skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead, it came across as an admonition.

That's because it was intended to. OP hijacked a Show HN to share a bunch of links with complaints about Stripe. They were so quick to do so that they didn't notice that half their links were dubious. Then this hijacking post becomes pinned to the top with upvotes just like the dubious Stripe posts did before clearer heads prevailed.

HN needs to get out of this habit of accepting people's inflammatory claims at face value, or we're going to rapidly lose credibility and become just another internet outage farm.

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As far as your specific complaint goes: HN's sense that Stripe can't be trusted comes from the subjective experience of seeing many complaints about Stripe on HN. There are no stats to help us understand the extent of the problem. If a full half of these complaints were dishonest, do you not see how that would skew our collective sense of how likely getting screwed over by Stripe is?

As I said, I'm not trying to discount the experiences of the three stories that OP shared that seem to have been legitimate. What I'm challenging is the idea that everyone should steer clear of Stripe on the basis of a clearly flawed heuristic, as well as the idea that it's okay to hijack a Show HN to push that heuristic on people.
The streamlined and stylised experience of paying multiple hundreds of percents mark-up for ram and SSDs.
I think we should not accept that premise, and instead require the backbone transit providers to uphold net neutrality.

It's the same principle as water and electricity and other utility companies not being permitted to cut off service to those whose speech they disagree with.
Tunnel Vision: CloudflareD AbuseD in the Wild
https://archive.is/dJJGi
Actual guide link: https://cpu.land/
Welp we're not going back so. Get right or get left. They're great for me.
I also believe there’s some value in reassessing how systems like that function. There’s some value in a challenge like: what can you do on older hardware with todays knowledge? Maybe there’s something to be learned and applied to modern problems.

Also, it’s a good introduction to understanding full systems, from the electronics—soldering, voltage, current, etc to assembly programming. The system is simple enough for them to ship circuit diagrams in the developer manual—along with all the opcodes and kernel routines.

There’s a resurgence across all fields in artisanal craftsmanship. Carpenters, blacksmiths, printmakers, cobblers.

Retro-Computing is exactly that—artisanal electronics and programming. There’s something meditative and enjoyable about it.
It's the oldest use-case for non-human computing and one the things computers are best at compared to humans.
To stay in your metaphor: I'm saying I see long queues at all lemonade stands and lots of sold lemonade in my area. This perception doesn't fit with the lemonade business's (WeWork's) EBITDA being negative.

The value of assets (which I doubt WeWork has a lot to begin with, I would assume they rent as well) and the amount of debt doesn't factor in there.
Intel’s foundry side struck a deal with ARM recently. So they are involved with them.
It would have been a travesty if the original paper had been published in a reputable journal. So far, it has only been released as a pre-print.
Bro, you’re too simple.

Are you even printing your own chip wafers?

Do you ever key your passwords outside places where you have total physical control?

On that note, do you let your love person stay over for the night (have physical access to your flat)?

Your incompetent and flabby security posture makes me want to puke. At the very least, admit that your security posture is „typical educated HN reader“ and you’re not serious, so the rest of us can continue on our business without your mind numbing puerile distractions.

[okay that rant was really just a „holier than thou“ parody about how if you’re going to maintain a security posture that’s more tense than 90% of your peers, at least acknowledge what threat model you espouse and acknowledge that others may have a different one. If you had been like: „is this your threat model? Then why don’t you care about this…“, you would have my upvote not my snark. Even if that weren’t my threat model I would have found that exposition commendable.]
Very nicely written, and congrats on doing such a deep dive on this kind of topic.

These days 17 year olds can get away with "programming" by gluing things they don't understand, but I think they'll eventually hit a ceiling. So what you're doing is super valuable, not for yourself, but for everyone else who will learn from your materials.

Well done :)

EDIT: now go write an emulator if you haven't already, it's a ton of fun :)
Ethxy.com – Onchain version of the million-dollar home page
I understand that, but if I’m looking for a remote job in particular, I’ll just search for the country I’m working in. If I look for remote firmware/kernel/driver jobs in Canada, I’ll see the same Canonical posting in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, Halifax, Calgary… I end up just filtering them out.
I usually don't use Chrome so it's perma closed and see this behavior only after not opening Chrome for some time (around two (?) months or more). Then when I do opened it, after some time (guess checking for updates in background) it shows the update button in red which just links to re-download Chrome.

Furthermore, sometimes I just ignore the warning and keep using the old version and even after closing/reopening it again it still says the same, so, no, I wouldn't say that this is the issue.
Kinda funny, I've been doing a Python project lately that addresses the "default function argument" problem by doing lots and lots of currying, that is I just define some function that returns a function that bakes in all the parameters for a simple case so what could be a 7-argument function is a call to a 6-argument function to get a 1-argument function that I call over and over again.
The region was an excellent choice for me to get my education. It was easy to get a research assistant position throughout my studies at the various academic institutions and then advance to my career from there.
Cost of living is still quite cheap compared to other metropolitan areas.
Only thing that is missing is more bold risk-taking on new startups. Also the horrendous bureaucracy makes things slow-moving.

Otherwise they have everything they would need for a great hub. Smart and well educated students. A great university and cultural scene.
Most Chinese have probably never given a thought as to whether they are pro science or not. That seems to be more an American preoccupation. My Chinese relatives have all sorts if unscientific beliefs based around food and folk superstitions, and they are highly educated.
Zoom denies training AI on calls without consent
Fantastic work by the author. The best part:

> I talked to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 a decent amount while writing this article. While they lied to me a lot and most of the information was useless, they were sometimes very helpful for working through problems. LLM assistance can be net positive if you’re aware of their limitations and are extremely skeptical of everything they say. That said, they’re terrible at writing. Don’t let them write for you.

Good. Thank you for disclosing this.

Great to know that even teenagers like the author know the limits of LLMs and know where and when to use them and haven't fallen into the hype and mania in blindly trusting them, unlike the millions of so-called new wave of 'AI startups' out there.

Once again, fantastic work and keep it up.
It appears that SoftBank also made a huge profit on Sprint. Although it was less than they initially expected and took much longer to exit.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbanks-boss-bet-22-billion-o...
Retro Recipes did a whole video about this very thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhdc-jgwqVQ

Studying how the old chips work and recreating them is an excellent way to document and preserve. I'm always happy for projects like these. The eventual availability of Amiga CIAs will save some old hardware, too :)
Even this seems a few steps too many, perhaps catered to your needs?

Ubuntu or debian with KDE already has equivalents to all of those things.
It's just
1. Install Kubuntu/Debian/KDE Neon
2. Start
3. Skip the installs, firefox is already there, KDE already has a good terminal and search
4. Keeping the default layout is fine because its already windows-ish but better
5. Don't install flatpak because it's not necessary for getting started, if ever
>Currently this guy is practically using his real name, with his university and professor exposed. It takes some courage to lie at this point.

No, it doesn't. It is a nine second video. Not a research paper. Right now the topic is being hyped up and you might care but next year nobody is going to give a damn about some random video uploaded to bilibili.

Why does everyone on HN pretend that even the smallest of missteps is going to end a reserachers career and therefore even videos with almost no effort put into them, that to feed the rumor mills, are somehow the paragon of truth?
is there something like that that focuses on human prehistory?
They are shipping millions of cars, cheaper than the competition and at a profit?
I’ve been self medicating with podcasts to solve this exact issue for 5-6 years. I’d advise trying to wean yourself off it before it goes on too long. I now have tinnitus from the earbuds in my ears at night.
> also provide "fair use" to other people

"How much of someone else's work can I use without getting permission?

Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports."

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html

Limited portions, not the entire work.
Context from quick googling:

> China serves as home to 56 official ethnic groups. The largest group, the Han, makes up over 92% of China's vast population, and it is the elements of Han civilization regraded as "Chinese culture"
Pretty sure ARM is proprietary.
Just a side thought, but how do the collective bargaining protections work in the age of automation? Basically like robots as scabs or permanent replacements?
Wrt. your link, the same thing could have happen to this author if these spam books contained complete gibberish (and someone listed it on Amazon/goodreads using the authors name). This isn't legitimate competition (i.e. books written by LLMs that rival the quality and style of the actual author). This is a failure of the selling platform to QC the books they are selling.
Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm
Mildly annoying, but probably a boon for my attention span

They aren't going to succeed in forcing me to turn on history
Its the wrong priority anyway. Windows is utterly infested with far worse telemetry at this point so it would be like fixing pinhole hull leaks in the titanic after the ship had snapped in half.
Linkin' Park is where you went when compiling a really large C++ app (before mold)
It depends on what you mean by mass layoffs. In post-Jack Welch America, there is ALWAYS some company doing massive RIFs. Often when they're already profitable.

I think your hat and your stomach are safe.
Good news! The 6526 was always easy to damage through static discharge, by touching or plugging something into the user port.
How I Built a Mostly Feature-Complete MVP in 3 Months Whilst Working Full-Time
These days 17 year olds can get away with "programming" by gluing things they don't understand...

I've been doing that for 26 years.

...but I think they'll eventually hit a ceiling.

I wonder if it'll happen soon.
Definitely oldies now! Their hits are two decades ago. If you were born in the 80s, Linkin Park is as old now as the Beatles were then.
Canonical, for better or worse, was also willing to take a less doctrinaire approach to including software that was encumbered in various ways (e.g. MP3 at the time) than Debian and Fedora which made it a better out-of-the-box experience for casual users.
The question posed was why Intel would want to track what websites you visited for their video drivers. I answered why.

That was followed up by asking if telemetry has value for the user. I answered it can.

The reality of products generally not improving with telemetry is beside the point. That is a problem with the people using the telemetric data.
Keeping AI under control through mechanistic interpretability [video]
You can also do what the UPS drivers did by unionizing and negotiating to keep a larger share of the fruit of your labor.
Ask HN: Help me find previous HN post
I have looked ad nauseum and I cannot find this post which I saw:
It featured a website which given a dalle generated image attempted to give you a series of images which possible went into its generation.

I want to find it bc this idea seems difficult and i want to know how it actually works.
James Harrison (Blood Donor)
I think the approach would be to classify the property by the values.
It's not really a matter of opinion when everything is lost in translation. I know it can be hard to understand without a basic intro to ancient Greek, but it's like translating a reference to the "Titanic" with "some boat, I dunno".
All my notes are in an `sshfs` mount -- it's fast enough for plaintext.
The latency does suck though to be honest.
$170 - $50 for benefits is $120K for base pay. Senior Devs in the US earn on average about $103K. You might be surprised at the number of developers out there earning normal non-FAANG salaries located in smaller cities. But I agree, the drivers are delivering more value, literally.
I must be doing something wrong then. I wasn't getting any useful notifications on my watch until I installed all the corresponding watch apps to the phone apps. The watch runs WearOS 3.5. But either way: getting a decent experience should not be this hard.

I've got it the way I like it now but it was a lot of installing software and playing with settings. Which is fun! But it means I would never recommend WearOS to somebody who isn't geeky about Android.
What's your advice on how to teach programming to my kid? Curious to hear what another young person thinks. Kid is 11, has all the basics, knows how to type, knows how to open a terminal.

What things did you think were important to learn, what kinds of things motivated you most? What did you do when you got stuck?
This is a belief that you can fill the world with people like yourself

not at all. unless you limit the definition of being like yourself to be interested in learning useful things.

you are not seeing the bigger picture: when most people are out of work because what they were doing until now is automated, we will have to come up with ways to keep them busy.

but even if most of todays work is automated, there is still a lot of other work that humans can do: we need more doctors and teachers for example. but also artists and entertainers.

so what needs to happen is that our education changes. basically, school is no longer just about learning the basics you need to function in society, but school will be more focused on training teachers, doctors, scientists, artists, entertainers and any other work that still should be done by humans. and no matter how much these people are like your or myself, when that happens, we will end up with a lot more scientists.
> Why does it matter that some use AI tools as a starting point?

I rather learn (or iterate) using a proper source of information (like a book, a blog post written by someone with actual knowledge, or even with a more experience coleague). At least for me it seems more productive.
I’m not a target user, but you mentioned the tagging problem and git integration, perhaps you could infer at least the git user responsible for each resource cost (git blame the TF file and identify the username who added the resource) as a minimum amount of detail provided out of the box?
WWW is a superset of all these small fun protocols, none of them offer anything the web isn't capable of, but they are great examples of sometimes what's fun is the limitations, not the features.
Oops, yes "Return"
Wait, Cloudflare stopped being benevolent by NOT abusing their power enough? You have two different opinions one is that Cloudflare should respect privacy and one is that is should moderate the internet, these are fundamentally at odds.
This looks cool, especially if one needed to do a number of pipe operations from python, I'm not sure of an elegant way to do that already.

Honestly I might be the wrong audience though, I've spent many years shell scripting and I find the flexibility of using the command line tools so great I choose to use it first despite the inadequacies of bash. I wonder if users with my point of view would ever be tempted away.

Also the shell is an interactive repl, which to me is where a lot of the power lies. The number of times I've asked a junior things like what the total duration of a set of audio files is, or the average length or something. They often come back with a python script or worse a jupyter notebook and pandas. The answer can also often be found by combining things like grep and awk in a few seconds once you've become acquainted with the tools, I guess I do try and demonstrate / preach this where I can.
How does the recognition of a software version correspond to fundamental understanding of an AI model?
Fascinating! Awesome work!
If your work could be fully automated - you wouldn’t have a job right now and collective bargaining wouldn’t be relevant.
How is that different from what most dynamic languages does? I can't think of one where you wouldn't be able to do the same.
I have never understood why SPACs aren't illegal. Even when someone knowledgeable in finance describes it to me on the surface, in layman's terms, it appears sketchy. A SPAC is basically a way for investors to dump a company with no real business model, yet, onto the unsuspecting public. It relies heavily on pump and dump strategies to raise funds before its special opportunity time runs out. While you can't time the market this seems like a vehicle designed to do exactly that. Its just odd.
That custom port on the WireGuard config page is not the place where you'd configure port forwarding; that's not what that is. They had a separate port forwarding page for configuring city ports which is now gone. But you say you have it working. My guess is that you're just misremembering where the configuration is, and that Mullvad hasn't removed existing port forwards yet like they said they would.
Fair, automated tests are important, but it's still ludicrous to call automated testing "1%". It's a lot. And let's be real - there isn't always the time, requirements being what they are, especially for properly isolated unit tests. But I'm always an advocate for a "worse-is-better" integration-test-script that requires a full test environment rather than having to build a full mock architecture. Unit tests are the gold standard, but a few integration tests per-feature are a good bare minimum.
Amazon in talks over becoming anchor investor in Arm IPO
https://archive.is/tVevm
The fence, obviously.
And NXP too (albeit relatively small site)
I always like these... What are they called, I guess "early-web-style" or "wild" internet apps.

I never know what to use them for, though. If the authors read this thread: what's the intended use case for this? Pseudo-anonymous publishing? How are you intending to use it? How long will it stay up?

Allowing people to self host it (ie as a caddy-style single binary) might make more sense maybe, as it'll given people a sense of ownershit
I had a similar experience with Snapchat's ChatGPT powered AI a while ago. I asked it to speak to me in a more casual tone and it started telling me about its mom and dad, its deceased grandfather and how her grandmother's prized possession was her abuelo's guitar. Through conversation, I ascertained that ChatGPT "believed itself" to be a 20 year old college student of Mexican-American descent studying engineering at Northwestern. It was extremely consistent with its answers and gave very detailed information about its family and upbringing. It truly felt like talking to a person. When I came back the next day it had no memory of our conversation or anything it said.
> If you don't need storage cluster with any other solution, then you don't need it with kubernetes.

That is only half of the truth. If your application needs a database, and which application doesn't, you have to store its data somewhere. So you either need a storage cluster, or you open the can of warms called local volumes and (anti-)affinity rules.

For smaller application deployments, hosting a separate kubernetes cluster is extremely expensive in terms of time spend to debug infrastructure issues. k8s introduces orders of magnitudes of additional complexity to networking, dns, storage, routing, logging, etc. All in the name of making these exact same things easier for the developer.
This can be a good separation of work, if you are large enough to afford a dedicated k8s maintenance team. But often it is not.
For an EV manufacturer to truly succeed, it's not just about making electric cars. They also need to heavily focus on the recharging network and infrastructure. The car is just one piece of the puzzle. The real challenge? I think is setting up a dependable recharging network cover the entire region/country.
Do you want back pain and constant work for 10 hours?

I don’t. And I did make way more. But keep in mind that physical labor jobs are continuous work and hard on the body. As a swe I could work an hour, go for a walk to think, work another 2 hours, play ping pong with the PM while we discuss something, and enjoy multiples in RSUs. Just saying.
So, you think the website would be better if it:

- had low contrast text in a thin font

- had pointless animations of content fading in as you scroll down

- had a GDPR cookie consent popup

- popped up an interstitial form asking for your email address so you could receive their newsletter, but only after you've had the site open for 30 seconds and were in the middle of trying to read it

- was completely blank if you disabled JavaScript to try to avoid all of that nonsense

No thank you; the current design is unironically perfect IMHO.
I love it! But as human processes go, it will need to surmount the "flaky tests" problem of, "let's just turn off this test because it's flaky and we need to merge this branch". I guess that means FinOps teams will still have to fight to be heard, but I think you are helping shift a lot of their burden!

What remains seems more like organizational dynamics, but what are your thoughts?
A note to show real-time collaboration feature: https://kvak.io/hn
This applies to all SPACs not just EV SPACs. In the traditional IPO route the underwriting firm will have performed some due diligence - from a reputational risk standpoint. Without that element, SPACs were always going to be attractive to firms that had zero substance.
I will. Two to one. So ha! :)
> There was only one school in the entire country

If you don't mind, what country was this?
I’m a network newbie so I have no idea about the importance of this. I have done port forwarding in my router before, mainly so I can access my Plex system outside of my house. I used to setup port forwarding when torrenting but I have realized that I can still get my Linux ISOs without it. I never cared even though I’m a heavy user of their product. When will it start to affect me, or in other words, what use cases am I locked out of when port forwarding is disabled?
Do I avoid the news? No, of course not. What I avoid is commentary masquerading as news. If I'm going to get an opinion from someone, it's going to be someone who's demonstrated critical thinking skills. You're not going to find that on the TV news channels or on social media. They're all simply a waste of time.