skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a screenshot years ago where 10/14 of the viewable top headlines on my screen where positive Google discussion. From an advertising perspective it was all earned marketing (satisfied customers speaking highly).

While these situations could be a pg-style astroturf submarine, or they could be satisfied customers (the best kind of advertising), I wouldn't necessarily say fishy (you can look at the satisfied users' previous contributions to make that judgment yourself! :)).

Personally, I've not used Kagi, but I hear positive things from people I trust that use it. So I'll likely try it in the future.
I wouldn't ever want Sonos hearing aids. Universally Sonos units have basic functionality problems such as not reconnecting to Wifi that has gone down and come back up, especially if the Wifi has changed channel during that time.

The "technical" solution is to pull the plug and reboot it (which you can't even do remotely, even if it's connected to Wifi and you want to reboot because Spotify connect on Sonos can be buggy as hell).

I can keep a wifi connection up myself and always reconnect using an esp or similar TI etc module...is it so hard for the Sonos firmware devs to do something so basic?
Isn't this the same thing Chevy did with the Volt?
I'm like you, but I'm interested in solving problems in multiple domains.

One interest, multiple domains. haha
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> Toyota should've been all over this back in 2015.

METI (the Japanese Ministry that develops Japan's R&D strategy) is hesitant about using lithium ion battery technology due to lithium dependency issues and memories about the impact the 1970s oil shock had on Japan [0][1], along with IP issues.

This is why Japan has been pushing it's domestic champions to research Hydrogen Fuel Cells [2] and solid state batteries [3]

This is also the strategy that Toyota adopted [4][5].

[0] - https://www.sojitz.com/history/en/era/05/

[1] - https://www.ide.go.jp/library/English/Publish/Periodicals/De...

[2] - https://www.meti.go.jp/shingikai/enecho/shoene_shinene/suiso...

[3] - https://www.meti.go.jp/english/report/pdf/0520_001a.pdf

[4] - https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/39330548.html

[5] - https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/39330500.html
Ironically, the same reason to care about even very minor misalignment in a powerful AI.
Yahoo directory was largely pay-to-play and very affected by proto-SEOs trying to game the system for direct traffic or PageRank value. Collaborative directories like dmoz.org suffered the same fate before shutting down.
They are not anywhere at that price. The ones europeans tend to get go for $1,806 retail I checked.

I've noticed Americans like to bs their medical costs as bad as the system is, you can't compare some newest luxury devices to what an average person is using all around the world.
If you are saying that people click through certificate warnings then people definitely would just permit whatever script. The number of people who will say "yeah its okay that this is a self-signed cert" and also say "no, I have a strict allowlist of verified scripts from this server that I allow to run" is miniscule.
Just looking at what AI can do with a simple error message should tell you heaps and bounds how much help it could be in analysis for reverse engineering.
The other day my decidedly non-technical accountant was complaining about how (to use his word) “gross” copilot felt with regard to recall tracking everything you do.

I was immediately reminded of the story of Joe Kennedy and the Shoeshine boy:

https://www.pitzlfinancial.com/blog/ode-shoeshine-boy

> As the story goes, Joseph was walking around when he decided to sit down for a shoeshine. While polishing his shoes, the young worker gave Joseph some of his favorite stock picks. When Joseph heard the shoeshine boy giving out stock tips, he figured the party was about to end, and it was time to get out of the market.

Windows has always gotten a healthy dose of derision from the tech community, but now it’s starting to come from people who have never had any reason to care about computers before, beyond the convenience they offer. Now that they do, I am not sure that it’s good for Windows.
> Poor choices during development reveal themselves in many ways: ...

All the examples you provided miss the point. Revenues are the point; all the rest is ancillary at best.
We should feel great that they now have a competent board that will make sure of that.
It's sort of inevitable in crowded situations. My main objection is when there's also loud music when that really isn't the purpose of the gathering.
Tell that to cable companies, sports broadcasts and now streaming services. The one incontrovertible fact of modern society is that ads eat everything else. No other revenue source compares.
Ask HN: What hair on fire problem are you willing to pay for right now?
Ideally something that can be solved with software.
> In my career, I have taken a particular approach based on building new systems from scratch

This is often what I see junior programmers do. The author has some experience, much in research, and I’m curious what they practice here and how effective it has been.

I don’t see poor design as inevitable myself. It can be hard to battle against the tide of developers with good intentions and wrong incentives. All too often we are pushed to accept fast and cheap over good and well done.

Update: spelling/grammar.
> Lombok is an alternative language for the Java platform, and the thing they want to do is modify javac so that it compiles Lombok source (which does not conform to the Java Language Specification) rather than Java source. You are correct that the JDK does not currently wish to offer an API that would allow code, without any special configuration, to change the compiler so that it violates its own specification.

There are many other languages for which nobody would make the argument you just made, because the language has some kind of macro system (or equivalent thereof). Lombok is trying to plug some major gaps in Java’s feature set, and the fact that it exists and is so popular is testament to the fact that the gaps are real. And the “public API” I am talking about would essentially be the missing macro system (or the foundations of one)

> If Lombok were used like all other Java platform languages it would experience no friction.

Because Lombok is trying to be a minimalist extension to Java not a completely different language with very different syntax and semantics.
I guess in listing other milestones, I might have alluded to an ongoing debate? Whether to build new fission reactors or to wait for new fusion tech? My intention was only to indicate the scale of the harm in this particular instance.

However, it’s still tempting for me to respond to this fission-prevents-global-warming claim with my own appraisal. You’re right, it is certain that we’ll still be using fossil fuels. I’ve given up worrying about fossil fuels and global warming. It’s something I can’t do anything about, and I think it will be fine: the people who make the macro decisions decided decades ago that we didn't really need to / weren’t going to risk economic growth by suddenly reducing fossil fuel use as much as the scientists said would be needed. It was really a masterwork: the same political groups eager to go to war in the Middle East and hungry for tax breaks were kept more than eager to keep buying gas, effectively sending their money to the Middle East about once or more a week in many cases. There are some nuances that undermine the reasoning expressed in my last sentence, but I’m sure that those particular nuances weren’t the justification, as much of the public has indicated that they support bombing even Agrabah. [0]

Why didn’t we do enough? Well, lately it has turned out that geo-engineering was taboo only to indicate as an option, not to actually do when the time came. [1] It looks like the plan all along has been geo-engineering, while keeping the public on-edge about that to justify projects like fission plants. Fission research has long been an avenue to develop knowledge essential for nuclear weapons R&D. In the context of international relations and international nuclear treaties, the cover story of saving the planet makes even more sense as an essential. The Secretary of Energy was in Congress just the other day discussing compensation for victims of Manhattan Project radiation [2], a topic which has nothing to do with nuclear energy, unless nuclear energy is sometimes a codeword for nuclear weapons. Fission isn’t really important to stop global warming if we’re just going to implement geo-engineering.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/12/18/agrabah-aladdin-repub...

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2024/05/24/can-g...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/live/Xwx5pLoDXIg?t=66m50s
So we went from "SpinRite rewrites marginal cells" to "reads all the data on SSD hoping SSD firmware to magically fix itself"? aka $80 for dd if=/dev/nvmexxx of=/dev/null
I'm not suer about that, can't you give GPT4 a math problem in an image already and have it solve it correctly most of the time?

And these haven't even been trained to defeat captchas/logic problem captchas yet, if it was fine tuned on the general pattern of them I imagine any form of captcha is bust.
Transport Safety Investigation Bureau Preliminary Findings of SQ321
Also it’s unlikely Kagi will ever become big enough for SEO people to specifically target with manipulative content.

Even if they got 100 million active paying users it’d still be a tiny fraction of overall search traffic.
Fun fact: the Google DeepMind CEO, Dennis Hassabis, was also lead AI programmer on Black & White
My side projects from 2012-2017 cannot be built or ran because of dependencies. My jsbin repo with lots of experiments cannot be ran anymore. But I have the sqlite database.

I forgot to pin dependencies when I was working. It would take a lot of trial and error and effort to get back to where I was. Or I have to rewrite the experiments.

Take lots of screenshots and screen casts to preserve your software!

A screenshots of multiplayer editor that allows transclusion that I can't build anymore.

https://github.com/samsquire/liveinterface?tab=readme-ov-fil...
Autopilot in planes need human supervision.
I just can't stand Ghidra's UI. Trying to get it to look nice, at least on Linux with HiDPI, is such a chore. These Eclipse-y GUIs have aged like milk
Property values dropped by more than 30% [1]. I doubt people are happy that they have a blown up nuke near their house.

https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/223658
Presumably those cars also have a higher profit margin.

In any event, the EU will impose 30%-100% import tariffs to protect their inferior car industry. This will hurt the European consumer and will hurt European competitiveness in the long term, but car companies are important to Germany and France so import taxes are a forgone conclusion.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/chinese-ev-imports-europe-mi...
I'd like to recommend Meta: https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

Great piece of software, that has served me well for years.
This is also how it is for me. My son just turned 2, and I love that I am able to observe him napping between long meetings. I could also have a small chat with my teammates after 5 PM, and sometimes our kids hop into conversation and say hi to each other.
Academic Hoaxes
In my experience kagi is decent, definitely gives more forum results than google. I've found yandex to be the best at finding all kinds of forum /discussion sites.
At the root of all this is a philosophical problem that encompasses all we do: unsustainable growth. We're culturally obsessed with the concept of "more". More value. More money. More features. More, more, more. This is where it gets us: over the verge of ecological catastrophe. Unsustainable systems prone to breakage. Enshittification of everything. Planned obsolescence and yearly phone upgrades, natural resources be damned!

If we are to survive, we need to slow down and instead of making "more" make "better". Follow Unix philosophy. Embrace "good enough" and learn to stop.

Who am I kidding, we're doomed.
I mostly agree with you. However I'm frightened of every step of ease we take. Will people really then go farther to end up understanding what's really going on and become physics engineers, or will the hidden detail be to solid and high a wall, much like modern devices, the app-based world, modern mobile games, etc.

I agree that getting more people in on it can be good, but every simplification scares me. What if that's knowledge we never get back? Who among us
I have a profile, I keep it up to date.
I read and politely reply to messages from recruiters.
I ignore the feeds of crap from my network because they have zero value.

It's a directory not a social media platform.
It uses https://people.cs.vt.edu/~asandu/Software/Kpp/
which is free software !!!
Well said, I agree so much :)
Narration of marketing or educational materials without hiring voice talent. For instance, if an independent developer wants to create a short video that explains key features of their software project. The voice should sound natural enough that the listener doesn't get distracted questioning whether it is real or hear silly mispronunciations.
Careful, someone might use that as an API! https://xkcd.com/1172/
My gut also feels me that intel is currently somewhat undervalued. The times where their CPUs were beaten left and right by AMD are long over. And their fabs give them a heavy strategic advantage over them - especially now that geopolitical tensions are high. Of course neither am I an oracle, nor is the market rational. But this seems off
Have you ever wondered why you don't have to login when you go from photos.google.com to docs.google.com?
I’m aware of that and related to that there is an legal battle ongoing in Germany between an importer and VW[1].

The imported cars fulfill the TÜV and cost less if they are even available here.

1. https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/vw-wants-german-dealer-to-...
You don’t think this wasn’t considered?

Did you take into consideration optimal load efficiencies? What about the total cost of ownership for the energy conversion from ICE?

In 2015, hybrids were already well optimised for the current technology limitations.
Realize you can’t do it all. Prioritize and perhaps put some of those interests as something for later on in life.
Requiring namespaces would break dot call syntax, which is one of Nim’s main features.
Science is corrupted by funding. Scientists are people and people are swayed by influence, power, and politics. Any advice we get has to be understood in that context.

We don't get "great advice" regardless of whether scientists are held accountable.
Happiness arises spontaneously when our desires are sated, whether they be sexual or otherwise. It arises also when our aversions are fended off.

"Desireless-ness is wisdom. The two are not different; they are the same."

- Ramana Maharshi
Dear god, no. I don't even want to think about someone else messing up my library. I think music enthusiasts are very particular about their media and library management.
Write it down.
Ah okay, so that was just the wrong selling point! JWTs can* avoid a database query if the data isn't super important, like if you just want to tack on some session context and aren't worried about invalidating it manually. Session tokens are just a unique ID, there is some value in wrapping up data inside the token like a JWT. That just isn't always suitable.

For authentication and authorization there isn't much benefit, but that doesn't make one right and one wrong. They can be useful in certain author scenarios, like if you're using an external author service.

If the argument here is simply that JWTs aren't a huge benefit in auth, sure that's fine. I just don't agree that that means they should never be used for auth or that they are universally worse for auth in all scenarios and applications.
I believe this approach is called series (or serial?) hybrid and is used by the BMW i3, which was introduced in 2013.
The thing about bullet proof is that nothing is bulletproof when you have a big or fast enough bullet
People with some hearing loss can't hear consonants but vowels can be heard. I think that's why some people may assume they don't have a hearing problem.

My Mother has had poor hearing for decades. She listened to a radio as a kid she held it next to her ear at a loud volume. Now she often says she "can't stand noise" but it's because she can't hear in loud environments anymore due to hear hearing problems. I've noticed she misses the start of a sentences like if I said "I'm going to get some milk" she heard "got some milk" (as in I just got it). Or she interrupts people because she can't hear the first part of someone starting to speak most people tend to speak low at the start of a sentence.
I'll guess about 60L (https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/105488/BYD/SEAL%20U%20ES...)
Why and How I trained MusicGen Songstarter
Yes. Because it's popular and large the Linux kernel has problems where abstractions leak and a subtle implementation detail causes problems because you were supposed to just know that certain APIs don't do quite what it seems like they'd do from the name.

Rust's culture says you must mark abstractions that leak safety as unsafe. If this Rust function named "make_doodad" is labelled safe, it is not OK that I could run it without a doodad_manager, and yet in this case it blows up. Either somehow require me to prove I have a doodad_manager, or, mark it unsafe and document the requirement, or re-design the function so that it checks for a doodad_manager and fails cleanly when one is not present. In some cases you might decide all three are needed: make_doodad_with_manager(&manager) -> Doodad, unsafe make_doodad_unchecked() -> Doodad and make_doodad() -> Result<Doodad,Problem>
"what if I told you, we could hack time."

me: closes YouTube.
I don’t go to bars very often anymore but I absolutely detest live music. I go with friends to talk. Not to have loud music prevent a conversation.
Google will discontinue Cloud Source Repositories
The high market cap explains it I think. The stock is popular but price doesn't reflect the underlying metrics.
I use FastGPT quite often although I’m not a subscriber to Kagi itself. For me it’s everything an AI search engine should be. Here is your answer, and here are a bunch of links to research further. Something that works without making the web obsolete. Not like the walled off garden of OpenAi which often hallucinates links, or Google’s “I through everything at the wall to find what sticks” effort.
After some superficial testing I with bad quality scans you can find on kaggle I can not confirm that. CogVLM2 refuses to handle scans that InternVL-V1.5 still can comprehend.
Questionable at best to consider copyright in this case but not when generating images.
Kagi is simply reselling google search results.
I had a co-worker who rented a small office, close to his home. Because he lives far away from any larger towns he was able to rent an office for $200 per month, but he shares the space with his partner who also works from "home", so it's effectively $100 per person. Our employer paid for the office space, but not for the cleaning, because it was still cheaper than paying for him being at the office every day (we where short on space).

Depending on where you live, and your living situation renting a small office can be really cheap. In my local area I've seen private office rent for as little as $120 per month, but around $200 is more realistic.
Have you tried the Eisenhower method ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...
I proactively schedule 1:1s with junior staff and reach out. I weed out the ones with potential and ones who lack ambition.
Feels like this short article could have included the context that this was the associate (valet, of sorts) for Zhimin Qian the 'crypto queen'.

KiraTV did a video on her : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8zu1622TH4
Some of the better media players and library management tools will allow a delimiter in the Genre field to allow multiple genre tags. Personally, I'm using Roon which lets you set such a delimiter to look for in the genre tag.
- "How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?"

You flail around for a bit and die of old age.
I think we are conflating Loki/VictoriaLogs (the UI, API, and log databases) and LogsQL vs LogQL (the syntax).

> Loki doesn't allow calculating multiple stats in a single query

Victoria's support for projecting multiple stats in one query is nice, with Loki's LogQL you need to write two separate queries.

> Loki doesn't allow queries without stream filters

True! I don't mind filtering for e.g. `{env: "production"}` but each to their own :-)

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RE Loki vs Victoria, which I don't really want to get into since I am not a vendor and have not tried Victoria...

> Loki doesn't allow selecting all the logs on the given time range

True! TBH I don't mind selecting a date from a date picker. One issue is that I guess it's going to be a bit slower to write precise date/time ranges if they're baked into the query language?

> Loki doesn't provide functionality for sorting of the returned logs
> Loki can return only up to 5000 logs from a single query by default

I think these are Grafana UI restrictions -- as I wrote above there are indeed limitations with the Grafana UI, but I don't think they're necessarily syntax related.
I think the technology is fine, but as per usual it's misuse and abuse of the tool that's the problem; why is their policy "throw the person out"? Surely a sane policy would be "if it alerts keep an eye on the individual in the store while still being respectful" ie acknowledging that the system does not have 100% accuracy.

And for anyone that complains about tech being used this way; you're too late, it's already happened, when you apply for a bank account, mortgage, any kind of insurance...the list goes on and they've been profiling people for decades and decades.

It is impossible to prevent facial recognition being used...so laws need to be updated to ensure that the public have fair rights around this tech. But since when did laws or public opinion/understanding ever keep pace with technology?
My "museums designed by blankfaces" series: London Science Museum
I didn't realize this was an active area of research, love this.
I choose to retire earlier than planned rather than return to the office. I retired last August at age 54. I got remarried in October and now spend my days managing a horse farm and restoration of a 1800s farm house which came with my wife. By managing I mean generally getting in the way of and annoying the actual farm manager and our general contractor. It beats commuting and sitting in an office all day.
Storing files on a decentralized network: Enhanced security and privacy
Astronomically is an understatement. If they made 1000 requests per second they might have a 1% chance of revoking a key before the heat death of the universe.

Cracking hashing requires large parallel processing, something you can't do if you're API limited
Ask HN: How can I handle my Gitlab CI process for our WordPress plugin?
As a junior devops engineer, I have been trying to create a docker container for our wordpress and mysql so we would be able to use both on gitlab CI for testing purposes. However, the volume and image makes around 9gb and I am not allowed to put them into our repository either. I was thinking of downloading them from an external source every time we run the pipeline but this just feels wrong. How can I handle gitlab CI pipeline process correctly? I fell like I am doing something very wrong.
Future generations will ask - “why does every packet header have this 2 byte reserved field with a fixed value of 01BB?”
Doesn’t the fact you do use it mean the customer (the one who chooses the vendor) did not care, though?