skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve recently been streaming decompilation on Twitch[0]. I find the intersection of gaming and tech enthusiasts nice (it’s pretty basic educational decomp and describing the mechanics of the game).

Ultimately where are people going to watch and discover? Glad to see interest in dev streaming.

0 - https://m.twitch.tv/madeupofwires/home
Whether this can be a good thing depends heavily on your opinion of the importance of family and shared history in society and culture.
Donald Trump has a history of legal troubles and lawsuits going back decades.
The re-archiving process was mainly a data migration. However, there is an initiative to use the in-house developed NB-whisper model [1] (based on OpenAIs Whisper) to do speech recognition/transcription.

[1] https://huggingface.co/collections/NbAiLab/nb-whisper-65cb83...
What does it matter if someone finds you in a day or a month?

People don't always go from fine to dead in an instant. There can be a period of days when you are still alive, but incapable of calling for help. If you were found in that period you wouldn't necessarily have to end up dead.
>Even if you run your plant just fine, a strong earthquake can turn it into a nuclear bomb.

This is entirely false. No civilian nuclear power plant anywhere on earth has the level of fuel enrichment necessary to become a bomb.

If you have credible sources, please do share.
Less corruption is better is certainly an opinion.
It sounded to me like they are encoding lossless WAV to lossy MP4, and replacing MP3s that were also from the same WAV, and in any case also keeping the WAV.

That's why it was notable that in a couple of cases where the WAV was corrupt, they kept the original MP3 as being now the 'best available' copy. In no case did they transcode MP3->MP4.
You're assuming that they died quickly and peacefully.

How many died after breaking their leg and starving alone on their floor?
From TFA:

> If anything, the need has increased as social media and changing advertising landscapes have made shallow, sensationalistic reporting all the more lucrative.

And your comment:

> There were people among us who would gladly pay for this kind of coverage

It's Friday so I'm going to be optimistic. I'd like to think (maybe fantasise) that we've passed the low point of ad-fuelled, sensational, information-light, polarised, vacuous content. There are some promising shoots, from paid newsletters (e.g. stratechery plus [0]) to search (e.g. Kagi [1]). There are early signs that Browsers are coming back as a topic with Chrome's inexorable slide into increasingly obfuscated ways to slurp data [2] and the (very) early promise of e.g. ladybird [3] as the first genuinely new, ground-up browser for years.

It's never going to be mainstream. As someone once wrote here, the economy is a machine that incessantly drives cost down. Orthodoxy says you can't get cheaper than free - but that presumes measuring cost solely in monetary terms. Widen the definition of "cost" though and what we have now is definitely not free: we pay with loss of privacy, social disfunction and mental health degradation among others.

Challenging the commercial behemoths who benefit from the "free internet" myth is a massive task. Perhaps unassailable. If there's an upside, it's that the long tail - where quality, paid for content and services might thrive - is simultaneously meaningful enough to support a small but thriving industry, and small enough to be uninteresting to the 1000lb gorillas.

That may be fantasy per above. But I'd rather cling to something hopeful.

[0] https://stratechery.com/stratechery-plus/

[1] https://kagi.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41391412

[3] https://ladybird.org/

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EDIT: fixed grammar.
Hot take: lots of widely popular open source software only exists because mega corps developed and released it.

Reference: most software in the Apache Foundation and huge portion of the container ecosystem.
Sound like some sort of ADHD symptom where any video longer that a few seconds is perceived as too long, doesn't it?
> However industrial societies are very efficient so I don't know what you mean by "can’t pivot fast enough to handling".

I wonder how social norms could change if faced with a very large number of such cases. Perhaps people will relax social norms around mourning. Like, eventually becoming acceptable to have unclaimed bodies bagged and left in the curb to be collected by the same truck that collects municipal solid waste, to be landfilled.
Agreed, and I tried to address that with my suggested alternatives, all of which would also find you in such circumstances.

Mostly just noting that creating humans solely for the purpose of caring for you in old age is a fairly nuclear option.
It took roughly 3 weeks until the death of my neighbor was finally detected. Granted, it smelled a little odd to my rather non-functional nose, but the staircase of this house has smelled of weird a lot while we had this old lady with the bladder control issues. Long story short, his immediate neighbor finally called the police since the smell seeped into her apartment. Why did it take so long? He had aggression issues, and was basically kept sociable through a nice mixture of drugs. When he forgot to take them, he would randomly threaten other people from our house, sometimes with death, sometimes just screaming at them. He was a problem, to be honest. Younger women coming visit our apartment building sometimes left in fear, because he would randomly verbally attack them. I got a straigt death threat to my face. "I am going to kill you." Turns out, if you call the police, they tell you "And what am I supposed to do now?" Taught me a lot about "the system". Anyways, when he passed away, and didn't make any useless nose anymore, nobody cares. Social isolation is a complex mix of a lot of things. And its a feedback system...
Wait.. free as in free beer???
I know a lot of people who have issues with their parents/family/spouses in one way or another. In part because I'm not a very judgemental person, but probably a big part is that I have a lot of unrelated friendships, so people can tell me anything without a chance of that thing ending up as gossip. The internet is like that, you can tell anyone anything from your anonymous account without it ever coming back to you.

Honestly, I know only a few people who have near zero issues with their parents and would happily have them move in when they get older.
As a former Sales Engineer in enterprise software, I agree. "Engineering audience" includes less skilled and more gullible individuals, the degree steadily increasing up the hierarchy. (And since decisions are made higher up, you can see how valuable this article would be to a sales rep...). A common "individual performance metric" is "single pane of glass", which is aggregating multiple systems, often with a dashboard. It often takes more work than they're willing to put in to get it to make a difference.
On a related note, if you’re around Washington, DC in the US, then the National Cryptologic Museum[1] is well worth a visit. They have a ton of equipment on exhibit, including a variety of mechanical encryption machines as well as early supercomputers.

It doesn’t get that many visitors, because it’s within Fort Meade (home of the NSA), and most people probably don’t even realize it’s open to the public.

[1] https://www.nsa.gov/museum/
Whatever the outcome for the human using it, a deep pike wound is very likely fatal for any animal - mega or not.

And with their very slow rates of reproduction - even a modest-seeming rate of such fatalities could easily play the leading role in the extinctions of most megafauna species.
If you are in a bubble, stay there. It is a happier place.

Yes, young adults today are more willing to "cancel" their parents. Often enough it is for issues which a generation ago would have been seen as the child not accepting adult responsibility; suddenly the parent is the bad person for doing what their parents considered made them a good person.

Parenting is hard.
Definitely if your interest is World War II, or the Intelligence process, the human side, any of that - the Bletchley Park exhibits are key and TNMOC is at most a side visit, whereas if your interest is computing, TNMOC is key and there's no reason to do more than pencil in the rest of the Bletchley Park site as a possible extra.

I don't know about Science. There's a lot of math and logic puzzle solving at Bletchley, but the other crash projects of WWII have a lot more science, Los Alamos obviously, translating from "In principle nuclear fission is a more powerful bomb than anything previously made" to an actual weapon you can use to destroy a Japanese city. But also the invention of the Cavity Magnetron - a little box can make enough radio waves to make a radar for your night fighter so you can figure out where the enemy planes are relative to you - or it can use those waves to heat a delicious baked potato in a few minutes...
Seems the cool kids are using Headscale then if anything, rather than Tailscale :)
'I would strongly consider “private prosecution”'

If it works anything like it does in the US "private criminal complaints", then good luck. For less serious crimes you act ad the prosecutor in front of a magistrate. Any serious crimes need approval from the real prosecutor office before they can proceed. They virtually always decline those.
Free speech on X? CIS gender is a slur that gets you banned there.
In the German one, yes. The UK kitchen didn't have one, and while I'm not 100% sure why — was handled by my rental agency, with me deferring to them entirely for whoever they suggested for the work and whatever design they suggested for the layout — I suspect it may have been too small.

But the cost of a dishwasher is a small fraction of the rounding error, and I was rounding up quite a bit in both cases — even the (more expensive) German one is EUR 8903 with dishwasher, hob, sink, delivery, installation, and all taxes.
Looks very interesting !

Is it not confusing to call k8s deployments "Containers", as they could be mixed up with Docker containers ?
What is needed is charging not just for a connection, but for connection of a certain maximum dependable capacity. This would be best be coupled with some ability to force limitation on the instantaneous consumption, a kind of demand dispatch.
Yes, I had a similar experience in high school. I ended up modifying a virus that infected a bunch of computers and causing problems, so I got kicked out the lab until the next year (but this was late September, so no biggie.)

The next year I mentioned to the teacher that I had something I wanted to play with, can I please get access to a PC (the lab computers were Acorns), and so he gave me after school access to the accounting classroom, more storage on the network drive (50MB when everyone else had 5!), and basically free reign if I didn't break things. So I didn't, and was running Tierra on piles of machines overnight, just to see it doing cool things, and getting in in the morning to save everything and reboot them. It certainly set me up well for the future.

And didn't break things, because I didn't want to kill the golden goose!
Round-the-world cruise delay keeps passengers in Belfast for three months
Well since they are preserving the original WAV, it doesn't really matter if they preserve the MP4. (I'm not sure DRM has anything to do with it or not.)
Does anyone else find the wording of this is really strange and mildly unprofessional?
Using GPT-4o for web scraping
AI plays chess 6x6, new algorithm
I developed a new machine learning algorithm to play board games and trained it to play 6x6 chess. After five days of training on a consumer-grade PC, I can't win a single game against it. Here's the GitHub link with the implementation, weights, and an interactive demo
> GPL flavors get close, but not sufficient

What do you think makes it insufficient?
Hi pythux, off-topic question but do engineers directly read the feedback or is it filtered for you by someone else?
Epilepsy Protection for VRChat
This Accident Changed Shipping Forever (Casual Navigation) [video]
huh? what is there even to justify about that? are you worried the llm gets traumatized?
> Sounds like it difficult to make enough to survive unless you're doing these things.

Yup. However, I can't find a confirmation anywhere in TFA. Just some hints here and there. So I wonder, what finally made them quit?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41400420
I heard this was one of the social functions filled by the Japanese postal workers. Their official job was to deliver the mail, sure, but they were also encouraged to spend a few minutes talking with everyone as they delivered the mail.

That's a much less efficient way to get mail delivered, because each stop takes 5-10 minutes, and thus it became discouraged.

Efficiency. Short term optimization for the wrong output.
Thesis from the free version of the article: "Through a combination of regulatory browbeating, relentless taxation, and outright lawfare, California has successfully transformed itself from a global energy superpower to a flaccid energy vassal, highly dependent on foreign and domestic neighbors to keep the lights on and motor vehicles moving" [0]

[0] - https://open.substack.com/pub/doomberg/p/bay-watch?selection...
Fascinating explanation
I getting to learnt a lot
It's very usable when paired with PcManFM, and there are a plethora of themes available. Customising is done by an intuitive config file. There are tools to auto-generate the application menu, so you don't need to toil after installing a new program.

The hardest part was setting up automount to handle my network drives and USB drives - no gvfs here! A result you'll welcome if you like sane paths to mountpoints.
A good sales person will find your manager. “Hi, I see containedgravel and two others from your team are already testing [product] for [use case] in order to [benefit]. If you have 30 mins this week I can show you how to add governance, how to model and reduce your costs, and introduce you to our solutions engineers to help with a smooth rollout.”

And the first thing the manager will do is turn to their engineers and ask, “So, what do you think of [product]?” And that will determine whether the manager takes the call or not. Which is why winning over the engineer is critical.
I felt like the article itself was a good example of speaking to engineers! I also think, at least in the software world, the websites of popular software like VS Code and Docker are great examples of marketing to engineers.
You're not implying that single parents have simply replaced toxic households, are you? The issues are most probably overlapping in numbers.
Will AI Change Art History Forever?
This is correct. The mp3 is a an access file sitting on our streaming servers (wowza), outside of the preservation environment. The old access files were of very low quality, so new m4a/aac files were created.

In the cases where we only had mp3 files, the mp3 file was preserved as our master in the preservation environment, with a copy sent to the streaming servers.
HN might as well put up a black ribbon for this news.
Parenting, like life, is the accumulation of the consequences of decisions/actions.

Unless a child has the grace to grant a parent forgiveness for their (forgivable) failures, and unless a parent was able to create a safe and loving environment in which a child could grow up with such a mindset, estrangement is inevitable.

Usually, the crux which this revolves around is the realization that each child is a unique person with their own potential, and hopes, and dreams, and that it is not fair to the child if the parent does not make providing the best possible environment for that child a central focus of their life.

Many people who are (rightly or not) disappointed by their parents and troubled by aspects of how they were raised will view this as something private and will only open up in therapy, or some other private interaction --- some folks consider the anonymity of online intercourse to have a privacy of/distance from their real life that it is safe to mention things --- I guess in my day it was the "bartender effect".

Consider your question as coming from a position of grace/luck and count your blessings.
yes, sorry I didn't see your comment. We're saying the same thing.
Rust for Linux Revisited
They do post their video scripts as articles with the relevant screenshots. It’s not quite the same as a text-first article, but I prefer reading.
The preferred file format list is for preservation formats, while the M4A/AAC is used for access.
Test Variables That Tell a Story
> But it should only have been done after rules have been set and are clear to everyone.

Rules are and were always very clear. That's called the law. I don't understand why people here are acting like if there somehow was something surprising in Durov arrest.

> Like entrapment, this is action is about as low and debased as it gets.

There is no entrapment here. Entrapment is illegal in France. Durov was arrested as part of an investigation on Telegram practices. Law inforcement was not in anyway part of Telegarm not respecting the law.

> The French Government could have banned Telegram across French territories

The issue is not about Telegram as an application which is and remains perfectly legal. The issue is with Telegram as a company which is not helping in criminal investigations. Why should France ban a legal application?
Videos absolutely suck for transmitting information, compared to text. I estimate that I can read an article about 10x faster than an equivalent video, they aren't even in the same ballpark. It boggles my mind that so many people prefer videos, given how much slower they are. It's enough to make me cynically wonder if people these days are illiterate or something.
Behind AWS S3's Scale
780 persons - 740 persons transferred - 9 persons dead = 31 persons that should remain. Oh wiki.
I felt a deep sadness after reading just the first paragraph, and I had to stop there for a while. It's very powerful. If you run your own business(es), you know how challenging it is. The stories of unicorns (epsilons) are rare and almost insignificant compared to the reality faced by most businesses.
120 Years of New York's Subterranean Literary Muse
Richard Feynman Creates a Simple Method for Telling Science from Pseudoscience
Reminds me of Splinter Cell. I do like it though.
HTTP Trailer Header
Such cases are increasingly common in Europe. It's a global phenomenon.
Not if it's this kind of poetry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh
https://docusaurus.io/ is great
Not sure why you'd compare modern C++ to K&R which is a C book. Modern C is in fact less ugly than ancient C due to sugar like compound literals.
No, it's not correct. He did adhere to the medication schedule at home as instructed. Someone else poisoned him.
Made the world a safer place again, by capturing two evil terrorists! Also: Good that our security is impenetrable, as we can see here!
Flower 1.11: Auto-deploy code, isolate ClientApp execution
Yeah, I also noted that. In 2014 Anandtech was acquired by the same company that ran Tomshardware, the two sites were among the most popular in their segment. I never shook off the feeling that after the acquisition it was left to die.
It's shocking to realize I've been reading AnandTech's insightful and profound analysis for over two decades. The tech landscape has undergone a dramatic transformation in that time, yet AnandTech remained a steadfast and reliable source of information. They inspired countless hardware enthusiasts and reviewers, myself included, with many of us pursuing performance analysis as a career path. Their absence will be deeply felt, and it's truly a sad day for the tech community.
Jesus I had no idea Anandtech was in trouble. Did they ever say anything about it? I would've signed up for a Patreon to keep them afloat.
Would it be bad form if I linked to this story every time someone here says RTO is essential for ‘vibrant and lively’ communication between colleagues?
*sdl2::render

src/sdl2/render.rs:
https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/blob/master/src/sdl2/...

SDL/test
/testautomation_render.c: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/test/testautomat...
AI cameras spot toddlers not wearing seat belts
> our partnership with AWS is stronger than ever. We were even named AWS partner of the year.

This detail in the post made me chuckle. Oftentimes big vendors give out these kinds of marketing awards strategically.

One big firm I know makes it a point to have its CEO present on-stage awards at its annual user conference to customer that have indicated they might not review.
Using LLMs to Transpile Go and Java to Ruby
The Surprising Cause of Qubit Decay in Quantum Computers
I never understand the obsession with video. It's the first thing my kids reach for when searching for information about something and it's always painfully slow and inefficient.

Does 5 minutes of side by side videos of GPUs playing a game at 120fps, encoded as a 60fps video, really help anyone?
App compatibility on de-Googled devices
Many of us view the internet with the help of ublock:origin
https://ublockorigin.com/

and Sponsor Block

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Android

Added onto our web browsers.

It frees up a lot of computer and mental resources to use tools that save you time and screen realestate.

The down side is if we all do it then the money must flow from somewhere other then your favorite advertizer.
You can be as tired of it as you want, but tiredness doesn't change the meaning of words.

What you probably want instead is "fair source": https://fair.io/

Like their names imply, open source is about source being open. Whereas fair source is about ensuring that code is used fairly.

I would argue that people contributing to open source shouldn't be putting themselves in a position to be "actively exploited". If that's something you're worried about, then open source was probably the wrong choice. You should have sold the code for a profit instead, or established some revenue-limited source sharing (so that only indie devs can use it for free, like e.g. Unreal Engine). Or use a fair source license. Or a proprietary "source available" license.
I suspect it's because they can't focus on text - their devices have 2000 notifications distracting them. Video is more easily engaging, they're less likely to switch away.
"Less corruption is better" is much less of an opinion than how you get less corruption.
Fukushima was extremely minor though. Chernobyl is the worst and even that was not that bad, yeah we dramatize it a lot in media, but at a societal scale measuring physically (what actually happened vs how you felt about what happened) it was a blip on the radar.
I feel like the "Cable TV-ification" applies to them, some of the videos are very much sensationalism. The host also comes off as a bit too full of themselves
No, it doesn't even remotely sound like such a thing.
What you’re describing sounds exactly like Elixir (any Erlang family language really, Elixir is just most ergonomic IMO). Truly seamless cooperative scheduling with transparent distribution between any number of nodes.

Shameless plug, but there’s also Oban, a widely used database backed background job system.
Not really. Video just doesn't lend itself well to searchability (is that a word?). YouTube's "table of contents" feature helps, but only when the video's creator actually uses it. Even if they do provide a ToC, it still doesn't help much if you're trying to find a particular sentence, or brief mention of a particular detail. Perhaps we also need videos with an index, in addition to tables of contents.
Jurosomatic Illness
Wasn't that from the X-Files? Or maybe I'm misremembering. I think I'm thinking of this: https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Conduit but I also remember it being seen from a balcony, so maybe I'm conflating two things I've seen together.
ARM has gotten very good, and is definitely competitive with mid-range x86 while offering better performance-per-watt, but it is still not competitive with high-end x86.