skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the exact same way.

There are so many use cases that get shoved into the latest, shiniest box just because it’s new and shiny.

A colleague of mine once suggested running a CMS we manage for customers on a serverless stack because “it would be so cheap”. When you face unexpected traffic bursts or a DDoS, it becomes very expensive, very fast. Customers don’t really want to be billed per execution during a traffic storm.

It would also have been far outside the normal environment that CMS expects, and wouldn’t have been supported by any of our commercial, vendored dependencies.

Our stack is so much less complicated without running everything in Docker, and perhaps ironically, about half of our stack runs in Kubernetes. The other half is “just software on VMs” we manage through typical tools like SSH and Ansible.
Probably because Explorer hosts shell hooks which can potentially execute arbitrary code.

Just one example: File icons or thumbnails can be dynamically generated by shell extensions based on the file contents. A maliciously crafted file could potentially exploit a vulnerability in such a shell extension.
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So `net.ipv4.tcp_wmem` applies to IPv4 and IPv6? If so it's absolutely not obvious.
I assume you haven't heard of some of AMD's 7000 chips burning themselves/exploding?
I wouldn't expect performance of pretty much any plausible approach to matter much. The notes just aren't going to be coming very quickly.
The problem with digital records is that they mingle.
Update hook doesn't trigger if the write happened from a different process.
A buddy of mine uses one and it is effective. Most of your noise will come from buck converters and other cheap power supplies in the near field. Cell phone chargers, 120ac to 12vdc PSU, computer PSU, and fluorescent lighting ballasts are big culprits. Plasma TVs will generate more noise as they age. Pole-mounted cable repeater PSU go bad and start heating up, generating a shitload of noise. Any arcing on cracked insulators will generate RFI and can be easily located by driving around with a clear AM channel on your car stereo. Report these as they must also be repaired. Cheap solar panel inverters are also noise generators. A process of isolating house circuits helps identify the offending devices if they are in the home. In most cases, it is unlawful for devices to generate spurious emissions. In the case of solar panel inverters, they must fix/replace them if you complain. Another thing to check is cable tv leakage, which is less of a problem today, but can still cause interference. Unterminated cable coax can radiate lots of noise in the 144mhz band, and also on other channels. Great article about RFI hunting and elimination: https://www.arrl.org/files/file/RFI/Thompson%20Noise.pdf
I grew up in Levittown. I don’t ever want to go back.
GPS jammed on commercial flight over Atlantic
Because it takes minutes to run.
There are certainly writers that are better communicators and give more detail to make it easier to learn while you are practicing and studying. I have had good and bad textbooks in my academic career. So it does not hurt to get recommendations.
Clarity Is Underrated (2017)
cool. i don't want to recreate a filesystem in my app logic
Not in the first or second mission. Way to welcome new players, especially ones who are already suspicious since they read the reviews…
Yet another inactive throwaway terf account
If you are a software company, that $1 million you spent on software devs is your operating expense. Actual profit that year is $0.

On a cash accounting basis it’s actually worse, because that company is seriously in the red after paying taxes with the new rules. Previously it would have netted out at $0.

Of course someone is going to be hesitant to loan money in that situation, unless you can cut those expenses. Which if you’re in a highly competitive market could mean death to your company.

Is it overly simplistic? No shit, it’s an example to illustrate why startups are getting worked up right now because they have sudden cashflow issues. And why larger companies are also doing layoffs and trying very hard to reduce their software dev spend. Including outsourcing, where they can.

Because the actual way most companies will solve this once they figure it out is to not spend all their cash on software dev, and instead reduce it significantly.

Because this new treatment means instead of being able to write income off as a straight business expense in the year they spent it, they have to pay taxes on money they’ve already spent in that year, and then can only make it up fractionally after that.

So in the example I gave? Companies taxes that year are zero with the prior R&D rules. They had zero taxable income.

With the updates to section 174, now they owe taxes on $800k of taxable income the first year.

Huge difference.

They can still eventually write off the whole $1mln they spent in year one, but that is a hell of a big difference in cash flow. Even if dev spend is flat for 5 years, it will take that long for it to look the same cash flow wise. And it’s rarely ever actually flat.

And that is not even taking into account the increased cost of money going on, tightening access to credit. If you pulled off this situation while being in a safe industry that a bank will write a loan for you easily, then cool.

But they’re surprisingly weird sometimes, and if you’re in year one it can be hard to get anyone to return your calls at all if there is anything ‘non-traditional’ about you. Which is most startups.And the ‘startup banks’ where it was easy (SVB and first republic) all got nuked.

So you could easily end up paying 25% APR on short term financing to close this gap, if anyone is talking to you at all.
You take a strange lesson from an anecdote about artificial super-intelligences. In the book, the AIs can spend time in a limitless virtual universe, better than reality.

Time spent in "infinite fun" (as they call it) has no value because it has no impact on what happens in the real world, hence the importance of remembering where the off-switch is. It's about having an effect on the world, not the world having an effect on you.

Someone who spends a lot of time (and in all likelihood is wired to spend a lot of time) thinking about their work is not wasting their time; they are preparing to have an effect on the world.
I prefer the x86 MOV instruction:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210214020524/https://stedolan....

Removing all but the mov instruction from future iterations of the x86 architecture would have many advantages: the instruction format would be greatly simplified, the expensive decode unit would become much cheaper, and silicon currently used for complex functional units could be repurposed as even more cache. As long as someone else implements the compiler.
GUIs can have keyboard shortcuts. Have you honestly never pressed Alt+F, x to exit a GUI program or Ctrl+S to save a document in a GUI editor, or Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs in a GUI browser or Tab to move focus between fields, or the context-menu button next to Alt Gr and then a keyboard accelerator key for the menu, or Ctrl+C then Ctrl-P or anything?

Repeating the same actions in a CLI with no readline is an exercise in frustration, but ... that's not what happens most of the time.
This comment is inappropriate and unnecessary. Additionally, shows you do not understand what this quote is saying.
This is a pretty nice option for Cloudflare domains. An alternative I use is DomainConnect, which provides free DDNS but the main backer of it is GoDaddy so I had to leave the domain I use it with registered there.
I think there are a couple of pretty good podcasts making six figures, at least.
Shipping has no authority, right? I recall reading they switch to heavier, dirtier fuel in international waters because it's not illegal.

How would we even begin regulating that? Treaties and some new deep sea enforcement agency?
Show HN: I integrated a folder system into ChatGPT and Claude
Ok, let me state it like this:
Car repair consists of diagnosing a finite amount of components with known failure states and swapping them with known parts that are pre-approved and suitable for the car that's being repaired.

Software 'repair' consists of managing thousands of dependencies and building new firmware from scratch. Modern cars contain a lot of mandatory safety systems, from ABS to emergency braking, pedestrian detection, emergency SOS calls, active steering with lane assist, speeding notifications, driver fatigue detection etc. Knowing how software companies operate, I presume they got it just about working per spec. I don't know if you can expect a third party to manage such a complex stack and update it in a way that's up to spec and satisfies all legal requirements. And even if that's possible I don't think it will be cheaper anyway. Computers are a very different world, just as car manufacturers are still discovering.
What I mean here is "companies that don't run LLM servers." That's an expensive business and OpenAI offers it as an easy to use service with an API.
Have a close family member with Parkinsons. Can you elaborate on "open source accessibility software" and what that actually means
> The problem is that DNS is not zero configuration.

Certainly it is not-zeroconf, but it is the same not-zeroconf for both IPv4 and IPv6.

But extra work with DHCP is needed for IPv4, and extra-extra work if you need to do things like configure 'IP helper', whereas IPv6 can be configured using only a router (which you need regardless) and some on-link packets (RAs).

> DNS also runs over IP which means if IP is down DNS doesn’t work. What do you have to do then? You have to debug IP without DNS.

And? At least you have fe80/64 as a basic starting point. Run a tcpdump to see if you're on-link in any way (or in the correct VLAN), and if you are, you can then ping(6) ff02::2 to find if there any on-link routers. You've now debugged Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity. Tada.

You're making IPv6 (sound) way more complicated than it is. It is no more or less complicated than IPv4 or IPX/SPX or …. It's protocol data units at OSI Layer 2 or 3 in different formats with different fields.
> I was a kid at the time, but did many people actually buy windows?

Yep! Windows did indeed come with machines, but the upgrades were always a big seller. I remember when Windows 3.1 hit the shelves and seemed to be everywhere. Same with Windows 95 but that one was a tougher upgrade because of the increased system requirements.
just a string field that points to the file path
Investors here meaning those who bought the stock at IPO.

Given that the stocks went down after the IPO, I'd recon the VCs made as much as they could.
It's funny how you already answered your own question
Disclaimer as a friend of the author - but this is slick looking! I also like how I don't need to pay the New York Times to access Graphs.

I enjoy the basic feature a lot but I'd love to see a secondary challenge of identifying what precipitated the highest spike or drop if you get the first answer right. I think this would challenge the user in a different way - OK you can spot this trend - but how much do you really know it?

I think you could use a moving average and standard deviation to accomplish this in code - numpy has some native methods.

Great execution, keep it up!
I make no value judgement here. I thought the OP's post was interesting as an example of how humans can mediate their own "VR" experience, and have done so for all of human history. The "absent-minded professor" is a stereotype for a reason. It can be disconcerting for someone with high imagination factor to interact with someone with an imagination factor of 0, even if all other qualities (age, culture, language, etc) are the same, since the paths they have both walked are so very different. The error modes that arise from impedance mismatch go in both directions. It's not clear what nature will select for. Certainly over short periods of time, nature has selected for heavy abstraction and all the military/economic power it yields. The longer time frame has not yet played out.
I would have thought that most people who need this today (e.g. those who were using Google Domains DDNS) already have ddclient installed.

ddclient already works with Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/manage-dns-records/how...
It sounds like you didn’t write optimizations operating on that format, though. This seems to have been a large part of the course TFA describes.
Despite being aware of AMD’s Zen chips, for a moment I thought this was about a ZEN player. Good times!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Zen
The Capacitor Plague
Everything you say may be true, but is orthogonal.

I do think social benefits are expanding in the USA also, more and more people find it viable to be a NEET. The wealth gap will surely widen; this implicit UBI is certainly not communism in any way. Truth is, today western societies can afford to provide the basics for everyone, so ultimately withholding in order to keep the masses in the jobs is not tenable.
Show HN: The easiest way to create a product launch waitlist
Lessons from Ancient File Systems
Yes - people bought it to upgrade, as the step up from dos to 3.1 to win95 was huge.
I was thinking LINQ was optimized to do a single enumeration for cases such as this. Can LINQ be easily, naturally, and idiomatically used with `IEnumerable<T>.Max` and `.Min` to avoid looping twice, or is it more of a more rigorous and intentional optimization the engineer would have to seek out?
If that SELECT query is too much for you, I agree, SQLite is maybe not meant for you. Not a very solid argument against SQLite, though.
> But the project’s hefty price tag—an estimated $312 million over 6 years—drew immediate concern from several members of Congress, who asked GAO to conduct a review just 2 months after the initiative was announced.

Many AI and Crypto projects have gotten similar amounts. As a society we decide were to invest our money.

When that decision is removed from society and put in the hands of a few investors we get this result. Money for buzz-word pyramidal schemes while projects that would change the life of millions are stopped.

There is something broken in the economy right now.
Didn't a shift away from dirty fuel actually cause a short term increase in global temperatures in 2023 due to a reduction in Sulphur-tainted fuels? So this is being worked on, but with counterintuitive unintended effects.
I built the exact same thing 5 years ago and I'm using it daily since then. I never have any problems with it. You don't need a config file for it, just a couple of CLI options and you are good to go. You can install it with pip, docker or downloading a binary:

https://github.com/kissgyorgy/cloudflare-dyndns
Subsidizing demand is the last thing you want to do when it comes to affordability, and the Texas cities are building massive amounts of multifamily housing.
> "Unveils", preorders all sold out..

This is about SU7, not the 'Ultra'. SU7 is very much real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iM1J_HdHE
Your understanding is correct. It happened to me; someone made a Workspace for a domain name I own, and made a user on that workspace to match an email address I have on that domain, and then used "Sign in with Google" on Dropbox. Luckily I don't use Dropbox, so instead of gaining access to my files there, it just resulted in a new Dropbox account being created.

I noticed all this, of course, because I got email notifications for all of it.
You are right, I stand corrected - it's only half of the federal income tax collected (which was ~2.2T in 2023).
Drastic, drastic. Have you tried kill all the poor? https://youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE?si=rY-7gUX3iymfDTy6
I think that this article is likely to give people a skewed understanding of podcasting as a whole. It would be sort of like looking at Taylor Swift and Drake and trying to draw conclusions about what the music profession looks like for a small town or regional working musician.

There are people who support themselves through podcasting without any sponsorships or ads at all. There are people with small dedicated communities or who are influential in their own niche.

Again, it's just like music. Sure there are mega-stars, but as soon as you get outside of popular genres it's pretty common for things to be dominated by successful bands whose members still have day jobs.

Edit: I want to make sure to say that I don't mean this in some sort of pretentious "real art is stuff that normies haven't heard of" way. I just mean that as a practical matter if you are into non-mainstream stuff then there are probably lots of artists that are very famous in your community but aren't pulling in huge salaries.
> I am not sure however if your estimation is correct for all cases.

Apologies. Next time they'll do a 10-year study on the subject before daring to comment on a public forum, ensuring that each and every angle is covered so that le smart folks like yourself will be able to sleep at night.
There's some interesting bug in HN. I can flag this but I can't hide this story. Hide works for anything else.
Ask HN: Remote Code Execution APIs
Hey all,

What are your recommendations in 2024 for running code in a sandboxed environment? Ideally need to support most/all modern languages, easily scale to many users, ability to add/configure packages per language, and easy to self-host or affordable usage-based pricing.

Are there any great APIs, frameworks, SaaS tools, or open source examples for this?

Thanks!
Some health-related things are an area where important advances could probably have happened earlier in principle: germ theory of disease, importance of sanitation, some relatively simple advances like antibiotics... All seem doable in principle relative to inventing a lot of 19th century industrial revolution devices.

ADDED: The Romans did apparently have some knowledge of antibiotics without presumably understanding the mechanisms or refining them. Per Wikipedia and other sources: "Antibiotics have been used since ancient times. Many civilizations used topical application of moldy bread, with many references to its beneficial effects arising from ancient Egypt, Nubia, China, Serbia, Greece, and Rome."
In classical proprietary implementations, the TOTP physical keychain is sent you out-of-band via snail mail. Secret is never sent to you electronically.

Modern phone app reimplementation do it in-band on-line, with hope that it has to be harder for opportunistic adversaries to capture that initial handshake.
>The amount of killed tweeters I have seen would not have happened with an active speaker.

My 1978 (no brand) speakers are still in excellent condition, so are the 1991 Bose. Hifiberry works fine. ymmv
Most people do need to be on a VPN or in an office to work. That's entirely normal, and makes sense even if you also require authentication for applications.
Would vacuum seal bags like grocery items are stored in work?
I think I interviewed with that team (or tried to at least) - it had great concepts, but the limited leadership I met on that one seemed unlikely to actually get to product (I say with 20 years retrospection) - they were stuck on sql when it needed a directory, but the directory couldn't scale to handle filesystems. Both have since been fixed, but I think the idea is well dead in MS
SQLite can be faster than FileSystem for small files. For big files, it can do more than 1 GB/s.
On Pack [1], I benchmarked these speeds, and you can go very fast. It can be even 2X faster than tar [2].

In my opinion, SQLite can be faster in big reads and writes too, but the team didn't optimise it as much (like loading the whole content into memory) as maybe it was not the main use of the project. My hope is that we will see even faster speeds in the future.

[1] https://pack.ac
[2] https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,66281.m...
No one said "smarter", they said "more skilled".

A perfectly legitimate answer to that question might be that we stopped teaching them.
The foundation of macOS contains elements of UNIX (or rather BSD) and the OS is UNIX certified, I‘m fully aware of that. But these are two different things.

For one thing, UNIX != command line.

In the same vein, Windows NT is not based on DOS anymore, even if it has a command line which resembles (parts of) DOS.
A specific election you can take is not at all the same as “you can do whatever”. Your writing heavily implied that they won’t penalize you for getting things wrong up to $1M. That’s flagrantly wrong.

Assets do not need to be sellable. Goodwill is an asset. It’s a not “real” thing. The book value is also completely unrelated to the market value.

You have quoted a dictionary definition of the word “asset” from Oxford languages off of Google. You do realize we are not talking about about generic language but specific technical accounting definitions right?

Desks are 100% capital assets. Office furniture has a specific useful life defined by the IRS. Feel free to Google this basic information.
Hmm, that's possible
You’re the redbean-docker guy!
this comment says more about you than him :)
Where did you see a value judgment? The imagination factor is a trade-off, neither good nor bad in itself. It's normally distributed, and selection pressure will push the median up or down. The utility of the concept comes in personal interaction - those with high IF speaking with low IF people should respect the value of (perhaps multiples) of real-world experience that they have. In effect, the concept of IF is a tool of both humility and empathy.
Has anyone tried to see the net value generation of YC. Total revs - costs - money invested, all discounted appropriately. It’s been around long enough that the true net value created can be assessed, without resorting to BS valuations.
DSideAI
Great, I'm glad you think that. Next time please just pass by.
Ask HN: How do I program a BitGrid?
I've come up with an architecture[1,2] that I think could be quite useful. But I've been stuck on how to actually compile "code" for it for far too long. (Decades, actually) It's my hobby horse, and I want to ride it before I die.

I need to take expressions, or programs, and break them down to a directed acyclic graph of binary logical operations.

In the end.... a cell has 4 inputs, and needs 4 outputs for each possible combination, a total of 64 bits (or 16 nibbles).

Heck, I'd settle for a good way to express said tree in a plain text file as a kick start.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
This is an interesting contrast with the story of the Yugoslavian Galaksija.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/yugoslavia-diy-microcomputer

https://jacobin.com/2020/08/computer-yugoslavia-galaksija-vo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija_(computer)
Not quite sure that I follow here. In your model, what are the proposed benefits given out as a UBI? Is it $260/mo reducing down to $0 when you make at least $12,000 per year?

If so, how is that universal? Or a basic income covering some of the basic resources UBI is argued to cover, like shelter or food?
as @pmdfgy suggested, would be great if you can put some example notes!
> But can you tell it "play me a song that lasts longer than 5 minutes"?

I don't think even pre-LLM technology allows you to do this.

I can't do something as basic as goto Spotify's search page and filter "only genres I like", neither a smart version of that filter or a manual version of that filter is possible.
I assume they are referring to "Dialectical Behaviour Therapy" (dbt).

At least, that's what ChatGPT tells me.
"a couple"

As other people said here: it's a power law, like acting, writing, dancing, painting, or any art form. It declines pretty steeply to hobby level.
The actual comparison is that Vista was the Ford Edsel (hilarious and widely-mocked failure) but 7 was the Ford Comet (a huge hit).

It's a close analogy, because the Comet was actually the next model of Edsel. They just changed the branding. Same with Vista to 7.
“Drill drill drill”