skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of religion, these are really, really important and we all have rights to them..." said a law enforcement director who would soon make clear they didn't believe in rights at all.

"But," they continued rather than stopping at defending rights, "when those rights can be used to enable activity which we deem criminal but hasn't yet been tested in court, we have to take them away."
It's not my business, I also can recommend the Uptime Kuma (selfhosted)...
I was born in 1984, and I feel incredibly lucky that I grew up at the tail end of BBS's and the start of the dialup era. Things were changing blindingly fast, but it was still small/niche enough that you still had a strong sense of community, hackers dominated, not companies, and we all had this feeling like we could do anything.

Even the broadband era was great, too. For me, it was the mid-2000s when everything really starting going off the rails (Facebook + iPhone, mostly).
Both OpenAI and Anthropic let you disable and delete keys. I'd be surprised if Google doesn't.
Possibly:

> This button is available for about an hour after you try to open the app.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/open-a-mac-app-from...
Nuitka is compatible, but comes with the shortcomings of python C-API

There are other approaches which give up on C-API and build a bridge to languages such as Go and Rust.

I've spent a few years working on py2many. Would appreciate feedback on the approach.
I am glad I read right. My mother escaped poverty and a bad neighborhood so she told me enough stories for me to understand. I have co workers and friends who all busted ass to escape the projects and ghettos they grew up in. None of them look back on those neighborhoods and people fondly.
Yeah, this was/is a part big part of my frustration with the ecosystem too. It set a LOT of very problematic patterns in place in the beginning, and many of them are still not unwound.

Stuff like "Go doesn't need dependency injection because it's simple". I heard that literally dozens of times. The opposite is true! It's an even bigger pain without DI because the language is so simple! DI everything or make your users suffer!

Or a personal favorite: "Go doesn't need a package manager". We see where that went, and how much insanely better it is now that we have it.

Or errors. Without wrapping. Oh boy we're gonna pay for that for decades.

There's stuff to like in the language, but the zealots (especially early ones) really did not know which parts they were.
stellar even
At this point, yes. I don't know what will happen in future.
Seems even stranger when you see a $25k car with a professional wrap.
The solution is later in the article.

> The insight that leads to a solution comes from the Jacobian.

It's not a unform half disk. It has more weight away from the Y axis.

You can imagine it's painted with watercolors and you want to collect the same ammount of ink.

In an uniform disk you have

xx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxx

But in the weighted disk of the article the top and bottom are darker and the center lighter

..
x..x
x..x
x..x
Xx..xX
Xx..xX
Xx..xX

but there are no strips like in my ASCII art, the shade changes slowly.
What Do Hackers Know About Your AWS Account?
> Is the problem explained in text anywhere

the problem is that you want to cut up an onion in such a way as to minimize variation in the size and shape of the cut-up pieces

usually, so that the pieces will cook evenly
Isn't that where calculus and intergrals come into to play? As the radius approaches infinity type of stuff?
I think this is an interesting point. What IS a criticism of fashion, and how should it be taken?

"I dont like how this looks" isnt a universal truth, and isn't a prescription for others.

It seems like with the CT, there is a vocal group of people who seem upset that others like them and that they exist at all. I seems to extend from "I dont like how it looks, and you cant either."

I think they look cool and fun. Cost an utility wise, I'll take my contractor truck every time. I understand however that other people have more money and different priorities.

I suspect what people are actually bothered by is the underlying reality that some people simply have an extra $80k to drop on a truck because that is cool and fun for them.
meh, the food processor usually handles that for me pretty damn well
Yes, exactly. There's no reason for the burden to be on every single user of every product to disable this crap. The law should require companies to behave more ethically with real consequences if they do not.
> Maybe I’m reading this completely wrong

IMO you are because your attempting to "read between the lines" and add things that aren't there while ignoring things that contradictory to what this hypothetical lawsuit would include.

He says they don't want to cause a mess of renaming, or forking because it would be worse off and confusing for everyone
Providing Python functions as tools to models in Ollama
That's assuming every job at those companies is absolute waste/overhead. I'm not convinced that's true.

If we kill private insurance and move to Medicaid-for-All (I'm not suggesting this is the right approach, just thinking aloud here), the size of the Medicaid bureaucracy would have to grow, offering some of those former UHC/CVS/Anthem employees an "easy" transition into similar work.

Anyways, no change this big would ever be made overnight. So, phase in changes over 5-10 years. Problem "solved".
> Imagine a world where literature was preoccupied with height.

Smart of you to have picked one of the few human characteristics that hasn't been used to justify discriminations and very unfortunate historical events... In our world it's not just literature that is very preoccupied with skin colour and gender.

> It wouldn't mean the complainant finds short people objectionable in themselves, but simply that they don't think height is a defining part of reality that all of literature is obligated to address.

You have it reversed, if it's not a defining part of someone's reality, why would one even care whether it's addressed in fiction or not? The person I was answering to does care, a lot, to the point that swinging one way or another can ruin their experience.
MacOS instances appear to be the sole remaining exception since RHEL got on board.
No, this is not how it works. Even without memory safety, the code has well-defined semantics for correct input, i.e. input that does not trigger undefined behavior. And if you prove your program correct for all inputs, this then implies that it does not have undefined behavior for any input. Memory safety is not a prerequisite for applying formal methods to show correctness.
tldr hint: the last 5 paragraphs get to the point, and are worth reading.
>You might even say a majority.

One might, but that would be incorrect. Trump received ~77,000,000 votes[0], which was 49.9% of the votes cast. As such, plurality is the appropriate term in this case.

What's more, there were ~240,000,000 eligible voters and ~161,000,000 registered voters at the time of the 2024 election.[1]

So the winner received less than a majority of votes cast by a small margin, and less so among registered voters (~48%) and even less so among eligible voters (32%).

[0] https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/RESULTS/zjpqne...

[1] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/election-explained-ho...
https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Inspecting-the-...

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Debugger.ht...

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Halt_0021.html
Show HN: Universal Palette Converter, Convert color palettes between 15 formats
Hi HN! I built a simple tool to solve a common headache for designers and developers - converting color palettes between different formats. It handles pretty much every major format out there (Adobe, Sketch, Procreate, Paint.NET, etc.) and can export to various programming languages like Swift, Kotlin, and Dart.

No internet connection needed, no subscriptions, just a simple one-time purchase ($2.99).

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback! Full feature list and supported formats in the link.

albemala
It's not "why do you need writing?", it's "how do you discover writing?". Once it's discovered the new purposes will appear pronto.
Just always keep them on and never wash them. Bonus: immunity to papercuts forever.
Serious question because maybe I'm ignorant about it: was it ever a free market?

And the follow-up question is: should it even be a free market given that healthcare is not very conducive to shopping around and price matching, it's always possible to allow private clinics while providing a decent level of care to society in general. I simply do not see how a free market healthcare will be any better.
Laniakea: Larger-scale cosmic structures appear to exist beyond galaxy clusters
I'm largely uninterested in the specific name you want to give it and more if its worthy of punishment.
"Harder" is a blue extremist lie. The information position of law enforcement has never been this good before. Yet they ask for more - a clear indication for their true motive: Power.
I get it, but the reasoning behind it was that little kids kept getting run over by their parents / family members because they couldn't see them.

The cost at this point is pretty negligible.

Mandate went into effect (in the US) in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_camera#Mandates
>> The Silicon Valley dream is to build a tech startup that is such a unique idea it alters the commercial universe and turns its founders into billionaires.

The headline is a false assumption. While there are still people who are trying to build off unique ideas to change the world, it seems very few of them are motivated by becoming billionaires. The latter have no intention or particular desire to create a sea change, and actively look to (at best) have a "X for Y" strategy. Even more are "Yet another <already successful> X".
Human-AI Coevolution
Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 100-Year History
will definitely check this out. i saw the pricing model on the site, what's the motivation around being open-source here if you're providing the infra free of charge?
In 1993, we didn't have closet laptops and old pocket supercomputers taking up space/up for grabs.

Computing was expensive. Communicating with a computer was even more expensive.

I was a kid with a BBS back then. I had parents who were very, very tolerant of an enormous phone bill, until that one time when I discovered the free-to-use-but-long-distance dial-up Internet service that was then known as cyberspace.org.

Shit changed a lot in my world when that four-digit phone bill showed up, and it stayed changed for quite a long time afterward.

The pre-WWW Internet did have some neat stuff going on, but meh. As much as I like to lament on the downfall of things like Usenet, I think we're in a much better spot for communicating and learning using these machines and networks than we were ~30 years ago.

(I do wish things were more local today, like BBSs usually were, but...)
And either learn to sharpen your knives yourself, or take them to a sharpening service. Dull knives require more force, and slip/catch more, so are more dangerous.
Show HN: Black Friday Directories to Promote Your Black Friday Deal
For what it's worth, I don't know a single Republican who thinks Putin is their friend.

For what it's worth, here's what Trump said about his relationship with Putin recently:

“You know, he was a friend of mine,” the former president told the athlete on speaker phone, as recorded in a viral video. “I got along great with him.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Of course he's blatantly talking out of his ass, as usual.

Just like he is when he tells you that he's anti-war.
Don't they add food coloring from ground bugs sometimes. In case of sausage they add preservatives to make it last longer. Actual poison if you were just to eat a lot of it.
Generally companies are liable if they make you sick right after eating their product. So they do everything they can to prevent that. Nobody is going to held liable if they give you cancer 10 years down the line. Super hard to prove. So not a worry for them. Backlash after the failed covid vaccine makes some reform more likely now.
Show HN: Dodo – Deploy application by drawing on Canvas
Hi everyone, I want to share an update on my project dodo. Month ago I made an initial post which demonstrated capabilities of the dodo PaaS. After getting some feedback I realised UX/DX could be improved significantly.

Canvas lets you define your application infrastructure by "drawing" visually. By drawing I mean dropping nodes on canvas and connecting them to enable discovery and communication between services.

Backend is the same, and you can think of the Canvas as a visual dodo json configuration file editor.

One can imagine how such UI can evolve. I plan on adding monitoring and log viewing capabilities to it in near future.

Another update I have is that dodo has one actual client now (apart from me) who has been using hosted version of dodo daily for the past month.

Please let me know what you think, and get in touch with me if you want to try it out. I'd be happy to send you an invite.

Thanks.

* Initial announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927516
Grow your open-source project 2.0
> for example when carving wood

I've watched a lot of shows about the tools used for building log cabins in the pioneer days. I don't even know the names of them, but the tool for taking the bark off the tree by pulling the knife to you as you sit on the log is crazy. Also, the one where you straddle the log and swing the blade towards you between your legs is right up there too. Yet, I can't think of any way of making them better without using power tools.
Why do we need these kinds of sensationalist names for things? Why is it so important that they be "ultra-processed" foods? Can't they just be "overprocessed" or perhaps use some other more neutral term?

It's like the 90s when everything had to be "EXTREME!!"
My standard housewarming gift is cut gloves and a pack of nitrile gloves to put over them. The nitrile gloves are so you don't have to wash the cut gloves so often.
I believe I once read that back in the day, Al-Qaeda decided that AES and the like was probably compromised because it was made by the infidels, and launched their own "Islamic secure messenger" with an encryption algorithm their people had designed themselves.

This is not only terrible from a "let's get the list of all accounts who downloaded this app and perhaps track their phones" perspective, but also the encryption turned out to be exactly as good as you might have guessed.
US senators propose law to require bare minimum security standards
>To get the most even cuts of an onion by making radial cuts, one should aim towards a point 55.73066% the radius of the onion below the center. This is close, but different from, the 61.803% claimed in the Youtube video at the top.

Wife walks into kitchen with 3447 cut onions in piles: "What are you doing?!"
This guy: "I just cannot get these onions cut to a point 55.73066% below the origin! The best I have achieved is only 2 significant digits of accuracy."
Wife, mumbling: "Maybe that's why Kenji said: 60%..."
> They communicated with each other on highly secure phones

You keep using that word...
I think it's partly due to the people (this site is full of them) that would read any other term and go "what is processing? Cooking and cutting is processing hurr durr"
Can you say more? Why?
Both articles are the same. Right? Why is it silly?
Could be driven by Private Equity.
What about your earlier Show HN post for the same service where you quote:

> I've created the best free website downtime checker. Don't trust me? Try it yourself.
GDPR compliance isn't about cookies, it's about processing personal data. You can be tracked without cookies, so ignore these at your own peril.
Nice and fun tiny piece of code !!!!
It soo easy for Oracle to be a hero here. They can win so much by just releasing the name.
Actual source articles:

U.S. Says Google Is an Ad Tech Monopolist, in Closing Arguments

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/technology/google-adverti... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240121)

The 'Rocket Docket' Judge Who Will Decide the Fate of Google's Ad Technology

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/technology/google-antitru...
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42245977)
It's the reason why healthcare is so expensive in the U.S. because this is not just true for drugs, but for procedures as well.

IIRC. I worked orthogonally to medical billing, but never did billing directly.

Fee schedules don't get published. Because if providers know insurance is willing to pay $125 for a procedure, they're going to charge $125 rather than what it cost to do it. So if they want to know, they have to be deduced by the providers.

So providers charge out the fucking ass for everything. Then submit that charge to the insurance. The insurance will say, "We'll only pay $75 of that $300 bill, the rest is patient responsibility". And often, what will happen is that the doctor will write off some or all of the remaining $225, because they weren't looking for that anyway. The charge is just to make sure they get the maximum from the insurance.

The price is completely divorced from the value of the services provided. It's become this weird game.
I have had this exact argument on HN at least a half dozen times.
I think there are also issues of scale of investment and revenue splits - I can't find right now, but there was a rant tweet from a Japanese comic author that apparent typical compensation for webtoons was below labor cost of his team by couple digits, and I also remember seeing similar rants on topic of AI training materials that were off by even larger magnitudes(like $.25 per dozen images one-time vs $1k per use recurring).

So authors seem to be getting paid more, and that leads to an obvious question of how. One possible answer to that is maybe Japanese media contents - be it images or anime or light novel or classical novel - are still heavily subsidized by its strong and isolate domestic consumption. Average household expenditure on reading is about $120 per year in US and $325 in Japan[1], which IMO roughly coincide with this hypothesis.

If there actually is such a situation... maybe what's missing in Western media is just accelerated consumption. It's weird to think that Americans and Europeans might not be consuming enough media, but that could be it.

1: at current rate of 150 yen/dollar; raw value is 50k yen or ~1% average yearly income
That honestly sounds amazing. If I win the lottery, my first purchase will be a flat black CT with EL-wire to bump the Tron soundtrack.
>> - Popularized the idea of sharing a space when the host is there

this was not a popular option, and I don't believe was ever intended to be. It also opened the door for VRBO to gain traction explicitly marketing NOT sharing accommodation. The "rent out your spare bedroom" has never been a major component; it was a fake-out to counter the regulatory & licensing complaints they were facing.
This quote sure was a huge red flag to me.

"My dad's a genius" because you're not supposed to rely on genius to make a good crypto system, and also because it makes Eap sounds like he has absolutely zero knowledge on the subject.

"highest level of encryption available" because there's a fairly low floor above which it's all uncrackable anyway (ChaCha20 + BLAKE2B authenticated encryption, and Curve448 + post quantum winners for the public stuff, should go beyond total overkill).

I don't believe it was intentional though. I'm just out of a quick job implementing SSCPv2 (encryption over RS485 to secure communication between card readers and central computer, typically used to secure buildings). Good specs, fairly good separation between cryptography and business logic, and as far as I could tell the crypto isn't broken… but it is quite old school: AES CBC + HMAC SHA256, using MAC then encrypt. https://moxie.org/2011/12/13/the-cryptographic-doom-principl... And while I think my implementation is okay, I did have to pay special attention to specific traps raising from this design, and to be honest wouldn't bet my life on having ironed out all possible timing attacks.

SSCPv2 was almost certainly designed after 2020, but it took books from 2005. Good books for their time, but a bit dated unfortunately. I'm pretty sure no actual cryptographer was involved. If there were, they would almost certainly have used standard authenticated encryption scheme like AES CGM, or ChaPoly (RFC 8439), they would have authenticated the unencrypted header, and provided an even better separation between crypto and business logic.
My hospital system, like many others in the US, is owned by the local government. My experience is the same as yours.
yeah people still do it but at least adding the "ultra" indicates is not something a person cooking for their family would be doing to food
Wasn't Obama swayed against a single payer system, because eliminating all the middle men would end up with like 2 million people going unemployed?
Pretty hard considering Hegel would not even be born a few decades after Leibniz died. Agreed that it is preferable to the "fallen world" starting point of so many other philosophies. Once you think the world is fallen or broken, the only remaining thing is trying (and waiting ;) ) to bring about some kind of Utopia by changing humankind, nature, etc..

See Judaism, Gnosticism, Marxism, Positivism...
Nobody knows = there is wide disagreement

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33309818/

My personal feeling is that I can eat like a king every day of the week. If I only had access to one kind of dessert, I'd be fine. I'd get tired of it. Oh, vanilla ice cream again.

But we have access to a wide variety of highly palatable foods, each with distinct flavor profiles; and advertisements reminds us how much better we'll feel after a snack!

Big recommend for Guyenet's "The Hungry Brain"

(randomly chosen podcast interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl1g8l-MdZk
From the title I thought code or model weights had been leaked, but it's access to Sora through Huggingface by a group of early testers.

With their auth tokens being used to provide the API access, won't OpenAI find out really quick who is behind that?
Until you add ketchup.
I had to look it up, defense spending is 2.3ish% of GDP, and healthcare is 17.3% of GDP. There does seem to be a lot more fat to cut in healthcare than defense.

I have never seen that number before, that is fascinating.
Hah! It wasn't "Internet" but it was "Cyber" indeed :D That looked great.
That's the actual plan. It's not explsined in the introduction, but in the middle of the article they explain that they will food bacterias with the proceced material, and later people will eat the bacteria.
It's just as dumb though because the act of processing doesn't really mean anything.
Surely not that mysterious - the adulterants added processed foods in order preserve it longer for the shelf, disguise the looks, mask the taste or simply bulk it out for max profit generally do not provide additional nutritional value