skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the "big" cloud providers aren't as negligent as OVH though. That entire datacenter was just one blunder after the other (wood structures, barely functional fire suppression, no proper power shut down, insane replication strategy that caused most of the replicas to burn in the very same fire in the same building...)
I know this is an article about Lisp and the specific usage of this term in the context of software acceptance, but when you use a title that provocative I want to speak specifically about the idea of "Worse is Better" with respect to a more literal idea of "sometimes things get worse overtime but you are told they have improved"

For example, why is it that central vacuums are more rare in 2024 than they were in the 1980s, despite them being superior in every way compared to regular ones?

"Worse" vacuums are "better" for the economy? (because Dyson makes jobs and consumes resources?)
Yes, it's just me right now. I'm moonlighting after my day job and bringing my kid to bed.
I understand and share the excitement on this subtle topic, but this only exists on a source code level. There’s a list of source codes linked in time by compilation processes that eventually lead to a numeric literal entered by a human.

But physical computers knew what to insert in place immediately, because there was 0x0a somewhere in binary every time.
>It just really sucks to watch this race to the bottom actively put people out of work

the entire progress of civilization has depended on putting people out of work by increasing productivity and efficiency. Subsistence hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers were put out of work by cheaper agriculture systems, and some of those unemployed realized they could support themselves by reading books to other people, a task they enjoyed much more.
> This could have horrific consequences for the recipient

Have you thought through the consequences of NOT receiving an organ? They're pretty horrific as well.

To be clear, what you're outlining is: "For my conscience, I'd prefer people die outright than live to potentially reject an organ." I think you analysis of the ethics here could use a more thorough review.
> But there too the question of whether those deaths served any useful purpose, as far as ending the war sooner or reducing its scope, makes the whole thing even sadder.

Well, given that an utter majority were supportive of the Nazi regime up until and even after the war ended... I'd say it was necessary, if only to set an example for any future offender just how brutal the crackdown will be.

Unfortunately, the world failed to keep the reminder up on "genocide = bad and WILL lead to a brutal response" - the response towards Serbia in the 90s, Russia after 2014 or Syria was way too lackluster IMHO.
> I don't think that macroeconomics is an empirical field, so when people say 'it's textbook stuff' that doesn't impress me.

Agreed, especially when the textbook being referenced was written by a polarizing figure like Kruggman. I wonder, how much "textbook stuff" was removed from textbooks after 2008?
The truly bizarre and insane prices for having food delivered has killed the ghost kitchen concept. Why on earth would I spend fancy restaurant prices to have mediocre or worse food delivered lukewarm from far away? I'd genuinely rather eat $2 of canned soup and crackers than the $30-60 meal most ghost kitchen delivery services can provide. It costs only a few dollars to fry up a fresh burger on my stove, and it takes far less time than waiting for takeaway. Post-COVID, people have wised up to the pricing and quality gap.
I don’t get the name New Jersey approach, is it just the general association of New Jersey and poor quality? When I think of New Jersey and CS, I think of Princeton, which has a pretty good program IIRC.

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Anyway, I wouldn’t put simplicity on the same level as the other things. Simplicity isn’t a virtue in and of itself, simplicity is valuable because it helps all of the other things.

Simplicity helps a bit with consistency, in the sense that you have more trouble doing really bizarre and inconsistent things in a simple design.

Simplicity helps massively with correctness. You can check things that you don’t understand. Personally, that means there’s a complexity prove after which I can’t guarantee correctness. This is the main one I object to. Simplicity and correctness simply don’t belong in different bullet-points.

Simplicity could be seen as providing completeness. The two ways to produce completeness are to either work for a really long time and make something huge, or reduce scope and make a little complete thing.

It’s all simplicity.
Pretty clean, I like it.

I tested it out on a page I'm developing that has some meta data on a TV show. One of the elements is a set of divs each containing span with an `aria-label` describing the contents. With MacOs' VO this gets called out correctly, and Chrome's Accessibility Tree also picks this up, but this tool doesn't show the `aria-label`, it just shows the separate values as strings one after another.

It also picked up a `::before { content: ", " / ""; }` as `, value`, but that's not supported very well in general.
Your link returns a 500 right now
For us the challenge was our DNS wasn't set up to spin up unlimited subdomains, so we had to run applications on dev.companyname.tld/application_prInstanceID/, so that was the case where we had to make application-level changes to support N instances, since some code assumed they would have their own private sub-domain-name.
But I feel like other languages that we were de-facto "stuck with" in certain domains boomed and then busted - i.e. Lua, Pearl, etc
I was trying to make a case that when you add up everything the EU has done recently with regards to digital policy, you get a net loss for EU citizens. Their attempt at chat control decrements the score by a significant amount. Amending the DMA to have it not be completely useless would increment it by a significant amount, but it is unknown if that will happen yet.
It’s a signaling mechanism to say “I went to MIT” or at the very least to say “I could have gone to MIT”.
For someone who has the resources, I can think of a lot more fun things than a ban.

I think there was a story a while ago, possibly apocryphal, about someone who ran a disposable email service with a bunch of random looking domains, and they noticed bot traffic repeatedly hitting the page that shows one of their domains but not clicking through to actually activate an address. Guessing that the scraper was trying to find and block all these domains from being used to sign up for their services, the admin of the disposable email site added a function where if it detected bot traffic it would occasionally return domains like "gmail.com" in the text field.
> [...] typing in "over 600 prompts"... That's a lot closer to commissioning an artist than it is producing art

At 600 prompts, I think it's at least worth considering whether that similarity is just a superficial matter of the medium you're interacting with the tool in (text) as opposed to actual deficiency of creative input to the work.

Moreover, your actions can be exactly the same as directing a human yet still qualify you as the author of the work when that human is replaced by a tool - as with, say, a voice-activated camera.

> [...] the "fixed in a tangible medium of expression" requirement. This is a pretty complicated concept and I'm not a lawyer and won't try to conjecture on whether or not results from machine learning models used today could clear this bar.

Whether it's fixed in a tangible medium isn't the contentious term for generated outputs. That just means the the work is, for instance, written on a piece of paper - as opposed to being only a general idea in your head. It's well-established that the medium of digital images counts for this and, even if not, Allen's work had been printed out.
Geico car insurance may no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks
we are not going to build LLMs out of this at point of time.
we are giving this bcoz we figure out some way to give it away
New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
Just because a student asking a question doesn't mean they're incapable of applying their existing knowledge or intuition...

"How tall is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?"

- "13ft tall"

"Okay well that's obviously wrong..."
we have figure out some mechniasm to store these files on the internet in a secure way,
Oh. Ok, that makes sense.
Tell this to Russians.
> I really like using Python, but I can’t keep using it when they just keep breaking things like this.

So much perl clutching. Just curious, since I guess you've made up your mind, what's your plan to migrate away? Or are you hoping maintainers see your comment and reconsider the road-map?
Professional motion designer here (15 years): Blender is awesome and I highly applaud their team (and have donated to the org!), but it is absolutely not a replacement for After Effects. The ecosystem around AE (plugins/tutorials/templates) is way too large and useful to disregard.

And don't get me wrong, After Effects has serious issues and I often long for an alternative.

I get why hobbyists don't like subscription models, but the cost of Creative Cloud is pretty negligible for a professional using it daily to feed his family.
I’d personally use one of the ham radios charging on my bookshelf. If I were to ask my wife to pause while I whipped up a crystal radio, I’d likely be the first casualty of the disaster.
It's not just people trying to use telescopes to do science, it's also people like me trying to do astrophotography. Time on a LEO telescope, while cool, would not help my photography.
It's a React project with less than a hundred files made by me/claude. Not really sure of lines of code. It's not overly complex but somewhat novel - it's recreating a game interface and engine and not really a traditional web app. Don't really want to associate my github with my HN username because I used to be a bit more adversarial when posting anonymously on the internet and I'm not super proud of that and don't necessarily want it tied to my real name :)
I think you might have some misconceptions. The difference in take home pay for devs is quite large between the US and Europe and you can still get insurance with pre-existing conditions in the US with an out of pocket maximum much smaller than the difference in pay.
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And those languages do offer lexical scoped destruction.

They are only second class in the context people put all GC languages on the same basket, and rather go for the X rewritten in Y blog posts.

Because apparently adding newer languages to CV is cooler than mastering the one they have.
Thanks. Adding a formfeed resulted in an empty page, so there are clearly possibilities but since I can't find a quick PCL example[0] and lpr suits me fine I'm not going to investigate further.

[0] I'm assuming PCL is most likely supported, and I remember having worked with an EPSON dot-matrix printer (i.e. probably using ESC/P) in 8-bit days and that it didn't require special commands to print basic text.
The context is that Hetzner is well known to delete accounts of users that they suspect of running processes or storing files that have the word "bitcoin" or any other word that Hetzner does not approve of. Hetzner does this without warning too. It doesn't matter if there is no network service, as local processing is sufficient for this action.
I've been using version two for a long time now. It just works. I hadn't heard of Hikari until now.
AT&T finds $100M using AI Agents
MAD is accepted strategy of USA and other nuclear countries.
How do you know someone knows lisp? They'll tell you. And tell you. And tell you...

I like lisp for the most part, but holy shit is the enduring dialog surrounding it the absolute worst part of the whole family of languages by far. No, it doesn't have or give you superpowers. Please grow up.
interesting idea! It seems like it uses Proxy-based reactivity for dynamic content/updates on the client side - but can it update the reactive state from the backend or read the state on the backend?

Also, there are a few typos on your site you might want to fix: https://triplechecker.com/s/Nc9Gu4/brisa.build?v=NUtEc
For another discussion on this https://wiki.c2.com/?WorseIsBetter which starts out with:

RichardGabriel makes this observation on the survival value of software in the paper Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big. See http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html for the section on WorseIsBetter.

For those seeking the first node, see http://web.archive.org/web/19990210084721/http://www.ai.mit.edu/docs/articles/good-news/good-news.html.

For even more context on WorseIsBetter see http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html. My favorite part is RichardGabriel arguing with himself.
I'm a software idiot, but why couldn't you do the Goodwill of Cloud Infrastructure? Build affordable cloud services out of "junk" electronics?
PairPoint is the IRL location-based social app that works exclusively within a 35-meter radius, designed to connect you with people you've seen in real life—those you may have shared a moment with, like a smile, a fleeting glance, or a common event.
One counterargument is that people who claim "worse is better" are often making excuses for why their preferred technology didn't win.

Often in these arguments, worse means "shortcut" and better means "won". The difficulty is proving that not taking the shortcut had some other advantages that are assumed, like in the article.
It's way worse than the OS screenshot method. It adds DRM into screenshotting which to me isn't a screenshot. A screenshot is pointing my phone camera at the screen to avoid anyone changing what I take an image of.
Expertise is the ability to tell when AI is generating nonsense that just sounds like it's correct.
We are open to interns for our forward-deployed robotics engineer role: https://jobs.lever.co/monumental/3f0d002f-0003-4484-bacd-2cc...
Thanks for the feedback! Pricing is something we are iterating on. Our intention is that we only make money if our customers make money - which is why only authenticated users count towards the limit.

If pricing is preventing anyone from using our product, please shoot me an email (in my HN profile) and we'd love to hear about your use case!

Good call on the marketing copy! We will do some revisions!
Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?
What is happening in tech outside the AI echo chamber?

Got a bit burned out looking the news and tech podcasts today, except for security news (like from Lapsu$ group) no other news that didn't involve openAI and/or AI in general.
Woah! Okay, that's very cool. I thought it was much more limited than that (for the stable abi). Awesome!

It seems like they use mostly normal python as a bridge with the rust codebase. So from what I've seen on their repo, they mostly do not use any CPython APIs (a part from a few wrappers I think). Which makes sense!
Dinosaur literally means ‘terrible lizard’. It was originally coined as a description for the large, extinct, giant lizards. T-Rex, etc.

That it has later come to encompass things like seagulls is more a bait and switch on the public, than the public being idiots.

You might as well beat up on someone for calling Pluto a planet. Oh wait, it technically is again? My bad. Oh wait, it’s technically a dwarf planet. My mistake again!

Clearly, I’m the one who is an idiot, and it has nothing to do with experts causing confusion because it gets them headlines/justifies their existence and makes them feel superior to everyone else.
I am aware of the WordPress drama, but it feels more like a business news than tech news.
> The weather was unusually mild for the season, and Kelly thought he might even have time to “bag” a second Munro,

I really hate when people use very uncommon terms without defining them. (or sometimes even people's names)

It's not that I couldn't make a guess based on context, but it's distracting, and I feel like my eyes must have skipped over something and I often keep going back over the text to see what I must have missed reading.

I imagine this is sometimes caused by sloppy editing, especially when they refer to a last name of a person who has yet to be introduced in the article, but I think sometimes it's a deliberate choice and I object.
It looks like they may have changed their name. White Stork is the name of a charity that provides first aid kits and other aid in Ukraine.

https://whitestork.us/

https://x.com/WilliamMcNulty/status/1798855191858712929
Better visible here: https://www.commfront.com/pages/ascii-chart
> If the building burns down in a fire, of course your data will be gone

From https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/DataDu... :

> S3 Standard, [...] redundantly store objects on multiple devices across a minimum of three Availability Zones in an AWS Region. An Availability Zone is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region. Availability Zones are physically separated by a meaningful distance, many kilometers, from any other Availability Zone, although all are within 100 km (60 miles) of each other.
Jesus does:

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-life/what-does-i...

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_tips_for_l...
How to get the BEST photos and videos out of the iPhone 16 Pro
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1842590582394536350.html
I had a new car that also came with a Sirius radio and 3 months free. I tried it, but found it often dropped out while driving through forested roads in my area. That made it annoying to listen to. I stopped using it.
And it keeps being polished and improved to the point it's almost not a turd, and now has types sort of, and much better engines, and now there are ARM machines that are literally designed to run it faster, and now most of your actual PC applications are written in it.

But honestly it's kind of refreshing to see the original node.js presentation, where using javascript is sort of a side-note. He wanted to use callback-heavy language and JS fit the bill

https://youtu.be/EeYvFl7li9E
Before Spotify was popular, websites like these were incredibly useful
C++ coroutines without heap allocation
A simple photo of a page might not be copyrightable if it doesn't show a modicum of creativity.
> He can copyright the text he input into the machine, and perhaps patent a description of the iterative process he employed - but not the graphical result.

Well then, no copyright on any digital artworks. You can copyright the idea and mouse movements and clicks you input into the machine, but not the graphical result. The machine drew that.

Pixar gets to copyright the sequence of mouse clicks they did in RenderMan, but the rendered frames of Toy Story are not protected. A bunch of algorithms did that.

Your specific implementation of algorithms that you came up with that generate a detailed game world are yours, but the generated assets that you ship with your game are in the public domain. No copyright for you.
I pick the older one to make sure the supply chain still works well.
>Hetzner's 1 Gbps port speed makes it impossible to transfer the data in less than three weeks

But don't you have that spread over 120 servers?
The current status of X11 is that it works.

The current status of Wayland is that it doesn't.

It's really that simple. I think this exchange can help you understand my position better: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/9345#issuecomment-201...

>Wayland has a myriad of unresolved problems regarding surface suspension blocking presentation and the FIFO (vsync) implementation being fundamentally broken leading to reduced GPU-bound performance.

To which someone replies:

>If we do this, we are basically accepting these issues are unfixable for the next ten years (SDL4). Having this as the default in SDL3 (which isn't being used yet!) is important for signaling to other stakeholders that we actually do need to get solutions in place for detected issues.

To which the committer says:

>SDL is not your tool for "signaling to stakeholders" about what is important. It's an actual library used by real developers and users!

Likewise. My PC is not a tool for signaling library/DE developers that there are more and more people using Wayland now and that they can finally stop maintaining X11 legacy code. I use my PC for real things. I couldn't care less if things are running on X11 or Wayland so long as they work.

If Wayland isn't working with my use case, I just won't use it. I won't switch to Wayland juts to beta test it, and then spend years begging people who know how to hack Linux to implement the features I need that I had on X11.

If Linux drops X11, and Wayland still doesn't work. I won't use Wayland. I'll use Windows.
Can AI have common sense? Finding out is key to achieving machine intelligence
> The language itself is (more than) complex enough already - I hope this focus on implementation quality continues.

As do I.
I remember when I had a lesson about OSI layers, where the teacher has carefully described all the layers in detail

and then said something like "most of this is not important, these layers don't really exist, TCP/IP got popular first because it's just much simpler than OSI was"
Well, some high-ranking officials have pondered nuking hurricanes in the past, though fortunately saner voices prevailed.
I know that if my dentist told me, "ok, one dot means yes, two dots means no, three dots means pain, four dots means you had a nice weekend..."

Well the idea is that you create the cards and memorize them ahead of time for use in the dentist office, medical office, being interviewed by cops or news reporters add a talk to the lawyer card, job interviews, when you lose your voice after too much opera karaoke, etc... Attempting Pavarotti gets my voice every time.
You must know you are basically sh*tting in the public pool by doing this.

You should also realize that you are presumably in the pool too.

Basically you make it less likely that companies will actually find the good candidates because they will be even more overwhelmed with junk applications.

You might think it’s giving you and advantage, but you must realize that if you’re doing it, many others are too.
An F150 or Dodge RAM, despite being ludicrously large, is much less dangerous than the cybertruck at low speeds because instead of sharp and jagged protrusions they just have a smooth wall-like front end.

At high speeds? Compare their weights and you'll see that making a pickup truck electric also makes it really heavy.
Everyone in this thread is saying this as if humans don't make mistakes. I get presented with wrong code as if it's right code every day
Thank you! We do believe app developers will find this valuable, and we are also working on IAP integration. Sadly I am not an app developer, so if anyone have any suggestions on how I can serve this community better, I'm eager to hear from you! My email is in my HN profile.

Will look into Firebase Marketplace! That is a great suggestion!
Very interesting project! What’s different about how this builds knowledge graphs from other projects?
Scream into a pillow because even PHP manages to have less breaking releases. Python is a dumpster fire that no one wants to admit or have an honest conversation about. If python 2 is still around my advice is don't upgrade unless you have a clear reason for the new features.
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We don’t have to be stuck with it forever. Start pushing WASM instead of React, etc. We can get there, but as technologists we have to make a concerted effort to do so.
NASA didn’t design for serviceability, but rather the NRO.

There’s an old photo showing a Hubble mirror being ground by a technician in 1979. It’s a cute how-the-sausage-is-made photo, until you think about the timelines when Hubble was donated and realize it’s a photo of top secret work being done.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_mirror_polishing...
That's terrible. Please consider documenting everything and blogging about this later on.