skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not any sort of philosophical thoughts on crypto PACs as whole

It's about the largest crypto PACs and their largest, most influential donors. It's not philosphy, it's the political reality of the current crop of crypto PACs. Conway is rightfully calling out the needless partisanship Armstrong and Andreessen have injected into the crypto lobby.
Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang (PragProg)
Ask HN: Problems with NoCode App Development?
Jupyter supports MD, or is that another thing that DataSpell added on top of it?
Libel laws in the UK are way more problematic / idiosyncratic than law about "incitement to hatred", which are common (at least in Europe) and made to repress dog whistles.

edit: SLAPP suits are basically legal there, and often used to suppress speech or journalism which would be legitimate and even encouraged elsewhere.

see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
I have also been thinking about setting op some kind of wiki on tor. To include documents and full names etc to throw over some bad people and practices. (and anecdotal stories)
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I'd vote for not sad; a long life without significant health impediments is not something everyone is lucky enough to get.

Lagniappe: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c08178c1137a6...
I worked at a place where you'd get 3AM calls from higher-ups. It's often a flex or some grindset thing. The annoying hustle" attitude: "See we all need to be DoingBusiness™ while the competition is sleeping!"
Not to mention the performance hit to your actual customers when it all "works."
> If Tesla has a 3rd consecutive quarter of year-over-year declining sales, then, that will be interesting

Tesla could go up in flames and still leave Musk, despite his borrowing against his stock, with more wealth than many countries' GDP.

> that was the banks' intent at the time, believing Musk to be a reasonable businessman

Musk's reasonableness as a businessman doesn't matter. The tens of billions of dollars of potential business he represents is everything.

Based on present reality, not hypotheticals, this remains a good bet. It's why the M&A team is having comp cut but not the lending team [1]. The loans are good business even if the deal was not.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-is-now-...
The undo button justifies the toast here IMO. Otherwise I'd prefer ghosting really.

For the checkboxes, I'd say GitHub nailed it: for settings that are applied instantly (e. g. https://github.com/settings/appearance), they show a spinner and then a single checkmark right across the section title. (It used to be next to the input element – both ways are fine, I think)
https://www.gnu.org/software/enscript/
oh they never get caught, and punished? it's unheard of
Thank you for this. The article started interesting, but then devolved in boring all caps recap of panic thoughts which killed its momentum. I was still interested in the origin of the bug though.
Absolutely. The good engineers are always the first to leave a smelly ship. Then you're just left with engineers whose chief skill is kissing their manager's ass.
One of the first ideas we explored was putting an electrolyzer on the balloon to replenish hydrogen over time. Unfortunately right now, for balloons our size and power budget it's just not feasible. And actually, we can get a pretty low leakage rate with our materials which lets us stay aloft for a really long time, but eventually the UV degradation becomes to extreme.
Oh no not the banks! This says they're still getting interest payments, "hefty" ones at that so they can't complain too much. Bastards.
Show HN: Defrag the Game
Hi,

A while ago, I came across this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3TbL3Tl6 on YouTube showing 8 hours of defragmenting a hard drive.
For some reason, it inspired me to create this small game.

Have fun :)
It's a tale as old as time - not all developers understand the abstractions they work under.
Michael Lewis tries to explain himself, claims empathy for autistic people is the story here and not fraud at a ludicrous level.
Nails are reversible in under an hour. Foot binding causes crippling disfigurement.

They aren’t remotely comparable.
My carrer is doing just fine, thank you. You're seeing monsters under the bed. There is no "DEI cult." There's simply a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
What an amazing educator at all levels. This is worth reading repeatedly until embedded in neurons and practice.
Both sides behind NAT is surely the most common use case by a mile? Do you keep stats?

I would have thought NAT hole punching was a basic requirement for something like this...
I assume based on this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(honor)

> A toast is a ritual during which a drink is taken as an expression of honor or goodwill.
This isn't a problem.

The translation is a new work.

The original work in the original language stays frozen.

Incidentally, the translation is treated the same and is frozen in the same manner.
At Stripe, this was also framed as BLUF - bottom line up front.
I see it as an overly complicated way of trying to apply containerization concepts to a base OS via transactions. It's really hard to use OSTree on new projects or get existing distros like Debian to work with OSTree. I think the update process, while in theory should be better, ends up being a black box of will it/won't it frustration for end users.

Finally, OSTree is mainly a Red Hat thing and is built for their needs (CoreOS). They could pull the rug on it in the sense that what you build today using it may not work tomorrow if Red Hat needs OSTree to function differently. Which is their perogrative, as they are the primary contributors to it.
Would it be toxic if your culture didn’t train you to see it as such?

Would members of an uncontacted tribe clutch their pearls all the same?

So tired of one cultures anxiety being made the norm everywhere to serve the hallucination 300 million Americans the other 8 billion don’t need should be special.

Americans have expropriated other nations labor and resources and rely on their slave labor without batting an eye about it. Really sick of holding them up as some shining beacon of freedom and dignity.

You rely on worse to survive but omgurd wurds hurt so much as someone else’s back and knees after digging up others food, and their lungs after testing vapes, and their hands after sewing together your Nikes.

The elders are right about my peers; oblivious and entitled. Just parrots of cognitive dissonant TV memes like “Do your own thing. Drink Sprite like the rest of the group we’re showing. Engaging in norms of your society like everyone else is unique!”

Americans are an insane and dangerous people; temporary meat suits convinced of their permanence and righteousness while carrying on about being above biases and exploitative behavior.
You need to insulate your metrics/monitoring from the critical path so that failures in these providers don't take out your app.
Is the redundancy giving you the hint it’s GPT? I would love to know what it is that has convinced you but seemingly cannot explain.
If we compare with the Pi5 yes, something like an N100 based board might be preferable (we should really compare the BCM to the N100, not the Pi itself).

Pi4 _does_ do hardware video encoding, so that is still a valid option for many applications; RP has a good record, decent board design, great software support and a huge community; if we compare with Radxa and their X4 for example; their track record is one of poor board design, poor software support and a miniscule community.

My personal opinion, and it's just that, my opinion based on my experience;

Unless I'm looking at an "embedded" task (board needs to go _inside_ a product), I wouldn't use an SBC; If I'm running Plex/Jellyfin/etc, I'd use a mini-PC or "bigger"; something with a better board design (there are questions about the board design of the Radxa X4 with N100 given its power envelope), proper cooling, better storage and GPU etc.
Great video! I love the simple straightforward presentation, it explains the concepts so well. The many applications of cams continue to impresses me.

The fundamentals of mechanical computers go back much further, well into the 1800s and possibly even earlier. Much of it has its roots in clockwork.
I completely agree. Every time I open any Google product it takes me a good 60 seconds to figure out that the hamburger menu is not where I go to create a new sheet/doc/slides. And then I have to scan around the screen for another symbol that's on the complete opposite corner of the screen and tastefully hidden away. It's very frustrating. 95% of the time when I go to sheets.google.com I go there to create a sheet, and their information hierarchy prioritizes looking at existing sheets, then navigating to another product, and then everything else, and then finally creating a document.
I'm re-reading The Expanse series, which started in 2011. I was talking about it with some friends, and they basically said, "Oh cool my MFA friends really like that series because it has so many non-binary relationships and stuff." I'm paraphrasing but you get the gist.

I literally had to stop and think about it. It's not that I didn't notice while I was reading that there was relationship stuff going on, and concepts of identities, traumas and oppression, it's just that all those things were woven so well into some damn good hard science fiction that it just felt natural right next to rail guns, asteroid bases and mysterious alien stuff.

Whether the series has optimism about humanity ... well I personally think the point of the series is to explore that.

The series won a Hugo in 2020 and I think they deserved it.
Just going to through out there that you don't need a custom kernel driver to do this on Android. There's a userspace gadget API; you only need a rooted phone to have the permissions to access the relevant device and config files.

http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/usb.c
Not sure if this is mentioned somewhere, but it looks like a fork of the lite editor, also built on top of SDL and Lua.
Wow, when you put it like that... Incredible.
Discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24800037

Also, another in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273301
How does the saying go? "If you want to kill someone and get away with it, kill them with your car!" We are so lenient on traffic violence, at least in the USA.
I'm the author of the blog post. I just used sprite positioning as a simple example. Things like collision detection and physics can't be done with half pixels.
Appreciated. Pity I could not leave a vote.-

PS. "Algebraic Theology" now that sounds peculiar.-
Valve bans Razer and Wooting's new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2
You might be interested in this Reddit post:

Imagining the psychology of aliens evolved from ambush predators

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/16a9m2h/ima...
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>LLMs would be more useful to many more people if they could be used without skill, and were as "useful" as a human mentor.

That is partially marketing's fault, so I say that confusion is self inflicted. Because marketing isn't focusing on "make yourself more productive!"
Power of Generative AI for Your Business
I have a similar experience to big-green-man. I suspect it massively varies by country. I live in the UK, and as far as I know most people complaining about fake products etc. are in the US.

The biggest issue with reviews in the UK are the Vine reviews, and occasionally sellers aggregating reviews for unrelated products. Fake products seem to be almost nonexistent (maybe because of stronger market regulation?).

Same/next day delivery is hard to compete with anyway.
There is a significant intrinsic cost to making code "open source", through the simple act of making that source code available at all. This overhead exists without any regard for what you wish or promise. It invites myriad interactions that cost time and money for little or no offsetting benefit.

Publishing source code, if anyone uses it at all, is not "free" in any sense. I know several people that stopped open sourcing their projects (not even businesses) because the cost of making their code available isn't worth it.
Thank you! That did puzzle me, especially because I had pulled some bread out of a toaster just seconds before sitting down to read Hacker News this morning.
Practical decryption of A5/3, GEA-3
The log is just an optional added feature. The main point is for the current/last message not to disappear by itself, and to be displayed in a non-distracting and non-obstructive way.
Toasts also give you a good place to put other shortcuts like “Item updated. [View item]” that make it much easier to act on state changes, like navigate to sensible places to view / react to those changes.
Create and sustain a society where people feel secure, and they'll have kids.
We put nets and high guard barriers on bridges for a reason
I don't think that's the right TL;DR here. The point is the FUD we sell ourselves is often just not true. Take a breath and face life's challenges without telling yourself "it's over" along the way.
As someone who was briefly the world's youngest person, I can confirm it is an interesting alternate feeling to have no one on the planet alive after you.
Too many games consider AHK to be high risk for scripting and raises your anti-cheat score. So I am wary of running AHK when playing games which have anti-cheat.
Great reminder of the people behind services, as well as a nice account of the debugging process. The reality is that pressure doesn't make you debug problems any faster... usually, it interferes with your thinking. You have to try to ignore the consequences and stay as calm as possible.

But most of us have been in some situation similar, if not quite as bad. (Running your own company is going to be uniquely stressful.)
Right when I saw this post I immediately thought of your post from last year, some great discussion there.

These days on HN, anytime I see a post about Sourcegraph my knee jerk reaction is to whince because I know it's probably not a good thing.

It will be a sad day for tech when they get rid of the on prem free version. I feel like that's the next logical thing to cut given the direction and momentum they are heading.
Ed Thorp is still going strong at 92.

https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg?si=4H7fOag3DTLyLpwF

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
> educate people into investing better instead

So 401ks were intended to do this in a way. I think it was the greatest theft of a generation.

"Lets incentivize and normalize the middle class to give the rich their retirement funds to play with."

In general stock investment does nothing but make the distribution of wealth more and more lopsided. For every dollar gained by the poorer the rich gain more. When the rich gain more, they get to leverage the new capital to get even more next time in a positive feedback loop.
Just going by the title, I thought this was going to be related to William Zinsser's book of the same name. It's not, though of course many of the topics are shared between the two.

It's been a few years since I've returned to it, but the material in Zinsser's book has been useful to me as an engineer that has to occasionally write for both fellow engineers and non-technical folks. I would recommend Zinsser's book if you like the content in the article and wouldn't mind a bit more.
Having a(n accurate) service graph of all your (internal and external) dependencies is a game changer in troubleshooting issues like this.
I think in a full build out, being able to manage forms+billing through a "developer account" that allows me to manage their stuff would be nice.

I would _especially_ like that the developer account gets like 3 free forms as long as clients are paying.
They can't?
> Which people? If we universally did that as a default, elections would look massively different.

All people, otherwise we wouldn't be able to do basic tasks, such as finding edible food or recognise danger.

I dislike how you discount the way other people vote as being somehow irrational, while I'm sure you consider your own political thinking as being rational. People always vote according to their own needs and self-interest, and in terms of politics, things are always nuanced and complicated. The fact that many people vote contrary to your wishes is actually proof that people can think for themselves.

> Getting good answers for coding questions on my private code/databases disproves this.

I use GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT every day. It only answers correctly when there's a clear, and widely documented pattern, and even then, it can hallucinate. Don't get me wrong, it's still useful, but it shows in no way an ability to reason, or the capacity to admit that a solution is out of its reach.

Your experience with coding is kind of irrelevant to the question at hand.
On the flip side.. everyone was at one moment the youngest person alive.. if just for a moment.
That often happened for me in grad school as well. Generally the questions I had trouble with on a take home exam would yield to late night inspiration. And if they didn't yield by a semi-reasonable time, I would go to bed and many times, as I was drifting off, an insight would come to me. One memorable time though, that didn't happen and I woke up several times in the middle of the night from stress dreams where I was trying to solve the problem. And when I thought about the dream, nothing I had been doing in it made any logical sense to actually help me with a solution. Fortunately I woke up early and was able to figure it out in the morning. It was not a very restful night of sleep though.
Hacking as a pathway to building better Products
Great post, but kind of buries the lede: PostHog is having a CrowdStrike moment.
Well said. Wealth isn't the $ amount but what it can afford.

IMO every generation is wealthier even if it has the same $ share, because quality of commodities get better over time with technology on average.

It's not always true. Technology is only valuable if it can increase abundance.

Healthcare, education and house prices seem to be doing the opposite. Ironically those are the core things that have heavy caps on supply and supply is artificially chocked, not letting the free market optimize for prices.
Kids dress up as their siblings?
You're gonna break that necklace if you clutch your pearls any harder.
And in 30-50 years, people will rediscover the power of photocatalyzed reactions in the skin and portray modern folks as foolish, out-of-touch Edwardian prisses who tried to represses the immune system of the young with shade cloth. It's just a matter of time.
My most popular repo is just barely under the cutoff, but I can't advertise it because I'll doxx my shitpost account! Damn! I'll try to apply anyways ;)
"Everywhere surfing has already replaced the older sports" (2017)
BLUF is a Military standard; see article linked to under the "sources" section of the above link.
That title is cursed! /s Rest in peace.
Spider Species Uses Male Fireflies as Ghastly Puppets to Seduce Its Prey
Waymo now serves over 100k paid trips per week
My first employer as a developer, due to their incompetence, not intelligence, ‘let’ me break our customers’ shit from a young age. As I’ve progressed through my career, and through my transition to leadership, I’ve realised that it was a very valuable experience. I may have stressed about it in the past, but those memories are too distant for me to even reach now. I certainly don’t stress about it now.

I’ll, maybe controversially, sometimes allow my (early-career) team members to break prod, if I can see it happening ahead of time, but am confident that we’ll be able to recover quickly. It’s common knowledge that being given room to fail is important. But many leaders draw the line at failures that actually hit customers. If one finds oneself in the very common and very fortunate position to be building software that isn’t in charge of landing planes or anything similarly important, they should definitely let their team experience prod failures, even if it’s at the expense of so-and-so from Spokane Washington not being able to use their product for a few minutes.
Oh cool! I think I played that on my family's Apple II. I think it was mislabeled as "Star Fox" and probably pirated. Sorry Ray...
You can offer Undo via things other than toasts, though. In fact, I wish more software offered Undo--the Undo feature has kind of gone out of fashion since the early 2000s. You should be able to Undo anything (and follow the Undo chain back through many past actions). We somehow lost this ability from software.
CACM gave most of an issue to this, the bulk of the responses strongly disagreeing. The dissenters were not, as I recall, people generally in favor of sloppy coding.

In Peter Seibel's Coders at Work, the interview of Knuth includes

"""
Seibel: Yet Dijkstra has a paper I'm sure you're familiar with, where he basically says we shouldn't let computer-science students touch a machine for the first few years of their training.; they should spend all their time manipulating symbols.

Knuth: But that's not the way he learned either. He said a lot of really great things and inspirational things, but he's not always right. Neither am I...
"""

[Much more of interest, but I don't have the time to type it out now.]
> I do not think there is any hard evidence to indicate it will suddenly stop getting better. We have only seen consistent progress, and the cost of infererence per kwh keeps going down.

You could've literally said the exact same thing about Moore's law for decades and decades. Then progress fell off that curve. Eventually, it will hit physical limits and stop.

> I am agnostic to its success or continued development.

Then the question is why do you have the double standard? We don't have any hard evidence that AI will keep getting better just like we don't have any hard evidence that TMSC or Intel will pull off another major process shrink or two.

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

> A few years ago gpt3 scale models filled datacenters, now they fit on an iphone. We will probably see them sneak onboard drone flight controllers, and toys as ambulation chips, cheap security cameras, etc.

I don't think "more gpt3" is what people mean by AI "getting better."
This is very cool!

A bit disappointing that this does not get more attention on HN. Using WASM as a sandboxed embedded compute environment has so many use cases outside the browser.

For example extensions/plugins in code editors is another very interesting use case.
I’ve definitely come across this genre of issue on many sites in the past when checking out the console when a site is broken. Page is just a blank white screen? Oh, looks like the render function was placed after the init for some 3rd party user monitoring, which crashed because the script didn’t load properly. “Complete Checkout” button just does nothing at all? Oh, looks like the code to take my money runs in a callback to some analytics script that my ad blocker blocked. Oops.
I was lucky to have symmetric 512KB/sec from about 1997 on, but even before that the most dedicated sort of nerd could definitely download ~700MB movies over 56K with some effort..
It's not just that the bus is always late, it's also that when you are late yourself, the bus is always on time and just leaving.
Another example related to the current action of the user, but outside the scope of the currently-viewed screen: inserting a USB stick, or some other hardware-related function.

There is no context for this, and often an action is required. And even if not, it is certainly useful to confirm with the user that their action was detected.
I like the website. Did you start with a specific template?