skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thrown "home server workloads" at my Mac mini. It stays on 24/7 anyway, because idle power draw is negligible.

Syncthing is a great use case. Wherever I take my laptop, the files stay in sync between the two devices; I don't need a third device to act as a server, or iCloud, or any other cloud.

Miniflux. I read my RSS feeds from three devices, so I want to track read status and save bookmarks. It provides a Google Reader-compatible API (yes it lives on), so I can plug NetNewsWire into it.

It's an exit node for Tailscale. Did I mention Tailscale? It's like still being on the same LAN anywhere you go. It doesn't matter if your home server doesn't have a public IP.

Grafana is cool for anything you can plot, as long as you can mash it into something vaguely resembling a time series. Sensor readings, data pulled from some API, CSV export from your bank, your chess ELO, etc. It's often combined with Prometheus. So you can also scrape anything that speaks enough HTTP (which is... many things, these days).

I want to explore something like Navidrome or Jellyfin; for now I use Syncthing for my music library, but even if I could run it on iPhone, the whole collection wouldn't fit. Unfortunately it seems there are no decent apps.

You're also free to explore uncharted territory. Rubenerd is hosting a "house-wide" SQL database: <https://rubenerd.com/our-personal-database/>
> NetSuite will indemnify Customer up to an amount equal to five (5) times the equivalent of 12 months of license fees applicable at the time of the event, from and against any Losses incurred by Customer

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1428669/000119312508...
That was added in 2006, so didn’t exist for a good half of its life (even longer if you count pre-GNU). I remember rm -rf / being considered just one instance of having to double-check what you do when using the -rf option. It’s one reason it became common to alias rm to rm -i.
elo ranking based on user preferences. you can vote on prompts and submit new ones in the 'video arena' tab
I think there's a weird counter to this that people are in denial about the Democrats denial. Democrats have always been unpopular. Americans are conservative. I think people voted for Trump because Trump was able to convince them that Politics is easy, that strong men can fix everything, and Americans won't be convinced as easily to vote for Democrats. Trump will probably screw a bunch of stuff, and maybe Democrats run someone in 2028 that can recapture some of his constituency. That sure, they should and will make changes but the sad truth is the electorate will reward them for none of that, and that the electorate has taught Democrats that sad but real truth to just ride out Trump's failures, and hope to get lucky in the future.

But I think this is true on both sides. I think Republicans are in denial that the wave they're on will survive the end of Trump. I think everyone underestimates Trump, the left, the right. Everyone seems to keep looking at Trump's numbers and for some reason coming to the conclusion that Republicans are popular outside of Trump, I remember talking to all sorts of people that said Nikki Haley would be the Republican nominee, because she was smart and good, and Trump would open his mouth and screw thing sup. For some reason, people seem to think that Republicans will do _better_ without Trump, and that's just as delusional as everything else. I
Ah, now I see what you mean. True.
My zfs never broke under Ubuntu and installation is easy by installing 1 package.
Reminds me of the BMW Heated Seats SaaS option.

What's even worse is the planned obsolescence, its such a huge waste of resources. I had a GE DW and fridge from the 1950s until 1995 and they still worked, albeit were a funky lime greenish color. And that DW washed the dishes better than the new replacement. Currently dealing with a 2 year old LG fridge that is dead.
Technically, they could be using version control, not have a copy on their local machine for some reason, and have an AI agent issue a `git push -f` wiping out all the previous work.
> It sounds like you wish they used systemd

I do.

> "Modern" is rarely a good description

Then call it reliable and dependable.

Modern doesn't always win for me: I prefer vim to neovim, or bash to zsh. Having a solid set of features and a good integration does.

If you are curious, see https://marcelofern.com/posts/linux/goodbye_zsh/index.html which mirrors my reasons to prefer bash
The repo was private, updated. Thanks!!
Why should I care? or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong
I agree this is true (for mainly political/interpersonal reasons) if you’re writing code inside a typical software engineering organization, which orients itself to producing software products.

But lots of people write computer programs outside such contexts. Then it’s perfectly possible to prototype something and actually rewrite the full version.
I had similar feelings for PHM, but it was hard to put a finger on why. I enjoyed it well enough to make it to the end, but I think I have a limited appetite for his "authorial voice". I read it directly after The Bone Clocks and remember thinking I missed David Mitchell's "voice" and wishing there were a way to experience books through another author's voice. Outside the copyright concerns, this could be an interesting use case for AI, a cover band for literature. It's definitely the only way we'll ever get Wes Anderson Star Wars
Symbolic links can be made, but test test test and make sure anyone else administering that host knows exactly what has been linked and why. Purists might scream, but its none of their business if it doesn't get in anyone else's way.
https://archive.is/p9dMD
I usually just imagine an n-dimensional space and then substitute n as needed
If history has taught us anything, it's that Google is happy to willfully ignore, rewrite, and use their market dominance to snuff out any existing standards if they see a way to seize control and make money off something.
Safari is the "new" IE. I put "new" in quotes because it's been this way for like a decade.
If the earth didn't rotate the differential would be permanent...and permanently in one direction
Recently I was looking for a small LLM that could perform reasonably well while answering questions with low latency, for near realtime conversations running on a single RTX 3090. I settled on Microsoft’s Phi-4 model so far. However I’m not sure yet if my choice is good and open to more suggestions!
Pretty impressive. I watched "The Retrieval". It gave me slight Scavengers Reign vibes, maybe inspired by it. There are still some minor/subtle artifacts that give it away as an AI generation, but still totally watchable and enjoyable.

I suspect we'll see some fully AI generated feature length films in the future. There will be all sorts of discourse about it, but IMO at the end of the day, it's just another tool for expression.
They recognize include guards and skip any further inclusions for those cases. There are scenarios where you may want multiple inclusion and you can still have that.
Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point
US: "How can we tariff this?"
There is a problem with this though. It is the price paid in exchange for democracy. Take Syria for example. It took huge human loss to free itself from Assad, Iran and Russian influence. Is the price justified? Of course in the long run autocracies fail. The lifespan of the ruler is one duration we can associate (Putin is on the verge of death). But the damage can often be very significant and take generation to undo. Just to be clear, I was very much in favor of removing those murderers. I just wonder if there were ways to mitigate this (here, EU and US should have stepped in, which they failed to do. However, they are doing it in Ukraine, which is great)
End of Life for Akamai Identity Cloud
I thought UNESCO world heritage sites were physical locations rather than aspects of a possibly physically dispersed culture. Is the site the whole country of Sweden?
Here's where I'll show my age. If you got into a unix-like OS in the '90s, the *BSD ergonomics will make more sense.

I remember when Ubuntu and docker each entered the scene and my initial impressions of both were pretty negative.
Hi everybody, happy to see our CheerpJ demo is appreciated.

CheerpJ is a WebAssembly-based JVM that can run unmodified Java 8 and Java 11 applications. Java 17 will be supported later in year.

I am the lead developer of CheerpJ and CTO of Leaning Technologies. AMA.
I like using LLMs more as coding assistents than have them write the actual code. When I am thinking through problems of code organization, API design, naming things, performance optimization, etc., I found that Claude 3.7 often gives me great suggestions, points me in the right direction and helps me to weigh up pros and cons of different approaches.

Sometimes I have it write functions that are very boilerplate to save time, but I mostly like to use it as a tool to think through problems, among other tools like writing in a notebook or drawing diagrams. I enjoy programming too much that I’d want an AI to do it all for me (it also helps that I don’t do it as a job though).
https://archive.is/yeTEG
Don't worry, professors do it too.

I had one such professor in accounting. Typos, numbers from wrong year, copy/paste mistakes, forgot to turn on precision as displayed, mismatching account numbers, etc.

The textbook (written by someone else) also had mistakes. At least not in every exercise, but enough to be annoying.

Exams were also graded based on an incorrect solution, so you always had to fight for a revised grade.
The author is a famous compiler writer, including C and C++ compilers as GCC contributor, regardless of how Go is designed, he does know what he is talking about.
> There were some very annoying teething issues with a lot of these components

Currently, I don't have any issue at all, and I'm not aware of any either.

I like how it's very reliable and integrated: the "kitchen sink mentality" can have positive effects

> It didn't help that the systemd head (Lennart Poettering) was extremely intransigent with any complaints, often outright refusing to deal with various historical edge cases for long-established norms.

In retrospect, given how well it all works, maybe he was right to refuse to compromise.
Ah, just saw that the author has included the original text as PDF so don't have to speculate about original intent after all

Does seem to mostly be "here are some people in touch with current developments happening in the world thinking about their next phase" more than full-blown futurism - but still super interesting to read (if only to see the vestiges of tech optimism pre-dotcom-enshittification)

A few things which leap out that weren't included in the original post:

- "everything will be smart - that is, responsive to its external or internal environment"

Predicted the glassy eyed dream at the time, but not the more cynical reality we got where that smartness more often benefits the seller than the consumer

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- "in-depth personal medical histories will be on record and in full control of the individual in some form of medical smart card or disk"

Another fun combo of rarely safe prediction based on developments of the time mixed with (in hindsight) overly optimistic assumptions about commercialism

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And the bit summarised as purportedly predicting "(the internet)" actually has a pretty neat bit which was missed

"face-to-face, voice-to-voice, person-to-data, and data-to-data communication will be available to any place at any time from anywhere."

Predicting Skype/zoom seems a tad more interesting (even though things like Dick Tracy or 2001: A space odyssey had long had us wishing for it before 1995)

The preceding bit aged less well

"...broadband network of networks based on fiber optics; other techniques, such as communications satellites, cellular, and microwave will be ancillary."

Interesting that they appeared to be emphasising an _increase_ in wired data transit

But not surprising, as back then any cellular comms were far from impressive in comparison to the big-ass wired links you could use from universities

(That said, even back then we had microwave links acting as secondary high speed links for campuses which didn't yet have fibre or coax installed)
1) Not new. 2) Not just for remote workers.

Check out Revolutionary Road by Yates for someone writing about it in the context of a recognizably modern office environment of the late 50s / early 60s (book published in 1961). The whole work-side portion of that book revolves around "boreout" and an office culture that normalized and enabled work-avoidance, this was already familiar territory for office workers then. I guarantee you can find earlier examples.

On another note:

> “What they don’t realize is that they’re draining people. You don’t need to see people’s faces at every meeting,” Grant says. “Particularly if it’s a smaller group of people who know each other well. Going cameras off is actually a great way to let people recharge, and then they show up more excited to connect when they do.”

I have to assume anyone who thinks having a camera trained on your face while looking at a wall of Brady Bunch videos of people who appear to all be staring at your neck is at all comparable to actually being in a physical meeting sitting around a table, haven't spent much time reflecting on it. Yeah, it's draining and awful in anything but tiny doses, and frankly creepy as hell.
> Are they able to load a .so/dylib file during runtime and just call a method on it as long as they know the name of the method?

Yes, usually that's the entire point of an .so/.dylib/.dll - to load it and call it's functions by name?

> How does iOS even allow that? How does an iOS even get to load those files? Seems like that would be locked down.

Because it's something that higher level apple interfaces might rely on. It's not a security issue in the first place - if you submit an app obviously using them the message you get is:

> The use of non-public APIs is not permitted on the App Store because it can lead to a poor user experience should these APIs change.
Personally I've had a lot of success working in non software science/engineering labs. I'm currently applying software and AI to biotech (don't worry its not LLMs). I think that is where a lot of the utility of AI is because we 'traditional software' is quickly becoming a solved problem. Its a lot more interesting in my opinion to use software to solve real science and engineering problems that they haven't been applied to, and it typically pays well unless you work directly for a university (in which case you may get defunded because of the current administration and even before the current political situation the pay was lousy)
Certainly this isn't true at every level of granularity unless you're making some Penrosian claim about QM affecting say, one's decision tree? Which is a valid though quite disputed claim, say more about that if you believe it though.
Interesting, sounds like what a lot of people at my company wish Fireflies did. Do you see them as a possible competitor? This fills a different space but is closely related.

Internal documentation is SUCH a hassle though, glad to see a tool like this being developed.
It’s not really a movie but a vibe, the movie Her does a really good job of “more of the same”. It’s obviously a different time than our own but things largely look the same. I liked it as it gave it this really anachronistic future vibe, like fashion had gone back to 70s styles and nobody has a tv, but it’s actually because projections have gotten so good that everyone’s phone is just a projector on the wall. Hidden technology.
Agreed, I started crafting workflows last week. Still not impressed with how poorly the current crop of models is at following instructions.

And are there any guidelines on how to manage workflows for a project or set of projects? I’m just keeping them in plain text and including them in conversations ad hoc.
There was something magical starting to type a listing that started with `10 GOSUB 10000`.
I commented on this a few weeks ago. There are two future components under development that look to support selecting multiple options in a dropdown format.

Search textbox: would be supported under the more customizable Combobox element

Select Multiple: both the Enhanced Select and Combobox plan to support this

Combobox: https://open-ui.org/components/combobox.explainer/

Enhanced Select: https://open-ui.org/components/customizableselect/
The account is a throwaway but based on its short posting history and its replies, I don't have reason to believe it's a troll:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1inoryp/comment/mdr...

> I'm not a dev or engineers at all (just a geek working in Finance)

This fits my experience of teaching very intelligent students how to code; if you're an experienced programmer, you simply cannot fathom the kinds of assumptions beginners will make due to gaps in yet-to-be foundational knowledge. I remember having to tell students to mindful when searching Stack Overflow for help, because of how something as simple as an error from Requests (e.g. while doing web scraping) could lead them down a rabbit hole of "solutions" such as completely uninstalling their Python for a different/older version of Python.
> Is there a name for this fever dream style of writing, that even if you follow up on all the loose ends dropped throughout, find that some of them evaporate under scrutiny?

It is called journalism.
hopefully this isn't trending because of the recent controversy about fluoride in tap water?
The link is a couple of comments up this chain.

Interestingly your link, which I think is part of the same survey series breaks it down into EU and non-EU immigration, and the latter has about a
10-30 point worse score, which can probably explain the scores for generic immigration getting worse immediately after the EU immigration got curtailed.

And again, it's the Old/Conservative/Brexit voters who are on the "angrier about non-EU immigration" end of that range. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot.
> IQs within the country are going down, and nobody really knows why.

I’m no expert, but I have seen the public education system attacked and defunded for decades, at home and abroad. Even libraries are being shut down in places with enough anti-intellectual sentiment. This goes much deeper than the fluoride in water.

If you can point to IQ values of New York specifically, going down more significantly starting with the introduction of fluoride into the water system, then you might have something there.

Until then, policy discussions like this will continue to take focus from the things that actually have an impact on IQ, like public education, healthcare/nutrition, and poverty.
(I work at Turso)

libSQL does not support realtime/reactivity features. There have been attempts (by both our team and the community), but we encountered difficulties and ultimately abandoned the idea. I can check with the team for the exact reasons.

However, Limbo (our SQLite rewrite in Rust) will include this feature, though there is no ETA yet. It's currently being discussed here: https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/discussions/1149. Please share your thoughts and use cases.
Good for them! This is something the inept Merrick Garland failed to do, thereby dooming the country as well as the planet.
Oh this is really interesting!

I think this is a good complement for use WITH guMCP rather than having it in the core repo itself, definitely will be playing around with this.
Wouldn't the FBI need some time to digest the accusations made by the University and then build a case to pursue an investigation? Hearing the University has been captured by a right wing agenda and having an adversarial relationship with its teachers and students, I'm starting to think any conspiracy is plausible at this point.
True, but I think errors in real-world modeling logic are part of our primary problem domain, while managing memory and resources are a secondary domain that obfuscates the primary one. Tools such as exceptions and contract programming go a long way towards handling the issues we run into while modeling our domains.
3 pointers are actually the opposite problem; they turn out to be more efficient but they make the game a lot more boring to watch.
They were using Cursor, not a general LLM, and were asking their fellow Cursor users how they deal with the risk of Cursor destroying the code base.
> Now, do autocompletes

This is kind of ready, see datalist element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...
My family eats a lot of shredded cheese, pre and home shredded, I've never noticed in anything melted nor in anything where it's only half melted like tacos. Any graininess that might be present would be far offset by the other ingredients, but honestly I've never tasted any graininess. The anticaking stuff isn't even grainy, so why would the resulting cheese be grainy? You can lick a piece of pre-shredded cheese and the anticaking stuff flavorlessly dissolves in your mouth. I honestly believe most of this "graininess" is imagined after people read about it on the internet or hear about it from cooking shows. People have convinced themselves that cellulose = wood (notice it's mentioned in this thread several times) and somehow lose the ability to critically think about it. While cellulose is an anticaking agent, I don't think I've ever seen it used for cheese. Typically you see cheese using a modified corn starch. The anti-caking agent can cause some issues if you're making cheese sauces specifically, but generally if you're making a cheese sauce you're mixing in other ingredients and then dumping it over macaroni or potatoes or something anyway and it won't matter.
> Oracle needs to lean on its good reputation

It's what now?
Can you please expound on this? You’re using this approach to turn an existing codebase into a single file and then asking Gemini to make changes/enhancements? Does it also handle breaking the files back out? Would love more info!
Conflict resolution can't work in a general sense.

How you reconcile many copies of the same record could depend on time of action, server location, authority level of the user, causality between certain business events, enabled account features, prior phase of the moon, etc.

Whether or not offline sync can even work is very much a domain specific concern. You need to talk to the business about the pros & cons first. For example, they might not like the semantics regarding merchant terminals and offline processing. I can already hear the "what if the terminal never comes back online?" afternoon meeting arising out of that one.
It's no different than the old Amazon button thing. I'm not going to automatically pay whatever price Amazon is going to charge to push-button replenish household goods. Especially in those days, where "The World's Biggest" fence would have pretty wild swings in price.

If i were rich enough to have some bot fly me somewhere, I'd have a real-life minion do it for me.
It's probably not a heritage site but something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Intangible_Cultural_Her...
France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking
Some backstory:

November 2023: Warner Bros shelves finished ‘Coyote vs. Acme’, takes $30M tax write-off

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228644