skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hosting something like this seems like it would cost more time/money/frustration than its worth.

If you've never self hosted anything there is indeed a large initial time and money investment. However, going through it once it pays itself off in the long run and adding additional services or maintaining existing ones becomes trivial.

Actually owning your data and having full control over it without worrying who it might be shared with or how it might be used is absolutely worth the hassle for some people.
Pretty good overall. Took a look at the code and it's pretty legit in comparison to most other frameworks out there
Learning Projection Mapping
> it doesn’t just throw up its hands and disengage - it’s going to attempt to stop or maneuver out of the way of danger

Lol. That is EXACTLY what every modern auto driving system I've used does. If it gets confused it beeps and then immediately bitches out.
I do a lot of 600-1000 trips. I definitely prefer to rent. Driving long distances messes up your car, especially the interior. But, usually I’m going some place for many weeks and renting is too expensive.
To me, it reads like the author tried the tool, thought it was really neat, and discusses the problems they ran into (& how they fixed them). Once they got a simple setup that solved their needs, the author was enthusiastic to apply the tool to everything they had. -- Not sure I'd describe that as a 'critique'.

That said, I think the experience is demonstrative.

When Nix works, it's amazing, & you'll want to have Nix everywhere.

When something goes wrong with what you're trying to do, Nix can be very challenging, and will typically demand you have a good understanding of what's going on (with what you're trying to do, with Linux, with Nix in order to fix it.
I would say we reinterpret the 18th century definition of "papers". I quite like Alan Kays comment in a talk sometime in the 1980's where he said something of the effect that a blue thought in the 1960's was to realize that paper is just computer memory you can't change.

I think if you try to define what was interpreted by "papers" in a pre-digital context you would conclude it is sufficiently analogous to many things in our modern world. By "papers" they likely meant diaries, personal mail, accounting logs, ship manifests, personal inventories, order histories, receipts for travel. All things which may have been written down on a piece of paper which are now logged on our phones.

If you take an originalist argument that the constitution is static and cannot be reinterpreted/amended you have to first justify why you think amendments like the banning of slavery or women's voting rights amendments are not legitimate in the United States. We certainly have a culture of defining rights which our predecessors did not explicitly call out in the early years of its history. Even male suffrage (non-land owning males) in the late 19th century was a revolutionary step in the definition and expansion of citizens rights.
Between space quantization (Planck length) and the size of the visible universe, the minimum angle is fantastically small.
not found - is there an archived version I can take a look at?
The deal in Australia (public health service) is that depending upon the level of severity of a persons asthma doctors want to physically check on patients every three to six months .. if you've been prescribed certain kinds of treatment you get months long "refill prescriptions" that ultimately have to be renewed by a doctor (although I believe that pharmacists can extend arefill prescription if you tell them why you haven't been able to drop in and see the doctor).

https://www.nationalasthma.org.au/understanding-asthma/treat...

AS I understand it you can get an inhaler most of the time w/out seeing a doctor, you can get an inhaler if you really need it, but you do need to see a doctor to keep getting an inhaler so that the progression of your symptoms can be checked.

Australia loves epidemiology and keeping tabs on treatments, progressions and outcomes.

It's very little to do with spying on individuals and very much to do with keeping tabs on broad health trends and tailoring bulk medication orders, etc.
Old Computer Challenge 2023, Day 1
I am giving them an out.
> I think the majority of sports watchers don't care about politics.

75% of Americans are sports fans and 48% of Americans say they follow government and public affairs most of the time. Only 10% of Americans are politically disengaged.

Over 60% of Americans voted in the 2020 election, a record high.

It's not out of the realm of possibility that over 50% of all Americans both watch sports and care at least somewhat about politics.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/300148/interest-nfl-foot...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/07/07/1-in-10-a...

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/record-high-t...
On your latter question https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/young_adult/ is pretty good.

I've never been great at tracking spending - what worked for me was just being strict about separating "spending money" from "savings money". I'd get paid $X into a savings account every month, my rent $Y would be drawn from that, and I'd transfer a $Z "monthly allowance" into a separate checking account. Credit card and everything else would come out of the checking account. I know I'm spending $Z every month. I know each month I'm accumulating $X - $Y - $Z in savings. I can adjust $Z however I like, make emergency transfers from savings to checking if I have to, and the transaction history for the savings account is easy to understand.

There are lots of ways to do it and it's important to find something that works for you. I know people who have big mortgages, with an expected windfall when they retire and trade their huge house for a smaller one, because they know it's the only way they'll save enough!
No because your source isn't a study but a case report.

And again even if we take your source at face value it's a 60 year old man (which mean less testosterone production) who consumed an absurd amount not something most people will consume.
Good point. Don't do feature flags is the third option.
It's workload dependent; XFS performs better for our database needs.
I've been stripping off the cross signed certificate on my desktop-targeted sites shortly after it was introduced. I found it caused compatibility issues when there were none before as some certificate validators were tripping up on the expired root certificate. I was unfortunately never able find out the root cause as the affected users weren't very technical.
I usually use two spaces after the end of a sentence because doing so helps my text editor distinguish sentence boundaries from abbreviations.
Possibly?

My point was essentially that key-length could have unintended side-effects.

E.g. if you were to have some rainbow table approach, e.g. in theory larger key size would mean more possible key combinations, meaning more expensive space complexity, and harder-to-crack keys. Factoring a key is not necessary if you already know the factors, a hashtable has O(log(N)) complexity. If you implement some custom FPGA hardware and a nice database its not too difficult to imagine some specialized operation storing off generated public keys to their corresponding private key pairs, and the power costs are rather low.

Of course due to combinatorics the size of this output space is rather large, despite the fact that the distribution of primes shrinks as they grow larger, but the argument is about factoring a single number, not about efficiently computing primes and their common multiples. Counter to the article, it completely obviates the need to hide your power bill, as you can cache every single computation from the past 30+ years...

To bring it back to what I was saying, the difficulty of brute-forcing RSA (or other schemes) is potentially irrelevant to the cost of obtaining a solution, and higher bit-length key-pairs offer some hedge against that possibility. It seems pretty relevant to the question "how secure is RSA" to me.
It is if you pay which makes sense but it's true it's not obvious
Another option is Purely Mail [0] which is who I'll be using if running my own Mail-in-a-box turns out to be a bit too much. It could end up being cheaper than mxroute depending on your needs.

[0] https://purelymail.com/
Companies that are Remote by design have different management science and hiring criteria than in person companies that went remove for health measures. The notion that companies with Remote adapted management science and who filter for the qualities that make remote employees successful are more productive on average than their in office equivalents is proven in many studies before, during and after Covid. But talking about averages when it comes to productivity is about as Marxist as it gets. People who thrive remotely can get a great deal done, as can those who thrive in offices get a great deal done in offices. Company needs to match their management science, hiring and culture to their chosen path. Marxist 'taking the average of productivity and applying it equally to everyone' is crazy. It is likely true that remote workers who prefer it and thrive on it outperform average office workers, as it is likely true that average workers perform better in offices than remotely.
That would be the “secure in their persons”, and probably “secure in their papers” (the latter has been broadly interpreted by the courts to include electronic information, not just physical papers).

US courts have widely ruled that data a that a third party collects/generates/maintains on a person does not fall under the 4th amendment. Many other western countries have actually decided the opposite, that you have a privacy right in data about you.

Personally I think US interpretation is wrong and inconsistent with the 4th amendment. Congress could easily settle the issue wrt federal law enforcement.
That's complete bullshit.

OP stated correctly an honest belief of limited government that people hold and your response was just a misguided political rant.

Each of your misguided points could be torn apart, but this isn't a political thread. It's a thread about Apple VisionOS ffs.
PDF AI – Chat with PDF on Android (Native, Material You)
The title says it all, if you wanna use ChatPDF on android, give it a shot :)
I have discovered a truly marvelous allocator pattern which this HN comment is too small to contain.
It should have a performance benefit when running Arm64 Linux, I suppose.
Sadly I expect it would be mostly BS. Streaming services will buy anything under the “documentary” label.
Gmailjs but for Outlook and More Minimal
OutlookJs is the lighter weight equivalent to gmailJS (popular os api for gmail for easier interaction with gmail events/data). Tracks basic DOM events and monitors fetch requests caching email threads in process. Provides abstractions for sending new requests for full email thread data and parsing data from DOM. Not an npm package, if it gets enough use I'll write some tests and publish.
I'd be curious whether the DLLs for graphics drivers count as 3rd party or not as the only non-windows DLLs I saw on my `about:third-party` page were nvwgf2umx.dll and nvldumdx.dll which are both part of Nvidia's gpu drivers (presumably for hardware acceleration).
I use owncloud, though I also use the low-res tier of google photos for easy access and their automated slideshows and such.
The cool thing about BigTech these days is even if you don't use them, they still know about you, or you use them indirectly via other products and cloud services. They have their fingers in every proverbial pie.
Frustrating - an article about translation that has exactly zero example of said translation. Would it have killed them to show us even one case?
Cloudinary and Supabase image storage integration options in progress. Probably gonna add an admin dashboard for management.
This would encourage companies to take more, more frequent, and smaller bets while iterating rapidly instead of milking endlessly like we see with Disney. I like it. I still feel protected with my personal creative endeavors while corporations are motivated to move on their ip or lose it.
> Don't believe me? You've got a phone in your pocket. Take it out, take a pic of a document on your desk, and see for yourself.

Nice try NSA
https://i.4cdn.org/g/1689038229454107.png
YNAB (ynab.com). It's a kinda-pricey SaaS subscription (which the uber-nerds hate), syncs with banks/credit cards[1], and is a good solution on the web and mobile. I'd like to see it get enhanced with improvements faster, but it's still a good product.

[1] This functionality always costs money or a crazy amount of ads/spyware (like mint.com), but it's always worth it unless you just pay for everything with cash.
Another alternative is to reach out to small NGOs and ask what you can do for them to help them digitalize their process. You would likely build something boring like a CRUD app for them but if it solves their pain points, it is worth your time.
just wait for the GPS Log 2.0 release. that thing will probably only get about 30 snags
> I'm not sure America has actual journalists anymore

Many are still putting in the work: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year
Why are the compressed fonts _5MB_!?
The other day I discovered a font called Elstob that has an "Old-style punctuation spacing" mode that (among other things) adds significantly more space between sentences:

https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/

The documentation for that feature says[1]:

When Spacing is set to 1, the spacing between words and sentences and around punctuation marks is a good match for most books printed in the late eighteenth century.

[1]: https://github.com/psb1558/Elstob-font/blob/c9af23d3cbadf111...
https://archive.is/Y72Gu
Fiat 500e's can be had for just a few grand in Seattle, ditto for older Nissan Leafs.

There are a few Seattle Fiat 500e owners who are doing 20k to 30k miles a year, which makes for a very low cost per mile compared to a gas subcompact car
Drinking water from nearly half of US faucets may have harmful chemicals
It's not true to say the Federal government does not take on risk loaning to students. Students are frequently unable to pay. 7% probably does not cover costs.
What would make my hoard of bookmarks actually useful would be if this interface supported searching tags, folder names, or any kind of metadata for the bookmarks beyond the title and url.
zfs and xfs is apples to oranges. One is simple and low overhead, the other is stuffed with features and options.

ext4 gives me questionable performance with writing a huge amount (like 50k+) of small files, but other than that its great.
Four billion is a goal that doesn't happen overnight, ergo it takes decades to get there during which time global education continues to improve and the application of automation to bulk resource handling increases.

Today, in my state, we extract and move more raw iron ore for steel production per year by a considerable factor more than the US ever achieved, and with far fewer people per tonne - largely due to better techniques and automation.

If you look about the world as it is you will realise that we are capable of having greater production and better lifestyles across the globe with a lower population and less by product from consumption than we do today.

The means and levels of consumption today are problematic to say the least.
Another take from an audio engineer… this one only 3 minutes.

https://www.tiktok.com/@greazywilmusic/video/722394591746289...

(I know HN is allergic to Twitter, so I worry that some people are gonna go into anaphylactic shock if I post a TikTok link.)
They definitely were at the time I found the bug, since I could track some Canadian numbers. However, I don’t know if that’s still the case.
One of my inspirations for getlocalcert is a tool to make DNS-01 easier.

acme-dns let's you add a CNAME to another DNS zone, which let's you issue certificates for the former domain name using a convenient API for the latter zone. Seriously read about it, it's awesome.

https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns/

That tool is open source and self-hostable. getlocalcert also provides this feature, but as a hosted service. Choose the method you prefer.

https://docs.getlocalcert.net/tips/validation-domain/

Once DNS-01 is easy, wildcard certs are easy. Here's the docs for setting up a wildcard cert via getlocalcert:
https://docs.getlocalcert.net/acme-clients/lego/
Oh well I wasn't aware this limitation applied there too (don't use it too often myself). I agree this is bad behavior.
It's definitely worth concern but don't fall for the doomsday hype - this is the degradation of plastics. Probably nothing insidious.

USGS writeup: https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/tap-water-st...

The study itself: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

Map showing the regions with PFAS detected in tap water: https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/...
I have a hard enough time keeping the sweet spot locked in with my stereo/studio setups. The day I get bored with 2 channels, I'll reach for more.

A proper soundstage with a high-end stereo loudspeaker setup will typically make the best multichannel kits sound like shit by comparison. Achieving this is about physical location of speakers and compensation for any time-delay in the signal chain. Clearly, getting 2 things positioned well in space/time is much simpler than 5+.
Rather Google allows manufacturers to control the OS on the phones. If they had kept control of Android instead of allowing dozens of manufacturer forks the update situation would be better (but Android probably wouldn't have been adopted by those same manufacturers).
> I cannot in good faith recommend it for anything professional.

What separates the professional from the 'personal and hobby stuff': the need for (timely) reliability, and that you want other people to be able to maintain it.

With Nix, because it's so strict, it's more difficult to quickly kludge a solution. If something doesn't work as you expect, it may demand understanding of different parts of the solution stack.

That Nix isn't widely adopted means it's harder to find e.g. StackOverflow answers for problems.

In the blogpost, an example of a problem they had to work around was that fish's configuration expected to work statefully in a way which didn't work well with Nix's Home Manager's declarative nature.
So there’s a need for a copyright registry that is affirmatively maintained. Forget to register and exhaust a generous grace period that comes with a substantial fee relative to lifetime earnings of the work or Copyright lapses permanently and irrevocably.
- Emoji are an app update away. Assuming your app is using the appcompat library in Android (it is almost certainly) you'll get all of the emoji the next time you auto update your dependencies. The latest version of this library works from Android 4.4 to Android 14.

- The translate button has been in Android for ages but it's using the standard context menu API. Not many apps use it and very few users care, but it's there. Very useful for sending a bit of text over KDE connect!

- OCR + text selection was brought to my phone by a Google Pixel Launcher update. I didn't even notice it until I accidentally selected text from the task switcher.

- I have no idea why OCR is not in Photos yet, I guess the Lens button is good enough for Google, which has worked for years now.

- I guess I don't have unit conversion built into my phone? I could probably install an app that does it from the context menu but I can't say I care. That's what Google Assistant is built into Android for.

None of these features require an operating system update on Android. They're often released around/after a new major Android release, but that's just Google's release schedule. Apple could probably apply these updates through the app store as well if they bothered, but they prefer collecting updates for a year and releasing the as new features all at once.
Congrats on finishing the game, it's an accomplishment
What absurdity.

The government having any voice whatsoever is not a threat to corporate freedom. There's so little real evidence of any task issues. This is pure paranoia & madness.

The US continues to rank high in press & freedom of speech rankings. It's not some conspiracy. It's accurate. What we have here is a weaponization of paranoia to execite & inflame, is a push to instability & terror for instability & terror sake.
I think OP's point was that Google/Android don't have much to do with OEMs choosing to update their older devices or not.
Yeah I think people get far too carried away with object ontology. You shouldn't be thinking of program objects as direct analogues for real-world things. At most, they're data which describes a real-world object, and like all data, you can arrange it however is most convenient. Normalize it, denormalize it, version it and make it immutable—whatever suits your needs best.
To me the camera is probably the least important concern I have with a phone. I don't think I've used my camera yet this month. I would trade a camera for a smaller phone with better battery life.
It sounds logical but at least in the case of China there was no disorder to begin with, it's always been relatively safe in terms of violent crime. In China, the violent criminals are the government and the police. You can become a torture victim for as much as splashing ink on a Xi poster or just being Uyghur and existing.

The cameras are not there to protect you from crime, they're there for control, to protect the CCP from the people.

I'm not principally against surveillance for public security but it's very hard to not have it abused - for a start you need authorities and a police force that have good intentions and work for the people, not against them. In most countries that's not a given.
I would like to see a greater tolerance for different preferences. I like one space, but totally fine for some people to use two spaces.

It’s not their problem if I stab my eyes out with a pencil when I see two spaces.
I gave up on Docker for MacOS a year ago. Couple months ago I found OrbStack, being using "Docker" again on Mac since then. It's fantastic.
This is like fancy VNC. Apple doesn't have any problem with VNC, in fact they explicitly support it.

I think Apple can feel fairly safe that the experience will always be so hacky and low quality that it's not going to be a threat to Vision Pro. In the meantime it helps developers get a head start developing for Vision Pro which is only good for Apple.
Because it’s a loan they get to take out, interest free.
Presumably this doesn't use the "microvm" machine type in QEMU? (also on front page right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673945)
My preferred solution for this is a combination of Traefik and Smallstep StepCA. I run a collection of tools via Docker compose, and new certificates are issued automatically based on the hostname.

The only problem is that I have to maintain a list of DNS entries for the StepCA container as extra hosts. I haven’t found an elegant solution for this part.
Ah sorry, looks like I got ahead of myself due to my feed reader picking up the post this morning!
Humans were a lot better before they invented agriculture.
ext4 also blocks for a long time when deleting a large file, which can be bad in a production environment (think DROP TABLE in a database).
Rewriting in Go was cool in 2016. It must be Rust now.
I think that’s an excuse of convenience. It was likely just penny pinching imho.

They’re adding it to the Quest 3 and iPhones/iPads have had depth sensors for years now. It’s not be an issue for them.

They control the OS. They can control the drivers. It’s avoidable.