skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't imagining a car spinning out of control. Being trapped inside a car indefinitely is dangerous: you could get carsick and have to throw up, urgently need to use a restroom, have a painful leg cramp that causes a lasting muscle injury, miss picking up your child from school, miss your appointment with your probation officer, be unable to obtain essential medication, suffer from heatstroke, or die of dehydration. An adult should never need to "call human operators" and ask their permission to get out of a car. Unless they're being arrested or something.

And if you hear that the car has run over a child that the operator didn't notice and is dragging it down the pavement under the car, it's essential for you to be able to hit the E-stop button rather than calling an operator to eventually stop the car.
Your post just highlights the extreme absurdity of these urgent "my God, don't you know about mini PCs!" and "you could just buy a used computer on eBay!" posts that accompany every Raspberry Pi announcement. You really believe you're offering a safety briefing.
MS has a good deal on offer if you're an IT department looking to pay less for a suite of SaaS tools that would be more expensive as one-offs. But very little of this is appealing as an actual user. It's basically Office and an inconvenient to use 2TB of storage.

When someone is saying how they don't want to keep paying for SaaS it's almost certainly as an individual because businesses in a position to buy all this crap are large enough where this isn't even a blip.
I read you migrated to an S3-based git backend — would love to hear more about that story and how you managed the migration. Did you migrate all repos at once or on demand?

Also chapeau for the quick turnaround, I logged into lovable and saw the incident and you didn't let GitHub slow you down :-)
Show HN: Noodle Spark – Turn ideas into working apps using natural language
Noodle Spark lets you create custom business applications by describing what you want in plain English. Currently piloting with Google's Bay Area team, we built this to fix a problem we kept seeing: businesses need custom software but can't afford traditional development.

What you can try now:

* Create chatbots, dashboards, and automation tools without coding

* Build and test ideas in minutes instead of weeks

Private Beta Launch:

We're opening access to the first 100 users for free. Early access includes:

* Priority access to new products and features

* Direct channel to our product team

* Input into our product roadmap

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In return, we ask for:

* Regular product usage

* Quick feedback calls

* Your honest thoughts

Tech stack:

- Next.js + Supabase backend

- Our custom Seed Spec engine for translating natural language to application logic

- Seed Specification Language - https://github.com/NoodleSeed-com/seedspec

Sign up for beta: https://www.noodleseed.com/

We're a team of 5 engineers who got tired of rebuilding similar business apps. Rather than make another no-code tool, we focused on natural language as the interface. Tell us what you need, and Seed Spec figures out how to build it.

We'd love feedback from the HN community, especially:

1. What kinds of applications would you want to build?

2. Which features would make this most useful for your workflow?
100 Patches to 5 browsers in 18 months (2024)
> Ambien, to me, is an extremely scary drug.

Meanwhile, older drugs that are less distressing aren't used any more because "We don't use it any more". -Dr: If I ask about Librium.
Wasn't the whole point of Raspberry Pi being cheap and accessible?
Level Design in Pursuit of Better Levels
I can access my password manager on my trusted device, and manually type in my password for whatever service on any other device. This is exactly what I do for the rare but important time when I need to login on a device I don't want to have total access to everything.
> I believe you are defending a principle. If you choose not to moderate/ censor in those examples I would respect you for holding to your principle.

I am of the opinion that net positive benefit of free expression outweighs negatives when it’s allowed and the negatives of censorship outweigh the positives of it when it’s practiced.

Also, generally I think civil people will simply reject spaces where uncivil discourse or “not appropriate” content to them is present. If I was a moderator I can see where that would create a challenge of balance towards censorship, because you would want your forum to thrive and not dry up from the garbage.

Ultimately it’s not a decision I would need to make, I don’t moderate anything, nor would I. Even here on HN, I only upvote. I am not a fan of how HN handles the downvoting (content dimming), but at least I can still see it if I choose to. I also use a feed reader for HN post delivery so, flagged/dead posts still make it to me and I can choose whether those posts are worth my time.
In my parents' house we had one beige and one grey bathroom (different floors) and the jury was still out 15y later which one looked better :P
https://querytracker.net/ is a common search engine for literary agencies.
Nvidia had best in class support for linux and freebsd as a result of essentialy using the same driver across all three operaating systems. If you wanted good opengl support they were the only choice 20 years ago! Valve not supporting nvidia gpus at the moment has more to do with SteamOS on ly shipping on the steam deck which uses AMD hardware.
Still won’t scale to solve the problems at hand, even if you can find counter examples, it simply isn’t broadly applicable enough
Extremely pertinent in the age where civilians are routinely slaughtered by AI targeting systems.
Yes, but it also wasn’t going to get fixed without in-house tech expertise.

Or flip it around. Your marketing is using Mailgun, and they just ran an expensive marketing campaign, but none of the emails are going out.

Or the marketing person says Mailgun sucks so they just send mass marketing emails from their work email and now your domain is on a blacklist.

An employee gets phished and their email sends out spam to all your vendors. Your main supplier blocks your domain until their IT can talk to your IT to confirm your IT has fixed the issue. ”we reset their password” isn’t going to cut it.

Your cybersecurity insurance renewal requires 2FA and geoblocking login attempts. Your office manager thinks they maybe figured it out, but now no one in your organization can login.

At the very least you need someone on retainer you can call. The cheapest option, if you can find one, is finding an IT consulting company that works on a time & materials basis. That way you aren’t paying continually but you’re not dead in the water when something breaks.
This article would really benefit from stating how old (roughly) the author is… a good portion of people in my bubble report changes to sleep habits (and needs) in their early to mid 30ies.
How to use custom OAuth scopes in a third-party application with FusionAuth
Unfortunately it seems like a lot of the patriotic stories us Americans were taught in school were to violently overthrow your unjust oppressors (not to mention film). Not surprising that his story resonates with some of the public.
Presumably it pulls over and stops if the backend connection drops, no? This is a kind of goalpost motion: you're countering an argument about an incorrectly-identified failure mode by positing that the condition would still obtain if there was a dual mode failure instead (i.e. that the car would get stuck in a navigation loop and have a bug in its recovery from connectivity issues).

That's bad engineering, because you can always get to some kind of catastrophe if you keep piling on layers. Might as well just skip to "What if the motor circuit fails open and it accelerates forever?!" in that case.
> 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.

I mean, not by anyone worth listening to, tho.
> expensive

It costs $120. If you're not an impoverished person living in the developing world, this is not "expensive."
Yeah that line struck me as interesting as well. Very "start up / career hype" kinda line there. You can't replace time with your kids, even "quality time" doesn't make up for lacking in quantity.

I remember a blog on some start up's website and it described a founder who was in the office on Christmas Day and praising other people who came in on their own time too that day and how they're all working so hard to work on their startup that ... provided some rando non essential service with a web interface. Honestly that particular blog was kinda creepy / sad.
Like other commenters pointed out, we are talking two different types of subtitles - those for hearing impaired have very different requirements. I'm not sure which one is VLC gonna cover. Best would be both, just don't mix them up please.
I agree, Ambien is a scary drug to rely on as it can create dependency and also masks underlying issues that are causing not inability to sleep. In emergencies when one needs to get some form of sleep it could be useful to break the cycle of not being able to sleep and restore sleep hygiene. I had some sleep issues back in my 20s (luckily they haven't come back) and found that sometimes being too tired made falling and staying asleep quite hard. One thing that helped me is to forcefully yawn before going to sleep, doing it for a couple of minutes.
Post needs [2024].

Probably not all the latest fakes, not any longer.
Knuth did.
I would buy a steam deck instantly if there was some good external GPU support. Like a dock that has a PCI-E port, or maybe even just a dock that already comes with a high end GPU.
It's much easier to build a gateway API for a legacy system than to extend it. Not disagreeing with you. Honestly, though, software systems for academic institutions are ridiculously complicated, because they are essentially a student portal, a school, a sales organization, a rules engine, etc. etc. all wrapped up into one and interconnected in ways that aren't obvious on the surface.
It seems it is only a misnomer if you are too young to remember how these types of applications used to be written. They weren't always servers. In the early days they were subprocess modules[1]. "Serverless" is a return to the subprocess model, seeing the application lose the server, or to put it another way the application is less a server.

This must be why they say programming is dead once you turn 40: You can no longer communicate with the young-ins.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
regardless of scale there will most likely be code paths where performance is not prioritized, and unexpected use-cases can put the stability at risk. In this case that was creating new repos. I believe if we only made a crazy amount of commits there would have been no issue.
> Without adapting the translation the natives will immediately understand the reference while you, the non-native with no sense of who they're talking about are left wondering what's the real message. Calling someone a "Mother Teresa" might miss the mark somewhere in China. Same if an Italian movie made references to food like Casu Marzo and the average American would probably miss a lot of the context.

Right, but isn't that why the American is watching this Italian movie anyways, to get a wider understanding of Italian culture? I don't watch foreign movies with the expectation that they're adapted to my local culture, then there wouldn't be much point in watching it.
Indeed! I'm glad you enjoyed the book! I hope you wrote it a nice Amazon review :)
The Two Rules of Software Creation from Which Every Problem Derives
I also hope you never experience being filleted and cooked.
At the very least one could see from the AI if the tablet is interesting or not. That could triage tablets for human translation.
I used to dress mostly in black (with an exception for blue jeans and camo cargo pants, and the prints on t-shirts) but since I turned 30 to my surprise I find myself wearing more grey stuff.

At least it's good for jokes that I finally introduced some colors.
Can we add that it's self-repairable domestically?
In general when you're working on an optimization (and this is an optimization) benchmarking it is essential. About a third of the optimizations I try end up making my code slower instead of faster, often because of performance considerations I hadn't thought of. You can't just say "it's much faster" without measuring.
My mother works at a state university as a secretary for about 15 years now. Her job, especially after the pandemic, is pretty much to forward one or two emails a day to her boss. $70k/yr, lush state benefits, pension, all that stuff. The workday is 7 hours officially, but only 3-4 in reality (she comes in a few hours late and leaves a few hours early). 3 days in office, 2 remote. Basically unlimited PTO days too, since they are already generous in allotment and unused ones roll over.

She loves it, obviously. Her boss loves her too, they chit chat all day when together, so she isn't getting laid off. But man, the inefficiency and waste is unreal.
In mouse brains
That is a genuine concern. Allegedly, HR doesn't get access to that sort of fine-grained medical data. But I'm honestly not even comfortable bringing this sort of thing up to any of my managers I've ever had, despite having a fair amount of trust in them.
Don't get fooled by LOCs.

Out of the 273k LOC added, all but 20k, that is 253k are just from the boilerplate auto-generated copy/paste initialization code: https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap/commit/e9f0df0d5a221b3c7...

Sure he probably did most of the coding, but it's still weird to talk all about I and not mention the other 5 in a single word when they _did_ contribute. Maybe they did testing or other things that are not reflected in LOC, e.g. presentations etc.
I recommend turning the characters that Aozora Bunko represents using image files into the corresponding Unicode. IIRC, the file name contains the men, ku and ten parameters which you can use to derive the corresponding Shift JIS 2004 byte representation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS#Shift_JISx0213_and... and then turn into Unicode using standard transcoding utilities.
Oncologists get paid even if the cancer kills you, that's not a good argument against oncologists.
I don't think the post says privilege depends on whether the communication involves questions. I read it as saying that privilege exists so you can seek counsel. And, in their opinion, seeking counsel should always involve asking questions. Which seems reasonable to me. I am struggling to think of a situation where someone initiating contact with a lawyer wouldn't need, or at least want, to ask any questions. Are there situations where that is not the case?
"concept" is the closest term with the least baggage, though I admit it's disappointingly unexciting. Perhaps the concept of concepts needs to be defined and named an eponymous law.

"Epistemological atom" is bulky. Some are principles, some are laws, some are aphorisms, some are patterns. Sometimes you see "nuggets" or "pearls of wisdom". The publishing industry tries to froth these ideas into $25 nonfiction hardbacks, 15 minute TED talks, and hour long podcast appearances, but they are without obvious exception small ideas.

"meme" as analogous to gene might have taken root in some alternate timeline. I think one of the characteristics that makes certain ideas compelling in this way is that they seem to be applicable in ways far beyond their origin (cf. design patterns). That's why they feel collectable.

I liked the term "knol" for a "unit of knowledge" from when Google tried to do a wikipedia like thing. There is definitely a shape and scope relatable to a wiki page. The idea should feel unique and complete enough to have its own wiki page but dense enough to fit in the summary.
You are correct here; I should have used asinine.
At university the school gave away Office for free to all students and we still all used Google Docs. Google ate Word's lunch by making the 99.99% experience waaay better.
Out of the 273k, 253k were boilerplate template in the first commit, entirely copy/paste or tool-generated: https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap/commit/e9f0df0d5a221b3c7...
I struggle to read the highway documentation, it focuses on things that are unrelated to me. So sorry if I'm wrong.

Let me write the std::ranges code and ask you to write them with highway.

https://godbolt.org/z/3s1b8P3sj

PS: this is how it looks in eve:
https://godbolt.org/z/Kzxqqdrez
I was hoping for slightly more of an Asimov echo in this than it actually seems to present :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround_(story)
This is happening and we need to discuss solutions -
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/la-homeless-enc...

We also need to discuss clearing plants and other fuel that comes back as part of the drought / rain weather patterns we are seeing. Goats and other firefighting clearing efforts need to be discussed.
But I keep hearing AI is the future! Bleak indeed
The Luxurious Pain of Using My Time
People with stars in their eyes getting taken for a ride by external scam artists instead of whoever is the current Weinstein of that industry thats scandalous. Not really though.
Fascism, RTO, shareholder value.

Choose 2.
Maybe he was afraid to try because he thought that opening the door of a moving car would be dangerous? It is.
Why not just wear gloves with embedded magnets? I don't understand the benefit of implanting the magnet.

Implanting seems to come with several drawbacks: infection risk, difficulty of removal if undergoing an MRI, and difficulty passing through security checkpoints.

The advantage is... Saving 5 seconds when compared to just wearing a glove with magnets in it? A glove would also likely provide far far better sensing (more and stronger magnets better placed).
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-12/surge-in...
I disagree with your definition of a “proper” rave. Not inclusive enough.

There was loud rave music & ravers having a great time, ie it was a rave.

Raves happened in secret and in the open. I went to both kinds. Pros and cons to both.
> the solution is to call the human operators who can control it remotely

Sounds like a recipe for failure, to be honest. In a potentially life or death situation, the last thing I want is to rely on a remote human being. Plus, if the device entered an erroneous state, I certainly don't trust it to correctly interpret a remote "emergency stop" signal.

If the machine goes crazy (and there is no world where driving around a parking lot until the end of time is the rational expected behavior), the only safe option is a big, red, cut-circuit emergency stop button.
I feel it too. My kid is 6 and my most important goal right now is survive and be able to provide until he becomes a young adult. My father died right when I was 20 year old and while it was hard I managed. I can't image how hard it would've been growing up without a dad. And without a mom is probably even worse but I let moms worry about that.
Broke my arm a couple years ago in the US - total cost for me out of pocket after insurance was around $5k.
Considering that winds both made the spread a lot further, faster and moving around fuel (trees/wood/material blowing around and ending up on streets and whatnot), it sounds unlikely any 1 solution would have prevented this.
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There's a belief in some circles that because technologies like self-driving have the potential to save lives, any failure to develop that technology as quickly as possible is akin to manslaughter.

I don't think it's a mental illness, just an extreme form of utilitarian ethics combined with an unreasonable faith in the outcome.
I guess you can have that in a real life situation as well, where you don't have subtitles at all (hello AR) and still can handle. Do you want your subtitles full of metadata the whole movie for every movie and every day, for those several situations when the image director made a mess? You can always play that confusing scene again.
It does look like it! Personally I'm off the k8s train and don't currently have a use-case but best of luck!

feedback: why make a clear distinction between "magic node" and "BYON"? Two new concepts to learn when I feel a value-prop for some users would be to not have think about these distinctions? (Just talking about wording and communication here - can you get the value prop across with less reification?)
Simultaneously delighted and appalled.
We're Reaping Just What We Sowed – Communications of the ACM
This is the buy vs rent discussion all over again. By tying your “purchase” to an account with T&S they have ensured you only have a license to use it on their terms which they can revoke any time they want

I’m a loyal steam customer because Valve has shown themselves to be the most trustworthy and user-focused of any platform, but even then I know I have decades of games on my account that can vanish in an instant.
What I did in my book to keep everything algebraic but not introduce weird notation is just set the derivative equal to a variable. So, say m = dy/dx. Then, the second derivative is just dm/dx.

The advantage to the revised notation is that you can describe things that are difficult or impossible to describe in the other notation. For example, you can legitimately look at d^2y/d^2x (note the placement of the 2 on the denominator to see how this is different). This is a valid ratio under my system but invalid under the standard system (though I actually consider my system to be the standard system just with prior mistakes corrected).
Thanks for clarifying these details! Obviously much better than my pure speculation, though I'm not sure why I got downvoted for it.
I live in the EU and pretty much every major AI tool gets either delayed or not released here, it is terrible.
The above person was trying to pretend there's no evidence for the existence of Cancel Culture, totally discrediting themselves. To be honest, there are indeed MSM/CNN watchers who are so completely brainwashed that they do genuinely believe that; but more than likely they're trolling so I just avoid them entirely.
It always has been. When the first world does not need the third world, does it bail them out or let them fend for themselves?

Capitalism is going to take on an extremely interesting form.
An E-stop button would also solve the problem of the motor circuit failing closed, causing the kind of uncontrolled acceleration you're talking about.
I feel like that's what's happening to my neurons when I'm browsing Reddit. And Hacker News.
If the RISC-V cores were removed, the bit assignment for the critical OTP flags would be different. Quite likely this attack would then have directly enabled Secure debug access to the Arm cores.

Whoever wrote that headline lacked even a cursory understanding of the attack. You can do better by watching Aedan Cullen's excellent 38C3 presentation for yourself.
RIP Steve Langasek and thank you for your contributions to Ubuntu.
I also created a free daily email for remote jobs (segmented by type such as data engineers, devops, security, etc) for those interested: https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/

No fluff, ads, or images, just a daily list of the latest remote jobs found in the past 24 hours sent to your inbox. Nothing stale, or reposted, as they're directly from company websites, not scraped from aggregators or job boards.
Four Clinical Trials We're Watching That Could Change Medicine in 2025
Very solid points. /clap
The Challenges of Distributing Your AI App
30 year mortgage subsidies enabled by GSEs and US government policy are certainly a material component of this system and its outcomes.
A Dexter reboot where the protagonist targets extremely powerful people who commit mass violence within the confines of the law might actually be entertaining
I can't find a remote job in europe. It's all BS. I applied to 40 positions and no response. It's just grabbing your CV.