skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar form of middle ground without touching the app/web level may be to enable device parental controls by default on new Phone and Tablet purchases and rationing its removal with some kind of privacy-preserving ID hashing protocol that's also rate-limited per ID. 90% of the problem is mobile device ease related, it doesn't need to extend to PCs. Still a ton of burdensome consequences.

But really, the best policy would be constant social and educational emphasis on device parental control feature awareness - similar to drunk driving campaigns. Get parents and guardians in the habit of taking 15 min to set up basic parental controls BEFORE handing devices to kids. Rather than the all-too-common mess of reacting to a problem by taking the kids phone or making them manually show everything after the damage is already done. Maybe also compel device manufacturers to incorporate a first-time-setup flow that has a specific soft ask of "Will this device be given to or borrowed by a child?" that then handholds the owner through setting up controls.
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ChatGPT Plus was able to tell me what type of coffee capsules I should buy based on a picture with multiple objects with text markings. The sole coffeemaker had a sideways NS -> Nespresso compatible ones.

Is this basically the same functionality except through API?
I've been using Listmonk (very easy to customize), sending ~35,000 mails / weekly as an alternative to Mailchimp with AWS SES as a backend but a self-hosted stalwart server could do the trick. We're saving ~600$/month by not using Mailchimp.
I wonder what was the impact of the internet making it easy for everyone to just put together a website and dump their content in it.

I'm not even considering self-publishing services. Just buying a domain, pay a hosting company to host your site, and make it available for everyone.

I've been stumbling upon a few sites that follow the "book as a site" pattern. Some provide a free tier along with a premium access, which sometimes includes additional services.

Why would anyone go through the trouble and cost of printing out a book if putting up a website costs pennies?
Not all of us have those editors in high regard.
There are homebrew tools that can be installed on a PS1 memory card [1] and allow for executables to be loaded from a host machine into RAM through the serial port on the back of the console, in a similar way to what Sony's official Net Yaroze loader did back in the day. These tools can also use undocumented CD-ROM drive commands to disable region checks without the need for a modchip, provide semihosting (host filesystem access) and so on.

On the PS2 it's slightly more complicated, as there is no way to launch the "native" PS1 backwards compatibility mode other than to use a modchip (or firmware mod on some models) and burn the executable onto a disc; the serial port is not exposed either, making debugging much harder. It can still be done, but it's much easier to just use an actual PS1.

[1]: https://github.com/JonathanDotCel/unirom8_bootdisc_and_firmw...
--i realistcally needed this especially that "select all" option tried doing this with 'sharedrop' native with iphone but they didnt have that. also tried cable and i kept getting 'catastrophic error'
--i love it... but now i think it will collect dust till my next file transfer..
needed for IPHONE to PC
The name was picked before the acquisition
Yes, you could. That's the point.
on my case, I need to install Windows 3.1 and then update to 95 and then update to 98. Windows 95 and 98 update editions
Yup. That said it seems like a quick blog post from 2016.

There's been more comprehensive breakdowns since

https://youtu.be/PHiyQID7SBs?si=53hV0Ll5a-t0q-QP
> then don't use them

This assumes that humans are rational agents. I think that drug addiction, wars in Israel and Ukraine, conspiracy theorists, and free-climbers sufficiently prove that this is not the case.

If only life were so easy, we would not even need to have this discussion.
And it's a shopping mall that has a bunch of big stores that openly sell meth, and advertize for it aggressively.
You are ignoring that AMD doesn't use an intermediate representation and every ROCm driver is basically compiling to a GPU specific ISA. It wouldn't surprise me that there are bugs they have fixed for one ISA that they didn't bother porting to the others. The other problem is that most likely their firmware contains classic C bugs like buffer overflows, undefined behaviour, or stuff like deadlocks.
i did notice the ocassional bombardment of ads but tbh i dont mind since i dont have cheese to pay you with right meow. also its been in the app store for 4 years if any1 else cares.
It probably has to do with the extended context window. Keeping websites in there is kind of a hassle. But I actually consider that a feature, not a bug. If I have ChatGPT use the internet, I don't want a full page answer - especially not on the relatively slow GPT4. It's also a hassle if you're unsure about the validity of the output. In that case I might as well browse myself. Just give me a short preview so I can either start searching on my own or ask more questions.
You can add as much security as you want it won't stop someone malicious from stealing the code and modifying it once they have it. You can install monitoring software which no developer would agree to.you can host your own code repository server which developers can only access through VPN. Add a software license to your code repository, if they are caught violating your license you will automatically win a civil lawsuit(if you find out code was stolen).
Given that macOS only covers 10% of the desktop market, it doesn't compute, given that the other 90% of the market also needs developers.
Well, salaries must be paid.
You dont have kids, do you. Seeing them being pushed out of entire school community due to higher principles is heartbreaking to say at least, this is place from which teen suicides come from. Parents usually cave in the pressure.

I would go and even claim I would ban all current social media platforms below 18. Ther are simply not enough protections, consistently, its place ripe for abuse and tons abuse is happening every day as we speak. I know we will keep our own kids off this for as long as possible, but eventually harm from absence will be greater.

Parents shouldnt be choosing lesser evil like that, just that some meta employees can cash half a million and think what a great addition to mankind they are, when reality is closer to definition of cancer.
I fairly recently used Shadow DOM for a project. We built a widget that was embedded in a web page, and that page could be arbitrarily styled. The outside page was typically a Wordpress theme, which in most cases did all kind of nasty things with CSS.

Even though there is CSS encapsulation, styles can still leak (cascade?) from the parent element into the Shadow DOM. You therefore need to put a style tag on the root that resets all styles.

Even then, there are some things like CSS transformations that will still affect elements within a Shadow DOM.

Another weirdness is that React modals are usually going to break unless you pass them a reference to the Shadow Root. Most popular libraries have been modified to take such a reference.
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/Personally/, I’d attribute that more to authoritarianism than communism, but the two have been commingled since Lenin so it’s not necessarily an important difference.
I recently saw a blog post from a front end dev who was completely amazed about finding out that you can send an HTML form without JS, followed by equally amazed comments.
So, yes.
What work does "individually" do in this last sentence? Can 2 evil services collaborate (or more realistically 2 non-evil services get breached) to extract part of the secret? What is the mechanism keeping me from setting up n realms and extracting secrets from their shared info?
Just keep in mind that if this way present day, the Sabine hosenfelds of the world would be saying iTs NoT eVeN tEsTaBlE, and HN would be cheering her for fighting the evil corrupted mainstream academia.
Have cell phones ever stopped bullying?
Another article on don't go micro services and don't reinvent the wheel.

I wonder if most solutions could be implemented on top of Laravel/Django/Adonisjs without too much effort.
I wonder how long it'd take for life to leave after Earth leaves the goldilocks zone. How much life would there be after the oceans have evaporated and stripped into space? If life could evolve to not require water at all, maybe it could survive until the sun physically envelops the planet.
I have a very similar system[1] for my personal projects, only I use GitHub actions to push a docker image to ECR and a commit to a config repo bumping the tag. I then have a cronjob to pull the config repo and reconcile using docker compose.

I wouldn't use it for serious stuff, but it's been working great for my random personal projects (biggest gap is if something crashes it'll stay crashed until manual intervention currently)

- [1] https://github.com/mnahkies/shoe-string-server/pull/2
It absolutely affects that.

You either check whether any state has changed, doing nothing in the happy path at the price of slightly higher latency, or you just go with the unhappy path all the time.
Amazon customer gets 7 years... Toyota driver gets 7 years...
Must be an election coming.
Because on PC, the FDC is probably the only storage component you could be sure to address at one time.
Interesting idea, but the logging aspect still leaves it up to the shard holder to perform.

This essentially reduces counting to a promise.
I just start postgres and it's solid. I don't understand this statement. With Dokku it's trivial.
In his introduction to the book, The Best of Cordwainer Smith, J J Pierce recounts a story about Linebarger:

"While in Korea, Linebarger masterminded the surrender of thousands of Chinese troops who considered it shameful to give up their arms. He drafted leaflets explaining how the soldiers could surrender by shouting the Chinese words for ‘love’, ‘duty’, ‘humanity’ and ‘virtue’ – words that happened, when pronounced in that order, to sound like “I surrender” in English. He considered this act the single most worthwhile thing he had done in his life."

Further analysis here: https://languagehat.com/chinese-endangered/
If you are serious, check the mailbox for messages at your site :)
I wonder how much of the "were working to support ActivityPub" story is real (mentioned at the end of the article).

I've got a few people I'd like to follow on Threads from my mastodon account, but I have the feeling this will never be generally possible.

It feels like something that will always be a low priority until finally a product owner decides that it can just be removed from the backlog.
As many point out every time this comes up, regulating access to social media products by requiring ID checks and age gating will almost certainly not work effectively, will harm the web overall and that's if its not implemented in a half-arsed way. It's a bad idea.

You want people to stop buying cigarettes? Don't let the cigarette companies advertise. Require warning labels, plain packaging, increase tariffs, etc.

The society doesn't exist to support the businesses poisoning it.
If not the unions, there is always someone else that drives the prices up. In Sweden we don't have this problem with the Unions but it's still very expensive with housing.
> And just like the Supreme Court wrote 30 years ago, the answer is the same today: if you don't like these products and feel they are negative, then don't use them. Restrict your children's access to these platforms.

100% my reply to any critic of teenage social media, but the parents' stance is always "but then my kid is going to FOMO and feel left out".
It is a pity, because monoculture is always bad in the long run.

At least on IoT space, there are several OSes alternatives.
What are the best alternatives Muah AI?

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I think you don't fully grasp the role and importance of self-publishing. Their main goal is not maximizing how much profit you extract from a book, but persist content in a format that is both easy to distribute and to store perpetually. It's about cultural contributions and not the next best seller. There's a reason why some universities run their own publisher.
Any idea why rooftop solar hasn't taken off? In Australia it's going gang busters and contributes about 2x the energy of our grid-scale solar.
No sane person would kick off a brand new application that expects huge traffic on Django + PHP, right?

This goes to show that technology stack is not as important as devs (myself included) sometimes made it out to be. And that old, boring, battle-tested framework and technologies can actually deliver.
I mean how would you bypass an ID check? Parents can’t share a FB account with their kids.
>The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.

So they, in fact, had already built out Instagram as a monolithic service based platform and essentially forked it, tweaked it, tested it, and shipped.

The title of the article is highly misleading, suggesting they shipped from 0 to full platform in 5 months explicitly due to the fact they were using a monolithic architecture as opposed to a microservice based one.
You probably still can. In Win10 there is still control panel / mouse / cursors / browse button.
This interpretation is funny considering the other post in this thread bemoaning the loss of the shopping malls of their youth. As a metaphor it's on the right track, but the way the internet has been commercialized is even more extreme than a shopping mall, in the sense that experience is individually curated for each visitor and every tap, moment of hesitation, and utterance between friends is catalogued by the "store owner".
After reading the article, I was more confused than before.

The 'shadow' DOM is a 'hidden' space? But it is displayed to the user!

And what about this?

> Use case and examples: 2. The <video> HTML element where there’re default controls exposed by the browser. We see just a video element in the DOM, but it contains buttons and some other stuff inside its Shadow DOM.

Why do we use Shadow DOM for this? It sounds like something HTML and CSS can do just fine.
Yes but it doesn't leak CSS when you want it to, I've never figured how to setup a CSS only dark theme using a top-level classname like Tailwind does for instance
So what's the problem? The battery is clearly recycled, it's not going to end up in a river, burned or in landfill.
I'm not aware of this either. Maybe he is, but I was under the impression that he was simply another billionaire
> , that integrates with an older PHP component called WWW.
It’s ridiculous to suggest that you destroy all of internet anonymity by requiring ID for mass-scale ad-funded social media

It’s the commercial side of the equation that’s the problem. It’s what gives these social media companies perverse incentives when it comes to engagement. So any social media site that can’t effectively tap into the US ad market at a significant scale will not have as much of a problem. I don’t think the pre-Facebook forums was as much of a problem even though they might have had some ads here and there.

So VPNs and all that just isn’t a concern. You don’t need a great firewall. You just need to regulate commercial business, which is not at all a crazy proposition.

The other side of this is that the US really, really should implement an effective federal ID system with two factor authentication. This is becoming commonplace almost everywhere else in the world, and not having it creates very serious security and privacy risks.
2.8 billion years[0] is the high estimate before _all_ remaining life on earth goes extinct. Likely including these little buggers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Word through the grapevine on Masto is they went looking for instances to federate with and pay them and people wouldn't partner up with Meta on principle.
> Despite the apparent advantages of reusing Instagram's platform for Threads (much faster delivery time), Malkani admitted the company introduced a substantial amount of technical debt that must be addressed in the future.

This is not the feel-good "ye olde ways are always better" post that the headline suggests. This is a quick-and-dirty ship it by tomorrow™ and we will worry about building it properly later.
> But Mozilla is also being stupid about clutching impractically tight to their ideals in a way that harms their users.

Time and again their concerns have been shown to be true.
--prefix= exists to configure the install location, and you shouldn't use any other mechanism for that.

DESTDIR exists to add another prefix on top of what --prefix= specifies, for the purpose of temporarily copying the program into, for example for packaging. A lot of programs will not run from their DESTDIR location, and they must be copied out of DESTDIR to run.

For example, --prefix=/foo DESTDIR=/bar will install into /bar/foo, but running /bar/foo/bin/prog will not function properly, until you "mv /bar/foo /foo" and run it as /foo/bin/prog. There's a very limited set of programs that will try to figure out their prefix at runtime, by checking the location of the binary, but this is hard to do properly and comes with caveats, and the programs that support this are few and far between.
So how do you think they are running those unit tests for iDevices APIs, VMs?
I was listening to Nicolai Tangen's interview with Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai:

https://www.nbim.no/en/publications/podcast/alibaba-co-found...

Alibaba co-founder and Chair: China, Jack Ma, AI and basketball

And while smart and sympathetic, I cannot help to think that Alibaba is a company of the past belonging to a time of a certain US-China order that is no more. The future of Chinese tech belongs to companies that are much more fast moving, fearless, and aggressively deep tech than what Alibaba aspires to be.
llama.cpp has the feature to enforce a certain structure from the LLM (but you still need to have the LLM be able to produce that structure and it's beneficial to prompt it towards the exact result). So this particular story doesn't need to be the same among all LLMs.

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/...
TL;DR they copy pasted the Instagram architecture and went on with their lives.
I am struggling to understand the workflow that uses tab groups instead of just using windows. All of the use cases I am finding while searching for this feature sound like things I can already do with windows. I've now spent like ten minutes searching around for people using this feature and trying to learn what it is about and I'm still not seeing it :(.
I think if social media were required to have a subscription (even $1/month), they're usage would go down overnight.

Of course, how can anyone force them (as then they could argue that a platform is social media vs online forum or else) but that could be interesting.

Also it would prevent having to be on all the platforms, since you have to pay, one would choose the one(s) they strictly prefer/need, not literally all of them.
Yup. The logistics startup I joined nearly 7 years ago should have done the same. A single VM of say 4 cores and 8 gigs of memory and about 100G of disk would have been plenty for our proposed PoC and it should have run as a monolith. That’s what I would do had I to do it again. Instead what we did was what I call HN driven development: k8s, microservices, cloud. 7 or so months after I joined and on my way out we had nothing to show for it except for a really strong and capable front end dev who was basically faking functionality to appease investors because we the backend folks were so incompetent. (Man I sure have come a long way from those days. I was dumber then. I’m still dumb now — just not as much.)
I am not sure this is related to being a newer developer, the thing is that sources of truth regarding frontend languages are not obvious to find, contrary to say the official Golang tutorial
I am amazed at the quality of the Mozilla Developer documentation though it's a good place to learn
It's the country's role or more specifically, the role of education to equip citizens with skills that will help them navigate virtual, deceiving and fake internet space.
I, Millennial, am seeing a huge decline in social media usage among my peers. It's reached the point where I didn't even bother to install any of the apps when I got a new phone last year, other than Facebook Messenger which we still use for planning activities.

The vast majority of my friends and "friends" on social media haven't posted anything for years. I think my last contribution was back in 2017.

I thought social media in general is boomer / gen X town nowadays.
>Why would anyone go through the trouble and cost of printing out a book if putting up a website costs pennies?

The number of people who want to be able to call themselves a published author is far greater than the number of people who actually want to write a book for the sake of it being read.
Show HN: I made a prompt calculator to compare LLM API costs
Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS
Hey HN, just wanted to share my success story with CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS.

For those who may not be familiar, FFmpeg is a powerful tool for converting, streaming, and recording audio and video content.

I started CompressX as a weekend project to serve my 9-5 jobs, primarily to compress demo videos for uploading to GitLab and sharing with my colleagues. It took me 2 weeks to make the first working version. I shared the demo on Twitter and the reaction was extraordinary. People loved it, they said that I was bringing the Pied Piper to life.

Four months later, I hit the $9,000 mark in revenue. I never expected to make a dime from this project, let alone eight thousand dollars. It's been a surreal experience, but it's also been incredibly rewarding.

I put a lot of time and effort into developing this tool, and it's amazing to see it paying off. It's been a great journey so far and I'm excited to see where it takes me next.
Nobody uses Threads, that's why they're fine /s.

But yeah, I used to get anxious reading HN and hearing about some new web tech stack. I thought my knowledge and expertise was falling behind.

99 times out of 100 the new stuff is nice, but not game changing, and the stuff I know is good enough.
3 hours maybe for international travel. Nearly all of my airport door-to-gate times have been under an hour, with very few exceptions. No TSA-PreCheck either. This includes international airports.
Much ado about nothing.

Look, if you type a bunch of hateful text into Word, surprise, it will display that text on your screen. Would anyone really want a tool that did otherwise? Should Clippy pop up and scold you?

It's really not that different with LLMs. If some juvenile folks would get a kick out of seeing some hateful stuff on their screens - so what? Why hobble the tools for everyone else?
> I'm trying not to have a panic attack that "Windows 98" unambiguously counts as retrocomputing now though.

Oh you can totally go up to Windows XP for this denomination. Some would argue you may even go to 7.

Windows 10 is 9-10 years old and nobody ever cared or will ever be nostalgic about Windows 8 which is 12 years old so it’s not unreasonable to consider anything before that, "Retro".
> I would ban all current social media platforms below 18

Just like porn? Do you think kids would find a way around it?