skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is 100% the use of LLMs to pull the content in an unsanctioned manner

If the public facing web wasn't crawlable Google and many other things wouldn't be possible. What are you saying that YouTube should not be viewable unless someone is properly authed? Take it up with YouTube - they could require logins to view videos if they wanted but it would be a worse product.

When a user posts something on YouTube and checks "Allow embeds" they have not only given their video to YouTube but are totally cool with people sharing it around. Who are you - their lawyer? Even most YouTube creators do not share your opinion as I can see most are allowing embeds. The point of mentioning embeds is it's both:

1) Credit to the creator, including the revenue share which you were incorrect when you said it lowers their revenues - they still get the ad revenue from an embed

2) An indicator that the creator wants their content to be shared, since they have the option to disable them if they want and choose not to

The adjacent point you seem to be making is that nobody should be allowed to crawl information and present it as their own. But that's what a lot of the internet is. It's what a search engine is, it's the source of most online encyclopedias, news sites, and so-on.

It just doesn't logically follow that if somebody uploads a video to YouTube, that nobody is allowed to summarize it in text form. That's a very normal thing that is done online.
Very interesting research -- possibilities are endless for personalization, rigging, character animation. Especially interesting how few frames it takes to accomplish this.
Software companies don't outsource engineering in your country?
It's not that heavy. I don't have the room for a tennis table nor am I close enough to my friends to play it for 30 minutes every night like I do in VR.
More like invading, and starving innocent countries under pretext.

The enemies are consuming more than ever before in history.
We didn't reinvent shit! Everything we did is built off existing tech.

We reused PKI and extended it to achieve peer to peer web of trust. So there's both vertical trust chains via certificate signing and horizontal trust chains via a sigchain.
Dangs got some work cut out for him tonight
Yes. How dare a company encourage people to contact their representatives, and ask them to represent them. So utterly discourteous to the congressmen and lobbyists.
LLM Agents Can Not Autonomously Exploit One-Day Vulnerabilities
Thanks!

That’s encouraging to hear that you can switch between the two. Awesome!

I’m afraid to start practicing QWERTY too soon, and risk losing my progress with Colemak. Maybe I’ll attempt it in a few months.
Its not a killer feature, but having to take off the headset to read mail or slack or whatever is a real drag.

It will quickly become table stakes.
Since the inlining is performed in MSVC's backend, as opposed to its frontend, and hence operates strictly on MSVC's intermediate representation which lacks information about tokens or the AST, it's unlikely due to tokens.

std::exception does not take a string in its constructor, so most likely you used std::runtime_error. std::runtime_error has a pretty complex constructor if you pass into it a long string. If it's a small string then there's no issue because it stores its contents in an internal buffer, but if it's a longer string then it has to use a reference counting scheme to allow for its copy constructor to be noexcept.

That is why you can see different behavior if you use a long string versus a short string. You can also see vastly different codegen with plain std::string as well depending on whether you pass it a short string literal or a long string literal.
Would you rather have the typical "iOS developer experience" and XCode? Or are you under the impression that Android development hasn't progressed? Additionally, there is also Flutter which is starting to account for a good percentage of new apps.
I just tried logging in and looks like there is a captcha now. There wasn't one before.
The founders are "John Smith" and "Jane Doe", and they're incorporated in Malta.

Anyone who does business with this outfit has it coming.
let it be recorded that the HN spambot war was triggered by the word "hugs"
I did not realize that learning Fusion 360 was going to be such a huge chapter in my current journey. Looking back, I'm kind of stumped at how I avoided it as long as I did.

I would now put learning CAD in the same category of mandatory life skill as learning to code. The ability to translate what you see in your mind to something that can be repeatably fabricated is an incredible power move, akin to learning how to communicate complex ideas with empathetic language.

My advice is to start by following this tutorial step-by-step. It's a 90 minute video that took me ten days to get through. Step two is to take an existing project and change it in a significant way. Step three is to create something from scratch which solves a problem that you have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK60ROb2RKI
There is a code-gen feature in a product I know of. The product has a proprietary language and the user base clamors for AI generation. Part of the suggestion process in the tool is to feed generated suggestions through the parser and a basic semantic validation before putting the suggestion in front of users. There is still no guarantee of correctness, but the code will parse and run thanks to this. They have to implement some limitations, because it becomes expensive to re-generate repeatedly.

I believe the knowledge I gained was NDA, so I'm keeping it generic.
+1 for literally rabbit hole'ing :)
All these approaches increase server load. You're likely not the only one doing so, so the server has to respond to a read and flag request for every person. I'm not sure how many flags it takes to kill a post, something like 6 iirc. When you multiply that by the number of spam posts it adds up to a lot.

I'm honestly perplexed that HN doesn't have any kind of string filtering facility considering its centrality in the tech ecosystem.
Even the stock one is pretty good these days.
"An Emancipation Proclamation Would Deal a Blow to Creators, Businesses and the American Economy"
I am old enough to remember US internet companies spamming users to support net neutrality, even those who aren't American and can't do anything about it. And net neutrality was heck of a lot less of an existential issue for them.
Google the phrase "eats, roots, shoots, and leaves"
Ha, well I'd do it as a precooked pizza with a light cheese base, then drop precooked toppings on as needed and use heat lamps to melt the cheese. I doubt it'd be tasty, but it'd be fast.
I’ve fallen into the plant tissue culturing rabbit hole. I was selling excess trimmings of aquarium plants locally on Facebook marketplace and made a surprising amount of money, and my kids really enjoyed it (they got a cut for helping me out). I thought hmm, this could be a great excuse to make a little business around this, teach them some skills, get them thinking more constructively and feeling a sense of agency and ability, etc. Plus earning money is really nice when you’re a teenager.

The challenge is that in an aquarium, plants grow reasonably fast but not fast enough to sell regularly for a decent income. You need ways to produce more plants faster, more reliably, and without taking up too much space. That’s where tissue culturing comes in.

It has reaaaally sucked me in. I’m culturing everything I can find. I’m also propagating aquatic plants through more typical means, and that’s fun too. I’m out of space though.

Tissue culturing is a really fascinating science and practice. I love keeping track of the media recipes, results, growth rates, etc. I’m too early to have had meaningful results, but I look forward to tracking those as well.
Almost everything this post describes is not new, not even 21st century new. E-books market share seems to be stuck at about 20% of the total market, where it's been since the early teens. The decline of the print book is more or less like the decline of vinyl albums, except that it never actually declined that much.

However, a lot more people want to be a best-selling author, than there are spots available, so most books don't sell much, and there are lots more authors who cannot get any advance at all. It was ever thus.
I don't think this is what the article says at all. It says that publishers make all their money celebrities and the backlist, and that those titles pay for all the midlist titles, most of which don't recoup their advances.

It's not like publishers can simply decide to focus on new and midlist authors. The books that sell, sell. The top line of this article is well described by its title.
I've never seen so much spam in a thread before.
I do wish their RISC-V range would catch up to the capabilities of their older Tensilica chips though, some things like USB-OTG and TFT-LCD controllers are still missing from all of their RISC-V offerings, when they had them on the old architecture.
I wish I could do this, but the financial aspect just isn't working where I am.

I've been looking at digital backs for old cameras such as the blad I have taking dust. Sadly, either they're completely impractical or they're way above my budget. Hopeful that some day, something better than a polaroid back can be used to resurrect my old hassleblads.
What a wild take. You know they spent multiple billions of dollars on advertising to get their userbase? Which without, algorithms don't work. The best algo in the world means nothing if there are only a million people using the thing.
Are you lonely?

Edit for future internet spelunkers (or background checkers) once the HN spam is cleaned up: this comment is a reference to a spambot that starts it’s comment with these words and a link to some AI “companion “ generator.
first of all, this is an obvious advertisement

it, itself, clearly constitutes spam in this forum

nobody wants to see this, "cold" (spam) email, "cold" spam websites.

nobody. you are a jerk who sells a product that doesn't work to businesses by lying to them that spam works and then you turn around and spam the rest of us. you wreck the internet worse than p0rn.
It was such a big let down. How could the AI make a mistake in the route calculation?!

Seriously though, amazing implementation and vibe! (and a lesson to not let GPT drive your spaceship)
I don’t disagree with your core point, but branding is about a lot more than a logo. I think iPhones do sell to rich people because of branding, because iPhone’s brand basically is “the best possible phone you can get, plus it integrates seamlessly with your other Apple devices”. And Samsung flagships’ brand is “the best Android phone”.

Porsche, or whatever, have a great and meaningful brand when it comes to cars, but that doesn’t translate to smartphones. So when you see a phone with the Porsche logo the brand isn’t really gonna do much for you.
Who cares if it is a paid article because it's true.
It's all good

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dcc8833ec41be963078c932e...
@dang Unsure how to flag this other than tagging you?
Strongly urge you to acquire a Logitech MX Vertical mouse. It takes a few days to get used to; now you'd have to pry it from my dead hands.
I'd be interested in code if you produce something you like.
IMO there is likely huge demand for bots that are witty and can write occasional put a useful comment with a link every now and then.

It’s going to be interesting how spam evolves. At-least spammers who aren’t lazy.

Already many of the recruiting emails I get sound a lot human. They are bots though since they send at 9am everyday
> https://github.com/langgenius/dify/blob/main/LICENSE

everyone is apparently a license pioneer
Downlink from Voyager to Earth is currently 40 bits/s but can be up to 160 bits/s. The signal is received at -160dBm or around 100 _zeptowatts_ (1e-22 kW).
A space where operating systems exist to service the operator and not the OS vendor.

One that isn’t just a vehicle to push ads and subscriptions to <blank>-as-a-service or otherwise act as a siphon to send telemetry up to the mothership.

Yes, I know *nix exists but it’s so fractured and every little variant has its own quirks making it difficult to be a general purpose OS that the masses could adopt, IMO.
I've been attempting to relearn music theory for the third time.

The first attempt was over a decade ago, and I never really quite got it.

The second attempt was about 6 years ago, and while the fundamentals clicked and I improved dramatically as a musician/composer, I still only ever learned some small portion of the basics.

This time, I'm taking it a few steps further. I'm going back to the basics first to recheck my existing understanding of things, and really trying to take my time and understand each new concept before moving on.

I'm currently working my way through this online textbook: https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/frontmatter.html

I've also picked up a simple little budget keyboard (a 61-key Casio CT-S1) that does just what I need at a great price.

Having a lot of fun so far and learning a ton! :)
> I am concerned that LLMs will discourage innovation in programming language design - why write a better Python if GPT can just automate the tedium away?

I don't think so negatively. My bet: innovation in programming language design will emerge that will make it a lot "less necessary/helpful" to use AIs.

Just one example: Quite some programmers claim that AI take a lot of "tedium" from the programming away. But what if we could create programming languages that mostly get rid of this "tedium" (e.g. by using higher-level abstractions to abstract away the tedious, repetitive tasks)?
I assumed the spam was trying to bury this via DDoS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117510
> Being transgender was considered a disease for a looong time

If it's not a disease (or at least, associated with a disease state) then why does it require medical treatment in the form of hormone-modfying drugs, and surgeries?
For a bot-based DDOS attack it's easier to to do blanket shutdowns then it is for the attacker to whip up new randomization code. If it gets really bad just shutting down new account creation for 24 hours or making a timelag beween creation and posting is effective.
The term "augmented reality" was coined to refer to see-through heads-up displays. Pilot synthetic vision system HUDs have been referred to as augmented reality for decades.

Best I can tell, mixed reality is augmented reality, but with mixed interaction. You hit the fake ball with a real bat in mixed reality and it bounces off the real wall. Maybe you even feel it hit.
You need to pay $1-2 per resume? Is this pricing in line with other recruiting services like greenhouse or lever?

Also, how do you control for bias when using "AI-powered scoring"? Surely you've conducted some testing to make sure that your system doesn't discriminate. Does your system rank veterans, career changers, or older people unfairly?
Yes! Having two architectures, one meant to securely run in a “zero trust” environment, and one meant to run at max speed while assuming inputs and code can be trusted (or will never have the opportunity to be executed such as in an airgapped environment) is reasonable. You can even combine the two and we do in practice, as seen with hardware security modules. At a grocery store you will see a lower security cash register with many functions and features connected to a higher security card reader that does a very small number of things.

An essential part of security is scoping. The door to the safe is higher security than the door to the bank. Speed & convenience & cost are paramount at the entrance to the bank, and security is paramount when it comes to securing the cash at the bank. We don’t act as though high security is always warranted when it comes to physical security so why would it be always be warranted when it comes to computer security? Sacrificing speed and convenience is willfully inflicting a denial of service on yourself, it’s only worth it if it’s less bad than the probable alternative.

Every personal computer sold has massive security flaws with only the most severe issues getting papered over and yet most people don’t have issues because the world isn’t actually all that hostile.
Do they think TikTok's user base will disappear overnight? There are a thousand competitors out there, and one of them will fill the gap. There may be a temporary disruption, sure, but that is still better than having a key chunk of the American economy (and young American eyeballs) directly controlled by the CCP.
E-readers are often very simple devices. Their main audience is older people.

Light being a dependency of reading a printed book is one of the biggest plus for e-ink readers. You don't need light, they already come with it! It's so much easier reading with a Kindle (in dark mode) at bed time than it is a paper book.
Pretty incredible feat of engineering (both back when it was launched and now). Does anyone know its current purpose? I’m curious if there’s anything we’re actively using it for or if it’s just a matter of “look for surprises”.
History of early Christianity. I found the gospel if Judas to be extremely fascinating.
Of course! That’s why Instagram/Meta/Reddit/Twitter/etc’s clones of TikTok’s UI/UX and reels has already killed TikTok usage. /s
>Non-Google versions of Android have struggled to make much headway in markets like smartphones. Even Amazon's own phone flopped pretty hard.

Not much headway? Pretty much all Android phones used in China do not come with GMS.
I don't know about anyone else, but that box of assorted pastries/doughnuts should been rapidly consumed after hearing the news!
This seems like a great move.
Similar to existing Android ecosystem, If this ends up making standardization of AR/VR, meta benefits from being the tone setter just as Google for Android.
I wonder if the Qualcomm lock-in would stay or Mediatek and others would also onboard.

The biggest test is how much current partners (Asus, Lenovo, etc) will sell.
This will verdict the future of this idea.
Frankly, I can't subscribe to this jaundiced viewpoint. They're going to great lengths to make rolls of dice. The unspoken is just as important as the spoken here, it's framed as maddening dashes through confusing red tape for crucial medical treatment, but truth is, it's grasping for agency in place you aren't supposed to have any in the face of the ultimate agency-remover.

You can easily walk away from the article thinking clinical trials were a way to get cures to the public without having to go through all that messy trial stuff, and it's infuriatingly broken. It's not. It's people who are lucky to have time and energy to pursue long shots through a system that's not designed as a health care market.
I'm not exactly a spring chicken either, and I 100% agree on the insane, unwarranted hype of blockchain and crypto (plenty of examples in my comment history).

But the huge difference with, for example, blockchain, is that despite all the attempts by the hypesters to explain what revolutionary tech it was, I was always left thinking one of "Umm, OK, but what do I actually do with it" or "How is this better than just a normal database?" or "Actually, that's not possible." Blockchain was nearly always a cool tech looking for a use case beyond cryptocurrencies.

But with LLMs, I never felt that way. I was immediately blown away by how cool ChatGPT was, and how much real value I got out of it. Sure, I think there is plenty of overhyping (and I think it's a little funny how companies are trying to add that little star icon everywhere, even when it's just annoying), but even if I ignore what everyone says about it and just use the tech personally, by myself, I'm still left thinking "Damn this is just magic" many times a day.
It's pretty easy to highlight passages with most e-reader software. Some even let you write a note that goes with the highlight. You can then look through a list of all highlighted passages.
Was into cine drones for a while; then discovered FPV. Spent dozens of hours on simulators, now flying actual FPV drones in manual mode. Incredibly addictive. I'm having a hard time focusing on anything else right now.
I think the mention of Steam will be to do with the Steam Link app they released for Meta quest devices fairly recently that lets you stream your VR games from your desktop computer to the quest wirelessly https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0E2C-406B-9135-38...
I guess it depends on your system settings. I have my Logitech set up to almost max speed/acceleration so it felt very natural to me.
I don’t think profitability really matters for TikTok. They will continue to operate as long as they are useful.
Doubtful:

https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-amazon-max-animation-exposed-server/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/politics/us-animation-studio-sketches-korean-server/index.html
> Like the original author of this post sorta alluded to, treating it like a very junior assistant or pair programmer.

For me, treating someone like a junior assist means teaching the respective person a huge lot of stuff in a very short time, so that he gets useful as fast as possible. :-)
We have no idea if the author of the link and the author of the twitter account and the person in the image of the twitter account are in any way related.
Maybe there is some interesting ideas tied to the term, but this text is for sure not the one to explain them to me.
What a strange thing to say. No country is stranger to famines. Nowadays the country has a normal and modern economy.
This story originally had several fake comments by a spam bot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40125197
Well you can get the cover art, but yeah. I mean you can get the differing font faces and etc. if the publisher built that into the file, but most don't go to that amount of effort on their e-books.
The Super Game Boy cart is basically this. The cartridge contains actual Game Boy hardware, wired up to render to a frame buffer, and 60 times per second it's copied to the SNES VRAM.

The trick is that the Game Boy display is smaller than the SNES display, so it doesn't have to transfer a complete frame, and so it can be completed within the vertical blanking interval.

Apparently the timing is so close that it's not possible to transfer palette information alongside the video, just black-and-white, which is why there was never a Super Game Boy Color.
Spring Boot. What I learned is: I had no idea how much I hate "configuration".

Spring is a Java dependency injection system that uses XML-based configuration. Recognising that XML sucked, they later added 2 additional ways to specify configuration, which they call annotation-based configuration and Java-based configuration. Both kinds use annotations. Both kinds use Java.

Spring Boot is a layer on top of regular Spring that tries to make things simpler by automatically guessing what you're trying to do and configuring it for you, with something it calls auto-configuration.

Just trying to understand what makes what happen in a (very simple) Spring Boot app sucked weeks from my life.
Did that even keep pace with inflation? Looking at a generous measure of that in the form of ECI, I don't think it did.
Show HN: Set up automatic status updates collection in 3 minutes
I don't know... Hacker News keeps complaining that they want the old 90's web experience back, now it feels like some shitty PHP messageboard from back in the day getting pwned by script kiddies. Enjoy the nostalgia while it lasts I guess.
> Nothing stops a publisher from being an ebook publisher

Except that the biggest platform for ebooks (by a big stretch, they own ~70% of the market) is a company that you have a direct adversarial relationship with in most other parts of your business.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40118778
There was some ~20 spam comments here that has since been deleted.
But if its on GSheets, it could be multiplayer.