skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I feel like some things that have clear chunks of work are best goal-oriented like “reading through this book” while nebulous goals require a process-oriented method of thinking.

That said, I don’t think you should really worry about that distinction.

My method of getting things done is a 3 step:

1. Constant checking in on whether I am happy at my progress. If I am, keep doing what I’m doing.

2. If I’m not, try a completely different approach entirely. Abandon the old approach for a week or however long is reasonable.

3. If I fail to improve or I failed to actually put in place the different approach (saying and doing are different things), I need a shock to the system. Moving to a brand new city-kind-of-shock. Throwing away half your belongings-kind-of-shock.

The key is frequently checking if you are happy with progress and realizing that if you are not, you need a change. And you need to be willing to try changes constantly.
The impending crisis of exploding cicada data
Yeah, it seems like a promotion for Cosmos. I saw some planet drawings by Andreas Cellarius from 1660 on the default page that included "(not openly licensed)" in the info text. Even if they are public domain it looks like a quick scrape.
What makes IRC special isn't the protocol but the community, and that community has been steadily shrinking month after month, year after year. The average age of regulars continues to go up. Unless its popularity sees some kind of resurgence and the current trends reverse, IRC will most definitely die.
Absolutely, and not even assault. If an employee of mine was making people feel uncomfortable and potentially damaging my organisation's brand with their behaviour, I'd want to know immediately. And at the very least have a strongly-worded conversation about it. If they then showed no signs of adjusting their behaviour, I'd remove them from a position where they can damage the brand any more.

Letting it get to the point that police are involved is waaay too late.

Tbh if I heard that an employee of mine had a fully-consensual sexual encounter with a client, I'd be asking pointy questions. This is a business not a dating service or a swinger's club. Keep it professional, people.
I assumed there was negligence on the side of the firm because of the lawsuit.
I made no objection, I just find it interesting and curious, which is what this site is about and the posting guidelines being anything which gratifies intellectual curiosity. I find usage very interesting.
I think you are asking the wrong question. Before you decide what to bring in house, you need to have an IT strategy That sets out what components of your desired solution should be built, and what should be bought. You need to have a view about which technologies you will use, and why. What is your end state IT architecture? Have you prioritised your objectives and requirements?

I understand your current systems are holding you back and there may be no appetite to get a bunch of expensive consultants in to answer all these questions. But just hiring a bunch of devs without a plan for what you want them to do is a recipe for disaster.
For completeness, the context here is a social media post alleging the identity of someone arrested hours earlier for a mass murder at a children’s play group — an extremely distressing event that has been followed, for unclear reasons, by nationwide rioting.

This person was “arrested in relation to a post about the identity of the attacker in the Southport murders” and specifically “on suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred”.

Most police forces / services / departments no doubt mis-use the law for vexatious arrests but this does not seem like one of those cases.

I do think it’s valid to question whether it’s moral for the Lilliputian Police to criminalise anti Big-Endian rhetoric. If everyone’s doing it it is hard to claim the nationwide rhetoric is responsible for specific violent crimes. If only a few people are doing it then there might be a causal link from their speech to the other crimes, and those links and subsequent crimes are a vital part of the debate.
Tyranny doesn't require an autocratic dystopia to make life absolute hell.
I'm less likely to continue this conversation over email. Such is life. :)

I think that bringing in CSS is a bridge too far for the case of writing a book. Authors are no longer just writing HTML, they're writing HTML and CSS. And CSS is intimately tied to actual web browsers - you're now going to need a browser display engine to be an integral part of how you render your book. (Or you're going to need to implement just enough of that yourself, which is a big undertaking.)

The point of comparison is Markdown, which is relatively straight-forward and simple. HTML and CSS is not that.
why won't it let me zoom in more?
> Or you can [...] just fucking ban billboards

I feel this "just do X" formula is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting. Will you force most gas stations dismantle their price-signs? Will "garage sale here" signs become illegal? What zones are or aren't covered?

Vehemence is unfortunately not a substitute for planning or clear rules.
I haven't used LangGraph myself, but the latest magentic release is compatible with it if you'd like to check out the examples here https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic/issues/287
Post a copy of Pixar's latest movie online and see if that speech is protected. Or CSAM. It would be better to acknowledge that there very much are limits on the freedom of speech, just like everywhere else, instead of pretending we're better than everyone else and that we don't have any censors.
is it still in use?

I cant remember the last time I saw a reference to an active channel. Or seen it installed on any system.
Two. One is almost 3 and the other is a baby.

The toddler somehow hasn't broken anything yet other than an entire carton of eggs once, which was so hilarious it was worth it. I assume the other people commenting though aren't children ;)
If AI was in the mix, regenerating my images, personally I wouldn’t bother with scanning, and I’d just go back to digital.
As-in, the neutrons lose energy by hitting the material and creating more neutrons?
At least they were dried with a large quantity of toilet paper
What is an example of an "item" you can customize? How is this more customizable than current methods?
To summarize what has been said-

PHB: use that mauvaise foi to buy up mauve RAM!

孝德公: it's good faith for nature lovers to decide on the exception

Sartre: yes, but also for every resident of Hell, all the time!

Goethe: but it's only effective if you can fabricate blackholes

(EDIT-

Stan Lee: we can also invoke myriad other powers, most of which don't make sense but all are entertaining!)

Saint Aleksandr: hence salvation does not require good faith!

vinnyvichy: In a world without quantum computers and decentralized artificial superintelligence, each agent needs to seek their peers and estimate an epsilon of bad faith (or good faith, using Sartre's absurdly correct(?) inversion of dang's -- you can only upperbound rationality) in the other peers and assume a proportionate amount in themselves, taking the requisite actions to try to synchronize their TUFs
Do you have technical people local to manage your near/off shore resources?
If electrical and plumbing needs rework can the walls be safely cut without to much structural damage? How would repairing the cuts work?
Do you happen to have any studies to back this up? It makes sense that parental wealth would be one of the strongest predictors of wealth, but I know of at least one study that has demonstrated that 79% of millionaires did not receive any inheritance from their parents.

Source: https://www.ramseysolutions.com/retirement/the-national-stud...
That was a civil thing.
Thanks. I read that PERI printed a house in Houston with an extremely large U shape gantry. The house is waiting to be finished though.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-3d-...
Mathics is an open source clone of Mathematica.

https://mathics.org/

Naturally, Wolfram hired the creator and the project nearly died. A couple of heroes stepped in to create a second generation, but it's just too hard to continually compete with a multi-billion dollar company.

No idea how OEIS is involved.
Nominative determinism in action. Seems like a weird superstition, but it's surprising how much it can pop up.
Maybe, but even people with chronic conditions might not go to doctors often. They see an ad for a new medicine for their disease, they go to the doctor, it works better, and hooray.

Maybe doctors should be able to send out email blasts to people, but I'm guessing that's not HIPAA friendly. Also, I've had online ads aimed at oncologists served to me for different medications.

I think the fact that there are both TV ads for cancer medications and online ads aimed at oncologists says a lot about the fact that a ton of doctor's aren't keeping up with what's new, even in something as critical and limited in scope as specific cancers are.
From USA:

:~$ host police.uk
police.uk has address 51.104.28.64
:~$ host www.police.uk
www.police.uk is an alias for fallback.soh.police.uk.
fallback.soh.police.uk has address 104.18.28.214
fallback.soh.police.uk has address 104.18.29.214

Site blocked for me here.
It’s a term taken from Reddit (originally Reddit hive mind). Generally outside of Reddit and more so on hn, people don’t like Reddit-specific things
but ppl arent going to crowdfund your b2b database

crowdfunding is always hardware for some reason and consumer stuff...like games
> A trademark is scoped to a specific industry / application.

Or at least it's supposed to be.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe/wwf
We added a security policy: https://github.com/stack-auth/stack/blob/dev/.github/SECURIT...

If it helps you, we delegate the most vulnerable parts of the application, such as OAuth, to lower-level frameworks — similar to the unmanaged auth libraries people use today. We are essentially a thick wrapper around those, to create a full-stack platform from primitives. (Of course, that doesn't mean the thick wrapper cannot be vulnerable, but it helps with some of the most hideous bugs.)

The point I disagree with is that building it yourself is better than delegating it to a third-party — at best, you can secure your auth against vulnerabilities you're aware of. Unfortunately, this fallacy keeps coming up, but generally it's the case that homebrew auth is not more secure than open-source libraries, nor is proprietary code.
Most recently featured: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41073777
However the problem domain that this fellow has 'Logistics' Can be a big scape, but more importantly the nature of the logistics is important whereas "shipping logistics for a parcel" is a hell of a lot different than logistics with specialized compliance, handling, security, discretion, coordination-of-other-entities, does.

It would be interesting to know what niche is ~$300-400 million ARR thats being handled by 3rd party contracted infra?

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However, having worked as a high-paid consultant on high ticket/visibility/risk projects -- HN is giving some great advice. (hire and empower a great lead - allow a new approach. Ivolve your staff and have what you need built.

Continue to work with the external that you have, and as a requirement (where appropriate - have them respond to your lead on any questions your lead comes up with)
There's a good chance that instead of "fuck you Aussies", what we have is a firewall that has been battered to the point of banning most of the world.

The UK is under some form of attack at the moment (probably mostly internally generated - no need to invoke bogeymen). We have seen quite a lot of anti racist activity recently and it is likely the nasty lot have been contained (hopefully).

The Commonwealth is always welcome here - that's why our mutual Queen (EIIR) created it. She got to grips with us proles rather well from around 1995 onwards when the Royal Family realised they have to engage with us lot.

Personally speaking, I've always thought of AU and NZ (SA etc) as mates. We might disagree about a few things and rugby and cricket and that. However we have more in common than not.

I have no doubt that the mood in AU and NZ is largely stirred with anti British sentiment (we see it here from Scotland, even though "modern Britain" was invented by a Scottish king - James 1 or VI).

NZ have often moved towards a silver fern on black flag. I say: why not - if that is your idea of your identity then crack on (it does look rather cool). Also, perhaps AU should rethink their flag - you go all in on gold and green. Ditch the blue thingie with the southern cross and the union flag in the top left - it doesn't suit you. ... or keep it because you can and proudly do whatever floats your boat. AU needs to sit down and take a really hard look at its flag and do what is best for AU.

The world is a messy place but let's keep it civil (and real).
First off, as an occasional customer of logistics providers who sees so much crappy software held with duct tape and a wish, I completely agree that it is smart to bring it in house.

You need a solid team of at least two - a product person and a builder, preferably who have worked together before. Notice I didn't say CTO because some CTOs are admins rather than builders. Notice I also said product because you don't just need to build, you need to know what to build - and that might be part of the problem, if you're the one spec'ing the features and prioritizing bugs, you need someone to do this full time for you.

I'd look for one of the two to start with and make it clear that you will expect them to build the team up as their very first responsibility. Most great engineers have product people who they can recommend and most great product people have software engineers they can recommend.

I have come across people who operate very well with a specific offshore software dev team. If they can come in and bring their offshore connection, all the better (can be 1/2 as expensive as US). But in the formative stages, if you can afford it, I highly recommend an in-person team rather than off shoring, because it's a crapshoot that can be very expensive too if it doesn't work.
If being an early startup employee wasn’t a bad deal already, if these deals became common place then being an early employee would be an even worse deal. Now you have even more politics affecting whether you’re in the top 10-20% of employees that get included in the buyout.
You also missed that Macs were becoming pretty popular before iPhones existed. There were multiple reasons for this but the timeline is nowhere near as simple as you portrayed it.
I'm not sure what you mean by it's grains either way. My older kid usually asks for cottage cheese in the morning. She wouldn't know to demand cereal because we've never bought it or even gone into that aisle in the store. She's never heard of it, and advertisers don't have access to her to suggest it.
Hah, the general issue with IRC was (even without DDoS) the bandwidth.

I went to Monash University in Australia, starting in 1994. We had an EFnet server (biggest, or one of the biggest). I was just a student so I don't know the specifics, but it was only allowed to run from 6pm to 6am because otherwise it used most of the University's bandwidth, if not the entire country:

At the time, Australia's internet capacity overseas was a SINGLE 1.5Mbit link. Telstra did buy a 45Mbit link in late 1995, and then another in early 1996.

Still, that's insane, the country had less than 100Mbps.

I remember working for a web design company in the mid-late 90s and we had servers at a datacenter in Melbourne. I remember downloading Netscape Navigator (1.1n!) and being blown away by how fast it downloaded, and then realizing for the duration of the download I was using something in the order of 5% of the country's international bandwidth.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Australia
Discussion (57 points, 1 day ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184174
Makers of the 1990's HTML editing software HotDog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Software

Edit: And yes, I saw what you did there.
"But you can run your rails app on a single host with embedded SQLite, K8s is unnecessary."
Apple applies a filter to make fake eye contact.
Wow, "workers who are able to work from home are happier at their jobs". That's quite a claim!

Open the article. The byline on the article is "Remote working really could make workers happier, study finds".

Well, that's interesting, within four words we went from "are happier" to "could make workers happier". That's weird. Oh well let's continue on.

Let's go ahead and take a look at their evidence for their (now ambiguous) claim.

The data is .. a self survey of 4,000 people on what they thought about remote work, of which 2,600 of the respondents didn't even work remotely.

No actual data or measurements about whether the 1,400 remote workers actually were happier, or actually were more productive. Not a single piece of data or analysis anywhere. No, literally just a survey of what a collection of workers say they think about remote work.

Man, that's a real nail in the coffin there. Mark 'em boys, remote work makes workers happier!
To add to your point, over the least decade animal models are increasingly being seen as models of specific mechanisms, rather than as complete models of a human disease.

To relate this back to the AD field, researchers have developed mouse models to better understand the specific steps in the development of a form of angiopathy seen in humans, cerebral amyloid angiopathy; that is, amyloid plaques that develop on blood vessels. This is being done in the hope that these models will elucidate the basic biology of CAA, and thus help researchers make more informed no/go decisions about CAA therapies in humans.
Show HN: Do – to-do list in your CLI
It's a to-do list, but in your command-line.

Minimal, simple, functional.
Once you get into a heart of a teen, you remain there for the rest of his life. Many bands well past their peak have a revival of private bookings now, as people who were teens back then become rich people who can book a band for a party.
Wtf are you talking about? If you never used any software that ran on it, you’re completely unqualified to evaluate it.
Original reporting from The Internet Monitoring Action Project (iMAP) referenced in OP: https://imap.sinarproject.org/news/internet-censorship-updat...
OK but that's how regular humans work too.
Well they folded quickly. They'll probably start another organization that does the same thing under a different name.
To my knowledge, the core of Twitch chat is just IRC[0]. They've obviously extended it a fair bit, but it's probably the largest service I can think of that leans on the protocol.

[0] https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/chat/
Do you by chance know what LuaJIT does?
Honestly, this sounds like a project I would enjoy working on: designing and building a brand new system, learning about a new kind of business, encoding some complex business rules into code, being able to work closely with the people who would be using my software (ie other folks at the company).

However, I would be worried that software development at a non-software company would be a second-class citizen. Lots of pressure, and unhealthy culture, upper management that didn't understand the nature of software development... How would I know that I would have the space and the support to do good work in a good environment?

I actually had a good time doing this at Target of all places, where I got to work on building a new supply chain optimization system from scratch. It was a lot of fun and had a lot of impact, but largely because our team was insulated from the "normal" way of working at Target for several years. But, eventually, the Target way of doing things caught up to us and most of the best people on the team left within a couple of years. (Side note: we were transitioning from a third-party system that ran on a literal mainframe, but I was never involved too directly with the legacy system.)

So, my advice? You can definitely hire legitimately strong programmers even in a non-tech company, but you need to solve two problems: how can you show-not-tell that the software team won't just be a cost center without the space and scope to do good work, and, once you can do that, how do you get the word out to strong programmers? I've seen companies do this well but always in pretty context-specific ways; there's no universal solution. Just saying something "we're like a startup inside a bigger company" won't do because a) everybody says that and b) it's too fuzzy. And how to get the word out, well, I really don't know much about that.

Side note: happy to talk more about this if you're interested.
Sorry to have missed that.

Amazing that the post got so much traction with just the title "Medieval".

With 843 points, further adornment seems unnecessary, but something like "Medieval: the world's first medieval electronic instrument" might've been more illuminating.
I was working on a dev tools ChatGPT extension, have shelved it for the time being - other projects came up . Still may continue it
The issues with Matias's build quality are one of the reasons I actually just went and bought a used Apple Standard Keyboard, one of the predecessors for the Extended Keyboard as described in the article. I'm typing on it right now. The thing is built solidly and the switches are still great after all of these years. The biggest issue was cleaning the thing, in all honesty. The Apple Standard Keyboard gets some flack for its odd key layout, but I spend most of my time in Vim anyway, so the layout actually works well for my workflows.
Your offshoring partners are ignorant. There is no equivalent partner representing open source.

You’re living in a denial zone where you think something is winning because there is no competitor making more money. The reality is people realized they didn’t need to pay at all and moved on with 10-100x the scale outside of the garden of stupidity.
Ok I’m interested… how is this doable?
Show HN: Running Silero VAD in the browser using ONNX-WEB runtime
I was able to run Silero VAD directly into the browser. It is very accurate and can detect speech irrespective of any language.

I tried various libraries but none of them was user friendly. so, I wrote one myself. Under the hood, it uses onnx-web-runtime to run the model.

I was able to do it in 2 days. I used Claude 3.5 to help me port code from Python to JavaScript. That helped me speed up the whole process.

I am publishing the Next.js template code. Going forward, I will convert it into an npm package for easy install.

Github Code https://github.com/DictationDaddy/VAD_WEB_DEMO
There's been a lot of actually useful things in this bubble it seems. Ive been truly inspired how much little tool-age has been popping up.

I feel like if you took a bunch of literally just that last month of show/launch/announce HN things one could wrap up a whole secure, scalable, promptable, fully formed stack thats just looking for some sort of content.
Crowdstrike is not relevant on Linux systems. don’t get it confused.

The AWS stats are very clear, Microsoft is way behind in the server world.
I’ve completely turned copilot off, its suggestions are usually dogwater. The thing I miss most is when it would sometimes correctly write imports
They opened with

the UK saw nationwide anti-immigration riots in which cars were flipped over and buildings set aflame.

as though civil unrest was somehow something new in the four lions.

This is a part of the world with literal centuries of troubles, unrest, civil wars, cross border fighting, wreckers destroying looms in protest, soldiers on horseback charging public crowds and killing civilians, etc.