skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's Dbvisualizer if you want to try an alternative. Though I moved from the company provided dbvis pro version to DBeaver Community when I discovered it.
Russian jammers regularly impact other countries
Serious research on the topic is unambiguous in that it promotes right-wing content: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endo...
Vercel is $150: https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress
My mechanic told me the future of racing is hydrogen. You gotta have noise.
>The alternative in the 1970s was skyrocketing oil

They imported and still import just as much oil as anyone else.
So it doesn't censor
It goes back further. the NSA podcast No Such Podcast put out the first half of Grace Hooper's speech to them is a good look at problems. Remember these are people problems first, CompSci Second.

Shortly: Grace Hopper's speeches, particularly her lecture titled "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People," highlighted the critical importance of understanding the value of data and information, predicting that the growing volume of data would require systems to prioritize and analyze information effectively, rather than just accumulating it without purpose;

All problems are people problems because we are all directly linked together. The further out in the universe we look, the more closely we are linked to our problems.
It was so odd when I visited in 1998 that there were many tv commercials for carpeting and yet hardly anyone had carpets. Heated floors are so great, but great for sound absorption. Everyone just learns to live with lots of noise like in the city itself.
Ask HN: How to Google?
Do you know any website, forum, or resource dedicated to teaching people how to find information on the internet?

For example:

- How to find and select good shoes.

- How to dig through old historical documents to fact check YT videos.

- How to figure out the age and version (and manual) of an old vacuum cleaner.

Yes, OSINT is a thing, but it doesn't really help
I for one like the voyeuristic/exhibitionist aspect of all of these devices.
Hazard and Survival
Im going to have to give your CUDA wrapper a look later. :)
False. https://www.vice.com/en/article/x-purges-prominent-journalis...
Or move the cursor while right-clicking.
The content committed to print needs to be worth it. I'm a fan of old-school sci-fi, the kind that asks how technology might enhance or undermine the human experience and how that might change, collapse, or raise society to new heights. Right now, the entire genre is in trough of unimaginative, vacuous current-day allegory. Most published work is entirely wrapped up in gender, sex, race, and labor politics. Everything is a stand-in for current political movements and figures, where the setting may as well be set-dressing. No curiosity, no prescience, no fundamental philosophical questioning.

My only reprieve is that sci-fi short story omnibuses contain maybe 20-30% true sci-fi that's exactly what I'm searching for. But buying a print novel off the shelf got to the point where it was wasting my money. And I can only re-read the classics so much.

Waiting for the "sci-fi was always current-day allegory!" sophomorists to flood the comments.
Unfortunately the minimum android version is Android 11
I think you're ignoring the hundreds of higher-end brands that are trying to appeal to people like us. Some are still shit, some are, by all possible accounts, actually amazing.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

Very entertaining sci-fi. I tore through it a a couple of days.
searching on the ios or mac app store, or sharing a link to the app download page, is not exactly hard to adopt most of the time.

Gen Z might think so but that’s because we’ve conditioned them to expect everything in a browser IMO, not because it’s actually complicated.

“no large binaries”, i agree browsers have an advantage here - somewhat. Most apps have large binaries because software development today is lazy. Companies typically use huge libraries for EVERYTHING and then their final binary gets bloated. For example 90% of apps (excluding games) could be 30mb or less. Stuff like analytics and user tracking, advertising libs, the list goes on.

Who says a native app can’t be collaborative? You can use http or websockets in a native app to push/pull data. That’s like saying social media apps aren’t collaborative.

I do agree some web apps are well executed. Figma is pretty good. Google docs and google maps are excellent. I have a few more that i genuinely enjoy using. That’s the _exception_ though.
Benjamín Labatut - The Maniac, a novelized biography about the mathematician and computer science pioneer John von Neumann.

The story of his life was absolute fascinating for me, unfortunately the last part of the book attempts a connection with the development of Alpha Go / reinforcement learning that should have been avoided.
Cracking Playfair Ciphers (2023)
I don’t think it will work as long as women have access to information and literally anything else to do in life other than making endless babies. I fear there will be a push against women’s freedom of choice, once things become dire enough that can’t be patched with immigration.

It’s just a huge opportunity loss if you talk to any young woman, and they’re obviously right. There is no tangible benefit to have more than two children other than “for the humanity!”.
The git hash is not an incrementing number. The date is not strongly tied to the actual code used in the build either. If I gave you a list of these TrunkVer numbers you couldn't tell me which ones are compatible, and neither can any package manager.

Package managers only work well with SemVer. They try to accept other schemes but anything but SemVer is an antipattern because of the inherent difficulties in figuring out what is actually going to satisfy a dependency.
Power hasn't been a problem in racing for decades now. All the major racing circuits, from F1 to NASCAR, have power limits in some form. It's maintaining ground contact that's hard.

There was an electric dragster, the Lead Wedge, in 1969.[1] It was really crude but performed OK. There was enough unhappiness about an electric doing so well that the sponsoring battery company didn't do it again. Their main customer was auto companies.

The fastest motorcycle is currently an electric.[2] Somebody took it up to Alice's Restaurant above Woodside and drove Skyline on it. Which is a scary thought, if you know the area.

[1] https://www.hotrod.com/features/batteries-and-a-salt-februar...

[2] https://newatlas.com/lightning-ls218-review-ls-218/36470
> Mining towns die when the resource is exhausted. They go fast.

In Nevada/Eastern California there was a railroad that went from the Carson City area down toward Owen’s Lake.

The interesting part is if you look at the railroad map, pretty much none of the stops exist anymore. It’s a long string of communities that are all long gone from the eastern Owen’s Valley.

Even the eventual highways that were to follow ended up coming down the western side of the valley, yet more reason for those late communities to no longer exist.

And it’s pretty much all gone. No ghost towns, maybe a few overgrown foundations remnants.

But if you had never seen this railroad map, you’d probably never have any idea this land was occupied at all.
Strongly agree. Peopleware 1987 [1]

> The first chapter of the book claims, "The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature". The book approaches sociological or 'political' problems such as group chemistry and team jelling, "flow time" and quiet in the work environment, and the high cost of turnover

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project...
Google's Speculation on Apple's Advertising Ambitions
Which is why I'd just as soon we waited a few extra decades before landing people on Mars. We're chock full of bacteria and they will surely get out. Unlike robots we can't be sterilized.

Once we can be certain that there is no native life, go nuts. Until then it's an irreplaceable bit of data.
USAF computer security technology planning study: memory safety bugs in 1972 [pdf]
Resources:

https://news.mit.edu/2013/mit-releases-swartz-report-0730

https://swartz-report.mit.edu/

https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...

http://www.aaronsw.com/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/celebrating-life-aaron...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/aaron-swartzs-politi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUt5gjqNI1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OhyBJxg9RA
Wow criticizing Israel gets you suspended?!
Grendel by Gardner (so playful and creative), Jane Eyre (a classic with wonderful language and intense story), Sapiens (extraordinarily interesting survey of human history)
I just searched for modern images of Smithfield market, and what on earth is that ghastly awning they've bolted onto that beautiful historic (presumably Victorian) facade?

For example: https://dm1igrl0afsra.cloudfront.net/AcuCustom/Sitename/DAM/...
The article doesn't claim that 'nature finds lovely balances if we just get out of the way'. It says

>> Over time, Clements’ more sweeping theories were picked apart by fellow botanists. The stable, permanent climax communities he had theorised proved elusive: field studies continued to find ecosystems passing through unpredictable cycles of collapse, regeneration, divergence and stasis. Today, this deterministic version of succession theory is seen as widely debunked. But Clements’ vision endured in the popular imagination – sometimes to the frustration of ecologists.

...

>> To harness the full environmental possibilities offered by the great abandonment will require changing our conception of humanity’s relationship to nature, and understanding how our species can benefit ecosystems as well as harm them. It will also require human intention: neglect alone is not enough
Also read it this year - very good.
They are planning to enforce access to these sites with the same mechanism.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/consultation-cooperation...
It's just a first one, there are more books in Bobiverse series.
I thought this was going to be about people buying less air fryers.
Some politics books I've read or re-read this year:

Fall Out - Tim Shipman, on of his astonishingly detailed quartet on Britain's exit from the EU;

Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli, magisterial yet readable;

Boris Johnson's memoir Unleashed, great fun if you like his tone;

Colonialism, a Moral Reckoning, Nigel Biggar, an antidote to the more ahistorical versions of the BLM narrative.

The Notebook - A history of thinking on paper, Roland Allen - a joyful romp through the notebook's history;

Elusive - How Peter Higgs solved the mystery of Mass, Frank Close - a nice account of the discovery of the Higgs Boson, with perhaps too much biography of Higgs, who after all as a lecturer at Edinburgh was not a thrill-seeker.

Carlo Rovelli's White Holes, implausible but beautifully written.
Best one was Something Happened by Joseph Heller (Catch 22 guy). Worst one was 1Q84 by Murakami (so far).
You can also look through the "YC Search"/Algolia links to see both commentary from people who knew Aaron and/or papers / links / etc to things about him: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=aaron+swartz
Great series. I still think about Archimedes often.
Thanks! A couple of these are new to me.
> There are two futures, both bad.

Or, more likely, people are extrapolating from current trends, and those trends won’t hold. Not that long ago, people were doing that extrapolation and deciding that overpopulation and worldwide famine were in our future. “The Population Bomb” was a bestselling book along those lines.

The population is likely to shrink, easing strain on resources, and people will look back fondly on “the good old days” when folks had big families. Trends will shift and the population will grow again.
This is your 4th comment claiming this: it's not true.

You're right that Ruby uses tags, ex. Objective-C does also and has for a while.

The innovation here is its a tag without the tag bits. That's why its self-tagging, not tagging.
In theory. In practice, it’s a plagiarism machine.

If they didn’t need the large dataset why did they use it?

And honestly I think you need to provide more proof of your assertion since it’s so far off of the status quo lived experience of AI. I ask ChatGPT about product specifications and other specific search engine-like queries like that and I get accurate answers. If there’s no big dataset where is that information coming from? Nothing is being generated, I’m getting regurgitated product specs and reviews when I ask for them.
The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes. Pretty good book. I used to be a bleeding heart liberal with pro social justice (read: pro affirmative action) sentiments, but he makes a compelling case against it. Also, it's very well written and fun to read
Sure seems like we ought to be more aggressive about this whole anthropogenic climate collapse problem

Like maybe problems like vast swaths of the world becoming both less livable and less arable all at once is somewhat to blame for all the refugee crises?

Not to be "political" or whatever
Considering that programing and tools used for it are not for computers but humans, and that apart from most trivial things more than one people is necessary to make something that work on/with computer(s), it is no surprise that SE is much more social science than many would like to admit or feel comfortable with, over-emphasizing its natural science part to the level of failure eventually (on the product level aimed at addressing needs of the people). Probably because social sciences are very fluid and much less reliable than natuaral sciences, so we have an inner tendency avoiding the social bit, or handling it on a very primitive level? I do not know, this is a feeling. So much focus on atomic details of technology yet the group effort of the product is still rubbish too many times.
I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom - Jason Pargin. It’s about what happens when individually radicalized people collide.
I switched to samurai for the few things I have that still used ninja; it's an improvement in every possible way.

But regardless, I think those kinds of build systems are just wrong. What I want from a build system is to hash the content of all the transitive inputs and look up if it exists or not in a registry.
That’s very funny. Good one.
Hm... the examples look nice, but there are several examples that render graphics and/or text on a canvas. How about demonstrating more complex controls, e. g. list views?
Hah! Awesome post. I have to say my favorite as a kid was the white radar screen with the "38" on it. Maybe I should have gone into UX?
737 Max on MSFS '24 – Real Examiners React [video]
In a model. Which is the "in mice" equivalent in climate science. But heh, I like a new version of Sim City as much as anyone else.
So your argument is that hackernews is similar to TikTok and instagram?

I completely disagree.

The core of HN is not self promotion, narration, or comparison - the very things driving teen suicides up from social media use.

I further suggest most of the replies to my original comment are willfully ignoring the data the Australian govt is citing for these bans, and what psychologists worldwide are citing.

None of the discussion here so far even touches on a possible solution to a problem that is driving measurable deaths.

Instead we have a collection of false equivalence and abdication of social responsibility by big tech, which is fairly on brand for hn and frankly intellectually lazy from my perspective.
Partially agree, partially disagree. Won’t get into it.

I enjoyed your comment though! It’s food for thought
Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen. It's a short book, with second-by-second description of the unfolding of a research-based hypothetical nuclear war that starts with North Korea launching an ICBM towards the United States. Alarming (as only the facts about the parlous state of detection and defence can alarm) and edifying in one.
Lots of dupes of this one today

107 points/50 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264668

88 points/38 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264789
That all makes sense, but is it really that easy for an attacker to add keys? If so, the entire thing seems a little silly.
Most of the groups I work with use Signal or Jitsi...so it really depends upon the group you're working with. We never use Zoom!
Programming exercises are fine, but they should be relevant to the job, ergo a down-to-earth real-world problem, without any element of deceit. Also, they should not be the primary reason for hiring someone.
Even robots cannot be sterilized; we've likely already infected Mars with some form of life. (Although, it's not likely that it's gonna spread far - it's a wildly hostile world.)
How do you propose to keep watermark-free models out of the hands of evildoers? I can't build my own digital camera or laser printer, but I can certainly write software.
A single step from liquid hydrogen production to safety valve testing
> Are LLMs actually good at music recommendation?

As far as I can tell, the only thing actually any good at music recommendation is (some) humans.
Firefighter Zen by Hersch Wilson

Nine lies about work by Marcus Buckingham

How to know a person by David Brooks
I finally read Nabokov's Pale Fire. It is far and away the best book I have ever read. I think about it multiple times a week unprompted and I'm sad because I am certain that I will never find another book like it.
> Some things need preserving.

Mostly because modern cities only allow the most boring, safe things to be built. Less people would be whining if it was possible to build a thriving market like this elsewhere in the city, where it still makes economic sense. But there's probably a billion rules and therefore capital/political requirements where it's impossible. So the only contenders will be a bigco shopping market on the bottom floor of a condo building.

Open, chaotic markets with multiple small vendors is too risky (and too much fun) for modern top-down urban planners... so people see the only solution is to cling on to the dwindling past when that was still possible.
Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures
That or they just didn't dimension well their prices and now it's biting them back.

I prefer to assume naivety over malice/negligence.
I only read two books. Lost in Maths by Sabine Hossenfelder, and Nuclear War A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Both were worthwhile. I want to read more.
Different packages demanding overly specific versions is an antipattern. I know you're bound to say, why not build more often? The trouble is that every package build probably needs testing, and there could be hundreds of individual dependencies that interact. Generally you cannot or at least would prefer to not have an application depend on multiple versions of a single package. Without SemVer it is very hard to find a solution.

Even if you use CI to do all your builds, this scheme only really works if you're willing to build everything just because one thing updated its dependency. There is no concept of stability or long-term testing with TrunkVer. It's basically only suitable for a specific type of application and environment. It is not suitable for libraries.

>use a monorepo, where dependencies on libraries don't have versions, they are just relative paths

This is only an answer if there is one consumer of this repo and one major product. When a monorepo contains libraries, it is also the sole consumer of the libraries.
Empire World
An amazing read that really opened my eye to the legacy of empire

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empireworld-British-Imperialism-Sha...
You want us to do your research for you?
I've always seen it as a "candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long" type thing.

Like, if you want a car to still be roadworthy in 20 years, how often do you drive it? Not never, not all the time. You want the little old lady who takes it to the shop once a week.
I’m a huge fan of the Miryoku layout/configuration. Structurally, you can use whatever standard base layer you want (I prefer Dvorak), but with quick access to modifier keys and additional layers.

https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku
C) SEO consulting for the occult
https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2007/10/inside_the_ontario_...

> The whole operation is overseen by the Ontario Food Terminal Board.. $8 million of expenses... with a revenue rate exceeding that by $1 million, the operation is profitable, self-sustaining and receives no government support or preferential treatment despite its status as an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.. Some of those that operate here are among the wealthiest families in Canada.. The thirty-year leases held by the most powerful grocers in the city are renewable in perpetuity, privileging a small number of family-owned businesses that have kept a tight hold on their terminal rights for over three generations. The business is so robust, and the leases are so sought after, that each one is estimated to be worth over a million dollars in annual economic returns.
I walk past/through Smithfields regularly. It's... nice? Ok it's not nice, it' uniquely London but it's just a pretty run down area in the middle of much nicer areas. But the plan was never to keep it, the plan was to knock it down and tell the people who had been working there to go work in Dagenham. So in my view this is no difference. That area of London just doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a meat market anymore, and while you can preserve the buildings you can't preserve a set of businesses that look sillier and sillier by the day. At some point you have to ask what you're actually preserving, because "Smithfields Market (rebuilt in Dagenham in 2025)" isn't really that historical.
Read that one too. Chilling.
As a customer of Linode, I feel like I'm getting a lot, maybe too much, for the money I pay.

For $5 per month, I have a CPU running continuously near 100% utilization, training and retraining L1/L2/L3-CPU-cache-resident transformers, looking for patterns in futures and options markets.

This kind of extreme resource utilization is becoming more common, and these businesses have to adapt to stay profitable.

I expect Linode to change the price on me, eventually.
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

Paul Richard Halmos
Desires also accumulate… and they can also have ‘critical levels’?
Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property
Reentry by Eric Berger. It came out in October. It's a follow up to his book Liftoff from 2021. Great books for space nerds. Makes me really admire what Space X has accomplished while also eliminating any desire I had to work for them.
FWIW the CM4 exposed a PCIe lane and could be configured with an NVME SSD (that did not use USB
What are some examples of applications people are running that:

1. Require 20TB of bandwidth / month

2. That bandwidth can't be shielded by Cloudflare and others?

Is it like... real time video streaming? Gaming servers? I can't imagine a web app getting anywhere close to that.

I run a mid sized NFT art creation website that generates both images and GIF's (https://mintables.club) and with over 100000 users at peak, it only needed about 1.5TB of bandwidth.
There are 5 Bobiverse books, all of which are marvelously read by Ray Porter on audiobook if you listen in the car on long, long drives like I do.

The 5th book is an "audiobook only" release until January 2025 (I think) called, "NOT TILL WE ARE LOST".

And the Bobiverse series has recently been optioned to Universal!

http://dennisetaylor.org/status-of-things/
Flatland 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott
A Rust-inspired Go wrapper for the Oniguruma Regex library