skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, I use linux, OpenBSD, Apple and even Microsoft operating systems. I thought the video provided a unique perspective to the systemd discourse that I thought people would be interested in seeing if they hadn’t already.

I couldn’t care less if Debian announced that Debian 13 is going to default to s6 or runit as the init system. I have no loyalty to systemd other than the Linux distros I use have integrated with it.

The linked article introduced me to s6 which is interesting. I do think there is value in simpler codebases a la wireguard, toybox, and doas. None of the hostilities towards one init project over the other have ever made sense to me but “the battle” was mostly fought before I got into Linux.
Ask HN: How do you use AI to summarise your (DRMed) eBooks
Hi. Is there any non-hacky way to have GPt-4o or the like summarise an ebook that I have purchased in my Kindle library?

If I only give the title of the book it terribly hallucinates, and Kindle doesn't make it easy to copy book content into clipboard :/
Endogenous Growth and Human Intelligence
This was traditional automation. They used a bog standard statistical techniques and called it AI for fundraising purposes.
If you’re talking about California that’s just embarrassing
> Can you explain how tariffs are an effective tool against foreign governments subsidizing industries? It has been my understanding that tariffs typically end up being tit-for-tat and relatively zero-sum.

They neutralize the subsidy's effect on pricing and prevent the subsidizer from taking over your market, at least.

> It has been my understanding that tariffs typically end up being tit-for-tat and relatively zero-sum.

The subsidy is already a tit, the tariff is tat. Zero-sum is at least better than just taking the blow and having a negative-sum outcome for yourself.
There are smaller, gated communities that are still very valuable. You're posting in one. But yes, the open Internet is basically useless now, thanks ultimately to advertising as a business model.
You're exactly right. You only have to look at the prevalence of the word "unalive" in real life contexts to find an example.
Is Culture Dying?
I'm in this picture, and I'm begging my collaborators to move to Julia or Python.
I sat on the fence for a long time wanting to do this, and finally pulled the trigger and picked up a Synology NAS last year. I've had a blast setting up a handful of handy little self-hosted services on the thing. Highly recommend giving it a go!

I haven't had any security issues yet (knock on wood). But it seems pretty low-risk if you follow basic best practices. The only thing I have exposed to the internet is a reverse proxy that proxies to a handful of docker containers.
There are excellent descriptions of a "sane" person becoming addicted to opioids even in classical literature. Start by reading Bulgakov's "Morphine" (1926) - and note that he wrote from personal experience with addiction.
Shell script authors like yourself make me very happy. The pipe-to-read is a fun idea, I’ll use it.

One stanza I have at the beginning of every script:

[[ -n “${TRACE:-}” ]] && set -o xtrace

This lets you trace any script just by setting the environment variable. And it’s nounset-safe.

This was typed from memory on mobile so if the above is bugged, my bad :)
There is more than Weapons though. Brazil is supporting the Chinese peace plan - the plan that China built without talking to Ukraine and looks like give Russia everything they want. A lot of Africa nations are drawing closer to Russia - they don't have much to give now, but may in the future. (just them not developing is a win for Russia)
Then .. everything is political?
Well, you can (partially) thank the Jones Act for US ship building being so abysmal.
That has nothing to do with crypto.
He's got autism, which he has discussed openly on camera and I think wrote about in his book.
I think this SA perspective is outdated or perhaps never adequately investigated. Packages like renv solve for these issues, and they work great.
The kind of people who claim to be “anti Zionist” are also the kind who want to strengthen hate crime laws.

Oops, your progressive attempts to engineer society got used to stifle your own dissent!
I almost exclusively use the Friends feed[1] now.

Unfortunately it doesn't get rid of sponsored posts or reshares of pages/links from friends, but its closer.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr
I guess a manageable, still-useful alternative would be to curate a whitelist of sources that don't use AI, and without making that list public, derive the word frequencies from only those sources. How to compile that list is left as an exercise for the reader. The result would not be as accurate as a broad sample of the web, but in a world where it's impossible to trust a broad sample of the web, it the option you are left with. And I have no reason to doubt that it could be done at a useful scale.

I'm sure this has occurred to them already. Apart from the near-impossibility of continuing the task in the same way they've always done it, it seems like the other reason they're not updating wordfreq is to stick a thumb in the eye of OpenAI and Google. While I appreciate the sentiment, I recognize that those corporations' eyes will never be sufficiently thumbed to satisfy anybody, so I would not let that anger change the course of my life's work, personally.
"Never"? Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler come to mind. It's easier to make a case for authoritarians always grabbing power by exploiting freedom.

But the world is too complicated to reveal an iron-clad rule about this - a person can pick and choose historical events to back their argument.

One looks at social media today and sees rampant mis- and disinformation, and then sees authoritarians rising to power, ostensibly due to this information environment.

I would be very pleased to believe that uncensored social media makes the world more free; I am not sufficiently imaginative to see how.
It's a fake shell company
And I thought I had some kind of mental illness collecting all those books, barely reading them. Need to do that more now.
> Yes, by leaps, and bounds in some cases.

I love what having that second comma does for the sentence.

Not sure if it was intended, but you just added a tool to my toolbox. Thanks!
What is an example of a computer that doesn't employ AI, by this definition?
There's a difference between identifying areas where a new technology (AI) can solve a problem in a better way, and just slapping "Now with AI!" on an existing product purely to chase investor dollars.
Think of an LLM as a person on the internet. Just like everyone else, they have their own vocabulary and preferred way of talking which means they’ll use some words more than others. Now imagine we duplicate this hypothetical person an incredible amount of times and have their clones chatter on the internet frequently. ‘Certainly’ this would have an effect.
Singapore (for example) is better at markets than the US.
American tech, chinese tech, all made in Taiwan
Huh, how?
What Is Facebook/Meta?
On the website, it says:
"Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses."
https://about.meta.com

This sounds very generic to me.

In an interview, Mark says he wants Meta to be the most important AI company. So, it is now an AI company? That is confusing. AI is the goal, not an instrument to reach another goal.

What is Meta? How would you define it?
The implementation in technical terms is left open yes, but they could have added a clause that settings like this (and not necessarily specifically this alone) must be respected if set. And in that case no other questions may be asked because the preference is already given. In that case the EU would have done themselves a huge favour because now they get blamed by everyone for the cookiewalls. Even though this was never the intention of the law.

What do you mean verify? If it's set then it's set. It gets automatically injected with every web request. It's not possible to make sure the user manually set the flag or if it was default, no. But in the EU the law says that tracking must be opt-in so this is perfectly good behaviour in line with the law.
GM electric vehicles can finally access Tesla Superchargers
Need-based learning is the way to go with this for sure. Z80 assembly (ZX Spectrum) used to be a popular online recommendation, it's probably a good thing it's no longer popular... On the other hand, I think most people who are casually interested in learning a bit more about assembly don't have a need, so aren't going to actually use it or do anything with it. If the need for any particular system just isn't there, just a weak desire to learn a little, learning fundamentals is a decent strategy, and picking a language that helps get to and express those fundamentals will be helpful even if you later on use a different language. What are the relevant fundamentals for assembly? Maybe just a story about how CPUs from the 70s sort of worked is fine. With spoken languages, there's not much difference in "cleaner" things like Esperanto vs. useful things like English in showcasing fundamentals like nouns and verbs. With assembly, x86 is kind of insane, so I think there are bigger differences.

Of course, some people might consider modern hardware advances to be the fundamentals. Like if you aren't learning about simd and so on, taking into account caches and multi-cores, what's even the point, sort of opinions. I can almost get behind that.

My biased opinion though is that if you want to learn beyond a casual level, you should definitely be learning something that is running on actual hardware, not some sort of emulation layer. x86 then comes back into prominence since most PCs are that. However in the context of a captive audience like students in a classroom, the teacher can decide on something less insane, more fun than things like figuring out how to take an -O0 compiled C file and optimize a loop (ignore -O2 will do it better), and more showcasing a "need" because unlike your x86 class assignment, you can't just trivially do it in a higher level language, and you can't just swap in an x86 chip to a PCB. My first introduction to real assembly in college was with a little PIC microcontroller to control a robot car. I knew a bit of x86 by then, just enough to compare, and it was such a breath of fresh air just to use something not x86. It could have been ARM (we later used an ARM chip to program an RTOS and do other embedded systems relevant stuff), or anything really, the important thing is it was real. In the quest for teaching a "simpler assembly" I know some schools have done things I consider absurd like having students learn some other architecture but can only run code in some provided emulator on Windows, not a real chip with real peripherals you need to write code to talk to.
PERC and TCE are the staple of brake cleaners old guard is crying about losing right now. Almost every car mechanic YT channel will have a video where the guy tells you about his stash of the "good stuff" because they dont make em like they used to.
Oracle urged again to surrender JavaScript trademark
Gummy worms?

In all seriousness though, those “sweet shops” and “Thai massage parlours” and the like are clearly fronts for money laundering. I doubt they’re being ignored, but as you say, there’s probably some reason no one’s dealt with them yet.
I don’t think they were talking about the quality of Google search results. I believe they were talking about how the data was processed by the wordfreq project.
Hospitals at least use it extensively still in Europe.
> No, the best way to do it is not invade people’s privacy. You can have ads without targeting

You are deliberately missing the point and shifting the goalposts.

You're talking about asking a business voluntarily not engage in lucrative legal business activities. Why would they do that? There are so many more important things business should voluntarily abstain from by that reasoning.

No, as long as the behavior remains legal, a business has every right to engage in such activity.

The only reason the cookie popups are a thing is because the **EU** mandated some sort of notification which basically mapped to these popups.

So it's the EU to lame. No question about it. A business engaging in legal activity is not to blame, since it's the regulations around that activity and not the businesses practicing the activity that are the topic of discussion here.

Stop shifting the buck. It's so incredibly dishonest.
Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attack
You could go there with your current reusable plastic container and ask them to fill it.

Never tried it myself though.

Might even be a way to combat shrinkflation.
No.

I have no issue with Firefox, Brave, Opera, Edge ..

I'm talking about Safari.
> no existing code working like that

That doesn't really matter for discussing how correct code _should_ be written.

Also, a good amount of existing code works like that. For example, if you `with open(..) as f:` a file in Python and pass it as an FD to a `subprocess` call, you can fsync and close it fine afterwards, and Python code bases that care about durability and correct error reporting do that.

> What do you propose should "exec cat a.txt > b.txt" shell command do?

That code would be wrong according to my proposed approach of who should be responsible for what (which is what the blog post discusses).

If you create the `b.txt` FD and you want it fsync'ed, then you can't `exec`.

It's equivalent to "if you call malloc(), you should call free()" -- you shouldn't demand that functions you invoke will call free() on your pointer. Same for open files.
I’m on Sequoia 15.1 beta 4, and I got it enabled yesterday.
What are the procedures? How do they apply?
Appeal to not be emotional is even harder to take seriously when Hezbollah rockets killed 12 children and Israel has killed 10,000 children this year alone.
The US is a bully because wealthy people want to live, work with, have assets, or even have citizenship in the US. The US is very business friendly and offers top-tier everything if you have money.

Wealthy people though are accustomed to having their cake and eating it too, so naturally they will try to take as much as they can while giving back as little as they can manage. Their wealth will carry them very far towards this goal, so the US cannot be soft when it comes collecting.
It might be a pretty useful tool for education. College courses related to Python and AI on Coursera have heavily used Jupyter Notebook for assignments and labs.
Made Americans a lot richer and allowed them to consume more?
TSMC started sampling N5 in 2019 and full production in 2020. This means the US finally has a 5-6 year old TSMC node in the US.

Hardly a big win.
What would the 'light' pattern be in this case, where the business wants to comply with regulation and maximize profit?
How many non-Linux UNIX operating systems have you used? It's Linux that's the weird one.
The 2015-2021 WRX stock tune is pretty bad.

The throttle mapping is nonlinear so that something like 10% pedal gives you 50% gas, so it's really hard to control smoothly.

The 1st gear to 2nd gear shift also has really bad rev hang where you have to wait for a very long time in between 1st and 2nd gear before you can engage the next gear. This makes controlling the car at slow speeds to be really jumpy and uncomfortable. Lots of manual transmission cars made after 2010 have rev hang supposedly for emissions purposes.

One way of solving this is to buy a $700 Cobb Accessport and flash your car's ECU with a "stage 1" off-the-shelf Cobb tune. This makes the throttle mapping linear and removes most of the rev hang. These off-the-shelf maps are supposedly CARB compliant.

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Cobb also has a stage 2 tune that requires replacing the turbo-back exhaust of the car (a.k.a. a downpipe/j-pipe), which is less restrictive for emissions and adds a good amount of horsepower. Supposedly these stage 2 tunes and turbo-back hardware are CARB compliant nowadays, but the laws are fairly new so Cobb sold non-compliant versions up to a few years ago iirc. Tuner shops can also create their own non-compliant custom tunes using the Accessport.
These are good points. In my view the idea that "making America great" entails illiberal economic policies which benefit a small fraction at the expense of the rest of the population is a non-starter because in my view "greatness" does not come from propping up outdated industries (coal extraction, steel production) and taxing everyone else to do it.

I don't think economists are ideologically opposed to central planning. There are simply enough empirical studies that show how badly it fails. In fact most of the "economic liberalization" failure stories you refer to are actually centrally planned thefts that benefit specific firms but were sold as liberalization.

China is an example of a state that does very smart central planning. Everything from its central bank to its subsidization of small businesses doing embedded systems (hence all the super cheap gear on Amazon sent via subsidized shipping to customers around the world) is intended to enhance the capability of the workforce and guide the workforce toward a future of technological change and rapid (but not too rapid) advancement.

In other words, China's industrial policy is forward-looking, America's is backward-looking. The very phrase "Make America Great Again" is backward-looking.

China's policy is essentially an education policy disguised as trade policy. Corporate espionage leads to more knowledge, subsidized shipping leads to more low-end consumer devices and engineers who need to learn to build them, etc. There thousands and thousands of low-end consumer electronics, test equipment, etc., manufactured in China that are built upon the many low-end DSP chips and microcontrollers. This is not an Apple-esque 2nm process, it's much lower tech, lower cost but it offers far, far better experience to so many more workers than all but the best educational background can offer. What percentage of first or second year US EE grads could build and ship a $50 spectrum analyzer?

In my view, China has already overtaken the US in key areas of technological innovation and the US is "copying" by deploying industrial policy that has the opposite effect and entrenches and protects top US firms while having minimal educational impact on US workers and minimal impact on educational and early career choices for US workers.
> don't need AI for this

And you don’t need Dropbox for file sync. Machine learning makes integrating automation easier.
Who needs Tupperware when Gen Z doesn't know how to cook at home, all food comes in a disposable container via Uber Eats.
What do you mean? You fire out the "detonate" command on the frequency used by Hezbollah - only pagers connected to that network blow.

It's statistically probable you'll overwhelmingly damage terrorists. Sadly collateral damage is inevitable in war, and this is far more precise than even a laser guided bomb.
A bit of a tangent, but there's a pretty good RiffTrax about Tupperware: [0]

[0] https://www.rifftrax.com/wonderful-world-of-tupperware
Anything else besides hosting my own servers, and be killed by search engines?

I think you summed it up. One would have to host their own platforms and intentionally block search engines, bots, etc... In my opinion discoverability would be limited to word of mouth on chat and forum platforms until those platforms block the domain names in question and this is even assuming the platform is text-only. I assume the entry points would have to be ever changing and rotating domain names as landing points into the main site.

Any major platform that claims to support complete free speech will eventually be compelled to do otherwise in my opinion. Competing platforms, agent provocateurs and unhinged people will quickly contaminate the platform thus giving reason for governments to shut it down. One would need really good human moderators, automation, algorithms and ACL's or ranks to weed out toxicity in order to keep the platform alive which is technically a form of censorship and would not meet your requirements.
> Oh, and for browsers they did. It's called the "Do Not Track" header, and the industry immediately sed it to fingerprint and track users.

They do this anyway. They should have mandated this be honoured (or any other type of tech). If that were the case the browsers would have brought it back in short order.

> The EU never mandated the cookie walls. It's the industry's calculated malicious compliance.

Exactly. And this is their fault for not regulating this properly.
> "Thief believes everybody steals"

The correct analogy for espionage isn't crime. But even taking that framing, if everyone actually does steal, it doesn't do you any good to be naive and deny reality.
Bosses ordering workers back to the office are 'the dinosaurs of our age'
FastGPT: A Lightweight ChatGPT Implementation Using FastHTML
My mom still has the tupperware I grew up with in the 80s. I assume it's 100% BPA
Same.

My ADHD makes brushing my teeth daily impossible. Yet, I went to the dentist today (first time after a decade)and had only one small cavity.

My partner on the other hand brushes multiple times daily and had surgery last year, because she had a particulary bad cavity.

Some dentist say, they don't kiss their kids, so they don't infect them with the cavity bacteria, but I kiss my partner all the time for decades and my teeth never got worse from it.

There were times when I drank energy drinks and ate sweet snacks daily, didn't make it worse either.
Careful with That Exaggeration
I never saw the appeal of Tupperware, to be honest. Pyrex seemed like the far superior storage option for nearly all use cases.

Maybe it was a housewife thing.
I'm sorry this happened to a kid. But the "Youth Poisoning Protection Act" says:

"To ban the sale of products with a high concentration of sodium nitrite to individuals, and for other purposes."

It doesn't say anything about age; it's a total ban. There seem to be quite a few posts online about using this for self-euthanasia. I have no idea whether this compound is a good choice for that, but if it is, adults will no longer have access to it either.
Just don't hand out tax breaks to politically favoured groups, but clean up the overall tax system to make it simpler and saner..

But that's hard to do politically.
No, no, sorry. That was all years ago. Crypto's come and gone.
Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor
If i understood correctly they were rigged with explosive. There is no way that a regular battery would explode like this right ?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-exp...
I’m an old-timer, I’m surprised that paying for shared hosting is now “self-hosting.” Nothing wrong with that, but that would never have been called self-hosting ten years ago.

I guess it’s like how “cooking from scratch” evolved. A cookbook from the nineteenth century might have said “1 hog” as an ingredient and instructed you to slaughter it. Now of course you buy hog pieces on foam trays.
Yes, for sure it's self-serving. But at least it's useful for us parents.
Not having control of how my DNA is used. It can be taken by the state with a warrant, but otherwise I have control over it.
This is a great example of "classic AI" being more than good enough.

Using AI to find patterns in patients and intervene was something I worked on in my last job in Specialty Pharma. Theres many red flags on patients long before they even start treatment, sadly income is one of the largest red flags here in the States.

We were able to perform interventions earlier and improve outcomes with a simple regression model that tried to determined the number of missed doses.
Are you sure this is a widespread trend? I haven't noticed it.

I'd think it's heavily dependent on the state of the economy.
And yet it doesn’t look like an obvious terrorist symbol