skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider how many people wait in line or drive a few miles further for "cheaper gas" without ever thinking of the value of their time, or the cost of gas and wear and tear on their vehicles they spend doing so, and that may make this theory more plausible for you.

EDIT: An even better comparison is the number of people who will sit in a parking lot waiting for someone to vacate a spot rather than parking in plentiful available spots another 50-100 meters away
I believe archive.{today,is,ph} actually uses real subscriptions for scraping pay sites like NYT/WSJ. Perhaps this sub was flagged by NYT.
I think of a "CRUD application" as, hopefully, a thin wrapper around simple database transactions with a web front end. They're mind numbing to work on with most tasks boiling down to "add column to database and update the ui". They also tend to be in charge of more MRR than most well funded startups. There is a huge demand for them and if you're good at banging them out, your kids will never go hungry.

If anyone is looking for a good business model, write an application that makes it so that Person Type X can manage and access a database easily. There are plenty of examples. Salesforce is CRUD for Sales people. A lot of Oracle's software is CRUD for Industry Y.
I watched the the one about Fail2Ban

https://youtu.be/_WICKz3p_t0?t=16 In this screen, the voice is not synchronized with the text. I hate videos with wall of text and voice that only reads the text, but the voice and ext need some synchronization anyway.

https://youtu.be/_WICKz3p_t0?t=46 Again, there is some synchronization, but the text appears very slowly.

(Sorry, no time to watch the full video.)
rust vs javascript ?
I can see that being worth a lot to a nation state
Why would disney want to divert attention away from trash cans?
Don't you want them to to visible for folks to be able to use?

I get the desire to divert attention away from infrastructure stuff, though.
Whether it is actually a crime for a person in a one-party consent jurisdiction recording a call with a person in a two-party consent jurisdiction is not a consistently settled issue. At least in US courts, dunno about elsewhere.

Sometimes the courts have sided "the stricter jurisdiction's law applies" while other times the courts have sided "the law where the recording was made applies". The federal law is not any clearer, stating one party consent is the default and states can override but offering no further guidance. I suspect this will someday be addressed in the Supreme Court.
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Sutra-R0
Getting data by directly processing the packets instead of using the (buggy, slow) replay system is a great idea. There's a lot of interesting data in the middle of LoL gamestate that is missing in summary overviews that only consider the final state of the game.
Clustrix wrote a compiler. It was able to call out to C for string intrinsics and communication and btree operations, so it primarily handled extracting data from serialized formats, simple arithmetic, constructing serializations from downstream.

this was to replace a little byte code VM, and as far I recall took a very good programmer about 2 weeks for the basic version.

I dont see any reason to even try to bring something like a general purpose JIT. there's a huge benefit from just doing the basics, and you can move the line between precompiled functions and dynamically compiled ones on an ongoing basis. its also cheap enough that I wouldn't get hung up on needing to amortize that cost with prepared statements.
If I live in single family housing that is adjacent to a business district and I have no driveway then street parking can be pretty efficient. I can leave my car in front of my house all night long and in the daytime when I go to work people can come from other neighborhoods and park there while they take their lunch and do their shopping. If someone builds a multistory apartment building at the end of my street and doesn't provide adequate parking then now I am competing for the space in front of my house every night. Okay, so I install a driveway, now only I can park in my driveway and no one can park in front of my house (because there's a driveway there).
I think you’re basically ignoring the history. I cited the MAPS example specifically because it was a highly observed study where the people involved were incredibly aware of what had gone wrong in the past with psychedelic-assisted therapy and even given that still couldn’t keep it out of a single trial.

The history of psychedelic use in therapy is part of how we got here in the first place. The therapists in the 50s and 60s were engaging in inappropriate behavior with their patients with regularity.

I am very pro psychedelics but the 60s provides an almost endless array of examples of how it can go wrong. Psychedelics basically do not belong in a therapist to patient context because the therapists attracted to that approach have a tendency self-select.

A lot of the modern day gurus and shamen have exactly the same problem.
Absolutely: I’m sure the engineers proposed a solution or mitigation - and then it was buried at management level to keep away any possible need of recertification.
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Well, the rant still applies either way - the 20A outlets are 2x the cost, that's the big reason why the aren't routinely installed. I was thinking when I embarked on the project "oh, I'll just put 20A ones everywhere because why not?" and immediately decided not to when I looked at the prices for the packs of outlets....
The High Cost of Free Parking is a wonderful book and I would recommend it to anyone. Parking - and car-centric development - shapes our day to day lives in tremendously powerful ways.
I believe they're following color blocking patterns in nature? I wish there was some more explanation into the why this might work (though I suppose it's all conjecture)

The dark green lower to the ground is similar to plants in the foreground that are close to you, above your head the green is more de-saturated as greenery would be in the distance on the horizon, and of course even higher is mimicking the color of where the sky would be.

This is why military camouflage is effective as well, though it's slightly different – with the speckled pattern of more and less saturated colors... we get the illusion of varied depth as if you're looking through grass or leaves... which makes it harder to see a single solid object (which humans are good at)
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I regret saying this as a joke since I don’t know enough about North Korea. Even to make jokes about it.
I'm seeing quite a few websites suggesting cayenne pepper to keep Virginia Opossums out of your plants. I've never tried it myself, but that's a marsupial that appears to not like spicy food. The only species coming up in these increasingly useless search engine results as liking spicy food is Chinese tree shrews.

I'm getting so frustrated anymore trying to use google, bing, brave search, startpage, etc for finding anything except reddit or quora answers and business pages. If you find any more info on marsupials and peppers, I'd love to see it. It's a super interesting question.
I don’t love the “me against the world” framing, but maybe I’ve just been blessed with good teachers — this is a great summation of what the HCI faculty at GaTech espouse! If it’s not a consensus yet, it should be.

If the author pops by, I’ve just gotta say: you’re killin it with the cute illustrations, especially the dials one. Very inspiring stuff!

Thanks for sharing, OP.

EDIT: if I had to pick out any one idea for a casual reader to learn about, I’d definitely highlight “Cognitive Load”. It’s used as part of a broader discussion here, but when looked at in a certain light it can capture a whole lot of diverse factors in one consistent framework!
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I know many people in club 33, mostly daughters and wives of rich businessmen who are Disney fanatics and enjoy the bragging rights. I don't think they really care for the fine dining.
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The most striking thing to me is that Elon was in the oval office answering questions. It’s hard to understand a President emasculating himself in such a public way. Elon’s kid was there too. It’s truly bizarre to see the lack of decorum and the brazen way Elon acted as if it were he in charge. Trump’s supporters at one time decried Obama wearing a tan suit.
And so what's going to happen? Are there blackmailing rings that are in active need of ways of tying youtube comments to work accounts that are paying out the nose?
> Homelessness is through the roof

Allocating space for car parking does not help address homelessness. In fact, it hurts it a lot.
> it was simply a phone, a web browser, and a music player.

Sure, but again not revolutionary. I had a Nokia that was a phone, a web browser and a music player. The iPhone was just better at that, but not very different in the end.
Sales are also way down in Australia [1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2025/02/06/tesla-sales-crash-in-another-...
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It feels like this would only be feasible across longer passages of text, and some types of text may be less amenable to synonyms than others. For example, a tightly written mathematical proof versus a rambling essay. Biased token selection may be detectable in the latter (using a statistical test), and may cause the text to be irreparably broken in the former.
Why do I think you did not read the article?
Um, the airspeed analogy used up front is remarkably silly.

Nobody would shrug at being able to fly 2x faster.
The reason it stopped is because it made lots of noise and was expensive.
Not because it was not needed.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who would not want faster flights if it could be done at reasonable cost.
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Yeah dunno. If you loot at the real war of the moment in Ukraine there are a lot of people sitting around with VR controlling drones and not much running into battle due to the range of modern weapons.
These are a bit mythical, finding one for sale is no small feat.

I guess adding memory to some cards is a matter of completely reworking the PCB, not just swapping DRAM chips. From what I can find it has been done, both chip swaps and PCB reworks, it's just not easy to buy.

Software support is of course another consideration.
This is just to say: the poem at the end is a play on William Carlos William's poem, entitled "This is just to say".
> Eink B&W screen contrast has been improving dramatically with every generation,

No: https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2021/01/20/contrast-on-e-i...

Ever since Carta it has been stuck at 15:1 and it is trivial to see that e.g. Remarkable has better contrast than the newer (B&W) Kobos.

As I said, this has _nothing_ to do with the color screens where the contrast is even further reduced, _even_ in Gallery (by eink's own specsheet, as well as by plain observation on a newer remarkable color).

> Garmin still uses reflective LCDs, even on the Fenix 8. The AMOLED is a separate SKU.

No. The _reflective LCD_ one is the one which has become the different SKU (it is now called the 'solar'; the main series now all use backlight), and guess which new SKU is neither stocked nor displayed on stores. It used to be that "Epix" was the AMOLED version of the Fenix, but now it has replaced the mainstream Fenix. As a fan of the reflective LCD garmin watches (since the 1st generation Fenix), the writing is on the wall.

> Eink is superior to transflective LCDs in terms of power use as it only needs to be refreshed when content changes; an LCD must be refreshed multiple times per second.

However eInk requires _significantly more_ power when refreshing than an LCD, not to mention a more complex controller, while at the same time the power required for refresh by a memory LCD is practically negligible. So, as I said, unless your usecase involves the eink panel staying static for _days at a time_, LCD will win.

And no customer really wants a screen that is only refresh once every week; it defies the point of a screen. I could even say the same of a "dynamic" billboard. There's a reason even price stickers at shops use LCDs.

Is there nowadays at least some eink watch that can surpass the battery life of the reflective LCD Garmin watches? (measured in months even with at least one screen refresh per minute). Note that many "eink" smartwatches actually use memory LCD, and not a eink panel, behind the scenes. (e.g. Pebble). Furthering my "users cannot even distinguish eink from reflective LCD" argument.
You get to walk around the underground backstage yourself if you take Disney's "Keys to the Kingdom" tour. Basically, everything the public sees of Magic Kingdom is on floor 2.
I`ll suggest you want the bottom 1000 as they are most likely to fall for a scam.
Having watched a lot of the goto talks, I'd say that they're like a good tech conference: ~5-10% of the talks could have a major impact on your work/career, 20-30% of the talks are interesting and slightly useful, and the remaining talks are basically product pitches / sponsor slots, which can be useful but are often biased.
I think the Rust is more readable for bytemucking stuff than dynamic languages because the reader doesn't have to infer the byte widths, but for what it's worth the demo contains a TypeScript implementation: https://github.com/paulgb/emoji-encoder/blob/main/app/encodi...
Far enough into the future - of course not.

But keep in mind any point where programmers are obsolete is also the point where any job that can be done from a computer is obsolete. Including WYSIWYGing an app.
Very, very nice and helpful! I probably wouldn't do it exactly this way on my system, but it's always good to see other approaches to this annoying and entirely unnecessary problem. One of my biggest pet peeves about macOS is its tendency to leave its "droppings" all over my SD Card filesystems and network shares, and I'm constantly searching for a nice clean, transparent way to fix this bug since Apple seems to have no intention of doing it themselves. So rude to be using my filesystem as their personal dumping ground for crap.

I would add ".fseventsd" and ".Spotlight-V100" folders to the cleanup targets, too.
Everyone on HN has this addiction to “vulnerability” like it’s some grand thing and then concocts complicated “it could be worth millions; you then use it to find out their Swiss bank account number; and they watch the money go down as you drain it!”

It feels like most software sites are now populated by people who think software is like in the movies.
> If I ran a BigTech

History tells us that those who run a BigTech become crazy narcissists serving their own interests :).
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As others have noted, there are some problems with the methodology of how this list has been created.

First, the list of "almost every" Software Engineering conference around the World[1] used, is just 72 items long. This feels light, and some conferences I would expect to see are missing: Brighton Ruby is very popular in the UK, but possibly a bit niche, so fine; but, FOSDEM however, seems more of a glaring oversight, perhaps explained by the fact that most of those talks are published not through a single channel.

The author has a mechanism to add confs to this. We could try and help them with that.

Then, the list seems to have ordered talks published by each conference's YouTube channel, by total views.

When one of those channels posts a talk twice (for example, the Linux Foundation's keynote of Linus talking to Dirk Hohndel), you end up with split user counts which means its lower down the list than you might expect.

I also think this means we're now measuring "most watched" in a slightly weird way: is this now just a reflection of marketing and subscriber reach? GOTO has 1.04M subscribers, ReactConf just 28.5K - is it any surprise that the list has more talks with more views from one of those over the other? Who is to say which conf had the better or more interesting talks?

Other engagement metrics (thumbs up, percentage of subs, number of comments, how many inbound links, and so on), might provide a better number to proxy for "quality" or "best" than just views, although the author isn't making a claim for quality, just views, so perhaps I'm asking for something beyond what is reasonable or what was promised.

This is a good start of an idea though, it wouldn't take much to make it better, so best of luck to the author or those who want to steal the idea: I'd love to see a better list in the future, and perhaps over a longer period of time than one year, too.

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/tech-conferences
Same. I basically run a Cursor/RustRover combo. I think the RR tooling is second to none.
Linux kernel devs want to work on Linux, not on other OSes.

Companies depend on Linux and want to improve their products, not rebuild a massive codebase from scratch.
Tried this app last week w/ an EPUB. It read all of the drop caps as individual letters, before moving on to the remaining portion of the word. It said “tilde” before each item in an unordered list. Too distracting to be of any practical use for me, unless there’s a setting I missed.
Definitely used for fences in Magic Kingdom and Epcot, and the article noted, they've begun painting the taller buildings (guardians of the galaxy) blue to match the sky.
Major discovery of a pre-Roman necropolis in Trento
Another great example of the eternal question, where the indirection go? Note that when browser tabs were invented this same debate happened.
I just straight up refuse to drive into the nearest big city. I will happily take public transit[0] rather than spend 10 minutes looking for a place to pay $20/hr to park. And I'm the only one in my social circle like this. Everyone else will just spend the time in the money, even if they could have, for example, parked for free at a commuter rail lot and ridden in for $5.

[0] which I acknowledge I'm lucky to have
When was the last time YC made money on an investment?
> Because of this, there is absolutely no point in shaming someone for patenting a thing

Well I wouldn't shame someone whose job was to patent something absurd. I was just saying that this is not an invention at all, and any system that protects that "innovation" is a broken system.
So which are you "hacking away on" in the end?
now if one could do some reverse engineering on Garmin watches and enable an opensource alternative to Garmin Connect, that would be marvellous.
Assuming the experiment is a success, that’s quite possible, but I would expect it to go similarly to the Rust-free Firefox forks: harder and harder to keep up over time as upstream diverges more and more. Plus, they’ll have to re-write a bunch of Rust drivers.

We’ll see what happens!
Title: Manage alerting costs

Nowhere in this document does it say $1.50/alert. $1.50 an alert-condition/month.

Pricing: $1.50/mo + $.35/1M alerts https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing#pricing-alertin...
Those don't sound like unreasonable concerns at all. Wish you the best.

There's something I wanted to say reading this whole thread. I just hope it does not come off as lecturing or preaching. It's this: Don't feel bad about things that there is no way for you to change. Just do your very best about the things you can. Nobody can ask more of anyone.
> It takes software technology that hasn't been developed, we don't know what we would need to sequester, and won't until we are in one of the two preceding states.

Which in turn leads to the cautious approach for which OpenAI is criticised: not revealing things because they don't know if it's dangerous or not.

> I think control at all is most likely a pipe dream, but one which serves as a justification for the exercise of power in ways which will please both authoritarians and favored industry actors, and even if it is possible it is simply a recipe for a durable global hegemony of actors that cannot be relied on to be benevolent.

Entirely possible, and a person I know who left OpenAI had a fear compatible with this description, though differing on many specifics.
Yes. Nothing would lead me to believe Seagate isn't fervently working to shut down fraudulent resellers behind the scenes.
There's no existing black market of criminals extorting politicians and celebrities over Youtube comments (also how you go from an email address to an identity is itself iffy).

You are imagining a potential market, the exploits are priced against markets that are real and pay out today. Security researchers aren't traveling salesmen going around to every shady character on the internet and pitching them on the potential of a new criminal enterprise.
None of this is universal.

Putting the equalizer upstream at the speaker level means that all of your audio is affected by it. And yet there are many times where I am playing certain types of music, such as classical or tracker impulse chiptune that needs some adjustments - i'd much rather be able to adjust it at the playlist and/or player level.

The advantage of a music player that builds a library from a set of folders is that it's infinitely faster to be able to do fuzzy searches particularly around metadata such as Idv3 tags.

Etc. etc.
Oops, I didn't realize that the images are not visible in dark mode. I'll fix it. Thanks for pointing that out!
Does this apply to Fleet as well?
Please seek medical help from a specialist. That's a physiatrist, not a psychologist.
Oh boy oh boy I'm excited for the 5G shutdown when the phone I haven't even bought yet will quit working :)
Sure, but it takes a village, and all that. If polling data shows voters resent advertising across their town, you'll find that becomes a key part of messaging and canvassing for votes, so just saying something might be enough.

And we can work together: I don't have time to knock on doors for civil rights or go count lesser-spotted newts, so I'll thank you for what you're doing to make our society better, and I'll go do some lifting on this bit, 'k?
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I’m not questioning whether Disney has discussed them, I’m questioning whether it’s worthy of a Wikipedia page. All companies that buy paint buy it for specific reasons.
I'd also add that the legality of law enforcement exploiting a server-side bug is much more of a gray area (or actually illegal), whereas there is a standard process for law enforcement or the intelligence community to get a court order that enables them to exploit devices that belong to a specific target (phone, laptop, etc).
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My guess: the trash cans are perfectly visible if you’re looking for them — they just don’t want them to stand out.
For myself, that's a chance I'm willing to take. :)