skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>While the post is great, terrifying, and seems to contain only true and verifiable information, I’m not sure what we expect.

Well we expect people and corporations to fix a problem when confronted with it. That is what we expect.

> „Normal“ people will not read this, nor be able to understand, nor gauge or grasp the impact. It’s become way to complex. We can’t simply stop using mentioned services anymore as a society.

Have to give you a pass on "normal" people. I don't know any. I see no reason why we cannot go without the (by the way) unmentioned services or why we cannot change them to be more privacy conscious.

>Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to teach:

No it would be more reasonable to teach that privacy is vitally important to have a functioning society and economy. Anyone claiming different think they can exploit the information disparity between you and them to make money in the short term.

>1. You have no privacy, it is impossible to ensure or guarantee privacy, and there’s no incentive at all for anyone to ensure privacy. (Scott McNeally of Sun said that already in the late 1990s).

Well I respect Scott, but this is not his great moment. Let's change this to be still completely true: You have no property, it is impossible to ensure or guarantee property and there's no incentive at all for anyone to ensure property. Well we did find a way to actually do ensure property. It is called the law (and a government to enforce it). Just an idea to use this tried and tested concept on privacy as well.

>2. There is no security and every kind of security has been, was designed to, or will be compromised.

First this has always been true. Every lock can be picked. Fortunately not everyone can pick a lock. That is the reason why most of us still lock the door.

>3. All your digital information is already public or will become public at some point. (btw: Every top-tier consultancy operates under that assumption)

You mean those top-tier consutancy firms mentiond in this book: "The Big Con" by Muzzucato and Collington, Penguin, 2023? I can see that they sell the assumption, but they are not operating by it. If that were true McKinsey for example would have known their advice to Purdue Pharma would become public and they would lose big on it.

In short people who claim privacy is not important mean: _your privacy_ is not important and they are overly confident they can keep ahead of the information disparity to keep themselves private. See how hard, ironically, Google is working to keep all their information private in a public anti-trust trail.
Turso Now Supports Database Branching and Point-in-Time Restore
The better to sell you a product to patch that hole.

Like "antivirus".
Oh I know, all companies change over time and both Billy and Balmer have zero impact on the day to day operations at Microsoft.

The Microsoft today isn't the Microsoft of the 2000s.

Now I wish the same thing could be said about Google which is quickly becoming the Microsoft of the 2000s.
Ask HN: How to detect code from LLM responses
I am a complete noob trying to create chat UI for an LLM, how do I highlight the code(if any)
in the responses that I am getting from an LLM ?
Cool I'll make the point then.

I've learned about communism from two types of sources. Philosophy books and history books, and the takeaways are quite different.
Hey Chris. Interesting HN nick :) Happy to be a Patreon supporter.
> Command economies don't work.

Command economies were literally one of the golden ages of the American middle class. So no they do actually work.

Anyone who is working deserves a living wage. Otherwise we’re now helping companies hire people and not pay them enough for the work they do. These people don’t go away, they end up costing all tax payers more $.

Also, next time you go to a fast food place look and see how many of them are high schoolers. Maybe that’ll stop the strawman arguments.
No one actually believes this in practice. Everyone has a threshold of gross, spiteful or violent behavior in others beyond which everything they do becomes tainted. If ESR didn’t consistently use his platform to promote hatred, maybe he’d still be on the near side of that threshold for me and most other people.
Here's a good comment from the archives elaborating on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4515315
The problem is the people doing the shooting not the locations they're doing the shooting in.
Lots of pathfinding solutions prefer to work with connected convex polygons (since inside the polygon, you can always go straight to every other point inside). You could merge your cells into these polygons and then filter for small ones by area, I guess.
Because it's a huge part of the linux desktop, that's why. Sure, there are alternatives, but the range of alternatives is only ever shrinking.
> Honestly, I just don't want to live in a world where 10 years from now my coworkers are able to write a prompt "I'm taking a day off tomorrow without telling anyone so simulate me on Slack. Join daily standup at 9am using an undetectable deep fake. Answer the questions in the style of everyone else. Analyze my Github activity to update my coworkers."

Honestly, that world sounds amazing.

Imagine how productive you could be at programming if you could say:

"I'm going to be doing some deep thinking and coding on a hard problem so simulate me on Slack. Join daily standup at 9am using an undetectable deep fake. Answer the questions in the style of everyone else. Analyze my Github activity to update my coworkers."
Fully agree, except for sexism ≠ misogyny

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699851#37702498
I feel like once google had enough of a stranglehold on email for gmail to start blocking independent email servers (for valid security purposes probably) it was basically game over. It became incredibly difficult for an individual to run their own communications platform, even when following best practices. Luckily there are solid paid services, but as you point out, those are still "the cloud."
I refuse to learn anything about any propietary technologies unless you pay me for every minute I spend doing it. and I'll probably get right on to forgetting it if you stop paying me, but won't really cuz my memory and experience are mine and Severance (tv series) is still fiction
She’s a strong advocate for the democrat process and will continue to serve her term.
This comment reminds me a bit of people saying that Y2K must have been way overhyped because nothing bad actually happened. Ordinary people spent money stocking up on bottled water, the Army Corps of Engineers spent a ton of money and effort dredging the river and shipping in barges of fresh water. It wasn't a disaster, because people prepared relatively well, but having to mitigate a potential disaster is itself a pretty big problem.

> it doesn't seem to be the 'emergency' that media is trying to make it out as

I haven't seen any exaggerated coverage. If you're seeing the word "emergency" that's because the governor requested a state of emergency and the president approved it.
20VC: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me“
That link didn’t really explain anything.

Are you talking about specific subreddits or topics?

I’ve found the negativity on Reddit to be more likely as to come from completely ignorant sources as anyone with actual knowledge. I'm pretty surprised anyone on there for a long period of time would be so trusting of the community there.
Three years ago, my new home came with smart features such as a connected front door lock and thermostat and a wall panel with a sim connected to alarm.com. The intro period ran out, and I didn't want to pay anything ongoing, so I bought a z-wave usb controller and set up HomeAssistant on my old Pi2. With some effort to get everything working in docker with a cloudflare tunnel, I am back to being able to monitor and control my smart home from anywhere.

I'm not feeling compelled to get a more powerful pi. In fact, I'd be more inclined to buy the pi zero or several of them, but they were always impossible to find in stock when I was interested.
This is good, we need more of this to happen in other industries.

If a person has been in a professional position for 10+ years, what relevance is a college degree from so many years ago?

It baffles me how prevalent the thinking is that what someone did so long ago has any current relevance.

There's a lot of effort and conversation around inclusion in the workplace yet so many companies have education requirements which is counter to that idea.
I think it just implies that there are a lot of right wings lies in the media.
It's unclear to me why so many people seem to think it is difficult to sell precious metals? I can sell my silver gold down the street for 95% of spot any day, or if I want to wait for a check in the mail I can send it overnight to Max and get 99% spot.

Within 48 hours I can easily convert my precious metal to bitcoin, cash or get a check. People's general fear of holding and using gold seems to be very similar to the unfounded concerns with Bitcoin. I think people just don't trust themselves with money.
top front of megabus has been good to me. but now i have an airport in short walking distance so i take that
John Baez' Applied Category Theory Lectures
Thanks for the correction, Paul (and for the great email client and JS Compiler!). I've added a note to the article.

The focus on inlining as a performance win makes a lot of sense. It's hard to get back into the pre-JIT IE6 mindset where every getter and setter came at a cost. By the time I used Closure Compiler years later this had gotten simplified to just "minification good". I remember search (where I worked) in particular was extremely concerned with shaving bytes off our JS bundles.
To be fair, some ways of holding the weight of the phone in one hand, e.g. resting the weight on your pinky finger along bottom edge, can cause hand injury/RSI. So weight isn’t a totally solved problem.
If I had sum types in Go, I'd use them for state machines and enumerations mostly. I can't see a huge downside; I'm sure some software has little use for it, but it's useful enough for data modelling that protobuf has the sort-of similar oneof primitive. Hmm. On that note, maybe it would be better than nothing to do some kind of code generation here...
A related issue exists with M1/M2 Pro and Max chips in their laptops. They do not overheat (unless you're in a hot environment) since they have fans and seem to have included enough cooling for these chips, but you do not get the miraculous battery life with these that you do with the lighter versions.

I guess they made the chip and RAM a lot bigger but didn't make the battery much bigger. The battery life is still decent (4-8 hours depending on work load) but not amazing.
I get that, but the Microsoft of today isn't the Microsoft of the 90s or even 2000s.

Now if we want to talk about Google...
The worst thing here is when developer leads have strong personal feelings about things. I've seen a company sabotage its own growth for years because a CTO was uncomfortable with Javascript tracking tags. When they finally relented we were able to 2x our growth rate.
I remember my dad complaining about the invention of Ada and how bad it was, designed by committee, etc.

At least, I think it was Ada. Can't ask any more, he was born in '39, we scattered his ashes nearly a decade ago.
I genuinely thought that was a parody site. Brilliant how they embrace the obscurity niche they're in with some great humour!
Boston public transport is a mess due to long years of underfunding and neglect. The pandemic and the general crappiness of service has hit rider numbers hard and I fear that the Boston subway system is in a death spiral. The new line extension was a rare bit of good news and a welcome addition but having badly laid track is all to common here.

I actually rode the tracks in question last month and remarked how smooth they seemed compared to the rest of the green line. I guess that was too good to last.
Or Internet Archive's, in an actual church in San Francisco.
How do you feel about the US presidency in that case?
Ranked choice voting (the brand name for Instant Runoff or Hare voting) neither theoretically [0] nor empirically [1] has the outcomes for third parties that you think it does. This combined with its other flaws makes it worse than plurality.

Not only that, it doesn't allow for distributed counts [2], it can wreck the secret ballot [3], and it is not monotonic [4]. Arrow gives us an impossibility result for elections but monotonicity is the worst criterion to give up, especially when the system has so many other flaws.

[0] https://rangevoting.org/TarrIrv.html

[1] see examples cited in https://rangevoting.org/NoIrv.html

[2] sure, you can transmit the contents of all of the ballots, but then it's still a centralized count...

[3] n! grows much much larger than population, so you can encode ballot ID

[4] http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
Please elaborate. According to a verdict of the Federal Court for Labor from last month [1], not only is tracking an employee's presence legal, it's even mandatory as a necessary consequence of European Court of Justice verdicts. Whereas in Germany before, a trust-based system was common practice at least for white collar jobs, and only the time on top of regular contract time needed tracking AIU.

[1]: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/arbeitszeiterfassung-stechu... (in German)
Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS)
Ranked voting for single offices (president, governor, etc), and proportional for any representative body, like the House and Senate.

Or, if the Senate is really meant to represent the states rather than the people, it should only be concerned with state issues: which issues belong at the federal level, and which at the state level, for example.
As early as 1988, you could get even more weird stuff by mail order:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High_Weirdness_by...>
> I think the core problem is that - unlike text-based programming - the editor is intimitely tied to the rest of the authoring environment and runtime.

Does not sound like the core problem to me. Computers used to be like that: everything was tied to the OS and compiler. That didn't stop banks from developing pretty complex systems.

IMO, the problem is that visual programming, despite its name, is visually a mess. You can't read it, you can't orient yourself in it. It's not structured, for starters. And piping an input through a sin function takes up 10 times the screen space of Math.sin(x), especially if you then have to keep that node's output from overlapping other parts. And you always must search back where the input to a node comes from, whereas in textual programs, you can put that information in the variable name. It's just not suitable to our way of thinking in chunks.
Just graft the old tree back in place, it's only the outer layer that's alive anyway? Drill a iron rod into the center, shorten it and reconnect the bark.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/gavin-newsom-...

> “Yes. Interim appointment. I don’t want to get involved in the primary,” Newsom said. “It would be completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is just a matter of months away. I don’t want to tip the balance of that.”
Elixir lists are linked lists, not arrays. Syntactically, however, they do "look like" arrays. I imagine someone coming from another language is going to be confused by this...
Uh, are you certain of that? When security alarms start going off, “darn, they broke the detector!” isn’t the only explanation.
It is nothing shy of disgusting that someone clearly incapable of serving the role of senator dragged her constituents and the country through this till death. Shame on her, her family, and her staff.
ASK: Early(est) RFC HTTPS TLS, SSL,... proposals for non-repudiable pages? [pdf]
(I have intentionally used a random example paper about non-repudiable TLS extensions)

I recall over the years occasionally reading comments reminding people of early proposals for non-repudiable HTTPS request/response serving.

Today browsers can verify server authentification using HTTPS protocols. From then on a shared symmetric key is used, so user agents (and thus users) can not prove to a third party (friends, polive, judges, etc.) that a website gave a specific response.

I recall that such functionality was repeatedly proposed, but systematically rejected, and also recall reading comments on HN reminding of this fact, at least once referencing a specific RFC that long predated TLS Notary. (I no longer find this comment.)

I recall the RFC proposal did not rely on having a third party witness like TLS Notary, but effectively was a server signature of the page contents.

(The TLS Notary system basically was basically a trusted service, "He said, she said..." whereas the original rejected RFC proposals were direct and to the point "Let everyone speak (and sign) for themselves".)

Which such RFC proposals do you know about? Is there a timeline of such proposals?

In a world of false advertising etc. this seems like an important property for the basic web infrastructure.

It may also have applications for end-users to prove bandwidth consumption vis-a-vis ISP's.

It may also have applications to clear oneself regarding illicit content consumption: suppose that in some country it were punishable to consume content like "Tiananmen Square Tank Man" images, then a local search engine Baityou may intentionally redirect you to such content by hiding the target URL under an irrelevant search result. i.e. If you searched "cheap battery" the Baityou search engine could trick you into clicking on a link like "CheapestBatteriesInTown", but effectively redirect you to a Tank Man web page. With current infrastructure, the civilian can not prove he was tricked into visiting this locally illicit content, since the response of the Baityou search engine web servers was not signed.

Again, I am looking for:

1) Any such concrete proposals, perhaps journal articles, perhaps RFC proposals, ...

2) Some kind of history of these proposals

3) Especially the earlier and earliest proposals ("This was already proposed back <some_date>, but was systematically blocked")
The Church, which is certainly something of a gerontocracy, excludes the elderly Cardinals from Papal elections too. It's not intrinsically unjust anymore than excluding the very young is.
Senate business can be conducted with the VP as tiebreaker as well, as I understand it? But I could be wrong.
Mostly because they insisted on making the Pro models with stainless steel instead of aluminum, which made them way heavier for no reason. The 34 gram difference between the iPhone 14 and 14 pro is very noticable in the hand.

So now they have introduced the titanium frame as a solution to their self-inflicted problem, which still isn't as light as the aluminum non-pro iPhones.
Meanwhile:

"Operated as Line 11 of the Moscow Metro, the BCL has a total length of 70km and is 13km longer than Line 10 in Beijing. Line 11 now serves a total of 31 stations"

- https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/metros/big-circle-line...

- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spotlight/moscow-metro-l...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRvODzM5Ck

And even Africa is laying track and opening more metro stations than the US:

- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/start-lagos-metro-offer...

- https://www.africanews.com/2023/09/05/nigeria-lagos-blue-rai...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43y3BwmIFk
The Boston green line is one of the oldest subways in the world and it shows.
It doesn't matter what method you use. Saving the information on the user's device and making them potentially identifiable is what counts.
The fact that we can even have a discussion around this indicates a fundamental problem with mass-market voting, it's just a popularity contest with certain rules.

It's probably likely that nobody voted for her in the last 20 years, instead voting for the party she represents. And they're probably roughly satisfied with the results, which means she provided little that an AI couldn't have done (a very simple one, something like VOTE=D).

This is likely true of almost all representatives. It's likely hard to find one that you can't simply predict how they will act.
If you are satisfied with a dummy method on an interface, you can continue by adding more types to that interface. Color is not a great example, so:

type Vehicle interface {
isVehicle()
}

type Car struct {}
func (c Car) isVehicle() {}

type Van struct {}
func (v Van) isVehicle() {}

func VehicleType(vehicle Vehicle) {
switch v := vehicle.(type) {
case Car:
fmt.Println("car")
case Van:
fmt.Println("van")
default:
fmt.Println("unknown vehicle")
}

This covers most, but not all, of the bases, in that you don't get exhaustiveness checking at compile time, unless you adjoin a linter to your compile process: https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype
The issue I found myself in is that I agree with you, that Elixirs Actor paradigm is completely different and not comparable to other languages, but at the end of the day, very very very few applications and apps that startups work on need that. Most apps now are trending towards serverless. And most of the world gets by without the “operating system in an operating system” approach of BEAM.

Rust can be massively concurrent without Actors and GenServers.

So while the Actor model / let it fail approach changed the way I think, at the end of the day I found the traditional paradigms to actually be faster and cleaner to the real world applications that made me money.
Am I the only one who liked the timer changes in WatchOS 10?
They should… have the decency? What? Are you familiar with our government?
My main concern without term limits is when an elected official moves from being popular and effective at their job to being effective at getting reelected. Those are very different skills, with the latter risking politicians that are only reelected because of the power, favors, and connections they have collected.

Term limits definitely aren't a magic fix, I just see the tradeoffs as worth it relative to my personal concerns.
I can get you ten. Local pickup only. Door will be open, just come in.
You should point out to all of them now what the consequences would have been of blindly following the LLM. It's an important lesson they can and should learn from.
If you're feeding the specific nodes to scrape, iterating and bug fixing what is Chatgpt doing other than giving you someone to talk with while you code?

Call me when I can ask a LLM to pull structured data in CSV form from website X and deliver it to me each morning. And it does it.
Have you seen the receipts or are you just parroting what they are saying on social media?
Same, in my experience it’s the opposite. The downvoting and moderation creates an echo chamber where there are certain things get accepted as obvious facts that don’t have much (or any) basis. Once that happens, almost everyone seems to uncritically repeat that without bothering to see if it’s actually true, and anyone who questions it is downvoted off the page (or in more extreme cases, the posts are removed/the user is blocked).

Reddit also seems to suffer from something you see in a lot of online communities, where in the valley of the blind the one eyed man is king. People with a slight amount experience (or even hobbyists that just post a lot) get taken as authoritative sources that can’t be questioned. Working on your history degree? You can go to Reddit and be treated with more authority than most people even give accomplished historians. One of the many individuals who served as a squad leader in the army? You can get treated as if you’re an expert on all things military and are able to more accurately predict the outcome of conflicts than the Defense Department is.
Then we set it to 65, means the last Senate term has them exiting at 71.

People over 70 should not be running the country, and currently the median Congressperson is on social security. We have a problem.