skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conveyor belt analogy from this article is deserved. I feel like this has been true for a long time, like 20 years or so. Remake after remake. Yet another superhero film. Uninteresting pipelines of shows and movies that recycle existing IP but also destroy existing canon (look at Star Wars). There are exceptions - we still have some great films (like Interstellar ten years ago) and shows (like Game of Thrones). But it does feel like most of the content from traditional media is noticeably bad.

I also think though, that Hollywood has become unlikeable and polarizing for many other reasons. Some of those reasons are the political culture of Hollywood (with bias in one direction). Some of it is the moral culture (like Harvey Weinstein). But a lot of the exhaustion with Hollywood is simply that the faces of Hollywood - celebrity actors - just seem really self aggrandizing. The award shows. The unwelcome public stances on random topics. The ostentatious displays of wealth (fancy cars, mansions in exotic places, etc). The worship of celebrity that is practiced through glowing magazine interviews, coverage of personal issues (like divorces), and merchandising.

Democratization is coming for a lot of different industries, and Hollywood is one of them. The availability of high quality cheap audio and visual equipment, the over supply of talent, the low costs of techniques like CGI, the prospect of new tools like generative AI, and social media for publishing are all pulling attention away from traditional channels. I think this will be great for viewers. Independent content creators are becoming very good at what they do. It doesn’t mean the death of Hollywood entirely, but it does mean that only the very best can survive.

I also think this affects movies and TV shows differently. People have appetite for great TV shows still, and outliers like HBO will survive due to exceptional content quality. But movie theaters, as a way to market and draw viewers, are a dying concept. The industry keeps trying to evolve by offering different gimmicks (like 3D and “4D”), luxury experiences, dining experiences, and so on. But you can’t get away from the fact that it is very inconvenient to have to go to a theater, deal with noisy crowds, etc. We also all have much more awareness of how illness spreads after the pandemic. Theaters will go away, except for maybe the possibility of film festivals or other such events. That’s a big change for movies, but TV shows aren’t losing anything from the death of theaters.
It's due to fashion. New tech trend comes in and companies want to use it to differentiate their products as newer so they seem more valuable. When the tech ages and becomes just another commodity the usage settles down. When blue LEDs came out every hardware company put blue LEDs everywhere but that's no longer the case as they're not fashionable. Another example is glass-look UI buttons from the first iPhones.
It is a cool visualization, so I don't want to diminish the effort to make it in any way. And as an experiment in visualization, it is interesting. (If a bit large and laggy.) But if the authors expect people to use it to navigate content, it has a few problems:

1) The topics don't seem to be hierarchical, so as I drill down on one area, I get all kinds of things that don't seem related. I have no idea what I'm missing unless I zoom into the whole thing.

2) I don't know where my browser is going when I click a link. That is a security problem.

3) I cannot tell how this data is sourced. Are these all the links posted to HN? Just the ones that got upvotes? Something else? Because while we have some great links here, we also get a lot of stinkers.

4) Much of the value of HN is the discussions. I didn't see a way to navigate to discussions related to any of the links.
Maybe money from these AI novels would go to their estate.
I can only say that the obvious answer here is to throw effort into supporting & improving Gentoo.
Just for anyone else following along..you're right. Here it is.

git fetch -p && git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{print $1}' | xargs git branch -d
Wasp Flamethrower Drone Attachment
You can adjust the wiper speed with the left wheel after tapping the wiper button.
It’s impressive how ancient DNA maps our origins though it feels like piecing together a story with missing chapters
> Maybe add [180MB] to the title, similar to how videos or pdfs are tagged

Done.
I don’t want for anything after death save peace.
You're question is kinda rules-lawyery. It would break a water fast. Joe Cross fasted for 60 days on vegetable juice and made a movie about it; he lost 100 pounds, but yes its not a water fast, but that's somewhat the point of my comment, that there's more to fasting than simply not eating.
That's actually how my headphones (sony 1000xm3 I think they are) can be paired, there's an nfc chip on one of the sides which if you tap your phone to will turn on bluetooth, turn on the headphones, connect, and the headphones will beep and say bluetooth connected. It's the most seamless wireless connection I've had with bluetooth
No he used that line to bolster investment interest but he really wanted a platform which he controlled.
Used the right way, Org mode code blocks are better, though setting things up to allow this can be tricky, and so I rarely bother.

What I mean is: the first difference between a REPL and an Org Mode block (of non-elisp code[0]) is that in REPL, you eval code sequentially in the same runtime session; in contrast, org-babel will happily run each execution in a fresh interpreter/runtime, unless steps are taken to keep a shared, persistent session. But once you get that working (which may be more or less tricky, depending on the language), your Org Mode file effectively becomes a REPL with editable scrollback.

This may not be what you want in many cases, but it is very helpful when you're collaborating with an LLM - being able to freely edit and reshape the entire conversation history is useful in keeping the model on point, and costs in check.

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[0] - Emacs Lisp snippets run directly on your Emacs, so your current instance is your session. It's nice that you get a shared session for free, but it also sucks, as there only ever is one session, shared by all elisp code you run. Good luck keeping your variables from leaking out to the global scope and possibly overwriting something.
Looks like a different address close by - on a street parallel to upper street.
Is it related to Galerkin?
Previously (20 points, 13 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41910125
It's really amazing how it's illegal to drive a truck without mandatory rest periods but it's not just allowed but expected that doctors will administer medical care under shiftwork conditions guaranteed to create extreme fatigue.
I think these have modernised, because SolidWorks now uses floating e-licenses for example.

From a consumer perspective hardware dongles are mega-problematic right now because of the USB C vs USB A debacle on new laptops, and also because many AVs now block USB devices by default and require ITS admin to unblock it.

From a distributor perspective, they require shipping physical product to customers which reduces margins and can take weeks, especially-so when you talk about shipping from overseas.
Cyberwarfare Knows no bounds
$74.99 for 12TB is still twice as expensive as the LTO 5 tapes I'm getting on ebay. The LTO drive was pretty cheap too, so I'm still way ahead in my 200TB archive with regards to price. The other thing I like about tape is that is has a physical write-protect notch, so if my systems were infected with some ransomware, it wouldn't be able to touch my tapes even if I have a tape in the drive. Plug a hard drive in and you could be instantly fucked by the ransomware.
Real-time text search for US politics video clips
It is something they need to worry about. It’s just less effective for brigading videos.

Except now those people over-focus on the chrome extension that records the like:dislike ratio of videos (of extension users only) and they end up filtering themselves by thinking it’s authoritative for the overall view population.
What about seeing more novels written in your name by an AI as you get older and don’t write as frequently?
An underwater Nabataean temple in Italy really shows how deep ancient trade ties ran, until shifting Roman politics changed everything for smaller players like the Nabataeans.
To first order, if doctors work fewer hours, more doctors will be required to serve the aggregate medical demand.

More doctors working on the same amount of medical demand will be an increased supply of doctors, and so will reduce doctors salaries.

This seems like an ideal outcome for consumers, and I suspect the AMA would lobby against this. But American doctors should also be aware that their famously world class compensation might be reduced with this tradeoff.
I Spent $10k to Play Euro Truck Simulator 2 [video]
Thats not particular to postgres, that's the same in Oracle (or any other db following ISO case handling I believe), just with true (quoted) table name being all uppercase instead for the latter but with same error.

You can quote the table name in the create statement to get the camelcase table name. Just remember to quote in both creation and usage or neither, is a good rule of thumb
The phrase "as long as the same overall level of reliability is achieved" is logically flawed when discussing physically co-located vs. geographically separated infrastructure.
The specific situation of dueling Japanese scripters seemed to have required a very manual response, even if it eventually succeeded. That takes time and effort. I think it’ll be interesting to see how automated defenses work, and especially whether they can succeed without turning into undesirable censorship. An interesting question - email is federated too so I wonder how much of the projects underway will transfer over to email or vice versa.
I'm conflicted on the name/issue. I don't have any issues with Linux on embedded systems, because I'd use a minimal init with that one single app it should be running. (Or as mentioned in other comment, build your minimal distro yocto-style) RPi is a low spec general computer at this point. The idea of running gnome on an embedded system just doesn't make sense in my mind...

RPi took the form factor that was used for industrial control boards and made it into a usable desktop... which people use as a desktop (or home server). But it created a segment which really is neither. And a lot of the software just isn't written with that segment in mind. Maybe as it gets more popular, people will pay more attention. But currently it seems more of an expectations issue.
Show HN: I made an iPhone widget for people who save lots of links
My latest project. I previously made this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40910913
AI Cracked the Protein Folding Code and Won a Nobel Prize [video]
the real horror would be if it were to happen in 20 years or so, if it were to happen in the near future we still have people around who remember how things were done before computers.

society would end. some bumpy roads, sure, but we did very well before the internet and we’d do fine without it. we would just rebuild.

it’s just not as instrumental as some people make it out to be. nice? absofuckinlutely. necessary? nopes.
The whole intro to the project and history lesson is on the website:

https://deskthing.app/about

which I think is completely fine, wouldn't want to have that in a repo README personally
I still live nearby and am similarly amused. 22 Duncan Terrace is an especially nice house, in an area not short of nice houses. Clearly Adams had done pretty well from Hitchhikers and his other work by the 80s.

Iain M Banks also lived in Islington in the 80s and much of his novel Walking on Glass is set in and around the place, and include some references to Adams living there.
it's also why corporate software is so shit - it's shiny in all the ways it needs to be shiny for management to make the decision, but it's a pain for the actual users.

the trick in both cases is to know your customers!
But those are all hardware changes right? besides the smart lock? Of course changing the hardware fundamentally will require a different UI but i meant for the same device
They aren't mutually exclusive. Sometimes it's easier to pinch to zoom/rotate, other times it's easier to adjust volume with a physical knob/buttons without looking. It's either marketing 'something different' or cost cutting that leads to these exaggerated non-optimal fads.
North Korea has had their allies China and USSR/Russia literally next door to help them if needed, they share borders with them. Why do they have long lasting famine because of US sanctions while China and Russia/USSR are massive producers of food?

Cuban food shortages are a bit more understandable because they're in the western hemisphere surrounded mostly by countries friendly to the US, but North Korea?
That's incredibly difficult for humans to do. How do you suggest that an AI would accomplish it?
To be fair he does keep walking into it. Promise stuff, deliver it either 5 years after he said he would or not at all.

The beating should continue until the situation improves.
This is a poor example of "Government innovation". It's more an example of legislative overreach / "pork barrel" politics, and bad acquisition practices.

The Government is certainly capable of doing a shitty job, but that tends to happen more when the Government contracts things vs. actually doing real work in-house. At least in my field, I've seen some incredible innovation done within the U.S. Government.
I bet US companies are not paying anything near 30$ per hour to the workers of their Mexican factories.

Actually they are paying even less than some Chinese companies there.

And your link does say byd offered a base salary 300$, with much more as a total compensation.
I look forward to watching my future grandchildren install a minecraft mod that dematerializes them and let's them play inside minecraft. Then I'll start ranting about Tron and they'll just shake their heads about Grandpa and how he still lives on the old Earth moon colony.
Most are simple programs. If bug-per-bug compat + memory safety is the goal, carefully reviewing the C would have been a vastly better investment of time compared to making 13,498 commits.

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/5075/GNU-Coreutils.html?v...

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
My experience is that in getting a state ID, you need birth certificate or another document.

In the case of a state without voter ID, there is no check — you literally just have to bring an electric bill. A non citizen could easily vote. It would be illegal, but the odds of being caught are slim to none.

If there was a suspicion that the voter was illegal, a poll worker could have them cast a provisional ballot. In places like California, it is a felony to require a provisional ballot without evidence.
Half of the cool Chinese startups are started by googlers. Not all of those started from zero.

While back a Chinese EV company was started by former Tesla engineers. It has "self driving" with the exact some bugs as the Tesla dito. Coincidence??

Let's be honest, you cannot have silicon valley without the Chinese (and Indian) engineers. Maybe we need to accept that 0.01% of them will engage in industrial espionage?
The first paragraph makes it clear that this article is about Tesla’s robotaxi endeavors and not the industry at large
https://chimera-linux.org/
https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq#what-is-the-projects-take...
Is going a really interesting direction with it's service management and login / seat management.
Fwiw, I think it's author also has a more gounded perspective on systemd then many others.
For Chimera the main issue is systemd's high volume use of gnulibc and gcc extensions, which is a porabiluty issue for Chimera which uses a LLVM toolchain and musl libc (and a bunch of really cool hardening and compiler engineering)
They did. I worked in a technical college in the 90s and Autodesk and others were huge fans of the single plugged into the serial port. Was a huge problem not only daisy chaining them all together but also they would get stolen if not secured. We’d ribbon cable them back inside the case where’d there would be a many inches of dongle precariously joined. Fond memories.
Hey. I think my point is that writing and maintaining 900 lines of code is an option, and another option is to figure out how to not write and rely on 900 lines of code. I looked through git-more-restore a bit and I think you're trying to reverse permission changes in your working branch back to what's on HEAD.

I think a way to do this is to not let git track that in the first place, with some variation of:

git config core.fileMode false

via: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1580596/how-do-i-make-gi...

or

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2517339/how-to-restore-t...
Listed as the “new address” in the screenshot…
I really, utterly, and completely hate RCS. It's incredible how Google and Apple managed to screw up the messaging market.

I want to have very straightforward functionality: send rich notifications to my clients via RCS.

It's simply impossible. Carriers control RCS, and you need to make commercial agreements with each one to make sure your messages are delivered. Wonderful.

But it gets worse. There's RCS Business, so once you do get agreements with carriers, you can spam users as much as carriers approve. There is no way to opt out of automated messages. India got a dose of it and RCS got disabled pretty quickly.

I wish carriers just looked at Telegram or Signal for examples of _good_ messaging infrastructure.
> The contribution bot asks for confirmation the code change is copyright-free

A confirmation is simply unnecessary. Can't it work like, writing this somewhere that says, by creating a pull request, you agree all your code and the discussions around the pull request is now copyright free? Saves everybody time and avoid hassles like this.

The other side of this is I get very annoyed by CLAs -- there have been a number of times I want to contribute to Google and Microsoft's open source projects, but they all require CLAs which require me to get explicit permissions from my employer to contribute to those projects. It is possible, but is a slow and complicated process that nobody wants to go through at my company. So instead of creating a pull request to address the problem, I open an issue and mention how it can be addressed. Which may or may not be picked up by someone else who wants to work on this. This is just frustrating.
Because everyone insists on insanely distributed architectures, most people will never really see the point of Redis, which is that if it is running on the same machine as the application, it can respond in much less than a millisecond. That lets you do stuff in the application that you just can't do with Postgres. Postgres kicks ass obviously but it is not running in memory on the same machine as the application.

If all you want to do is queues and whatnot, then sure, you don't need an in-memory KV store.

The point of an in-memory KV store is to do stuff that needs the performance characteristics of RAM. You obviously can't get the performance characteristics of RAM over a network connection. This is like, a tautology.
Turns out, many people use systemd after what, 15? years of doomsday predictions :-)
Used wax all the time when I worked as a bank teller years and years ago
Taking the "best" course of action from your own point of view could not be so good from a more broad perspective. We might have evolved some small group collaboration approaches that in the long run plays better, but in large groups that doesn't go that well. And for AIs trying to optimize something without some big picture vision, things may go wrong faster.
Luckily the integrals of step 4 are already worked out in text books and research papers for all the problems people commonly use FEA for so you can almost always skip 1. 2. and 3.
> there is no evidence of wide-spread fraud.

Agreed. There were 60+ court cases, but not evidence of fraud.

> The core of the other side is outright lies and fraud, rooted in nothing more than one person's narcissism.

Also agreed.

> Equating these two is just bizarre.

I wasn't.

> And "both sides will, and have, claim election fraud when they lose" is just not true. There have been a few disagreements over the decades of course, some more reasonable than others, but nothing like 2016 has happened in recent history, from either party.

I presume you mean 2020, not 2016. Yes, nothing like that has happened in recent history... until next week.

But speaking of 2016, I remember a large number of people (including Hillary) saying that Hillary "really won" because she had more votes than Trump did, as if the Electoral College was not a thing. I recall seeing it, here on HN, over and over, for months, that Trump wasn't "really the legitimate president".

No, nobody actually tried to do anything. Obama didn't tell states to send fake electors to the House for the vote. He didn't have a "demonstration of love and respect" or whatever Trump is currently trying to paint January 6th as. So that's better. Months of talk is better than 60 court cases, fake electors, and attempting to physically prevent the vote in the House.

Since you seem to keep mis-reading me, I'm going to say that again, more clearly: The two are not comparable.

And yet... the "it's not legitimate because our person lost" was still there as a definite idea. The idea wasn't election fraud - it was that the Electoral College had thwarted the will of the people, and therefore the election was somehow illegitimate. Never mind that we had rules in place, and we followed the rules, and under the rules that were in place, Hillary lost. But no, "it's not legitimate".

Nobody ever took it as far as Trump did. But both sides de-ligitimatize the other side's victories, if only verbally. (Again, "only verbally" is better than attacking the Capitol. But it's not as close to "we'll see you in four years" as I would wish.)
Ha, I admit last time I worried about custom ROMs, I was using a Nexus 5.

I think it's a lost cause and not only because of RCS, see also banking applications. On the other hand, even a $200 Galaxy A gets 4/5 years of updates today, which benefits the vast majority of customers a lot more than an unlockable bootloader.
Is bad copy killing your product?
Microsoft Debuts Mass Timber Data Centres
I thought there was a compatibility layer available that made it possible to run Linux drivers on at least FreeBSD.
https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/issues/450

This person's testing has blake3 at 250 cycles for small hashes. It's not a thousand times slower. And for a lot of uses, 250 cycles is plenty fast. That's like one uncached memory access.

That test does mention batching but I don't think it makes a particularly large difference, the paper shows 4 cycles per byte for 64 byte inputs and I don't think they're getting fancy: https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blak...
We migrated from Heroku to AWS ECS and Fargate.

It's not hard, and it provides a nice managed service without the full complexity of running K8s.
There should probably be a backup of stack overflow, if only because it’d be hard to get it back if it ever goes down.
That's fantastic thanks - the sliding sync part addresses an issue a client I've got would be facing at some point. I'll have to check out the details of that.
haha was not aware "heavy breathing" calls were a thing