skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software engineers will usually build whatever investors decided to give them money to build. So far, at least for the VCs and the Wall Street people those things you call useless seem to be pretty much in demand. If you don’t like and I have to somewhat agree with you here, you should complain with the folks that cut the checks not the ones cashing them.

I do a lot of manual work at home and even at friends for free. I can build a house, I can solder stuff, fix my own plumbing and yes, it is hard work, but most of those things don’t have a big barrier of entry. So, supply and demand apply.

Recognizing homelessness as a problem and feeling threatened and disgusted by it is not an exclusivity of software engineers, and if you talk to blue collar folks you’d be surprised to find that they see the problem in a far more heavy handed way than our average googlezen. Compulsory rehab would create frissons of indignation in our average habitats while being absolutely popular amongst construction and factory workers.
The components are:

- the compositor, of which there are multiple implementations (gnome, kde, all the wlroots compositors)

- the client, which often uses one of several toolkits (gtk, qt, several smaller frameworks, or even directly using the protocol)

- the wayland protocol (or rather protocols, because there are several extensions) itself

- other specifications and side channels for communication, in particular dbus.

Many issues (although I don't think the one in OP) are due to the protocol being underspecified, and so the client and compositor disagree about some semantics, or doesn't even have a standard way to accomplish something across all compositors.
> the mega banks have the sole power of creating credit out of thin air

Every bank does that. The US has more than 4,000 of them.
I don't know where that site is pulling their data from, but not even the Chinese government claims their GDP is as high as that. And our GDP is higher than that site claims
Yeah… understatement with respect to TB is pretty scary. There’s a limited set of effective antibiotics, some strains are resistant, and some drugs have severe side effects.

You have to be a little suspicious of some of this — folks are looking for political reasons for scary disease outbreaks.
I really like "jump" which I have aliased to "j". It auto learns and you can also pin shortcut names so I don't have to fuss configuring it but also can control certain ones. Great trade off between usability and configurability. Can't find the repo but "brew install jump" works :)
The main reason LLMs weren't a thing 25 years ago is because they weren't invented yet, or many of the prior steps. And if they had been, we didn't have the compute create them.
> It'll be challenging to even figure out which one of the things connecting to $DISPLAY is the real window manager.

I suspect it would be less challenging than writing a whole new wayland server.

Off the top of my head, I'd use a separate abstract domain socket for the window manager including some UUID, and then pass that to the window manager when launching it.

You could create these sockets on demand - one for each security context. On linux typically a different security contexts will either have different UIDs - in which case filesystem permissions would be sufficient - or they have different mount namespaces - in which case you make different sockets visible in different namespaces.

For SSH forwarding you could have SSH ask the X server for a new socket for forwarding purposes - so remote clients can't snoop on local clients.

> Good luck on your lonely[1] journey!
>
> [1]: The people who actually developed Xorg are now working on various Wayland-related things.

This is what I mean by a failure of technical leadership.
The year and number designator is for known man made object launches. All satellites get a COSPAR ID

It's done in sequential order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Designator

Even top secret NRO launches get a designator, since it's impossible to hide the launch itself, but its orbital activity and TLE might not be obvious once in space.
"None of the Above" (see Bruster's Millions (Movie)) really needs to be an option...
Ask HN: Bitcoin Holder Valuations
Lately been thinking about the world of Bitcoin and it’s use in the malware operations, given a 100k+ market value for BTC right now, what would estimates be on some of the more organized groups who made off with malware/ransomware operations over last 10(?) years
Neovim is fine and just as easy nowadays -- if you can `git clone` two repos (in my case: AstroNvim + my config) and just start `nvim` then you can go fill a glass of water and it will be 80% done by the time you sit back on your computer.

But I agree with you and the OP that the defaults with zero configuration do matter and that I wish we had that in every editor.
> Roast: Your 324px-wide screen must be a flip phone from 2004, you’re browsing Hacker News like it’s a personality trait, and Australia’s most exciting export is apparently your Firefox-on-Android-15 setup with 8 cores just to read tech bro headlines.

Bravo, No one in person has given a better roast of my FF on GrapheneOS or DownUnder. I'm sold
Empty units seem like a great deal for residents. They pay taxes, but use no (or little services).
Using an analogy: If I believe that society sees those with tan skin as being more valuable and successful, and I spray tan in order to match that appearance, then I am delusional? (Regardless of whether I sincerely believe my spray tan is believable or not)?

> I did not make this claim

I mean, you specifically pointed towards the "left" in particular, multiple times... Whatever.

> People will delusionally believe fictional things as "evidence" that they are being persecuted.

We're talking about observing someone that's claiming to be persecuted...
Here is an early article about the outbreak. [0]

[0] https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/09/05/...

Appears that it originated within a family group involving 6 kids and 7 adults.
Eh, "recorded history" is totally the wrong phrase.

When we say "recorded history" we don't mean "the window of time in which we have detailed records up to our modern standards", we specifically mean "the window of time in which we have records of any sort", contrasted with "prehistory".

The phrase they were looking for is "largest on record" or even better "largest since 195X".

> For broader world history, recorded history begins with the accounts of the ancient world around the 4th millennium BCE, and it coincides with the invention of writing.

EDIT: Downvote away, but I'd be interested to hear from someone who believes that "recorded history" is not incorrect and confusing usage here, with an explanation rather than a drive by vote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history
I'm a man, but I have always understood the dynamic to be completely different in (U.S.) women's restrooms. There, women chitchat with complete strangers. In that case, the current user would cheerfully respond, "Yes, I need a few more minutes" and that would be that. No embarrassment whatsoever.
Surprised they didn't Adobe that yet. Or maybe they already have, but it will only really affect enterprise who has actual money to go after.

Slightly surprised it still works on Windows 11. I'd be surprised if it had 64-bit support. I guess thst speaks to their commitment to backwards compatibility.
Is the CDC still a thing or did an executive order defund them too?
I totally agree. I think almost all coding could be done by today’s best LLMs, IF they had the right context and tooling. Using Cursor is sometimes like magic, but it also feels painfully clear that the LLM is being held back by a lack of information, leaving me to have to interface between the codebase and the LLM, in both directions. Selecting which files to include in context feels so stupid, and like something that will hopefully quickly go away.
Why wouldn't people use models of their preference, just as they do news sources?
I just have a 20 yo Nokia - doesn’t have all the fancy stuff, only can send texts
I made this helper function to navigate my projects, recursively, it will list them if there are more than one, but defaults to the first one unless you give it a number.

syntax:

projects <project-name> <match index>

alias:

function projects() {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "please provide a project name"
return
fi

local allMatches=$(find ~/Documents/projects -maxdepth 2 -type d -name "*$1*" -print)
local firstMatch=$(echo "$allMatches" | head -n ${2:-1} | tail -n 1)

if [ -z "$firstMatch" ]; then
echo "no matches found"
return
else
if [ $(echo "$allMatches" | wc -l) -gt 1 ]; then
echo "matches found:"
echo "$allMatches" | awk '{print NR ") " $0}'
fi
cd "$firstMatch"
fi
}
It’s still relatively common in some other countries. As usual, it’ll be connected to travel.
The inference and on-line fine tuning stage can run on a few thousand calories a day. The training stage has taken roughly 100 TW * 1bn years ≈ 10²⁸ calories.
It came from abroad.
It’s not speech, ie not protected. I would assume they can force that in practice.
That's very funny. I'd have thought they'd be hard pressed to get details of the Eastern front, while American involvement was right in front of them.

As far as I can tell, the Americans and Brits took too much credit. Then the Soviets and Russians insisted on more credit -- arguably too much. Of late I'm hearing historians say "Yeah, the Germans overextended themselves at the start and likely would have lost even if Hitler hadn't betrayed Stalin". I'm sure that analysis too will change.
Updating story and a rolling update. It'll probably be there within a few days. But it is legitimate that some don't have the option yet.
I think it could also be cultural. In my country people are perfectly happy to have a video chat with a bank employee about mortgages but in other country's you still need to go into a branch office for that kind of thing.
We have roughly 10k cases a year. https://www.cdc.gov/tb-surveillance-report-2023/summary/nati...
i meant the intel gpus, wich lead linux crashs for decades because of the gabage they released for consumer igpu.
As somebody who also inherited their great grandfather's prized polka sheet music collection and some accordions, and has approximately zero interest in either...and has also found that the secondary market near where they live doesn't exist, I feel you.
Exactly as shown here: https://img.ifunny.co/images/9ceaa0fcb71a2f61bb5ddf5e1129035...
Impressive. Would Apple be able to simply block non-Apple usage of Find My network usage simply by refusing to relay non-Apple BLE ID?
A significant amount of historical work is re-analyzing existing, known material rather than seeking out novel sources.

I do know some people working in classical literature that have been testing LLMs against untranslated sources and finding them perform reasonably well. It's completely within the scope of possibility to imagine them becoming more useful for academic work over time.
nah it just means they'll be buying bitcoin at $500,000 instead of $100,000 when their brokerage firm has a way for them to get exposure
All quotes eventually end up being attributed to Winston Churchill whether he said them or not…
Wouldn't it be easier to cutoff pre-2020-ish, and ask it to create the transformer architecture of gpt? 1900 is so long ago I doubt most documents are good quality if they've been digitised at all. Most likely just low quality scanned images of inconsistent, half-illegible typewriter documents. Transcribed with OCR at best.
OK. But it seems like something is amiss if this error keeps being made. Why didn't the reporting astronomer, or anyone who presumably checked the submission, find the 2018-017A object when searching for it in their database?
A New Tesla Model Y Is Here. Social Media Is Ripping It a New One
Now that I think about it, I don't think I had laughed at an LLM text yet. Non-ironically pretty cool!
press a third time to perform a default action or replay last action
Bear in mind that's a measure of how backwards US banking is, not how advanced.

In the UK, I can't remember the last time I wrote or received a cheque. Maybe twice in the 17 years I've been living here, and certainly not in the last decade.

So with UK cheque usage being a tiny fraction of the US rate, there's simply no demand for it in banking apps.
I used Codeview and MASM to crack the copy protection on 123 2.0 to work with a Novell drive. The 3.0 copy protection was harder because they used Math to encrypt the code that copyrighted the software.
> If you had bought gold at its 1980s peak, you would have been down in real terms ever since; adjusted for inflation it has never reached that value since, and may never do. While you can say that about some individual _companies_, of course, you would be hard pressed to find a major index for which that is the case.

The Nikkei 225 comes to mind. It only broke its 1989 peak last year.
> First you're paying for the store. That's real estate costs -- currently excruciating. Property tax and insurance, based on the real estate prices. The store needs heat and light, that's oil and electricity. There are people who work at the store, has your state recently increased its minimum wage?

Same box of cereal costs the same in Southern California and South Carolina. South Carolina is cheaper in every way - electricity, rent, insurance, and labor. Same $8 premium cost for a commodity product that costs a dollar or so to land.

No one is competing for the customers' dollar, they are imposing a price scheme because there is extremely limited competition and distributors are being allowed to abuse their pricing power.
This begs the question, is this wave of LLM AI anything more than a fancy mirror? They're certainly very good at agreeing with people and following along, but, as many have noted, not really useful for anything acting on their own.
> Are you saying that we/some govt org should seize his assets because he had a bad opinion?

I'm saying that a system in which someone with poor judgement manages to accrue his level of assets is broken somewhere.

Policy settings under which "having capital" allows you to grow your wealth while making terrible decisions are bad policy settings.

Various alternative policies exist, the most obvious of which is adjusting taxation settings such that growing your wealth requires consistently making good judgement calls.
The lack of portability is a bad problem in the Prolog world and it has bit me a few times, but surely the solution is for all the implementers to work together, rather than engage in petty feuding.

But the biggest problem of the Prolog community is what I pointed out above: there's very few of us and the field isn't really growing much.

:(
It always happens. Local authorities are more interested in not killing business and tourism than they are in preventing low-probability epidemics. Thus a cover-up by the locals is to be expected.

And of course the Chinese government restricts access--there's no way to prove a negative, thus no way to exonerate them. No matter what investigators are allowed to see there will always be the allegation that they aren't being allowed to see the important stuff.
Oh wow, That’s still not much, but I was under the impression it was a lot less common than that.
You should probably read the article first before you make assumptive comments like this.
I honestly don't believe this is the case. I think Americans would largely support increased fines for corporate malfeasance. I think it much more likely that the large fines aren't assessed because those in the position to be fined also as a rule have more influence over the system itself. Though the result is the same in the end I guess.
Space advertising is coming whether we like it or not, but we can protect astronomy without fighting progress. What if ad satellite operators shared their real-time telemetry and optical characteristics through an open API? Our image processing software could automatically remove these artifacts from observations, similar to how we already handle other known light sources.

Radio astronomy solved similar challenges through coordination rather than conflict. By streaming position and reflection data, operators can build goodwill while astronomers keep their clear skies. The tech for this exists today - we just need to establish good industry practices early.
Hey, be proud. The executive who pitched this gets a second mansion! Everyone wins, right?

Nothing will change until there's actual skin in the game for leadership. Leadership screws up and at worst they get some 7 figure exit package and still have no issues finding a job.
Yes. The question is how did it balloon so quickly if these people were identified an receiving treatment? Is this a breakdown in the case monitoring among Kansas City medical community or something else?

The original cases were in low income people who had been born outside the US but whose children were born in the US according to the paper.
That is a ridiculously cynical take. You can build a brand for a lot cheaper than $300 million if that's your goal.
It's just "complexity" if you aren't super comfortable with docker.. it's super easy to do everything you describe with docker. Like for me it's much easier to debug in a self contained system, because even a binary can have issues with dynamic linking, etc. So for me the complexity is reversed. I don't want to pollute my actual machine with stuff when a docker container is just as easy to use. I don't want my distro's OpenSSL to be slightly incompatible with something that the package is using. A dockerfile removes all of that.
UK specific maybe? ~10 banks get started every year in the US, there are ~5000 US banks.
It is. It’s called a protest vote, and it’s done by casting a blank ballot
<https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump>

Personally, I've been using z (<https://github.com/rupa/z>) for ages and never really needed more.
Working on weapons is important to maintain the freedom to be disappointed in others working on weapons.
Hey, you mentioned "close to US timezones preferred" but the application website only lists US states. Can't apply from Brazil and I am really close to US timezones.
The world and more importantly the wealthy are vastly richer today than in 1976 when the concord started flying, and the R&D costs should be far lower.

There’s thousands of billionaires in the world. Not all of them would buy a supersonic private airplane, but include non billionaire CEO’s etc and the market is plenty large to support moderate scale production assuming they can keep costs within a fairly low multiple of a business jet.
From where? When?

Baffles me that someone would write something so definitively yet not expand on it in any way at all.

Not saying you're wrong (I have no idea), but what a low-effort comment. I'm curious, you seem (or claim, at least) to know something, can you help me satisfy my curiosity?
Sometimes, when a protest makes the government extra uncomfortable, they'll shut off the internet. So it's probably best to not rely on Instagram.
> Congrats, you can almost high-five yourself for reading tech bro hot takes on a beta iOS version like it’s a personality. Your setup screams “I refresh Y Combinator in a bathroom stall,” and your Safari browser agrees.

Yup, pretty accurate! Funny it also thinks my 15 Pro is an old iPhone since I’m using lower resolution.
Show HN Zero Config P2P Filesharing and Chat
I designed this for usage at home and at conferences, and public networks to share files and meet people. Double Encrypted AES 256 and RSA Public/Private key with unlimited file sizes. It's the beautiful themes i've been using.
But what about when multiple nodes have to coordinate to do a write?
I just watched the latest ycombinator AI promo piece on youtube. Amongst a bunch of other claims, they claim founders in latest batch are saying they won't hire any engineers that don't use AI due to the "force multiplier".

Then I come to check out Ask HN and see this as top post.
Shazam-Like AI iOS App for Movies and Shows
It's called Voola.

With just a short video clip from your Camera or Video Library, Voola can identify the title and give you the details you’re looking for in seconds.

The accuracy is pretty crazy.

Available now on the Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voola-shazam-for-movies-tv/id6737161303
WUAN!
Most browsers won’t report anything higher than 8, even if your system has more memory.

I think its related to fingerprinting attacks.
Somebody should point LDAT at that [1] or the custom setup with LED triggered by the mouseclick + a high FPS camera that Battlenonsense used [2] before LDAT released.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-latency-display-analysis...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MaeJbd1xaM
Ollama definitely is a strange beast. The sparseness of the documentation seems to imply that things will 'just work' and yet, they often don't.
Love the Bleach reference in the name.
The BCG vaccine is not protective against tuberculosis in adults. It helps prevent miliary tuberculosis in children.

I did my graduate work on tuberculosis. Those of us who weren't vaccinated because of our country of origin refused to be because the vaccine wouldn't help us and it changes testing for TB from a quick skin test to a lung x-ray.

It's not barbaric or corrupt or anti-vaccine in this case. It's details of this particular vaccine.
Interesting. I didn't know that.

But I do know about 3d printering. :)

Strength in printing is usually a function of the mass used to print with. So more plastic used at the boundary layers will mean stronger joints.

Eg. A PET plastic soda bottle (pepsi, coke) will flex in the body where it's thin, but not on the threads on the top of the bottle. In fact, those are pretty strong, because they need to hold on a cap which keeps the carbonation in.

A good question to ask is if the dovetail joint in plastic as strong as wood? The answer may likely be no, but it may not also need to be. It just needs to be "good enough". And this looks like it might be.
The CDC is likely to be one of the primary sources for said media on national health issues like this.
> perpetrating violence against women and minorities

Trump’s comment is a common way democrats have criticized hawks since the Vietnam war: asking if they’d be singing a different tune if they were the ones in the trenches getting shot at.

The fact that you’d invoke the “women and minorities” card to defend Liz effing Cheney is proof that the CIA has learned how to use wokeness as a psyop to eviscerate the antiwar left.
After a long hiatus since Big Sur, Monit Widget is back
The implication is that the scientific and medical communities rely on infrastructure built and maintained by the scientific and medical communities to communicate and coordinate.

The general media consumes sources like this, obviously.

Doctors read bulletins like this so they're aware of what's going around and it can inform their clinical practice.
> Maybe we don't really appreciate something unless we appreciate it is hard in a visceral way.

Count me out of that "we" -- I appreciate the artist who put in the work because they put in the work to make the thing I like, but I don't appreciate the thing because of the effort. I can marvel at the effort required to produce art in a certain way, but I'm (largely) indifferent to the effort in my actual appreciation of the thing (or lack of it).

I look forward to the time when I can have as much high-quality (to me) fiction to read as I like, because it's all generated by LLM. Some time after that, I'd love to see the main Star Wars sequence done properly. I won't care that it isn't created by a vast team of humans.
Actually began in Kansas City in 2021.

Cases in the US have been increasing since 2020.