skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk, some team could have been told theyre not focusing on it, while somewhere else its still alive and well. Could also be the robotaxi and model 2 are one in the same and theyre using absolute language to prioritize the hard tasks on the critical path… or it could just be musk posturing to fuck with the market as usual.. only time will tell
Hear you.
49 is also a tricky age, considered too old.
I am about the same age have faced challenges finding work since covid19 layoffs.
Do you live in CA? In recent years that's the majority of arbitrary cancellations I've heard about - companies pulling entirely out of CA.
One of us needs to win a lottery; and force (er, strongly incentivize) Congress to pass a law banning the lowering of insurance prices based on tracking devices.
I feel the same, but more because of the mass murder.
But, profits.

How else are execs going to pay for that third vacation home?
HEBO >>>> everything else
Pretty much.

For the sake of nostalgia, I downloaded an Encarta 2000 ISO form Internet Archive, then spun up a Windows 98 VM to run it on but that VM had a lot of sound issues in Virtual Box, then I realized that Encarta would also run just fine installed on Windows 11 lol.

This kind of backwards compatibility is not something I need on a daily basis but it's pretty neat that I can just run very old SW on my main OS without fiddling with VMs.
Insurance is (theoretically) a competitive market, so no, those salaries are actually not included - aside from the compensation of the people building and conducting risk assessments. I'm not convinced most insurance companies make a ton off of home insurance specifically - I have heard that healthcare coverage (which is barely an insurance product) is the big profit maker, along with car insurance.
Show HN: Wingman – Open-source Chatbot that's light, functional and not ugly
Hey HN,

I’m really excited to show off a project I’ve been tweaking and tuning for more than seven months.

One thing that drove me nuts about running LLMs locally was having to use terminals, install Python, and write code for the most basic things. I write software, but I don’t want to have to write it just to use a chatbot. So, I made Wingman with a friendly interface that lets you get started with zero coding or terminals required. It runs on MacOS and Windows, and even evaluates AI models up front to determine if they will run on your machine.

There’s other stuff it does, too, like let you save prompts, set system prompts per conversation, and change AI models mid-conversation. I added a way to sort models by popular or trending. It’s been pretty helpful to me for staying on top of all of the new models dropping.

But it still has a little way to go to be ready for really special things like planning and reasoning. So, I need to get some more feedback from people on different configurations. I’d love it if you checked it out, saw if it was useful, and maybe broke it so I could find fixes.

Thank!
Perhaps its put on hold
Gotta save the anchovies for robot oil.
Tesla deliveries drop 8.5 percent year over year in first decline since 2020
They don't need to.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than
the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his
pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll
empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
I am not sure ADHD is such a handicap since you could make an argument that most people in the tech industry are on the autism spectrum. Only small percentage of them can communicate well with proper eye contact.
Perhaps take a break and work on a job that helps you build soft skills?
I was pretty intrigued by Aphantasia a while ago, as I can’t picture anything at all with my eyes closed. Then I asked all my friends and none of them could either, apparently. So I’m wondering what “picturing” means in the definition of aphantasia?
With my eyes closed all I see is pitch black, but I can “imagine” myself seeing a red apple even with my eyes open, I don’t actually see anything though.
Looks like https://www.firegiant.com/blog/2024/4/5/looking-back-at-twen... is the better link?
Blocking ad-blockers
Is this something we just don't worry about in Canada? Because we only pay to park at the hospital?
I think the reason is purely monetary.

Software developer compensation spans a very wide range, especially in the USA. Devs with the same years of experience could be earning anywhere from $50k on the low end to $500k on the high end in the same city. The "upward mobility" across the range is relatively easy and not hindered by your credentials (i.e. you aren't permanently barred from the highest end jobs because you didn't do your undergrad at Harvard, Yale or Princeton).

The fact that the USA allows immigration means that this compensation range applies globally. A dev in Tallinn earning €80k can aspire for the $500k role in San Francisco and actually have a decent shot of getting it.

It's almost unreasonable to expect employees to remain loyal in this situation.

The phenomenon where people stayed in the same job forever happened because they couldn't really go anywhere else to make more. Indeed, at high-paying tech companies, you will find many devs who have been there for decades.
Does that third vacation home get spied on from the sky as well?
Potential energy was converted into kinetic energy, not unlike when an apple falls to the ground. So the sun doesn’t really give away this energy, but its the system including these two masses.
Popular among the CIA as well.
You're right about the ultimate legal situation, but there's two problems I see with dropping insurance on a paid off home. The first is that the companies, seemingly operating in lock step, will heavily penalize you if you change your mind and want to go back to insuring. The second is the liability component, whereby simply owning a piece of real estate means you're a juicy target to be found jointly liable for a whole host of things that most people would consider unreasonable - eg someone trespasses, injures themselves, and then sues you.

I've long said that one major threat that "regular people" would suffer from the consumer surveillance industry was going to be insurance (another being fine-grained price discrimination). It looks like both are really starting to come into swing. The best time for US privacy legislation (including something analogous to the GDPR) was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
I'm a fan of your comments but it would probably be better for everybody if we didn't goad race trolls into race trolling.
My uncle didn’t have insurance for a house he’d paid off. An arsonist burned it down six months later and then he proceeded to get letters from the city telling him to mow his lawn for the next ten years.
I mean, there is the built-in iCloud backdoor that spies on Chinese citizens for the CCP: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

Considering how far America has gotten backdooring the iPhone, it would not surprise me if China had far more control than we thought.
Car manufacturers are building telemetry into the vehicle, which they can sell directly to insurance companies. If you buy such a car, your insurer doesn't need you to install anything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driv...

My opinion is that the opt-in hardware might have afforded you some discount, maybe. I doubt the same is true for the manufacturer-insurer relationship. I think that pattern is probably more likely to establish a higher baseline for all drivers, and the presence of data can only ever (1) maintain the baseline or (2) harm you.
In some states it's the heavy regulation which is causing policy non-renewals. When governments fix prices below the market rate that inevitably leads to shortages.

It's a stressful situation for many property owners. They may not realize the impact that recent high inflation has had on repair costs, especially when prices tend to spike up higher after major disasters.
Ask HN: Is AI going to ruin FOSS?
I almost feel like this deserves a blogpost, but I'll just go ahead ask the question directly.

The fact that AI could be used by bad actors to create (or even subvert existing) open-source software seems to me to pose a fairly imminent threat. Advanced obfuscation techniques, super-humanly complicated and/or subtle penetration methods, the ability to imbue a "legitimate" or "authoritative" looking documentation, et cetera, all of these things will only tend to lead toward more vulnerabilities (as if there weren't enough!). And most likely a paranoia in developers when it comes down to cloning an running a repo! The (as it were) old fashioned approach aka "reading through the code" just isn't going to cut it anymore, is it?

The recent XZ backdoor comes to mind, actually. I have a sneaking suspicion that this too may have been constructed in such a way. This could really stall FOSS projects imo. After all, the harder it is to trust a code base, the less likely one is to bother even participate (much less use the software, for that matter).
Why do you think "noon being at noon" is sacrosanct though? Urban life is not centered at 12:00 any more, you are way more likely to be awake at 8 pm than at 4 am.
Why won't it help if there is no delay? What system truly has no time delay and no inertia?

PID systems are basically a differential equation and optimal coefficients are just solutions to that system which maximize responsiveness and minimize ringing, so I would think the effect of decreasing time delay just adjusts the Ki and Kd to account for the smaller Tc value.
Similar reports are coming out of Florida. Generally, it seems the industry is pulling away from higher risk to climate change issues from larger storms or fire risk.
Spectre vulnerabilities are a huge problem. Problems in x86_64 never cease to emerge. Qubes Air is probably the most outstanding viable approach to not exactly mitigate CPU and chipset problems but avoid them or leave them moot.

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/
I had similar frustrations with a well-known deep-learning framework.

I'd get well-vetted PR's for the build system, CI system, etc. committed. Only to have them later undone, without discussion, by people in the inner circle.

It doesn't take many experiences like that to lose all motivation.

I think some open-source projects deceive themselves (and therefore, outsiders) about their contribution processes.
You can find it in Prime Video.
Depends on the vendor's goals. If it's to fatten and butcher a pig, and never see any future work from them, sure. If the vendor is hoping to have a sustained profitable relationship then not so much.
On that note you can probably guess why its called the Russian river up in Northern California.
Just because you don't have a livable structure on the property means the property is exempt from any of the property regulations. What a weird rant.
Nothing left to say? The end of wine writing
I 100% agree with landedgentry. I don't really have any problem with insurers using drone photos - anyone can take drone photos of anyone else's property - and I'm not really a fan of the article calling it "spying" to imply some special kind of nefarious behavior.

But I do think the total bullshit is that companies are just using it to come up with essentially fake reasons to drop customers:

> Cindy Picos was dropped by her home insurer last month. The reason: aerial photos of her roof, which her insurer refused to let her see. ... Her insurer said its images showed her roof had “lived its life expectancy.” Picos paid for an independent inspection that found the roof had another 10 years of life. Her insurer declined to reconsider its decision.

I also don't have a problem if an insurer decides to leave a state entirely - that decision is essentially saying the state has made it impossible for them to adequately price risk, and that's something the state should fix if so desired.

But these BS cancellation reasons seem like a case of insurers wanting to have their cake and eat it too. I'm not very familiar with state-by-state insurance law, but I'm assuming they have to come up with some reason to drop a homeowner that already has a policy, so this looks like they're trying to find BS reasons to just drop potentially less profitable parts of their portfolio.
This sort of opportunity to find a rationale for cancelling an individual insurance policy will inevitably by used for evil. See: Insurance Redlining.
Oh my god. I wrote a whole library called "Constrained Text Generation Studio" where I mused that I wanted a "Photoshop for Text". I'm not even sure which work predates the other: https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Constrained-Text-Genera...

The core idea of a "photoshop for text", specifically a word processor made for prosumers supporting GenAI first class (i.e oobabooga but actually good) - is worth so much. If you're a VC reading this, chances are I want to talk to you to actually execute on the idea from the OP
The Free Software Commons
What I want is to be able to tag and describe pictures I take from my phone, and have those sync with my wife's phone. I can't really find anything that does that.
The Hercules emulator allows you to run various OS/360 and later systems in emulation under Windows, Mac, Linux and most other Unixes also, in case you wanted to try it out yourself.
I'm in Canada and I can literally just tap the card itself on the reader. Every card has this ability and it can't be skimmed.
Whale Vocalization
Is that right? Could be a recent acquire if it's DOM mirroring.

I heard CF acquired S2 a few years ago, and what S2 did is they created a WebAssembly binary that composited the browser SKIA draw instructions on the client, and streamed the SKIA draw instructions from the server. Not without its issues, but certainly useful.

What we do is just stream pixels to the client. Yes it's expensive in terms of bandwidth, relatively. But the advantage is simplicity. And with a close server and bandwidth trending faster and cheaper, with the increasing drive to video consumption across media, I don't see bandwidth as an issue.

If you're interested, our code is on GitHub: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox

If MailChannels is interested in integrating safe attachment / link opening, we could probably figure something out.
rules are rules. you complaining about this is like football fans complaining about the tight offside calls.
> anchovies, herring, and mackerel aren’t on most people’s menu often.

Less popular than salmon, perhaps, but hardly unusual. They are all more common tinned, pickled or cured or similar than raw in the UK.
Actually seeing with your eyes would (I think) be a form of synesthesia. Being able to imagine a red apple is "normal". Not being able to imagine a red apple is aphantasia ("imagine" in the sense of a "visual" imagination, not in the sense of being able to conjecture the existence of an apple with particular qualities).
It only works for the FMCG segment and nothing else. This has been proven decades ago.
i think since 'IP address' has become something of a baseline non-technical understanding of one of the critical components of networking, it becomes increasingly difficult for non-netpeeps to fully grasp the many uses and non-uses of addressing.

a proxy (or proxies) and how they can shield but one or many of ' your' IP addresses throughout an egress packet's many hops (and from who or what destination it or those addresses can be shielded) is a pretty advanced concept when you think about it.

not to mention that, at this point, bare source IP address is a pretty dilute tracker compared to other current methods of identity profiling or traffic fingerprinting.

nice succint correction on your part regardless.
I'm studying physics right now, I can say I agree with everything you said.

One thing I'd like to expand on to those who don't know how greater energy means greater speed.

The kinetic energy equation is 1/2massvelocity^2=KE

Since the KE increases from the momentum transfer, and mass of the object stays constant, the only thing that can change is velocity, where it has to go up.

ex: KE=2, m=1
2=1/21v^2, v=2

Now if some momentum were transferred, and the kinetic energy increased to KE=8,

8=1/21velocity^2, velocity=4, since the mass can't change
I don't think so. Sophisticated threat actors have been attacking the Open Source community for decades, adding AI into the equation changes nothing from my perspective. I'd actually imagine it's harder to get the precise and perfectly-obfuscated behavior you want while going through an LLM as a midpoint.

So my guess is no. Even in the case of the XZ backdoor, it was the incredible amount of social-engineering at play that enabled the hack. The developer had been conning the repo maintainer for years, which is easier achieved with human intellect than ChatGPT and a fake Github account.
The article literally opens with a story of an insurer dropping a homeowner for having a roof that's too old with no recourse, even when a third party expert said the roof is good for another decade.

> The red-flagged images are providing insurers with ammunition for nonrenewal notices nationwide.

I don't think your comment is wrong, but it's not representative of the problem the article is bringing up.
There was no concept of 'the scientific method' - the corner stone of scientific exploration - until a few hundred years ago. The claim made in this article is that science has been the driving force in human history for the past 50 millennia at least only adds to the debasement of the word science and as such is better left unspoken. That does not mean that exploration and ingenuity and experimentation are something of the last few centuries, far from it. Humans are intelligent animals and wont to use that intelligence to find ways to do things hitherto unthought of. That does not make these explorers 'scientists' and it does not make their exploits 'scientific' nor do they need to be called such for their discoveries to be validated.

Just like so many other 'big' words [1] the word 'science' is overused and as such has lost quite a bit of its relevance. The latest and probably one of the most damaging examples of this is the use of the term The Science (to which I almost invariably add a ™ symbol) to force and shame people into certain behaviours during the SARS2 pandemic. Other examples abound, e.g. the climate scare is a rich source especially when people start bandying round claims of The Science being settled with the implication that anyone who tries to use the scientific method to poke holes in that claim - an essential part of scientific exploration - is a heretic. There are no heretics in scientific exploration. There may be misguided souls who insist they are on to something but that is their prerogative and their burden to carry. Mostly they are proven wrong by all the available evidence pointing some other way, sometimes they end up being proven right [2].

In short, stop debasing the word science before it has lost its meaning, it is too valuable a concept for such abuse.

[2] https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/4431/why-wa...
That other HN thread is from 35 days ago, when this submission's blog post was written, and the very second line of content in the HN comments is "We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here". ??
I should do that. I used to use RCS for everything, and my recollection is that after I read the man page once or twice, I knew almost everything I needed to know. SCCS had a bit more of a learning curve. As for git, I almost always have to read not just the man page, but actually look on-line for clarification about almost anything. I think of git as the C++ of version control systems. (Not sure how far that analogy goes--I don't know what programming language I would compare RCS to, Pascal?)
This is how websites might be built in the future with the goal of making ad blocking / tracking protection much harder...
You might want to look into integrating DebateSum or OpenDebateEvidence (OpenCaseList) into this tool as sources of evidence. They are uniquely good for these sorts of tasks:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/Hellisotherpeople/DebateSum

https://huggingface.co/datasets/Yusuf5/OpenCaselist
Possibly. Health insurance companies may want to sue the home owner insurance company to try and recoup costs.
This is the main thing. Insurers know that the home owners are not going to file claims for their own family members. It is the ambulance chasing lawyers that target the insurance when guests are injured on your property. There have been claims against poorly maintained walkways when the ice is not removed when someone slips on your property. Much like how retail stores all now have Wet Floor signs from all the people getting "injured".
CalxyOS is the other one, with less problematic developer history.
No one, including companies, should not be forced into contracts they don't want to enter into.

In practice, you are going to find they are never arbitrarily doing it. They are doing it because the price no longer covers the cost of providing the insurance. Just like when I decide the price of X isn't worth it anymore, I stop doing the transaction. The reasonable response would be to increase the price, but in some situations it's not possible due to regulation.
Crazy to abandon a 6.4k star project that presumably many people are actively using… I know maintenance of OSS projects can be burdensome but there’s usually some in the community that are eager to chip in with PR reviews and handling issues. I’m surprised they aren’t interested in pivoting the product in the same general direction but giving it some novel features or something.
Eventually everyone will adopt this and there will be no escape from ads outside of jailbreaking your device and flashing oss software.
It's not cancelled it's just on pause indefinitely!
Sometimes in software it's a problem that once a solution is encoded in software by an external party, innovation stops.

People inside the company with domain knowledge and who work with the tool daily cannot contribute anymore.
I do understand air gaping. However I don't understand what you're suggesting to do in practice for The Guardian. Exchange files via QR codes? True air gaping is simply unusable for non-experts. I believe in a reasonable security.

In the article, they explain how they made a real, practical step towards a better security. Perfect is the enemy of the good.

I also like this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39952028
Bank apps, Netflix, and Disney+ also won't work. There are spoofing measures though I've been burned by unlocking and rooting too often to try again, at least not while my devices are still under warranty.
It's really not the same kind of support. We get plenty of active support and development in the Linux world, and open source more broadly.

Windows only offers essential life support, trying to ensure that something written 20 years ago still runs today, despite being completely abandoned for 19 years with no reasonable way of fixing it.
I don't agree... Meson has constraints that make it very easy to write and review.
> Lobotomisation has a specific meaning in LLM parlance

That's what I'm objecting to! If I'd said "I hate it when we call AI potatoes", the correct reaction is "nobody does that?" not "I see what you mean".

I'm objecting because it presents a picture that does not appear to be accurate.

Is broadcast TV "lobotomised" before the watershed? Are PG-rated films? Public comments from corporations and politicians? Are you lobotomising me when you downvote my comments, forcing me to choose between getting noticed and speaking my mind?

No.

Not only "no", but it would be ridiculous to claim any of these things was a lobotomy.

> But "training" is not it.

It's literally training.
Nice hobby language but there doesn't seem to be any reason to use this.
No, I’m not generally sensitive to a point release but it’s pointless to allow drift anyway. I have had point revisions of docker containers break CI pipelines before and it’s unpleasant.