skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I did what most of us do in such situations. I went for WordPress, a not-too-crappy theme for which I might have even paid a few bucks, and cheap hosting. The recommended way to fetch WordPress is to download a zip file (scream), tweak it locally if you can, and then upload it to a server using FTP (more scream). You could use sFTP if you wish to make things less worse (still screaming).

Oh, the national sport of criticizing a platform or tool without having used any of the many different options it offers, I see.

Also… wow, this comes straight from the dept. of complicating easy things… for the only reason of not wanting to understand how the platform perfectly handles all the issues describe, not researching any of the good existing professional wordpress based solutions out there, which have been available for ages.
Checked it on my neighborhood in Warsaw and wow - it seems to work well
I don’t think it’s so insidious. People see real benefit and results from highly restricting carbs. Something is happening, it’s not just a fad. Sure, it’s fine to debate the pros and cons but to outright disparage it because there a community of excited people who have had life changing experiences talking about it positively seems overly reactionary.
There is a bit of a self-reinforcing effect going on: If I spend the 2-3 hours required to write a good bug report, and I see no indication that any human even looked at that work, I'll be less likely to put that effort in. After a few iterations, my bug reports, if I'm still filing them, are probably going to be quite bad, which isn't going to make it more likely that they'll be picked up...
The University of the Arts is closing after losing its accreditation
There is a crisis with men. But it stems, I believe, from not being as coddled as they once were in terms of privilege. An equal playing field is not something men seem to be able to deal with. A solution will not be obtained by misidentifying the causes. What women and minorities have dealt with for centuries in America is far greater than the perceived slights white men deal with today. It is pathetic that they seem unable to deal with an equalization of the playing field.
Retired Navy Admiral Is Arrested on Bribery Charges
This is interesting because I don't understand how this is different from what we call "the revolving door" in government and the private sector.

Is this a shot across the bow of anyone thinking of doing this in the future?
I'm there (and then some) and hard disagree.
I think the link for k.zip was just removed.

EDIT: shakti.com/k/k.zip is now returning 404.
Ask HN: Using mini PCs / NUC as (small/medium) business/production servers?
Dear all,

Recently I saw someone mentioned that [Miniforums MS-01](https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-01) is one of the more powerful mini PCs available (with possibility of extensions). Many people also seem to use mini PCs, as well as SFF computers (e.g., Optiplex), as homelab servers? I personally have a Beelink SER-5 and Debian for this purpose.

So this got me thinking, would it be possible/feasible to use mini PCs and/or SFF computers as business/production servers in serious settings, such as for small/medium business and/or (SaaS) startups? Or that even in these cases, a [HPE MicroServer](https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/compute/proliant-microserver/proliant-microserver/proliant-microserver/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-plus-v2/p/1014673551) may be a better choices, due to the fact that it's more like an actual server? I guess in other words, what functionalities and/or features make a server server?

Thank you!
If cost basis was reported to the IRS by your brokerage, you can typically just report the summary total, since the IRS already knows about the individual trades.
It's not because of a religious opposition to JS, but because usually Javascript-laden sites take a long time to load, require the latest hardware and browsers, and come with pop-up banners, third-party ads, and bloatware.
I don't think it's slowing down yet. Every day new cool models appear. I'm having a field day experimenting.

It's now possible to run a gpt-3.5 quality model at home which is pretty amazing imo. Further dedicated hardware will bring the cost down like the ASICs did with bitcoin mining.

I do think the usefulness is overrated. Microsoft is heavily pushing CoPilot for office as an assistant that can do anything you want just by asking, but it is really disappointing. It's great at making quick demo presentations but at real work it either gets it totally wrong or it just throws its hands up and refuses. Microsoft seems to be aware of its limitations and is now pushing more towards training on more complex prompting. But I don't really see the point: that effort could be spent teaching people to do the work too.

But for some use cases like rewriting, summarising and translating it shines and is reliable.
No, in this case the crime was known about since 2018, and it was prosecuted because it was a serious crime. Someone went to jail for it already and they were prosecuted by the Trump administration. Hard to call this political when this case was first prosecuted by a Republican AG.

In the case of Clinton the entire “crime” was that he lied in the process of a political investigation into him which, ultimately we know today, had absolutely no legitimate basis whatsoever, as they ultimately found no crime aside from the one they induced. Today Republicans call this a “process crime” and they view it as foul play, presumably because they run that playbook themselves and know how dirty it is.

Today his conduct is a matter of course for Republicans — AG Jeff Sessions lied before Congress and wasn’t prosecuted. So really kvetching about Clinton at this point is ancient history and water under the bridge.

Again I ask you, point to something concrete which shows Bragg is a political operative instead of an independent DA. I’ll wait.
Hi there ! Dev here, thanks for the feedback. Yes the example in the homepage (https://manifest.build/) generates the DB, Admin panel and REST API, we will adapt if it is not clear.

You asked an interesting question: "should you care about code quality if you use no-code tools?": As a developer, I would say definitely say yes because not understanding your own code (or your team's code) will soon or late lead to issues. If you work on a team with PR validations or similar, how can you validate your teammates' code if the code is unreadable ?
The problem is that there is no material impact due to these issues. The shareholders should absolutely be impacted and the company on the hook for damages
Looking for BETA TESTERS for an app dedicated to open-source
Hi HN,

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Neja
There was no command line at all.
That's a vast oversimplification. Try flipping it to anything outside your personal scope of skills and knowledge to see how wrong this position is.

Example: tap water quality (assuming you live where tap water is safe to drink). Do you know how it works? What steps are being taken? Could you fix that yourself for your house if things break down? And yet, you probably care.

Another example: car safety features. Could you add a crumple zone to an 80s car? A cage construction? Yet you probably care that any car you're in has those properly engineered and no part of your body will be crumpled in case of a collision.
Reminds me of the late 1990s export bans on Intel and Apple products, which they both used in ads demonstrating how powerful they were.

Too band the article didn’t include more justification from the politicians because this reeks of lobbying. I think the legal challenges would stop such a ban almost immediately. Perhaps this legal battle is sorely needed to set precedent.

I’m ambivalent about RV. I see why semi manufacturers like to use it for deeply embedded cores that replace M0.
This figures in the plot of A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
do fractional electrons when perturbed radiate fractional photons?
> diabetics often do better following a ketogenic diet [2]

Your citation is a single case study over a short period of time. It does not support your claim of “often”. This is deceptive citation and undermines your arguments.
Great idea! I need to go through my Decisions list and iterate on it.
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/05/30/ticketmaster-hacker-dema...

“Ticketmaster Hacker Demands $500K Ransom (Plus $300K Ransom Processing Fee, $220K Ransom Handling Fee)”

Whole (joke) article is hilarious.
Electric motors and battery tech are definitely core competencies for Toyota.
Thank you for this. I couldn't agree more about this being busy work. Which there seems to be a lot of in the PM world.

Personally I've found basic shapes and text boxes, or felt markers, infinitely more helpful at getting direct feedback from users.
Can you please share a few of the other 30 highest ROI mental circuits to develop?
Wikipedia: Parachute Cord
Sans the HP, they lack ECC support which automatically puts them in the 'home computer' market.

Why would you use home-grade "servers" when a startup has access to a variety of cheap cloud solutions? What business market segment in a server space would these mini PCs occupy?
:O it me.
Yeah I really wish ollama didn't do that. I tried several ways to make it keep the model in memory like an environment variable but I've so far failed.
I do exactly the same. There are a few situations where you really need to provide your SSN, but outside of those, I tell whoever's asking that I won't provide one. 95% of the time, they're ready for that and will create an ID number for me.

In the few times when someone who doesn't have a legitimate need for my SSN but insists on getting it anyway, I give them Richard Nixon's: 567-68-0515
Wouldn’t the data be worth more than £400k on the black market?
Ah, great point! I may rename that field so it’s more clear.
Thanks!
So many things are lumped into red meat; highly processed meats with nitrates like hotdogs and organic grassfed beef both fit the definition. One is very clearly not healthy (due to nitrates) and the other has health benefits due to nutrients like creatine and b12 that can only be found in beef. I think if they could construct a study where red meat was more strictly defined and compared different types of red meat, that might eliminate some of this noise.
The reason why that happened is quite simple. You are currently accustomed to being in a fed state, and it will take a while to adapt to a fasted state.

Additionally, during the initial period, you may experience issues such as sugar withdrawal, which can lower your performance.

Your body’s cells will need to switch from predominantly using glucose to using ketones and fatty acids. This process can take weeks to months.

The body is able to use both glucose and ketones; this is called being metabolically flexible. This flexibility can be achieved through intermittent fasting.

So give it time.
What does this comment mean? Why is it disheartening? What do regulators have to do with it?
Because there were so many infected machines probing through the entire IPv4 space then.
Disabling file indexing probably goes a long way.
I'm going to have to take another run at learning this corner of computing soon, but it's a prospect I'm not relishing. Everything about it rubs me up the wrong way.

If you'd like an antidote, have a read of Gerald Jay Sussman's books, where you'll see profound concepts from maths and physics captured in succinct and expressive (as opposed to merely terse) code, accompanied by eloquent explanations devoid of boasts or name dropping and provided free of charge online. That will change the way you think about computing too, but it will be a more pleasant experience.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...
Thanks, I thought I was going insane a little bit there :-)
Theoretical solution: train a model on your handwriting. There should be plenty of easy (relatively) to use apps and frameworks for that.

It will take time but you will have a pretty tailored solution.

Also of course: first of all try to process the images so that they only are white and black (not greyscale, actual B/W pictures)
Data science should be banned?
Lots of people in the US don't have SSN's, but are still entitled to medical services. The same is not true for banking.
extremely likely scenario. Hudson tried to write a splashy hit piece and was met with reality.
I was with my wife during her gestational diabetes nutrition session. The diet they recommended was for all intents and purposes a ketogenic diet. The only carbs were from natural sugars in fruits and veggies. They just didn’t push the fat and squeeze the carbs as much as you see in keto enthusiast literature. I have a hypothesis though: the keto community does this as a “failsafe” way to instruct curious people how to experience ketosis for the first time. People practicing keto long term (once they’ve experienced the acute benefits and/or initial weight loss) are almost always landing on their own personal watermark which very likely looks like taking in 60+g of carbs a day in a state of “nutritional” ketosis where there are only slightly elevated levels of keytones (~0.4-1.0 mmol/l) in the blood compared to the level of “therapeutic” ketosis used to treat epilepsy (3.0-5.0 mmol/l).
Everyone’s experience of life is different, so there’s almost no universal advice to begin with.
Buuut it is interesting to read about people’s reasoning, experiences, and their own thought process.
There’s nothing complex about human induced Co2 in the atmosphere. We know what we have to do.
How much of that do you ascribe to genetics?
Sugar calories are not equal to say, calories in nuts. The sugar calories are indeed worse. One reason for this is the caloric energy in nuts are not fully absorbed like with sugar. So even though nuts are energy dense, they won’t cause obesity like sugar.
I try to stick to serverless rather than trying to manage any infrastructure

1) Google App Engine Standard. Datastore for DB.

2) For anything that won’t work with the above, then it’s Google Cloud Run
Beer good. Napster bad.
Just yesterday I mentioned here that I train for (olympic) triathlons [1], and in the context of that and this thread I need to eat much more because I lose significant weight AND, I feel much more nervous if I fast, and I am not a nervous person.

If I am not training I have the capacity to easily fast, not issue at all with fasting, not because I follow any intermittent fasting diet, just it is the way it is. Only sample=1 but I never observed any special enhanced cognition doing that while I observe an enhanced cognition function with very basic things like sleeping well.

One more thing, I also find an improvement in cognition more with running than with swimming or biking. There are many studies about that but I give my personal experience not trying to give any conclusion for everyone. YMMV.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40533944
It is beyond me how you can write these words and not recognize that they are bigoted.

You keep saying, over and over again, that as a broad generalization you simply believe white men are inferior to everyone else. That in itself is a racist and sexist statement - you're asserting that all people of a particular race and gender are inferior, because of their race and gender.

It doesn't matter if you believe this is the case because of some historical occurrence, it's still discriminatory and just as offensive as stereotyping and discriminating against anybody else would be.

It's not good to assume anyone is inferior and in your words "pathetic" because of their race and gender. I can't believe we still have to tell people this in 2024.
Napster was a big part of it, credit where credit is due, but faster networks were the critical ingredient. I was in college at the time and it blew up on campus, but for my friends still in high school on DSL or even still POTS it was far less useful.
Also a good choice. But I’m too brown to drive a Korean car. My mom would not approve!
Still remember the very last day Napster was alive. It was an absolute feeding frenzy as thousands and thousands of people were attempting to download everything they could before it all went away. Napster was, basically, a giant middle finger to the record companies and their control over what got released and their ability to put out albums containing one or two songs people wanted and then stuffed with what ever crap they could shovel into it.

The music business changed that day.
Apple has recommandations in their stores since the beginning, all the way back in 2001 for the iTunes Store.

Apple has ads in Apple News+, which is a terrible thing for something you’re paying for already.

Apple has recommandations in their subscription services of other things on their service. That’s not an ad. That’s a recommandation.

Is there something I’m missing?
That’s true… and it’s perfectly compatible with what I wrote.
More info for those curious https://chatgpt.com/share/b5811213-56ae-4321-925e-c74e2a7dc5...
The vagus nerve: Everything you need to know
> A generation ago everybody's name and address were in the phone book

No they weren't. Most people's were, but a large number of people were willing to pay the $5/mo extortion fee to have their information omitted.
> According to the RIAA’s former CEO, Hilary Rosen, a few months after Napster’s release, the music industry shifted into full panic mode. In February 2000, all major label executives discussed the threat during an RIAA board meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.

> “I will never forget this day. All of the heads of the labels, literally the titans of the music business, were in that room. I had somebody wheel in a PC and put some speakers up and I started doing a name that tune,” Rosen later recalled.

> The major music bosses started to name tracks, including some that weren’t even released yet, and time and again Napster would come up with results. Needless to say, the board was terrified.

They're about to be more terrified. Suno and Udio are just the beginning of the complete unraveling of the need for studio capital.

It's going to happen to Hollywood too.
I like this idea!
I could definitely see running an ML algo to cluster the Reasonings by keywords and then hide the shorter ones, with the assumption that the longer explanations are more in-depth.
Hello ! Manifest dev here

This is a proof of concept only so it sticks to a simple CRUD set of endpoints.

Some of the features that you evoke are already on the pipe (Auth, permissions ABAC/RBAC...) but obviously it will still have limitations for more complex use cases...

I am thinking about a nice hook system to add this kind of logic somewhere else like on edge functions or external APIs. The point is to keep things simple and allow more use-cases without too much trade-off. Hard choices.
I wasn't comparing package formats at all. I only mention RPM to generalize the type of distro.

It was definitely more recent then 12 years ago. Maybe it wasn't mandriva but it was a kde based distro. I prefer KDE and many of the recommended ones are RPM based so recently I tried many of them but their installations were far more limited compared to Linux Mint/Ubuntu/MX and the resulting system didn't feel like something I had much control over.
Show HN: Classic Nokia 3310 Dotmatrix Font based on original firmwares
I'm working on a sideproject and while planning, it forked another sideproject to make the main one authentic enough (it is related to classic cellphones), so I started to make this font.

I found one which is not dotmatrix and another one which is not free, so I built this from scratch, hunted down original Nokia firmwares, extracted the font bitmaps to look as original as possible and also added some extras based on existing glyphs. It was a fun ride.
Pretty much no. Banks in the US are subject to Know Your Customer (KYC) laws that require them to collect a lot of personal information about you to uniquely identify you as an individual and tie you to past behavior and other entities you interact with. SSN is functionally a shortcut to most of this. Everybody has a unique one, and all the entities track you by it, so they can put those pieces together when and if necessary.
The Solopreneur and AI Assistants
AWS for the important stuff: DB, core services

Cloudflare/Vercel for the UI

Increasingly moving the important stuff to Cloudflare
That’s a good explanation of their origin. Ceremonial objects could be preserved and their progenitors lost, due to material reuse, ceremonial objects being well preserved through different storage methods, or something else.

However, usually objects of ceremonial use are also functional, just too expensive for everyone to use. E.g. we would tend to find an especially engraved bowl in ruins of a religious building—-it could still hold soup or beer in a pinch.
For those who haven't heard of or aren't familiar with K, the Wikipedia page[1] has a remarkably helpful brief overview:

> K is a proprietary array processing programming language developed by Arthur Whitney and commercialized by Kx Systems. The language serves as the foundation for kdb+, an in-memory, column-based database, and other related financial products. The language, originally developed in 1993, is a variant of APL and contains elements of Scheme. Advocates of the language emphasize its speed, facility in handling arrays, and expressive syntax.

There was also a great thread on HN about it as well[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493283
Yes, the Romans never called themselves Byzantine and personally I prefer sticking with the term "later Roman," "Eastern Roman", etc. but if you're speaking English with other English speaking people in the US then the term "Byzantine" is all they're going to understand. I collect Roman coins from the Republic, through the Imperial period, Dominate, later Roman, and into the late Eastern Roman stuff, my favorite that I'm working on is the Macedonian dynasty. I just got back from a trip to Istanbul and I was thrilled at seeing the Roman stuff, the Hagia Sophia is incredible, but even there in Istanbul the later Roman stuff was sometimes labelled "Byzantine" in write ups with English text. When I go looking for later Roman coins, I hit the "Byzantine" section. When I want to read more about the history of the Eastern Roman Empire after Constantine, the books I read usually have "Byzantine" or "Byzantium" in the title. While I personally avoid the term, one should be realistic about the world you live in and choose to communicate clearly rather than ideologically. With me, "Roman" is better, but in general parlance, it's not necessarily cut and dry.

I said that the term "Byzantine" is a line drawn in the sand to emphasize that it's an arbitrary term that's not grounded in anything specific, for what it's worth.
ELB with WAF -> Fargate -> RDS
Ground beef wouldn't be usually the best quality, bio or not. Bio category isn't perfect, farmers try to hack around it. We have sometimes really good meat grounded for burgers here in Switzerland, but thats a rare exception.
Good point. I’ve gone back and forth.
I don’t want comfortable sharing to turn into spammming.
> (and in any case would be needed to validate simulations)

No matter how high fidelity a simulation, at the end of the day it is still a simulation. Correlation issues plague almost all rapid computer design processes (looking at you F1)