skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.net meant a Microsoft lock-in for a long time, so actual visual studio, Microsoft server, etc. with all the licensing issues attached to that. And as a simple web hosting solution, windows sucks whether you're thinking of third party hosting platforms, or your own deployments with automation.

But that changed a few years ago with dotnet being available for Linux and quite a bit more open. While you still effectively need VS to work with Blazor (or suffer), there are many other options for typical web apps. Whether you want to go MVC or something more bare bones, it's definitely a good option.

As to why it's not a popular option: I would guess that proper Linux dotnet has not been out for long enough to really change the idea of what .net4 was/meant. This applies to both sides too - there's lots of old .net people still unreasonably allergic to open source. I've used it for server apps on Linux when Mono was still the only option and was happy with it already then. It's a good system - go for it.
Did each company's MBAs get together and plot this out?

It would be the long slow end of them both.
This sort of thing would be really nifty, except that it relies on the model using encrypted message text whenever it needs "random numbers".

The thing is that I'm under the impression that people who actually use diffusion models to produce images value reproducibility, which they achieve by using pseudorandom generators with relatively short seeds, and remembering the seeds.

Not only that, but the software tends to try to embed prompts and the like in the created image files, and I suspect it puts the seeds, model identities, and anything else that matters in there, too, with the idea that the generated image contains everything you'd need to reproduce it. If it does leave leaves anything out, there's a good chance somebody is going change it to include that thing.

It's not that they actually want to reproduce it exactly, but that that stuff gives a baseline they can tweak to create refined versions.

That's incompatible with the steganography. If you have all the alleged inputs, you can detect an image bearing steganographic data by trying to reproduce it. And if it's normal to include all of the inputs, then images without them are going to look suspicious.

It doesn't seem useless. Even so, it seems as though it'd be a lot more useful if the people writing image generation software could be convinced to play along by using truly unpredictable cryptographic RNGs. But that would mean giving up reproducibility that I think they value.
The last two wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) are estimated to have cost the US 4-6 trillion dollars (not to mention the lives lost and ruined).

It did not make us more secure or establish democracies (quite the opposite in Afghanistan).

I agree that we need national defense but we spend way too much with zero accountability.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/financial-legacy-ir...
> thats how you teach people to fish

If you're teaching a cooking class, you're wasting valuable time teaching people how to fish. But that wasn't really my point. A lot of the wasted time was mine.
> It is a common refrain that performance and security are poor because they are not priorities.
> We must relearn and retool to achieve that. That is the problem they are seeing, whether they actually realize what is happening or not.

I think I broadly agree.

I'd say -- I'm not sure we ever really knew how to be fast and secure. I think our problems re: memory safety and remote exploits, etc., are pretty relatively new.

I'd also say that this yearning for a forgotten yesterday is somewhat understandable, though mostly weird, a kind of tech revanchism.

My problem with Blow, et. al. is probably that they don't frame these as simply cultural differences or matters of priorities, whether or not, if the culture shifted, results could be achieved immediately or otherwise. Instead it is always a great big catastrophe.

Seriously -- I think he does it because it sells more games if the games are produced by some mercurial genius, by the Last Keeper of the Flame.
I can name multiple Facebook features that have been broken for months. Temporary profile pictures most annoyingly of all. They stopped working close to a year ago. They simply never change back.

No one's sanding anything there.
This confusion is especially annoying when trying to purchase a bootloader unlocked phone on secondary market. I'm not even sure it's possible if you buy through a dealer. By unlocked they exclusively mean carrier unlocked.
A startup needs to move fast - quick and dirty prototypes in JS / Python turn into MVPs. dynamically typed, low barrier of entry, high velocity.
Startups that survive to the point of needing to rewrite for stability and performance, will usually opt for Rust or Go.
They often dont need the bloated enterprise-specific baggage that comes with C# / Java - transactional models, IoC, ORMs, complex inheritence models - YAGNI.
Right-Hegel Meets Left-Hegel
Internet Fridge Poetry
Show HN: VoiceTaking – Voice notes with AI-powered documents
Hello everyone, I made another voice note app with AI transcription. But, it has a Notion-like page structure with AI assistance on the editor. This makes it easy to keep your thoughts organized and find what you need quickly.

The use cases:

- Brainstorm ideas anytime, even without your hands
- Create a meeting report document with the team
- Conversation summary - It’s my personal case , sometimes when I talk importantly with someone I need to take a note to make me remember or get insights from the conversation

It comes with the Automation workflow with smart labels, which means you can tag a smart label in the document and generate everything you need eg, a daily scrum meeting report, auto elaborate the idea, and more. Here are the details: https://voicetaking.com/automation.

Just it. Thank you and let me know your thoughts!
Table salt is refined after harvest, removing all other minerals and nutrients that aren't NaCl. And then those "waste products" are sold very lucratively to specialized supplement companies -- magnesium, selenium, calcium: you know, highly valued trace minerals.

Your table salt is a pure and translucent white because it's nutritionally worthless. You can season food, but you're not adding any micronutrients. And this is why low-sodium diets became very important: not because the salt itself was harmful, but because its essence has changed!

Salt's name will not inform you whether it's been refined. Sea salt, Himalayan salt, Kosher salt. The key is inspecting it for dark particles and natural impurities. Beware opaque boxes.

Unrefined salt may carry an FDA-mandated warning that claims it doesn't contain iodide, but welcome to Bizarro World, because they don't remove naturally-occurring iodide, but since it hasn't been added back in, they're obligated to deny it.
There in an opportunity cost in playing free games, but I wouldn't consider any considerable opportunity cost to have been incurred at the time of "admission".
A new kind of science -you- have yet to contemplate. You shouldn't project your or HN's particular lack of imagination on the rest of humanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
Wow. Comments section on a paper addressing loneliness and you truly think this is an appropriate response? Or more precisely, do you suggest I commit suicide for using an AI chatbot to help with my loneliness?
This seems like a detail that could be covered in a few sentences in the post. In fact it seems central to his argument so it's weird that he didn't. Allegedly it's in the hour-long video, but that's asking a lot.
Computers these days are fast enough for almost everything I want to do, except running big LLMs locally. I'm running a used workstation given to me by a friend a few years ago. I tend to run things into the ground. I'm not hugely worried about security, as I'm retired, and pretty much have nothing worth stealing.

I use Backblaze to keep my data safe, and it's saved my bacon more than once.

I'll be switching to Linux once Windows 10 goes EOL for good. I've got to figure out how to migrate away from WikidPad, or fix it to work with Linux before that date. It's the thing that stopped me a few years ago when I had to migrate back.
Meanwhile, some other UI uses square boxes for radio buttons.

Or have a highlighted button but the enter key doesn't activate it.

Or there are three different menus all behind a different symbol (ellipsis, hamburger, kebab).

There is a lot of variance in quality. Those of you who polish your UI: you are appreciated. Truly.
Says the company with a competing product
Yes, but the reason they don't do this is because "free phone" sounds more enticing than "$22.95/mo installment plan for 2 years".
Here are a few examples. Note that the Slacker family are not low level, they are the top echelon of the OxyContin pushers. [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/06/17/533327584/the-controversy-ove...
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fentanyl-deaths-homicde-charger...
[3] https://theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/charging-dealers-wi...
Yeah; I think it's our ego, or "common sense", that makes us think that the most advanced thing will win out in the end. In reality it's the most well-adapted thing that wins out in the long term. If you ever see a thing and think "this is really advanced, this must be the future", think again.

I'm not sure I agree that VC, government, etc distorts evolution in a democratic republic with a capitalist economy. Evolution still happens within that ecosystem. The economy is the climate, and the laws, politics, people, culture are the landscape. That ecosystem includes VCs along with all the other things. Within that environment, the best adapted thing survives. Sadly, that "thing" (a corporation, for example) may make poor decisions that lead to its demise, the way a snow leopard leaping for a goat on a mountain side may make them both tumble to their doom. Nature's a cruel mistress.

I could even see something like Soviet Russia being an ecosystem that evolution still happens in. It's a very extreme environment, to be sure, but evolution still happens in the most extreme environments on earth.
> TBI is a wide spectrum of conditions akin to "trauma" in psychological terms.

I don't understand. "Trauma" was fairly well defined in physical terms: see Trauma Centers specializing in accident/crime victims.

Psychological "trauma" is only by analogy, and not classical "trauma", and the term is rapidly undergoing its own expansion, to a point where high prices at the grocery store can "traumatize" a sane adult with a social media account.
US to ban Chinese software/hardware in connected vehicles
they got old
I'm still having trouble understanding why it can't be used for faster than light communication even after having it explained to me hundreds of times in the last 30 years.
> How can entangled system be differentiated from a nonentangled system?

The canonical answer to your question is Bell's inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem. But TL;DR: the distinction only shows up in the statistics of repeated experiments. There is _no way_ to distinguish them in single-fire experiments. Entanglement is defined in terms of "odd" statistics.

In repeated measurements of related properties (e.g. spin along varying angle), entangled systems show more correlation than it should be possible classically.
Ask HN: How can we bust hype-driven ads by big players?
In recent years, we’ve seen a growing trend of hype-driven ads and marketing campaigns from major companies, often overselling capabilities or benefits. While some have become accepted as part of the game, there have been a few notable attempts to counteract these exaggerated claims.

For instance, platforms like Reddit and Hacker News have occasionally surfaced successful critiques, fact-checks, and deep dives that expose overblown narratives (e.g., critiques of overpromised AI capabilities, inflated cloud service benchmarks). However, these efforts seem sporadic and largely dependent on individual initiatives.

What are some successful past examples of hype-busting? How can we systematically create frameworks or tools to identify and expose misleading marketing claims, and empower the community to evaluate them critically?
The term is laziness. Instead of creating or searching for a more precise word, an ambiguous word is used. As another example, see the renaissance of the gender neutral pronoun "they".
Such wonderful news. Congratulations to India!
Obviously many people will use open source without contributing. The point of making it open source being that others will run into bugs, let you know about them, and maybe even try to fix them, especially if they also become or are reliant on the software. They might even want improvements to make it work for them and again work on them if they have a need for it. If a software is good and/or mature enough it doesn't need to be open source in the first place and doesn't need contributions. Wordpress has sort of reached that mature place where it is already 'good enough' but you can't now un-open source it.
Good to know. I never got too far with VSCodium because of this limitation.
I can't read the article as I'm on my phone but would have been interested. As a Founder of a small B2B SaaS company I am often at events where I know almost no people where I would like to get to know lots of people.

It's probably blindingly obvious to others but the following rules have served me well.

1. Never approach a group that is evenly distributed around a circle. So if 2 people are opposite or 4 or a square don't engage. Do multiple loops until you find a group you can approach.

2. Have a good magic trick. I have a very nice one that involves a pack of playing cards and then involves a lot of eye contact while I "read your face" to work out the card.

I have found 99% respond yes to "would you like to see a magic trick?". It works equally well on CEOs as it does students.
I think space is usually the key that performs a click on focused buttons, not enter.
Palletrone: The Flying Cart for Aerial Cargo Transportation
Yes, but not everyone knows how this all works, and the barriers that are still in place do still effectively limit many from shopping around. Many people shopping for phones in the US will visit a wireless retailer and will be funneled to locked phones on contract.
Thank you for your feedback. Currently, we are not using AI for summarization. We may consider adding it in the near future.
> That's just a small part of Kamal (...)

That does not address OP's point. Any plain old reverse proxy handles this usecase, particularly those already used extensively as ingress controllers for container orchestration systems. Some even support specialized routing strategies.

Other than NIH, what exactly does kamal-proxy offers that any other reverse proxy doesn't already provide?
I doubt that 37signals themselves are using Kamal's new automatic SSL support, at least in their main apps, since they're running their apps behind Cloudflare. I'd love to see a deployment tool that's like Kamal, in that it's simpler than Kubernetes, but fronted by something mature like Caddy, that can be exposed directly to the Internet rather than running behind a CDN like Cloudflare.
Those assholes. It’s fine to make the default more safe but nag forever is not a way to show you love your users. Removing your users’ ability to select this option in the UI is evil.
Same with “would you like to trust this computer” every damned time. Yes, just like every other time.
If I could find the person who took my ability to choose the way these important computer behaviors work, I would kick him right in the jibbly bits.

Pro tip taking away your users ability to choose is a great way to destroy goodwill.

I guess it’s back to Linux. Hopefully trackpad support is better this time around.
That is a really good question.

Murata announced this in 2019, and there's a part number (IMG-CA0011-00/
IMG-CA0012-00/IMG-CA0023-00) and a full data sheet.[1] But no distributor has it. Not DigiKey, Mouser, Arrow, or Newark. Even Octopart doesn't list it. It's on Murata's list of recommended products, not the discontinued list. Try contacting Murata.

[1] https://go.murata.com/rs/382-MEZ-125/images/HC%20CO2-sensor%...
Therefore, by adding multiple ways to log in/recover an account, each additional one lowers the safety?

Also, worse: does this mean that by just having one bad 2FA/recovery method like SMS along with more secure ones like TOTP/RFC 6238 or hardware keys, the overall security level is as low/bad as the worst method undermining the rest? Why do companies still allow or even encourage multiple methods (and SMS)?

I love the convenience of SMS sometimes, but if it doesn't add any security at all, just a sense of fake security that they won't even need an IMEI from me, just my phone number, jeez. This should be solved or forbidden by major institutions and services.
Is it honestly that confusing? One has a download button and one lets you sign up. Anyone knowing who to set up that zip file knows the difference.

What you could argue is that Automattic is gatekeeping the best features to the .com and using it as a manager/trojanhorse for the .org version.
Yes. Example: https://www.techradar.com/deals/the-iphone-13-is-now-free-at...
Jesus get a grip. "debasement" and "pollution".

Language is living. Get off your high horse. People are allowed to invent and use new words and terms. Language evolves with use, not by people like you holding on to dear life for every little thing.
Could we turn the sun into a gigantic telescope?
> You sound like someone who's complaining about all the "pointless" semi-colons in C++ code

Not sure how the two relate at all. One is a statement terminator, the other a rather complex system.

> If you can't be bothered to learn the basics of the language, your criticism isn't going to be worth much.

That's the entire point! Remember my complaint is not against Make as a build tool, but Make as a do everything(including deploy) system. There are countless options in the space. With most, you can generally open a config file or even bash script and figure out what's going on. Not so with Make, without learning as you call it. It's nonobvious. And I say that as someone who -does- understand it.
Good point! A car built 10 years ago is very different from a car built today, but it's still a car, right?

Some people like old cars, others prefer Teslas, and that's perfectly fine.

The world will change, and that's not a bad thing.
> This primarily exists to take care of a fundamental issue in Docker Swarm (Kamal's orchestrator of choice) where replacing containers of a service disrupts traffic.

If that's the reason then I feel someone failed to do even the most cursory research on the topic.

I mean, a staple of any container orchestration service is the use of an ingress controller to handle dialups and blue/green deployments.

More to the point, ingress controllers is the name given to the role assigned to any of the myriad reverse proxies readily available for years, if not decades, to handle this very same usecase.
I did see some old PCs of that sort at Hard-off further afield. I don't recall where. May have been in the burbs around Osaka.

In Tokyo the easily accessible source to have a peek at some computers like this is BEEP in Akihabara.

Edit: Yep looking through my photos I saw an FM Towns Marty at a Hard Off in Kanazawa. ¥49500.

Saw an actual FM Towns at a Hard off in Hachioji. More ¥77000 when you combine the monitor and computer.

That last big Eco Town in Hachioji was quite the old PC source. Also had a PC 98 and boxed (!) X68000.
The additional important point, of course, is that there are many more 'Why' questions to be asked (often more interesting, and more important than corner cases like human-scale magnetism) that do not get asked just because of familiarity. Familiarity however is not understanding, and it is the same as simplicity.
Alibaba just released 100 large models. One takes a 20 second video and summarizes it.

Now I wonder if it supports audio. If so, I want the relevant browser plugin so I can read YouTube on my machine!
Yes, manufacturers do this to get them on the shelf at retailers.
So your average phone costs $700-$800 retail new. Cost of repossession would be going to court, court costs, lawyer bills etc. I would end up costing $5000+ for a piece of used goods that is worth $300 if they are lucky.
> But a huge part of me sees Kamal & thinks, man, this is a lot of work being done only to have to keep walking backwards into the complexity they were trying to avoid.

Fully agree. I get resume-driven development vibes out of this project.
> bloated enterprise-specific baggage

All of it is by choice only. You don't need to use ORM or any inheritance in your code. Whether IoC happens depends completely on how you write code, but the service model in .net is there if you want it. (And you should try if you haven't - it's really good) You can go as basic as you want and rawdog everything without frameworks/libraries.
They stole my voice with AI
Nobody said it wasn’t
You do you, but I'd chime in on why it's not recommended: any simple answer to that question will just be "there's a long history and international context that led to a complex situation".

That's the perfect TL;DW but I don't think it helps you much.

20 min is short for such a vague question, and you can watch at 2+x the speed if info density is so paramount.

To note it still glosses over an incredible amount of critical things, it's just not a topic that can be shortened that much for anyone actually caring about understanding it.
That's an hour long video. This detail should be in the post. A few sentences at most.
From my admittedly layperson pop-sci level of understanding, that's easier than it seems: there's simply nothing you can do to one part of the entangled pair that will result in observable side-effects to the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
PBS Space Time video on neutron stars:

https://youtu.be/1Ou1MckZHTA
I first figured this out when looking at filesystems. Ext4 is a generation behind netapp wafl (from the 1990s). ZFS is arguably competitive with some of the enterprise filers from back when sun existed.

There have been at least four generations of commercial filesystems since then. So, a randomly chosen on-prem filer will be 3-5 generations ahead of Linux.

The reason is economic: In that space, companies have a half life of 5 years, but influential open source filesystems last 20+ years.
I'm guessing it would be hardly noticeable to anybody. Just the federal deficit alone is 50% higher than total military spending.

Healthcare expenditure is 5 trillion, per-capita is around double that of other first world countries, for worse social health outcomes in many objective measures.

Welfare expenditure is 6 trillion, still >10% of the population is in poverty somehow. If you gave that money to everyone living in poverty, they would be getting $200k/year.

I think governments have a problem with wasteful (via incompetence, corruption, and bureaucratic overhead) spending. Sure, saving one % by cutting military expenditure or finding a few % more revenue by increasing taxes on wealthy or corporations might help at the margins. It's not going to be some incredible transformative thing like the online-leftist narrative would have you think.
I'll check it out. There is also LlocalSearch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923404