skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just works. You may think that this is a meme, but it really is not. Let’s say you and someone else that you wish to communicate with has an iPhone (parent, SO, friend, whoever) and things just click into place.

- Extremely responsive, native, fast app with no clutter whatsoever, on both phones and on desktop devices (personally, I highly dislike web/electron apps)

- Close to no spam (whatsapp in particular seems to have a ton, way worse than Telegram even)

- Highest quality (amongst all the apps) audio/video calls with Facetime

- e2e encrypted by default, does not have the unconscious bias that you’re using a Facebook owned product for doing something secure, even if it really is (and as far as power users go, I don’t really particularly dislike the company like many do)

My next favorite messenger, that does Groups better than iMessage, is Telegram. I don’t wish to get into the privacy concerns (and it’s valid!) but as far as making a responsive, native app that does chat and does it well, it’s pretty superior to both Whatsapp and Signal.

gTalk of old was amazing, but I don’t think that’s coming back :(
Protecting the security and integrity of the platform.

I fully support interoperability. But it needs to be done through regulation and standards.

Not through intentional abuse of the platform for monetary gains.
We all know that. There are even some good things in SaFe.

Where it loses value is that it imposes those organization level planning ideas at too many levels and ultimately impedes the most effective teams.
Already happened (in multiple ways) with Tupac. Released posthumous albums and reproduced his likeness holographically. I think its inevitable that actors will do the same.
I'd put a randomly chosen Honda Civic or CR-V or Toyota Camry or Prius from a non-snowbelt area as a slight favorite to be able to reach 300K. We've got a 2005 CR-V with 235K miles on it that will need to be retired due to rust in the next few years. Mechanically, it's still dead nuts reliable.
Governance has been a difficult thing to make progress on. I can say that we did discuss recently cleaning up some of these old solutions and making official approaches clearly marked as such.
> I get that the intent is to make another person feel good about themselves, but if you praise anything and everyone, how does this praise convey anything special?

i have noticed that the inverse also exists.

Especially in northern/eastern europe.

Calling out the cynical truth and how everything is bad but could also be so much worse seems to be way for people to connect. This often happens in a crisis situation aswell.
This is a pretty cool solution. I didn't know the capabilities of USB4 before this.

The comparison with the Dell r630 power numbers got me interested since I just purchased a Dell r430 to host my site so I decided to benchmark mine.

Specs:

* 2x Xeon E5-2680 v3 (same CPU)
* 64GB RAM
* 2x power supply (can't remember if it's 500W or 750W each and too lazy to look)
* 1 SSD & 1 7300 RPM HDD
* Ubuntu server 22.04.3 LTS

Using a Kill-A-Watt meter I measure ~100 watts after boot. Running sysbench (sysbench --test=cpu --threads=12 --cpu-max-prime=100000 --time=300 run) I get up to ~220 watts.

If my calculations are correct that's 72 kW per day or $11.05 per month at idle:

0.1 kW * 24 hours * 30 days = 72 kWh
72 kWh * 15.34 cents/kWh = $11.05

and 158.4 kW or $24.3 per month during load:

0.22 kW * 24 hours * 30 days = 158.4 kWh
158.4 kWh * 15.34 cents/kWh = $24.3

I'm not sure of OP's use case, but these numbers are probably more realistic than using the max wattage of the power supply for most people. I will still be hosting in a co-location for the reliable internet and so I can sleep without the sound of a jet engine taking off. Those fans are loud!
ok? what is wrong with a machine (or the DS that collected the data and trained the model based on their own lived experience) having a performance?

I don't see why one is ok but not the other.
Is it really hard to use our imagination and move on to another person? In your example they replaced Roiland with a different sounding character (think English) on Solar Opposites and it wasn’t a big deal.

Nor is it hard to find people who sound similar either. AI voices have a hard time sounding emotional imo.
While the numbers for the macro economy may be pretty good - for the tech sector they're terrible.
Using slip over minimodem over FM receiver/transceiver was quite an interesting experiment. With the low power exemptions, you can design your own radio networking protocol without FCC approval. They may require the FM radio signals to be music/audio, in that case, have you heard of noisecore?
TBF, I can't name more than a couple dozen sets of game software that I would consider "quality". That shit is generally developed on a deadline and it shows.
at last something good comes out of brexit!
A bit ashamed probably, but definitely not the reaction you would expect from a Dutch person who almost lost her pram. A normal reaction would include a 'thank you' and maybe a joke to justify the act.
I'm not talking about a language that an LLM outputs.

I'm talking about a higher-level language that outputs Javascript, Java, C# etc (but presumably some sort of lower level byte-code in the future).

A language where intent and clarity is more important than syntax or implementation details.

Where

menu_options = [process['name'] for process in processes if process['active']]

is more clearly expressed as

menu_options = list of the active process names

(or something similar)
The few Dutch folks I know are indeed kind of rude. One time I (Brazilian) went out to get some drinks with some Dutch friends and, omg, they spent the whole night trashing other people. I am accostumed to do it in a much more delicate way, while they didn't hold it back for a second.
Having contributed to the project, I still agree. In my mind it’s perfect for retirees who don’t need zoom or mobile syncing. The browser is quite good imo as is the email client. I really like that it’s (by default) a single user environment-ideal for an old laptop.
Tesla Can Now Apply the $7,500 Tax Discount Directly to the Purchase Price of EV
There are wireless standards for this, no need for ethernet

https://www.wisatechnologies.com/speakers
Commercial traffic is basically the consumer goods be it groceries or ipads, so taxing it is basically a sales tax which is almost always regressive against the poor.

The worst offender here is cyclists, who eat up road space and then buy goods offloaded from 18 wheeler, massively transferring axle weight portion of damage cost to the poor dude in beat up civic.
Maybe they've hired 18 people and each one has only lasted a month! It doesn't get much more dynamic than that.
Cloud doesn't make sense for small business. A vps would. If you are spending less than 100,000 you probably don't need it for your 10,000 million or less daily visitors
> Signal is great for certain times and places, but as a daily app it's still a bit clunky and not widely adopted.

I loved signal when it was my MMS client. It did what iMessage did, only for android, and it worked in my mixed env (Mac, android).

Now no more mms. I have stories now. I didn't get signal for stories, I didn't want an encrypted social network.
Just look at how some primates use an abundance of facial muscles to establish they're not a threat. Or how having the local accent can show you are not an invader. The sing-songy greetings,the smiles, etc, can be read as demonstrations that you are not a threat. Americans have to do that in almost all times and contexts.
In my own hiring decisions, I also don't pay that much attention to education. But I don't have the last say, and unfortunately, there are a lot of companies that basically all but require an advanced degree to be able to progress in your career track past the 10 year mark.

Small businesses and startups may not have as much HR mechanization to get in the way, but unless you have an in through networking, such places can be very hard to find, especially if you are looking for a place that is at all stable or paying a competitive salary.

I have 20 years of experience in software development, with the last 10 having various degrees of management responsibility as I've been "the most responsible adult in the room" for a bunch of small companies. My last job ended when the company lost funding for my position. Now, at my 2k+ people current employer, I've already been administratively shoehorned into my current position (managing a development team), responsible for level X but titled at level (X-1) because I don't have a master's. My level is higher than most other people in my group, but the actual job I'm doing is a level higher, which would come with a very, very significant pay increase, because it's breaching the barrier of being primarily and individual contributor to being primarily a manager.

My boss has said that my promotion track is basically frozen until I get one. The company will help pay for one, and there are a lot of people in my group that have taken advantage of the benefit, so it's not bullshit. But I really don't feel like I'd be doing it to learn anything, it'd just be for credentialing.

Back when I first started my career, the only people I knew who had master's degrees were working in honest to goodness scientific research, or C-suite executives. We had ICs that didn't have CS degrees at all. Those days are clearly over.
So the thought process is to break Messages for innocent parties.

That sounds like a great way to get people on your side.
Protecting imaginary security is no protection at all.

If Apple doesn't like the particular way Beeper works, they're free to give them a better API to use.
Does anyone have recent intel on Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens?

I recall the super shady company recruiting policy a few years ago, but haven't heard much since.
What is gō? It is hard to Google.
I was reminded of this article (https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/10/01/CleanMicros...) from Uncle Bob while reading this paper.

From the article:

> The Deployment Model is a Detail.

> If the code of the components can be written so that the communications mechanisms, and process separation mechanisms are irrelevant, then those mechanisms are details. And details are never part of an architecture.

> That means that there is no such thing as a micro-service architecture. Micro-services are a deployment option, not an architecture.
> You have provided no evidence someone can walk into a store and buy an amp, speakers, and speaker wire and suffer any problems due to RF interference.

The ARRL wouldn't have to help neighbors of amateurs put chokes on speaker wires if this couldn't happen.

Most of us have the experience of having a cellphone close to speaker wiring and hearing LOUD buzzes and clicks. It was a bigger problem in the AMPS days (with higher output power), and more often the interference gets into the amplifier by signal lines than it does by getting in through power lines and speaker wires, but it can certainly go in the output (or power) as well. Have you never experienced this?

I still remember the first time I experienced this. I was 12, returning from a road trip with my (older) sister and her significant other's family, where we had handheld CBs. The hifi inside the house was demodulating and amplifying our CB signals; they could be clearly heard when we used the CB from the driveway. 5 meters of speaker cable was a good antenna for a 10 meter wavelength RF signal; a poorly filtered amplifier stage was demodulating and amplifying the signal.
> Ukraine’s new drones-first strategy didn’t go unnoticed, or unanswered. As the number of Ukrainian FPV drones spiked earlier this year, Russia scoured its arsenal for anything that might help it defeat the drones. It settled on the RP-377, a backpack-mounted radio-jammer that broadcasts hundreds of watts of noise along the most popular frequencies for radio communications.

Obvious counter-measure: Anti-radiation munitions, homing in on the jammer's signal. That's ~70-year-old technology, so what's the deal here? I'd bet the Ukrainian aren't using "AI" just because they want to be the cool kids in the war.
Even if you're right that AI will "enhance" actors' skill, then that will raise the bar to an un-realistic standard that consumers will then expect. That's not a good thing.
You're right, cars manufactured recently could be worse. Here's a related statistic that shows things headed in a good direction: "Average Age of Light Vehicles in the US Hits Record High 12.5 years" https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/avera....
As someone who worked a long time in service (not in America, in the anecdotally much more socially cold Germany) I was friendly and welcoming to all customers (unless I had a really bad day for some reason, so about 95% of the time) and I always meant it.

It just makes your work much more fun and time pass faster than being sullen and distanced.
It hs nothing to do with my wages being on the line, I literally had zero obligation to be nice to customers.
But every once in a while I had a pleasant interaction and that made it worth the effort.

I would bet it’s the same for your crockery clerks. That kind of work is very boring and repetitive and social interaction is the only respite you get from it.
Just something to keep in mind when you are feeling cynical about them greeting you friendly and so on.
>my 7Mhz 512KB Amiga generally had a better UX

True, although... on topic, 1MB became very needed by 1990-ish.
This is a finance disease at the moment—I don't think it's particularly related to the US beyond finance's relation to the US.
I apologize, I am seeking employment or contractor work.
>The Kaiser Family Foundation showed that 41% of U.S. citizens carry some sort of medical debt, and 24% were considering bankruptcy to solve a medical debt issue.

You're correct my phrasing of "large percentages" wasn't correct; instead, what I meant to have said was that health issues in USA are largest single contributing issue affecting bankruptcy within our country.

I'm not trying to smear shit — I dropped out of medical school fifteen+ years ago and haven't myself had health insurance for the majority of my adulthood [decades+]. If I had a family, I would approach my insurance needs differently... but I just choose to opt-out (knowing this is not good for healthcare management, long-term).

So yes, technically you're correct to say that "The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income." The best kind of correct [technical, misunderstanding the premise].
Yup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39006089
So your argument is that we have a moral imperative to drive cars in order to pay taxes to support the roads that are mainly damaged by... cars?

As opposed to simply changing the tax code to better reflect road usage and wear and tear?
Disagree strongly. I find its appearance 10X more visually appealing than any modern UI (win/mac/kde/etc). They’re all incredibly wasteful of space and chunky. Also, designers ruined OSX by making it flat and joyless.
Samsung Odyssey Ark review: curved and cursed
Were people upset for Justin Roiland being unilaterally replaced by other voice actors (that try to recreate his style of playing the character and unique voice)?

What about Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia performance in her last movie?

Machine bad.

Human good.
> when my friend Ann Kring pointedly commented, “Thank you for sharing,” after I had explained in great detail some convoluted story about my emotions

I cannot of course claim to know the intention of this person, but I have heard this phrase said ostensibly genuinely (to me it has the association of group therapy, though that might be due to popular media).

However, to me as a Dutch person, it comes across as devoid of meaning, a phrase that can be said if one didn't bother to listen or care to come up with any thought or more meaningful response. So, it doesn't surprise me that the author read it as sarcastic (although she might've been right, again I can't know).

The social expectation in the Netherlands to always come up with a response and share your opinion or thoughts, rather than just listening silently and nod (or say “Thank you for sharing,” which to me amounts to almost the same thing) can be criticized as well, of course. It can be a bit exhausting, at times. But, it also contributes to the feeling of having a genuine connection and conversation.
I wish modern operating systems looked like Windows 95, I think this was the one time Microsoft got their user experience right, except for the things that were forced on them by backward compatibility concerns, e.g. "in-band" filename extensions that were awkwardly hidden by later versions of Windows.
It doesn’t really make a difference either way. You could wait for a number to come up that would match the game’s ID for the action you want to take, or an arbitrary one from a table you hardcoded in the secure function call.

As long as you have a method for knowing the next outcome of the random call, that’s all you need.
I used to love standing at borders looking at all the computer books. I still have my copies of Ivor Hortons beginning C and beginning c++. I never see that guy getting love in the programming author world, but that was my guy when I was a teen.
Writing or video production?
On the subject of smell, there are some people that can distinguish wild carrot from poison hemlock by smell alone.

In a controlled educational setting a sample of both was pass around a crowd of about 25 people at different times, and the instructor asked if anybody detected a strong smell in either sample.

I found the smell of poison hemlock terrible, a kind of chemical souring sensation in the back of the nose, as did one or two others in the group.

The instructor highlighted that the ratio of people sensitive was typically the same in every group, then moved on to another topic.

This might be true for water hemlock as well, but I'm not going out of my way to find out.

I still identify wild carrot visually, but always do a sniff test as a final check.
The tipping point for self-hosting would be the point at which paying for full-time, 24/7 on-call sysadmins (salary + benefits) is less than your cloud hosting bill.

That's just not gonna happen for a lot of services.
That link makes much more sense. Thank you!
Why should we let content creators off the hook, if the money they make is tainted and originally gained from a company that exploits user data and used its capital to outspend the competition until they were no more?

Why is that only YouTube can pay so much? If no competitor can come close to them, does it occur to you that perhaps this is a problem?
https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybook...
Umberto Eco wrote my goto definition of fascism. hope you find it interesting.

Socialism is one of those heavily mis-defined/used words. I tend to stick to the economic definition. As in "A socialist economic system is characterized by social ownership and operation of the means of production that may take the form of autonomous cooperatives or direct public ownership wherein production is carried out directly for use rather than for profit." (quote from Wikipedia socialist economics). one of the downsides of discussions about socialism is inevitably someone starts using long convoluted sentences like the above.

Socialism as political definitions have been merged and smashed together with communism and fascism in Nazism and conservatism etc. etc.
Never heard of Java ObjectScript Notation?
Dutchman living in NYC; this article is spot on. It gets slightly easier with time, but I've been here ~9 years and I still feel it.
I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU COULD MEAN BY THAT.
That’s to a certain advantage though. There’s a nostalgic pining for simpler cleaner OS aesthetics. See the vaporwave and Frutiger Aero trends, and the interest in SerenityOS.
See my similar situation, in sibling_comment.

tl;dr: I don't pay for US health insurance, and didn't even when I briefly attended a US medical school [the system is broken... always has been..!].
Looks like up to 0.1% α-dicarbonyl.

Dicarbonyls are blamed for "obliterative bronchiolitic lung disease", which sounds unpleasant.
So which is it? Do you want fake civility or sincere rudeness?
Following the "John Deere" style brand lock-in strategy: "Sure the Kubota is half the price and I can fix it myself, but all of my implements work with my Deere." And unless I switch over the tractor, the combine, the baler. I'll have to maintain both brands. I guess I'll just stick with JD one more season..."
I actually didn't think that the Sams books were so bad, albeit a bit misleading if you think you're really gonna grok C or C++ in 24 hours.

I learned C first in high school because I found a pirated copy of "Learn C in 24 Hours" online, and I actually felt that they did a reasonably good job getting me started, though if I recall correctly some of their examples with pointers and memory management were actually incorrect. Still, it was enough to make programming interesting to me, and when I dropped out of college the first time I was able to salvage a somewhat decent career because of that interest.
They “need” as if they were some sort of soup kitchen for the needy and not an expensive-as-fuck posh place. They can fuck right off, I’ll take my time enjoying the food and use of the premises that I paid for, thank you very much.
It's just banning.

It's no different than if you get caught running cheat software in an online game.

The company isn't "retaliating" against you, or even "punishing" you -- they're just banning you. You broke the rules and that's what happens.
> Generative AI can copy the style, if they's all you have as an artist, then it's barely art TBH.

How could you possibly expect this sort of worldview to reflect well upon you as a person?
You meant to link to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39006581
Pity Thunderbolt 2 is basically non-existent nowadays. I have a few Macbook Pro 13 (2015) and I'd love to be able to use the thunderbolt 2 ports, but peripherals were too expensive and the standard short-lived. Try finding a thunderbolt 2 dock anywhere. Filter out all the false-positives (USB-C docks) and the are maybe 10 total on ebay, and they're stupidly expensive for 6+ year old used devices, most without cables or power supplies. Such a pity because they can really extend the useful life of those laptops.
Thunderbolt 4 can't do 80Gbps either
I tried to use it as my mail client, I loaded it up and configured it, but it wasn't working. I did some very basic troubleshooting but couldn't find anything wrong and after a few web searches couldn't figure out how to find relevant logs to see what was broken.

I gave up and moved on.
I don’t believe it’s the inevitable yet. What if it’s shit and you don’t want to see hundreds of AI extras? Never mind an AI Tom Cruise (who won’t be getting any academy awards if he’s entirely computer generated).
I have to try Haiku, but the last time I used BeOS everything effectively ran as root. Not that Unix-style user permissions are the epitome of OS security, but at least an RCE vulnerability in the browser doesn't allow for persistent root or whatever.
This is the only way. It is a tautology, but a plant is only safe to eat if you know it is safe to eat and can identify it correctly.
People in the valley seem to be quite different from people in the southern states (the only part of the US that I have been to). I wonder if the differences within the USA are actually be as significant as the differences between parts of the US and Europe.
When I was learning to read Japanese the Hiragana alphabet was displayed in a somewhat periodic table-esque format. The vowel ending sounds were the vertical axis (a,i,u,e,o) then next column was ka, ki, ku, ke, ko - then sa, shi, su, se, so etc.