skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I found myself in your situation I went to manual backups and regular cleaning of my computers/backups. If it is important I back up immediately, if it is something I will not need regularly access too it gets taken off the computer. Mostly I started treating my digital life as I treat my physical life, I do not put an addition on my home or rent a storage space when ever I run out of space, I get rid of stuff.

On my primary backup drive I have two extra folders, archive and holding; archive has all that stuff like taxes that I rarely if ever need to access. Holding is for all that stuff I am not sure if I really need anymore but can't quite bring myself to delete, anything that spends enough time in holding to get forgotten about just gets deleted.

My secondary backup drive only holds things which are actually important and the loss of would cause more than a minor inconvenience or some sadness/regret over their loss.

My computer has essentially the standard generic file structure of Documents, Downloads, Video, Music, Desktop, and Pictures with the addition of folders for current projects and a tmp folder and none get subdivided with nested directories (but the primary backup does). When Documents and Downloads start getting difficult to navigate I clean and backup including going through my backup drives. Desktop is for stuff I want to get to somewhat soon like a pdf I want to read, tmp is for stuff I do not need on my computer on a daily basis but may need to access semi regularly in the next month or so, it gets gone through and cleaned most any time I copy something into it.

It took a little time to get used too and at the start I had to invest a fair amount of time but now it just means I spend a few minutes every day cleaning and backing up and once a week or so put in 15 to 30 minutes doing it. Not much different than any physical hobby or part of life, cleaning the kitchen after cooking or sweeping up the saw dust and putting away the tools after wood working.

If you have a receipts directory all your receipts should go in it but I would question the need for a dedicated receipts directory, if a receipt is important it should probably fall under another category (like health or taxes/writeoffs) if they don't they probably are not something you need to keep long term and can go in a temporary folder that regularly gets cleaned out, I use my documents folder for those. Other family members should have their own directory for everything that is theirs, give them a quota and let them deal with it.
(author here) I had looked at both Rqlite and the different commercial versions of this, but I didn't pursue them as they all seemed to require running an additional service on the host machines.
Staring at your phone > unconsciously staring at an increasingly uncomfortable person trying to enjoy a quiet cup of coffee
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she's leaving the company
No.

Peak human is the ability to wield one's own mind and body in exceptional ways.

Peak humans have existed from time to time throughout all time. There are actually many forms. We could run around and find the most superior genetic specimen for every worthy trait, or say that every fully formed and mature human has a grain of the infinity sand in their spirit, and can transform themselves to actualize any conception they are devoted enough to see through to the end.

This is called WILL TO POWER!

Power is "the capacity for effect," for if it is not effective it is not powerful.

And will, the determination of resolve.

Such may defend free will, though I believe you shall find these in bondage to their devotion.

Look for them and extol any greatness in their passing for compared to these ordinary man is a waste of his humanity.
Economic growth is another way of saying "improving people's lives". An economic system which always needs to improve people's lives is a good thing, actually.

When you compare modern first world to 60 years ago, people's lives have significantly improved. And if you do the same in developed countries, the difference is unbelievable.
I gave my Quest away as soon as Facebook bought the company. The requirement to have a Facebook account was not a bridge that I wanted to cross. As far as I am concerned the product line is dead.
To put this in perspective I am currently locked out of one of my online bank accounts because I refuse to let them share the data with Facebook. It is setup so you must first agree, and then “withdraw consent”.

The poor bank reps haven’t got a clue what to do, mainly because absolutely no one else has ever refused before. The vast majority of people in the modern world have no grasp of what is going on, and will not until it is too late.
Well, if your account is only a Home Edition, you will not get the same support as if you upgrade to Universal Galactic Edition which has a LTS measured in generations.
httpdito looks incredible
Despite it existing for a long time, support for it is far from universal still.

In Sweden there is only a single bank in the entire country that has proper SEPA instant support. Some banks still charge extra for it as well.

My own bank required some coercion before they would let me send money to my European friends (to pay for shared travel expenses).
Observability as a Day Zero Operation
Seasonality in mood disorders: Probing association of activity with daylength
They announced a passthrough API for next year, so yay to that. That's def going to open up even move possibilities.
Free weekend vacation at Disney World, including admission to the parks. You actually stayed in one of the timeshare units they were trying to sell. The presentation was about 3 hours long, and mostly consisted of a high pressure sales pitch full of dubious claims. The salesguys were not impressed by the math.
It does not appear safe. It clearly says at the bottom that you should checkup important facts.

I have in my kitchen several knives which are sharp and dangerous. They must be sharp and dangerous to be useful - if you demand that I replace them with dull plastic because users might inadvertantly hurt themselves, then you are not making the world a safer place, you are making my kitchen significantly more useless.

If you don't want to do this to my physical tools, don't do this to my info tools.
meta redemption arc incoming
Been thinking about this. Do you have a snippet you can share?
That's a bummer. You should get your mom a 5G iPad mini for the upcoming holidays! Great connectivity and form factor.
Wonder if it's LTSC or the standard image with candy crush, windows store, and Xbox game app bloat?
That’s a great little keyboard, it reminds me of early smartphone keyboards in a good way.

I wonder if Apple decided against a controller in order to allow third party solutions to flourish . They can take their time and see what people gravitate towards.
Here's the link to the discussion around the source tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651038

(no comments as of the moment I'm posting this)
Still feels like Intel Vault was the best iteration of AR. I desperately wish someone would pick that back up.
This is fantastic

I hope you post again when you've made a standalone page and/or mobile versions, this game deserves lots of success :)
fantastic for a prototype, meta teams are crushing it lately
It's a little YAGNI - I think the biggest driver of Redis in community was for exactly what you described aysnc jobs and the tool most folks reached for was Sidekiq.

The 2024 Rails community survey just came out and Redis is still listed as the top datastore that people use in their apps.

FWIW - we found that while many folks are _using_ Redis in their apps, they're just using it for things like Sidekiq and not actually taking advantage of it for holding things like real time leaderboards, vector db functions, etc. so it's a little fuzzy the actual usage.
windows is source-available if you have deep enough pockets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/enterprise-sour...
See also: Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher. I used to use a lot back in ~2006 for making panoramas. It automatically finds "control points" in your photos, figures out which ones are shared between the photos and uses that information to determine the relative positions of the photos, and your lens parameters.

Once it does that it can stitch the photos together. It does this by projecting the photos onto a sphere, and then taking a picture of that sphere using whatever lens parameters you want.

https://hugin.sourceforge.io/
We’ll call em moving pictures and show em off to the public for a dime a seat!
Yeah, you use it productively. As do I. But it can be misused.

It works well as an assistant to an expert. But fails when it is the expert.
> Jetbrain tools are broken.

Nope. I use Rider on Mac and Windows and it's better than Visual Studio on Windows in almost every way it's different. I've used Pycharm and Datagrip extensively on Mac and Windows as well, they're excellent tools. I haven't used Webstorm much though.
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving
agree! how to play??? I found I can click and join knights by knight move with the same subscripts. but what is the king doing? there are no directions and its not obvious!
In Switzerland, Reported Use of Suicide Capsule Inflames Debate
Do you think this was profitable for Microsoft, even after the antitrust fines?
Cat memes went viral 100 years ago
The politics of leadership at OpenAI must be absolutely insane. “Leaving to do my own exploration”? Come on. You have Sam making blog posts claiming AI is going to literally be the second coming of Christ and then this a day later.
And my generation all wanted to be popstars, actors and models (well I wanted to program computers, but whatever). Kids don't change that much, it is just us who are getting older.
I’m pretty sure that LLMs will never replace programmers. It’s way too hard to stitch together code snippets. Also, when you think about all the misunderstandings that arise from pseudo code, free form text input to an LLM has to be even more ambiguous. I don’t care whether someone calls themselves a “prompt engineer”.

But AI will replace programmers just like it superseded chess players.

We are putting the finishing touches to an AI that write code. And not in an LLM kind of way. It allows you to specify exactly what you want without needing to specify the logic. Check out Ac28R.com

We are excited about it, but it makes my heart ache when I think about the impact.

The world is speeding up. We are the cause but we will struggle to avoid getting swept up in it.
Anyway, I was responding to someone who wouldn't run either on a spaceship so I still would like to know what they would want to run. I am from a formal verification school of thought, so I would want something sel4.
Sounds like rotten meat is back on the menu.
Cellmates in a Brooklyn Jail: Sean Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried
Open Source wireframe to app powered by Llama 3.2 Vision
Really, with Linux (or a BSD), you can make tweaks for free to save memory and to only allow specific tasks and hardware. Plus you could publish these changes and maybe they will be accepted by upstream.

With Windows, you need to beg and pay Microsoft for customizations and hope these changes will not cause other issues.

Plus, most space projects are on a tight and limited budgets where management would rather spend on hardware than software.
So literally what oracle has done for 30 years?

Run it on one type of hardware it costs X per core, run it on something else it costs Y per core.
No, because nobody needs to run anything on WS. Even we people that build stuff for Azure avoids WS. The whole claim is just stupid.
Not sure if I completely grasp what you're saying, but you're saying that if you plan the codebase well then dependencies between files/bits of code are more easily followed?

For our users, Haystack has been helpful to understand how code works together, from simple React components to legacy C codebases that are a decade or older. I think the value prop shines when you're trying to understand how multiple pieces of code together, and this will become more useful as folks increasingly lean on AI tools to modify/create/delete multiple files.
Because a close fly-by probe is something we know how to do, and is a much more affordable and achievable goal than a mission that would have the true goal of confirming life on Europa.

Such a mission would involve landing on an outer solar system body with no atmosphere, penetrating 10-15 miles of ice, and directly sampling liquid water for microbes. That's a huge undertaking that would cost a lot more than $5B. If any part of that failed, it would be a pretty bad look for NASA and those who voted to fund it, and a negative result still wouldn't mean there is no life.

I certainly think that's something we should be attempting to do in the future. But an initial close flyby mission is something we know we can do with a high probability of success, and data gathered from such a mission could build support for a more extensive follow-up in the future. The data gathered might even make that future mission less expensive and more likely to succeed by mapping likely places where the ice is thinner, or where tectonic activity pushes water to the surface.

And hey if a microbe in a plume of water happens to land in a collection receptacle on this mission, that's just an incredible bonus without setting the mission up for disappointment.
Shark Lives 400 Years. Its DNA May Explain Why
Act as high and mighty as you please, I won't mind. But bear in mind that:

* most people will find it surprising that showing a photo from the internet to ChatGPT is as unsafe as opening a random, untrusted exe.

* many people don't even understand that it's unsafe to open random, untrusted exes.

Are you seriously suggesting that we should leave all these people to the wolves, because they're less knowledgeable about security vulnerabilities than you?
It is hard for me to square "This company is a few short years away from building world-changing AGI" and "I'm stepping away to do my own thing". Maybe I'm just bad at putting myself in someone else's shoes, but I feel like if I had spent years working towards a vision of AGI, and thought that success was finally just around the corner, it'd be very difficult to walk away.
> “Leaving to do my own exploration”

Lets write this chapter and take some guesses, it's either going to be:

1. Anthropic.

2. SSI Inc.

3. Own AI Startup.

4. Neither.

Only one is correct.
Cool, one similiar network in the US is UTOPIA in Utah... they seem to have similiar results. https://www.utopiafiber.com/residential-pricing/

But I have read that some other communities that have tried the same model have had trouble attracting ISPs.
> I used to think (well, I still do) that getting a barebones service up and running using the system APIs at the lowest level like this is so satisfying. It's sort of magical, really

Totally agree. And actually using them is even more satisfying. I'm starting to get curious about email protocols..

> I'm kind of surprised that the vanilla poll() can put up numbers like you were seeing

Me too. I assumed I was going to go with epoll at some point, but poll() is working great.
The new galactic empire has an enterprise licensing agreement with Microsoft.
> Is reverse proxying something we've collectively decided to cargo cult, or is there some reason why it's a good idea that applies in the general case that I'm missing?

It's a matter of risk management. On the one hand is your service that speaks http. Maybe it uses a good library for it, maybe not - but even if the library is good are we sure you used it correctly? Even if you used it correctly, has it been as thoroughly tested and proven as nginx?

On the other hand you have nginx - a deeply understood technology that has served trillions and trillions of web requests, has proven itself resillient against attacks again and again, and has been reviewed with a fine-toothed comb by security engineers deeply for years.

So just from the starting point, your software is riskier. Even if you're the best software engineer who's ever lived, it's a higher risk profile to deploy new unproven software than the one that's been battle tested for decades.

It's also a matter of mitigation - if your software does have a vuln, are you going to notice it? Even if you do notice it, how long til you understand the problem and fix it? What to do in the time between discovery and deploying the fix? On the other hand if there's an nginx vuln, there are almost certainly juicier targets than your software to exploit first, and the bug and the fix are far more likely to be found and deployed long before someone even tries it for your site.
Since it's opt-in, the generative AI features won't ever bug you unless you want to use them!
The act of free will was when you signed up in the first place and consented to being charged until cancellation, yeah? The acts of free will are when you continue using and enjoying their services for N months/years.

An initial commitment and consent leads to interdependence and cooperation. Loyalty and trust must be earned, but provided that they are earned, they shouldn't be flouted in a capricious act. Why are you canceling? You found a cheaper price? A more attractive deal? Service was bad or not worth your money? Most everyone would agree that many commitments entail responsibilities as well. Do you accept responsibility, and liability, as a customer?

If a company sends you to retention or comes up with special offers to keep you as a customer, that is not necessarily malicious behavior: they're demonstrating that they value your business, especially your money and future payments, and they're showing you what it's worth to keep that loyalty and commitment, and that's their act of free will, yes?

The company would say that the retention process is still subject to free will, but they've got policies, you signed on to those policies, so let's follow the policies. Your free-will act is to decline those come-ons; it's your free will to refuse to run the gauntlet, but hey, caveat emptor?

Can I one-click unsubscribe from my landlady? One-click close a bank or brokerage account? One-click renounce citizenship? Will California legislate 1-click Divorce Equality? Why not?
Ah ok good. I see it is partly because there is no opt out UI. For some reason Mozilla is very sparse with settings and user freedom on the mobile app, for this reason I thought it might have been overlooked. It was also not clarified in the announcements at all.

But good riddance. I hope it stays this way.
YOu can just ctrl-i on the picture file and see how big it is, it's pretty easy to measure. Even if there are a lot of files you can select all, it's definitely not immesurable.

Hosting the photos costs money too, which I don't think GP is considering.
Nobody is stopping you from cloning windows functionality on something else. You’re free to run samba or WINE all day long.

Let me know when Amazon lets me run THEIR S3 stack on hardware of my choice. Until then, all the downvotes in the world won’t change the fact they’re doing the same thing only worse.
Amusingly, slowloris is still an issue for some Rust (hyper) based servers. There’s been some movement on it lately - and I’m typing this in a free moment, so maybe it’s finally fixed and someone can correct me - but it’s kind of lurking there and throwing Nginx in front of an e.g Axum deploy is still somewhat necessary.
I've occasionally worked on drivers for windows and linux. In either case, I didn't really need to read the source code; neither was it a valuable proposition. If the advertised API didn't do what it was supposed to, I likely wouldn't have understood enough to fix it: and this is my point.

Just because you can read it, doesn't mean you can or will be able to actually fix it; not because of technicality, but because of personal knowledge.

In this case, they are both black boxes.
Now imagine it’s reached such a market dominance that the product you’re attempting to host requires Amazon OS
I couldn't stand their unnative looks so I stopped paying (and not using it). The tabs in the titlebar are hideous!
Yeah I am very confused. This isn't like 2048 at all. The pieces move individually? And why are there multiple different colors of knights? What is the king doing? How do I mute the game entirely?

Interesting take but needs some more polish and a good demo video or something.
Strange not to mention wire weight which I gather is an extremely important factor. If these are also heavier, they may sag more for strictly physical reasons and that would cause problems. I guess the modeling behind this article probably takes that into account.
Is that ViewSonic monster actually for sale?
AR has a ton of mostly-work-related uses - think about warehousing, quality control, maintenance and repair, recording first-person views for tutorial videos or live seminars, identifying plants, HUD during surgery, schematic displays while working with electronics or mechanical parts, and many more.

For leisure the only thing I'd want a display on my face for is reading books and news.
Tiny code Christmas was a lot of fun the last couple of years. That covers a lot of the basics in a beginner friendly way.

https://tcc.lovebyte.party/
Harpoon is kind of like a bookmarking tool right? I think the value prop is that you have to do less manual window management, can see connections between code better, and can context switch between tasks.

Reposting this from another comment: For our users, Haystack has been helpful to understand how code works together, from simple React components to legacy C codebases that are a decade or older. I think the value prop shines when you're trying to understand how multiple pieces of code together, and this will become more useful as folks increasingly lean on AI tools to modify/create/delete multiple files.
This is wonderful! I'd love something similar to this in my computer's time-display: random-noise until I click.
I also like that you can get a pybadge or similar device and run your creations on it.
> the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses

That's a bold claim for glasses this comically thick.

If you're interested in more normal-looking glasses with a HUD, I suggest taking a look at Even Realities G1 [1] — I have not seen them in person, but at least in photos / videos they don't scream "a piece of tech".

[1] https://www.evenrealities.com/
An OS having exclusive software and features is expected. A vendor dictating what hardware you can run it on is expected.

Why is one a problem and the other isn’t besides the fact that half of HN has an irrational axe to grind anytime they hear Microsoft?
that's a lot of core people leaving, especially since they're apparently so close to a "revolution in AGI"

I feel like either they're not close at all and the people know it's all lies or they're seeing some shady stuff and want nothing to do with it
Ada didn’t have generators back then and still doesn’t ( I think its being considered for inclusion soon ). But it had all the other features.
This post was of great inspiration! It made me realize something like this was doable