skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! This is the second time I see a strong recommendation for that product (first one was [0]).

Seems pretty expensive ($300) for a vibrating bracelet. Couldn't you emulate the effect with an Android smart watch and a custom app?

[0] https://acesounderglass.com/2023/05/08/product-endorsement-a...
One proposal I saw would be a series of spacecraft on a one way trip that pass through the focal point and image as much as they can while there before going off on their way forever.
You're right, it's culturally determined. You'll be surprised to learn that the culture of a mother affect the offspring even in a patriarchal society.

That said, it was a figure of speech. He was definitely not a Cristian converted to Islam and whoever thinks otherwise perhaps got confused because of the notion that his mother was a Cristian perhaps?
Hmm, I thought the oldest bank was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banca_Monte_dei_Paschi_di_Sien... , which has its origin in 1472 (although not in the present form).

I had to go check whether they'd survived the 2008 financial crisis without being absorbed, and I think they did. A lot of the UK's oldest banks and building societies got absorbed in a consolidation wave immediately before (and partly causative of) the financial crisis.
The LinkedIn preview text made me laugh, thank you :)
We do no— They do not!
I took the heatsink all the way off and decided to put my knuckle on the die and boot up the machine. It took what felt like a millisecond for the die to feel 'nuclear' hot and the machine, thankfully, auto-switched off.

You're lucky you didn't get a severe burn on your hand or kill the CPU --- early AMD CPUs, notably from the late 90s / early 2000s, were infamous for catastrophically overheating without a heatsink. There's a video from Tom's Hardware showing that, after which AMD started adding more thermal protection.

(There are various assertions floating around that that video was fake, but given that no one seems to have made a "myth-busting" video in the 20+ years since it was released, despite the clear incentives for YouTubers to do so, and instead others have shown how hot those CPUs can get, I suspect it's real. Now that those CPUs and other hardware from that era are actually somewhat collectible, the likelihood of someone trying to repeat that video is even lower.)
In the EU definitely. Most our SaaS clients here need an invoice and pay it by bank.
X is turning into a wasteland of angry people and bots. Bluesky is much more refreshing, similar to the old twitter.
That's a cheap shot that's not even related to your own point from one comment ago.
Dude, they are commenting on hacker news… someone brings up Kessler syndrome in basically every post about starlink or even space in general.

It’s up there with microplastics and e-ink displays as a HN meme.
From the perspective of marketing/spreading this thing--even to Engineers--I think some pictures of example output would help quite a lot.
> People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it.

This probably comes as a surprise to Discord users, but it really is a niche social network.

We're talking fractions of a percent of users compared to existing social networks.

People don't really want something like Discord - the downsides by far outweigh any upside of "a closed-off private network of people", biggest one being lack of visibility and consistency.
Have been using OrbStack since beta and with a commercial license since February. I can’t praise it enough, it’s elegant, performant software that just works.
Just how important are the ground stations in Brazil? (I don't mean the end user terminals.)

If Starlink will basically continue to work well enough if those are seized, it seems like the obvious next steps are going to be crypto/stablecoin payments and a focus on small form factor terminals like Starlink Mini that can bypass customs.
I've spent most of my life as a hardcore tech enthusiast, always excited for the latest and greatest. But in this era of homogeneous Electron apps, and now LLMs, I can't find much to be enthusiastic about anymore.

Most of the novelty has evaporated since every device nowadays can do everything imaginable (and if not locally, then via cloud). On old computers, it's just cool to see different kinds of software and games running on it. It makes you want to explore the possibilities. People used to be enthusiastic about the cool stuff their computer could do.

For a while now, I've wanted to set up a retro computer as a "daily driver" of sorts. It feels like a lot of our everyday uses for technology have not changed much over the decades—communication, news, entertainment, writing, organization, etc. If I lean back and ask myself what I actually use a computer for (other than specific stuff for work), I find it kind of hard to answer the question, which likely means I'm wasting a lot of time doing things that aren't deliberate or meaningful.

I love retro computers (especially Amiga), and doing stuff on them will always fill me with enthusiasm.
I think it’s probably both.
What, owned by a single company and monetised within an inch of it’s life?
Like kagi.com?
It's one thing leading to the other. It is what it is.

Are the judge's (possibly illegal) moves motivated by interpretation of the law or by personal vendetta?

Hard to tell , but i'm glad for less censorship.
I did the same thing.
Docker Desktop for Macos kept going into resource saving mode and then not responding to anything after some time, so I tried Orbstack after seeing it here.
A non-paywalled article on the topic - https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/09/02/tech/musk-s...
The current implementation of the webhook notifier will call the webhook URL at most once. There's no real reason for it beyond it being a first iteration of the webhook output plugin. I've created an issue in the repo to support retries , since this is a valuable feature (https://github.com/xataio/pgstream/issues/67).

Worth mentioning that the retry strategy is defined on a processor level. The opensearch indexer for instance does handle retries, making it "at least once" delivery.

Thanks for your feedback!
Looking beyond simply “medicinal” properties, there are examples of plants that have evolved their chemical composition in response to animals. Hot peppers, for example. The capsaicin only affects mammals, not birds. Birds can eat the fruit and more widely disperse their seeds than mammals would. It’s advantageous to the plants that birds eat the fruit instead of mammals.

So it’s not unreasonable that other plants may have also developed specific chemicals in response to some pressure from animals.

Though in a twist it turns out that one specific mammal has spread hot peppers far more than any birds ever before.
Sorry to be blunt but your employer must be real penny pinchers, it’s not that expensive, and it’s a tool that would help you get the job done.
List of blogs you can read while preparing for your interviews.
The first step for safely sharing passwords is not doing it. SSO as much as possible, give people actual accounts where not.

As a last resource, at a Former Employer™, people put a public key in their profile, and we used GPG to encrypt secrets and paste the encrypted value on Slack/Teams. This was only among developers, and there was a tutorial for setting up the GPG GUI and encrypting values with it, so it worked fine. But we did also actively worked towards not needing that as much as possible.
Bram Stokers Dracula also has something at its core about obsessions in particular time and timetables, planning etc as highlighted by user gwern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39512188

Dracula is obsessed with the modern world and meticulously plans his trip to England including using tide charts, the telegrap and railway timetables. But he is unable to properly adapt (or overcome the obsession) into becoming modern. The good guys are able to use (and not become obsessed with) modern timekeeping, bookkeeping, etc to defeat Dracula.

Worth to say that he isn't defeated by being trapped into counting things literally.
The other side is that AI can learn every last bit of information from all CT scans, operating room video recordings (and more) in the world with no rest or sleep, and with 100% diligence
This storyline was a rare case of me supporting Elon, but once again, he goes too far, childishly, for his ego. He is just proving a lot of people i don't particularly like right, that billionaires are supranational powers. Which does support a very marxist view on capitalism (and productivism sadly), that it enable money to create power above political power.
or by now rust

it's surprisingly convenient to do
I appreciate the response.

I don't mind an AI reading some of my personal data for tagging, but it's having my data uploaded to the cloud that I don't like. I'm the "local or Nextcloud, but not big-tech" rare type of user, so not the best representation of the general public.

I remember someone once posted a local app that used GPT mini to do this, and vision for pictures, but it was very alpha and I stopped tracking it.

I like what you've built, I just wish it worked locally vs. the cloud.
I'm guessing that having the source of the bootcode available would allow for extreme tinkering to the point that RPI can no longer guarantee it functioning properly? Or maybe it has something to do with proprietary drivers loading? Curious as well what's in there that they need to keep it closed source.
Build as many words as possible from the given letters
Nvd.nist.gov cert expired yesterday and uses HSTS
As the past two years of Twitter's evolution have shown, more power to Elon Musk actually leads to more censorship.

He's running the social media service like a kingdom where lèse-majesté is the gravest offense, promoting himself and blocking any topics that he doesn't personally like (including the existence of his own daughter who posts on Threads now).

Old Twitter had flawed content moderation processes, but at least there was a process.
Conveniently left out of the HN link, and mentioned nowhere in the page body.
> And yet people instead ignore these benefits, and go for this spy thriller nonsense as if people are going to be crawling through the air vents and abseiling from the ceiling to interfere with my computer?

CBP and other countries' "border control" routinely forces people to let them examine their devices. That's bad enough, I'd at least be happy if there were an attestable way these pigs don't install malware on peoples' devices.
What was Gates' role at the time? He seems very disconnected from how anything in Windows works. I'm surprised how far removed he is.
Artificial intelligence is still intelligence, even if it is just a shallow copy of human intelligence.

What irritates me when I see comments like yours is that precise knowledge of weaknesses of LLMs is necessary to either improve LLMs, so most of the people who claim LLMs reason or are already AGI basically deny the ability to improve them, since they are already perfect. Research into studying the limitations of the current generation of AI is unwanted and by extension so is the next generation of AI.
Seems like https://medium.com/luminasticity/sufficiently-advanced-techn...

>The advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic because our bodies, our physiological and psychological ways of interacting were evolved in primitive environments and so complex technology asserts itself upon us like all the uncontrollable phenomena would dominate the minds of the non-modern human.
The better part of Facebook's network traffic is there to serve ads.
A utilitarian social network (similar to this site) would probably only use a fraction of the resources.
The court orders for Twitter in Brazil were way more tame and based on judicial procedures than orders that Elon followed from Turkey and other less democratic countries.

There's no visible rhyme or reason why he's fighting the Brazilian courts much harder than orders from other less democratic countries, something else is happening unrelated to free speech or any lip service he pays to.
Oh yeah Garmin software was absolutely amongst the worst I have ever tried to use. Complete trash. Awful software for the simplest of tasks like loading maps onto your GPS.
Using SWI-Prolog in the Browser (WASM)
This has a lot of appeal. I am instinctively wary of managers who can't do the actual job, which this obviously avoids. It also removes the 'management track', and presumably means you can see more progression as an IC (with a little bit of management). And I tend to agree major issues need to bubble up to leadership anyway.

Tangent but I am increasingly convinced the happiest company size maxes out around ~50 (give or take).
Awesome, bookmarked!

Looking forward to login being oauth based, but from what I've vaguely remember skimming these weeks, that's an @proto limitation that is being worked on?!
The median man does.
Haha - oh no, he is going to far with allowing free speech. The sender and the tone is more important to you I guess?
Mathcheap – A simple dead online LaTeX equation editor
Yup, it's the reason we shouldn't be shooting up Satellites for frivolous reasons like internet in the first place.
The problem is that all mainstream social media has degenerated into entertainment. Staying up to date about the lives of people you know irl is seemingly no longer their intended purpose.

But people's need to connect in this way — just updates from those who they chose to follow, displayed chronologically, and no other content whatsoever — has not gone anywhere. That's why I'm also working on my own project that implements this type of social network with ActivityPub support: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

It's beta quality for now and I'm not promoting it much yet, but I hope to bring it to 1.0 by the end of this year.
You're right! Let's play...
> According to its author, the main reason D has very fast compile time (as long as you avoid the CTFE) is because of the language design decisions avoid the notorious symbols that can complicated symbol table just like happened in C++ and the popular << and >> overloading for I/O and shifting. But the fact that Rust come much later than C++ and D but still slow to compile is bewildering to say the least.

The reasons why Rust (rustc) is slow to compile are well-known. Not bewildering.
It's weird, because for me XP was really the high point. I don't think I ever used the site they're discussing, but XP itself had a nice consistent UX that I was happy to use. A couple of years I ago I tried out windows for my main Dev environment for nearly 2 years and completely regretted it. What a disaster it is.
Having done so for many years in Tcl, I rather have a JIT or AOT toolchain in the reference implementation, regardless of how easy it is to use the C FFI.
So jealous! God I loved that machine. Used them a lot in libraries and always wanted to have my own.
100%! Thanks!
> I quite like Rust, but these are early days, and it is not yet clear that Rust will be the language that wins this fight

There has been a number of languages in 20 years that have been given hype - some more than others... yet slowly disappear into the corner.

Ruby and Clojure are 2 examples in the last 13 years. Today, I rarely hear about them (though I am sure they could still be popular in certain places)

To me, Rust is different to these examples.. and more comparable to the sort of hype and popularity Java got back in the 90s. Point is Rust is not going away like these other examples... and the fact Microsoft has included Rust in their kernel (like Linux as and, I believe, BSD) tells you a lot.

Microsoft are likely to still push their stack (.NET, etc) for frontend development. However, for their low-level+high performance codebase, likely behind their azure infrastructure, I would not be surprised if they start going with Rust.

Personally, I would love to see languages like Odin and Zig be more popular but I think Rust is going to dominate many areas in programming. Does not mean Zig or Odin wont be successful, it just wont get that fanbase Rust has, imo. The question you have to ask (like Java) is -- is it really the best choice for its features... or by its push/popularity.
Well, you can already do extreme tinkering to the point that RPi can no longer guarantee it functioning properly :)

IIRC it's just that the bootcode.bin file is provided by Broadcom, and not the RPi foundation, so they can't open source it because they don't have the license to do so (this isn't the only proprietary blob in the default Pi distribution, but most of the other ones have open source alternatives/aren't that necessary/are open source now that they use the RP1 chip instead of broadcom peripherals).

There's similar, slightly more open arrangements, with the Pi Pico W, where they can't provide the firmware for the Wifi chip, but they can provide a library to interface with it, with the caveat that the license _only_ allows for that library to be used with the RP* family of microcontrollers [1]

[1]: https://github.com/georgerobotics/cyw43-driver/blob/faf36381...
> The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what the loudest dumbest users want vs all else.

I'm not on X, so I don't know, but IME on every other place on the internet since forever is that the loudest, dumbest users ARE the advertisers.

An environment that monetarily rewards users pushing their message into other peoples faces performs an environmental selection to make the advertisers the loudest and dumbest users.
Glasses do not require a prescription - you can enter arbitrary values. Contacts on the other hand, require a prescription within the last year and is verified with your optometrist.
> other less democratic countries

That's your rhyme and reason if you ask me, he just loooooves (wannabe) dictators
Marx was right and people like Musk and Thiel are living proof.
sorry man but that typo had me lol, early mornings here I do apologize.
Chains: Exploration of an Alternative to Sender/Receiver – Sean Parent [video]
Insertion sort is stable with its normal implementation, for the record.
Yeah I freelanced for 4yrs before returning to employee-land in 2022. I think I'm going to go back to it eventually, but nervous in the current market.
Well, I'm one of the ten thousand today because it's new to me!
Yes, but the issues once again seems to stem from overexposition and continuous usage (in gardening and arboriculture). I'm not saying we whould continue to use it as we are, we ought to limit it, but reasonable usage exists, like to enhance direct seeding under a vegetative cover (basically you kill your winter vegetative cover with glyphosate and a roller, wait a week, seed under the dying cover). You don't even have to use glyphosate here to be honest, but small quantities really facilitate the work and allow to use a diversified cover.

We should ban glyphosate in gardening and arboriculture though.
He may be doing it for personal ego reasons.

But OTOH it is pointless to 'fight' the judicial system of e.g. Russia, or flawed democracies like Turkey which stage a coup. OTOH brazil is somewhat more democratic and it makes sense to appeal to their democratic institutions.

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Then let's put one of this well-positioned black hole in all photons' trajectories.
It's frightening how authoritarian the Left has become around the world. Ambiguous laws about'hate' seem poised to protect the world from thought crimes by curtailing basic human rights.

In this context Musk is right and has the power to bring change. He will lose a lot of that power under a Harris presidency that has advertised it plans to continue the crusade against freedom of speech.
Interesting, the "straight-to-fiber" leapfrogging. Was not aware. Makes sense.-

I'd be interested to know - qua infra - what their power grids are looking like ...
> As usual, I wanted to check if any firmware update is available

Updating HDD firmware is something you do to resolve a very specific problem, not ... just because it's available. People are blind to the fact that updates can and do introduce new bugs.
> Is it take your favourite employees on a retreat, don't worry about the message this sends?

Well the message is "be excellent and next year you'll be there too". A failure to reward great employees out of fear of picking favorites is IMO one of the big problems of modern corporate management.

An impact of an outstanding employee is an order of magnitude bigger than that of an average one. You should reward people accordingly and openly. Here "accordingly" can literally mean "an order of magnitude bigger comp" and "openly" means you tell everyone this guy is rewarded because he works so well.

Instead what often happens is "here's a 20% raise but don't tell anybody so they don't think you're special. We're all equals here".
perhaps, but much better in my experience.
Twitter is far from a wasteland. Nothing that matters is exclusively on Bluesky, but a lot of it is on Twitter. The "old media" heavily relies on Twitter, too. Anger is a major driver of engagement on any medium, it's only natural that this shows through on Twitter.

Alternative platforms appear to be more civil because they're islands of echo-chambers. The anger is still there, it's just directed at the more abstract out-group, rather than any individuals that are part of the conversation.
Ray Tracing in One Weekend in Rust
> But Alwaleed, X’s biggest investor after Musk himself, said in an interview with The Post that he values his and Kingdom Holding Co.’s X stake the same as when Musk took over the site: $1.9 billion, a figure he said was a “conservative” estimate.

> “In our books, on my books personally, we are valuing at minimum [at] the entry level that we entered with,” he said last week. “There’s no devaluation whatsoever.”

Either that's a royal level of delusion, or he's valuing the asset as something more than just a business. I'm guessing the latter.
Which are damn more important (to me) than is the compile time metric.
The vast majority of devs use windows for dev, esp with Docker. Why wouldn’t they care about it?
I strongly dislike this approach to linear algebra. I much prefer matrix-less approach like in "algebra done right". I guess the latter is less suited for computation, but much, much better for understanding what's going on.
Was it free speech when he banned a bunch of leftists for disagreeing with his views?
Glad the humor landed
Perl, then?
I dont care about his motives - why should i ?
> For those unfamiliar, Whoop and Oura are high-end fitness trackers that require an expensive monthly subscription.

Why is this subscription needed? If you wear the device, can you get the data yourself and analyze it?
> And performance of awk is crap. [...] I had replaced all the awk scripts in python and everything is a lot faster.

My experience points exactly the other way: for data-processing tasks, especially streaming ones, even Gawk is a lot faster than Python (pre-3.11), and apparently I’m not the only one[1]. If you’re not satisfied with Gawk’s performance, though, try Nawk[2] or, even better, Mawk[3]. (And stick to POSIX to ensure your code works in all of them.)

[1] https://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-...

[2] https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

[3] https://invisible-island.net/mawk/