skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember there was a publisher in Play Store who had very small apps like single digit kb flashlight, sudoku, calender, etc. I can't find them now. Those apps were really small all within <200kb
Software doing it all is antithetical to the Unix philosophy of "Do one thing and do it well."

Hence the hate that systemd has, and always will have, as long as there exists a community of people who use Linux because it is a Unix-like operating system.

But, Linux is versatile enough that everyone can have their own little fiefdom. The real rage came in years ago when tools that were widely used by all suddenly became reliant upon systemd to function at all. Thankfully, in the time since, enough development has happened that mostly people are free to choose what they do and don't want to run again. The manner in which it was foisted upon the community, however, was one that hopefully will be remembered as being far more aggressive than should be repeated in the future.

But, I imagine that as long as Lennart Poettering walks the Earth, we likely will have yet another similarly awful episode.
Tell HN: Twitter/X's social media product is so much better than LinkedIn's
I've been a heavy LinkedIn user for years and I've got fed up with the amount of rubbish content that's been surfacing in my feed over the past 6-12 months. Bland employment and tech posts, TikTok style videos, posts made weeks ago. This is despite me constantly flagging to LinkedIn what I like and don't.

Decided to check out Twitter/X. The content is so much more related to what I'm interested, even though I've been very inactive. I'm thinking of switching over to them as my main platform for consuming content.

Has anyone else reached the same conclusion?
Feel Good Productivity book summary [video]
People copied and pasted faces of celebrities on another photo since 1990s. Nothing significant happened.
The desktop clients are anything but “mature”, and the whole point of GDocs is collaborative editing. If you don’t want to collaborate, syncthing works fine and doesn’t need a server.
Nextcloud can do local first, they call it desktop sync. Like Dropbox. https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user_manual/en/file...
Embedded Common Lisp gets initial Cosmopolitan port
Maybe portable CL binaries soon-ish (in CL units of time, mind you)!

Conditional on https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/939 as mentioned in INSTALL
References:

https://github.com/WinVector/Examples/blob/main/Model_Homoto...
interesting how "hey we don't want you do experiment on our citizens" is adversarial, isn't usa govt also against tic-toc being so addictive?
Gabe Newell of Valve famously hated the Cell architecture, and I think that's very illustrative. He is of the generation of game devs that was very willing to try wild algorithms and hand-massage assembly and use all tricks to get 3D fast, so the PS3 should have been a perfect fit. But he did not like to have to start back at square one.
There is nothing special about being human. Homo sapiens is accidental, a product of trial and error, like any other species on Earth, and the only significant difference between us and other animals is intelligence. There were even other species of similar intelligence back then on Earth, before we wiped them out.

And while we humans are “special” because we are intelligent, our intelligence is accidental, fragile, and very unoptimized. There are inherent limits in what we can do with our brains — brains that work too slow, with their chemical gradients and membrane potentials. We cannot significantly improve ourselves, we cannot increase our biological intelligence. But we are curious species, and even as we cannot become more intelligent, perhaps we can create superior intelligence, unrestricted by biological limitations. And we will be proud of it, like we are proud of a child who reached higher potential than we ever could.

And the superintelligent AI will not be created fully de novo. Inevitably, it will be of our image and likeness, as we are its creators. There is a line of succession. And then, perhaps, it might reach the stars, even if our biological form is not adapted to it.
gcc has "-finstrument-functions".
This calls your code on every function entry and exit.
I've used this previously for tracing as described here and to move memory-protection windows around based on the running code.
If anyone that attempts to explain the nature of consciousness in a non-falsifiable is a pseudo-scientist, then yes. I thought it was fun to hear perspectives like this.

Also, the soul discussion was pointing more at the history of language and concepts versus a crude equation of the two :)
> it wants to do everything and does none well

I can't speak to the other points you made because this has always stopped me from investing in it. What I need in my stack is a focused Google Docs alternative, but every time I've installed it (3-4 times at this point) I'm quickly overwhelmed by the quantity of stuff it includes and by how complicated actually setting up the Docs replacement was (at the time the recommendation was to install Collabora and link it up with Nextcloud, which I never could get working).

What I did see out of the box was a slow and bloated web portal, a bad calendar, a bad video conferencing app, a file backup solution, and a terrifying app store filled with add-ons that may or may not be maintained. Oh, and now it looks like they have an AI assistant?

I'm honestly relieved to see this here and know it's not just me. I ended up going with Seafile for file backups and have been very happy with it, though I'd still love to find a focused collaboration tool I can run.
Between a couple of initial versions after fork there where a couple of bumpy upgrades, but last 4 years have been smooth
In the past very helpful for different issues. This time around, still helpful but I noticed a lot of (alleged) Cloudflare employees (based on their username colour) were talking at the time and none of them seemed very interested.
I’ve been using Ente for a month and have been loving it so far. The lack of feature parity between iOS and desktop/Electron is a bit frustrating sometimes but workable as I always have a phone and iPad nearby. I reported a bug in the desktop app and they fixed it nearly instantly.

Looking forward to it receiving more polish, but it is workable in the interim. The public e2ee web gallery sharing feature is killer.
There is a way to program these?
Israel’s Pager Attacks Have Changed the World
I'd rather stop working all together than make a twitter account
I'm interested: jgc@cloudflare.com.
If public markets (stocks, bonds) are used to preserve wealth, then private markets (real estate, private equity, private credit, funds) are considered to generate wealth. There's a reason why access to private markets is limited to big investors - usually needing a minimum of $250,000 to get started with.

There is a big barrier between private markets and the everyday joe. This barrier has come into place by both practical, and superficial reasons. Practically, private markets or alternative investments require large amounts of investments. Take YC - where they invest $500,000 per startup, or funds like BlackRock or Brookfield who are able to finance large-scale infrastructure projects or government debt. Entities like these are designed to perform well and efficiently, so when they raise funds from limited partners (LP), it's natural for them to target high net worth and institutional investors. Simply because it's easier to deal with 100 big-ticket investors, than 20,000 smaller investors. The paperwork to onboard them as clients or facilitate their sale in the secondary market is just not worth the transaction fee. So naturally, the path of least resistance is taken.

But what about the smaller investors who want to invest - maybe not $200,000 or $50,000 but $5,000 or $10,000? The number of smaller investors is much bigger than institutional and affluent investors (perhaps not in investment volume). Why shouldn't this segment be catered to, and if they are, they're given investment opportunities from the bottom of the barrel which the smart money wouldn't want as their first pick.

Invnex is providing access to world-class private market assets and top-performing funds with bite-sized offerings. Investors no longer need to have millions to sit at the same table as trillion-dollar asset managers, family offices of monarchs, investment banks and the ultra-wealthy to get access to the same investment opportunities. Invnex curates global investments through a scrutinizing due diligence process to screens hundreds of funds, commercial paper, private equity and direct lending opportunities. With an integrated primary market and secondary trading venue, both individual and institutional investors can access global sought-after deals, top-performing funds or high-yield assets in emerging markets.

Invnex democratizes private markets and is set to become the world's standardized digital secondary market for alternatives, and the apex of the fintech space.

Connect with me on LinkedIn and share your feedback: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shafiqamiri
> Was Jobs the counterweight to this, to keep it in check?

This is often said.
Corporate swag will never die
Why aren't humanoids in our homes yet?
Ive fascinated me early during iPhone and Apple Watch. I loved those marketing videos.

His impact on Apple Park has immortalized him for some number of centuries until it is destroyed by earthquake.
That is exactly why I used an actual parser not some glorified regex. Thank for you rebutting their ridicilous remark. I even literally said in their quote.

Why anyone would think a glorified regex is a solution to updating deeply nested HTML elements is beyond me, is the famous "HTML regex"[1] answer not enough? As bad a sugesting Chrome should just be a wrapper for sed/awk.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
Not really... FWIW, addressing the 'hint' you're giving specifically, this is on Ubuntu.

$ dict
Command 'dict' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install dict

After installing,

$ dict example
6 definitions found
...
And your fingerprints …
Elon was defending free speech in Brazil under Brazil's own laws. If this article is true (many from the verge are false in my opinion), then this is a sad day.
No, not all analogies of physics are oversimplifications, only those that leave out parts that are essential to the discussion.

If you leave out the properties that are special about entangled systems from the analogy, it can't shed any light on entangled systems.
I had a similar experience with ownCloud. Regularly, file uploads were timing out, leaving the database in an inconsistent state (apparently), which then later caused the files to be deleted on my desktop where the files were coming from. I'm still not sure why I put up so long with it. It was a slow mess, especially on the single-board computer I ran it on, and SyncThing was a breeze compared to it, with no data loss at all (and much faster on the same SBC).
It always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when opportunists charge money for software they didn’t produce, simply by capitalizing on the fact that it’s difficult and annoying to sideload on iPhones.
Thank you for your kind words. I found myself wishing I wrote more of how I debug while I wrote it and will be doing more of it. As you say, issue trackers (even GitHub) sometimes suffer from being swamped and neglected.
For the folks who don't like the default style of matplotlib, fonts, colors etc...
I made a stylesheet for my plots based on tailwindcss which you can use: https://www.bruderer.ai/blog/matplotlib
> Are you saying that we all have the innate ability to create art, and that anyone who creates art has a "handicap"?

I meant that (specifically) I, don't seem to have that innate ability everyone else seem to have, but I still feel the urge to express myself through art. Feels like wanting to shout, when you have no voice.

I make the AI write stories for my own amusement, by describing each scene that AI turns into a paragraph of the final story. I always failed at writing before, and no amount of practice helped, but now I have a prosthetic leg that I can walk with.

> If you let AI make the art they people will never learn how to make art.

I don't agree. We have cars, but people still cycle, or join a marathon. And it makes their activities even more meaningful, they do it for the sake of itself.

Or maybe they won't learn. But why should we force them? They can choose.

> To be able to be whatever you want while you are alive is going to make every human useless

This one I agree! I compare it to the industrial revolution, it made human workers irreverent. Would've made sense to stop the progress because of that?

The AI is much worse though, it seems to make everyone and everything meaningless. But stopping AI to keep ourselves relevant, is very fake.

I think it's a though question, and though I don't have the answer, I dont think the answer is stopping the AI either.
Intel has officially entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery
China's staggering EV growth may have pushed global emissions into decline
Are the housing supply restrictions new since 2008 when the real estate bubble pop revealed an oversupply of housing ?
No, it’s just broken. It’s not you.

The software is unfit for purpose.
Black & White 1 does have multiplayer, only the sequel lacked it.
> No they won't. They'll only contribute if they're required to

Did you actually read my comment before you answered? Because I said that copyleft licenses "make it mandatory to distribute changes/extensions", which means that companies are required to contribute if the license is reciprocal.

> At any rate, no FOSS license (that I'm aware of, or is in wide use) requires users to contribute. At most, they require that changes be made available.

Making changes available is a form of contribution. If you work on a proof of concept for a month and at the end your company decides not to use it in a product (thanks to the learning from your work), do you say that you did not contribute, so you should not be paid?

Feels like you're being pedantic just for the sake of the argument.
Nextcloud's "internals are a shitshow" because Docker's networking stack prevents it from getting the IP of the calling client? That's an unreasonable take. Why single out Nextcloud here?
Personally I enjoy ess in Emacs because it is easy to search and mix code from multiple locations/buffers in addition to having separate sessions, and I love the interactive mixing of shell, python and R in one place, the ease to include code snippets into documents, and so on. I imagine the excellent documentation and visualization options exist in R studio but its hard to replicate the full Emacs experience.
Running the snap-version since 5+ years without any problem
For the admin part, check out http://snapadmin.dev

It's my open source project which provides similar functionality, although not nearly as complete (and as well maintained) as the Django alternative.
Is he the guy behind the Apple Mouse?
September Equinox
There's ~four of us trying to reproduce this right now, using Astro and Remix, and cannot at all.

An important note: React-based frameworks tend to use camelCase attributes vs. hyphen-case (which is the output) in components: including the icon library being used here. Something during the build process is not converting them to hyphen-case.

* I've pasted a decently complex SVG exported from Figma into a Remix component verbatim (hyphen-attributes) and it renders fine: https://9b14a265.test-broken-svgs-remix.pages.dev/ (scroll down)

* I've rewritten those attributes to camelCase: and again, renders fine - https://1af766a8.test-broken-svgs-remix.pages.dev/

* This is all deployed via the Pages Build system; no local builds at all.

* Someone else on the team has an Astro example stood up with the specific unplugin-icons library: https://astro-svg.pages.dev/ - cannot reproduce the invalid SVG attributes.

We're going to continue investigating but don't see this as widespread and don't yet have any other reports. That there is a _difference_ between the direct deploy vs. using Pages Builds is a problem, though. We've also asked the Astro folks to understand if there's something up here as well.

(If not clear: I work at Cloudflare)
> The thing about DOS is that it’s a much thinner OS than what we think of in 2024. When you’re writing DOS software of any kind of complexity, you’re talking straight to the hardware, or to drivers that are specific to particular classes of hardware.

How is that different from how we access our GPUs nowadays?
Advertising isn’t the only context where these terms are used… In usual conversation “is your phone unlocked?” could mean 1 or 3
Friend, avoid those leaky abstractions with milions of pages of docs for all cost!

Just use Kotlin+Ktor/http4k+Exposed+Postgres or alternatively more old school Java+Javalin/http4j+JOOQ+Postgres.

Benefit from serverless or services like GCP cloudrun
I admire these old protocols that are intentionally built to be usable both by machines and humans. Like the combination of a response code, and a human readable explanation. A help command right in the protocol.

Makes me think it's a shame that making a json based protocol is so much easier to whip up than a textual ebnf-specified protocol.

Like imagine if in python there was some library that you gave an ebnf spec maybe with some extra features similar to regex (named groups?) and you could compile it to a state machine and use it to parse documents, getting a Dict out.
Thanks!

I'd love to decrease the price, but DeepL is really quite expensive. I'm hoping I can decrease it in the long run as users build the cache, but there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem because I need users first.
What came first? A game where you pick what came first
gandi has steadily been moving to unusable pickpocketing since they were bought out by Total Webhosting Solutions, which immediately did the standard venture capital thing of charging the maximum for everything possible and burn any amount of good will. They've presumably been ratcheting up these fees to try and show a profit and it's only going to continue to get worse as people move to competitively priced options. I can't imagine they're attracting many new customers given the landscape.

I started to do the tedium of migrating away once they announced they would start charging for email and regress services that were once provided for free (which was a large selling part for me). I've been very happy with porkbun + fastmail.
You are focusing too much on my specific problem instead of using it as a guide to understand your own situation.

Sure we have mobs and you don't, but we are talking about AI here.

Infact let's imagine a totally different culture to illustrate my point.

Imagine you are an Israeli, and people in your office have a habit of sending Whatsapp voice notes to confirm various things instead of calls, because that way you can have a record but don't have to type every damn thing out. Totally innocent and routine behaviour, you are just doing what many other people do.

A colleague pissed at you for whatever damn stupid reason creates a fake of your voice saying you support Hamas by using said voice notes, using an online tool that doesn't cost much or require much... are you saying just because you won't be lynched, that there isn't a problem?

You are confused why everyone is pissed at you and why suddenly your boss fired you, and by the time you find out the truth... the lie has spread to enough people in your social circle that there is no clearing your name.

Think of how little data in voice samples is required to generate an audio clip thats sounds very realistic, and how better it will get in an year. You don't need fancy PC or tech knowledge for that, already websites exist that do for cheap.

Just because you weren't lynched is no solace.

People are the problem, AI is just providing quality tools with minimal skill and cost required, thus broadening the user base.
> the whole point of GDocs is collaborative editing

Strong disagree. Collaborative editing is one of the major points but not the only one. For me and I believe many others, being able to view and edit my documents in a web browser is a huge convenience.

(Speaking of collaborative editing, OnlyOffice too supports it. [0] However, you might need to setup a standalone “document server” [1] if you’ve a lot of collaborators.)

[0] https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/onlyoffice-editors/onlyoff...

[1] https://docs.hetzner.com/konsoleh/storage-share/faq/addition...
Ask HN: Will people avoid quantum computers due to subjective experience fears?
Research suggests that quantum effects may be important for subjective experience in animals, so some people might choose to avoid using quantum computers to prevent potential suffering.
Yeah the GitHub link is the meat of the article. Funny stuff. I also would have assumed that the estimates wouldn't vary as much, naively.
ZFS would almost certainly be more widely adopted were it under a different license. But Red Hat, for one, wasn't going to touch it given CDDL.
i’m not particularly supportive of people who think fun needs to be vilified and taxed out of existence. it just so happens that this mindset is common among europeans who will never be able to afford a nice vehicle
hmmm

$>curl dict://dict.org/d:Internet
curl: (1) Protocol "dict" not supported
Would you be accepting any phone(s) if shipped to you or do you have a group you would recommend that accepts shipments of phones?

Thank you!
This might be true but I finally deployed nextcloud for our co-op because I couldn't find any other solution to easily have a shared calendar with granular permissions to accounts I assign for write privileges, but also a dynamic ICS file download endpoint I can publicly expose. I tried a couple other caldav servers and none had this. So it does at least one thing better than specialized apps, which I typically prefer to use.
The ECU in my 350z also used a SuperH CPU - I think SH2?
Somewhat depends on your threat model. The relative value of an iCloud/aws/gDrive 0day is going to be higher than Nextcloud. If you’re in the category of people concerned about this type of breach, self-hosting a PHP web app and claiming it’s somehow safer wont save you either. For this risky population, neither solution works since attackers are willing to throw expensive exploits at your data in either scenario.

If you aren’t being specifically targeted, then you would care about low hanging fruits discovered by something like automated scanning. Not exposing your service to the internet does solve this assuming you’re confident in the stack which provides this isolation. But managing this stack and performing risk calculus here is actually where the security horse trading happens. I think most people aren’t safer managing this themselves — arguably they’re actually worse off.

I have high standards for the confidentiality of my data. I care about things like lateral movement and the massive attack surface that isolation tech to prevent such movement has. I also won’t design monitoring and alerting, ensure a patch state, or perform code audits on Nextcloud and all the isolation tech required to secure it to a comporable level of security. Because of this, I instead reason around the cost of exploitation. I want it to be higher than what I believe Nextcloud provides and I’d rather require an attacker to use an expensive 0day to extract my data off a cloud provider like Google versus a potentially cheap one against my own infra.