skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. Bandwagon behavior seems to indicate aversion to (perceived) risk.
Yeah that’s a bit of a red flag, because as a joke it isn’t a sure fire and if he’s serious, he isn’t that self aware
> Kind of like trying to automate writing a novel…

So you are saying procedural level design could be solved with generative AI?
I suspect everyone on HN started out wanting to build COOL WORLDS as a kid!
1. Create a mouse that needs Cloud services.

2. Need revenue to pay for the Cloud services.

3, Charge mouse users for the Cloud services.

It's the (stupid) circle of life.
I have no idea if it’s easier to censor technologically, but it isn’t encrypted either and it is a carrier-based messaging standard.
Same feeling. The list is a good start but a ton is missing. I’m not American but the first 4 years of my degree had:

- a lot more maths - really a lot - what’s here doesn’t come close to covering what we did in the first year alone. For a CS degree, I would at least expect far more algebra, some graph theory, a course on optimisation and dynamic programming, some PDE and a course on numerical methods and algorithms and some formal logic (but from what I saw when I did my post-grad the amount of maths done in my country for a CS engineering degree goes further than a maths bachelor in the US so I’m extremely biased).

- Compiler and some language theory

- a course on logic programming, another on functional programming

- a course on assembly and low level programming

- a course on Networks and systems

- a course on databases architecture

- on top of a ton of physics and courses not directly oriented towards CS but required to be an engineer here.
I'm surprised that large amounts of dead code is neither an obvious-to-machines nor an obvious-to-humans problem or demerit with submitted assignments -- regardless of plagiarism status. I'd especially have thought such a clunky approach should be caught be a decent plagiarism detection software. It makes me wonder if simply feeding a student's assignment into Claude would be more reliable these days by just asking it, "If you remove all the dead code, is the remaining code likely plagiarized?"
> Dating someone at work doesn’t automatically make you a sexual predator.

Are you going to pretend we are not talking about the CEO here? CEOs dating subordinates at work are sexual predators, yes.
I wouldn’t even blame the authors of the system that existed. Even in a perfect culture, compromises need to be made. If the time needed to adapt land warfare AI to the new sea warfare AI in Empire(?) is high, better to just focus on making the thing you’re building work well than to be “pure.”

Now consider a culture that wasn’t, as reported, particularly healthy and…
This method is working for us
https://www.amazon.com/Nemechek-Protocol-Autism-Developmenta...

Basic concept is many neurological disorders like autism are caused by leaky gut. You get prescribed drugs that fix leaky gut and neurological development resumes.
Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition
I don’t have high hopes for either Harris or Trump going after big tech the way the EU is.
> It's funny how we drill the idea that everything must be reimplemented from first principles into students, only to flip that when they join the workforce.

It is funny, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

PS If the domain in your profile is supposed to be valid … it isn’t.
the jvm is to blame here, not kotlin. clojure has the same problem
Because regulation is forcing this.
Why do you care whether it "needs" to be done a certain way? You could use Hetzner, or you could use some giant cloud infra. Both get the job done. Why do you care which is used?

You probably care because you don't like waste. But another person might not care so much about waste, and cares more about other things. Like the time it takes to get something done, or the technical ability required, or the ability to find someone else to maintain something, or its flexibility in being changed. Or maybe just the fun of building something with cool toys.

You originally commented with cost being the factor. But if the person building this doesn't mind an additional cost, then they don't need to build it on DO or Hetzner. That said, if they do built it on the cloud, they do need to keep in mind the cost... just like if they built it on DO or Hetzner, they would need to keep in mind how to rebuild the instance when it goes down, how to maintain the instance's OS for security patches, etc.

Both require additional considerations besides the one thing. Your choices just move around the necessary complexity.
Thanks for the comment! Few things to reply to from here.

We didn’t have list access enabled, but someone did get a list of files from our API.

Rails with Paperclip and active storage is amazing. Our front end is in Next.js though, so we have people upload straight from Next to GCS, then we sent the GCS URL to Rails. We don’t do pre-processing of images, so just storing the original is good.

They can still download every image, but they’ll be throttled now and kicked out at the middleware level, or permission denied from GCP. 60/min vs 10k/min.

The signature calculation happening might not be hitting Google in that case. I noticed a long data dump in the console after requesting the signed URL combined with the additional latency and assumed. Maybe it’s just a cryptically difficult calculation like bcrypt and it takes a while. Will have to check, because it’s be great to not need a network reliant call for that.
TBM 303: The Current Tech Puzzle (With Diverse Takes)
Sure, but that's the same argument I'm making: the unit of blocking will be the largest unit that is routinely allocated to a single user. In IPv4 space that's a /32, so people block by /32. In IPv6 space that's a /48, so people block by /48. Check out Let's Encrypt's rate limit policy, for example.

The difference I'm pointing out between IPv4 and IPv6 is that nobody is giving single IPv4 users /24s for their own use. But IPv6 /48s (which are theoretically somewhat equivalent to IPv4 /24s) are freely available. This is a problem because it makes over-blocking even more likely than it already is. And as you point out elsewhere, over-blocking is already an issue in IPv4 space.
Which do you think is cheaper to produce, agitprop or deep investigative reporting? If no one pays for news, which do you think will grow in proportion to the other?
See also the storytellers in Rimworld. Randy in particular is a master of the dramatic turn.
Cloudflare Cloud Connector
And what’s with this GitHub thing, I know a lot of employed software engineers that can get the job done and have no GitHub commits.
> Exactly, you should let other people decide what they do with their phones.

So then people who want to install whatever app store on their iPhone should be allowed to do so. And those who disagree can not do that.

> The majority of Apple users chose phones for the tightly curated, easy to navigate Apple ecosystem

Once again. If you want that, few people would be opposed to a "lock down" button that turns your phone into an "apple ecosystem only" phone.

But other people should be able to install whatever they want and their own iPhone.

> If you want an open ecosystem get an Android phone already,

Or, instead of that, people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their phones, including their own iPhones.

You can have your lockdown button if you want, and most governments would be fine with that. But other people should be allowed to do what they want with their own iPhone, including installing other app stores.

Thats not going to satify you, because what you actually want to do is control other people's iPhones.

I don't want to control your phone. Lock it down, all you want. Apple can even include a helpful lockdown feature and it would be with everyone else.

Just let other people do what they want with their own iPhones.

> don't try to dictate what other people are allowed to buy.

You would be the one dictating what other people do with their phones. I am perfectly fine with you having a locked down iPhone as long as it is possible for other people, who are not you, to have a not locked down iPhone.

See the difference?
> Thanks to fair legislation being passed, we will be able to bring the Epic Games Store to the UK and Japan soon, and will follow suit in any other country that passes legislation allowing third party marketplaces on iPhone devices.

I didn't think the UKs Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act went as far as the DMA.

Edit: Seems the UKs Act lets the CMA investigate and demand companies do changes to promote competition, vs the DMAs blanket requirements on large tech companies.
How exactly is news working against your interests?
One could say Property taxes are like wealth taxes. You are taxing unrealized gains. But IMO it's once of the best ways cities meet their expenses and everyone pays their fair share. It keeps property prices somewhat in check because it costs money speculate.

Land that can be developed into residential lots should be appraised at a higher value. There should be a 2-4 year period where a land owner has their opportunity to develop land, but then it should be taxed at rate of nearby developed lots.

Land ownership is almost a zero-sum game and should be well regulated for efficient demand and supply. Rent-seekers don't add any value, just suck it up into their fat pockets.
I'm kind of more curious how this guy even got an interview in this job market, meanwhile I'm getting maybe 1 every 30 applications.
Unfortunately not. Nurses, doctors, bin men, car mechanics, plumbers can all be essential at times but rarely pay large bonuses.
Grafana miiiight be what you're looking for if that type of data is something you already have stored elsewhere.
Hunted on Product Hunt – Story of a Failed Launch
On May 4th 2020, we've launched ProdCamp our User feedback Management solution on Hacker News. This was our first step going public and a call to Product Managers willing to provide feedback.

A dozen of comments and couple signups came in - we got really pumped up by the support we received from the community!

A few hours later, we started to see dozens of signups popping on the platform! And our website traffic was blowing up!

But it wasn't what we were thinking.

We had been hunted by a known Hunter on Product Hunt.

In a few days, we had more than 100 signups. And really mixed feelings.

We felt this wasn't the solution we wanted to show to such a large public.

The rest of the story is in the original article if you're interested.

What do you think? Should we have felt lucky? Have you ever been hunted?
For a few years I subscribed to my city's newspaper, because I figured that what I want is a reliable source of local news and not just national news, which I can get anywhere. What I found was that Twitter/X accounts and free news websites peppered with ads were better even for that purpose!

The paper I subscribed to would have the front page "news" be a huge history report about some local curiosity (an old prison, or a long-dead civil rights activist, or an industry that no longer exists). However, if I wanted to know information about the local Family Court judge candidates, or why a bridge is closed, or why a protest is happening on a certain street, I'd need to go online anyway. Oftentimes a local TV reporter's Twitter account could give me up to the minute information. The newspaper was not only too slow, oftentimes they wouldn't even bother to cover the interesting event!
Ah yes, 1.5B users, absolutely tiny :)

When my company made a mistake that cost our customers 750k, we fell on our sword and recouped them the cost.

We had 11k users at the time :)
Galois theory is the explanation and apex of theoretical math that you can motivate and talk about at a dinner table with people that don't even like math, lol.

Start with the quadratic formula, everyone seems to have some recollection of this. Talk about solving for x in polynomials. Then discuss if you can always solve for x, and what does that even mean. If you graph a polynomial it crosses the x-axis so there's a solution for x, but does that mean you can solve for it in a formula (this alludes to the fundamental theorem of algebra that every polynomial of degree n has n solutions in the complex numbers)?

It's tough to get the idea of solution by radicals and how that relates to what it means to have a formula for x in terms of the coefficients of the polynomial.

Anyways, the punchline is that there's no formula for x using basic arithmetic operations up to taking radicals, where the formula is in terms of the coefficients of the polynomial for a general degree 5 or higher polynomial. Galois theory proves this.

Galois is credited with this because it took a lot of imagination to think about how to formulate and prove that there is no formula. What does it mean to not have a formula? How do you formulate it properly and then prove it?
I’m going to have to look into this today. I assuming generating the URLs hit an API, but if those can happen fast locally that changes things.
Cool project! I clicked on it hoping it was a way to easily visualize my own personal stats. Anyone know of a project like that? Grafana for personal data :)
Influence, anxiety, noise. That's how I interpret his comment.
The world will lose $4.7T of revenue in the next decade to tax havens
LittleJS is great. I love tinkering with it. Frank is great too, nice little community in the discord and he is super responsive to questions.
> I occasionally watch something on Disney+

Then it's too late for you (according to this legal theory). You have permanently lost your ability to use the court system against Disney.
I'm pretty sure this gives credence to the monopoly argument
For anyone who hasn't been there, I'd highly recommend visiting the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in general, not just for the Air Force One, but for many other fascinating exhibits. Great place for a very "Seattle" experience if you're not from the Pacific Northwest, and historical info on Seattle as home of Boeing.
> due to the reckless speed at which we implemented the covid vaccines

There was nothing "reckless" about the speed of the vaccine development. That's just a fear-based reactionary thing, with no basis in any sort of fact or objective measure.

> the very real myocarditis and autoimmune disorders it causes

Both of which are far lower risk than the risk of myocarditis or long-term immune system damage caused by Covid infection.

The anti-vaccine arguments are the same as when seatbelts and airbags were new, and there was a vocal cohort highlighting the injuries caused by seatbelts, ignoring the fact that the injuries would have been 10x without them.

If 10,000 unvaxxed people get Covid and 1,000 of them get heart damage from the disease or 10,000 people get vaccinated and 1 of them gets heart damage from the vaccine, it's still obviously better to have gotten the vaccine for the general population.
It's normal to be anxious about horrible things in the world that you are (seemingly, and probably) powerless to do anything about.
> I'm with Bryan Caplan's position that most of the news can be safely eliminated from one's consumption with zero loss to one's quality of life

I follow one or two very local news sources[1], who post about three to five stories a week. I find those valuable: new restaurants opening, construction going on, what's going on with local organizations & politicians, some local history. It's up to ten minutes a day. And, I choose to pay a subscription to support each of these.

Outside that, I 100% agree with you. National news? Complete waste of time. World news? Somehow an even bigger waste. Reading random vomit on Twitter? Good lord, taking up smoking is a better use of your life than that. No way in hell I'm wasting my life or money on any of that junk. It's despairing to see so many people I know spending hours every day reading national news junk to absolutely no purpose. You can know everything you need to know about the world in ten minutes a day. More than that is just throwing your time down the garbage.

[1] An example: https://racketmn.com
The way I handle it is having separate pages for stuff that updates often and then link them from my now page.
I miss when this place was full of wide-eyed CS undergrads, now it's just "Exploits in Venture Capitalism". Everyone has grown up and gotten themselves high paying, boring adtech jobs so now they feel the need to defend surveillance capitalism and "intellectual property" at every turn. We used to make fun of illegal numbers and censorship efforts, now we support them. I guess you either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.
I don't either: https://gazette.com/news/wex/harris-s-choice-of-trump-debate...

Regardless of your stance on whether or not Google specifically is a monopoly, this should be considered extremely concerning that Harris seems so friendly with someone representing a defendant her own justice department is prosecuting.

Not that I want to divert from the topic at hand—just agree there's good reason to be apprehensive about similar expectations being met here.
Not sure why you say that. The Biden admin pursued a number of cases and recently got a monopoly ruling on Google
> By the way, I hope you don’t mind, I’ve added an AI note taker to the call.

BTW, I recommend disclosing this and getting consent before the call.

By the time they've joined the call, whatever service you're using has already captured the person's identity, face, and voice.

And we all know how our field is currently respecting privacy, rights, and even existing regulations, especially in the current AI goldrush.
AFP Spent $500k Trying to Lock Up Autistic 13-Year-Old on Terrorism Charges
The full article title is:

> Australian Feds Spent More Than $500,000 Trying To Lock Up An Autistic 13-Year-Old On Terrorism Charges

AFP stands for Australian Federal Police.
That type of essay often works like that: start with a few paragraphs that are interesting to a broader audience, write a book review while showing off your literary chops, and then tie it together sloppily the end.

It's like they need to continue the book review genre, and add the required literary flourishes, and have a book review at its core.
How about the obvious and shameless propaganda?

Oh wait, most people here agree the with ends, so the means must be Ok.
Speaking of Jacob Collier, this is a good time to mention the song where he “hacks” equal temperament to modulate to G-half-sharp without anyone noticing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd54l8gfi7M&t=3m17s
But there's an obvious difference between shelling out $60 up-front or $5 a month or whatever and shelling out $0 (and then being tracked, or having your data harvested).

Especially in the modern ecosystem where costs have become divorced from income, people would (behavior observation strongly suggests) much rather pay with their information footprint (a resource they can't capitalize alone) than the dollars in their wallets. Otherwise... Where's the successful paid-for browser right now? Which one? Can we point to it?
that's partially true; however, I still think I was right.

yes, there are places that don't heat up because the current doesn't go through them, but only because they have easier paths. if the electricity wanted to go through them, they would heat up hotter than anything else.

the point is, things can corrode, electricity goes in places it wasn't intended or through resistances it wasn't intended, and becomes a fire hazard.
Apache isn't a silver bullet... there are plenty of Apache projects where the individuals are compromised mostly from one company and hide behind the veneer of the ASF... where they are working on the projects per their employment. Gerrymandering is definitely possible and has happened in the past, that's why you have to look at governance and ownership of the marks/build systems etc: https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/10/08/open-source-gerrymander...

I actually prefer the approach of LF, EF or CNCF where it's transparent where folks work for and your affiliation is disclosed upfront. In the CNCF for example, we separate out technical project decisions (maintainers) from funding decisions (members). That is healthier than blending it all in one at the ASF imho and having no idea where person is working for imho.
Ask HN: Is there a free equivalent of ChatGPT today?
I'm an early adopter and paying customer of ChatGPT but I keep hearing that several other models managed to catch up. I use it 1-2 times a day to satisfy my personal and professional curiosity (so it would be nice if it could be more or less up to date on contemporary cloud platform engineering).

I tried using built-in AI in Bing but it's answers feel very shallow (I assume it is ChatGPT-based but is very token-/resource-restricted).

Is there a way to send those 300 bucks a year to an ETF and use a free service?
That’s exactly what “balancing” a game means.
Not sure if what you implemented was the legacy style of finger or the newer webfinger...but the indieweb community certainly uses (or used to use?) webfinger for discovery. See: https://indieweb.org/WebFinger
How does this compare to linktree?
Exactly, they should be sued for this. I think the only people who are defending Apple are the ones who did not read the ToS carefully.
I'm sure we all could appreciate Mega for what it was, and we could also debate the charges and go back and forth on extradition laws. The reality is that according to the DoJ, US citizens were victimized by a service that used US assets (servers) within its territory. That opens the doors for litigation. This happens literally in every country that can enforce it.

Like Reddit, HN has a crowd of anti-US folks with terrible sentiment until, you know, when they need the US or need a job in the U.S. The hypocrisy is astounding.
I'm working on gathering the fractions. In order to go from observations, witness accounts and quantifications in and of institutions and identify logical links in patterns of consumption of future abusers, I would have to travel in time.

I have not tried to reduce my hypothesis but there's plenty of discussions and research into mental health crisis, recurring and one-time/impulsive (sexually) violent behavior as well as the correlating &or causal psycho-pathologies.

But I'm not a scientist. I just think. And sometimes I read.

It matters anyway. It's hard studying this stuff in the lab. Relevant measurements in the field need to be isolated but that can mostly only be done in retrospect and we are talking about LLMs, what can be generated, what will be generated and should it be legal or not?

Should the system prepare? Can it? What kind of colony will we become? Are there multiple endings/"liminals"/paths? Who (exactly) cares? Who will be affected? Who is aware and who isn't? Who is misguided (maybe it's me)?

If I was a different kind of idiot in the past, I would have made the money to have the peace of mind to dive deeper but as it stands, just babbling some thoughts isn't gonna get me anywhere. Except that it stimulates to put it into words and maybe get something coherent on paper some day, something that isn't purely wannabe-megalomaniac, but constructive ^^
I think the generators were trained mostly on ArtStation and this style is quite common in concept art.
So, Grafana? ;)
Your iphone actually filters out spam? I get calls and texts all day.
Funny how you people keep making it as if bins included openly in normal Linux distributions are as bad as some weird unaudited internal tool by Verison of all things, additionally hidden from the user. I would have higher expectations of a Pixel tbh
16th president; freed the slaves
making excuse is easy, here is another one 1..3