skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using Fastmail and satisfied with the service, but considering moving to Freedom Internet (NL) when my subscription is up for renewal since they're a local privacy-focused party: https://freedom.nl/diensten/mail
I'm in a similar situation. But I decided its anyway silly how disproportionate wealth distributes. I buy properties now and allow a zero-sum rent for my tenants.
if ( contact.image.ocr().find( 'relief' ) ) contact.bomb()
New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry
A podcast about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it
So what's the endgame then?

Like ultimately if there's no two state solution, then it's either a genocide or expulsion of the Palestinians or a one state solution. If it's one state it can either be Jewish or democratic, but almost certainly not both.
Am I missing something? Because Solyaris [1] predates Dark Star. Not mention though.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/
bc is the new thing. dc forever!

(Though "modern" dc and bc are typically packaged together now.)
Show HN: Brain-Dump Your Thoughts
Audio Writer app for iOS

It turns your stream of thoughts from speech into well-structured written text.

Problem

We often deal with free flow of unstructured thoughts & ideas, only to later struggle to capturing them effectively.

Solution

Just record your spontaneous thoughts, we'll turn them into clear & coherent in writing. We just don't stop there, we'll also help you in shaping your thoughts into content across various formats.
I think I want less bureaucracy in my development so happy to see multiple versions and letting them battling them out
Speaking of LLM's... here's my "dear lazyweb" to HN:

What would be the best self hosted option to build sort of a textual AI assistant into your app? Preferably something that I can train myself over time with domain knowledge.
dev here, the pattern is now fixed :)
Politics. People want to influence their world and volunteer for local seats. Then they have to figure out how to not be corrupted by the power.
Apple operating systems automatically apply patches to devices for critical security updates so long as those patches are signed by a cryptographic private key held by Apple. That is in fact an RCE system that already exists.

There also exist humans that have access to those private keys, and those humans can be controlled by money, court orders, or violence.

In China the CCP has control over the software signing keys, so they can push any software to any apple device they like.

How long before US politicians start demanding the same?

Or maybe they just make a security mistake. Maybe a state actor performs a side channel attack on the known vulnerable Apple Silicon that powers their HSMs.

SPOFs always tend to fail.
A steel ball damper protected Taipei 101 from earthquake
Who is "management?" The author of the article is listed as the university's communications manager so they wouldn't be totally without a voice in these decisions.
Volunteer firefighters.
and there is more: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding
Something occurs to me

If you wanted to push humanity into extinction, then one way to do it is to get them tilting against fantasy threats like diamondoid super-viruses - while refusing to do any tangible work to end capitalism.

Capitalist hyperproduction is already 100% set to destroy us. But let's worry about the thing that doesn't exist, instead. And let's give capitalists even more power to handle the threat, while denying the realism of capitalism induced extinction

It's a little suspicious, right?

I'm not sure about your goals, Hollerith. But me, I would rather accept a 1% chance that fully automated communism can save us, rather than ignore the 100% chance that continued capitalism will delete us.
Some of this seems one-sided. I have cameras, yet I know all my neighbors. I also blacked out any areas of the camera that were catching someone else's property and let them know what I was doing. We have a good relationship with all the neighbors. We even have a cookout every 2-3 years to get people together. Seems absurd that someone would call the police just because they see someone they don't recognize in their neighborhood.
I believe this to be the central part of the problem. The west cannot meets it's climate goals and retain progressive growth concurrently. Forcing the public to use bamboo tooth brushes and recycling their shopping bags are drops in the ocean compared to Big Corp Inc. of the world.

However, progressive growth is what the modern world is build on so when that changes, I believe we will see _real_ change. But yeah, good luck with that....
SLAC completes construction of largest digital camera ever built for astronomy
Show HN: Glo Dollar – zero-cost philanthropy
If the dose is sufficiently large, possibly. In the doses commonly used in the Occident, not likely.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6235659/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02546...
https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/1...
Samsung's latest watch face shows you the time on other planets
Activist Framework for Evaluating AI Risk in the Age of AI-Movements
I am so firmly convinced that the next great revolutionary protest will be largely enabled by Artificial Intelligence that I believe the age of “Social (Media) Movements” has come to an end and that we are now in the age of “AI Movements.”
The entire IT landscape has changed tremendously in the last 20 years with that cloud-first approach. This is a different fight.
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as social-ecological systems
I never thought I'd say this, but invest in Warhammer minis! $$$$
They specifically make you eat less.
The drive here is to reduce dependencies to locations the state itself have jurisdiction over i.e. things that can be controlled.

It's essentially to avoid having the states data taken hostage when the slowly brewing conflict between America's lack of respect for it's foreign partners data protection regulation and the EU's very popular trend towards less and less tolerance for corporate data abuse comes to an head and we see actual blocks being mandated on high-security networks against US data harvesting companies(of which MS is but one).
Nice. I'm pinning the tab and I'll give it a try.
While your small projects with next to zero market share fight it out between themselves, Microsoft keeps swallowing more market share making more billions.

Who do you think is the real winner of your sandpit fight?
from what i understand, there appears to be little to no oversight on how these models are trained and evaluated.

if the markers, a la features, discussed in the article are anything to go with, it is a very disturbing method of classifying a target. if human evaluators use the same approach to target bombings, then there is no supporting how this war is being fought.
I have it running on my Mac right now, took < 2 minutes (had to manually download one of the ollama models)
I think it is one of the very few possibilities to provide privileged info without the need to create an account. Handy for a lot of applications, since users might skip access if they have to register for yet another service.

The term "capability URL" isn't too widely known, but the mechanism is very widely spread (almost all password resets for example) and you do find it in several technical documents.

Perhaps you could also combine it by then setting a cookie and invalidating the URL to allow for extended access. Just as URLs, secure HTTP-only cookies still do have attack surfaces. But for many applications it does provide "enough" security and storing access tokens client side is common practice. I believe cookies are still the safest option for this compared to local browser or session storage. But I am not sure.
Just to make it clear: the firebombing of German cities full of civilians, and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were gravely immoral. It doesn't matter if it had shortened the war or not (which is dubious anyhow). This is true even though the German state itself targeted civilians at a massive scale, and systematically destroyed entire cities along with its populace (most famously Warsaw). I'm going to assume that this is perfectly obvious to anyone with sufficient moral clarity (which rules out utilitarians).
there are parts of the American market that are free and there are parts that are not. We'd have to get into specific details to classify said parts.

While I don't think the existing economy is so binary (bicameral?), you are free to assume either a free market or not and make your arguments accordingly to explore the principles of free markets versus planned economies. I don't think a critique of the general principles of free market versus not relief on my specific answer. We are talking about ideals espoused in a self-proclaimed manifesto, so it's appropriate to speak about the ideals.
Show HN: I build an AI Language Speaking that make 3k a month
In 2023, I tried my luck with four different educational apps, but none of them really made any money. Then, while working on an English learning website, I added a simple feature where users could chat with AI. Surprisingly, this became super popular!

This got me thinking: why not create an app that lets people practice speaking English with AI characters? I put together a basic version of the app in a month and shared it on voz.vn, a well-known forum in Vietnam. The app got 500 downloads on the first day alone, though I didn't earn any money from it initially.

In the next 3 months, I only made around $50. But I think the app had potential, so I kept working on it. I improved the design, fixed some bugs, and added more languages like Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, Japanese, and German to attract more users.

The game-changer was in December, 2023 when I got a popular Youtuber to promote FluentPal. That move really paid off, and the app took off.

Now, FluentPal earns $3,000 a month, with half coming from subscriptions and the other half from lifetime package purchases. A lot of B2C users prefer buying the lifetime package because they only want to pay once.

That's the story of my app.
has had basic support merged

I read the parent post as saying that this is the problem, i.e. that "complete" support is a mess, because AFAIK even the reference implementation is incomplete and buggy, and that then getting angry at the consumers of it is besides the point and won't lead anywhere (which is what we see in practice).

Browsers supporting a format "a little" is almost worse than not supporting it at all, because it makes the compatibility and interoperability problems worse.
To be fair, there are not many professions that a single individual can make so much impact as Software Engineering.

People say 10x Software Engineer, rarely 10x Electrical Engineer.
> I live in Silicon Valley, run a b2b tech company ... I have not carried a phone or an Google/Apple controlled device in 3+ years and exclusively use FOSS on a personal basis.

Y'know, a regular salt-of-the-earth type guy
Lawyers often do pro bono work.
I saw what you did there xD
China started the process of switching from x86 to own architecture (loong-something if I recall correctly). Where Microsoft is essentially not present. I think they use Microsoft products a lot like any other governments. So we might see a big switch to libreoffice soon
How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways
https://archive.ph/uyTuG
The point is that there are so many commentators who assert that Apple is great on privacy issues, so that many people (including me) automatically believed that buying (expensive) Apple products will automatically lead to improved privacy vs other vendors. This post is calling that BS. Attacking the article/website for have cookies, is a distraction from the actual point.

And anyway if you want to see tracking cookies with a browse you only have to use Option + ⌘ + J (on macOS), or Shift + CTRL + J (on Windows/Linux). Easy. It is much more difficult to see if you are being tracked and what data is being tracked and how it is being used on your mac or iphone.
I wouldn't call that type of managers "people". They're monsters.
that's what i've been saying for a long time, the problem isn't the pharamustical grade fentanyl, it's the street fentanyl thats problem, essentially because drug dealers have no quality control. Also cold comfort that the Scientist are with me. There's no drug that has ever become safer by ceding the market to criminals by way of prohibition. Every single one of them has gotten worse under such a regime. Look at Krokodil, that's the result of the inability to afford the real thing, and largely because of regulations on the chemical precursors.
It was globally implemented in developed countries exactly as the UN recommended, without any local populations being informed or having any say on the matter. It was dictated by some globalist elites. We have an illusion of a democracy.
A few examples:

- Doctors/Nurses working at free-clincs,

- Legal professionals will sometimes offer their services for free to needy individuals (I don't mean no-win-no-fee, but more writing a letter to a landlord on a tenant's behalf)

- Many people in the accountancy profession will offer their services to local groups/societies as treasurers or to do annual accounts, (indeed the whole boards of such groups are often unpaid, but may be less of a profession),

- Often at least some members of a board-of-directors for a charity will be volunteers,

As a more out-of-left field example, I recently met a really quite famous academic volunteering as a tour-guide at a historical house.
I feel like I'm reading this headline every 5 or 10 years
>but working with non-traditional tools is going to cost the taxpayers more money when important documents are not formatted correctly or the software behaves differently than the proprietary alternatives.

That is already a given with Microsofts own tools, office365 is a crippled mess.

> The cost of Microsoft Office is comparable to the cost of keeping their workplace stocked with coffee throughout the year.

Which is also something many companies don't pay for.
At least in Germany, they are not professionals working unpaid. They are just volunteers with other jobs. Not really comparable.
Here is a setup I use to make `bc` more handy if you don't know how many computations you want to do in advance:

alias bb='bc -l <<X'

Now enter calculations and assignments one per line and enter X to exit.
I used to be able to on ArrowOS, LineageOS and I think on MIUI. Its been a few years since I gave up on custom roms though, so it may no longer be the case.
Linux was successful before corporate backing from just a handful of volunteers. If it was a failing product, corporations wouldn't have chosen it to develop on. It has been greatly enhanced by corporate contributions, but it would have gotten there without them too, albeit much slower.

I do agree though that MS products will likely play hard and fast with the compatibility game in order to exhaust local government workers from using FOSS
Not everyone in open source is a professional software engineer.
How is it depressing? Relativity of simultaneity implies the universe is basically a giant crystal, future and past both actually exist. They almost have to for relativity of simultaneity to be the way it is.

That means everything happening is happening forever, all at once.

I guess if you live a shitty existence, then its infinitely shittier, but if not, its infinitely meh.

Guess it depends on how you look at it.
They are fundamentally different in that two of them derive revenue solely* from exploiting your data, and one of them doesn't.

* by-and-large
if all DE will switch to libreoffice, they'll use a single format, so shouldn't be such a big problem. The problem may arise when communicating with other countries (maybe?)
>> Genuine question, is there any other professional field in the world where people work for free like how Software Engineers work in open source?

Woodworking, restoring old cars, building airplanes. These are all things that people do for themselves at their own cost. The difference is that software has a marginal cost of zero, so they hand it out to everyone and collaborate to make it better.
Germany can afford to fund libreoffice development which will benefit the taxpayer by providing good free alternatives to microsoft products.

I also dont think any tax payer is concerned about the cost of a document being formatted differently.
There is no comparable option.

I have not carried a phone in 3+ years. In spite of what some would have you believe, it is actually relatively easy to live an active and socially engaged life in the modern world without a phone.

Major mental health wins from being offline when you are away from your desk too.
> These capabilities are all available "for free" in aider, because it is tightly integrated with git.

Sounds like the right approach to me. Some quick questions:

1. Is it easy to customize the system prompt with aider?

2. Does aider save a record of all OpenAI API calls? I’m thinking I may e.g. want to experiment with fine tuning an open source model using these one day.

3. What would you say are aider’s closest “competitors”?
Rather expensive 1 gram packets in regular grocery stores in Sweden go for 2.5-5 grams per 10 euros.

At 'oriental' stores you can find good saffron in larger packages at lower price per weight.
It's a highly exaggerated risk and should in no way scare doctors into depriving patients from an effective and safe treatment. We are talking about an article with the title “physically healthy 28-year-old woman schedules euthanasia due to depression” here.
$60,000 1970s dollars is a "micro-budget"?

Who paid for it?
I had a Canon body circa 2010 and the reports then were that Sigma lenses were hit and miss but I have one now for my Sony and it is great.
> While I don't think the existing economy is so binary

As a call back to how this started you yourself partitioned global(?) economies into

> you have free markets (which the manifesto supports) or planned economies

so you did in fact think that economies are this OR that.

For those of us in the real world many G20 and othe economies are hybrid with a mix of both features and "free market" is a loose term of idealogy that can mean one thing to readers of Adam Smith in his contemporous context and other things to various flavours of modern US libertarians.
Avoid them for ethical reasons too.
Heh, don't like some aspect of society, kiddo? Well you have no right to criticize it - you're IN a society!
The image content and size is annoying, agreed, but I imagine that, like myself, they would go without an image if it meant contacting a designer and spending time negotiating rates, ideating on designs, and waiting on project completion. It takes seconds and is free to generate a neat image with AI that can be very additive to something like this, but unless you’re NY Times or WSJ doing a long form article, it’s probably unreasonable to expect anyone to get something explicitly designed and paid for in this context.
Interesting. I would imagine it's counter productive to have conscription of left leaning Israelis who don't support the war in Gaza, no? Why would these people have such important jobs within the military if they are so anti-Israel?

Also, The Guardian corroborated +972's reporting on this matter recently: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...

And, while I have you I had a few questions, if you don't mind:

1. What drove the IDF's intelligence failure on Hamas activity before Oct 7?

2. With or without intelligence, why was the IDF unable to defend such an important security zone? One that I'd argue is world class, in terms of technology, troops, and arms.
I haven't setup an iPhone in a while, but last time I setup a Mac, it asked me to configure Siri or Skip/Later, etc. That's opt in to me.
Millions go missing from money storage facility in LA-area on Easter
And how do you do that? You think EU companies will stop buying Office 365 subscriptions to reduce their dependency on the US?

Companies buy Office 365 subscriptions so they can focus on their main business and don't want to think about their office solution and want something that JustWorks which is already compatible with what everyone else uses.

They have a business to run and money to makes, so spending extra time and effort on alternative office solutions with various degrees of compatibility, just to fight a virtual trade war, will slow then down significantly from their main business goal.

Why do you think Google uses SAP instead of rolling out their own solution? You think they don't have the technical know-how, or is it because it's not worth the effort and better use what everyone else is already using and focus your resoruces on what really matters?
Talking about things that don’t pass through webtech photoshop, after effects, illustrator, Final Cut, davinchi, 3d software, rendering engines etc
An interesting article, but it doesn't sufficiently emphasize the lede: When you use a reward card, the merchant is charged a higher fee than if you used a "normal" card. Simply by putting a different branding on the plastic you pay with, the credit card issuer gets more money from each transaction.

The article goes on to ask the question "Why isn’t every card a rewards card?", meaning why doesn't every card pay cash back, but I think the more interesting question is why every card isn't branded in a way that makes the issuer more money. Why do they bother to issue cards where they get paid less? Why not brand every card as a "Signature Preferred" and then pocket the money instead of giving it to the less discerning customers?

And the most interesting question only gets a handwave: "The basic intuition underlying rewards cards as a product is that highly desirable customers have options in how they spend their money." But how far does this go in explaining why merchants "choose" to participate in this program. The obvious answer would seem to be that they get no benefit from the system as it exists but have no real choice, but maybe there is a better answer?

I liked the topic, but wished the author could have given more insight on what's happening behind the scenes to produce the outcome we see.
Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
Many of the best, most clever, 404 error pages have disappeared over the years. What are the current highlights, or ones that survived the test of time?
the fee will no longer be that small considering microsoft's intention to charge a lot for extended windows support, it's not like the price is constant
Off course, vets volunteering at animal shelters, same for MD's, medics and nurses at shelters, lawyers doing pro bono work, etc
How do they do that? I mean, practically?

If the open source solution works, where do Microsoft spend money to make it fail?
I would argue most volunteer firefighters and other social volunteers have more net-positive impact than the vast majority software engineers.
> Q: is chrome on ios powered by safari

> According to the sources provided, Chrome on iOS is not powered by Safari. Google's Chrome uses the Blink engine, while Safari uses the WebKit engine.

I find it amusing how when people show off their LLM projects their examples are always of it failing, and providing a bad answer.
Ah, Apple. SMB has always performed from horribly slowly a few years back, to barely decent recently, but is still way slower than NFS or (oh the irony) Appleshare on the exact same hardware.

Tested a few years ago throughput to a big NAS connected in 10gigEo from a Hackintosh with BlackMagic Disk Speed Test :

* running Windows, SMB achieves 900MB/s

* running MacOS, SMB achieves 200MB/s

* running MacOS, NFS and AFP both achieve 1000MB/s

Anything related to professional work is a sad joke in MacOS, alas.

(People keep repeating that AFP is dead, however it still works fine as a client on my Mac Pro -- and performs so much better than SMB than it's almost comical).