skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we have been stuck with this for so long we have forgotten that any other way is possible. Scrum is just a complicated way to divide labor. No one else at a software company needs a formal process to partition their work. They just sit down, talk and then go do the work. They come up with a light weight way -- a informal process -- to get stuff down. They would never even think to ask themselves, "I wonder what formal process we can follow to assign work?" They just do it.
i’ve tried a bunch of the models and this one is unbelievably good! congrats - can’t believe this was done by a 4 person team
Most coffee shops and restaurant were empty 3/4th of the day before people brought laptops you’d see people playing chess or reading books in these spaces. Laptops really mess with this business model because they don’t want to leave as they get busy.
Maybe give it 5 more years and the US will be hitting that ice berg.

I think that is what the commenter is referring to.

The experiment is not over - yet.
Sure, 'Hinkley', you would think that.
Is this article being gamed? Reads like meandering gibberish and void of any facts.
>The point is that you can't see from the outside.

I didn't get that from this article. The author compared their own life to the lives of historical figures, viewed from the outside.
Great post, thank you! I was expecting to see frequency blocks because of quantization, but I'm positively surprised that there are MP3 compression tell-tales like the cut-off and gaps.
Me neither. I never bought the argument of "your ISP can't be trusted with your internet privacy, so give all your internet traffic to someone else you don't know (and don't trust because you've never heard of this company until now)."

That said, VPNs could be useful to get around geo-restrictions, or if you want to roam the high seas.
Note that the article is about the U.S.
The jolly heretic can sometimes be accused of saying interesting things. He recently seemed to coin a new measure of how bad things are going: Just before the end politicians [continue to] lie about everything knowing that everyone knows they are lying and everyone knows they know. Infinite recursion. What they know that we don't isn't even important, it is bad enough not to see the point of simply doing their job.
On prod servers I see a bunch of frontend stalls & code misses in the L2 for the kernel tcp stack; having each process statically embed its own network stack may make that worse (though using dynamic shared quic lib for ex. in userspace shared across multiple processes partially addresses that but with other tradeoffs).

Of course depending on usecase etc the benefit from first-order network behavior improvements is almost certainly more important than the second-order cache pollution effects of replicated/seperate network stacks.
I think I will love this quote if I knew what it meant. Care to elaborate?
Researchers investigate 'wash trading' on crypto exchanges
If you read Microsoft's response, they point at the companies issuing the MFA because -according to MSFT- "the companies are not entering the issuer in the label" and MSFT expect the issuer to be there.

I would imagine that, if that is their expectation, they would include the issuer in the label themselves, so, none of its products should have any issue.

The problem comes from using other provides -that use the "issuer" field to store the issuer (how quirky of them, amirite?)- while having the same email as identifier.
Thanks, seems to be all clean
https://www.ssltrust.com.au/ssl-tools/website-security-check...
I have a morbid curiosity to know how much of all that old tech would actually work in a full scale nuclear war, launching all missiles. Seems so well thought-out, but also incredibly hard to test. Really fascinating article!
Spine is really lovely. It was great back in 2019 when I used it to release a game. They released the 4.0 version a year later with a lot of updates and while I have no plans to make another 2D side-scrolling type of game... this one piece of software is what makes it tempting.

The thing I REALLY appreciate is the lifetime license. Checking my emails, I bought the professional version in 2015 for $289. Now it's almost a decade later, still getting awesome updates, and I can still get the latest version. Totally unlike the current trend... I'm looking at you, $20 / month for Speedtree.
Impressive work and very interesting! Since I was instantly interested in the tiny „window“ and its purpose I found a little error:

„Aligning the missile was a tedious process that used the North Star*t* to determine North.„
From the article:

> Also note the window in the side of the missile to allow the light beam from the autocollimator to reflect off the guidance platform for alignment.
My coworker used to fly the chase plane for the Canadian Space Agency's balloons; they would call position and altitude for air traffic control and recover the instrument gondola. Lots of bushwhacking; one came down on an eagle's nest and mama wouldn't let them near the tree.
I've not owned a car in 7 years thanks to my engineering gig coming with a work truck for getting around construction sites. Quite enjoy that aspect of it.
Sun, Surf, and Street Fighter: The World of East Coast Beach Arcades (2023)
Its the opposite from the old/new developments I see.

Old apartment complex: A pool, a small gym, maybe some clubhouse one can rent. Maybe a dilapidated basketball court that last saw fresh paint in the 90s.

New apartment complex: A pool, a large gym, multiple clubhouse/lounge spaces, golf simulators, dog wash stations, dog parks/runs, multiple grilling/picnic areas, maybe even racquet ball courts, etc.
And my ISP had to replace mine multiple times due to lawn maintenance guys running it over, neighbors (where the line was pulled from) cutting it, etc.

I don't think I'll ever do a fiber install again. If it has already been run to the house, great, but otherwise, I'd rather not.
Paying for it doesn’t make the site less miserable to use. One of the stupid things about piracy is that it tends to also be the best available version of the thing. You’re actively worse off having paid for it. (Ads, denial, DRM in general, MBs of irrelevant JS, etc don’t go away with money, but do with piracy)
the list of available operating systems is here:

https://netboot.xyz/docs/faq/#operating-systems

looks like you can use it on aws / ec2:

https://ipxe.org/howto/ec2
The Netherlands (about which the article mainly is) has 8.4 million households, let's presume they own average of one such PC you mention. A delta of 400W would mean a total consumption delta of 3.36GigaWatt. That's "peanuts" to cover.

And that presumes an attacker can switch on/off all 8.4million computers in a small timeframe. 100% of them would need to be on, online and hacked.

I don't think this is a realistic problem.

Tesla F-ing up an OTA update that suddenly switches all charging Tesla's off, is probably a theoretical worse scenario.
I know of very few sites that let you pay to get zero ads or affiliate links. The ones that let you pay still show you affiliate links.
This looks really well done. I love reading about this kind of cross-layer optimization.
Not to mention most people are going to shell out $$$ for a nice large TV. At that point, might as well spend a few extra $$ and buy a surround sound.

Maybe it's just me, but a lot of theaters set their volumes to LOUD. I've found it better to just watch movies at home (save for that rare movie you HAVE to watch in theaters, like Mad Max) and spend the remaining $ on building out my HT.
> My take on this is that devs, in general, are managed by people who are still completely clueless about technology in 2024. There are surely exceptions (FAANG, etc.), but I've worked with my fair share of managers who couldn't fathom the work required to add a feature. It's always "just a button". Sales are easier to understand. You can describe it with words. Us devs use gibberish that nobody understands.

This is truth. A lot of "managers" in engineering just can't fathom the complexity. Even if they have an engineering background, even if they coded for 10 years, they can't fathom the complexity.

Some of the reasons I have discovered are

- They think of every project as "greenfield" with a clean slate, whereas 99% of the projects are built on old tech debt accumulated over years and increasing in complexity. Remember their old tech debt decision from Q4 of 2021? Yeah they don't remember it and can't fathom how that decision led to today's problems.

- They think every "headcount" at all the immense rungs of the ladder are the same. Remember that guy they fired in Q2 of 2022? Yeah they don't remember it and can't fathom how firing a person with context cannot be backfilled to the same level of context, even with an ex-faang label.

Ultimately, management does not see the pile of garbage their decisions have made. That pile is left to the garbage pickers (engineers) while they themselves just think about how to look good to execs.
Zoning and car-centric design are intimately connected, though. A walkable suburb just can’t support the number of cars that a typical western suburb supports today.

If you loosen zoning, what you’re going to end up with is denser development and less room for cars.

Streetcar suburbs are an example of this. You have more room than living in the core of the city, but you don’t have enough room for 3 F150s for the family.
Scalable Linearizable Caching
The article states that the system was cooled using a solution of sodium chromate to inhibit corrosion. However the wiki page of sodium chromate states that it is very corrosive. Is it a typo or something?

It's also mentioned that the computer uses one of the first integrated circuits for miniaturization. Do you know if this can be definitely traced to advances in industrial/consumer products? It's a common trope that military research trickles down - so it's a "good" thing. It's not clear if this actually happens or if progress would have been made eventually without the need for these machines.
What does this have to do with running locally vs. on a dev server? You have to properly manage versions in any case.
I agree, but would like for a way to pay for an article, or a single day, week, or month of access. Just like I could buy a single one-off issue of a publication a couple of times before starting a long term relationship with it.
Not all publications support this, and some like the NY Times require chatting with a representative to cancel the subscription.
I see a lot of talk about physical media around film and music, but not being able to buy single issues of any magazine or newspaper anonymously when the circumstances call for it, is a great loss for public discourse.
Nice article which matches my experience when it comes to optimizing for performance: Linux defaults are never good defaults and you don't need webscale or anything before you get bitten by them.

To make a few examples: on many distributions you get 1024 as the file limits, 4KB of shared memory (shmall) and Nagle's algorithm is enabled by default.

Another thing that we noticed at work (shameless plug to getstream.io) when it comes to tail latency for APIs / HTTP services:

- TLS over HTTP is annoyingly slow (too many roundtrips)

- Having edge nodes / POPs close to end-users greatly improves tail latency (and reduces latency related errors). This works incredibly well for simple relays (the "weak" link has lower latency)

- QUIC is awesome
Currently 55GB, for read-only work at the moment. Using full text search, rtree, JSON, and indexes.
Well, there's bitrot.

Needs shift. Expectations shift. The foundations that the code relies upon shift.

And familiarity with how things actually work inside of the black box evaporates leaving things distressingly fragile when the foundation finally gives way.

It's like when an old dam has "stood the test of time". More and more people (and business practices) wind up naively circle their wagons around presuming it will remain in operation forever and the consequences of what will happen when it finally does fail add up faster than unchecked credit card debt.
That would mean that your self-hosted install is exposed to the internet. I don't think I want to run a publicly accessible global relay.
> Is a human choosing to do this theft really better than a neural network scraping content

Probably so. I think the differentiation is in the scale at which scraping is done for those kinds of systems.
Phrack Issue #71
For others that also have never heard about key blinding, the IETF document is pretty nice [1]

[1] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-signature-ke...
This!

The biggest cost is in the opto-electric transition parts. The mechanical alignment needs to be precise, it needs to have a laser, a laser driver (most likely VCSEL), and a photodiode with a transimpedance amplifier. It's expensive because these parts cannot be integrated with the electronic chips easily. They are also bulky.

There are initatives to use crappy alignment optics and plastic optical fiber (POF) for short reach Ethernet [1] though these aren't commercially available. They don't aim for data center or consumer market but automotive and aerospace .

[1] https://kd.tech/product/evb9315-sfp-optical-demo/
> And who determines that reason?

the exact language of their T&Cs?

Not to be too flippant, but we can guess all we want, but the individual apps signed up to specific terms at the time, and you can almost guarantee that Apple (or anyone else) reserves a lot of leeway to themselves as to how they enforce or otherwise police those T&Cs.

All the conjecture in this bit of the thread seems a bit pointless given none of us are reading it, let alone reading the specific bit that whichever app in question might be held to.

Hence my start to it, as well, these seem to be allowed ...
Yugabyte does automatic sharding
Support Put, Patch, and Delete in HTML Forms
The neural network is not scraping content for its own purposes, it is for the purpose of the people who are running/training it.

And yes, one person reading a piece of content without paying money for it is far, far better than one person/corporation scraping all of the world's content in order to profit off of it.
Indeed, and not just building more in more at-risk places but also the cost of building materials, construction labor and code compliance requirements have all generally increased more than baseline inflation. Factors like these tend to greatly increase recent estimates vs historical.

I read a paper a few years back which dove into how the data sources for weather damage assessment have changed a lot over the years. Much of the increase is due to more complete reporting and changes in categorization. Also, nowadays more things are insured and modern IT has made gathering the insurance reporting far more exhaustive. Plus local, state and federal agencies responsible for relief and/or recovery are gathering and reporting increasing amounts of data with each decade since the 70s (in part because their budgets rely on it). Factors like these mean in prior decades the total damage costs may have been more similar to today's than they appear but a lot of the damage data we gather and report now wasn't counted or gathered then.

Although I have no experience related to weather science, I remember the paper because it made me realize how many broad-based, multi-decadal historical data comparisons we see should have sizable error bars (which never make it into the headline and rarely even into the article). Data sources, gathering and reporting methods and motivations are rarely constant on long time scales - especially since the era of modern computing. Of course, good data scientists try to adjust for known variances but in a big ecosystem with so many evolving sources, systems, entities and agencies, it quickly gets wickedly complex.
Edit: Perplexity Pro users get $5 of free API credits per month.
Explain them the concepts of loot boxes and pay to win. My son, who was 8 at that time, understood quiet fast that these games don't require skill and are just trying to steal money from him. He doesn't like that and now avoids games that contain these dark patterns and has become quiet good at spotting them.

Also, buy a Nintendo console. It solves 99% of all problems. I haven't seen these dark patterns in any Nintendo title and personally I think it's the best gaming environment for kids.
No, people look at what NASA was able to accomplish during the 1960s and compare it to now, and wonder how the level of competence can be so drastically lower now vs. then. NASA was not infallible during the 1960s, but the level of engineering competence was much higher.
Since preserve_none is Clang-only and only available on recent compilers, it would introduce an ABI hazard between the core library and generated code. We don't want to cause crashes if you compile protobuf with one compiler and generated code with another.

Also, until quite recently preserve_none was incompatible with the sanitizers, but I believe this may have been fixed by: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/81048
Has anyone used Mozilla VPN?
>But Starbucks ~05 to now is basically a microcosm of the ways America went awry.

sad.

someone should write a well researched book with that title: the ways America went awry.
Countercounterpoint - Maybe I have news subscriptions for periodicals I regularly read, but don't feel like paying for a monthly subscription to read one random article from some news outlet I don't regularly read that someone linked on social media or HN.
And in the end, the answer (which works for 99,9 % of startups) is: Sell your startup as soon as some big name company pops up with an offer to buy your startup.
The Intersection of AI Curious Humans and Expanding LLM Capabilities
I feel like there were companies in the past that did try this, where you would chuck $5 or whatever in an account, and then each page you went to that supported the service would extract a micropayment from the account.

Never took off. Should have done. e.g. in Santa Cruz there is https://lookout.co , which is pretty good, but extremely pricy for what it is. There has to be a way between "pay and get everything", "ignore/go straight to 12ft.io".
To attack a Chinese developer about covid is totally wrong, regardless of what happened they like the rest of us had no control over what happened.
> HTML/CSS/JS stack is arguably one of humanity's greatest achievements

We deserve to go extinct.
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
or
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
> For 100M (fast ethernet), I don't know if you'll have many options other than old old used enterprise equipment.

You can still buy 100M SFPs [1], but they're about the same price as 1Gbps modules, so I'm not sure why you would.

[1]: https://www.fs.com/c/100base-sfp-1668
Always a good read!
It's more of the same, crushing some basic right and gaslighting people. Can the mass use of VPNs even have an effect on a country's internet speed?
For me, fd is as better than find as ripgrep is to grep

The main benefits are:

- it skips ignored and hidden files by default

- it uses modern regular expressions

- it has a more sane UI (`find . -iname '*.txt'` -> `fd -g '*.txt'`)

I do use it in scripts as long as I know they're going to run in a context where it's available, ex: https://github.com/llimllib/personal_code/blob/c3d33b4d95f89...
California is home to urban trees. What happens when they die?
The logical thing to do would be to provide that feedback as part of the assessment, if they're linking to a compromised site. Even that seems flawed, however. If OPs site is marked as compromised (and isnt) and someone links to it, will they then also be denied access to advertising because their site is now compromised? Soon thereafter I imagine that we have a runaway cascade and everyone is "compromised".
The way these problems are stated mighy make it seem like they're unsolvable without a lot of effort. I just want to point out that I've worked at places that do use a local, supported environment, and it works well.

Not saying it's the wrong choice for you, but it's a choice, not a natural conclusion.
It's not even just about the cost though. I understand there's inflation and I like to help out the mom/pop restaurants survive. I'm willing to pay extra as long at the food is good, but what I notice (at some places) the turnover is very high leading to inconsistent food quality. Sometimes the food is great, then I go back 2 weeks later and the food is awful. There are some places I visit every month and I don't recognize anyone from the last time I was there and it's like that frequently. Can't keep paying high prices and then rolling the dice on whether the food is going to be good.

On the flip side, I've noticed that restaurants with great quality almost invariably have low turnover and those are the one I keep coming back to.
You are completely out of sense if you think it is normal to go around telling people you can check their travel history with local authorities. You are just too weird to not notice that saying that only picture you as a crazy harasser. You are not making things looks better for Cambodia, pretty much the opposite.
This is exactly why I don't comment on Reddit, because a bunch of jerks who have nothing to say just downvote me.
> Somewhat related comparison, Is a human choosing to do this theft really better than a neural network scraping content for its own purposes?

Here’s a similar comparison: “Is a human recording a movie at the theatre to rewatch at home really better than the one who shares the recording online?”

Seeing as you’re calling it “theft”, presumably what you mean by “better” is “causes less harm / loss of revenue to the work’s author / publisher”.

I’d say the answer is pretty clear. How many people go through the trouble of bypassing paywalls VS how many use LLMs?

Saying “a neural network scraping content for its own purposes” doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story. Setting aside the neural network is unlikely to be doing the scraping (but being trained on it), it’s not “for its own purpose”, it didn’t choose to willy nilly scrape the internet, it was ordered to by a human (typically) intending to profit from it.
Very cool! Seems like you're leveraging some similar navigational ideas as Google X's Project Loon. Loon was such a good fundamental idea, just a little too soon and not the right use case or business model. Initially operating on a smaller scale and focusing on less power-hungry data acquisition vs high bandwidth two way comms seems like a much more viable plan.
Start by making a strategy that don't need to rely on SEO.
Pay walls don't get folks there, how ever noble the sellers of information they to brand it.
I agree. I would rather expand the discussion on benefits so that we see that the risk is worth it. I just don't know how to do it.

But I think we need professional storytellers and dramatists to tell the story of space exploration in order to really sell the benefits. After all, we enthusiasts love space exploration not because it will lead to zero-G medicines, but because exploring space is freaking cool.

We need to tell an emotional story, and emotional stories have risk and conflict (even if it is conflict with physics).
>I don't understand how some kids can just get unfettered access to a credit card and spend hundreds on such stuff.

Easy.

Step 1: Find where your parents leaves their wallet lying around because they don't expect their child to attempt credit fraud.

Step 2: Punch in the numbers on the card into the appropriate boxes in the app because tech companies really don't have a interest in putting up any real barriers to prevent kids from spending money.

Step 3: Profit!
You're totally crushing the balloons-to-boondocks market segment.
It's still wild to me how "closed" iOS got browser extensions before Chrome on Android.