MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stephen_g | 2025-05-02 00:33:36+00:00
No, it's not propagated to other browsers signed into the same account, it explicitly says that in the settings page.

Maybe part of the issue is that I am logged into the same account across three different devices, or that I have other Google accounts too logged in (but I don't use YouTube in them, only the account with Premium).

Anyway, it should be trivial for Google to make it actually permanent (I would love it it was stored in my account, which I pay for Premium on, instead of local or cookie storage), but lots of people have this problem.
by GauntletWizard | 2025-05-02 00:33:50+00:00
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by ggm | 2025-05-02 00:33:59+00:00
Ugh. Another article talking about grid "death spiral" when the grid is a commons, a utility function. If we recapitalise how we implement the grid to make it amenable to solar at scale at the edge, implementing resiliency and syncons and batteries and manage load and storage, it's a death spiral for rent seeking producers who as the article states were paid inflated prices to fail to produce reliable power.
by lattich | 2025-05-02 00:34:30+00:00
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by Cordiali | 2025-05-02 00:34:32+00:00
The pronunciation equivalent is called a 'minimal pair' in linguistics. Two words that differ by a single sound, and they're pretty common.

The written equivalent is probably more common in most other languages than in English. English has a relatively 'deep' orthography compared to most languages, ie. the spelling makes no gosh darn sense.

An English example (when spoken) might be 'scanning' versus 'skinning', with very different implications. A vet might scan a dog, but hopefully they wouldn't skin one. I have no idea what 'skinning electron microscopy' could be, either!
by aseg | 2025-05-02 00:34:49+00:00
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by djohnston | 2025-05-02 00:35:20+00:00
> - Combining friend hangouts. If you want 15 friends but only have time to hang with people every couple days, you don't have time to meet with people one-on-one. Organize group events like dinner parties or pot lucks. Also don't restrict these events to be just "work friends" or "pickle ball friends". Cross-pollinate groups.

World's are colliding Jerry! These situations always make me sweat.
by hermitShell | 2025-05-02 00:35:35+00:00
That’s a very cool abstract, thanks. I suppose it’s the plasticity that poses a pretty serious challenge.

Anyway, if this kind of computer was so great maybe we should just encourage people to employ the human reproduction system to make more.

There’s a certain irony of critics of current AI. Yes, these systems lack certain capabilities that humans possess, it’s true! Maybe we should make sure we keep it that way?
by gautam_panakkal | 2025-05-02 00:36:04+00:00
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by heisenzombie | 2025-05-02 00:37:27+00:00
My experience is that SOTA LLMs still struggle to read even the metadata from a mechanical drawing. They're getting better -- they now are mostly ok at reading things like a BOM or revision table -- but moderately complicated title blocks often trip them up.

As for the drawings themselves, I have found them pretty unreliable at reading even quite simple things (i.e. what's the ID of the thru hole?), even when they're specifically dimensioned. As soon as spatial reasoning is required (i.e. there's a dimension from A to B and from A to C and one asks for the dimension B to C), they basically never get it right.

This is a place where there's a LOT of room for improvement.
by tintor | 2025-05-02 00:37:46+00:00
Problem #1 with text-to-image models is that focus is on producing visually attractive photo-realistic artistic images, which is completely orthogonal from what is needed for engineering: accurate, complete, self-consistent, and error-free diagrams.

Problem #2 is low control over outputs of text-to-image models. Models don't follow prompts well.
by throw0101b | 2025-05-02 00:37:49+00:00
> I guess Bonwick et. al. were not really aware of LFS. Sad.

They were:

> [16] Mendel Rosenblum and John K. Ousterhout. The design and implementation of a log-structured file system. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 10(1):26–52, 1992.

> [17] Margo Seltzer, Keith Bostic, Marshall K. McKusick, and Carl Staelin. An implementation of a log-structured file system for UNIX. In Proceedings of the 1993 USENIX Winter Technical Conference, 1993.

* https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rhodes/cs134/readings/The%20Zettabyt...
by K0balt | 2025-05-02 00:37:54+00:00
Well, I did mention that I’m drunk at 3 am, buying land on eBay, right?

A few places I really like and have given to my kids or other family members for a second home spot or recreational getaway.

Two are located in places that it wouldn’t be unreasonable to live in full time, I let the neighbors “rent” them (for a a few pesos a year) to use for farming or whatever. One never knows how the world will shape up, maybe they come in handy. If not, maybe a grandkid can use it.

Others I have undoubtedly forgotten about and have been confiscated for taxes, I suppose.

The value I have seen generated for others by my reckless dalliances are more than worth the cost. I mean, one of the best ones only cost $300.

I could easily spend that on a night out, and no way that is going to fundamentally improve anyone’s life. It’s like gambling for the chance to make someone’s life better.

I have also been known to midnight purchase sailboats in places I want to visit. Sometimes you can get great deals on boats that the owners have left behind. Usually I’ll go there and tinker for a few weeks, enjoying myself and sailor culture, take it out sailing until I want to go home, then sell it for (usually) much more than I paid and I get a free vacation.

A few years ago I bought a 32’ roberts (comfortable, but a bit of a pig in chop) near San Fransisco. She was $900 with a great slip and a flaky outboard. I spent a week getting her in shape, 500 dollars on a one-season racing sail and another 300 getting it recut, bought a few sandbags because she seemed a bit tender with the heavy pilot house, and sailed around the canals for a few days, then spent a week cruising the bay. After that, I spent a few days at the municipal dock, 100 feet from million dollar condos in a fantastic part of town.

Great times and great street culture back then. I hear it has kinda gone downhill?

Anyway, I used it for a “vacation home” for a few years and sold her at a fair but beneficial price.

I’m a little more settled down now, raising a new batch of kids…but if there’s a secret to life, it’s to own land outright, and avoid debt at all cost. Buy it when you’ve earned it. Until then, buy what you can afford to own, where you can afford to live. The compromises you have to make will pay excellent dividends. /grandpa rant
by grugagag | 2025-05-02 00:38:22+00:00
> We’re sharing an early look into Private Processing, an optional capability that enables users to initiate a request to a confidential and secure environment and use AI for processing messages where no one — including Meta and WhatsApp — can access them.

What is this and what is this supposed to mean? I have a hard time trusting these companies with any privacy and while this wording may be technically correct they’ll likely extract all meaning from your communication, probably would even have some AI enabled surveillance service.
by bugturgidson | 2025-05-02 00:38:36+00:00
Web developer jobs are not an obligation of natural law.

You all were impressed upon by the cartel you claim to hate to prop them up.

It’s electromagnetic geometry in the machine. Future hardware makers do not have an honorific obligation to validate developer illusions. They’re working on closed ecosystems that self manage their electromagnetic geometry through to the task at hand without the energy wasting ad hoc effort of human programmers.

Your real problem is nVidia and other chip companies who have no obligation to save jobs of American workers who are just going in circles repeating old memes like a fuzzy VHS.
by biot | 2025-05-02 00:39:43+00:00
While the search offered is handy, I watch logs on multi-pod workloads via:

kubectl logs -f -l app=api --max-log-requests=50

This follows along all pods with the given label (app: api) for up to 50 pods or however many you want. Quite useful when I'm looking for specific output such as ERROR logs to just pipe it to grep like this:

kubectl logs -f -l app=api --max-log-requests=50 | grep ERROR

and get realtime filtering of all log output without having to tail individual pods by name.
by adityamwagh | 2025-05-02 00:40:21+00:00
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by DimmieMan | 2025-05-02 00:40:26+00:00
Personally the problem is just lack of communication. When 2 of your core products look abandoned your inviting this criticism.

I love using Deno, even with the remaining node issues (usually relating to something in the Tower of Babel that is meta frameworks) it’s an exceedingly boring tool which is precisely what I’ve wanted for typescript for years.

I can see they have technical potential but what I want more than anything else right now is just some confidence they’ll be around in 5 years, in this sense I can’t seperate the software and the business as there’s not one without the other.

Hopefully the fresh & deploy v2 updates they’ve been silently working on deliver and this entire concern will evaporate.
by dkobia | 2025-05-02 00:40:32+00:00
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by mrcwinn | 2025-05-02 00:40:36+00:00
Agree with the author. Deno recently has been loud about Oracle and the JavaScript trademark. Maybe they’re right, maybe they’re wrong, but it is a “last gasp” when your value proposition is something like: choose Deno, we’re righteous.

Feels like a tactic to gain some attention. That’s just not how the market typically makes buying decisions, so what’s the value of the distraction when your product is in such a poor state?
by kamranjon | 2025-05-02 00:41:15+00:00
I use Deno all the time... but it might not be exactly how it's marketed...

Anytime I need to etl some data or transform a bunch of JSON or things of this nature - I use Deno.

It's like a glue language for me at this point. I don't need to focus on configuration or any setup like this - I just create a new dir and I'm off.

This article seems very hyperbolic to me - I still find a bunch of features within deno really helpful and there is still a ton of activity on Deno itself (Had a release yesterday) and many of the internal and community libraries in it's ecosystem like Postgres and Redis (which both had a release within the last week).
by afiori | 2025-05-02 00:41:49+00:00
This is the same as saying that words have no meaning! Under this mental framework why would it be wrong to say that every living human can speak fluent french?

How would you even know which language anyone is speaking?

Counterproposal: words are a tool for communication and meaning is something we gather from the communication. In this words are no different than hand gestures, facial expressions, and body language.

The parties to a communication can only communicate effectively if they agree enough on the meaning of words/gestures/expressions/actions (which is why we cannot speak a language we do not know)
by derbOac | 2025-05-02 00:43:16+00:00
I (American) kind of learned accidentally how much longer clothes last air drying, from drying work clothes and some of my child's clothes, and then expanding from there.

I kind of grew up with line drying, and then stopped, and then started again.

It is pretty remarkable how much longer clothes last with line drying. I only machine dry heavy items that take awhile to dry and/or benefit from it specifically in terms of fluffing up or wrinkling.

I'm tempted to get a heat pump dryer but I'm worried about the size of the ones that are available near me.
by bitpush | 2025-05-02 00:44:36+00:00
The CEO of Google seems to be navigating the AI war pretty competently.

A few months back everyone was writing the eulogies for Google and how they fumbled AI. Now Gemini is one of the top models (if not the best) and it is extremely capable and price competitive

Meanwhile Apple is still trying to wrap the head around AI. (Didn't stop them from making a splashy marketing campaign though)

So no, both companies are not the same.
by ipsum2 | 2025-05-02 00:45:12+00:00
Did you read the next paragraphs? It literally describes the details. I would quote the parts that respond to your question, but I would be quoting the entire post.

> This confidential computing infrastructure, built on top of a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), will make it possible for people to direct AI to process their requests — like summarizing unread WhatsApp threads or getting writing suggestions — in our secure and private cloud environment.
by altairprime | 2025-05-02 00:45:23+00:00
Yep, that’s the struggle in a nutshell!

If you believe in giving away code because that’s open-source prosocial, then open-source adherents will claim that taking advantage of you is ethical, because if you didn’t want to be exploited, you shouldn’t have been open-source prosocial in the first place. And by treating “pay me if you get paid for my code” licenses as treated as evil and shameful, exploiters place pressures on prosocial maintainers into adopting open source licenses, even though they’ll then be exploited by people who don’t care about being prosocial, eventually burning out the maintainer who either silent-quits or rage-quits.

Of course, if OSI signed off on “if you get rich from my source code you have to share some of that wealth back to me” as a permissible form of clause in open source licensing, that would of course break the maintainer burnout cycle — but I’m certainly not holding my breath.
by shkurski_ | 2025-05-02 00:45:48+00:00
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by Tiberium | 2025-05-02 00:45:49+00:00
From looking at some of the rules like https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/bots/head... it seems that Anubis explicitly punishes bots that are "honest" about their user agent - I might be missing something, but isn't this just pressuring anyone who does anything bot-related to just lie about their user agent?

Flat out user-agent blacklist seems really weird, it's going to reward the companies that are more unethical in their scraping practices than the ones who report their user agent truthfully. From the repo it also seems like all the AI crawlers are also DENY, which, again, would reward AI companies that don't disclose their identity in the user agent.
by WalterBright | 2025-05-02 00:46:07+00:00
I'd get shot for getting that one wrong, too.

I was once invited to a Super Bowl party, and I thought sure, I'll come. So I went, and watched the game for a bit on the big TV. I was asked, which team are you rooting for? I answered "the ones in the red shirts".

That didn't go over well.
by golmansax | 2025-05-02 00:47:34+00:00
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by andres | 2025-05-02 00:47:41+00:00
Kubetail is more lightweight than Loki/Grafana. It fetches logs using the Kubernetes API which means you can only see the current state of the cluster but you can use it without installing any additional software or provisioning storage. Our new search feature greps container log files on the nodes themselves as compared to Loki/Grafana that builds a full-text index in the background and queries that at search time (I think).

Stern is a CLI tool which more closely compares to the Kubetail CLI tool (as opposed to the Kubetail web interface). Currently, there's a lot of overlap between the two tools but Kubetail gives you more control over source filters and time. For example with the Kubetail CLI tool you can do queries like this:

kubetail logs deployments/web \ --since 2025-05-01T00:00:00Z \ --until 2025-05-02T00:00:00Z \ --zone us-east-1a \ --with-ts \ --with-node \ --with-pod \ --tail=100

I'm not too familiar with stern though so please correct me if I'm wrong. In any case, soon we're going to add more features to the Kubetail CLI tool that will be unique (e.g. remote grep, system logs).
by giraffe_lady | 2025-05-02 00:47:51+00:00
Vaccines are already double blind tested with a placebo, but the yearly updates for seasonal vaccines based on a previously tested mechanism are not. The goal of this new requirement is to create delays making it effectively impossible to create annual flu & covid vaccines within these constraints.

The reason the updates aren't currently tested this way is because medical research ethics perspectives on the balance of risk of novel unknown effects vs known risk of withholding effective treatment from the placebo group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_equipoise
by justanotheratom | 2025-05-02 00:48:05+00:00
I don't understand the knee-jerk skepticism. This is something they are doing to gain trust and encourage users to use AI on WhatsApp.

WhatsApp did not used to be end-to-end encypted, then in 2021 it was - a step in the right direction. Similary, AI interaction in WhatsApp today is not private, which is something they are trying to improve with this effort - another step in the right direction.
by chrischen | 2025-05-02 00:48:52+00:00
It’s 3 taps that require specific instructions that no one knows how to do. An app store may require taps but you can link to a page that has an Install button.

These small ux decisions make of break a feature or pattern. For example we had QR code readers but it didn’t become a thing to have QR codes until Apple baked it into the photos app. Meanwhile QR codes in China proliferated almost a decade earlier because it was baked into the defacto standard do-everything app WeChat.
by throw0101b | 2025-05-02 00:49:01+00:00
> The sheer hypocrisy

The Legal Eagle channel did an analysis of the two situations, "Signal War Plans v.s. Hillary's Emails":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw1tNTIEs-o

The two situations are not actually (legally) equivalent. One huge difference being that Hesgeth et al are setting communications to auto-delete, which is against records keep statues (there is no evidence Clinton purged e-mails).
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-02 00:50:07+00:00
> Again? Didn’t it go from BSD to some infectious copyleft thing?

They went to SSPL, which isn't open source. (Whether it's copyleft is an interesting exercise left to the reader. I genuinely don't know, I'd have to stare at definitions for a bit to form an opinion.)

> Doesn’t seem “open source again” to me if we can’t use it in private work projects without being forced to open source our project.

Er, I'm not a lawyer, but why wouldn't you be able to use it in a private work? AFAIK the viral parts of AGPL/GPL only say you have to share source with users of the software; if your only user is you then it's immaterial.

> Isn’t AGPL even WORSE than what they switched from? Wouldn’t “open source again” imply going back to BSD?

Worse/better is somewhat subjective, but AGPL is a (Free and) Open Source license. It was open source (BSD), then it wasn't (SSPL), then it was open source (AGPL).