skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would be most useful if it could generate objects that could then easily be tweaked, ideally parametrically.

I think with a long preamble in the prompt (you are an expert at designing injection molded parts, and so on) you could get something pretty useful.
But if you don't update Arch for long enough you will have to install it from scratch in case you want to install anything new.

I learned this by putting Arch on a laptop I barely use.
Well when you put it all on one line it doesn’t look great :)

With it properly spaced out and nested, after a few days it started reading exactly like HTML to me, where I can quickly see the hiearchy
This is HN. We can do better than posting guesses.
What’s old is new again.

Maybe we should prioritize the simplest possible solution rather than what’s trendy today.
React in the hook's era has gotten overly complex. The cods is unreadable and hard to reason about. Check any longer/complicated component as an example riddled with hooks.

Comparatively, Svelte has a much simpler mental model and at the end, leaves nothing but basic plain old javascript.

But I tend to question these days that do we need this much Javascript?
Building a community for software product builders
I've been looking to build a community to interact, help with ideas and mainly get founders to launch. I've worked with many founders who just pour money into product and never launch the MVP. My goal is to foster shipping fast and help non-tech founders just get started by educating the basics. Let's grow together.
Perhaps their actions are not working ... as you have demonstrated that you have absolutely no idea what they are campaigning for.

No disrespect, but I support what they are campaigning for and the need for attention - but it's not working. As you've so clearly shown.

They need to change their tactics.
How about a secure async chat where the vendor simply stores a list of message IDs, and then the client requests if anyone has a copy of any message you haven't received yet from the other users in chat when you log on
Ask HN: Windows Backup Solution?
I am struggling to find a working windows backup solution. I'd like to backup my entire Win11 install to a big USB drive, have the drive be encrypted (or the backup encrypted) and have it be a simple tool. I've had some issues with VEAM's free tool and now EASEUS backup. On Macs I use Time Machine and Linux/BSD I use borg, and I'd really like something viable for windows.
Aerial Dog Poop Removal System
Vandalism of art treasures is a serious crime in that it degrades society. It's why we cannot have nice things.

Why would you want a society that has to lock up art, has to have expensive security, has to search people entering a museum, etc.?

You're never going to make me sympathetic towards the goal of such terrorism, quite the reverse.
What I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want you to see
Great that government organisations are putting a break into the insanity of SPA frameworks for static content.
Yeah but when all you have is an LLM hammer, everything looks like a text2text nail.
A lot of (younger?) people seem to think that you need JS when just a regular html form would do.
Did the restrictions on third party software and such apply to franchise stores? I know that the local franchise stores in this rural area carried electronics from other manufacturers but don't recall anything about software or peripherals despite having a Coco 2 from late '83 through the summer of '89 as my only computer.

Despite there being an RS store in the county seat town of this county and in every adjoining county, most of my Coco support came from other amateur radio operators as that was my primary interest. I did buy a genuine RS disk drive and printer for the Coco along the way. While it came with 16k of RAM, a contact via amateur radio led me to purchase the chips to upgrade it 64k which worked!

There was a lot of chatter about the Model 4 but the price and an awareness from amateur radio publications of the rise of "IBM PC compatibles" kept me from going that route. Even if I had known of 80 Micro at the time, I doubt I would have subscribed.

Ironically, the first PC clone--a collection of disparate parts, really--I bought was from another amateur radio operator who worked at the local Radio Shack at the time in 1989.
50-Year-Old Physics Theory Proven with Electromagnetic Waves
Subject: Just stop oil soups

Adverb?: two more

Verb: Van goghs

Object: hours after sentencing of earlier souping
So there's multiple comments already saying this, but I don't understand how what you wrote jives with the paragraph of that post:

>"The prompt warns that I "won't be able to use a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse," despite the fact my Mac mini already has a USB keyboard and mouse plugged in. Indeed, the Mac isn't using any Bluetooth devices, and macOS knows this but doesn't care. Moreover, the Bluetooth prompt appears even when all Bluetooth-related features are disabled such as AirDrop and Handoff. There's no "intelligence" to the prompt."

macOS, like Linux, Windows, FreeBSD or whatever, knows what the device tree looks like. It knows whether there are any BT devices paired, what their capabilities are, whether the input peripherals are USB or not. Can you explain why making a prompt conditional on whether it'd disconnect the last input devices or not would not have reduced support calls perfectly well? Why do you think that paragraph is wrong, and macOS must be stupid and generic with a warning regardless?
Having to deploy a dedicated server unit to render your frontend is a lot of additional complexity for zero benefit when you still require an API server to actually drive everything.

Have your API server render the HTML itself and your entire stack becomes radically simpler. Iteration speed goes through the roof.

If you're not building Google Sheets, skipping the entire SPA universe provides massive benefits with no notable downsides. The same UX can be provided either way but often with improved performance which actually means a better UX
We could shutdown a few dozen powerplants easy.
The post appears to consistenly use past tense for things that were true in the past at time of writing, and present tense for things that are true in the present or are always true. So the use of tense appears to be valid, though not following commonly prescribed style.
It's worse than not working, it's breeding resentment against them and their cause. There are only a handful of replies here so far, and one of them is this

> I hate these people. Van Gogh is my favorite artist. I feel like going out and buying a Hummer.

I have to say, I believe in climate change and that we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and the life on it. But what this group is doing is frankly evil and should be opposed.
Same here as developer, I only put up with SPAs at work, because job title isn't doing fronted stuff.

However on side projects it is pretty much vanilla.js without any kind of SPA related stuff.
Related: "Dodo-Lean" by Darrell Mann https://www.darrellmann.com/dodo-lean/ , about systems which have been optimised into fragility.
Some sites block the search option on the rt-clk menu when a word or phrase is selected.
Emoji overuse aside, you are describing the challenge of maintaining a team wiki, regardless of software. Google Docs is taking people out of the wiki mindset, I suspect.

I agree there are issues any time the bored folks in “product” are allowed to set up, well, anything, honestly.
> Like somehow that makes notes better.

And for many, it does. It may not for you, but everyone has their own system.
ah ageism. If younger guys think that it's the old lot writing shit docs/blogs giving them the idea.
You are right. My mistake was thinking that everyone else would see what an obviously superior machine the -11 was, and it would bury the competition.

There are several reasons why I failed to become a billionaire, despite the obvious opportunities!
And if that were remotely on the cards, even within a shadow if a doubt, there'd be an exclusion zone around the ship. And there isn't. There are ships going right past it, right now.
Laptop or desktop? The prompt is only for Macs without a built-in keyboard and pointing device.
No coating needed. All you need is to re-flow the ABS. Feels like pottery after this simple operation: https://youtu.be/iLaGJwCCz-E?si=a1gccp8EI9sGzt-e
Just watched the recent DHH keynote at Rails World, I might not do Rails, but fully on-board with his point of view with where modern Web has gone.
I get super annoyed by this but on iOS. And the fact that you need to press several times to actually turn it off instead of 'pause' from using it makes it even worse :@
> When can you remember a government agency being abolished?

In the UK the last I specifically remember is DFID, which shut down in 2020.
Following trends is why 99.9% of developers are useless and should never hold an engineering title.
And AlphaStar,
And recently got Silver Medal in Geometry Olympiad. Didn't beat all humans, but got a silver in one of those tasks that seemingly would be in the domain of humans for awhile. Like Go was considered.

Really, I wasn't arguing about the chips so much. I mentioned DeepMind and you said I must like Sci-Fi, so I assumed you were inferring that DeepMind results were not that extraordinary.

And, I can't keep up with the internal re-orgs now that DeepMind was merged with the other groups at Google. So Maybe I am assuming too much, if this wasn't the same DeepMind group. -- Though I think when companies merge groups like this, they are definitely hoping some 'magic success rubs off on them'.

I guess for the Chip design, is your argument about it was compared against generic human engineer. So if they would set up some competition with some humans, that would satisfy your issue with the results?

So my original more flippant post was Sci-Fi, it's just things are changing fast enough that the lines have blurred, and DeepMind has real results that aren't Sci-Fi:

Take Games as a simplified world models, DeepMind has made a lot more progress in winning games than other companies, then take some of the other companies that have had break throughs in Video-to-Real-World-Models, where the video can be broken down into categories, and those can be fed into a 'Game' function. Now put that on a loop(default mode network in brain) and in a robot body (so it has embodied subjective experience of the world, there are consequences of actions). And I am making a bit of a Sci-Fi leap that you can get human behavior. And, if they can then make leap to designing chips, then they can reach that hockey stick of increasing intelligence.

So, guess I am making Sci-Fi leap. But I think the actual results from DeepMind already seem Sci-Fi like but are real. So are we really that far away, given things we thought would take 100's of years are falling by the wayside.

ok. take back ad-hominem. but it is hard to tell on the internet. it seemed like you were questioning verified results, and you must know that there is a large contingent on internet that casts doubt on all science. So once someone goes down that path it is easier to ignore them.
I think it’s the other way around. Give the average person an insanely high salary to spend on healthy food, designer prescription drugs and supplements, the ability to direct their own work hours, a great health plan and subsidized gym membership and see what happens.
It seems that this is related to the Tim Harford book Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, but that book is not about deep learning.
That would be breaking NDAs.
> Did the restrictions on third party software and such apply to franchise stores?

No. They always could and did sell third-party computer products, while Tandy-owned stores only began doing so alongside the Tandy 1000, since it would be ridiculous to not sell the PC software that the computer exists to run.
Don't forget the rules of British English that make it very clear that the grammatical construction: "you should consider" means "you must in all circumstances save for the immediate alternate outcome being a genocide."
I don't disagree with their right to protest in seemingly vandalistic ways (read your history).

I don't agree that priceless art is above the importance of our planet or the lives of people.

But I do disagree with their tactics. But only because they are not working. They are getting attention, but at the expense of the logical failure of the recipients of the message through their outrage.
How low does it need to get for Apple to replace? I'm thinking of getting mine replaced, but not sure if I'd notice the difference.
And yet you felt attacked to waste time replying, interesting....
> Vandalism of art treasures is a serious crime in that it degrades society.

You'll never believe what our current levels of CO2 does to society.
You kind of get it out of the box with plain old HTML though. Once you get into SPA territory you’re reinventing a lot of wheels to get back to parity, or replacing native functionality with JS alternatives.

Consider multi-page forms: how many SPAs just store all of that in memory and then make one request at the end? Without JS, the BE would be saving the state for each step so you could come back to the form later or refresh without losing anything.
Show HN: 64.surf – share files using only the URL
Hey HN,

I built this to scratch an itch I had around what can be done solely using the URL.

It's very minimal with no storage involved, and your files can even be encrypted. The only caveat is some platforms wont allow you to post long links. I thought about using a URL shortener, but storing and mapping URLs kind of defeats the purpose.

However most browsers do allow you to open them once you have them. For instance I was able to "share" a 10MB file using safari, however 350KB seems to be the max for Chrome.
I’ve run into developers that don’t understand how regular HTML forms work and think everything needs a REST call with JSON. Many of them were not young.
Calling this the "strong version of Goodhart's law" was immediately brain-expanding for me.

I have been thinking of goodhart's law a lot, but realized I had been leaning toward focusing on human reaction to the metric as the cause of it; but this reminded me it's actually fundamentally about the fact that any metric itself is inherently not an exact representation of the quality you wish to represent.

And that this may, as OP argues, make goodhart's law fundamental to pretty much any metric used as a target. Independently of how well-intentioned any actors. It's not a result of like human laziness or greed or competing interests, it's an epistemic (?) result of the neccesary imperfection of metric validity.

This makes some of OP's more contentious "Inject noise into the system" and "early stopping" ideas more interesting even for social targets.

"The more our social systems break due to the strong version of Goodhart's law, the less we will be able to take the concerted rational action required to fix them."

Well, that's terrifying.
The default state of the human brain almost seems to be a form of anti-science, blind faith in what you already believe, especially if you stand to gain personally from what you believe being true.

What is most incredible to me is even knowing and believing the above, I fall prey to this all the time.
Open source only helps so much, depending on how many skilled developers are willing to take it forward.

How many programming languages and frameworks are out there as open source, that in reality are only limping along?
Calling them evil is much too far and cheapens the word to what it really means.

Logically, they've done no significant physical damage.

However, the damage is in the minds of the message recipients.
Related is the book from deMarco (2002): Slack

https://herbertlui.net/slack-tom-demarco-summary/

“People under time pressure don’t think faster!”
Here are the keys. And by the way, we parked it on the Moon.
In addition to the confusion about x86 and x86_64/amd64, you should also know that -O[s123] cannot possibly influence the padding of structures, or it would mean you could not link a library compiled with -Os with a program compiled with -O3 (or viceversa).
https://archive.is/i5uej
I do like it when researchers try to connect the deep ideas within their work to broader more general systems, but caution is warranted to the optimism. This article is the kind of formal analogy that inspired/drove much of the marketing appeal of the Santa Fe Institute back in the 1980s. It's honestly always pretty fun, but the devil is usual in the details here (as is usual in making anything "work", such as self-organized criticality [1] which if you enjoyed this article you will also probably enjoy!).

As just one example to make this point more concrete (LOL), the article mentions uncritically that "more complex ecosystems are more stable", but over half a century ago in 1973 Robert May wrote a book called "Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems" [2] explaining (very accessibly!) how this is untrue for the easiest ideas of "complex" and "stable". In more human terms, some ideas of "complex" & "stable" can lead you astray, as has been appearing in the relatively nice HN commentary on this article here.

Perhaps less shallowly, things go off the rails fast once you have both multiple metrics (meaning no "objective Objective") and competing & intelligent agents (meaning the system itself has a kind of intrinsic complexity, often swept under the rug by a simplistic thinking that "people are all the same"). I think this whole topic folds itself into "Humanity Complete" (after NP-complete.. a kind of infectious cluster of Wicked Problems [3]) like trust/delegation do [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality

[2] https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691088617/st...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem
Great idea, more capacity for LLMs!

/s
> it seems that most of the notion users in my circle(very small one) are non-technical people.

All the users in my circle are the opposite, they are all technical individuals. Largely developers for whatever reason.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
How could you possibly make them true, if you are told to respect even deliberately disabled features? If the user does not permit retroactively messing with their navigation history, then you are left with only one option: get the history right, at the time it is written.
Original was too long, had to trim a few words.
Not really. The UK government has never supported the use of JavaScript in its web services and has heavily invested in design systems which use html and css with accessibility at their core.

Just because the rest of the industry has been high on JS doesn’t mean everyone has.
Singe page apps suck arse. This really isn't news to anyone, except for those who make money by developing that garbage.
Godot Communications Questionnaire
Context: https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1840184491689771123

Make your voice heard, don't let the woke ruin the game engine.
Why bring in all that extra complexity in the first place, even if it works?

Unless there's a good reason to, like long-lived sessions or a complex, updating UI, then I can't think of a reason to send a truckload of js to the user that eats through their CPU like a baby eats through a tub of icecream.

Not everyone in the world is sporting the newest MacBook and iPhone. Hell, I'm using a pixel 8 and some sites or components take _seconds_ to load (eg. Twitter search drop-down).
I am definitely one that believes the fronted is way too complicated.

That said, however, there is a list of four inaccessibilities in the article, and I was thinking that spas have work around for these.
> If your JavaScript uses a syntax or calls an API that is not supported in the user’s browser, it will error …

Pet peeve: when did “to error” become a verb?

Otherwise, I wish the rest of the web were designed this way.
I'm happy I'm currently not working at this scale. I'm not happy when idiots (including one of our self-important ex-Google VP's) set this as a benchmark for backend interviews (for careers that 99% likely will never come close to such problems).
Aha. This was on a laptop. I missed that distinction.
I think that section could be more clear if something like "without more effort" was added.
https://old.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1fri82j/...
> The gist of it is that Intel took MINIX3 to create the Intel Management Engine, but never contributed anything back.

That's hardly relevant though. Either a project is usable and people use it, or a project is unusable and people don't care if it even exists.
The OG EV truck.
This sounds very off. Dried rice is 400 kcal per 100g. That is 500g of uncooked rice per day or 180kg of uncooked rice. What you are counting as "food" is the cooking water being absorbed into it.
Thanks for sharing here -- yeah these are definitely huge issues that make shared memory hard -- the when-things-go-wrong case is definitely quite hairy.

I wonder if it would work well as a sort of opt-in specialization? Start with TCP/UDS/STDIN/whatever, and then maybe graduate, and if anything goes wrong, report errors via the fallback?

I do agree it's rarely worth it (and same-machine UDS is probably good enough), but with the 10x gain essentially I'm quite surprised.

One thing I've also found that actually performed very well is ipc-channel[0]. I tried it because I wanted to see how something I might actually use would perform, and it was basically 1/10th the perf of shared memory.

[0]: https://crates.io/crates/ipc-channel
I think I can understand the appeal, but it's just not there for me. I have enough complicated problems outside of work, some of which are even fun to solve.
At 0.166g thought.
> These aren’t strictly true, are they? You can achieve these things in an SPA, even if many (most?) don’t bother

Yes you can, but then it is way more difficult, and the fact that most don't even bother means that it is not exactly trivial to implement. Why to force that garbage when basic HTML basic web sites work just fine out of the box.
France is set to test freeway that charges electric vehicles in 2025
it seems that's a recurring theme:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924936

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313423

they also tend to close quickly... but hey good luck with yours!
On the other hand, in that world where Empire on Apple II in 1979 is a gigantic hit, perceptibly boosts Apple sales (and inspires a spate of "Empire clones"), and causes a media frenzy of interest in the author of the first truly addicting video game that is available to a mass audience (as opposed to your PDP-10 version, or the MUDs at various other universities), perhaps some mentally ill young person—distraught over flunking out of school because of his inability to resist playing "one ... more ... turn ..."—decides to violently take his frustrations out in person on the author of his obsession. So that's that to consider.
A Proposal for an Antifragile Software Manifesto [pdf]
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
All the Casandra documentation and web site say it is a database. You can't blame anyone from getting confused. In my experience, I have never seen a project that started to use it, continue to use it after a year or so it may take a year to run into its limitations before having to replace it, with a database, like Postgres.
But in practice we see that:

1. Firms compete

2. Some firms get ahead

3. Accrued advantages to being ahead amplify

4. A small number of firms dominate

5. New competition is bought or crushed

6. Dominate firms become less efficient in competition-free environment
In the same way that England isn't the UK, reddit isn't HN.

If you want to complain about a subreddit, go there.
My nasty suspicion is that these fools are secretly paid by Big Oil.