skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your last four points are good, but in practice the first two have not netted significant advantages for NYC's bus operations: many of NYC's buses run on narrow one-lane streets, where any amount of double parking makes the road completely un-navigable. Similarly, it's more common to see a bus route taken out of operation entirely for a week than to have it re-routed on the fly (the latter does happen, but the network also dense enough where most riders can take the next avenue's route).

I think a significant understated advantage to streetcars is their effect on local neighborhood development: like a subway line, a streetcar line is a semi-permanent installation that can't be easily taken away by a short-term replanning of the network. Bus lines, even when dense and well-developed (like NYC's are!), simply feel impermanent in a way that rail transport doesn't.

(Or as another framing: if you build a rail connection to a neighborhood, there's a good chance there will still be a thriving neighborhood there in a century. It's not as easy to guarantee that with a bus route that can be taken away overnight.)
Squeezy
80lbs is fine for deer. Gotta go higher for armored deer
And anyone that ever uses cash for anything is overpaying, because prices everywhere have been jacked up to include headroom for "give back 2.5% as credit card rewards"
Nowadays my browser's home page is one of the LLMs. It's easier to get knowledge with an AI than the dead Internet to which Google contributed.
Wasn't that NOARCHIVE?

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/679/how-do-i-...
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If it requires a migration for its existing customers, it's fair to call it killed. And if there is no such pathway, it's also killed.

We could argue about whether it was murder or euthanasia, but dead is dead.
It's the opposite. People with serious issues (i.e. stalkers, trolls etc.) will continue following on a second account or proxy. Meanwhile regular accounts with legitimate criticisms (for example pointing out misinformation, calling out bias, and so on) get blocked by bad actors and those will not find them anymore and repost because they don't invest time in it.

Blocking mainly prevents regular normal users from seeing tweets. Best example is Lex Fridman who's blocked a million people for no apparent reason. Say something he doesn't like: You're blocked. Never even interacted with him but commented on a topic he doesn't approve of: Blocked. You under-cook fish: Believe it or not, he blocks you.
> the cost of an item increases by approximately the amount of the subsidy the government provides.

Vis-a-vis food stamps and unemployment checks, I don't think you can draw the correlation you think exists. Particularly past a certain level of poverty, the state ends up spending more to manage the consequences of unemployment than it saves by refusing to fix it. UBI in this case perpetuates inequity but it also greases the wheels of a down-and-out working population that can be motivated by higher standards of living.

From a net-gain perspective, developed nations investing in themselves like this makes sense. The alternative is letting the middle class rot, which is something that only the upper-class would stand to gain from.
FedNow is for institutions not individuals
Probably a lot fewer ads as well.
There's been a "regular cadence of these announcements" for the past 4 years. Should they just pause all enforcement actions when it's X number of months from an election? Shouldn't the politicians be actively earning our vote by doing things like this?
Any solid evidence on why, or why now? I have to assume the additional interest in crawling/scraping data for AI precipitated this. Why deal with all the messiness of crawling the web at large when you can use a Google search and cache: results as your RAG?
Ya the idea that buses are better than streetcars because they can go around traffic is just completely detached from reality. Maybe a bus can go around one double-parked car but during rush hour that's not happening. It was always just an excuse to avoid taking an inch of space away from cars for dedicated transit right of way.
NBER finds 1% of fiscal income is unreported from pass through tax evasion. If anything, this highlights that Individuals should be the relevant level of income tax assessment.
And yet it ran from the Houthis and failed to reopen the shipping lanes
The author justin frankel (also wrote reaper the DAW absolute legend) had this to say about it

> Question: Now that WinAMP's source has been officially released, do you have any desire to hack new badass features in?

Answer: If I did have any desire, it would be extinguished by the license terms, lol. The terms are completely absurd in the way they are written, e.g. "You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software." So arguably making any changes would be considered "creating a forked version." But even taking these terms as they are likely intended (which is slightly more permissive than how they are written), they are terrible. No thank you.
The recitation error is a big deal.

I was ready to champion gemini use across my organization, and the recitation issue curbed any enthusiasm I had. It's opaque and Google has yet to suggest a mitigation.

Your comment is not hyperbole. It's a genuine expression of how angry many customers are.
That guy will never be "broke."
Also, what if _everyone_ wants a vineyard in France? Land is still finite, how does one allocate something like that?
Such is the hellscape we’ve brought on ourselves from the widespread adoption of “minimum viable product” as the right way to build things. We judge viability by some feature set, not whether the stupid thing is resilient or can be maintained.

It also doesn’t help that “minimum viable” is only one step away from “non-viable”. Every project then becomes like Icarus, testing how close to the sun we can fly before our wings melt.
> They never actually tore up most of these lines; the city just paved over them.

Any place there is a comprehensive utility construction project, there is a pay item that orders the contractor to excavate the rails out of the way for utility installation. A survey is done using a meta Detector to find if any rails remain in a site.
Rail-based transit also provides major side-benefits to its routes: development and improvement.

The principle is that bus routes can change, bus stops can move. Rail right-of-way and train stations are quite permanent and immobile.

Therefore, if a city invests in rail, the developers will follow, and redevelop, revitalize, or gentrify neighborhoods along that route. Conversely, folks in the neighborhood may fight the rail expansion, because "there goes the neighborhood" usually in a more upscale fashion.

It was smart for cities to build out streetcar lines in their early expansions, enticing developers into areas that promised long-term access. Of course, rail lines don't last forever, but the point is being more permanent and staying put, more reliably, than rubber-tire-based transit.
I'm old enough to remember https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO
This is a Worms sound effect as well, right? Does it come from a sound library? (I feel like I have watched a video about this at some point, but if there isn't one, there should be.)

Edit: HN search gives me this short thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11289591
I don't go that far. Mistakes were made, but golang has great properties as well.

I'm just amazed that, given that golang's inception is relatively recent, somehow this old lesson had not been learned by the designers. Accomplished and learned people created this language. How did that happen?
They don't call it "advanced" for nothin'.

FWIW the alternative these days is probably running a 32-bit RTOS on your battery hardware which isn't much simpler.
Depends on quality. Birds in a stream. Are the birds accurate to the movies location? Is the fidelity good enough? Does it match the movie? I don't think it's as simple as prompt and done
The old blocking also stopped your posts from appearing in their "for you" timeline. The new blocking doesn't.
Those are all issues as well, but brigading is absolutely a thing.
Meow – Print ASCII cats in your terminal
I've been looking for more fun terminal commands (think `cowsay`, `figlet`, `sl`, etc.) recently, and I noticed that there was a critical lack of cats in the terminal. It's time for a change!

I've released this on nixpkgs as the `meow` package, should I also include it in the Debian (or other?) repositories?
Right, I knew it had launched in the last few months. But most people don’t have it yet. None of the big banks are on that list.

It’ll just take time.
There isn't a legitimate need for this feature, that's the point.
Why not though? The money has to come from somewhere. Why would UBI not tremendously raise taxes and thereby undermine the incentive to work just as GP observes?
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Being an actual process and being slow and bad are not opposites of each other. Literally, every recent software engineering book has a section on the "Waterfall Process". Nobody claims waterfall is good, but it is a software development process.
What I find hard to grasp is how anyone could overlook the massive impact cloud technology is having on the future of remote work. The cloud isn’t just another tool—it’s a revolution in how we work, collaborate, and innovate. In fact, nothing has done more to make remote work not only possible but highly efficient and scalable.

The cloud has fundamentally reshaped the workplace, breaking down traditional barriers. Before cloud-based systems, employees had to be physically present in the office to access important files, applications, or even communicate with teams effectively. Now, we can access company resources from anywhere in the world, securely, with just an internet connection. Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google Workspace, and AWS have created environments where everything from file sharing to project management is seamless, no matter the physical location of the worker.

Furthermore, cloud technology is enabling real-time collaboration like never before. Imagine the complexity of working on a project with team members scattered across time zones before cloud solutions existed—it would have been a logistical nightmare. Now, tools like Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams make communication and collaboration instantaneous, keeping remote teams in sync and ensuring work flows smoothly across continents. Data can be shared and accessed in real-time, meaning decisions can be made faster, projects can move quicker, and companies can operate at a global scale without the bottlenecks of a physical office.

On top of that, the cloud significantly enhances security and business continuity. With automated backups, encryption, and the ability to manage permissions from anywhere, businesses are actually safer than they were with on-premise data storage, which is prone to physical damage or limited security protocols. In a world where data breaches and cybersecurity threats are a major concern, the cloud’s advanced security features are more than just convenient—they’re essential.

And let’s not forget the cost savings. By reducing the need for expensive office space, on-site hardware, and maintenance, businesses can allocate resources toward growth and innovation, rather than on maintaining a physical infrastructure that’s becoming increasingly unnecessary.

I don’t understand why anyone would resist remote work, especially when the cloud is making it not just feasible, but advantageous. To dismiss the cloud’s role in shaping the future of work is to ignore how it’s creating a more dynamic, agile, and productive workforce. It’s not just a trend—it’s the future, and companies that fail to embrace it risk falling behind. Remote work, powered by the cloud, is here to stay, and it’s setting the stage for the next evolution in how we work.
The amount of people using the feature was probably a rounding error for them. This is probably true for all the services they kill.
Lowering the bar to entry in software can absolutely be a bad thing in a wide range of ways.

The most obvious in the current context is possibly well intentioned amateurs proposing LLM generated patches for the usual developers to fritter away their time on until patience runs out.
First to squeal gets the deal.

The more they need an insider's testimony to make the case, find the money, and/or track the goods the better the deal can be.
>This is just one more example of Twitter going out of their way to work against the best interests of their users.

Why does it matter?

If I block people in a Discord server THEY can still see what I type. Why does it matter? I have really come to understand that some Twitter users see Twitter as their own private garden somehow and do not realize that anyone can see your posts... So somehow it becomes uncomfortable when they are reminded of this fact.
Thank you for the detailed explanation - this makes a lot of sense.
My bet for the real reason for this is that it has been widely reported that Twitter artificially boosts Elon's account specifically. Many people noticed when they did this that his posts showed up in their feeds despite them not following his account. I bet this led to a massive wave of people blocking his account (it's as easy to block as it is to mute). And this population of users eventually got big enough for him to notice, and he wants his posts in everyone's feeds again.
This whole thing is similar to neural networks. They were almost universally sneered at for many years. But it turned out that the neural network advocates were 100% correct.

The DAO getting hacked many years ago does not refute the idea of using math and the internet to transform money rather than relying on private middlemen companies.
Dumb? All these people, ONCE THEY'RE CAUGHT, want us to believe that they're dumb.

Her parents are both MIT Professors. She was on the US team(!) for the International Linguistic Olympiad. She won all sorts of academic contests before getting a Math degree from Stanford.

She was CEO of Alameda Research.

And now we're supposed to believe she was a "dumb" naive waif, manipulated and preyed upon by SBF, that evil manipulative shark?!
Revisions significantly bloat the size of the primary table (wp_posts) and secondary meta tables. Because WordPress's database architecture is hilariously simple and under-engineered, that bloat ends up slowing down every query.

So, to keep WordPress performant, you either need to regular prune wp_posts, or you need a continually beefier database instance to handle the installation.

Sane DevOps teams just limit revisions to something like "last 5" to keep things under control.
Maybe you read some of the other posts of mine (or the README's for the disk image repos). It was a special time.

Was it special because it was all new to us as early computer-users, early developers? Or was there something different in the air back then....

I'm glad you liked the little games I wrote.

Was it the check from California that pushed you into your current career (whatever that is)?
Intel RealSense Depth Module D421 offers a low-cost depth-sensing for $80
In Europe, this is not uncommon for online purchases. You put in your IBAN number and authorize the transaction
Idk, nothing wrong with going for a low-hanging fruit and doing a one-off sometimes. So many academics fail to get stuff over the finish line. Not the right advice for everybody.
thanks for the feedback! based on it, I may add an arrow-- would that help?
This was really useful when looking for product support, as companies regularly pull down or move around pages on their website. Seeing the version of a page at the time google associated it as a result was something I did all the time.
I would presume Google still has all this data.
They just will not let anyone else use it.

Could this be an advantage that Google can use to train their
models on but others won't have access?

Google wants it to be more difficult to notice rewrites?
Journalists to often have found valuable information with it?
> Self regulation is much better than actual regulation.

This not self-evident, and is very subjective.

Also, if regulator has to make san example of someone first before the rest fall into line, that is not self-regulation in my book, just plain regulation. Actual self-regulation ensures there are no triggers to activate governmental regulation.
Yes.

And also fancy graphical visualizations of the music.
Are you seriously asking why you shouldn't make users uncomfortable with your product?
You can still set your user-agent to Googlebot.
I'm not so familiar with this area but my guess is that if you turned used noarchive, Google would not cache the page at all and therefore would not be able to use the text in your page as keywords for search results. So most sites therefore did not use noarchive because it improved discoverability/SEO to allow Google to cache your site. This is just a guess though and what I always assumed to be the case. This seems to be the case though because the cached versions would often contain the entire article for free, which makes no sense unless they were doing it for SEO. For example you could use this trick to read any nikkei article.
Does environment affect children's executive function test performance?
> the guy who invented QWK format died of a heart attack after being swatted by an 18 year old who was after his @Tennessee twitter username.

Very sad story. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/serial-swatter-who-cause...
Relatedly, I know of an excellent local bakery that only takes cash or check. A regular birthday cake of generous-but-not-huge size is around $60, and it's worth it.

But when you go in to pay, the price after sales tax ends up being something like $57.63 (or whatever, you get the idea). So for checks, not an issue, but for cash... they now have to keep loads of coins on hand, lots of small bills, and presumably reload those often.

Either raise or lower your price. Someone buying a $57.63 cake isn't going to balk at paying an extra $2.37. And if you make it $60 even, after tax, you don't have to keep anything but $10 and $20 bills in stock for your best-selling cake, because you'll get a mix of bills in, but the only way you give change will be from a $100 bill (2 x $20) or a $50 and a $20 (1 x $10). You will still get other bills in sometimes, and some coins, and of course they do sell other sizes (but they don't do a lot of small-scale things like cupcakes). Most sales require an order in advance.

Just cutting down on all that cash handling would be advantageous (and that's why one of the owners is always at the register).
Oodle is a fully managed offering. Curious why you think Victoria Metrics Cloud is still cheaper. https://victoriametrics.com/products/cloud/

This translates to about $5.2 per 1k metrics, Oodle is $1 per 1k metrics!

Am I missing something?
Link to the NewStack article:

https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-open-sources-openhcl-a-linu...

Microsoft's Article:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...

Linux Plumber's Conference article:

https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1862/
You are conflating products with services.
What Google Cloud pdf product is that? I thought my knowledge of discontinued Google products was near-encyclopedic, but this is the first I've heard of that.

But as an enterprise customer, if you expect X, don't you get X into the contract?
That's exactly what I was trying to do facepalm

Turns out the website has pages but automatically turns it into an infinite scroll feed...
That's on Java, though. Many other languages such as Kotlin, Swift, etc. have better ways of dealing with this, e.g. in Kotlin

Car(make = "Buick", model = "LeSabre")
Makes sense given the current financials. The way you make money in social media is to get people pissed off and arguing with each other. Preventing someone from seeing things that make them mad is just leaving money on the table that they can't afford anymore.
yes! I'll either add a message or an arrow, thank you!

other was less than 5%. I'd like to do a demo with Kafka + d3 soon. I _have_ done one with Streamlit, which is a python component library+deployment service at a pretty higher level of abstraction (I'd say similar to nivo in the JS world). https://flink-st-kafka.streamlit.app/
I think most people commenting on YT have realized that only positivity gets visibility. Pick any video that has decent view count and you will see the first few comments saying "I just want to say, this video is so amazing" or "Wow you have put in so much work in making this video". Then the creator would like those comments and they stay at the top.
There's a lot of AI progress now though. Here are some deepmind football robots https://youtu.be/ET-MmoeSvXk?t=435
There are few use-cases where voice-only would be an improvement to screens. Voice-only is extremely limited in its discoverability and the information that it can relay to you.

Imagine going to a restaurant and not getting a menu, instead having the waiter stand there and tell you every menu item.
Related 4 months ago "Ask HN: What's the best book you've read so far in 2024?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428978
What are the chances of wayback machine removing snapshots? I found an article on something that is far too taboo to talk about these days that was removed from the newspaper after having it there for more than 5 years. Out of public pressure.
Makes sense. This precedent creates the incentives for criminals to cooperate in the future.
I feel like the internet archive has taken a lot of that sort of use off of Google.

Unrelated: Google should probably think about a sizable donation to the Internet archive.
My guess is it was a pain keeping up with the takedown requests.
I have really come to understand that some Twitter users see Twitter as their own private garden somehow and do not realize that anyone can see your posts... So somehow it becomes uncomfortable when they are reminded of this fact.

You seem like one of these people.

You ONYL used twitter? You didnt use Reddit or Youtube? I am baffled but this makes the upset people make a bit more sense. Twitter was "theirs" so nobody else dare come in. They are the ones complaining about gatekeeping etc but treat Twitter like a chatroom and become offended when someone calls them out.

For the record, I do not have a Twitter account/phone banned. I am not in the USA. If I could vote in your elections I would vote Kamala. Just to be clear and to calm your blood pressue.

>Threads seems to be full of positivity right now.

Toxic positivity sure. ♥‿♥ YOU GO QUEEN!! SLAY!!! ♥‿♥
that was probably tymshare too
That’s not good enough. You can’t put out an open source project and expect to control the community around it to that degree.
In theory you can't see any tweets at all, because they're now just "posts".

But everybody still calls them "tweets" because it was an amazing bit of branding.
> Why is every western government not warning Pakistan..

Because is not the duty of governments to teach science to other governments.

Science is a whole humanity project (not just a western one), and we publish our work for free, so is available to everybody, everywhere. Anybody can adopt this knowledge without asking to western countries.
> EDIT: Knocking happens from pre-detonation. Knocking can also happen from predestination, like in the case of turbocharged Subarus.

Edit of the week IMO.
Another one bites the dust, and another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust.
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