skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title is bit click baity, but faceboak is paing contractor to do it.

Imagine ”facebook kills children” title, where article clarifies that it’s actually contractor that is doing the killing and also at other company request.
TikTok blamed for hit to Iceland cucumber supply
{oldPlace} is bad. {newPlace} is better. An eternal cycle.
OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux*

* On MacOS Hosts only.

I feel like there should be a rule that if the submission is basically a "Show HN" style post (or a link to s piece of software), it should be mentioned in the title if its platform specific.
It's never going to be solved. The mess is deeply ingrained in the Python development culture.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/
I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker
I don't understand how they are actually doing this. Unless facebook/google/amazon are actively sharing microphone data with them, how are get they getting the data?

Amazon are especially zealous of making sure no-one else can steal data from them. Not because of privacy concerns, but because they want to use that data first.
China self-driving cars have Tesla in their sights
I currently use Vagrant on Linux, but it's slow and resource heavy.

With OrbStack, the ability to set up an Ubuntu or Fedora 'VM' in a few seconds, then install even complex SDN workloads inside is incredible.

Now I want something similar on Linux, especially once I switch to Asahi. I haven't tried LXD yet, but it seems to work similarly to OrbStack with the added benefit of having a full Linux kernel and the ability to modprobe modules and create snapshots, something that isn’t possible with OrbStack. I'll have to give it a try.
All the best! This is an important area to work upon.

Besides, I think X aka Twitter is not supported as of now?

Lastly, what do you think of Typefully? It is amazing too I think.
Sure, but 2kb code space? What sort of class hierarchy can you possibly use in so little space?
looking good on pc as well as mobile.
I have been using NoRoot Firewall since my day1 with Android. It takes some times but I allow the least amount of rules per app, then block . per app, and block globally the ones I identify (trackers etc.)

I also block 31... range globally and the FB and FBCDN addresses (namely)(but I don't use FB/IG/WA anyway)
Does paywallskip scrape archive.is and archive.org?
If traffic is encrypted, and there is constant other traffic to same server, then it might be hard to identify.
A business generally don’t threat its audience with post-life infinite burn in Hell if they don’t buy its product. Also they don’t impose celibacy to their employees. Oh, and tax exemptions, I guess.
Seems a complete farce to learn Python without learning how environments work seen as the way it's designed it's impossible to use for more than a single project without them.
Template specialization means more generated code, which, again, must fit in 2kb.

On very old archs (16bits, 8bits), there was no OO, because the code could not be complex enough to warrant it. It could not be complex because there wasn't room enough.

That being said, there are templated libraries (like fmt...) which may result in zero overhead in code size, so if the thread OP is using C++, then surely he could also use that library...
It fallbacks to archives, yes. Basically I use different User-Agent headers, different Referer headers, it tries disabling javascript once the page has loaded and the fallback is to fetch from web archives (Wayback Machine, archive.is, Google cache).

Then the HTML is validated and parsed.
It comes back to the work itself being interesting and whether you actually care about the field that you are working in. I would not like to live in a world where you have to put in 80 hours a week to get a decent salary as an expert. It's true that there are a lot of people who got into the industry just because of the comp though :(
This solves such an important need, updating device firmware and bios’ was such a pain for the longest time, most manufacturers tend to give out only Windows executables- if you are lucky then some DOS compatible binary might be included, and then you could boot into FreeDOS.

BIOS's got better about reading their own firmware from VFAT, but still getting the driver was a pain, because there was a strong preference for .exe's on websites.

Seems much better now, I can run a small handful of commands and have my bios updated. It's still hard to know which motherboards/laptops are compatible with fwupd though.
Yes I should. A proper website that explains what it is and contains docs about the client API (that also doesn't exist yet) is something I plan to have for 1.0.

In the meantime, here it is live on my server: https://friends.grishka.me/
>There's nothing to hide

Sure there is. I would expect a feature called "Voice Recognition" would only be active when I was using voice commands (and perhaps the occasional accidental activation), but not at other times.
Whew. And I thought the mobile phone industry was a cesspit...
> Feels snappy.

I wonder if this is just everyone else using it on massive gamer PCs and me using it on mobile/chromebook, but .. no. It it is not snappy. The process of fetching all the new messages and rendering them takes up to a second.

I don't understand why people who insist on 60fps games are happy with a 1fps chat app, but I guess they don't have that experience.
Can I get my money back if it turns out that some NYT article was outright lies, probably already paid for by some undisclosed shady entity?
What about bat guano?
LXD is a manager for LXC containers. I have the vague idea that it's like k8s for LXC but I don't really know either orchestration tools well enough to say.

LXC containers are like Docker/Podman containers except they usually run an init process, so you're not running just one binary inside the container.

You can make LXC "app containers" which just run one binary Docker/Podman containers.
Too salesy
Interesting, another poster called it sorcery but I tried it three times and nothing happened.
What will you do when the lawyers come for you?
Yes on very fast modern hardware, the textbox sometimes takes dozens of frames to display the character I typed, and it is inconsistent. The tech sucks.
The vagus nerve doesn't go anywhere near your wrists or ankles, and that science page doesn't mention the vagus nerve at all.
But usually you would have a wakeword that is recognized locally or a button that has to be pressed before online speech recognition would start.
I was under the impression that was still infeasible on mobile devices (battery, processor, etc). Happy to be corrected, because I have to admit it's only a matter of time.
> Who does use it

"Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?" (2023, 181 comments) can give you an idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940871.
You notice a pattern in the comments.
People use PyPy for the unglamorous task of speeding up some existing Python code instead of rewriting it.
It isn't surprising they don't blog much about it.

> and why don't more people use it?

As other comments have already said, the incompatible binary extensions.
Like you say, computers nowadays can do basically anything. It is then a funny feeling to take an old computer, one that was once abandoned over all the minor frustrations that surrounded it, and revisit it today, only to be filled with wonder and parent-like pride in what the cute little thing is still able to do. Even trivial things, like playing mp3s! Despite being older in time, this antique relic of the past has its place in a younger part of my mind, and so feels more childish and immature. And yet, look at it go!
Are you considering a chrome extension to automate the process from the client perspective?
I was hoping for little more follow up about how maybe this was how people with OCD back then were viewed. Or some connection between how people with Arithmomania back then, were turned into folk stories about vampires and witches. Besides the title, there wasn't much connection between how maybe real people with the condition, became a story told to kids, and passed on. Or why did Romania have so many people with Arithmomania that it became a folk story about vampires.

This seems like something that would also be a cool addition to Blindsight. Some further 'realistic' characteristic about how vampires are a real thing. (in that fictional universe of course)
Depends if they've read the changelog and saw something useful or not, right?
Transcript:

We need the hardware cutout so that you can't just control everything by software. There has to be an independent system that will render the software side of the system inoperative or to a controlled minimum mode. We need that cutout switch, and I think that's doable. But good engineering and good testing will be required to see that happen. If we're going to make them weapon systems, we need to invest the extra cost to make sure we can control - We can always cause a graceful or controlled failure when we need to. And I think that just has to be part of good design.

- Prof. Ray Buettner, Naval Postgraduate School, 2020

Without this architecture, next-gen software-enabled weapons systems will be able to be hacked en masse, resulting in a hostile takeover of thousands or tens of thousands of US networked weapons simultaneously.

If you work at a defense contractor, please take Prof. Buettner's advice extremely seriously during the system architecture phase of every project. I propose that to fail to do so should be considered criminal negligence, as it would be intentional disregard of industry best practices ---- the best practices stated here by Prof. Buettner.

His bibliography:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3gSfhaIAAAAJ&hl=en

The Naval Postgraduate School website: https://nps.edu/
The 68k processor equivalent of this is Alan Clement's "Microprocessor Systems Design: 68000 Family Hardware". Sadly, the few years the 68k on the Z80 meant that the designs were necessarily more complex, e.g. how 68k bus cycles worked, more integrated parallel/serial interfaces, etc. IIRC there was even a small detour into MMUs, which must have been inconceivable for a home-brew computer then.
In China there was this thing called revolution, maybe you have heard of it.
There can be more than one pizza restaurant.
Ask HN: Why doesn't my post show up in the "shownew" list?
My post with ID 41416390 is accessible via the direct link, but I can't find it in the "shownew" list. I edited the title two or three times after posting it, not sure if that's related.
Doesn't matter to vintage computing.
No, Twitter was never especially advertiser focused, although it did do a bit of "brand" stuff. The destruction of Twitter was because as a a "free speech platform" it naturally picked up the most aggressive, nastiest, confrontational politics. It then algorithmically shoved this in front of the people most likely to make retaliatory posts. It is dying because it now focuses on what the owner wants, which is a set of increasingly fringe right wing lunatics and some guy called "catturd2".

Hence getting banned in Brazil. I guarantee that is not an outcome any advertiser wanted.
My comment or the site? If the former, I acknowledge that, I got a bit triggered by YACTS (yet another content theft service). If the latter, I'm genuinely curious and happy to make changes to our copy.

Paywallskip seems to stealsy to me FWIW.
That's a local government rather than a private company, though.
"Flourishing and and thrive in peace" can be a good starting point. Specifications will vary over time sure, but there are good chances humankind will still crave for this in a few thousand years if it managed to stay alive as a species.

I seize the opportunity to wish you a great satisfying and fulfilling life in harmony with the rest of your relatives, whoever you are.
I wish you could. I'd like Vernus to champion indie journalism, mainstream media is dying before our eyes anyway.
> would only be active when I was using voice commands

How would you activate certain voice commands if it wasn't listening to all?

If the microphone was off than it has no way of hearing and activating the commands. So by design it's microphone needs to be on 24/7.

You could have a push-to-talk button on a remote control to enable the mic but than you just might as well use the remote control.

All these talk to activate features are designed only for the sake of being gimmicky and unethical surveillance.
Conceiving the 2000s (2023)
Microsoft Recall uninstall option said to be a "bug"
The legal landscape surrounding this issue remains ambiguous. I've documented my analysis in the legal section of my website. Typically, the consequence is domain takedowns, which is why I proactively purchased 10 domains as a precautionary measure.

https://www.paywallskip.com/posts/legal
Awesome!

Just yesterday I started some experiments in that direction, to visualize grammars, but now I can rather do something else ..
Boomers are selling businesses to millennials in a generational handover
Yes, is being developed and will launch this week. Just click and go, nothing fancy.
My understanding is that they don't 'suck' as such (like a mosquito), but rather create a wound and lap at the blood which emerges.
How to be better at making decisions
tablespoon - of course....
Also! Tho i assumed that meant it was laced with fentanyl etc, or coke was in their system but overdose was something else.
Inngest's new design: Our process in rethinking our information architecture
>Technology was moving at such blinding speed.

And still is. Only 14 years ago basically no one had a smartphone. Now you are "forced" to use it for some real life applications. Also LLMs, etc.

There is just so much technology atm, that it doesn't feel like such a big leap, but it's moving incredibly fast. Apprently just the hardware leaps got smaller
Is this open or shared source?

Need help?
> for people who grew up with the horror that is npm and left-pad

For those missing context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
It's a nice index structure with a metric name as a part of a key value. It allows to skip must have optimizations (like bitmap indexes or parallel index scans) in case of regular structure where metric name is also a tag. It kinda shards indexes and makes per tag id-set a lot smaller.

I'm now thinking about employing the same structure for hisser[1]. Now it uses a regular index structure and quite complex parallel index scan on top of lmdb[2].

[1]: https://github.com/baverman/hisser
[2]: https://github.com/baverman/hisser/blob/master/hisser/lmdb_s...
Mastering Vector Search for Developers
Think you might have an authoritarianism problem in your organization/group/mental-health environment?

Follow the money. Where the money flows, you will find the source of your authoritarianism. And if it flows over many points, each and every one of those points will have a modicum of authoritarianism designed to protect that flow ..
No screenshots or demo - how do I know if this is better than the already awesome web-first binvis.io?
Consumer Gen AI removal guide, Fall 2024 edition
How about this? https://newrepublic.com/post/177936/twitter-suspends-account...

"This is at least the fifth time that X, under Musk, has purged accounts that are the slightest bit critical of him, his friends, or causes he supports"
These are deals done straight with the phone makers. Full audio is never shared with advertised, just the filtered data, in text, ex: "I'm moving to Canada next week" or "My girlfriend just got pregnant"
Is endurance to be desired? If we would make a parallel with biological systems, it seems that death allows evolution, so I think it's good that nowadays companies don't last that long. Given the state of the world I think there are still a couple of things to improve...
Supply and demand [1], one of the very few laws of the dismal science that most of said science's practitioners really agree about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
China's Qianfan Megaconstellation Aims at SpaceX's Starlink
ICC warns against further proliferation of unilateral trade measures
What I'm doing wrong with my AI consulting business?
Recently I've founded a AI consulting business called RAGnexus but I'm failing to secure my first customer. I've tried Linkedin Ads, that increased the visitors to my page but at a high cost, low CTR and 0 conversions (in my case conversion is the user fills the contact form).
I would like to know what is your honest opinion about my page. Also I would like to hear recommendations about the marketing strategy for my company. Thank you very much!

PS: My target audience would be at the beginning focused in Spain. I don't know if that matters.
I'm really doubtful on this because most of these open source apps get banned from Github. Probably will make a dummy account to open issues and always have a copy local and in Gitlab. Should be able to clean the code a bit and share it soon.
Yet another hack on hack. Venv was the wrong fix/hack and now the package management is cascading into even more madness.
Disputing the space and then resolving the mess is a tried and true tactic in this industry.

Just because this site isn’t directly paying the content providers now doesn’t mean they won’t in the future. Providing it free, even with ambiguous legality, can allow them to build enough of a following to give them leverage in future negotiations.
Nice! Personally I think that the more niche social networks we have the better it is. The big problem with the mainstream networks is that they've evolved from a media to communicate and keep in touch with real people into a platform for influencers and businesses.

The common complaint I hear about instagram for example is that every second connection of yours would try to sell/teach something and that's just garbage if all you need is to keep in touch with your friends.

The main problems to tackle imo are:

- information propagation speed. This is good in case you want to get a quick update but it also a double edged sword, since this allows information attacks, trolls etc

- Scale. Anything of big scale becomes a problem by itself since it becomes economically viable to target the platform with bots, scam etc.

- Incentives. I think we should get to the point where social networks are being run by non profits

I've posted the link a couple of time, I'm working on my personal take on this problem[0]. My approach is the following:

- Slow down information propagation. Every post is visible to the direct connections, to their connections if you allow it, but no further

- No way to get a connection request from a stranger. Either you specifically allow it, or it's introduced by your direct connections

- No federation, since my idea was to have small communities

- Fully open in the sense of data formats, import/export etc. Migrating between instances is as easy exporting posts in bulk, creating an account on another instance and doing the import. You could do the bulk updates the same way

Also, it's all go + htmx just in case anyone else is also tired of modern frontend mess. I have a couple of videos on the feautures[1], if you like. The design is not great, since I wanted to focus on the idea itself

[0]: https://github.com/can3p/pcom

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa5K-kCUS-FozB6Cw7rJL...
Exxon is an international group with obviously aligned profit motives, so I trust their actions far better reflect the real (as in realpolitik) international situation over a self-admittedly biased website (PMI = Partnership for Market Implementation[1]).

I see the UK has four entries on this dashboard, but nevertheless they're still cutting down forests in Canada and the USA for "green" biomass, and for their trouble quadrupling the (fully accounted) carbon emissions. Whatever this dashboard actually measures, it's clearly no guarantee against perverse non-market "green" incentives.

Anyway, just pointing out a few of the pitfalls and tripwires on the path to good climate policy. I think we agree in the broad strokes. Cheers

[1] https://pmiclimate.org/
Show HN: Time Tag – Simple time tracking: Tag, filter, and analyze your day
Hey Hacker News community!

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Key Features:
Tag and note each time block
Filter and view total time per tag
Export data to CSV
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I'm looking for your feedback! How can I make this tool even more useful for you? Any features you'd love to see? How do you currently track your time?

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This is a perfect pastiche of xkcd
or just don't connect devices with lax security or privacy to the internet.
The SSD firmware failure mode you're describing was a thing: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/705...
Oh, it's the same with me! I'll add a screenshot whenever I'm free.
Considering Chrome influence, this might drive non-fork web obsolete
> That seems to be the “or” thinking. How about And.

Ok, but this “and” thinking doesn’t help me do what I said: get rid of laptop, save money.
It certainly makes whatever censorship might be taking place less skewed by Musk's personal whims.
How could this look like?
> Electric power is not a finite resource though

Electric power is most definitely a finite resource, otherwise we wouldn't have had this conversation and we would have all lived in a Startrek-like utopia.

> so they can benefit from economies of scale and they put their prices down.

That is the bs I was calling out against. I'm saying that because Meta needs more power then Meta will pay whatever will need in order to get access to that power, in effect out-competing those domestic users. Those power stations and the like would have already been built absent Meta's needs in order to server those domestic users and existing industrial users, you're saying that the incoming Meta new demand would be offset by the new offer (new power stations) generated by said new demand which is, again, the bs I was calling out against.
Having an ad partner that is doing bad things on its own direction is different from explicitly paying a company to do a specific bad thing.

Far be it from me to defend Meta on privacy —- I won’t —- but we should at least characterize their numerous evils honestly.
> Is X a bralizian institution ? I don't think so... so X has no right to oppose this decision !

They have the right because you can appeal to the court. The problem is: it’s the Supreme Court, your appeal would be judged by the same judge.

> If the judge decision is illegal, that's the problem of the brazilian political and law system, and of the brazilian People.

True, but since the Supreme Court is also the only court where politicians can be judged, no one will do anything to stop them.
What's your problem with NPM? It just works, it's easy to package for, it handles multiple version dependencies elegantly, with pnpm it doesn't trash your disk and is really fast.

(P)NPM and CJS is the best package/dependency management there currently is.
The worrying part is that apple's act was voluntary. They get to not do this, and if developers and service providers enact the evil bit check that's your problem.

It's like all the majors have this failure mode: judge jury and executioner all in one with limited recourse because trade regulation hasn't caught up with the complexities of smart devices with sub identities, and a spares process, and evil bits. Or services with only robot helplines and a black mark function. Locked out of your life, your income streams, your IPR, whatever.
I haven't logged into this site for years but just had to after this... what a load of rubbish. Zen browser is showing what firefox should have been at least half a decade ago.