skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 2, I usually blame it on the hub; but it's hard to find, or even define what is a "proper hub". I genuinely don't know how they work (like, if I plug 4 external HDDs to a hub surely they have to split the bandwidth? Is there a limit?) and what spec they are supposed to follow to make they work 100 of 100 times across multiple OS.

I have ones only work well on PC, and ones only work well on MacOS in all these years. I tried to purchase not-so-cheap ones but at the end of the day it's still a gamble everytime.
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Well then you also have a crappy job. Good money doesn't need to equal high stress. You can do a good job, create positive value, and live a low stress life. Step 1: Don't work at Amazon.
If Amazon supplies a lot of Federal or Military there might be a requirement that certain VMs run on CPUs that are made in the USA or that have very stringent supply chain controls.
Yup, and I think the only guarantee for a remote-first workplace is if the whole company
( or at least the whole engineering dept. ) is spread out enough that there is no possible plan for an in-office setup.

Seems like most these types are building niche products (e.g.: tailscale) and not just SaaS or CRUD-with-AI ?
If the goal of surveillance is behavior control, then invisible-to-camera status can become a commodity to be turned on/off based on evolving priorities, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563571. A few years ago, there was news coverage of an invisible-to-surveillance list in China.
Is nuclear engineering a low-capex opportunity, in your view?
Can we remove Amazon from the FAANG term yet? Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia, or any number of other companies with much better pay/WLB exist.

I don't care about it's historic term for stocks that went up. Today, we use it to refer to the "elite" of the tech industry. The "FAANG" should refer to the tech giants with the best pay/WLB ratios. Amazon is not even close to that anymore, and frankly never really was.
> Having said all that, sending cash through the mail just feels like a really obvious money laundering vector.

This is a classic America debate - just because criminals do it doesn't mean the State should punish everyone else that does it. America is full of weirdos that want to do weird things and be left alone to do it without State interference. Since 2001 I feel like the "if you have nothing to hide..." argument has been given WAY too much credence. Feels like the American zeitgeist is turning against characters like Hunter S. or George Carlin and I feel like we used to celebrate this sort of gonzo, leave-me-the-fuck-alone ideology instead.
Lawyer here (but FWIW, i donate to IJ so, uh, not exactly on the government's side here):

Take what i'm about to say as a description of the process rather than any support for it :)

So, it's not quite that.
Here, they are claiming it because a dog "alerted" on the package, so they then claim it's related to criminal activity. regardless of whether they find actual drugs in it.

This part:
"Even though Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department dogs alerted handlers to the smell of drugs in the box, no contraband could be found once it was opened."

The first part is why they were involved and allowed to seize it.

The second is mostly irrelevant, legally (whether it should be or not). You don't have to prove it contained drugs to prove it was proceeds of a crime or otherwise part of criminal activity. This part is actually right, whether it gets used in an insane fashion or not. This is civil and not criminal, so the standard is not "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".

They file a suit against the money itself. It ends up with a funny case title like "United States v. An Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls," or "United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins"

(both real, but federal seizures. If a state seizes it, it's like State of Indiana v., and often less funny)

Even if the person is not charged with a crime, if they successfully argue the money itself is criminal proceeds or was involved in criminal activity, they can confiscate it.

So, it's not sending cash that enables them to seize it. It's whether the money is used in criminal activity. The thing that enables them to be involved is that the dog alerted to it.

Now, for as much bullshit as exists in dog alerts, in this case, fedex often goes through about 100k packages an hour in this site, and they have seized 100 of them in the past year.

That's a really really small percent of the packages.
Nvidia has very little desire to make a high-end razor thin margin chip that consoles traditionally demand. This is what Jensen has said, and it makes sense when there are other areas that the silicon can be directed to with much greater profit.
When computers first became useful, you needed computers the size of rooms to compute. In 2024, my earphones have more compute.
Should be unconstitutional. In fact I could have sworn there was this amendment specifically about seizures, and failing that, one about due process. If no crime has been committed and/or no charges have been filed or are going to be filed in a timely manner, then I fail to see on what basis the government gets to deprive someone of property.
You can have a different law for that: "abandoned property". Essentially, you get the property just by showing up and not suing for it.
I have these that come from history|grep espeak

From a particularly sunny day where I was having too much fun waiting for my builds:

while ps -49011;do sleep 3;done;espeak "IT'S DONE YOU FUCK. COME WORK.";telegram-send "done"

More regularly:

gh pr checks 2850 --watch ; while true; do espeak "main done";sleep 5;done
OK, name me 40 great songs from your 2023 list.

where "great" is something more than "got a lot of plays on Spotify."
I really like the balance of minimalism and functionality achieved by CotEditor. The only issue I have with it is it seems to use more RAM than it should. I might just be a Vim snob, but 330 MB seems like a lot for just a dozen plaintext files. Mac computers don't have much RAM to spare.
Neat idea but I would want to see what the interface looks like before paying.
Why you can’t pay us to add custom modules
hey, forgot to mention i made this because i did not want to use 3 programs, one for image generation another for editing the images and layering them and something like blender to animate

the only thing i got lazy with is the bezier curve for easing, right now it's being used for both position + rotation on all dimensions.. which might be some sort of sin in the animation world

but this version should be good enough to test n validate the idea try it out n give me some feedback
There are still manual optimizations that can be done (non-temporal writes where appropriate for example), but nothing like the painstaking removal of Load-Hit-Stores and cache control of the 360/PS3 era.
I understand having other business models. I personally hate ads, but I’m also happy to buy a game and then pay to remove the ads. And I’m willing to pay a lot more than the $1 that most people seem to think is overpriced.

I also understand having some in app purchases.

My gripe is a few games took a really exploitive route with in app purchases. Having extremely aggressive timers and tons of currencies. And they CLEANED UP. From what I’ve heard it sounds like it’s mostly people who pay nothing, children being tricked into paying, and a small number of people who spend an insane amount of money. The whales.

But whatever the mix it made money so every game publisher started racing to turn out identical skinner boxes.

This had two effects. First, that’s what the publishers were interested in so it’s probably a lot harder to get anything else through. Second, because those games are “free“ it changed pricing expectations that games and other apps should be “free“.

So if you wanted to make a good game and sell it at even a really low price, people screamed at you. How DARE you charge $1.99.

By driving down the expected price we ended up at a point where the only things that can make any money at all or either crammed with ads that get shown to you constantly or designed to milk as much money out of people as possible.

Games only have to be good enough to keep people looking at the ads or paying for another set of Smurfberries.

Worst of all even games that were already made and were absolute classics have been ruined. Because they either get updates to add those features (Flight Control) or sequels to change the game to be more like one of those that makes a lot of money (Plants be Zombies 2, Trism 2).
I have never understood this.

Trying to guess if I should look for something in the root level of Settings or in the General subsection?

Absolutely no rhyme or reason as far as I can tell.

It's why I just use search for settings now. I refuse to keep guessing wrong.
I call it the 'declining marginal gains of digitally enabled enterprise'
Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
Hey HN, I'm Andrew, one of the creators of Void. I made this open source version of Cursor where you can get all of Cursor's core features but in a fully-customizable IDE (ctrl+k, ctrl+L). We love Cursor but there are so many other features we want to build, like allowing AI to edit multiple files at once, or giving AI better understanding of your file system. Void is the open-source, fully customizable tool we've been wanting.

The hard part: we're building Void as a fork of vscode. The repo has great documentation for extensions, but going deeper gets pretty involved. All of the code is OOP-based, and they mount DOM nodes the old-school way (which is what React was supposed to solve..). So adding new UI features isn't exactly trivial. Microsoft also made its extension marketplace closed-source so we (and Cursor) have to hack our way through it. One thing we're excited about is refactoring and creating docs so that it's much easier for anyone to contribute.

The other benefit of open source is we don't need to hide how our prompts are built, so we can transfer the private API logic that Cursor has right onto your local machine. This lets you host a model on-prem and have your data stay completely private. It also means you can go directly to LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) instead of going through us as a middleman.

There's still a lot to build, and full disclosure, we are very early stage. But we're super excited about building and have a working prototype that we're quickly adding features to.

Let us know if there's anything you want to see in a Cursor-style editor. Or feel free to shoot us a pull request. Cheers!
What is "unlikely" about this?
> Most software still sucks for the average user.

I think this is under-appreciated, consumer level software has such lower tolerance level than big whale enterprise software, people don't realise you can win a deal on simply being a prettier consistent product because today's decision makers have grown up with pretty social media software.
I live a 15 minute drive from my city, but it took me an hour and a half to get home in rush hour a couple weeks ago. I guess it’s my fault though for being stupid and not paying even more of a premium to live within a block of my office.
Ah that sucks. No wonder it isn’t available in the EU
Seriously? I mean to a certain extent you are correct that it's just an excuse...

But if you really think there is no difference between these two things then you are living in a fantasy world.

Proximity does a lot to encourage socialization between super senior people and super junior people.

Without proximity, it's much easier for either side to put off or brush off things that would be good mentorship opportunities. You don't have to go into work the next day and see your coworker face to face to explain why you ditched them on that pair coding session or whatever it may have been.
> The sum of a set of N numbers is an example of a problem that is not inherently serial.

But addition with floats (not reals) is non associative.
>In support of HSRs; I recently took a car train in Switzerland

>So I could see similar HSR car trains saving quite a bit of time,

There's no such thing as an HSR car train anywhere, nor is there ever likely to be. What you rode on is simply called a "train", not a bullet train. You can obviously transport cars by train, but you're not going to do it at high speeds.
Aren't they only required to report that the IRS, not police? Also, having $50k on you with a bank receipt is generally a non-issue.
It’s an option and one that should probably have been on by default together with -e.

It’s not so much about error handling. It’s more about not executing all sorts of stuff after something fails.
it's about meaning. there was a great HN post once about how "meaning is cohering information forward in time." the things music represented 30 years ago were durable for several years probably because it took a while to permeate the culture. now, a new song or a band passes through relevance in a few days because, yes it's instant, and there's an ocean of stuff coming up behind it.

maybe as a culture we've largely ceased to produce new meaning and the old meaning is just being consumed and used up by people hungry for it. after a certain age we stop producing we anyway. most of what's being produced now is just from scraps of retro and sure, the lives of younger people can seem like a meaningless pastiche of contrived tropes and simulacra, but nobody knows that their first time through.
Would a protocol like this be useful for a data diode?
I think the problem is a different one.

What we needed (still need) is a better sandbox for native code. So you can feel as comfortable running some offline app found in some rando's Reddit post as you do clicking on a link from same. Which, in turn, lets untrusted people create interesting new apps without any gatekeepers or barriers to entry.

Right now the same thing happens with the web, but because web browsers are inherently client-server, that creates an implied server dependency and then all of the misfeatures that come with it.
That sounds like hundreds of hours of work.
What kind of "should" is that?

A relative change in how annoying two classes of jobs are is effectively a relative change in how much they pay, so once the dust settles I'd expect the relative actual dollar pay to end up adjusting itself in response.
To be clear, the state uses the verb “seize” as a more polite alternative to “steal” when referring to its own actions.

We all should just be good Americans and let them “seize” whatever they want!
I think with a lot of digitally enabled enterprise, we are finding that in this saturated market is that operating and building the "enterprise" is the hard part.

For your plumber example, the software is the easy part. Retaining customers, managing supply chains, labor relations, managing costs , building expertise etc. is the hard part.
They're not being downvoted.

Someone (I'm assuming it's only one person) must have gotten a downvote and now has spun up a bunch of new accounts to complain about bot armies and astroturfing.

Moreover, they're complaining that the tone here is too pro-police, despite what I see is a majority of comments being critical of asset forfeiture.
Yeah, and then why not just print it and put it in a cover? I don’t really understand the problem, honestly.

The post doesn’t seem to be about writing a book, it seems to be about the Book as a concept that holds sentimental value to the author.
It used to be nearly impossible to game Google for search engine results and for some reason over the last 8-10 years, its become comical how easy it is to game them for good search results now.
Tell me you don't know much about Guile without telling me you don't know much about Guile. The whole vision of Guile from the get-go was to give it the ability to transpile languages programmers liked, such as Perl or Python, into Scheme and thus become a universal extension runtime for GNU software.

That dream got closer to reality with Guile 2.0 and its multi-language "compiler tower" which already supports ECMAScript and a subset of Emacs Lisp. But Scheme is Guile's native tongue, so you don't have to learn how to use those in order to be a "fully competent Guile developer", and you wouldn't have to learn Wisp either.
I honestly wonder how useful most managers are..

Just anecdotal ofc but over my career having worked for 14 managers.

Half of them were eventually fired.

Most of them sucked at rallying teams, mainly because who the f is going to follow a doofus cringe lord?

2 managers stand out to me in my career. I’m really good friends with one of them that I’ve been in contact with for over a decade now.

Most were basically checkbox checkers who sucked at engineering and faked their way into “people management” only to be found out that they just plain suck as employees. I actually checked LinkedIn just now of a few of those bad ones and they work at small companies and have made no upward progress. Not surprised honestly.

Keep in mind I worked at a pretty good place, not a noob tier place.
Risc-V has a proposal for this.
Good action movie, I enjoyed it! [1].

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Ridge
Personally, I wouldn’t listen to most of those.

There’s plenty of good stuff on those lists, but also a fair amount of trash and quite a lot I’ve never heard of - bearing in mind I’m not American, and also not really much of a 70s fan. I had a listen to Joy to the World by Three Dog Night, and all I can say is I hope it didn’t mess up my recommendation algorithm.

I’m also not sure what playing chart top trumps would prove anyway. It’s conceivable that the charts can be worse by some objective metric, even if the
average of the same metric in the overall music scene is higher, if the diversity and discovery of music is wider. In essence the chart just becomes the lowest common denominator, rather than critically acclaimed music, as it may have been when what we listened to was driven mainly by a cabal of professional radio DJs.

The subjectivity of musical taste is something I mentioned twice, but intentionally tried to avoid passing judgement on because it’s essentially impossible. If a boomer wants to come along and tell an entire generation that his taste in music is superior to theirs, well that’s up to him, but it seems very old man yells at cloud to me.

The reason I mention diversity and discovery is because I figure the closest thing to an objective measurement of how good the overall music ecosystem is, is how satisfied people are with the music they’re listening to. It stands to reason that diversity and discovery is a key part of that. I’m not convinced any attempt to define an objective ordering of musical taste would be anything other than an exercise in nostalgia and elitism.
Interesting. I've been watching various Wi-Fi HaLow modules for a couple years now. They are interesting alternatives to LoRa and Zigbee which seem to have low data rates (from a quick Google Search) of best casees 50kbit/s and 250kbit/s respectively vs. Halow's best case 15Mbit/s. Obviously, this all depends on a lot of factors (coding scheme, range, noise, etc.).

It's unfortunate that the modules cost so much (single unit costs):

Alfa Network ($20): https://asiarf.com/product/wi-fi-halow-sub-ghz-wireless-modu...

Morse Micro ($30): https://www.mouser.com/c/?marcom=191003943

Silex ($33): https://www.mouser.com/c/?marcom=191003943

As with all these types of unpopular modules, the SDKs and software documentation are not that freely available, except for these $70 SparkFun Pi HATs: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/19956

Those all have FCC certs, but if you get modules from China, without certifications, it can be a lot cheaper ($5): https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Generation-900MHz...
But who knows how they actually perform or what documentation they actually have.

I would enjoy making a long-range Wi-Fi camera with these (assuming you can buy a base station Wi-Fi adapter for your computer, with drivers). If this random Google Image is anything to go by, https://www.macxdvd.com/mac-dvd-video-converter-how-to/artic..., depending on if you encode video into H264 or H265, you might be able to fit a 60fps 1080p into a stream at a decent range.
Ever try a weighted blanket?
Sure, but a lot of people are besides brain-dead slop-consumers.

That doesn't really challenge the proposal about regulating content.

(I personally recoil at the proposition of China-like content moderation but whatever.)
Unlikely? Isn't this a pretty normal thing?
It's not a feature.

Come live in a country where the public transport is excellent.
Typing this while traveling on the ICE between Zürich and Basel.
This is very plausible and I haven't heard it articulated quite like this before. Thanks!
Yeah it may be a case of tucking tail, but that says nothing about whether it was a difficult engineering problem, could just as well be an impossible political situation to navigate (whose feelings are you going to hurt by deleting some microservice)
What does that approval mean for the rest of the world? Do they still need a new approval in Europe before adding the feature in the EU? And if so, is the feature geofenced? E.g., you lose it when traveling or how do they prevent Europeans and people living in markets that are pending approval from using it?
> How many unsigned apps are you downloading and running?

Enough for this to be annoying. Plenty of tiny tools don't pay for the privilege of doing free work, so aren't signed

> This is one of those features where the benefits seem to very obviously outweigh the drawbacks. 99.9% of users just aren't running unsigned software, so the moment that happens, it is most certainly malware.

You're obviously wrong with your made up stats (you don't need to be a power '1% user to want to install some a single useful unsigned app over the whole lifetime of using a Mac) and ignore the fact that part of the reason why it's 99% and not 88% is precisely because of features like this that make it harder to do so.

But there is an easy way to reconcile - make the old behavior configurable then the imaginary nonexisting 0.0000% users can continue without permanent disruptions
> What’s more, Pineda has since discovered that the footage captured by her car in Sentry Mode has reportedly been wiped from the car’s memory, meaning that no footage of her and Ortega attempting to open the car to rescue the child remains.

There'd better be a good explanation for this.
I wonder what are the technical limitations of LiveView Native. For example, is it possible to access sensors (accelerometer, camera, mic, light torch, battery level)? Can we display UI elements like toasts or modal windows?

> 3. Immediate Mission-Critical Updates
> We do not skip the app store's review process, but we do offer a server-side solution that will allow you to make permitted changes (per app store rules) on critical bugs that may otherwise take days to clear the review process. You can roll these changes out immediately.

That point is a bit confusing. We can skip the app store's review process or not? In other words, in which cases we cannot skip the review process?

Do not get me wrong, I am really excited about this milestone. Also, I am waiting to see a demo in Android.
Did he remember to kill the script after they started dating?
In the long run it is true.

Name a company which has prospered, over many years, without rendering benefit to its customers.
Is the moat that good for HW? The more commodified your product is, the more you risk losing to undifferentiated foreign competitors who have lower input costs.