skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I replied to this comment:

> At a certain level of adoption, they should be forced to, IMO. Our monopoly laws never envisioned self contained platforms/marketplaces

with this comment:

> What justification is there for this, though? There is nothing specifically unique to iMessage that makes life, liberty, or property difficult to pursue.

You then said:

> Devil's advocate...

> Historically the reason corporations were given limited liability was in return for them performing a public good.

> If in a democracy most people want open messaging, I see no reason why they shouldn't have it.

> Corporations are not the same as people, they are tools.

When one says "[To play] Devil's advocate", one is taking on the position opposite of the person they're speaking with. My position is, "What is the justification for forcing Apple to open iMessage?" That means you're taking the position of, "There is justification for forcing Apple to open iMessage." You then do this by saying your third line, that if a democracy has a majority of people wanting something, you see no reason why they shouldn't have it.

Intentional or not, you took on the position that iMessage should be taken from Apple by the US government and forcibly open-sourced because that's the will of the people. When I responded, I was responding to the comments you had made in this direction, which you continued to make.

What I think is that iMessage is owned by Apple, and since it doesn't provide any critical and otherwise unobtainable service, it should not be nationalized. That was what we were discussing. I didn't opt to participate in an open-ended discussion that bounces around on the general topic of open sourced messaging platforms, I responded to a specific argument with a specific counterpoint.
Or… they do the extortion thing and then change the name of their group and go again without the untrustworthy baggage
We just bought 3 hectares that are protected, near a protected state park in bahia. The laws protecting the property we purchased are pretty weak. We and our neighbors are trying to reforest 80+% of our property but that's only a few dozen hectares. In Brazil the incentives lean towards trying to produce cash crops it seems - cacao, dendê, whatever. But that isn't going to reforest the vast areas that need it.
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I'm guessing you wrote in the languages you know (I did).
Which is why it should be illegal to pay them off
A high quality book that can serve as a reference has value even if you haven’t worked your way through the whole thing.
Ask HN: Heroku like platform built on top of Azure/AWS
I am wondering if is there a platform where we can quickly deploy an app with CI/CD and a database built-in where users use this Heroku-like interface but under the hood, it is just Azure or AWS and it takes care of all the complexities involved?

The reason I am asking this is this week I wanted to use Azure to deploy an app the same way I used Heroku and it was pretty complicated for very basic PoC apps. I was wondering if the is a tool or platform that abstracts things for common users.
> to Barnes and noble, grab a coffee, and plant myself on the bench in the periodical section to pour through every page of the latest 2600, desperately trying to commit to my memory as much as possible

I still go to my local Barnes & Noble, the last one remaining in Seattle, to get my 2600 (and a coffee!) every quarter. Why B&N? No other bookstore in the city sells 2600, at least not reliably.

It's been a quarterly ritual for quite some time, even though I could just get a "lifetime" subscription and have more Hacker Quarterly pages to read than I could do in an actual lifetime. I still enjoy going and getting a paper magazine and reading spill about central offices and script code injection.
When you fill up a gas car, you stand by the pump as it gets filled. Say it takes 5min, that's 5min of being right there holding the pump (or babysitting it), with your attention mostly budgeted to this (minus dumb browsing).

When you do sub-2h trips on a Tesla, you don't need to fuel at all. The car charges at home, you spend no time whatsoever on the act of fueling. On longer trips spanning 3+ hours, when you plug a Tesla, you might be charging for 15-20min but the attention budget you dedicate to the act is on the order of 20s. You stop, plug the car, walk away and go eat a taco or buy some groceries or empty your bladder, or watch a video in the car. You'll physically arrive maybe 10-15min later than a gas/flow car (assuming no resting), but you'll have mentally dedicated much less time to the act of replenishing the spent energy.

To me, this is more than worth it. Over a year of driving and commuting and road tripping, I spent a tiny fraction of what I would have on the act of starring at or thinking about an energy replenishment device.

The idea of frequently babysitting the refilling of a liquid in my car is obnoxious.
May your pagers be silent.
Probably also the fact that Covid wiped out much of the target demographic.

In the US, a bad flu kills around 1K people per week during the winter. Covid killed 5K people per week even during the summer, for 2 years.

If Covid deaths continue to drop, next winter might finally be comparable to that "just a bad flu".
Maybe less zeitgeist, but it would be really interesting to see what extrapolating future writing styles are like.
Im super grateful for family, especially nieves and nephews. Being an uncle has been such a joy.

I am grateful that in the last year, due to a particularly insightful HN comment, I was able to kick a couple pretty nasty habits and my health and mental stability is improving greatly as a result.
3.3 gigs of just text source code? That is unfathomable to me.

EDIT: Okay, I guess if it also include revision control then that makes more sense. Still, that is huge.
- gmail driven development. was small enough to start emailing myself when events happen, inadvertently mailing myself on (B2B) customer logins. But found it was a great time to also pick up the phone to catchup/guide. left this turned on as a feature!

- got rid of the concept of passwords. 2FA only.

- more of a productivity hack, but - spread sheets with columns that create sql statements, allowing ops to learn/run sql themselves

- bookshelves as standing desks. usb keyboard on lower shelf. laptop at eye level.

- raised an angel round with an android app with beautiful screenshots of the vision. but once installed the app only had a email waitlist implemented
This site is served over plain HTTP. Not only does he not need to fix anything, you should fix your broken web browser that's "upgrading" to HTTPS when no one, especially the site owner, asked it to.
You need to gather requirements. Planning to get acquired? Bootstrapping and want to preserve runway? Where are your apps currently? What IdP is already in place? Do you have an existing IdP in place (AD?) that you want to preserve as your source of truth? What apps need SSO? Are they third party or self hosted? Do you need MFA? Are all users full time employees?

A keycloak or zitadel instance may meet your technical requirements (something you can confirm in an afternoon or two.) But if you’re about to have new corporate overlords through an acquisition or a large corporate client, Okta may be the path of least resistance.
If it's just a cultural thing, how would you compare Singapore to Ireland for instance ? They have roughly the same population, while Ireland's GDP is 500 billion and Singapore "only" 400 billion.

Are Singapore people about 100 billion dollars lazier, less educated and with a worse attitude ? Are Ireland people and culture that much aimed towards hard work, sacrifice and effort ?

Yes, a working government, educated people, hard work sacrifice and effort all weight on the scale when it comes to how a country will be doing. But reducing a whole country's issues to that is naive and misleading in a pretty perverse way in my opinion.

Too often it's also used the other way round to explain a country's success, and pat oneself on the back for being virtuous and hard working when things are just so much more complex and nuanced.
Couldn't you condense the calories somehow, like making a broth and straining?
> Say it takes 5min, that's 5min of being right there holding the pump (or babysitting it)

5 mins is like 50 gallons of gas, which is a very, very large gas tank. That's like larger than a Ford F-350 gas tank.

My car's gas tank fills in like one minute, if I run it fairly close to empty (which is rare)
It's a photo of his boss though
BTC ATMs are still wildly popular with scammers.
Well it sold at Christie’s, not OpenSea or something
Wow, this is a security vulnerability potentially affecting me. I'm using ProxyCommand because GitHub is randomly blocked by the China GFW.
I'm waiting for the follow-up from Jeff Geerling where he fits a Raspberry Pi into a Cray-1 enclosure.
Hi all,
I was asking myself the same thing today and I followed a recent blog post from LlamaIndex[0] to create the following repo
https://github.com/tucared/llm-file-explorer

[0] https://blog.llamaindex.ai/running-mixtral-8x7-locally-with-...
I’ve been all between Seattle and Portland enough and stopped at enough Tesla stations that I know it is complete fantasy to charge for 20 minutes on a road trip. It also doesn’t take anyone 5 min to fill with gas. Most cars are like 90 seconds / 16 gallons.
I have a some personal anecdotes from the past few years living in Los Angeles that might help explain the discrepancy between people's perceptions and the crime data.

A couple years ago two cars pulled up in front of the house across the street from mine, four people got out and started trying to break in by throwing a rock through the front window. The noise was loud enough to alert myself and a couple other neighbors on the street who came out to see the burglars fleeing back to their cars after the homeowner scared them away with a gun.

I called 911 and waited on hold for 2 hours for someone to answer only to tell me that the only the people who had their house broken into could file a report and to have them call back. When I went to tell this to the neighbor it turned out that he did try to report it but gave up after waiting on hold for an hour. In the end this home break in was never reported and did not make it into the crime data.

Last year, living in a different part of Los Angeles, I woke up at 4am to the sound of people yelling and bottles breaking outside. There was a group of very noticeably drunk people sitting on the hoods of their cars drinking in the street. I watched them long enough to determine they were all wasted, at least one of them would be driving, and if any of them drove they'd be a danger to themselves and others. Again I called 911, waited a half hour, and was told they'd dispatch someone. A half hour later they all got into separate cars and did indeed drive away, leaving empty beer bottles next to where their cars had been. It's hard to know if LAPD actually came to check because this all happened on the street adjacent to the back gate of the Hollywood police department and around 6am it gets a lot of traffic from police cars heading back to the station at the end of the shift. As far as I can tell this crime was never reported and did not get included in the data.

Also within the last year, on the same street adjacent to the police station, a homeless man seemingly in a manic episode was vandalizing parked cars while screaming about killing people of a certain protected group. This time I called 911, waited 20 minutes and told the operator what I saw. Because the homeless man had wandered to a different street and I couldn't see him anymore I was told it's not an ongoing crime and to call the LAPD non-emergency line so they can take the report. I called the non-emergency line and reached their voicemail. This is another crime that wasn't reported and didn't get included in the data.

The crime statistics are only as good as the data being collected. From personal experience I've witnessed 3 crimes which should have contributed to crime statistics but didn't. My suspicion is that cities across America are having similar problems simply taking in and documenting reports of crime. It could very well be that crime is actually rising, people are correctly perceiving that crime is rising, yet the data to substantiate the rising crime rate isn't getting recorded.
rockstar should be proud that hackers are applying what they learned from their games
your argument, if it were correct, would entail that gasoline cars could never have become popular, since it in no way depends on the 2x specific energy advantage li-ion has over victorian-era lead-acid batteries

this suggests that some crucial aspects of the situation have escaped your notice, so perhaps your dismissal is too hasty
Here is my favorite website for it: https://fantasyanime.com/finalfantasy/ff7.htm
That kind of deity can not be restricted by logical paradoxes, it is beyond their reach so to speak.

That of course raises the question why even attempt logical proofs, but here we are.
one of the first things i do is install caffeine(stops screensaver/locking), sizeup(window manager).
Fewer people reporting crimes
It is extremely early to make this call. You cannot say a recession was avoided until after, and a good time after.
Oh wow, that's much more manual than I expected! Researching GIS data I expected but what you do after that is totally different from what I had in my head. I was thinking it was more like the experience of owning a single rental property; once you get past any unique "mining" paperwork that it would be an income stream that is largely passive.
Years ago I was discouraged that there is a lack of a grid component like WPF's Grid or Delphi's TGridPanel. Something that I can specify the number of rows/cols and their sizing. Has this changed since? Or perhaps this is achievable nowadays with (nested?) TFlowPanels?
> I mostly stopped reading it in ~2021/2022, but from ~2015-2021 it was getting progressively more hostile to tech, fearful of anything new, etc.

It's would be hard for them to maintain the kind of techo-optimism they had in their early years, without sounding delusional, given what we've learned since.
what are you on?
... because it is essentially a caching proxy to twitter?
Can you compose grep to only search within specific scopes like "don't search in comments"?
and especially to those who don't
Crystal vase
What is RAG? That's hard to search for
Happy tree day!
I'm used to working in a context where you have to deal with audits and it makes sense to weigh that cost, but for video games, couldn't they throw it in EC2 or fargate in an account with nothing else and forget about it? It doesn't need to have access to anything important (it might not need access to anything at all if you're not persisting any player data). If the only open port is the game server, patch schedules can be somewhere between late and never.
Or, not even lie, but just be unaware of the subconscious biases influencing them. Then they can say with a completely straight face that your group had nothing to do with it, even if that isn't true.
Twitter doesn't even show most recent tweets from profiles unless you are logged in now. They show a summary of the profile's activity. Nitter is great if you don't have a Twitter account.
A computer catalog at the local Radio Shack set me off in 1978 or '79.

I started by reading BYTE Magazine cover to cover, in 1980, when I found it at the local library. It was a foreign language that I acquired, slowly, by immersion. I was twelve years old.

I was a BYTE subscriber in 1999, when they abruptly ceased publication. The new owners switched my subscription to "PC Magazine", I believe. I sent them a note to the effect that BYTE had covered the whole industry, not just Windows-compatible machines, and they could donate the pro-rated price on the subscription remaining to the beer fund for the BYTE staff that had had no warning that the ace was about to fall.

It's hard to build a culture, a cadre of writers and editors, with ad-hoc contributors to online sites. I subscribed to Ars Technica, Phoronix, and lwn.net with the lunch money I had left over as the year draws to a close. Please consider supporting such institutions, if you can. Every bit helps.

https://arstechnica.com

https://www.phoronix.com/phoronix-premium

https://lwn.net/subscribe/

https://archive.org/donate
> Also yes, humans are causing extinction rates 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural extinction rates[1]

> 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

I'm well aware of the subject. If you open the link you'll see that the baseline is not "natural extinction rates" but "background extinction rates". That is rates during the periods of time when environment doesn't change. When environment does change however the rates are orders of magnitude higher. We live in the times of change.

Whether the Holocene extinction is on the level of the big six or on the level of other 30+ smaller known extinction events is up to the debate. Either way it's nothing new. You are here today thanks to all these extinction events, be grateful not to be a trilobite.

The comment I was replying above just throws together a bunch of words that sound good, like "diversity" and "sustainable", without any attempt at an actual analysis of the situation. That is not appreciated.
A really good, free resource:

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100

https://www.youtube.com/@twostraws
With no reputation, you’re presumably less likely to have victims pay up. You want to build reputation so you can get consistent profit from these extortions.
Retrieval-augmented generation, RAG + LLM will turn up more results.
The bookshop there is excellent
Others have explored this space also:

https://braiins.com/blog/guide-home-hvac-heating-bitcoin-min...

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/03/heatbit-space-h...

https://hackaday.com/2023/05/13/home-heating-with-bitcoin-mi...

Some of the issues are: the noise from the fans, you have to move the heat out of the miner. Miners are computers, they fail in more ways and more often than a space heater does. If you are heating only with miners how do you regulate the heat, by slowing the miner which makes it earn less and is less efficient?

In essence you can easily heat your space with electronics without using crypto miners. Just turn on all your gadgets and lights in the winter and leave them on. It's very convenient to have them on all the time, and the normal heating system will fill in with extra heat to regulate the overall temperature. It may even help your electronics last longer since turning them on/off tends to be what eventually destroys them (at least that was true of electronics 30 years ago, not sure if it's still true today.)
(Disclaimer: I work for one of these)

This is the niche that headless CMSes excel in. Your editors get an easy to use GUI (vendor or self hosted, though IMO the commercial ones are nicer and easier to use). Your developers get JSON and Markdown.

You can also use WordPress with Advanced Custom Forms to accomplish something similar in an hour or two.
As a fan of isopods (Isopoda), I appreciate this as yet another disconnected but related trait between these once ubiquitous prehistoric creatures and the creatures one can often find in their backyard.
I still subscribe to Juiced. It’s a great magazine.

Maybe I’m getting old and curmudgeonly, but there’s nothing fun in computing anymore. If you check out IA and read old copies of Byte or CC, we were all looking forward to the next tech improvement, maybe a 5 MB hard disk that didn’t cost as much as a car, or a printer that finally worked. Maybe sharing a bit of BASIC or assembler code. Is that next computer from Atari going to beat the new Apple II?

These days, eh. Who’s looking forward to anything?
> Install Quarkus.. Fix the dependencies in pom.xml as shown in this diff: ... Create Docker image...

Their definition of "zero-dependency" sure is different than mine.

Edit: my definition is typically, "requires only standard libraries which are included with the compiler."
Also check out The Nine Billion Names of God by the same writer.

https://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/WRIT510/readings/The%20...
Every crime category is spiking in DC.

EG: petty crime: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/washington-dc-...

carjacking: https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/whats-driving-d...
Try ProxyJump instead - it’s the newer way of doing it.
None of those issues address the elephant in the room.

If you dismantle the incumbent system and introduce efficiencies that bring US health care spending in line with other developed countries, millions of health insurance workers would be out of their [parasitic] jobs. Which is politically untenable.

The underlying issue is incentive incompatibility. The health insurance industry is a behemoth 10x the size of the automotive industry, for example. You can imagine what kind of lobbying power they have as a result. And they are not interested in anything that destroys their jobs.
Uniswap V3 liquidity pools are managed as NFTs. Not your main point I know, but people often think of NFTs as simply buy and sell art on opensea. A liquidity pool has clear value.
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't most old school RTS games peer to peer?

EDIT: I misinterpreted the comment as saying that old games weren't P2P, sorry.
Slightly off topic but is there recommended advice on how to tune / train not for document retrieval but for consistent JSON output with specific enums?

i.e given a text, always return back a certain set of fields. For some keys here is the possible set of enums etc. One shot prompting does work but curious how others approach this if you have training data on hand.
Geoengineering most likely as it’s the path of least resistance.
I’m reminded of the time when a Reddit user bought a random box of Blizzard things on eBay and ended up finding a StarCraft gold master source code CD. Many people suggested sharing the code, but Blizzard lawyers reached out. Blizzard eventually gave them a bunch of swag after they returned it.

Would have been so interesting to see.

https://mashable.com/article/starcraft-source-disc
> That's not all private insurance, just some of it.

There are other studies with similar results. Comparisons with HMOs is especially illuminating because of the similar models (vertically-integrated organizations).

> Difficulties getting things covered and being buried in beurocratic nonsense isn't really connected to "health outcomes on average".

Of fucking course it is! WTF you're even talking about? People absolutely get inferior care because they can't wade through bureaucracy.
Copilots use RAG:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/dynamics-insi...
That's unfortunate, as hackaday feels like that too me versus it's older writing style. I was hoping to see more advanced projects and I found it in this channel. https://youtu.be/Ma9FrN5COIo
What? All the electric toothbrush I have come with a two minutes timer. Never had a single cavity.
And a jolly Christmas to you too, kind stranger!
i don't think it's orthogonal at all; i think this kind of science denialism is the inevitable result of the ongoing practice of "trusting science" instead of actually doing science, which is how you can discern who you should trust
Godbolt FTW.
> Calling out Brexit is an... interesting way to argue here.

Why? It's an example of directly affecting healthcare via political pressure.

> If you're proposing my options for heath care are going to be taken away and given to the single option controlled by the electorate who are liable to do things like Brexit... no thank you

That's the thing, it can also be fixed by the electorate.

> I'll take marketplace competition where I can "vote out" the idiots by making a different choice for myself.

Except you can't. Go on, read your insurance contract if you don't believe me. You're at the total whim of death panels, who can just tell you to go and die.