skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would grabbing a single static frame from each be viable, or would it be clunky because of some sort of minimal time to switch?
Thousands of pirated copyrighted books
What do you use now? I mix
Perplexity and Google depending on the query, I wondered how that compares to Kagi. Yandex is a no-no for me as well
Criticism of usury is a sensitive subject because it has in past unfortunately been associated with extreme racism.
QBasic was as different to Microsoft BASIC as Visual Basic is different to QBasic.

It doesn’t really make sense to lump them into the same group.

As for Microsoft BASIC, I generally found it to be amongst the worst BASIC product on the market at that time.
The handling of the project appears quite troubling, the whole board resigned last year: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/447
It's hard to give trust when there's not a single mention on that site of who "we" are...
Kind of hard to tell what corresponds to what in these graphs, maybe if someone could point out Bookland (i.e. 978), it would be a bit easier to orient oneself?
The Missing Machine is a visual exploration of the power transmission grid
Open about:config

Search for "pdfjs.enableScripting"

Set to false.
Why wouldn't it be? Tech companies, perhaps until very recently, have been extremely left-leaning.

And if you disagree that they were all very left wing: college being an overpriced scam is a conservative take! So either side will happily highlight that, although perhaps only one will suggest why that is.
> Turn your iron up (I use 675)

I felt a little puzzled about this but then it hit me that you probably meant Fahrenheit.

To spare others the conversion: 675 °F is roughly equal to 350 °C.
That propaganda isn’t entirely wrong. There’s a regulatory agency in California that controls insurance premiums and they’ve kept the insurers from raising rates to account for the real risks so insurers have been pulling out. CalFAIR is still available for everyone so it’s not a total shit show but with over 10k structures destroyed so far, we’ll see whether the state has to bail the program out.
Hm, I got:

"...

European sanctions

The Council of Europe has decided that the websites of RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik News may no longer be transmitted. The website you are trying to visit falls under this European sanction.

..."
I thought this interesting because it discusses the high valuations of the magnificent seven tech stocks. Howard Marks is famous for picking the end of the dot com bubble in 2000.
Sorry. Mea culpa entirely. “Rough day” doesn’t even begin to cover yesterday and the past week, and I am apparently acting more like an asshole than usual.

No excuse, all the same.
Funnily enough I quite like my Kagi t-shirt. Especially because it does not look like a tech company shirt at all. Could they do better things with their time and money? Probably. Do I care? Not really.

But, I don't care about AI integrations either. I just like having decent search. And happy to pay for it as they seem to be doing things in the right spirit.
The warning was given [0] and Jensen called the top of the quantum computing bubble.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42474864
Only a person who has no idea about left wing politics could describe tech companies as "extremely left wing." They are just boring old neoliberals.
Kagi seems to genuinly have a good mission when it comes to the internet.

I want small web search. I want good results. I will pay for search!

I do not want to support Russia.
Works fine here from a European IP.
no idea as this is discussion of U.S, but there is also consideration of industry standards. From an IT perspective this is a big warning sign, don't work for this company! Of course maybe they pay double what others do in which case it would be worth it. But probably not.
While it didn't come out with enough of a gap to suggest Apple was directly copying it, the first capacitative smartphone on the market was the LG Prada.
Wi-Fi Router at CES 2025 Has a Connectivity Radius of 9.9 Miles
> I'd prefer not to introduce into my life

I feel the same. Also, one of my friends developed a very bad condition after that, it was quite scary and depressing. Another one just died after taking a small dose (probably had an existing condition, but still...). there is no reason to take this shit.
Easier just to block the ad servers at the DNS level. I use NextDNS [1] as it lets me configure it, but AdGuard [2] DNS probably also works well.

1. https://nextdns.io/

2. https://adguard-dns.io/en/welcome.html
Currently I am looking at a Asus Zenbook Intel notebook that is connected by single USB-C cable. It charges and displays on 2 external monitors at the same time. One is QHD, other FHD. Also, gigabit network is provided through the same cable.
I am not joking: try fully updating all notebook firmware AND display/docking station firmware.
I would assume sudoedit could have preventing that
Because some of their taxes will fund human safari in Kherson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_safari_(terror_campaig...
Show HN: OpenAlias WebUI
Hi everyone,
I've created a free & open-source project that fetches a domain's OpenAlias records. Seeing that no particular implementation of a (web) portal exists, and the OG implementation is very old, I decided to create my own that features a modern, sleek look, keeping performance in mind.

Hope you like it!
Even if it probably isn’t exactly what you were looking for, I’d wholeheartedly recommend The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre, documenting the story of Oleg Gordievsky, the soviet spy that crossed over to the MI5 during the Cold War. It gave me a glimpse into the secret war at the time, the stuff that inspired James Bond, and the hardships and permanent threat faced by a spy trying to live several lives at once.
It was one hell of a read.
Which one, McCullough's? Your comment is the only search result for that quote.
Hey Patrice - that sounds great, and thanks for checking it out! Looking forward to your feedback.
You would have a net worth of 1bn
This is so true. I only exceeded the 300 queries once but the following anxiety around hitting the limit was really bad for some reason.

On unlimited for a few months now and it is so much nicer to not worry about it anymore.
See the problem with this disease is that the general treatment is shit.

With two inoperable tumors the chances that chemo and radiation alone do anything more than giving him a week or two are zero.

So in that respect, going to a first-class brain surgeon is no less a moonshot than any other bio hacks I can find online.

You're just recommending the "most-accepted" moonshot.
"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" Rhodes
The number you are looking for is e^(sqrt(163) pi). According to Wikipedia:

In a 1975 April Fool article in Scientific American magazine,[8] "Mathematical Games" columnist Martin Gardner made the hoax claim that the number was in fact an integer, and that the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan had predicted it – hence its name.

It is not an integer of course.
Well to be fair, he got prominent and created an illegal peer-to-peer lending business to enrich himself on the despair of lower-income people - in a country that has heavy financial regulation in place to prevent exactly these kinds of developments (same as MLM schemes etc.).
You don't remember the first episodes of Squid Game then - it's very clearly explained to you. The main character has a gambling problem, lost his job and has taken money from loan sharks who threaten to take a kidney and eye to sell if he doesn't pay up. He also has a mum who is late stage diabetic who can't afford amputation surgery or treatment, particularly as he cancelled the insurance for gambling money.

The antihero used Futures and committed fraud in a company, with the police after him and significant debts to repay as well.

That's why contestants in squid game join - they're all in so much debt that theyve even signed away rights to their body. That's why the contestants can get in and choose to stay.
I think the website is censored at DNS level but they chose the wrong error page.

In Italy it just errors out with a NS_ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
So extremely of the left they made the Wobblies look right wing! /s

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399591/wobblies-of-the-wor...
Is $10 really expensive?

For most people, no. Can you think of $10/m you spend on something less important than search? A couple coffees, a sandwich, HBO, Netflix, a drink, using two gallons of gas recreationally, etc
I think the other commenter is right in calling them neoliberal, not left wing. An economically left wing corporation is sort of an impossibility…but I don’t want to veer into that debate here.

To answer your question: because a good portion of a company like Netflix’s annual revenue is derived from credit card payments that are sort of “forgotten” monthly bills. These companies don’t benefit at all from a financially-literate and secure customer base.
I'm not a doctor. All people who I personally know who had cancer and went through standard procedures are dead.

Do your own research, I came across this avenue but I personally know nobody who tried this https://www.burzynskiclinic.com/
All grapefruit… my wife has clear instructions on this for her heart meds
The power of Kaiji is how the author via the main character thoughts go into the metagame of each game.

The art style is "special" but the content of the anime and the manga (because you'll want more of it) are top notch.
As a sort of challenge I had an idea of building an app using SQL as a pseudo ECS system where every table was either a 1 column table with only an id or a 2 column table with an id and a value.
Fabian socialism is all about wearing a neoliberal mask.
> A bigger problem is that you should never use leaded solder to repair boards that have been soldered with lead-free, which means pretty much every board out there that has been manufactured in the last 20-30 years or so.

I am unlikely to every try this, but curious: Why is that, what would happen?
Yes? Not understanding what you're trying to say with that
> I read about the idea that in constructive mathematics all functions are continuous

From what I understand, it is more that most systems of intuitionistic/constructive logic can't prove the existence of a discontinuous real function – but nor can they disprove it. They have models both in which such functions exist, and also models in which they don't.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/176279/all-real-fun...
Vic 20 Elite preview [video]
Sort of explains in the book that Battle Royale was a bureaucratic fuckup. Battle Royale takes place in an alternate reality where Japan didn't lose WW2 and the fascist government continued into the 21st century. Some time around the late 1940s, some politician facetiously suggested forcing the kids of Japan to kill each other as a kind of legislative poison pill, and through a series of parliamentary procedural events that nobody alive can particularly remember, it got passed into law. 50 years after the fact, it kept going simply because they had accepted it as a fact of life, which I think is a critique of how entrenched some of the more fucked up aspects of Japanese culture are
Thunderbolt these days is nothing more than USB 4 with a few optional features made mandatory. Many AMD laptops support everything found in Thunderbolt but don't call it Thunderbolt for legal reasons.
End of life bucket lists are a strange thing, I recall a close family member who entered hospice. They kept attempting to use their credit card to pay for all expenses, dinners, etc.

Of course, everyone around wanted to contribute - this person was not well off, the credit card was not used for much.

It took some weeks later after they passed for me to realize that they knew it was a credit card bill they would never need to pay. In all likelihood others contributions simply blocked them from feeling that they were contributing.
Yeah that's going to end up warped and break 10x easier than anything else.

Concept is cool but simple, robust, reliable is needed for portable devices.

I refer to my colleague with the foldable that got broken no less than 3 times before he went purple with anger and bought an iPhone. Also the surface was horribly warped and suffered from really bad wear. Why iPhone? Because Samsung service and support here is absolutely dire.
Javascript has both null and undefined and I'm not sure that's a good idea.
At least in SQL we only have one of them, but it can mean unknown or it can mean N/A or even false. It's like a joker, what it means depends on how you use it.
I don't want to be promoted!

At some point you get to the state where you can't perform a work function. We lost more people above me than along side me.
Look up New England when early Rus ruler married Anglo-Saxon, that were part fo refugees from Norman ivasion.
The billions Gates has dropped on "education reform", including support for Common Core, is the sort of thing a rich ass convinced of the rightness of his techno-managerial views would do.
I feel like a select for:

- col1 = 1 should not return NULLS

- !(col1 = 1) should return NULLS

- col1 <> 1 should not return NULLS
So the actual headline should be "Chinese car company overtakes American headphone maker from 8 years ago":))

Active suspension apparently quietly was in luxury cars for a while...
It's blocked at least in the Netherlands. Weirdly it mentions it being part of the sanctions against Russia, while from a cursory search I only found a judge ordering the site to be blocked because of copyright issues (thanks Brein). They probably just show the wrong error page?
based on our foldable mass-production experience, we have designed to ensure durability in our rollable products

...i.e. "it'll last until the warranty expires, provided you take extreme care with it".
Show HN: Experiment with DSPy optimzers, track performance of LLM-features
Excited to introduce LangWatch, the tool designed for developers working with LLMs. It allows you to experiment with DSPy optimizers in a simple way and monitor the performance of LLM features in your projects.
Key features include:
DSPy optimizer integration: Test various optimization algorithms to enhance your LLM's efficiency.
Monitor and visualize the performance metrics of different LLM features over time.
Open Source: Contributions are welcome to help improve and expand the tool's capabilities.
Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are highly appreciated.
It's funny how everything is optional on the usb 4 features graph.

Can you do 5 W and 1.1 Mbps and call it usb 4?
They left a pretty heavy cliff-hangar in the very last few minutes of the last episode.
Alright, we're getting there. Still feels like there's a very long way to go.
If they don't want to participate in democracy, that's on them. It's not hard to get ID.

Instead lobbying to make the voting process less secure, why not help people get ID instead?
Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction
Need for Speed absolutely sleeping on this /s
JavaScript's undefined is great. It's sort of similar to a maybe monad. Or IEEE 754 NaN. JS could have nicer mechanisms to handle undefined though.
I remember vividly how unfun resistive touchscreens were.

Especially on tablet computers, which existed long before the iPad, but never caught on. They also had terrible battery life, ugly TFT screens and backlights, unreliable wireless connectivity, laggy UI (Apple seems to be the only company that cared about a consistent 60Hz response), and I think a lot of them ran Windows CE? I'm not sure about that last one, I don't remember, but I'm sure the software sucked.

(I'm excluding the Palm-Pilot-ish devices with low-powered CPUs and monochrome LCDs here; those started popping up in the 80's, and of course there was the failed Apple Newton. The devices I'm talking about were basically x86 laptops without keyboards.)
App data.
Play store simply reinstalls the apps but they're in a clean state. Some apps supposedly back up and restore their data from Google cloud but that's rare.
Cool stuff have been using them for a while. the DSPY optimizers stand out of the crowd compared to others LLM Ops platforms.
HDMI CEC is truly infuriating. I have turned it off everywhere (TV, receiver, google tv box, PlayStation). I'd much rather power on (or off) three things manually with three different remotes if it works consistently, as opposed to playing the "which device refused to power on/off via HDMI Control this time" game, every single time.
For many years there was a hydrogen fuel station in Hamburg and I think many BMW images showcase it. Last time I heard it was decommissioned.
I always heard that George Lucas was inspired by The Hidden Fortress by Akira Kurosawa. If you watch it (and it's a great film) the parallels are quite obvious.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress
A null boolean good very well mean true, if the default value is true (in the code if not in the DB).
Installing FreeBSD on a Steam Deck
I explored the landscape and didn't find good alternative yet. I basically fell back to Google.

One interesting initiative I discovered is that Qwant and Ecosia are teaming up to develop a new independent European search index:

https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-j...

Very much look forward to see this :)
Assuming you are serious - what does it mean for a number to not exist?
Americans have no idea how far advanced the Chinese car market is.

The big feature 2 years ago was car starting to sprout LIDAR bumps but now that feature has become de rigueur enough that car brands need to figure out something new to stand out, hence the big push to advertise their active suspension.

Nio's new ET9 is showing off their car doing tricks like bouncing a soccer ball (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Ezjmz63U8), driving with a stack of glasses on it's hood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEr_sNp7XLM) and syncing the suspension to a movie (https://www.tiktok.com/@autogefuehl/video/745225999151335350...). Yangwang is showing it leap the car in the air. At the end of the day though, the more Hertz and more acceleration your active suspension system has, the smoother it can dampen movement inside the cabin and Chinese consumers are already getting very picky about how well specced the active suspension systems are.

In another 2 years time, Nio/Yuanyang style active suspension will have trickled out into enough midrange cars that it's no longer an exciting feature and Chinese car brands will figure out the latest new thing to compete. Meanwhile, American car brands will be barely half way through their model cycle refresh and just starting to think about incrementally adding a single feature or two and maybe adding a new curve to the body somewhere.
And those C extensions usually release the GIL, so you can do real multithreading to some extent.
But it suffers from being an adaptation of a Stephen King's book.

King is really good at making you live through the eyes of his protagonists. Which is really hard to do in movies. Same thing with Shining were you follow Jack's fall to craziness from his PoV. And the same thing will happen with "The Long Walk", another great novel which I recommend if you like the death game theme.
The rules only apply to the little people.
This just seems like the completely wrong form factor for this technology, Like they were just given these screens at a discount and told make it work.
I'm in your camp. Media like Squid Game annoy me to no end because they perpetuate the idea that any severe debt someone might be in is always the fault of the individual, rather than circumstance. And this, the system that continues to create student loans debt, housing debt, etc, goes relatively unacknowledged for another day.

As a result, I have trouble having any sympathy for characters portrayed in stuff like Squid Game. They brought it on themselves through their own greed, right? That is what we are supposed to think, I suppose. The show touches only mildly on why Player 456 needs to gamble on horses, showing that his mother is sick and that he is rather destitute after a failed marriage and being laid off, presumably unable to find different work. We're supposed to empathize with that position, but it certainly does not reflect my own debt struggle, nor that of anyone who is suffering the same fate I am which is driven by a lending system that turns us into indentured servants. I don't gamble or take any real financial risks. I just made the mistake of being born with a lifelong medical condition, trying to buy a house and a decent car, and put my kid through college, and I suddenly find myself in a very deep hole with zero chance of escaping before I die. Of course, on screen, that's not as sexy as debt from crime and gambling.
Most cancers are dependent on glucose as a fuel source, as they typically use 200× more than most other cells in the body.

If you can, convince your friend to go on a zero-carb, zero-sugar diet that even cuts out artificial sweeteners (as they can also screw with metabolism). Get them to try to hammer their A1C down to 3.0 or less for 3+ months, so they go into extended periods of ketosis. A continuous glucose monitor can help identify spikes, which can also be moderated with 2tbsp of vinegar before each meal.
Well, Curonian settlemen on Gotland and Uralic male gene flow into Scandinavia via Alands during Viking age can't be explained by just capture of females. Not to mention that some of the English male ancestry that landed there during Viking times is shared with Estonians and not Scandinavians.

But frankly, this paper is not about captured females(which btw are more uniformly spread across whole Europe, so their capture even in Southern Europe would not radically add anything new to a Scandinavian female gene pool), when it specifically mentions whole populations coming to Scandinavia from Central Europe. It is differences in males that really make distinctive population groups.
I really would have preferred this rnd went to cheap high dpi HDR laptop screens instead...
This is a more broad interpretation of "getting things done," but The Secret Race is an excellent book about what it was like to be a professional cyclist in the late 90s/early 2000s, doping and all
The irritating thing about that is that the software git defaults to master, while GitHub defaults to main. I had a lot of confusion a few months back about that.
Completely legal. But in public opinion, you won't be able to attract any users away from the real site, and your site will be indistinguishable from all of those content scraping SEO spam sites that get heavily penalized by search engines.
and earlier, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652278
Battle Royale was about curbing juvenile delinquency, no overt or fundamental economic reasons. So, same boat, Battle Royale is anti-authoritarian thus in the same line as Hunger Games. Squid Games is anti-capitalist thus in the Running Man (the novel, 1982) line.
I thought the accent was to indicate to English speakers that the word has three syllables rather than two? The acute accent isn't standard for marking a long vowel in romanised Japanese (it's usually a macron or a circumflex, or a doubling of the letter in ASCII-only contexts); and as best I can tell, the vowel in the original Japanese is short -- so closer to the "e" in "bed" or "met" than to the "ay" in "okay", if I understand correctly.
My experience creating Prostir: an app for organizing life
Was the first iPhone touchscreen even capacitive? I remember using android phones circa 2009 that had resistive touchscreens, it took a bit for capacitive screens to become the norm.
What is app data? I guess maybe everything I use is already in the cloud anyway, so I never noticed that?
What about Bluetooth? I think it there are enough intentional and unintentional beacons around that it's possible to have some localization info with their MACs. Does this require permission?