skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I built a site to track the Fed Funds Rate in real time
TR in the US makes sockets harder to use, but I have never heard anyone complain about TR in the UK, as the earth/ground pin is always present, and is physically longer than the live and neutral, so mechanically it is reliable and unnoticeable.

“Just baby proof” means remembering to keep those little plastic covers in place in every outlet. That doesn’t seem like superior usability.
"elon musk cares about free speech" yeah and your dad is coming back with those cigarettes any day now
Biomass Syngas Chemical Looping Combustion Using Fluidizable Oxygen Carriers
As a reminder, lacolhost.com and all subdomains will forever resolve to localhost (well for as long as I'm around at least)
The Way the Audio Industry Hires Is Unnecessarily Humiliating
> his public persona is essentially that of an angry baby

pure projection on your part
Really? I thought I was the only one. Everyone around me seem to do fine with a good 3-5 hours of sleep. Before I lost weight, even if I had a good 7 hours of sleep, I'd still fall asleep at work. Now, even if I do get sleepy, a little moving around fixes things.
>I don't look at a stump and ascertain its chairness with a confidence of 85%

But i think you did. Not consciously, but i think your brain definitely did.

https://www.nature.com/articles/415429a
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8891655/
Yet when you ask it to dim the lights, it dims either way too little or way too much. Poor Geordi.
Government by personal gripes.
Is it? It looks like it ranges from 17% to 27% depending on countries, so I assumed it was still national decision.
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Vibe code with your GraphQL API
> That's capitalism for ye :/ Join us on the UBI train.

The people with all of the money effectively froze wages for 45 years, and that was when there were people actually doing labor for them.

What makes you think that they'll peaceably agree to UBI for people who don't sell them labor for money?
I think Lucy is going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time
The easy workaround I've seen companies use for that is by using a basic wildcard certificate (*.local.mydomain.biz).
Now watch the uncut version of Das Boot undubbed (5hr8m long).
- Despite the flood of benchmark-tuned LLMs, we remain nowhere close to engineering a machine intelligence rivaling that of a cat or a dog, let alone within the next 5 to 10 years.

- The world already hosts millions of organic AI (Actual Intelligence). Many statistically at genius-level IQ. Does their existence make you obsolete?
Show HN: Headful Playwright on AWS Lambda
Made a template for headful playwright on AWS Lambda. Should be useful for anyone working on CUA's!
The SSN details weren’t true in MA. My card was lost at some point in college and I never bothered to replace. Probably should one of these years.

Not sure what proof of voter registration would look like here though. Proof of resident address can actually be non-trivial for a lot of even housed people. I probably have some online bills and statements but would have to dig them up.
We just moved from 4.6.1 to 4.8 this year. We maintain a frontend(++) for a major enterprise software package, and follow them. They just moved to 4.8 so we did as well. Not even the point release. The contractor I work for is pretty conservative, he likes his 1+ million dollar home and worldwide vacations. He won't be changing anything without being forced by Microsoft.

Even if Microsoft puts in a huge effort to updating a migration tool to be seamless, we wouldn't use it. It'll only happen when either the larger enterprise corporation migrates, or when Microsoft forces people off 4.8.
We didn't get to control where it stops by following the process either, at least we could have had a hand on the wheel. You are advocating for bringing a knife to a gun fight.

For what its' worth, by the time Biden was elected, the party was already dead. It would have realized that in 2020 if Trump hadn't messed up COVID so badly. The best example of what I am talking about is Obama not seating Merrick Garland on the court and daring the Senate to stop him.
I don't know. I remember much more my failures than my successes. There are errors in important tests that I remember for life the correct answer.
What? Isn't wasm just a bytecode? How could you write rules in wasm?
Not necessarily. The reality is the landscaping guy is struggling to handle callbacks or is burning overhead. Even then, two girls in the office hits a ceiling where it doesn’t scale quickly, now you’re in a call center scenario.

Call center based services always suck. I remember going to a talk where American Express, who operated best in class call centers, found that 75% of their customers don’t want to talk to them. The people are there because that’s needed for a complex relationship, the more stuff you can address earlier in the funnel, the better.

Customers don’t want to talk to you, and ultimately serving the customer is the point.
Following along closely!

Just want to say I stumbled across your Youtube channel a while back and have been delighted by the content. Keep up the good work!
I use MacWhisper and it works well enough for me to stop looking for options.(MBA M2 24GB Ram - Large V3 English)

I wouldn't feel comfortable if someone were looking over my shoulder while I'm typing at a coffee shop.

I am not your customer.
If you're curious, the code in ellipsis results in executing:

print('hello, world')
Not quite comparable; these systems will continue to grow in capacity until there is nothing for your average human to be able to reskill to. Not only that, they will truly be beyond our comprehension (arguably, they already are: our interpretability work is far from where it would need to be to safely build towards a superintelligence, and yet...)
I mean people might be dicks about it, but I stand by my point.

It’s inherently hard to learn new things, especially if they’re contrary to things that you’ve been doing for N years, so I understand frustration, but that doesn’t imply that Nix itself is more difficult than anything else.

There are plenty of things that aren’t inherently difficult for most humans, but are hard to learn simply because they’re different. I don’t know that Spanish is a more difficult language than English, but I would have trouble learning it just because I have spent my entire life speaking English and approximately none of it speaking Spanish. This doesn’t mean Spanish is more difficult than English.

I will agree that the Nix language itself is kind of a pain in the ass with wonky syntax, though I have grown to kind of like it begrudgingly.
Trump is actively weaponizing the DOJ... while saying he is ending the weaponization of Federal Government.
Worse, if my memory serves me right, even neighboring flocks are killed in attempt to preemptively prevent the spread.
Intellectual Property is a questionable idea to begin with...
Oof that demo video that shows a coworker coming to ask a question and the guy just hits the busy button without turning his head is brutal.

The device itself looks pretty neat, and seems like it does have a lot more features than that douchebag-projecting use case.

For that price though, you might as well get an ipad...
The MCP Registry Registry
Pieces Works in Progress would like to commission
wow this is hitting hacker news front page ?
if we can change the hosts file - I want to propose you can have any domain name for local services.
yes I really hope a lot of these ML startups check out the history of ML tech a bit more because so many accessibility tools are built via ML but theyve been abandoned
I sleep 5-6 hours a night. I also seem to be bi-phasic...on the weekends if I wake up after 5 hours, hang around for an hour and successfully go back to sleep, the second cycle is the sleep of the dead. Like, I don't move. Wake up with limbs fallen asleep, a deep divot in the memory foam...and a lot more rested.

(as an aside: have CPAP, apnea is not a factor.)
solves a common problem. assuming there's a real crng generating them, the links expire in a short window, they aren't logged, and the hashes aren't computed for a commercial rainbow table, what are the specific security objections to this?

its like a vault secret without the authn friction.
> As a reminder, lacolhost.com …

I’m assuming that typo is intentional?
I'm glad we're seeing the death of the concept of owning an idea. I just hope the people who were relying on owning a slice of the noosphere can find some other way to sustain themselves.
I think the most plausible takeaway is that, assuming this study is "correct", if a process would only allow a few kg of life at planetary scale then that process is not what life would rely on in that environment.
https://temp.pw/?item=82282c4798d60cb4#key=idh36ud

I think something like this could work.

The server store encrypted password identified by item id. Browser side decrypt the encrypted password using key in the hash part. The hash part does not reach the server.
Encrypt password with a given key, send that to the server. Include the key in the `#fragment` of the URL to Share.
> (well for as long as I'm around at least)

Rather big caveat IMO. As a side note, your domain doesn't seem to have an AAAA record (which [.]localhost binds to by default on most of my machines, at least).
I have found there to be less diversity in thought on the internet in the last 10 years. I used to find lots of wild ideas and theories out there on obscure sites. Now it seems like every website is the same, talking about the same things
I have a public domain that resolves to a static lease in my internal network, which is running nginx proxy manager.

When I add a new site to my local setup, I just define a CNAME in Cloudflare and add an entry in Nginx proxy manager. It handles SSL via wildcard cert.
There were people buying 18,000 SPY 510 calls at noon due to expire yesterday at 4pm. That is an absolutely insane thing to do unless you had very sure insider information of an incoming spike
Absolutely. You can do it on a seasonal basis if you have a large enough thermal mass but you can also do it on a daily basis if you have significant temperature variation throughout the day. Doesn't work so well in very hot or very cold climate but places with extreme daily temperature swing get a lot of benefit from thermal battery arrangements.

An example I find very interesting is this greenhouse built to use the ground as a thermal battery. It's possible, even in moderately cold climates, to drastically reduce (or maybe even eliminate) the use of active heating during winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acByGuSMALc
I've generally looked around.

Looking at that, I'm not sure corporate would be down for something like that as a solution for "select multiple documents in a database GUI and operate upon them". Could be wrong though.
Does it support Claude?
I couldn’t agree more, but as a 12 year old fingerprints of the gods got me started
M365 Family users face work disruption after incorrect sub expiry message
Midwesterner here. Past generations of conservatives were also very conservation minded. They understood the lasting value of preserving our natural resources. Hell back in the 80s and 90s it was normal for Reagan Republicans to also be in the Sierra Club. That very reasonable centrist organization is now chastized as "radical left," that's how far down the slippery slope we are. They are due for a very rude awakening, but by the time they realize it, it will all be ruined. They don't care about anything if it doesn't affect them directly, the polar opposite of the story of the ancient middle eastern rabbi they name check as their god and savior.
yes I made it super simple on purpose, but pwpush looks cool!
Locating civilian, friendly and radar-visible aircraft is a solved problem though. So the distinction is only a matter of subtraction.

No, in fact this kind of technique absolutely puts a hard limit on the value of "stealth" devices, which are purpose-designed to evade a very specific technology that was a warfare-changing innovation in the 1940's but is now pretty cheaply replaceable by consumer junk.

The days of large manned aircraft are very much numbered, and armies that fail to see that are armies that are destined to lose.
fedora/toolbox and distrobox create containers that can access the X socket and /dev/dri/ to run GUI apps from containers.

Flatpaks share (GNOME,KDE,NVIDIA,podman,) runtimes, by comparison.

Re: MSIX
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394302 :

> MSIX only enforces a sandbox if an application doesn’t elect to use the restricted capabilities that allow it to run without. File system and registry virtualization can be disabled quite easily with a few lines in the package manifest, as well as a host of other isolation features.

Flatseal and KDE and Gnome can modify per-flatpak permissions. IDK if there's a way to do per-flatpak-instance permissions, like containers.

MOUNT --type=cache
Probably means a lack of out of the box rulesets. Writing your own rules to use a build system for a typical project is an unrealistic ask, IMO.
Some more modern browser APIs only work in HTTPS. That's why I had to do it.
The "stealth aircraft hate this one weird trick" conversation also has to contend with jamming, because many of the techniques that work great at spotting stealth aircraft in peacetime are especially vulnerable to jamming. This makes them far less useful in an actual conflict.
Right, and I think that's a combination of a few factors— first of all, there's the basic momentum that CMake is widely known and has a huge ecosystem of find modules, so it's a very safe choice— no one got fired for choosing https://boringtechnology.club

But bigger than that is just that a lot of these build system and infrastructure choices are made when a project is small and builds fast anyway. Who cares about incremental builds and aggressive caching when the whole thing is over in two seconds, right? Once a project is big enough that this starts to be a pain point, the build system (especially if it's one like CMake that allows a lot of undisciplined usage) is deeply entrenched and the cost of switching is higher.

Choosing technologies like Nix or Bazel can be seen as excessive upfront complexity or premature optimization, particularly if some or all of the team members would have to actually learn the things— from a manager's point of view, there's the very real risk that your star engineer spends weeks watching tech talks and yak shaving the perfect build setup instead of actually building core parts of the product.

Ultimately, this kind of thing comes back to the importance of competent technical leadership. Infrastructure like build system choice is important enough to be a CTO call, and that person needs to be able to understand the benefits, to weigh activation costs against the 5-10 plan for the product and team, and be able to say "yes, we plan for this thing to be big enough that investing in learning and using good tools right now is worth it" or "no, this is a throwaway prototype to get us to our seed money, avoid any unnecessary scaffolding."
You'd be aiding in one-half of the issue though (environment/internal).
I think we're really starting to over crowd pythons syntax and I'm not a fan.
Agreed, that's important. What'd I get wrong?
Feedback: Input box gives zero clue that it is editable. Share button looks disabled button.
It is an interesting time for LLMs to burst on the scene. Most online forums have already turned people into text replicators. Most HN commenters can be prompted into “write a comment about slop violating copyright” / “write a comment about Google violating privacy” / “write a comment about managers not understanding remote work”. All you have to do is state the opposite.

A perfect time for LLMs to show up and do the same. The subreddit simulators were hilarious because of the unusual ways they would perform but a modern LLM is a near perfect approximation of the average HN commenter.

I would have assumed that making LLMs indistinguishable from these humans would make those kinds of comments less interesting to interact with but there’s a base level of conversation that hooks people.

On Twitter, LLM-equipped Indians cosplay as right wing white supremacists and amass large followings (also bots, perhaps?) revealed only when they have to participate in synchronous conversation.

And yet, they are still popular. Even the “Texas has warm water ports” Texan is still around and has a following (many of whom seem non-bot though who can tell?).

Even though we have a literal drone, humans still engage in drone behaviour and other humans still engage them. Fascinating. I wonder whether the truth is that the inherent past-replication of low-temperature LLMs is likely to fix us to our present state than to raise us to a new equilibrium.

Experiments in Musical Intelligence is now over 40 years old and I thought it was going to revolutionize things: unknown melodies discovered by machine married to mind. Maybe LLMs aren’t going to move us forward only because this point is already a strong attractor. I’m optimistic in the power of boredom, though!
You can have an LLM crank out words but you can't make them mean anything
3-5 hours a night??
We used your repo as inspiration for a separate US gov't design system (not uswds) at the beginning but ended up shifting focus to building web components just before I left.

Awesome work and hope your gov't sees the value of this work and oss work in general!
No offence meant, but this sounds like those doomsday prepper fantasies where they store chainsaws and crossbows in the garage because they think they’d thrive in a zombie apocalypse.

If your whole continent went without electricity for a year, something massively fucked up would be going on (like a gigantic war) and stocking up on beans and berries wouldn’t begin to address the issue.

Connecting phones peer-to-peer is a bad priority when civilisation and the government are collapsing around you. We already have cheap, reliable, sturdy walkie-talkies which run on replaceable batteries that can last for months and years, why would we waste precious energy resources charging expensive, fragile, unreliable phones that barely last one day?

Sounds like you don’t live in a city and are fantasising about being cut off from the rest of the world, but for most people collaboration would be key. Communities would need to form and be tighter to help everyone.
Derek writes a lot of great fashion threads but he is a dyed-in-the-wool partisan and it comes through any time he touches on things remotely political. This doesn't mean he's wrong and it isn't even necessarily a bad thing, but it's important to keep that in mind and just remember that when he says something political he likely arrived at that political opinion first and is picking examples/hypotheticals to support it, and not vice versa.
The source essay has more photos and illustrations

https://theconversation.com/fossil-footprints-reveal-what-ma...
7 years or maybe 14 that's all anybody needs. Anything else is greed and stops human progress.
What specific gun control laws do we not already have on the books that would actually prevent a determined individual from getting a gun?
Insert: energy harvesting skin provides 2 microwatts of power
May want to reread. U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men is pretty prominent in his Robot stories.
Translating the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
The *.home.arpa domain in RFC 8375 has been approved for local use since 2018, which is long enough ago that most hardware and software currently in use should be able to handle it.
If we are headed to a star-trek future of luxury communism, there will definitely be growing pains as the things we value become valueless within our current economic system. Even though the book itself is so-so IMO, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom provides a look at a future economy where there is an infinite supply of physical goods so the only economy is that of reputation. People compete for recognition instead of money.

This is all theoretical, I don’t know if I believe that we as humans can overcome our desire to hoard and fight over our possessions.
Super cool! Though cloud cover disabling your detection technique may make this infeasible for anything but low-altitude drones.

One small nit: Calling Ray-tracing "Not AI" is like calling Matrix Math "Not AI". It's definitely a core component of a lot Machine Perception (i.e. AI) tasks.

I'm guessing OP meant "Without using any costly CNN or Transformer inferencing", which is actually a clever achievement.
or that it would aggressively focused on doing the work of already low paid creative field jobs. I dont want to read an AI's writing if theres a person who could write it.
As I recall, many of his early stories involved "U.S. Robot & Mechanical Men" which was a huge conglomerate owning a lot of the market on AI (called "robots" by Asimov, it included "Multivac" and other interfaces besides humanoid robots).
> This is such a goofy assumption. That any life on Titan would use the exact same amino acids as earth-based life.

I might be wrong, but I think they use this assumption because they KNOW life has already formed this way, it would be goofy to assume methods that we haven't witnessed right ?
Aren't some folks just watching the reflection of cell phone signals? Why bother with an expensive radar system when the cell phone system is flooding the sky with radiation anyway?
I don't know why the share button became that color. I actually made this years ago because I needed it for my company. But then file.io was acquired (which I was using for the backend), and so I had to recently switch to using aws as the backend. So I vibe-coded a new backend api for aws in the last couple of months. I also acquired the domain temp.pw - previously used temporary.pw (which still works).
Evolution is not about being better / winning but about adapting. People will adapt and co-exist. Some better than others.

AIs aren't really part of the whole evolutionary race for survival so far. We create them. And we allow them to run. And then we shut them down. Maybe there will be some AI enhanced people that start doing better. And maybe the people bit become optional at some point. At that point you might argue we've just morphed/evolved into whatever that is.
You could have said the same thing when we invented the steam engine, mechanized looms, &c. As long as the driving force of the economy/technology is "make numbers bigger" there is no end in sight, there will never be enough, there is no goal to achieve.

We already live lives which are artificial in almost every way. People used to die of physical exhaustion and malnutrition, now they die of lack of exercise and gluttony, surely we could have stopped somewhere in the middle. It's not a ressource or technology problem at that point, it's societal/political
That's your opinion, not a "more accurate" conclusion.

I think the upper limit, really is consecutive hours before you need a good rest to be able to start over. If you can do that over 4 days, you can do it over 5. A standard 7-8 hours a day allows both for breaks during the day, and good rest overnight so I don't believe that it is "ridiculous" to think that it is sustainable over 5 days. (Happy to be proved wrong).

As an anecdote or personal experience, I think we've all been in offices (all/most offices?) where people were not exactly flat out all day long...
They say the web is dead, but I think we just have bad search engines.
on a separate note - Supernote makes absolutely amazing devices.
I have x5 and unfortunately can't justify getting Nomad (x5 v2) since my older device runs just wonderfully