skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello! Community loved Infinite craft game by Neal Agarwal posted here few days. And it is a great web game based on a great idea.

We know it is great because we had same one year ago and launched our game - Alchemic AI as a mobile game app.

Features:
- Mix up to 4 elements
- All elements has unique pics generated via DALL-E
- Elements have rarity levels
- Achievements
- Hints mechanics

Would be great to get some community feedback, still figuring out business model (decided to go with energy initially)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alchemic-ai-infinity-mix/id646...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hostelguys...
Hidden folder on his computer? A ".csam" folder or what do they mean? A CSAM criminal programmer that doesn't know to encrypt his CSAM? When being in jail?

I've always have had this nagging feeling CSAM is used as a way to frame people -- "4 the lolz" by that kind of people or targeted framing. Way too easy to manufacture a criminal.
This is the inevitable process of humanity's understanding of technology.
Something like this? http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?ipv6
The characters "u" and "n" have been unintentionally left out.
That doesn't seem right, for example this reddit thread (yeah, I know) says that ipv6 alb -> ipv4 target should work fine: https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1145bcw/dualstack_alb_...
I agree. There is a fine line between innovation and disruption. A culture of innovation can burn resources (and staff) quickly.
* 96% of U.S. temperature stations fail to meet what NOAA considers "acceptable" [pdf]
? why remove
Your original comment also was not in the spirit of the HN board.
I’ve done this a few times. A few years ago I got a call about some Microsoft Windows something or other and decided to play along. After 30min of hilariously bumbling through his steps I got on my high-horse and shamed them for hurting mostly vulnerable people, etc. For whatever reason, they didn’t hang up at my yapping and it evolved into an actual conversation. They talked about there not being any jobs, taking this one because it has the veneer a real tech support job and helped them practice English, earning enough so their young sibling(s) could attend school rather than work, long term career plans, etc. I half suspected I was being put on and would be hit up for money, but in the end we just thanked each other for sharing our perspectives and went on with our jobs. No real take away, but I still appreciate the small vignette into their daily life, or at least the story they told.
> No, ideas are worthless, anybody can come up an unlimited number of these ideas

If you're trying to create a commercial device, the idea is such tiny part of what it takes to deliver a successful product that it is close to worthless on its own.

But the context here is science fiction, where good ideas are a major part of it. (The other major parts are good characters and storytelling, but it's the ideas that distinguish science fiction from other kinds of fiction.)

So give the guy his due.

He looked ahead and tried to envision where technology was going, and, in this case anyway, pretty much nailed it 50 years out.
Please note: these houses you see online for 20k have problems. You aren't going to just be able to move in. Most of them need to be emptied of junk and repaired, if not completely renovated.

If you're lucky, the only problem will be that the house is very remote, and you need a car to get there. That alone is a substantial problem on a 6-month basis if you don't have residency. But realistically, houses that are in move-in state in an area where you'd actually want to live cost far more than $20k.
Can you imagine what it would do to the planet's productivity if there were that many actual Confluences? I mean, phew!
It's not flags (or not sufficient to remove the story):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231055
Let me drill down to Texas, where I am quite active. I have been privy to a conversation[1] with Governor Abbot where he described in detail his horse-trading to swap precincts between Congressional representatives in order to: (1) maximize the number of GOP seats; and, (2) ensure the 'safety' of the win of preferred US reps. Secondary goals include trying to pass (Texas) constitutional amendments to make the following things illegal in Texas: any voting system that's not first-past-the-post; at large proposition mechanisms; independent citizens redistricting committees; etc.

[1] This occurred while I waited in line to vote.
I like this point, the inflection point in the graph at the top of the post seems too strong to be "real" IMPO, seems more like an accounting problem as you say. Did a little digging and it does seem like this is a pretty legitimate criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox#2000_to_2...
Having coded in environments that would be considered tiny by modern standards, the constraints in Zachtronics' games don't meaningfully resemble real world constraints.
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Unauthenticated RCE [read comment first]
Concentric circles, or pie chart design would be problematic also.

The real problem with this strategy is that it accepts self-interested gerrymandering, rather than starting by rejecting it as wrong; immoral; anti-productive.
>Either way knowing how to communicate responsibly is part of a CEO's job, that's one of the reasons they get paid so much.

Dealing with people in management positions disabuses you of this notion.
Great comment! Thanks for engaging in this discussion and offering some good perspective about my Pandoc issues. Really appreciate it!
Not everyone has access to fiber internet or make enough money to be able to afford a space large enough where they can create a secluded "work only" space.
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That story is a bit dated. The California laws are forcing municipalities like SF to fix the review process and in fact a new plan was submitted in December and initially rejected before an updated plan was submitted at the end of December. The hope is that this fixes things and if it doesn’t SF is at risk of losing its zoning powers wholesale which may not be such a bad idea.
The xenophobic point hits home, as I've lived there for almost 5 years, and wasn't able to attain a single long/strong friendship with any japanese national. I am glad I had other foreigners there to mingle with, or I'd just be very, very alone.

Japan for tourism? Can't recommend further. Amazing country to visit, clean, safe, good food. They will be educated towards you in big cities like Tokyo etc.

Japan for living (specially if you're from an economy which they perceive as lower/poorer)? Avoid at all costs, you'll be treated as subculture forever.
That's not what the application is measuring:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231055
Note: I am linking to Packetstorm. Some corporate firewalls block this domain as it hosts proof of concept exploitation code. Some firewalls such as PAN consider this to be Potentially Unwanted Content. Use achive.is [1] if your Security Operations Center chases down these alerts.

I am posting this because I have been involved in the security review of this product a few times and would urge people to patch or replace. That is all I may disclose.

[1] - https://archive.is/59RMt
USSR simply ran out of resources to continue the war. They would have happily continued if they could have been able to afford it. In the end the country had dire deficit of even basic everyday items including food. But similarly to the Vietnam war it was not able to "sell" the losses to their own people, especially on the occupied territories (Soviet Republics), where it was seen as another Russian expansionist invasion.
I think they mean transcoding as an additional step upon already decoded frames.
>A better solution is to do neither

aka "degrowth"

That's a non-starter. Doing more is a given. The best we can do is to do more efficiently.

Doing more with datacenters is the reason US economic productivity/output has soared in the past 3 decades while per capita energy usage has been stagnant.
There's a municipal airport less than an hour drive from me that has a pinball machine from 1975. I'll have to check that out next time I drive through there.
Yeah me too and I also wouldn't flag them. I flag things that are false or misleading or just especially stupid.
U.S. house districts are like 700k persons. The local community knowledge is already not happening
How a Heavy Metal Drummer Just Made Elon Musk Lose $56B
C19: Lessons Learned from Registrational Trials and Global Vaccination Campaign
Take long lunches and get something done around the house. You're working at home. Might as well make it worth while. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Wash your car. It doesn't have to be about work 100% of the time. If/when you do this, block some time off in your calendar for it so nobody is trying to contact you during this time.
Discover Shieldskills.com: Your Free, Privacy-Focused Cybersecurity Training Hub
Hi HN,

I wanted to share a resource that caught my attention lately - https://shieldskills.com/ - an emerging platform in the cybersecurity education space.

What makes ShieldSkills stand out is its commitment to user privacy and accessibility:

Cookie-Free Experience: In a digital landscape where tracking is ubiquitous, ShieldSkills.com offers a learning environment devoid of cookies. You get to learn without the concern of being tracked.

Ad-Free Learning: It’s a breath of fresh air to see an educational platform not cluttered with ads, allowing for uninterrupted focus on the content that matters.

Absolutely Free: There's no paywall here. Every course, every video, every resource is available at no cost. This is especially notable for small businesses and individuals looking to bolster their cybersecurity knowledge without the financial burden.

The team at ShieldSkills seems to be highly active on LinkedIn, engaging with the community and sharing insights into cybersecurity trends. Moreover, they're committed to keeping the content fresh, with new videos added daily.

In the spirit of open learning, I thought this would be a valuable resource for anyone in the HN community looking to enhance their cybersecurity skills, or even for those who just want to stay informed about best practices to protect their digital assets.

It's always encouraging to see platforms that prioritize knowledge dissemination without compromising user privacy. Check it out, and maybe we can discuss the content quality and its potential impact on the cybersecurity learning community.
I think reading the top comment on that post provides plenty of explanation why users would flag that post. Perhaps you're trying not to understand.
> paper that you're citing is from 2022

It’s looking at 2015 to 2019 data. I’m comparing that period to the post-2021 one.

> is 2 in real dollars?

No, nominal. They’re up in real terms, but I don’t have non-proprietary data for that.
You're absolutely correct. But as they say, if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

It doesn't have to resemble real world constraints to be a useful exercise.
Thank you very much for those data. It does line up with my experience.

> Is there a drug or industrial pollution problem? Are folks from the city buying up your housing stock?

Yes, there are major substance abuse and lead contamination issues in our area. In fact, my mother works for the city administering a federal HUD lead abatement grant. There are many local and outside investors who buy up housing stock with the intent to rent it, so that could partially explain the rising prices despite the lowering population.

[8], yes, although there was a major flood in 1972 resulting in much of the downtown being destroyed along with damming by the US army corps of engineers upstream, which lowered the river depth, so it's not quite navigable by a supertanker. Although, we are well connected to the Norfolk Southern rail line.
I thought so because, as you say, Chinas has nationalized banks, the airline industry — because they view them as important components to the nation.

I assumed we were not talking about the U.S. (and to a lesser degree European countries) since nationalization of the private industry is anathema to these countries. To be sure though I know nothing about nationalization sentiments in Europe these days.
I’m absolutely underqualified, but really, really love the unpretentiousness of the format.

You guys sound like really nice people.
This is cool technology. The first thing I thought was, that looks a lot like the building that contains the Dead Sea Scrolls (1). This was also designed to stay cool in the desert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Book
Rawdog: Command line AI that responds by auto-executing output as scripts
> Does a story about razor wire in Texas belong on hacker news? I'm in Texas so the story is of interest to me but I'd expect to hear about it elsewhere, not on HN.

Perhaps in TX you don't realize it, but it's a big national story, implicating the Constitution, federal authority, even the Civil War.

It's political, for sure; but it's not local.
I think the difference is that AI is definitely useful and here to stay.

Crypto was mostly scams or pie in the sky ideas that will never work. It will stick around for money laundering & buying drugs but that's about it.
Related. Others?

Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478206 - June 2023 (312 comments)
Also, it's very clear from the messaging and breathless hype that the NFT grifters packed uo their stuff and moved over en masse to the GenAI space
so how do people who live life on the road maintain access to these? touring performers? emergency responders etc?
>> What do they want to make "meaningful progress" on? I certainly can't see "journalism for journalism's sake" as a good thing. Seems more likely you will get gatekeeping and another venue for activism?

> In my opinion, "journalism for journalism's sake" would be what we call reporting the truth, or investigative journalism. Is there a national outlet that invests in pure investigative journalism anymore?

Investigative journalism can still amount to "gatekeeping and another venue for activism," if the investigative attention is selective and focused (more or less) to support one or more activist programs.

That's actually the most effective kind of manipulation, because it's simultaneously true and misleading.

And I also think that's close to what we've got. To really be "journalism for journalism's sake," I think you'd have to allocated investigative resources roughly equally among factions, with investigations focused on "pro-narrative" ideas and "counter-narrative" ideas.
Yes, anyone who's ever learned LaTeX and why it was invented immediately sees how absolutely awful Word is at its rendering. Funny that a trillion-dollar company can't seem to figure out a better algorithm than Donald Knuth mocked up in Pascal decades ago.

I think of this as another version of enshittification -- the acceptance of poor performance as the "standard".

And don't get me started on math equations in Word ...
While I understand why "Secret Plan against Germany" - a story about Germany's far right planning "remigration" of even citizens - was removed, I still would've liked to see the part of the discussion that wouldn't have been arguing about the semantics of the term "nazi". This is the article that sparked a never seen before mobilization of demonstrators against these planners and their party in Germany.
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The bulk of these are municipal and state government, not federal government.
Here's an almost trivial bit of "permissionless innovation" thanks to Silicon Valley giants:

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111049822586450100

30 years ago somebody who wanted to develop a "new object you can use to distribute music" had to spend $100 million on some project like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette

today it is very simple because almost everyone has a player in their pocket that connects the card to software which runs in the cloud. It wouldn't be technically difficult at all for me to host the music file in S3, R2 or Azure storage and the storage and network costs are insignificant so far as I expect these cards to be distributed. If I did that I could get in trouble over copyright, so a link to YouTube is a safe and easy solution w/ the disadvantage that people in many geographies can't view licensed music videos.

Fortunately that QR code is a redirect and I can send it to another service. I demoed the cards with quite a few people and found that they usually felt it was a letdown to go to YouTube (maybe because they go to YouTube all the time and there is nothing special about it) but that there was more satisfaction with a link to SongWhip which might send them to YouTUbe in the end but gives them a feeling of agency at the expense of another click.
AWS is selling still M4 instances that originally date from 2015, nearly 10 years ago https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/06/introduci...
I'm an Asciidoc man myself, but yes yes yes and yes. I say that as someone who gets their paycheck because of these overblown CMS/CCMS[1] turds. At the moment I'm supporting a gigantic PTC integration, but virtually every single functionality we're trying to establish could be done in Asciidoc and Visual Studio Code in seconds . . and these are things that - if they ever work - will take Windchill entire days to perform, and never, ever accurately.

But the writers and managers want clicky buttons and drop down menus, so here we all are. Article definitely hit a chord for me.

[1] Yes! Asciidoc is quite capable of acting like a CCMS . . if that's something you genuinely need. Component Content is another culty idea, something that really shouldn't be used for very much - if anything - but management acts like it's the second coming. And the effups it can (and probably will) introduce are colossal.
How does this choice play into the longstanding fuzzy line between US Army and US Air Force responsibilities? This is neither fixed wing nor rotary wing; has the range for tactical airlift…

Is Johnson-McConnell still considered binding? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson-McConnell_agreement_of...
try the "Green Chemistry" movement about two decades ago, or the close relation "Body Burden" PR campaigns.. the message was clear and the science was not mysterious. Some percentage of people responded, the markets and products .. well.. look around
That is why they made Wago lever nuts
> it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news

For sure many are. This happens with every Major Ongoing Topic (MOT) and LLMs are way beyond a MOT [1]. The hivemind tires of repetition extremely quickly [2]. The trick is to try to separate wheat from chaff, where 'wheat' means the stories that bring Significant New Information (SNI) [3] and 'chaff' means the follow-up and copycat stories, which are legion [4].

It's important to understand are that there's a wide spectrum of opinion about this stuff. If you imagine a slider with "allow zero posts about $TOPIC" at one end, and "allow all posts about $TOPIC" at the other end, pretty much every user would slide it to a different position. This is true for every $TOPIC and especially for the biggest ones.

Frontpage space is the scarcest resource HN has [5] and every reader has a different 'signature' of preferences that they would like to see (or not see) there. This means not only that it's impossible to satisfy everybody, but that it's impossible to fully satisfy anybody—because nobody's 'signature' is perfectly matched on the front page, and (lest any of you be thinking of this quick riposte) certainly not the mods'!

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

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

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

[5] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
To be sure, a hammer salesman pointing out that nails will save us.
I swear i recently was looking up torque recommendations per thread size into aluminum and NASA seemed like the only source to show up
Then downvote it, that's what the button is for! The other commenter said they were interested in a write up with more information than that one question. But hey, can't please everyone.
Less labor and more leisure time seems like the biggest winner for lots of people right now. I have all the commodities I could ever genuinely want, but for all my nifty gadgets I'm still giving up around a quarter of my life in exchange for a salary and I barely have time to actually them. If we could divert resources from generation of new/improved commodities or shareholder value and instead allow people to have more leisure time I believe that we'd see a lot of knock-on social benefits.
> What one person thinks is "cozy", another person thinks it "claustrophobic", for instance.

you can't glean good information from that, not about the people but about the restaurant?
What distro doesn't have pandoc in its package manager?
There's lots of types of immigration and you seem to be focused on only one. Also, I bet you'd find it's very easy to talk openly about immigration if you don't start with a chip on your shoulder and dropping words like "nazi", which you know is inflammatory.
Eh, what I see popular on HN tends to be the trend 5 years down the line.
Any time you paint with a broad brush with comments like that, you're going to miss some of the details. Looking at the time stamps of those comments shows they were pretty much at the same time. I use the phrase "group think" a lot, but intentionally do it to in part rabble rouse, but also to get those in the group think to maybe think and take a second to question if it truly is group think behind their current position.
sctb stopped working on HN in fall 2019, alas!
This is one thing I’m hopeful about for EVs. Plastic is cheap because of massive demand scaling the oil industry, collapse the demand for oil and plastic becomes more expensive.
Where do you see that quote in the OP? I searched for it and didn't find it.
You can also get another 3 months on a tourist visa by leaving and coming back (at least, most visa-free tourists can; I've had many friends do this).

I suppose it's less cost to do it this way, but it sure seems like a "digital nomad" would have no problem going somewhere else for a week (Korea, Taiwan), and coming back.
If that iTunes license goes away that's a morally green signal to get a non-revocable license from The Pirate Bay.