skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gold is probably the closest conventional thing to bitcoin, yes, though it does have _some_ intrinsic value as an industrial material, which sets a floor. But yes, gold’s value is basically speculative, and you’re largely relying on a greater fool.

You also shouldn’t buy gold; over any long period it is almost guaranteed to massively underperform the markets. 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.
Really should have just bought a slim case for the Steam Deck. The stock case is like twice as thick as it needs to be and does really take up a ton of space in a backpack.

The irony though is that this box + glasses + controller combo for sure takes more space than the original Steam Deck even in the oversized stock case…
Seemingly endlessly layered abstraction is also why phones and computers get faster and faster yet nothing seems to actually run better. Nobody wants to write native software anymore because there are too many variations of hardware and operating systems but everyone wants their apps to run on everything. Thus, we are stuck in abstraction hell.

I'd argue the exact opposite has happened. We have made very little progress because everything is continually abstracted out to the least common denominator, leaving accessibility high but features low. Very few actual groundbreaking leaps have been accomplished with all of this abstraction; we've just made it easier to put dumb software on more devices.
Specifically, we now have internal emails dating to 2020 from the CDC (NIH? Who remembers, it's been literally two years since this came out) about how it was probably a lab leak and then about the importance to bury the lab leak theory.
DJI isn't banned in the US?
That's not like the scenario with Uber either though. Nobody is telling the drivers they have to work again.
Auto opt-in because again, we are what's for sale, not the software. And 'scuze me, gotta go check my gmail now...
Well, they'll be more competent at violently removing people. At building a better society afterward... not so much.
Sheer curiosity. Good engineers and other technical people are often curious about how things fail. Elon Musk serves as one of the more interesting case studies in "How long can he possibly keep this up?!" since the late Howard Hughes.

Hughes's downward spiral occurred before most of us were old enough to watch it happen, so Musk is our next best chance.
> Cold weather can freeze condensation in the tank. A dirty tank can clog up the gas filter

I didn't think of this. These undoubtedly plague older cars, and cars that were parked outside overnight, both of which someone older will have experienced more.
I think the arrest report is somewhat irrelevant. The neighbor could have knocked on the door and observed much of what was in the report. And without question they could report on their own firsthand experience.
It's you saying that. Notice how none of what you said appears in their comment. This is a strong indicator that you are arguing against yourself.
It also appears that I may not have been the first one to discover that something odd was going on with that bit, causing it to use A0-A7 (with weird results) instead of D0-D7:

https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=119675
I remember all those "who got arrested" sites. The ones where you had to pay to remove yourself.

Not sure if there have been lawsuits around those as well.
The interesting thing is that they do not own copilot.com
This reads like “police abuse their power to arrest, so let’s let them arrest people in secret”
The same lawyer who won Gawker threatened the New York Times to not publish their stories about Harvey Weinstein's rapes,

- "Weinstein's attorney Charles Harder, who was then known for filing the suit that bankrupted Gawker, said his client would be suing The New York Times,[140] but by October 15, 2017, Harder was no longer working for Weinstein.[141]"

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

There were multiple other news companies (not including the Times) that were successfully dissuaded from publishing anything about the Weinstein accusations, by his litigation threats.
You can have Click-Ops on Kubernetes too! Everything has a schema so it's possible to build a nice UI on top of it (with some effort).

My current project is basically this, except it edits your git-ops config repository, so you can click-ops while you git-ops.
How does this capture all of the keyboard events?
Eggs are pricey again. What's the government doing about it?
It's so weird that Notepad has been enshittified with AI and Bing search (!) but they haven't bothered updating WordPad.
The Streisand effect in full force. Hiring a competent and transparent person—someone who shows remorse, regret, and apologizes while explaining why such behavior won’t happen again—despite a past conviction for domestic violence isn’t necessarily the real issue. But hiring someone who shifts the blame onto others for making the news public? That’s an entirely different problem
Thats quite deep for the region. TIL Baltic Sea is 55m deep on average, but 80m deep in the region where cable was cut.

That also means that 2nd easiest to acquire PADI qualification is enough to dive there by yourself.
For example, the model named "deepseek-r1:8b" by ollama is not a deepseek r1 model. It is actually a fine tune of Meta's Llama 8b, fine tuned on data generated by deepseek r1.
Ollama is a "easymode" LLM runtime and as such has all the problems that every easymode thing has. It will assume things and the moment you want to do anything interesting those assumptions will shoot you in the foot, though I've found ollama plays so fast and loose even first party things that "should just work" do not. For example if you run R1 (at least as of 2 days ago when i tried this) using the default `ollama run deepseek-r1:7b` you will get different context size, top_p and temperature vs what Deepseek recommends in their release post.
You mean ArgoCD and Rancher? Both ready to do click ops!
What components? Wayland is literally an XML protocol that turns an XML file into a method of communication. libwayland-server and libwayland-client only handle communication and the internal event loop. Its completely up to the developer to write the implementations of these functions and register them in the server.

Then a client is going to query the server and ask request to do stuff via a unix socket. In fact, you don't even need libwayland, you can raw dog it over sockets manually. The idea is that there are standard protocols that can be queried and used,and you can implement this in any environment you want to. You could write the "frontend" in html and JS and run a wayland compositor on the web (which has been done [1]), you could do it with text or anything really, most people use some graphics stack.

[1] https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
Aside from my point that most contracts can be based on highly-vetted templates, smart contracts don't need to be written in JavaScript or Rust. They can be written using little puzzle pieces that anyone can understand.

https://i.imgur.com/MgEw0Bd.png

As a fun fact, a puzzle-piece style editor like this is how I wrote my first computer program as a toddler.
Not to mention one pothole and you’re swallowing your teeth.
On the other hand, I just did a fresh install of Artix Linux. Installed KDE just to have something functional while I get my tiling setup working. Boot into Plasma(Wayland) and it utterly shits itself, turning my main monitor on and off repeatedly until it finally crashes. So I pick Plasma(X11) instead and that just works.

In fact, in almost 2 decades of using Linux every day, I can't remember X doing anything similar. It's always just worked.
Great app. I hope next iPhones have improved slow-motion camera modes. 1000fps will be a long shot but maybe 480/500fps.
Yeah, granted, the creator of bitcoin _might_ be, effectively, operating a very complex Ponzi scheme, but it seems unlikely. Occam’s razor says that they were a sincere person or group with unconventional economic theories.

The creators of small memecoins often are doing this, deliberately, of course. Some of them are amazingly open about this, often marketing their memecoins as, essentially, “it’s still early” (ie you, the buyer, get to get in before the scheme collapses; like early Madoff customers, you can be one of the lucky ones!).
> We do have a lot of interest in blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies. We believe its application to a number of other uses besides crypto will make capital markets more efficient, and we’ve been actively involved in research to use blockchain technology

Well, they clearly have no idea what they’re talking about. Next!
In the US the truth is an absolute defense for liable and defamation (aiui)
Thanks for the reply. I never understood the appeal of the network traffic split since it didnt come with user access control. Not everybody in a team needs access to all environments and even within an environment not everybody needs access to every service and/or secrets of those services.

Couple of other things while I do have you:

- More control on the instance sizing similar to how you have us control of the postgres instances

- A proper write-only secrets system ala AWS Secret Manager. The current environment variables isn't passing an audit for sure if anybody on the team can log in and see them plaintext

Your support team is really good I do want to say, it is probably the one thing that kept me a customer.
Current example from work: an extreme single-tenant architecture, deployed for large N number of tenants, which need both logically and physically isolation; the cost of the cloud provider's managed databases is considered Too Expensive to create one per tenant, so an open-source Kubernetes controller for the database is used instead.

Not all systems are small-N modern multi-tenant architectures deployed at small scale.
> "cardinal sin of breaking portability. Basically every Prolog ever does that. Every single one."

Indeed; still Markus Triska speaks positively about, and recommends, different Prolog systems. He seems to prioritise things above ISO purity, and is not king of the hill of Scryer Prolog[1], he doesn't comment like others who act as if "the village and city can burn to the ground for all I care, heresy against ISO Prolog is NEVER acceptable". So when he's finding this objectionable even after considering that, it seems reasonable for me to weight it more strongly. It's not enough to make me stop using SWI, or stop me recommending it (as I did above).

[1] for other readers, Mark Thom's Prolog-in-Rust to be a type inference engine for his Lisp-in-Rust: https://github.com/mthom/scryer-shen
waves hands
> I'm less interested in whether arrest records are public than I am in whether they are publishable in online newspapers

I think "this is 'public' information that you can't publish" is a yucky slippery slope.
1. because the U.S. is not the only country on Earth

2. because even in nations with strong constitutional protections, law enforcement likes to play dirty
I agree that for a) inserts and b) single entity access -- in both these cases the backend can do a lot of the preparation. And your example is both a) and b). We are then in O(1) optimization territory.

If you are only processing a single entity -- the backend should tell the DB exactly what to do. And one shouldn't have if-statements in SQL of course that is "doing it wrong".

But if you have a chunk of 10000 entities like that in your example, all of different types, then you will have to insert some subset of data into all those tables (1000 in one tables, 500 another table, and so on). That logic is well suited for where conditions without much overhead.

But yes for inserts most of the logic can usually be shifted to the DB client as that is where the data resides already. The problem I was talking about was meaningfully shifting for to the client for queries, where the client has no data to work with and must fetch it from the DB.

Let us take your example and turn it into "fetch 10000 such objects". Fetching the right rows for all of them at once using joins and where conditions (+temporary tables and multiple return sets in the same query roundtrip) is going to be more efficient for the DB than the backend first fetching the type, then branching on type, then fetching from another table and so on.
I understand why China would spin it.

I understand why the NIH (who appears to have funded this) would want to spin this.

What was in it for CNN and MSNBC to spin this as racist when, IMHO, blaming COVID19 on culinary habits is far more racist? What was in it for Rachel Maddow to lecture America about the lab leak when she could have more effectively lectured us about financing the whole thing?
There’s a setting on iPhone called “Erase Data” which will erase the data on it after 10 consecutive failed passcode attempts. That seems like a recommended setting for any smartphone to be honest, especially if it is used for business.
Wow, that looks really cool actually. Still a lot of work to turn it into a usable phone but what an amazing foundation.
There are a few devices floating around with a hardware switch built in. If you use a Pixel, grapheme OS is probably pretty trustworthy so you at least no there's nothing nefarious down to the OS level.

But yeah, in general if you take a phone just assume it's tracking you or at least making it possible for those with access to know you where there.
I mean, unless the broker is fraudulent there’s very little practical difference; most people will go with the broker, as it tends to be cheaper. For that matter, most people aren’t investing in individual shares, they’re investing in some sort of mutual fund, so there’s another party that you have to _somewhat_ trust there.
I think this author like many people is overestimating the value we'll see in AI. I think we're just going to burn a decade of energy to end up with slighty better models in a select few use cases and nothing else of interest. AGI is the only chance to do anything dusrupive and we won't get there this hype cycle.
The article isn't about consumer apps, though, it's about websites that all four companies in an industry use for "optimal pricing", which just launders collusion through a Python backend. I would considering giving the piece a reread.
It’s also used to stifle 2A rights. Many states require a license application which intentionally asks not whether you’ve ever been convicted of a crime but whether you’ve ever been arrested, which can then be used to deny you.
I don't like Docker or Podman
> except as a tool to mitigate the carbon consumption of existing appliances.

Does it matter if you reduce CO2 it at the household point of combustion if the fuel is ultimately C02 emissions heavy? Accounting for the inefficiencies of cracking natural gas into H2, it may actually increase the GHG emissions, not to mention being more expensive (due to energy loss during the gas cracking process).

Furthermore, the primary local issue with combustion appliances is air quality, and mixing in a little H2 not going to do much to improve that.

So piping fossil derived hydrogen into gas pipes doesn't solve either GHG emissions or local air quality issues.

You're better off continuing with piped methane gas and phasing in electric heat pumps over time.
HN had a thread about that tool last year:

AI Photo Geolocation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40232755 - May 2024 (102 comments)
Cancelled immediately after getting the email. I bought a pair of Office 2024 Professional Plus from a key reseller for £20 each for myself and my wife within the hour
What about MML? (As used by the PLAY command in Basic)
Count on HN to troll the ever living crap out of something!
An Ancient Grapevine Uncorks Clues About a Deadly Plant Pathogen
I think the parent's point is that $200K would be the base in FANG, but you're missing on massive RSUs as the founder in a startup.
I mean you can edit a big YAML file inside ArgoCD, but what I'm building is an actual web form (e.x. `spec.rules[].http.paths[].pathType` is a dropdown of `Prefix`, `ImplementationSpecific`, `Exact`), and all your documentation inline as you're editing.

People have tried this before but usually the UI version is not fully complete so you have to drop to YAML. Now that the spec is good enough it's possible to build a complete UI for this.
What was the issue with your setup? TV not in game mode?
> I'd say Motorola really got carried away with those wildly flexible addressing modes.

Yeah, while they could certainly be extremely powerful, I'll admit the edges of my 68000 programmer's reference card quickly got dog-eared from how often I'd need to remind myself exactly how some program-counter relative indexed redirection+offset instruction worked. Almost made me miss the days of simple 8-bit loads, stores, compares and branches being all we had.

> The future was ever-rising transistor counts and clock speeds - and their 68k architecture just couldn't go there

I've always wanted to understand more about why Motorola abandoned the 68k architecture. I understand the broad factors cited in the Wikipedia article and on RetroStackExchange but I don't recall anyone citing supporting the addressing modes specifically (though it makes sense). I never programmed x86 assembler but my sense was that ISA also had its own oddball complexities. I never understood if there was some fundamental conceptual difference between the 68k and x86 ISAs that prevented one from being able to scale into the future while the other could. Would love any more info or links if you have them handy.
It's the look. You also get resin / rock / clay / steel / ... (anything really) jewellery. It's not just about the price. And even then, a jewelry-sized gold piece is quite cheap.
Just curious, do they have a migration plan? Have they started new designs using Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL?
Programs like San Francisco's Local Operating Subsidy Program would not be necessary if the affordable properties covered had higher technical quality (which should translate to lower maintenance costs). The fact that LOSP coverage can go up to 100% of affordable housing operating cost indicates that higher spending is not improving technical quality - if quality were superior, no subsidy to operate would be required.
I don’t think the arrest is really the important part. It’s the account by the officer of what they saw.

If there had just been a report with that info, and no arrest the damage to him would have been about the same.
10+ year resident of Vancouver (the Canadian one, eh) here. Saw a similar increase in both Van and Dallas during that time period, knew something fishy was going now.

Now we know it was a coordinated attack on all housing and equity using drug money. I still can't figure out if I should marvel at the events that have transpired or be scared shitless of the things to come. Guess we will figure out soon enough.
I see, so the justice system we’ve all agreed as a society to defer to, including the detectives that worked this case, don’t have the right answer but Internet Guy with 0 first hand knowledge does.
To avoid 365 Copilot you have to downgrade to "Classic":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVPThx7yss
The claim that we are disagreeing with is that Bitcoin is meaningfully different from any other investment in a way that makes it a Ponzi Scheme. I'm not trying to persuade anyone that it's a good investment, just that it isn't a ponzi scheme any more than gold, oil, real estate etc is.
I mean, the ONE thing I want is when I am writing an email to coordinate a meeting and it says "how about tomorrow at 1:00" in the email body, that I can reply with a meeting and the time is set for tomorrow at 1:00 automatically?

Surely we can do this MSFT???? The most basic AI help please, thank you.
Newt Gingrich literally said on TV that if he can make someone believe something then that's as real as fact.

Him and a CNN anchor were talking about crime stats being down. Newt disagreed and said Americans feel like crime is up.
What was the inner conversation of the robot with the LLM like?
ABL-100 – Casio
No, it's because it's not profitable to do so, and the big players will kill your business. This is also tangentially mentioned in the article... You think you can compete with PotatoCo, which makes billions of dollars, has massive scale, owns several Senators, and which every last potato farm in America is already using? And you want to blame the food regulations that keep people from getting sick and dying?

But sure, just go "start a frozen potato company". Why didn't anyone else think of that until Hacker News?
We've changed the title to a different one suggested by the author.
> It's a massive and dangerous weapon in the hands of law enforcement (and others) that they can permanently damage someone's reputation

I'd love to see people take the real lesson here - an arrest proves nothing of guilt, and it's surprisingly easy for cops to falsely arrest someone (whether they intended to or not).

Our legal system is flawed enough as it is. When there are real concerns that can be raised over some cases that make it all the way to conviction we should be treating arrest records about as seriously a a politician promising the moon in a stump speech.
Why don't you just deploy to cloud run on gcp and call it a day
> If you don't release arrest records, it's easier for the police to do questionable things (particularly to the poor and otherwise disadvantaged) without it being visible to the media, public, and those that might seek to right these wrongs.

Hot take: you could have professinal journalists who have trafficked in the incidents but reserved publication of them investigate patterns of misbehavior in community institutions like the police.

I mean, you can't now, as we seem to have crossed some kind of rubicon and abandoned investigative professional journalism for blogspam and tabloid, but that had been the functioning alternative for a while there. Maybe we can find a new functioning alternative?
Thanks, I didn't know this.

I think the difference mort96 is seeing is the cursor update throttling. If it updates at the same rate of the refresh rate then it's a crapshoot where in that interval it hits relative to vsync, with a worst case additional latency of the frame rate. X11 updates the cursor whenever it moves, so on scanout it's always where you expect it to be, even if the motion was almost immediately before vsync.

I should mention that in the past there's been problematic interactions on amdgpu with atomic updates of the cursor and display planes. This resulted in either one being starved from changing, causing stuttering in one or the other depending how it was handled. IIRC, that's why the throttle is there. You could try MUTTER_DEBUG_ENABLE_ATOMIC_KMS=0 to see if they only added the throttle to the atomic code path.
"No true libertarian". Milei self-describes as an "anarcho-captitalist", and cosplays as "captain ancap", a hero of his creation. This is as close to libertarianism as we'll ever get. Libertarianism is an insane ideology for insane people, it thankfully can't be applied in reality.
> Does the bank demand the loan repaid if you pay no insurance or how does that work?

They can demand the difference between the loan amount and what the house was disposed-of for. They can come after that money some years later. Some banks do, some don't. I was concerned for 7 years but they never pursued it.

note: I worked bankruptcy cases for a couple of years. My own credit union was notorious for relentlessly perusing every possible loan. They gave great terms but know you are going to pay it off.