skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm at a private high school, so sure I breathe rarefied air.

But they're doing stuff like machining aerospace gear that will fly in space, doing structural and thermal analysis, designing and assembling circuit boards, implementing LQG controllers. Or just doing carpentry and fabrication for theater productions to the highest aesthetic standards.

And I go to competitions against other schools and see a ton of what we would have before considered "high skilled" adults, except they're 13-16 year old kids. They're going to go to university and further develop the ability to work with their head and their hands. But they're not going to go supervise a press stamping out the same part over and over, and they're not going to reinvent the wheel that they can buy for 30 cents per unit.

> There are good reasons why the percentage of people who agree with me are high.

This isn't a very good argument for the validity of an idea.

> Edit: yes you absolutely do get to pick and choose and I support your ability to do so! However I will observe that you are operating at a disadvantage by doing so

Avoiding being trolled is not "operating at a disadvantage." There's plenty of reasonable discussion, and the points you raise have already been answered and debated in cousin threads. I'm choosing to answer you a little more because you've been a little nicer.
I took a look at Alfred Workflows when we were first starting to build this a few months back but couldn't figure out a way to implement the local crawling and indexing functionality esp. for online services. The alternative would have been indexing and storing data on the cloud but we wanted to prioritize privacy. We wouldn't use a service which crawled our personal data and stored it in the cloud so it didn't seem fair to ask anyone else to do so!
The trick is the find some way that a vendor can monetize it. Sometimes you have management consulting groups building crappy unmaintained (except by them, if you extend the contract) OSS.

One thing that seems to work, sometimes, is having cloud vendor support. Could you support maintenance of an OSS platform that AWS (and/or their competitors) operates - that way AWS could "win" the contract, but the OSS system gets funded with a core team and various groups still contribute to make it better
Or a custodian steals the money. Or the beneficiary selects poor investments. Or their employer doesn't do a generous match. Or the retiree switched jobs a few times and never fully "vested" in employer contributions. Or the market doesn't make the "math + time" formula work quite right. Or they couldn't contribute at various times due to family or health emergencies. Or all of these things.
Twitter is excellent if you're looking for a social network where you can consume content and interact with domain experts in various fields.

In my experience it's really only those who go there for politics that get annoyed by it – perviously it was the right-wingers who were angry because it was too left-wing, and now it's left-wingers who think it's too right-wing.

Personally I've noticed practically no change.
While it's not super-clear what happened in this instance, in the _previous_ incident mentioned in the article, the car 'locked' because due to a power failure; the locks presumably didn't magically engage with the battery's last gasp, but you couldn't open the doors because it doesn't have real door handles.

Many cars do, in any case, have manual/mechanical locks; you can unlock them with the key. (Or, er, they _did_, anyway. Not much of a car person; maybe this is less common with modern cars?)
GraalPy license on GitHub - https://github.com/oracle/graalpython/blob/master/LICENSE.tx...
The whole point of the Internet up until about 2019 was that it was so cheap to host information it was basically free. If your site scaled up, you covered the hosting costs with ads or donations or something. The expensive part was finding content, so "user generated content" sites had to entice users to post stuff. That resulted in an implicit social contract with the users; these sites lived in fear of the users taking their content elsewhere.

Now the Web is expensive for some reason, and users have become so dependent on a small number of sites as a communications medium that the megacorporations running them feel like they have infinite leverage, and the social contract of user-generated content is completely forgotten.
So you think it was a good move to scoff at someone for using a computer for their work in a way that is different from your preferences?
No!

>Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon today. The use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be reliably known would be unlawfully indiscriminate, using a means of attack that could not be directed at a specific military target and as a result would strike military targets and civilians without distinction. A prompt and impartial investigation into the attacks should be urgently conducted.

Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa Director at Human Rights Watch

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/18/lebanon-exploding-pagers...
Show HN: I built a hand-curated knowledgebase for your next startup
Until a few hours ago there was "zero evidence" that thousands of pagers and walkie talkies had been tampered to explode via a remote command.
Raising a seed round 101
Learning assembly on the 68HC11 was the keystone moment in understanding programming at an intuitive level for me. What I learned applies to this day.
And yet 90% of all startups fail, which could also be seen as a indicating a certain level of incompetence in the private sector.

Consider perhaps that incompetence is distributed across the economy, and government and private industry share in that, with successful and unsuccessful projects as a consequence.
With Oracle? 400 Engineers is likely way to high, it's more like 100 Engineers and 900 non-engineers. Oracle likes to throw in a ton of people into contracts with lie that they will provide "white glove" teaching and various other things.
Is this somehow related to NSO Group and preventing information about them coming out?
> A good 70% of my Facebook feed is now obviously AI generated images with AI generated text blurbs that have nothing to do with the accompanying images likely posted by overseas bot farms.

This is a self-inflicted problem, IMO.

Do you just have shitty friends that share all that crap? Or are you following shitty pages?

I use Facebook a decent amount, and I don't suffer from what you're complaining about. Your feed is made of what you make it. Unfollow the pages that make that crap. If you have friends that share it, consider unfriending or at the very least, unfollowing. Or just block the specific pages they're sharing posts from.
> the long history of posts (they still reference them, like living wikis)

As someone with a multitude of cat photo threads, 100x this.

While I'm around on Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, the "post history" aspect is my most pressing issue with Mastodon. Like, when you move your account, you cannot take your old posts to the new server - you're straight out of luck if your instance decides to call it quits for whatever reason. And even if the instance doesn't give up, being unable to view old(er) photos is something I very commonly notice on a bunch of Mastodon servers.
Is this making anyone else really nervous about how much of our tech comes from China?

I'm thinking a scenario like this:

- China makes a rule that all cellphones leaving the country must go through an "inspection facility" (where the explosive hardware and the backdoor trigger chip will be installed)

- A year after the next big iPhone release, China sends a huge convoy of warships and troop transports toward Taiwan, telegraphing a major assault

- The US says "Stop!"

- China presses a button and a few thousand iPhones blow up in the US

- China says "That is just a small taste of our capability, we just pressed the small red button. If you tell us to un-hand Taiwan again, we'll press the big red button and un-hand a few million of your citizens"

Now that this kind of attack is frontpage news, every country in the world is by now aware it's possible -- and it appears to be super effective. So it seems entirely reasonable that some countries will start planning to do the same sort of attack against their enemies.

What I'm saying is, now that everyone's become aware this sort of thing is possible and effective, China might realize it has the means, opportunity, and possibly motive to attack the US this way on a large scale.

As I'd very much prefer not to be maimed or killed by my electronics, I hope the US government is actively looking into effective defenses against China or anyone who would try this sort of attack on US soil.
to manage means to extract-value-from and $600M for software is a lot of value extracted.

I'd bet huge that there is a layer of managers who don't see themselves as being accountable for domain competence in anything they manage as that's what the consultants are for. Consultants mean headcount and budget to manage- which is the definition of success in an institution. they run an organiation, the mission is little people IC problems.

It's not broken, it just works for people you can't see.
Standing? Their population has declined by 20% in 2 years. I'd describe that more as crawling on the ground and starving.
This is the sort of thing I'd love to see Tentacruel look at. His videoes briefly covered iconography and fonts and I'd bet he'd have some cool insights about this font.
I can vouch for the fact that we don't have access to any of your data! From your perspective, what's a good proof point you would like to see?
My wife and I are the same way. Wife maintains very good hygiene and has much more cavitities than I do.
I believe you, and I’m not happy about that.

My AP history teacher in high school was black, so that may have affected it too, or perhaps it was the NYC curriculum as compared to curriculums in the South. I’m not sure, but I definitely recall hearing about and reading about Tulsa far before HS. I wish I knew when.

But I totally believe you that is probably not true across wide swaths of the country.
> Yes RunPod does have cheaper pricing than us however they don't allow you to specify your exact resources but rather charge you the full resource (see example of A100 above) so depending on your resource requirements our pricing could be competitive since we charge you only for the resources you use.

I may be misunderstanding your explanation a bit here, but Runpod's serverless "flex" tier looks like the same model (it only charges you for non-idle resources). And at that tier they are still 2x cheaper for A100, at your price point with them you could rent an H100.
This is a common survivorship bias fallacy since you only notice the bad CGI.

I'm certain you'd be shocked to see the amount of CG that's in some of your favorite movies made in the last ~10-20 years that you didn't notice because it's undetectable
To play the devil's advocate. If you were running a large public forum, and you knew that many companies had started to scrape all data off your site, and were going to cumulatively make billions off that data, and some of those billions will come from polluting your forum with crap content, would you continue running your site in the open?

What is the game theory here? Twitter cooperates and OpenAI defects, and we call that a win?
Neat boundaries on the Town Square
The phtalates do not come from the glass, they come from the (lined) caps or previous processing steps where plastics were used.
How would you man in the middle a website or “hack the internet”? Every modern browser uses TLS.
Right. And there are some (fairly significant) protections these days. Learned recently that my pension which was farmed out to an outside benefits company at one point is now being farmed out to an insurance company TBD. I'm not especially concerned. The risk seems fairly low and I'm not really dependent. But this is the plus and minus of defined benefits versus something like a 401(k).
If they didn’t consider civilians, they could have been a lot more effective. But, they targeted combatants devices, which also limits the destruction capability of the bomb.
For all of its warts the American system is the most forgiving and I think the best. You have many options for continuing education and it is now moving away from a filtering function. There should be a huge market for online education in India and even Europe. Or perhaps the countries should invest in higher education and build more research universities. The number one predictor of economic success is proximity to a tier 1 research university.
Yeah seems like 50-100 % administrative overhead for each employee, hard to believe that someone would accept that, you could probably pay each employee a personal valet for that.
> If only community were really so easy...

I've actually found that it is pretty easy. All it takes is to be willing to talk to your neighbors. Not necessarily in terms of engaging them with deep and long conversations, but just lots of the little "meaningless" ones. Saying hello in passing instead of pretending they don't exist. Learning, remembering, and addressing them by their names. Asking how they're doing. Asking how their kids, spouse, work, etc. is getting along. Offering a helping hand every so often goes a long way, too.

It seems to me that social isolation is self-reinforcing, and that once someone starts breaking the ice, the interactions that create community start to happen naturally.

It's these interactions that form the foundations of community. It's not a matter of making friends with your neighbors, but a matter of having your neighbors no longer actually be strangers.

This turned into a lecture I didn't intend. My intention was just to relay my observations and experiences with my neighbors.
Not sure why US citizens believe this. I've been in situations where there was genuine peril and the look of shock the US citizens had when someone from their embassy said the only thing they'd do is organize a convoy of private vehicles if everyone turned up at x time and place. They really expected the US army to turn up to save them. Honestly I don't think I've seen the US do any more than any other western country for their citizens in these situations.
Ahh thanks for the correction, I mixed this up/assumed it was part of the EPA diesel tuning case from last week. You're totally right, gas tuning is definitely not a big deal by comparison although they definitely shouldn't have been facilitating the sale of cat deletes. A cat delete alone causes a 10x-100x increase in pollutants before tuning.
Ya and unfortunately this is from Stanford. It's a private university, but that's still not a good look. It's amazing in 2024 that so many demos, especially in AI, are getting this wrong.

We're long overdue for better sources of online revenue. I understand that AI costs money to train (I don't believe that it costs substantial money to run - that's a scam) but if we thought that walled gardens were bad, we ain't seen nothin yet. We're entering an exclusive era where the haves enjoy vastly more money than the have nots, so basically the bottom half of the population will be ignored as customers. The good apps will be exclusive clubs that the plebeians gaze at from afar, like a reverse zoo.

I just want something where I can pay 1 cent to $1 to skip login. Ideally from a virtual account that's free to use but guilts me into feeding it money. So maybe after 100 logins I pay it a few dollars. And then a reward system where wealthy users can pay it forward so others can browse for free.

I would make it in my spare time, but of course there is no such thing in the 21st century climate of boom-bust cycles and mass layoffs.
Mmm breakfast
Kind of, but they can't do any business with a US based company. Many specialized products are only produced by a small handful of companies, and if all (or most) of those are US based, Cuba's SOL. They've also had problems where a supplier was bought out by a US based company, so now they can't buy that product anymore.

There's also the fact that it's far cheaper to ship goods to Cuba from the US then it is to ship goods from Europe or China. This means that even if they can buy some goods, they're often much more expensive then it needs to be.
I would say you probably could get it done with 5 people (1% not 50%)
Interesting. I've been lucky in that I haven't had non-cosmetic damage repaired, but it always seemed like there were several iterations when insurance was involved.
Comparing spoken language with programming is such a terrible comparison to make. The two even at a fundamental level have almost nothing in common. The brain uses completely different parts for programming and human language.
This article is about bread. Bread, perhaps the most simple, easily manufactured food on the planet. It doesn't even take fancy modern equipment to make - people have been making bread for thousands of years all across the world.

Cuba was settled 6,000 years ago according to Wikipedia - long before importing goods was even a concept. They did not, and still should not need to import anything to feed their population. The resources are misappropriated by their government - it's that simple.

Cuban's rely on the government to ration/provide ingredients to make bread. And just like the USSR, the government eventually fails to provide and the population - who became entirely dependent on the government - are left with no alternative means to support themselves. It's a tragedy that has bestowed damn near every single communist nation that has ever existed.

There is no valid excuse for not being able to make enough bread.
> Their 1980s and 1990s actions led to the pill mill event.

Oxycontin was approved by the FDA in 1995.

The FDA dinged them for misleading marketing claims in 2003.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/food-and-drug-administration-overd...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

> Between 1991 and 2011, painkiller prescriptions in the U.S. tripled from 76 million to 219 million per year, and as of 2016 more than 289 million prescriptions were written for opioid drugs per year.

I don't doubt that fentanyl kills a lot of people today, but a lot of those currently addicted got started on pills legally prescribed to them.
I played with it, pretty cool. Actual, real, legitimate scrollbars!

Now I’d like an explorer type tree view. Where can I find that?
Apparently communism can only function with trade with free market capitalists?
Until N ad views are worth more than $X account creation fee. Then the spammers will just sell ad posts for $X*1.5.

I can’t find it, but there’s someone selling sock puppet posts on HN even.
This is absolutely right - the education space is absolutely stingy and will balk at far lesser amounts; so the $600M seems difficult to believe.
Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized"
In the 90's there was 'Google Desktop' which can do such things.

Still miss it.
The issue is that the forks don't have the resources to focus on the security issues as they come up, and as the fork gets further and further away from the main project it becomes harder to merge the changes from the main project.
Quite to the contrary, most of GC is relatively low effort to follow unless someone revels in being evil. At the same time it makes no attempt to redefine the murderous nature of warfare, just to curb the absolute worst behaviors.
All of those other oral probiotics are based on published research about naturally occurring bacterial strains already present in the environment, and in some cases have the evidentiary support of human trials.

Lumina is a genetically modified bacteria. It has no research supporting its effectiveness because the original inventors never bothered to conduct a human trial; they just said that it probably works based on testing in a petri dish. (Note: lots of drugs work in petri dishes and laboratory animals. Very few go on to have success in humans.)

Notably, the founder of the current company selling it has does not have a background in dentistry or microbiology and does not understand how his company's product actually works.
I mean playing with small amounts of elemental mercury is pretty safe. Yeah it's toxic but if you play with it in your hands once or twice in your life nothing is going to happen.

Maybe not great for the teacher.
Congrats and thank you! We’ve been a happy customer since early on. Although we don’t have much usage, our products are mostly R&D, having Cerebrium made it super easy to launch cost effectively on tight budgets and run our own models within our apps.

The support is next level - team is ready to dive into any problem, response is super fast, and has helped us solve a bunch of dev problems that a normal platform probably won’t.

Really excited to see this one grow!!
Yes that is how "terrorism" is defined: one geopolitical entity's enemy relative to another

See here, even the US military can be labeled terrorists in the eyes of american people https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578412
It isn't more popular because it's not easy to use it properly.

I haven't touched it in years so I can't expand, but when I did, I had to write so many wrappers and add extra logic to use it properly.
The United States can’t survive on what we build alone, either. We’re dependent on resources and equipment made by communist states (e.g., China) and worse (e.g., Saudi Arabia). It proves only that the world is connected.
The early death of smokers tends to save a long, expensive period of end-of-life care. I believe smoking deaths reduce health care costs, ironically enough.
As a software engineer married to a healthcare professional, I disagree strongly about the quality of the healthcare discussions here. A whole lot of the conversation is software engineers who think that they can reason from first principles in two minutes about this thing that professionals dedicate their whole lives to mastering, and who therefore don't understand the most basic concepts of the field.

Sometimes I try and engage, but honestly, mostly I think it's not worth it. Otherwise you end up doing this with your life: https://xkcd.com/386/
From what I've seen in my family, since the cuban revolution, they've never properly incentivized agriculture. Farming even became forced labour as "farming school (escuela al campo)" that some students had to do. Farmers and their families left the countryside for the cities and never came back leaving agricultural land abandoned. They haven't been able to apply new technologies in farming, and new generations don't want that life.
Did you think the same thing when photoshop came out?

It's relatively trivial to photoshop misinformation in a really powerful and undetectable way- but I don't see (legitimate) instances of groundbreaking news over a fake photo of the president or a CEO etc doing something nefarious. Why is AI different just because it's audio/video?
clearly this was an attack of military targets. not a warning.
BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30B fund to invest in AI infrastructure
Author here!

I originally posted last week as a paid product to get some feedback on the idea, but after some thinking decided opening it up as a free resource.

This collection is basically an expanded version of a bookmarks folder I have been collecting for around a decade of building side projects and businesses. I tried breaking it down into an easy to follow format (although I think the navigation is still a little wonky) so that it can be something you refer back – a personal knowledge-base of sorts.

Would love to here more feedback!