skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was about installing Docker on Android, but it's about installing postmarketOS on a phone. Then yes, you have a regular Linux (although based on musl, instead of usual glibc) on which you can install Docker.

If you are going to setup a server on a phone, it might indeed be a good idea to avoid Android, mainly because of how aggressive the OOM killer can be with background apps.

On Android, killing a background app is not so much of an issue (caveat: [1]), they are designed for this. But you don't want your service or even your ssh deamon to be killed by Android.

Now, I don't know how running the phone 24/24 7/7 plugged in is going to last in the long run, especially concerning the battery. Has someone tried this?

[edit: see below comments, the post actually advises removing the battery]

[1] https://dontkillmyapp.com/
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320232
How should a developer understand LLM Prompt Engineering?
It seemed likely that the parts we don't understand likely served some purpose; assuming they were junk because we don't understand their function is like a user deleting random system files because they "don't use them."
Twitter was where the original misinformation was posted, so Twitter seems to be a good place to rebut it.
In general it can get further the better the design/interfaces are. I find that if you can define your problem with a really clean set of interfaces, it can generally implement them perfectly. Most of the real thinking work is at the interfaces anyway, so this makes sense.

But for a really tricky logic problem, accurately explaining it in English to an LLM might be less natural than just writing the code.
Dropped Kagi after being a happy user and annoying all my friends about it for years. Sadly integration with Yandex is a deal breaker and a total violation of trust, sad.
World economy has exited the 'boom and bust' cycle, BlackRock says
The site is neat, but the airport article is really the only one that benefits from an image though. It'd be nice to not have to scroll past logos, stock images, etc.
U.S. added 227k jobs in Nov and labor force participation rate declined to 62.5%
I mean, it's something I'd consider. I have a little ARM SBC here that I run Plex and Immich etc on. But Kagi makes it very easy for a not terrible price -- not much more than the monthly power bill for a little server -- and they also do more than just grab from other search services as they _do_ have their own crawler (unclear how much it's used for results?) and have LLM stuff which isn't terrible.

Also as a former Google employee... I dig the idea of contributing funds for some competition in this space.
Tests are the documentation that explains what your application is intended to do. Once AI is able to figure that out, you won't be needed anymore.
If a planes jet engine gets close enough to the roof of the airport to burn this treated lumber, there’s bigger problems afoot.
Yes, just use "detect ball" as the prompt. It will give you y1,x1,y2,x2 coordinates on a scale of 0-1024. It is really good at this.

Unfortunately, without fine tunes you can't have it just detect everything and return all detected objects, afaict.
YouTube shows you what you ask it to show you. The vast majority of content has no ads. You can easily go forever without seeing one.

That’s like saying Verizon has ads because I see ads on the internet.
In view of what others said here, that would be answering war crimes with more war crimes.
I think a better analogy to my point would be if making insurance claims for oil changes was considered a normal and accepted practice.

But you're right, that's part of the reason we end up with things like copays. My 3rd point above is also responsible for a lot of this.
The google algorithm from about 15 years ago.

I think the code is still running, just not publicly. Give me access to that!
This was debunked within hours, as commented on that thread last week.
Couldn't care less.
Funny, I think it's a perfect summary, but in a positive sense. Some of the tools you can modify the prompt, or include a .md file in context to help direct it. But even without that, I don't find it a waste of time because I have lower expectations. "This just saved me 15 minutes of typing out html+css for this form, so I don't mind taking 2 minutes to review and tweak a few things."
Or one or two devs in the F100 customers made an account using their work email so they could chuck some OSS prototype code somewhere, or test something out.
Aren't ultra-fine particles still a potential health issue with laser printers? Especially in home office or domestic use, where they typically aren't placed in a separate printer room?
Interestingly, I can't find any of the threads about the UHC CEO on the HN frontpage either. I've gone back 200 posts (around 3-4 days old) and only one loosely related post up. I had to google with "site:ycombinator.com" to find anything.
The first time I ever went out with a zoom lens after starting with just a 50mm prime, the amount of creative power and freedom I felt really opened my eyes. Without having to worry about focal length you can actually compose with the naked eye and walk around til you get everything in the right position, then zoom in to get the framing right.

Zoom With Your Feet and other photography minimalist cliches seem to me kind of mystifying, and more interested in a kind of romantic vision of photography than in technical excellence
Great use of a temp throwaway account. Have an upvote.
The page isn't very convincing. Sure, the low competition and DRM makes it likely more expensive than need be, but there are actually competitors and they aren't that much cheaper. Are the compounds that make up printer ink, to give it the right fluidity or whatnot, perhaps simply fairly expensive?

Taking old cartridge (with the right chips and everything) and topping it up from a syringe (they hold only a few ml anyway), so you don't have to break anything, can't be expensive or hard to do if the ink itself wasn't expensive. Everyone should want to get in on this business model. Since the page doesn't say anything about the actual cost price, I wonder if it isn't so lucrative as they make it seem
I think of AI like a very eager and bright 20 yr old intern who’s really into whatever tech I’m trying to learn.

Good knowledge of facts, willing to give anything a try, but not much wisdom.
you could turn that argument back on itself and say the same thing about american companies since america has been ravaging the middle east for decades.

i like that they are using a diversity of sources with a diversity of biases for their information. i don't want them to just get their information from a single biased source in the west like literally every other search engine out there.
If Les Grossman Negotiated with Hans Gruber from Die Hard [video]
Related:

Anaesthesiologists and Surprise Billing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42335824
>Agreed. You do your best to counter and mitigate this type of foreign influence, but once people have voted, they have voted. Once you start to rationalize "but they only voted this way because X", it will be tempting to expand X in a way that disenfranchises and disempowers citizens.

And you ignore the laws? You discover that the candidate do illegal stuff?
I would post that most lay people, the ones who make Google their money, know nothing about those tools Google has/used to have.
The falling rate of profit...
I get the anti-advertisement sentiment, and when it comes to most every flavor of online advertising, I agree. But, once upon a time, ads blended seamlessly with the content. Or, at least had the potential to.

I used to subscribe to XLR8R and Thrasher magazine. The ads were tailored to the content of the magazine (electronic music and skateboarding, respectively). Thus, completely relevant to the interest of the reader.

I'm not sure how folks would emulate that online without heavy curation. But, I can't remember feeling any negativity towards ads while reading those magazines. If anything I was glad to be informed about a new skate video or music release.
We have one of the combined Brother last printers and scanners with ADF - don't use it very often but incredibly convenient when you need it.
bill staples was brought on new relic to sell the company, now he's brought onto gitlab to do the same
Exactly. Both programming and photography seem to attract technicians who want to believe there is a “right” way. Fast forward 20 or 30 years, and anyone still practicing has given up on absolutes and false dichotomies.
Nuclear power is something Russia is afraid to attack. Those others are in many ways better, but they are something Russia will attack.
Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds
I think that’s precisely why you perceive it. I am actually curious if anyone has done a large scale rigorous study in perception of search quality among average users.
Because it’s a poorly designed regulation and there is a group of people who can’t accept that the EU over-regulates and is bad at writing any regulation remotely related to technology.

If a government has trouble complying with the “spirit” (as many people use in argument) of their own regulation then the regulation is poorly designed and not useful.
If I could sketch out the architecture I wanted as a flow chart annotated with types and structures, implementable by an AI, that would be a revolutionary leap.

I design top-down, component by component, and sometimes the parts don't fit together as I envisioned, so I have to write adapters or - worst case - return to the drawing board. If the AI could predict these mismatches, that would also be helpful.

Unfortunately, I don't think AI is great with only the accidental tasks either.
Too bad that "looking Sci-Fi" means more or less all looking the same.

Art design in the movie "Alien" (was it Ron Cobb?) borrowed from samurai armor for the space suits. (And of course Darth Vader himself was inspired in large part from samurai armor.)

Lazy films and video games since though seem to often just recycle a certain look. Perhaps an unpopular opinion but the "anime look" has been fatiguing to this person's taste for a couple of decades now as well.
I like how this looks but I have a feature suggestion....

Could you crowd-source categories/tags for the stories and then try and implement an opt-in / opt-out function that lets us exclude certain categories. I'm not even sure if it's possible but you're some of the way there.
Argh! Wire-wrapped backplanes! That wasn't the fantasy at all!
Not sure I get how that would work. It seems to me that to do my job I will have to validate the semantics of the program, and that means I will have to become familiar with the syntax of Go or whatever, at a fairly sophisticated level. If I am glossing over the syntax, I am inevitably glossing over the fine points of how the program works.
“sorry, we couldn’t get the nurse on the line. I typed the case notes into our pre authorization AI, and it said ‘no’, have a great day! click”
A lot of people have come to the CEO's defense saying don't blame the players, that they're just working with the incentives of the system. But I think what gets missed by that objection is it is a system that they actively created and sustain.

According to OpenSecrets, UnitedHealth Group has spent $5,860,000 lobbying in 2024.

So yeah, fuck that guy.
If you can read code fast, it's very useful. I think this may be the biggest reason it's more helpful to seniors than juniors.

It's easy for a senior engineer to forget how exhausting it is for juniors to read code. I can glance at a page of code from Claude and tell pretty quickly if it's what I want. So it's useful to me if it's right more than half the time. For a junior this is definitely worse than just trying to write it themselves, they would learn more that way and come out less exhausted.
Thanks! No fixed plans for future development - it kind of depends on how much traction it gets. If it gets a lot of interest I might add a 'AI editor' that chooses images and write subtitles (or deletes boring ones which have been written by the article's author). But even if it gets little use besides myself, hosting costs are minimal so it will be around for a while :)
HN seems to be doing it too (though they're just hidden, not deleted). None of the UHC posts are on the frontpage and I checked all the way to 200 posts down. I had to google just to find this one.
As an alternative, I created https://github.com/a2lix/schemql for those interested.
I think it's the "some kind of evidence" that's the important part.
I'm not familiar with GPUs specifically, but I have seen this for ORMs that support multiple SQL dialects (e.g. [0]).

A great technique is called 'tagless final encoding' [1]. Using this technique, you can specify capabilities of an embedded domain-specific language (eDSL) such that you can have a shared (but narrow) common set of features, while allowing specializations of this eDSL to support extra features.

[0]: https://github.com/haskell-beam/beam

[1]: https://nrinaudo.github.io/articles/tagless_final.html
1000%, for most normal usage a $200 Brother printer's built-in toner would last years before considering a toner replacement.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42333800
2nd: My print quality sucks with 3rd party ink
If you press it long enough, it will shutdown, even if you didn't touch anything in the assistant.
If you're posting content on HN, you should always expect a traffic increase anyways. And Cloudflare CDN is free anyways (unless you don't want to use it for political reasons, your choice)... Although I understand hotlinking is frowned-upon in a general context
Part of the issue I see is because water and power are "pipes in the ground", and have regulated monopolies due to that inefficiency, yet the broadband/fiber "pipe in the ground" somehow dodged those rules.

As an anecdote, I have an engineer family member working on undergrounding utilities. The power and water companies provide drawings showing which customers have what service from the power poles that will go underground. Comcast will not provide a list of their present customers, because they want to bilk the taxpayer to run the to-the-house service for even non-customers. So there is my family member, having to charge the city as they walk door-to-door recording who has service. This is one of those high-cost externalities that is not correctly captured by these "think-tanks".
I have long since come to the conclusion that democracy as a power system is merely an excuse for the Powers That Be to obtain and maintain power, it just has better plausible deniability than other means like monarchies, dictatorships, etc. at the cost of not having fine-grained control.

Occasionally there are aberrations like Trump, which subsequently lead to the Powers That Be doing everything they can to make sure the vote is made "right".
So it's about being cool but not about being hip? What distinction are you trying to make?
On the other hand, streaming (usually) isn't actually streaming, it's progressive download. The thing that stops you skipping the ads is just the fact that they turn off the fast-forward button and enforce that with DRM. Otherwise skipping ads would be trivial.

Cable DVRs have to actually capture and record the signal into a ring buffer, and if it isn't integrated into a cable box[0], it has to come out of one, with a complicated setup of IR blasters to have your DVR tune the cable box to a specific channel. And of course you have to actually pause the video or record it in advance in order to get commercial-skipping capability.

Cable ad skipping is entirely a technical problem, streaming ad skipping is entirely a legal one.

[0] You were supposed to be able to just get a CableCARD, but the cable companies fought tooth and nail to force you to
I'm old enough to remember that the preference for prime lenses over zoom was because early zoom lenses were crap. Even now, (mumble) decades later, intellectually knowing that thanks to improvements in glass and cadcam manufacturing techniques, today's zooms are much better than what I grew up with, I still don't use them.

And I've been listening to the whole crop-no crop thing most of my life too. BUt ECB didn't crop! people say (though he sometimes did). I try to shoot to get it 'in camera' as close as I can to what I want, but as the article says, sometimes you just can't. You still get to choose what your final image is going to be. And that's the thing about 'rules' and 'advice'--they're just some guidelines, things to think about, but they're highly contextual, depending on the situation.
> The src:shadow package had dropped a Debian-specific patch,

shoot, that's evil. had not noticed this. i read this as "removed", not "was released". now idk.

this pseudo-definition of dropped as "released" is beyond stupid. yikes!
capslock is control
I would have thought, also, that penguins tend to live and die near the coastline (where the ice meets the water, I mean, not where the land under the ice disappears) — and tend to correlate with things that like to eat dead penguins.

But (1) the preserved Scott dog in the article is on Cape Evans maybe not too far from the coast? and (2) now I wonder if I'm wrong about penguin habits. I'd like to hear more.
You are confusing a hospital misused as military base for healthy soldiers with a hospital treating wounded soldiers.
No ads needed for you.

Just like you can visit hacker news and see all the stories right there, do they just manifest through out the day? Or is there a group of people trudging through the new stories to pick which ones to elevate?

Having worked on the product side, I can tell you that when you google a product looking for organic reviews, what you are seeing is the sprouts of seeds planted by advertising.

Trust me, try and launch an amazing product with no advertising.

Then do it with a standard set of web ads, wait a few months, and go see the people on reddit talking about your product despite you never doing more than buying standard website/social media ads (not sponsored posts, just regular ads)
Probably true for at least some of them. Having crunched out prototypes by both more formal and ad hoc code generation in a bunch of languages, and also having inherited some mature applications that started that way, I'm not really impressed with the notion of putting down some foundations fast.

If you're building something possibly serious, you expect to be hacking away for years anyway. Whether it takes you one or five weekends to make something for recruiting or financing or whatever doesn't actually matter much, it's not a very good sales pitch.

I think a lot of the hype is from managerial people, the kind that have been swayed by promises from people selling RAD and "low code" and so on over the decades. And yeah, you can put your non-technical employees to work building things if you want, but when it breaks your profits are at risk anyway and the consultants you need to hire won't be cheap.
Could be the opposite.

Once you write sufficiently detailed unit tests, the AI writes the implementation.
I dunno man.

I guess it would bother me if 1+1=3. It ain’t though.

I think a better example is something like e.g. your parents give your sibling far better gifts than you, since you can’t really escape that dynamic as a child.

As an adult it’s like, alright, so my workplace is crap, let me use one of the 40+ years of my adult life to find another one.

I am British, someone working at Facebook in the US earns double or triple what I used to as a software dev for roughly the same work. Does it bother me? I guess? But my first thought isn’t to be upset or something, it’s more like “do I want to live in the US, if so, google immigration lawyers then”, if not, accept and move on.
Is there a law that calls for election annulment if a candidate does illegal stuff? I doubt. In fact, usually there are specifically no such laws to avoid initiatives for political prosecution.
FWIW, auto_vacuum set to INCREMENTAL doesn't do any vacuuming automatically; it just stores the information needed to vacuum the DB.

From https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_auto_vacuum:

> When the value of auto-vacuum is 2 or "incremental" then the additional information needed to do auto-vacuuming is stored in the database file but auto-vacuuming does not occur automatically at each commit as it does with auto_vacuum=full. In incremental mode, the separate incremental_vacuum pragma must be invoked to cause the auto-vacuum to occur.
I think we can expect sophisticated criminals to start using AI to rewrite their correspondence.
The Albright quote is apocryphal. https://fair.org/extra/we-think-the-price-is-worth-it/
But aren't these folks already served well by PocketBase ?

And by the time they get a million user, they will probably not be hosting on a single "tiny box" anyway. At what point do you think : okay, I need PocketBase, but ten times faster ?
The presence or absence of an image depends on user votes. If you feel an image is not useful, click the '...' button and select 'Suggest or Choose an Image' > 'This story does not need an image'
Because there’s about as much competition in printer ink as there is in printers or mobile phones or display advertising vendors or web browser engines or fucking anything.

Enshittified passively (on paper) owned by State Street (actively managed behind closed doors in reality, look it up) modern terrible-tastic McKinsey certified fuck the consumer is just how we do now.
Why was the election allowed to proceed if one candidate declared $0 in campaign funding and that's apparently impossible and obviously a lie?

Annulling an election is never a good look, rarely ever instills confidence in the citizenry or those abroad, so it needs to be done in absolutely necessary circumstances.

I don't want pro-Russian candidates to win anywhere after their invasion of a sovereign nation, bombing of hospitals and schools, and other brazen acts of destruction as well as the warrant from the ICC for the arrest of their head of state. At the same time, I don't want democracies to backslide to avoid election of candidates I don't like, and I'm seeing a lot of democratic backsliding these days in various countries.
They very clearly aren't suggesting that there have been no intentional strikes on residential targets.

Only that most residential hits are not in that category. The majority do seem to be misses / redirects.

Language is tricky sometimes, I know. But in this case, it really wasn't.
Less than it used to be, but yes. Though it applies to printing and maintenance, and the whole point of buying a laser printer for home is that it can sit still for months at a time.
As you have figured out this change was only about the liquids to adhere to EU standards, I of course dislike it as somewhat frequent flyer, but it makes sense to make a standard.

Now if only I could leave my laptop in everywhere, that would be nice. I never fly without my laptop and it gets old quite fast somehow having to figure out if I should take it out (and spent 5 minutes putting it back in, which sucks if it was not required) or try to take it out when people are waiting on you. I just wished airports would put clear signs up what you have to take out so I can prepare before I get to the belt.
i don't know how old you/your moms are, but chances are that even if you're younger your moms' mom probably did that because she was taking pictures with something like kodachrome 64 than unless you're in the sun it ended up having 0 shadow detail. so it was better to have a least a squinting picture of a kid than have half their face be complete darkness.
Your second paragraph is entirely developer work.

At no point do you change your focus to what works best for the user. Who is the user; what kind of devices does he use; what does he want to accomplish on your website; what does he need to accomplish that; etc.
It’s going to crash hard, isn’t it?