skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you make a second backup tomorrow, you'll end up with a new (huge) encrypted tar. restic handles deltas when creating a second backup, and writes new files so that tools like rsync or rclone have to do less work to upload the new data.

That said, I don't see anything strictly _wrong_ with your approach.
> What this means is that it is essentially impossible for all but a glancingly small number of musicians to make meaningful income from their recordings.

I'm not sure what's supposed to happen, honestly. With the invention of home recording and all the attendant production tools, the lower barriers to entry, broader exposure due to the internet, etc., there was always going to be a vastly larger amount of music than there was 30 years ago. If the old model had not changed, we'd still be in a world with a glancingly small number of slots on the radio charts for each genre—those are the people the average person knows about, and spends money on—and most other musicians would be broke.

I assume. I could be wrong. But my two points are that it's not like the old model was friendly to artists either, and that it's not actually very easy for me to imagine a coherent model for music that would work be equitable for all artists in the world today, given the other changes that've taken place.

I don't think it's just to pretend that if there are 4-5x more people releasing music today, we would all would be spending 4-5x more on records and concerts than we did in 1996. And I am not saying that's what the author is saying, I'm just trying to work through the consequences of what I inferred from this article, the economics of which were a little hand-wavey.
Isn't that every bubble? The 2022 tech bubble was basically this but without the AI narrative. The 2008 GFC was partially caused by giving mortgages to increasingly flaky borrowers. The dotcom bubble was basically the AI bubble but with "the internet" instead of AI.
Why are the far right rioting in England?
Reminds me a bit of the Surface Dial. Really liked that concept even if I’d never have the sort of setup that would benefit from it.
all things we've thought about!

1. today, you need a PPL to fly this plane. However, a new set of regulations, called MOSAIC, is coming down the pipeline that have support for aircraft with simplified control systems and getting licensed in such aircraft, specifically when they are small, light airplanes. Basically, you'll be able to get a license in such a plane, skip the parts of tests that don't apply, and be restricted to only flying that type of airplane (This is my interpretation, I obviously don't speak for the FAA)

2. The current ATC system handles personal aircraft quite well. this is especially true in busy airspaces like LA. Our hope is to create a more automated routing system where you just enter the destination you want to fly to, the system generates the route taking into account, terrain, weather, winds, standard routes, airways, etc, files it with ATC for you, and you just confirm that it's a good path and be on your way.

3. This is the core of our system. In the demo video, the landing I'm doing has a cross wind with some gusts and you can see the system handles it super easily and makes it significantly easier to takeoff and land, even in turbulence. you can barely tell there was any kind of weather at all.

4. This is a tough one for sure. One core thing we are doing is having our joystick be active and have force feedback. So when flying, you can "feel" what the system is trying to do and you can push back on it if you don't like what it's doing. You as the pilot are still in charge of what happens, we just making it easier for you to execute on it. Additionally, there's lots of UI elements that will provide hints to what you are asking the plane to do + what it can do + what it's actually doing. This should help close that loop so that the pilot is still in control, while letting the system handle the aviating elements of flying.
I think it's a central London / outside central London thing. Just in my personal experience people in both Brighton and Somerset thank the driver, and I bet there are plenty of other places like that in the south.
> I admit I don't understand the mechanism

I'll simplify it for you: The government pays health care providers for providing healthcare. It is very easy to defraud the government by billing for fake work, so fraud is common and costly.

The actual details are irrelevant. There are some extra steps involved, but functionally it's the same as a nurse sending a bill that says "I treated patient X for condition Y" and the government going "Sounds good, here's some taxpayer money"
Musk's AI chatbot spread election misinformation, secretaries of state say
Holding Company and Cybersecurity
Hi Team,

I am reaching out due to an urgent and complex issue. My identity has been stolen, and the perpetrators have exerted significant control over various aspects of my life. I’ve been working to expose them through both defensive and offensive measures, which should simplify resolving the situation.

My main concern involves stolen devices containing critical information about my efforts. The situation is further complicated by the involvement of corrupt entities and advanced technology misuse, particularly in a highly corrupt environment. This misuse has far-reaching consequences, and it's crucial to address it with the right approach.

In addition, I previously submitted a proposal which I was unable to follow up on due to circumstances beyond my control. The interference and obstacles from those trying to prevent my progress are a significant concern. I am seeking your help to ensure that my account details remain secure and that my proposals can be submitted without interference.

I am using your company’s browser and hope this message reaches you without issue. Your assistance in safeguarding my information and facilitating an uninterrupted proposal submission process would be invaluable. Additionally, I need to address the relentless efforts of individuals who are obstructing my progress, which has led to further complications.

Thank you for your attention and support. I look forward to your positive response. Meanwhile, I will continue working on my holding company’s website, which will detail the companies involved once operational.

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Hey not judging at all. I've said to friend groups multiple times, no matter how anti-war I am, I am completely fine with America using it's geopolitical position of near un-challengability to get away with drone striking the server farms spammers operate from.

If we're going to spend the atrocious amounts we do on defense, the least we could do is use them for good sometimes.
Imagine still using c++ in 2024 lmao.
This is the same category of bucking the design of a system as people using their deleted items in Microsoft office as just another folder.

Why would somebody do that? To me, it's just another consequence of never actually fulfilling Vannevar Bush's vision of the Memex.
Full Text Search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. Alternatives
Maybe late 90's. 80's Home computers were fairly expensive if you adjust for inflation and media was limited (and far from instant. Oh, the dial-up days where even saving a Gamefaqs guide could take minutes. Can only wonder how the early 90's went). In addition, it was much cheaper than today to go out on a bar crawl or even the arcades.

But i think we both agree entertainment got cheaper while outside life more expensive. We can grab internet connected devices for barely $100 and a single entertainment subscription (Netflix, Gamepass, Spotify) is maybe $10/month for an entire catalog. I can't even go out for lunch for $10 unless I do Costco.
Eugenics started by trying to transfer the lessons of selective animal breeding to people. IQ measurements had a connection with eugenics, and low IQ individuals were targetted... in the US.

We know IQ is inheritable but IQ is influenced by many factors like pollution and nutrition.

The approach was very pseudoscientific in nature.
Perhaps? But I'm not sure I see the value in saying that other people aren't doing a good job of setting expectations with yet other people. Presumably we around here know, right? And it's always fraught to imagine problems third hand.
A lot of my friends are professors or lecturers at universities with "motivationally-diverse" undergraduate populations; LLM-based cheating has become so common that they often reward higher marks to poorly-written papers, just by virtue of them not having been written by *GPT et al.
probably better done with lasercomms
What about agriculture subsidies? Lots of earmarks pork and other things thrown into that bucket of money.
> irony to me is that he just voted to overturn the Chevron doctrine. There's no way that doesn't lead to a huge increase in the number of laws

In only the most technical sense. Practically speaking, reducing the set of restrictions from laws, narrowly-constructed rules and broadly-constructed rules to just the first two will reduce restrictions. (I personally believe most of those restrictions are valid. But there are good arguments for and against Chevron.)
As someone interested in making and eating fermented foods (kimchi, “panta bhat/rice” etc) do you have any beginner level reading recommendations? For example the fermented rice thing - it doesn’t use external bacterial/yeast cultures, and fortunately no one at home’s fallen sick yet - but what’s the difference between “this rice has gone bad because it was out overnight” and “this rice is super healthy”? Thanks a lot!
This is how I find out they were married. Huh.
in Java which I don't know

That's a reason to learn a little Java.

It's only syntax.

Not fearing syntax is a very very useful professional skill.

It will be a bit of hard work, too. A willingness to work hard is another very very useful skill.

Good luck.
I'm always skeptical of calls like this.

It's an easy argument to make for sure, and likely true-ish. It's fun to come up with examples of providing paper copies to each individual. But I don't need a paper copy, and I can't remember the last time I felt compelled to read a law, maybe never?

Does it matter that it's "it’s a federal crime to enter a post office while intoxicated"? Are these examples really what the author is concerned about?

"By federal decree, macaroni must have a diameter between 0.11 and 0.27 inches, while vermicelli must not be more than 0.06 inches in diameter."

That's fine with me, that just means there's consistency across a product... that seems almost absurd to take issue with.

There are some examples later on of abuses, but those strike me as abuses that if it wasn't one misapplied law, it would be another. The existence of law when someone makes a poor choice doesn't make the law the problem.

I feel like a lot of these calls are really just appeals for "reforms" that aren't there for me, they're there for those who already have an advantage over me in the legal process...
What does token generation have to do with a model that prioritizes email?
What services would you get rid of?
It gets a passing mention:

> A 24-year-old who downloads academic articles that don’t belong to him isn’t just reprimanded; now we threaten him with decades in federal prison.
This is similar to a ring laser gyro, but using a cloud of atoms.
To quote a manager when I was starting out: "Don't bring me problems -- bring me problems and solutions".

Maybe the book delves into that, but I saw nothing of that in the article.

Probably one of the biggest impediments to addressing this is that Congress is horribly broken, (not by accident). I'd go further there but it's inherently political and I don't want to risk the wrath of @dang.

Being ruled by law is a good thing, and many regulations are written in blood. We need to find ways to hold on to the "good parts" and trim away the rest. My techie take would be that using AI to analyze/summarize the legal code, case history of the application of same, and game theory to evaluate the efficacy and "justness" of the codes. Easy peasy, right?
Why AI can't fix your production issues
Vanguard, Fidelity, Charles Schwab crash after stock market drop
I'm going to hell, because my first thought was "LEGO airliners".
Believe so!
Show HN: Ella AI Companion – Now with a Paid Version for Sustained Support
Hello HN,

About a month ago, we introduced Ella, an AI companion for personal/emotional support. Today, we're launching a paid version to ensure Ella's sustainability and continued improvement.

What's new:
- Credit-based system: 100 messages for $20
- Each interaction uses one credit
- First 3 messages remain free, 5 more if you take a survey

Why we made this change:
- To maintain high-quality support
- Invest in improving Ella's capabilities
- Ensure long-term sustainability of the service

We've learned a lot since our initial launch, including:
1. Demand for AI Companions is increasing
2. Personalization and Memory are crucial for personal companions

To address these learnings, we're enhancing Ella's memory capabilities and working on more personalized interaction models.

We're committed to responsible AI development and ethical pricing. Our goal is to make emotional support accessible while sustaining our service.

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Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
Hey HN,

My name is Svapnil Ankolkar and I've recently built iso20022.js, a library for creating ISO20022 payments in Typescript.

The goal of this project is to be the easiest way to create, and eventually ingest, files in the ISO20022 standard, the defacto XML standard for bank payments.

I'd love to know what you think and importantly know about any improvements you'd like us to make!
Ugh, it would be nice to be able to pause the final frame of animation to compare each generated path. Instead YouTube replaces it with their obnoxious "next video" suggestions. If you generate another video, I'd suggest artificially "freezing" the results frame for about 5 seconds so it can be seen and compared.
The way we see it isn't less training, but training focused on the most important parts of flying: decision making and risk management. Given the current track record for accidents, they almost always culminate in the pilot failing to control the airplane, whether due to directly stalling or being distracted by another issue and then stalling. By eliminating loss of control as a failure mode, pilots can spend more of their minimum 40 hours on decision making and risk management training, rather than on stick and rudder training. Then when in the air, they put more of their mental load on ADM. We are just breaking down the barrier that stops people from even getting there in the first place.
OpenAI wouldn't exist without me, Elon Musk says, reviving lawsuit
The LLMs have been this moment for me - the toolkit, usage patterns, and strengths and weaknesses are so different from what I’m used to that I have a really hard time trusting my instincts or judgements on when to use them and where. They’re the first piece of technology that’s so far outside my experience set that I need to onboard a fully different paradigm to understand them as a tool.
Forgot to add: Journaling helped me a lot. I favored writing this as "letters" / "texts" to my wife. As if she's here, just telling her about my day, feelings, emotions, what our kid did, what happened around us, family and friends. Venting, crying, blaming, being frustrated, being happy, being proud. All goes in there.
"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state".

That's thousands of years old wisdom. The government should serve the people, not the other way around.

You know there's a problem when even your lawyers friend complain about the state of things.
They figure out how to prevent cancer, but it makes you huge and your limbs turn into flippers.
> Drilling 125 wells for 400MW of power seems like a pretty poor return.

That's 400 MW of 24/7 baseload power. Forever, for free.

The nuclear power lobby is scared shitless of geothermal generation becoming not just viable but proven, because "cheap baseload" is just about the one thing that NPPs are actually pretty damn good at.
> "By federal decree, macaroni must have a diameter between 0.11 and 0.27 inches, while vermicelli must not be more than 0.06 inches in diameter."
That's fine with me, that just means there's consistency across a product... that seems almost absurd to take issue with.

The point is this adds a burden to small producers, particularly upstarts, while giving anti-competitive avenues of action to incumbents. Even if you’re complying with the rule, there is a cost to proving compliance and dealing with regulators.

Why shouldn’t you be able to sell macaroni if your machinery isn’t precise enough to meet those tolerances every time? (And why is that the federal government’s business.)
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Well, the whole thing is less about general categories of law and more about specific examples - and one of those specific examples is the Aaron Swartz case, with a link to The Atlantic article about that and everything.

I would say that he, at least, covers it.
I disagree with your assessment. I think that the core problem with GA is that most people in the United States want to travel distances beyond what an affordable GA aircraft can in a single flight. I live in the midwest and I generally want to travel to the East or West coast or Southwest or Florida and the range of a Cessna just isn’t going to cut it. The only practical vehicle would be a Phenom 300 or Honda Jet II, but I don’t have $8 million lying around.

Reality is that without North American continental range, it just isn’t worth it to go get a pilots license and buy a plane for the few trips that I can just easily drive. Maybe if I lived in Boston, General Aviation would be great, but for many Americans who live in areas in the middle that aren’t near large airports, the range of these aircraft just make them expensive toys that aren’t very useful for the size of North America.
That's not a bug, that's a feature.

The school of thought that Gorsuch and others subscribe to is one where the US was basically supposed to be an extension of 18th-century England, just without the Crown. This was more-or-less how the antebellum south was set up. You had peasants living in housing provided by the landed gentry in exchange for the outputs of their labor at enterprises that are held by the landed gentry. The landed gentry is the landed gentry because a higher power anointed them to be so, or because social Darwinism simply selected them as such. Those who oppose this are thus opposed to nature and cannot be entertained, much less allowed to wield the power of the state to protect what they see to be their rights.

Now replace "peasant" with "working class" and "landed gentry" with "investors". Ta-da. You have the ideal system in these people's minds for the modern world.
I don't understand why this was "dead". It's not a statement I fully agree with; but the insight isn't something I'd want to keep off of HN.
I totally agree. It's like we're having all these little pearl harbors over and over again and doing nothing. If we're going to spend all this money on muscle, let's use it to do some useful things and hurt some people who deserve it.
CNN Headlines in order:

> US Markets Melt Down(this has since left front page or been renamed)

> GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS ARE PLUNGING

> Fear on Wall Street has reached highest level in 2 years, but some analysts think that investors are overreacting

> Stocks are tumbling. But, no, America’s market is not ‘crashing’

> 3 reasons to worry about July’s weak jobs report — and 1 reason not to panic

It's been a bizarre past couple years. Out amazing attention economy has been feeding the "recession is coming" and "or is it" narratives for so long now.

For clicks they are selling both the fear of recession and the hope that it's all "panic"... On the same page now!

I really do wonder how much 24 hour news and social media is impacting markets. Do we just have to wait for everyone to stop clicking "the sky is falling"?
Generally agree, but the principle of paying attention and proceeding with caution vs blinding trust in signaling remains. Another example would be roundabouts.
iPhone Driver's License Support Coming Soon to California
Yes, ironically increased transparency and more secure systems will lead to less freedom for the user, because trusted computing is most often securing the interests of manufacturers against users (what RMS refereed to as "Treacherous Computing")

I think that we have been able to thwart "treachery" in the meantime by exploiting side-channels in trusted computing implementations. Ultimately it may be necessary to amend the constitution to prevent manufacturers from distributing locked-down hardware for the good of free society (competition, democracy, etc.) at large. Otherwise, computer giants will have ultimate control over the distribution of information (given that the economics of manufacturing are driven by economies of scale).
> In the 1930s, the Empire State Building—the tallest in the world at the time—took a little more than 13 months to build.

It cost at least 5 lives from easily preventable accidents and is filled with asbestos (which likely killed many many more from lung cancer). is this the state people want to return to?
Check out the other sample videos I linked to in my comment, those are easy to pause in VLC. I can look into extending the final frame for a few seconds, too.
> recently very disappointed

Here too. Apparently the components are scattered through the education-oriented Spike Prime sets. If you can stomach the kid-oriented colors, that’s the best route to recreating childhood Mindstorms robots.
macOS has sandboxing in the "prevent attacker from escalating from the compromised process" sense.

It also has the concept of data that can only be read by apps that have the correctly rights - as in even if a process is running as root, the process cannot access the data.

It sounds like someone found some way to access the history data, and because they're not supposed to be able to, there's a CVE.

Of course if there was no attempt to protect the browsing history so anything/one could read it, then that would not be a vulnerability, so that's fun :-/ (as analogy: one company releases a car with a key required to open+drive, another company releases a car with no locks that anyone can get into a drive off with, and then someone finds a way to pick the lock on the former).
Maybe because that's how its measured in the LLM community? It's all about tokens per second.
This is true in the US as well. For example, all northbound trains on Amtrak's Coast Starlight route are train 14 and all southbound trains on the same route are train 11. There's currently a train 14 west of Los Angeles that originated this morning. Meanwhile train 14 that originated in Los Angeles yesterday is a couple hours from pulling in to Eugene, Oregon. Likewise there's a train 11 that just departed Seattle and another train 11 that's just about to pull in to San Jose.

I assume that in theory any given train #/station/date is unique, but given Amtrak's notorious delays, I'm sure that theory has been disproven at least once.
> Super ambitious project that you are attempting - kudos to that!

The GPS and gyroscope reimplementation would appear to be a business opportunity in themselves - presumably there is a reason someone hasn’t undercut those parts already. Small market?
About tree-fiddy.

(What kind of question is this? With this amount of information do you really expect other answers than "it depends"?)
I tried it with "torvalds". Here is the response:

> Nah, I'm good, I don't want to roast torvalds