skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably has nothing to do with Blackrocks AI machine that controls 21 trillion.

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All Coming Together: In 2017 Larry launched a top secret project at BlackRock, codename MONARCH. It led to the firing of his fund managers, and replacing their funds with ALADDIN's funds. As a result of A.l. eliminating humans out of the picture, now 70% of all trades on US Stock Markets are solely decided by robots, beginning to the end. Government Regulation: Joe Biden has appointed BlackRock executive Brian Deese as head of the National Economic Council, which means the oversight of ALADDIN is now responsibility of BlackRock with no governmental oversight. Biden has also appointed Blackrock Chief of Staff Wally Adamo to be assistant secretary of the Treasury, which ends as BlackRock as the Treasury as well as the Treasury advisor.

Endgame: Recently, BlackRock acquired eFront, which collects data on the things that you and I own, including private equity and real estate. Since then, ALADDIN has consumed eFront data on the entire global real estate market. Over the last two years, BlackRock has begun buying up single family homes where they can afford to output the rest of us. The result is home prices rising 20% in the last two years, while pushing players like Zillow out of the market. It's plan is to not only control Wall Street assets, but all assets. CEO Anthony Malloy says ALADDIN is like oxygen, without it we wouldn't be able to function. At the rate of $2 Trillion in new assets every year, ALADDIN shows no signs of stopping, inevitably leaving Wall Street owning everything, and we end up owning nothing.
I heard all those stories about Von Neumann working like that.
According to a biography, his wife once designated a room as his office and he became very angry about that since it was too quiet for him to work there.

Personally I need almost complete silence in order to get anything done, his abilities in this regard always fascinated me.
I want to implement something like this so badly. It's just impossible when one is in the strict 9-5 meat grinder.

I'm a night owl that crashes around 2 AM, and honestly, I think it's why I can barely function on an average day. I try to make up for lost sleep on the weekends, but it doesn't quite work that way.
Either form journalist orgs as non-profits (e.g NPR) or modernize journalism content (e.g Morning Brew). The traditional print news model is getting increasingly out of date and it's going to take a bunch of old geezers dying to modernize journalism. It's still "content", and news outlets need to keep up with changing consumer tastes.
I agree that this is what OP is saying. But it's funny that that didn't actually happen? All I saw was mainstream media outlets continuously chiding their own readers for not being sufficiently empathetic to poor, white, Trump voters.
Motorola CPS2: Step-by-Step Guide to Importing DMR Contacts [video]
Yeah I agree with you wouldn't want to point a dashboard directly at BigQuery. There are two cases here:

- You don't need realtime data, but you want to serve the data quickly. If you wanted to use Bigquery in this case, you'd have the query running on some schedule, and then store and serve the results from whatever data store you like. This is what most dashboarding tools are doing under the hood (e.g. Mode, Metabase, etc.)

- If you need real or near real-time data, then an OLAP system like Clickhouse makes a lot of sense!

I'm definitely not trying to say that BigQuery is right for every situation. It's more that there are very few situations that I can see Postgres being the best workhorse for your analytics.
I don't think quill pen manufacturing comes close to the jobs provided by modern software dev. One pen can do so many tasks!
As a Kiwi, the PM making himself a secret minister of all the things was bonkers, how the hell? They must pay parliament staffers there way better than here, that shit would've leaked in 5 minutes at the nearest pub to the Beehive.

But then, if Dutton ever ends up PM, I'll be wishing for the good old Scotty from Marketing days.
That "While I have no reason" line has been quoted in six top-level comments so far, obviously it struck a nerve here.

It would be ultra-cool to have rough topic filters here, so I could just go to settings and hit a checkbox to ignore all the LLM-this and AI-that articles. Easier said than done, I'm sure.
I believe Starlink (like Iridium) doesn't even try to establish connections "across the seam," ie the one place the satellites in the adjacent plane are coming head on at orbital speed.

The slide showing the multiple possible paths traffic can take seems to disagree with this statement?
probably still worth it
Sounds fair to me, teach the 4 year old the consequences of unfair division --- that's the whole purpose of the exercise.

The cutter _always_ has the ability to divide the whole in a way that will result in an unfair outcome: that's why the choice is given to the other party. The process is unfair when the division _and_ the choice is held by a single party.
I once made a comprehensive list of all the television I have ever watched, which included the Star Treks and various other science fiction shows, and Farscape was at the top. Highlights include the chemistry between Browder and Black, Scorpius, the above average writing, and the originality and catchiness of the themes. It was hard to say whether it was better than DS9 at the time but if I had to choose one to rewatch, it would be Farscape for sure.
I doubt it. Realistically the AWS charge mostly causes companies to stop giving IPv4 addresses to servers that never directly talk to customers. As a knock-on effect this will cause tooling to become more IPv6 aware, and put pressure on SaaS in infrastructure monitoring and dev tooling to be reachable via IPv6 (for example this might cause github to finally fix their IPv6 game because of higher customer demand).

Maybe companies use the same opportunity to make sure their services also work via IPv6. But they won't stop offering their services on IPv4, and AWS changes don't put meaningful pressure on ISPs to roll out IPv6. If anything it will reduce the pressure on the price of IPv4 addresses, making it more viable for ISPs to hold out.
Yeah they don't give a single damn. They certainly won't release a fix for this.
I actually gasped. Wow
At a quick glance, I found several that don't match that criteria you mention, here are a few:

Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds

https://codeengineered.com/blog/2024/open-source-not-builds/

Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

https://futurism.com/sam-altman-energy-breakthrough

Avoid Async Rust at All Cost

https://blog.hugpoint.tech/avoid_async_rust.html

(Perhaps that last one could be renamed to be less hyperbolic, but the content was still an interesting opinion piece)

I don't think this is being done by the mods, by the way. It's more likely some spam filter with false positives, report brigading, or an anti upvote ring mechanism.
The people in your 3 examples are wrong.
What data do you have that shows that painters are currently highly paid? It's entry-level construction work; AKA a shit job (maybe just a bit better than roofing), so I'm skeptical.
The US House of Representatives currently has an uneasy coalition masquerading as a FPTP majority.
I wrote a program that tracked the changes in story titles on Hacker News a while ago. Some of them were really quite strange. I can't understand some of the policies, like why the words "How" and "Why" are stripped from the front of titles (eg "How I rewrote my app" would be changed to "I rewrote my app"). Some very small proportion of the title changes could definitely have been construed as politically motivated but overwhelmingly they were benign.
Can we please have this in reverse chronological order - later dates at the top? Also, another request -- can we change this to TABLES instead of the plain Markdown list. I believe this is where a tabular display will be much easier to browse.

Thanks.
That is the noble way to consider it, but as soon as something starts existing for its own sake, you start losing the reason the thing was enacted the first time.

I'd hazard the "pure" journalism you are seeing in your mind likely wasn't nearly as pure as you'd think it was. There is a reason a lot of very long lived scandals have always been the case. Even more true as you consider news crossing country boundaries. Any specific examples you have in mind?
Android's WebView is Chrome, process sandboxing & all. Unless the Contacts app injected a JS handler, which we have no evidence of, then it's no less secure than Chrome is.
China comes from the wrong angle.

everything in China already was nationalizes and they've been trying to give some , mostly fictious freedom.

we're talking and socialism and European compromises.

it's really weird you think we're talking about China.
> great example of Survivorship bias

This is literally true for any 50+ in construction. My point is someone with that seniority can pick their jobs, pick their clients and not necessarily be doing the back-breaking work.
There's a discussion around the english words for people who come to a country. Some people are "expats" and some people are "immigrants".

I was talking about "immigrants" rather than "expats".

Of course this dynamic has many facets to it. I've met some people in Thailand who couldn't give a shit about Thai people and just wanted to save 50% on their latte. This is a common "expat" sterotype.

There has been, and still is a lot of "orientalization" of Japan, but almost every immigrant you meet in Japan today has a deep love for Japan in some way. (Also because only the truly dedicated would go to the trouble to be able to stay). So if Japan decided to start allowing more people in I feel like they would all fall more on the immigrant side than the expat side.
> While I have no reason to doubt Daniel's good faith, it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news.

I think the answer to this is... go set up your our LLM News web site and build a community. I really love HN but I wanted more retro computing and gaming news so I created by own site (https://twostopbits.com/) using the HN source code. It's not hard. Go build the thing you want and moderate it.

I've been in various online communities for over 35 years and I can tell you that by far the best moderated and longest successfully running community is HN (for a while The Well was amazing).
I'm wrestling with this same question myself. I have never had any idea. For me I've started businesses when the external pressure of having a co-founder dictated that I should. Or, I'd be in a fit of passion-inspired development for a few weeks until it was time to talk to customers. I think the answer varies from person to person. It's hard to say what a good heuristic would be. We all operate with different heuristics.

For instance I now have a family, and starting a business would either take me away from family time, involve nights and weekends work, or involve quitting my day job (of which the bar is now very high).

If you find the answer, let me know!
Hmm most seem to be idiotic, spam or off topic for HN.

I wonder if a useful application for these "AI"s could be to pull interesting - to someone - stories from what the hive minds rejected ;)

Just to be clear, this is stories that got completely removed off the front page and does not include whatever is still available 4 pages behind but got overtaken by other stuff?

Sometimes I see an interesting heading but skip it, and when i reload it's gone. I doubt they were all flagged into oblivion.
That's true if you re-define rent to mean payment for a service...
Turns out uninformed is better than misinformed. That way, at least you are free to make your own opinions and decisions based on your observations and lived experience.
Wait, who is talking about colonization? The Royal Navy isn't planning an invasion of Japan; nobody is forcing anything on the country regarding immigration or demographics. The country has chosen to keep immigration low for decades, as is their right. Now they are facing a demographic crisis and could choose to relax those policies to help alleviate population concerns.
Yup I was right about it being perpetrated by a developed country https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872700

It was not the CEO, nor Koreans or Russians. Typically, Koreans target smart contracts. Russians typically do ransomware, not exchange hacking. To be able to get into FTX suggested a level of planning that was not typical of those countries. So I was sure it was perpetrated by Americans, similar to the BItfinex case.
A few options for LLM result streaming with SSE
This is really sad, it's a huge loss for pages that may have been taken down or accidentally deleted. I can probably count a double-digit number of startups or passion project websites that were saved from catastrophic data loss by scraping Google's cached page results, it's a real shame that they've taken this away
If I could, I'd hibernate until such time as I didn't have to hear about generative AI anymore.
Essentially because users are tired of some topic that threatens them (LLMs or AI) we censor it.

I think this is the beginning of HN becoming irrelevant in its old age. It starts to ignore realities it doesn’t like.
I had a one-off requirement for a slide deck for something, and I really don't think in that form - so I ended up writing a detailed outline in markdown, using pandoc to turn that into pptx, and then checking that in libreoffice. Worked surprisingly well; I didn't have a style to conform to (so I don't know how well libreoffice handled those) but the defaults worked out.
I didn't notice before being exposed to that information (I'm one of those "imdb in my hand at all times" kind of watchers). It's way more noticeable in the movie because I guess they lost the voice modification toolset they were using and had to try to make it up again from scratch.

but yeah he does a great job!
There was some heavy handed moderation decision that moot made, can't remember what, but he enforced it by saying "One man's shitpost is another man's board culture". I think about that a lot when it comes to moderation because people tend to assume everyone in the community is just like them; and really only moderators have a gauge on how saturated certain can be.

It's also why I don't like the "free speech at all costs" meme that gets thrown around when $corporation bans $person_i_like. Every community needs moderation and it's often a thankless job that feels like nothing is being done at all when it's being done right.
Yeah, actual extinction seems impossible, if for no other reason that at some point above "0" the population will no longer be able to sustain a functioning government, and a non-functioning government isn't going to be able to regulate immigration.
> The problem isn’t that enterprise software doesn’t work - it is that you didn’t make it work for you. The only measure that counts, hidden behind all those layers of abstraction, is the final outcome - decision advantage. This is often viewed as an implementation detail (the second 80%), and implementation is often outsourced to experts (COVID should have also taught us all something about “experts“). The industry of consultants who themselves have never run businesses but tell cargo cult companies how to execute implementation further obfuscates the lack of productivity gains.

This article is all over the place. It's written in a very confident and attention-grabbing style but lacks clarity and concreteness - especially so for an article criticizing abstraction!

The quote above is the closest I could find to an interesting thesis. I would restate the argument as:

1. SaaS companies optimize for revenue

2. The buyers of SaaS are undiscerning and will buy convoluted SaaS products even if the software doesn't actually improve worker productivity

3. Therefore economic growth has slowed because so much talent goes into SaaS which builds products that no one needs.

It's an interesting argument and I'm sure there's some truth to it. But surely the article would be better if it focused on supplying evidence for the incentive mismatch in #2 and showing that the magnitude is large enough to cause #3, rather than throwing out ambiguous and condescending claims about Covid, consultants, cargo cults. The core concept of "decision advantage" is not even defined, and seems to be borrowed from military terminology.
If you aren't exchanging money for goods or services, you don't have a business, full stop. You might be building a project, or creating something, but that is separate from having a business.

You have to ask yourself, do you care about creating something, or do you just want to be your own boss? If you want to create things, create things and think about capitalizing afterwards (or maybe not at all, depending) when you find that people are asking for something like the thing you created. If you want to be your own boss, just get into white labeling/arbitrage/reselling/etc, there are a lot of side hustle guides out there that will get you profitable a lot faster than trying to start a business with your own original idea.
You are probably the only person I've heard that liked the old mathtype editor :-) The new editor is terrific because you can use just type the equation in latex format (e.g. A_c = \pi R^2 ). Then you hit the space bar and it converts to wysiwyg style. Most of my equations are on the simpler side I guess.
I've been using it to generate Docx/PDF from my markdown.
Just started to explore means to customize (with tex template). Recent updated obsidian plugin requires explicitly configuring pandoc with latex which started the rabbithole customizing experiment :)
Over 100 years is a fluke? Nothing about it feels unlikely, lucky, or by chance.

fluke - noun - an unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck. Ex: "their triumph was no fluke"
Who is the greatest economist of all time and why does it matter?
Clue (1985) had several different endings sent to different theaters, which as a comedy was a pretty funny and novel idea. The VHS release contained all of them at the end with title cards to explain why.

If this doc is screening in theaters I'd imagining different reels/files are sent to different theaters, or maybe more than one so they can rotate them.

As others have said DVDs are more than capable of this. A VLC plugin could work, and Netflix has some type of tech for their choose-your-own-adventure episode of Black Mirror for streaming.
I'm on metronet, which is a new-ish fiber optic ISP. They're exclusively IPv4 and they default everyone to CGNAT unless you call and complain - in that case you get a static IPv4 for free for a year and then $10/month after that (although another phone call usually gets another free year.)

I specifically asked for IPv6 and was told they don't offer that.
YMMV. I don't want to see Altman's fearmongering and hyperbolic statements.

At this point he's indistinguishable from a bitcoin advocate or a tv preacher.
Pigweed: Modern software development for embedded systems
When working on an embedded product, we used the last few digits of the MAC address to control timing of API accesses. Obviously doesn't work unless you control the whole stack, but for us, it was an easy fix since we had our own OUI.
To understand how people are using something you put into the world and are hosting, managing, fixing at your own expense?
This looks awesome. Christian, you mention comments as a possible future feature -- I think the idea of a livestream off in the corner with comments as a separate spatial box might be nice. I don't like to leave streams on while I'm doing other things, but lots of younger folk I know do, and part of the stream consumption experience is the comments.
> It’s a radical idea, but we could make meaningful progress if we clawed journalism from the hands of affluent, out of touch brunchlords, and put it back under the control of diverse, hungry journalists and editors who actually understand the news industry and media environment they work and exist in.

No, probably not.
Funny when Google Glass was announced there was a huge amount of criticism about filming, and there were even signs on shops prohibiting Google Glass, even though it never became a consumer product at all, and even though Google Glass did have a recording indicator. Yet this is the first time I see someone concerned about Vision Pro filming.
Is there any reason why you would assume this in such a snarky conspiracy-esque tone?

Like someone above pointed out, a rule of moderation on HN literally is, that stories about HN or ycombinator companies itself are moderated less [0].

[0] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Counterpoint to starting a business: the founder of Nvidia, who is worth tens of billions, says if he had it to do over again, he wouldn't. Starting and running a business takes a tremendous toll. https://www.forbes.com/sites/julianteicke/2023/10/28/jensen-...

If you insist on proceeding... Validate demand first; once you find something you're sure people want, you know a great deal about these people and enjoy working with them. You're sure you can find lots of them, and you find the core problem you're working on fun and interesting.

My dad told me... "A successful business is when you can do something badly and people will still pay you for it." That's key in a startup because it takes a long time and a lot of money to do most things well, so you need customers who will settle for ok.

Good luck!
> Also other features are effected like kiosk mode etc

Is it? That's not demonstrated nor claimed in the linked article.

> I think it really is and could have serious safeguarding issues.

Elaborate. What's the security risk from your child using a browser after the parental control timeout expired? It's annoying that the automatic limits didn't fully happen, but data isn't compromised as a result, either.
ahah :) you can send me now - sorry I fixed my setting
Since the introduction in the early 2000s of the so-called "glass cockpit" the current norm is multi-function displays surrounded with "soft buttons" whose functions change depending on the currently-displayed screen. In practice there's not much benefit to this over a touchscreen, since you have to verify the button you're about to press is currently set to the function you want. Since the touchscreen has fewer moving parts, I'd wager the maintenance and production costs are much lower.
It really is impressive how HN has been such a quality community for so long. I can’t think of any of many other online communities that I have been using for 10+ years. So definitely much gratitude to the mods from me for the work they do.