skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peertube is something I've been meaning to use, so I'm interested but don't know much about it.

The post says they dropped webtorrent in favor of HLS. Does this mean Peertube is no longer peer-to-peer?

HLS is a codec or container format or something, whereas webtorrent sounds like a method to have peers stream video data to each other such that the server doesn't easily bog down under traffic spikes. That seemed like a fundamental advantage of Peertube over other platforms and I thought that's why the name was chosen. Am I misreading it or has this truly been dropped now?

The post says HLS is also a brick in peer-to-peer streaming but.. it's not? I've used it, it's a container format that encapsulates video data, something like MP4 or MKV, not something that sets up peering sessions. HLS data would rather be something that webtorrent could be gossiping, if webtorrent weren't removed.
Long term it's going to cost us quite a bit more money in healthcare costs

No. Smokers die younger than non-smokers and usually of short-lived (i.e., cheap) illnesses. It is generally non-smokers that have the 10-15 years of dementia that really crushes the finances of a health system.
I agree. I don't think it looks better at all, and I feel it makes the structure of the text somewhat more difficult to see.

I have this reaction to a lot of established typographical rules actually. Digits with descenders to name just one ("font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums" in CSS): I think they're ugly and make reading numbers unnecessarily difficult.
>AFAIK the only place where Starlink is operating illegally is Iran

And any country where they don't have approval by the local spectrum operator.

Unsure if it's changed, but I know in South Africa Starlink connections are/were _technically_ illegal since it is an unlicensed telecoms connection. Basically unenforceable by practical means to stop consumers though, and some hardware importers advertise without issue.
Regardless of the difficulty, this is a lot of text describing the setup for what is basically: can you write basic SQL, can you append, split, and remove text from a string, can you write a basic API endpoint. Why is there so much fluff?
EPFL's New Large Language Model for Medical Knowledge
What modern laser Brother printer do people recommend? A scanner built in is nice but not essential.
Really depends on which servers you follow.
We have a rag and bone man to this day. He doesn't have a horse and cart (for shame :-) but he does go around in his truck once a week ringing a hand bell.

I've given him a few things, like an old copper tank which was probably worth a few bob. He would have given me some money but I let him have it for free just to get it off my property. As in the article we'd have to be careful about fly-tipping, but giving him items with an obvious value that can be sold on seems safe.
Which did you buy?
> If your argument requires saying it's fine to just throw out food, maybe you should reconsider.

You're making some kind of assumption and value judgement here but not articulating it. You're using the assumption as leverage to make an emotional push for me to think differently.

What's the assumption and value judgement? Can you weigh that against the biodegradability comment and share more of your thoughts?
Higher thermal mass is higher thermal stability and less compressor short cycling. If you have a chest freezer this is pretty easy to notice.

Air is a particularly poor conductor of heat, your hands touching the product to move it around is doing more damage than anything else. Your fridge thermometer only measures air temperature, not product temperature, which is what you actually should care about.
The government micromanages with regulations and "energy labels" so yes!
Inside the loop I only see him gotoing to the `notfound` label, which I would say is the sad path.
While this benefits performance it does hurt the battery because the battery suffers from the heat of the chassis. And of course like others already mentioned you can’t comfortably touch the bottom of the laptop.
What do you mean? I have a Linux PC and all of my games work very well on it. I’m not an avid gamer though.
In the past, one would right click on omnibar/searchbar/addressbar and modify search engines from there... Now it really takes a search within settings to find it - and it takes prior knowledge that these things are possible :)

TLDR: I use Edge as my primary browser.
And ... the medical costs of tens of thousands of lung cancer treatments per year will be coming from those tax-cuts then?
They talk about stress-testing of livestreaming towards the end of the article. A quick search shows that they've done several of them for videos as well. The peer-to-peer structure really protects them from sudden scale in demand.
FoldiMate
I sorta feel similar about BIG subscription software. Little subscription software (from small companies/developers) I see almost benign. If i needed this i would pay for it.
> We needed to settle a technical debt : v6 removes support for WebTorrent to focus on HLS. Both are technical bricks used to get peer-to-peer streaming in web browsers, but HLS is more fitted to what we are doing (and plan to do) with PeerTube
Over here in the States our FDA has finally admitted that the pseudoephedrine replacements are medically ineffective and only work to generate pharma profits.

“For a long time, over-the-counter decongestant products like Sudafed had pseudoephedrine in them. Pseudoephedrine is effective at reducing sinus congestion during colds but is also an ingredient that can be used to make methamphetamine. As a result of abuse of pseudoephedrine-containing products by manufacturers of methamphetamine, federal legislation was passed moving those products behind the pharmacy counter, which made them harder for people to get ahold of for routine use. Since companies would prefer to sell products that people can just easily grab off the shelves, Sudafed and other well-known brands introduced new formulations with another very old over-the-counter active ingredient, phenylephrine. The problem is that phenylephrine doesn’t work, as the FDA finally concluded, unless you directly spritz it onto your nasal passages as with Afrin or products like that.”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/09/why-are-ineff...
Meta's EU ad-free subscription faces early privacy challenge
They might be better off searching for phosphorus.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/rpoo/status/1728128686648701345
Is that right? I thought GDPR lets you do mostly anything with data if you have consent (and subject to regulations about data safety etc).

It seems to me FB is saying people need to either:

- pay money, or

- consent to handing over their data, or

- have their account shut

I know which option I'm choosing! But what is so wrong about this trilemma?
State of California Benefits and Risks of Generative AI Report [pdf]
> With Chrome I just need to make sure that the last focused Chrome window is from the right profile.

There's a setting to always open a tab in the same container profile you click on them from. So as long as you open the page with the link in the target profile, it will open in that profile too — same as what you're saying above, I think?

There's also an easy "open in new container tab" option when right clicking a tab, and "re-open this site in ..." option when clicking on the container tabs extension button.
A 13B parameter model and you claim careful curation by experts, do not name the training data sources, only rely on open data, and then, like everyone else, want researchers to work (for free) to improve your model?
Let's be honest though the market is often really stupid so the bar is low for the state. And see, you have made my point about the "if only the state were smart enough" thesis.

The point is, markets should be more independent of the state for other reasons that have nothing to do with any given outcome. (Though I'd claim that some subset of desired outcomes, like income inequality reduction would still come to pass).
I'd say you'd need to qualify what you mean by "difficult".

That is, the exercise in itself is not too complex. As described by the API specification, the operations are acceptably simple and well defined. So for someone with some experience, it's probably an easy problem.

However there is a lot that is implicit and assumed, and that can take quite more effort and time, particularly for a Junior dev - which is what you've ranked the difficulty at. The main problem is the infrastructure. The candidate is expected to create not only the service asked, but also setting up a bunch of things just to be able to build and run it.

Maybe some of that is helped with the mentioned "Guided local testing instructions" but it doesn't sound like it is.

As mentioned on "Why Microservices as coding tests" [0]: "Building a Microservice from scratch involves a ton of different skills, and so it gives us a complete overview of developers' abilities." However, many of the skills mentioned there can't be really expected from a Junior dev.

And that is a problem because if they don't have those more advanced skills they just won't be able to show the basic skills they do have. In my experience, for Junior devs it works much better if you provide them with at least some infrastructure and let them focus on a specific part of the problem.

Notice also, that the answers you get from comments here, would probably need to be qualified by the commenter's experience.

[0] https://codigrade.com/index.html#whymicroservice
When the books were written, the target audience would all be writing programs in (very different) machine languages, so the “mix” he created of existing computer architectures was a good one (https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/18176). The specific MIX language is no longer similar to present-day machines (self-modifying code is out of style, for instance), which is why he came up with "MMIX" and there's a book (“The MMIX supplement” by Martin Ruckert, but carefully proofread by Knuth) with the MMIX equivalents of all the MIX programs.

But in any case the algorithms are taught in English not MIX; the MIX programs are only a very tiny part of the books (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14520230 — the 3000+ pages of Vols 1–4A have only 90 assembly programs), used only when the low-level details are actually relevant. So they can be skipped if one is not interested in them.
Shame, though I'd watch that space because I think they're adding more languages.
Instas dopamine feed certainly pushes young woman in bikinis quite hard too.
Owned iPhone for 13 years and I have never seen any ad, except on the web. And even that is partially blocked with some Safari extension.
It’s public money….Audits are going to exist. Annual “custom widgets” would likely be noticed.
I'm all for leading by example, but if you accept the premise that climate change is an existential risk, how do you explain the actions of the German green party that insisted on shutting down the last remaining nuclear power plants, even as Nordstream was blown up?

The LNG that we currently consumes as a substitute for the Russian gas is emitting even more greenhouse gases than burning lignite btw, because the US shale gas extraction is extremely dirty [0].

You can not hold both positions at the same time: either climate change is existential, in which case we should do everything that we can to stop it, or shut down nuclear, stop using relatively clean Russian gas and instead increase emissions to new levels by burning coal and "dirty" gas.

This tells me there is more to it than the surface-level discussion, possibly a religious doomsday movement that purity-spiraled out of control.

[0] https://www.research.howarthlab.org/publications/Howarth_LNG...
Personally I like iterm2, but… what do YOU want out of a terminal?

What makes a terminal great for YOU?
Great to it going, as we need more alternatives than just Python bindings.

This one comes with a JIT/AOT, and one can use F# as well.
"The peer-to-peer structure really protects them from sudden scale in demand."

In theory, for sure. But in reality the p2p part might not work for lots of users for various reasons (firewall etc.) so then the server gets all the load and chokes. At least that has be my experience when experimenting with webRTC.

"Last year, thanks to French indie journalist David Dufresne’s Au Poste ! livestream show and his hoster Octopuce, we got a livestream stress test with more than 400 simultaneous viewers "

And 400 is not a very big number, if one has ambitious goals. But it is a good start.
Ask HN: Does anyone else struggle to work within limitations?
This is possibly a strange question, so let me explain.

Basically, I find it hard to work with a limited set of tools if I know there are more powerful ones available as alternatives. For instance, I can't really enjoy writing in Markdown because I know I could do anything there in HTML, except without the limitations Markdown imposes.

Same story with the Gemini protocol, video game level editors, etc. If I feel I have more power with another technology, using something that's deliberately limited feels kinda backwards.

Anyone else feel similarly?
would be nice if companies were run in some kind of democratic way. one employee one vote.

so that if management called for RTO and most employees voted against, the management would lose.

but of course management is there to serve themselves and the shareholders foremost. and so the employees are expected to do the same. see the "bigger picture" as i was recently condescendingly told after refusing RTO.
Interesting. Are there open APIs that you use for train-scanner or do you have to reverse engineer some apps?
Probably. There's good work showing impressively performing small models that were trained on more "text book" like data rather than just loads of text - but where the "text books" were either wholly or largely created by another AI model.

Using models to generate/score/rank/modify data to be more useful as training data is a very interesting angle.
Radar was surprisingly advanced by the end of WW2, the Brits and Americans had ground scanning radar by the end of WW2 (H2S and the later H2X) all done without transistors or computers as we'd recognise them :).
Not a fan of this, too many ways it can fail, and have ugly scroll bars, and the gain is little to me
I disagree with opting people into a license, because the choice of _which_ license is a very personal and important choice. Defaulting to a very permissive license would make folks think that more restrictive (but user-benefitting) licenses like the GPL are Bad ™ when they're not, whereas defaulting to a GPL flavour would make a load of things more restrictive than they may want to be. The only person who can make that decision is the author.

However, I think one thing GitHub / other source forges can do is make it _clearer_ when no license is present and that it defaults to All-Rights-Reserved
I'm a New Zealander too. I don't really see that this is going to improve their tax position much. How many folks turning 16 are going to take up cigarettes over vaping?

I mean, I agree, their position is stupid and if they already had a problem where they were reversing every policy of the previous govt regardless of merit, this compounds it by taking on a broadly popular idea.

However, I'm not all that comfortable with the ban. I don't smoke, I don't want my kids to smoke... but it still doesn't sit that well with me that you aren't allowed to.

I hate that we've voted in this awful right wing coalition because Labour was underdelivering. I don't see that either big party has any answers to the problems in NZ society right now - housing everyone and being able to see a doctor in good time. They both just piss around at the edges making inconsequential changes and messing with the curriculum. So I either have to be annoyed we have a govt that wants no change at all or a govt that wants change but cannot actually implement anything.
A former coworker of mine is a chess IM (International Master, one step below Grand Master). We used to talk chess but never played. He was convinced I was a lot stronger than I really was, despite my saying that I was all talk and no game.
"how do you explain the actions of the German green party that insisted on shutting down the last remaining nuclear power plants"

Politics and fear for radiation, Chernobyl, Fukoshima etc? The whole history of the green party with its roots in anti nuclear? I don't think political parties are the right metric when looking for rationality.
+1. Does someone know how to do that?
The CEO of Chevron gave an excellent presentation on CNBC once where he showed why commodity markets will always be volatile.

Taking oil as an example, he illustrated that demand growth is very stable, effectively indexed to continous GDP, but supply is very 'lumpy' & because oil sites (& even oil states) tend to go online/offline in discrete steps.

The same phenomenon applies to metals, agricultural goods and other fuel sources.

Unfortunately I can't find the Youtube clip of this interview
Considering the racial makeup for these jobs that you just mentioned, I think you are generalizing quite strongly from your experience. (edit: In my experience those in the food service industry is also Chinese-dominated, e.g. in hawker centers. Note that halal kitchens tend to be Malay-dominated.)

I don't think there is anything sinister about one of the most developed economies and cities being a city that doesn't sleep.
As long as it’s safe, what’s the problem?
if you use "sort" in your daily life, you don't need TAOCP. A good tutorial will do. If the "sort" provided by the libs you use doesn't work for you and you feel you need to taylor it to your needs, then start by TAOCP (an dbe sure to have time to do so, it's not an easy read when it comes to details).
What an obscenely naive view of how politics works in even democratic countries (and this is not to speak of the majority of the world's countries that are either not democratic, partly democratic or "democratic" but heavily corrupted by insider money and special back scratching.) Yet because it's ostensibly and sometimes partly genuine, you think it should brook no resistance? You really think that all permitted activity should simply follow expressions of voter will as if they weren't regularly misled by emotional manipulation, corruption, bribery and idiotic popular beliefs?

Imagine for example how noble voter will felt about homosexuality in most of the western world 40 years ago. Should all those lgbt people have just neatly folded away their sexual needs and preferences until one day they became legal? No. They found private ways of sometimes, Oh gosh, breaking laws. This can apply in many contexts without being immoral by default.

Somehow however in your curious worldview, crypto having its bad uses means it should all be banned and is somehow an expression of "tyranny" (truly, wtf?) but democratic will despite its numerous flaws, holes and opportunities for corruption should be inviolable?

Somebody moving their funds from some dysfunctional "democracy" to a safer place, or protecting their assets from disintegration because of X new government being riddled with corruption and state-level theft doesn't negatively affect my freedom. A worldwide state effort by both formally transparent countries and deeply corrupt countries painting themselves as participants in "transparency", to crush all forms of private financial transactions and personal financial security outside their controlled lines most definitely might affect my freedom, and yours one day maybe.

To entirely rely on this deeply mixed, highly dubious range of systems for handling votes and public will as a means of protecting a basic right to privacy and free use of one's person and property (yes even the economic kind) is ridiculous.

To tell people who right now have need of something like crypto at least as a concept that they're the ones threatening global freedom and causing tyranny is laughable. It's blinkered, narrow-minded and deeply privileged nonsense passing as a rational argument. Just because your life doesn't make you need economic privacy doesn't mean that the majority of the world living in far from ideal economic conditions can be ignored for needing that very option.

And enough already with the smearing of things with arguments around child abusers, terrorists and blah blah. Just about everything people use to do something private in any way could be used to promote some abuse. Should for example privacy of communications also thus be banned as "tyranny"? How many disgusting cynics keep using these same tired garbage arguments for any intrusion they care to covet?
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> Get woke, go broke

as proven by famous box office flop, the Barbie movie
>> I'm starting the first volume

you've told us about your friend (hello there friend), but not said anything about your background / the context in which you're "starting". So...

It's generally aimed for those studying Computer Science and/or have deep interest in Theory of programming + computation.

Knuth loves algorithms, he even has algorithm on how to Read the book and approach the exercises (difficulty, mathematical complexity etc).
A History of Subtyping [video]
Installing LineageOS involves unlocking the bootloader and/or acquiring root, which will make several applications (mostly banking, but afaik some streaming apps as well) refuse to launch, because your phone now trips SafetyNet (which is "yet another thing I don't need, but have to pay for").
> to mention what natural predators ticks might have.

Lazy to duckduckgo it: What are those predators ?
This is if we follow the recommendation to use a GPU. But if you don't need 200+ tokens per second and are happy with something like 10-15, a CPU-only solution is acceptable and would cost significantly less.
Possibly only used by Alliant
Valve levels the playing field for Counter-Strike 2 esports
Notably, tournament organizers will no longer be able to operate closed leagues where teams pay for their spot and get to be invited to every event, no matter their performances. They also introduce their own ranking algorithm for professional teams.
Maybe as a "Duplicate your store without impacting SEO" plugin, so people can transfer 100s of product and have the description rewritten for each?
One day is not enough to even get a superficial understanding of any language.

People tend to always exaggerate how little time it takes to learn a language to a meaningful degree. Sure, the first day I tried Go I was able to accomplish something useful, but it took me a few months to develop a basic understanding of how you use Go in an idiomatic manner. I'd say it took at least a couple of years before I could say I "knew" Go.

And it wasn't exactly love at first sight. My initial impression of Go was that it was a bit too much like C, and, coming from Java, I was a bit confused about how you structure things. That takes time to figure out for any language. What sold me on Go eventually was that for my uses (writing multi-protocol server applications that run on multiple architectures), it resulted in code that was very readable and productivity more than doubled because Go is a lot less fussy to work in than Java. Both in terms of encouraging more minimal designs and having a lot less fragility.
See the vsauce video "what does the internet weigh"
Happy user of dstack.ai. The simplicity of just spinning up a machine with my required set of GPUs and memory, from my vendor of choice, and have an endpoint to easily access it via ssh and VSCode has been game changing for me.

I once had some trouble setting it up and the founder literally went on a zoom chat with me to help navigate through things. Couldnt recommend them enough!!
Disney's Real-Life Droids
Apologies, I submitted before changing the source to the official announcement here: https://www.counter-strike.net/newsentry/3677802763035982969