skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bunch of Americans went to join the communist experiment in the 20s and 30s. They saw what a disaster it was but the newspapers covered it up. The NYT famously declared that there was no famine in ukraine while millions starved. Of course the journalists were friends with Stalin.
Recent big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43196488
1 Is definitely a factor, after all these are the same people who've been crowing about their sacrifice and bravery in cutting off Russian oil and gas, despite not actually doing any such thing. https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/eu-imports-of-russ...

Unless you really believe that one month of Trump is all it takes for the EU to suddenly take their own defense seriously, and damn the political consequences when the costs hit.

2 I don't think so, I believe he's understandably desperate for security guarantees that go further than the paper ones Russia blew past in 2014 and 2022. Sadly I think he isn't getting them, and between the fiction of European unity and the reality of economic partnership with the US, the latter is more likely to lead to meaningful security.
Why We're Moving on from Nix
People who need cash asap and can't wait 30 days minimum to pay agents and lawyers and wait for the cheque to clear. A lot of people have medical bills, school loans, credit card debt etc that will take precedence in their decision making .

Plenty of companies are out there offering quiet cash deals, they will find these properties much faster than agents with their paperwork and fees can swoop.
Fair question. Pydantic.ai looks like a wrapper around the client and closer to an agent framework. agents.json is not that.

agents.json makes an existing API format like OpenAPI, interpretable to LLMs. This is done through tool selection and workflow creation.

For example, someone here mentioned the large Twilio API was hard to manage with an LLM. We could write a Twilio agents.json to bundle API calls into outcome-based workflows, and create a searchable collection that lets us get higher accuracy on tool selection.
https://archive.ph/3qU8M
To be clear, I diagnosed the missing dot issue by typing very slowly and carefully. The issue appears in repeatable streaks for me. For instance, the second character of the password might be dropped. If I repeat this several times, typing very deliberately and slowly, I can see the behavior repeat: no response for second character. Two workarounds are to just backspace and try again until the behavior goes away, or just notice that a character was dropped and type it again.
I already don't have a full time job. I've used a bit of that job search time to participate in protests and call my reps.

>Even if you are the only one, do it anyway.

It'd be useless. What we lack in power we have in numbers. Protests only work as a collective action.a collective action that can kick out bad reps and replace them with ones who will do their jobs.
Learning Malbolge
As an alternative, I use the free community-edition netdata -- love it at my job, and it works right out of the box on my personal windows and linux machines.

https://www.netdata.cloud/pricing/

(don't let the `.cloud` scare you off, they have a 100% free and functional local-only install)

It's insanely powerful and with some configuration can persist the metrics in a local database.
World’s largest iceberg grounds near sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia
+1 synology has been a surprisingly competent docker home server. I decided I wasn't interested in any of the services that require an account with them and was pleasantly surprised everything works fine without signing into any synology services. I thought about building something but I wasn't confident in any of the free NAS OS's on offer. Synology has a nice interface for managing users, containers, and sends me drive health reports on its own email address via SMTP. Low drama environment.

I love Immich [0] for photos, Jellyfin [1] works great for music and movies, just spun up a memos container for notes. For documents and stuff I would use dropbox for I just FTP into with Cyberduck or Filezilla.

[0] https://immich.app/

[1] https://jellyfin.org/

[2] https://www.usememos.com/
Without using SIMD CPU instructions, its gonna be super expensive.

Some like viterin/vek or kelindar/simd package could be helpful.
I mean, at the same time, a quick perusal of lunduke shows a pattern of jumping on hatewagons to drive clicks.

Not judging the morality of this practice, rather saying that if like me you dislike that practice in general then listening to the hate rants of companies that hatewagon for clicks may influence you in a way you would rather not be influenced.
U.S. Commerce to Overhaul 'Internet for All' Plan, a Potential Boon for Starlink
They have gotten better. Recent consumer projectors use triple (RGB) lasers as a light source, which improves color accuracy a lot. It's not worth replacing one that works, but it is noticeable.
I believe this is something Immanuel Kant tried to do in the 18th century
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Pretty much. The earlier understanding of and managing risk is more practical than a making a world that's absolutely safe in a small area that's unrealistic compared to the rest of it.
> I wish someone would write an IBM 650 emulator

I don’t know how good they are and there may have been multiple IBM 650s, but Google gives me several hits, including:

- https://opensimh.org/simdocs/i650_doc.html

- https://github.com/rsanchovilla/SimH_cpanel (adds front panel GUI to the above)

- https://github.com/snick-a-doo/IBM650

- https://code.google.com/archive/p/sim650 (incomplete)
>What evidence does the parent have for intentions to harm instead of just making stupid cuts, completely inline with their well documented history of simplistic, sledgehammer solutioneering ?

Their own words:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russe...
It occurred to me that backstabbing is a common tactic of war historically, and increasingly of a certain group of power-seeking individuals specifically. A trait that The Apprentice and it's similar ilk of reality TV shows like Survivor invariably promoted.

My comment today on a YT video;

"Trump never apologizes or shows contrition (Roy Cohn's 'always deny' doctrine) as it shows weakness, similar to Putin perceiving appeasement as weakness. He then sets up a scenario (he called it "great television") where he expects Zelenskyy to apologize and say thankyou for the 100th time. He told Zelenskyy he had no cards, so apologizing or showing appreciation-on-demand (for nothing in exchange) would be submitting to being a loser in Trump's own mindset, which is the point of the whole fake deal on offer. No different to the "deal" he made with Afghan government for natural resources, before he sided with the Taliban to withdraw US troops in betrayal of that very agreement. When Zelenskyy pointed out that Putin can't be trusted for any ceasefire, Trump then raised his voice cos his own betrayals (nearly everyone who worked for him that wasn't paid, or went to prison by following instructions, or was summarily fired as per his catchphrase) are viewed as his favorite playing card."

Treachery has been his default modus operandi throughout his personal life (cheating and divorce) as well as in business and politics ("hang Mike Pence"). Reality TV then normalized it to the level of mass-entertainment as he suggested.
EP: Elon Pandering, an essential function for any agency these days.
> I'm surprised we don't see more such projects.

The main reason why geothermal drilling has a difficult stand in Germany is the case of Staufen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staufen_im_Breisgau#Geothermal...
You called defending against an invasion with maximalist, genocidal goals nonsense.
This comes from the perspective of someone who manages managers. So if you're looking to hire managers, and don't care about retention, perhaps this is good advice to follow.

But if you're looking to evaluate your manager, or hire managers who can retain great people, maybe not the best advice.
Sweden was far closer than that and only gave up its plutonium in 1990.
i don't get it. Where's the sluggishness? Do you think i also modified my system to somehow run faster or otherwise tampered with the video evidence i provided?

Are you serious? who cares about the context menu, it's such a non-issue it took me like 15 seconds to figure out how to get the "archive" and rename commands back. The rest of the stuff in there is all software that added context menu items.

I get the feeling you haven't really used windows since win95 or something. like, you have a windows machine at work that you don't like because it's slow for whatever reason. Three people made specific complaints, i responded with a video and a screenshot disproving what they said, and... yeah i don't get it.
The biggest tragedy with Apple iPhones is that you can't install GrapheneOS on them. Non-profit 100% open source is the only feasible way forward for cellular devices.
> AI may make it possible to build a virtually perfect missile defense against ICBMS

Massed ICBM defense is a matter of sheer volume - with the current GMD system the US can throw enough exoatmospheric kill vehicles (and THAAD to handle the leftovers) to counter a handful of re-entry vehicles from a smaller nuclear power like North Korea or Iran. Not hundreds (vs China) or thousands (vs Russia) that you would see in a peer-level nuclear exchange where everyone has multi-megaton MIRVs, decoys, and SLBMs with much shorter flight times.

Some fantasy future AI with the right sensors may perfectly track all of that sub-orbital mayhem. Without an enormous fleet of thousands of kill vehicles to actually defend against that threat, and the logistics to keep that fleet operational, it can do nothing about it. Building and supporting that sort of strategic defense is obscenely expensive, and as such it remains a Reagan-era fever dream.
I always wanted Apple to make a split keyboard.

Then I realized I could just buy two Magic Keyboards and use them at the same time -- typing on the left half of the left one, and the right half of the right one.

After all, the proper ergonomic position is for your forearms to be parallel (not angled inward), which means the keyboard halves you're using should be approximately shoulder-width apart, so there's tons of room to use both without them colliding.

Once I figured it out, I felt like an idiot for not figuring it out a decade earlier. I'm never going back.
Side note, If you are developing software that hacks anything WHY IN THE HELL would you have any antivirus software installed knowing full well that antivirus software extracts any detected virus and sends it elsewhere? For context that was the excuse for the 2017 ban of Russian antivirus firm....
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Okay, do you mean use it for speeding up media I/O there? I don't know if that would work. Using Yolo and drawing bounding boxes should already work fine with the supervision integration. That's how the Colab notebook does it.
I'm interested in reading the white paper.
>Ethics are reached via consensus

This is probably too big a topic for a whole side-branch on this, but modern meta-ethics teaches a range of possible approaches. Some notions of ethics are relativist, and are about the fact that moral norms are produced by some given society. But under some constructions that's just a procedural truism rather than a position on the content or the nature of morality itself.

Then you have moral realism, a perfectly respected position, which can encompass things like utilitariansim and other ism's. And this might seem silly derail, and I'm trying not to, but this is important at the end of the day, because "ethics is reached via consensus" can mean a lot of things that cash out with completely different practical implications. It's the difference between, for instance, deciding we need to be consensus oriented and vote, or be research oriented and concerned with deepening our scientific understanding of things like insect consciousness and whether the physical effects of sleep deprivation fall under the traditional definition of torture.

>And good luck calculating some of these axioms

Not wrong, they can easily get computationally intractable. So I think one has to account to some degree for uncertainty. Here again, I worry that the intended upshot is supposed to be that we simply give up or treat the project of moral understanding like a cosmically impossible non-starter. I like to think there's a middle ground between where we presently stand and the hypothetical future where we've got perfect knowledge.
Did they agree to have their e-mail exposed through the api?
I would love an 11" MacBook. The new chips are perfect for that form factor given they're so powerful & light on battery.
How about:

Rouge is red, you rascally rogue!

No, no - don't bother, I'll see myself out :)
Ask HN: Are prompts becoming the new IP?
I saw an interesting forum post discussing the growing concern around prompt intellectual property. What are your thoughts?
The problem is that “news” is not a random sampling of all events. It is biased by the very fact that someone has to decide the event is notable.

And even if you were to witness a random sampling of all events via some kind of clockwork orange mechanism, your brain has saliency biases as well.

You might find the wiki page on cognitive bias interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
You could split a TV into a couple parts, but I'm skeptical about how much that would improve repairability over the status quo. If you're able to fix those parts, you can get the TV open.

Getting some manufacturers to use standardized control boards and power supplies, and listing them in the spec sheet, would do a lot more than any ease of access.
US and Ukraine prepare to sign minerals deal on Tuesday, sources say
"To honor Kevin’s “You be you” attitude, a “Come As You Are” Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. at Fairfax Church of Christ. 3901 Rugby Road, Fairfax, VA 22033. A reception will follow at the church where you will be able to assemble your own Lego tribute to Kevin to take home. Lego bricks will be provided."

"In lieu of traditional flowers, you may bring or send Lego flowers. Those assembled before the service will be part of the Memorial display. Assembly space will be provided for any unassembled flowers. Traditional and Lego flowers can be sent to the church 7/2 between 9-4."
They might not even trust Trump, but being driven to hate Biden and/or Harris so to vote against them was enough.
Hmm, I could see the case for energy use per unit of GDP being misleading in some ways. But per capita electricity generation? That’s not related at all.
Who gave you our event schema!? ;)

Kidding aside, yes, you're exactly right. We're already doing this to a large degree and getting better. Lots of our own data labeling and model training to make this good.
I do the exact same thing. I buy an iPad because it seems cool, use it for a bit, forget about it, sell it/give it away, repeat two years later.

I love the idea of an iPad, but they just don't really fit into my life I guess.
> does look more like appeasement to me than de-escalation

I think this is a judgement of intentions, which one is present on the staff in the WH, one would be unequipped to make any sort of accurate speculation of.

However, we soon will know by the outcome.
This didn't sit well with me either.

In the movie, Lawrence tries to resolve his apparent split loyalties by bringing the Arab and British interests into alignment and has a couple of initial exhilarating successes, but he ultimately fails, badly. Neither the Arabs nor the British live up to his idealistic expectations. The British use him in ways contrary to his intentions. He also discovers that his own idealism is compromised by his egotism and sadism.

The beautiful, dramatic desert landscape, the danger of Lawrence's mission, the high political stakes for the Arab tribes, and the historical context of war all help create an illusion of the possibility of heroic transcendence that is deeply inspiring, but in the end, it is all human and mundane: human vices at the small scale and human politics at the large scale. There is no transcendence.

I can see how some people walking out of the theater might have only remembered the feelings stirred up by the beautiful cinematography and the epic score, and forgotten absolutely everything else, but I think it's a better movie for sweeping the viewer up into that feeling before dropping them down into the political squabbling, betrayal, disappointment, and tragedy.
It would need to be transported by ship which presents some problems. Canadian oil has pipelines which are very cheap.
Nice job! I love the clean interface. Is this written in C#?
I'm also a heavy user of sliding-sleeve mechanical pencils. I prefer metal-bodied ones from the 1970s-80s, but among what is currently available new, I think Orenz are the best.

I have several of all the models, and I prefer the basic model, as it is slim and sturdy. You can get them in 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7 mm. I think the 0.2 is not worth it, as it is rather fragile. If you want a really fine line, it's easier to just use a harder lead in a 0.3. The 0.7 is rather pointless, because 0.7 mm lead is so sturdy. The 0.3 is great, as it allows you to press harder and write longer between clicks. I've found them very reliable. I also use the 0.5 for colored leads, which are generally more brittle than graphite leads.

The Uni Kuru Toga gets mixed reviews. It has an auto-advance mechanism that works when you press and lift the tip. The amount of advance is geared for writing with very short strokes, as you do when writing Japanese. It can be awkward for writing cursive. Also, the mechanism rotates the lead, so it's hard to orient on the edge of the tip.
Lol using wikipedia as a source. Either way, the fact remains that there was no set of events in which Ukraine would have been allowed to have nukes. If Ukraine has said no, either the new government would be replaced or Ukraine would have gotten invaded by US and Russia simultaneously.

It's nice that people say Ukraine and the other countries owned the nukes or whatever and have them sign an agreement to "hand over" something they didn't own, but that's just optics. Reality is Ukraine never could use those nukes and didn't have a military force or access to the nukes to keep them.
I know negativity isn't encouraged on HN but man I do not like those covers (doesn't capture the world of Wolfe at all).
Then why should we trust you over a person who is trusted by tens of thousands of people?

You are also essentially anonymous. You've been on this site for 8 years with 300 karma. How do we know you didn't sell your account or farm it to generate dissent?

(Example of how easy it is to discredit someone)
If you haven’t seen it already, check out “Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners”. Probably one of the best and approachable books on cryptography. Plus all the lectures are on YouTube so you can read a chapter and then watch the lecture. Also with the math notation, you a take a photo of it and ask ChatGPT to try to explain it.
That might have been true last week.
My point was that this was already done (the links I shared - w3c standard that addressed this exact problem) and it utterly failed. TBH with today's AI capabilities, it could be built in to the OS or browser - no header necessary. I'm surprised this doesn't exist already.
Best of luck to you. Finally a Launch HN that's important, potentially life-saving work.
What reform are you referring to? I wasn't aware of there even being an endgame here, from where I stand it looks like you were deceived and they're just breaking as much stuff as they can now that you've invited them back in.
Maybe Loch wouldn't have minded? I'm not religious, but I don't really care if I were memorialized with a religious service. My belief is that service is more for the people left behind than the one who died anyway.
Yeah to speed up media I/O. The thing is that you're feeding Yolo frame per frame. That's not ideal because you have to reimplement streaming and batching into Yolo. Here's an example of what you can do: https://docs.ultralytics.com/modes/predict/#__tabbed_2_13

That's giving more control to Yolo as to when it pulls frames and how it processes them. In the Colab example you can't do this.

I get this error: "No server set for the cv2 frontend. Set VF_IGNI_ENDPOINT and VF_IGNI_API_KEY environment variables or use cv2.set_server() before use."

I tried to use set_server but I'm not sure what argument it needs.
See also for example V.H. Dudman on the interpretation of "If" sentences: https://www.scribd.com/document/478756656/Dudman-1984-Condit...
TikTok plots local services expansion to the U.S.
Who is this average American that can't look at a map?
Scientist Left OpenAI Last Year. His Startup Is Already Worth $30B
The Model Trust Score: The Framework for Strategic Enterprise AI Model Selection
common to see that in conveyor toasters as well
In Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," the main character, a lawyer, described the line of prisoners going into the back of the courthouse as "chow," as in chow for the system. I'll never forget that.

Also, for anyone who grew up in Atl, Wolfe's book "A Man In Full" drips with the kind of delicious look-in-the-mirror satire home grown Southerners love.
Not because of their intervention, and point 3 is not simple as that (otherwise I’d have done it again, I am not as unlucky as the lady in the story), but something along those lines, yes. Much unnecessary suffering.

I won’t dwell on it because this is not the place, but I felt compelled to offer my perspective, which is that it is not always better to fail.
Just one problem with that amongst many:

Russia has bordered NATO for years. Estonia and Latvia both do and if you count Kaliningrad as Russia then Poland and Lithuania do too.

In common with much stuff Russia comes up with it's just lies to justify their bad behaviour.
> The cause for this geological change has been identified as a drilling operation conducted in the summer and autumn of 2007 to provide geothermal heating to the city hall.

That project was about transferring heat. Perhaps for geothermal electricity production which can happen away from population centres this is less of an issue?
The link in that tweet leads to an article: U.S. ambassador on why China competition must be managed while keeping "the peace"

Did you click the tweet or did just spend thirty minutes looking for a source to support the "ghost cities" claim, then rush to paste it here without looking that closely at it?
Calculus I can understand, but the kind of coincidence GP describes is much harder to explain.
Just in case anyone's wondering, AES - the regular AES-128, 192 or 256 - is not publicly broken (yet).
Looks like Prolog.

I wonder what the major differences are.
Why are you comfortable with the government knowing what banks you have banked at?

Also, I hope you don't mean the federal government should know if you've been arrested. I don't think that should be available to them at all.
Those axioms can still be evaluated, quantified and compared, and eventually calculated.