skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice classic that sticks to timeless pricniples. the nine rules are practical with war stories that make them stick. but agree that "don't panic" should be added
Theft of Fanfiction Perpetrated by Cliff Weitzman, WordStream, Speechify
Fanfiction is commonly misunderstood. In short, fanfiction is considered fair use in the US if certain variables are met, such as the work being transformative[0]. There is no precise equation between the factors involved, as it's a complex issue with decades of legal analysis[1], but if "fair use" is met, then the fanfiction writer owns the copyright for their work.

A few startups have tried monetizing the freely available fanfiction from platforms like Archive of Our Own. However, they do not seem to understand that they are in violation of copyright by monetizing these works without the consent of the fanfiction author. Fair use also takes into account commercial activities, and most fanfiction authors elect not to monetize their works as it means the other factors of fair use would be under further scrutiny.

As someone at the intersection of tech and fanfiction, I felt this was worth sharing.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1292.ZO.html
[1] https://fanlore.org/wiki/Legal_Analysis
LLMs unable to reason about cheeseburgers…
I watch youtube on a 10 years old macbook air 11, and it works flawlessly with firefox and ublock origin.
I can't see your landing page without accepting tracking cookies for "live chat"? This is probably a GDPR violation. There's no consent without choice.

I should also point out that "Docker hosting" is rather ambiguous. I had to scroll way down the page to figure out whether you are storing Docker images (like DockerHub) or running them (like ECS or fly.io).
I see it as a clash between people who are instinctually inclined towards philosophical nominalism (woke) and people who are instinctually inclined towards realism (not-woke). Dr. Nathan A. Jacobs lays out the details and the arguments for this way of defining our current culture war here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVmPIMg4St4
Extinguish is fine.
I picked some random public high school in my area (twin cities, MN). Here's some classes they offer:

> Machine Technology 1 - Increase your knowledge and skills in the use of common hand tools, engine lathes, shapers, drill presses, milling machines, and
grinders. In this class students will have hands-on experiences in elementary mechanical fundamentals and principles used in
precision manufacturing industries.

> Welding 1 - Interested in becoming a welder? Learn how to use the art of welding in artistic and industrial settings. Develop basic skills related to
safety, equipment set up, metal transfer, gas shielding and welding various types of metals. This class focuses on oxyacetylene and
gas tungsten arc welding.

> Construction Trades 1 - Interested in a career in construction or learning valuable home maintenance skills? In this course you will develop basic carpentry, metals, electricity, and pipefitting skills along with safe usage of hand and power tools applicable to each skill set.

I think there was a period (90s-2000s?) where trade skills were mostly not taught in public schools, but they're thankfully working their way back in.
That just means that CO2 emissions are actually higher than previously thought. We directly measure atmospheric CO2.
For years I have used Firefox as my daily driver, anything I work on works on Firefox. Maybe once a year my tester finds a problem w/ Chrome, if that.

Developers like myself are the thread that Firefox keeps hanging on by.
I've switched to Zen a few months ago. Apart from some very minor issues that usually get fixed in the next release, it's been working perfectly for me, and for me, the way the UI works is vastly superior to browser like Chrome or regular Firefox.
Spraying your attack into the public with hopes of hitting your target is the polar opposite of responsible. The only "good" part of this is that you were caught in the act before anyone else got hit in the crossfire.

In response, you suggest that you'll send a letter of apology to the funeral home of anyone that got hit. Compromising their credentials, even if you have "good intentions", still puts them into a compromised position and they have to react the same as they would for any other malevolent attacker.

This is so close to "malicious" that it's hard to perceive a difference.

edit: Let's also remind everyone that a Snyk stakeholder is currently attempting to launch a Cursor competitor, so assuming good intentions is even MORE of a stretch.
I dislike that chrome still searches faster:

Type in skinflint (price comparison) page I often use, tab toward "search on this site". Then I press enter.

All non-Chromeengine browsers have
- type website, enter
- wait to load, use search bar on site

as a workflow.

Made me stay with Chrome way too long. Now, I use Firefox, but miss this.
I use youtube a lot for random research queries, but I hate going to youtube.com and seeing all the recos, shorts, etc.. This is a great idea for learning.

Tested with some job video: https://swiftnotes.ai/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fw...

One suggestion: a more shareable-looking link when sharing the URL might help with user to user spreading.
Zirp... Never heard that before, but I can see the relation.

If you combine regulator/access control with central bank zero rate, it is a guaranteed giveaway for the rich. By definition you are giving the powerful unlimited free money.

Because of course Joe blow on the street can't get a zero or negative loan. He has to get it from the bank who gets to pocket the free money.

And a free loan can be fractionally scaled by a bank I would imagine.
If only they had trucks.
What are you even arguing?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42674116
MatchAnything: Universal Cross-Modality Image Matching
Basecamp looks like some sort of project management workflow thing? Okay.

So neither one is related to the outdoors at all.
Since I've seen a growing number of Chief Of Staffs in startups, I'd guess the number of companies with Prime Minister roles is non-zero.

Maybe even with very sensible titles like 'Junior Prime Minister'.
I understand this perspective, but I disagree with it.

If someone wants to use a public space (i.e., the Internet), then they have accept that technological solutions to annoyances are also part of that.

Block it with a subscription if you don't accept this reality. But getting the benefits of a free, global audience doesn't entitle the artist to any means of revenue they choose, including what annoys and harms people.

It's like saying you have to walk the long way around to your exhibit through the concessions hall before seeing my display, when someone can just take a shortcut and skip that, and blaming them for doing so.
I know what is expected from me at work: anything and everything. This is especially true shortly after our seemingly annual round of layoffs (right before the holiday season!). This increase in responsibilities has not come along with an increase pay, but our CEO got to double his total compensation package compared last year.

I'd look for something else, but seeing this report, talking to friends and reading some comments in various threads on HN, it's clear the grass isn't greener anywhere else.
>> it’s almost like punishing users for making the choice to browse the web without ads,
I have never had a manager that said “don’t make it work for firefox”.

What I have seen is developers do it wrong to start, then tasks to fix it get low priority due to market share based priority.
Even Montana, which is a favourite example of mine when the discussion of US density comes up, because it has no passenger service connecting the towns in the South, and is very low density, has a density along the old Southern rail corridor that operated until the 70's that is similar to existing viable passenger train lines in Norway.

There certainly are stretches in the US that aren't worth covering by train, but as you say most people don't live there, and the proportion who do live there is really tiny.

A lot of the time people seem to think the end to end travel need to be viable, and ignore that if the service is regular enough, plenty of pairs of towns along the route will contribute to demand.
So Long, Net Neutrality, and Good Riddance
I guess so… there seems to be absolutely no consequences to getting hacked, so from a business perspective it makes a lot of sense.

It's not up to me to decide what policy to use, and if it was I couldn't just do whatever I wanted, I'd have to justify its cost. And every company does the same…

I can decide the policy at my home :)
All American companies are suspect given the National Security Letter system yes. (Also South Korea and Kazakhstan, and obviously also any country where the "rule of law" is low enough that governments can do as they wish without formal legal powers)
DBMS (and DBAs) tend to be more conservative, so extensions and implementations diverge much more slowly than, say, js.

There's also the incoming business argument in favor of not diverging too far from baseline.

If I'm AWS/Azure/GCP trying to attract a customer from a competitor service, 'completely rewrite your app to be able to use us' isn't a compelling pitch.

MS SQL Server and Oracle have different incentives, but the cloud services would probably prefer portability and decreased maintenance / fork support load.
I believe like for like on products, some food's in the US are of a lower quality due to food standard laws being poorer. Chocolate for example must include 10% cacao in the US and 20% in Europe, hence Europe's will taste different and more chocolatey as it simply has more of the ingredient that gives chocolate it's flavour. Chocolate of course isn't the only product that has different regulations.
I’m sorry, but that comment contains too many errors for me to bother to refute them.
Happened in Ireland a few times:

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/06/archives/money-circulates...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_bank_strikes_(1966%E2%80...

Exactly what you'd expect to happen in Ireland happened.
agreed the focus on whitespace rules and grammar feels misaligned for an introduction
> but for some reason decided not to make integer types available to programmers

They were there, you had to append % to the variable name to get it (e.g. A% or B%, similar to $ for strings). But integers were not the "default."

BASIC is all about letting you pull stuff out of thin air. No pre-declaring variables needed, or even arrays (simply using an array automatically DIM's it for 10 elements if you don't earlier DIM it yourself). Integer variables on BASIC were 16-bit signed so you couldn't go higher than 32767 on them. But if you are going to use your $500 home computer in 1980 as a fancy calculator, just learning about this newfangled computer and programming thing, that's too limiting.

I do remember reading some stuff on the C64 that its BASIC converted everything to floating point anyway when evaluating expressions, so using integer variables was actually slower. This also includes literals. It was actually faster to define a float variable as 0--e.g. N0=0--and use N0 in your code instead of the literal 0.

Floats were 5 bytes in the early 80's Microsoft BASICs, honestly not "massive" unless you did a large array of them. The later IBM BASICs did have a "double precision" float that was 12 bytes maybe?

> It probably would have been faster and more memory efficient if all numbers were BCD strings.

I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Gates seriously considered that during the making of Microsoft BASIC in the late 70's as it makes it easy for currency calculations to be accurate.
https://archive.ph/uRV4Y
Postmark Express Comics
Everyone is trapped and has nowhere to go. Without hope, this is what you would expect. Engagement is sentiment of hope of future development, comp, responsibility, etc.

Edit: This appears to be covered thoroughly in the thread ChrisArchitect links to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697779
You forgot to tell another half of this story where this cafe used all sorts of tactics to kill competition and uses semi-related businesses to ensure its dominance. Then they nicely suggested everyone to pay what they can, or else. It's not an innocent local cafe as you paint it. It is a corporate network monster whose win strategy is "leave no survivors".
Show HN: AQEA – AI-Powered Test Case Generation Tool
In Agile development, QA is often an afterthought, leading to rushed testing and lower-quality deliverables. AQEA changes this by integrating QA early into the SDLC.

- Can generate test cases directly from JSON files (exported Jira tickets) during planning meetings.
- CLI for CI/CD integration
- Built entirely for local LLMs, ensuring privacy and security.

I'd love feedback, contributions, and suggestions! How would you use this in your Agile workflows?
Sal's video debunks these talking points. Salt water puts out fires very well. The ground in coastal areas is already filled with salt, a bit more does no harm. Salt water in truck pumps and tanks causes no short-term damage and if flushed with fresh water later, incurs only minimal long-term maintenance burden.

He's a firefighter besides being a maritime expert, with experience fighting fires at sea and on land, and besides his experience and credentials what he's saying seems like plain common sense.
> Most monkeys manage to procreate while basically living in the woods foraging.

Monkeys are built for that lifestyle, we aren't anymore. What a terrible comparison. Monkeys evolved to be good at monkey things we've evolved to be good at human things. People don't want to "go back to monke".

>Since the effect seems to correlate with wealth

No, that's not all it, they're also corelated with intelligence and the lack of wealth.

Modern middle class people in developed western countries who aren't wealthy, are smart enough to see the wealth divide growing larger and large, good job opportunities scarcer and scarcer, and realize that unless they'll be leaving their kids a great inheritance they'll basically be breading economic cannon fodder as the future generations will have it worse when it comes to income, housing and wealth building. So if they're already suffering themselves because of this, why would they also want to bring people in this world that will suffer even more in the future?

Millionaires have plenty of kinds since they can afford it and they're also increasing their odds of passing their genes further along with diversifying their wealth, and poor uneducated people are subsidized by the state, so it's the middle class who's not having any kids.
The thing is I see it everywhere around me. People don't care looking for a better search engine. Worse I am pretty sure that most people do not know they can choose their search engine and can define whatever is used when searching in the url bar.
Looking at your portfolio, one could argue that to succeed you need to try a lot of different projects some of which you maybe have no personal interest in.

I think some people would not be comfortable with this and rather take a steady paycheck from Big Corp while working on 1-2 darling projects at home.
Or this statistic means that actually much more oxygen is converted by plants compared to being processed by the ocean?

So it means planting extra plants to fight CO2 is much more effective than previously thought?
Generative Flow Networks: Theory and Applications to Structure Learning
Note that the effort there is to shift chromium to a more open governance model. This would mean Google has less influence on the project.
> Btrfs [...] still doesn't match ZFS in features [...]

Isn't the feature in question (array expansion) precisely one which btrfs already had for a long time? Does ZFS have the opposite feature (shrinking the array), which AFAIK btrfs also already had for a long time?

(And there's one feature which is important to many, "being in the upstream Linux kernel", that ZFS most likely will never have.)
I think there's two main things at play that people don't usually mention. Many of the things commonly mentioned, I agree with: waking up to the "game", RTO, layoffs, wealth inequality, etc. But I also see people can get profound entertainment elsewhere. Tiktok, games, social media, etc. It used to be really hard to be social, you had to go somewhere, including work, to interact with people. Now, you can interact in myriad ways online. Yes, it is different, and there are downsides, but it is easy, which is a huge upside, and you can focus on exactly what you want. In the 90s if you were into some obscure hobby, your choices were extremely limited. Now you can get easy interaction with fans of the niche of the niche. Again, not without its downsides. Life used to be pretty boring, speaking as a guy in his 50s. The 1980s and 1990s were ok if you were into mainstream stuff, but you had to abide by the culture or be rejected. It was pretty boring, and now you can find so much interesting stuff it is awesome. But also a bit lonely at times. Still, not nearly as lonely as it used to be. Work was an outlet to be around people. Now I don't care that much about doing that. And it gave you something to do. Less so these days.

Second, things are really changing anymore. I think about the past 10 years and largely my life is almost identical, which is bizarre compared to the 4 decades before that. I look around my room (home office), and everything is a bit nicer, but we have LCD displays, and laptops, and webcams, and all this stuff around me that is just like what I used to have. Compare 2015 to 2005 and it is quite different. 2005 was all CRTs and desktop computers that were loud and slow. No social media, the Internet was useful but not omnipresent. Movie theaters and CDs and DVDs were everywhere. If you wanted to interact with people, you called them or got together. Very different life. 1995 was, of course, way different as well.

Now, the future seems done, in a way. And that bleeds into work, I don't hear about anyone really building anything new and exciting. Just things getting better and cheaper (except housing!). AI is a thing, but it is terrifying. Either it is a bubble and will smash the economy, or it will take over work and is terrifying, or it will go Terminator and is terrifying. Sure, there may be a more golden Culture-esque universe, and I'm hoping for that. Still, it doesn't feel like we as a people have much say in that, just some disgustingly rich asshats competing with each other for our future.
No - stupid slow speed of light stops so many interesting science fiction imaginations.
Some links can only be accessed through a VPN.

I have thousands of bookmarks that also have names but I would still like to see the icons before clicking the link. Sometimes the name doesn't hint at what kind of resource the bookmark was at a glance. Is it a youtube video, is it an article?

I already have access to that information at the time of bookmarking. I don't want to lose it and then have to get it again.
git bisect supports --first-parent, no need to squash if you just merge.
>Are we trying to slow global competition with bad actors by restricting their ability to run compute on these.

Huawei GPUs
My personal experience: I use Firefox because all its issues are fixable either via about:config or extensions. It's not slow or crashing.

- Embedded telemetry can be disabled via about:config
- Running ublock origin in advanced mode blocks all third party domains, websites are often broken but easily fixable
- Cookie Autodelete deletes a website cookie after the tab closes
- Decentraleyes as a local CDN to avoid external requests for common libraries
- Redirector to change request to alternative no tracking frontends for famous websites
- Simple tab groups keep tabs organized by "job"
- Bitwarden to manage passwords

I rarely encounter websites that are not working and I just switch to another website, and I use Vivaldi for things like meet where I want things to "just work".
Looks like the "10-year low" is vaguely in line with long term trends. The more interesting observation is that engagement spiked between 2012-2020, for seemingly no reason. What gives?
"They have been interpellated by audience metrics; their subjective experience already takes audience reactions into account."

This is great. I think there's a body of research to be done regarding the creation of self in the age of social media. (Not just creators but everyone)
I've used firefox for a very long time and have never had an issue with youtube...
It's not the engineers making these decisions. They write the code they are told to write. Some middle manager / VP gets a promotion if they 'increase engagement', 'increase ad-spend', or some other hollow metric they chase. They are the ones deciding to send any 1-3 star ratings to customer support, and 4-5 ratings recorded as an actual rating. It's not about the users at all. It's about gaming the system for some manager's benefit.
Firefox + ublock origin seems to be the combo allowing me the best user experience with youtube. I have no idea what the previous poster is talking about really.
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First of all – the essay is phenomenal and his book is available online for free – https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/youtube-apparatus/36...

> “Communication within the YouTube Apparatus has no meaning.” The rapid feedback loop between creators and audiences (as constructed by platform metrics) means that the system more and more responds to itself. Rather than trying to go somewhere (as is the case with political ideology), the creator seeks simply intensification, to draw more and more of the world into his whirlpool of content.

This idea – that meaning is replaced by intensification – helps me understand a lot about the world today.
And their stock is up 5%.

Glad we do so much to keep corporations accountable in this country!
Too late to edit. Paul Allen it is
git bisect --first-parent
First of all, that's not a backup, that's a snapshot, and NO, that's not "good enough", tell your grandma that all her digitised pictures are gone because her hard drive exploded, or that one most important jpeg is now unwatchable because of bitrot.

Just because someone is a private user doesn't mean that the data is less important, often it's quite the opposite, for example a family album vs your cloned git repository.
Infamous Scam call centres in Ukraine: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/scam-call-centres-in-u...
We have already geoengineered the temperature to be 0.2-0.4 C lower by container ships emitting SO2. We have also observed this a lot from volcanic eruptions. We should really at least try.
I didn’t realize I was looking at the 2020 stats. But the 2024 stats are the same
> Were you also completely turned off by the community?

I was never turned on :). I got my license partly because other people at our local Hackerspace were getting it, and partly because I imagined it'll be useful to have the knowledge and ability to build and legally operate my own radio hardware.

I never got the whole HAM talking over radio thing. Between the legal and cultural restrictions on the topics, and the expectations of not taking up the airwaves too much, I can't see how you could discuss anything interesting or worthwhile this way. It's no surprise that there seems to be nothing going on other than boring and obnoxious rag chewing - interesting conversations aren't allowed to occur in the first place.

I mean, the intersection between "non-commercial", "non-religious", "non-controversial/non-political", and "interesting to any HAM" is... basically just saying hello, weather, trash talk, and self-referential showing off.
My experience has been very similar. I don't use the pocket feature though. But I'm loving the first class ad blocking and the container feature. I wish they would let you create container windows and not just tabs.
How will you say "yes" to creativity in 2025? [audio]
Apple in final stages of verifying TSMC's 'Made in USA' chips