skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are likely tens of thousands of sites who dream of having 2 million active users.

other than a few VC heads, in no world is millions of dailies a bad thing. i’d be shocked if hn had 2 million daily. and thank your god it’s not full of everyone screaming at once. it’s what makes it such a rad place to be.

i moved to mastodon when the infosec community migrated there and honestly, its OmgSoMuchBetter that it has less people. it’s like here on hn, the signal to noise ratio is fucking glorious.

i’ve mentioned this multiple times in the past, but in reality we (people) prefer multiple different spaces, and for very very good reasons.

it i want a quiet night with a fancy dinner, i’ll go to a quiet nicer restaurant.

if i want a loud night out with the friends, we go to a club.

if i want a goth night i go to the goth club

if i want to hear blues i go to a blues bar.

etc…

the big sites suffer from their own ridiculousness and still, years later haven’t figured out that trying to be everything at once is hilariously stupid. it just makes you bad at everything.

blue sky is incredible, at least until eternal september hits. Mastodon’s different servers hit so much better than the last years of twitter did. the minute everyone flocks to either of them, im out. we like different spaces for different moods, it’s common sense.

could you imagine how awful going out would be if you’re talkin with your friends and over and over some totally random people were constantly coming to your table and screaming shit at you? “defend yourself!” … no, because that’s not normal… bar owners would be like “bro, that guy who keeps screaming at random people has to go… fuckin weirdo.”

that’s the experience these same group of VC people keep trying to tell us is normal and what we should want. no thanks. thats weird af.
Did you comment on the wrong post? Or did the link get swapped out on you?
Can’t believe it.

I remember the live cds and install cds that were free to order. Brought life back to an old g3 iMac and it taught me much about grub bootloader to dual boot. Was also an early teen too.

20 years later and I knew I’ll be in tech. I’m 50/50 about that.

My first distributor was either mandrake or suse. But this was the one I used the most. The other exciting thing at the time was knoppix.
No, it explores this particular design, but concludes that lifetime annotations are needed.
It could very well be a pun to do with how he gets money, though. Wiki says he makes narco music, and bird references are common to drug slang in both US English and (Mexican) Spanish.
> The US uses the metric system, just with very non-standard units. All of the fundamental customary units are defined precisely in SI terms.

"Uses the metric system" = uses standard metric units.

By the logic you lay out, the metric system itself doesn't use the metric system, seeing as the units are not defined by reference to SI terms but to natural constants. (And if your definition of the metric system includes both US customary units and natural constants, then your use of the phrase 'metric system' has ceased to signify anything meaningful.)
It offends me that companies can even do this.
Ubuntu was a godsend when it came out. Linux "just worked" on most hardware out of the box (well, I never did get my wifi driver working, but it was amazing that everything ELSE worked).

Since then, Ubuntu's role in the Linux community has changed. I don't think anyone would seriously recommend Ubuntu to a newbie, when there are so many better options. (And that's okay, things are allowed to change).
As someone who doesn't generally program, it was pretty good at getting me an init.lua set up for nvim with a bunch of plugins and some functions that would have taken me ages to do by hand. That said...it still took a day or two of working with it and troubleshooting everything, and while it's been reliable so far, I worry that it's not exactly idiomatic. I don't know enough to really say.

What it's really good at is taking my description of something and pointing me in the right direction to do my own research.

(two things that helped me with getting decent code were to describe the problem and desired solution, followed by a "Does that make sense?". This seems to get it to restate the problem itself and produce better solutions. The other thing was to copy the output into a fresh session, ask for a description of what the code does and what improvements could be made)
Bikes can last a lifetime, this is a case in point. Imagine how little cost in carbon and energy has gone into this item after its life of use.

Now imagine the same with an automobile. It was a terrible mistake to build a car centric world where we sit in metal boxes to go to massive parking lots with enormous stores to fill our cars with useless crap that lasts a moment in time.
Wouldn't AI be worse at Rust than at C++ given the amount of code available in the respective languages?
> Well actually some _do_ run Android, but good to see also some of them (like the Era) do not...

I was unaware of this. Looks like they have a couple devices that are "e-note" devices, are larger, and support stylus input that are Android devices. Maybe also a couple readers from a long time ago, saw an article mentioning one running KitKat 4.4.

Thanks for letting me know!
Depends on the individual. I don't use those shortcuts on Windows either.

I almost never need the menus. I set the view settings globally, applied to all folders.

There are keyboard shortcuts for actions within those menus, like cut/copy/paste. The shortcuts are more configurable than on Windows.

F4 opens a terminal in the current directory

That's all I use 99.99% of the time
If you like interviews like these, and if you don’t know him already, you’ll love Studs Terkel. His interviews with many different people are online at https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/.
I wonder why they did a large version jump in one shot (v5.7->v8) and didn't do incremental upgrades (v5.7 -> 6.x etc)?

I wonder because the promotion of the secondary v8 node to primary is a breaking change in this path, whereas in an incremental upgrade it might not have been. But I also understand at this sort of scale things might be as easy as that.
In practice the tech giants such as Google, Apple and Microsoft will dictate adoption of technology. When Chrome starts mandating or heavily recommending IPv6, adoption will reach 99% overnight. That's what happened with https: https://www.znetlive.com/blog/google-chrome-68-mandates-http...
It was hard to read in places because of that, I need to work out a reverse prompt to make it clearer
We definitely want to get into that! Unfortunately it's not completely straightforward. A simple desugaring doesn't work due to our support for intermediate bindings and computations, which we don't want to recompute.
He has a long track record of making concrete and timed predictions. So you can look at the predictions Kurtzweil made 25 years ago in _The Age of Spirtual Machines_ and 20 years ago in _The Singularity is Near_, and use the hit rate of those predictions to establish credibility (or lack thereof).

But you'd need to read the books yourself and do your own evaluation. Kurzweil's own scoring of those past predictions has been so generous that it borders on fraudulent.
it’s weird tho, none of my feed is actually hosted at my domain. I forget what I had to do to claim my url on bluesky but I understood it as proving that I controlled the domain, not actually using it to point to content. Does any part of reading the bluesky feed actually make DNS requests??
It’s not popular in Europe at all.
Solid Model Browser
If I had the time to set that up then yeah.

Right now I’m spending all my time actually implementing optimizations and measuring them locally. I did spend the time to give myself a good benchmark suite with a nice harness (I call it PizBench, it includes workloads from xzutils, simdutf, Python, OpenSSL, and others).
I think Threads is disrupting Twitter fairly well... it's at 200 million+ monthly active users and growing.

I switched from Twitter to Threads and have been happy with it (Bluesky was invite only at the time so I didn't bother). Threads actually got me to start using Instagram too, ironically.
>> The affected products include Microsoft Entra, Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, and Purview, according to the Business Insider report.

Oof. Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) being impacted is rough. But who needs SSO logs?
The IP consolidation is reasonably successful, but it doesn't have to break port forwarding, that's laziness and negligence.
I hate that because it implies a presumption of guilt.
> […] Where `r` can represent any relationship […]

… and «-[r]-» can represent any relationship direction, which obviates the need for constructing separate queries for inverse traversing relationships. Kinda like running a compiler forward and backward.
I also wonder - is the flow state for work the same as the flow state in other domains? IE team sports flow state is very similar - actions flow smoothly and feel automatic. Flow state in cycling feels really similar, but doesn’t create the same outputs.
Postgres pages are 8kb so the point is moot.
The last couple of paragraphs of the article answer this. (The answer is No).
Yawn. Isn't that exactly what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film) & https://thecorporation.com/film/ was about twentyone years ago? (Time flies!)

As bottom line at least? Can't have the one without the other, just different aspects of the same shit.
As mentioned in a response to a sibling comment, we plan to support `or`, which should address the problem you mention. (If not, would you have an example of what you mean?)

> I worry that the semantics around exhaustiveness and mutable values may be confusing, though I guess OCaml already has that problem

Indeed, and it was until very recently a source of unsoundness: https://icfp24.sigplan.org/details/mlworkshop-2024-papers/8/...
So there's nothing.

> Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.

Tempest in a teapot.

What about reporting a bug and chill? Instead of immediately jumping the gun and flooding the issue tracker of the one company that still tries with preaching? What is this going to achieve? Of course they locked it. Shame on everyone who commented some RMS-inspired lament into their issue queue.
How about fewer accidents per distance of equivalent driving?
I am sure it's more benign than that, although of course exploiting foreign labor is an issue. South Korea has problems but it is a liberal democracy whose economy does not depend on cheap manual labor like the UAE; if large numbers of foreign workers were being killed on the job, a Korean citizen or rights group would blow the whistle.

I believe South Korea (like most industrialized countries) does not offer single-payer health insurance to most foreigners, who either have to purchase it themselves or go without. It seems likely that a large number of foreign residents get sick and never go to a doctor. Without a medical history it's not easy to determine a cause of natural death in an older sick person, even with a good autopsy.
Can you give an example of what some of those layers might be in an application?
I've used Ubuntu on servers for probably the last twelve or so years. Mostly the reason is that it's the path of the least resistance. Most software that has installation documentation for Linux will document Ubuntu first. Maybe Red Hat and then you are on your own. So, getting stuff running on it tends to be well documented, well supported, etc.

For personal use, I've moved away from it. I've had a Manjaro laptop for a few years now for some light gaming on Steam, which works great. I picked an Arch based distro because that's what Steam uses for the Steam Deck.

IMHO, Ubuntu should move to rolling releases if they want to stay relevant. It doesn't make sense to run years out of date kernels and software packages these days. Especially if you want to run e.g. games and benefit from driver upgrades. And the bi-annual upgrade cycle just creates a lot of hassle for users. I know lots of Ubuntu users that routinely wipe their laptop because it's just easier than upgrading. Not a thing with Manjaro. I installed it nearly three years ago and it's fully up to date. And there seems to be a steady flow of kernel work that has gradually improved support for the hardware I have. I wouldn't want to miss out on that.

Now that Arch has a more usable installer, I might move over to that but I'm not in a hurry. Three years ago installing Arch was a 50 step process that was a bit challenging as it involved fiddling with boot loaders and what not just to get it to boot to a cli with a working network connection (which requires the right kernel modules to be there). Manjaro has a nice live CD that sort of makes that a whole lot easier. That sort of makes it the Ubuntu equivalent for Arch, I guess.
Certainly people contain multitudes, but in Heinlein's case some of the diversity of viewpoint was intentional. The happy universalism of "Stranger in a Strange Land", the libertarianism of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress', and the patriotic collectivism of "Starship Troopers" were, I think, the result of Heinlein choosing three very different political philosophies and exploring where they led. (This is not my original theory, but I can't seem to find a reference for it.)

To me it's one more sign of how masterful a storyteller Heinlein was that his embrace of the contradictions was conscious and not just a result of some sort of inner conflict.
Bluesky grew by 10% in just two days this week, passing 12M accounts in total
Thought y'all would find this interesting -- TBH I still thought it was still in closed beta. I'm giving it a shot! Some pioneering soul should start a HackerNews "feed" (AKA bot?).

For comparison, Twitter still has ~368M monthly active users and the big dogs even more (e.g. Reddit at 1.2B), so they've got a long way to go. Still, 10% in 2 days is undeniably impressive. At this rate, they'll be at 337M by EOY!
One usually doesn't do much with their arms while carrying groceries, they just hang at the side or move the bag around when putting it down or picking it up. When performing other movements, especially when they are fast or forceful, the extra weight can add momentum that is potentially hazardous, especially if it bounces or moves around (makes it very hard to compensate for reflexively). If present during repetitive tasks, extra weight can increase the risk of repetitive stress injuries occurring.
OK, so this is an interesting thing. If I understand Paul (Bsky) correctly, one of the major reasons that they didn't adopt AP was that it could not scale well.

As in, if Mastodon got say 2 million new users in a few days, then each instance would have to sync the entire DB. Most instances could not handle that. In AT's case, that is handled more efficiently. That is correct, isn't isn't it?
I left Bitwarden as soon as they started using dark patterns in their UI. They got in the way instead of enhancing the user experience.
This strikes a balance with one's use of time and "fear of missing out" (FOMO). Thank you, yunusabd, for creating this service. As a side note, I've been following HN headlines and comments for a very long time, but only just now created an account, just so that I could write this comment to express my thanks to you. On the subject of wishing for additional features: I agree with someone else who commented about how it would be nice to have some form of a daily summary, or maybe broken into three portions of summaries per day: morning, afternoon and evening. Additionally, those three portions would also (ideally) remain available and not be removed, so that a person might go back and review a particular range of times/days. This would be much more practical to enable a person to be able to keep up with most of the developments, but without needing to check in once every hour.
To name a few:
- Jobs
- Validation Rules
- Request Handlers
Will the AI bubble pop bring down the rest of the startup industry, or allow for more investment in non AI tech.

Climate related tech needs more money.
Yes we have a delete account option in our settings screen. But Google asking for url webpage for this scenario is just unnecessary.

Apple accepted it with no questions.
Device is not ready
General Catalyst is working on a continuation fund worth up to $1B, sources say
yeah, there’s a little bit of indirection in that domain handles are separate from the actual data hosting. domain handles resolve to a DID, and the DID document points to where your data host is (allowing you to change both your handle and your data host seamlessly). you can then host your own Personal Data Server if you want to
Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release
NAT is technically not a firewall in itself, I believe early/some NAT implementations used deterministic assignments between external range to internal ip:port. They can be more transparent if that is the goal.

But the effect of proliferation of cheap Wi-Fi routers with cheap dynamic NAPTs in conjunction with UPnP did to XP-era PC security - 100% agreed, it was like sunlight self-disinfecting brass door handles.
That's not how you're supposed to use IPv6. It would just be 64 bits if that was the case. Instead, 99% of the time, it's a 64 bit subnet ID and a 64 bit device ID.
AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs
Vasuki indicus, among the longest snakes that ever lived
We can’t tell for sure since this url will be added to the Play Store. Problem is how to authenticate users.
I'll never understand people who act like they're entitled to free, perpetually maintained software, and then are surprised when the software owners try to make money.

I moved to Bitwarden years ago (as a paid subscriber) from LastPass after their breaches and everything went to hell there.

And Bitwarden HAS innovated, or at least evolved with the times. They support passkeys now. They've had security key support for a while. They allow you to save your OTPs (though the wisdom of having your OTPs for MFA and your password in the same entity is questionable). I use their secure file send every other day. Password managers don't have to stagnate any more than any other applications.

I'd say this guy should just install Keepass or Passwordsafe on his PC.

It sucks that Bitwarden is apparently moving away from open source, but I'll probably stick with them for now. LastPass and their competitors aren't even pretending to be friendly to the open source community.

I also keep a backup of my Bitwarden vault in KeePass on my PC, and a plaintext version on an encrypted drive, just in case.
Was Kay thinking of local code or distributed code? For local I can see his point. But once we start talking to networks or even really hard drives you need scatter-gather semantics. Otherwise you’re running lots of threads, which undercuts his point, or you’re writing your own multitasking state machine which is just a poor implementation of concurrency where you’re responsible for all the bugs and deadlocks, not just some of them.
It’s really annoying to see people write that Postgres has a “primary index” and “secondary indexes”. No. That’s not what those words mean. Every index in Postgres is a secondary index.
It’s all about copyright. Copyright law in the US gives a monopoly on distribution of copies of things (hand‐waving because the definitions are hard, basically artistic works) to their author. Of course authors usually delegate that right to their publisher for practical and financial reasons. There are some fair use exceptions, but this basically makes it illegal for anyone else to make and distribute copies of the author’s work. Again, hand‐waving because I don't want to have to write a dissertation.

When IA shows you what a website looked like in the past, they are reproducing a copyrighted work and distributing it to you. In some cases, perhaps many, this is fair use. IA cannot really know ahead of time which viewers would be exercising their fair use rights and which would not. Instead, IA just makes everything available without trying to guess whether the access would fall under fair use or not. That means that many times, possibly most of the time, IA is technically breaking the law by illegally distributing copies of copyrighted works.

But _owning_ a copy of a copyrighted work is never prohibited by copyright. It doesn’t matter how you got the copy either.

Therefore, pretty much any time someone asks for something to be hidden or removed on copyright grounds, they go ahead and hide it. They don’t bother to delete it though, because copyright doesn’t require them to. If a copyright holder asks for it to be deleted then they are overreaching, and should know that any sane person would object. But as far as I am aware IA doesn’t actually bother to object in writing; they just hide the content and move on.

This means that researchers can visit the archive in person and request permission to see those copies. For example if you are studying the history of artistic techniques in video games using emulated software on IA, you might eventually notice that all the games from one major publisher are missing (except iirc the original Donkey Kong, because they don’t actually own the copyright on that one). You could then journey to the Archive in person to see the missing material and fill in the gaps in your history. Or you could just ignore them entirely out of spite. This is no different than viewing rare books held by any library, or viewing unexhibited artifacts held by a museum, etc
I'm investing in undervalued businesses who are selling the shovels.
IPv6 adoption will take place overnight when either google chrome, Android or iOS start showing a warning on IPv4-only networks. ISPs and tech companies will start to get flooded with support calls asking about it and will choose to roll out IPv6 to make the problem go away.
Chrome forced the web to go 100% https, the same thing will happen eventually with IPv6.
Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued
There was a time when we looked at the sky and didn't think about asteroids hitting the earth. Ignorance is bliss.

-- btw, when they listed Entra, I thought it was Encarta. I momentarily so excited that still existed.
> people have to figure out how to make their life meaningful with only leisure time.

Like religion or nationalism fueling some wars.
My favorite reads to get a deeper understanding of Japan
He apparently will just have his followers/employees write them by proxy and then "boost" them lol.
totally agreed about all of the above and i take credit for none of that code

i write plaintext at uris, progressively enhance that to hypertext using a port with a deno service, a runtime that unifies browser js with non browser js.

that hypertext can optionally load javascript and at no point was a compiler required aside from the versioned browser i can ask my customers to inspect or a version of deno we get on freebsd using pkg install.

node is not javascript would be my biggest point if i had to conclude why i responded.

microsoft failed at killing the web with internet explorer and only switched to google’s engine after securing node’s package manager overtly through github and covertly through typescript.

microsoft is not javascript is my final point after circling back to my original point of microsoft is also one of the aforementioned reasoned c-compilers are politically fought over instead of things that just work.
France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy.

For Europe overall is 22%.
“pass” in this context refers to a GPG-encrypted file based password manager: https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_(software) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pass.

“pass” itself can be used in many contexts, but is primarily a desktop command-line tool. “Password Store” is the Android client for it.