skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last new OS that a mid-2012 MBP received was High Sierra, in 2017. That was the OS that added warnings about the impending breakage of all existing 32-bit apps (!), you may recall.

My own MBP from the same era as yours succumbed to a logic board long before then, and I replaced it with a late 2016 MBP, which came with a touch bar + butterfly keyboard, had terrible performance, stopped receiving updates after Monterey (2021), no longer receives security updates, and (obviously) can't run modern ARM-based Mac software. (Incidentally, it was also the single most expensive computer I ever bought, even to date!) Not a very solid run, I'd say.

Personal anecdotes aside, I don't think it's too disputable that Mac has never taken backwards compatibility or computer longevity anywhere as seriously as Windows or Linux have.
Any other innovative ways to disproportionately tax the wage class?
Ask HN: How would you feel about getting interviewed by AI?
If you were given the choice between a human interview (that you have to wait for) and an instant AI interview, would you accept the AI version? How would you feel about it?
And the even more jaw-dropping reality is that even this article heavily underestimates the transformative power that generative AI is about to bring to software. Using AI to generate code like this is akin to using a horse to pull an automobile.
Insanely bad thing is that because of exclusionary zoning and the political need to protect single family home areas at all cost, the city continues to push more and more residential homes into areas right next to the skytrain. Terrible.
Because money.

End-user interfaces can be served ads, are intrinsically rate limited, and are often the main money source.

APIs make no ad revenue, can easily rack up expensive server costs, and are often a single third-party service that offer services to the rest of the customer base (bonus points for making you look bad if they implement a feature better).
There is absolutely no basis for the sweeping, extraordinary claim that “every publicly listed business” is managed and incentivized around sustainable long-term value.

I hate to be aggressive but it’s really pretty godawful that people let absurd, corrosive claims like this fly. There is a creeping normalcy to weird Art Laffer talking points and weird Milton Friedman Freak Offs with no evidence. Things suck for the typical person since Dick Cheney and Art Laffer started “cutting taxes”.

You’re wrong in a way that demands a complete ignorance of everything from news to history to human empathy.

This mindset needs fucking therapy and where therapy fails the legal system for a fucking change.
Yes. You only need the v1 info hash. The first thing a v2 client does with a v2 hash is derive the v1 hash from it anyway. In fact it can't connect to v1 clients until it's done this so prefer v1 unless you have good reason.
Create a Static Website Generator
I use Markdown (md) to document a lot of things in my daily life, and I want to create a blog. However, I prefer not to use platforms like Hugo, GitHub Pages, or WordPress. Instead, I plan to use Python to convert my Markdown files into HTML and deploy the generated site on Cloudflare Pages.

While this approach might be time-consuming, I enjoy the process of creating something on my own and improving it step by step.

Now that the blog is running smoothly, I just need to refine a few details. After that, I'll publish the code on GitHub.
This is a great concept! Keep going!
Except has been pushed down into places where it does not make any sense just for the sake of riding the ai race. It’s like Clippy but integrated everywhere, eg in the chrome developer tools, nobody wanted it. On iPhone? I won’t be surprised if most users don’t use any generative ai feature at all. And other useful features were already inside the system but since they’re not “generative” they’re getting marketed as such or wrapped by a useless natural language prompt
Funny how you don’t see articles about people dying in fires because they live on a suburb that’s 10% as dense as it should be and so the fire station is 3x farther away than it should be.

No real surprise, though. People love stories where you can point to a few people and say, they’re the ones who did this. It’s much less fun when it’s systemic and no one person or group can be blamed.
> It can be an easier and more politically popular idea to just use streets to solve this problem at the individual level even if less efficient rather than requiring efficient central management planning by the government.

So how many 40 lane roads are you going to build instead of single train lines?
It represents something they can't control and which could ultimately be used to take them down a peg or two, if not more, by ostracizing them in the public's eyes.

tl;dr - They are afraid.
Prohibit on-street parking on at least one side of the road, make the side walk on that side big enough that an ambulance can use it to pass other vehicles if the road is blocked (I'll skip the question of why the street is blocked in the first place). Actually enforce the parking restriction.

You need space for pedestrians anyways, and with traffic restricted to the necessary minimum you don't need bollards everywhere

This isn't some kind of rocket science that has never been tried before, it's the reality in many cities around the world. You need an entire concept instead of adding half-backed solutions to an existing system, but the solutions are all well-tried and for the most part very straight forward.
https://archive.ph/Kk26t
Charging money for services is “innovative”? I know the hacker set likes to reinvent other industries and call it new, but this is rather extreme.
Accenture article is more like like PR and doesn't sound very practical.

It claim the current beat agent is from Anthropic Sonnet.
That also seems like a reasonable explanation. I never got any of the background story from our guides.
Plus a huge chunk of internet traffic is already bots
it amazes me that so many of the comments for this all seem to assume everyone has common sense.
I view my blog as a public diary. It tracks what I am thinking about at various times in my life/career.

Continue to write, because it helps me refine my ideas, practice my writing skills, and snapshots my mind.
I'd also like to point out serendipitous external input as well. Isaac Newton and watching the apple fall from the tree for instance. Often, thought processes are steered by external stimuli that happen to occur while the thought process is taking place.
Conspiracies and politics aside, the reasons for the prominence of 8200 are somewhat boring: it's the largest unit in the IDF, in a relatively small country. Teenagers who demonstrate just about any degree of technical savviness get funneled into it for their mandatory service.

It's the equivalent of observing that SFBA startups tend to have a lot of Stanford grads at the helm.

(I don't have any particular love for Snyk as a product suite. I think most supply chain security products are severely over-hyped.)
I thought it was 25 for HD streaming, but Netflix they only need 5mbps! I'd still shoot for higher, but we are plenty happy with 100.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
This entire comment section is simultaneously hilarious and sad to read, because it's obviously a bunch of myopic Americans who have never ventured outside of America and have no clue how other cities in the world work. Honestly I try to avoid commenting in forums like this because it's so fruitless: it's just like trying to have a rational discussion about vaccines (or anything really) with a bunch of Trump followers.
The cost of LLM inference is cheap and will continue to decrease. More traditional methods take up far more of an engineer's time (which also costs money).

If I have a project with a low enough lifetime inputs I'm not wasting my time labelling data and training a model. That time could be better spent working on something else. As long as the evaluation is thorough, it doesn't matter. But I still like doing some labelling manually to get a feel for the problem space.
We’re more focused on a plug-and-play approach for product management and the broader product stack, so folks don’t have to build their own agents from scratch. We’re definitely open to exploring custom agent-building in the future, but at the moment, we see big value in offering an out-of-the-box solution. Both are cool tools that have definitely inspired some of the stuff we're working on. We also think there’s huge potential for broader productivity workflows, so if that’s something you’re after, we’d love to chat!

Is there anything specific that you had in mind for other productivity flows?
I’m more optimistic about robots/drones. At least we could actively sabotage them with low tech tools, the Internet seems unrecoverable already, and how you will apply to jobs
As a rule of thumb, you can't design anything trying to account for black swan events.

Optimizing for the regular, daily use case is hard enough.

It would help to think of this as a smart but random person reading about a security issue like spectre and offering you software design advice. Common sense arguments are only useful to an extent, the devil is in the details.
We self-host GitHub using GitHub Enterprise Server. It is a mature product that requires next-to-no maintenance and is remarkably stable. (We did have a period of downtime caused by running it on an underprovisioned VM for our needs, but since resolving that it hasn't had problems.)

Of course we have a small and mostly unchanging number of users, don't have to deal with DDoS attacks, and can schedule the fairly-infrequent updates during maintenance windows that are convenient for us (since we don't need 100% availability outside of US working hours).

I don't have the metrics in front of me, but I would say we've easily exceeded github.com's uptime in the last 12 months.
You're not wrong - objectively, main is an equally good or perhaps even very slightly better name than master. But it's like making a tiny change that requires a huge refactoring - in this case, literally millions of developers were involved, not to mention the countless hours of discussion which are still ongoing years later, as you can see from this thread. Was it worth it?
I want to know in units of lake Tahoe’s
I’ve always figured we’ll have robots mining our trash piles in the future for metals and other recyclables. Possibly bespoke, cobbled together, and manually piloted.

Sounds dystopian and probably is, but also I feel like I would kinda enjoy remotely excavating trash as an occasional hobby. You know, hop on the Discord with the gang, make a battle plan, you take the copper wiring, I’ll shore up the tunnel.
Non profit tech for wildfire reporting
A $9 congestion charge is probably a huge help to you. For just $9 per visit, you get much lower traffic and easier parking. Your very high priority trip is easier because lots of lower priority trips either didn't happen, or used transit instead.
Giant American roads mostly don’t bring those resources. They bring vehicles passing through, they bring vehicles filled to 20% or less of their capacity, and they bring street parking, one of the most inefficient uses of land imaginable in a downtown area.

Look at what’s needed to bring those resources and people, only those, and you need far less than what American cities have.
WordPress is to creating website what Excel is to generic business calculations.
To answer your question in the title, it is still worth it to me, as I get a lot of joy by writing. Pretty much as you put it, there's value to me for writing for it's own sake. Even if no one is reading. It's a cherry on top of someone stumbles upon my posts.

It just so happens two individuals have reached out to me in the past week, saying they enjoyed what I wrote and one of them cited that I saved them time. That just feels incredible.

To answer your questions I don't find my readers at all. I share my content when relevant on reddit or here. I keep writing because I enjoy it.

I'll link my blog post and will remove if asked to:

https://www.greghilston.com/
Started with yes and no, but thinking more of it, basically yes.

I’m interested in AI tech (not philosophy or prophecies). But HN isn’t that great of a source for tech details. Reddit and local boards helped much more.

At the same time I have to ignore lots of shallow startups and react form developers 10x productivity reports, cause that sparks no interest.
Such a 12v trigger would be useful for a plain stereo amplifier, which are relatively simple things -- so simple that they may not even have a volume control.

This would allow a Sonos Port to have a dedicated amplifier connected (for driving one big stereo pair of speakers, or maybe an array of 70v distributed audio speakers, or who knows what) and control when it is powered on.

But it won't turn on my AV receiver (it has 12v triggers, but they're all outputs), nor switch its input mode appropriately.

(Yeah, sure. I can hack something up with an ESP32 with IR or RS-232 or even Lego Mindstorms or something from Switchbot, but Sonos buyers and hardware hackers are naturally somewhat diametrically opposed: A person who buys Sonos gear wants stuff that just works, not a new hobby.)
Article is paywalled but I think inverting the question is fun.

Why don’t small kids in other western countries ride the subway alone?
> comes across as another conservative

Graham endorsed Harris.

The left needs to stop accusing other members of the left of being "far-right" everytime they dare to have a different opinion on a topic.

That tendency of the left to ostracise its own rather than engage in debate, is exactly what pushed people like Elon and Rogan away, along with much of the centre, and is exactly why Trump won.
Reminds me of how certain macOS APIs are gated behind the paid apple developer program so you can’t, for example, write a macOS app using Network Extensions on your own Mac until you join the Apple developer program (100USD/year in the US). I understand why they do it but it does feel weird that I can’t write certain code for my own Mac unless I pay for a subscription (on top of already having paid for the Mac).
Small children in any city with a subway used to ride it alone; it was entirely normal in New York or London. The question to be answered isn't why they do it in Japan, it's why they stopped elsewhere. (The article points to a mother being arrested for allowing her 10-year-old to play, which kind of thing is likely the immediate cause, but begs the question[1] of why and how we got to that state)

[1] in the usual sense of the phrase, not the historical one recorded in some dictionaries
I live at a _very_ loud and busy intersection in downtown manhattan, it's usually gridlocked every day from 4pm - 7pm at least. That hasn't happened once since congestion pricing kicked in (I'm enjoying the relative quiet, but I do sort of miss the chaos). The first two days, everything was covered in snow down here. I wonder how much this will hold up into summertime.

As an unrelated aside a new bmw sedan driving the wrong way on mulberry street intentionally ran into me at a crosswalk today. So don't let your guard down lol
Also remember that in the early days Unix did segment swapping, with demand paging only coming in with BSD and the VAX. So there was no paging in just a tiny part of a big executable.
No, it isn't. It's just a sentiment that shitty toxic tribalism masquerading as social justice (and whatever the equivalent is for the political right) has no place in legislature/schools/corporations.

It's actively detrimental to good policy/education/business if only by the virtue of drowning out people who are just going about their day to day responsibilities.
What’s funny is that I’m sure most of them know other kinds of cities exist. And they know that people somehow manage to survive and thrive there, even if they don’t know how. But this all gets ignored once you start talking about trying to emulate some of that.

For too many Americans, there’s no difference between “that can’t work,” “that can’t work here,” and “we don’t do that.”
Everybody likes to drive. It's far more private, personal, and free than even the best public transport, which is why a country like Japan with some of the best public transport on earth has a car ownership rate of 1 per household, and even in Tokyo it's 33% of households, with a large taxi industry.

It astounds me that so many on the left seem to be converging on the opinion that it should be a goal to reduce, eliminate, tax private transportation for the common person.

Public transport is great and should be improved or encouraged, and road area usage should be as efficient as possible. But private transportation should be made cheaper and more convenient and accessible to as many people as possible. That is a great way to improve quality of life and expand opportunities for people.
It's an old anecdote, but years ago Samsung refused a warranty claim for a _failed USB port_ that would no longer charge the phone _because I had rooted it_ and the fuses were burnt. I think this was unreasonable of them, but it's not like I had any recourse. If vendors were really worried about this aspect, they would/could implement such draconian policies.
Could you give some examples of questions that should not have been closed?

I'm still glad when google sends me to a good stackoverflow answer, because it's usually high quality and helpful. I don't ask many questions there, so it's hard to know if the problems are serious.
All the small/medium branding agencies surviving on Wordpress should devote 10% of their devs’ time to core.

Community: rebuilt.
> we reached out to them after seeing this and they apologized.

How does this make it sound like they made Snyk apologize?
My guess is that lower/middle management would have greater hatred of Broadcom…

Upper management will be the clueless putz.
One extreme approach to that would be to pick some line in western SF neighborhoods, close all roads west of it, declare everything west of that a park, and reroute Highway 1 slightly eastwards. And compensate people affected by the change.

Or close that to regular car traffic but keep SF Muni buses and trams and maybe high-occupancy taxis/ shuttles/ rideshares.
Do you think it is bad when foreign investment corporations buy commercial property? This is very common in London. Or only residential property? And, were you upset when foreign capital (Malaysian, mostly) helped to redevelop Battersea Power Station?
I haven't gotten autopager to work on the "latest" pages. That would save me a lot of time clicking through pages. I could skim a lot faster.

Tips? TIA
Just because a street is one way does not mean it is so narrow that only one vehicle can fit through.

Streets may be one way because it discourages unnecessary automotive traffic and it allows the rest of the space to be dedicated to bicyclist or use for residential and commercial purposes (outdoor seating, space for games, etc).

So even if the streets are one way, there will often be space for the ambulance to maneuver around blocked vehicles. And if there's not, the ambulance can take another street or road. If it's the only route that can access that location, then with any sane amount of urban planning then the ambulance will be within a short walking distance to the location (and more often than not within eyesight).
Obviously just to puzzle and delight the Occidental rugged individualist.
>The rolling stocks use linear induction propulsion, which means there is no electric motor on the train.

This sentence makes no sense at all. A linear induction motor is a type of electric motor.
I think any definition of a contested term is going to end up having a longer explanation (See this whole discussion as a proof-by-example).

It seems like a reasonably concise definition to me. It's reasonable to disagree with the definition of course, but to merely dismiss it as not concise is both incorrect and not useful because it lacks specific criticisms.
Heck it wasn’t that abnormal in NYC growing up in the 00s, but not sure about now.
Totally agree (and also that’s the reason I think all CI ecosystems are a nightmare nowadays).

But GitHub Actions are somewhat portable: there’s the standalone act [0] runner, and the Forgejo/Gitea Actions (e.g. on Codeberg [1]) that use act under the hood and are pretty much drop-in replacement – they even use GitHub-hosted actions transparently. It might not be a 100% compatible standard, but it’s pretty nice. It would be nice for others to follow lead!

[0]: https://nektosact.com/

[1]: https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/actions/
If you're into the custom PCB design, I highly recommend Carl Bugeja: https://youtube.com/@carlbugeja
He has lots of super interesting projects using micromagnetics, motors, flappers, and the like.

If you liked the part where he machined the housing, check out Clickspring. I think it's fair to say he is the greatest machinist currently active on YouTube, both in videography and storytelling, and in actual skill.
https://youtube.com/@clickspring
> butter is high in saturated fat. So we would expect junk food consumption to stay the same but now also have a larger atherogenic effect.

Isn't the danger of saturated fat a longrunning myth, given the "France paradox" and the fact that high consumption of coconut oil (even higher in saturated fat) in places like Fiji doesn't have the negative effects that would be predicted if it were real?
This line of thought is pretty silly. Claiming that the city is subsidizing X billions because some public space is free.

The land there is so valuable because it's desirable. Sure, NYC could sell central park for a bazillion dollars. But the land there is so expensive because central park exists. If it were sold and became buildings, the price of sq ft in Manhattan would massively drop.
In my experience I’d rather say a user look for a familiar UI which he knows how to navigate, even if boring or similar to other websites if familiar and standardized it can only be a benefit. That’s why projects such as Bootstrap had a huge success imo, and still are despite the increasing usage trend of utility belts like tailwindcss. A custom ui for each user seems so preposterous
No, ostensibly it's cheaper at scale. But from a consumer's perspective, it doesn't matter that they're using that instead of sugar. There's a much larger conversation to be had about the misinformation surrounding sugar and carbohydrates, but anyways..
Sure - create urban and suburban environments where a car is a necessity for daily function. Financing, insurance, maintenance, repairs, fuel...

Cars aren't cheap. Reducing the overall space devoted to them and utilizing that space for useful purposes would be a net benefit. Providing public transport services with that increased revenue would leave the vast majority better off financially, not to mention the quality of life improvements.
Hi, I don’t have their expertise but I backpack and camp a lot, including in some pretty hostile environments. I keep a pack of 12 in my trunk for emergencies. The answer is yes, they’re a thing and they work. They’re super lightweight. However, I wouldn’t want to use one unless I had to. They keep you warm by trapping all of the moisture and humidity from your body inside. This means you’ll feel clammy and sweaty if you use one for long. This is why they’re called “emergency blankets”.
This. If Symfony or Ruby on Rails or Django or Quarkus or NextJS could replace Wordpress, then they would. I myself wrote Symphony for many years (2008 to 2014) and I was certain it could kill Wordpress, but it failed.

The combination of Wordpress's defaults, its ease of use by designers, and the ability for one server to handle hundreds of installments, means that almost nothing can replace it.