skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any possible second contender even? In terms of single-device gaming PCs it seems like it's cornered the market. Everything else is random gaming PCs made for moms to buy for their 9-year-olds which no one could name, people making their own PCs from parts, unnamed prebuilts (again, made from off-the-shelf parts), and the Steam Deck's competition which are obviously playing catchup. Steam Deck is probably the closest that market has to an "iPhone."
Linux has been able to run on the desktop for decades. It does so on about 3%.
Well, I am glad to learn an even better notion for the concept I'm talking about! I'm just saying, I think "definable" is too loose, because it presupposes that I can even talk about real numbers in a definite way. "Computable" feels closer because it is like an idealized version of the notion, but I agree, it's too loose also.

The reason I've latched onto it is that I read about the idea that in constructive mathematics all functions are continuous, basically because you can't tell that they're not continuous (because to tell that would imply you could inspect infinite digits of function's inputs and tell that they lead to discontinuities in the outputs). I quite like that idea because it rhymes with the intuition that nature doesn't care about later digits of numbers either, and that properties of the real numbers like being uncountable, dense, etc cannot show up in any physical system and therefore aren't "real".

But I'm definitely looking for a better way of understanding this, so curious if you can suggest anything.
> Sometimes it's better to paraphrase dialog to reduce the amount of text that needs to be read

NO!

I speak and understand 90% of English but I still use subtitles because sometimes I don't understand a word, or the sound sucks, or the actor thought speaking in a very low voice was a good idea. When the subtitles don't match what's being said, it's a terrible experience.
Resource consumption of AI: degrow or die [video]
"If you design something to be idiot proof, the universe will design a better idiot."
>Gosh, it's been a few years I dress exclusively in Helikon-Tex, instead of Patagonia )

Ok this may have been the best sales pitch for Helikon-Tex :)
Child from Accrington Stanley milk ad thrived. Other child was jailed for murder
Yes, an autonomous drone would have to process images, height data, map data, etc, so the compute of an RPi would still be relevant. Also, the drone does not have to max out the CPU all the time, it just may need intense compute in some situations, say, depending on the terrain. Larger drones, such as delivery drones, have motors with power consumption that dwarfs that of an RPi. For a a small, palm-sized drone it's of course untenable.
You're only halfway there. Also from RFC 1035:

TXT-DATA One or more <character-string>s.

Looking up what a character-string is:

.... <character-string> is a single
length octet followed by that number of characters. <character-string>
is treated as binary information, and can be up to 256 characters in
length (including the length octet).

So the 255-byte limit for each string within the TXT record is a core part of DNS. But so is having more than one such string in the record data (which I thought was a later extension). I have no idea why this strange format was chosen when, as you noted already, the RDATA is already sized by the RDLENGTH, which is 16 bits. However, it is not a mere artifact of the zonefile format; indeed the format follows from the spec.

I'm not sure that all clients and servers out there handle more than one string in the record properly, though in my experience, most do. Still, having to split the values, and being able to split them before exactly 255 bytes, makes it trickier than it needed to be to administer and validate such configurations manually.
Unless they are hooked directly to little Swiss clock figurines holding semaphores. At that point you’d kinda have the amazing human CPU from Three Body Problem.
go ask anyone who uses tiktok or instagram regularly, literally everyone woman/femme person i know who uses either platform has bought stuff off of it before
In meatspace conversations, we use non-verbal cues to signal intention to speak. In Meets space it's a lot harder.
Amazon by proxy, like how GPT is Microsoft by proxy:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-invests-addition...
What they're doing isn't just wrong, it's abusive and possibly illegal, and I'm sorry that you're having to deal with this.

Please seek legal advice and do not take anything they say at face value. They're engaging in bad faith and preying on your fears and ignorance.

Just remember that your didn't do anything wrong, and I hope that you don't get discouraged from your future pursuits, I'm almost certain that there are employers out there who will love this and offer you a great start your career.
Why Angular Is the Better Choice for Long-Term Projects
I really enjoyed this tutorial:

https://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_Bones
I'm ok with video calls, but likewise, I've been wondering about a change of career if every dev job is going to be sat at home staring at the same walls every day.

Phone calls are the ones I find hardest. There's no body language to work with, but also it's instantaneous. I never insist on people having their cameras on at work, especially for group calls, I know many people don't like it. But I'm always a bit sad when cameras are off for a one-to-one call, I just find conversation much harder like that.
Yeah man. I get it. But not everyone feels like you do. It's still the case that anti-cheat makes multiplayer games better for those who want to play them. It is an effective technology, otherwise they wouldn't use it. It's not like the game studios enjoy paying those licensing fees.
Hydroclimate Volatility on a Warming Earth
When I saw 'Daily Mail' and sex act I assumed par for the course. Was nice to read about putting lights on things to break up the silhouette.
This seems to be quite a drastic change that could only have been warranted by a bigger problem than the one outlined in the article. Also strange the way than Osmani preemptively shuts down criticism of the change.

What is the actual problem thats being solved here? Is cache-sniffing being actively used for fingerprinting or something?

Whats going on here?
Context for RoW (exc: UK/EIRE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPFrTBppRfw
"Well, I got in a wreck and had 3rd degree burns, but at least my account is in good standing!" (Yes I know it's a totally different scenario to the article's)
If it became a government job, then they wouldn't be able to get rid of the athletes when they're too old to perform. The solution of course is to distribute gold medals and awards according to age and experience rather than athletic performance.
I too remember those years very well (from '83 onwards, when I managed to get a Sinclair ZX Spectrum as a gift). Magazines were very common at newsstands, but even in regular specialized stores, most of the games were pirated. I still have the instruction manual in Italian (completely counterfeit) for the game ELITE on the ZX Spectrum. The same happened when I bought a Commodore 128 three years later, and again a couple of years after that when I got an Amiga 500. You only had to go to the shop where you bought the computer to purchase games or other software. I still remember Deluxe Paint and a C compiler—if I’m not mistaken, it was Lattice C.

And shall we talk about the common practice of pirating DOS or Windows? Starting from Windows 95 onwards... Truly a different world. The illegality in that field was scandalous for entire decades... (and even now, in many professional offices, it's still common practice to use cracked copies of Adobe Acrobat...).
The reliability gap: as AI writes more code, we need better tools to trust it
> vigilante justice (especially against nonviolent offenders) is considered to be wrong.

I guess hiding behind the veil of legality and murdering thousands if not hundreds of thousands if considered worse. Rightfully IMO.
I think you're missing the part that from the surface of the Earth, we can never see that whole plane at once. So the special part here is that all the planets are simultaneously in one half of a partition of the plane by a line going through Earth.
> Seems inane an institution would crack down on it.

Mad rushes to register requiring people to use automations like that sounds like a bad system to me, and something the university should be trying to address. That said, rather than a crackdown on tools, it’d make more sense to implement a harder-to-game system like spreading registration across a long period and assigning students to have their access unlock at a random time during the period. My college had time-slot (in person!) appointments like that 20 years ago.
>> failed to meet their basic needs

> I think that is no longer relevant.

Try reading some of the NYT's long-running coverage, about how life has gone down, down, downhill for "the other half" of America, over the past half-ish century.

Or read some of the backstory on the 1994 Contract with American/Republican Revolution, and think about why huge numbers American voters - most of whom had historically voted democratic - were so unhappy that they switched to the Republicans.

Or check out some of the US Govt's stuff on that - say, https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019... (2019)

Things were going to hell, for a whole lotta Americans, long before there were smart phones.
SPAR3D: Stable Point-Aware Reconstruction of 3D Objects from Single Images
This is a fair point. After 5 failed startups (you'd think id learn and give up) building products and velocity had never been an issue. "Selling" is the one absolute North Star. Even if you built a feature-to-feature clone - as another commenter above pointed out - sales (or lack of it) has been the biggest differentiator.
Monitoring Space Traffic
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620278
> But on Zoom calls, everyone is looking at everyone, all the time

Does anyone else's colleagues not do this? We look away, ponder etc all the time

I tend to get intense staring from more senior people who try to weaponise it, which immediately makes it not tense for me as I know they're insecure and playing games

Though there's definitely a few with the belief that intense staring is conveying intense empathy, missing the mark somewhat
See other comment for a link to his talk https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645492
I have a years worth of expenses in in an HYSA outside of my retirement accounts that will help me “weather a job loss” and a set of skills that I’m 100% sure that someone will give me a job or contract before my money runs out. I work full time for a consulting company now - and I’ve worked in cloud consulting for almost five years including three and half working at AWS.

I have been working professionally for 28 years across 10 jobs. I assure you I’m not “short sighted”.
Let’s get some more cetapodomorphism in our human psych discussions.
I'm in year 3 of being a CTO.

I was non-founding, so while the author mentions fleeting bouts of imposter syndrome (which he leans into by trusting his instincts) I have a little less of that thankfully.

However, what I struggle with a lot is that there's absolutely no manual for this role. Everything is my problem, yet nothing is my problem.

I have had several conflicts with founders because I act outside of my scope (I.E, I do things they think is a waste of my time: like budget forecasts, headcount plans, retrospectives of milestones and previously I was doing the product roadmap- which I definitely agree is out of scope).

I think it's an unfortunate case that since there's not a really solid role definition, it's not even possible to talk about what should and shouldn't be included. For example I was acting as IT for a really long time because justifying a person for such a role was really difficult, and we spent even more time dealing with our IT service provider than if I was doing it by myself- so I did.

As for being hands on, that's dead. I still get my little joy from shipping toy code (little bots that automate stuff for example) but I've hired people who are better programmers than me and do it daily, and I have to trust them.

Aside from what I mentioned about the role, the absolute hardest thing for me to come to terms with is that I no longer get a dopamine hit when I fix/build something. Failures are concentrated (blameless post-mortems mean that it's the culture or environment that's wrong, guess who is responsible for the environment!) and successes are amortised (credit should go to the team who are hands on, of course).

It's a very thankless, extremely stressful job, where there is little direct joy from accomplishing something. And worse: people will rarely give you critical feedback to improve should you be doing anything wrong, so you're constantly second-guessing yourself because you know the power dynamic stifles feedback loops. Nobody will ever thank you, and I find that people treat you like you're part of a system and not a human.

I'm not sure I'll make it to year 7, and I wonder if I'll change my tune by then; but I wonder more how the author feels about these points.
Good all times. As usual great quality content from genesistemple
Yakuza Leader Pleads Guilty to Nuclear Materials Trafficking and Weapons Charges
“Delayed” seems more accurate. At least Apple already released some AI features and plans to release more later this year.

> Mac users in the EU can access Apple Intelligence in U.S. English with macOS Sequoia 15.1. This April, Apple Intelligence features will start to roll out to iPhone and iPad users in the EU.

https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence...
My mom was on the market for a PC upgrade. I so badly wanted to get her moved to a MacBook Air, but she's forced to use some niche accounting software made by Sage (I think specifically for the Canadian market even?) that only exists on Windows.

These situations are what keep everyone a hostage of Microsoft.
I don't live in LA but would Karen Bass even have much of any input? The palisades is mostly Santa Monica no? Sure its part of LA county but why would the mayor of LA have any input on Santa Monica / Santa Monica mountains. Genuinely curious why she is in the spotlight compared to the local officials in Santa Monica?

Edit: I continue to see her name pop up in the news and I have been trying to understand how LA works in that she is in the complete spotlight. There are fires in surrounding LA but does the city of LA mayor have any control in those?
It is certainly the openly espoused plan of numerous Republicans, in every branch of government. Whether or not it's his plan, it does seem to be the plan, and for whatever reason they all seem to believe Trump is reading from the same playbook.

I think the lesson that gets lost with Hitler analogies is that authoritarianism, when it arises, does so in a unique cultural context. I can see Trump kind of being a figurehead and patsy for the more organized and directed forces around him, depending on how well he can be manipulated. History doesn't have to repeat but it can rhyme.

It's like this nonsense with Greenland and Canada. It should be too ridiculous to take seriously, and yeah it probably won't come to anything, because Trump and Musk talk shit all the time, but then we live in a time where the most potent political force in the Western world started as a 4chan shitpost and Elon Musk is basically co-President who knows what the parameters of reality even are anymore?
> We're being told that AIs are basically as smart as humans, that AGI is arriving this year and all our jobs are on the line.

Two of those are lies writ large, and I hope that most here understand which two.
Not just cities or counties.

The entire state of New Jersey exists to pay pensions. The 2025 general budget is $55 billion, $7 billion went to funding the pension for one year, again.
The blanket criticism of AI is ridiculous. AI generated subtitles solves real issues for users.
This is what EU as a whole does (reduce CO2 by X% within Y years), e.g., the 2030 climate targets.

However, there is a very strong correlation between reaching those targets and the broad/accepted definition of renewables. Again, I understand you're trying to be more precise and all that, but in the broader language the connection is "renewables = reduction of CO2 in a sustainable way with solar panels, wind, etc etc".

EDIT: ok, I forgot, there would be the nuclear energy as well to reduce CO2, which is not really renewable (although most of it can be recycled it seems). You were right. I would still prefer 100% renewable (and have no burning fuels at all) but I would be happy to have a mix of renewable and nuclear to reduce emissions and still keep companies up and running (=cheap electricity).
I assume it means that at the start of the semester or just days before it starts that if class A and B are both full but I am enrolled in class A but wanted to drop it and get in class B and you are in class B and wanted in class A then we could swap enrollments.
If screwing around with Proton and the different versions of it weren’t a thing, I’d move away from Windows like ten times by now. Well, that, and I’m not entirely sure how supported or unsupported VR (Meta specifically) is on Linux.
we probably went to the same shop. also same price! :D
I think the point is that (over?) paying for 'brain' games is a waste unless you're doing it solely for leisure.
thank you for the artistic contribution to the factorio community! So much stuff around this game is ruthless efficiency it's very nice to have something with some style.
Most people that voted for Trump I’d say is not that they don’t think climate change will affect them, it’s that they don’t think there’s climate change at all, or even if it there is, it’s not caused by humans.
We used to get Abbott & Costello tapes out from the library for long road trips in the 80s. To this day I still remember those Camel ads.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42635032
join amazon or JPM
Very Black Mirror indeed: "View Obstructed - Resume Viewing". From the episode Fifteen Million Merits.
Not sure, but the guy did say he couldn't get out.
Show HN: ChatADy.com ads for chatbots
Wall Street Analyst Pay Drops 30% as Banks Slash Equity Research
To elaborate, JS running on a page can probe your cache (via timing) to discern which URLs are already in it or not. If the cache is shared cross-origin, then it can be used to leak information cross-origin.
https://archive.ph/M4DK5
I don’t like video calls either, but I greatly prefer them to in person meetings with groups of people.

It’s kind of like how mp3s are worse in many ways to records but are cheap and convenient.

Of course zoom meetings are worse than being with people. But the overhead saved from a zoom meeting is amazing compared to making people walk to a room and sit together.

I’d much rather use that shared time for a walk in the day. Or better yet a productive walking 1:1.
If somebody's getting "shocked" by this, then it's having the intended effect as far as poetry is concerned. It's important reminder to what HN is, really, even though I would expect it to largely fall on deaf ears. Reminds me of “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
RSS Tricks
Ironically, Huff was then hired by the tobacco industry to write a book undermining the evidence that smoking causes cancer. It was to be called How to Lie with Smoking Statistics, but never got published: https://www.refsmmat.com/files/papers/huff.pdf
When will gta v online be unbanned from SteamOS?

Dammit.
I agree, that's the future of these video models. For professional use you want more control and the obvious next step towards that is to generate the full 3D scene (in the form of animated gaussian splats since that's more AI friendly than the mesh based 3D). That also helps the model to be more consistent but also adds the ability for the user to have more control over the camera or the scene.
I am a college professor so I am biased but I am extremely skeptical of the poster's version of events.
FTC Orders H&R Block to Pay $7M and Overhaul Advertising and Customer Service
Camera helps with this. I hate video but leave my camera on so people can see when I want to speak or am reacting to what they’re saying.
they constantly try to escape

from the complexity outside and within

by dreaming of abstractions so perfect that no one will need to be good

but the latency that is will shadow

the "simple" that pretends to be
Maybe a bit of ruthless advice, but if you have very little/almost zero company ownership, it isn’t worth pushing yourself extra for the company’s benefit particularly if the CEO doesn’t appreciate it.
"That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-...
Why do you hate the idea of someone trying to start a new business so much that you make 15+ comments on this thread?

This is ycombinator, you know the startup accelerator.
Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?
As mentioned in the article, that shouldn't be an issue. Many people have reported going through without event. I'm looking to test it in a few months.
This is one more reason that Orcas should not be kept in captivity.
Sounds to me then that it’s working as designed.
These are all true for me, but you know what's worse? In the office I have to hear everyone's meetings all the time. People feel compelled to tap me on the shoulder and interrupt the work that was supposedly so important to get done this sprint.

And you know what? In office, half the team's on video anyway because why hire locally when you can hire nationally or internationally for the best people?

I'll take a few video calls, then some actual privacy for 5 minutes to decompress, so I can actually focus for more than 45 minutes to do my work. The tradeoff is still worth it for me.
I've heard the noise of a virtual machine,

Now I'm stuck in the reality of backlash

And cashed–in chips.
FCC Adopts Stricter Robocall Mitigation Database Filing Requirements
Contrarian ideas about GenAI in the workplace
I’m guessing there were more profitable economic activities there. Gold mining, lumber industry, pelting, etc.

Here, in the mountains, there’s basically nothing really profitable. So, husbandry (using goats since they are adapted to this environment) was basically the only way to go.
Related:

New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42642873
He's a good businessman.

His market analysis around zip2, PayPal, tesla, and spaceX were spot on.

Twitter, not so much.
I appreciate the advice, and I don't think it's ruthless. So, thanks!

To answer though: I would prefer not to let down the team, no matter my own personal situation.