skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to my sibling comment, I donated my Sodastream to my girlfriend and have tried repeatedly to get https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Cylinder-Adapter-Canister-Sta... to work with a tank of CO2 from the local brew store, but it always only fills the bottle up about 50% which is a huge pain

My current theory is to try and involve a vacuum pump to create a vacuum in the bottle to force more CO2 in but I'm waiting on vacuum oil for my pump to try that out

Anyway, if anyone has positive experiences loading sodastream bottles locally using a CO2 tank, I'd welcome that experience

I'm aware there are hoses that run directly from the CO2 tank into the sodastream but I am not yet on board with its failure cases
I live in a big US city. There are raves almost every week-end (like the real kind amateur stuff not the money grubbing ones). Sure they are not announced on RA and you need to know people but it is still alive and well. They are mostly in old abandonned industrial places and often literally underground.
Reminds me of the story of a guy cracking one thinking it was a Google headhunting challenge.

https://www.wired.com/2012/10/dkim-vulnerability-widespread/
Bug bounties are a form of consent for testing and usually come with prescribed limits. Prescribed or not, actually getting user data tends to be a huge no go. Sometimes it can happen inadvertently, and when that happens it's best to have logs or evidence that can demonstrate you haven't looked at it or copied it beyond the inadvertent disclosure.

But to pursue data deliberately crosses a bright line, and is not necessary for security research. Secret keys are data that be used to impersonate or decrypt. I would be very very careful.
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amen to BT
Every company I've worked for has certain clients/customers that the company would (for various reasons) be better off financially to no longer have those clients/customers. At some point, those internal conversations become much less awkward as every realizes the reality of the situation. Those companies that had to undergo bidding processes usually fixed the glitch at that time by making very noncompetitive bids.
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I have friends who really like EDM, and as far as I am aware 95+% of the time that they're listening to it they're stark-raving sober, so I don't think that being stoned is a prerequisite for liking it.

That said, I think that a possible explanation for the decline in club popularity is that a lot of people don't actually like it unless they're on drugs. Not just the music, but the whole club scene. It might be an acquired taste, entirely possible, but it's not a taste I ever felt the need to acquire.

Not quite apples to apples, but similar, about a year ago I realized that I actually don't like living in NYC. Moreover, I realized that I never really liked it, and I had been trying to convince myself that I did for the last decade. I don't like how expensive it is, I don't like going to bars, I don't like hipster art stuff, I do like the train, but not having a car is still inconvenient, etc. There's a million things that I know a lot of people in NYC really like (and more power to them if they do), but I do think that if people were more honest with themselves there would be a lot fewer people living in this city.
The point was that there are too many people like you out in society in quasi-religious political groupings that adhere less to natural reason and more to ideological 'scriptures'. 'Scriptures' like woke-ness, or anti-woke-ness. You're clearly the anti-woke-ness jihadi type, but the idea is the same.

You have effectively gone out immediately after reading the article and proven the article's larger point. It makes responding to you awkward, since you appear to be unaware of how your comment validates so many of the article's larger implications in a way that you clearly did not intend. So most of the people interacting with this thread are just downvoting you in the hopes that your comment will disappear. They'd just as soon not have that uncomfortable conversation with you where they point out that your anti-woke-ness is as cringe as the woke-ness you're decrying.
I feel your frustration about spending years trying to understand the right way to use an arcane system. I don't know if this is the kind of response you were hoping for, but I urge you to just pick one method and try to develop past it, see how far you can get, see if it holds you back, if you needed to generalize better. Just brute force a couple approaches at random until you find one that lets you get shit done, so you can get to a working demo that has 1 semi-complete level/stage, no matter how hacky. Working on other things besides the difficult abstract one might lead you to useful answers or better ways of (re-)implementing features, and nothing will motivate you to find a system that works more than having a working demo that you know proves your concept, but also knowing the code is shit and ripe for refactoring.
Twilio – Intentionally Clever or Accidentally Genius? (2021)
It doesn't seem useful to everyday computing but I imagine there are niche scenarios where it could be valuable. Stenography comes to mind, or perhaps some machine control or clerical application where there are a limited set of input words that are valid and free typing is rare or disallowed.

A "sticky" modifier key (like caps lock, num lock, etc) that enables or disables it would vastly increase the value in a general situation though.
I've created agents for the following:

- ICP / Sales Agent: I hired an offshore resource and built a GPT that they can send titles and other identifiers to, and it would say if it was in our ICP or not. I created it for a specific process that has outlined steps and FAQ from that person on things they have encountered, I plan on adding more questions and answers. This was super helpful on saving time on answering questions about titles / improving the results of their work.

- Domain Policy Scan (SPF, DKIM, DMARC): I scan domains and find SPF records and then use an Agent and a prompt to break out all the system tokens from the SPF to understand the systems companies are using. The prompt is a consent work in progress, but I have it done to be really consistent

Both have been really helpful to my overall workflow.
Excellent content!
Apple Vision Pro was a flop, iPhone sales have been weak for years, the Apple car got canceled after ten billion dollars, Apple TV has largely flopped considering the insane spending, and they are blatantly at risk from non compliance the digital markets act and similar legislation for their platform gate keeping.

They didn’t really have to do anything to be really successful. Most of their big investments have not yielded anything. By my back of the envelope calculations, 30-50% of their net income comes from just taxing software distribution on the App Store. The M1s are cool but frankly a niche audience.

Apple will continue to do very well (unless regulation actually starts kicking hard). It’s not because of savvy leadership. Their leadership sucks. Google’s is even worse.
How many of the people doing that are locals doing it as a regular thing, vs tourists doing it as a one off experience? The core argument in the article is that the younger generation aren't going to their local clubs regularly enough to keep them afloat, preferring going to do much fewer and more 'special' events. The places that can survive are those that either bring in lots of tourists and/or focus larger one off events that can pull in a really large crowd.
I imagine interviewing at McMaster-Carr to be a very different experience than Home Depot.
EU as in some bureaucrats in Brussels ain't too happy. As a citizen of EU member, I'm pretty happy some little known societal control by non-elected bureaucrats is gone.
FYI: I think their website indicates they pay the fewest fees on GitHub, so you may want to set up your donations there if anyone is still deciding between the two.

Sponsoring them was a no brainer for me :)
Outside of the dissertation no not really. Best we did was in the group projects where at most we attached a couple sensors and maybe a motor to an arduino.

*Technically I did a robotics degree but the difference between mine and the EE degree at my university was at the most 5 modules, roughly 60 out of 360 credits.

The replacement modules certainly were not in anything to do with design or fabrication either. No soldering, no CAD, no ECAD.

You could have got through the entire degree without having once picked up a soldering iron or built a circuit. As long as you were good at maths you would get through, nothing else meaningfully mattered, except the dissertation of course.
Yes that’s what I said
Larger keys won't make the algorithms quantum-safe either.
I went straight into Hyginus and Caesar. Hyginus is not difficult at all. After LLPSI, you should be able to read this: https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/hyginus/hyginus5.shtml

Caesar is not too difficult either. The biggest problem I had with Caesar was that he used indirect speech a lot and LLPSI doesn't really prepare you too well for that, but you get used to it.
The Bluesky pedo trope is a right wing falsehood, yet another piece of their misinformation agenda

ATProto is an open protocol, anyone can add content to the network. Bluesky is a company that operates the most used application, a micro logging platform like Twitter.

Musk Social has far more awful actions and far more awful personal posts by the oligarch himself. The "awful" thing of blocking trolls on Bluesky is what makes it a place with more and better engagement. We don't all need to read all the awful shit people write online in the name of "free speech". I have every right to ignore or remove content I don't like from my information diet. The benefit of ATProto is that if you don't agree with the content moderation policies of Bluesky, you can write just a different client (many already exist) and subscribe to different moderation providers (many already exist), all without having to rebuild your social followings
> Hopefully, you have a monorepo or something with similar effects, and a lack of fiefdoms. In that case, if the current way is undocumented and/or inconsistent, you make it better before or while adding in your new approach.

Unfortunately, this is how you often get even more inconsistent codebases that include multiple tenures' worth of different developers attempting to make it better and not finishing before they move on from the organization.
If you like Forth, you should also try doing programming "by hand" in PostScript. Unix dc is another fun stack-oriented piece of software where you have operand operand operator -- that is, postfix like an RPN calculator. dc is great when you have a bunch of numbers to add, because you can review things even after you've finished the computation. (Of course, a spreadsheet is even better.)
It's funny how some folks with no domain experience hn seem to be obsessed with html.
> Designing an OS is like creating your own world

Or like building your temple so you can talk to God directly
Yes, it's meaningless if the topic is mostly unknown to the learner. But that's not the goal of flashcards - the goal is to first read the text, and then reinforce what you learned with bite-sized questions/answers.

Everyone learns differently, I always found flashcards to be incredibly useful and entertaining.
If he wants to fight ever-coming-back EU chat supervising bill, more power to him. But I guess that's not about it :(
It's a rough schedule. It's not work to the minute of 11:00pm then start unwinding. You might be pretty unwound by 10:30 and then answer a couple of emails before making a hot drink at 10:45 and calling it a night. It seems a bit silly to overly argue how that can't possibly describe a full night's sleep, when it clearly can.
Exactly. The problem is You do the rewrite because I like Rust.
I totally remember 482 (Operating Systems for those reading) being really interesting. Story I remember is one of the final projects and dealing with locks in C++ world where I'd get close to full solution, but some errors from the locks, then I'd make a change and suddenly those previous failing tests passed but new ones failed. I didn't realize that could happen.

Great times. And I really liked how we did it all in C++ (other than computer vision 442 that was in matlab) rather than Python which some places do. Having that lower level understanding of languages in school makes understanding code so much easier, and something I didn't have to learn on my own.
Not sure about that, it's gotten easier as time goes on, especially with server actions. Previously we used something like OpenAPI to map types on the frontend and backend and had to make separate HTTP endpoints for everything. Now I just write a function and it's all taken care of automatically, I can put types and functions in any folder I want and it just works.
>Hot take: CE is a better foundation for programming than CS

Not at my uni for sure. First (and only) microcontroller that we actually programmed that wasnt an arduino was in the final semester of the entire degree.
Coders aren’t engineers, they are just bit bureaucrats. Everything in this post isn’t engineering, it’s autism.
It's shocking how often the answer to "How come X changed?" is either the creation of the internet or the cost of real estate.

Surprisingly often, it's both.
Ok, so there's a time window where it's possible to prove that you were the sender. And if I use a qualified timestamp service to sign all messages arriving in my inbox, then I can prove that you were the sender indefinitely.
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"the only partisan issue I've taken a strong stand on through the years is being pro free speech"

Unless I have missed something (possible, LMK), Ben's silence on Musk's partisan use of Twitter is, in fact, a stand. Contrast with John Gruber on Tim Cook and Trump[1]: Gruber's beat is Apple and Cook's choice clearly rises to the level of "Apple agenda item". In fact, you can extend my point to the larger partisan battles among the tech elite. Reid Hoffman is a significant partisan player. Staying silent on that, while wise from a don't-piss-off-important-sources perspective, does a disservice to the truth.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-mil...
> There is a downvote button here??

Haha yes. You get access after getting a bunch of karma.
The current crop of old people had money when interest rates started high and ended low, which is far better than the opposite of starting low and ending high. There is a lower bound for interest rates and there is a risk component to the rate, especially for regular borrowers. Now consider that during the period of lowering interest rates the risk temporarily dips lower because in general all asset holders are making money. This doesn’t happen if the interest rates merely stay still, in time the risk component will increase and the rate at which people can borrow will increase along with it.

I’m not sure what the takeaway should be from this, dysfunctions can last longer than people’s lifetimes so it’s not always a sure bet to bet against it. My prediction which I’ve held for a long time is that the economic dysfunction will create civil unrest. The increase of security cost will undermine profitability impares the ability for asserts to maintain their high values and this will trigger a downturn. It does appear to me that we are in the early stages of civil unrest.
What about Kaspersky?
You know, just as a rule of thumb, if your business plan is taking another step towards enabling the "Sender uses GPT to expand their short email into a long email -> Recipient uses GPT to summarize the email" workflow, your business is probably not going to do well in the long term. People have already been "ha ha only serious" joking about that, it's not going to take the market long to twig to GPT-generated emails from coworkers as being useless fluff added to the payload.
I guess most of these keys are decades old and no longer in use. They're likely just sitting in the DNS because someone forgot to delete them. Now, no one's sure if they're still needed and is afraid to remove them in case it breaks something. Or maybe they're still used by a legacy system, and no one realizes the impact an old DKIM record could have.
Used to do at least a line of coke before raves but with the way fent is laced into everything these days, no more
Looks cool, but if the "writing on the wall" is only supposed to be the current time, there are enough (much more mundane-looking of course) alternatives, e.g. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Emlimny-Digital-LED-Projection-Al...
At the expense of more software dev and a bluetooth module, It would've been more extensible and versatile if it had just used BT for input (HID) and GPIO rather than creating yet another proprietary connector and forbidding the use of GPIO and a keyboard simultaneously. Why not integrate the most popular one and use BT for the rest? Great, we've re-invented what already exists. Sigh.
Looks like there was no specific rule. But some so-called journalists tried to think of what some people they dislike might say now that a rule they like is gone.
Understood! Then yeah, jeans are probably fine.
It's 5pm on Sunday
No one knows we're dancing
Outside the sun is blinding
No one knows we're dancing

https://genius.com/Everything-but-the-girl-no-one-knows-were...
>Dude is pitching and wanting funding for THEIR solution from the vids I saw, not a general industry change or free fix.

Terrible
It's funny to me because I practice mediumship and believe it is a helpful practice (one of very few healing methodology that was used in most of human history and certainly long before that; people will probably still be using it in 40,000 years if people are still around.) I think many of the problems people have today that are intractable (climate change, pathological politics, the perception that "the economy sucks", maybe even the agony of a parent who has an autistic child) are intractable because they are spiritual problems that can't be addressed by material means.

It boggles my mind that there was a time that you could convince people you were talking to the dead (boy it is fun to lift a table though) but by the mid 20th century that was gone and it was all the White Brotherhood (not racist) and Edgar Cayce and Seth and such. For most of history though and in the backwaters of China, persecuted by both Republicans and Communists, people have manifested animal spirits.

On the other hand, I don't believe in telepathy, precognition and such (even though my slightly defective nervous system is inclined to have unusual experiences like that.) I'm not in competition with physics or western religion; if somebody gets something out of going to church I celebrate that, but I have a call to the ministry to reach people who the church can't reach.
Taming LLMs: A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with OSS
We did that same thing for ten years in a row. Especially fun when some catastrophe happens, like a lightning strike to the house when everybody's in the garden, breaking all fuses, water pump etc. Remember we had probably three years without some crazy accident. Nobody got killed though, so all good.
Something like that, as long as you can also prove I hadn’t published the key prior to that. If I publish at random times and to random URL, that may be challenging.
I use a combination of the crewAI python library, chromaDB as a vector database, and I run an embedding and llama model out of an Ollama docker container. This is all running and hosted locally on my personal PC and running off a 12GB RTX3060. I had to customize some of the tooling that comes with crewAI to make the RAG retrieval tool they provide work with my local chromaDB and Ollama models.

They have a nice class setup that lets you build fully custom tooling, really fun playing with the Selenium webdriver library and give your agents tooling to interact and observe web elements.

Huggingface recently released their smolagents framework as well, I might start looking into that.
I saw this last week and was impressed by construction methods that I haven't noticed before.
I certainly hope not.

My intent isn't to devolve into some sort of bastardized nihilism, it's to inject skepticism into anything that I can be bothered to think about.

I find it useful as a tool for critical analysis. To question a premise, to poke at the facts, especially the inarguable, indisputable ones.

There seems to be an inverse relationship between the accuracy of a fact and the amount of trouble you get in for questioning it.
Why is the sun called Sol? And not Sun? I thought Sol was a sci-fi thing?
Along all the creators there are only a few making a good buck with the rest scrambling for a few dollars.
Oh, it's definitely not for everyone. I love most of the broad spectrum of electronic music (sans the more mainstream "EDM" crap, but I digress...), so my wife gets exposed to all kinds of weird, repetitive shit. And she can't stand most of it, it makes her very anxious and over-stimulated. There's one particular kind of electronic music, called Deep House, which is heavily rooted in Funk, Soul, Disco and Jazz, that she absolutely loves to go out and dance to with me. It's got a four-to-the-floor kick, but it's got the soul and sound of the other genres I listed, just slightly repetitive.

This[1] is a good example of what that kinda music sounds like, he's one of my favorite DJs/producers out there. I suspect it might still not be for you, and that's totally fine! This shit deeeeeeefinitely isn't for everyone. :)

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYS3OUKKGqc

Edit: And as an aside, I'm with ya on NYC. Every time I visited, all of my NYC friends would just regale me, and themselves, with stories about finding places to live and what they have to deal with living there. I don't understand it.
Facebook has a long, bloody history of expanding their services into areas without investing in content moderation first. Sometimes they don’t have a single employee who can speak the language of their users. As a result, tens of thousands of people have died in genocide.

You can’t have community notes if you don’t already have a community established. Community notes won’t help if the community’s behavior is the problem.

Many people will die as a result of this decision.
Where's my invite?
No. That claim is at best highly misleading and, in most straightforward comparisons, simply false. Once you adjust for cost of living, tax structures, and what you actually “get” for your taxes (e.g., healthcare, education), Denmark’s median disposable income generally exceeds that of Mississippi. Moreover, Mississippi’s nominal median household income—while sometimes quoted in the same ballpark as Denmark’s median after-tax income—does not include the considerable out-of-pocket costs U.S. residents pay for things Danes receive through public services (healthcare, college, childcare, etc.).
Not much love for Android, so here's and Android option;

https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
I've always thought of passkeys as a good 2nd factor in conjunction with a password. Similar to the way you'd use a Yubikey or anything else with FIDO2/WebAuthn.

Seeing passkeys as a dedicated login on their own is...strange. For all of the reasons that you indicate.
Isn't drinking too much carbonated water bad for your teeth? For that reason I try to limit the amount of sparkling water I drink, even though I like it. I know I'd be drinking it daily if I had such a machine on hand at home.
It‘s a bribe.
On Android, pressing lock 5 times quickly automatically dials 911.