skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite their models currently being the best available, I have started boycotting openAI for one simple reason. Their objectives, goals and behavior have undergone a dramatic shift to being profit centric, which means I can no longer trust their black boxes to process my information in a way that is not designed to exploit or mislead me more than it already prone to doing. Worse yet, glitchy behavior is expected of these things, so they could simply say oops, its just AI 'hallucinations' if caught out. There is little incentive not to, and plenty of convenient no fault 'excuses' out from under any real repercussions, which to me makes it exceedingly likely to happen.
I will sell you the pentultimate AI to navigate.

It will prevent dangerous sitations like:

- entering a room and stopping abruptly while wondering why you entered.

- stepping on legos.

- the coffee table shin scenario.
750 volts will not kill you in single-digit milliseconds, but rather hundreds of milliseconds (or not at all), and it's probably worth it to run the extra wire to not be single-stringed
Measuring the effect of pull requests on OCaml's compilation time (2021)
> Separately, Jong has also alleged that Apple subjected her to a hostile work environment after a senior member of her team, Blaine Weilert, sexually harassed her. After she complained, Apple investigated and Weilert reportedly admitted to touching her "in a sexually suggestive manner without her consent," the complaint said. Apple then disciplined Weilert but ultimately would not allow Jong to escape the hostile work environment, requiring that she work with Weilert on different projects. Apple later promoted Weilert.

> As a result of Weilert's promotion, the complaint said that Apple placed Weilert in a desk "sitting adjacent" to Jong's in Apple’s offices. Following a request to move her desk, a manager allegedly "questioned" Jong's "willingness to perform her job and collaborate" with Weilert, advising that she be “professional, respectful, and collaborative,” rather than honoring her request for a non-hostile workplace.

This is disgusting. She was sexually assaulted and rightly wanted to get away from her abuser, and a manager pulls the "team player" card. I "question" this manager's ability to think, because that is super fucking dumb.

No wonder she got PTSD, she was put in an impossible situation by toxic leadership that looked out for her abuser and not her.
> Yes - in tests for code that handles filenames, shell or otherwise.

That sounds like a variant of the old broken window fallacy.
I don't imagine they will, there have been several cases now where bans have been repealed in similar fashion and no agency has been required to make any sort of restitution for those who complied.
Can’t wait for the iOS 18 feature where it summarizes the page for you with a tap
“The Myth of Mental illness” Thomas Szasz

https://depts.washington.edu/psychres/wordpress/wp-content/u...
Hey can I just say I appreciate y'all's mission and energy in the comments? Very inspiring, very welcoming—you're the best!
Show HN: Paste2Download – No Login, No Ads, Download Videos Watermark Free
Hi Hacker News,

I'm excited to share Paste2Download, a web app that lets you download videos from various platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Pinterest, and even 9Gag, all without watermarks.

What it does:
Paste2Download simplifies the process of downloading videos by allowing you to paste a video URL from multiple platforms and download the video directly to your device. It removes watermarks and supports a wide range of video sources.

Why I built it:
There are plenty of sites that can help with downloading videos from TikTok, but many of these websites are cluttered with banners and ads, making them slow and cumbersome to use. I wanted to create a tool that offers a seamless, ad-free experience. Paste2Download is designed to be super clean and fast, providing a hassle-free way to download videos.

Feedback:
I’d love to get your feedback! Let me know what you think, any suggestions, or if you encounter any issues.
This is true for stuff that can be sold, but for example my personal blog has most search traffic going to a page about a cartoon theme song.

People still rely on search engines for a bunch of things beyond "best phone 2024".
The "real" BOM is what you can actually get. If you don't have the funding to make 10,000 boards in order to push to cost down to $4, then the BOM is $7.
https://spaceengine.org/ , though it’s partially fictional if I recall correctly. Edit: oh and not
OSS. Misremembered.
1200 baud is a standard baud rate and I think 3% is within tolerance. probably not a crystal though or it would be much closer
If they had control they wouldn’t comply
Interesting genealogy;

Stellar Elements was a non descript B2B consulting firm with no real footprint (like one of many) then gets bought by Amdocs[1], an Israeli company HQ in St Louis? in 2017, at which point SE goes on an acquisition spree, picking of five companies, Ora Interactive, Cibo Global, then BNR, then ADK Group then Roam Digital. Cibo was basically a PR firm, BNR actually had a product, and the other three were IT consulting services.

Looking at various news stories and social media they seem to have tried to synthesize some sort of contract services/training thing.

Given that BNR has a huge person-to-person product and they were acquired in June of 2020, I would speculate that the pandemic killed their training business and they couldn't make payroll[2] and sold themselves off to SE as 'rescue'.

In my experience acquisitions that happen where the two options are 'get acquired' or 'go out of business' the power imbalance is really super significant. The acquired company gets basically zero say in how they should run their own business. With luck it is aligned with the acquirer, sometimes they acquirer just wants some staff and maybe some IP and the rest is just leftovers.

I agree the GlassDoor reviews read like an acquiring company that doesn't care about people they acquired. Often there are retention bonuses for people that are needed to extract the desired parts so I hopefully some of that happened.

It is really sad to me as I think application specific training resources are something big companies don't really do any more and the market is hit or miss with regard to combined in person + reference material. It sounds like I would have enjoyed going to their iOs development class.

[1] Amdocs' web site is awash in "GenAI" buzzwordiness. Which makes me wonder if it was all crypto before :-). I don't know anything about the company really since I've never talked to anyone who works there but man, that website, really throws off a lot of red flags for me.
[2] Although this seems odd given the PPP program but its just a guess right?
So it sounds like large scale deployments have a larger proportion of the cost be due to permitting, and smaller scale (like on a house), would be fairly low by comparison.
Huggingface let's you run locally with huggingface exclusive code! They started this way and the managed/hosted solution came later.

You downvoters are the folks who jumped into this craze post ChatGPT.
I often create them by accident in emacs with save-as, somehow a newline is often to easily appended
Wanting something, and writing a license that delivers what you want are two different things.

They may know what they want, but that doesn't mean they know how to write a license that delivers what they want.

"Do what I mean, not what I say" is not effective in either code or contracts.
He appointed a woman as CEO to both SpaceX and, most recently, Twitter. We're going to run out of tissues for these people's issues.
> If ollama's free hosted models were no longer free and you had to manually find and download your own model files, would you still use it? Could you still use it?

I would absolutely still use it; I've already ended up feeding it gguf files that weren't in their curated options. The process (starting from having foo.gguf) is literally just:

echo FROM ./foo.gguf > ./foo.gguf.Modelfile
ollama create foo -f foo.gguf.Modelfile

(Do I wish there was an option like `ollama create --from-gguf` to skip the Modelfile? Oh yes. Do I kinda get why it exists? Also yes (it lets you bake in a prompt and IIRC other settings). Do I really care? Nope, it's low on the list of modestly annoying bits of friction in the world.)
Apple leaving china does essentially nothing, the people there won’t get end to end encryption either way
Thank you so much! This energy has waked us all up!! We’re all living together right now preparing for the world championships next week in TN! This is soooo exciting.
You said “people aren’t walking around with gobs of unused ability.” I said the exact opposite thing.
This is why PowerShell is so great. Commands return objects with a structure so you can do what you want with the output from Get-Childitem safely.
I'd assume you can also hit that case if your string library mishandles the encoding of the file name and it becomes a new line where there was none.

Then auto generating files from another source will also do that, in particular from html fields, where SQL and sheer security related sanitization will obviously be done, but comestic stuff like new lines can be left untouched.
Only in France?
this is a great idea. you don't even need a bipolarity driver, just an h-bridge. though if you do have plus and minus rails plus ground, you only need two transistors
Every time I see someone encourage escalation like this, I can only cringe.
In modern parlance "REPL" means a lot more than that and typically incorporates at least some kind of editable history.
A sub title may be: One more ingredient in the fridge multiplies the dishes you can make.

Meta: Link is an approx 6 minute video that I found to the point. It's about reading more to expand one's self.
> Back when I did weapons development I got to see the difference between stated capability and reality, thus I have no faith in the wests missile defence systems.

We have those at all? Ones that would affect nukes?

I don't think the idea of nuclear missle defense was part of the above scenario or is part of the average person's expectations.
Please send to archive.org
The venn diagram of people who are technically savvy enough to be able to alter their dns records and people who can and will use a VPN to work around an ip geolocation block is almost a single circle.
Someone's gotta be first. You're paving the way for others!
You’ll never be able to run a cargo ship effectively even with 100% efficient panels. [https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter4/transportat...]

Maximum insolation is about 1kw/square meter. Assuming a very favorable TOE/kwh equivalent (11.6 mwh/toe) and 150-225 tons of fuel oil a day, we’re talking energy consumption of 1.7-2.6 gigawatt hrs per day to power a container ships main propulsion.

Assuming very favorable 10 hr insolation times, and 25% solar conversion efficiency, you’d need something like 680000 square meters - or 168 acres - worth of panels to even come close. Even with 100% efficient panels, it would be over 43 acres worth.

A Panamax container ship is only 2.3 acres in size, which equates to 9.5 megawatts of solar insolation peak.

So you’d need between 20-73 times more surface area, and very favorable conditions.

Not to mention batteries to smooth all that out. And a chance of storms. Or not having panels aligned perfectly.

Fossil fuels are incredibly energy dense, and these ships have to burn insane amounts of them already in very efficient ways to do what they do.
Very suspicious—sounds like something a canine would say!
> Users can typically create any filename they like in /tmp, which causes trouble when the nightly cleanup script runs and tries to delete the old ones.

I don't think that's how /tmp works. Aren't those files garbage collected either at boot time or after X days of creation? I mean, if your program creates a file in /tmp and keeps it open for days then you clearly screwed up as you're misusing the whole concept of a temporary file. For that there are better places in the file system hierarchy.
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
It was a common technique in the DOS era to simulate GUIs with text. This was not just done with the characters in codepage 437 either; using redefinable character sets in the EGA and VGA, graphical elements such as buttons, input fields, etc. could be rendered in character cells. By redefining characters where the mouse pointer was supposed to be, a pixel-accurate mouse pointer could be created. Not just trackers used this technique, but e.g., later versions of Norton Utilities did as well.
A new law requires plant shops to stop selling poisonous plants. If people really want to grow these plants they will find a way. Nature still exists.
I'm the source

we have been living in a psql era for longer than mysql, so it has had enough time to catchup.

If you feel otherwise it's probably that memory bias effect where distant events seem closer and we underestimate the passage of time,

There's an xkcd for that

https://xkcd.com/891/

"The death of mysql(2010) is closer to its birth(1995) than to the present (2025)" will become a true statement next year.
You can attach trailer to bicycle and use it to transport your kids to nursery/school during winter. There I live both things would be illegal with motorcycle.
I have been writing shell scripts for over twenty years and don't think I have ever encountered a file name with a newline. I have hit file names starting with a dash - though being interpreted as flags at least a few times. Every command should support the -- path separation feature a lot of newer stuff like git does.
The problem is the process you describe is the same for all laws, if that system doesn't work, fuck it, appoint a head of agency that has the current leaderships opinion to reinterpret the meaning of a policy, and change the policy without requiring the law making body to play any role in that.

If we set that sort of precedence, and the wrong people get appointed to say the department of health, or the department of education then suddenly what is legal and what isn't shifts quickly, and with no recourse.

I don't care about bump stocks, they can make them illegal tomorrow, but it should be done through the same legal channels that our government is based on. And not as a work around because they couldn't get it done in the framework that is agreed upon.
This is already a problem. Content farms have realised that adding "in $current_year" to their headlines helps traffic. It's frustrating when you start reading and realise the content is two years out of date.
I suspect it is dim light where the pupil size grows near or larger than the corrected area. You will get corrected light entering the center of the eye, and halos from the uncorrected light entering the uncorrected lens of the eye around the edges of the surgery. They're supposed to measure your eye, your pupil and tell you about this stuff before the surgery.

Now me - I had the surgery in one eye, it wasn't great and I never did the other eye.

Except for completely uncorrected vision, the non-surgery eye was significantly better in all aspects than the surgery eye. (both with correction)

Nobody asks the lifetime of the surgery, but I can tell you after a few years the surgery eye was back to where it started. It will need cataracts earlier. It has halos at night. It has continued to need correction, and now needs more correction than the other eye. So now the non-surgery eye is the best in all respects.

With correction (astigmatism contacts), the non-surgery eye has more immediate focusing, less glare, and better corrected vision than the surgery eye.

oh wait, I couldn't get correction of the surgery eye when it started needing it, since contacts were too thin.

In my specific case, I couldn't wear glasses because the low correction of the surgery eye could not work with the high correction in the non-surgery eye. (two different image sizes, brain couldn't put them together)

If I had known, I would have asked two questions:

- will I get the best corrected vision from the surgery or from no surgery + contact lenses.

(the doctors typically try to compare no correction pre surgery to no correction post surgery, which is ridiculous)

- what will happen to my eyes in 5 years, 10 years, etc
(2021). Discussion of this when it was first submitted (320 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26737771
> I mean isn't security by obscurity generally accepted as bad practice?

That's an oversimplification. Obscurity is generally a really thin layer of security - not nothing, but if people think of it as "real" security then they neglect other things and just have the inadequate layer that is obscurity. By way of analogy - if you add a 3-character password to a system, it is strictly more secure than without that password. But if you think "oh, I have a password, so I'm safe and don't need anything else" then you will get owned the first time someone takes an actual run at your security. A system that depends on obscurity is probably doomed to failure, but that doesn't make its value zero, just low.
Show HN: Wikipedia in Terminal, with LLM
Tedious, inobvious, trickish. Might do it for some people, but not for me. Double for-loop substring search tells so much more! Oh, pain, oh, obscenity.
1. Lay off staff.
2. Hire back as needed at lower salary.
3. Profit.

It seems to be an interesting example of tacit collusion, fueled by dreams of an AI productivity/labor cost-cutting revolution.
Nice project and good work.

The only thing is it doesn't address a new or existing market as-is because it competes with what already exists. For example, a TrendNet 10/100 compact switch (not a hub) goes for $7.31 including shipping on eBay and it comes with a case and a power supply. Decommodifying a product requires finding niches where there is demand like automotive, aerospace, military, or marine applications. Until roughly 2020, 2.88 MB 3.5" floppy drives were in-use primarily in industrial and turnkey commercial systems long after they disappeared from desktop computers. Dinosaur technologies can live on for a very long time, often in critical systems deemed too expensive to replace.

Keep pushing forward, learning, and getting better.

Btw, if someone made a:

- 48 port 10GBASE-T (802.3an-2006) POE++ (IEEE 802.3bt-2018) 960W-1600W+ (3422W would be the upper limit for type 4)

- L2 (at least) switch

- unmanaged to fully-managed (but no cloud features)

- 4 100GBASE QSFP28 uplinks (unpopulated)

- dual, hot-swappable PSUs

- 2 models: Ports facing either forward or reverse

- 19" 1U half rack depth, and wall mountable

- Most importantly: doesn't sound like a jet engine under full load by leveraging better engineering, such as using some industrial-rated parts, heatpipes, and moving hotter air but less volume

I'd throw down in the $6K price-point neighborhood.

Comparables:

$4800 FS S5860-48XMG-U is close but sounds like a jet engine with dual 1U screaming PSUs and 3 hot swap chassis fans, but only available in conventional top-of-rack forward facing, leading to longer, messier wire management unnecessarily.
Do you still count on your fingers?
How close to real time are you talking?

As a generality, you either need something done Now, in which case don't put it in a queue, just do it immediately.

Or you need it done Not Right Now, in which case you stick it in a queue.

Or maybe you need something done Now, but on a different computer, in which case you need RPC of some sort. I would not recommend reinventing RPC using listen/notify.
Ok, this wasn't clear to me. Perhaps it was a video with too few views and thus not considered worth spending storage on? I mean, popular videos on youtube have up to 4K and pretty high bitrate.
If you are interested in such things, check botblox. They have a similar sized switch, a smaller one with fewer ports, a stacked one for Gigabit... it's very expensive though.
It would be a lot better if Google just prioritised concise websites.

If Google preferred websites that cut the fluff, then website operators would have an incentive to make useful websites, and Google wouldn't have as much of an incentive to provide the answer in a snippet, and everyone wins.

I guess it's hard to rank website quality, so Google just prefers verbose websites.
Has gpt5 been released? No. So how do you know if it’s no better than gpt4?
If you want close to real time performance, why go for a task table at all? You can spawn threads and track them instead provided you have the resources. If you don't have the resources, I don't see why the minor listen/notify overhead would bother you, since tasks will wait some of the time regardless.
Motorbikes still overwhelmingly use chains, not sure why but there must be a good reason
Wiring programs together on a 2D canvas is nice when the problem being solved is amenable to it (signal processing, pipelines, etc.). But, a typical general purpose program would look like a breadboard from hell, no matter how hard one tries to organize nicely organize it.
My first thought would be that insurance could be workable, but it might be too cheap right now. I would expect that when a company signs up for such a thing, they get audited and charged according to risk - a well run organization might find it a tiny cost, while say a company storing passwords in plaintext might find that their monthly bill is ruinous because they're practically guaranteed to be breached and subsequently fined into oblivion. Insurance shouldn't so much remove risk as amortize it.
I’d argue fixing a flat on a IGH or fixed gear/single speed is easier than a geared bike. Hardest thing about a single speed is needing the proper tool to remove the axle nuts, but after that take the chain off the cog and the wheel will slip right out, just as easy to put back in, just reverse the process. Getting chain tension can be tricky, but tighten the drive side bolt first at the point the chainline has about a centimeter of mesial play and once you tighten the other bolt the chain line should be spot on.

Where a geared bike with a derailleur will need you to put the bike in the smallest gear, and untangle the chain from the cassette. Replacing the wheel back in requires the chain to be properly laced around the cassette and can require dexterity.

Unfortunately derailleurs are necessary to ensure chain tension when the bicycle frame isn’t designed the allow for manual chain tensioning (vertical dropouts).

Also, run tubeless and flats will feel like a thing of the past.
> I don't really know a recession/depression proof career?

Government. Military. Academia. Crime.

Also look for things that people need no matter what: food, housing, health care, fuel, household products, etc.

Entertainment/candy/snacks/alcohol/etc., and luxury goods also tend to be less effected by economic downturns (the former because they make people feel better in spite of being poorer, the latter because the rich still have tons of money.)
Interesting. I never went as far as trying to make dynamic memory allocation work. But I really did have a good experience with rust. So many helper crates to make things just work (hal, pac, cortex-m, embedded-graphics, etc). And not to forget things like heapless which work quite well. Now I never did embedded development in any other language but in rust it was definitely nice for a beginner with everything already there and easily installable.
Well, this comment straight up wins my "favorite comment of the day" award. Take my upvote as your prize. :)
Presume it's the text below, and maybe you have to have the font installed?

>Take heed! This only works if your browser supports ligatures
Same as using GMail without PGP. GMail users are selling out the the rest of our data to Google by having one side of that conversation. It’s the same reason I am generally against using a gateway between Discord & IRC/XMPP/Matrix.