skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is somewhat earth shattering

why would it be earth shattering?

(tr)usdx has ssb support for a similar price and the internal microphone actually works. It also has a digital interface (a bit unstable at times though) for digimodes without neding soundcards and aditional cables.
I guess development is driven by military and commercial needs, rather than altruistic needs.

The futuristic ads were made for the consumer to feel safe and sound.

The actual money flowing went into military applications (drones, guidance systems, etc) and commercial applications (car factories)

For the above systems, they don't have to be physically capable, just have a restricted set of actions / outcomes, for example, flying a missile. But, they need to be mentally strong, to take decisions at split seconds.
Siri wasn’t great but it was way, way more usable before the “machine learning” update whenever that was. Before it was a verbal command line, but at least you could learn some commands.

Now it’s a crapshoot.
> can and eventually will be used against you

That's the nasty thing, you might say something that actually would help you but they can just not use it later. Even a "Hail Trump" won't help me if they decide that I ought to be convicted.
I'm slightly hesitant to mention it for fear of a flamewar, but as someone with a niche usecase that procludes me from using systemd/glibc, I'm very grateful to Chimera as a modern take on non-GNU/Linux.
> Nobody is compiling an entire Linux distro on something like a Raspberry Pi 3.

The RISC-V mainboard for the Framework is 4-core 1.5 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. That's leagues better than the hardware that people were compiling Linux on in the 90s and early 2000s.
Autology: A Lisp with access to its own interpreter
https://archive.ph/latest/https://www.economist.com/china/20...
> Even just the most basic LLM integration, without even giving that LLM any personal data would be a massive improvement.

I don't think Apple will ever use LLMs, given the offensive output they can generate sometimes. There is just no way to make them safe for all audiences.
Seizures allowed to be kept by the organisation doing the seizing is a terrible incentive. In other countries, seizures go to general revenue, which means that the incentive to do it is diluted enormously.
This is especially a problem with small police forces, or small polities where fines become a large proportion of revenue. You'd think that for the FBI the incentive would be diluted, given how huge they are, but maybe there is some institutional incentive there.

I would argue that breaking the incentive is the best way to stop this,as opposed to fighting the detail of seizure justification (although the concept of 'criminal property' without charging the owner should be limited too)
As a German: He did, and even if there is a chance that he didn't mean it like that the risk of another 1933 is not worth it. I usually don't like cancel-culture but you have to have boundaries and I think the risk of another Holocaust and all the other Nazi cruelties is a boundary a functioning society should be able to agree on.
sure that "being written in C" or in "PHP" would have gathered far less interest
Even (running)shoes come with carbon fibre inlays
Growing food is secondary to storing food. If you just grow your own food without thinking about preservation, it's very easy to run into the situation you mention. Where you have a larger harvest of something than you are able to use at once, and no method of keeping it from spoiling.

Conversely, if you know how to pickle and can, and have a chest freezer and maybe a food processor, it's very easy to buy bulk amounts of vegetables when they are in season and store for later. You get basically the same benefits as with growing your own, for much less effort, and quite possibly less expense.
or nspawn vs apptainer for that matter
I've worked both senior level and FANG jobs and I did not expect to, nor did I, grind. Some of my colleagues have though out of necessity and I do not want them to be in a position where this is expected of them.
You mean like "Xerox"?
Never too late to make png/pnj one.
oh nooo! for now they still allow me to stay with the good old Google Assistant.

But it's only a matter of time until some exec removes it to "improve Gemini adoption".
The whole concept makes no sense at all. Sickening.
>I suspect the most significant thing holding Apple back in the realm of AI is the fact that Apple prides itself as a company that delivers revolutionary products with ‘wow factor’ that is leagues above the competition.

I don't remember them ever doing that. Usually they start with something lacklustre then incrementally improve it until it is strong.

Maps is a great example, it was poor on launch compared to Google Maps but has now got to a level where most people don't bother with Google on the iPhone.
Actually it's a dynamic that might be circling us back to the mythical "early web". The more rebellious and out-there members of the younger cohorts tend to be more fascinated by hackable technology, piracy etc. This doesn't mean they're primarily programmers as persons, just like it didn't mean that in the 1990s.

Usability decline and brain rot of the mainstream internet would only push toward this kind of stratification. My main "accelerationist" wish would be that Discord somehow becomes unusable shit for this demographic. At least so all semi-capable people want to avoid it.

Besides, I think depending on your definition some Zoomers can be already 30+.
Pitifully disingenuous.
> It was the norm among an ingroup of technically savy young people

This is a mainstream mass-market advert from Apple in 2001:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Apples-Rip-Mix-Burn-camp...

"Rip. Mix. Burn."

I think you're totally wrong.
This is highly stupid argument, honestly. burden of proof lies on people that make idiot claims
I do agree that things are harder when you do them then when random people advertise them on the internet.

That being said, things do evolve in time, and while I can't talk about gardening, I find it much easier to host a small website today than 20 years ago, both in terms of personal time and cost. There is a generic fashion to ignore tools and automation in the detriment of "finished products", but even with this, I do feel that tools got better. Not sure it is the case for gardening, but I do wonder if it is not just a matter of initial investment.
I guess that a lot of the active threads devolve into politics. Do you see flagged stories as that's a lot of them?
> You keep saying “No it’s not” and then describing exactly what most people would call “a single point of failure” and “a national security issue” in a lot more words.

What are you on about ?

Its not a national security issue. Full stop. There are many other airports in the London area and elesewhere in the UK. Heathrow is a civilian airport, not a military one. 99% of air cargo to the UK does NOT come to Heathrow.

Its not a single point of failure either. Sure, for those TEMPORARILY affected it might feel that way. But businesses with contingency plannign will simply invoke their DR plans and go elsewhere ... flights will divert, people will WFH instead of going the offices, people will have to travel to a supermarket a little bit further away.

Also, regarding "single point of failure", see this website[1]... 62,000 customers affected but only 4,800 without power[1]. Not quite a SPOF then is it !

Also, you want guaranteed N+1 resilience at grid level, who do you think is going to pay for that ?

Most people would be happy with the grid sorting out its capacity issues at N level, one thing at a time my friend.

[1] https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#QQ0573
hey, you, no need to threaten me, south africa doesnt stand a chance and your blood libel will soon bust when this ridiculous allegation will be put to a side. you are a hate mongerer and a liar, i am disgusted by you.
> It would be extremely costly to replace me because of the critical role I have on a highly profitable product.

> If circumstances changed such that it made sense to lay me off

Companies don't always do things that make sense.
Third reason mentioned: Tesla.

Tesla will collapse if there is conflict with China. China is the undisputed leader in battery tech and inventions. They are 10 years ahead of everyone else in anode technology for example.

Tesla's second largest market is China (before EU) Tesla's largest Gigafactory is in China. It's almost twice the size of second largest factory in the US. Tesla is also building new battery pack factory in China.

>Mr. Musk and Tesla, an electric vehicle company he controls, are heavily reliant on China, which houses one of the auto maker’s flagship factories in Shanghai. Unveiled in 2019, the state-of-the-art facility was built with special permission from the Chinese government, and now accounts for more than half of Tesla’s global deliveries. Last year, the company said in financial filings that it had a $2.8 billion loan agreement with lenders in China for production expenditures.
> If your claim is that HN is demonstrably permissive because there have been multiple calls for people to be executed then it really is a question of being able to back that up with examples

Let’s accept that no such comments have ever been made on the site (or if they have, they’ve been removed). How do you account for all the comments I linked to which were in favor of killing the CEO?

> 1. Things on one specific topic are being flagged (by "the community," not HN) 2. Even when they relate to technology or startup matters 3. While other political stories unrelated to 1 are still being shared.

What topic are you referring to?
Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility
They said themselves that even inference is losing them money tho, or did I get that wrong?
I'm looking up Thorium right now, I initially assumed you were referring to the homonymous browser (also their website feels organized a bit weirdly to me). Seems a solid option for epubs, admittedly the builtin calibre reader is a bit lackluster.
Master password that you share with a third party?

I probably do not understand how Bitwarden works, but this feels wrong anyway.
https://archive.ph/ZfcjO
Ask HN: What file comparison tool are you using?
I am looking for a file comparison tool with the following features:

- Store multiple sessions per folder

- Store sessions to independent files

- Store session to database (MongoDB, Redis, etc.)

- Multiple hashing algorithms

- Command-line interface

- UI (web or native)

- Multiplatform

- Open-source, ideally simple Python script like drive-py disk comparison tool: https://github.com/web3cryptowallet/drive-py
again, there is documented video footage of good life, better than in most arab countries in the region. the fact you refuse to believe reality goes well with everything that you spew out.

and defense is a real right, unlike terrorism, if you pick violence, the other side will defend itself - so you are just glorifying more death, and are blind to your bloodlust, which is disgusting.
I think you can get more format options with kepub, also page numbers are more accurate?
I just wish they'd give up the interface already and open it instead of trying to reserve it only to be used by Siri for whenever they have a Siri personality-ified LLM or if ever the LLM works as a universal router for doing anything.

At a basic level i just want the interface to have good voice to text recognition. if it's a question ask an LLM, if it's a special recognized command run it instead.

At a dev/pro-user level let me define statement patterns (regex or semantics) where i can trigger a shortcut and parse some input from a single statement.

By all means, regen the custom responses devs and users setup with the Siri personality LLM so it sounds like Siri all the time. Just set the interface free already.
General revenue is barely better. It's probably worse in many cases becase the elected part of the government can ask the thugs to seize harder to keep money coming in and then kick it back to them in the form of resource allocation or preferential treatment. That's how every speed trap town operates

The only solution is to let the petty drug dealers get away with their cars and let the mob bosses get away with their mansions, etc but that requires making it socially unacceptable to support the status quo which means shunning those that do (i.e. basically what happened with racism in the 60s and homosexuality in the 00s) which is hard.
I just don't understand how a huge company like Apple managed to mess up Siri so badly. Siri used to be useful, now it is a piece of crap.
What Is Positron?
And here I was, thinking the funny capitalization and the weird and over the top title would be enough to signal sarcasm :-)
> Double-check the rules for working under an ESTA.

This cannot be emphasized too strongly. Never give a border guard the idea that you’re going to do something your paperwork doesn’t permit. Don’t hint that money might be earned unless you have a work permit. Don’t let anything expire, and be very careful when traveling with renew soon documents. Err on the side of caution with all interactions. All of these issues are not new and not us-specific.

And check how the laws of the country you’re trying to enter differ from your own. For example, a drunk driving conviction is quite serious in Canada but I don’t think the US cares?
If it falls over while landing, it'll require manual righting. Flat drones don't have this risk.
"The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false".

Of course they are at odds. If we don't agree on that, we can't have a discussion about tradeoffs. I don't know which is worse, if the minister believes they are not at odds, or if the minister is gaslighting.

Either it's a very uneducated take, or a disrespectful take.
Perfectly reasonable take. "Taking off" is, I agree, a misguided expectation within this frame.

Desktop Linux (year of) is a great analogy. Had it happened, Linux would not have remained Linux as we know it. Differences would likely not to the liking of desktop Linux users irl.

Otoh... had Linux desktop really "taken off" circa 2008... it would have had a major impact on personal computing.

These are two, usually distinct desires. "Indie" generally goes with the niche, principled ethos.
do you understand how grave is an accusation of genocide? what gives you the right to say this as a matter of fact? this is the hate and the lie, and you have absolutely no right to judge based on attending some hateful demonstrations. that’s it.
That's of course not true in the slightest, but it is the image the new Nazi party is painting. I recommend you stop consuming afd content.
I assure you that management tracks budget-line items very closely, especially when they are the largest one (as is the case at almost all software companies).
The problem here is nobody will be fired and no one will go to jail for this. It’s like the government is suing itself and paying its own fine to itself.

For cases like this a corporation or government body should not be allowed to be an abstraction. The right thing to do is not go after corporations but individuals. It’s unfortunate we don’t do this and I think we should.
It’s a major concern for me! But not something that is affecting normal tourists
Those generally affected Muslims, so Europeans generally didn't have incentive to care.

When you wonder why people behave in a certain way, then thinking deeper about what their incentives are will often give the answer. Incentives, incentives, incentives.
In my country delivery guys always phone you and knock on your door to give you your package. If you are not at home, they will get the package back and try to deliver it the next day. I’ve never heard of an option to ask them to just leave the package outside.
The key benefit seems to be it's narrower. I suppose it could be an advantage in fitting through narrow spaces, e.g. doorways.
so... what do people that want to have sync engines do?

I want to try it for hobby project and I think I will go the route of just one way sync (from database to clients) using electric sql and I will have writes done in a traditional way (POST requests).

I like the idea of having server db and local db in sync, but what happens with writes? I know people say CRDT etc... but they are solving conflicts in unintuitive ways...

I know I probably sound uneducated, but I think the biggest part of this is still solving conflicts in a good way, and I don't really see how you can solve those in a way that works for all different domains and have it "collapsed" as the author says
https://archive.is/0mnqC
> not just Heathrow but also 16,000 homes

You are off by a large number. More like 62,000 customers affected (although "only" 4,800 are actually without power right now)[1].

Also that area is more than just "homes". There is a lot of heavy elecrical load commercial stuff going on in that area too.

[1]https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#QQ0573
California right now has an endorheic basin which is rapidly subsiding due to groundwater draws, and that doesn't really work for agriculture in the long term. We need to re-establish a gradient to the ocean, and a limited wetland system, to flush out the salts if nothing else.
If the last few years should have showed anything it's how little the elected officials typically care about balancing, let alone create excess, budget.
Apple have never learnt how to build software sustainably. They let the bugs, misfeatures, and tech debt pile up over time. They addressed this once with a huge “0 new features” iteration with Snow Leopard to catch up on the worst of it, but never resolved the root of the problem, so it started to build up again. Now it seems like they don’t care enough about software quality to even do that. They need somebody else in charge of software who will actually change the way they do things.
I think you underestimate the cultural impact that small groups can have. I am not sure about indieweb in particular, but there are many niche groups that had much longer-term impact than more mainstream movements. In music this is often expressed as your artists favorite artist. For me Captain Beefheart (influencing Beck and Tom Waits), Death Grips (influenced Björk and David Bowie) come to mind, but there are probably more niche groups that I don't know.

In economics the Chicago school had a outsized impact considering they how fringe they seemed in the world of academia. Nowadays I would say that George Mason is the new Chicago school, and for similar reasons.

I would love to get more examples of this phenomenon if anyone else has any.
As a user it feels disrespectful to be so overtly treated as an untapped revenue stream for a premium-price product. It's Samsung-esque.
You have a source or at least a reasoning for this optimistic assumption?
I was looking for all kinds of sync software and stuff when I realised I could just use a local webserver. It’s kind of funny you don’t see the obvious sometimes.
At the end of the day, personal context is king for useful AI.

Which means Google or Apple. Or Microsoft on the business side.

Nobody sane is going to share all their personal data (about everything) with a fly-by-night random AI app/company.

Apple has time, in the same way it did with Maps, because despite the marketing push no one is buying phones solely because of AI features these days. They're still an "Oh, that's nice."
I would like to see more common browsers like Netsurf and Dillo. All of HTML 5, with CSS and stuff, but no JS at all.

Some promotion and branding and badges for how to build a site that contains no scripts at all.

I don't see the need for a new protocol and new clients. Just a plain ol' JS-free Web.

And, equally, something similar for the back end. No scripting languages, no PHP and no JS and nothing akin to them. Just native code, compiled from safe languages with bounds-checking.

No CMS, just dump text or markdown in a folder and presto you have a website.
They also work very well to leak all your secrets and infect people who download your software from pypi :D
Most retirees, early or not, do not contribute to society with their labor nearly as much as they did during their working years. What makes us think that UBI beneficiaries would be any different?
> Unions lead to an ossified workforce where nobody does more than what is essential.

> It will likely lead to many more "lifers" who work at a single job for a long time. This leads to less knowledge and skill mobility, tighter code ownership (less fungible, less exposed to new ideas), and this will certainly lead to ossification of organizations and business functions.

Funny, you just described basically every large company I have ever worked at. None of them were really unionized (one did have a union but it was very small).
because rust is screaming bleeding edge
>Software Updates: The F-35 is driven by complex software systems that require constant updates to maintain operational effectiveness, security, and functionality. Without these updates, the jet's capabilities degrade over time.

Why it degrades? Any examples of that?
Your first link seems to be 349€ for 800Wp including microinverter. German utility-scale PV has a capacity factor averaging about 12% IIRC, but presumably a balcony system will be lower because it isn't optimally angled for the sun, say 8%. Then that's about 64W, which is 560 kWh per year. 349€ over 10 years would be 35€ per year, about 0.06€/kWh.

That's still about six times the cost of wholesale low-cost solar panels: https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis...

64 watts is about 40–50 liters per day of hot water heated resistively, presumably closer to 150 liters per day with a heat pump. But it seems like the heat pump is only saving you the 700€ for two more such balcony systems, assuming you have the space. Moreover, you don't need a microinverter for a resistive heater.
thank you for mentioning! I have been reading a lot about sync engines and never saw Clojure Electric being mentioned here on HN!
if people want more info on these devices, russ from retro game corps does a ton of reviews on them, from the cheapest (that are less than 30 euro) to the really expensive ones (600+!).

i myself own a retroid pocket 5, one trimui brick (which my wife adores) and a steam deck (yes, it's an amazing retro gaming machine).

(retro catalog also has a ton of technical information, including ratings)

https://www.youtube.com/@RetroGameCorps

https://retrogamecorps.com/

https://retrocatalog.com/
Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
Having used it over the years I'm not. It feels like Siri uses AI/ML for speech recognition and then some pattern matching for the actual actions.

Meanwhile LLM's came along and shifted peoples expectations.
Very interesting. Can you expand on why? Or point to some relevant sources. Thank you in advance.
Informative. Scary, but informative.
yeah, android authority has said that 2025 is the last year of old google assistant. i dread having to use gemini every single day.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-killing-assistant-35...
Another dangerous part is how people find out what other people do on their computers.
> Elon Musk sought to reassure Tesla Inc. employees that despite “rocky moments,” they should “hang onto” their stock

The stock is overvalued and disconnected from Tesla's performance as a business. Musk went out of his way to create brand damage for Tesla and the brand is now toxic.

How much time does Musk spend at Tesla these days? Tesla employees have been calling him a "pigeon CEO" for a year now:

https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-t...
IDK, i've done my fair share of amateur acting and at least to me (english is not my first language) there's something more uncanny than just the typical "say this wihtout knowing much of the context)