skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually use pinning, blocking and raising/lowering the value of individual sites every day. I wish this is the direction search engines went in the first place and it's the direction I hope Kagi continues. I want a personalized search engine that's personalized by me, not by a company trying to profile me and make money off of my clicks.
The state of Vulkan apps from 2015 to 2024, compared to DX12
I have been thinking a lot about Yahoo (pre yahoo-search, largely) lately. I don't fully understand how we lost the curated catalog, especially considering the success of Wikipedia. The latter demonstrates users willingness to curate knowledge bases... We have "awesome" lists, but I rarely seem to use them.
Personal website inspired by iPhone dynamic island
> Altman, and Musk, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos, and Ellison, and Edison
Can it be used for automatic annotation?

As in: you tell it that these and these parts should be masked such and such, and then it does that?
I wonder if an avantgarde Penderecki coffee would taste sharper compared to let's say Mozart type:)
At the 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple launched the highly anticipated new generation data management framework — SwiftData. As the successor to Core Data, can SwiftData play a key role in the Apple ecosystem? With WWDC 2024 approaching, this article will evaluate the overall performance of SwiftData since its initial release during the Xcode 15 period (i.e., its first major version), and provide a forecast of its future development.
A real charity or American style tax shelter “my own charity”?
What's your basis for cutting? What's the underlying principle here?
Woah, this actually did quite well on table data extraction. I wonder how this could be used for long documents. Maybe paired with some kind of hybrid rag approach.
What I’m saying is that paragraph was written as if dishonesty was a problem women had to face from men. It doesn’t explicitly note that men also face it from women (nor does it assert that this is only a female problem). Just pointing out it goes both ways. I’m not trying to say the author is wrong
Recursive CTEs, LEFT JOINs, Stored Procedures…
FWIW, I don't recall ever being asked during interviews if I wanted to come to the office. The policy was simply stated as a fact of the position.

So any lying would have been spurious.
The Blade Battery used in the BYD Qin seems to have a 500-600 KM range [0].

Essentially, it's an EV that has a Hybrid ICE option instead of the other way around.

[0] - https://en.byd.com/search/the%20Blade%20Battery
A bit like couchdb?
> I do not have reason to believe that

This phrase has no place in security research.
It's comments like this that are the reason I come to hacker news.

Now what do we do about it? What I'm doing about it is

http:/github.com/civboot/civboot
and
http:/github.com/civboot/civlua
>biggest advantage of working in person is high-bandwidth communication

Wrong, it's the tax breaks:

>JPMorgan Chase & Co. and RBC Capital Markets are among more than 100 firms that have negotiated billions of dollars worth of agreements under New Jersey’s pre-pandemic programs. None have yet applied for the waiver, Sullivan said, meaning if they want their tax breaks, they’ll have to prove the jobs are being done on site at least three days a week. JPMorgan and RBC declined to comment.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...
Is it only me or
do these constant Kagi ads on HN sound fishy?
Really cool and impressive work! I'm more on the software (high level) side than on the hardware, but I always wondered how USBs and other ports were truly working. It is an area of knowledge that I'm shamefully lacking...

Does anyone have nice resources to share like this one that focuses on a specific port/connection and implement a driver/reader/parser? I'd very like to learn more of this.
At the end it mentions a nonce based approach probably being the more sensible way. Shay Gueron presented at RWC 2024 about a nonce based approach (DNDK-GCM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsFO4ZQlYS8&list=PLeeS-3Ml-r... -- they mention Meta are using this as their default in their encryption library.

There is also an internet draft on it: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gueron-cfrg-dndkgcm/
>spamming their thoughts at me through speech

Funny way of saying 'talking to me'. I'm going to work this into my vocabulary for fun and profit.
Reminder: Alta Vista looked like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#/media/File:Altavist...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-alt...

(archive) https://archive.ph/aru0B

> Altman’s polarizing past hints at OpenAI board’s reason for firing him
Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator, part of a pattern of clashes that some attribute to his self-serving approach
Same stuff I do now, probably. Contribute to Fedora/Ansible.

I'd like to think I'd take better care of myself, but given I know this should be the priority now... I'm being realistic.

I'll forever be angry how I had to min/max skills like this to break out of poverty. Making things accessible to others is my dream.
Seeing Sound: Audio Classification with the Wigner-Wille Distribution and CNN
From a developers point of view- if you are given an option to provide a seed value, you’re using the wrong api. Libraries exist to provide cryptographically appropriate rngs in every major programming language- use those instead.
Social communication is of course needed and a seperate thing. The Jira comment may lead to a meeting anyway, but at a time that suits all.
All evidence points to Altman being lying and duplicitous. I would have fired him too.
pledges =! "Actually had over money somewhere"
How is Paddle on complex data tables? This is my biggest challenge at the moment.
All it means in the corporate world is who you know matters far more than what you know. AI doesn't make this less so it makes it far more so.

Even if this "works", you still most likely will lose out to the friend of a friend of the hiring manager with a personal reference.

So you need to do this and randomly hope that no one has a personal reference or you are so amazing you can overcome the personal reference. Highly unlikely.
Instead of a semantic Web of knowledge, we got "grep the HTML... with ads".
You don't need to hit a LLM multiple times to get multiple distributions, just provide a list of perspectives and ask the model to answer the question from each of them in turn, then combine the results right there in the prompt. I have tested this approach a bunch, it works.
Sigh, this old trope again. The Chinese government stopped subsidizing EV purchases in 2022. There are some tax breaks, but they're also getting phased out. Neither is or was ever all that different from the various EV subsidies found in most Western countries.

https://dialogue.earth/en/business/life-after-subsidies-for-...

Doing business in China is indeed very hard, but Tesla is still selling quite well there, despite absolutely furious competition.
Is kagi good for finding things like old forum posts (not reddit)? I know some of those sites are still up but google seems to ignore them.
The efficacy of what? I don't know which treatment you're referring to. If you mean Freudian analysis, that's not a specific billable procedure.
In the end it's home office guys bending over and taking it up their ass from office loving fanboys or the other way around. I'd say to the office sickos go work something else, be a fishmonger or something that requires physical presence. Otherwise bend over and shut up.
I can’t find the pricing either. I’m interested, the demo worked well.
ProjectPro (YC IK12) Is Hiring
Goalposts are getting tatty from being moved about so much.
Would love to see Ollama support for this - seems promising given my experience with LLaVA so far and would love to get some hands on head to head experience
The website got blocked by the SURBL list. Here's alternate link: papertube.live. All the kindle emails were based on user actions, not sure why the site got flaged. I have the SPF/DKIM setup as well.
Now I want one of these.
Combine the time with some other incremental hard-to-predict inputs.

Start with the time, in the milliseconds (not seconds, i.e. epoch time). Use that seed to create a random number. That random number is now your master_seed.

Once every 10 seconds, measure the temperature of the CPU, and every other temperature sensor in the system, and put that into a new random seed. Create a random number using this seed. XOR it with the mast_seed and store it as the new masted_seed.

Every time someone moves a mouse, use the timestamp and the pixel offset to update the master_seed similarly as above.

Every time a packet comes into the ethernet interface, use the timestamp and a hash of the packet contents, and update the random seed.

XOR the contents of the video buffer.

Track the timing of keyboard clicks.

There are lots of sources of entropy that you can use to make the seed effectively unguessable.
I would continue to (re)build my decentralized Web Browser network, which aimed to combat fake propaganda, fake news, shit storms etc by creating evidence trails and by correlating articles with similar or opposing entries.

That, and a lot of nice things you can do when you have trust ratios of local/global peers, more efficient bandwidth usage etc.

Anyways, long story short, needs lots of time and money to build something like this. But seeing how messed up Mozilla's future plans are, I really think someone should do it.

After I got doxxed by kiwifarms, /pol/ and others I decided that I have to fix the cybersecurity problem first before I can go back to this.

[1] (prototype) https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

[2] (privacy focussed fork of webkit) https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit
- https://archive.is/4A53o

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240529081236/https://maheshba....
I wouldn't necessarily call them fishy, but I am very tired of them. They have a very evangelizing tone. But I think they're ultimately just people excited about the tool they're using and wanting to share it with others.
The Emerging AI Era Faces a Growing Threat from Directed Energy Weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall
> First, there are some employees who believe that being in the office will benefit their careers. They are probably right; workers who return to the office are more likely to receive promotions. Whether organisations should promote the careerists who come back to the office in hopes that their loyalty (or submissiveness to RTO mandates) will win them promotions that their performance and effectiveness would not, is an open question.

I take issue with the fact how quickly this is dismissed as simply rewarding loyalty and submissiveness. It completely ignores how much junior employees struggle with WFH. Without an office there is very little opportunity for junior employees to casually talk to senior employees and learn from them. It is also much harder for managers to notice if a junior employee is doing well or not. So it is no surprise it is easier to get promotions with an RTO mandate and it has very little to do with loyalty.
So... then these mushrooms are composting human remains, right?
> because 1 doesn't scale as your business logic becomes more & more sophisticated (copy/pasting it around every endpoint's single-giant SQL statements, or pushing it down into the db as views/stored procedures).

I think the idea that doing business logic inside the DB is an anti-pattern is cargo culting. You can quite easily store schema definitions, stored procedures, etc. inside version control. You can document it just as you would any other code. You don’t have to see what precisely the call is doing at all times, provided you understand its signature.

Letting the DB do more than just be a dumb data store is a great idea, IMO, and one that is too often eschewed in favor of overly-complicated schemes.
Which is absolutely different than changing the corporate structure.

What the Yahoo Board was doing was essentially bringing in their own set of advisers.
It definitely is a killer app and light years ahead any competing product. Github copilot is good but different use case to me. If you meant MSFT Copilot, well that I am not sure what benefit if any exists.
The "lies" there are such bullshit. They basically consist of "Google claimed they didn't do X" now it looks like they probably do X and therefore google lied.

They are somewhat circumspect about the fact that each example is actually, 8+ years ago Google made a claim about what they did at the time and now there's evidence that they are currently doing doesn't match that claim. That's not a lie.

For example, they link to this tweet from 2016 as such a claim: https://ipullrank.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image21.png

Or a later example where they link to this 2016 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPu4vHETXw

Later on, they use claims from 2012: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-chrome-search-usage-1561...
Maybe they're not ads but people who genuinely like the service?
Ben eater has videos on USB, SPI and rs232.

Bitluni has a couple of easily consumable videos about VGA.
That's true, but I've then also subtracted commute times from office hours when I was required to come in. I can't do 8 hours in office plus 1.5 commute time on those days.
The proper simple syntax IMHO should better be something like:

void foo(int ptr[n], size_t n);

with ptr[n] not copying the full array, just that n is the size.

you can try it now with:

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int ptr[6] = {0,1,2,3,4,5};
#define N sizeof(ptr)/sizeof(int)

void foo(int ptr[n], size_t n) { // error: ‘n’ undeclared here (not in a function)
for (unsigned i=0; i<n; i++)
printf("%d ", ptr[i]);
}
void main(void) {
foo(ptr, N);
}

instead of compile-time:

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int ptr[6] = {0,1,2,3,4,5};
#define N sizeof(ptr)/sizeof(int)

void foo(int ptr[N], size_t n) {
for (unsigned i=0; i<n; i++)
printf("%d ", ptr[i]);
}
void main(void) {
foo(ptr, N);
}

The Linux kernel [restrict .n] syntax is just too weird, almost perl-like, inventing new magic glyphs. And deviating from the normal restrict meaning.
This is from an Irish broadcaster and commutes there tend to be hellish, unfortunately.
It's the 2nd largest automotive market in the World [0].

The other large markets like the EU and India are also looking at tariffs for EVs exported directly from China and are pushing for Chinese companies to create domestic JVs in both countries (eg. BYD in Hungary, MG in India).

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/269872/largest-automobil...
"Guitar meticulously tuned to concert pitch, with attention to the 12-15 fret area"

When you need to pay attention to anything outside of open string, fretted 12th, open harmonic 12th fret (and fretted 24th if you have a 24+ fret guitar) for intonation, it's time to get the guitar to a luthier for setup maintenance. Something else is drastically wrong in the setup.
Interesting, even if I think there's still some data missing to draw personal conclusions.

Vulkan is hard, everybody knows that, and I do remember the hype behind it with Doom & Doom: Eternal releases.

But I don't think Vulkan is NEEDED all the time. Most of the indie games today can still be running using OpenGL without any doubt. Also, I would be interested to see something like this but for the gaming industry: is Vulkan considered as a production-ready API for Ubisoft / CD Projekt / ... for example, and if not "why?".
So your point is that a Lisp that ships a JIT will help you implement a "copy-and-patch JIT" because "macros" and "code is data"?

Let me point out that Go neither ships a JIT, nor has macros, so I really don't see how that's relevant insight for the Go ecosystem.
Threads for startups who just got rejected by YC, What are you building?
This is thread for people who just got rejected by YC, what are you building?, Your next customer, Co-founder or investor could be here. Let's increase our chances of getting in For the next batch!!!

I am building Sixth, an AI platform for code and application security,

URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Sixth.sixth
I reckon being a board member is more than having a front row seat to a business
ChatGPT uses the internet since last September.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999172
Refactoring doesn't just benefit you in 50 years it can benefit within weeks.

I agree that it's a waste on throwaway code, throwaway code is common and what ends up being throwaway code is hard to predict, but I don't think it's impossible to get a sense of the likelihood of the code being tossed, and that sense can be used to tweak your refactoring budget.
You may enjoy https://snekoil.weblog.lol/
They also contributed Apache NiFi but that was much earlier: https://nifi.apache.org/
Maybe they are selling the redirect traffic.
In case you're not just riffing: no, it's not statically linked.

The WebViewLoader.dll is embedded in the source code and then loaded into memory as if it was loaded via LoadLibrary() or by Windows .exe loader which loads referenced .dll automatically.

Granted, he re-implemented LoadLibrary() to load from memory, which can potentially break if Microsoft changes the details of how LoadLibrary() is implemented.

This is one of my pet peeves with Microsoft API design. LoadLibrary() only works with files from disk.

It should be implemented as a trivial wrapper around LoadLibraryFromMemory() but Microsoft didn't implement LoadLibraryFromMemory so we have to resort to re-implementing LoadLibrary when we want this very useful functionality.
Used to? Did they stop? Did they give a reason why?
Yeah, I turned that feature off - it kept on making decidedly non-useful decisions about what to remember.
The core issue that parent is talking about is that the decision-tokens should built on the reasoning-tokens vs the reasoning-tokens are generated according to the decison-tokens. RAG just provides the context the LLM should reason about.
Yeah, same. My hearing is absolutely not great, but "good enough", but in noisy environments I struggle. Given I'm fairly introvert to start with, on one hand, I'm perfectly at ease just checking out and sitting with my own thoughts if I can't hear a conversation, but when I do decide to come out with someone I'd prefer it to be easier to be more social instead of resorting to checking out.
Very simple. You could contaminate freely on China, but not in Europe and USA. You can use as much coal as you want, with as many ashes, sulphur or radioactivity as you want.

That makes energy super cheap. But is is an external cost, people are paying with their health.

Europe and USA went to similar periods in the past. Now China is regulating more and more because pollution is a huge problem there.

Then you have salaries, that used to be cheap, now not so much.

Also a very important thing is that in China capital is not free, it is a communist system and your savings account are used to subsidise what the Government wants. EV, solar, electronic chips and batteries are a priority so they receive infinite amounts of money from Government.

Finally you have scale. China usually have enormous markets because it has so much people, although that applies to cheap things, for cars they don't have enough buyers inside so they want to sell in Africa and India and the West.
I thought the offensive part of the NSA was the part that was capturing encrypted Internet traffic to later decrypt.
That’s one incredibly high P/E for AMD. Is 241.10 correct?

The numbers look more favorable for Intel. Let’s see if they can turn it around
I don't know if territory captures the entirety of the meaning. There's a notion of culture and tradition that isn't captured by the kinda geographic meaning of territory
Very much agree.

Also, what's it for? None of these articles point to anything worthwhile that it's useful for.
I'm a Kagi user too. I like your enthusiasm, but I can't say it's been all that life changing for me. DuckDuckGo is ok too, I still use it on some machines when I don't feel like logging in. GPT has been more life changing.
NTSC is 29.97 fps and PAL is 25. That’s almost 20%!
Show HN: WebRTC P2P DataChannel Chat with Go WebAssembly
DEMO:
https://p2p-chat.pages.dev

A chat application that utilizes the WebRTC P2P DataChannel implemented with Go WebAssembly, allowing you to match and converse with random strangers.
Do we know how large the tank is?
Nothing like typing in an ssh prompt and each time you press a button on the keyboard you have to wait a few seconds for the char to appear on the screen, because it has to go to the server and back first... that't the true "blind typing" :)))
Apartments are homes too....
The equity offering was nearing and then the board just fired Altman out of nowhere and had no credible reasons or a narrative to sell to the employees, then they quickly caught on that their comp would go to smokes with this clueless lot at the helm who can't even justify a firing without making a pig's breakfast of the whole affair and demanded the reinstatement of the CEO for their pocket's sake, simple as that.
I thought there might be one :)

3d... 3d... 3d... you know you want to.
I resorted to wearing earplugs for several years when I was going out more. I felt it did very little to reduce my ability to hear conversations, and it made the whole experience overall so much more pleasant.
As good as SELinux and TrustedBSD are, I wouldn't expect them to be any sort of defense against the NSA. I wouldn't expect them to publish anything that they can't already own when they want to.
Gabi is the Visual C compiler maintainer, not just tooling. The only sane person in the C++ ISO committee (_besides the sdcc maintainer, who has no power at all_).
How do you know that Kagi won't become as bad as Google at some point?
The Ancient Art of Calligraphy Is Having a Revival
Yesterday Joe Grand put up a video explaining how he used Ghidra to find the password generator pattern and helped someone recover 43 BTC. For some folks, that was probably their first time seeing Ghidra in action and I imagine it sparked the curiosity flame again.
And also there's Nvidia now at $2.8 trillion market cap, over 20x more than Intel.

Another 14% stock price increase, and Nvidia is the world's most valuable company.
https://archive.ph/IKLuQ
Jakob Nielsen's article "The Case for Micropayments" from 1998 still seems relevant. Nothing has really changed in 26 years so I'm skeptical whether it could ever work, but in principle it would be great for users and website owners to have that option.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-case-for-micropayments/
The prospect of an earplug that eases focusing audio got me interested... but no thanks, I won't go out to socialize with basically two mini trumpets coming out of my ears. It looks funny, reminiscing of classic b&w pictures with deaf people carrying ear trumpets everywhere with them during 18th century.
It is. Like I said above I would be concerned about the continuing success of the organisation according to its operating principles. Destroying the company over childish disputes would not be fulfilling that charter. I'm very glad OpenAI got the competent board they deserved after this event.