skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What became of "don't ask to ask" (https://dontasktoask.com/)? Although it may take some getting used to, I find it convincing that one shouldn't need to ask about whether it'd be OK to ask for short questions because the question for permissing is interrupting just as much as the actual question except that with the former it may be impossible to estimate how complex it is whereas it may be much easier to decide if the question is known.

For longer issues, could it make more sense to schedule an (online) meeting?

And on the receiving side of interruptions: Ocasionally it has helped me to just keep the "chat app" closed when I want to concentrate on something. If anyone has something urgent, they could always elevate to performing an old-style synchronous phone call, but interestingly this rarely happens with "text-chat" people :)
> Somehow, weirdly, we use the term 'benefit', without with I may more easily and quickly die or languish in pain. Some benefit ;)

Not dying or languishing in pain sounds like a pretty awesome benefit. And indeed, that’s the problem with health care: when one needs it, one will pay almost anything to the provider.

Prices are a communication: they signal customers how to ration goods, and producers how to produce them. The higher the price, the fewer the customers but the more the producers; the lower the prices, the more the customers but the fewer the producers. In a free economy, it is possible to say that the work output of one FAANG engineer is economically worth that of 5 New York City garbagemen or 10 Podunk, Idaho janitors or 35 burger-flippers.

How many rolls of toilet paper is one vial of insulin worth? Infinitely more, to someone who doesn’t need insulin. Some fraction, for someone who does. Some really small fraction, for someone who needs it right now. It doesn’t make any sense for all three of those people to pay the same price, for either the toilet paper or the insulin.

In a single-payer system, how much does the single payer pay? How much do the producers of health care (e.g., physicians, surgeons, nurses, medical researchers, pharmaceutical factories) get paid? It ends up being based on the whims of the people setting those prices (a wage is just a labour price), not on any fundamental voice of the market — and thus it is either too high, or too low, and there is no feedback mechanism to constrain it. And that means society will produce either too little or too much health care, which means it will produce too much or too little of other things.
Very cool idea, but for me it completely doesn't work. I'll open an image, the entire computer (running Linux) will briefly freeze (including stopping Spotify in its tracks) and when it comes back, the only thing that's left is a message from Firefox telling the tab has crashed.
Getting tired of seeing this concept of practically guaranteed hallucinations from any LLM used in production. I've used LLMs for various tasks, and if you tune your system correctly, it can be very reliable. It's just not always plug-and-play reliability. You need to set up your fine-tuning and prompts and then test well for consistent results.
Yes, and everybody who has been forced to settle out a discrimination case where the alleged facts included questions about the candidate's zip code had a reason other than "we don't want Black folks working here" answer, and if they were dumb enough to take that case all the way to court, they might even have prevailed with it, but in employment law it's the ride not the rap.

I'm assuming everybody who's been a witness (or god forbid a party) to a protected-class employment lawsuit had their eyebrows shoot up all the way off their head at the premise of this article, which is "rooting out secret North Koreans from an incoming flow of candidates, in part using forensic interview questions".
> but not everyone is cut out for eating ramen for two years

We all know failure rate in startups is somewhere around 95%, so young folks are mostly being already smart to not listen that much to those few loud ones with survivor's bias. And even those who don't fail, owners often screw early employees out of any meaningful compensation as company grows.

Its fine to eat for 2 years ramens, but then if its still probable you will have nothing to show afterwards apart from worse health and wasted life for somebody else's success, that's fail right there. Even corporations are better proposition in such case - 2 years of solid effort under good manager can land you a nice senior job with adequate compensation (or just ask for it elsewhere, thats how to elevate one's salary a few times).

As for general topic - if folks want to retire, most of them will, either by assessing well their declining physical and mental health, or simply having other passions. Life can bring so much more beauty to those few remaining years compared to anything coming out of sitting in front of screen, but not everybody had the luxury of discovering this.
Large companies consolidate industries and have the asymmetric advantage of more resources than individuals. They can leverage AI and other economic models to extract more and more from individuals. As we saw recently with Justice Department case against RealPage, the large companies can collude without officially colluding through better information access.

The end result is that there is less slack in the economic system. There are fewer and fewer opportunities for individuals to leverage inefficiencies. It means there is less room to be human. Less room to make mistakes.
> Or is it such a low power transmitter that it doesn't need licensing?

This is my guess. Seems like it's intended to sync up speakers before Sonos and the like, so probably in the same class as those little FM broadcasters we all used to use to get music from our phone to our car. It's profoundly uninteresting to me that someone has one of these and is looping 60 seconds of audio somewhere in the world... but what do I know?
The main reason probably was the fact that I was already familiar with Docker and Docker Compose. Kubernetes introduces a whole lot of concepts that I didn't feel like studying up, plus there was a 3-node minimum requirement. I just wanted to be able to start with a single node and be able to scale up if needed, so Swarm just felt like a natural match here.

I'm looking into K8s and other orchestrators like Nomad and perhaps will add support in Lunni at some point, but for now I believe Swarm is the sweet spot for smaller deployments (from single server up to maybe a couple hundred nodes).
Of course our national bird would be "veal in taste and tenderness." The Bald Eagle truly is the modern day forbidden fruit.
Thank you for your interest.
Unfortunately, DarajayApp does not have a free plan
because continuing to provide the ponies
delivering M&M's for breakfast
requires time, effort, and money.
Thanks again, Darajay

Good luck.
As soon as I finish my scientific investigation into Murphy's Law, I'll get right on it...
Great quote at 45:26 regarding vertical vs. horizontal scaling: https://youtu.be/si9iqF5uTFk?t=2726

> "Now back in the early days of this country, when they moved heavy objects around, they didn't have any Caterpillar tractors, they didn't have any big cranes. They used oxen. And when they got a great big log on the ground, and one ox couldn't budge the darn thing, they did not try to grow a bigger ox. They used two oxen! And I think they're trying to tell us something. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not "get a bigger computer", it's "get another computer". Which of course, is what common sense would have told us to begin with."
You linked to the same anecdote with more words.
Or maybe it was all the military interventions that punished anybody who ever dared to question that domination
If your desktop environment requires me to click twice instead of once to switch or choose between two instances of chrome. Then I know you only care about the cool factor and is not going to be a great UX.

Stop asking me to use alt+tab and cycle through windows like a caveman or ask me to setup workspaces like its 1980.

"Stinky smelly nerds" seem to forget about large touch screen monitors and VR devices and that all icons can fit in one stretch of wide screens.
I experienced some of these issues. For me, what eventually clicked is either simple automated tiling (xmonad with fullscreen and split horizontal/vertical) or Emacs-like manual tiling (StumpWM). I don't have a huge screen, so more than two windows is a stretch. Both of these WMs are decent at floating layouts.

Besides, I find the simple tiling offered by the stock GNOME Display Manager, which is similar to the way I use xmonad, good enough. Given that GNOME has great support for floating windows, that is perhaps an option you should look into.
Obviously it excludes all of the connections, institutional knowledge, and other duties as assigned that typically make up the brunt of the magic that keeps things functional but that managers are generally too afraid to acknowledge or ask for resources for, if they're even aware.
I accidentally became a software engineer thanks to AI
How interesting that Audubon, so often associated with conservation and protection of birds, was such a voracious bird consumer! Wild!
Investment in Mexico based auto manufacturing ahead for Chinese EV makers.

> The recent BYD announcement of its new automotive factory in Mexico is huge, not just for its scope, but because of the issues it raises. By setting up production in Mexico and abiding by the USMCA rules of a specific amount of North American content and labor, BYD’s products will qualify for the little or no tariffs provided by the agreement. This means that technically BYD can manufacture its products in Mexico and avoid the 102 percent tariffs when exporting its Mexican-manufactured products to the U.S. This will totally help it circumnavigate the U.S.-China trade war and have access to the huge U.S. EV market.

https://www.krwg.org/local-viewpoints/2024-07-20/recent-anno...
Secondary Belief
In practice they refer a clinician who writes a prescription based on their report and a 15 minute screening. It’s theatre
I have a lot of respect for good detectives. I really enjoyed "Homicide Hunter" - which is a retired detective's recollection of past murder cases. Who knows how much was myth vs fact, but I got the sense he kept good notes because he would speak to exacting detail about decades old cases.

One of my favorite episodes was his first homicide case. A gas station was robbed and the clerk was killed. No video, no prints, etc. However there was a necklace that was dropped. It had some kind of pattern, so he called every. single. jeweler in the area. He called a lot, and eventually got a hit and found his man.

It's this kind of diligence and dedication (plus technology) that can crack cases open, even cold ones. Like the article here, he found 4 untested hairs that cracked it open.
To be fair, the income isn't "free" and the margins are basically zero for small-time property owners on the rent itself. The bulk of the income comes from appreciation in value of the real estate, and when you sell you owe capital gains taxes (which are exempt on sales of a primary residence). And in most places the property taxes are higher, for my home it's about 15% higher.

I only know this because I have been preparing to rent my primary residence to see if it's more economical to sell today or hold and sell later, while renting. The answer is the latter, but in terms of real cash I will be in the red for about 2 years until the (very small) difference in mortage + insurance + taxes + upkeep and the rent will be profitable. And even then, it's maybe $150/month.

All told it's a slightly better investment than S&P 500 index funds, but resistant to downturns. But it's not a real source of passive income, you don't get your cash out for years.
The list:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/2a00ce74-6d58-4f8e-...
I guess you have a point, but I think the specifics depend on jurisdiction.

That said, the defense can say whatever they want about what they perceive as selective prosecution... but how do they know? It's not like they would have more knowledge about the prosecution's thought process than the average conspiracy theorist?
Show HN: Cursor Search – AI-powered search that follows your cursor
Hi HN,

I'm building Cursor Search, a Chrome extension that brings AI-powered search capabilities right to your cursor. I'd love to get your thoughts and feedback.

What it does:
Activates with a keyboard shortcut
Displays a search bar that follows your cursor
Provides instant AI-generated answers without leaving your current page

Tech stack:
Frontend: JavaScript, React (next js)
Backend: Node.js
AI: OpenAI's GPT-3.5 (planning to implement local models in the future)
Hosting: Cloudflare
DB: Supabase

Why I built it:
As a developer, I often found myself constantly switching tabs to look up information, disrupting my workflow. Cursor Search aims to streamline this process, keeping you in your context while providing quick answers.

Current stage:
MVP built and tested internally
Optimizing for latency and accuracy
Planning closed beta in 2-3 weeks

What I'm looking for:
Feedback on the concept
Suggestions for features or use cases
Interest in early testing (waitlist below)

Future plans:
Mozilla Firefox version
Custom AI model fine-tuned for web search
More utility features, which refines the product

Try it out:
The extension isn't publicly available yet, but you can join the waitlist for early access here: cursorsearch.com

I'm excited to hear your thoughts, criticisms, and suggestions. What would make this a must-have tool for you?
We separated out the runbook such that each step is a separate LLM in the agent. Between each step, there's sort of a "supervisor" that ensures that the step was completed correctly, and then routes to another step based on the results. So in reality, a single step failing requires two hallucinations. Hallucinations are also not a fixed percentage across all calls -- you can make them less likely by maintaining focused goals (this is why we made runbooks agentic rather than a single long conversation)
> (Could there be font faces without this rendering issue?)

A comment under OP suggests that the rendering issue is font-dependent. When I view a Unicode sparkline on a test page [1], the rendering issue occurs using Arial, Courier New, Gill Sans, Helvetica, or Times New Roman, but appears to be fixed if I use Georgia, Menlo, or Comic Sans.

[1]: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sparkline_in_unicode
I would say those aren't really desktop environments. They provide the bare minimum for window management and compositing, but not much more. Desktop environments encompass much more than that, like managing file type associations, and protocol handling.
Are you able to use this without creating an account?
Yeah you can?
It's not searching plaintext though.

VSCode itself can deal with big text data being thrown at it, this will be some of the language server stuff
fascinating! I suppose our normal modern systems aren't equipped to handle descriptive addresses - "take a right after the foo store and then go to the end of the road and give the equipment to the people at the end of the road so they can make more road"
What? For learning bash and valuing that skill? Lol
Ok, this got me curious, how much have things changed for low-end embedded microcontrollers?

Some numbers from a few minutes of searching:

- Then: Intel 8021: 1 kB ROM, 64 B RAM, 11MHz, about $.40-.50 in 2024 dollars

- Now: ATtiny25: 1kB ROM, 128 B of RAM, 20 MHz, maybe $.70-$.80 each for a huge order

Not sure if this is the right comparison, and I'm sure there are lots of other differences that the topline numbers don't capture and that I don't know about (e.g, power consumption, instruction set, package size, etc. etc.)
Does anyone have experience using dokku-postgres?

The GitHub readme is well documented but hard to know how that translates into the dev exp, like with scaling or upgrades and if its features are comparable to managed Postgres providers (I'd assume no but happy to be proven wrong!)

[0] https://github.com/dokku/dokku-postgres
California does not have a land value tax, even attempting to study the effects of a land value tax failed[0]

[0]: https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1555689
My guess would be that most people working in their 70s (or 80s!) would very much like to retire, but can't.

I'm 65 and wish I could have retired 10 years ago. After 40 years in industry I'd really rather be doing something else.

This seems like a direct consequence of eliminating pensions.
Even with all that, in my area it seems like you also need to already know people to get into one of the trade unions. At least of people I know of trying to get in are having issues.
Ahh, for a second I thought https://remove.bg had open-sourced their product (which I've been quite happy with on the few occasions I've used it).

Very cool, though!
Thinking about just how long the earth has been around fascinates me. I read (or listened to, rather) The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen, which was captivating. The audiobook is well-narrated too. We humans tend to think that the planet just "is" the way it is, but this is just how it exists in this moment in which we find ourselves observing it. The earth has worn many faces over the ages.
It would both be very difficult and anomalous enough to be caught by a company's SOC.

On the other hand, a long running Zoom session can remain undetected due to it's normality.
I'm not the OP, I'm not a part of this community, and I don't know if the thing I'm about to complain about is what the author was thinking of with this comment, but as someone who was trained as a mathematician and who has read some of the popularizations of geometric algebra that sometimes get posted to HN, there is a tone that some (though probably a minority) of them take that I find pretty obnoxious.

These pieces are the ones that take the position that geometric algebra is this super secret anti-establishment mathematical samizdat that *they* don't want you to know about. They'll pit themselves against "mainstream mathematics" and say things like, "in differential geometry you do X, but you shouldn't do differential geometry; you should do geometric algebra where we do Y, which is so much better than X."

My reaction is always, "My friend, you are doing differential geometry!" Clifford algebras --- the objects that the geometric algebra people study --- are firmly within the "mainstream" of mathematics; there's simply no conflict here, at least not of the sort that these writers often seem to be imagining. It's great that people are enjoying learning about Clifford algebras. I think Clifford algebras are really fun! But we can all just come together and enjoy them together, and I think this "join me in taking down the cabal of gatekeepers who are suppressing the truth" attitude is unnecessary and turns off a lot of people who might otherwise be fun to engage with.

If you're into this stuff and feel like this doesn't describe you or the people you know, then that's great, keep doing what you're doing! But it does exist and I wish it didn't.
Publication of the Charges Against Pavel Durov
The whole period of time forcing the idea that everyone must go to college has come home to roost. At the same time trade schools were panned while also filled with scam schools. Some people just do not need/want the full rounded education nor the expense of it all.
> it can be very reliable

You need to quantify this. With actual numbers.

I am getting very tired of seeing everyone pushing LLMs and being disingenuous about exactly how often it is getting things wrong. And what the impact of that is. There is a reason that AI is not taking off in the enterprise and that is because people who take their job seriously are getting tired too.
Tracking how many times someone requested an API endpoint while using the App Store seems acceptable to me. Very comparable to server side logging which I also don't have any problem with. I don't do it much anyways, I have installed the apps I use when I got the phone and never opened the App Store again.
From my understanding Cloudflare can generate origin certs for exactly this purpose and you can add certs to dokku with `dokku certs:add myapp`
The Dishonest Booster Campaign
The rendering engine portion of the whole Firefox vs Chrome debate gets way more attention than it should. It’s really not that important. Someone could fork any piece of the chromium project and have an “independent rendering engine/browser” without all the problems gecko has from a decade of little market share and under investment. Google nor Mozilla make money from their rendering engines as is evidenced by their ability to make money on iOS.

Also, the rendering engine isn’t the way Google is being anticompetitive or violating users privacy, just like no one is really that worried that Google, Facebook, and MS are some of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel. People use a chromium based browser because chromium is better. Google gets people to use Chrome, and gets their data through the code they add on top. Overall though, Google has not been a bad steward of Blink.
I really want to use Lineage, I really do. I have a device thats supported and can easily unlock the bootloader, but I'd need my bank apps all to work, and I know that they don't. Even if they did, I don't want the uncertainty of them not working when a few don't have a internet banking without an app, and others require an app for 2fa, otherwise I'd use Lineage in a heartbeat.

This feels like an issue for the EU to step in on, a functional duopoly created by apps for essential services that almost everyone needs requiring one of 2 platforms to work.
It's also the sound a gun makes when it's fired (in German). There's a pipeline-related joke in there somewhere.
The error is ambiguous right now and I'll try to make it clearer (welcome for contributions)
The idea is it fallbacks to not use webgpu if your browser is not supported, but it was made in 2 hours, bug is acceptable :)
That is just so lovingly on brand for every UI transition Microsoft has attempted to do with Windows since Vista.

I get it, this is a lot of work and there are a lot of things that need to change. But having 2 places for system settings is wild.
Elon Musk tweets plagiarized article bylined by fake writer
>You definitely misunderstood everything in the parent comment on purpose.

Are you replying to the wrong comment?

>Don't be obtuse. It's against the guidelines.

"Don't be obtuse" is nowhere to be found in the guidelines, where as your shallow dismissal is. Please don't post shallow dismissals. It's against the guidelines.
7 nm, 8 core. Not that impressive, even for 2021.

The cache stuff might be rather large, but I'm not fluent on what was standard on Intel in that era.

Transparent encryption of main memory? That's different.

Seven nines availability? Also impressive.
I hate the client-side decorations in gnome. I should note it moved my two most used buttons approximately 2000 pixels away from each other (they used to be quite close) in my most used Gnome app, so it might not be an entirely rational hate.

[edit]

I should also say that Gnome apps with CSDs work just fine in KDE with kwin and hide the title bar automatically as expected (I use Evolution, and Document Scanner regularly).
…which is quite expensive.
Is this the same specimen?
Bon builder generator 2.0 release