skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you truly wanted to do this, you'd make 10 trillion small discs with the same content and spread them all over the moon, ideally with something on those discs that could be detected (and not explained away) from a few lightyears distance.
For argument's sake, yes, unironically: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

In contrast, this is less evil: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

But as usual, nobody really cares because it’s also useful and convenient, even if there’s a bunch of ad crap and fingerprinting and tracking and other stuff, basically taking away more and more control over how you want to consume the contents of a site, same as DRM.

Contrast that to a static site (or a server side rendered one to a lesser degree) which is more like a newspaper - if you have it, you can read it, cut out bits that you’re interested in, stash them away for safe keeping etc.

The more nuanced answer is that most technologies aren’t inherently evil or good but it depends on how they’re used. Even then the answer still leans towards “yes”.
Is that true?! US kids don't learn cursive? How do they write?!
Which recourses are you talking about? It was mostly a classic witch hunt in that they were charged without evidence, presumed guilty, and then told to prove that they were not a witch.

It's a tried and true method to find witches.
I too have survivorship bias that I try to explain away with self serving theories and ideas that pit my special nature against the tendencies of the inferior masses. In my case I literally survived alcoholism after I was lucky enough to come out alive after an accident. I used this as motivation to do the hard work of getting and staying sober. My brain sometimes tells me that I have some special power of “working hard enough to change myself” that has also helped me become an entrepreneur and make other positive changes in my life. I tell myself people sometimes fail because they didn’t go through this and can’t work hard enough to change themselves for the better. In reality it all comes down to luck and circumstance that I was fortunate enough to take advantage of.

In this post the author tries to set up an unassailable scenario where two very similar people end up with strikingly different life outcomes because of “how some of us have chosen to live their lives.” Conveniently, the author is the successful one because he is part of “a small set of humans who don’t act like their lives are predestined.” The majority, and the person he compares himself to, obviously couldn’t succeed without this special character aspect. In reality, it’s the “small set of humans” part that shows the way to the truth. The analysis that says successful people are different because they chose to act differently and not live a “predestined” life ignores all the people who also made that choice without getting lucky and achieving success. It also leaves out the people who lived a “predestined” life and succeeded despite their lack of willpower or special abilities or whatever else we can point to as an explanation.

Like I said, I am victim to the same fallacies in my own reasoning about my life, but I try very hard to overcome them or at least recognize them. The takeaway from this article isn’t that “you are the master of your own fate” but instead something like “be careful when trying to explain your own life’s circumstances, especially when your explanations put you in some special class that only few people have achieved.” Luck, by its very nature, is only for the few.
My biggest issue is just how often these agents make subtle, hard to spot mistakes.

It can seem great for certain tasks at first. Yesterday I had to add license headers to the top of a lot of source code files. The reason why I let the AI try is because the repository contained lots of different programming languages.

It was able to do this but I then realized that it just removed the last sentence of the text it was supposed to add.
Investigate Israel, and the very tools you used will be destroyed. But investigate the US and use tortured logic to imply its legal system still supports slavery, and you get funded and approvingly publicized by your university: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743034

If only American universities were as protective of America as they are of Israel..
Inoreader, it's free and works like a charm
Why respond in such a clown tone? Of course they did not do it for the fun of it but your narrative is highly suggestive that it was a huge cash cow. It was not, from what was reported on regarding GM is sounded like the effort was more hassle than its worth. Not sure if that will continue to be true but perhaps its too much bad PR for not really any gain.
US funds foreign political no profits in other countries thanks to the Foreign Assistance Act agencies like USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.

That's besides the money funneled through other agencies which are more covert.

That means that countries around the world have US funded no profits effectively doing non bi-partizan political activity.

Officially those should only inform (foreign) citizens about their civic and voting rights, in reality they are more often than not tools of the US to influence and take huge biases in other countries.

And here's the underlying problem: as per American exceptionalism it's fine when US does that, but it's unacceptable when others do it in US.
> Yes, the second is much more work, orders of magnitude at least.

I feel it's important to stress that the difficulty level of collocating something, let alone actually building a data center, is exactly what makes cloud computing so enticing and popular.

Everyone focuses on trivia items like OpEx vs CapEx and dynamic scaling, but the massive task of actually plugging in the hardware in a secure setting and get it to work reliably is a massive undertaking.
The ability to find humor in taboo topics is actually a sign of cognitive flexibility and social intelligence.
Ask HN: What experimental app are you working on now?
I spent a few years working on an experimental app called "MeetingGlass - Easy long video meetings through virtual frosted glass" (https://meetingglass.com/). I couldn't help but work on it because I love remote work so much.

I wonder if anyone here is also working on experimental apps that provide new ways to do things that are maybe ahead of their time or maybe still in the proof-of-concept stage...

I'm not talking about demos, prototypes, but relatively complete working products that you can try online.

If you are working on such experimental apps, please share them in the comments.
Life; a Not Fake Explanation
I personally use a free (and small) mobile data plan, so that several MB/search would make me pay infinite times more. I switched to DDG.
Inoreader FTW!!! Generous free tier and no nonsense UX. Can't say enough good things about it.
Site feedback: when I drag "Popular sources" into the field, I see the options "YouTube" and "HackerNews". But when I click either I just see a blank modal. I'm using Firefox 135.
Quick and easy see-all-at-one-glance test world to see if a new feature breaks any import game mechanics.

Will also come in handy for Java modders.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is apples and oranges: storage can be reused, while electricity is consumed.
Browsers have never really supported feeds. Even Firefox really only supported feed auto-discovery. There are extensions that implement feed readers, but browsers are ill suited to be feed readers. Most people who consume feeds do so via a dedicated feed reader, and there are plenty of online feed readers out there if you don't want a desktop one and plenty of services if you don't want to self-host. I self-host and use Miniflux personally.
A life is nothing more than the sum of its deaths
Prompt caching would lower the cost, later similar tech would lower the inference cost too.
You have less than 25 tokens, thats between 1-5$.

There may be some use case but I'm not convinced with the one you gave.
A PDA from an ESP32
I could use some help understanding, is this a set of tools or techniques to answer questions? The name made me think it's related to create embeddings but it seems much more?
On the average site JS will add anywhere from hundreds of KB to over a MB of data to download: https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript#bytesJs

Especially when it’s foundational to how the site runs, e.g. the typical way how Vue, React or Angular are used.
What I find amusing is that this is Google. It's their bots, and now LLMs as well, that have hammered people's websites for years.
> Come to my office and tell me how it’s not actually my office (...)

I think you're failing to understand the meaning and the point of "building your own datacenter".

Yes, you can talk about your office all you'd like. Much like OP can talk about there server farm and their backend infrastructure.

What you cannot talk about is your own office center. You do not own it. You rent office space. You only have a small fraction of the work required to operate an office, because you effectively offloaded the hard part to your landlord.
The story of the secret theatre buried under Dublin's Busáras
> Most of that money has led to increases in housing stock value/cost

You're of course correct in general about asset prices. The entire game over the past 2 decades or so of low interest rates has been: borrow money and acquire more assets because U.S. monetary and fiscal policy has mostly only cared about the U.S. stock market (despite what pronouncements about other priorities might be made, the effect was the same).

We all knew this and it was almost irresponsible to do anything other than keep acquiring assets. The government will inflate their prices for you so why fight the Fed?

One didn't even need to gamble by trading, just accumulate.
McDonnell Douglas seems to have gotten it done, from a quick skim of [1]. It appears they ran out of funding and the program was cancelled. According to the same article,

> Elon Musk stated that the SpaceX Falcon 9 development was "... continuing the great work of the DC-X project."

So...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
No, limiting user freedom as to whether or not to use it is.
I had a Lenovo Yoga a little bit ago and it took 3 years iirc for the kernel module for the wifi/bt chip to be merged.
Role of Parent-Oriented Motivation in Parent Involvement and Child Achievement
The cynic in me says that "do not" does not equal "will not", and even if it said "will not", that's toothless, as Google was for years famous for having "do no evil" baked into their manifesto, until one day they didn't.
Just because its legal doesn't make it right. Mega-companies, by virtue of their immense power, should - actually I'll upgrade that to 'must' - have safeguards to prevent them from abusing that power on regular people. If those laws don't currently exist, they should be.

Also, the whole idea that companies are 'people' and therefore are protected under these constitutional rights is a bullshit concept. It was never the intent of the founders, it was act of corruption of the legal system.
I've traveled a lot, and lived in both France and Switzerland.

You haven't. Francophones are different and way more elitist about their language.

I'm not gonna go in a long spree of anecdotes I've seen everyday.
They rebranded because it brings bad connotations of being "just a Minecraft clone"

https://blog.luanti.org/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/
> The version with 'c' is one that contains a pronunciation hint for people whose native language is not Arabic (but probably English).

What hint would that be? There's no 'c' sound in the Arabic version.
> For some reason, there seems to exist a high percentage of Java programmers who are incompetent at writing GUIs

There's multiple GUI Java toolkits and they all equally suck in their own way. Eclipse for example uses SWT which translates to the native application toolkit, which "should" support HiDPI, but as you're limited to native widgets it's not very common.
I think sdl works directly with fb when using fb as a backend,no windows system is needed
Going to bed a lot earlier. Some people just can’t sleep past a certain time no matter what.
Shilling for what?

I simply observed how these threads always go. The faithful turn up to proudly proclaim how much they don't use google, how they cripple their browsing experience so they may remain pure, to experience the internet as it was intended before the original sin (ads) corrupted it.
> It seems a bit disingenuous but it’s common practice. Even the hyperscalers, who do have their own datacenters, include their colocation servers in the term “datacenter.”

I think you're conflating things.

Those hypothetical hyperscalers can advertise their availability zones and deployment regions, but they do not claim they built the data centers. They provide a service, but they do not make broad claims on how they built infrastructure.
There is also DefleMask, supporting Genesis, SMS (+FM Sound Unit), GB, PCE, NES (+VRC7, +FDS), C64, Arcade, NeoGeo, and MSX2. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and Raspberry Pi.

https://www.deflemask.com/
That was the implication that the DOJ lawyer proposed. But privacy was not the actual security issue that made this law.

The security issue that made this law was the US could not stop the media narrative propagated by an adversary. The bin laden letter got popular on TikTok as well before it was taken down. And lawmakers feared this was the start.
Well yes but headscale?
I actually think that the used car salesman qualifier needed to be added to add the element of dishonesty to the character. I feel the middle-eastern name does plays into the trope of non-westerners's reliance on informal networks of kinship and reputation, but not necessarily dishonesty.
Just have version control, and allow randomized spot checks with experts to have a known error rate.
No one who plays on private servers cares about bedrock. There are just too many helper plugins on Java.

And I don’t think bedrock is a fork, more like a reimplementation. Too many subtle differences.
Show HN: Terraform Provider for Inexpensive Switches
Hi HN,

I’ve been building this provider for (web managed) network switches manufactured by HRUI. These switches often used in SMBs, home labs, and by budget-conscious enthusiasts. Many HRUI switches are also rebranded and sold under various OEM/ODM names (eg. Horaco, XikeStor, keepLiNK, Sodola, etc) making them accessible/popular but often overlooked in the world of infrastructure automation.

The provider is in pre-release, and I’m looking for owners of these switches to test it and share feedback. My goal is to make it easier to automate its config using Terraform/OpenTofu :)

You can use this provider to configure VLANs, port settings, trunk/link aggregation etc.

I built this provider to address the lack of automation tools for budget-friendly hardware. It leverage goquery and has an internal SDK sitting between the Terraform resources and the switch Web UI.

If you have one of these switches, I’d love for you to give it a try and let me know how it works for you!

Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/brennoo/hrui
OpenTofu Provider: https://search.opentofu.org/provider/brennoo/hrui

I’m happy to answer any questions about the provider or the hardware it supports. Feedback, bug reports, and ideas for improvement are more than welcome!
As someone not living the us but regularly reading news from both sides of your media landscape, I can tell you that it's not regulated what they can write or say or what's promoted. Your media is all over the place. There are differences in how far they go on the spectrum and some are definitely insane on what they publish to the level of leaving out all the important details about certain situations to push their agenda. How do you think that there is any regulation at all?

Also for tiktok, the algorithm needs less than an hour to almost fully understand you and it will then push a mix of what you already like and agree with, things that you don't like and absolutely disagree with but in a way that makes it look bad so in the end you also agree with that, and some funny videos to keep you entertained. This way they are maximizing the time you stay in the app to increase their revenue. It polarizes your world view further and further and without people to talk to and discuss, your ideas and beliefs will be turned into religious level thinking, radicalizing you and making it more and more difficult to accept different opinions. If you only consume what you already believe, things will go downhill very quickly. That's the reason people can't talk to each other anymore, the truth in most if not all cases is somewhere in the middle.

What we need is social media that is not algorithm driven, not optimized to keep you at the device for as long as possible but to show you a multitude of opinions to a topic from different angles, not just the one you have already chosen as your truth. We need to talk again, accept that other people can have different opinions without shouting them down. We need to try to look at things from different perspectives not just our own.

And most importantly, we need to accept that we can't have an opinion about facts. We need to listen to people that actually have professional knowledge about a topic. The guy that used to be a fitness trainer but now has a telegram channel to spread some important truths about climate change actually knows shit about how the world works. They want to make money selling you any truth that works for you.
Translation: I've nothing more to add other than call every other perspective lies & smear others with racism (as pointed out to you before: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/jewish-settlers-stole-my-hous... / https://archive.vn/SZVCt).

> negative statements about people from "Brooklyn"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane
Very exciting to see this. I was already excited when antirez said he was going to record these.
"Voting with their wallets", where all the choices are picked by entities hostile to consumer privacy and autonomy, and then they mislead you about those choices.

People who bought LG (and now most other, now "smart") TVs did not in any meaningful way "vote" to be spied on and support DRM - simply all the TVs in a store would spy and show ads, and not disclose any of it at time of sale.
ATProto and the ownership of identity
After the Holocaust, some wondered "whether there can be poetry after Auschwitz", and here we are being told that condemning genocide -- and being uncomfortable with people who fail to do so -- is a "Chinese worldview".
> Which makes you a subletter, and the one with the highest fee of the whole chain…

I don't know what point you tried to make. Any business in the whole world survives because they sell things for more money than what it takes to keep their business running. Is it surprising that they charge their customers more than their infrastructure costs?
As another commentator mentioned, you have violated a precondition, there's no point trying to understand what would happen because its indeterminate.
Finally. I am not fond of code-to-diagram tools and wanted to try Mermaid, as it seems like one of the better diagramming tools around. Will definitely give it a try now.
They absolutely do require confirmation in some cases - https://www.facebook.com/help/1090831264320592

Of course that’s not foolproof and there are millions of bot accounts by facebooks own admission. But at the scale of billions of active users across the globe I’m not sure what approach could be 100%
Anduril set to begin construction of Arsenal-1 hyperscale manufacturing facility
there is no PCI-e through USB though, other than Thunderbolt/USB4 or is there?

so if you only have USB ports and care about performance the bigger distinction would be if the USB ethernet device implements CDC-NCM or just CDC-ECM, with the distinction being that CDC-ECM sends the frames to the driver one-by-one and the driver has to acknowledge and process them one-by-one which generates ton of CPU work, while the newer CDC-NCM protocol sends frames in batches...,

on my laptop I can still get full gigabit speeds with a 1Gbit ECM dongle but when I do it uses 100% of one CPU core, while a 1Gbit NCM dongle has negligible CPU usage...
What a cool thread! I like how you put the specifics of your workflow and especially details of the commands you used! Particularly with the vamp commands, because as you say, they are somewhat inscrutably named/documented.

I started dabbling with vamp as well a couple years ago, but lost track of the project as my goals started ballooning. Although the code is still sitting (somewhere), waiting to be resuscitated.

I have had an idea for many years of the utility of having chord analysis further built out such that a functional chart can be made from it. With vamp most of/all the ingredients are there. I think that's probably what chordify.com does, but they clearly haven't solved segmentation or time to musical time, as their charts are terrible. I don't think they are using chordino, and whatever they do use is actually worse.

I got as far as creating a python script which would convert audio files in a directory into different midi files, to start to collect the necessary data to construct a chart.

For your use case, you'd probably just need to quantize the chords to the nearest beat, so you could maybe use:

vamp-aubio_aubiotempo_beats, or
vamp-plugins_qm-barbeattracker_bars

and then combine those values with the actual time values that you are getting from chordino.

I'd love to talk about this more, as this is a seemingly niche area. I've only heard about this rarely if at all, so I was happy to read this!
Instead of thinking about this as an all-or-nothing outcome, consider how this might work if they were made accessible with LLMs, and then you used randomized spot checks with experts to create a clear and public error rate. Then, when people see mistakes they can fix them.

I’m trying to do this for old Latin books at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam. So many of the books have never been digitized, let alone OCRd or translated. There is a huge amount of work to be done to make these works accessible.

LLMs won’t make it perfect. But isn’t perfect the enemy of the good? If we make it an ongoing project where the source image material is easily accessible (unlike in a normal published translation, where you just have to trust the translator), then the knowledge and understanding can improve over time.

This approach also has the benefit of training readers not to believe everything they read — but to question it and try to get directly at the source. I think that’s a beautiful outcome.
I mean 50% of TikTok is brain rot and 50% is normies doing normie stuff. If you're someone who saw the old Internet I doubt you'd give a shit about TikTok. It feels like a betrayal of what the Internet could have been
The Podesta "hack" was a spear phishing link, no? With the emails then published by Wikileaks?

What forensic evidence was published?

Afaicr, it was attributed on the basis of methods. Gmail didn't publicly disclose any internal logging.

And the email chain of custody is unreliable, so post-leak analysis has the can't-spot-a-perfect-forgery problem.
> Microsoft (...) have a very strange cloud… thing.

Risking a going off on a tangent, this is something I rarely see discussed but is perhaps one of the main problems with Azure. The whole cloud service feels like something someone oblivious to cloud computing would design if all they knew was renting bare metal servers. It's cloud computing in a way that completely defeats the whole concept of cloud computing.
Probably the most influential vehicle in the last century along the Model S.