skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're free

Actually it seems like with these recent rulings, we will be free to use major social media platforms where the choice of moderation is given to the user, lest those social media platforms are otherwise held liable for their "speech".

I am fully fine with accepting the idea that if a social media platform doesn't act as a dumb pipe, then their choice of moderation is their "speech" as long as they can be held fully legally liable for every single moderation/algorithm choice that they make.

Fortunately for me, we are commenting on a post where a legal ruling was made to this effect, and the judge agrees with me that this is how things aught be.
Government and commercial surveillance are intrinsically linked and framing them as some dichotomy is essentially just a coping mechanism. It's quite plausible that someone in a category that is openly accepted in the western world ends up traveling to a country where that category has been criminalized, and then ends up in the sights of the authorities based off surveillance records/analysis bought from consumer surveillance companies in the western world.
“Advanced Clean Cars II requirement that 35% of new vehicle sales be zero-emission in 2026”

Is California close to meeting this goal?
Can you easily compile a binary?

(I assume you just use standard CL methods?)

> [CIEL custom REPL ] has a shell pass-through: try !ls (available in the ciel-user package)

That's a kickass feature.
When Interest Rates Go Down, the Hucksters Spring Up
> Formally, I'm not sure how to show that's related to the relative difficilties of the two operarions, or if it actually is related in the first place, but intuitively the explanation is appealing.

I wonder if you could relate it to the difference between local and global sections on bundles and connect “global sections don’t always exist” to “global data is harder.”
I have driven an EV for the last 6 years. I find it to be superior to an ICE in almost every way. Range was, occasionally, a minor issue. I've recently bought a new (to me) EV with a larger battery. Range is no longer an issue. So yeah, for the vast majority of use cases, it has more to do with culture than practicality at this point.
I think maybe they don't mean realistic in terms of actually plausible so much as photorealistic (i.e. people might see it and think that it's purporting to be an actual photo of an apple product)?
It's also classic commercial activity. Because 230 exists, we are able to have many intentionally different social networks and web tools. If there was no moderation -- for example, if you couldn't delete porn from linkedin -- all social networks would be the same. Likely there would only be one large one. If all moderation was pushed to the client side, it might seem like we could retain what we have but it seems very possible we could lose the diverse ecosystem of Online and end up with something like Walmart.

This would be the worst outcome of a rollback of 230.
Yes, Windows with WSL2 is a perfectly good development machine. I use a Mac for work, Windows for personal. I prefer the Mac, but I'm not sure it's worth a price difference of over $1k between a Mac and Windows with comparable specs.
Haha thanks for catching that—fixed! That’s pretty ironic. Looks like I’m the LLM and you’re the human :P

Now I can’t remember whether the house was 3147 or 1347. The pattern might have been to add the first digit to the last digit (unrot + in the stack language). That’s what I get for writing at 3am!
I can’t comment on the lowest leaf of this thread, but thanks for update! I’ll read through this section and see if my intuitions are wrong or right.
Did you not see the readme in that repo? It's no longer being maintained, with the last commit being years ago.

I imagine it's lacking a lot of typescripts newer features etc. seems hard to justify using it
>buy

Nothing is for sale at the Apple TV "Store". You pay for a license to stream a piece of content, that lasts until Apple or the content owner decides to revoke it.
Kindle Without Lockscreen Ads
> If Netflix remained the sole streaming platform of significance it would be lumped in with the monopoly talk....

Spotify, Google, Amazon, Apple, Tidal all manage to have almost comprehensive music catalogs for me to stream. It's rare that I find something on one platform that isn't on another (Some artist exceptions exist, and are rare).

Pick 10 random films off the AFI top 100 list and tell me how to stream them. How many services do I need to watch them "for free".

Consumers want a single point of access to content. If I want to listen to a song I go to my music platform, if I want to watch content I go to the web to find out who has it... That friction is what consumers dont want or need.
wouldn't a few seconds of conversation suffice to verify that the person is still alive?
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA
This is an ad so I flagged it. They're fishing for info but the bait is fake. If there was only 1 victim, they could get $5k, but there are too many people. Whenever a lot of victims obviously exist for something, courts will reject the individual cases and tell them to do a class action. They know this, so this law firms ulterior motive is showing a list of victims and then looking for one perfect token plaintiff to represent a class action suit, and be the star of an 18 month court process. This form is just a waste of time. Just wait until the trial is over, and if they settle, youll be able to sign up as a class member and get the $5 Venmo credit these things typically pay out.
Yea! Do you think the LLM learns a Fibonacci-specific circuit? Do you think it is possible for an LLM to learn a general pattern-recognition circuit?
Researcher sued for sharing data stolen by ransomware with media
+1 for passport cards as canonical US ID.
I wanna expand by saying that is not even a full First-World perspective, but purely an US one.

In Europe iOS has a big market share, but Android is still the most used.
It used to be called "terminal services."

By your reasoning, it's possibly "career down" for a PM to name their project "terminal."
Ask HN: What are the current trends and future prospects for PHP?
I'm guessing this only applied to open spaces? Seems like applying that to spaces occupied by blocks would often imply ambiguous push direction.
It would be over the network :), which is—I imagine—tiny bit simpler than over USB.
Agree, but when Ian left a few years ago is when I ultimately stopped visiting all together.

Maybe unavoidable, but the level of ads covering the website also made it borderline unreadable...
I've never understood this argument. Caregivers are paid; it's a job. No one is forced to go into elderly care.

Having kids isn't even a guarantee that they'll be around to care for you in your old age. My grandparents had four and still needed to be moved to a home with a full time carer at the end because none of their kids were able to move back home to take care of them.
Melbourne Bible
Trieve is a very impressive achievement, you've managed to slam together every AI buzzword into a semi usable product! It's written in Rust, which makes the entire proposal even more perfect for HN :). Love it.

Some questions (and thanks for the detailed "about" page, it answered several of my initial questions!) ~

Will you re-index and keep updating the system to improve the quality of results, or what is the plan? It'd be awesome to have something more nuanced than Algolia which stays updated in near real time, like Algolia.

How easy or challenging is it to bootstrap / re-index? Is it possible to ingest new data with partial updates to the existing indices, or is a full indexing from zero always required?

Are GPUs strictly necessary? Is it possible to use only CPUs if indexing speed isn't a great concern?

Does it really require a terabyte of working memory to index and serve all of the data for HN? (4x 256GB / 128 CPUs is mentioned in your ops details) This is a lot of resources! Like A LOT!

Have you thought considered indexing other high-quality data sources? For example:

* Lobste.rs (I think you can email them requesting a DB dump, they want disclosures about the intended purpose)

* Slashdot (debatable quality, but goes back 27 years which could be interesting)

* Review sites: Chipsandcheese, TomsHardware, Anandtech, HardOCP

* Lwn, Phoronix

* I'm surely missing other good ones, the discussion in The End of Anandtech article from today mentions a bunch of interesting sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41399872

I wonder if getting some of these data sources through CommonCrawl or archive.org would reduce the crawl+parse annoyance?

At some point I want to put together an HN-Awesome-Search page which covers all the custom search indexes HN folks have made over the years.

Thank you!
I'd love to see one of these revitalizations of CL that gets rid of the ALLCAPS. I know it's a small aesthetic thing but it drives me crazy.

I found a snippet somewhere that messes with string interning and so symbols don't instantly get capitalized, but there's still way too much shouting.
The TS4 is notoriously[1] buggy. Make sure you are keeping up with firmware updates[2].

My old TS3 Plus was rock stable for years and years, but even it eventually stopped powering on. I wish CalDigit could get these things more solid.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/CalDigit/comments/11diles/are_there...

2. https://downloads.caldigit.com
Doing open source releases takes engineering time, and the internal tooling teams are amongst those that have been hit by layoffs[1], so keeping GitHub up to date is probably not a big priority for them.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from...
The problem with the advocated approach is that you’d have to market your product based on its actual merits, of which there may be few, rather than on some fantasy. ;)
Selfhosting with Dokku and Docker Compose
there are news articles (I admit, of questionable origin) the claim he visited Russia yearly for the past decade. I do wonder if it the situation is a little more complex then he was a fugitive of the Russian Government
GP didn't "forget" it; that 10x improvement in efficiency is the reason we can use 10W bulbs to do the job that used to require a 100W bulb. Looking at energy conversion to lumens isn't "pedantic," it's "correct".
> Tor is apparently wide open to the NSA through traffic analysis.

Would you be willing to clarify what you mean by that?

To start with, are you saying that Tor is wide open to traffic analysis

(1) by anyone,

(2) by powerful attackers such as the NSA, or

(3) by the NSA specifically?
Exactly, I'm sure these hobbyists will be jumping in any day now to replace what was previously done by paid professionals.
They ruled it was tried in the wrong jurisdiction thus basically never happened. There is likely a sealed indictment awaiting in another jurisdiction where they will try again, now knowing the trial strategy of the defense.
25.7% zero emissions vehicles in Q2 [1]. Needs about 20% growth each of the next 2 years to meet that target. At least in my corner of the Bay Area, the only people buying new gas-only vehicles are the ones who can’t afford the extra hybrid cost upfront. EVs are popular with the older folks who can use smaller vehicles.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/08/06/california-just-notched-on....
Ask HN: Strategies for local backups of cloud data?
I use Dropbox and I use Apple's various iCloud storage things (Documents, Desktop, Photos, etc). I believe it's probably true that these companies can do a better job of maintaining my data over the long term, than me, buying HDDs and replacing them before they fail, etc etc etc.

but

What I'm actually afraid of is some screw-up that ends up preventing me from accessing my cloud data. For example a billing screwup. Or a scan-for-prohibited-materials gone wrong. Or a login screwup. Or a straight-up attack from a bad actor. Or simply an infrastructure oops.

Presently I have one machine under my control that I have set so that Dropbox stores all data locally also, and I have tried to do the same with Apple iCloud (though I'm never sure with Apple what is actually happening) ... and then I run a cron job to backup those folders to a NAS onsite.

But I really like the idea of 100% of my data living on the cloud and a far smaller percentage "living" on my local machine at any one time ... especially when the cloud storage total starts getting large w.r.t the size of the HD on my local machine.

Is there some kind of service or program/app that will periodically suck down 100% of my cloud data and stick it on my NAS, without having to actually store 100% on my computer (the one doing the sucking) at any one time?
If an older person doesn’t have a whole lot going on, they often look forward to these sorts of routine daily interactions. Missing one could easily be a red flag.
I think you’re right, so it is now as shape polymorphic as any framework that with an XLA backend can be.

I work with edge devices, so I have also been experimenting with IREE for deployment, that can handle dynamic shapes (at times, it stopped working for a version but may be working again in the development branch).
Do you use Outlook or Outlook (new) which is just a webview to Outlook.com?
What resources would you recommend for learning DX12?
Wellness checks are a thing that come in various flavors.
p2p leaks the 'metadata' of the network connections. It makes it trivial for someone to know that these two nodes are talking to each other. A goal of this, and other similar protocols, attempt to prevent that sort of metadata analysis.
I remember at Oracle they built systems to shut down the previous presumed leader to definitively know it wasn't ghosting.
It's not what we did wrong, it's what we did right: education, contraception, women's rights, new forms of entertainment that are quite literally better than sex.

If we wanted to avoid this outcome we'd need to make the world a much worse place than it already is, and if that's really the case then we frankly deserve to go extinct.
Telegram: A crypto firm with a sideline in messaging
Part of being a good manager is knowing how to get good folks to give you advice on things you don't understand, and knowing how to follow that advice. Yeah, its hard- but that's a huge part of the whole dang job!

No manager (or human) is perfect, mistakes happen- we need to be humble enough to listen and learn from mistakes.
Just wanted to say that I remember joining the Anandtech forums in middle school in the early 2000's and was quite active for a number of years.

Reading articles and discussions there was my first experience getting into tech and helped my build my first computer.

I hope the editor and writers of Anandtech know the impact they had!
I'm not sure what skeletons you think are being pulled out of the closet. I do the same as the OP, if there is an option to pay I do that, but I will always ad block. I feel for you if you can't make money without ads, but I'd rather see the world burn than be ad driven.

I pay for many many subscriptions for content I like. Also, I don't see any "virtue signalling" anywhere. I don't want ads because they are hostile and not in my best interest. They significantly lower the quality of my life. It's as simple as that.
I think the better metaphor is: Imagine you make a chair over the weekend. You already have many chairs. Chairs are readily and cheaply available. Your design is likely derivative of many other chairs.

Being told any of these things by a friend you show the chair to is entirely pointless and maybe even mean. The only angle that has some level of social acceptability is an angle like "check out this chair that's like what you wanted to build, maybe you could learn something from it", but even that is a 50/50 on whether its taken positively or taken as "oh, you don't think I don't know how to build a chair, wtf bro".

Pie recipes are different. Music is different (VERY different) (incomparable).
Sure, you do covers, and everyone knows the difference between a cover and an original. Even so, bands that do original music often try to do the cover in their own style, so the question of "how is this different from the original" is still relevant.
Tigris CEO and co-founder here. Unless it is in tens of PB range we don’t count it as extraordinary. And even then the goal is not to tax for bandwidth.
It’s deeper than that. See the paper on time in distributed systems by Lamport: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf

There’s a relativity-like issue where it’s impossible to have a globally consistent view of time.

See IR2 for how to synchronize physical time in a distributed system.

“(a) If Pg sends a message m at physical time t, then m contains a timestamp Tm= C/(t). (b) Upon receiving a message m at time t', process P/ sets C/(t') equal to maximum (Cj(t' - 0), Tm + /Zm).”

I think the formula is saying that the clocks will only ever increase (i.e. drift upwards). If so, then you could imagine two processes leapfrogging if one of them sends a message that bumps the other’s clock, then that one sends a message back that bumps the first.

But I’m curious how it behaves if one of the clocks is running faster, e.g. a satellite has a physically different sense of time than an observer on the ground.

Also note the paper claims you can’t get rid of clocks if you want to totally order the events.
Even then, everyone expected the successor to be called the 720.
I second this: don't go down the wrong entrance, but definitely do visit. It's a fun time with knowledgeable employees that will take you on a tour. You can also see some of the machinery used to crack Japanese codes and some historical attempts at codes and code-breaking. It's a fascinating place.
This is great.

I personally have an image with Alexandria, Serapeum, Dexador, Bordeaux Threads, some JSON stuff, but it might be handy to have something others use as a similar target.

Probably stands a better chance of success than the over-pontificated CDR proposals, and CL21 which preceded it.

Curious if there’s a bunch of reader macros set up by default?
> The price is too steep

what is the price? After looking at the website or the marketplace, I can't see any pricing at all (except the "free" on the marketplace page)

> I understand you are using Claude right now

On the marketplace page it says "We do use LLMs and sections of code to prompt Claude/OpenAI." under "Data & Privacy"
Yes, unless you watch them literally every moment they're using the internet they're going to encounter something eventually.
> catastrophic for a country's ability to maintain its economy

Productivity of 10s of new STEM every few years > productivity of 300m of subsistence farmers / low skill workers in informal economy. Having a lot of surplus people helps in some domains of development / consumption, it's a drag in others, i.e. per capita food/energy security. Thinking about PRC being just 20% less crowded during holidays/events is still pretty stressful.
I am already mirroring the entire site lol
It's interesting too looking back on the early politics of the electric car versus the gas car. The electric car was the "lady's car" because it was less messy, more reliable, easier to use, quieter, more efficient (higher range in some early cases). The gas car was the "man's car" because it was louder, harder to start, harder to maintain, needed a fuel that was harder to acquire, was overall less reliable.

There's an interesting alternate history tale to be told if the Ford Motor Company had been lead instead of by Henry Ford by his wife Clara Bryant Ford (who was a big proponent for electric cars, in addition to being an interesting suffragette).
Scale: August in Review
What makes it specifically for developers? Why couldn't gamers use this?
If by web3 you mean crypto currencies then I ask you nicely to stop using web3 for that.

Web3 is things like json-ld and the like and it is tragic that scammers have been able to abuse the term for so long.
I don’t know which one comes out the speaker because San Francisco officially counts Cantonese and Mandarin together as just “Chinese” for some reason, but the fourth is Filipino (not Tagalog, Filipino is what they list which I think is just a more standardized Tagalog but I am not an expert).

Here’s the data on the ordinance: https://www.sf.gov/data/san-francisco-language-diversity-dat...
I'd say software is more like a pie recipe or a song than like a pie or a chair.
I paid $50k for 24kWh nameplate capacity with no battery, fully installed and integrated, a year ago at 2% interest (the only reason it made sense to even do the deal). My electric bill went from an average of $350/mo to $16/mo (the minimum to stay connected), while the loan payment is ~$300. My cost for the materials alone would have been ~$30-35k (I needed higher power individual panels to get the capacity I needed, and went with a micro inverter setup for higher reliability). Equipment rental would have been another $3k because I had to dig a trench out to my detached garage to fit the entire system, and I don't own a 30 ft ladder to reach my roof. Electrical work has to be signed off on by a licensed electrician. Engineering schematics of the electrical system have to be created. Permits with the city have to be filed. Another $1-2k. For another $10k: I got to keep the week of vacation I would have needed to burn, someone else is responsible for fixing defects in the system, and I didn't have to spend the mental bandwidth on all the ins and outs of the whole shebang. The installers finished the system in a day, and had it turned on generating power after all the bureaucracy hurdles were cleared a few weeks in.

When I can afford it, the next project is add enough battery capacity to effectively go off grid.
I found:

shlomnissan/sdl-wasm:
https://github.com/shlomnissan/sdl-wasm :

> A simple example of compiling C/SDL to WebAssembly and binding it to an HTML5 canvas.

erik-larsen/emscripten-sdl2-ogles2:
https://github.com/erik-larsen/emscripten-sdl2-ogles2 :

> C++/SDL2/OpenGLES2 samples running in the browser via Emscripten

IDK how much work there is to migrate these to SDL3?

Are there WASM compilation advantages to SDL3 vs SDL2?
Aside from Alaska, there's nowhere in the entire US where you're more than an hour or so away from a grocery store.
I feel like people overshoot. I live on 15 acres, mostly woods. I can only just barely see my neighbor’s houses through the woods in the winter.

I’d like more land still - I grew up on 60 acres - but I still basically have complete privacy.
I had an iphone 5 until the new SE came out in 2020, so for me at least, it was pretty good.
It’s not really a “current economy” thing or anything to do with technological innovation itself. As someone mentioned elsewhere, our economic model of line must go up quarterly forever is the real thing to fix here. Does turning society into an illiterate mob make sense long-term? Most would say no. Does it make sense short-term? Unfortunately it makes a lot of sense as long as you can get out with your cash hoard before everything burns. Companies are simply acting towards what we have been incentivizing for decades now.
> micro-transactions are not possible given the huge banking fees.

We can change this via legislation. The “financialization” of everything feels related to the adtech conundrum.

Bringing banks to heel for the good of society is long overdue IMO.
The allegation is usually that the NSA owns enough of the Tor network to deanonymize people using it.
That depends on what you would qualify as successful :) It’s early days but AlgoraTV is seeing a lot of success in my opinion. I am generally happy to support folks in however way I can.
That is my current solution.

Still there is a number of things I cannot buy or rent.
What was her education? I wouldn’t assume a physics grad would know much about poisons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Silberman