skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some clue how systemd works and manage to configure it to run the services I need. But to be frank, I'm quite clueless as to what most of its million LoCs do. I'm quite sure there's not more than a handful of people who do. Sysvinit did so little that it's almost trivial to understand.

It has simplified lots of use cases but my criticism is that it focuses too much on these cases and makes other use cases more difficult. It makes the system quite opaque to the user, a bit like Windows or MacOS that become almost impossible to fix when they break.
The use case for AI (as its current LLM version, maybe others won't be) is spam
> You forgot one: IIRC, Chrome came bundled with some popular Windows applications.

CCleaner is a good example of this.
Yeah, but the amount of boilerplate one must read and write in Go is frustrating, even compared to Java.
I'm gonna go against the grain because I think AI content has potential to be better than human content. If Google is promoting low-quality content, regardless of who made the content, then Google should improve their algorithms, or users should use a different tool.
Somewhat off-topic but for those who want a black, 100% cotton and lighterweight t-shirt, IMHO nothing compares to Intimissimi[0]

They run a bit small so I recommend one size larger than your regular size. They're currently on sale from Black Friday so only $14.30 each. (Large Black is now out-of-stock, sorry!)

They also make many other varieties like v necks, long sleeve, modal/cashmere/ etc.

(Claimer: I'm not affiliated or getting a referral from this... I just think they're a lesser known brand in the US)

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0. https://www.intimissimi.com/us/product/short_sleeve_crew_nec...
Show HN: AI Proxy with support for multiple providers, caching
Hi HN,

We're excited to open source our AI Proxy which supports Mistral, LLaMa2, OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, and more through vanilla OpenAI SDKs. The proxy also supports configurable caching, API key management, and load balancing across multiple providers.

The proxy code also includes multiple deployment options: Cloudflare workers, Vercel, AWS Lambda, and plain-old Express. We're open sourcing this because our customers are starting to run their production workloads through it, and we believe that critical-path-of-production tools should be open source.

To play around with a hosted version of the proxy, you can simply set the base URL in your OpenAI libs to https://braintrustproxy.com/v1 (more detailed instructions in the repo[1] and our docs[2]).

We'd love your feedback -- on use cases we may not have thought of, models we should support, or other features that would be useful to include in this layer of abstraction.

[1]: https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-proxy
[2]: http://braintrustdata.com/docs/guides/proxy
A few times I have googled a company name directly and the first few results were SEO snipes.
You're missing the point which is that growth mindsets, while well intentioned, may optimize for the wrong things and cause not only suboptimal outcomes but even inhuman ones.

The point isn't that the particular strategy for health and fitness is right or wrong, it's that the growth mindset causes the person (Bob?) to over-focus on that aspect of their life to the detriment of more important but less obvious ones, like personal relationships, being kind to others, or enjoying fallen leaves in autumn.

Bob spends his 20s trying to improve his bodyfat percentage, max his bench, get a Porsche, and build his 401k.

He misses out on his niece's early childhood, loses his highschool friendships, and breaks up with his girlfriend for a job opportunity in a different city.

This is like the printer company focusing on revenue instead of brand loyalty or its reputation.
Did they really "steal" the impressions though? I don't think anyone stops at a content farm, it's just 'oh not this one' and then back to the results to find a better one. Okay, they have gotten an impression from me, but they did not cause my actual destination to lose anything.
Can you get extra downtime actions for coin? I don't think I've ever done it. If I start spending it on that, I'll never accumulate any coin. Because to be honest, that stress mechanic is giving me stress. It really felt to me like a game that you're always going to lose. But maybe spending coin on it helps.
> might get you punched in the face around here.

Damn! I'm glad I don't work with people riding on the edge of being violent like that.
Despite being ancient it's still better than Wayland. The "same developers" narrative is just a story you tell yourself to justify your opinion after the fact. Wayland is fundamentaly flawed on every level. Its sprawling patchwork of parallel infrastructure an duplicated effort shows it.
Yeah getting it all up and running on my 1080 was exciting but immediately got deflated how painfully slow it was. Bit the bullet on a new card, night and day, not even a top end card
It's like showing up at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and, "You mean this thing can't even fly me to New York? Useless!'
Though you'd think something like page-rank would not be attracted to some random pages that are only linked to from the same domain.
They have convincing arguments, if needed be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_3

In any case, Musk/SpaceX are not going to go against Israel, and in this case ultimately against the US government. Note that if Starlink knowingly allowed the service to be used by Hamas (which is defacto the Gazawi government so any terminal in Gaza would be at risk) that would be a serious offence under US law. Obviously he's going to play ball.
A key excerpt, in my opinion.

“There is a growing body of evidence about the detrimental health effects of consuming too much red meat and dairy, so this study shouldn’t be taken as an excuse to eat more cheeseburgers and pizza; rather, it indicates that nutrient supplements such as TVA could be used to promote T cell activity.”

I’m also curious about this being a trans fat. I’ve heard public health campaigning that trans fats are unhealthy, but this research highlights one as a potential cancer therapy. It is apparently another case of un-nuanced popular ideas about health and nutrition not being the whole truth.
I guess Google wasn't happy with this article, when clicking on the API examples...

{
"error_message": "Google has disabled use of the Maps API for this site. Learn more: http://www.google.com/help/terms_maps.html",
"results": [],
"status": "REQUEST_DENIED"
}
On many laptops you can disable boosting speeds and lock down the frequency (thermals permitting). I don't know if Apple's devices allow for such measures, but close-to-constant performance without fan noise can be a matter of configuration.

You can try running these chips at their boost clock all the time by attaching coolers, but the hardware wasn't designed for that and neither was the software. It's easier (and more power efficient) to clock down if you care about maintaining a set speed. With a battery capacity designed for short bursts, you'll also lose out on battery life if you decide to crank the hardware.

The Macbook Air and its competition (MS Surface etc.) are completely silent because they are fanless, and I don't expect their performance to be inadequate for anything but the most CPU intensive tasks. The Airjet will add some airflow, so while the difference may be minjmal, it'll always end up louder than before.
Follow on, my biggest frustration with these super thin, clingy shirts is how _everyone_ is showing their nipples through them now.
I mean, the zero hypothesis for pretty much any trait should be that it has both a nurture and a nature component. We do know that results can be improved with nurture, and we also know that results can be significantly diminished as well with it (e.g. children not learning to speak by something like 5-6 years will never be able to). We only have indirect ways to measure intelligence (for example the former case of non-speaking children couldn’t complete an IQ test), so I think it is safe to assume that intelligence can be somewhat influenced by nurture as well.

(Also, I believe it is more common than not for a successful person to not have their children similarly successful, even though they usually go to top, elite schools and has good genetic traits. Of course there are plenty other factors, but I do believe that it points towards to my point)
As an example of what I mean: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfa...

Here I can see which stores a game is on, what kind of DRM it uses, if internet access is required, if another launcher is used, what the monetization/microtransactions/dlc is, and more. Now obviously not all of that is mappable to mobile stores but the concepts still apply. Even though that game is "free-to-grind" bullshit I can see that it is right away instead of a "not found" message. They also have categories (e.g. click "free-to-grind"), andin true Wiki style, not necessarily the best interface... but it enables them to effectively crowd source data without having to rely on one guy vetting everything and shoving the bad data into a black hole.

I'm not saying you should then display all games with any tag when the user goes to the site though. Just that it probably makes sense to keep the data on all submissions and allow visitors a path to see them rather than discard data on bullshit wholesale, as that's half the value - seeing what was bullshit. Both for the originally stated reasons, basically "allow the user to do a more advanced bullshit filter than the actual app store supports", and because the absence of a game currently means conflicting things at the same time right now: 1) Nobody has submitted it 2) Someone submitted it but it was rejected for something it did at the time or was misreported and needs to be resubmitted with the correct info 3) Someone submitted it correctly with the current version but it does actually have bullshit.
If I have to sign up for a "corporate account" or I have to sign up for a random self-hosted gitlab account or I have to sign up for your bugzilla & wiki & gitwhatever.... it makes no difference. As a user, it's all the same. Actually... of all of these options, I prefer a "corporate account" (aka github) because I can participate in a nearly infinite amount of projects without having to create new accounts/logging in/etc.

No one has walled anything off in any way that is materially different than any other option in the space.

I would argue that Github has done a LOT of good in the space. Making good software, making it freely available. Keeping it reasonably open and accessible. Keeping it standards compliant where there are standards. Having API's for the rest. And in general, giving a huge amount of storage and compute away for free for open source projects.
There's some sweet spot where technology is relatively easy to improve upon with Wikipedia, but one can also find wires and generators. Some time in the first half of the 19th century is probably good. It gets easier if you're allowed a solar charger to take with you, then you can improve tech in loads of ways (though probably best to restrict yourself to post enlightenment if you want to keep intact).
I can't wait. It's so much fun every year. However I don't know what language I will use this year, sadly most likely either Julia or Python instead of something new and exciting because I'll be working full time during December - I took some time off last year for AoC.
With cost of storage pretty low and AI being so good, I wonder if having a home based thing for everyday use, especially photos (Sort, tag, Memory creation, junk detection etc.) will become easy enough that cloud usage declines.

There are still tech hurdles yes, but NAS + a decent GPU for photos, email organization, assistant is going to be a killer business.
I was going to say, if Google is silently losing and corrupting files then backing up from there is just duplicating the failure. But perhaps his backup scheme accounts for this unreliability.
> This seems like the second most secure form of identity check (chip + PIN #1) if everyone could be made to follow it consistently.

Yes, but that's not happening since there is no incentive for the merchant to do it. Merchants are generally not liable for card-present lost/stolen card fraud, so the only thing this does for them is add friction.

It's a textbook principal-agent problem (in addition to requiring a human in the loop), and I highly doubt that the schemes would ever introduce anything like that, especially given that there are viable alternatives available (PIN entry on the terminal, on-device authentication for mobile wallets etc.)
Wow, that website has an extremely irritating background animation. Any time your mouse is inside a circle, the circle lights up, stealing your mental focus from the text.

Reminds me of the really dumb new Glassdoor design, where it flickers in the background as if it's loading something (but it's not) while you're trying to fill out the sign up form.

What is going on with web development these days? Is it some kind of Javascript animation version of the IOCCC?
LyX and KeenWrite are altogether different. My focus for KeenWrite has been twofold: writing a sci-fi novel with a complex timeline wherein I can easily insert variables directly in the document (i.e., partial value followed by control+space) and using it at work for living technical documentation (i.e., R statements for plots, Kroki for diagrams, command-line for CI/CD pipeline integration, and plain TeX for basic math).

LyX, like LaTeX, doesn't force a separation of content from presentation. KeenWrite is focused on Markdown, with PDFs being a transformation of plain text. For more control over the output, KeenWrite adopts pandoc-style annotations. The selected theme can style the annotations as desired.
> would have banned cigarette sales next year to anyone born after 2008.

Laws discriminating on age should be repelled everywhere.
This is a screenshot of https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032634037567509 hosted on Mastodon.

We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor.

We got 489,509 traffic in October alone.

Here's how we did it:

1. Exported a competitor’s sitemap

2. Turned their list of URLs into article titles

3. Created 1,800 articles from those titles at scale using AI

18 months later, we have stolen:

- 3.6M total traffic

- 490K monthly traffic
You’re thinking Google https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
To fund tax cuts. Wealth transfer from smokers to non-smokers. Except that everyone will deal with the effects on the healthcare system.
With that laptop now being 8 coming up on 9 years old, I wouldn’t be surprised if its thermal paste has dried out, which means that heat isn’t being transferred away from the CPU into the heatsink as effectively, resulting in the fan running harder. If you want to keep it going a while longer it might be worth picking up a tube of Arctic MX-4 and replacing the stock paste, cleaning out any accumulated dust in the process.
Classic false economy, short sighted tax cuts now but increased health care costs, death and misery.
I've used a shared google drive or google photos to good enough effect, but that presumes nobody is running short on space.

I've also seen some screwiness however so I'll be watching with interest what other people suggest.
I have an original dx7 and rx5 drum machine.
It is because there are big incentives to make money in the current economy we live it, competition like this can benefit a market participant, and that is how the reward system works (monetarily/money-as-a-meta-resource and culturally (money as status symbol and means to exist)) until there is a legal precedent to prevent such behavior.
Do consumers actually want it? This feels like developer projections.

The GP have a point: For years we heard that mobile web apps were almost there but for the laggard Apple (see all of the "Safari is the new IE" comments). The argument never made any sense given that Android hits monopoly levels in many areas, and has an enormous global base of over a billion users, yet mobile web apps see extraordinarily little uptake. But it was an argument nonetheless.

So now Apple made mobile web apps first class and implemented all of the must-haves and mobile web apps...still have negligible uptake. And the panacea platform still has critical defects that make it a subpar experience regardless. The new IE?
This seems like the evolution of content on the internet. What's more curiose is if you say a LLM article may be just as qualified as a random person on the internet then it seems that the LLM according to Google was better written or more useful to their audience.
> If I were suddenly transported back in time

It'd be nice if there was a curated downloadable subset of Wikipedia pages for that kind of purpose. (Time-traveler in past, stranded/post-apocalyptic survival, history pages but only the text parts.) Even if only mundane events occur, it also represents a certain cross-section of user-interest.

That said, one more daydream item to add to the pile: "What if I was somehow lost in space, what useful information could I provide for maybe locating my home-planet again?"

____

Without Wikipedia, the best I can think of are notable conditions that could help them filter existing records, often using ratios to avoid having to define measurement units, ex:

1. It's the 3rd planet from the Sun, the majority of it is covered with water, etc.

2. It has an unusually large single moon of 1/6 its mass.

3. The 5th and largest planet in the system has a little over 70% of all the (known) planetary mass.

4. The 5th planet is 5.2x further from the Sun than my 3rd planet.

5. The 6th planet still has notable rings which haven't decayed yet.

With Wikipedia, perhaps I could tell them about pulsar maps or whatever. [0]

[0] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/golden-record-cov...
Big O = Patrick Bateman
not having to come up with classnames is one of my favorite features of using tailwind
Makes me wonder if they did the same for a large system we built for a state agency. I was lead developer on that project, so I'm pretty familiar with most aspects of it. The first few years after delivery, the agency had us come back a couple of times for change requests and to train their in-house developer when there was turnover in that role. At some point after I left that consultancy, the agency switched to using TCS. A few years later, several other states had very similar systems built for them by TCS. While I can't see any of the internal management portions, based on URLs, the public facing portals all use similar somewhat obsolete tech stacks. The workflow is also the same.

But I have no way of knowing what happened behind the scenes. Perhaps the state agency gave TCS a license to use the code we developed (the agency, not our consultancy, retained ownership of the code). Or maybe some of the TCS people who worked on maintaining the code for the agency later went on to build a new system from scratch inspired heavily by our system. There's no way to really know from my vantage point, but given this story, it sure makes me wonder.
> No it's not, you can change it.

Aside from the big blue Bing button in the user-chrome (and the MS sidebar), and the fact that switching your search engine in Edge involves jumping through a surprising amount of hoops, as opposed to Chrom[ium/e]. I haven't counted the number of steps, but it's definitely more than Chromium-based browsers -- they seem to have intentionally buried it in Settings (it's right at the bottom of one of the pages), and you get a ton of "Bing is great!" messaging when you do finally figure out how to switch it.

P.S. That demo you linked shows an outdated version of Edge.
I would bet those who grew up with 56k modems are more affected!
Wish archive.today didn't block 1.1.1.1
You'll get more health, joy, and life satisfaction out of the capability you develop from an actual skill set than you'll ever get from mashing buttons to make some lights blink.
Exactly my read as well:

> AirJet isn’t a consumer product–consumers can’t buy it and modify their own MacBook Air, nor does Frore plan to create a kit for consumer sale.

This is aimed at Apple, and he doesn't want to offer it for sale? Acquisition.
No, not yet. But I think that few users are from Europe, so it's not that easy to find people.
Mentioning a partner very early on seems to be a very common pattern in getting to know people.
"Informal to formal" is harder than "formal to formal". These puzzle problems are quite simple (for computers) if you have a formalization.

"Informal to informal" is so far snake oil.
I refuse patently to support or purchase anything using manipulative marketing like that. Hard pass. If you want to sell me something, show me the benefits/let me try it, and sell me that product like I'm a human being you have an ounce of respect for.
That's my point though, was that there are still folks who assume "support" for everything (paying/non) is just "going to be good" ("because it's google/ms/etc - they have a reputation! they wouldn't want to jeopardize it!"). I realize I'm talking about a small number of folks, but even after these folks have been in the industry 10-15 years, their ... naivete(?) - is surprising.

And... I'm not even generally surprised when I get no support on paid for services. Indeed, I'm generally shocked when I get good and timely support from a paid service. Now... that's less shocking when it's "small startup X"; we've all seen small companies get big/acquired and the very thing that got them there - good service/support - is what is thrown out to start squeezing out profits. Staff get overworked, pissed off, leave, quality plummets, people move to the next small startup service, and it starts over again.
I had that exact MongoDB shirt. Got it from a hackathon back in 2014. Was such a soft shirt. Loved it.
zlib is the name of the project. libz is an implementation-detail name of the library on Unix-like systems.
The same thing that happens when real dads do.
The world will probably end.

In all seriousness – probably nothing. Real dads give their kids wrong information all the time (either on purpose or due to ignorance) and yet we are all still alive, so I think we'll be fine. Of course one would wish that happens as rarely as possible, but it's not something I would lose my sleep over.
The fantasy setting I GM in has a god of taxes, so whenever the party accumulates more than a few thousand gold and aren't spending it, I start sending paladins of the tax god after them at random.

Got to a point where the party stumbled across a dragon lair and instead of fighting or bypassing it, the party wanted to go in and ask it for financial management advice. "They have hoards and there aren't any tax collectors here, so dragons must have figured it out!"

So I made the dragon be a tax collector. Very motivated fight (they lost).
For most people with this mindset money is the ultimate good. If something they do makes money, it's an unquestionable benefit. Most people with this mindset either become very rich or end up in prison.
I'm running a Traveller game where it feels like this. Spreadsheets in Space...

Luckily for me and our players I just hand wave a lot of it once it gets too crunchy.
This looks cool! Good work on shipping it!

So I tried to click new map and drag n drop a few shapes from the toolbox into the map, but my mouse did not indicate that the map canvas was a place where I could drop the SVG icons.

So I tried to double click an icon, thinking perhaps I needed to have it be dropped on the map, then I could drag it around. That pinned the icon to the top left, but did not put it on the map.

So. I think this is cool, I played around with it for a bit, I'm too lazy to keep trying it, but the tool appears functional enough, pretty enough, and a great concept not used as much in online tilemap editors, so again, great job shipping!