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Ask HN: Lightweight Alternatives to Parsec for a Centralized Workstation Setup?
I work from home and maintain multiple “desks” scattered around my house—some indoors, one outside—and I'm tired of hauling my Mac laptop and peripherals back and forth. My ideal setup would be a central server hosting my entire workstation, allowing me to connect from each station with just a keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

I'm currently using Parsec, but it feels like it still requires a fairly powerful client. Does anyone know of a leaner solution—something that doesn’t demand a heavy GPU on the client side—while still offering responsiveness and a solid remote desktop experience? Any ideas or real-world anecdotes would be greatly appreciated!
How common are district heating systems? Montpelier in Vermont uses wood stoves to deliver steam to a large part of their small downtown: https://www.montpelier-vt.org/427/Project-Background
I see in a linked Reddit thread it's the radio station pushing it?
Actually, let me fix my previous comment. I was responding to quoted text in your comment which was obviously not your opinion. Sorry.

> It has been ported to a new language before. It can be ported to a new language again. But there wasn't a compelling reason to choose C# last time, and nothing significant has changed since to rethink that.

I still think this is phrased in an unfortunate way. To reiterate, my point is the damage has already been done and obviously TSC is not going to be ported again any time soon. I do not think Anders or TS team are up-to-date on where .NET teams are nor I think they communicated internally (I may be wrong but this is such a common occurrence that it would be an exception to the rule). I stand by the fact that this is a short-sighted decision that has every upside in the short-term wins at the cost and no advantage in long-term perspective. Especially since WASM story is unclear and .NET having good NativeAOT-LLVM-based prototype as a replacement to Mono-based WASM target (which is already proven and works decently well).

Having to prioritize ease of porting for such a foundational piece of software as a compiler over everything else is not a good place to be in. I guess .NET concerns are simply so small compared to the sheer size of TS that might as well accept whatever harm will come to it.
Relevant (I don't know why the article doesn't link to them directly):
https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-proposals-for-the-u...
https://cdn.openai.com/global-affairs/ostp-rfi/ec680b75-d539...
two character tlds are reserved as cctlds I believe
I quit using Toptal because I was living in Western Europe and got extremely lowballed at a given point. As if I simply had to match the rates of people from Eastern Europe or Northern Africa.

I got a better hourly rate through the platform when still living in Latin America. Before Covid, it was amazing.
Management has resented people capable of creating non trivial, novel and valuable software for several decades and trying to get LLMs to generate code for them is just the latest chapter in this power struggle.
Show HN: Write Stories by Steering a LLM
“Freedom to make money”
I feel like all of the cool things about tiling window managers were actually all of the things other than the tiling. They have style, they're lightning fast, they're stable, they're customizable. They have practically a non-existent footprint in terms of resource consumption.

It's their superpower, and also they tile if you're into that. I never fell into a particularly useful workflow with tiling window managers myself, but as an invitation into the world of alternative lightweight Linux window managers, it's one of the most powerful demonstrations of the things Linux can do great.
very exciting! Looking forward to the SOTA for embedding models getting pushed.

A little unclear how important embeddings models will be vs. new methods of semantic search in the coming years (e.g. super fast llm as judge, or emerging methods) but still exciting!
Montpelier, Vermont as well: https://www.montpelier-vt.org/427/Project-Background
A lot of these people talk about Starlink like they never heard of RF engineering.

It's like, "Um, guy, Starlink can be shut down too."
And obviously all these stories have already been fed into the machine.... :-)
If they want to avoid paying for the creative effort of authors and other artists then they should also not charge for the use of their models.
Replace Helm with Kiss
Inspired by Rob Pike article [Less is exponentially more](https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...)
And Apple [Pkl tool](https://pkl-lang.org/blog/know-your-place.html)
Pkl is an example of a complex tool, which is using DSL, type validation, IDE integration, complex templating. It’s built with “futamura projections” and stuff like that.. But is it possible that it could be replaced with just Make and some duct taping?
Ask HN: Bedridden for 3 months. Time to pivot?
After a decade as a full-stack developer (mostly back-end CRUD work, nothing cutting-edge), I'm now on medical leave and mostly bedridden, while I get treatment for a moderately serious condition.

That means I'll be on leave for at least 3 months.

While I’m grateful to have a fully paid medical leave for the entirety of my absence, I'm also terrified about what it means for my current job.

My company laid off a significant percentage of my colleagues over the past couple of years, and I'm afraid my role will be at risk after having someone take over my responsibilities and contributions for such a prolonged period.

Therefore, I don't want to waste this time.

My goal is to retrain into a high-specialization, future-resistant field, ideally adjacent to AI/ML, since that’s where the momentum (and compensation) seems to be.

My background:
- 10 years in software dev (Java/Spring, Python, some React).
- Comfortable with algorithms, databases, distributed systems.
- Zero ML/AI experience beyond basic Coursera dabbling.

Constraints:
- 3 months of ~4hrs/day study time.
Prefer self-guided resources (books, MOOCs, OSS projects).
- Targeting roles that aren’t easily automated (e.g., niches where human expertise + technical depth matter).

What specialized subfields of AI/ML (or adjacent domains) would you prioritize? (E.g., reinforcement learning, MLops, AI safety, etc.)

What concrete resources (courses, books, codebases) would you recommend for a fast ramp-up?

Are there lesser-known niches (e.g., quant-focused ML, robotics, etc.) where a software vet could pivot quickly?

No sugarcoating: if this is unrealistic, don't hesitate to say so. But if you’ve successfully pivoted into AI/ML (or know someone who did), I’d love to hear your battle plan.

PS: I'll also appreciate any recommendations on any gear/devices that facilitate using a laptop while on bed.
> Nearly all of reddit is presently political spam

The good (or at least barely tolerable) sane politics/econ subs hide in plain sight. (Also, enn cee dee?)
Also a firmware engineer. I see 4 career paths under the advent of AI:

1. If you can't beat em, join em - get a masters in ML or something and work at a higher level of the stack. I know several folks who have pivoted this way and are happy.

2. Double down - there will always be layers below the AI (drivers, silicon, etc). Sure, ChatGPT will continue chipping away at how much coding we do day to day, but at the end of the day, good luck to an AI trying to debug I2C bus clock stretching issues IRL. And you can bet that these robotic actuators have plenty of hardware issues to debug.

3. Pick an area of tech which is relatively immune (medical/automotive/aerospace) due to regulatory and other barriers to AI entry. You don't necessarily need robotics/CV experience to do this.

4. GTFO (I say this with no judgment) - and work in a different industry which is less likely to be automated. It would not be the most lucrative option but is certainly an option.
Let's hope that consumers hate this terrible idea enough that it doesn't spread to other car manufacturers.
Plenty of text but also many cool animations. I'm a sucker for visual aids. It's a good balance.
Of course it’s possible. I am well aware it’s possible. You can also just call into a C library that hands you a null pointer. Further, it’s wholly possible to invalidate every single one of Rust’s safety guarantees if you try hard enough.

In practice I have never encountered a null pointer in Rust. Most Rust programmers have never encountered a null pointer. For most non-FFI practical purposes you can act as if they don’t exist.
After getting rid of most third party app support, 99.9% of all API access, losing massive chunks of active userbase and virtually all advertising except penis pills and scams, site performance probably isn’t terrible for casual users, it would difficult for it to not be adequate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dodge vehicles suck so bad these days as it is. They have been making poor products for decades now and customers are finally starting to wake up to it. Guess they are doubling down now. No one needs this shit put in their face in their car. Sending an email which surely most people end up giving up in modern car purchases with the information this ad is trying to sell is more than enough. Just another poor decision from a company that fails to impress customers.
>Since "buying" a movie (as it currently applies to humans) is just buying a limited license to it for private viewing, can't the copyright holder opt to limit the $4.99 license terms to human viewing, and charge $4999 for an AI training license?

the Reddit data licensing model
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/12/new-dodge-charger-launchin...

Dodge said they'd start selling in EU this year, so we might find out soon enough.
This actually looks great.
There's plenty of comments about searching one's network, but I was looking for a comment that mentioned this. Startups do tend to prefer permanent full-timers, but hiring the right person takes time and startups also very much like getting the work done.

At one point I was unsure about joining a startup and it was them who suggested doing a temporary contract as a way to test the waters. In that case it was only a week but it was also enough for me to decide to join full-time. If joining full-time is a possibility you'd consider, I'd also mention that to the startup early on.
"But most underpaid civil servants, teachers, nurses or police officers chose their work"

Why are we conflating jobs in the federal government that are wasting our money with actual useful jobs. They aren't currently being cut or in the same category.

"For countless reasons, probably including Brighouse, London’s schools jumped from worst-ranked in England to best. I suspect Musk is rooting out quite a few Brighouses."

US schools weren't ranked the best before Trump came into office. They have been slowly declining year-after-year. Isn't the logical concusion to try something besides continuing to pour money into failed ideas?
Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a "quit job" button, sparking skepticism
Is it just me or is this sounding quite like BCPL?
By making its own "internet in a box": open wifi, DHCP and DNS, and Bob's your uncle. Anybody in range can play; everyone else is out of luck. Install NNTP so that news can move around by flooding, as nodes form new associations. Add a second wifi transceiver and some clever dynamic route discovery and you have a mesh network.
I never thought your arguments were in bad faith, just not based in actual fact nor understanding of the legal issues at play. I imagine you are capable of appreciating the difference.

My point was making a big deal out of the statutory damages claim really on reflects a complete lack of insight into copyright lawsuits and you taking away your conclusion is really besides the point, because it is normal practice (I've said this how many times?) to claim the entirety of statutory damages.

Sure, clients can do what they want to. That doesn't make the attorney's advice and/or work not malpractice if the attorney didn't advise against it, so what's your point? They could have asked for less? Sure. They could have also not sued at all! The statutory damages is a red herring being obsessed over by you because you lack the faculties to otherwise make your point, which isn't served by highlighting the completely normal practice of claiming all the available statutory damages in a pleading.

>Point out the specific comments you took issue with.

The one where you completely ignored everything I wrote and then quoted the judge. It's incredibly rude and dismissive, even when offered politely. You might be polite, but I don't find it courteous to engage in conversation with someone who makes absolutely zero effort to engage with my response, and then continues the conversation any way. To me, it's like souther hospitality, facially polite but masking of, sometimes, deep loathing. I'm from NYC, we don't pull that kind of crap. We are direct because it is more respectful to someone to be honest with them than to lie to their face with a smile.
Enhanced OpenAI Chat Actions for Pipedream
It's all theoretical. In real life, retrofitting heat pumps into exisinting homes is a bit different, as those homes are neither made for air heat sources (at least in my region), nor they are insullated well. You might say, dough, insulate it, but it is easier said than done, as a lot of those old homes relied on their leakage for ventilation, not to mention that is very expensive investment (much more expensive than the heat pump itself).

I would reccommend keeping backup heat source when installing heat pumps into older homes. A simple wood stove, used during cold spikes, could be enough.

My country has subsidies for heat pump installations into older homes and it had requirement to get rid of chimneys to get that. After the whole europe energy crisis thing, this requirement is gone now. Turns out having alternatives is a good thing :)
Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That proves our movement is working
Based on the comments in the subreddit post this article is talking about, this seems to be the fault of SiriusXM?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dodge/comments/1j838k8/why_tf_am_i_...
I use quarter windows ar best. Just like many others by the looks of it.
> guardrails only serve to hurt us in the long run, at least at this pivotal point in time.

What evidence led you to that conclusion?
Definitely not as a general rule. Many of the Wikipedia photos in question are celebrities mid-sentence, speaking at some fan convention, taken from a bad angle and digitally zoomed in.

There's a middle ground between that and a professional set card.
> That's some lazy journalism

I’ve come to believe that it’s actually also quite cunning. If they omit the name in a way that nobody notices, reader will be unable to find out any information for themselves, and will therefore not expose any factual errors in the article.
That's smart. Oh, you used `pip install` to fix a missing import, but forgot to add it to pyproject.toml? You'll find out quickly.
If models can learn for free, then the models (training code, inference code, training data, weights) should also be free. No copyright for anybody.

And if you sell the outputs of your model that you trained on free content, you shouldn't be able to hide behind trade secret.
Differences between districts wouldn't explain why overall scores are static to declining while Dept. of Ed. funding has increased by a factor of four.

Also, is your theory that people are satisfied with paying much more for education without scores going up? I don't understand the point you're trying to make.
Write an in-progress book about some niche = lead magnet for this type of work :)

(disclosure: founder of Leanpub)
A friend of mine through sheer luck happened to be able to take a two month trip to Yokosuka nearly all expenses paid. She spent the first week or so just plotting out the map of Shenmue and the local map to see how much was rearranged.

The town is definitely Different but recognizable in a lot of ways. Lots of small landmarks that were gently adjusted or changed to make it simpler
Good call. I should make the scoring more transparent.
Cache and power are shared resources, not just timing observations. High-assurance security always advised physical separation as much as possible to avoid timing channels. So, you'd run them on different boards, flush the caches, or make power invisible to untrusted applications. They also used to modify the granularity of visible timing or use logical time to prevent the measurements from happening.

Recently, people have come up with partitioned caches to deal with this. I don't know if they exist in production. A simple strategy is turning off shared caches while running processes of different, security levels on their own cores. Also, investing in multi-core and many-core architectures for this.

Finally, many of us pushed for randomized execution or scheduling to throw off the timing of specific things. Combined with fine-grained processes (eg separation kernels), that should reduce what they can do a lot.
There are multiple definitions of the word "selling". The poster is referring to what salespeople do, not what a grocery store does.
Is it a rhetorical question? In my opinion this dispute is closely tied with Taiwan claim. When China gets Taiwan - it gets most of the critical area containing shipping lines and oil/gas fields.
Ruin everything. Fire has always been entertaining to watch.
He should have offered for every purchase of OpenAI services, a portion would be used to purchase TrumpCoin. That would have been a more effective bribe.
> just like a model could

It is not remotely the same, the companies training the models are stealing the content from the internet and then profiting from it when they charge for the use of those models.
Dateline June 1, 2025
Big 3 Automakers Changed to Tesla, GM, Ford After Total Stellantis Collapse
Imagine people all over planet Earth talking to each other in real life, in passing.. "Did you hear Internet access is cut off in ____"?

The issue is that no one would care.

There are children being sold into sexual slavery and you don't get that kind of reaction. You're definitely not going to get it because some random InstaSnapTwit in Nigeria can't get his fart app to work.
Things that are better than estimates
Totally. Plan to try some things to reduce how often these kinds of issues happen.
Well, not 100% true... With Rust being the principal language that compiles to webassembly, I'm sure there is quite a lot of JS code being re-written in Rust right now.
I don't know what two sorts you're comparing, but I'm guessing neither one of them is compiled in Fil-C. Is it really the case that the Rust one is 2x faster? Or is it that the C one is 2x faster? Also, it's just one benchmark of sort, so for all we know the two sort implementations really have the same perf if you test a broader set of cases.

The interesting question - going back to my original post - is what the Fil-C slow down would be. Just because a program takes 100% CPU doesn't mean it'll experience bad overheads when compiled with Fil-C.

I don't know what you mean by "complete MRE". You can download the Fil-C binaries and point coreutils' configure script at the compiler and see what happens. It's not hard.
A car company at war with its users...

... miss you, n-gate!
うな重が食い逃げした does not seem that crazy to me. It is no different than English speakers saying some variation of “it grew legs and walked away”. Usually, that is hyperbole to make a reduction ad absurdem argument about someone stealing. The Japanese phrase interestingly illustrates a use of “ga” (が) as a subject marker, which among other uses, is used that way when reporting new information.

That said, 私は美味しい illustrates how you really need an entirely different way of thinking about language in order to understand Japanese. If you want to report you are tasty as an English speaker might misread that upon hearing は is a subject marker, you would want to use “ga” (が) to mark what is being described as tasty. If you bizarrely want to say you are tasty, like how an English speaker would interpret that upon hearing は means subject, you would want to use が instead of は.

In a slightly more normal but still quite bizarre situation, if you wanted to say you are not tasty, you would say 私が美味しくない. That would be useful if you wanted to tell a Japanese speaking cannibal that you are not tasty. It also would look extremely weird to an English speaker in comparison to the version that declares yourself to be tasty, since two characters were added to the end of tasty to negate it, unlike English where “not” is added before the adjective, but that is how Japanese works.
Heya, I'm Tyler. I work at ClickHouse, looking after Devrel (and, of course, don't speak on behalf of the whole company).

ClickHouse is, indeed, the best database to build observability tooling on. And, for those of our users who want observability "out of the box," HyperDX is the best solution.

As part of this, we are increasing our investment in observability across the board. For instance, we plan to continue building/improving ClickHouse core capabilities to support the observability use case (eg. inverted indexes, semi-structured data support, time-series table engine and more).

I look forward to seeing how other observability companies innovate atop ClickHouse. There is room for all of us to succeed.

Re. licensing. I can tell you that we are planning no changes at the moment. At one point we may align licensing on the HyperDX and ClickHouse open-source projects (Apache 2)...but that is TBD.
Case in point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
> Can I download a book without paying for it, and print copies of it?

No, but you can read a book, learn its contents, and then write and publish your own book to teach the information to others. The operation of an AI is rather closer to that than it is to copyright violation.

"Should" there be protections against AI training? Maybe! But copyright law as it stands is woefully inadequate to the task, and IMHO a lot of people aren't really treating with this. We need a functioning government to write well-considered laws for the benefit of all here. We'll see what we get.
Usually that will burn a bridge with that employer and look bad on your resume.

Much different career wise than having short term contracts that are designed around a specific job.

I know that companies don’t necessarily follow an ethical standard but I find that I can at least follow personal ethics and that’s within my control. I’ve always treated my employers like I would like to be treated, even if the employer was being a jerk.

Over 30 years I’ve found that people remember and it’s surprising how acting ethically sticks in people’s minds and comes back in positive yields. I like to think I’d act the same way no matter what, but it’s a plus that acting properly ends up being better in the long run.
Which Movies Do People Love to Hate? A Statistical Analysis
It made sense to ponder given HN attracts people with the hacker mindset (the drive of curiosity to understand how things work and how to improve them, not merely accepting the status quo as gospel like the dry monkeys) and frustration is a good signal that something could be improved.
Aquifers are not infinite in capacity, so it's a valid point.
> a stopped clock is deterministic

I think the analogy breaks down here. The elided bit "time indicator" implied at the end makes that statement is false. A stopped clock is not a deterministic time indicator.

If the correct answer changes, a (correct and accurate) deterministic model either gets new input and changes the answer accordingly, or is not correct to begin with.