skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know it will always be short lived, that's fine. But even compilers are not strictly short lived nowadays. Both Swift and Rust (I think) maintains a daemon process to assist incremental compilation.
Disagree. Amazon makes more than YouTube on ad rev.

Apple makes a decent penny on ads themselves.

Don’t forget all the technology these companies sell to empower the ad ecosystem.
Artifacts are a natural state of our universe
Another tool for identifying software dark matter on a Debian based system is cruft-ng:

https://github.com/a-detiste/cruft-ng/

Eventually it will enable a Debian system to account for (in some way) every single file visible on the live system.
Well you didn't understand what I was implying: Enron's Skilling is in prison, Theranos' Holmes is being sentenced to prison, Do Kwon of Terra is a fugitive, the Bitconnect guy is a fugitive. The only guy from 2008 to go to prison was Kareem Serageldin, an Egyptian.

Celsius' Mashinsky, MtGox's Karpales didn't go to prison, and I bet Bankman-Fried won't either. Epstein has been investigated by the FBI for 20 years before going to prison and during the Deutsche Bank - Epstein trial a pizza delivery guy rang the door of the son of the judge overseeing the trial, and shot him dead after he opened the door.

Is you don't see a pattern between the two paragraphs then what do you want me to tell you, just stick to the news.
The article was published 6 days ago, before the election. You're reading way too much into the timing.
Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
Hi HN, since my kid was born (almost 16 months ago) I haven't had much time to learn new things, which is something I have always enjoyed.
Similarly to many people, I learn a lot by doing some kind of project (big or small). But since my time is rather constrained, it would like to do some "scratch my itch" kind of project, something that may be useful enough to keep using it.

I though of asking you, people at HN, what kind of "scratch your own itch" projects have you done or are doing?

I'd like to do something computer related (to learn some Golang), but I'm curious about non-computer projects as well.
> If you don't need to be covert then you could just use active radar, right?

Passive radars can be used to track emissions sources of which you have no specific knowledge e.g. you're looking for a ship or rig, but you either don't want to ping it, or you are looking for its rough location, or you literally don't have the hardware for an active radar at the range involved.
I was thinking generational timescales, rather than the last 2 or 3 years, so we're probably both right.
Siri is OS and fine to be in the OS. The vendor of that OS should not also have services like selling music brokered by preferential treatment by the OS.

You sell the hardware and the system software

Or you sell the apps

Not both.
There is no such idea implied, if anything I mean to say the opposite. We have to stop looking at things through a narrow political lens.

Whatever noises SBF was making about regulation - what actually appears to have happened is that he was (at best) incompetent and simply playing to whatever audience was listening. Who knows, maybe he even drank his own koolaid. After all he is so virtuous on other matters, surely this would all work out somehow, he is one of the good guys.

His regulators meanwhile (at best) placed undue trust in him for reasons ranging from shared politics and values on various unrelated issues to very large donations vaguely to their benefit. And why shouldn't they, after all he is so virtuous on other matters, surely this would all work out somehow, he is one of the good guys. One of them. And never mind how he got the money for the donations let's not stare a gift horse in the mouth. We can do a lot of good with those donations, after all, we are the good guys.

You don't need to assume a nefarious ruse. No nefarious scheming is actually necessary for any of this. Although since everything is politicized it will be assumed. Has been assumed. And is sort of implied in the discord quote. That is another unfortunate part of the problem. The people who were pointing out the smoke defaulted to harping on the conspiracy aspects because they are more interested in the political affiliation of the wrongdoers than the actual wrongdoing. Inadvertently providing cover for FTX to operate even longer.

In short, a bunch of incestuous wankers feeding into each others delusions and all too willing to look the other way on things they'd never let slide for their political opponents. FTX would never have happened had the founders politics been different, surely you see that.

And I'm sure if this pairing would have been a red instead of blue the same thing would have happened.

Scrutiny seems now to only be reserved for political enemies. Scandals are not swept under the rug unless they are by political allies.
By the 10th round the best and brightest already left for greener pastures
This soon may change, as Aerospace SPACs have been unable to create profit. The latest quarterly earnings have reported losses across the board. SpaceX may be an outlier(IDK if they are profitable or the role Gov subsidies make), but for the rest, balance sheets are all bleeding red. As they have for over a decade.

Parabolic arc site is 1001 right now, best I found was a dated WSJ article that precedes significant current reports & events:

https://archive.ph/Jgo9F

edit:remove3d naive opinion.
Because primaries are not democratic. Political parties are not democratic entities.
So Im not an American, and live somewhere with proportional voting; however from what ive read FPP is a fairly easy to justify system if you take into account two ideas:

First, that the group represented is as small as practically possible, so small numbers of people, small cultural subgroups, and a limited social distance between the elected official and the constituents.

Second, that the rules governing a group are as local as possible, large disagreements should be unusual, and ideally lead to splits in region. Issues on a state or federal level should be limited to interactions with other states or nations; weather or not you want to live in a group with legal abortion for example should be determined at the the smallest size that can make that decision; probably city by city, what people in other cities think should have no bearing.

Unfortunately the nature of government is to centralize and accumulate powers, things that were once the sole preview of a town or county are now federal issues. It seems impossible find a "fair" voting method, to reconcile how to weight two distant strangers opinion on what should be a local matter.
Would be great to have a self-hosted version for the lifetime plan
Sedentary multitasking :)
Oh that's cool, so it's a radar using ambient radio as illuminator?
There is also netpeek[1] which has better filtering capabilities and UX overall. It supports ngrep like bpf filters which we found useful.

1: https://github.com/darshanime/netpeek
Tracking anything you might track with an active RADAR, but without needing a permit to operate a RADAR emitter. The ability to track 'stealth' aircraft is just a niche. Similar techniques are used to measure atmospheric density (for meteorology) using the known signals from GPS satellites.
This is in the article:

> the tl;dr is to add zmodload zsh/zprof add the very top of your ~/. zshrc and zprof to the very bottom, then restart the shell. On startup, you will see a table with everything impacting your shell startup time.
> there's nothing exactly preventing you from providing the wrong numbers and bad structs aside from the "higher layer in the stack"

Right, mistakes are possible in both cases. But why pick the design that is more likely to lead to mistakes (on both sides of the interface) and is slower? There's just no good reason to do it like that.
It would be naive under the assumption that the intended goal is secrecy. If the goal would be simply "legislative control over a subject in case of unforseen events" it works exactly as desired.
> the requirements for their application are pretty straightforward.

Surprisingly, not entirely straightforward. Source: working at Spotify.

Should the app be better? OF COURSE. But the scenarios it can be used in can be weird and complicated by legal matters.

If a user on free tier joins a group session over wi-fi at a friend's house, when the friend has premium subscription, what happens to queues, song skips, and what status is displayed on which devices? :) Note: even getting the device name is often tricky.

And there are hundreds of such use cases per device because different devices have different capabilities and limitations (on some devices you don't even have control over the UI presented to the user).

Without revealing too much, there's an ongoing work to make this stuff better, faster, more seamless, and from personal experience Spotify has been better across devices in recent years. But... It's still weird, brittle at times, and takes time to propagate to some devices and apps.

But it should get better (don't quote me on that :)) )
C2x constexpr support lands on GCC
> The basic problem is a the constituents of a constituency want opposing things.

That’s true but there is also a very real constitutional problem here. My country has a system close to the US and sees the same issues.

A good constitution should foster a viable ecosystem of parties each representing the interests of a relatively homogenous group then force these parties to build coalitions through negotiations. That garanties than people feel that their opinions are represented, that there are a plurality of opinions in debates and the necessity to govern with people with different interests mean a consensus has to be reached and nothing to extreme should happen.

A system fostering two parties necessarily means the party will be caricatures. It’s obvious that both houses people with widely different opinions. It’s a travesty of democracy if you think about it.
In my experience from the outside, pregnancy makes women happier.
This point has been debated extensively in thousands of threads with strong arguments made on both sides so I won't dive into it again as it's somewhat off topic to the actual response I made.

I'll instead ask- what has Spotify actually done to stay competitive in streaming music since being founded in 2006? Apple has actually innovated in this space and frankly has a much stronger offering today despite launching 9 years later (higher stream quality, spatial audio, more money to artists, larger library). I won't claim Apple is perfect by any means, but Spotify really doesn't garner my sympathy either as the company who's chief "innovation" has been trying to snuff out independent podcasts and lobbying the EU for protectionism.
Reminds me of a short story by Asimov - Franchise

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story) (Spoilers!)

In the future, the United States has converted to an "electronic democracy" where the computer Multivac selects a single person to answer a number of questions. Multivac will then use the answers and other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held.

The story centers around Norman Muller of Bloomington, Indiana, the man chosen as "Voter of the Year" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Although the law requires him to accept the dubious honour, he is not sure that he wants the responsibility of representing the entire electorate, worrying that the result will be unfavorable and he will be blamed.

However, after "voting", he is very proud that the citizens of the United States had, through him, "exercised once again their free, untrammeled franchise" – a statement that is somewhat ironic as the citizens did not actually get to vote; even he himself did not vote for any candidate, law, or issue.

The idea of a computer predicting whom the electorate would vote for instead of actually holding an election was probably inspired by the UNIVAC I's correct prediction of the result of the U.S. presidential election in 1952.[1]
Is there overlap between these ITAR restrictions and mmWave radar coming to consumer Wi-Fi routers via IEEE 802.11bf in Wi-Fi 7 (2024)? There are open-source projects which demonstrate Wi-Fi Sensing on $20 Wi-Fi devices, no SDR needed, plus a handful of commercial products with Wi-Fi "motion detection". There are also several hundred public academic papers on the subject. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31561338#31563572

Edit1: is Wi-Fi (2.4Ghz+) radar excluded, due to limited range?

> (xxvii) Bi-static/multi-static radar that exploits greater than 125 kHz bandwidth and is lower than 2 GHz center frequency to passively detect or track using radio frequency (RF) transmissions (e.g., commercial radio, television stations); https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M...

Edit2: 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi can "see" reflections from moving objects through walls and other physical obstructions, at distances much greater than 0.2m from the obstruction.

> (xvi) Radar that detects a moving object through a physical obstruction at distance greater than 0.2 m from the obstruction;
Or just check for an environment variable in the Makefile? No need to add the complexity of cmake.
I don't know about militarised e.g. in terms of weaponry, but laws have recently been passed which illegalise peaceful protest if it causes a "public nuisance".
I noticed this when I switched to an old iPhone (11) after my phone finally broke down after using android for the last 10 years. I'm liking it so far but it really opened my eyes how much the apple ecosystem is embedded in the OS, and through that likewise with the google apps on android. On iOS i noticed how the OS is very opinionated on how you use it, and I guess that's fine for most users, it's just kind of scary to think about how news and other information is curated by the algorithms before we get to see it. And also how locked into the ecosystem you become if you always follow the OS suggestions and just start using Apple Calendar/Keychain/Maps etc. It's understandable the company wants to make a profit and that the primary objective isn't to make hard- or software that is best for the user, but it still makes me feel a bit "uneasy".
Reading the article is sometimes helpful in preventing complete non sequitur replies.
“Immensely gifted resource-wise”? In what world? Also, it speaks four languages, and more than a quarter of its population are immigrants — not what I’d call “homogeneous”. Switzerland is an exception (and a rich one) _because_ it is a direct democracy, I’d argue.
Historically first past the post and related systems are blatantly and obviously designed to give small elites power over the masses.

This is not in any way hidden.

In fact, they were often progressive steps away from even worse systems.
I've given up on media server front ends - VLC or Infuse (iOS/MacOS/Apple TV) with an SMB endpoint is what I've migrated to.
Agreed that healthy routines are very cool.

I know golf has a seniors tour, but always laughed at the thought of the NFL doing that (oh the humanity!) :p
> and in Android the default music player and the latest updates of the alt music player I installed the author problem is true; they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button.

For Android, give this one a try:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.van...

Tell it which directories to search (if its defaults are not to your liking) and all your local music is front and center -- and no "streaming services" anywhere in the player.
cruft-ng – finds any cruft built up on your Debian based system
Moar – A pager designed to just do the right thing without any configuration
Android users here so I genuinely don't know: can't the voice trigger for Siri be entirely disabled ? I know I never allow my phone to listen for trigger (or even the entirely worse "keep listening when locked for the trigger", aka always record what I say even if I'm not using my phone).

Now whether it does respect my choice or still record but disable triggering is another matter, but that's sadly the world we got into with our purchasing choices of phones, and why I support the EU going after such privacy issues.
Switzerland's been exceptional for many decades. They managed to remain genuinely neutral during both World Wars even as the world melted down right outside their borders, remain one of the few governments not dominated by the copyright cartel (for instance personal use copyright infringement is legal in Switzerland), and of course their direct democracy system. They do their own system, and they do it in a very social and capable fashion. But how long will this last? By contrast over there was an interesting recent poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454449 The majority of Americans now support new stimulus checks to combat inflation.

I'm increasingly persuaded by Plato's 5 Regime's view. In a nutshell, each system has its own virtue which taken to extremes becomes its vice and leads to its downfall and transition into the next system. The 5 regimes being Aristocracy, Timocracy (an implicitly anti-materialist government driven by systems of honor - think Spartans or Klingons - the Wiki page on this topic is simply wrong), Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny.
Ask HN: Hackable Alternative for Alexa / Echo Show?
Any suggestions for replacing Alexa, specifically an Echo Show, with a hackable device?

I'm getting tired of Amazon annoying me with suggestions ("By the way, did you know..."), and crippling my Amazon Music Subscription. Whereas, a few weeks before, it would just play the requested song, I now get "Here's a playlist with songs similar to XYZ", and a plug to upgrade my subscription.

Any suggestions how to replace the Echo Show's functionality with a more open, hackable device?

I was thinking about hacking something together with Python and OpenAI's Whisper for speech recognition, perhaps. But maybe someone has already done something like this?

The main features we've been using personally:

- "Play 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' by The Beatles"
- "Add salt to the todo list" sends a HTTP request to a shopping list that's shared between family members (we use Dynalist)
- "Drop-in at grandma's" to video call grandma's Echo Show
Being on AppSumo helps us gain initial traction and feedback to improve the product at a faster pace, since we're not VC-backed.
Geocities and other public sites like it filled the void for people who did not have access to a shell account or didn’t have the skills to ftp files to one.

As for html editors, frontpage, HoTMetaL, and eventually even Netscape itself (in version 3) were very popular wysiwyg html editors released in the mid to late 1990s. There is still innovation in this space as evidenced in this very thread!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33577086

No non technical user wants to think about hosting. Especially in the mid 1990s when home internet was exclusively dialup, what value does holding your one phone line hostage 24x7 to host a web server provide you? So yes hosting has been and will always be the playground of the enthusiast and commercial entities.

Self hosting made sense for academics as they had access to free high speed internet, free electricity and free high speed workstations, as well as the technical know how or easy access to those who could help.
This isn’t exactly it, but roughly: Make a vector space with primes as a basis (instead of “x, y, z,…” use “2, 3, 5, …”). For a number, find its prime factors. Make a vector and set elements corresponding to the prime factors of the number equal to 1. Apply some algorithm to map a high-dimensional (more than 2 elements) vector into a two dimensional image where color has some significance.
There is a large pull factor at work here also. This was a definitely a part of the reason that I recently definitely left New Zealand. US culture seems very attractive to almost sociopathic grifters, and of course such people have always been attracted to politics and managerial roles. Their worst behaviour used to be at least frowned upon, but is now seen as virtuous. So privatised health care, junk food, expensive education, homelessness, libertarian dogma and so on and so on are now viewed as a small price to pay or even a stage to be celebrated in somehow leading to better future. Push from visiting US envoys and US based think tank material have certainly always been visible, but the results have also been both visible and predictable. Enough of the local population seem to believe that they can have all the imaginary good stuff and that they - standard model human beings - are nice enough to avoid the bad stuff.
Using the word "Liquid" in the context of these accounts is... I don't know? Fraudulent? I understand that in the context of real finances things might be illiquid - it might take time to sell your house, or if you're a particularly big holder of stock in a company you founded you might have liquidity problems divesting over time. But it's really just taking the piss describing a lot of this stuff as "illiquid". FTT is a coin that they have made up themselves, which they themselves own the vast majority of, and which only had value in connection to the exchange that they just bankrupted. So no, it isn't "illiquid" its "worthless". It's not just that they'll take a hair cut if they liquidate it quickly, they could never liquidate even a significant portion of this. This whole thing started when CZ tried to liquidate 500m in FTT and the whole of FTX collapsed, they're now claiming their remaining FTT tokens are worth $600m (down from $6Bn). It's just so absurd to suggest you can mark to market like that.
I see now, I wouldn’t want the majority of a dish to be hemp seeds.

I’m eating them for a topup of omegas in a nice balance. And not too much, just enough to cover the surface of the bowl, which is still a few tbsps. A salad for me is mostly quinoa and chickpeas so I’d rather get my protein from them. Somewhat similarly, lentils and other beans in a stew.
> The Red Party or The Blue Party

Incidentally, these color associations only became fixed in 2000, before then different media outlets used different color mappings. The fixed mapping is a creation of corporate media who wanted to simplify the presentation of American politics so even people with their brains completely turned off (e.g., sat in front of a television) could follow along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#Con...
> This happened in 2000.

Any good write-ups about this? Sounds like a very interesting time.
no native Windows support:

https://github.com/diku-dk/futhark/issues/1761
What algorithm was it using? GCC-PHAT?
Tiny Tapeout
Namecoin Identities
17 days from the HN front page to being shut down.
The pensioner who can't afford to move to Florida is now staying in their nice big family home, instead of selling it to a young growing family. Also that pensioner may now be a drain on the state, so it isn't a simple choice.

I don't disagree with your broader point though. This (high house prices) is basically a massive transfer of wealth from the young to the old. Unfortunately the old are the ones that tend to vote, so the politicians won't fix it. But until the young as a class do start voting, I don't think it reasonable to blame the old and the politicians for the problem, this is democracy in action.
In case the first sentence is sarcastic:

According to the BBC, he used the 250k to move out of the airport [0]. He moved back to the terminal a few weeks ago before dying there.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63612017