skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Virtualization Framework is a nice tool (option offered in particular by the UTM application in addition to Qemu option). And I hope it will improve with the release of the successor to Ventura and offer, for example, nested virtualization.

The only concern currently, besides for virtualized macOS the lack of support for iCloud accounts, is that it contains a number of bugs which make it difficult to use as is for non-English/US configurations.

Thus, there is a bug with ISO keyboards, which are recognized by Apple virtualization framework as ANSI keyboards, which shifts or even makes a certain number of keys disappear (different depending on the language: French, German, Danish, etc.).
The irony that the technology we once used to combat spam is being used to create spam has not been lost on me
Should visit Hiroshima and take a bow at the memorial
At the rate covid studies are being retracted, I’m hesitant to make ANY conclusions related to covid 19 spread for at least another few years. We still need time to let the dust settle.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/gone-but-not-forg...
You say that like you can't cut off a limb with a bandsaw! [0]

> The accident summaries from 2021 to 2023 show that most injuries involve hands and fingers. While some are only cuts and lacerations, most incidents proceed to partial and full finger amputations.

My guess is that minor injuries usually go unreported.

0. https://www.sawinery.net/bandsaw-accidents/#:~:text=Even%20t....
No, not compared to locomotion.
I think the problem is more fundamental than just what "data says". I think in a sense the way you measure things carry a lot of information, of course, but the resulting data in itself doesn't tell anything without context. A good book that I think illustrates this is How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrel Huff.
Subreddits are literally controlled by volunteers who get paid nothing. What is stopping them from just going out for a month? It ought to be a month of vacation time, right?

You could argue they might lose users, but who cares, Reddit suffers more from loss of users than them anyway.
Run it on a separate VLAN or on separate network hardware, as well.
I liked ctrl-labs and thought they had great promise... until facebook came and acquired it (boo).
Great Films About Privacy and Security (2015)
Except sometimes water falls out of the sky and it needs to drain somewhere.
Is there anything to do if you "own" a .GA domain? I registered once a free .GA domain via freenom and would like to keep it.
It’s got a lot of long term benefits. For one, a self driving car can be designed radically differently — like easily accommodate more passengers.
You must vomit a lot.

It doesn’t have to be used for advertising. And when it is, it’s local. Usually for small businesses or even the city itself. Most of them don’t have any ads at all though.
The Case: https://webapps.sftc.org/ci/CaseInfo.dll?CaseNum=CGC23606176
https://twitter.com/short_straw/status/1655352280202313734

actually i'm off to lobsters. we are all just giving YC nerd cred for free they dont deserve.

anybody has an invite? ;)
Ask HN: Which books are best written for self study on any topic?
Gotta love the US legal system. When in doubt ...sue. gotta be grounds in there somewhere to claim this is harming me.

I'm no lawyer, so far be it for me to pass legal judgement. I'm sure those more qualified will do that.

But as a simple human I'm not sure I follow the argument. He doesn't feel the non-profit is benefitting all of humanity? Um, OK i guess. Hopefully they'll try harder??

Bummed out 'cause he hasn't got his API access yet? Sure, go ahead and sue. Like I say, gotta love the system...
I can already sense that this is going to get flagged very quickly. But so far this is yet another pyramid scheme pumping the VC grift now with added AI snake oil. The text that is interesting is this:

> Devs, while you are waiting for access right now, over 70 YC companies from the latest W23 batch are ‘AI companies.’ These companies will get access to OpenAI’s GPT and API while you are still waiting. The game is rigged;

That's right folks. You were all sitting on a 'waitlist' still 'waiting' for godot (O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com) to give you access and the YC mafia got immediate access ahead of you months ago.

Even when open source AI continues to catch up with hosted-only models; O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com attempts to use the might of regulatory capture to wipe open-source models and place in 'regulations' that benefit them; because it is a threat to their business as they have no moat. It is a simple as that.

Henceforth, O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com is not for you and YC with Microsoft is essentially scamming all of open source.
Note this will be an LTS version.

> Java Development Kit (JDK) 21, due in September as the next long-term support release of Oracle’s standard Java implementation, now has 16 features officially proposed for it, with three more features added in recent days.
Out of curiosity, What kind of marketing have you done so far?
You can supercharge Phantom Types if your language has affine or linear types to fuel them.
You can cut off a limb with a bandsaw, but scratching yourself and cutting off a limb are different injuries.
There is a war going on, and HN is influential enough that it warrants propaganda.
But arrays start at -1. How would that work?
This sounds really interesting. (unfortunately I did not notice earlier that you replied)

Thanks also to the link for calcite. The import times with Postgis really sound impressive. (if you post benchmarks do not forget to include Xmx and physical available memory :) )

I'll take a brief look into all this - maybe something valueable we can learn for GraphHopper.

Can you explain what you mean with "live reload of configuration files"? I'm not that familiar with map tiles, but do you mean the configuration that e.g. house numbers should come for zoom levels 12-16 and no longer from 12-15 or something?
If an employer can snoop keyboard and mouse, there's a non-zero chance that unauthorized remote attackers can do the same.

Watercooler surveillance requires physical access for cameras and lip-reading, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36188381
> The world's anomalous current ocean temperatures are not a political matter.

Sure it is, if you believe that everyone considers this the biggest issue or that everyone comes to HN to read about climate news then I am sorry to deliver this shock to you that they don't.

>And if your brain is telling you that they are, I would beg you to spend some time recalibrating. Or go read something else, there's lots of room on the front page.

Are you just going to resort to ad hominem attacks or acknowledge that bringing up this topic will resort in discussion that's political in nature? That's all I'm asking, I haven't expressed my personal opinion only pointed out that not all people think or value things the same way, not even in the HN commenter bubble.
Feel free to prove me wrong with sources :)
Firing someone over speech is not even a speech act. It's censorship.
You weren't forced to receive e-mail with your @facebook address either.
Yes. I think LangChain fills in a lot of the problems and it becomes more like programming. So instead of having it “reason” about the results and plans just code those in and sometimes call a LLM when it makes sense.

Right now it’s extremely chaotic since there’s no human correction in the process so the errors compound until you quickly reach incoherence
I wonder if vscode on the cloud will do the same.

For me it does not matter since the systems I work with are rather old school (line AIX) or fully open (Linux).
Here's where the unified memory architecture of M1 Macs, gaming consoles, APUs, and other custom SoCs can shine and shows the inefficiencies of the traditional ageing desktop PC architecture in the modern world where the graphics VRAM is completely separated from the system RAM.

I'd like to see PCs designed more like consoles or M1 Macs, with GDDR shared as unified RAM between GPU and CPU. I have an laptop with a last gen AMD APU that's no slouch, but the VRAM slice of total RAM is still fixed as configured in BIOS between 512MB and 4GB, instead of fully unified and dynamically shred by the OS, which seems highly ineficient and wasteful in the modern age.

It's why PS5 and Xbox with their 16GB of fully unified VRAM can compete with gaming PCS witch need 16GB of system RAM and over 8GB of VRAM. Why have two separate memory zones where one sists empty most of the time and when needed is actually too small while the other is half empty, when you can unify them and make use of the whole pie as needed?
I have a few of the model B version that was released in 2012, somewhere in my basement. I’m not even sure how usable these would be today.
> Bundle materials into tuition expenses.

This is a very very poor idea that binds advanced students to the standard of a place.

This is very elitist and will deepen the divide.

If you are a really smart individual in a bad college due to your socio economic situations, you need to be able to read what MIT students are reading and not your below average peers are reading.
I haven't been able to buy one in New Zealand for years now, at any price.
I try to be as fair and as unbiased as possible, but whenever I hear Emad speak in an interview, my BS meter goes right to 100.
Engaging in extensive participation beyond the occasional comment or upvote can often be a futile endeavor, consuming precious time without much to show for it.

One aspect that I find particularly appealing about platforms like 4Chan is the sense of detachment from the significance of individual contributions. It creates an environment where the present moment holds more value than long-term consequences, allowing for a certain freedom of expression. Despite the abundance of low-quality content, it's fascinating to discover that genuine brilliance can emerge amidst the seemingly endless stream of random posts.
I think its more about the use of the term "welfare" as compared to what the "state" pulls in "taxes" == 'taxes can be equated as NATIONAL WELFARE' and then from that funnel the SOCIAL expenses of a country are derived ; this is the problem.

ZYou have people who think that taxes are tantamount to a nations capability...

But when said nations are questioned on the pull and press of the taxed income - they punish constituents.

Thus revolutions.
Let's ignore the 384x average writer for a second.

A company with a current market cap of $28B paid half a billion to its CEO over the past 5 years?
Saudi Arabia to slash oil production again as OPEC+ extends supply curbs
I remember when there was a phrase called “going postal” in the 90s when the postal workers shot up places. Now they are the victims.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal
I’m guessing this machine ate hundreds/thousands of jobs
Don't worry, it's probably just the ol' HN hug o' death.
Former NATO Commander Warns China's Warship Confrontation Could Start War
That's because the first users pushed off any community and looking for alternatives are mostly genuine assholes. They're only the first but it makes it so "alternative" sites are really off-putting during their early days and this limits growth.

notabug.io was favorite reddit-alike: https://github.com/notabugio/notabug . It was designed to be both server<->server federated and p2p to bridge content between unfederated servers. But like above, it was quickly over-run with genuine assholes which made using it distasteful and it eventually died. The technology was and is amazing.

notabug is a p2p link aggregator app that is:
distributed: peers backup/serve content
anonymous: but don't trust it to be
psuedo-anonymous: users can create optional cryptographic identities
immutable: edits are not supported for anonymous content
mutable: edits are supported for authenticated content
PoW-based: voting is slow/CPU heavy
> Buy a PI's Canadian store is selling them for $185

> For those who have been having problems getting one, is it because they've been hoarding them?

They retail for well under $100. You’ve been buying from scalpers who are jacking up the prices.

MSRP-priced retailers haven’t been able to keep stock in years, and often sell out within minutes of getting inventory.

Some people just want their first or second RPI, but aren’t willing to pay scalpers. I don’t know how many people are hoarding them, but I know some people prefer them to arduinos and more simple microcontrollers. Many people are more familiar with Linux development instead of embedded development.

When they were cheap $35 boards, the advice was buy one per project.
I entered the title question of the article into ChatGPT, as I was curious whether it could factually synthesize information on the Internet similar to how this article did. Notably, it missed the detail about keeping vegetation away

<chatgpt>
Railway tracks have crushed stones, commonly known as ballast, alongside them for several important reasons. Here are the main reasons for using ballast on railway tracks:

Stability and Load Distribution: Ballast provides stability to the railway tracks and distributes the load of the trains evenly. The crushed stones interlock with each other and form a stable base for the tracks. This helps prevent the tracks from shifting or sinking under the weight of the trains.

Drainage: Ballast allows for effective drainage of water from the tracks. The open spaces between the crushed stones allow water to flow away from the tracks, preventing the accumulation of water. Proper drainage is essential to maintain the stability of the tracks and prevent damage caused by water-related issues like erosion or track bed saturation.

Track Alignment and Adjustment: Ballast allows for easy alignment and adjustment of the tracks. The crushed stones can be added or removed as needed to maintain the proper track alignment and ensure a smooth ride for trains. This flexibility is especially important during track maintenance or when new tracks are being laid.

Noise and Vibration Damping: Ballast helps in reducing noise and vibrations generated by passing trains. The layer of crushed stones absorbs and dampens the vibrations, minimizing the impact on the surrounding environment and nearby structures.

Track Maintenance: Ballast provides a protective layer for the tracks. It acts as a barrier between the track infrastructure and the underlying soil, preventing soil movement or erosion that could damage the tracks. Additionally, ballast makes it easier to detect and repair any issues with the track, such as loose fastenings or track bed settlement.

Overall, the use of ballast alongside railway tracks is crucial for maintaining the stability, alignment, drainage, and longevity of the tracks, ensuring safe and efficient train operations.
</chatgpt>
I ran into this issue in the most unexpected of classes.

I took some vehicle repair courses as electives and there was an online module despite the majority of class time being spent in a shop environment doing actual work on vehicles.

It was ridiculous.
> do you install it on personal machines?

Why would I? Those are my machines, and don't have anything to do with my employer or the work I do for them.

> I imagine the common answer is a physical “work-provided” laptop but I’m curious, does anyone run VMs or another solution?

At a couple places, I've had a Windows partition set up for AD password changes/whatever else I ended up needing a Windows machine for, but did most of my work in the Linux install I put in a second partition. I've also just booted a Linux environment in VMWare Workstation.
Laid-off 60-year-old Kyndryl exec says he was told IT giant wanted 'new blood'
> Related, was this infection actually a significant threat?

Good question. Tuberculosis is weird. The CDC estimates that 13M Americans have latent infections. Asymptomatic people are only tested in the US under special circumstances. As far as I know, no widespread surveillance or treatment program exists. And yet the actual burden of disease caused by TB in the US seems quite low.
It’s a neat version 0.0001 of agentic AI. I’m sure one day it’ll be useful but not for a few years at least
The Mac Studio can support 128 GB of VRAM and the MacBook Pro supports 96 GB. (This may change tomorrow.) Technically Intel and AMD also have unified memory but I wonder if it actually works.
Sure, if they are powerful enough either individually or in influence, but cancel culture is generally a mob/groupthink activity.
The Material Basis of Cooperation: How Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour
Alpine Ridge didn't work without the proprietary header at all.

Titan Ridge worked to an extent -- but usually it couldn't add PCIe buses so the number of PCIe devices connected to your desktop TB3 card at boot defined the limited until the next reboot. You could remove and add different devices as long as they didn't need extra PCIe buses compared to what got reserved at boot.

Can't see why Maple Ridge would work differently.
> surveillance is here to stay

in the United States. Europe has very strict rules about surveiling employees.

Example: In Austria we are not allowed to use some of the functions that Azure-AD joined computers would be capable of because employers _might_ push remote control software the user hasn't agreed to
All of the mainstream tools that I've seen for this just monitor activity, not the specific keystrokes / mouse pointer coordinates.
In reality, what they make visible are the people who do little to nothing for 3+ days.

I've worked in places where many metrics of this type would indicate I did little to nothing for 3+ weeks. Some of the most important projects I've ever worked on in terms of business impact have been in that category.

The difference in outcomes IME is almost always whether you're working with good management and good communication so everyone understands what's really going on and it's no problem or you're working with bad management and poor communications and something of great value is incorrectly assessed as having little value leading to worse outcomes for everyone.
>> Devs, while you are waiting for access right now, over 70 YC companies from the latest W23 batch are ‘AI companies.’

Disagree, got API access relatively early after announcement, have nothing to do with YC. But my suspicion is that some of YC batch got OpenAI API credits to use those, otherwise e.g. phind.com would go out of funding while ago.
also much less likely to get shot there than at school!
> sneak wanted OP to be less openly queer in their personal blog for their own comfort, due to their own inability to imagine that the subculture OP is part of is more than their own narrow definition of it.

This is entirely false.

soft_dev_person, what I do want is for you to constrain your assertions about me to facts, and refrain from inaccurate or baseless speculation. It does neither you nor I any favors.
Where does any money come from?

And where would the money go is just as important a question. The answer is 'around'. At varying speeds. The economy is a dynamic system, not a static one. The amount of money in it is one variable. The velocity of that money is another.

But the money is just a made up thing. The thing that an economy is actually FOR is to decide how the scarce resources that are available get allocated. What do we use the land, the raw materials, the precious hours of productive human labor, the capital we've already invested in, and the energy we're able to generate... what do we use all that to DO?

And like I said, UBI is a way of giving more people a vote in those decisions. So yes, that does mean the people who previously had ALL the votes are going to find they have less of a say. The 'value' of their money has gone down, in that it has less impact on resource allocation. So maybe it makes sense that such a scheme causes the currency unit to become less valuable.

But if it results in a better allocation of resources, why does that matter?
I'd point to

https://www.careeronestop.org/jobsearch/findjobs/state-job-b...

as legitimate sources as they are run for public agencies that aren't claiming any copyright. I think there's no problem aggregating these with other job listings, including those that are paid.
I draw a line at trying to compare property damage and homicide as if they stem from the same “mechanism”. There’s no analogy to be made there. The striking workers didn’t kill anyone, and it’s insidious to float “how would the author feel if a striking doctor planned their action to kill someone” hypotheticals because murder and property damage are not united under some definition of “sabotage”.

Like, what’s the useful takeaway from the comparison? Cement getting left in a truck is like losing a loved one? Really? Striking workers performing something like sabotage is similar to pre-meditated murder? Are these useful comparisons? I don’t think so.
So like, how does that work. I've got a pair of Asus routers with one acting as an access point (AI mesh).
Would I need to buy new routers? Do I daisy chain the routers or can I reuse the wifi ap? Or put Merlin on my existing ones?

I'm in tech but these network suggestions are all quite opaque to me.
> Engaging in rational debates with these individuals proves challenging, as they often dismiss any evidence presented as a sign that you are 'woke', deluded, or part of a clandestine group intent on their destruction.

I would debate you, by pointing out a lot of "green" policies disproportionately affect the working class, including AfD voters.

> frustrated and resistant to evidence that their meat consumption contributes to climate change

Start with banning private jets and asking the very wealthy to curtail their carbon footprint. Then asking everyday people to change their habits might be less than hollow words. Once the very privileged start leading by example, then others might follow. But of course, they won't do.

Germany's energy policy, eschewing nuclear, has not brought in a stable renewable energy system. It has destabilised Germany's political standing and made Germany overreliant on Russian gas.

I consider myself an environmentalist, which is why I don't spend time asking people to wear hair shirts.
> Bad businesses will continue to use draconian methods to try to squeeze productivity rather than foster it

What about jobs that aren't creative like coding or graphic design?

Some jobs are simply "sit in your chair and do work". The productivity metrics aren't speculative - they are measurable.

You may argue "these are jobs for AI" - but realistically alot of jobs are a way off from this.

Why shouldn't the "productivity" of these staff be measured? Because you don't like it?

If you work at "big shipping co" and "box" 1 item a day and your colleagues do 100, should you not be fired?
Everyone wants to do the right thing until they're looking at a billion dollars.
Allstate becomes next major insurer to halt new policy sales in California
Pure DHT peer-discovery alone isn't that great but keep in mind that the magnet points to a .torrent file, which usually does contain a list of traditional trackers for the file.
Absolutely, we should be building public transportation for the next generation. But pretending that it’s a solution for people today and using it as an excuse not to build self driving cars is short sighted and stupid.
Who did he piss off to get this written?
Maybe we need an Open Internal Affairs to police OpenAI?
I get the sense that a lot of people hate AI stuff, but a lot of people are also interested, so it gets downweighted but a lot of stories still appear. This is based on seeing a few dang comments about it, plus getting lots of upvotes on some anti AI post comments I've made. I agree it's too much. Otoh, it's a new and evolving field (llms et al) that has regular new information, that's relevant to the community. I think there's more new information in the AI posts than in the "here's evidence climate change is bad" posts. Posts about tech that addresses climate change would be interesting and do get discussed periodically.