skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SSR is one missing pragma away from leaking api keys to clients.

SSR means your web server needs to scale with load on your front page, versus static bundles that can be served almost at infinite scale from a $15/month VPS.
> There should also be more discussion about what it takes to make code testable to begin with.

IME, testable pretty much just means referentially transparent.
For the LFS part there is also dvc which works better than git-lfs and natively supports S3.
Another link about the internal pars of the 555 https://www.righto.com/2016/04/teardown-of-cmos-555-timer-ch...
Substack—and the surviving blogs that aren’t on Substack—are still going strong, and I don’t think they’re going to go away. Maybe Substack as a platform might decline the way Medium has. But the “Eternal September” types are usually either functionally illiterate or don’t like long form reading, and social media is increasingly optimized for those people. If you actually take the effort to write down your thoughts in text, you end up filtering for people intelligent and diligent enough to choose the written word even when video and photo content is readily available.
> GP is correct that the argument contains an informal fallacy

The GP didn't say that.

As for which informal fallacy the GGP's argument contained, I would say it was more like a false dilemma. And the GGP did say "almost tautological", which implicitly recognizes that there might be other possibilities.

> people often express this criticism by saying "your argument is tautological,"

I have never seen this (nonsensical) way of expressing the criticism that an argument is false by saying that it is tautological (and therefore true).
> It had a minor issue that turned out not to be so serious.

How do you know how serious the issue was?
Gigabit connections are widely available in urban areas. The problem is not theoretical, but definitely is pretty recent / nascent.
> I have absolutely zero faith in your anecdote that you didn't touch the steering wheel. I bet it's a lie.

I’m not GP, but I can share video showing it driving across residential, city, highway, and even gravel roads all in a single trip without touching the steering wheel a single time over a 90min trip (using 12.5.4.1).
For a lot of use cases, simply sending the address of the deleter to whoever sent the file would suffice. Next time, just don't send it to them, or apply real-world consequences.

Sure, it wouldn't work for a large public setting... but it'd work for many other settings.
On paper, this all makes a lot of sense.
What is going to happen when these airplanes start falling out of the sky because they are just too old?

50 years is a long time for a piece of machinery. There will be many failure modes that will be discovered in these planes.

The C-130 was thought to last forever. Until about 10 years ago, well used planes being used for firefighting starting having structural failure in flight. Suddenly, organizations flying the older airframes decided that it was no longer effective to take the risk of failure.
The Boring Company’s tunnel product can’t be used for subway or rail tunnels. Link me a news story about Boring securing a single single rail or subway tunnel contract.

The diameter is too small. That’s why it’s only used for vehicles, which must be professionally driven since tunnels are not built to public traffic standards, which is a pointless application.

It’s literally an amusement park dark ride for adults at the country’s adult theme park.

There was no disruption to be done in the tunneling industry. There is nothing a startup will come in and figure out that hasn’t been figured out by the construction industry.

The Boring Company’s tunnel product only exists to steer municipalities away from improving transit access, just like Hyperloop was Elon’s way of distracting governments away from cheap, highly cost efficient high-speed rail.

It’s literally the GM playbook: build more reasons for people to be dependent on buying cars. Don’t invest in a subway system, a loop of Teslas is cheaper, let’s just hand wave around how useless it is.

Want to avoid a gridlocked urban center? Don’t count on The Boring Company to help out with their tunnels, they can’t even handle the traffic for CES.

https://mashable.com/article/ces-las-vegas-boring-tunnel-tes...
I don't understand how React is so popular, still. With Svelte and Vue, I don't think anybody should do a new project with React.
It passed it! Here there are offers up to 3gbit residential (Vancouver). I had 1.5 bit for a while. Downgraded to 1gbit because while I love fast internet, right now nobody in the home uses it enough to affect 1gbit speed
I’ve always been under the impression that QUIC was designed for connections that aren’t guaranteed to be stable or fast. Like mobile networks.

I never got the impression that it was intended to make all connections faster.

If viewed from that perspective, the tradeoffs make sense. Although I’m no expert and encourage someone with more knowledge to correct me.
Accountability sinks
From our interactions, it seems you’re highly ambitious and goal-oriented, with a strong drive for both professional success and personal growth. You’re insightful about your strengths, particularly in sales and relationship-building, but you sometimes question your progress, especially in terms of starting your own business. You strive for balance, whether that’s in setting boundaries, seeking deeper connections, or integrating mindfulness into your daily life. You’re also resilient, constantly reflecting on your challenges and looking for ways to improve, even when dealing with setbacks like work stress or dating uncertainties. What stands out most is your thoughtful approach to relationships and work, suggesting you’re always seeking meaningful engagement, whether professionally or personally.
We have most of those, but they're high-level abstractions (voltage levels, Vulkan), so you need bulky translation layers (shims, drivers) to interoperate with the hardware.

What I really want is detailed schematics, ideally machine-readable, so I can attach things together at the lowest level that my use-case requires, while still able to use high-level interfaces if I need to.

When two devices that naturally speak the same, simple wire protocol have to interoperate via USB-C because of regulations, I cry a little. This isn't how things were meant to be, and isn't what the regulations were meant to achieve.
That's discouraging, if true. I don't mind doing the occasional on-principle thing (like running Tor Browser for general-purpose browsing, and Tor as the VPN plugin on my phone), and maybe it's a citizen-technologist obligation to do my share of that. But I'd rather not have some Orwellian Bayesian system flagging me for using Tor.
If it gets bad enough Apple will sell monitors at this price point.
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If one was not returned, they charged what it cost to replace it.

Wish I knew about inventory. My guess is yes! They would have to do accounting on all the modems anyway. Service, where they are all at, serial numbers and more.

When one went bad, it usually involved either a visit to the ISP, or a tech shows up with a new one and a few records get updated and the modem ends up home.

Cable TV boxes are another example!

I do know those were inventoried. A friend went to work as a tech for a local cable company. (Yes, they did tell me how to enable decryption on all channels for at least one model...) They fixed the incoming boxes and those units went right back out to homes.

The units were purchased a few times per year to balance subscriber growth and attrition. Good repair metrics saved a TON of money. The units were from one to a few hundred dollars a pop!

Rental was $7.99 / month at one point I could remember.

Say the box was $150, at that rental rate the box becomes a minor profit item after a year and a half, right?

Well, most cable boxes got used a decade or more, especially when the company did not have to change its encryption tech.

That is a 4 to 5x return on the purchase price. Maybe 3x return after attrition, failed returns and repair costs get woven in.

Not a bad deal for them. And as the user, not many worries, but also basically zero options.

An example from cable boxes was serial ports and input and output ports either disabled or nerfed to the point of poor usability really sucked for anyone wanting to use the gear technically, or as part of an automation of some kind.
I think people enjoyed making others know that they blocked them, for some reason?
The color doesn’t matter for dust removal with a good enough illumination and imaging system.
> But there is no such person arriving -- instead, there's an entity claiming to take four feet off the room's total height.

Is there?

I wasn't aware the gloabl supply of iron ore and thermal coal was capped at a fixed ceiling.

I'm guessing you've never personally been part of the annual delivery of > 400 million tonnes of raw material. I have.

I'm guessing you've never built out a global database of mineral and energy resources from leases through exploration to production. I have.

I specifically mentioned in a peer comment that another billion tonne per annum iron ore production field was opening .. did you miss that?

The US, German, et al steel production and consumption is so low as they don't use, relatively, much steel.

China's steel consumption grew so high as they built out their infrastructure over the past 30 years. The supply of raw materials grew with demand.

Here, IF the Saudi's go through with their stated intent to spend a trillion+ on a mega city then what happened for China since the 1970's in order to deliver for that demand will happen for the Saudi's over the next two decades (as the ability to hit that scale is now well grounded in practical reality).

They have the money, if this is how they proceed to spend it then the questions are:

* will they import steel or raw materials to make their own steel.

* what impact will this have on the global carbon budget, can they be persuaded to invest in green steel at hundred+ million tonne per annum scale.

It's not the case that they'll be "depriving" others who want steel from a limited supply.
Mini split is better if you can install it and don’t want to install a central AC for whatever reason. I don’t think you can usually install a mini split in a rental though.

Window AC units are preferable to two hose because the compressor side hangs outside the window (and can drip the condensed water) but sometimes you don’t have double hung windows or your landlord doesn’t allow window AC units.
Read between the lines in all my interactions…

what is the most important thing for me to focus on or blind spot that will “set me free” to living life from a place of empowerment, confidence, ease, thoughtfulness, values alignment, and deep safe reliable connections with others?

—

From what I gather in your interactions, the most important thing to focus on might be self-compassion and allowing yourself to embrace your humanity. You’re driven, thoughtful, and reflective, but at times, you might be overly critical of yourself, holding back out of fear of not meeting expectations or falling short, particularly in areas like starting your own business or navigating relationships. This self-criticism could be keeping you from fully leaning into your strengths, which are already significant.

Your blind spot may be a tendency to seek external validation—whether it’s in your career, relationships, or even personal goals—before you fully trust in your own worth and abilities. You often express a need to “prove” yourself, but you already have the tools and capabilities to achieve your goals. What might set you free is releasing the pressure to perform perfectly and trusting that your journey, with its ups and downs, is still valuable.

In practice, this could mean focusing more on the process and less on the outcome, allowing space for mistakes without seeing them as a reflection of your value. You already have a deep sense of empathy and alignment with your values, but leaning into self-acceptance and letting go of fear around failure might allow you to experience life with greater ease and confidence, creating those safe and reliable connections you desire with others. Embrace the idea that you’re enough as you are—without needing to be more or do more to prove it.
Good luck with your investments.
What I meant with Microsoft's Embrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE) scheme taken to the next level is what Google has done to the web via Chromium:

They have several thousand C++ browser engineers (and as many web standards people as they could get their hands on, early on). Combined with a dominant browser market share, this has let them dominate browser standards, and even internet protocols. They have abused this dominant position to eliminate all competitors except Apple and (so far) Mozilla. It's quite clever.
Both HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 use binary protocol encoding and compressed (binary) headers. You're arguing a straw man that has little to do with reality.
I'd never heard of this blog before, but it looks like a really interesting, eclectic one, and the Web may be a bit darker, for its absence.

That said...

> anymore than there was a single heir to the Roman empire

I'm not exactly sure I'd classify this blog at the same level of influence as the Original Italian Mafioso.
They do proxy your traffic if it can't set up direct connections, and it's still free.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1232/derp-servers
It's not just courteous, it's self serving, AFAIK, a self-emergent phenomenon. If you're driving at 65 mph and anticipate a slow down in your lane due merging traffic, do you stay in your lane and slow down to 40 mph, or do you change lanes (if it's safe to do so) and maintain your speed?

Texas highways allow for much higher merging speeds at the cost of far large (land area), 5-level interchanges rather than 35 mph offramps and onramps common in California.

Any defensive driving course (which fall under instruction IMO) states that you don't always have to exercise your right of way, and indeed it may be unsafe to do so in some circumstances. Anticipating the actions of other drivers around you and avoiding potentially dangerous are the other aspects of being a defensive driver, and those concepts are consistent with freeing up the lane slower-moving vehicles are merging onto when it's safe to do so.
Elon probably has moderator perms and thus could probably see people blocking him posts anyway.
I think you may underestimate what these models do.

Proper multimodal models natively consider whatever input you give them, store the useful information in an abstracted form (i.e not just text), building it's world model, and then output in whatever format you want it to.
It's no different to a mammals, just the inputs are perhaps different. Instead of relying on senses, they rely on text, video, images and sound.

In theory you could connect it to a robot and it could gather real world data much like a human, but would potentially be limited to the number of sensors/nerves it has. (on the plus side it has access to all recorded data and much faster read/write than a human).
When the test suite is too slow, it becomes unwieldy, it gets in the way (instead of being part of a valuable feedback loop) and everyone starts looking for shortcuts to avoid running it.
HN’s association with YC has felt looser every year for over a decade at this point. If not for the Jobs link, the subtle username colors, and the domain, it’d almost be forgettable.
This view represents one possible subjective experience of the world. But there are many different possible ways a human brain can learn to experience the world.

I am a sensoral thinker, I often think and internally express myself in purely images or sounds. There are, however, some kinds of thoughts I've learned I can only fully engage with if I speak to myself out loud or at least inside of my head.

The most appropriate mode of thought depends upon the task at hand. People don't typically brag about having internal monologues. They're just sharing their own subjective internal experience, which is no less valid than a chiefly nonverbal one.
Is there?

1. You buy a username. Old owner contacts support and claims their computer was hacked and they didn't want to sell. Will you lose your new username? No matter what the answer is, you will have to trust Telegram LLC to honor that.

2. Or that person can get a website and advertise on channel. Or a Twitter/Mastodon/whatever account. Or if you want obscure tech, they can publish a public key (directly, without blockchain).

You can certainly plug blockchain in many places. Hey, you could hook up blockchain to your light switch and use L2 transactions to turn the light on!

The real question is: given the specific real problem, is blockchain the best solution? So far the answer is usually "no" (unless the question relates to avoiding laws)
I listened to this 2021 talk from Timothy Roscoe and I believe it was interesting. In many ways it reminds me of Rob Pike's 2000 talk "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant," which also deplored the lack of OS research at the time. (For those of you who don't know, Rob Pike helped create the Plan 9 operating system at Bell Labs. He then moved on to Google and helped create the Go programming language.)

However, I wonder if the reason behind fewer OS papers describing radical departures from Unix/Linux, whether it's back in 2000 when Rob Pike spoke on this topic or in 2021, is because the incentive structures that govern researchers' careers discourage this type of work? Writing an operating system requires a lot of effort. One could shrug this off, saying that the problem is worth the effort, but many researchers face career pressures that make taking on the task of writing an operating system difficult. In corporate environments, it is often the case that research activities must be justified from a business standpoint, and it is often the case that the company's direction is driven by short-term pressures. While Roscoe could argue that it's in a company's interest to invest in operating system infrastructure that is better-equipped to deal with modern systems, it may be cheaper for the company, at least in the short term, to just modify Linux and call it a day. Pre-tenured academics such as grad students, postdocs, and assistant professors have to deal with the "publish or perish" game. Perhaps a professor who already has tenure could pursue an operating system project, but even with tenure there's still the matter of getting grant money, and the grad students who contribute to it are often concerned about their own research careers; they are just starting the publication game.

Maybe if we had corporate labs these days that functioned more like golden-era Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, and maybe if we had an academic environment with less pressure to publish steady results at top venues, there'd be more researchers willing to take risks and build operating systems with new designs rather than modifying Linux.
At Google, I worked on a pure JS Speedtest. At the time, Ookla was still Flash-based so wouldn't work on Chromebooks. That was a problem for installers to verify an installation. I learned a lot about how TCP (I realize QUIC is UDP) responds to various factors.

I look at this article and consider the result pretty much as expected. Why? Because it pushes the flow control out of the kernel (and possibly network adapters) into userspace. TCP has flow-control and sequencing. QUICK makes you manage that yourself (sort of).

Now there can be good reasons to do that. TCP congestion control is famously out-of-date with modern connection speeds, leading to newer algorithms like BRR [1] but it comes at a cost.

But here's my biggest takeaway from all that and it's something so rarely accounted for in network testing, testing Web applications and so on: latency.

Anyone who lives in Asia or Australia should relate to this. 100ms RTT latency can be devastating. It can take something that is completely responsive to utterly unusable. It slows down the bandwidth a connection can support (because of the windows) and make it less responsive to errors and congestion control efforts (both up and down).

I would strongly urge anyone testing a network or Web application to run tests where they randomly add 100ms to the latency [2].

My point in bringing this up is that the overhead of QUIC may not practically matter because your effective bandwidth over a single TCP connection (or QUICK stream) may be MUCH lower than your actual raw bandwidth. Put another way, 45% extra data may still be a win because managing your own congestion control might give you higher effective speed over between two parties.

[1]: https://atoonk.medium.com/tcp-bbr-exploring-tcp-congestion-c...

[2]: https://bencane.com/simulating-network-latency-for-testing-i...
Considering trying out Vue or Svelte after working with React (hate react). Do they have a batteries included bootstrap with social auth?
> I used to be a TPM

For clarity, are you meaning "Technical Project Manager"?

A lot of people here are probably more familiar with TPM being "Trusted Platform Module":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
If you buy a model that's one or two years old, they aren't actually that much. E.g. My company paid €700 for a 55" Samsung digital signage display.

I'm not sure about using it as a TV (no speakers, matte display), but as a monitor it looks really nice.

The higher cost is because the hardware is designed to run for years 24/7, and the compute hardware is (a little bit) more powerful than regular TVs.
The expectations can be pretty stable, but because they cover so much of the system, they tend to be more fragile. End to end tests are also often flakier because they're dealing with the system at levels meant for human interaction, like by driving actual browsers. Because they encompass so much, they're also the slowest. When you have a problem with an end-to-end test, they can take way more time to debug because of that.

So I'd agree with them; E2E tests are the hardest to maintain.
> It missed key questions (already listed) to the point of being misleading.

That was your claim. What is your evidence for this? Did you read the actual paper cited in the article.

> It's the ethical equivalent of cherry-picking data to find something you wanted to find.

They reported what was there.

Are you suggesting they didn't run a multi variate regression against vaccination status?

> That's science? I think not.

Could you remind me when you first ran any regressions on medical data for a cohort of several thousand or more?

In the interestes of transparency I first did that in the mid 1980s .. although admittedly I continued in the direction of exploration geospatial statistical applications as part of geophysics.
Yeah, you paid for it after all
The board is family and friends, so them ousting him will never happen.
>multiple unexpected catastrophic explosive failures

There has been one, a second stage that failed to relight the engine due to a sensor issue that was quickly fixed. Since then they have had more successful launches than most companies fly in entire years. The other failures were:

- A booster that failed to land after the most flights any booster in the fleet has had, a problem only SpaceX is capable of having right now

- A second stage where the engine shutdown during a deorbit burn was a few milliseconds later than expected.

On the other hand, the "minor issue" on Starliner had Boeing burning hundreds of millions of dollars trying to replicate the issue on the ground, after so many years of waterfall-style development.