skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon's purchase and then (mis)management of Twitter has been recurring, mainstream news virtually everywhere. This is hardly some fringe HN type focus, it is literally everywhere. Everyone has seen the dramatic change in the quality and features of the site.

Twitter has a massive amount of "lock in" effect, however. If it didn't Musk would have killed Twitter ten times over now, but somehow people always rationalize things getting much worse. With some of the newest change a new wave of Twitter refugees are hitting Threads, and it's comical, if a bit sad, how often their first tweet is citing their Twitter follower-count, seemingly obligating the Threads community to match it to keep their interest. Eh.
We're getting complaints from users that you've been overpromoting your project on HN. I think they have a point - this is arguably too much:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It's fine to occasionally link to your own stuff when it's particularly relevant, but it's not fine to use HN primarily for promotion. The intended use of the site is curiosity, and promoting one's own stuff is a completely different motivation (though, of course, a super common one). If you'd please roll this back a bit, we'd appreciate it.

(Btw, when users do this egregiously, we just add it to a spam filter. I wouldn't say you've been egregious, which is why I'm asking rather than spambinning. But if you'd get back on the good side of the line, i.e. using HN for personal curiosity, that would be helpful. I suppose I should also add that this is not any comment on your work itself, which I'm sure is very good.)
I feel like doxing peoples’ location is not acceptable free speech online, just in general
It's a simple law: "price at the register cannot exceed the advertised price".
The Nobel Prize in literature is prestigious, lucrative and bonkers
Will their wages be garnished if the slim 1.3% margins turn negative?
I’ve seen this sentiment a lot and I don’t understand it. I actually feel like very little has been added between Java 8 and Java 21. Virtual threads is probably the biggest thing, and it looks very promising, but the language itself is still a chore to use, and Kotlin does a good job at cleaning a lot of that up.

I think Kotlin is at risk, though, of having the JVM force them to support two competing models to accomplish the same thing - coroutines and virtual threads is a good example (although Java still doesn’t have language level structured concurrency). This could really make things messy.
The link I posted is public information; I can't say more than that (and don't remember much in any case). Normally the "prosecution history" documents would be available online [0], because they're also a public record, but for this patent that doesn't appear to be the case (it was a long time ago, so possibly the USPTO just hasn't yet digitized the documents). It's been some time since I did patent-application work so I'm probably not up to date on USPTO procedures and resources.

[0] https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/applications/07233378/ifw/tra...
After reading the article, I think it's more that people were tricked into [reusing passwords across websites instead of having a password manager and randomized passwords].

It's not on 23andMe, or anyone (other than the user) for that matter, to ensure the passwords used by the user are not copied passwords from other credentials.

Seems to me like passwords need to be regulated on a governmental level, but that's a can of worms of an idea that I am not ready to defend.
Spotify prepping $19.99/mo 'Superpremium' service: lossless audio&AI playlists
No matter how securely you connect or rotate passwords, the inside-job or supoena risks were too d*** high
What’s the number for houses?
Price at the register is exactly the same as the advertised price.
Wow this looks awful, like those horrible ads on the bottom of weather sites

Glad I stopped looking at Twitter every day
https://archive.ph/JsrcE
Fair enough - I should have said "attacking the premise of the article" or similar.
I never had an issue with nVidia drivers on Linux in the past 5 years, but recently bought a laptop with a 4090 and AMD CPU. Now I get random freezes, often right after I login into Cinnamon but can't really tell if it's the nVidia driver for 4090, AMDGPU driver for integrated RDNA, kernel 6.2 or Cinnamon issue. The laptop just hangs and stops responding to keyboard so I can't login to console and dmesg it.
Unless he's willing to continue covering the interest payments on the loans indefinitely, it may not be his decision to make.

The interest payments to the banks on the loans will continue to come due. I doubt Twitter is pulling in anywhere near enough revenue to satisfy those loans.

The decision to sell it may not be his.
I don't have a solid explanation but I sometimes have a tendency to capitalize things that are "important".

Think about book titles. "Exploration of Paris", the important words are capitalized.

I can imagine many people capitalize the environment names without thinking too hard about _why_ they do it.
It isn't the hobbyists who are making sure that PyTorch and other frameworks runs well on these chips, but teams of engineers who work for NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, etc. who are doing this as their primary assigned jobs, in exchange for money from their employer, who are paying those salaries because they want to sell chips into the enormous demand for running PyTorch faster.

Hobbyist and open-source are definitely not synonyms.
The blame doesn't solely fall with the individuals that did this. Our policies and culture around how we handle this is the bigger issue. This isn't some one off event, it's happening worldwide. OP touched on this
Exactly. How many gramattically correct sentances are there, vs what is the probability that a "random" hash used as an EC seed results in poor security? Research[0] has demonstrated it's not a theoretical vulnerability in the EC selection process.

[0] https://bada55.cr.yp.to/bada55-20150927.pdf
I've been having this long term ongoing conversation with a buddy.

The theory is that if we were to make some "Life Calculator Spreadsheet" where you take all the various recommendations like this. Save x amount of your income, this 10% car rule, basic costs, taxes, etc. and then put in various lines for different incomes,etc. And see where it all lines up.

Our theory is that it's impossible. It's impossible for even an upper middle class income earner to follow all the rules of thumb, and still exist.
As someone who was tasked with trying to get nvidia working on Ubuntu, it’s a pretty terrible experience.

I have a nvidia laptop with popos. That works well.
It's going to be a rough retirement for you if population drops too quickly. Other people's children are going to need to provide labor to support your retirement. Even if you and all of your friends intend to die at your desks, there are plenty of vital services that require a lot of labor that isn't well-suited to older workers.

Low fertility rates are a real problem across the developed world.
There needs to be a term to describe this "f*k you I got mine, who cares about the future or future generations" behavior. The normalizing of dna collection, facial recognition, being oblivious to climate issues, screwing up housing market,etc...
>if this unicorn were to show up

A unicorn like that showed up a couple hours ago. Someone posted a guide for getting llama to run on a 7900xtx

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/170tghx/guide_i...

It's still slow and janky but this really isn't that far away.

I don't buy that AMD can't make this happen if they actually tried.

Go on fiverr, get them to compile a list of top 100 people in the DIY LLM space, send them all free 7900XTXs. Doesn't matter if half of it is wrong, just send it. Next take 1.2m USD, post a dozen 100k bounties against llama.cpp that are AMD specific - support & optimise the gear. Rinse and repeat with every other hobbyist LLM/stable diffusion project. A lot of these are zero profit open source / passion / hobby projects. If 6 figure bounties show up it'll absolute raise pulses. Next do all the big youtubers in the space - carefully on that one so that it doesn't come across as an attempted pay-off...but you want them to know that you want this space to grow and are willing to put your money where your mouth is.

That'll cost AMD what 2m 3m? To move the needle on a multi billion market? That's the cheapest marketing you've ever seen.

As I said the datacenter & enterprise market is another beast entirely full of moats and strategy, but I don't see why a suitably motivated senior AMD exec can't tackle the enthusiast market single handedly with a couple of emails, a cheque book and a tshirt that has the nike slogan on it.

>what's to say that all the non-consumers won't just scarf up these equally performant yet lower priced cards

It doesn't matter. They're in the business of selling cards. To consumers, to datacenters, to your grandmother. From a profit driven capitalist company the details don't matter as long as there is traction & volume. The above - opening up even the possibility of a new market - is gold in that perspective. And from a consumer perspective anything that breaks the nvidia cuda monopoly is a win.
A regular TensorFlow installation, just the Python library, is an 184 MB wheel that unpacks to about 1.2 GB of stuff. I have no clue what mess goes in there, but it's a lot.

Still, if you're right that this package seems to take 18 GB disk size, something weird is going on.
Marcan (of Asahi Linux fame) has talked about it many times before. But an abridged version

Fail0verflow demoed how they were able to derive the private signing keys for the Sony Playstation 3 console at I believe CCC

Geohot after watching the livestream raced into action to demo a "hello world!" jailbreak application and absolutely stole their thunder without giving any credit
Any interesting details or behind-the-scenes you wanna share about this?
People don't have to buy premium cars or EVs.

There are still Civics and Corollas.

Bells and Whistles and EVs have driven up the average price for a new car ridiculously.
It did for sure
Scroll down in the comments in the article for a table of affordable cars. The shocker headline is based on cars costing more than I would ever consider, with my 200K+ household income.
>Users who have seen these X ads report being taken to a third-party website in a new window upon clicking anywhere within the ad, including when they try to click on the fake avatar.

This is kind of nuts, that's "random porn site" levels of advertisement. I don't know why anyone even works for this company any more. They day when someone tells you to let ads through that fake legitimate UI elements is probably when any developer should throw the towel in

Also btw is it even legal in Europe or the US to show an ad without disclosing it as such
Take a pinch of the spores of some rapidly-growing fungus and drop them into a gallon jug, one whose walls are coated with nutrient so the fungus can grow as fast as it likes. Suppose you do this one morning, and that exactly 4 days later you find that the fungus has filled the jar and is just beginning to overflow it. How full was the jug the morning of the 3rd day?

It was half full.
“user data” …
> This is the only way I've found to attack the structural problem of tipping without hurting the workers.

That's my big problem. I hate tipping, but I still tip well - to do otherwise is to punish the people with the least ability to change the system.

The only good way I know of to attack the structural problem is to preferentially frequent the few restaurants with a non-tip policy.
Guess I'm also doing something wrong. Never had any serious issues with either Nvidia or AMD on Linux (and only a few annoyances on RNDA2 shortly after release)...
At this writing, Invidious and Piped don't seem affected. These are alternate front-ends which can be self-hosted or have numerous public instances.

I suspect yt-dlp and VLC will also function well.

Your best video option is a third-party media viewer, in any regard.

Invidious: <https://invidious.io/>

Piped: <https://piped.video/>

yt-dlp: <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp> Fork of youtube-dl, command-line client which can download or stream to a local player, supports video, audio only, and many, many, many, many services / hosts other than its namesake.

VLC: <https://www.videolan.org/vlc/> Full GUI media player, includes streaming capabilities for multiple sites & services.

There are numerous other media player front-ends for Linux and other platforms such as Xine, mplayer, and more, check your OS's package archive / repos.
Wegovy and Ozempic are indication-specific brands, but the same product.

Mounjaro by Lilly is still diabetets only, wonder what their obesity-specific brand name will be.
I am quite sure someone about as competent would do his job for far less. I got this feeling the higher you go the less skill based recruitment is and the more connections and friends matter.
It's a privilege to have any service done for you, not just waiting tables.

You are free to give them extra money if you feel that service received exceeds the price that you paid for but it shouldn't be mandatory.

Customer should pay for products and services that's agreed upon. Employer should pay their employees to ensure the quality of the said products and services. There's no reason why a quality of service should be variable based on how generous I feel.
A number of states have minimum wages substantially higher than $10.80, and also have large towns/small cities. I might look at one of the smaller cities in California (minimum: $15.50), Illinois ($13), NY ($14.20), or Maine ($13.80). Note that I am specifically not talking about the "flagship" cities in the big states here, where costs are much higher than the rest of the state.

One can rent a 1BR in the $700 range in all of these states. And while some aspects of cost of living may be higher, the $4.70/hr difference between SD and CA translates to an additional $752/mo of income.
WiFi and Bluetooth have basically zero legal protection. FCC Part 15 "this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation."
The entire rebrand to X allows the twitter brand to live on / be sold once X goes under. Up until this point there have not been any meaningful positive changes to the platform - everything seems to have been done for attention.
The main issue with Nvidia on Linux AIUI is that they don't release the source code for their drivers.
So do you apply this rule for everyone who does something for you in your daily life? Do you go into the kitchen and tip the cooks? What about the person who grows the food, and the one who drives it across the country? Do you tip the bus driver and subway train operator who took you to the restaurant? It should be a privilege for you to tip all of them.

There are millions of people "waiting on you" every day so you can live your life comfortably. There is really no logic behind why the pretty waitress deserves tips and everyone else doesn't other than the fact that you grew up with this practice and so it seems normal.
11. Using encryption algorithms compromised by NSA
I think it's a good edit. I don't know if it's a better title in general, but it avoids this major distraction.
How exactly are the cars becoming “certified used” if 0% of people are buying them new..?
I tested and it looks like the iPhone lowers the peak nits based on the brightness slider, so the HDR reels aren’t “max phone brightness” bright, like they’re trying to be. Dunno how that compares, but yes, it’s present to some degree. (Low Power Mode disables EDR, which works around it, but has other effects as well.)
> Well, shooting down protestors is not democratic. Democracy is not a tyranny of the majority!

Are you speaking about Iran or the USA or Israel?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/08/george-floyd...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/05/un-experts-d...

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rachel-corrie-ac...
I think it'll be hard for anyone to beat Tumblr's record from when they banned porn.
Why not let Elon live with his terrible branding decisions? I think there's a case to be made that referring to X by its better-known former name is more beneficial for Musk.
They were treated and hunted as pest animals for a while, so that didn’t help.
I was very focused on finding nice-ish apartments in core downtown areas, which changes the equation a bit. Bakersfield has 1-bedrooms for under $800/mo, but nowhere near their downtown. In Spokane I'm seeing virtually nothing for under $800/mo, let alone downtown.
Civics and Corollas have gone up quite a lot.
How about one offering a discount for no podcasts?
That's why the used market is 3x as big as the new car market, and cars are staying on the road for 20+ years.
Tech CEO ratings from blind users
So which Malloc should we be using? How about setting that as a default? If apparently the trade off is so cookie cutter clear.
It looks correlated to stock market performance. wh o knows??
That man truly is a business genius.
>but the bigger a company gets the more bureaucracy, red tape, polices, layers of middle management and overall inefficiencies and burdensome "structures" get put in place

eh, this hasn't been my experience working for pre-seed, series A, F50, and FAANG companies.

In my experience, small companies often let product or MBA folks dictate a lot of what happens, and generally engineering is looked down on as worker bees. At FAANG, this isn't the case. ICs have the same level or respect and authority as managers and individual engineer opinion is taken seriously.

Because there's so much infra in big tech, you can spend an entire career barely interacting with MBA/PMs/process people.
In this case it went from completely free to pay something. The completely free tier clearly could not last. The company has to pay the bills somehow. They wanted to gain market share in the sector and now that they think they want to recoup some of the cost.

You have cases where companies jack up the prices out of pure greed but i would not count this as one. Why should studio not pay a license fee for high quality software like the unreal engine?
And cancer from viruses too!
I have seen restaurants write “service fee x%” and then explicitly say “this is not a gratuity”, implying that patrons should still tip.
I remember encountering Postman years ago when it was a chrome app where I'd fill some fields and use it against a server absent a frontend to prototype/test.

I never understood what's the improvement from having a headless client written in Python using requests or something and the data in source-code, kept versioned? I figure requests or similar libraries have something with sessions and cookies that allows me to issue requests against an active or mock server. This way I can specify the API, data to send each endpoints and possibly also use these snippets in testing.

I have usually taken this Python route when I've wanted something nicer (this is subjective) in comparison to cURL.

Can someone experienced here tell me the value add over something like this with Postman?
Twitter used to be the best tech company in the world at resisting government censorship. They routinely fought governments around the world in court, including in the US. Now they aren't. For example they recently did global censorship at the behest of the Indian government.
The other species I usually see mentioned in articles about this is dogs.

https://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/about
Another aspect is customer is expected - no "required" to tip.
Because it's the largest state by far, so it's easier to do the math on. The next 3 biggest states put together don't add up to the size of Alaska. Alaska's land dedicated to national parks alone is bigger than the entire size of the land in each of the 23 of the 49 remaining states.
It wouldn't help here, the OTP was only actually used when he received the phished login. The fake site didn't submit it to the AOL servers.
Though I prefer IntelliJ, VS Code is fine.

I sometimes switch to VS Code just to use Lischke's terrific ANTLR plugin.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mike-lis...
It's not even clear what part you're dismissively replying "Nope!" to.

I'll be explicit: on POSIX systems that implement the POSIX threads extension there is a header file called pthread.h that declares a regular function called pthread_mutex_lock() and that function can be called as a regular function by an ISO C compliant compiler.

(POSIX also allows defining macros that can achieve the same effect, possibly more efficiently, but pthread_mutex_lock() et al. have to exist also as regular function definitions.)

So the point remains: pthread_mutex_lock() works not because the C compiler treats it specially. That makes sense since the C standard doesn't even mention it. Unlike setjmp() it's not part of the C standard, and it doesn't need to be, because none of its behavior requires compiler support, beyond what is already required by the platform ABI.
As a former ETH miner I learned the hard way that saving a few bucks on hardware may not be worth operational issues.

I had a miner running with Nividia cards and a miner running with AMD cards. One of them had massive maintenance demand and the other did not. I will not state which brand was better imho.

Currently I estimate that running miners and running gpu servers has similar operational requirements and finally at scale similar financial considerations.

So, whatever is cheapest to operate in terms of time expenditure, hw cost, energy use,… will be used the most.

P.s.: I ran the mining operation not to earn money but mainly out of curiosity. And it was a small scale business powered by a pv system and a attached heat pump.
Not always the case recently. Shopping this year I found that <2 year old used cars were often more expensive than new cars due to lack of dealer incentives and concessions on financing. A similar dynamic is emerging for houses [1] as homebuilders have more reasons to sell their inventory than existing homeowners do.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/real-estate-old-homes-now-cost-...
Ask HN: Have you ever tried to create a collection of software like GNU?
3x that (30% instead of 10%) -- but in general, nobody making minimum wage can afford a studio apartment anywhere in the US.

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/how-much-rent-can-i-afford-o...

and

https://www.realestatewitch.com/house-price-to-income-ratio-...
> once it reaches $1b in valuation

Uhm - Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter. Obviously it's not worth >=$44B currently but it's also obviously still worth more than $1B.

Edit: Some people seem to be thinking I'm arguing it's worth >$10B -- I am not. I'm only arguing that it's absolutely worth more than $1B. There are plenty of sources in the past 6 months which have valued it between $3.7B and $8B. There are absolutely buyers out there who would love to buy Twitter right now for a 90% discount vs. what Musk paid for it. You may still believe those parties would be overpaying, but it wouldn't be super difficult to find a buyer as long as there weren't other onerous terms attached to the deal.
That's decades worth of wage stagnation for ya.

No surprise that the car companies have all sought their luck in China, as the domestic markets have all but dried up.
A perspective on attendee safety at Python community events
As my own opinion, I believe the OpenPower project went strong with P10. I was not around to hear the contrast in decisions between P9 and P10 strategy, so I can't quite compare.
I suspect it is possible, but it really leads to a crash in the "life" spending. Restaurants, vacations, meat consumption, etc go back to the level when the rules were generated.