skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been a busy day, so I'll say that after that the main thing that helped me was finally accepting I have issues with anxiety and doing something about it. Things that most people would consider small get blown out of proportion in my head (or can). And many small things become insurmountable to me, or excessively frustrating. Cognitive behavioral therapy, in particular, helped me a lot with dealing with it. I still have anxiety issues, but now I see it coming and react in better and more effective ways than becoming burnt out, frustrated, depressed, toxic, or whatever else I had done prior to that.
AMD Expands Data Center AI with Acquisition of Solutions Provider ZT Systems
Roblox has INSANE fraud patterns and chargebacks
Even if you have the specs, you do not know if there was some important variable that was not referenced in the specs, and then you need a billion dollar research project to figure out what was missing from the original spec. Reference: FOGBANK. https://www.twz.com/32867/fogbank-is-mysterious-material-use...
I've also used Netdata for years on many servers now. One of the problems with it is its way to fail silently when some healtcheck or alarm is configured badly instead of erroring out on the process start. I understand the reasoning behind it - it tries to monitor by default as much as possible and if some collector fails for whatever reason (let's say you don't have MySQL installed) then it will be just disabled and only way to know that is by looking at the dashboard and not finding it there. I'm only using local agent and not the cloud which means that if server dies totally then there's also no monitoring insights - something to keep in mind.
Because that's what an LLM does. I will keep dying on this hill, LLM is not AI, nobody would give half a shit about ChatGPT without the acronym AI being used all over it, to such a degree where AI is now actually AGI even though there is not now, nor will there ever be, anything Intelligent about programs like ChatGPT.

This whole space is such wall-to-wall marketing fluff and I cannot wait until it finally pops.
What inverter do you have? Many like the Fronius have a removable networking card.
> coast along and leverage their past experience to not be dared questioned.

This has not been my experience at all.
I think people have fewer qualms about cops seizing weapons than any other kind of property. Taking cash or a car from someone is not equivalent to taking their guns.
I don't know how many vacuum cleaners I ruined with those little wires, and I still don't understand what a j/k flipflop foes, but I did spend three days wiring up a wheel of fortune circuit to marvel at what was possible with hardware! It was at this juncture that I decided that software was my discipline. Something that has stuck with me mu whole life.
I'm fairly confident Victor Miller has no idea what ChatGPT actually is, and what its limitations are.
Maybe he can use ChatGPT to generate a ballot for the citizens to vote on which option they want. Of course that defeats the purpose of a representative democracy and would quickly become a burden.
I understand that I need a Flipper, and I have one.

But what Android app can actually "find" it? I don't have an iPhone or Samsung device.
Most interview "rituals" are about gatekeeping and not actual talent acquisition. I'm unfamiliar with theirs but it sounds like it from the descriptions and company output.
Yes, that one is good for conduit. I like the bend radius.
Show HN: I built a puzzle game where you can alter the logic
Does that matter for Iterator? You can have

class FooIterator implements Iterator<Foo>{…}
class BarIterator implements Iterator<Bar>{…}
class MyCollection {
public Iterator<Foo> foos { return new FooIterator(this); };
public Iterator<Foo> bars { return new BarIterator(this); };
}

It would matter for Iterable. You cannot have this:

class MyCollection implements Iterable<Foo>, Iterable<Bar>{…}

, but there, there’s a second problem: in Java, you can’t have overloads that only differ in their return type.
Multivac is arriving earlier than I thought.
We consider "they hacked the mobile network VPN's AND had time to reverse our protocol before being booted out of network" as too high a level to be resolved by us. If someone has enough resources to do this, he will also just hack into standard-level secured server at municipal office and there will probably be no one there to stop him or discover what went wrong.
If we've learned anything from the security cam and baby cam scandals, then it's that convenience is king and we as a society would rather risk everything than be arsed to take few additional steps to setup/learn something to prevent such basic breaches. We (the society) don't even want to change the default password on most things.
I don't feel the need to pay a commission for a digital storefront. I know a lot of folks find value in app store/steam etc... but I find almost no value. At the same price, I would rather the money go to the seller of the product and I definitely don't want to pay more for a storefront.

I find the normal reasons people like digital storefronts not very compelling: safety, reviews, all in one place, etc...

I also worry about everything being in one account. If I lose my epic games account, I'm not going to worry too much. If Valve locks me out, I'm in trouble, so I would rather diversify away from Valve if I can.
One of the most striking contrasts is the American obsession with status and hierarchy. In the U.S., it’s not just accepted but expected that higher-status individuals receive better treatment in society. There’s an acceptance of relentless self-promotion, boasting, and constantly striving to rise to the next social group, which doesn’t seem to exist outside of the USA.

I would be cautious of the characterization of Americans as hierarchy enforcing status seekers. Having family from both the USA and Canada, I believe this categorization is not correct. Plenty of Canadians believe that "higher-status individuals" should receive better treatment and what one might call "constantly striving to rise to the next social group" a second might call "The American Dream". To be clear, I'm not saying America is "better" than Canada or vice-versa, but I think using social media platforms as proxies to contrast them is not helpful.
I know about that, part of the question is figuring out what nations have easier visa requirements.
Cloudflare absolutely does not control 80% of internet traffic. I have no idea where you got that number from.
If the general public knew how fragile the power grid is no body would be able to sleep at night.
What's the reasoning for not allowing both control paths, via cloud but also locally? So that people who can and want to, will use the local control.
yeah i don't get how people want a game to somehow be completely without politics.

The only games that could be that way are completely abstract.

Imagine if someone asked for the Dune movies or books but without politics..
Ok, I was just providing a link for you. If you wanted to discuss whether cheating is good in this specific scenario, you should have put that as your comment to the parent.
Jesus please go back to reddit. I was simply pointing out that Soyuz has had a LOT MORE launches than Falcon 9, literally over a thousand more, so no one can in good faith that Falcon 9 is more reliable given the numbers and statistics.
Neither does the public. This could be a gimmick for people to vote for him thinking they are voting for ChatGPT. The only question is, is he in on the ruse?
Rolling keys is more of an RF thing, fobs are NFC or RFID (rolling key is still vulnerable to a simple replay attack).

For NFC/RFID it depends entirely on the card. You can easily clone Mifare Classic, but on newer ones there's no way I know of, and the software does not (yet) have support for Legic (which has been broken for over a decade).
Biggest challenges building GenAI into your product?
Hey, I'm Patrick!

I've been building GenAI into software products for about 20 months now, and I'm looking to connect with others who are working on similar challenges.

I have lots of tips and tricks from my own experiences, and would love to share best practices and learn from others who are working on similar things.

Curious what are the biggest pains of today related to AI integration?

For example, until a few days ago I was still struggling with structured outputs until OpenAI released that feature. With that essentially solved, I'm curious what everyone else is thinking about or struggling with.

Maybe we can help each other find solutions?
Wow! I have this book and read it to my kids regularly before bed, but I was not aware it was an entire franchise until I followed your link. I'll have to check out some of the other stuff too.
It surely does not.

The Mythical Man Month applies when you task more people to work on the same job with the expectation of faster results.

He is proposing to task more people to work on different jobs with the expectation of higher quality results.
High and low are quantifiable risks. Starliner risk is a divide by zero error NaN instead of a value.

. . . as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns
I tend to prefer "improved" versions myself for the same reasons but I'm not sure I'd agree that just because there are limitations in a medium all of the choices in creating the art cease to be choices of aesthetics. E.g. the Star Fox devs certainly didn't want flatly shaded, low polygon models relying on dithering to increase a limited palette... but all of the choices they made as a result of that certainly led to a great, intentionally crafted, aesthetic - even if it wasn't the ideal aesthetic of the creators. In the same way creating an Unreal Engine 5 remake of Star Fox is probably a lot closer to what the creators would have really liked but would be almost completely unrelated to the aesthetic in place in the original.
Could you give some examples of dependence without correlation?
The most important preventative measure in my experience: don't lay CDs upside-down in the name of “““protecting””” them! I know it's counter-intuitive, because I used to do it myself, but take a look at a cross-section of a CD and you'll see why it's the worst possible thing you can inadvertently do. The data layer is directly under the label, and the bottom of the disc is relatively well-protected in comparison: https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/fig2-3.jpg

This is also the reason why all-over-print CDs are better survivors than discs whose obverse design integrates the raw silver. Note that this is specific to CDs — DVDs and BDs have protection on both sides!
One pattern I like to use is to learn about a topic for myself and then, if there are areas of possible confusion, explain my understanding to ChatGPT and ask if it's correct.

This produces different results from just asking about the topic itself. When ChatGPT says that you answered the question correctly, you know you've got it. Sometimes I'll get answers like, "Almost except this one part you're describing incorrectly," which is very helpful.

It's a true test of your own knowledge to ensure that you can explain it to someone else correctly, even if that someone is an LLM.
I'm a gamer and I always play the games my kids are playing to see what's up. Roblox was banned in my house after I messed around with it on my own for 30 minutes. Most of the games on the platform are pay to win skinner boxes and they have a pedophile problem. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-roblox-pedophile-pro...
Supposedly this guy has “read every dystopian novel,”. Considering he is still moving forward with the idea, I tend to believe he failed reading comprehension classes in elementary school.
badgers?
I just installed a Fronius inverter (made in Austria) and 6.8kW of panels.

The inverter itself functions perfectly fine without an internet connection, and will display instantaneous power output on the screen. I could just be content with that and look at my monthly power bill to see how much I generated and how much I used each month and never connect it to the internet.

To get any kind of data logging & history from the inverter, it must be internet connected (wifi or ethernet). And all of that is through the manufacturer's website, which constantly nags me to "upgrade to pro" for some obscure feature that I'll never use.
> We (the society) don't even want to change the default password on most things.

Like you wouldn't believe.

My most memorable case of insecure IoT devices - wifi socket was sending wifi ssid and password of the network in cleartext in every ping packet to chinese servers.
Why doesn’t that trigger explosive decompression? Just because it’s so small?
Of course it has debt, as almost every company and state :)

EDF got loans from banks and money on the market, based on the fact that investors thinks it is a good investment. That is economics 101 and holds true for all publicly traded companies. The numbers are freely available on the internet, as prescribed by the law for all companies listed.

The debt also went down in 2023. It is worth to remember that EDF is forced by the French government to sell cheap energy, below market price, to protect consumers from rising energy prices (caused by the high reliance of other countries on natural gas from Russia - like Germany that phased-out nuclear in the meanwhile).

Nuclear is also treated differently from renewables when it comes down to low-emission investments by the various EU investment funds, and cannot compete in bidding rounds together with renewables (which drives the prices up, as there is way more demand than offer, so it makes no sense to compete). If the EU commission decides that there should be technological neutrality on low-emission power plants, EDF would be in a quite good position.

If you are so sure that EDF will not be able to finance its debt or build new reactors, you can bet against it by short it and, if your analysis is correct, make quite some money.
Yeah.

I'm not sure everyone is really thinking clearly here.

Don't get me wrong, they should get rid of this practice of cloud monitoring. A consumer should be able to access monitoring over the internet without an intermediary. They should, of course, be allowed to contract with an intermediary if that is their desire.

But the security argument?

Yeah, that ship has sailed. Total war, means total war. Your power grid, your internet, your communications, and your fossil fuel deliveries will all see material disruption. I wouldn't count on being able to stop those disruptions by banning a few web sites. (And frankly, during total war, those disruptions would be the least of your problems in any case.)

Best bet for places like Europe, China, the US and Russia is, just don't do total war with each other. If you choose to do it anyway, then you can see what you can expect from that in the documents filed under "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
Thats the more severe possibility, and I don't claim its not realistic. But from what I've seen so far, its more the fear of unknown and uncertainty.

Fear of unknown can be very powerful, horror movies build mainly on this. Also cumulative hurt of staying, while being higher overall, is much less than single huge immediate dose of hurt received by running away, at least they project it this way.

Put kids into the mix, and we have what we have.
And we keep ignoring that, while using LLMs helps people bang out cookie cutter work more efficiently, it harms productivity for tasks that require creative, lateral thinking or drawing insights by integrating multiple information sources.
I have been using it for simple tech advice. Sometimes it is hard to know words to use in searching a new subject or what products (electronic breakout boards and the like). Sometimes I ask which python libraries to use or for example code. I am a hobbyist and use it to get my foot in the door so to speak.
> I've sometimes wanted an assertion that a given function is inlined.

Try `__attribute__((error("not inlined")))` or `warning` on the callee.
I don't think the finger pointing can end there. Whose decision was it to outsource the decision to the computer? The voters? Ok... Whose decision was it to move forward with the computer's decision after reading it?
You can buy these off CL and sell it for almost cost.

I think they were overpriced and how would you know if it works or not.

We decided not to get one and our little one slept through the night.
If we had the snoo, we would've thought it was the gadget.
Unfortunately this calculus is exceedingly complicated and I haven't even seen a definition of "a causes b" in terms of this calculus. One problem is that Pearl and others make use of the notion of "d-separation". This allows for elegant proofs but is hard to understand. I once found a paper which replaced d-separation with equivalent but more intuitive assumptions about common causes, but I since forgot the source.

By the way, there is also an alternative to causal graphs, namely "finite factored sets" by Scott Garrabrant. Probably more alternatives exist. Though I don't know more about (dis)advantages.
Show HN: We spent the last 18 months building an interactive live video stream
Hey HN!!
Many of us enjoyed the "If YouTube had actual channels" Show HN post last week. As developers of a similar project, we wanted to share our approach to building a simulated live experience. We’ve spent around 18 months working on this and have managed to add some advanced features, including content-based interactivity. We are super excited to be releasing both the live stream and the code behind it.

Our idea was to combine the communal watching experience of television with the modern trappings of the interactive web. If you go to the stream, you will be watching along with everyone else. You can click around, get more information on what’s in the shot, and even purchase what you see without leaving the page.

On the tech side, we learned a ton along the way. Today, we are sharing the code so others can hopefully learn something too. To be totally honest, the code embarrasses me. It's way too early to share this and far from a completed open-source project. It’s an extreme example of “doing things that don’t scale” so please do not expect to just fire this up and run it in production. However, it does demonstrate solutions to a number of hard problems we faced—for example, handling graceful updates to streams that are currently live and supporting reliable timed metadata.

We would love any feedback and will be hanging around here to answer any questions that may come up.

Github: https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream

Live stream: https://www.sneakinpeace.com

Main tech: TypeScript | FFmpeg | HLS
In 1974 we were less used to the paradigm of giant companies receiving twice their proposed budget and accomplishing nothing with it.
The Other Lesson from the XZ Utils Supply-Chain Attack
Printed electronics material can store 1,000X more charge than current forms
Very true. Some folks think that a patent implies some kind of "IP police" who will defend you. In reality, the patent only gives you the right to sue an infringer, a suit you must fund at your own expense. Meanwhile, the alleged infringement will continue unabated.

It's also true that most of the money that changes hands in patents is in these mass cross-licensing agreements, rather than in individual lawsuits which the patent pools try to prevent.
The elected candidate, who is a human, would clearly be responsible for whatever actions are taken, no?
My dogs' microchips have a body temperature sensor. When one of them is acting like they might be sick, I can take their temperature with via my Flipper's RFID reader.
> (like skeumorphism in ux design)

Say what you want about skeumorphism, but it at least gave people a fighting chance to figure out what in the world the target actually does.
Funny bit of trivia, Patty Hearst went on to be in several of John Waters' movies.
LLMs know more than what they say
And how to use LLM interpretability research for applied evaluation
I dont agree with even 1. Especially the yield example is very naive.
The Mennonites Making the Amazon Their Home
That idea is missing something- one of the most basic physiological responses is panic when blood CO2 levels get high. A baby that isn’t getting fresh air should be really upset- crying, flailing, etc. which would move them away from the surface and or bring adult help. What is the cause for this system not engaging in these situations? These studies are actually measuring neurotoxins at concentrations expected to cause this, in the boundary layer of the actual mattresses babies died on. But I could imagine it also happens that in some newborns, perhaps this low CO2 response or the ability to act on it isn’t developed yet?
I was just getting excited to order one then I read your comment.

I don’t want to spend $100 on this.
Cheapness. It would require to be at least semi secure, application on phone would need to find those devices locally and it should be synchronized with cloud anyway, synchronization is error prone and we had problems with devices sometimes responding twice or very slowly through local interface (through cloud was much faster, no idea why, not our firmware). Also not enough people requesting that feature, most don't care and think that losing internet is not often enough to warrant worrying about this.
I would love experiments like this to happen. My intuition would be that the results would be better than expected.

Main caveat is whether he will actually proceed with all of the bot's decisions even when it goes against his beliefs, family and friends interests.

This is a problem AI fundamentally doesn't have but humans fall for all the time.
This looks amazing. Super exciting to see how this project grows!
Many games don't even require separate copies. This is a fairly new phenomenon.

I mean, I'm fully grown and I still get together with friends and play Mario Party and Smash. I just bought extra controllers and boom, good to go.
2GB Raspberry Pi 5
Maybe he noticed that in every dystopian novel, somebody got put in position to make it happen, and he thought, "That means I'd win the election".
Researchers discover new way to control the sense of touch
Most of the small python alternatives I've seen use Redis as backend:

- https://github.com/rq/rq
- https://github.com/coleifer/huey
- https://github.com/resque/resque
Show HN: SiteOne Crawler – in-depth website analyzer and exporter (open-source)
Please try out this website analyzer and provide feedback on how to improve the output report so that you love the tool. In the first few sentences of the README you will also find a link to the GUI application if you don't want the CLI. To give you an idea of the report, I am sending a sample HTML report for Apple.com - https://crawler.siteone.io/html/2024-08-19/forever/v-bnb7tu5...
What does an industrial minipc offer that an RPI doesn't in this case? :)
Computer Says No [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no
This is where the word “progressive” comes from. Its optional. Think like a parser - would you like JS AST to do the same thing as without it? I doubt it.
They also enjoyed slagging on corporate rebranding. When PriceWaterhouse Cooper spun out their consulting arm in 2002, they became a target for a minute[1][2]. I still have a "We like donkeys la la la" t-shirt and mug as a pair of weird and obscure artifacts from that stage of my IT career. I am heartened to see that archive.org provides a way to experience the silly Flash animation[3] they created just for that second article.

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2002/06/18/tell_me_why_i_dont/

[2]: https://www.theregister.com/2002/06/20/monday_gets_that_mond...

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20021127100055/https://www.intro...

EDIT: fix formatting