skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Side note: there is also a stress-induced heart problem called tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (aka 'broken-heart syndrome'), which also seems to be more common on Mondays.

It's caused by sudden stress (e.g. bereavement, illness) which leads to weakening of the heart muscle, causing the heart to bulge out at the apex. It's named 'tako-tsubo' because the heart starts to resemble a round vessel used in Japan to catch octopuses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy
> We don't tax people on the FMV of gold when they dig it out of the ground.

Uh, yeah, we definitely do. I have relatives who sell the oil under their property, and that absolutely is taxable income.
Name of the effect: categorical change.

The most (in)famous example in the US is the American Red Cross following the US forces in Europe during WW2 beginning to charge a few cents for donuts that they had been giving away for free. While they were still inexpensive compared to their usual price at US donut shops, it was a huge change in the relationship that ended up souring a lot of soldiers towards the Red Cross.
Kinda irrelevant but Asahi is the topic on HN that gets me excited the most. Can't wait to have such a great hardware for my daily driver.

-- a happy ThinkPad Debian user
> debok are telling me they can have a relationship with someone who is immoral and unethical in their opinion.

> Are you saying you think abuse isn't immoral or unethical?

Do you think that everything that isn't moral or unethical is abuse?

A moments thought should reveal that it is possible to have a relationship with someone who is immoral and unethical while not having a relationship with anyone who is an abuser.
This feels very hand wavy, to me. The test applies. Except where it was challenged and exemptions were codified.

Is the argument that it did apply in those situations before the exemptions?
I just went ahead and did it, then included fallbacks to supported formats. What I really want is a standard way to let the browser request lossy or lossless images.
Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. Classic government bureaucracy.
Non-technical leadership is no longer a byword to me. I’ve sat through too many bikeshed meetings.

Maybe JPEG-XL is more important to technical users than chromes actual users?
Oh I wasn't implying you were a settler, it was clear that you were not from the original post. But you mentioned others. There's really no great answers, certainly no blanket ones.

In any case, taking a passport alone will not be the critera: https://kyivindependent.com/official-advises-ukrainians/
If Infinity no longer works I'm done with Reddit.
Spatial Computing
MS can extend Edge (and its version of Blink) with whatever support they want. I could see them supporting it to hinder Chrome/Google honestly.
Yes... easy to open, easy to close, needs no tool, preserves the wine. No drawbacks, unless you're into nostalgia.
TLDR:

I found things, yes. But they weren’t a fit for me.

Things I found:

### SimulaVR [1]

A linux native VR headset with an entire open ecosystem of software. On the plus side: they actually have an open source VR native window manager!!! Cons include: The hardware hasn’t shipped yet. The hardware is already multiple generations behind. (11th gen intel NUC). For productivity – I think video pass-through is essential. Which both this and the Aero lack. Tragically, the software stack for developed by Simula is not compatible with the Aero. Because the Simula Window Manager is linux native, and the Aero is Windows Native… (damn, I bought the wrong hardware.)

### Immersed [2]

This is a software solution that basically lets you remote into a desktop running an appropriate server to sling pixels at your VR headset. It’s heavily oriented towards FB headsets. The Aero isn’t supported. So I’ve never tried it. Also, it’s required that you are serving up actual screen pixels… so If you want to run headless there are wierd display port dongle hacks…

### UltraTerm / CyberGem

There is a developer that has a terminal running in the unreal game engine. In this case you can essentially design a level that is your workspace… It feels weird to even be talking about this, but if you just want linux terminals in VR… this can get you there in a very unique way. I have to say there’s a part of me that’s super into the idea of designing a virtual scene with embedded computing.

### The state of play, as I understand it

In general, you can take it for granted that you can serve up your actual desktop to whatever PC VR solution you get your hands on. Which may be enough for you. But for me, no way! To repeat myself, For VR to be compelling for productivity, I want to be able to arrange my actual application windows in 3d space.

Even the Apple Vision seems to have this “2d desktop” limitation (If you are looking very, very closely). Your desktop share from your macbook seems to be limited to just a 2d desktop. So it appears as if to use the 3d window manager you have to be running Vision native apps only.

I hope I’m wrong on this, but if Ipad is any indication, Vision will never get the heavy hitters. X Code, Visual studio…. Etc.

--

I have been so used to commodity PC hardware for so long, that when I impulse bought VR hardware during the pandemic, I assumed the software would be there to support it. But as far as I can tell, it’s largely not.

[1]: https://simulavr.com/
[2]: https://immersed.com/
[3]: https://twitter.com/ultraterm
> I'll happily pay higher prices to support your staff.

So why is paying them directly more objectionable? I get the objections of people who wouldn’t pay who now feel coerced, but if you would pay a higher price, isn’t it better to send the money directly to the staff?
Emotions and Social Factors Impact Learning
Unless it is available to all people (FLOSS).
> What if we could both care about the problems of today and also care about the long term survival of our species?

Oh, I'm on board with that. But that's not what I hear longtermists talking about.
I simply stopped eating out post covid ... saved tons of money, eating healthier, and zero guilt!
Obligatory mention of OpenCore Legacy Patcher

This 2013 iMac that got cut off at Catalina runs Big Sur flawlessly from an external SSD
Reddit makes 12c per user per month and are asking for about 2.5$ per user per month for 3rd parties.

> Counter-example has been provided: imgur charges similar price on standard plans.

Imgur presents 1/4 of the price for a more expensive hosting option. Even if you refuse to ignore his own quoted price, Reddit still comes off insanely overpriced.
Wouldn't be surprised if someone else rips off some criminals and they get angry at this guy just because the way it is done is similar.
Agreed completely. In fact, one can start to write code in a copilot-friendly manner to take advantage of this.

A nit, though: codex is the model itself, and doesn’t do anything to slurp up nearby files. That work is entirely done client-side, and is part of the “UI” of the tool. Code is heuristically scanned for relevant snippets using an 11-dimensional logistic regression model which is bundled into the copilot source code and executes locally, and those snippets are included automatically as preamble comments in the prompt. Thakkar Parth’s work showed this and you can further explore it by running a MITM proxy to capture the network activity and look at the prompts directly.
So...just going to skip the part about actually reading the footnotes? I just want to be clear on whether to consider you to be someone who has taken the time to inform themselves about the matter.
Every year at WWDC they've been announcing more and more improvements to ARKit. I've never seen any "killer apps" that use it but now it feels pretty clear it was being invested in for Vision.
It has got to a point where i really don’t like to go out anymore. Last time I picked up a pizza the tablet gave me 20% as the minimum tip.
The Peripheral – VR Time Travel [video] (2022)
The landing page CTA is 'join waitlist'.

Show HN is only for things that HN users can try out.
Yeah I knew about IMDB. I know a guy at Amazon that said IMDB used to actually be in Perl, they rewrote it in Java over a few years.
Show HN: Serverless OLAP with Seafowl and GCP
Hello HN! I'm an engineer at Splitgraph and recently started learning Rust so I could make my first contribution to Seafowl [0], an early stage analytical database. Along the way I figured out a database hosting hack on GCP and wanted to share it with HN. It's a way to achieve "true" scale to zero database hosting that could be useful for certain side projects or spiky traffic situations.

A recurring problem I've faced with side projects is the need for Postgres, but no desire to deploy or maintain new instances. So when I learned GCP's "always free" tier includes serverless [1] I got curious to see if I could run a database.

While a lot of classic databases aren't usually a great fit for serverless, Seafowl separates compute, storage and catalog (catalog == a SQLite file of metadata). [2] Last month I was able to introduce GCS bucket compat to Seafowl, which enabled me to mount the catalog via gcsfuse (i.e. an adapter that allows attaching GCS buckets to local filesystems). Upshot: while FUSE does add HTTP requests to container startup, init time remains comparatively quick, even cold starts, because fetching is limited to the single catalog SQLite file only.

With this approach you get a URL you can query directly from your FE if you want, e.g. fetch() can send SELECT * ... queries straight from your users' browser. You could plot a graph from a static React frontend, or observablehq.com editor, with no persistent backend needed. So at times when nobody's using your app, 100% of your stack can scale to zero with obvious cloud spend advantages. And even if you exceed free tier limits, being PAYG offers a good chance you'll come out ahead on hosting costs anyway.

NB: Seafowl is an early stage project, so it's not really suitable if you need transactions or fast single-row writes. Otherwise, this could be a nice way to get free database hosting at a big 3 cloud provider, especially for e.g. read-only analytical reporting queries.

Feedback and suggestions are appreciated. Hope it helps you! More available if you want [3].

[0] https://seafowl.io/docs/getting-started/introduction

[1] https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing#cpu-requests

[2] Neon is another interesting project that separates compute and storage. https://neon.tech/blog/architecture-decisions-in-neon

One issue I observed was a noticeably longer startup time vs this FUSE approach, which I believe may be related to Postgres connection setup time/roundtrips. Looking forward to trying Neon again in future.

[3] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/deploying-serverless-seafowl
I went to art school with this guy.
"But even this way, apple devices have by far the longest lifetimes, macs, iphones will have 2-3 owners easily - so is it really fair to call them out, or is it just baseless emotional reaction?"

Why reply that criticism of Apple must be purely an emotional one? Kind of diminishes your argument here.

Immediate search result for repairable phones:

https://www.androidcentral.com/best-sustainable-repairable-p...

https://shop.fairphone.com/en/buy-fairphone-4

Here's a laptop that you can upgrade:

https://frame.work/

Lifetime for Apple isn't as long as you make it out to be when batteries need replaced and software support for hardware ends:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/macos-sonoma-drops-s...

"Also, what you heard about locked down components resulted in better security, a much lower risk of theft, and a much more clean second-hand market (where you won’t be sold a phone with a cheap chinese shittier screen for example)."

Apple could just release stuff that didn't break so easily too so no need to risk changing out a screen if it ain't broke. There are plenty of ways to increase security of the device without making it less consumer friendly.

Additionally since the context here is whether Apple has been hacker friendly or not, why shouldn't you be allowed to upgrade and change the hardware of YOUR device? As in, you want to put in more storage or change the screen to one that's better in some manner (maybe it's just cost) then you ought to be able to.

That is it should be the device owners choice whether or not to replace their screen with one from Apple or a cheaper one.
But many of those same power users are the ones doing all the unpaid work of moderating communities, unlike TikTok which has little need for such users.
If your compliance plan is based on "my lawyer told me will win this", you are already 90% screwed.
Sure, but that's a real number, not peak. The top ryzen (7950x) or top intel (i9-13k) manage only 83GB/sec peak, and something in around 60GB/sec real. Generally the arm memory model is looser than the x86-64, which allows a greater fraction of peak bandwidth. So apple chips that fit in thin laptops have 4x the memory bandwidth of the 150 watt and up high end desktops from Intel and AMD.

Sure the AMD Epyc (12 channel) or Intel Xeon (8 channel) compete, but at even higher power ratings and large physical sizes.

Not to mention that 224GB/sec leaves a fair bit of bandwidth for compression, matrix multiply, ML acceleration, GPU, video encode/decode, and related.
Oh, that looks nifty.

Er... why mounted on your bed though? :)
Funny enough, before the takedown I was working on my own Javascript version of the game to make it more accessible to people who don't like downloading games. As soon as I bought sandtris.com and posted the game, I noticed that the original got DMCA'd.

Seems like it was just because of him copying the trademarked song and logo. Hopefully I'm still in the clear.
> This feels very hand wavy, to me.

This is how the system works. "Code is law" does not apply to actual law; it's a long history of interpretation, wiggle room, precedent, legislative intent, and common sense being applied in various amounts. It works pretty well, all things considered; far more than trying to explicitly write down every little edge case.
The framing in the question is wrong. Reddit gets ~80 comments per second on average. An API to get comments with ids starting after n would let you reasonably scrape all new comments with 1 request per second (or one every 10 seconds if the API returned up to 1000 results, which would be entirely reasonable). They get ~10 posts per second, so add another 1 request for that. The load is trivial. Storing the content is also trivial; the entire history of reddit fits very comfortably on a single consumer-tier SSD.

The infrastructure they provide is easily replicable at almost no cost (really it's just the bandwidth that costs any money at all). The community curation and moderation is done by volunteers. The content is all from the users. Reddit Inc is providing almost none of the value, and is just benefiting from network effects. People go there because people go there.
What is AOM in this context?
But you have to acknowledge the psychological expectations are not the same with the two formats.

A GIF? Looping video, maybe 3 seconds long.

A silent video? Hours and hours.
It is not obvious a priori how regulators will treat tokens or which ones will be permissible.
Repealing the Second Amendment is impossible. It's a ludicrously high bar. Even ordinary legislation on gun laws is nearly impossible, and a Constitutional amendment is much harder.

I believe it would be great if we could repeal the Second Amendment and replace it with something clearer and better suited to the 21st century. As it is, pretty much every discussion about guns ends with "The Second Amendment says no", and the conversation stops there.

As it stands, I think that the vagueness of the second amendment (due to the prefatory clause the gun-rights supporters claim means nothing at all) could have been used to have a coherent discussion. The Supreme Court agrees that the prefatory clause is irrelevant, and that's the end of it. There is no appeal from the Supreme Court except amendments, which might as well not exist.

So I don't think it's helpful to deflect that onto the fact that we can't talk about the Second Amendment. You know that it can't be changed, and between that and the Supreme Court, you've got absolute power to set the rules to whatever you want them to be. Everybody else is at your mercy, and so it's entirely on the "huge supporters of the Second Amendment" to listen to what people actually want -- not to get shot -- and find ways to bring that about.
Awesome, thanks for the info! We are building more and more features on Cloudflare and absolutely love the whole experience, faultless.
Surely they can see the result of the sale after it has transacted though, right? Doesn’t the system that is used to ring the stuff up show the payment history for the order that’s currently being prepared?
Dubious reasoning.

VKontakte still has 80 million users a month.
I, too, share this fear. Most people are already so antisocial these days. We don't need tech making it worse.
> If your kid is addicted to screens, it is on you.

This is wishful thinking. You can be truly the best parent in the world with unlimited time, wisdom and attention span but in the end you are competing with corporations who are dedicating billions of dollars and thousands of people to make very sure their apps as maximizing addiction. You can't compete with that.

Sure you can limit screen time but that doesn't do much. It's like saying the old days that I only let a child smoke from 10am to noon, so it's ok they won't get addicted.
My insignificant take is that neither AI will save or destroy the world. Like the internet it will aid us in our modern society and probably for some it will be the means of causing nuisance for others. A new set of problems for a new set of solutions.
> to me it's like a talking dog

That's if you're explicitly asking it questions. Have you sat down and coded with Copilot offering suggestions as you went? It's honestly incredibly helpful, especially when leveraging a new language or stack.
It's probably worth distinguishing between "compiler bugs" and "fundamental theoretical problems". From what I've seen of Idris 2 development, sometimes what looks like the former turns out to be the latter. But what I find really cool is that the theoretical problems are not necessarily unsolvable, and there seems to be a steady stream of new theoretical results that find their way into compilers. So even if we are a very long way off from these languages gaining wide adoption, it's exciting to see that progress is in fact being made, even if it's slow.
> To me Occam's Razor suggests that any giant social network inevitably declines into group-think and mod fiefdoms, barring an active mitigation strategy.

And I would argue any giant social network also inevitably declines into troll behavior and bad-faith brigading without active mitigation strategies. It is hard to balance these things.

I certainly think "I'm routinely regarded as an a-hole because I act like one" to be much more plausible than "I'm routinely regarded as an a-hole because this giant social network has a metaphorical auto-immune disease that results in me experiencing this routinely."
If your laptop firmware doesn't support it, here is one trick if you have a removable battery:

Put a piece of paper over one of the batteries middle contacts. That will make the firmware think the battery is overheating. It will then refuse to charge, but will still happily discharge.

You can do that to keep your battery at 80% while still on AC power. Handy if you operate from AC power 99% of the time, yet don't want your battery to die from being stored at 100% charge and hot for many years.
https://archive.ph/91W4a
Yikes, you can't attack other users like that or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879004. We ban accounts that do this.

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It's because crypto is and has always been a scam and there's not ever going to be a constituency for that.

The fact that they got pretty close is the scary part.
Some states and localities already have high minimums, and employers pay even higher wages. Tipping pressure is still intense.
Russia’s image as superpower had been damaged. If Russia end the conflict Putin dies. He won’t let that happen
While the APIs make it significantly easier to ingest for LLM training, scraping will still work.

Unless they put 100% of content behind a login-gate, it's currently legal* to scrape and use for derivative works, as long as you have the money and the chutzpah to deal with lawsuits that may or may not come.

- https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2022/12/hello-youve-be...
Then again - with Chrome being the most popular browser - websites might not want to introduce a solution that results in worse performance for the majority of their users.
next level humble-bragging. in post and his replies
Here's my take on crypto:

1. Despite any theoretical applications, all applications of crypto thus far have been to bypass laws. Some of these might be moral (eg avoiding currency controls in some countries like Venezuela) but mostly it's just illegal stuff;

2. No one is really interested in applications. They're "hodling" [sic] because of Bitcoin FOMO. They want in on the next Bitcoin.

3. Scams and rug pulls are rife in crypto. Taken with (2), this implies that people who think they're getting rich in crypto are only going to do so by scamming or rug pulling other people who will be left holding the bag;

4. Despite all the claims about verifiability, somehow the crypto space still needs strong government intervention to deter and prosecute scammers, criminals and thieves. That's another big L for the libertarians and goldbugs-turned-crypto-bros out there;

5. NFTs are the next level scam about crypto and really only exist to sell more crypto;

6. A lot of otherwise smart people have fooled themselves into thinking that their knowledge, skills and experience with some other area somehow magically translates into finance;

7. A whole bunch more snake oil salesmen are happy to sell others this lie;

8. The desire and desperation to get rich by many "hodlers" causes them to fool themselves into thinking there's any value in crypto;

9. Reversability of transactions and the ability to change the money supply volume are features not bugs; and

10. What underpins the US dollar is, ultimately, the full might of the US government and military as well as trust. Crypto too is ultimately still built on trust but has nothing else behind it.

It actually seemed to me that Coinbase was the one company operating legitimately. I haven't read the complaint so I'm not sure how much merit the charges have. We shall see.
But a lot of the demo videos showed people sitting alone wearing the headset, which is even more isolating than both of the above.
Software is only half the battle - the other half is compute. Right now it's not possible for all people to run the current LLMs locally and you can't give that away for free.
Yikes, you can't attack other users like that. We ban accounts that do this.

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Here's hoping that a real viable reddit replacement will come out of all of this.
The specific crypto tokens they are classifying as securities are: SOL, ADA, MATIC, FIL, SAND, AXS, CHZ, FLOW, ICP, NEAR, VGX, DASH,
and NEXO.

Of course they say "not limited to" to hedge their bets, but those are the ones they specifically mention. This is the exact "regulatory clarity" Coinbase has been asking for, but the SEC prefers to sit on their hands for years (while investors are "harmed") and then sue, rather than actually tell Coinbase what they think up front. Sure seems self-serving to me, rather than anything like a genuine interest in protecting investors.