomprehensible with each day

sometimes it seems like google is f--king with me with their captchas, failing them or taking sooo long to load sections or giving captchas that are unpassable...

is this now a permanent feature of the web? ever increasingly complex captchas, isn't there some endgame to this?
It's not, because the next sentence is:

"It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked."
Promoting great replacement theory is very different than vocal Republican. He only said the Republican persecution thing after he was informed the horse for handjob scandal was going to be reported: they emailed him for comment and he immediately made the post.
FWIW "Monorepo requires people to work on it" is organisationally a bit of a cop out because everything requires this kind of work, its just a difference between each team dedicating some time to it in there little bubble (in which they do things slightly differently) versus doing it once at a larger scale centrally - this requires some investment in the form of salary but you would still spend this money in the first place, you just don't notice.

Boiling frogs and all that.

You'd also be surprised just how little work this actually is if you get it right, versus having to fix 50 different hacked up solutions across your company. It does put strain onto some tooling, but these days git seems to be fine well beyond kernel-scale - when you are this size you have "made it" anyway.
> Do you even know?

I think that's the point?
Gaming at a crossroad: New monetization strategies for Web2 publishers like Web3
Especially since PMs at most mid/large companies operate in built-up environments surrounded by great talent and all the resources they need. This doesn't translate well to operating within an early-stage startup.

It's like a good driver doesn't make a good cyclist.
I have serious concerns about any browser that requires a user account. I understand it drives the sync feature, and that they Take Privacy Seriously™, but I can't even test drive it before I commit to an account? That's a terrible onboarding experience.

And what if I don't actually care about syncing at all, or just don't trust an early stage startup that hasn't figured out monetization yet.

I do appreciate innovation in the browser UI space. But that's a hard pass.
They keep getting more difficult because computers keep becoming able to solve them.
Protocol Complications with the IP Network Address Translator (2001)
Hard disagree that it has a better ui than everything else. Every time I’ve used it, it feels like I’m at a carnival with everything trying to compete for my attention. Utterly distracting and feels childish, at least for me. I’m glad that you like the ui though.
It's cool to hear from someone with experience!

Do you know if anyone has tried building an arm that uses spatial positioning techniques from augmented reality, like structured light or pose tracking[1], to understand the position of the arm in space without resorting to "dead reckoning"?

It seems like that kind of approach would increase the physical tolerance and reduce the programming complexity, since you know both a) where the arm is supposed to be, and b) where it actually is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pose_tracking#Outside-in_track...
Show HN: I made a free site that lets you discover tiny startups for sale
Breaking into a government computer should have the same stigma as breaking into the government building.
EchoFeed
Or that you're in bad faith.
I can't wait until Toyota makes an all electric Yaris.