skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what's funny about him trying to be mini-elon is that elon, before that, had some credibility from landing rockets and making a "cool" ev. he burned up that social cred by being an unmasked white supremacist and edgelord that does wildly irrational stuff after taking over twitter. but hey he's a billionaire backed by saudi money so he has cash to burn and make twitter an alt-right haven... spez has never been really liked at all and his fortune(~10million) is a rounding error compared to elon's
Wrong link posted
I feel this comment might go over people's heads if they take the connotation of a "though leader" as someone who makes a mess of things with overcomplicated solutions and then leverages it to greater roles before the consequences of the mess are discovered.

However, I've definitely seen this problem even with legitimately strong, seasoned technical leadership, where the vision is great, but the team just doesn't have the skills to pull it off. You can't have good macro-engineering without good micro-engineering. The problem with the cambrian explosion of tech is that it obfuscates the basics that engineers need to understand. Junior engineers end up struggling just to stay on top of incidental complexity and many come to the conlusion that building good software is just about learning enough languages and tooling, when in reality they are barely keeping their head above water and never learn the deeper lessons of what works and doesn't in software systems.
I like that idea. Perhaps you could turn that into a poll [1] item with a description of how that would look and work. If a lot of people like the idea then consider emailing the link to the poll to dang. Participation may be higher on a Monday.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
> I’d rather compose my systems with widely understood and commonly used components

OP here. Fortunately the authors of the components you use didn't get discouraged by comments like this otherwise they would've never been written ; )
Every cloudflare site responds with `ip=x.x.x.x` at /cdn-cgi/trace

https://troyhunt.com/cdn-cgi/trace
What Even Is Black Mirror Anymore?
I'm not questioning the validity of the article and I'm not defending Israel. But it's basic knowledge that (i) several first-world countries make a nice profit off of wars in the third world and (ii) almost all of these countries are liberal Western (or West-aligned) democracies. This is the reason why I don't understand why the author has singled out Israel here. Put it another way, could you name an arms exporter, which could be a company, country, etc., that doesn't sell to despotic regimes?
If you only lurk out, consider lynx -image_links gopher://gopherddit.com .
Then change the image viewer at /etc/lynx.cfg for something usable from a keyboard such as sxiv or nsxiv.
Hallucinated then
The Reddit protest reminds me a lot of Occupy Wall Street. I expect it will simply run out of gas as reddit waits out the populist fury.
I continue to receive an overwhelming amount of scam text messages and calls. These messages do not seem to originate from Twilio (probably because its high cost deterring scammers and spammers).

So all these the legal requirements intended to curb spam and scams, are clearly ineffective.

Even my Twilio phone number wasn't immune to incoming spam, and Twilio itself couldn't block it. I had to create a studio workflow to combat the issue. Indeed, it's a puzzling world...
On 1: this small amount of overhead matters because the amount of work you do on each opcode can be tiny. The extra jump could be 20% of your runtime!
On 2: yes, this helps the indirect branch target predictor. In a real program you’ll often get repeated sequences of opcodes (increment, then compare) that can be predicted. These branch predictors can be pattern based.
Devconf 2023 (Red Hat's Linux/FOSS EU-based conference) – my favourite talks
Doesn’t llama.cpp resolve all the licensing issues? The models themselves aren’t subject to copyright, so you can use the model weights as long as you haven’t entered into an agreement with Meta about their usage.
You can make a REST endpoint match a client's needs, but if you have multiple clients (for example, 1 for mobile and 1 for desktop) that all need different amounts of data (for example, the mobile client shows a simplified view with less data), then you would need to write 2 different REST endpoints to handle each clients. Multiply that by the number of pages with a difference.
> Didn't know that Moondrop made DACs, I know them because I had a pair of Starfields.

Moondrop Dawn, quite good
The shareprice of META fell by 75% from August 2021 to August 2022, wiping about three quarters of a trillion dollars off its market cap.

From October 2022 to now the shareprice tripled, adding half a trillion dollars to its market cap.

Explain that in terms of the Efficent Markets Hypothesis? "share prices reflect all information" - what half trillion worth of information change came out in 2022? and what in 2023?

What about insider trading laws? How can we say "share prices reflect all information" when we know there are people who have more information which would give them an unfair advantage, which means the current shareprice cannot be reflecting the information they have?
The filibuster is a Senate rule that can be abolished with a simply majority vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...

The Constitution already provides a lot of checks and balances: the bicameral legislature, the Presidential veto, and the Supreme Court. The filibuster is not in the Constitution, and it's unclear why we need yet another impediment to making any progress.
I have a theory about this. I think what we are witnessing is a GPT-4 conversation being switched over to GPT-3.5
I've seen it mentioned somewhere that due to server load the model could be switched on you. I have had similar experiences. When this happens I start a new conversation and upload the full contents of my code or previous conversation.
Some of these requirements aren’t even from Twilio but from upstream, Tier 1 telcos.

T-Mobile for example has made many changes over the past few years intentionally designed to make it harder to onboard large numbers of texts, and they’re happy to tell intermediaries like Twilio to get fucked if they don’t play ball.

Which in absence of any stronger measures is great, but those stronger measures could at least serve to create a baseline that’s the same and reliable across the industry. If you want to launch a 10DLC-based campaign it can be a real headache.
Not an American. Watching from afar. We have a problem of too many teenage pregnancies in South Africa. Some of it is due to economics some of it due to social issues. What I don't understand about the US is how loud the extreme voices are. IMHO there is merit in messaging that prevents young girls getting pregnant. Whether it is promoting birth control or abstinence. There is also merit in giving options once girl is pregnant. No one solution is absolutely right and and no one solution is absolutely wrong. This being a technology site we know this off course because you can use Ruby, Python or PHP to create you SAAS and it depends on you the person.
I doubt somebody started or paid a VPN to strike Turkmenistan Airlines for shits and giggles. I suspect there is more to the story.
In addition to what Flutas already posted https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sal...

> But Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times. The company has regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent, the document said.

> That performance is unlikely to improve anytime soon, according to the documents and seven current and former Twitter employees.

If that isn't abject failure, what is?
It's a lot easier to hide your breadcrumbs if you're just calling google.com or bing.com. Those are services that get billions of hits an hour and no body cares to scan or correlate your calls to them (other than Google and Microsoft of course)
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-e...

is a good summary
How do you manage sales?
That assumes the service is doing something generic enough to be trivial in any language, in which case, why not just choose one?

It's like we're advocating for the outcome of the Tower of Babel tale.
Side note, but the small font size + light grey text on the white background made it a bit of an eye strain for me to read your story, would definitely benefit a bit from some more contrast.
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/47...

Convicted? No. Raided? Yes.
> we probably can assume that this app is trying to attack some government sites of Turkmenistan. It is hard for me to imagine why would anybody do that

I find this very odd that they would target those websites. What would be the gain of taking down those websites _for anyone_. I doubt that the reason is political.

P.S. Turkmenistan is probably the worst country when it comes to free internet. Almost all IP addresses are blocked, with very few websites (mostly google-owned) being reachable. The entire population is desperate for VPN (preferrably free). They are not educated about malwares, or anything about security, so they will download anything that promises free internet.
Eh, the r9 7950X3D only pulls ~150 watts fully loaded (16c/32t)

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-cpu...
It's installed by default on OSX, Ubuntu, and most non-windows operating systems.
“Banned for fraud.”
I thought of one!

Recent ESP32 processors have a "ULP Coprocessor" for ultra-low-power operations. Its instruction set is... well... not very RISCy: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v4.2/esp32/ap...

(Spoiler alert for the lazy: it has single instructions for ADC reads and I2C transactions and such. I don't think it gets more CISC than that!)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230603063354/https://hardcores...
nice findings, firstly, thanks for looking into it and sharing. i wonder how they have 3 million installbase. do you think there are some (unwitting) influencers, streamers etc. paid to promote this? 3 million is plenty, especially since there are a lot of heavily promoted vpns out there bidding for installs
It sounds like you need to sort through your downloads folder. I can relate.

Have you tried reaching out to Box / Microsoft and asking about mandatory metadata? Now I'm curious.

I use "Everything" ( https://www.voidtools.com/ ) if I ever need to find lost files.
And the intellectual property laws are bullshit. Your employer owns all your ideas even if they pop into your head off-hours. It's hard to make a spinoff when some megacorp has that kind of teeth into you.

California has all the startups, not because Californians are smarter or harder-working, but because they are more free.
In retrospect you could say yes, but it was hard to tell. It ended up being either okay or not okay depending on Intel vs AMD and clock speed.
Based on what you're describing they probably were being genuine. The legal requirements are tricky and often enforced by private parties and only when actually enforceable. Gmail is supposed to be a private user rather than an application sender so you're probably skirting the requirements.
As Linus (LTT) mentioned a while back, VPNs are an insanely profitable cash cow with super low bars of entry into the new business, but it sits at a super legally precarious position that could jeopardize major legal and ethical challenges.

I agree though that a lot of YouTubers have grown fat and comfortable with VPN providers led largely because of the financial incentives over their desire to protect fans.
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its not clear its ddos, though it might be, as one commenter suggested it might be ad revenue or so. maybe they hit themselves? :D. i bet we will never know.
Often, the VPN maker is different than the botnet provider.

https://scrapestack.com/faq: Residential ("premium") proxies provide IP addresses that are connected to real residential addresses and devices, which makes them much less likely to get blocked while scraping the web. We highly recommend using residential proxies for your web scraping needs as they make it easy to work around geo-blocked content and harvest data at scale.
> Until it does it's not an alternative to SOCIAL networks

I get what you’re saying butI think this doesn’t matter quite as much as it does with Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Plenty of us preferred when Reddit was less like a modern social media network (mostly the pitfalls) and are more than happy just lurking. I don’t need an online status light. I don’t want some weird “snoovatar” NFT nonsense. I want /r/videography so I can continue to learn about my craft. An RSS feed sounds great and I’m kind of annoyed at myself for no thinking of it already lol.
... even when told.
I may be wrong on this but weren't the fruit analogies originally meant to describe the difference between class based and prototype based languages and then it was extended to actually teach the concepts in a way that didn't work?

I remember my professor using them to try and teach pre-standard C++ and when I pressed him to explain actual use cases I figured out he didn't understand himself.

I have the feeling it was meant as a bridge for lisp programmers moving to class based languages but that may be because we learned lisp first.

Anyways that context is the only place I found value in it.
So is hola vpn: https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/10/hola_gets_holes_poked...

At this point one must assume that any "free" vpn software is free because it uses its install base for DDoS / other traffic abuse.
My venom for design patterns has risen over the years, and I think the reason is that Patterns always represent concrete architecture changes long before the last responsible moment.

In my code I tend to leave negative space. A spot where a feature could logically fit, without having to really design that feature before we need it. And as my comfort with compound refactoring has improved, some code smells have fallen off of my veto list. If we need to do X then this solution will stand in our way, but we can alter it here and here if that becomes a problem. It works well for a team of one, but it can be difficult to express in a code review, when someone is adding the fourth bad thing to the same block of code and now I’m pushing back for odd sounding reasons because my spidey sense is tingling about bridges too far.
1. I could not tell you what that billboard means, despite also looking through the related blog post. Perhaps it is something only marketing teams understand, which would be an interesting failure mode.

2. I tried to sign up for Twilio Sendgrid the other day to send some emails from a Heroku app but I couldn't complete the sign up because I never received the activation email. Classic!
Made: An expo for handcrafted custom bicycles and frames
The requirements are insufficient if you’re going to be so particular as to stick exactly to them. You can’t guarantee the uptime’s requested without talking about infrastructure.
Every tech company’s goal is to grow into the thing that you, as a dev, don’t want it to become.

There will be a growing focus on security, process, reporting, testing, documentation, reliability, etc. And a shrinking focus on new feature development, prototyping, experimentation.

For many that might be something to embrace. Maybe you’re 35 now and have kids and wouldn’t mind a more boringly reliable employment. Otherwise you might want to find a new job.

But, yeah, nobody’s being wronged here. It’s just what happens. Like my kids growing up and needing me less and less.
Jellyfin parses scene naming conventions fine. I have thousands of films and hundreds of TV shows (with thousands of episodes) all in scene name format and I can think of a handful of matching errors on Jellyfish but it's usually due to a commonish film name and a wrong year or something similar.
"No bad tactics, only bad targets". The only thing the activists would condemn here would be if Huffman were seriously assaulted on the street, or his family being harassed (although it seems like nowadays close adult relatives/associates who fail to denounce a cancellation target become fair game as well.) Anything else - legal or otherwise - would be filed under "actions having consequences". This is sadly the norm for social media activism in 2023. spez needs to accept that he's lost his membership in

Quite frankly, this is a good PR move, although I would assume that it's still better to maintain a low profile. Still, I'm sure a lot of people are hoping for more events like this to occur in order to punish Reddit.
I share this problem in the last year+ of job searching I've been up to.
No body starts a botnet to hit one target. Botnets are usually for hire. You find a vulnerability, establish as many C&C devices as you can, then advertise online that you have a botnet capable of XYZ, and you get contracts to hit particular endpoints.

In this example, Swing VPN is offering a "free VPN" service, but they actually pay for it with botnet contracts.
You don't need variable length you just need to send the data in bigger blocks. Count all 6^5n ways to throw 5 dice n times, order them lexicographically and send the index in 5nlog(6) bits, rounding up.

Your inefficiency is just the rounding error, which quickly becomes trivial. In theory some block sizes should even coincidentally be close to a whole number of bits.
My suspicion too. It seems like ClosedAI switches from gpt-4 to a faster model (e.g., gpt-turbo-3.5) for certain tasks but they do it without telling the user.
In this you are likely correct. It's really anything that is allowing unlimited money (goods or services) to flow into campaigns from industries or unknown origins. It's also the court which is limiting voting rights. Those are two good starts which will help shift power back to the electorate.

I mean, it's bad that in our country we have to consider boycotting companies that donate to or support politicians/legislation which work to undermine democracy and such. This is plainly indicative of a broken system, where participating at the ballot box is insufficient to overcome corporate interests.
I think there are 2 core topics regarding WFH.

1. Gig jobs v/s ‘full time’ jobs:

Assessment in favour of the bosses - Companies seem to be okay with people in gig jobs working multiple jobs.

Assessment against the bosses - Most full-time jobs need not be full-time jobs. And thus most full time jobs can be done by people working multiple jobs. And thus most full time jobs can be done from home.

Conclusion:
Contract laws need to change to prevent certain types of contracts from being drawn. For example, no contracts should prevent a person seeking additional employment.

2. Culture: Bossess feel that culture development slows with WFH. A hybrid work setup can help prevent this.
Ultimate Guide to Platforms: Steven Sinofsky
These days, Microsoft Office 365 (for business) from the start if you need an entire office in a box.

Fastmail if you just need email, CalDAV, CardDAV, and light WebDAV.

I use (and/or administer) both daily and like them for different reasons.
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/ultimate-g...
Improving their core product? That's entirely the problem. The product was finished 10 years ago. Nothing needed to be changed.
Like I said, we don't use Vim at work.
The only social media I haven’t removed from my life is right here, on hacker news. Everything else gave me the same impression as you had. When it’s gone, nothing’s missing and if anything, something is gained. That was a very uncomfortable realization after using it for over a decade, but it was totally welcome once it clicked.

With hacker news, I don’t know… It doesn’t have the same vibe as something like Facebook. We all seem to be interested in the general themes here, conversation leans towards constructive, and there isn’t much noise to filter from signals. I wouldn’t mind finding that elsewhere, but no amount of feed configuring on Reddit or Twitter ever got me where I wanted to be.

Whenever I click a link over to Reddit I get the sense that I really haven’t missed anything since the last time, however many months before.
The onus is on ClosedAI to prove that chat.openai.com still uses the same gpt-4 as before.
Pretty sure recent Jellyfin uses dotnet ( actual Microsoft ) and not Mono.

Python, and increasingly dotnet are already packaged for every distribution I have tried recently.

Dotnet is even being ported to Haiku right now.

What is the challenge in getting these setup?
> It reflects the defensible moat in our industry (SaaS offerings in general) is no longer technology.

I feel like it was never technology, especially in SaaS.

Sure you need some initial technical chops to get a service up and running, but after MVP —> PMF, it’s all marketing, momentum, consumer trust, your brand, etc.

For every successful SaaS (take Notion for example) it’s easy to say things like they never had a real competitor, but the truth is they had a lot of competition but they were able to overcome it and build a moat initially propped up by really good usability, but now their usability could easily go to shit and they’d still do well with a traditional sales/marketing moat.
I completely agree, just want to point out that I think you mean ARPANET.

DARPA is the agency that funded ARPANET, and other defense research.
Elon Musk VivaTech in France
Note that this model can't really be used for most code tasks. The tokenizer removed repeating spaces, so it doesn't have a valid concept of indentation.
RISC just means that the instruction set is reduced (compared to what was the norm in the early 1980s). It does not say whether the architecture is register-memory or load-store (though most RISC ISAs are load-store). As long as the x86 CPUs does not decode to more than, say, two dozen microcode types it uses RISC "internally".
OMG, never has truth been so funny and yet so tragic.

This article, its art and its font choice, shall be preserved forever in the archive of Historical Documents.

Our eternal response to unnecessary complexity? "Never give up! Never surrender!"

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ADDENDUM:

The article makes a good case for formally adding "manufactured complexity" and "miscommunication complexity" to "accidental complexity" and "necessary complexity".

They are quite common distinct causes.
Don’t worry we’re putting it to a vote. It’s just easy to prepare when you know what your community will vote for. If we’re proven wrong it’s not like we’re pushing the big red button.

Besides I’m resigning no matter the outcome. There you go. One less power-tripping mod to worry about. Nothing lost for you and I don’t continue to build Reddit’s company for them for free. Everyone’s happy!

I’m sure the admins will love the results when the whole mod team leaves and removes our bots. It’s their site, after all. We’re just landed gentry who provide nothing.
I think this is directionally correct. Services should just be standard language classes, and whether that service is hosted inside process 1 host 1 or process 7 host 5 is up to the autoscaling component. The industry is verrryy slowly getting there.
There's been a large influx of people chasing dollars and status, they could not care less about the product or who uses it. You can still find orgs that do care, but they're swiftly pushed out by the VC-funded "growth at any cost" model or are acquired into oblivion.

The indie scene is looking excellent however, a lot of programmers who have already made their money seem to be pushing excellent hobby projects out.