skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die

Do you think AI has changed that in any way? I remember the sea of excrement overtaking genuine human written content on the Internet around mid 2010s. It is around that time when Google stopped pretending they are a search company and focused on their primary business of advertising.

Before, at least they were trying to downrank all the crap "word aggregators". After, they stopped caring at all.

AI gives even better tools to page rank. Detection of AI generated content is not that bad.

So why don't we have "a new Google" emerge? Simple, because of the monopolistic practices Google did to make the barrier to entry huge. First, 99% of the content people want to search for is behind a login wall (Facebook, Instagram, twitter, YouTube), second almost all CDNs now implement "verify you are human" by default. Third, no one links to other sites. Ever! These 3 things mean a new Google is essentially impossible. Even duck duck go has thrown the towel and subscribed to Bing results.

It has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with Google. In fact AI might give us the tools to better fight Google.
Facebook has to abide to the local laws.
For my education, would you be able to expand on what it doesn't work for and why? Thank you!
My 2080Ti is still holding up reasonably well, helped by the fact I only run 1440p, but it's also doing OK for inference[1]. Though my "must have shiny new things" craving is getting hard to ignore.

Considered getting a new GPU earlier this year but then realized 5xxx was "around the corner", but now it seems they're pushed back to next year. And with AI being what it is, I'm guessing prices won't drop significantly.

Would be nice if AMD could get their GPU act together so it was a more viable alternative, NVIDIA could do with some competition.

edit: just recalled I had a dual-chip GPU back in the day, the ATI 4870X2[2]. Though that was more like two GPUs glued to one PCB, so effectively "single card SLI".

Hopefully the 5090 would be a better experience, as my 4870X2 never quite lived up to what it could theoretically do.

[1]: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/llm-inference-con...

[2]: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-4870-x2.c236
As someone that used to be a full stack developer and quietly moved to backend after being overflowed by the complexities of the modern web, I fully appreciate this path that rails is taking.
Exactly this. If we have to live under a stifling copyright regime, then at least it should be applied evenly. It's fundamentally unfair to have one set of laws (at least as enforced in practice) for the rich and powerful and another set for everyone else.
You raise a valid point!

but if you read the https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/legal/disney-terms-of-use terms of use (which you can't copy and paste easily):

> you may download one copy of such Content to a single computer or mobile device (as applicable) for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided that you (a) keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices, (b) make no modifications to, and do not rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, copy (except to create a single copy for your own back-up purposes), or create any derivative works based on a Site or the Content, in whole or in part,

I would say thats commercial derivative works.

I think shazam had to agree permissions to sample works for fingerprinting.
Previous discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634119
It doesn't help that people rated a CVE 9.something for a PHP vuln in a barely used method of an extension that can be exploited if you use .. I forgot .. ah yes .. IIS.

Peter says wolf too many times?

Maybe a CVE should have a complex score (severity / spread): 9.9 / 4.

severity 9.9 : easy to exploit if you run this .. you're cooked

spread 4 : you most likely are not running this or it's by default in a way that you're not cooked
Including an int[6] array, unlike with int[static 5]. This is usually not what you want.
FDA Approves Treatment of Schizophrenia in Adults
I've been using immutable Linux on both my workstation and my servers for 2 years now.

It definitely fits into the enterprise niche, but imho it's good for everyone. Mainly because of the ability to quicly revert back to a working state. One of the worst things that can happen as a Linux user is that some update causes an issue and forces you to spend the rest of your day troubleshooting.

Since switching to ostree I just revert back to the previous working image, pin it, and continue on with my day. Trying the update later to see if the issue is resolved.

This out of box is incredibly useful to beginners who don't want to learn how to troubleshoot Linux. But also enterprise sector.

In the Enterprise sector I think rather immutable server OS is causing a shift in the perspective of Linux to more of an Appliance than a full blown server.

My last project was actually setting up a series of container hosts on-premises in a Hypervisor. I opted to use CoreOS and could simply disable SSH on the nodes because there was no need to login to any of these nodes. If we want to make an update we re-image them in the hypervisor and re-provision the new image.

This shaves off a lot of issues like for example manual changes, configuration drift, security issues with providing shells and multi-user login.
What alternatives are there to CUPS when it comes to printing?

And yea sure you can manually configure your printer, but it's a pain in the ass compared to zeroconf auto-discovery.
Not sure about that. Stable Diffusion came out a bit over 2 years ago. I'm not sure that Stable Diffusion 3's, or Flux's, output is artistically _better_ than the original; it's better at following directions, and better at avoiding the most grotesque errors, but if anything it perhaps looks even _more_ generic and same-y than the original Stable Diffusion output. There's a very distinctive AI _look_ which seems to have somehow synced up between Dalle, Midjourney, SD3 and others.
You wouldn’t see YC existing on a world full capitalist :) It depende heavily on open source, the biggest and most succeassful socialist experiment so far
And when we finally have huge data pipes to our homes and offices.
I implore you all to read the coder's website, http://www.tastyfish.cz
This is one of the craziest rabbit holes I've been through. That being said, the guy sure can code, but judging by the website and its content, he can't AT ALL function in a normal society. His "wiki" is a cesspool of cognitive dissonance. I don't even think flat earthers or other anti-system people have that much cognitive dissonance going on. In short - this guy is as if someone took the worst opinions from a left-wing person and the worst opinions from a right-wing person. I hope he can get treated for whatever condition he has and live normally. I feel sorry for him.
>One of the big surprises out of the Ukraine war is that the US isn't in a position where it can easily bully Russia.

The US hasn't been fighting Russia - if they'd deployed F35s in 2022 then Moscow would be called West Alaska by now. Don't conflate "doesn't" with "can't".
If this doesn't stop, then very soon we'll just end up with external video cards because this is ridiculous. We already kinda have that [0], but it's quite a hack. I wonder how well PCIe can be delivered over the ribbon cables though...

[0] https://www.razer.com/mena-en/gaming-laptops/razer-core-x
I suppose it comes down to using the metric as the measure, whatever makes the company the most money will be the preferred route, and the mechanisms by which we achieve those sales are rarely given enough thought. It reflect a more timeless mantra of 'if someone is willing to pay for it, then the offering is valuable' willfully ignoring negative psycho-social impacts. It's a convenient abdication of responsibility supported by the so-called "free market" ethos.

I am not against companies making money, but we need to serious consider the second-order impacts that technology has within society. This is evident in click-driven models, outrage baiting and dopamine hijacking. We still treat the psyche like fair-game for anyone who can hack it. So hack we shall.

That said, I am not for over-regulation either, since the regulators often gather too much power. Policy is personnel, after all, and someone needs to watch the watchers.

My view is that systems (technological, economic or otherwise) have inherent values that, when operating at this level of complexity and communication, exist in a kind of dance with the people using them. People obviously affect how the tools are made, but I think persistent use of any tool will have lasting impacts on the people using it, in turn affecting their decisions on what to prioritise in each iteration.
Seriously, anyone who disagrees with that ends up with even bigger problems, like getting hit by ransomware. You, not some developer or Linus Torvalds or anyone else, are responsible for your client and your data. If you put your server on the internet without securing it properly, you deserve to get owned. Your negligence ends up hurting other people.

Is that so hard to understand? You have to take security seriously. My point is that a firewall is the bare minimum you should be thinking about when setting up your server.
If the trend in NVIDIA deceiving customers continue, the 5090 will be the new xx70 and the 5080 the new xx60.
> So, I really think we need to start shipping some kind of client side firewall with a good UX by default (something like little snitch?).

This is not a solution but makes it worse. Adding more vulnerable code widens the attack surface. The history of so called security software (aka snakeoil) has shown that it doesn’t protects but causes more harm.

A Linux system shall show with “# ss -lpn” [1] only ports and process which are known and reachable. It easy to use and that the functions people want - knowing who is doing what. And that’s the path Linux and BSD have taken successfully in the past.

Firewalls are a valid way for administrating networks itself. And while firewalls come lean and integrated on Linux, they should be used carefully. I think system-monitor tools should show open sockets and ports, like they show processes itself, in a list.

[1] https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems... -> The author use the old netstat. And recommends to just turn the service off. That ensures that CUPS doesn’t make other mistakes. A thing a firewall will not do.

PS: At least the Wiki of Archlinux recommends for quite some time not to install `cups-browsed` because it isn't usually need for printer discovery (IPP-Everywhere/AirPrint). At least since December 2022.
Even if we accept that premise, why should OpenAI be the ones to manage a $7T investment in hardware and datacenter development over, y'know, hardware and datacenter companies like Nvidia and Amazon? OpenAI has zero experience in those fields.
My blog is located at https://without.boats

Here are some relevant posts:

https://without.boats/blog/a-four-year-plan/

https://without.boats/blog/poll-next/

https://without.boats/blog/asynchronous-clean-up/

https://without.boats/blog/pinned-places/
I have been running 4090 with 13900KS (both water cooled with AIO) for 18 months now. Typical power consumption during use is around 70..80W (as measured from the wall). Max I have managed to press for under stress testing is 660W. System’s 850W power supply feels just fine, should have got a smaller one.
sounds like they made a solid and accurate assessment
> Geoffrey Hinton is a 76 year old Nobel Prize winner.

Turing Award, not Nobel Prize
Well.. they are not wrong.

Even with the advancements made by OpenAI, some of his takes remind me of a Dollar Store Elon Musk, let alone his despicable way of doing business and seemingly complete lack of any morals.

To your average TSMC exec he's closer to a Jake Paul than to a Lisa Su or even Jensen Huang.
I can’t view a video at the moment, so I apologise if this has been answered in that.

If the server software a game uses requires a licence to a third party library, what is the developer expected to do about that?
Great, hope this extends elsewhere.
> One can't be helped if they don't want to, or don't see a reason why they would need help.

It appears to me he does see a reason why he'd need help. Some statements from his site:

> I am quite lonely

> I am physically the most disgusting form of existence that ever lived, I am so ugly people vomit when they merely see me.

> I am impossible to be loved romantically

> I am largely scared of falling in love.

He appears to have significant social and self-esteem issues. He recognizes that.

I assume the lonelyness he has to deal with is the core reason for why he developed such extreme views.

Since he recognizes these issues it appears to be quite realistic for him to learn to normally engage with society again. I think he can be helped.

Now, as to how someone who's cut off from society and doesn't posess basic social skills can learn to socialize again, I don't know. Therapy perhaps, but that's a difficult step to take.
Extrapolation of past progress isn't evidence.
Depends who you ask. Historically, no amount of compound interest was allowed because it is immoral to receive what is not yours.

Then, in the Middle Ages, Catholic theologians added nuance introducing a concept of time value of money - ie when you lend out $100 you also lose the ability to use that $100 for the time of the loan. The concept of a small interest rate was adopted.

Which is fine, except it opened the flood gates until we eventually got the high interest rates we have today.

What makes our rates usurious? That they are issued with the issuer knowing the principal will never be paid off.
>blatant theft on an industrial scale of the mental products

They haven't been stolen; the creators still have them. They've just been copied. It's amazing how much the ethos on this site has shifted over the past decade, away from the hacker idea that "intellectual property" isn't real property, just a means of growing corporate power, and information wants to be free.
Bit of a side issue for me: I was working on my Unity game the other day and thought to myself, have IDE's really not progressed all that much in the last 10-20 years?

Default intellisense has definitely gotten a lot better, but apart from that and a few other minor things the whole concept of coding feels pretty much the same today as back then.

The biggest positive change for me is outside of the editor, it has become easier thanks to much more access to libraries, documentation and just the sheer volume of user questions and answer sets we now have access to (and finally some new tools like ChatGPT that can aggregate those answers to on occasion deliver a reasonable answer).

But overall the act of writing code seems to be stuck. As a result I'm currently taking some time out from my game to run some experiments. I don't want to create a new language, but instead I want to try and offload everything I can to the computer, let it do the drudge work while allowing me to create.

Just 3 of the initial things I want to test:
- Why do I need to worry about small language specifics like brackets, terminators and so on when tools should be able to auto-complete them for me? What about the private-public access chain (as well as other modifiers such as unsafe) when tools can auto-determine the most efficient set?
- You're editing a file (or parts of different files) and are focusing on say 5 methods that are interacting. I want to see all of them on the screen at the same time, without having to struggle to open and manage many windows with for example VS horizontal/vertical sliders.
- Data conversion. So I created a HashSet for something but realize I need to change it to a Dictionary or a Tuple, just make it happen. If it requires brainwork then show me all the places that requires supervision where I have to say ok or make an edit myself. In the case of Unity I also want to be able to click on a method and/or data set and tell it to convert it to a Burst Job with its accompanying NativeData sets.
I think people do know, but don't care much on internal networks and also don't check in netstat what's actually exposed after installing either the base OS or additional system packages

Host firewalls like ferm or ufw also make it easy to ignore these port bindings because it'll be blocked anyway. Whether that's the right mindset ("just bolt something else on"), idk, but that's the current practice
Another vote for Bedrocks, I had put maybe 1000 walking/hiking miles on mine before I had to glue the soles back together last week. They're the only shoes I've bought retail in the last decade, the others are all thrift store purchases. I suspect that I would want some cushioning if I were a distance runner.
The current AI hype wave has really hit a nerd soft spot - that we're steps away from AGI. Surely if a computer can make plausible-looking but incorrect sentences we're days away from those sentences being factually accurate! The winter after this is gonna be harsh.
IPv6?! The big thing about this was that you'd have end-to-end connections without NAT etc.
To be clear: the two ideas are pedophilia and racism?

You're saying there's no valid arguments against pedophila and racism?
Congratulations! The local API client space urgently needs some Open Source tools that don't suck. I've ditched Postman and Insomnia for Bruno, but since this supports gRPC I really want to give it a try.

Python as a scripting language sounds nice, I don't particularly enjoy working with JS and I think it'd be a nice addition for people like me who prefer something else. Not having to install an electron app is also huge for me.

For me, installation failed with "Package xkbcommon-x11 was not found in the pkg-config search path.". I needed to install libxkbcommon-x11-devel on fedora.

It definitely is super snappy and lightweight.

Is there an option to use a dedicated directory for a workspace to share it in git? That'd be huge for me, being able to commit the request yaml files to git is super nice
1600-1800W in North America, because your standard outlet is 120V 18A max.
> he provided helpful advice

They use the 'they/them' pronouns.

Do you run a large open source project or website that gets security contacts? The vast majority of security reports are poorly written and bogus, with the person either trying to get money or pad their resume with CVE. I think that contributes to developer's wariness of these things, and the "please prove that this is a real security issue" attitude you often see.

May I reference:

Beg bounties - https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/02/08/have-a-domain-name-...

The bogus CVE problem - https://lwn.net/Articles/944209/
WordPress has done a good job of taking the top ideas and incorporating them quickly into its CMS. Many times not right away, but under the hood they are there and they can easily built a UI for it later.

They got a lot of ideas from Drupal, Tumbler, SquareSpace, Ghost, Headless CMSes, etc.
I hope it’ll become the default practice for the world’s sake, although I’m not sure the incentives are there - it seems like an EU anti-waste regulation waiting to happen, though.
It's worth noting that while the PoC requires the user to print to the maliciously installed printer, there were also multiple bugs in the parsing code of cups-browsed which could cause crashes and are quite likely exploitable (and likely will be, shortly).
Opportunity cost and cost of consequences are far from zero.

Most criminals clear less than they would working minimum wage.

It only appears to approach infinity if you ignore reality and consequences, which is often how criminals think. But it is not the actual truth, eh?
Formatting Currency Values with BigInt
I'm tired of 3d TV - Someone in 2013 (3D TV, after a big push by the industry in 2010, peaked in 2013, going into a rapid decline with the last hardware being produced in 2016).

Sometimes, the hyped thing doesn't catch on, even when the industry really, really wants it to.
Hate to tell you but there is nothing stopping people using AI from doing the same thing.
The part where they query individual rows through SQL queries isn't "cringe" because it is inefficient. It is "cringe", because you have degraded SQLite to nothing but an overly verbose key value store.

Shared SQL databases tend to have very poor performance when you join across shards. In this case the downside of distributed joins is avoided by having very many small purpose built databases.
If it was, companies like Microsoft and Apple would have acquired them a long time ago. The fact they decided to have a partnership means they have reason to believe the hype isn't real beyond what we already know today and they don't want to have to explain it to shareholders in the near future.
Doesn't say what the side effects are.
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> Also, for whatever reason, European clothes cleaning systems are insanely harsh, and your clothes don't last nearly as long when washed there.

Hmm. The blouse that's older than my 23 year old daughter would like a word with you. And I do wear it a lot in below 15 C weather. And I don't remember it having been particularly expensive.

Your mileage wrt to clothes just ... may vary if you ask me.
I've played MSFS, X-Plane and DCS, and to be honest there is only one sim made with love and a near perfect flight model and systems, and that is FalconBMS combined with the dynamic campaigns hands down the only flight sim I really enjoy ATM.
Just dont be average and your fine.
It looks like it's 20% smaller bounds-wise, but that's the top layer of the lake: the volume reduction must be at around 40-50%...
He's a grifter. Podcast bro is charitable.
> They haven't been stolen; the creators still have them. They've just been copied

You wouldn't download a car.
I think this is one of those "controversial" topics where we're meant to be particularly careful to make substantial comments.
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How do you know the smart box is not doing the same thing?
So many weird things going on with this.

a) Given how geopolitical semiconductors and AI are right now. Why he is running around the world running his mouth seemingly without the cooperation of the US government.

b) What does Microsoft have to say about OpenAI building a parallel cloud.

c) OpenAI has zero competence in designing and building their own end to end stack but yet they are going to jump straight to $7T worth of infrastructure. Even Apple acquired PA Semiconductor and a number of smaller startups to build out their team.
Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Cursor Composer already shows huge benefits for coding. I'm more productive than ever before. The models are still getting better and better. I'm not saying AGI is right around the corner or that we will reach it, but the benefits are undeniable. o1 added test-time compute. No need to be snarky.
It’s just like with cookies. I believe that lawmakers were honest and really wanted for companies to limit amount of tracking in the web. What we did get instead is a lot of „we value your privacy” popups and 5 pages of checkboxes to check if you don’t want to be tracked.

I just think that this will end up the same way. Nothing really changes, but we’ll just get more useless „lawyer talk” in more and more license documents to click on.
You would really think spying inside somebody's home would already be illegal.
> If you need to "discover" the printers on your network, something is probably wrong, as in my experience public printers are always labeled with the relevant information and home printers can print or show that information on their menus.

This is a terrible take. The average user is not going to go find out the IP of the printer and go on their computer and configure it. Discovery is the primary way people print now.

And... CUPS is how 99% of people print on Mac or Linux.