skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea of owning my own feed very much. These days it feels like a local and/or private LLM that had some web crawling ability would be able to do a better job than RSS.

That seems like such an obvious project that someone's working on it, but the trick is that I would NOT subject myself to a monetized AI that is injecting content into my eyeballs that isn't in my best interest. So it's not necessarily something that fits current models of "the user is the product".
I’m fairly certain I remember them suggesting that the original switch was capable of doing this but then they either never granted access to it in the dev kit or they just never had it end up getting used in any noteworthy games.

Nintendoland for the Wii U was _very_ fun in my memory. It was the only title that I remember leveraging the asymmetry of information that different players can have for local multiplayer.
Ask HN: How can I as a Pest Control tech raise security concerns to my clients?
The amount of technical and physical security holes I see in local businesses and even private residences as a pest control technician is truly baffling. I was wondering how I should approach making my clients aware that they are vulnerable without making myself suspicious or overstepping the nature of our business relationships? Some of it is really egregious. Thanks for your time.
Who is trying to achieve zero downtime? Facebook has degraded service regularly it's just close enough to 99.9 that nobody cares.

If loading my messages times out I just move onto something else and go back a few minutes later.

Surely they have metrics measuring that and don't think it's worth the engineering effort to improve it.
Many cities have an organized theft problem and are doing very little about it. Even when the police catch the perpetrators, they get little to no punishment. There doesn't seem to be much of an effort to go after the fencing networks either. Things seem to be getting worse in a lot of urban areas too, where I live I have noticed the decline over the last 5 years which has led stores to not only lock things up, but a lot of them hire security guards or off-duty cops to man the entrance/exit and they also have closed entrances to make everyone enter and leave through a single set of doors.

As well as the organized crime, I think there is a culture problem in some areas where it is "OK to steal from the man", well it is until the store in your area closes and now you live in a food/retail desert and have to take a bus to buy anything.
Arianespace director literally laughed in public over that idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W676Kk9LSYw
I hate to be the “um.. actually” guy, but isn’t steamdeck running on read only Arch system rather than Fedora?
I have one but I only game on it.
> Europe understands that innovation is not good per se

That is a fallacy. You are presenting an opinion as an indisputable fact, and then follows.

> Americans however, they are purely materialists.

Here the same and at the same time doing a terrible and unfair generalization.

> They don't understand that there is more to life

Please read that sentence aloud, and think what if you were in that collective.
The whole point of a font stack is to give a prioritised selection between beautiful modern fonts that won't be available on every machine and basic standard defaults like 'sans-serif' that will.
"In the overall population, bedside manner and medical aptitude are likely uncorrelated."

I'd [citation needed] on that, depending on the condition.

In that for some conditions, successful diagnosis and treatment across a wide range of the population (not just the most educated, articulate, mentally with-it and compliant quartile) is going to depend on being able to get qualitative information from the patient, and interpret that correctly.

Equally though the medical profession has enough specialisation in terms of role to be able to put the right personality types in the right jobs.
> It's a completely random chance

No, I don't think these outcomes are being determined by RNGs, but rather by much more deterministic inputs related to the intentions and resources of the parents.
Why do people feel the need to add qualifiers like "I’m a pretty hardcore SpaceX fan but...". Are you so attached to some company that it was hard for you to congratulate people on an accomplishment? It seems strange.
Yet its sales leave the SteamDeck miles behind, and its future is kind of uncertain with a dependency on Windows games translation, that currently Microsoft happens to tolerate.
Thank you, if he really said that he is one of the best players, that would be a lie. I don't think just streaming a leveled up account is a lie, though.

Why do you talk about hours per day? Does it matter if you play less hours per day, but more days?
Amino acids are common enough -- glycine has been found in comets and, controversially, even in the interstellar medium. Other amino acids have also been found in comets.

Comet organics, under pressure, can turn into amino acids in situ: https://www.llnl.gov/article/36016/amino-acids-could-be-prod...

It's also presumed that cometary ice bombardment is the source of Earth's surface water, as ice or water present any earlier would have boiled off when the planet was young and hot.

It's not much of a stretch to imagine that comets brought amino acids, organic compounds, and minerals to Earth as they were bringing water ice. A lot of those aminos and organics would turn into tar, but some would be protected from UV radiation by that same tar. With a heat source, maybe some lightning strikes, a good location, and a lot of luck, you get RNA...

What we can't yet do is assign a probability or likelihood to this process. But the ingredients should be common enough.
Not sure if you chose 17mm on purpose but the tolerances on most sockets and wrenches make 17mm and SAE 11/16" sizes nearly interchangeable.
I am much more depressed by our crushing lack of new housing construction that keeps cities unaffordable for the middle class than I am about new buildings not being sufficiently pleasing to my eye.
Maybe we'll get lucky and one of the super volcanoes will go off.
So the show I saw is not yet available in a recorded format, but I recommend checking out Gary Gulman's comedy special The Great Depresh. And if they do ever record the live performance I saw, I really recommend you check that out. Somehow both funny and extremely enlightening, and right on topic with what you're saying.
There was another thread (I think on HN today) about investment strategies, and the ones that earned the most over the longest term were basically broad index funds rather than picking winners. I'd wager your point has a lot to do with why this investment strategy is best.
Ammonia as a fuel is an absurdly stupid idea. It is trading the lives and safety of crews and passengers for a bit of money.
Thanks for sharing this. Somehow it evokes images of travel to me.

Seeing the wonders of the world used to require skill, (sailing, flying, or) hiking/climbing up mountains to see the view. There were few people at the top and likely like-minded.

Since cable cars were installed, there's hordes of tourists at the top that take the place for granted and cable car operators eventually ruin the view by putting up ads billboards all over the landscape.

Some folks set-up their private viewing areas only accessible by hiking (some free, some rented, some purchased), and still hike to the top, but they'll take the cable car for convenience sometimes and there is the looming threat that the hiking path will become inaccessible some day.

Others find new mountains where they try to trailbreak with a few others, knowing they may be laying the groundwork for new cablecars down the line and will need to move on again.
Oops, edited, thank you!
This thing is gonna get swallowed in an ocean of steam decks and other similar clones. Unless you want to play the third installment of Mario Kart 8, I guess.
Obviously there isn't a switch 2 emulator yet, and probably will be a while until one is released.

The challenge will not be hardware emulation (if it's a nvidia tegra 2 based SOC that will be easy) but hack the OS/security to make it usable.

So don't expect to play mario kart 9 on your steam deck anytime soon.

Edit: with easy i don't mean that it will not demand a really top of the line computer to run it. But that isn't completely undocumented or custom hardware, like i don't know, ps3 or sega saturn.
Heh, I started working on a board game with a couple friends and then got caught up reading card descriptions from a shared Google Spreadsheet and generating images to work with Tabletop Simulator.

It's a different kind of work from my usual though, and it was fun to see my friends in awe that they could write arbitrarily many new cards and almost instantaneously see them in the game.
I understand that a six-hour spin is slow and that redefines our understanding of the universe, but reading about regular neutron stars:

"When the star collapses it may go from a million-kilometre radius to just 10 kilometres....A full spin usually takes these collapsed stars just milliseconds or seconds to occur."

Such mind-boggingly enormous amounts of energy. Wow.
Did you know: Some closing HTML tags are optional?
Having both sides obey their obligations under international law would be a good first step.

Maybe Israel could start by turning over everyone subject to an outstanding International Criminal Court warrant. (Starting with Netanyahu, of course.)
Maybe somebody wants to play assassins creed without uplay bullshit.
When I started on my path to get my application off of Spark late 2023 I started with Polars because it seemed to have more community velocity and seemed more approachable. Unfortunately, at least at that time, the lazy evaluation Rust api was very much a wip and didn't work for my use case. Switching to DataFusion enabled me to port/rewrite my application into Rust and drastically improve it's performance.
There are a lot of types of fundamentalists. I don't know that being raised in some sort of AI Accelerationist Musk/Theil-adjacent Silicon Valley environment is necessarily going to go particularly well for the kid either...
Show HN: I made a gender reveal app
When we were getting ready to reveal our baby’s gender, we dreamed of having a simple link from our midwife that could instantly tell us if we were having a boy or a girl. After searching the internet for a free and easy solution, we came up empty-handed. So, I decided to create one myself.

Introducing GenderGram! We used it for our own reveal, and it worked perfectly—we couldn’t have been happier. What’s more, we’ve been able to share the same link with our family and friends to let them in on the exciting news.

I’d love to hear your thoughts—check it out!
There's another bug, related to performance - this involves a quadratic amount of memory copying unless your environment can arrange for zero-copy.
I've done this. Built a whole RSS app, where I can use RSS feeds to serve me the web page itself, then customize the web page with my own styling if I want. I can also use non-RSS pages in my RSS reader and show once a day or however often I want.

The problem is with discovery, though (e.g. getting new information you wouldn't get with an RSS feed, such as YouTube videos). I still think you'd need to make your own algorithm based on your own parameters so you can get the benefits of discovery while also controlling what you see.
Until Microsoft says Windows translations is enough.
> I do not understand why that's difficult, but it must be.

Because historically and even presently to a distressing degree, sales is not about communication, it's not amount mutuality of purpose, and it's not about explaining what the product is. If you have a product that does it's job and does it well, and solves a problem for a person or a business, you don't need a sales call because a sales email is more effective. You need a sales call (and arguably, a salesperson) when the value proposition isn't remotely that clear.

Most salespeople when you're on the phone with them do not care about you as a customer. They care about making their quota and/or getting their commission. I appreciate at my current employer that while we offer bonuses for sales folks that really go above an beyond, like scoring a large account or solving a large problem, we don't do commissions, we just pay good salaries. That means the sales person as they're working is not incentivized to sell as much as possible, they're incentivized to figure out the (potential) client's needs, and how we can best meet them, irrespective of what they end up paying.
Absolutely. I was stuck thinking about the simple plastic Switch 1 dock. Switch 2 dock could definitely be more of a dongle.
> Symbian was going to magically fix all their problems.

Really? I remember Symbian had the crappiest and most shoestring C++ dev stack ever.
You tell them you have business as a security consultant, and you are willing to discuss their security situation for a fee.

Might even give them one issue to show you are serious and know what you are doing.
Wow, obviously hit a nerve.

I do get the impression that he wants desperately to be liked, but is just, well, really really good at giving people reasons to dislike him.
exactly. this whole RedNote development frames the problem of United States social media data harvesting and surveillance. We've been institutionalized to believe that the Chinese are the most propagandized and censored people on the planet, meanwhile American "free speech" social media platforms regularly de-platform and de-monetized accounts regularly.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has officially been announced
Hmmm, I wonder if the Nintendo charging stand will charge the NES Joy-Cons, cause the BestBuy stand I have won't (no big deal currently, the switch is usually on the dock and I charge the NES controllers on it)
> The amount of deceit put out into the world and gobbled up, on purpose, in business is obscene and seriously depressing.

In business, politics, everything. It almost seems like everyone is quietly agreeing that "if we pretend the pesky truth doesn't exist for long enough, we can literally change reality to be what we want".

I feel like I'm going crazy. There's no way that's how things can work for long, right?
It doesn't get deployed onto faster hardware. Mainframes haven't really got faster.
Really, that was your take away?

All I did was ask for the data used to come to that conclusion. I was only aware of SpaceX as a new space company. I was curious as to what other companies were included in her/his model.

How did you possible take offense to someone trying to learn?

And how did you possibly manage to find any ill will in the question?

> Why are you disagreeing like this?

I never once disagreed with the OP. Again, how did you get to this wild of a take from what i wrote?
As always, I find it hilarious that some people believe that these companies will train their flagship model on uncurated data, and that text generated by a Markov chain will not be filtered out.
Possibly. But my Claude prompts work fine on ChatGPT, the only difference being ChatGPT isn't very good. I pay for both.

I would not pay for Gemini - which is presumably why they've added it for "free" for everyone.

My anthropic prompts in the API are structured. I've got one amazing API prompt that has 67 instructions, and gives mind-blowing results (to the point that it has replaced a human) but for a simple question I don't find value in that. And, frankly, 'consumer'-facing AI chatbots shouldn't need prompting expertise for basic out of the box stuff.

The prompt I used in this example was simply "Please extract the data points contained within this report and present as structured data"

> and yet as far I've seen, no BYOK tool offering multiple vendor support respects or leverages that

When you say BYOK tool do you mean effectively a GUI front end on the API? I use typingmind for quickly throwing things at my API keys for testing, and I'm pretty sure you can have a persistent custom system prompt, though I think you'd need to input it for each vendor/model.
In general, everything allocated within an arena has its lifetime tied to that arena. In lots of situations this is a fine or even desirable property (e.g., a single request context in a server application), but can be a tough restriction to work with in situations where you need fine-grained deallocations and possibly want to reuse freed space. The lifetime property can also be a pain to work with in multithreaded scenarios, where you might have multiple threads needing to access data stored in a single arena. Another situation that comes to mind is large long-lived allocations where you might want to have some manual defragmentation in place for performance reasons.
Falcon Heavy has done far too few launches to accurately predict the demand.
Nice article about artifacts that make the past more immediate, that allow us to connect our experiences to people hundreds or thousands of years ago.

My favorite example is the writings of Onfim, who was a little boy in the 1200s in present day Russia whose scribbling and homework were exquisitely preserved on birch bark fragments. It’s so immediately recognizable as a little boy’s endearing doodles about knights and imaginary beasts, yet its 800 years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim
Exactly this. Also why I bought Apple stock the day the iPhone was announced (I had never seen an iPhone and knew nothing about how cool it was, but I took notice that Jobs had been able to blast through the carrier moat concerning data service).
I was about to say...

I'll geek out on the specs once they're leaked or announced or reverse engineered, but also I sorta don't care. It's going to be a solid upgrade over the Switch 1, which is already a lot of fun as long as you're not looking to play contemporary AAA titles from other systems.

But then I thought...

Hmmm. If it's powerful enough to essentially be "portable PS4 era level hardware" then that really increases the number of quality third-party titles we'll see ported over. Sure, they won't be latest and greatest PS5 era level AAA stuff. But they might be last generation's AAA stuff and that could be a very very very solid addition to this thing.

We know the first party Nintendo games will be good, so, the ability (or not) to actually get good ports from other systems (even if not the latest) is pretty compelling.
OK. I guess there is literally no other option for you and it was a mistake to imply otherwise. Have fun with your derivative slop, then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Except insurance also covers for costs that are not your fault or not anyone’s fault. An insurance premium could be divided into two components: one based on individual risk and the other component based on no-fault risk that applies to pretty much everyone equally. How are you going to get bad drivers to pay for hail damage? How are you going to get bad drivers to pay for a tree falling on your car? How are you going to get bad drivers to pay for an accident caused by a random tire blowout?

The personal risk component can be accounted by “perfect” information and that component can get bigger or smaller depending on your definition of perfect, but there’s another component which can’t.
I feel sick, good work - even if I couldn't get to the end.
Google is now forcing my to go elsewhere and I pay for gsuite. I may as well move it all over to Proton.

I use noscript and refuse to turn on JavaScript for anything but actual Web Applications. I do not turn it on for general browsing of content to be read or search because the the UX abuse that JavaScript enables.

The majority of exploits in the wild are delivered via drive by JavaScript.

That said I'm all for honest Advertising if the UX is not shit.

In fact I think there should be an HTML5 <ad></ad> tag implmented in the browsers sandbox that supports IAB VAST specs so none the that "VAST MACRO" garbage would need to done via huge JavaScript payloads.
I hate "let's just have a quick call" people. It's never quick, it's always manipulative, and always a waste of time.

I have a client who tries to use calls to weasel out of paying for things. Finally I refused to talk to him on the phone any more. Some invoices remain outstanding but I'm not willing to waste more time listening to BS. I can spend my time making money from responsible people and meanwhile continue to have my invoice system pester him.

Re: sales, there is no such thing as a quick sales call.
You seem confidant in your ability to present your exact needs and understand the product and so on, that's good, you're probably right.

But when it comes to something complex, something someone hasn't used before, and all the options and dynamics between enterprise departments that might not be pulling in the same direction, an email almost never covers it and often enterprises aren't aware of it to put it in an email.

If you don't address / discover those things it is potentially a recipient for disaster for everyone.

I've been on numerous calls where a potential customer is on the call and even asking about basic features, then one department head explains to the other "Well we can't do that because X,Y,Z and our other systems A,B,C." and it's the first those two departments REALLY heard each other talk about that. Then we find ways to sort it out.

I've even been on calls where for most of it I'm just there, not doing anything, it's the customer discovering their own processes and working it out internally.

In email that's almost always "we can't do that" because of course not, they're alone with their email, nobody is explaining or offering solutions.

Right or wrong it's just human nature and email doesn't work for some things.
Critical rsync security release 3.4.0 with read-only access RCE
My gut says that it isn't a lack of caring, or anything nefarious.

I think Hanlon's Razor is handy here:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

In this case I'd modify it slightly, as I don't think it is stupidity at play, but ignorance. It takes activation energy to address ignorance, and its too easy to kill activation energy inadvertently. It could just be that the person who could fix it is not aware of the issue, and everyone else just looks at it and thinks, wow, someone should do something.
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> SteamOS is Arch, Bazzite is Fedora if you want a more Fedora experience.

Oops, edited, thank you!

> I agree mostly because I find myself playing a lot of smaller games these days

Same here, I play mostly indie <$20 games and have a blast doing it. These games would (almost) never launch on the Switch (or any console). Either that or I'm playing games that would never work well on the Switch (like Factorio, yes I know there is a port and I've also tried on my steam deck and it sucks, you need a mouse/keyboard IMHO).

> For the masses though, a Nintendo system just works. I can hand a Switch to my daughter and know she can play Nintendo games with little bullshit, it's easy to play couch co-op, the parental controls are very solid, etc.

Agreed, this is huge, I wouldn't recommend a steam deck to the average person, just tech people mostly.
We got my little son a balance bike without pedals. His buddy had a regular bike with training wheels. They traded back and forth naturally all day and learned both components in near-isolation. Putting them together came very quickly.

(We still used the balance bike long after he could ride a regular bike because it was so much lighter to carry and had no greasy chain to get on clothes and car seats.)