skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Annoyance has nothing to do with it. It is the authoritarian morally superior attitude expressed by this statement that is so prevalent among Democrats.

> they should have more power to unilaterally exact laws and legislation without trying to appeal to the Republican voter base

> US has shown the citizens no longer deserve the freedom that they had,
This misses how Microsoft makes money from Windows. Taking a cut of apps isn’t that useful because most people don’t install many apps. Of course it’s still welcome revenue, especially for games, but Steam has too much goodwill there, and Epic won’t still idly by (and Adobe etc in other domains).

Instead Microsoft is trying to upsell cloud storage, backup and ad-free email (along with Office apps) with Microsoft 365. And on the biz side they’re getting into the biz of offering managed patched online Windows VDIs, kind of like Citrix.

Also Microsoft Store-only Windows is a deal killer for Windows in businesses. A lot of specialised LOB (line of business) apps run on Windows and the Store is a non-starter for those. And in home contexts there’s a bunch of legacy apps that people keep Windows for, dropping support for them will mean switching to ChromeOS or macOS just got easier.

So yeah — I fully agree they’ll absolutely shove you in into the Azure or M365 sales funnel, and individual users no longer feel like a priority. But non-store apps aren’t quite dead yet.
This looks cool. FWIW I’m not a Django guy, but pulled up the site (djangoproject.com) out of curiosity to compare it to Plain. One thing that stood out to me was this:

> Ridiculously fast.

> Django was designed to help developers take applications from concept to completion as quickly as possible.

This rubs me as a little deceptive/insincere. When I read “ridiculously fast” on a hero banner, I’m expecting that to mean the speed of the language/framework itself. Anybody else see it similarly or am I just being cranky?

Anyways, I as an outsider see a lot more immediate value proposition on the Plain page than the Django one. Good job whomever put it together.
Teleram Portabubble vintage 1970s computer with Magnetic Bubble Memory [video]
You're paraphrasing a google source, it might be biased or just lie, they need the money, after all, they can't risk it.
Is it less ML than linear regression?
Its going to be like being gay in the 1950s.....
How can xAI be valued at $80B. (Aka Who is dumb enough to purchase it at that price?)
>People generally don't make art about how their love life is perfectly fine, instead they express their experience of devastating heartbreak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunVlekXjkE
Managing Windows devices at work using the online-first paradigm makes it clear what MS is trying to achieve here, but it's poorly communicated, as usual. In the M365/Entra world, the big benefit is having cloud Active Directory (Entra/AzureAD) and automated deployment (Intune/Autopilot) all integrated. For home users, you get bits and pieces of this, but it feels unnecessarily limited.

What MS wants (from a charitable interpretation), is the ability to encourage/enforce full disk encryption (Bitlocker), TPM-based MFA and TPM-backed passkeys (Windows Hello), as well as tight integration with their product suite (Office/OneDrive) and browser (Edge). Syncing settings, apps and other things between devices (or on setup) is also a win, though it's pretty basic right now.

Though silly to a technical crowd like HN, FDE for regular users requires a way to not lose all their data if they forget their password or some other issue happens with secure boot or the device. Non-technical users aren't going to understand the importance of backing up their Bitlocker recovery key, and without it, they're hosed. During online setup, MS stores this key online to the MS account, so it is recoverable.

MS isn't going to limit the integration and security they can provide by adhering to a local-only OS concept. It's not what most users actually want, and their competition (Apple, Android) does the same thing, so users are used to it. I just wish they had a light (inexpensive) version of the Entra/Intune package for home users that want to be able to manage multiple devices and get the real advantages of the online link.
I don't remember Elon Musk (who is obviously a fascist if you do any basic research on his recent history and family history) being on any ballots. I don't remember Trump campaigning on mass layoffs. I don't remember Trump campaigning on firing veterans. I remember Trump mocking other candidates for being warmongers. The mass deportations appear to be targeting free speech and skin colors and Ukrainians more than actual illegal immigrants and criminal immigrants. There is also the issue of skipping due process for these mass layoffs. Trump did not campaign on bringingback monarchy. Trump did not campaign on dismantling social security. Trump denied any interest in Project 2025. Trump sold a rugpull shitcoin right before inauguration. All evidence available shows that Trump is for sale to the highest bidder and has contempt for the constitution.

So no, these are not the policies that people voted for. These are policies that oligarchs cooked up.
Humans aren't fearless automatons though. Shock cavalry is called that for a reason. Also I'm not sure Inca used bows as ranged weapons in warfare that much? It was mainly slingers (probably could be reasonably effective? Note sure. Or spears or other thrown weapons (when the effective range is 30 meters and a horse is galloping towards you, well.. it would be effectively suicidal to try even if you hit anything)

> long sharpened (and hardened in fire) wooden sticks would be enough.

Also extreme discipline and training. Unprofessional armies even in Europe didn't do that well either. e.g. the Battle of Böblingen was about as one sided as some of the battles between the Spanish and Incas or Aztecs.
We’re not talking about all the AI trash people sell for $100/year for what is little more than a system prompt in front of an LLM, are we?!
"Chimpanzees record their goals in four domains aligned with company values as part of a mandatory HR exercise."
That's not how the GDPR works. Just like criminal procedure, subjects do not sue alleged offenders themselves. The state instead sues on their behalf.
what did people do before Exchange Online (or whatever the cloud offering is called)? they just didn't have email?
They are implying that due to smaller features, the transistors change and if these models still hold for those smaller transistors.

Classic hn well akshully.
"Chimpanzee vocalizations found to be inversely proportional to productivity and directly proportional to time spent in meetings about lack of productivity"
"Net Worth" can be misleading.

Wikipedia say Musk has repeatedly described himself as "cash poor" -- most of his worth are not in cash.

How much of his net worth are in $TSLA?
The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum
Maybe start a Kaggle competition?
https://archive.ph/w0gjY
I know you wish that were true, because it would excuse your incuriosity. It isn't. We share the world with people who genuinely love to write and read poetry, and ignore them at our own expense.
The Quest for Randomness (2014)
I'm surprised they didn't measure the tail latency, that's where I'd expect busy waiting to make a difference
I don't think the concern is related specifically to training on computer chips with copyrighted content.

If you are going to use human brain cells to memorize protected content and sell it as a product, that's still an issue based on current copyright laws.
His style is quite unique, but not in an in your face kind of way.

He always starts with geographical context, and this thread is never lost through the study. The constraints and characteristics of geography are always respected as key inputs into the civilization.

He is also very narrative-driven, while staying within historical fact. This is probably the key strength of the podcast. I had read so much about Egypt, but until listening to the Egypt episode, I never "got it". All of the strengths have synergy as well. For example, in the Egypt episode, North and South isn't used. Instead, upriver and downriver (Nile) is used, reflecting how they saw the world. Parlaying from there, the experience of how it would have been to live in the world is constantly revisited. In the recent Ghengis Khan episode, we take a walk with him through one of his conquered towns before it was razed, exploring how he likely felt disdain for settled civilization and always had a strong connection to his nomad way of life. But these leaps aren't just hot air. It is used as a window to do some further exploration of his religious views that we can confirm through sources.

Lastly, the production value is quite nice. He has a community that really loves his content now. There are voice actors, and most important to me, there is a very well crafted background soundscape that pulls you in. For example, in the recent episode, you can hear the throat singing subtly swell up in the background When the war machine is about to activate, much like how in Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick switches the music to Vietnamese percussion once the groups leaves "their" territory. Very effective - sometimes gives me chills or can bring immense emotional responses, such as the sounds of wind blowing through the razed city of Carthage while listening to a voice actor read a source about a visit to the now abandoned ruins (drew a tear that one did. Didn't expect that" from a three-hour history podcast!)

I'd recommend checking out the podcast if those characteristics appeal to you. It's not purely" analytical, though. There is an inspired artistic element that wants to explore the human condition, and some sort of underlying thesis that states that exploring history is a window into this. If pure analysis is what you are looking for, there are probably books better suited to that.
In lieu of explanation I'm guessing the flagging is knee-jerk anti-PG stuff.

Disappointing response.
The state that one-sidedly 'threw away' the baggage of communism was the USSR, and we all know how that went. Any China scholar could tell you that China was already implementing market reforms before Deng, and that their controlled transition, managed by a strong party-state, is the grounds for their success. China is still a country operated on the basis of five-year plans. China is still a country governed by a Communist party adhering to democratic centralism. China is still a country where the state owns all land. China is still a country where capital is not allowed to usurp the public interest. And the judge of that is not any logical syllogism of 'definitions' of capitalism or socialism that exist in your head but do not premise the actual world. It is outcomes, observations of material reality. In this, the reforms of Deng and the continued path of Xi are simply the highest synthesis of communism, in the Chinese context. They are the most faithful to Marxism, which has never preached any kind of static dogma, especially as it relates to economic policy.
Show HN: Ente Photos – v1.0
Hi HN,

We started building Ente in 2020 as an end-to-end encrypted[1] alternative to Google Photos.

We've come a long way since then,

- deploying on-device machine learning[2]

- undergoing a cryptography audit[3]

- open sourcing everything[4]

- replicating to 3 clouds[5]

- and shipping a lot of features[6]

We're trying to build a business that can outlive us, so we have a long way to go – this is only v1.0.

HN has been historically kind with feedback[7][8], a lot of which has influenced our culture in engineering, product, and marketing.

If you've any thoughts on what we could do better, please do share.

Thank you!

[1]: https://ente.io/architecture

[2]: https://ente.io/ml

[3]: https://ente.io/blog/cryptography-audit

[4]: https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server

[5]: https://ente.io/reliability

[6]: https://ente.io

[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439

[8]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570692
Do you think any of that is relevant to the case of buying a barebones PC that doesn't include SSD or RAM, then adding those components yourself and installing a non-Windows OS?

If your MSI motherboard is installing Nahimic without an internet connection, it is doing so through a mechanism where the installer is made available to the OS in an ACPI table that Windows checks. That check can be disabled with a registry key to prevent such software from being re-installed, and the motherboard may have a BIOS option to disable the anti-feature (though the registry key method is generally more effective, since BIOS settings often get reset to defaults).
Solar roof installs are continuing to grow. Slower than they hoped, but growing.

The semi factory will be finished late this year.

FSD gets better each month. Obviously there is massive debate if it will be “done” in 1, 2, 5, 10 or never years

Robotaxis were announced recently, the plan as announced is for them to be sold in 2026. That has not changed.

Looks like they’ll have some kind of driverless taxi service running this year with remote operators like Waymo.

Private moon mission was canned.

I think it’s pretty strange to say Musks promises never get delivered on when Tesla sells the most popular car on the planet two years running, spacex launches more to orbit than the rest of the world combined and a ton of other stuff.

Obviously he’s utterly nuts, and doesn’t deliver everything he talks about, and is very late on many things. But you have to be blind to say he never delivers anything.
I'm sorry, but calling out someone visible and public substance abuse problem isn't low. As someone who has dealt with addiction and its fallout since I was a very small child, I can emphatically say the man needs help first and foremost.

But, as the wealthiest man on the planet he's more likely to just be given what he wants: more self-indulgence. When you surround yourself with yes-men and sycophants, actual help isn't likely.

Further, it's entirely right to call this out when his actions impact the rest of the world greatly and the man has obvious problems. To then try and turn it around on me as if I'd done something wrong by pointing out the Emperor has no clothes? Well, I could offer you some choice words, but I'll hold my tongue. However, in my estimation, you could do with some self-reflection and probably a bit less "taste of boot on your tongue".
I think the focus on literacy is laudable. However, as the article points out the wealth isn’t locally generated, it is basically folks going out to gulf states sending back remittances. So while literacy has helped that there is not much to be said for local industry.

I don’t see any startup tech or manufacturing in India falling over themselves to start in Kerala.
Show HN: I Built a Directory Website Using CrewAI Agents and Vibe Coding
> xAI was relatively separated from X and TSLA, and wasn't having the backlashes associated with the two.

I don't understand this point: why would these backlashes care about the on-paper separation? (I'm assuming by backlash, you mean that of public opinion, which already knows about the xAI-Musk association).
> LoginClient.createNull().getUserInfo(...) should return a default response without actually talking to the third-party login service.

This seems like a security nightmare. In defense terms: here’s the side road to the castle with gates open, guarded by a single variable.
Awesome project :-)

I think the missing ingredient here is a way to export the tracked activities, but this looks like it was fun to make!
You mean the same vapor ware operating system that they have been promising for almost a decade?

And Google Earth - as opposed to Google maps, Drive, Sheets, Docs, etc is not a “major app”.

Flutter and Dart are going to end up in the same graveyard as many of their other products - https://killedbygoogle.com/
https://youtu.be/bVqWFuzFHoI
I passed this along to the engineering team.
At least one person at Microsoft either doesn't know what "user experience" means or they are being dishonest about it.
Genuine Captcha: The Privacy-Friendly Alternative for Secure, Human Verification
Interfaces are only useful if there is reason they won't change otherwise they get in the way. Reason is often policical - this is where another group talks to my code and so the less we have to know about the other the better (not that the code is hidden just that you ignore it) reason could also be it is used everywhere so any change would be months of effort to make - longer if anyone else needs to impment anything.

if change is easy then better to make the change - you never really know all future requiresments so getting it right is impossible.

unless getting it right is possible. if you are implementing a new language you should know enough to get the interface to your strings right on the first try. That is not the normal case. (Strings will soon become impossible to change)
I think the project is saying, in cases where you are deploying the Frontend with server side serving, then you can include this. Given projects like NextJS have a server side serving for react server-side-rendering and for APIs this project uses the server side to add additional services as mentioned in the post.
The author relies heavily on language patterns to try and crack the code of one of the best kept identity secrets.

As someone that is not notable, but enjoys anonymity, one of my primary tools is mixing up my language.. using words and conversation that I wouldn’t otherwise.. especially the use of British English phrases and spellings.

I find it rather soothing to know someone who spends so much time on this stuff puts so much weight on these things.
Oh of course I omitted the “in a video game” part, sorry.
Relevance to my comment?
have a look at this write up:

https://austinsnerdythings.com/2021/04/19/microsecond-accura...

(not usb though -- uses pps)
Musk is out there calling Tesla protestors terrorists. If what you're doing is enough to get you labelled a terrorist by the opposition, then you're doing something they fear.
Usage exemplified by the venerable "@nrmaggs" and "FoxMcChief", but also Craft Brewed Sports! Honored authorities that will stand the test of time!
"Chimpanzees stare into mirror and mistake reflection for AGI. Chimp Altman says we just need to invest 7 trillion bananas into a bigger mirror."
> test-only code paths should never reach prod

Why? Humanities most reliable engineered objects contain their own test and monitoring systems.
Are you ignoring context for some pretense, or do you not understand that statements have contextual meanings?
I think the underlying assumption is that we all suffer i.e. challenges and struggles in life.

Say first time heart-broken, some people really lean into it, and some of those people decide to do a deep dive into their chaotic feelings in order to retrieve a meaningful and personal perspective on a otherwise supposedly trivial thing, which they can finally articulate in an art form.

Put it differently: One can go through the motions and mostly copy paste the cultural wealth on a given topic or one can choose a very idiosyncratic route, depending on your craftsmanship the former will most certainly "resonate" with more people the latter only really resonates with you at first, normally it stays that way. But you can refine the process further going through a lot of cycles and with some luck get noticed for your individual/novel/fresh approach, an arduous process and the perseverance mostly comes from the art created being a very personal thing i.e. self-exploring. I think the hardest part is not getting lost when suddenly you manage to garner a lot of attention.
The names of Android OSes are always so cryptic. It's quite off putting.
It is the Communists who are flexible and pragmatic. It is the Communists who can free the market. It is capitalists who shoot themselves in the foot over pride in 'principles' and 'ideals', a great irony when no country on this earth today is 'purely' capitalist. They misunderstand Marxism, which is the doctrine that capitalism itself is revolutionary as it develops into its own opposite, that communism and capitalism are two stages of the same course of development.
All scams are not created equal.

Here's an article by Cory Doctorow, a great example of an intelligent, tech-savvy person, detailing how he got scammed.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swi...
In Swift, String? is an alias to Optional<String>. Optional is an enumeration with two cases: some, and none, where the former has the non-nil value attached. I‘m not sure how that ties in with subtyping though.
Canoeing on the Danube
> I suspect that it wasn’t trained well enough on your art

No no, it’s not that the style wasn’t mine, the subject was generic.

ChatGPT did the typical thing that messes people up when they draw: It was drawing a representation of the thing, instead of the shapes it sees. The AI clearly went “AH! That’s a venus flytrap. Here is a drawing of a venus flytrap”. But it wasn’t _that_ venus flytrap :)
Abolishing economic copyright while protecting (non-transferrable) moral rights is in this direction, I believe.
IANAL stands for "I am not a lawyer"

This reminded me of this one time my father used the term "annales" which in french apparently means "past exams" or something :P
… How did you miss the last year or so? I’m jealous.
Your point was that Microsoft "gives a couple of hoots" about which platform Gamepass is on, implying that they specifically care about making Gamepass not accessible on Linux. Them having a guide for Gamepass access on Linux proves the opposite.

But you're just nitpicking looking for an argument. So, goodbye.
> I'm not sure how it isn't true at all when we agree that other governments at the time had much more sophisticated administration.

We don’t agree about that. I am saying that they may have lacked technical sophistication insofar as they used stone tools over iron or steel, but this has no real bearing on their merits as organizers; the Incans were well-organized by world standards.

Europe did not have anything close to what the Incan Empire was at the time. China may have been better organized, but that just shows the sophistication of the Incans if we’re comparing them with an ancient civilization with an established bureaucracy and a population measured in the tens of millions.

> many areas of the Middle East, Central Asia, and East Asia

You will need to cite specific examples for this argument to hold any water; Japan and the Ottoman Empire are the only two I can think of.
I'm so sad that ePaper displays are still so expensive. They'd be perfect for splashing some home assistant driven goodness around my house. But the tiny ones are too tiny for my taste, and the big ones too expensive.
> Microsoft doesn't want me as a customer

You're right. The main customers are companies. Your employer will buy it for you!
Doesn't bittorrent have the tracker that is acting as the glue to connect to peers?
So much needless discussion because someone makes an ill thought out hot take. Most engineered objects of any substantial complexity include built in test systems. They would be impossible to build without them.
Tangible reasoning: So they raised 40b from xAI and brought X. Since musk owns X, xAI doesn’t need to pay a premium. Investors of X gets xAI share instead.

Non tangible reasoning:
Since xAI uses data from X to train, and xAI likely will be used to explain and make new tweets. It makes the entire operation less complex. Elon is positioning X as the interface to the world and xAI will likely help control that. Remember he is gunning X to be an everything app and likely AI will be the core of how that will play out.
Trump is a very dishonest man. You should not believe anything he says.
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.