skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't Java have the widest variety of hardware running it, thanks to its Virtual Machine ?

Java has the advantage that you can run it on a wide variety of hardware platforms without recompilation, but it has largely failed to attain broad usage/support for desktop apps and so it's a bad choice for something like Freenet in 2024.

A systems programming language like Rust gives us a lot more control over things like memory allocation, allowing apps to be a lot more efficient. This is important with Freenet because we need it to run in the background without slowing down the user's computer.

Rust can also be compiled to run on all major platforms, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, etc.

> P.S.: Also, I tried Freenet about around that time too ! I'm a bit confused about this being a "new" project... why not naming it "Freenet 2" then ? Why did Freenet "1" had to change its name ??

Using the name for the new software was a difficult decision and not without risk.

The "Freenet" name was never intended to belong to a specific codebase. From the start we viewed the original Java implementation as a prototype, which is one reason we never actually released version 1.0 (even 7 years after the project started we were still on version 0.7). At the time I had no idea that it would be over 20 years before I had a design I thought would be suitable, but here we are.

This new Freenet is the original concept but designed, not as a prototype, but as software that can gain broad adoption. In that sense it is the fulfilment of my original vision.

I did consider calling it Freenet 2, but these days not that many people have heard of the original, so on balance I believe it would have been confusing for the (hopefully) much bigger userbase we hope to reach.
I could ignore the Eastern European staff members even though the majority of clientele is in the USA but how the heck I see the same UI issues, bugs, weird empty "warning" popups and glitches that I seen some 12 years ago today, that just boggles my mind.
Looks like the brief for this article was - "find an angle to blame everything on amazon"
The thing that gets me about the excuses that 9 news have given is this - so what if the tool did do it? A human fed the images into that tool and approved the output.

Frankly I don't think AI image manipulation should be part of the news production process anyway. It's one thing to crop and resize, entirely another to generate synthetic images for news purposes.
Spinning up a new Kubernetes pod for every single job run is a very expensive and wasteful operation, starting at least in the order of seconds (usually more) vs just milliseconds for a new process in an already hot environment.
>Go outside, hug a tree, lay in the grass - it's more realistic, no need to augment, and it's free!

I am generally annoyed by this common advice. Nature and trees don't mean the same thing to everyone. Nature is just boring to me TBH. When using VR (or tech in general) I am not looking to replicate or improve the feeling of being "outside". It is a different thing altogether.
Their last great move was the auto empty dock, which everyone quickly copied. No advantage left there.

Their dual brush system was better. It let them use less suction so they got better results while being quieter. But the patent just expired, so that advantage is gone.

Their VSLAM navigation can’t compete with LIDAR.

They’re in deep trouble. And if their big plan was “Amazon will save us somehow“ that’s gone too.
House restores immediate R&D deduction in new tax bill
Didn't work out so well with the original lightning. Knock-off cables appeared within a year.
The first stage points to arstechnica.com because that’s unlikely to be blocked or attract much attention (your IT guys would probably unblock it). The URL is set on that profile page but the person who controls it can change that any time they want without attracting attention so it’s not hardcoded in the way it would be if it was embedded in the malware executable.
I believe that's called HN.
It's much easier to transfer bitcoin than it is to transfer gold, so not only does it share #1, it has additional attributes than what you listed.

It already is a useful way to exchange value, people do it all the time.
If they can’t be competitive owning 46% of the market the government isn’t the problem.
Tesla to Open US Battery Plant with Equipment from China's CATL
Im speculating based on the Mirai story. Botnet like that doesnt just use one vulnerability. Later Mirai variants pack over 100 attack vectors gathered/traded on malware forums, almost none are ever 0days.
The difference between 'learn', 'cram', 'regurgitate' etc. depends on the level of understanding required, and the length of the recall.

And whether the interview is just asking definitions or silly certification questions, or things requiring deeper understanding.
Just a comment for the repo owners: insert images for each code example!
This seems maybe more misguided than Word on a smartphone. Sure, a virtual keyboard does not have teeny tiny keys that your average fingertip covers two of, but Word has no longer valid assumptions baked in. I mean, I'm a dinosaur, and I rarely print anything these days, why would a word processor that paginates text for printing be of any use in AR or VR?
For more retro VR goodness, https://EmuVR.Net is also really amazing!
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Letter%20to%20FT...
Ollama gui in WSL2
Fire the CEO and the Board. This all started with the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. Profit above all else. Just like Jack Welch of GE. It is pathetic. Take all the money and squeeze the bottom. Retire experienced engineers and hire new ones with less experience and lower pay. Move manufacturing so you will not have Labor Unions to worry about. Squeeze companies suppling parts so they do not have a fair profit. It is pathetic. We all must demand change. I am flying overseas but not on a Boeing plane. And my heart goes out to families who lost loved ones in the 2 fatal crashes.
Looks Like the Free Software Foundation Forced Neo4j's Hand
After spending millions fighting the committer of ONgDB who removed the commons clause from the AGPL branded license, it looks like the Free Software Foundation got involved and forced them to remove the commons clause or change the license to their own proprietary license.

https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/commit/b6237ca4e31706b1efbd0f...
I’ll never understand why they refuse to move to LIDAR. Is it some kind of NIH thing? The sunk cost fallacy of their VSLAM design that they “have” to keep?

LIDAR bots are really cheap. It can’t be the cost of components. And no matter what you could certainly afford to put them on the most expensive bots and leave the really cheap ones with the pointless camera system.

I left the brand over it. There were some things I liked better but their VSLAM implementation is fundamentally flawed.
'intentionally superficial and vague'
I'm sure someone eventually will. Darwin Award material.
Getting a really quick, coarse view of what a file format looks like, easily picking out different types of data. Try uploading a SNES ROM or similar and you'll probably see a lot of distinct squares because of how the ROM banks work.

Super Metroid has a surprising amount of filler scattered all over.
> I’m not evaluating beliefs as such but rather pointing out the logical contortions that some theists engage in to rationalize their position

I don't think they actually are engaging in "logical contortions" or rationalisations.

Theists can be divided into three groups:

(1) Those who don't accept any cosmological arguments: either they believe in God purely on the basis of faith, or else they believe on the basis of some non-cosmological argument

(2) Those who accept some philosophically sophisticated cosmological argument – e.g. the kalam argument, or Thomas Aquinas' argument from contingency. They have a ready-made answer for "why if the universe requires an external cause doesn't God too?". I don't find those answers convincing myself, but I think it is unfair and intellectually uncharitable to just dismiss them as "logical contortions" or "rationalisations"

(3) The unsophisticates who engage in cosmological argumentation, but have never seriously thought about the question "why if the universe requires a creator doesn't God too?". Do they actually have "logical contortions" or "rationalisations", or are they just not thinking?
MMT basically says "its ok, we can just print more money". How did that work for Venuzuela? Lets see... 1.00 US Dollar = 3,615,588.83 Venezuelan Bolívares. The 6 inch thick stack of currency required to buy a roll of toilet paper would be more efficient than the toilet paper.
Printing more money just devalues the work product of everyone before that. Republican attitudes about tax? Surely you jest.
How much can you mitigate this by interviewing them remotely but on video? Then you can see if they're typing and reading the answer (unless they have a friend doing that and feeding them it in an earphone, as I hear happens).
This is my take as well, just because you can get away with something doesn’t necessarily make it desirable to maintain or extend, and I honestly cannot imagine the effort in terms of labor hours that you’d have to go through to develop something like this compared to just plugging in an off-the-shelf scheduler to something slightly more sophisticated like k8s or even just a worker-and-queue system. When you’re talking about platform engineering to solve a problem that a relatively extensible Celery service could do (and have tests and such), I have no idea how the former could be “less work” or cheaper in the long haul.
Ask HN: Bitwarden alternatives?
A few years ago I switched from LastPass to Bitwarden and have been mostly happy with it. Recently, Bitwarden seems to be running slower and having more sync issues. What password manager do you recommend today?
I've been using NameCheap for well over a decade for my home-gamer stuff.

I find their freebie DNS to be reliable, and their DNS management tools to be completely adequate.

DDNS just works. I set it up exactly one time with OpenWRT and forgot all about it.

And by "free" DNS, I mean: Literally free. It is a service that they give away at zero cost, and it can be used with any domain (including one registered with porkbun.com or whoever). You don't have to ever pay them a dime to use their DNS indefinitely.

I haven't ever dealt with their support folks so I have no opinion on that. I don't expect that I'll ever need to bother them.

Their website is lean-enough and easy to use. Products and pricing are straight-forward and transparent, and not pushy.

And et cetera. It's pretty nice, I think.

But not everybody is particularly happy with NameCheap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34768550

edit: or much more recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203315
That's what I did. I know it was the right solution because I happily keep adding more and more scripts to run. I didn't do that when I was using cron jobs.

Plus, Jenkins has a few nice extensions to the crontab, including setting a timezone and using "H" to spread job execution load.
This feels a lot like the old saying about advertising: "I know that half of my ads are a waste. I just don't know which half".
Approved, removes 24k lines of code.
I think they sold the story that they would become more than just a robot vacuum company and be a lots of kinds of robots company, and we're valued on that. In the end the robot vacuum industry just isn't big enough to justify all they sold to investors.
I moved into an apartment and kept the plan the previous resident had. They also sold us the non-xfinity router they had st a discount.

My roommate and I had spotty internet at various times of day. We measured it and it was way below what our plan claimed. The previous tenants had no such issue. Comcast refused to believe the problem was on their end and claimed my router was too old. This went on until I bought a new router just to prove a point (new router did nothing).

They finally send a repair guy out. He’s there for 5 minutes before diagnosing the problem: the cables were water logged to hell and back. He fixed it in 20 minutes and was gone.
I got bit by a bat recently and the four rounds of shots weren’t painful. Uncomfortable, maybe so.
Which brand did you go to?
Reread my initial comment without the knee-jerk reaction to the word “inclusive,” then objectively consider how reasonable your accusation is.
I don’t think the headline is intended to mean “Amazon screwed over iRobot“ so much as “iRobot screwed by their mess since they can’t count on Amazon‘s as a bail out”.

Which I think is a good point. But the headline does not do an effective job of getting that across. It really does make it sound like Amazon was actively causing the problem as opposed to re-revealing it.

Maybe just shifting the order around would have been enough.

“Roomba left with a huge mess now that Amazon merger is off”.
Astronomer + Hangover = Astrologer
When billing any insurance company, all procedures are assigned a "code" to standardize the payment/procedure performed across systems.

Some doctor patient visits may fall under multiple codes, so billers will optimize for the highest paying code.
Sure, but if you need that thing to run every hour for a few seconds, then seconds aren’t really the limiting factor. I don’t doubt that the resource management side of k8s would make it dicey at a certain volume of these things running, though, especially if they eat a lot of compute.
Thanks! Love that it just works!
Here are all the IKEA products you can spell in hex:

A16 ALG, A15EDA ALSEDA, A77E57 ATTEST, BA66E BAGGE, BA615 BAGIS, BA7157 BATIST, BEA7A BEATA, BE57A BESTÅ, BE7A BETA, B1BB1 BIBBI, B155A BISSA, B1716 BITIG, B1AD BLAD, B1ADE7 BLADET, B0A17 BOALT, B0110 BOLLÖ, B055E BOSSE, B0A5 BOÅS, BA5715 BÄSTIS, DA7A DATA, DE701F DETOLF, D10D DIOD, D170 DITO, D177E DITTE, D0F7A DOFTA, D01D DOLD, DA71D DÅTID, ED17 EDIT, E1DE EIDE, E16A ELGÅ, FAD0 FADO, FA5 FAS, FA57B0 FASTBO, F1BBE FIBBE, F1A7A FLÄTA, F070 FOTO, 6A5E11 GASELL, 61DEA GIDEÅ, 61E5 GLES, 610BA1 GLOBAL, 610DA GLÖDA, 60D15 GODIS, 605A GOSA, 60516 GOSIG, 1BE57AD IBESTAD, 157AD ISTAD, 1ADDA LADDA, 1ADE LADE, 1066A LOGGA, 1075 LOTS, 1A77 LÄTT, 0B1 OBI, 0DDA ODDA, 011E OLLE, 5A1B0 SALBO, 5177A SITTA, 50DA SODA, 50F1A SOFIA, 501 SOL, 50157A SOLSTA, 57A11 STÄLL, 7A6 TAG, 7A55A TASSA, 7177A TITTA, 70B1A5 TOBIAS, 70B0 TOBO, 70F7B0 TOFTBO, 706A TOGA, 7016 TOLG, 7016A TOLGA, ADA1 ÅDAL, A5E1E ÅSELE, 061A ÖGLA

Quite a few actually. I used https://lar5.com/ikea/ for the input words.
Yes, I think digital scarcity is a scam.

But that's not really the point. You seem to think that I can't really exist and any "person" with such an "opinion" is a part of a propaganda operation or trying somehow to artificially lower the price (with a post!) to buy in.

Can you accept that real people think crypto is a scam?
Or tint people yellow to make a point:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/joe-rogan-accuses-cnn-video-di...
Can you explain what you mean here because this mostly sounds like a self own?

Ultimately, the luddites are just trying to prevent capital from destroying the working class.

Not that this would be apparent because nobody read...

The Fucking Article
I've never had a job without a probation period where you can let someone go without cause within the first 90 days with nothing more than two weeks pay in lieu of notice. It definitely doesn't take 6 months to identify someone who only got their job because they used AI in the interview.
Bitwarden has been good to me till date. What exactly is the issue?
Maybe not typical, but you must know somebody who doesn't suffer from ADHD levels of distraction or an inability to cope with sensory input from autism. like you said, it's a distribution and it's important to recognize that there exist people that trend towards the typical end of the spectrum and aren't severely afflicted by mental illnesses the way some people are.

given that there are people with one testicle and other people with one ovary, the average is probably less than one for both.
The company's been around for 34(!) years.

I can only imagine how burnt out that founder must be at this point -- decades of being on the bleeding edge of commercializing new technologies with so many misses along with hits, and a last decade where global competition headwinds make consumer robotics competition heavier than ever from China.
It did materialize.

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/ezv3us/google_a...

Or the comments under https://youtu.be/-RHG5DFAjp8

It's probably hard to trigger these days because most places support OpenTable or similar.
How about "Roomba fails to get out of its huge mess because proposed Amazon merger failed".
As there was with the old 30 pin, the maglock and everything else. Apple either doesn't care or never learns.
I had an interesting conversation the other day about how best to make ChatGPT style "streaming" interfaces accessible to screenreaders, where text updates as it streams in.

It's not easy! https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/111836275974119220
How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years
Yeah - or at least all the ones doing contact discovery anyway.
Ingesting visit notes and having an LLM help determine what billing codes to use seems like a great use of AI in my opinion.
Come on, when has Microsoft ever used the legal apparatus for market positioning or suppressing competition? Get real, dude.
Rundeck fits this space.
Hello sestinj, I work at DeepSeek, and I'm glad to hear that our models work for you!
DeepSeek-Coder models are under a permissive license that allows for both research and unrestricted commercial use. We claim no rights on and take no responsibility from the output generated by the model induced by user prompts.
Feel free to deploy and use DeepSeek models for any creative projects. We are a starup company and would like to concentrate on building better models, so it would be best if the users can help create a healthy ecosystem.
Should you have any questions or requirements, I'm always happy to support.
Roborock. From what I can tell they seem to be the leader.

I wanted something that worked in 100% darkness, and LIDAR delivers that. So I don’t have to go around turning on lights, and I don’t have to worry it will get lost because I didn’t turn on lights.

Most things are a wash. The app is a little better than I remember the iRobot app being.

The auto empty dock works fine, the Roomba could tell you when the dock was full which I do miss. But that’s not an issue.

The mopping system doesn’t work for me due to how deep my carpet is. When the robot lifts the mop to travel it still hits my carpet. The Roomba system looks better where it lifts the mop all the way above the robot.

But I don’t care about the mop. That was just built-in so I tried it.

I’m happy I made the switch. I wish I didn’t have to. I was perfectly happy with my Roomba other than the navigation issue. But it was killer.
I haven’t rejected any arguments for god’s existence per se. I’ve rejected arguments that follow a pattern I mentioned. I think you underestimate the amount of simplistic reasoning people engage in on this topic. I could be wrong. Good luck in your endeavors.
From what the press is saying there is something extra special about the weight of electric vehicles (very bad, very bad indeed) vs gasoline and diesel vehicles (no one cares). Very similar to how electric cars and heat pumps are going to overload the electric grid while people installing central air is a nothing burger.
Wikipedia's article on Spinoza quotes Clare Clarisle's book Spinoza's Religion (Princeton University Press, 2021) as saying "When seventeenth-century readers accused Spinoza of atheism, they usually meant that he challenged doctrinal orthodoxy, particularly on moral issues, and not that he denied God’s existence."

Which is the thing, language changes. The word "atheist" doesn't mean the same thing it meant 350 years ago. (Even today, it doesn't have a single meaning, but that's a whole other topic.)
Not a good enough reason to place arbitrary limits on the use of cash. People should be free to buy a car with cash.
Nature Physics wants you to pay the troll but it's up on arxiv.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06540
Home alone seems to be perpetually recombinant. Over 10m :)
If you expect not to be judged for your worst behaviour, then everyone around you won't live a happy life.
What mathematical discoveries? You just quoted wikipedia saying that (1) he's most famous for his alleged mathematical discoveries, and (2) he is not alleged to have made any mathematical discoveries.
Yeah that’s perfectly clear. I don’t know if it’s longer than they would want. But that’s absolutely what the story here actually is.
> And corollary to that: if your job is possible to do with a huge number of AI tools, then your work is likely the menial kind and you should seriously dread being laid off and being obsoleted in the near future.

I bet you’re fun at parties. In all seriousness though, most IT work is menial and mundane. Backends are backends, front ends are front ends, and data moves between the two. People like to overcomplicate “tech” I think largely because of insecurity issues. Now that said, some emerging industries such as the budding corporate space race do require advanced technical knowledge. Yet for some reason glorified grocery apps want rocket engineers at their company when an average engineer could just muck around with mundane tools and piecemeal something together. The truth is the kind of gate keeping you’re advocating for is what limits businesses from realizing value quickly and is designed to artificially limit hiring.
> Why is the blood on Amazon's hands and not the EU?

What does the EU have to do with anything? If a company is faced with a scenario of either it's taken over by another company or it dies, having to comply with anticompetitive regulation is the least of the company's problems.

Keep in mind that the company you're depicting as a poor victim is the dominant market leader with around half of the whole market share.
my guess is that it's for other voltages because lightning carries plenty of data.
Dr Fun Archive
At a fundamental level Prolog works the same way that Python library works -- guessing and backtracking.
Indeed, though I suspect many might first have learnt of it watching Blackadder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rNopZDwahg
Any "scientific journalism" with a sensationalist title like this should be avoided at all costs.

You'll probably see this story's title debunked and the actual paper explained on Sabine Hossenfelder's youtube channel over the next few days.
Apple ha it built in to iPhones now too. Center Stage is the name of the feature, but I think it is only available on FaceTime calls
I seem to have discovered a "steam garage" and I can't imagine what that might be. That has led to a "steam palace," which seems to have already existed.

ETA: also the Cinderham and Louis Prime

Fun little game and pretty silly, thanks
Found the article quite over positive on iRobot.

Got a standard roomba in 2011.

Got another one in 2022. Thought it would have improved? Nope. All the same. Get stuck in cables. Always so dumb and so slow. Hair still get stuck in the brush.

Got an app for it, which was really just a fancy way to start/stop.

Sure it “worked” but I was left with the impression that nothing had improved in a decade.

My wife couldn’t handle how slow it was so we ended up getting a wireless Dyson. Yes we have to vaccum “ourselves” but considering how much I had to manage the roomba to stop from being stuck everywhere, I’m now saving time.
This is the kind of design I need at least one of the many AI hardware startups to use for inspiration
Nice. At some point I got " Crypto-gangbangasm + Cthulhu Lilith Porn".