skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you lose skills when discussing things with colleagues? What if you find the answer in a book? Sure if you're just having someone else do your work or using an equation without understanding it you'll lose skills, but nothing suggests that AI is essentially worse than either of those. The government official asking for ideas about how they might improve ai adoption in the UK is a perfect example of a good usage. They are actively engaging with the AI, not having it write their policy.

Concerns about bias are bikeshedding. I am much more concerned about the systemic bias of race than I am about OpenAI trying to psyop people(I'm not concerned about race).
It would be a shitty steam network that allowed steam to just leak.
Part of it is definitely dumped directly into the air through an over-pressure valve on each radiator. At least that's been the case in all steam-heated NYC apartments I've ever visited or lived in.

But what counteracts this is a loss in humidity caused by the heating of cold air from the radiator itself (cold air warmed up reduces relative humidity), and in my experience, this more than counteracts the little bit of steam hissing out of the radiator valve.

As a side note, I've always wondered if the steam being vented that way is actually coming from the steam plant, or whether there's a heat exchanger somewhere in between that isolates a building's steam network from the distribution one (which is the case for liquid water heating, as far as I understand).
Now is not a great time to be looking for this kind of work unfortunately.
Super heated water is a pretty effective disinfectant within the pipes. For interior spaces ventilation is a legitimate problem in non-forced-air systems.

Historically, you open a window.
Internet shutdown typically happens during riots/ violent protests. Starlink makes "internet shutdown" impotent. Though Starlink has to follow country's laws and actually shutdown the internet. Most if not all protest are sponsored by entities that are against the host country and they will find ways to enable the internet for protesters with starlink or some other ways.
> a teacher by profession, was denied a widow’s pension so lobbied to take over the manual distribution to provide an income for herself and their baby daughter

> she retired in 1892, at age 81

> So Ruth was forced to move, for the last time to 57 Plough Lane in Beddington. She retired in 1940 and died aged 89

The time synchronization story is carrying another ominous story about elderly working class poverty of the gilded age.

Mother and daughter working until their 80s probably due to necessity, and the daughter being forced out of her home shortly before she died.

Let's not go back.
Show HN: I built AI agents with CrewAI to automate my entire Gmail workflow
I created a crew of AI agents using CrewAI to automate my old Gmail account that had a lot of unread emails.

This is what I had it do:

- Categorizing emails and assigning priority levels

- Applying labels and stars based on content analysis

- Creating draft responses for important emails only + saving it in Drafts folder

- Sending Slack notifications for high-priority messages (I use Slack a lot)

- Cleaning up low-priority emails based on configurable
rules (delete low quality emails + empty trash afterwards)

It works with most of the models so long as they're good at tool calling (most OSS Ollama models struggle) and connects via IMAP for easy setup.

The project is well-documented with clear installation instructions in my repo above.

I also have a YouTube tutorial walking through the project here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0SA8xMBCo

I built this to solve my own email overload problem and thought others might find it useful too.

Would appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improvement.

NOTE: I work at CrewAI. This is a side project I built to help solve my old email with a lot of unread emails that was running out of storage. I though to share here in case someone find it useful.
The way to do p2p communication without the Internet is to remove immediacy from it.

Old email servers were configured this way, they’d try to communicate the next time they got a connection.

For text it could be simple as encrypting and sending it to as many devices as you see until you get an ack back - something almost blockchain-like, but without the CPU and just signing.

Ack’d messages would be purged from ThePile and you could also expire them after a time. It’d be a few gigabytes perhaps, and could share diffs when you see another device.
March 2025 North Sea ship collision
> Rust errors can be equally unhelpful. Also, the error you posted is hands down awful. It doesn't tell you what went wrong, and it's excessively naive to rely on compiler to offer a correct fix in all but the most trivial cases

What? It tells the user exactly what's wrong

> Every program becomes a Sisyphean struggle to wrangle through all those unnecessary objects to finally get to write the actual code

That is the cost of non-nullable types and correctness. You still have to do the Sisyphean struggle in other programming languages, but without hints from the compiler.
Agree to differ. I assume it's priority variance.

Anyway, a shame you didn't wait a year or two. It's likely you could have picked up 2 for the price of 1 in today's market.

Looking at the used market where I am - Tesla prices have absolutely crashed compared to Hyundai. Crazy to buy one new and, because of the price difference, the obvious choice is to buy the Tesla used ... but I still wouldn't.

But it's funny. In the second hand market, Hyundai are the premium player! Which is actually hilarious historically speaking.

Anyway, all the best
I'd rather fund Chrome, if it can be divested from Google and managed by a separate nonprofit. I'd consider funding Firefox too, but only if it isn't managed by Mozilla.

Mozilla has really lost their way and have not been a good steward of Firefox.
if steam leaks out and gets trapped somewhere, presumably that's a breeding ground for mildew and mold

inside the pipe, can much life survive? is there anything to eat in there? has anything evolved specifically to live in NYC steam pipes?
They're old diesel trucks that have been converted.
Such a neutral term of such an insane decision
I think your network is the best place to look for this sort of work. Sometimes people will reach out to me with short term projects which is the best way to get gigs like this. Maybe start looking at your colleagues on linkedin, see what they are up to, and think of ways to contribute to what they are working on. The best people to contact in this scenario are leadership and decision makers. A SWE II isn't gonna help you much but a CTO at an early stage startup might be a good person to send a DM if they are friends with you (or even if they aren't!) :)
Grand Rapids, MI, too: https://www.vicinityenergy.us/blog/our-history-vicinity-ener...
If anyone has questions about implementation details or how to adapt it for different workflows, I'm happy to help.
Using Agentic AI to create smarter solutions with multiple LLMs
I think it's also because a desktop is broadly considered a "power tool", you absolutely need it for systems development, and that is forever at odds with "iPhone-level" lockdown/security. Even if you'd start from scratch, you'd need a solid theoretical foundation (e.g. capabilities), and probably build up new metaphors on top.

I like what OpenBSD did with pledge&unveil. It gets "the first 80%" of the work done, it's easy for the developer, and invisible to the user.
Spawned Shelter – Learn about Erlang internals of its virtual machine
I think dithering should still be considered, since a super high detailed game otherwise pretty engine that then has banding in the sky is pretty ugly. 32-bit RGBA can still have visible banding which dithering can fix. 256 brightness levels per channel isn't all that much when it comes to subtle variations in sky colors, the eye is more sensitive than that

12-bit per channel color might be enough to never have visible banding. Or dithering
> And in order to be of any real value, at least one of those mesh network nodes needs a connection to the real Internet.

I don't know what this means. If all of my family and friends are on a private network, and I'm serving my copy of Wikipedia, and all of us are sharing our books, movies, and music, we have a bulletin board, voice and video chat...

No real value?
> after sufficient practice, I became good enough to start avoiding those pitfalls.

You can only do that in code you control. You can not control the entire call stack of your functions in cooperative environments.
Just an update. Discord now shows a modal dialog trying to get me to sign up for nitro about every other time I bring up the app.

I'm really going to have to start looking into self hosted alternatives soon
There are a bunch of options for blocking cells from being edited etc.

Excel pros (I am none) can do quite some nice tools on top of Excel.

Excel runs the world ...
Algorithm-Free YouTube Feed
Whatever length of time they've used this process is as irrelevant as the questions themselves.
He's right. That is catastrophically unprofessional in a professional environment.
lots of people think gun manufacturers should be liable if the customer shoots someone so it's not like this is an argument without precedent
Maybe we're just different, but I would be extremely offended by a suggestion that I fast for ramadan, just as I would if I were asked to eat kosher for a month, or to go on a vegan diet for a month, or even just to watch his favorite cooking show for a month. Whether they were suggestions, requests or demands, I find these to be unreasonable intrusions of the company into people's private lives. Asking people to pray, might be a tiny bit less intrusive, but I still find it to be unreasonable.
Many of these actions are explicitly about culture wars, most visibly the actions against trans people. There is no way to explain that in terms of taxes.

I can attempt empathy for their fear of trans people, but I don't know what to do with it. Their fear is inculcated by a vast propaganda machine, to which they are deeply wedded. Maybe over a few decades they will see that trans people simply aren't harming them, but it's not clear whether my empathy today will have any beneficial effect on that.

Everything they call "woke" is about culture wars rather than taxes, and there's a lot in that category. There have been many, many calls for "understanding" their position in the culture war over the last few decades, but it has only gotten louder and more virulent.

I think we may simply need to accept that we do understand them, but that what they want is simply unacceptable. That's an impasse, and it won't be resolved by empathy.
Look up artisanal oil refining.
If visit Greenwich Observatory you'll see Harrison sea clocks H1, H2, and H3.

I had the luck (and honor!) to meet a volunteer guide - Stephen - that knew everything about clocks and explained it perfectly.

When you meet him, say hello :-). My kid barely spoke English and Stephen had the patience and virtue to answer everything with a smile.

Best guide I ever met.
You're replying to a thread where people lose internet connectivity when a bunch of men are kicking a ball around a field.
That's a really charitable way of framing the fact that a 15% minority screeching about "the government would never" and "but there's no proof" was able to control the narrative despite people generally having doubt or believing otherwise privately right up until the point that the proof was public record and so ironclad that even mainstream media had to report on it.

(I assume the 85% number is made up, but for whatever the number is the point stands)
> What is needed instead, and will not arrive overnight, is an entirely different spirit—an unflinching and where necessary caustic analysis of the world as it is, without concession to the arrogant claims of the Right, the conformist myths of the Centre, or the bien-pensant pieties of too much of what passes for the Left. Ideas incapable of shocking the world are incapable of shaking it.

The jacobins want their reign of terror. They are surrounded by enemies and lackies.
Microsoft Surface?

What happened?

(I've seen them. Thought that they were pretty cool as hardware, pity about the OS. I'm not aware of what's transpired, though obviously it hasn't dominated the mobile/tablet market.)
Multilingual Rotating Clock Online
Thanks for the reference to Amiga. Every random reference to my beloved computer fills me with joy.
Indianapolis also has a large steam network, with a prominent steam plant located in the southwest corner of downtown proper -- just down the street from Lucas Oil Stadium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_K._Generating_Station
One of the authors here. Would enjoy hearing what you think
You may want to checkout uv’s workspaces - they’re very handy for large mono repos.
My code can (optionally, since it is often not useful) dither all the way down to the physical pixels of your display device for that really crisp, old-fashioned look. Most dithering projects on the web don't take this into account so look slightly soft around the edges of the pixels.

The image at the bottom is an example. On some devices this interacts weirdly with the pattern of pixels or even the refresh rate when in motion due to scrolling.
Consumer Is Back – and Why It's Been So Hard Since 2014 [video]
I'm curious about the long-context, did you evaluate on benchmark such as RULER/HELMET or just check the perplexity ? We've evaluate the 1B on helmet at 32k and the result are worst than qwen/llama or smollm-16k. Also did you only extend the context during finetuning or did a long context extension stage at the end of the pre-training stage? seems like the former work better but not sure for small models..
The point of the flags, manifests or whatever is so functionally can set by the site. Like one site wants to support live chat and another wants to support bulletin board style posting.

The web is the best application runtime for making clients. However, I don't think it's existence invalidates the creation of these kind of protocols and server APIs. In fact some web standards such as RSS feeds could be described as such.
Don't get me wrong, I did not mean to disagree with the article, it was an interesting read.

By physically leaving the house I was slightly hinting at the occurence where some of the buildings were not expected to be used for home working (or "being in use" during working hours) and therefore the construction and standards couldn't have considered that this might be a problem. (the rest of the time is covered by laws mandating no noise during night).

I feel extremely priviledged to appear to not be bothered by noise, although that's who I have always been - just as the people who are bothered by it.

Often times writing an e-mail in silence can be objectively less important for the society than someone building or maintaining a house.
Other times people do make unnecessary noise or they make it at a time where it's expectably inconvenient to others around them - see germans not recycling glass at certain times of the week or not running a washing machine during late hours.

All in all it's a complex problem of society vs individual (vs another individual)
Weird, I thought the system existed for humans.
> Starlink makes "internet shutdown" impotent

It still requires a radio transmitter. If push comes to shove, a government can still track RF leakage or worst case GPS jamming (if it's really that existential).

Iran did the same thing when cracking down on Satelite TV and SatPhones during the crackdown of the Green Revolution (anti-Ahmedinijad protests in 2009) and anecdotally, Starlink terminals have been increasingly unstable in Iran.

I also vaguely remember a DIUx RFS within the past year for startups working on minimizing RF leakage from terminals.
This part really caught my attention:

> in 1962, the anthracite seam under Centralia, PA – 25 miles to the west of Lehigh County – caught on fire and is still burning today.)

That’s crazy to think that for over 60 years there’s been an underground coal mine on fire. I wonder how long the mines will burn for. The pictures on Google are quite interesting.
Steam rising out of manholes is definitely commonplace in NYC: [1]

There's a stretch of sidewalk in the Financial District that gets so hot that you can feel it walking past on some days. And apparently, sometimes these things explode... [2]

As far as I've heard it's not (all) actual leaks, though, but rather water dripping on the exterior of the hot pipes carrying the steam itself being evaporated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_York_City_steam_explo...
How did you get your copy of Wikipedia? How do you update your copy of Wikipedia?

How do you get your books, movies, and music? How do you get new ones?

Yes, it has real value as a fill-in-the-gap until you can reconnect to the real internet. Long term I guess it still has some value as a way to look at a static collection of things (plus content generated by people on the mesh), but the real internet is much more valuable.
"They"? Did you forget you seem to be employed by them, again?
So it was doable. They could have done it themselves. But in reality they don’t care about the browser
IIRC there's been speculation that the NSA can/has brute forced TLS keys up through 4096 bit size. I read a paper once that crunched the numbers on energy cost and compute time and whatnot it comes out looking like a reasonable investment for them.

Obviously they'd have to keep such an exercise on the DL if they did do it because increasing key size is pretty trivial.
The reality is that resources needed to pursue research are measured in hundreds of thousands and national security budgets are measured in billions in many countries, so your "constrained" claim is pretty much nonsense. That's not even talking about US national security budgets, which are another order of magnitude larger. The US intelligence budget in 2022 was $65.7 billion[1], and there's ample political will to fund whatever intelligence agencies such as the NSA request.

A generous CS PhD salary vs NSA 2013 estimated budget:

300,000
10,800,000,000

We can argue over exact allocation amounts but if you're really claiming the NSA can't spare even one researcher salary to research QC security I'm calling bullshit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intelligence_bud...
Bank account numbers for ACH payments seem to be the final frontier. As if asking me to type 16 numbers correctly is better than pasting it.
It doesn't have to be the same, that's what makes it an analogy. What is the same is the relative relationships between the elements involved. Although, now that you've made me think about it, I guess it's not quite right anyway, because I doubt it's Switzerland selling technology, but Swiss companies. It'd be more correct to say that because you bought a belt from the store, the store-owner's father (as well as some of his neighbors, let's be real) should break into your house to stop you from beating your children with it.
Doesn't look like to me since people are buying time even today. And they feel okay about it.
AWS/GoogleC/Azure

->

OVHCloud/Hetzner
I couldn’t agree more. Check out ‘Save the Frogs’ if you’re interested in supporting an organization fighting the extinction of amphibians.

I just love stories of the tenacity and resilience of life, and I hope that some of our precious amphibians survive the ongoing mass extinction as they have in the past.
You get skill issued, you get auschwitzed
The system exists for capitalists, who are technically speaking humans.

At least until the autonomous corporations really take over.
You cannot be serious right now.
S&P is down 5% YTD, AAPL is down 12% YTD..
How about a Workday version? Maybe also one integrated with an Epic EMR somehow?
Short term work is more plentiful when money is easy and there’s a lot of entrepreneurial activity going on due to some recent catalyst such as mobile app platforms or the dotcom boom etc.

Right now we’re in the AI boom and some people may be making money peddling agentic solutions but money is tight and businesses are hurting.

It’s also hard to trust a short term dev who doesn’t really need the money. You have no leverage over them. They sort of just do as they please.
you can see it pretty often in NYC, coming up from vents/pipes in the road

i don't think it's steam leaking. it's drainage/sewer water being heated by the steam system (and other heat sources down there) enough that it evaporates and rises up to the street, and then condenses into vapor/fog because the street level is cooler
First time you go to London, you visit everything else; but Greenwich is great.
Probably because is far from city center, but totally worth the visit.
I guess next time I travel to London I'll stay there.
Well it's certainly true that "no shooting" signs typically have bullet holes in them.
Whither Swift Assist?
in a small network you just put the hostnames in /etc/hosts and you're done, or you set up a local DNS server. The GP asked about "making a p2p internet," and that's how it's done. Hostnames are not a hard problem.

Google Search is useless on a p2p internet. Why would you want to search the corporate network on your separate net? Doesn't make any sense. You wouldn't use the global DNS system in this scenario either, you can just set up your own -- DNS is hierarchical but there's no reason you cannot have your own roots, or just pass around hosts files like the old days, either on sneakernet or using another protocol

> You can't use HN to tell me

HN wouldn't be on my private "peer to peer" internet, it's on the regular internet. Set up a mirror or find a route to the regular one through any one of your PEERS.

I don't get it, I thought the GP wanted to know how to set up their own Internet, or thought that the Internet was centralized. It's not. Build your own network, be creative, replace DNS if you need to. The tech is there, it's well-established, well-tested, and we use it today for the regular internet.

The grandparent only needs to read some man-pages.
Most ad-hoc work I've picked up has been people I've previously worked with/for. Maybe worth reaching out to people you have a prestablished relationship with
> It is extremely simple to create and deploy a framework based app

That’s completely missing the point. Of course it’s easy that way, and starting from scratch. The complexity was just handled by someone else.

> if you have a codebase that has those issues

every reasonably large React codebase has these issues. If you have an example pointing otherwise I’d love to see it!
Then every city with a steam network is shitty! They bleed them with steamstacks all over the place.

Apparently it's to regulate pressure.
DOGE is an incel welfare program. They post garbage data.
>> NO: they have undefinable effects on your psyche. Maybe "pressure" or some sort of non-silent silence that your body still reacts to?

I understand the pressure comment. It does not bother me that much and it's wayyy worth getting used to. I have tried the Apple Airpods Max and QC45. I think QC45 is a little less on the pressure than the Apple noise cancelling. Just my 2c.
Did he succeed?
Oh, totally. Windows 10 and 11 suck for a great many reason.

But how they handle touch input is not one of them.
The C64 protection methods that drove me most up the wall were V-MAX! and Rapidlok, especially since V-MAX! existed in several different variations. Man, those were a pain. Harald Seeley (Alien Technology Group, who developed V-MAX! and WarpSpeed, and did a number of ports for companies like Cinemaware, was in my hometown of San Diego) eventually explained a lot of the tricks later on. Some good discussion here https://diskpreservation.rittwage.com/?pg=vmax and here https://diskpreservation.rittwage.com/dp.php?pg=rapidlok .