skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one really helpful use for a massive nodegraph with way too much data? Convincing people that something is complicated. Eg: illustrating to non-technical people that your codebase is a massive mess.
It can take seconds for modern bloated web apps. Does Facebook load in <1 second for you too?
Roku supports both airplay (mac, iphone, iPad) and miracast (windows and some android devices).

Most android devices support Miracast, but Google abandoned support for miracast in their firstparty devices in order to promote their proprietary (Google cast/Chromecast) solution.
"Extreme sycophancy without much critical thought."

A claim you make with no supportive arguments.

My comment is packed with critical thought. Maybe you're just lacking understanding to unpack it? Or are you too arrogant to not think that you know all?

And then ridiculous ad hominem that you think was clever enough to actually waste time to type out; what work do you have that you hate that you're procrastinating from working on?

I'm really curious if you know what sycophancy means, and if so, how exactly my comment is benefitting me? I think it's more likely you're jealous of Elon's success, have past trauma from personal work experiences you're projecting onto him, and taking it out on anyone who notes his successes and extrapolates to estimate where his projects will lead to.
Scammers use no audio screen sharing while on the phone with a mark
According to my friend, Tesla engineering didn't move to Texas, and he doesn't want to give up the California weather, so unlikely to make the move. If you have a routine, and enjoy year-long pretty nice weather, California will just have a natural advantage.
The american car industry took a deep nose dive because the cars they were building in the 70s and 80s struggled to crack 100,000 miles without a major issue, and the interiors literally fell apart in your hands. I'll never buy a GM or Ford because I grew up in them and the door handles were falling off and stuffing was shooting out of the splits in the seats. The paint not even 10 years old was so oxidized it would rub off on your clothes if you rubbed against it. If GM and Ford are better now, I wouldn't know because I haven't been in one in literal decades. The only reason they're still around today is the chicken tax (it's a real thing, look it up) and the fact that you can't buy a full size car anymore outside of marques like the Mercedes S class and BMW 7 series and a handful of others, largely top end halo cars.
I was discussing this some time ago with a friend, I get the feeling that error messages these days try too much to apologize instead of providing the user with hints and clear explanations to solve the issue. It's all about emoji faces crying "boohoo there was an error" with a childish tone.

Can't wait to see AI avatars crying in front of you for failing to summarize an article.
It can be very helpful when trying to figure out why one machine won't understand another, for instance.

You can put meta-data in for debugging without compromising anything, schema wise.

Or in the case of config files, there can be detailed instructions on what fields are what they should contain.

The thing about XML is that it strikes a sweet-spot between machine readable files and human readable files. (I can't believe I'm coming out as an XML apologist!)

If it were only "by machines for machines", we wouldn't consider JSON, YaML or XML as much, we'd all go for Protocol Buffers or Parquet or something.
"Google is today proud to announce both the advent and the sunsetting of Google TV Streamer. 'We expect fans to love this product for the next 8 months' says product manager Greg Kalhani 'Afterwhich the product will, sadly, be removed and customers will be refunded their money.'"
This comment matches my experience of two big tech corps. It almost feels exactly like the Soviet bureaucracy described in the book "Red Plenty". The amount of work being done is just far low compared to a small company and the gravy train is huge. The goal is to show activity not results. Nobody wants to talk about results but activity. Internal departments have de facto monopoly over their domains regardless of how shitty they are, and you need to do soviet style bartering to get what you need.
It will be interesting how robust this new protocol is against traffic pattern analysis. A regular HTTPS connection has different patterns over time than a VPN, mainly because it carries only HTTPS and not all of the machine’s traffic; and only for a specific "website" (simplification here) instead of bundling the whole web to a "single server". The latter may be easier to evade, but the former will be hard.

Anyways kudos to them, and I can’t wait to see how it fares against China’s GFW.
The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script
Is everyone just logging in as root or something?
It can be fun to look at the various "achievements" or things that are generally possible for determined people (no geniuses allowed).

CPU just happens to be one of them. Fascinating that such a seemingly complex marvel of innovation is just something that everyone can do.

Of course, there's lots of groundwork and you need to know "the trick" (eg. that you can use transistors to make computation machines)... but it's easily within your grasp.
I'm still running my original generation Chromecast. They were very good quality devices.
On the other hand, "Google TV Streamer" also describes Chromecasts and is immensely less memorable or distinctive.

It'd be like if Apple decided to rebrand Macbook to be "Apple Laptop". Sure, it's accurate. It's also crap.
Is there documentation for the protocol anywhere, or is this going to be a proprietary protocol to Proton that doesn’t gain much adoption outside of their users? If their claims are true this could be a great alternative for certain use cases
I was working on a local LLM ReAct agent that can play the prisoner's dilemma. The "thought" process was fascinating to watch. Not to anthropomorphize though.
I used to live in NYC. Down the street from me was the cheapest supermarket in the area. Why was it cheap? They had some lease from the 1970s or 1980s and were paying a rumoured $5000/year. Now Manhattan supermarkets aren't that "super" but still it's ridiculously low.

While I lived there that lease ended and the new "market" rate was reportedly $250,000/year. The supermarket shut down. It's been 10 years. I thought it had been empty the whole time. I just looked through historical Street View and saw there was briefly a business there. IT's again vacant though.

The point is that high housing prices kill everything. Commercial real estate is distinct but the two are related. There are two problems:

1. Landlords can be unwilling to accept a lower rent because it lowers the book value of the property. Many commercial property owners own a huge portfolio. It doesn't really matter if some of it is vacant. In fact, it's expected; and

2. As prices go up the types of businesses that can survive there rapidly diminish. You could simulate a supermarket. There's only so high you can rise the prices before demand goes down. There's only so high the rent can go before it kills that business.

I realize the zombie stores here are the opposite problem: landowners are understandably just cashing the checks from above-market rents the owners are obligated to pay.

If someone comes along and says "I'll pay 50% of the current lease", the owner could go to the current leaseholder and say "I'll let you out of your obligation if you pay 60% of the remaining rent" (discounting for present value).

But what if the new business doesn't survive? It's a risk for the owner where CVS's rent checks are no risk at all. Plus even if you get past that, you've also just lowered your property's value on paper.

The solution here is probably for the city (or, more likely, the state) to make such long-term leases unenforceable. For example, if you abandon the property then after 1 year or 2 years or whatever, the lease just terminates.
Related discussion here: 3 hours ago, 468 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171060
Wouldn't matter, money is not the deciding factor.

Builders already pay the city money to build, then property taxes go up and the city makes more money, and when the finished house is sold the city makes money from the sale.

The problem is the city council doesn't care. If they make the city a boat load of money but then lose the next election, their political career is over. Voted out of office for pissing everyone off is not something politicians are too keen on having happen to themselves.
>This reveals right away that you don't really struggle with this issue and just wouldn't get it.

Precisely the opposite. I used to be an "introvert." Turns out I just like to be alone sometimes. Do you really think there are people in the world who don't like to be by themselves? "Extrovert," that's just as much of a myth.
I referenced Dirk's original "single-vendor" paper in the FAQ, "Why should I adopt Fair Source at my company?" fair.io/faq

I engaged heavily with a lot of Dirk's work in my historical deep-dive:

https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/the-historical-case-f...

> Dirk asked in 2021, “What’s next after ‘source-available’?” Our answer is Fair Source. I’ve made the case that it is a good way to resolve tensions that have been present in Open Source since the beginning. The net effect can be more closed-source code released to the world, and less pressure to change the Open Source Definition one way or another.

> we will see if it becomes popular

Agreed, time will tell. A major test is whether we ever see a viable fork under DOSP, seems likely years away if ever.
In many places, clotheslines are illegal.
At least on a Roku you can block the ads with a PiHole
Seems to be more focused on preventing VPN detection by middleboxes than by endpoints.
Alienation of affection is not when someone chooses not to date you. It is when a third party interferes maliciously, and even then it is recognized and very few jurisdictions. If you try to sue a random woman on the street for the harm done by not wanting to date you, you will be in for a rude awakening.
Will the old ones still work?
The last slide says "let the system break".

I strongly suggest that after that slide, there needs to be a whole series of slides about how to make it so that it's ok to let the system break. If you haven't already done the hard work to make your stuff resilient, "let the system break" is a recipe for blowing up customers, damaging reputations, and hurting people.
Rotoscoping in Prince of Persia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41068176
> in the constantly evolving battle for online freedom, our work is not finished.

I'm assuming this boils down to a cat and mouse game, then? E.g. popular firewalls patch this and Proton releases an update to bypass filters?

Also, couldn't access this site directly because of corporate firewall, how ironic.
I wonder what differentiates this from something like Stunnel?
An automatic grenade launcher firing 40 mm rounds can reach up to 2 km on a parabolic trajectory.

It'd take a lot of grenades, but there are videos from the Ukraine war of Ukranian infantry landing hits at range on Russian positions using drone spotters.
The wording is awkward and suboptimal. If you don't know what AWS SES is, you'd easily get the wrong impression. In fact, I'd even say it's factually incorrect. It's not built on top of AWS SES. It's built to utilize AWS SES for its functionality. Slightly different, pedantic really.
phew, mans said "Lytro" ...
I've got no idea what I could use it for, but I do like it. It looks like Pascal's triangle [1], so I'm sure some computations will roll out naturally, provided the formulas have relative addressing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_triangle, which even shows a hexagonal grid!
I'm glad they gave up on their "fine-tuning is all you need" approach to structured output. It's possible fine-tuning will work in the long term, but in the short-term, people are trying to build things, and fine-tuning wasn't cutting it.

Surprised it took them so long — llama.cpp got this feature 1.5 years ago (actually an even more general version of it that allows the user to provide any context free grammar, not just JSON schema)
> full summaries, reviews and season-by-season breakdowns of content

Who even needs this crap? Just watch the goddamn show, people.
Providers like petfect privacy have offered stuff like this for over a decade and they, like others, don't advertise their blatant misunderstandings[0] of the threat models people in censored countries face. I don't see why this is being shilled here so much, it's as close to an obvious honeypot as you'll ever see.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41079157
Awesome.

Question though: don't most VPN filters simply block a list of all known VPN endpoints? Maybe I missed something but I don't see how Proton's Stealth evades this simple filter?
That was already the case before Musk bought it.
There's a Swedish company working on making electric region air travel a thing - ahttps://heartaerospace.com

I don't see why this wouldn't be possible to do with smaller air craft.
I'm not sure what this talk about luck and privilege has much to do with the core ideas of the article, which I took to be:

* look critically at your life's successes and your interests, discern what to prioritize

* being aware of societal abstractions and what you're "supposed" to do in life affecting your choices

* that your current "vision" of a proper life might not be the actual best fit for you, precisely because of the above abstractions

I thought these were generally fair points, if not rephrasings of common wisdom like "iterate more" and "your first idea isn't perfect" and "be wary of preconceptions". If you're in a bad material situation, I'm not sure that everything here suddenly doesn't apply?

Not saying that the author isn't privileged, that the path to success wasn't made easier by being able to travel, rent, and buy a farm in the footnotes. But again, the advice seems to be pretty universally put no matter how big or small your steps are.
Is there a good comparison of "undetectable" VPN protocols? Wireguard[0], Shadowsocks[1], VLess[2], VMess[3], Trojan[4], etc. All of them seemed to work for me during my recent trip to China.

[0] The article says Wireguard is easy to block, but in my experience GFW lets it through.

[1] https://shadowsocks.org

[2] https://xtls.github.io/en/development/protocols/vless.html

[3] https://xtls.github.io/en/development/protocols/vmess.html

[4] https://trojan-gfw.github.io/trojan/protocol
Not all urbia's are equally urbie.

Imagine New York vs Dallas for example. I think it is fair to say that some cities are more spread out and low density, making them feel like a suburban sprawl.
Dolby Atmos support without Dolby TrueHD means TrueHD tracks with Atmos will play without it. If those are the codecs it supports that means it'll only stream Atmos when it's Atmos encoded over Dolby Digital Plus, which to be fair is what e.g. Prime, Netflix, and Disney will stream to you anyhow, but it doesn't help with watching my rips.
The initial comments on this post seem unreasonably negative. I did have to stop and process things a bit, but the underlying idea deeply resonates with me. This is quite the nugget:

> The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.

Sometimes, I feel like our mental models can form outside of a context (e.g., a classroom setting), and we are tempted to "force" the context to mold to the existing mental model. The problem, as the author describes, is the context tends to be far more complex than your rudimentary mental model.

Instead of forcing the mental model, allow the context to inform and grow it to be reasonable for the current situation. I find this particularly valuable in the field of platform engineering where this sort of behavior is prevalent. Every software team is different, and contexts can vary to a large degree. Instead of taking "the best platform approach" and trying to make your team conform to it, go "be" in the team and let that experience inform what the "best platform approach" is.
Fun fact: There are 3 "south bays" in California.

1. SF Bay Area

2. Los Angeles Beach Cities

3. Orange County
Like a lot of Google products, the branding story has been very confusing. Small possibility that this is a step toward cleaning up some of the historical mess:

Chromecast

Chromecast Ultra

Chromecast with Google TV

Google TV

YouTube TV

YouTube Premium

YouTube Music

YouTube Red

etc.
WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
> In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

It's still not hard to find posts which wouldn't be out of place on The Daily Stormer getting thousands of likes, on accounts with 100k+ followers, and going completely unchecked by the sites moderation. I don't think those advertisers are coming back.
If it gave them enough extra data to sell, yes?

I don't think Sony or Samsung would be paying consumer prices for cheap low-end cell chips or bulk low-bandwidth data plans.
> as someone who dislikes config files to an extreme degree

This tool has a config as well. From the repos readme:

Viking saves data locally. Set VIKING_CONFIG_DIR env variable for a custom directory. Use viking config to check the current config folder.

> hidden information

What exactly is "hidden" about ~/.ssh/config ? It's a plaintext file in a format that is the same across every single machine that uses openssh, which is pretty much every *nix box on the planet.

> commands stop being portable

How is using literal `ssh` not portable? If you're talking about the ssh config: That is a plaintext file that can be checked into a repo and simply downloaded to any machine I want. And again: viking too has a config.

> a modern cli

host=$(
awk '$1 == "Host" && $2 != "*" {print $2}' "$HOME/.ssh/config" |
fzf --reverse
)
[[ -n host ]] && ssh "$host"

There. I just built a modern, interactive tool to chose a server from my ssh config. It requires only fzf as a non-standard dependency, a tool that is present in pretty much every package repository.

> allows me to manage my configurations

vim ~/.ssh/config

There. A powerful, searchable, portable way to manage my SSH configuration. I can even use comments, and have access to all ssh settings available. All dependencies come preinstalled on most *nix boxes.
But under the current system, banks also lose.

Banks need to realize they are better off earning 80% now and helping the economy recover so they can earn 120% later, then earn 100% now and earn zilch later.

However I'm willing to bet there are some misaligned incentives within the large banks that prevent this from happening. (I only say that because misaligned incentives are seemingly the cause of 90% of the issues that plague the actions of any group of people beyond a couple dozen!)
It is overrated because the reliability of statistically generated results will always be suspect.

Would you use a spreadsheet that is known to produce incorrect results 10 percent of the time? What if this same spreadsheet consumed exorbitant amounts of computing power?

LLMs negate some of the foundational selling points of computing.
My wife (1) says that is largely true too here in the US, that independent pharmacies are getting hammered on reimbursement rates and dropping like flies. But the NYTimes article says that the total number of pharmacies has stayed relatively constant since 2018, but that the number of big box chain pharmacies has dropped by half, so there might be some weird NYC exception to the general behavior?

1: She works in a hospital now, so she's not directly exposed to this, but she's worked in retail before and has plenty of friends who still do.
Where's the line, then? You're always going to have external dependencies, so in your usage it seems like an unattainable ideal more-so than a useful phrase anyone could use to convey ideas.

In my utility room I've got a box running TrueNAS with a pile of hard-drives serving data over SMB and NFS. I've got a bunch of tiny business desktop PCs all set up in a k3s cluster hosting a variety of services for myself, family, and friends. Is this self-hosting?

The entire thing's half-useless without a tiny VPS that provides ingress since I'm behind CGNAT. Speaking of, I've got no way to get bits to and from the internet without my ISPs. I also rely on external services for off-site backups and some other storage. While I run my own IMAP/webmail services, I rely on AWS SES for sending email because managing email deliverability (especially from a shared residential address) is something I just don't have the time and patience for.

I think it's generally more useful to take it to mean "taking more control over your dependencies, data and privacy" without drawing a hard line. If someone migrates their social group off of Facebook and on to their own mastadon/something instance running on a VPS somewhere, I don't see any reason to gatekeep the term "self hosting". Making the goal unattainable just discourages people from making positive steps.
vs "I never understood why the company would not pay taxes to improve the environment around its chosen home"?
Chromecast is actually super useful for my immigrants parents. Since some foreign languages' input method on remote is horrendous, Chromecast helps them selecting youtube video easily.
"I'm going to be a Happy Idiot

and struggle for the Legal Tender

where the Ads Take Aim

and Lay Their Claim

to the Heart and the Soul of the Spender

And believe in Whatever May lie

in those things that Money Can Buy

though True Love could have been a Contender

Are you there?

Say a Prayer

for The Pretender

who started out so Young and Strong

only to Surrender"

- - J. Browne, 1976
Honestly generally love it. Not surprising, after all, are we at n8n Fair Code licensed ourselves(not to be confused with Fair Source). I would, however, really love it if it ended up being more inclusive and so in a joint effort rather than a divided one. More information about why we did not join here:
https://medium.com/@faircode/n8n-commits-to-fair-code-6b8923...
But they can deny you severance payments if you say anything bad about them. Not all companies do this, but enough that it makes the analogy to China or the USSR more appropriate
Surplus panels from old technology. Absolutely amazing if you're not a consumerist moron who needs the newest technology because of FOMO.
You are way underestimating GFW and people who work on it.
Evergreen:

https://i.redd.it/bp22t4c46zk01.jpg
From the COMPLAINT

> This is an antitrust action relating to a group boycott by competing advertisers of one of the most popular social media platforms in the United States.

...

>As a condition of GARM membership, GARM’s members agree to adopt, implement, and enforce GARM’s brand safety standards, including by withholding advertising from social media platforms deemed by GARM to be non-compliant with the brand safety
standards

The gist of the lawsuit is

>GARM Members Agree to Follow and Enforce the Brand Safety Standards.

It's not that uncommon to have requirements for being a member of some business association.
Antitrust against free association when the intent is to have industry standards?
if you look at the data, big tech employment grew a ton 2019-2022 and has been flat since.

the layoffs are just a way to clean house while remaining roughly the same size.
296,163 crypto traders have been liquidated in the last 24 hours