skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Application?

I think adding something to my mental model of the world is a benefit, yes, but I'm not sure that's what you mean. I find that reading books enriches my life in a way that YouTube doesn't (with many, many exceptions).

Maybe let's try a concrete example: The Republic. It taught me about ancient Greek society, made me feel a connection to people that lived 2400 years before me, made me interested in the ancient Greek language, gave me lots of ethical questions to discuss with my friends, caused me to slow down and deliberately think through many important problems, and allowed me to take part in the intellectual tradition that people have been participating in for over two millennia.

It did not make me overthrow the government, so it goes under "roundly useless in application", but at least I "had fun", so I wasn't just "wasting time"?

What do you do with all your time?
I thought they are using Go, they are. Seems like Go has really become an old man's language.
> So the conclusion is not that helpful.

Isn't the conclusion from the article inherently transferable to what you described? (I was assuming a different topic as well.)
Ask HN: How do you design your week routine?
TL;DR: I feel very insecure whenever I hear about founders who work extremely hard, because I simply can't do the same

As a solo founder, I really want to succeed, yet everytime I work too hard, I burn out. To combat that, I rented an office, do a baseline 9-5 pm unless for important situations, no phones after work, save Saturday for a faraway trip + laundry/video games, play team sport on Sunday + tidy/video games.

Then I'd listen to a podcast about how the founding Facebook engineer works 70 hours, and wakes up at 4 am to check if hackers hacked into the system. Or Bill Gates / Elon Musk sleeping in office etc. Or most harrowingly, YC's constant emphasis about working in the same apartment, in-person, and constantly working, never taking a holiday (YC's emphasis makes me the most fearful, because I listen to them on everything). And part of me thinks - oh it must be myth, because from my personal experience, whenever I overwork, I made critical errors of pushing bugs into deployment from impatience, bad quality thinking etc. way worse if I had done nothing.

Yet a constant part of me is thinking - what if I'm wrong - what if some people can work that hard, and there's something I'm missing and it's dramatically decreasing my chance of ever achieving greatness?

Can someone please give as much detail into hard workingness? With concrete details of every day? How do you have fun? What's the theory of optimal productivity, beyond todo lists and Notion systems? How about sleep, insomnia? How about diet, how about mental health? etc. etc.
The underfunded IRS during that time disproportionately audited people who got the Earned Income Tax Credit because it was easy and cheap compared to going after rich people. Where are you even getting that “publicly stated they weren't doing audits of anyone below 400k” from? Why does it even matter what they publicly stated at this point?
It's really trivial for Apple to simply not sell us iPhones too. Apple has no inherent right to a market if the people making up that market - directly or via our representatives - decide we don't want them to market to us. If they want access, they are free find a compromise that makes us willing to let them deal with us.

I have plenty of issues with the EU, but consumer regulations is one of the areas where its work has produced by far the most benefit for regular people. Sometimes it takes a while to shake out properly (e.g. the nuisance of cookie banners), but overall they seem to be persistently chipping away at issues that have actual negative effects on people's lives, however small they might feel if a given one does not directly affect you.
You can install alt store outside of EU and the apps are basically emulators and cracked spotify/youtube. Freedom to install anything is nice but 95% of people won't use it
Not profitable
AltServer from the AltStore folks allows you to automate the renewal of sideloaded apps. It’s not perfect, but it’s an excellent workaround.

http://altstore.io/
> I really don't care if you were running around dealing drugs, robbing banks, stealing cars or whatever two decades ago. If I found out one of my coworkers was a career bank robber I'd just want to get a beer and hear the crazy stories.

I am glad you are trying to put skin in the game. But your examples are all non-sentimental. Let's pick a different one. If that guy used to touch children in public swimming pools (not rape) decades ago, would you let him babysit your child? Or what if that guy just used to flash himself to children?

I agree that people change. And I am willing to take the risk of working / hanging out with someone who has dealt drugs or stolen cars or even robbed banks. That's bec no one was hurt (at least intentionally) during these activities. But what if he intentionally hurt someone? Would you feel comfortable with that person roaming in the streets where their next target could be you or your family?
OpenAI is based on piracy, Google as well.
Oh yes, it can't work with GHA hosted runners otherwise you'll pay egress fees. From your first post I was assuming you were starting from the point of view that you would be running your own runners already.

It does work as advertised, try it :) And yes RunsOn is a direct competitor to the 5 YCombinator-funded companies operating in this space (Ubicloud, Warpbuild, Buildjet, Blacksmith, Depot).
Show HN: Host your own Family Feud game
Hello everyone! We have created a soft that allows you to host your own Family Feud game: with friends, coworkers or at various events.

Your phone can be used as a buzzer (and works offline too!) so you get a feeling of a proper TV gameshow with your friends or colleagues.

Hoping to get feedback from you all, as we have recently redesigned the UX, added a lot of new questions to chose from and integrated offline websockets (desktop spawns its own server, announces itself in the network so phone can easily find it)

I hope you will enjoy it! The worst part is, this is a game where you have to have a host and contestants, cannot be played be yourself. :(
To start: There absolutely should be limits to what kinds of devices can be sold. E.g., they should not be dangerous to operate. If you can't make a lawnmower that doesn't harm people, it's OK for governments or the EU to tell you that you can't sell lawnmowers. It's also OK to enforce standardization in e.g. electrical sockets and other basic infrastructure. This should not come down to "consumer preference" - _especially_ not when the harms aren't obvious at the time of purchase.

Apple's total control of all aspects of the iPhone platform is harmful to consumers in a way that is not at all obvious, especially not to the less technologically literate.

An obviously absurd analogy is if a hammer company was somehow able to force you to use their brand of nails and wood and charge you per annum for the use of whatever you built. We did not have previous legislation to handle this situation, because simple physics means that can't happen. But with modern-day complicated tools, it can, and so some regulation of this sector is absolutely needed.

(I don't know the DMA well enough to say if it, specifically, is the right way to handle it, mind, but it's obvious to me that the present situation is untenable.)
Welcome to the NHK!
You're now an "AI firm" because your website contains generated photos?

sigh Words mean nothing. Headlines are just a set of keywords the content marketers want in there.
Ah so you mean the government is the “baron” and its constituents are the “king”, such is the nature of democracy. Very thoughtful!
Stop OneDrive piracy now!
The whole point of this entire kerfuffle is that Apple has a monopoly on distributing iphone apps. The courts have decided that iPhone is a big enough market to where having a monopoly on the distribution of apps is undesirable.
Computers should simply be banned in the US since they facilitate piracy.
People who “read a book a week” aren’t absorbing anything useful for technical work anyway.

When I think about the best (as identified by both myself and widely within the org) engineers I spent the last couple of decades working with, exactly 0 of them went through a book a week.

Reading that much means you’re just skipping across some other author’s ideas. The person that reads a single article about some new algorithm or research and spends multiple hours internalizing it, trying it, analyzing it, debating it, etc is gaining far more than the book guzzlers.
My PC -> C:/ is the easiest method I've found.

I always find it very fursting to get back to my user folder too without being stuck inside my documents or my downloads. End up adding a shortcut to the navigation panel for it.
We've been there for a while. The pirate bay is 23 years old today. LibGen, Anna's archive, MEGA; many other services. They're all out there on the vast Internet. it's not a new problem.

Between BitTorrent and Cloudflare R2, one could distribute a file to everyone connected to the Internet for a pittance. For digital files, there is no scarcity of the files themselves. Creating the files is a different matter, but the distribution of digital data on a planetary scale is so doable it's silly we're getting in our own way with this artificial system. Creators need to be compensated, absolutely, but DRM making bits not copyable is like trying to make water not wet.
It's definitely bad the default was changed, but you can hold shift to get the old menu back and I believe you can make a registry change to get the old one back permanently
How does the thermostat know you are going on a month long vacation?
> All models can handle correcting choosing a tool from 250+ tools provided the user query contains all necessary parameters for the intended tool with >90% accuracy.

This is pretty exciting news for everybody working with agentic systems. OpenAI has way lower recall.

I'm now migrating from GPT function calls to Claude tools and will report back on the evaluation results.
Why is it rounded down?
Psychopolitics by Byung-Chul Han Review
Thoughts on the modern 'tech' panopticon?
I love this idea

I have been following the progress of sand batteries.

So much so that I actaully made one at home.

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/21/making-a-do-it-yourself-sand...

I made some changes to this idea. I used a 12V supply from an old PC power supply to run the heat element in the sand. I used some course pool filter sand that I use for my aquariums.

I have a very chilly hallway with no radiator between my lounge and main entrance door.

It did work. Raised the temperature from 62F to a modest 70F. It took a few days to warm through and remain constant.

I see there are developments in Scandinavia to heat entire towns.

This is the good science I like to see.
The moment they are fully there, just like an executable generated from a Prolog compiler, eventually it is time to realize programing is no more, except for the selected few ones from big corps that create LLM compilers.
> should have everyone who doesn't write code on a contract

Does that include tech support? What a horrible world you are creating...
In other words freedom is like energy. It is finite.
Partisanship and hyperbole? Where's the partisanship? There's no political party in the US that wants to legalize alcohol consumption in public parks (maybe the libertarians, but no one pays attention to them anyway, for good reason; their last Pres candidate didn't even know what Aleppo was when it was all over the news). Hyperbole? It's *literally* the truth. Go try it for yourself. Make sure a cop knows you're drinking a beer. There's nothing "complex" about this.
I think it will always inherently affect some "freedom" but some of them may so contrived and the competing concerns so unevenly stacked between the "freedom to X" and the "freedom from X" that there's legitimate case to be made. Your interracial marriage example would clearly be one - it has significant impact on the quality of life on one side, and no remotely similar impact on the quality of life on the other side.

It's only when the "freedom to" and the "freedom from" are legitimately at least somewhat evenly stacked in how it affects people that it ought to be an issue given careful consideration.
It should be fairly obvious that any system that depends on endless growth is an unsustainable pyramid scheme. Not the kind of thing we should be basing society on.
> When playing it, even I could immediately tell the difference between it and my mass-produced Yamaha.

I would imagine the CNC milled Yamahas to have much better quality control. It's the same in horology, "hand crafted" Swiss/German watches are valued over precision cut assembly line Seikos even though the Seiko complications are magnitudes more accurate and reliable than the Swiss ones.
IIRC there was also some news a while back (pre-covid era) on the massive funding discrepancy between research into the two. Hopefully not the case any more.
> This vibe has crept into so much online book discourse

I've always thought of and used reading as a solitary past-time.
That touches on the general dissatisfaction many people have with cloud-first subscription based software. For a service like kagi, it makes sense since search needs that model. When software that doesn't need to doesn't depend one someone else's computer, the good old one time purchase option at large enough scales with optional upgrades every few years becomes more viable again.
Other Depot founder here. This is a really great point.

You've hit on all the main points regarding Docker image cache in GHA. Persisting the massive layer cache over networks is incredibly slow and has weird limits (like 10GB per repo). We persist the layer cache to ceph volumes and orchestrate your cache so it's immediately available across builds with our first service, accelerated container image builds. Our GHA runners run right next to that same infra, so you don't have ingress/egress. All that can be hosted in your own AWS account (we're also open to running that in any general compute environment for folks who need it).
You are the cloud browser god.
It might come from:

“To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;”

U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec. 8.

If a mortgage is a security in this context. But I don’t know for sure. Usually the answer is the Commerce Clause.
And Europe isn't free if I want to own a gun. See, I can also do a single-factor analysis and come out ahead!
> I'm reasonably well read into low-level TCP/IP security
> I'm not sure what you mean by "decades of security checks and countermeasures baked into the Linux network stack" than an XDP kernel bypass would skip. Can you say more?

If you bypass the kernel stack on an publicly addressable network, then it is your responsibility to implement and calibrate backloging, handshake recycling, SYN cookies
Agree, and the fact that apple can still enforce an obviously inefficient and stupid workaround is even nuttier.

> The first version I tried used the user’s location to remain active, but was rejected by Apple. Testut then updated Clip with a Map feature — so there’s a reason for the app to remain active in the background — to receive approval.

Yes, I'll admit that I prefer some limitations on background processes in order to preserve my battery. But apple is not doing that, instead they allow it but only after the app adds some pretend functionality which makes the user experience worse for everyone.

And let's think about how many pointless background processes they themselves have added over the years, it seems that every patch level there is a bunch more.
Why Today's Software Sucks
Here's my take on why software is buggier and less reliable than it used to be a decade ago.
Wait until you learn about European people having more freedom than Americans
Lovely and typical US-centric mentality, not even gonna bother explain. You're right! You're the best nation! Why even host somewhere else?
One Table of Neoclassical Economics Solves the Europe vs. America Debate
You may jest, but Microsoft is the single biggest facilitator of piracy on the planet.

Only when the “copy” function is removed from windows will copyright holders be able to rest safe.
Microsoft is completely blacklisted for me since a few years, and they keep reinforcing my decision. Few companies are so blatantly user-hostile.
AFAIK this is just Apple-approved apps, just through another app and servers. How does this change anything? Apple still has full control over what apps users can install. There is no side-loading. They still need to approve every app on third party platforms.

Or has Apple actually decided to remove app signing? They sure didn't when they announced this change.
Basically no one rewrites FFmpeg in recent years, in any language, at least not in the open source scene (and judging from the known usage of FFmpeg in world’s premier providers of multimedia content, probably not in the commercial scene either). It’s both too good and too daunting.
Kopia looks awesome but is there a local/SMB option?
Hell. I would do it. If I had the scratch.
It becomes a complex and nuanced concept if you want to call freedom what ain't freedom.
I could see differences due to materials. Wood is not uniform product, so picking the right section for right part might do something minor. Metal is metal and we get very exact and uniform properties with modern manufacturing.

Now maybe we could question why have we not come up with anything better for these wood instruments? Like some mixture of plastic?
> (One big problem with converting to Rust is that Rust's data model is so far from C/C++ that you can't really convert much existing code. You have to rethink the design to fit the affine type model. That's hard.)

True, but that's likely going to be the case as well to convert to any ”safe version of C” as well, because in the general case the safety of a C program is undecidable: to make it safe, you have to restrict it to a subset of behaviors that can be statically proven as safe, and the borrow checker and “Rust's data model” is just that.
I'd say it is transferable only partially? But still not that helpful.

It is helpful to people that are not aware of the source of the stress (often in the form of feeling overwhelmed) to be able to identify it. The article spend most of the words actually just describing this phenomenon. I think newly-graduated-in-tech-startup me in the past would've felt validated reading it.

But the article falls short on any good remedies for the situation. Like yeah I'd love to be able to just "not worry about it", but the problem is that I (as a researcher needing to keep up) can't just stop worrying about it, but I'd love to find a balance where I can keep the enthusiasm and up to date while not feeling overwhelmed and dreadful while doing it.

It works for the author because ultimately, the author is in a position when they can walk away or explain WHY they don't keep up and get accepted for it. Worst case the author will lose respect or some snobbish friends.

That's not the case for most tech or research people. Not worrying about it might be close to just quitting (or silent quitting) and require a bit more mental change than "to not just worry about it". Even if that's the ultimate goal, the advice is as helpful as telling a homeless man how dreadful it is to not have a home, and then tell him to just buy a house.
How we've saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database
This complaint boils down to “X is not very free because they have laws that differ from my own country due to very different cultures.”

> The main "freedom" in America is the ability of wealthy interests to screw over everyone.

Try as I might, I’m failing to picture which shadowy cabal of wealthy elite might be behind the laws preventing day drinking in parks, and how they might be benefiting from it.
I agree, the body of the action and functions are Python, actually starlark (a subset of python).
I'll update the description.
> the point is that Western judicial system largely caters to capital not justice.

The problem is that there is no way to make it 'fair'. All the proposed reforms are also incredibly unfair, just in a slightly different way from what we have.
I was hoping for something similar to f-droid for iPads when this all shook out. But alas not to be.

The vast majority of Android tablets seem to suck for some reason.
> they have actual preferences

That's just a bias.

> natural qualities to their voice

That's the physical limitations I referred to, which isn't something humans tend to be happy about but can sometimes end up being a differentiating benefit.

> What next, are we going to argue that what programmers creating new programs are really trying to do is generate a prompt-weighted average of the bytecode of every program they've ever downloaded

That's a horrible strawman. Do you as programmer often read and write bytecode directly?
that's pretty easy. offshoring coupled with shit tier frameworks like "agile" and sprints and bootcamps
In many eu countries you can get a suppressor much more easily than in the US, also you can own guns (handgun, shotguns, rifles, semi autos) in most places and carry guns in a lot of them if you have a reason to
There is only one political framework that's purely focused with the freedom of its citizens, and it isn't democracy.
>Australia regulated away interchange and it didn’t result in lowering prices.

Prices has already been raised, I don't think they'll ever drop back, so that doesn't seems like a reasonable data point to dispute the price raising claim.
Whenever I search for ffmpeg commands, there is always some person suggesting an 8 liner with 25 arguments, and next to that someone suggesting a command with two -i and one -o argument. On visual inspection both do the same, but I’m always left with the feeling that I did something wrong or just “got lucky” with the shorter command.

I would love a “unless you’re a pro with hyper specific needs, forget these 90% of arguments and only use this 10% in this way” type of guide.
> Entire sentences can be tokens

Sure, but that feels like you are shifting goalposts from "words". (But: What is a word?)

> There's somebody dictating whole sentences at you and you're thanklessly transcribing it for the rest of us.

"There is a thought now" -> inner voice wants a go at it, regardless of if I speak or write what the inner voice says.

This part can be (please excuse the anthropomorphic personification) "told" to not bother in order to save time because I already know the entire thought, but doing so generates an emotion which the part of me which did the "telling" can also directly experience.

Some people report not having an inner voice. Mine sometimes gets an echo. (I wonder about comparison with aphantasia/hyperphantasia?)

> Your answer basically reverts back to the Cartesian theater

Indeed. Altered states of consciousness when tired suggest to me this is the organisational form within my mind: my sense of being has, at times, and for lack of a better description given no shared context for the words I'm using[0], "switched off" and I am left with a lack of a sense that I'm really there — not dissimilar to watching a TV show, with the input from my eyes playing the role of the a screen, and my ears the speakers.

Not all minds are organised the same (again, aphantasia etc.), so I don't expect this description of mine to be found in all humans, though I also don't expect to be unique.

[0] SSRI withdrawal has sensations described as "mini electric shocks". Having had both that withdrawal and mini electric shocks: it doesn't feel like that, but I can totally see why someone might describe it that way.

No shared context, prevents deliberate agreement on the meanings of words.
Yet in all aggregated benchmarks the US never ends up on top