skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty happy with them. I’ve booked over 12 trips with my family using AirBnB. Last year we got a bad one though, dirty house, a lamp was stuck in the socket using wires instead of a plug. I reported this to AirBnB and they cancelled the reservation and refunded.

The only disadvantage of the customer service is that although you can do everything in Dutch, once customer service is involved you get called from some weird US phone number, but get an Indian outsourced helpdesk on the other side of the line - who don’t always speak good English.
This is definitely going on and there should be a recourse / feedback mechanism, but I wonder how much media bias distorts the picture. Specifically, are there genuine forfeiture cases that we never hear about because they are less sensational? If so, how many and what is their estimated effect. I've done a couple of drives across U.S. and being targeted crossed my mind more than once, so I really want to see stats on this.
R.I.P. G Suite Business. I had an incredible run with it.
Nice! I've seen other extensions that don't have transactional semantics, which runs counter to the norm for PG.

So since it was previously weakly consistent due to performance reasons, how does strong consistency affect transactional inserts/updates latency?
People that pretend they are animals (usually not real ones but anthropomorphized fictional versions). In different people the pretense can go to different depths, from occasional light cosplay to complete lifestyle change. Sometimes there's a sexual fetish component to it. Since the phrase "identify as" or "identify with" is in fashion now, that's how they are described.
Lucky Numbers of Euler
Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM
Yeah, that was a startling admission to put in the post. If I were a shitty person who wanted to do scam people, I would probably just do it. It isn’t rocket science. But I have this weird quirk where I don’t like causing other people misery.
In Japan, a bicycle with no functional pedals is called: a broken bicycle.

A bike with a motor which propels itself is called: a motor bike.

Japan has had bicycles with electric assist motors for 10+ years. They are popular with moms who need to carry kids but where a car is too cumbersome.

Japan has also had motor bikes for a century. They are popular with lower class workers who want to skip traffic jams and commute cheaper.

Japan is not confused by the shape of a motor bike. Making it look like luggage does not make it luggage (with a motor) but rather a luggage shaped motor bike. Japan appears to handle this Nominative determinism issue quite well.
The past light cone of an object constrains what past events can affect an object regardless of whether the object has awareness of not. So you don’t need memory to experience time, even if you need memory to understand it.
>Why there are no companies that arrange this?

That's a weird expectation. But I think, for starters, that the reason you don't see it often is that when it comes to jobs working with your hands, you'll find that incredibly costly accidents by employees overwhelmingly occur within the first few months. I've seen it while a technician at Verizon and also for the local transportation agency. A new hire is an investment where you take on massive risk to start with, and you recoup costs incurred after the first few months when the risk dramatically falls.
Medieval, more like MIDIeval, am I right?
Basically opensearch and elasticsearch both offer serverless modes now. They work differently because all this was developed post fork. But they do similar things. The Elastic implementation is in early access mode right now, so it is not released yet. I saw a demo of this at one of their meetups in June. I think Opensearch actually moved a bit faster than Elastic on this after Elastic announced that they were working on this a few years ago.

The aim with both is to not have users worry about cluster sizes or cluster management any more, which from an operational point of view is a huge gain because most companies using this stuff aren't very good at doing that properly and the consequences are poor performance, outages, and even data loss when data volume grows.

Serverless essentially decouples indexing and querying traffic. All the nodes are transient and use their local disk only as a cache. Data at rest lives in S3 which becomes the single source of truth. So, if a new node comes up, it simply loads it's state from there and it doesn't have to coordinate with other nodes. There's no more possibility for a cluster to go red either. If a node goes down, it just gets replaced. Basically this makes use of the notion that lucene index segments are immutable after they are written to. There's a cleanup process running in the background that merges segments to clean things up but basically that just means you get a new file that then needs to be loaded by query nodes. I'm not 100% sure how write nodes coordinate segment creation and management. But I assume it involves using some kind of queueing.

So you get horizontal scalability for both reads and writes and you no longer have to worry about managing cluster state.

The tradeoff is that you have a bit increased latency before query nodes can see your incoming data because it has to hit S3 as part of the indexing process before read nodes can pick up new segments. Think multiple seconds before new data becomes visible. Both solutions are best suited for time series type use cases but they can also support regular search use cases. Any kind of use case where the same documents get updated regularly or where reading your own writes matters, things are not going to be great.

Amazon's implementation of course probably leverages a lot of their cloud stuff. Elastics implementation will eventually be available in their cloud solution on all supported cloud providers. Self hosting this is going to be challenging with either solution. So that's another tradeoff.
Generative AI 101 – A developer's first steps
> FSD is moot because it didn't work in the end.

"Work" isn't Boolean — the self drive AI does exist, just not well enough to do everything and even the "F" (though the Waymo AI seems to be?)

The same quality may be worse or better in specific roles, but AI isn't stationary.

> It is why unions/gov protections/certifications exist... accountability and keeping society from unraveling

No, but it is why the Amish and literal communism existed — but in the latter case, they weren't opposed to the automation itself just the unfairness of using profit to make workers redundant.

Unions are more about fair pay for fair work, and safe conditions in that work. Certifications are consumer protection.
> if you make tech money

It is a great tragedy that the US with all its money and diversity of geography and people has only really managed to produce a single walkable city and a scattered handful of “I don’t always use my car” neighborhoods, which are always the most expensive places to live. So many cities outside the US manage to do this on a fraction of the budget.
What do the implementation details have to do with the general characteristics of any developer/backend software coming from google?

They're always designed for infinite scaling, they always have trade offs like the initial setup costs, they always don't belong in a small operation.

There are always people with a fetish for those solutions because it feels good to have the potential to handle "big data".
The apple dimension would include selling injection molding marks as a luxury feature, if that's what their products have
I've just noticed that the upgrade notification window mentions that I need to upgrade the license... so I checked out the news on their website and it seems they've switched from licenses being valid for a major version, to only being valid for 3 years. This feels like a bit of a rug pull on an already very expensive editor. I won't be renewing and I guess this is the end of the line for Sublime and I.
How does their race and skin color matter in the slightest?
Wait until the people shocked and horrified about this consider cloudflare...
Let's see, the root filesystem is read-only with tamper-proof authentication, user's home directory is encrypted.

Chrome runs with the usual privilege separation in multiple processes each in it's own tight sandbox.

There is no way to autostart anything.

Even in the nuclear case of a 0-day RCE + chained sandbox breakout + privilege escalation to root, the threat can not persist itself... you just reboot the device and are save again.

And the list goes on...

Their crosvm VMM puts every emulated piece of hardware in it's own isolated process[1]. The drive emulator is blocked from even open files itself.

Google has lot's of experience in security, they are one of the few who still build their own browser, the most hostile environment.

[1] https://crosvm.dev/book/appendix/sandboxing.html
Relevant quote:

> They say San José is going to become another Los Angeles. Believe me, I'm going to do everything in my power to make that come true. [0]

In SJ, you usually have a car door separating the homeless from you. Seems like SJ is more car-oriented in design; driving in SF is really awful and if I lived there I'd avoid it

If I had to summarize: SJ -> boring, lots of jobs with great variety, easier to avoid riffraff; SF -> cooler (in character and temperature), grittier, more loud politically

Personally, if I could get a cushy corporate job in SF I'd just live there. But it seems like that's becoming harder

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California#History
This doesn’t mean LLMs are inherently non-deterministic, just that current common implementations are non-deterministic.
The M18 fuel chainsaw is honestly not that bad and cuts as well as my gas powered Stihl. I do need 3 8Ah batteries in rotation to be able to continuously use it for hours however.
You can. If you do that, you'd likely be sued by the owner of the real Iron Man trademark (well, they'd send C&D first and if you don't stop they'll sue). But it's not likely you'd suffer any prosecution from the regulators. Of course, people legitimately dealing with Iron Man IP would otherwise ignore you, since they know who the real owner is. You may cause trouble to some people that are fair-using some Iron Man IP, but no more than Marvel already causing them anyway (probably much less).
[face slap emoji] thank you, you saved me from refreshing their site every couple months.
They thought you were referring to the Holy Mountain movie clip from YouTube that the parent comment shared.

When you said "that video", it was ambiguous whether "that" referred to the promo video or the one the comment shared. It seemed fairly clear to me that you'd be asking an AI question about the 2024 promo video and not the one from 1973, but it evidently wasn't clear enough as multiple people have assumed the latter.

Apparently I'm the official translator for both sides of this conversation.
Prime-Generating Polynomial
There's a Borges story lurking here...
Show me a company that successfully does this.
Never be an *ss in front of anyones kids. I always also say thank you, and to I'll add to p.o.c. "Have a blessed day." I got that from my friend answering machine. Thanks Solomon, I will.

I dug ditches for just one season, and I can still feel it sometimes. The struggle is hard and it real.
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I think above causal duty, the power of a gas tool still is unmatched. A proper gas Stihl is incredibly powerful and makes processing wood easy. At least the electrical ones I’ve seen wouldn’t work on a 12” log.

Regarding regulations - the solution is to not ban things.
States like California love to use hard bans as solutions to everything but it is better to just incentivize some things and allow choice to still exist. After all, if what you’re prescribing is truly better wouldn’t people naturally choose it?
Are EV 'Charger Hogs' Ruining the EV Experience?
I think the trick is that they're not a VC at all, they're a startup accelerator. Their primary competitors are TechStars, Seedcamp, AngelPad, and Antler. They seem to be putting up a fight, despite 0 name recognition comparitively!

https://www.techstars.com/blog

https://seedcamp.com/our-network/

https://angelpad.com/#do

https://www.antler.co/insights
Buy Stihl. Problem solved. It's not _quite_ as powerful as 24" gas-powered chainsaws, but it's really close for almost everybody.

You can also buy a battery pack backpack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQUhCXPkzsc (I haven't tried it).
The plan is to run the high speed rail along the same tracks at reduced speed, so if that doesn't get cancelled they'll eventually remove all those
From the linked article "often along ethnic lines".
Just wow. Wow.
What about very small rocks?

Steel doesn't float or "swim" either yet all modern ships are made of steel. As the article states, a platform floating on water could lift the stones. The principle is displacement, nothing to do with what the things you need to float is made of.
My favorite device used to be a Chromebook (Dell Chromebook 13, codename Lulu). But it stopped getting updates a long time ago (wasn't covered by the new 10 year policy). It ran for a long time just fine but then a few sites started not working on the old version of Chrome.

I flashed it's bootloader to the Mr Chromebox one and now it's been running Fedora Kinoite very well. So still my favorite device, just a new favorite OS. Kinoite (via RPM Ostree) gives that same feeling of no worry updates.

ChromeOS is great and has only improved. Its great as an OS that needs absolutely no care and feeding. It was amazingly efficient, it didn't start struggling until 120+ browser tabs. But Kinoite (combined with things like Distrobox) is more flexible. There's a lot more of how the sausage is made especially getting full disk encryption going (I used tang and clevis) on Kinoite. And ChromeOS has some of the things that make Distrobox and Flatpaks great (desktop integration basically).

So TL;DR, look at flashing your bootloader and installing Linux.

https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/getting-started.html
> Since individuals rarely have a complete overview of the entire system.

I think the key phrase you are missing which is repeated many places in the timeline is “Engineering was not consulted”.
His failure wasn’t that he doesn’t know the entire system, it was that he kept engineering in the dark, “investigated” on his own, and made conclusions to disregard the persistent researcher who kept banging at the door saying “there is an issue” despite him disregarding it again and again, notably without consulting engineering.

You don’t need to know the entire system as CISO, but you certainly do need to know that you don’t know the entire system as CISO. This wasn’t an institutional failure, it was a personal failure at a very high level.

I’m not arguing that the guy had to resign, merely pointing out that the narrative used to argue against his resignation is flawed.
How much is "large", ballpark?
I went to Canada for a birthday week. Great time. Interacted with a lot of people. Not a single scourging word. Not a one. Zero. I will never forget that.
i just need the clipboard to be honest and maybe a service that can nat punch
I mostly remember being stuck in Memphis ~40 years ago...

I don't remember what boarding passes looked like then. I assume detachable, printed boarding pass stubs were not yet being used.

I actually started the trip in Grand Rapids, MI where I presumably checked in at the main counter, and received seat assignments for two flights (GRR => DTW, DTW => HOU (Hobby or International). I probably checked a garment bag.

I don't remember the circumstances in Detroit but somehow ended up boarding the Memphis/Houston flight rather than the Houston flight. I don't know if I was at the wrong gate because I read the wrong flight on the monitor, saw a gate with a sign that included Houston, or some other reason. I don't remember any boarding announcement so maybe I had a tight connection.

I then handed my boarding pass to the gate person and boarded the plane. It wasn't until there was a seat conflict in Memphis when a flight attendent noticed my boarding pass did not match this flight.

I suspect it was a one-stop flight rather than a hub-and-spoke connecting flight like I had in Detroit. Maybe the original signage listed both airports. I did not get off the plane in Memphis until the next set of passengers came on and someone said they had my seat. Then finally, an employee finally noticed I was on the wrong flight.

I do remember airline employees discussing that it was a full flight and they considered having someone on an employee ticket give up their seat but in the end they booted me off.

My luggage arrived ahead of me.
That really isn't very many when you consider what the opportunities for failure are with hundreds of millions of people driving many hours a day
Startup founder looking for feedback:) Git and LLM to generate stock insights
Ask HN: What Happened to Quora?
I used to like Quora. But right now when I opened an answer

It shows "all related" by default, not "answers". A lot of the contents are not even related.

I will tiktok if I'm killing time. I'm here for saving time.
It is reasonable. Many totalitarian governments hide crime statistics. Many badly run police forces discourage reporting certain types of crime, like theft or robbery, to not mess up their stats. Of course, at some crime level, the difference between the official picture and the reality becomes impossible to hide, but the pretense usually lasts much longer even if it's obvious how hollow it is. But yes, it is very rational for the government whose interests are detached from the interests of the citizens, to manipulate the data, and they frequently do.
A simple proof that pi is irrational [pdf] (1946)
Must upvote this. I sometimes ask Copilot instead of startpage.com especially when I find it hard to formulate those kind of keywords for a classical googly search engine that would probably lead to meaningful results, and LLMs can be very helpful with that. The other day I had copilot write me a bookmarklet that will cause the focused DOM element on a web page get highlighted with an outline; nothing compared to those success stories you get to read but I find it impressive it did just work—copy, paste, done.

But the downside is that when you ask questions about a subject matter that you deeply care for and are well-versed in, or when you have specific formal requests (like the other day when I asked for a semicolon-delimited enumeration of terms and it kept giving me lists with no semicolons), or sometimes when you ask the LLM to avoid certain terms or stylistic mannerisms—those are often moments when the cracks in the system become glaringly obvious.

And that's where the problem lies when using LLMs to learn new things, you never know where it goes off the rails. Sure, that random blog post on the internet has much the same problem; maybe it's just because of extended exposition that I tend to believe I can rather tell an incompetent blog post from a relevant one than doing the same with answers by ChatXYZ.
I've been using radial menu from Charmstone to switch apps on macos for about half a year and it's a really great paradign. Never could memorize too many shortcuts for switching apps but this is just as fast. I wish there was a high quality app for windows that did this.
Kitchen sponges can be used as memory devices
Link for the paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/sm/d4sm00099...
More people are using more secure devices. Smart dust is also intended for deployment in battlegrounds or adversarial areas where devices are not under NATO control. China already mostly controls devices in use, and Russia is preparing to block all IOS and Google Android.
The top-of-the line electric Stihls are 2.8kW (MSA 300 C-O), the 24" Husqvarna is 2.7kW (3.62hp).

There are some caveats. Electric chainsaw's top performance falls slightly as the battery is depleted.

There's an interesting review here, with data tables: https://nordicwoodjournal.com/deep/testing-the-stihl-msa-300...
yup, vless works, mullvad/nordvpn/pia/surfshark don't.
You mean they won't switch to a 3-4 hour, mostly flat, 50 mile bike ride?
This is really the problem. I was mid cut felling a 40' pine when I ran out of battery power and had to wait for the backup battery to finish charging so I could finish the cut, which was incredibly nerve racking because I was taking down a tree in my backyard but it abutted an area the neighborhood used as a walkway. I even had to redirect a few people who were trying to use the walkway for fear of killing someone if the tree fell while I was waiting.

My electric chainsaw has seem a lot of work, but you really have to be sure you have enough batteries to get the job done.
Agreed. The other plausible, realistic and decent option is that the author of the reaction to my comment does not understand the article at all and does not understand much about who has influence in a company and who’s incentivized to hide, change or create problems. Good luck!
> how RDP work

Uses a combination of different tech [0]. MS-RDPBCGR is at the base of it all, sort of like the main event loop [1]. MS-RDPEGDI looks into the actual drawing commands and optimizes them on the fly [2]. Then there's the MS-RDPEDC for desktop composition optimizations [3]. Also a bunch of other bits and pieces, like MS-RDPRFX which uses lossy compression optimization [4].

In RDP you don't get to play only with the bitmap or image stream data, but the actual interactions that are happening on the screen. You could say for example that the user right clicked a desktop item. Now send and render only the pop-up menu for this, and track and draw the mouse actions inside that "region" only.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
[4] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
I'd not worry too much about forgetting things when learning; it's part of the process. Immersion, repetition, and, above all, a vivid, maybe visceral interest in the subject matter are essential.
Show HN: Productivity and collaboration tool for those who use WordPress at work
Yes, no, yes.
Are you saying their moat must not have been built?
> I scrape even app and websites data

And then try to sell it back to businesses, even suggesting they use the data to train AI. You also make it sound like there’s a team manually doing all the work.

https://www.economizafloripa.com.br/?q=parceria-comercial

That whole page makes my view of the project go from “helpful tool for the people, to wrestle back control from corporations selling basic necessities” to “just another attempt to make money”. Which is your prerogative, I was just expecting something different and more ethically driven when I read the homepage.
Seems cool, I'd buy it and put it on my book shelf
Agreed. Hopefully the govs price gouging mitigation strategy includes free flow of information (allowing scraping for price comparison).

I’ve been interested in price comparison for Australia for a while, am a Product designer/manager with a concept prototype design, looking for others interested to work on it. My email is on my profile if you are.
Do you have some use cases that can show different ways of using the service?
Apparently it allows the board of supervisors to remove the sheriff for cause: https://www.dailynews.com/2022/11/08/election-2022-la-county...
> After all, if what you’re prescribing is truly better wouldn’t people naturally choose it?

No, not really. People are very bad at choosing the thing that will result in the best outcome for themselves, let alone for the rest of us.