skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of impressive how much this post exposes how little knowledge the author has about email. Not the best look for someone who is trying to get hired for their dev skills.
Indeed. I have a brain tumor (not cancerous and controlled by medication) and for a few years after diagnosis I had to get MRI's every few months for the first year, then one every year for a few years. It was a bit nerve wracking the first couple times but now I can fall asleep in those machines lol.
Can someone with a law degree break this down for us?
I miss the TIGSource forums on its prime.
> 8-bit data bus and 16-bit address bus

What? That is very intense. If I were doing relays, I would have gone for 2 bits or something, 4 bits max. Hardcore.
This is fantastic but now you need to train a model to detect AI generated images from actual photos. Then of course , a model to beat the detector model and then a model to catch the model that beats the detector model and so on.

Thank you from people holding NVDA.
Automation in trading != HFT algorithms

Obviously NASDAQ and electronic trading systems are a good innovation. But firms basically doing arbitrage or exploiting uneven network latency are not that economically productive.
Do you have examples of what you suggest, 'a single program which today depends on systemd' which would make sense to decouple from systemd?

The amount of work that a project would require over the long-term would be pretty substantial, so I assume that there are a lot of these things which you would suggest fixing over time to be rid of systemd, but I'm not certain what the end benefit of this work would be. Interested to hear more.
There's also a documentary online: https://x.com/MikeNayna/status/1861213812046864768

...which shows a specific instance of the religion take hold at Evergreen State.
It seems the key sticking point is that the DOJ proposed forbidding “any contract between Apple and Google in which there would be anything exchanged of value.”

In other words, give us our $15 -20 Billion a year.
It's the search engine kickbacks, I believe:

- "This would leave Apple without the ability to defend its right to reach other arrangements with Google that could benefit millions of users and Apple’s entitlement to compensation for distributing Google search to its users."

Also,

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-antitrust-ruling-m... ("Google antitrust ruling may pose $20 billion risk for Apple" (2024))
I wonder what could go wrong with constraining federal funding to political ideas the current president personally approves of?

"Great" isn't how anyone will describe it once the second-order consequences land. (There won't be many who like it once the first-order consequences land.)
> Plaintiffs proposed a remedial term unique to Apple that would forbid any “contract between Google and Apple in which there would be anything exchanged of value.”

Wow
I fail to see why a scientist won’t be interested in the grant now. Maybe if you’re talking about some areas like social sciences, yes, but for everything else not much seems to have changed.
Big misconceptions of training costs for DeepSeek and OpenAI
Not only that.
I've seen that some NSF-funded billion-sized projects are closing DEI channels in slack.
The idiocy of the government is really limitless here.
Show HN: I built a simplified Android launcher for seniors
Hello everyone,

I built this app for a family member, which allows me to set up a simple home screen with selected apps and optional contacts, while locking down everything else to avoid mistakenly changing anything.

Another reason for creating this app was that the existing launchers for seniors had confusing or not good UI for home screen.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eldo.launc...

Would love to hear the feedback.
Are you the author of the GitHub? If so, I might have a few suggestions.
I feel he's the epitome of an armchair entrepreneur. He spouts a lot of advice on what not to do, how hard it is, how to beat the cold start problem, but never seems to get into the arena himself and show how successful implementing his principles could be.

(Yes, I'm aware he worked at Uber, but he never was responsible for turning it into a zero-awareness brand to a household brand. Not taking any credit away from that tho, and I actually agree with a lot of his content.)
That's a nice excuse for pessimism. But the way you think about the world affects the way you interact with the world. If you think that people suck, you will eventually treat them that way. And you never know which person you pissed off ten years ago is the person you need for something tomorrow.
“Small LLM” means “Small Large Language Model”
Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/united-states-...

The case is about prohibiting Google to enter search deals with distributors (both phone makers like Apple, carriers, and browser developers like Mozilla), see Bloomberg reporting: https://archive.is/sneIB . The original complaint is the first PDF in the docket.
They've only been around for a short while so how could you know?

Let's see if they last at least a couple of centuries.
Sales is thinking "none of these other people would have jobs if not for us, they owe their existence to us." One might naively think that sales would have the humility to realize they wouldn't have anything to sell if not for everybody else, but actually sales is perfectly happy to sell things which don't actually exist.
Interesting; I wonder if DOJ approaches on this stuff will continue (Vance has been clear he's a big tech skeptic), or if things will chill out a little.

In this case, the big complaint Apple has is that there was a really long trial, US v. Google, and one of the proposed remedies is a ban on a “contract between Google and Apple in which there would be anything exchanged of value.”

Apple is like "hold on a minute here, we weren't party to this trial."

When they asked to file some briefs, they were denied. Hence these motions, and also the PR push, I imagine.

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like any party named in an order should at least be allowed to show up and say some things. We'll see.
lol replying “uh no, they’re actually not“ is disrespectful. And I did reply with an argument. The “extremely well reasoned” argument is about trade offs, despite the claim otherwise.
To play devil's advocate:

That's quite the claim and a bit misleading. Successful businesses have been firing customers forever. I think they intend on insulting users they want to fire.

I don't fully disagree with you, but I don't think it's correct to suggest you can't be successful with the attitude expressed in that article.
....is that the whole Harry Potter book in one .txt file, hosted on GitHub!?
Yeah that seems a little extreme. Like some person at Apple signs up for Google Workspaces and the company's in violation.
Defendant, so on the side of US?
There was a time when the very sentence I wrote would be laughable. That time has long since passed. The change can be noticed.
So Apple is also scared of the US breaking monopoly like the EU did with the app store? We all know that this isn't just a search here at play.
Maybe the end of walled gardens... One can only hope!
Couldn't agree more. If anyone is thinking about writing fast, safe, cross-platform GUI apps, I'd encourage you to try iced. It's a breath of fresh air

https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
> On the other hand, I do know that it's a widespread feeling among salespeople, that a person who interacts with them, without buying anything, is stealing from them.

It's less this, and more that some customers have no business buying certain products, and the sooner you can filter them out of your sales funnel, the happier everyone will be a year from now.

Let's say you sell specialized enterprise SaaS that normally gets integrated at the API level. This means:

- Lots of potential customers are too small to benefit from the product, or they don't understand what problem the product is actually solving.

- Closing a sale probably involves lawyers and custom contracts, which costs $$$.

- Customers need to either know how to use an API, or they need to have budget to pay the SaaS provider to write integration code.

- Once the sale is closed, there's likely to be labor-intensive onboarding process.

- You don't actually want customers who are going to try it for a year, hate it, and bail. You want people who love it and who will renew every year, or who will buy more without another sales process.

So sales people are trained to think about these issues, and to prioritize leads who have relevant problems, a good baseline understanding of what the product does, and enough budget to be able to properly set up and use the product.
Not trying makes you a worse person.
FDR truly was the worst president we ever had. The more I learn about him, the more I wish we could roll back history to before his presidency.
Such a database could be sharded out insanely easily, too. Rather than having 1 BEEFY server with a couple TB of RAM, you could do a couple dozen servers with a more modest 256 GB, with each server having a strictly defined subset of serial numbers (ie, one server could handle notes with serial numbers ending in 00 or 01, another handling 02/03, etc.), and the load balancing becomes extremely simple.
Ooof. Google gives Apple like a third of its search revenue on iOS searches. Apple gets tens of billions of bucks from this. Presumably it is so much money in part because Microsoft would happily pay half that to be the default instead. But if Google isn't allowed to offer anything at all, Microsoft is free to offer only a sliver of what it otherwise would have, because what's Apple gonna do otherwise, send all of its users to Duck Duck Go?
The 'Unreal community' has enough relevant content that it'd take a lifetime to go through it all. I'm sure the same is true of Unity.

Maybe not the more general stuff you might be after, but those forums+ deserve a mention.
If I had a dime for every web framework... We need better desktop api's. It's hard enough having to abstract nuances of linux/unix vs osx and the like. A better, more robust, desktop framework is needed (and no, not just another web framework on top of it because UI is hard).

Less Electron's, more OpenGL's - Less XML and more Swing (just not swing, plz).
My mistake, I misremembered it.
Locked-in
[In addition to all the cool ideas...]

I love this quote from The Hobbit: "...it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

In today’s world, those with technical knowledge have an edge over others. One of the most significant things we can do on a personal level is to resist contributing to harmful changes driven by greed. And that doesn’t require the hurdle of alignments, just an internal shift.
Famously: first they came for X... and then when they came for me I didn’t complain because that would be cringe and hypocritical.
New pollution rules come into effect for cleaner air by 2030
Very sorry for your loss. I imagine that you were glad to have your cat for that one more year.
That's why it's important to list the parties in the correct order.
I think if someone is just trying out RDF, it is better to start with Apache Jena/Fuseki or Eclipse RDF4J. Maybe https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph if you like to live dangerously (i.e. to use pre-1.0 DBMSs).

Use of other systems involves factoring tradeoffs and considerations that are probably not the best for the newcomers. For example, qLever mentioned here is good in query performance and relative disk use but once the import is done, it's essentially a read-only DB and completely unsuitable for a typical OLTP scenario.

Having said that, the Chilean research group that is driving the development of MilleniumDB is very well-regarded in the RDF/semantic web querying space.
Right, they're saying that the title is misleading/ ambiguous because it confuses the order of defendant and plaintiff, so if you just read Apple's motion you'd be confused about which is which and who Apple is arguing with
I mean, he was there like two years, very junior. Maybe he's Thiel's shadow puppet baby, but my money is on him being smart and having his own plans.
I have seen game devs that are public with what company they work for also get death threats/hatred/etc whenever a game comes out that flops even if they didn't work on it specifically. Gamers can come off as a really political audience with a lot of grift money to be made on culture war stuff so it makes sense if you're an apolitical gamedev to stfu.
Ok, we've swapped them in the title above. Thanks!
Dungeons and Dragons VR is finally official, and it sounds incredible
I have read somewhere that the money Google pays Apple for being the default is a relatively big chunk of Apple's profit margins. If true, then it is understandable why Apple is fighting hard for it.
Idk man, survival seems like a pretty blunt selection force for such an intricate mechanism
Was that an issue in this case?
> it's a widespread feeling among salespeople, that a person who interacts with them, without buying anything, is stealing from them

If you're selling something low end, like a hotdog or pair of shoes, this makes sense. But for higher-end purchases there is a relationship component which can take time to build.

I've encountered salespeople who get pissed off they've "wasted" time with me and it stood out as kind of a low-class, graceless, bottom-line only approach to the job and life in general. Sales can actually be pretty cool, but not with such a poor attitude!
Mysterious Bay Area Rationalist-Adjacent Group 'Ziz' Linked to Six Deaths
Theres some sort of something quite special about HN and I suspect it's the lack of anything special.
Nobody says they are against ideology. Everyone is pro-their own ideology and anti-everyone else's.

Additionally, I don't think there was an anti-China "smokescreen" used here. Anti-DEI was a central pillar of the Trump campaign, so this purge seems to be fully in line with what was stated explicitly for months in 2024.
my_ridiculous_list = ["Ilya Sutskever"]
Same in Farms around Vancouver, Canada
Because Karen Sandler made it a hard dependency of GNOME, effectively forcing every distro to adopt it or give up GNOME. In Linux, parent processes hold dominion over all child processes, due to the way things like ptrace work. So it was a coup d'etat of the entire userspace. Then next thing you know, systemd took over the bootloader too, which gave it dominion over the kernel as well. Old school sysadmins don't like being dominated. Especially not by some useful stooge like he who shall not be named. The source code of his projects is open source in name only. Least hackable code imaginable. Almost like it's machine generated code to make the sources as opaque and inscrutable as possible. It uses binary formats to log data, exchange messages between processes, and other awful things to obfuscate its behaviors. Someone with zero gravitas shouldn't be reinventing the vision of Bell Labs and forcing their ideas on others through NGO policy changes. I'm surprised Trump hasn't signed an executive order banning it. Even the name itself, System D, expresses this arrogance, since it claims to be 100x better than UNIX System V, because D=500 and V=5 in roman numerals. Being forced to use this init system changed the workflow and daily lifestyle of every sysadmin. In one fell swoop they took an OS that's open, transparent, and owner controllable and made it into something more obtuse than Windows. And guess who the stooge works for? Microsoft! It's the sort of thing that would make people pivot their careers towards management or quit working.
Huh, how is it not a general population thing? To raise an eyebrow is a common expression
i got receipts, but this is exactly the type of attitude that is so problematic
Replicate does make this particularly easy while still being somewhat developer focused. I've used it for a few people in our group chat so we can make silly in-joke memes and stuff and the results are quite stunning. Replicate then offers the model up over a simple API (shown in the post) if you wanted to let people generate right from the chat, etc. Replicate is worth poking around a bit more broadly, too, they have some interesting models on there (though the pricing tends not to be very competitive if you were going to do it at scale.)
Google monopoly case. Apple is involved because Google pays Apple to set the default search engine in Safari to Google. Apple received 20 billion from Google in 2022 (1) and Google has floated the idea of loosening of its agreements with Apple to make the US government happy (2).

Apple doesn't want to give up that Google money.

1. https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-seeks-defend-googles-billion-dollar-payments-search-case-2024-12-24/

2. https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-says-it-could-loosen-search-deals-us-antitrust-case-2024-12-21/
His own plans for what? What could he do without the money? The moment the money disappears he'd disappear as well.
People use their phones much more than their laptops/PCs. Think it boils down to supply and demand.
Yandex's High-Performance Profiler Is Now Open Source
> my money is on him being smart

No snark; based on what?
https://runforsomething.net/

Find office you're interested in running for and run for it. Code is of less leverage than votes and being in positions with control and authority in these matters.
Well, if what Google was doing was against the law, then Apple really doesn't get a say. Google just has to stop, whether Apple likes it or not.
Un-paywall'd: https://archive.is/geYcZ
> "Horror. Dismay. Disbelief. For weeks, it felt like I was physically being crushed to death," Kuszmar told BleepingComputer in an interview.

> "I hurt all the time, every part of my body. The urge to make someone who could do something listen and look at the evidence was so overwhelming."

Hopefully he never stumbles across 4chan.
Only if you haven't already declared the variable. e.g.

let x;
console.log(x = 'hello');

My point is that the `x = 'hello'` part is an assignment, and an expression, and has the exact same semantics regardless of whether you use that expression as a statement. So, assignments would seem to be expressions.
You'll find that there are very few such programs. This shouldn't be all that surprising, because most programs do not care what process started them or where stdout is logged.

The most prominent dependency on systemd components is Gnome on logind, which already has a shim.
One of the reasons Rails happened in the way it did was due to many non-coders embracing it early and questioning why programming for web had to be done the way it was ... you would meet people at early Ruby events with background in arts and such ... many of which went on to succeed massively and ended up having to retrospectively get deep into classical CS theory to deal with performance challenges
For better or worse at least it's not "uber for X" posts of a half decade ago
Timing is an integral part of your product.
I miss being able to hear the click of the hard drive to know when my system was doing a lot of disk IO, which often was caused by swapping when RAM had been exceeded. I wonder if there's something that turns high utilization into an audible signal these days.
No, the title is (well, it was) misleading (now the title has been edited to read US vs Google when it previously said Google vs US). Apple wants to join Google as co-defendant, because if Google loses their monopoly case it won't be able to pay Apple to be the default search on iOS. Apple is therefore joining the case because it wants Google to be able to continue paying Apple billions of dollars.
Could be a million things you subconsciously notice.

* the warning signage

* things that are related to the lead shielding (micro changes in gravity, smell of lead salts, ...)

* infrasound caused by the machinery

* people waiting for an x-ray around who are less-than-happy...

The problem with this kind of thing is that it is often highly individual, and barely, if all measurable with our current scientific instruments. Some people keep claiming that humans are incapable of even hearing infrasound, or sense gravity, claiming anyone who can sense them is spreading new-age esoteric nonsense or is mentally ill. See also: Electrosensitivity.

I'm not saying these things do or do not exist, just that it is in the realm of possibility.
I understand why scrappy startups like Electron, but it's astounding that companies as large Spotify and Slack won't shell out for a couple of Windows/MacOS native developers.
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One of the costs, if you are childfree, is that you now go from zero dependents to non-zero dependents. This cuts off a lot of options in life: your remote job can no longer be done from Japan for two months in the summer or an island in Thailand for a quarter in the winter.

There is a huge value to being able to travel for long periods on short notice in the first half of one’s life. A pet mostly/usually prevents that.
its interesting to me that that is the way the discussion turned but its not what i originally meant. there were just qualities to this story that are hallmarks of great modern japanese short and long form lit. for example:

- referring to characters by single letters (c.f.: K in Kokoro)

- romantic descriptions of nature as the meat of the work that ties the actual plot together (... basically all japanese lit since ooku no hosomichi in the 9th century)

- anthropomorphism of nature like the wind talking (c.f.: the sound of the mountain)

- a pervasive sense of nostalgia, especially when telling a story by way of the places one has lived in their early adulthood ( again basically all "slice of life" lit and tv )
This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, an authoritarian regime. Hysterical rhetoric doesn't help anything, it simply inflames tensions and perpetuates the cycle of politicians trying to hurt each other. We should all attempt to avoid it as much as possible.
A lot of people don't realize that any sort of verification for email isn't part of email, but came later. SPF and DKIM help, but they're relatively new and still not required.

Wasn't that long ago you could set your FROM header to whatever you wanted and be pretty sure the email would be received.

Billy Mays with OxyClean here and you can't be 100% sure I'm not! This next email trick will shock you.
Funny you'd use "best actor" as an example. What makes the best actor? For a long time there were no leading Asian male actors for example, is that because Asians can't act or because of cultural bias?
> My entire life I hated eating

this makes it sound like you have some sort of celiac, gluten allergy, or low-key diabetes
Yes, they’re saying it was not clear who was the defendant in the title, it seemed like the US was.
Yes, existing limitations apply. Without hardware LBR support, we cannot provide sPGO profiles. However, the basic profiling should work fine.
The title was just updated as the original had them reversed. The defendant is Google.
I love Demeo, and I'm glad to get more Demeo content (that isn't a PVP arena). I was really hoping for a more in-depth RPG experience and this sounds like Demeo++, not _really_ Dungeons and Dragons in VR.

We'll see, though! I'm happy either way!
I think we don't see the special, as I never see anything untoward on HN, and since I know the general population has some... Colorful people; the key here has to be the moderation team, and the front page mechanism (algo, manual, whatever it is)
Thank you. I’m still learning as I’m sure everyone else is, and that’s a distinction I wasn’t aware of. (I assumed “distilled” meant a compressed parameter size, not necessarily the use of another model in its construction.)