skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish I could say something smart about Windows 95 but...

Remember how its uptime was limited to 49.7 days because of a timer's numeric overflow (and in something like an audio driver, too, it shouldn't have been system critical). Good times.

A lot of computing in the 90s and earlier was terribly unstable. And that was without considering how prevalent viruses were in the 90s, too.
This is wild. If what you said is true, then there would be no appreciable value to be extracted by flippers. Their entire schtick is built around what you are saying being untrue.

I’m sure you have reasons for believing this, but I cannot fathom it.

Put another way, look at what empty lots sell for, and compare that to what a similar lot with a (not dilapidated) house sells for, in areas where the land values would be similar.

The only exceptions I could imagine perhaps being the places with crazy property values. But, the US is large (so, not just San Francisco)
Squirrels are a real bitch.
I thought the Amazonian spirit was to just go to the hardware store and buy a door and some angle brackets and make your own desk?
So now people spend their time on their phone or on "HN" or both. Much better.
Yes, but I don't have the power to predict the future and know which instance that's good today will turn bad at some point, so does it really matter?

> The whole internet used to work that way, where you'd have a separate account for every niche-topic forum.

True, and I'm personally happy it's not like that anymore. And you can still create a new identity per topic/interest if you want to, so arguably federated identities are the best of both worlds.
Show HN: A website that lets you annotate audio
I've had some trouble separating music into its components and getting in depth with it.
This led me to an idea of some sort of tool that could help jot it down.

There are potentials on how even music producers can see more into what they hear which encouraged me to build it more.

It is meant to feel like a native application (photoshop, ableton, etc) but has some mobile support as well.

Take a look at the source code here!
https://github.com/udu3324/mp3mark
Putting more layers of privatisation between the government and the service it provides will decrease the quality and increase the costs. Sewage is now in our rivers and we pay more for water. Trains are obscenely expensive compared to Europe. Energy is expensive. All of these things cost boatloads because we sold them off and drag the rest of the economy down with them. We wouldn't be spending so much today if we'd invested more in the past.
The physical environment thing isn't an inherent feature of office buildings either. But space for people to have individual offices, sufficient meeting rooms and video conferencing equipment for all meetings to be able to use one), and internet connections that can handle significant numbers of video calls are all expensive.
Cloudflare should provide a service (paid or free) to block AI crawlers.
Quarantine powers are subject to the “strict scrutiny” standard. Freedom of domestic travel is as fundamental as freedom of speech in Constitutional law. This has been thoroughly adjudicated many times and in many contexts by the US Supreme Court, including many attempts by the government to exploit regulatory and taxation loopholes to indirectly effect that outcome.

It is unambiguously unconstitutional to prevent everyone from traveling, even for quarantine purposes. It must be evaluated on an individual basis subject to judicial review to establish that the individual presents a clear and present danger, and only for a very limited duration. No different than restrictions on speech.

This is the reason no State anywhere, regardless of who was in power, instituted hard lockdowns during COVID. This is known to be settled law to such an extent that attempting to prevent the population from traveling without clearing the strict scrutiny standard would be met with an instant Federal court injunction, likely coupled with a withering public statement questioning the competence of the State’s Attorney General. There was no upside in taking that risk.

The idea that you can forcibly quarantine someone solely because you don’t like their choices is wishcasting, not based on credible Constitutional foundations.
Dang, I really respect your work here and in general you do a great job, but I think you overstepped here in auto-collapsing this comment thread and replying (edit: To clarify for anyone coming to this later, the GP comment was collapsed by moderator action at the time of writing. It is now flagged by user flags, which I think is entirely appropriate.)

PG gets a lot of flack on HN, some comments better-considered than others. Most of us are able to tell the difference and file the mindless attacks appropriately. We don't need you to rush to his defense, and in fact you doing so is likely counterproductive.

You've often said that you take a policy of moderating less, not more, when YC is involved. This interaction and moderation action breaks that pattern, which is harmful.
I wanted to read this, but not enough to make an account. Whoever is publishing this blog should consider whether a $0 paywall is worthwhile.
Lustre (hi, author here) has isomorphic components so you can render components both on the client or as realtime LiveView-esque things on the server, which I think is what the commenter was alluding to.

Definitely not a full-stack framework though: firmly a frontend thing just it blurs what "frontend" means a little! Hologram has a wider scope here being built on top of Phoenix.
not banned tiktok
Well, I did. Thinking about writing on bsky.

X prefers randos with checkmarks donating money to Elon over people with interesting opinions.
Such an algorithm would require plenty of data to be well trained, and I fear that the same crowd that would value such an algorithm, prioritises privacy too much.

Perhaps malicious algorithms and tracking have driven us too paranoid to even collaborate on an algorithm that actually serves us.
Abandoned by apple before it was finished.
if there aren't enough desk do you think there's enough bandwidth to handle all the "where's my shit" reports/issues?
A lot of people have problem with selective enforcement of copyright law. Yes, changing them because it is captured by greedy cooperations would be something many would welcome. But currently the problem is that for normal folks doing what openai is doing they would be crushed (metaphorically) under the current copyright law.

So it is not like all people who problems with openAI is big cudgel. Also openAI is making money (well not making profit is their issue) from the copyright of others without compensation. Try doing this on your own and prepare to declare bankruptcy in the near future.
News to me. RSS is still around and it was almost a decade after Google killed its reader that my feeds stopped working.
I think that works for some people, but not everyone.
Keep importing skilled workers. I'm sure it will work out for you eventually. /s

Seriously, I feel bad for our British bretheren. The UK government is seemingly out of control and actively working against the people. There are also long-running geopolitical trends like outsourcing to contend with. Talk too much about these things and you're probably getting sent to prison. It's time for the US to bring some democracy to the UK lol.
Not a peep about the incompetence of the Democratic party and their allies that allowed this to occur. Nor a word about the fed up voters whose needs have been ignored by them. Just more vitriol, this time against "techbros" and nerds, alienating more voters and donors that the Democrats are going to desperately need in the midterms and 2028.

Good luck with doubling down on what so far has been a losing strategy.
I love free software, but gimp is not as good as 2006 photoshop and libreoffice is not as good as 2007 word.

Gog & itch & humble are great and as good as steam if they have what you want but the collection is a lot smaller
> He only ever got SSL working on his personal website in 2023.

I also added SSL to a site "too late" by hivemind standards. It's static HTML and contains nothing sensitive. I guess maybe a malicious ISP could theoretically inject ads or something.

I don't think he believed it was a protocol in a literal sense, but that people were using it like one. It had an open API at the time and both production and consumption of tweets was often automated. It didn't really work out that way longer-term, but it wasn't crazy to guess that it might.
You're not alone with this one, don't need another potential source of spam.
My colleagues and I used to joke that any build system issue you encounter will be addressed in next year's build system.

* https://wiki.ros.org/rosbuild

* https://wiki.ros.org/catkin

* https://docs.ros.org/en/jazzy/Tutorials/Beginner-Client-Libr...

* https://docs.ros.org/en/jazzy/How-To-Guides/Ament-CMake-Docu...

It doesn't feel like a joke anymore.
It's not enthusiasm over something they love. It's enthusiasm about how their thing is so much better than your thing.

It gets old.
F-Droid Security Issues (2022)
There was a time when techcrunch went from broadly covering technology to being 95% Twitter stories. It was pretty irritating
And I think I’ve been proven correct
> the incoming president is exploiting his supporters’ enthusiasm for financial gain

I think I'm stating the obvious but this is Trump's whole game: Money and power for him and his family with all other considerations secondary.
Actually, they thought that the Esperanto word for forge, is «forgejo». When somebody pointed out, that «forgejo» (fora gejo -> forgejo) is «faraway gay person», it was already too late. So, now they say that it is inspired by «forĝejo», which is the word for forge.
Their argument is that using copyrighted data for training is transformative, and therefore a form of fair use. There are a number of ongoing lawsuits related to this issue, but so far the AI companies seem to be mostly winning. Eg. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-gets-partial...

Some artists also tried to sue Stable Diffusion in Andersen v. Stability AI, and so far it looks like it's not going anywhere.

In the long run I bet we will see licensing deals between the big AI players and the large copyright holders to throw a bit of money their way, in order to make it difficult for new entrants to get training data. Eg. Reddit locking down API access and selling their data to Google.
Block him is the only way. The algorithm gives him 1000x over everything
Shameless plug, but Dusk OS[1] is a Forth that boots near instantly. It runs on PC, EFI (Intel Macs too), Raspberry Pi models 1, 2, 3, Zero.

It has a graphical stack. Still a bit underpowered, but enough to implement uxn[2], which many people use for writing fun little games.

[1]: http://duskos.org/

[2]: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
And the speakers set to 11?
One AI being able to do every task every human can do would be superhuman. But it is much more likely that at least at first AIs would be customized to narrower skill sets like Mathematician or programmer or engineer due to resource limitations.
>That’s a surprising outcome.

It's President Trump, what are you going to do about it? The man has been regularly breaking the law since 2016 and there is never any political will to stop him.

Trump v. U.S. established it's not illegal when Trump does it.
Had citizens united gone the other way, imagine what Trump could’ve done with Facebook and Google to ensure reelection in 2020.
Manufacturing is always about 25 years behind the times. I made good scratch in the '00s helping manufactures with their DEC PDP-11 and DG Novas (from the 70s).
That's what happens when there is not much manufacturing in the country anymore, and everyone is encouraged to go to college. I don't know why the software industry hasn't suffered more along the same lines. Maybe the profit margins for software are higher.
tbh i'll probably just forget both things.
Thank you for the post.
It made me connect some dots in my mind about the frustation of a close long distance friend.
Some people brought that upon themselves with the choices they commited in their life. I'm kind to most people but some people don't deserve our kindness, doesn't mean that I disrespect them.
Interesting storytelling website.
So we should "just trust" the same people who said that Saddam had WMDs?
While on the subject of Korean (game) shows, I found The Devil's Plan quite enjoyable.
Wondering whether the author has some kind of odd medical condition, and how common his experience is. The after-image symptom he describes is decidedly peculiar.

I can't say that I share his opinion. I find dark-mode preferable under pretty much all circumstances, and often find myself flinching when switching to a site with a fully white background.I also find it easier to read ebooks in dark mode when in full sunlight when reading on my tablet -- also the opposite of his preference. And I'm wondering whether perhaps he needs to turn down the brightness on his monitor.
There is nothing new about all the problems you have described. If you think its new then please go and read about the Gilded Age and how US Democracy survived it.

Also look at China's over reaction to Covid, Russia's braindead war etc to understand strong leaders bring their own set of new problems to the table.
What is the constitutional provision that covers this?
This is both hard to explain to people and hard to get them onboard even once it's been explained and understood.

I think more people should think about things this way: I'm building a house now, so am I betting that in 30 years the price of gas will decrease or increase? Will electricity decrease or increase in price?

Anyone who has seen a graph of solar, battery, wind, and other renewable power grid solution costs should probably be betting that gas will increase in price over time and that electricity should decrease in cost over time, at the very least relative to one another.

I also think that more homeowners and especially builders need to stop choosing the cheapest installation options every single time as a default. I know that building a home is expensive and housing is already at a very high cost, but the US housing market is positively riddled with short term thinking when it comes to homebuilding.

At some point the comfort and safety benefits of a heat pump should be worth it. For example, a fully electrified home essentially eliminates carbon monoxide risk. You also lose the need to pay for two transmission fees (the part of your bill that involves the base service cost and not the metered usage).
NexusAI: All-in-One AI Solution for Students
You're equating avoiding mass-market social media with becoming a hermit on a remote island.

But you're here, saying that on HN.

I've seen people say similar things on Reddit, in IRC channels, on blogs, Gemlogs, Mastodon posts, and other similar venues, without realizing the irony of it.
you switch UK and USA in your post and you are right
Definitely not unilaterally.

Washington Landlord Tenant law lists several unwaivable rights of tenants, even given specific consideration.

You can't put a clause in my lease that says "For a discount of $100/mo, I forego the relevant rights on habitability (heating, water, etc.)" - even if I am willing to agree to it.
When I was in college, I got a job in the campus DC for the same reason. Best job ever for an undergraduate student.
> There is an inflection point, where the price of a good is minimized whereas it's quality and lifespan is maximized. Such an inflection point is somewhat high - meaning it cannot be reached by poor people.

You say that as if it's universally true of all goods.

Btw, finance is one way to transform cap-ex into op-ex. That's why we have mortgages and you can rent things.

> Sure, a Birkin might be pretty, but really any decently made leather bag will run circles around what you can find at Target. The Birkin isn't bought for quality.

That's why you don't buy a leather bag when you are poor and have your wits about you. Leather is expensive. Not just absolutely, but also per use of your bag.
First thing I thought on seeing the headline too. Do they not have editors?
Yes, but no one prohibits poor people from changing their values.
Def not making an account on whatever random website heatpumped.org is. Owner of the site needs to stop pretending their the WSJ.

Anyways the phrasing of the non-blocked article seems to imply the title is a red herring, and their bill actually went down. I'll never know though.
I still have my 2006 copy of CS4. Took me till last year to find a feature I'm bummed about not having (new brush files aren't always compatible)
Protip - it's often cheaper to heat with burning buffalo chips than electricity even if your heat pump is super efficient. Do a spreadsheet and maybe get some solar panels to feed the new beast. Otherwise you may just need to bask in the glow of self satisfaction and enjoy not poisoning yourself with VOCs and CO.

I'm not subscribing to your newsletter...
Have something slightly more... happy? sad? I take sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1kjzd7uug
And usage tends to go two ways.
Yes, but it's also a bit like closing the barn door after the cows have escaped.
Suitably similar RSA keys well compromise each other.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/12/rsa-iot-vulnerability/

So bad randomness can let a remote attacker break them much more easily.
Almost every game for the last 25 years has used those Win32 performance counters, or the platforms nearest equivalent (it’s a just a wrapper over some CPU instructions), to measure frame times. It’s the highest resolution clock in the system, it’s a performance counter. You’re supposed to use it for that.

If you want to correlate the timestamps with wall time then good luck, but if you just need to know how many nanoseconds elapsed between two points in the program on a single thread then that’s your tool.
That is a sound idea, but it makes more sense for hieroglyphs and ideograms.

My guess for phoenicia is that their alphabet comes from numbers (or maybe other smaller individual set of symbols) borrowed from another culture, but I wouldn't be able to determine from who or where.
> some Australian billionaire

I think you mean Rupert Murdoch. He was born in Australia but naturalized as an American citizen, due to restrictions on foreign control of broadcast media.

If TikTok moved to control by an American citizen born in China, then that would comply with the PAFACA. If the people already controlling TikTok naturalized as American citizens then that would also comply (though that's obviously not going to happen).

Restrictions on foreign control of the highest-reach media are nothing new. The PAFACA simply updates them to reflect new viewing habits. "Foreign" continues to be defined by citizenship, not birthplace.
Probably the biggest problem after climate change, or atleast up there.

since this problem prevents the solution of others, because there's way lower collaboration and organisation due to the persistent loneliness and all the mental health costs.

the worst part is people stuck in the blissful non lonely state just don't give a fuck, cause they got their happiness.
Release occurred at the end(ish) of December. Love this typeface and can’t wait for Houston to be released!
I’ve found… that I’m not missing much.

Even from people I admire that are exclusively there.

The push to generate a constant stream of content means that their good stuff is long past anyways.
>Their preference to shut down instead of receiving tens of billions of dollars would be a clear violation of a company’s fiduciary duty to shareholders for any normal company.

Would you argue for Tesla or Apple to sell to China? Do you think Musk would divest his China business? The parallels are almost identical

1. Tesla cars collect a huge amount of data.

2. Tesla is already banned from being driven by government officials.

3. Tesla has the best self driving algorithm

4. Chinese cars are already banned in the US

5. China is Tesla's second largest market

6. Tesla is the 3rd largest EV company in China

Would you be surprised if Elon decided to exist China instead of "receiving tens of billions of dollars" from China?
Which is curious if the sourcing by The Information is legitimate, considering that the FTC hasn't yet begun enforcement.
Currently in the program. So far it's been pretty disorganized, and fairly self motivated (to be fair so are many of my university classes). Assignments are extremely trivial, thus far. Some extremely strong engineers are definitely in the cohort, as well as peers from top tier Universities. I would say the cohort itself is pretty strong independent of the program.

Like anybody still doing it is just a fairly competent/OK engineer. Austen has said we're hearing logistics around the move to Austin this week, so we'll find out details then. With regards to financial arrangements, Austen Allred has been banned by CFPB from engaging in any sort of loans or loan devices. Gauntlet has felt much more like a recruitment play than Lambda school but still early days. We've been given no contracts to sign as of yet, and nobody has claimed we will sign any contracts.
Once upon a time, it was illegal to discount something to gain market share and then charge extra once you've bullied out your competition. Technically it's still illegal, but good luck finding enforcement.

We're seeing the "free" version of that.
You can enter any email and the article instantly unlocks. It doesn’t seem to be an account.
The impetus for this is largely from Congress in both parties. Public support often doesn't align with congressional action and it doesn't stop them.

Vote for your congress members.
You really want all information to be locked up into a proprietary platform controlled by Musk?

And Twitter is the ultimate “dark pattern”
Can you give an example of a copyright lawsuit lost by a 'normal person' that's doing the same thing OpenAI is?
You gotta make friends. You gotta have kids. That’s the story, man. Tbh a lot of people invite this life upon themselves. “I shouldn’t have to” / “Do you really expect me to” etc etc
Too many web developers assume everyone loves Dark Mode, default to that, and defend their choice by pointing to the toggle button that says Dark/Light Mode. I’m surprised many, even with freshly done websites, still do not pick up on the user’s preferences and are set to it!

For developers, the `color-scheme` CSS property allows an element to indicate which color schemes it can comfortably be rendered in.[1]

:root {
color-scheme: light dark;
}

element { light-dark(light-color-code, dark-color-code);

For users on macOS, I like dark mode in some cases, such as the Menubar and the IDE, but light for other activities, such as reading, writing, and browsing. Hence, it is a mixed preference;

System Preferences, then set the theme to LIGHT, then run

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

Logout, then System Preferences, then set the theme to DARK.

Reset back to the default theme.

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color-schem...
Phenomenal piece of engineering, especially the soldering and figuring out why it wouldn't boot with the debugger attached.
Very true, although I suppose a significant fraction of the decline at that time might be a result of the end of the Empire, which given that there are simply no such successful Empires anywhere in the world anymore was almost certainly inevitable.

By comparison, the performance of the UK in the last 20 years vs the US or the Nordics is a singular tragedy.
If you look at the PGE bill that is visible before article gets cut off, his electricity use went way up year over year and his natural gas use went down. I'm guessing he got an electric heat pump to replace his gas furnace, and just pays a lot more per kWh for electricity than he was paying per therm or cuft or whatever of natural gas.