skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So 5 years after he started with an empty repo and some political ramblings?

Or around 4 years after the first public GNU Emacs release, 4 years after the first public GNU Bison release, 3 years after the first public GDB release, and 2 years after the first public GCC release.

> GNU did not have a working system until Linus released Linux in 1992. They had pieces and components which were worthless on their own.

Correct, just like how the initial public BSD release was just the networking stack (worthless on its own).

> There is a lot of deliberate ignorance of public domain code being posted on BBSes at the time.

Not sure where you got that from. Nobody claims that Stallman was the first one to come up with publicly releasing source code. I will say that a lot of the "public domain" software from back then lacks the uniformity you see from later movements like free software or open source. Some of it isn't even public domain, and has a license like "this is copyright me, any modified copies must have my copyright statement preserved, this software may not be used for commercial purposes".
For the record, Tcl doesn't use garbage collection, rather objects are reference-counted and freed when ref count is <= 0.

But interestingly, Tcl is a good example of languages that took a piece of Lisp's domain. In fact, Tcl is quite Lisp-like with a syntax distinct from Lisp. Tcl has been successful and with the recent release of v. 9.0, it stands to gain traction among programmers.

OTOH CL and Scheme remain underused though current implementations are generally well-equipped to handle contemporary requirements. I've used Scheme to build website generators and other tools but there's a dearth of large-scale, visible Lisp/Scheme projects out there to attract developers.

Starting such a project is a big commitment, probably programmers are hoping somebody else will pick up the ball and run with it.
I think that’d make for interesting experiments and fringe sites, I don’t really see like your average e-commerce site ever doing anything like that.

You’d want the A and B to be intentional, not automatically generated. Every VP thinks their idea for a feature will revolutionize the company.
C is not node.js. C exists for 50 years and is expected to have stable API. In scientific circles it's not unusual to compile c and f77 libraries built in the 70's, 80's.

BLAS, gemv, GEMM, SGEMM libraries are from 1979, 1984, 1989. You may have seen these words scroll by when compiling modern 2025 CUDA :)
I want to switch from Postgres to SQLite for a side project. Managed Postgres is an unnecessary expense, and introduces complexity which I don't want to deal with or troubleshoot. SQLite is simple and appropriate for my current needs. I believe a simple rsync script is enough to keep backups. I'm also attracted to the fact that the database is stored in the same file system in SQLite, instead of being a network request away for Postgres.

However, I am hosting the application via DigitalOcean App Platform, which has an ephemeral storage and lacks the ability to mount volumes. I looked into storing the file in DO Spaces (S3-like storage), but App Platform seems to lack the ability to install/run s3cmd to retrieve files. I also cannot easily curl the file over, because the Spaces files are private and require a new presigned URL which needs to be manually generated as needed.

I really like the App Platform's zero-downtime capabilities and minimal configuration hassle, but I don't like that I lack granular abilities to install what I want on the managed VM (such as s3cmd). I could switch to a droplet, but then I have to manually script the shutdown and startup sequence so that it pulls the db.sqlite file from Spaces on startup.

I'm a little frustrated that App Platform is just barely not compliant enough for me to run SQLite.
Why are the only trades worth following the Pelosi ones?
That's not the point though. The point is that it's very unlikely any C written in the past 20 years relies on the ability to modify string literals.
To be fair, US free speech laws have never grappled with as concentrated publishing/social ownership as we have now.
FWIW, this is why I always travel with a spare phone, especially if out of the country.
The chatgpt'd tariffs marks this epoch perfectly.
The page lists trades from two days ago but doesn't explain how they get their information. Do some congressmen report immediately?
Under the constitution, Trump doesn't have the power to unilaterally make trade policy (that is Congress's prerogative). He claims he does under a vaguely worded emergency powers law that clearly doesn't apply to current circumstances (we are not, or at least were not, in the sort of emergency contemplated by the law). (This goes to show that all such laws granting extraordinary powers to the executive during "emergencies" will eventually be abused by someone sufficiently unscrupulous.)

In a "real" parliamentary system, Trump already would have gotten a no-confidence vote.
I just had Cursor Pro + Sonnet 3.7 Max one shot a python script to send this question to every model available through groq.

>Found 24 models: llama3-70b-8192, llama-3.2-3b-preview, meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct, allam-2-7b, llama-guard-3-8b, qwen-qwq-32b, llama-3.2-1b-preview, playai-tts-arabic, deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b, llama-3.1-8b-instant, llama3-8b-8192, qwen-2.5-coder-32b, distil-whisper-large-v3-en, qwen-2.5-32b, llama-3.2-90b-vision-preview, deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b, whisper-large-v3, llama-3.3-70b-specdec, llama-3.3-70b-versatile, playai-tts, whisper-large-v3-turbo, llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview, mistral-saba-24b, gemma2-9b-it

Excluding the ones that do not support chat completions, all but one (qwen-qwq-32b) answered in the affirmative. The answer from qwen-qwq-32b said:

Paul Newman, the renowned actor and humanitarian, did not have a widely publicized
struggle with alcohol addiction throughout most of his life, but there were
specific instances that indicated challenges.

Using lack of progress in a specialized field as a barometer for overall progress is kind of silly. I just spent the last few days 'vibe coding' an application and I have to say that it's pretty remarkable how capable it is now relative to my experience last year.

It took three minutes for me to do the above from the time I created my API key to when I had an answer.
Oppositional veto power should be coming from the Republicans in Congress right now, especially the House. And if they aren't going to do it they should all be facing primary challenges for the upcoming midterm elections.
I’ve built TinyHead, a lightweight tool that turns all your docs, notes, and links into a chat-ready, searchable AI brain.

The idea came from this pain:
We store valuable info everywhere — Notion, Google Docs, random notes, web links — but when we actually need it, we dig through folders, tabs, or spend forever searching.

With TinyHead, you can:

Chat with your entire knowledge base
Semantically search across Notion, Google Docs, notes, and even YouTube
Add data easily from docs, links, or just write a quick note
Clean UI, zero setup headache
Built with vector search + LLM, runs fast and focused
I've sat through numerous Air New Zealand safety videos over the years and whilst every now and then they hit the spot most of the time they're lame and overly long.

It also seems like a waste of money that presumably finds it way onto ticket prices.
> this was called “tivo-ization” at the time, because TiVo did it.

It's not widely known but what TiVo actually did was something different than this, and both RMS and the SFC believe that both the GPLv2 and GPLv3 allow what TiVo actually did. Some discussion and further links via https://lwn.net/Articles/858905/
Fortunately with LLM's we can generate data and not store it. If you think about it that means articles could always be relevant with additional details added as time goes on.
In winter, I lose 5-10% of my battery a day due to heating my battery. Tesla is nice enough to hide this under "You should keep your car plugged in all the time" messages. It's really a pain, especially if you have a relatively small battery to begin with. I have a 2019 Model 3 w/ a 50 kwh battery, and use 10-20 kwh on a regular basis; 5 kwh wasted means as much as 1/3 of my energy use is effectively waste.

I'd be very interested in seeing what they can provide for us. Improved battery chemistry for use in the far north is of far, far more value than yet another 5 person car for 1 person driving in San Francisco.
Well the holdings also create a conflict of interest in how they choose to vote.
How long until the Americans are trying to get rid of their king if he keeps up with this irrational behavior?

Last time he was on the other side of the Atlantic. It must be easier if he’s on the same continent, right?
Profit opportunities for them and their supporters. Buying the pieces at discounted prices. Selling the public the services the government used to provide. Converting costs to externalities. And some believe axiomatically governments are inefficient and businesses are efficient.
My own markov chains follow up "until he" with fundamentally distinct follow-ups.
Radon does, also, oddly have a therapeutic effective with treating arthritis [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14673618/].
Yes. But such code can be fixed without functional changes.

I'm not denying that there are codebases where trying this would result in an Armageddon of refactoring, but I would venture that's the exception rather than the rule.

Most C programmers use "const char*" for string literals, and have for a long time.
So, like, which programming language do you think is not ugly? J? K?
Sci-Fi books and it was a sentient AI, I can do anything I want in that situation :-)
Publicly announcing trades many months ahead should be enough, without having to get too radical about it.

It pretty much prevents benefiting from "subtle insider" trading via being lobbied by corporate officials or getting any friendly hints from them. The problem with "follow Nancy's trades" idea is that by the time the trade is known, the price has already corrected. The first one to complete the trade is often the only one to collect a significant benefit, the followers get scraps.

And it indirectly disincentivizes owning individual stock because prearranged trade of one stock carries a risk of being screwed by market manipulators, while prearranged trade of a broad index fund is not a problem.
One thing is that you ignore technology change. New technology may produce more with less energy.

Using energy consumption as a momentum indicator still works when accounting for that, but it potentially breaks comparisons across longer spans of time.
> WHAT is happening here? We don't know. And the government is not saying, beyond publishing how much they're doing.

It's the same for robberies, petty fraud, assaults, etc. Just the totals in broad categories are published.

There is a reason for that, privacy, personal details of victims and the actually innocent although accused. These are things that take time, money, resources to scrub from the public record and so are not publicly published.

The reporting done on robberies is done by reporters who understand the privacy laws and apply for access, by people that attend courts or pull transcripts and sign off on the privacy aspects.

Researchers get full unfettered access to entire databases on the same basis.

If you want to know more then take action to allocate funds to drill into the data, write to a newspaper and lobby for them to do the drudge work, approach universities that study crime stats.

Crime reporters, and interested general public, look at the Court dailies and attend hearings on subjects of interest. That's how the public hears about details of a spicy robbery, fraud, or assault. That or parties involved alerting reporters.
It's hard to find any documentation on it since the posts were deleted and Twitter isn't what it once was.

This is the best I could find: https://old.reddit.com/r/CorporateFacepalm/comments/sliby8/g...
Perplexity had no problem with the question, replying in part, "Paul Newman is known to have struggled with alcohol throughout his life, as revealed in various accounts, including his own memoir and documentaries about his life...."
> One organization I knew of had 1,500 terabytes of data, with less than 2% ever having been accessed after it was first stored.

On a related note, probably a similar percentage of people claim on their car insurance. If only the rest realised they had "crap insurance" and were paying for nothing, they could save so much money!

This is obviously sarcasm, but I think it's important to remember that much of the data is stored because we don't know what we will need later. Photos of kids? Maybe that one will be The One that we end up framing? Miscellaneous business records? Maybe those will be the ones we have to dig out for a tax audit? Web pages on government sites? Maybe there will suddenly be an interest in obscure pages on public health policy if a global pandemic happens.

Complaining that data is mostly junk is not a particularly interesting conclusion without acknowledging this. Is there wastage? Yeah sure, but accuracy on what needs storing is directly traded off with time spent figuring that out, and often it's cheaper to store the data.
Taking "time in the market beats timing the market" a bit to the extreme, I think.
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs man who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
I know Domino exceedingly well. I started working with it in '94, and continued with it in one form or another until 2021. My last gig with it was even a Domino-based SaaS that reached over 8 figures ARR, and is still up and running. Everything in this post sounds completely accurate. Domino is absolutely a viable platform from the back-end, database perspective.

But that is not the important point when deciding whether to use it, because it is absolutely not a viable platform from the "Can you find a team to actually code on this platform?" perspective.

By the time I had finished with that last gig, I told everyone the same thing: That I personally knew both Domino and modern web frameworks and could blend them together to have a modern front-end on that back-end. But I figure there are a couple dozen people in the world who know both sides well enough to do so, because the industry moved on. The talent moved on. Or retired. Most of my work post-2009 was decommission projects. At the same time, new frameworks have come to fruition since the 90s, so all the special features Domino has baked in just aren't that unique anymore. There are also almost no jobs in it, so no reason for people to learn it.

At the end of the day, you cannot run a company on a tech stack where there is no talent pool.
That is literally not oppositional veto power. You're asking what is currently a one party state to disempower itself or infight. That's absurd.

The problem is unchecked power. You can't expect those in power to check themselves. When there is no forceful resistance at all to obviously insane completely radical policy that experts are "confused" by, we should all be very very worried.
QQQ hasn't gone up 1000000% in 15 years
>It notably excludes law enforcement. "Police and firefighters will continue to collectively bargain

I hate this timeline.

But yea, we are well overdue for a reminder on why we made unions to begin with. For their sakes they better hope all these lawsuits save them from much more disruptive actions.
I sell templates for a living and have used several of these providers.

The main options are
Gumroad - high fees and ugly design, solid system never had issues does most what I need.

Lemon Squeezy - it was very popular until being acquired by stripe. Full of serious bugs, bad support. Lovely design, slightly better fees than Gumroad, but many hidden. Would still use over Gumroad just cause the Gumroad checkout design is so bad it loses sales imo.

Paddle - haven’t used it but I think it’s probably as good as Gumroad or Lemon.

Polar.sh - the trendy new option, most creators abandoning Lemon Squeezy are moving there. Has lots of innovation in features beyond payments such as selling private GitHub access.

All of these platforms are MOR as far as I know, all provide the checkout UI etc. all handle digital asset file delivery. They are perfect for creators selling digital products that want a turn key solution and don’t want to do any development work.
I was writing C long before node.js existed :)

C has no backwards compatibility guarantee, and it never has. Try compiling K&R C with gcc's defaults, and see what happens.

You can build your legacy code with legacy compiler flags. Why do you care about the ability to build under the modern standards?
I like seeing unknown stock tickers show up

Those have been good to copytrade
Tariffs were part of his platform. When did he say he would place 10% to 50% tariffs on all countries excluding Russia, Belarus, North Korea, and Cuba?
Well that’s not quite correct. If you look at their most recent 10-K, Ads made up about 8% of Amazon’s revenue. The bulk of their revenue is still retail (online, physical and third party seller services) with AWS providing about 16%.

Microsoft’s largest segment is cloud, but it doesn’t quite provide the bulk. Their ads business is small compared to the rest.

Certainly killing advertising would hurt them, but I’m not seeing a mortal wound here, so I thought I was missing something when you lumped them in.
> In very simple terms, you are just intolerant. You just gave yourself a permission to hate ( because your hate is so totally different from their kind of hate ). On the off-chance sarcasm was not obvious, it is not some sort of neat trick or get out of jail card, because there is some level of social permission for this.

Yeah, I'm OK hating people who want to imprison/kill people for being born a particular way. You can change the way you think, they can't change the way they were born.

> Friend,

You're not my friend.

> Then we are out of words and are unable to communicate further. What does that accomplish?

We don't need to debate concepts like "should we send people to labor camps, without due process". Engaging people who think this way simply helps spread their ideas, and their ideas are a cancer.

Saying this community is debating these things because we believe in curiosity is just an excuse to allow fascists in our midsts without feeling guilt about it. If you have a bar and let nazis hang out, you're a nazi bar.

> 'When is it not ok to disagree?'

If your disagreement is about whether someone should be allowed to exist because of the way they were born, then it's not OK to disagree.

I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't exist. I'm suggesting that we, as a community, shouldn't allow you to participate in debate, because it simply helps spread your hate, and it makes the community as a whole worse to allow you to participate.
How is acknowledging that politicians have insider information a conspiracy?
agree - portability across *nix was the point, not a complete product
The investment Microsoft famously made in Apple in 1997 did not prevent Apple from going bankrupt. By the time the money was in Apple's accounts, its fortunes were already reversed.

The fact Microsoft announced they were investing, and that they were committed to continue shipping Office to Mac, definitely helped.
BSD license allows/intends for this. The basic netutils in Windows come from BSD.
tear gas grenades for dispersing crowd
Sounds interesting, I'll add it to my list. Appreciate the response.
Autism isn't an excuse for hate, and folks on the spectrum don't like this argument, because it portrays them as being unable to have any control over their thought.
Thank you this makes sense. I had to scroll a lot to see one sentence-long phrase to change into another and found this too demanding for the payoff.

The graphic was pretty but did not provide additional insight for me.

As for execution- could’ve been frame-by-frame scroll-driven animation as far as I’m concerned.
Glamorous toolkit has always looked interesting to me, but feels a bit unapproachable. It just feels so foreign between smalltalk and a whole sort of philosophy that goes with it.

For those with more experience, is it still relevant? Can the same be accomplished with python and jupyter notebooks?
"Try this thought experiment from the article - imagine a world without advertising. Products would still exist. Commerce would still happen. Information would still flow."

I remember a world without advertising on the internet. Products still existed. Commerce still happened. Information still flowed. At first I got access to the internet through universities. Later I paid subscription fees for internet access. Nothing I accessed on the www required a paid subscription.

Bandwidth sucked. CPUs were less powerful, RAM and storage were in short supply. All that has changged.

But I still pay for internet access, much more than I did in the early days. And, remarkably, I see people asking internet users to "subscribe" to websites, in addition to paying internet subscriber fees. This does not stop these websites from also conducting data collection, surveillance and targeted advertsing.

Internet advertising is not like other advertising. People try to argue it makes stuff "free". Stuff that was already free to begin with.
What are the best introductory textbooks on economics for someone who knows multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations?

Preferably with problem sets and solutions to test understanding. (In fact I'd argue books without those are almost useless outside of a university classroom.)
Love Yuka - phenomenal app.
The whole point is that the U.S. are far from a one party state right now. We are going to see midterm elections relatively soon, the result of which will most likely dictate the rest of Trump's presidency. If he loses his support in Congress, the potential for further damage will be checked significantly.
Related Red Sprites and Blue Jets Explained (Transient Luminous Events) [video] (5 years ago, 1 comment)[0].. which has some great visuals.

The paper this breathless article is based on Massive Outbreak of Red Sprites in South Asia Observed from the Tibetan Plateau[1] really doesn't support the title.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24387986

[1]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-024-4143-5
Nothing wrong with a society wanting to have a nice thing and choosing to paying for it. Trails and parks are politically quite popular.
Looks like OpenBSD maintains openrsync.

https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync