skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For starters? Him because he is 'the father' of the *BSD filesystems:

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

That's all online via the web, as PDF, annotated and whatnot.

For 'something else': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System

As living on via Haiku, and documented there under 'Other Resources':

https://www.haiku-os.org/documents/
I have long maintained that command and control aircraft will be the only piloted things in the future (and just so they can evade easier). Have them stand off and be able to control directly via line of sight/hard to jam comms (likely by relay of some comms drone network), but also have relays back to other controllers in case the primary command and control becomes unable. By 'control' though it is clear that this will just be authority based and much higher level 'patrol over here weapons free' not 'turn left to 180'. The future is drones, either single use (missiles, TLAMs but with more autonomy, etc) or multi-use like reapers, etc but all of them with much more autonomy.

The fighter pilot mafia mentality is hard to change though just like the bomber mafia. Ukraine is likely changing that mentality a lot right now though. This feels like a battle ship vs aircraft carrier moment for aircraft so maybe this shift will happen sooner than I thought. Not that that is a good thing unfortunately, just an inevitable one.
Ah, got it. Thank you! :) Good to know.
I think you are right.

I don’t love “climate change” because it sounds too euphemistic, IMO. But the wording isn’t the biggest problem anyway. A

nd it has solid associations at this point.
If a society structures itself in such a way that no one wants (or is able) to continue it, then it will die and others may arise in its place.

For myself I don't believe I have the wherewithal for it regardless of my view on the matter of selfishness.

>The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of happiness among parents than nonparents in most advanced industrialized societies. Conceptualizing parenting as a stressor buffered by institutional support, we hypothesize that parental status differences in happiness are smaller in countries providing more resources and support to families. Our analyses of the European Social Surveys (ESS) and International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) reveal considerable variation in the parenthood gap in happiness across countries, with the U.S. showing the largest disadvantage of parenthood. [0]

[0]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28082749/
I like the demo for sure more than the "reduced latency" Gemini demo [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI
Better here usually means finding a path to lower cost of acquiring customers.

Of course retention helps too but my gut is that Squarespace had reasonably low churn but increasingly elevated customer acquisition costs along with no real enterprise traction.
Show HN: PuppySignal, an open-source QR Tag for your pets
A few years ago, I started working on a side-project just for my own use: a QR Tag for my pets. I decided to open-source it for anyone who might find it useful.

The functionality is pretty simple: when you log in, you create a profile for your pet, and a QR code will be generated and linked to its profile. When someone scans this code and decides to share your pet's location, you will receive a notification on your phone with your pet's location, and the person who scanned it will see your contact information.
Hahaha :) Thanks for the encouragement hehe! :)
I think the link was guessed by the previous news article names.
OpenAI eliminates $50B off Alphabet's market cap
Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants
I've been obsessed for the past ~year with the possibilities of talking to LLMs. I built a bunch of one-off prototypes, shared code on X, started a Meetup group in SF, and co-hosted a big hackathon. It turns out that there are a few low-level problems that everybody building conversational/real-time AI needs to solve on the way to building/shipping something that works well: low-latency media transport, echo cancellation, voice activity detection, phrase endpointing, pipelining data between models/services, handling voice interruptions, swapping out different models/services.

On the theory that something like a LlamaIndex or LangChain for real-time/conversational AI would be useful, a few of us started working on a Python library for voice (and multimodal) AI assistants/agents.

So ... Pipecat: a framework for building things like personal coaches, meeting assistants, story-telling toys for kids, customer support bots, virtual friends, and snarky social bots.

Most of the core contributors to Pipecat so far work together at our day jobs. This has been a kind of "20% time" thing at our company. But we're serious about welcoming all contributions. We want Pipecat to support any and all models, services, transport layers, and infrastructure tooling. If you're interested in this stuff, please check it out and let us know what you think. Submit PRs. Become a maintainer. Join the Discord. Post cool stuff. Post funny stuff when your voice agent goes completely off the rails (as mine sometimes do).
Yeah just looking at this, it appears to add about 1K of overhead and at least one additional http request for something that ultimately boils down to a mailto: link, so it can still be scraped, and just adds bloat to your web page.
> No, I don’t think botting in RuneScape should mean I can’t play Helldivers 2.

I sure do. “That guy steals from my neighbor all of the time, but I’m sure he’ll leave your stuff alone.”
If you think this is limited to social media you need to read some edward bernays or some noam chomsky. To isolate yourself from the propaganda machine you need to read nothing at all. Live as a troglodyte perhaps. Or you can learn that most of anything intended to be presented to more than one person is in fact propaganda seeking to slant your perspective toward one more favorable to someone elses motives, and continue living life relatively immune to this thanks to the knowledge of its existence.
> “President Putin has made Ukraine's preliminary steps to joining NATO the principal grounds for the Russian invasion of Feb. 24, 2022.”

The escalation in 2022 was an attempt to complete the war started in 2014; Ukraine had abandoned efforts to join NATO years before Russia started the war and only returned to them after the invasion in which Russia directly occupied a large portion of the country and used proxy, mercenary, and regular forces under false flags to contest another large portion.

“They are trying to get help to defend themselves in the war of aggression we started and have been waging continuously for 8 years” may well be the actual reason for the aggressor escalating the forces committed to that war, but its easy enough to stop people from feeling the need to defend themselves from a war of aggression by, you know, not doing them.

Analyzing the Russia-Ukraine war as if it started in 2022 makes as much sense as analyzing the Israel-Palestine war as if it started in 2023.

> If a NATO-like power controlled by Russia was on our doorstep, we would do the same thing.

Well, maybe the US could just not wage long wars of aggression against its neighbors, and then they wouldn't feel the need to turn to this “NATO-like power” (which would never exist, because Russia is a crap ally, as evidenced by their attempt to create a NATO-like alliance with the CSTO.)
Anyone watching the OpenAI livestream: did they "paste" the code after hitting CTRL+C ? Or did the desktop app just read the clipboard?

Edit: I'm asking because of the obvious data security implications of having your desktop app read from the clipboard _in the live demo_... That would definitely put a damper to my fanboyish enthusiasm about that desktop app.
I suppose a better question would be "how drastic can the change be to the license?" because by adding that term, you're basically superseding every other term on the license. How do licenses deal with contradictory terms if that's even possible?
It does, though I would also point out that decorators also cover a lot of the same practical use cases. And is probably the preferable solution if your goal is to benefit Python code in general. Hy macros can only be used from Hy code, so it's not really an "improve my Python codebase" play so much as it is a "I want a lisp that can leverage the existing Python ecosystem" play. Kind of like Clojure vis-a-vis Java.
they're not going to send their army after you, but that's not what this means.

friendly middle-eastern countries negotiate all kinds of concessions from western governments in exchange for allowing military operations to stage in their country, and "we want you to enforce our IP laws" is an easy one for western governments to grant.
What a goofy point to be raised as many times it as it has been in this thread. All of that stuff serves the purpose of more faithfully emulating actual human vision.
just read the clipboard
So, is there a reason they could be doing this?

Like from Discord's perspective, what would this actually accomplish business wise?

I'm kinda drawing a blank here.
Opera, before it got Chrome-ified, had a built in web server. I used it to share files with my buddies. Super simple.

Didn't support scripts IIRC but with webassembly it doesn't have to be too difficult to support something like NextCloud I'd think.
“That’s all really amazing, but I’m having trouble with the thing you said about how despite all of this half the country thinks things are terrible?”

“Yeah, but get this, the half that thinks things are terrible regularly flips and vice-versa.”

“Really? What’s changing so drastically?”

“Nothing. Let’s talk about microchips.”
Such drones will not last long on the battlefield. The countermeasures for MITM drones is going to be brutal in the next 5 years after what we've seen in Ukraine. Russia has already been doing pretty well using ECM against Ukraine's drones. However, HIMARS has been employed effectively against jamming devices as well.

Low cost autonomous hunter killers as area denial munitions is going to be something else though. Once we no longer require man-in-the-middle these drones will be horrifying. You will be able to just say "Kill anything with these characteristics in this area at this time." Then leave the area and wait for the mayhem to begin. Think land mines that place themselves miles away and then get up out of their hole and then chase down whoever gets near enough.
If you read what I said again, you should notice that I’m not saying the data from 300 years ago should necessarily be used. I’m saying that the reason not to use it has nothing to do with people believing in dragons or unicorns.

The part about measurements is fair (they weren’t standardized at the time), but the rest is irrelevant. The decision of whether or not to use data should be on the basis of its scientific rigour and veracity, not the scientist’s beliefs.
The AI will need data. The same data your "managers" are asking for.

But instead of a human that you can talk to and explain the AI will simply be driven by hard numbers. You missed the "PR throughput has to be > 5 per week" this quarter because you did 4.987. You're PIP'd. Be on the lookout!
who gets to decide what use of energy is providing sufficient value?

Just sticking to GPUs.. you see PoW block chains and LLMs as a waste, but is it any less wasteful to use the same GPUs at the same power draw to run a game at uncapped fps? or at whatever absurd resolution it takes to max it out?

Id rather we just charge for the energy usage, probably with some kind of tiering, and let people decide if their output is worth it.
If we're going to build any of these we're going to really need to do some testing too. That means we need a suitably reliable generator of numbers known to be positive or negative.
There's a whole ecosystem of adjacent services-for-SMBs providers in hosting, domains, online advertising etc. and all the companies are running the "commoditize their products complements" playbook. Anyone trying to enter the market is competing against prices that don't even make sense in isolation.
1950s was the era of Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Heinlein, etc. Give people a spark and we naturally will create a flame, even if only in our minds. Take something current - many people are already envisioning futures where LLMs will not only be running on basically every device, but also integrated into each and every aspect of life. Some even envision them eventually replacing humans in politics, working as caretakers, and more.

It's easy to imagine it - even with absolutely no basis for it whatsoever. Go back millennia to the first men making ships able to embark deep into the oceans, and these people would also have already been envisioning the Titanic. The moment the Wright Bros proved flight viable, many were seeing the Hindenberg. It's just human nature.
I wasn’t prepared to be this impressed.

Voice to voice chatGPT. You can interrupt it any time (don’t have to wait for it to finish), it’s real time (no 2-3 second lag), and it picks up on emotion (!).
> INSTALL.md [0] recommends passing -DWITH_XC_ALL in the Build Steps section.

You're right, I missed it there. Silly me for assuming that all of the recommended CMake flags would be specified in the section titled "Recommended CMake Build Parameters"
Direct link to the video in the article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmqFoojMeD8
People hate on PE for good reason - they often make money by destroying good businesses. They sell off the valuable parts for profit, load the debts on what is left, and declare bankruptcy, leaving employees and customers holding the bag.

PE is good business for the raiders, bad business for the raided.
Some older people like them as it’s easier to chew. It’s really great we have various types available in bite hardness and flavor (sweet to sour).

There’s a ton of types of corn, potatoes, chile but you mostly just see 1 type of corn and just 3 or 5 of the others in the US.
That's a good point - floating point operations are implemented with integer-math circuits (or at least can be - I'm not privy to how modern chip manufacturers implement them). E.g: your ALU may have an 11-bit adder specifically to add your f64 exponents.

Some slides to get the gist of it: https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~asim/COEN_6501/Lecture_Note...
The way I read it, they don't claim to align with Unix timestamps. They claim being aligned with the same source time.
this reminds me of that site linked here last year that explained and diagrammed the inner workings of a wristwatch. I used singlefile to save the page, as i do with any page that impresses me (or is noteworthy or newsworthy or needs to be saved as proof, etc)
> VCs normally say the only invest in business that are referred to them by people they already know.

> I am starting to believe that may apply to all of them.

Maybe you should listen to their advice? Why not take a targeted approach and focus on getting referrals
I'm curious why they specify the UUID must have dashes in string format. It makes the UUID difficult to select with a double click.
5x the capacity threshold is the only thing I heard them mention on the live stream.

Though presumably when they are ready to release new models the Plus users will get them first.
That link was awesome :D

I'd have to agree. Immutable is great for headless server scenarios but I'd imagine it would be a huge headache as a daily driver for end-user desktop scenarios.
https://archive.is/5PCxu
I couldn’t see anything over here even way out of town.
Intel's Copy Exactly Technology Transfer Method (1998)
That's not entirely accurate. The easy way to make a crazy amount of money is to buy a well-credited company, sell / mortgage anything of value, ramp up user fees and debt over a short period (3-5 years), and then cast aside the husk via bankruptcy.
Unless you’re the one trying to sell them, in which case that’s part of doing business :)
No one would be willing to spend for an extreme level black swan event that is not proven to have ever happen. That said, the magnetic field is down 15% since the carrington event. Magnetic poles are moving fast (north to siberia, south outside antartica already) to meet around indonesia.
When the sun will go micronova there's little chance electrical systems and the like will survive. Anyway the CME is the least of the worries, consider the earth reacts to such an event in unexepected ways...
Historically at least, one of the significant jobs of a wingman has been to act as bait. With dogfighting, with cannon fire, fighters are most vulnerable when they're trying to shoot down another plane, because they need to be pointing to their target so they tend to be going in a fairly straight and predictable direction. The idea was the wingman would lure one of the enemies onto their back, and then the their partner would dispatch the relatively easy target. This is one of reasons why fighter aces in WWII had such a lopsided kill count compared to everyone else. In order for this all to work, the pilots have to trust each other, and it was certainly the case that some fighter aces put a higher priority on getting kills than preventing the death of their wingman.

I'm not terribly knowledgeable about these things (and most of it is theoretical anyway because most of this tech is untested), but I suspect that there will be a similar mechanic with modern stealth and beyond-visual-range air warfare, whereby firing missles makes you easier to locate and ultimately target, so having a wingman who's willing to act as target practice while another pilot waits for an enemy to betray their location could be useful.
William Shatner Reflects on Rocketman - https://youtu.be/euZVN00nmeg
Link is paywalled. Archive version: https://archive.is/20240513172259/https://www.timeshigheredu...
I’m all for bringing more bison back
For what it’s worth: I wasn’t at all disputing your general argument, just wanted to elaborate on a pet peeve of mine. Cheers!
This argument is not logically valid. Nothing changes with respect to the possibility of defining something if there is no free will - defining something is merely mapping an identifier to a representation of meaning. A purely mechanical device can define things just fine. Free will is demonstrably not necessary to define things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335172 81 points | 1 day ago | 9 comments
I agree about private equity: it's merely the latest incarnation of rent-seeking or enclosure-building. The playbook is the same: cut costs, jack up prices, load up with exploding debt, go public or resell before the debt explodes. There is absolutely no value being created here. We saw the same thing with the corporate raiders of the 1980s (who bought companies below book value and scrapped them for parts).

But I do not agree that Web 3.0 will rise from the ashes. IMHO that's pure hopium. And you hear the same thing whenever people talk about federation.

Web 3.0 (and federation) offers nothing users actually care about. It complicates everything and makes everything more expensive. Centalized services won for a reason.

Companies like things like Web 3.0 and NFTs because they simply want to restrict or profit of secondary sales of digital goods. That's it. You don't own your identity or your data. You can just as easily be cut off from the related services. We've seen it with games and NFTs.

Financial transactions are generally reversible. That's a feature not a bug. A Web 3.0, just like with crypto wallets, will generally result in irrecoverable identities (ie wallets). Trying to build that into the contract through a consensus method of trusted contacts is just another potential vulnerability.

I really wish we, as tech-savvy people, were more cognizant of user benefits here rather than having some idealistic utopic view of a federated world.
What Is Success? [video]
This is true—an IKEA Billy, say, is really heavy for the volume of material involved (compared with the same amount of oak, for example) but is designed for cheap + packs-flat, not to minimize weight. It does win on size and stackability, when disassembled.
I think the idea is that the pilot in the manned vehicle is supposed to be the one to decide on weapons employment. Also it's much harder to jam communications at sub-mile distances between a pilot an their LWMs.

If you flipped it, you may as well omit the manned fighter.
They mentioned an announcement about a new frontier model coming soon. Presumably this will be exclusive to paid users.
Meta Quest gets 'Travel Mode' in beta for use on airplanes
Is it for bun or is it for nodejs? The title says the latter, while the install instructions indicate the former.
> You're missing the insight that games featuring procedural generation are still designed.

Best example of this is Spelunky, and this book goes into good detail: https://bossfightbooks.com/products/spelunky-by-derek-yu

Gist is that Derek designed these playable mini rooms which were ultimately randomly stitched together.
Using this logic [username, age first_name, last_name] is only 2 characters away.
This example is easy to catch because tuple and map work completly different-it's not python.
I see this argument trotted out and it's a huge dodge that implicitly acknowledges the zero-sum nature of capitalism as practiced by modern societies. It's true that global quality of life has increased and the examples you gave are true. But it's critically important to note that in many developed countries quality of life within that country has stagnated or regressed on many key metrics. If the only we way we can make the world richer is by making the rich countries poorer, I don't think it's a shining endorsement of that social system. We already have many other social systems that can do about the same thing.

I've always found this to be a massive flaw in analyzing policy from a Pareto criterion. Economists love to show the very simple arithmetic that a Pareto improvement is strictly better but my intuition was always that the theoretical increase in total surplus didn't actually lead to a better real outcome.
Wow this versioning scheme really messed up this prediction market: https://kalshi.com/markets/gpt4p5/gpt45-released
Until a few years ago, I thought the same. They made that decision, not me. I shouldn't have to burden myself with any obligations and should get to just reap the benefits for me and my children alone.

But something changed somewhere.
I now see my parents in a whole new light.

There is a book "Factfulness", in which the author lists a matrix for four income levels. My parents started at level 2. I still remember their parents houses: the makeshift kitchen with dim lighting, the four walls and the hole they named a bathroom, the leaky faucets at the ends of pipes ran across the house and exterior to the uneven, unpainted walls.

The sacrifices they must have took to change their socioeconomic standing and subsequently my own can never be requited. I now fit somewhere along the fourth level. I can't help but feel immense gratitude when I see them now. I now try to give them all that I can so they enjoy the time they have left. And I wish I had the foresight in my earlier years to tell them how I appreciate their efforts but then again, those stubborn bastards loved to argue then.

I don't know what I wanted to communicate saying all this so excuse me while I text my mother.
Recurrent has a fairly accurate battery health estimate tool.

There are tools for directly connecting via ODB that can give you the battery health at least for the Nissan Leaf, but I haven't looked into them for years and couldn't tell you for sure.

In general, lower miles is better and not from a super hot climate is better (purchased and driven in Washington State > Driven in Arizona).
Interesting. Maybe footer emails tend to be support contact addresses rather than personal inboxes. Otherwise I’d find that discrepancy very surprising.