skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was flying through JFK in the past year, JetBlue, and there they had these types of cameras at the boarding area, in addition to TSA. So instead of handing your ticket to the agent, scanning, go on plane, you self scan, there's a picture, and big gates open to let you on. How do you opt out of that?!? Also it was a disaster logistically because the machines were finicky, it moved super slow.

see:
https://ir.jetblue.com/news/news-details/2018/Your-Face-is-Y...

(your face isn't your boarding pass, your face AND your boarding pass is your boarding pass)
The joy, excitement, and surprise of computing – Con 2024 (last one)
> hard to parse sentences

That's because you're supposed to reverse engineer them :)
For this sort of kernel attack surface reduction, I would use a combination of seccomp and runtime module loading restriction.

In the specific example of sctp, one can turn off loading of modules at runtime entirely.
I cheer for the future where hard labour is solved by machines, and tedious soft labour is solved by AIs.

You still need operators.
Huh? Higher education is free for citizens in most EU countries and super cheap in the rest of them ($500-$5000 a year).

Pay to take care of sick people? Healthcare is socialised almost everywhere and is either free to use, or very cheap (and even commercial is cheap because it competes against free or very cheap state-provided one, even if it's patchy in quality and has long waiting times).

Thinking of "what's really wrong in EU" i can come up with only one thing really: our airlines are a pathetic piece of shit especially pertaining to the "premium" service, and no one really understands why.
I think calling breaded chicken breast a "wing" is the more clear issue. If I sold "bone-ful chicken breast" which was actually just a chicken wing, I'd expect to get in some kind of trouble. I don't understand why it's accepted in the other direction.
I’m not sure if it’s “my version” or simply a more macro lens at history.

Like all history, it’s tricky to pick a starting point, but an easy one is the end of 400 years of Ottoman Turk occupation leading into the 20th century with the Balkan Wars, WWI, and then WWII.

Greece successfully fought off Italy in WWII but then was quickly occupied by Nazi Germany for four years. During this time, the Nazis successfully exterminated every Greek Jew. This period created extremely radical political parties that persist to this day. Following WWII, Greece then transitioned into a dictatorship lasting until 1974. Greece presently has the youngest democracy in the EU (50 years old).

The past 500 years have been hard on Greece, and the past century was no exception. Modern Greece is a young country with tons of recent scars that have led to corruption and bribery that a healthier nation may not have developed as intensely. My grandfather fled the region with his father in the early twentieth century when the Italian army began regularly hanging people in their town square. It really traumatized him.

Anyway, 2008 wasn’t some event that happened in a vacuum. There were many events that shaped the country leading up to it. To simply claim it happened because the Greeks were lazy is itself a lazy take.

A very good book on the topic is Inside Hitler’s Greece[0].

[0]: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300089233/
They're still so expensive that it's hard to justify in my mind. I'd rather just install an extra string or two of cheap panels and eat the shading losses, since I have the space available
I actually liked the comparison, training two university students to beat a chimp is almost poetic.
No worries at all, I just learned from youtube mostly, I think this guy has the best content https://www.youtube.com/@WillProwse
True, note domestic ISP IP ranges are published, and unless one deals internationally... don't bother serving people that will never buy anything from your firm anyways.

Domestic "Users" functioning as proxies will be tripping usage limits, and getting temporarily banned. Google does this by the way, try hammering their services and find out what happens.

Context cookies also immediately flag egregious multi-user routes, and if it is a ISP IP you know its a problem user. If it is over 15 users an hour per IP, than you can be 100% sure its a Tor proxy.

we ban over 243000+ IPs, and saw zero impact to our bottom line.

Have a nice day, =)
The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline
that's wild, a bit of a polymath by computer science standards. I know him from template metaprogramming fame and here he is shifting from programming languages to algorithms
One more usecase - which I admit is niche - is that I want a way to run multiple OSs as transparently as possible. A microvm that boots freebsd in less than a second and that acts almost like a native container would be excellent for certain development work.

Edit: Actually it's not just cross-OS work in the freebsd/linux sense; it would also be nice for doing kernel dev work. Edit my linux kernel module, compile, and then spawn a VM that boots and starts running tests in seconds.
Ah, thanks. That makes a lot of sense now.
Numega's SoftIce for me, but I always preferred interactive exploration over static disassembly.

Disassembling a large binary would get you a massive text file that was painful to navigate - and often times I'd find that the code I was interested in removing "Invalid license key" (ahem) would be stored in some unrelated DLL.

So for me setting breakpoints on MessageBoxEx, and similar things, was by far the quickest and easiest way to go.
Also it's generally unwise to hold onto your employer's stocks that you were granted as single stock ownership is inherently risky. There's no reason to believe your employer's shares are going to beat the market.

Also, the majority of employees in a company other than small startups do not have the ability to shift their company's success materially to make it a worthy incentive to own and hold employer issued stock.
Hello, do you have any questions for feedback?
I don't mean the lack of data flow like a bad thing. I think your idea might be better, since data flow aspects might be difficult to organize in a 2d plane. It gets cluttered fast.
Thanks for the anecdotal perspective. That's interesting!

As someone who cut their teeth on a graphical language and is a big diagramming person, it's always been curious to me as to why people want to write out stuff in text. It often feels extremely primitive. I've done large codebases in a graphical language before, and it felt so easy to orient myself as to where I was at in the system. In text-based languages, I feel lost in a sea of text that has almost zero differentiating factors.
This is bullshit. GDP includes government spending, and the government doesn't make anything besides debt.
Yes, absolutely. 5,000 sounds low. This includes reality TV “stars.” All sorts of niche celebrities are (or were) on there.
You will find the same thing in your children if you have any lmao.

But seriously I got congratulations for you. Letting go useless thoughts is the first step towards finding the true self.
Acquiring a long tail of well known faces performing known procedures might make for an interesting training corpus. The resulting weights could make 100's of videos every day and probably do better i18n to capture celebrity arbitrage like how US actor David Hasselhoff is a musician in Germany. It could have gone well past there--imagine a digital photo frame where Jed from the Beverly Hillbillies (replace with your favorite) tells you about today's weather and stocks.
Show HN: ClifferBasic, a simple BASIC interpreter as a .NET REPL
Ever since I got my first computer, a TI-99/4A, at age 13, I've been fascinated by programming languages. I've written a few interpreters, but this is the first time I've come back to the first language I've ever learned, BASIC. I started ClifferBasic as a way to shake out bugs and find feature weaknesses in another project I'm working on, Cliffer, which is a library for writing CLI applications in .NET using attributed program, but it's taken on a life of its own and has become a rather fun project. I'm planning to flesh out the BASIC implementation over the coming weeks, but I'd like some input from the community to see where I could take it next. Thanks for your time!
I think that's a poor a comparison, but I understand your point. I just disagree about there being no philosophical difference. I'd argue the difference is philosophical, rather than factual.

You also indirectly answered my initial question -- so thanks!
So they should possess them but not acknowledge them?
I found it most interesting that 43% of men who responded owned firearms, and the average number of firearms owned was 1.15.

There are about 125m adult men in the US, and about 393m civilian-owned firearms, they would own 143.75m firearms.

Either this survey is significantly flawed, or US women and children own the remaining 249.25m firearms…
You forgot to mention the absurd '<fad diet X> is the solution to every medical issue everywhere' and strange anti-pharma conspiracy theories.
The curious history of chain letters (2010)
wow. Off by millions of orders of magnitude, impressive!
> Zynq 7010

I've always wanted to do an FPGA project but haven't looked seriously into where to start. Can the Zynq 7010 handle something like data transfer from a 4K image sensor to a USB 3 transceiver?

> PIO has extraordinarily sloppy timing

Do you have any data on this? I was under the impression the PIO has fairly precise timing if you set up your clocks right, but maybe I've been misled here.
I have to say I really enjoyed using the service.

I paid Spike and Drusilla, from Buffy, to say/sing happy birthday to my wife. Neither are top-tier actors, but they're both completely recognizable James Marsters in particular I guess, as he's done a lot of narration for things like the Dresden Files.

There were "super-popular" actors available, for significant sums, but these two were cheap enough that it was a no-brainer to gamble on a good result, and both were fantastic.
True agents in LLM agentic workflows
Forgive me some exaggeration for comic effect. What we'd actually see are helmets which advertise themselves as safe, and which look safe to uninformed external examination, some (but not all) of which are very, very cheap, but any of which (and good luck guessing which ahead of time) might as well be made out of cardboard and nails, and so when you bump it your head explodes. (Alert: black comedy again.)

Instead, in the US the DOT or the CPSC (can't be arsed to look up which) says: "every helmet sold must meet this standard of safety", and then backs that up with guns. Now you're free to price-compare, with the assurance that your head won't explode. (Yah: I keep doing it! Sorry. I like injecting levity into serious subjects. Try not to get distracted.)

Consumers, acting as individuals, have negligible influence over corporate behavior, and are easily misled.

People, acting collectively (in this case as a "government", but as other collective organizations, too - including "corporations"), can stand up to other collectives and force them to adjust their behavior in pro-social ways.
I still have my cherished VT125 EDT rubber overlay from when I worked at DEC '82-'85. Great editor. And the amazing thing was that there could be 50 people time-sharing on a single 1 MIPS Vax 780, and EDT was very responsive, virtually no lag.
There are lots of reason for why text is preferable though. I did some work on an drag-and-drop sort of a programming language for a ETL pipeline a while back. The absence of unit test cases makes it very hard to deploy changes without being sure you are not introducing breaking changes. There are other things as well. People tend to make big flow in one canvas. Which makes it very hard to understand.

There are few more things, like wherever a GUI component relevant to a case was missing, the tool provided a way to add a javascript snippet, eventually on some canvases all you see is JS components talking to each other. At that point you are better off writing plain JS code.
Show HN: New Music Trivia and Word Game
Inspired by our first web game, this new mobile app game (iOS and Android) condenses the best parts of our previous game and expands the range of game puzzles to include a new music trivia category. Links to each app store and the game trailer can be found on the game's web site.
> The system was allowed unlimited time; for some problems it took up to three days. The students were allotted only 4.5 hours per exam.

I know speed is just a matter of engineering, but looks like we still have a ways to go. Hold the gong...
The voters, who elect the representatives who regulate the executives.

Unfortunately the voters are handcuffed to the two party system by First Past the Post voting and the spoiler effect that comes with it.
I looked at the first 2 subheadings and they’re already off base. Whoever wrote that article has read nothing that’s been written about job guarantees by the actual economists who specialise in it.

There are already too many clear and well rounded refutations of the UBI bingo card talking points to count, there’s no point in my spilling pixels here to go over them again.
I could accept 'boneless' to mean 'not necessarily free of ground up bone mixed amid the chicken that is too small to cause issues', but 'not necessarily free of solid pieces of bone' is absurd.
Riven Remake Launch Trailer
this looks like amazon-affiliate-link-spamified subset of the many many things available on ticalc.org
Learning Dance Moves Could Help Humanoid Robots Work Better with Humans
Technically off by 6 orders of magnitude, or a factor of a million. Orders of magnitude are exponential - each order of magnitude is a factor of 10 more than the last, so you take the log10 of the factor of increase.
I assume you see yourself as one of the special few, much better than those average Joe's.
5000 is a pittance. Even if you add up all the current players in major professional sports in just the US, that number is around 15,000.
Gun ownership follows a fairly extreme pareto distribution where a few "gun nuts" (I could probably be considered one of them) own a dozen to several dozen guns, while most people will own zero or one.

It's the same thing with alcohol - the vast majority of it is consumed by alcoholics.

I'd think the average would be higher and the median would be somewhere around one, but I didn't do that well in statistics.
I made a more-substantive reply to a sister post, but... Have you seen what people buy? The front page of HN on any given day teems with posts about tech-sector equivalents to cardboard helmets. The buyers usually supply their own nails.
Eh I don't see the need for it. Explicit is the way to do. The biggest mistake they've made in recent memory was adding default implementations of interfaces. Makes no sense.
Future? I could swear it's already happening. Talking to support workers is getting very cringe worthy. Every other sentence is some superficial crap like

"Hello there, It's great to hear from you and I hope you're doing well today! I will be happy to assist you!"

I didn't make this up, this is a real message I got from a support team.
I got them from Battry Hookup[1] late last year. I wasn't ready to do the full build yet, I've since built a "shed" that is way overbuilt and more of an kff-grid tiny house to store all of our solar equipment.

That site is pretty hit or miss with stock since it is all repurposed equipment, but if you happen to catch the right equipment going by you can get a really good deal for anything DIY.

[1] https://batteryhookup.com/
Ask any C++ programmer, this is a nightmare.
Had the same reaction. I’m willing to support development for a tool like this, but would prefer to do it more….directly.
A remarkably tough-sounding statement that means nothing.
Imagine a world, where people walk into your business with a mask over their face saying horribly abusive things... while pretending they are your neighbors... And poof... they automatically vanish along with their garbage content.

They may visit again, but are less likely to mess with the platform. Note, cons never buy anything... ever... it is against their temperament.

I find it interesting several of cons on YC are upset by someone else's administrative policies. Reddit should enforce these policies too, or at least drop a country or pirate flag icon beside nasty posts...

Have a great day, and don't fear the ban hammer friend =3
> Think VLC on a HDMI stick.

VLC can stream on the local network directly to a chromecast. And surprisingly it actually works.
Niche appetites and niche opportunities, sure. Mainstream though? Nope.

My mom and a billion other moms isn't giving up Facebook anytime soon, nor does she want to. What you perceive as "lack of control" she perceives as "communicating with friends".

60 years ago if you had a car you were also a part-time mechanic. 100 years ago there were endless car companies and startups. Turns out what people wanted was reliability.

Today there's around 10 large car companies who build a rounding error of 100% of the world's cars. There are also a couple hundred niche companies turning out a few cars a year. The niche exists and keeps them alive, but I don't want to "control" my car, I just want to use it to get somewhere.

So yeah, there are a bunch of techies who care about the process more than the result. They run Linux and use Mastadon. (And it's fantastic this exists.) But pretty much everyone else doesn't care about the OS, or web site, they just want to -communicate with friends- . They run windows or Mac and use Facebook.

Indeed nothing stops people leaving the walled gardens and removing all apps. Nothing except the fact that they have literally no reason to. They're perfectly happy because they don't care about the tech, the tech is just a means to an end.

I haven't worked on my car myself in 25 years. And it's a chore I -really- don't miss. I use a car to get places. It's tool not a hobby.
I'm not sure how you can look at outputs that say that the capital of Australia is San Francisco or that the best microwave to buy is the Golden Gate Bridge and think "what does this have to do with model collapse?"

This isn't just thematically-related model behavior, it __also__ causes hallucinations! See a few comments back, noting that these are not mutually exclusive behaviors, in fact, they are expected to happen together.

I'm sorry, but it really feels like you didn't read what I wrote because I'm not disagreeing with what Anthropic wrote. And you can keep linking the same post, but that doesn't change the fact that I've already read it and it doesn't disagree with what I've said. Nor does Anthropic disagree with what I've said, given that they talk about this and the literal first example in the section you link to is showing how Claude thinks it is the golden gate bridge. Just actually read my last comment.
Wow, that’s incredible pricing.
So don't label them as "boneless" then? :)
I disagree with the siblings on the choice of napkin math parameters, but they’re not like objectively wrong.

The bigger issue is that there is a different model for the granular micro-monetization of low-rent celebrity: it’s called being an influencer and it’s mediated by TikTok, not by Cameo.

And the low rent thing isn’t a diss: it’s moving upmarket faster every year.
> so (from my perspective), they punted the entire concept of making what I would refer to as a "layer aware linux distribution"

Would you consider there to be any 'layer-aware Linux distributions' today, e.g., NixOS, GuixSD, rpm-ostree-based distros like Fedora CoreOS, or distri?

> so much duplicate layers out in the world

Have you seen this, which lets existing container systems understand a Linux package manager's packages as individual layers?

https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter
This is a lot more akin to finding a piece of a cherry/olive pit in a jar of pitted fruit. A reasonable attempt was made with natural products in play.
Just a day or two ago I saw someone else comment jokingly about $50 gift cards. The reality turned out to be even more pathetic.
The greatest con in human history.
Making a non-microsoft product require manual key enrollment, while Microsoft products do not require such enrollment, sounds like abusing monopoly status to give new entrants a disadvantage. The 1990s antitrust people would have a field day with that one.

Also, by the way, I am an ex Microsoft employee, bet you wouldn't guess that from these comments.

I do personally consider secure boot and TPM to have been pushed in bad faith, not for serious security concerns.
Yeah, self-installation. You can part a 10kW for under $10,000.

You’re getting terrible quotes because the construction industry has been doing phenomenally the last several years.

I built a contractor search product to compete with HomeAdvisor because the quotes were such a joke. I don’t use it as much as I did when I first built it though. I now know more about residential construction than some contractors I’ve worked with.

I’ve saved literally tens of thousands of dollars.
150 LoC CUDA I8 Matmul That Beats CuBLAS Tensor Core FP16
Wait, then this tool is based on volume of references?!
I'm still unclear whether the system used here is actually reasoning through the process of solving the problem, or brute forcing solutions with reasoning coming in during the mathematical proof of each potential proof.

Is it clear whether the algorithm is actually learning from why previously attempted solutions failed to prove out, or is it statistically generating potential answers similar to an LLM and then trying to apply reasoning to prove out the potential solution?
And a token is the sequence number of a sequence of input in a restricted dictionary. GPT-2 was said to have 50k distinct tokens, so I think it's safe to assume even the latest ones are well below 4M tokens, so max 4 bytes per token. 15 trillion tokens -> 4 bytes/token * 15 T tokens -> training input<=60 TB doesn't sound that large.

It's the computation that is costly.
Maybe everything falls under that. It's taken as read that the goal is supposed to be explosive and/or exponential growth, global takeover and multi-billion valuations for everything from software frippery for getting a birthday video from the guy who voiced the cat in Sabrina the Teenage Witch to chat apps and taxi bookings to hardware like phones, cars and ICs, industries like farming and mining and even services like banks. Is a monoculture of a few warring behemoths really the outcome that is ideal in the long run? At the human scale, it feels a bit like being a bystander (byfloater?) in a kayak during a nuclear naval battle.

A bit like real ecology, an ecosystem is said to be thriving most when there's a diverse and dynamic mix, with nothing particularly dominating. Though of course the agricultural output of such an environment is lower than 10000 acres of monospecies wheat fields tended by 30-plus-ton tractors[1]. I wonder what a world would look like if it were disallowed for any company or ownership group to exceed a certain size. Economies of scale would maybe then be more acheivable though federation and cooperation rather than monopolism, lawfare and secrecy.

And before libertarians start shouting or hiding under the bed, it's more a shower thought, rather then my personal NWO agenda. And I'm aware it would require more than national-level edicts.

[1]: A problem in itself: https://resoilfoundation.org/en/agricultural-industry/dinosa...
Such a device would necessarily only play pirated content (well, and YouTube) or SD content. All the streamers don't allow desktop Linux browsers to play HD content. (Well, there's a hack for Netflix. Don't tell em.)
I would really love the convenience of something like an Amazon fire stick, but as all open source and ad and spyware free.
No idea, I mostly use freecad and I've been told autocad has more tools.

In freecard there are parametric tools which are very much like what was shown in the demo but in 3d.

I tend to use script which render to openscad for the parts that I want to be parametric.