skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no rustacean but to me it looks like start() in https://github.com/trailbaseio/trailbase/blob/main/trailbase... consumes a file and returns a database connection. If it were to step into the file and seek out an embedded file system I suspect that function would look different.
I'm not talking about message editing but rather posting new messages with a backdated time.
There just needs to be a script version, and people will really get confused.
In most cases residential buildings are not the original target, some rockets/drones just miss, some get shot down and fall wherever. It happens to the both sides of the front line, btw. Not to downplay the humanitarian catastrophe that is the current war on Ukraine, but it's just a war, no need to add drama, there's more than enough as it is.
The pharma ads are bribes to news stations not to report on them (via being a major funding source for their parent conglomerate).
Some ways I've tackled this:

For hardware, don't even begin to build it until it's fully designed. That sucks the fantasy and freedom away.

Build it to throw away. I built a boat, sailed it a few times, then abandoned it on the beach. That attitude helped me quickly make a useful thing not obsess over perfection.

Have small milestones where it's OK to stop at. I have a few projects that are in service but nowhere near complete to my original fantasy. They're still useful enough.
https://www.theverge.com/subscribe only has a monthly and annual option, and it doesn't look like either of them is "no ads"? The annual one is just cheaper and has some magazine?
all "bot detection" systems prevents zero bots. they just ensure that people or bot will be monetized by ads without vendor (i.e. the advertiser paying the ad network) will not contest the ad impression.

the surveillance is just a side effect.
What do you gain from hunting civilians? [1] [2]

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/31b630b3-2639-456c-ba50-3caea7a9b...

[2]: https://archive.ph/v5qeA
Humanities expelled from key New Zealand research funding scheme
Why Do Open Source App Have Bad UI?
The admin UI is not good, text is overlapping everywhere, and want to see how you show relations in the UI, for me this is the first thing I look for in any DB UI
I suspect many folks here enjoy the minimalist Hacker News UI but I, for one, really enjoy what you've put together. It somehow makes me more interested in checking out stories/posts I might have otherwise skipped on the normal UI. I'll give this a spin day-to-day.

What are your plans for this project?
The best part? Obamacare drew a ton of inspiration from the Massachusetts healthcare plan that was implemented by Mitt Romney, an effing Republican.
> In my young head it didn't compute with the weekly sectarian violence and suicide attacks.

I had a similar confusion as a kid, but for me it was how Ireland and Northern Ireland were portrayed in the news — I was 14 when the Good Friday Agreement was signed.
The administrative segments that decide to sell their firstborn to Microsoft all have their heads in the clouds. They'll pay Microsoft to steal their data and resell it and they'll defend their decisions making beyond their own demise.

As such Microsoft is doing the right choice in outright stealing data for whatever purpose. It will have no real consequences.
Because they want to make you do stuff that is not in your best interest. They want to create a need that you don't actually have, and they do so by applying psychological pressure. They are a festival of fomo. They're pollution for your mind and distort your sense of reality.

In a knowledge economy your attention is your highest commodity, and ads want to take all of it.

One of the strongest rules I have for my household is that my children don't see any ads. I pay for Netflix, Youtube, and Spotify and use adblockers on all devices. And my tv is not connected to anything that can deliver flow tv - the biggest mindrot of all.
There is no “no ad” tier. It’s full ads and reduced ads only
What would happen if Russia attacked these power plants directly? Are they built to "fail safe" even when hit by a missile, or is there a big risk of nuclear meltdown?
Less time than most major building projects tend to get delayed =P
I think inequality manifests itself in two different ways. One is the one you describe, and I agree, meh.

But the other is perhaps the disconnect between median wealth growth and GDP growth. It appears in the West increase in economic prosperity is disproportionately growing just in the top decile (loosely speaking). But you still have everyone else - doctors, builders, teachers, garbage collectors - who do essential work and have to feel part of that growth to put an effort, which everyone needs. The society can't afford them "silent quitting".

It's not that it's fine to be upset that someone else has a private jet and I don't. It's the disconnect between GDP growth and stagnation or decay in standard of living for the median citizen. It's more like, why should I work harder and harder for a mythical GDP growth that seems to go to someone else's pocket, while public services are going to shit.

UK is seeing this. Economic outlook is somewhat grim, but the UK is not officially in recession. But for most of the society, their personal economic situation seems to be getting worse.

The only way I cna square these observations is that due to inequality, the top bit is growing and the bottom bit ain't. And that is IMHO unsustainable.
> very eager junior developer

Not only that, but one who is infected with terminal Dunning-Kruger syndrome. Of all the things that LLMs are great at, demonstrating a hopeless case of Dunning-Kruger has to be at the very top.
Terror.
its very hard to host it, there is no official docker compose file
But what's wrong with caring about Ukrainian children?
> if a group is more likely to commit fraud (maybe due to culture, religion, social status, wealth level, etc), and the system takes these into account so that it disproportionately negatively affects such group, is it being biased?

Who gets to define what the group is?

If the system sees that members of Reformed Baptist Church of God are more likely to commit fraud, but can't distinguish between the good members who follow the reformation of 1879, while it's the heretics who follow the reformation of 1915 who are committing all the fraud, then yes, it's a problem.

(Examples drawn from https://kozar.stanford.edu/EmoPhillips.html .)
If you don't allow the client to specify the time they sent the messages, then anyone who has a poor connection is going to be subject to an annoying behaviour where their messages are constantly going out of the intended order during busy conversations.
Henley and Partners Passport Index – passports aren't equal
Heck, if online ads didn't move around and pop up in front of the screen, less people would block them. But the reality is that companies are too greedy, and will never draw the line and say "this is enough" . I can't afford to subscribe to the dozens of sites I glance at everyday for 2 minutes. Quite frankly as someone that grew up with the "old" internet, I don't like the idea of paying for every single site I use. It feels like making every road a toll road.
> Most companies do not offer a reduced ad load in exchange for your subscription money.

At least in Germany, this has changed quite a lot. The publishers are naming the offers "Pur Abo" or similar.

This is not perfect as one analysis[0] is showing, but for me, on the good way.

[0]: https://netzpolitik.org/2020/nicht-ganz-ohne/ (in German)

Edit: Added German analysis of these offers.
> RFC #1 was basically a one-pager

You have a strange notion of “one-pager”. It’s eleven pages; strip headers, footers, excess blank lines, table of contents, and three diagrams, and it’s still over 300 lines (some 70 blank) and 2000 words.
it's funny this toy seems to exist only since 2010, i used to have something very similar around 1991, 1992
It’s finally happened, people are typo’ing closure as clojure, instead of the other way around!

For the topic at hand isn’t this always a problem with deployment systems? You need to have the secret somewhere after all. In my case I only ever use nix for personal systems, so feel totally justified just storing my ssh key as a secret in yadm.
Nitpick from a former partial Everest climber. The ratio of deaths to summit successes used to be about 5% but the majority of climbers, including me, turn around before getting there.

I think the death ratio is down now there are pretty much fixed ropes the whole way to the summit on the south side. The 'Into Thin Air' deaths were because they lost their way in a storm but now you just clip onto the guide rope and walk up/down.

The attempt to death ratio is probably more like 0.5% or 0.2% though there aren't really proper figures on number of attempts.
Big risk of nuclear meltdown...
I think the github page is not selling it that well, for a sysadmin I can see this being very useful for a couple of tasks:

- analyse long log files and find that one needle in the haystack that's causing an issue in production

- if you have version control on configuration files it could analyse changes on configurations and explain what's the effect of applying that change before it's applied

- debugging firewall rules, networking issues or iptable, in general basically chatting with configuration files while maintaining the conversation grounded on the files content could be very useful

- a long running debugging session where multiple iterations are needed to solve the same problem and the tool is suggesting next commands and steps with the goal of investigating a root cause for the issue
Agree. We will be probably designing projects differently and use different tools in order to make them more manageable by AI code assistants.
If planetary albedo is more easily manipulated than CO2, this could be a powerful avenue for remediation.
Technically, it's causing jealousy, not unhappiness (directly). If we choose (as you intuitively understand) to let jealousy reside in our consciousness, we will become unhappy as a result of living in our lower selves. We should, instead, be focusing on the better aspects of our lives, including living on this wonderful world, in this awesome universe.

We are each tested with either more or less than others. If we have been given more, we are to be generous; if less, we are to refuse to be jealous.

All that said, flying around in private jets is horrible for the environment, and is, therefore, a detriment to us all, so it will be they who will become unhappy for spraying jet fuel byproducts all across the Earth while they're galavanting around. Sure, they might ignore it while they're pleasure-seeking, but karma is "patient like a spider, a Zen spider" (from Gibson's Neuromancer), and we all reap what we sow, whether for our selfishness or selflessness. It is always our choice, every day.
have done that already :(
Ads are aggressions, not an entry ticket. The proof is that even paywalled service still serve ads. And the whole point of that blog post was to talk about ads served to paying users. Apparently some people just want to comment without actually knowing what they are talking about.

Hiring a bodyguard seems like the right solution if you are regularly at risk of aggression.
I know naming a project is difficult so please don’t take offence when I write my first thought on reading the name trailbase and thinking “why would a project that wants to lead with speed name itself for moving slowly?” I’m sure they’re thinking of the other use of trail, not meandering or dragging.
My biggest frustration right now is paying for Spotify and not getting any ads in music, but getting ads in podcasts. Not even just the ads embedded in the audio stream, which I can understand Spotify can't do much about, but Spotify actively injecting more ads into the shows.
Celebrities are in a totally different equivalence class from you; unfairness is fundamentally someone getting more of some resource than you , all else being equal. Or even worse, someone else being rewarded for work that you did.
15 years ago the battle against popup ads was already fought and won and the ad industry was trying out all kinds of other crap.
The ideological difference between the two projects really shows on their landing pages. Forgejo has a cute fox drawn by a real artist whose name is credited in the website's footer; Gitea has AI-generated images of a robot in the clouds or in a skyline (it becomes really obvious when you look close)
Unfortunately they still seem to be flooded with trackers, even if you’re a paying customer. Here’s what my firewall blocks when i browse the verge for a few seconds with my browser’s ad blocker disabled: https://ibb.co/0JpKkCJ
I am not missing the point. Rather, the point is so small as to not be financially worth it for them.

I am saying that The Verge made a business decision to balance ad load and subscriber cost to potentially bring in more subscribers.

They probably did the math and realized that charging people $15 a month would not bring in many subscribers, and that they could have charged $5 a month with regular ad load, but they found this $7 sweet spot where they could give people the best of both worlds. And the $50 model means people are more committed long-term making it more valuable for them.

I would guess that “reduced ad load” means that they would only put premium advertisers, like the stuff you would see in glossy magazines, in front of those readers.

I trust given how careful they were with rolling this out that they did the math and tried to strike a balance to please the most people.
I cannot stress enough how the whole thing reads as a parody. Like modern Jerome K. Jerome. To be given such slack by your boss where they just allow you to do "whatever whenever", while not doing a lot, and then attribute your successful bout of work evading to your "work culture". And not only that, but learning lessons from it! Learning how you must work more and better, while gradually doing less and less!

I especially enjoy the little math&physics section, where he introduces few metaphors that are never explained or used.

I really hope that this a parody. It's kinda too sad if it's not.
Exactly. Their business is to serve content which, if consumed using software in its default configuration, will give me a degraded experience. When the content has left their server and resides on my hardware, it is up to me - no, actually, it is my human right - to process it in the way I want. It is not my moral obligation to make sure that their messed up business model makes sense on a large scale. The alternative is Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 2.
I don't know if your perspective is represenative. My girlfriend's mom actually went back to Kharkiv just a few months ago after having fled. She used to be scared of rockets over head but the more it happens the more people are just used to it. My girlfriend's students (located all over the country) couldn't give a shit about it. They're completely desensitized to it. Obviously that's not true of anyone who lives near the actual front lines. That shit is a terrible nightmare and hard to even talk about. So I tend to agree with GP about localization.
Salesforce let Heroku wither and die. I don't see them sticking their toes into the dev tooling space again anytime soon.
How does this answer GP's claim that people who can't afford stuff are being bombarded with messages that make them feel inadequate and cause psychological damage?
Ah the calculator, the strawman of every maths teacher.

And yet, are we worse at math than the previous generations? I'm not so sure. Pretty quickly math becomes toying with letters and not numbers, and unless the calculator has an algebraic engine, it won't help you.

We can focus in more important aspects of math, like actually understanding the concepts. However, to me this will be worse than the calculator: LLM pretend to understand the problem, and can offer solutions. On the other hand, you don't get a calculator with a CAS until late university (if you ever get one). Calculators don't pretend to be more than what they are.

But IMHO we'll still get the benefits of calculators: let the humans focus on the difficult tasks. I don't want to write the full API scaffolding for the tenth time. I don't want to write the boilerplate for that test framework for the 15th time. LLMs are good at those tasks, let them do it!
This is probably not the Matrix we think it is.
I’ll guarantee you that it doesn’t make me feel any better to write this type of posts. I’m just exhausted by the modern web.

As for the other point you’re making, that’s complete nonsense. You don’t differentiate your revenue streams by serving a sub par product to your paying customers.

Serve those stupid ads to free users, treat your paying customers with respect.
"Accident" in the same sense as "accident of birth" not "traffic accident".
Besides Windows or gaming, there is another market for x86.

If you are interested in technical and scientific computing, but you cannot afford to spend amounts of $ written with 6 digits or much more, then x86 is the only solution.

The only Arm-based CPUs with decent performance are those made by Fujitsu, which are not available at retail.

The "datacenter" GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA are much too expensive for small businesses or individuals. Even for a bigger business their price is justifiable only when they are busy close to 24/7.

So for most people only the x86 CPUs provide an acceptable performance for computations that use either FP64 numbers or large integers.
I think the problem is it's hard to monetize such a piece of software. It would need to come from either open-source or sponsored by big tech company.

Maybe MCP is a step in that direction?

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
Very good points indeed. And it's likely to go from bad to worse here in America now that the morons have elected that lying, greedy, amoral fool.

On a minimally brighter side, one of our major healthcare companies has just changed its policies on ending anesthesia coverage mid-surgery, so we've got that going for us ;-)
>> killer drones

>> Since mid-July, Kherson and its neighbouring villages along the western side of the Dnipro river have suffered more than 9,500 attacks with small drones, killing at least 37 people and injuring hundreds more
Microsoft still recommends 15-year-old backup solution for Windows 11&10 users
Ask HN: What's everyone's experience with AI evaluation/testing tools?
Hi everyone, I was wondering what experiences people have with AI evaluators. I’ve mostly used the AI models as they are and haven’t done a lot of fine-tuning or evaluating.

What tools do people use, if any? And what benefits/issues do people have while using them?
It started before that, at least in the 1990s. I remember a movie called PCU (for Politically Correct University) that pokes fun of this phenomenon. I agree these type of cultural politics is an intentional distraction for more pressing issues like healthcare and finance. One political party pitches a new wedge issue, the other party takes a swing, and that's all the news talks about .. for years. It all seems so coordinated.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110759/
It's quite surreal when a colleague apologizes as they won't attend the daily standup bc they need to leave to get to the bomb shelter. Or another one joins the standup while working in a bomb shelter and apologizes in case their laptop runs out of juice as they're getting electricity from a generator.

While you're sitting there in your cozy office in one of the neighboring countries, and your biggest worry is that you've run out coffee beans.
> flying around in private jets is horrible for the environment

It would be more horrible for the environment (in total effect) if people could afford to do it to any significant extent. Instead, like many other activities, its total effect is trivial, but the idea of such carelessness is offensive.
Apparently they used 4.4 million cubic yards of concrete during the construction of Denver airport around 1993.

That's 3.364×10^6 m3, 1 m3 of concrete weighs 2.4 tonnes (I'm sure it varies), so roughly 8 million tonnes of concrete.

https://www.concreteconstruction.net/_view-object?id=0000015...

I'm not convinced the wood used in the Portland airport project is net negative in itself, once you factor in the emissions of harvesting, processing and transporting it. I.o.w. leaving the ugly old roof in place would probably have been better, in terms of CO2eq emitted.
Helicopters can actually fly all the way to the top. (Or rather, one did, once.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle?wprov=sfti1#Mo...
I assumed it was meant to evoke "trailblaze".
Intriguing. I know the German media market is very different from the American one—back in my D.C. days, when I was still at the WaPo Express, I met a German journalist who was working in the U.S. and I remember her explaining to me how different the rules were for promotion and social media and such.

I do think The Verge offering this could lead other U.S. publishers to follow suit, especially if it’s successful.
Sorry, I was just tacking it onto a discussion-of-the-license subthread.
Jetbrains decided to go from the Space product to a cut down Space Code product with just code review and git hosting, but then this last week announced they will be shuttering even that next year. I doubt they want to get back into the git hosting, if they did by buying GitLab, that would be odd.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baedeker_Blitz
> Also, part of the purpose is to create dilemmas for an air defense with limited resources - save the ammo factory or the children's hospital.

And how it would happen? Putin calls an AA site and tells them "tehre is two missiles your way - one for ammo factory and other for the children's hospital - it's your choice what to defend"?
They're probably both fighting at maximum capability already.

That said:

While we all know that Russia isn't fighting all of NATO, it does claim that it is fighting all of NATO.

Do they believe what they say? I don't know.

I think if Ukraine attempts Hail-Mary tactics, if you assume the hypothetical that Russia really does believe that Ukraine is only capable of such things with NATO support, it is still bad for NATO.

There's certainly Ukrainians who want nukes now, who think giving them up was a mistake. Some say it would only take them months to get nukes… and they said that months ago. If they do develop their own independent capability, and Russia just assumes it's an American or French or British nuke, that's still bad for the rest of us, even if Trump is shouting about how the USA didn't do it.
Other options are available, for instance ploughing into a village because your second stage didn't light, or, well, this: https://youtu.be/mTmb3Cqb2qw?t=16

Most of the "you'll never need programmers again!" things have ended up more "cars-showered-with-chunks-of-flaming-HTPB" than "accidentally-land-on-moon", tbh. 4GLs had an anomaly, and now we don't talk about them anymore.

(It's a terrible adage, really. "Oops, the obviously impossible thing didn't happen, but an unrelated good thing did" just doesn't happen that often, and when it does there's rarely a causal relation between A and B.)
DOS Game "Dune1" Reversing: Room and Globe Viewer
Thomas Fach-Pedersen aka madmoose from the "dune reborn" community - know for its early work on the reversing that let to the ScummVM/Blade-Runner port, pushed some of his current Dune1 reversings online

a Rust/WASM based viewer for Dune1 Rooms and a rotateable sandy Globe

Room-Viewer: https://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/dune/room/

Globe: https://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/dune/globe/

all very far from a playable game but having Blade Runner in ScummVM tooked also over a decade of reversing :)
ah, questron it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42338088