MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timewizard | 2025-05-07 00:28:04+00:00
The FTC is an independent regulatory agency. The president has almost no powers and little oversight when it comes to these agencies.

More appropriately this is a Lina Khan era policy. She had a rocky start but her focus and conviction was unparalleled by any previous iteration of the agency. So much so that she enjoyed more bipartisan congressional support and approval than most staffers in recent memory.
by PantaloonFlames | 2025-05-07 00:28:32+00:00
Aider doesn’t provide any interface that’s integrated into the editor tool, as you point out. That might be true for other similar side-by-side tools that I am not aware of.

But, if you tell aider to watch your files, you can drop a specially formatted comment into your file, and aider will see that and use it as a prompt.

So the integration is sort of “implicit”. Which sounds kinda like the cheap way to go, in comparison to the current brand name tools that have their own chat boxes, dropdowns with mode selectors (ask, edit, agent), and so on.

But look further into the future and an ambient interface is probably where we end up. Something where the Ai agent is just watching what you do, maybe even watching your eyes and seeing what you’re attending to, and then harmonizing its attention to what you are attending to.

But I dunno, i’m just guessing
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-07 00:29:21+00:00
Movies are fungible and available in masses. Say a big hit name like AC/DC, they're showing up in some entire country once in a decade. The competition to get a ticket for this specific show is insane.

A movie however? There's competition both in time (a showing is booked out? fine, I'll just go a week later), in venues (at least in most cities there's at least two) and there's an effective ceiling on price, particularly as consumers are already struggling financially.
by benlivengood | 2025-05-07 00:29:27+00:00
Without more technical details about telemessage it isn't clear how archive servers are actually selected by the app, where they are hosted, or how they are secured.

For example, while it's possible that DoD phones would only connect to Signal via proxies from within a VPN to a private network, direct Internet connectivity could lead to a potential leak of archived messages to any Internet-connected telemessage server if the app is misconfigured or the wrong app installed.

Given the debug logs shown by the attacker it sounds like the archive server has vulnerabilities exploitable over any connected network which wouldn't protect self-hosted version in govcloud from exploitation from within those networks.
by anenefan | 2025-05-07 00:30:03+00:00
Problem - unfortunate site name / link.

It's probably among a very small handful of urls (that are active and not dubious) I have popped into a search engine like duckduckgo and get other sites first with no hit on the actual url I entered into the search bar. That is not a good thing.

Root'd comes up very prominently. Then there's software rootdb and I threw into the query - forum and IT and still getting top results for Root'd and a French support area for rootdb ... followed other rootdb support areas.

Google I tested last so it probably had enough from tracking me to the German site to throw up the right result after adding IT and forum to the query but not the url on its own where for me atm the linkedin announcement is the third result and hacker news entry today is seventh.

Since there seems to be a major project rootdb - it's also going to throw confusion to would be visitors who might have been looking for a suitable forum.
by Klonoar | 2025-05-07 00:30:51+00:00
I often wonder if this bandwidth is as big a deal as people make it out to be.

On a very high traffic site, sure. Anything smaller and I’d argue you should just shove everything down the pipe in one request if you can.

If the bandwidth bothers you, delete an image. You likely don’t have anywhere near that amount in CSS to make up.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-07 00:30:55+00:00
And I run Safari - a browser built by Apple to be battery efficient, memory efficient and better optimized than Chrome and uses native frameworks and UI.

My computer, the processor that runs in it, the operating system, much of the software and the rest of my computer life - phone, watch, set top device, tablet work together. I can copy text from one and paste it into the other. My watch unlocks my computer. My iPad can be used as a second monitor without any third party software.

I bet you HN tested it on iOS if not the Mac and not just hope the site looks fine
by aforwardslash | 2025-05-07 00:31:36+00:00
> I'm not sure how any of these negate the broader point: filesystems provide a lower-level interface to the underlying block device than a database.

On the contrary, filesystems are a specialized database; hardware interface optimizations are done at volume or block device level, not at filesystem level; every direct hardware IO optimization you may have on a kernel-supported filesystem is a leaky VFS implementation and an implementation detail, not a mandatory filesystem requirement.

> 4K then :). Files are block-aligned, and the predominant block size changed once in 40 years from 512B to 4K.

They are, but when the IO is pipelined through a network or serial link, intermediary buffer sizes are different; also, any enterprise-grade controller will have enough buffer space for the difference between a 4k block or a 16k one is negligible;

> Regardless, sequential writes will always provide better write performance than random writes. With POSIX, you control this behavior directly. With a DBMS, you control it by swapping out InnoDB for RocksDB or something.

Disk offsets are linear offsets, not physical; the current system still works as a bastardization of the notion of logical blocks, not physical ones; there is no guarantee that what you see as a sequential write will actually be one locally, let alone in a cloud environment. In fact, you have zero guarantee that your EBS volume is not actually heavily fragmented on the storage system;

>But this is for when you want to outperform a DBMS by 200X, aligned I/O is sufficient for 10-50X. :)

When you want to outperform some generic dbms; because a filesystem is a very specific dbms.
by vunderba | 2025-05-07 00:32:02+00:00
Logic Pro comes the closest to this with the addition of virtual drummers. You can assign it to follow certain rhythmic timings by connecting it to a main instrument track, and by labeling sections of your song (bridge, chorus, etc) you can regenerate until you find something you're happy with.

It's a far cry from having a real drummer, but it works in a pinch.
by chubot | 2025-05-07 00:32:19+00:00
I am not sure if this helps or not, but if you want a bash-compatible shell on Windows, translating Oils to Ada, or porting it to Windows could be easier than adding bash arrays

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910883 (similar comment about Rust)

Bash arrays are extremely hairy, with many corner cases, and differ from bash version to version.

And in particular, the shell code in Nix DOES RELY on these corners (e.g. https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/06/release-0.22.0.html)

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I mentioned in another comment that Koichi Murase, who is a bash contributor, and wrote the largest shell program in the world, just overhauled the bash array support in OSH

A few relevant test files -- Koichi added a huge number recently:

https://oils.pub/release/0.29.0/test/spec.wwz/osh-py/array-s...

https://oils.pub/release/0.29.0/test/spec.wwz/osh-py/array-a...

https://oils.pub/release/0.29.0/test/spec.wwz/osh-py/ble-idi...

Our tests are thorough enough that we ROUTINELY find bugs in bash, like integer overflow bugs.

Koichi also knows about the differences between say bash 4.3, 4.4, 5.0, 5.1, etc. Because he wrote a very large program that uses bash arrays all over the place.

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Feel free to use our tests in any case (other shells like the Scheme shell used to bootstrap Guix have)

And feel free to post a message to https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils if you're interested or have questions
by esperent | 2025-05-07 00:32:39+00:00
There are some useful analogies here. I'll add one of my own.

Burnout may or may not be linked to depression but they share characteristics. One of them is the idea of Learned Helplessness: if you keep trying at something, and failing, eventually your brain will learn that it is pointless to expend energy in trying that thing anymore. It will learn helplessness towards that thing.

If this thing isn't too important to you, no big deal. But if it's something that your identity is deeply connected to - your work, your research, your relationship, your family - then this learned helplessness can spread to other areas of your psyche. If it spreads to all areas related to work, we're likely to call it burnout. If it spreads even further to areas related to family, friendship, relationships, and hobbies, we're likely to call it depression.

Your brain will decide: I can't succeed at X so there's no point trying X anymore, but X is what gives my life meaning and purpose so there's no point trying anything anymore.

This is one reason why CBT therapy has proven so effective. At it's heart, it's about retraining modalities of thought (thought habits). It can help retrain your brain away from this learned helplessness.

If you are interested in learning more about this, I first encountered this idea in books by Martin Seligman. One of the most interesting ideas from him is that we should be training children how to recognize and prevent this tendency of falling into learned helplessness, which would amount to a psychological inoculation against depression and burnout.
by zaphar | 2025-05-07 00:32:40+00:00
Counterpoint: Decades of C++/Python/Java/... has strongly biased me against the try/except pattern.

It's obviously subjective in many ways. However, what I dislike the most is that try/except hides the error path from me when I'm reading code. Decades of trying to figure out why that stacktrace is happening in production suddenly has given me a strong dislike for that path being hidden from me when I'm writing my code.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-07 00:32:40+00:00
I'm assuming that "short-term rental" means your standard "night or two" hotel rooms (not just extended say).

It sounds like it, from the report.

I remember staying in hotels in Japan, and they would say 1,600 Yen per night, and ... I get the bill for two nights, and it's 3,200 Yen.

Not so, US hotels.
by da_chicken | 2025-05-07 00:32:48+00:00
I would suggest that a pre-recorded performance is inherently more fungible.

If movie theater A is going to charge you a $20 fee when you get to the theater, you can just go to theater B later and see the same show.

If you're trying to see the single Chicago date of Tropical Fu Dogs' Coconut Cream tour, well, you either pay the fee or you don't ever see that show.
by adamwk | 2025-05-07 00:32:56+00:00
I guess this is a side-effect where, as things stood, developers were incentivized to just forgo IAP and force users to jump through hoops to find how to give them money; and that in turn wasn’t customer friendly. But in general I much prefer IAP to whatever payment system the developer uses. It makes it so easy to do things like change or cancel any payments I have.

In general I think centralized stores are customer friendly but anti developer. As a less controversial example, see how many gamers will wait months or years for a game to leave the Epic game store and go on Steam.
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by NoPicklez | 2025-05-07 00:36:14+00:00
I do find some of the slop about music streaming services being interesting when the way I use Spotify hasn't changed since I initially subscribed in 2013.

I don't use mood playlists, I use my playlists I make myself and perhaps the top 100/200 playlists.

I wouldn't say Spotify is poisoning music in the digital age. But sure, if you want to go back to CD's where music was more expensive and more dominated by key players then be my guest.

The music producers, distributions, streaming platforms etc have always taken a cut of your music, first it was radio, MTV, CD's and now its streaming.
by SurvivorTed | 2025-05-07 00:36:22+00:00
There isn't any filtering of serial ports (it lists everything it finds).

However it does support bookmarks. With bookmarks you open the serial port you want to use then select to bookmark it. WhippyTerm will take the current config you are using and save it for later. You can then just pick the bookmark later to reopen that connection. Bookmarks also store some of the settings (like is it a binary or text connection, terminal size, colors, etc).

It's a lot like bookmarks in a web browser.
by MindSpunk | 2025-05-07 00:37:12+00:00
It's not so much about having a "sufficiently smart compiler" in the case of GPUs doing compiler assisted scheduling. It's about not having to implement that logic in hardware at all. The more smarts they push into the core hardware, the more silicon each core needs, the less cores you can fit, and more power you spend on figuring out what to run rather than crunching numbers.

Doing the work in the compiler may produce less optimal scheduling than what is theoretically possible, but with the number of "cores" in a GPU you would spend a lot of power doing it in hardware for each one.
by davidcbc | 2025-05-07 00:37:46+00:00
The vast majority of people in the US don't live in California, and even those who do might be slightly better off in terms of healthcare and food, but given that CA has the second highest cost of living behind Hawaii and >25% of the country's homeless population I'm not sure it's considerably better.

Net worth is a poor metric for this, it includes a lot of illiquid assets. You can't eat your car if you lose your job. On the other hand the median savings account balance is $8k which isn't going to last very long at all
by TheAlchemist | 2025-05-07 00:37:48+00:00
Actually why not ?

If you think a bit longer term, and you're able to put say 100 people there, there might be able to subtly influence the public opinion rather easily. And this public might in turn later vote to join US and said US could come to the rescue.

I believe that's pretty much the plan - try to win the population, which is very small, by any means necessary - bribe (they already tried apparently), sow discord, find a common issue you agree on etc.
by kcplate | 2025-05-07 00:37:51+00:00
>> My designs have generated roughly 2 billion dollars for the people lucky enough to be cashing in on it. Not bad surplus value for someone on an 88k salary.

I have seen every episode dozens of times (I have young grandkids who love it which has caused me to appreciate it beyond any other kids show I have ever seen). It’s certainly visually wonderful, with some really beautiful, innovative, and wonderful animation sequences (Sleepytime, Rain, Faceytalk come to mind). She is not giving enough credit here to the writing and messaging that is really IMO responsible for this show’s success. Lots of animated shows are visually amazing, but they don’t bring the beauty that Bluey does…which to me is wrapped around the amazing father that Bandit Heeler is to his kids…and it’s immersive into childlike imagination and world. That is the writing, the meat and potatoes, the animation design is the gravy.
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by clacker-o-matic | 2025-05-07 00:38:27+00:00
That's really interesting; the research methodology seems perhaps a bit flawed though. They didn't seem to explain the "power" metric very well when asking the question (in section 3.1 they said the question was ranked on a scale of 1 to 7 from powerless/lacking control to powerful/in control which seems a bit abstract). The ratio of men to women was 3:7 and in both annual income and age the ranges were quite small focusing mainly on an average age of 30 +- 5 years and annual income between $40k-$60k.
by andrewflnr | 2025-05-07 00:39:24+00:00
Because it's wildly sensational, in particular being the first observation of an object of that type, and a regular boring planet fits the evidence just as well (it would be crazy hard to see at that distance, so it would be no surprise we haven't yet). I'm a fan of the idea too, but it needs a lot more evidence to take it seriously.
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by lamename | 2025-05-07 00:39:38+00:00
> this is aimed primarily at engineers who don't have ML expertise: someone who understands the business context, knows how to build data processing pipelines and web services, but might not know how to build the models.

I respect software engineers a lot, however ANYONE who "doesn't know how to build models" also doesn't know what data leakage is, how to evaluate a model more deeply than simple metrics/loss, and can easily trick themselves into building a "great" model that ends up falling on its face in prod. So apologies if I'm highly skeptical of the admittedly very very cool thing you have built. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
by Lanzaa | 2025-05-07 00:39:39+00:00
You may not have intended it as a "flex", but you are teaching your children to be snooty. If they have "never" eaten a school lunch, they have judged the lunches based on appearance rather than substance/flavor. I wonder how you have judged the school lunches to be lesser than MREs, perhaps you tried the lunches before your children.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-07 00:40:08+00:00
Well, in fact, in WWII the US did take over Iceland to make sure it didn't fall into the wrong hands.

I was going to say that you don't worry about the guy who's shooting his mouth off about taking your country. You worry about the guy who's very quietly preparing his forces. But 1) I do in fact worry that Trump will go beyond shooting his mouth off, and 2) while Putin said "oh no, we're not going to attack Ukraine, these are just exercises", he was making very visible moves with his troops that were clearly threatening.

So, yeah. I don't trust Trump, but I also don't trust Putin. (Though I trust him this far - he's got his hands too full at the moment to try it.)
by fragmede | 2025-05-07 00:40:29+00:00
https://chatgpt.com/c/681aa95f-fa80-8009-84db-79febce49562

it becomes a question of how much you believe it's all just training data, and how much you believe the LLM's got pieces that are composable. I've given the question on the link as an interview questions and had humans been unable to give as through an answer (which I chose to believe is due to specialization on elsewhere in the stack). So we're already at a place where some human software development abilities have been eclipsed on some questions. So then even if the underlying algorithms don't improve, and they just ingest more training data, then it doesn't seem like a total guess as to what part of the S-curve we're on - the number of questions for software development that LLMs are able to successfully answer will continue to increase.
by spyc | 2025-05-07 00:40:48+00:00
Both implementations of doas for Linux have (the same) unfixed security issue:

- https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/106

- https://github.com/slicer69/doas/issues/110

I have a hard time recommending doas over sudo on Linux when the issue has been fixed in sudo but not in doas.
by thr0waway39290 | 2025-05-07 00:41:30+00:00
That's very judgemental, assuming he's unfamiliar and disinterested.

A lot of people have their own detailed reasons for why things are happening that don't make sense when you zoom out and ask basic questions. E.g the children are already starving, all the nuance you are describing is based on the assumption that the children aren't already starving.
by aldrich | 2025-05-07 00:41:46+00:00
Very anecdotal and stereotypical, of course. Doesn't quite paint the whole picture, though I agree there's usually a sentiment of risk aversion in the _conservative_ part of any population, perhaps more so in countries where employment for anything beyond SMEs is more normalized, like Germany and Austria that have adopted a "Rhine capitalism" model that is much more constrained.

Just to give some counter-weight to this, the Netherlands has a self-employment rate that is significantly higher than the EU average [1], one of the higher EU rates of high-growth micro/small enterprises [2], a whole array of tax benefits for the self-employed and SMEs and a relatively fast moving law system that makes it increasingly easier for SMEs to be founded. And let's not forget a bunch of capitalist/financial scoops (first stock market, 1602; first investment banking, 1700s; first investment fund, 1774; etc.) some of which still have a presence today. Needless to say my experience is quite the opposite.

[1] https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/tools/skills-intelligence/s... [2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...