skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cold out reach via email. It was so useful we pivoted and now have a product to help with it.

Your channels are dependent on your product and market you're trying to serve. For us it's b2b enterprise customers in the United States. So email works well. If you are trying to sell to developers, or union carpenters in venezuela its going to be different per case.
Probably because it's enough for most people. I have a Paperwhite with (I think) 300 dpi and unless I reduce the font size to the minimum and look really close I can't see any issues at any reading distance. It feels like a printed book to me.
No. Let's look just at the Iran-Iraq war.

First of all, the war lasted for almost 8 years. In those 8 years, Iraq (the aggressor) killed approximately 200k-260k Iranians (including soldiers and civilians). In the 1980s, Iran's population was on average, say, 45 million (37 million in 1980, 52 million in 1988). So, in 8 years of war, Iraq killed 0.5% of Iran's population. Civilian casualties are estimated at 10-16k.

By the lowest estimate of deaths in Gaza, 45k, in 1 year of war, Israel has killed 2% of Gaza's population. And, according multiple sources including the UN sources cited in the Reuters article you yourself shared, likely more than a half of these are women and children, so confirmed civilians. And this is not even looking at the displacement of population, or the loss of civilian infrastructure (Iraq did not destroy every single hospital in Iran, I can tell you that much).

Your own criteria show just how much worse the genocide in Gaza is compared to those other conflicts. Please educate yourself more on the magnitude of the massacre being committed, and that we can still stop.
We homeschooled. When we worried about our kids' socialization, we yanked them into the bathroom and beat them up for their lunch money.

I'm kidding, but... you want school to build your kids' social skills? Apart from all the pathologies common in schools, you want your kids to grow up to live in an adult world, which is almost completely unlike school.

Yeah, homeschooling can be done where the kids are isolated and never interact with anyone outside the family. It doesn't have to be, though.
> When you have software running locally, you can arbitrarily modify how it runs.

Well, you can on PC at least. Xbox and Playstation security has matured to the point that code modification in online games isn't really a thing anymore, the worst they have to deal with is controller macros most of the time.
What you wrote is completely untrue. I have myriad of books on my Kindle which are not on Amazon, and they are not deleted. Neither does anything weird happen to them.
Interesting, always wanted to try AR for office work because I travel a lot but the glasses part has always been a killer. Do they work with Linux at all?
That really depends on what type of work you are doing and your specific combo of hardware. And yes you can do work, but when sleep and power management doesn't work it's a significant QoL downgrade.

If you want to use CUDA as a simple example, you'll have to go through the process of using nvidia proprietary drivers and I'm far from well versed on it but that gives me random warnings and I don't quite get the compatibility between it and Xorg/Wayland or which combo to use and I have on more than one laptop ended up with a system that works but that the desktop randomly freezes requiring a hard reboot.

I still do use Linux Desktop and try various different Debian based or Fedora distros out but you definitely do end up tinkering. I don't use MacOS fwiw.
I've worked in the industry at IID and Farsight. I am skeptical of many claims made by IoC vendors.

You need timestamps, or first / last seen.

Records don't exist in a vacuum. They come in RRsets. They are served (sometimes inconsistently) by different nameservers. Some use cases care about this.

Records which don't resolve are also useful, especially for use cases which amount to front-running. On any given day if the wind was blowing the right direction .belkin could be one of the top 10 non-resolving TLDs. If your data is any good, check under .cisco for stuff which resolves to 127.0.53.53. ;-)

Information about provenance (where the data comes from) is required for some use cases.

We shipped Farsight's DNSDB on one or more 1TB drives, depending on what the customer was purchasing.
"...there's no such thing as a starlink HT yet..."

The FCC just gave emergency authorization for Starlink to enable direct-to-satellite service for T-Mobile customers in western North Carolina. It's my understanding that this is what Starlink was planning on releasing but they are doing a live beta right now.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/fcc-lets-starlin...
> If you need baseload, and need it carbon-free, your only option currently is nuclear

What about geothermal, tidal, hydro, etc?
We should stop defending an imperialist establishment which relies on the rampant exploitation of the global south and is committing genocide and calling it rules-based order. More like America rules.

The containment rhetoric/logic is long past its use-by date - the US's pretense as guardians of a common moral high ground was shattered at the very latest with the Vietnam War, and in 2024 it is an absolute tragedy of a joke in poor taste.

You gotta think this rules-based order is designed to drive anyone decent crazy. What else can happen when you hear pieces of shit like Blinken wax lyrical about the human rights of Palestinians while supercharging weapons deliveries to Israel, or the very existence of the UNSC veto which will guarantee outcomes that reinforce unforgivable and unforgettable mass crimes, beckoning awful consequences for the whole world.
On the subject of French plurals, you also get some counterintuitive ones:

- Egg: un œuf (pronounced /œf/), des œufs (pronounced /œ/ !)

- Bone: un os (pronounced /os/), des os (pronounced /o/ !)
This is not the first evil thing they have done. I've always thought Digital River were scum. They bought up and wrecked lots of nice little payment processor companies. Everything they touch turns to shit.
Such as loyalty programs you apparently automatically signed up for when you shopped at a store.
Because at the end of the day the game is running on the user's machine, a machine in which the user has full access to every part of the execution and the software developer does not. You can only get around that by streaming the game instead of running it on the client side and even then an aimbot or some type of automation would be possible nowadays.
> it's the definition of a terror attack

No, it's not. We don't have to twist the definitions of prohibited acts of war for a war to be deplorable. Legal warfare is still horrendous.

> random children killed because Hezbollah militant were shopping/walking nearby, really 'precise'

To be clear, if those same targets were hit conventionally--by air-launched missile, for instance--that would somehow be better?
Gmail "Report Spam" is my unsubscribe link. It's even got its own hotkey "!".
I think the bit that this misses is that the root of all the problems we've seen over the last few decades is that Israel keeps doing their settlement thing. In spite of decades of pretty much the entire rest of the world – including the US – saying they should not be doing that.

I don't approve of Hezbollah or Hamas; but if you strip away the violence and Islamic extremism and all of that then the uncomfortable reality is ... they're not wrong in their core objections. Israel has consistently maintained that no, actually, the core problem is that Hezbollah and Hamas exist, and once we get rid of these people all the problems will be gone. It's certainly true that these organisations have become part of the problem, but they're not at the root of it.

"We will keep our bad faith settlement policy, and if you behave like a good boy to our satisfaction long enough then maybe perhaps we will consider granting you rights" doesn't really work. All these gun-toting "don't tread on me" 2nd amendment absolutionists people full-on supporting Israel wouldn't accept that either. Israel must resolve the settlement issue first, and THEN we can dismantle the violent extremist groups (which will take time and won't happen overnight – there will be a "Real Hamas" splinter group just as there was a "Real IRA"). This is the only way peace can happen.

This is why I think you can't really compare it to operations against ISIL or Taliban, whom have a far less legitimate complaints. This is also why "IDF is the most moral army in the world" that I have seen some people say, and what you're kind of echoing here, is completely besides the point. I don't know if it's true and I don't really care. This conflict would be non-existent on the scale that it exists today if not for the settlement policy, which is 100% in Israel's control.
I wonder what kind of theories these cheaters invented to explain how they were getting caught.
GitHub has the option to limit issues, pull requests and comments to not-new users, previous contributors and/or previous committers.

The setting applies to a whole repository.
Show HN: Medley – a simple SurveyMonkey alternative with type-first editing
Online surveys remain a part of many workflows (whether for feedback or research), and while there are a bunch of options out there, they leave a lot to be desired:

• Complex and very expensive solutions ($6k+/year/user) like Qualtrics
• Outdated and slightly less so but still expensive tools ($500+/year/user) like SurveyMonkey
• Does the job but lacking in features options like Google Forms

We're building Medley to thread the needle.

With Medley:

• Creating surveys works just like typing docs
• You can ask basic (single or multi-select, etc) or advanced (NPS, etc) questions
• You're not shoehorned into a specific structure (like one question per page)
• You can make sense of responses with visual reports, tables and filters (or export your data)
• You can collect up to 1000 responses/mo for free

Some things are still missing while we're in beta, but features are being added each week. Up next: matrix questions, survey logic and custom themes.

If you need to create a survey, give it a go!
Or maybe you just shouldn't break the law.
Reality is often disappointing.

If we break the contracts we just end up with less free information. I want to protect the long term.
Ah, thanks for the details! We were in a similar situation, with teams and codebases cobbled together from acquisitions.

I actually advocated AGAINST a shared component system, predicting (accurately in hindsight) that the immature integration frameworks would not outlive the natural turnover of our teams and products, and would probably become tech debt before it even saw production use. Not a few months later, our entire department was dissolved, many product lines abandoned, etc. Luckily the teams that are still there were able to just keep going instead of wasting time on the doomed standardization effort...
Ledger: A System for Monitoring and Reporting Carbon Removal at Scale
What you are saying doesn't even make sense.

They are discouraging open source hardware therefore that's what makes the software more valuable?

I invite you to hit up ChatGPT or something and shit out a flipper app. It's fun, and straightforward and most people could pull it off with a bit of time and slogging through it.

I would LOVE to see your Gerber design that fits in a case that's around 100x40x25mm and only weighs 104 grams. OH. And because of the parts involved, I'd love to see it because you'd need VERY advanced soldering skills to put it together.

I'll write the OS/SDK. But it has to be the same size or smaller and have:

1. A screen

2. NFC

3. 125 kHz RFID

4. IR Blaster and Receiver

5. Bluetooth

6. USB controller that can be tons of things

7. HID Controllers for lots of things

8. Still lots of exposed GPIO pins for external stuff.

9. SD Card

Any single one of these requires a sub $1 microcontroller/arduino/ESP + soldering ability + 10 lines of boilerplate code.

Yeah. tell me again the hardware isn't anything special.
No, I think most of the AOT compilers in practice are a bit behind V8 and/or Spidermonkey for newer features. Realistically, most development driving new WASM features is motivated by website-ish use cases. Exception handling in particular is still not standardized so I guess it's expected that the browser engines would be the one to have the most evolving support (and the ability to test it thoroughly) because people want that platform as their inevitable target anyway.
Show HN: Turn Any Email into a Custom Slide Deck
If you've been in SAAS sales you know how annoying it is trying to build custom presentations all the time.

My cofounder and I built an app that will turn regular email follow ups into customized landing pages where we can track the interactions and engagement metrics, and makes it easier for the deal to stay organized in one spot.

We're still validating our product, so if you use the code HACKER at signup we're doing two months completely free. Nothings off the table, landing page, product suggestions, idea validation.

HACKER code for 100% off 2 months of PRO just for first time users
This is kind of getting into my idea - Statistical methods & maybe a sprinkle of old-school machine learning.

What I would try is to hire a red team & blue team and put them in a sandbox environment. The red team cheats on purpose. The blue team is guaranteed to be playing legitimately. Both teams label their session data accurately. I then use this as training & eval set for a model that will be used on actual player inputs.

The only downside is that you will get a certain % of false positives, but the tradeoff is that there is literally nothing the cheaters can do to prevent detection unless they infiltrate your internal operations and obtain access to the data and/or methods.
Nope. Standard human behavior. Plenty of studies done that shows that when you attack peoples opinions, it feels like personal attacks. Peoples opinions are a fundamental part of their ego, and we all have a fundamental drive to self actualize, which translates the active process in ensuring that we are what we believe we are.
No, I am not ignoring them. I know Archive very well. They do not preserve copyrighted content deliberately, it just gets uploaded, and when no one comes and complains it stays up. They remove things ALL the time. All of the Atari 2600 games from Atari itself, for example. Atari's current owners showed up and asked Jason to take those down, and he did. And he thanked them for the privilege and said they were very nice.

I ADORE Archive. But guess what, they're being sued into the ground over doing EXACTLY what we all want them to do: preserving things. If anything, this absolutely 100% proves my point: we have 1 example of a modern Library of Alexandria, and it is in danger because someone is upset they didn't get paid. This is even more than choosing as a society not to save information and our culture. This is being outright HOSTILE towards the idea.
This still leaves you wide open to cheaters using mobile data tethering and proxies. Have you considered more advanced network analysis? It's one of the areas I have an interest in (professionally and personally) so if you want any suggestions let me know.
>All constantly have stupid quality problems or fail to operate as well as they should.

And my guess is that your "operate as the should" is probably some very personal opinions about how an OS should function based on your personal workflow, that you assume should be the defacto standard.

But for the sake of the argument, lets just assume that your standard is actually optimal from an efficiency standpoint. In that case, the argument to make in case of Mac would be this: Out of the box, Macs are closer to optimal, but technically Linux is is better because you can customize it to be exactly optimal.
Thanks, I always wonder if it'll be too slow for people to follow the whole pathway--this will definitely be fixed in the desktop version.
> I don’t think regulation has much to do with their excellence at all

If there is no regulation, the government is at fault

If regulation doesn’t work, government is at fault

And if it works, they still don’t get the credit
Sorry. My poetry module is defective.

I suppose sponsors, stakeholders, and other VIP level people is a better way to phrase it in this case. Anything that can explode to a huge PR issue will put all those off.
Author of this has an interesting live/realtime(?) podcast called "Railnatter" about the railways, public transport and UK infrastructure politics.

Recently in the news as the UK government rail minister appeared to have directly requested he be sacked from the (private) company he worked at, after (pre-cleared with said company) comments he made to media about Euston station safety during peak times [0].

0: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-rail-minister-peter-hendy...
Thank the internet.
It's the Tragedy of the Commons
Thanks, I'll have a look.

My use for this is very different--I want to be able to use a specific subset of my archived pages (which is mostly reference documentation) to "chat" with, providing different LLM prompts depending on subset and fetching plaintext chunks as reference info for the LLM to summarize (and point me back to the archived pages if I need more info).
This is a slippery slope which we can view in real-time looking at the speedrunning community. Many current real person runs are using strategies once thought to be computer-only. A Mario run from 2024 would be viewed as totally impossible in 2004.
Fixing Gradient Accumulation
pedantic nit: the yubikey is a device so you are arguably using one unique key per device
What makes you think it's small?
> Do you think they’ll stop using public utilities?

They likely will stop using electric utilities. It's just simpler this way, more predictable.

> Do public utilities want that?

Maybe they do; a huge consumer usually negotiates special rates, and may require more costly infrastructure work because the capacity is not sufficient for them.

> made this decision with altruistic concern for the environment?!

No, more likely with an egotistic concern for the environment. Billionaires don't have a spare copy of Earth (Mars is even worse), and if you've got billions and can actually move the needle of the climate change to keep Earth in a better shape for you and your children, won't you?
Until they get jailbroken that is. There is no such as a perfectly secure platform in which the user has complete physical control over it.
Some of the most productive developers that I've known have been on Linux since the 90's.
Show HN: Screvi – Stop Forgetting What You Read
If you’re anything like me, you read and highlight a lot but always seem to forget most of it. Not only that, but I find myself spending too much time scrolling Twitter and Instagram these days.

I needed an app with similar features, but one that would make me productive instead of feeding me addicting and pointless content.

The usual notion/obsidian workflows are nice, but they get overly complex quick and I end up wasting a lot of time on them. I needed something easy and accessible like a social media app.

So, I built an app that fixes these issues by capturing and transforming my thousands of highlights into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed.

key features

- Sync highlights from Kindle

- Capture physical book highlights

- Save from Twitter

- Transcribe audio notes (so I can add highlights/thoughts while running or walking)

- Feed/Stories system

Let me know what you think! And if you find any bugs or have any ideas, please let me know at support@screvi.com
Wait, C programmers now put the star on the left hand side?

char* thing; // good

char *thing; // bad

This ... is awesome. As a C++ "native" I've always found the "star on the right" thing to be really horribly confusing.
TFA is about forgetting to configure something and the VPN doesn't work while informing your ISP and probably your state of what you did.

Therefore I don't think this is fud for the wider privacy case.
It's hard to balance around those sorts of things. For example, imagine a cheat that gives the player additional info about where enemies are and their state (ie: health). Even if they are of totally normal skill level in terms of movement and aim, that info will allow them to be substantially better than others. How are you going to detect that, and differentiate it from players who simply have a great sense of map awareness and a good ability to keep track of enemies and when to punish them?

Anything that makes assumptions about player's skills runs into problems too. For any online PvP game, the skill ceiling will rise with time. What once may have been considered improbable may soon become what's consistent for the top 1% or even 0.1% of the playerbase given a few years.

As well, it can run into problems as rebalancing occurs and new abilities are released.
Are there any tests for this library? And it looks like you don't support Typescript, is that planned?
I don't think it's cynical at all! I do think it's a decision-delaying choice, however, in that it treats one's work as a series of electives. The person working at the plant, gaining seniority and building deep connections is on their way to industry expertise. It's trading wealth and power for prestige. (It makes sense it's like catnip to our graduates from elite schools.)
>I really would like every key on my keyboard to still work consistently 2 years after I bought the computer.

You say this as if Apple didn't spend 5 years selling keyboards that were nearly guaranteed to die after a years worth of usage in a slightly dusty environment.

People love Apple hardware because they have a terrible memory for all the flawed hardware Apple always releases and pretends isn't flawed. There are significant design flaws that affect a significant portion of their customers that they just never acknowledge. For example, I only recently learned that my previous work macbook failed in the way it did because a specific short ribbon cable was made shorter for no discernible reason and so some revisions of the 2015 macbook pro just have indescribable screen corruption as a failure mode. Apple doesn't tell you that though, just send it in, let us charge you $1500, and replace half of the computer.
I think that the meme even had legs in the first place is due to the fact that 4'8½" is an objectively weird gauge--why the ½"? That the 4'8½" track gauge can be traced to Stephenson's decision isn't hard to figure out, nor is the fact that there is some measure of continuity between older forms of railway-like systems and railways. I expect that the meme came about from someone interpolating those facts to assume that the 4'8½" gauge came from a precise reconstruction of some Roman thing, since it's also decently common knowledge that Roman units are not the same as imperial units. The rest of the meme (tying this fallacious history of the track gauge to the size of a rocket part) is very obviously complete balderdash to anyone with a modicum of railroad engineering.

Or put more succinctly:

The original meme: 4'8½" exists because exact replica of Romans.

The truth: As laid it, it was originally exactly 5'. But we changed what we use to measure gauge, so it's now reported as 4'8". Stephenson changed that to 4'8½" because that allowed him to fix a problem he had without having to replace anything.

And honestly, "cheap engineering fix" is a more interesting explanation to a conundrum than "Romans."
having worked with half a remote team from Poland which also never turned the camera on I can tell you that faces provide a lot better method of person disambiguation for Germans than polish names. (no disrespect to the Polish language or people, my lack of knowledge therof is to blame here)
Everyone should be educated to never give their number or email to a political campaign of any sort.
Is flossing really that controversial?

It's so simple to do, might as well do it even even it only might provide a benefit.

I certainly can't imagine any downsides to it...