skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a clever approach and it got me wondering a few things.

An hour or so from where I live there have been complaints about an infrequent low rumbling sound for years[0]. I'd wondered -- at the time -- why you couldn't just do something like they do with the gunshot detectors to find the source of the sound[1]. I suspect there must be a technical/physics reason that I am not familiar with. This article re-enforced that thinking for me -- I think I've heard one of these air cannons, before (I have not heard the Windsor Hum), and its characteristics seem more like a gunshot kind of sound than what's described here but ... if you can record the time it starts from three different points (and all you're looking for is "an area roughly the size of a large factory" because it had always been suspected to be one of the plants along the river), wouldn't this approach have been simple/cheap enough to do to figure it out[2]?

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898853311/it-took-a-pandemic-... -- it was solved because a steel plant shut down and the problem went away.

[1] Part of the problem was that a subset of the population could hear it and a subset of that population noticed it enough to be bothered about it so it kind of led to a large number of people dismissing complaints as "people who complain about WiFi signals harming their health"

[2] And if I answer my own question: I suspect it probably was and I suspect the reason it wasn't done is that nobody cared enough to do it, really. :)
Agreed, it's much better than nothing, though I still don't know how to port forward.
What Reviewers Are Saying About the Apple Vision Pro
What does 'TLA+' mean, anyway
''Smoking gun proof'': fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger by 1954
Recent and related:

PinePhone review after a month of daily driving - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145701 - Jan 2024 (172 comments)
That's exactly what we had looked at but we didn't want to be in the business of maintaining our own instances. We just want to use the GH runner part.
I don't like forwarding or posting video links but videos from Vihart are both whimsical and deep, which is a rare combination, sort of like a 3Blue1Brown on acid.

If you like this one you've also got to watch the one on Fibonacci spirals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0
> And I think that is fine so long as it no longer becomes a requirement of the standard function of the equipment.

Sometimes it is, not arbitrarily, but as a matter of how the technology works. For example, the link I posted above.

Yes, those tractors can be manually driven like a 1980's farm tractor without guidance, but that's kind of impractical because profitably operating a farm often depends on those features.
I remember a military instructor showing us what happens if you fire a blank round from a rifle into a folded newspaper. In one word "confetti".
They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They? (2009)
How does someone make extortion impossible? What does that look like?
I see where this is coming from but making platforms fully liable for user content will make it impossible to start a business that includes (semi-) public user interaction at all. Only FAANG-size companies will be able to afford the legal fees attached to that idea.
Important excerpts:

"While Mr. Musk is often optimistic with predictions for his companies, some of which have yet to pan out, Neuralink received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to begin human trials last May."

"At the Neuralink presentation in late 2022, Mr. Musk said the company’s devices would eventually allow blind people to see or give someone with a severed spinal cord “full-body functionality.” His claims at the time drew skepticism from experts who argued that science had yet to advance that far."
This is Tolkien, not a nihilistic modern fantasy series. The spiders are evil almost by definition. See the Silmarillion as to the details within the universe.

If you have a problem with that, feel free to headcanon it away. I don't care. But in terms of understanding the world of JRR Tolkien at least as written, they're evil. Not just misunderstood, but actively in the service of the outright destruction of the world, lacking only the agency to do so.
The point is malicious compliance with EU regulations.

They cannot overtly say they are not going to do what they were told to.
> I'm left wondering what the catch is / why it's cheaper and faster.

So, while this is the first time I've heard of ubicloud, I use gha extensively.

Abd frankly, I think it's just because Github has a crazy markup on their actions compute over the raw compute. Taking a quick look, it appears that their base rate is like $0.008 per-minute!! That's a rate that wouldn't look crazy out of line with EC2's hourly rate.

I've worked on projects where we saved significant money, and improved build times just by launching a single EC2 instance and connecting it to Actions.
I hope this will encourage the lawmaker to ask more of law enforcement. It's their job to track this down. I'm sure Instagram would comply with whatever warrants were issued to them, even ones I'd personally prefer they not.

It's unfortunate that it took this happening to a congresscritter, in their privilege of perfect law enforcement preference, otherwise blind to how LEOs aren't doing their job, to do something. Unfortunately, they're not asking LEOs to do their job, but rather suing the communication medium, even though the same scam could be run through a different communication medium.
I kinda still don't see the problem. If you don't like it make your own phone.
Would be amazing if Tesla started building tractors like Porsche and Lamborghini used to.

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lamborghini
Ask HN: What's a tech trend you're skeptical about, and why?
I've been wishing my 25 year old BMW would be affected by an airbag recall because I think I'd rather have a new one than a 25 year old one!
[dupe]

News from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172487
The proof described in the Guardian piece is that the petroleum industry was warned as early as 1954 of CO2 risks vis-a-vis Climate Change. From the article:

“The possible consequences of a changing concentration of the CO2 in the atmosphere with reference to climate, rates of photosynthesis, and rates of equilibration with carbonate of the oceans may ultimately prove of considerable significance to civilization,” Epstein, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology (or Caltech), wrote to the group in November 1954.
The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom
Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked top general to step down but he refused
Did a newer version change the magma sea to have more openings? I think you could do something weird with channelling to get through the bottom, but that's still actively seeking out trouble.
>I generally believe in positivity but if I saw this as his direct report I'd move him to another project ASAP to get scrutiny on his code quality.

I'm not sure I'd start there, but I'd definitely want to understand what problem the person was trying so solve. Might be legit, might be OKR-driven development.
My question would be “is this good or bad?” To a certain degree, I feel like it’s good that people are learning to question this stuff.

Prime example: everyone at my company received an email about some mandatory training and it was from an unusual source (compared to previous mandatory trainings). The VP that set it all up sent a follow-up email telling us that he was very proud of us for being “diligent,” but that the training was legit and indeed still mandatory.
Farm Sanctuary
sure better than residing in the US which hands out huge sentences like Halloween candy .
Is there some context here?
The Farmers Almanac! is a treasure.
You could say the same of any economic relationship mediated by money...
Is this a fair summary of your view: meritocracy doesn't really measure merit, since parents can use their money to improve whatever scores you get?

My answer: why then do rich parents routinely have some children who can't cut it? Why does parental wealth correlate less well with achievement than parental education levels (i.e. parents who are lottery winners do not have scientifically-advanced children, but highly educated parents do, regardless of wealth?). My view is that a lot of this runs in families, which is why even ww2 refugee elite academics and their children did fine in the US despite poverty/flight/loss of nearly everything. Smartness does lead to wealth since they invent things and are fast, etc. but the behavior of people who have recently gained wealth doesn't seem accounted for in your measurements. Let alone the large number of failed attempts to show that money can actually improve standardized testing scores. [yes, I believe these tests generally can't be well-studied for. It's not as solid as you think. Send links if you can find one which suggests that you can train an average person to have a 99th percentile SAT or similar test. People attack the tests w/out really looking into it at all; they're super correlated with college GPA and many other pro-social lifetime measurements.]

Second: Do you think the new system is less gameable than the old? i.e. relying on recommendation letters, holistic applications, extra-curriculars, the ability to tell stories where you're the victim, race preferences (not origin, literal race i.e. not distinguishing American descendants of slavery from recently immigrated Africans)? I think these things are even more game-able than before. i.e. read the docs on the Harvard discrimination case - the administrators were using a squishy "personality" evaluation score to discriminate against Asians.

Needless to say, SAT is proven to be very correlated with things we value - I strongly doubt that Harvard's replacement system has anywhere near that predictive ability.

To state it in a testable way: good scores on the SAT/MCAT will strongly correlate with good med school class rank, graduation rate, low rate of malpractice, percent chance to get a medical patent or do widely cited research, etc. Squishy holistic admissions will NOT correlate to many good things - best it can do is correlate with socially manipulable soft science PhDs and papers. But it won't help you with anything that's not gamed already.
Why wouldn’t the same worker browse the internet, go on long lunches, bullshit with coworkers for hours at the office?
Jon-Erik Hexum too if you're old enough to recall. Put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger the blank caused terrible damage and killed him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
I like the idea, but when I started practicing some Spanish, I noticed it gave me incorrect grammar advice (it claimed that the subjunctive form of “creer” is “creen” - it was right that the subjunctive was needed, but that would be “crean”). That makes me nervous to use it for a language that I know less well like Korean because I won’t be able to tell if the grammar feedback I’m getting is accurate.

If there’s a way to make it more robust on that front I could definitely see myself using it!
It is impossible to exclusively classify bad behavior.

Truth and lie are written the same.

ML is useful because it can continue functioning with ambiguous data. Even so, it can't remove it or resolve it.
We have one very slow job (our Rust CI, for example: https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/arroyo/actions/runs/7702793...) and a bunch of little jobs that take a few seconds (checking lints, etc.). We never bothered to switch those over because they complete quickly on github and fit within our included runner minutes.

I should say we also use BuiltJet for docker builds because of their arm support. Now that ubicloud has arm we may switch those over as well.
The point (which the author misses) is that irrational actors (such as those putting money in Trump winning by 280+) wouldn't significantly distort market odds if the market weren't severely crippled by so many restrictions and fees.
“I was surprised to find out by making a trip to Silicon Valley to attend the RISC-V Summit and asking a lot of pretty naive and uninformed questions that chip manufacturing is just the big kid version of making a PCB for a science fair project.”

This seems like a little bit of a simplification to me.
These cases may also be effective in situations where the victim has a significant other so the release of private transcripts is not nearly "a picture of their junk".

I think if you want to reduce the shame of people in situations, the absolute best thing to do is to make extortion a crime that law enforcement has the ability to prosecute forcefully. If that's the case, people who are in this situation know that the law and the resources of the law are on their side.

I think this law -> culture change has already been shown to work in similar situations. For instance, when women know that law enforcement will help them investigate sexual harassment/assault it makes it means they have less shame about dressing/socializing how they want.
I have taken down all my free apps because I cannot afford them.
I put AirTags into my luggage and it just made me stressed for both legs of my trip. One of my family’s three bags didn’t appear to be moved to the next plane and I just had to sit there and hope that the AirTag wasn’t picked up for some reason. Everything made it to my destination and back home without issue, thankfully.
I mean, you could also consider how much the transition to Ephermial builders and containers is costing us in general, moving from (admittedly more brittle) build machines that would keep build artifacts alive on the local hard drive just as matter of fact.
If that happens and you don’t want to suffer through the default 30–second (or whatever it is) timeout, then shorten it. Add `ConnectTimeout 5` to your config.
It is possible for people to train themselves to recognize dog whistles like yours.
Gonna get even worse once this sort of work is outsourced to language models en masse
We'll destroy civilization through social unrest before our technology fails to keep us on life support, that doesn't mean there won't be serious losses of life quality for those not blessed with wealth, and the loss of food quality/diversity and habitable land due to climate and habitat damage is both unquestionable and will play a significant role in precipitating the decline. I'll happily take bets on that statement of whatever amount you're willing to lose.
No, "limited" means the same thing in the context I used it, there is a limit to how much you can take, the limit being the safe tiles. If you really want to be pedantic, the amount is always "limited" because maps are finite.
If we're doing nits, because this product looks cool, here are a couple of potential tweaks:

> Imagine to do more

I'd get rid of this. I don't understand the phrase, and it sounds like fluff.

> Fast runs even at this price point

I'd get rid of the "point". "Price point" isn't a synonym for "price", which I think is what's being attempted here. I'd be tempted to just have no tagline, and retitle this section "Faster than GitHub Actions". You've already said it's cheaper.

> Ubicloud is an open, free, and portable cloud. Think of it as an open alternative to cloud providers, like what Linux is to proprietary operating systems. You can check out our source code in GitHub or see Ubicloud runners in action for our GitHub Actions. An open and portable cloud gives you the option to manage your own VMs and runners, should you choose to.

This is woolly. How about: Ubicloud is an open and free cloud. You can run it on the hosting provider of your choice, or bring your own hardware. Check out our source code on GitHub!
not smart enough to use cold storage either. probably had the private keys on desktop in plain text
People should stop caring about Harvard as a pedigree. It's demonstrably irrelevant to the merit of a hire, and serves primarily as a proof of wealth, status, or social connections.

Harvard and other ivy league institutions are anachronisms that do far more social harm than good, by any reasonable metric you might want to pick.

We've had more than enough lawyers and elitist insiders and arbitrary wackjob ideologies being pushed through the network effects enabled by these institutions. They shouldn't be important to us, and shouldn't have social levers to impose nonsense on the rest of the world far beyond the actual technical and rational merit of their ideas.

Stop acting as if these institutions confer some sort of excellence in quality of education - they're a club for rich people to stamp their offspring with a particular pedigree in order to rationalize nepotism and corruption. Any benefit conveyed to society at large has long since been worn out.

Competence kabuki is cute when kids are playing house. It's not so cute when the two digit IQ offspring of political and financial elites are playing at business and public service.

Fix the education system so that institutions aren't extracting wealth from people, so that the politics of teachers is irrelevant so long as they teach people to think and reason competently. Get rid of the incentives that promote the perception of superiority and excellence in elitist institutions and impose a system that allows individuals to acquire the accreditation and certification justified by their own knowledge, competence, and skillset.

We live in the age of the internet. We have more information about most subjects than any one person could hope to master in a lifetime. Let's open up the floodgates and make expertise easier to certify and validate, and get rid of antiquated and unnecessary institutions that are no longer able to fulfill their social purpose - educating and improving society.

Surely we can do better.
> I am not a lawyer, but I've received several C&Ds for various things over the decades. The first one scared me to death.

The first time I got a letter for a trademark issue it seemed completely hostile and threatening. My lawyer said, basically, that it was no big deal and that they were in fact being pretty nice. We answered back and everything was resolved amicably. It actually turned out well because it made me realize we had not been paying enough attention and were unthinkingly referencing other brands instead of our own.
Dacian Werewolf Outlaws
I don’t follow.

Your original post was saying that it is OK for population decline in the northern countries because it is too expensive to live there. And population growth in other (less productive) countries is fine because it evens out.
I'm looking to find online content as good as my native one, "Haiduci Daci Vârcolaci" or "Dacian Werewolf Outlaws": https://www.piticigratis.com/2014/12/haiduci-daci-varcolaci-...

Ideally it should be in English or have native people explain it to me. But if I have to learn French, Russian or Indonesian to accces this level of quality, by My I'll learn Indonesian or whatever it takes!
It is or was a traditional mark-sweep gc, so a very large collection can be slow even if there is not much live data. The gc still has to touch all the garbage to return it to the free lists. Also, Emacs itself might slow down from the terrible cache locality.
Generally salaried positions, at least in tech on west coast include lunch, breaks, etc...
Guess they carried the European way to the US. The US-model Maserati Quattroporte V doesn't have a "bong" sound. I don't think they gave us any extra cup-holders either.
You'd prefer to just move on without mentioning or discussing the mass hysteria we all saw happen? People were literally locked in camps and we're supposed to just forget about it?

I don't care if it takes 5, 10 or 20 years. Heads have to roll. We were lied to and ridiculed by the people that are supposed to protect us, and they're getting away with it.

Your straw-man doesn't make it go away.
it is a lot but it would not be sold at once. probably sold in secondary/OTC market
>...Lamboghini used to..."

They litereally started as a tractor company, and as I understand it was annoyed at Enzo Ferrari and challeneged himself to making a supercar, and later the "Holy Shit" Countach was born (but the earlier Lambos are really beautiful)
https://muppetlabs.com/~mikeh/crt_emacs.png

Cool Retro Term is great, I want to use it in a presentation as well.
There is a certain strain of discourse that goes "what? me politics?", getting upset when their obviously politically charged just-asking-questions narrative is called out as such. Concerning at best, antisocial at worst.
Somebody like Bezos probably just sends out hitmen after anybody trying this with him.
That's like saying "if you don't want to pay taxes, renounce your citizenship and live on a yacht in the ocean". You can, at huge cost, but a lot of stuff you're relying on just doesn't work any more because the people who made them have no interest in servicing you, e.g. your bank accounts.

A better option is "use Android", which already does support multiple stores.
That is what kitty's "custom SSH wrapper" does, if I understand correctly. Each time you ssh into a server, it will copy kitty's terminfo file if it doesn't already exist.

I use the ssh kitten, it works fine.
The Silicon Valley strategy of creating a techno-cult in support of stock prices was around at least as far back as Steve Job's "Reality Distortion Field", and has only become more popular after that guy's autobiography and death. This isn't a 2020-era strategy, this is a 2010 or 2000-era strategy, if not earlier.
Oh bravo, is that how you respond to all anti-competitive practices?
There are plenty of middle ground approaches - one possible one: App default would be restricted time use. To get unrestrxistricted use you use a driver's license to authenticate birthdate only with OS. Mobile OS only confirming with app that user is above age requirement (does not share birthdate). App can only query if user is above 18yrs and nothing else. Easy peasy.
You don't need to read it, don't worry. Unless you work for TrustArc PR maybe
Administration End of Year Report on Open-Source Software Security Initiative
The end of ZIRP is the tip of the iceberg

1. Consolidation. There will be fewer and more powerful tech companies in the future and they will grow and profit as they shrink their headcount. The belief that profits and growth = jobs will soon be recognized as twentieth century thinking.

2. Automation. Spiffy tools, reuse, AI...no matter how you slice it, your skills are getting pushed into the shared stack every day.

3. Internationalization. You might be surprised to find out that there are React coders in South America that have all the right tats and piercings, read HN and Blind, bang on leetcode...and will work for 1/5 what you will.

The only question is how many people leaving tech presently will never be able to get back in, or maybe they just realize driving a Fedex truck for the same money is less stressful.

Also don't be too spooked by layoffs so far, its just beginning in tech and finance and this wave still hasn't hit the huge cohort of permanently cashflow-negative startups somehow still clinging to life...they will ALL be gone.
I used the Unfollow Everything extension when I was a teen, it was great. I eventually ended up deleting my FaceBook account altogether; our generation (Z) thankfully feels Facebook to be an old person thing.
If it’s sold at an auction or anything like that I don’t know how much arbitrage you can really get. Especially since there might be fees or taxes
Now I'm wondering if 1-800-GOT-JUNK has a secret list of services.
That makes a disturbingly good argument against public healthcare systems, which is awkward.
> One thing I’d love to get HN’s opinion on is how much gamification you think we should add.

It would be very nice if any such gamification were optional. I personally don't want to win awards or other internet points - I want to learn a language.
The problem with this advice is that this is a very niche area of law. Unless the people you know have had prior experiences with data-access/web-scraping legal issues, a generalist recommendation is very unlikely to be helpful here.