skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The performance is just insanely good,

It's still artificially capped to a really awkward framerate (maybe 24fps or ~32fps?), even today.
> I suspect you will find its not a single point of failure either. It’s just that Hayes is a high-demand area, so see above for lack of excess capacity .... if one site goes boom, the other will struggle to take on 100% load.

Hayes (North Hyde) is a few miles NE of Heathrow, but Laleham (similar sized) is only a few miles South - I’d would have assumed both served as fully redundant supplies for the airport, given it’s critical national infrastructure.

(The old BBC Television Centre in London had three independent supplies, I believe)
Well, I agree that we can't have a productive discussion if that's how you see my commentary, but I happen to think that designing social programs which take into account baser human resentments is a worthwhile endeavor, e.g. "Social Security isn't a tax" and all that.
RDP is aimed at a different use case than VNC. Proxmox and other virtualization managers (e.g. VMWare, Nutanix) use VNC because you get a stream directly from the hypervisor (e.g. KVM, ESX) which is very useful for low-level debugging. The VNC protocol also has very low overhead (you don't really want h264 encoding CPU overhead on your VM host). VNC is not really intended for remote desktop use cases, which require higher fidelity/frame rate, etc.

So -

* VNC: Low overhead / Low fidelity

* RDP (and other remote desktop protocols, e.g. Frame Remoting Protocol, Horizon Blast, Citrix ICA/HDX): Higher overhead / High fidelity
1. You can pay people to build them, as was done in the Great Depression.

2. UBI does not exclude the ability of people to work for money. If workers wanted to earn money on top of the UBI, presumably they would do so.

3. The number of workers required to build housing is also a tiny fraction of the number of people that can be housed in said building.

4. Furthermore, the question here is between UBI and giving "basic resources." So presumably if the government is going to spend money on UBI, they could spend that money on just directly building stuff. (Which makes more sense to me.)
Lots of people are posting their custom solutions using org-mode, cli tools, vim, etc. There’s a wide world of people out there who don’t customize their environments, and therefore miss out on great improvements to their lives. Let’s make tools for them!
Liberapay is my platform of choice! It lacks a lot of flashy features but it feels like the closest thing to an 'exchange between friends' instead of a commercial sort of relationship.

For the type of works I link my LiberaPay to, I don't have nor want tiers and rewards associated with them, as that forms a social contract where I am expected to perform more labour. I only want money from people who are thankful for what I've already provided, and I only want what they're willing to provide.

I suspect microscopic rewards like discord roles, a news letter, ect. do increase revenue, but then again you're managing a community.

I encountered issues with Stripe so that's been disabled, PayPal only, but PayPal doesn't auto renew. Again, I suspect I lost a considerable amount of money because of this. But again, taking money from people who wouldn't explicitly click 'renew' when they get the email doesn't feel right.

I also began offering Ko-fi as an option, however, because some people are uncomfortable with unfamiliar platforms.
Then why do the scientific computing languages start at 1? Fortran started at 1 before C was invented.
2025 might be the best time to start learning to code
> As an engineer before Jobs came back — and for a few years too after he was back — there was still a sense that engineers could call the shots with their own frameworks/apps

That’s a bug not a feature. Engineering led companies rarely ship good consumer products. What happened to Apple before there was a product guy at the top is a prime example.

Another recent example is Google. Google has the best technology in the industry but can’t ship and sustain a good product to save its life.
I found this. There's also a demo. Good points.
https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file
GM Just Shut Down the Only Apple CarPlay Retrofit Kit for Its EVs
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers
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If you want to help older adults and people with disabilities, send your LinkedIn/CV to william@gogograndparent.com (keep it brief) or apply at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs
* End-Permian is associated with the Siberian Traps, but those in turn are associated with the Wilkes Land Crater impactor, which is antipodal to that event and may have seen antipodal seismic focusing.

* "Going on for thousands of years" - Dating the End-Permian has confidence intervals on the order of 30,000 years.

* Small size and diverse ecology almost guarantees survival of life. There is life basically everywhere we look, down to extremophiles living very slow lives in a random cubic meter of "solid rock" two kilometers deep. We have even evolved several chemical alternatives to photosynthesis as a primary energy source. Mammals and small birds deep in a cave somewhere appear to have been some of the only land vertebrates to survive K-T, and radiated out from there. Evolution does the rest.
Made a iOS Shortcuts implementation: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2f43a044f7b5478f92fa4506d8a...

Might be useful for someone.
Single mutation in bov inf H5N1 switches specificity to human(2024)
> End-Permian seems tied to the Siberian Traps basaltic eruption,
> but that eruption had been going for thousands of years before
> the dieoff started.

The eruptions probably hadn't been "going for thousands of years." We can't "see" time periods as small as a few thousands years from a vantage point of 250 million years later.

Biologists like to proclaim that things are gradual when they're really more likely sudden. This often reflects mathematical ignorance. For example, if the last specimin of a certain rare fossil is found in a stratum slightly older than the K-T stratum, does that mean it went extinct earlier than the K-T event? Probably not; it just means the fossil is rare so your sampling error is larger.
Surely Facebook and all the other companies will get sued for using copyrighted material for their products. Right? Right? Let's just hope it won't be so bad for these poor companies. Thankfully companies themselves can't contemplate suicide.

I know this is a snarky comment but the double standards are killing me.

Also this has been said a thousand times but I have to repeat it here. Abolish the paywalls for scientific research. Elsevier and the rest of the gang that produce nothing of value, gatekeepers of knowledge that did not produce. Seriously, what is their running cost nowadays? An FTP server with the PDFs? Semi-honest question.
I work 5 days a week and get to work on a single ride.

I do take multiple other rides a day and in the weekend though, so I hit 12 rides pretty quickly, probably in around 4 days.
but is it a mechanical keyboard? or type-by-wire?
> Cache Invalidation? Basically a sync problem.

Does naming things and off-by-one errors also count?
Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science fiction
Good question for a HN poll
it increased by 100%, not 1x.
Primarily for reading articles aloud online. I've been trying the latest Siri TTS which is a big improvement (and free), but it's still nowhere near accurate enough for proper nouns or newer terms, which ElevenLabs handles much better.
Does Liberapay provide the various tax forms a receiver needs to file their yearly returns in the US?
Iphone 6, 2015 MBP, thrashcan where all under Cook. To me this precisely shows Cook did not have Ive under control.
Weren't there rumors that Giannandrea doesn't have full control of the AI/ML house? There were entrenched old Siri folks fighting for their turf
I haven't heard anything negative about it, and I can only find one CVE:

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2024-25140/

Personally, I'm not exposing my installations to the Internet, so I feel relatively secure regardless.
Ask HN: Is LLMs.txt a REAL thing now?
I ask because apparently CloudFlare has launched theirs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/llms.txt

Has anyone seen it work affect their AI results?

I know it's still in the proposal stage: https://llmstxt.org/

and many here dont like it for various reasons:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41439983

But what evidence is there now that it is being used as a data source over the actual content of the website?
https://archive.ph/Lcg36
Mathup: Easy MathML authoring tool with a quick to write syntax
Gary Stevenson (UK economist and author of the Trading Game) has a good explanation for this. Both his book and YouTube videos.

In short, everyone (governments and ordinary people) are insolvent and in debt to ultra-rich people (especially since Lehman and Covid stimulus programs) and the only way to return asset ownership to governments and ordinary people is to tax the ultra-rich like Western Governments did in the 1950s and 1960s so that ordinary people and governments can actually afford to own things again without extraordinary debt. Tax wealth, not wages is the basic idea.

When you have 700 million dollars earning 5%, the only thing to do with all of that passive income is to buy assets. That's why house prices are so high.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/22/the-trading-ga...
Early methods for studying affective use and emotional well-being on ChatGPT
Beware the IDEs of March: Cursor vs. Windsurf vs. Claude Code
Thats interesting - am I understanding correctly that the reasoning is that forward air bases will become more vulnerable, so we need to be able to operate from domestic bases?
Yes, this. SV and similar are even more extreme, but if you take all software engineers across the country and compare to the nationwide workforce, we make double the median.

That may not be a fair comparison to the extent that software devs are concentrated in high CoL areas, though, so you don't see a ton of us out in the cheaper and poorer regions. The effect of that is somewhat ameliorated by taking the median instead of the mean, but not fully.
A major nitpick here. The contents of the safe deposit boxes were seized __without__ warrant -- which the warrant did not include. Once they had her money the FBI argued it was civil asset forfeiture.

USPV may have been a criminal organization, but if you enter into a contract with such a group, typically you wouldn't know it's a criminal organization.

I guess you could call up the FBI and say, "Hey I'm going to open a safe deposit box account with USPV. Are you guys actively investigating them?" And if you do that, they will probably not answer you if there is an ongoing criminal investigation.
As an ex Apple engineer myself, I've got to say the Angela Ahrendts thing was profoundly disgusting, and a partial reason i quit, despite thriving in a great team. They gave her 75 million dollars vesting over 3 years, as i recall, she did jack shit, and quit the day after all the money vested. Total failure of character judgement not only of the Burberry lady but of the hardcore engineers who believed in Apple (and I still do, but quit for cancer research work, another hobby).
But then again Fortran proceeded C, is known for being very performant, and is 1-based by default.
JFK had similar issues and it's easy to see, still has the same single point of failures:

"Power outage cancels, diverts flights at Kennedy Airport" - https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-power-outages-eb883...

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105203.pdf
Building AI Agents with Gen AI Toolbox for Databases and Dgraph
The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain
I think of Microsoft’s bad habit of introducing meaningless superficial changes to the interface but they also keep legacy software working for a long long time. (Office ‘97 works fine on Win 11)

The strangest thing about this is in the system configuration dialogs where they have a set of really gee whizzy modern configuration screens but you still have to go into 15 year old screens to do many common tasks —- they updated some but kept the old ones that they did not have time to update which is a little ugly but fine because they old ones work 100%.

I used to have “who moved my cheese?” moments all the time with Windows circa 2005 when I was admining Windows and having to deal with configuration screens in ‘98, 2000, XP and various versions of Windows Server, they couldn’t resist making superficial changes that annoyed me to no end.
>You benefit substantially from living in a stable, high-trust society where

You have decided what I should want and what I should pursue, for me, against my wishes, and say "because I want these things, he should want them too". I don't want the same things as you. I'd try explaining, but I don't think you'd get it.

>where customers have money

I don't have anything I wish to sell you and you have nothing to trade that I want.

>and employees are educated.

I've seen the education system. I'm well past the "maybe if we just do the education a little more intensely, things will improve" phase.
It's quite the opposite. This is intended for engineers to make good trade-off decisions as a rule of thumb without financial micromanaging.
Yes. It's not an uncommon view. Have you seen any of the leaks from the facebook group a bunch of those guys were on?
Create a "karpathy" mode that flips the order and tag him.. See https://x.com/karpathy/status/1902503837971443895
The whole game in 21st-century American governance is selling obvious solutions to unwilling bad-faith deniers. It doesn't really matter that is was obvious all along that congestion pricing was going to work. It doesn't matter that building homes obviously solves homelessness.
You're paying for the fair market value of those streets.
"Reactive" - reactionary is a popular political alignment
Having sat beside both of them together in Caffe Macs some years ago, your assertion seemed exactly correct.
cannot build for windows ironically

https://github.com/Devolutions/IronRDP/issues/709
In English Celt is generally pronounced kelt nowadays. Celtic is always pronounced seltik when referring to sports teams (e.g. Celtic Football Club), but keltik otherwise, e.g. Celtic languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
S.F.'s top-paid employee made $840K. Here's what every city worker gets paid
Given that it's an implementation of Microsoft's RDP, not sure that's a "but" in this very specific case =)
The term virtual youtuber comes from japanese for what it's worth. It's a loan word of a loan word. It's the term that is used.

And avatar is used in the space. They are "formally" called vtuber avatars or vtuber models. But the occupation/hobby is called vtubing and a person who uses them is a vtuber.

It's not that avatar isn't used. It's just not specific enough to what this is. vtubing rigs specifically aren't exactly general purpose. Some of them are and work as avatars that can be used with mocap or vrchat or whatever but a lot of them just aren't. A lot of them are "Live2D" which is a much more restricted type of model that is effectively various different transform and distortion effects on 2d images to give the perception of 3d motion.

Avatar covers a lot of things. Vtubers are a very specific subculture. They have avatars/models but to just call them avatars sells them quite a bit short of what they are specifically.
Which countries are we currently invading? Regardless, in the 2023 budget Social security far outstrips defense, Medicare is just a shade higher, and Medicaid is not far behind. I'm entirely in favor of slimming down the US military industrial complex, but doing so isn't going to fix the deficit. You could 0 out the defense budget entirely and there would still be another trillion dollars of deficit to deal with.
Woah, nice work. I would have loved this for taking interview notes. I didn't know I wanted this.
2 years ago I built an AI workstation (aka gaming PC) with all the RGB bling because it would have been harder to find parts that didn’t have the bling.
It does when you look at the code definitions in the service manual just inside the chassis. And then you can enter the diagnostics mode and have it do more self tests and report back exactly what's going on.
I realize this may be splitting hairs, but pedantically there's nothing in GitLab CI's model that requires shell; it is, as best I can tell, 100% docker image based. The most common setup is to use "script:" (or its "before_script:" and "after_script:" friends) but if you wanted to write your pipeline job in brainfuck, you could have your job be { image: example.com/brainfuckery:1, script: "" } and no shell required[1]

1: although TIL that the "script:" field itself is actually required in GLCI https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/yaml/#script
Thank you for your response. Actually, I don't really intend to pursue a professional career in COBOL; it was more of an excuse to learn a new, rather old language that interested me, just like many other programming languages I’d like to explore. However, it was still interesting to know what would await me if one day, on a whim, I developed a deep passion for this particular language. COBOL is still a part of computing history, and it’s only fair to draw knowledge from it.
A Cameroon stadium spurs one community's fight over ancestral lands
Modern humans descended from at least 2 ancestral populations
Indeed. I was going to point out that mathematicians choose the index based on whatever is convenient for their problem. It could begin at -3, 2, or whatever. I've never heard a mathematician complain that another mathematician is using the "wrong" index. That's something only programmers seem to do.
> I'd argue that cars are not more convenient in dense cities like New York.

I'd argue that if you were correct people would have already been using alternatives and there'd have been no need to punish people for driving. When you give people a better option they take it.

NYC could have improved alternatives to make them more attractive, but they choose to make driving worse instead forcing people who can't afford it to use less convenient ways to get around.
Delivery and trades love congestion pricing because with the faster trip times they can now hit more deliveries and more jobs per day.
There is a config file that lets you customize the rules Anubis uses for allowing, challenging, or denying incoming requests. https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/policies
He won every single swing state. Under his leadership his party got the house and the senate. You’re in denial picking an arbitrary metric that doesn’t reflect how elections are won.
Apply to Mats (ML Alignment and Theory Scholars) 8.0
I just don't think any corporation is capable of making a voice assistant that anyone actually wants to use.

The problem is that it cannot be profitable, which is not something that modern capitalism can tolerate. The only revenue generating actions a voice assistant can take involve advertising or selling something, which is not something that anyone wants.

Users of voice assistants want to use their device hands free to do trivial things like controlling widgets, setting timers, doing simple web searches. These actions cannot be monetized, so the corporation has a decade-long crisis trying to game users into revenue generating actions.

This leads us to today. All voice assistants are useless spy engines that exist only to tell you about the more profitable things you can do with them and sell any data you accidentally give them.

With an LLM backend, the cost of running the service skyrockets and the profitability crisis will only get much worse.

What happens when siri costs 1000x to operate and still has the same usability and user count as on-device siri? Is Apple management even aware of that question?

This is probably the death-knell for siri, Alexa, et al. One hopes, anyway.
Conversational AI Journaling App
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on a journaling app that takes a different approach via conversational AI: instead of writing or typing, you speak to an AI that listens and talks back, helping you reflect on your thoughts and feelings in real-time.

It’s designed for people who struggle with traditional journaling. A live transcript is available to revisit and annotate later.

The web app is free and still early. I have a lot of ideas for features, but instead of building in isolation, I’d rather shape it with real users—figuring out what actually helps rather than just guessing.

On the tech side, I tested a bunch of options and landed on DailyBots for orchestration, Deepgram for Speech-to-Text, Cartesia for Text-to-Speech, and OpenAI’s 4o-mini for the LLM—balancing latency, quality, and cost.

Try it here: innerecho.xyz

I’d love to hear your thoughts—what would make something like this truly useful to you?
I think a notable feature of patreon's cut is that they only take it on withdrawal. I don't know how that works for individual's tax exposure, but it does serve to inflate the cash amounts on the site from people using their patreon income to patronise others.
Companies flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions
Ok, that might put things into a reasonable perspective, but I do not know how much we can still trust government agencies right now
It is easy to miss that his argument boils down to that zero-based is “nicer” in a specific select case. The paper is written in the style of a mathematical proof but hinges on a completely subjective opinion.
I wrote this about my recent journey with AI product building. I'm a product designer with 20 years experience, recently moved to AI full stack dev.
Do the executives sit in deck chairs?
founder here. solved this problem. old news mate. https://exchange.valyu.network
A very detailed article. Love the history of all the kernels too. My only minor gripe is that since it's about a serious security issue, I would like a very brief explanation in the beginning, like what is the impact, the requirements for the attack, is it a logic error or memory corruption etc. Very brief, only long enough to know if I want to read the rest of the article or not :)
> You're paying for the fair market value of those streets.

Note that you dropped the word "public".
Not mention that less cars on the road means improved travel times for those that are obligated to use their car.
Did you see the part where I said macOS on my M1-based laptop is great?