skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So just yesterday I'm reading here about the Google "Kids Watch" and how its benefit it that kids "don't need a phone anymore".

Now I see this and I can't help but think some Google lobbyist authored a bill (this absolutely does happen), handed it to a staffer in New York and now we're getting a bill that says parents have to buy their kid a Google Kids Watch (since you want your kids location but they cant have a "smart phone").

I didn't get why Google would make such a product and why in the world parents would ever trust Google with a kids product.. but seeing this article it all makes sense. I knew it had to be some kind of gambit but I didn't immediately see how. Now I think I do.

"Kathy Hochul pushes online child safety, telling social media companies: ‘You’re not going to profit off the mental health of children’"

Of course the governor of NY is basically wrapping herself in the American flag, putting her hand on a bible and protecting our children ...

Now with this, kiddos are gong to cut their teeth using the Android ecosystem. When it does come time to get them a smart phone, what kind do you think its going to be? Of course the kids watch is going to have some kind of ecosystem the parents will get deeper in with pic storage, calendars, location tracking etc.

First, buy a law that says kids cant have iPhones. Second, produce a watch that placates the parents/politicians thats not a smart phone. Third, sleep walk the kids and family into a new ecosystem. Fourth, in a few years as the kid matures you get to sell them Google Phones in the Google Ecosystem. Fifth, cast yourself as a concerned company with a genuine concern for the wellbeing of America's Children.

I don't know whether I want to go buy Alphabet shares or go outside and yell at the sky about what a corrupt world we live in.

$10 says some rudimentary social network product will soon follow. Who doesn't want a more fun way to play hide-and-go-seek? Gotta know who your friends are so we can invite them to the game etc.
For me, the big thing Firefox needs is better power management.

Mac user here, and streaming video or doing a video call just kills my battery compared to Chrome or Safari.

Would love to see more focus on energy consumption optimization.
What does sales have to do with what you're claiming? Please share the course and or examples of it being done well without requiring that excessive context, so that there's something to support your claim.
Is this a serious question?

The relentless increases in insurance, property taxes, food, clothing, etc have destroyed the purchasing power of all but the wealthiest Americans. Almost everyone is significantly worse off than they were only a few short years ago.

The real question is: why is the media trying to gaslight the public into believing there is something wrong with you if you think the economy is bad.
(Not OP) We tried launching a book club at one of our previous companies, where we were told "no worries, take your time to read a chapter a week and take an hour to talk about it.

While in theory, everybody thought it's a good idea, not everyone had time to read it, and when it came down to it, everybody just preferred to work on their regular tasks. In the end, nobody wants to risk delaying a promised deadline because of a book club.

So it all fizzled out within a month...
> The best practices are the ones that allow you to do business and where the maintenance work is relatively not too painful considering the budgeted development time.

the problem is even that in concrete terms can be controversial. everyone wants to minimize maintenance work; not everyone agrees on what kind of code will achieve that.
This is fascinating to me. I grew up in a very impoverished family and that has clearly shaped my relationship with money. I tend to resent it, or more correctly, I resent that it rules my life and I try to arrange things so I have to deal with it as little as possible.

Financial safety has never really been a huge deal with me because I know that I can live on almost nothing, and I know that money and how happy I am in life are not correlated. That means that I've taken risks that others wouldn't have taken because I don't see them as very risky. Sometimes, those have paid off.
Is anybody currently using Sidebery who could comment on how the Firefox "Tab grouping, Vertical tabs, and sidebar" compare?
It's the same "make it work; make it right; make it fast". The issue is that Scrum has emphasized the first one at the expanse of the other two. Minor changes over the lifetime of the project snowball into an inconsistent and complicated codebase. No time is given to reflect on the project and each module to refactor it into something sane every once in a while. It's all about velocity instead of maintainability, correctness, and performance. The craftsman in you will certainly react to that.
You missed the actual downside of this only works if there is no mutations in the background from other clients/processes making your cache stale.
AI-directed drones could help find lost hikers faster
New Streaming Service Lets Viewers Create Their Own Shows Using AI
Most members of the analytic number theory book club were computer programmers in one form or another. A few among them had very strong background in mathematics, especially in elementary number theory and complex analysis. But nobody had any prior knowledge of analytic number theory.

The pace was not an issue for me because we used to go really slow. We read every line of the book together, ensuring we understood each argument before moving to the next one. As the meeting host, I came prepared for the meetings and spent a lot of time illustrating proofs with additional details, perspectives, and examples (see https://offbeat.cc/iant/boards/ for notes).

This approach suited me well, as I need time to digest new mathematical concepts and form intuition around them. I hope it worked for others, but we didn't survey participants, so I can't say for sure.

Sometimes we picked some exercise problems, solved them, and walked through the solutions during the meetings. But most exercises were done offline by the participants in their own time.

I have written a lot more about the learning experience here: https://susam.net/one-hundred-meetings.html
Stated positively - 10mb loaded in 400ms

That's ~10 minutes with ISDN.
The one gotcha with optimizing for “readability” is that at least to some extent it’s a metric that is in the eye of the beholder. Over the years I’ve seen far too many wars over readability during code review when really people were arguing about what seemed readable *to them*
This is what I thought reading the article. To be fair, before reading the article I was expecting to find zero disrupted activities related with the west and its allies, but the fact that they disrupted that AI usage by Israel was a good surprise. However, I really doubt that US does not do the same, spreading propaganda in Internet, based on the fact that they employ and finance several radios, and newspapers around the globe with this purpose (ex: Radio Free Asia). Giving how the US government and tech companies are close, with backdoors planted in CISCO routers, and information collected from social media, I find hard to believe that OpenAI or any other US-based company is trusted to report and disrupt activities like these when performed by US government, or perhaps some closer allies.
If it's easy, then there's probably not a lot of value in doing it either.
Phones with SMS and voice call functionality only, for safety purposes.

Good!

I'm hard pressed to enunciate an argument for why having social media during a school day, at school, is beneficial to early childhood development.

>> “I have seen these addictive algorithms pull in young people, literally capture them and make them prisoners in a space where they are cut off from human connection, social interaction and normal classroom activity,” [New York governor, Kathy Hochul] said.

>> “These addictive algorithms have been used against young people since 2011,” Hochul said. “If [social media companies] were going to self-police and manage this themselves, what has stopped them thus far? Clearly as a government, we need to step in.”
No, this is a 2024 translation into English from Russian. The original is at https://archive.org/details/20220910_perelman_geometry/
messed up? you billed hours the whole time!
This is the easiest and safer bet
Has anyone publicly confronted/asked Elon about Strategic Defense Initiative?

I can't find him _ever_ touching the subject, which is strange given it's huge significance.
ok solved, this is actually the usage so you have used 0 of 300 points. i will fix the ui to make this easier to understand
Ah, it's a value-add compared to other engines that keep the app in memory, got it!
Yep. That tree is an hour a bit away from where I live, in Atlanta Georgia :-)
A New Philosophy of Productivity
I really want that first large image as a poster, even though part of me flinches every time I read it and see "dichotomy" as one of three items...
Showrunner (from the people that made South Park episode generator)
I can steal food.

while I can also steal medicine, I don't have the expertise as a doctor or pharmacist, so I'm limited to self-diagnosis and pre-packaged medicines.
Responsibly disclosing security issues is paramount to software security. See https://pidgin.im/about/security/advisories/ for a full break down.

That said, the vulnerabilities in "libpurple" were way over hyped by someone who rightfully got kicked out of the security community. Most of those vulnerabilities were in fact in protocol implementations that are plug-ins to libpurple and not libpurple itself. I know it's a technicality, but hearing this blatant lie get repeated for over a decade is exhausting.
Cool project! Also it's welcome resource to learn, since I just started learning Go and was trying myself at an RSS reader (https://stille.app).
Can you demonstrate that this system will be implemented in a manner where the taxpayer will receive a less favorable outcome than they would've filling out forms themselves?

The IRS has all of your financial data from various forms, why would they make your outcome less favorable? Their job is to enforce the tax code, not write it, nor collect more taxes than would otherwise be due.
Yeah I've had so many problems with understanding and working with other people's code bases when the person was obsessed with DRY.

You wrote that code 4 years ago with tons of abstractions designed for some day someone not having to repeat themselves... but it's been years and they've never been useful. However I've had to dig through a dozen files to make the change I needed to make which by all rights should have been entirely contained in a few lines.

My most common reaction to a new codebase is "where the hell does anything actually get done" because of silly over-abstraction which aspires to, one day, save a developer five minutes or three lines of copied code.
It's interesting that [1] has a diagram showing that in 2022 the NASA diagram claimed that stars & galaxies formed 400M years ago so this feels like a big shift to having a massive galaxy already at 300M with data suggesting it's formed after several generations of stars.

> All of these observations, together, tell us that JADES-GS-z14-0 is not like the types of galaxies that have been predicted by theoretical models and computer simulations to exist in the very early universe

This is exciting. Maybe our understanding of the Big Bang is extremely flawed & this data is just the first inklings that we have to reimagine what we know about it?
A 2m x 1m sheet of aluminium costs something like $10 per kg and weighs 16kg. Not so sure about the weight to be fair.
Trademarks are more nuanced than you are relaying here.

Groq, in arguing that their mark is different from "grok" (at the USPTO) is because one cannot trademark common words. They are applying for plain marks (without font/color/logo) and this is very normal. I went through this with a proper name trademark

In the Groq vs Grok, they are arguing that the average person will confuse the marks (as can be seen in many HN posts about Groq, like this one). Their argument is that Grok should not be given a trademark beforehand due to this potential confusion. They can also take the case to court should the trademark be granted. Given the common confusion, Groq appears to have good standing to make this argument.

To call someone defending their own trademarks "bullying" is inaccurate
I would argue that >90dB measured inside apartments for weeks on end 24/7 isn’t peaceful.
I’m highlighting the irony of your first comment. It’d make a great tweet.
> Intuitive privacy settings that deliver all the power of our world-class anti-tracking technologies in a simplified, easy-to-understand way.

> More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker.

Stop it. Gnome-ification is incredibly user hostile. Almost every time folks "simplify" a UI, they actually make it far more complicated instead.

If your users now have to use dconf or userChrome.css to do the things they are accustomed to doing, you have not simplified anything.
This kills the joke… :-)
Better link, sorry: https://www.showrunner.xyz/
What is going on? You post a comment that is completely irrelevant to your link.

I wonder how many people think your comment is a source for your claims.

>That's a complex question with no clear answer.

Yes, this is corruption. Lack of transparency is a benefit to the stronger powers.

> How do the accountants allocate overhead and other indirect costs besides resident wages?

They get to write off indirect expenses in taxes AND get tax dollars. Its even worse than it appears.
When I install on-prem always-on graphics and interaction servers as part of permanent architectural installations, I use Win 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC for this reason - it allows me to only apply critical security (no features) updates, and to schedule them at a time when downtime due to issues with the update are not likely to be disruptive.

Edit to mention I always make sure these machines are on a VLAN alone and properly firewalled, as we are deferring patches for sometimes weeks after they come out.
Zipper: A Multi-Tower Decoder Architecture for Fusing Modalities
> $10 says some rudimentary social network product will soon follow

Text: it worked just fine.

The only difference is that it didn't have UI and UX stickiness to glue people to screens.

Sometimes simpler is better.
The Textbooks Were Wrong About How Your Tongue Works
I don't know where you got that from. It seems easily possible that both of the following are true:

1. There was reporting and online discussion that sama was fired from YC. pg didn't believe this framing was correct and sent out his tweet to correct the record.

2. Toner made some very specific allegations about instances where sama was not truthful to the OpenAI board, especially with respect to instances of self-dealing.

If #1 is true (and I see no reason to believe it's not), that in no way implies #2 is false.
Authorized Heretics
I lost my mom to cancer when I was 17. She fought with it for 6.5 years prior. Even knowing it was coming it was devastating. 24 years later I still miss her, I'm sure I always will. It hurts knowing that I'm now older than she was when she passed.

When it happened it was the worst emotional pain I had experienced, it does get better in time. Your feelings are valid. You don't have to feel whatever anyone else thinks you should feel. It feels cliche that it gets better in time, in my experience tho it does. I'm sorry your dad and family is going thru that. Oddly I found Cyberpunk 2077 to be therapeutic on coming to terms with that situation. In the game you play a character who essentially has a terminal disease, there are a lot of moments in the game that rang very true to the emotions I experienced.

When your dad eventually departs, you are allowed to feel anything. I have been the type to laugh at a funeral remembering something funny the departed said or did. If you feel like crying that's ok too.
How I Write: I tell everything in an in-depth video interview
So you have duckdb running on the server (e.g. node.js) and duckdb-wasm running on the client? Or are you hitting S3 directly with duckdb-wasm?
I think most technology companies should have that, and I've been promoting that workplaces.

The trick to make it sustainable is to make at 3-month calendar of covered papers from multiple sub-areas (e.g. data management to machine learning, new programming languages to compiler topics) and share that widely. Not every topic is relevant to everyone, so naturally each topics will only attract a subset of the crowd beyond a small number of open-minded champions, but that's okay.
https://archive.ph/51utw
I have been a MacBook Pro user since about 2002.

With the poor quality of my last two keyboards, and the inability to repair them, I have decided my next laptop will be some sort of FOSS solution based on something like a Framework Computer or System76.

I'll really miss OmniGraffle - one of the few proprietary programs whose license generally allows reverse engineering.
thanks, just confirmed can create Signals via the API now :) Look forward to trying this out
Anyone know the algorithmic approach to finding this? I assume they ran an ML over the dataset with a search function to figure it out.
Well you may feel it is useless, the just switch OS is becoming increasingly efficient
25 a day.
Maybe in some cases but certainly not for systemically important platforms, as OpenAI aspires to be.

Google and Microsoft don't just throw up their hands at the threat of nation-state actors; doing so would be hugely irresponsible.
Your most precious resource is time. I'm really glad of the time I invested in Python, node, TypeScript, Virtualisation and Serverless.

I'm less happy about the time I wasted on bash, DOOM WADs, and Desktop Linux. Yes these are are all a while ago. I didn't invest my time wisely when I was young.

I'm also glad I didn't invest in GraphQL, Kubernetes, Angular, Solaris, and perl.
Great link. Next Platform in general has great coverage, imo.

I like how they do indeed quickly dive into: isn't it weird there's another fabric being made, when CXL is supposed to be arriving any day now? Ethernet (UALink) vs PCI (CXL) forever & ever, perhaps!

What's kind of weird/interesting is that it sounds like originally the idea to scale out Infinity Fabric was going to be on PCIe switch hardware, and this sounds like a bit of a pivot to using Layer 1 (which doesn't cover much!) Ethernet:

> The kernel of the Ultra Accelerator Link consortium was planted last December when CPU and GPU maker AMD and PCI-Express switch maker Broadcom said that the xGMI and Infinity Fabric protocols used to link its Instinct GPU memories to each other and also to the memories of CPU hosts using the load/store memory semantics of NUMA links for CPUs would be supported on future PCI-Express switches from Broadcom.

But now using Ethernet signaling. Cool future though:

> AMD is contributing the much broader Infinity Fabric shared memory protocol as well as the more limited and GPU-specific xGMI, to the UALink effort, and all of the other players are agreeing to use Infinity Fabric as the standard protocol for accelerator interconnects.

The notion that HyperTransport-next is back again as an industry wide accelerator is kind of sweet! (I'm assuming Infinity Fabric is largely an incremental update but for all we know it might be all new?)
> Then there are the equally useless "just switch OSes!" arguments

There is a reason Windows has almost completely lost the "batch" professional desktop market. Same reason my old company developed industrial/CAD desktop software ... for Linux ... on Windows laptops (with Enterprise edition, of course) .

Microsoft no longer cares about you or your usecase. What are you going to do ? If you enter a cat and mouse game with MS (pirating, registry tricks, whatever), you will lose.
Really incredible that it can be so easy to abstract where compute happens with Erlang.
Exit Valley Episode 1 on Showrunner
Haha, I would have told him ahead of time, but only learned of the reason at the party, after he had packed up his apartment and signed a new lease.
Somehow the bot problem got much worse since Elon took the helm.
Probably, but it's hard to predict what kind of negotiations the judges do to come to specific outcomes. SCOTUS isn't an apolitical body despite how it would like to be viewed, both in terms of the idealogical bent of the court AND the horse trading that naturally happens because these are colleagues who have to work repeatedly over a long period of time.
I’m confused about where this assumption that there is or will be a bill that mandates the purchase of a Google Watch is coming from.

This whole essay you wrote is taking that conclusion jump and rolling straight into the worst case scenario.
Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time
I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer any questions.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02206-6
> Then there are the equally useless "just switch OSes!" arguments.

That's probably by far the most useful solution. It may be obvious and annoying to hear over and over, but we only nag you because we love you. Friends don't let friends be abused by Windows.
The short answer is that you cannot simply create a passionate and involved community overnight. This development must be mostly organic, starting with community and open-source contributions from the beginning. While it's possible to initiate this process now, building a deeply engaged community typically requires a gradual and natural evolution over time. It's not something that can be switched on instantly.
I personally measured over 90dB in a friend’s apartment downtown. NIOSH recommends exposure to levels above 90dB for less than 30 minutes per (work) day. She said it was that loud 24/7, and I believe that.

If you have some evidence that it’s safe to listen to sound levels above 90dB for extended periods of time, I’d recommend you publish it.
> was a lot of words about nothing

It's worth remembering that just because you can't make sense of something, it doesn't mean there isn't sense to be had. Software engineers seem particularly prone to forget about that.
On the other hand, how is Sotomayor ever going to write another majority opinion without a case like this
> Mac user here, and streaming video or doing a video call just kills my battery compared to Chrome or Safari.

Is it not using hardware acceleration or something?
Yeah, here's the quote from the later editions addressing this:

> Let’s get something out of the way up-front. In the first edition of this book we did a poor job of explaining just what we meant by Don’t Repeat Yourself. Many people took it to refer to code only: they thought that DRY means “don’t copy-and-paste lines of source.”
That is part of DRY, but it’s a tiny and fairly trivial part.

> DRY is about the duplication of knowledge, of intent. It’s about expressing the same thing in two different places, possibly in two totally different ways.

> Here’s the acid test: when some single facet of the code has to change, do you find yourself making that change in multiple places, and in multiple different formats? Do you have to change code and documentation, or a database schema and a structure that holds it, or...? If so, your code isn’t DRY.