skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's certainly striking. I agree with the thesis, but the way he presents it illustrates the problem.

It's completely impolitic. That's deliberate. The entire point is to reject the mainstream journalistic approach of being neutral to a fault, to avoid even the appearance of bias.

But the New York Times is going to be accused of bias anyway. Their old habit was designed for a world that no longer exists. It's not clear that it ever existed, but there was a time when the New York Times' approach worked better.

Now, I agree with the article: it's time to start using words like "liar" and "wrong". They hate being judgmental; they want you to be able to figure it out for yourself. But it's clear that a lot of people aren't figuring it out, and that this presents a genuine threat.

The NYT lacks language to deal with that. The language used in this article is, I think, not the correct one either. I concur with the article nonetheless, that Joe Kahn does need to go looking for one.
Link, please? Or at least a general area?

Grass-finished is really tough economically; corn results in an animal almost 3x the size.

The only grass-finished place I have is struggling no matter how much beef I eat :) I really need other places if it goes away.
Having a language that generates proper errors, does not try to hold your hand incorrectly and instead tells you you are wrong is always better.

Haskell is one of the best in the world in this. But it also happens to be incredibly complex and also weird in it's syntax, to the point it does make code fringe and unreadable.

There is a real difference here - a language that can help you fact check your logic and reason that you are accessing a potentially null value in this context can be better if it's drawbacks don't outweight it.

Elixir isn't static so it doesn't do this but it does blow up a lot compared to other dynamic languages. It's abstraction of proccesses and threads and what not, does actually make your code more portable and more modifyable. It offers a specific paradigm for programming that works great for multiple proccesses and the whole language is built around it. So if you are going to be using that paradigm anyway it would be a better choice.

It's also just pretty how it fits together.
You might be interested in taking a look at OCaml's extensible sum types which may straddle the line in the way you're describing.
The "Earth is flat" example is extreme, because it's accepted as a silly statement given what we know now, but the principle of "LLM won't force an opinion on you" seems like a good one.

There are definitely topics on which conventional wisdom is incorrect (as has been throughout history). An LLM that refuses to entertain the converse during a conversation will be annoying to work with and just promotes groupthink.
Same here, it gives me structure if the amount of arrange code is large. It also gives me structure when writing, as it can sometimes be very tempting to mix act and assert statements
I was in the clinical trial for this shot; it ends this fall. If I got the actual shot (rather than a placebo as part of the double blind trial) I'll be offered to participate in an extension.
My biggest worry is the idea of generating data as training data. We're obviously already unwittingly doing this, but once someone decides to augment low-volume segments of the dataset with generative input, we're going to start getting some really crappy feedback loops.
> I'm quite confident that an Impossible Burger is healthier along some dimensions, and a beef burger healthier along others.

Agree! And I was quite deliberate in not making that point in my statement.
I found out about Temporal 2+y ago now and were early adopters of their cloud. It's a bit of a paradigm shift when you start using it, but it is amazing at solving some types of problems in a very simple manner. There are some trade-offs, there always are, for us that was migrating long lived workflows. But the resulting simplicity and maintainability of the code has been great. One thing that was hard with Temporal was to "sell it" to business leaders because it's not a turn key solution, it's more like a piece of infra for engineers to build on top of. Kind of a higher level database-queue-workflow engine thing that simplifies work for engineers.

In short we were working on automating things like onboarding a new employee, which involves creating accounts for their saas apps, buying and shipping their device, email confirmations, satisfactions surveys etc. So a workflow could last up to 3 months with some fully automated systems, and some that required integrating with people (listening to jira event to trigger things, etc).

The error handling was the thing that sold me on Temporal, because things can break just about anywhere in unpredictable ways (not just code, can be process, employee quits during the onboarding, customer is out of licenses etc), so we need everything to be robust and be fixable by a person. With homegrown queue based systems or with BPEL it can be hard handling these situations (what if you need to roll back 3 steps?). With code you can use exceptions, write unit tests etc. We use the typescript sdk, promises made it very intuitive to code even some otherwise complicated scenarios (say event listeners etc).
Its useful to do the math around what your equity would be worth, if you are the 50th hire you are probably getting less than .1%, so even a crazy moonshot billion dollar acquisition would leave you with a few 100k at most. Grinding yourself down for a slim chance at making that amount isn't worth it.

I have had managers say things like: "this could be the last job we ever work" as if none of us are capable of doing math.

That said we are all a bit prideful so exhausting yourself to get that fleeting feeling of having achieved something clever and good is definitely on the table.
given the second statement.

You're still ignoring it. They've got an issue in their CI, it's not that they're triggering it to often. It's because each build costs way too much. Though we technically don't know that either, as the attendee didn't specify how many builds they did, technically. (At least I didn't see it in TFA)

It was also explicitly stated that the goal was to have the Dev run the build locally and sign the commit with the build status so they could skip CI on the server and save cost there. Considering that context, I believe that the Dev time = money argument is justified.
Resource intensity may or may not be decreasing but that's not solving the issue if you look at global numbers of poor people versus economic and consumption growth needed to bring everyone to, say, European level of living standard.

We are already wreacking havoc on the planet and marginal decrease in resource intensity is not going to make a difference because our total impact needs to be slashed.

I never understand the insistence of some of ignoring population in the equation, which is the key parameter.
'Destruction of the human experience': Apple iPad ad prompts online backlash
There are no exploits for Widevine. The system operates by requiring a key, which is obtained from the unsecure hardware enclaves of some of the thousands of devices whitelisted by Widevine. When you access and share publicly 4K content, the keys for that specific device are blacklisted, necessitating the purchase of a new device to extract a new key.
>> “My resignation was driven in part by the realization that the tech industry, including Microsoft, is increasing the profitability and competitiveness of these fossil fuel giants..."

Giants? MSFT is at 3 trillion dollars while XOM is at 529 billion. And we already have alternatives to Microsoft...
We have companies moving to Linear daily, so it’s possible.

And these can be anything from a 10 person company to 2000+ person companies.

We have jira sync that helps with transition. https://linear.app/integrations/jira
Lol I've seen that before. Actually the iPhone example is a very clear case of hypocrisy. My only point is that I'm sure Microsoft has plenty of other clients whose profits are only 1 or 2 degrees removed from oil extraction. Any level of participation in capitalism is likely increasing oil extraction indirectly. It is the primary energy source of economic activity. Shutting down the oil companies will not speed up development of alternative energy sources (which we already have tech for, like nuclear, but the general public never got over their fear of it).
One reason for this is that since cutting off Russian gas, Europe has begun importing huge amounts of liquefied gas from multiple sources, the U.S. being the biggest one [1].

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61483
I thought Grant was known to be satirical.

Realistically, more of an exaggeration.
wouldn't they have to guarantee no false positives ever? so any child being misidentified as an adult would be a problem. the result would be that the targeting is so strict that to many adults would be excluded. and that matters even more if we consider that young adults are among the most lucrative demographic, which makes false positives more likely.

you can easily tell a 30 year old from a 10 year old. but can you tell a 12 year old from a 15 year old? or a 15yr old from a 20yr old?

so tech companies want a system that is approved so that they are not responsible if it fails
As I understand this, you don't need to get the update at all if you run the script?

But your question is also addressed in the "Updating" section:
> Users who have skipped one or more update releases may need to run additional post-update steps; please see the release notes from earlier versions for details.

You need to read the Updating section of every version that you have skipped. This is also called out in the release notes:
> Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 14.11, see Section E.2.

Where E.2 is the 14.11 update notes, and so on.
I don't know, but I wish it was a reality.

I always end up having more fun with indie games (with some very rare AAA exceptions)
Why should I care if there is a bunch of garbage and feces in a place that no one can even access without paying $70k? There's beaches where normal people actually go that are covered in trash and have raw sewage pumped into the nearby waters...surely that is a more important aspect of the environment to clean up or care about than a mountain in the middle of no where that only rich people visit.
Nope, there is no "official" explanation of galactic formation. Mostly because we are still in the process of building models that explain their movement and taking measurements to compare those models against.

We still have unexplained phenomena collectively called Dark Energy and Dark Matter which make galaxies behave in a way we don't expect. There is currently no accepted explanation of these. We don't know if these two are an actual thing or if our understanding of gravity is just wrong at that scale.
“absolutely increase odds of death”

It doesn't say that.

It says "associated with higher all cause mortality".
Surprised it didn't happen earlier to be honest. Wonder what they were paying in API fees to keep this functionality working?
The limiting factor in the UK at least seems to be the power grid, we really need to get better at upgrading it quicker and cheaper.
What about the analog loophole? At some point, the data needs to be manifested in the real world.
You can do one thing fast, or many things slowly. For many common applications, doing many things slow is more important than off-the-starting-block performance
The clocks of systems using this UUIDs may at some point use an external NTP server for synchronization, and may cause problems without something being designed to check this (e.g. older and overflow time stamps).

Take care.
Is "auditory neuropathy" something where there isn't any other existing treatment that directly addresses the issue versus compensating for it (like cochlear implants)?
I am confused.

Doesn't Node already run Javascript on the server? What value is this library?
> President Joe Biden set a goal of reaching 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and signed into law the nation’s largest investment in clean energy and climate to date with the Inflation Reduction Act.

Perhaps a nuanced detail out of scope for the article, but I continue to be frustrated that the Government is legislating solutions, not outcomes. Because we're primarily focused on CO2 balance I should be allowed to emit + sink as much as I please so long as the net is <= 0 .

Additionally reading between the lines this article could be titled "World free to use renewables, knowing US gas is a backup plan" . Again the US is being a world good guy by ensuring that Russian gas has less geo-politcal power than it did in the past. (how quickly we forget the German crisis in 2022)
The lower levels of Widevine protection are weaker, so the content providers like Netflix only allow playback in standard definition or 720p at those levels.

They don't want the highest quality to be available on devices where the DRM can easily be broken.
It might not help your dad, and I'm not advising or recommending anything here, but I personally found NAC to be effective at helping me fully recover from COVID the times I've been sick and supplemented with it. Anecdotally, so have my friends and parents.

N-acetylcysteine is well known and widely used as the (only, afaik?) treatment for paracetamol overdose, so it's pretty well researched. Anecdotally, again, it also helps with brain fog (according to the nootropics community).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10390689/
The Gen Z web hacker will also tell yiunthatbthis isn't hownthings are done anymore and use a wire protocol consisting of HTTP, HTML, CSS and JS to make a bloated X server substitute called web browser do pretty much the same things.

I exaggerated, but only a little bit. Even the widget library zoo has somehow found an equivalent on the web.
When people talk about scaling they usually mean horizontally (more computers) rather than vertically (a more powerful computer).

Scaling like this tends to involve your system actually performing worse because, among other things, it has to go across the network.
And somehow the US gets painted as a bad guy for helping...
That's is the crazy thing: it's a frame-for-frame rip off of this LG ad from a decade ago.
Why did you not show up to Hawking's time traveller party?
Seems like Nim can be useful too, plus it compiles to C.

https://gist.github.com/unclechu/eb37cc81e80afbbb5e74990b62e...
How would you even know where it came from?
Ha, I wrote one too - https://github.com/mattbillenstein/pg-queue/blob/main/pg-que...

Roughly follows the semantics of beanstalkd which I used once upon a time and quite liked.
> It is an honor and a privilege to travel back to Middle-earth with our good friend and collaborator, Andy Serkis, who has unfinished business with that stinker — Gollum!

So, a prequel of sorts? Perhaps an expansion on Gollum's origin story?
As far as "Show HN" goes, this is called "burying the lede".
Now put this in a Mac mini and I might buy it. Especially if other OS support advances a little more.
We offer a full guide to help here at https://docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide and many users of all sizes self-host Temporal. Having said that, it has challenges as does running any high-available production system. We offer cloud to ease this burden. You still run all your code/workers and you can end-to-end encrypt all data.
> Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

Isn't that already a thing, kind of? There's a well-known independent short movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H09xnhlCQU
Tats – A Synthesizer Game
I'm getting a heck of a lot of useful work out of these so-called useless models
Long Covid at Work: A Manager's Guide
Can you cite the source on this interesting assertion, since that hypothesis was I believe discredited, and a survival of a modified or partial virus is the more likely one that's being researched?

In that it being similar to having shingles in a sense but of a different mechanism.
I mean doesn’t gas make sense at least until every coal plant is offline ?
This is either a parody, a self-unaware remembering or an outright lie. It's got all the elements: stupid CTO (how'd he even get this high? sucks at programming but good at politics), Lying vendor (everyone there is so stupid and terrible!), sycophant employees (they just tell the CTO what he wants to hear!), heroic dev team and of course our savior, the author.

I questioned the "young and foolish" / "grumpy veteran" position when they started talking about json and mongo (maybe replace that with a text file and proprietary binary format), and yes, this sort of shit happens to varying degrees all the time, but I'm pretty sick of the everyone but developers, and more specifically MY team - or even just me, is an idiot - "I'm the only one who cares and does the right thing" - which this was definitely not. Question for the audience: most of you work for big, non-startup and likely non-software companies; when you look around can you honestly say "nobody else cares, just me"?
While your point about knitting patterns being largely unchanged by computers is true, there are a few very good software-enabled knitting tools out there:

- KnitCompanion is a complex but extremely powerful app to take PDF patterns and turn them into very efficient, effective digital patterns. You can designate specific steps, walk through steps and charts with voice control, extensively reformat a pattern, etc. I use this for all moderately complex knitting.

- TinCanKnits is a pair of pattern designers who have recently released an app for their own patterns that customizes the pattern (showing only your size, changing chart colors to match your yarn, etc.)

- CustomFit by Amy Herzog is a tool with a collection of sweater designs that can be fully customized to your own gauge, measurements, design preferences, etc.

- There are a number of calculators out there for sock knitting (how many stitches/rows for heel flap, gusset calculations, etc.).
Looking at the previous two years of uncracked Denuvo and only selecting games that seem notable:

Dragon's Dogma 2 (2024)
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (2024)
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024)
Street Fighter 6 (2023)
Hi-Fi Rush (2023)
Dead Space (2023)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023)
Persona 5 Tactica (2023)
EA Sports FC 24 (2023)
NBA 2K24 (2023)
Assassin's Creed Mirage (2023)
Atomic Heart (2023)
Lost Judgment (2022)
Sonic Frontiers (2022)
Sonic Origins (2022)
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (2022)
Persona 5 Royal (2022)
Sniper Elite 5 (2022)
Marvel's Midnight Suns (2022)
Total War: Warhammer III (2022)

Going back further there's more high profile games that were never cracked. The system seems to work as intended in some cases.
Show HN: I made a premium and cheap server hosting service
Recently I've started to notice how expensive it is to host things like game servers and applications due to big tech companies charging outrageous costs.

Due to this, I decided to create Pandios, a cheap but powerful hosting service that lets you host your product whether it be a Minecraft, Palworld or Rust server, or it being a NodeJS/Python application

It uses Pterodactyl & Paymenter to handle the orders and I'm working on a custom solution to replace Pterodactyl + Paymenter
I honestly don’t know where it comes from. The Cold War with the Soviet Union didn’t help. We had decades of being told anything collective = bad, worker power/ownership = bad, government planning = bad. Society needs to be limited to “individuals acting independently.” The Soviet Union is gone, but our fear is still strong of everything that even remotely looks like communism. The Red Scare was a huge beneficial windfall for corporate power.
Great work! Would you consider adding support for search-via-url, e.g. https://hn.wilsonl.in/?q=sentiment+analysis. It would enable sharing and bookmarks of stable queries.
two brothers and their truck fleet in the West Texas pirmian basin claim that their fracking operation has a little filter on it so "its all good" ..same as the last 15 years

regarding blowing up pipelines of other nations -- no comment
Syntactically incorrect code is not much different than an outline or pseudocode.

There are way too countless many stories of people successfully accomplishing tasks by getting an llm to give them a starting point or outline or even a complete solution that only needed a few fixups, hardly any different from debugging your own first draft, to say it doesn't or can't work. That's already sailed.

The fact that it doesn't produce finished correct code, or even appropriate outline for every single case, doesn't seem especially remarkable or damning to me. It is what it is, it's not what it's not.

(I haven't used any myself, but I'm not primarily a coder who is obligated to take advantage of every available tool, and don't like how any of the llm companies are training on open source code without either consent or attribution and then selling that. And don't like how ai and even mere speech to text voice interface before that is being added to everything in general.)
This is great, congrats on open-sourcing. The (now $20/user/mo we've been told) Slack AI is really not all that good in my experience, so it shouldn't be hard for you to do better by just spending a little extra $ in API credits.

That said, the Slack API limits third party apps from accessing chat history of private messages, so any implementations like this are artificially limited. In addition, if you're hosting something for your company to use, it would realistically need to take into account user permissions to make sure the AI isn't sending them data they shouldn't have access to. That could be tricky to implement correctly.
"As of March 2024, 6.9% of U.S. adults — 17.8 million people — have long Covid, a multisystem illness that sometimes appears after bouts of Covid-19"
Rust 1.78: Performance Impact of the 128-Bit Memory Alignment Fix
A little related, but I recently used a friends digital telescope (you look into an eyepiece, but you're looking at an LED screen of the captured image, not light directly from the lenses). And, for whatever reason, it felt far less magical than actually letting the photons from Jupiter hit my eye(yes, I know they are absorbed and retransmitted at various points, but you know what I mean).
Your confidence about the ease of this is amusing.
That already exists. It is my daily life in fact. eg "Is 8am PST too early for folks in IST?" literally is all day every day.

For example I literally have 3 emails in my inbox at the moment that arrived overnight from people in California saying some variation on "I saw a slot in your calendar for xpm PST, is that too late for you in London?".
The deaf community considers the lack of hearing a disability when it means they get federal financial assistance, though, don't they? It can't go both ways.
Microsoft, LinkedIn release the 2024 Work Trend Index on the state of AI at work
Alert – Four Solar Blasts Are on Their Way to Earth [video]
I'm all for that: bison is delicious.
Hi! My name is Sabrina and recently I noticed that hosting things is kind of expensive these days.. so I started my own hosting service that offers cheap yet just as powerful products!
L1/L2 requires a third party who could be liable to sign that the drivers are unmodified to the hardware.

On a general purpose Linux installation who would do that?

(And who in the Linux using community wouldn't take any efforts by someone to try as an afront, bluntly).
I think DRM works fine for the actual customers, the companies that are distributing video who need to convince the movie producers that they are taking it all very seriously, so they need to check some “our platform uses DRM” box. It all looks very odd from us downstream. But, still, most people don’t break DRM so it must be doing something.

For a long time the industry worked by shipping movies off the theaters, to be run in projection room secured by kids doing after-school jobs. I think they aren’t concerned with perfection.