skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most genuinely bad and frustrating part of the new control panel that made me ask "did literally anyone even test this for 5 minutes" are any of the pages where you have a list of things longer than 6 or 7 items. Like per-app sound device options, or associating a program with a file extension, or even just uninstalling a program.

* No way to search or filter the list, or jump to the extension I want (PDF), let me first scroll past .3gp, etc

* List items are comically large, it must be like 10% of the information density from before

* The whole thing is just sloooooww

A regression in every sense of the word :(

Not to mention all the things that are straight up missing from the new control panel, like all the right-click options currently available in the Audio Devices dialog.
Post author here! Happy to answer any questions.
I built a nuclear fusion reactor in my bedroom using Claude Sonnet in two weeks
I'm full grown at 5'4" and there are so many cars now where the front hood is above my head. I can't be seen, and it is a worry especially in parking lots where I'm more likely to be walking around cars.
> I don't understand why google play really bad about developer relations

Because these are the lowest effort and cost actions they can take and there are no consequences to doing it like this.
Credit unions are cooperatives owned by their customers.
Or he could go full Japanese and adopt the business heir into his family.

... actually, that might be safer so as to not raise any red flags with Citibank. /s
> something standard and indistinguishable, like QUIC, DTLS or TLS1.3, for their transport layer.

Exactly this does exist, search for xray / xtls-reality.

A node pretends to be a valid web site, with a valid third-party TLS certificate (like a CDN node serving that website), until a correct secret key is presented, then it looks like regular TLS-encrypted web traffic.

E.g. https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core — most documentation, sadly but expectedly, is in Chinese and Russian, because these folks seem to need this most.
> all old binaries break and emulators which emulate normal systems with 4KB pages

Would it actually affect the kind of emulators present on Android, i.e. largely software-only ones, as opposed to hardware virtualizers making use of a CPU's vTLB?

Wine is famously not an emulator and as such doesn't really exist/make sense on (non-x86) Android (as it would only be able to execute ARM binaries, not x86 ones).

For the downvote: Genuinely curious here on which type of emulator this could affect.
Also why is there a post dated 2025? https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/06/15/my-self-reflection-on-suc...
Yea, and so far their interests have not been misaligned enough for me to care.

When they are, i'd like to know. The sooner, the better.
To have a useful alexa instead of 3 of them unplugged in the garage? I mean... its a step towards making money.
I’m a total idiot, how exactly is page size a CPU issue rather than a kernel issue? Is it about memory channel protocols / communication?

Disks have been slowly migrating away from the 4kb sector size, is this a same thing going on? That you need to actual drive to support it, because of internal structuring (i.e. how exactly the CPU aligns things in RAM), and on some super low level 4kb / 16kb being the smallest unit of memory you can allocate?

And does that then mean that there’s less overhead in all kinds of memory (pre)fetchers in the CPU, because more can be achieved in less clock cycles?
When you build an app for resiliency you end up with classes of service where the app fails in stages.

But to extend that to the billing case, you’d have to have a partnership with your customers, not just a dashboard where they push buttons and an API where you add or delete machines.

Maybe the website goes read only except for admin traffic when the budget is exceeded, for instance. Not as a bespoke process each company has to reinvent, but as functionality provided by the vendor.
I would just shrug and chuck it in the trash tbh. Probably not the first or second time but if it happens often and they don’t listen then definitely
They don't share how many seats are left publicly, but fare changes are shared real time in a platform that distributes them. And there's quite a lot of website scraping that goes on that mostly skirts around "how many seats are left".
Larson is an absolute national treasure.

Some of my favorite memories of my youth were reading and re-reading some of the Larson books my uncle handed down to me - Far Side Gallery1, 2, 3 & 4 , It Came From The Far Side, and Tales From The Far Side. Some of the jokes I didn't understand until I was older, some I understood right away, and some of them I remember so fondly I could re-create them in my sleep.

A genuine master of his craft, sheer brilliance.

My all-time favorite:
https://i.redd.it/my-daily-farside-dump-caw-caw-v0-l7k98dab4...

Another gem:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/26/b4/21/26b421ae077069c6de1f2da18...
This looks more like data visualization, not system architecture visualization. Ilograph is worth a look if you want the latter.
Also unrelated, I too read your book in the 90s as a teenager and emailed you, and you emailed me back!
How to Win at CORS (2021)
nsw2u is something I've used when I wanted to look at the current state of switch emulation
Criminal antitrust prosecutions seem to have stopped in 1977. Unclear why they never restarted.
One of the few great adventure titles that didn't come from an entity specializing in them.

[Clickety click] Oh, it's on GoG and I already have it there. Good.
And don't miss Altair, the Python library to use Vega
https://altair-viz.github.io/
Pros of a credit union: many processes are still manually-controlled

Cons of a credit union: many processes are still manually-controlled

There's a lot of scenarios where that's the lesser of two evils, though. And god it's nice to be able to walk into a branch, explain the situation to someone, and get "Let me see what I can do. There, all fixed" in reply.

Instead of "Oh, the system won't let me do that."
You're almost certainly not (wrong age group) but man if you don't sound like an ex-MeFite.

IMO the kids are shaping up to be more like GenX than anything. (The kids are alright).

America's the navel of the world, culturally, militarily, financially. The rest of us just kinda have to roll downhill. It's not good or bad, it just is. And I'll take The Mouse over Pooh Jinping any day. (UK BTW). What does annoy me is that because we share a language, we get the overspill from US-targeted propaganda. We've even developed our own Sovereign Citizen movement.

> In this case, the problem is that the people who are currently agitating for a separation of the two are mostly homosexuals (and a smattering of bisexuals) who are actively hostile to trans peoples' issues.

Reminds me of the Mens' Rights, movement. Ok, yeah, in theory it's a great idea. But who wants to hang out with the kind of guys Mens Rights attracts?
Oh TIL, I always thought it was a plain cycle counter
Meta, Spotify CEOs take aim at European AI regulations
The servers are already bought; the electricity cost is negligible for actual accidents.

As mentioned in the post: the hosting providers don't actually pay marginal costs for transient mistakes, so neither should honest customers.
Musk asks X staff to justify their stock options
I wouldn't say it's cargo-culting, but, it's definitely silly (and intended to be).

Not having to manage systems anymore, and fully relying on kubernetes to configure and manage everything is great, especially leveraging the redundancy and reliability of it.
Naah, never heard that factory robots build a car, maybe "assemble complex details", or "do fully automated process", but the verbs are never "create" or "build".

Same with 3D printers (both plastic and cement ones for construction) -- people say "I build it with my 3D-printer", workers use 3D-printer to build a house, or a "rocket nozzle was built using additive technologies".

My point is (and I've worked in AI industry) -- usually people spend years to make a model that magically "creates" that particular things they wanted. It's never that some model suddenly learned to do something, no, engineers literally struggled to make it do exactly that. So I'd rather say "AI engineers created a new building architecture with the help of their model", or "Artist created that new song/painting with the help of AI". Yes, typing a simple prompt is Creation, just like drawing a few lines or few notes.
What Nobody Tells You About Rags
Sci-Hub domains are listed, that is big.
> also want it to be a bit more redundant so that if one physical computer dies then it'll just be rescheduled to another machine and I'll be back up and chatting within minutes without human intervention.

It seems an explicit requirement was not having to manually restore backups. You may or may not be wrong, but I find most arguments against tools like Kuberenetes boil down to "if you ignore the requirements, you could have done it simpler with bash!", which, yea.
That's good info.

I stand with the parent commenter - Maybe Techdirt could actually hyperlink to this kind of information, instead of hyperlinking to three other articles pretending to answer the question but not doing so.
A credit union is ultimately owned by its members, and generally serves internal interests over pure profit. As a result, they tend to usually be less cutthroat and have lower fees, but also lower interest rates on the flip side.
Was literally just about to ask if a Python api for Vega existed when you posted!

It looks great! I can't believe I haven't heard of it before. Have used Plotly a lot in the past, this looks like a great alternative.
> I think they’re talking about more sensitive internal numbers. What are the costs and margins on the unit? How quickly are units moving at a certain price? What’s the turnover at particular prices?

Yeah that's my understanding of it too "competing landlords who agree to share with RealPage nonpublic, competitively sensitive information about their apartment rental rates and other lease terms".

I.e. realPage has an oracle view of all the lease ending times etc, so it knows for instance, this next July there's going to be very few availability, so boost all the rents by X%

I guess there's a "private price" if the apartment complex share what, after all negotiations, the renter ended up signing for. It can be more than what was on the public website, if they ended up signing for a shorter lease, or less if the apartment ended up needing to throw in "first month free" etc.

There's also private price of lease renewals done before the unit is put for rent on the website.
Gigi: EA's open framework for rapid prototyping realtime rendering techniques
Not something I’ve seen recently, but Carrd’s landing page is stuck in my mind as a great example of a landing page. It’s beautiful, to the point, and provides immediate access to a demo, without the need to create an account.

You can see for yourself: https://carrd.co/
Is this a soft limit or a trajectory prediction? I think there isn’t such a thing as a soft limit. Nobody wants to spend any money really right? But you need to spend some to avoid losing service. That’s just a cost you don’t like but need to pay.

I definitely get the idea of: I don’t want to spend X so if it looks like I will, terminate service at Y. But I think that’s a special case of the general situation, I want to know how much I’m on track to spend, right?

But I don’t know much about this at all. My whole experience was accidentally getting my own personal self a $500 AWS charge and then deciding they cloud services were dumb.
Tutorial doc: https://github.com/electronicarts/gigi/blob/main/readme/tuto...

Tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qknK-tahICE
Their calculators are amazing. I got a DM16L and it is really good
> How google continues to get away with

Because while Mozilla is was interested in social justice, galas, and literally everything but Firefox… Google completely took over the web and now we suffer because of it.

Knee capping google for there past decade of behavior is something everyone should agree on. However… google plays more than just the web game.
> if it works for him

Don't think they're a him
A Programming Model for Disaggregated Memory over CXL
1.2 tb is a lot according to them.

>However, once you learn how much data is collected/sold about you from the router level you won't want to go back.

I need to be scared straight. Go on.
I wonder why Google has single line API calls you cannot use without implementing a user interface flow, when the penalty is severe. At the very least the compiler should output warnings.
Oh yeah, registry editing is unambiguously worse.

But I've never used a sophisticated application that does most of its config via registry editing. It's for extreme edge cases only, where it's basically fine - it's a worse about:config, but it serves the same purpose, you only go in there when you already know what you need to do.

vscode, in contrast, puts common things into hand-edited-json-only config. I don't think I've ever had a vscode project that didn't require json changes to work correctly. That's ridiculous.
I’ve seen this one other time. I don’t really want to provide links but I was on this lawyers website and there is a blog post about how he won $9mil. And I was just curious so I looked up the court documents and read them. And he totally lost the case. I sent it to various people(lawyer friends, more than 1 lol), to make sure I wasn’t reading the court stuff wrong. And that right there, me having no confidence in my reading comprehension, and not even trusting the word of one other law specialist but needing 2, is the reason people can lie about their outcomes in court and get away with it.
> I found a single line of code that could've been the cause of the problem.

Note that the OP thinks that was the problem. Google did not tell them a reason for the ban aside from the generic one.

Edit: s/Google/Google's "AI".
If you're stressed over lighting $100k on fire, then you're not the target market. /s
CXL and the Return of Scale-Up Database Engines
This is an indirect result of two factors: increased fuel efficiency and improved safety testing. Both were good things, but the implementation needs to be improved.

Late 90s / early 2000s fuel efficiency standards (probably following lobbying from GMC) set much more lax fuel standards for trucks than for sedans. The auto companies responded to regulation by heavily marketing their less fuel efficient trucks and SUVs.

The size of trucks themselves increasing, however, is a result of safety testing, where obviously larger vehicles are safer for their passengers, albeit more dangerous for everyone outside the vehicle.

Fuel efficiency standards should have been set as a function of average vehicle occupancy, rather than vehicle weight and type, which incentivises larger vehicles. Safety standards should require survival of pedestrians and passengers in other vehicles, at least for common scenarios where the driver of the vehicle under test is usually at fault.
I've never been a mailing list user. I thought there would be a link to the files affected.

Congratulations to OpenBSD!
This feels like a pretty fundamental change in capability. I get that this was an extension by subscription, but a device that can now only blast advertising into my house feels like a substantial loss in value.

They've got to offer a refund, right?
RethinkDB is an certainly inspiration for us! We thought their and design was very elegant.
Google has always been about automation and cost cutting. They started as a web search engine running on cheap consumer hardware in a garage, with software patching over the reliability/performance problems of such a setup.

You need humans for good CS, and humans are both non-automatable and expensive. Google does have some humans in CS (I think), but they try to automate as much of it as possible, hence the prevalence of boilerplate responses from them.
>I'd especially like to have UT2k4.

Honorable mention to UT2k3's menu music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IberpcWz9mU#t=0m10s

The NFL themes had nothing on it.
Author of the article here. One of the main reasons is that I want to update weechat without rebuilding the container, taking advantage of weechat's soft upgrade method: https://weechat.org/files/doc/weechat/stable/weechat_user.en...

And at that point, it may as well just be a normal Ubuntu server.
Not a new Cold War – closer to the grinding world order collapse of the 1930s
I recommend VScode for that use case (other editors probably support this too) where you can ssh to your cluster, access all your files in the tree, and run Jupyter notebooks from VScode directly using HPC resources, very nice workflow
That JvN, why, he’ll never be a narcissist, not even in God’s eyes (though maybe he was personally afraid of that :)
I still can’t believe they expected people to be excited about a floating iPad OS UX as the main experience.
We "speed" because speed limits are used not as a tool for defining normative behavior and policing rare outliers, but rather as feel good social engineering - similar to the war on drug users. Note how that AAA's article definition of unsafe wholly depends on what roads have been signed.

There's a stretch of through road around me that had been signed a low 30 my whole life - straight with perfect visibility, sidewalks, decent house setbacks, backyards for most activities, etc. The prevailing speed is 40 (adding 10 is standard and accepted around here). I've never seen or heard of any kind of crash on it.

I tended to keep it to 35 because my parents were always complaining about getting tickets on it [0], and as I got older I decided it wasn't worth worrying about (I would generally end up being tailgated for this). But recently, the city ratcheted it down further to a ridiculous 25 [1]. Since the customary speed is now so far over the sign I've just given up and go 40-45 now while spending the effort to scan for cops.

[0] in retrospect I think they were just unobservant, since there's nowhere really for a cop to hide. I've only ever seen cops sit in one place, and it might as well have a big red arrow pointing at it

[1] along with a lot of other roads, I think they must have gotten a quantity break on the signs. Or maybe just a bad case of affluenza.
Even if CockroachDB uses Postgres wire protocol, it doesn’t mean you can easily migrate all workloads supported by CockroachDB to Postgres. The scaling properties are different.
We keep imagining that "AI" can do so many things but then it doesn't. A classic case of a solution in search of a problem.
catering to developers is important in a completely different way than catering to typical users. I have one stomach for dinner and another for desert.
Wow, I was definitely not aware of this.
Yes i suspect as much, especially on here but it is a biased sample here :-)
I cringe when I see one, but sometimes the articles are good. Apparently, some people have great writing skills but suck at visual taste. Though, arguably, they aught to know that about themselves.
The support for mTHP exists in upstream Linux, but the swap story is not quite there yet. THP availability also needs work and there are a few competing directions.

Supporting multiple page sizes well transparently is non-trivial.

For a recent summary on one of the approaches, TAO (THP Allocation Optimization), see this lwn article: https://lwn.net/Articles/974636/
I've used https://postcodes.io/ on a number of projects.

There's information about it here - https://postcodes.io/about - which doesn't fully answer where the data comes from, although it mentions OS, so I presume it's based on the OS AddressBase product?

I also wonder how complete it is now, although the sites we've built haven't had any issues as far as I'm aware.
Does fullstack here mean using javascript on the backend? Is it able to generate code for other backend languages?
Well, with the important notice I do not know what's happened, having read only one part, my take is simple: why people develop for walled gardens?

If Play Store, App Store etc became EMPTY because the only apps are from big tech they totally loose any customers appeal and fails quickly. Remember the old concept of the union who makes the strength?

Personally I do AVOID as best as I can any third party walled garden and even developing on their APIs because I know their are closed hostile ecosystems. We have to accept what freedom demand and simply go a step at a time toward a ban by laws of any closed software, any walled garden and so on. A step at a time means start not working on, so for, them today, explaining why as much as possible and inviting people toward open platforms. If you really want Android there is F-Droid as a middle-ground.
I think it's fine if you are happy with your crontab/systemd based system. But the author already has a k8s cluster with storage and VM automatically provisioned in a declarative way, so what's wrong with that? crontab/systemd would be more complicated for them.
What a crock of shit.
Replace sheep with moose and kiwis with geese first.
Somehow I suspect this means fixing some problems will require finding out how to launch the old settings pages that are still there, but no longer easily accessible.
Well I think it's neat. The bit I find most provoking is the "if you already have Kubernetes..." premise. I find myself having a hard time not wanting to shove everything into the Kubernetes framework simply to avoid having to document what solutions I've chosen. `kubectl get all` gives me an overview of a project in a way that is impossible if every single project uses a different or bespoke management system.

"simple/complex" is not the right paradigm. The real SRE controversy is "unique/standard". Yes, the standard approach is more complex. But it is better _in practice_ to have a single approach, rather than many individually-simpler, but in-aggregate-more-complex approaches.

Kubernetes is never the perfect solution to an engineering problem, but it is almost always the most pragmatic solution to a business problem for a business with many such problems.
As the tenant, once, of a new build home in the UK it’s not just the file that’s important: it’s the channels to patch the file too.

I spent almost a year having to enter my address manually because the postcode DB — or whatever old version pets.com, cameras.com, and looroll.com had — lagged behind the reality of my infill bungalow for seemingly forever. I’m 8A godamnit, not 8. (Thank you Mrs. No8 for accepting my packages throughout those dark months btw.)

It’s just like tzdata. A precious resource not just because it compiles the history of geopolitical wallclock settings, but also because it is meticulously updated, on time and on budget.

It’s all very well liberating PAF.v2024_08finalfinal_v3_final.doc, but who is also going to keep it up to date?

I’m not a hater, just a realist. TFA is spot on: we’ll never be able out compete with or recreate or leak a sufficient version of the PAF. It, and it’s entire infrastructure, needs to be wrested into public hands ASAP. And we should be prepared to fund the updates.
You skipped over "unless it is a memory hog". When an app uses multiple gigs, it's a memory hog :-)
Fred Wilson - View.art
basically saturated fats are the hostage of any high carb (fried and sugary) diet?
I'm sure the NLRB has their eyes on this one....
The user manual is available online:

https://technical.swissmicros.com/dm32/doc/dm32_user_manual....

For me, the DM42 is more desirable, hopefully it will get a refresh with this upgraded hardware.
I tried it out, it works. Personally I'd write something like this in Rust not shell. It's not hard at all, you basically can just ignore the borrow checker because all the program is doing is spawning processes and a bit of text processing.

The main issue with writing it in shell instead is incorrect error handling. I see a case that's a bit sketchy there. For now maybe don't expose wcurl to user/attacker controlled input.