skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never gotten any value from professional critics- their opinions are totally uncorrelated with my own, and before I realized this they would often turn me off from trying music or movies I later found I enjoyed very much.

Moreover, they tend to seem jaded, and are either unable to enjoy anything, or feel the need to pretend not to enjoy anything to appear sophisticated. Seeing that negativity before experiencing something reduces the enjoyment of it.
I think it’s a positive. Generally the founders are more customer friendly/focused than CEO’s chasing constant revenue/profit growth.

Hard to imagine such a customer friendly company drastically changing when the founders retake control.
If they cannot generate enough profits to even justify holding on to the real estate rather than putting the real estate to some other use, is that meaningfully different from failing?
a "server-rendered" CLI is exactly what `keypub.sh` is, and what many ssh apps are (some are more TUI)
This right here is why I have serious doubts about the ultimate usefulness of LLMs in coding.

Code is the spec, and it's far faster to write the code yourself (if you know what you want to do and how to write code) than try to pass all this context to an LLM in the form of lossy and imprecise human language.
Show HN: I Built a Sarcastic Agent
Printers are a shrinking market.
And that's the reason they're being gutted. They're not crazy growth businesses anymore but have enough cash flow and real estate to make it profitable to be bled to death by these vultures.
I've been using Ubuntu and Fedora and I LOVE the simple and straightforward Gnome shell I have on both. It's useful out of the box and that's perfect for me. It's very Mac like in its way to promote a sane default rather than endless configurations. I don't want to waste time changing the screen background.
The benefit with windows is that for a vast majority of software, #2 is the process. And that’s it. It just works.
> Why do we need to manage them?

Why do developers need to write code that makes sense and does what they want it to do?
I didn’t know these brands still existed. The title felt like “East India Company to acquire Silk Road”.
> If app is repeatedly asking DB for same data and it's immutable for a period -- the persistance choice is wrong

Says who? ACID databases are the norm for a reason.

> There is potentially a whole lot of memory/callstack overhead involved in a request like that even when memoised

So because there is overhead elsewhere you shouldn't optimize here?

> It likely should be in a memory structure all the time or Redis if sufficiently complex / shared across processes etc. as all the other processes will likely be doing same

Redis doesn't help if the issue is the network io. Accessing anything out of process memory will objectively be slower than accessing in process memory. Doesn't matter if the data is coming from pg, redis, or wherever. If its going across the wire, there will be io latency.

> Only in Ruby world would someone say yeah what we need right there is a Gem with some define_method sprinkles

Ah, I see this is based on a negative view of ruby in particular. Memoization is a common pattern in basically every language, and can net significant performance wins with very little effort (low hanging fruit). Is it a magic bullet? Nope. But it's nice to have in the tool belt when dealing with an app that's falling on its face and every improvment means you get to sleep better at night.
It’s called Raku
I don’t completely disagree with the physics part but the brain part doesn’t make sense to me (as someone in the field). Quantum effects average out on a scale much smaller than a cup, that’s why Newtonian mechanics have been so successful in (mostly) describing the world we actually live in.

Even if picking up a cup technically involves collapsing the superposition of an uncountable number of particles/waves in the object, this is a completely unnecessary computation that’s definitely not implemented in the brain. Going with this line of reasoning, does each object pick up also involve quantum calculations of positions of your fingers, your arm, your trunk, the nerves connecting your arm to your brain? Does each neuron perform quantum computations to determine the position of each connected neuron and every surrounding ion that will drive its action potentials? This wouldn’t make sense and has no basis in reality. How many times do we try to use our hand and the quantum calculations in the brain determine that the hand is in some unexpected position? The neurons are either connected to each other and the arm is attached, and in a predictable position to your body, as is the cup, or things wouldn’t work at all and the entire build of our body would be an evolutionary failure, not the blueprint for the only kind of life we’ve been able to observe in the universe. If position of large objects and parts of your body was uncertain, no amount of quantum computation in the brain could correct for it, so why waste the energy of even doing it?

Thankfully, we have a pretty good understanding of the neural computations behind picking up cups correctly and we were able to design simple electronic circuits and programs involving absolutely no quantum effects that are easily able to pick up cups and move around our world. On a scale we exist in, we don’t manipulate probabilities, we manipulate objects with fixed physical positions and forms, because our biological machinery enables nothing else.

Respectfully, I feel like your line of thinking goes down a misguided path where a QM “observer” is equated to a conscious being, somehow isolated (or even deliberately harnessing) from the effects you propose drive every aspect of the universe. In actuality, an observation is just a particle/wave interaction, as relevant for particles arranged into non-living objects, as for those temporarily special arrangements we would call life.
I think the parent comment is right, no matter how many words the poster used to describe his problems. This is a key take:

> I was pretty hardcore with Linux. I’ve gone through countless distributions, preaching Linux as the good news to everyone.

This guy complains that Windows is easier after self-inflicting unwanted experimentation instead of staying with something stable that works, and ironing whatever quirks are left. Experimentation was not aligned with his needs.

Furthermore, it was gaming indeed. It's always gaming.
> Veterans don't mention it because it has snaps, but regular users couldn't care less, they just want something they can use for their daily needs. No need to name niche distros.

The problem with snaps is they can cause unpredictable issues for a newcomer not expecting it.

It's espeically egregious when they force apt to pull in snaps, as it adds yet another layer of complexity no one asked for.

I started with Mint in Highschool and it served me well as a previous Windows user. It's quite literally Ubuntu, without snaps, and with a Windows-like UI out of the box (Cinnamon).

Not sure if it counts as "no-name" to you or the average beginner, though it's really starting to take the place Ubuntu used to have among beginners.
This comment is simply uninformed and reflects a misunderstanding of how the health insurance industry operates.

Many of the largest commercial payers such as some of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association licensees are non-profit. They literally have no investors. The non-profit and for-profit insurers have similar claim approval rules.

Due to the minimum medical loss ratio rule, insurers can actually make more profit by paying out more claims. The actual pressure to reduce total medical expenses comes primarily from large self-funded employers, not from investors. If we can break the link between employment and health plan coverage that would help to better align incentives.

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...

https://www.sensible-med.com/p/the-entire-healthcare-system-...
> Consumer RISC-V laptops (again, wishlist)

Depending on how one defines "consumer," that's already available: https://liliputing.com/risc-v-laptops-299-muse-book-and-399-... and https://frame.work/products/deep-computing-risc-v-mainboard was announced earlier but seems it is, as you implied, still "mailing-list ware"

But, for my curiosity: if you bought one of those what would you run on it? I see that Starfive claims they have Chromium[1] and there's reports of Firefox[2] so maybe in this "the browser is the OS" world that'd be sufficient

1: https://github.com/starfive-tech/chromium.src/wiki/Chromium-...

2: https://lists.riscv.org/g/apps-tools-software/topic/now_we_h...
Nuclear bunker sales increase, despite warnings
When this study was first published, Adam Ragusea did a video on it[1]. 12 minutes in, he points out that he thinks there is a basic arithmetic error in the paper. This was well before anything was on the news, and he was the only one talking about that before everything blew up. I'm surprised more people didn't catch it.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=58HUM40gDPU
The paper describes the three kinds of tea bags tested, and how the results differ between them.
For every new laptop it's best to just install the latest stock Windows iso downloaded from their website, not OEM versions which often have unnecessary bloatware added or old versions.
At what scale would this become a significant concern? While some tech startups aspire to achieve Google-level success, such massive scale is extremely rare in reality. I'm curious about the threshold where issues begin to materialize.
Consider yourself lucky. My feet are not just wide. I wear 10.5 size and have high arches.
Tesla wants to kill EV incentives in US, but it is lobbying for them elsewhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)#/media/File%...

This one is quite different while still being a monotone camel icon. There's only so much you can change.
Online Advertising Is a Regrettable Necessity
Diggnation Is Back
and it has it's own logo

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camelia.svg#mw-jum...
I like it. Perl is great
It's telling that - as the family IT person who buys the computers - any time I buy someone a new computer, I need to spend _at least_ a few hours hammering out the rough edges. There's software that needs to be installed, software that needs to be _uninstalled_, drivers that need to be updated (I once bought a laptop that was shipped with a non-working mic; driver update available), software that needs to be bought ("what do you mean Office isn't included?!"), and so on. Most users aren't able to navigate that themselves.

Moving someone across ecosystems isn't always possible, either. While I've made some Linux migrations, and might consider Mac in some others, there are use cases where Windows is a must. Of the Windows installs I'm theoretically in charge of, there's Windows printing to a 20-year-old ribbon printer, Windows "because I need, specifically, QuickBooks Pro 2016", Windows on a cash register (!) that the vendor no longer supports, Windows for an autistic girl who I wouldn't ask to adapt, and so forth.
What do you mean?

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=keypub.sh says the cert is OK.
'Like going to the moon': Why this is the most terrifying ocean crossing
I agree with other commenters that the “oauth” keyword in title is misleading. I assumed this was compliant with oauth spec.

It’s an interesting service, but I doubt I would use this for anything serious beyond toy apps.

There was an article in October mentioning CF acquiring a company that dabbled in this space though. [1]

It’s more for managing authN/Z for internal infra (k8s, servers,) but via existing IdP (with MFA). Underlying tech is “openpubkey”. [2]. I can see this adapted towards authN for CLI apps.

Wanted to test this on my homelab infra but life has gotten in the way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923429

[2] https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey
Use whatever works. If gaming is a top priority and things like FOSS, surveillance, and ads aren’t OS dealbreakers I don’t know why you’d force yourself to game on Linux. I’d guess for many Linux fans Windows isn’t even an option for those reasons, so any of its benefits are moot.
6 days ago on the same subreddit, https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/12/19/microsoft-confirms-...
Why not actually release the weights on huggingface? The popular SAE_lens repo has a direct way to upload the weights and there are already hundreds publicly available. The lack of training details/dataset used makes me hesitant to run any study on this API.

Are images included in the training?

What kind of SAE is being used? There have been some nice improvements in SAE architecture this last year, and it would be nice to know which one (if any) is provided.
It very much depends on one’s hardware, needs, and expectations.

Having the “wrong” hardware alone can significantly degrade your experience, as can distribution choice, with some not including the drivers (usually Nvidia) and/or configurations (e.g. h.264 hardware acceleration in browsers) required for a good experience. Same goes for laptop battery life, with some distro/laptop combinations being reasonably ok out of the box and others being a disaster.

From the perspective of things mostly working as expected regardless of the user’s machine, skill level, etc, Windows unfortunately still has a leg up. Windows can’t compete at all on the grounds of annoyances like ads, but for many if not most users that’s secondary to the OS running reasonably smoothly and being able to do what they need it to with minimal fuss.
I expect housing & behavioral adaptations would carry the most weight. E.g. you'd want to dig a basement in a moderate weather season, so you'll have somewhere survivable in the hot season. And of course have redundant backup power for A/C if you can afford it.

Some of the adaptations camels use could theoretically be useful, like dropping temperature at night & letting it rise throughout the day, tolerating higher temps overall, etc. But I doubt there's time for humans to naturally evolve those abilities very far in the next several thousand years.
Dupe (15 points, 5 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450675
Webb is turning out to be one of the most impactful pieces of scientific apparatus of the last century or so. Not that it took all the relevant data, but that it was the final thing that broke open all the doors being held shut. We're watching a Kuhnian paradigm shift in astronomy unfold in real time.
OP said the "health insurance scheme we've cooked up" is the core of the rot - not insurers' on their own, but rather the whole regulatory environment ("we") that enshrines the dynamics of HMOs, imaginary prices, and whatnot.

I agree with a lot of what you are saying. Trying to demonstrate some common ground - my (somewhat shallow) reading of the Anthem Anesthesia issue aligns much more with your analysis than the pop narrative.

But how exactly is the denial of care suppose to function as a price feedback mechanism to form a working market between providers and insurers? Is an MRI provider supposed to be thinking that if they lower their prices by 10%, the insurance companies will increase the number of approved MRIs to make up for it? And this still ignores that prices are not the same as profit margins, which is a huge hand wave here. Also if those denied MRIs were truly unnecessary, then how would paying for them merely because they cost a little less make sense?

Which is the crux of where my original comment was coming from. The responsibility of deciding necessary medical care needs to be laid at one decision maker (eg the treating doctor serving the patient per their code of professional ethics while fundamentally still working for the insurance company), rather than this split-brain blame game between the patient-facing doctor having little downside to saying yes, and the back office "doctor" at an insurance company having little downside to saying no. An insurance company shouldn't really even have its own opinion on something decided by a medical professional they're already contracting with, especially when that opinion has been created purely based on formulaic paperwork processing. At most they should be able to refer the patient to a different provider to perform the service, or withhold some payment for the service per their contract with the provider (but invisible to the patient).

This is obviously not the only reform we need to get any sort of price signals and sane division of responsibility in this industry. Because yes, provider costs are the main problem and they've been marching ever upwards. But every one of these terrible dynamics that has been allowed to fester is in need of its own reform, especially if you aren't advocating for the blanket approach of single payer.
Nice, which other models does this support?
Its called Raku now, as the language differences in the experimental Perl 6 were enough to warrent it being spun off as a separate project. Perl 5 is still getting updates for quality of life improvements
you're not solid, by what you've just written here and in above threads.
I always find it bizarre how different people's experiences are.

> I've never seen a Windows install over a year old that didn't have ad popups, corrupted drivers, 100 apps starting and running in the background at startup, or was just slow as all hell.

I've never had any of these problems, the sample being Windows 98SE, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.1/10. I've never once had to reinstall Windows. As far as I know, things like this happen because people install random binaries suggested by ads, not because of anything to do with Windows, and stopping that is a large reason why we have the locked-down ecosystem we have today.

I do think Windows has gotten worse over time, but I've never found Windows to require any "maintenance" since the days of defragging disks.
There's something called bibliography at the end of every serious books.
US targets China with probe into semiconductor industry
We have one of the new concept Penny's here in Hurst Texas, and its amazing, the store is very well merchandised, clean and well lit.

They're supposedly rolling them out nationwide - JCP does gamify shopping in a way that almost makes it fun.

https://fortworth.culturemap.com/news/fashion/11-01-19-j-c-p...

https://www.jcpenney.com/m/hurst-store-page
Show HN: Hercules Agent Adds Accessibility Testing as an Open-Source Skill
Hey HN,

We’re excited to share a new skill added to *Hercules*, our open-source agent for automated testing. Starting today, Hercules can now perform *Accessibility Testing*, helping developers check their web applications against *WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 standards*.

Here’s what it offers:
- Automated scans for accessibility compliance
- Detailed insights and suggestions for fixes
- Super cost-efficient (scans can be done for less than a dollar)

Our goal is to make accessibility testing more accessible (pun intended!) for developers and teams. This feature is built to enable engineers to integrate accessibility checks into their workflows without needing specialized expertise or large budgets.

We’d love feedback from the community—whether you’re interested in contributing, testing it out, or just want to discuss how we can collectively make the web more inclusive.

Repo link: https://github.com/test-zeus-ai/testzeus-hercules/tree/main
Release: https://github.com/test-zeus-ai/testzeus-hercules/releases/t...
Demo Video: https://youtu.be/s_LaHIuurVQ?si=GL12D1Vz2xQXEvQ_

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Why don't people just use stainless steel tea eggs??
> larger brains than the latter

What matters though is how efficient were the H. Sapiens brains.
Discussion (555 points, 3 days ago, 215 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476828
Man, have you actually used the snaps? I don't know how a regular user would stand it. If you just have Firefox and Discord installed as snaps, it's a never ending popup annoyance mess. I can't imagine having more Snaps installed than that. You're told at least twice a day to close Firefox, and then you get told again to close Discord because there's an update for that. Then it says "Fuck you" and updates in the background, even though I didn't want it to, causing the currently running version to crash. Never mind that I was in the middle of something. Oh yeah and it's awesome how your dock icon just quits working half the time after an update, and I get to re-pin it. Not to mention, they start up slow as shit. I hate Windows with a passion, but snap makes Windows Update seem like a great system.
In the Rockets' Red Glare
Lose the hyperbole. No one is crushing orphans. Actual orphans are mostly covered by Medicaid or CHIP plans, not by private commercial insurance.

https://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip/childrens-health-in...

Many things are possible. What would you like health insurance executives to do specifically? For example, would you prefer that they pay every claim that comes in with zero denials? They can offer health plans to do that, but employers and consumers keep insisting on lower premiums instead.
Looks like the `ets` readme has a direct comparison:

> The purpose of ets is similar to that of moreutils ts(1), but ets differentiates itself from similar offerings by running commands directly within ptys, hence solving thorny issues like pipe buffering and commands disabling color and interactive features when detecting a pipe as output. (ets does provide a reading-from-stdin mode if you insist.) ets also recognizes carriage return as a line seperator, so it doesn't choke if your command prints a progress bar. A more detailed comparison of ets and ts can be found below.
a hvm is only running via hardware assisted virtualization if the guest is using the same ISA; a non-native guest is still "real virtualization", if all else is equal, isn't it? in that case, wouldn't the processor be the same thing as a "CPU emulator"? if not, how is it different?

I guess what I'm trying to say is maybe the distinction you're drawing isn't really as distinct as you think it is; if this project had virtualized devices and a kernel driving them instead of passing through syscalls, would that be real virtualization, assuming we're talking about a non-native guest ISA? don't vm guest drivers abstractly just pass through to syscalls / host drivers anyway? what if there was no OS and the user's code implemented those drivers? aren't virtualized devices "just setting up a datastructure and calling a function" too? if not, what are they?

like, do you see how this is really a spectrum or collection of system components with levels of virtualization?

CPU-only virtualization with syscall sandboxes is still more secure and useful than fancy chroot.
> The Perl Foundation sidesteps it by having a logo of a (pearl) onion, which is also useless because nobody associates with Perl with onions.

The onion has been a metaphor for Perl for a couple of decades now. It was in the Camel Book, though I am not sure it was in the first edition. Larry Wall’s annual talk was (is? I stopped following) the State of the Onion. See for example

https://www.perl.com/pub/2006/09/21/onion.html/

https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/teachingperl/