skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I just tune the 16-color palette in Terminology (it's an INI file) to my preferred theme for the same styling in the console and terminal applications (vim).
Satellite connected isn’t the same thing as “in space”
Focused Cuts and Fewer Layers: Tech Layoffs Enter a New Phase
this 10,000,000,000%!! (dr stone ref.) I love modal editing and vim a ton, but I couldn't stand the half baked solutions terminal editors gave me. We have an entire rich graphical platform, why not use it?
"A wild Correct Answer appears"

Speaking as a "rapidly becoming old person" myself, something we always dodge around is that old people aren't good for a whole lot. I mean, you'll see, but I'd estimate I have about fifty percent the hustle, physically.

Mentally, I'm just not as . . eh . . exuberant? I guess I'm slower, but I'm also not crazy. I don't work as hard on other people's dumb ideas - I mean, sure, I'll help out, sure, do what I can, but I'm not spending a week without sleep on it. I guess you get a good intuition for what's going to crash and burn and what's got legs. That's actually a negative in your employables. The Overlords want people to jump when they say jump, even if it's off a cliff.
> general purpose face mask computer

I hope this term takes off more than "spatial computing device"

GPFMC
Amphetamines are truly an evil drug, they bring out and emphasise the worst qualities of people.
Have a business address, get visited by a data broker rep to prove that you're actually a business, and then pay something like $10/person.

Pentest firms do this to show their clients the concerns around data brokers.
Great compilation of tips
Troubled aircraft maker Boeing withdraws request for safety exemption on 737 MAX
Natural language wont work as the main control until we have a nueralink type product. I dont want to be talking at my computer constantly.
Well that is in regard to any copyrighted material you may give them. But for uncopyrightable things like data from a heart rate sensor, or your shopping history on amazon, you can only ever own the physical objects the data is manifested in, not the data itself. And any company will definitely tell you that you have zero property rights over the actual storage devices in the datacenters where your data happens to reside.
'Do not drive': Toyota recalls some 50k older vehicles
I didn't give it up, but I did laugh one morning at 2:30AM, laying in bed, dozing off and getting startled by the watch telling me I've been sitting for awhile and it suggests I get up and move a bit.
Great job shipping this! The telegram interface is a nice touch.

Can you expand more on your frustrations were with something like Todoist (my personal fav) for meeting your success criteria? What are most todo apps getting wrong / conflicting with your preferred workflow?
Are there any numbers on performance change vs naively running a VM? Usually running Linux guest inside Linux host and frequently disappointed at the guest performance. I have never done any research on tuning the VM experience, so I am curious how much I might be missing. 5% faster? 100%?
My guess is "acc" means accelerationist. No idea about the "E".

Also, for completeness, looks like DEI is very standard and means "Diversity, equity, and inclusion". I didn't know that one either.
The really funny thing is that people never notice how bad the color gamut of their displays is. The usual way people draw the color charts make it look like there are all kinds of greens you are missing but they are not the green of money or living plants but rather the green you see when you get hit by a green laser pointer.

https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pointers_gamut

The charts obscure it but it is reds/purples/blues you are missing, not the reds and blues that occur in naturally lit scenes but rather colors you might see in fireworks or CGI effects. The "Pointer Gamut" of naturally occurring colors is relatively small compared to the colors you might see hypothetically. There has been a lot of progress in the greens for formats like Display P3 but more saturated red and blue primaries are difficult because the sensitivity of the eye drops off and you need a lot more light to get equivalent perceived brightness.
this linked article has a bunch of info https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812259
It seems like a dereliction of duty for the NSA not to go to Congress and scream about needing to close this gaping flaw in the security of our nation.
"Children are far less free than they used to be. While 71% of Boomers and 80% of Gen X recall playing in the street as children, only 27% of children do today."

Freedom is being allowed to get run over in the street!
Something tells me John Deere is going to do something with this that won't aid farmers at all
You can ask GPT to only cite certain sources, and try to corroborate non credible sources, and it does a decent job.
It seems like you’re confusing your favorite term of art for definitions. One listed valid definition of “runtime” is “the amount of time that a program takes to perform a task”, and as such it’s valid to use the word that way in any context.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...

Also worth keeping in mind that usage defines what words mean. If a given usage is common, that makes it de-facto correct, and eventually the dictionary will catch up. This one reason why the dictionaries keep adding new definitions.

Since you’re incorrect about the definitions, and since the meaning of the word runtime was correct in the top comment and understood by everyone reading, and never confused in this thread, the context does not matter here in this case.

I’ve learned from a lot of experience being wrong that the problem with trying to police language is you’re almost never right. Words are beautifully fluid and have multiple and surprising meanings. It’s common for people to mistakenly think the meaning they know is the only meaning, and not be aware of the wider history and usage. So, speaking from experience in the role of English pedant, and getting rightly smacked down, be careful or you end up on the wrong side of your corrections.
Show HN: Use GPT4 to generate anki cards on ANY Topic
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Isn't taoism more on the lines of making things happen by design and not fight through things to get them done?

Sure many times that means doing nothing at all, But most of the times it means working with things in a way that things are so well designed you just flow with things instead of fighting through the system to make them happen.
I've used these alternatives:

http://whenisgood.net/Create

https://schej.it

No accounts necessary, and they handle timezones too
Already too late. Farmers already use quite a bit of connected technology in the field. Modern high-output farming and the cheap food we have really wouldn't be possible without it.

e.g. https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellit...
IMO traffic violations should be punished way, way, way more severely than they are. In the US, licenses do need to be easy to get otherwise you lock people out of society (unfortunately), but they don't need to be easy to keep and you should drive with constant awareness that you will be taken to the cleaners for mishaps.

Automated enforcement tech should be widespread and incur license revocations and salary/wealth-adjusted fines left and right.
Interesting to see it allegedly outperforms GPT4V here!
I don't regret the decision but I do feel a little guilt for what I left behind.

I have friends who moved out of struggling towns and states who describe similar feelings about being part of the "brain drain" death spiral that is hollowing out the place they grew up.

> Hopefully, given a free market, the service will eventually be replaced by something better.

I too believed that something like that would happen eventually but their business is still booming. In the decades since I've learned that the "fitness function" of companies that serve governments or large enterprises do not reward product quality (at least not commensurate with the cost of quality) so companies or teams that insist on wasting effort making quality products do not survive. It's not malice or incompetence, it's just a survival response to misaligned incentives.
On mobile you can click the dot menu and choose "Don't recommend channel." I have clearly done this sufficiently to not have any of the issues the other commenters are having.
No, the term refers to developers pretending to do system administration.
Anyone running virt-manager on mac connecting to a headless linux hypervisor on the same network? I tried installing it through "brew", but was getting many random errors.

I thought about running it over the network using XQuartz, but I'm not sure how maintained / well supported that is anymore.
I agree. I also worked on EHR software and what people don’t realize is that the “customer” isn’t the doctor. Not to be disparaging, but the doctor is “just” an employee.

The purchaser of the software is the administrator. And because of harsh regulations and legal liabilities in their industry, they need software that is compliant with regulations and limits legal liability on the institution. Full stop. If they can get that with a good UI/UX, then great! But in the end, this is just another case of “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”. It is all about incentives.

Companies like Epic could make their UX better, but that costs money. And what drives sales is being regulations compliant, and that is hard. It takes a ton of time. There is little time left over to make something work well considering no other software is challenging them on that front. It really is a situation of regulatory capture.
Have you seen the cybertractor?
If people are willing to risk their lives in the name of human progress, why wouldn't it be ethical?
Getting a massive "Old man yells at sky" vibe in this thread (and HN in general).

Safety laws are written in blood. Whenever a new regulation is passed, it is often in reaction to some horrendous accident.

A lot of the comments below are of Boomers who played with unsafe toys or took risks, but they also had some limited supervision from at least one parent.

In 2023, both parents are working, so supervision is much more limited.

On top of that, like another poster mentioned - cars are fairly dangerous now, and plenty of young drivers are driving pretty massive hunks of machinery that didn't necessarily exist in the 70s or 80s.

Edit:

Gotta love people 20-30 years older than me downvoting me to oblivion.
I'm not sure what you're asking, recommend towards what end? I have no idea how to inspire the next generation. Right now I'm working hard towards financial independence and improving my health so that in 10 years or so I can dedicate all of my energy towards something that excites me and hopefully benefits others.

I guess if I was to contribute an idea that I think more people should adopt, it's that I believe people are most happy when their existence improves others lives. To that end I think we should optimize towards having the most healthy years with the most freedom to explore ways to be useful and bring joy to others. That means being frugal and investing wisely and focusing on the delayed gratification that early retirement will bring.

I find that it's hard to give from a place just surviving, but if you can delay gratification and work hard towards being in a place of surplus, you'll have a lot to offer and hopefully that leads to a very joyful and meaningful life.
WCH CH340 USB-UARTs cost less than an RP2040 (and probably the external flash.)

https://www.lcsc.com/search?q=CH340

The reason to use an RP2040 is that you need a little bit of logic with that UART.
This is a really cool precursor/testing ground for eventual off-planet remote mining/farming/industrial systems.

Grow your own food if you don't like it.
Elon Musk's Neuralink company implants brain chip in first human
I wish in the US we had some form of privacy protection as in the EU. What the EU has is not perfect, but I wish we had it.

My understanding is that one man, Senator Chuck Schumer, blocks any meaningful privacy legislation in his committee. A one man privacy wrecking ball. I read somewhere that his two daughters have high paying jobs at, I think, Meta and Microsoft.

EDIT: my point is that if we had better privacy, then corporations would have less information to sell.
> The first edition of ECMA-48 is lost to time,

Apparently there is a copy in Germany https://search.worldcat.org/title/1069189730
I've been getting very low view-count videos lately too, but they're at least tangentially related to whatever I've been watching. I'll watch a video about Doctor Who, then I'll get some random person's episode review or convention recap. This never happened before.

Some are alright, some are just weird, and some are unpleasant hatespeechy screeds, but I haven't had even a single shock video recommendation so far.
> I think you are advocating for some kind of government reallocation or loosening of property rights

I'm really just drawing attention to the fact the relevant property rights (what you can build, who can live there, how much it is worth relative to other things) are the product of continuous government intervention (planning, consultations, law, etc). Further, the government has basically free reign to legislate however it likes, unlike regulating conventional industries (automakers, etc).

My point is not that the government should just seize all inner city land - that would work, but it would also work to just rebalance the right to own land against the right to shelter in planning law, then use existing procedures to work out the consequences. For instance, one thing that could help would be to obligate developers to increase the number of housing units on a residential site if they redevelop.
Show HN: Exploring the tree of LLM generations [video]
This is a simple text editor, made using gtkmm 3 and llama.cpp, that allows you to explore the possible continuations (ranked by descending probability) that an LLM would output after each token. I was quite surprised that there didn't seem to be a tool like that out there yet, so I decided to make my own. Source is on Github (https://github.com/blackhole89/autopen), though the code is still in a very rough shape.
> It seems more a social issue rather than a technological one: we as a society are not ready for universal AR.

At one point talking on the phone in public (video chats, bluetooth earpieces, etc) would have been weird. Now it's annoyingly common.

Maybe this release is a longer term play at "culture/social change" rather than a true non-just-prototype device. Soften up the market and make "spatial computing" more acceptable. And then integrate a "non pro" version for general consumers.
Kevin O'Leary: You Have to Get to a Place Where You Have $5M in the Bank
Small family farming is already dead unless (a) you are willing to turn a large fortune into a small one or (b) you are willing to live in poverty.
Yes because the developers on HN can make good graphical apps using cross platform frameworks unlike the

- Java developers

- every mobile OS provider ever who said the same thing - Palm, Microsoft, Google (dart), RIM and even Apple at one point had the same “sweet solution”

- all Electron developers
I hate to use this thread as a general forum for complaints against YouTube, but I've come across some concerning behavior.

I've gotten fed up with the app, so this morning I decided to use Firefox mobile to play a video on YouTube.com

Whenever the video plays, my microphone turns on. The thing is I have my microphone permissions in Firefox turned off, with no exceptions. Has anyone else encountered this behaviour?
Apple Is Quietly Buying AI Companies [video]
Or simply having the audacity to travel on an airplane.

> There's no such thing as "rights" - only what individuals can defend in the current place and time they're in.

I suppose that is the way it always has been. When the government was small people just didn't care what they were up to. The people became complacent and allowed a beast to grow. If the rights we are supposed to have keep getting trampled on revolution is inevitable. It may take a long hellish time to happen but that is one fork in the path we are on.
Why? I can understand the pessimism about bigger goals (like colonizing Mars), even I may not agree with it, but a man on the Moon? Even if one thinks the entire US Public system is dysfunctional, SpaceX is actively pursuing such a goal and advancing space tech at a rate faster than any time in our history, excepting perhaps that magical ~1959-1969 window.

And even if you have doubts about private industry, then there's China. They have all the motivation, capability, risk tolerance, funding, and more necessary. They have the stated goal of putting astronauts on the Moon by 2030, and there's no reason to think they won't succeed. They've been nailing their space goals in both terms of success and timeline. And if we look a bit more optimistically there are all sorts of third parties that would like to get back in the game, or newcomers looking to find their own place in it.
I don't see a virtual screen being as nice or productive as an Apple Pro XDR for actually doing computer work. Too many layers between your eyes and the pixels, and then all the drawbacks like weight and finicky input glitches.
Good thing here: you can hack John Deere products on in space station since DMCA only applies in the US.
what if you're a sysadmin pretending to dev?
without signing an NDA first...
I’ve used https://www.when2meet.com for an hourly version of this for years, and never had any issues with it.
>The part of the demo where the dad played with his kids while wearing the Vision Pro and then watched the playback alone later was disturbing.

I'm glad I'm not alone who feels the same. To me, that scene is so out of place, so dystopian that it's outright ridiculous that it's presented in a demo like this.
In the US malpractice insurance is mostly orthogonal to the costs of health care. I hate having to write the check every year (my wife- a pharmacist- needs this insurance just like doctors do, though it doesn't cost as much because suits aren't as common) but it's really just an annoying drop in the bucket. You can tell this because some states (most prominently, Texas) have put caps on malpractice pain-and-suffering payouts, and they don't have lower medical costs, in fact parts of Texas are some of the most expensive in the country. So if malpractice isn't driving it, what is?

As far as I can tell, the real reason for the costs are consolidation. In my wife's world, independent pharmacies are being killed by PBM's(1) which literally set reimbursement rates for the small guys at below the wholesale cost of the medicine. The user experience here is you go to an independent pharmacy, you hand them your script, and they run the script through their computer systems, then say "Sorry, I can't fill this for you, because it cost me more than the insurance will pay me" and then you have to go to one of the big three which have enough market power to negotiate with their PBM's for higher rates (and even here PBM's routinely end up at least temporarily dropping one of the big boys as part of their hardball negotiations with each other).

There are basically three PBM's for the whole country, they have enormous, basically monopoly power (80% of the insurance market), and if you are a small shop your rates are crap. So the small pharmacies close/sell out and the big three drug stores get bigger. And that is happening in medicine as well, as I understand it, though I haven't seen it from the inside.

The core idea behind the ACA ("Obamacare") was that clear competition from insurance companies (and medical providers) through the exchanges would lower the total costs of health care, and it doesn't seem to have panned out, because there hasn't actually been much competition, instead there has been massive consolidation. Most counties in the US don't actually have much competition on their ACA Exchange(2), and most counties don't have much competition from medical providers either- they've all consolidated to get better rates from the insurance company- so you have monopoly insurance and monopoly providers competing with each other to see who gets more rents, not trying to compete on lowering costs.(3)

1: Pharmacy Benefit Managers, https://www.vox.com/2023/5/10/23709448/what-are-pbms-pharmac... for an explainer

2: https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2017/7/20/16005598/...

3: This is why many Democratic health care wonks are looking more seriously at single-payer over the past decade. If we in practice have unchecked monopolies dominating health care, let's at least have them be government run and therefore responsive to something, even if it's just politics it's still better than the alternative.
Your memory must be bad because I remember cars driving down my suburban street at highway speeds in the mid 90s. The lesson imparted as a kid was to always look both ways, assume no one sees you, and get in and out quickly.

If you haven’t taught your kids to not impulsively run after balls into streets, that’s on you. Even my 3 year old knows better than to walk into a street after a ball. I literally watched him stop and look both ways yesterday too before walking in to grab his ball.

Yes, drivers should slow down in neighborhoods but an ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure. You have more control over your kids than the crazies that exist in this world.
Yes. Generally speaking, you want your pilots as proficient as possible on a single type. They will need many hundreds of hours on the new type before they are considered seasoned. A lot of disasters in the last 30 years have been amplified by pilots with low hours on the type they were flying. It takes a lot of training to memorize checklists, switches, levers, time to get muscle memory for various emergency situations. It’s a lot of time in the simulators. Lots of airlines also fly only one type, so they are majorly impacted by needing training for their entire pilot crew. It’s their own fault for choosing that but still. Combine this with the fact that airlines are razor thin margins and always seem a couple bad quarters away from bankruptcy and you get what we have today.
Think 'central planning' gets bad wrap.
Communism != Central Planning.

There were other problems with Soviets. Nobody mentions how fast they modernized.

Do you think 'Central Planning' isn't happening today?

Most of the worlds food production is 'Central Planned'.

It is just being done by a corporation, not a government.

Why does that make you feel better about it.

Didn't we just witness how the global JIT central production systems could fall apart?
Who is this "we"? The flatearters?
Did the Future Already Happen? [video]
How do they compare to the top-of-the-line Bosch (ie. TAT861X)?

Seems to me that the Sage/Breville have more bells and whistles (a LED light count-down, bread type selector...) whereas the Bosch seems to be a more no-nonsense one with better hardware inside (quartz glass heating elements etc)?
Hi there, I'm Ozgun, one of Ubicloud's founders.

We have dozens of customers using Ubicloud runners in production today. We’re now designing our caching layer (Docker instance registry, Docker layer cache, or package cache). We wanted to put this out there for any comments.

Also, if you have any points related to the broader topic of an open and portable cloud, please pass them along!