skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem with valuations is the never ending financial history of hypes. The hype is correlated with the technology or industry but follows its own speculation hype. Even if the valuations and speculations are correct, they could be correct in years with ups and downs. If the dot com era is a good example it took half a decade or more to materialize.

Other aspects that are not well studied yet is how online advertisement will be affected if most people around the world end up using a single interface such as ChatGPT. How SEO/SEM/Ads will work in that world? Does someone look at what sites benefit being listed in ChatGPT (e.g. Wikipedia).
From what I remember public companies have to disclose any customer responsible for more than 10%+ of their revenue on their 10-K so those won't be "mystery whales" for long.
SurveyJS already has all that and uses JSON.
It's also MIT licensed, instead of this non commercial license.
The Vulnerability with OAuth
I was scared away as a plugin developer when Elastic changed to closed source, because the plugin that I assembled was based on third-party code and can only licensed under AGPL. Fun fact is, I could now resume my plugin development, and provide the code in the open with future Elasticsearch versions. But will I do it? I am also frustrated and my trust was violated.

The point is, having Opensearch as an alternative is finding answers to my question to resume Elasticsearch development not easier than before. All the positive aspects are still counting for Opensearch. It is true that AGPL is not enough.

While I do not think there will ever be an effort by the Elastic company to join Opensearch or embrace the Opensearch community, it seems to me the license switch to AGPL was driven by the analysis that Elastic's product offering can not be copied any more by hyperscalers. It was a mere question of the exclusiveness of the cloud service offering. That collided with the Apache license once. But now, it is clear that Amazon will never switch back to the Elastic stack as their primary cloud service search product.
Her analogy is in the context of her larger topic of systems of computers, and I think history has largely proven out her advocated approach. She highlights a case of trying to cram a multi-user time sharing system, security system, database and actual programs all onto a single large computer, and contrasts this with having a separate system managing multiple user access, a separate system managing the database, and individual systems managing each application. Which sounds a lot like a firewall/gateway + Postgres server + API server + reporting server + etc + etc setup that is pretty much the design of every major system I've worked on. Yes, to a small degree, we sort of cram these things back into a single box these days by way of virtualization, but it's pretty rare to see a system where everything is running on the same machine, under the same OS like Admiral Hopper would have been talking about at the time.
Puerto Rico is still 100% Spanish-speaking, 125 years after annexation by the US.

It's possible that the US would annex Quebec and similarly keep it as a territory, but more likely is the US not bothering with it at all; why bring within itself an ethnic conflict that has bedeviled Canada for 250 years?
I think these can both be true. If AI makes people be 3% more productive overall, cumulatively that's a huge improvement, but on an individual level it may feel undeserving of hype.
If we had to vote everything with our wallets Tesla wouldn't exist in the first place. We would have $5,000 trucks made by Burmese war prisoners that can reach 200mph on full self drive, running on palm oil without a catalytic converter.
Maybe you are being downvoted because this is “obvious”, but as it turns out it is not obvious enough for the TFA itself to not have this error:

it prophesied that on January 1, 2000, computers the world over would be unable to process the thousandth-digit change from 19 to 20 as 1999 rolled into 2000 and would crash
It's shocking how many people are uninsured or underinsured. Plus, insurance minimums are absolutely ridiculous. Florida's minimum is $10K property damage, $10K personal injury, and they don't even require bodily injury liability. Total insanity. You crash into a Porsche full of doctors with that kind of coverage, and you're going bankrupt.

Most states have a minimum of around $25K for bodily injury liability. You can't even step foot into a hospital without paying $20K, so WTF is the minimum supposed to pay for exactly?

I guess a lot of drivers have so little to their name that they are judgment-proof and just don't care if they get sued for $2M.
Sure but most users are not interacting directly with the "Linux" part (and probably they don't have much interest in that anyway).

IMHO Linux is mostly an implementation detail for the Steam Deck/OS. So sure we can put it in more or less the same category as Chrome OS and Android. It's just there to run a proprietary layer/interface.
The departments aren’t talking, so they accidentally made two orders.
Go live in the remote wilderness in your cabin. The rest of this will live within civilized society with our necessary liberties, thank you very much.
The Steam Deck's sole purpose is to emulate Windows APIs to run Windows games. It's not a win for Linux, it's an admission that Linux's only value is as a way to avoid paying the Windows tax.

We've heard grandiose claims that proprietary operating systems are going to go away for 25 years now. We will be hearing the same grandiose claims that proprietary operating systems are going to go away someday for the next 25 years as well.
https://reddit.garudalinux.org/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comme...

or host a private instance.

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
The Apple and Google pushes for digital IDs are basically that, but support is limited at best since it's depending on 50+ different local governments to get up to speed on all this tech stuff.
As someone who speeds on highways (but not in cities/towns), I wish more people sped. The left lane is for crime, get out of the way.
Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41390173
The purpose of conversation is to reveal facts previously unknown. If I'm baffled by it, you should absolutely expect me to reply.

If I told you you were being boring, you should wonder why I would bother to reply, or if I'm being dishonest in an effort to be hurtful.
"Who could it be... Hmm... Such a tough nut to crack..."

(Even without a report on this it would be obvious)
Deleting emails will not save the planet
Is it that common for people to hoard dragons?
Acording to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Calculator#Windows_9x_..., the Win98 version of calc.exe got an arbitrary-precision math library for basic math functionality to fix this sort of problem.

also mentioned by Raymond Chen, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39... :

"Today, Calc’s internal computations are done with infinite precision for basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and 32 digits of precision for advanced operations (square root, transcendental operators)."

And they fixed the square-root-of-a-perfect-square bug a few years ago, https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/89s53g/microsoft...
Thank you for answering! What I read from the beginning had some interesting bits in it but after a while I realised it wasn't going anywhere.
What are you talking about?
Paddle charges 5% + $0.50, see https://www.paddle.com/pricing
They handle chargeback, taxes in various states, etc., etc.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41381827
How is it going to burst exactly? Are ChatGPT and Google Assistant going to suddenly stop working?
Anyone who has tried to play computer games semi seriously on a Mac has experienced some level of bewilderment due to Apple's decades-long refusal to include an option to disable mouse acceleration in their settings.
Models are only state of the art for 12 to 18 months. There’s not a model in existence today that will have any value in 5 years. They will all be obsolete.

Thus far no one has any moat on their model.
Of course, but that doesn’t solve the problem. The problem here is that two separate organizations with completely different software were communicating via CSV file. There was a contractual obligation between them that required them to use specific units, but no technical collaboration. The problem was not in their software, but in the management and engineering discipline of the two groups.
Once I took apart an LCD monitor (with LED backlight) since one of the backlight elements was broken (I got it broken for very little money). I thought I'd see whether the LCD element can be used in front of a window to make a sci-fi type screen. Turns out the backlight is much, much brighter than daylight, and the LCD lets almost no light through. The LCD was too dark to make a cool sci-fi screen, and the backlight sitting separately was blindingly bright.
One killer feature is OpenAI’s vector database. I was surprised you can throw gigabytes of documents at it and chatgpt can see it all. It’s hard to simulate that via context window.

That’s not necessarily a moat, but OpenAI is still shipping important features. I wonder how hard it is for Claude et al to replicate.
Probably SCP, but modern firewalls and routers automatically block that port and no one thought of making a half decent GUI
How odd. This is a rather interesting catch, especially in light of the upcoming tax fight in 2025 with the TCJA and Expanded Child Tax Credit expirations, and the unrealized capitals gains tax proposals.

Given the other comments pointing to the SEO benefits of creating a subreddit just for a single post, it has shades of an effort to seed the information space and shape the narrative in advance of the tax fight by gaming the search results prior to uninformed journalists and legislative aids developing an interest in the topic, many of whom will search Google for background information and context as the tax fight plays out.

Nice catch, and interesting regardless of the motives.
You might enjoy using https://www.nushell.sh/
We'd better learn Linux system interface for most of back-end, infra or even front-end trouble shooting. But you don't need to learn about complex shell scripting or internal level. Also, knowing how Linux abstract communication to the machine is beneficial.
Btw open-webui will soon have merged a PR adding artifact-like interaction:

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/4548
> "the subjugation of indigenous people" in the American west began long before the transcontinental railroad

So did "empire building" and "westward expansion," but those assertions don't seem to have bothered you despite suffering from the same deficiency in the same sentence.
It's definitely what I expected. As soon as you get outside of the specific use case of chatbots, "AI stuff" is a feature, not a product.
Sounds like a unabomber quote?
Don't bother looking for the amount of money Blackrock currently controls then. The big funds are approaching a point where they wield more power than governments, they just don't play it too open. Yet.
> Since the days of Apache/PHP I don't think people (need to) host their dev work on proper servers at their local computers. So this argument is kind of invalid unless you want to set-up your dev machine as some kind of dummy server.

True, and false

I do host the cloud software I work on on a local machine (running Debian-12) because it is easy. I do not need to, I want to and it makes me more productive

I also spend a lot of time in a terminal on a remote machine. I have to be careful to not get the two confused (I use different background colours for terminals on different machines.)

I have done the "remote terminal on cloud software" on Windows - a difficult and painful experience. Tools I take for granted, and get gratis, on Linux are not there on the Windows servers.

What ever flaws the article has it is not out of date
Plus complaining about "billions of taxes" (absolute, big and scary sounding numbers) and never mentioning the actual tax rate as a percentage of their gains (probably in the low single digits).
Got really frustrated with the ui on mobile.
> "Remember Y2K? Nothing happened!" is a super toxic lesson to take away from a rare success where people came together and fixed something instead of firefighting disasters.

My cynicism about Y2K comes from the fact that there were a lot of snarky articles written about how certain countries or companies were not Y2K ready but nothing bad seemed to happen to those countries either. It seems like a natural experiment was conducted and the results indicate there was no correlation between good outcomes and the work done to be Y2K ready.

I have no doubt that the armies of consultants did fix real issues but anyone working in software knows there is a never ending set of things to fix. The real issue is whether that work was necessary for the ongoing functioning of business or society.
Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense
Why does this puzzle you? It seems like completely expected behavior to me. Most people try to minimize taxes. Who do you know that gladly pays more than they legally have to pay?
Tom Hanks alerts fans about AI ads using his voice to sell 'wonder drugs'
The egregious amount of time wasted playing the animations is really the worst. For a great demo of how bad it is, even on my 15 Pro Max — try this: go into a Messages conversation and hit the + next to the text entry field. An ugly, blur-filled animation has to play for about 1000ms EVERY TIME you open this menu up, which is now the way you have to add a photo to the conversation. Heck, I don’t even want the menu, I just want a photo button which instantly shows my most recent photos.

Back in jailbreak days there was a global animation timer hack you could do — changing the animations to take zero seconds — so they would all just be skipped. It made the phone so fast.

(“Reduce Motion” is useless for this because yeah, the fades are just as slow.)
What a strange article and initiative by Meta. So we're expected to believe that Meta is doing all this engineering out of some newly discovered concern for user privacy, and ignore the decades of blatant privacy violations, for which they've been fined numerous times? I suppose they've decided that the cost of this effort is less than the fines they would have to pay otherwise, so it probably makes business sense. It doesn't hurt as PR fodder to balance the negative press either.

But let's not be fooled. Advertising and user privacy is a zero-sum game. Adtech is a giant business today precisely because they've violated user privacy since the beginning, taking advantage of the fact that the average web user is either unaware of what they're giving up, or they just don't care. All these supposed privacy initiatives by adtech corporations are simply an answer to increased regulation and public awareness. Otherwise they would happily continue siphoning everyone's data without thinking twice about it. They actually still do for areas of their business that are not under the spotlight yet: shadow profiles, data broker transactions, etc.
The shortcut is actually the same everywhere: Command+C

You obviously just switched it to mimic Windows, which is why it's "inconsistent"
I just asked ChatGPT 4o to generate a Sudoku solver in Rust, and the code compiles and works fine.

Edit: tried with Llama 3.1 70B as well, and funnily enough it outputs the exact same Sudoku puzzle as an example to test the code with.
How Do You Change a Chatbot's Mind?
As of today:

2038 Epochalypse countdown:
13 years, 4 months, 19 days, 7 minutes, 13 seconds
This does not take a couple of hours. I can assure you of that.

The app description sounds like it was more work to come up with than the app code itself.

Also, this is an extremely common, bland and simplistic example. You’ll see it flail and falter on slightly less generic boilerplate-heavy “apps” and there is no known tech/theory that’ll get us there. We just hope more “scale” will magically solve all its issues, but IMO that’s not going to happen. The paradigm just doesn’t allow it. Time will tell who is right of course.

I don’t want to downplay the recent LLM achievements because they are amazing, but this is not taking any (programming) jobs.

I’m actually not too worried about the current wave of AI. Copilot is an annoyance and GPT4 is lying so much it’s getting old. LLMs have deep issues that I’m not seeing much improvement on. The next wave of AI however.. I’m not sure. It’s a matter of time.
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Anything to avoid writing CSS
X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk's refusal to comply with local laws
Lack of releases from OpenAI make me more bullish on them. Clearly they have something big they’re working on, they don’t care about competing with current models
> Most systemd distributions have a lot of technical ... but they are increasingly becoming monolithic,

I am not a fan of Systemd for irrelevant reasons. But the "monolithic" nature of systems has to do with the interdependence of the parts not the glue.

> I remember a time when Linux was pure anarchy, with loosely coupled independent subsystems

Sounds like my Linux box I have for fun. We are still making systems like that, but for business purposes we were always making solid and staid systems.

Very little has changed, only the words we use to say it (and the raw power of the underlying hardware of course!)
Why? Bodycams are an unalloyed good, and have deeper privacy implications.
> They aren't getting warrants to tow the vehicles.

Um, FTA:

> “Based on this information,” Godchaux wrote, “I respectfully request that a warrant is authorized to seize this vehicle from the La Quinta Inn parking lot so this vehicle’s surveillance footage may be searched via an additional search warrant at a secure location.”
> Learning C is a dead end

Surely you’re not serious. Learning C taught me more about how a computer works than anything up to that point, asm as well.

Also, C23 will be released soon, this year I believe. I don’t think it’ll be going anywhere.

Also also, I would really like to hear a quant weigh in on your opinion. :)
I’d be curious to hear what is bad about macOS docker support as compared to WSL2.
I feel like we're precariously close to proposing a War on Data. I suspect it will be as successful as every previous War on....
U.S. troops injured in Iraq raid that killed several ISIS fighters
1) generate hydrogen 2) store hydrogen in iron oxide 3) discharge hydrogen again 4) convert it into something useful (electricity, heat, movement, etc.).

All those steps lose energy. And there's stuff that happens in between involving pipes, leaky valves, tanks, compression, etc.
Surely an intelligence agency or two would be big buyers. They could lease but that might have security implications they're not comfortable with.
Yeah I am testing using it on an SSH server I wrote for a service that I have to have some interactive management UI. It is nice for small menus and things similar to the example but building an entire complex application with it would be hard to maintain.
> It’s important because static analysis tools get nowhere near the coverage of a memory safe language

It’s hard for me to believe a HN reader would not know this, especially given there are regular exploits revealed in the kernel.
I haven't thought about it too much. I feel like taking stolen data from a Tor BBS and amplifying its harms to make a political point is going to put you on shaky legal ground, and past that I don't have a take on whether you should ultimately prevail. There does reach a point where a government can't sit back and say "yeah, yeah, you got us" while someone posts, like, the list of police CIs.
Debian releases 12.7 with 55 security updates and stability improvements
Can I FOIA Yopur CarCam?

I Should be able to FOIA-LiveStream #OfficerBadge_Num

For #1 &#4 Rights? Maybe #2

#If Warrant granted, then enable FOIA-Cam_Footage = 1
AI is already being used to keep out fans they don't want, they don't need them to submit photos or give permission[1]. In addition to being a vastly smaller and harder to replace group than fans, police are also far more organized than fans. That's the only reason they are being asked.

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-g...
Worth remembering the US Army built a biometric database of Afghan officials (police officers included) and they lost control of it to the Taliban. They sold it as a "for your own safety", and now it's a kill list.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/taliban-afghanistan-biome... ("Taliban likely to have access to biometric databases of Afghan civilians who helped US" (2021))

- "The biometrics initiative was initially tested in 2002. Its goals then were to prevent criminals and Taliban insurgents from infiltrating the Afghan army and police force[...]"

- "The Taliban may also be using the Afghan government’s biometric-based ID card known as the Tazkira to track and target people, Ramanjit Singh Chima, Asia Pacific Policy Director at Access Now, told news agency Reuters."

- "Particularly at risk are individuals in central positions in the Afghan military, police and investigative units."
"The Snitch-mobile"
I've been running hass for quite some time, for years directly in a python venv on a Pi2, then Pi3, and now happily on a Pi4 4GB for several years. Runs so well I decided not to upgrade to a 5. Use both zigbee and zwave.

Currently running in docker, which was a godsend when I migrated from Raspbian to NixOS about 18 months or so ago with no issues.

Have used an SSD wherever possible, perhaps that's why it's been so stable.

I use the GPIO, which is one reason I've stuck with the Pi!
I think "hours worked per month" and "hours _reported as work_ per month" do not have to correlate.
Well, yes, that is more or less the idea of Tailwind right?
With proper checks and balances in a civilian government, sure. The problem is when private companies help police departments do a runaround constitutional protections. Users have no sovereignty over their data (so to speak).
the driving panopticon is being used to spy. shocking
Or arrested, convicted, imprisoned. Cite the Telegram CEO's current status.
This is the same police union that’s argued that releasing the names of police formally accused of misconduct is a privacy violation, their concern for privacy does not extend further than the ranks of their union and certainly not to the broader citizenry.
First of all, the estate/gift tax does not kick in until 13 M$, so that already covers that case.

Second, it is irrelevant. The capital gains tax that would be due on a normal step-up in basis during life is independent of the estate tax.

Assume there was no exemption and you bought stocks 20 years ago for 100 K$ that are now worth 1 M$. If you die, then your estate would need to pay estate taxes on 1 M$.

However, if instead you sold it the day before you died, you would need to pay capital gains on 900 K$. Then you pass away with N $ = (1 M$ - taxes) in cash. Your estate would then additionally need to pay estate tax on N $.

The step-up in basis is the difference between these cases. Your inheritors get your capital gains (step-up in basis) tax-free, but you still need to pay the estate tax.
To which Constitutional protections are you referring?
They are probably more annoyed that it will be harder to pull off no-show or low-show details.

These are usually pretty sweet overtime or moonlighting gigs, and where there’s a sweet gig for cops, there’s always an asshole or two ready to milk it.
Also hydrogen loves to leak through tank walls, and can make metals brittle (this was covered in the article)
They still need to catch up to their own announcements, Sora was revealed over 6 months ago with no general availability in sight.