skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always the same accounts shilling for ads/companies.

As always you can tell who makes on ads by how fervently they defend the bullshit.

Mental gymnastics dont even change they dont bother to learn new dismounts.

Trying to escuse this bullshit is what's going to lead us to the black mirror episode '15 million merits'.

In their future you have to watch ads. Advertisers and businesses have the rights, not the people.

That future can get fucked.
Bigtech is not the main threat. They are the new kids on the block. There is no shortage of privately held data brokers that will provide data to intelligence services. They've been doing it since before the Internet existed.
Yeah IMO a lot of these were less "companies", and more "quick one off projects to capitalize on an opportunity".

Plenty of them are sub-5-person shops that will close having made a decent profit for all involved.
In many ways, they were ahead of their time. Fig. 14 is 'great' insofar as historical propaganda posters go.
Which economy are you feeling this about, and what is your feeling based on?

Is this just the "technology sector" economy that you're feeling this about? Because the linked article is about the broader startup economy (though seems to be mainly about VC-funded startups?). And a 10% contraction would dramatically hit employment (companies, on average, don't have access to that much money to pay employees if revenue decreases 10%).
Looks Pretty cool, Interesting how blender was integrated into such workflows for animation in hardware
i tried to use u++ way back when, and bounced off really hard (and i've used lots of different frameworks and environments). perhaps things have got better documented since?
The Arcan display server is a really cool idea. Even if it doesn't manage to get popular, I think there are ideas here that we could mine to use them in popular programs.

- https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...

- https://arcan-fe.com/2021/04/12/introducing-pipeworld/

- https://arcan-fe.com/2020/12/03/arcan-versus-xorg-feature-pa...

- https://arcan-fe.com/2021/09/20/arcan-as-operating-system-de...
Chinese Text Analyzer https://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/

Tokenizes chinese text into "words" for learning purposes and then renders the text in a GUI where you can click on a word to get the definition. It's not perfect, but a LLM fine tuned for it will eventually result in much better "tokenization".
Using memorization is something that can be a feature in some cases, especially in reducing hallucinations. Perhaps instead of embedding retrieval you’d condition a model to only repeat memorized relevant passages, something that can be trained end to end and beneficial for RAG
I’m working on a business automation platform that helps businesses quickly (within a couple of minutes) set up a fully customizable solution to run their business their way, all while being able to gain insights and forecasts easily.
Can this tech be used for making powerless keyboards? As in no power just a mic.
Ask HN: Will we be forced to pass laws against filming anyone in public?
Or what outcome do you see (for various countries)?

Currently, it's already considered very rude and an invasion of privacy/peace to be filming in a restaurant or public space and capturing neighboring customers or pedestrians, and even more extreme when it comes to the massive number of people trying to become streamers/YouTubers and who actually want to get as many of the other people in their video as possible.

But we are quickly approaching a further era, where people can disguise their cameras as glasses and front-facing lapels. And where technology will soon allow people to go around using AI to see everyone naked, and hooligans can easily create an immediate deepFake nude of your girlfriend or family and show you while you're riding the train.

Currently, there is no legal response to any of this (except perhaps mischief) in most jurisdictions. You aren't allowed to take their phone away, smash it, or punch them, and you there's no crime to charge them with. You can yell, but they can just film you yelling and laugh because you can't do anything to them.

What do you see as the outcome of this as it becomes even more pronounced and actual news stories of these things inevitably appear?

Will we pass laws banning all public use of cameras (except you are allowed to film even in public law enforcement, public figures, and anyone during a newsworthy event/crime)?
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> seems like it would be better solved using standard OpenPGP signatures with no backing chain.

Programmability though
> Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission.
There’s limits to property rights even among the most extreme voluntaryist political philosophers. Rothbard, a famous anarchocapitalist, wrote extensively about why property rights don’t extend to slaveowners.

Unlike private households and businesses, public companies only exist due to licenses from the state. These include limitation on liability, protection for many types of property, and much, much more. The protections even extend to securities regulations; since public companies aren’t privately owned, there is a misalignment between incentives of owners and managers. The state sides with the owners by using force on managers to prevent them from acting in their own self interest, and instead to act on behalf of the shareholder public.

The NAP cannot extend to public companies as they are not privately owned and can only exist when granted rights by the state. A lot of work has been done by libertarians on the topic of how monopolies are formed; it’s not due to private markets.
> They prioritize their own infra which unlike Aws doesn’t even run on gcp!

I don't believe that to be the case, last I heard a year or two back the vast majority of it -does- run on a google GCP tenant account and what didn't was largely at least in the process of migration planning.

(my source here is "pillow talk with a senior GCP engineer" and I don't believe she had any reason to lie to me)
Near zero interest rates make it pretty easy to have a greater than T-bill return on investment.
This is one of my favorite HN comments ever. Dickens was really good at deflating the well-meaning while reserving his real fire for the heartless. Thanks for reminding me to finally read “Bleak House”
> The nearly $13 billion Private Investment Partners 15 fund... cut its valuation for privacy search engine platform DuckDuckGo by 72%

Surprised to see DDG in Tiger's list of investments.

Should I view that as just part of the broad markdown or has something changed to DDG in particular that makes its biz model less viable?
The manipulation seems substantial, but the point I was alluding to was that there wasn’t a smoking gun (at least by the amounts that I’ve heard and read) that Ariely made those substantial changes. I’m not sure what was included in Excel metadata, but it’s at least conceivable that the copy/paste + random change edits were done by someone else prior to Ariely edits. Where it gets damning is that he was the one the original dataset was sent to and the last to edit it. At the very least, it shows a lack of due diligence in not catching there were somehow many more datapoints added.

Just conjecture of course, but this came at a time when governmental “nudges” were very en vogue. I could see where successful research could be thought of AAA a pathway to influence, prestige, and money through government grants and appointments. And there were some highly regarded behavioral psychologists who were substantiating its effectiveness.
'Leaning tower' in Italy on 'high alert' for collapse
Dungeons and Dragons Is a Household Name Again
The government's power is delegated by the people (and, in particular, people with influence, i.e., money). The power of corporations to direct government force is therefore inextricable from the power of corporations writ large, and that is derived wholly from unrestrained or improperly-restrained capitalism/enterprise. The government loses the power to abuse the public so intensely when corporations lose the power to abuse government, at least within a capitalist framework.
Maybe the article is on to something, but it mostly doesn't seem to apply in my case. As I sit here with my ears ringing, I can tell you that my hearing has recently been pronounced "perfect" by a doctor of audiology (not just an audiologist). So I apparently have no damage, but I still have the ringing.
My ears don't ring all the time though -- often the ringing begins after I eat. I haven't narrowed down which foods could be responsible. It's possible that I have a mild food allergy that I'm unaware of.
My first job involved working on a Pick system. The system started life on a Prime mainframe and was migrated to UniVerse on Solaris.

I seriously miss it.

Every once in a while I try to get back into it. Usually it takes the form of trying (and failing) to get a demo/personal version of UniVerse, but lately I've been poking at ScarletDME a little bit. I'd even pay money (not much since this is just hobby stuff, but some) for UniVerse, but even the cost of it seems to be a closely guarded secret.
I love these maps, and I'm glad they provide downloads like [1]. I wish the resolution was a bit higher. As it is the names of the towns on the coasts can be read with difficulty.

[1] https://submarine-cable-map-2023.telegeography.com/images/Su...
While this sounds very sarcastic, but I actually want to give windows a try, didn't use it for ~ 20 years, I don't even have no idea how it looks like now, but I keep hearing good things
Railway's bill was into the multiple millions per year at the very least so that doesn't necessarily rule it out.
Yeah I totally agree with this as well.
> Maybe you wanted to embed the login page on your own site (iframe or webview)

Half of the reason to use SSO is that users should not ever enter their credentials on arbitrary web sites.

Otherwise generally agree with the rest of your points. Acquiring a token from a web page and especially authentication from non browser contexts can be excruciatingly difficult. Imagine an idp only providing login through browser prompts, when you are trying to build a CLI that requires login.
Yes, I just tried, and the phone number just goes to a menu system with no way to talk to a human. If you choose abuse, it tells you to report it online. If you choose support it tells you that if you're an enterprise customer you can create a ticket. If you choose the "under attack" option, then do send you to a human who tries to sell you cloudflare service and doesn't understand that cloudflare could possibly be attacking you (and refuses to transfer you).

I tried emailing the abuse address, but I get an automated reply saying to report it using the online form (which won't let you report anything not hosted on a cloudflare website).

I also emailed their noc address and haven't had an automated reply yet, so perhaps that will actually reach a human.
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A 10% drop is huge. Even in the GFC the peak to trough drop for GDP and personal expenditures were only 4.82% and 2.58% respectively.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEC96

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
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I mean relative to other empires in history. Maybe the Persian one comes close, maybe. I don’t like living in a client state but I’m under no illusions things would be better under the British or Spanish
> This would never happen for cars for example because people can choose which car they buy.

People have also been complaining that cars are all starting to look the same. Car designs tend to use similar structures to meet safety regulations.

This is most noticeable when you look at the design of a concept car vs the actual production version. When an automaker has to bring a concept to market it has to add larger mirrors, larger lights, bigger bumpers to meet standards. The issue is exacerbated by the need to meet standards globally while minimizing production costs.

In this case the automakers don’t have any real choice because of the constraints they’re given. Much like how software trends to sameness once an optimal design has been discovered.
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Nix package manager's `nix-shell` is something I wish more people knew about. Nix is gaining some popularity, but people often think of using it has to be a really big commitment, like changing your Linux distro to NixOS or replacing your dotfiles with a Nix-based one (using the Nix package manager).

What I wish more people knew was that you don't need to do those things to get value from Nix. Create project specific dev shells that install the packages (at the correct versions) to work with that project can almost replace 90% of the docs for getting setup to work on a project.
Water sits in the pipes so I would still run it and still use cold water.
I'm thinking unpopular could mean the tech is polarizing or frequently dismissed/overlooked.

* APL -- I haven't dedicated the time to learning in part because there's little support where I normally work. I'd love for APL to have be adapted like a domain specific language a la perl compatible regular expressions for various languages (april in common lisp, APL.jl in julia).
* regular expressions. https://xkcd.com/1171/
* bugs/issue tracking embedded in git https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/

But I'm more excited for things that fall into the niche/lesser-known side of of unpopular. I love finding the little gems that change how I organize or work with the system.

* "type efficiently by saying syllables and literal words" https://sr.ht/~geb/numen/
* I use fasd[0] 'z' alias for jumping to previous directories in shell every day.
* Alt+. in shell (readline, bash) to get the previous commands last argument is another ergonomic time saver that I think is relatively obscure. I have a bash wrapper to combine that with fzf for quick any-previous-command-argument fuzzy search and insert [1]
* zimwiki [2] (and/or a less capable emacs mode[3]) for note taking has served me well for a decade+
* DokuWiki's XML RPC [4] enables local editor edits to a web wiki. I wish it was picked up by more editor plugin developers. (cf. emacs-dokiwki [5])
* xterm isn't unpopular per say, but I don't see sixel support and title setting escape codes talked about often. I depend on a bash debug trap to update the prompt with escape codes that set the terminal title [6]

* are clipboard managers popular? I get a lot out of using https://github.com/erebe/greenclip

[0] https://github.com/clvv/fasd
[1] https://github.com/WillForan/fuzzy_arg
[2] https://zim-wiki.org/
[3] https://github.com/WillForan/zim-wiki-mode
[4] https://www.dokuwiki.org/xmlrpc
[5] https://github.com/flexibeast/emacs-dokuwiki
[6] https://github.com/WillForan/dotconf/blob/master/bash/PS1.ba... -- bash debug trap to update prompt with escape codes that set the title to previous run command -- to eg. search windows for the terminal playing music from 'mpv'
I caught up with a friend recently who has been involved with startups for years as a founder or engineer. His current position is senior engineer at a blockchain startup, funded a few years ago when VC money was flowing and “blockchain” was hot.

“Honestly, I don’t even know what we’re building or who will use it,” he admitted.

People love to talk about the successes and use that to justify the VC startup model, but I suspect many if not most are like this - a pretend company based on a buzzword with no real customers or viable business model.
> Where is the Windows-Haters Handbook.

On help.microsoft.com.
Opeth are just a band more suitable for making studio albums than touring. You'll find other metal bands that are amazing live but boring when listening at home.

Metal concerts are loud sure, but the loudest concerts I've gone to have been electronic or indie stuff with heavy electronic influences - they try to make you feel like you're in a night club I guess.
Doubting my integrity by suggesting I'm being sarcastic just because I don't know something that clearly isn't common knowledge is thoughtful and polite?
Konto goes a long way in my experience: https://kinto.sh/
Alex Robey safeguards AI systems against malicious tampering with SmoothLLM
The New Deal programs ring a bell here: “give money to poor people … by employing them to plant trees in their neighborhoods!”
I've always been able to do this, and I've always assumed that it's not unusual. It does not seem to be at all related to my tinnitus.
This thing where the datalist options show in the keyboard is some recent thing, i.e. a few months ago. It used to be "normal" before that, but I guess someone wanted to change things only for the sake of changing things
Exactly, although I think some journalists are complicit because they like being able to write impressive sounding headlines.

Another example is anytime more money is spent/received on/for something that ever before, and the effect of inflation is being ignored.
ePaper - maybe not unpopular here
The numbers are pretty grim though. Apple is taking market share in desktop and mobile, so I'd put my money on Safari.
That doesn't seem like a solution to a DDoS attack that is automatically mitigated .
If you are comfortable maybe I could take a look at your resume. Not getting ANY response from employers is unusual. Perhaps part of the problem is US/EU companies don't want to hire Philippine residents directly, especially if they don't have a presense there. You might be better off working for a Philippine firm that contracts with US/EU companies.
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# Never hang up.
Just don't talk..leave the phone on, though. They are paid to scam, snd to scam you need information from the recipient - no talking = no income.

You'll end up on a blacklist (as a timewaster!).
But a good one to be on.
I'm sure you can understand why translating "I love you" to "I love you, bitch" is probably undesierable.
AAA estimates 220 million flat tires annually in the US.[0]

The existence of spare tires has nothing to do with poor observed reliability. It is because of lack of 100% reliability. It's because when people get a flat, they don't want to be stuck and have to be towed. They want to be able to do something about it and get back on the road. All my flats have happened not because I lacked TPMS sensors but because something poked right through. Low tire pressure only accounts for 15% of flats. [1]

If you work for AAA, then sure, trying to convince people to get rid of their spares makes sense. But waiting around for AAA doesn't sound like a fun plan for me, especially when they won't be able to put a spare on for me, but will have to tow me somewhere.

[0]: https://cluballiance.aaa.com/public-affairs/press-release
[1]: https://tiregrades.com/buying-guides/how-many-flat-tires-per...
You don't need to be particularly wealthy to own a single engine prop plane. My contractor who I had a decade or two ago flew one and, while successful enough, it's fair to describe him as working middle class.
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Radio buttons would work better.
This seems like a game-changer for automation. Great idea!
Is that a visible option somewhere or do you only have one setting, the preset?
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That describes me. Don't take downvotes as a remark on your position. I pass them out to anything that doesn't raise the level of discussion.

I also hand them out to every top ancestor comment that uses the word 'downvote', for the same reason.
Ada is awesome! One of the greatest languages. Should be much more popular.
> It took me a while to fully grasp this because, in my experience, much of the software being built never really gets to production, at least not at a significant scale.

If you work for organizations where most of the software built is never used, you have two options: influence your organization to greatly improve their efficiency, or look for a better place to work.
Lightweight often just translates to less features. Unless you're rewriting a truly bad piece of software, you're "lightweight" alternative will be just as heavyweight when you're done reimplementing everything
That is not correct. Once the energy cost goes below a certain level, it simply is no longer important compared to other factors like human resources, tax, infrastructure,... .

Example: If the kWh/h costs 2 cent in Germany and only 1 cent in country X, that 100% difference would not matter, even for the most energy hungry industries.
I wonder how inefficient web apps contribute to carbon emissions