skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is like being offered the 2024 Honda Accord, and going on a bicycle instead.

As somebody that uses emacs in screen on a remote machine for work... I mean... My "bicycle" keeps getting me where i need to go. Car brands and models come and go. Bicycle stays, and it's dirt cheap. No fuel needed. Easy to fix if/when something breaks. Easy to adapt to new terrains.

It's not that one does not like cars, it's that the bicycle is unreasonably effective and reliable.
My sister’s birthday is a few days after Christmas. She hated this as a child because once her birthday was over there was almost a whole year without any prezzies
The financial sector is so absurdly profitable that it makes sense for big companies with a lot of cash to just invest in financial markets rather than actually do things (esp. considering taxpayers will bail you out on tail events, so don't you care about risk!). Famously GM in 2008 had virtually become a financial services company which made cars on the side.

Just another sign that all is not well with the state of things.
> Very fast (faster than naive assembler)

Depends on how naive the assembler programmer is, and, I would think rarely, if ever, on modern hardware because the many subroutine calls kill branch prediction benefits. Also, on lots of old 8-bit hardware, defaulting to 16-bit integers will kill performance relative to native assembly in cases where 8-bit integers suffice.

(Of course, you can fairly easily replace hot loops by assembly or (more difficult) change the forth compiler to compile parts to native code, fuse words, etc)
I'm not sure that it's necessarily a moral stance for the OP to point out that the most common form of transport is partially responsible for dumping lots of CO2 into the environment, when the discussion is about junctions that prioritise active travel (walking/cycling). In motornormative countries such as the UK/USA (many others too), people are conditioned to only get from A to B via polluting methods (recognising that electric cars produce large amounts of tyre pollution which somewhat offsets their possible lack of fossil fuel use). The use of enlightened designs that work well for the Netherlands is part of the toolkit that we need to change people's mindsets if we can get past all the seductive advertising of the motor industries.

I'd put it as more of a pragmatic, forwards-looking viewpoint that a moral stance.
I mean heavy metals don’t typically kill you very quickly. Do any of them act faster than radiation poisoning? Maybe thallium?
The chart on the wiki page showing the subsequent consolidation of the Baby Bells is pretty fascinating though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bell_Operating_Compan...
The Verge is not an accurate source of any information.
What AI is useful for makes cryptocurrencies look marginally more useful by comparison.
Yeah I got ya
From Guardian to Gateway: The Hidden Risks of EDR Vulnerabilities
I favor Red Hat and I know we use ossec at work. I believe you can use it under a free license but the configuration is rather complex imho.

There is also snort which is a more libre project, but it's more of a full featured IDS that try to sell subscriptions for patterns. Think of them sort of like virus definitions but for rootkits and intrusions.

You can technically setup Snort as a tripwire.

A tripwire is very simple, some people have made them from scratch using Cronjobs and shell scripts. They simply maintain a database of all your files and their checksums, and alert you when a checksum changes.

But security is more than just an IDS. I would recommend SElinux+IDS+remote logging+MFA+granular user security and more!
The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops
The OG source says that love of money is the root of all evil.

I don't know what's the correct way of extracting the love operator from under the square root.
Weren't the Jedis actual wizards, and others were forbidden from wielding that weapon exactly because someone would get maimed? The weapon is tech but the reason they don't damage themselves is clearly spelled out magic.
Out of interest, where do you pay direct road taxes? (I've heard that some countries do this, but I don't know which ones).
> Tragically, many students disengage before this can happen because of sheer boredom and the tedium of endless math drills

It's tragic and all, but were there attempts to teach non-preselected children/adolescents interesting stuff first? What are the results?
Google sues ex-engineer in Texas over leaked Pixel chip secrets
You are aware that there are international laws regulating what an occupying force is and isn't required to do?

Not letting civilians in occupied areas starve is one of the laws.

And this is very basic occupational law, if you don't know that maybe consider lowering your voice on the issue in the future?

https://www.icrc.org/en/law-and-policy/occupation
I've never been to a gym where you're assigned a locker for the day (or given a key). Either you have one permanently assigned (rare) or you go in and find one that isn't occupied.
Reactors?
> in the real world it's the opposite, they get offended if you don't get them

That is just as sexist of them, they don't own male sexuality if he doesn't get it up for you then you should do better. That is what women say to men at least, do better don't blame the other sex.
MS Copilot has an oversharing problem. MS is trying to help customers fix it
They want them to move, but they also want passive income. They want to have the cake, eat the cake, and sell the cake.
winter is coming
and birds migrate, south
so ,ya, great ,blame us for the "candemic"
but we didnt do it, the rusianees emporer beamed the virus into our geese from the 5g towers and its bad, them geeses are flying in circles gathering up for a strafing run all across the fields and parks everywhere.
The only way to be safe is to move north for the winter, get your visa now.
No offense, but an SSL certificate these days is a must, and not having one on your site is a big no-no. Sorry.
Show HN: Achieve more with silent coworking (Deep Work Den)
Howdy!

I get more work done when I'm body doubling - my brain is odd like that - so I built a nifty silent coworking website where you share your deep work commitments with others in the room.

Most other coworking systems need registration, use video & audio and require scheduling, but I'm a simple impatient man.

I also wanted to experiment with a new websocket system, a new OpenGraph API system, and document picture in picture, so I built Deep Work Den last weekend and I've been using it every day since.

I've linked to the den I'm working in right now, but you can setup your own and invite friends/colleagues too if you fancy.

Does body doubling help you? Is focusmate / thesukha 30 times better? :D
What Azure has that from what I've seen AWS does not:

Resource Groups that actually act like folders, not just as special tags.

Resources with human-readable names instead of gibberish identifiers.

Cross-region and cross-subscription (equiv. to AWS account) views of all resources as the default, not as a special feature.

Single pane-of-glass across all products instead of separate URLs and consoles for each thing. E.g.: a VM writing to an S3 bucket dedicated to it are "far apart" from each other in AWS consoles, but the equivalent resources are directly adjacent to each other in an Azure Resource Group when viewed in its Portal.

Azure Application Insights is a genuinely good APM, and the Log Analytics workspace it uses under the hood is the consistent log collection platform across everything in Azure and even Entra ID and parts of Microsoft 365. It's not as featureful as Splunk, but the query language is up there in capability.

Azure App Service has its flaws, but it's by far the most featureful serverless web app hosting platform.

Etc...
Ideally yes, LLMs are tools that we expect to work, people are inherently fallible and (even unintentionally) deceptive. LLMs being human-like in this specific way is not desirable.
That's not true. For mission-critical apps we route the traffic to the stable version while uploading the new version. This may be similar to what most CI tools do but it doesn't change the fact that we just upload the files and can do it as we see fit. Another good solution is to simply switch off a feature for maintenance while uploading it's files. If your software is well planned, that's a breeze and still keeps the whole process very simple.
WGPU (https://wgpu.rs/) is one of currently three implementations of the WebGPU specification (the other two being Google's Dawn library used in Chrome, and the implementation in WebKit used in Safari).

The main purpose of WebGPU is to specify a 3D API over the common subset of Metal/D3D12/Vulkan features (e.g. doing an 'on-the-fly translation' of WebGPU API calls to Metal/D3D12/Vulkan API calls, very similar to how (a part of) Proton does an on-the-fly translation of the various D3D API versions to Vulkan.
For me it's bittersweet news.

On one hand, it's great Pidgin is still alive and thriving like this. I have plenty of memories using it to talking with friends, people from uni, crushes, etc. And it had tons of cool funny plugins - I used to use one that let you change your profile pic from several from a given directory, sort of like how a "wallpaper slideshow" thing works. Do try to do that now with Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal/Slack/whatever...

On the other hand, the thing I always complain about - the state od IM right now is absolutely miserable thanks to all those walled gardens that force you to use their shitty client "apps" because of "privacy" or "features" or whatever, so you end having to use a bunch of different "apps" to talk with different people. It's insane.
Very much worth reading. Excellent. I didn't know publicdomainreview before either.
> What would happen if Ukraine "peacefully" would give that region to Russia? I am not saying they should, I am asking what would happen, considering it may not lead to more bloodshed and it may not mean "sacrifice" either, as long as they can continue living there, just under a different rule. Is this not an option? If not, why not?

The easiest answer would be "Look at the History of XIX and XX centuries", in reality, you don't need to go that far:

What happened when Russia occupied Moldova territory in the 90's and we did nothing?

What happened when Russia occupied Georgia territory in 08 and we did nothing?

What happened when Russia occupied Ukrainian territory in 2014 and we did nothing?

Now they're making veil threats to Kahzkstan.

So the most important question is, in light of Russia constantly invading and occupying and oppressing sovereigns that were at peace, what do YOU think will happen?
A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks (2017)
Trying to ignore MAD or limited nuclear war and treating them like they won't ever happen is beyond crazy, not sure what they feed you people there in the West in terms of propaganda but for sure it's working. Crazy stuff.
Why? Genuine question.

To me, it doesn't feel extreme at all, relative to former antitrust regulations or to what's needed for a functioning market. I would have felt bad about these about two decades ago, but Google has not been a good player in recent years.

Geopolitically, it feels off.
Show HN: AI gaming desk setup ideas based on your own desk
I'd expect flats on cars to be correlated. People tend to buy tires in sets, so age related factors affect them all. Similarly they tend to get driven on the same roads, so are subjected to similar environmental damage.

Also, people are good at noticing patterns that don't exist, so that's a possibility too.
Are you sure that's not a JIS screw?
> or rabies

Rabies is actually a great comparison. It has similar magical/horrifying feel to it. Like with the screwdriver slip-up, catching rabies can look like a total non-event; here, it doesn't kill you yet, merely starts the timer on a bomb. The countdown can be anything between days and years, and when it runs out - when the first symptoms start showing - you're already dead. Then the dying happens, which... relative to radiation sickness, I'm really not sure which is better.

To add an insult to injury, rabies is very much curable before the symptoms show - but you have to realize you may have been exposed in the first place.
<--- This. And specifically:

> Google's records retention policies were also over the top and perhaps hurt it: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/technology/google-antitru...:

If you're intentionally hiding things from government investigators, the legal presumption is there's a good reason. Judges are allowed to impute things from destroyed evidence. Otherwise, everyone would destroy evidence.
I'm curious on the different use cases for this? Firehose/kinesis whatever the name seems to have the append case covered in ways that I would think has fewer foot guns?
NOAA finds 77% of corals exposed to bleaching-level heat
Meebo was a lifesaver in college where I could log in via school computers and talk to my friends before my parents got me a cellphone lol.

It was a long long time again.

Good memories.

pidgin and adium were my dream apps for a long time.
Tbf, tons of games have been created and are still being created without bindless resource binding. While WebGPU does have some surprising performance bottlenecks around setBindGroup(), details like that hardly make or break a game (if the devs are somewhat competent they'll come up with ways to workaround 3D API limitations - that's how it's always been and always will be - the old batching tricks from the D3D9 era still sometimes make sense, I wonder if people simply forgot about those or don't know them in the first place because it was before their time).
S3 has free data transfer within the same region.
Marco-O1: Towards Open Reasoning Models for Open-Ended Solutions
>but do that while being your own boss.

So you're prone to falling into survival bias, while also needing skills beyond just being good at your job in order to sell yourself so you can get customers to begin with.

>the initial investment in terms of capital is very little compared to "start a company and hope to break even in an year or two".

2-3 years of apprenticeship is "very little"? In addition to however much experience you need to be trusted as a business? And who's to say you will break even in a year or two?
Stable Flow: Vital Layers for Training-Free Image Editing
I've heard descriptions of large housebuilders in the UK that sound similar - actually building houses is difficult and tricky because you have to actually keep end customers reasonably happy whereas much easier to just treat the land you own in "land banks" as speculative assets and base your business mainly around trading those.
I just want to make art. Darn rent gets in the way, but if that was taken care of my goals are much simpler.
if that is the case, then I must apologize for my ignorance.
Text-Mode Games as First Haskell Projects
I am surprised by all those "you are not above the law and you can not do what you want" rulings lately, e.g. USA wanting to separate Google and Chrome. Everyone always says lobbyists and corruption rule the US and only the EU puts up a little fight against big tech (e.g. GDPR) but here are refreshing counter examples.
There is one birthday that is far less likely than others, courtesy of leap years. All other are roughly similar, with small seasonal variation.
they serve different purposes.

CSS modules is a (great) mechanism for providing isolation, very useful in the context of today's component-oriented front end development.

Tailwind provides some (quite good) building blocks for a design system, such as a palette, a sizing scale, values for shadows and rounded corners... and a vast set of classes to apply them. The set of classes covers basically every CSS feature, making it possible to slap everything in the class attribute of your HTML elements and never or almost never have to deal with CSS files.

In other words, CSS modules is a solution for those who love CSS and needed just a way to not deal with naming clashes without resorting to BEM. Tailwind is a tool for those who very much would like to avoid writing CSS
Looks like the contain utility has been added here [1] and is also available in v4.

[1]: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/12993
*local maximum. Maxima is plural, maximum is singular.

/pedantic

Now I'll read the actual article
Scaling Wearable Foundation Models
no, it's not a good rant. this is the billionth "web dev is too complicated!" rant that is present under every. single. thread. about any technology vaguely related to front end development.
man, graduating with 100k debt from a low CoL state like Nebraska is absolutely depressing :(. I remember my tuition being $6/year from 15 years ago, and was lucky military benefits covered that. Rent, textbooks and "other expenses" still had me end up with roughly 60k in debt, but that's not bad at all for California, even back then.
Look, I will now defend my lack of a sense of humor. That post was 5 minutes old and I was the first person to respond to it. If the poster had <10 posts I would have assumed it was a troll. As sib @gretch writes, I extended them faith that they were earnest.

I will say that the bit about showing users only the barcode but capturing photos outside that was pretty clever; it's the kind of detail that belongs in a Neal Stephenson novel. But that's exactly the kind of thing that a million startups would do right now. Yea in retrospect it's kinda stupid that someone would admit this and also be proud to get a better set of photos of refrigerators and supermarket aisles.

So, is this a grade-A 2024 version of Andy Kaufman comedy that requires just one dolt in the audience to take it seriously? Hah. I guess if so it wouldn't be funny unless someone like me took the bait. I see the humor. But if you analyze why it was funny, the primary reason would be the fact that it was so possible to take it seriously. Especially with 134 or so upvotes, the user writing had exactly the amount of cachet as someone who had interned at a sleazy startup for 2 months and was proud of something really stupid.
Thank you! I will definitely give it a try. I think there will be solutions for the subsequent analysis features in the future, but the data collection is the most important now.

Your write up really helps me a lot for investigating which software is best for me!
Would playdate be able to sue FedEx or take them to small claims court or do you sign something when you use FedEx that says you can't sue them for XYZ?
Frankly it would be shocking if there wasn’t some kind of fuckery afoot in any given Eastern European nation. But that in no way justifies this territory grab by Russia, or the invasion in 2014.

Russia is clearly attempting to annex a neighboring country through military adventurism, and is doing so in contravention with all international law, and also in a way that is intentionally cruel and borderline genocidal.

Russia has lost all legitimacy as a nation worthy of being taken seriously as a global citizen, and has reduced itself to a kleptocratic mad-dog rouge state.
I never quite got to fix my issues with firefox stopping playing my radio stream after changing songs. It just happens occasionally though I haven't tried recently to see if the problem is still there. At some point I thought liquidsoap cured this but it didn't. Also when I was into that, I got the feeling most of the internet didn't care about radio streams anymore since video streaming is the standard.
When you think of "The Matrix" - An infinitely generated and extremely complex world, I don't think most people would picture this, and especially not in a car like that. The car choice makes sense when you consider there aren't any roads at all! Of course, it is a very new technology, but then that does bring into question the paper author's frankly ambitious title choice.

Interestingly, this website does remind me of something I played a while back - check it out! [https://slowroads.io/]. It has roads!
Then I think you'll be very disappointed. LLMs aren't in the same category as calculators, for example.
Random number joke is borrowed from XKCD: https://xkcd.com/221/.
Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13638
Disable SSH Agent Forwarding if you want to try this!!

Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227624
Show HN: DocComment – Code understanding tool using structural analysis and LLM
I built DocComment to solve the challenge of understanding unfamiliar code quickly, whether it's legacy code, AI-generated, or poorly documented.

The key technical difference from existing tools like Copilot's commenting feature is that DocComment analyzes code structure before generating explanations. It builds a structural representation of both the specific code snippet and its broader context, allowing the LLM to generate more precise and contextual documentation. It's not competing against Copilot or Cursor, but rather work with them.

Technical details:

1. Operates alongside code without modifying source files

2. Uses structural analysis to determine appropriate detail level for comments

3. Focuses on explaining both local code behavior and broader business context

4. Integrates with git repos for full codebase context(Planning)

Current results show improved accuracy compared to pure LLM-based commenting systems, particularly for:

1. Large functions with complex logic

2. Code with unclear variable names

3. AI-generated code

4. Business logic heavy sections

Would love feedback from the HN community. Both business and techincal perspectives are welcomed.
Webdev is a shitshow so investors money could burn quicker. Huge potential for companies that can come in and transform the stack by throwing away the whole "modern" JS stack and use things like Turbo or LiveView
I suppose the key insight is that mandatory device registration really saved them. Everyone loves the concept of an entirely open device that doesn’t require this, but if Panic didn’t have registration, it would’ve been impossible to locate the devices, and end up being a $400k write off.
Kusto is wonderful. I'd love to be able to use outside of log analytics.
Bluesky chief doesn't know age limit for platform
I think it's only looking at grad+. The chart right below the summary says total average loans are $60k. and that's nationwide. You need loans for more than tuiition, after all.
> none of our cars could get over the "hump" between the coaches.

Sounds like feature for the border control to ”randomly” select such cars for a search, to be honest. I don’t think the alcohol-across-borders amounts have changed that much since then.
The article says that 50B of those 88B are from Canada and Germany.
An IDE can help you write the code, but does not make it easier to read the code.
Yes, if it's not running Tomcat.

(Personal opinion: You should never run Tomcat, history of really unsecure development practices)
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