skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s great to see more companies adopting fair pricing models.

The first time I encountered this was with Slack—they only charge for active users.

We follow a similar approach with our products : 1) PodcastAPI.com - If no API requests are made within a month, the user pays $0. 2) website Premium Membership- rather than forcing users to pay a monthly fee, we allow them to buy a 2-day pass with one time payment (default option) - listennotes.com/premium

Caveat: customers will demand more. soon, they’ll request for hourly fair pricing - don’t charge me for those hours that i don’t use your service!
Most likely, it's as you described, router N forwards packets much faster than it generates icmp ttl exceeded, and router N+1 is nearby and generates icmp faster.

However, it could also be the case that the routing back to you is significantly different, so you can have a much longer path to you from router N than router N+1.

This is more likely to happen on routes that cross oceans. Say you're tracing from the US to Brazil. If router N and N+1 are both in Brazil, but N sends return packets through Europe and N+1 sends through Florida, N+1 returns will arrive significantly sooner.
Slide the right side of the window off the screen, maybe? Dirty tricks are allowed.

I'm very aggressive with the "not interested" and "don't recommend this channel" buttons, and over time it does mostly get rid of the most obnoxious recs. Right now it's also not recommending much good stuff, either, so YMMV.
You mean the public statement from a president with a known history of lying to the public and committing felonies?

I'm inclined to believe the speculation.
The issue is that in a scientific experiment you can only change the state of A.

If for whatever reason B is stuck to T in all cases no one will think that A implies B, they will think that B is independent of A.

Yet that would still fit with a world in which A logically implies B.

You would need B to be dependent on a third variable which you're not controlling in the experiment that allows the value of B to change T or F outside your control.

Any good experimentalist will tell you to fix your broken experiment if that kept happening.

It's only when you have no control over the variables and you collect statistics that the view in the paper makes sense.

That's the difference between experimental and observational science.

And the philosophy of science is decades to centuries away from understanding that in any meaningful way.
Thank you for this, I really appreciate this article and I learned a bunch!
when Congress approved DOGE what did they say? want to link to the LEGISLATION that authorizes Trump and Musk to do this?
Can You Opt Out of Starlink Coverage on iPhone? What We Know
> I find dependency resolution is done better on apt than the alternatives.

Everyone says this about their favorite package manager.
I could see it being really useful for that, my only hesitation would be that here in Europe it would need to support Android due to how ubiquitous that is here.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese

how to quantify "by and large"?
there's not many chinese people outside china and most of them left china in the last 100 years in search of better lives.

and usa and singapore are rich?
> Demographics questions on job applications do not get shown to recruiters nor interviewers.

But Recruiters can glean this information from names and other information on resumes. And yes, many do deliberately try to use this information to decide who to interview. Recruiters at one of me previous employers linked to US census data on the gender distribution of names in their onboarding docs. They also created spreadsheets of ethnically affiliated fraternities/sororities and ethnic names.
I don't think most people know customizing software is even a thing. I think it just doesn't occur to people.

I once heard an anecdote that being a welder makes you look at metal objects differently than non-welders. What a non-welder sees as rigid and inflexible a welder sees as able to be changed.

I think the view of software for programmers vs. non-programmers is similar.

Having said that, just as most people don't see the benefit to being a welder, most people aren't going to suddenly see the benefit of being a programmer.
https://notebooklm.google/ might be a good option
when I got my first apartment that had its own clothes washer and dryer, the first time I found a $1 bill in the dryer with my clothes, I put it in a frame and hung it on the wall!
It's not strange that they are attempting to monetize movies that don't generate subscriptions or VOD revenue. WB/Discovery doesn't have a free streaming service like Tubi, PlutoTV, FreeVee, etc. so why not YouTube? The CPMs are great.
It's saying you don't need to be proud of your app that has multiple layers of abstractions to be immune to every possible change. There are hard problems, but the most complex solution is rarely good or best.
Anil Dash: Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture (Anil Dash)

https://www.anildash.com//2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-captur...

Besides, the guy is a government contractor. There are/were rules.
> Return Of The Living Dead Part II (1988, Zombie Horror Comedy, 5.7)

My favorite zombie flick, if you've not seen it you need to!
> Russia will do [bad thing], unless they're stopped

> Companies will do [bad thing], unless they're stopped

> People at the park will do [bad thing], unless they're stopped

> People in cars will do [bad thing], unless they're stopped

I don't disagree with any of these. We as a society, should punish bad behavior! (Note that the as a society is a critical component of my agreement here)

Is forgetting to cancel a recurring subscription a bad thing, that should be punished? Does it hurt society, or exclusively that individual?

If not, why make this argument?
Calendar invites and social invites are very different beasts.
For Windows 11 24H2, there is already workaroud at Rufus:

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/10/11/rufus-4-6-bypasses-windows...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809287

For next version of Windows 11, I'll wait what Rufus will do.
Surely the next prompt would be

> I pasted the code you gave me into my Wordpress and now when I refresh the page it’s just white. Why?
Yes but it’s also a chance to convince the customer that you’re worth keeping around. Depending on your product, you might also have customers that dip in and out. Keeping them from churning, while sacrificing a little cash today, helps keep that customer from shopping around for alternatives, too.
This already happens with green bubbles, it's not new.
> but even when SCOTUS was friendly to the anti-Trump cause

Sources requested for this statement, made unilateral with no evidence.

> Declaring it a 'coup' is as silly as when Trump lost in 2020 and declared it a 'rigged election.

A single person, who somehow owns multiple major companies with, clear conflict of interest, is not a coup? What? He & his "engineers" reportedly have access to American citizen information. Where's the required oversight by Congress? I get trimming the government, but let's talk about it in the open rather than relying on his word and his word alone.

> You don't win by insulting, by dunking on the other guys on ~Twitter~ bluesky, or by protesting.

Would you say that to Tea Party folks who widely protested Obama? What? This makes no sense. Didn't they also insult Obama and his birth? Or anyone who voted for Obama? Whataboutism.

Frankly, I feel you are delusional and have bought into the ruse of the current news cycle.

> "Everyone not already in our tent is evil, fascist, dastardly white supremacists," but to their chagrin, their current tent is under 50% of the voting public and it isn't growing.

Trumps share of the vote was <50% via https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...
> his successor Biden immediately went back to starting wars

Congratulations, seems like you have fully bought into MAGA propaganda.
So I've dealt with mental illnesses throughout my life and I can confidently say things are a hell of a lot better now than when I was a kid. They literally understood so little about the subject that there were basically 3 categories with rigid qualifiers. If you didn't fit 100% into a mold you were considered lazy, undisciplined, etc.

Instead of just blindly rattling off a bunch of buzzwords that you know nothing about maybe select 1 or 2 of the things from your list you actually have experience in.
I do this when we have visiting relatives who would spend all day watching a particular cable news channel that gets them all riled up. Before they arrive, I subscribe to a different streaming service with a package that doesn’t include that channel and put its icon front and center on our TV. I then immediately cancel it so it doesn’t renew.

Totally worth the $20 or whatever.
Correct, and that's why hiding the fact that the candidate attended an HBCU would avert that kind of bias.
There seems to be a bit of worry about Apple possibly forcing Starlink upon devices, as seen in this other discussion:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255954789?sortBy=rank
AI writing code for you is a terrible way for a beginner to "make their own software."

We've already had solutions to this for years, it's called jamming a bunch of plugins on to a Wordpress site so it roughly does what the person wants it to do.

or perhaps remember Visual Basic?

Why does every god damn thing on the website need to be about how "AI will change everything"? You do realize we've had these tools since the 90s, right?

There's a reason only a small percentage of people are actually interested in making their own software. Most people just want to use the thing and be done with it, not tinker around with code.

How many people are making their own clothing? Clearly sewing machines are widely available, so they will surely create a revolution where everyone will make their own clothing! And yet - do you want to actually make your own clothing? No. You want to have time for other things, like making your own software.
I don't disagree with the broader point I just think authors aren't a good example for a non-tool obsessed group of people.

I read https://prog21.dadgum.com/ somewhat regularly when I think I am getting to tool obsessed.
Ha, fair! 'Sounding like an LLM' might be the ~2025 equivalent of being called an NPC. But it could also imply good grammar.

To put it another way, ditching a medium entirely is the incorrect strategy; akin to refusing to read books just because there's many bad ones - obviously, instead, we select the good ones and read those. Same goes for social media pages/groups/profiles
Thank you for the detailed answer

Now I understand better where you are coming from and what you are trying to protect

I wish we had something like HN where we could address more tech-adjacent topics, especially when it’s a huge MOT like what’s going on now
This is a good way to ostracize people on other platforms.
Everything is easy until you account for the real world.

A disabled person who has to request accommodations for the application process will immediately be outed for having a disability. The same applies for people who speak different languages.

Beyond that, the application is only one place in which discrimination occurs.

- It also happens during interviews which are much harder to anonymize.
- It also happens in testing and requirements that, while not directly correlated to job performance, do serve to select specific candidates.
- It also happens on the job, which can lead to a field of work not seeming like a safe option for some people.
- It also happens in education, which can prevent capable people from becoming qualified.

Lowering the bar is not the right answer (unless it is artificially high) but neither is pretending that an anonymous resume will fix everything.
Maybe because the "greed is good" thesis of America really is "correct" with respect to geopolitical competition?
Exactly. I did a Ph.D. on software engineering and architecture before embarking on a career practicing what I preach. One thing that I realized early is that designs always lag implementations. They are aspirational at best. And people largely stopped using design tools completely when agile became a thing. Some still do. But you'll look in vain for UML diagrams on most software you ever heard off.

I now have a few decades of experience doing technical work, running startups, teams, doing consultancy, etc. Coding is my way of getting hands on. It's quicker for me to just prototype something quickly in code than it is to do whatever on a whiteboard. I always run out of space on whiteboards and they don't have multi level undo, auto completion, etc. They really suck actually. I avoid using them.

Of course, I sometimes chin stroke extensively before coding; or I restart what I'm doing several times. But once I have an idea of what I'm doing in my head, I stub out a solution and start iteratively refining. And if I'm stuck with the chin stroking, the best way to break through that is to just start coding. Usually, I then discover things I hadn't thought about and realize I don't need to over complicate things quite as much. This progressive insight is something you can only gain through doing the work. The finished code is also the finished design; they co-evolve and don't exist as separate artifacts.

The engineering fallacy is believing that they are separate and that developers are just being lazy by not having designs. Here's a counter argument to that: we don't build bridges, rockets, expensive machines, etc. Our designs compile to executable code. Physical things have extensive post design project phases where stuff gets built/constructed/assembled. Changing the design at that stage is really expensive. For software, this phase is pretty much 100% automated in software. And continuous deployment means having working stuff from pretty much as soon as your builds start passing. Of course refactoring your design/code still is important. You risk making it hard to evolve your software otherwise.

The process of designing a bridge is actually more similar to developing software than the process of constructing one. The difference is that when you are done with the bridge design, you still have to build it. But it's a lengthy/risky process with progressive insights about constraints, physics, legislation, requirements, etc. Like software, it's hard to plan the design. And actually modern day architects use a lot of software tools to try out their designs before they hand them over.

Just some simple insights here. There is no blue print for the blue print for either bridges or software. Not a thing, generally.
Producing Bacterial Wilt–Free Ginger in Greenhouse Culture [pdf]
After November I totally stopped looking at any and all news and social media with the exception of HN. My reasoning being that you are not actually getting informed by any of those sources. They are geared towards engagement which makes them entertainment. Also, I have absolutely no power to change anything happening right now so knowing about it is just going to make me upset. It's a lose lose IMO. A lot of folks have gotten upset with me about this which I find a bit baffling. Like, what does knowing every minute detail do for me?

The net effect of my news/social media fast has been fairly dramatic. I suddenly have an attention span again. When a persons opinion differs from mine, I generally don't immediately assume they are part of the third reich (although if they keep talking a while I might get there lol).

To be clear I absolutely despise whats happening in the US right now. Enough information makes it to me through friends and family (and HN) that I feel a deep sense of despair. I am just not sure what minute by minute updates on the fuckery happening right now gets me.
Netflix cancels after billing you for two years. Kagi doesn’t bill you if you don’t use the product that month. Do you understand those are not the same?
I'm immediately reminded of Apple's "goto fail" bug, which was in part overlooked because of poor formatting and/or style: https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html
if women left the app, guys would leave. possibility of connecting with women is what's being sold to paying customers on dating apps. Without ladies, the men leaves and the app dies.
It's funny I used to think tests are a PITA now I'm arguing for them as I'm seeing the problem they solve, even basic ones like full E2E headless browser testing vs. 100% unit test coverage.

I am holding back on stressing out regarding syntax like PEP 8. My role right now is great where we get to prototype random things.
Saying it's far cheaper without actual numbers is not saying anything. 10 years in a DC is 14% cheaper than going in with a provider. This donation money can simply be better spent if long term goals are considered.
>And Win11 requires specifically TPM 2.0 (usually fTPM) not just any TPM.

There are TPM 2.0 dTPMs. If the conspiracy is that they want to push people towards "hardware attestation", then they're doing a pretty bad job.

>You’re also entirely missing the point. Yes, you can bypass TPM based DRM to extract the unencrypted video (or just analog hole it) that’s why the game is to lock down the OS so you just can’t play it.

There's no need to "lock down the OS" when there's already a locked down OS on the CPU itself (intel SGX), is way more secure (because it doesn't have a bazillion userspace programs and third party drivers loaded), but for whatever reason gets way less flak than TPM.
Here I usually get flak for claiming Linux desktop is simply still not there for my granps, and I think it's (the flak) totally undeserved: the gramps have zero chance to update it, and for me it's a whole afternoon mucking with console and packages and whatnot, regardless of distribution. I got used with the idea though, and said gramps are still more secure even if I get around updating their machines only every few months (but the food you get while updating, yum so worthy).
spidermoneky has been around since before V8
Agreed. All of my VPS servers now run Debian, except in specific cases where I use CentOS for its kernel stability, predictability, and Yum's rollback capabilities.
I've had very much the opposite experience with old wifi dongles and the like.
I can think of only one example where it was the other way around...but at least i got it working.
I use f-droid and the aurora store. The play store was disabled the day I got the phone. There has been a few issues but I stuck with f-droid for many years. Good for them.
I don't think I even know what "DEI" is anymore. Political pundits have turned it into a generic slur, a boogeyman that vaguely means "I have to work with minorities now??"

I've always thought it simply meant "drawing from the widest possible candidate funnel, including instead of excluding people who have traditionally been shut out." At least that's how all of my training sessions at work frame it. But, like everything, the term has become politically charged, and everyone now wants to overload it to mean all sorts of things they simply don't like.
Certainly "The Mission" is a great film. Absolutely top notch. And with one of Morricone's better scores.
They can have multiple identities, but may not want to be British and European.any more than a Scottish nationalist wants to be Scottish and British.

This is a very common conflict for many communities around the world and rarely is “just be both” a satisfactory solution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatism
> Were you ever aware of how Treasury processes payments before last week?

Why should anyone have to care about the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service?

Are people aware of of how the Internet works? Are people aware of how water and sewage work? The electrical grid?

If someone who just graduated high school started flipping breakers at a substation would people think that's a good idea?
> It was still mostly driven by Red Hat people

Why does it matter? They were trying to solve a real problem, and decided to dig themselves out of the hole that was upstart. I'm not even sure if Fedora or Arch adopted systemd first, but it was pretty close either way.

And Podman (which I admitted was at least partly not-invented-here) was a default but not "forced". I used Docker for years on CentOS 7, and only switched to Podman when it got better than the competition.

You mentioned exactly three cases, of which one was not even Red Hat, and that's being "full of RH alternatives to existing software"?
But but but I was told that DEI lowered standards
C# half-fixes this with its nullable annotations. I say half-fixes, because the boundary between code that supports them and code that does not is leaky, so you can make a mistake that leaks a null into a non-nullable variable.

If you build an entire program with nullability checking on it's pretty great, though.
In 2020 when I was upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, a similar thing happened to me where the upgrade simply froze for 1 hour and upon rebooting the whole installation was fucked. This was the 3rd time when this happened over the years (I've been using Ubuntu on and off since 2008). I'd finally had it with Ubuntu and I quickly flashed a USB drive with ArchLinux, used it to salvage the data from my broken installation ,since my /home partition was still intact and then switched to Arch as a daily driver. Have had very little problems since
You're totally missing the point of parent. The cost is in how insidiously this behavior ostracizes Android owners over time, just like they've done for years with blue/green bubbles.

I'm an Apple user, and it serves me well, but it absolutely uses really sinister dark patterns to separate me from contacts in the Android world.
TIL! The funny thing about Vim is that you can have used vi/Vim for 30+ years and still learn new things. I'll add this to the Vim appendix. Cheers!
The bureaucracy isn't actually a branch of government recognized by the Constitution. Nominally it's within the executive branch, which the president is in charge of.
I have no qualms with maintaining a Gentoo installation on my desktop, but on my laptop I want something relatively stable (no-rolling release, prefer something similar to LTS) and hassle free. A great out-of-the-box KDE experience would be nice but not necessary. Currently running Kubuntu, not sure what to switch to. Most "it just works" distros seem to be based on Ubuntu, which defeats the purpose a little. I've considered returning to my first love, Slackware.

Open to suggestions.
"Is there a line break at the end of your file?"

edit: I've seen this as a potential answer before
For all the hype about thinking models, this feels much like compression in terms of information theory instead of a "takeoff" scenario.

There are a finite amount of information stored in any large model, the models are really good at presenting the correct information back, and adding thinking blocks made the models even better at doing that. But there is a cap to that.

Just like how you can compress a file by a lot, there is a theoretical maximum to the amount of compression before it starts becoming lossy. There is also a theoretical maximum of relevant information from a model regardless of how long it is forced to think.
Group text works cross platform now.. some friend groups are on discord
Run Doom in/on an Apple HDMI dongle [video]
I'm think we are under using a lot of computers out there. Aren't we?