skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> And what’s the scam angle when the DNA is known?

A person with apparent authority, telling people something about themselves, that they believed to be hidden, is a tactic for gaining psychological control. A strong-minded person should be able to withstand it under normal circumstances, but we're not all strong-minded under all circumstances. Hence the power of things like personality tests, police interrogations, and so forth.
There haven't been any releases of atop since Jul 27, 2024, v2.11.0.

Are people building atop themselves?

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/atop/ shows 2.11.0-1, not updated since 2024-07-31 11:02 UTC

https://packages.debian.org/sid/atop & https://packages.ubuntu.com/oracular/atop show 2.10.0-3, not updated since Fri, 31 May 2024 13:42:28 +0200 (https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/a/at..., https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/a/ato...)
That’s not an action towards invasion by any stretch.
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It seems it collapsed!
Every proposal they make start with something absurd, gets backslash in the comment, and after a few iterations it ends up with a lovely proposal. I almost suspect they do it on purpose to make sure each significant proposal gets enough engagement
I'm interested to hear what kinds of things you find AVRs in! Are they reflashable?
Entirely irrelevant. They could have renamed it after buying it and chose not too.
CAD 1 = USD 0.76

So if my Canada-origin flight price is CAD 100, and the equivalent flight out of a US airport is USD 76 (24% less dollar-to-dollar), I'm not saving any money.
These types of countries can't even keep power, internet WAN, mobile RAN/Core, infra up on a consistent basis. I knew it had to be something like this. Yes, mask off. Yes, I am tired.
It's kind of crazy how much work it takes to get an interface on the level of ancient software to work on modern systems.
Musk showed 80% were useless hires and AI gave the rest of the CEOs the excuse.

So now they are downsizing and moving teams to India. From Google to American Airlines. What could possibly go wrong.
> Countries with strong secular foundations regularly top global indexes of well-being, prosperity, and social progress.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...

Only 1 of the top 5 countries in this list have neither blasphemy laws or a state church. 2 of them have both.
But these are all marketing wins. The underlying technology (let people post shit and talk to one another) had been stable for like a decade before they came along.
As far as I remember, Fuchsia is used for all Googles smart devices now. So maybe just for them?
Show HN: Owl and MCP Integration – Plug-and-play agents with external tools
We integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) into OWL – CAMEL-AI’s open-source multi-agent framework.

With MCP, OWL agents can now interact with external tools like browsers, file systems, or research plugins — securely and in a standardized way.

Why this is useful:
- Modular: Agents connect with tools via config (no hardcoded logic).
- Local + cloud-ready (Ollama, Claude, GPT-4o).
- Works with standardized servers like @wonderwhy-er’s desktop-commander, Playwright, Fetch, and more.

Blog: https://www.camel-ai.org/blogs/owl-mcp-toolkit-practice

GitHub: https://github.com/camel-ai/owl/blob/main/examples/run_mcp.p...

Happy to answer questions or provide technical help!
Maybe Microsoft
With the Neurocaster client you can connect to any spring application and convert into a chat application with integrated tools. Tools4AI is 100% Java based Agentic Framework which can be used to build Java based AI agents for integration with enterprise Java applications. This project illustrates the integration of AI Agents with enterprise tools or external tools, converting natural language prompts into agent actions. These prompts can be called "actionble prompts" or "agent prompts" By leveraging AI capabilities, it streamlines user interactions with complex systems, enhancing productivity and innovation across diverse applications.

For example , we can integrate AI Agent with a customer service application. Users can interact with the AI agent by asking questions or making requests in natural language. For example, a user might ask,"Schedule a maintenance appointment for my car." The AI agent interprets the request, extracts relevant information such as the service required and preferred date, and then triggers the appropriate agent action in the customer service application to schedule the appointment. This seamless integration streamlines the process for users and enhances the efficiency of the customer service workflow through agentic ai automation. Fastest way to create agent action is by writing a java class with @Agent annotation and annotate its method with @Action annotation.

@Agent Annotation: This is a class level annotation. It means this class is an AI agent. Methods in this class annotated with @Action will be added to the prediction list of actions. Methods which are not annoated with @Action will not be added to the prediction list. (@Agent is the new name for @Predict since version 1.0.5)

@Action Annotation: This is a method level annotation. The action method within the Java class is annotated with @Action to specify the action's behaviour this is the actual method which will be triggered if the prompt matches by AI. You can have as many methods as you want with @Action annotation in the class.

Method Execution: When a prompt like "My friend's name is Vishal, I don’t know what to cook for him today." is processed, the whatFoodDoesThisPersonLike method is automatically called with "Vishal" as the argument, and it returns "Paneer Butter Masala" as Vishal's preference.
Off topic, but I've always felt that the ideal way to address safety is by limiting the amount of freedom a vehicle has, i.e., force it to follow a predefined path. That is, replace road lanes with something like tram tracks. (I'm imagining vehicles being two/four person pods zipping around.)

This would vastly reduce the number of accident scenarios, be more efficient, and be much easier to automate. And would probably be good enough for 99% of use cases (i.e., work commute).

Obviously I don't seriously see anyone splurging on the infrastructure and bespoke vehicles for that. But I can dream.
Simulating Time with Square-Root Space
Fascinating. I like it! Thanks for sharing.
Companies do illegal things all the time.

And let me flip this situation: are there any laws that prevent advertisers from looking at genetic data to target cohorts? If I were an unethical advertiser, I'd want to advertise to customers with less risk aversion, higher neuroticism, higher sense of FOMO. You could do some truly sickening stuff. Target higher mortality groups, certain personality types, cross reference with familial mortality data and have a field day...

There are untold ways this could be abused that I'm almost certain the law doesn't fully protect against.
This explains why I lost interest in Go right after it got generics and went back to Java (or Kotlin actually).

I do like to dabble in F# still.
To be real frank if you're using FIS as a benchmark of price and market availability of product, you have already lost. Everything on there is 300% marked up from the price they buy it from the vendors in China and Taiwan. FIS is for enterprise end-user customers that don't know any better, not service providers who buy fiber stuff in quantity.
Slack was skype
Well, Z80-compatible but more efficient processors, sure. That pretty well counts because you can still run your own software on them, such as KnightOS, but KnightOS can't compile itself, and I don't think CollapseOS will run on a TI-84.
> When I worked at Google there was an internal link to test out "Meena", their predecessor to later LLM chatbot work.

The Julius Caesar personality which had sushi as its favorite dish (and claimed to have travelled to Japan after his assassination, somehow) was my favorite.
From TFA: "Creativity trumps syntax as 40M+ users hack apps without coding know-how".

So I assume semantics are no longer relevant and we don't really care what the generated software will actually do?

What a piece of bull...
We need AI EU OS to cover all vowels.
Free after it took a trillion in energy to train
Or chatzilla.
I was about to mention that column [1] is part of util-linux, so perhaps it's Linux specific, but then I noticed this in the FreeBSD man page [2]:

> The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/column.1.html

[2]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=column&sektion=1
I don’t know. There’s trade offs everywhere. Rust std file interface is ugly and meh. Intermediate buffers everywhere.

Async await and unwrap is ugly.

Lambdas and binding of locals is very ugly as well. Any fake lifetime errors I get are solved by a data type and impl which is just confusing, as if lambdas are a problem.
I am not saying that this is the case with Botswana but it could also be a matter of priorities. At least North Korea is able to do orbital launches while the living conditions of an average citizen is less than ideal.
Interesting? So Android replaced Windows CE in some cases?
$100/Hour to Talk to AI: Toronto-Based AI Company Pays You to Train Ranger
Lol, this is going over my head a bit, but in case I was misunderstood, I had a role once that was secops adjacent but not strictly "security," just ended up doing a lot of favors for a security team. There was a recommendation that was super low hanging with extremely high impact, but the sec team determined it was "too low risk to action on without better reasoning" or something, they got hit pretty hard by it and I was involved in some triage, shaking my head the entire time. Very similar reasoning. "I need a bulletproof reason to update or change something" is like, to me, not a productive attitude.
I wrote my own CSV parser in C++. I wasn't sure what to do in some edge cases, e.g. when character 1 is space and character 2 is a quote. So I tried importing the edge case CSV into both MS Excel and Apple Numbers. They parsed it differently!
What are people using MCPs for? I search on youtube and see a lot of videos explaining how MCPs work, but none showing practical uses for a programmer (aside from getting the weather via cursor).
Given that they're giving prominence to a podcast by noted clickbaity contrarirans Vine and Hitchens I'm not sure how much credence I'd give this article.
It is IMO better than Java these days, although they're pretty close. Whenever I have to go back to Java I find odd things missing, like unsigned long.

AOT is pretty good when it works.
Well, hooking into system undo is tricky as there still seems to be no native web platform thing for that. I see all kinds of things like https://github.com/samthor/undoer but the article was about the foundation, rather than the integration. For what I am doing, shortcuts + clickable buttons on screen will do the job.
For some reason, sum types is something that rarely gets done right.

Most languages settle for something close and users defend their choice/Stockholm syndrome.
On most trips people do speeding saves an irrelevant amount of time. If somehow you encounter zero traffic from Palo Alto to SF and you go 15mph over the limit the whole way it makes the trip about 5 minutes shorter.

You have about 50% more KE at 80mph as you do at 65mph btw, if you find yourself needing to dissipate that energy rapidly.
Surely there's some sort of safeguard in the Australian government preventing this sort of embarrassment. The second anyone hears how much was involved they're gonna know this prosecution makes a mockery of their own laws.
Who are you to make such a judgement? What is your expertise on Botswana?
There is another that is fairly intuitive for a Mac person: tap-and-hold to get a contextual menu. Shame they have hidden it under some kind of "haptic feedback" thingamagig.
What do you mean by non-wp login? Style the login page to match the rest of the site?

Bar lines and other time signatures are coming soon.

I like the search idea, added to todo.
Same author has a sort of "missing link" version that is better suited to modern PCs. Doesn't answer your philosophical questions about civilizations etc. but the goal isn't to start building Z80s out of transistors anytime soon.

I think the vision here is more likely to play out, if any were to. Not many fabs that can make modern chips, and the biggest one is under the business end of Chinese artillery so. Gotta make do with whatever we have even if new supply dries up.

https://duskos.org/
How successful websites are made
To be honest I'd just shrug, admit I didn't want to go through the hassle of wiping my normal phone, so decided to use a temporary one.

Just flatly admit I intended to comply with the request, just didn't want to be afraid if I deleted all the saucy photos of myself with my wife.

But in all seriousness I have a phone like this already and use it as a navigation device only: just gmaps, Waze, citymapper and separate Google account (in my name).

Just devoid from anything personal while visibly being in use for a lot of time.
I wrote about three paragraphs and then I stopped myself (I guess I'm a reasoning model), it's basically 3 things:

1.) The collapse of news networks/mainstream discourse after the pandemic led to further silo-ing of interests and politics

2.) Public perception that Democrats lost their Jon Stewart-esque libertine attitudes and that they're stodgy and judging, that they don't know how to market to people now who want "caught in the act/hidden camera" salacious stuff, they only know how to litigate it afterwards with reports and trials

3.) Oct. 7 is a big one I don't see cited a lot, while most people I know don't know about it, it's caused an internal division in the Democratic party of a magnitude that I've never seen before.
“Hoover, he was a body remover”
> I can understand that slavery goes against the 'child of God' philosophy, but there seems to be very little (none?) explicit condemnation of slavery in the bible and certainly there's been organised Christian religions for centuries before slavery was abolished.

Galatian 3 would be the key statement:

> 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring,[k] heirs according to the promise.

* https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%203&v...

Slavery was often view as a 'natural evil' like famine or pestilence, of which we just had to live with, but it was never viewed as good; Basil of Caesarea (330-379 AD) for one took this view. His (biological) brother Gregory of Nyssa took the view that slavery was inherently sinful:

> If [man] is in the likeness of God, ... who is his buyer, tell me? Who is his seller? To God alone belongs this power; or rather, not even to God himself. [...] God would not therefore reduce the human race to slavery, since [God] himself, when we had been enslaved to sin, spontaneously recalled us to freedom. But if God does not enslave what is free, who is he that sets his own power above God's?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Nyssa#Slavery

So right from very early times there was a strong anti-slavery leaning and desire in Christianity. The above referenced book Inventing the Individual goes through the history of constantly increasing individual freedom starting in the late-Roman period:

> His thesis is simple: the origin of secular liberalism, - conceived of as the intellectual current and attitude that puts the individual at the centre, as a unique acting object and as fundamentally equal to other individuals -, its origins don’t lie in the Renaissance or the Enlightenment, but much earlier, in medieval Christianity. "Secularism is Christianity's greatest gift to the world", he states. Christianity, through Paul and Augustine, put the freedom and equality of the acting man first, in contrast to ancient Antiquity, where inequality determined the character of society and each individual found its place in a certain, natural hierarchy. It took centuries for Christian intellectuals to focus on freedom and equality in their thinking and to make it a natural starting point for people and society. The major breakthrough took place between the 12th and 14th century, in the high Middle Ages. That is the central thesis of this book.

* https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674979888

* https://literaryreview.co.uk/jesus-will-set-you-free

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/27/inventing-indi...
I wonder if at some point Canada will start accepting political refugees from the US.
Firefox OS lived a short and obscure life years after Android entered the market and certainly wasn’t a GNU or Debian-like distribution of Linux.
Don't make it an AI only note taking product.

Make it a hybrid product. Let the end user also mark elements such as video, slides, original audio, and transcription. Especially of aligning speech-to-text to the generated audio, video and slides. Allowing the user to scrub through the timeline and mark what they believe is important.

This allows the user to be at the center of the product, yet scale their use case and manual input as needed with generative AI. In addition, this provides additional context for the AI to produce tailored output based on the user's input.
There used to be an actual Microsoft math solver, kind of a school version of Matlab. I don't know if they still offer it on the website, but it would've been useful for me back in school
There's a huge survivorship bias in the overall conversation about old things being better than new things.

The poorly made houses from 100 years ago just aren't there anymore.

The junk clothing from 50 years ago was thrown out.
Damn, why didn't they prosecute that instead? Probably would have won some public support. Declarations of a desire to commit violence are an entirely different beast than purchasing plutonium, and far more worth prosecuting.
Lots of real orgs use C#.

StackOverflow survey (self reported) for 2024 shows it at #5 leaving out HTML/CSS, and SQL[0]

DevJobsScanner shows it at #4 via scraping job postings[1]

It definitely has heavy adoption; well above Rust and Go despite what we see here on HN.

> Does it have any actual advantages over Java?

The language evolves faster and is more akin to Kotlin than to Java, IMO. The DX is fantastic and there are a few gems like LINQ, Entity Framework, and Roslyn source generators. Modern C# can be very dense yet still highly legible.

C# switch expressions with pattern matching (not switch-case), for example[2], are fantastic.

[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology

[1] https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog...

[2] https://timdeschryver.dev/blog/pattern-matching-examples-in-...
Burn the bodies, let scavengers have at them, or put them in a river and let those downstream deal with them. Probably easier to burn or let scavengers have at them than bury them. Fewer calories burned on your part compared to digging.

Regarding hunting, if you're near a river and it isn't piling up with bodies from upstream, you can take up fishing. It's easier to learn from scratch on your own and requires less effort.
as the 'xz' backdoor was in the source code, and remained there for a while before anyone spotted it, it doesn't necessarily guarantee that backdoors/malware won't make their way into the source of a very-widely-redistributed project.
It's a link in a chain that allows you to trust programs you run.

- At the start of the chain, developers write software they claim is secure. But very few people trust the word of just one developer.

- Over time other developers look at the code and also pronounce it secure. Once enough independent developers from different countries and backgrounds do this, people start to believe it really is secure. As measure of security this isn't perfect, but it is verifiable and measurable in the sense more is always better, so if you set the bar very high you can be very confident.

- Somebody takes that code, goes through a complex process to produce a binary, releases it, and pronounces it is secure because it is only based on code that you trust, because of the process above. You should not believe this. That somebody could have introduced malicious code and you would never know.

- Therefore before reproducible builds, your only way to get a binary you knew was built from code you had some level of trust in was to build it yourself. But most people can't do that, so they have to trust that Debian, Google, Apple, Microsoft or whoever that are no backdoors have been added. Maybe people do place their faith in those companies, but is is misplaced. It's misplaced because countries like Australia have laws that allow them to compel such companies to silently introduce malicious code and distribute it to you. Australia's law is called the "Assistance and Access Bill (2018)". Countries don't introduce such laws for no reason. It's almost certain it is being used now.

- But now the build can be reproducible. That means many developers can obtain the same trusted source code from the source the original builder claimed he used, build the binary themselves, verify it is identical to the original so publicly validate the claim. Once enough independent developers from different countries and backgrounds do this, people start to believe it really built from the trusted sources.

- Ergo reproducible builds allow everyone, as opposed to just software developers, to run binaries they can be very confident was built just from code that has some measurable and verifiable level of trustworthiness.

It's a remarkable achievement for other reasons too. Although the ideas behind reproducible builds are very simple, it turned out executing it was about as simple as other straightforward ideas like "lets put a man on old moon". It seems build something as complex as an entire OS was beyond any company, or capitalism/socialism/communism, or a country. It's the product of something we've only seen arise in the last 40 years, open source, and it been built by a bunch of idealistic volunteers who weren't paid to do it. To wit: it wasn't done by commercial organisations like RedHat, or Ubuntu. It was done by Debian. That said, other similar efforts have since arisen like F-Droid, but they aren't on this scale.
I, and clients of mine, have a bunch of stuff on the play stores. google is going bananas recently, aggressively trying to delist every app it seems..

Every few months they force you to upload new builds that use the latest "api level" .. This change makes zero difference to how the app functions.

Its a massive pain updating them and I have let several apps lapse and be taken down cus I couldnt be bothered jumping though googles arbitrary hoops.

Which I guess is google's aim, and also that they are doing this to clear as much space as they can and save a small amount of money on storage, as part of their general enshittification process.