skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and it's a very nice tutorial! I'm interested in implementation details. Maybe there's no hygiene (and no scope sets etc.) to worry about—that would probably make documentation a little shorter. I'm sure the documentation will grow as people run into edge cases.

(I'm also probably a little spoiled with documentation coming from Racket which has like 4 big chapters dedicated to different aspects of macros scattered around the docs, plus some associated papers. Forgive me—I'm not trying to dunk on Hy; I just like reading docs.)
There's something rather shocking about seeing how unbelievably extortionate the price tag is, and then realizing it's still cheaper than owning a Vision Pro.
Justice Department Sues Visa, Alleges Illegal Monopoly in Debit-Card Payments
One person's "abuse" is another person's "I have this platform and can use it however I like." For another example, whenever cable companies (dish, etc.) have licensing disagreements with content creators, they put up a bunch of ads that are like, "ESPN's unfair negotiations mean you may lose access to this channel, call this number to complain". That's never been found to be defamatory--it occurs to this day.
Microsoft Open Sources OpenHCL, a Linux-Based 'Paravisor'
To my knowledge, this feature / model is the only one without any relevant competitor. Why is that? It seems to open a ton of use cases to me.
Here's the thing. Guess who is the head of the WordPress Foundation?

Matt Mullenweg. CEO of Automattic.

Now guess who The WordPress Foundation granted sole rights to sub-license their trademarks? You guessed it. Automattic.

Yeah, it gets worse the more you look at it.
Currently, the description on our website says that we use AI to help you interpret real estate data and gain an edge on other buyers - nothing about fighting other agents.

I think that is injected opinion from commenters here. & yes, we are targeting buyers who already believe that they need a service like this due to their past or current experience
There's lot of room to cut margins in the AI stack right now (see Nvidia's latest report); low prices are not an sure indication of predatory pricing. Which company do you think is most likely to have the lowest training and inference costs between Anthropic, OpenAI and Google? My bet goes to the one designing,producing and using their own TPUs.
Different links then

https://seo.ai/blog/ai-replacing-jobs-statistics#:~:text=AI'....

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/16/ai-job-losses-are-rising-but...

https://teamstage.io/jobs-lost-to-automation-statistics/
(don't be mislead by the word 'automation', that is also just splitting hairs, spin/terminology)

https://www.aiprm.com/ai-replacing-jobs-statistics/

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/ai-statistics/

You aren't wrong that some companies are using AI spin to put a positive on layoffs. I'm sure some companies are doing that.

1.
Is the technology moving so fast that we don't have 'reputable scientific studies analyzing years of historic data that would satisfy every internet know it all'? Probably. Does that mean nothing is happening? Probably not.

2.
Will people compare this latest technology change to the buggy whip argument, thus saying 'ah-ha, got you, AI will actually increase jobs'. Yes, because technology is always wonderful and easy for society to seamlessly adapt to.

3.
Is HN filled with programmers saying AI wont replace programmers, thus there is no problem, while ignoring the much larger workforce of low-mid level drones doing rote tasks. Definitely.

4.
Speaking in absolutes. Everyone is arguing about replacing jobs, "AI can't replace my job". But it is really just fractional. Lets say you have 5 marketing drones writing boring marketing material. AI allows them to do more, you still need humans to use the tools, and to edit, but now you only need 3. AI can't do the 'entire job' but it did enough to eliminate two positions. This is what is already happening. Do you think this stopped with the ESPN case? Companies didn't stop because they got caught, they just got better at it.

5.
Posted in the same hour. I'm sure this wont impact anybody's jobs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638199
Just out of curiosity, is there no clever way to solve this within nginx with rules instead?
How to Surveil a Government Regulator
I fully second that, this is a must-see for any geek, much more so than e.g. War Games.

"Halt and Catch Fire" (HCF) often is jargon that refers to documented or undocumented opcodes or code sequences that leads the CPU to crash:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...

With a hat tip to all Commodore C64/MOS650 enthusiasts, I shall end this post with my favourite HCF sequence: 4C 10 7E.

_Happy watching!_
Have you tried the Gemini Gmail integration? I have that enabled in my GSuite account.

It's incredible how bad it is. I've seen it claim I've never received mail from a certain person, while the email was open right next to the chat widget. I've seen it tell me to use the standard search tool, when that wasn't suitable for the query. I've literally never had it find anything that wouldn't have been easier to find with the regular search.

I mean, it's a really obvious thing for them to do, I'm genuinely confused why they released it like that.
> Let me ask you this, is it possible for me to connect to a PDS directly, right now, via the bluesky app?

Well, yes, that's what you do when you log in. If you open devtools you'll see that the app is communicating with your PDS.

> So are relays really just an optimization or an integral part of how ATProtocol is supposed to work?

I think the issue here is that you're mentally slicing the stack in a different way that atproto does. You expect each node the be a full instance of the application, and that the network gets partitioned by a bunch of applications exchanging peerwise.

A better mental model of atproto is that it's a network of cross-org microservices. https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers gives a decent intuition about it.
Anything the owners of the Winamp code can find in order to take legal action on will be distributed. Rule 2 (and 3) is always superfluous in practice.
I don’t understand, what about this says they don’t have their fundamentals together?
In the early 80s I never saw checksums on code listings but by the mid-80s it was fairly common, although certainly not universal.
I'm just happy to have successfully baited you into commenting. You're obviously more authoritative than I am on this.
AFAIK the sandbox on Android is quite a bit stronger than your run-of-the-mill container (starting with every app running under a different UID[0], apps having very restricted access to the screen buffer[1], et cetera).

But it's not really about sandbox security and file system access. The issue is that the more walls you erect and the tighter you make your sandbox, the harder you will make it for apps to access system resources for legitimate purposes. This is where Android shines as it provides a huge, fine-grained API for apps to access system resources while still making sure they only access what they're allowed to access. On Linux we don't even have that fine-grained an API, let alone the same level of fine-grained control. You either grant an application access to your bluetooth/wifi/… device or you don't.

What's more, all Android apps and their UI have been built around this permission-based system these days. Compare this to Linux where applications still assume they have access to everything by default and you have to work very hard to confine an application while making sure it's still usable and the user is not thrown off by weird error messages.

In other words: The strength of Android (and iOS) is that they built in a tight & fine-grained capability-based system from the get-go and also solved the UI challenges that went along with that. These days, they can count on an entire ecosystem of applications that expect to live (and are usable) in that sandbox.

Regular Linux distributions are lightyears away from that. Personally, I really hope SpectrumOS[2] will make a dent here.

[0]: https://source.android.com/docs/security/app-sandbox

[1]: https://source.android.com/docs/core/permissions/restricted-...

[2]: https://spectrum-os.org/
I’ve used it. The API is incredibly buggy and flakey. A particular pain point is the “recitation error” fiasco. If you’re developing a real world app this basically makes the Gemini api unusable. It strikes me as a kind of “Potemkin” service.

Google is aware of the issue and it has been open on google's bug tracker since March 2024: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331677495

There is also discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemini/generative-ai-js/issues/138

It stems from something google added intentionally to prevent copyright material being returned verbatim (ala the NYT openai fiasco), so they dialled up the "recitation" control (the act of repeating training data—and maybe data they should not have legally trained on).

Here are some quotes from the bug tracker page:

> I got this error by just asking "Who is Google?"

> We're encountering recitation errors even with basic tutorials on application development. When bootstrapping a Spring Boot app, we're flagged for the pom.xml being too similar to some blog posts.

> This error is a deal breaker... It occurs hundreds of times a day for our users and massively degrades their UX.
OP here. I’ve worked at a few high-profile tech companies (Meta, Airbnb, Brex), and like most places, I’ve seen things done both well and not so well. At Slope, I’ve been focused on taking the best of what I’ve learned and pushing the boundaries of what a small, productive engineering team can do. After 2+ years here, I figured it was time to share some of the unique things we’re doing, in case it’s useful to others.
I wish we had a FOSS clone of Symbolics Genera back in the 1990s when workstations were powerful enough to be able to run environments in high-level, garbage-collected languages like Common Lisp and Smalltalk. Unix is nice, but I’m impressed with the flexibility of environments like Smalltalk-80 (and its derivatives) and Symbolics Genera. Imagine the impact an open source Lisp OS would’ve had in the 1990s and the 2000s.

Thankfully Xerox’s Interlisp-D is now available as open source. Hopefully one day Genera will be open source.
What about regular, non-disparaging claims? Isn't it a fact that WP Engine turns off the backup stuff? Truth's a defense to libel.

This seems to me plainly like regular old competition. Can you point to something that's clearly defamatory?
Show HN: Resume Job Matcher
Looking forward to reports about how it's biased and somehow targets people of color and minorities.
> As someone with a formal verification and static typing background, it is the most terrible crap there is, but it is very good business.

May I ask how you find this kind of work? The kinds of orgs with hacked/broken/incompetently-run WP installs don’t tend to be the type of orgs you’d find via professional networking, but by going through the dregs of Craigslist’s gigs pages, no?
It's funny you say that, because we are actually working on this exact tool right now. I'd love to chat if you'd like to discuss?
Honest question… what PS5 exclusives? PS4 had numerous exclusives, but the only PS5 exclusive I can think of is Astro Bot, which was just released.
I hadn't thought about my CompuServe ID in many years and wasn't sure I remembered it, but Google-searching it revealed exactly one hit, with three mentions, the first being from January 1990, when I uploaded something: "EMACS keyboard mapping for Word Perfect 5.x. Not complete implementation; please pass along any enhancements you make. Freeware - no warranties, no royalties, enjoy."

http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/640_studio_ii/INFO/IBMAP...
Does the policy in question have a "usual, customary and reasonable"[1] clause? If so, charging 2-4x would obviously give the insurance company grounds to deny the claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usual,_customary_and_reasonabl...
The thing is that hosting this really isn't that expensive. My first GitHub Sponsors goal is to reach $175 per month, which would cover the hosting on Hetzner. Of course this cost can grow if the project gets more popular, but it's a good start!

I honestly believe this project can cover $175 per month eventually.

Of course there is the countless hours which went and which can possibly go into this, but to cover the hosting is still meaningful.
Was it Blue link or Blue Wave?

A lot of us used SLMR (silly little mail reader) instead as it was cheaper than blue wave.
Sometimes I think all of this could have been avoided if people knew how to use RSS.
Where are all those people who for years (or since M1) were claiming that x86 is dead because ARM ISA (magically) offers significantly better energy-efficiency than x86 ISA.

Of course they ignored things like node advantage, but who cares? ;)

Meanwhile industry veterans were claiming something different and turns out they were right

https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-...

Asking which - x86 or ARM is faster/more energy eff is like asking which syntax (letters) is faster - syntax of Rust, Java or C++?

And same as with CPUs - everything is up to the implementation - compiler, runtime/vm, libraries, etc.
>How could that, possibly, be sustainable or even good?

It isn't. Like most magical thinking economic proposals, it's simply a matter of ignoring reality.

"In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die.""

...

"And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_of_the_Copybook_Hea...
Radio frequencies are in KHz to THz range. There is equipment already operating in sub-THz bands but not yet close to the frequencies of light.
"those things" meaning the all-new Iridium constellation, launched in the late 2010s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellatio...
Don't know the details but the cell phone number thing is due to terrorism reasons and mandated by the government, not due to individual businesses choosing to. Used to be you could just buy sim cards using cash.
California sues ExxonMobil for alleged decades of deception around recycling
25kSps sounds like it would work well using something like the RP2040. The PIO blocks would let you implement the sampling triggers with decent realtime accuracy, and it's an order of magnitude cheaper than most FPGA boards. External muxes are fairly cheap and easy at that relatively low sample rate. Sounds like a fun project!
Was it connecting the world 45 years ago, or was it just the US and perhaps Canada?
Fine-Tuning Best Practices: Models
There was some revealing commentary on this by (iirc) Chris Curry at the national computing museum.

Acorn had tried to get the BBC Micro launched in the US but quickly learned the regulations in place turn into de facto protectionism when it suits them. Essentially they were given the runaround until the product was out of date.

In UK tech circles I believe more was learned from episodes like that (and Quantel) which led to the later developments. For example, ARM prioritized Japan heavily even during the Japanese downturn. That generation has largely stopped working, and a side effect was they never made as much money as their US equivalents would have done.

The problems afflicting the UK, Canada, Japan and even S Korea all stem from this. You cannot do business with the US long term without the US thinking it is winning all the time, and that converts all close US allies into at least appearing like states in decline.
It's early. Im sure they'll be here moving goalposts and cherry picking some new stat that's suddenly a deal breaker.
“Don’t buy fittings made from Chinese pot metal” is a simple way to avoid catastrophic failure due to substandard materials.
If you don't mind doing choose your own adventure style stories, I'd recommend Twine. It's a low-to-no code way to write branching stories, and you can add variables and conditional branching if you want to add a little bit of code. It creates a playable website of your story when it compiles.

I do a lot of heavy coding but I still play around with Twine sometimes because it's fun. I also sometimes prototype the branching dialogue and/or story in my games using that as a tool as well, because I don't have to code anything.

https://twinery.org/

There's also a subreddit for discussing twine games: https://www.reddit.com/r/twinegames/

A couple examples of how far you can take the engine:
https://pseudavid.itch.io/the-master-of-the-land

And this one is super addicting. I played it 12 times in a row after trying it:
https://johnayliff.itch.io/seedship
>it's the fact that bandwidth costs 4x the total operating income that the PSF has.

If you're getting this from my analysis included in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41586751, I would encourage you to consider some of the replies to my comment. I cited and worked with AWS retail rates because that's the information I had available. It's still a major contribution on Fastly's part which likely dwarfs whatever Microsoft and Google are offering.

For what it's worth, I suspect those containerized builds are responsible for the overwhelming majority of Setuptools downloads, for example. There's really no good reason why annual downloads of Setuptools (or really anything else) should rival the population of the Earth (https://pypistats.org/packages/setuptools) - Pip caches downloaded wheels, and separate copies of Pip should ordinarily share a cache on a given machine. But I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn the Docker, k8s etc. defeat that caching scheme.
Blue Wave it was. There was another one I think it was QWKlink or something, too.
I have used Github Copilot extensively within VS Code for several months. The autocomplete - fast and often surprisingly accurate - is very useful. My only complaint is when writing comments, I find the completions distracting to my thought process.

I tried Gemini Code Assist and it was so bad by comparison that I turned it off within literally minutes. Too slow and inaccurate.

I also tried Codestral via the Continue extension and found it also to be slower and less useful than Copilot.

So I still haven't found anything better for completion than Copilot. I find long completions, e.g. writing complete functions, less useful in general, and get the most benefit from short, fast, accurate completions that save me typing, without trying to go too far in terms of predicting what I'm going to write next. Fast is the key - I'm a 185 wpm on Monkeytype, so the completion had better be super low latency otherwise I'll already have typed what I want by the time the suggestion appears. Copilot wins on the speed front by far.

I've also tried pretty much everything out there for writing algorithms and doing larger code refactorings, and answering questions, and find myself using Continue with Claude Sonnet, or just Sonnet or o1-preview via their native web interfaces, most of the time.
It’s a twitter repost of a reddit discussion https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...
No. Buyers never consent for "their" money to go to the buyer's agent or sellers agent. The selling agent's contract with the seller (not the buyer) is the seller will pay the 3% fee to seller's agent and offer a 3% fee to the buyer's agent.

Buyers historically have never negotiated the fee paid to their agent, other than choosing an agent that would refund part of their fee.
From their website:

>Founded in New Orleans in 1934, we are a tax-paying not-for-profit health insurer with offices in every major region to serve our customers.

What does it even mean for a non-profit to be "$2.5 Billion dollar company"?
Yeah i agree on the dock thing. this is like showing a SoC and being like "yeah its the smallest computer ever. to use it you have to put it on a motherboard, but that doesn't count."
IF they can deliver a product that actually works, yes.
No, not really. Even if you ignore DRM which practically makes ALL games from the XP-Vista era unplayable (which I ignore since that is often not better in Wine), just search around for the amount of workarounds that are required even when you apply these patches.
I think the Onion has become very political over the last year or so. When I started following the Babylon Bee, they were already very political to me.
It's required for getting postpaid cellular plan.

Nope. I got a new cellular device on a national carrier last year without giving up my SSN.
Other relators do not put their fee pricing on their websites so we decided to follow suit. We have the same pricing model - negotiable. But we provide better service.
I think this is great, and also that you are getting some good advice in the comments about covering costs and/or monitization. I'd add my thoughts, but others have already expressed them here so I just wanted to say I love seeing this kind of philosophy expressed in a project like this.

edit to fix typo
So you are using the old-stand-by-argument: "my job is safe, so if society collapses around me, I'm still all good, pass the beer".

It can't do my job, so it can't do any jobs?
For 5 1/4" disks, you could double capacity by using a punch to cut a whole into one border and then use the back side - et viola, from 140 kB to 2x 140 kB.

But you had better not punch into the actual magnetic floppy disk inside its plastic enclosure, or you may have killed the whole thing.
Quote so you don't have to visit X:

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“Calories in / calories out” is bullshit.

You can make mice eat 4x the calories and end up the same body weight, as long as the calories are from soda.¹

Scientists restricted one amino acid (isoleucine) in mice. This made them eat twice as much, have ~75% less fat mass, and live 33% longer.²

The metabolic rate increases in response to protein-deficient overfeeding works in large part thru a circulating factor called FGF21.³

This explains the lifespan increase and lower body weight despite higher food intake, as we saw the same thing in genetically-modified mice that over-express FGF21.⁴

The mice that ate more and weighed less had much more FGF21. We have data showing up to a 44x increase FGF21 in response to protein deficient overfeeding in humans.⁵ There was individual variation, though, and some had a blunted increase in energy expenditure from FGF21 and gained more weight.

FGF21 can be induced to match energy intake, though, as in ref 5. However, if the liver sees more calories than the rest of the body (i.e., MCT + fructose), whole body energy expenditure can increase more than food intake thru FGF21 over-induction,⁶ lowering bodyweight. (The liver releases FGF21)

This suggests a high calorie low protein paradigm, with plenty of sugar and MCTs, would be ideal for weight loss without restricting calories, so long as the human doesn’t have a blunted metabolic response to FGF21.

While the proponents of the “calories in / calories out” idea claim it's just thermodynamics, they use it as an argument to eat less.

This is an implicit assumption that only “calories in” is flexible and calories out is inflexible. The name “calories in / calories out” now means “calories in is the only thing that matters.”

Mouse data show clear interventional evidence that you can change the metabolic rate to change weight outcomes.

Human data shows that these mechanisms are conserved, but no one has done the necessary ‘randomized controlled trials’ because the dietary interventions are anti-paradigmatic: lower protein in the context of a high calorie, sugary diet.

I don’t expect these trials to pass IRB review, so you must go forward and be n=1.