skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want the ads, but I'd rather see the carefully curated list of creators I care about be able to get paid, and Youtube Music works for me. Youtube Premium is worth it.
I likewise love AppImages and wish more projects used them, but I also love Flatpak. The downside of Flatpak is the overhead it takes to learn what it does, how it works, and how to manage them. If you already know container stuff like docker/podman then it isn't too bad, but it's a non-zero cost and friction.

I think most people don't like AppImages mostly because they don't provide any sandboxing. I think that's a silly reason myself, but I'm also an old, and us olds aren't terrified of using our computers like the youngs seem to be ;-). Though, other OSes are getting sandboxing for applications and Linux needs to not get left behind, so I'm glad it's being solved.

I also think fragmentation is a (valid) reason people dislike AppImage also. It's nothing wrong with AppImage specifically, but that its existence harms adoption of Flatpak by making it easy for people to not use Flatpak. Personally I see them occupying different niches. I use App Images for things like Kdenlive, Logseq, Upscayl, and UHK Agent. Those could all be Flatpaks, but developer effort matters. If devs provide an App Image build I think we should be praising them from the rooftops for caring about Linux!

Another reason is that it clashes with immutable OSes like Fedora Silverblue or SteamOS that are heavily container-based.

What I'd love to see is a tool that takes an App Image and automatically builds it into a Flatpak (possibly with predefined metadata). Flathub could easily be populated this way so that it's easy for developers/distributors to package and ship, but also Flatpak is the standard.
The main reason (imo) would be if you wanted no ads on Mobile without a lot of hassle, and the ability to play audio from youtube with your phone screen off.
> Changed the name of the project from Benthos to “Redpanda Connect”, and prohibited anyone from using the term “Benthos.” https://x.com/emaxerrno/status/1796219957589786810

A complete rebranding suggests that the original OSS project will no longer be managed as its own independent entity. I think that alone gives good reason to fork.
imagine being a medieval peasant conscript and seeing that guy from the first few seconds of the first video charging at you, knowing full well he's from the warrior class and trained his entire life for the job of fighting.

terrifying...
They didn’t shut down Nordstrean before destruction. What you maybe referring to is one of the pipes needed a new engine which the British refused to deliver because of sanction because of the invasion.
The words in the book are true or false, making the author correct or incorrect. The question being posed is whether the output of an LLM has an "author," since it's not authored by a single human in the traditional sense. If so, the LLM is an agent of some kind; if not, it's not.

If you're comparing the output of an LLM to a lexicon, you're agreeing with the person you originally replied to. He's arguing that an LLM is incapable of being true or false because of the manner in which its utterances are created, i.e. not by a mind.
Interestingly the comment you're responding and the article the comment is responding do not mention ads as the problem being solved by de-Googling.

I also think YouTube has gotten worse over time and I'd be happy to find a workable replacement despite being a long time YouTube Premium subscriber. I do use SponsorBlock though as I found supporting creators directly while paying YouTube for serving the content left still getting sponsorship ads as a bit ridiculous. It's a good product, just often intentionally shy of being great in interest of metrics
I don’t mind ads in the videos for creators I enjoy, it pays their bills. There’s a difference between those and YouTube’s ads which the creators don’t get a big percentage of. I can easily fast forward those ads if I want to, anyways.

How do you expect all this content to be made without any sort of money? You’re basically leeching off the rest of us, in this case, IMO.

I hate ads, but right now that’s the only ticket, or paying for premium. Perhaps that will change, I hope.
(1) in particular is something that you can easily contribute to fixing yourself. Organic Maps lets you edit store details from within the app.

Personally, (2) and (3) are the ones that keep me on Google Maps, along with the real killer feature for me which is that I can just search "good {coffee,food,whatever} near me" and get a list of pretty good recommendations.
Should we tell them about fidonet too?
I saw that, very excited for it and hope it lands soon!
Anecdotally, this worked on for me. It's not a great improvement, but it was noticeable.
snowflake has released a handful of statements and articles. giving attention to the ad would only be promoting it. unlikely to be allowed.
Command line tools are cool for me. I just need better documentation on the behavior of the CLIs and exactly what they do without having to dive into the source code. One reason I’ve held off is because I’m not familiar with C++. Hoping to fix that over the summer
Is there any hard data on how much a machine impacts muscle growth/flexibility/whatever vs free weights?

I agree that free weights are probably better overall, but would love if that were quantified somehow.
> It's surprising to me that people would want to make a major financial decision like a car without knowing about its reliability history.

Some people will always be surprising, but it is pretty clear that the pickup truck is the most purchased type of vehicle (in North America) exactly because they have a much better reliability track record as compared to most cars. This idea doesn't escape the typical buyer.
I think about Clarice's character growth a lot as well, I was just bringing up the sexism stuff because I thought it was relevant to the article.

Clarice's character growth is (brilliantly) almost spoiled by the movie's title; the lambs screaming in her head symbolize a sense of failure and guilt that she's carried for her entire life; stopping Buffalo Bill, if only for a moment, made the metaphorical lambs silent.

I got pretty bored with the TV show, it just kind of kept going. It also felt like they kept acting Will Graham like had a superpower just because he had empathy for serial killers? My wife and I got almost exactly halfway through the series, and eventually I asked her "do we really want to keep watching this?" and she said "nope" and we turned on something else.

Also, I'm pretty annoyed that they decided to double-down on Hannibal's samurai origin story from Hannibal Rising, which I thought was pretty dumb.
To be fair, whether or not the cheaper version would do the same job is also not known in advance. There's also the fuzzy edges of what it means to "do the same job". All chairs ostensibly "do the same job" of providing you somewhere to sit. But there's variance there.

Just like all turing complete programming languages do "the same job" at some level. But we'd all be more productive in your choice of high level language over any processor-specific assembler.

Then it becomes a matter of asking when does it transition between appropriate and luxury. Which grain of sand makes the pile?
this is simply unacceptable
> The ads are insane.

The ads are indeed insane. They break YouTube in practice. YouTube, in its wisdom, much like a mobster in the protection racket, offers you an out: pay for Premium. I ended up doing this because YT is one of the things I use the most. The alternative was having Firefox with uBlock Origin on every mobile device in my household, I suppose, but this wasn't feasible.

YouTube Premium took the win :(

> I just can't see how this model is sustainable. I don't want to waste time watching videos that could have been a short paragraph

Depends on what you're watching. I always disliked, say, programming tutorials in video form -- give me text, to read and understand at my own pace. Many video tutorials are unnecessarily longwinded and always go at the wrong pace for me, either too fast or too slow.

But I watch tons of videos about other topics where video is the right form. I watch hobby tutorials, I watch videos about cinema/art, etc, and I feel video is the right format for me.
What The Pentagon is doing to arm Taiwan
EDIT: actually not ZModem, but it supports X/YModem -- source code, despite the comment at its beginning, finally says "Sorry, zModem not available yet"

yes and also X/Ymodem, see source code: https://elixir.bootlin.com/u-boot/latest/source/common/xyzMo...

extremely useful feature (I used xmodem in the past, if I remember well)
Aside all things stated that are wrong from security perspective - how about limit the qty and rate any such support account has access to? Breaching an account shouldn't give you access to dump everything out the gate. Even if that is the case, where are other measures alerting there's a stream of egress going on? This sounds like systemic issue which most certs are all about.
In the video that shows the stolen tools in the warehouse, there are hardly any Ryobi tools (HomeDepot's cheap tool brand). This is in stark contrast to many of the recent woodworking videos on Youtube that feature craftspeople using Ryobi tools (without explicitly mentioning an HD sponsorship). The thieves know a good tool, and HD is trying to fool the rest of us that their Ryobi tools are any good.
For what it's worth, both Apple Maps and Bing Maps now have street-view like features, at least in my neck of the woods (Canada).
It depends on how many clicks it will take and whether it needs some additional manual input.

If it is just one click, then most might actually do it. But I would not hold my breath.
My condolences, SCLC is rough. Sadly, it is different than large-cell, and the mutations are different.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038650/
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Yeah, and like I said, the jury was probably correct given the way the charges were structured.

That doesn't make these novel charges legitimate, and it doesn't mean they'll survive appeal.

From https://time.com/6983196/donald-trump-convicted-hush-money-t...

From the moment Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced charges against Trump more than one year ago, people doubted his unconventional strategy.

“It cheapens the term election interference to call this election interference,” says Richard Hasen, a professor of law at UCLA. Jed Shugerman, a law professor at Boston University, called the case “an embarrassment” that pushed the boundaries of prosecutorial ethics.

It is not illegal to pay someone “hush money.” On its face, Bragg’s evidence pointed to 34 misdemeanor counts of falsifying business records, for all of which the statute of limitations had passed. Bragg’s novel approach bumped each of those misdemeanors up to first-degree felony charges by alleging they were all committed to bolster another crime related to violating election laws, but Bragg didn’t have to prove that second crime.
This is a neat trick and all, but if you could find the Duo Dock, it has a SCSI port on it to connect a second hard drive.
Maybe they don’t advertise AirTags as antitheft, but this Apple Ad had the owners sleuthing after laptop thieves via Apple device tracking

https://youtu.be/asKvPLmjxXY?si=bkHzT42gSzhjDWqE
California approves community solar program backed by utilities
One of the things about LLM-based AI that concerns me the most is realizing that the average person doesn’t understand that they hallucinate (or even what hallucination is).

I was listening to a debate on a podcast a while ago and one of the debaters kept saying, “Well, according to ChatGPT, […]”—it was incredibly difficult listening to her repeatedly use ChatGPT as her source. It was obvious she genuinely believed ChatGPT was reliable, and frankly, I don’t blame her, because when LLM’s hallucinate, they do so confidently.
From the screenshot after the picture of the battery and a picture of a circuit diagram, we can see that the fax software is from Global Village ("GlobalFax PowerPort/Mercury Duo", probably v2.5)

GlobalFax had a terminal emulator app included, most likely ZTerm, in this case.

from https://tagn.wordpress.com/2023/09/10/tech-support-at-the-vi...:

" the absolute garbage terminal emulator software we were including in the box.

And I set about pestering Rick to get somebody to Dave Alverson’s ZTerm terminal emulator app bundled with our modems because it was light and easy and supported the ZModem file transfer protocol which "

So the user could have likely run ZTerm to transfer the files.
It's a cardboard alien/monster trope.

Flipping the gimmick isn't complexity of character. It's a sly dig at Catholcisi though.
Turbotax and other like companies lobby for more complex tax law and to restrict access to government services that would assist citizens with filing taxes. The more complex the tax code is, the more people need Turbotax. It is not a healthy dynamic. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/turbotax-lobbies-lawmakers-t...
> You’ll immediately stop being charged for storage

The effect of lifecycle rules is not immediate: they get applied in a once-per-day batch job, so the removal is not immediate.
OP and I are very similar lol. I bought a Pixel 7 Pro on eBay specifically so I could use Graphene (screw buying new; used is good for the planet and it doesn't give money to Google). So far, I have been loving it!

Also switched to Organic Maps, but still use Google Maps for finding businesses/hours. Organic Maps is nice, but searching for directions is awful (at least in my South Florida area). Typing in any address tends to return results that only show the name of the street, and they're all identical. E.g. just a bunch of "Southwest 123rd Street, Florida", no house number or anything useful to distinguish them. Often times I'm forced to use Google Maps. This is currently the hardest Google service to quit for me.

I went from DDG to Kagi, and stuck with Kagi because of the superior results. Luckily I got in early, and have an early adopter plan. It's a shame they can't offer better pricing though because it really is a superior service. Recently I've had some privacy concerns that have made me a bit skeptical of Kagi, but it's hard for me to go back to DDG or even Google now. It's just that good.

For files I use Nextcloud exclusively. While it is slow and bloated as hell, I like it because I share the instance with family members, and it's easier for non-techie people to use it. It's also possible to mount it as a network drive using WebDAV so you can skip the bloated web interface. It works very well for me on KDE Dolphin.

For email I use ProtonMail with custom domain too. They're overpriced and overrated, but it's too much work for me to switch at this point, and their app isn't that bad. I would recommend FastMail to anyone looking for a new email provider though.

For YouTube, I use FreeTube. It's basically just a custom front end l. No ads, no spyware. Sure, I deprive creators of ad revenue, but that's a good thing. The less money they make on YouTube, the more likely they are to post on different services. I haven't heard of Nebula before, so I'll definitely be checking that out.
I mind all ads. They rob you of your most precious and nonrenewable resource without consent.

Ads are cancer and should be excised at every opportunity. Ad companies should be destroyed. Ad tech workers should be blackballed. Shilling is shameful.
>Part of the problem here is that Facebook (though in fairness, they are not unique here) has left this traditional path of escalation void, leaving only fake numbers.

Frankly it's absurd to me that it's legal to do so. Any public facing company that is sufficiently large should be required by law to operate a phone service where you can talk to a real human being.

All of these huge mega corps are run with absolute impunity and there is often absolutely 0 avenue for regular everyday people to get in touch when they have issues. They direct you in these endless loops to FAQ's and "Community Resources"; even getting an email address is like getting blood from stone sometimes.
Sideloaded the latest and greatest YouTube++/uYou/uYouPlus/(currently uYouEnhanced) on my iPhone and re-sign it weekly with AltStore, Trollstore, or use a jailbroken equivalent on a device that managed to stay jailbroken.

There’s a few other new options I’ve seen through Reddit for web viewing, iOS content blockers, or hosting your own VPS invidious/piped instance with rotating ipv6 servers (not google/aws/digital ocean as they require using a web panel).

You can leave ads on for whitelisted creators sponsored advertising content also.
> The tone threw people off.

That a group that contains Linus Torvalds is policing tone is hilariously tone deaf.
Literally this. One thing both Apple and Windows have that Linux does not is, every software has an easy universal package for their respective platform. For Linux if its even in your main package manager its like whatever was "stable" in 2022 or whenever the last major version of Debian / Ubuntu came out, and that's all you get. It's annoying to no end. I now just download AppImage every chance I get.
I see. Usually when working for the US from Canada what happens is you are treated like a contractor (which has some complexities), or hired through a PEO or the US company opens an office in Canada
Why do you feel the need to arbitrarily ascribe some ideology to random people based on one comment? I'm not "techno-utopian" in any sense of the word; I believe that the current AI development is highly risky and that we need to take careful measures such that society at large is prepared for the changes it may bring.

The "wide range of opinions" I see on HN are largely misinformed: they either lack the necessary technical understanding of current LLMs or are attempting to spin up some crackpot philosophical distinctions lacking in any rigor or consistency. I've never claimed that LLMs are perfect and I'd love to discuss their flaws! Believe it or not, that's why I continue to read these threads - to find genuinely informed takes contradicting my own.

Most people outside of tech tend to have no bias against or for LLMs, which gives them a leg up in finding consistent opinions about their capabilities. They tend to inform themselves with an open mind, which allows them to put things into context. Tech people have an immediate negative bias, because the implication of any system being able to write even a single line of code is an immediate intellectual threat. Therefore, things are interpreted maximally negatively.

For example, all of the talking points you mentioned are completely irrelevant unless interpreted with maximal negative bias:

- Text prediction is a general problem, being good at it requires understanding, reasoning and any other intellectual property you believe to be unique to humans.

- Every single system in existence is highly dependent on the data it uses to model the world, humans are no exception to this.

- The enormity of data required by any modern LLM is massively dwarfed by the enormity of data that was required by evolution and human civilization to get to this point.

- The energy requirements of modern LLMs are environmentally irrelevant when compared to literally any industry in either manufacturing, transportation or entertainment. We justify immensely more environmental damage for far less utility every single day.

After the giant media carousel last year, most people know what an LLM is, and the intuitive understanding they built from that reporting is way more accurate than what I have seen here. I have asked relatives and even acquaintances about just that. And as I have stated in my comment, their understanding is vastly better than that of HN.
You can direct boot a local kernel with qemu:

qemu-kvm -kernel /path/to/your/bzImage ...
> Despite all the rhetoric, Trump has a pretty good track record to the average american. Wars ending, dollar a gallon gas. In contrast, Biden doesn't look too good. Wars starting, groceries going up weekly. We can say what is who's fault and what is out of their control and whatever, that is just noise to all but decided voters.

Voters are able to assign fault to some degree, or they'd also assign "global pandemic starting" to Trump's record.
Engineered Circulatory Systems May Help Fight Disease
Thanks! That all makes perfect sense…
Although this author seems pretty reasonable with regards to actual privacy (preferring self-hosted software), I find the popular echo chamber of "avoid Google, they steal your data" quite misguided.

Yes, Google accumulates data and does stuff with it. But Google also has rigorous processes to lock down data and access to it, unlike virtually any small-to-medium cloud software provider. I've heard crazy stories like people looking up their friends' health insurance details for fun, just because almost everyone in the engineering part of that company had access to the production database.

Plus, Google is so large that it constantly receives attention by public institutions, which makes it harder to pull off shady stuff without getting caught. If <random SME> sells your data to the highest bidder who will spam you with cold calls, no one's gonna bat an eye.
And Sherlock.
> It's offering support for the claim that LLMs hallucinate 100% of the time, even when their hallucinations happen to be true.

Well this makes the term "hallucinate" completely useless for any sort of distinction. The word then becomes nothing more than a disparaging term for an LLM.
HN is not a replacement for Reddit in general though.

Reddit is a collection of forums/communities with wildly varying topics. HN is just one specific forum.

Some of the worst behaviors that are common in many Reddit subs are discouraged here in HN, and for that I'm thankful. But the topics aren't the same, so one cannot replace the other in general.
It’s not optimal for that purpose due to the anti-stalking features, but it’s better than nothing.
Google Domains was sold to squarespace. Your domain will be migrated soon/already has been. Check your inbox.

> Your Google domain has been migrated to your Squarespace Domains account.
You can now log in at Squarespace Domains with your Google account to manage your domain, example.org. This is part of Squarespace's acquisition of all domain registrations and customer accounts from Google Domains.
More and more content creators are just embedding them directly into their videos. Either by just mentioning sponsor names in the flow of what they are talking about, or doing little sidebars where they talk about/promote their sponsors.

I don't mind these so much because they are easy to skip, but ad-blockers don't catch them.
Imagine if data bricks switched and just started to contribute to this.

I live in a dream world :)