skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IT solution for such succession issues is something most people do not want, especially the giants living on walled gardens.

The first part is be LOCAL FIRST for anything, living the FDE key available in a safe, secondly having digital IDs, the PGP/GNUPG model, where anyone have a pair of keys, the public formally recognized by the State, and allowing third parties to accept the heir + notary as valid means to transfer an account properly. Aside all home systems must be IaC style, so anyone can manage them reading a single config repository NOT needing to know the current state of things outside the repo.

The main issue though is that anyone use computers, but only very few know them, as a result most of the population is digitally illiterate to a point of being unable to do all basic stuff they need to do.
Hard to see the math working out. 70% of Americans are overweight. Wegovy costs are about $12,000 and the average household income is like $70k. We are talking about half the federal budget spending on wegovy
It quire clearly uses a pressure differential to quickly suck your shit out of the bowl. I doubt gravity makes much of a difference.
H100 was released almost exactly 1 year ago so I guess it's ok if Intel is now ready to compete with last year's model.

To those commenting about "no moat" remember CUDA is a huge part of it, it's actually HW+SW and both took a decade to mature, together
Show HN: Good old chat
I think lees. Why AWS need to store 3 times if they can use Reed-Solomon algorithms (or similar) and decrease this number to 2 or 1.5 and save a lot of storage space
Turned a £500 overdraft into a £350M business
It's not like shipping at the mall means that I'm going to get higher quality or a more ethical supply chain. There's plenty of very low quality $200 sweaters/shoes/belts/jeans/etc at established retailers. I'm not whattaboutism'ing -- it's just that people seem to criticize Temu far more than it earns.

If you can afford to shop exclusively at Patagonia, that's wonderful! But I often feel like the western brands are mad at Temu primarily for giving consumers back all the middle-man markups, so billionaires like Lawrence Stroll stop getting their cut when people buy from Temu instead of Ralph Lauren (and just keep the extra money that those owners are used to capturing).
a hot croissant with fresh (philadelphia) cream cheese is one of the most delicious things ever
I cannot scroll the example. I'm using Firefox.
Is there some legal or moral significance of underlining that the occupation is _temporary_ ? Is _permanent_ occupation somewhat more justified or what?
let me put it this way. As an EVSE owner I see a direct correlation between how far I can go between chargers if I drive 65 vs 75. Because I have to stretch out where I am going to hit a fast charger. I see F150s going 80. Do you think they are calculating their MPG like my parents used to back in the early 80s? I don't think they are. So maybe it is 16 in some cases, but people drive them really really fast.
They are useful for products which do video encoding, decoding, and microwave receive and transmit of video data. They are useful for TCP/IP insertion and extraction of packet data, e.g., in video streams.
I notice you left out any mention on where this is supposed to have taken place, despite a direct request for it.

I really can see no legitimate reason for stalling on giving that detail.
Ask HN: Is there any way to make a self-destruct button for iPhone?
I just learned that you can set iPhone to run an automation (or any action) by tapping its back. I don't know why, but this made me wonder if it's possible to make a self-destruct button for a phone. I don't program hardware so just wildly guessing here, but maybe it is possible to set it on some kind of loop that causes it to overheat? I imagine there are lots of safeguards against that, but also imagine people have figured out ways around them.
Can selinux be configured to prevent root from loading a kernel module..?
I wouldn't want to write this off because you get the feeling these guys are on to something that could be hugely important (ignoring quantum this thermodynamic that) - but surely it feels like they need to get to the point a lot faster e.g.

"We're taking a new approach to building chips for AI because transistors can't get any smaller."

I really don't know what they gain by convoluting the point and it's pretty hard to follow what the CEO is talking about half the time.
FWIW, I've used the Web USB installer probably a dozen times without issue, so I would definitely recommend that route if adb is intimidating. I've done it both ways, but the web installer is so easy it feels magical.

As for it not working, were you running a Flatpak/Snap version of the browser? Apparently those are problematic with Web USB. I personally haven't tried on Linux yet (just Mac O's) but now that I've switched to Fedora I might encounter the same issue you did.
lol, yes… it is indeed fun to share these stories.

Two alternate stories I didn’t tell:

First is about my two friends (both ridiculously smart) who in undergrad became the TAs for the Operating System class at Carnegie Mellon as undergrads (normally taught by grad students)… this is the hardest CS course taught there. As part of their summer prep, they wrote a new file system example… I believe based on a b-tree.

The next was my AI professor, Andrew Moore [0], he was legendary at the school… eventually becoming dean after doing a stint at Google (he has since stepped down). By far, he is the smartest person I have ever personally known. To give you context (and we did this regularly in his class), you could ask him a question on anything and he would pause, think about it, and come up with a well reasoned answer that would be both insightful and illuminating… from first principles. On any subject. You could not throw him (we tried). I am still in awe of him.

While I agree that legendary tales grow… they are almost always based on a kernel of truth. The reality is most people don’t often interact with folks at these levels. I was very lucky, and I have only interacted with a handful.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2017/10/30/carnegie-m...
I think their accusation that the decision was made to save 3% memory usage is too presumptive. They also claim that no other OS is shipping with MTE enabled right now. The decision to enable is likely more nuanced.
Truly futuristic programming where we we program behaviours.

Lisp is 66 years old, I think its impact on computer science has already happened.
If you are in the U.S., I generally pitch USAjobs. The government seems to be leaning into in sourcing tech talent and and I've seen an uptick in the 2210 series being posted. If you are willing to work for a government agency, check them out. If you look at the CR that was just passed, look for agencies that were funded for 2024. If the agency was funded, odds are jobs will be opening up soon. Also, some agencies are willing to do 100 percent telework or remote positions to get in top talent for IT. Granted if you aren't a veteran it can be tough to certify for those kinds of jobs, but no harm in throwing your hat in the ring. I'm not a pro at gov employment, but if you want some details on the right kinds of positions, grades and series that would fit I'd be happy to give some info. The misinformation is strong out there, every little bit helps. Good luck!!
I've actually been reading this over the last two days, and it's a fascinating read.
Incredible code!
PDD's strategy here is to get entry level workers in the door and have then sign a non-compete which would make it impossible for that person to survive if they left the company, once they are stuck there they work them to the bone with 996.

Needless to say this is so so fucked up but it's China so go figure.
Convolutional neural networks were a huge advancement in their time
Why not setup your system the way you like it and take regular Clonezilla snapshots, so you can just restore from a known good ISO with all your programs and settings?
I block reddit at my router.
Buy This Chevy S-10 EV Because Modern Electric Trucks Are Too Expensive
Show HN: Chrome Please Fix Your Audio
I've been working on an audio application for a little bit, and was shocked to find Chrome handles simultaneous recording & playback very poorly. Made this site to demo the issue as clearly as possible
> the concept of ownership exists outside of the law

Not really. The common definitions either fall back to control or invoke the term property, another legalistic word. What ownership means is incredibly fluid and context dependent; consider how ambiguous it is when it comes to its classic form, real estate.
Same, and so much cope from iOS users on those features. They'll argue something like "I love sleeping with an Apple Watch so that the alarm is less jarring". But a few lines of code and the thing could work for everyone: start w/ silent screen flash/vibration, wait 3 seconds, subtle beep, wait 3 seconds, regular ringing/alarm starts...

You wouldn't even have to turn it off in the movies...
Until you need floating point performance.
I second this. Maybe I'm missing something in the value proposition, but we already generate PDFs from .docx/.html templates using open source libraries and Docker microservices.

Do not misunderstand. A Stripe for generating PDFs can be great, but for a small team, $0.50/PDF is way more than I can afford (after all, you can create a small number of PDFs without too much fuss). Maybe you are oriented towards large companies?
The US Semaglutide patent ends in 2 years, it is cheap and can already be bought in bulk. There is absolutely no reason for it to be expensive apart from the broken US medical system.
Is this just a wrapper around Puppeteer that renders a pdf? I do this currently with an AWS lambda that has a chrome-aws-lambda layer.
Yes I think it might have been a snap.
I know everyone is calling BS on this, and I am just a simple web developer so what do I know but there are at least two priors that make me think that what is discussed here could have some validity.

* The stochastic/random nature of processors is already used in cryptography for physically uncloneable functions. Dunno if this has any practical uses in industry, and it is crypto, so it is probably also BS, but it is the same phenomena you get if you log in into your BIOS and turn off ECC of your RAM.

* The very first computer capable of MCMC was designed by von Neumann himself and used uranium as a source of randomness as part of the Manhattan project.

Anyway semiconductors have never been my strong suit, but I guess this is more of a IP play then a consumer product business. Now let me get back to writing unit tests.
I had a good experience with Neovim and AsciiDoc [0]

You can get an epub and PDF out of it

[0] https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/asciidoc-for-book-writing/
Yup.

I have never had an Airbnb that was not clearly an illegal hotel.
I can definitely see the appeal in making people fume out of their ears over some completely irrelevant thing you said on the internet that they can completely ignore but still choose not to.

People throwing tantrums in public and making clowns of themselves has always been funny.
A hotspot requires a cellular connection to an existing network. AirDrop creates a ZeroConf network, which advertises its presence to other devices.
Ask HN: How to Teach Debugging?
I am teaching a data science class to people with little to no programming experience. The course uses Python and various ML libraries, and Docker.

I find very difficult to provide the students with a general method of debugging. I find Feynman's method ("think hard and solve it") discouraging.

Anything more step-by-step?

EDIT: typo
Related: Residents seek more transparency from Google in water deal with The Dalles https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/29/google-water-data-cen...

Because the Columbia River has a requirement that its use must be net zero, Google (and others, but the article is about Google) can't use river water for evaporative cooling. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/the-dalle...

Google bought the water rights from an aluminum smelter... which allows it to withdraw 3.9 million gallons per day from the groundwater. ( https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2021/10/25/big-tech... https://columbiacommunityconnection.com/the-dalles/google/da... )
Using something like sudo. Parent is not saying remove root entirely but that it should be super locked down and maybe broken up into different accounts.
Show HN: Gemini vs. ChatGPT vs. Claude AI
Hey HN, I just updated my project that compares some LLMs. It uses your prompt for all the models and runs at the same time. You can see the results being generated in real-time and decide what's the best for your use case. I'm open to any suggestions and feedback. Thanks!
Only because BigPharma uses the US to reap massive profits.

EU pricing is more like $200-$300/month.
I'm pretty sure the most profitable course of action is just to let those who are obese suffer and die from the consequences. As ever, mixing human morbidity and mortality with a profit incentive gets macabre fast.
Is this an actual search engine or just a front end which builds “select from” queries?
Think it'll probably crack on with Gaudi3 at 4x performance, twice VRAM etc later this year.

We found cuda sycl conversion surprisingly good https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
They’re not true open source if they have ridiculous nonfree licenses like the AGPL which is just an EULA in disguise (and probably isn’t enforceable as a result).
Oh thats unexpected good surprise then! Is this list public so that I might take a look and see whenever my "needs" are met?
>The NTSB "fact finding" is intentionally and necessarily blameless, because if it becomes a prosecutorial investigation then you lose cooperation of everyone involved. If you lose that cooperation, you can't work out what caused an accident, and so the same accidents keeps recurring.

The NTSB is a lovely organization but they're already calling out Boeing for not cooperating. They should continue doing what they're doing but a separate independent criminal investigation is in order. Jail time and large fines also help accidents from not recurring, preferably also legislative action and Congressional investigations. What is actually in order now is the legal discovery process to uncover what people are talking about, recording, failing to record, and otherwise documenting to bring to light the sources of the failed safety and reliability of these planes.
There is both commonalities and differences! Both approaches rely on web technology to provide the layout and are flexible in terms of frameworks and integrations.

Where things differ is that we don't actually use a browser under the hood. This allows a much better control over typesetting and layout - and you can do it on the server. We have also more controls over the outputted PDF and the ability to use more advanced features such as form fields or embedding other files and metadata in the PDF.
Apple II was the first computer I used for a job — boardgame and roleplaying game design. Word processing was the name of the game. I worked doing this over summers and holiday breaks from Carnegie Mellon, c. 1982-1986. The Apple IIe had 64k RAM, expandable to 1MB. The CPU was a 1MHz 6502. Pretty much everything was green on screen, unless you used the 8 or 16 color palette.

By the time I graduated, the Apple IIe's and IIc's had already given way to Apple Macintoshes. Specifically the Macintosh Plus. They began at 1MB RAM, expandable to 4MB. The 68000 was clocked at 8 MHz. Of course, you were relegated back to black and white graphics.

The Mac II, from 1987, could be expanded to 8MB RAM. Its 68020 clocked at 16MHz. And it supported 256 COLORS and a crazy thing called a hard drive. There was so much advancement during this period. Utter leapfrogging.

It was a great time to be part of the computing revolution.
Edits would be limited to certain pages but may spill over (e.g. tables) so the whole PDF need not be generated. Only edited pages can be inserted back to previously generated PDFs. Could be an optimization to reduce cost.
IMHO, the best [individual] essay contains single paragraph/sentenced trasmissions that connect [or overhelm] the reader with impact at [the right] times.

At the same time, to strengthen the practice, make a statement and then follow with a question. Make the impact, leave the reader with a question back to it. It's two sentences, paragraph break.

Those are the best essays.

He practiced this technique many times in this article. But is this the format of best essays [of the Internet]?
Things like this are the main reason I am opposed to the death penalty. Imagine being actually killed because of a clerical error, or as in this case, clerical malfeasance.
The v5es and v5ps are pretty amazing at running SD, giving code for SD3 now to optimise it on those.

v5es are particularly interesting given the millions that will land and the large pod sizes, particularly well constructed for million token context windows.
meh, lmk when they actually ship something that's not bs
If there is life on any of the gas giant moons (particularly Europa and Enceladus) it's tidal heating that sustains it. There are basically four ways a planet can be heated:

1. Latent heat of formation. As the planet forms, denser materials sink down to the core and lighter materials float up to the top. This releases their gravitational potential, heating the planet. Over time though, this heat radiates into space. Icy moons are too old for this to be enough heat to support a liquid ocean.

2. Radioisotope decay. Particularly stuff like Potassium, on long time scales, decays and releases heat energy. This is a significant source of heating on Earth. Less significant on a small moon since radioactive isotopes are pretty rare, all things considered.

3. Solar heating. Sun hot. Planet kinda hot.

4. Tidal heating. The planet gets physically flexed by interacting orbital resonances between another moon and the host planet. This can be powerful enough to drive large amounts of volcanic activity on the surface of Io.

Europa Clipper is a mission that will fly high-precision magnetometers over Europa relatively soon (by NASA standards). It's possible that those magnetometers could pick up on induced magnetic fields from the interaction of charged salt ions moving in Europa's ocean with the magnetic field of Jupiter. If that signal can be detected, it may be possible to map the sub-surface ocean and start to do some sort of astro-oceanography.
Too risky for my taste! What I ended up doing is lowering the TDP in the BIOS from it's default 105 to 85 watts and now temps are great. I have a 7700X.

Before doing that I tried lowering the max temp instead but I think 100+ watts is just too much for the cooler I have and I couldn't tolerate the noise. I'm sure I've lost some performance but I can't tell the difference.
>Intel's own site directs you to buy an 8x GPU provisioned server from Supermicro for more than 40k USD

Isn't that the price of a single H100?
For collections, returning [] (empty collection) instead of null is almost always what I want.
I mean you could build a little server that offers all this one per fire-truck or something, but it's probably overkill when simpler solutions exist :)

Then you could have the fire-trucks mesh network with each other!

Sarcasm alert: I'm sure that is bound to be 100% reliable out in the middle of nowhere, with whatever cheap power converter they used to provide power from the 12V batteries in the truck, and hopefully doesn't drain them :)
https://winstall.app. There's also winget.run, but it's no longer updated.
Do things such as Gcam and Google Pay work?

The two major things I need from my phone is good camera quality and being able to use Google Pay which is useful where I'm at.
Show HN: Blockgem – Crypto Arbitrage Scanner
I've been navigating the crypto space for a while and grew increasingly frustrated with the shilly announcements and ghost sponsorships that dominate crypto-related content.

It's disheartening to see how many people lose money on risky bets. That's why I created Blockgem, an app aimed at showcasing a less risky path to profit in the crypto market through arbitrage.

Blockgem is an early-stage project I've personally developed. It leverages real-time data from crypto price APIs to highlight opportunities for arbitrage - buying low on one exchange and selling high on another. This simple yet effective strategy can be a safer way to navigate the volatile crypto market.

Features include:

- Real-time arbitrage opportunities across 100+ assets and 75+ exchanges.
- Customizable searches tailored to user preferences.
- Simple Google authentication for access: https://blockgem.co/?utm_source=show_hn

Despite its early stage, Blockgem has organically grown to ~500 users. As I explore ways to monetize, user feedback has been clear: many desire automated arbitrage trading via their exchange API keys. However, I'm cautious about the security implications and the costs of implementing such a feature on a tight budget.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on potential monetization strategies, how to enhance the user experience, and ideas for growth. Additionally, if you have insights on securely implementing automated trading or opinions on balancing development costs, I'm all ears.

Thanks for giving Blockgem a look. I'm here to discuss and answer any questions you might have!
> They want all the benefits of renting out their place (in most cases, it goes against the original intent of renting a spare room, or family home), but want to make the experience less than ideal for customers.

In the first part of that sentence you characterize the transaction as akin to renting out a spare room, but in the second part you characterize the guests as "customers." Historically, if you rented a room from someone, you were subject to all sorts of rules, invasions of privacy, etc. In many circumstances, that's still the case (e.g. with live-in nannies).

What's actually happening is that guests treat AirBnBs like hotel rooms, and hosts are doing the same thing. It's just a commercial, arm's-length transaction.
In their early days they "accidentally" deleted my servers and backups, and their engineers had the gall to attempt to blame me for their process failures.

I had posted about it on HN awhile ago and had to provide proof to Dan to be able to be allowed to share my story.

They responded to my HN comment apologizing and trying to claim that those people shouldn't have been interacting with customers, don't work for the company anymore and blah blah, but there is no way I could trust a company a second time after losing a month's worth of work.

It was the not apologizing and doubling down on their mistakes that put me off.
I had one once in my living room. I was pissed. The host told me it had written about it in the description. Sure enough it was there when I looked carefully. Still what the heck. In a Boston Airbnb with my parents visiting from abroad. I ended up leaving a one star review, and he begged for me to take it down. I explained long and large how wrong what he did was and left my one star review. Felt good.
I'd add to this category Haldane's "On being the right size". Great essay then, still great now.
I don't know what Gcam is, but it comes with a camera app.

I've never used Google Pay so I don't know.
physical engineering. That will take a while.