skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also PNW, Willamette Valley, I've had standard compost pile forever and for a few years I had a few chickens. It was amazing how well the poop worked and I had such absurd amounts of worms in my compost that I fed some back to the chickens.

The only problem is that it does take a while for the poop to turn into compost and with the constant addition of fresh poop it was hard to time. I have two piles and do a yearly changeover, that keeps it easy.
Overly specific weaseling. (Not by you, by Cloudflare).

The questions are not about if they were approached or participate in any programs, it's what they do and if they provide the data or not.
It makes no sense to me how this is an argument of free speech.

I assume you are saying this is curtailing the creators speech? However the creators can move to any other platform, they are not being restricted in what they can say or produce.

So perhaps the concern is about TikTok's free speech; which, thank god the constitution does not protect a foreign adversaries right to free speech.
Cory, your content is killing it :D
That 24 core MacBook probably also consumes at least an order of magnitude less power while checking email than the 1-core computer you had 25 years ago.

Heck, that MacBook probably consumes less power with all 24 cores blazing than the 1-core computer did just to check email. Modern notebook CPUs do a really good job of leaving cores that aren't currently needed in power save mode. That's what makes it possible for the battery to last for a full workday. Despite possibly also having less capacity than typical laptop batteries from 25 years ago.
My favorite theory is that it's related to zoning, permitting, and the urban built environment. What happened in the early '70s is that many of the US's major cities saw broad downzoning which compounded the effect of urban flight to suburbs, urban renewal, and the construction of freeways in cities which started the decade prior. This ensured that the traditional productivity gains of cities could not be shared as equally any longer. It led to a lower labor share of income (higher share to rent/land) and longer commutes for suburbs which effectively lowered their share of wealth. Productivity gains since have mostly went to increasing economic rents for land owners and monopolistic capital owners. After California's Prop 13 in 1978, many other states followed with their own property tax caps in the late '70s and early '80s which led to even more of the share of economic gains going to property owners.
I should clarify that I mean auditing dependency-publisher authentication, rather than full code review.

This returns us to status quo ante, back before supply chain attacks were something we worried about. Bugs and such from dependencies are an annoyance but a manageable problem. Supply chain attacks after publisher account compromise are catastrophic and are not manageable.
"An absolutely outrageous number of dependencies! What a bunch of wankers."

I comment, in a Chromium[1] tab, running on my Ubuntu[2] box.

[1] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/.gitmodules

[2] https://releases.ubuntu.com/24.04/ubuntu-24.04.1-desktop-amd...
As you said, the psychology of marketing and retention is far more widespread today than it was when TV was invented. Would you agree news stations today report differently than they did 50 years ago? That's a very obvious transition. The transition of how fictional programming has changed is less obvious, but still there-- and the amount people watch (and allow it to shape their personalities) has changed, too.
How's that a lie? It came from his own mouth! It's his PR person who walked it back and cooked up an explanation.

RFK Jr is not a child. He's in full control of the narrative he wants to portray about himself. If he wants to go say kooky things to reporters, he can't be upset if people think he is a kook. And he clearly seems to personally enjoy the reputation of being a kook, based on willingly he throws out jokes about it.

I have no problem with him being a kook! It's just ironic how many criticisms and conspiracy theories he throws out there about others and yet how seriously people want to take him.
>Solving CO2 output by reducing power usage never made any sense.

Exactly. Any society that seriously adopted it and deliberately deindustralised would eventually just get taken over by a more industrialised neighbour.
There were not enough gold backed dollars to support greatly expanded trade. Increased trade in oil was the straw that broke the camel's back in my opinion.
To do this with a generation of peace who cannot comprehend how you can end up with a conflict in western europe in the next couple of decades does come with some level of risk. You have to have a detailed gameplan right out of the gate having gameplayed how economically and politically antagonistic your neighbors are going to be to your early moves. And if in the early days the perception is that things are getting worse than they were before (see Brexit) the risk of future unrest and conflict increases I would think.
Postgres is now top 10 in ClickBench
> inflation, bank runs and credit crises

The root causes of the problem are right there in your sentence.

Of course the banks were facing bank runs, they literally accepted that risk when they lent out the deposited money. When people came and tried to withdraw, they didn't have the liquid funds. Coming off the gold standard just made it a little easier for the government to bail out the banks by literally printing money and giving it to them so that people can withdraw their funds. "Liquidity injection" they call it.

Credit and fractional reserve banking are the true origins of inflation. A thousand dollars can baloon up into tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars through the magic of repeatedly loaning money. You can run a money printer 24/7 and you will never inflate the money supply more than banks do with their loans.

Credit is made up money. It just appears out of thin air when people get loans. It's not real until it's paid back. If too many people start defaulting on debts the whole thing comes crashing down.
so,npm hell,or pip hell again?

to be fair, python pkg dependency are fine to me,there might be a lot of pip pkgs still,but not a few hundreds like npm and cargo normally pulls in.

golang also has a reasonable amount of dependencies. npm and cargo dependencies are just scary due to the huge number.
If the IOCCC description [1] doesn't make it clear enough, perhaps this explanation [2] does it better?
I also link to a Pi Day 2023 talk trying to explain it on my lambda playground page [3].

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/

[2] https://gist.github.com/tromp/86b3184f852f65bfb814e3ab0987d8...

[3] https://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html
Kicking out Oracle might have to do with factors outside the usage of relational databases...
...if AGI is even a meaningful concept. I'm deeply skeptical.
I have found that inertia.js is a great solution, it basically allows you to program in your traditional back end multi-page application, MVC kind of style, but with all the benefits of an SPA. So, you get to skip writing an API and just pass data into a view like in the old days, but the view is a React component (or Vue or Svelte)
yep tiktak has far more serotonin spikes per "next item" per unit time than hackernews.
"We keep ScopeDB private and proprietary, while we actively get involved and contribute back to the open-source dependencies, open source common libraries when it’s suitable"

They say they do when suitable (never or rarely).

But that's fine as the licenses allow it. It feels like another company blogging about how great open source to get pr while close sourcing their product.

The older I get the more I understand why gpl variations are superior to bsd if you want to grow the software. Bsd are good for throw away code or standards you want others to adopt.
THIS!

If you listen to the arguments that TikTok made before the Supreme Court, the court is extremely dubious of the free speech argument. And this has been a court that has been very favorable to free speech overall.
You are probably questioned more about cash transactions under the reporting limit. Over the reporting limit they file a form. Under they have to determine if they need to file a form.
Rust dependencies tend to be pretty high quality in my experience. Maintained by experts and offer new improvements over state-of-the-art.

But if you compare to C/C++ at least with Rust you _can_ but aren't required to use dependencies. In C/C++ if you want to, it's a _massive_ pain.
Show HN: Raink – Document ranker using LLMs
I think a lot of AI-augmented security problems can be decomposed into "show me the best thing in this list of things":

- the changed function in a patch diff that most closely relates to a given security advisory

- the injection point in a webapp that seems most likely to cause a state change on the backend

- the static code analyzer result that would have most severe impact if a sink were actually reachable

It's notoriously difficult to get an LLM to seriously consider all items when presented with a big list of input—so I built raink, a CLI tool to harness LLMs for general purpose document ranking.

Blog post here: https://bishopfox.com/blog/raink-llms-document-ranking
To echo what other comments have said about it being propaganda related, we can already see this occurring today:

https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Tik-Tok-ing-...
you may be right that there is a, "significant amount of bots on Reddit pushing certain agendas". However, Reddit is fundamentally designed to incentivize authentic engagement and to punish bots. If it wasn't the case before is certainly is now given the fact that they are now extracting value from the authenticity of data on their platform via AI Training data sales. Reddit is fiduciarily encouraged to tamp down bots and spam because they are financially incentivized to have the most genuine data.

All of that aside it is irrelevant because we are talking about third parties (users/bots) pushing propaganda vs the platform owner itself pushing propaganda.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive denunciations to Hacker News.

You may not owe front men who aren't good better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> clearly appears that something significant and non-random happened in the 1970-1972 period

How are you cutting it off that cleanly? How about this: pick a chart and I'll find the data. We can then look at the numbers and see if something significant happened in '71.
Another protectionist measure to help the laggards in the us auto industry. Will they be condemned to serve just the US market while the Chinese firms eat the rest of South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe?
ASGI support for Django landed in 2019. Those comments are very outdated

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/releases/3.0/#asgi-sup...
Author here. I would say the core principles still hold up well, though the tooling and libraries are constantly evolving.

An incomplete list of things I'd add / change today (and are on my roadmap to cover in more detail):

I would probably recommend Vite over Webpack as the main bundler/builder, as it's faster and rapidly taking over as the default tool to solve the same use cases.

The other gap that is missing is a treatment of the "nobuild" options that exist today. Essentially things like ES modules and import maps and other stuff that lets you (if you want) run a lot of modern JavaScript libraries with zero toolchain directly in the browser.

I'd also want to revisit the fully decoupled approach a bit more. With the advent of LLM-based tools that can generate complete front ends for you, as well as libraries like shadcn, there is a larger upside to adopting the complexity of the decoupled API set up, even if it definitely still is slower and more painful for anything that touches the backend.

Django ninja has been gaining traction against DRF as an API library and the developer experience and performance are definitely better, though DRF still has way more batteries in terms of 3rd party library support for various use case.

The Django + HTMX + Alpine stack has only gotten more widely adopted since I published Part 5, and I'd say that part has held up quite well in the "low to no JavaScript" ecosystem for Django, and is the default choice for many Django devs now.
They are blogs. If you read the articles you will see that they all point to the same statcounter link as their source. And the statcounter page gives zero info on what source they used.
Same reason we teach history.
Yea but gpt-4 is also only very slightly marginally useful in terms of productivity as it stands today. I highly doubt we're going to get returns on this without huge structural changes to how chatbots work.
And it only took them how long to do this?

If our supreme court wasn't compromised, this kind of thing should be heard there to not only prevent this in all states, but hold accountable the thieves an make them return their ill-gotten goods.
Very cool, any chance of either open-sourcing it or allowing the browser part to be self-hosted? i.e. to act on websites hosted in a local lan/vpn?

Also, did you evaluate https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use by any chance and have any comments about it? I'm assuming it was too AI-heavy based on what you said about claude/etc?
As someone who was in the 90th percentile, I can confirm that it wasn't a universal quality about my entire being. I got to be in higher-level courses where I excelled. Those are generally available, even in public school systems.

And just because I was good at math and writing didn't mean that I "deserved" to be in some separate system where I got the "best" of everything (with diminishing returns). When I eventually encountered people who were afforded just such a deal ("elite" private school in a wealthy area), they were far less impressive than the top college-level facilities they enjoyed as grade schoolers; it seemed like a waste of money that could have been put to more efficient use, as far as society writ large might be concerned.
How would you associate non-character data with ranges of characters, such as for syntax coloring, semantic links, and references to points in the text?

(I couldn't find a mention of this in the README, design.md, or examples.)

In Emacs buffers, the concepts include text properties, overlays, and markers.
So, do we agree that Steam is not representative of worldwide installs, and the data is heavily biased?

>And the statcounter page gives zero info on what source they used.

That is answered in the very first question of the FAQ which is linked at the top of every page:
https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

>In other words we calculate our Global Stats on the basis of more than 5 billion page views per month, by people from all over the world onto our 1.5 million+ member sites.
Related ongoing thread (though not much there yet):

‘TikTok refugees’ flock to China's RedNote - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709236
Because for 5-20 dollars you can drive hundreds of thousands of people if not millions of people to your video, product, meme, whatever... Youtube, not so much.
Right, and why don't all products get priced at cost+? Such a puzzle.

/s

Pricing is not about today's balance sheet, but about the future of the business. If pricing ever becomes about making this month's payroll, the business is probably in trouble. There are exceptions, especially for small businesses.
Its the fact that 140 million of us chose to assemble in this place ( app ) that IMHO should have weighed much higher as a concern, over speculative spoooky dangers. No actual harm to the country was shown, just supposition, which equates to us trusting the government when it strips out constitutional rights away.
It's more like telling people that they're gonna have to visit a mobile site instead of use a mobile app.
Decentralizing computation [making it mostly on-premises again] could potentially mitigate some of the problems the article points out, in several ways:

*Localizing Power Usage*: By moving some computational tasks to local systems (on-premises), you could reduce the reliance on large, centralized data centers, which are often constrained by power and cooling limitations. This would also reduce the need for extensive retrofitting of data centers to support higher power densities.

*Efficiency Gains*: Decentralized computation, especially for non-essential services, could be more energy-efficient on a per-unit basis. Local infrastructure might allow for better optimization of energy use. Smaller, distributed systems could have specialized power and cooling needs that are more manageable and tailored to the task at hand.

*Reduced Data Transmission and Latency*: With computing spread out across local or edge-based facilities, energy costs could be further reduced by minimizing the need for long-distance data transmission, which itself requires significant energy, especially with AI workloads.
> Credit and fractional reserve banking are the creators of these problems

Yes. Unfortunately, a society without credit is almost-always outcompeted by one that embraces it. We're thus stuck with managing it. Credit existed before 1971, before the Federal Reserve Act, before the signing of the Magna Carta, hell, before the Code of Hammurabi.
Related ongoing thread:

TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710339 - Jan 2025 (807 comments)
> > In English, it seems to be called rednote.

> I know someone who speaks Chinese and uses that app. The name in Chinese Xiaohongshu clearly translates to "Little Red Book," and they're confused how anyone got "Red Note" out of it.

I'll tell you a funny one like that in another language:

Instagram reels are well... short-form videos usually with music/audio and effects.

It's pronounced something like "real" but longer.

Anyway, in French that word "reel" is printed the same but since most people don't practice spoken English it's read and pronounced "réel". Something like ray-hell (notice the é). And it annoys me to no eeeend :D.

So, among French-speaking community management crews and social network teams you hear "réel"/ray-hell all the time instead of "reel".

And how do you translate "réel" into English ? You guessed it: it's "real".
sorry for not providing explanations, but check this out:
https://tromp.github.io/cl/diagrams.html

did you see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256394 (The Art and Mathematics of Genji-Ko
172 points, by olooney, 49 days ago, 10 comments)? very tangentially related, but also mesmerizing stuff, i think..
How about we cut the AI bit and just get a nice C02 decrease, i.e. the actual thing that will support future humans? THat's one more coal plant we can shut down.
Yes, and those companies are a minority. I wouldn't be surprised if AI providers developed solutions for them. Almost immediately we saw tinybox emerge, old Tesla cards doubled and tripled in price on eBay, and Nvidia announced Digits so there's definitely interest in offline solutions.
for those curious why an app would name itself Little Red Book despite the association, obviously they could have been better about the naming, but they're actually not the same name in either language:

The social media app Xiaohongshu (小红书) does literally translate to "little red book" in English. However, this is completely different from Mao's famous work, which was never called this in Chinese. Mao's book was informally known as "Hongbaoshu" (红宝书) meaning "red treasured book" and formally titled "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong" (毛主席语录).

The apparent connection in English comes from translators using "Little Red Book" for both terms (maybe due to training or an agenda? who knows, choosing word-by-word translation for one and popular translation for another), even though they're distinct and unrelated in the original Chinese, and of course in the official desired English "RedNote" too.
I think people mostly use it for unit testing functionality since it’s generally a faster dev loop compared to running integration tests.
I think the American government is contorting its public argument to avoid saying this plainly because there are many American companies that control information for most of the world, and they don't want other countries to go "Hmm, hang on a minute..."
It doesn't seem like Cloudflare has any problems with online gambling, especially since the first email the author got from Cloudflare came from someone in their "Gaming & iGaming" division. There's people in this thread in other industries who have had similar experiences with them.

IMO the biggest problems are how Cloudflare kept inventing excuses like "issues with account settings" to get the customer on the phone with their sales team, and the mixing of "trust and safety" with sales (like deleting their account for ToS violations after the CEO mentioned talking to a competing CDN).
Some, sure, highly unlikely a majority does if you look at how many Americans use TikTok
What do you mean? I thought the US dollar was fixed to gold between WWII and 1971:

> On 15 August 1971, the United States ended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar a fiat currency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
Apple steps up expansion of its News platform
I spend a lot of time on YT, and less time on Instagram... and 0 time on TikTok, where I never created an account.

YT Shorts exist exclusively for YT creators who want to publish bite-sized pieces of content for their audience with a much lower expectation of polish than their normal longer form content. Perhaps the algorithm also presents "random" YouTubers', too, but the vast majority of what I see is put out by the publishers I'm already following (or other very similar publishers in the same ecosystem).

I would suggest that TikTok's successor is Insta Reels. Reels are almost exclusively entertainment and because they tie into Instagram's broader user/connections network the UX is much better than TikTok. Nobody goes to Instagram to figure out how to replace their garbage disposal -- this is squarely YT domain. If YT Shorts can make inroads in the entertainment market [without feeling like a commercial break between pieces of actual content, which is the impression I have and the way I use it].
The saying goes you eat with your eyes. These things depend on dye as they rot on the shelf otherwise.

A paper on it:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00319...
If we played the same as China does, we'd be hacking Baidu through a vulnerability in a Microsoft web browser until they withdrew completely from the American market.
Of course it's relevant. TikTok should be considered a broadcaster. We have not allowed foreign ownership of a broadcaster since 1934.

A book does not broadcast in the same way.
https://archive.ph/75tfL
There are foreign-controlled TV networks in the US. Not over-the-air, but that's probably due to them being niche more than anything.
> Is there a risk that cloud providers cannot meet the demand?

Waste? Cloud providers are super expensive and can't generally justify this expense with the benefits of outsourcing.
Posting like this will get you banned here.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: I took a quick look at your recent comment history and it seems just fine (other than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713605, also in this thread). If you'd please post like that and not like this, that would be good.