skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree… sort of. TikTok found a better way to deliver video content. The problem was, video content and its associated social data, sucked. Most of us just didn’t realize it. But TikTok did. And they were right. It’s sort of like how you didn’t realize that horses sucked for transportation until you saw car. A flawed metaphor, but you get my point. I think a distinction here is that video, in the TikTok, is the product. Privacy is not. You aren’t entertained or informed by privacy. It’s like insurance. You only value it when something bad happens. And if your business model is less good entertainment/information, but with some insurance on the side, seems like a very tough pitch.

Now, of course, that points out a flaw in my original post. Very hard to get people to articulate something of which they are unaware.
We'll see. However, that tactic of fear mongering and emotional manipulation only works for so long. You can only tell the American public the world is going to end so many times before they stop believing you.
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> I don't see what point you tried to make. So A breaks when someone breaks B. That's ok. You spot the error the moment you try to update A, well before you commit any code. You file a low-priority ticket and go on with your life because A is still good in production.

What inevitably happens is that A hasn't been updating their version of B in weeks/months, but some recently landed bug fix in B is now needed RightAway(tm). And now if something accidental breakage happened between now and weeks/months ago, it'll be much more annoying to triage.

> Not really, it's the easiest part of the whole thing and a non-issue. If you manage a package this does not even register as a problem.

Well, where I'm at we have semi-regularly teams we have never heard of using our libraries. How can I know what things such people are using?
TrackerZapper: Remove tracking parameters from any links you copy
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This is something we are hyper focused on. shoot me an email at max@midhsip.dev - you can also try our financial analysis template in our playground for free: https://app.midship.ai/demo.
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My advisor also worked on this ML project for estimating electron density and temperature within tokomaks: https://www.cs.wm.edu/~ppeers/showPublication.php?id=Ozturk:...

Technically that counts as "AI in nuclear fusion", but it isn't any sort of breakthrough. In almost every case the effects of AI are marginal. Not zero exactly, but nowhere near the breathless hype.
Buy a 3D printer. Print your own blocks. Get tired of the blocks. Eliminate blocks. 3D print your next bit of enterainment
What you're talking about is called local loop unbundling - the government owns the last-mile infrastructure, then leases access on FRAND terms to ISPs. It's a perfect alignment of incentives and a huge win for customers, so naturally ISPs fiercely oppose it and look to immediately crush any move in that direction whenever they can.
Since the '60s, Ford has stored cars underground in a Kansas City cave
I just checked what the final boss looks like, combined with the phobias... glad I didn't finish the game as a kid.

Thanks for the article, great read!
A syscall can be way less than 10us. Especially if it is not doing I/O.
Growing some of your food on the soil sprawling across your property is not "subsistence farming" nor a silly hobby.

It's a social responsibility that can dramatically reduce the demand for industrial agriculture, which is essentially unsustainable when used as the only source of food supply. As it depletes nearby resources by overworking the land it occupies, it has to pull on an increasingly distant and increasingly expensive supply chain. And as with all industrial processes, its prospects for for maintaining peak efficiency at all times are infintessimal because industrial scale supply chains get disrupted in industrial scale catastrophes. It's extremely productive but also extremely brittle to both physical and social tumult.

As recently as WWII, well into the era of industrial agriculture, US production and land use needs were spread thin enough that its people faced rationing. Home gardens were encouraged as a way to improve both nutrition and morale for families during a difficult time for the country, and the feasibility of those home gardens benefited from what had then still been a widespread cultural familiarity with how to grow such gardens effectively. Hard times will come again, and having a diffuse, local, personal food supply maintained by people aren't just learning how to do at the last minute will make a big big difference.

Grow your own food because you care about those kind of things.
We’re so close to understanding each other here. People have validated your experience, and then said hey, we feel it too. Yet when they try to have the same conversation and seek validation of their own experience, you decide that’s the time to shut the conversation down.
agressive marketing to go viral and get subscriptions fast (it means easy paperwork and possibility to import your profile from linkedin), and focus on niche or specific jobs thematic where people know how convenient are simple tools.
I would focus on a niche not well served by the current platform.

I dont know who that would be.

Multi-sided marketplaces are really hard to bootstrap, but with the right offering to the right people— it could be a win.
Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale
The Azure Upstream team has been working on a really fast hypervisor library written in Rust for the past three years. It does less than you'd conventionally do with hypervisors, but in turn it can start VMs around 2 orders of magnitude faster (around 1-2ms/VM).

I think this is really cool, and the library was just released on GitHub for anyone to try. I’m happy I got to help them write their announcement post — and I figured this might be interesting for folks here!
Wars not wards. Pardon the typo.
Talentiaa – An Interview Practice Tool for Students and Job Seekers
Hi HN,

I recently developed Talentiaa, a web-based tool designed to help students and job seekers practice for job interviews. Preparing for interviews can be overwhelming, especially when it’s hard to get detailed feedback on what’s working and what needs improvement. I wanted to share it here in case anyone else is looking for structured ways to improve their interview skills.

Here’s what Talentiaa offers:

Realistic Interview Practice: Talentiaa provides common interview questions tailored to different fields, like tech, finance, and marketing. Users can practice responses to get comfortable with both technical and behavioral questions.

Detailed Feedback: After answering a question, you receive feedback on strengths and weaknesses. The tool analyzes your responses to highlight what worked well and suggests areas where you can improve, such as staying on topic or speaking concisely.

Score and Analysis: Talentiaa scores your responses and flags anything off-topic, helping you refine your answers for better clarity and impact.

Customized Practice: If you’re preparing for specific roles, you can adjust the practice questions to fit. This makes the feedback more relevant and focused on the skills valued in different industries.

The goal of Talentiaa is to help build confidence by simulating a real interview environment and guiding users to stronger answers. I built it because I often struggled with knowing how to improve my responses, and I wanted a structured tool to help with that.
I think so, always going to be some people looking for directed learning to get them started. There are still a ton of dev jobs out there.
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Can you explain how the gateway works?
There was a long conversation here just a few weeks ago about Ozempic and there was a general sentiment that it would just be the future for weight loss.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...

Not supported on iOS
New evidence for Planet 9 at the fringes of our solar system
This is why I don't let my to-do lists automatically roll over. If it wasn't important enough to copy to today's to-do list, then maybe it's okay if it's never done. But I do keep them around in some form, because maybe the old to-do items had some interesting ideas associated with them that I might want to re-visit later. Or keep the 'cool ideas' and 'tasks to take action on said cool ideas' separate.

https://www.nuke24.net/docs/2024/202410-to-do-lists.html
if only we word filtered just to simply. that will surely change the underlying behavior
Arm's royalty revenues boom, execs talk up hopes for AI bonanza
When we back-of-the-envelope it, a 'working year' is 2080 hours. So more like 4 years of a full time job.
Ghidra is an already existing piece of software; the Python script was written for the specific purpose. The title isn't about comparing the relative importance of programming languages to getting the answer, but about explaining the tools used and the effort involved in using them.
I don't understand why they don't make such an upper stage. It would allow them to refine the booster design and catch logistics while also launching payloads.
The I can locally do stuff is completely understood theoretically/mathematically. I hand waved because this isn't a forum where those technicalities are particuarly relevant.

Its been well understood since at least 1993

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71...
Related: [Cramming Solitaire onto a] Nintendo E-Reader card : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42010136 (5 days ago, 127 points)
Thanks! So in order to make this thread more "thoughtful and substantive", underlying that posters earlier sarcasm is the belief that California is not responsible with its budget. Hope that helps this time!
Where's my open-source vim plugin for this purpose? Anyone know?
this is pretty cool! consider including a demo video and images at the beginning when explaining the project
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>I'm not sure why people keep thinking that it "understands" anything.

Because we humans are hard wired to interpret language as a signal of intelligence and sapience, of a "thing like us." It's extremely counterintuitive to most people to be able to hold a coherent conversation with an entity that has no actual understanding of anything it seems to be talking about.

Because there are billions of dollars being poured into advertising LLMs as essentially intelligent agents that can and do understand things, often better and more reliably than human beings. I've seen numerous people refer to them having access to "the sum of all human knowledge," implying that not only are they intelligent, they should be considered nigh omniscient. There's a lot of money at state in establishing cultural (and then legal) precedent for LLMs being intelligent agents equivalent to human beings, where issues like fair use and copyright are concerned.

Because people want to believe. For various reasons, many to do with decades of pop culture and sci fi informing people's idea of what "AI" is, there's a transhumanist faith in the inevitability of AGI and singularity within tech that has just been waiting for some emergent phenomenon to fill that void, and LLMs seem good enough. I think there's a similar phenomenon at work with people's enthusiasm for Elon Musk as well, these things appear to point towards the kind of future that nerds read about in books.
More like "Enable" and "Enable in 8 hours"
Go recently got run through the wringer to remove syscalls (and various Go ports are probably still broken) due to pinsyscalls.
This work is inspiring. Congratulations to those students.
> The pattern is that complex regulations always have loopholes

I think the pattern is that regulations that prevent people who have money from making more money will always have loopholes lobbied into them, and thereby become complex. But the complexity is an effect, not a cause or really the problem. The problem is that they are going to make sure that a particular unsafe product or unsafe use of a product, that is known to be unsafe in other jurisdictions and banned, will not be stopped if subverting the legislation costs less than doing the unsafe thing will benefit.

I think specifically for Grenfell that the fact that the material was banned for that usage elsewhere created the pressure to lobby to maintain that unsafe usage in Britain. If they hadn't been able to sell it as cladding, they probably would have had to shut down production of it altogether.

And iirc it still would probably have been safe enough if it hadn't had a horrible corner cut installation that resulted in leaving flammable trash behind the cladding, and gaps.

This was not a design failure for difficult to devise regulation, this was a government failure, fueled by multiple layers of corruption. Putting it on the wording of the regulations, and implying that the problem is that regulations are inherently hard to write is just an apology for the guilty.

If anything, the difficulty of writing a lot of legislation is the difficulty of making it ineffective for the thing that it is purporting to regulate, but can't, because you've been bribed in some way. It's like the difficulty of writing RFPs that will only apply to a particular company that you've already agreed to award a contract to. It leads to complexity.

There's a reason why political jobs where you get to award contracts or write legislation cost more to get than they pay.

> Same with VW and dieselgate. (made a car which did well when tested, but badly in the real world)

But this wasn't just a testing failure, this was people intentionally cheating on the test.

> wipe out all the regulations and simply put in prison people who don't take sufficient care of the environment or other peoples lives. Let courts decide what is insufficient care on a case by case basis.

The result of this would be extremely wealthy judges, prosecutors and judges and prosecutors families, you going to prison when you do something that was totally allowed, and rich men never even being indicted.
I'm kinda amazed that we don't actually know whether a "neptune-sized" ball is actually out there :)
My family uses a self-hosted Prosody instance with the Conversations app on Android and Dino/Gajim on the desktop. It works great.

Combined with JMP.chat, we even get SMS and voice calls from the telephone network to all our different XMPP apps. Truly feels like the future.

The technology of yesteryear seems to have more staying power. The protocols churned out by my generation seem destined for either VC/advertisement capture or death by CADT [0]. Maybe with the exception of Signal (so far...)

[0] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
I love XMMP and I use it in different contexts, but there is one thing I miss is GIF integration like discord. I guess I could try to write a gajim plugin to integrate tenor or giphy.

This aside, it is much easier to integrate than matrix, things like web hook is just a POST request to /api/send_message...

I think it would take off again with a nice crossplatform client with a discord like interface. But that would be expensive to develop.
I can guarantee you without any shadow of a doubt that rich people pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than poor people because of progressive taxation in the US.
> Focusing solely on calories in calories out is a big mistake when improving health and/or tackling obesity.

For improving health? Certainly I’d agree. You have to be quite overweight before the risk factors really catch up.

For tackling obesity? Absolutely disagree. You’re asking someone who is likely making poor choices with food and exercise to make multiple lifestyle changes. We want something that’s going to be able to adherent to the broader populous. Saying you need both exercise and dieting to lose weight is a setup for failure. The predominantly most important factor in losing weight is diet. Exercise helps you be more healthy, but doesn’t meaningfully help you lose weight.
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> The code is being shown to selected individuals deemed suitable and then they're telling me by way of proxy.

That is incorrect! The binaries are public and inspectable by anyone. The tools for doing it are bundled right into macOS -- like literally on every consumer's machine.[1]

Furthermore the protocol for connecting to a PCC node involves cryptographic proof that it's running a published binary.

[1] https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...
They don't, though. The only money they get from corp is the brand license fee, which in good "we have a corp and non-profit" tradition is fluid but can't exceed a specific amount, and they only "have the power to choose the board" on paper. In reality, the only thing that ties the two orgs together are Surman and Baker.
> Docker image that Just Works

https://snikket.org/service/quickstart/
It's interesting to observe how something so outwardly trivial or whimsical can elicit a visceral agitation borne from ignorance.
We have seen a lot of use cases in finance and are currently working with a few firms. Accuracy is generally their primary requirement. We've been focusing on not just accuracy but also the audit experience which includes confidence scoring. Your right about security and we are currently undergoing a soc 2 audit.

Generally firms are outsourcing the data entry and are already manually auditing with shortcuts like summing values.

Relating to formatted in the table they expected. We extract the data directly into their template format so it is always in the table they expect.
XMPP is nice, I like pidgin as a client. I'm not a fan of modern chat applications having such a focus on group messaging/channels; I miss IM-focused desktop messaging software. Unfortunately, getting people you know to actually USE your preferred chat software is more difficult than running an XMPP server. Often I've met people online or IRL and exchanged phone numbers with them only for them to ask to move to Discord, which I don't really like using.
I guess MSFT sees everyone eating lunch with ChatGPT and other AI apis and think: "I can do it too!".
Really cool! I have an IoT use-case where I ingest data, I want to keep like the last 3 months or so in Postgresql, and then store the old data as parquet files on S3

I planned initially to do chunks on S3 and do the analytical queries using duckdb, I'm wondering if your tool would be a good replacement?

For now I don't have that many analytical queries, I'm mostly doing visualization of the data points by querying a range (eg last 2 weeks of data for a device)

Does it then make sense to use columnar storage or am I better off with "regular Postgres"?

Or in my case does your approach provide "best of both worlds" in the sense that I could do some occasional analytical queries on past data stored on S3, and regularly access "last 3 months" data for visualization using the data stored in the regular Postgres?
I don't think it would make any difference for, say, an RC car that could fit inside the tunnel. At the speeds where aerodynamics would make a measurable difference to drag, other aspects such as traction and downforce would be considerably more important. I don't see how it would be plausible to measure downforce with this miniature wind tunnel, because there's no strain gauge to be seen.

For aircraft of any size this would have more utility. This is because, even at low speeds, aircraft must be balanced (center of mass and center of pressure very close to each other) and ideally won't stall at a low AoA (Angle of Attack).

In any case, it would only be practical if you used this with scaled-down models (as used to be the case with real aerodynamics), and it is more expensive and less accurate than doing a computer fluid dynamics simulation. With the simulation, you can do it at full scale in every situation imaginable with high realism and accuracy.
>"Everyone is stupid but me" doesn't do anyone any favors and doesn't fix any problem.

This, this, so much this.

No one has ever been persuaded by calling them idiots, bigots, or any other insult. In fact, it does the opposite and drives them further away from what you are trying to persuade them to do/

I recommend people read 'How to win friends and Influence people' and 'Rules for Radicals' if they wish to learn on how to better persuade people.
Based on my research, but no deep implementation experience with either:

XMPP continues to advance, so could be considered modern if you use the latest versions.

Matrix is more of an event sync protocol, consisting of a server to server sync protocol and a client to server protocol (sort of like email). It is mostly used for chat, but appears to be more flexible. Matrix uses JSON and HTTP.

XMPP is focused on chatmessages. In many ways XMPP and Matrix are similar. XMPP is based on XML and originally used TCP as the transport protocol, but has been extended to use HTTP now as well.

EDIT: I think a clearer way to describe the basic difference is that Matrix syncs Matrix Events across servers, whereas XMPP facilitates exchanging messages with clients. Most folks use the protocols to exchange chat messages. It is the way this is accomplished by the corresponding servers that differs significantly.
> Makes no sense whatsoever to just "sprinkle AI everywhere" except for specialized use cases.

Microsoft really don't know what they're doing. They're trying to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks without thinking of any externalities such as people getting pissed off and leaving to other platforms.
This is cool, but rather than a clock, I'd rather use a tachometer, and use the inverse of the ping time as the "performance measure", with 0 rpm being 0 hz of ping (no pings returning), and redline being, say, 1000hz, indicating 1ms pings.
> It just turns it into an obvious statement and doesn't convey what the article is about, which is about their life, training, etc.

It's not an obvious statement.

It tells us that the gladiators aimed to entertain the masses. It could have been that they didn't care about their audience (and only cared about money, or saving their lives). Or it could be that they had contempt for their audience (if they for example were forced to fight against their will). It could also have been that they lived to entertain the elites and not the masses. Or lived to entertain other gladiators, or please the gods or any other alternatives.
Ironically I think the absolute opposite. An XMPP server is something I can install on my ten year old home server without a second thought ( you have several to choose from even in debian's repositories) and expect it to work with minimal config.

Matrix servers? You have mostly one implementation to choose from and it comes "packaged" as a monster container with several python modules likely already with CVEs and god knows what else. And then the resource usage...
Zuck didn't create whatsapp, he only bought it
Shinzo Abe (RIP) implemented a bunch of daycare reforms as part of his "three arrows" campaign. These included massively reducing the cost as well as increasing investment into availability.

In just a few years it went from being so expensive it was not worth the mother working a part time job because that money would completely go to daycare to being 100% free until the kid turns 4. Availability also went from long waiting lists in most cities to now only having waiting lists in a small handful of districts (mostly in dense areas of Tokyo where just finding the room to build them is hard but also in my rural area where the salaries were so low all the daycare workers moved to higher salary areas and hiring was impossible).

So while it's not perfect it has gotten much much better in a relatively short time.