skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just ask something obscure like what is the mass of Jupiter or something. ChatGPT et al will answer with something, but the average human will likely respond with "no idea" or "I don't know".

So far LLMs will just make up bullshit rather than say they don't know
So funny how this thread got nerd-sniped from Brave search to hotel booking.
The wildcat strike by teachers in West Virginia is a good example where simply quitting wasn't effective.

Your comment "get you more money" makes it seem like you think more money is the primary reason people join a union.

People also join a union to have better defense against capricious management decisions ("Give the superintendent's kid an A or I'll give you bad teaching assignments".)

People are also willing to take a lower salary for better job security.

Grievances can be mediated through a union rep, like the shop steward, who is more likely to be aligned with the employee than the company's HR rep or management.

In some companies, unions have right to have a member be present at board meetings.

> where quitting is normalized generates similar benefits to unions

That's somewhat tautological. The power of unions is based on people quitting. The point is the quitting together is more effective than quitting piecemeal, such that even the risk of having mass coordinated quitting can be an effective tool for the union.
Similar dynamic with credit cards, where retailers are forbidden from offering a cash discount. Though some skirt this using rewards programs— in Canada for example, Canadian Tire gives you more Canadian Tire "money" if you pay with debit or cash.
The 'green agenda' is a red herring. The problem lies with companies not maintaining their infrastructure because it costs money, then blaming whatever is convenient when it breaks.
"The culture of no" demands obedience and forbids anything remotely fun.

Lazy pencil pushers kill kids' curiosity before it begins, footgunning their entire purpose for being.
Looks a lot like an MVP landing page to collect emails.
Not really sophisticated but I wrote a ~200 line Python script to trawl a few data sources like USPTO and Reddit and aggregate that info into an e-mail for me to review daily. It was extremely helpful in getting me up to speed in a new job that I lacked the background for.
I remember reading about Romero playing multiplayer Doom whole day instead of working on Quake. Carmack could have been tired of his shit. No walls no way to hide, everyone can see everyone else working/slacking off.
> devices that our school board issues to my children

Why is the school issuing anything to students? It should be your prerogative to outfit your child with whatever they need. School can ask for minimums (a pen, a notebook, certain textbooks, etc.) but they should not be issuing anything themselves.
Probably just old wording? I didn't follow it that closely but I remember it being mentioned here that it had been a long-standing bit of tech debt that they were finally dealing with it, and I thought it was meant to be a clean cut.
DNS query flooding for domain curl
I'm using ChatGPT to build a note taking app just for myself. Haven't completed it yet but plan to open source it once it is done.
You can also do it with Google lens on any android, unless I'm misunderstanding the functionality
Can you expand upon this? Curious to learn more (as an American who has consumed a lot of K-dramas, I often feel like subtleties sometimes fly over my head).
And one with zero ads on the home screen. Something the shield now does by default :(
I would love to hear/read about your journey. Especially what your thoughts were at the start. There wasn't much like ChatGPT when you started 3 years ago, wasn't that fog scary af? How many times did you pivot/change your AI models?
My rule of thumb for evaluating laws: what could the most malicious person you can imagine do with that power?

'Hate speech' is a highly subjective category, and most proposals for hate speech laws that I've seen could be abused terribly.
A New Type of Furniture ESD and Its Implications (1993) [pdf]
This just seems like a gaping flaw in the business model if it can't possibly survive a lack of access to unlimited free copyrighted data on tap and/or laws continuing to be enforced *even for* very well capitalised commercial companies. Apparently this is wildly unfair to expect multi billion companies to meet standards.
The most interesting tech I made for myself is rather mundane, but it's one I use every day, it's the FinalKey password manager.
A recipe manager for our family that strips all the SEO text out using the OpenAI API. I built this after someone in our family got diagnosed gluten intolerant and we had to make changes to our usual recipes.

Normal recipe sites tend to be full of irrelevant (SEO optimized) text, ads and tracking, and I wanted something to just get the recipe in a clean form.

It’s a basic web application (mostly in Go) to manage recipes. New recipes are imported from an URL, after which it extracts the plain text from the site and uses GPT to get a markdown formatted recipe and list of ingredients.

This would’ve been much harder pre-GPT, but now was trivial to implement.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. Regardless of your sincerity, that's what this amounts to on a large public internet forum. It's off topic, and we have to ban accounts that do it, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
BYOD is partially a terrible idea. They shouldn't be sending kids home with devices. What about parents who object to technology screen time?

Could we not invent a religion, say Reformed Mennonites, that objects to children using screen devices? How could they argue with that?
Ask HN: What is ArXiv and why it so important?
The flaw in this point is, there are really only a handful of measures that actually matter: writing performant code, shipping quickly, delivering business requirements (really this is an official sounding way of saying "doing the actual thing the program needs to do"), and eliminating bugs.

The other things are just proxies for the real measures, that people made up, and in fact are often harmful to the main goal. Like "documenting code" and "writing tests" a lot of the time are just cargo culting to make people feel like they're being responsible and following "best practices" without actually improving the measures that matter. I think that the other unlisted metrics in your "every measure someone dreams up..." are likely to fall under this category.

There isn't an infinite number of possible measures like you're suggesting, there's a finite number and a rather small number at that. You can definitely be really good or really bad at quickly shipping performant bug-free code that does its job. The problem in this debate is that one side is completely ignoring one of these measures, and trying to claim that it's because they have to prioritize the other ones, and that this is just an inevitable tradeoff, rather than that we lack the skill as an industry to do all of these things at an acceptable level. Being a good programmer may involve more axes than being a good chess player, but I think the claim that there are so many axes that it negates the existence of programming competence reductios to absurdum pretty quickly.
Geeky misconception: the wet/dry cycle can be optimal.
Created a query builder for microsoft's KQL for making my life easier for a client project. Turned out that this company still uses this library after 5 years :).

Probably the best feeling ever in work.
You can't post like this here, regardless of what anyone else has posted. I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
For everyone out there who wants to get into this wonderful world, I recommend visiting MiniDisc Wiki's Get Started Guide (https://www.minidisc.wiki/guides/getting-started) and its subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/minidisc/)
It would be applied to the end-user, so it would change nothing up to you paying the extra at the end of the line.

VAT is not a sales tax but a tax for the full chain of added value.
Not sure if this counts:

A lighting desk for my hobby of lighting live music. For reasons I like doing live control along with the music (known as busking). Existing things are either limited and can't control moving lights, or don't have the flexibility to busk the way I want. so, having worked a long time ago for a crowd that built what were at the time the best lighting desks in the world, I built my own

It has 36 motorised faders and a bunch of other boards with buttons, that each ave their own AtTiny to run the function, they talk to a BeagleBone Black which runs the main code loop and uses its on board realtime processors to generate DMX, and a raspberry Pi to run the GUI for configuration.

Worked a treat most of the time, and I've done hundreds of shows with it, with crowds of up to 400 people, Sadly, I made a dumb decision on the protocol for the fader and button boards to talk to the BeagleBone and every now and then it causes a kernel panic on the Beaglebone, which means at best you lose control of the lights and at worst it goes dark on stage.

I started a redesign using a more sensible protocol but got hit by a double whammy of Covid killing the live music scene for a couple of years, plus the all the supply chain issues, so it's on hold now.
1 in 5000 views. You can bet 20% are TidePod challenges and blowing up swimming pools with dry ice.
Presumably the point of that is ensure each individual, mostly separate step is completed efficiently, rather than inefficient refineries or drilling being papered over by efficiencies elsewhere.
This is nuts and incredibly cool.
In that case, I await the day our AI overloads decides we are not necessary at all ;)

AI does not do novel things, it will only work with the information it is fed.
I hope Kagi is hard at wie doing the save thing…
I built an image viewer application in winforms that allows

- infinitely big or small resizing

- has no visible borders

- has a close all button

- windows size enforces image aspect ratio

- taskbar item thumbnail is the image

- can be moved by clicking and pulling it anywhere (besides resize borders)

- can be moved beyond the edges of the screen (no kind of snapping, like pushing windows below the top border)

I used it for more effeciently using and managing my screen space during masturbation to images and it was a testiment to my almost complete mastery over winforms and p/invoke and the low level windows window api at the time.
I built https://pinggy.io for myself initially. But after some years I thought others might also find it useful.

It gives me "instant" public URLs to localhost without any downloads/configs. I use to to quickly send files, share and check frontend on my mobile device.
Ah, then the paradoxical key is to ban books. What you want more of: reject, what you want less of: become the boyfriend's new best pal. No so much reverse psychology as manipulating oppositional tendencies.
Senior EE here! I'm not at all impressed with this page because you don't show the tool doing anything interesting. All your examples are undergrad-course or lower level of difficulty. I feel like reading several of the tool's responses actually wasted my time because it took longer for me to read the text than to come up with a better answer. (Though admittedly I've been at this a while. And the check-if-I-screwed-up-the-chip-select one was pretty neat, I did like that!)

Can you demo something with a little more bite to it? Seeing that you can help me save time on actually-meaty pieces of design work would make a lot of difference for me. Maybe something like "design a correctly biased class-AB output stage, with rail-to-rail swing on +/-5V rails, intended for use boosting op-amp output current"? That is an interesting one because (1) it's a small but real, useful, meaty problem with (2) a lot of examples out there in the world to copy from with (3) a nontrivial added constraint in rail-to-rail out but (4) even solutions that aren't all the way there are useful.
Of course, just like the PC sales are down, or Samsung has lost 95% of revenue.

Everyone is already happy with the devices they own and aren't in a rush to replace them.

How many million European users does that 2% Desktop Linux map to?

https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/dsa/mt/
oh man I remember the days of converting gamespy.com's IP to octal to get around the school's firewall block thing

Hell I even made a counter-strike map of the campus and surrounding suburban downtown where the terrorists bomb the school's proxy server so the students can have unrestricted internet!

Man that would have gone over so well nowadays...

edit: or the time I got around their EXE blocking by changing a bunch of strings in UnrealTournament.exe to look like Norton Anti-virus. Got a couple weeks' suspension for that!

The network admin (a friend of mine) told me he gauged his skill as an admin by how quickly I was able to break past whatever blocks he had in place.
Isn’t the problem also that it has been ingested? As a user need to consent that it has been used for that purpose?
Maybe you’re overthinking it? Just push it to GitHub and call it a day. Someone else will turn it into the general-reader version.

Unless it has a bunch of secret stuff in it. Then I guess you’d have to.

Don’t underestimate the tenacity of HN readers though. Lots of us would do that kind of thing just for fun. You don’t have to do it all yourself.
I wonder if that's the point when fine-tuning becomes a more appropriate option?
Truly, use of AWS is the culprit here since it requires SNI. Perhaps Brave will one day graduate from using a large third party CDN.
I wanted a Markdown notes app that I could access over the internet, and stored files in a files-on-s3 structure that would makes sense if I accessed it directly and would be stupidly simple to backup/restore.

Ended up with an Amplify app that had basic login, file upload with image thumnbnails, indexing of frontmatter, some query macros to list pages matching specific criteria, autocomplete for frontmatter and macros, and ability to make specific pages public if I want to. Apart from login, it only uses direct S3 calls, so I'm effectively only paying for S3 storage costs.
I confirm win10 is my last version of windows. With linux supporting steam, there's no reason to have ads on my desktop.
I asked Siri to call the San Mateo County Public Works Department. It called the Sheriff instead. Normally it will ask to confirm before calling a number/person/business you've never called before, but perhaps with emergency services it's a bit looser? Regardless, I was pretty surprised that it misunderstood my prompt so dramatically.
> Thou shalt be boring

I keep hearing this stuff but... you only live once, you spend most of your life working, so, sorry no thanks.
UK government says the Nintendo Switch can’t handle Call of Duty
Does this mean if I disable OneDrive once I am on 22H2, that it won't come back?
On 2.1, I am getting backend errors atm. For instance, with the unet:

> torch._dynamo.exc.BackendCompilerFailed: backend='hidet_backend' raised:
NotImplementedError: hidet: Tensor.to(..., device=...) is not supported for symbolic tensors...

Early torch 2.0 was full of backend unimplemented/unsupported errors too, but I can't even remember when that was all implemented and the dynamo issues popped up (or even when everything started working) since I stayed on torch nightly.
Given where the top AI companies are and how much more important they are for AI than the top universities for it this is bafflingly optimistic. There’s no reason to expect Europe to be other than an also ran in AI, punching self in face antics aside. Why would anyone think Europe was relevant to AI development?
Brazil is seizing them too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35109931
> In some cases, sure, there is an identifiable source but most of the output is novel and the product of substantially all the input

I think you skipped past the first paragraph:

> Makers of artificial-intelligence tools such as ChatGPT would be required to disclose copyright material used in building their systems, according to a new draft of European Union legislation
Can you please make your substantive points thoughtfully? We're trying to avoid shallow flamewars here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A browser extension to help me rate science fiction stories for compellingsciencefiction.com. It triggers an AWS Lambda-backed API to store my ratings and some story metadata, makes things way less tedious!
I did the same thing, but not for myself, it was to send other people away that I didn't like
This isn't really happening much any more. Spinning-platter HDs are barely increasing in size any more (I got a 4TB portable drive 5 years ago that I still use; now, looking at what's available, 5TB is the max and 4TB is still at the high end). SSDs are growing, but still not cost-competitive with spinning platters, and not really reliable for long-term offline storage anyway like spinning platters.

There just isn't that much demand for large-scale storage, since everyone just keeps their data "in the cloud" or has subscriptions to online services now. 20 years ago, HD sizes were doubling every year.
Someone wished for Linux to be a successful desktop OS on a monkey's paw.
Not advisable to jar your kids
I created an AI foot generator. Whenever I had someone take a photo of me, they would often cut off my foot. My program would generate an artificial foot for the photo. To be honest, it had some hilariously bad results sometimes.
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser
You still got this? I'd love to use it myself.
An interesting read to say the least. I wish all Americans good luck because the information chaos is only going to get worse.
If you can choose not to require SNI, doesn't that mean that your domain is the only one being served by the IP it's on, and that the IP address (also visible to anyone sniffing the wire) then reveals the exact same information as SNI would have?
I too have been perplexed by how second-class podcasts are on there.
Years ago I thought the same thing, but one of my kids will stay up reading until well past midnight and absolutely obliterate his health over it.

Re: shit togetherness and batteries, a great (maybe too great) solution is a dimmable headlamp with rechargeable batteries which charge from a USB port or something similar. They tend to get excellent life on a charge, and being able to dim them is nice so you don't have the flood light on white pages effect before they're going to sleep.

All of my kids have one and I've never needed to swap batteries or remind them to charge them. They take them camping, too. They're a great thing to have handy.
I don’t know what they have in mind, but the Atlantic can look dark pink or purple at sunset and sunrise.

Really dark purple wine can start to look bluish in the right environment, which could remind someone of a dark ocean on a cloudy day.

I’ve never lived near the Atlantic, only visited periodically, so probably unaware of the full spectrum of its appearance. I’ve had a lot of wine, though.
A Security Device Threat Model: The Substitution Attack
I've built my own small embeddable functional language with structural record unions and effect types.
By focusing on making the language tiny I have been able to embed it in arduino, web and server projects. The aim is to eventually use it for every side project I make.
https://petersaxton.uk/log/
Provora: tiny predators that have been evolving separately for millions of years
I would like to have a couple of sock-puppets to upvote this more!

I jest, of course, but, this is such an important point that engineers and the designers of a product don't have monopoly on intelligence and people need not to be babied. I think some people even come to believe it themselves and develop some kind of learned helplessness.
Good read, though the food bits are trigger-warning worthy.

Science is about describing reality accurately, often describing an aspect of reality not easily and readily seen with the naked eye because it plays out over a long time or it's on a huge scale too large to view directly or a scale too tiny to see directly. It's about testing mental models to see what fits the facts and people want to be cautious about it because betting on an inaccurate model can have serious real world consequences.

Those consequences often cannot be undone.

I don't think it works to view it as one of these two models. I think science needs to both protect against quackery and also allow for innovation, even though those goals somewhat conflict.
I thought Siri was bad for me because I was on a watchlist for maybe discussing Apple negatively in front of the pod, and they purposely messed with me, doing the opposite of my commands, acting randomly, etc.

Kidding aside, with all those non-deterministic assistants, it will be hard to see when you’re hellbanned from a service.
But was he doing a great job on Firefox before being fired?
Back in my day, we had a room filled with 386 and 486 machines running windows 3.11, we'd bring floppies from home and boot them to dos to play, it was great and teachers encouraged it.
I guess things have changed.. For one.. Kids no longer get to experience the joy of "going to the computer room".. Or later, the thrills of networked delta-force matches during lunch at the library.
I read the essay, and my takeaway to "There are for example four fundamental forces. Are we going to find another four?" would be:

Maybe not, but we could find out that the model of fundamental forces wasn't really the final answer, and explain the universe much better with some alternative theory. In your comment you assume that science is more or less settled, and all there is to do is to tweak the present understanding a bit and fill some gaps. The same sentiment was shared by many prominent physicists already in the end of 1800s, who were obviously proved wrong by Einstein and others in the 1900s.
The link is broken

> Your session has timed out. Please go back to the article page and click the PDF link again.

I believe this is the right one, maybe @dang can fix it:

https://direct.mit.edu/grey/article/doi/10.1162/GREY_a_00212...
How will it be much different within an already crowded market that is mostly focused on entertainment?

The real device people want is smart glasses
This is very cool. I have similar goals with my own language. Though I am developing only and AST and no syntax because I would like to be able to embed the same language into visual programming environments.

https://petersaxton.uk/log/
That sounds neat. When you say everyone got their own code, do you mean that each person had a separate code for the call box, and the call box would call one of many separate Twilio phone numbers? Or did the call box always call the same Twilio number, and you instructed each person to then input their special code via the call box? My apartments have always just asked me for a single phone number which they program into the call box, so I’m guessing the latter, although it never occurred to me that the guest might be able to press more buttons after the phone call has been connected.
Did I miss the reference to the license?

Looks interesting though. Would like play with this when it's released.
It's even more embarrassing when you look at the old Apple commercials introducing Siri up to 11 years ago, here's one from the rock when they introduced the iPhone 7:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhLGBY5_0zU

Anyone thats used Siri will watch that and laugh at how absurd it is that someone could get even one of those voice commands to work the first time. I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action lawsuit for false advertising. I can barely get it to start a timer on my apple watch sometimes.
Why would you want to do HDR painting?