skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2014 Liberty Global decided to offer UPC Wifi Free - free roaming wifi on all cable modems they manage. Your own modem would advertise HotSpot and share your own cable connection. In theory you could opt out, in practice when I tried it just meant removing my login credentials while my box still shared and disabling Wifi locally would bring it back after a while. Thankfully Cisco EPC3925 uses BCM43225 mpcie Wifi card and unplugging it removes all mentions of wireless functionality from Setup, problem solved.
>What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal agenda?

None. It already is. People murder other people all the time, sometimes to make progress on their personal agendas. Vigilantism isn't new, it's been romanticized and elevated as noble and virtuous ever since Thomas Jefferson waxed poetic about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants.

I don't understand why so many people consider this one incident so existentially threatening. Is it just because the victim was rich? Why did everyone clutch their pearls and worry about the fate of civilization because one rich guy got shot, but write off countless other victims of gun violence as just the price of living in a free society? Is it just that people were surprised there was such little sympathy for the victim? Have you seen the way people talk about black victims of police violence? was that callousness and lack of empathy just shocking because the victim was white?

I mean, it didn't even move the needle on anything. There was no uprising, no revolution. Just fucking memes.
Nice. I use KDE + Kvantum + Expose theme and various Windows XP themes myself for Windows XP Experience.
Both viewpoints can be true at the same time.
Denying is not for shareholders, it’s for policyholders. A health insurance provider that doesn’t put guardrails on treatments will fail because the required policy rates will go up so much that the healthy people will go to a lower cost provider.

People are happy saying the insurance provider should just pay for everything until the bill comes due in higher monthly premiums.

Insurance companies are doing the only thing they can to exist in this fucked up system where people can bail when prices increase.
There seems to be an increasingly large subgroup of people who would never have the nerve to commit murder but are participating in the radicalization of people that _are_ capable of doing such things. They are mostly OK with it now because it's benefitting them. The problem will arise when things inevitably get out of control.
> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda?

If you head a big corporation like say Exxon, and you sign off on lobbying efforts to reduce pollution regulations, deny climate change etc. which will inevitably kill thousands of people, all in the service of the CEOs political agenda, is that different somehow?

Yet the police aren’t arresting those folks

> In a lot of ways this is like all the media attention on school shootings: we will see copycats, and the next one may not be targeting an unsympathetic healthcare CEO

I wonder if we dug into most CEOs of public companies if they’d be sympathetic.

After all, they say psychopaths excel at two things, being CEOs or being serial killers.

I suspect the skeletons in the closet are quite voluminous for many, many of these folks
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Show, Don't Tell: A Llama PM's Guide to Writing GenAI Evals
I have to say I had a very good results creating and optimizing quite complex queries with Sonnet. But letting LLM run them on their own in production is quite a different beast.
I'm expanding my website Bingeclock (online since 2014) into mobile. Both the iOS and Android apps were approved for open testing last week, so I'm very happy about that!

https://www.bingeclock.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bingeclock...

https://testflight.apple.com/join/YtfK4enW
There is something to that, though these skills are fairly easy to buy. Lots of consultancies like mine offer management of these things on retainer. But a lot of developers have passing knowledge of AWS etc., but none with managed hosting and might well prefer the cloud options for that reasons.

Poorly managed old managed setups also probabl burned a lot of more experienced people. E.g. if you had to fill in stupid forms and request a server weeks ahead, odds are cloud equals freedom in your mind, even though a well run infra setup could offer you to spin up container workloads and leave dealing with adding capacity as a background concern developers don't need to think about.

Personally, I recall well the time I had to call in to Yahoo's hardware review board, chaired by one of the founders (Filo) because the billing system I managed, which handled millions of dollars worth of transactions, needed a new database server - priced around $10k. There were at least a dozen senior people on that call.

If that was your experience of colo/managed servers/on prem, it's not unsurprising if you value cloud services far higher than their costs for the sake of avoiding that bureaucracy.

I'm working on tooling that I hope will change that, by making compute and storage on cheaper managed providers vs. cloud providers fungible commodities, but it's a hard problem.
So first I think I might need to apologize for some jargon collision - my background is mostly material simulation, and when I say “quantum simulation” I mostly mean using classical algorithms to solve the quantum mechanical wave equation describing a material or molecule.

I don’t pretend to have any particularly deep insight into quantum algorithms for chemistry, but [0] is a really nice review. It seems like there are a lot of possibilities for simulating general molecular and materials systems on quantum computers. The holy grail would be solving the exact quantum mechanical wave equation in sub-exponential time and space complexity. I don’t know how feasible that is, but it seems like people are making progress using quantum algorithms to accelerate approximate quantum simulation [1].

Back to all-atom c. elegans: I think quantum computing is more about accurate and scalable electronic structure modeling, and simulating enormous systems like this will still require fitting classical (meaning electrons are implicit) force fields and running them at scale for the foreseeable future. A lot of this is space complexity - I’m not sure how a quantum computer could do atomic simulations with sublinear scaling of qubits in the number of atoms being simulated, and were in the very early days of scaling quantum computers up

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09976

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07067
And many of the disappeared people were here either with valid asylum claims or temporary protected status and were following the laws to get their day in court -- at which time it would have been completely legal and appropriate to deport them if their claims were denied. Instead, we have secret police grabbing them off the street, immediately transferring them out of the jurisdiction they were picked up in and flying them out of the country to a notoriously violent prison in an unrelated country less than 48 hours after they were picked up... it's an absolute travesty and anyone who defends it should be deeply ashamed.
Show HN: Use the new Gemini model to generate customized ABC storybooks
I built this website with v0 to test Gemini's new image capabilities, while 4o is still rate-limited/not available on the API

I wrote up some more information on it here: https://x.com/max_leiter/status/1906492622551884187

and here's the chat that built it: https://v0.dev/chat/ai-story-book-creator-zw7TrmkN2Eb
> As a duel citizen of the US and another Commonwealth nation, I have to say that this is exactly the ridiculous self-caricature perspective that gives foreign nationals a sort of combination of pity and contempt for the average US citizen.

Ahh, you see there you made a mistake. I'm not American.

And your examples of "this is better" don't address the point I made - how Canadians identify themselves.
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I’ve been building two things that kinda go hand-in-hand to scratch a few personal itches. [1] is an interactive fretboard tool for guitarists. I wasn’t quite happy with the way existing tools approached visualization, so I made my own. Too many felt littered with ads or just didn’t work the way I was hoping for.

It goes beyond just plotting notes there are options to show scales using intervals, roots, note names, etc., plus a chord mode that highlights triads, voicings, and inversions. I’ve found it useful for routine practice start the built-in metronome, pick a voicing or scale pattern, and run through it in time.

There are also pages covering theory topics like modes and progressions, but the fretboard’s the main draw. It’s something I built for myself and figured others might get some use out of too. I plan to keep adding to it as I think of more things I want to reference probably adding support for additional strings or tunings next?

The other solves a very specific problem (mostly out of laziness) I do most of my playing using the standalone Neural DSP application on Windows, but I don’t really want to do any mixing in it. So I built a dead simple recording application [2] that doesn’t require firing up a DAW, but still offers a decent UX. It lets me quickly capture riffs and ideas, and later I can just send them to my Mac for mixing if anything seems promising. Haven’t shipped it yet, but I’ve been using it daily and having some friends try it out.

[1] https://www.theorycrvft.com/fretboard

[2] https://theorycrvft.gumroad.com/l/otocapture
MAME emulates a ridiculous number of systems now. For example, check out a list of just the ones that require some additional setup steps: https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=System-Specific_Set...
Example: trans rights in sports. You let them play, you take away the rights to a fair playing field for women born women. You don't let them play, you take away their right to play sport. There isn't a good solution.

You knew the example. You know why society restricts people below 18 from all kinds of things. You are the very definition of disingenuous.
Just a friendly ping that your first link is throwing a 502, could be a gentle hug of death? Will check back later, it sounds very intriguing to me!
I was getting stuck in some manager <> direct report situations and wanted to figure out a way to practice tough conversations, so I started putting together https://practicecallai.com/.

You can choose from common difficult scenarios or create a custom one and get connected with a conversational AI voice agent to practice. Started out with just manager use cases but now testing out sales calls, interviews, pitches, etc.

Mostly built on Replit (would recommend - is amazing & keeps getting better) and relying on a mix of ElevenLabs / OpenAI / Anthropic for the voice & LLM tech.
Is there any easy way to make a local backup of a Fandom wiki? I have found some unmaintained scripts which might have worked at one point, but it seems like the only option on the table is to scrape and parse everything.
> In a lot of ways this is like all the media attention on school shootings: we will see copycats, and the next one may not be targeting an unsympathetic healthcare CEO.

Would it target unsympathetic CEOs in other industries? I am just trying to measure the pros and cons here.

Jokes aside, that Luigi Mangione is a martyr to some subset of the population is hardly surprising. Unlike school shootings, where the senseless violence victimizes only eminently innocent people, what Mangione did victimizes someone seem by a large section of society as a perpetrator.

I agree that it is unsettling, but only in the sense that it feels like some important piece of the social contract has been lost along the way, and it is hard to know where it will end.
https://link-society.github.io/flowg/

It's a log management/processing software, with visual scripting.

Started out of frustration towards OpenObserve and its inability (at the time) to properly/easily refine/categorize logs: we had many VMs, with many Docker containers, with some containers running multiple processes. Parsing the logs and routing them to different storages was crucial to ease debugging/monitoring.

It was initially built in Go + HTMX + React Flow encapsulated in a WebComponent, I then migrated to React (no SSR). It integrates VRL using Rust+CGO.

It is by far easier to use than Logstash and similar tools, and in fact it aims to replace it.

Contributors are welcome :)
> Where do you draw the line

The converse question is also valid - when do we accept that the system is so unjust and broken that people need to take justice into their own hands? Where do YOU draw the line?
To take a slightly broader perspective: I don't think this is actually particularly new or unusual. Criminal folk heroes have a long history. See for example Robin Hood, The Outlaws of the Marsh, Jessie James, and murder ballads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_ballad).
I'd love something like this, however the pricing isn't clear. It looks like I have to pay for a $100/yr server license and self-host it?
That's cool! I wondered about this recently -- I'd be pretty annoyed if an AI called me. I would most likely hang up immediately, regardless of what was said. Am I in the minority here? Is that feedback you've gotten before?

I do however think people would be more tolerant of an AI answering a phone call they made, I'm bullish on that half of the equation.
But dinner parties mean time away from Roblox and YouTube! I know this struggle, especially in winter. I think kids still want to socialize but struggle more often these days with how to do it. It’s easier for many of them to do it online when they can leave a situation at any time they want, and it’s hard to adapt to the pressure of being stuck in a social situation. What used to be “rage quitting” in games seems to be normal now. Maybe kids just need to learn more about the art of the excuse to leave.
Whether popular or not makes no difference. The guy murdered.

Nonetheless I also feel a sense of helplessness given the current political climate.

I posted once that if you invite violence to dinner you'll find you have a guest unwilling to leave. It was not a popular comment. Most of the responses said something to the effect of, "So you don't think violence ever accomplished anything?" I thought that was orthogonal and was an appalled frankly by the apparent justification for violence.

Having said the above though, I am surprised that with so many denied health care and — facing essentially a death sentence — why do we not see more of them going postal?
Truth doesn't matter when the question is what kinds of tactics we want to officially endorse for moving the political needle. Any tactics you adopt become fair game for your opponent, and if we start seeing laws named after Luigi we will start seeing laws named after the next conspiracy theorist killer.
>I know this is an unpopular opinion here

This always poisons the tone of a comment. Just like, "I know this will get downvoted": You should just state your opinion without proactively casting yourself as the minority voice. It feels like self-pity, and at the same time implicitly colors disagreement with you as dog-piling or talking-down.

That said:

>Luigi Mangione as martyr figure makes me extremely uncomfortable

Is that even a minority opinion? Glorifying assassination should make everybody uncomfortable, no? That's a big, central part of the point of glorifying his crime.

>This is a very different situation than the Aaron Swartz

Is a comparison to Aaron common? I mean specifically in terms of the imposition of law onto them. I haven't seen that opinion here, personally. Just because people have sympathy for both of them doesn't mean there is an implication that what they each did is comparable.

>What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress

An extreme one. And not a novel one.
This is a function of limited risk pooling. Health insurance companies are state-locked. In the limit they function as options sellers in a stock market. If they can’t hedge off volatility with a larger risk pooling strategy they do something you can’t do at the market - simply deny care.

This problem is due to manufactured monopolies and regulatory capture. Open up cross state healthcare, allow larger risk pools, and use this to hedge off the risk of the 1/10% of customers who represent the highest risk pool. Costs go down for everyone and quality of care goes up. It’s not quite single payer but it’s simple probabilities. I find it hard to believe they wouldn’t lobby for this unless it’s vastly more profitable to stay state locked and deny care.

Of course though you are correct, in that a treatment still should have utility. But the average person being denied something as simple as a PET scan does not represent a maximization of utility. That is greed.
This reasoning seems circular. In order to practice social skills with an imaginary friend, the friend you imagine would have to have realistic behavior, you would already need a fairly accurate model of behavior to imagine the friend to get any benefit from it. If you imagine a friend who communicates by barking and eats rocks, what social benefit would you get?
I’ve been thinking lots about the YouTube algorithm, how it’s based on engagement, not educational value, and how it’s such a huge missed opportunity for our kids.

So I’ve been building my own YouTube app, for my own kids. Better blocking of keywords (no more 1,000 MrBeast video recommendations). Better educational themes.

Email me if you’re interested in testing.

jim.jones1@gmail.com
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>There are not many out there recognized for both music and science writing.. :-)

Yea, she's gonna give it to you baby! She's gonna go far, kid [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland
Sure, but again, the accounting write-off period is entirely orthogonal to how you choose to calculate your break-even point, so the accounting write-off period is really a distraction. But the "default" of 3 years is often used without much thought when customers of the cloud providers evaluate pricing, and so for the cloud providers it makes sense to make themselves look plausibly competitive when customers look at the numbers that way.

A lot of the other markup is obscured by splitting things into multiple categories, such as costs per requests, separate pricing for bandwidth etc. A lot of clients I talk to don't understand the pricing of the services they run, and the developers usually both don't know and don't care.
Of course I noticed the statement that students have always been transactional. I agree with it.

I don't think my students are unusual. Perhaps the situation in Canada is better than wherever you live.
Why would they tacitly admit to performing warrantless searches?
If you are a developer who does not enjoy coding, I question your career choice.
If the framing is merely "When there are no judicial penalties [...] eventually people seek extrajudicial ones", then it doesn't really matter whether it's objectively true or not, only whether people think it's true or not. And to the people who are aggrieved by "the great replacement" or "pedophile elites", they most certainly think it's true. Moreover, it's not hard to think of steelman versions either conspiracy theory that are true. For instance there might not be an actual coordinated conspiracy to replace white American voters with foreigners, but there's certainly a push on the left to allow for more migration, and just a decade ago Democratic strategists were bragging about how demographic change was going to mean they were going to be assured victory for the next few decades.
Wails-powered desktop app using WebRTC for direct P2P file sending, between pertinently online users local folders.
>>both have to be online for this to work...
The American people, through their elected representatives in Congress, decided saving those kids' lives are in our moral interest. Then Elon Musk decided it isn't.
The Device Throttling the Electrified Future
You say he is embraced by "left-leaning folks" as if he isn't embraced by conservatives as well. Ben Shapiro tried to play the same card you are and his fanbase ate him alive saying "stop trying to make this left vs right. It's a bi-partisan issue." When Ben Shapiro's fans are able to see the light for a brief moment, I think it's fair to say this specific issue reaches across the aisle.
Mostly getting errors about BreezeWiki not being allowed to access Fandom, but the idea is sound and much needed.
> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda?

If this is what you are worried about, America is pretty far behind the leading edge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/asia/court-dissolution-unific...
I use an Apple device on a work device and I don't need to use Apple ID for anything. Apple laptop is the only device in the ecosystem.

Apple Store doesn't have useful apps for me, I rather use brew for installation, or I need to download dmg.

I don't use Apple Music because I use Spotify with my friends.

I don't use Apple Mail because we are in the Google ecosystem, so I use Gmail.

I don't use Apple Calendar (there is such a thing?), because in the Google ecosystem I use Google Calendar and - for notifications in the tray - Notion Calendar.

What do I lose by not using Apple ID?
But they are in America's economic self interest. These programs are for soft power as much as they are for humanitarian value. Contrary to what those people believe, China is more than willing to compete for goodwill in the developing world, and if we thought US efforts could be hamfisted and come with a dragon seed sometimes, well we're in for some nasty surprises.
AWS has a neat feature to analyze cloudtrail logs to determine needed permissions.
Congress should pass bipartisan legislation that people in this situation, albeit rare, get a full refund at a minimum, or at least be able to predetermine if they’re banned.
And if we focus hard on it in the future, we can hopefully avoid it in the future. Requiring people to glorify murder as the price of healthcare reform is a great way to negatively polarize people away from it; speaking for myself, I'm absolutely unwilling to make common cause with murderers, and if this initiative makes it to the ballot I will vote no even though I support its text.