skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your app is appealing and kudos for building it. But I have 3 questions:

1. How is it different from using KDE Connect (Android) -> Soduto (Mac)? What is it doing differently?

2. Can I use this app offline that is, without internet connection. If yes, then how?

3. I see that this is a paid app. Are you planning to add other features too? (Find my phone, browsing files remotely on my phone, incoming call notifications etc.)
By simply demanding that the city refurbishes existing subway lines, makes them safe and clean (!), and builds new ones (!!), you will do the city much more good.
Well, yes and no I guess.

Most of social media obviously glorifies van life and never talks about the dark sides and I guess a lot of people either make a lot of money from their social media accounts or have money anyway.

It's likely a completely different experience if you live in a $5,000 van that has not been converted or if you get a $100k one.

And, van life is certainly not for everyone. Just like living in a city is not for everyone and living a the 'burbs isn't either.

Still, content like this is valuable for the decision making if you want to jump into van life.
That's not the same as what he's suggesting though is it? He's suggesting a market based approach where you present possible policies to the market and arrange it so that the best one for your metric (e.g. reducing inequality) is also the best one to invest in. Then you enact the policy with the highest price.

Essentially you enlist the modelling skills of all those extremely highly paid quants to figure out which policy is the best.

I imagine it would be quite hard to set up - especially in a way that keeps the incentives you want intact - but I think it's a very interesting idea and deserves to be tried.
Building the Future of TensorFlow
> Which no body uses [...]

False, I use them.
depending on your origin and your users, having TLS terminate / be negotiated at the edge should _reduce_ your connection setup cost, by reducing RTT time for the handshake to the end user (typically the slowest bit / longest tail).

If you have 1 origin region/server and globally distributed users, in the data shown the RTT from Sydney could be 1000ms, so TLS negotiation of 3 roundtrips could be 3000ms. If you terminate TLS at the edge that could be order of magnitude less.. not more? depends on your setup though.
Emad mentioned about governing Stability AI as a DAO of DAOs. If they can't even run a traditional company properly, forget about the DAOs chaos.
I am trying to understand what point you are trying to express that is not already very well expressed in the article. Or are you repeating one of the several counterpoints mentioned in the article? If so why is this one counterpoint more important than the other counterpoints made in the article?
Right. It's very similar to Bishop Berkeley's argument for idealism, in that the thought experiment doesn't make sense unless you assume a priori that physicalism is false.
> You don't need raid, just get fast nvram SSDs.

I agree! - The typical fast M.2 drive or an Apple drive: This is plenty.
However! It's really, really, really surprisingly nice - surprisingly worthwhile! - to get more of those and stripe RAID the heck out of them.

rn I have a striped array of [Samsung 500GB M.2 (x4)] [Samsung 500GB M.2 (x2)] [Striped sub-array of 83⅓-GB portions of 6 Samsung 500GB SATA drives to use all the I/O bandwidth]. Did it mostly for "teh lulz" but it's actually kinda worth it +shrug+. Ultrasmooth somehow.

(Given that the backup strategy is hundred-percent-ly 100%.!!)

(Also: I like multiple monitors too. 2x32" 4K is pretty great. I've tried 4x24"/27" 1080P and it sort of didn't work for me. Mostly because there's kind of a minimum pixel tax per-display and it takes too much out of a 1080p surface. Hard to explain. It was hard to believe. But it's my experience.)
I highly recommend taking a look at the other writeups on fasterthanli.me they're almost all excellent
Those where the age of consent is 15? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_...
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Cover Letter during application stage
I am currently in the job market & I have come across few companies which require applicants to also submit a cover letter together with the resume as part of the application. I personally tend to skip those opportunities. But it does present a few questions in my mind -

1. Do Hiring managers read Cover letters which are voluntarily submitted? How much impact does a cover letter in comparison to your resume for the success outcome of the application stage?

2. What really constitutes a good cover letter? Wouldn't a small 3/4 sentences about you as an intro in your resume suffice?

I am keen to know the thoughts of HN community.
You say that as though SF hasn't been run exclusively by democrats for 30+ years. Democrat politicians care as little for their constituents as republican.
I think there are some instances where it's definitely bad. E.g. weapons that, if used, can by themselves extinguish humanity. Most instances are not that clear unfortunately - lots of sides to the story, extenuating circumstances, etc. etc.

It's not an easy question. However, as the creator of the software I guess I feel that my opinion should count in how it's used. As a simplistic example, if in some dystopian timeline my OSS were used to facilitate a holocaust I'd like to be able to do something to halt that. It doesn't matter that the perpetrators feel that what they're doing is right.
Lessons from the Brain-Damaged Investor
Even then I would not do this without clearing it with a lawyer first. You could still end up at the wrong end of a lawsuit that you'll have to defend in India.
> Anything other than that outcome will lead to instability for generations.

>> Ukraine was already unstable and divided before Putin's war.

I'm not talking about just Ukraine. I'm talking about Europe in particular and the global community in general. China will be emboldened to take Taiwan and throw its weight around the Pacific. Russia will be emboldened to continue into Moldova (because who cares about Moldova), and then on to the Baltics, the Balkans, Poland and possibly Finland. Then even more nations can experience the joys of being Russia's neighbor.

This will happen unless Russia is kneecapped from ever doing anything like this again. Any "negotiated peace" will be used by Russia to revamp and upgrade its military. This must be prevented.
A lot of Americans are confident that they don't read/watch media propaganda, including most Hacker News members.

As someone who has lived outside of the US for the last 5 years, I can guarantee you that Americans are fed with an insane amount of propaganda through the media.
Which animal has eyes best biologically tuned to star gaze? And when cam I get that transplant.
Sounds like good news for companies trying to build right now!
That there seems to be a general problem in society to accept that no actually means no. And not a "no, but sure maybe just try harder".
I suspect Shakespeare can take at least some of the credit/blame.
Ah yes but do you cook at home or want a steady supply of razors? Or maybe you need a VPN, you know, just in case?
The city we call Antwerp in English is known as Amberes in Spanish.

When you know that the French name is Anvers it makes a little more sense.
"Copilot for Ansible".

I'm interested to see how this works out because unlike Copilot where you're "merely" writing pieces of regular code, Ansible is uniquely in a position to trash your entire network and operations, making correct operation absolutely essential. The stakes seem very high to me.

(Disclosure: I work for Red Hat which was acquired by IBM, but not on anything related to this)
Yeah she totally botched this. In her TikToks you see her empty cargo van with an air mattress on the floor. This is like the "I flew to Australia with $5 to see what would happen!" Homelessness happens.
So why not fully embrace them then in cities? Allow everyone to have their own private family sized vehicle? With designated free parking spot too to allow the convenience. Ensure that there is plenty of road capacity and that the travel is not impeded by those with lesser energy requirements for starting and stopping like pedestrians and people using bicycles.
Wonderful concept and refreshing to be able to not get distracted away from what isn’t essential. Unfortunately the current game big players in the space is all about distraction and dark patterns tiring their users into letting their guards down into submission.

This is like seeing the mask slipping off of what the current industry has become. Im sure they won’t let it happen.
As another comment pointed out what needed explanation - if anything - is that Florentia got rendered as Firenze.
Cutting down inventory for the sole sake of cutting inventory is bad idea anyways.
That's literally the point of the thought experiment. Thought experiments are mostly nonsense, the point is to help differentiate different phenomenon through extreme, contrived examples. The point here is that despite knowing the entirety of the corpus of knowledge about colour vision, she still doesn't know everything that there is to know about it if she hasn't actually experienced seeing the colour red.
The point here is that the argument is not internally consistent.

If Mary knows everything there is to know about colour vision, that includes knowing the experience of seeing the colour red.

If she doesn't know that, it simply contradicts the premise.
2005. Disable javascript to read without "WSJ membership".
It’s interesting how we already are at a point where home users can in theory make a Star Wars fan film with Luke’s actual face and synthesized voice.
It's sad to see so many people focusing on the color aspect of the experiment, completely ignoring the argument in the process.

Look at it this way - switch out "red" for "parental love" and then re-evaluate the argument.

Mary has read and currently knows everything there is to know about the bond a parent forms with their child[1].

And then Mary raises a child ...

[1] An adopted child would do - then there's no claim of biological hormones affecting the knowledge.
> at least from visual/informational point of view.

True, knowing that an (empty) linktree profile is 1MB: https://linktr.ee/hello
We can likely make the very strong assumption that the training data didn't contain any CSAM so it would be more difficult for the model to produce CSAM. Also, I would imagine they trained the model without porn too, so inferring CSAM based on legal adult porn would also be quite difficult. Am I missing something?
A simple low energy computer that does one task like word processing or act as a terminal client with an ink display would be a useful for focusing on one task without distraction. I personally would love to have a low energy terminal device that I could work in for hours however my pessimism tells me there is not enough demand to scale this.
Why is the cat never assumed to be able to be an observer? Or the flask with poison?

I always assumed everybody understood "observer" to be shorthand for "some entity that irrevocably changes state because of the quantum events", but I'm starting to realize that lots of people, even the famous physicists responsible for the theories and experiments, may understand "observer" as "Human being, with a conciousness".

I'm just a layman with a layman's understanding of quantum shenannigans, but.... am I too far off here?
Fight dirty, you say? Capital idea. Let's see, the principals of any company or trade group that try litigating model providers "into oblivion" can have some more legal fun when synthetic images of them diddling their kids find their way to law enforcement or local vigilante organisations. And for anyone too squeamish for that, there should be a way to use the tech to do a really good SWATing for suspected murder -- bit of fine-tuning on screenshots from ISIS and Mexican drug gang videos, etcetera.

Before this gets flagged to oblivion, this is obvious. You just have to recognise that the "regulators" and industry insiders Emad is trying to "shield" you from are enemies and ask yourself, how do I hurt them?
Show HN: The second month building a tiny product in public
If the traced genealogy line is average birth age 25 and 50% female, then there are 40 females.

This would mean that a 2% infidelity rate would have a more than 50% chance of breaking this chain, although there would likely be other undocumented ones.
> both Hackernews and reddit accounts have wildly different results

why is that unusual, HN is more focused so the comments trend towards work, whereas Reddit is a lot more general.
> Everything else remains pretty much the same...

Slightly worse, in that, the code only ever uses the first IP returned from the DNS lookups it initiates. Some domains may return 16 IPs but that code would use only the first, at least until the cached-entry expires.
The closest, today, feels like eInk tablet devices like the Remarkable—though it's built more for sketching and handwriting notes than typing.
How many bat coronaviruses existed in the vicinity of the Wuhan market, including the specimens from the laboratory ? How many bats were freely roaming in the neighborhood? That's a much better probability analysis, not a flu virus in Antarctica
> Because there's no evidence it works and the idea makes no fucking sense. It approaches the problem in a way that all experts agree is wrong.

Experts in what exactly?

There are two ways to defend a law that penalizes virtual child pornography:

- On evidence that there is harm.

- On general moral terms, aka "we just don't like that this is happening".

Worth noting that a ban on generated CSAM images was struck down as unconstitutional in Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit...
I don't mind some of the magic it does but using dependency injections and classes is just weird and adds complexity and boilerplate.
Reminder, there are many different netcats, here are some of the most commons:

- netcat-traditional http://www.stearns.org/nc/

- netcat-openbsd : https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/nc/netcat... (also packaged in Debian)

- ncat https://nmap.org/ncat/

- netcat GNU: https://netcat.sourceforge.net/ (quite rare)

To prevent any confusion, I like to recommend socat: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
I feel like specialized AI code completion and hints will be the next evolution of language servers.
Here's one such example of a biter, not in polo but football: https://www.businessinsider.com/luis-suarez-biting-history-2...
This NovelAI guide is a good starting point. https://rentry.org/voldy If you're interested in training data then reading about what was used and where it was sourced from would be informative. As to torrent indexing services, well, I dunno if I'm supposed to link those here but they're easy enough to find and there are a lot of them out there.
> "The saddest thing for me about modern tech’s long spiral into user manipulation and surveillance is how it has just slowly killed off the joy that people like me used to feel about new tech. Every product Meta or Amazon announces makes the future seem bleaker and grayer."

This is me. I used to be fascinated by new technology, to imagine the ways it could make life better for everyone. Today, I’m worried about how to limit its destructiveness. There’s no joy any more.

I know it’s not the technology itself but how we use it. In practical terms this doesn’t make a difference though.
Lol and true. Total hell to live in. Guaranteed job security.
It's not just processing power that smaller open projects lack in comparison to large corporations, but data.

AI thrives and depends on large amounts of clean, well labeled data.

Large corporations understand this and have hoarded data for a long time now. Some of them have also managed to label this data by millions of people through things like Recaptcha, or just by hiring lots of people to do it.

Open datasets tend to be much smaller and dirtier than small, open projects have access to.

I suppose it would be possible to, over time, collect lots of data and crowd-source some project to clean it up and label it well enough to be useful, then crowd-source the AI model training itself, but it would probably take a long time and by then corporate-owned AI models will already dominate (as they do now with MidJourney, for example, being way better in my experience than Stable Diffusion, but with time the difference will only get starker).

I'd also be concerned with such ostensibly open projects eventually going closed and commercial as IMDB did after getting lots of work by volunteers freely giving their time to writing reviews.
What about future models with fewer artifacts that are much easier to communicate with and better at generation? Opportunity costs might favor just sending your data to and paying corps with compliance guarantees than spend time fiddling with 2022 era diffusion models. And don't forget this affects 3D, video snippets and music going forward.

> that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open.

Yes, weaponized ethics as sleight of hand for control is a common historical pattern.
Because the only reason for that is chips, and not, I don't know, geopolitical dominance of the Pacific.
We got an unexpected drop of 20k units of NXP micro's after being cut off completely in September.
A few generations of DevOps teams down the road, no-one will be able to understand the ineffable contraptions of YAML-serialized control flow that somehow, magically, manage to stand up infrastructure made of reams of incomprehensible Cloud 4.0 service components that will be, at the very minimum, absolutely required to host a static website.

But it won't matter, since our benevolent robotic AI overlords will create them for you, the certified IBM Project Wisdom(TM) Prompt Engineer, dual-classed to Tech-Priest (but without any Warp to go mad in - that, you will have IT for).
The host's 'dating site style' profile image is a red flag from the outset, stock image or not.

The only practical tip I can offer regards airbnb is to rent places that are also featured on other well known sites, since this does reduce the risk a little.
As a very low self-esteem person, I envy the self-confidence of the author. In high school he seems more of a man than I will ever be.
Reproduce Notion's fair pricing and credit incentives with Lago
Hi HN,
Lago (YC S21) co-founder here.

We're big fans of fair billing at Lago, especially when it comes to 'per seat' pricing.
Have you ever paid for 'seats' no one uses? It's been a common practice among SaaS for the past 10 years to bill for this. Luckily, some companies, like Notion and Slack took a different approach: only billing active users.
This typically helps spreading the tool within an organization (anyone can be invited to test).
The only downside is it can hurt short-term revenue (typically billing for unused seats is still a source of revenue), but our conviction is that it helps with long term trust and growth (at some point the users will remove unused seats anyway, and be resentful).

So we've done a teardown of Notion's fair pricing, and how they incentivized product discovery through a credit system.

We also had a lot of fun showing how our own product could be used to replicate that easily [1].

FYI, we build "Open Source Usage Based Billing" (AGPLv3) [2]

[1] https://www.getlago.com/resources/templates/notion

[2] https://github.com/getlago/lago
So when Vietnam invade Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge, we should have defended the Khmer Rouge’s “territorial integrity”?

Or was that “different”? Somehow when people are clamoring for war, it's always "different" this time. That's how we ended up in Vietnam.

"It's clear that China and the USSR are looking to take over SE Asia. Today it's Laos and Vietnam, tomorrow Malaysia, then Australia. We have to back South Vietnam as the security of the free world is at stake!"

Of course you know how silly that sounds because you have 20/20 hindsight. But that's how it was explained the public at the time.

Sound familiar at all?

Your rule that territorial integrity must be defended no matter what doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. It's not a "red line" that we have to start a war over.
A small counterpoint. The pain of losing someone is the cost of having someone decent and good, for the time you had with them. Some of us have never felt that because we've never had someone decent to lose (though I will be glad; feel the world a better place; when one of my parents dies, and mainly indifferent when the other goes, reflecting his apparent indifference to me. Sometimes being left alone is the better option).

To all those with normal lives, make sure you count your blessings now, now when it's too late.

Sorry for weird post, but I had to say it.

Perhaps though, people should not go through life always acutely aware of what they've got. Perhaps in some ways it's better to feel your loved ones' presence but not think about it, sort of take it for granted, feel the warmth of their presence but not think about it. I don't know. Anyway, I'm glad you had him.

BTW absolutely love the pic! I just wish I had the eyesight to see it. In fact In london, I wish I could just see the stars at all...
I switched from Premiere and Vegas to Resolve to work on video editing. It's as much an NLE as any other software and behaves exactly as one. I don't use Fusion at all, I solely work in Edit mode and it does everything I need as well as Premiere did. It's even more stable and comes with more in-built effects that I manipulate by automaations directly in the time line.

I don't know why you're saying it's not a "real" NLE.
Apparently, after removing M2M-SIMs (smart-home, card-terminals, etc.) you end up with 107m active SIM cards.

That seems reasonable: Company-issued phones, LTE-Routers, some undercounting of M2M, and gerneral churn (I changed provider so I had 2 SIM-cards this year).
My understanding - but I could be wrong - is that the local name of Milan through history only became Milano recently.
Specifically, the ‘small team’ is Chris Sawyer, with art by Simon Foster and music by Allister Brimble. Even though the art is very recognizable (made by rasterizing 3d objects), both RCT 1-2 and TTD are very much Sawyer's games.
No, the pigeonhole principle is the mathematical fact that you can't allocate m thingies to n doodahs, where m > n, without doubling up somewhere, i.e. having a doodah with more than one thingy allocated to it. (Eg. thingies = letters, doodahs = pigeonholes.)

Applying the pigeonhole principle here would give "with a sufficient number of users it's guaranteed that some observable behaviour of the system will be relied on by more than one user", which is true (assuming the system has a finite number of observable behaviours) but not very interesting.

Hyrum's law says that with enough users all the observable behaviours are relied on by at least one person. Mathematically it's trivial for that not to be the case regardless of how many users you have. You just need a single behaviour that nobody's relying on. So Hyrum's law isn't mathematical, it's an observation about software development and human behaviour.
Handoff can work with third party applications though mostly it’s Apple stuff. One notable exception is you can hand off webpages from your phone to macOS and it’ll be handled by any browser.
Isn't https://bootstrapstudio.io/ essentially what you are looking for?
I wonder how this will be sorted in the future: what if Stability comes with a newer version, on top of Runway's one? I forecast a never ending battle of versions numbers as both teams have the same trunk of work.
I tried it on some random containers. It gave me "returned an error". That's it. No details, no nothing.

Doesn't seem something worthy of investing my time into.
I used Tailscale‘s Taildrop [1] which did the trick for me.

[1] https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop
Chemical giant feared weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease