skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea but how does this help?
I can gauge very easily if the mount of text I received takes 2 mins or 20 mins to read by just looking at the length of it.

That's not the problem at all.

But "3 questions to answer" could take anything from 30 seconds to 30 hours, depending on the complexity, severity and dependence on others of said answers.
200 years ago we thought that we would certainly have cold fusion today (at least I just asked ChatGPT, that's what it says ;) ).

Well more than 10 years ago we thought that we would have autonomous cars in 5 years.

Nothing says that AI can ever do more than generating convincing and eloquent bullshit (which is not always wrong in a quite impressive manner, I agree).
an important theory is that Unity's initial actions were prompted by Apple's App Tracking Transparency changing the gamedev market and jeopardizing Unity's recent ad-driven monetization strategy, and that's how Apple's on everyone's mind around those news
Agreed. Over the past few years I've encountered more and more organisations with a ratio of management:developer/designer of >1, ie for every developer or designer, there is more than 1 "manager" (PM, EM, etc) involved. These organisations tend to have appalling velocity and very low developer morale.

Conversely some of the most efficient organisations I've seen have virtually no "management". Usually a lead developer who still works on the product managing tickets, taking requirements from a CEO or similar. These teams can deliver a mind boggling amount of work in comparison.
Further away than non-space robot workers, and we don't really have those either (at least not in the sense of machines operating autonomously in arbitrarily complex environments such that humans aren't required at all)
Dan Carlin recently interviewed Harl about "Empire of the Steppes" on his addendum channel.

https://www.dancarlin.com/addendum/
Would have been more interesting if it wasn't trained on the actual posters. Like those Ghana bootleg posters [1]

1> https://joyenergizer.com/the-crazy-world-of-the-bootleg-movi...
Wow. Thinking about it, there are businesses built, peaked and destroyed in that time frame. :)
You can make a lot of money digitalising German bureaucracy against its will. For a lot of people, mailing free form letters around is a pain in the ass. It doesn’t help that some of the forms are complex and the processes unpredictable. My readership (see profile) speaks English, so even writing the message is a hurdle.

I used to think that people are dumb for paying for things that I show them how to do for free, but my dad is a mechanic and still lets someone else change his oil. People are busy and don’t like logistic friction.

I’m joining that industry myself with a 15€ Wohnsitzabmeldung. It’s worth it just for getting your Abmeldebescheinigung by email. I’m thinking of charging a little above cost for a nice layer over post-as-a-service and fax-as-a-service too.

Only in Germany!
If you're curious about how you'd even go about finding and fixing a bug in the Firefox codebase, Mike Conley has been livestreaming his dev work at Mozilla weekly for years. A lot of the stuff he records involves picking a bug from the backlog, and then meticulously hunting it down and murdering it.

I really recommend giving it a watch, especially if you're just starting out in programming and want to see what work in a real codebase is like: https://youtube.com/@mikeconleytoronto
It will look like Windows. The future is now!
FPH essentially put itself into a position where it had to be banned:

1. Imgur blocked its images from being shown on FPH, essentially crippling the subreddit

2. In response, the FPH mods put a collage of Imgur's overweight staff in the subreddit sidebar

3. Reddit will have had to ban the subreddit to maintain their relationship with Imgur (who they ended up buying).
Yes, there was a noticeable drop in the count of number 13s too.
Man trains home cameras to help repel badgers and foxes
Lo and behold: he's out, Unity is saved! Where's my credit card? Restart your subscriptions, everyone!

When the news first hit (re. "pricing structure"), the unpaid Unity evangelists (and I use the term literally: Unity evangelists that are not being paid for their efforts) immediately leapt to the defense of the company, declaring its innocence and fingering the evil mastermind at the top. He did this! Yes, the problem was that Unity had a badman at the helm...

When Unity started moving decisively toward their IPO, the decision was already finalised: Unity exists not to make some money by building and selling a game engine, but to make all of the money, by whatever means necessary. It's not because of who the CEO is, it's their raison d'être.

Seriously, it's good to see that the immense backlash made at least some ripples. But wow are the standards low.
They do still carry out search, but using a brute force approach (dot product over all the embeddings) instead of vector db. Their point is that they aren't likely to generate enough messages for brute force to be an issue. (Even over 100s of thousands of embeddings brute force is pretty fast.)
It was enforceable before too, thanks to the Data Protection Directive from 1995. GDPR is an harmonization of the various national transcriptions of the DPD, plus higher fines, a better cooperation mechanism, and data portability (which is a bit useless but it's nice to have). Cookie banners also predate GDPR (it was the ePrivacy directive).
How Can We Foresee Our Relationship with AI?
Human-AI interaction at the current stage or post-AGI is always a matter of debate. Whether you are on the next negative side or position side, I would like to disentangle the aftermath of AI on our minds. Will humans become more intelligent in a world where AI is proliferated or unintelligent?

Personally, this topic and the concept of the extended mind amazed me more than anything else and just wanted to make sure it goes to a wider audience.

Got any questions or ideas? Simply drop me a message and let's discuss.
If you use "Getting Things Done"-like triage, you know that it goes into the pile of things that you deal with when you have a solid block of time. Not just a spare couple of minutes.

Edit: when you do get to it you can then make further time allocations.

Not sure what the issue is; I have had several people thank me for doing this.
I'm hopeful that better coding tools and better programming languages will allow making cleaner, clearer, routes to the base hardware

so that you can build on proven (e.g. theorem solver / hardened / guarenteed) protocols and automatically make whatever version of a "website" the 2030's has... but without RCEs.
I am in the same boat as the OP. I don't even know where I should click to see a tooltip to begin with!
Second Hand Songs
Don't read the intermediate representation. The idea is that you use an LLM to summarize those comments into human readable text.
Philips makes some bulbs that change color temperature to get warmer the more you dim them. Not as flexible as a smart bulb, but it gets you most of the way there.
Your description got me wondering if Sonos had actually done anything novel so I decided to go and dig up the actual patent. Best I can tell, it's this one:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7571014B1/en

Spoiler, it contains a detailed description of the functionality, complete with UI mockups and flow charts. It does not contain any novel method for keeping audio in sync between rooms, for example.

It is insane to me that this is patentable.
What a beautiful story and an even more amazing guy for giving it all away. Condolences to his friends and family.
Yeah try talking with a VC while you play videogames and see where it leads you

But since it was the "wonder kid of crypto" (read, very well connected person) it was a reason for praise

Yes please explain me how he really merited that
Watcom was a much much better compiler and was welcomed with open arms to be sure - I still have a copy of the last release and use it on occassions.

If we're waxing historic here, my first C compiler (of my own and not a university VAX | PDP version) was the Cain | Hendrix Small C compiler (released 1980) which I handcopied in 1982 and extended over the next year or three as I read the Dragon books and other works .. bit of a side exercise while doing an engineering degree and working on a sheep shearing robot.

Thank-you Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C
Mozilla being one of them.
> Where do you need to be ?

Where is debatable, but you definitely need to be there by end of Q3 or we miss P&E targets.
TARTAAAAARIA :D
Imagine how much money Mozilla could have made over the last 22 years if only they'd sold ad space in the stuck tooltip! They should monetized their own bugs, before somebody else does.
We have fox problem (UK resident) so this was an interesting approach however the ultrasonic deterrents seem close to useless for the group of them in our neighborhood - caught one on camera urinating on top of it, could swear it was grinning into the camera.
Very nice offering.
Only suggestion for improvement would be a live preview when editing the parameters.
I love the idea of computational archeology in SciFi, but in real life, I wonder if we shouldn't just regularly redesign our foundations to be more robust and transparent to keep the whole system manageable.
Looks a lot like the P4Merge diffing window: https://www.perforce.com/manuals/p4merge/Content/P4Merge/dif...
Great article. The other day in my local dev group I gave a talk about something similar but much less sophisticated.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/466/
You are wrong, cf. GDPR article 3. The Belgian DPA even ruled that GDPR is unenforceable if the controller is not located in EEA, does not serve anyone in EEA, and does not monitor EU individuals. https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=APD/GBA_(Belgium)_-_161/2...
This is probably quite a common phenomenon in open source software. Namely, an unglamorous bug has been around forever and someone finally gets annoyed enough to roll up their sleeves and fix it themselves.
It embraces, extends and extinguishes?
I found it surprising going from a full 50GB single user plan to a 200GB family plan that 75GB were already consumed. I’m not saying it’s wrong, just surprising in a disappointing way.
>Netflix observed a 20% increase of CPU usage on JDK 17 compared to JDK 8. This was mostly due to the improvements in the G1 garbage collector.

Help me here, why do GC improvements cause CPU increase?
Yeah, something like a "fyi" or "fya" or "ans them pls, me in cc" or "send ans 2 me 1st" is already better than a blank forward.
Some things in life are meant to be discovered and others are meant to be learned. There are plenty of opportunities for haha moments with the former but not so much with the latter. Assuming you are a "tech worker" of some sorts, your editor, your OS, your shell, your languages and frameworks, etc. are all tools meant to be learned and mastered, not fidget toys.

Discovering insert mode completion in Vim after 9 years is a failure, not something to celebrate.
If we're going to imagine breaking the laws of physics and changing our understanding of metaphysics, as a goal.. then moving an object past the speed of light seems to be more likely than identifying what consciousness is, successfully separating it from it's source and then inserting it in a recepticle, across the other side of the universe.

Stupendous amounts of energy would be beneficial to have for literally everything humans do... whether or not we use the tech on space travel.

We have lived (as a species) through cavemen, industrial revolution to the atomic bomb and somehow you're coming to the conclusion that technology progress has to take a weird bend into uploading people to the internet, as if computers havent capped out on that already?

We have never really cared what the universe prefers. We'd still be living 'in harmony with nature' (so to speak) if we genuinely cared what the universe prefers.

I'd rather be the guy who tore up Einstein's map, than some internet electron.
International Operation Closes Down Piilopuoti Dark Web Marketplace
Isn't "it's not a bug, it's a feature" an MS mantra?
> Because home servers tend to be bursty on demand workloads.

Not all workloads can be "completed" by throwing hardware at them. The sort of thing this kind of hardware is ideal for is things like home automation.

I run Home Assistant on an Xeon ITX PC with a micro-PSU for example, it's at ~40-60% CPU and ~80% RAM (of 16GB) running inference on my camera streams, handling Zigbee and Z-Wave devices etc, running automations, handling all of the sensors for the doors, lights etc in my home. This isn't a bursty problem you can simply get a more powerful CPU for, the goal here is to keep power down and performance up because it's a constant load. A smaller, lower power micro-PC would save me a bit in energy costs if I wanted to.

For real work, people like me (us?) use real servers like you say; I run a Ryzen 9 12c/24t, AsRock Rack, 2 M.2 NVMe, HBA, 8 SAS bays, 128GB RAM, 6 GbE NICs, with dozens of VMs and containers on, a few Kubernetes clusters, and a bunch of services (git, Harbor, Argo, etc) it uses about 100-150W with my CPU downspecced to 65W TDP.

Now that's a system that has bursty workloads, but it's in a different class to these low power machines that "normal" home users are looking for.

> Now RAM on the other hand!
> Free RAM is wasted RAM!

Can't argue with that.
Pity that it is as good as C in producing UAF exploits, and doesn't have any story for binary libraries.
I doubt the legality of a T&Cs that demands permission to use and gather information on the local network and any device connected to it. It seems about as legal as T&Cs that demand the users first born child.
If you don't care about source lines, I find radare2 has a really good disassembler (in graph mode)

It's meant for reverse engineering but I use it for debugging purposes too
Indeed. Do you know which editors don't blink working with a 1gb-1line json file?
7 metric tonnes isn't a lot. It's what a 747 uses to taxi to the runway.

Of course bringing 7 tonnes to orbit is another story but even that is not so bad.
You're right that selling a game engine is more an enterprise software business than game publisher, but Unity isn't trying to be a software company at this point, they're an ads and analytics service company, maybe doing a 'big tech' cosplay.
In a couple centuries?

In 200 years it'll just be AIs, who will create custom AIs to accomplish a task, who will create legions of other AIs to carry out tasks. It'll be code writing code writing code that's completely beyond human comprehension.

Who knows if humans will take part at all (or even be around).
it's obvious the parent comment means that he was counseled against it and decided to do it anyway because he's just like that.
Jellystat: Free and open source Statistics App for Jellyfin
Hacker News Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Also interested! We saw basically the exact opposite. :-)
why fix bugs when you can build bigger, better bugs with fancier dependencies?
Why not use the common tool for some quick lookup?
>I wonder if we shouldn't just regularly redesign our foundations to be more robust and transparent to keep the whole system manageable.

Don't make me link Joel Spolsky's never do a rewrite.
WAF under 300 points. But better than negative.
I top-post and quote as required:

> something they said below

so that the context is still there inline, but anything irrelevant isn't, you still get the new message as the first thing (which frankly most clients seem to expect), just seems strictly better than bottom-posting and messing up the order & what's reply vs. replied-to to me.
Uh? They're trivial to tell apart, just put the RJ45 jacks side by side and look at the colors of the wires going in?

Same sequence -> Straight ethernet cable

Same sequence except for 1 swapped pair -> Probably a crossover Ethernet cable

Inverted sequence -> ISDN cable, burn it.

Also (apart from the ISDN cables) - it hasn't mattered for close to quarter of a century, all switches and NICs are auto-MDI-X nowadays, why throw away the stuff.
Containers are enough for your use case. I know that for some usage cases, are enough. But for nearly 90% users, they are enough and even better that profiles.
But a better language would allow generalizing over exceptions. In pseudo C++:

auto map(collection<T> C collection, function<T> F f) -> invoke_result<F, T> throws(invoke_exception<F, T>);
Tell HN: Bring back the email confirmation link
I receive plenty of emails to services that I have never actually joined. I was never allowed to confirm my email. I'm just suddenly a member and start receiving updates. The way out is usually to track down an increasingly elusive support email address to explicitly explain that whoever used my email made a mistake. Consider bringing back the confirmation link. Better yet, also include a link that nullifies the email address for that account. It may seem inconsequential to have your email as part of some random service's membership, but only until it's not. We're entering an era where AI make decisions that affect our lives, based on data driven heuristics. Where they got the data and how they're using it is often obscure and there's nobody to talk to when a mistake is made. And there will increasingly be less people to talk to.
Asserts are not an alternative to validating user input or input data in general (e.g. data loaded from files or received over the network).

If wrong input triggers an assert, that means that the input validation is incomplete (and in that case the assert may prevent further much worse damage, and also provide important information to the programmer who's going to fix that bug).

Basically, asserts should never trigger if the user "does something wrong".
Anything launched is assembled from parts that have been certified as fit for purpose, voluminous paperwork showing the examinations, testing, etc, all to try to minimise the risk of failure. Once it has been in orbit for years or decades, facing ten thermal cycles per day, bathed in elevated radiation and ions, and pitted with micrometeorites, you'd really want a thorough examination before reuse (X-ray ultrasound, etc: not yet available off-world)
The user obviously doesn't want the program to crash, but they don't want to encounter any bugs. If an assertion fails, it means they already encountered a bug and the program is about to wander through a minefield of unspecified behavior, which could be much worse than simply stopping.
This proposed explanation just moves the abitrariness to "why 180" and "why that amount of 9s"?
True, maybe loyal pleas would echo up better.
So - what I'm hearing is there is a potentially small but perhaps lucrative market for an onsite git system (because that's what programmers know how to use) that outputs zip files that can then be used as the code archive if Johnny Law comes calling?
Unless model size/computing cost grows at the same pace or faster. As cool as GPT 3.5 seemed when it came out it's horribly inadequate compared to 4.0 for many use cases so I doubt we'd be content using current models in 3 years.
> Once you convert heating systems to electric to stop burning fossil fuels, what do you do during winter when it's cold, the days are short and it's cloudy and calm for a week?

Keep some amount of fossil backup for emergencies, and interconnect (eg, with HVDC). The US for instance is huge, and the chances of wind not blowing anywhere in it are essentially zero.

If say, Washington is suddenly devoid of sun and wind, there's a lot of places around it could buy power from. And be the seller when the reverse happens.
Reasons I Use C
Tbh, humanity should've just used SDI for everything.
I read it as a good thing: GC improvements -> more available memory -> more work done by the CPU. But still would be interested in more detail.
Merging the power of Git with a Headless CMS, Contentrain streamlines content creation and collaboration for both developers and content teams. But here's the cherry on top: It's absolutely free for open-source projects, ensuring larger communities can manage their documentation seamlessly.

The platform capitalizes on Git's strengths, letting developers bask in familiar workflows, while non-tech users enjoy a modern content creation experience. Think about the potential: Contribute to public documentation without technical hurdles, and manage multilingual content with ease, all on a single platform that scales alongside Git and serverless architectures.

Looking to take your documentation or multi-language site to the next level? Contentrain might just be your next tool.
How to compete against a government that has infinite amount of cash and power and is willing to spend an infinite amount of cash and power?
On Systems Development
I actually sort of suspect that the most common reason for people to have heard of Jane Street is their advertising for internships on maths related YouTube channels. (Not the most common reason for their customers or partners, just the greatest number of people)
Thanks! I completely understand! Which ones do you use?
Here's the relevant bit, with a biiiiig leap at the end:

"Symmetry principles play an important role with respect to the laws of nature, but until now there has been little explanation as to why that could be. My findings demonstrate that high symmetry corresponds to the lowest information entropy state, potentially explaining nature's inclination towards it.

"This approach, where excess information is removed, resembles the process of a computer deleting or compressing waste code to save storage space and optimize power consumption. And as a result supports the idea that we're living in a simulation."
At least in theory the extra cash raised by selling the new stock makes the company more valuable, so your shares remain worth the same before and after. Actual practice is a lot more nuanced - the company might not be able to sell the new stock at a high enough price, or they might spend the new money immediately on hookers'n'blow^W^W^W unsound investments.
It's like hiring more workers to accomplish the exact same output as before. "See, I achieved 20% growth in my targets!", some recruiter will say!
Well, I doubt that an ergonomy is the reason here. Going gym consistently benefits much more, rather than switch devices. I have never seen healthy programmers over 30 who avoided physical activity. But I saw how people from constant switching of ergonomic devices and clinics visits just in several months were able to forget about most of the pain in wrists and back just by consistent increase in their physical activity and adding some resistant training. Their back CT looks the almost same, but their lives are significantly improved.
I work on any devices and sit on various chairs for almost 25 years, and never experienced any significant pains. Just visiting gym and having some massages. In my case the most significant factor that affects back health is stress, but massages is what help to maintain it.
Using (Many) Emojis Decreases Message Credibility and Source Trustworthiness
They need to rebuild trust with the developer community after the recent debacle, and the CEO seems to be most closely identified with unpopular changes. Whether this will work is debatable, too much trust has been lost. I cant really think of anything that could restore the trust.
> Depends on your location.

and depends on what you're buying. See sugar taxes, takeout taxes, restaurant taxes, etc.

Also, how do you know if tip is applied before or after taxes?