skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how good Windows 95 was in practice, but in our country where 99.9% of internet cafes didn't have licenses, or service pack updates (if they even had any for the 95 variant), it was a pretty easy Windows to DoS via the netbios vulnerability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
I used to think that, or maybe just wished it were true, but then looking at Microsoft’s valuation I’m not so sure it is…
Thanks so much for the book! Its lovely
this is just not true?

I have (and I imagine most people over 25 have) used plenty of forums, wikis, and other social medias that are free as in beer, hosted by some guy with a computer in his garage, with technology from decades ago

The better ones of them asked you to pay if you wanted to be able to post video/large images. In most of those spaces, corporate was nowhere to be seen. Sometimes they used banner ads, but often, nothing at all but a single person's internet bill was the entire cost of the site. Such places still exist, and are good.

The internet is getting worse by the day. It's been getting worse for so long, that people are starting to wax lyrical about how it can't possibly work any other way, this is just the natural state of things.

Of course, if you absolutely must mindlessly go to the dopamine trough and get your fix of algorithmic profit engagement, then yes, you will end up in places that relentlessly seek profit via one form of another. But if you filter even a little bit for quality, you'll end up somewhere else.
WoT.php
An open-source, lightweight PHP library for working with Web of Things (WoT) Thing Descriptions (TD). It includes features to parse, validate, and generate TD documents. It adheres to the W3C TD JSON Schema but does not follow the W3C WoT Scripting API.
Impressive. Here I am struggling to design a decent UI for a screen of at least 13 inches. I shudder to think how much harder it would be if the only means of interaction were a scroll wheel.
Some of the lower tier individual plans offer generous storage. There's value for having a copy with them vs doing everything yourself.

There's a bit of maintenance even if you just stand still. On the photo side, I notice them updating distortion correction for new lenses that come out, new camera body support, etc -- that's just a few examples of maintaining existing features, separate from the new features they rolled out. Whoever does that has bills to pay, and I think that's just a fact across the industry.

Someone has to get paid to build, maintain, and extend these things, and I don't know if that classifies as rent-seeking.
I think we can safely assume 99% of the outraged posters have never once owned a legal copy of, nor subscribed to Adobe products.

Outrage is a performance these days.
> Still, I wouldn't invite any of these people to my house.

I think this is one of the most profound statements I've read all year. Perfectly sums up all the quiet backlash by middle America against the trolls that have pulled the party into extremes.

It's not that they're bad people, they just get over excited and nobody wants to deal with the headache right now.

I see it at work in the lunch room conversations where someone starts spewing passive aggressive hate and it really kills the vibe.
Why AI Still Struggles with What Isn't There
Thanks for the correction. Interesting
Erlang is my favorite language but getting a job writing Erlang feels impossible. I make it a habit to ctrl-F every Who’s Hiring? thread and find Elixir occasionally and Erlang never.
Hi there! If you load the CLI demo in the github repo (https://github.com/google/A2A/tree/main/samples/python/hosts...) you can see what the A2A servers are returning. Take a look!
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120k people out of poverty
New Mexico — long ranked worst in the U.S. for child wellbeing — became the first state to make childcare free for most families. The result? 120,000 people rose above the poverty line.

This wasn’t a moonshot. It was a single policy shift that removed a massive, structural bottleneck — one that millions of us face every day.

If you’ve ever tried building, working, or even thinking clearly while managing childcare, you know how hard it gets. For many, the constraint isn’t talent or effort — it’s whether they can safely hand off their kid long enough to get anything done.
It was a little difficult to find the original 8-page document the author refers to---it's linked a bit down the "News" page, and is here: https://commission.europa.eu/document/8af13e88-6540-436c-b13...

Among other things, it contains some very cute graphics.
It's not just non-citizens, either. Look into denaturalization and all the fascination with it in pro-Trump circles lately.
Right.

The ergonomic problem people face is that the chaining of functions appears in other contexts, like basic OOP.

Some kids trained on banana.monkey().vine().jungle() go into a tizzy when they see (jungle (vine (monkey banana)))).
Or there actually is a deep state and trump is part of it and the goal is to destroy the current stability, in a move called ‘shock doctrine’
Wooden works for me: https://www.keepthetime.com/blog/valerii-danevych-wooden-wat...
For a fairly science focused article I was a little surprised they referred to "bugs" in the casual / technically incorrect manner, as covered here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect#Distinguishing_featur...
You are confusing 2k with NT 3.1. Win2k was not happy with anything less than 128 MB RAM.

edit: changed to 128 MB. It was XP that needed 256 MB to be any good.
Online communities have an inherent death spiral dynamic, unless you actively moderate away toxic people.

These people drive away normal folks creating an ever more distilled community of unpleasant folks.

How many normal people are going to hang around places like reddit and bluesky that are seemingly now filled with hate and conspiracy theories.
Chocolate, spices, salt, and cassava products are particularly high in heavy metals.

I'm surprised to see salt on the list. Where does most table salt come from? And where in the processing does lead come in? Off the top of my head I think of it as a simple process. There aren't any special additives for flavor, color, or shelf life, as it's not attacked by bacteria. I believe the only thing added is iodine. And speaking as a non-chemist, it would seem straightforward to separate salt from lead if the salt was contaminated.

If somebody who actually knew what they're talking about could chime in, I'd be interested.
Polyester use took off in the 1950s and 1960s, but it declined into the 1970s and 1980s. It took off again in the late 1990s. As such, the intervening period that didn't see major use of it was within my lifetime.
One of the awesome things about LISP is it encourages a developer to think of programs as an AST[0].

One of the things that sucks about LISP is - master it and every programming language is nothing more than an AST[0].

:-D

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree
Hamas isn't an army, it's the political party voted into office to administer Gaza. The problem is a subset of it, the Al-Qassam Brigades, that conduct asymmetric warfare. If that were shutdown and violence were disavowed, that would give them political respect and would cease giving Palestinians a bad name that holds them back from the atrocities committed against them from being recognized.
Got it, I took "who exercise power across political administrations" to mean across the administration, as in multiple departments.

However Musk was first made the head of a an agency without Senate confirmation or Congress approval for the new position bypassing the people he should have been appointed by for the position. His label only changed once the courts got involved
APPT: Affinity Protein–Protein Transformers
> There is no canonical way to convert a Template to a string.

... but let me assure you it's never the wrong one!
For a supposedly intellectual site that I clearly am at best in the middle tier of intellectual ability, this place is shockingly passive and accepting of the converging futures of authoritarian AI and the marked collapse of political discourse, if not rule of law.

Maybe I'm just a dumb one that speaks up, everyone else has gone dark forest.
Cloudflare doesn't officially support SSE, but if you send keepalives events every 15 or 20sec or so you can reliably use SSE for 40 min + in my experiance.

No server traffic for 100+ sec officially results in a 524, so you could possibly make that keepalive interval longer, but I haven't tested it.

Make sure to have the new style cache rule with Bypass cache selected and absolutely make sure you are using HTTP/2 all the way to the origin.

The 6 connections per browser limit of HTTP/1.1 SSE was painful, and I am pretty sure auto negotiation breaks, often in unexpected ways with a HTTP/1.1 origin.
> 2k brought multi-processing/multi-user

Sorta. It was real pain-in-the-ass to run 2000 as a regular (non-administrator) user. Assuming your software worked at all that way, as even Office 2000 had some issues. UAC was necessary.
Strictly speaking, Russia has quite explicit free speech protections in its constitution. So much so that it separately covers freedom of speech and freedom of press, and in regard to the latter straight up says "censorship is prohibited".

Whenever this topic comes up, the government just nods at the document, as if it had any relation to the real world.
Hi there (I work on a2a) - can you explain the concern a bit more? We'd be happy to look.

A2A is a conduit for agents to speak in their native modalities. From the receiving agent implementation point of view, there shouldn't be a difference in "speaking" to a user/human-in-the-loop and another agent. I'm not aware of anything in the protocol that is sensitive to the content. A2A has 'Messages' and 'Artifacts' to distinguish between generated content and everything else (context, thoughts, user instructions, etc) and should be robust to formatting challenges (since it relies on the underlying agent).
Is this part of an "eat bugs" marketing push?

"Bugs are just miniature lobsters". If anything, makes me not want to eat crustaceans.
I would say Germany needs to redefine what patriotism is.
It currently has too many dual passport holders, and people with dual loyalties who do not put the long-term interests of Germany first, but rather consider Germany only as a source of welfare to extract and transfer elsewhere
and still birth rates are reasonably high...why would a state pay for childcare if it wasnt to rise birth rates?
The executive branch is merely going to ignore everything and then apply pardon powers to any sort of actual enforcement by the judiciary branch.

But how can this judiciary enforce anything, or the legislative for that matter?
I don't think they were saying it's a problem for people following content creators. It's more a problem for content creators, because they usually want the greatest reach possible, so they want to be on platforms that people use, which requires them to put up with the emotional swingings of the platforms' userbases.

If you want to say you don't care about having content creators on your platform, that's at least a coherent take. But you still have to think about the business models of the platforms that keep them around-- short of collecting payments from every ordinary user, there needs to be buy-in from someone wanting reach, whether that's corporate accounts, individual content creators, or someone else. And do you actually know all of those "normal people who happen to say things you find interesting" in real life, or did you find some of them online, i.e. they're basically influencers/content creators with you as an audience member?
Time to first iteration is a huge metric that no one is tracking.
The question is whether or not cultures that had no writing systems were limited to the same level of intelligence and/or development that other primates exhibit.

Given that with exception of an interesting knot-encoded (Quipu) system for some period of the Inca empire, the entire human population of the Americas (at least 15-20% of the total human population) fits this description, the answer seems to be "no". These cultures built huge cities (among the largest in the world at the time), used sophisticated irrigation schemes, ceramics technology and more.
Awe – Modern compiler for Algol W
I got an extension to hide every blue check user, twitter is wonderful nkw
I know this is minor to your point, but I think you can get pattern matching on receive with Akka Typed.
The argument is that this is now part of that list of reasons. Why acknowledge a problem but disregard one of the causes?
2K was so much better than XP. The UI rendering thread was decoupled in a way that XP's wasn't.
I believe that's standard for Netflix, etc, but is it also true for plain webms and mp4s in a <video> tags? I thought those were downloaded in one request but had enough metadata at the beginning to allow playback to start before the file is completely downloaded.
Gruß aus Frankfurt, you really couldn't have proven his point any better if you tried.

Some countries are approximately 50% national flag by surface area, fist pumping and chanting the country's name at every opportunity despite being run by people making Nazi salutes, but "it's okay to like your country's culture" is instantly equated with Nazism? Come on man...
i like the story about how it was found. The search was cover for a secret military operation, and they kinda actually found it by mistake after the mission:

https://spyscape.com/article/how-the-titanic-was-discovered-...
> But we don't get sued for our influences. Only for what we output.

Like humans, the model has the capacity for both high-level abstractions that could be described as merely "influence" but also it has the very-specific minute details that when reproduced in art are described as "infringement."

While I agree that some of what the model learns could/should be described as Fair Use, it's not courts strong suits to create tests for NN graphs to determine just how well abstracted things are. So, to be safe, they're likely to lean towards "just license the content."

With billions of dollars invested in AI, I wonder if lobbying could influence copyright legislation to tip the copyright duration a little back towards sanity.

I have a great deal of sympathy for artists who feel like their work is stolen. But I think there's an inevitable future where these tools are powerful and commonplace. So IMO we should focus on compensating artists for their work, especially so if they're used to train ML models.
Platforms which drive away normal users with unwarranted hate become increasingly concentrated with toxic people over time.

If bluesky don’t find a way to escape this spiral of driving away normal people and attracting toxic people it’s going to become a sort of left-wing 4chan.
Yeah you are talking about yourself and only yourself.
So this is only loosely related to the posted article, but I found the "great green wall" project from the U.N. to be super interesting. It makes me wonder if the same concepts can (and should?) be applied to other deserts, such as the American midwest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xls7K_xFBQ
Because if you capture the top, you automatically capture the bottom too. It's the shortest and easiest path.
Yeah, you'd need a lib or roll your own that races the response against a timeout.

Kind of like how you also need to implement app-layer ping/pong over websockets for keepalive even though tcp already sends its own ping/pong. -_-

As for EventSource, I don't remember exactly, something always comes up. That said, you could say the same for websockets since even implementing non-buggy reconn/backaway logic is annoying.

I'll admit, time for me to try the thing you pitch in the article.
With ai its even faster tbh last i made my own led driver i didnt even have proper documentation. Also waste of money, its not the only thing i will be buying will i?
software does have tail recursion.

This might be more like wrist recursion.

EDIT: I wonder if a nixie wristwatch would be a middle ground?
if America has gun violence, then Germany has car ramming into crowds violence, and both problems have similar roots
This sounds amazing, gonna give it a spin!
To be fair...the other side was just as ferocious when someone postulated that the election was rigged, or that COVID couldn't be stopped by masks. You're essentially asking for conservatives to be the bigger person and stop the blood feud.

IMO both approaches should have been more measured, but who do you think will propose the ceasefire agreement?
I dont sell to consumers
[expensive chuckling]
It is uncapped and indefinite. People always want more than they have. We get used to what we have. What was considered a luxury is baseline today. Today's luxuries will before long be considered part of the "poverty line".
> But on a modern cloud platform, there’s really no reason to permanently grant Sam Altman Google Mail access, even if you want his robots to sort your inbox. You can decouple access to your mail spool from persistent access to your account by tokenizing your OAuth tokens, so the LLM gets a placeholder token that a hardware-isolated, robot-free Fly Machine can substitute on the fly for a real one.

This kind of isolation is nice. Next logical step would be some way to prevent Fly from having access to the tokens.
Agree with most of what you're saying here, but:

> But animals are incapable of doing so, even if a Bonobo is roughly as intelligent as a human, it's not like it can transmit any kind of information to future generations, so every generation of Bonobos need to learn either from scratch or from their community.

We just don't know if this is true.
Okay, mostly use Windows 7 Professional (with 100+ "updates") for general purpose and software development but for such usage and/or a Web server what to get now? Windows 2xxx?
people like you are the reason for the downfall of Germany as a nation
Sounds like those places aren't actually cheaper, and we're just "getting what we are paying for" in terms of lower quality for lower prices.
To bolster its workforce. Parents with childcare can work. Regardless why (fertility rate, labor force participation improvement), it is the right thing to do imho.
Thank you for that term!

I finally know what to call these idiotic trends that I've learned to recognise but couldn't name.

The one that grind my gears the most has been Microsoft breaking decades-old Windows paradigms to cater for Linux-developers-on-Windows, which is a very marginal, even actively disinterested group. All this at the expense of the 99.9% of their loyal user base.

For example, VS Code had the opposite shortcut (literally with the arrow keys going in opposing directions) for "go back in search history" to every other editor ever made for Windows... but matching the Linux equivalent.

Similarly, they recently broke "cls" to match the broken(!) behaviour of "clear" in Linux because of basically just one or two Linux users complaining in a GitHub Issue ticket. Windows users weren't listened to, because they're already users, not potential new users.
Here are my gripes with the modern Windows experience:

- Runs Windows update and reboots without my permission

- Keeps trying to make me switch to Bing

- Keeps trying to make me use Microsoft Account vs. local account

- Does a crappy job of reopening windows on reboot. Miserable copy of macOS.

- Fan spinning on my laptop with no easy way to figure out what process is consuming CPU

- Flat UI

- No built-in way to view markdown files

- No tool to graphically show where my diskspace went; allowing me to find and delete large files

- Printers keep getting disconnected; it is easier to print from iPhone thanks to bonjour

- No dictionary app (macOS has it)

- Can't airdrop to iPhone (3rd party apps can do it)

- No screenshot tool that allows you to type text (in addition to circling and highlighting and arrows)

- No command-line zip / unzip

- No instant search (macOS has had it for how many years now?)
Pixel 9a's 3 big design updates
Done properly such policies promote a better more uniform and reliable childcare industry, moves more parents from home into the workplace, raises more in taxes from working hours, increases early socialisation for young children, etc.
Your point is contingent on sensor availability to an llm. Llms are a frozen human mind until they behave like live ml algos.
To reduce crime, have increased economic growth.
Mechanical losses in cog and ratchet. At some point, friction won.
But also not a part of the human experience among all the ancestors of the Cherokee people, or more or less all humans in the Americas, all the way back to whenever humans first arrived in the Americas (likely 25k-30k years ago, at least).
> The odd-numbered .NET releases aren't even worth looking at from an enterprise perspective.

Not hard to argue the opposite either; as you have to upgrade every 2ish years anyway is the LTS track really that valuable compared to updating every march-ish when the latest has been proven? 6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9 was trivial too.

Meanwhile a friend of mine still has 4.6 going strong and I’d struggle to argue a reason to migrate.
Still can’t tell time accurately over a long period. The ultimate irony of these collectible expensive watches. I like them anyway out of respect for the engineering but still.
You know what does not give me confidence? Updating software, but whats that, its still printing the same build date? Of course hours later tens of files deep I found out some reproducability goof just hardcoded it.

So far, reproducible builds are heavy on the former, zero on these bugs you mention and zero on supply chain attacks.

Some of these supposed use cases make no sense. You update the compiler. Oh no, all the code is different? Enjoy the 16h deep dive to realize someone tweaked code generation based on the cycle times given on page 7893 of the Intel x64 architecture reference manual.
For a period of time. Which depends on depth of stockpile
Well revenue cratered and that’s usually a critical business metric for financially viable businesses

Reminds me the joke of how to become a millionaire that’s basically start with a billion and invest in xyz terrible idea. That’s basically twitter, a shell of its former revenue and status.
That strap… way to ruin it
As a German I would love to contradict this but I tend to agree. Bureaucracy isn't such a big deal in my experience - might be different depending what area you are working in - but the leadership culture regarding software is the cause of most of the misery I've seen and I've been involved with.

Cheap as in no investments in people or software quality. Salaries are also not competitive in a lot of places.

Disregard for the user and disregard for usability.

Unfortunately most software shops locked in their customers and the lack of any technical merit pays well and is disconnected from product quality.

Only lots of bankruptcies might help. I have nothing but disdain for these people in leadership.

I've surely not seen all but I've seen enough. It's that bad.
If you're interested in the functioning of mechanical watches, they're amazing:

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Previously on HN in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533
Quartz can’t either :)
41 complications and no GPS? How am I supposed to upload my runs to Strava?
I discovered this for myself while trying to cancel my plan. I told them I'd contact my state's consumer affairs regulator, and they instantly buckled. They ended up saving us both the trouble, and waived my 'cancellation fee'. For what it's worth, the previous time I tried to cancel their support offered me a 50% discount, which I accepted. Once that discount expired I was out. Adobe aren't earning their keep. Their costs are exorbitant when compared to the quality of the software. I mostly used Premiere (on Windows), which seems to get slower with each release. Media Encoder crashes constantly, and Photoshop is as slow as molasses.
Yes but only for a couple of months.