skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried to help some homeless people get into a place where they are provided with housing, jobs, etc. to try to get them back on their feet. They often didn't last very long because they knew that on the street, people would give them money that they could spend on drugs and alcohol. So the difficulty with giving them money for alcohol is that it might make it harder for them to stick with a place that is actually able to help them in the long run.

(And I don't mean to be critical of your position, just pointing out that it might not be neutral in the long term.)
The ecosystem managed by indigenous peoples through proscribed burns, yes. Nowhere humans have lived escaped humans altering the ecosystem to serve our needs.
If I give to a charity, I get a tax deduction. If I give directly to a homeless person, I don't.

Let's say my marginal tax rate is 50%. That means I could give $10 to a homeless person, or $20 to a homeless shelter, both costing me the same amount.

If someone has highly appreciated stock that is going to be sold, can donate it (e.g. through a DAF), and has the highest possible marginal tax rate in California, that person has the choice to donate $10 to a homeless person or ~$80 to a homeless shelter, both costing the same amount.
There are definitely exceptions, and that there are maybe proves that it is less Anti-AI prejudice at play and more just reacting to things that are indeed trashy. It just so happens a lot of it today is from AI I think (for, I hope, obvious reasons).

Just to say, maybe give it a little time, but a watermark like this is not going be thing that decides someone's reaction in the near future, just what it says. (I am just betting here).

But its going to be an uphill battle either way if you are really getting the model to write everything, I do not envy that kind of project.
Yes, yes, it’s “the product people.” Or “the managers.” Anyone but ourselves. If they would just stop changing requirements, we’d stop writing awful, buggy software. Not sure I really buy it. I’ve worked in software my whole life and I have never met any software engineering team who would magically have more discipline and rigor if only the managers went away. A team that cuts corners and shortchanges testing when the clock is ticking is likely also going to do that when the deadlines are more achievable. Attention to detail, measurement, thoroughness, an obsession with correctness… these are not environment specific things that come and go. They are traits of
individual developers. You either have them or you don’t, and a screaming, impatient “product guy” can’t take these things out of you.

I'll admit that companies can set up processes that encourage (or discourage) rigor, and I firmly believe you can train the yolo out of software engineers. So it's not hopeless. It is very helpful to be in a company that values these things.
Well aft features:

- Encryption. Currently the only algorithm in use is AES-128/256 GCM and for exchanging keys is x25519 Diffie-Hellman, but in the future there could be other algorithms such as XChaCha.

- Parallel Encryption (with an option to choose the amount of threads) which makes the transfer much faster.

- Peer-to-Peer and Relay Modes: Individuals who prefer not to open a port can utilize a relay service. Currently, there is no hosted relay available; however, if there is sufficient demand, I may consider establishing one. The relay does not get any information about the file.

- Blocking senders. Blocking senders is only supported in relay mode which allows for basically...blocking senders. It relies on an IP address (it's not shared with the receiver, only a hashed one).

- DNS lookups.

- More info in the GitHub page...

# Comparisons with other tools

I didn't look too much into the protocols of the tools you mentioned, but here some differences:

- croc and magic wormhole - (always?) uses a relay. Good for most cases, but it has some problems such as: transferring on local networks is not accounted for and relying on a relay. They might try to connect the receiver and the sender first but I'm not sure.

- rclone - not really the same purpose. rclone wants to sync files for cloud storage with popular providers or your own. aft wants to transfer files between any two devices but not syncing.

- sfk - if I found the correct one, sfk main concern is not file transfer but multiple utilities. aft is only for transferring files.

## Executables size

Last time I installed magic-wormhole, I was required to install 340MB of dependencies on a new VPS. aft was only a quick `sh` run away. croc on the same system is 13MB, but aft is 2.6MB.

## Speed

Currently aft matches almost the same download speed with croc and magic-wormhole (they're the only ones I tested of some quick runs) (might be even faster if you configure the amount of threads). But I do believe aft still has potential for making the transfer even faster. One of the reasons for this potential is because I'm using Rust, and Rust allows for low-level programming which might be useful here.

Regarding mDNS, I didn't look into it, but if there is demand I might.

edit: formatting and clarify
This is not taken seriously by most historians because there is some very significant evidence you have to discount in Josephus. He was a Jewish general born right around when Jesus was crucified who worked with sources in Judaea to write his history and he refers to Jesus twice. The first passage is clearly corrupted, but the existence of the corrupted passage is not a random insertion but a replacement of Joesphus' original writing about Jesus. That in itself is still notable as a kind of evidence, even if the original text is lost. The second is a description of the crucifixion of James, Jesus' brother. The second passage is consistent stylistically and isn't doubted as authentic by experts. I believe that Carrier tried to claim it was some other James brother of Jesus whose stories match, but by coincidence or something, I mostly only recall feeling pity for Carrier when I saw what he'd sunk to there.

Anyway, the question of historicity is not really important, but sometimes atheists who take on atheism as a new religion rather than dropping a religion will get zealous about arguing about Jesus's historicity. No current working academic historians in ancient history I'm aware of take the position seriously since the Jesus Myth argument is a conspiracy theory that has to explain away a lot of evidence rather than an account that uses the available evidence.
I was thinking the same thing, and then I also thought - if the long term plans are colonization, is sterilization and non-contamination viable, or even desirable?

While the missions remain scientific I absolutely agree contamination must be avoided. But as soon as we cross into the colony phase, wouldn’t that restriction just make things harder?
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Washing your hands is good hygienic practice. Maybe you aren't a dirty slob but others are.
Agree, also by reasoning from basic principles adding extra brackets ( ) should not change the output result - at least this is what our brain is programmed to believe, but in the case of chained operations it will.

Example

(a==b)==c would be different from a==b==c
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There is only so much you can play whack a mole -- virtually nobody 'cheats' the taxman. There are plenty of legal loopholes etc. if you are smart enough to use them.

If you aren't -- you'll find the enforcement end of the tax authorities in ANY country are pretty efficient. Even in third world countries where many services are falling down the tax authorities will be a well oiled machine as the stability of the entire country rests on the government even corrupt ones to collect taxes.
N=1, but my girlfriend sells bread and when there are events she gladly gives a lot more than one slice because she knows otherwise it would be just thrown out.
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> Say, running an instance of Oracle, or a torrent program that by it's nature constantly needs to make network connections and write/read different files?

Yes, those seem relatively simple to pledge (source availability aside); there are a lot of permissions that they should be able to drop once they decide on, say, where the database lives or what files they're saving to. It gets even better if you're willing to privsep the torrent program, though that could take some refactoring.

Note that you can trivially do a looser sandbox around unmodified processes using exec pledges and unveil, even for proprietary code. These kinds of sandboxes need to be permissive, though, since they're not aware of program phases. So they're not nearly as tight as a sandbox written by the developer with knowledge about expected program behavior.
This has existed for 100s of years, historically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
sure but politely demanding some documents is not the same as raiding an office
This is why companies are required to have registered addresses. As far as the law is considered, that address is where all your records can be accessed, and requested from.

If the state turns up at that address, and you tell them they’re at the wrong address, then the directors start becoming liable for fraudulent behaviour.
Even if I am not a radio astronomer, this instrument was unique in nature and still in use for very specific observations and until the very end of its operation was able to deliver data. It is disheartening to learn that it was indeed due to gross maintenance negligence (as assumed originally by many) that the final fatal failure occurred, when potentially the structure could have been salvaged.
Thank you for the link! A pulsar or something "noisy but distant" in space is my goal, I think. The idea of being able to listen to distant stars is mind blowing to me, just amazing stuff.
> does he think felons should be able to vote? Of course he doesn't.

Well, maybe one felon.
> So that means we just stop innovating and not try to go beyond what we already have?

No. It means it's not impressive.
For the most part it's good, but impractical, advice, unless you have "my dad owns the company" type job security. "Let it crash" is correct, but your (non technical) boss is counting how many times it crashes and putting the people with the most crashes up for the next round of "regrettable" layoffs. Even people with advanced degrees and decades of experience are just barely hanging on by a thread in this (deliberately) hyper-competitive economy: your goal is to make the best software you can make while surviving as best you can.
I thankfully have never known what it is like to be truly hungry so I can only imagine how horrible it must feel. I'm giving them food.
> Just telling it like it is.

Not even a little. You're just virtue signaling.

> I think most people are like you. They realize the irrationality of their behavior

What part of my behavior is irrational?

> I’m evil

I'm not. Assuming there is even something that could rightly be called evil, I'm not that. You should look into medications for cluster b disorders.
> You don't need to be told that the lines on the FedEx logo are beautifully balanced.

What lines?
Source of what? Steve Jobs' death? Are you being serious?

He was a "fruitarian" and thought his diet would cure his pancreatic cancer! Which is what caused it. His Reality Distortion Field killed him.
Ask HN: Why not tweak the Base32Hex alphabet a bit?
The base32hex alphabet contains 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV

But one can confuse 0 with O, B with 8, 1 with I.

However we haven’t used WXYZ. Why not have an alphabet that omits B, I and O, and includes X, Y, Z?

Seems to me that such an alphabet would retain all the nice ASCII lexicographical ordering while at the same time be printable too.
Ah I see. Yeah, I guess I just think that for a language that's so dependent on FFI, instability in the ABI is defacto instability in the language as far as I'm concerned. But I understand that not everyone feels the same.

Almost every major noteworthy Python package uses the ABI, so instability there is going to constantly be felt ecosystem wide.
The Cowley Motor Company factory they mention is still operational and building the Mini to this day (although now owned by the German automaker BWM!)
It’s more not caring. When exposed to massive amounts of it, it becomes desensitized.

You saw it yourself when you visited these places and like the others who lived there you chose not to do anything about it.

But homeless shelters do exist in the city. So there are people who a genuinely good and who do care. But again people willing to take action on this are in a tiny minority.
> The way I read it was that there are some minerals that are no longer there to begin with because they're simply not in the soil. For nutrients (like vitamin C) created as part of the growing process, speed is the only factor that matters.

That's exactly the problem, fertilisers don't necessarily fully replenish the soil in every single micro nutrient so if you cultivate corn on the same parcel for 60 years you might very well have completely depleted the soil of some of them

You can grow very nice fruits and veggies on NPK fertilisers alone without caring for any of the other nutrients, nobody buys tomatoes because they're nutritious, we buy them because they're big and red. And that's why most taste like water and have no nutritional values today
They are also wicked with thorns when young. Someone planted a few in the 70s around here (Pine Bush reserve in Upstate NY), and they won't go away. They thrive in the pine bush and steal from the native environment. Prescribed burns help on the reserve bits, but on the private properties surrounding it is a nightmare. The amount of scars I have from these invasive trees' thorns is nuts.
> If you can really help a homeless person then go ahead and do it, that help is unlikely to materialize via a simple transfer of cash though

Entirely this. Giving some amount of money is easy and might make you feel good, but it's not actually that helpful. Really helping takes effort and genuine caring.

As to whether or not you "should" give money, I think that's the wrong question. I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that, but I also don't think it's very effective.
Yes, I suppose you can summarize their positions as the right is in favor of self-determination, whereas the left appears to prefer to let others determine their fate.

Looking at it that way, though, I find myself concerned with the people who are setting themselves up as the arbiters of my fate. Regardless of party affiliations, they don't seem to think very highly of me or care about my personal happiness.

Seeing that is the case, I'd rather they stay out of the business of pursuing my happiness and instead support my freedom to pursue happiness. I can be responsible for my own happiness.
One of those causes is that people give money, hence my original statement.
So... plastic is like fibers to humans ? And "bio-based" doing CO here ?? :>
Cool! D2 seems to have the two things I really want:

* it's text-based

* it can generate animations. (Step 1, step 2... on separate slides)
> Though TechCrunch asked Perplexity for comment, Srinivas responded to TechCrunch’s post on X saying that “the offer was not to ‘replace’ journalists or engineers with AI but to provide technical infra support on a high-traffic day.” The striking workers in question, however, are the ones who provide that service to the NYT. It’s not really clear what services other than AI tools Perplexity could offer, or why they would not amount to replacing the workers in question. (However, in response to the clarification, we have opted to change the headline to reflect the claim that this offer was not necessarily specific to AI services.)
I can relate.

However, something to remember is that, even when you're right, you'll still be wrong to many people on the internet.

My biggest barrier to getting back into blogging is the low return on investment. Absolutely nobody I know outside of developers on HN actually reads blogs today. Everyone seems to rely on YouTube/TikTok, ChatGPT, mainstream news articles, and maybe whatever blogspam The Google decides to surface. The days of "if you build it they will come" are long since dead, and even if I were to find regular readers, is it really worth my time to entertain or inform them when I could be out fishing on my boat?
The son of a friend is with a group that collects unused restaurant food and distributes it. I think it's in the Davis CA area. If you want more details i can find out, but I'm guessing you just want to know if they exist.
It depends on the type of business. In the EU, VAT registered companies are usually mandated to have a physical location and local representative within the country of operation. So you can be remote all you want, as long as your company and fiscal representative can be reached at a physical location.
I remember it looked terrible and unmemorable. Really, if you asked me 5 minutes ago to draw it I’d be unable to. I only remembered it was some sort of ugly use of the NeXT characters.

Apparently people’s response to it is polarizing. I always thought it was a ridiculously bad logo.
I assume that a combination of high temperature and irradiation should be effective.

Wood should not be damaged by temperatures high enough to kill living cells and it provides negligible shielding for radiation.

However, after sterilization it may require more care than metal, glass or plastic, to avoid any later contamination. Presumably all the assembly must be done in a sterile environment.

Unlike metal or glass, which could be washed in oxidizing acids to remove organic substances, sterilized wood may contain dead bacterial cells in its pores. For satellites expected to burn on reentry that would not matter. For exploring other planets, that would be undesirable, as this could provide false positives for detectors of organic substances.
Age combined with seeing the trite and cliche hooks to get people to read/listen/watch the usual self-promoting puffery over and over again. Sometimes it’s just the author discovering something mundane and wrapping it up as a TED talk.
If we’re into the colonization phase in the future we’ll be intentionally contaminating the planet trying to grow crops, so yes we’d be past that as a point of consideration.
I would love to hear some end user experiences using antithesis.

The tech seems really cool, and conceptually very powerful.

But in my experience, these platforms take a ton of work to get online, and consume so much time it is difficult to fit into a roadmap without executive buy in.
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I remember the smoke hovering over San Francisco, CA during the fires in late 2018. It was the worst I've personally experienced. I had an office job at the time. At the end of the day I didn't want to walk home in such poor air quality, so I ordered an Uber. The driver had been driving in that smoke all day and it caught up with him. Halfway to my home, he opened the door, puked his guts out, canceled ride, ended his shift, and I ended up walking the rest of the way.
I like talking to colleagues in person too, it just doesn't worth 1 month of my life per year. And 1 hour commute was really a median, we had people taking longer commute. Even for me if there was any rain/snow/accident on the route it would jump to 1.5h or more. And that is inside the city, I'm not even mentioning people who commute from the suburbs. 15 min is a really privileged option. Also even if someone wins in the commute lottery, it most likely doesn't transfer to the next job and commute would be much worse.
Yeah I don't want to give 3 months notice to quit, that sounds terrible. I'll take at will any day of the week if it means that I can quit immediately if needed.
I still have a lot of weirdness when it comes to making things actually stay asleep and wake up again when wanted. There's a lot of hardware that often boots up, or always boots but only if it's been switched on once before, or keeps trying to wake itself up for no good reason.

The absolute most consistent way I've found is using cheap zigbee smart switches or even second hand smart PDUs. Set the machine to boot when power is restored and actually switch the thing on and off from the wall. It saves a whole lot of messing around, you can force the reboot issue and for a tiny amount more in upfront costs you can have power monitoring as well. It also works for network gear that doesn't sleep or anything else that had a physical switch.

edit: Ideally give me hardware with proper out-of-band management (ipmi or AMT at a pinch), but for everything else having control of the power is as good as it gets.
The Polaris Dawn mission took a violin to orbit: https://www.thestrad.com/lutherie/how-do-you-take-a-violin-t...

In addition to vacuum exposure to address outgassing, they'd probably hit wood with some sterilization process (gamma radiation as one example) to ensure any microbes in the wood are dead before landing on another planet.
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Eh, there's worse then thinking the members of the opposing party are evil. I think there's a view common to both sides that the says the people voting for the opposition are something like indoctrinated dupes.

Nominally that should be a more charitable view but I've seen enough of it in practice to think it more toxic.
The first comment over there has a tool for checking, and this baways is still blocked by one popular service, but no longer blocked by mine according to the tool and my own experience. I guess the author proved new ownership to the maintainers of most lists over the last few hours.
I don't understand. Surely if they're OSS developers, they're already releasing their code under license by definition. No NFT is needed to accomplish that.
Agreed its probably a big use case in general, but like token per token I bet its relatively small! How many big papers do you have to write a semester? Even if its four, that's nothing compared to the everyday use you will make of it.
The goal isn't to nuke the bacteria. The goal is to deny them a growth medium which could let their population explode. Cleaning not disinfecting.

Alcogel for hands and alcoholic mouthwash are things to be sure but they aren't nearly as common.
> Why shouldn't I give them the means to a brief escape from the pain?

Because they'll leave their Hep-C infected needle on the sidewalk when they're done with it?
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I'm curious what an advanced alien species would think if they saw a wooden satellite. Would they be able to extract the DNA and think that it's something humans created, same as the code on the CPU? Or would they just think the wood is some type of synthetic like fiberglass?
Show HN: Varse – Simple remote application config
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This used to be relatively common, I think it's Les Miserables that spends an inordinate amount of time discussing the Paris sewer system.
Yea sure. Probably faster if I share the website. https://dexla.ai
Wooden spaceships has been part of some science fiction stories.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/250692/disgusting-...