skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people failed to make tech their own. They wanted the lazy ready-to-use solutions and now others determine the degrees of freedom they can have.

Honestly if you did make tech work for you, not too much has changed. But yes, since people always opt for the easy solution, more engineers will supply their demands.
> Netflix paid for the rights to everything and gave access to everybody for a reasonable monthly fee. Then the studios got greedy and thought "why should we let a middleman take a slice of our profits?"

To be fair to the studios, sticking with Netflix would have been suicide.

Put yourself at the mercy of someone else's distribution monopoly and you end up a powerless, penniless sharecropper - like people who develop mobile apps.
We passed that threshold in 2019 when Microsoft gave up trying to make a browser engine because it was too difficult.
The embryo is just a year younger than the mother who birthed her (2017)
Use NewPipe to watch!
> Rust In Peace was completely rerecorded by studio musicians

Are you talking about the 1990 Megadeth album?

In 2004 it was remastered, as a lot of albums are, but it was not rerecorded by studio musicians.
Anything Microsoft related, Windows Server included.
This... this is why I gave up C++ programming and have not looked back.
It's also possible that it's such an unlikely thing to hear that she actually misheard it and thought it said something nicer.
The strict aliasing stuff allows you to do "optimisations" across translation units that are otherwise unsound.

The compiler alias analysis is much more effective than those rules permit within a translation unit because it matters whether int* alias other int*.

And then we have link time optimisation, at which point the much better alias analysis runs across the whole program.

What remains therefore is a language semantically compromised to help primitive compilers that no longer exist to emit slightly better code.

This is a deeply annoying state of affairs.
People should have never started including javascript from third-party domains in the first place. It was always playing with fire and there were plenty of people pointing out the risks.
I've found out (the hard way) that chronic lack of sleep leads to not having enough energy for intense workouts... (walking is ok though)
Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials (2015)
Hello programmers, I have a question about tiktok, it has a collection section, but now this feature has been locked, but there are still people who can unlock it and post videos on it, Do you have any solution? I need the help of your genius minds

solution method, how to post
I'm sorry, I think I made the server crash with the following js code:

Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName("input")).forEach(e => {e.checked = true})
What I can see by just loooking outside is that people are obsessed with iPhones. Why they are obsessed is definitely not obvious at a glance. Could be quality, could be PR, could be something else.

You just think your opinion of something is the obvious truth and anyone not seeing it is blind.
I was talking about what at least 2 companies were doing in the past year.
It's cheaper for a (large enough) state to just damages/settlements, rather than paying insurance contributions.

Many countries manage to have (mostly) courteous and effective professional police forces without using an insurance/private lawsuit based framework such as the one you suggest.
I don’t think it’s a stretch to argue that porn is “de facto” illegal in South Korea
> Why don’t recreational nitrous users mix in some oxygen like medical users do?

Because they don't know better. It's not like we teach "safe consumption" in schools, and so most (particularly young) consumers of all possible kinds of drugs end up with cargo-culted consumption methods. Yes, Erowid etc. exist, but you need to know about that as well.

The correct thing to do would be to have "drug ed" similar to sex ed, but we see with the latter already how fierce political opposition to fact-based education can be, and with drugs it's going to be even worse.
First time hearing "administrative class" and god that's fitting for the MBA crowd
Same here for clang 15 :(
delete tiktok
> LLMs are very exciting

This just goes back to your grandparent comment: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

Also, I'm not particularly excited about my day job becoming about fixing up half-broken scripts that other people pump out with LLMs.

> WASM/WASI is a bold idea

I will admit that I have not looked into this a lot, but how is WASM substantially different from other bytecode interpreters like the JVM?

> Rust is a breath of fresh air

Finally something that I agree about.

> and ancient tools are finally being rewritten

But as someone in their 30s who has now personally witnessed several hype cycles, I am increasingly frustrated by the observation that most things billed as "progress" are either "change for the sake of change" or "reinventing technologies that existed decades ago under different names" (e.g. JVM -> WASI or FreeBSD jails -> Linux containers).
Yet, Ladybird.dev is happening.
> You are not convincing. The article is. So who is winning here? “Simplistic narrative” vs “believe it because mihaic says so”?

Yeah, and I was just expressing my opinion on disliking that simple narratives are winning. If you were honestly trying to have a conversation, and were genuinely curios of my arguments, I'd put in the effort to explain them, like hakunin for instance posted slightly above. I could for instance talk about how I feel like the overuse of analogies is dumbing the audience, like how movie scenes of "hacking" get removed from reality, but the medium develops a language of its own.

Data is also hard to explain properly since a difference in scale change the nature of what abuses you can make with it. I could here introduce the analogy to the problems of solving a random crime (a data point) versus organized crime, that reached a new dimension simply from scale. But I would also make a point of where this analogy breaks down -- the article merely mentions it's not a perfect analogy and then just continues.

Again, I'm not trying to convince anyone about what I think about data, but rather of more responsibility in properly communicating concepts, and correcting when someone oversimplified concepts.
Just burning goodwill like cordwood. I'm starting to believe they don't have a single person on staff who understands customer relations - or even that they have customers in need of pleasing. They seem like a faceless entity with impenetrable goals.

Honestly, I'm still reeling from the cancellation of Tosh.0. It makes zero sense from the outside looking in. It was their second most popular show after "South Park", cost peanuts to make, and had been renewed for another four seasons. They ended up breaking the contract, which presumably cost them nearly as much as just producing the show would have
It would be the state's pickaxe, but we'd call it "our" as that's the official nomenclature.
This has all been solved for music with compulsory licensing, so I assume we could solve it for video too.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H_sNcbXj5A0

my source for the part you quoted - apparently this is in their dashboard? it could be a third party site. I no longer have access to a twitch account (as an aside i blame starlink and not using gmail) so i can't verify if streamers on the platform have access to those tools.

And the pricing seemed about right. You can't tell but i am napkin-ing this right now: twitch recommends 4500kbps for 1080p30 on the uplink side, which fans out to 40gbit. per second. So maybe you can get that for $5000/month; or you can get 10gbit links in four places. Receive bits, transcode, stream. how hard

wait transcode?

A certain very large media company was paying a third party $250,000 per month for transcoding, on three 24x7 streams. I'm not saying that spend was necessary, because it isn't, just that it is a pain point.

anyhow that video shows $0.132 per half-viewer-hour (or something) at 1080p - probably 60fps. Come to think of it that's suspiciously close to what i'd guess AWS would charge for transit (which you alluded to, i think) - so this is showing streamers what they would be paying if they self hosted?
Okay ... clang doesn't have it implemented sry
I think this is sort of how Japan is often thought of as "land of the future" because where was a brief period around the 2000s where new tech adoption sort of got a little ahead of the US, but what people really missed was that they weren't ahead so much as just...kind of different?

And the reality today is that it'll seem practically backwards to a Westerner - i.e. tons of paper forms and bureaucracy for things like banking and rental applications.
let's do a mayonnaise!!!
C++ is obviously hilariously less type safe than JavaScript.

JavaScript will convert values from one type to a other at runtime but it's always absolutely sure what the type of the value is.

C++ will compile code that looks reasonable, decide it's UB, not tell you about that and proceed to do abject nonsense at runtime.

Considering C++ the more "type safe" one of the two is so far from accurate that I wonder if you've mistyped the name of one of the languages.
This is why Mozilla should stop bothering with the ESR version of Firefox. Too many features of it have to be polyfilled. The ESR cycle made sense when XUL was a thing, but now the extension APIs have been overhauled it should be easier for everyone to use the same browser version and tell outdated browsers to upgrade instead of having to backport features. Microsoft is also to blame here by making new versions of Windows abusive so people stick with outdated OS versions which only have ESR browsers. I just hope someone finds an unpatchable flaw in MS accounts so Microsoft is forced to go back to local accounts in Windows 12.
If cops only pay fines, their abuse of honest citizens gets worse.

There needs to be felony prison time for cops who pull this kind of thing.
Because this extends to the whole day, including breaks.

It isn't just about concentrating on individual classes, it is also about creating a culture that isn't focused on and actively promoting excessive smartphone use.

You cannot expect individual children to create cultural change (and thereby socially segregate themselves); such change must be a top down approach to be successful.
I mean, the article starts by explaining the fact CSS anchors was pushed as a chrome feature. Only browsers that inherit from it by default will have this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/anchor
You hire the most distinguished executive who still asks his secretary to print the emails you get, and then you're surprised it doesn't work
Discussed back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32888516 (40 comments)
Isn't the msvc implementation called the stl?

https://github.com/microsoft/STL
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I wonder if anyone is buying them at those prices though.

I collected a few machines when they were either being given away at work or nearly given away on eBay.
Nothing but Chromiums support this, but it should be happening in the not too distant future: https://caniuse.com/css-anchor-positioning
very cool that you don’t need to worry about thermal effects, nice work!
this is categorically untrue, it would've been true ten/fifteen years ago perhaps, supershoes absolutely make a difference to both performance and recovery, moreso if you're used to the relatively demanding minimalist shoes.

>Like you'll see much larger gains adding 10+ miles per week to your training volume.

me personally? I won't as I row 35/40km a week.
iPhones are used so widely around the world by such a dominant percentage of the population. That it's due to a PR campaign seems extremely unlikely to me. The best advertising in the world doesn't have a fraction of that kind of reach.
First request to finished render without any client side caching takes 5 s on my end, so I expect it to take maybe the double on an elderly device with a wobbly connection.

There might be better ways to increase profits.
> The entire purpose of copyright is to generate works for the public domain.

Is it? Or do we just think on average, producing more copyrighted works adds to the greatness and happiness of our society?

The writing of Harry Potter has brought joy to hundreds of millions of people. The production of a renowned textbook like SICP helps educate an entire generation of professionals and raise the nation's productivity.
Then I think you underestimate your marketing prowess; because these are not obvious things to everyone.

For me building cloud infrastructure is easy, the choices and tradeoffs are obvious to me. To all my colleagues in the past 16 years it's been some sort of magic. They are smart people, mostly, but lack the experience and make 'obivous' mistakes all the time.
There are still private trackers going on two decades old now with packrat members who have home NAS systems with everything they've ever watched saved away and shared on request with other members in good standing .. less high seas piracy, more community of collectors with digital VHS tapes.
Policy failure. South Korea enforced a "Sender Pays" rule for networks, eliminating peering between ISPs. This resulted in companies moving there server to neighboring countries to avoid paying for traffic, which was free before.

More details: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/internet-fragmenta...
How is the data getting into these tools in the first place? If your applications are instrumented with OpenTelemetry, you can use the OpenTelemetry Collector as the first hop, and then you might be able to send the data to both tools at the same time.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
From the Chinese and Russian (Soviet) perspective, letting a few Koreans get oppressed is worth it considering the alternative, a land border with the US
SEC whistleblower rewards have been an unequivocal good. They get a percent of monetary sanctions against the violating company.
> Makes me wonder if there's a missing format out there that should be built into browsers that describes shapes and connections.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG
I disagree with you.

I have never seen any post of mine marked [dead] yet, including when using a private window and not logged in, so I am very dubious about that claim as well. I have had a single one marked [flagged] so far, and I dispute the fairness of that. I think it was a misunderstanding, which is very common.
Matplotlib has 2 APIs, a procedural one and an object oriented one. Which one are we talking about? Or both?
how much does this cost?
It's very familiar to anyone who's done some woodwork. Keeping the grain direction in the same direction as you require strength is 90% of joinery.
> I'm constantly amazed by how much can be achieved with only CSS nowadays.

Honestly it's a bit too much. CSS is used for fingerprinting and exploits. It's become a security risk to have it enabled and I think before long we'll want CSS blockers the same way we have blockers for JS. The ability to allow only sane subset of CSS would be really useful!
Interesting.

The volume of 3rd party products suggests otherwise to me, but I have seen such comments.

But perhaps, free of malign corporate influence, that is fixable now...?
Looks to me to be a bit more than that in the repo.

Not sure if this is a thing in Laravel yet but usually it's easy to generate ORM classes from an existing database. Symfony has it in their CLI tool, or had back in 2019 when I last used it.
Conventional Changelogs Suck
They're not necessarily standards. I clicked on the first negative one and it said draft.

One browser vendor proposing things other vendor NAKing it makes it a vendor-specific feature. Like IE had its own features.
Python Still Surprises
Considering this is a CSS trick, it'd be nice if all the demos didn't require/load a ton of JS. Viewing source on the demos shows them to be like 90% javascript, several tens of thousands of characters, and that doesn't even include the five external JS files it also loads.
Great work! I hope unchecking them would not result in a ban...
This was fun to try out. Earlier this week I tried june-va and the long response time kind of killed the usefulness. It's a great feature to get fast responses, this feels much more like a conversation. Funny enough, I asked it to tell me a story and then it only answered with one sentence at a time, requiring me to say "yes", "aha", "please continue" to get the next line. Then we had the following funny conversation:

"Oh I think I figured out your secret!"

"Please tell me"

"You achieve the short response times by keeping a short context"

"You're absolutely right"
Ironically, I was looking to see whether Hacker News and anyone else had picked it up, from the FediVerse post. Bing found the Reddit thread from "One Million Checkboxes" as the search query. It's the second search result as I type this.

Other interesting Bing search results are Arnold Trakhtenberg's re-creation of the WWW site code using Convex, at https://github.com/atrakh/one-million-checkboxes .
Failing lifts is strongly correlated with a bad night's sleep.

Source: skimming various forums and personal experience et al, 2024.
Frog Pond Effect
> We'll know more about the 19th century than we ever will of the 21st century.

With digitization, we're losing a lot of documents from before 20th century as well, thanks to people who figure that digital scans are cheaper to keep than the paper originals, or worse, who also think someone else already digitized them (they didn't, because they also thought the same).
Verizon Roaming down for 1000s in France
> IP rights were invented to further the creation and distribution of works in the arts and sciences; if they're making it prohibitively difficult we're doing it wrong

They definitely further the creation, as we can't see the old stuff! I find music to be particularly bad here. People on Youtube can clip videos with fair use and talk over them, but any audio with music in needs to be muted, even if it's part of the fair use, because music is enforced so stringently.
Ideally, browsers should offer an API where a certain rect on screen can be rendered as SVG or PNG. Then such CSS flowcharts can be distributed as independent images instead of being a web-page.
> This is like saying that trees grow quickly. [...] The truth is that some species are really picky and some take decades to regrow after harvested.

It's more like saying weeds grow quickly. If it were slow-growing, I would probably just call it macroalgae. In any case, I was under the impression from previous discussions that the particular variety needed for the supplement grew quickly.

> You may not be aware of how much of our everyday stuff includes algae. The demand of toothpaste has not fell.

The demand for alternative sources of potash in Allied nations, however, has declined dramatically since the end of WW1. They required a tremendous amount of kelp for manufacturing explosives.
Still, execs might actually listen to these people.
> The 90s were peak humanity

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.

I was a teenager during the 90's, and I do have fond memories of things from that decade, but it would do well to keep your nostalgia in check.

Even when we restrict ourselves to the realm of tech, a lot of things back then sucked horribly. Large tech companies already showed their rent-seeking tendencies, there was crazy hype for shit ideas (the dotcom bubble popped for a reason).

In fact, I think that the current mindset of people being increasingly jaded, skeptical, and mistrusting of tech is healthy. It shows that at least some people are learning their lessons, even if this mindset is somewhat restricted to bubbles like this.
You make good arguments about derivative works on public domain works, where some other derivative works are still in copyright. That's probably difficult to maneuver legally.

However if the goal is to just distribute the original public domain work legally, then that's easy and convenient. That alone would be hugely beneficial for games.
Accounts are tied to your phone number.
Private-ish audio is solved with bone conduction, see the new Meta Rayban Glasses or the Bose Frames for example.

There's more leakage than you get with normal headphones, it's not something you could use in a church, library or cinema without annoying people, but it's private enough for most use cases.
Better them than the advertisers, which "Big Tech" ultimately is; it's hard to have more compromised morals than that.
There is also ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) which, among other things, supercharges org-mode with R/Julia, which means the likes of ggplot2 or makie. That said, I do respect any attempt at making something with pure elisp.
No, I think you just showed that trying to use Go as if it was designed to use panic as an exception is ugly. Other languages use exceptions perfectly well and I would say consequently have a much better error handling story than go.
I really like go - a lot. But its error handling is truly awful.
The Psychology of High Scores, Leaderboards, & Competition
The US has the most millionaires, and creates them the fastest[0].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/10/22/the-co...
And the proper response to this is to lobby government to repeal those regulations, and close those loopholes, not to add yet more regulations aimed at breaking monopolies.
Fabric: An open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI
The thing is, I've seen quite several web servers that refuse to serve your request unless you provide any User-Agent, and I mean any: it can even be "}__test|O:21:\" (which is not a valid UA), but it can't be missing. Yeah, sure, very security, much protection.