skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made one related to this xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1360/

Several of us, which I found out by reading comments here, have each developed on our own our little utility to do the same thing: clean up / deduplicate / get rid of old files.

And it's not just a matter of using fdupes or jdupes: I created a database where I tag files based on their cryptographic hash (and size, for speed). For example a file can be tagged as "file with that hash can always be deleted" or "file with that hash can always be renamed to xxx".

I then can run my "bezerker" on entire filesystems and it'll delete files tagged for deletion.

I used the Blake3 hash for speed but I also saved which hash is used, so if something much faster comes up, I can switch (I'd still need to use Blake3 for the hashes already in the DB but that's no issue).

I did this because I got tired of having for example the wife and mother-in-law coming with yet another USB stick, with yet another "directory inside a directory inside a directory with family pictures and movies from 2017" or whatever and having to delete for the ten times that same blurry picture or that same little 3 seconds movie taken by mistake etc.

So, basically, instead of lamenting, in that xkcd 1360 style, about old files and old directories, I made my own little utility to get rid of the problem once and for all.

Works wonder but as you asked: it's really for my own use and I kept it private.

That said I take it there's at least some interest in a public / open-source utility doing that: otherwise there wouldn't be several of us here on HN (and certainly elsewhere too) developing our own solution for this problem.
Tesla's from 2012 are still receiving updates. Not even Apple is still updating phones from 2012.
> Most companies […] are lighting money on fire - is this not the VC model?

The VC model, like here on HN, is gambling on winners and losers in the start up space. The losers burn VC money, the winners become the unicorns - whatever, bleh
The author makes a case against lockdowns which is hurtful to our mental health and suggests that vaccines are somewhat responsible for excessive deaths in the younger population.

The easier explaination is that those people were going to die of covid (vaccinated or not) didn't. They are sickened by either the virus, the vaccine or both. The robust cytokine storms that occurred in younger people might harm them more than older people.
Yes, the brain complexity is the key bit, and that's where the research is going (Tesla's in particular).

Adding "a few different sensors" is not going to solve the fundamental problems of navigating the world.
SOURCE: https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-pr...

Bill Mensch tells IEEE Spectrum directly that the 6502 was designed to compete with the Intel 4040, and specifically says not the 8080 or 6800. I don't know how much more "primary" a reference can get, folks.
Tesla really is a garbage car all around. Suspicious build quality. Features locked behind software gate. False claims of full autonomous AI. Broken OTA updates. So glad I didn’t pull the trigger when it was hyped.

Anecdotally, the worst drivers I have ever encountered on the road are the basic white Tesla drivers. Almost on par with beat down Nissan Altima drivers.
Perhaps we just shouldn't do this?

The environmental impact of AI is already huge and we have an uncertain energy future.
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction (2020)
curious about this. apparently is supports extensions on ios?
Right, people were buying iPhones because they wanted to touch two or more fingers. Everyone was trying to make screens that can register multiple touches but Apple was the first to crack it and this led to natural success of market demanding multiple touches and they having it.
"without cgo" benchmarks should probably have comparisons for stuff like indexing too, since that's no longer in the shared C library that every other library uses - I would generally expect them to be slower here. And interop with Go code for custom funcs, since sqlite makes that so easy, where I'd expect them to be faster in at least some cases (no repeated cgo overhead).

"Complex" kinda covers this, since there are foreign keys involved, and it's also where e.g. Zombie shows an uncharacteristic slowdown compared to the other benchmarks. Seems like it's probably not a coincidence?
I've been shipping code to production that it generates for months now. It's really good for some things. But yeah a lot of the time it's wrong.
> Isn't this essentially just R&D?

Yes jam AI into everything, say your company uses AI, in your board meetings blab about AI. Eventually, something sticks and makes money
> "Secretly compelled"

We have a literal Secret Court in the U.S. for just this purpose. Everything done in there is and stays a secret.
My car's gone the opposite way. When trying to find it in the parking lot, with the old one, you just pushed "lock" on the keyfob twice and listened for the horn honk. The new one makes a nice, elegant but not very loud "beep" sound. Useless for this purpose.

They also got the seat belt warning right. At startup it displays a map of the seats, green if occupied and buckled, red if not, grey if unoccupied. Good for checking that the kids did up their seat belts in the back, without being annoying. I'm guessing it does have a nag chime, but the kids have behaved so far...

I do have to say, the only complaint about the gimcrackery in mine (low-ish trim level 2023 Honda Civic) is that the menu UI is a bit clunky. But nothing gets in your way once adjusted properly and the automations (e.g. you can't manually time the windshield washer squirt any more - it squirts at the optimum angle of the wipers) work pretty well.
Artificial intelligence systems found to excel at imitation, but not innovation
For a lot of applications, you can assume thickness, so width is usually the headline number.

Floating shelves are typically going to be a nominal inch thick, likely planed to around 20mm, so you can tell an apprentice to go and get 2m of 140mm board
Are you arguing that you don't exist? You seem to be
Also because there's a mismatch between goroutines and C threads as described here https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/the-cost-and-complexity-o... while Java threads can map 1:1 to C threads.
This is called Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon [0][1]. Every time that you buy a new car, you see the same one everywhere you look: "hey! I just read one article about Tesla, here's 3 more!" when there is usually several articles each day about Tesla.

Notes:

0 - https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Q&A With Bill Mensch, co-creator of the 6502
OK folks, here it is, the IEEE Spectrum article where Bill Mensch says, directly, that the 6502 was intended to compete with the Intel 4040 for low-cost embedded applications and says, again directly, that it was not intended to compete with the 8080 and 6800.
This makes me worried that you will only see news that is paid for in ChatGPT now.
The Viking origins of your Bluetooth devices
It’s really easy to hack a kobo to use it without registering:

https://jacobalbano.com/2021/06/24/setting-up-a-kobo-without...
It was switched-off for me (based in Europe).

Edit: based on their help page "In countries with the preferred language set to English. Excluding Canada, the UK (United Kingdom), and countries within the EEA (European Economic Area)." https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-...
The last couple of months I had to eat out frequently, so I experienced all sorts of dark patterns in tipping. There are two which I found almost everywhere -

1. The server shoves the handheld tiny device in your face presenting with 3 options: 20%, 22%, and 25%. There is a small button at the bottom to select "Other" amount. You click that because you want to pay maybe 15%. But then it brings up an input box for the precise amount of the tip you want to pay. Unless you already know this amount, your options are awkwardly calculate the tip while the server is impatiently watching you or suck it up and go back to the default tipping menu. In many of these restaurants the server brought the bill and asked for the payment at the same time so I had no time to pre-calculate the tip.

2. In almost all the restaurants, the device tacked on the tip on post sales tax amount. In Texas the sales tax is 8.25%. So a 20% tip ends up being roughly 22%.

Sure, the few extra dollars don't make a dent in my finances. It is not the spending that hurts, it is the feeling of getting manipulated in real time that kills me.
I'm actually OK with "product placement" ads as long as they don't interrupt the content. It IS annoying when a YouTube creator interrupts the content to say "And now an ad for a VPN which has NOTHING to do with what you are watching or care about..." but I've seen some YouTube creators actually integrate the product being sponsored into their content in a way that makes sense and serves both purposes.

For example, I was watching a "maker" video where they 3d printed some models for the project that were provided by their sponsor for use in the project they were showing you how to make. That type of "advertising" I can support. It doesn't detract from the content or distract, the product is relevant to what you are watching and, as you said, it doesn't track you other than tracking aggregate viewing numbers and how many people skip that section of the video.

Classic examples would be things like Apple paying to have their laptops or computers used as the props in movies. Or a car manufacturer having their vehicles shown. As long as it doesn't take you out of the content and make you feel like you've been interrupted to be advertised to then that's the one and only form of advertising I don't hate.

I guess there's also "opt in" stuff, like the user taking deliberate action to subscribe to a product magazine or newsletter is fine too... emphasis on "opt in" and "deliberate action", however. Nothing gets me to avoid doing business with a company faster than if their "Sign up to your newsletter" checkbox is default checked or, worse, there is no check box and you've been auto signed up and need to unsubscribe. Thanks for punishing me by doing business with you, assholes.

The rest can go away forever and never come back.
If you have someone in the car with you do you tell them to be silent?
I made a couple of things for myself recently.

I’d been unwillingly paying for LA fitness for around 6 months but the only way to cancel was to send certified mail so I released bye bye fitness last week to do it from home and was my own first customer
https://byebyefitness.com

Last year I made stream switcher because I use Apple Music and my girlfriend uses Spotify. We send songs back and forth a lot and she couldn’t easily listen to the links I’d share. My app is an iMessage extension that shows your recently played Apple Music songs and allows you to search for and send Spotify links within the messages app
https://kevindiem.com/stream-switcher
And yet we still only have the handful of incidents from foreigners, most of which come over legally anyway. Right wingers have been fearmingering about foreigners for decades. Are they just using illegal entry now when they didn't before and waiting a really long time? You do know domestic terrorism is just as common as foreign terrorism in the US, right?
I don't get it. What are the controls? I'm using Firefox on desktop.
I dunno, my 18 year old Honda (and wife's Toyota of same age) is pretty much all physical switches (and that's not counting all the cars I've driven since the late 80s). Outside of the occasional manufacturer idiosyncrasies, my Honda's controls pretty much behave the same way that all my prior cars did too.

Yes, there are a lot, but I only use a handful of them at any given time. They work predictably, without any random lags related to CPU load or any other weird stuff that could be related to running a -large- complex operating system. Everything just works, and all the time. -- edit: might want to add that they don't need software upgrades either

I would prefer that over a touchscreen any day.
>“We didn’t expect there to be so much iron density at that altitude. It comes from meteors that enter the atmosphere at high speed, burn up and [then] the metal atoms are left suspended. The iron layer is normally a little bit higher. In our case, we hypothesized that on that day there were gravity waves [a wave phenomenon in the air] and the iron layer was lowered,” says Passas Varo.

That still sounds like so many different things happening at the right time, but that would also explain their elusive nature and difficulty to capture and study.
Dupe from recent past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37627697
I've created Mikochi (https://github.com/zer0tonin/Mikochi) for myself. It's a file manager for your personal server / NAS, that also allows you to stream files to VLC/MPV.

Before creating Mikochi, I used to access my collection of movies through Jellyfin. Jellyfin has a really nice UI and does a ton of things like adding metadata, but I didn't use those things. I also didn't use their in-browser video player because it didn't work with H265. In addition to that, I wanted to easily manage the files without having to switch to sftp. Mikochi lets me easily create, delete, rename, download, and upload files (or whole directories).

As a bonus, it only requires 26MB of RAM to run on my server.
Never been in one. But I do get a sense of panic and anxiety seeing some of these Tesla idiots testing this junk in crowded, dense urban areas.

I frequently walk now and the number of basic white Tesla close calls is way too high.
Why not? By that logic, humans are a much larger impact and we should depopulate them.
I absolutely love the full self-driving in my Model Y. I use it every day and still chuckle to myself all the time about how crazy it is that I'm in a car that can autonomously drive all over town.

I understand all the complaints in the comments section about Elon over promising and wishing FSD were perfect by now, but I can't believe there aren't more positive comments too.

When I show my friends the FSD and acceleration of my Tesla, Santa mode, "emissions" mode, etc, they are always amazed, as am I. I'm living in the future and loving it.
Former Department of Energy staffers warn we're doing carbon removal all wrong
The behavior here is largely because the investors and the founders don’t come from an agricultural background, they’re born and bred urbanites who think they’re inherently superior to the rubes in the flyover states, rather than realizing that agriculture is the most mature of all industries and the average successful farmer is effectively a renaissance man.

My farmer family members are brilliant at math, have masters degrees (and a Ph.D in one case), and understand business accounting better than most business people because agriculture has very thin margins and is a ruthless business for smaller operators. They commonly encounter “Brads and Chads from the city” who think anyone that lives more than 20 miles from a Walmart is a stupid hick that failed out of elementary school and needs a savior that knows better than they what is good for them.

The same attitudes that funnel stupid money into agtech boondoggles is the one that fuels the urban/rural sociopolitical divide in America, and I will give you a hint, it’s not the rural folks that are the condescending assholes here.
This reduces the environmental impact of AI, and they can use the power plants to power something else in the future.
Let's build a bright future for PeerTube
Clusters of brain cells grown in the lab have potential as a hybrid bio-computer
Video Search by Text: Find Any Moment Instantly
Plenty of people around the world (not me) think it would be good
You think Israel would have a blockade if the Egypt border crossing was not under their control? Why don't you read the first section here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing

Are you trying to say that not a single Palesitinan has been displaced? The nakba is largely why we have these problems today, and it's still going on.
No subscription yet so I haven’t read the article. The dissolves were excellent in this film tho. But overall the slower pace and time with little moments is what made it so good for me - to stop and have time for a slow (but so so good) film like this is what was perfect.
Same. Longtime Toyota owner who keeps cars for around 10 years. When Toyota didn't offer carplay, there was no way I was gonna live in the 'oldentimes' for another decade and I chose a VW with carplay.
The web floods
(White) Teslas are just more common, but EV acceleration is dangerous in the wrong hands. My family friendly electric Volvo CUV does 0-60 as fast as a Porsche 911. The EX-30 is going to be about 25% faster. Mass adoption is going to be pretty scary
I used a paid app for calculations with annotations and felt I needed something greater than that so I built one for myself.

https://github.com/4silvertooth/QwikTape
I don't think there's any known example of bilateral chimerism in humans? Hermaphroditism is humans (and for that matter, in birds; the above is a really unusual case) works completely differently.
Storybook for React Server Components
Yes, that's basically it, most of the environmental problems are due to the inefficiencies of the meat production which you can't realistically solve by tech.

What people think as a technical problem is in reality a social problem.
Or perhaps we should. Right now, an unprecedented amount of money is being raised for AI.

If we can somehow turn that into green energy, that’s a big win for the planet. Those nuclear plants will be around a lot longer than the AI “gold rush”.
If they don't watch the road and know when to be, yes. If they're talking when it's safe to that is okay.
CryptoLyzer 0.12 –= SSLyze and testssl.sh and SSH-audit and Mozilla observatory
Hahahah when I worked at the hospital my director's answer to any of that was "Exchange is our MDM" despite me pushing for it, so I was stuck with the receipts regardless.

... My personal stuff is enrolled into my own personal Jamf instance and because I went through a bunch of motions with Apple Business my personal phones and Macs are all DEP locked ;)
> captured on film

The article makes no further mentions of actual film,
so presumably the phrase now also applies to digital photography?!
I hate the ocean sunfish
Sorry, a person's right to be a complete moron (opening a door while a car is moving) doesn't trump everyone else's right to not be endangered by said moron.
Title is vague and editorialised.

"Microsoft plans to power AI data centers with next-generation nuclear reactors" would be better.
They did not say Starship was a requirement for Starlink, they said they could use it when ready to speed up the rollout.
SpaceX has been launching the Gen2 satellites, originally intended to be launched on Starship, on Falcon 9 instead.
In my personal opinion and usage, the performance doesn't matter. Only one driver is written in pure go, and can be easily statically compiled and/or cross-compiled.

> modernc, modernc.org/sqlite, a pure Go solution. This is a newer library, based on the SQLite C code re-written in Go.

Unless I'm mistaken, this is not a re-write in Go. This is a transpilation of the the SQLite C library into go, using https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo
Shaving one's beard is an artform that I enjoy as much as a painter enjoys painting. What's the world coming to when there are people who do not know a shavette?
> so the AI can do renames

I do renames in a big window with my IDE.
"Programming and Metaprogramming the Human Biocomputer" by John Lilley might come in handy for this device.
This is one of the reasons i dont like cloud.

I only use it for (encrypted) backups and temporary sharing. Not for important stuff.

Also i dont want my account or data to be randomly deleted due to vague terms and conditions or policies.
Adopting Rust: the missing playbook for managers and CTOs
Just wondering what you're using for adblockers?

I find the web far more unstable NOT using a blocker. Far too often the ads themselves break the layout or gobble up as much CPU as possible.
Show HN: 1099-Form PDF Reader and Parser
To “celebrate” this upcoming tax season in the US, I’ve made this script that parses 1099 forms into .csv files, making further processing and calculations more manageable. Hope you find it useful and tax season is not too bad.
Forgot to mention, I've got an invidious instance set up too. I also make much use of yt-dlp. Also miniflux for rss, a remarkable tablet w/ rmfakecloud for my ebooks, and prob some more stuff.

On the YT side it feels good paying a few bucks a month for each channel i like and getting to skip the ads. I hope that picks up. I don't like paying for YT premium because then my identity is tied to my watch history.
Tachyum delays the Prodigy Universal processor yet again to second half of 2024
Right. Tech videos can be a source of infotainment, but video-only documentation and tutorials are just a waste of time.
In an ideal world that is a great ideal, but that is not the world we live in.

My understanding is that before this was made public Apple was under a gag order and could not talk about this. In a situation like that how would Apple be able to bring lawyers into the case to fight it?

> they were NOT legally required to do so.

My understanding is that they very much were forced to do this.

Again I am going to ask, if Apple and Google were under Gag orders realistically what were their options?

To me it sounded like they didn't have any and the only reason we are able to get these protections now is because it's public knowledge.
I made SimplifyRecipe.com, a utility to get the crap off of recipe sites because I was genuinely sick of it.

Cooking with a standardized recipe view is just so much better.

It’s also free for others to use but I don’t think anyone outside my family does.
Undocumented, non-standard, life-threatening software automation is bad?
Will the cost be more than $32 USD (28 CHF) per kilogram or $14.53 per pound of chicken? That's what people pay for chicken at the Migros supermarkets in the tiny landlocked country of Liechtenstein which is part of the Swiss customs union.

I think the closest thing to that chicken is organic free range, which cost $5.79 a pound a few years ago in the US at Trader Joes.

So the 3x multiple is in line with what you're suggesting if we assume Swiss customs union area chicken cost reflects reality.
The the majority of the systems my clients bought were primarily fodder grass systems. Scale? UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen. Pretty large scale, you need a lot of fodder grass to help support a burgeoning livestock industry in a desert.

Then I had California clients. Cannabis left and right. I only had one unhappy client and that's because the system worked TOO well for their chosen strain - the buds it produced were so thick that they got no air circulation and molded on the inside.
Yep; English tends to hold onto these archaic references. People also still talk about getting things on tape etc.
>They all seem to be based on this assumption that traditional farming/food production is antiquated and inefficient, and that what the industry needs is clever outsiders to come in and re-invent it with the latest technologies. And they all just seem to go nowhere.

I think we can safely say this mentality goes well beyond ag-tech. There seems to be a founder/engineer specific flavor of "epistemic trespassing" - especially with respect to fields that tech types look down on as banal or unsophisticated.

Outsiders can make valuable contributions to fields beyond their own, but I'd imagine the chance of doing so steeply diminishes with arrogance. If you walk into a market thinking everyone is an idiot waiting to be disrupted, get ready to fail hard.
> Those systems consume very little in the way of resources

Since when is electricity not a resource?

Unlike cannabis, you can’t sell tomatoes for $2,000 a pound.