skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And replace it with what? The scary part of suggestions of “tear it all down” is how do we know that the replacement will be any better? In the grand scheme of things the West is in a state of abundance and luxury. Much more so than the communist experiments ever achieved. Additionally global poverty has been trending down for decades. While global literacy has greatly increased.

The key strength of a free-market seems to be that it assumes people will act in their own self interest and it creates a space where we can a get a roughly ‘win-win’ situation. That while you act in your self interest both you and the community are rewarded. So starting a bakery would give you a financial reward and others baked goods at a competitive price. Assuming that changing the system will force people to stop acting in their self interest seems to be how alternatives go wrong.
I think the argument is "remove 3rd-party analytics because it is not worth the downsides".
The scroll-jacking images are disorienting. Kind of reminds me of some of the more egregious scrolly-telling visualizations.
How Do I Learn?
I always wonder how to approach the study of a subject, such as Mathematics, for example. I want to self-learn it, but I'm unsure of how to begin. Which books should I read, and where can I find them? With hundreds of books available, I aim to learn in a sequential and progressive manner, starting from arithmetic and progressing to the graduate level. Similarly, for biology, I am uncertain about where to start and how to proceed. What books should I read to cover the subject comprehensively from beginning to end?
Readers may enjoy Flowpipe [1], an open source cloud scripting engine we launched this week. It allows creation of pipelines in HCL to connect HTTP queries, run containers, execute lambda-compatible functions, query databases, etc all from your own machine / CLI. It can also be combined with Steampie[2], our open source project to query cloud resources (139+ plugins) with SQL. We're more DevOps focused, but Yahoo Pipes was part of the inspiration for our naming of these "pipes" :-)

1 - https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe
2 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe
Robostorm
During the M2 series Apple had a node disadvantage compared to AMD and Apple was still ahead.

Being the first to buy 3nm doesn't prove what was initially claimed.
TIL. Cross-posting breaks silos
I'd be wary of programmatic lists that claim to track the most important/popular recent papers. There's a ridiculous amount of hype/propaganda and citation hacking surrounding new AI research, making it hard to discern what will truly stand the test of time. Tomas Mikolov just posted about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38654038
He was talking about the background, not the foreground.

The difference is in color around the edges of the picture in the background change noticeably on a non-fullscreen image on my Android 12 device.
Would it be too optimistic to say that if we can create realistic videos of anyone doing anything, the general public will not believe in videos as evidence anymore anyway? And so it wouldn't matter soon, except it would matter for a different thing, namely we'll lose the ability to use legit videos as evidence of anything.

On the other hand, it has been possible for an extremely long time (millenia) already to create text of anyone doing anything, and in general it seems we can still trust text mostly (and can distinguish somewhat well between false and reputable textual sources), so maybe it's all reputation based, also for video in the future.
There isn't just one way, so there isn't just one source. Depending on where you're at in your knowledge, YC has some good content to start with.

A newsletter I started checking out recently is Last Money In, which is for those interested in joining syndicates. So far, the newsletter I've found most useful is this one on how VCs evaluate pre/seed stage investments: https://lastmoneyin.beehiiv.com/p/vcs-evaluate-startups-part... But you have to subscribe to read that.

There's also this deck I've had bookmarked (not sure when it was made) by Jyri Engeström explaining early-stage VC for founders: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117ezrVxa9pwzBD7rbCv4...

One thing I'd caution is while it's good to read a bit to get some familiarity, don't paralyze yourself with consuming endless content. Just put in the work to make a deck and start pitching. That way, you at least have some experience to hang your learning on.

In terms of targeting VCs, think of it as who you could have great conversations with about your core competency/opportunity. That'll help you target the right ones who are most likely to get it, and the conversations will help you get a better idea of who you'd like to work with.
Ruff is better than flake8 for reasons other than speed.

1) it works better as an lsp/vscode plugin, so I don't need to save to get errors popping up.
2) it respects pyproject.toml and doesn't need to liter my root dir with another dot file.
3) as an intangible, its errors just feel better.
Houston, We Have a Problem
> I can clearly imagine a world without them

A world without cheap solar panels, cheap batteries, cheap electric vehicles, 3G/4G/5G internet, e-commerce and digital banking, and an industrialized China, Vietnam, and India.

That is the second order impact Apple has had due to their massive economy of scale
Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
So cool, good luck in the marriage, you made a very cool thing!!
Not very difficult. Mask alignment is harder, soldering physics takes place once the oven temps begin and (usually) keeps things locked-down.
Why not?

(Is this about effectiveness, training time, forgetting, or something else?)
Find me a decent Android phone with a screen around 5" and I will!
This site: "Lord Thiel has commanded me to build monopolies."

Also this site: "Apple is an evil monopolist."
Note that 30-100TB/day is mostly copies of pirated copies of movies, getting re-encrypted each time so you have to pay someone to get the encryption key and to avoid detection.

If you want text groups, it must be a lot lower.
On a similar subject: Reverse engineering of a Kindle e-Ink display. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1605/1605.05174.pdf
Many tech workers don't think they're getting the training they need
In your website, you say that your code is open source but I can't find a github repo. I would love to see how you did the text manipulation code.
> Only lint files that have changed? How hard that is?

Quite hard, especially since type-aware rules from e.g. https://typescript-eslint.io/ mean that changing the type of a variable in file A can break your code in file B, even if file B hasn't changed.
> If the recent history of tech is anything to go by, the most popular in-practice use case will be porn

Recent history? I’m pretty sure as soon as the camera was invented, someone took a nude picture with it.
I haven't tested it, but I imagine it allows you to trick an FTP server into making an HTTP request (without TLS).

It probably seemed like a good idea at the time, and there was no way to know the problems without trying it.

It also allows you to send a command to cancel an ongoing transfer.
ooops. Missed that typo.
These appear to be same packaging format but different installers. Not uncommon these days.

I am a junior developer writing a side project in Golang which probably no one on the internet sees, and there are 3 ways to install it already.

1. Compiled executable

2. Language package manager (go install)

3. Docker image (super trivial to create a distroless docker image).

Same can be said of many python tools (pip, pipx, docker image, homebrew or whatever)

It's not that we are doing more work. It's just that we have more tools these days. :)
I think anything that ends ecological destruction and rising CO2 levels will be better than what we have now. We will just have to be brave and work within such a new system instead of being scared children surrounded by our technology.

We have solved nuclear fission power, created vaccines for COVID, and went to the moon. Surely we can go back to a world of greater sustainability than now.

Plenty of older societies had more strict regulations to soften the devastating effects of the free market. At the very least we should reinstitute customs that prevent unfettered economic growth and more sustainable population levels.
This site has more than one user, and those users have different opinions. Who knew?
thank you. i'm doing a Master's at a legit engineering school, and literally just had an assignment to survey AI and its underlaying tech, and even then I hadn't heard this acronym.
Why Are UK Workers Paid Less Than Europeans? [video]
Ask HN: How do I learn? Help, I'm having anxiety about this
I always wonder how to approach the study of a subject, such as Mathematics, for example. I want to self-learn it, but I'm unsure of how to begin. Which books should I read, and where can I find them? With hundreds of books available, I aim to learn in a sequential and progressive manner, starting from arithmetic and progressing to the graduate level. Similarly, for biology, I am uncertain about where to start and how to proceed. What books should I read to cover the subject comprehensively from beginning to end?

This thing is causing anxiety within me because subjects are long and too many things to read but I'm not even getting started.
> On the one hand I'm disappointed, just like you

What exactly is the disappointment? That they also target adults?
I don't agree with that analysis, any of that is happening, with or without them. We live in a consumer-first society and consumer needs are what are driving changes. Companies helping towards this direction are getting benefits and others are left behind.
Personally, I can't remember the last time I was actually trained by my employer: there has always been the expectation that I will train myself -- and on my own time. Some previous employers have paid for books or online training but not time on the clock to learn.
Jai is 10 years old and it isn't even released publicly
Yes on the first question, no on the second question.
This post is a few years old (https://alexfmac.substack.com/p/angel-investing-a-toolkit-) but it tackles your question from the Angel Investing side.

If by "fundraising", you mean you are an investor raising funds to invest in startups, then the above has myriad links for you to explore.

If by "fundraising", you mean you are a startup raising money, then the above could still be helpful to understand what the other side of the table will be looking at when you approach them with your company.
Show HN: We made a beautiful illustrated book on Bitcoin
Hey HN,

For several years we tried to convince our relatives and friends of the importance of Bitcoin and its implications in their daily lives. We unfortunately failed to convince many of them :-)

Having both of us had children recently, we came up with a last attempt at presenting Bitcoin. We decided to bring to life a book about Bitcoin that was as accessible as possible, featuring easy-to-understand concepts supported by beautiful illustrations.

A book illustrated as one for children, explaining in the simplest possible terms the key ideas behind Bitcoin. We also wanted this book to be very quick to read for those that have little time available (or patience).

This is how The Illustrated Guide to Bitcoin was born!

We just released it today, it comes only in large physical format to appreciate at best its illustrations. We'll test it as a gift to our friends for this coming Xmas and we would really appreciate any feedback you might have!

We would be super happy if it helps to orange pill your friends and family :-)

Andrea & Ferdinando
Right. When I saw "Debian kernels ranging from 2.6.32-21 to 2.6.32-24..." I was like, uhhhh.

Someone should change the title of the HN post to say 2011.
Programming is no more a game than arithmetic is a game when doing math. It is a means to an end.
I couldnt figure out how to scroll them the first time around
I’ve got an iPhone. It’s for moral and epistemological reasons that I don’t want be reduced to a servomechanism of a global information system.

At least not 24/7. I’m happy to submit myself to silly nonsense for a paycheck, which is pretty close to the definition of having a job!

I’m also a songwriter and I need to be observing the real world and not the mediated representation. It’s my job to create the mediated representation! And with killer guitar solos!
September 11th That You Have Never Seen
Just get a news reader and pay money for a usenet provider. (They cost money because 99.99% of usenet traffic is pirated movies and providers know that and optimize for that bandwidth-heavy use case)

And hope the provider actually carries text groups and not only pirate movie groups.
That's a lot of layers with different thermal expansion coefficients and conductivity. How do they cool all this?
Switch to desktop mode, open a “konsole” terminal, and run “python3”. External keyboard recommended — it is, after all, a programming language interpreter.
The Butlerian Jihad?
This makes me wonder, what’s the iMessage situation in Japan? Their smartphone market is also majority iOS, sitting at above 60% (while it is only a little bit above 50% for the US)[0].

Despite that, I am yet to hear about their version of the whole “blue bubble exclusion” controversy. It could definitely be just due to the japanese users not being super active on western internet, and not necessarily due to that controversy not being a thing in Japan. But it could just be a non-issue in Japan.

Can anyone with knowledge of this chime in?

0. https://www.pcmag.com/news/ios-more-popular-in-japan-and-us-...
Have you tried asking ChatGPT to help explain the notation? I haven't tried that myself, but have read that it can work[0].

[0]: https://medium.com/@eric.christopher.ness/get-an-explanation...
The problem with isochrones: overcoming false precision in drive time maps
Say what you want about the "rewrite in rust" meme, but it really seems that rust started a trend of really caring about performance in everyday tools.
Deepfake videos aren’t covered by existing libel law?
Compatibility with eslint. They implement the most common eslint rules and looks like esling config support is WIP.
Thank you to all the Firefox on Android developers! Ads on mobile Make the platform basically unusable without blockers.
I hope this email finds you well
Shameless plug (my apologies it's my second this week ) - but we recently released our $80 headset. It's a plastic headset, with two bluetooth controllers, that you put your phone into 'Google Cardboard style'. We've released a Spatial TV app that lets you view spatial videos straight away. https://www.zappar.com/zapbox/
I have Apple devices that are allowed to use iMessage including some that I don't use. If my computer can impersonate one of them to allow me to message from my workstation that's success.
If it's available for public download, then someone else can do it if they have the demand. I wouldn't ask archive.org to tie up their resources when they're already struggling with lawsuits.
I don't think I've ever been trained. I'm so used to just getting put in front of an unknown project and made to figure it out, it's my default for any employer.
To be fair the AST structure can also be implemented more efficiently without better control over memory layout. The JS ecosystem standardized on polymorphic ASTs, which in retrospect seems dumb, but is not a result of any fundamental limitation in JS.

E.g. in ESTree evaluating such a common expression as `node.type` is actually really expensive -- it incurs the costs of a hashmap lookup (more or less) where you'd expect it to be able to be implemented using pointer arithmetic.
I am confused by the statement about "frames", where each design team gets a limited amount of "new" bricks they are able to introduce. Yet all of the internaly come in all colors available.

This, the colourful internals, are what defines lego for me nowadays. I wonder: had they kept the system of gray and black axels, one for even length unit one for odd, and the standardized blue and black pins while keeping every other part the default black, would they have more frames available for "custom" parts?

In my mind having two blue bricks where there should only be one is unacceptable for the price that lego is inevitably going to charge.
i dont think spe says that humans are evil, rather than humans are, largely equal. It all depends on outside factor rather than something endogenous.
At the time of the experiment, there isn't really such a thing as the ethics of social psychology research. Strict, formal ethics rules appeared after this.
I disapprove of the European Arrest Warrant. The power of arrest should be subject to local judicial control. A Romainian court should not be able to order the arrest of a British citizen, in Britain, without first convincing a British court that a British law has been violated. If the British citizen violated a Romanian law in Romania, that's not a matter for an international arrest warrant; it's a matter of extradition.

But I'm not surprised to learn that German prosecutors are under the control of the Ministry of Justice; bringing a prosecution is normally a prerogative of the government. It's direct control of the judiciary that I find scary.

Does Germany have an inquisitorial judicial system like France? In France, AIUI they use "Investigating Magistrates", who are both prosecutor and judge, and who direct police investigations. Acquittal seems improbable in such circumstances. Resistance is useless!
AFAIK all the major usenet providers except for EternalSeptember (which is for discussion) are just download sites for pirated movies. That's why they don't know about moderated groups, and why they have the price structure they do.
Minimally that’s a few million dollars per year for KTLO. At least a few million more for ongoing development. Why should it be free for everyone?
I read Brad Feld's book and it let me keep up in a few conversations about fundraising. From it, I also derived my own perspective on how fundraising stages drive product decisions, and which in turn drive day to day company engineering culture. https://www.venturedeals.com/

My own view is your engineering management culture is driven by your fundraising activities, and whether they are aware of it or not. Where you are in your board members portfolios (vintage and age of fund, etc) decides how much tech debt (leverage) you will be required to produce, whether you're focused on marquee clients to land the next round, or blowing cash on perks to attract talent, being oddly generous with equity without a view of other prefs and dilution, looking for acquisitions, packaging up your tech for a sale, etc.

Imo, the Feld book gives you the foundational tools to intuit what your founders/execs have to do to survive in the stage the company is in.
Do you have numbers to back up your claim? Seems like you're just citing a tiny amount of anecdotal data. You're also talking about an inferior (heavier, worse screens) device and assuming that the same experience will be true on the Vision Pro.
Lack of competition has actually been shown to reduce innovation, not increase it.
No one is asking them to do feature dev or even support for other platforms. They are asking them not to _shut out_ other platforms if others want to do the work.
> Filtering will kill the utility of these products. Something like a legal practice is messy business that the filter won’t like.

I’ve been trying to apply all the big name LLMs to analyze court opinions from the Caselaw project and holy mother of god, it’s all but useless in the most ridiculous way.

Criminal cases are almost universally guaranteed to trip up at least one of their safety filters. There’s some truly awful stuff in there… which is kinda the point of having an LLM read this stuff.
RAG to Riches
How do we verify/trust chain of custody of, idunno, "Mark Zuckerberg calling for the killing of all lefthanded people"?

What I think will happen is that it'll be like what we have now but worse: some podcaster will make an offhanded remark about Mark Zuckerberg "saying some horrible stuff about lefthanded people" causing frantic TikToks about that it means killing lefthanded people, all based on a supposed "secretly recorded video" that no one can validate due to all of the noise.
xsnow even works well under Windows WSL. The whole screen was full with snowflakes, birds, etc.

Impressive that the X11 XShape (Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension) works so well.
I can only get isopropyl alcohol to clean cannabis glass by quick and easy dissolution if I warm the glass and the alcohol beforehand. Warm 99% alcohol absolutely destroys cannabis waxes.
Most people don't have the discipline to learn advanaced math without a university setting. But if you really want to try, you can look up university curriculum, see their course progression and see what books they use for each course.
There are many examples of people testing LLMs on which is worse, extinguishing all of humanity or making a racist comment in a place where no one will hear it. The LLMs keep choosing to extinguish humanity. Just something to consider when using "but it could say something racist" as justification for filtering. Is racism so evil that it's better to kill every human to avoid it ever happening? Maybe the only option in that case is to prohibit the existence of LLMs. We already have corporations in the role of powerful sociopaths preying on society, do we need LLMs looking to kill us all to satisfy its goals too?
Thanks for that one. I've been using HN in autopilot for so long I've been missing out on some of the extra features HN offers. Thanks again!
Usenet was good for file sharing back when newzbin indexing existed. Is there anything around like that today?
> Photography as art will never be truly changed by new technologies. Shooting film and developing it yourself is by far the most romantic way to practice the art of photography. It is timeless.

This is a very weird assertion given how photography changed just in the film era moving from slow monochrome to faster to slow color and fast B/W, etc. People played with motion blur, lens flare and other distortion effects, color cast and film grain, various darkroom effects, etc.

The only constant I remember were people saying that something new wasn’t capable of art, only to be disproven by artists who learned what it was good for. I’m still skeptical that the Vision Pro will be compelling at the price but I’m absolutely certain someone will make something mindblowing with the technology.
NoCode, AI, and the Future of Software Entrepreneurship
There are only two hard problems in software development: naming, cache invalidation, and not having Copilot hallucinate a third thing.
Well ahead of the golden disk then.
Ask HN: What are your favorite courses that you finished this past year?
If I cared about archive image quality (and I do), I wouldn't re-compress older images in a new format unless I could do so from uncompressed originals. Re-encoding from a lossy compressed source will make quality worse. Storage is cheap and getting cheaper.

What would make sense is choosing safe settings for compressing new photos in the new format.
I support this product that uses off the shelf nvidia GPUs to do <thing> on the computer they use for <big machine>. I see a lot of IT deps and MSPs asking if they can use AMD gpus because apparently a lot of dells come with em or something. I always have to tell them no and to just buy a P1000 or one of the other cheapo quadros instead and I hate it.
I have met people that will do this, and trust me, they are worth avoiding.
previous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38624344
CVE-2023-48795