skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid a few simple tweaks, especially if the hackers themselves have access to the code LLM to try out their code, will be sufficient to evade detection.
A little tangential but does anyone know if there are any modern web directories?

I'm wondering because it seems like due to the amount of spam on the web there needs to be more human curation as opposed to algrothims deciding what websites are valuable or not.
>Indeed. And you're suffering from the delusion that there's some kind of distinction here that matters.

>There isn't.

the distinction does matter because policy discussion should be around facts rather than vibes. Voters are the ultimate arbiters for what policy should be, but that doesn't mean we should shrug when their beliefs are objectively wrong.

> The economy fucking sucks. It sucks because [...]

All the points you've made about bad the economy talks past the points raised by mainstream economists. Sure, "trapped and helpless in the face of corporate power" isn't great, but how does that compare to 10% unemployment, or an actual recession? What makes for a economy that doesn't "fucking sucks"? More to the point, vibecession might have started post pandemic, but everything you said existed to some extent pre-pandemic. Has "corporate power and constant, rampant unethical conduct and cheating" actually gotten worse? Or did the perception get worse? That's the problem with going off vibes. Because there's no attempt to quantify it, it's possible to know whether something actually got worse, or people merely thought it got worse. You argue that people "should be able to look around and realize what's happening without resorting to regression analysis", but this comment section is full of examples where people were misinformed about various things (eg. objective economic measures or crime stats). You end up having to come up with contrived explanations to explain their behavior (ie. them being wrong on factual questions shouldn't impact their credibility because they're being wrong to express rage against the system).
> I was similarly convinced that moral hazard in healthcare was not a problem because consumers don't get more healthcare than they need. I know now that this is not the case.

Except for… you know, right here.
Can a collection of around 1.5 billion interconnected cells that predictably respond to signals in their environment using simple rules? How about 86 billion? 36 trillion?

These are ballpark counts of cells in crow’s brain, a human’s brain, and a human body. The question is, is it the cells themselves doing the reasoning and planning, or are they just the machinery this disembodied process happens to be running on? I’d argue intelligence is a distributed phenomenon that our DNA is as much a party to as our brains.

Certainly the question of whether humans use DNA to reproduce or DNA uses humans is a matter of perspective.
> Or is that just asking for trouble?

The average Node project pulls in hundreds of dependencies. While you'd hope these would have some security vetting because of the Many Eyes theory, you have no fucking idea what your project is doing. Even a trivial Electron app is running a ridiculous amount of unreviewed third party code.

Just one module able to exercise some local exploit in your engine because you didn't fix Security Footgun #8176 screws over all of your users.

A browser engine that's been developed with a billion dollars of person hours runs that same untrusted third party code but has security guardrails everywhere.
> Send an auto-reply telling them they can get their mail through if they copy a code in the reply

Never auto-reply to any email ever. You're only making the spam problem worse.

(Plus, if you think there are not actual persons behind most Outlook/Gmail spam, I've got news for you. They will reply, and beg you for another chance, sometimes in highly emotional terms).

"550 5.7.1 The recipient has set a policy that prohibits email from this sender" at the SMTP level is the only way forward here.
You probably also saw the arrows on the road itself as a reminder of the correct direction of travel. Those are always near any places tourists are likely to stop, since after a break it's common to forget which side to be on.
Growing Neural Cellular Automata https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300376, February 2020
> Why do some people's problems get the validation of the medical system and others don't?

Because there are effective forms of treatment available, but are gated by diagnosis because of $reasons. Validation of the medical system enables one to access those treatments, perhaps most important of which is being able to tell yourself, as well as others, that you're having an actual problem and are not "just lazy" or need to "just get yourself together", etc.
Does paying with Apple Cash (using Apple Pay) avoid this tracking/data reporting? If so, it's probably worth the 2% hit to maintain cash-like privacy. But if the data gets hoovered up the same, no point.
10% profit margin says not much.

Maximum 10% gain is not true for example because a contracted utility has little pressure to improve services, create new services, invent new energy processes, open or serve new markets. They can go with the generic political will and collect their garanteed 10%. Private enterprise wins or loses potentially big specifically by not doing that.

Maximum 10% gain is also not true for example because there is little pressure to "do it right" from an economic outcome point of view (when to plan expansions, how to schedule maintenance). Skipping the extremely politically incorrect example.

Maximum 10% gain is also not true for example because the current sector rarely has the opportunity to expand dramatically to support a dramatic new industry. (In that case, the gain would come from the new industry - AND the expanding utility sector) Even the Pacific North West did it the other way around: available surplus energy caused new industry to settle there.
Totally speculative territory, but I’ve had headaches when going to a shopping center since I was a kid.

It’s infallible, one to two hours and my head is exploding. I’ve always attributed it to the noise, crowds and sensory overload but it never happens elsewhere. Could it be?
This makes me wonder -- why do things like stimulants, caffeine, and cold medicine help people think clearly?

Aren't they vasoconstrictors?
Digital twins used to improve built environments for robots
It's surprisingly common in older music. I assume it's because recording studios used to run SD CRTs and everybody working there had already lost their high-frequency hearing. A 15.68kHz (mid way between PAL and NTSC horizontal refresh frequencies to remove both of them) notch filter fixes the problem in most cases.
One that is very profitable
As said in the article, the main problem is to find an ecologic alternative to plastics.
One of the few apps that could single handedly make an iPad pro interesting. :(
"AI wave" that Microsoft itself and probably some of those laid off 1500 workers helped orchestrate...
He's saying not to give them any ideas.
I have no information on the effectiveness of cold showers and depression but when I was clinically depressed I would not have had the will and energy to take a cold shower.

Physical exercise is also reported to alleviate or reduce depression symptoms but when depression hits, physical exercise gets almost impossible to self initiate. That a problem with "active"¹ depression treatment.

1- In opposition to passive treatments like drugs or devices, not in opposition with inactive or placebo
Yet as a whole, people estimate the nation's economy worse than their own. Clearly this can't be the case if everyone thinks their economic circumstances are the nation's economic circumstances, because if that were the case you'd expect them to align on a national basis.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/05/23/views-of-the...
No, Intel gets the distinction exactly right: "The MOV instruction performs basic load data and store data operations between memory and the processor’s registers and data movement operations between registers."

https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/819723/325462-sdm-vol-1-2abc... Volume 1, page 7-3 (page 181 of the PDF).

In the context of assembly, load/store refers to memory ⇆ register.
By the same argument paying a toll both on one of the tunnels and the New Jersey turnpike is also double charging. Those charges are for fundamentally different things - just like the tunnel toll and congestion charge are for different things.
I believe they were harming birds and insects, but I don't think someone using a mosquito tone to deter human beings cares much for wildlife health
The DOM stuff, JS, WASM, WebGL, WebGPU... at least five compilers, with JS and WASM needing two distinct frontends (baseline/optimizing) and at least two backends (x86/ARM), and WebGL and WebGPU needing three backends each (D3D/VK/Metal).
Living Outside the Box
The case studies in TFA are all places that deal with extremely high volume over very short time periods—amusement parks, zoos, and sporting events. Many of their points of sale are also mobile (food carts or someone walking around with a tray). Both the volume and the mobility make cash much more difficult to manage than a phone with a card reader, so they've likely done the math and determined that the interchange fees more than pay for the logistical improvements.
What a plague this thing is :(
"and third party App Stores"? How "third party" is that?

The "it's rejected, but it wasn't good anyway" paragraph at the bottom is perplexing.
Impressively, chatgpt was able to tell that the assembly snippet is computing popcnt on the first try without any hints.
I hear some car alarm sensors when passing by, the ones that will trigger when someone is about to park too close and hit the armed car.
I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised. Just from observing the platform rules and their review outcomes, this is what the expected result would be, regardless of what we want, wish or would find agreeable, even if Apple's reasoning is flawed or incompetent.

I do wonder what the SE version would do without JIT for pure in-architecture virtualisation since there is arm64 software out there that would run just fine (with no JIT). Right now it seems it's all pure QEMU and JIT and not much else. Or maybe I don't understand the relationship between Apple's HV, the HV options for UTM, QEMU and the requirement for JIT at all. There don't seem to be any builds without JIT but with HV.
I think beneficiary trumps everything. But we are talking about what you could do with the money if you were (undeserving) beneficiary. Giving it back to the dead person (precisely donating it to their estate) is the right thing to do although probably imperfect because donations are often taxed.
Certainly interesting. I had a similar project under works; I first looked at ActivityPub for federation but couldn't wrap my head around it. I settled on using some naive HTTP / REST for it, ie. just having one instance send queries to other linked instances when searching the whole network. The "federation" then would be kind of a whitelist model where each admin chooses their own outward peers / who to follow.

I didn't end up completing the project, though. I lost the code once due to an unfortunate home directory accident. I also worked both the front and backends at the same time, which slowed things down. Additionally, it was more of a hobby project where I was just learning the tech stack.

The end goal was sort of a small federation of independent indexes of good-quality webpages, which could function as a search tool for use cases such as finding different alternatives in a certain product category. Search results would be ranked based on how many linked instances save the links.

I might end up trying Betula, but it doesn't really seem to fulfill my ideal. I'm fine with Raindrop too, search works, and publishing my bookmarks is not a passion of mine.
induction stovetops create extremely loud high pitched noises, some get up to 100+ decibels. You can't "hear" it but at higher heat levels you can definitely "feel" it in your ears.
https://ooh.directory/ is one
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40622501
Makes sense to me. This is completely a layman's imagination talking, but I've always thought of a man's sperm as the "current state of the man". A man produces sperm constantly and with what we know of epigenetics, he can live his life for better or worse. For instance, exercise, vitamin D levels, and alcohol use all result in changes to his epigenetic expression.

Contrast this with a woman, whom is born with all the eggs she will ever have. She doesn't produce any new ones and thus her "job" is to maintain the freshness of her eggs for as long as possible. It also makes sense that youth is the best time for her to conceive a child as her eggs will not have accumulated as much damage as an older woman.

This kind of paints the picture that a man who is taking care of himself should aim for a young woman so as to give their children the best genetic roll of the dice.
A Desktop Monitor for 2025
> you need SSE4 on x64 for popcnt

This is a strong argument for moving to x86_64-v2 (or at least having an entire package ecosystem build for it) because popcnt shows up all over the place.
I don't buy this completely.

The measure of the perceived crime level in one's neighborhood isn't really dictated by stats or news, but your own and your neighbours lifes.

I know where I live is quite calm bar some occasional burglar, and I know it because I live in the place and talk to people everyday.
It's incredible that the information necessary to create a human is just about 750 MB uncompressed. For example the very specific shape of the scapula bone or fear of spiders...
New York Times source code leaked
They are concentrated in a major metro area that was among the worst affected by the pandemic in America. They span many ages, social classes, races, upbringings, and jobs, from tech to blue-collar union work.

Be that as it may, my point is that the possibility exists and is almost equally as likely. Not that it is correct.
This is so awesome. There’s a lot to geek out about here, but I was personally enamored with the extra effort to make good renders/visualizations in software. Thanks for the read!
I found Eric S. Raymond's take on this interesting (and most likely false):

https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1795088812944584781

He contends that autism is brain damage that limits your max IQ and that all the smartest people are neurotypical -- the genius brain is almost necessarily a normie brain, but better.

I think that what's closer to the truth is that extremely high intelligence is itself a form of neurodivergence, which is likely to be comorbid with other forms of neurodivergence. Eric himself I believe to be neurodivergent (in some non-autistic way) with 95% confidence: one of the tells is his choice of desktop environment: a minimalist tiling window manager (likely i3) with Emacs full screen on one of his displays -- anything else he deems too distracting and a drag on his brain. This sounds very ADHD and in any case is an almost archetypal Weird Nerd setup. Neurotypicals love their Windows and Mac style UIs, and every NT software engineer I've met has no problem managing -- and mousing through -- multiple windows: Visual Studio Code for coding, Postman for making HTTP calls, DBVisualizer for database interactions, etc.

NTs also love what people like Eric (and I as well sometimes) dismiss as "monkey socio-sexual games"; and if you are smart as well, you tend to get really, really good at these. Having been around extremely intelligent people who otherwise seem neurotypical (in particular, having married one and thus gained two more as in-laws), they tend to get less into hard science fields like math and physics, and more into fields where they can wield their impressive social skills for maximum benefit such as law, psychology, or entertainment. (Great actors, like Orson Welles or Sir Patrick Stewart, fit this profile to a T, though there are some great actors -- like Dan Aykroyd -- with autism!) My in-laws were legal professionals for the entertainment industry; after that long and successful career they retired, went to seminary, and joined the clergy of the Episcopal church!

Eric's observation that all the best scientists are neurotypical-ish may be a result of what's described in TFA: in today's world, being a prominent scientist selects very hard against Weird Nerd traits because at that level, beyond a baseline level raw skill in the discipline doesn't correlate well with success; schmoozing and marketing do. The same has been true of professional software engineering for at least a decade and a half or so.
There are plenty of perfectly legal reasons to crave privacy.

One anticipates a business model where proxies manage the public transactions for people who want to have some private market without all of the Monday-Friday data trail associated with their Monkey Fighting transactions.

For a price, of course. As the wise man sang: "Freedom isn't free / There's a heavy f***g fee."
Yes, that's a different type of limitation imposed on the broadcaster. My point was that AI has not got a business model except capturing whatever value remains after it destroys existing models, just like audio streaming. Recent backlash against Daniel Ek's musing on X and the general behaviour of Spotify towards artists shows signs of reaching the end of the line for this idea. Same fate awaits AI. If you see how little of substance can be found in answers given by AI luminaries in their numerous interviews you can see for yourself that those guys have no idea and no plan. The best antidote for this bullshit is to display the transcripts on YT videos and read what they are saying. It's pure nothing.
Which assembler requires that? Let me guess, GAS in Intel mode, just to make it more painful because they don't want you to use it?

NASM syntax:

mov rax,[Foo] ;load var into reg, QWORD is implicit
add dword [Bar],1234h ;add constant to DWORD var
movzx eax,byte [rsi] ;zero extend BYTE to DWORD reg
Interesting I guess, but hardly newsworthy for a company of over 220k.
I'm currently trying out Claude 3 (Opus) side by side with ChatGPT (mostly using 4o, but have premium).
So far it's pretty much on par, sometimes Claude gets it better sometimes ChatGPT.

I will say the ones where Claude did better was technical in nature. But.. still experimenting.
My reading is that they really wanted the non-SE version (i.e. the full performance one with JIT) on those devices, but recognized that wasn't going to happen given the rules against using JIT.

Therefore they do not seem particularly bothered by this rejection, as it was not going to let them get the "full" version working anyway.
Local search and location-aware search is probably Google's biggest moat against smaller search engines. Bing does it passably, but it's aguably still pretty bad.

What's worse is that it's probably hard to ever get working well without the internet-scale profiling Google has access to.
What are the causes of data loss?
>physical exercise gets almost impossible to self initiate.

This. The only solution I found is to force yourself to "just do it" first thing you get out of bed, no matter how much you feel mentally you can't do it.

No checking phone, no opening the laptop, no making coffee, no eating breakfast, no staring out the window. Once you remove or block any other potential distraction, there's only one thing left you can do to get on with your day, which is to grab those dumbbells sitting on the yoga mat and get at it.

It has to be my number one priority when I wake up, otherwise it falls down the list of responsibilities over the day and then never gets done.
The Manhattan Project was a very successful model of managing big brains or "weird nerds". The key it turns out is having a big brain manage other big brains, while himself managed by a corporate type from the US Army. Another key element is a shared sense of insecurity tied to mission failure. I predict future weird nerds will be herded together in 'safe corporate cities' (like the Googleplex prototype) shielding them from the outside unwashed. They may be weird but they can do the math.
No. Despite the name, it's really just a regular Visa debit card, issued by Green Dot Bank.
Oh, I absolutely think it can be changed, but no one would be in favor of the methods needed to change it.

The way I see it, if you have an uneducated, irrational population, or being a significant portion of a population, they need to be managed. They shouldn't be having a say in everything, they are not qualified to have a say in most things. They are basically children. They're basically children.

So to get there, you need to basically eradicate that population by mandating education, and certain types of education. Those same people are going to resist, but really that's the only way, and you need to do that even if there is a cost.
Lumbermills are a local industry since transportation is a very significant fraction of the final cost. No one is shipping wood from Oregon to a mill on the East coast to sell to a construction company in California, so every mill is very much sensitive to local competitors.

Ironically it's the larger mills that are insensitive to this dynamic, since they supply huge national customers like the big box stores or export to international markets. If Home Depot or Lowes decide their suppliers need a new mill, they finance it and it gets built.
I did not claim that the moral hazard problem is linked to affordability. You seem to want to argue with things I have not said.
We're running it on vLLM and are working with others in the community to bring it to other optimized inference frameworks.
Could you please elaborate on why this is propaganda?
Yeah, no, I'm good -- having seen what happened to the ones that came before me, I'm quite happy to limit myself to policing (nah, gardening) my own little corner of the Internet...
Only if the user base is large enough to gather enough interest. I expect someone reverse-engineering popular devices like nintendo switch but not bionic eyes used by a few hundred people.
Your readme doesn't really answer the question of why not cloud-init?
The main anti pattern is making the wrong choice; using async when sync fits better.
Speaking generally, not to you specifically, it seems like a ton of people see the problems created by capitalism and decide the solution is even more capitalism.

I don't think there's a magical number of competitors that fixes things. We see an interesting phenomenon in commercial landlords where we have a ton of players but they all use the same software [1], which creates an effective monopoly even though it's not a classical monopoly.

The problems we see in so many sectors were accurately described in the 1800s by just analyzing the workers relationships to the means of production. Internet access is a textbook cexample. National ISPs should not exist. They are rent-seeking parasites. The best Internet is in places with municipal broadband.

It's just not feasible or economical to have 4+ broadband networks being built in an area.
[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
Vne on a T-34 is only like 220kts, it’s not seeing supersonic flow.
> Why on earth would anyone buy one?

For the same reason I, and a lot of other people, chose to not have sweets and snacks at home. Because we like them and if they were available, we would eat them. We know that this is really bad for health and we also know that we have limited willpower to prevent ourselves from reaching for them. So we elect to help make better decision by just not having them around all the time.

I still eat sweets. I just prefer this to be once a week in a form of a good dessert at a good restaurant, right after a good meal.

And if I need a snack I make sure to have plenty of alternative, healthy options available at all times -- mostly fresh fruit and veggies.
what does "better" mean here?