skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been using zellij for the past few weeks and it’s amazing. Basically all the settings I had in my tmux config are the defaults in zellij.
Wonder if it was more to do with deltas. Everything at 50° might be more stable then hotspots?
Is it only duct tape that works? What about other kinds of tape or bandages?
I don't need to litigate this, but they're not "effectively" illegal either. Again: big firms with huge HR departments and lots to lose use then, and brag about it.
I'd say "discovered by a single dev" is not just mere chance, but system working as designed.

- Everyone was getting the same package, so one person could warn others

- There were well-established procedures for code updates (Andres Freund _knew_ that xz was recently updated, and could go back and forth in previous versions)

- There was access to all steps of the process - git repo with commit history, binary releases, build scripts, extensive version info

None of this is true for LLMs (and only some of this is true for curl|bash, sometimes) - it's a opaque binary service for which you have no version info, no history, and everyone gets a highly customized output. Moreover, there has been documented examples of LLM giving flawed code with security issues and (unlike debian!) everyone basically says "that person got unlucky, this won't happen to me" and keeps using the very same version.

So please don't compare traditional large open-source projects with LLMs - their risk profiles are very different, and LLM's are a way more dangerous.
The problem is that this opens up an obvious vulnerability - underfund the department that's supposed to ensure compliance so that you effectively end up breaking the law at scale and yet retain this plausible deniability.

The only way out is to reverse the situation - companies should have even less leniency. You can't expect a single person to know the specifics of every law or to pay attention 100% of the time, but you can absolutely expect a company to be able to hire the necessary manpower to ensure near-bulletproof compliance.
Ah, yea, that makes a lot of sense. I guess I don't really consider myself "old" or a graybeard yet but I could see how my perspective could differ from someone 15 years younger.
Millennial too. Not to shift blame, but from observation it seems to be more of a gen z thing.

Anime/waifu shit, furries and all becoming commonly accepted as of late? 10-15 years ago you'd be exiled. Now it seems like it's whatever
Looking at the application landscape (and quality) in the early years of Mac OS X with Objective-C and later on with Swift, I‘m not so sure about that. Even worse when you look at Cocoa vs SwiftUI.
You are living in fairytale land.
People don't usually use PDF.js just to render PDFs. You can also extract text to use within a web application, preview a PDF, have users sign PDFs and fill forms in the browser (where their authenticated context resides) and a host of other things.

I don't think anyone but a bored hobbyist is implementing or using a JS PDF renderer solely for rendering and the people who are using it for the aforementioned reasons don't care about load times, the document has to be processed somehow by the user agent.

The suggestion that JS is optional here is nonsense and that the built in browser PDF renderer (written in a lower level language than JS) is faster is common knowledge.

Again, I don't see how this suggestion is pragmatic or productive, but still, maybe we're not trying to be here.
Dams trigger exponential population declines of migratory fish
That's my point, it takes more than technology to inhabit a place. We might barely have the technology to live in Antarctica (or the middle of the Sahara desert), but it's still not economically feasible, there are no resources there that we need, and there's no social/societal need to be there. Even if we had the technology to safely get to Mars and viably live there (like aliens arrived and handed the technology to us), there's no point to doing it.
OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT
Terraform state backend built on Cloudflare Workers
> start franchising

I came to understand a long time ago that when a business starts franchising, that's a sign that the business is going to be making worse product.
Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers
> There is no value offered by the HN community itself to argue about this.

The HN community is a very nerdy bunch. There are lawyers among us, experts or knowledgeable enthusiasts in International Humanitarian Law. I mean I don’t think it is unlikely that someone here works (or has worked) for a firm or an institution which was consulted before this warrant was recommended.

The ongoing genocide is also highly relevant to the HN as much of the tech use in our job or hobbies, and even contribute to, is being used as a weapon in the ongoing genocide.

There has also been news of tech workers being specifically targeted in the ongoing genocide, our industrial comrades who may no longer be with us, some of which no doubt had HN accounts. When this news was submitted, it too was flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39738469)
Show HN: Midaz – open-source banking ledger with multiple connectors
We, at Lerian, are excited to announce the opening of the repository for Midaz, an open-source ledger system designed to be multi-currency/asset, immutable, auditable, with a double-layer of security and ready to support integrations with multiple core banking and BaaS providers.

Our team has deep experience in building core banking platforms in Latin America. In 2023, we founded Lerian to address what we called "inevitable churn" - the need for many players to internalize part of the infrastructure currently in the hands of SaaS providers.

Midaz aims to solve the challenges businesses face when managing financial transactions across various sectors by offering a flexible, open-source ledger system, enhanced security features, a modular architecture, smart contracts, plugins with different providers, native double-entry and reconciliation, and CLI support and a Console front-end.

We are roughly 80% ready to officially launch the product (expected July/August, 24). By opening up our codebase at this early stage, we invite developers, financial experts, and enthusiasts to contribute their ideas, expertise, and code to help shape the future of Midaz.

The whole concept of open-sourcing the Midaz codebase is to shift from charging for the Product to charging for the Service. We plan to monetize based on Enterprise Support, SaaS Hosting, and providing a Marketplace for different plugins/connectors.

Here's how you can get involved:

- Visit our GitHub repository [github.com/LerianStudio/midaz] to access the Midaz codebase

- Join our Discord community [https://discord.gg/Qp6ZNgYUsw] to discuss the project, share your ideas, and connect with other contributors

- Check out our roadmap [https://docs.midaz.io/midaz/overview/about-midaz/roadmap-and...] to see the planned features and milestones for Midaz

- Contribute code, submit bug reports, or suggest improvements through our GitHub issues and pull requests

- Help spread the word about Midaz to your network and communities

We believe in the power of collaboration and community-driven development. We are excited to embark on this journey with you and create a ledger system that empowers businesses to unlock new opportunities and streamline their financial operations. Thank you.

Best,
The Midaz Team at Lerian
Ask HN: Bootstrapped founder. Does it make sense to move out of SF for a while?
Currently in SF bay area solo bootstrapping.

I'm wondering if it makes sense for me to move to WA or NV for a while to continue working without thinking about the fact that I'm without an income and pay a lot to live here. I'm enjoying working on a B2B product driven business and taking care to address feedback as well as my own experience in this space to build something that I can be proud to put out there.

Anyone done this in the past? What was your experience? Pros/cons/pitfalls? Please do tell.

I'm fortunate that I have enough runway for 2-5 or more years without income, but ever since Covid I've always asked myself why I'm still here. I don't own a home here, and I have no roots here. The job market was strong here, but I don't plan to work at a tech company again and just want to focus on my stuff. I'm not at all worried about that, and I'm confident I can get a job again if I really need to, so that's not a concern to me. Most of my friends have moved away, and honestly the vibe in SF is kind of meh these days unlike 2016-2020 days.

Finally, I don't think I need to fundraise because I'm not sure I have a business that needs venture funding. And if I do need to fundraise, I'd like to have enough traction so I can get a good deal.

Anyway, looking forward to hearing from you. Sometimes its nice to talk it out :)

Thanks!
I had one that wouldn't go away, and I slowly ramped up the freezing time to be a fair bit longer than what the instructions said, eventually it worked
> It didn’t occur to him that he could prove he is Satoshi in other ways?

To be fair, he's limited by not actually being Satoshi.
Note that TROOZE and KIBI are not legal words (or existent words), and AA, while derived from a real word, is misspelled.
How 3M discovered, then concealed, the dangers of forever chemicals
Physicists create five-lane superhighway for electrons
My guess is duct tape doesn’t do anything special to warts but the adhesive and the tight seal causes you to shed a few layers of skin. Repeat for weeks until you have shed all of the wart containing layers and replaced them.

Salicylic acid ointment also works much better than cryo therapy. The same idea but probably a lot faster than duct tape, but also probably a bit more painful.
https://archive.ph/3pBdD
There was a whole field called fluidics that focused on performing operations analogous to those performed with electricity. This[0] gives a good overview of how fluidics worked. One the most commonly used elements of fluidics was the fluidic amplifier. This worked by using sideways flow of lower pressure to redirect a more powerful jet of fluid between two ports. Fluidic amplifiers could be made with frequency responses in the KHz range, so they have been used to amplify sound[1].

There was some brief interest in fluidics because it was cheap, more reliable than electronics of the time, and could function in extreme environments. So it found use in industrial automation and aircraft systems. This document[2] from NASA shows some applications it found at the time. Univac even built a completely fluidic 4 bit digital computer[3].

Fluidics is still around today, but used for very niche applications. One of the most absurd uses I've heard of was getting around rules prohibiting active aerodynamics in Formula 1. In 2010, the McLaren devised a system where the driver could cover a hole on part of the car, causing flow to be redirected to a fluidic amplifier that redirected flow over the rear spoilers causing them stall, allowing drag to be reduced on the straight aways. IIRC the entire purpose of the system was to get around rules which prohibited doing this with moving parts.

[0]https://miriam-english.org/files/fluidics/FluidControlDevice...

[1]https://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/132nd/2aaa8.html

[2]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19730002533/downloads/19...

[3]https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1464052.1464112

[4]https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/banned-technical-analysis-...
I disagree with this. Outstanding programming (outstanding performance at almost anything) involves a flow state where you are doing-the-thing almost unconsciously, but that frees your mind up for meta-cognition reflecting on the bigger picture and concurrently refining the performance of the task. To be an outstanding athlete, you also need to be your own best coach.
This conversation has drifted slightly off-topic. It was originally about the efficiency of producing good quality outputs akin to products or services with generative AI.

I work in an industry adjacent to generative AI, so my views are very specific, and kind of beside the point. But I think the broader public does think what you describe. Much (and probably most) of AI-generated content that ends up on the internet is very barely changed by a human.

I am not saying gen AI is not useful, but that it's not efficient in the process of making high quality content. It's simply not steerable enough in practice. In creative industries, people are going pretty wild about how much work AI can replace, but all I've seen is mediocrity and failure when it is involved. Or frustration, as you say, that what it outputs is very difficult to turn into a high-quality product.
Was the tax code a mistake? No. Was it a mistake to replace pensions with 401(k) accounts? Absolutely.

A pension fund has one primary benefit: it distributes funds from those in the pension fund who contributed but died early to those who live a longer life, ensuring that all pensioners receive a steady income through end of life.

A 401(k) is just an investment account with strict rules (and in many cases, poor investment choices and high fees). In a middle class life at the average American salary (which is less than $60k!), is it even possible to invest enough to support a steady income that allows you to live to be 100? I think the answer is no, even if you follow the conventional rules of saving 10% of income and re-allocating into lower-risk investments as you age.

The loss of the defined-benefit pension is a tremendous blow to Gen X and beyond, and we are going to feel that impact very very hard in American society in around 20 years.
Airtable works, we even made a video for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21y1_CiBqnM

Notion: data should work, we are going to record a demo, but Rich Text is not supported yet for every CMS, only those who have an HTML option, see compatibility: https://docs.webstudio.is/university/foundations/cms

We will add them one by one, with full Rich Text support.
I used to have a list of possible wart treatments from a military hospital thanks to trying to resolve a treatment-resistant wart. It included:

1. Tape a piece of potato over it.

2. Tape a copper penny over it.

3. I high dose of vitamin A for a month.

4. Vitamin E topically and/or orally.
Youtube TV is their cable replacement, not related to the website at all really.
What's Wrong with "Luxury Beliefs"
It depends on 1 thing only: will any company find a usecase, for which people actually want to, and will pay money? If yes, then it will be a good source of money for a while. Today's bolt-AI-on-everything-and-shove-it-down-the-users-throat mentality can't and won't last forever, however.
I just retried Sway on nvidia proprietary drivers. It is still a bad experience imo compared to i3.

* Cursor didn't show up at first. I had to use `export WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1`, but the software cursor had some noticeable latency to it.

* Extreme flickering in both Firefox and terminals. I installed wlroots-nvidia [1] but even then the flickering, while improved, was not gone. I manually played with WLR_RENDERER options between gles2 and vulkan but they all had flickering. [2]

In the end I decided that the flickering issue prevents me from using Sway.

Hardware: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

Driver: 550

OS: Arch Linux

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wlroots-nvidia

[2] https://streamable.com/akq43p
I think the problem with cryo is it’s so painful that doctors dont do it long enough to be effective. But it also does a ton of damage to the surrounding tissue so overall it’s just a terrible treatment.
Narrative consistency isn't necessary for trolls to get the attention they desire. Quite to the contrary.
Yea. For a lot of Gen Zs, this is the first "bleh" market they've experienced.

Tech has become commodified like how Teaching became by the 1990s, Accounting became by the 2000s, and Law by the 2010s.

Everyone pays (relatively) good money for an experienced Teacher, Accountant, or Lawyer but pays peanuts for green talent.
Aa lava? I always spelled it that way in undergrad. Now I’m curious. I guess one could argue without the accents it’s incorrect. But then we get into the pedantry of how most words are wrong as they’re mostly borrowed and mutate over time. No true Scotsman in the dictionary.
This was pretty cool to read back in 2021. They also had a previous post in 2018: https://openai.com/index/scaling-kubernetes-to-2500-nodes/ where they had previously hit this limit.

Cool to see infra solutions at OpenAI. I wonder if these are still powering existing solutions. Ben, one of the authors, seems to have left OpenAI.
Definitely a few factual errors here that ought to be corrected.

On day one of the acquisition, Youtube's egress network was at least 4x the size of Google's, built and run by two guys. This shouldn't be a shock, you need a lot more bits to serve video than search results. For the hottest bits of content, third-party CDNs were serving videos and thumbnails.

There was no collapse imminent, but there were concerns about getting YouTube and Google infrastructure on a common path. BandAid was named as such because the goal was "not to break the internet." It was a small project with maybe a dozen members early on, all solid people.

YouTube had its own contemporaneous project, née VCR - "video cache rack". We did not necessarily believe that BandAid would arrive in a reasonable amount of time. Generally Google has two versions of every system - the deprecated one and the one that doesn't work yet.

VCR was a true YouTube project, 3 or 4 people working with one purpose. It was conceived, written, physically built and deployed in about 3 weeks with its own hardware, network setup and custom software. I believe it was lighttpd with a custom 404 handler that would fetch a video when missing. That first rack maxed out at 80Gbps a few hours into its test.

After several months, Bandaid debuted. It launched at ~800Mbps and grew steadily from then on into what is certainly one of the largest networks in the world.

YouTube mostly moved things to Google based on a what made good engineering sense. Yes, a few of them were based on what would break next - thumbnails leaps to mind. Search, which we thought was a no-brainer and would be "easy" took more than a year to migrate - mostly due to quality issues. Many migrations were purely whimsical or some kind of nebulous "promo projects." Many more stayed separate for more than a decade. When a company gets large enough, the foolish consistency tends to trump a lot of other engineering arguments.

To the ancestral poster, do not despair. You can transcode, store and serve video, as you've likely surmised it's not all that difficult technically. In fact, it's so much easier now than in 2005.

What makes a great product is hard to describe and not always obvious. The economics will depend on your premise and success. "the cloud" gets pricey as you scale. There will be a long path of cost optimization if you get big enough, but that's the price of doing business at scale.
List of Fictional Plants
Cantharidin is another way that works for many, where some blistering liquid (originally from a blister beetle, but I think its synthetic now) is put on the wart, causing HUGE blisters that take off many layers of skin at once, and often the wart with it. But it really sucks that first few days.
Very honestly asking - how do you convince investors you’re $100B away from an independent thinking computer if you’re not hiring to show that?

I’m sure these people are very serious about their work - do they actually know how far we are - technologically, spend, and time wise from real non word generating AGI with independent thought processes?

It’s an amazing research subject. And even more amazing a corporation is willing to pay people to research it. But it doesn’t mean it’s close in any way, or that anthropic would reach that goal in a decade or 3

I would compare spending this money and hiring these people to what Google Moonshot tried to do long ago. Very cool, very interesting, but also there should be a caveat on how far away it is in reality
I disagree. Maybe if you went to a top five school and are good at networking. Otherwise most careers will still require that you show specialization (domain specific knowledge, certifications, etc).
> A "corporate death penalty" doesn't really work, because shareholders can always sell. You don't want the guy responsible to profit, while some innocent schmuck gets punished because he happened to be holding the bag when the music stopped. You need action against the shareholders who were owners at the time of the bad acts.

You could always tailor this so the penalization only applies to private equity and throw in a lookback. That would encourage companies to go public (which, IMO, is a good thing) and would encourage private equity to be responsible.

You could still kill a public company that violates the public trust, you just don't have to penalize shareholders in that case because they are likely to not have the same level of information/control as a private equity holder/owner would.
I think it's just starving it of oxygen. Duct tape just stays in place well enough. Any tape that doesn't breathe and sticks would do. But maybe I'm wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape_occlusion_therapy
These types of posts are .. well thought-out, and usually posted by someone with relevant education. But they are not reviewed documents or journal articles, and you can _tell_ when someone is mixing in a lot of their own educated guessing with the research they've done. Which is the case here.

He probably wasn't intending it to be taken as authoritative source, but that's how most people will _read_ something like this after running into it on the front page of HN. And most of this is just.. guesswork.
Ask HN: Which browser add-on for Hacker News do you use?
The first thing I need is a user-block feature. (HN has done an impressive job at nurturing civility, but it's time.)

I saw a promising-looking add-on for Firefox, but it had only a few users so far, and there was a blob of Wasm in the `.xpi` that was a barrier to a very quick skim of the code.
There's a similar treaty that precludes human settlement on Mars (for planetary protection reasons).
I am fascinated by this split in interpretation of the movie. It seems clearly dystopian to me, and I was surprised to learn (here on HN) that there were a lot of people who didn't see it that way at all.

I have no insight to draw from this, I'm just fascinated by it.
Was expecting something about a hypothesis or finding that psychopaths are more likely to empathize with AI or feel that it empathizes with them. Didn't find it.

(Before Tim Leary became the Acid Guru he did groundbreaking work in group psychotherapy, and in particular wrote a book about personality diagnosis based on group interactions. As a parlour game you can apply the same principles to personality diagnosis of the cultures which emerge around software languages and tools.)
Can Education be the solution to every problem?
ASID Allocator and TLB management in Xen for x86
I miss AntennaPod from Android. It's on a list of about 5 things.

Having said that, Overcast for iOS is great. The main missing feature vs. AntennaPod is that I can't browse + select podcast episodes using the job wheel / touchscreen on my non-CarPlay car.

That feature barely works with Apple Music (and not at all for other first-party or third-party apps), so I suspect it's an iOS issue more than an Overcast issue.
I think the scenario here is that a function unexpectedly returns an Err(...), but the program propagates it several frames upward before finally unwrapping it, which produces only a partial stack trace. This can be mitigated with error types like anyhow::Error which remember the originating stack trace, but such types aren't in common use in the library ecosystem.