skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No reverse proxies required!

This is one that has always baffled me. If there's no specific reason that a reverse proxy is helpful, I will often hang an app with an embedded Jetty out on the internet without one. This has never lead to any problems.

Infra or security people will see this and ask why I don't have an nginx instance in front of it. When I ask why I need one, the answers are all hand-wavy security or performance, lacking any specifics. The most specific answer I received once was slow loris, which hasn't been an issue for years.

Is reverse proxying something we've collectively decided to cargo cult, or is there some reason why it's a good idea that applies in the general case that I'm missing?
Not by itself it’s not. The “selection” part of natural selection is inherently competitive, even if some things cooperate as a competitive strategy. Obviously scientists can and do cooperate within the broader framework of competition.
I used it for learning biology, e.g. going down from human outer layer to lower layer (e.g. from organs to cells) to understand inner workings. It's possible to verify everything from everywhere in the Internet. The problem is finding an initial material that could present things in this specific or for you.
The one who threatened to start a nuclear war when he didn't get what he wanted? He seems chill
Really precise blog post with useful case, as usual with the author. Love his writing, findings and technical details.
Many cloud providers allow 1-click deployment of VMs with lamp stack and wordpress already running.

Afaik, some examples are: DigitalOcean, Linode (or whatever it's called today) and also Amazon AWS (via the LightSail offering).

Is Automattic going after them as well?
> I think it's vital that you can run your own modem but I'm not convinced that it's a good idea to force a custom ONT.

Did you mean "router" instead of "modem" here?
There are plenty of Clojure frameworks. Electric Clojure is the latest but Kit with HugSQL serves all my needs.
This thing is truly a technical marvel and a massive accomplishment by the developer. He works tirelessly and at one point closed out every one of the hundreds of issues filed on the repo before it's 0.6 release. The number of supported chips and interacting features is unparalleled by anything else.
For what it's worth, I agree with you.

But you're going to find it hard to persuade others because of the current zeitgeist and that humans seem to prefer a doom/villain story.
What happens when you type a Phoenix URL into your address bar and press Enter?
The license sucks
I think people do it out of habit at this time. In many cases it makes sense to handle TLS termination and compression, but in other instances it really is there for no reason.

Proxying is always less-performing than serving directly since you add another layer in between, right? Or am I missing something?
Elegant explanation of why I felt it didn’t belong! Thanks for writing :)
I think that what you're describing is more like the "failure mode" of these stores - nowadays they are basically selling crap with labels, but in the 80s and 90s I don't think that was the case. It'd never be the same quality as a top end boutique of course, but it wasn't tat either.

Or maybe that's just nostalgia!
Hans Holbein's "The Ambassadors" – one of history's most analyzed paintings
Unoptimized C is not something anyone actually uses. And it maps less obviously to assembler than C with some optimizations, because C compilers in no-optimization mode generally do brain-dead things like allocating all variables on the stack.

ADTs and such don't actually make the mapping less obvious. Async kinda does, but again it's not hard to have at least some mental model of how an async function will turn into a state machine implementation. C, C++, and Rust are all about equal in terms of how well I can predict how a given function maps to assembly, which is that if I care, I need to check, but I'm rarely completely bamboozled by what I see.
Our first "contact" with alien life has already happened. Once upon a time people thought that Mars was covered in canals, that a civilization lived there. Society did not collapse. People just accepted it and not much changed. Then there was the meteorite with the Mars bacteria. Not much changed then either. Authoritative proof of life on Europa will not have a dissimilar impact. Until there is a critter in a video, a discernable radio message, or a saucer on the white house lawn, the general population will just shrug it off.
> Apple Intelligence was only ever going to support American English this year anyway, with other languages coming in 2025 and beyond. That would somewhat limit its effectiveness in the EU to begin with ...

Their AI product wasn't ready for other languages, not even British English where the DMA definitely doesn't apply.

A person would have to be very naive to believe Apple directly here. They just want to generate bad press for the DMA.
Do you have a Nintendo Switch?

I bought:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/game-builder-gara...

and gave it to a co-worker's kid who enjoyed it quite a bit and said:

>This is the greatest game ever!
> but it’s obvious from their FAQs

Haha. That's a great proof! Not the closed source, not the proprietary protocol they use to talk with their server, but their FAQ.

> They have indirect control over the user’s backup folder via the app, but meta would need to distribute a malicious update to everyone

Please give us the results of your research when you reverse-engineered Meta's apk to prove your point as this is what you think others should do. Otherwise it is just big talk.

"oh but if that was the case you would get rich reporting it!". More low IQ reasoning. You will get sued to death, I know people that did so and now have to waste time and money with the legal system.
Not sure if there are any policy makers reading this in the UK but if this isnt fixed people like will move to the states. I just don't understand why there just cant be an opt-in.
Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training
I came here to recommend Warcraft 3 also. It's how my son started on the path to coding. Being able to add to an existing platform gave his early efforts some polish that encouraged him to continue.
but not in 76 KB
Did someone figure out if it works when I use a VPN?
US Investigating SAP, Carahsoft for Potential Price-Fixing
Brexit was finalised in 2021. AI legislation came into vogue 2023 onwards.

If there's UK legislation blocking this, then it's entirely on the UK.
Does that mean it needs to seek to and from the volume label/volume info blocks for every single read or write?

It sounds like that would kill performance, at a time when you needed all the performance you could get. I suppose it could be amortized, something like only check the volume headers if it has been more than 10 seconds since the last read/write.
I'm going to follow this thread just to know how successful "I built my own blog" posts still do in HN. I expect it to not attract that much attention anymore?
Wait what about the middle ground? Give me access to a VPS and I can make your dreams come true, as cheap as possible, using modern CI tools and a lot of.. automation.

Sure, maintaining it has a cost, but to me the alternative feels like trying to build a business by reselling expensive chocolates you bought from the hotel mini bar.
I know it's not your point, but interconnected vehicles with ad-hoc wifi connection would be even more efficient and sufficient. No need for 5G.
...and a giant mission button in the menu.
Free speech maximalism and anti establishment stuff against Twitter as official channel generating loads of money
But saying that X1 and X2 are both part of Y is different from saying that X1 and X2 are the same thing.
Cyber Deception Has Use Cases You Aren't Thinking Of
Brave is solid. Opensource with some nice features
How did you read the article and still suggest this?

Are you actually suggesting to script launching qemu to run a freedos image to run fdisk within that to generate arbitrary dos disk images on the fly? Just to output a few bytes different?

The entire job, once understood, is barely an echo command in bash.
Where I live, you can replace an ONT easily. GPON in my small country is only secured with the ONT serial number and a static well known password.

From a security perspective, that's perfectly fine. No one is going to hack their own neighbours or dig out fibre cables. From a usability and freedom of hardware choice, that's even better -- SN is written on the ONT and can be easily input into another ONT, unlike passwords and encryption keys that are largely unnecessary and only complicate things, providing little security because no one will hack GPON infrastructure.

You run into problems, however, if you are subscribed to telephony. It's possible that the ONT will handle VoIP for you and provide you just with a RJ11 jack. In that case, you can't easily swap your ONT. But for IPTV and Internet, it works out of the box.
Or housing can be modified to tolerate the occasional flood. Lives can be saved through better prediction and quick evacuation. The economic impact of regular repair and recovery may be less than abandoning such areas.
Just two things:

- Active X.

- VB6, OLE, VBA macros and friends.

Merge both. Now you have a propietary hell full of vulnerabilities.

Said this, I don't like Google's world dominance on the smartphones/web/email/chat/maps/video platforms, neither.

*Apple it's just sucessful in the US.
Josh has some really cool content on his site. The demos inlined within his posts are always top notch. His flexbox/grid articles are the most intuitive explanations of those layouts I've seen.
Can you just please let us know when you actually find something worthy of our attention?
I think this is because for a long time on the internet there was this intense discussion of "introvert vs extrovert" and memes about what it means to be in each camp that we have forgotten that it can vary greatly from one person to another and from one setting to another. It was also somehow "cool" to be an introvert on the internet, in some circles.

These days I feel like those conversations have dies down. And I've also realized that I', more social that I'd previously liked to admit. Maybe age also plays a factor here.
Vivaldi does what MozDon’t?
Tried Kubed briefly but there seems to be some issue with contexts. Seemed it did not change context and lists always same context listing when polled. Need to test it bit further.
No.

Not that everything they do is good. But something being illegal in the EU is a bad indicator for sure.
BBS Bulletin Board System > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

GNU/talk is a text chat system for users all on the same multiuser nix system. But it doesn't separate code and data; because of terminal control characters:

Talk (software) > History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)

Finger (protocol) was named finger. To update your finger "status message" you edit that file in your homedir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

Finger was written in C and had overflow vulnerabilities, and I don't know whether it ever scaled beyond one multiuser system?

NNTP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol

"Social Media" is distinct from "Media" in being a two-way* dialogue. Like only some newspaper sites, Social Media has comments (and UCC User Contributed Content).

If a newspaper site hosts comments on each article, will it need to be labeled as a potentially harmful social media outlet per proposed US media regulations? Does that make it social media?

User Contributed Content is seemingly inexpensive, but is it high-liability? Section 230 makes it possible to moderate without assuming liability for how people use the service to maim, defame, and harass others. Neither are arms dealers liable for crimes committed using the products that they sell. Media and Social Media operate without catastrophic liability for holding the mirror and abusive user-contributed content; instead of corporate doublespeak selling us into counterproductive wars that benefit only special interests (without a comment section) in a 24 hour news ticker that nobody checks.

But corporate content has displaced grassroots media by real people in so many of the now traditional social media outlets, and now everyone has to go to a different bar.

People grassroots campaigning for peace and equal rights; now replaced by the same old fear, greed, war, pestilence, and violence that TV and radio ad planners and newspaper editors use to sell ads.

Where "mass media" was an opiate for the masses, social media is a panacea for vanity and dysfunction.

Where "War of the Worlds" on the radio might've caused pandemonium back then, today people would likely debunk such claims of alien invasion via online trusted media outlets and bs rags.

FOAF: Friend of a Friend and/or schema.org/Person records describe a social graph of persons with attributes and CreativeWorks, but open record schema don't solve for the costs of indexing, search, video hosting, or federated moderation signals.
Thanks. The main issue is that we can't reuse existing components, so the development workload will be quite large, but I'll think about it.
In all practical terms there is a shortage of money(and resources), since then entities you mention are powerful enough to stop the extra taxation.
I disagree. GPON is WAY cheaper to deploy.
Yeah, don't try to convince others, go fix global climate change by yourself. Are you lazy?
Terminator creator James Cameron joins board of AI company
You're right, we should get more kids into STEM!
White House lawn, wait: could orange skin color be somehow related to the ice color on Europa...
Zud
Four Sunken Treasures
.. I've started to view people in two categories: those who want to have a discussion, and those who want to win a discussion.

The former group doesn't care about popularity, just the free exchange of ideas with the intent of forming a new understanding.

The latter group needs a stage and a megaphone, and measures the success of their beliefs by how many people they can get applauding, even if it's just a fraction of the entire audience.

I stay clear of the latter.
The eccentric beginnings of New York's bright lights
ChatGPT and Claude have replaced 90% of my work-related Google searches ("how do I do X in [language]?" etc.) The only thing I still use Google for is when I'm looking for a specific website/blogpost/video/whatever, or if it's for something localised that AI isn't good for (e.g. "phone repair in [town]")
I think the harm to consumers would be greater if iOS were forced to adopt the "1998 Linux box" software distribution model. The danger is prominent apps ditching the app store in favour of their own distribution solutions. This is, in fact, exactly what Epic intended when it launched its lawfare to force apple to misdesign its products.

The forced misdesign also increases cost (inevitably passed onto the consumers) as Apple is forced to either develop separate solutions for every relevant jurisdiction, or universally apply the most restrictive misdesign dictates.
I've used Datomic from both Kotin and Groovy (!)

I presented on Datomic at KotlinConf too, with some live coding starting around the 31 minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicQvxdKvnc

You probably need to be on the JVM, as the peer library (i.e. the "good one", where you embed the full query engine and data fetching directly into your business logic) is so far only implemented for the JVM.

I suppose 10+ years of weird license models and a hefty price tag haven't helped. Datomic turned free (but still proprietary) in 2023 though. But why Datomic isn't more widely adopted is a huge mystery to me...
Apple, Google, MS: Who doesn't want to peek into the secrets of these corps?
A collection of quite interesting memos for companies that are worth reading.

These are all internal memos that were made available for your perusal that you would likely never see otherwise!
> People definitely would be open to real estate w/ software. Otherwise, by this logic, why do people use Zillow? Why don't they just drive to their local Relator office to ask about local listings? How could you trust an online algorithm to show homes instead of someone describing homes to your face?

Actually why not both? People check Zillow for a ballpark, or end up finding an actual place, and then book a tour through a local agent at Zillow (who might suggest other places too).

Your product seems like a replacement for Zillow, with a conversational touch. I can see a scope for its use, but not sure how it's a moat. The moat here is the database of homes and the local agents network that Zillow uses.
Voice is the future for certain interfaces. Its only clunky, slow and not precise because of the systems the voice is interacting with.
It's part of the grift. Expensive drugs means all sorts of middle men negotiate concessions to make themselves get better performance reviews.
Why would I use this over PlugShare?
That's still user-focused. I actively avoid debian as a development distro because things are so out of date and so customised. Arch is a much nicer development experience because they for the most part just take the up-to-date upstream projects and build them without fiddling with a bunch of stuff. (OTOH, if I'm standing up a box to run critical network services, debian is strongly preferable)
She decided that it was less of an echo chamber when lots of people on the platform disagreed loudly with her opinion, which is good in her mind I suppose?
Yes, me too. And no phone or anything to occupy your time. Just behave and follow your mom step after step for hours.
I am not caught up in identity politics at all. I see white people watch a black athlete assault another athlete between plays on a football field and nobody--black or white--even thinks in terms of violent crime. If the "victim" were to return the favor the next day at the bar, there would probably be a dozen 9-1-1 calls.

Notice that I haven't revealed the identity of the "victim"? Context matters. Identical actions are treated differently in different contexts. Even at the football game, a fan who assaults another fan is treated differently than an athlete who assaults another athlete.

If you don't change the culture in the locker room and the practice field, etc. you will probably not change behavior. If you fine an aggressive athlete then sign them to a big contract because you love their agression, fines just become part of the culture. This isn't black or white. Just ask Larry Bird about every Pistons player and see which one he detests the most. It won't be based on race. But it will be part of their "identity".
And even if you hit your credit limit, the money is still in the account, so you can spend it -- just not by using your credit card -- but you can still go to the ATM and get cash, for example. You cannot spend it when fraud happens with a debit card.
As I see it, Rich's stance is that of an expert in the database that doesn't need to deliver business features using the database. New users are not experts and even experienced users that work for companies have pressure to deliver features. You can get initial popularity by targeting these types of expert users working on more experimental products. However long term growth and popularity requires targeting the other 99.9% of users. I've seen one company adopt Datomic due to this type of user and then a couple years latter rip it out because as it grew it's developers were no longer of this type.
It's not a rule, it's guidance to say - if you spend more than this you're probably being irresponsible and living outside your means.

The thing is that you're never going to convince most people to give up living in the place they want to live in, they'll stick around until the bitter end, and that means you end up with people earning 10 pounds an hour living in Zone 2 London in some dickensian shoebox.
Wait ten years and see how you feel about these times — and how others, ten years younger, feel about you.

I have always been envious of the kids that wrote the Apple II text adventures, envious of the Woz's that built 8-bit computers in a time when "anything goes".

Financially, time addresses that.

I had student debts, made only a little money for a while. But, over time, you pay down your debts, begin to put money away ... compound interest and all that.

But on a more ... spiritual level ... I see now that in life I have, from time to time, come to crossroads where I could choose one path or another. If you have gained any wisdom up to that point in your life there is a good chance you will choose the path that will bring you closer to what it is you seek. If it is financial comfort you seek, you're going to find that you more often than not choose the path toward financial success.

We only wish though that the spending money had come when we were younger.
Another convenient fiction is that neuronal communication is all spikes, 1's and 0's. In this fiction, neuromodulators are ignored. Glial cells are ignored. The immune system is ignored. The first neurons in the brain that select for different auditory frequencies are ignored - auditory hair cells release a steady stream of vesicles packed with glutamate, and postsynaptic glutamate receptors compute something like a moving average of the glutamate concentration in the synaptic cleft. But it's much, much more complicated than that. Sounds like something is holding back the field, but averaging is a pretty lousy description of what it might be.
Things are more complex than that. Yes, they're engaged in creating an ads measurement technique that is actually very private (read the specs). No, they're not making money out of it. Yes, they've done a terrible job at explaining that to users.
Sorry, but I think it's still ridiculous. A full fledged blog in Ruby/Sinatra (So not even the more compact rails) I built has 8k lines, and that's including several themes, the CSS and the JS. Sure, the interactive widgets is something I haven't and that will take some code, but not 92K lines (language difference notwithstanding).

100K is around the size of a very oldschool PHP blog engine I'm also involved in, but again including several themes, all the CSS and Javscript, several bundled plugins and all bundled dependencies(!).

That here is just fluff. Which is okay ofc if that's what the author wanted to produce, and the blog content might still be excellent. But don't take it as a baseline for what is reasonable.
I look forward to a few months from now where I never have to immediately recognize this reference.
I am not sold on what the service is.

There are sellers out there that already do instant tour unlocks. There are also companies like Redfin that tried to attack this problem but I think are still struggling to fully crack it. You only mention that rates are negotiable, there is no way I am using this kind of service unless you offer drastically lower rates. That was the attractive part of redfin, they automate and standardize as much of the workflow as possible and can work with lower rates for that process. I don't care about an OpenAI chatbot that can send me some listing information via text message.
Livebook is absolutely amazing. I only wish Elixir got more love and greater use.
> I won't have a career

in academia.
There's no radiation in the subterranean oceans, which is what they are investigating.

(Radiation shielding is an exponential function; a few meters of water is, for most purposes, total shielding [0]. The major radiation source on Europa is solar particles trapped in Jupiter's magnet belts, which bombard Europa's airless surface. The ocean begins multiple tens of kilometers below that surface).

[0] https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
I'd encourage you to give playcodeai.com a try, I built this for my kid on a similar's age.

I wrote quite a lot about my motivations a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41619733

I took the freedom to email you an api key to give it a try.

Good luck.
Meta rejects EU AI pledge