skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will say the default network-transparency of ROS is probably more of a long-term hindrance than a help to applications built on top of it. A lot of projects would get a lot further if they were designed from the outset with clear boundaries where network communication was required (and what can be done to deal with what that implies), and it would be nice if components intended to be used in those systems were designed to be composed with that in mind, instead of requiring a network-based pub-sub system with not particularly great latency or reliability guarantees, even if it has a mode where those are tightened up a lot.
People can easily disagree even when their incentives align. Hopefully we aren’t beings who have to blindly submit to whatever incentives are out there, or assume the same of other people.
Can you please make AI agents that fold my laundry and clean my dishes, and leave the things I enjoy to me instead of the other way around?
I’m skeptical but there’s plenty of intracellular bacterial pathogens. Perhaps there’s an intracellular commensal bacteria/symbiote.

I think if it was extracellular we would see it more often in CSF - which is collected quite a bit in healthcare. Regular histology/pathology slices and staining would detect as well.

I could imagine an intracellular commensal bacteria that is small and virtually indistinguishable from an organelle like a mitochondria or lysosome that may exist.

Mitochondria were already bacteria at one point. Could there be another endosymbiont?

Mitochondria have circular DNA and phage like polymerase. Perhaps our secret symbiont can be found through DNA studies.

Examples of intracellular bacterial pathogens include:
Brucella abortus
Listeria spp.
Chlamydia spp.
Rickettsia spp.
Ehrlichia spp.
Anaplasma spp.
Coxiella spp.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Salmonella spp.
A real self respecting department would (a) order the sofa, and then (b) get Buildings&Grounds to adjust at least one of their lunch room-adjacent hallway corners to be the minimum size it fits through?
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Basically, RHEV as a VMware takeout project never gained a lot of traction. With the general industry shift towards containers and Kubernetes plus the Broadcom acquisition, kubevirt in combination with a much more mature OpenShift is a lot more interesting.
Yes, this is the situation we are left in. I don't really know of course (and presumably nor do you) whether he was a good employee or made substantive improvements or whatever. It would have helped if he was more specific and concrete in his descriptions.

The biggest failing here is a failing of clear and compelling writing.
.VA TLD has been intermittently wildcarded?
Is the N100 better supported by Linux than the RPi? My RPi gets the TAINT_CRAP flag due to broadcom drivers from the staging area.
The War of the Golden Stool
Totally agree. I've recently built this: https://github.com/ludovicianul/sol which lets you use natural language to query your git history for different metrics.
Overleaf down. If you have a paper deadline then my condolences
So, what does that say about the possibility of fungal symbiotes?
I get that you're saying this as if to point out the hipster-ness of vinyl. I work in the music industry and have personally overseen the manufacturing of 100's of thousands of records, so I'm as much an expert as anyone on this topic.

Yes, vinyl is technically an inferior sound quality to FLACs. I'm happy to rant all day about the flaws of vinyl. I personally prefer high quality digital.

However on a good pressing there is an undeniable difference to a good vinyl pressing. It's not dissimilar from why I said that my kids frame the shots on digital cameras in ways that are different using an iphone. The processes that surround vinyl are different (better?) than those we use for digital mastering. Engineers pay more attention to vinyl mastering than they do digital. While there's a lot of shitty USB turntables, even those are often far better than how most people listen to music digitally which is often on iphones and shitty laptop speakers. The physicality of vinyl manufacturing incurs requisite different attention and processes that sometimes (emphasis on sometimes) results in a "better" listening experience.

Could you get the same "better" listening experience with lossless digital? Yes. but most don't. So vinyl is "better."
Deskflow – official upstream project for Synergy
What are the advantages of trying to use fake c++ instead of actual c++ for their use case? I'm sure there are / were smart people working on the project. Do they keep decision records? Have you had a conversation with the relevant people about it?
I think the reality is that a lot of people don’t use or care for the main Pi features like the GPIO pins or camera connectors, and aren’t using them in places where space or power is constrained. They’re purely looking for a cheap amount of compute.

For those use cases, it makes sense that performance per dollar is the top metric that many people look for. Pi used to be king there too, but as Pi prices have gone up and the price of other cheap compute has come down, it’s harder to justify the Pi. The Pi is still a great board, but a Pi5 with case, power supply, SD card will run you $100+ (throw in an SSD and you’re at $200+ easy), meanwhile an N100 PC can be had for the same price.
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Everyone now has to ask the question, should i continue paying for product that does XYZ from VMWare's competitor when i'm already getting a product that does XYZ as part of the VMWare licence.

Chances are if you're a vmware estate, those products are going to integrate better and then you only have a supplier, support portal, customer rep, etc..

Broadcom loose customers who arn't really invested in to VMWare and those who stay become even more invested in to them.
> No, it was not "literally" a lie.

It was "literally" a lie. There is no defense on this.
"2024: The Deskflow project was created as the community-driven upstream of Synergy."

Both this project and Input Leap (a barrier fork) now have wayland support. Synergy is a desktop mouse and keyboard sharing solution that works over the network.
I’d definitely prefer to have a professional certified DBA help me query my hobby project databases. But do you know one that’ll do it for (almost) free and is available 24/7?

Even at work, I can’t hog a single data engineer’s attention for hours on end without at least trying myself first.
I don’t know the source or context of your claim but even if I take it at face value, yes, the CEO has leverage in negotiations. It’s up to the board the extent to which they should be able to exercise that leverage.
I hate to just drop a book recommendation, but Jason Schreier's Play Nice covers the history of Blizzard in comprehensive detail.

The overall situation was multifacted, but my takeaway is that Blizzard's recent failures come down to two main themes:

* World of Warcraft's success gave the company unrealistic expectations of what a successful "normal" game looked like, and

* "When it's ready" covers up the sins of a company that never quite figured out project management.

My synthesis is that the combination meant that Blizzard projects needed to promise the moon to be greenlit, but then they immediately blew the initial time and money-budgets with the extensive scope.

Activision's influence didn't help, and it imposed a tighter focus on prompt monetary return after Titan's cancellation. That clashed with the long development cycles of even the successful projects.
Lucky Strike thought putting a smooth and refined cigarette in everyones hand was going to bring about world peace.
The Anglo-Ashanti Wars
That hasn't been my experience. When I've done this, I just stopped delivery of all items to my address rather than items addressed to me, specifically. That included all junk mail.

But I agree -- if your goal is to never have mail come to your home, then getting a PO box is the best solution.
> I wonder what the effectiveness rate is for, say, heart medication?

Not great, in general. Obviously some people will comply perfectly and never, never miss a dose, but that's not the norm, and for heart medication in particular, that's a mostly elderly demographic.
> Meanwhile, US can create binary biowarfare:

Nothing in the linked PDF says that.
> The pristine Mars defenders are considered radicals who lose out

The pristine Mars everywhere forever advocates are considered radicals and lose out. If I remember correctly, Mars is terraformed in a way that leaves parts of it as unchanged as possible, e.g. the extra-atmospheric peaks of Olympus Mons.
Its okay to threaten that someone will never work in the valley again if they don’t accede to their demands.

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, but care to cite some examples of them literally doing that?
It's worth bearing in mind that it's not just a financial gamble but a reputational one as well.

Chances are most of that 90% of your customer base who were previously fairly happy are now very unhappy with a forced move to another platform, so in 10 years time when they're in some other business and making purchasing decisions, someone will mention VMWare and the only thing they'll remember is that shit show where they spent 6 months migrating off it because of some ridiculous pricing change.
I mean it has polymorphism via v-tables and composition via traits, that's enough object-orientation for me. Inheritance is a core principle of OOP but in practice most C++ class hierarchies are relatively flat (there are exceptions like Qt, which I think uses inheritance in a good way), in practice most of that can be mimicked with embedding and composition well enough to work. Not sure if you want to call that object-oriented but operating on polymorphous structures that encapsulate their data is pretty close to object orientation (the good parts of OOP, at least). And I'm not a big expert on Rust but I think you can do most of the things we do in C++ with templates using macros.
YC will fund anyone who is building a company that looks like it could be highly successful.

There's one case I'm thinking of now where someone was as critical of YC (both the org and individual leaders) as anyone could possibly be, in a highly public and sustained way, and their startup later got funded by YC.
Email also requires either an account at a service (with various levels of hoops) or setting up your own email (with even more levels of hoops), so judging by "hoop count", they're more or less the same?
From what I heard Stellantis is soo screwed its not even funny anymore.
> The processes that surround vinyl are different (better?) than those we use for digital mastering. Engineers pay more attention to vinyl mastering than they do digital.

I call BS. I know people who work in music mastering, and I've asked about this. They use the same digital masters for the digital release and for vinyl.

They know people will buy vinyls if they want to no matter what if they want to, so it doesn't matter if the digital master isn't perfectly attuned to the vinyl medium
> a non-Han Chinese civilization in the area of Sichuan

From TFA: Huang Di Yuan Concubine Leizu Xiling taught others to raise silkworms, and the legend Leizu is from the people of Chengdu in Sichuan

Huang Di was regarded the ancester of every Han Chinese, and Sichuan was the birth place of Han. The literal meaning of "Han" traces back to LiuBang, the Great King of Han, founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty, literally established his fief over Sichuan (Ba, Shu, Hanzhong and its 41 counties). Liubang spent his next 5 years elimilated all his enemies and began the first Pax Sinica of 300 years.

If you mean the pre-Qin history of Sichuan, the Shu state was one of the "8 partners of Oath" that together with the Zhou state rebeled against the Shang, forming the foundation of Chinese civilization over its 800 years course.

The Ba & Shu kingdom were conquered by Lord Hui-wen, the great-grandparent of Qin-Shi-Huang the first emperor of China. Do you call this a "civilization was destroyed by the Han Chinese" or am I missing something?

So how do you define "non-Han"?

Or you just like to spin a narrative here?
> refactoring larger existing queries to a very different approach

Huh, that's really interesting. I've found LLMs (mostly Claude) to be pretty bad at writing SQL (they love cross joins for some reason), so it's interesting that others are getting good results. What models are you using, do you do any particular prompt engineering or anything different?
Somewhat related: A video about buildng a carbon fiber, solid fuel rocket by Xyla Foxlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQvK8EFJQzw ("only" 7Km, 23Kft)
Indeed. I lost the plot from my original comment, so I'll try to refine it here. I had brought up pollution and exploitation, a broad survey of negative features of our civilization because I think people don't weigh positive and negative things remotely fairly. All things have a social/ideal (as in ideas) backing. Space exploration is positive and hopeful; throw money at it and there are plenty of people who would be enthusiastic to join in. Fixing the environment, the economic system, and other woes is negtive, large scale, and nigh intractable. In a perfect world, people would probably have enough time, resources, and innate motivation to work on many different things and advance them all. In reality, we seek bright, hopeful pursuits like space exploration and push aside the environment. My original criticism of Walter Bright's attitude is that it exemplifies how we as humans have poor psychological balance of issues. It's why throwing money at environmental causes isn't comparable to throwing money at space exploration: we simply have far less collective will to actually fix the environment, especially not with corporate propaganda that shifts the blame and whatnot.

You're right that these pursuits are entirely orthogonal. Unfortunately, whether or not space exploration is in the picture, we are far less enthusiastic about doing what actually matters to fix the environment and whatnot. It's just that I myself only realized this imbalance from seeing Walter Bright's blatant positivity on space exploration. I will maintain that, not only is the negative pursuit a nightmare to work on by itself, but introducing the positive pursuit will be a psychological distraction, like how some people scoff at negative effects of capitalism and focus on the positives. Because we love feel-good stories and gravitate to them.
But the most resurrection movies aren't explaining anything. They're just making a big incoherent mess. That fresco only seems explainable with a time machine coming into the mix somewhere, or I guess David unlocked a hidden design. Ugh.
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Because it’s honestly quite bad and clunky by modern standards (I specifically miss composability of sub-query components, which makes every query like a throwaway effort), many people don’t enjoy learning it, and at least personally the likelihood of getting a given query right without doing lots of double checking is pretty low for advanced queries.

I do find it much easier to read/validate than to write though, which makes it an excellent application for LLM usage, in my experience.
333.33% this - drives me nuts.
Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
i am not user of emacs, but looking into as next switch.

using mainstream more structured language is good point go into emacs.

it also will lead to rewrite of some plugins. for example many rust rewrites just better c versions, but more consistent and structured. there was not reason not to rewrite these in c but better. very good for newcomers to unix world.

another point is async. i have heard that is one of problems of no async. if emacs has plan it could be intresting either doing async or properly avoiding. for me it is prove point emacs will not die with its creators.
there are a limited number of types

Objects are types...at least if you squint.
For the vast majority of companies, supply chain diversification represents a cost with little immediate benefit. In the long term, it can be a rational hedge against hostile supplier lock-in, but the vast majority of companies aren’t good at making long-term bets.
> If you are a civilian and the Taliban think you were affiliated with or benefiting from the old regime, you were and are a target

Governments brutalising their own citizens aren’t terorrists.

> there is a good chance they'll want to hang you

Fair enough, I suppose I should qualify political violence against non-military targets with indiscriminate. There is a difference between murderous revolutionary regimes and terrorism. (One key element, however, being the word “regime.” Killing professors after taking power isn’t terrorism. Killing professors before seizing control is.)
Ask HN: Would an AI Calendar Assistant Be Useful – Opinions?
Hey everyone,
I’ve heard it’s a great place to get feedback, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how I plan my tasks—things like work assignments or hobbies (e.g., writing an essay or research). Using a calendar helps me stay organized, but I still struggle with focus and procrastination sometimes.

That got me wondering: what if ChatGPT could connect to a calendar? It could read your planned tasks and prep ideas, or even write drafts ahead of time. Consequently, when you sit down to work, you’ll already have a starting point, saving time and making it easier to dive in.

I see this working best for more complex or creative tasks, like writing or meeting work deadlines, where having some input extra creative input from ChatGPT can make a big difference.

For simpler tasks like “do laundry” or “buy flowers,” just jotting them down is enough to jog a user's memory.

To make it easy, users could describe tasks using prebuilt prompts, like “What’s the goal?” or “How many suggestions do you want?”, "Would you like for me to draft a preliminary response?". This would give ChatGPT enough context to provide useful suggestions without making the setup feel overwhelming.

I know this might take a bit more effort than just scribbling a note, but I believe it is worth it for tasks that need planning or creativity and could help.

Do you ever deal with similar struggles when planning or staying productive? I’d love to hear your thoughts or ideas—especially if you see potential in this or challenges I might not have considered.
Thanks for reading!
There never was a lot of interest in RHV as a like-to-like VMware alternative. But, when I left, there was quite a lot of interest (especially post-Broadcom acquisition) in a Kubernetes/cloud-native friendly VM alternative to VMware. And, yes, there are various migration tools though I was not involved in the details.
Hand Gesture Recognition in Business?
The books (Battlefield Chronicles as a series) were originally published serially on royal road, where it has quite the following.

There are a lot of excellent authors who self publish, first on Reddit / royal road, and then some of them publish the same work as a book. The promotion channels, including review copies, etc - that a good publisher can facilitate - aren’t often accessible for this cohort. So that’s one big reason why - discovery becomes a challenge.
Good…? Buying these materials from state sponsored communist “labor” is plagued with ethical problems.
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Since when is email expected to be answered immediately??? Anything urgent means a phone call, or a text message. Emails are either for cya reasons (but then my urgency is not necessarily your urgency) or just big stuff needing time - to write, to compose, to think, to analyse. So email answering time is a wrong metric by definition.
They are a fad because in most cases their entire purpose is nostalgia, i.e. pointing at the screen and saying "OMG it's just like the 1990s!!!". In the recent Batman movie, soviet lenses from the 1950s were used. Did anyone feel a "soviet" look? A "1950s" look? No, they were chosen because they look unique
> Unlike a game engine we use a data oriented approach to minimize latency and maximize throughput.

Don't you mean "like"? I thought game engines were all about data oriented approach.
Title: “… we know why”

Article:

> OpenAI did not respond to our request for comment about the names, but all of them are likely filtered due to complaints about ChatGPT's tendency to confabulate erroneous responses when lacking sufficient information about a person.

Yeah, so they don’t know, just a speculation. Thanks, I hate it
What's a 0% increase? The original quantity. Therefore a 200% increase has to be 3x.
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sounds like startups founding and software engineers career
I seem to recall "someone" asking similar questions a few days ago - maybe the comments there would help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269133
This has been my experience as well. The difference between a seriously wealthy person and a less-than-wealthy person is only the number of digits in their bank account. At the heart of it, everyone is just as human as everyone else.
What would such an assumption have to do with anything? I put my seatbelt on even when I don't intend to get into car crashes.

Arbitration clauses and class-action waivers universally favor the corporation -- in this case Google -- and should not be legal. I'm proud to retain my basic legal rights.
They do this because it makes it look like an even bigger increase.
I'm wondering why there isn't a cheapest alternative to the pi without those features that most find useless. Or a more powerful for the same price
I was using the same language GP used when they referred to Hunter Biden's mistake.

That's my whole point here, is to try to be consistent regarless of who we're talking about.
> This is currently $19/mo plus search API cost (2.5c per search). Please reach out to support@kagi.com for invite.

Isn't 2.5c per search kind of expensive? serp api is 1 cent for the $150/month = 15k searches plan
You got hit with the classic anti-scammer technique of “go along until you see a chance to make a run for it”.
Sounds like someone wants to go full no-code to me.
What's the highest posted speed limit on the M1/M6 from London to Birmingham?
They never have to-- if people knew about them, they would opt out, and Google would lose their advantage.
Good luck doing Blazor in straight F# or VB without C# glue code, does it answer?
The ones staying with VMware, permanently or near term, are likely using products for which there are not good replacements. The open source alternatives can do what ESXi does sure, but its progressively more difficult to replicate VSAN (including stretched clusters) and NSX-T (with distributed firewalling) without bringing in multiple vendors that will all point at each other when there is a problem.
No new commits yet, just a talk about a future relaunch. Only strings performance is missing.

Gypsum https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/gypsum/ started from guile-emacs afresh, but is way behind.
And with Andrea's elispjit the guile port is probably not needed at all.