skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"loved it for all the wrong reasons"

What? It sounds like you don't actually support the basis of Community Notes and were looking for it to be used selectively. No. Power to the people. Not power to the the bloated team that was on rails to destroy Twitter. I fucking loved the "print your code from the last 30 days" imitative in its crude efficiency. With that team, Twitter/X wouldn't exist in any form anymore even without the takeover.
- SP500 down near 3,000$

- Bitcoin crash

- Fed will stimulate during stock declining and inflation will raise again

- Google search traffic will decline caused by ChatGPT
Not long ago, Xi said, "Right now there are changes, the likes of which we haven't seen for 100 years..."

I think he's referring to the establishment of BRICS and neutral settlement, and he sees the days of the dollar(petrodollar) as waning. But there are huge ramifications to that.

The coming year could end up being note-worthy.
Sounds like it has great potential as an experience in VisionPro, that is, if it's connected to a live (though not necessarily exclusive use) balloon drone.
Title is misleading as far as I can tell - this is a gap filler, not regrowth. Anything like this probably wears out in weeks at best too.

Any time you read an article like this, always remember the context - we can't re-attach a nail to a nail bed, grow a hair follicle, repair enamel, repair arteries, or make cartilage regrow. Anything we can do is generally a mechanical intervention (i.e. the few organ transplants we can do with good outcomes).
Chinese garlic is a 'national security' risk, says US senator
I only once saw proper „knowledge“ documentation working in a german company which had a strict waterfall methodology. When project started, we spent at least 1/3 of the time writing documentation and specification first, then code. Onboarding was a breeze and when corona hit - nothing has changed, we could operate as usual too. I also had to overtake a domain of another engineer who was leaving, the handover was minimal, as everything was written down.
I am serious! In an ideal world, Twitter/X would have more legitimate advertisers to keep the platform running, and also would have adequate content moderation that quickly got rid of the scams, through some combination of tech and human oversight. They are, and I am not debating that, doing pretty badly at that currently -- I get a few of the scam ads daily, ranging from misleading freemium games (sketchy) to sites faking local news publications and public figures to advertise financial scams (downright criminal fraud wherever you decide to draw that line).

But, looked at separately, allowing users to put notes under paid-for (!) ads pointing out issues with them is pretty remarkable. Tech gets a lot of flak for bowing to advertisers in the name of $$$, but here it is the users who have some power to set misleading ads straight, with zero influence by the advertiser in question. That is laudable, even if in an ideal world this would be unnecessary, or at least less load-bearing in terms of preventing fraud!
I don't think that American electoral systems allow proper accountability of political leaders. That isn't a criticism of democracy, it's a criticism of a two-party system with no ability for change from the outside.
I continue to be surprised at the sheer number of people on HN who are more enraged at the victims for their "stupidity" than at the perpetrators (23andMe for ToS shenanigans and/or the hackers for the hack).
Maybe DM one of the founders (who has DMs open to everyone) https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward
Does either of you have a link, or screenshot? Hard to tell otherwise whether it was a scam ad promoting financial products online, or satire (that sounds dubious), or both.
Lol that surely can't be enforceable. Imagine "you agree to give us your kidney if you don't opt out within 30 days" sitting in your spam folder. How is this different?
Music is very important to me. So important that I never dared to trust streaming services. Not only do they require an internet connection (something that is not always available), but if the service experiences downtime, license changes, etc., that music is not available.

If I'm going to spend my money on music, I'm going to spend it on music in a form that isn't reliant on the ongoing operation of some service somewhere. I want to add it to my collection so I can actually listen to it anytime and anywhere.
Holdover of them being obsessed with SMS for some reason too.

I remember having to pay 20c per SMS and 50c per MMS before IMs on phones became a thing. Wasn't hard for literally everyone to want to change to the first available client which for most people was WhatsApp, 2 years before iMessage was even released. Guess messaging was so cheap in the US that they didn't have a good enough reason to hop on the IM train for years.
Ok fine, then to quote the parent to whom I was responding, “Rust advocates.”

I am willing to bet that most of those “Rust advocates” are programmers who code in Rust but I’m fine with not calling them that. I agree that good programmers should be able to work in different languages, operating systems, countries.
That's kinda good it means whatever privacy steps you're taking are working
*The artist formerly known as Facebook
How do you keep your wiki from evolving into a kludge of random-ish info?

One example of tacit knowledge is knowing the Dell T420s Tower Servers have very poor cooling for the raid controllers and often, this can cook them over time, requiring replacement or, at least repasting the heatsink.

Now imagine 100s of those little tidbits. Useful, but hard to categorize.
> It seems that we've entered the rent-seeking phase of corporate capitalism.

Doctorow's word "Enshittification" (which, amazingly, has a rather filled in Wikipedia page now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification ) captures it quite well.
>The court documents state that Brody's employment was terminated after he violated company policies by connecting a USB drive containing pornography to company computers.

And this is why you have one laptop for work, and one for personal stuff, and never use your work laptop as your personal laptop.
I'm in my early 60's, I guess when I was young I'd have called me elderly. I however, have been a technologist since I was around 9 years old, got it from my Dad. I'd say most my age even if not into technology aren't averse to it or unaware of it. But, there are definitely some elderly who really don't get technology at all and there are some in their 20's who are the same way. Those individuals need to be protected. The onus should be on the corporation more than the individual; not solely on the individual.
Is gaming big among tech people and software engineers?

I did (while 18 and younger) play video games for most days of my life, with it being the main thing I did on holidays and also after school on school days, but I kind of lost interest for the most part after I turned 19 (not looking down on others who play them at all).

I remember my university (for tech fields like CS) had a room for LAN parties and also had a Discord (mostly a gaming-related chat platform?) set up by one lecturer for informal chat.

I'm not entirely sure what relationship our industry (most here are coders in some capacity?) has with gaming and would like to see others' thoughts.
No, the one-inside-a-circle symbol does not indicate a toggle between off and on, as this article "surmises".

Instead, it indicates stands by. This is off, but not fully off as a circle would suggest. It's nearly on. The symbol is great for that.

On a push button it means activate stand by or come back out of it (i.e., turn back on fully). Still fair enough.

Unfortunately, this knowledge has watered down over time. I've seen that symbol used more than once for a button that only turns on a device (never back to stand by). That's pretty much the opposite of its original meaning.
The structures I’m talking about are along the lines of “if you have schizophrenia and don’t have rich parents then you probably will never be able to afford meaningful treatment”. Just to pick one.

I know it’s tempting to assume everyone else is just morally bankrupt and hedonistic because they’re flawed, but I implore you to be more empathetic to their situation. I PROMISE you, homelessness is not fun, it does not feel good in any way, and no one in their right mind would ever “choose” to “take more and more drugs” knowing that was the endpoint.
I live 20 minutes outside of a major US city. The fastest I can get for home service is 20/1. It's terrible. I use my cell phone half the time.

I hate what we've become. Maybe we were always this way.
Some users are saying years but could it really be that long?

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/14286582?sjid=464734...
I think it is entirely realistic that some big or prominent companies will start to go away if there isn't large crisis which leads to drastic dropping of the rates...
>> Because the cases customarily settle out of court or are withdrawn, “there’s no real vetting of these strategies for identifying infringers,” Pearlman told me. “So the flaws in these identification systems are never exposed and this cycle continues indefinitely.”

The same happens every day in every criminal court, when prosecutors throw lots of bullshit charges at defendants to motivate a plea deal. Maybe that's an effective way to reach roughly the right result without a trial, but it's still wrong.
Deuce and a half
The amount of fake and useless generated videos exploded after Google removed dislike numbers.
I guess it depends on the kind of games you like or follow. For example, the Elder Scrolls last release, Skyrim (2011), has been milked and re-released seven times, the last one in 2021. Meanwhile the fans keep expecting an Elder Scrolls VI soon(TM).

There are good new games, but there is also a growing attitude in big game studios to low-risk cash in old franchises.
That is simply not true. Subscriptions are at best at ~20% but lookin up. And yes they do actually pay bills, no landlord would have had them pause that for this long lol
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can I use ffmpeg to embed a gif in a Hacker News comment, because I want that so much right now
All true -- which is what makes Bandcamp such a treasure. Download the flac and you have it forever (or a reasonable approximation of that).
Bleacher Report gutting out OTP
Yes, yours specifically, but what if I want like 200.000 people so I can find one that has a DNA profile similar to mine, who could serve as a escape-goat or victim?

Maybe I want to steal a kidney, or a child that could reasonably pass as my own?
As long as it costs tens of thousands of dollars to trench to a single home; and as long as aerial utilities remain the least regulated, but somehow still not sensibly regulated, you cannot deliver fiber cheaply to Californians.
they mention that in TFA ^^
There's like not one but multiple microgenres of music you could likely cobble together just out of working musicians' songs complaining about the music industry. In the modern world, probably the by-the-numbers majority of working artists in every medium can effectively self-publish to some degree or another, so as the intermediaries have grown more and more demanding and both creator- and consumer-hostile, they have also become less of a necessary evil for our ability to engage with the works creative people are putting out into the world. Piracy is the most natural and reasonable way to use current technology to consume media, and the massively successful propaganda campaigns to instill a folk belief that it's somehow wrong or doing harm are incredible, given how much quality of life for both the producers and consumers of the actual content is lost in the name of marginal gains in profitability and massive gains in control by intermediary conglomerates that are increasingly unnecessary. It is only by a combination of this mythology and the ever-tighter industry collusion with an increasingly authoritarian surveillance state to make laws to terrorize people who just want their music that this parasitic shape the industry has taken is surviving

To me, the notion that a transferrable market-monopoly ownership of intellectual rights to a creative work was ever about helping creators is the kind of ridiculous farce that people like economists can get away with because we've been trained to believe that fancy experts saying counterintuitive things about "incentives" must know something we don't, but even if you believe intellectual property has value, it is not of value for massive corporations to sit on a chokepoint between human beings and their access to their own cultural touchstones
And this is one why US engineers are paid way more. Good luck doing that in Europe.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38427864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38431743

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562726
Magalu Cloud
The pub was failing and the CEO took an innovation risk that in its near outcome changes the economics of a dying business. He should be admired not fired.
> I consider such economic figures to be at best a very loose correlate to quality of life, and thus essentially irrelevant.

I don't know any better proxy. The correlation may be loose, but there isn't any better or simpler alternative.

>Because the vast majority of Americans have no idea how much better life can be in Europe, especially for average people.

For fun vacations? Yes, because it's cheap, like Mexico.

Good living and working conditions? No, we have it better. The "average people" care they can grab some cheap yet tasty food at anytime, have objects they order delivered quickly for cheap, work some not-too-awful job during the day to save for their children, and sleep safe at night, far from wars.

The unemployment rate in Europe is concerning: even with a generous social safety net, people may grow unhappy if they can't find meaning in life.

I'm not concerned about Europeans who can post on HN (they may be in the top percentiles of their country) I'm concerned about those who can't, and can't even have the American dream.

> I don't need any external evidence. I have personal experience living in both places.

Then It's a good thing you don't need external evidence, because it all goes against your personal anecdotal experience!
I remember my postdoc mentor telling me this anecdote about another student of his PhD advisor:

"He published this result in this journal, which later disappeared. And I mean it literally, it was printed on acid paper which dissolved in the air over time."

Fortunately, that paper was digitized, I could download it.
Archive in case it's deleted: https://archive.ph/nX6zx
In summary, Ada tries to be memory safe by default -- as far as that can be done without requiring automatic memory management and garbage collection -- but deliberate use of "unchecked" language features can break memory safety.

In other words, if you go out of your way to use unsafe features, and don't use the features that compensate, Ada is memory unsafe. This has become the goto dismissal of Ada, apparently more popular than "eww...a BEGIN..END language" and "designed by committee/government tainted".
they probably are. From what the article says, the lawsuits are actually more lucrative than the actual films they make.
Ah, we're having some classic goalpost moving!

> Because refactoring requires understanding, which LLMs completely lack.

<demonstration that an LLM can refactor code>

> Cleaning up code also follows some well established patterns, performance work is much less pattern-y.

Just as writing shitty react apps follow patterns, low-level performance and concurrency work also follow patterns. See [0] for a sample.

> I bet you need 10 or 100 times more understanding

Okay, so a 10 or 100 times larger model? Sounds like something we'll have next year, and certainly within a decade.

> One day maybe AI can do it, but it probably won't be LLM. It would be something which can understand symbols and math.

You do understand that the reason some of the earlier GPTs had trouble with symbols and math was the tokenization scheme, completely separate from how they work in general, right?

[0]: C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading 1st Edition https://www.amazon.com/C-Concurrency-Action-Practical-Multit...
I was going to say they're synonymous; checked Wiktionary which calls it 'nonstandard' for sliver, though common in the UK (where I am from and live) blaming 'th fronting'.

I assume that's the name for, ahem, 'that is just anovver word for it'.
I'd love to see E3 in the future be a more community driven event with a focus on A/AA games. People still want to see and attend these events, and there's tons and tons of good games that get released every year that go unnoticed.
> Section 230 does not protect text editor software doing spellchecking.

Thats because it is pretty clear that it is the users publishing the content.

If someone wants to make a law that says that all generative AI is created by the user, and therefore only the user is liable for the content, and therefore its not related to section 230, then great that would be an amazing law.

Only someone publishing the generative content should be liable, and then we can not worry about all this section 230 stuff, by just giving complete immunity to the tools creators. Just like how photoshop isn't liable for the stuff that is built using photoshop.

Problem solved.
I think being able to steal a language model that can instruct you on things like the notes of every meeting, employee relationships, back-channel drama, security discussions, etc. and how these things relate to corporate and technical assets, all contained in a single artifact/tarball, really ups the ante for what kind of "security hardening" you'd need for this.

Even exfiltration of API access for a few well-prompted queries could be really bad.
I voted for 110. I regret it now. An idea I have in my darker moments, which as I said in another comment here are becoming more frequent... Is that we should have single occupancy rooms where drugs are provided to people and they can get high as much as they want so long as they stay put there. As soon as they want to stop, support swoops in and gets them in a system. If they want to go back, they are free to do so.
Although your critique is reminiscent of some of the worst quotes from Sam Bankman Fried, I was intrigued, until you praised Pennac and Nothomb. Nothomb is a big bag of nothing. Pennac is nice and funny and is part of the readings I have been recommending to my kids, but he's not in the same league as Flaubert. In fact it's not even the same sport.

It's possible you disliked Flaubert because it was compulsory. Same thing happened to me with Stendhal. If so, may I suggest you try again.
They probably use a custom solution. (Bank nonsense)
Also, why would computers eldct a leader? Surely they couldn't just vote on everything?
Was just arguing with my father whether the difficulty in transplanting TSMC was due to tacit knowledge or missing documentation. I argued that an automated process failing to run would inherently be missing documentation but I'm curious to see what kind of tacit information would be involved here.
Many applications such as banking applications are only available in the official app store.
Beavers were considered a pest in Canada as well, to the point of being the main antagonist in several indigenous myths
thanks for the honesty, it makes me feel so much less worse about having days where my productivity is not peak
Biodegradation is very much a function of conditions. Wood is biodegradable, but a well built house can avoid biodegradation for hundreds of years. Wood-framed windows are just fine with, in my experience, two caveats:

1. Rainwater needs to drain, even from gnarly little spaces like where the glass meets the wood. If the exterior wood is painted, then the paint needs to be maintained.

2. Interior humidity can and will condense onto the glass if the interior dewpoint is higher than the surface temperature. This can be hard to avoid in cold climates, especially if there are insulating window coverings over the glass. That condensation can drip onto the wood frame. (And, worse, could go through it into the wall cavity. It’s rather rare for the inside of a wall to be waterproofed and flashed like the outside ought to be.)

If I were building in a cold climate, I would stick with moisture-insensitive window frames. (Although aluminum, which can be quite pretty, has terrible thermal performance.)
>Why the need to fork it, though?

Because you want it to behave differently than it does? It seems you are the one who wants things different, are complaining because they are not. Lucky for you, this is open source, and you can go ahead and fork it and change what you don't like!
I find that "figuring it out on my own" takes a bit longer, but I learn a LOT of answers to alot of other things I didn't know I needed.

"If I walk into a bookstore and you help me find the book I'm looking for, then You've robbed me of the opportunity to find all the books I wasn't looking for"
-- paraphrasing Neil Tyson
how come people with sliding rulers and navigation computers 'knitted' by local grannies have lost 0 Saturn rockets.

But now an explosion is an expected outcome for your million dollar hardware.

That approach works in software dev.
I'm new to web-dev (and databases), so my apologies for the potentially silly question, but what's an example situation where you would use nested aggregates and what kind of effort would it save, if it were possible?
Presumably threat actors can already feed stolen document dumps to LLMs to quickly find interesting data.
Frontier (ex-verizon fios) did this. They buried the fiber in the community but no one got mailings until it was ready to "pre-order". Time from pre-order to live service was roughly 3 months and it was stated on the flyer that it was a pre-order and service activation dates were not guaranteed.
> connecting a USB drive containing pornography to company computers.

What is this, 2005?
Check out "A Tour of Elm" and start building SPAs with confidence
> The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (1978),

FISA is an example of what you are arguing against, unless you are arguing that is a net increase in power because the restrictions on government power came packaged with a government power to prosecute government agents who violated the new limits, which is kind of silly.

(You may be confusing the 1978 act with the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the War on Terror act undercutting the FISA limits, which is kind of like confusing the 18th and 21st Amendments.)
Yep. A small tangent for anyone who has seen these: they’re very clearly not specifically enforceable. I got a window banged up by things falling off a truck with this signage, and the first thing they said when I called their “How Am I Driving” number the first thing they said was that they were not responsible citing this sign. Fortunately that sign was non binding. :)