skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram seems like strange choice but ok. I personally started to tinker with something similar - IMAP client which learns how you categorize emails into folders and helps with that. I started with manual rules and want to connect some optional automagic later.

I noticed that some emails are valid for only some hours and then it's in inbox unnecessarily giving that +1 to unread badge.

On other hand server side filtering works before arriving in inbox so you don't see for example, that parcel will arrive today. Next day you need to manually archive it. After 10-20 mails like that, if you are busy - half of inbox needlessly needs user action if you are into inbox zero.
I agree that the idea that streets are dangerous for kids before 12 is not very sane, and much more widespread than I would like it to be. It depends though; now the police in NYC is efficient, and the crime level reasonably low, but 20 years ago the situation was different. IDK how things are in Georgia.

What I refer to as a "freak accident" is the jail time. I would expect issuing an official warning at most.

The problem is that this state of mind is that of the voters. It's not imposed by some oppressive authoritarian ruler, it's self-inflicted. Democracy, sadly, makes the unwholesome traits in people as visible as the most virtuous traits. E.g. Switzerland, the poster child of the most real democracy on this planet, only gave women voting rights in 1950s-70s, completely democratically.
The article says,

> At peak times, Cash App's database handles approximately 3–4 million queries per second (QPS) across 400 shards, totaling around 400TiB of data.

400TiB represents not a lot of this data. If each query stored only 1 byte, this would only be 4 years worth of this data.

If duplicated, or processed and the results stored, that would add up, too.
Wow, did they show you a bright red shiny plastic thing that didn’t have terrible chemicals in it? Like the one that they ordered from some other country ? no eh? or thick clear flexible plastic like that purse is ? Did they find some that doesn’t have phalates in it? Because that’s how you make thick clear plastic flexible. This was true in the 80s when they made them in America but now they make them in China.

And then the raincoat has. Pfas LMAO that’s how they make all raincoats waterproof. Did they compare it to the raincoat from MEC?
In the 90s, we had that shit in a bottle and we would spray it inside on our shoes to waterproof them. Pure insanity.

People think that things are safe just for no reason just because they are OK they’re safe. Guess what you can’t make a raincoat waterproof and light and cheap without putting dangerous shit on it. Go get your oil, skin jacket and then wax it there you go safe.

They fluorinate the machines that package your food because the food taste better after four months in the fluorinated container and fuck you they’re never gonna change
Is the TypeScript vs. JavaScript war dumb or relevant?
Honestly I think you’re giving British exam boards more credit than they deserve. You options were so ridiculous that you only needed to pay attention for 2 minutes out of a 1 hour lesson to realise what the answer was.

In fact, I’d go as far as to say I left the exam hall still none the wiser of what the actual formulae were!
I completelly agree with you. I am a Nurse and also work on AI research (deep learning).

In my opinion most of the tension between healthcare profesionals and the diffferent AI systems out there boil down to poor management and shitty implementation.

As "decision support tools" there should not be much mistrust or sense of fear towards AI.

There are though some concerning isues regarding patient privacy, and employee surveilance/rights. Specially when these systems are sharing sensitive data with third parties. But this can (and provably should) be regulated.

Nothing of this "mean that AI isn't useful and won't continue to become more useful". Right on point!
There’s arguably a moral difference between having your stuff stolen, and giving it up as part of the TOS. Most artists, you’d assume, would prefer the former.
The case for reducing existential risks (2017)
I remember watching a documentary about them, without much context. The old lady who is still living alone out there was talking a lot about how the Patriarch (an Orthodox equivalent of the Pope, more or less) corrupted their old faith, and she was cursing his name a lot. By the way she was speaking, I thought she was talking about some events that must have happened during her father's life, maybe his childhood - I assumed she was upset about some communist era Patriarch who probably was too friendly with the regime or something.

Looking it up later, I realized she was an Old Believer, and the Patriarch she was cursing was in fact Nikon, who corrupted their faith in 1652... I found it deeply fascinating how powerful and alive this almost 400 year old grudge was to this woman.
$290/month is still peanuts if you have employees.
OpenAI Whisper has transcribed at least 7M medical conversations
Awesome article. This kind of hacking casually showing iOS app behavior is another world, especially because I thought they were so locked down. How did you get started, any recommendations?

Since you did not end up having bought yourself a very expensive set of earphones, what earphones do you use — or want to get?
Every quantum leap in technology looks that way. It's so unbelievable/magic that people can't even comprehend it.
Having worked at a number of hardware manufacturers, a lot of them really don't understand software at all. They look at software as if it were just another line item on the BOM: 12 qty 6-32 screw, 2 qty rubber gasket, 1 qty plastic case... OH AND 1 qty "firmware software thinggy," that we add to the product at station 244 on the assembly line. Go make some software that meets the requirements and spoon it into the product so we can ship. No thought about longevity, updates, security threats, intercompatibility with other devices and standards, UX, accessibility, the software ecosystem, nothing... Software is just another part number that's supplied by a supplier and bolted onto the "real" physical product.

So it's no surprise when software companies come in and eat this mentality for lunch when they decide to come up with a competing hardware product.
Given that Bluesky is VC funded, I imagine it'll just be a matter of time until the monetization, ads, and growth hacking start. Enjoy it while you can, I suppose.
BlueSky's big killer features that Mastodon fails at:

1) Better (optional) algorithmic feeds. Mastodon's "explore" is weaker than Bluesky's "popular with friends" and "discover"

2) Quote-tweets.

3) Easier onboarding. Mastodon forces you to care about which server you're on and it does matter and migrating later is hard. Meanwhile, BSky has "starter packs" that people can produce for each other with lists of users to follow to easily jump into a community.

4) Username-as-domain is better than the Mastodon "confirmed links in profile" thing for self-verified accounts.

I wish the properly-federated OSS community-funded one had won but I'll take either to be done with Twitter.
I absolutely love this game. Probably my favorite of the series, immediately followed by Space Quest IV (the CD-ROM talkie version).
This is exactly what we were doing before we built Jelly. We decided it was not Good Enough™ :)
It's peer-to-peer payments and banking, which have been around for much longer than the stocks/bitcoin aspect of the app.
This was long coming and announced (Steam had a big hard to miss warning whenever opened on Win 7, for pretty much the entire year), but yet another reminder that when it comes to digital libraries (of games, apps, music, movies, books, etc), your "ownership" of your titles is dependent on countless variables.

Even though GOG's own client (GOG Galaxy) has been requiring Windows 10 for even longer, you could always just download the games from their website and manually install them no problem.
Reminds me of the ending of Street Kings.
Windows 7, released 2009. Thats 15 years.

I would say that is a long stretch of support by any measure.
Gemini Nano experimental access
Glad to hear it! Let us know if you have any questions or feedback. (Cade @ Good Enough)
Ah, appreciate the info. I didn't know about the flamewar detector, nor that you couldn't downvote submissions.
FWIW, the equivalent release of MacOS at the time was OSX Snow Leopard, so that would be like people running Snow Leopard in 2024. I know the comparison is not exactly the same, since the philosophical approach is a bit different between the two vendors, but it does help conceptualize just how old W7 is nowadays.
I have been looking into setting up my first Proxmox box, here is my take as a newcomer.

I wanted to do what I think is a very basic and very common setup: Modem > proxmox box > OPNsense VM > physical wifi router via onboard 10Gb NIC + internal network VMs like OMV etc. The goal is to add a full network filter via OPNsense, and allow access to a media sever and backup etc from the internal network.

I see no OPNsense, OMV script is basically contra-indicated because it should be a VM instead of the LXC container, and I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other, which is an important part of Proxmox configuration. So it looks like there is room here to get some basic setup scripts for a simple home server either improved or added to the collection.
> Is the world what we make it?

It depends on what you mean by that. We can choose how we perceive the objective reality we live in. But, the totality of the world is really just the sum-total of results of what we are all doing to it, for the simple reason that all our free wills are equal, no matter how positive or negative. It is really that simple, but the wealthy and powerful move levers that affect far more people than I can (yet) move by myself.

> but are there some potential flaws in the analysis?

If there are flaws in my analysis, I am open to learning how to correct them. That is the only way to get better at anything, right? That said, the correctness of my foundation of logic is evident after more than a half-century on this Earth. Most people do not understand, but we physically manifest our cumulative karma as we age, from our tone of voice, to choice of words, to eye shine, and -- most of all -- to our inner peace and happiness, sense of humor and delight in the small things of life. Life is beautiful, and what we choose to manifest in this world shows up in our being as surely as a tree's experiences show up in their rings. The problem is that most people are too confused and mired in their self to learn how to see others for who they are.

> there's a lot more than lip service and nice sentiments/intentions involved.

Absolutely, but intention is a multiplier for the karma we receive for our actions, which are of paramount importance. That is why the feeling of love is not nearly as important as the selfless doing of compassionate deeds to serve others' happiness.

One thing you should be certain to understand: the selfish fools of this world have always been the majority, and not just within extrema such as Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. Their dominant ignorance and my relative powerlessness do not diminish my family's efforts to create positive change in our every interaction with our fellow human beings. That our efforts mostly fall on deaf ears is not our failure, but theirs and theirs alone.

What we are doing is not sentiment, whether it is a kind word on the street or a couple of hours typing into HN. Teaching the truth of compassion is essential in this troubled world full of willfully ignorant human beings.
Researchers develop Python code for in-memory computing
Well that's a valid point, I might add other communication channel later, maybe the community will add a new one ;)

Interesting point - for the moment all actions are manually validated on this project but I might also add features to make the agent autonomous to some extent.
Italy and Germany both had socialist economies, which is why they took over major companies and promoted themselves as socialists. All sectors of the economy were not taken over yet (largely due to the war) but they were moving quickly towards having no major private industries
Rust Foundation Releases Problem Statement on C++/Rust Interoperability
Upon further thought, the child can't inspect a parent's environment variables after forking, so my thinking of ^Z eval `resize`; fg can't be the way it worked. Maybe quit and restart vi was the only way back then. It's a been a while.
Even once the old version of the steam client stops working you'll still be able to play the games; it'll just get harder to install them on old versions of Windows.
I guess postscript could be an other interesting target, so you could run your emulated C code on some printers.
Someone created something. Its value greatly exceeds the perceived "degradation of the environment" of a spelling mistake. Not acknowledging that says more about the pedant than the creator.
If you are good about curating your follows, you can get a nice nonpolitical feed on Bluesky.

That said this is definitely not the week to try to calibrate that, since everyone currently has Big Feelings even if they're normally not overtly political.
Remember that MS lost the anti-trust too, and after the presidential transfer in 2000, they pretty much dropped it with few consequences for MS.
I don’t even think they taught that much, I’m pretty sure I learnt about Newtons in mechanics (A-level maths course), Kelvin from reading Wikipedia and Amps I think I knew because my dad worked in motor repairs. My knowledge is old now, pre-2008 before the Gove reforms.
Thank you so much for this response :)

I really appreciate your insight and honesty into the field.

I’ll stick with Mobile (iOS) for now and I’ll shadow some of the web team at work while also prioritising React + NextJS for any web learning I do outside of work in my spare time.
I will grant there are better denominators, but I wouldn’t say it’s useless, especially if we could assume we’re comparing similar services to each other (e.g. city rideshares), and particularly when there’s no denominator at all currently provided.

But sure, if we could get data broken out by road type, location, weather conditions, time of day, who’s at fault, etc. then we can obviously build a much more robust comparison.
Maybe I missed it but did you make or buy the Faraday cage?
> writing queries with keywords in all caps is an effort to increase legibility for visual pattern matching

Considering most programming languages do just fine without ALL CAPS KEYWORDS I'd say it's a strange effort. I wish SQL didn't insist on being different this way.

I agree with you on prettification though. As long as the repository chooses a prettifier you can view it your way then commit it their way. So that's my advice: always demand prettification for pull requests.
Aye.

FWIW, I hope all those other things remain a long way off.

Whoever's doing war game planning needs to consider the possibility of AI that can do those other things, but I'm going to have to just hope.
Neat thing about BlueSky using DNS TXT record is I don't actually have to host a landing page. The way mastodon does it feels like a quid pro quo way of making you put a mastodon icon on your website. Bluesky is really good for corporate and government users who can get an @name.whitehouse.gov account or @name.npr.org etc without polluting the npr.org markup with a thousand "rel" links for each of their employees. I think bluesky is thinking about a different audience than mastodon.

Also I took a look at https://mastodonapp.uk/@stephenfry as an example of a verified profile and the UX is quite bad. Green check in a green box with a green border. The title tag just says "Website" and there's no indication of what it means.
can I get a ELI10 on this - If I host a mastodon server, would I need to run this software along side it then and then everyone on my server could see these other platforms posts and such?
I can't horizontally scroll on mobile, can't see the full query texts...
Windows 7 is older today (15 years) than Windows 95 was when Windows 7 was released (14 years).
This is reductive. Even PhD economists are crap at predicting effects of certain policies (see the Federal Reserve - it has thousands of them!). The economy is very complex to model (and has reflexivity), and generally you will find credentialed experts on both sides of anything short of a trivial debate.

Tariffs have pros/cons, as does any other policy proposed by the two candidates. And the most tricky thing when computing the effects of these policies is: "what is the quantity we're trying to optimize for?" - where the "welfare of the people" is not really a measurable thing.
Perhaps but it’s set me up for awful work habits over the past 15 years!
Interesting, I would have said Boyce-Codd unless you have a good reason to vary in either direction.
I read this book a long time ago. It provided some insights on the role of Japan's difficulty with foreign languages in the 1980s and the desire to create AI translation. The "Fifth Generation project" was a massive government and big-business joint venture that amounted to almost nothing.

The author explores why with some surprises along the way. I would say it is like the "Mythical Man Month" from the Japanese side of computing.

The book also opened my eyes to the difficulty of mastering Japanese.

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Fallacy-Artificial-
Intelligence/dp/019504939X
This makes me think of that show from Japan where parents send their 5-year-olds to go grocery shopping on their own.

And reminds me of the many times friends and I rode our bikes 5 miles along the highway to the next town so we could play video games at an arcade. Growing up in the 80’s was very different from now.
Compare it to Germany, which is twice as big and does much the same, except that voting be mail has a different deadline. Germany typically delivers the results during the night after the election, but the votes are counted again in the following week anyway, by people who work nine to five.

The big, big difference is that checking someone's identity and eligibility to vote is trivial in Germany. I venture to guess that that affects speed and perhaps reliability.
Netflix doesn't belong on that list. They're tiny in comparison. YouTube is bigger than Netflix.
We are in the 640KB of RAM stage of AI accelerators. Current top models are measured in hundreds of billions of parameters. Future models will have many trillions. We've only had GPU/AI processors large enough to run GPT-4o or Llama 3.2 400B for a few years. It is silly to think we have already maxed out this approach.

Look at what Cerebras is doing with wafer scale AI chips that have 900,000 cores and can do 125 FP16 petaFLOPS. The most powerful Nvidia chip is 2.25 petaFLOPS. We've hit a local maximum at worst.
Yep, we intentionally built it to be hackable! We believe that social media will improve when people are free to build on it, change it, fork it, and remix it. Bluesky and the atproto ecosystem can evolve as fast as users and developers want them to.
800x480 4" screen is pretty nice.

Big giant dial is sweet as heck.

Shocking that the Cortex A53 (12 year old core) is still so so ubiquitous, and not just on low end devices. Younger me would never have believed me that this would be the case.
Blame governments for regulating medical devices? You're going to need a better argument than that. This is entirely on Apple not applying for regulatory approval.
Any citation on the additive random noise?
Absolutely nuts!

Why, when I was a kid we ranged through the city, adjacent forests, rivers, lakes, streams, and over peoples' fences without provocation from anyone except other roving gangs of boys (upon whose detection a dirt-clod battle was likely to ensue). We caught large snakes and brought 'em home as "pets" (always rejected). We were unstoppable in our curiosity about what lay over the next 500 yards.

Aaaaargh! Get offa my lawn!
I'd forgotten Europe has €500 notes, whereas in the US everyone now gets to deal with $100 bill spam.

Few people bother to pickup loose change anymore.

What's the long-term plan here? Perhaps it's to add maximum physical friction to moving larger amounts of fiat than you can spend in a single visit to Costco on a food run for your family of of 4.

:)
America's billionaires are worth a record $6T
Well, you should!
But, I didn't invent anything there, that's what they are named :)

Syntax diagrams (or railroad diagrams) are a way to represent a context-free grammar. They represent a graphical alternative to Backus–Naur form, EBNF, Augmented Backus–Naur form, and other text-based grammars as metalanguages...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_diagram
Sure, there are clear differences between hate speech and unpleasant speech. I can't disagree on the definition. But I’m seeing a lot of hateful anti-Trump posts on BlueSky, and on X/Twitter, there’s plenty of pro-Trump content. These two groups have polarized views, so they naturally clash.

What I find ironic is that BlueSky has many openly anti-Trump posts, while X/Twitter tends to have a significant amount of pro-Trump content. Because many minority and marginalized groups lean anti-Trump, again, these opposing viewpoints naturally clash, often leading to Twitter being labeled as a "hate speech platform". Yet on BlueSky, there’s no problem with people openly criticizing or spreading negativity about pro-Trump people. Since Trump supporters don’t typically fall into minority categories, it seems BlueSky users have the "privilege" to freely bash the Twitter crowd without facing the same scrutiny. Essentially, BlueSky is shielded from the hate speech label despite fostering a different kind of polarized environment.
You still need to cross the JS FFI boundary for wasm, I don't think WebAssembly has a specification for cross language FFI directly between WebAssembly languages.
This story sure has done the rounds. I like it both in the particular and thematically speaking so perhaps there's a good non-tragic variation* on it out there to be found..?
Fair enough. My issue is that it seems people have Big Feelings for one reason or another since 2015 and increasingly so. I really do not wish to have to work to train the "algo", especially when Twitter-like social media is worse than useless. It takes no time for my favourite people I follow to suddenly start spamming my timeline with the drama-du-jour.

On these social networks, either you are (un)willingly enlisted in the American Culture Wars, or you're best served not using them at all.
New CRISPR system for gene silencing doesn't rely on cutting DNA
check, check, check... the next decade sure will be interesting!