skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm not sure why this Wikipedia link was submitted without question/comment...

This is one of my pet peeves. I wish OP (in general) would comment as to why they're posting, what they found interesting. I don't flag these posts, but they do sometimes feel like a lazy karma-grab.
Swiss Startup Sets Out to Develop the First Living Processor
Yes, but Vanguard is very large and has a significant interest in the success of Tesla. This certainly wasn't a decision they took lightly and their vote in favor of Musk shows that they have a significant amount of trust in him.
Tesla investor suit: Elon Musk harmed carmaker by founding rival company, xAI
There is no "first charge of the day". The only first charge is the one following a power failure of the grid. During billing rollover, the charger's battery is powered up from yesterday's power.
Every person should have a right to consciously take responsibility over their own device and program it the way they see fit without asking anybody, based on their own judgement of how qualified they are. Unless only they are objectively disabled and obviously incapable of doing a sufficiently good job (maybe a child or a mentally senile senior).
Ahh, this takes me back.

I started my career around the .com boom, and as a young (clueless) person with suddenly positive cashflow, I invested a bulk of my initial savings in Global Crossing (again, dumb for many reasons...) My thought process at the time was that there were gobs and gobs of .coms that would flameout (and they did - "fishing licenses online!" anyone?), but that Global Crossing and other telecoms had tons of real, valuable assets in the ground.

Of course, I didn't quite do the math on what happens if those assets become devalued when you're sitting on a mountain of debt (and you throw in some fraud for good measure) - "Wow, it really can go to zero and never come back" I discovered. The much bigger downside for me was that since this happened very early in my investment career, I took the wrong lesson and became much too conservative overall, becoming too wary about the stock market at just the wrong time (early '00s). Oh well, hope I can apply that lesson in the next life.
ChatGPT-4o meets graph theory
Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice
Your right about simple password managers, but passkeys do prevent this flaw.
Perhaps the suit is without merit, but it is a real thing.
Google photos is good for general purpose use. Not for professional photography. Where you have to apply stylistic change across a series of photos.
Furthermore, the AWS estimates are also really poorly done. Using EKS this way is really inefficient, and a better comparison would be AWS Bedrock Haiku which averages $0.75/M tokens: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/

This whole post makes OpenAI look like a better deal than it actually is.
I'd have slight more time for apples app store if it was any good, but it does such a bad job of curation it's next to useless.

When I recently got an iPad I thought app store will be great to find good games for the kids, but it just suggests so much junk

As a developer, the experience is terrible because it's so random and arbitrary, you can have a feature in an app for years and then try to release an urgent bug fix and suddenly a reviewer is fixated on some tiny detail that's never changed
POSIX folks "have no plans to move to a public git repository for managing the development of the standard."

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/04801FEA-3560-4BA5-93EF-76...
Same as Google photos, not for professional photography.
We received an email yesterday saying the "100% discount is expiring on June 14".

We're using them for deploy previews. Does anyone have recommendations on alternatives?
I’m not an expert in the bio/chem side or really anything to do with mushrooms/fungi, but some families of mushrooms have commonly associated toxins. None of the below should be considered advice or recommendation or relied on in any way.

Amanitas often have a deadly toxin known as Amatoxin, for example.

Some others are sometimes reclassified from toxic to “sort-of-toxic” or “unknown.”

Common mushrooms like Morels can have their toxins cooked out (throw out the cooking water!), while others like Amatoxins will persist.

Still others affect some people, but not others - and some toxins induce negative effects in the presence of other chemicals in the system, like Inky Caps and Alcohol - the combination of which can be deadly, or not, depending on a number of factors.

My understanding of the situation overall is: it’s complicated.
Last I spoke to a sleep doctor, I was told that 6-8 hours is enough sleep for a lot of people.

That would mean 11-5 is is actually enough sleep, as is 12-6

So really the problem with these times is only the incidents when staying up to 1am, or when getting up at 5 after sleeping at midnight
Environmental group trying to find out if we can artificially cool the planet
Yeah, in my 20's I was more aligned with the "Bulgarian method" of PR every day (on a different lift). In my 30's I focused on longer waves - a month of 8's, a month of 5's, a month of 3's and then heavy singles to a PR. Now in my 40's I keep a consistent practice of heavy-but-not crazy (focusing near always hitting a 70% or so) and then in the summer when I have all the happiness that the sun give you I start ramping up and try for heavy singles in September and if a PR is in the cards, I'll give it a try. But my goal now is to never injure myself because I know I won't come back as strong. Consistency, longevity, and keeping muscle mass is my #1 goal and I don't never let my ego jeopardize that.
> Side loading isn't going to have any impact whatsoever on the concentration of power in the app ecosystem

I'd say the opposite. The people concerned about the cut that Apple and Google are taking from developers, and that they have to write a privacy policy for a screensaver app rather than using it as a trojan to exfiltrate user data are "people like you and me."

Normal people just don't want for people who are not them to be able to overrule them about whatever they want to do with their own phone. Multiplying the number of gatekeepers just gives opportunities to "people like you and me" who are equipped to become (and often dream of becoming) little bourgeois gatekeepers ourselves.

"Sideloading" (aka loading, made a subclass of itself), is an answer to the general question, while "alternative app stores" is simply an answer to potential competitors being locked out of the market.
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vyacheslav Zudov, who survived only Soyuz splashdown, dies
The Brainstem Fine-Tunes Inflammation Throughout the Body
Thing is, we do have that "document API". CAN bus has been a thing for a long time (and is still in use even today), and has documented ways of communicating with everything modern Body Control Units and Engine Control Units do. For everything else, we have the ever valid DIN size standard. Both of these together make for an easy to upgrade system, including options to use Open Source head units. Just looking for a radio and nothing else? Go for it. Want all the fancy bells and whistles that Android Auto or Car Play provides? You got it. Even the steering wheel controls have a standard.

So the question is, why do they keep re-designing the head unit as a monolithic brick, and make it non-replaceable? I can't say for sure why, but my guess is that they've since added their own team for "Smart this" and "subscription that", and removing those sources of revenue is far more expensive than rebuilding the head unit each year.
Plasma fireballs from black holes are now being made here on Earth
I don't disagree with this, but there's such a wide gulf between theory and reality.

I would wager that 90% of people or more, are incapable of doing a sufficiently good job at this.

The OECD has done research on computer skills and even email is difficult to manage for most people.

Sideloading becoming too accessible can be a major attack vector and there aren't good mechanisms for preventing this. Even with various protections there are a wide array of Windows scams that funnel millions and millions of dollars from luddites to scammers.
Sorry about that, you're right that it was kinda low. This is from a previous comment. It's still not the nicest way to put it, but it gets the point across.

- Does reading The Baffler trap you in its ecosystem? If you cancel The Baffler do you lose functionality?

- If The Baffler closes up shop because it was bought by a larger newsletter does it brick any of your devices?

- I turned uBlock off for this page (it was blocking 6 things) and there are no ads. Can you say the same thing for Netflix or fricking Windows?

- Does The Baffler take what you give it and resell it because its 5,000 word privacy policy which you didn't read but had to agree to says it can?

- Will The Baffler's third rate security practices release your identity and those of your customers to private auctions on the dark web?

This is how the newsletter supports itself. Looks like it's about $5 per article.
In a period where everybody expects web content for free, we're paying literally trillions to subscribe to software products. As somebody who works for a content organization I'm now asking myself what aspects of the SaSS model can we take up to get people to pay our writers and editors to continue producing local news? I guess we just need to figure out what content people are keeping in spreadsheets.
I was going to comment something snarky, but damn, it does look good!
As someone with Elixir background, it looks really attractive to me and I was able to grasp the problem statement in just 10 seconds. Impressive presentation format!
I know, think of poor JRR Tolkien’s grandchildren and great grandchildren!
Possessing a deep understanding of the fundamentals is more crucial today than ever. Additionally, focus on acquiring skills beyond the conventional office tasks, such as rolling an orange on a keyboard in a cubicle.
Yeah, I guess there could be downsides to this that I can't see, but asking to prepay when creating the reservation seems to be the best option by far.
set -o pipefail is now POSIX compliant. Use it in all POSIX shell scripts, not just bash scripts.
I do the same, except for the "x" (that is, "set -euo pipefail"); depending on what you're doing, "set -x" might be helpful, might be too much noise, or it could even break things which were not expecting the extra output (and in the worst case, it might end up echoing secret tokens into your build logs).
So what you're saying is instead of inspecting the parts, you just try to launch the rockets and try again when they explode. Production is your testing ground. Statistically speaking, if a specific design succeeds a few hundred times in a row, it's probably sound? If it crashes, you just push a patch?

Day 1 patches for space travel?

Thanks, I hate it.
How can they assume dog has a universal language?
Russia often bans entire websites and IP ranges, making it harder for non-tech people to get certain software.

Mozilla was likely hoping that nobody from the West would notice that they complied and removed the addons.

Just goes to show you how all those "values" they stand for only matter when it doesn't make them lose any users.
It's supposed to be CNS (central nervous system), but I made the same fat finger typo on my phone :)
Buried pretty deep in the docs:
“Effect's major unique insight is that we can use the type system to track errors”

This website should probably start with this. Instead it’s a bunch of like, modern synergy-ese.
This is stopping research that deals with mis-information.

> I suppose a liberty-minded individual would suggest that a private entity should not collude with the government

I find that far too many people are willing to argue principles of the first ammendment, but not willing to volunteer their time in the trenches of content moderation.

This is tragic.

Battles are fought for our principles. They are won, however, by tactics and operations.
> I'm thinking of games consoles as one obvious example.

Yes but games consoles are not on the arbitrarily list of products that can be considered monopolists... sorry, I meant to say "gatekeepers", so it's totally ok for them to be monopolists, I mean "gatekeepers".

And, you see, it completely logical and ethical for that list to not include consoles because consoles are not general purpose computers (even though they use the same CPUs, memory, storage and input peripherals as general purpose computers) because the manufacturers of said devices defined them as not general purpose computers. Which is totally different from what Apple did in defining the iPhone as not a general purpose computer because... well, you know why, don't you?

In other news, isn't it just grand that Europe doesn't have corruption?
I didn't say "GDPR rules", more like a business decision about how many free articles to allow non-subscribers to view in GDPR vs non-GDPR region.
It's good they have included this clause, despite it being difficult to legally pin down. Hopefully, there will be a lawsuit at some point which will create some ethical boundaries that AI developers and users much not cross.
The European Union wants third party app stores and they control the rules of a market bigger than the United States.
Because it's not just about testing. Like in high-quality software, testing is only the final step. The primary determinant of quality is the source material and how it's processed, and testing can't completely prove whether or not it was processed correctly.
Given that their particular wording of their argument is actually what is going to be used by lower courts in the future, you literally take what they have written at face value.
Fun fact, when I went to a trip through Europe (I'm from Buenos Aires) I arrived at 6AM on a sunday. And the first thing I noticed is how different the bird sounds are.
That’s an interesting thought.

I’ve often wondered if I had some mild dyslexia, for the longest time I’d mix up b, p, q, and d… but never diagnosed or anything (so I’m definitely not going to try and use myself as a counterexample or anything like that). Massive caveats aside, I find writing in cursive really helps me focus, I wonder if any folks with real dyslexia have done any experiments there. Maybe the better differentiation between the letters could help?
Maybe some aspects, but I don't know about the VPN side of it, and my point was directly to the idea of managing shared drives.
Nvidia EULA prevents you from using consumer gaming GPUs in datacenters so 4xxx cards are a non-starter for any service usecases

EDIT: TOS -> EULA per comments below
Rust makes writing incorrect programs hard, Zig makes writing correct programs easy.
If the courts are giving you immunity, I think you have to have immunity from all levels of government. Otherwise your testimony at one level could incriminate you at another, right? I've never heard of this type of scenario, so maybe some precedent exists.

Edit: why downvote? I'm generally curious about how they handle immunity with multiple levels of overlaping jurisdiction for most crimes.
Once Python became the lingua franca for next-gen HPC applications (i.e. machine learning), we had a good indication that the (higher-level) programming language wars will soon be over.

Students graduating today are comfortable in Jupyter notebooks but not a CLI.

Also on HN front-page is a full implementation of llm.c in Python-superset Mojo.

Once Python takes off in the browser, either by compiling to WASM (via something like Mojo) or interpreted by PyScript, it's over.

Total GvR victory.
Quantity has a quality all of its own.

About a century ago, people realised that CO2 was a greenhouse gas — they thought this would be good, because it was cold where they lived, and they thought it would take millennia because they looked at what had already been built and didn't extrapolate to everyone else copying them.

Your reply doesn't seem to acknowledge the "factory" part of "tiger factory".

AI is about automation, any given model is a tool that lets anyone do what previously needed expertise, or at least effort: in the past, someone pulled out and fired a gun because of the made-up "pizzagate" conspiracy theory; In the future, everyone gets to be Hillary Clinton for 15 minutes, only with Stable Diffusion putting your face in a perfectly customised video, and the video will come from a random bored teenager looking for excitement who doesn't even realise the harm they're causing.
Has anyone found a demo of this thing? I'm super curious
Someone want to setup a wiki for this? Seems like a good place for things like replacing the head unit correctly or other "make it my own" instructions.
It's been long enough that my memories are fuzzy.

I do remember defining a specific format for a cover page: merging a large block of cells and customizing the font information within. I suspect I had other formatting convenience functions to make the reports more consistent.

I created a single data structure to wrap the workbook and worksheet objects and include a "current" row/cell tracker, so that I could invoke an "add row" function to write the next row in the sheet without indicating where in the worksheet the data should be added.

Each write function would then take as arguments the data structure and a string label to indicate which worksheet I wanted (numeric indexing was also an option, but I found strings to be the best way to make the code obvious about what worksheet we were actively modifying).

I also did some work with tagged data (via tuples) so my library could choose which write function to invoke in xlsxwriter. I don't remember the motivation for that.
The value of land is the result of the productivity of society and the bounty of nature. Would you consider the massive growth in property values over the last 30 years an earned benefit? What have landowners done to deserve this bounty besides owning an irreproducible asset? An empty lot held out of productive use will appreciate just as much as the same land put to productive use as the city around it grows and technology advances.

>Do you consider the salary you work for an unearned social benefit?

On the contrary, I consider the wages of labour and the return on capital to be the actual earned benefits. Yet these are the things we tax. So the wealthy claim no income, hold their assets, and never realize capital gains, and multinationals play accounting games and pretend that all of their profits happen in the lowest international tax jurisdiction. Sales taxes and personal income taxes end up being the majority of government revenue.

Land value taxes are much harder to avoid, they reward investment by not taxing it, and they promote efficient use of the land, which is the one thing that you need to do anything and the only thing that we can't get any more of.
We can save literal tons of waste if we stop re-implementing the wheel because the C-suite thinks everything from login pages to monitoring is their special sauce.
Entire careers are wasted coding that stuff instead of writing and maintaining it as FOSS. The ecological load of the entire lives of people doing pointless work is truly waste.
This is fucking bonkers people are like this.
It could. But to do so, they need AI chips, which you seem to be redirecting to the company that you personally own.

I'm really perturbed that we gave that guy tens of billions of dollars. I believe in the company; they've innovated a lot of important things. But they haven't done anything genuinely significant in quite a while, and committed a lot of obvious own-goals. All the while the CEO is sounding more and more stupid, and diverting his attention elsewhere.
That's a good point. You can escape vaping questionable hemp products a lot easier than you can avoid being a walking, talking heavy metal filter for the local coal plant.
One Satellite Crash Could Upend Modern Life
May I ask what you did to improve your deep sleep?
Apple can require them whatever they want though, in any case they comply just by making alternative stores formally possible. But perhaps I'm wrong, I haven't done any serious research, I can only guess.
1. Tell ‘em what you’re gonna tell ‘em.

2. Tell ‘em.

3. Tell ‘em what you told ‘em.

There should be 2 or 3 key points that you reinforce multiple times. No more.

And my #1 tip: The more natural you want the presentation to sound, the more you need to practice it in advance.

If you’re an experienced presenter you’ll know how and when to break these rules.
Where's the discontinuity, they just assume everything that happens in court is the result of actions by the gov't when it's not just true. I don't get your tone, as if people making mistakes is a concept I'm not familiar with. That's not what I'm discussing, I'm discussing widely made mistaken assumptions from an otherwise incredulous crowd.
Theres T&S / content-moderation on hacker news.
Sentry provides a great hosted service. You can self host if you like, but it’s nicer to let them do it
This is exactly what not to do. I'd expect customer sat and churn to be a catastrophe. Video calls with high stress customers is a much better and probably far less expensive solution.
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Just to bounce off this a little. If you are looking to fine-tune using an on demand service it seems Amazon Sagemaker can do it at seemingly decent prices:

https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pricing/

I'd love to hear someones experience using this as I want to make an RPG rules bot tied to a specific ruleset as a project but I fear AWS as it might bankrupt me!
> hereThere is one inescapably weird thing about competitive Excel: spreadsheets are not fun. Spreadsheets are very powerful, very interesting, very important, but they are for work.

My nerdy friends have a saying. If you don't have a spreadsheet, are you even having fun? Of course, their idea of fun is to min/max whatever game is at hand in order to win as best they can, which sometimes sucks the joy out of it for the rest of the players but it's all also fun to see how broken some game mechanics are.
Nope. I work in medical devices and aviation has higher levels of traceability, at least in software anyway.
tl;dr OpenTelemetry eats Sentry's cake by commoditizing what they do and the reaction of the founder of Sentry is to be very upset about it rather than innovating.
I have been in some meetings where the "big boss" cannot follow any structure and will constantly throw out ideas and enquiries and demand we had ready answers for questions we are hearing for the first time or topic that was not on the agenda and pontificate about how some things should be better etc.

Thankfully they only attended our meetings once a quarter and never involved in matters beyond pontification.
I have surveyed this landscape for a number of years, though I'm not involved enough to have strong opinions. We're running a lot of Prometheus ecosystem and even some OpenTelemetry stacks across customers. OpenTelemetry does seem like one of these projects with an ever expanding scope. It makes it hard to integrate parts you like and keep things both computing-wise and mentally lightweight without having to go all-in.

It's not anymore about hey, we'll include this little library or protocol instead of rolling our own, so we can hope to be compatible with a bunch of other industry-standard software. It's a large stack with an ever evolving spec. You have to develop your applications and infrastructure around it. It's very seductive to roll your own simpler solution.

I appreciate it's not easy to build industry-wide consensus across vendors, platforms and programming languages. But be careful with projects that fail to capture developer mindshare.
I was underwhelmed by the max size for spans before they get rejected. Our app was about an order of magnitude too complex for OTEL to handle.

Reworking our code to support spans made our stack traces harder to read and in the end we turned the whole thing off anyway. Worse than doing nothing.