skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool!

I recently stumbled across a cassette of the first “commercial” software I ever wrote, a simple database with an inventory tracking module for a local food co-op.

I was 14 at the time, and the software was written for the zx80/81. Around that time I also sold a simple universal list database with no rows or keys, searchable with a super simple regex type syntax. That was for use with a battery-backed RAM expansion pack, and offloaded to cassette as backup.
NTFS and ReFS are high performance file systems. But yes, it is due to file system filters, which OOTB means Windows Defender, though that can be extended by 3rd parties, including Sysinternals utils such as procmon.

Microsoft built a very extensible I/O stack and prior to Defender/prior to SSDs it really wasn't very noticable... back when it was originally designed well through the 90s and early 00s.

Unfortunately it is now noticable despite being an otherwise smart design. Which means Windows and/or NTFS are blamed as being slow, neither of which has any basis in fact when we look at the overall design of Windows' subsystems/VMM in comparison to macOS/Linux.

It sucks. You've got great plumbing in Windows with a shit shell on top.
The only way they could have raised the price was if you opted into their new "Quantum Fiber" plan. I got the snail-mail postcards offering me the "upgrade", but I did not see any benefit. They offered exactly the same service I already have. I assumed (correctly) that they were just trying to get out of the $65/mo "lifetime" deal they promised.

I still have the deal.

Edit:
I just checked, and Quantum Fiber now offers 2G/1G (two down, one up) fiber in my Vegas neighborhood for $95/mo. They are claiming it's a "lifetime" price guarantee.

I'll keep waiting for Google's 10G fiber.
In middle school we had a “computer” class where we’d learn how to type, as well as navigate a computer. This was Windows 2000 days.

As a prank, my friends and I would do the following:

* Hide all the icons on the desktop

* Trigger an error message

* Take a screenshot of the whole screen

* Open the screenshot in MS Paint

* Carefully paint over the error message to say “You’ve been hacked.”

* Change the desktop background to be the screenshot above

* Restore all the icons.

You’d end up with a convincing looking error message that wouldn’t close, obviously.

The next class, the teacher lectured us for 45 minutes on the definition of “script kiddy” vs. “real hacker” and how we should be embarrassed.

This made the whole thing even funnier.

It’s true though, I was a script kiddie.
> Experts suspect X owner’s interest in UK is to put pressure on authorities working to codify a new online safety law

In what world is this not under the subset of "politics"?
And no one is saying that… not even the comment you’re replying to.

It makes a good point though, there’s so much going on in the executive branch right now. Much of it is destructive imo. This is a great distraction for most Americans who aren’t very tuned into politics in general.
Well, yes and no. I was more interested in what it did and how it worked rather than 'using' it, I just remember it causing a lot of problems. But yes, this was around the time I learned not to run random executables I found on the internet.
Your own source contradicts you: "The total number of humans who have ever lived is estimated to be approximately 100 billion. "
It can be even worse. When people are too deep into a particular technique they lose track of what the system needs. I've seen 500M intranet applications who were slower that handwriting on preprinted paper templates (which means network failures would increase productivity overall).
I mean, how is that different than choosing between commercial social media platforms today? You're tacitly accepting whatever their moderation policy is. If you're fine with that, then it really doesn't matter which server you choose, the generic primary Pixelfed server will probably be fine for you. If you do care, you can change your mind. Fortunately it's much easier to move instances and still be found than with any commercial social media platform.
Imagine if Linus needed a gaming rig to develop Linux...

And he also did not had cargo at his disposal.

No need to point out it is C instead, as they share common roots, including place of birth.

Or how we used to compile C++ between 1986 and 2000's, mostly in single core machines, developing games, GUIs and distributed computing applications in CORBA and DCOM.
One big question is why presumably "open source" projects still consider in 2025 to be acceptable to be hosted on Github (especially for those with the most important contributors not being USian).
> An ideal transformer will give you perfect galvanic isolation. A GFI therefore becomes useless on transformer secondaries, because there is no way to complete a circuit through earth back to the transformer.

Yes and no. You declare one of the secondary wires to be neutral and the other to be the “line”, and you connect “ground” to “neutral” in exactly one place. And the GFI monitors the sum of the line and neutral current, but not the ground. And you connect your equipment chassis to ground via the wire that, in the US, is green and is called, in the NEC, the “equipment grounding conductor”. And the GFCI will protect you if you are touching a grounded object with one part of your body and accidentally contact something that’s is at “line” voltage.

If you are using a transformer to provide power to part of a building subject to the NEC, you may be required to do approximately this. And your bathroom receptacles are hopefully GFCI protected and are also fed from a transformer near your house…

> electrostatic shield

You can get a transformer with approximately this, in small sizes, sold for “medical” use, off the shelf at reasonable prices. I have one that I bought from Digikey because it had the right specs, even though I don’t need the shield.

But I haven’t seen one that has fittings intended to integrate it into a Faraday cage. Maybe someone makes it. Admittedly, I have not worked with that many Faraday cages in my life, and I didn’t get to examine the detailed construction of the giant anechoic Faraday cage in which we tested the smaller Faraday cage I was using.
I don't think the distinction is about whether the organizations make money; the distinction is about entertainment. Professional sports are primarily a form of entertainment. Sports fans are a bit like music fans in that regard. The rivalries in sports can get toxic sometimes, but there's weird snobbery in music and other arts as well.
Lawsuits could be part of the scam in theory. Hypothetically, a scheme like this could involve riding the line, and when the counterparty (victim) trips up, use manipulative legal tactics to get them to pay up.

A corollary would be patent/copyright trolls.
With LLMs, everybody can be a script kiddie. Imagine the scale ...
What makes it not-phone-capable? The non-s variant powers the "open source laptop" that was on the front page a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797260
Yeah we’re just bike shedding here ;)
Allegedly, they have a lot more space they can use:

> The Alpha Genesis test facility specializes in nonhuman primate research for biomedical research. It is one of the largest primate facilities in the country designed specifically for monkeys, with over 100 acres of land for research and breeding, according to its website.

Though, of course, that is marketing.
You underestimate how much being a soccer fan means, especially in countries like UK.
Good experience here w/ Vultr.com (tho v lightly used). It was Derek Sivers' recommendation. https://sive.rs/ti
who bullies the bullies?
> No one got physically hurt in this scenario.

This is not certain.
Asking the real questions! I can't use NFC transit cards because Google wallet doesn't trust my phone
I like http://papertrail.com; it’s super easy to integrate with any backend, offers alerts, and much more.
The norm these days at Arsenal is to be sent off early!
That's the point at which most sane people would tell the interviewer to "GTFO".

If they're hiring for some hyper unique role where they have to deal with some contrived AI in a dark room and they have to do it because someone's got a gun to their heads and they have to invent calculus to solve FizzBuzz in under 14.5 minutes otherwise the memory is corrupted and the world explodes, then sure they can ask such a contrived interview question.

Until then, this company is either crazy, bored, not looking to hire a candidate, or simply fictional and made up by the author to tell a feel-good story that makes them look like the Einstein-equivalent for programmers.
Known Physical Bitcoin Attacks
The poster was preventing a crime against innocent parties. His "victims" were the criminals. The script kiddies were responsible for running malware and trying to launch attacks from their parents' computers in this scenario, and they would be the ones responsible for data erasure of others using the same computer.

In that sense, file deletion is destructive but honest. The poster owned the systems at this point and could have exfiltrated data or used the control of the systems for further attacks. This was decidedly mild.
A manager should be intercepting requests for your time and prioritizing your work. There are always more things that need doing than there are hours for you to do them in. They should know what is important, and steer the ship appropriately while you're out gathering requirements, analyzing, building, and iterating based on feedback.

They should also, depending on the engineer, periodically be checking in to make sure that you're on track and not spinning your wheels.
The problem is you need a term for "flying thing we saw but weren't able to identify and/or categorize" (which is certainly a legitimate need) but every time you start using it this will increasingly change meaning to "aliens and such are zooming around and <some power> doesn't want you to know" (completely regardless if it's factually true or not - nobody is going to want to use an alternative term someone sets aside for "crackpots" in either case) until it gets to the point people don't even associate the term with what it was created for again.
I keep the router they gave me in one of my garages. The only time I've ever connected it was when their service had a problem and they wanted to run remote diagnostics. The other 99.9999% of the time, I use an OpenWRT VM.

I would not have accepted the router if there were any strings attached, and they're welcome to take it back if they want to start charging me for it.
If it's a simple app, consider NearlyFreeSpeech https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/hosting

Easy, straight-forward no-frills hosting.

Could you share the app if/when it's available somewhere? I have a Buddhist monk friend moving to Thailand later this year who would be quite interested in something such as what you described.
I really doubt that this is the concern.
What I see here is a big Opus Dei family full of business contacts but no technical background. I'm not on front of my keyboard right now, but the Pasquín Echanove family is big and have been controlling parts of Spanish (and US) banks. But I don't think they have any future on this. I wouldn't give them a single Euro.
But AI will just summarize v other humans’ work here. It has no understanding of golf…
I've long been a fan of "Candide" (both the novella by Voltaire and the comic operetta by Leonard Bernstein but for this comment I mean the operetta) and I've been unable to stop myself from watching the "Auto-da-fe" section lately. It's a biting satire of the glee that people feel while scapegoating their victims. (My understanding is that Voltaire was so disgusted by the inquisition burning heretics to stop earthquakes that he felt moved to write the work in the first place). The music itself veers from a sort of celebratory samba to a grim spectacle as the show trial proceeds and when the moment comes to hang the accused, the choir wails "pray for us!" as the judge/jury recite prayers.

I think my favorite line from the whole thing is "We chant a pax vobiscum, and hang the bastard high!" It captures the irreconcilable conflict of the high ideals of Christianity with the seedy reality of organized religion that I couldn't help but observe as a child and rather quickly drove me away. Learning that Bernstein (et al - I'm not sure who wrote which lyrics) and obviously Voltaire had seen the same things before me made me feel less alone.

And once you see this behavior, it's hard not to notice it again. Find a group of people and blame the ills of society on them, and we can all enjoy the cruelty carried out against them. And hey buy a t-shirt (or a Trump steak) while you're at the show.
True, because then it feels more intentional (+ the extra strategy). It was definitely a bit thrown together- atm I only ever use it when I need a bit of practice before playing codenames.
It's still crazy to me that 150K can be considered an unsatisfactory salary. I thought that must be enough anywhere in the world.
I'm not sure I'd call anything using libhybris "Linux-based". Their low-level elements come from Android with all the problems that implies, including Android being Linux only in the most irrelevant technical sense.
Two months ago [0] you said that you’d been going two months and made $2200 in revenue.

At the same time your other account(?)/brother(?) was claiming you’d got to $1000 in revenue.[1]

You’ve posted the same pitch quite a lot.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=felixheikka

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davidheikka
Does it matter? They either can't or worn't do anything to stop it. If they're even bothered by it, they won't say (For obvious reasons).
Show HN: One line solution to Stripe's painful DX
If you’re on tech twitter you may have noticed an increasing dissent with Stripe and it’s DX. t3.gg (Theo) summarizes it best:

“IMO, the biggest issue with Stripe is the "split brain" it inherently introduces to your code base. When a customer checks out, the "state of the purchase" is in Stripe. You're then expected to track the purchase in your own database via webhooks. There are over 258 event types. It's far too easy to have a payment be failed in stripe and "subscribed" in your app.”

We've built an OSS abstraction to build any pricing model 1 line of code. The idea is a layer over Stripe in which we control what features can be accessed. Here's how it works:

In our UI:

1. Define your app's features (eg ‘Pro Analytics’ and ‘Number of Seats’).

2. Package the features into plans (eg Free tier has 1 seat, Pro tier has Pro Analytics + 5 Seats). Then set the pricing.

From your application:

1. Call the attachProduct() function and specify the product name and customer. If the customer needs to make a payment, a checkout link is returned. Otherwise, all subscription and upgrade/downgrade logic is taken care of.

2. In your codebase, use entitled() to determine whether a user has access to the feature or not

We’re currently in open-beta and are working with some awesome YC companies.

Next on the roadmap are embeddable UI components to handle pricing pages and paywalls out-of-the-box. Would love for you to check out the tool/docs and give us your feedback!

(Also thoughts on our branding? You'll either love it or think it's cringe af)
>There was outrage for all of those things. Not by most Trumpers, no, and certainly not enough outrage, but there was and is opposition to all of the things you listed.

Where was it?

All I saw were people lecturing "the left" and calling Trump critics hypocrites and blaming them for Trumpism just as you are. Faux outrage over Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" comment - which she was 100% correct about. Not so much as an ounce of self-reflection or awareness, only ever deflection and projection, only ever blaming the other side and acting like victims.

I agree with you 100% about the failures of Liberalism and the Democrats though, but people are well aware of that. Unfortunately the system only affords us two options, and we're forced to choose the lesser evil. As far as bullying goes, I mean... my side isn't the one sending out ICE agents to kidnap brown people or stripping gay and trans people of their rights or waging war against "equality" and "woke."

Maybe you should be asking the people who keep voting for the systems causing common folks to suffer to challenge them. You won't though, that isn't why you're here.
Well, the Quintus is an option, but I wouldn't call the Nexx more than a render or a mockup right now. ;)
…or maybe they can just vote for the change they would like at the federal level like they just did.

Funny how that works in a republic like ours. If their direction doesn’t pan out, you have opportunities in 2026 and 2028 to right the ship. Of course that would mean that the democrats will actually have to provide a leader to two that can effectively communicate, motivate, and lead.
Is it worth the impact to your lifestyle to work in crypto?
Do Americans? Does it matter? They either can't or won't do anything to stop it.
“o1 is more knowledgeable than the average human”

“the toyota yaris can move faster than the average human”

even opt-125m from years ago can pull more facts than the average human.
Cloudflare is a nice option if you can adapt your system to run there [1]. You could also run just the frontend on CF and host any APIs elsewhere. Or check these sites [2] [3] with some good reviews and comparisons of hosting providers.

Regarding spaced repetition, RemNote 1.17 an 1.18 has a bunch of AI features for summarizing PDFs and YouTube transcripts and turning that into Q&A for spaced repetition, and they also have a Chatbot interface in-app. Perhaps you could check some of what they are doing for inspiration [4].

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1: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/languages/

2: https://getdeploying.com/

3: https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/

4: https://www.youtube.com/@RemNote/videos
This would dramatically change how tax deductible expenses work.

If I pay €X in tax, I can recover some of that money via tax deductible expenses. If my employers pays that tax, I can’t deduct anything.
> There are a ton of kids who are curious would-be hackers that turn away from the dark side forever after getting pwned while trying to do something sketchy.

... How do you know?
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...
i find complaints like this hard to take seriously if you eat meat
Those are some serious job requirements for $150k
Depends on the requirements. If they’re a complex tangle of special cases and heuristics, I want the code as imperative or low level as possible so that I can tweak the fine details with precision. If they’re clearly set rules, I want the code as declarative or high level as possible (even if it becomes a strange DSL) so that I have confidence it matches the rules,that it enforces invariants and that adding new rules won’t introduce edge cases in existing ones
Surprised they managed to all survive for two months!
Disturbing, not offensive - it is literally right there in the quote you have been so nice to pass along.
In practice, the most it gets is people thinking "I guess some guy named Fenwick was involved somewhere along the way", if even that. I think there's a lot of benefit to learning the history of how things were discovered, but that should be done consciously by making it part of the teaching material. The names make barely any difference.

It's not trivial to come up with descriptive names, but the difficulty is often overstated because people underestimate its importance. The names don't have to be perfectly descriptive, we don't need twenty syllable names like organic chemical compounds, but every step taken towards making it descriptive helps a lot. The reality is that the names get chosen basically arbitrarily in journals or textbooks, with hardly any thought given to how it will affect generations of students, working professionals, and even future researchers in remembering the concept and looking it up in their mind among the hundreds or thousands of other things they've learnt.
Just gave it a try, looks promising for sure. What I don't get is how to add more habits. Are you only allowed to keep 3 by design or am I missing something?
You don’t need a upload a lot of data in order to have illegal data stash and there are creative criminals out there.

E.g. for GPS coordinates you need only a 16 digits. Emojis are 8 bytes so by selecting specific ones and adding a control character (or two) and ensuring other stay in sequence you can encode this data in.

And then I can only respond with „Did you read article on ACME Times about a car riding a bike?” which is a simple pointer for URL which you might check for the drop coordinates.

This it’s also possible to provide encryption keys, url serialization, cryptocurrency wallet pointers etc. And sure, this seems complicated and dystopian but when government asks you to provide data of your users who committed hard crimes it’s not really fun to be at position when you say „I don’t know who my users are”.

From my experience any service that allows anonymous write and anonymous read over long periods will sooner or later be used for illicit activity. It doesn’t matter if that’s 1mb or 10 bytes.
+1 to the branding
Interesting... kind of similar to Clerk for Auth and Supabase for DB handling
Is San Francisco a Failed State?
that's really only a risk when you allow direct retrieval of the uploaded data.

if you're only returning counts and you're not even offering a guarantee that every submission will be counted, then the potential for abuse isn't really any higher than any other website out there.
Behind a paywall, otherwise would have read. However, I do appreciate the approach to poll how the masses actually feel about what decisions their overlords are implementing. I feel like the former is as important, if not more so than the latter - every story/ongoing coverage involving war/major international moves and events should cover both perspectives continuously IMO.

How does the Chinese populous actually feel about the prospect of having to lose loved ones in a seemingly imminent invasion of Taiwan? How does the Taiwanese populous feel about that prospect and the US/allies coming to their aid. How does the US populous feel about the prospect of defending Taiwan (do the even understand the issues at stake)?

Why do I have to search for answers to these questions so regularly instead of reading about it in the very article reporting the event in the first place?
You seem to be arguing that it's physically possible to build transit that serves low density housing, I agree with that.

My argument is that it's economically infeasible, especially in the USA.

Extending Caltrain to downtown SF is estimated at $3B/mile, BART to San Jose is $780M/mile. You can't spend hundreds of millions of dollars building transit to a neighborhood with 100 homes. It's already hard to serve those neighborhoods with buses, since bus routes are either long and slow that wind through many neighborhoods, or they are vastly underutilized.
Not sure but gonna guess power.
Of course they can. They already forced their government out of a war once. They don't want to, because they get away with it so far.
I wore their away kit for Halloween this year :D

But I suspect they're just like all the others -- looking for credentialling where it doesn't yet exist.

[Guess we'll find out... not holding my breath for what would be a dream for us both]
Diamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing down
It has already happened in Texas:

https://archive.is/34qpX
Nerfing developer tools to save the "open web" is such a fucking backward argument.
https://archive.ph/indZg
Absolutely yes! Funnily enough I think Clerk are going to launch a competitive product. We want to focus specifically on billing and keep it OSS for all you guys to go wild with.
Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art