skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, that’s a great point. Mine was more along the lines that they probably did not go up there on mere assumptions about what users might want. They’re not kids, they’re professionals on the tail-end and apex point of their career. Probably had an army of people do the homework to make sure that they don’t end up looking like complete fools a few years down the line.

Hasn’t there also been some executive overlap on the board level of these companies for a long time?

I was just watching a Steve Jobs keynote from 1998 the other day. And you can see exactly the same strategies implemented there, only with profit margins at <$100m and an inverse David-Goliath relationships with delegates from industry partners.
You're obviously not very current on this issue, and you don't have a personal stake in it, either.
First-year graduate student finds paradoxical set
It is interesting that most of the reliable news organizations today are state owned or state funded — Deutche Welle, France 24, BBC News etc. Perhaps this is the only way to deliver non-partisan news. Investor driven news organizations are trapped in the inflammatory news industrial complex as they chase eyeballs and clicks for very short term gain.
Most of us Apple Haters are not opposed to this type of technology existing. We are opposed to technology with this much potential for abuse being solely controlled by a profit maximizing patent troll.

When the tech is open source and I can control what it does, then sign me up.
So what was the outcome of DMTx?

Last I heard it had taken a pause because of COVID.

Have any published papers come out of this research?
With an abrupt change like this, you can likely quit "with cause" and draw unemployment.
The dam is totally broken, not "raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages", besides there are no russian crossings now.

There will be no crossings for months too as soil captures shit ton of water.
We should then probably tax said $192T for an amount equal to all inventions and services provided by the paying countries which these poorer nations are benefiting from.
Very interesting. Wondering what is the state of the art in Hyperparameter Optimization at the moment. Does this method apply to all Deep Learning systems?
Apple is making filthy amounts of money just from hardware and app sales.

All of their attempts at targeted advertising have been rounding errors at best.

And they know that complete unbreakable privacy is the place where Google (an ad company) can never ever fully follow no matter what kind of lip service they do in their keynotes about privacy.
The timing is interesting. I’m convinced their API’s are either being abused, or will be imminently abused by LLM training.

I wonder how much third party apps are being caught up in this other issue.
Thanks. Will update it. Definitely Zrok is a great self-hosted alternative.
Hangover 0.8.9 Released for Running More Windows Games/Apps on ARM Linux
Absolutely ridiculous. That makes me want nothing to do with the hobby, period.

These hams are behaving like animals with a dominance hierarchy. With "newbs" and status in that hierarchy based on license class / callsign. And reacting aggressively, completely out of proportion, to outsiders who intrude on their territory. Akin to a dog with behavioral issues. This attitude in amateur radio is so common, we are supposed to be better than that.

Many years ago I built a high voltage power supply to drive a metal halide or sodium lamp from batteries, and one of my coworkers who was a radio ham, was threatening me that I could get fined thousands for interfering with amateur radio. That was my direct experience, and I have heard this kind of thing happening so many times to others.

It's always the hams making the bulk of complaints to the authorities, as well. And if I remember correctly it's actually tying up FCC resources...
I've done the SQLite benchmark a few times. You can insert somewhere in the range of 10~20k rows per second if you are using NVMe (i.e. ~50uS per row). Requires some pragmas (i.e. WAL). This is 100% serialized throughput.

No clue what Postgres would manage, but I suspect it would be about an order of magnitude higher latency in the happy case.
Did you make it ? :-)
> The issue is not the total space, but the price for the size.

This is my main gripe with tiny homes. It’s not that they are small, but that their price per square foot is so high.

I’m not sure if the costs are truly that high or there’s just a lot of profit because of the trend. Similar for ISU homes. They seem cool, but not when they cost the same or more than traditional construction.

This thing is $80/square foot before assembly and final prep.
Show HN: Open-source web highlighter for notion and hamsterbase
That's true but it wasn't a static situation.

As it evolved, new cool things came because VCs poured money in it.

With Web 1.0 people were sponsored by their parents or institutions and they created the early tools and content. They were not personally looking to profit from it. However early VCs were pouring money into infrastructure or bets, so the thing was getting professional and serious, so can evolve. The most demanded content was content created prior-web, and that content was shared freely(the mp3 and divx era) on platforms created by people who were looking for clout and not necessarily monetary compensation.

With Web 2.0 the content was created by people for free but the platforms were completely VC paid. In this stage everything become professional and as it matured we ended up in this horrible state.

Arguably, HN is a reminiscent of the early stages of Web 2.0 and the place has good quality because it's paid by VC who expect to have reach(to the talent and market). IMHO HN is possible because it's not optimised to it's full monetary potential.
Both John Gruber (daringfireball.net) and Ben Thompson (Stretechery et. al) showed strong praise for the headset after trying it at the event. John was a skeptic but he was won over. Ben, much more bullish on the headset, was also blown away. This bodes well.
I think a major problem is the conclusion that moderators are hobbled at moderating unless they use a laptop/desktop.
> Pay for the product or be the product, whatever suits you.

The thing is you'd still be the product even though you'd be paying for premium. Analytics on you would still be collected and sold to third parties
If you're a billion dollar company, you invest alot in multiple trajectories of the possible future, because you don't want to end up not being ready when the market shifts (like Nokia for example) and being forced to pay royalty to your competitors just to stay in the market.

Now imagine you're a trillion dollar company.
Well, I don't know what to say really. I have no idea how this all ends, and I fear it is far from over yet. I don't support Ukraine in this conflict for different reasons, one of which is that in case of their victory my family will loose everything and I'll end up in jail (and that's best case). But I cannot support Russia either because I cannot support the idiots who decided to start this war, because I cannot support the way this war was fought, and because if Russia wins I'll be sealed in one country with these idiots forever. And in the case the conflict will get frozen at some point (which is probably how it'll go because I cannot see either side winning on the battlefield), it'll just continue later. In short, I think we're screwed either way.
My initial thought on the timing is how much it coincides with the timing of Twitter's API becoming ridiculously expensive ($42k/mo). That maybe Reddit thought they could hop on that bandwagon and make some coin. But LLM also makes a ton of sense.
I find it interesting in these comments that there is a lot of discussion as to the pros and cons of the pledge that this website proposes, but very little discussion as to the motivations behind the people who operate the campaign.

Looking at the people behind the campaign I am noticing a pattern, people who live in the similar geographic region and who are linked to other campaigns that talk about letting children be children. Plus the use of the term pledge just seems a bit puritanical amd a bit religious to me. Is it nefarious or do they have a hidden agenda? I don't know, maybe, but something about the whole operation seems a bit off to me.

I do accept that smartphones can be bad for children, but at the same time I think it is up to parents to make the decision that they feel is right for their own children. A campaign that informed parents of the pros and cons of giving their children a smartphone would seem more appropriate to me.
It is just a matter of time when they choose to close old.reddit.com which also ends RES
I would say it depend on his strategy, for example he can provide enterprise solution that will bring money. An example is the popular ERP Odoo (odoo.com) that is fully open source and also provide some enterprise solution.
I don't think full P2P or Lemmy-style federation is the right way to make a decentralised Reddit alternative. P2P systems aren't great for mobile devices that can't/shouldn't be full peers, not to mention moderation issues. And ActivityPub-style federation where accounts belong to one instance and content is copied across instances has many problems, which a Reddit alternative needn't have.

Reddit content is already perfectly stratified into subreddits, so I think anything that's primarily a decentralised Reddit alternative should use the same principles. Instances should host subreddits with floating user identities, and content from one instance should always stay on that instance. This solves things like moderation (it basically stays the same as on Reddit, but you get to choose your instance) and legal content attribution. In a way, it's a continuation of the "independent web forum" model that Reddit supplanted.
> But why a 386? Why not a 486

This question can go on and on though. Why a 486 and not a P1? Why a P1 and not a P2?

If I had to guess I'd assume it was purely based on part availability, or cost.
> Is there a specific reason you mention it (along with the down vote I take is also from you, given your passive aggressive tone)?

Yes, the reason is I considered it funny. Sorry if that didn't work.

Also, I didn't downvote your comment, but I just upvoted it to compensate for someone who downvoted you, seemingly without a good reason – at least I agree with it.
If only I could downvote you

(I'm just kidding btw, and my last message is missing the /s too)
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I believe availability is low because the GPUs are too expensive so those that need to scale up use the older and much more affordable models.
Thank you for sharing your story. I have had similar experiences.

I have reverse image searched to provide a higher resolution image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Shakyamu...
I recall not long after the iPod was released in the early 00’s that peeps were clamoring for an Apple phone. It took seven years before Apple fans got their wish. IPhone landed in the world of Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola. All juggernauts in the mobile phone industry.

Just not the same scenario and game plan. Brilliant design is one thing, but Apple has landed at the intersection of Hardware & Software in a developed field. Right? Steve Jobs pulled back from running OS on clone hardware, because Apple’s winning scenario was to do both to make great designed products.

At 3k+ this is classic early adopter scenario. Maybe there are enough people with stupid money who will work out issues for the later ~1k version…provided another company doesn’t sweep in and eat Apple’s lunch
> It’s kinda weird how Apple doesn’t realize this and continues to build for that world.

If you’re a hardware manufacturer, I don’t think building for the common denominator of the web browser is a viable strategy. Looking at various of their competitors, it certainly brings in less money.

How many people would buy an iPhone that’s basically a “browser device” if, for 50% of its price, they could get something that’s 80% as good (percentages for illustration purposes)?
I've tried it for 15 minutes and came to the same conclusion.
How? you make claims that seem to have no substance. What extra vector does Passkeys add for tracking? I don't see any.

Passkeys are an origin-bound login mechanism. Worst case is that somebody places a first-party cookie to keep you logged in after you authenticated with a passkey. which they and will already do today without your consent or without logging in. (First-party session cookies don't even need a cookie wall. They're considered "necessary" processing)
> Also, once its a commodity, Apple seems to shy away

Apple only works on something after it's a commodity that they can polish better than others and overprice it. Which is why I'm amazed about statements that they are the ones that introduced personal computing, mobile computing and other stuff. The reality distortion field pays off really well.
The difference is that I can know with significant certainty that shoving my house key in a random lock won't copy the form of my key and send it to a 3D printer where a thief will get it and use it to access my house.

How can I know that won't happen when I use my USB dongle on a random coffee shop public computer?
That can actually be quite useful, if implemented correctly. Even as a site owner I wouldn't mind, because it lets users upvote my content after reading it easily. But evolving browser standards killed it and most of the time it was implemented annoyingly.

Actually it would be nice if this was a browser feature. Click on a link on a site like HN or Reddit, browse to the new page as usual, but you have a little inconspicuous indicator in the toolbar that lets you vote or comment on the origin site easily.
I've been calling these the "virtue cycle" and the "viscous cycle" - both being behaviors that reinforce "similar behaviors". Most people are familiar with the term "viscous cycle" and the idea of a downward spiral of reinforcing behaviors, but that same interlocking mechanism works in reverse too. One can generate an expanding series of positive behaviors to eliminate bad habits, promote positive behaviors and instill a more positive general attitude simply by proving to yourself that you are indeed in control of yourself.
Ballast seems to be HN's new darling :) Recently (282 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36183788

The machines are fascinating. Actually some are more like factories on train wheels.
Show HN: Map downloader for aerial/satellite data (token is in comment)
Hi HN,

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We have been working on a small map downloader app at https://atla.ai, where users can search for a location, browse aerial/satellite data, and download it directly in a very simple manner.

Our main motivation was having several users express that this process was simply too cumbersome, unless you have some experience with GIS, or a technical background. We provide APIs, so we haven't been looking too much in this direction before. There are companies which have something similar with satellite data, but not many with aerial data. Especially not with an overview of year the data was captured in. So we decided to develop this small test app and try to get some people to give it a go.

All feedback is welcome and deeply appreciated!
Okay, what else? One company doesn’t really indicate to me a trend
I think the read-only use case you mention is a compelling one. I’m working on a developer product that makes it easy to prematerialize data in the way you describe.

It works by consuming data out of upstream APIs and then publishes a new, faster version of that API in edge locations. The underlying data there is stored in SQLite (plus some custom bits), but that’s just an implementation detail.
Later Facebook stopped using Cassandra though, and continues to use MySQL.
What I mean with realistic was things that are not achievable in this decade.

Other than voting for the right political candidates, what can people do?

And how can we raise the status of teachers - like it is in Finland for example?

What isn't realistic in the short term is to solve poverty, which would help would to improve this situation.
What lessons have we learned from the killer apps for smart phones? The killer app has to be addictive to children.
A few years ago I wanted to get a ham radio license to do real time tracking with with a high altitude balloon after seeing tons of amateurs doing it. I couldn't imagine a worse time to do it than now with the Chinese spy balloon nonsense. Even back then they had to label the camera payload box with things like "THIS ISN'T A BOMB please call ###".
I'm interested in the "removing your websites from the public web". Are you taking them down, putting them behind auth, or something else?
You added a citation, but your cited source is wrong. The external battery is 2hrs. The device can't operate without an external power source.
Some thoughts:

> It has since been reorganized and expanded into the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to include investigations of objects operating underwater.

This is a piece of important information. They probably have proof that there are interesting objects moving undersea or out of sea.

> His on-the-record statements were all “cleared for open publication” on April 4 and 6, 2023, in documents provided to us.

This basically means Mr. Grusch is not alone. He was probably "ordered" by his faction to go public. And the fact that the material gets cleared means that probably the ruling military faction approves it, but mainstream media, mostly serving other factions, refused to go public with the material. In fact, chief of CIA visited Beijing last month. Did they discuss anything about this?

> a number of potential sources do not trust the leadership of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office established by Congress.”

Who is this leadership? I suspect this is a civilian who knows nothing about this, thus not trusted.

> The existence of complex historical programs involving the coordinated retrieval and study of exotic materials, dating back to the early 20th century, should no longer remain a secret

God if this is true, I cannot imagine the span of the whole project globally. Was Tunguska the very first one?
LLM does not make much sense anymore to be fair.
Too late. They should have closed the APIs years ago.

Biggest parties have already mined the data, which is enough for models for long time.

Unless you want the model to find some specific comment yesterday.
I think people are missing the point when they use Copilot like this. If you actively use it trying to get a desired output it's easy to dismiss it. However, it's not until you let it do its own thing and suggest things where you were not expecting anything that it really starts to shine. I'm constantly surprised that it manages to understand the context of my code, spanning multiple files, and just completes the code I was about to write anyway - without me asking for it.
Passkeys are stored in your encrypted iCloud keychain. Apple doesn't see or process what websites you're logged into on their servers.
> the obligation to run the absolute latest versions of every base element of your system and update every week if you don't want to spend entire days trying to fix your installation in Arch and everything in between

It's kinda the point of a rolling release distro like Arch. More mainstream distributions don't have this drawback. I've upgraded old Debian and Ubuntu (-based) systems through several versions, and while it's slow and it's a pain to see the process sequentially upgrade stuff to old versions, and then less old, etc and doing what looks like useless work, it didn't take entire days and it was not broken. This painful process is what makes this work, because it only takes tested upgrade paths instead of upgrading packages from a random version to another random version, for the whole system.

With a rolling distribution, you'd better update often, or you lose all the advantages of it and you are better off with a non-rolling distro built on a stable basis.

(If you are spending entire days fixing Linux desktop, you are probably better off reinstalling from scratch.)

openSUSE Tumbleweed is an interesting option with this respect: rolling release but with a stability and polish close to mainstream distributions and many more things in the main repositories. I've been running it since 2018, I trust it, and would expect less frequent updates to work fine.

> Python-unfriendliness (when it comes to desktop usage anyway) of the Debian family

What is this Python-unfriendliness of Debian about?

Anyway, I understand that the author sees issues with all the distributions they tried and that's the intent of these remarks. In any case, it is great to see people running BSD distributions on the desktop. The only reason I have never considered trying is the lack of hardware support for stuff I use. I'd be otherwise interested, and having more free OSes usable on the desktop can only strengthen the ecosystem (I'm happy with Linux though).
> Since we have not succeeded in imitating even the most primitive brains, even though computationally we should have enough juice by now

looks at the browser tab with GPT-4 in it

looks back again here

... we didn't?
Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) is going to be discontinued. Its a third party tool too. You probably missed the announcement a year ago where they announce to be only in maintenance mode and eventually sunsetted

As for desktop: Going by last week stats, in my community, there are about 83 posts/day and 969 comments/day on average with 6 posts getting reported for breaking ToS, and numerous other flagged comments. If I am constrained to using a desktop I don't think it is doable. Moderation is a sidehobby, not my main job. I simply cannot keep up with their tools.

My tool of choice should be able to highlight new answers quickly, switch between posts and respond reliably. I can't do this by reddit mobile and their new desktop UI. Reddit's old interface won't allow all mod tools (such as assigning removal reasons) and the new UI is half baked. The mobile third party interfaces have been at least reasonably consistent.
I think they do in the context of “even including material shot by amateurs with their phones” and comparing them to a market that includes self-published books.

People often hire professionals to shoot them.
I was wondering the same, because everything about this organization seems a bit iffy to me.

Part of me wonders is there an ulterior motive to the campaign.
The first article is literally just saying that Texas is reopening.

Are you trying to source your claim that Texas in fact opened much earlier than the other states? Yes, yes they did. Good investigative work there.

The funny part is for how dangerous you think Texas was, everyone went to Texas for vacation to escape their own states draconian lockdowns.

I think Texas did just fine. Record number of population influx from other states. Low crime, prices of common goods and housing are affordable. Let me know if San Francisco New York and Chicago could say the same.
That's much easier to tell.
Since your brain fuses the images from both eyes, you'll get a slightly higher effective resolution from the two displays than from a single display.
Intelligent brains take longer to solve difficult problems, shows simulation
AI Art Wars: Japan Says AI Model Training Doesn’t Violate Copyright
Not necessarily, when the price isn't "free" there's a margin to compete on price and quality.

For example, when the thing is not free the onboarding of new users would be much smoother for the non-tracking platform because they won't have to show GDPR and Cooke banners.
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