skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some years of great success ended by a rust nuclear plant suddenly exploding.
> Isn't this premature? Rust is still pretty new.

The old lady said both those things to me this week. In two different conversations.
It is premature. And furthermore, adoption will mostly be driven by new projects written in Rust, not conversion of C/C++. That takes time.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264733
Maybe I'm too young to remember the good times, but to me 1and1 were just the European GoDaddy. Mostly targeting small businesses who didn't know any better and ripping them off with bad services at inflated prices, through a lot of well targeted marketing. Selling things like email with a 250MB inbox and 2MB attachment limit far beyond the time when that was a reasonable offering, and at a far higher price than that was worth (being worth roughly zero).
At most you'd get a rebate of your future tax payment as is the current practice.
FUD: you can install your own keys, enable secure boot and run the OS of your choice.
Related later:

Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264733
This is kind of silly to me. You don't have to break up with Rust to use C++.

Look for opportunities to adopt Rust, especially greenfield projects. We don't have to eliminate all C++ codebases first.
I mean your transaction probably got flagged as fraudulent (like if your postal code didn't match your card), it's not that mysterious.

I think most online operators that have "spend $3 with us" tiers have to be super vigilant about card transactions, and when you fall into the cracks you're a bit SOL.
In a nutshell, Norway can afford to have some mildly self-sabotaging economic policies.

The rest of europe absolutely cannot (but that won't stop them, just like with rent control).
TL;DR: “Rust isn’t popular enough”
It does feel like a case of the Costco hotdog going up to $2 followed by "grrrr. Thats it! I'm..... going to keep buying it because it is still damn cheap!"
github's registry (ghcr.io) is the other big free one
I still go back to reddit - there’s something about creating communities by common interests
FFI is an additional headache. Instead of having a single hermetic build process that just works, with FFI you now have to deal with shared libraries which may or may not be present, and may or may not support all the architectures or operating systems you want to target. FFI is why so many Python projects blow up when you run pip install. Then it takes sometimes hours to untangle that horror show.
And classical music gets proper special treatment!

People have been begging for that for ages on Spotify’s forum…
They started with free .com registration.

They grew their business with this offer, and then degenerated into what you described.
There's definitely technical/fancy tomfoolery. But I'm also just surprised in very low-tech ways.

I once had someone draw a very elaborate stick figure fight in CAD for an entire 74 minute period instead of the high priority project his teammates were waiting on.

It's tricky for me in the engineering project classes, because I'll often be very deeply involved with one group teaching a new task or skill. 90% of the time the other groups will make good progress, but the other 10% yields interesting surprises. I definitely am more careful to show up unexpectedly more and to carefully look at screens, not just to shrug when they look OK-ish from 15' away.
Not with the traffic congestion hell that is E17...
Usually, you get a credit or deduction that can only apply to future tax liability in the same category. Ex: Capital losses are stuck with capital gains in the USA and can only be applied to $3000 of your income per year otherwise. These rule systems are usually incredibly self-serving.
Sony xm4's, they are great headphones! but i never use the noise cancelling feature, because the absence of noise for some reason gives a sensation of pressure and is very discomforting. Don't use the transparency mode either, but its really useful imo.

It's hot most of the year where i live, and it turns into a sauna around your ears, didn't think of that when i dropped a couple hundred bucks on it.

Also my unit sometimes just momentarily doesn't have sound. For like a split fraction of a second there's no sound, and then it continues like nothing. Seems other people have this issue, i've been able to solve it for short periods of time by toggling the connection quality switch in the sony app.

I would recommend the sony WI-C100's, not very expensive, bluetooth, and battery life of 24 hours, plus since its just wireless buds connect together, no sauna during the warm months.

Still like using the XM4's the sound quality is amazing.
I’m not sure why you think a wealth tax is related to entrepreneurship ship. I get that you’ll find a lot of people who like the author don’t want to pay taxes, but you’re going to find quite a lot who do. Especially here in Scandinavia. Of course it’s less of a problem when you have a non-crypto product which actually makes money or gives you the opportunity to take out a loan based on your assets.

I agree that there will be an ideologically divide, but I don’t think it’s related to entrepreneurship as much as it is to greed. Especially because those crypto “billionaires” were moving to Switzerland anyway. Personally I can see why you would think it was anti-business because it is. You have to keep in mind that not everyone thinks “businesses” which can’t make money, and likely never will, are always a benefit to society.
Why would staying on top of Rust put you out of a job?
> video streaming?

Pet peeve but yes. It should not, in 2024, be considered a niche use case to deal with.. video. We’ve become accustomed to YouTube and their impossible-to-beat free hosting. But it’s really pricey to do streaming and so yes, we should expect large bandwidth being available. “Who needs X” is a question that should be reversed, instead we should ask “why not?”. When we have good affordable infra, we get cool new stuff and everyone benefits.
I get the sarcasm but I don't really understand who you're mocking. I guess people who foolishly followed the herd and bought a gas car in the 80s instead of doing their own research and inventing an electric one.
dead drop maybe?
> The majority of the Rust programming jobs asks primarily for deep knowledge in specialized technologies: cryptocurrencies/blockchain, finance trading, machine learning/data analysis, obscure network protocols, cybersecurity, etc.

I agree, but that's a lot of fields and C and C++ jobs ask for the same: finance trading, videogames, machine learning, electronics, legacy protocols, etc. So I don't see how this is unique to Rust but doesn't apply to C++.

Yeah I see very few and far between job offers for Rust but I can say the same for C or C++, and new companies are using Rust not the former languages. Maybe it's easier in the USA.
Usually C or C++ jobs ask for embedded knowledge, whereas Rust ones don't.
of course there's no perfectly privacy preserving solution for this, but ... zero-knowledge proofs have come a pretty long way.

if I understand correctly it's possible to give 16+ people tokens and then they can make the signups (transactions with these tokens) and then check that the transaction is valid (that it came from some valid token without knowing which token), while also making sure that folks can't just fake spend someone's tokens -- this is how the new Monero version is going to work after all.

https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html

Of course as others mentioned trading identities (tokens) is trivial. (As I expect not-yet-16 olds will start stealing identities/logins of older people.)
AI engineers are in high demand – but what is the job like? [video]
How will they pay for that technology they need to import when the oil ends? They'd need to barter something for something else.
It's not that new; nearly 10 years old now I think. Go's adoption was faster
Sorry, what's the implication here, what is the disgrace? Why parental controls are bad? (Or what was implied was a /s tag? :))
Python. I like to code in Go, but I find Python the easiest for small things I'll only use once.

I used C to do some of the old ones. That was painful (I was a complete C beginner).
The more I read about ADHD these days the less certain I am that I know what it is

Despite being diagnosed with it as a child
> You own an asset and this asset is valued by the rating agency as more expensive than before. Now you have a liability that you need to pay...

Isn't this exactly how property taxes usually work? (In the absence of caps like California Prop 13, that is.)

The realization principle is a hallmark of income tax law, but many taxes are not income taxes.
I don’t like media that thrives on stuff like this

She clearly doesn’t want to be associated with him and is living independently, far away.

Yet people are hunting her down and making it public, ruining her privacy for no real reason

Gross
The robot arm isn't running off a battery and most of them are large enough that board size isn't a constraint, so why add the complexity of custom silicon if it isn't needed? Using off-the-shelf FPGAs also makes repairs easier.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gauzy definition 3
Hetzner, in volume, is about 5x cheaper than limped for my workloads. Limped is 2-3 times cheaper than AWS, but AWS has a few things going for it that make it worth it for some workloads.
I hope neither I nor anyone I care about ever ends up in any class you teach…
I caught up with some science fiction this year.

The Murderbot diaries books by Martha Wells - 6/10. Mixed on these. They're fun to read. The setting is cool and the worldbuilding is shallow but effective (i.e., don't read it if you want game of thrones in space). Each novella takes an afternoon to read. I think "snarky violent droid" is overcooked these days and lost interest after book 5.

Light by M. John Harrison - 7/10 excellent prose; great multiple-storyline plot; the journey was better than the destination, but it kept me thinking

Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson - 7/10 Fun. If "near future Nigerian/British post-colonial frontier action with guns, robots, and psychic aliens" sounds cool to you, check it out. I liked his Rosewater Trilogy just as much.

Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts - tough to rate these. brilliant ideas, VERY challenging plots. I wish I didn't get so confused by the end of each book.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - 6/10 - this and the Martian read like blog posts pasted together. The grand dilemma is spelled out on page one and never gets any deeper. Pro: the plot is in your face on every page and you will never be confused when reading; Con - there is zero internal character development. Read if you like stories driven by applied science, not comparative moral decision-making.

The City and the City by China Miéville - 9/10 - you will invariably see something like "Kafka meets [some affected crime novelist] to describe this book, and that ain't wrong. Kind of SF, kind of fantasy.

Railsea by China Miéville - 8/10 - great good vs evil YA SF about, well, imagine if trains were like boats. Good character writing, tight plot.

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - 8/10 - loved this. More "realist" near-future fabulism than Gibson, but if you love cyberpunk, read this.

The Shipbreaker Triology by Paolo Bacigalupi - 6/10 - near-future YA science fiction with a lot of blood and guns. Pretty good stories.

Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers - 9/10 - reread. I had to go back. This gets a near perfect score because of its style, setting, and plot.

The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) by William Gibson - 9/10 - I had read Neuromancer 3 times but never the next two. I was pleasantly surprised to find the second and third novel easier to read* but just as enjoyable as Neuromancer.

The Bridge trilogy by William Gibson - 8/10 so far. I am in the second book. Can't believe I slept on these for the last couple decades.

non-SF:

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad - 9/10 - if you like punk/hardcore from the 80s, this is a great read.

* Every time I read Neuromancer, Gibson's literary footguns --holograms, false memories, hallucinations, and drug-addled unreality--make me feel crazy for not being able to follow the plot at times. I'm okay with believing that was the intended effect.
Nobody is taking issue with the fact that humans that do not replicate do not pass on their genes

They are taking issue with the ludicrous assertion that falling birth rates are "self correcting" because the offspring of people who do replicate are somehow genetically predisposed to have more children to "replace" them.
If Rust was really that superior, would companies using it not have a competitive advantage in the market?
They're saying they stay up to date with Rust, because it's the most likely to do away with C++ (their job), making sure they have relevant skills for if that happens.
The Rust language is what he's saying will put him out of a job, over tim as it replaces C (the language I'm guessing they work with professionally).
So what's the most likely outcome here? Savvy 15 year olds "buying" accounts of older people? IRC and email making a comeback?
Say what? Wikipedia says it's a Canadian production, Youtube says "not available in your country". I'm in Canada.

Edit: It's just that particular link. Searching for the title itself brought up a working one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHoOG4eKzbM
I think that was the idea behind NetKernel.

I've built something similar, a Deno library called "TDAR"[1], and it works well, but it takes some work to wrap up all the command-line tools that expect to work in some mutable filesystem so that you can pretend you're calling pure functions.

[1] I haven't got around to pulling it out of the parent project[2], but I talked about it in this youtube video: https://youtu.be/sty29o8sUKI

[2] If you're interested in this kind of thing you could poke me to open up the source for that thing. togos zero zero at gee mail dot comb
Right. You can't just choose to run the successful clinical trials anymore than you can choose to only buy stocks that will go up on wall street. you have to run various clinical trials for a drug, and they fail. a lot. that very very expensive with no payoff. the successes have to be so phenomenally profitable that they cover the costs of all the failures. So real change would come from making the costs of those failures go away, without being able to cheat the system. The amount of medicine is believed to work, but is unpatentable, and thus doesn't have the profit motive to be pushed through clinical trials is a huge black badge on the American version of capitalism as being the best way we can organize society for the advancement of science and technology.
Yeah, as you mentioned, token-sharing breaks this. I think any solution ultimately has to put the onus on the parents. And if the parents aren't responsible enough to pay attention to what their kid is doing online, then it's probably for the best that the kid have access to an online peer group over social media
goodbye raku, it’s back to perl
I'd say so. I didn't dislike Sapiens, but found The Dawn of Everything to be deeper in many ways.
I don’t see this author mocking anyone. This is one of the most balanced analyses of Blueprint I’ve read. Like the author, I respect Bryan and follow his progress, but some of his practices understandably raise questions about longevity:

1. Research shows optimal body fat is closer to 13%. Levels as low as 6% are not supported by studies as beneficial for longevity.

2. Comments about Bryan’s pale appearance aren’t mocking but a valid observation. Pale skin, low body temperature, and a very low heart rate can indicate circulatory issues. While lowering heart rate is beneficial, it follows a U-shaped curve, where excessively low rates—especially during rest—can pose risks, as seen in some ultra-endurance athletes who pass away in their sleep.

3. Bryan’s most concerning stats are some of his heart function measurements where some chronologically age at that of a 70+ year-old. With the average male life expectancy in the U.S. at 73.2 years, his heart may already be near its limit. My hunch is that Bryan focuses heavily on lowering heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure to counter these poor metrics and reduce risks of heart attack or stroke. However, over-optimization could lead to unintended harm.

I respect Bryan and admire his dedication to health and longevity. His stance against alcohol and on optimizing individual organs may lead to saving millions of lives, as could his focus on extending life in light of AGI. However, there’s a risk of a Greek tragedy, where his pursuit of longevity could become his downfall. I hope this isn’t the case because Bryan is a net positive for humanity, and his efforts have the potential to transform lives.
> A few percent of interest is a lot cheaper than 38%

Not sure why that is comparable.
Surface Book 2. It’s kind of a bad tablet and also a bad laptop. Both batteries completely dead and not repairable. E-waste.

Copenhagen Wheel. Still working but no longer supported. Approaching 5000 miles. Some day they might brick my bicycle, which is kind of crazy.
I think Go thrives in a much more popular field (web services, etc.) and it's also designed to be easy to pick up so I'm not surprised this was the case.
Prospector's mystery rock was no nugget, but something much rarer (2019)
Now, a few defence roles are creeping in, presumably due to the US government distancing itself from unsafe languages.

I know a few contractor teams that have moved to Rust not because of any federal pressure, but simply because they're small and hierarchical enough that 1-2 people who understand the benefits are able to set the development language.
Volunteering is such a great way to fill the soul!

There's so many ways to volunteer, always another way to help if you need a change. I got into fire fighting last year, and now help with ambulance volunteering. I also do free job skills tutoring, that's a fun way to interact with people directly.
This change only affects VPS services in the US, and for what it's worth, Hetzner does not offer dedicated servers in the US.
It's mainly artists that got harmed economically and some/many of them have been pushing this line that scraping and training models on scraped data is illegal or unethical and got neutral left leaning people to agree with them on it.
I was looking when I posted the comment, but can't find the relevant studies.

This is the best I'm seeing atm. https://www.medicinenet.com/how_long_do_you_need_to_fast_for...

Most of the studies we see in IF and autophagy are mouse studies. It isn't to say fasting doesn't result in autophagy in humans, just that the time window most IF practitioners use is not long enough.
Paying up front doesn't really mean much, because if the credit card info is stolen, the actual owner will report the transaction and it will be reversed.
Ime you kind of do, at least did. I learned rust twice I think. First time it had a lot of time hype so I sat down and learned it. Then kind of like this rant never used it so it forgot it.

Then it came up at work and the language changed enough that I had to learn it again. Features were added, the "community approved" libraries changed, tools changed, coding conventions changed.

I never had that feeling with any other language I've used in similar ways. Javascript, ruby, python go I always felt like I could learn, stop using and come back to use pretty easily.
Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers
It's hilariously self-defeating how I'm encountering this """"feature"""" for the first time on an article complaining about taxation. Like, you might have done a better job convincing me of the evils of government, if it wasn't directly alongside your vision of an ultra-capitalist nightmare hellscape where I have to pay to highlight text!
Sorry, the first time I looked, the hamburger menu opened off-screen above the button, which hid all but the last link. I just assumed it only had the one option.

The very prominent "get started" buttons unceremoniously drop you at a bare login prompt on a very different domain. Some might disagree, but this is a red flag for me. Now that the site is rendering fully it does pass the smell test. My expectations were set very low because the page reads like every other chatgpt wrapper, and most of those can be quite sketchy.

I've been dreaming of a project like this for a very long time. I desperately want and need something like this. However, I don't trust whoever is hosting the LLM backend. I'd actually be willing to pay a (smaller) subscription if I could point it at my own ollama server.

I just don't trust gigacorps to properly handle very personal information. Something like this could get very personal, and I just am not willing to let that much data out of my private network. I'm sure I'm in the minority with this opinion though.
Languages are fungible at most scales
It’s like you didn’t read my comment at all.

Yes, I already said this. My point was about the dangers around allowing the commercial sale of raw milk and how that’s a fundamentally different problem than just allowing raw milk.
> the demo instance of my OSS software which a bring your own storage Dropbox like UI for SFTP, S3, FTP, and every protocols imaginable: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash People tend to come in the demo to upload / download tons of stuffs

Do you have problems with illegal content shared over your service? I wouldn’t ever offer something like this because I wouldn’t want to deal with someone uploading child porn or stuff like that.
Is this satirical?
If it is, well done you could've fooled me with the whole Norwegian perspective.
If it isn't, damn how much of a caricature can you be.
I am very ignorant here, so my apologies, but...

When someone runs a dedicated server these days, does this mean a one-off linux install? Or is this more likely to be a docker install so that it's portable?
Small typo

In the *Dynamic Light* section the first time `background-attachment` is spelled it has too many 'e's
Leeroy the fortune telling robot (my first app)
have been a long Time reader of HN and product developer. replit is amazing and finally the AI allowed me to build products that I could only sketch. Just wanted to share!
They left because they didn't want to pay taxes. No monkeying about, they want to be rich and tax free.
If they pay up front then dispute, the company will suffer extra charges. With enough of reports, their payment processor fee% goes up and impacts all their payments.
Law != justice.

Else, you won't have the concept of unjust laws.
Given that ninja is required for C++20 modules when using CMake, it is going to stay around for quite a bit.
It's a good question. If that were the case, I would have expected to also see other oil rich countries at the top of those rankings.
Don't forget that Norway banned Life of Brian and people had to travel to Sweden to watch it.
Why am I being redirected to what appears to be a randomly generated authkit subdomain? Please take some time to ensure your product appears to be your product.

https://valuable-nebula-60.authkit.app/
Pretty clever technique. I guess things like this is why physical covers / privacy shutters are liked by consumers.
Either they'll have children or they won't and the ones who do will replace the ones who don't. It's like I said, whatever people perceive to be a problem is not actually a problem because it corrects itself without any interventions.
LoCoS Visual Sign Language
maybe you can only fit one really complex language in your head at a time while watching out for footguns
I'm not sure what was your concern - Hetzner is obliged by law to make sure their signing up a real person or a company and that their servers are not used for malicious intent.