skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1042 days ought to be enough for anybody

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
It also seems to suggest a certain gullibility?
Do I come from an alien universe where people in committed relationships still have friends?
> Parity will arrive because ICE vehicles will get more expensive.

What makes you think that ? At the moment the electric cars are much more expensive than their ICE counterparts for the same features ( size, options).
> It will never happen.

That is very defeatist. Many things have changed in our history. Public advocacy can and do lead to changes in public attitudes and changes in public attitudes lead to changes in our laws.
Or maybe he just doesn't need more money and wants to do something cool? If my basic needs were met, I'd go volunteer at any number of non-profits full time.
While Fedora did move towards that, it's not the only way. A lot of systems which require high reliability are built to reload correctly.

At a generic system level, for example upgrading Nixos will pull new packages and put them next to the current ones, then reexec where possible. Nginx can replace its master process (SIGUSR2). Telephony software can often reexec and keep connecting open. Etc.

Outside of desktops it's not that uncommon to do seamless live reloads of the whole system.
Genetic selection and climatic factors in the dispersal of humans out of Africa
The police cars here have "Protect and Serve" decals. Saying it doesn't make it so. The proof is in the behaviors.
Good point. US in particular stirred a lot of shit that's still brewing now...
This is what Obsidian does, as well. You can open your folder with Obsidian and it will just work.
Or calculate pinto a lot of digits. For $10k you might hit the record.
Android (on my Pixel6) does this in a more subtle way, which I think is Ok:

Swipe bottom to up, to show the list of open apps, it will detect the images on the app preview. Click on an image, and there is a "shopping" option (part of Google lenses).
KDE already forces my systems into power save mode, with no toggle to put it back into performance mode (without using the CLI). It doesn't need systemd to do it either.
> a capacity of 241MWh

At an expensive $100/MWh that's about $25k worth of power. Who builds an expensive ship to transport $25k worth of anything?

Even with electricity being one or two orders of magnitude more expensive, this would be a bad idea.

> It expands on earlier concepts presented by [...] startup [...]

Looks like the main business is fleecing VCs.
I’m in the same boat.

I’ve been on Reddit since the early days, and I think the thing that keeps me going back is habit more than enjoyment these days.

Comment threads for any even moderately larger sub have turned into cesspools of sniping ad hominem attacks and every form of fallacious argument under the sun.

And that same mindset is slowly creeping into the smaller niches that are the primary reasons I go there. This growing ooze invariably puts me in a worse state of mind, and I tried deleting the Apollo app just a few days ago to see how it impacts my mental health.

This API nonsense will easily make this a permanent experiment at this point.

It’s sad, but seemingly inevitable.
Automate the CEOs
So much media is going to be lost once torrenting dies out.
Today, Photoshop alone with updates is 21$/month.
That's the EPYC lineup, which is the server model. Support for terabytes of RAM, 128 PCIe lanes, that sort of thing.

I mean you could use it in a workstation, but unless you need 4 video cards locally it's probably overkill for most uses.

And a workstation should have no problem rebooting once in a while.
There's no doubt some people using emotive topics such as this for "quick point scoring", and/or use it to distract the news cycle from other less favourable stories. But these sort of "distractions" do fall in to very fertile ground with the general public, so I'm not sure it's actually all that meaningful really.
Sorry but I don't want anyone fingering my server thank you very much.
Too bad, it's not my financial info at risk anyways. ;)
You probably aren’t the target market, you’d typically ask the company you work for to pay for it or if you’re a freelancer and use dev tools daily for this CSS stuff (which I’ve personally done at various times in my career) you just factor it into your business expenses.

It’s not like a random person paying for Netflix. $30 is a reasonable ask.

> What if someone makes a similar, open-source tool that achieves 50% of this, or the core features that people actually use every day

In the video there’s a serious amount of functionality, that would take someone doing this as a hobby a very long time. And most OSS design-wise typically doesn’t look as good or polished (designers care about that). That’s usually the difference, the time/effort a commercial company can put in vs volunteer OSS teams.
I wasn't going to add one but I might actually put one in my root just out of spite.

Devs need to stop demanding other devs jump through pointless hoops.
I've been working on a project evaluating the Python and Javascripr programing performance of open-licensed large language models [1] but don't currently have the resources to run the larger 65B ones.

Any chance you'd be able to help run some evaluations?

[1] https://github.com/the-crypt-keeper/can-ai-code
I only use cast iron or stainless. I don’t get the need for non stick. Maybe it’s because I don’t cook eggs every morning.
Hi, I made an archive of videos that changed either computer history, how I see computation, or how I see the world.

Hosted on my PeerTube server. Hope you enjoy, open to suggestions for other videos, thanks.
3D-printable, air-floating, hollow clock
This may be the very catalog from which I ordered my first Mac. I seriously considered the Lisa Professional, but when I learned about its non-square pixels I opted to pay the slight premium to get a used Mac Plus.

Shortly after that I got a modem, and via an early an BBS purchased a 20MB hard disk (external of course) from a guy in California. Just mailed him a check and trusted.

Thar hard disk stood almost as tall as the Mac, and had an overheating problem. So I hung the fan from my old Apple 2 on it and this kept it cool. The fan, however, introduced some EMF interference on the Mac screen, so I had to put a sheet of aluminum foil between the HD and the Mac.

Good times.
we had same issue, at that time it was we will not hire few developers or pay the bill to big corp, we switch in 1-2 weeks to hetzner on dev and stg, and saved good amount of money.
It's not even software bugs, just bad design. As technology has gotten more complex we haven't really kept up with quality, imo.

For example Google home devices that I have, such as the nest displays and nest minis are absolute crap. At first they worked fine, but bad antenna design means that their wifi connection is absolutely terrible. The nest displays after operating for some time just turn into laggy messes.

Both my Macbook and my Windows machine (gaming) have random issues that pop up now and then. Firefox has a longstanding bug where using location causes wifi SSID scans to be spammed endlessly resulting in periodic 10s lag spikes for all networking on the entire machine (& I'm sure Chrome has similarly bad bugs), fixed by doing a Firefox "refresh" where it keeps data but reinstalls itself.

Pretty much all software lacks the options we want, in the places we want them to be and requirements can differ completely from person to person. It's a really tough problem to solve to be honest. Sure bugs can be fixed, but some bugs only impact 0.5% of users and some "bugs" are just bad UI/UX and are bugs to some people but not others.
As a Maryland resident who happens to have this special "commemorative" license plate, I do find this newsworthy and of interest.

I got my car in 2012 -- this was the "standard" plate for 2012-2016, that you got whether you wanted it or not (unless you paid for a "specialty plate", an existing program. https://mva.maryland.gov/about-mva/Pages/info/27300/27300-29...)

State MVA puts a URL it does not own or control in any way on a license plate that will last for decades, never even considers that the URL could change hands, is pretty hilarious.

I've hated this license plate for 11 years now -- I don't want to advertise flags and wars on my license plate. I wonder if via this snafu I can get them to replace it with a regular one; there seemed to be no normal way to ask for a standard one to replace this 2012 commemorative one up to now.

> “The MVA does not endorse the views or content on the current website using that URL, and is working with the agency’s IT department to identify options to resolve the current issue.”

The "option," we all know, would be paying now-hostage-level price for buying the domain. I don't know whether I'd rather my tax dollars went to that or replacing the plate of any 2012 plate holder who asks. What I'd really rather is they stop spending any resources on annoying mandated special commemorative license plates. Bring back two-color solid license plates.
> an LLM that hasn't been trained to do translations can do some pretty impressive translations

An LLM that hasn't been trained to do translations can do translations, badly. I mean, if you want bad translations, you don't need to whip out an LLM, there are lots of simpler methods that will also give bad translations.
Or just rejected—even postmaster@ which is mandated in RFC 5321.
It was a really nice feature to do quick-and-dirty assembly to get rid of some inner loop that allowed you to combine the two languages (BASIC/ASM) in such a way that you didn't end up with a separate source file and build step and a whole pile of data statements (which is how other BASIC dialects did it).

But for any serious application you'd definitely want to use a real assembler, the code didn't look very nice in the BASIC assembly dialect and did not adhere to the 6502 assembly language standard (for obvious reasons, it was tightly integrated with the BASIC interpreter).
Source? It’s plausible that most third party client users are power users, but certainly not the other way around.
You might have enough to run up a few electron apps for a day or two. Maybe.
Well, you should still try to get the best of the swamp. They won't be perfect. They're still human. But they should still be some of the best humans you can find.
Exactly. If you make it open source, great, cool, but only well-funded entities - like massive corporations - can even afford the hardware costs.
Finally.

Daniel created a great project, then did everything to make people not use it.
Any criticism, harassment
You don't believe his story with copperhead?, Harassment.
And so on.
You can already see his community fans with new accounts on HN saying that Louis conspired against Daniel, he didn't need to do anything , Daniel did this to himself.

For a background on this, have a look in louis's latest video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
The original comment and every reply reads like it was copied straight from a marketing brief. This is everyone's reminder that Hacknernews is not immune to astroturfing, and it's often done much more subtly.
Selectively Compressed Images – A Hybrid Format
If it was new protocol the XMPP approach would most likely be saner.

Which is "if I don't put it on my contact list you ain't getting thru". The invite spam is far easier to handle than message spam.
What if someone makes a similar, open-source tool that achieves 50% of this...

Would you need to mount it locally with curlftpfs if you're on Linux?
> you'll see how quickly ~~it's an echo chamber.~~ requires sources
Propably. Also, I do consider my spouse to be a lot more than a spouse, you know like also a friend on top of everything else.
seems awesome but exorbitant pricing compared to other similar tools
Which CSPs do live migration?
Once this goes mainstream I'm betting on massive spam. I'd only list the contact us url
Apollo is free to use. There’s a one-time fee for some frills like choice of app icon to show on the Home Screen and subscription for features that cost money and require maintenance of a server (notifications mainly), but they’re both optional. So many of its users aren’t paying anything currently.

The subscription currently costs $0.99/month or $10/year. With the new API pricing, he’d have to pay around $2.50-$5 per month per user. This means not only would the subscription have to become non-optional, but that he’d probably have to bump its price to $5/mo to just have API and server costs covered. Factor in super heavy users, the App Store cut, and a bit of margin to live off of and you’re looking at $7-$10/mo.

A few users will pay this much but I’d bet that most will not. It’s as much as a streaming service costs for a free service. The user falloff would be immense, and this is exactly Reddit’s goal: they want to herd users into its official app and site where they can be subjected to ads, data harvesting, algorithmic feeds, and incessant A/B testing to juice “engagement”. Whether that happens by way of third party app devs throwing in the towel or from users being priced out of using them matters not.
Show HN: Tethered: AI-Powered Research Suite
People state this as if it is fact when there is no good way to measure this.

I have had random runs of good days and bad days since starting to use chatGPT.
But it needs to be more than just "majority". I'm not sure Peelian policing can work if 40% of the society doesn't approve of them. 1%? Sure, that will probably work. 10%? Not sure. Somewhere well before 50%, it breaks down.
It's a clever idea and it's super simple

Add an event listener on the entire document.body

Get the event.target and the style and then descend to the children. Put it formatted in the clipboard.

Then do it as a bookmarklet and deregister the click handler when you're done so you can continue interacting with the site

It's probably around 12 lines of modern js.

You can add a fancy graphical outline to know what you're selecting with a few more lines. Just make sure you draw it on top and don't modify the elements. Use a css filter to make it work on all elements.

Modern tooling is pretty great.
Find a PhD student that needs GPUs for their research but isn’t in a first world institution. You could reach out to a few top professors and ask for a referral to someone promising.

Ie be a science benefactor
I'm convinced the people commenting on this article are just contrarians.

"How could you possibly have standards" isn't a very interesting conversation yet here we are having it at scale.
Note: I am the author of this article.

Mozilla and Opera require source code to be uploaded along with the extension, there is some human component involved in the review there. My understanding is that the human review got considerably less over time however. According to an email I received lately, Mozilla is reintroducing pre-publication review for popular extensions however.

I always thought it to be odd that Google doesn’t ask for extension source code, even when an extension is flagged for review. No idea what kind of review they can perform this way.
Ask HN: Expired OpenAI Credits
We received $2500 in OpenAI credits through Microsoft for Startups program that expired today.

They were supposed to expire six months from our signup (Aug 1) but somehow got entered to expire June 1.

I can't seem to get in contact with anyone from MS or OpenAI. It'd make a world of difference if someone in HN had contact info or could help.

We're about to do a public beta so the timing is ooof...
best bet probably https://foldingathome.org/ unless there something specific you're interested in.
Ai being all the rage good budget to play around with some gpus
can't you just get a different license plate if you want to though
That's the list. It is amazing what these simple 10 questions can do to one's perspective.
To be honest it sounds like Figma, Framer, and Webflow are the ones that need to fix their pricing.
> ultra-shitty interface that nobody wants to use

I don’t want to sound dramatic, but the official Reddit app works just fine and is much more popular than any third party client in terms of usage.
Old Dot Reddit is already so deprecated I'm astounded anybody even knows about it anymore. So what the heck are you talking about? It's pretty much gone so what's your go-to now that it's been a pretty garbage site to browse for more than a year? If it’s just inertia then Jesus. And now it's in it's just automatically submitting people's comments I never clicked enter before it just sent that yikes what the heck man you're the handle on your damn Tech the f** is going on.
Where exactly "is" a domain name?
Okay, let's say Apollo's users use 3x more (3.5x) than other users.

Is $6 million a reasonable amount instead of $20 million?
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/live-migrati...

Not sure about others
It isn't really much of a stretch beyond mobile devices almost everyone uses when I think about it though. And you can't even really turn those off anymore.
Show HN: Shbin turns a GitHub repo into a pastebin
New release of #shbin, a little CLI tool we built at Shiphero that turns a github repo into a pastebin.

Share notebooks, screenshots, snippets or any file from your disk or clipboard. It's better than Gist!

Demo and instructions on link
As new safer battery tech like sodium ion gets cheaper. I think we are looking at all homes having batteries that can store and run 24-36 hours rather than large scale batteries. As batteries get cheaper and more solar is added power companies are likely to start offering people better rates for electricity if they are willing to install a grid controlled battery in their garage as the power companies can use the cheaper solar electricity for arbitrage instead of running peaker plants.
Sensor Fingerprints: Camera Identification and Beyond
Bears put on massive weight, and might gain up 4 kg per day according to this [0] article. And up to 30% of their body weight is lost during hibernation according to this [1] one.

[0] https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/11/14/fat-inactive-yet-he...

[1] https://medium.com/a-dose-of-curiosity/how-much-do-bears-eat...
Finetune an LLM for your own application.
Can you buy dental floss without coating?
You'll be amazed how fast this works. In 30 minutes your mental state will be significantly improved, if you are subject/victim of any of these extremely common self deceptions.
Time also degrades batteries, after 15 years you will have much less capacity than you started with even if you don't use any cycles.
A key difference between then and now is how much easier it is to distribute software/firmware workarounds or fixes. From an end users perspective replacing the CPU might be seen as far easier than updating their software. A software fix would affect performance, so of course it isn't as simple as that, but this difference is part of the dynamic.

Also, as a direct user of the CPU, if the fdiv bug would impact you it would affect you often rather than once every three years which is the impact frequency of this fault.

Another matter that affected the fdiv bug is that the Pentium line was the first time a CPU had been aggressively marketed directly at the general public in quite the way it was. Prior to that only manufacturers and techies would have known about it and they were used to errata for hardware components. The public more generally had an impression that hardware (at least undamaged hardware) was reliable and only software had bugs, and the fdiv bug invalidated that view of reality causing a bit of a panic.
I think it's import to keep your backend/api isolated from these FE frameworks. Backends live forever, these frameworks not so much.
GCP also does live migration for standard instances.
Hello World in Rust
There’s a lot of history involved, and a difference between authoring and publication formats. It’s only comparatively recently (2016–2019, can’t remember exactly and can’t be bothered looking it up) that they stopped having the canonical form of the published document being monospace plain text with fixed pagination. Now, it’s markup, and so it can readily be presented in quite different ways. Observe this security.txt RFC 9116 formatted in two different ways:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9116

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9116.html
Microsoft Excel ESports
Wow, that thread is insane. Why do these people think they get to play arbiter of morality for everyone their private installations? Are they not aware of other languages than English?
So this claim probably goes somewhere near the category of known unknowns.
It seems to be made of polyester, charcoal and wax, explicitly no PFAs, so what would be the reason to assume "it's likely to have the same problems" if the problem is the PFOA coating?
Roughly these steps.

1) find a topic you care about

2) search for foss or just oss related projects

3) read both their codebase and documentation, learn exactly how they work
From the article:

> Easy is subjective. But simple things are simple because they do not complicate; they have fewer concepts. Simple is objective.

I'd argue both are subjective, or with a better word: relative.

I'd say Zig is easier and simpler than C in almost all regards. The article does not specify what Zig is compared to in order to make these statements. Probably the author had C in mind, but that was not explicitly mentioned.
Eh, better than nobody.
I clicked the "try it on this page", and it's really cool! I don't really know web design so obviously there's parts I don't understand, but it's a hell of a lot easier than me trying to Google things for 2 hours, editing some text, and refreshing a page. Kudos!
If you give more money to the incompetent agency, yes.
Where do you guys see good use cases for Zig? I'm intrigued by the language but don't really have any good ideas on where to try it out.

I thought about trying it out in as small data engineering project, but I'm not sure if language support is sufficient for the kind of tooling I would need eg. Database adapters.
Other threads are discussing whether the specific numbers here pencil out, but to step back a second and take a high-level snapshot: the trend here is that batteries are becoming cheap enough to consider bulk transport of electricity.

Yes, there's questions about weight and power density and all that, but slap your classic techno-exponential curve on all that and ask yourself what becomes interesting after 10 years of riding the experience curve?

There's already companies looking at filling a shipping container with batteries and using them for temporary events like construction sites, concerts, or disaster relief. This ship idea takes it to the extreme: boats have the lowest dollar-per-weight-mile costs, so what use-cases become interesting when the limiting factor becomes techno-decreasing battery costs?
Is it even that at this point? It looked kinda like Gizmodo now where its a few authors rewriting content from other pages, and then a ton of ads. I will say I scrolled for a little bit and my take away was generic tech blog, nothing too egregious but it doesn't do what it once did.
> We still ended up having to rewrite...

Why?
We've always been strongly influenced by our big three neighbors (UK, France and Germany). I remember reading somewhere that before WW2 France was our biggest "cultural influencer" (for example, we spelled helicopter "hélicoptère", until the Canadians liberated us). It's probably not surprising that WW2 made German less popular, and the Anglosphere more popular afterwards.