skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing, bar none: No human endeavor has paid itself back, including the computer you are reading this on, more than the American Space Program.

Let's push around Congress to get the simple problems fixed so that we can concentrate on the Problems that are hard.

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

John F. Kennedy Address at Rice University - Sept. 12, 1962.
Funny because I never answer my door when anyone knocks. If you're knocking on my door it's because I don't know you, which means I probably don't want to talk to you. Anyone who knows me knows to call or text before they come by.
OTOH, although not tech journalism, but consider the Substack success of The Free Press and some others. There might be some light at the end of this tunnel.
There is a very real possibility of such a partnership eventually becoming obligatory as part of some "modernization and digitization" fad of the kind that many governments love. Certain major countries already have similar and to a slightly more abstract degree, how many government services in how many jurisdictions basically require you to have a smartphone for access to certain services? Those phones and their OS systems come from only a small pool of corporations.

It's naive to not think the above or worse is possible
I wonder if this has anything to do with blood sugar -- even before you start losing weight, you're eating way less calories (and probably less junk) and so you might have health benefits just from starting the regime.
AFAIK, ancient people finding and interpreting dinosaur fossils is one theory about the origin of dragon myths, so yes.
I think it goes even further.

I'm not sure if it's unique to developers, but many have tools and vendors that they HATE or LOVE with an irrational passion.

HATE - Seems often about tools or vendors that they had no choice in, but had to spend a great deal of time working with.

LOVE - Seems often about tools or vendors that they associate with advancements in their career.

These feelings of LOVE and HATE lead to emotional decisions.
The rarely understood tradeoff in this arena is that no matter what you do, your decisions kill people!

Everyone understands the case when (A) you approve something that later turns out to kill people.

The other case (B), when you don't approve something that would have saved lives is much less understood, but those people are just as dead as those from case A.

One famous case B is when the FDA only approved beta blockers 17 years after other major countries. This cost ~10k US lives per year, or ~170k lives total.

Because A errors produces headlines and scandals, while B errors are just the normal deaths we are used to, the FDA is heavily incentivized to minimize A errors, regardless of the B error rate.
FCast engineer here. Look forward to FCast receivers on platforms like AppleTV, Roku, Tizen (Samsung), WebOS (LG).
Right. That's an interesting though exercise. We ended up with "dumbed down" summary news.
> I mean, it's basically inevitable, isn't it? Cultural heterogeneity is born out of isolation.

When thinking about this cynically, I feel like this has some depressing ramifications. Cultural differences (and isolation) are often born from financial disparities as well. Does this mean that the path to global cultural homogeneity is basically just gentrification on a massive scale where economic -> cultural minorities get more and more ostracized?
FCast engineer here. Yes it will come to Roku.
Emotiv did 24 channels for <500 if I recall and that was a decade ago. The raw data become accessible from a hack. Wonder what happened to them? Terrible customer service
So much this!

Several of the stations on my local line (SWR out of Waterloo) have sliding gates that are prominently labelled "Warning! Sliding Gate!!". But they are manually operated, so they're never going to move of their own accord.

The place is a bit overrun with "don't run with scissors" warning notices, but they don't fix the things that are actually dangerous, like the terrazzo flooring that's like a skating rink the moment it gets even slightly damp.
People would pay for far more if charged a nominal markup over what their readership is considered worth when subsidized by ads.

But no, when subscribing, they're expected to pay 10x or 100x or 1000x their ad-impression worth.

Subscription aggregation (a Hulu of things to read, like the firm Apple purchased* and made into Apple News+) is one answer.

Another would be a IWP (In-Web Purchase) browser standard like DNT except its an "I'm willing to buy the ad slots on this page at the median CPM" token, coupled to something like the mythical micro-transactions settlement schemes of yore that would now actually be possible on top of systems handling IAP.

* Next Issue aka Texture. I was a subscriber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(app)
Except there is a reasonable chance that he distributed illegally obtained uncensored data to people outside of the investigation, while being part of the investigative team. That’s not something you do, even if it’s not illegal.
Hard disagree. I can't even tell the difference the majority of the time, and I work with Qt every day (and love it)... probably most other people can't tell either. I never found it hard to build, and as far as other languages go, I have had great success using it from both Python and Swift rather easily. I don't think there are any better choices for a stable and mature framework with anywhere near the feature set.
I would LOVE a streaming bundle that included all the content for a discount if and only if it remained ad free.

The big draw for me for streaming is not price, it is removal of ads.
Massive 10 foot happy birthday banners
He's lucky to be able to do it more than once. A friend's cousin got acute reaction from pathogens in raw fish which got him to ICU and now the doctor said he should avoid eating even cooked fish because he could do an allergic reaction.
It’s a regression to hieroglyphics. Six thousand years of cultural evolution down the drain.
X Suspended By Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes
I am not counting on anybody to implement this on their TV. We don't have big budgets to pay TV manufacturers to put FCast receivers inside.

Instead, I hope to have receivers that the user can install if they wish.
A hands-on guide to quantizing Large Language Models (LLMs)
Right. Some of that "goog" code looks decent enough. I wouldn't remove it either simply because it was "archived". Maybe vendor the useful stuff back into the implementation and remove all the "goog"?
I've been running it for a year on a RPi 2, via WiFi, from a SD card *and* a Zigbee dongle, which is basically what everyone seems to say you should not do, and never had a single issue with it. I don't think these issues have anything to do with HA itself but rather the extensions people install on it.
The problem is often that people use small MicroSD (8-16GB) that don’t support the number of writes to SQLite3 that HA does.

Have been using Western Digital purple 64GB MicroSD for years without problems (support the same number of writes as SSD)
Ask HN: What's your favourite startup that didn't work out?
With more startups winding down lately [1], I was wondering:

What are some of your favourite startups that unfortunately didn't work out? Whether your involvement was as a builder, user, or just a fan of their mission.

Bonus points if the founder has written a thoughtful retrospective / post mortem that documents the decision and explains why their idea was ultimately not viable as a business.

[1] From Carta: Startup shutdowns up 58% in Q1 2024 compared to last year https://carta.com/blog/startup-shutdowns-q1-2024/
Ranked choice, open primaries, would be nice too

Primaries tend to select for those that appeal to the most politically active of a party, which also tends to be the more polarizing elements of the party.

RepresentUs (https://represent.us/) also has more problems listed

- moratorium of 5+ years from govt to lobbying

- gerrymandering reforms

https://represent.us/policy-platform/

They got a bit off message in 2015-6, but seem to be coming back to their core lately
Brazil judge suspends X after company declines to name a legal representative
Not always, but often the marketplace will punish you if you screw up royally as a private company or employee. It seems that nearly every government snafu results in a promotion.
Judge who owns Tesla stock greenlights X lawsuit against critics
Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews
Interesting. I'll have to give this a try. I have been using the desktop version, but if this works, it will be a good reason to switch back to the in-browser version
Being on the shortage list is what allows compounders to sell it. Once that is no longer true, that option goes away.
> The only thing to do is release it so people know if they've been exposed.

Are we talking about a Troy Hunt-style (haveibeenpwned) website? If so, I don't consider a giant hashset-of-hashes a "release" because if that data (haveibeenpwnd's database) gets leaked it's of zero use to anyone because it doesn't contain any original data anymore.

But if you mean Wikileaks-style: put it all in a .rar file and publicise it, maintaining that the-ends-justify-the-means approach despite all the irresponsible-journalism, then absolutely no. Yikes. No.
In practice, at least in my experience, only up to 13. (Though, I have the sequence memorized up to 21 because of a sign outside Chattanooga[0], which is what gave me my "hey, wait" moment about this.)

A combination of both the fundamental theorem of algebra and Zeckendorf's theorem has allowed me to fill in the rest so far. For example, 25 mi = 5 * 5 mi, which yields 5 * 8 km = 40 km. As it turns out, that is how far Cleveland, TN, lies from Chattanooga.

0: https://usma.org/metric-signs/tennessee
“To capture tiny parts of the creatures in perfect focus, Danke puts his camera on a high-precision macro rail that can move in the micrometer—one millionth of a meter—range.”

I was amazed by this and thought such a high-end rail would be thousands of dollars. Nope, there are models on Amazon for $200!
You’re probably getting a few things mixed up.

Insurance generally only covers Ozempic if someone has diabetes. Some insurance plans cover Wegovy, the same drug with a different dosing labeled for weight loss, but many don’t.
Yes I agree and have tested it, my point is that marketing wise it is a shame. I will even think that when looking into new tooling "pandae" compatibility as a search term and incentive would be far ahead the word "dataframe"
>People are more willing to give up on traditions and cultural norms than to have constant friction with their neighbors

Toshi would tear down his local shrine and import the third world because it's better than having some Judeo-Christian reporters call them names?

The cultural and ethnic shifts happening are happening because banks, governments, and CEOs see it as being in their own interest. More working hands, more mouths to feed, more votes for their party. None of it has ever been natural and none of it is to our benefit
That’s a big reason why software companies can be so profitable.

Almost no material cost.
How many TW of geothermal power are available until the earth core freezes?
To start, I really liked the idea behind Muse, but they couldn't find PMF: https://adamwiggins.com/muse-retrospective/

And more recently, buildspace :(

Nothing but respect for all the hackers & founders who tried to put something new out there
Civil asset forfeiture is not criminal, but civil, and the legal matter is against the property, not the property owner. Still, I would argue that the property owner's rights are often violated is such actions.
On Windows and Linux generally, yeah. On MacOS, Command+A is "select all"
North Korean hackers exploited Chrome zero-day to steal crypto
My recommended remedy is to write your own sibling comment that makes the same point in a less downvotable way. Most of us are against government overreach, but we're against logical overreach too, and the GP comment did a lot of that. Just not very well argued on a very sensitive topic.
Ah yes. The old sickos trying to give acid to your babies.
Ironically, as a diabetic (or even a non-diabetic) fat is a pretty innocuous thing. Certainly compared to carbs...
Challenges in adopting blockchain for asset-backed securities
> So it seems like Apple was looking to build their own processors even before the iPhone became huge (the original iPhone only sold around 7M units while iPods were selling around 50M/year at the same time).

This is almost certainly true once they decided that iOS was going to be based on MacOS. Those software design choices had to have been based on a very aggressive hardware roadmap
I follow your point a bit: I do hate not owning the vehicle, because that's is, newer cars are not of their formal owner but of the OEM.

Nevertheless most people do not care, they do not even understand the difference between something they own and something they can only use as long as the OEM allow them to, but they do know prices, they know something is sold at way too big price especially if it have a way too short useful life...
I have kids, neighbors have kids, door is knocked on all the time.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Bcachefs-Regret... clearly fabricating a juicy title by intentionally misinterpreting one of Linus' sentences. Just for the aforementioned peanut gallery watching two egos colliding like they would watch WWE.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Split-X.Org-Session reporting about a pretty pointless change just to get that sweet Wayland/X11 drama driven flaming.

Clickbaiting may have been the wrong word, there's not much of that, more "feeding drama to an audience he knows well" than anything. The comment section is almost Wccftech tier, these days.
And right now they are exploiting another zero-day we'll know about later.

You know, work as usual...
I was on mobile when I looked and I never saw the sidebar. Might be something that needs fixing. Love the project regardless.
"harmful content" is such a joke word.
if a piece of text or media could harm people the military would have weaponized it long ago.
Even monty python made a satire of such a "harmful content" scenario:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qklvh5Cp_Bs
Big tech's hyperbole of the word is even more severe than Monty Pythons absurdist satire. Sadly it's not a joke.
Likely referring to urbanism, public transports, collective mindset of the average Japanese, cleanliness, safety, maybe some of their spirituality. As a tourist, everything seems at its place in Japan. Yes, you come across a lot of CRT monitors even in Tokyo, but who gives a damn really when your train is on time to the nearest second and you can sleep in it without being worried for your belongings.
> Well, for what it's worth, your machine-translated sentence is basically incomprehensible in Japanese, let alone in a position to go viral (except in the capacity in which exquisite gibberish sometimes does).

I kinda assumed so — I kept changing the English until the English-Japanese-English round trip translation wasn't wildly wrong, but the fact I had to says how far Google Translate has to go before it's actually good.
https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
I don't feel that way either. But the 40+ year old devs when I was a fresh faced kid where from a whole different world. One guy wouldn't let go of Novell running on DOS. There are hard paradigm switches sometimes in tech, but many fewer today than back then. Every big switch loses some people that decide, "nope don't like it" and don't keep up.

I really, really think that most ageism in tech is driven by similar memories of the old crowd when we were coming up. I mean, I fought for years (years!) to get Linux accepted by the older devs and had to sneak Postgres past the Oracle greybeards. Yet I am not that person blocking progress now, nor do I see the same with my peers. If a new tech has merit, we learn it. We grew up with tech and are plenty used to making those switches.

If anything, I'm way better at handling change than when I was younger and headstrong. And 25 years in industry has given me lots of practice.
I've been using a raspberry pi 4 for 2 years with no issues. You need a good, clean power source or you can have all kinds of issues. Having good ventilation won't hurt. You also need a good sdcard that can handle a large volume of writes.
It can't be conscious site by site. It has to be a toggle or setting that's a browser standard, backed by your IAP platform of choice, and pages check then drop the paywall and don't show ads. Call it IWP, In-Web Purchase, total up fractional costs until it makes sense to charge them, then charge them, on the same user/device IAP platform rails.

Most importantly, the cost has to be no more than the site would get for serving that visitor ads.

This is where the break is. On a per content or per month basis, sites want to charge individuals orders of magnitude more than they charge advertisers. No avid reader (those most likely to be happy to pay!) can afford the same footprint of reading that content is happy to give them through ads. And so, content is writing for ads, not readers.

It's self defeating.

. . .

PS. I bookmarked https://www.forth.news/topstories ... it's not how I find / read content, I need much higher density (somewhere between https://upstract.com/ and https://www.techmeme.com/) and if I want a personal feed, there's feedly and its kin, but what I personally do is something like this socially curated discovery except generated by a process something like Yahoo Pipes that scavenges an array of tentacles into the newsosphere. But I see what you're doing there.

This kind of experimentation is awesome. Will come back and see how hard it is to "make it my own". Thanks for sharing your position essay!
I gave a talk about the design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrl9foNXdgM

As the sibling comment mentioned, you can find documentation on Elvish itself on the website https://elv.sh. There are tutorials and (not 100% but fairly complete) reference documents.
No problem, just wanted to be sure it was not me. Love your website btw!
Agree with your question...

"Older" is a relative measurement of time, but doesn't say anything about the marginal benefit or cost.

An example of your question I see from Japan relates to payment systems. People often critique Japan for its cash-oriented systems and have also observed the difficulty that digital payment systems have had in gaining traction in Japan... an example for why digital payment systems have had poor adoption is the existence of earlier, well-adopted solutions that provide many of the same benefits in the majority of practical scenarios (i.e. stored value IC cards: Suica/Pasmo/etc.). In cases like this, the "newer" and supposedly better technology doesn't provide as large of a marginal benefit. They already solved much of the problem.
Fair enough, the Pi 5 boot/shutdown speed is pretty shockingly instant. I'm not sure why the Pi 4 takes literal minutes to reboot sometimes.
>Toshi would tear down his local shrine and import the third world because it's better than having some Judeo-Christian reporters call them names?

He would have if those foreigners were similar in numbers to the Japanese, rather than being a minute minority.
There was an HN post about the pi^2=g connection not too long ago.
I'm about to buy a Pi 5 for a Pi-hole. Does the same advice apply to that?
In the US the more mainstream position is to support Israel, and only recently has there been a semblance in the change in trajectory. That's why both major parties come out in support of Israel.
this has Rube Goldberg energy if you have seen the Golden Ratio connection or derived Binet's formula before - my first thought was "yeah because the conversion and the golden ratio are both 1.6ish"
Ask HN: What's in Your Doskeys?
I've only recently discovered how DOSKEYS can be used as an aliases file for Windows, and have started to populate mine with useful items.

I would be very curious to know what useful aliases people have developed for themselves for Windows systems. I've done a bit of Googling, but somehow haven't managed to hit any particular motherlode of good stuff yet. (Links to such motherlodes also greatly welcome.)

Thanks!
Mainly because I've never heard anyone extend right to repair to software except fellow open source fans.

The average person completely understand why a farmer should be able to fix their tractor. I don't think they're likely to extend the idea to software.
Brazil to Ban X from the Country
Our lovely minister is seriously banning X from the country, and imposing a fine of ~8.5K USD / day for any person that access X through a VPN.

Apparently they're also removing the most popular VPN apps from the AppStore.

This is insane. What a freaking shot at democracy
Is it a LG C2/C3? Are you enjoying it as a computer display?
Anyone know what the reputation of the Third Circuit is? I want to know if this ruling is likely to hold up in the inevitable Supreme Court appeal.

The Ninth Circuit has a reputation as flamingly progressive (see "Grants Pass v. Johnson", where SCOTUS overruled the Ninth Circuit, which had ruled that cities couldn't prevent homeless people from sleeping outside in public parks and sidewalks). The Fifth Circuit has a reactionary reputation (see "Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine", which overruled a Fifth Circuit ruling that effectively revoked the FDA approval of the abortion drug mifepristone).
It's not that simple. People in constant contact have in fact maintained separate cultures in some instances.

I think what makes it different this time is that we are using science to find the best culture. "How should we behave towards each other for the best possible outcome?" If a certain culture is clearly and demonstrably better, then that will lead to everyone adopting it.

Democracy might also be part of it, as in authoritarian states the person in power wield such a an outsized influence that their personal whims and fancies can turn into culture.
When I was a kid, I wanted nothing more than make websites and be a web designer.

It makes me so happy to see some of the websites that deeply inspired me:

- 2Advanced Studios: had an incredible flash banner. https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/2advanced-studios-v3...

- Media Temple: This is not the version I remember but (MT) always had the best designed website in hosting https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/media-temple-2002

- Absolute Cross: Super cool 3D-rendered interface https://web.archive.org/web/20050213040034/http://www.absolu...

- Spoono: King of the super tiny silk pixel font trend of the time imho. Always remembered their multiple colour schemes which I thought was so rad. Tonnes of knowledge on this site too. https://web.archive.org/web/20050209034013/http://www.spoono...

- GUIStuff: Some of the raddest templates, deeply inspired me https://web.archive.org/web/20050209033810/http://www.guistu...

Honourable mention to the GFXVoid Forums where I mostly lurked and https://javascriptfx.com/ for the coolest Javascript snippets of all time.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've had to ask you more than once to stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.