skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Instead I see a future of enshittified products being swiftly replaced by solo motivated people - or small teams. Suddenly we are back to disruption. Instead of "Google sucks, all I can do is complain on my blog" you can say "Google sucks, I made this alternative give it a shot".

There's practical limits here. You're not going to be building your own search engine any time soon that challenges Google's, or even Bing's.

However, if you want to replace Google Photos, you can absolutely do that with Immich or Photoprism. It won't be trivial though: you'll need to build your own server (or create an instance somewhere), do a lot of setup, figure out how to allow access to your server from the internet so your phone app works and your friends can also view photo albums in links you send them, etc. (assuming you want to replicate all these GPhotos features). But it is do-able, and many people have done it with the existing software and guides.

OsmAnd is an interesting project (and not really Free BTW), but it doesn't do important basic things like give real-time traffic updates.

So I think some things are more easily done DIY than others, but as people work on it, more and more things can potentially be done on systems you control yourself.
And yet according to cnns analysis, Mr Musks platform is more representative of the electorate than every other site.
https://archive.ph/pYIbv
I'd love for a third party to verify the claim! I'm just giving you an overview of the work that went into making this a thing, knowing full well you have absolutely no reason to trust me.

The LED being "hard-wired" is a tricky statement to make, and I actually wasn't aware Apple has publicly ever made a statement to that effect. What I can say is that relying on the dedicated LED or "sensor array active" signal some camera sensors provide, while technically hard-wired in the sense there is no firmware driving it, is not foolproof.
PlexAMP is awesome
What restrained the US from spending ~$3T and causing ~1M deaths (combat forces, contractors, and civilians) in the Middle East? Would this capability materially change the appetite for conflict, based on historical actions? I don't believe "skin in the game" is a valid component in decisioning this technology implementation. We should want it to be, but it won’t be.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IraqSyria20

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/20...

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/drone-war/
https://archive.is/pYIbv

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/23/23-50669-CV0.pd... (opinion, pdf)
> private corporation like Twitter/X, Facebook, and now Bluesky can implement any moderation policies they want, and it will never violate "free speech" laws

Simply not true in the state of California where most of these companies are based.

According to the CA supreme Court, you have a right to free speech on private property that is regularly available for public use.

By that metric all of these companies are blatantly violating the constitution of their home state.
Because if you’re the manager, the time of your team is more important than your time is
Indeed. Humans ascended to dominance because we can cooperate. This every-man-for-themself idea is an aberration, not the natural order as so many claim. It’s rather astounding to think otherwise considering the logistics of how we’re communicating right now.
The original “tweet” didn’t attempt to infer reason or assign blame though. All it did is state two facts, according to their system
100% agree, someone shoved a bunch of ideas into a box and ... ya....

its a AI in your pocket, with an external gpu lol, isn't that ... every laptop lol
Medical trials to prove its safety in human subjects -- pretty essential -- is a lengthy, multi-stage process that is extremely expensive to carry out.
This is brilliant. I'll be stealing this for my next interview.
Regulatory agencies weren't even a thing until the ICC in 1887. People aren't talking about the post office when they complain about regulatory agencies. Now we have all kinds of regulatory agencies making stuff up as they go. Nothing in the constitution talks about congress passing "strategic objectives" nor a vast apparatus of administrative law making entities like the the current regulatory agencies.
> I’m just gonna stay on my easy-to-use, reliable, everything-works-out-of-the-box Mac.

Where do I get one of those? I've ran into just as many problems with my Macs.

Latest is Airplay stopped working: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255783202?sortBy=rank

Another was Finder copy to SMB wouldn't error but file would be corrupted (copying from any other computer to the same SMB no problem. Copying by rsync from the same mac, no problem, just finder)

My Airpods often don't connect. Solution, reboot Mac (after trying several other things)

Network starts failing. Solution, reboot (after trying several other things)

I can catalog many many more. I also have a Windows 10 (now 11) machine. It's had no more (nor less) problems.
The MIT blackjack team from 1979 onwards played with many, many players to make real money in Vegas. Not everything was in the movie!
So that's an investor, but it's not a revenue or profit model. The article notes:

> The future for Bluesky includes expanding their go-to-market efforts, building out their product roadmap with new features like subscription-based profile customizations, and further engaging with their growing developer community, all while maintaining their commitment to a free and accessible platform.

Is "subscription-based profile customizations" a sufficient revenue model? The investor will at some point want a return.
Yeah it’s not great but it’s definitely not unusual. And windows reputation-based execution blocking does have false positives. I work for a company that has some very very popular products and some that only see a few dozen downloads per week, and despite being signed, it still takes a while for new versions to build enough rep to not trigger the block.
You’re either being intentionally obtuse or unintentionally missing the point.

News outlets giddily claiming some newly launched FPS game is going to replace Counter-Strike because it had more downloads in a given week in 2024 would be a far more apt analogy and equally as absurd.
IMO, those features are actually negatives because they're so good at creating filter bubbles relative to how good they are for anything else.
By the time he pulls NBCs license, it'll probably have been sold to someone else.

At the end of the day, the radio spectrum is limited and the licenses ought to be reserved for the channels most popular with the American people.

Platforms losing viewership would naturally qualify for eviction.
Project looks interesting. Are there short term plans to support MacOS?

If not, any recommendations for alternative projects?
I think the regulators will simply go after any exchanges that deal with Tornado Cash, rather than Tornado Cash itself. This just causes a new kind of cat and mouse game to happen while the money laundering industry greases their palms.

To be honest, with the incoming Trump administration’s cryptocurrency-friendly views and the likelihood they will turn a blind eye to outright scamming, I think it will only be a matter of time before something huge really cleans the majority of folks out in the biggest rugpull of all time.

I can’t possibly know when that will happen if it does. But this speedrunning the wild-cat bank situation from ages ago is probably going to be interesting to watch unfold.
Does anything similar exist for JetBrains IDEs, but fully open source? (Open source plugin, and open source voice recognition model running locally.)
Eh. The amount of work it takes to specify your types in a typescript program is tiny. Type inference does almost all of the work. And the benefit of that work is largely felt in maintenance & onboarding, since the code is easier to read when you’re new and come back to later. Refactoring large JavaScript programs is a nightmare.

The real enterprise death doesn’t come from types. It comes from tasteless over use of classes - especially once you have a complex web of long lived objects that and all reference each other. Significant portions of code in these codebases ends up dedicated to useless tasks like lifecycle management instead of the actual work of your application. It’s kind of the code version of corporate beaurocracy - classes everywhere devoted to doing BS jobs.

It’s not complicated people. Just write the code that tells the computer what you want it to do. No more. Unnecessary encapsulation and premature abstraction will kill your velocity dead.
What kind of router are you using? I had a bunch of network issue when I turned on RSTP on my network for some reason. They’re all fixed since I turned that off and ICMP snooping (I have Ubiquiti equipment). Can’t say much about your SMB issue, we have a mount drive at work and been solid since I’ve been here.
That's basically how this works, but manufacturing electronics at a massive scale requires some more flexibility. For example, capacitors have a pretty large tolerance (sometimes +/- 20%) and LEDs have quite a bit of variety in what voltages they'll work at. So for some people the LEDs might last 3 seconds, for some they might last 5s. Using a capacitor also means the LEDs will fade slowly instead of just turning off sharply.

If the LEDs come from a different supplier one day, who is going to make sure they're still within the spec for staying on for 3 seconds?

(And yes, I have long since parted ways with Apple)

Edit:

And to add on: That capacitor needs time to charge so now the LED doesn't actually come on when the sensor comes on, it's slightly delayed!
Andreesen is a former Democrat donor and endorsed Hillary and a well respected VC. I have no reason to disbelieve him. Supporting trump is not popular (or wasn't) in silicon valley. For them to endorse him would indicate something happened...
You should read the official wiki. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths#FreeBSD_is_Just_macOS_Without...

> Darwin - which consists of the XNU kernel, IOkit (a driver model), and POSIX compatibility via a BSD compatibility layer - makes up part of macOS (as well as iOS, tvOS, and others) includes a few subsystems (such as the VFS, process model, and network implementation) from (older versions of) FreeBSD, but is mostly an independent implementation.
I don’t understand your argument, because NBC is not popular it is okay to censor them because of a political vendetta?
The hilarious part of the replies here of people naming the program splits think the said programs actually go too citizens.

Instead what you get is the EPA under contract buying $6k office chairs.
Per the Wikipedia article on Compact Disc:

"The compact disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a focused laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals."
The text focused programming environment
The real story of the whole of the MIT blackjack team is quite something. When you ask someone if they’re still allowed to play in this casino and they reply with “if I use my real name, then yes”.

The 80s were a wild time, kids!
Doomed to failure? It's literally the 4th version of this product.
But if it worked that way (using a small amount of water over and over to clean) would be gross and unsanitary in this case. One could filter it but that costs a lot of energy and changing a filter weekly on your shower pod would not be very green.
I'd like to remind that IP protection does not solely exist to benefit authors. It exists to benefit the society as a whole. That is, not only the writers and actors, but also the readers and viewers. The original post, if you take a look, is about an obvious disbalance of the benefits the IP holders of old games receive vs the lost benefit of the society from preserving these games. Many games are works of art, on par with books an movies, a part of society's cultural heritage.

Unlike physical property, "intellectual property" requires quotes, and does not enjoy a constitutional protection, all for a good reason.

My proposal has a few benefits that, to my mind, outweigh the shortcomings.

* It is very simple. There's no room for any shenanigans, small print, etc.

* It is very uniform. It applies to every kind of IP (of the same class) equally. Again, no room or need for small print.

* It has a large enough free grace period, longer than the peak periods when most movies make the large box offices, most books have the first 2-3 successful reprints, most games have initial sales + DLC sales, etc. For most folks, nothing changes, because their revenues from a particular IP go to zero or near-zero by the end of the grace period.

* It's guaranteed to terminate the IP protection sooner or later, and most of the time, sooner. No demand curve stays exponential forever; the fee stays exponential as long as it takes.

* It does not depend on any accounting. No box office numbers to smear, no audience sizes to inflate. No matter how much you earn, you can pay for the protection as long as you care to afford it.

* It protects the most valuable / profitable IP preferentially. If something is really really huge, and people keep asking the authors to shut up, take their money, and produce moar, that thing can stay protected for longer. When most people stop caring enough, it becomes pointlessly costly to keep protecting it. This benefits the few that care though, the librarians and archivists of the world, and the new creators who now can build freely on top of the things that went to public domain.

So no, the small author just does not have to pay anything, small authors are just protected for 10 years for free, and may buy half a decade of protection cheaply if they care. But after that, they should admit that this particular cow is not worth milking forever.
This is simply wrong.

Regulatory agencies are constrained by the laws that Congress passes.

Where there is ambiguity (of which there is an infinite supply) the precedent was to leave up to agencies to interpret it. As opposed to requiring endless new bills to be passed.
Does anyone seriously think that attackers won’t try every single potential avenue regardless of how “realistic” it seems?
It may also just show that he didn’t have the support and team at the time to get away with it, but we shall see if it is all just rhetoric
Reminds me of my high school, where the gym showers were a car-wash arrangement, a corridor of sprays through which all the guys were herded nude after gym class.
Why would you voluntarily use an OS that installs BIOS updates (broken or not) without consent? It's egregious even if the timing wasn't inconvenient.
I don’t really share your experience, but otoh I rarely have problems with MacOS. Although to be fair, I also do my best to wait the better part of a year before updating. So I’m always ~1 year behind, but then I also avoid a lot of the teething problems.
To be fair, they’ve got pretty serious potential for letting tech companies get paid for a seasoned voice actor’s unique delivery, tone, inflection, etc rather than the voice actor themselves.
> That is a pretty dark view on almost 1/5th of humanity

The CCP does not represent 1/5 of humanity.

> and a nation with a track record of giving the world important innovations: paper making, silk, porcelain, gunpowder and compass to name the few.

Utter nonsense. It wasn't the CCP who invented gunpowder.

If you are willing to fool yourself into believing that somehow all developments that ever originated by people who live in a geographic region are due to the ruling regime, you'd have a far better case in praising Taiwan.
Ease of washing crypto is a big win for Russia and NK.

Without these tumblers crypto changes hands, is traced to Russia and accomplices are on the hook for jail time. So you really don't want to do it. With these washers it's totally safe, do it and take your cut. It's a direct way around sanctions and it fuels violence and oppresion.
> After five minutes of that, the machine would then fill the chamber with hot water for a three-minute ultrasonic bath. This was followed by a two-minute hot rinse cycle. Next, the chamber would drain and the user was blasted with warm air to dry off. They were additionally exposed to both infrared and ultraviolet light to kill germs. All in all, it was a 15-minute cycle.

It's apparently also a tanning booth.

15 minutes means it takes about 3 times longer than a shower, and it doesn't seem to do your hair.
Yes! The actual commands that you have to search up to get it to run automatically without user input, take almost as long to put together as finding the bug that you're finding (in the 80% case, of course there are 20% cases that take forever) but there is something so satisfying about seeing the thing just humming along once you have it set, that just makes it so satisfying.
I don't know specifically - but even now, i still end up having to explain to people that incremental parsing/lexing (particularly without error recovery) is not hard, it is not really complicated, and as the author here said, Tim (et al) have made beautiful algorithms that make this stuff easy.

Heck, incremental lexing is even easy to explain.
For each token, track where the lexer actually looked in the input stream to make decisions. Any time that part of the input stream changes, every token to actually look at the changed portion of the input stream is re-lexed, and if the result changes, keep re-lexing until the before/after tokenstreams sync up again or you run out of input. That's it.

You can also make a dumber version that statically calculates the maximum lookahead (lookbehind if you support that too) of the entire grammer, or the maximum possible lookahead per token, and uses that instead of tracking the actual lookahead used.
In practice, this is often harder than just tracking the actual lookahead used.

In an LL system like ANTLR, incremental parsing is very similar - since it generates top-down parsers, it's the same basic theory - track what token ranges were looked at as you parse.
During incremental update, only descend into portions of the parse tree where the token ranges looked at contain modified tokens.

Bottom up is trickier.
Error recovery is the meaningfully tricky part in all of this.

Before tree-sitter, I was constantly explaining this stuff to people (I followed the projects that these algorithms came out of - ENSEMBLE, HARMONIA, etc).
After more people get that there are ways of doing this, but you still run into people who are re-creating things we solved in pretty great ways many years ago.
Apple still sucks though.
What does the ultrasound do?
One must wonder if the therapy works if it's as trivial and simple as you say.

Rarely are these things straightforward and clear cut.

That being said, I recently broke my ankle, and found that the protocols still often include 6 weeks off it, despite modern evidence largely showing zero downsides (and some benefits, especially in terms of early recovery) to weight bearing immediately - Probably costing possibly billions of dollars in lost productivity and unnecessary PT every year.

I probably shouldn't get too high on my horse about random unexplored therapies - plenty of things in medicine that are just done some way because that's how it's always been done.
They claim we don't have a good environment, but then they admit that they're aware of Emacs. I don't get it.
AI, Crypto Fueling Transformation of Secondaries Market
I think the Australian disease is an addiction to the great big national solution.

If 1 state is falling behind, they strip all the states of the responsibility and push ONE MASSIVE SOLUTION to everything.

NDIS? We had years of disabled people complaining that their state benefits were better, or lost completely after the NDIS rollout before they got their nonsense together. Now its always new and interesting ways the scheme is failing.

NBN? You could hand pit and pipe to local councils to rent out, but nah we need another failed monopoly.

Housing? Make sure states are meeting their land release obligations? Nope needs a massive funding splash from the federal government.

Education? We used to use the US as an example of poor education policy. Standardised tests? Nope those force teachers to teach the test rather than teach the child. Suddenly, national curriculum and standardised tests. Genius.
There are a bunch of yc start-ups who are building new models and stuff in the space. I fear they are going to get decimated really soon as the quality of local llamas keep improving.
The problems with python types are:

A) The type system is fairly bad, as type systems go (forgivable)
B) the type checkers are, for large codebases, excruciatingly slow, to the point that the tests are faster!!

The second is not forgivable.
A "sprite" is commonly understood to have no background, so I'd say these are closer to thumbnails.
The two operating systems do share a lot of code, for example most userland utilities and the C library on macOS are derived from FreeBSD versions.
Works well for me on an MBP with 36GB ram with no swapping (just).

I've been asking it to perform relatively complex integrals and it either manages them (with step by step instructions) or is very close with small errors that can be rectified by following the steps manually.
I agree with your sentiment, the human body is sometimes considered most beautiful with the limbs extended in dance, that does not mean it is always posed that way. I lay in the "corpse pose" every day, it does not mean I am dead.
It happens already. You just have to find the docs who do it. Which usually means attending conferences which focus on specific diseases.
Researchers discover first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux
Cooperation works if the potential damage caused by a rouge actor is sufficiently low. Otherwise, it's too easy to sabotage things. This is why we don't want random rouge states to have nukes. AI will give so much leverage to rouge actors that it will significantly shift the game theory in favour of not cooperating.
This is not GPD's first laptop in this size and design.

Yes, many people who buy laptops like this need a physical rs232 port and a kvm port.

Yes, you could buy an old thinkpad, and it won't fit in a pocket, you could buy sometehing small, and it'll be slow, or you could buy this and get both.
>For example, signing commits with minisign or signify.

These tools don't work well with git or the git forges, and they do not work at all with fossil. (Obviously signify is a good choice if you're using OpenBSD.) Furthermore they lock you in entirely in their choice of algorithm, Ed25519, which may not be what you want (Why not Ed448?)

As far as adoption goes, and adoption is hard to get going, GnuPG is what is used in Linux the most...
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249569

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241743
Beware of the LED!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259278
Every time I’ve visited a Sheldon Brown page, I’ve gone down a rabbit hole.

This time it was “Sheldon Brown’s personal bicycles” https://sheldonbrown.com/org/bicycle.html

That’s the essence of a great website.
The backend is a crucial part of any modern application. Whether you're building a website, mobile app, or other software experience, it can be incredibly difficult and time-consuming to develop features like authentication, file storage, and database management. As a result, many software teams find themselves relying on expensive solutions like Google's Firebase or Amazon's Amplify. However, it doesn't have to be that way! Appwrite is an open-source, self-hostable backend as a service (BaaS) meant as an alternative to these costly managed services.
Show HN: Un éditeur de texte extensible
No irony detected despite the tyranny of low expectations for the ability of bored Japanese nobles.
Claude's Quality Is Dropping – Here's Why
Smallpox. It's about the eradication of smallpox.