skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spare me the kindness lecture.

The entire rant, most of which is lacking in technical depth and understanding of name resolution despite the overconfidence, could be completely avoided with an entry in /etc/hosts (or its Windows equivalent).

Which for a small home network and for someone who doesn't understand or want to fiddle with DNS - is perfectly adequate.

I remember a story in HN folklore from someone who worked at a large enterprise many years ago that used an insane massive deployment of hosts files in lieu of DNS.
I think it's all nostalgia: I remember it and it was mostly crap. What made it super special for me was when I was looking at a site made by someone I knew, and I could learn more about them through what they made.
> One time they said that fast food was cheaper than grocery food.

It often is. I can get a burger and fries at McDonalds for far less than the cost in ingredients to make it myself.
Good observation, I only speak English otherwise and found it pretty easy to come by.
Google Chrome for desktop could get Gemini integration soon
It looks like Google is going to push its AI products directly onto its users by tying their AI service to Chrome. This seems like a bundling change similar to how Microsoft is forcing Copilot onto users via a keyboard key, various Windows integrations, etc. How do people feel about this? To me this type of bundling of new products hurts competition, and products from smaller companies won't have a fair shot at competing for users. On the other hand, this creates convenience. And Google's implementation at least requires "@gemini" before the query in the search bar. But I also think we're going through the same issue that surrounded Microsoft and browser choice previously. Should all these companies be forced to ask customers to choose default AI products from a randomized list or be forced to unbundle their AI products?
While it's impressive that the Prism folks managed to push so much of the ecosystem to adopt it (I'm sure the compatibility shims for other parser gems helped!), it's unfortunate that there's no roadmap for CRuby to adopt it internally. The fact that one of the CRuby devs started work on the new "Universal Parser" after work on Prism/yarp had started takes a bit of the wind out of its sails.
This isn't taking a semester of high school language instruction or playing with Duolingo for six months. It's basically doing nothing else during working hours and maybe homework for over half a year in what would have probably been close to a $100K crash course.
May I interest you in hwy.dev?
Paying to remove ads is a bit different though. Paying $100 so a streamer pretends to like you for three seconds is really not healthy.
There are two main differences:

1. Gitea, Inc replaced the prior community leadership structure with one controlled by Gitea, Inc and have pivoted into being primarily about a hosted code SaaS they launched this year that didn't exist for the first 7 years of the project. They could do it because they had 2 of the 3 seats on the community stewardship organisation at the time to vote for it, but that wasn't always true. For a lot of people, Gitea's primary motivation was for the self-hosted and fully open use case, but now it's not clear that that will remain any more of a priority for Gitea Inc as it is for e.g. Gitlab

2. There were also some contributors who were interested for the sake of decentralising code forges (and not just git), and so were big into the forgefed project which was an activitypub based federation protocol. Gitea Inc were officially on board with that, but the contributors felt they weren't helpful enough to actually implementing that with missteps like letting grant funding from NLNet expire.

The contributors from groups 1 and 2, and Codeberg banded together to make Forgejo after the Gitea change.

Until the latest release (just last month) Forgejo was one way pulling all changes from Gitea, but they've diverged enough that they're now hard forks. Both have active development, but Forgejo's main unique focus is the federation stuff, while Gitea's was enhancing their CI offering. But while Gitea may have more development effort, being funded by a commercial organisation rather than volunteers and a non-profit, I think they have a long way to catch up to Gitlab in that front, so it feels like they've dropped their unique factor to try chase Gitlab.
If it were open source, I could imagine sending some PRs there way, wishing them well, then running away to a safe distance. That this is the output of an $89B security company is mind boggling.
I like the general idea, but I'm not fond that it is centered on Brave's BAT. BAT is not a bad idea, but the narrow scope of acquiring them and being locked into a walled garden grates at my desire to not be trapped.

Something that works in a similar way, by using blockchain to record site views per person and allowing cooperating websites to cash in on the views would be my preference.

I imagine that there would be other issues like people impersonating other people and spending their web views, or people setting up "fake" sites and then using dark methods to redirect page views to their site, siphoning off user cash from websites that actually add value, just for starters.
That's the wrong paper, it mentions mice and rna, but no mention of vaccines or viruses, only bacteria. The authors are not from UC Riverside but from Scandinavia. It was received October 11, 2023; accepted March 12, 2024
Big context shift for me was realising roughly 2019 that Portal:Current events could efficiently replace 95% of my news scrolling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
My favorite was an ascii 12 hour clock with hour, minute, and second hands rotating about the cursor. Really helped me know exactly what time it was while surfing those Freewebs sites!
There's usually carveouts for people with certain disabilities. It allows companies to pay them below the minimum wage. I would be surprised if that was abolished with the increase in minimum wage.
Ye I know. I meant that, since if Austrian is considered hard due to dialectal properties, the category of Schweizerdeutsch is surprising.
> * There's no mention of model performance on recall tasks. Models with attention do well on recall tasks, but models without it, like this one, tend to do poorly.[a] What is the performance of this model on recall tasks?

For what it's worth, RWKV's (another "transformer-less") website on that matter mention that yes it's bad on recall, but for the vast majority of tasks you can just ask the question *before* the content, and it'll handle the task just fine. (I'm just reporting, I haven't spent time trying myself)
Edit: Should actually be labeled (2012). Was republished in 2017.
Because numbers go down and our economist shamans say that's A Bad Thing, apparently.
Oh there's no doubt that the British Army was too small and had suffered tremendous losses before evacuation at Dunkirk. But the Germans had no transports that could have crossed the Channel, especially when challenged by the Royal Navy. And the Royal Navy got an infusion of 50 destroyers from the US (in exchange for overseas basing rights). These weren't the latest and greatest ships, but they were symbolic of the US commitment to Britain. This preceded Lend Lease.

There were several necessary prerequisites for invading Britain. First was destroying the RAF. Without absolute air supremacy, no invasion could be contemplated.

Second was destruction of the Royal Navy. Despite some success in attacking Scapa Flow with U-boats, the Kriegsmarine was simply incapable of challenging the Home Fleet, much less the combined might of the overseas fleets. The only hope would be from Luftwaffe bombers, primarily JU-87 Stukas. Unfortunately for the Germans, these suffered great losses in the Battle of France, as well as during the initial stages of the Battle of Britain. The Home Fleet was a considerable force in 1940: 4 battleships, 3 battlecruisers, 2 aircraft carriers, 20 cruisers, 25 destroyers, 23 submarines, and numerous smaller craft.

Finally, once ashore, the invasion force would have to overcome the British Army and the Home Guard. While these forces were seriously depleted, the Empire could have brought enormous numbers of troops from India, Egypt, and other regions. That this was never seriously considered might indicate that the British Army wasn't as weak as Churchill would have liked to portray.

I loved reading Churchill's diaries as a kid, but later on realized how much of them were self-aggrandizing and not as accurate as one would hope. Still a fascinating insight into one of the most important leaders of the 20th Century.
USB/IP works fine on Windows and MacOS, though MacOS has no ability to use devices shared by USB/IP; it can only share devices to others.

What is this “SPICE level” you mentioned?
The New York Times, which is the other bastion of the liberal establishment, also covers race a lot (in regular news journalism, opinion, and topical articles). . It's gotten to the point where lots of comments on articles (many articles have active comments sections) ask "why are you making this about race?". I think NYTimes swung heavily progressive a few years ago, and it was very unpopular, and they're recalibrating to be more relevant to centrists.
> Mathematically it is aliasing.

Not by e.g. Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing
This data seems suspect. Three "some adverse experience" and four "many adverse experiences" individual all report a most recent annual income of exactly $380,288? That seems highly unlikely, and if that is a data error there are likely others.
article was written in 2012, & republished in 2017

> But during the last 15 years or so, that wasn't always the case. Today, we resurface our look at the greatest MP3 player that was—Winamp. This piece originally ran on June 24, 2012 (and Winamp finally called it quits in November 2013).
> but for rural areas I suspect is not feasible?

Aedes aegypti is an urban mosquito. Degue is an urban disease. The big difference between Brazil and Singapore is sanitation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
For dangerous ones like WebUSB you can't just click 'Allow' - after granting permission, it shows you a list of connected devices, and you have to actively select the device you want the website to access, and then approve it.
This was super low hanging fruit that should have been caught.
That's pretty much my take on it too. Mid-40s, and to be honest if you got my corneas you've hit the jackpot. If you're after anything else .. I've got bad news for you.

The idea that 25% of us have goods that aren't worth selling, does not blow my mind.
Yep. My 486 DX4 100 was just fast enough to decode an MP3 using winamp as long as I didn’t do anything else on a CPU.

Does anyone else remember layer3.org? Or VQF? Kjofol? The Xing encoder 16mhz scandal?
NPR, being the whitest place on Earth, is a bad place to discuss race. And the only reason they discuss it constantly is because they think that Democrats own any issue relating to it. Actual interest in issues around America's race problems would result in knowing a single person with two black parents, who is not an immigrant or the child of immigrants, and who is not wealthier and more privileged than you are.

This probably describes a single-digit percentage of the people who produce content on NPR. They know the two or three black people who hung out in their circles in the elite colleges they went to, and only stay in contact with zero to one of them. They pretend to know every famous black person they met at a dinner party, or a conference; there are probably 100 black professors, writers, and entertainers that a million or two white NPR-Americans are pretending to be friends with.

Black wealth peaked in 1997. NPR supplies itself from the most elite circles in American society, who largely control its wealth. They're not actually concerned, they're consistently using race as a cudgel to attack other white people for their own purposes.
I've been using viu, which is also written in Rust: https://github.com/atanunq/viu

How does imgcatr compare?

Viu was last updated 5 months ago, imgcatr 3 months ago, not a significant difference. imgcatr is a longer name than viu, requiring more keystrokes to type.
Sure, if you take the whole population, then each ticket will, on average, be worth more than $1. That doesn't change the odds of my making money back on this. There's going to be a handful of people who massively skew the statistics, but it doesn't mean that for the vast majority of players the odds get any better or that their ticket becomes more winning. Expected return doesn't matter on a ticket by ticket basis when the odds and winnings are so skewed, it creates an illusion of worthiness that doesn't exist for the single player.
I couldn't agree more regarding college education. Speaking as a member of the highschool graduating class of 2015, the pressure on every single child to go directly into college was insane. Even the mere act of telling an adult that you weren't interested in college could get you referred to a school counselor or called into an impromptu parent-teacher meeting. During my senior year, I was personally pulled out of class to discuss this topic on five separate occasions. I happened to be an unusually stubborn kid, but even I eventually caved and pre-enrolled at a local college.

Naturally, I almost immediately flunked out of the program. Who wouldn't quit something making them miserable when they didn't even want to do it in the first place? I was one of the lucky ones, actually... Many like-minded cohorts in my graduating class wasted years of time and money with nothing to show for it. They deserved adults who'd help pair them with the pathways that best suited their individual talents and risk tolerances -- not some blindly optimistic, cookiecutter college-for-all solution.

What about you, dear reader? Perhaps you're responsible for teenagers of your own... can you say with certainty that the adults in their lives have given them consistently honest and thorough conversations about the paths before them? I bet some parents would accuse me of being totally full of shit right about now... That's fine, I'm not some nostradomus bringing news of impending doom -- I only want the next generation to have things better than I did. If nothing else, it doesn't hurt to entertain the idea, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITwNiZ_j_24
A Happy Meal is frequently sold for $3. YOu're saying to can buy the raw ingredients for a hamburger, fries, apple slices, and juice box for less?
I've heard that by the time you die, 7/10 people have it. Could be big money for the developer.
> It's not 3.6 roentgen...

I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest x-ray...

I see you, brother! :D
> like most products connected to the internet, VPNs and firewalls can have vulnerabilities too.

Except being exposed without protection to the hostile internet is their very reason to exist. I expect such devices to be developed with the awareness that they are going to be attacked by capable adversaries. Thus secure coding practices are to be followed and state of the art exploit mitigation techniques employed on the OS level. There's no excuse for high severity vulnerabilities to be found in these kinds of products.
I would assume same reason why in the nuclear warfare logic, it’s a threat to build anti-missile tech. If you start building nuclear shelters and also have capability for first strike, your adversaries are within their rights to think you are escalating, since you are increasing your population’s resiliency to a second strike (hence making it less costly for you to strike first).
20 year listener here. I now listen until they force identity politics in to the subject at hand, then change the channel. In my experience it's much less than 10m, but could be my market too.
I was surprised to see that Sweden transferred its remaining plutonium to the United States around a decade ago. I would have assumed they’d have kept it around, just to keep their options open - it’s not like they were in an immediate post-USSR situation where unpaid nuclear scientists and unsecured cores were potentially up for sale and there’s a strong international interest in shutting that down. But then again, if Sweden did keep their options open, it’s not exactly the kind of thing they’d advertise - and the public story of the plutonium transfer is useful plausible deniability.

Japan, obviously, for a variety of reasons, doesn’t have nukes, but it seems pretty clear they could have an arsenal that’s functional as a deterrent in months, if not weeks. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sweden’s current doctrine is similar to that (though now being a formal member of NATO takes some pressure off that backup option).
Ask HN: Best stack for real time data intensive apps
Question to HN: I have been overwhelmed with the variety of new database and analytics solutions out there. This question is meant to hear the experiences of everyone who built data intensive apps like a financial information app or a CRM. Purpose is to simply make data loading speeds fast, whether purely by speed or using sockets or GraphQL does not matter. I am looking for opinionated views.

So far seen:
- DuckDB (guess makes things faster but no experience with it)
- Tinybird (real time data APIs?)
- GraphQL (learning curve?)
- and many more

I am relatively new to this stuff but a long time user of Postgres. Looking to learn but wildly confused and overwhelmed around what I should work on to implement for the best UX[1]

[1] Best UX defined as fast loading times for large number of rows and dynamically being able to load data (sockets?) and realtime data communication
If jack is floppy drive then Bluetooth is wax cylinder
Easiest to check out the list of companies sponsoring OpenTofu

https://opentofu.org/supporters/

For more details, you could listen to:

https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1471446
You must be the type to buy ingredients in units of 1 of each and then complain that its more expensive than buying the fast food meal.
When I got a new laptop six months ago, it was my first new computer since the 90s where I didn't install Winamp as one of the first steps. Really only because it was my first non-Windows machine. Didn't even get deep into researching Mac alternatives before realizing that I haven't played an mp3 file more than a handful of times since signing up for Spotify years ago. Streaming irrevocably changed how I consume and think about music.
Converse hot take, the shallow "race lens" that is all too often used is not helping anyone. Quite the contrary, it is growing counterproductive. Especially with stories like this where they are working backwards from the framing, not using it to learn something.
This is undoubtedly in response to https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-... which was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40039450

I feel like it's a good response: acknowledge the issue and explain what they're doing to improve it.
What is the actual problem here? If someone is willing to pay more for a ticket than you are, by what principle should the venue or performer be obligated to instead sell it to you at a lower price?
By hand on paper.

I don't really see the point in worrying about data leaks. A CPA who leaked your data would have their reputation so completely destroyed I doubt it would be worth it. That's 5 years of expensive and high-energy education to throw down the drain. Plus, the IRS system is probably a poorly secured and very profitable target you can't do anything about.

The real problem is that software has bugs. If I'm going to have to go through the trouble of double-checking everything by hand anyway, it makes sense not to bother paying for software.

The useful piece of advice is how to learn to do this. Volunteering for the VITA program will give you a 2 day training on how to prepare taxes, in return for spending one day a week helping other people file their taxes for a few months. (Which is free spaced repetition and practice, anyway.)
a bunch of drifter con artists didn't deliver anything with sustainable value. shocked not shocked.
"Being held back" or grade retention is rare for high school students (teenagers), so rare that it is hard to find a study on it. RAND studied middle school and elementary school retention and found only some smallish negative effects.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10025.html

Most middle\high school grade retention I see these days is self-imposed for an advantage in athletics; don't get me started.
>If you're deceased, what sort of labor are you doing exactly?

Keeping the kidney healthy so that it is usable upon death?
Shopify Employees Go Head to Head for Raises in New Ranking System
Can't wait for someone to turn this into a product and make this available to the public!
friend of mine told me this exactly : going on telegram feels like being back to the original internet. But that's probably because of all the illegal/uncensored content you can find there
> The age of MP3 players ended when streaming became ubiqutous.

I mean, I'm an old man yelling at clouds, but I use Winamp to stream music all day at work, and I have for 20 years. I've been a paid subscriber at Digitally Imported [1] off and on (mostly on) since 2008. But I've been streaming from them with winamp and sometimes other players since probably 1999. Audio streaming existed before Winamp and Shoutcast, but a lot of early streaming was built around Shoutcast.

I've used other players, but came back to Winamp. I could stream in a browser window, but winamp uses 18 mb of memory, and I don't think I can have a browser tab open for less than that. Plus, having it in a dedicated application means I don't have to worry about my browser freaking out and ruining my audio experience.

[1] https://www.di.fm/
> The trauma is a consequence of poverty and bad parenting which is because of low IQ

You have the primary direction of causality between trauma and IQ reversed.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=childhood+trauma+and+IQ...

Population scale trauma exposure and bad parenting is a result of poverty, social structures, and sometimes wars and conflicts, not something predetermined by genetics.
That's kind of the opposite of my experience. Can't leave Sidebery, it's so well integrated and usable when combined with a couple userchrome.css tweaks that any other browser simply feels subpar to that; not nearly the same attention to detail.
I can't see why everybody got so worked up about the op-ed you're referring to. The Times has traditionally been a venue for voices that are not in its constituency, and in this particular case, Cotton wrote such a crazy article that it reduced his credibility significantly in front of the nation.
He proposed using the military to quell protests, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...
GCHQ joins LinkedIn with unique visual puzzle
>... this news article is now seemingly entirely delisted from HN without being marked flagged...

>I went back through five pages of posts.

It's currently on the first page, post #16. Methinks there has been a rush to judgement.
I recently found out that a manufacturer (TI, NXP, murata, infineon?) was demonstrating a USB2 live camera capture using a UWB (Ultra-Wide-Band) short range wireless transmission. But I can't found the source again.
Opposite scenario. I keep all my music in mp3 files, so I use music players.

Can anyone recommend a good music player (preferably open source)? I rely currently on vlc and the default apple music player on macOS.
yeah, click around the spacehey site. It's a bunch of kids 13-18 or so. I had initially thought this site was going to be mostly nostalgic people in their 30s and 40s.*

It's fascinating how people born after the decline of myspace has found a clone and helped bring it to life.

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* maybe it is and a bunch of people are just playing a character ... unlikely though.