skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article isn't just saying it's "absolutely fine" to make software for fun/practice, it's complaining about other people having utility-focused questions and evaluations. Assuming that "show it to your friend" is supposed to be an analogy for more general showing off, reactions like that are plenty reasonable. If it's software nobody is intended to use then that should be made clear up front.
> view whatever was hosted at that address (default host in the case of virtual hosting). Not sure why these websites do not persist.

You probably answered your own question here--I imagine at this point the amount of things on the internet that aren't using some sort of virtual hosting are quite tiny.

Even ignoring everything else, with the IP address exhaustion and the push for SSL (can't get a certificate for an IP address), websites available directly at an IP address just aren't really a thing anymore.
Pocket-Godot: Starter Kit for mobile game development using Godot
you have to amplify electrical signals from the scalp that are in the order of microvolts, which requires having low impedance between the electrode and scalp, proper amplification circuitry, and the ability to filter out lots of environmental electrical noise. I am a student in a lab where we have a EGI system that costs in the ballpark of ~$100k (with $10-20k in nets that need to be replaced every couple of years), and it is even a world of difference between that system and a $30k mobile EEG system that we recently acquired.
I can't be the only one who did a "View Source" of that site looking for Easter eggs
That model sounds great. Low friction and impulse-buy pricing.

There are lots of sites (AnandTech being a prime example) I don't visit often enough to justify the usual monthly subscription cost.

Per-article pricing with no registration would be ideal (yet another cryptocurrency use case that never materialized) but as you say, transaction fees make that a non starter.
I kept thinking that Anandtech could have survived if they had not been part of a corporate ownership. Because they were owned by a media conglomerate, the pressure is on to behave more like other media business under the same ownership. They could have diversified in terms of revenue if they were independent.
Cohere updates Command R models to improve coding, math, reasoning, and latency
Oh I misread that initially, I thought it was 5PM on that Monday, jesus.
I haven't used HOTP, but my (very basic) understanding is that it works by having both sides (the service and the OTP generator) increment a count. If you have two OTP generators configured, you'd have to "request" a new OTP from each of them every time you use one, to keep them in sync.
DARPA Open Sources Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) Core
Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
GCRA: Leaky Buckets Without the Buckets
Wow, the Kalamazoo Promise has been going on since 2005. I wasn't aware of this program; that's very cool.
It seems like it’s easier to just let them decompose than to get rid of the necropheliacs.

I think this is a situation if “of course no one wants necropheliacs, but we’re all ears as to how you drum them out” so the practical hack of just letting the bodies sit for a bit so perverts don’t like them any more is much more effective.

This comes up a ton in software development where people fixate on what users SHOULD do (eg, rtfm, click this button, register this way) instead of what they actually do. I’m old enough now that I can’t afford the luxury of time spent trying to change users psychology and just want to adapt.
> And while the AnandTech staff is riding off into the sunset, I am happy to report that the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while. Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely.

THANK YOU!
Damn. End of an era. Anandtech was the reason I got into hardware and computers in general.
A large portion of people are genuinely or functionally illiterate. Like we're supposed to pitch general material at ~ a 5th or 6th grade reading level because that's the average. Half of people can't even do that. I have daily encounters with adults who work corporate jobs/own businesses who can't interpret compound sentences. I can't use conjunctions or sentences with multiple clauses, etc.

This is going to get worse: the elementary and middle school teachers/education professionals have been screaming at us that there's a major issue with reading in the upcoming generation due to a change in how many schools taught reading for several years that turned out to be a horrible idea. Add the pandemic on top of it (because losing a year of learning is a big deal at the elementary school level), and now we have a generation who can't read.

I think we're going back to having a literate class and a non-literate class, honestly. I can't see us putting in the time, money, and effort to fix the situation. Instead we'll just change formats (and probably have a bunch of middle men pop up that turn text into video with AI for the illiterate).

We're never going to see general purpose text again as a culture. Text will only be primary in certain audiences. (Lawyers, software people, librarians, etc.)
Thanks for the feedback! The plan is to have the brand synonymous with supporting FOSS projects, which will hopefully come over time. We're also looking into different designs that can show this more clearly, but we still want to keep our design ethos of keeping it more minimal and avoiding the current tropes of "engineer clothing"
ok so here is a high voltage electric cable in the middle of your way, it has a 10% chance of being live, would you consider ignorant the guy who warns you about it?
No. In fact, the whole goal is to stay as close to "bare metal" as possible without any dependencies other than the browser (and Lit). I wrote an article[0] about this that you might find helpful.

[0] https://medium.com/gitconnected/getting-started-with-web-com...
I'm curious what kind of slow IO is a pain point for you -- I was surprised to read this comment because I normally think of Julia IO being pretty fast. I don't doubt there are cases where the Julia experience is slower than in other languages, I'm just curious what you're encountering since my experience is the opposite.

Tiny example (which blends Julia-the-language and Julia-the-ecosystem, for better and worse): I just timed reading the most recent CSV I generated in real life, a relatively small 14k rows x 19 columns. 10ms in Julia+CSV+DataFrames, 37ms in Python+Pandas...ie much faster in Julia but also not a pain point either way.
Why would I use this instead of something like streaming directly on Twitch or YouTube? Since they also bring the audience it helps to stream there.

There used to be a livecoding.tv back in the day which slowly died out so I would love to have something like this but I don't fully get why to use it.
From the article:

> Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable.
enum ReceivedINode<T> {
Existing(ARef<INode<T>)
New(inode::New<T>)
}

fn get(..) -> Result<ReceivedINode<T>>

Calm down with the bikeshedding. It’s just a complex C API and they wanted to convey the semantics concisely.
Sad, very sad, but a sign of our times (for some years now). Life around us has/is changing and there are more people interested in their careers and bank accounts than life itself and the supporting environment of family, friends, colleagues, relatives...
We're going to be seeing this more and more in the coming years :-(
Many systems are buggy, periodically running into corner cases that are borderline impossible to debug.
Thoughts on Elasticsearch License Change
I'd say that for mechanical topics (construction, car repair, etc.) a video can be very useful. But please, provide a written transcript, since that's at least searchable.
We were discussing whether the term “adhere” implied blame. What are you talking about?
Investigating Status in Mycenaean Damoi Through the Landholders of the Pylos
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> IMHO, baseline languages like Python are great for writing down what you already think but terrible for iterating on your understanding, and 95% of our work as engineers is (should be?) changing our understanding of the problem to fit reality as it bumps us in the face.

I have to disagree. I've been working on HashBackup for 15 years now, and believe me, my understanding of backups has grown immensely over those years - with Python. Python may have some things I have to work around, as all computer languages do, but after all this time I still love working on and just reading through the code that has resulted from over 3200 commits.

Python's simple, easy-to-read syntax, encourages me to change things, even in a complex section of code that I haven't looked at in years. For me, Rust's emphasis on multi-character syntax vs keywords makes it visually unappealing and ugly, and I don't think I'd enjoy working on ugly code for 15 years, even if it does run fast. Not intending to start a huge language discussion, but I do think the specific point of Python not being suitable for experts in a problem domain is not true, at least not for me.
Don't you worry, they'll link it right back at you along with "This is why we need open office plans!"
one day ? sounds like nosy rural people justification urban legend, more like it
TLDR: In response to the recent resignation of Rust-for-Linux's Wedson Almeida Filho [0] and consequent debate over the politics of Rust in the kernel, Drew DeVault suggests that the Rust for Linux crowd build their own ABI-compatible Linux clone, reasoning that a clone is easier than a greenfield research OS (like the existing Redux).

It's not a bad idea, imho. Rust folks love rewriting things, and are often quite good at it. It would keep both the curmudgeonly kernel Never-Rusters and the Rust evangelism brigades happy (by keeping them apart). And it's a great proving ground for Rust's claims - assuming licence compatibility, successful rewrites of individual components could be lifted by Linux down the line.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/987635/
> Thats’s what I’m saying: “adhere to” in this context doesn’t mean “do your best”. It just means the medicine taken was incorrect, regardless of how that happened.

No, that's not what it means.
Ask HN: What Is Envidia?
It seems like an innocent question, but it is not so clear if you think about it. Some will say it is a chip "designer," but Jensen Huang probably will not agree, and he will say it is much more than that.

With all the last changes, how would you define Nvidia?
Sonos App Improvement and Bug Tracker
Absolutely gutted to see another long running website from the glory days of the Internet closing up shop.
Anantech was the high watermark in tech journalism and the only place I'd go to look at in-depth (sometimes beyond belief) reviews of Apple hardware test results not found anywhere else on the web. Page after page after page of detailed tests and results.

Hard to imagine that type of content being lucrative from a display-ad point of view if they used traditional ad networks, but the effort was absolutely appreciated and respected by readers.

A sad day but considering how the online ad market has tried to force publishers to focus on video content an understandable one for printed-word journalists. It's awful.
According to UN projections, by 2060 China's population will be shrinking by approximately 15 million people from one year to another. This is a lower bound estimate on the number of deaths/year there by then, as it includes the effect of births partially offsetting deaths. See https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/Popul...
How do you have a conviction temporarily overturned? I thought the US had rules about double jeopardy. Unless you're referring to some other charges he hasn't been tried for.
No it’s for public access. Still, a reverse ssh tunnel could expose it on a VPS, but there is no authentication and ACL.

SSH port forwarding is also typically slow.
Are there any wishlist features? Looking for a solution for a wiki and this looks super promising.
There's a difference though. Prior to the relicensing, Amazon had a private fork they were running and weren't contributing upstream. Only after the relicense did they open source their fork.

Now you have two open source projects and one has a copyleft license and the other has a permissive license.

Taking contributions from the permissive to the copyleft project isn't ripping off contributions. It's using open source software and collaborating in the FOSS ecosystem. And Amazon would be free to pull contributions back the other way just as well as long as they agree to the mutual terms of the AGPL (which is by all means a FOSS license).
"> we've passed the low point of ad-fuelled, sensational, information-light, polarised, vacuous content"

I am also a bit pessimistic about this, but rather think the danger comes from LLMs making even more convincing clickbait and "facts". Cheap, easy to consume, if there are enough clicks, there is enough ad money.

Something real was misrepresented, so there was a lot of outcry? Awesome, lots of clicks. Lots of money. We can later apoligize, that the LLM summarizing made a misstake there.

As long as ads dominate where the money comes from for newspapers, not much will change.
Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)
"web3" is nothing but another crypto-scam.
There's some pretty great CSS stylesheets that don't require you to write selectors at all. https://www.cssbed.com/no-class/ This site seems to have a good list with examples. Then you can generate HTML and only have to write CSS for the parts that really need customization.

For the HTML generation you don't need much if you go this route. I have built sites by writing markdown, generating HTML with Pandoc and then voila done.
I never believed that internet advertising was worth what it supposedly is. Stuff like this seems to confirm it for me: https://www.adexchanger.com/on-tv-and-video/googles-second-w...

I think internet advertising is massively overvalued, the initial bubble happened when the click fraud detection tools were nonexistent, and because Google hasn't been changed, everyone assumes their valuation is right and correct.
Answers that claim that the question is a duplicate, then OP pleading that they have read the several "original questions" but were unable to fix the issue, or they're talking about something else entirely.

People not even fixing your answer but introducing a minor edit. I think I recall someone listed as a co-author or something with zero change (not even a character was changed).

Bullying OP. The darn person tells you their question is not yet answered, and people persist: nope, comment below answered the question, or that it's a duplicate. Bullying or gaslighting someone into denying a technical problem still exists is fucking wild.

I mean, Quora has become absolutely useless a long time ago, but StackExchange has become harder to read. The amount of focus not to register some dip-shit trying to close a thread because they haven't really understood the problem, the problem you are very aware about, and getting the frustration of the OP because they're talking about the very problem you're looking to solve, is just tremendous.
"The internet will fade away because most people have nothing to say to each other" – Paul Krugman, 1998

If it's any consolation in my over 50 years in computers I've found most predictions are wrong.
stunningly ignorant observation given that the religious meaning of that process was literally core to an entire empire at the time
> Mozilla found itself in a situation of damned if they do, damned if they don't. People scream at them for depending on Google, and then they scream at them for trying to diversify their revenue.

People didn't like Pocket as a product. It wasn't as if they just didn't like it because Firdfox wanted to make money out of it.

Sure they should diversify, but with something that isn't otherwise (so) objectionable. Like their VPN, or sponsorship, or just let go of all the upper management.
The fight to ban leaded fuel was much more important, and ultimately successful.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1031429212/the-world-has-fina...
You’re thinking of cats. Dogs don’t actually eat the remains of their owners.
45 minutes by train from London Euston. About the same time as my commute and I live in Zone 3. Might not be geographically that near but it's very accessible.
If you were aware, you would never smoke. Same for interest. Why would you be interested in a black lung. Furthermore, desire. Not sure what a cowboy riding on a horse has to do with smoking.

So, none of those commercials teach you what smoking is actually about. It is about getting you addicted so you become an ATM for big tabacco.
Yeah I think the article outlines much of how engineers perceive themselves, rather than how they actually behave. Look at all the VC-funded tech products with fancy landing pages. Webflow, Vercel, Warp, etc. They may list out more technical detail than a typical product, sure, but they're appealing to your emotions just the same.

Just head over to vercel.com; the tagline is "Your complete platform for the web." If you think that's not an attempt to appeal to you on an emotional level, you need to introspect more.
One of the crazy parts about S3 which is not touched on in this post is how it's becoming a file transfer protocol in its own right. Every cloud vendor now has an S3 compatible interface, but when you look deeper into the actual http contract behind the S3 spec, I don't understand how one can shit on FTP and webdav as a protocol and S3 not receive worse treatment. I don't want to be reminiscent of the Dropbox FTP deal on HN, but I hope one day people will steer toward open protocols and stop shitting on open ones for reasons that quite frankly 99% of the people couldn't give much of a shit about.
Happily the RWT forum remains up and active. It's an absolute goldmine for deep discussions on processors.
The doctor in the story reported that the water bottle he brought in "had a high concentration of vitamin D," not KCl.

Obviously in this case we are entirely reliant on reporting by one side, and anything in the story could be inaccurate or totally false. But within the context of what's reported, nothing in the story really seems inconsistent with Vitamin D poisoning. And certainly not enough to motivate a weird six-paragraph medical rant like yours.
Your browser auto-downloaded it. The website just said it's available.
I guess it's too much work to write articles all the time?
I was thinking that a security guard who monitored the building might notice the one person who was at their desk over the weekend, or in the middle of the night. The most likely explanation is that they are completely checked out of their job and didn't really perform it to the spirit or even the letter of their responsibility, but I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The survivors cohort left to rebuild probably was not composed mostly of retirement-age people.
Yeah I don’t get it you can’t build quality into a shitty design. Only trailers worth repairing are airstreams and fiberglass ones, and even then the time to value proposition is dubious
Bug was clearly part of the lexicon already. Otherwise no one would have written "First actual case of bug being found." And it wouldn't have been so funny.

Pedant "debunking" obvious joke in a JSTOR article is pretty funny in its own right, though. I hope Matthew Wills will explain how chickens don't cross roads next!
The Wallpaper That Killed the Emperor
I mean, the sentence "The first actual case of a bug being found" implies that "bug" was already being used in the context of a malfunctioning computer. Otherwise, why would they write it?
> Cable is laced with advertising and is linear, whereas much of the world has moved on to on demand

As a counter, there is a trend of linear streaming channels increasing in popularity. Lots of people just want to put something on for a bit of time rather than doom scrolling on-demand to find something to put on. There have been times where I've spent the majority of the time I was willing to kill watching something searching for something to watch. Curated channels with content that your interested in is very compelling.

> I for one would be perfectly willing to have an option where

These are definitely out there. I worked on the backed in for something that did this very thing. There was a channel for nothing but old western TV shows. Another channel that was nothing but animal related content. Another that was basically a Hallmark channel with similar content. I never did see what their pricing was though
This is rather misleading, the FLP theorem talks about fully asynchronous networks with unbounded delay. Partial synchrony is a perfectly reasonable assumption and allows atomic broadcast and locking to work perfectly well even if there is an unknown but finite bound on network delay.
They weren't found until Tuesday afternoon.

Two full workdays in the office with no colaboration
If you look at e.g. GamersNexus, Hardware Unboxed, etc. the videos aren't really short form in that "10:02" way. Like there's plenty of detail, but 30 minutes with 15 minutes of it being looking at graphs is clearly a pretty slow way to do it compared to see they literally just presented the video script in article form and you could choose the graphs and time that matters to you.
Several years ago, I led a project at a startup to move from Postgres to Elasticsearch for geographic search. I chose Elasticsearch because it had the capability to do geohashing and so it provided a credible alternative to PostGIS for our particular use case. Geohashing-based search is particularly computationally intensive, which is somewhat different from traditional full-text search, which can be memory intensive.

I wanted to pay Elasticsearch to host our search cluster. And I did for a while. But it became clear we were paying for gobs of RAM that we weren't using and we didn't have enough CPU to really cover our search needs. I talked to the head of sales at the time and he said they were working on a plan that would allow us to choose machines that were more CPU heavy but that that was in the pipeline and there was no ETA.

So we switched to AWS and everything worked just fine.

All this is to say, Amazon was not offering the exact same service. They were offering a better service.
> As someone who worked both on advertiser and publisher sides (incl. content monetisation): advertisers like to say that they support publishers and the open web, but in fact, they are keeping it hostage.

I know what you're saying, I agree, as I worked (in the past) on advertising platforms as well, but both of those statements can be true at the same time.

The open web was built on advertising, but the perverse incentives in advertising are also poisoning the open web.

I don't think we've ever had a good solution. People like free stuff, and also, micro-transactions are not possible given the huge banking fees. What we're seeing, the alternative, are subscription-based services behind closed hardens, and mobile apps whose ads can no longer be blocked, so here we are.

I also think that Google isn't the greater evil, because Google has an incentive to keep the web going. For instance, what happens with local newspapers, when they die, besides depriving ad networks of revenue, is that the audience of these newspapers moves to walled gardens like Facebook. The failure of advertising on the web right now results in more centralisation.
Breaks my heart. Grew up reading AnandTech in the early 2010s for all things hardware -- processor releases, updates to the DDR SDRAM standard, motherboard and NAND flash reviews.

The era of unbiased, objective and deeply technical journalism is dying out. Sad.