skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gnome – Sovereign Tech Fund
I’m a fan of RustDesk for my IT consulting needs.

https://rustdesk.com/
This is actually a great perspective to have. The idea that there is no fundamental law of physics that should prevent us from replicating or exceeding the functionality of the human brain through artificial means makes this a question of when, not if.
I'd say thank God for git history but I suppose they were using perforce back then
(a bit more money for the GPS to be fair) not even mentioning the fact that you should have clear-ish access to the sky, the time taken for you to receive the time data, and the possibility of jamming. I could go on but the two methods have differing modes of operation and failure despite ultimately being capable of fulfilling the need for a reasonably synchronized clock
> If you can lock in a zero or negative interest rate now, it might still be a good investment

In the real world, what lending entity is going to offer you financing at <= 0% for 30 years?

Just because 30 year Treasury yields fell below zero from 2020-2022 didn't mean I can get that kind of financing for a project.
>"At 132 percent, that means you get on average 1.32 electrons for every photon. It was made using Black Silicon as the active material, with nanostructures shaped like cones and columns, absorbing UV light."

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_silicon

>"In 1999, a Harvard University group led by Eric Mazur developed a process in which black silicon was produced by irradiating silicon with femtosecond laser pulses.[34] After irradiation in the presence of a gas containing sulfur hexafluoride and other dopants, the surface of silicon develops a

self-organized microscopic structure of micrometer-sized cones.

The resulting material has many remarkable properties, such as

absorption that extends to the infrared range, below the band gap of silicon, including wavelengths for which ordinary silicon is transparent.

sulfur atoms are forced to the silicon surface, creating a structure with a lower band gap and therefore the ability to absorb longer wavelengths."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive-ion_etching

>"RIE [Reactive Ion Etching] uses chemically reactive plasma to remove material deposited on wafers. The plasma is generated under low pressure (vacuum) by an electromagnetic field. High-energy ions from the plasma attack the wafer surface and react with it."

[...]

"The types and amount of gas used vary depending upon the etch process; for instance, sulfur hexafluoride is commonly used for etching silicon."

[...]

"Other types of RIE systems exist, including inductively coupled plasma (ICP) RIE. In this type of system, the plasma is generated with a radio frequency (RF) powered magnetic field."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductively_coupled_plasma

>"An inductively coupled plasma (ICP) or transformer coupled plasma (TCP)[1] is a type of plasma source in which the energy is supplied by electric currents which are produced by electromagnetic induction, that is, by time-varying magnetic fields.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Inductively_Coupled_Plasm...
HN is literally social media
Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing US to cut datacenter emissions
Old name for a web crawler / search indexer
Start making physical objects.

By hand because you need to embrace the work of making things.

Because designing and manufacturing things requires much much more work than making it by hand. That's the paradox. Yes at some statistical scale manufacturing becomes more efficient per item but not in terms of raw input of human capital.

So stop making excuses. Stop pretending that thinking about making things is more important than actually making things and failing. A badly made thing is better than the perfect imagined thing.

Good luck.
"Close" on a cloudy day (which it was for most of LA and MS)? Not a lot to see, especially when you're all still at work and there's a live stream from NASA of a variety of locations - and you're watching it.

Whereas a huge proportion of Arkansas' population was in totality (and presumably watching outside). About the only larger place that didn't experience it was the Fayetteville-Bentonville corridor.
That's an interesting attack vector, isn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
> It looks like he doesn’t really care that much that they’re retrieving millions of pages

It impacts the performance for the other legitimate users of that web farm ;)
To take the blame, so, so obviously.
Ask HN: Twilio Support and Voice Suspension
Hi,

Posting here to see if any one else has had a similar experience and to see if anyone can suggest a way to speed up getting voice reinstated.

Our account has been in use for a good few years, reasonable monthly spend and no issues up until now.

Yesterday I got reports that our numbers weren't working, upon looking at the logs saw that calls were being barred and suggests to contact support.

24 hours have passed since I contacted support and I've had no feedback other than to say the ticket has been passed to the Consumer Trust team. I've checked in for updates and heard nothing back.

So I'm stuck, unable to offer an update to our business about when we can expect our numbers to be back online, and I'm now considering how much work is involved in migrating to another API. I get Twilio need measures in place to stop abuse, but there seems to be a lack of process at support to help legitimate businesses resolve the issue and the lack of feedback has been very frustrating!

Has anyone else had a similar experience?
And your brain also has way more training data (all the knowledge you gained, all the art you've seen) than what you yourself produce as "art".
This may be part of the reason.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_what-meta-learned-...

One might also imagine that as one of the "godfathers of AI" he feels a bit sidelined by the success of LLMs (especially given above), and wants to project an image of visionary ahead of the pack.

I actually agree with him that if the goal is AGI and full animal intelligence then LLMs are not really the right path (although a very useful validation of the power of prediction). We really need much greater agency (even if only in a virtual world), online learning, innate drives, prediction applied to sensory inputs and motor outputs, etc.

Still, V-JEPA is nothing more than a pre-trained transformer applied to vision (predicting latent visual representations rather than text tokens), so it is just a validation of the power of transformers, rather than being any kind of architectural advance.
> It should start by reversing the crisis in military recruitment—not by lowering standards, promising easy pay, or infusing the force with diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology but by unapologetically touting the virtues of an elite, colorblind, all-volunteer force and challenging young Americans to step up.

In an article full of lukewarm takes this one stands out above the rest. Why should anyone want to join up? The barracks are moldy, something like a quarter of armed service members are food insecure, staffing cuts mean 16+ hour shifts are not uncommon, the list goes on. 30-40 years of neoliberalism stripped away most of the social contract. Who wants to fight and die for a country that acts like it owes its citizens nothing? This isn’t some problem with wokeism or whatever bullshit, it’s a predictable and straightforward response of people to their material conditions.
A router (discounting unnumbered and ARP/NDP proxying) will have at least 2 IP addresses, otherwise how can it route packets between two different networks? It needs one IP for itself on each network.

For IPv4, you will be given <some random IP> on the WAN side and typically you assign 192.168.x.x (or other RFC1918 addresses) to your devices on the LAN side.

For IPv6, you will be given two random IP blocks with similar usage as the IPv4 ones, except that the LAN side is now publicly routable.
AWS's Crusade Against IP Spoofing and DDoS Attacks
You're totally allowed to express your surprise, you're totally allowed to be a condescending jerk while doing it, you're totally allowed to call it "self-inflicted".

The author is allowed to ask you to shut up and go away if you do.
This is interesting. But what I dislike about it is breeding the fallacy that GPT is the almighty authority and were just mere mortals.
Cosigning. Works great on Windows, Mac, and Android (client only). It's been around for 12 years and has actually improved in the switch from Android native app to web app. Amazing testament to what web apps are now capable of.
> No trust in the team. Always doing shit themselves.

This was one of the hardest lessons for me to learn. And when coaching other would-be leaders it often is a roadblock for them as well.

As one moves into a leadership role it becomes critical that you learn to be ok with people doing things not the way you'd do them. You need to learn to accept close/good enough from your underlings. And the "enough" in close/good enough is going to be a larger delta than you think going into this learning process.
I'm guessing it's an exaggerated version of this: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2023/5/11/chinas-cash-... I'm amazed people would/could put up with being unpaid for multiple months.
It'd say it's more like a honeypot for bots. So pretty similar objectives.
In contrast,
I'm all for a significant proportion of our efforts going towards obtaining food, directly or indirectly, because it is one of the most valuable activities animals do.

Look at the impact on earth's climate that all the extra money (not necessarily time) continues to cause.

I'm in part informed by Gabor Maté here, who has said[0] that a lot of our trauma derives from human domestication.

[0] Rewild Yourself (podcast), episode 110, 2016-09-14, interview starts 28 minutes in.
Overcast link: https://overcast.fm/+BxRoWUClo/28:00
Ask HN: What is the most harmful project you've worked on?
Following the recent "What is the most useless project you have worked on?" thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942397 - let's talk about projects that actually caused real damage, either accidentally or on purpose, that you've been a part of.

Throwaways, welcome!
Huh?

The toxic positivity about it is not helpful either.
Fortinet patches FortiClientLinux critical RCE vulnerability
This was downvoted, why?
Thank you. I always assumed he hanged it on the ceiling to dry. Which doesn't make a lot of sense when you think about it.
You know what's really controllable if you want to create music? Learn music theory, practice an instrument and start a band.
Join a local makerspace and learn tech like machining, PCB's, printing (3D, vinyl, etc.) through classes they offer. Learning by doing (and especially making mistakes) has no real substitute.

Alternatively, you could get yourself a "classical" engineering degree in Mechanical, Materials, or Electrical. Wouldn't expect it take you less than 3 years full time even if you're fresh out of school with a B.S. in C.S., but mine's been valuable.

Message me if you want to help me build out my factory. Are you in the US?
https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-stop-your-mac-sleepi...
I agree fully with you. AnyDesk is pretty cool and mostly works well.

There's a small trick you can use: Run but don't install AnyDesk, that way it won't install its services and so on.

Simply don't ever click on the "Install" button in the app.
This was a decade ago, and a workshop environment with a wide variety of blades.

So random folks, and random blades.
"Not longer than necessary" can still mean "permanently" if it's information that remains relevant permanently. And I think that's the case here.
Detecting jamming still doesn't restore your cameras functionality. It's still jammed.

Wifi is useful for many things - just not anything security related.
I would be a little sceptical about that figure. 3 million dollars per second is around the world GDP.

I get it, AI training is expensive, but I don't believe it's that expensive
The readme contains a lot of the implementation details:
"We use three different tables with different levels of detail: planes_mercator contains 100% of the data, planes_mercator_sample10 contains 10% of the data, and planes_mercator_sample100 contains 1% of the data. The loading starts with a 1% sample to provide instant response even while rendering the whole world. After loading the first level of detail, it continues to the next level of 10%, and then it continues with 100% of the data. This gives a nice effect of progressive loading."
Why I’m Not Writing a Productivity Series
> It’s strange that OpenAI has created a ~$80B company (or whatever it is) using data gathered via scraping

Like Google and many others.
The best advice I heard about the switch from regular engineer to mgmt role was this: A software engineer works to build harmonious productive stable software systems. An engineering manager works to build harmonious productive stable people systems. The product is different.

So many people who move into management don't make this mental shift and keep their hands on the steering wheel because that's how they got there in the first place. But if you don't let others drive, you won't be able to keep the car on the road for long. If you go into that role your job is to mostly get your hands off the nuts and bolts of the software system and create people systems of motivation, trust, and organization to get your team members working well on them instead.

I've never made the transition myself but have increasingly thought about it.
USB smartcard readers supporting the CCID protocol are cheaply available these days and are natively supported on all major OSes!

I do miss built-in smartcard readers though; carrying a USB reader is just not the same and I usually don't have mine with me when I need it.

That said, I also wish browsers would support the ISO 7816 transport of CTAP2 for WebAuthN using these readers. That would allow me to use a card form factor WebAuthN authenticator not only on my phone (both iOS and Android support CTAP2 over contactless), but also on my computer.
I'll post this only because this is an area where I'm really passionate, and you're right and that the current state most places sucks. I've tried to address it as a manager who strongly believes that engineering management needs to be viewed as a discipline. I've implemented a Lead Mentorship Program at two places; one very successfully and the other with some progress (still hustling for engagement/commitment):

https://www.codeleadmanage.com/articles/20230919-lead_mentor...
The Cloud Under the Sea
rtk gnsses really rock. I would to save up for one for next year :)
Apple to Allow Used Parts for Repairs, Starting with iPhone 15 Lineup
> A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering).

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
I wonder if this hits self-taught or "code boot camp" developers harder because they may not have the theoretical background to notice "oh this is the halting problem" or "oh this is TSP" before getting too far into the weeds.
Near my house there is a supermarket with a in-store radio that every single day plays the exact same playlist. If you go at the same hour in two different days, you'll hear the same song.

And it's not good songs either. It's bottom of the barrel, a penny a dozen kind of music if you know what I'm saying. They probably do this because it's cheaper than paying rights to play an actual radio.

Now, how the staff survives this kind of psychological torture, I don't know. What I do know is that both staff and the customers would be very glad to listen to anything else, including AI generated music. It's already miles better than some "music" we are subjected to... especially pop music, which is somehow more artificial than actual AI generated music.

There are a lot of places where I'd rather might want actual music, even if AI generated, instead of repeating the same sample over and over because you do not have enough budget to spend on it for something that is at least not completely irritating.
The PicoLisp Ticker and GoogleBot
Show HN: Edit images with AI by describing changes in plain English
Hi HN! I'm Simon, one of the creators of PicassoPix (https://picassopix.com/), a new AI-powered tool for generating and editing images.

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- Edit and modify existing images using simple text instructions

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We're offering free credits upon sign up so you can test out all the features. Since we've just launched, there may still be some bugs or rough edges. Your feedback and testing at this early stage would be invaluable in helping us improve! We'd really appreciate you taking it for a spin and letting us know what you think.

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Simon
I've used nomachine quite a bit and I definitely wouldn't qualify its performance as sub-par, tho I have no experience with TeamViewer.

it's not as good as parsec, but still much better than VNC, RDP and some of the other remote desktop software people have recommended.

imho the only bad thing about nomachine is the UI.
I think we should stop innovating, mostly and return to a relationship-based system with other animals and plants.
You've moved the goalposts. "Some people got sued" is a far weaker than "Funkwhale will be sued into oblivion".
Also: Apple's official PR announcement.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/04/apple-to-expand-repai...
I had to support an IoT device once that lacked an RTC.

That was actually the easier hardware platform, because it either had good NTP sync or it didn't reach our C&C servers.

The difficult one was the platform that had an RTC. Those would slooowly drift out of sync if NTP was broken. Slowly and silently.
But why are other countries able to build successfully, despite the same chain of accountability?
Probably. The first game ran on libGDX which had a checkered history of cross platform capabilities. Also I don’t think there’s much active development on it.
It seems like protocols solve 90% of the problems that inheritance does, but with 10% of the headaches. Instead of trying to ensure that two types can both be passed to a function that only knows about the parent type, just have a parameter that says "Whatever's passed has to conform to this, I don't care what it is otherwise."
Towards the end it gives an example on how to precompile in advance
>and came back to find people walking around with tablets

Well, if the majority of people voluntarily chose with their hard earned cash to walk around with tablets instead of small phones, then it's just the free market at work, and there's not much you as an individual can do about it.

Apple in the days of Steve Jobs was notoriously opinionated about small phones being the best and preaching on how they're much better for ergonomics, as a response to the assault of Androids with much larger OLED screens, but even they shamelessly caved in and adopted the larger screens against their own previous rhetoric, since you can only piss against the wind for so long before you get wet(as in loose sales and market share to competitors who offer what customers really want, larger screens).
Ah okay. Conversely I've never tried that setup :) Nice to hear about it though.
The site doesn't scrape the web or store anything in the database. So, there's no way for it to know the number of results.

To maximize your results, choose All from the time drop down. You may need to experiment with the job title field to find exactly what you're looking for.
On the command line, use

caffeinate -dt 3600

to stay awake for an hour, including the display.
Sounds like something you might explore as an artist. Good luck.
I just tried it, and if you give it lyrics, it completely ignores the rhyming and verse boundaries. A bit impressive still.
Hello everyone,

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Agent Cloud enables companies to host their own AI App platform. (imagine a self hosted GPT builder platform with extra goodies!)

There are two types of apps companies can build and deploy to their employees:

1- Conversational Chat Apps
2- Process Apps

Key features of Agent Cloud:

RAG Pipeline: Seamlessly embed 260+ datasources for comprehensive data access.

Conversational Apps: Build your own GPTs with ease.

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Tools: Empowering you with the tools you need to succeed.

Teams & User Permissions: Collaborate effectively and securely.

Easy Setup: Get started in no time with Docker and our install.sh script.

But that's not all! Under the hood, Agent Cloud utilizes an impressive open-source stack:

- Airtbyte for ELT pipeline
- RabbitMQ for message bus
- Qdrant for vector database

Here is a our docs (https://docs.agentcloud.dev/documentation/get-started/introd...) and GitHub (https://github.com/rnadigital/agentcloud)

We've written another comparison blog post recently.

Agent Cloud vs CrewAI - https://www.agentcloud.dev/blog/agent-cloud-vs-crewai-a-comp...

As always, we would love to hear your feedback!
The line is the initial city design. But then in 20, 100, 500 years you have two empty sides (equally accessible from any place in the line city) which you can use for more infrastructure (e.g. airports), industry, recreation, agriculture etc.

Meanwhile if you design a disc city, you can keep expanding outwards, but that's going to be increasingly far from the center. It's going to be very difficult to build a new airport into a middle of the city (if such needs arises), meanwhile it's much easier to do that for the middle segment of a linear city.
It's because the emperor has no clothes. Most of the VCs I've met have been complete airheads.
Maybe yes, but not enough. And I reckon there should be. Associating and investing in an apartheid state is a choice.
Actually more like the first Java Applets, Flash, and initially Unreal targeted Flash on the Web, and PNaCL, before asmjs came to be.

The Unreal 3 demo using Flash is still on YouTube.

And this is why most game studios are playing wait-and-see with streaming instead, proper native 3D APIs, with easier to debug tooling (Web still hasn't anything better than SpectorJS), and big size assets.
would webex free plan work
you can share screens and she can give you control
Might one day come looking for who lobotomized it?
The filters are independently tested (officially by certification companies and unofficially by product reviewers).

One of the brands, Berke, actually resisted independent testing and was removed from a lot of reviewers' lists of recommendations.