skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Spending some time to contemplate and test and find out what's good and throw away what's not before it ships

Why would you build something to throw away before it ships? Hire good people and they won't build un-shippable crap. "As fast as possible" doesn't mean you rush things, it just means you don't waste time with all these peripheral activities.
I can't wait for the secondary problems cause by the limitations of "AI" understanding.

We have had some consulting company of people managing these systems in some buildings, and they would basically turn off climate controls in unoccupied spaces.

Then they started having moisture issues in the important spaces because the data spaces are cold, next to an unconditioned empty space, which got hot, and causes condensation on the floors and ceilings.
I agree, but I think we probably disagree about whether or not this is a good thing
fair point, still the Title is a bit baity.
One can always say that AI has some positive uses like CC transcripts. And of course, I can't prevent the platform from making that. I only mean to say that personally, I will not use it in the basic process of video creation. If YouTube ever forces any sort of editing on my videos through AI, I will quit the platform.

But returning to the topic: even though AI has some benefits, I believe that AI in the long run will have negatives that FAR outweigh the positives, so I believe it still should be restricted.

As for translation, well, the AI transcription/translation sucks. I do attempt to put manual captions in my videos as much as I can though.
Interpret the messages sent from Earth in the Pioneer and Voyager space probes
I have nothing to do with the product, and I understand the frustration. But if you sleep 2hrs/day you should probably be in a (psychiatric) hospital instead of trying apps. That is very severe, and likely caused by a significant (mental) disorder.

Also, as a side note, cognitive behavioral therapy may feel like it is infantlizing you because it is digging up stuff that an adult should be able to understand and process more or less effortlessly on their own. But that's kind of the point of that therapy.
Looking for Universe SDK in case you have a link
Assuming that the requirement quality is a constant . And humans as system have the ability to compile this high level instruction to low level code. now imagine there exists systems which A. Augments human ability making it more efficient. or B. replace humans completely. The only reason this is valuable is that it might POTENTIALLY reduces the $/hr cost of the system.
i wonder why calculator apps are so popular
I always hear people talk about writing portable, POSIX compliant shell scripts so they'll work in more environments (assuming those environments are needed, of course), but how often do you run into an environment where you don't have a fairly complete version of Bash available? Genuine open question, I'd be really interested to know what that situation is. Lean container images, embedded, older systems? I'm really curious.
I absolutely agree. I was making the case for how Google could manipulate a theoretically-resistant banking industry.

I get banking is regulated from a variety of directions. However, the path of lobbyist influence->federal manipulation is so well worn it impacts many (probably most) exertions of power.
Yeah, the article represents the voice of the authors in two tweets, from authors not apparently notable enough to have a wikipedia page. One I couldn't even find on Goodreads. It's obvious there's more to this than just the tweets presented. The article is unhelpful in this regard.
A quick click shows that it’s available on home brew and Mac ports.

I like the 2000s website style. It’s functional, simple, and loads very fast.
Ask HN: A no-code framework – do you think it's a good idea?
Hey!

I'm thinking of building a no-code framework. The idea is a bit crazy and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

The goal is simple: to make it easy to embed visual web builder into any web product. Actually it doesn't have to be limited to pages, you could edit single components, parts of pages, etc. So it's kind of like WYSIWYG text editors (TineMCE, CKEditor) but for web layouts.

But I don't like the idea of general-purpose builder that is based around HTML/CSS (like Webflow). I feel it'd be just too hard for most people to use, there's no abstraction. Look at Squarespace - each block has limited amount of styling options and it makes it foolproof and user-friendly.

That's where the framework part comes in.

What if instead of having a general-purpose editor you had both editor AND the framework? With framework you could use code to build your own "no-code components". No-code component would be a React component but with some extra properties that define its visual editability in the editor (fields, slots for subcomponents, styles calculation etc)? And editor would know how to handle no-code components and provide all complex editor logic out of the box (drag&drop, collaboration, history, basic fields, etc). I see it as a true visual building primitive for web.

This architecture would allow developers to build their own simple and highly themeable Squarespace-like blocks. Blocks could be open source. Interoperable between implementations, etc. Blocks could have different levels of simplicity. Could be for advanced users and for less advanced users, etc. And each product team could make their own decision which components are allowed.

What do you think?
> He built an enormous global business and brand

Brands built upon selling product for less than it is worth are easy to build up. That isn't a real business though, it is just VC-funded make believe.

> What’s the alternative? That his stock and voting rights

Wouldn't it have been better back when WeWork's IPO failed to materialize in 2019 for SoftBank to just stop investing in WeWork it dropped from a planned $100B to $5B in a span of a year or so? And then SoftBank continued to invest to gain control and keep it afloat. Definitely a situation where someone is throwing good money after bad. Should have just left it for dead then.

That is the alternative. And it would have been best for the investors for sure.

In the end SoftBank just offloaded this turkey to the public via a SPAC merger. Did SoftBank end up making any money off this at all? I suspect there was no liquidity for the shares in this SPAC thus I bet they recouped almost nothing from this whole debacle.
They reset my password and then changed the e-mail.
The username remains the same and it is "arnon".

I tried re-registering now to check your claim but it says the username is under use and I can't restore the password for it since they changed the e-mail to one of theirs.

The last communication I got from PyPi was from Ee Durbin in 2022 saying:

> Given this, it appears that someone from <redacted> utilized the @<redacted>.com email address associated with the account to take it over and obtain access to the <redacted> libraries that the arnon User owned.

> We are discussing next steps internally.

> -Ee Durbin

> Director of Infrastructure

> Python Software Foundation

I've asked a couple of times for status updates as recently as this July and haven't heard back.
> Anyway, and sadly, the sanctions affect "regular" people like me the most. The ruling elite? Not at all.

This confirms my secondhand knowledge of financial sanctions. It seems to universally be this way and makes me wonder why we still tout them as if they were effective. They sure don’t seem to be.
The 6526 is infrastructure--it's a timer, clock, and I/O chip and doesn't really have anything to do with the interactive look and feel of the system. So an FPGA here doesn't harm the C64's soul one bit, if it works exactly like the original.

Honestly it would have been cool if they added a battery and maybe an extra register to indicate its presence; having the TOD clocks keep their time between power cycles would be cool.

Edit: If replacing a dead 6526 I would keep the dead one too. :)
Isn't this already a part of meta VR headsets?
It is a common metric for the power of a corporation, since it is the amount of money their stock is worth in total. What do you propose instead?
While Nvidia's driver installer doesn't ask permission, does anyone happen to know if there's a way after installation to disable their telemetry collection?
Do they at least pay really really well so the laptop is just a tiny percentage of your annual compensation?
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
> Those bankers are probably equally unaware of the actual long-term effects this will have.

However, we're aware of the long-term effects not taxing banks enough brings about, so trying something different seems like a good idea, even if we don't know all of the effects until later.
You clearly are not thinking like a level 4 manager who has a vague grasp of how the system works beyond "This costs $X per year, how can we make it $X-1 next year?"
I've seen the issue too. Note that, as the OP says, it affects Firefox too, so, no, it could not be the issue.
So a smallish C++ static binary then.
Bavaria is right next to the Czech Republic and should have the same problems, yet isn't exactly a 'desert' as you call it.

Large scale outsourcing (and investments) to Poland, the Czech Republic and the rest of Eastern Europe had already happened during the 90s, after that it was China. Everything that can be outsourced in Germany has already been outsourced during the last 30 years, yet the sky hasn't fallen so far.
This is one of the creepiest things I've ever heard of.
You'll need to escape the Markdown here. *#*#4636#*#*
It is unusual although I use my own devices (running whatever I want to) even though I could get a standard-issue laptop.
Funny how everyone talks about the Chinese "great firewall" that blocks access towards some western platforms from China, and no one talks about "USA great firewall" that blocks Cuban citizen from acceding to a lot of services
To expand a bit: Italy is economically conservative. People don't like to invest, banks don't like to lend to businesses, and when businesses fail (which is just part of the capitalism game) everyone cries for the State to make them whole. Most people favour long-term assets like real estate, and as soon as any profit is generated it is typically "privatized" rather than reinvested.

Obviously I'm painting with a very broad brush. There are virtuous businesses, like anywhere; and it's still a G8 country with a massive economy. But it's not a country that, as a whole, values economic risk-taking. Somewhat ironically, I think we were more daring when the overall system was less free-market-oriented (the Italian State used to own a lot of large "strategic" businesses directly, up until the '90s), maybe because rich folks had to show they were better than the State at running things.

On social issues, it's a different (and very complex) story.
My Dad may be almost 102, but let me assure you he is not confused. Also, Edward Teller was a good friend of my Dad and I remember him well.

My Dad worked with and knew many famous people like John von Neumann, Einstein, etc., so this anecdote was just another experience for him.

EDIT: I was saying that he was not confused about this story. I notice that my Dad is no longer as facile using computers. For years his hobby was writing screenplays, adding 3D animation, video segments of friends and family, and he had us all help with voices. He has mostly stopped doing that in the last year of two. I am not judging him at all: I am only in my 70s and I do much less technical work than I used to. My Dad has a saying: getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative.
I don't agree with this, not by a long shot, this kind of mindset is why we have such a cancerous proliferation of overbloated and slow software today and it's just getting worse and worse every day.
> A big part of what makes Windows so free and powerful is that it was architected during a time when security simply wasn't a concern.

Wouldn't that be true for BSD and Linux as well? Windows seems to be slow with implementing meaningful security/privacy features to the end user. Windows also has a good track record with backwards compatibility (compared to Linux at least), but that might also be the underlying problem here.
Local Obsidian + Syncthing.

The magic of obsidian is that I rarely have to actually open obsidian. As the notes are in plain markdown, I usually just do my input from vim or vscode.

The magic of Syncthing is that it's (mostly) a set and forget thing.

The setup works on my PC, laptop, mobile and VPS.

Everything is backed up daily from a single point to a S3 backend with Restic. Also a set and forget thing.
> This is simply not true. There is no demand. That's why the news industry forced google, youtube, facebook, etc to push their product all over their platforms.

The product was already being produced pre-Internet, pre-television, pre-radio:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_journalism

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

A new distribution medium didn't cause it to be created.
Though that wasn't their statement. Of course there's value in it. The question is if it's value for the customer or just plain abuse.
I just went through this process. Got autorejected after the personality/IQ test thing. My essay was 13 pages.

As for notable things I've done, I worked on an experiment in undergrad, which won the PI (small group) the Nobel in physics in the late 90s, writing computer software for experiment control. That and getting a PhD in physics from a student of a student of a different Nobel laureate. I founded and ran my own company for about 14 years getting to millions in revenue with no external initial investment. I worked with my business partner to try to raise money to build accelerators for computing in 2002-2007 as I'd argued that they would be the dominant form of HPC in the mid 2010s. No investor would bite.

But sure. Ask me about high school. Not the 40 years since high school.

Canonical is a complete waste of time/effort. Ubuntu is a fine distro, but the hiring process is so completely flawed, as this article and many others (check out glassdoor, my interview is now up as well)

That someone (likely very senior) greenlit this process, signed off on it, and thinks it is successful enough to keep doing it, is a massive set of red flags about this company. The company reviews (not interviews) on glassdoor tell me the same story. Its like their employees have written a collective "WTF", and management is completely impervious, blissfully clueless, as to how broken, how disfunctional, their processes are. The implicit assumption in this is that if they were aware, they would adapt and change them. I do not believe this to be the case.

So, in summary, steer a wide path around this company. You don't need their crap. Maybe, eventually, they will get a clue. Though I think this would only happen when there is a materiel leadership change at the top.
A Pi400 is also an excellent option in my opinon. I love doing both real hardware and emulation for different purposes, I don't see anything wrong with picking either, neither or both (neither of course is the worst option ;) )
> their total budget is a fraction of Big Tech's

The NSA was getting $10.5bn to spend in 2013[0]. I can only imagine it's gone up since then year on year. That's not a bad fraction when your whole goal is signals intelligence.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black...
How to Use MongoDB and Mongoose with Node.js
Maybe it's a good thing to consider different races to be different species. I personally think it will cause people to be more open-minded towards the plights of animals. Acknowledging diversity doesn't mean we have to hate the other kinds.
I question why people go through the trouble of doing this. Then I remember back to when I was a pimply teenager, lugging my C64, 1541, and 13" TV to a user group meeting on a crisp Saturday morning. We would share warez and see awesome demos and oogle the C128's and inevitably someone would bring an Amiga. We'd gather around while they played the latest games and show off the full capabilities of that machine. We had some Apple users there too with their IIe's and IIc's. I never saw a Mac in real life until much later in college. And that's a part of my life I'll likely never live again, but now I get why people want to build these machines today, for nostalgia.
It's recommended to not call them "accidents" anymore as that implies a completely unpreventable incident which carries no blame. Road Traffic Incidents or Road Traffic Collisions are the preferred neutral terms.

The vast majority of RTCs are indeed due to the inattention of a driver or not looking sufficiently (e.g. not taking care to move your head so that the A-pillar does not obstruct your view of pedestrians/cyclists etc).

I would consider accidental RTCs to be mainly due to either mechanical failures (which could be argued is due to lack of maintenance) or previously unknown medical issues.

It's interesting the difference in use of language between RTCs and shooting incidents. News reports will often make no mention of the driver and will make statements such as "car hits a building", but to use the same style with shootings would be risible e.g. "multiple bullets hit man resisting arrest". Of course, the car industry has been exerting control over media reporting of RTCs for about a century now, so it's very ingrained.
Ya.

I have zero intuition why online stores charge 30%. Is that fair?

Should the store's cut go down with more volume?

Or should smaller, younger, lower volume vendors get a better deal?

I have no idea.

So I keep landing on the notion that online market places should be not-for-profit orgs (consortiums?) that are run at cost plus some margin. And then figure out the hosts' cut from there.
China Slips into Deflation in Warning Sign for World Economy
That mindset is why modern-day ultrabooks give the same practical performance as 15 years ago. All of the hardware advances have been gobbled up in the name of "developer productivity".

Check (eg.) the Elevated 4k Demo winner to glimpse what modern computers are actually capable of in the hands of good developers.
I don’t really care about this issue but to clarify, “most people” (argumentum ad populum btw) means “most people in the West” I assume?
Yes, there are still plenty of village idiots in China.

Still doesn't make my statements any less true though.
The story aged well. The controls have not, particularly the excruciating and entirely too long FPS section.
> How did sticking to cash help them prevent their situation?

The contrapositive is not true.
And how does Mullvad deals with court orders?

I guess it's handled by this finding in the audit:

“VPN servers accept remote logins from administrators, who technically have the ability to tap into production users' VPN traffic”
Why TypeScript Doesnt Have Typed nor Checked Exceptions
I found this very informative. I found myself thinking about returning errors instead of throwing them to ensure they are accounted for (in the context of a simple rest api with controller/service pattern). I thought it would be nice if you could instead throw errors and have a function type signature that reflects that. I don't come from Java but understand this is a feature there.

The tl;dr is: Javascript wasn't built for this. [Insert snarky comment about that not stopping developers before]
Because when we cast the bloody knucklebones the spirts foretold it, 6 and 6 years shall it be 'til the money runs free.
Still having issues in some regions.
I never install it myself, since I don't need it for anything. Would love to get a confirmation that tossing "GFE" disables their telemetry drone.
Not google maps style questions, but it's quite easy to add POIs using OsmAnd.

You need an OpenStreetMap-account, then long tap on the place, "actions", "Create POI" - enter the name and the type (restaurant, wastebin, whatever...) and save it.

If you're used to it and know the categories it takes maybe 30 seconds to do it everytime you visit a new restaurant or to add a new shop when you're waiting for the bus.
I think that's a Samsung limitation. The Pixel I'm currently holding has a "Allow 2G" toggle in the settings.

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-disable-2g-modem/
https://archive.is/q7BZB
as long as you don't have to load games using the datasette. haha.
> That is precisely my point, the threat actors are not civilians, so you can't defend them with the resources you have as a civilian

But this is leading to a crazy generalization. Microsoft can't defend itself as a civilian with a physical presence all over the globe that hires thousands of workers. Nonetheless, the sequence from solarwinds to this breach represents a terrific amount of China's focus.. Tearing through old data to find an expired key, probably also encrypted, and combining it with an active config error for it is a bit more than scanning for a standard attack against a class of old routers.

If your data is pooled without e2e encryption it is in the middle of a capture the flag game and will be owned. For Microsoft to make a cloud that doesn't have to be secure from the most sophisticated resources of China they would have to stop assembling all that data so that it would have to be assembled with the boring and endless botnet scans on hundreds of thousands of different end points.

Attackers will always get better at automating distributed scans but it is always a small percentage game that isn't as great as owning 3 clouds that each have equally good copies of about a third of this data.
Maybe that missing link had a more like Winnie the Pooh-like appearance?
He is the role model for quite a lot of people here. See those half-ass CRUD apps launch as world changing Cloud SAAS everyday.
I just watched it a couple days ago. FWIW, the gravity shift scenes in the hotel hallway are underrated achievements in cinematography.
I use calc mode in Emacs for that kind of thing. Any idea how the two compare?
Well sharts, most people don’t take dying too lightly either. Free care for the gravely infirm would be, to a point, the only perk that mattered at the exclusion of all others. Likewise with the possibility of total bankruptcy.
I find it perfectly fine and acceptable for long periods of time, I think the original keyboard is quite good mechanically (springed keys with conductive rubber feet onto pcb pads), the ergonomics of the breadbin (I have an ultimate64 and a few real ones) is not my cup of tea, it ends up hurting my wrists after longer sessions, no such problem at all on the C64c models.