skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same as it has been with all the other media consumed by advertising so far. Radio, television, newspapers, telephony, music, video. Ads metastasizing to Internet services are normal and expected progression of the disease.

At every point, there's always a rationalization like this available, that you can use to calm yourself down and embrace the suck. "They're marking it clearly". "Creators need to make money". "This is good for business, therefore Good for America, therefore good for me". "Some ads are real works of art, more interesting to watch than the actual programming". "How else would I know what to buy?".

The truth is, all those rationalizations are bullshit; you're being screwed over and actively fed poison, and there's nothing you can do about it except stop using the service - which quickly becomes extremely inconvenient to pretty much impossible. But since there's no one you could get angry at to get them to change things for the better, you can either adopt a "justification" like the above, or slowly boil inside.
Logitech ponders a 'forever mouse' that requires a subscription
Is this the strongest you can manage :)?

Okay my bad at innuendoing the context/env/extra quantifiers, but I think you get what I'm driving at (even if I don't, not really?)

But I guess this here is great starting point for collaborative firmware debugging.
Cargo Cult Capital
> Last I checked Google doesn't 'sell your information to people', but it does offer hyper targeted ads

So you understand what I’m talking about. I didn’t mean selling the information directly. Because why would they, they make more money by keeping the data to themselves and selling you out indirectly from the information they gathered over and over.
The 17th largest city in the US is mid-sized?
It's easy to criticise, but what do you recommend? Lowering interest rates to fight inflation? I think Turkey keeps trying this, without much success.
Low interest rates seem to help Japan keep inflation (and thankfully, big mac prices) low anyway.
Yes, there is no evidence we will "burn". An increase in temperature does not ignite the planet.
Definitely NOT with SMS.

https://www.okta.com/blog/2020/10/sms-authentication/
I would imagine that it was set up so that it is rented from Musk (instead of owning* outright), but it's Musk so who knows.

* I know it's still not owned owned but there is still a legal difference between X Corp directly renting x.com (from Verisign) versus leasing x.com by a different owner (maybe Musk, maybe a holding corp) to X Corp.
You aren't wrong, although your comfortable car ride also includes huge amounts of risk of personal injury, we just tend to not think about that until it happens.

The lack of other places for people to go often leaves public transit facilities as a place for homeless people to congregate or seek shelter.

The US also tends to treat public transit as welfare transit in general. A transportation option of last resort for those who can't afford a car, where the primary goal is being inexpensive, instead of being the best and most efficient way to move around a city for all citizens.

Transit stations in the US also generally don't have revenue-generating amenities like food, coffee, or shopping. This makes them money sinks instead of revenue sources that pay for their own cleaning and security etc.

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”
They could, and they should, but they definitely won't. Similar to how they use just a ChatGPT anonymized wrapper for their "advanced AI features", they'll just outsource search to some big player as well.
I have, yeah.

Still useless for my day to day coding work.

Most useful for whipping up a quick bash or Python script that does some simple looping and file io.
I'm puzzled by this move. The more and more I read about a business being political the less I want to support it.

I have been a long time twitter user for 15 years (some years daily and some years weekly) and I just made a threads account.
The software industry is on a mission to re-discover Basic and Pascal.

But with "new and improved" syntax for political and marketing purposes. See Python for example.
At the end of the day, a lot of these things can still be done, and can still be practiced, if only you go and try. Traditional handicraft, traditional cooking, traditional songs -- all of these things can be learned. Try them, and seek out others who are interested, and you will be amazed by what you can do!
Mostly agree, but there are few places no one cares. The pattern is generally that they just get chased around from one place to another, forever.
> At one time, there was a system that got it to my ears. It was a radio with a great DJ who named the song and the artist after each track, so I could walk to the record store. Or else a good friend played their copy.

But there is a system, and it's better at hitting more people. They post it online to somewhere with a list of people who like that type of music (Youtube, Tiktok, etc). If it is something people want to listen to, they share it and it propagates through those circles - no need to go to a record store or bring it to a friends house. Eventually it hits the older "mainstream" channels - radio, your Spotify recommendations, etc.
He’ll probably name his next kid X. His history at PayPal shows how obsessed he is with that letter.
Optimizing Technical Documentation for LLMs [video]
I think it was metaphorical.
Yet another petty tyrant rants. In this time of cult of personality how is that newsworthy or unexpected? But this is "fortune.com", a corporate rag, so perhaps it is interesting to them.
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I feel like I’m sitting on the edge of the ocean, not a nice wonderful sandy beach where the gentle waves are lapping at my feet and the breeze blowing through my non-existent hair, but rather a boiling and roiling ocean pounding the shoreline and destroying my beautiful castle of sand.
Probably the right thing for noexcept would be to enforce a "noexcept may only call noexcept methods", but that ship has sailed. I also understand that it would necessarily create the red/green method problem, but that's sort of unavoidable.
Outlook Email Rendering Issues and How to Solve Them
Local private models are not a threat to openai.

Local is not where the money is, it’s in cloud services and api usage fees.
this AI safety stuff is just a rabbit hole of distraction, IMO.

OpenAI will be better off without this crowd and just focus on building good products.
I don't understand the difference in your two propositions, since money is fungible : whether the ratio is established globally or customer per customer, the end result would be the same, wouldn't it ?
Unless there are specific calculation rules ?
Most of austrailias population is concentrated around a few areas. The us population is very spread out.
IMO if they released a mid level performer workstation card with 48-64GB of VRAM for a reasonable price (my understanding is standard GDDR6 is not overly expensive), say under $1k usd, they would not only fly off the shelves, but they would also gain OSS efforts improving popular packages. Products like the NVIDIA A6000 are so insanely overpriced, I’m still baffled why larger VRAM cards haven’t come out more competitive.
> Who cares?

> They should know better and the best have already left or been culled.

We should care, even if it's just a little. Some of them may not be able to leave for various reasons: health, family, immigration status, who knows.

Maybe if more of us showed a bit more empathy towards each other online, the Internet wouldn't be such a sociopathic cesspool. These are real people you're talking about, not inanimate objects.
RAGFlow 0.9 is released to support GraphRAG end-to-end
A Quick Look at FuelEconomy.gov shows many modern cars for sale with highway efficiency of 25mpg or less. Some (many?) people may judge it unconscionable, but it’s clearly acceptable to the broader market and current regulations.

These models seem to be big (Volkswagen Atlas, Subaru Ascent, Ford F150) or fast (Audi RS5, Porche 911, Kia Stinger). If you can get similar mpg from an airplane that carries four people and their luggage at 100+ mph ground speed on a more direct (shorter) route… that’s very compelling to me.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/PowerSearch.do?action=noform...
Thanks for the summation. I was aware of Rosetta Stone as an older entity.

Babbel sounds interesting.
`inline` is my favorite example of this. It's a "This does things, not what you think it does, and also it's not used for what you think it is. Don't use it".
Yeah. The way I handle this is to make an array (or set) of those strings and then define a union type of that array.

Which is basically just an enum of my own invention. But after years of trying different things, I find this is the most practical. Objects are uncomfortable. TS enums really suck, IMO.

So maybe we’re actually in agreement. And to an extent can just have both: autocompletable, legible strings without another import or object. And also an iterable collection of the variants.
Microsoft Azure outage takes down services across North America
> unlike those useless petitions on websites such as Change.org

I've always thought change.org was just a brilliantly constructed honeypot for rage.
IT work isn’t marketed to children
There’s how much the company can take, and how much Elon thinks the company can take. He subscribes to the ubermensch view, where him and maybe two other superior specimens of manhood could single handedly run the entire company.
GM lab rats if you want in-vivo, better computational models of you want in-silico.

Both are happening; I have no idea what ultimate (or indeed present) limits each has.
Look, we all know you’re making that up but if we take you at face value, you just defined conservatism as the beliefs bad enough to get Twitter’s famously hands-off moderators to act. Nobody got blocked for advocating for smaller government, business-friendly policies, or talking about their religious or family values – it was threats of violence, slurs, targeted harassment, election misinformation, etc. None of the conservatives I know would claim those as defining their beliefs, and they’d be rather insulted to have you define them that way.
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> They'll be back to barrage balloons next.

Already happened: https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-use-wwii-tactic-defen...
> ...then realising that demand elasticity doesn't apply if they act in unison.

So you're not actually disagreeing?
Layoffs are expensive compared to making people miserable so they quit.
Show HN: AI Socials Assistant
Hello HN! I'm excited to share Yolt with you all.

Yolt is your AI socials assistant. Yolt helps you create captions across 10+ social networks simultaneously. It can also recommend you neat emojis and summarize YouTube videos and articles.

You can paste ANYTHING - it can be your copywriting/marketing material, a script, or even completely unstructured notes. Yolt uses this to generate captions that are fine-tuned to the vibe of each social network. Yolt is powered by a combination of OpenAI's GPT-4 and Meta's Llama-3.1 405B models. (Kudos to both teams!)

Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions!
Nvidia's subscription software empire is taking shape
I find it frustrating, not difficult.

My "offline" songs are sometimes no longer downloaded. Trying to navigate to my saved songs takes me past multiple ads for podcasts I don't care about, and looking up an artist gives me ads for shows they're playing or their new albums.

I just want my collection of music and to be able to play it without wading through a sea of garbage.
I don't know how much of a success TRACTOR will be, probably not a success at all but the fact that thousands perhaps millions of dollars are spend for that is just a testimony for rusts future. I don't think it will harm rusts reputation more than the rust foundation dramas.
For developers it's always a risk to invest a lot of time in mastering a language. More so if the language to master is rust, a hard one to begin with. But yeah I guess rust devs need to remind themselves that it is worth it and TRACTOR did just that for me
> Generally, on Unix systems the default is to generate a file named core in the current directory of the crashing process.

Sounds like a horrible default. That's a security risk (working directory might be readable by untrusted users), and pollutes a random directory with a file that could cause problems for other applications processing files in that directory.

A fixed location inside the user's home directory feels like a much better choice to me.
> the industry was selling 10x the number of GA planes it does today, so I imagine 10x more were flying as well.

I'm pretty sure most of these planes from the 1970s are still merrily flying around!

The wikipedia article on the 1994 General Aviation Revitalization Act has a graph showing the astonishing drop in shipped aircraft (and the rise in unit cost!) since around 1980:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Aviation_Revitalizatio...
They cleaned it up for President Xi's visit.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/14/city-clears-homeless-encam...
Doubt. The indices are huge if they are to be useful, also if the task was so easy there'd be more competition in the search market. Even players like Brave give you the option to mix in google search results, for cases where their index does not yield enough results.

Also, local search is not scalable. Imagine if everyone, or even just a small fraction of end users, was trying to crawl the whole web for indexing.

But a couple of ideas that might actually work are:

1. A decentralised open source search engine, where the results are collated from a local index plus the indices of your connected peers, maybe plus a number of hops out to indirect connections. Would have to find a way to block users with tainted indices though, because that would quickly become part of the SEO market.

2. A local investigation engine without a central index to which you give a search query and which then trawls the net in a goal directed fashion to build up an index specifically with web sites that are interesting with regard to the search inquiry. You might have to leave it to run for a day or a couple, but you might be able to get good results with that, if done well.
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Mental Health Outcomes
Isn't it reasonable to assume that one of the consequences will be "Google, and nobody else, can do this," therefore applying OP's logic?
TUI yes.

Now do it for 3 different browsers and all browser-based services you need to use daily (Like Confluence, Jira and Github).
There's... absolutely nothing wrong with cloning the featureset of software? Even WordStar itself started out as a clone of a different editor, if I've understood the Wikipedia history ("...When IBM announced it was bringing DisplayWrite to the PC, MicroPro focused on creating a clone of it which they marketed, in 1984, as WordStar 2000..."). And in turn, WordStar itself has been cloned multiple times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar#WordStar_2000

If ML would make it much easier to clone software UX, make that kind of task accessible to non-programmer users—then, all power to the users. I'm in solidarity with users. I'm in solidarity with their wish to configure their text-editing software to look and feel exactly as they want it. This shouldn't be the sole province of Emacs priests; if people of the future can do all that magic, not with dozens of hours of Lisp hacking, but with a flick of an LLM wand—the world is that much a better, richer, place for the human species.
He said they want to move all the HQs to Texas, which implies they could still have offices in California just maybe smaller. This may be part of the plan.

They are also opening a new Palo Alto office for xAI where they could move a lot of engineering talent as well. Which is likely the other big reason.
Third-oldest university in England debate
Does TSMC have sufficient capacity in the works to satisfy all the demand for sota/near sota fabrication?

People sometimes wonder why anyone is buying Boeing planes—it’s because it’s that or nothing. Airbus has no spare capacity.
Yes, that should be at the top of the page. There is one in the build guide.
You wouldn't need ssh at such short distance.
Look at their staff; all engineers, nobody there who has ever got anything past the FAA.
Bugs, fraud and cyberattacks: technical challenges for Paris 2024 Olympics app
Popular office app Simpli leaked up to 10k employee credentials
So after naughty ol' Mr Car took over Twitter, but before I stopped using the site (this would probably have been around Oct 22), I started, after never having followed or interacted with him, getting multiple inane tweets from Musk in my feed every day, along with constant suggestions to follow him. So I blocked him (I think he was one of three people in 15 years on the site who I felt the need to block). I assume this is fairly common for Twitter users; can't imagine it's gotten _better_ since.
Searx was an option for a little while, but apparently it's not maintained anymore.
To be fair, LLMs are pretty good natural language search engines. Like when I'm looking for something in an API that does something I can describe in natural language, but not succinctly enough to show up in a web search, LLMs are extremely handy, at least when they don't just randomly hallucinate the API. On the other hand I think this is more of a condemnation of the fact that search tech has not 'really' meaningfully advanced beyond where it was 20 years ago, more than it is a praise of LLMs.
WordStar for DOS 7.0 Archive
one of the best free courses out there, check it out.
> The only way to achieve the "thousands times as many artists making many thousands" is to have separate communities of music markets that do not overlap.

This is not true. All you need is to have multiple buyers with different tastes and a functioning discovery system that allows each individual to find what they like.

The latter is the opposite of what the industry provides. They promote what's popular, regardless of whether you'll like it.

And then they make it difficult for anyone else to do otherwise, because artists who want to be The Rolling Stones sign the record contract thinking they'll get promoted, and then they don't get promoted but the record company owns their songs and charges prohibitively high fees for streaming so independents can't afford to play it and let listeners discover it.

This is how they destroyed internet radio, for example. Before the industry lobbied to change the law law, there was a vibrant set of internet radio stations. Then the Kill Internet Radio Act passed and set the fees higher than most of the independent stations could afford without taking payola, and now "internet radio" is dominated by iHeart Radio, AKA Clear Channel, the same company that owns all the terrestrial radio stations that play the Top 40 on loop.
thanks, it's not perfect yet but I think it's a good thing to share.
Cars in Finland didn't used to have A/C (1980s). But now they do.
>Most cars give you significant warnings that you're about to run out of gas and as a result very few people do.

You will see accident reports where the problem is that the pilot just completely failed to put enough fuel in the airplane and then flew it until it ran out; but that's not the typical thing.

What's much more common is that the pilot takes off with what seems like ample fuel, gets halfway there, discovers weather that is worse than expected, has to fly lower than planned, burns a lot more fuel as a result, discovers that they will have to refuel, can't find an airport with good weather at which to land, and ends up flying a graveyard spiral into a fatal crash caused by disorientation in conditions for which they are not trained.

The majority of accidents are traceable to poor planning or decision-making once airborne; and I tend to agree with the other poster that improved avionics are not going to make a really big difference.
More devs writing more code causes more bugs.

Seems to make sense.
> Then a doped up former major league pitcher decides to hop in your plane and fly it into the ocean and everything you have done is called into question and you end up buried in lawsuits.

Here's what I don't understand. If the same meathead pitcher gets in his Ferrari and drives it into a tree, nobody questions the car company or buries them in lawsuits. Driver crashes car, it's their fault.

So wouldn't it stand to reason that aviation evolve into the 21st century by eliminating much of the red tape? Sure, cars are required to leverage new technology to enhance safety (e.g. mandating back-up cameras), and the same should apply to an aviation world which treats aircraft as they are: cars in three dimensions rather than two.

All that red tape was necessary when flying was extremely dangerous with primitive technology. We now have the means, through continuous enhancement, to make a "safe enough" aircraft and offload some of the risk on the driver.
It's written above, bridge destination address in the "legacy" IPv4 destination header, and that bridge can be figured out by looking up the reverse dns entries on a IPv4 Extended IP, until the user is natively using an IPv4 Extended network.

This brings the packet closer to the destination.

The new address goes into the Options field, you can store lot of data there (somewhere up-to-60 bytes, and we need 1 or 2 byte actually).

Reminder: The goal is to add one-byte to have more IP addresses, not rewrite the whole internet.

Here it looks like the guys wanted to fix that IP allocation problem, and then they went all-in, and decided to rewrite everything at the same time.

It's ok, and even a good idea in theory, but network administrators don't like to be pressured "in emergency" into upgrading to this solution.

The practice shows that people rather prefer doing NAT than IPv6.
Yes, because they get a competitive advantage when they hold all that information for themselves.

They have your email (gmail), location history (google maps), search history (google), viewing history (youtube) and know pretty much every site you've visited (chrome + ad network).

This is the data they aggregate and sell to advertisers so that their ads can target highly specific groups of people - they don't want the advertisers getting the direct dataset, that would be competition.
Excellent work. This is a key component of a truly ergonomic keyboard for me, and only a tiny fraction of fancy keyboards include pointing devices.

I discovered that round trackpad module a while ago, and considered a similar project. I ended up getting a UHK paid for by my company's ergonomics budget instead.
> I'm not convinced by any of these arguments about "knowing how to program in WebGPU". Graphics 101 benchmarks are the entire point of a GPU.

You're totally right that it's the same hardware, but idiomatic use of the API can still affect performance pretty drastically.

Historically OpenGL and DX11 drivers would try to detect certain patterns and fast path them. Modern graphics APIs (WebGPU, Vulkan, DX12, Metal) make these concepts explicit to give developers finer grained control without needing a lot of the fast path heuristics. The downside is that it's easy to write a renderer targeting a modern graphics API that ends up being slower than the equivalent OpenGL/DX11 code, because it's up to the developer to make sure they're on the fast path instead of driver shenanigans. This was the experience with many engines that ported from OpenGL to Vulkan or DX11 to DX12: performance was roughly the same or worse until they changed their architecture to better align with Vulkan.

Simple graphics benchmarks aren't a great indicator for relative performance of graphics APIs for real use cases. As an extreme example, rendering "hello triangle" for Vulkan vs. OpenGL isn't representative of a real use case, but I've seen plenty of people measure this.