skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good tool that integrates well with Sublime Text.

But a tremendously hard sell in 2024 considering the plethora of tools out there right now.
Marketing is fundamentally aimed at changing people's opinions. This can be done

1. covertly (why do you need to do it covertly? Would people mind if they knew? Doesn't that indicate you're doing them a disservice?)

2. overtly, against people's will. (Again, doesn't that indicate you're doing them a disservice?)

3. overtly, with their consent (express or assumed). How often have you seen this happen?

The "indicates" vs "shows" distinction above deals with the edge case of "interacting with covert/unwanted marketing is actually good for them, even if they don't know it". I dare you to make that argument...
Is email doomed?
This is why we need to accelerate renewables and energy storage.
I liked Sublime Merge when I used it a few years ago, mainly because it's available on Linux. There were some things about the UI that were bugging me however. Nowadays I'm pretty happy with Fork (available for Windows & macOS).
Wildcat is building a US plant to produce next-gen LFP battery materials
But that email is spam, no matter if automatically or manually generated.

How it was written is not relevant. Off to the trash it goes.
The gross hack is you import libbfoo1 and libfoo2 when breaking changes like that are involved
The motive is to get acquired in most cases. It’s obvious and starts to make sense when you see startup that has no feasible monetisation strategy on the horizon, yet they exist and get funding. They’re betting on building infra to be hopefully used in large corp and this is their demo/PoC.
Perpetual Munich Syndrome
So clean. So fast. Finally an OS client for all platforms.
the image of the laptop on the page is AI-generated
The future - megawatts of electricity being used, 24/7 as armies of LLMs email and debate each other, and try to sell each other programs at a great discount.

As for the humans, we went fishing instead.
If energy is not the issue anymore, materials become the bottleneck. Earth is large, but finite.

Mining becomes an even worse issue than oil (harder to find and extract; even more critical for empires to control).

Maybe recycling metals efficiently may soften the problem, but not for long, as replacing oil-based systems with electric ones will incur a massive extraction/refinement effort at a scale we collectively haven't reached yet.

Space discovery/mining/transport may be the only option from this perspective. But it has its own set of drawbacks too.

More energy available "should" mean more automation, less concentration of power (political or business), clean water, food, and given the fruits are redistributed evenly, more peace. But raw materials are also part of the equation.
The world of cybersecurity is constantly evolving to counter new and emerging threats. Offensive Security’s Kali Linux has become one of the most popular tools for cybersecurity professionals. Now, the Kali team has introduced a new version called Kali Purple, designed to further strengthen cyber defense operations.
I received a very similar automated email from the same dev. Marked it as spam right away:

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Hey Travis,

Checked out the Next.js Notion Starter Kit. Amazing project!

Noticed you might be juggling multiple tools to manage content. Ever thought about a headless CMS that can streamline this?

Wisp might be a handy solution. Let me know what you think!

Cheers,
Raymond
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So clean. So fast. Finally a client fo Android without tons of BS.
SilverBullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
Wasn't on mine (account created in 2009).
As a Microsoft fanboy I have to list our their biphasic additions.

Linq. Have a a set of collection manipulation methods that could be run in c# or transformed in SQL.

Blazor. Have components that can run on the server, or in the browser, or several other rendering tactics.
Do you read/answer cold outreaches then? Why?

Unless you're specifically looking for unsolicited offers, in which case you probably have a process for them, they seem like a waste of time.
There are pretty important reasons to have this distinction. You want to be able to reason about what code actually gets executed and where. Supply-chain attacks will only get easier if this line gets blurred, and build systems work better when the compile stage is well-defined.
I don't really think that AI is the central issue here. The issue is that Kurt, the founder of Wisp, is a liar.

He misrepresented himself as a big fan of all these blogs, who's read their posts etc. and that's how he achieved such a high response rate. In effect he deceived people into trusting him enough to spend their time on a response.

Now ordinarily this would be a little "white lie" and probably not a huge deal, but when you multiply it by telling it 1,000 times it becomes a more serious issue.

This is already an issue in email marketing. The gold standard of course is emailing people who are double opted in and only telling the truth, and if AI is used to help create that sort of email I don't really have a problem. There is basically a spectrum where the farther away you get from that the progressively more illegal/immoral your campaigns become. By the time you are shooting lies into thousands of inboxes for commercial purposes... you are the bad guy.

Sorry to say but the real issue here is Kurt has crossed an ethical line in promoting his startup. He did the wrong thing and he could have done it pretty effectively with conventional email tools too.
If we ever make large enough batteries to satisfy our on-demand energy whims, then I'm 100% with you.

I just have doubt that we will get there soon with battery tech, and nuclear seems like a rational dropin solution until then.
Yes you do. You're being over-literal.

"Noise" in context doesn't mean random characters, it means garbage or spam or content not worth your while.
Thanks for the useful feedback! Totally forgot that pricing was never added to the landing page → have added to the todo list to fix up.

Where in the process did that error occur for you?

I see in the logs that an error registered, but unfortunately no detail attached. I've beefed up the logging a bit in the onboarding journey on my side to see what could be breaking here if we try again.

Mind trying to log-in/sign up again? You can use "HACKERNEWS" as a promo code, which would make the first month free.
lol, I treat my email inbox like a dumpster that I occasionally search when I know there's something there that I need to retrieve. The spam has won, I have moved to chat platforms for my communication needs.
Would you volunteer in setting up a forum for ladybird and host it and can you convince Kling and co. that you will be around to host it for the next years to come?

Because that is a project in itself and as much as I despise discord, I understand why they just went with it.
> However, the company warned in Tuesday’s report that the “termination” of some clean energy projects during 2023 had pushed down the amount of renewables it had access to.
I don't mean to post a low-effort response, but Betteridge's law of headlines seems to apply here.

If the answer to the question posed in the headline was "yes" they would have stated it as such.

Instead it seems that "don't change things despite the world changing, decreased availability of resources, and increased completion for said scarce resources" is the main thrust of the post?

Maybe I misread but I tried
Yes, I mean cold sales emails – marketers reaching out to CEOs or other decision makers, selling them staff augmentation services, growth hacking, marketing support, lead generation, design services, etc. They'd claim legitimate interest by "personalizing" the email and claiming that it is relevant for you in a business sense. (Anyway, I don't think that these are fully compliant with GDPR either, because most often, they will have scraped your email address from somewhere, and do not provide a way to unsubscribe.)
Could you comment on this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862436
That is fair. However my readers (and I) choose to keep using websites and getting things from creators, but strip them of their income. We expect everything to be free, but the quality content to keep coming. Oh and now it has to feed AI too.

In that sense they're not leaving. They're consuming my work and occasionally even creating more work, and not giving anything in return.

This is something I'm okay with. In my case it works that way by design. My website is meant to be a free resource. However in the absence of paying users, we're stuck with commercial patrons. Mine have no leverage, but that's very unusual.
That's very cool! I already knew that this was something compilers did, but somehow never even considered you might do the same for an interpreted language like js.

Makes me wonder why some js bundles are still so big, am I over hyping what dead code elimination and tree shaking might achieve? Do some teams just not use it?

Either way, I've come away from my question with a pretty big reading list. This is exactly what I love about HN.
I've designed the server and its embedded backgammon engine to use very few resources, so it's all able to run on a dual core VPS that I am already using for my numerous other projects. Everything needed, including Postgres, currently uses less than 256 megabytes of memory and negligible CPU.

As it grows, I intend to follow in Lichess' footsteps by offering a paid supporter badge without locking any functionality behind a paywall. Because the server is lightweight, just a few paid supporters should be able to offset the costs for many free users.
If Fritz Boxes would actually be a good product...frequent internet drops, which a simple restart fixes, is that normal for routers from other brands? As a German, I don't know, because I've been forced to use these shitty Fritz Boxes my entire life.
He is talking about semantic noise. Something that appears to have substance but is just slop actually. When everything is that. Then all email will become equivalent to slop. How could it not? Someone will be burned once or twice, but after that, there is a semantic phase shift.
Exactly the same for me and I'm pretty sure this is how Jakob Bernoulli came to define the number as well, trying to see what the upper bound for infinitesimal compounding was.
really like this one from [Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238509). The URL is: https://hackersearch.net/ask
Infra has always been a tarpit idea. Google didn't start out as an "infra" company, and neither did Amazon or Facebook. In fact, the few "infra companies" that did start back then (companies like Godaddy) are minuscule compared to the aforementioned.

VC pouring money in LLM infra is legitimately crazy to me. It's clear as day that there will be winners of this AI cycle, but, as always, they will be companies that provide actual, real, tangible value. Making shovels works for huge companies like Nvidia or Intel, but it won't work for you. It's sad to see so much capital funneled in frameworks upon frameworks upon frameworks instead of fresh new ideas that could revolutionize the way we interact with our devices. I know it's a bit of a meme, but I'd rather see more Rabbit R1 and less LangChain.

Even OpenAI doesn't really have a product. Just throwing data at a bunch of video cards isn't value-generating in itself. We need a Dropbox or a Slack or an Instagram: something people love that makes their life easier or better.
Very stupid of the UK, but I guess it shows that the UK really doesn't want any immigrants unless they're very rich. I do wonder, however, why the companies that want to hire these top scientists, aren't paying all these fees for them. If they really want to recruit these people, then paying all necessary visa costs should be part of the job offer.

By way of comparison, getting a job like this here in Japan costs 3000 yen (about USD $19 right now) for the visa fee. Perhaps that's why this country is one of the "leading scientific nations" (according to the article): it's really, really easy to bring qualified professionals here, at least as far as immigration procedures and fees are concerned.
In my own tests where I inspect PDF differences in python, I iterate through the pages, if the number of pages is the same, I convert each of them with PIL to bitmap, get the diff (ImageChops.difference is black for everything same and colored for diffs) and find the content of the diff with `getbbox`. This gives me the coordinates of the rectangle where changes appeared, I then use those to also print the page with a colored rectangle and print out the crops.

I give out the original page, the original rectangle, the original page with colored rectangle, the new page and the new rectangle, the diff cropped and uncropped only after which I start using my caveman eyeballs

I also pixelate it a bit and have a brightness cutoff for the diff to see if the diff actually matters and i also try if re-cropping a bit so shifting by a limited amount of pixels makes it look like an ignorable difference because everything just moved to the left a bit but that is optional.

I also recommend exporting the new pdf from the CI/CD tool to be put back into the test as reference. Even between Linux distros and versions small changes in fonts and stuff like that make a difference
I already started readying for it. I'm ensuring that ALL services that have my email have a Plus Address on them. The plus addresses are random and labeled only on my end.

Still not close to 100%, but when I feel like I do, I will then have a filter and an automated message telling people that removing plus addresses from my email is forbidden and I will not read their message if they do.

You will tell me where you found me, or I won't even listen to you. Because in the future, with an even larger infestation of automated agents passing off as human, that's the bare minimum I need to do.
What can't popular LLMs do? Be vulgar and snarky.

The future of human communication is to be cunts online, so that we can identify ourselves. That will at least separate us from the script kiddies. Major marketers will train their AIs without any filter, so we're fucked anyway.
I detest cold emails in general, but the occasional recruitment email from a founder/recruiter who clearly looked quite deeply into my passion projects always felt good and resulted in a nice conversation even if the opportunity didn’t pan out.

It’s sad that going forward I probably won’t be able to tell genuine interest from this kind of fake bullshit.
The error occurred right after granting permissions from my Google account. The permissions were granted but I could never access your application page. I just tried again, now I got an "Error handling OAuth callback" after granting permissions. Signing in again does not work either. (I did remove all of the app's permissions in my Google security settings before, so to Google it looked like the application was requesting all of its permissions again.)
"There's no reason to ever have anything non-open in your FOSS project's infrastructure."

Except, that it is easier to set up? What you describe sounds reasonable. But someone needs to set all that up and host it and needs to be trusted etc.

So I guess if many people get involved and do set this up, they would convince the rest of the team to join them. But right now it is just a demand for more work for them.
I am also real life Grizzly Man. Watching Herzogs film 10 years later caused some indigestion.

Those damn bears totally ignored me. At this beach family of bears walked past my tent and did not even bother to investigate. https://youtu.be/IK0wJ9y266I?si=TokV4ewiEvhl5Qev&t=1470

The reason was probably that I really did not have anything to eat. Just some kilos of flour for rainy days. I was living on fish and berries for 3 months.
Just ask an MBA focused on short term profit.
Also, very few people today have the sun directly over their head at noon. If you don't live at the prime meridian, it is an abstract concept. And even if you do, there may be DST. In some countries, you can be hours off.

Few people actually care about the precise earth rotation, and there are time bases for these people that are better than UTC anyways. Sunrise and sunset are important, but the middle of the day, not so much.
All the same stuff, to be honest. If AI is set to replace human work, well we have had a cheap human labour market for decades and yet we still need software. An LLM can't replace a business itself, which is made up of niche processes, direction and purpose, which we sometimes codify into a SaaS. We'll still need to do all that even if AI replaces some of the human parts of the business.
Sadly I think it is illegal to sing up these addresses to every service known to you... Otherwise it would be interesting SaaS opportunity. Automatically sing-up spammers to any number of newsletters or contact forms...
And e^x is the inverse of \int dx/x, which pops up a lot.
Considering how much competition is in this space, a comparison or a page to help define its strengths would be useful.

Both against standalone tools such as Git-Fork, and built it tools such as VSCode Git [for the majority of the world that uses VSCode over Sublime-Text].
The two advertisements at the top of the README made me uncomfortable.
Simplicity at its best.
The title is true. But, the arguments don't hold water for me. 12 years ago, I started a big data company. It looked similar for big data companies when Cloudera raised almost $1B in 2014. Too many people building data warehouses, especially in the cloud. I exited. Who knew that Snowflake and Databricks would emerge against the incumbents. Similarly, there will be winners in the AI infrastructure space. To win, you need to focus on your customers and delight them. Narrowing focus makes a lot of sense. Don't pay attention to the doom and gloom, or you'll never do a startup.
I can’t decide if this is just propaganda or plain stupid. In any case, this should have no place on HN.
hey mods hire this one
Maybe this could be used to generate PDFs using LaTeX and use the diff as a distance metric to optimize.
Read the blog post that this blog post talks about - the one that says "we use AI to spam people, isn't it great?". It will be something like that. As long as there is money to be made, the internal monologue is just "hope this works and I get more money".

> What do they see when they look into a mirror?

A person deserving of riches, that is about to get them. Nobody sees themselves as the villain. Well, maybe some, but vanishingly few.
It's not that many parts of the world. DST is a very western "problem" that most of South and Central America, Africa and Asia simply don't have to deal with.

We're the exception, not the rule.
personally?

- writing and refactoring code. probably 50 times a day now
- improving documentation across the company
- summarizing meetings automatically with follow ups
- drafting most legal work before a lawyer edits (saved 70% on legal bills)
- entity extraction and data cleanup for my users
This is the _exact_ scenario described in the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan. There's a whole little spot devoted to describing one of the character's setups for having their own little agents to pretend to be them in order to fool agent-powered spam emails into thinking they're being read by a real human.

The crazy part is that book was released in 1994! Iirc Greg Egan isn't a big fan of modern "AI", wishing instead for a more axiom-based system rather than a predict-the-next-token model. But in any case, I was re-reading it recently and shocked at how closely that plot point was aligning with the way things are actually shaping up in the world.

The timeframe for this happening in the book was 2050 btw
WebAuthentication PRF Extension Beta at Apple
Assuming: 50 million files, assuming 4x concurrency per CPU, taking 1 second each, would take approx 150 CPU days. Using just 10 machines it could be done in 15 days. This does not fundamentally seem like a massive project in terms of compute? If time per instance would go up factor 10x, if one would allow 30days execution, could be done by 50 machines. I think that most compute providers can do that (given some months notice)?
I'm not sure how state tax levels relate to this discussion. My complaint is that the voters in this state are the type of people who scream about "leaving things to the Free Market". Pro-"Free Market" people aren't opposed the existence of taxes, though they do tend to complain about them a lot and how they're used. Presumably, such people should logically complain about their taxes being used to give out as loans to private companies, instead of just letting the "Free Market" work.
People cry about Bitcoin's energy usage now, imagine the amount of energy burned to create next-level spam with "AI".

Flame me all you want, but this is one case where Bitcoin is much more useful than LLM. If it doesn't create value, as its naysayers claim, at least it allows exchanging value. LLMs on the other hand, burn electricity to actively destroy the Internet's value, for the profit of inept and greedy drones.
it is. it's called substack or medium or GitHub pages or any number of other platforms
I do see it in the logs now. So weird, as dozens of people successfully signed up without this issue. Have added more logs now again to double down on that specific area where this issue is caused. Maybe another login attempt now will be able to uncover the gap.

Thanks for removing the permissions in Google, as that's also key in this debugging.

Mind if I send you an email to debug further there?
People think they will be less effective, because they reply to a lower percentage.
At the same time, you will be flooded by ever more spam and ads, completely offsetting the decrease in interaction.

As noted in the article, you might in the future not even notice you're being AI-spammed. What if "timharek.no" is AI-generated?

What if Wisp CMS being so upfront about its use of AI is part of the trick? It just got exposure on HN, after all!
It's not the first time I've seen it claimed that AI will magically help "propel climate solutions". But I've never seen a hint at how that would work.
The spiteful part of me wants to spin something up to punish this sort of behavior symmetrically by automating cold emails in the other direction to waste his time.
The Year of the Linux Desktop – In Retrospect
We need all of the above. Including reducing overall energy use. We cannot afford to leave any option on the table.
Please start using a spellchecker. "excately" and "particilar" are not acceptable.

Edit: "Unnecessary" might be my judgement, instead of "acceptable."
Would embedding code (which is executed by some other runtime, like SQL, shaders, compute kernels etc.) also be considered "biphasic" or "multi-stage" programming?
> Sensitivity to the 'populated by criminals' stereotype of Australia.

Or the supposed threat from Sicilians when death is on the line.