skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like saying "hackers, stop breaking secure systems, because they will create even stronger ones."

Since the birth of civilization there have been rules, and people that try to break the rules. This is how it is meant to be. I welcome the future arms race between the tech priests of the AI-powered hell^Hworld, and the people that refuse to conform and do not want to be controlled by machines.

Sadly, more and more people forget this site is called Hacker News, and it is rapidly getting overwhelmed by the LLM and AI fanatics.

(This is my Saturday morning creative writing assignment. Don't read too much into it. But still, long live the struggle against AI.)
> Sometimes they watch celebrities play ball, because they suck at it, but it's entertaining

That's the part I don't get.

Also, at least some celebrities are indeed professional entertainers.

But the videos I talk about, I would have thought the people in there were not funnier than my real friends, even at 12 years old. They have nothing special about it.

Maybe that's the key? That they are as average as the viewer?
NFT are just lame collectibles.
A security has to secure ownership of something tangible that's not just its own definition of value or uniqueness.
GitHub gradually removes these users as they catch up to them, so not helpful to have extra steps. I have a couple of repos which were briefly popular, so when a new user stars it today, and I see 1000s of other stars, it's suspicious and I get a peek into their world.

There are obvious numeric usernames, but also fake orgs with repos for the users to fork and interact with, and a few account takeovers (i.e. someone had signed up for GitHub in 2015 to make a free wedding website, abandoned it, and the account fell into spammer hands). These used to be easier to report.
All this effort would be better put into lobbing for a law to outright ban/severely restrict the use of face recognition.

https://reclaimyourface.eu/
Pair of Pants
Pumping and dumping collectibles has a long history, from beanie babies to fake bodily remains of saints...
Outsourcing tech work is a lot easier now that companies support fully remote workers.

Previously, any outsourcing work would create hybrid environment which is the worst choice between fully remote and fully in person.
*waves in British*

• Long-term debt used to buy off the slave owners in 1837 and not getting fully paid down until 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837

• Napoleonic war debt was also still being serviced until 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/repayment-of-26-billion-h...
Why watch sports or tv shows or anything at all? It's other people having fun.
.hello
https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public

The book presents similar stories.
Whoever designed the color scheme for that page has to be blind. But yeah, Rust's borrow checker is not designed for GUI apps.
Doom Ported to a Single Lego Brick
I think it's more so your business travel experiences that caused you to hate it initially, not the solo travel itself. I've used similar rules, sometimes, and other times I didn't, both were good. For example, I stayed 5 weeks almost exclusively in Seoul last year and it was awesome, I met many people I simply would not have had I only stayed there two nights. I also discovered a lot more of the city and over the weeks I was able to feel myself living more like a local. Very interesting experience.
eh, I think you're reaching. Saying I'm working on being mad about it is as unsubstantiated as me saying that you’re a Vox fanboy who can't handle having your worldviews challenged. Bit pointless isn't it?
Since there is no homepage linked on his profile, I would think it was sarcasm ..

Still, to adress that point:

"isn't it good for society, and thus not such a bad job, that fools are parted from their money"

It is overall bad, as it creates an atmosphere of distrust and distrusting everything costs a lot of energy.
After you've watched a person enough on YouTube or Twitch you start feeling that you know them (even though it's completely unidirectional). I think there is a term for this but it's for sure an established phenomena. At that point it feels like watching friends do stuff I guess
> (I assume you mean "bland")

Yeah, Frenchman here :) Let met edit that.
Nothing outside some large book publisher trying to make me write a book so that they have a larger pool of authors to discard (they ask 5 people to write a book on some topic, pay like 5k upfront and select one in the end, wasting time of 4 people). All my bleeding edge articles had zero effect on my marketability and all I got was requests for source code or article republishing from some freeloaders. No jobs, no worthwhile connections came out of it.
Same case for "spelunka" in polish
Your comment is the best. It's the real deal!
The website confused my mobile phone browser.
Sorry, I read your comment twice but I have no idea what you're trying to say.
I'd take your point if French were massively (like 90%) in favor of more nuclear, and saw it as their main energy source for the future centuries. That's definitely not the case [exit: a poll mandated from a nuclear power organisation puts it at 50% of people seeing nuclear plants as a positive asset for the country:

https://www.ouest-france.fr/environnement/nucleaire/sondage-...
]

You can then think what you want of the French people and why they could be dead wrong for not thinking like you, but it's another debate: they'll still want to get out of it if given the time/choice.
Where would you normally talk to people in your home city or area? Would you talk to strangers tending their yard? Or would you try more sociable places like cafés and bars? So too with solo travel and conversing, people are generally the same everywhere. They'll be on their guard if a stranger comes up to them at a bus stop or in front of their lawn, but they'll be much more approachable in social areas.
You sound way too human to be an AI then
Just use Show HN & Reddit.
The term is "parasocial"
Make a media player, use it as digital photo frame, small home media server.
I'm gonna make a wild, flying leap prediction here.

There's a thousand pound gorilla that hasn't made a peep about LLMs. That same gorilla has digitized the largest corpus of text on earth, and controls the first or second largest private sector server infrastructure on the planet. They also have talking devices and assorted IoT stuff everywhere. They have the monitoring and live feedback infrastructure (read: Eavesdropping) to improve performance on a much faster timeline.

My prediction is that Amazon all but killed Alexa to focus on building a usable home LLM-type assistant for the masses, and is holding its fire waiting to see how the first generation of essentially toy LLM demos is digested by the press and the public during this Google/Microsoft war.
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I've made lots of friends as I traveled, so much that when I meet up with them in a different corner of the world, we do indeed reminisce about our previous adventures.
The claim I saw in the article is 98% precision. Which doesn't actually tell us the predictive value without the base rate which seems to be all over the place.
Unfortunately the hustle gurus usually spend it on making the world even worse: more scams, content promoting scammy lifestyle, paying scam buddies, paying off politician to pass scam friendly laws etc.

I don't really care (that much anyway, I do care a bit) that some useful idiot went broke buying into yet another crypto scam. I do care about the guys running the operation getting more resources though as they will use them to make the world I live in worse.
Twenty pull requests every morning. That’s my plan for 2024.
/s ??

I always expected there was a market for fake stars. I am trying to get a repo naturally to 1000 stars, but I would never buy them.
Portable Remote Tunable Magnetic Loop Antenna (2012) [pdf]
With something like Scientific Reports having first-decision time of half a year this is inevitable.
happens :)
And here is video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rzL-bNGzPw
Increased productivity of a single developer -> less demand for developers
More AI based companies and products -> more demand for developers
Not sure which force is stronger.
To be honest I never got that either, somebody scream for red or blue in front of a screen.

But at least for sports, you will see a level of play that is itself can be interesting because you can't just see it in day to day life.

Watching a video of a guy opening a kinder egg or playing badly at cod for the first time.

I get people watching streamers that are good at what they do. Rankers. Speed runners. Analysts. Jokers.

This is not what I'm talking about.
Acropalypse: a vulnerability in Google's screenshot editing tool
A demo is available here:
https://acropalypse.app/
What tld? It’s likely premium but they don’t get that info back until they call into the registry. Comparing prices between registrars is good practice as well.
Nice! I do something similar with my podcast's RSS feed. I just put BunnyCDN in front of my podcast host's feed, create a custom domain for the CDN, and then distribute my domain instead of the vendor-locked RSS feed the podcast host provides. I've switched podcast hosts, and there's zero impact on listeners.
I get that. Humans can get close to anything or anyone.

But to get there, you have to spend time doing so before it happens.

Which means you have to watch many videos where somebody is explaining their school day or reacting to a movie trailer before you get to that point.
Jagdstaffel 66 - Pilot Was Killed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R0aww_EzOCk
Your anecdote about the button and vertical alignment doesn't really hold. Vertical alignment has been a solved problem for many years thanks to flexbox. And obviously, use a <button> tag to make a button.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35207785

But I can live as well with it. I don't blame the kids that watch those. I just don't understand it.
It has to be mentioned that "the internet" which seems like "everyone", as discussed in this post is a self-selecting group of people. The longer we have this "the internet" (which is prone to be upsetting, as the post discusses) the more people will learn to avoid it. This was really driven home for me when I mentioned commenting on a YouTube video to one of my more real-world-well-adjusted friends, and he admitted that such a thing would never even occur to him.
How does that make sense thermodynamically? Where's the gradient? Do they fly at the boundary between different wind speeds?
This seems to have nothing to do with face recognition, but rather misleading the AI to misidentify person as other objects in object recognition task. I like their mission, and I think the design look pretty good. My only concern is that this feature could cause self-driving vehicles to ignore the person wearing it, thus creating a serious safety issue.
One other (bad) option is raising the retirement age or lowering the start-work age.
I have the conclusion opt-in async/await is a mistake. I think high level language/runtime like c# should handle it automatically like it is a sync call but a way to opt-out should be still possible. In my career, 99% of the time my code awaited async calls. I remember one case we tried to run tasks parallel, but the client for DB(ravendb) started throwing exceptions, possible race condition.

Also, they did terrible work when it was first introduced, low level details were leaked to app surface and it was impossible to comprehend for a regular programmer what the hell is going on? Do you remember ConfigureAwait(false)?

Years later such guidance compiled: https://github.com/davidfowl/AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios/b...
I gave up and started using Flutter with flutter_rust_bridge for business logic. I'm convinced that UI development from scratch simply cannot happen without a large company backing the project, giving it time and money. Flutter took over ten years and likely millions of dollars. HTML, CSS, and JS / TS? Likely billions.

This is because simply building the UI toolkit itself is usually not a prime motivator for a startup, they want to work on their differentiating features, not on reinventing the wheel. Of course, if the startup is a text editor or other such UI heavy app, then it may make sense to reinvent the UI wheel. Figma showed this successfully, and perhaps Zed and Warp might, too.
Docker layers are content-addressable. So the hashes are not entirely opaque. They are a direct result of what’s inside. Two images (mostly) share the same layers? No disk space wasted whatsoever.

Sure you could implement a finer-grained deduplication or transfer mechanism, but I doubt this would scale as well. Many large image layers consist of lots and lots of small files. The overhead would be tremendous.
>GitHub gradually removes these users as they catch up to them

With collaterals too I presume [1]. I guess I've been the victim of some automated system. They have banned my account without warning or explanation and they've been ignoring my support tickets for about 2 months!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817163
I don't really have thoughts about this thread - though reading that book from the US Marine Corp could be interesting.

However, your comment made me think: we talk about "cycle breakers" in the context of inter-generational trauma, usually within a family or group. Are we now approaching a critical mass where we need an entire generation (or >50%) of cultural cycle breakers to actually progress social norms and political discourse?
Delphi designed in the 90s is still far superior to any web technology for building UI - you can make a complete standalone app in a few hours instead of weeks. IMO JavaScript was pushed by some large corps in order to commoditize developers and also because that was about as much programming as many decision makers were capable of understanding. Now we have the Node.js/React/Electron cancer everywhere making simple things overcomplicated for 99.9% of use cases.
Yeah, I pretty much dropped of a number of platforms, like Reddit, because they have become overrun by people with depression (or supposed depressions) who will use any type of online input field as a way to offload on random stranger. I get that it's because many of them can't afford professional help, but damn that's asking a lot of someone who is just trying to debate the fine points of asian cooking or watch a silly take on yesterdays news.
Quiltflower – Modern Java Decompiler
uf they ran into a ton of bugs
You’re correct, I got confused.
ChatGPT could probably write better text than much of the SPAM I've been fighting off for years (email, forums). Technical methods that screen most of this stuff before anything would look at actual text probably remain far more important.
We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes

It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why

We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls
Agreed. My wife and I all but stopped drinking in 2023 except for when we go out which is maybe once a month.

We get along better. We both exercise more. We are more constructive. Output more. Enjoy life more.

I could go on. I wouldn’t be surprised if we continue to phase drinking out altogether. It’s just not worth the downside for a few hours of fun.
Everything in California is explained by boomers voting themselves out of paying taxes. In this case the regulator never let them raise prices for maintenance so it's all coming due now.

(PG&E is basically nationalized already, they don't make their own decisions here.)
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Is it just me or the fact that Dagster has one of their competitors Mage.ai listed here as a repo with around 15% of fake stars seems like an odd coincidence?
Thought the exact same thing, if there was any actual reasoning going on, that would be the answer.

I know, I know ChatGPT 5...
- "The calculated HVL for Prusament PETG Tungsten 75% is 1.402 mm (orange mark). For comparison, the HVL for pure lead is 0.256 mm, HVL for pure tungsten is 0.191 mm."

Err, they make it sound like ordinary lead is the best choice? The article's point is that additive manufacturing is a workaround for tungsten's difficult material working properties. But: lead foil, you can simply bend it with your hands, into any shape you want. And apparently it's much thinner.
Typo. I meant billion. It's also been a long time since I actually needed to know this, so I'm not 100% sure it's ~4 billion.
The 'old internet' was chuck full of hucksters and scammers and 'futurists' selling snake oil, at least from circa 1993 onward and in full bloom since around the time of the Netscape IPO. It was pretty much exactly like the crypto industry, a core of real technologists doing amazing stuff, and then a whole industry of scammy sales people on top of it.

If you are talking about pre-web, I'd say crypto had that era too, up until around 2012 when bitcoin really took off.
Nope, that's a fallacy. Sync and Async code have inherently different semantics and trying to unify them will always fail, no matter what technique you try to apply. It has been tried more than often enough.
You can be factual and still sound pretentious and cringey. Like the medical doctors who insist on being called “doctor”, to the point of smuggly “correcting” strangers in a social setting.

I don’t know this user and won’t assume his intentions, but I can see how having “I’m a GitHub star [star emoji]” as the first sentence on the profile is doing him a disservice: it makes it seem like it’s the most impressive thing he’s achieved and diminishes everything else.
Even if the law or corporate statute requires that owners of, say, 10% of shares should be able to raise the concern or even block big decisions like a sale of the company, in practice the ownership is very uneven. Just 10% of owners can own 90% of shares.

For less drastic decisions where holders of 50%+1 or 2/3 of shares is enough agreement of board members and few more shareholders is often enough.

And even with less skewed share distribution views of shareholders are very broad and the board does not have troubles to form the necessary majority.

Surely shareholders coups are possible, but those are rare.
The fact that useful code can be generated is about as meaningful as saying you can find useful code in a search engine. A non-technical person won't even know where even to begin with utilizing it.

OP is right, nothing will really change as long as there's no tool that can turn a Jira ticket into a pull request.
> you are losing traction and your competitors will win

i mean, unless your competitor produces order of magnitude less bugs than you, how can this be true?
KDE is genuinely really good now. As fully featured desktop environments go it’s right up there with the commercial offerings.

Unfortunately I’ve moved on and I don’t want that anymore. A minimalist tiling desktop like sway or i3 suits me much better. Particularly on a touchpad where dragging windows is a faff.
The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
It reads like they added it.

I thought Apple rebased at some point but maybe that was when NeXT merged with Apple.
I view this behavior as an emerging property, and I don't think you can get rid of it.

What we as a society can do is educate people that companies are not your friends, that they are amoral, and they exist to maximize their profits. I think we shouldn't allow them to make political donations or support any charity or social movement because this makes them seem "friendly," - which is a net negative for society.

Can you elaborate on why civil disobedience is the only choice? I don't think it is. We haven't tried other solutions. I would love to see a global agreement to cap the wealth of any individual at $1 billion dollars and the total market value of any company at $100bn (those numbers are arbitrary).
I couldn't agree more, html was designed as a simple way for users to create documents, not interactive applications. IMO stylesheets are the only good feature from html worth pulling into the app ecosystem, but otherwise I really dislike the trend of bringing web technologies designed to solve the limitation of web pages or stateless servers into desktop/mobile application development.
Russia just pulled out of the START treaty. If killer robots come anywhere near Russian soil you'll probably be seeing your nuclear winter.

It's better we all just be friends if possible.
Sorry, I was trying to be funny with the datacenter, using that word together with cupboard upper shelf and my equipment :)

This may have been funny for people who know me and my 30n years of work with real datacenters.

This is also an example of how badly written words on internet convey emotions (especially humour)
I've backpacked all over the world by myself, but last time I flew out I just kind of got idk, bored of it? There's only so much to do if you're by yourself in a place where you don't know anyone or speak the language very well (if at all). You take walks, you go to museums, you eat the local foods and go out clubbing at night, see if you can't get laid, maybe go to the beach if there is one. And then you can do some hiking if you're in the wilderness.
I guess you could say philosophy is a protoscience.
Completely agree with this. Having ported a lot of old non async c# to async, even mixing the notions for a moment is a disaster. This was a world of pain in the late .net classic lifecycle (4.5-4.8) where Microsoft kept fucking it up as well as us.
You are making judgement calls on people's personalities based on not very much. HN is a public website, the discussions can be good and genuine and we can all be the same narcissistic psychopaths that are only here to accumulate HN karma that for some reason we value higher than money.

Or we can all be dogs, it's the internet and you have no idea. I'd start taking online communities with a bigger grain of salt.
Zhuangzi – Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease
In theory yes, but in practical terms taking care of board members and few remaining big shareholders is enough.
For desktop apps, you have to design the UI completely differently if it async or blocking. If it is async then suddenly the user can push other buttons while the previous action is executing which makes it a magnitude more complex.
One might argue self-driving cars are the serious safety issue, but maybe that's a controversial take.
Top-quality paperweight.
It's also the kind of wonky that's like, a big problem wonky.

"Plane taxis into fire truck" is especially not good wonky.