skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don't have any significant complaints.

Are you happy with it spying on you?

That's what all Samsung televisions do, and there is no way to turn it off. They advertise on their own web page that they monitor the content viewed on their televisions for targeted advertising.

This isn't via some sort of metadata, they take screenshots at regular intervals and upload them to very insecure hosting.

I hope you never look at any "sensitive" content on your TV!
"never take updates unless you need a specific fix"

Weirdly, serious groups, among them Signal seem to be clueless about this rule. In Signal, in their security concious context, this is a bit of puzzle to me why. They have updates every few days sometime, but no more than 2 weeks pass by without their update banner appears in the most prominent spot in their desktop app: above all of your recent chats, with background higlight to pop out even more, if someone would miss in important messaging. Like if this was the most important thing for everyone around - so much that it is made not possible to turn off -, to keep their software very very fresh, the freshest possible! It is generously allowed not to download updates immediatly, but that's it. The alert is always there.

But there are so little changes between updates. Once I checked the history, dominantly marginal things. Yet, the prime spot in their UI is occupied with these marginal things too, all the time (it must not be critical update in every few days because that frequency of security risks would be too worrysome for an app like Signal!).

And this is just one of the examples out there, there are too many similar ones (serious or marginal use apps alike).

Looks like software engineers lost sense throughout time, thinking the central spot of the user's mind is occupied like their own with the maintenance and state of their precious product. Not the task at hand where some whatever tool should help, without grabbing the attention away from the task all the time (also with all those frequent 'helpful' pop-up tips many software employ - I am looking at you Teams as prime perpetrator - for self advertisement, that is an other senseless narcissistic attitude).
On my desktop, but I am trying to access it "remotely" from the same machine. I have a Linux host and an LTSC KVM guest with GPU passthrough so I can cleanly isolate (and more easily reproduce) my Windows environment. Currently, I just use VSCode's Remote SSH to develop in Windows, but it leaves much to be desired.
> Ask HN: Which X11 server do you use on Android?

I am not a masochist. And Android sends all your keystrokes to Google, so this is a no go.
Just give the RCS thrusters enough power to lift it sideways. Works every time in KSP.
I don't think GP was implying that brains are the optimum solution. I think you can interpret GP's comments like this- if our brains are more efficient than LLMs, then clearly LLMs aren't optimally efficient. We have at least one data point showing that better efficiency is possible, even if we don't know what the optimal approach is.
it's not clear where Severance takes place exactly. But it is wintery and has universities and decrepit fishing towns. So if it's supposed to be New England, i think this makes sense. There are a lot of very successful people in New England who drive old VWs and Subarus.
Thanks for bringing this up, sums up how I feel about life.
And underlines one of my biggest realisations of recent times: depression is a valid/natural response to helplessness and a world of injustice...
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Total Cost of Ownership.

It includes fuel & upkeep costs.
> Calories in calories out is not an immutable law.

It actually can be, if you define both "in" and "out" in a way which makes it so; but for any definition of those terms where it is an immutable law, we, in practice, have only very rough proxy measures for at least one, and maybe both, of "calories in" or "calories out", and the problem then becomes mistaking the proxy for the actual figure of merit.

But the bigger problem is that CICO is only a starting point, it a set of targets, and an actionable plan that works in the real world isn't just the targets the plan is directed at.
I believe USB security keys are covered under a different API.

But even then, you can use this argument against it. When this type of USB access is allowed, it gives phishing attacks even more power. Now, you’ll click prompts for authentication and little did you know that malicious actors and read/write the entire USB drive!
These projects to my knowledge do not release patches by themselves but as you said, rely on Mozilla's work - they take Firefox, strip it out of few features - namely one's that raised concerns, toss in additional stuff from other projects and include own branding. So perhaps these are more "customized derivatives" or "spin-offs"?

Not that work of these projects isn't good - on contrary. Mozilla has violated the trust of its users in last years with features nobody ask for and those folks pluck that stuff out.

Stil, perhaps it's a time for a proper fork that provides own code maintenance, before things will go worse at Mozilla.
> Another option is going full-scale with CockroachDB

Just beware that CockroachDB is not a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL.

Last time I looked it was missing basic stuff. Like stored functions. I don't call stored functions an "advanced feature".
Clearly, the industrial-scientific complex can only afford 3 interns to downvote disparaging Hacker News comments. I don't know how that's not obvious.
> He was specifically told he was rejected for doing forbidden research.

Or, that's what he told us. Also, I've done my PhD and I don't think I've ever seen a graduate program telling a candidate why they were rejected. It is always the standard "There are more qualified candidates than we can accommodate and we could not accept everyone, I hope you understand."

...which makes me a little bit suspicious about the whole tale.
Hiya Daiz, hope you're doing well after all these years
they have a ko-fi and a patreon, with about a 1000 "subscribers" across both at <unknown> amounts at the moment. it's not exactly enough to promise indefinite support, but tbh i don't really much reason to have that faith from products i've paid for but are closed-source either.
My network includes recruiters.

But if I look back.

- 2008 (34) - spammed job boards.

- 2012 (37) - reached out to third party recruiters via LinkedIn

- 2014 (40) - reached out to internal recruiter on LinkedIn

- 2016 (42) - reached out to a recruiter I met earlier.

- 2018 (44) - reached out to a recruiter I met earlier

- 2020 (46) - Amazon (AWS Professional Services) recruiter reached out to me.

- 2023 (49) - targeted outreach to a recruiter based on a niche of niche within AWS where I was an SME.

- 2024 - responded to recruiter who reached out to me.

To be fair, in 2020, I did pivot from “software developer” to working in cloud consulting specializing in app dev - working full time for consulting departments/companies
Where Are Our Covid Memes Now?
I wish you luck.

Still, I will allow myself to provide some feedback. There's a chance that in your position as the CEO of a startup (and an MIT graduate), maybe not a lot of people are willing to tell you thinks that they think you won't like to hear.

It looks like your business model involves carbon sequestration (you just mentioned here "injection wells", plus it's in the last figure of the article). That means you are proposing a process that smelts iron ore using hydrogen rather than coke. Something like this plant in Sweden [1]. There are two problems now. One is that you are making the assumption that it's quite easy to get such plants in the US too, but the recent history is not very promising ([2], [3]). The second problem is that you are a step ahead of what people want right now. Most people would be happy to make net-zero steel. You are pitching something that is net-negative steel. A lot of people will say it's laudable, but they are not willing to pay extra for that. And if net-zero is their goal, then you need to compete with steam reformation using natural gas. And I don't think this is possible in any scenario, not matter how heroic assumptions about economies of scales or learning curves, or technological improvements one makes.

[1] https://stegra.com/the-boden-plant

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/13/steelmaker-biden-cl...

[3] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/green-steel/ssab-quietl...
I'm coming from a different perspective: regardless of all else (all those issues you raised are very real), people need to get where they are going in a reasonable amount of time. Most bus service fails to account for that, but if you can't get people there in a reasonable amount of time there is no point in trying.
I'm guessing "still really bad."
https://archive.ph/UFwL2
I’m looking forward to it! Inefficiency (if we mean energy efficiency) conceptually doesn’t bother me very much in that feels like Silicon design has a long way to go still, but I like the idea of looking at biology for both ideas and guidance.

Inefficiency in data input is also an interesting concept. It seems to me humans get more data in than even modern frontier models; if you use the gigabit/s estimates for sensory input. Care to elaborate on your thoughts?
How do you get somewhere which is 20 minutes from the depot, or in general between any two points that are more than 15 minutes apart?
Utterly backwards attitude. Ingredients should be proven safe, not have government agencies play whack-a-mole figuring out what is harmful, while the food industry synthesizes new substances they will tout as having no research saying they are harmful.

That's how it works in Europe.
> It's the same lie as EVs claiming to be "green" in places where fossil fuel sources dominate electricity production.

This is just anti-ev propaganda.

First, its kind of a chicken-egg situation:

'its not worth going green for the power grid, all the cars are still ICE' 'oh its not worth building EV cars, the power grid is dirty anyway'.

Second, there are lifecycle analyses that show that even if your powergrid is entirely fossil fuels, EVs are still a win. This is because powerplants are really efficient in ways that a car engine can't be because of scale/weight. iirc the only exception was if your power-grid was still like 50%+ coal?
This feels kind of like "at least I know what I'm getting with the measles".
For a multi-tenant use case, yeah, pretty close to thinking about partitioning.

For other use cases, there can be big gains from cross-shard queries that you can't really match with partitioning, but that's super use case dependent and not a guaranteed result.
Kagi browser on iOS somehow supports both Firefox and Chrome extensions
I like even less how they use slander lawsuit settlements to achieve bribes. I imagine it would be hard for anyone else who would have to counter evidence that they raped their ex-wife to sue people because more recent sex crimes were not rapes.

I can't imagine someone as rich as Bezos doesn't have expensive advisors who have told him the patterns suggest that his best move for his businesses is to at least fake that he can get in a testosterone war with Trump through his paper.. So the likely explanations for why he hasn't that I can think of are not kind.
According to other sources, this was an unusual case. She was a Canadian trying to enter from Mexico, who had been told back in November that her visa was no longer valid.
In general if you actually do the erasure coding math, almost all distributed storage systems that use erasure coding will have waaaaay more than 11 9s of theoretical durability

S3's original implementation might have only had 11 9s, and it just doesn't make sense to keep updating this number, beyond a certain point it's just meaningless

Like "we have 20 nines" "oh yeah, well we have 30 nines!"

To give an example of why this is the case, if you go from a 10:20 sharding scheme to a 20:40 sharding scheme, your storage overhead is roughly the same (2x), but you have doubled the number of nines

So it's quite easy to get a ton of theoretical 9s with erasure coding
This was a darkly fun look back on the memes that the COVID lockdown generated.
Thank you. So, quick q - it would make sense to me that JEPA is an outcome of the YLC work; would you say that’s the case?
I had a Samsung QLED TV, and still had to upgrade the firmware once. Thankfully you can do this by USB storage without connecting the TV to the Internet. The preloaded firmware had audio issues where sound would drop out, even when playing through the built-in speakers, and I haven't seen that issue happen since upgrading the firmware.
There's a contradiction in the text, I'll giv eyou that, bu at the end he clearly links both
* a Varnish Module using this <https://github.com/varnish/libvmod-tinykvm>
* a set of examples in multiple languages <https://github.com/varnish/tinykvm_examples>
> That said, we didn’t annex anything

Eastern Europe is now part of NATO. /s
I asked the Perplexity AI two questions,, I asked perplexity because the company I think has a rightward lean: one whether vaccines were safe, and the other on safe treaments for Transgender youth, and to both it gave, well politically left leaning answers. And on the vaccines I basically asked it, aren’t you being partisan by saying vaccines are safe and it responded, no, it’s just the scientific truth.

Truly forced partisan-neutral AI would be a disaster.

Also makes me wonder, even Grok has a tendency to be woke at times. With Elon Musk in the government AI’ing everything, what kind of shitstorm will it produce if the AI government chat bot gives woke answers.
Isn't this similar to why most people turn off UPnP on their routers and other similar devices, for security reasons?
Klarna files registration statement for proposed Initial Public Offering
> Apple is going to buy Ladybird, and on some level they're already working together.

Even without (conspiratorial) intent this seems to be happening unintentionally- Andreas is ex-Apple, after all, and that's why he switched development away from his own language to Swift. I wonder if it's analogous to Xamarin and Miguel de Icaza inevitably eventually ending up at Microsoft.

That said,

> Apple will end up on both Windows and Linux, and not in the horrible form of iTunes, but as the objectively best choice for a gateway to the internet. And written in Swift.

Sounds like too good a no-brainer to actually happen, at least under current leadership. Few of these "dream mergers" ever actually happen. Another example, Apple buying DuckDuckGo as a counter against the Google search monopoly, has never come close to happening after years of speculation.
Many computer nerds among anime enjoyers.
that site never loads for me - 403 forbidden
Briar was funded by the CIA. Partly.
Your view of stoicism is off. Nihilism (existential, moral, etc.) are not compatible with stoicism.

Read https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/0195....

Marcus Aurelius is a stoic, just look at some of his quotes, that is stoicism.

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."
I agree. Spiking neural networks are usually mentioned in this context, but there is no hardware ecosystem behind them that can compete with Nvidia and CUDA.
Ever opened a default install of Edge? Shows MSN news, ads, ads posing as news articles, built-in shopping discount coupons etc.

Yes you can turn all this off, but in default mode it is maddening.
I'm just waiting for flywheel powered buses to make a return: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus
M4 MacBook Air Teardown: Apple, When Will MacBooks Get Repair Upgrades?
Trump being a meme is what got him off the ground. And here we are.
GCVR (YC W22) is hiring a lead technical artist
Curry: A Integrated Functional Logic Programming Language
Yes, that's my point. Any plausible Israeli government, left, right or centre, would have conducted the war in roughly the same way, including the historical left governments of Ben Gurion, Meir, Rabin, Peres or Barak. Thus attempts to paint Israel as "right wing" due to its conduct of the war are fallacious.

I'm just pointing out that painting falsehoods about Israel and its people (as you have continued to do in your most recent post) does indeed make you a bad guy. I don't expect you to agree with me!
Not everybody is as emotional as you based on your description, some of us naturally have more control over our state of mind, emotions generally, and don't live so reactively.

This allows us not only avoid those typical massive mistakes in life (addictions, bad but attractive partners, cheating, being miserable parents, generally bad emotional big-consequence choices and so on) but also steer us to more successful life paths than most of our peers, whatever that may mean in each case.

Your system works for you and makes you happy and content with your life and its direction? Great for you, but that path is yours only, no need to broaden it to all humanity.
"by time restricted eating you are breaking the cycle of eating out of habit when you are not even hungry.. or eating because you crave a certain taste or sensation in the body (as opposed to actually being hungry). You are training the mind/body out of these behaviours so that during the times when you are allowed to eat you are trained not to eat unless actually hungry, for example."

You are describing what I posted above. This is a behavioral tool to achieve a mechanism of caloric deficit. Getting out of a cycle of pointless eating is the definition of behavioral shift.

Not exactly sure what you are describing in the next paragraph but we have studies that equate calories between time restricted eating and non time restricted eating and find no statistical difference in expected weight outcomes.

Yes there are differences is hormonal hunger signaling etc. My point is rather that a calorie deficit is why the weight loss occurs. The time restricted eating is the METHOD some choose to help achieve it.
why'd your parent comment get downvoted? 33mm users, <2mm daily likers, <1mm daily posters. as stated, less than a tenth of total user count.

bluesky is a pretty niche bubble-y platform. so are mastodon et al. they're fine if you want to follow a specific group but they aren't even close to the reach of X/Twitter.
Ask HN: Will AI coding lead to more software startup acquisitions?
In particular, it won't matter that much what language the startup code is written in or whether it is of high quality since AI could translate it quickly to any language and improve its quality.
She crossed overland from Mexico for some reason, not from Canada. The linked article says: "Then they came back and told her that, because they were denying her, that they have to send her back to Canada."

Is there a policy that requires that people denied entry be returned to the country they are citizens of?
It's nice seeing people work with compile-time index types. I've played around with checked array indices using some tricks [0], but checked slice indices obviously require a lot more work.

One application I once thought about is "safe pointers". Suppose we have a bunch of pointers into a buffer, and we want to manipulate them without passing around the original buffer everywhere. The idea would be to use marker types or lifetimes to link the pointers to the original buffer at compile time, so we can use proof values to manipulate them safely.

Of course, the devil's in the details with these sorts of things, so I never got very far. It's great to see an actual implementation of a closely related idea.

[0] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
It's mostly in the comments. People saying that their kids expect them to be ready to play at any time because Bluey's dad is ready to play at any time. And then not being able to live up to those expectations.
> Professors of stocism like to make a virute of dying quiety -- this i think absurd. If the plane is falling from the sky, i envy the people screaming -- they have the right levels of attachemnt to their own lives.

Stoicism does not say that you should not have an attachment to your life, i.e. will to live.
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(not the author, but a friend of friend ;)

Could you specify this a bit? @codethief

The way it's phrased makes it sound like you want to stuff TinyKVM into a container, but I suspect what you are actually asking to implement an OCI runtime with TinyKVM https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/spe...

Does that make more sense?
> being expected to work while doing time is not cruel punishment

No, but it sure smells like slavery.
i notice the same thing. there are a handful of big rw accounts i've muted and no longer see but big lwers there always seem to be more.

i also muted musk but periodically find my account has magically re-followed him, so i concur that there's almost certainly a special case in the code that artificially boosts/follows him.
> Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes

We have seen this with cocoa.

Are there any journalists left ? /s
Not GP, but I think the objection is: the engineer wants to build a thing cheaply enough that it functions, and then cheaply as can be while maintaining function.

The MBA wants to build a thing as cheaply as can be while extracting maximum value from the process. Maintaining function is only relevant inasmuch as is necessary for marketing.
Enshittification is offensive to the engineer, and is a deliberate calculated tactic for the MBA.

We're replete with case studies, but my favorite is Kitchen-Aid mixers which accumulated a reputation when they were the small version of Hobart mixers, and have in succeeding decades become a cheap pile of crap because the optimization does not care about quality of function so long as the appearance of quality can be maintained. And it's cheaper to look quality than it is to be so.

A close second is Singer in the '70s, which for a while decided to ship items with 100-hour motors because "Folks don't usually spend much time _actually_ sewing". Contrast with the machines built a centuryish before. We've got an early electric model which is still doing fantastic precise work. The engineer would enthuse over the superb work that went into building such a tool, and the MBA would focus on the foregone sales, the value not extracted.
I literally read this headline as "keming the hard way" and thought it was the most clever title ever.
I read a few years ago that hunger is not pain, it doesn't "hurt" and you can ignore it.

What I find fascinating about hunger is how it interacts with your subconscious. You start daydreaming about food. If you're not paying attention you'll find yourself standing in front of the pantry.

When I'm hungry I feel like my conscious mind is wrestling with my subconscious.