skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
£110 a month for 100 GB is actually less than I would have expected for a really remote place like the Falklands. As a point of comparison, I used to pay something like 10 USD per GB on flexiroam while traveling, though I think it's a bit less nowadays. Now that's what I call extortion. And it's still 100 times less than the roaming data rate on my standard mobile subscription.

As for Starlink, keep in mind that you are piggybacking on a humongous satellite network that has tons of unused capacity in remote areas. Now that it's available, it's cool to have it, but the previous provider had an exclusive contract for a reason. And presumably it's still binding, so I imagine the Falklands government is in a bit of a bind over this.

And by the way, Starlink itself is not above price gouging where they have no cheaper alternatives. Look at Starlink Marine pricing for example, which is I think 2500 USD / mo, down from 10000. So there is no actual guarantee that £60 per month unlimited usage will still be be there if Starlink is allowed to operate officially.
Wow! This is really cool! Really really cool! I imagine some sort of use where it's even more collaborative and not just "unadorned turn-by-turn".

For example, maybe I'm taking notes involving words, simple math, and a diagram. Underline a key phrase and "the device" expands on the phrase in the margin. Maybe the device is diagramming, and I interrupt and correct it, crossing out some parts, and it understands and alters.

Sorry, I know this is vague, I don't know precisely what I mean, but I do think that the combination of text (via some sort of handwriting recognition), stroke gestures, and a small iconography language with things enabled by LLMs probably opens up all sorts of new user interaction paradigms that I (and others) might be too set in our ways to think of immediately.

I think there's a "mother of all demos" moment potentially coming soon with stuff like this, but I am NOT a UX designer and can't quite imagine it clearly enough. Maybe you can.
It looks like nVidia is open to moving their open driver (which requires a card that as a GSP) upstream [1] but with Rust being killed from the Linux kernel that's probably dead.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Exploring-Upstream-KMD
Klemperer Rosette
I think it really depends. Even though I do treat it as a transaction, a lot of the things in that transaction bugs me.

I'm like OP who don't enjoy interacting with my fellow workers other than strictly work affairs. I have to go to the office 3 times a week. We have on calls which every one gets twice per month, once as backup and once as primary.

Neither do I have enough savings to retire anyone. I also have a kid so I can't just quit and find a new job. I sleep 4-6 hours every night to burn on side projects hoping I can get a new job.

It really depends. Some people faired better and some faired worse.
The Act gave authority (power) to JFK. The EO created USAID.
> But we're talking about extremely direct copying. Actual computerized copying, typically verbatim.

Copyright doesn't just extend to "literal direct copying". When you claim copyright doesn't harm anyone, you can't ignore all the other types of activity it prohibits.

> Doing things relating to discussion of a work are typically permitted,

Only if you limit the meaning of "discussion" so much that it no longer includes the process of making art.

> but you have no reason to use anybody's particular work other than to make use of the work he did in creating it.

Did you not ready my comment? I already explained the reason. Creative works become part of our culture, you can't choose which works will do that, you can only choose to participate in that culture or not.

Copyright is a social system for artificially limiting access to our shared culture and thus also limits participation in that culture.

I understand the value of a limited copyright system, but anyone that claims that our copyright system doesn't cause harm or cost us anything isn't being realistic. Copyright duration should be far more limited and we need significant reforms to the DMCA. Personally, I think even all non-commercial distribution should be legal as copyright should only grant commercial rights.
Practically speaking, the idea with a reproducible build is that you can take the source files they used, run their instructions the same way they did and get hash for hash[0] the specific resulting executable.

The main benefit is that you can trust that the resulting binary file being served matches the source code that it's build from. This mostly matters for distros in that they build from a source package repository, but anyone running a mirror could hypothetically replace the package with another (potentially malicious) package, leading users to install malicious tooling. It mainly matters for distros because pretty much every distro out there runs on third party mirrors (often ran by universities, but also just people who want to help) rather than on direct upstream; packages get uploaded to a main server, then mirrors copy from that main server (to reduce network traffic load on the main server). Right now, mirror trust is mostly "we assume you're not gonna be evil, until we get complaints". If the build is reproducible, the software can inherently confirm that the file they're getting is trustworthy, making "getting complaints" much easier to confirm.

It can also speed up the overall building process; if the package source code hasn't changed, you can also always assume that the resulting binary hasn't changed (meaning you can use hashes instead of relying on mtime like make does). Docker build cache works in a somewhat similar way (although docker isn't inherently deterministic).

Devwise, you can also reconstruct a build much easier if it's reproducible; ie. if you've accidentally thrown away the .elf file for debugging, if your build is deterministic, you can just rerun the build and get the same .elf file again.

[0]: While not a problem for Linux distros, in cases where you need a secret to sign an application, reproducible typically means "identical except for the signature" instead. F-Droid uses this for example to figure out if they should use buildserver stuff or the original APKs: https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
Thanks for the post. I see now that it's bananas, but I didn't quite get that from the blog post. You list the things this agent can do, but I immediately assumed it went in the other direction, because anything else would be bananas. The statement in the README put it more succinctly for me:

> A compromised remote could use the VS Code Remote connection to execute code on your local machine.

I feel like that "security note" should have a CVE number next to it.
Maybe the reference is about the XDDM/XPDM vs. WDDM driver models, the latter has a kernel-mode and a user-mode portion: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
The ARM licensing bit hasn't been relevant since SoftBank bought ARM. The preeminent issue is that Apple is already perfectly fine with warrantless surveillance and didn't leave the EU, US or anyone over it. This expectation for Apple to grow a San-Bernadino-esque backbone in an age where they manufacture backdoors for Five Eyes is hilarious.

Seriously; how do you expect Apple to hold a principled stance on privacy when they've already admit to warrantless surveillance? https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...
My friends and family like to joke about "anywhere USA." There are places all across the US where the same design language, chain restaurants, etc are all the same. There will be some differences in local business and in political/religious signage, but otherwise, they are cookie cutter, somehow feeling basically the same from Anchorage AK to Tampa FL. Importantly, these are all connected by car line.

I think there are a few things that make Japan fascinating to anyone who lives in a car-oriented culture, and a very important aspect is that even the small, out of the way, rural towns are still connected via passenger train, which changes the relationship of the small town to the central hub in important ways like what's described in the article here. Getting off the train in a small town is very different than getting out of your car in a small town.

You can find this same dynamic in the US, btw. You'll find that old rural towns, that grow up connected to the central hubs by either boat or by passenger train, have a lot of the same charm and feel. But if things are developed along roads, there's no presumption about walkability: they are designed for people to get in their cars and go from one parking lot to another.

Anyway, I'm actually totally clueless about this and speculating with very little informed knowledge outside my lived experience. I should probably delete this comment.
I thing there was a confussion. I was arguing against putting it somewhere that is not ~/.cache/program or ~/.program/cache, for example in ~/program, which would not have the string `cache` in the name.
Only a disinfo bot could be so deliberately wrong.
that’s exactly my question. why can’t he depend on C API and just consider it is memory safe and all.
I disagree with your insinuation that OSS projects have to be happy about big tech deciding to offer their product as a managed service. I think that's ridiculous; OSS isn't an ideology, it's a type of license.

I do agree that OSS licenses do and should allow for big companies to do this, and that Matt is doing the business version of a football flop by complaining someone other than him is making money from an open source project.

The point of open source is to be useful for each other, not to collect free labor for your own projects.
I totally get the spy agencies' "moral flexibility" requirements, as I've heard it put.

From what I understand, the spy agencies have ways of obtaining your private information that don't necessarily involve blanket requirements to access all users' data (e.g. creative ways of injecting malware into specific people's devices). But those approaches don't scale, of course. And they shouldn't need to.
Show HN: Music Visualizer Online – Mix audio waves with image/video background
I built a free online music visualizer that lets you create unique audio visualizations by combining your music with any background image or video. The tool analyzes audio in real-time to generate synchronized wave patterns that overlay perfectly on your chosen background.

Key features:
- Mix audio waves with any background (upload images/videos or use our presets)
- Multiple wave styles (classic waves, circular spectrum, particle effects)
- Real-time frequency analysis and beat detection
- Works directly in browser - no software installation
- Supports common audio formats
Containers on MacOS are ran inside a Linux VM. If you ensure that the Linux VM doesn't have access to anything besides the required files/networks, that should be pretty secure.

Best case you go through the settings of Docker, Podman or whatever you use to limit integrations. Then, from within the VM and container see what networks, files, etc. you can reach to be sure.
I would trust this site as much as myself using an LLM for this purpose (which is not much)
Every website permitting user-generated content will be morally extorted this way, until they agree to install some kind of government-sanctioned censor. If it was actually about the CSAM, the website would either be blocked, prosecuted, or the CSAM itself would be taken down (I'm assuming it was) and investigated to find the underlying crime. Instead we have senators pretending they don't understand how a business does not perfectly surveil and police its customers.
AI is potentially the philosophical rupture as it might entail the automation of philosophy itself. As Nick Land put it in footnote 6 of Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy:

The techonomic horizon, for 'us', coincides with the impending crisis of historically-actualized artificial intelligence. Encapsulated within this by now manifest potential is the comprehensive automation of philosophy. [0]

AI also fundamentally challenges human identity:

The Human Security System is structured by delusion. What's being protected there is not some real thing that is mankind, it's the structure of illusory identity. Just as at the more micro level it's not that humans as an organism are being threatened by robots, it's rather that your self-comprehension as an organism becomes something that can't be maintained beyond a certain threshold of ambient networked intelligence. [1]

[0] https://retrochronic.com/#crypto-current-footnote-6

[1] https://syntheticzero.net/2017/06/19/the-only-thing-i-would-...
Hey, I entered 2 million, 'Microsoft stole my future', 'since june 2000', 'i complained about it online' and 'the year of Linux on the desktop must come' and i got:

https://pastebin.com/pHTKwEgQ

Can anyone nearer to the legal profession post an analysis?

[This being HN here go the obligatory "not serious" tags...]
15 hour outage and counting.

No communication from Sony on the cause or expected time to recovery.

This story is now being picked up by major news outlets:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/08/playstat...
Wow, this made everything click for me. Really nice animation!
It is, Android handsets are not prevented by Google from selecting an entirely different operating system if they distrust the one installed by the OEM. It is expressly the choice you would make if you expected userland encryption to be mandated broken.

It doesn't protect against every attack (eg. Stingray or evil maid) but it absolutely would protect you from a situation like the one in the OP. Breaking your encryption can only work if the OEM controls your phone more than you do.
How is this dumb idea when Discord is top1 communicator except maybe for search, but it isnt that terrible
The article had a promising start, and I had hoped it would offer some valuable insights to the present day anti-science movement in America, but it instead delivered the same kind of unscientific extrapolation it sought to criticize.

I am tempted to cut it some slack since it was written in the early 2000s, but i think the author fundamentally misunderstands the role of computer models and predictions in climate science. These models have always been treated with great scrutiny even by climate scientists, and in the present day thousands of plausible futures are considered in ensemble when thinking about the future of climate change. No, these models are not used to prove anthropogenic influence on climate. That was already accomplished without predictive models. Models are used as exploratory tools for planning and policy.

Despite the article’s issues, i did appreciate the author’s suggestions for removing bias from science:

“ Sooner or later, we must form an independent research institute in this country. It must be funded by industry, by government, and by private philanthropy, both individuals and trusts. The money must be pooled, so that investigators do not know who is paying them. The institute must fund more than one team to do research in a particular area, and the verification of results will be a foregone requirement: teams will know their results will be checked by other groups. In many cases, those who decide how to gather the data will not gather it, and those who gather the data will not analyze it.”
These do not seem to be pure "header-only", but involve #include-ing the same file at least once with "#define C2_xxx_IMPLEMENTATION 1"

That's fine though. AFAIK, there is no sane way (across platforms) to have singletons, and that involves some of the the trick above, unless you know someother way

If you do, please add your idea here - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/issues/2... - "Header only singletons are not working properly for Windows #2534"
I'm saying this isn't 'abuse', much of the time and that manual intervention alone is not evidence of abuse or even of something going wrong. The assumption the flagging must be ideological itself tends to be strongly coloured by the views of the assumer.
If you can't do that maybe you shouldn't install custom extensions.
(Joking, but maybe mozilla thinks that way?)

Anyway if you want to be able to run normal Firefox version (no beta,developer or esr) and want to install custom extensions there is an easier way but not well know.

Firefox Unbranded

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...

It works fine expect for the "ugly" icon, but it is possible to modify it.
> At least every other weekend there is at least one person directly calling me and messaging me on teams.

Their own fault for answering. If you are not on-call, then don't answer such messages. If you do not enforce your own boundaries, nobody else is going to do it for you.

Anyway, the best on-call setup I had was when I worked at a hospital. Over the years, the doctors had driven how on-call works. If we got called, we got a minimum of 2 hours pay. If we concluded that problem, and got called again within the 2 hour window, we got another 2 hour minimum pay. We loved quick and easy calls. Being on call was either quiet or lucrative, depending on how the night/weekend went.
So there are a few bigger levers the US can use to reduce spending.

1. Raise taxes to pre-2017 TCJA levels and eliminate deficit spending. Pay down the debt. A much, much bigger chunk of our spending is debt interest (17%) than anything DOGE is targeting.

2. More aggressive Medicare/Medicaid service and drug price negotiation. This is 39% of the budget, and even a few percent here would have a bigger impact than anything DOGE is disrupting.

DOGE is a performative gimmick. It's hugely disruptive, mostly just to "own the libs."

The biggest and easiest lever the GOP has to bring spending under control is to let the 10-year TCJA tax rates expire without renewal. Do you think they will do that?
There are games made specifically for the phone I could imagine to pull out in a group of people, but its not card games. It's games which specifically benefit from a multi-touch device like a phone or the graphics or the gyro or other sensors. Games you cannot play without a phone. Would also be weird to play counter strike without a computer.

Especially card games are offline games for me. They're (my personal) go-to tech detox social thing and doing that with phones is simply weird for me. That's maybe why I felt so strong to make this point.

Again, awesome project. Maybe its for some, but not for me.
Most people don't correctly use an em-dash differently than a hyphen. That jumps out to me. :)
Just to be clear, are you really saying that speech with text to speech is server hosted and not on device for Windows?

You could do text to speech on a 1Mhz Apple //e using the 1 bit speaker back in the 80s (software automated mouth) and MacinTalk was built into the Mac in 1984. I know it’s built into both the Mac and iOS devices and run off line.

But I do see how cross platform browsers like Firefox would want a built in solution that doesn’t depend on the vendor.
If the minority maintainers scream every time they see other languages due to their insecurities, technical inability and stubbornness, and their overreactions get a pass, it is not the fault of Rust, C++ or Swift. The source of the disturbance is not the people who are making an effort to cause as little disturbance.

Blatant NIMBYism is the problem here and you cannot reduce it by accepting everything.
I clicked on details and scrolled directly to a PCBway ad.

This was a very high effort advertisement. Shame I’ll never know how it works because I immediately left the page.

I would have been more interested if the details link actually went to the details of the device.
I will guarantee that you came from a rich family, I have plenty of evidence. Your attitude is strongly correlated with the arrogance of generational wealth.

Please don’t ask me to cite sources, I know exactly what I’m talking about.

If you feel that I’m arguing in bad faith, please consider not responding and instead reflecting on why you feel the way that you do about this topic.
There are hundreds of countries worldwide that hate Russia and support Taiwanese independence. There are millions of American citizens that fit that description like a glove. It doesn't have to be the CIA to make sense here.
Numru – A NumPy Equivalent in Rust
Numru is a scientific computation library that aims to provide a high-performance, easy-to-use, and flexible API for numerical operations. It is inspired by NumPy, a popular numerical computation library in Python. Numru is designed to be a fundamental library for scientific computing with Rust.
Everything comes back to social identity theory :) Especially programmers, who are already partially drawn to pattern matching.

I still enjoy articles like these, though -- think the author did a good job of describing the hats as "modes of working that you switch between" instead of "all-encompassing static personality traits that put you in a box".
Ideally this documentation would also document the expected output, both toward identifying when the process has gone off the rails when doing it manually and making the steps testable once automated.

Otherwise, it'd be trivially easy for an unfamiliar user (or the automated script) to ignore unclear errors or exit codes and march blindly to the next wait_for_enter().
Can you try to spend a bit more effort maybe, for example address one of the most egregious inaccuracies?
Do you have a source for this? I wouldn’t be surprised if it were supralinear but that feels high to me.

Like we have a short segment of road in my town that’s almost exclusively and regularly used by garbage trucks, which are ~10x the weight of a car. I don’t think the road gets repaved 10,000x more often than other roads though?
Great in theory until some error or problem comes up and you don’t know how to handle it.
I'm afraid to read what I wrote last month, I cringe at the though of myself reading old posts.
You think they could sell a single unit in a tilted highrise? I don't see how risking your entire investment to save a few million with any significant chance of total failure could be +EV.
> Have to manage releasing pressure, burping it a few times a day is fine. Of course, you can get much fancier if you want, the possibilities are endless.

I would at least go slightly fancier: get a lid intended for fermentation that lets gasses out on its own. There are several good designs out there, and your local Target or similar store probably carries a little kit, intended for use with a mason jar, that contains a high quality fermentation lid and a nice stainless steel or glass mechanism to hold your veggies down, for a few dollars.

You will want a lid anyway, and the coated metal two-part lids used for canning jam will be destroyed pretty quickly by regular use for fermentation.
They have two ways — remote development, which is what you’re saying and remote execution.

Remote execution is the one I prefer. Rsync and then just runconfig. It’s lightweight and simple
My favorite, not on the list, is Fakaofo atoll. It even has a shipwreck, visible on google maps.
I love Armin’s blog. I don’t always agree with everything he says, but always come away with a new appreciation for his POV.
Well, the systems had little to no security. Also the multimedia resolution was not very good