skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a weird argument... passion is not always connected to efficiency/practicality/usefulness, in fact I feel that in a lot of cases it's the opposite.

As a great example, look at old computers: they are pretty popular (there is one link on HN front page right now about N64!) and people are super passionate about it, and yet you would not recommend "everyone to play at least one Nintendo 64 game".

For non-computer examples, somehow a number of my friends are extremely passionate about super hot (as in spicy) sauces. They bring a new bottle for every meal, and they can talk about the kinds of peppers for hours. It's interesting to hear, but I would not want to try them myself, nor would I recommend this to everyone.
You don't need "information theory", you can just make a text file with each option on its own line, then use grep on the command line for each constraint with pipes in between.
I always wondered about Lupus. An ex-boss of mine was insanely into health. Had a yoga studio for years and only ate the healthiest food. He got Lupis at 55. The other interesting thing is that his dad lived until he was 110.
Same for Akamai, Cloudfront, Fastly, etc. Pretty much every business that wants to offload DDOS protection, caching,and some level of frontline security uses a proxying CDN.

An alternative is to keep all of your CDN assets on a CDN bucket on its own hostname, with your main secret-containing business apps on your own servers, but it costs a lot to manage this level of separation and the payoff is only protection against the theoretical attack of "NSA can't attack our users/spy on them". If the NSA ever did do this on a large enough scale or to target a particularly notable person, it's very unlikely it would be kept a secret for long, and the end-business that used Cloudflare et al. wouldn't be implicated whatsoever since every business uses one of the big CDN providers.
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On my TV YouTube wouldn’t skip to video if ads didn’t load. One could say that’s an effective guard against an adblocker as you would just get a black screen for a minute.

Of course you would also get a blank screen when the ad server wasn’t responding, because the ad server is not hooked up to the local cdn
So HN uses Cloudflare? That surprises me because typically I notice sites using Cloudflare because my mobile running GNU Linux cannot pass their dreaded Turnstyle. Luckily that does not happen for HN.
mpv <YouTube link>
I’m from very similar circumstances and I’m sure you don’t want to see that harm perpetuated on the total 11M poor kids in America.

The solutions to child poverty are a mindmap of unpopular and politically-difficult policies. Nowhere is DEIB mentioned as even partially helping any poor child, non-white or otherwise. Currently, DEIB serves a different purpose than rescuing vulnerable people.
this misinformation and nonsense gets mentioned so often

it is in no way true
I've found it easiest to use something like deskreen. That way you don't need to rely on your tablet supporting hdmi input, you just need a browser.

You'll need a hdmi dummy plug on your PC though.
Yes, this occurred at the initial stage of using feature flags. It's important to adhere to best practice guidelines and employ effective tools for their management. This includes implementing notifications for stale feature flags and conducting regular cleanups. Nowadays, some independent tools offer features for automatically cleaning up dead feature flags.
It (and Director, and Flash - and early javascript) were too hard to index and rank for search. The searchability paradigm crushed the creative paradigm in web, financially around 1999-2004 and ultimately culturally to the extent that the former model is barely remembered.
I think the worst thing was making GC optional. I’ve never seen any language end up with good optional GC.
They were comically thin skinned in the Ballmer era. My boss used to have us flaunt MacBooks and iPhones when we would have senior MS execs come in to get yelled at or for a hard negotiation.

They’d get visibly agitated. It was funny.
Windows 2022 containers work on Windows 11. Docker Desktop uses a shim for Windows containers. “dockerd” a single binary for Windows statically compiled is all you need to run Windows containers with the familiar Docker commands, you could also use PowerShell.

They are supported all the same. IMO the main issue is that this feature is poorly marketed.
Why should a STEM professor be required to devote time to such activities? It doesn't seem to be their specialty, humanity does better when we are allowed to specialize, other people can do such things.
Thank you for this. I just installed it an it was exactly what I looked for when I bought my Oculus: the opportunity to explore, zoom and learn about the night sky freely in 3d. I tried many others but this has been the only one to fill my expectations.
How does Suwayomi compare to komga? Now realizing there are a few players in the space
If the extensions are specifically intended for pirate sites, that could be construed as the Tachiyomi developers inducing their users' infringement. If Chrome stuck bookmarks to pirate sites in the default user profile they'd be liable, too.
I know he's loved around here, but I just don't see it. He was an asshole to work with (many accounts of this) and only did what he felt like doing. His legal issues were a result of saying fuck you to everyone and just doing exactly this.

This is authoritarian behavior and anyone like this that actually gets power will surely make the people he has power over suffer. It seems that most activists are just authoritarians without power.
The issues DEI tries to solve run far deeper than being caused by administrators.
They used to run it but stopped (I want to say) around 2016 or 2017. Another poster here linked[0] to how dang confirmed it is to protect against a DDOS attack.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939668
What does Fukuyama say?
Color, layout and name alone took me away from this to look for alternatives instantly.

I don't see to choose this over various alternatives.
I can't imagine living in a place where the loss of power/heat can rapidly lead to death. Not many steps removed from living on another planet.
Well, the inverse is "we're so Barack".
Yeah they did the correct thing, only to get their airplanes falling like apples.
I got comments:

Very nice work. I am going to read this a couple times and learn all I can from it.
I have been trying to reduce the memory footprint on this guy (https://github.com/leaderanalytics/LeaderPivot) for a couple weeks and have not moved the needle one bit (literally). If you could give me shove in the right direction I would appreciate it greatly.
Seems completely in line with the principle of least surprise. People don’t tend to think about super-cookies, and I think that it’s right to treat building without libpsl as this far off the ‘happy path’. I can certainly see it upsetting some puritans that want everything related to building and running software to work like it did in 2004.
I mean, there's a reason there aren't just two. The other ones aren't just for backup but to reduce the stress on each other. So if you have a situation where you think you only needed two, but only one is tight, the other one shears off. In that case, it's one bolt that broke because one other one wasn't tight.
What is interesting is that I use Firefox on Mac and Windows and I have been slowly moving over to Windows after a decade of using Macs. Anyways, the point is, on the Mac, Youtube keeps complaining about adblock and not letting me watch stuff without using a Violent Monkey patch but on Windows they don't complain yet, which I know won't last for long, but in the meantime is a nice Windows win.
I do not want to emulate this person.
They’re also goddamn demeaning. My diversity statement would be outside the Overton window of the white ladies who get paid to read diversity statements. Why should I have to perform for them?
Show HN: Realtime text rephrasing while typing
I think it's a valuable skill to develop a sensitivity towards how workers are treated by their employers and how your own actions, however small to you, can have a big impact on them.

We all know by now that low paying jobs don't just pay poorly, but take everything they can from their employees. Closing at 5PM means clocking out, then locking the door at 5PM. If a customer came in at 4:45PM and you had to stop cleanup, start cooking, then cleanup again after 5PM that's a shame. Maybe you need to be better at your job. And you're a part time employee, so you don't qualify for overtime. Do better next time.

Service workers are treated like garbage, by their employers and by customers.

No one is making excuses for poor communication either. Don't you think that the kid mopping the floor would like to explicitly articulate in every way he knows how that it's only a real asshole who comes in asking for a french dip 5 minutes before closing? Or should he maybe a make a sign to put on the door underneath the business hours describing how, though he can't make you, it'd make his life a lot better if you didn't order food during the last half our of the day? How long would he have a job?

The thing about "cultural norms" (why not "norms?") is that expecting everyone to understand them is precisely what makes them "norms" in the first place.
Was I the only who got to the end and was like, “and then…?”

You installed it and customised your prompts and then… it worked? It didn’t work? You added the hugging face voice model?

I appreciate the prompt, but broadly speaking it feels like there’s a fair bit of vague hand waving here: did it actually work? It mixtral good enough to consistently respond in an intelligent manner?

My experience with this stuff has been mixed; broadly speaking, whisper is good and mixtral isn’t.

It’s basically quite shit compared to GPT4, no matter how careful your prompt engineering is, you simply can’t use tiny models to do big complicated tasks. Better than mistral, sure… but on average generating structured correct (no hallucination craziness) output is a sort of 1/10 kind of deal (for me).

…so, some unfiltered examples of the actual output would be really interesting to see here…
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And groceries from the grocery store downtown will cost 2x what the grocery stores outside of downtown will. Basically every good or service you buy downtown doubles in price so is it really a benefit to have poor people try to live there and wonder why they fail?
Occasionally it's fun to discover new devices.

"It thinks my WiFi dog feeder is a Technoelectrocom 56XR-2000? What the hell is (was) that?"
Not just POSTs, but any HTTP request - headers & query strings get inspected too.
That's missing a lot of steps... Like how to profit by not being paid back for the money you loaned!
Show HN: AI mentor in your iPhone that collects your memories and gives feedback
Hi HN community, we are Anhphu, Ansh and Nik
We built a proactive AI mentor Sama AI that records your memory via iOS app or hardware and gives you feedback

Remembering real-life conversations and gaining insights from them is challenging. Whether it's for personal growth or effective communication, losing track of important details can be frustrating and counterproductive.

We built this app because we saw lots of wearable hardware but always wondered why you can’t use your phone to record memories and try this experience on the hardware you already have (your phone) without buying anything

Sama AI is an iOS app that listens to your conversations, offers feedback, and helps you retrieve specific details later. It's designed with a focus on privacy, ensuring only textual summaries are stored to respect user consent.

The main difference from other solutions is that it’s already a working product you can already try it on your phone before buying any hardware.

We plan to make money by offering subscriptions for additional features later. We also offer hardware “AI Pin” for $99 which is 7x cheaper than existing alternatives

We're here for your thoughts, experiences, and feedback. How can Sama AI better serve your needs? What features would you like to see? Thank you for any insights you can provide!
Isn't Microsoft's $10B investment likely more of a "pay as you go" rented integration of GPT4 into Bing and a few other places rather than a $10B wire transfer into OpenAI's bank account?
source link:

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_14587109.html
A terminal is a device, typically with a screen and keyboard, used to remotely communicate with a computer. Pieces of software that serve this purpose are technically terminal emulators, but in 2024 we just call them terminals because people who use actual terminals, like a VT100 or even an X terminal, are few and far between. So when a Show HN comes along that says "I made a new terminal! It's written in Rust and does this or that" they're not talking about terminals in the traditional sense but pieces of software, a usage of the term I find... urticating.

A shell is a UI to the operating system, used for file management, launching programs, etc. Historically it referred to Unix terminology: the kernel was the bit of the OS that actually performed operations, and the shell was a user friendly wrapper around the kernel's system-call interface. Usages drifted, however, and the shell became called upon to do other things, while the one-to-one mapping between shell commands and system calls drifted and was outsourced to external programs (cp, mv, rm, etc.) But the idea that the shell was your UI into system management persisted. Shells can be graphical; Explorer on Windows and Finder on macOS can be considered shells.

TTY stands for Teletype, an early form of terminal called a teletypewriter. Like a normal typewriter, it printed on paper rather than having a screen. For historical reasons, Unix systems have device nodes called /dev/ttyXX to represent terminal connections.

The console is the main user interface to the system. On old mainframes and minis, it was a dedicated terminal sitting in the room the computer was in and wired directly to it. Other terminals could be located in another room, building, or far away and might communicate with the computer via modem or other telecom link. Some administrative functions, such as installing the OS itself, could only be performed via the console. Today, a typical PC's attached monitor(s), keyboard, and pointing device might be considered the console, and might be abstracted as such through e.g., /dev/console, or at a lower level, NetBSD's wscons(4) kernel driver.
Just use a 'switch' and two 'case's instead?

EDIT: Just saw user 'jerf' post the same below
You aren’t going to get a job like that.
When I am talking about acceptance of the values of equality (3) from liberals, I mean willingness to compromise and understand the benefit of value (3) for society. You're talking about acceptance on paper - yeah, you can have all these fringe ideas, and talk about them all you want, as long as they are not actually implemented. Which is nothing more than value (2).

And communist countries.. ah what a stupid trope (most of the self-declared "communist" countries were simply right-wing dictatorships). I am pretty sure in e.g. Kerala you can have any beliefs you want. Ideologically, communism is a whole spectrum of ideas between values of (3) and (4), and it doesn't even explicitly reject (2) (although the most famous implementations did that).

You're ignoring the fact that any ideology can be abused for power. A good example is Milei in Argentina, who is claiming to be a liberal as a means of becoming an authoritarian dictator. Yet it doesn't devalue liberalism.

Taking any of the values (2), (3), (4) to the extreme (in particular, at the expense of (1)) is dangerous and liberalism is not different. It just manifests as a different blind spot, in liberalism (value (2)) taken to extreme, it is a blind spot towards people at the extremes of the social hierarchy. Values (3) or (4) taken to extreme share a blind spot towards individual self-expression.
ISDN was a great upgrade for me in the 1990s, and once I found out how to couple two lines into one "massive" 128k, it was pretty mind blowing. Connecting to the Internet was also snappy (as opposed to dialup with the whole modem song) and could even be done on demand if you were brave.
Maybe they figure Mac users are richer and thus can afford YT Premium more easily.
Why would you care what happens after you pass?
Can you say more about what's wrong about it? It seems plain right to me, in Newtonian physics, assuming only that light has a speed (which was not at all a crazy thing to think at that point), and historians of cosmology usually agree (source personal communication, so I could be wrong).
>If you have a rocket that only has enough force to propel you at say 100km/h away from the earth you can go anywhere you want in the universe

Unless the rocket collapses into a black hole under the sheer mass of all that fuel.
That's exactly my point: if the reason for suspending the domain was SO URGENT that it had to be done on a Saturday, then they can find time to explain their actions on the same day they took them.

> Likely they didn’t even know anyone cared about this service.

Er, you do know that both Njalla and Nitter cater to the surveillance-disliking crowd, right? I would be shocked (shocked!) if there aren't multiple Njalla employees who use nitter instances daily.

Can't tell if trolling or...
FYI: That is an affiliate link, and you have to disclose them, you haven't.
Yeah, I don't know how it works outside ADEA, which scope is limited to employees. It's interesting to dig into the case when board members are actually employees, so I just skimmed through the law and I found that ADEA does not protect bona fide executive or high policy-making role. Probably discrimination against other protected classes are prohibited by other laws.
Ask HN: Cons of using .ai domain extension in term of ranking factor?
The ideal answer is: "If I got fired tomorrow, I would be doing mostly the same work as before, but maybe less meetings and admin duties."

Careers that fit this answer: artists, writers, musicians, mathematicians, scientists (those who lean more towards theory).
What's in Those Suitcases? $125M in Cash
Because if they don’t, they might be the wrong sort of people.
One of the advantages of getting older is you get to see the same dumb shit play out again and again, and that's how you realize it's dumb.

Mainstream culture has always been vapid, heavily manipulated by big corporations, and mostly a waste of time. Anyone bemoaning how social media has guard rails and is all about passive consumption, is not old enough to remember television I guess, which was at one point just three networks telling you exactly what you could watch and when.

And in the TV era there was this same class of would-be commentators and tastemakers who would complain about how the culture had now turned to shit... they are just trying to make a buck and a name for themselves, but I always thought they seemed like a particularly unhappy bunch.

The only thing that seems really unique about the current era to me is the smartphone/social media combo, it shovels all this crappy mass culture into your brain at a level of efficiency and comprehensiveness that was previously unimaginable.

But you can just turn that off. My phone was either switched off or out of sight for all but 2 hours per day last week. With that piece of junk out of my hands life basically just feels like a better version of the year 2000 or so, in the real world not much has changed.
Alright, so when I’m appointed Lord Emperor, we’ll all be writing CL. Until then, I’m digging Rust. It’s like garbage collection, but where you can always tell exactly when a thing is going to be collected.
Some would disagree that heredoc'ing your scripts makes them easily readable.
Style is not copyrightable. It is not, in fact, "yours" to begin with.
This is correct, it’s part of their WAF offering where there is rule-based blocking of content.
What about comparing fractal scale differences between a song done in two different composition styles (where scales don't quite match up)?

Medieval style 'Take on me' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC7KlX9B2Q8
Modern pop style 'Take on me' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bT5bFzQInQ
Shameless plug: If you're looking to make graphics for 1-bit scenarios like this, I make an app for that called Retro Dither for the Mac:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/retro-dither-b-w-is-beautiful/...
“Finding” is dns. The rest of those scenarios mention connection issues
They can hopefully convert enough of the free users to premium users to cover the costs. They've been in business a long time, so it does seem like it's working.
True. The owner of segway scooters also got to experience his hobby in an interesting way.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/segway-co-owner-drives-segway-o...
I really like what this script is doing - it's specifying system level dependencies, a database schema, an interpreter, the code that runs on that interpreter, the data (on disk!) required by that code, and an invocation to execute the code all in one script. That's amazing, and this is an excellent model for sharing a stand alone applications with non-trivial dependencies!

However, Docker is an OS-level virtualization. Docker natively supports Windows in the sense that there is a native app. That native app spins up Linux virtual machines, so the container is "native" to my Intel CPU with their virtualization extensions, but it is not native to Windows. I use it, which I say with no animus toward your original message.

edit: I was ignorant of native windows containers. I'm old and my brain still maps docker to lxc I guess. Apologies to OP - the DirectX line should have caught my attention.
I honestly wish there was a list akin to how spam blockers work, for the various phone and text annoyances out there. The app could simply disable the ring, and not record it in the normal call log, and I'd be so very happy.

I get a lot of collections calls for some Mandarin-speaking person who had my phone number once when they got themselves in debt. It's super annoying, because debt collectors always sell their lists to each other, so they keep trying to collect from this person at my number, without knowing it's the wrong number. And I don't even speak Mandarin (I'm as white as Wonder Bread), so I can't even respond to the callers or their recordings either.

I block them, but then after a couple months, its onto a new agency, and new Mandarin messages. Thankfully the blocking only takes a few days, but it has definitely taken on a form of harassment.

The person who creates such an app as this will quickly become both popular and wealthy.
> yeah, you can have all these fringe ideas, and talk about them all you want, as long as they are not actually implemented.

Every developed nation is full of social programs to help the poor and give people things they need to live a good life. It varies a bit from country to country, but even USA has programs to give schooling to every kid and feed the poor so they don't starve and ensure even the poor get healthcare.

So no, I don't accept your argument here, we today do listen a lot to leftist ideas and implemented a ton of them, the evidence for that is everywhere.
I had ISDN back in 1996 and it was great. It felt dramatically faster than a 56k modem because ISDN has much lower latency. Web pages were so simple in those days they loaded almost instantly.
Extremely overpriced in my area.
PairDrop: Local file sharing in the browser. Inspired by Apple's AirDrop
It’s a CDN that caches content and it’s able to inject “are you human?” verification pages, it can rewrite content on demand (e.g. serve optimized images / html / JavaScript). It seems obvious to me that they have access and ability to modify all cleartext content in-flight.
Tor hidden service.
I remember the jump from 28k and 56k to a 128k ISDN when playing Myth TFL, Quake 2 and Half-Life in the late 90s. It was marvelous!