skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Clean Code and other architecture porn methodologies, is that they work until they don't. You might follow clean code, until a new teammate comes and he/she has their own opinions about your code, your architecture, or even your choice of framework.

I have a strong feeling is that architecture methodologies work as long as you are a very small and super committed team (see: startup where you all are invested into the success of the product), but they shatter to parts in a bigger corporate environment where acquisitions, mergers, and rewrites happen every other month, and you need to adopt the new framework/language/methodology/scrum/kanban/whatever.
Is that fear irrational? Let me state some facts:

1. Elon Musk is in full control of Starlink

2. Elon is politically aligned with Trump

3. Trump is pressuring Ukraine by taking away any US support. He paused military equipment delivery that was already approved, and now cut intelligence sharing.

It doesn't seem that far fetched that they would use cutting Starlink in these negotiations.

A counter argument could be that Elon still wants to get revenue for this (I think Poland is paying for it).

In my opinion, Starlink is a threat to European security, in an ever growing hostile US. Remember that Trump explicitly didn't exclude taking EU territory by force.

Even if Starlink isn't cut, they would most likely use it in their negotiations for Ukraine to "peacefully" surrender (partly) to Russia.
It is deeply funny that's the case - it happened with Grok-2 as well - but I can't imagine that remaining the case when they (ostensibly) scale to superintelligence. After all, it would be unwise to build a superintelligence that has both the desire and the means to kill you.
There is a whole UK industry of law firms shielding oligarchs and other scum from accountability for their crimes, the most notorious being Carter Ruck. Politicians talk about sanctions but do nothing.

https://archive.is/hjmCS
I had a Palm Pre way back in the day, it was easily 5 years ahead of other phones. It's very clear that a lot of the iPhone's initial design language was inspired by PalmOS
Plug for my favourite podcast Literature and History which has convered this topic: https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-096-the-last-pagan-...
> as the European Space Agency, China, and other private entities such as Blue Origin begin to catch up.

Catching up when? In 20 years? Nobody is close to doing what spacex is doing right now
I feel the same.

I love space and used to love what SpaceX is doing but Musk made it a lot less appealing. Will still read about it but watching a live stream for hours? Forget about it.

I also like EVs and I have been close to getting a Tesla for a number of times but didn't yet, and at this rate, probably won't get one at all.

In my view, Musk turned quickly from a goofy geeky optimist to down-right repugnant. Not interested in any of his business.
> Thirty years ago this had been given over entirely to studios, but now it was broken up into a more profitable mêlée of semi-commercial establishments and light-housekeeping apartments.

From what I can tell, I'd hardly want to read the original. Way too verbose and I highly suspect the rest of the book is similar.
Perhaps this is not a technology problem, but a people problem? Of course forum mods are going to be overly invested into the topic and might be a bit pedantic, but Reddit also has mods, they're also oft terrible. So why is one dying while the other is doing rather well?

I agree that Discord is a terrible gated community that is horrible for searchability. But there has to be something about these platforms why the people prefer them.
Try idealo.de.

It will point you to the most affordable site for your product.
Then where does the Falcon 9 have only 4 total failures over the course of nearly 15 years figure come from?[0]

Last two previous launches were failures of the Raptor engine. Falcon 9 never seemed to have this many issues did it?

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...
Just how big is China's AI market?
> Numbing is the opposite of stimulating.

Your point being? Over-stimulation in the short term can be numbing in the long term by building up tolerance. And that's assuming that stimulation is somehow a one-dimensional thing and it can only ever be one or the other. The brain is complex, stimulation can go many ways, and simplifying too much is not constructive.

> I can only think of "entertainment value" which is often sacrificed to make more profit and which books are clearly lacking when compared to other more entertaining things.

In the previous reply it was only informational value. Putting that aside, this also reduces something to a single dimension when there is really no reason or benefit in doing so. There is no such thing as The Entertainment just as stimulation does not happen along a single axis.
This is the PDF of the following 2011 book focused on FFTs and fast arithmetic for both real numbers and finite fields. https://www.amazon.com/Matters-Computational-Ideas-Algorithm...
The author is Jörg Arndt: born 1964 in Berlin, Germany. Study of theoretical physics at the University of Bayreuth, and the Technical University of Berlin, Diploma in 1995. PhD in Mathematics, supervised by Richard Brent, at the Australian National University, Canberra, in 2010.
>Would you mind explaining how I might do a full audit of the total Monero supply using range proofs?

The range proofs are verified by monero nodes or the transaction is invalid, so it is sort of like asking to audit that all bitcoin transactions are correctly signed. The cryptography for Bulletproofs and its implementations are audited by cryptographers, which you can read. Just run a monero node and count up all the inputs from the block reward, which are public. That's the supply.

>It's a crypto-asset that's optimised for storing large amounts of value of large amounts of time (similar to gold, but much improved).

The low block size and resulting high fees aren't an intentional design decision. It's not "optimized" for anything except the network conditions of 2010, because that's the last time satoshi changed it. Satoshi clearly intended for the block size to be raised[0][1].

The difference between gold and bitcoin is that gold doesn't require a constant value transfer to miners (in the form of inflation or fees) in order to be secure, gold can just sit in a vault. In 10 years down the line if the mining reward is too low (coinbase keeps getting cut in half, transaction fees will need to increase to accommodate), miners will sell off equipment and attackers can buy them up.

it recreates money printing unless you are using lightning. If it is just some payment processor you don't have a payment channel with (like PayPal as you suggested) there is nothing stopping them from doing fractional reserve banking on the other side and giving out loans.

People can self custody now because fees are low. If more people use bitcoin, the fees go up and it becomes impractical. Using bitcoin for everyday transactions is the whole point bitcoin was created in the first place.

>In addition, it is fully auditable, meaning you can have your bitcoin fully or partially custodied by a third-party but have full access to the public keys for the bitcoin wallet, proving your money is where the custodian says it is.
yo
This will just give you proof that the custodian hasn't moved the outputs, which is sort of flawed. It doesn't tell you anything about ownership.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg153...
[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149668.msg1596879#ms...
>The top 3 are the killer features and the reason why I would not move to Tidal/Apple Music/bandcamp.

For regular people, the #1 reason they can't use Bandcamp is it doesn't have mainstream artists on the Big 3 Record Labels like Universal+Sony+Warner. In contrast, Bandcamp is deliberately designed for the smaller independent artists to upload and sell their music.

If people want to listen to today's Taylor Swift or yesterday's Beatles and Led Zeppelin, that music is only (legally) found on the major subscription services like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc. A very small hardcore subset buy Big Label artists music from HDTracks but that site doesn't have the selection of Spotify and it's a lot more expensive.
I read very little (except kids books) when my kids were younger, now they require less hand-holding I rediscovered my love of reading
The only viable solution for those is effectively building an inner insulated shell in each room, which does work but loses interior space.

My grandmother lived most of her life in a poorly insulated brick terraced house with no central heating - every day she'd get up and light a coal fire in the grate. A lifestyle that belonged more to the 1890s than the 1990s.
Unlike sites like Reddit where an overarching hivemind will dominate the entire site to the point where your cooking, gardening and Reality TV subs will all contain American politics for some ungodly reason, 4chan still seems to be siloed in to specifically focused communities.

Ignore /b/, /pol/, r9k and all the weeb stuff and you can find some properly good communities which remind me of the old internet. /sci/, /mu/, /biz/ and /fit/ can all have their moments from time to time.
ascii art for the win
I gather he understands fine, he just doesn't like it. He wants Russia to win.
McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover
TIL (from this thread) : You can abuse TLS handshakes to effectively reverse-DNS an IP address without ever talking to a DNS server! Is this built into dig yet? :)

(Alright, some IP addresses, not all of them)

I also wonder if this is a potential footgun for eSNI deployments: If you add eSNI support to a server, you must remember to also make regular SNI mandatory - otherwise, an eavesdropper can just ask your server nicely for the domain that the eSNI encryption was trying to hide from it.
> No game has ever gave me the opportunity to re-read the same "page" or sentence on the spot, multiple times in a row, triggering another layer of thought or insight from the same 3-5 seconds. None.

Maybe you just haven't played the right games? Many do in fact allow you to do this. CRPGs usually allow you to take as much time in a conversation or dialog as you want or even replay whole conversations, and Visual Novel games often have an explicit log of every line that you can go back to and read through.
I thought it was just a synonym for "shattered", but it does seem to be more than that - there's a lot of "oak tree + lightning" in there, and not much "oops, I dropped a milk jug". Maybe it's closer to our modern "exploded"?

Here's two from 1797, both describing the same storm: "the old poor houſe was tremendously ſtruck by the lightning; the roof was entirely torn off and demoliſhed, the window frames driven in and ſhivered to pieces" and "The ship Elizabeth, retaken by the Alcmene, had her fore-top-mast shivered; as was an oak, a foot in diameter, in Yatton Church-yard."

(Do you have access to the OED via a fairly cheap route? That's something I'd really like to have).
Harassment, yes. To get an equivalent situation, you need to eat a fish supper to avoid monumentally unpleasant life changes, and the looney fringe of the dominant religion, in cahoots with some of your friends and relatives, wants to call you a murderer for eating that fish supper. Then they don't limit themselves to publishing their views, they hang around the fish and chips stand acting sad and concerned. This is not a constructive discussion or public debate, it's coercion.
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You don't need Amazon's return policy if the country has decent pro-consumer laws. In Netherlands, for example, you can return an item purchased online. For that you need to notify the seller within 14 days of receipt and then send it back within next 14 days.
Very cool! I see how you can do zoom-to-code on a treemap, but the diagrams then need to be more abstract and without code, right?
Sssh, you weren’t meant to notice! We have a man on the inside.
I worked at a startup that made exactly that, but the product failed and the company pivoted to other ways to support local businesses. Most local businesses didn't want to put much effort into getting their products listed online.
Is all propaganda a "malicious distortion of truth", or just Russian? The US has vastly more resources to push its own propaganda via its controlled media, infecting the AI much faster and stronger?
Some of the content that pops up on /t/ are extremely interesting from a data hoarding/lost media perspective

I vaguely remember a poster having digitised his entire niche Serbian breakfast cartoon collection

A lot falls through the rather wide cracks in legal distribution methods
Looks like we migrated to Linux around the same time. Nice!
Not if it only happens on 3rd-party cartridges combined with the fact that Xerox claims that they are low-quality and compared to their high quality genuine original cartridges™
Nothing obviously bad about the very litle I've used it so far. Almost disorienting how little distraction there is from clean interface. Need to figure out if there's anything that distinguishes it from using Gemini directly.
And, like, particularly companies _owned by US government officials_. I can't see how any country could be particularly comfortable with this for official use.
> Granted, this was a university project so we clearly were within the academic context, but we were in no way affiliated with a too big to sue company.

Even without supposed goodwill of AMD and seeing things a different way being a) affiliated with a university b) outside the USA may have changed some of the equation.
Didn’t need to read that! I’ve often thought I will truly feel my age when they start calling the Xbox 360 ‘retro’. Not far off if we’re not already there.
What's the equivalent of Bioware for engineering companies? When the original talent leaves or existing talent can't put together a significantly more complex project than previous efforts. Not suggesting this is where SpaceX is at, too soon to tell, but curious of there's a term for that process.
> It should not be different from buying... a bicycle for example

But a bicycle is a physical object that can't be replicated at no cost. Digital representations of songs can.

A world where music can be purchased once is a world where piracy obliterates that business model. Piracy will unfortunately always be easier than buying the song. You lose the song? You pirate it again. If you buy it, you need log in to some website and download the song. If you lose the creds, you need to reset, log in and download the song. Lost your email account? Now you need to liase with a human on the customer service team. With piracy, the answer is always "just download the file.".

Streaming simplifies this and adds additional functionality that makes it much easier than piracy by allowing you to search for songs easily, suggesting songs to you, letting you make playlists and adding the social element.
> I've had horrible experience with German shops, when you have an issue they do whatever to make it look like it's your own fault.

That's just the usual experience of German customer service. The consumer is expected to quote the relevant paragraphs to explain customer service why they need to cover cost of return shipping or whatever and they will fight you every step of the way (or try to ignore you). It seems to be a cultural thing.
I always connect to multiple external screens. I cannot imagine having only my laptop screen/keyboard.
Explain? OpenAI showed the new scaling law in December 2024 that performance keeps increasing proportional to ln(N reasoning tokens)
So wait, this bill sponsored by Red Cruz already passed the Senate, and it allows people to mass-issue spurious takedowns with no counter or penalty for blatantly lying about the content being (A) them or (B) "intimate" or (C) "unauthorized"?
Yes and No. It is way over hyped and sold to the younger generation as some sort of "revelation". It is nothing of that sort but merely some good opinions undeservedly generalized as truth. So read a lot of books and come up with your own approach based on your own experience and studies.
100,000 American deaths per year due to poor air quality.
I'd rather have a polluted $HOME than a polluted env that slows down every fork.

The script should have a --without-env option or similar.
The book, even a crappy book by a weak author, will be more thought provoking than the video game.
In France you still get free shipping for orders > €35; it's not "next day" but it's extremely rare one would need something so urgently as for 24 hours to make a difference.

In fact nowadays the biggest competitor to Amazon is Aliexpress. Extremely reliable, free shipping for orders > €10, and prices often 50-60% less than on Amazon, for exactly the same products. The only drawbacks are 1/ shipping takes 10 days and 2/ returns are complicated. But for less than half the price it's worth it.

The main problem with Prime is that Amazon tries to justify its super high cost with Amazon Video, which nobody asked for, and nobody wants because of the incredibly low quality of the catalog.

I'm not sure I even understand the strategy. Is it working? Do people actually like Amazon Video Prime and watch it, rather than the myriad other streaming services they're probably also subscribed to? Or is it still an experiment for Amazon?
> if online shops would collaborate on a system allowing a single user account to be used to buy items across multiple stores, it would massively lessen the friction. If they could also figure out a way to compete somewhat on the cost of shipping, that would also help.

This is basically how Allegro and Erli work in Poland. It's a platform that arranges the catalogue, shipping, payment, returns, etc. but (most[1]) items are listed and sold by individual companies that manage their own stocks in their own storage. Of course they take a cut for every purchase. For consumers there's a yearly sub that's priced just like Prime and makes most shipping free.

[1] Allegro has their own stocks that are promoted in a bit trust-y way but I digress.
Ask HN: How do you manage your LinkedIn connections?
I have been seeing some LinkedIn profiles with hundreds of new connections every week. Are they using automation tools to achieve this, or is it all done manually?

If they are using automation, how do they manage to avoid the limits or restrictions?
For those who connect manually, do you only send requests to people you personally know or find interesting?
Did you send a link over Email, Whatsapp or something like?
Interesting read. I'm not convinced. It predicates it's assertion on the idea that profits die on the same day they were conceived or born. That is a very unconvincing start.

Even if Jesus was born on Christmas, it is undeniable that having a similar dated holiday to co-opt is a marketing win. Other overlaps exist with stories thousands of years older, including virgin births, death and resurrection, and dying for humanity.
I don't agree on Joel for everything but his bakery clean analogy https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-... feel spot on for me.

Same with bakery, clean code doesn't means that you need to have no duplicates, solid, etc. You can work with dirty codes, until it gets too dirty to work on and you need to start cleaning, by which will takes considerable of time. Otherwise if you want to make it as clean and spotless as possible, it'll take considerable time and also you need to do that every time changes applies.

Consider renovation projects, you won't see they mop the floor everyday to the spotless level, they'll maybe sweep and clean it to the point where it's acceptable to operate. As you get better and with better tools, you can make less mess and less, but there'll be trash somewhere.

And same in code, you clean your code to an acceptable level, otherwise the code will be too dirty over time and hard to be worked on, and as you get better you'll make less dirty code. Problem is, nobody can know / agree on the acceptable level in programming which makes things hard.
German Factory Orders Slumped Most in a Year Before Merz Won (-7%)
I don’t know. You can ask those poor people who can’t afford to buy a new “eco” car and are now unable to drive if they feel like their lives are better now. Maybe they have something to say about it, but ecologists may not want to hear it. (Or, more realistically, they will ignore what people want, because intellectuals know better)
https://archive.ph/bj6NK

And somehow the German stock index DAX is up 17% YTD.
Let's try them all and see which order is the best.
Please name some others that are similar in size to Costco. I would love to live in a world where there were more businesses like it, but it my experience it really does seem unique.
People Are Going Silent': Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
> - if local shops all used a single stock-taking system that also allowed live location-aware item searches, it would be a game changer. Imagine searching for an item you want and knowing, for sure, there was one in stock in a local shop, and the price. (My belief is many people would love to shop locally if it wasn’t such a PITA.)

They kind of made something similar in France with a network of independent libraries.
It's still a far cry from the Amazon UX because for the ~6 physical books a year I buy, there's an issue half of the times.
Like, it says on the portal that it's in stock in this library, you pay for it, then the next morning they send you an email telling you that they don't have it in stock actually.
So you either have to wait at least a week for them to get it in stock, or you have to cancel the order and go in another library where it's actually in stock, after they checked by directly contacting them by phone...

> - If they could also figure out a way to compete somewhat on the cost of shipping, that would also help.

Despite their huge bargain power, Amazon still prefered to create their own shipping service, so there's no way smaller companies could pressure enough on existing shipping services to reduce shipping cost
The director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, wrote a book about Pompeii (I don't know if it was translated to English, since I read it in Italian), and it described why rich people decorated their homes this way. Of course these paintings served to rich homeowners to show off their power, but also to have some fun during dinners. For example, everybody in ancient Rome knew the mith of <name_your_favourite_roman_god>. So, when entering a room with a painting of such god on the wall, after a couple of glasses with their friends, they'd start arguing, "I understood why Jupiter did this and that..." or, sometimes, they painted the mith with something odd just to have fun. It was a conversation starter, a way to be ironic of life and with friends, and a way to enjoy their lives.
It's the price you pay for being rich, free and alive at the same time
- Lord John Marbury
Even if they somehow are compatible in principle (frequencies etc) it would be like developing a new product, but one where you will never get any new hardware, and without any documentation on said hardware. I.e. a nightmare.
> AFAIK Hardware jailbreaking/homebrew tools are fine even in jurisdictions blighted with with DMCA unless they're specifically for circumventing DRM.

Certain Japanese video-game companies would take issue with that interpretation of facts. Of course there is the arbitrary distinction between 'access' and 'copy' control mechanisms. Something arguably made irrelevant by the further integration of general concepts from personal-computing into certain video-game systems.