skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is about as simple as librebooting gets.

I had a nice chuckle at this. Buying chip clips? A separate Raspberry Pi to wire everything together and perform the flashing process?

Is there really no chance of some kind of click-and-reboot process, same as how official proprietary firmware gets updated?
You can rip Windows from my cold dead hands. It just works.
> It seemed like "productive" was used in a relative sense. Would all those people be more productive on macOS or Linux? That's not clear.

I would assume that companies are semi-rational actors and would switch if they could improve productivity that way. Especially since some sectors (graphic design for example) seem to prefer MacOS while others don’t. Of course there are some other factors (support, network effect, purchase cost) but if windows was just plainly unproductive, surely it wouldn’t be as popular as it is.

> Also, I thought the parent was replying to the following part, considering they said "I know plenty".

True, the survey doesn’t prove they actually prefer windows, u missed that context.
It's a tiny bit easier town that in that if you learn a tiny bit of grammar you can extrapolate sets of reloted words where you add an extra E or S or both.
This this is another issue, and it's why I'm not holding my breath for the data and will be satisfied with rebranding to the more appropriate Open Weight moniker (caveat: license).
Scrabble really is a maths game. It just looks like a word game.
>That pretty clearly forces every Guugu Yimithirr speaker to have to be constantly aware of the compass directions so they can clearly point at things, it's quite unsurprising that they are very good in instinctively knowing where the north is without a compass.

Apparently you can't even greet someone unless you know the cardinal directions - an article I read in New Scientist claimed that a greeting is essentially telling which direction you came from and in which you are headed.

Be that as it may, I can easily believe that this feature of the language forces you to keep track of directions, after something I experienced: I was always good at keeping track of directions myself, I could walk around in sunless cities for hours and always know which direction I should go to get back to where I started. I could do this while driving too (I also traveled to other countries and drove around in many unfamiliar cities).

But then GPS navigation systems arrived. Convenient, I thought. Until I realized I had completely stopped tracking cardinal directions unconsciously. I haven't used car navigation since that hit me, and it was actually hard to get back into the habit of keeping track of where I am. I'm not sure I will ever again be as good as I used to be.
AWS natively provides this (1024 PPS) as a metric (‘ linklocal_allowance_exceeded’) via eth tool, which is automatically scraped by most Observability stacks. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitori...
Same person has a "public domain" ssh port to AmigaOS... with no source code.

Amiga community can be very weird.
You say that, but there are some world-class Scrabble players from Thailand who play Scrabble in English, a language with a completely different alphabet and orthography from their native tongue. They don't necessarily speak English well, either. One beat Nigel Richards for the World Championship in 2009 [0].

I think it would take Richards about 20 minutes to learn the Cyrillic alphabet and a few weeks to get familiar enough with the patterns of Russian to be a competitive player in that language. World champion is obviously a harder ask, but I wouldn't rule it out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakorn_Nemitrmansuk
You removed the misconduct but also the whole appeal of talking to a stranger, you don't get that by talking to ChatGPT. Maybe focus on removing the misconduct using AI while still having real humans talk to each other.
In some areas probably you're right. Pictures of men in certain eras all wearing identical hats spring to mind. On the other hand the film industry is a stark example where it really did used to be more varied. The article mentions it, before 2000 3 in 4 big films were original. Now it's getting close to zero.
That's a different thing. This system doesn't do that, but that's one use case they have for it.
To add my voice to sibling comments, up to CA's acquisition of Clipper on the mid-90's, database development in the Iberian Peninsula was all about xBase.

DBase, and all its derivatives were everywhere.

Additionally, before VB and Delphi took over this market, many MS-DOS xBase refugees found a new home in Visual Fox Pro.
If you are using Python, check out the package I've been building, magentic https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic It supports structured outputs and streaming, and aims to avoid making unnecessary abstractions (but might require some more understanding of LLM patterns as a result).

Also recently released is pydantic-ai, which is also based around pydantic / structured outputs, though works at level of "agents". https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai
Terrible to read he still suffered a lot. I hope your wife is ok.

I've read about four or five stories in my lifetime about people who assisted in aiding a dear friend. Most of them just stuffed a pillow in their face when they begged to end their very painful existence.

I've witnessesed my brother in law suffer immensly from cancer before he decided to end it all by assisted death. Near the end he was not human anymore for me. Just a body chock full of medicines constantly trying to survive as much as possible. I can't blame the cells trying to win that desperate war, but it was horrifying to watch him transition from a strong happy human to that state.
Send it to Lance Hedrick I'm sure he will make useful suggestions.
> That does remind me though - why isn't "icons on the desktop" a thing by default anymore? I'll admit I stopped bothering to go edit the defaults for every new install, but why?

They actually made "Folderview" (the mode where the desktop shows all files inside the ~/Desktop directory) default again for new installations in Plasma 5.10, released 7 years ago.

https://blogs.kde.org/2017/03/01/plasma-510-folder-view-defa...
Which is great!
However with this expansion, the original hardware would be able to do this too.
But in the last game it wasn’t about engine evaluation. It was a move that within 2 moves led to a known lost endgame..
I thought the same, especially Space X.

I think with space, there's a near infinite unrealized market. If you build a lot of cheap rockets, people will come and pay you to put things on them.

If you build cheaper transformers, will anyone buy them? They will buy some, but is there enough market demand to buy 2 or 3 times the number of transformers over a long period?
Wow this looks really interesting. Do you per chance have a video of you using the grinder & machine?

I’m not quite sure I understand where the hot water is added, but I like not having a boiler.
Yes to you and the person you are responding to! And the boorishness here is coming from a "tech person" [0], no less.

What have the technologically capable people who were the ones architecting these systems the past few decades given the world: a handful of Big Tech behemoths, with all the terrifically negative, stultifying effects that has had. The computing world has been willfully fragmented, and the landscape is awash with casualties; namely, every person out there who is terrified of their computing devices, who panics when the first pop-up screen appears.

Which is surely the minority on here, but in the big bad world, I would guess it's easily a majority of people.

And then the computer types have the gall to ask what number theory has done for humanity..!

The following should go without saying, but let's say it anyway: just because tech-y startups continue to attract historic levels of investment, doesn't necessarily mean that the stuff the tech world produces is in anyway useful or special or good or interesting. If you're not going to read a book or something on the topic (number theory), at least browse a couple of wikipedia articles, or get an LLM to summarise it for you, or something.

[0] I'm guessing this entirely from the tone and the forum we're on. Please tell me if I'm guessing incorrectly!
There’s a game for NES trying to do this, kinda. It’s called Super Tilt Bro and has a chip to do WiFi multiplayer. Obviously not the same scope, but cool idea on real hardware
> This reads like nothing more than an advertisement of Clion’s refactoring features.

Yes, I think that's the whole point.

> Some of the tips are even quite dangerous and highly context dependent, like creating a base class when two classes share common functionality. That sounds like a refactoring nightmare to happen.

I don't see where that hypothetical danger lies. Deduplicating code is a basic refactorizarion step.

> I’m currently working through a difficult refactor and the most important tips I can give are:

I'm afraid you're going the wrong way about this. No wonder you associated "danger" with refactoring.

The basic steps you take to refactor legacy code are:

- identify code paths that are affected if you touch a specific component,

- identify invariants and expected state changes through that code path. If there is none, add your own (see code seams)

- add tests to verify those invariants (see software vise tests)

- proceed with refactoring.

If you want to learn more, I recommend you pick up the book "working effectively with legacy code" by Michael C Feathers.
As long as Flash Write Protection is a thing and the default Lenovo BIOS enables it, yes that is how it goes.
Why does the most attractive male face appear suspiciously similar to Zuck?
He's talking about the size of US technology companies:

> Look at a list of the ten tech companies with the highest market valuation as of mid-November. With the exception of the Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC, all are American; no European company even comes close
I used Clipper Summer '87, and Clipper 5.x on a 386SX, running at 20MHz, 2 MB, and a 40 MB HDD.

What were you doing for 30 minutes?!?
> 1. Roughly model the data flow on paper so you don't have to fight the borrow checker or make design changes later.

So Rustacians have to defer to paper and pencil just to avoid the tooling huh, something seems counter productive about that.
And skin! Not sure how people overlook skin: cheeks color, smoothness, freckles, tanned/not tanned.
Sends so many signals
Just went a month without cigarettes today, yay! Still overweight :(
That's really good and humane. Canada appears to be one of the last sane countries around... if only it could fix it's housing market.
Inhuman might be going too far since it would imply Nigel Richards isn’t human. <End pedantic rant>

Also if one takes character patterns (which words are) and attach other characteristics, such as number of occurrences of individual characters or use ascii numbering to convert to numbers, then these character patterns (aka words) might be simpler to memorise.

Meaning is only necessary if you intend to speak the language.
I'm a Kiwi, but living abroad now.
I have mixed views on this announcement, I do agree with the basic sentiment that NZ is broke and has been for a long time. That means 'decisions' on public spending need to be in the national interest, for the current govt, that translates into 'fiscal interest'. That said, cutting "all" govt funding to social sciences is not the right call. I would have though that a smaller budget and stricter set of criteria for funding would have been a better approach. NZ has always had a 'fringe element' looking for funding for dubious research of limited value, but de-funding everything that is not of economic value feels like the wrong approach.
> As an American, however, I expect to die like he did: poor, mostly alone, and in pain.

All you need is a "beer brewer's kit" - gas bottle, simple plastic bag, and hose from the tank. There is an Aussie guy who explains how it all works on YouTube.
I second the request for videos. I'm primarily interested in the espresso machine and the lack of an end to end video will prevent me from giving it any really consideration.
> you can choose an instance

I'm out
Earlier submission with some comments: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-world-of-tomorrow/

Also, obligatory meta complaint: the site seems to break trackpad forward/back gestures at least on Firefox :/
Imagine you walk down a road and see a small forest ahead and a group of people before that forest. They all talk about what is beyond the forest. They all tell different things. But this does not mean they are all equally right or equally wrong or that one may simply choose the version one likes best. There is something specific behind the forest and if everyone tells their own incompatible versions, then everyone is wrong or everyone but one. (Or maybe some of the versions are not that incompatible.)

If you sneak away, go through the forest and come back, you will see a very nuanced picture of who is saying what. For example you found a stream. Someone may not mention a stream, but from his tale you will see that he indeed was there, but in winter and missed the stream just a bit. Or someone may loudly claim there is a stream, but you will clearly see that the person never was there and is only trying to persuade you to buy a flask.

But if you never was there all these tales will look same to you. This guy says this and that guys says that; how to decide? Logically? But is it clearly impossible to merely take all those words, somehow analyze them and get a correct answer. The clues one should look for are not in the contents of the tale.
Every time I dip my toes in multithreading in C++, I just get into a world of random crashes and segfaults. It seems unreasonably hard, hah.
Access is still around, the problem is that it isn't on the basic Office offering, and not everyone is going to give 180 euros for a single product.
Is anything actually preventing each of the 50 states from doing this?
Robo helper in the household

Ai personal assistant who knows me and understands what I want

Ais chat among each other to figure out if their “owners” are good matches. If they are the ais set up a time and place for the first date
Electric Cables? They are hard to make in metal or wood
Ask HN: What do you think about creating video captcha?
Hi,

Taking into account current state of AI and the fact that it is harder and harder for ordinary captchas to really distinguish between bot and human I was thinking about idea of creating video captchas were people will need to use camera and show something on camera to prove that they are real humans. What do you think about such idea?

Best,
Wiktor
"hot deploys on fly.io to a planet-wide cluster, in 3 seconds.": https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1785678249424461897
Here's a TRS-80 era one that when I see the cover, I can still smell the parchment aroma that came from cracking open the book:

Getting Started With Extended Color Basic
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hard...
Exactly. This is how you can place in time things like TVA in Loki and the office in Severance even though they do not belong to that time canonically.
To be fair to the grandparent, you can’t fully audit whether the cases of the people who successfully petitioned, because they’re now dead.
I'm not against studies like this I guess?

but the amount of variables you would need to control for to get meaningful data is a sneeze in a hurricane.
This is something I'm thinking about every now and then when my mind starts to wander - if I'd be teleported back to the early 80s, how much of an advantage would I actually have with my current knowledge. Just always knowing which technology will emerge and persist on its own is a huge advantage, paired with knowledge of what trends regarding end users come up when. That alone probably dwarfs any advantage you have in technical knowledge. 8088mph would blow people's minds back then, but being able to do that would probably not be the thing that leads to success, but definitely gives you a shit ton of intern^WBBS street cred. :)
It sure looks pretty. Both the site and the machine. And the tech sounds interesting too! There are a bunch of fabulous devices out there though, not sure how to understand just how great this is, some third party validation would help me. Anyhow, excellent presentation!
Well in terms of the question of whether we've 'gone too far', I don't think the total number or ratio is relevant - what is are what requirements are in place for this sort of thing. Even if 20% of deaths are through MAID, that doesn't necessarily mean that the requirements are too lax or that the system is being abused - another explanation would be that that many people simply don't want to suffer through an unpreventable death.

This number/ratio will surely only go up too, as people become more aware of it and it becomes more culturally acceptable.
Obligatory link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/
The point is that females have 46 full chromosomes and males don't.

If you take into account that one of the 46 is essentially inactivated in females, that's obviously another story; but as far as nucleotides go, the genetic difference between male and female humans is 1/46th.
Or on a smaller scale, hybrid and open warfare, domestic terrorism [1] or just rednecks shooting at power lines [2] and transformers [3] already cause a lot of damage to power infrastructure.

An AR-15 or Kalashnikov is enough to cause serious damage, a hit squad or two can take out unprotected infrastructure on a wide scale in a very short time - and most substations consist of barely more than a fence and barbed wire to deter wildlife from entering, not a concrete wall that would thwart attackers.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/military_styl...

[2] https://newtoncountytimes.com/stories/shooting-power-and-fib...

[3] https://www.sasktoday.ca/southeast/local-news/carlyle-rcmp-s...
What a beautiful bit of work. Are they actually commercially available and how are you going to handle production? Did you set out to sell them from the start or was it a personal project that has spiralled? How long have you been working on it?

In any case, congratulations!
Show HN: Write X threads, LinkedIn & Instagram carousels in one go!
Write X threads, LinkedIn & Instagram carousels in one go!

Typeway is an all-in-one social media writing, repurposing and scheduling tool.

It's currently in beta, and you can try out the early stage of AI LinkedIn carousel/X thread generation right now (you'll have a 50 request limit - but honestly just message me if you want more).

Looking for feedback, especially on pricing.

I really wanted to make a product that was a one-time purchase, since that's what I enjoy buying myself (well, more than another subscription).

But honestly, there's a long way to go with all the features I'd like to build, looking forward to hearing some thoughts.

- Write once, publish everywhere.
The wikipedia article opens with

"Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal

If Neanderthals and Homo sapiens could interbreed and produce offspring that could reproduce, doesn't that clear up any confusion about them possibly being a distinct species?
Can you pay me what I want?
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Crash Helps Us Learn About the Red Planet
For that reason I have flagged this post.
It’s not common at all - on the contrary, the majority of ob-gyns have never seen a patient return and express regret about their voluntary sterilization, let alone know of one who was driven to suicide by it. I don’t know how this commenter came up with the idea.
"This interests me" is a hidden moral judgment. Morality is all about deciding what to do next. It's right to sometimes ask a question about aimlessness. Feeling interested motivates us to ignore that question, because it's already answered by the feeling. In the stirring of interest is concealed an intuitive master plan, which says "I don't know where this leads but it feels worthwhile".

Sometimes it's right to drag those intuitive feelings into the light and force them to explain themselves, and come up with some clue about in what way futzing around with (for instance) prime numbers might contribute to all the rest of the sprawling web of things we generally value in life. But enthusiasm is a precious and wholesome thing, so people rarely question it.
When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?

While I share your lament, witnessing feats like a Starship getting caught by giant chopsticks feels pretty darned extraordinary!
> I find it overall very unnerving how quiet this is and how the Canadian press never really finds issues with this.

I suspect this claim to be dubious. I'm certain one can find 'Canadian press' that report issues with this.

However, putting that aside... I am not surprised, because most people feel that our current prevailing culture of extending life at any cost of suffering is... cruel. Most people are glad we have things like this, so their loved ones - and themselves - can go out with some amount of dignity.
How to make your own capacitive keyboard (Written in Japanese)
> Yes everything looks the same now. But hasn't that always been the case to a certain extent? The world is a lot smaller now and that leads to ideas spreading quickly.

Most of what the article is complaining about is because the economics has led to monopolization.

At least back in the 1960s and 1970s, you had some individuality which would poke up. A department store wanted different clothes from the other department store to draw you in. A radio DJ wanted different music to get you to listen to their channel. etc.

However, once everything is a monopoly, there is no need to spend any money to be unique since there is nowhere different for anybody to switch to.
While often called humans best friend, I think wolves and humans don't live well together in modern times. At some point wolves need to be hunted again or they will spread to human settlements, which will cause numerous problems.

They deserve their territories undisturbed by humans, but I think on farmed land they need to be driven away in most instances.

Of course wolves would also prefer to hunt farm animals compared to dangerous wild boars or difficult to catch deer. They aren't stupid.
The resources that public basically "donates" to the science are limited and there's always the question of priorities. Not just money, but people themselves. This is very valid question. One could argue that there's potential in studying almost everything: prime numbers, deep space, exotic matter, crash particles to each other, discover language structure, develop new programming paradigms, model economic behaviour, model nuclear winter. But those who giving money, need to choose and allocate. And those who want to study prime numbers while receiving money from government, inevitable need to prove why this particular study has value.