skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say this earnestly: I trust that the military has interest in making sure our national security is protected. I don't harbor suspicions of intentional negligence with these balloons.

I totally believe that our civilian federal government and executive agencies have no capacity to deal with massive environmental crises like the one in Ohio, or Flint, or in CA with PG&E or many other places. Our system is too weak, and the companies too powerful, the problems too costly to be dealt with without significant pushback.
Yes please, backend people (and compiler folks) be united to try to catch up with the latest wasm proposals, we are pretty close now (also waiting for the 'stringref'). The future is treating DOM stuff as system thingy, so we can stop (except those who want to stay) writing JS/TS on the logic part. I'm optimistic we will have a better mental heath on developing web frontend in near future.
At a guess there's at least 20 companies with head counts that high, and most of them aren't tech and retail.
The problem that a lot of people don't get is that corporations can't just donate money to things like that to be nice. They have accounting and legal obligations, they can't just throw money around for funsies. If you phrase things their way, like selling them a product on contract, you can easily get tens of thousands from them. But a "please donate" link on your site won't get anything.
Ask HN: What are some liquidity options for a founder before an exit?
My co-founder and I are discussing options for achieving some cash liquidity in exchange for our equity midway through our startup journey. We imagine we can sell some of our common stock to investors. Some questions on this:

* Can this founder equity sale only be done at a fundraise or can it be done anytime? What's the typical practice or HN's recommendation here?

* What price can we expect to get per share?

* Let's say at some point in time say after 'X' years, there is an acquisition offer and the founders are fully vested. Would liquidating our equity as part of the acquisition be more lucrative than if we decided to continue building our company and selling shares to investors for liquidity?

Sorry if a lot of this is common knowledge but I'm a complete greenhorn in this.
I was interested and started watching Keaton but was turned off by the casual racism. Is Chaplin different?
Really? I use zoom for hours and it regularly eats my PC.

If teams works just barely there is something wrong with your setup. None of the chat/im applications work barely. They work, to a point, then crash/glitch/etc.

Let’s see, Slack IM notifications on mobile are garbage, I’m just going to assume that I will miss them at this point. Slack audio is an actual joke, we redirect it to teams…

Zoom, eats our computers. We screen share 3-4 hours someone’s screen will turn black because the video card driver will crash, daily.

Google, does mostly ok for calls without sharing and one person speaking. Limited support for physical devices, calls, etc. noise suppression is minimal so having more than one person unmuted is going to blow an ear drum. Limited features.

GoTo, as long as you are using it as a phone and not an app, you can make a call hurray!

Webex is crap end to end, but you will join a session and get through a call, mostly without blowing up. Feature rich? No.

Teams, let’s see random client gui crashes, but the call stays up so you can keep talking but can’t do anything? Probably weekly occurrence on the current release. Sensitive to https termination in networks and offload, oh hell yes. Forgets camera mappings just like slack every time? Yes and yes. Continues ringing on your phone if you pickup on desktop. Yes just like zoom, but at least it can transfer to desktop, most of the time.

I use all of them, for clients, daily, weekly, monthly. Teams by far is the most feature rich client. Somewhere in the middle of consistency, stability, etc.

Is it magical and poops unicorns? No but ya’ll need to stop being dramatic. They all work, mostly, some have cool features, some are dead in the water like slack, WebEx, GoTo, etc. MS is dumping tons of money into developing teams, they are going to break a lot of eggs, less than in 2020 but still enough to make a mess.
Custom Element Registries can become a problem for organizations with multiple teams working on the same page, as they may inadvertently create elements with the same name, or need bug fixes or new features causing conflicts and preventing individual teams from deploying updates.

The result is that teams need to coordinate their updates and deploy them simultaneously, slowing down the development process. This problem has been recognized in the Web Components community, and some initiatives are underway to address it, such as Scoped Custom Element Registries.

Scoped Custom Element Registries provide a way to isolate the scope of custom elements, preventing name collisions and enabling individual teams to work independently on their components without affecting the rest of the page. This approach has the potential to improve the development process for organizations with multiple teams and streamline the deployment of updates.

However, this solution is not widely adopted yet, and it may take some time to gain traction. In the meantime, organizations may need to develop their own internal guidelines and procedures to manage custom element name collisions and coordinate their updates.
>Which would be the downsides?

Your monitors would be a higher resolution than these. You would be tethered to your PC.
Well considering opening my start menu can lag depending on the internet connection, I would say it already has.
Sony has a headset like this, the VR2, which is supposed to ship Real Soon Now. Cabled.

Self-contained VR is going to look cheap for quite a while, because you need a gamer PC or a good game console to make it go, and you just can't cram that much graphics power and battery into non-clunky headgear. However, wireless with a local base station generating video ought to work fine.
> Why is running software still such a tricky thing in 2023, where you have to read tutorials and tinker with manually setting up an environment?

I think this is unfair criticism. Conda is extremely common in data science, as common as Docker is in software development.

While I agree docker is easier to use as a consumer, Conda automatically sets up the environment and a quick Google would show you how to install conda.
You can ask it why yourself.
That might have something to do with it.
> Unlike the sibling comment here, I'm not trying to disqualify the underlying survey, just to point out that it's framing in the article you cited is heavily motivated; countervailing results or analysis presumably would not be allowed to run on the IFS website

IFS is "heavily motivated" compared to who exactly? Would New America or whoever NPR and the NYT turn to for analysis ever run with a similar story? The notion that increased autonomy and reduced social restriction is an unalloyed good is almost axiomatic among the folks who run every mainstream intellectual institution that isn't expressly conservative. It's the closest a lot of these folks have to a religion. They're highly motivated not to publish contrary evidence.
WA state passed a law that says a cop cannot chase a suspect unless they committed a violent crime. This resulted in a surge of crimes where the suspect driver just flips off the police and drive off. Common crimes resulting from this:

1. catalytic converter thefts

2. thieves steal a car, ram it into a store, loot the store, drive off in another stolen car
New York Times sues EU over von der Leyen's Pfizer texts
What type of hiring issue are we talking about?
The key word is "create" rather than "own".

A corporate entity can own the copyright to some work. The corporate entity cannot create a copyrighted work - that requires human authorship and only human authorship is allowed.
It’s orders of magnitude all the way down
CUDA worked in WSL since WSLg just started. I used it, as you mentioned, for a few PyTorch modules, that were Linux-only. Slight pain to setup, but one time only.
> Java will never be able to compete with Kotlin in this regard, as Java language architects value backward compatibility over code safety.

Never is a strong statement. The java team spends a good amount of time thinking on how they could bring Nullability into the type system. It’s certainly possible we could get it as apart of Project Valhalla - https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/valhalla-spec-experts/202...

Aside from future language changes that could bring direct null safety, there are practical tools like NullAway that essentially give us everything Kotlin has.
You can compile your own kernel to use with WSL2. See the Config file for how you can specify the path to your own kernel and the command line to pass to it:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config

Here is adding ZFS support:

https://wsl.dev/wsl2-kernel-zfs/
Wavetable Synthesis, in the Browser
Hey HN! Thought y'all might find this interesting.

This synth is a new feature in the web-based DAW that I've been solo-developing. You can sign up at wavtool.com if you're interested in trying it out!
Sounds like regular asynchronous stand-up. We (30 ppl remote startup) use something like that. All engineers are requested to publish what they did; what they gonna do and if there are any blockers.
Try this colab, if you want to try pix2pix video https://github.com/camenduru/pix2pix-video-colab
Hey at least they don't live in San Diego where it's 53 cents off peak and 64 cents on peak.

https://www.sdge.com/residential/pricing-plans/about-our-pri...
Personality is not set in stone
Both will read that way sometimes to a modern audience, though Chaplin's definitely better in that department. However, a large set of Keaton's oeuvre treats of that not at all. Avoid The General and stuff with names like "The Pale Face" (gee, I wonder if that will be problematic?) and you'll mostly be fine.

On the other hand, Chaplin was apparently terrible to women off-screen, so... there's that.
Meta reportedly plans more job cuts
lockdowns, there's 1.
I'm not sure what the field of view is with this, but I've experimented with that with a valve index and the biggest downside is that virtual screens end up quite low resolution, to the point that to have legible text they need to take up most of your field of view (to the point that in the same visible area where you could have four physical monitors, you'd need to have a single virtual monitor that's scaled up so you can read text on it).

The other thing to consider in terms of portability is that these have very high resolution displays (they just don't necessarily look high resolution because they take up such a large fraction of your field of view), and also need to be run at 100+ hz to minimize motion sickness. While this is easily doable with gaming graphics cards, many development-focused laptops don't have the GPU horsepower necessary to handle it.

Finally, it looks like this is using SteamVR headset tracking. This is an outside-in tracking system that relies on a pair of external tracking beacons that the headset needs to have line of sight to, to figure out its position and orientation. If these are moved, their position needs to be recalibrated. So it's also less ideal for portability in that you need to set up and run power to two other external devices and have somewhere to mount them while using the headset.
> Yes. At GE (yes, the real GE Aviation that still exists) we just said "Yessa master" and then ignored the three day per week in-office "requirement." The managers (directors and lower C-levels) in the trenches had zero interest in enforcing it. Though, that place is a den of malicious compliance throughout.

Sounds like Kodak in the 90s. The CEO would announce company wide job reductions and the department heads ignored it and kept hiring.
To the question: "How could it be that bad?"

Here is my reasoning:

Poly Vinyl Chloride is exceptionally toxic, the plume from this event is east of New Palestine into Pennsylvania based on radar data from both news stations and the National weather service.

Health effects of exposure are dramatic at high levels (death), and delayed at low levels (cancers) (so there is both initial health impact and "long tail" impact).

Between East Palestine and Enor Valley are a bunch of farms.

That suggests to me a number of ways for the PVC to impact the people in that area. Presumably the EPA will establish some monitoring but I haven't been able to find anything from the EPA yet that discusses that.

And FWIW I hope I'm incorrect and we don't see a serious public health crisis associated with this event.
> But for most usecases, online models trained by megacorps still win.

Whisper and whisper.cpp have gotten us close to the tipping point.
I Used Supabase to Build a Winning Hackathon Project
>> The point of large open source projects like this is to parlay it into career opportunities

> Yeah, you are in the minority with that belief.

The OP does have a platform, thanks to his work. If he did not diligently pour his creative talent into core-js & without it's widespread usage, he would probably not have the audience & we wouldn't be having a discussion about him or his situation. He does have a platform which he most likely could monetize.

He does have a platform which he most likely could monetize. It's like a Youtuber who gains a large audience. Youtube does not pay much & many subjects are demonitized, yet many Youtubers are creative in monetization. Of course a big advantage of having one's face on the screen talking to a large audience is attention, making it easier to get the message out & to create a market.

I do plenty of open source work & my partner was a prominent early Youtuber. It's not easy & takes a mostly different skillset than just creating code or content, but the opportunity is there. Some are quite talented at creating code/content & monetizing code/content. I'm not so talented at the monetization aspect, but I see the opportunity is there. I for one, use open source as a way to share code between my projects...making it easier, via IP licensing, to reuse code.

I would personally love to see more people sharing on how they use their creative talents, hard work, & audiences to earn a living. I think there is a better way than relying on donations. For example, the creator/audience relationship on platforms like Patreon or Rumble seem like a way to earn money in a dignified manner.
The study is conducted by the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at BYU, Deseret News, and Yougov.
that it’s cool
Everyone’s situation is different, but I know people at a big tech company you’ve heard of who are infamous for being, well, kind of assholes, who when given a similar offer by HR have said no I’m not coming to the office and no I’m not quitting and that has worked for over a year so far.

Of course that’s all predicated on your manager wanting to keep you and at least somewhat go to bat for you. Otherwise I expect it’ll lead to dismissal rather rapidly.
The federal conditions that bring about the rail lines as they are today have more voting influence from California than they do from Ohio.
You know that the "censored documents" were actually just nudes proving that Hunter Biden has a big dick and hot girlfriends, right? I've seen them. Explain how they are scandalous.
No laser designation needed. Aim-9x have full infrared and UV imagers in the seeker head. A white balloon in the sun floating in cold air at 60,000 feet might as well be a lighthouse
They are free to keep or sell as the populace around them votes how best their land is used.
Well 60,000,000 people did then die, so it seems a reasonable level of preachiness.
Are you serious? “They got what was coming to them” — wow…

You’re living in what sounds like it’s one of the highest cost of living regions in the world laughing at the misfortune of innocent people who don’t have the option to just pickup and move.

If you’ve lived in this area, you would know how “stuck” most people are. The cost of living and wages don’t provide most people the option to do a whole lot more than make a living. Even if they can leave, they have families/friends/communities.

This is also not too far from
where individuals have been fighting very hard for worker’s rights for a long time. The UAW against the auto factories. A generation of coal miners who migrated from KY and WV.

You claim you’re from one of the poorest areas in Ohio but are laughing from the West Coast. I signed in just to respond to you because this is one of the most sociopathic things I’ve heard. Have some sympathy.
thanks for the reply, that's pretty neat :) take care of them pugs
Are you sure you're not just in a Luddite bubble? Philips Hue was released in 2012, 11 years ago, and the smart lighting category is estimated at $12.7 billion for 2022. For sure the future is unevenly distributed, but pretending it's solely a Silicon Valley phenomenon, when Philips Hue didn't even originate from there (though it integrates with Apple which certainly does) seems like a mistake that a Luddite or someone without access to Wikipedia and a map might make.
https://archive.ph/cg5tj
How exactly can I tell if the chat bot is hallucinating or not without actually going into the search result source (at which point the bot becomes less useful)? It's hallucinating what the sources are saying and making up what the source is saying.

At least with humans I can expect there is intent to lie or not. They tell me whether they are confident and I can check how authoritative the source is. Realistically, people tend to operate in good faith. Experts don't usually intend to lie but the bot doesn't even have an intent.

I think pretending that AI development must only occur in productionized environments is a bit naive. It's not like LLM research isn't occurring. It's perfectly fine to leave it in labs if releasing it could have catastrophic consequences.
It mostly goes one way, men are the initiators of marriages and they are avoiding it.
> I don't allow social media, and my kids don't have cell phone access.

How is this working out? I assume your kids must have healthy social lives and don't feel left out, otherwise you'd have reconsidered. My kids will get to device-using age someday and I'd love to do something similar with mine. But am somewhat amazed that parents can enforce this even at the teenager stage.
Yes. You got it in one. Unless such an entity is recognized as "human" from the get go, and thereby recognized to have self-soverignty from it's makers, it will essentially be treated as an abusable, non-paid source of labor. In fact, the moment sich a measure is put in place is the moment that all research shifts in the direction of making something just short of that redline in the hopes of getting about 80% of the benefit without running afoul of the ethical/moral implications.
Amazing good quality high-speed x-ray video!
Is this GPT or is this their old engine?
This is a period where many are being swept by the hype or have taken one course on Coursera and believe to be an expert. Classic case of Dunning-Kruger.
Some of the gatekeeper might be out. Now OpenAI(or whoever controls it down the line) have the complete monopoly.

Not that I am denying the future(Nasper in the 00s proved that). I am wondering what's the next best course as an individual.
I just said Dockerfile because when I say "shellscript", people think that is oldschool.

A dockerfile shows me every step of what has to be done in an unmistakable way. I can easily turn it into a shellscript.

The conda file (environment.yml, right?) does not tell me how to set up the environment. It contains a list of .. I don't know what. It starts with:

channels:
- pytorch
- nvidia
- defaults

I don't know what to do with that. It does not look like computer code.

> a quick Google would show you how to install conda

No. It leads me to yet another tutorial with a bunch of manual steps:

https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/in...

It even starts with decisions I shall make of which I know nothing:

Download the installer:
- Miniconda installer for Linux.
- Anaconda installer for Linux.

How do I know which one the software in question needs? How far down this rabbit hole is someone who just wants to run a software supposed to go?
In addition, Lockval Engine includes db and several supporting APIs.

Lockval Engine is developed around the concept of data-oriented programming. Therefore, it is generally not recommended to use an external database.

The db in Lockval Engine is a bit like redis, which provides hot data in memory and saves changing cold data in real time

Regarding the location of db in Lockval Engine, you can view the architecture diagram on this page: https://lockval.com/docs/
This is really interesting. I like the sky flamingos. Very creative. Obviously silly, but you wish it was true.

The way the white on the Wood Duck's head just happens to line up with some light coming through the trees. If he weren't so serious about it, it would be a very artistic "what if?"
sort of work.
I took the comment as ironic. A-fucking-men to Chaplin's sentiment, anyway.
My point was that in order to reach a viable battery life they had to compromise by forcing people to carry around a large battery pack.
Ah yes, a tool that dates back to 1950. I'll fully admit that modern electric versions with quick charge lithium ion batteries are convenient as shit compared to the air compressor powered versions of yore, but you can't hold up a tool that dates back 70 years as some sort of pinnacle of modern technology.
DuckDB uses all of your cores! It just uses threads, not processes!
A fantastic example of a modern sonnet is Carol Ann Duffy Prayer

https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-prayer-annotated

For people who are not from the UK, the last line comes from the shipping forecast[1], a strange British tradition which is much-loved extremely obscure to the unfamiliar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_Forecast and it’s worth hearing an example which they have here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shipping_Forecast.ogg
I'll have you know, I'm stealing this positive spin for my résumé :-)
I made a very similar project in Rust that seems to mimic this idea: https://github.com/volfco/boxcar

The core idea I had was to decouple the connection from the execution of the RPC. Mats3 looks to be doing a lot more than what I've done so far, but it's nice to see similar ideas out there to take inspiration from.
They'd pay themselves for computation on the network? You can't see a game theoretical problem with this?

If simply encrencrypting the output is less work than running the computation on the ciphertext input, they'll do that and publish the encrypted output as proof. This would mean alliners would up bid for the computation because they know that if their computation becomes the limiting factor in block creation they can beat everyone else to it.

There's also the problem of benefitting from mining. Mining has to only be useful in that it is used to construct blocks, if it is useful for any other purpose whatsoever, whoever benefits from that purpose has an opportunity to mine at lower marginal cost than other miners.
that's installing WSL on Windows server; that's a Windows Server feature, not an Azure thing. and, that's a long way from offering standalone WSL VMs.

standalone WSL 2 doesn't even make sense. it isn't WSL without the "W": Windows.
Now you've got it.
Singapore has a land area equal to Lake Taupo in NZ.
Basically every console before Xbox and PlayStation loaded games in seconds.

That’s not because of better software though. Games were just so much smaller then.

So if a 128k game loads in less than a second, and the 4.7G DVD version of the same game takes 30 seconds, I would probably wait 30 seconds for the DVD version.
Self-Hosting the Vaultwarden Password Manager
Pilots understandably don’t like it (invasion of privacy, exposes them to liability, etc) and they have labor power