skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. Most blog posts have one pretty simple idea that it takes a ton of reading to figure out what it is. I appreciate the time he put into distilling it.

If he were to make it longer some examples might be interesting to read about and drive home the message, he no doubt has examples in his mind, and his readers would no doubt be curious as to what they are
You're ignoring the part that it should not be the customers burden. Sales and marketing people have high ceilings too, I can respect the hustle, BUT they don't get tips. They get a normal wage/salary and their company is on the hook for providing bonuses/commissions. It's not consumers "working against" the workers, it never should have been positioned that way in the first place. If business owners want to incentivize hustle, they should do it on their own dime.

It's a grey pattern to offer your product at 1 rate but implicitly you impose an additional 12-20% . Just pay them more, and charge more for the product, the end result is the same from the consumer. If the workers are no longer satisfied, there are other sales and marketing jobs that offer real salaries plus bonuses/commissions as mentioned above.
The UK still retains EU data protection laws whereas the US essentially never had any.

Having lived in both countries, the American companies are totally flagrant in how they sell and abuse your personal data. Banks will sell your credit card transactions to advertisers, for example. The UK credit score was a reasonable and stable evaluation of my credit-worthiness based on data from my bank, but its American counterpart is a gamified setup that goes up and down randomly every month and is seemingly designed to make people take unnecessary debt. And so on.
Oh yeah this one... This really disturbs me. I can't shake the feeling that it might be conscious somehow; trapped, enslaved and tortured like some kind of Black Mirror episode.
I work on FOSS (pytorch) that I used to use a lot during research.
It feels like I've come full circle and I'm giving back.

Also I'm well compensated and surrounded by smart and kind people.
I encourage people to put up draft PRs, and to request reviews early. Draft PRs don't have to pass CI/CD or be complete, and they let you see what everyone is currently working on.
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> Even airguns are now restricted.

Yes I am sure criminals care about guns and airguns being restricted. Definitely will look into possibility of moving to Scotland, considering your criminals are law-abiding citizens.
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Sometimes (often these days) i can't tell if these things are parodies or real products. It reminds me of Juicero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero

In Europe many countries have specific trash bins for food waste, they're collected by the city and reused for compost and biogas. No subscriptions, no investors, no soon to be e-waste wifi and bluetooth connected trash can, no shipping dirt in box
Here is a trick for you if you want some to have a somewhat editable SVG chart in PowerPoint.

Import your SVG in LibreOffice Impress, right click on it and select "Break", save your file as a .pptx, open your file in PowerPoint, copy the chart to your presentation.

I have used it a few times because I generated my charts using graphviz and the business people wanted something editable within PowerPoint. It is far from perfect because anchors are not supported, but it is enough to do minor modifications like fixing typos or changing the font for something similar sized.
Not dumbing down your own culture to submit to the outdated limitation of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange is not a novelty. Forgoing your language is not practicality.

It's normal to expect technology to evolve to be usuable by all rather than expect people changing to conform to technology. People should fight for that more often.
Show HN: LowEndInsight – a “bus-factor” risk analysis tool
What began as a pet-project a few years back, an a start to learning functional programming with Elixir, turned into a bit of a research effort for CS students. I'd asked them what info could they glean from a git repository, specifically about the risks associated with using it (or becoming dependent on it). The focus quickly arrived at "bus factor" - what happens when the main developer moves on. From there we started thinking about other metrics and a couple stood out - mainly the distribution of contributions, and the obvious commit currency time. The initial research was focused on library packages from the main ecosystems - e.g., Javascript's NPM and Python's PyPI. We quickly found that to be a massive challenge - at the time neither required packages to provide a valid URL pointing to their source code. This itself was an indicator of something.

Once the students moved on I continued to think about and would occasionally get asked about the tool. So I picked it back up and slapped an API on it and exposed it via HTTPS POST and GETs.

I am generally looking for feedback. Probably more about the issues associated with dependence on Open Source libraries - the risks derived as software atrophy happens. But what are your ideas about the metainformation that is sitting in a software project's source history.

I've considered doing some ML-y stuff with the commit history, but haven't really found the right things there yet.

Here are some links to the details:

* Library: https://github.com/gtri/lowendinsight
* API: https://rapidapi.com/quency-ai-quency-ai-default/api/lowendi...
* API Source: https://github.com/quency-ai/lowendinsight-get
* CLI: https://github.com/quency-ai/lowendinsight-cli/releases
* CLI Source: https://github.com/quency-ai/lowendinsight-cli
* Demo - GitHub Trending Repos: https://demo.lowendinsight.dev/gh_trending

I've capped the number of requests at RapidAPI, but if you really think the tool is useful I can issue you freer, more unlimited access by request.

Let me have it HN. And thanks in advance.
AI tools I believe it will soon become a helpful tool for many people. Just like how smartphones made photography accessible to more people and Javascript made it easier for people to enter the tech field.

However, we will have a difficult time when it comes to social media because AI content will become more and more, until it is just.

It seems plausible the next social media will remove the social part completely, and just have people as consumers, creators.
This is, in my opinion, the great lesson to learn from chess. Offense and defense are a duality, not a partition. You can defend a piece by making an offensive threat elsewhere on the board. You can attack a piece by shoring up defenses. Offense and defense are human concepts that clearly mean something, but when you get down to brass tacks and try to define them with mathematical precision it becomes very, very difficult. And potential offense can manifest as real defense, and potential defenses can manifest as real offense, and all sorts of other such relationships can be clearly seen in higher level chess.

One is also a hopelessly lost without a map if one tries to understand international relationships without this understanding. Which frankly most people babbling away about them don't, even yea verily on HN and the mainstream media outlets. Rest assured the players themselves do. Since international relationship also have a large poker element to them, and you as a normal citizen are shockingly short on information, this isn't a secret decoder ring by any means. But you're just completely lost if you don't at least understand this duality of offense and defense aspect.
> The home server maintains a vpn connection to the ec2 instance. you also need to configure nat and port forwarding on both sides so you’ll need to get your hands dirty with nftables/netfilter (probably a night or two of pain realistically).

You could simplify substantially by simply using the ec2 instance as a reverse proxy (well, that’s simpler to me, at least, as someone much more familiar with reverse proxies).
I’ve been getting good price/perf just doing the top AMD consumer CPU’s. Wish someone would make an AM5 platform motherboard with out of band / remote console mgmt. that really is a must if you have a bunch of boxes and have them somewhere else. The per core speeds are high on these. 16 core / 32 threads/boxe gets you enough for a fair bit.
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They use a Cocoa feature called [WkWebView] (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview) which is an embedded webkit browser. Any functionality that differs from Safari is not part of the actual "browser". It's just "skin" on top of it. (Bookmark syncing, etc)
> You are still missing the point.

You have missed the big picture.

> The concern is the last "extinguish" part at the end.

The methods are different but the strategy is the same. The 'Embrace' and 'Extend' part is openly visible. The extinguish part however is less obvious:

'Extinguish' in this case, refers to competitors being unable to compete with 'free' (as in beer) or close to free products that offer more and are 100 times better than their competitors paid offerings.

> But there is no reason for Microsoft to shut down GitHub, or VSCode or whatever.

Not my point. The competitors / alternatives are the ones that will shut down, over Microsoft branded ones.

There was a reason why Atom was shut down over VSCode. The same as to why the creator of Appget could not compete with Microsoft's winget and then appget shut itself down.

The same will happen with OpenAI's exclusive deal with Microsoft. Majority of users using OpenAI's API over the competitors and alternatives paid offerings will end up shutting down.

> Consumers just get to have a great free product.

Exactly. Microsoft was clever to target developers as the new source of customer. Windows already won the desktop.
I'm not sure fine tuning helps with this kinda thing. Because the fine tuning mechanism involves sending the API a bunch of data like

{"prompt": "<prompt text>", "completion": "<ideal generated text>"}

So I'm not sure how you would feed it PG's essays in this mechanism
This is the exact space I’m in, high cpu low network. By my estimates it’s about 1/4 the cost per CPU operation to use consumer hardware instead of enterprise. The extra computers allow for application level redundancy so the other components can be cheaper as well.
I'd pay $100-200 for the trash can thing. There is a company making a smaller one, with the idea that you toss the output into your own compost pile. It cuts down on odor, rodents and time to compost completion.

What happens to the trash can if I stop paying the subscription fee?

(Fast forward a few years, and someone will rewrite the above as a postmortem.)
"Strandbeest": crawling robots powered entirely by wind -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C97kMKwZ2-g
Nice. Why do I need to select a table? I tried "Customers with most orders" and selected table "offices" and still got the correct query on tables "customers" and "orders".
I don't like how TIPP10 requires registration to use the app, personally.

I taught myself touch typing more than 20 years ago via the free tests at https://typingtest.com, which is still around. I still go there occasionally to compare keyboards. The site is great because you can launch into a test instantly with no registration.

IMO those kinds of short passages are all you really need to get good at typing.
I’ve never had a European hosting provider ask me for my passport. Not sure where you’re getting that information from
The only true statement here is this: there's not a lot of use to be had from arguing over if something "seems smart" or "is smart".

As for how this relates to plagiarism... well, it doesn't really. Someone can "seem smart" and also not be guilty of plagiarism. Someone can "be smart" and be guilty of plagiarism.
Microsoft already knows that is a given in all their products.
I apologize. I chose poor wording to the point where my sentence it is becoming untrue.

I meant something like: “The majority of plastic we export to other countries is still being exported to SE Asia”.
The sand way storage works any other time you've "got rid of the backend": you use someone else's backend and give them a money for the privilege.
I did something similar to load an image in windows/linux https://imadr.me/cross-platform-window-in-c/
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I'm excited because if Nostr for this reason: it can be used as a general storage for small data.

It's not good for storing media, but for other things it can be used as a backup and communication tool for web apps.
That's just converting unix timestamps. MySQL TIMESTAMP type only has a range of '1970-01-01 00:00:01' UTC to '2038-01-19 03:14:07' UTC.[1]

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/datetime.html
real techies(tm) might have other sources but there is an amplification chamber from such "techy-like websites" to the "techy" parts of newspapers, to the "techy" trends projectors like Gartner and their ilk, to the "modern, cutting edge" politicians that influence policy agendas about techology

objective and balanced information about what happens in tech was always a problem as those sites and entities "never bite the hand that feeds them" but it seems it gets harder by the day as we drown in an ocean of fakery
Of course you take care to set up encryption at erst and in transit, it's not that difficult. In case of virtual machines they can still peek at the memory of your system just like AWS and others, the question is why would they take the trouble.
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True. Not sure what he was trying to convey. It was just a paragraph. Not even an essay. So vague it makes you wonder if it was an AI response.
A friend of mine is in a similar situation. She has a condition that is already very rare in kids, and usually subsides after the age of 18-20 or so, yet she still suffers from it at 24. There are only about a handful known cases in medical literature. In addition she has another very rare genetic condition that interacts with the first, making here the only documented case of both of these conditions interacting.

She's taking it pretty well though, even if it means that at some point they'll probably have to amputate her right hand or even the whole arm...
It definitely varies depending on the type of content and how long you are on the frontpage for. My two most recent posts on the frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32104669 got around 20-30k views. They both stayed on the front page for over 8 hours.
Don't expect too much from Nextcloud – it will not be a 1:1 replacement for commercial services from Google, Microsoft, etc.

Prepare to spend much time debugging, configuring, reading tickets, etc. If you only want files and Cloud office, consider using alternatives like Seafile[1] or the new OwnCloud rewrite in Go called OCIS[2], which are MUCH more stable than Nextcloud.

[1]: https://www.seafile.com/en/home/
[2]: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis
Fair enough. GOG has a tutorial for first time players as part of the game. I uploaded it here, you can download it within next 3 days, after which it will automatically be deleted.

https://temp.sh/MndUi/Heroes%20of%20Might%20and%20Magic%20II...
> apps, which of course are always ready to go.

I wish that were true. But since many apps these days are just slapdash shims over web portals, they time out login sessions and forget things anyway.
How to steal money from old people via unicode obfuscated domain names.
You give them too much credit: they exist to scare the "worried well". This isn't some conspiracy of urbanites. It's just the environmentalist equivalent of Fox news: shocking lies sell more ad space than boring truths.
> I can easily construct one; does that change anything?)

I don't think so. The way you have constructed the Sn's allows you to re-use a choice function for one set for all the other sets. But I don't think this is possible in general.

This is the thing that makes it hard. If you don't impose some sort of structure on the Sn's then I think you will have a very hard time constructing a choice function for them. That's the whole point. If you want a choice function for such sets in general you have to just assume that one exists without being able to actually exhibit one. Your assumption may be mathematically valid (because AoC is consistent with ZF), but I submit that a reasonable person might find it a little hinky.
Apple is already fighting back, with Safari.
Good call about candy cigarettes. They were fun as a kid, but demented in retrospect! It makes me think of Saturday Night Live's E. Buzz Miller and his "Bag of Glass" children's toy.
Indeed. And in cases like those, the application and any libraries it uses have to either agree on which time_t size to use, or perform the same rewriting as libc does. Getting libc on board is merely the first step.

The same goes for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS for obvious reasons (though embedding an off_t is probably somewhat less common).

Nobody said this would be easy. OpenBSD's "ABIs are for breaking"-approach resulted in them fixing this very problem almost 10 years ago: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=137637321205010&w=2.
Only today did I learn you could use ｡ as a separator. https://xn--googlecom-0w64c (which is google ｡ com without the spaces) actually leads somewhere.
They do. At least Apple implements WebAuthn for Touch ID and Face ID on both its mobile and laptop platforms, using Safari.
iDEAL is truly tremendous. I keep my Dutch Neobank account just to be able to pay stuff with iDEAL. It never fails and works like a charm. Never had a failed payment with it. I don't understand why Germany is incapable of implementing such an easy solution.
Get a Raspberry Pi 4 and install https://umbrel.com on it. Easy to set up using Tailscale and optional TOR support if that's something you want. And it has all the "important" stuff like Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Pi-hole, Matrix server, etc.

There's a bunch of Bitcoin related Apps as well but it's easy to just ignore those.

Full list of "apps" here: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps
Scaleway asked me for a copy of my Dutch passport too which I refused, and then they limited the services available to the long-time active business account this was for.

Neither their docs or two separate support agents I spoke had any information on why it was necessary, where the copy would end up, how long it would be kept, etc. which seemed very fishy and is totally illegal.

This was about a year ago.
The Great Automatic Grammatizator (By Roald Dahl), 1954 [pdf]
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What great hyperbole. This is possibly the strongest hyperbole in the _history of the universe!_
That reminds me of the epilogue to HG Wells Time Traveler:

“ He, I know—for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made—thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so.”

That passage has haunted me since. I often wonder if that is the answer to the Fermi paradox. Civilization might be but a brief spark in the long night, separated from others by both time and distance insurmountable.
DJI is a juggernaut and i imagine will catch up, but when i last looked about a year ago Skydio autonomous tracking was dramatically better. It was the first thing that popped into mind when reading that question.
Doesn’t support native smart card (PIV) mode.
I used a local version of this type of product in a city I used to live in.

Main positive is as you mentioned, food waste smell is gone, and no rodents/animals in the trash either inside or outside.
isn't that the same as credit cards not allowing to charge extra for using them?

which btw is now also not allowed by EU rules.
That is somewhat impressive, it might make up for many people not getting two day delivery with Prime anymore. However there are an awful lot of generic drugs out there that are pretty cheap and you wind up paying $2.70 or something for them at the pharmacy after what insurance negotiates down and they contribute.
The current browser approach on iPhones was created in a free market.

Using the law to force Apple to run Google software would be an example of a command economy.
> The platform default is one of the most decisive factor for the market share

That statement is much, much less true than it once was -- some quick searching puts Chrome at about 66% of desktop market share (despite neither of the two dominant desktop OSes shipping Chrome as a default), and the two default options (Chromium-based Edge and Safari) combining for about 25% of desktop market share.
One of them I used was supposed to be 'pick-a-path' style fantasy fight the dragon sort of thing. I decided to throw the A-Team into it. It integrated them in and even knew the correct names and their context of what each char tended to do. By far not perfect. But the fact it could do even 'kind of' that. Is very interesting. 'kind of' is for some things is perfectly fine. The generated art ones are very interesting too. It reminds me a lot of early emulation discussions. Where people were arguing unless you had cycle perfect emulation nothing would work. Turns out 'kind of' close works for like 95% of the cases. Some things did need that sort of detail. But most didnt.
I can identify with that. One tidbit that might interest you, is that most successful startups are not done by kids, but middle aged people.
99% of people are never going to have anyone interested in anything they do, but if you're really paranoid you'd want to host everything at home and use a VPN or cloud server to redirect to it.

However, if you go with a really small cloud/server provider, you may run the risk of a bored employee poking around. The larger ones will have auditing in place to catch stuff like that.
> better city layouts and greater public transport

Those are useful for other things, if you want smaller batteries add in road charging. Just don’t wait for perfection when you can dramatically improve things today.

> 70% more carbon dioxide than producing a conventional car in Germany

Only today. Manufacturing currently produces carbon dioxide due to things like a fossil fueled electric grid not as an inherent part of the process. Fixing the grid is also required.
> If I write a book and you buy the book, read the book, sell the book, write another book about the ideas in the book, you can legally sell the new book I wrote.

Reread my comment. If you read my book and write your own it’s OK, if a megacorp provides a tool that ingests my book and automatically writes this book for you (and charges you, and does not pay or credit me) it’s not.

Why is it not OK? In addition to generating a derivative work based on my book (not on ideas in it, literally on my book, because again this tool is not conscious and does not operate ideas, only the letters), which depending on the license can be illegal, it also kills incentives for people to publish books at all—because now OpenAI can buy one copy of any book, feed it to its ML tool, then charge people for using it and no one else ever needs to buy this book and give any credit to its author. Implications for open information sharing like blogging and such go without mentioning.