skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: Needing a puzzle to prove you're human to log into ChatGPT is insulting
Short rant, but there's something awful about being blocked after authenticating by a puzzle - not one of those smart CAPTCHAs - that requires you to prove you're human just to log in to one of the most powerful general purpose AI services in existence today.

People don't complain enough about these tests, but I expect them to come to the fore as AI becomes more of a thing and users begin to feel like they're being treated as second-class netizens just because they're human.
It’s easy to put those two pieces of information together and arrive at crypto bad.

I think it’s worth noting that bitcoin uses a fraction of the energy required to mine gold for example.

It’s also a driving force in renewables, by stabilising energy grids (mining can use the spare capacity during quiet periods and switch off during peak hours).

So I don’t think it’s as black and white as “bitcoin uses energy = bad”
Give good devs a direct line to the customer and they're apt to always work on the right thing, but will spend a lot more time dealing with the customer and a lot less time in development in order to do so.

Leave good devs to play telephone through a middle-man, what we call the manager, and they almost certainly will work on the wrong things, but will have a lot more time to do it.

I wonder which is actually more productive? Agile (of the Manifesto kind) posits that the former is most productive, but Agile (of the fake kind) seems to always want to revolve around the latter. The general sentiment is that fake Agile is the one that gets it wrong, so presumably cutting out the manager is what is most productive, but more data is welcome.
Yes, but it is an explanation for how the debate landed.

Not everything in politics is pure logic, there are lots of emotions too. Not aligning with neo-nazis is one of those emotions.
Has anyone tried training their own personal machine learning model to take export from their Bank+receipts and auto categorize everything? It seems like it'd be a fairly simple classification model that wouldn't require too much training...
Some things should be stopped.

For example, locking a dude in a room for days on end with no mental health evaluation beforehand to see if he can handle the psychological stress that might induce. Or having said dude run a marathon on a treadmill without any training. Or running illegal lotteries. Or fixing the outcomes of game shows.

Some of those things "make the best YouTube video possible" but are profoundly abusive at the least and outright illegal at worst. If you can't do the video without doing those things, you shouldn't do the video and should focus on human factors instead of the money you're missing out on, like a person without psycopathy might.
Would anyone be kind enough to download the PDF and upload it somewhere for us, Brazilians without VPNs? :)
This is a signed transaction. So the one who stole the prize.

One of the really interesting thing about the blockchain, is that you can write a smart contract script that will permiate forever.

using a hashed transaction instead of a signed transaction is a wierd mistake to make, but not an uncommon one of people who are just learning to write blockchain code. I know we are talking about BTC here and opcode is rather limited, but this type of thing pervades on ETH.

Imagine writing a PWN script as a 14 year old and waking up when you are in your late 20's to a millions dollars in crypto.
You just gave me the idea for a tool that watches log files and plays sounds when certain patterns occur.
OK so where is my high fantasy 4X feudal city state tabletop sim? Maybe HRE Tabletop lol. I'd play that if I could find a group of people insane enough to do it with me
It reminds me of Extreme Feedback Device (XFD) lava lamps, pilot lights, and more.
no, a slot has only 1 IMEI. Even with actual e-sim you can only activate 1 at a time even though you can have more than one.
I think if XHTML was pushed forward, the second problem would be swiftly solved: We'd have a lot more systems that considered webpages as XML documents rather than just templated text. And text-based systems could easily validate their XHTML output and report failures quickly, as opposed to now where you get a broken page and have to specifically look if your HTML isn't malformed.
What, contrarianism is to conform to HNs cynical attitude, and the mainstream response is to criticize that attitude?
> Scrumfall: The Real (and Worse) Picture

This section is very, very accurate. I was at a startup that ran scrum really out of a need to jeep our remote team communicating regularly. Goals were loose and generally defined by each dev doing the work.

That eventually broke down and we had quarterly goals driven by marketing and sprints with rigid, increasingly stressful goals. The difference in developer burnout was plain as day, once scrum ends up overlaid on a quarterly (or similar) waterfall the value of scrum is gone and people burn out fast.
Did you respond to the wrong comment?

My question was trying to expand on what the linked article already says.
Sure, put the blame on the individual instead of acknowledging that the lies we were fed in our youth held us back.
In russian, "sisi" is a variation of "tits".

Is there a job/services that confirm that branding is appropriate across different languages? Seems like a non trivial problem to solve.
I wouldn't count sparse details as lacking realism. (I'm not defending the premise of LOTR being realistic.)
"Attention Is All You Need", as they say...
This is quite enjoyable!
Those have at least the virtue of being on trend. It's not that these don't also make a fashion statement; it's that the content of the statement is "I decline to participate."

Not that I'm judging; I'd hardly be one to, certainly not these days when the most elaborate style I bother going for is "artsy graying homosexual" and even that not with any real commitment, aside from the graying part, which isn't up to me. But I was a classic when I was young, and while no one ever particularly mentioned my glasses adding to my looks that I recall, I believe I now know a way I could've had people mentioning they took a lot away from them. Make of it what you find it to be worth.
What the hell did I do last week?
After college, I struggled to recall my accomplishments during internships when updating my resume and applying for jobs. To solve this, I started a simple Google Doc to track my achievements, but it quickly became cumbersome and I frequently have gone months without entering anything.
So, I built LogMyWork to make tracking and remembering work accomplishments easier. This app lets you log achievements (hopefully) easily, with integrations for Telegram and Slack to streamline adding entries (more integrations to come). It’s designed to help you keep detailed records effortlessly, making resume updates and job applications much smoother.

I’m excited to share it with the Hacker News community. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome!

Cheers :)
"Every time I read about the Waterfall Model, I think to myself: I'm sure there must be companies out there that have tried this approach, but I have a hard time believing some software book would seriously propose it as the best way to write software"

I've been on software development projects (the final product would be source delivered to the customer) where the waterfall model was explicitly specified, with the whole design- and implementation phase based on this, with milestones where each step of the waterfall would be delivered and checked by the customer. This was particularly prevalent back in the eighties and beginning of the nineties. It's as real as can be, it did exist.
Obviously developers couldn't follow that 100%, so there would be some amount of back-designing an earlier stage, but if it wasn't 100% it was very close in practice too.
yes but it's not a "VMWare" window and completely separate desktop environment. come on.
Direct3D made this a thing. Trying to draw unscaled 2D elements you often end up with blurry images as it bilinearly filters with the neighbouring pixels.

This is because of a mess with where it considered pixels located, where texture samples are considered located, and where, when rasterizing an included pixel, the texture coordinates sampled. See detail at [0].

If your graphics API was blurring all your images, you'd be passionate about that half-pixel offset too.

[0] https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/1848486-understanding-ha...
Interesting, I only learned about this Youtuber recently, maybe 2 months ago or so despite him having so many views. Youtube seems to be good at not showing you what you don't search for.

What his videos are lacking in my opinion is the quality of scenario and planning. They build an expensive set, give away a large prize but the challenges are either too simple or not very creative. Too little challenges, too little competition, too little motivation, too little expressing of personality like mutual help, sacrificing or betrayal, too little unexpected scenario twists. In this aspect they are not as good as TV shows. As an extreme example, take "give away money to random people" series. What fun is in getting money for nothing? And watching that is probably 100x more boring.
but again isn't the borrow checker a huge roadblock for new coders to build smth?
Projects line Frankenfridge are a blast until you want a product that "just works".
There you go ! https://we.tl/t-Vn9dG1qWRU
You can also manage profiles by typing about:profiles in address bar
I'm sure it brings Alexander the Great a lot of comfort knowing he is remembered. I say, enjoy life without optimizing for what happens after you're dead.
Ali-express = cheapest, Amazon faster. They have long strips of LED lights, some one color, some various whites of whatever K you desire. Getting more complex there are several types of addressable chips and controllers to do this. Cheapest is white arrays of the white you like, typically 8 foot strips you attach as needed or buy the accessory attachment strips in 2 foot shippable lengths, in aluminum or plastic to make ceiling/edge/window lights as you wish. Costs range for $10-15 for each 8 foot length (addressable a bit more). Addressables are made on 3-4 different base chip types. youtube has detailed explanations and builds on the various chip families. I find occasional LED sales booths at the Rancho Cucamonga flea markets, and probably at all the larger ones, with full sales/demo setups you can buy then and there or get them online and save a little. Watch power supplies and look for proper UL/approved wall warts - many are fake UL, so check for isolation between +/- and both AC line prongs as the fakes UL often lack isolation and 2 different ones 'can' have full AC on different prongs and a shock hazard might exist -be wary. 12 volts is the common voltage used and if you use USA made wallwarts you can avoid these risks.
Billions of views and total YouTube dominance disagree with you.
Unfortunately for you, resting leads to increased productivity. Sucker!
What is less known is that the author of the waterfall model Winston W. Royce recommended doing the entire process TWICE:

https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a...

It is hard to foresee how the world of development would look like today, had companies used the waterfall process twice on each project.
Direct link => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUsDk8wjRPs
Given how often people reuse passwords that allow successful password stuffing to steal cloud resources such as ChatGPT, they are on average, being treated correctly.
Hi there - I'm a PM at MongoDB that works on the MongoDB Shell. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the issues you're currently facing with mongosh docs and how we could make them better for you. Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback!
In similar fashion, European students with a gap-year will go backpacking in Asia
Here is the link to the PDF from the tweet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaG9xpu-WQKBPUi8yQ4HaDYQLUS...
Yeah, there's a lot of spatial and social compression. Bethesda RPGs are the same way, again for technical reasons.
I give up. Thankfully somebody else in this thread gave an answer.
IME people are actually quite bad at thoroughly reading and absorbing onboarding material. Adding incentives so that they actually do it is probably pretty valuable.
> Amazon's technical offerings suck donkey balls and those network effects are why we let them get away with pushing such god awful product.

What are we comparing to here?

Google Cloud? Azure? Linode? Openstack? OVH? Oracle Cloud? Hetzner?

They all suck too, just in different ways.
> Calling the Southport riots "justified"

He explained the riots within the context.

Not once did he say violence was justified.

In comparison, Nick Lowles, leader of a far-left organisation, claimed falsely that Muslims had been attacked with acid to inflame tensions.

I would encourage anyone to watch the Oxford union address. That you haven't seen it means that you are uninformed.

I would recommend anyone else watch it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_YQ94jFg_4A
That is similar to the concept of Numenara - which is set in the future 4 billion years from now. At that point in time, the earth no longer geographically resembles anything current and has been repopulated a couple of times by disparate races of non-human sentiences. The current population (as of the the beginning of Numenara) are yet another group of humans transplanted or created in-situ and living in a world where the technologies of the past resemble magic. It seemed pretty clear that, from the background, there clearly is not a thing that is magic, but its stand-in is unknown and sometimes, unknowable, creations from a lost past.
Uses only 1 core 100% under linux, can this be changed?

10 images, each ~20 kb size, took more than 10 minutes to index, is that normal without GPU-acceleration?
I wish they offered a paid version of the browser that would have ublock enabled.
I forgot about that one and also the English numbers less than twenty. But in any case, if you consider bigger numbers, the most significant units invariably come first.
I am curious if this is usually argued. I thought it that was generally held that agile and similar methodologies at least in the sense that sprints are defined in days/weeks and not months/years is for use cases where the product doesn't have well defined specifications.
I think there's at least some of the cliched HN behavior of "I read the title and used it as a prompt to write about my opinions on one of the nouns it contained".

I don't really care for Mr Beast (but don't think about him much either) and I don't think this is especially revelatory stuff, but I think most of it is pretty sound advice for how to be effective.
You're supporting my point. The reason we suffer from this is not solely probabilistic. There are many other factors.
Apparently it's using the "Memory" feature, if you have it enabled and talk about something with a specific date (like school or medical appointments) it might check up on you after that date.
>If losing access to any one account is a big deal for you, that's more than a major technological literacy failure - it's a basic life planning failure. Do not overly rely on a single thing controlled by people you cannot trust. Even my grandmother would know better.

uhhuh. While it's a good idea to have backup plans and to exercise independence, people usually aren't accustomed to losing substantial parts of their livelihood for no reason and having no recourse. There's no reason to form a backup plan for a scenario that shouldn't occur. We depend on services all the time whose providers we can't control. That's modern life. What would a backup plan look like here for the average person? Do you think your average tech savvy person has taken those steps?

The intention with this post isn't to defend unpreparedness. But there is a point to be made that cutting somebody off, through some technical loophole, shouldn't be a thing. And companies know that. Every so often they get called out in public by somebody with a lot of traction and they correct the problem. So it's only a problem if it gains enough visibility. That's the system.
If someone wants an idea, something like this for ds/algorithms would do wonders
Hmm - that's quite nice/reassuring, although not my experience. Benchmarking, OTOH, is notoriously hard, esp. the microbenchmark type. The old: lies, damn lies, statistics, (micro)benchmarks.
Keep in mind that you are not the target audience. Also:

"Our audience is massive and because of that you have to be simple, for 50 million people to understand something it must be simple."
No, they're not exclusive at all. As the guide itself says:

> Your goal here is to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. That’s the number one goal of this production company. It’s not to make the best produced videos. Not to make the funniest videos. Not to make the best looking videos. Not the highest quality videos.. It’s to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible.

You can get billions of views and total YouTube dominance without making particularly engaging content, and I think that's the interesting point here.
And yet the ISS has still had many bits added on, replaced, upgraded and modified. They just work to far, far higher standards than almost any company will pay for because they know if it goes wrong some very high profile people get dead.
If I remember correctly, I believe French’s vigesimal system is a vestige from the non-Romance language spoken in France before Latin was introduced there. French isn’t the only language with vigesimal elements; English has the word “score,” made most famous by Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (“four score and seven years ago…”).
I mean, are we so unwise as to think those things are mutually exclusive?

I can think of a dozen quotes related to the decline of a thing being "impossible", and then sudden.

Enron for example had it's best year, right before it suddenly stopped existing.

"The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long", and "The night is darkest before the dawn" both relate to things appearing one way because the end is more likely.

Amazon is mostly inertia, they are user hostile to a fault, which is a far removal from what made them huge in the first place. Normally when there has been such a reversal in a companies principles: it's the beginning of the end.

I'm not desperate for it, I couldn't care less. But what we will witness now is the power of capital to beget capital, don't be fooled into thinking Amazon is innovative.

Don't anthropomorphise the lawnmower.
That kid is doing nothing with their life, there’s a difference between that and a nornal persob’s downtime that makes sure we don’t task out with some goal that feels like doing nothing but it’s got some agenda: no planned activity!
I feel it’s more that the average person likes to watch something simple sometimes, myself included
Building a production-ready RAG pipeline and eval platform
Doctors warn against poisonous TikTok shop herbal tea that can kill you
I agree it's not HN helping—I think those threads are one of the most toxic parts of this forum. As I said, most of the time HN gets out the pitchforks in support of someone who knows full well why they were banned.
It's just a ton of opportunity cost (50-80k + multiple years) and irrelevant skills at the early stage. It's not like an MBA makes you 100% successful (or even a lot more likely). So the common wisdom is you might as well take that time and money and just do it.

If your ultimate goal is to be a startup founder, there is no reason to put that as a pre-requisite. If it is to "be in business" or to have a backup plan, then sure.
I can second this, it is avoidable.

I have a pretty high threshold before pressure at work actually stresses me out, so I've stuck around for a while after seeing the warning signs before leaving a team on this path.

Warning signs are always there in my experience, you just have to pay attention. The real challenge is paying attention as the problems start to ramp up, its easy to get distracted fighting fires and not see the bigger picture.
This is everything i wanted
I mean Joe Biden would hang out and campaigned with Byrd, an ex-KKK member. Even came to his funeral in 2010.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/164821-biden-rem...

> “A mentor and a dear friend”

Make what you will of it. Just saying that not that long of a time has passed. We’re talking about the sitting US president.
Having grandparents around to care for the young would allow for more procreation.
China Can Detect F-22, F-35 Stealth Jets Using Musk's Starlink Satellite Network
> Statement is correct.

No, it wasn't, and please admit that.

You claimed law enforcement traced the attacker through Monero. They didn't. They couldn't. They traced him through Binance.
I don't think prolonging the life in a biological body is going to be the winning route. We will have to Star Trek it up and transfer our consciousness to computers. That, or replace parts, maybe even the entirety of our bodies with a machine that can be maintained and repaired rather than age.
This was settled in 2007?

With Apple the computer company giving a huge payment to Apple the music company in exchange for all of their trademarks.
Having worked waterfall and now agile, I miss waterfall. Agile feels too fast and loose. We work faster but we also redo a lot of things. It's an illusion of progress.
Isn't the exactly the problem that preemptive multitasking is built for? For example any program built on the BEAM[1] wouldn't have this problem presumably. Do most languages not have a standard solution for this?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine...
Thank you. This is the kind of thing I was looking for. After posting, I also found out that plants are even further in the other direction because their strong cell walls prevent metasticization.
It's definitely not a good name in English either
Not really sure why it's linked to X anyway. The X post is just a link to google docs.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaG9xpu-WQKBPUi8yQ4HaDYQLUS...
I probably meant warranties but warrantees works in the sentence just fine too :)
Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545810
MrBeast - an OG Founder Mode guy?

I'll leave it to you all to debate the ethics of MrBeast's videos, YouTube, and the questionable value of these videos.

Meanwhile, the most fascinating part of this is a glimpse into a new kind of media company, where he instituted a particular process and approach and scaled it up outside of the initial set of producers.

You get the sense he's flying by the seat of his pants into a whole new world, and he's creating the org and the processes on the fly based on what's been successful so far.

The energy, drive and enthusiasm required to create a new model of not only "product" (even one that solely exists to please the algorithm) and company is fascinating.

There are more parallels to startup founders than one might admit.
Do you have any evidence that, say, "three million, one hundred twenty-five thousand, two hundred sixty-nine" would have ever been spoken starting with "nine" and ending with "three million"? I guess that wouldn't be the dumbest thing humans have ever done, but it sure sounds impractical.
Sure, a store where you can buy literally everything and have it delivered in days, and they're done.
> Improvement is finding efficient ways to remove stress from higher-ups. Because stress rolls downhill.

Good luck with that because higher-ups have even-higher-ups until you reach the top. The bigger the pay packet, the more inflated the lifestyle and the associated stress of missing on the ever ballooning target. It is self-inflicted and never-ending; sacrifices of the lowly soldier will never quench that thirst.