skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your question. I'd like to address your points step by step.

While tools like Tailscale and Nix packages are indeed helpful for managing workspaces and connections, Kloudlite aims to tackle a different aspect of the development process. We believe that the real challenge isn't setting up environments and workspaces, but rather the complexity of working with them.

Tasks like creating environments on demand, switching between them, syncing configurations and secrets, and waiting for CI/CD pipelines to deploy can significantly slow down the development loop.

To streamline this process, we've introduced several conventions in our ecosystem:

- *Stateless and Ephemeral Environments:* By making environments completely stateless and ephemeral, you can easily clone or discard any environment on demand. We've achieved this by separating stateful managed services from the environments.

- *Encapsulated Configurations and Secrets:* Configurations and secrets are encapsulated within environments. Switching environments automatically updates your workspace to match the connected environment's state.

- *Unique Service Registrations:* All services within environments, managed services, and workspaces are registered with unique names. This allows us to direct traffic from any service to the appropriate running workspace without changing configurations or secrets.

These conventions offer several benefits:

- *Faster Application Testing:* Build and deploy your applications into environments more efficiently.

- *Quick Environment Cloning and Isolation:* Clone and connect to environments to work in isolation within seconds.

- *Seamless Environment Switching:* Easily switch between different environments without hassle.

- *Collaborative Workspaces:* Connect and collaborate from different workspaces within the same environment.

- *Early Integration Testing:* Shift integration testing to earlier stages in the development process.

Regarding databases, developers have the option to run them in isolation or as shared resources. Our managed services are designed to simplify the management of backing services and synchronize configurations with environments and workspaces. However, using this feature is entirely up to you; you can create and manage your own databases as you prefer.

I'm happy to share more about our approach and solutions anytime.
1.3MB seems perfectly reasonable in a modern web app, especially since it will be cached after the first visit to the site.

If you’re just storing user preferences, obviously don’t download SQLite for your web app just to do that… but if you’re doing something that benefits from a full database, don’t fret so much about 1MB that you go try to reinvent the wheel for no reason.

If the other comment is correct, then it won’t even be 1.3MB on the network anyways.
It's been a while, but from what I recall with early Macs apps like mail clients and browsers would have their own proxy settings rather than any system-wide setting, so you'd set the proxy in Netscape (or whatever).
It always amazes me how many of these "we're winding down X" stories hit the front page here and I've never heard of X. We really do work in silos, even if it doesn't seem that way.
With pauses to keep his BP low.
When we built our frontend sync system we tried a few different options. We had a fairly simple case of just trying to store entities so we could pull incremental updates since you were last online. The one we ran in production for a while was IndexedDB but found the overhead wasn’t worth it.

I played around with warm sqlite too. That was really nice but I decided against it due to the fact that it was totally unsupported.
Its probably not even that sexy just waiting for someone to hold the door behind them. At my workplace we are told in our HR material not to hold doors open for anyone but guess what everyone does...
We do readily have the ability to insert all of the control rods at once, which achieves just that.
There's a tremendous power with defaults and with "batteries included".
They ve already gone after openAi, are they after Nvidia now?
People playing their options on multiple fronts is even worse than finding a way to increase and maintain the increased levels of participation.
Large corporations would become a constellation of tiny independent companies who agree to provide goods/services in exclusive agreements with the “controlling” company.

Absolutely nothing would change except for an increase in paperwork and a few more lawyers.
GDP-per-capita still doesn't capture inequality.
Use unique plus addresses for each service that requests email address.
Pixel positioning is so nice! I remember how easy it was to layout UIs with VB.
After years of being able to run SQLite on my mobile phone, my tv, my router and gaming consoles, I can finally run it on my browser. Which also happens to be running on the most powerful machine I own
I stopped going to dentists for years because two dentists in serial made up cavities. The first guy I let him drill. The second guy, a friend of my dad's (supposedly)I declined. This was in the early 1990s

I told this story to a friend years later and he said the same thing happened to him.
> The new formats are encrypted, which ensures that credentials remain secure during the process.

Who holds the key?
People like Zuck, Altman, Musk, and I'll throw Trump in there as well, are high-level hackers. But instead of computers or technological systems, they are hackers of our social code. So much of our society revolves around codes and standards that are only enforced by ostracization from the collective group.

If you take a moment to observe you'll see just how many of these implicit social norms surround us and basically keep the world running. For example, it's kinda bizarre that we can order food in a restaurant, sit and enjoy it over an hour (or two), and only then actually pay for it. You don't even have to provide proof beforehand that you are capable of paying! What's to stop everyone from slipping out after enjoying a meal? Turns out not much really besides the embarrassment of getting caught, or the sense of shame in outright stealing.

Zuck, Altman, Musk, Trump, etc are high-level dine-and-ditchers. They feel no such shame that keeps us regular people in line. There's a reason the word sociopath is often thrown around with these people, as that is a defining characteristic, the lack of empathy or shame.

The thing that separates them from your run-of-the-mill sociopath, in my opinion, is they are aware of this and actively exploit it to their personal gain, at the highest levels. Basically using the leverage that makes tech amazing to multiply their own benefits from such social "hacking" to the highest degree. They've pushed the violation of social norms well past the extremes that I imagine even they could've predicted, with practically no backlash! I mean just look at how Musk initially just flirted with the line and now has pushed well past it, going further and further each time.

I have no conclusion besides agreeing with the article, that the least we can do is not provide them with the respectability they crave. They can keep the money if it was legally (if not immorally) obtained, but let them keep each other warm in their NZ bunkers; I've got no room for them around my fire.
Thank you for this article, I will get back to this when I will need it thank you one more time <3
I don’t understand - why is the NYT making content publicly available, and then complaining about how to public consumes it? If they don’t want people looking at it then why are they putting it somewhere to be looked at? Why single out AI, or this company, in particular?
My friend Ward was doing sub-addressing back in the 1970s, with made up apartment/box numbers, and eventually the xmodem.com domain. He learned quite a few things about it.

For instance, if you look at the article he wrote about CBBS[1], you'll see he's listed at apartment #3D.

I never took up the practice, though I suppose I could having the warot.com domain to play with, and a single family residence to make up PO boxes, apartments, etc.

[1] https://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/byte%20nov%201978%20comp...
Some of us who eat Japanese food (which is often very high in iodine, mostly from seaweeds like kombu) appreciate that we aren't forced to overdose even further!
While the space is hot and most will fail, I disagree with the general negative sentiment. The same could be said for most/all startups. They all can be distilled into some simple implementation.
Video-making AI tools are headed into general use
FWIW, the paper is "snippets" paywalled, and I didn't find it as a preprint or elsewhere, nor an author website.
Spain is also pretty fast.
One would think that the difficulty of making a company profitable when it's training larger and larger LLMs, combined with the diminishing returns and model collapse phenomenon, would make it so that companies don't wish to stop training larger models. I assume that they continue training larger models because whichever company stops training larger models would fall behind in the race to win new rounds of funding, but if that is the case what is the ultimate valuation that these companies are trying to achieve being valued in the biliions already?

Diminishing returns means that the user gets less marginal benefit with each larger model, and the model collapse phenomenon means that models trained on new training data might be less good than older models. Have straightforward mitigations been put in place such as filtering out from the training data forums where users like to share AI generated content?
I keep coming back to this idea as the (albeit ideal) future of the web. HTML keeps morphing and changing to fit the increasingly complex requirements of modern web apps. I mean the W3C spec is 114 million words (1). I think that web apps as a concept are a good idea, but I just can't believe that HTML/CSS/JS are the best technologies to fill that out. I'd love to see someone tackle a new, "micro-sized app format", with a much simpler document format, and something like a FORTH as a scripting language. Uxn (2) and Decker (3) are good examples of this, but obviously a proper implementation would have to be built with the full range of possible UI and accessibility in mind, not just monochrome bitmap displays.

A web standard so simple, anyone can implement it!

One can dream...

(1) https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....
(2) https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
(3) https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

EDIT: There is Project Gemini (https://geminiprotocol.net/), but it doesn't support styling or scripting.
To some degree I also worry that panicking about everything causes the population to become numb to the warnings of actual big storms like Helene and Milton.
Not really exceptions (all treated equally) just there is nuance in the algorithm. Having some ads doesn't mean you go straight to the bottom. And when searching for youtube you clearly want youtube.com - so nuance applied but that is the principle driving it.
Hello!

I'm working for a B2B SaaS so it might be different for you, as I understand you do mobile apps.

- Regular review of won / lost deals, the best info about our competitors was the one gleaned through the eyes of the customers, as it helps assess whether the actual users think their product/features are good or not

- #competitors channel on Slack. Sales / PM/ Marketing share interesting news/articles or questions when they are dealing with a customer objection.

- I always sign up for their product, and receive competitor newsletters. It's the best way to get informed of their news / product launches.

- For monitoring competitor plans and features, I setup custom alerts to get a notification when they change their pricing page.

- Google Alerts with your company and competitor names.

- Periodic review of their product with credentials shared among our product team, when we needed to check out how they built a particular feature.

- Check out their reviews on the stores + Trustpilot regularly

It can be time-consuming, but yields great insights for my roadmap and marketing positioning.

I have now built my own tool to automate everything: https://peerpanda.app . Would love to get your feedback on it!
1 in 10 Americans are in the top 10%.

1 in 10 Americans are in the bottom 10%.
Yeah but the crucial piece of context is who that statement is made to and how it is received. We typically call this process "lobbying."

And what it usually looks like in practice is that regulators will extend an open invite to "industry leaders" to chime in on the proposed regulation. During that process, the interest groups advocating on behalf of the "industry leaders" will utter statements that aim to shape the regulation in a way that is beneficial to the corporation being lobbied for.

The end goal is typically to land on a new bill that will

a) give the regulators new fodder for legislative resume, so they can show their voting constituency that they accomplished something and

b) are not too expensive for the "industry leaders" to comply with. During the regulatory process this will get shrouded in language along the lines of making sure that the regulation won't cost jobs etc. But, if all goes according to plan, the regulation will

c) be insanely expensive for new startups to comply with, thus ensuring that any negative consequences that are caused by the new bill will be "invisible" because they will largely apply to hypotheticals (new startups wanting to enter the market) and small players that aren't on anyone's radar
I don't get his reasoning about the Venezuela election.

In theory, the chances one candidate get exactly 56.1% votes and 56.108174% votes are the same, right?

We will need the prior probabilities of

1. Assuming we don't know the vote count, how likely it's rigged

2. Assuming it's rigged, how likely it's rigged in a way that the percentage is precisely XX.X%

To calculate

3. Given the vote count we know now, how likely it's rigged

Of course I practically know nothing about math compared to Tao, so I might completely miss his point.
They're TV personalities. What else are they going to do?
Do you take the same issue with the original comment pointing out that what are usually called nuts are actually seeds?
Insane. This must have been so much work, and it looks great, but I know I will never use it.
Why would Intel and AMD put a hole in the wall that guards their duopoly? Justifiably it wouldn't be a sales booster in the short term and in the long term it's a threat.
K&R seems to use pre-increment early on, then post-increment consistently (or a lot, anyway, I haven't done a thorough check) after chapter 3, in situations where either would do. In fact, after introducing post-increment at 2.8.
This is a short-sighted and simplistic analysis of how land value works. I'm in a terrific location. Walking distance from the Texas State Fair and Cotton Bowl. Walking distance from Deep Ellum with all of its hip clubs and restaurants. Walking distance from downtown. Walking distance to the Dallas Convention Center. You can get to the Longhorn Ballroom, Southside Ballroom, and American Airlines Center in under ten minutes.

The only downside for buyers of the past? It was a poor neighborhood. All of those multifamily apartment complexes being torn down were full of poor people, mostly dark-skinned, many of them non-English speaking. Now that their landlords spent the past 15 years doing zero maintenance until they could get the buildings condemned and force all of the tenants out without needing to have grounds for eviction, they can sell the land, and it doesn't make any difference if the experience of actually living here gets shitty because of all the parties and not having any neighbors. The buyers don't care because the buyers don't actually live here. The single-night renters don't care because they don't live here, either.
DOE has the #1 and #2 most powerful supercomputers in the world today
Because they were incremental and not generating realistic video?

Why aren’t apples oranges?
As a meteorologist, I agree. Fear-mongering endangers people’s lives, because they are less likely to believe a real warning and just “ride it out”.
Agreed on the individual events, but the trend is pretty scary. My daughter went to pick out a pumpkin yesterday in Austin and it was 100 degrees. Christ.
Wait you want to prevent text selection? Why?? I hate it when sites actively try to prevent me from performing normal operations on web pages.

it’s weird to me that these items are all just presented as problems to be solved, instead of justifying why this (often default, expected behavior) is a problem for progressive apps in particular.
Agree, that was one of the complaints as well...
It looks like they target firms/premises without a centralized biometric access.
Your personal immigration preference is not worth mentioning since we have actual statistics on the subject
That made me laugh. $40 billion is absurd.
This seems to happen a lot though:
some chemical/substance/whatever with benefits is discovered.

Substance has negative effects on people.

They test it until they find that those negative effects are no longer detectable at a certain low quantity.

It gets rolled out and everyone starts putting it in their bodies.

That seems like... I dunno not the safest way to do things?
ASML Shares Plunge as Bookings Miss Signals Chipmaker Woes
This wasn’t the case when he originally announced no LIDAR was it?
Some things are a bit awkward, but what specifically can't you really do in a Python REPL? You can dynamically overwrite functions in an imported module, you can re-import modules with importlib, etc. I ask because my Lisp experience is limited.
Do they still use 0-terminated strings/char* as the main string type?

Is the usage of single linked lists still prevalent as the main container type?
https://archive.ph/VdAot
>"do you want chemicals in your water"

I know you're deriding this as an invalid, small-brain appeal, but this is actually sound.

It's like that meme with the bell curve of the layperson, the midwit, and the genius. The layperson and the genius know that adding these chemicals to the water isn't worth the risk, they'll just articulate it in different ways. They might argue that adding "chemicals in your water" is not Lindy, that there's higher order unknown unknowns and risks that the layperson and the genius would rather not take. That the upsides simply aren't worth it versus the downsides.

Contrast that with the midwit who will appeal to bureaucrat-scholar "experts" and their myopic scientific studies. In this way, the sacraments of Scientism make it easy to fool the midwit, especially when midwit media apparatuses will dismiss the opposition per ad hominem as an inferior "Them" to the midwit's superior "Us".

But try convincing a midwit of that without a peer-review study!
Modern CSS implementations are full blown geometric constraint solvers now. The only things approaching their algorithmic complexity are now other geometric constraint solvers like CAD kernels and silicon layout software.
Mechanical and electrical engineering are real work, too. Demonstrating progress on the physical machine might be interesting even if its software isn't done yet.
I built my own little demo page here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/sqlite-wasm

With the help of Claude, though it incorrectly hallucinated some of the details despite me pasting in documentation: https://gist.github.com/simonw/677c3794051c4dfeac94e514a8e5b...
The idea of comparing column and row storage actually inspired this whole post.
This phrase gets repeated a lot, “U.S. patrolling the worlds a shipping lanes” but what does it mean, concretely? Which shipping lanes and how? They’re certainly not doing a stellar job of it in the Red Sea, for instance.
So, what's your message exactly?
Thanks for visiting! It was so many tunnels.. I feel bad that I don't build faster sometimes, but this took awhile.
Zuckerberg and Facebook gets a lot of hate but at least they invest a lot into engineering and open source.
Currently using Kopia because Restic has no GUI and Borg requires adding a community maintained Synology package, and it didn't "Just work" when I tried.

It's amazing! The GUI isn't perfect but the fact that there is an official GUI at all is great.
I wasn't really trying to compare immigration between the two, more just trying to illustrate the scale of US immigration vs the OP's anecdote
If Python is going to include a REPL (which I think it should), it might as well include useful features that people expect from a modern REPL. (That being said, I personally always install ipython...)
This whole "mode" shit - stupid start up yuppies and their movements.
Yes, if you do the mechanical adjusts on the vessel. What may be much harder than expected.

But compressing the gas takes time. If you intend to leave the ship parked there until you finish this, you will need a lot more of space.
> He's released a version of his existing app hoping others might use

I released a version of my existing app because customers requested it. I had no independent interest in the platform.

> instead of solving a problem he identified would be best tackled with a Vision Pro than with a desktop app.

I can't think of any problems that would be best tackled with a Vision Pro than with a desktop app.
No, this is a rack built on NVIDIA’s platform, so this is just more $$$ for them.
Beats buying Twitter, that's for sure.
This would actually be somewhat smart. MI6 could "private label" their pentesting. Their agents get free (actually negative cost) real-world training. You can pick the client list to include both local industries that you would prefer be secure, and potential adversaries that you can infiltrate for "free".
been running my own email for 25 years or so. been using "plus" addressing (actually hyphen) for approximately as much. got only few cases when email got sold/shared. biggest issue was linkedin email address leak a bunch of years ago, so i got a lot of spam to -linkedin@ alias . changed email on linkedin to something different, and old emails go to spam
Open Sourcing is a lot of work. Plus it might contain (even huge) parts that can not be open sourced.
And even unknown parts where real ownership and patents might be unknown.
Today, my phone says "Red Flag (Fire Weather) Warning" in big, bold letters across the lock screen.

Imagine growing up in a world where your primary-computing device is constantly telling you to be afraid of darn near everything all the time.

This past summer - constant alerts about summer heat. Yes, we know it's hot outside, experts used to call it summer, but now it's "Heat Wave Alert 90+ Degrees in the Valley in the middle of August!" - duh...

We're training everyone to always be afraid. Then we wonder why our youth think the world is going to end in a couple years...
Your comment made my day!
I live in Lisbon. Over 80% of housing units in the historic Alfama neighborhood are now vacation rentals. This is the most historically Portuguese neighborhood in the capital. It was the only neighborhood to survive the earthquake in 1755. Fado was born there.

Yes, it's a failure of government policy, but I don't think it's hyperbole to say that AirBnB and its ilk destroyed that community. That is, assuming you define "community" as a group of people and not a group of buildings.
I have a friend who was course VI at MIT but also a serious (chemical free) bodybuilder. He told me the story of working summers at a gym and he saw this one guy eating a large number of bananas as he trained. I don't know the number, but it was large enough that it was clearly going to be based on some serious bro science.

So my friend asks for the explanation. Guy asks him "what's the strongest animal?"

The answer (which I would dispute) was 'the gorilla'

"And what do gorillas eat?"