skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False Dichotomy.

> Why are there so many programming languages? One of the driving reasons for this is that some languages tend to produce fast code, but are a bit of a pain to use (C++), while others are a breeze to write, but run somewhat slow (Python).

The only thing I learned was that there's a name for this. There's definitely more than 2, e.g. Lisps, Rust vs C++, and F# vs C#, etc. People think/work differently and use languages that work well for them.
Is any of that still true though?

I think it was 30 years ago. I don't think it is anymore though.

I think people just mostly stopped caring about getting rid of the penny because they use cards and apps for everything now.

On the one hand, I absolutely think we should get rid of the penny. On the other hand, I couldn't care less because I literally haven't used a coin or a bill for a single thing in years.
Is it really completely legal? That would surprise me. And, of course, is it is, it shouldn't be.

I mean, in the end, it's just how you frame it, so it surely must be a viable class action lawsuit. When a teenager playfully hacks into someone's completely unprotected IoT anyone could walk into, he is breaking the law for some reason. When your business is not doing anything "wrong", but it provides a technical service targeted to businesses who actually produce malware and do harmful stuff like that, you can end up in prison for a lifetime. So surely there must be a way to frame this kind of thing as criminal activity too.
In general isn’t the consensus that storage units are a very bad deal for “storage”. It can be useful for temporary storage for bulky items like furniture when renovating your house or in between houses, but the fees would quickly accumulate and pay for almost any reasonable contents.

If the fees wouldn’t cover replacement of the contents within 6 months, they are too valuable to store in a storage unit.
I think we need a 1337 cent coin!
Nice box! If it wasn't for the zoo of machines already idling at my side, it would be on my list. Beware though of the one that does it all for it will be a poor guide when the time comes to commit to a sound and move on to building an actual song out of it. Discipline and motivation are easily diluted resources.
The point missed here is that you didn’t need to write any code at all, with or without ChatGPT. ChatGPT helped you with busy work: you reinvented something that already exists, instead of using a mature and established membership platform, you built your own. The reason this has parallels to education is because that’s what education traditionally is: busy work.

You did learn something, by the way: you learned how to use modern tools. You didn’t do things most efficiently but it was more efficient than writing code without the help of ChatGPT.
Good point but also not a new problem. Humans use the same mechanics to assign variable weights and biases in order to validate information. If you look at a banana, you can determine what it is based on the knowledge you contain, and that process triggers a similar cascade of weights. the difference is brains are much more capable of this, but we still misremember things and recite wrong information. The game of telephone is a great example.

I don't think AI eliminated the application of concepts from learning. I think that has been eliminated enough due to the erosion of our public education systems. If we are not capable of critical thought with the information our own peers present us, why would it be any different when we seek it from AI?
I mean normal people communicate with each other over text message. That has been the case and continues being the case. The people you see very actively participating in social media and blogs are complete outliers. No normal person can have a valid relationship with 1000 people at once.
HTML streaming from the server is 1 single request to the server and the user sees the changes much earlier. On the other hand, if you render from the client, only if you need data, you already have to make requests to the server and the user will see the data much later. However, if your pages are static, you can do this rendering process in build-time and you can avoid having a server and upload the files to a CDN already pre-rendered.
DNS is trusted by definition. It is the "Internet-wide root of trust" because it names things.

What it doesn't do, DNSSEC tried to fix (chain of trust, negative acknowledgements, etc) but for some reason, it was considered "too hard", in the same way that IPv6 was/is.

It also didn't solve the security of the protocol because the queries remained unencrypted, even if the data returned was guaranteed to be accurate.

However, the result is things like DNS-over-https which essentially requires edge users to trust closer-to-the-center resolvers to maintain the security of their queries.

So we need a trusted, encrypted protocol to query a trusted, secured, distributed naming service.

Using https to a well-known source that relies on DNS for location adds very little to the security against poisoning a DNS cache.

So "storing public keys" isn't the easy part of the problem. The PKI should be in-built with the naming service because the names are what the PKI is protecting, as well as communications between them.

Which is back to where we started, that DNSSEC was the right idea with the wrong solution, so we're stuck with a hack.
From experience, I can say that If you were conditioned from a young age to believe that achievement and status were important in life it’s an incredibly hard instinct to let go of. You’re totally right that it’s damaging for those around you and can lead to bitterness as you age. It’s something I have to grapple with everyday and it’s exhausting.
Oh yes, I was aware there is WiFi at 5GHz, also called 5G. Rather, I understood that the behemoth that is "5G mobile internet" somehow incorporates wifi too. But maybe I just got myself confused there.
What tools can convert a PDF to PPT?
Better disable IPv4 then, as there were zero-click vulnerabilities in Windows in that as well, e.g., CVE-2021-24074.
This is a bit alarmist. They are one of the biggest web hosts in the world, whole companies run on their servers and cloud without issues. Accidents happen and you always need to have backups, ideally in another DC.
> a core tenant

tenet:

a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy.

tenant:

a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.
>Maybe insurance companies with a good network of plate readers decide to increase your premiums because you park in a neighborhood known for auto break-ins

This already happens, it is based upon your Zip Code in the State I am in

>Or they deny you entirely because your commute takes you on a windy road known to have a +30% accident rate.

This is interesting and a possibility, plus maybe the can track your speed too.
A bit ironic to see this below the article:

> Apply to the Most Innovative Companies Awards and be recognized as an organization driving the world forward through innovation.

This has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with our tech culture pushing forward and rewarding "innovation" for its own sake, with little regard for whether it's actually solving previously unsolved problems. I mean, if the organization is already driving the world forward, it probably doesn't really need FastCompany's award.
Almost any managed switch will support it. Netgear does. Ubiquiti definitely does, even their APs do.
I know the software gamma, but it's not suitable for me.
Implementing PCA and Dual PCA on Cifar-10
Wow, this is like something I'd find on the Bored Button website.
You have two options:

1. Prerender your pages have them static on a CDN and have them interact with your server (Laravel, etc).

2. Use the server actions or API endpoints as a Backend for Frontend to communicate with your other server.
I think the EU initiative is better.

Volunteer-run infrastructure is fine, but you cannot rely on it. Can you really blame a volunteer if things break? No. They will hopefully fix it on they own time and dime, and that's good.

Volunteer-managed infrastructure is a courtesy. The fact that it's been reliable so far is no indicator of future reliability.

EU-driven initiative on the other hand supplies funds (15'000 euros, for proper hardware, maintenance and replacement parts) and uniformity: users in spain will have to go through the same procedures and configurations whether they are in italy, spain, germany, france or any other eu member state (does freifunk does the same?)
> societal expectations historically placed on women, they’ve typically had to be “the adult in the room.”

I think it was the opposite; they were infantilzed and sensitive, considered liable to faint or have a bout of hysteria. They were to be protected. Swearing might upset a woman.

Men had final authority over them in many cases. For example, often women couldn't get jobs without their husband's permission.

Women were sometimes the source of a sensitive, compassionate, nurting viewpoint, a balance to the man's roughness. She might appeal to him, but it was his decision.
This looks to be about running LoRa like networks on WiFi hardware. Speed on LoRa is not something talked about much as it is more like SMS message passing or the like than IP networking.
Exactly. It had nothing to do with "too much math" -- I think everyone appreciates metric uses less math, and we all learn it in school anyways for science classes.

It's the cost of change. Replacing every speed limit sign, spending decades where half the cookbooks you own use oven temperatures in °F and half use °C. Years of confusion where someone says they were going 60 and you have to ask if they mean mph or kph.

Not to mention changing the size of every milk container, and so forth...
WiFi map: https://wifi4eu.ec.europa.eu/#/list-accesspoints
The premise that your life should be work until 65 and then you can finally do what you want is so depressing to me. I have goals beyond just doing what I want, but it all just seems like an endless rat race i can never win as I chase money/prestige in order to accomplish those goals or those things serve as a nice but ultimately meaningless byproduct of accomplishing those goals while my life slips away.
https://permanent.org/ is built for this purpose, you can buy service in perpetuity from them. The Internet Archive is another option.
Almost trivially easy in a shell one-liner or awk script. I can't think of a reason I would want to display date/time for 418 unique named timezones, but to get the date/time in a specific timezone:

TZ=Asia/Bangkok date
TZ=America/Los_Angeles date
The main issue with turning the dial to "life" early is that your peer group usually hasn't. My peers spend most of their time on work: sometimes to pay the bills, sometimes for status laddering, sometimes for reasons I don't get.

I have found friends that are less focused on work - sometimes because they have more control over their hours and sometimes because they are past retirement age and sometimes because they don't work for other reasons.

I'm looking forward to the next decade+ as maybe more of my peer group friends will choose (or be able to choose) to do less work hours/days.
I'm long time programmer and I learned quite a lot of languages along the way. 20 years ago I programmed Perl and I spent some time learning its quirks. While some of that knowledge definitely helped me all these years, especially regular expressions, I wouldn't write a single Perl line without Googling today.

So learning syntax nuances of yet another programming language which I'll forget soon is wasted time. There's some "fundamental" knowledge, like understanding what functional value is, but the specific syntax that Python invented for lambda - that's not something valuable when I use Python few times a year.
I agree those particular .pth files were horrific.

But python package made by Google were noturously bad. Its awefulness dates back to the GAE days.
Duckdb is amazing, I've been using it in the last few weeks to analyze data I generate with datalog/souffle and I was completely blown away by the performance and QOL features. I seriously don't understand how it can be this fast...
As long as they have prepunched holes in the middle so I can hang them on a chain around my neck like a maester.
In a country that promotes social mobility, I don't understand how pensions tied to the employer subsist: it strongly discourages changing employers.
Show HN: URLs that belong in your sentences
Hey everyone! I got a quick question for you: which link would you like to put in our announcement post?
Is it A. yourwebsite.com/announcement/our-latest-update
or B. intr.oduc.ing/our-latest-update

Perhaps it'd be clearer if I put it in a sentence...
"Super stoked to finally say that we're intr.oduc.ing/our-Product-Hunt launch!"

See how that link blends in with the sentence? I bet you none of the other URL shorteners can do that - whether it's bit.ly, ow.ly, or dub.co! Impress your X followers by launching with an intr.oduc.ing/your-product link!

This has been an idea of mine for years, and I'm so excited to finally see it in action! I've always hated how obtrusive and unnatural links look in between words, and shortening it doesn't help. This product is a solution to my own problem, and I think it's the same problem that hundreds of businesses are facing as well, albeit a minor one!

Should this replace other URL shorteners like bit.ly? Probably not - it's a different product with different objectives! These might not be the shortest link (and we're not trying to make them shorter), but they flow with your sentence!

I'll continue adding more URLs like this, and this is still a WIP - let me know if there are any features you'd like to see! Cheers!
Wow, pairing a 9 year old processor with 64GB ram and 100Mbps. What are common use-cases that require much ram but not processing power, disk space or a higher bandwidth?
It's a POST request. Try this example and inspect the Network:

https://github.com/brisa-build/brisa/tree/main/examples/with...

In build-time, each server action is converted to an API entry point.
I don't consider an interpreted language having operations "built-in" be significantly different from a compiled language having basic array operations in the stdlib or calling a compiled language.
and is it still closed source?
Show HN: Find all drop sources for Warframe (mods, relics, etc.)
This is something I made for myself and find it really useful. Just want to share if anyone has interest in this game or feedback to make it better.
I tend to avoid the insurance and just pile up the money I would have paid to cover the losses. Depending on the type of insurance. But theft insurance tends to be problematic. The fraudulent buy expensive stuff, keep all the receipts, sell the stuff for cash to a friend and then claim on insurance with the proper paperwork. Normal people tend not to keep and file away all paperwork and lose out.
You happened to use an LLM for something that is most prominent in its training data. Do something off its beaten path and correcting all the hallucinations will be more work than just plain old learning it.
You say it's inspired by Litestream. How is it different?
Unpopular view perhaps, but public WiFi seems obsolete except for where cell signal can’t reach. 5G is usually faster and somewhat more secure than connecting to access points.
No...! Although there are ideas inspired by React and Next.js (JSX, pages folder, etc), maybe it reminds you of Remix as well.
> <passive aggressive>
> life was so hard before but we got AI to do the work for us now.

Aggression against what? Yourself?

I think you show a tragic misunderstanding of technology and what it
is doing in the world. It's not the work that it's doing for
you. It's the living. Is it really your life you want a machine to
take?

Nobody wants to "work". Henry David Thoreau said ,"There is no more
fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life
getting his living." All good, no? But that's not what "AI", in the
hands of exploiters (or even yourself, as a self-exploiter) is going
to do to you. Technology is more "productive" but creates more, not
less labour.

Better to heed Max Frisch who said, "Technology is the knack of so
arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." Would you
employ a machine to enjoy a music concert for you? To have sex for you
or play games for you so you're not troubled by the effort?
A large part of the brain is used for face recognition. There are dozens of regions each dedicated to process one feature of the face. The brain is also a generation machine. With only a few features recognized the brain can generate the rest of the face features, thus recognizing it as a face.

With generative AI, it works the same way.
When you are learning something, that busy work helps. What you think of as busy work when you are a professional is actually often sort of novel to learners and is a simple example of how to do stuff.
Sure, but then you’d need a way for all participants to agree on which transactions are valid. Maybe like a chain of blocks that hold transaction data, and each block is cryptographically linked to the previous one. Sounds pretty difficult. I doubt that anyone would be able to create anything like that any time soon, if ever.
Welcome to the club nobody wants to join. I had a similar experience 12 years ago. Pls email (address in bio) if I can be of any assistance (e.g. book recs). In any case, good luck w/ your surgery!
Some russian and chinese volunteers, just what we need
If you use a crutch you won’t learn anything is an age old truism. I don’t know why we would think a new tool somehow changes that dynamic.

My daughter is 10 and she is learning factoring, long division, and other things that a calculator does very well with. But she’s not allowed to use it at this stage because she can’t learn while using a crutch.

She’s also learning to write essays. She writes her essays then puts them into ChatGPT and asks for analysis, feedback, explanatory revisions. Then she revises the essay on her own without being able to refer back to the advice. This is using AI as a complement to learning and it’s been remarkably powerful. She can get feedback immediately, it’s high quality and impartial, and she can do it as many time as she finds useful. So, the fundamentals of learning don’t change no matter how powerful or different the tools become. But ignoring the tools because they can be used in place of learning if used in place of learning is dumb.
> So my take is that music streaming platforms do zero quality control.

Where's the line between that and requiring every service that allows media uploads to build a YouTube-esque content ID system, that would cost north of €/$/£100m and still be inaccurate/gameable?

inb4 "extracting monetary value" - can you come up with a fair definition that still clearly and unambiguously allows e.g. an aspiring opera singer to upload a demo of their own performance with their CV/application?

20th century's ideas of copyright have so far scaled incredibly poorly into the digital age. 30 years ago nobody expected an average (but highly motivated) Jane/Joe to be able to afford recording an album OR launching a company literally from their bedroom, yet both are now everyday occurrences.
>The reason this has parallels to education is because that’s what education traditionally is: busy work.

Busy work is work that is assigned merely for the purpose of occupying one's time.

That's not the same thing as practice. We drill children in arithmetic not to keep them busy but because it turns out repeatedly solving multiplication problems is an effective way to teach children their times tables.
Ron Miller is an artist who made some very nice visualizations. I can’t vouch for the scientific accuracy, but they seem plausible enough to me, and consistent with the images I’ve seen of Saturn’s rings from nearby probes.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/20130626-earths-skies-sat...
Interestingly it happened to me a lot in France but never in Sweden.
So it cannot be just about temperature
Lots of nuance that you’re not addressing, IMO. Here’s some more nuance:

Steroids. It’s not a perfect metaphor, But I think it’s useful.
Two people are trying to gain muscle mass. They both have an ideal starting point. First person has a healthy diet, lots of exercise, and sleep. The second person has all of the same things the first person however they also taking growth hormones.

Lots of folks look at the two results and will see lots of different things. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose. If you think the end results of the work should yield sculpted bodies with larger than normal muscles… you might opt to use hormones. However, if you think sculpted bodies with larger than normal muscles looks unrealistic or just not your style/goal… you would probably opt for a more natural approach.

Both have their merits and could be described as “fit” despite their differences. folks may value one over the other. people might fantasize about looking like thor, but if everyone actually looked like thor, things would be weird. My two cents: Thor is fiction, and while we need fiction. Im not going to pretend that anyone should look like thor in order to be in shape or to be described as fit. If we allow ourselves to be fooled into thinking that it can be normal to look like thor, then we are doing something wrong. Fiction should not become reality.
Can you blame anyone if "official" free WiFi breaks? I doubt it.
Building and having exist these mass targeted surveillance creates a risk that is pretty hard to mitigate - they’re meant to be secret even to most of the people operating the comms networks. It’s also creates a blame arbitrage risk - at least in the US, the reputation of all telcos is so in the garbage that they don’t have a huge incentive to keep things tight when doing things the government forces them to do.

Another related case was in the mid 2000s where someone did the same thing to Vodafone’s mobile network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...

Circumstantial evidence suggests it was the US in that case.
i knew the target story but not the motivation about habit forming behind it. very insightful article. thanks.
> ...I did it, myself, but not by choice. I was "frozen out" of the tech industry, after leaving a very long-term job...It absolutely infuriated me, at first, but, in the aggregate, it has turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me...

I would say i'm about a decade or maybe a decade and half before i can freely retire...But, already i see signs of the possibility of being frozen out of tech. Its such a fearful thing, and even moreso at a latter age! I quite enjoy technology both in isolation but also connecting proper tech to solve human problems...But so often it feels that at my $dayjobs, it always feels like we are solving the wrong problems...like chasing whatever some senior leader added into their presentation...as in, a goal for them, but not always something that is sustainable for the org, substantially helpful to people, etc. Its clear to me that while i still have the enthusiasm of my 25 year old around tech and genuinely helping people wit tech, i am so much more cynical about corporate use of tech. Nowadays, i'm at the point where i am seriously considering leaving tech, and trying to get some other job...and then only having fun with tech on the side, such as contributing to open source projects, playing on my own home lab, volunteering with orgs on digital divide, etc. I figure those sort of "hobbies" or side projects can also help me transition whenever the time comes for me to retire, of if/when i get pushed out. Now, i just have to ensure my costs are down so i can weather any salary hits.

@ChrisMarshallNY Sorry that you got impacted by a freezing out...But glad to hear that you're getting started on a new phase of life for you, and hoping it keeps being positive for you! Cheers!!!