skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This not a battle between nuclear and wind. Why not use both? Nuclear has dangers (which people are learning to mitigate) but wind, solar, and geothermal cannot be used in every situation. When no better choice exists we should embrace nuclear.
That does seem unlikely. The extreme left is a good bit smaller than the extreme right. The vast, vast majority of Democrats that MAGA folks like to paint as communists are in fact damn near as conservative as they are on most issues. You could probably put all the actual communists in America in a single stadium, with space left over.
I'm surprised they haven't announced any AI features yet.

It seems like every 5 years ago there's a big "Winamp is BACK" announcement paired with some new nonsense related to whatever the big tech buzzword of the day is. Last time it was blockchains.
Let's all take this moment to celebrate 22 years and 230 days of RealNetwork's strong commitment to fucking ugly clunky software.

https://www.bonequest.com/1099
foobar2000 has been my go-to player on both Windows and Mac for about a decade now. Particularly, I like the dense (yet uncluttered) interface and functionality I take for granted, like selecting a dozen files and editing metadata all at once.

A few of my friends complain that the layout "sucks" or foobar lacks functionality they need, but for my use case, it's in a Goldilocks state. With that said, for people used to the functionality of Winamp, I think MusicBee is more likely to be the successor, in terms of out-of-the-box functionality and layout extensibility.
> Keffals, mentioned in the article, is close associates with and supported by Deviant Ollam and his wife Tarah, who was a senior director at Splunk and Symantec and is a fellow at Council on Foreign Relations.

As someone familiar with all three, this is extremely disappointing to hear about.

I have a lot of respect for Deviant, I can only hope he isn't very close to Keffals, or at the least isn't aware of the sheer number of scummy things they have done.
> So, umm, where's the savings? You can't not do the work to check the output, and a novice just can't check at all...

You’re exactly right. It’s a weird example of a technology that is ridiculously impressive (at least at first impression, but also legitimately quite astounding) whilst also being seemingly useless.

I guess the oft-drawn parallels between AI and nuclear weapons are not (yet) that they’re both likely to lead to the apocalypse but more that they both represent era-defining achievements in science/technology whilst simultaneously being utterly unusable for anything productive.

At least nukes have the effect of deterring us from WW3…
Is https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rental-cars-missing-airbags-hit... what you were thinking of? It's missing side curtain airbags, but it's Enterprise not Hertz.
you'd have a hard time replicating this UI [1] or other winamp skins in foobar2000, so i'm not sure i'd call it a successor except in the sense that it can play anything you throw at it.

[1] https://getwacup.com/screenshots/
In Tokyo there can be one stairwell, and then the balconies have foldable ladders in their floors. How about that?
As nuts as just burning anything flammable we can get our hands on?
A better criterion, I think, is if it's consistently correct. I know, if it isn't consistently correct, it won't be useful; but it's easier to measure "correct" than "useful."

(And correct with respect to what is generally known. If there had been a pre-Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, "correct" would have been "conforms to Newton's theory of gravity.")
Yeah it depends on the market you were in. I helped build the WiMax network but it was built very quickly and in places it was built by people who didn't care very much.

It was all microwave back hauled so rain fade in stormy weather was absolutely a thing. Most of those were FCC licensed or should have been but I know of at least 1 market where they just never filed the paperwork to get the licenses and built it anyway.
DIY-Astra: Real-time video based AI assistant with TTS
> There are no more layers to fix.

Or rather the next layers suffer too much protocol ossification to do anything about them. Replacing UDP isn't viable because too much network gear refuses to route anything but TCP and UDP. And the layer below that is upgrading at a pace comparable to our fight against climate change, with IPv6's 30th birthday coming up in two years.
Yes, it's much easier to buy ahead of time in the app and have it automatically activate upon arrival, instead of having to find a kiosk in the airport.
+1 for Immich, it's been cool watching their development journey on /r/selfhosted the last year or so:

https://github.com/immich-app/immich
That tariff was the best endorsement I think I've ever seen for a foreign car. Turns out the secret sauce in creating cheap electric vehicles isn't a 10x battery improvement or technological breakthrough but the same secret sauce in making every other durable good cheaper in America the past 20 years: labor arbitrage.

Can't make that work in America with the UAW.
Very common for older projects
DevTools will most likely help with debugging.

In my case, several of the WebGPU demos on https://simplystream.com/demos fail (while keeping on falsely showing "Loading") with the error message (in DevTools):

"WebGPU requestDevice failed, trying low spec DOMException: Failed to execute 'requestDevice' on 'GPUAdapter': Required limit (64) is greater than the supported limit (32)."
Early on perhaps that was true, but cancel culture seems to have broad appeal across the political spectrum these days.

Although you could make an argument that it still leans left on the public side, with more of a focus on private death threats and harassment on the right. They don't approach the problem of crushing dissent with exactly the same strategy.
i think llama.cpp has context caching with "--prompt-cache" but it will result in a very large cache file. i guess it's also very expensive for any inference api provider to support caching as they have to persist the file and load/unload it each time.
How many (non white collar) felons have you hired?

I think these prisoners should be given consideration but job automatically? No. People often push for policies for which they don't have to comply with.
Your language implies some active conspiracy to misrepresent the state of the economy. And, a culture war gap between elites and "real people"

Why do you assume hostile intent, and bias against the working poor when it is equally likely that macro economic signals are good, better than under Trump, but that real CPI effects and low wage growth and rent rises affect poorer people disproportionately?

My point stands. Belief Trump would have been better for low income and high unemployment communities across America is a fantasy. Biden's time in office has seen more structurally beneficial work on fixing the economy and has substantively helped some people on lower incomes, such as the student debt relief. What's the republican approach to fuel prices? Where is the money coming from to reduce gas costs by 50c and cap rents.. most government initiatives which can do that are exactly opposite to what Trump wants to do.

Nobody controls the narrative any more, all we've got is fundamentals like the economic stats. You don't find them comforting? OK, understood. Do you really think any element of them under government control (a key point) would be better under republican Trump led control. Really?
We have something like a dozen AWS accounts. As sub accounts were opened for new projects, we did the thing to get SES opened up for sending, and kept getting denied.

We ended up not pursuing SES privileges in any of the new accounts, and route all email through the oldest ones that were established before SES approval got harder.
In my opinion, one argument for internally representing `String`s as UTF8 is it prevents accidentally saving a file as Latin1 or other encodings. I would like to read a file my coworker sent me in my favorite language without having to figure out what the encoding of the file is.

For example, my most recent Julia project has the following line:

windows1252_to_utf8(s) = decode(Vector{UInt8}(String(coalesce(s, ""))), "Windows-1252")

Figuring out that I had to use Windows-1252 (and not Latin1) took a lot more time than I would have liked it to.

I get that there's some ergonomic challenges around this in languages like Julia that are optimized for data analysis workflows, but imho all data analysis languages/scripts should be forced to explicitly list encodings/decodings whenever reading/writing a file or default to UTF-8.
Not in the US but bought a second-hand Toyota from a Toyota dealer that I later found out from the service manual was a Hertz rental in its previous life. Its been trouble free for the 8 or so years we've had it (it's now with another family member).

Funny enough, I bought that model because I used to rent it from another company and so I "knew" how the car would be.

So, not saying Hertz is a not a shitty company, but I wouldn't say rental cars aren't a good buy
I donno about the US. But rentals in Europe aren’t always treated well from my experience.
It's the "god" part of "god king" that was the delusion, and all of the wasted effort that went into ensuring the Pharoah's resurrection and immortality after death. And yes, it's a delusion regardless of how many people believe in it.
There once was xmms
> Instead of a specific key combination that a) clashes with the way the vast majority of computer users enter text, b) is neither obvious nor easily discoverable, and c) not available or awkward to enter depending on the input device,

I grant that a) it's different from everything else, but b) CUA shortcuts aren't obvious or discoverable either, they're just more common, and c) I can't think of any device that has a terminal where ctrl isn't readily available. Nonetheless, I actually agree that if we could do it without breaking everything, moving everything to the same convention is compelling on its own. (Of course, I don't think we can do it without breaking everything, but that's life.)

> we could also separate the monitoring of running processes from the command prompt and let the terminal application offer a control to cancel them,

When I want a process dead, I want it dead now, not after I've found the mouse and hit a button. I also have concerns about how that button is going to actually work under the hood; the only options I can think of are that that sends a simulated ctrl-c, or the terminal emulator suddenly has to track child processes and decide what to kill (which strikes me as a bad idea).

> or match modern user expectations and do so using the Escape key.

And in so doing break anything that was using escape, like vi. Incidentally, the plan to intercept ctrl-c will break emacs, too. Which is why I strongly disagree with

> Keeping legacy software running does not imply imposing the same UX constraints on users.

because breaking legacy software is exactly the trade you're proposing.
No, freelancers don't have the same options. Self employment is generally tied to your personal tax residency.

Well not everyone is a software engineer who can create products from thin air while sitting on the toilet. Some people like the stability etc.
I think it's fun to imagine that this solution you're miming at is closer to soylent green rather than only-viable-through-subsidies nuclear.
The Sphinx wasn't built with stone from a quarry, it was carved from the bedrock. It has since been restored a number of times, one of which added layers of limestone block which is easily distinguishable from the original shape.
If Tesla makes bad rental cars, what does that say about their upcoming robotaxis?
Or if you're in the nextcloud ecosystem, you can use Memories
Orthographic Processing in Pigeons (2016)
Examples from this study were featured in Ze Frank's most recent YouTube video about pigeons[1], and I was intrigued to discover there seem to be parallels between how pigeons identify words, and the basic methods used in training AI language models.

> Specifically, we demonstrate that pigeons trained to discriminate words from nonwords picked up on the orthographic properties that define words and used this knowledge to identify words they had never seen before. In addition, the pigeons were sensitive to the bigram frequencies of words (i.e., the common co-occurrence of certain letter pairs), the edit distance between nonwords and words, and the internal structure of words.

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1. https://youtu.be/LfYV39SKIiM
For anyone looking for a slightly more modern alternative, I recommend foobar2000[1].

It's not quite as pretty out of the box, but it makes up for it with some insane customizability. It also has a very robust ecosystem of components, and works very well in Wine.

1. https://www.foobar2000.org/
Finally my taxes are put to good use for once
Cathedrals of the 21st Century
Slack AI Training with Customer Data
You can be if you’re impeding the flow of traffic. It is one of those iykyk rules of the road. Ideally, you need to be in speed limit + 5 to not get a ticket. But, if everyone else is going faster and you suddenly are the one driving slower, you’re not only blocking the traffic, but also creating unsafe driving conditions. In cases like that, you’re supposed to go the lane speed. In my case, it’s a 2 lane major street that funnels most traffic within the city, but unfortunately the limits set on the street are 25, like rest of the city. The standard practice on this particular street is to go at least 30 and stay in the right lane if you’re not willing to go beyond 30. Tesla not only drives 25 max, but also sometimes insists on driving in the left lane.

https://www.ticketcrusherslaw.com/traffic-ticket/speeding-ti....
We do need to disassemble them and move them somewhere, so those costs should be included. Perhaps they should be made to where they can be broken down into sections and reused as durable seawall filler or as construction filler in levees or dams.
> MetaWindow, a transparent noise barrier boasting unparalleled sound-absorbing capabilities

This is about a physical product. Not a software window; and unrelated to Meta, of Facebook and Instagram fame.
> upcoming robotaxis?

They are currently hiring man in spandex.

Edit: My bad, they will not hire, they will reuse this one: https://youtu.be/TsNc4nEX3c4
Dogfooding is good, but I wonder to what extent it has become the case that problems that programmers have (solved by software that programmers will use and can easily evaluate how it works) are already solved pretty well by open source programs. I mean, imagine trying to sell a compiler. Good luck.

If you want to sell software, maybe one of the biggest markets to play in is software that programmers don’t find interesting to write and use?

There’s clearly not a 100% overlap between problems that programmers find interesting and open source projects. But it is applying not so favorable filter, right?
My prediction is that gravel bikes will have wider forks and people will put MTB tires in them instead of 40mm "gravel" tires they do today. It will be faster, more comfortable and safer. Drop bars are great, they will stay. You don't need an MTB bar for your typical light off-road terrain.
My old car was a rental and I didn't know it. Bought it from a car dealer, with about 20000 km on the meter. It had broken suspension that I found slightly after but could be fixed while under the 3 months warranty.

The funny thing is how I found out. One day it was a very special type of frost outside. The frost crystals formed in a pattern on the back window, spelling out the name of a local gas station. Some residual of a removed sticker. It must have been a rental from that gas station.

Still, apart from the suspension problem that was fixed for free it has been very reliable.
I have really huge reservations about LLMs, but a fear that they will replace me as a dev is certainly not one of them.

And while I can't speak for anybody but myself, I have never heard a dev I personally know express any real concern that they're going to be replaced by "AI". The ones who express professional concerns are mostly worried that AI is going to remove the aspects of software development that they enjoy.
> I can't afford to spend $30k on an unreliable vehicle, nor a reliable one with $5k+ repairs.

Then you should get a Tesla, because once you get past the FUD on HN, Reddit and the media, in the real world Consumer Reports found that Teslas had the lowest repair and maintenance costs compared to other car brands. Yes, even Toyota and Honda.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/consumer-reports-names-cheapest...

The submitted story is passing off one anecdote as if it applies to all used Teslas sold by Hertz, and it already showed up multiple times on HN's front page from different media outlets. You can make a story out of that for any brand, but curiously there's a pattern there. There's a lot of anti-EV propaganda in the media and social media in the past year. And it's working very well, given comments like yours.
Meanwhile, https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/kampfjet-beschaffung-der-f-3... suggests that Block 4 F-35s aren't getting delivered to anyone, even outside of Meiringen.

see also https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-35-tech-upgrade-2025-tru...

(I'd be in favour of cancelling the order in favour of either the Gripen or perhaps even unmanned craft, but what do I know about airframes?)
I'm also a big fan of mise for managing development runtimes, and while I haven't tried its own task runner functionality, it does feature some: https://mise.jdx.dev/tasks/
That's because the current ones are all ugly metal walls. Painting stuff on them makes it at least slightly less depressing.
Oh yeah! What I meant is having Ollama run on the user's machine. Might not work for the use case you're trying to build for though :)
They did decide they’re entitled to taxes on transactions..
Hertz is above the law. Which other company can print felony arrest warrants?
Do you think he might have more insight into what's coming than we do?
I can't reply to your other comment for some reason.

Conspiracy? Nah. It's not that complicated. Fact: common entities with common interests will tend to act in concert, even without coordination.

As for why? Oh come on now. Let's not be naive.

What the public believes is what defines The Truth. That's true for Joe. It's true for Don. Etc.

That said, the further and harder the push is in disconnect from someone's truth, only increases the gap. It doesn't close it. Trying to tell someone on LinkedIn with an "open to work" badge that the economy is just fine and they have Joe to thank is foolish at best.
It is hard to fathom. People who murder others have done harm to society that can never be undone. Why do I care what happens to a man who stalked and killed a woman/women/men?
Nice way for the founders to get an exit whilst brand awareness is still up there. It's a hardware firm so I'm uncertain how bad they can possibly transform the products - SAAS going public usually causes the product to suffer significantly.
Because the choice presumably wasn't {Radio Shack business-as-usual} vs {acquire Radio Shack stores}, but rather {Radio Shack disappears as a retail entity and channel for Sprint} vs {acquire Radio Shack stores}.
Why does anyone trust Tesla? I'm genuinely curious.
Now the trains have to actually arrive and depart within, say, 5 minutes of the planned time, and we will be in the 21st century finally.
That’s funny. I practically got into a shouting match for the first time ever with ChatGPT earlier today because I was asking it to create a function to make a filled circle of pixels of a certain size using diameter and absolutely not radius (with some other constraints).

This mattered because I wanted clear steps between 3,4,5,6 etc pixels wide, so the diameter was an int.

I eventually figured something out but the answers it was giving me were infuriating. At some point instead of a radius it put “int halfSize = diameter / 2”.
>>all of the wasted effort that went into ensuring the Pharoah's resurrection and immortality after death.

How do you know that it didn’t work? What if it wasn’t a waste?
I am not against taboos. Taboos can be good. However, it can be a problem when what is considered taboo expands to encompass basically everything.
A startup with wrong product focus would be insolvent in a few months. Deutsche Bahn can rot for decades spending money on technology that would not make any difference when a quarter of its trains is delayed or cancelled.
If you dive into the graffiti scene a bit you will start to appreciate all those graffitis. The story behind some of them is super interesting. There is a lot of "competition", "collaboration", and group dynamics involved. It is truly fascinating. I was living in Cologne (Ehrenfeld) for a while in a place with awesome graffiti and every weekend there were people taking pictures "collecting" and documenting the graffiti.

Edit: Not "all of those" but "many of those"
I have never seen something positive about Liz Fong-Jones but HN shouldn't be the torch & pitchfork store against her.

Given the topic and the people part of it, I don't think anything constructive will come from it.
Well, now you can compile scheme to run on the browser with Hoot (Guile scheme to WASM): https://spritely.institute/hoot/
Anecdotal, but my neighborhood police chief (Ingleside) recently shared that thefts are down across the board in her reporting area. Seems backed up by aggregate reports: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-crim... (She attributed it to the plainclothes retail ops they've been doing leading to significant arrests, and the DA prosecuting a bunch of theft over the past year)
Let's start off with just the cleaning off vehicles and people merely to move tar sands sludge around the ground that goes everywhere.
A forged Apple employee badge
have you looked at the ProjectM: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
Yes, but due to the nature of wind being fickle, we have to keep these other energy facilities running and people employed. This adds to the costs of these other energy solutions while they are doing very little while wind is blowing. This messes all these metrics up.
Well if you look at Gene Therapy and DNA vaccines they've been in research and human testing for /decades/ and not yet implemented.

But mRNA vaccines, that were only used in bovines until 2021, went straight onto the market and injected into large swathes of the population. We have test and UAT for a reason, but Pfizer and AZ pretty much deployed mRNA vaccines direct to prod, with the latter recently pulling their product from market after that publicised court case on side effects.

In some ways its good that we're moving faster, but now that we find that the spike proteins aren't being deleted from the body and are in fact contagious, despite Pfizer telling us the opposite, maybe there's a reason we move slowly.

Move fast and break things is only good for tech, not medical treatments.
If the risks of a pregnancy are unevenly distributed, then it seems obvious that the tolerance for risks involved in contraceptives would also be so.
Fast MTB tires are like 100g heavier than current crop of gravel tires. Not a big penalty as they roll much faster and are have much better grip.
Ask HN: How do you get started writing "predicting" software?
I've seen some cell phones being able to predict the word you are trying to write when you slide your finger on the letters composing a word.

How do you get started writing software like that? Is it a computer software trained over data on finger movement?

I hope I am making myself clear, the one in which you slide your finger over the letters on a keyboard on a screen, and the Program comes up with the word you want to write.

Thanks!!!
I don't even know if that's true, i've had a couple times where i was given vehicles with check engine lights on. Fortunately they swapped them for another vehicle that was .. possibly better?