skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really pisses me off that privacy services (and push notification) are enabled by default. I’ve gone in and disabled virtually everything, it’s reasonable to deduce I value my privacy enough to do that, then I probably don’t want new enabled-by-default things in that category.

I’m curious if LI has scraped data before giving people the opportunity to disable the feature.
did your search button break? lmgtfy

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scare+quotes

this is a helpful answer, downvoting it would be extremely bad form
I’m not sure why anyone would start a company as for-profit if it was easy to switch later on.
> seem to have conveniently forgotten how backdoors work. They eventually leak, and then anyone can exploit and trigger them

This is also true of the access controls to a weapons system. We get angry when people let others use their weapons. It's sort of par for the course when it comes to war.
Even if no one published ratings, people have a general intuitive idea what the top 20 colleges are, which are fixed even if the order changes. MIT will always be top 10 for example. Harvard will always be top, too. The acceptance rate isa a good proxy for the ranking. Or success at the job market when applying.
How likely are Hezbollah terrorists to hand over their communications devices to regular citizens? I’d say it’s not a very likely scenario. Obviously there will be some cases where people are adjacent who are innocent, but the same is the case when dropping bombs and shooting up a building where there at with a machine gun.
The ideal future would be a US that is checked by other rivals that can equal its might.

This would have multiple repercussions: The idea of an evangelical christian fueled "end times" would be over, the propping up of Israel would be much more painful than it is now which would result in severe scrutinization.

The chances of other economies given a chance to emerge might be higher if the cost of the west meddling in its affairs gets more expensive.

Life would be harder for people like me, but there would be more peace when going to bed at night.
> Nearly everyone is replaceable.

At scale.

> Genuinely, are there many desirable workplaces left that are remote?

Smaller companies don't have this mindset and are great places to work. To them you are a person and have value unique to you, what you know and what you can provide. Everyone being a replaceable cog is an enterprise mindset that is avoidable as long as you don't require top tier pay. And small to mid-sized companies have been some of the biggest adopters of remote work and it has stuck there.
Beware System Decay
Nah they are just calling out shameless corporate bullshit. OpenAI were bullshitters too re: promoting open source, but they are not even pretending anymore and once they change their governance structure the idea that they were ever promoting open source will be merely an amusing memory.
I'm working on a fork of it [1], because the original didn't have diacritics (á,ã,etc.), the metrics were a bit off for me and the "f" has a line at the bottom which I didn't like; and I'm also trying to adjust parameters because some IDEs (Eclipse on Windows) are have problems with it. I've also made it work with Python 3 and put the source fonts in submodules so you don't need to search for them manually to build it yourself. Work in progress.

[1]: https://github.com/caioycosta/comic-fork-mono-font
Not luck, but the Μοίραι, the Fates, the most powerful deities in Greek mythology, whose will not even Zeus could change.

If Wilson is translating them as "luck", she's done you and all her readers a disservice, but I get a feeling that's just one of many. Popular as her translations might be, and despite the glowing review int he article it seems she is taking great liberties with the content of the epics and presenting it through a strongly distorting modern lens [1].

Source: I'm Greek, grew up in Greece, went to school in Greece and you betcha we studied the Iliad and the Odyssey (in absolutely abominable modern Greek translations) in high school. I read them back and forth multiple times and drew stick figure cartoons on the margins, usually of Corinthian-helmeted warriors disemboweling each other. a.k.a. The Iliad.

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[1] Apparently:

https://casa-kvsa.org.za/legacy/AC63-Whitaker-18DEC2019.pdf
Right, and my point is that is it completely explained by economic reasoning. One way or another, you are rejecting the notion that software developers are capable of arriving at anti-union positions on the basis of economic reasons alone. You insist, without evidence or justification, that there must be some other motivation beyond economics.
Yup - as they say, "the cloud" is just some else's computer.

It's not so hard to genuinely self-host. You just need a reasonable ISP who is willing to open your connection, and to be sensible about securing your systems.
Im now having a metaphorical hangover, the earlier cavalier poeisizing of truth now strikes me with foreboding of schlep required to sober up answers to your bona fide followups. luckily, most of the softer stuff i had been integrating (without manifesting in prose) for some time , so, with the exception of big algebras & umbilicals & the more mathematical aspects of growth theory, it shant take more than 3 days, i should be able to outline thence at least the boundaries of what i know, & be secure in the belief that you wont disappear back into the ether like gvic :)

Im guessing i heard the persian story somewhere before..
If I followed your strategy I would be blocking all of Google. Back in the days I operated my own mail server >50% of all spam was from Google USA... YMMV.
Someone tries to convince you a room totally isn't bugged and that you should have private conversations in it. (A room designed by the US military, incidentally...)
I agree Mozambique has a shitty flag. I don’t think we should bomb them.
The fact is that society changes over time and what was unacceptable during one time becomes acceptable in another. This does not indicate a shift to the left, it indicates humanity becoming less intolerant. Are you going to argue that allow black people and white people to marry and repealing miscegenation laws mean that the country shifted to the left?
I find the assumption that every casino and gambling company in existence provides no benefit, of any kind, to any of their customers....extremely questionable.
Moshi is the most fun model by far, a recent experience (https://x.com/tommoor/status/1809051817860354471) – just don't expect anything accurate out of it!
You'll be pleased to know that we're not making a ton of progress on the "split things over N docs" front.

In recent years IETF has given us SCIM (which is sort of like "offline SAML") which is 3 RFCs (goals, schemas, http stuff), and of course JWT is actually part of a series of like 9 RFCs (including JWT, of course, but also JWK, JWS, JWE, JWA, ...).

I think there's this phenomenon where people who are like "dude, nobody cares, just do the dumbest possible thing we can get away with" aren't the people who decide to get involved in writing security specs.
Sorry about the dismissive comments you're getting. You hacked something up and I think it's pretty cool and surprisingly fun. You nailed it with the beep at the start of each audio too. Feels warm, like actual humans communicating with you (even if it's something silly) instead of cold usernames just sharing headlines and memes for karma points.

I wish the HN vibe was more like a digital makerspace and a bit less a tech business news. Sure, I don't think crowdwave will ever be as big as twitter or reddit, so what? That's not a bad thing! Reddit was infinitely better 15 years ago. Even if you close the site tomorrow, I already got some joy from it.

Anyway, I like it, really good job! (:

PS: Does anyone know about an online community similar to HN that actually has that digital makerspace vibe? I said that and know I want it to exist.
Check out Perses: https://github.com/perses/perses

Less mature than Grafana but recently accepted by the CNCF as a sandbox project, hopefully a positive leading indicator of success.
Link to decent soldering scopes? Looking for one since I need to solder/desolder ICs. Been using T15 or whatever tips, they are great because of how varied they are.
At Home with Karri Saarinen, Co-Founder of Linear
> Indiscriminate in the sense that bombs have an area of effect beyond the person carrying them

AFAICT the stock pager models are ~95 grams, and people are suggesting 3-5g of added explosives. If they used RDX, then 3g would be ~5.5 cubic centimeters, which seems like rather a lot to try to squish into a small pager unless the design also replaced the standard battery with a smaller one to make room.

In contrast, a M67 fragmentation grenade uses ~156 grams of explosives.

Basically I'm saying it sounds like the bombs are small enough that it's not quite fair to call them "indiscriminate", especially if the trigger logic involves a Hezbollah radio network that nobody else would be using.
Is this essentially dictionary compression ?
It's intentionally engineered to be as emotionally provocative as possible, to drive engagement, to drive and revenue.

My For You feed kept turning into videos of public fights and Karen's calling the cops, etc. no matter what feedback I gave or what I clicked on.

Deleted it and haven't looked back. Won't click on a link from x.com either.
What is wrong with hosting your own servers? You can say whatever you want but you cannot force others to listen to you.
I think it falls back on lots of elites feeling that only “one special group” can do a thing. The pendulum swung too far into the “globalist”agenda and now it’s swinging back. I’m sure it will overshoot and we’ll be back to globalism within a decade, but I for one welcome anchoring more things to the domestic economy; the US is a huge country with lots of resources and lots of untapped potential (despite not being China big) and we could use some of that trickle down economy that the globalists have been hoarding for a while now.
> A relatively small ongoing investment in a phone with which they earned billions of dollars in profit.

That's fair. But what about a product which doesn't turn a profit? The iPhone could have been a total flop, no one knew in advance!

I worry that if releasing a hardware product carried an unlimited support burden, companies would release far fewer products. Less risk taking would lead to less innovation, and so on.

I think I would be more on board with a rule like "once you stop releasing security updates, you must share hardware documentation and unlock the bootloader", so consumers can install their own (presumably patched) operating systems. But this wouldn't actually affect most of society, because 90% of consumers (I'm being generous) are never going to install Linux on their phones.
Amazon seems extremely likely to pull a walmart and immediately close any warehouse that unionizes.
It's just inevitable. Imagine a world where we get a cheap and accessable AGI. Most work in the world will be done by it. Certainly, it will organise the work the way it finds more preferable. Humans (and other AIs) will find it much harder to train from example as most of the work is performed in the same uniform way.
The AI revolution should start with the field closest to its roots.
We'd have to know the rate of new opioid addicts coming online to see if maybe, these numbers represent the peak of the crisis passing through.
Where you need to pay in order for your most freedom-y of free speech to even be visible to others.
Then why cosmonauts wrote a letter to Politburo suggesting sending them to fly around the Moon in Zond capsule even though it didn't have perfect flights? The reasoning was that the spacecraft deficiencies were correctable should a crew be onboard.

Wasn't there the same situation with Soyuz-1, when they thought the man onboard would help correct flight problems?
They can’t move to another state?
Reminds me of the good old times of first generation Google ReCaptcha where I always only entered the one word Google knows and ignored or intentionally mistyped the other.
Are there legitimate arguments in favour of privacy, and private communications? It seems to be largely the same issue.

We've come to accept (as a normal mainstream thing) end to end encryption in several popular messaging apps (which seems to be largely thanks to WhatsApp?), but the same idea applied to web browsing is still considered fringe for some reason. That distinction seems arbitrary to me, like just a cultural thing?

It might be a UX thing though. WhatsApp is pleasant. Trying to use the internet normally over Tor is horrendous (mostly thanks to Cloudflare either blocking you outright, or sending you to captcha hell).
$15.50 for something you use every moment of your working life?

It's not that much.

It's fine to use free versions instead, but maybe let's stop asking for freebies from folks who make their living that way, especially from Indy folks. (Badger your average megacorp for free stuff for all you want, they'll find ways to extract money somehow)
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a great explanation of your perspective.

For what it's worth. I tend to agree that most explanations of desires are post hoc rationalization or justifications. It's nice to encounter someone who's honest with themselves in that way.
I suppose it is just Amazon problems. I have never lived in the area where Amazon is prevalent. Where I live, search engines still can't find synonyms or process misspellings.
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site
You sound like a stalin era communist. The secret police are spying on you for your own good!
I got GRAMPSWeb working out of 3 containers pretty easily. It's worth checking out as well.
Anthropic Claude Golang SDK
A Go SDK for interacting with the Anthropic Claude API. This SDK allows you to send structured messages and handle responses from Anthropic's conversational AI models seamlessly within your Go applications.
Looking for target for your OTEL data checkout Coroot too - https://coroot.com/ Additionally to OTEL visualization it can use eBPF to generate traces for applications where OpenTelemetry installation can't be done.
I cannot for the life of me understand why SRE of all roles would be the one to attempt to use agents for. IMO it's one of the last roles that it would apply, long after core development.

I mean is the AI going to read your sourcecode, read all your slack messages for context, login to all your observability tools, run repeated queries, come up with a hypothesis, test it against prod? Then run a blameles retrospective, institute new logging, modify the relevant processes with PRs, and create new alerts to proactively catch the problem?

As an aside - this is garbage attempt at an article, kinda saying nothing.
> Good luck trying to compile and run any kind of software without providing getaddrinfo(), socket(), connect(), etc

I'm working on a freestanding lisp language with built in Linux system call support at least in part because I want to to prove that this sort of thing is possible. No legacy interfaces will be provided and yet I have no doubt in my mind that one day it will be able to everything you mentioned and much more.
I feel I may be wasting my time by pointing out that “real life” == “reality”.

At any rate, I disagree. I don’t like the idea of someone controlling my work prospects for a tiny bump in pay. I’m more than capable of negotiating my own pay.

Fact is, I have enough leverage to be happy with where I’ve gotten in life and I think there’s enough like-minded people like me that (hopefully) we’ll never have to put this theory to the test.

Mama’s special laborer will keep on doing this own thing.
Let me get this right. You're making the point that the economics explains the entirety of tech's disdain for unions? You know that all it takes is one counter-example, right?
Scientific American Didn't Need to Endorse Anybody
LA Times notably does not report that Hezbollah has been recognized as a terrorist organization for many years by the US government.
That fact alone makes their reporting suspect, IMHO.
Custom non-road engines are found in many track only cars. And if you are to read the article I posted early, even the EPA doesn't really care if a street car is converted to a track car so long as it's never used on the street. It might be technically illegal to do, but the enforcing agency doesn't care. Pretty similar to things like federal enforcement of marijuana. Not legal, but not generally not enforced.
By that definition all current AI models are "open". That's not the meaning of the word that OpenAI talked about originally and what people expected of them. Changing the meaning is moving the goal posts.
In this case the source they cited is actually a racist propaganda: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-religion-of-peace/
It’s looking really bad for Taiwan to be honest and I don’t think the US has the political will to face off a full on invasion of China against Taiwan. Our military could handle it, but I don’t think the public will is there. I don’t think that China will come away with much other than more land though, the Taiwanese will not hand over their factories and IP to CCP companies, they will blow them up.
That's a bit of a red-herring though, as the audio system will only preempt other processes if it's configured for very small buffers and given real-time permissions. A server's audio subsystem won't preempt actual work because a server won't _have_ an audio subsystem running, let alone be configured for sub-millisecond latency.

The real trade-off is the overhead required to make all kernel operations potentially safe WRT maximum wait times.
Musk Finds a Way Around Brazil's X Ban
what quant are you running for that rig? i've been running q4, not sure if I can bump that up to q5 across the board (or if it's worth it in general)
Mmm i was more fixated on the “absentee ownership”* aspect, which was triggered by your “know a tiny bit about all the things”

I have merely tabbed item?id=41519713 from HN tail, for v vs h integration is also at the backend of my mind (the slop-schlep — measured in microyarvins? — estimate for that doesnt look good?)

*excerpt here, dont mind the slapdashed heading?
https://panarchy.org/veblen/absentee.html

>Indeed, it has taken something like a hundred years for the formulas of the economists to adapt themselves to the new run of facts in business and industry which set in in the days of Adam Smith.

See esp. the penultimate (Leninist?) paragraph “…grounded in traditional common sense…” (TCS is related to conscientiousness, but very much anitithetical to Castalia) which i cant paste here due to my buggy OS
> Google’s patent strategy is to patent everything it sees and hears about. This is a good case of it: https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea . As long as patent attorneys are on quotas at Google, they will be filing bullshit patents they didn’t invent all the same as the trolls.

No, that's not the strategy. I served for a while on a engineers' committee in Geo to evaluate submitted patent ideas, 1-4, "1" being "definitely patent, we're doing this" and "4" being "this is so bad you don't even get the $50 for the idea." Usually it got a "2" if it was something we might do sometime, and a "3" if it was a good idea but not worth patenting.

I submitted five or so applications (in Ads, not in Geo). Several they dropped when the post-CLS Bank PTO rejected them on 101 (subject matter) grounds. Since it can cost $50,000 or more to prosecute a patent, and that is cash to an outside law firm, not just Google lawyers' salaries.

As for this patentpandas guy: there is lots of prior art. This guy is a naif. "Publish any idea you have as soon as you have it" is always a good rule.
It's not broken. The board of directors is now a single person. It's like that scene in Star Wars where Vader tells everyone the Senate has been dissolved.
What's so cool about competing with 5,000 low effort applications that can't be achieved right now competing with 50?
Left pad was from the creator pulling the code from the public source forge, not from a destructive code change.

I assume all of the big tech companies host internal mirrors of every single code dependency + tooling. Otherwise they could not guarantee that they can build all of their code.
At the beginning of the comparison period, IBM was also pretty heavy into products. For example, in the late 80s and even into the early 90s, the market for PCs was broken up into IBM PCs and compatibles. IBM was the PC.

IBM invented many of the technologies that went into the early PCs but pissed away their lead with every single one until we find ourselves today where they no longer manufacture anything that can be found in a modern PC as far as I can tell.
Ive been in unions and worked with unions that enact policies that are unequivocally bad for the company and me as an employee. Stuff like basing way too much on seniority, overly bureaucratic process, constant deference to lawyers instead of solving problems were all completely debilitating to the organization and 100% due to the unions. While unions don't have to be this way I think the unfortunate reality is that most people are selfish and will vote for these policies which are good for them in the short run even if they tend to cause major problems for the business and new employees.
Not a big problem if 100,000 of TSMC and other companies best engineers and scientists flee to the USA after a full on assault by the CCP army/navy
The US workers are almost certainly limited to people who are low to mid level techs who don't know anything useful. Everyone with actual cutting edge knowledge is from Taiwan and almost certainly under the tightest of NDAs and NCAs.

Even high level people in the plant still aren't that useful. What's useful are the insanely expensive, insanely complicated extreme-ultraviolet lithography equipment from ASML. Nobody in the world makes the stuff they do. At least, that we know of. It wouldn't surprise me if the NSA has funded designing and building an EUV lithography system, or just stole the designs from ASML. We know they do a lot of their own ultra-miniature silicon, so they have a strong interest in this sort of tech.
Read “How Asia Works” on how subsidies can be used effectively.

The book calls it “export discipline”, that is, you keep the subsidised firms on their toes by demanding them to be exporters and win the global market, thus making them remain competitive.
That is really cool! I haven't tried hot plates because I didn't really have faith that solder would actually pull the component down and align it. I think this video might have improved that faith :-)
Good. More people should have a taste of these absurd IP range blocking practices (and hopefully they get to experience more of IP range inconveniencing practices like endless CAPTCHAs as well). People who have never experienced these tend to have a very naive view of the freedom of the Internet in 2024.
The disturbing impact of exposure to 8 minutes of TikTok videos revealed study
Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes
It's illegal in the US: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...
Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in FTX Case, Should Receive Lenient Sentence
Whenever a roboticist is asked if robots are better than humans for, say, Moon exploration, he pauses. Red Whittaker from Astrobotic was admitting that robots are not nearly as capable as humans, at the time of Google Lunar X Prize competition. Robots have improved since then, but costs to send humans have also lowered. I'd like to have a conversation on this topic before asserting the answer one way or another.