skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they went to Shenzhen, after the US electronics manufacturing industry left the country in search of cheap labor and higher profits? Of course this is mostly hardware hacking:

https://www.thatsmags.com/shenzhen/post/8620/touring-the-har...

However, software hacking also requires access to the low-level components and as abstractions get more and more complex, unpacking them becomes too much work and people become architects, not hackers, expecting all their tools to work only as documented and building with only the pre-approved, security-tested Legos (note that many of the software hackers seem to have gone to work for the NSA and other state-sponsored hacking groups, and their exploits have escaped into the wild, leading to the heavy focus on security consciousness, which also discourages the use of hacks to solve problems).

Note here 'hacking' means using features of systems that aren't described in the manuals and documentation to achieve some goal, rather like custom modifications of automobiles - and with modern cars, that just gets harder and harder to do.

A better title might have been, where have all the experimental risk-takers gone? (A: most of them were eaten by the Borg).
Really love this! already have some ideas how this could be integrated in the product i'm currently building. Will play around with it over the weekend, thanks for sharing!
> So you're just going to ignore the gacha mechanics?

No money involved. It's as much gambling as going to random.org and guess a random invocation. It's as much gambling as random encuonters on JRPGs, or quest/mission rewards, or really anything else in gaming with random chance. Is catching a pokemon in any pokemon game a gacha mechanic? You use a pokeball and might or might not get the pokemon. What about any game ability with a miss chance or a critical hit chance? D&D is peak gacha.

Really, it's just "drop some common stuff and get some random util back"

Gaming nowadays is full of "games" that are actually just live services trying to extract as much money as possible from you. This mechanic is completely unrelated. Your comment seems an over reaction from someone that never actually tried the game, or doesn't know how bad current big budget or mobile games are.
It's been my experience that in conversations about AI, literally nobody actually wants empathy. People want to talk about empathy and deplore the people they disagree with as lacking it. The underlying assumption and implication is that a person experiencing genuine empathy would both display it in some legible manner and agree with the speaker's positions on things. In short, the idea of empathy is weaponized.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this falls down on several points. It's just a disgusting way to talk about your fellow human beings when it's your own failures tripping you up. I imagine this is a cognitive limitation directly related to their own empathic limitations.

In conversations about AI, people usually want changed behavior and similar concrete shifts. Empathy is viewed as a lever to produce those changes. When the changes are not forthcoming, the conclusion people reach is that clearly it's because the emotional experience of empathy isn't happening. This avoids considering awkward and unpleasant questions such as if there may be other good reasons why those changes are not forthcoming from a person who may be experiencing sincere and genuine empathy.

I spent a lot of years as a professional software engineer. Many of those left me daily on the receiving end of people for whom calling on the empathy of others was their preferred means of shaping behavior. I had to learn to set aside those emotions in order to preserve my own judgment. Now I see, daily, the same kind of people deploring that the tools they taught me to resist are not working.

What I see in this blog post is someone relating a story in which an awkward encounter is anonymized. The anonymization is itself a form of empathy in action - the person is not called out specifically, only the conversation. There's plenty of room to criticize the author in what is presented, but we really have no idea who missed what cues in that conversation. It's not a kind comment on either person.
> Engineering leaders lead from a place of fear and risk-aversion instead of optimism and believing in their team.

Yeah exactly. You're barking up the wrong tree. If you want to see optimism, go to a startup. The hackers aren't going to work for you at one of the big tech companies no matter how great you think that place still is.
I didn't know, and is still relevant so is good news to me.

We can't rearsh enough how evil Adobe practices are, they are so evil it is so hard to grasp that even if we knew we need regular remindes.

Adobe might be above Microsoft level. See, people have all forgotten about or don't know.

Anyone please make MS court cases from the 2000s reach the top 50 list. That would be news for the majority of readers, even hackernews' community.
Oh, I hadn't even seen that. You don't need to open them up. just uncheck the checkbox.

The CAPTCHA at the end was my favorite part.
As the article points out, many of these loans have secret funds setup as collateral.

But if they don't hand over the money to China? Well, no one lends money to you anymore.

If you were the leader of a country, what is preferable? Giving up property and/or territory which allows you to continue borrowing so the people in your country can buy food and gas, or protecting the territory but the people in the country starving and running out of energy to run their businesses?
It has been proven that west european products made by west european companies sold in east europe are of low quality and sometimes even more expensive:

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2021/dual-quality-food-...

Claims east europeans “displaced jobs” from west europe yet east europeans have been forced to migrate to western europe due to a lack of jobs. How have jobs been moved to east europe when people leave precisely because there are no jobs?

They also claim that east europe was meant to provide “cheap labour” for richer nations in the eu - basically admitting the plan has always been to keep those people poor so they can work in factories. Somehow they should be thankful for that.

The list continues and is a good indication of the underlying issues that plague european “solidarity”.

What was initially sold as a continuation of the marshal plan has taken a very dark european shape where if you dont like it you are told to get out.
Often times better graphics make a game worse because they're at the expense of everything else, while also making the community smaller because most people can't run it.

Yes, I'm still slightly salty about the train wreck that KSP 2 turned out to be.
That's if you think every single switch sold in the last 8 years still works, which, specially for a mobile console doesn't seem too sensible
Kudos to RR engineers, but when I read that this engine is "powered by 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)" and that it "is derived primarily from waste-based sustainable feedstocks such as used cooking oils" I am dissapointed. Maybe there is enough used cooking oil in the world to power all the jets (now and in the future) but it first needs to be gathered. And that is expensive. Which will lead to unused cooking oil to be used. And, in the end, it will raise food prices as that oil is needed for human food preparation.
I with I was as starry-eyed as to think he did it because of his "hacker skills"...

>the reason we're all posting on Hacker News during the workday and he's running a centibillion dollar company is because he's an immensely intelligent and talented and focused man and we are... well, the kind of people who post on internet forums during the workday.

There are people who post regularly in HN (even in the top-50 contributors) who as hackers and programmers (and work ethic) run not just circles, but the 10-dimensional equivalent of a circle, around Zuckenberg, and have no "multi-billion dollar" companies...
It occurs to me that if you buy into the concept that there are "posers" and also "the real deal", then the first thing the posers should do is start whining about "gatekeeping" and how awful it is. It's just the best strategy considering their lack of merit. If the terminology "gatekeeping" hasn't been invented yet, then it would be strategic to invent that word.
You seem to get downvoted but I’m totally unimpressed by this news for the same reason. If we want a sustainable future, the first step is banning private jets, and the second one is to restrict and reduce all air travel. That would have a huge impact on people but I think it’s the moral thing to do.
The deaths amongst the homeless are underrepresented in the statistics for obvious reasons. But ignoring that...

> this is not a major cause of death in the US.

Wait, so people dying due to poverty isn't something that deserves attention just because it isn't common enough?
Another vote for Merlin. It has been rock-solid for me for many years, while allowing me to get rid of annoyances with the stock firmware.
How to quit cars
Really powerful testing and monitoring functionality!
This is a really good point! I also noticed that some of the translations were not good or very stilted for the languages I do speak. However, this is a limitation of the dataset of this size and breadth
Isn't the 'income' part only a minor detail. Even if there was a shortfall from tax revenue, the US has a huge amount of property it could sell off to pay it's debts. Just the National Parks alone would generate enough revenue for many years of interest payments.
This also means that, empirically, only 93% of all humans have died so far.
Icons/graphical selectors are difficult for me personally, but I don't object to them as I understand they are helpful to most people. I'd love to see brief textual labels, always displayed in the same order and disabled when they don't apply. Make the icons optional so I don't have to take up space with them.

This puts everything in the same place, every time I want to use it. Under CUA, it was a basic tenet - don't move things around or hide them. Menus used to provide this, now nothing really does - everything wants to subtly (or not so subtly) shift the controls you are provided based on context, which means it always requires some mental processing until/unless you learn state+position.

The exception to this (for me) is the context menu, which you will assume by default only presents contextually relevant options.
Looks like a new version of Wrangler was recently released, so the setup instructions in the article are outdated / incorrect already.

Cloudflare is great and I love working with them, but Wrangler and way that there have been multiple major shifts in the way that Workers are set up over the years has become a bit frustrating at times.
Local Storage?

Cookies are just a Dumb Implementation and only persist due to advertising.
> Yet... with how fast this is selling, there is literally no way that folks know it is an amazing game ahead of time.

Advanced copies to reviewers, gameplay footage, developer commentary, etc...

> But the lessons to learn from how fast and well this is selling is as much about the power of franchise as it is anything about this particular game/system.

There are plenty of popular franchises that release games that don't sell well.
From watching BoTW speedruns (which, I assume is the same engine), the game simply does not do loading screens in the overworld. If you move to quickly, you get to experience an area that is not fully loaded.

Having said that, looking at what it takes for speedrunners to accomplish that, you will likely never see even that in casual gameplay.
Yes, the county sheriff will ultimately enforce the judgment.
These workers have opinions and their opinions might not be the same as yours. They might not be as pro-western as you may believe. They also have imagination and can imagine a world where they are better off under China with this equipment working then under China without this equipment working. Either way, the point is that its not a sure thing that this equipment would be scuttled.
the slow-roll "send to bottom" on the chat box is so damn funny
For sure.

These things are luxury/billionaire bragging devices first and foremost.

They get demoed, but they're not safe nor legal to use much of the performance on the street. And once you take it to the track you'll be hit with a massive bill to make it safe and then a bunch of restrictions because at the track they tend to do the math and actually be more rational about what is safe and what is not safe.

F1 would not allow this car to race on its closed courses, and F1 is about the most demanding there is in terms of track safety. There are basically no tracks that are actually designed to be safe for the speeds this car can hit. Especially in the US where most tracks have a far lower safety factor designed in.
As somebody who has been here since near the beginning, I'd say my subjective observations are:

1. Yeah, sure, there's been some change in the sentiment / zeitgeist of HN, but I haven't seen any particularly marked change in overall quality of the discussion.

2. There are good days, better days, and not-so-good days as far as how much stuff shows up that is of interest to me. It's always been that way.

3. Our interests and focus do change as we age, and to the extent that HN (or Slashdot, or Reddit, or LtU, or LWN, etc.) is more or less interesting to me now than 15 years ago is almost certainly a function of both changes in the external environment AND changes in me. I'd guess that's true for most everybody.

4. HN is still one of the best sites on the net (if not the best) for discussing interesting topics around (technology|business|science). So even if it has declined, I don't find that it's declined enough to say any other site is particularly better. Lobste.rs is interesting, but the population there is a lot smaller which is both good and bad in its own way.

5. There don't seem to be as many "celebrity hackers" posting these days. Back in the day we had pg, rtm, and quite a few other very notable figures posting, which was kinda neat. And there are still some of those. WalterBright for example (the creator of D) posts quite often from what I've seen. But it does seem like there are fewer of those guys posting now than in the past. Whether that's important or not is a subject to debate I suppose.
Given a boolean flag, if 94% of users would select state X, then selecting X by default doesn't seem problematic at all.

Microsoft (for once) did nothing wrong. The problem is the DNT flag was unenforceable, and that's something governments should have pushed on.
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As the author of Sidekiq, I'd very strongly disagree. The key thing you are missing in those systems is long-term error handling. What happens if the remote side goes down for a few hours? This is the purpose of *persistent* background jobs: resiliency in the face of a wild west Internet.
> I'd personally prefer living out in the sticks, growing my own food rather than being subjected to this level of monitoring.

Come on in, the waters fine. We also have enough tin-foil hats out here for everyone.
Also the original black sheep of the franchise, Adventures of Link.

Although personally I think it was a good idea that suffered from bad implementation, I've found very few people willing to admit they actually liked it. Notwithstanding it being decades old at this point.
Robots could dramatically speed up solar farm construction
Ah, the classic "open source soon" promise. Nothing quite says "we're unsure about our business model" like a promise to open source in the future. You either have the conviction and commitment to be open source from the outset, or you don't. Promising to open source "soon" is akin to companies that announce a pivot before they've fully understood the implications of the move.

Moreover, the fact that you've conveniently launched on Product Hunt today raises my eyebrows. It feels like a calculated marketing stunt, rather than a genuine desire to contribute to the development community.
Did you ever play one? The display had so such smearing that individual frames weren't distinct.

We still loved it though.
What makes you think that? This thing generates enough kinetic energy in the hands of an idiot to far exceed most SUVs, and it weighs 4700lbs anyway, there are SUVs that are lighter.
Getting there! It needs to completely randomize itself about halfway through your workflow. And more ratings! Don't forget to like us and give us five stars. About the exact moment you are ready to finish.
Google is trying to reintroduce its core business model (advertisers competing in an auction for website real estate) into a new product. ChatGPT has shown that a different business model works as well: People actually paying for a service that helps them answer their questions. ChatGPT's business model is orthogonal to Google's but I think it's going to succeed because it's better at aligning the interests of the consumer with that of the company.
4:49 for me, but I cheated. My address number is 1744, and I quit incrementing at 5. I suspect it would've been well past 7 minutes if I'd been determined to enter accurate information.
We had P3P spec for it 20 years ago, even implemented in IE! And Google has been sending intentionally malformed P3P header to bypass it. Their trillion dollar business relies on users having difficulty stopping tracking.
Sure you can. Just stop crying because you can't share data about your users with 3rd parties without asking them first and get over it.
You could do that 20 years ago by calling the lineman’s number and choosing the relevant function - it’s all on tablets now, I’m sure, but around 2000 it was all done using a phone call and a robotic voice, and there were engineer pins floating around on the internet.
Nope.

Article 3(1) of GDPR
"This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not."

Recital 14 of GDPR
"The protection afforded by this Regulation should apply to natural persons, whatever their nationality or place of residence, in relation to the processing of their personal data."
Crying isn't going to open up the browser to your favorite language, and no the DOM API will never be exposed to WASM. JavaScript is here to stay.
I've been playing through BotW again on CEMU since my Wii U died awhile back. I'm blown away by how amazing it looks and how stable it runs on my PC. There are some minor issues with completing certain puzzles that require motion controls, but so far I found easy workarounds for everything
typical industry cycles. money is dumb and spending money is the first lever they trigger.. causing inflation and then complaints.

life, art .. is complex and you need to cultivate, nurture people caring about making beautiful complex subtle things.
Performance is sometimes noticeable, but doesn't bother me, I'm too focused on playing the game
Correct! Your IdP would be where the passkeys would be supported. From there, auth is federated to other systems.
It helps to know exactly at what interval things are occuring, and you lose fidelity with this style of logging.
It is that good
13B in question for 6K jobs => 2M per job
Certainly some folks are reading the reviews. I guarantee most are not. Heck, I'm interested and I haven't read any. (And, yes, I prepurchased the game.)

There are, certainly, franchises that tank. Usually not after a successful release, though. That said, this one is odd, as the prequel didn't seem to generate near as much buzz?
Our economy will sink further from the horrible state it's already in.
Anyone seen photopea.com ?
I blackholed .zip and .mov in my DNS servers.
Also speaking from experience: Scala takes much less time to learn if you have someone familiar with regular programming concepts (not FP religion) to decode it for you. But ultimately agree, it's a bad choice for pretty much any purpose.
Nice to see Parquet support in DuckDB improving with each new release! In earlier versions, I had trouble with enums and nested schema, these issues have been resolved since.

The only missing feature for me now is full table, column, &c. metadata support in the DuckDB JDBC driver.

Thanks!
Is like a tough game
Recital 14 of GDPR is the relevant wording

"The protection afforded by this Regulation should apply to natural persons, whatever their nationality or place of residence, in relation to the processing of their personal data."
I've got several empty files on my desktop (on Windows) serving as sticky notes of some sort, and they have line breaks in their names, obviously.
Yt-dlp has this feature, all I had to do was set up a cron job to run it once a night and clean up videos more than 3 days old.
Just a hypothesis based on research that has shown around 100b of covid relief money went into the stock market. Like I said originally, maybe correlation != causation. So there is a link to more money printed by the fed inflating asset prices. If that printing stops due to debt to gdp being too high then that could cause asset prices to stagnate.

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/did-pandemic-stimulus-funds-spur-....
Yes. To enable in Auth0, it's two checkboxes. For something more bespoke it's a few days of engineering time.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/google-now-lets-you-access...

https://passkeys.directory/

(managing passkey rollout at a fintech for customer iam)
Wokes prefer administrative violence, like flagging posts they disagree with, and attempting to get people fired. Wokes are scolds and crybaby losers.

https://imgur.com/TIpnhQF

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13c6ukt/the_cre...

https://twitter.com/reddit_lies/status/1659172417359560705
NYC skyscrapers sit vacant