skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any damages are probably going to be way cheaper than the cost of an equivalent publicity campaign.

Bad PR is also PR.
Ask HN: What are options to build cross-platform efficient desktop apps
I'm planning to build a cross platform desktop app. I see few options as Electron, Tauri and flutter.

Electron is probably the solution where I can build quickly as a lot of mature packages exists which will speed up the process. But electron is just so bloated, consume too much RAM and not that fast.

Flutter is relatively efficient way but desktop ecosystem is not mature. I need a code editor(like codemirror) which does not exist.

Tauri is again running a webview so not sure how efficient is that.

What are mature and efficient ways to write desktop apps.
The same dev has an Everything alternative: WizFile [1]

[1]: https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/
That was true for first-generation tablets but times have changed. I own an iPad Pro from 2017 and i couldn't tell the difference between a 2024 model on first sight. It still works perfectly fine for all general tablet use cases and receives all upgrades.
The video is 13 minutes, but its a time lapse so it could have been hours or days of work.
Better to just ban cryptocurrency. Or impose the same controls that other banking systems have to obey. That will cut off the flow of funds.
I think fossil is not exactly post-git but runs in parallel with git. But definitely a good fit for small teams. For true post-git if you feel adventurous I would try jj or pijul.
Sorting has always been a bellwether for computing systems. Interestingly, Jim Gray recognized that 45 years later. He therefore initiated and evangelized the out of core Sort Benchmarks (sortbenchmark.org).
Democracy doesn’t mean “every voter gets what they want,” it means every voter gets a fair opportunity to compromise with every other voter.

The primary thing that causes drift from fairness is lack of voter turnout.
My first programming forays were with the assembler feature of DEBUG.EXE, on an 8088. Extraordinarily cumbersome in retrospect, but it was existing at the time. Definitely a gateway experience.
They should rename the voice:

Sosumi

Come on OpenAI - do it!
Can't wait to find out what happened here. This seems to be a massive outage. Interesting how fragile things become when so much technology is concentrated into just a few companies.
Listen, with any new technology, someone is going to bring a court case to challenge it. This is one example of a case that OpenAI will need to contend with in the future.

It’s not about hate for success. Well, maybe some of it is, but most is discourse about how several shady or questionable practices seem to be coming out of one company (OpenAI) or one person (Altman).
>As an aside, I find it bewildering the hate for success that I see on this site.

Some of us find the "great man" worship bewildering. You know, how we think the leaders of these companies are geniuses and have insightful things to say about everything.
They still force you into a specific hardware organisation (hyperconverged, disks are on the compute nodes and storage is distributed) which doesn't make sense for everyone's workloads.

Also, at least a few years ago(hope it's not still the case), a lot of their services were a bunch of open source poorly stitched together with bash, and their poor abstraction over it was leaking heavily. Their APIs were also very poor (I mean, VMware's are objectively complete shit, but at least they cover almost everything; Nutanix had major gaps in API coverage).

Oh, and they're very expensive.
Seeing a description directly in the README for the folders in the repo and their contents makes me really happy. I wish more projects would do that.
Bombs and artillery is the main weapon, FPV drones are a novelty and they're being limited by being tied to the remote pilot. Pilots don't really scale that well - it takes a long time to train, and they have to be relatively close to the drone, so they're vulnerable to counter attacks.

Autonomous drones are supposedly already used for oil refineries (vision based navigation, to mitigate GPS jamming), once this tech trickles down to smaller drones things will get really scary..
Yes I think for git users there are a number of great gui and tui and cli tools to simplify workflows. Here is a good list: https://github.com/dictcp/awesome-git?tab=readme-ov-file#cli...
IANAL but I've seen strikes throughout contracts, and then an initial+date from both parties. Weird how in 2024 an initial that's so easily forgeable can be legally binding
>you can let the world do the work for you.

Reminds me of the Spaghetti Sorting algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort
Yes, we do that too.
We have an estimate for total completion time (with a min of x seconds).
We have 16 steps that are each shown for 6% of the total estimated time.
If the job finishes early, then we rush through the remaining steps and announce it's done.
If the job takes longer than the total estimate, we show a few more "steps" that are humorous ones. These ones loop.
I've seen machines which needed to swap to show the desktop, because the wallpaper was a high/true-colour BMP and it was like half the memory the machine had!
or Baobab https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer?ac...
Spaghetti Sort
ah thats why ddg was down too?
Broken on Safari.
https://snipboard.io/wM5smG.jpg
Because meat is popular and lab-grown meat is not. I’m not saying banning anything is impossible. I’m saying banning meat is impossible. Banning lab-grown meat is easy. It doesn’t take much political will to ban an unpopular, unknown or early-stage technology.
Kind of like a humblebrag but for accountability.
Does anybody wonder if these attacks aren't performing a public good in the long run by hardening our tech infrastructure in the West? It seems like hostilities with Russia, China, et al are likely to just get worse over time, and the long term high threat environment that these gangs have created for Western companies and utilities could give them a comparative advantage over time. That is assuming the same attacks aren't happening in China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc.
> it’s beautiful and minimal.

What's minimal about it? Washed out colors, everything white, and grey font do not make something minimal.

Come on, even the too lines in their call out slide in with unnecessary animations. Everything on the page is moving, bouncing, animating. If it's .minimalism, it's Michael Bay of minimalisms
Zoho Plans to Spend $700M to Enter Chip Fabrication
It's on the roadmap! Hopefully will be added next week
The article misses the point of learning, confusing it with "education." I wonder how many members of the rationalist community have children.

I haven't read the book reviewed in the article, I no longer have school-age children. For anyone interested in the difference between learning and school/education, and some alternatives such as homeschooling:

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

How Children Learn and How Children Fail by John Holt

The Six Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto: https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
That awesome! The funniest part is the end though, where the car is revealed and it's boring and kind of ugly. The commercial is way too good for that car :)
The root breadcrumb isn’t a link which was weird. And trying to browse components brought me to just one. I couldn’t find a list of them easily enough.
Yeah that mirrors my experience. I have a 2016 iPad pro which I use all the time and which doesn't show any signs of not meeting my needs any time soon. Probably the best value piece of computing hardware i've ever owned on a price per minute basis.
Lacking a better alternative? Homeschooling works too but gets you only so far.
Joshua Bardwell has tons of educational videos on YouTube discussing options. Also his website has articles that are up to date on solid hardware options. It depends a bit if you wanna fly racing, freestyle or cine. I really do recommend his content especially learn to fly in sim with ELRS boxer radio.
DDG has been down all morning (UK) on safari mobile and chrome on windows 10.
Good question. I suspect it's because the downsides of losing the larger ecosystem of more mainstream languages outweigh the upsides of a functional language. The libraries, package managers, tooling, runtime, debuggers, documentation, and editors etc just aren't anywhere near as mature for Haskell or Ocaml as they are for Typescript or Python, for example.
"Socialization" is a canard once you look at the "society" of schools, more like prisons than a place you would want your children to spend their days.

Children do need to socialize with family, friends, and the society they participate in, but they can do that without school. Children did that for millennia before we invented schools. There's no reason to lock children up for most of the day in an artificial and oppressive environment, day care so parents can work, and indoctrination masquerading as "education."
I think that’s the point. Force the companies to improve their security practices.
If you believe a known conman like Sam Altman didn't intend to steal SJ's voice I have a bridge to sell you.

See my comment from yesterday re him being a known conman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435120
I read as https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/get-be-s...
>What's the downside of just reading the MFT? Why doesn't Microsoft do it in file explorer, and why wouldn't every tool use it instead of walking through the file system?

One disadvantage is that you can't read the MFT of network shares or device emulators presenting "virtual drive letters" to the OS.

The typical (and slower) Win32 API functions FindFirstFile()/FindNextFile() used to iterate through the files structure work at a higher level of abstraction so they work on more targets that don't have an NTFS MFT. Indeed, if you point WizTree to a SMB network share, it will be a lot slower because it can't directly read the MFT.

It's conceivable that Microsoft developers could have programmed Windows Explorer differently to have an optimized code path of reading MFT for local disks and then fall back to slower FindFirstFile()/FindNextFile() for non-MFT disks. Maybe that adds too much complexity and weird bugs. I notice that most of the 3rd-party "Win Explorer replacement" utilities also don't read MFT.
Can you describe precisely why you think the US meets this definition? Given that these terms are meaningful only in a relative sense, it’d be useful to hear your explanation as a comparison between e.g. Mexico, Somalia, Russia, or whatever other comparisons you find salient.

> Dictators can actually get something done for you, I'd prefer that to our current [x]

the historical track record of that sentiment is both plenty long and plenty awful. Are you ignorant of that history or dispute it or think it’ll be different this time or what?
Autumn, and the Plot Against Me (2007)
I'm using 10 - it doesn't work for me.
> Classes work because the teacher can inspire (or at least push), and there's peer pressure to learn (or at least keep up with the herd).

You will have an AI friend soon to push/inspire you soon :)
Show HN: monohacks – 170k+ available domain hacks
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To be fair, the tone is supposed to be that way. It was designed as a UK-tabloid style IT news source, which have informal and opinionated tones (I don't know if it was originally done in jest or not).

The fact that it publishes in a low-brow, combative style in an industry that is (historically, anyways) mostly educated is part of the "joke", especially has most other tech press at the time it was created in the 1990s had conflict of interest relationships with tech companies (mostly relying on the same companies for advertising) - which is why the tagline is "biting the hand that feeds IT". It's easy to forget that most tech news sources were overwhelmingly uncritical to even bad tech. For those of us who had to actually deal with it, it was refreshing to know other people hated <insert vender product here>. For a good while in the 1990s (before it could stand on its own) it was a site written by people who actually worked with products from the tech companies (with their sales people) and could comment if they were going downhill or got screwed by pricing changes.

Is it possibly outdated and tiring now? Sure (it stopped being a daily news source for me around 2010), but it helps to understand the history and why it is or was popular.
You don't need to look hard to find this happen. OpenAI has had several API outages this year
Actually Qwant.com uses bing API too and has a warning at the top of their homepage.
US (and the NSA) is our best friend. Thanks to US we have the freedom to choose our best friend. Our best friend gives us everything we need and helps us to make good decisions.

Even if our best friend looks at what we are doing, this is just to help us further.

/s
Everyone eagerly citing the article, google: “who owns Washington Post”
We were among the first to try Nova (talking directly with the Developers) and while it's slightly better than CLion classic, the double size package and still no remote index support didn't warrant rolling it out, unfortunately.

We created a clangd-based setup with remote indexes so that our developers can open their editor (vim / vscode) and within 10 seconds they get access to full code intelligence on the 20M+ SLOC monorepo. This is unimaginable with CLion, where developers have to scope down their "view" on the monorepo to a handful of directories, and still wait half an hour for the indexing to happen
Even then they could be replicas
I have an ipad air sitting in my drawer right now that I haven't been able to use in years. It stopped getting major updates and stayed on iOS 12. It continued to get bug fix updates for the next few years, but that isn't really helpful when all the apps stopped supporting iOS 12.

No netflix, hulu, or HBO. I can't use it as a shopify terminal. Even if you are fine with an older version of these apps, these companies specifically disable their old apps, and make them stop working.

So...my ipad, which still has great battery life, sits in a drawer, because no apps work on it anymore. And I get it, that isn't 100% apples fault, these companies and their developers are to blame too, but apple certainly encourages targeting the latest versions os iOS.
Managers can be friction. If they negotiate with other managers, then you have a game of telephone tag where engineering issues become 'resource' issues and the work gets muddled in the conversation.

I worked for a year with no engineering manager, no software director, no VP of Engineering. The most productive year of my group at that job. Brought out two new versions of our OS to support multi-processor configurations and use new memory modes.
> It's the victims that would now have two problems: damned if they pay, damned if they dont.

The "victims". Most of those victims have only themselves to blame. They are more often than not quite public and successful companies that couldn't are less about security. They get hacked, pay out transom money and don't change a thing.

I mean, just look at the poor victim British Airways https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54568784

--- start quote ---

A subsequent investigation concluded that sufficient security measures, such as multi-factor authentication, were not in place at the time.

The ICO noted that some of these measures were available on the Microsoft operating system that BA was using at the time.

--- end quote ---

Or the poor victim Microsoft: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/02/tech/us-government-micros...

--- start quote ---

The hack “was preventable and should never have occurred,” says a report released Tuesday by the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), a group of government and private cybersecurity experts led by the Department of Homeland Security.

--- end quote ---
Infinite Texture: Text-Guided High Resolution Diffusion Texture Synthesis
Yeah when I read things like this, I always sit in awed wonder for a moment, trying to figure out where these people are totally full of crap, or whether they really think about things this way, and are just very different than me.
I'm a big Filelight fan. It used to not work well on NTFS volumes, it would miss files flagged Archived, has that been solved?
> Human workers are not getting smarter.

Everyone is walking around with devices that connect them to nearly the total sum of human knowledge.
Not acting on that to get out of an easily replaceable job is a skill issue.
Also, the education systems currently aren't the best. Automation and IT hasn't penetrated them as much as is feasible.
I don't mean OpenAI only, I include Google, (which doesn't have any leader, basically) MSFT, TSLA (which does, I know...) etc etc

I know that there are problems with each of those companies, but to hate all of them seems like a pattern to me
> As far as I know, there is no self-driving in Europe at all.

Mercedes' "level 3" thing has been around for a couple of years in, at least, Germany. I'm not sure that there's all that much to "fall behind on", though.

> If we value an hour at $20, that is $1.8T per year which can be automated.

Can it, tho? Like, the last 10 years of promises about self-driving cars would indicate no, at least not any time soon.
Show HN: Freemium – open-source alternative for devutils
Developer Toolbox is an all-in-one tool that assists developers with various tasks commonly encountered during development.

Please provide feedback/issues/pull requests.
Lately I've used Gleam with the Lustre framework (which is inspired by Elm). The coolest thing is that one can do server rendered components with it also. It is a very young ecosystem but the community is great!
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Nvidia's Business Is Booming. Here's What Could Slow It Down
Are we helping? Thoughts from a cybersecurity practitioner
Good Business Ideas
It's crazy how the Windows Search Indexer still doesn't use MFT.

It doesn't even bloody support network drives so there's no such reason.
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Private equity

https://domainnamewire.com/2024/05/15/private-equity-company...
Huh, of all those, ddg seems the odd one. I thought it used its own search service, didn't realise it was bing underneath. Even if that's not entirely true the fact that the home page is down due to the same reason that bing is down doesn't look good.
Learning is just a conditioned response to inputs.

You were conditioned to give that response.

If I ask an AI about the book Walden Two, for example, it can reproduce and/or remix that. Knowing is copying.

[Why Walden Two? BF Skinner. And an excellent book about how the book was lived: https://www.amazon.com/Living-Walden-Two-Behaviorist-Experim... ]
So the hard claim in the headline is based on this thought process: If they didn’t specifically mention Scarlett Johansson or Her to the voice actress, this proves they weren’t trying to copy it. Seriously? Awful journalism, sorry.
Yes, that's why WinDirStat is a no go at all.

Use WizTree, or any other util what reads NTFS MFT directly.
Maybe this forces DDG and ChatGPT to make their own search engine index and corpus. Sure it might be a few years too late for the former, but thats probably what they said 5 years ago too.
I love to read everyone's opinion or expertise. But i just don't understand the hatred for companies, that raise private money, risk something and try to create an outcome, which may fail. The risk is on investors and on founders. And of course its a cycle. Live and die.
Fun read! It still surprises me no predator has been able to somehow take advantage of this evolutionary gap. You'd think one of the predators mentioned in the article would evolve a different way to the detect them.

Then again, something similar probably happened many times in evolutionary history, and the victim species died out as a result. So if one of those predators would exist, we wouldn't have sloths. I guess this leaves them vulnerable to invasive species?
> But after the voice was recorded, they thought,

... that it would be even better to have a famous voice from Her than a rather generic female voice they had, but their proposal was declined. Well oops, but SJ, famous as she is, doesn't have a copyright right on all female voices other than her own.
> Even without getting into semantics about "what is art"

They say, before making comments about what they think is art :-)

> There's no artistic impetus, no political/social/cultural message.

There is, as you state in your next couple of sentences:

> … monopolistic megacorp funded to show off … typical "look at how much money we spent" exercise to showcase

You can, probably rightly, call it a crappy impetus. But that was impetus for the exercise and could be called the artistic impetus. Even if you disagree strongly on that particular point, it is definitely a message.

To be slightly more fair, that wallpaper is a major part of the initial impression people have of the OS version, much like XP's Telly Tubby Hill did. The XP image was trying to convey “friendly, welcoming”, the Win10 one tries to convey something more like “dynamic, technically competent, flashy”. While it may not be an expression of someone's inner feelings or a societal property or anything like that, some art is more about directing your impression of something than it is about expressing someone else's and that is what this image was for and what it does.
It has not been down for me.
Maybe a good one-off tactic - but at scale, the obvious moral would be "never pay the ransom, because they'll endlessly blackmail you for more".
So much about DuckDuckGo's claim that Bing is only a part of their search results.
What do you mean by "only gets you so far?" Opinion, experience, or do you have some evidence?

Homeschooled kids can get high school diplomas in most states (all three of my kids did), and get into college (two of my kids decided to go to university, and had no problems get admitted). In the group of ~30 secular homeschooling families I belonged to when I had school-age kids, many of the kids went on to college, got jobs, and turned out just as functional (if not more successful) than kids who went to public schools.
Given that you chose to quote from a noted white supremacist scholar, it is likely fair to assume that you fall on the same side as the hypothetical impending dictatorship. In that case, sure, the dictatorship will get something done for you. Until of course the leopard comes to eat your face as well. Also in that case, I can see why you promote your narrative of helplessness, since it will hasten the arrival of your glorious new era.
Wow. This.