skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe that's true. I have friends who make new accounts all the time for jokes or memes. I don't think they're putting a huge amount of effort into it.
Link to latest release

https://www.waterfox.net/docs/releases/G5.1.9/?update
> SF Travel said Red Hat is scheduled for events at Moscone in 2026, 2028, 2030 and 2032.

Maybe they'll cancel those too, but it's worth noting that Red Hat and Meta have not said anything like "we're done with San Francisco", they just both backed out of a conference booking at around the same time. Could be a coincidence. We don't know. Feels premature to draw conclusions though.
I use instagram occasionally but it’s mostly for eye candy and maybe a few will post stories with vids, it’s really a pure form of internet junk food.
Red Hat are headquartered in North Carolina, with the engineering HQ in Massachusetts. There's way more workers on the east coast than the west.
I’m sincerely asking: has any modern social media platform delivered this? I know it used to be that way on many sites, but over the last decade, we seem to really redefined the expectations.

Personally, I’ve really come around to the idea. I follow a few baseball accounts - if an amazing highlight gets popular over on the LA Dodgers account, I want to see it without needing to trust the Mets might repost it or it’ll make the MLB’s accounts or whatever else. I don’t make a habit of following public entities like teams or brands or sports meme accounts, but sometimes they post things that really resonate with people who follow the accounts I do follow

A big part of “social” is the buzz in your corner of the world, and recommendations help me be far more clued in
“Ask me about my other controversial but true opinions!”
Saw this from a mile away.

My wife owns a company. I told her to get on Threads early so she can get ahead of the algorithm.

I had 0 interest.

That is the demographic. Influencers and marketers.
Though some of the more informative conferences (pre COVID) that I attended were smaller lower key ones held in Facebook/Google HQ. Most attendees were local anyway. I also enjoy hangouts like B-Sides in smaller venues.
I love this idea.

For now, all laws are location based because sovereignty is defined by geographical boundaries for historical reasons.

If you use "feed fake data" to avert those laws, I think that is ok. As an example, I am the criminal if I lie to an app to say I am in Pennsylvania to bet on sports. I don't think my phone manufacturer should conspire with law enforcement to prevent me from being able to lie to commit that crime.
Phrack: Twenty Years of Exploits Escaping the Java Sandbox
> you can complete the entire walk underground

What? I’ve been to Vegas dozens of times (conferences and pleasure) and I’ve never seen nor heard of this. What specific casino pairs have underground walks between them (intended for public use, not stormwater or utility tunnels)?
The point of my comment was the hypocrisy of the US position on sending cluster bombs to Ukraine.
Reddit app does this too, it’s risky but it can help discover new content areas. Threads has that dialed to 11
Fully agreed. We threw company offsites in a bunch of different locations around the US and Vegas was by far most affordable and convenient of them all once you got to a certain size.
San Francisco also needs to make housing a lot cheaper by building way more of it, including marginal options like SROs. So much of the disorder you see on streets of wouldn't be happening in public if housing wasn't insanely expensive to the point of people needing a good steady job lest they become homeless.
The last 3 laptops I bought were a pair of Lenovo e570 machines and a Lenovo e580.

Two went to college kids and I keep the third.

When I configure a laptop, I use less RAM than I would otherwise want (16 GB lately) and make up for it with a fast NVME boot drive as swap space. Intel NVME drives are fast and power efficient. That gives me a better mix of performance and battery life than would a laptop with more RAM.
Anyone who was hooked when they enter jail should have a one-day class on habituation to reduce how many fall into this trap.
Does anyone know what they're detecting? Isn't the whole point of the hardware devices they're trying to detect that they perfectly emulate the same protocol that "real" hardware uses?
Not denial from me, I was thinking of how the city might be trying to make it so people can get there more comfortably, which includes less chance of experiencing some of SF's problems. I don't think it's a very good plan because it's expensive and far into the future, but I think it's a part of the misguided approach the city is taking.
If the keyboard or trackpad died on my laptop I would simply take it to be serviced. The company that made it has storefronts around the country where I can bring it in. They have an app that makes the scheduling easy.

In fact I just had the battery replaced after 5-6 years (I don’t quite remember). Works for me.
Doesn't seem likely that mastodon.social will block it (and they are the largest)
It might be technically simple but it’s probably legally complicated to write a summarizer that doesn’t violate copyright. Using data they are explicitly given permission to use by the definition of the field it’s in is quite different though.
> noone is happy

I’m 100% happy with Prettier. The trick is to not care too much about how the code looks. Consistent style trumps any choice for me.
I'm not super familiar with meson so I was having trouble building.. I'm guessing that you need to set the option somehow for what engine you want to build, but I wasn't able to figure out how.

I managed to build the sdl2 engine by hacking the meson.build file, but could you tell me how you're supposed to do this?

Looks really cool! I did a similar from scratch side-scroller game for a project in college that was a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing!
The Inaccuracy of AI-Based Filtering for Illegal Digital Sex Crime Videos
Despite the good intentions behind the legislation introducing mandatory AI filters in South Korea, this test was conducted to demonstrate their ineffectiveness and danger in flagging normal content as illegal content. The rate of false positives, where normal videos were incorrectly identified by the AI as illegal sex crime videos, was 93.75%, an extremely high figure.
Would be interesting to see the rate of this self-promotion here. It's definitely not as present or in-your-face as other places, but it is noticeable
What makes you think the NYT speaks on behalf of white people?

https://www.nytco.com/board-of-directors/
At least for me it is nice to have some places which aren’t political where we can just geek out about super technical stuff. There are lots of places online where political discourse is the norm.

No reason every space online has to be political.
It must be heavily censored to have low controversial content
> I've often seen people making big eyes after being told that I use C to write games in under 48h at game jams - and yet I never really felt disadvantaged

Another comment posted that you would have to be "a madman" to code a game in C, and I was genuinely baffled. Gamedev is one of the realms C truly excels in and is actually relatively easy. Once you're used to it, and know the boilerplate that needs to be hoisted, it's not particularly difficult or time consuming.

It's weird to me that (I assume, at least) professional developers still have this weird mysticism over C as if it's just arcane incantations compared to what they do.
It's almost a certainty that all of the drawings, plans, and related engineering information for the Stinger missile still exists. In that sense, the backup is fine. It works. Raytheon has the plans for the Stinger missile and likely much, if not all, information on the design of the original production lines.

But that's probably where the issue lies. Those plans make certain assumptions based on the technology, tooling, and processes in use at the time. The bill of materials may reference off-the-shelf parts that were readily available back in the 70s and 80s but are now considered obsolete. Some of the raw materials specified may no longer in use due to new environmental regulations, changes in industry standards, limited availability nowadays for any number of reasons, etc. Machining processes may be documented in the context of machines, tools, and procedures common a the time that we simply no longer use. Similar challenges exist for every part of the process, from sourcing materials to quality control.

You can document everything with a great deal of detail at the time--likely the case here, by the nature of manufacturing complex products--but that doesn't mean it will be understood in exactly the same manner forty years later. No engineer can predict how processes and standards will change over that kind of time frame; the best they can do is document everything clearly enough that future engineers can work through what's left behind and adapt it as needed in the future.

Bringing in retirees likely expedites that process. They can almost certainly work through it, but if a few phone calls and meetings with retired staff can speed things along, there's no reason not to. It doesn't mean someone screwed the pooch in the past. In a military context, existing stockpiles are meant to give you sufficient time to restart production.

With a computer backup, you can monitor that the system is functioning and verify the recovery process. You can even confirm it directly, restoring backups to a separate system. You can't do that with a manufacturing line that hasn't manufactured anything in forty years. Either you keep it active, manufacturing items you neither need nor want, or you try to constantly update your plans every few years on the off-chance that you'll want to build more outdated Stingers in the future.

That would absurdly wasteful, and even if you catch some changes in procedure/systems/materials, you'll miss plenty of others unless you actually try to restart production. No matter what you do, there's going to have to be a certain degree of interpretation work that's needed.
TIL what hip-tech-du-jour is lol
Xpipe: A brand-new shell connection hub and remote file manager
Meta says it can commit 3 engineer-years on nogil CPython
In 15 years, I only had a crackhead try to forcibly open my passenger door at a stoplight one time, so clearly this is an overreaction. Maybe he just needed a ride.
It's unclear to me how the inability to hoover up data and exploit users' privacy would prevent someone from creating an innovative experience.
Wouldn't the increased swap load reduce the lifetime of the nvme drive?
> Meta cancelled altogether, so that is probably just a cost-saving measure (Meta isn't doing too well rn).

Poorly informed comments like this by otherwise intwlligent people hurt hn. Meta is minting money right now.
ahhhhh :-) good old joke :-) Thanks for remembering it to me, it's been a long time since I've heard it. Good memories !
I’m not entirely sure that’s a bad thing for the user though. A few years ago, you could click on pretty much any blog post and you knew you were getting Hugh quality or at least relevant information related to your search query.

Nowadays most blog posts in the SERPs are full of spam and unnecessary filler text. I stopped clicking on random blogs because of how awful they’ve become. I’m currently using bing chat (which uses ChatGpt 4 under the hood) and it saves me a lot of time.
lineageOS had this...
Thanks for your comment.

Your mention of combining space and time compels me to share my thoughts about time and space, I am experimenting with a programming technique that models state directly as its primary interface (whereas most programming languages model instructions). Time is inferred by movements between states or interactions with state.

I want "turn by turn" navigation of state and time as an implication of that.

It's incomplete but here is a point and click programming environment with some numbers and some parsed JSON into a grid. You can move data around between cells and the instructions are logged and the state is captured on each instruction. You "move through" state space. Try moving a value from the top to the bottom or vice versa.

https://replit.com/@Chronological/DynamicTables#index.html

Time travelling is implemented by clicking on instructions (the list items under Program instructions when you have done an action) The goal is to to infer the instructions needed to do the movement, be it pop off the stack or access some inner field in JSON or call a function. It's inspired by spreadsheets and the insight that most programming is logistics.
> Most of the 160-200 million laptops sold each year are replacement purchases. The average laptop is replaced every 3 years (in business) to five years (elsewhere). 3 My 5.7 years per laptop experience is not exceptional.

This is one of the many aspects I don't like about how laptops are designed today. Even with OEM desktops like my Dell Precision T1700, it's still serviceable and fixable today without a whole lot of effort. For both my Dell and Supermicro workstations, they basically last 10+ years, and I've got a lot of options to keep them going; I wish I could say the same about laptops. I really wish I could get a new 2k screen for the old Dell Latitude E6530 I have -- it's built a lot more robustly than my newer latitude. I really would like to see our government mandate user serviceable parts (kind of like how the EU apparently mandated replaceable batteries, which is a huge win), as there's so many older designs that would continue to chug along with a few fixes, like IBM era Thinkpads or some the more robustly designed Latitudes. Lenovo has been going the wrong direction lately...I have sworn them off after having a two P1s and a P53, which were gently used and taken care of, die in under 2 years.
> APS4

Australian Public Service employee, level 4? (googled it but a bit unsure)
Yeah, sometimes it takes 15 minutes to just walk to the casino next door.
I am sure there are good reasons for it, the postgres proposal for switching concurrency models[1] comes to mind. I actually just posted this question to see what people come up with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646299

My knee jerk reaction to rewrites is so negative I actually would like some counter evidence on when it worked out.

[1]https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4658520e-5cd0-6242-e54...
I used to do trade shows in Orlando and Vegas. Everyone hated Orlando because attendees would bring the entire family, show up for the first half-day, then leave for the parks. The place would be a ghost town by day 3.

At least with Vegas everyone left the families at home. Sure, they would be all hung over every morning but at least they came.
White nationalist publisher’s data exposed in Amazon cloud leak
EverQuest did the same thing, except it was "guess the noun".

> What broach?

> What sword?

The keywords could be so obscure that allegedly, 25 years after release, some quests remain uncompleted by even a single player.
That makes sense if we're looking at broad-scope advertising.

I always figured there are some verticals where the value per acquisition was high enough, and the product narrowly-scoped enough, where it might make sense to microtarget individual customers-- profiling them individually and building custom messages for each of them.

The obvious target would be the narrow-scope prescription drugs-- all those ads that say "If you have XYZ-positive, PDQ-negative Exploding Sphincter Syndrome Type XVI with Sprinkles and Cheese Sauce". Presumably there are only a few hundred people with that condition in the country, but you're spending a lot of money to reach everyone else to try to catch them in your net.

Super-premium luxury goods might also fit there, but I wonder if the brand risk would be too high. Rolls Royce probably knows the 200 customers most likely to buy their new model, but it might not fit their brand to actually put together a campaign that seemed like they were actually TRYING to sell cars.
Sure, I feel you on that. I don't need to have an explanation on, I dunno, the imperial origins of silicon chip production or something when I wanna show you my cool Raspberry pi homebrew. Still, if we're talking about the Silicon Valley banking collapse, don't be surprised if it gets political.
That doesn’t seem like a good idea unless your goal is to burn down the current paradigm. And I’ll grant some people have arguments for doing so, but this doesn’t seem a productive way to go about it.

Either advocate for tearing the status quo out by its roots, hopefully with some inclination of what to put in its place lest something worse grow instead. Or demand transparent control w/ easily revocable consent ( or something along those lines.) Maximizing chaos and distrust and belligerent behavior beyond the already intolerable levels isn’t going to get a net improvement in things anytime soon.
And it's so obvious as to why/how in retrospect

Everyone knows sending an innocent person to prison is really bad. But if you throw "they're not well..." in front of it and you have all the green lights you need.
If he said anything otherwise the economic death spiral would become a cliff. He's just doing his job to not make national headlines basically telling people to run to the hills.

He's not right, but he's not in a political position that will economically benefit the people of the city by being candid.
Semi-off topic, but related: does anyone know of a Rust (or Bevy) library for working with Tetrahedral meshes?

Most of the interesting stuff being done with the XPBD solver in SideFX Houdini uses them (e.g. for soft body simulations).
Cool!

Is the cost AWS level of waste - or something reasonable?

I can get an A4000 with 16GB vram which can run some models for 140$ per month.

I can't say the setup is anything special really but not having to do that has some value
Why not just roll the tape?Badminton has shown us how reliable those eagle eyes are.
Eh, the big name corps/marketers/astroturfers are so good, its impossible to notice them. Especially as HN mods made it a bannable offense to call it out.
At that point, I guess I don't understand why you wouldn't just step up to a desktop workstation?
It’s shocking to me how bad the algorithm is in it, especially when they already have your interests from IG, maybe there are some data rules preventing that? But even so it’s quite pitiful when you compare how fast TikTok can figure you out from a bare account.

Really think they dropped the ball not offering followers only feed when shipping with the algorithm in this state.

According to screen time I’ve spent 45 minutes in it but have no desire to look at it again.
That's what the article is about, go read it
I often buy a ~one generation old phone for this same reason. It's just so much better value to buy someone else's phone. The folks who keep buying the newest generation tech often seem to take really good care of their gear - perhaps because they plan to resell it later.

I haven't done this as much with laptops because I do tend to keep those for such a long time that I can reasonably amortize a bigger investment over ~5+ years.

Curated marketplaces like "swappa" are a good way to purchase used gear. But anywhere you've got an escrow/guarantee should suffice.
I only attended one conference in SF, VMworld. We were a vendor. We stayed at a really nice hotel ~15 minutes walking distance from Moscone (picked by our sales VP, I'd never pay that much for a hotel ;) ). I had a good experience. There's no shortage of places to eat or sit around there as well. SF does have fairly reasonable transit as well. This was a pretty long time ago though.
More vapid than tiktok? Could that even be possible?
Yeah but Ask HN is clearly marked. I don't have to click it if I don't want to see self promo stuff. With social networks, you don't get a choice at all, just an endless, unpredictable feed.
> I know, it's not a great reason

I think it's perfectly valid reason. At the end of the day a laptop is a tool, and your experience using the tool trumps any intrisic quality of said tool.

I can relate, the main reason i do not use Mac's as personal device ( i have had some issue to me in my professional life) is MacOS. It always existed in a sort of middle ground that doesn't suits my needs : Doesn't have the broad compatibility with windows (in my case gaming, CPU/GPU and tools like intel vtune) and it's a unix, but close to enough to linux where most of professional work revolves around (lack of virtualization, not elf format support, native toolings are different etc... etc...)

The hardware is amazing, the price is great, but the software is just not for me.

And it's sucks, because the landscape of high-end windows laptop is just plain embarrassing.
I am currently driving a surface pro 9 : Garbage battery life, runs hot on anything but web browsing and worst of the all the screen (120 Hz minds you) have HORRIBLE ghosting.

The only saving grace of windows laptops right now is that if one is patient there are some sweet sweet discount deals to be had.
Wow, this is great! While notable YouTube regressions like pushing Shorts are obvious, even I was surprised by how subtle the creeping enshittification over time has been. They just slowly take away one little useful thing after another.

While this script is awesome, it's sad that users who care about utility now have to play endless Whac-a-mole with websites and even browsers (I have to run a mountain of custom CSS to keep Firefox usable and useful against Mozilla's constant changes).
I thought BlackHat was already the stodgy academic version of DefCon
Workers are competing for their own jobs
Reminds me of the predecessor for this 6502 assembler: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=848 -- the comments include a note by the author, Chip Morningstar of Habitat, saying the Lisp assembler was terribly slow on a VAX.
> I didn't see Apple anywhere near the top of the list for CPU single or multithreaded

Probably wasn't normalized as perf per watt.
It wasn’t that intense for me or even a conscious choice. For me it was neglect and a chaotic environment. (Think growing up as a “roommate” of a depressed nonfunctional alcoholic)

Similarly, I had enough positive attention that I wanted to continue and make it to college.

Edit: bad-> intense. I need to stop minimizing what I went through.
Try Elixir?
I buy back my decomissioned work laptop for $50, which means I get a fairly new ThinkPad that works pretty perfectly with Linux.
this is a repeat of what happened to philly when it went from bustling economic center to a union stronghold that stifled productivity, the politicians today still pretend like nothings changed
I used to work in France, I was employed by a French company. I do remember the contractors that were French were pretty disgruntled. But I certainly miss being over there. The work culture is so much better than in the US. The pay may be suppressed, but at least everyone gets to enjoy life. Although, at the company I worked at, the pay was not as far off from the US side as the French folks thought it was. Definitely not when you consider how much better they were treated.
> Furthermore, Linux operating systems do not steal your personal data and do not try to lock you in, like the newest operating systems from both Microsoft and Apple do.

Is recent macOS accused of stealing or shown to steal personal data? Platform lock-in is not news, but that would be. This is an earnest question; maybe I'm in a bubble and missed a big story.
The mystery of the Ain Dubai, the world’s largest (broken) Ferris wheel
https://archive.ph/F0tXQ
And sometimes it’s like walking in an oven.
Can I run this on my router with a USB flash drive?