skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find a niche. People love free content. It wasn't that hard.

I was making computer security videos for people, real basics for programming, networking, web interactions, number bases, bit math - stuff that you need to learn as a base to get into hacking. Grew my channel pretty quickly to 1k subscribers just by sharing them to reddit. I deleted it because I got annoyed that I was making content for YT for free (the videos are still archived on Odysee). It really didn't seem that difficult to grow though when you're giving it away.

For pure dev things, cover different algorithms or data structures. Mobile, gaming, and web will have large audiences but already some established channels.

Other tips -

- Get a good mic, mic stand, shock mount.

- Downsize your screen to 720p when you record so it is large enough for the average laptop screen to read. It is absolutely ridiculous when someone is recording a tutorial on a 4k monitor and the text is microscopic.

- I was less concerned about video but repurposing a DSLR as a webcam is a good move. Pay attention to lighting and your background. Some people like full bright lights, color LEDs are a good vibe too.

- Practice speaking. Slow down.

- Learn to edit so you don't worry about redoing your whole video in a single take. I didn't like editing so I would redo 20 minute videos a few times until I got it right.
You seem to suggest that Kaczynski murdered as a kind of marketing strategy for his ideas. I highly doubt that.
Society is more unhealthy, people are dying sooner, and there are more broken families than decades ago. So we might be right for once!
If we take subscriber count as success criteria, most of the channels you recommend do not look very successful.

So maybe being original and different is not really paying off sometimes?
After speaking to a lot of people at my coworking space across fields, I’ve come to the conclusion that as things stand, LLMs are good tech demos and good for going from 0 to 1, i.e. good at making rank amateurs competent.

The real pros are hardly using them. No serious writer, artist, or developer is offloading their work to LLMs.
Delegating the structure of engagement to a pattern matcher doesn't change fundamentals. Consider Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: can't have all the nice properties of a social choice function without a dictator. So your AI needs to have higher level definitions in its objective to achieve some allocative efficiency. Examples abound, common ones are utilitarianism (don't use this one, this results in bad outcomes) and egalitarianism. Fortunately, we can choose this with both eyes open.

The field that considers this type of research is Mechanism Design, an inverse to Game Theory where you design for a desired outcome through incentives.

Would it be correct to suggest your suggestion to delegate to AI the design of games means you trust people are ineffectual at identifying when certain game types, such as zero sum games, are all that are possible?
That's one of the reasons I don't like Debian. All this old cruft for compatibility with stuff nobody should be using. Just embrace systemd, jesus.
I don't suppose anyone has a short summary?
> real terrorists

Did the CIA fabricate and mail the bombs?
one of the funniest things for me is the fact that many left-wing people add Kaczynski quotes without realizing that left-wing people are basically the first people to be criticized and almost mocked in Ted's main piece, "Industrial society and its future"
> Absolutely terrifying that these beta tests are being conducted on public roads without everyone's consent.

Tesla is by far not the worst offender. I rented a Kia EV6 and the lane keeping feature repeatedly tried to kill me within about 5 minutes of turning it on. I’ve had the same experience with plenty of other brand new vehicles. The only difference is Tesla’s implementation actually works so well that people stop paying attention to the road when they shouldn’t.
The RAW data for the vast majority of MILCs and DSLRs is pre-debayering.
Somehow reading "The West" made me think their "enemy" is the Russians, and now I'm thinking of RussianGPT. Version 1 is a depressed literary figure who likes to talk heavy stuff. Version 2 is basically Baghdad Bob declaring victory in the face of loses.

Meanwhile version 2 has also been found in many places, like Mar-a-Lago and 10 Downing St, London.
depends on the compiler implementation. modern compilers may be able to treat equivalent switch statements, gotos, and if/else statements pretty much the same
Make sure every one of your videos starts with "What's up YouTube" and also includes such phrases as "don't forget to like and subscribe" and "check out my Patreon".

(/s)

On a more serious note, my feeling is that cutting out "fluff" content like that is something I'd really appreciate.
We seem to have this conversation for every release; I wish Debian would make it very explicit when exactly a new release is "released", perhaps by sticking a banner at the top of the relevant pages that says something like "Debian 12 'Bookworm' has NOT been formally released but is expected to ship at $TIME/$DATE"
The case for the decentralization of online forums
I really enjoyed this article, as someone who didn't finish highschool and is a professional programmer.

The Wikipedia entry on Huffman Coding is impenetrable to me, this article was easy to follow.
What did the CIA do? I checked his Wikipedia page, not mentioned there.
Yes. Someone linked the manifesto in an HN thread ages ago, and I found more level-headed and thought-provoking than I would have imagined from someone able to commit such evil acts.

I do not agree with everything he wrote in the manifesto, and certainly not with his violent methods, but it's stuck with me in this era of naive techno-optimism which I find myself more disillusioned with by the day.

If the name on the front page was not of a murderer, I truly believe it would be recommended reading in schools and philosophy clubs.

As a very progressive person, I quite enjoyed his critique of the modern Leftist ideals and why they would create the factionalism and alienation we see today; he's not arguing as a 21st century conservative, but as a third position that is not represented by any mainstream camp. I had to read the manifesto of a killer to remind myself that there is more social critique to explore than the binary Liberal vs Conservative that's all the rage in our politicised world.
Yes, you got me. I'm actually Peter Thiel and I'm really an AI Doomer but I'm hiding that in my public pronouncements because I'm willing to shave years off my life expectancy to ensure that I die while I'm as rich as possible.
A big chunk of his manifesto reads like very personal grievances because it probably is. He’s doing the usual defensive thing of globalizing and generalizing something that is actually profoundly personal. Kaczynski was a victim of unethical human experimentation.
> Dollar Cost Averaging a lump sum might reduce your risk while you're averaging in, but why weren't you happy with the risk/return profile in the first place?

If I suddenly inherited $1m in cash and I planned out my desired portfolio allocation, I would want to enter into it over the course of at least a couple months because:

1) Interest rates are so high, you'd still be doing well earning 5% interest with the money parked in money market / bond / treasury ETFs. This significantly reduces the opportunity cost of waiting to invest the money or entering into a position slowly over time.

2) Markets fluctuate on a day to day basis often in response to things like fed meetings, jobs reports, earnings announcements, etc. You can average out the volatility by entering into the position over a few months (which, again, due to high interest on extremely low-risk cash/treasuries/bonds returning ~5% currently, the opportunity cost is minimal).
Show HN: Simple CLI to encrypt and descrypt files using a symmetric encryption
They still do it. It's still under the cover of front organizations. It's called research. They usually target people that don't follow the grain. One group that is targeted are expats, nomads, etc... Due to the rules/laws/regulations that don't apply because their subjects are traveling and in a temporal state and are abroad they can get away with much more.
> For now, Nature is allowing the inclusion of text that has been produced with the assistance of generative AI, providing this is done with appropriate caveats

Why not just apply this rule to all media? What is the purpose of singling out images and video?
> many of his predictions for the future were eerily prescient

Especially as his predictions were also true in technology in the past decades and is now more relevant with AI.
No. The only thing that's really documented is that he participated in a psychology experiment at Harvard.

People have alleged that it was part of MKULTRA, but there's nothing to support that beyond allegations and some circumstantial things (e.g., Murray consulted for the OSS on a profile of Hitler during the war). There were also just a lot of unethical experiments done on people in the 50s and 60s.
I think this is why I love incident response.

"In an emergency, that whole tangle of self-absorption lifts, because "what needs to be done" is usually so obvious that nobody, not even my inner critic, could reasonably disagree. For a certain kind of person – and I'm definitely one of them – this total absence of ambivalence feels freeing, even disconcertingly elating, never mind the fact that what's unfolding around me is unquestionably bad."
Java 20 pattern matching for switch: what’s under the hood?
>Mercedes FSD prototype, 10 years ago:

Mercedes FSD prototype 1986 to 1994 via the 400 Million Euro EU funded Prometheus project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39sxwYKlEE

It's funny that German, and Italian researchers and car makers had the early lead on self driving tech and then lost it by shelving the tech. Oof.

Which reinforces my earlier point I made in another thread here today, that innovation only happens in the EU as long as it's government funded and as soon as the funding stops, work stops and everything gets shelved instead of the private industry picking up the slack, funding it further to commercialize it like in the US. Sad.

“It’s possible that [Germany] threw away its clear vanguard role because research wasn’t consistently continued at the time,” Schmidhuber said. He added that carmakers might have shied away from self-driving technology because it seemed to be in opposition to their marketing, which promoted the idea of a driver in charge of steering a car."
Sure, but the announcement mentions and links to Bookworm media downloads which are old 11.7 media. It's confusing, annoying and honestly kind of amateurish. I like Debian, but this is a screw-up.
20:00 in mainland Europe and it's still not out. My work laptop is in a sad state of semi-brokenness (self-inflicted), and I had been looking forward to giving it a fresh start over the weekend. Now I'll have to wait another week.
Deindustrialization also comes with plenty of unknowns that people are reasonably suspicious of.
I'm pretty sure I remember discussion from Srouji and others on this specific topic at the "apple silicon" WWDC introduction. But I can't find anything useful from Apple in a web search, so it seems my statement is just a "some guy on the Internet" assertion.

It seems pretty clear and unsurprising that Apple optimises their design for their use case (e.g. major consideration of bandwidth to screen in handheld devices, reminiscent of one of the Alto's design criteria) but how that plays out doesn't support my claim either. But Apple's intended use cases aren't the same as the threadripper's.
Then I would expect a comparison with verilator.
reject humanity, return to monke

Edit: In all seriousness, it's been a while since I read it. His general ideas are that technology has been a disaster for humankind because, among other reasons, it's freed up time for us to be preoccupied with unimportant bullshit, to the point that it causes mental problems with people. People start to act out in various ways in resistance of our current state because we 'know' somewhere in our bodies that this existence is meaningless. People without the luxury of free time do not have to preoccupy themselves with this struggle for meaning.

He also goes on at length about how leftists are self-hating people and worship victimhood, and their mentality is partly a product of this existential dilemma.

But these are just a couple of points I took away. It's much more well-written than I could personally attempt to summarize in an internet comment.
Those three are pretty nice, but I’d say they are only a starting point, an inspiration, for creating a good song out of those themes.

You are probably getting downvoted for your second paragraph which is a bit out there.
I don't understand, a Stack Overflow post could tell you the same thing as the LLM. Or are you just being sarcastic? Recent LLMs are fine in terms of smaller things like cron or regex, I use them daily, but yes, for larger pieces of code, they're more likely to be incorrect.
Many of the comments are taking the occasion to speak favorably of the Unabomber's manifesto.

IMHO, there's a time to consider ideas, but I think it would be better not to do that when talking about a terrorist who attacked innocents to promote exposure of those ideas.

Otherwise, it would seem to be validating and rewarding terrorism, and thereby encouraging future terrorists.
Related:

M, or MUMPS is a procedural language with a built-in NoSQL database - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19388048 - March 2019 (2 comments)

MUMPS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18936990 - Jan 2019 (6 comments)

Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16309237 - Feb 2018 (42 comments)

The Mumps Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13859961 - March 2017 (178 comments)

MUMPS Instance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13618649 - Feb 2017 (1 comment)

Ask HN: Encryption and Security in MUMPS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13542953 - Feb 2017 (4 comments)

50 year old NoSQL DB that is better than MongoDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791425 - Oct 2016 (2 comments)

MUMPS, the Archaic Health-Care Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9895311 - July 2015 (49 comments)

I am a MUMPS programmer – Ask me anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6312391 - Sept 2013 (68 comments)
>Part of the military industrial complex?

I would say absolutely yes. All these companies make US military operations possible.

>What about Uber, Hilton, AB InBev, and Coca-Cola?

Not really. If they are used at all, they are used incidentally so. Certainly the military does not need them.

>What about Harvard and Yale?

Difficult question. I tend towards yes.

>What about White House staffers?

Depends I think.
IMO, the value of Reddit was that it was a group of forums with SSO and decent discoverability.

If you wanted to find a forum on a specific topic on the broader web, you had to sift through various sites and look for individual hints as to their vitality, and then register and introduce yourself on each one. With Reddit it was a single search away, and the more or less consistent UI made it easy to tell "this is the active one."

But importantly, it retained a lot of the value a forum does: a comment pool that persists, that shows up in Google later.

Discord is a TERRIBLE substitute. It's not meaningfully threaded. It's not externally searchable. It doesn't even have the "it's federated, so we're not beholden to one specific owner who will inevitably tank it." catch.
An impressive number of 4chan's /g/ users are on github. Some even actively contribute to Linux (though usually to Arch, Gentoo, and now more and more Nix).

I wrote a paper during college that I should release some time about when /g/ threw an absolute shitfit over Linus going "so, I've been a kinda shit human being to people and I'm going to step back and get some help", going as far as to blame his daughter/"the woke mob"/multiple named core kernel contributors for killing their god.

At one point, I attended a GitHub event that wasn't directly sponsored by github but encouraged a lot of github users to show up. While there I met several people who, outside the venue, were talking animatedly about Terry Davis. Listening in on the conversation revealed that they more or less just approved of his extensive use of racist language and epithets.

I haven't checked, but I would suspect that Linus' recent "trans rights" by proxy post has caused at least one or two aneurisms in the /g/ user group.
That is just something you can do with C code. That is not a goal in itself. Why would you want to run a C ISA instead of just using a standard simulator? Why not use verilator + any of the open source RISC-V cores?
Best manifesto of the 20th century imo. Modern man is an animal in a cage. He behaves increasingly abnormally because his environment is unfamiliar and out of his direct control.
I know the tendency to mythologize serial killers and terrorists is disgusting—serial killer TV shows and movies are sure-fire hits, which is a pretty dark insight into human nature. (I mean, Netflix is like half serial killer shows now.) And trying to generalize and overanalyze and learn lessons from one-off instances of people snapping and killing is just not productive.

But…

…it’s hard not to mythologize and over-analyze Kaczynski. He had what appears to be a totally average suburban upbringing, he was unambiguously wildly intelligent, and yet he done broke bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
For a person who exhibited such deranged behavior, his writing and arguments are remarkably clear and cool-headed.
If you already have a pile of money, then lump sum investing is better. But sitting in cash until you have a pile of money, is worse:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/dollar-cost-averaging-vs-lump-s...

Most of us do not have a pile of cash though, so it's better to get in the market a little every month:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/just-keep-buying/

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59046778

And waiting to buy the dip doesn't work any better:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
Search for the section "psychological study" under "Early Life".
Have a purpose. Have an intended audience to fulfill that purpose. Cater to your audience.

If you wander about aimlessly, well, you will be aimless.
> But claiming that a branch of economics is trying to implement communism but somehow hide in plain sight, is a real stretch.

I think it's usually called corporatism, or literally called fascism (the Italian version, not whatever liberal Democrats mean when they say it.)

For me, the test hypothetical is how one would like literal chattel slavery if laws and diligent inspections limited slave work hours to 6 hours a day with a max of 24 hours a week, slave quarters looked like fancy college dorms, families were given the right to stay together, and slaves all had iPhones and Netflix. If slavery starts to sound more appealing, you might lean towards corporatism or national syndicalism.
To phrase it more succinctly: it's a stupid idea because a 12 year old teenager will be able to train these models on their phone in a few years. This is fundamentally different from enriching Uranium.
Hence the word "component". It certainly seems more real than other paper tigers.
I've been at it for many years now, my channel @TheRoadChoseMe now has 60k subscribers, and gets pretty solid views.

I think the most important thing I've learned is to make videos that people want to watch. (I know that sounds basic, but I think it's the at the core) The more people watch it, the more YouTube promotes it, and the more people watch it. When that happens, YouTube will even give you a little notice that says they're showing it to more people because more people are watching it. When that happens I pickup tons of subscribers and tons more views than normal (and therefore more money)

Even when I have a post about my video hit the front page of reddit, the number of "external views" pales in comparison to YouTube recommended... so it doesn't matter how hard you promote it, the best thing you can do is make videos that people want to watch, and keep watching. YouTube will promote those videos for you.
(See @StuffMadeHere for what happens and how quickly it happens when you make great videos - his channel got where it is now very, very quickly)

How do you do that? I think the best way is trial and error. Make many different types of video with different styles and approaches, and see what works. See what you enjoy, see what you are good at, and learn from that.

Also remember that YouTube is the "more content game". Sooner or later (I bet sooner) you'll run out of ideas and things to film. So start thinking about it now, you need to get in the "always create content" mindset.
A reference implementation would be in Verilog or VHDL.
There was a lot of controversy about publishing his manifesto, but his brother saw it, recognized his writing style and tipped off the police.
You'd have a point if other subjects of MK-Ultra allowed a similar trajectory as Kaczynski. Were there other cases of self-destruction? I don't even know how many people were subjected to these experiments.
Ubuntu is based on debian and is pretty pragmatic in that respect.

it makes it easy to get working

...and it also carefully attempts to lock you in using packages that can't¹ be disabled.

just saying it is a slippery slope.

[1] well with effort you can

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable

https://gist.github.com/jfeilbach/f4d0b19df82e04bea8f10cdd59...
The underlying idea behind DCA is that by investing a fixed amount every month, you'll naturally buy less shares when the market is overheating and more shares when it's undervalued. Contrast this with trying to time the market so that you're buying up shares during a down market. The author substituted in "buy immediately" for "time the market."

I'd say that the strategy you're referring to is the same as "buy immediately (whenever you can afford it)," but interpreted in a DCA light.

You're right that it matters if we're talking about whether or not you have an existing savings you want to invest. But I don't see that distinction to matter here, since many people believe DCA is powerful because it rejects the idea of market timing and reduces risk, not because they're trying to put their money to work as fast as possible.
My company forbids the use of LLMs that aren't validated (and we make one).

Our managers get emails if we make calls to known LLMs, and there's guidance on locally running LLMs and using their output ("it's okay for small things maybe, but be careful"). Why?

Because legal's job is to protect the company from legal threats. Sometimes that means making some awkward choices, like handwringing over the use of GPL licensed software in publicly exposed example code (such as sample apps) purely because some aspects of the GPL haven't been tested in American courts, much less international ones.

So the use cases for LLMs there are mostly source-to-source transformative ("Turn this function and documentation into javadoc format please") or similar -- stuff where you can show that the LLM isn't introducing anything that might maybe possibly have any hint of externally licensed software.
None of them involve defending the US.