skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody who's keeping track of reasons that we can't 'just unplug the AI if it starts hurting people," increment your counter.

Also, it's ironic that this unemployment claim-processing AI is being used by the state to avoid improving pay or working conditions to hire new workers:

> Nevada...has a backlog of more than 40,000 appeals stemming from a pandemic-related spike in unemployment claims while dealing with "unforeseen staffing shortages" that DETR reported in July.
>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

reminder.

>If you bought both this and the PS5 you're already at ~$1200

why would I buy both? PS5 probably still sells for more than launch price in the US. I'd basically break even selling it and then proceed to spend $130 on a dang disc drive. So we're still 600-700 dollars in after 4 years.

>I scratch my head a bit as it touches more in the PC territory than cheaper consoles did in the past.

Mostly because PC's stopped enroaching in console territory some 7 years ago or so, when mining became popular. There was a time where you could build a PC for $400 with the equivalent specs of a PS4/XBO. Any premium was to get better performance.

PS5 Pro does start to enroach, but PC components (mostly the GPU, but a few other components as well) have inflated faster than the consoles. Feels like one of the worst times to buy a PC if your argument is price matching a console.
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Something similar already exists:

https://github.com/pyxl4/pyxl4?tab=readme-ov-file#inline-pyt...

It's a shitty experience.
Exactly... the whole point of the post is to elaborate on the problems of the modern internet (addiction, fakeness, shallowness...). It's not a subjective nostalgic rant but a good analysis of everything that's wrong with today's internet.
Now do the same using Blazor Server (C#). For convenience use https://www.fluentui-blazor.net/ or https://mudblazor.com/ for your UI components.

It has it's compromises but it's great for just building stuff, with UI updates streamed to the client, no JS (or as much as you want), no extra API building just for the sake of your SPA. Note that I'm not talking about Blazor WASM.

If you're interested in working as a developer for corporations outside of the SF bubble (e.g. the other 80% that use Windows instead of macOS) it's worth checking out, especially for internal corporate stuff.
Things crashed and autosave hadn’t been invented.
Not as small or sleek, but you can still get everything Flipper Zero is doing with Arduino or a small laptop with basic antenna hardware. Flipper Zero is the iPhone of radio pentest gadgets.
I've built an open source data analysis and visualization tool https://dataline.app

Now my product manager and customer support teams use it for most small questions / charts needed.
Dial-up connection, ICQ, and 10mb files left to be downloaded through the night were my connection to the world.

I so badly wanted that future of the Internet, but somehow we ended up in a place where corporations ate it all.

Is it nostalgia, or is there something more? Who knows at this point.

I’m 30.
Dead Internet theory
Is there a way to take this for a test drive, without talking to sales :)
I want today's hardware with the internet of 2012 or so.
Been there, got on the internet ~90 (pre-www), my first web page ~93, first web coder job ~95. I do think it is overglorified (the web-part) - 80s BBS were more of a wild world with excitement to me.

What I did love though was getting on IRC, sitting in front of an amber VAX terminal late at night till morning, talking to people across the world. Reading NEWS and discussing things with people around the globe. What an eye opener for me.
You don't like how Go implements error handling. We get it. Lots of people complain about that. Use a "proper" language more to your liking.

Go's designers have explained their decisions many times, I won't repeat their justifications here. Obviously they had to make choices in line with their overall vision for Go. They feel strongly that programmers should handle or at least acknowledge the possibility of every error, explicitly, right where it gets reported. Exceptions and sum types don't enforce that.
UV5R with antenna upgrade works perfectly. I was able to listen to ISS from my backyard too. Hard to believe it is $20 for the quality of its hardware.
The internet nowadays is run by gatekeepers, as traffic is increasingly funneled though a dozen or so popular sites. If you get banned from Facebook, twitter, Amazon, reddit, youtube etc. you're SOL. You either have to use in read-only mode or make new account and hope they do not notice it is tied to the old one (also, you're putting all your eggs in a single basket). A social media ban is effectively a ban on the person if it's tied to a real name/identify. The only people who get to use social media to its full capability are those who have the connections or clout to negotiate/dispute the bans that are inevitable.
That use case still works. You only need one exit node in one jurisdiction where the site you want to visit isn’t blocked. Surely an exit node operator in country A can’t be prosecuted for allowing access to a site on country B’s blacklist.
The only thing I miss from the 90s-00s was the fun we had on IRC. And that was mostly due to our carelessness and youth, so I think I'm good in this future.

The funny thing is I'm still on IRC, with about the same size channel, but everyone is "new" and we're all old. I don't have any contact with the peeps from IRC back then.
Sure, for advertiser thingies. But website features like optionally storing your preferences in localStorage, or assigning device IDs to be able to understand and optimize website performance both require consent pop-ups.
Do you think drug mules get off scot-free when they say "I didn't know what was in that package"?
>I just think the internet is much worse than it was.

It's definitely worse than it was, in some ways. In other ways it's better. TLS is everywhere now. uBlock origin exists. The bar for pwning web apps is much higher today because we learned collectively from our mistakes/our fun times defacing PHP-Nuke sites.

But I miss pirating warez on IRC and scoring game rips from FTP topsites, and LAN parties. Facebook and Twitter were really fun in the early years, but these days Big Social really sucks and "growth focus" in tech is exhausting.
>Imagine how Linux people would react if there were endless blog posts about using VB6 scripts on Linux by running them under WINE because “that’s what feels familiar.”

Alternatively, we could ask why the POSIX-sphere produces enough power users impassioned to, interested in and capable of enabling their pet projects on a closed and hostile platform for blog posts like the OP's but the reverse does not.
I think MS has a team dedicated to confusing naming.
Things still crash and autosave saves the stuff that you want to undo later but cannot...
They meant logging-logs in the code itself:

log.Debugf("Foo is: %#v", ...)
//You think: this is probably filtering code
log.Debugf("Foo without X is: %#v", ...)
You had Macs, Linux and Unix workstations in the 90s. And before the graphical browser era anything with a terminal program (eg Amiga) worked fine for internet related things.
In the future people might think the same about Bitcoin and AI.
That is an immensely cool site, thanks for linking it!
As long as the environmental consequences fall entirely within the state borders, states should be allowed to decide independently.

However, when it comes to polluting rivers, sea and air, consequences of pollution are of often planet-wide. Thus, a global approach is required.

That said, the sooner Starship achieves full reusability, the sooner we'll stop burning rocket stages into the atmosphere and letting the incombustible parts fall into the ocean.
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Mercedes, Factorial unveil solid-state battery that can extend EV range by 80%
You could be the first! Fork Ubuntu, leave everything else the same, but have it run `fish` as the default shell with `bash` as a fallback.

Alternatively, you could install default Ubuntu and run https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu to switch your terminal to fish, kitty, and get a whole slew of other niceties in there by default. I found myself doing this a lot at my last job in VMs, which is why I have this set of shell scripts lying around and easy to audit.
well I was around then and am around now and yeah, still writing a blog that is in no way monetised or SEO prepped. I do use OG for better search & share but thats it. built first websites en of 90s, started on Blogger in 2003 and if I had not done that I would not have done the webdev and video knowledge of my tech pivot. That changed my life and made possible everything I have done since.
Presumably, the opt-out is not to make photos/posts public
I'm usually skeptical of private equity, but in this case I see reasons to not be immediately cynical. The purchase price was only ~$37 million USD, which is quite reasonable considering MariaDB's reach and potential.

MariaDB plc has some really talented C++ engineers who are experts in database internals. Their DB has some compelling features that many competitors lack, for example system-versioned tables, Oracle DB compatibility layer, and soon a really nice multi-tenancy feature (catalogs). MariaDB plc has a strong presence in Europe, which I would assume is very appealing for potential European customers. And now they finally have an owner with deeper pockets, which hasn't been true in recent history; their previous financial state likely hindered commercial adoption.

If MariaDB can execute well on support and services, I'd imagine their new owners can get a good return on their investment as-is. No need for squeezing and strip-mining them, I don't see how that would even work in this case.
What is an uncivilized society, by the way?
AI has me super jealous of how quickly kids can learn things today. Back in the 90s banging you head against the wall trying to get the simplest things in Linux to work, and trying to learn programming from a book with minimal resources online. It was 'hard mode'. I'm glad I was there to appreciate what we have today, but not sure I'd want to go back to that.. though I would like to play some Quake deathmatch again on a populated server..

There are still lots of underground nooks and crannies of the internet today, arguably more than ever. It's what you make of it, and where you choose to spend your time.
This made me laugh so hard.

But it's the truth.
We've built Cradle, a framework that leverages such models to perform complex computer tasks via the same general interface humans use: screen as input and keyboard & mouse operations as output.

It works both on regular software and in complex games like RDR2. And it doesn't cheat by using any game-/software-specific API, nor accessibility calls, nor DOM trees. :)

https://baai-agents.github.io/Cradle/

And we're still evolving it.
Rust-for-Linux: The Success, Dissatisfaction, and Compromise
The standard VAT rate in Italy in 22%, so Google tells me. The real problem: Apple runs stores in Italy (and hence a business in Italy), but doesn't pay any corporate income tax in Italy. So, Italy is missing out on tax revenues.
Indeed, nothing is heating in this state.
I did not expect this take on HN. Some folks want a portable but powerful machine that can run e.g. multiple VMs, Docker, Kubernetes or perhaps large local AI models. All of these things need plenty of RAM.

And please don't respond with "get a desktop or power laptop (aka boat-anchor/toaster).

The 32GB cap is not a fundamental limit AFAIK. It's a marketing/cost decision based on not having to support too many product variants while still targeting the biggest customer segments.
So because everything is a Byzantine labyrinth due to scale we're all going to agree to remember to add internal headers to strip to another service?

Maintaining the header to strip list is just another piece of technical debt to keep paying down.

Having a policy to strip everything under a prefix seems much less error prone.
In the article, it says "The Rust *struct* has a smaller size compared with the C due to the usage of smart pointers instead of allocating item memory inside the *struct*. We use *pahole* to identify that Rust *struct*s use fewer cache lines than their C counterpart."

As far as I know, you can also use pointers (not smart ones, that's a C++ thing) inside structs in C, right? Like this:

struct student
{
char *name;
int age;
char *program;
char *subjects[5];
};
yeah but it also meant that the job market may have been easier, lower barriers to entry
I was there too and I mostly disagree.

> The computers were slow.

Not for mundane tasks, or not a whole lot anyways. Productivity software used to be optimized for the client. Today's equivalent is cloud-based, written in managed code and often actually slower.

> Microsoft ruled the day

I do agree here, this part sucked.

> The software was unsophisticated - any time you wanted to push the envelope you'd often hit some fundamental barrier because the software just wasn't there yet.

This varies by field and task. As a developer, it was easier to break through because there were not 35,000 competing partial alternatives. Without this "value puzzle" new stuff was a much easier sell.

> Things crashed - alot.

In my particular experience, things break a little more than they used to. OS's don't crash as much, though.

> I own a ton of vintage computers but I don't use them, because why would you want to?

Same here, but only because I can emulate old platforms, otherwise I would. I still play old games and use old software I wrote.
Let’s fix it
Man, I feel you. The old internet had this raw, curious energy that just isn’t the same today. That’s kind of what led us to create Bettermode. We still believe in that mission of giving people the tools to build, connect, and create something meaningful—like the good ol’ days but with today's tech.

It’s not about looking back, though—it’s about bringing that same spirit into the future. We’re still here building towards that, even if the landscape looks a bit different now.
There are a few open-literature papers already on how a submarine's wake might show up in analysis of surface patterns. Doesn't seem hard to imagine that the classified literature is a few steps ahead.
one of the issues...i think. if you make a game now, it has to scale to different resolutions for different displays.

so to do that cheaply you need to use some kind of vector art. which gives everything this kind of vector smoothness which eliminates some of the roughness which gives character and charm.

but i agree that the switch is the closest remaining thing to that past era.
banners are way preferrable to the annoying video ads or ads that pretend to appear as content.
> There really are time periods that suck and some that don't. An interesting observation is that there are very few, if any Gen Z hackers or founders comparable to say Carmack or entrepreneurs like Zuckerberg. Virtually every tech company today is run by Gen X / Millenials. Maybe reflecting that the "product culture" Gen Z grew up in has resulted in not very technology oriented social media businesses.

AI (LLMs) represents a platform shift on a large scale and I feel the environment is similar to that which birthed Zuckerberg type entrepreneurs. I think in the next 5 years Gen Z will have its heyday in terms of tech startups... At least, that's what I tell myself.

Yeah, I agree the Web3.0 stuff was overhyped--not really a platform or thinking shift. There are a lot of black-hat hackers who are Gen Z, because generally only young people take risks like that while simultaneously having the skills to get paid a tech salary.
The only thing that sucked about 00s web was the tech.

Compared to today, I really wish that you could've had the creativity and general attitude of the 00s web with the tech of today.

But I guess this is why I don't regret spending so much time on the 00s web.
I'm not aware of "primary" drivers if that's a thing. I know that Safe Mode always falls back to the drivers Windows has by default because that's the whole point of Safe Mode.
There are many, many developers who are, deep in their hearts, "programmers"--someone who creates a plan of action, a program, for very complex machines to follow. They are skilled at discerning The Right Way to solve a problem. Actually, THE Right Way. And since they are Programmers, the Right Way is to find the Best Way to tell the computer what to do. Computers are completely oblivious to comments, so they aren't The Best Way. Comments are ambiguous, so they can't be THE Right Way. Computers parse identifiers, so a good variable name is telling the computer _something_ at least, and so is vastly preferrable to comments. If there's a mismatch between comment and code, the code is Reality so the comment must be wrong, and is thus misleading and worse than useless.

In reality, of course, software development is about getting large groups of people in-sync as to problem, solution, and implementation. That takes lots and lots of communication. Ambiguous, messy people-to-people stuff, without The Right Solution to contents or wording. Because there's a bias towards thinking of the Program as Reality, it never occurs to such developers that an identifier can become just as outdated or wrong as a comment, and in fact it is easier to correct a comment than to globally rename identifiers, or that a 20-word comment carries vastly more information and nuance than a 20-character function name, or that trying to shoehorn information important to developers into a language used to tell _computers_ how to function is worse than trying to drop assembly language into a SQL query.
I worked on a system built on FAAS for a few months and it was (already when I arrived) one of the more well-tested systems I ever worked with, so it is clearly doable.

I took the system from dev to prod and much of it was boring in the very best sense of boring (also helped that I had a good team, although they were new to it as well).

I had one major gripe with it (and everything Azure) afterwards:

On dev there are absolutely no guarantees: components might go down half a workday and they don't care.

And when you go to production the prices goes absolutely through the roof (IIRC $9000/year for the most basic message broker I could configure that wouldn't have the risk of being offline half a day, and every component is like this).

So while it was really cool to work on a cloud native system if someone ever asks me to design one for them, that design will be presented with a price tag for what it will cost to take it to production.
> If you consume a lot of stuff, you pay a lot of tax. Sounds fair to me.

Most economists view VAT/GST as a regressive tax. I don't know why so many highly advanced, liberal democracies are so dependent upon VAT/GST for tax revenues.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Linux+user+namespace+vulner...

There's been several. And I wouldn't be surprised if more are still there, or more get introduced.
Like self-landing rockets. :)
I already think like that of the first years of Bitcoin. It had the same energy.
I was about 10 years old when I first started using the Internet (Netscape) in the mid 90s.

Around 97-98 was really when I went deep into it mostly because of Starcraft. That led to battle.net which led to IRC and the rest is history.
Possibly all the ways to get loop-finding in graphs wrong
Haha it was a fun time. We had forums and blogs that people would visit. It was a blast. I still have a blog but back then I'd get random visitors from the Internet. These days not unless it's linked somewhere. Centralized platforms won the discoverability game.

On the plus side we're never bored. But I'll tell you, man. Back then we'd comment with our real names on random blogs. And shit like that. Privacy and stuff wasn't really a big deal.
If the prosecutor can't convince the jury that they did know, yes.

That rarely happens in practice because prosecutors are usually pretty good at their jobs, and tend not to bring cases they can't prove.
Thanks for sharing! would be super nice if notebooklm can automatically include reference papers from a single paper.
I’m not that much crazy older than you, but I do remember well being a teenager at the peak of the dotcom craze, being a heavy internet user, and even back then having a vague feeling that the ad riddled, desperately monetized (and shitty) websites built on the back of mostly investment capital run amok felt a little shitty as an end user. It’s hazy now and lost to time (the internet is not actually forever it’s like ~10 years old at most now) but i vividly remember pages that became harder and harder to navigate because of invasive ads, and sites that’d somehow embed malware on your computer that’d spam you with weird porn popups when your parents used the machine - it all feels vaguely similar to now, albeit much sleeker. Adware in my opinion is bordering on malware to the point I find the definitions indistinguishable. It collapsed then for good reason, and IMHO similar conditions as to now. I don’t want to live through that as a fully grown adult with a tech career now, and it worries me a lot.

What arose from the ashes of that bubble event became great so maybe a reset is needed, but for me personally, it’d be a disaster.
SpaceX did make changes to prevent damage to the launch pad in the future, true. I did not mean to suggest otherwise.

My point is that the "mess" the original comment complained about was not a major environmental issue, as they implied, and that it did not prevent subsequent launches from being approved.
Pärt's speech at St. Vladimir's Seminary is worth watching [1]. Extraordinary figure. Greatest composer of our time and - I'm afraid - last great composer.

My second favourite Pärt-clip is Björk interviewing him. [2]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-kjp2hLCw
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqEAZCYcHI
Yea, that was my workaround for Go as well. Go both gains and loses points here.
The goverment has just revoked your speech license. Please upstain from public talking to more than three people.
Forget 10x devs, if this theory is true, there must be some 1,000x devs out there who manage these bots.
> I'm glad I was there to appreciate what we have today, but not sure I'd want to go back to that..

I would. Having the answer handed to you doesn't actually teach you much. It's the struggle to figure out the answer that makes it stick. The kids today who can just get easy answers from AI aren't going to have anywhere near the skills we do.