skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe my Enron stock will rise above $0.00?
When you release an open source project you are not obligated to provide tech support.

My project might be given to you for free but if you want my time you'll have to pay for it - and i get to decide if i'll sell it to you.
Neither of those lead to a need to scale. Those are enabling factors, at best.
The links between a giant of investigative journalism and US Government
I was talking about inefficiencies due to "free market" optimization being a mere heuristic that finds local optima rather than global ones. So it can be completely rational for individual customers to be basing their purchasing around such a dynamic, to the point where even adding some energy (eg investment capital) can't get the optimization unstuck, while still having longstanding structural inefficiencies when looking at the larger scale.
more or less ironic than the official name of their northern neighbor, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea?
Random story: I went to the first ever digital imaging and technology film program to run in Canada, first cohort, 20+ years ago. There was one dude in our class that, in spite of the fact that our program didn't allow analog submissions, shot super16 all the time for his "personal projects and art", fine. So he kinda bothered me a bit, but did inspire me to, for the first, time grade my film to look like analog. I sucked all the contrast out, flattened it down and split toned it heavily. Submitted it to class and got the top grade for it. The guy was furious and went to the teacher to complain I shouldn't have submitted film, teacher came back to me to confirm I'd just graded it to look like film, and then told the dude my submission was accepted and my grade stood, but didn't tell him I shot it digital, so the guy goes and submits a 16mm short for his final because he thought I got away with it, ha.

After I graduated, I stuck to the all digital stuff and a couple of folks from my program and I went on to start a film company, and win 3 Emmy awards, over the years I was still in film I saw people bring various analog film things to set to try and see if they could somehow include it, be it some film type, some vintage light panel or whatever, but it was always just fad, there was a period of time everyone brought 35 to set just to "see if we could fit it in later" - it never got cut in, it was too difficult to match it to the digital.

It was always a fad bringing film to set, but those that did, I always admired they wanted to make that statement, no matter how foolish they seemed to many on set, I always appreciated the art they brought to the table.

I recently bought a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P5 with a broken back screen, honestly I've had so much fun with it, I went out with my wife this last weekend, left the phone at home and brought the Sony, had a blast looking at the frames when I got home, do recommend it.

Sorry for this random ass post, just this is my fav kinda HN content :D
If you see a tenant starting to complain, like that one who’s been in your building for years, then sometimes the "best" (but evil) thing to do is just milk 'em for all they’re worth. You jack up the rent—ten times what they’re paying now. They ain't got no choice. Ain’t no place for them to go, so you just squeeze every penny outta ‘em. It’ll take ‘em years to find a new spot, so you got plenty of time to take all that cash in one big lump. And once you’ve wrung ‘em dry, you just tell 'em, 'Thanks for your business,' and throw 'em out. Nothing personal, kid. Just how the game’s played.
Thanks for voicing my bitterness
That's not nearly disruptive enough. I'm raising seed rounds for HackerRV - a high end, compact RV rentals for knowledge workers that does away with the need for houses. Starlink comes standard, with additional subscriptions available for showers at aelect locations, and mail delivery addresses. Our previous venture (BackyardBnB) was scuttled by literal NIMBYs.
One could argue the US entering into WW2 is imperialism. Von Braun and a large number of other highly skilled and important people came from that, which directly migrated German rocket and Spacecraft innovation to the US.

How is that not arguably imperialism related?
Probably because everybody is convinced they can beat entropy with math
Working through the equations, and then building a working machine from it, is very educational.
South Korean Lawmakers Vote to Defy President, Demanding an End to Martial Law
The business in question isn’t hoarding domains. Customers explicitly request their domain and they register it for them. That’s it. The customers can also transfer their domains out and set DNS entries like they would with any webhost.

They’re not reselling or licensing out domains.
You are right. We were unaware of Stryker's Vocera prominence when we chose the name. Healthcare voice agents are a huge space. We have 6 clients in healthcare already.

We will discuss and evaluate the name internally to avoid confusion or potential issues. Thanks a lot for your feedback
Or they can disrupt the actual middleman, which is the property owners. The land is there regardless of who owns it, it turns out.
Last time I checked, access to the national assembly palace was being blocked :
https://bsky.app/profile/sung-il-kim.com/post/3lcfskluuwc26

Any idea how and why it was unblocked ? Anyone with more context ?

EDIT: This is the first I cannot think of any reason for getting a downvote... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Martial law declared in South Korea
Your link doesn't work
Agreed, I had to quit because of weird things like this. A little sad because the aesthetic drew me in right away and it was fun to start. Still, nice work, fun little break, hopefully they fix those issues and make it a little more fun
With enough light all cameras look great
No I was just lazy.
> The large majority of folks were still running straight MS-DOS.

My recollection is by 1994, Windows 3.1 was everywhere. My school had literally dozens of computers running it. It was on every PC at my father’s work. We had several computers in our house and they all ran it except the 286 we used to play games (which my dad ended up giving to his brother, since it was a big upgrade to the 8086 he’d been using to run WordStar)

At home we didn’t run Windows 3.1 full-time, we’d exit to DOS to play games. But we’d use Microsoft Word to write assignments for school.

I dual-booted into OS/2 2.0 because I was really into computers. Nobody else in the house knew what to do with it, and I didn’t know anyone else who ran it. After a while OS/2 got replaced by Slackware, and nobody else knew what to do with that either.
Whether people are more easily fooled by dell.shop dell.computershop.com is a non sequitur from the rather wordy disquisition about why people fall for the scams in general. The eye sees dell first in clear letters for both urls. Their sick relative doesn’t change much here. I would honestly not be sure if either is a scam for the url alone. The improbable deal at the other end is the only meaningful signal.
If you aren’t interested in the post, what compelled you to click into the comments and tell everyone about it instead of just ignoring it?
Both of them are lawnmowers.

They are looking to extract the maximum amount of money possible. I'd argue that Broadcom could extract more money with smaller uplifts but I think they are also looking to consolidate their customer base. Some of these crazy numbers may be doing just that - saying that these people aren't wanted as customers anymore.
Not really, React doesn't do "one thing [well]", it's responsible for:

- UI rendering

- State management

- Component lifecycle

- Event handling

- Data flow

- JSX templating

In that sense React truly is a comprehensive UI framework, not a single-purpose library.
Counter-examples of "do one thing well" are Lodash and Axios.
Walmart Acquires Vizio
Walmart completes the acquisition of Vizio.
Which is easy to do when you enter at the end and capture the highest skill scientists.
Also with perfect pitch you hear when things are even a tiny bit out of tune (and this will annoy you!) even if everything is just fine relatively speaking and you're the only one of 500 musically trained people who is even capable of noticing.
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I worked with AngularJS back in 2014-15 and it was hell. We used to regularly have accidental performance dips because of the way it reacted to changes in values. IIRC it used to do two scans of all variables in all the controllers on many browser events, one for checking if something had changed and updating everything else and one for checking if the previous check changed anything that would require further updates. I don't remember the specifics now cause it's been so long but it got really costly really fast for complex applications (we were building real time WebRTC telephony interfaces). React was so much better because it came with restrictions on what changes were being checked and Angular was a total rewrite in Typescript with heavy performance improvements over AngularJS. The virtual DOM stuff truly was a revelation over everything everyone else was doing at the time.
Glad you like it and really curious to hear your experience with it. :)
I always feel like these HTMX examples just shift complexity to other parts of the stack. JSX is a really elegant way to avoid templating, but we're back to templating with HTMX, and you can easily reintroduce a complex set of libraries just trying to handle that with any scale.

Routing, state management, auth, components, theming, API access, and more are all still problems that people add libraries for and those problems don't go away just because you've abandoned the ecosystem with the most libraries.
Sound of traffic increases stress and anxiety, study finds
> And then you can work to punish malicious actors in Silicon Valley who violate important investing norms.

That's a pretty generous way of framing it. It's not like this was a concerted effort to protect all small start ups or change employment law to protect founders from legal action from former employers. The article pretty clearly posits that it was a retaliatory exercise of power that was executed to serve the interests of YC. I would argue that the kinds of anticompetitive tactics described in this article are not economically healthy and are thus ethically, if not legally wrong.
In my experience the merge commit is simply a reference to the PR, which has all the context. The title of the PR is effectively the commit summary.
Feedback taken. Thanks for your input. Definitely we will evaluate this
I made this handy function to pass callbacks to C: https://github.com/andoriyu/uclicious/blob/master/src/traits...
Just seeing the issue submissions can have a cost in terms of emotional impact. Of course, you can shield yourself from any feedback, but that has its costs as well (e.g. not getting genuine high-quality error reports). One has to live with those trade-offs.
The problem is that as you note, trademarks and company names are not unique, but domain names are required to be unique. So that n to 1 relationship between trademarks/names and domain names intrisically creates problem, how to allocate the domains when there are many equally legitimate pre-existing claimants. This is not solved problem the way you portray it, because domain names have this novel uniqueness requirement.

Of course this raises valid question if using names in this way at all is a good idea. For example telephone system and lots of banking stuff is based on simple numerical identifiers, and lots of countries have also some unique (numerical) identifiers for companies and persons. So there is fairly strong precedent for using assigned ids instead of names when uniqueness/specificity is required. But somehow we have jumped to the conclusion that for example IP addresses would be too confusing to average joe, and in attempt to hide them we have created even more confusing system.
It's not "old stuff is better" as much as "I'm better than you."

For a long time, that was by having sharper, higher-quality pictures. Your friend had some Kodak Instamatic and you had a Hasselblad and you could assert your dominance over them.

But nowadays, the phones in everyone's pocket take such outstandingly sharp pictures that there isn't really meaningful room for improvement. So, people now differentiate themselves by getting vintage digital cameras which are hard to find, cost extra money, break frequently, etc., so that they can demonstrate their uniqueness.
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I grew up thinking I had perfect pitch, after a youth choir director identified it and realized I could name all the notes from a random key played on the piano.

Later in life, though, I realized that sometimes my perfect pitch was... half a step off? And like the writer of the article, I was better at identifying notes from my primary instruments (in my case violin and piano) rather than from an instrument that had a much lower or higher register.

Side note: last year my family and I coded and launched Perfect Pitch Puzzle, a wordle-esque game that helps people without perfect pitch practice identifying notes by guessing the first six notes of a melody at a time. https://www.perfectpitchpuzzle.com/ New songs are still being added daily. Enjoy!
This is correct and sad.

Open source would be much better with sustainable funding models. But hard to see how this could happen in SaaS dominated modern world.
It's not like that. They buy mcnichol.com on your behalf, when you request it. They're not registering it in advance and then blackmailing you to rent it through them. Domain is yours, you can move it elsewhere (they explicitly mention that).

It's same as any other domain registrar, except that have small markup (couple of dolars per year) but they provide additional service, i.e. customer doesn't have to deal with DNS.
> So, scolding is a type of manipulation that doesn't work, let's instead use this one, which does?..

Sure. If it was a for-profit product they would arrive at the exact same conclusion for the purposes of marketing. Any serious pro-environment protestor that wants Americans to care about their movement has to market it effectively. Your movement has to be a product, something that people are afraid of missing out on lest they be a square.

It sounds horrible, yes. But this is the status quo for all environmentally harmful marketing so it also becomes the status quo for protest. I'd love to live in a country where conscious protest is considered normal, but America isn't that.

> I still find this kind of anti-Enlightenment realpolitik inherently repulsive.

It's post-enlightenment. Individual righteousness means nothing when the most important "cause" the average American can be made to care about is what the new iPhone looks like.
They are not the only ones. The company I work for uses a LOT of VMware. Mind you, VMWare has ALWAYS been expensive. To the point that in a lot of cases, you can end up spending more on VMWare than the hardware that runs it. I long ago crunched the numbers and came to the conclusion that unless your workload really does require the kind of exceptional storage, networking, and HA integration that VMware (claims to) provide, you are better off using an open source solution for your VM infra and hiring a couple of extra engineers to manage it.

When it was time for our contract to renew a few months back, our licensing and support quote was 3x the previous year and Broadcom would not budge, even a little. They said take it or leave it. Well, we left it.

There is a big internal effort now to get us off of VMware and onto Kubernetes and OpenShift. Our whole fleet of VMware is still running but we're on borrowed time as we're on our own if any major technical issue comes up.
They buy the domain their customer _wants_ them to buy. That customer is free to transfer it out if they want to. What are you going on about?
Yeah, though I have sympathies for single devs or projects like perl that are obviously non profit. Like, I get the frustrations for actual volunteers and people who survive on building OSS at a small scale.

What really annoys me is when someone decides to build a corporation around an open source project, and then you get the usual blog post around users not paying or OSS not being sustainable. Yes, using OSS as your marketing and adoption strategy is probably not very reliable and can cause users to use your OSS as if it was OSS, that is, without giving anything back. But usually those projects succeed because they are OSS, and would've had basically no users otherwise. Who would've used MongoDB, elastic search, or redis if they were proprietary and required a paid license from the get go?

In a way, that's also true in this case (success came from being OSS) but again, I get why it seems unfair for some when it's a non profit not being able to sustain itself or get contributions for corporate users.
Despite the National Assembly's resolution to end martial law, the military stated that it would remain in effect until ended by the president

>Martial law will remain until the president lifts martial law"...Armored vehicles also seen in the city center

https://m.ytn.co.kr/news_view.php?s_mcd=0101&key=20241204013...
Perhaps type providers? Sadly they didn't really take off, they work but remain a niche feature. At least I'm not aware if any other feature fits this description closer. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tutorials/ty...

Or perhaps Computation Expressions? But those are an integral part of F# and one of the key reasons why it's so flexible and able to easily keep up in many areas with changes in C# - something that require bespoke compiler modification in C# is just another CE* in F# using its type system naturally.

* with notable exception being "resumable code" which is the basis of task { } CE and similar: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-6.0...

If you want to get back to F#, it has gotten really easy to do it because .NET SDK is available in almost every distro repository (except Debian, sigh) - i.e. `brew install dotnet`/`sudo apt install dotnet9`.

I have also posted a quick instruction on compiling F# scripts to native executables in a sibling comment: https://gist.github.com/neon-sunset/028937d82f2adaa6c1b93899...
"I'm going to just go ahead and say 'based', entirely on the premise, thank you."

Is how I initially read this.
Soooo we should've seen the opposite outcome given that fact?
> No, my webapp wasn’t getting any additional benefits. I was already happy with the functionality of these packages.

Then why did you upgrade in the first place. Clearly there were no security issues (and those hardly play a role in Frontend world, especially in those library Tanstack and Wouter). It seems people just want to upgrade to the latest version, just to upgrade to the latest version without any benefit.

I do .NET development, and I skip major versions all the time, instead of upgrading every year.
That's why it is called write-only language. Single job scripts, yes. Team work, no.
Nice! I've got a whole basement full of computer stuff from the late 1970s until a few years ago, probably time to put some of that stuff up on eBay!
I agree, hence my idea about resurrecting oVirt (see up thread). Red Hat are all-in on Kubernetes, which is the wrong model for pet VMs, but a better model for gitops stuff.
Graphite speeds up code review by 40x with Claude
Disagree. No stable release of Debian today supports c++23 which is coming up on two years old at this point (this corresponds to a major Rust edition, not the minor stuff they publish on an ongoing basis every month).

Java in Bookworm installs JDK 17 which is three years old at this point. Java itself is on 23 with 21 being an LTS release.

This means that upstream users intentionally maintain an old toolchain just to support Debian packaging or maintain their own deb repo with newer tools.

You’re confusing cause and effect. People aren’t migrating because Debian packaging lags so badly, not because there aren’t improvements projects would love to otherwise use.
I honestly like my photos more from my iPhone 3 than my current iPhone SE. The photos were blurry, noisy, and crunchy while my current photos are just flat and without character. It's not nostalgia for me, it's the photos looking too good and a bit plastic.
" if you could live in blissful pure-F# land"

Yep. I love F# too, wish I could stay in blissful F# land.

Wish MS would just release a .NET re-done in F#? Huge task, with no payback. But would be nice.
Marvell Nabs a Big Multi-Year Multi-Product Win at AWS – ServeTheHome
Off-topic, but I have tried to build (in Java/Swing, sorry I am old) a piano keyboard where ALL the keys are white. [so you keep the same chord patterns, whatever the tonality you want to play in].
With the small keys of a computer keyboard, that is much easier to pack the 12 tones on a single keys row, reachable by all fingers of both hands.
(whereas this one will probably eventually wreck your wrists: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/piano/s...)
Anyone knows if someone else has worked on something similar?
Aurora DSQL – A New Boring(?) AWS Serverless Postgres Compatible Database
What I've been hearing from others is that Broadcom wants to extract the most money possible from their top 10% of customers and shed the rest.

That said, even AT&T is jumping ship: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/broad...

To think that the migration away from VMWare would cost $40-50m but have a "very quick payback" presumably means that AT&T is a gigantic customer paying a ton of money, so if they're not in the top 10% contracts worth keeping then who is?
I'm not against software subscriptions, but $2/mo is pretty expensive for an alternative to an app that already comes on your phone.
Perl used to, but I'd say not anymore at this point.

Many of the big Perl names long moved on; CPAN is full of abandoned modules. And the world doesn't sit still.

So as time goes by, there's more and more risk of you finding out that some Perl module you're using no longer works. It may not build because of API changes in the C library, or the API of some web service changed, or there isn't an API at all for some pretty big thing that showed up 3 years ago.

That didn't use to be the case.
I've run into this with nostalgia-toys and board games. Modern "reprints" usually suck, even if they superficially look the same.

Loopin' Louie? The modern one's lighter and has a weaker motor, even if the original was never exactly greatest-games-of-all-time material, the modern one's just non-functional.

Rock 'em sock 'em robots? Weaker punches, plastic's lighter, new models are often smaller. They suck compared to vintage ones.

Hell even soda bottles are kinda like this. Those things used to be thick and you could re-use them for all kinds of stuff.

It seems like at some point around the late '90s and early '00s we got a ton better at precisely optimizing plastic use in mass manufacturing processes, and all plastic products got somewhere between a little, and a lot, worse, because manufacturers could make them just barely thick enough to not fall apart. Good for waste on the one hand, for disposable things, so that hits "reduce" at the expense of making "re-use" a lot worse. But also makes non-disposable things so shitty they become disposable (often because they suck so bad to begin with that you're gonna toss them out after one use)