skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 186 produced some obscure, kinda great, but ultimately doomed (due to not being PC compatible) systems in the early 80s. My favorites are the Tandy 2000 and the Mindset. This is one I haven't heard of.

I'm also fascinated by the early Canadian personal computer scene. They were trying some innovative things in the great white North. Things like the mostly PC compatible Hyperion, which beat the Compaq Portable to market by a hair (and which You Can't Do That on Television star Christine McGlade famously carried in to work on her motorcycle), and the NABU, an early network computer concept whose software was downloaded through a television cable network (unlike the ICON it was successfully rescued from total obscurity).
In the recent case between the actress and the film director for ‘ it ends with us’ one of the sides gave the other a few hours to respond on the last working day of the year.
It’s a difficult balance. On one hand, privacy is important. On the other hand, visibility into the system is an important check on the power of law enforcement. It’s especially important for arrests; you really, really do not want the police to be allowed to secretly jail people. But it’s important for other things too. In this example, if the police were using rollerblading citations as a way to harass a certain group of people, it’s good to have access to that information to be able to discover this.
did this recently and it totally works
There's a lot of research on ban-the-box policies[1]. I assume this applies here as well.

[1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ban+the+box
Expanding is a significant use of resources. It requires consistent dedication over very long timeframes to succeed. Just look at how long it's taking to even have a permanent presence (not even close to a self-sustaining colony) on the Moon, which is one light-second away.
> It's like people have already forgotten why people used the non-human beings in Westworld

This is fiction though. Perhaps we didn't forget about that fake thing and we're critiquing this real thing that exists. How can you take a demonstrative position on "what we're going to use them for" and defend it with someone's contrived story?

> because objectively they were bureaucratic abominations

Yes, this is why criticism of this real thing isn't countered by claiming people "forgot" what occurred in a fantasy script about things that don't exist.
Completely new motion, eh, that, ah-- that there be, ah, immediate action--

FRANCIS: Ah, once the vote has been taken.

REG: Well, obviously once the vote's been taken. You can't act another resolution till you've voted on it...
The article isn’t strictly talking about prisoners.

In the example in the article, a kid vandalized a tombstone in a graveyard, and can’t find a job years later.
I certainly saw quite a bit about it and not just on Fox.
"Putting that together, I have no idea how many times the Google Assistant has activated in my pocket, gone live, recorded stuff, sent it to Google's servers, realized it wasn't a valid query, and shut off without alerting me."

Have you tried resisting an export from Google Takeout to see if there are answers in that data?
Literally every other day now we hear about a violent act by someone radicalized by the book you're defending. Either the New Orleans guy or the Vegas guy (or both; I can't keep track because there are so many) even had a Quran open to the page that inspired him.

EDIT: It was the New Orleans guy: https://nypost.com/2025/01/02/us-news/new-orleans-isis-terro...

For some reason, none of them ever have a Bible or a Torah or a Talmud or a Bhagavad Gita left open to a page demanding violence or supplication to a hateful God. None of them have religious paraphernalia except from one religion in particular, whose adherents keep claiming it is just "media bias" (since the left wing loves terrorists now and since most journalists and media are left-wing, we can actually safely assume that more is hidden than what is relayed, actually... and I'm not even trying to politicize this, but that's just facts)

But keep blaming the people instead of the book that enables them, though, while calling me stupid. Just like your fucking book with its bigamist pederast warmonger "prophet" victim-blames the raped because of how they dressed. LOLLLLL
In the 20th century, the US was quite successful into turning "military spending" into very advanced R&D subsides. I think most of the believes that military spending and growth are related come from that.
What makes NATO proximity so bad for Russia?

surely you would like to be surrounded by people who are adversaries to you and your family, you woild flock to move to a neighborhood like that :)
It's still backwards.

https://forcedistancetimes.com/asymmetric-why-china-still-ca...

> While China claimed a breakthrough in 2017, manufacturing a ballpoint pen all by itself and “ending a long-term reliance on imported [ballpoint pen tips],” as of 2021 the country was still reportedly 80% dependent on imported ballpoints.

> In fact, Chinese imports of ballpoints pens (comprising the ballpoint and ink reservoir) have more than doubled since 2017, from 12 million USD to nearly 28 million USD last year.

> Machine tools are machines that make other machines. China is a leading producer of machine tools, accounting for about 31% the world’s output in 2021 (p.10, fig. 12)—ahead of Germany (13%), Japan (12%), the US (9%), and Italy (8%). But China is heavily reliant on foreign technology for high-end machine tools: in 2021, it was 91% dependent on foreign firms for the most advanced machine tools.

China just doesn't have the ability to do high precision, high quality engineering and manufacturing.

I am not saying that everything that comes out of China is bad, but that there are limits to what can be produced at a high level of quality there. You can buy simple tools, like knives, at a good level of quality from China, but anything that requires complex tooling is likely not actually made in China.

For that matter, smartphones aren't "made in china". They are /assembled/ there. China doesn't make the CPU in an iPhone, TSMC did. China doesn't make the /machines/ that engrave silicon in TSMC's factories, ASML does. And so on, and on, and on.

If something is truly mainly made in China, with Chinese tools, and it's complex to manufacture, you should avoid like the plague.

China hasn't really become the manufacturing capital of the world. It's just the place where a lot of people are paid to use screwdrivers, glue, and package things.
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> Omelas

Is this a reference to Ursula LeGuin's short story?
The full story of what happened to the original kagi

https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...

And relevant to this submission. I couldn’t find any information on Google, I used the paid version of ChatGPT that has had web search for almost two years
Meta's platforms are already filled with AI slop content farms that drive clicks and engagement for them.

I have a FB account for marketplace, and unsubscribed from all my pages and friends. If I log in, my feed is a neverending stream of suggested rage bait, low quality AI photos, nonsensical LLM "tips" on gardening and housekeeping.

The posts seem to attract tens of thousands of reactions and comments from seemingly real people.
> the whole conflict is about NATO offering the possibility of membership to Ukraine

This is what Putin says now. The actual reasons are clearly spelled out in the article published by TASS after Putin started the invasion:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60562240

As you can see, they have nothing to do with NATO expansion - Putin just wanted Ukrainians to be part of Russian empire just like Belorussians are.
> Knowing Facebook this just means that's what they want publicly to be known

You're assuming that Facebook has a plan. Which is at best, generous.

They are a bunch of overly active hall monitors with an incentives package that encourages people to "create impact" by increasing arbitrary metrics. At no point do they ask "is this good for the product/user" they ask "will this improve metric x,y or z"

These profiles come from the GenAI team, or worse, a competing team inside instagram (who are doing this so that they can then move to the better-chance -of-getting-promoted org that is GenAI) for some experiment where they prove that some metric improves, and doesn't lower another metric, if you shove AI onto the public.
Are you truly advocating that people should no longer be proud of their cultural identity?

(Shrug) If you didn't build it, what could possibly justify taking pride in it?

Pride in inborn cultural identity gets you things like Nazi Germany. It's not a win for either individuals or societies, only for intermediate subgroups whose interests rarely coincide with either.
Imagine someone who got pardoned by the state for a minor crime (so a clean criminal record) but who still had a newspaper article about them. That would be a raw deal.
I would argue that there is not an excess of the former. A lot of the so-called techies don't know tech either.
No it's not.

Left-wing parties got 62% of the vote.
Ask HN: How to indicate a project's status on GitHub?
What the most accepted/idiomatic way to indicate a project's status on GitHub?

I often come across incomplete, unmaintained, or derelict projects on GitHub that would benefit from some kind of badge or status indicator. But, it seems rude to put up a PR with this if there's no established convention.

Do folks have thoughts on this? Is it a problem worth solving?

Thanks in advance, and happy 2025 to you all!
> The rest of this is Machiavellian bullshit that most people don’t care about.

They don’t care about it yet. When you need more money, get laid off a couple times, or stagnate in their careers, they start caring.
My opinion is, of course, in the minority. I understand that Google will do their best to keep the status quo in the advertising industry.
To iPhone users under certain conditions. For example, in Germany, last summer, as a customer of the Deutsche Telekom, if you had an iPhone and were using a certain marketing app from DT, they'd give you an invite code for 1 year of pro. One could trade or sell them.
Restricted access highway, no cyclists allowed or present.

I don't think “reckless” is the right word. Clueless, really. I didn’t know there was a problem until I lost traction.

Whatever you want to call it, do you really think that’s worth a criminal charge? Possibly destroying my livelihood over this? Do you think the possibility of criminal charges is what stops me from doing it again, versus the potential damage to life and property, including my own? Lay it out for me.
The Democrats in the US are still to the right of the Tories in the UK.

Your analogy is fatally flawed.

Ask a Democrat where they stand on gun control. Ask a Tory.

Ask a Democrat where they stand on nationalisation of George Washington University Hospital.
Ask a Tory where they stand on the privatisation of St Thomas' Hospital.
The landscape picture there in your link is a different kind of thing; that one has the column used from each individual photo/frame advance from left to right through the day when constructing the final image, so it still looks like the same static view of the landscape. Of course it's also just a different camera view entirely as well.

The fixed column (and upward view) approach used in the main link is better for showing the movement of the sun/moon/stars.
This post discusses the process of reorganizing and moving nearly 50,000 database objects across tablespaces within an Oracle database. It highlights the challenges posed by inconsistent storage practices and the transition to a more structured approach based on object types and applications to improve performance and management. Key considerations, such as moving tables, indexes, and LOBs, are detailed, along with specific commands for various operations. The importance of strategic planning and utilizing Oracle features to minimize downtime and ensure data integrity during the transition is also emphasized.
>I assume this applies here as well.

That it won't have much effect, and might actually be counterproductive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_the_Box#Impact
The political issues are all somewhat valid, but like most political issues rather more complicated (and also more debated) than described.

I’m not sure whether the commenter speaks Swedish or not, their username seems to suggest they do (sv_SE is the language code for the Swedish [country] dialect of Swedish [lang]) but their comment reflects a phenomenon I’ve both experienced and witnessed:

Swedes are more likely to discuss policy issues in Swedish (and all of these issues are debated back and forth with varying degrees of success). Our grasp of English is mostly contextual since it’s a secondary and utilitarian language for us. I think it’s easy and natural for an English-speaker to mistake hitting language barriers as ignorance. That can extend into the ESL-speaker [English as a Secondary Language] feeling belittled, and eventually you get this effect of people just avoiding English because you associate it with feeling stupid. We get the French-waiter-that-clearly-speaks-English-but-refuses-to trope.

On the other side of that fence we have ESLs butting in on domestic affairs in English-speaking countries because we happen to speak the language. That makes us appear elitist and judgmental, too.

Apologies for deviating further from the topic.

Going back to the legality of the car: It’s complicated. The police claims it’s illegal to use autopilot on their website, but there’s a blurry line between adaptive cruise control/lane assist and autopilot. The competition requires cars to be insured, hopefully that insurance company is aware of the modifications and can advise the owners on what they can and cannot do.
https://polisen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/ost/2024/mars/autopilot/ [swedish]

More practically, if they use country roads and drive somewhat near the speed limits, they’re not likely to run afoul of the law unless they’re in an accident.

If the author is here, I’d urge them to remember that a moose is practically designed to bypass a car’s safety features and kill you. There are a quarter of a million of them in Sweden. Invest in good tires and headlights, drive carefully, and avoid hitting wildlife or reindeer.
I've been coding for around 45 years, the vast majority of them in a professional capacity. I still code an hour or more most evenings and at least triple that at the weekends.

I love writing software. Over the festive period I wrote a text-based double-entry bookkeeping system with balance sheets and income (p&l) statements. For no reason; I just wanted to.

And that's how it is for me. In my own time I code what I want and purely for pleasure. Sometimes it relates to work, but it is never actual work stuff.

My work-life balance has the usual family aspects, but the main thing for me is making that clear distinction on what my motivation is for what I'm working on. As long the motivation isn't for work benefit that's fine, even if the learning outcome does eventually help there.
I would love an example of what you just wrote!
According to your economic masters, yes, because engagement is a proxy for revenue.
No just lots but almost all.

63% of violent offenders reoffend but that actually undercounts the amount of crimes that are caused by repeat offenders because there are some people offending 10+ times.

A three strikes rule would eliminate nearly half of all violent crime because nearly half of violent crime is committed by people who have already been convicted of 3+ other violent crimes.
Not a raw deal, just the truth. Why should information be deleted? That IS Orwellian.
It's unfortunate, certainly, but it's probably very useful for police to have knowledge of and experience with the communities they're policing. In Canada police officers who are expected to work with indigenous communities often get special training to familiarize them with those cultures.
Where did the Acadians come from? Sounds like another immigrant enclave.
You can add radar to a comma 3x? I thought it was vision-only. That’s interesting. Thanks.
> It’s a bona fide occupational qualification

A BFOQ can only apply to private hiring discrimination, not "having a separate police force when you are suspected of a crime based on race" discrimination. It's not employment rights at issue, so occupational qualifications are not relevant.

OTOH, the issue here is probably more 14th Amendment equal protection than statutory rights.

On the gripping hand, American police departments having racist practices that are internally well-known, and not being held accountable for them is..not at all surprising.
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87 points by jasoneckert on April 4, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 34 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30894348
I think that’s right. I broadly agree with everything you’ve written here. I’m just dissatisfied with this as a status quo, where more reasonable people have [justifiably] resigned themselves to the reality that reasoning with the unreasonable doesn’t usually pay [moral] dividends.
In 2025, German auto industry faces make-or-break year
The more time Russia spends in Ukraine, the more evidence we get that no, we won't just annihilate each other. We will probably do something more complex.
The author is a furry, and the dog being referred to is himself

(Do other kink subcultures do this stuff??)
I used to work with someone who was arrested for having a beer in his possession when he was 20 years old. The circumstances were pretty colorful, and so it made the local news. He had since worked his way into management at the company we worked for. One day he mentioned that the article about his arrest finally fell off the Google index after more than a decade, and he was relieved about that. One of his reports in the room immediately jumped on Google and used their tool for re-indexing sites to get the article back in the results for his boss, and then he proudly announced how he "solved that problem!"

Of all the career-limiting moves I've witnessed in my lifetime, that one was pretty near the top.
Your comment is somewhat misleading.

The 808, while a great high resolution sensor, processed stills at 5MP after pixel binning, compared to the 48/24/12MP of the iPhones. It did have a non-binned mode but again for stills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_808_PureView

The majority of the post is actually about video and the comparison is a lot more dramatic there.

A 4k frame from a modern phone ,like the iPhone 16 pro, is ~8MP.

The 808 could “only” do 1080p at 30fps (62M pixels a second). Compare that to 4k at 120fps (995M pixels a second). That’s a far cry from 1Bn per second that you’re claiming. Impressive for the time though.

There’s a significant difference here.

The sensor on the 808 was amazing. The real meat of the tech here is the image processing pipeline that can process everything off the sensor for further processing.
I get a weird constant reload behavior on your page and cannot scroll. Other blog posts on your site have the same issue. I am using Firefox.

This is the first failing request.

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The author has a fursona, so I think the author himself is the dog.
Do you know his name after reading the article?
I understand what the model is and how you get to it. I know the training data is not stored. But as far as i understand - the model is closer to derived intermediary from the training data. Like database index or like you said form of compression.

Thats why i on purpose tend to call trainng data + model the database. Because to non progammers it makes more sense. To me there is intentional slight of hand of hiding the fact that the only reason LLMs can work as they do now is because of the source data. The way its usually marketed it seems like the model is program that generalised principles of drawing from looking and other drawings thats why it can draw like Mijazaki when it wants to. Not that it can draw Mijazaki because it preprocessed every Mijazaki drawing, stemmed patterns out of it and can mash them with other patterns (from the database).

Thats why i intentionally say database to lead this discussions back to what i see is core of these technologies.
Ronald, your comment is flagged and I cannot reply. I think it is possible that you are the one working backwards, i.e. you want to consider your opinions on race to be a fact of nature and you get defensive when I point out that this is shaky ground to stand on, so you think I am trying to justify an ideology you are opposed to and attribute some kind of ill will to me. It is not controversial ideology to say for example that slavery was ethically questionable and not based on a good scientific understanding of the origins or nature of man. If you find yourself eager to defend slavery on racial grounds you may want to do some introspection, rather than point fingers at people who tell you this.
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I'd go further and claim that it is easier to replace a middle manager, heck even a senior manager, using AI than it is to replace the ICs. As AI context windows increase to the point where they can ingest the important company documents and communications, the skills of an LLM are the ideal replacement for management.
Show HN: Today we made public the product we've been building for last 8 months
Hi, my name is Horia and while I’m usually a lurker, that changes today as the hard part of building a product begins.

In short, Lorna AI records your meetings, generates transcripts in any language and creates very very good personalized notes + has an AI chat/AI search feature that you can use to ask questions and get answers based on meeting data.

Soon, we’ll make available the Intelligence Hub feature we’ve been working on, with which users can run complex research and simulation tasks. e.g. “what will happen if I increase the price by 20% for customer X” or “what are the objectives that you identified for me, let’s do some research for each of them”

So far, the product has been received very good by the early adopters and their feedback was very encouraging.

Would love to get your input, feedback, ideas, advices. If you have any questions, let me know.

Have a nice weekend!
It’s the author.
I guess my question to this is, what are the estimates on energy required to do this on a continuous timeframe?
Literally the only comment with some on-topic useful info...
> You can store those keys however you like, so long as you have a way to feed them into your web browser to provide to the service at login-time.

There's the rub. Unfortunately, KeePassXC doesn't have a Safari extension, for example, and I don't want to use iCloud Keychain. All I ever wanted was this:

> if you’re willing to manage your private keys manually by copying your keystore around, then there’s no need to use the Big Tech Cloud Service Magic stuff.

I can currently accomplish this with passwords but not with passkeys.

I predict that commenters are going to say, "you shouldn't use Apple devices then, duh", but you can't just look at the downsides in isolation without also looking at the many upsides of Apple tech, at least for me. There are always tradeoffs, no perfect technology, especially in a duopolistic market.
not the primary metric of modern life but I would agree it’s the primary metric of modern consumer facing business
Discussed many times in the last decade:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...