skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments like this are a good example of rose colored glasses

> You could send out email and it would be received, and the incoming spam volume was manageable.

You must have very different memories of the spam problem than I do. I wouldn't trade today's spam filtering technologies for what we had back then.

> 20 years ago, a buddy used an account on my net-connected Linux machine to scrape map tiles off Google Maps. Google put a stop to it, and Gmaps wouldn't work any more on my (static) IP address. I told him "you broke it, you fix it" and he got on the horn with someone at Google and got it unblocked.

Which part of this do you miss? The fact that your friend had to try to manually scrape a service because it wasn't trivially easy to download open map tiles like it is today? Or the fact that you had to know somebody to get your home IP un-banned, because it once again wasn't cheap and easy to get a cloud server running in minutes like it is today?

The only fun part about this memory appears to be the adventure you had because the internet was new to you two and doing things is more fun when it's new.

> 20 years ago, you could go on an online dating site and have a serious hope of finding a real mate for life. I did. Several others I know did.

This still happens all the time. Given that you're no longer on those apps, I assume you're getting your perspective from internet anger outlets like Reddit where people who aren't having success on those websites complain about them, but people continue to find partners and get married. I was at such a wedding very recently.

> But it was a more innocent world. The internet was still an optimistic place.

I'm sorry, but I think you're underestimating how much you have changed, along with the content you consume.
Let's hope it lasts: https://www.ft.com/content/7711109e-0338-43ad-aada-853f058a2...
> I'm in bed and drifting off towards sleep. A few minutes before I'm fully out, while I can still hear and see everything going on around me, I'll start to dream. The dream can be either vivid or fuzzy, but it plays out in just the same manner as when I'm asleep, just kind of superimposed upon my normal waking senses.

This happens to me often, but I've never thought of it as a symptom of anything. In fact, when I'm just on the edge of sleeping, I can sometimes switch back and forth between "normal thinking" and "dream thinking". I often try to remember my dream thoughts when I switch back to normal mode, but it is nearly impossible - they evaporate or are somehow incompatible with normal thinking.

> whenever I'm asleep I always dream, and I start dreaming the instant I fall asleep

This happens to me frequently as well (but not "always") and is basically another aspect of the phenomenon described above.
This pattern is used all over the place, and for good reason (especially when people get their minds on combining CI/CD and static deployments).

Simon Willison groked the name « Baked Data »: even though it was in the context of Datasette (which requires a backend to run but the SQLite db is embedded and read-only), it is pretty safe the term can be applied for static websites also!
The magic trick is it protects you from ruin. EV is negative for this one bet but not for the whole budget.
The article focuses way too much on the "fear of technology". El Pais, formerly the Spanish paper of record, succumbs to mainstream techno optimism.
London doesn't have earthquakes. Masonry is a death trap.
Unlike other chorded keyboards I've seen[1], this one seems to take an Xbox-y approach using directional modifiers (default layout: https://docs.charachorder.com/_images/CCEnglish2.png )

> CharaChorder One's 3-D switches (5-way tactile) detect multi-directional movement rather than the 1-D switches used by a traditional typewriter/keyboard.

I am 100% positive it would be awesome for someone who used it all the time but I, personally, cannot talk[2] and translate into computere-ese at the same time. Trying to use ViaVoice in college drove me crazy because of trying to activate those two separate mental pathways simultaneously, so I ended up just switching to Dvorak which along with other ergo modifications fixed my hand pain

It seems to be $250 + s/h https://www.charachorder.com/collections/store/products/cc2 or CC-BY-SA-CR https://github.com/CharaChorder/CAD-CAM/blob/1f833ca40b5dcc1...

ed I also found a review of it from a vim user https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxCm86IbLok and holy shit this has 100% been my experience with almost every Discord support experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxCm86IbLok&t=680 Plus, only by making it all the way to the end of the video did I realize that only the *CAD* files are open source, the firmware is closed source and, apparently, ragingly shitty. Hard pass.

1: my first contact was with Twiddler

2: in this specific context, "talk" includes the subvocalization that I just seemingly cannot get rid of. Even typing this out I am essentially just writing what the voice in my head is saying :(
No you definitely want to enforce this in CI.
Life on a Closed Timelike Curve
If list.c is part of the project, it’s easier because you don’t have to hunt down every dependency’s repository. It’s much easier to audit and trust 5 projects/orgs, than 50 different entities.
> Local LLMs

Does anyone use those other than spam?

I guess IDEs and even iOS are shipping them, albeit far in usefulness from the SOTA. Low latency in iOS is noticeable tho.
There seems to be a bit of a preoccupation with federated identity and linking communities but the lack of that is what I like about forums and web communities back then.

I don't necessarily want my identity as a bus nerd cross pollinating my interest in going to raves or my interest in business being mixed up with my interest in left wing politics. There all things that I've had some level of interest in joined forums for. I always use different random usernames because I'm also from an age where the internet was it's own world where your real identity didn't matter. More so while we look back at those days with rose tinted specs, many viewed the internet as a dangerous wild west and staying anonymous was one way of protecting yourself.
The lawsuits angle is nonsense since there are other sites that list various tested levels.
Oh come on, it's not that hard even for packaging stuff (let alone usage). Quite trivial compared to leetcode grind I'd say.
Terrible video, really interesting device.

Everyone is a youtube/tiktok videographer now, yet somehow people fail to create a compelling video. Why is the mic there? Perhaps a simple gimmick like ducktape over the mouth?
I'm not saying everyone had it better. Chattle slavery is definitely worse. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think we needed to have slaves to make progress. I want to push back against this idea that it's inevitable to have to work as much as we do. A worker today is significantly more productive. We could probably make life a lot easier for everyone by finding a more equitable way to distribute resources and by breaking up and regulating all the rent-seeking monopolists who makes things more expensive than they need to be.
Please forgive my laziness, but I might be a good example of your target audience, and I didn't bother to login.

There are no companies or developers to browse, and I don't see the added value over, say, LinkedIn or Hacker News.

The current landing page suggests that I have to put in work, and I don't see what I might get back in return.

I don't mean to be harsh here, I'm just supplying a data point :)
If it's obvious, maybe you could show numbers?
They are being really smug, talking about designs and systems that mean nothing when you've got temperatures outside the building hot enough to melt aluminum engine blocks, infrared radiation intense enough to set fire to things hundreds of feet away - as well as very low oxygen and very high CO/CO2 levels along with dozens of different toxic gasses - all of which HEPA filtration won't do squat about.

A "stone facade" doesn't stop +1200 degree temperatures, especially when everything on the outside will undergo incredible thermal expansion and at the least open up gaps. Steel expands about 1-2% for just an increase to 100 degrees C. 300C means about 3-4% expansion. And then there's the huge expanses of windows which will shatter or pop out - and even if they don't, the intense IR radiation will by and large go through them.

People don't realize just how insanely hot wildfires get. Go look at the pictures of neighborhoods that have burnt- they're leveled with the exception of some chimneys, steel girders for houses that have them (most these days don't, builders have been using wood-composite beams) iron fences, car bodies. Everything else is burned or melted.

There isn't a building in the world that will stop the megawatts of heat energy per square meter wildfires can generate in IR radiation.
Full keto
If someone’s ‘story’ improves in notability, attractiveness, attention grabbingness, etc… wouldn’t someone else’s ‘story’ have to decrease in the same?

As human attention is finite. Or is it suggesting that the ‘story’ can somehow qualitatively improve, without limit, while actually occupying less physical time?
Nah I do't have ADHD, I was sick from the american diet
Not OP but I could see this being short term savings related to the cost of sourcing/generating risk data leading to bonuses prior to the deficiencies in that risk model being exposed in claims long term.
Summary: if it doesn't hit the bottom line of the polluter, then there is no reason for them to change their behavior.

That's pretty obvious, but the message needs to be hammered in over and over. The bigger issue is that game theory gets in the way - if pollution is taxed here, it will be exported to places where it is not.
Thomas Piketty's book on the matter should have enough for you.

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2015AER.pdf

https://wid.world/news-article/whats-new-about-wealth-inequa...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10888-010-9155-y
I don't count anything. I just cook all of my own food and never eat carbs or sugar. When I get hungry I eat
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/dependency-resolution/
Is there a plain text / markdown / html version?
How does that work with the shebang?
Collision insurance != liability insurance.
That's literally not true. Neither flat earthers nor "vaccines cause autism" folks are being called mentally ill.

The hypothetical Santanists would not be called mentally ill either.
"Yeah and what if you just forget to use your fancy equipment? Not so smart now, huh?!"

You totally showed them
If the only people we can find who are 'mad' are al gore and leo dicaprio, I'd suggest we have a selection problem. There are plenty of monks, ascetics, lawyers, product managers, entrepreneurs, bankers and trad wives who care and are doing quite a lot more than the average person.

Bad actors, uncommitted actors does not actually change the problem's existence. In an adjacent example consider here in LA. Before the fires, corruption in the homes for the homeless got some decent air. It does not actually change the need for homes for the homeless. Its been poorly implemented and allowed to be exploited. That doesn't mean the homeless should get shafted.

Here the question is quite literally about humanity. If one cannot connect with that, maybe they can connect with the need for a stable population that creates new workers and funds said person's retirement.

What is being preached about is that the way things are going will lead to larger, more unpredicted/out of cycle natural disasters. We are seeing that. Globally. We will all pay, whether its together and preventatively or independently one by one. History shows we do better when we're together.
let-go doesn't seem to be maintained anymore. The page mentions it's not ready for prime time.
We all "know" that, but there are also some engineers that only give a very strong illusion of being more productive.

Maybe engineer #1 is constantly pushing up code. In the time it takes them to merge 15 PRs, engineer #2 opens only 1 - but maybe they thought really deeply about the problem, and their approach actually saves the team hundreds or thousands of hours of future development work vs how engineer #1 would have solved the problem.

Part of what makes this so hard to measure is the long tail effects of development decisions. (Incidentally, that's also a source of burnout for me - the constant mental overhead of worrying about the long term implications of what I'm doing, and particularly how they effect other people. It's very challenging.)
pnpm is the best for monorepos. I've tried yarn workspaces and npm's idea of it and nothing comes close to the DX of pnpm
Is...that a decades old argument? Or is the argument: If you're fucking men in toilet stalls, stop arresting other men for doing the same and claiming no one should do that. AKA the rule of law.
Everybody will reinvent Nix if they are in software engineering long enough ...
I did the same, but with my old 12" PowerBook G4 when it became obsolete. I replaced the PATA HDD with a PATA SSD for speed, and removed the problematic cells in the original battery (so it must run with the power supply attached). This made it incredibly lightweight (most likely lighter than the Mac Mini G4), and more portable (it doesn't need to be plugged into a screen, although it could be).
I wouldn't use random blends of workout supplements. I would stick to individual substances. It's easy to find lots of things that legitimately get results by just looking at the WADA ban list.
Never imagined our project would make it to the HN front page on Sunday!

Tabby has undergone significant development since its launch two years ago [0]. It is now a comprehensive AI developer platform featuring code completion and a codebase chat, with a team [1] / enterprise focus (SSO, Access Control, User Authentication).

Tabby's adopters [2][3] have discovered that Tabby is the only platform providing a fully self-service onboarding experience as an on-prem offering. It also delivers performance that rivals other options in the market. If you're curious, I encourage you to give it a try!

[0]: https://www.tabbyml.com

[1]: https://demo.tabbyml.com/search/how-to-add-an-embedding-api-...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/lznmkWJhAZ

[3]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kelvinmu_last-week-i-introduc...
I'm still using my Dell XPS 7100 from 2009. It has an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T. Only upgraded the GPU over the years. Added more RAM and an SSD. It still works like a charm. Even the original keyboard it came with is the same. No need to upgrade to anything new as of yet.
US universities mull adoption of Chatham House Rule (2024)
The nice thing about being a massive market like the US is that you can impose regulations that producers in other countries need to follow to be able to participate in the market. It does make enforcement harder, but as long as you have the political will its definitely feasible. O/c having the political will is an entirely different thing.
Unfortunately, there is a degree of entitlement in this reply as well. You've assumed they don't know what they're talking about, in fact you assumed they don't even know how to Google.
Watched this on a whim in December. It was a fantastic movie and I recommend it to anyone
No, we don't. We are not criminals, unlike blackhat hackers, data horders, CIA affiliated companies (meta, google) or the typical big company sociopathic fraudster.
https://x.com/samdape is the original creator of this app
(author here) Maybe you should get a sleep study done, especially if you have ever had trouble sleeping at night, or are excessively sleepy during the day! I went over twenty years without a diagnosis.
> plenty of examples in modern Europe where revolutions and regime changes didn't involve a civil war

Where internal power structures were preserved (or where the society was restructured under occupation), yes.
That's the point -- the worst of these products don't have levels above baseline!
Contextual collapse, we'll have no idea if interactions are human or AI unless the AI really happens to suck.
I somewhat agree. The agent will be able to find the information autonomously. But some data will be proprietary and out of reach for the agent.

Startups should really try to get such a moat. Chapter 2 will cover this.
Actually, that's not correct. The controversy you might be thinking of was about Subway's bread in Ireland, where in 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that Subway's bread couldn't be legally classified as "bread" for tax purposes because it contained about 5 times more sugar than allowed under Irish law - around 10% of the flour's weight, not 10% of the total bread composition.

The Irish law stated that for bread to be considered a "staple food" (and thus qualify for tax exemption), the sugar content couldn't exceed 2% of the flour's weight. This is different from saying the bread is 10% sugar overall.

The actual sugar content in Subway bread varies, but it's typically around 5-6 grams of sugar per half a bread. That’s higher than traditional bread but lower than many other commercial ones.
Why does Aspen one, a skiing company even bother with "sustainability" at all in the first place?

The whole business is predicated on deforestation and people flying airplanes to ski for the weekend.
> I want to push back against this idea that it's inevitable to have to work as much as we do

I'm with you. Has anyone here said that?
Conda worked for me in the past, but at some point I was getting inexplicable segfaults from Python scripts. I switched back to just pip and everything worked fine again. And installation was much faster.
I freaking love Poetry. It was a huge breath of fresh air after years of pip and a short detour with Pipenv. If uv stopped existing I’d go back to Poetry.

But having tasted the sweet nectar of uv goodness, I’m onboard the bandwagon.
As far as I know panics abort instead of unwinding in three cases:
- When a panic happens during panic unwinding
- When the application (not the dependency!) sets panics to abort in Cargo.toml
- When the target doesn't support unwinding.

Which of those is the case for the desktop app described by the parent?
I also realized I like smooth ball points, used to use the finer Pilot gelpoints in school. The Caran D'ache ballpoint is quite nice for a more luxury product

https://www.carandache.com/us/en/ballpoint-pen-ballpoint-pen...
Reminds me of a Japanese girl I met who told me that when she smoked weed for the first time, she lay in bed, and saw an entire episode of The Simpsons play on her ceiling.
> Did Mullenweg always behave like this?

Matt, literally (he turned 21 then), came of age in the 2004-2006 Silicon Valley climate of the post-Bubble "Trümmerfrauen" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%BCmmerfrau) movements that brought us things such as DHH and Rails, Matt and WordPress, Andreessen being himself, and others, all of which are now considered "problematic."

I don't think Matt has changed. The climate these projects operate in, has. To some it's an eggshell walk, to others a game of signaling the right virtues while acting against them in secret, and to some a chance to achieve relevancy or dominance. And for all of them, there's a day of reckoning. 2005s proclivities have no similarities to 2025 dogma, and why should they. Neither did 2005 have any with 1985. Feel old, yet?

Matt's Matt. That Matt was what was needed to kick a floundering piece of software (P2) into the kind of trajectory that helped transform it into the absolute unit of a social and communications portfolio, Automattic is today.

That kind of Matt is a dinosaur in 2025. As were 1985 coders and founders in 2005. Heck, 2005 didn't look too kindly upon 1999 Silicon Valley mindsets.

I guess Matt's "problem" is not, that he has changed. Matt's difficulty is, that he hasn't, and that 2025 is nothing like 2005. And, like DHH or Andreessen or Brendan Eich back in 2014, that can ... hurt. I'm too old to care, but I'd presume today's "golden child" will be a very problematic person in 2045, unless they learn to change or hide behind signals.
No More Copyright
> “what would you do if you really cared?”

Examine why people use fossil fuels and then prioritize development of reasonable and affordable alternatives.

> what if I just dumped the trash on the street and hoped and waited for my community to pick it up, or to just suffer from my trash?

What if you asked how much fossil fuel is burned transporting people and goods into the Aspen ski resort? Or what the impact of your mostly seasonal labor is? Or why their housing is a 25 minute drive from the resort?

> Leave us with what “Terrible Beauty” is

The projecting recognition that you are, in fact, one of the largest parts of the problem?
Yea, I've lived in Houston so I know all about how hot and humid it is. But the two areas are by no means equal in size: the hot and dry parts of Texas are vast and cover most of the state. There’s lots of variation too. El Paso is far dryer than San Antonio. But if you’re walking around downtown in midday in most parts of Texas the only thought on your mind will be where your next glass of ice water is going to come from.
No, they do not. This is "Russian troops in Belarus with blood supply lines is just training exercise" level take.
So... you want to use your blog as some kind of a log ported to the web?

Yeah, most tools are built to support something different.
Do the rankings ever change much year over year? For instance, with intro fountain pens, it will always be things like the platinum preppy, pilot metro, kaweco sport.
I've tried with Slack/Discord/Teams, and have found the web apps to not be particularly workable for my use. The Electron apps have better notifications, and I typically have dozens to hundreds of tabs open, which doesn't work well with keeping a handful of important tabs active. (Both active mentally/visually, and not put to sleep by the browser to save on resources.)

And a bunch of those aren't the same in the web version - Signal, WhatsApp, VS Code, 1Password and Plexamp are all Electron and are either unavailable or functionally not useful for me on the web.
Much of the Python ecosystem blatantly violates semantic versioning. Most new tooling is designed to work around the bugs introduced by this.
How do you define success? If a product bombs, is that because of the engineering or the product design?
> Some of those were before I had Touretts like symptoms turn up.

Author here. For what it's worth, I have BOTH Narcolepsy AND Tourette's syndrome, both formally diagnosed.

I'm not a doctor, but what you described about lying on bed does sound a bit like cataplexy to me. You might have a doctor who specializes in Narcolepsy specifically check you out.
> Redline districts are often near oil refiners and other highly polluted.

Significance:

Our study adds to the evidence that structural racism in federal policy is associated with the disproportionate siting of oil and gas wells in marginalized neighborhoods.

Even the last paragraph highlights the fact the pollution is a high factory in these districts. "The presence of wells in historically redlined neighborhoods remains relevant, as many of these redlined neighborhoods have persistent social inequities and the presence of wells, both active and post-production, can contribute to ongoing pollution."

* Meant to say,"Redline districts are often near oil refiners and highly polluted."
Very true. It was designed to keep out thieves, not an army.
You mean like pyinstaller https://pyinstaller.org that takes your python and makes a standalone, self extracting or onedir archive to convert you ops script plus dependencies into something you can just distribute like a binary?
I'll help you out, flat-earthers are delusional and sick, anti-vaxxers are idiots and anyone that believes in the supernatural in this century is a cultist.
Thanks for responding! That's interesting. I'm a night owl and nap pretty much every day, but it's kind of my superpower, not something I consider a problem. I feel a million times better after a good nap.