skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did I say burn piles of money? I'm saying that if the transmission line is profitable, build it. If it isn't profitable and bitcoin mining is profitable, mine bitcoin. Both options should only be done if they are profitable.

This is the exact opposite of burning money. Your assessment whether bitcoin mining is wasteful or not is beside the point, the point is merely to unlock the economic value of stranded energy.
OCaml IDEs including emacs can do that already, and yes it's a good thing.
T-Mobile also has (had?) an issue of poorly secured customer service devices. I'd consider each of those instances to be a breach, although at a smaller scale.

https://github.com/n0sec1/n0sec-blog/blob/main/data/blog/how...
Compliance review? Like HIPAA? Or are you referring to FDA approval?

As someone with a chronic medical condition, my experience is that software approved by the FDA are often prohibitively expensive (they are considered medical devices) and not covered by insurance.
You quoted something I didn't say?
>Engineers also fall victim to hype from time to time, because engineers are human.

Sure, just like everybody has shat themselves one time or another, at the very least as a toddler, but perhaps also when they had to make a long run to a remote bathroom after Taco Bell. But there are really people suffering from severe diarrhoea too, and those are two distinct groups.

It's not that engineers are immune to hype. It's that the others are hype-magnets and hype-spreaders.
They raised $1 billion at a valuation of up to $5.7 billion. That means the likely exit outcome for investors was an initial public offering (IPO).

But media margins are thin, and any media company will find it hard to make enough profit to justify a valuation above $5.7 billion...the few exceptions are the ones that take decades to grow so big, e.g., Fox Corp and Disney...the conglomerates as you said but this takes a long time to build, longer than VCs can wait for their returns.

Vice made $600 million in revenue in 2018 and earned no profit [1]. If it hit the public markets with those results, its stock will sink into oblivion. Tech companies get high valuations even without profitability because the software business is high margin and investors have hope that they'll become profitable in the future. It's not the same for media companies...the industry outlook is bleak, so there's no greater fool to sell to.

1- https://www.axios.com/2023/05/02/vice-media-preparing-bankru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_saving_glut

The key insight is that savings and investment opportunities are two sides of a single market. Demand and supply. Savings grow reliably and opportunities do not, so demand for investment opportunities outstrips supply of investment opportunities. Therefore, the opportunities get more expensive = lower rate of return.
Apple, Google lead industry specification to address unwanted tracking
i think you misunderstood the point.
I got into fountain pens for a while. One big problem with them is that you really need paper that's designed for them. A lot of common paper ends up wicking out the ink way too fast.

But they are still pretty cool writing implements. It's easy to change the nibs in them so I would recommend trying out a few different sizes and styles to find one that suits you. It's a fun experience even if ballpoint pens are overall more practical.
An identity provider can make verified age one of the claims on an OAuth token. It removes anonymity, but at least you don't have to provide your personal details to everybody on the internet demanding age verification. You provide those details to your trusted identity provider, they provide the claim of your age to the website.

With that in place we can easily make beer, liquor, marijuana and tobacco sales on the internet possible! And porn too, I guess.
No, what I'm saying is more like:

A: You can't parse XML with pure regular expressions, for fundamental, mathematical reasons.

B: Maybe not in 100% a good way, but we should put more effort into getting closer to 100%.

A: But Zalgo...
> This all seems a little disingenuous.

Why do people always seem to use the word disingenuous disingenuously? :)

Obviously, the number of people willing to verify their identity and attach it to their pornhub searches and other activity is close enough to zero to make no difference to pornhub's business.
How much is on Google itself vs Google search linking you to, eg, StackOverflow.
A side question: how much of your job could you do only referring to https://devdocs.io/ or other reference?
I'm more curious HOW they are doing it.

I've looked into this recently and detecting state you are in without having access to your location data had just under 50% error rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYAZnQmffg at around 5m30
The Zig Parser (2022)
Tell HN: It’s Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. If you are suffering from depression, anxiety or are experiencing any sort of mental distress, please seek help.
The easiest way to find help is to search for "therapist in {your city}". If you believe you need medication, you can ask your primary care physician for help and they can refer you to a psychiatrist.

If you're new to therapy, you should know that one of the most successful approaches to treating depression and anxiety is cognitive behavioral therapy. Be sure to ask your prospective therapist if they have received training in that approach.
To those saying "Oh I can tell it's fake, obviously!", consider: will your parents/grandparents?

And will you still be able to tell in five years, when this tech has had 20 new iterations, each addressing the very tells that right now let you notice it's fake?

I know, I know, photoshop and fake pictures have always been around. But now, everyone can do it in 30 seconds. That changes things.
> Not being able to explain code it writes

I've actually found it (ChatGPT-4) reasonably good at explaining other people's code, for what it's worth. It does require providing some context for the code it's explaining. ("This function is part of library X that does Y, and it seems to be about Z. I can't figure out the purpose of the loop in the middle, though. Can you explain it?")

I'm with you on it writing code, though. It makes things up too frequently to be really useful.
No, I said the OS didn't look like something you'd use for heavy-duty development work.

I was being a little sarcastic, but I was just amazed at all the people who spent ten seconds looking at this and said "this is useless, it clearly wouldn't be very good for all the extremely complicated powerful things I want to do. Can it handle fifteen different terminal windows? Fail!!1"
Rapid Security Response for iOS
But is pornography dangerous for minors? Has it been researched? What "dangers" are there? Do these apply to all age groups of "minors"?
There are conspiracy theories that this is actually all about “anti Mormon” content on Reddit (and apparently it’s big on TikTok?)

It’s a conspiracy that I could probably buy into.
The Umka scripting language and the Tophat game framework released
Proposed and enacted are a big difference. A single lawmaker can suggest or put forward a bill for anything. The majority voting to make it law is a huge barrier
From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator with Yann Collet
Okay, let's take an excerpt from one of those enterprise "hello world"s:

IHelloWorldString helloWorldString = helloWorld.getHelloWorld();
IPrintStrategy printStrategy = helloWorld.getPrintStrategy();
IStatusCode code = helloWorld.print(printStrategy, helloWorldString);

Extracting two subobjects from an object to feed them back to the same very object is not an abstraction, it's merely adding a bunch of public methods (and interfaces) to the object. That may or may not help in abstracting things: and usually, the more handles and bells and whistles are available to pull and play with, the less abstracted the code actually is.
Okay, lets not ban guns or tobacco products then. People will get their fix other ways I guess.
I like your thinking, but there could be confusion if used imprecisely. Namely, people might think it's a website that isn't broken (this could be seen as a benefit for the playfully opinionated), or a website made primarily with functional languages/programming style.

I suppose you'd have to refer to a site as Functionalist.
Slow UI, JS is a must, looks bad.
I use a similar thing [1], self baked. I have a bookmarklet to bookmark pages but it also downloads image/videos/gfycats and saves them on the server.

[1] https://wecoso.de/bloogmarks
I think Github have already won the cultural dev war. I hear many a developer saying Github instead of "Git".

A recent example from a mid level dev:

"I'm gonna branch from the github repository" - when the repository is self hosted
Uh, how does it perform from a Google Compute Engine Virtual Machine?

If it performs well there, I could imagine that being pretty useful.
Does that mean you keep changing your phone number with mew SIM cards? Or can/do you port it each time?
> Companies are cynically using visa programs no native citizen ever asked for or wanted because they are nothing but an avenue for large corporations to enslave foreign workers with salaries that no American would ever tolerate?

Categorically false, go look at the public H1B salary data for large companies and you will see very competitive salaries. If anything, they're on the higher end, much less "no American would ever tolerate".

If you just revoke visas, those workers in those jobs and the jobs will be nearshored to Canada/Mexico offices, and new jobs will either be offshored and nearshored. This means the money paid to the workers will go out of the US economy, hurting supporting non-tech jobs. Newer members of the team are likely to be recruited in those places rather than the US, hurting tech workers. This has already been happening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/business/dealbook/h1b-vis...
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Isn't there a salary threshold requirement for H-1Bs? I thought it was a common practice to have a minimum threshold salary for high-skilled visas in developed countries, I know that at least Germany, Sweden, Netherlands and Denmark have such in place exactly to avoid the practice of depressing salaries in the local labour market.
Did you just refer to porn as a niche art or right of passage for children? Yikes.
I don't think there is an objective measure of sentience.

But sentience itself involves self-reflection, which there is no evidence LLMs do at all. When you submkt a prompt, a giant mathematical operation happens, and when it is complete, it stops. ChatGPT is not sitting there thinking "oh man, I should have said..."
Bank Failures
Punish visa holders because of corporate fraud? That does not make any sense.
Don't agree that links should be underlined. When there are a lot of links, underlining them makes the paragraph look very messy and hard to read [1]. Wikipedia for example does not underline its links. Just keep them blue.

[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/7068
I think, focus on Alignment and simply making the system to be good and useful should be the focus. Not fighting prompt injections or complaining about hallucinations, while not contributing much.

When you are educating a child, you are not focusing on making the child super-resilient to hypnosis. You are simply socializing the child, teaching the child to read, write. The knowledge, need and techniques to avoid being hypnotized don’t need a special focus.
your comment from further up in the thread:

> I run a server. Chat signing isn't enabled. Upon login, the user sees a message along the lines of "chat can't be verified on this server." Reporting doesn't work. Everything else works just fine.

are you a GPT or something
AI is the "going nuclear" of the propaganda wars. And it started before we even understood that we were in a risk of one.
What about people in Utah who don't want this? You don't like porn don't use it. You don't want your kids to watch it, stop them. Restricting the freedom of everyone is unacceptable
An underappreciated aspect of all this: how many people are under NDA?

There's no upside to me talking about my current work and I might accidentally breach NDA, so I don't. I feel I can give detail-stripped war stories from previous jobs, though.

(Working on WinCE was very much being a "dark matter" developer, because there's almost no user community at all. And a good example of the NDA problem: you get some of the source to Windows CE, which you can't really discuss in public because it's copyright Microsoft)
How can one list classic fountain pens without including Platignum? They are actually affordable as well.

https://www.hamiltonpens.com/collections/platignum/products/...
> For instance, jail parents whose minor children view pornography.

Does this seem at all practical to you? To me, this seems akin to dropping ID requirements at liquor stores and bars, and instead enacting a law to jail the parents of minors who drink liquor.
Sorry but this is well and truly into the realm of unsubstantiated and unrealistic conspiracy theory.

OpenAI can basically do whatever the hell they want here. I imagine there might be more favourable terms for the big kids. But for your average Joe, OpenAI makes basically no commitment. OpenAI aren’t trapped. Not even remotely. You’re basically buying something at the local swap meet. I imagine that the terms via Azure are effectively the same in this particular regard, though I do understand them to be different in other ways.
> The information obtained for each customer varied but may have included full name, contact information, account number and associated phone numbers, T-Mobile account PIN, social security number, government ID, date of birth, balance due, internal codes that T-Mobile uses to service customer accounts (for example, rate plan and feature codes), and the number of lines

wow, pretty much everything. great. How have they not learned from the last SEVEN times?! Can they be sued for this? Can they be fined by the government for this?

I just logged in and when I tried going to my profile section I just got a screen that said "Access restricted". Maybe because I'm logging in from my work laptop which I've never done before. I guess this is how they are trying to deal with the issue, preventing access of sensitive info from "suspicious" logins.
Have you considered that perhaps there are way too many people due to the industralization explosion and some negative population growth might be a good thing.
For most of my life I hated fountain pens. It turns out that was because the ones I tried were cheap, bad, and/or broken.

I gave them one more shot. Again, a lot of them I did not like, but the Platinum Preppy was excellent. I wanted to get another one with a finer tip, but they were out of stock.

In the meantime I tried some others, and found the Lamy to be just as good, if not better. Just for the sake of convenience I went all in on Lamy and have no regrets. Wish I could have had pens like these back in the day when I was writing more and typing less.
Dude is way out of the box. Using IEEE floating point rounding error as his neural network transfer / activation function -- never thought to go there.
Ask HN: Advice for (probable) final career language change
Looking for advice. I've been doing dev for decades, which makes me an old. Much of the contract biz out there is no longer using the languages or environments in which I am highly proficient, so it's time to either retire or make a change. And it ain't gonna be that first one. I figure that at my age, I have maybe one big language change left in me, so I want to get it right. My field is web dev, and it's where I fit best. I have no intention of going to work as an employee anywhere, so corporate acceptance/usage is not part of the formula. Most of my dev experience has been deeply Microsoft based.

So, for the purposes of web application development and my own SaaS development projects, where do you (based on your own experience) recommend I look?

I am thinking perhaps Go with a good web framework, or maybe Python with something like Django, for awhile was thinking Ruby/Rails but that scene seems to be waning (or maybe not?) but am seeking feedback.

Goals:

- Reasonably easy to learn and get started

- framework needs to have decent security baked-in

- should run easily on lower cost server environments (think Linux not Windows - but might be nice if it is able to run on either)

- good database interfacing/support

- must be fast/efficient and scale well

Side note: I do love C# as a language, but have grown weary of the server expense and also the seemingly endless tiny technical problems that require - what feels like - Stack-Overflowing and then tinkering and then tweaking on the server to 'fix'. I am looking for languages and environments that generally "just work."

No flame wars, no evangelism. OK, go.
> That is, you can have a bunch of software developers (or miners), but if there is no gold to mine, they'll just sit idle (and eventually disperse).

not sure this is a good example - while it's true for actual gold mining, in the case of software developers, having other software devs around (plus also good computers, which you could argue is like gold) can be an opportunity in itself - look at all the devtools startups that happen in the Bay Area.

A large group of people is an opportunity in itself.
No, no, I'd say 360 is correct in this case.

Possibly not deliberately correct, but it is IMO correct.

Trademarks etc. are unavoidable, and also used by the Wikimedia Foundation, the Python Software Foundation, the Free Software Foundation, etc.
I don't think things like this really need proactive measures. If GitHub becomes a problem there are dozens of alternatives for every piece of the pipeline. I get winded by all these posts that claim we need to be cautious about every step we make.
Not for stuff placed on the Web in a simple and universal fashion --- otherwise there wouldn't be systems such as Patreon and Ko-fi.
the almost haiku!
Why do you think that? I think it's a good thing for minors to have unrestricted access to porn
There is also the microlife which denotes reduction in life expectancy that is more applicable for lifestyle and environmental factors (everyday you live in Mexico City vs London takes 30min off your life) vs acute risks (sky diving)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlife
>How exactly doesn’t this work

I’ll show you: The next logical step would be to make it a crime of some sort to as a user attempt to evade the law. Maybe it’s even a felony to persuade folks to not to try. But the reality is they made the law just for political points and it never gets enforced it’s just there sitting on the books. Now years go on and you have been using vpn’s to evade the restrictions. Now 10 years later you decide to run for President and. a whole bunch of establishment politicians hate you for whatever reason. Now all of a sudden this phrase is really relevant: Show me a man and I’ll show you a crime.

That is why it needs fixing at the source.
Core Ultra? Seriously? Next you’ll be telling me that the i5 will be called Core Max and the i3 will be called Core Pro.

Regardless of the actual basis for the name, you’d think that after spending two decades with the lower case “i” prefix which became culturally ascendant with the iMac, they’d be more sensitive to giving off the appearance of copying Apple’s homework again.
These are the type of questions that certain French postmodernist philosophers were asking around 1945.
If I were a Hollywood writer, I'd gamble on that working out in my favor at this point.
> Every time someone claims ChatGPT doesn’t work they cannot give concrete examples. So I don’t believe you sorry.

Are you implying that ChatGPT always works, and that every time someone says it didn't work, they're lying? This feels like a joke to me. The other day it gave me the wrong code to compute indices for a Delta table, possibly because that capability didn't exist in the library it was using when the model was trained (though it shouldn't have made something up in that case). There, you have an example.
American citizens got, collectively, an advantage by exploiting these people. As much as you didn't want them there, they have been working and providing value to your society, and paying taxes. In the end they are not only exploited by the companies taking advantage of a broken system but also now some citizens (you) think they should be punished even more by being kicked out of a place they create roots at.

The lack of empathy is, frankly, astounding...
I don't blog anymore because after some months of doing it casually every so often I realized that no one except my brother ever read it and no one was going to start unless I devoted a huge amount of energy to promoting it.

Does that mean I didn't have anything interesting to say? No. I think I had a lot of interesting things to say. It just means I'm not popular.

Likewise I don't bother posting on Hacker News or Reddit anymore because all of my posts have been mainly ignored.

Does this mean I don't know anything about new technology? How could I possibly not be aware? I read HN every single day. The last few contracts/startups I have done were with the trendiest stuff like GPT and Stable Diffusion.

You popular people don't know about me because I'm not popular. But don't confuse that with being out of touch or uninteresting. Popularity and merit aren't the same thing. Go listen to the Billboard Top 10 songs right now and tell me if you really think those are the best 10 songs in the world currently.
Yep. I once inherited a system where the previous team had used GCSFuse to back the `/etc/letsencrypt` directory on a cluster of nginx webservers. It "worked" and may have been a reasonable approach at the time they built it, avoiding setting up a single "master" to handle HTTP-01 challenges (and it was before GCP's HTTPS LB could handle more than a handful of domains/certificates). The problem was that as the number of domains/certificates it handled increased, nginx startup or config reload time got slower and slower as it insists on stat-ing and reading every single file in that directory in the process. It got high enough that it started running into request throttling on the storage bucket. It's no fun when `nginx -s reload` takes two minutes and sometimes fails completely.
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More interestingly, Intel is working on 2000 W cooling solutions. Imagine that, 2000 W in a few square centimeters.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-working-on-new-cooli...

I wonder if making the whole CPU package larger is another solution. Just like the best LED lighting is spread out (disc, square, linear) instead of being in the shape of a traditional light bulb. Maybe in the future we'll have A4 sized CPUs.
I always got on fine with laser printer paper. But it was never really a hobby – my school required them at one point and at another my parents thought it would help my handwriting. If you have a bunch of school kids made to use fountain pens, they aren’t going to be fussing about paper quality; they’ll just use what they have and be fine with it. I think you don’t really need certain types of paper. People just like throwing money at the bits of their hobby that are easy to throw money at.
launchpad!!
https://launchpad.net
Not a rumor, it is true. (I'm a T-Mobile customer and saw the notification on my account.)
Use of advertising cookies to estimate the users age is missing.

Using advertising cookies is probably the most like real life. You look at a user and guess their age. If they might be under 18 you check ID