skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is clearly a masterpiece of film making and to be honest, Stephen King's opinion just makes me think less of him (King) although I'm also a fan of his writing too.

I'd seen a few analyses of the film, but was quite surprised and amazed when I happened across the Overlooked! youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6PgWFs0Pw

I'd never noticed Jack's glances towards the camera, but once you notice them, it's clear that they were totally intentional and designed to unnerve the viewer (he's looking at me!). It's this attention to detail that makes Kubrick the master that he is.
Same here, the amount of times I did gentoo stages from knopix live cd's is too much.
Yes - but I am sure I sent the first link.

I'm not sure what has happened then.
I think the dream is that you can reason locally. I'm not convinced that it actually help any, but the dream is that having everything as services, complete with external boundaries and enforced constraints, you're able to more accurately reason about the orchestration of services. It's hard to reason about your order flow if half if it depends on some implicit procedure that's part of your shopping cart.

The business I'm part of isn't really after "scalable" technology, so that might color my opinion, but a lot of the arguments for microservices I hear from my colleagues are actually benefits of modular programs. Those two have just become synonyms in their minds.
AIHawk: AI bot to automatically apply for jobs
"Person who broke into car aided by rogue hammer"
This article seems to end rather abruptly ("limitations and possibilities of the horror genre"). Is there more?
Ubisoft Is Reportedly Planning to Release 10 Assassin's Creed Games in 5 Years
This is meaningless. Hempcrete or strawbale construction with a load bearing wood structure is more sustainable than this.
What’s preventing 300 people from presenting the same ID?

Why is presenting an ID somehow singularly responsible for the process not being opaque?
I would like to drive a nail in the coffin of “deterministic causality” by at least two mechanisms.

- In every scope there is a super scope which may influence in incalculable ways (however well their rules maybe understood.) Even in a model of the whole Universe, the base potential of cosmic background radiation (non-zero vacuum of void) is a non deterministic influence.

- ultimately radiological decay may not be predicted (a feedback mechanism of unpredictable external scopes)

There is more to consider yet these alone are enough for all physicists to agree that universal determinism is not actually possible.

Decay and the exogenous scope.

Everything in the universe fails eventually, only we may not know which part or when. Everything has an outside influence that cannot be predicted, even if that is how external decay will be involved.

These are NOT the basis of free will, merely an example of how determinism is a dead horse.

Free will is the “determination of resolve in the moment of now.” A different kind of determination than determinism. It is not that will cannot be coerced or manipulated or even anticipated (we are creatures of habit.) it is that the feedback loop in the mind is made of constructive and destructive interference and that may self reflect in unbound scalar ways.

What we think of as determinism is a blessing not a curse. Who wants the Earth to spontaneously turn to jelly? Or marshmallows to suddenly fall from the sky? We cannot function without mostly predictable outcomes.
Yeah but a couple centuries? What’s the evidence for exhaustion of demand and supply for economic goods on that kind of time horizon.
I have some insight into this domain (pun duly intended), I work for a foundation managing two ccTLDs. Once the ccTLD has been delegated to an entity it is very hard to get that back without the consent of all parties. Meaning unless the entity that now holds the delegation to manage the ccTLD agrees to sell it or give it back they generally won't lose it.
I really want to like Zig, but man, an unsafe language in 2024 is a hard sell (even to myself).
But presumably you should be testing for people actually being able to write code, and not to solve some arbitrary problem unrelated to what 99% of engineers actually do. Being able to solve the leetcode problem tells you how well they crammed for the interview , not how well they code.

And I say that as someone who is on the interviewer side of the table for the past few years at $FAANG
If I remember correctly, at Google we would run a sampling profiler on some processes in prod to create these profiles, with some mechanism for additional manual overrides
AI allowed him to avoid detection for a long time. It allowed him to create thousands of songs so that the each one would only get moderate amounts of streams thus not raising suspicion.

Had he created songs by hand they would rack up millions/billions of botted streams but them not being international hits anyone had ever heard before would have made it obvious botting behaviour.
>i can safely assume that bytedance was scraping youtube videos by abusing our private api

I'm not doubting the OP. But why is ByteDance doing this? What does that company get out of scraping YouTube?
>and was eventually caught

Would love to hear more.
Mongo, Redis, Elastic, HashiCorp did not forgot that. They knew it, and thats why they changed their license.

If Automattic wants to force companies to pay for Wordpress, it should use a license that encourages/requires that.
Hey folks, I built a wealth tracking app for those of you who are close to or have totally given up on spreadsheets and convoluted personal finance apps.

I built Principal to solve this problem for myself and I've been genuinely impressed by how much it has helped me.

Obviously, this isn't the final version, I'm shipping new updates weekly/daily (from quality of life / UIUX improvements, to major features), and if you have any suggestions or feedback, I'd love to hear it!
It is.

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Sonnet-3.5 seems a lot better at backing correct fixes out of TypeScript compiler errors than Python runtime errors. Which fair enough, I'm better at that too.

Of the two or three languages these things have enough training data on to hit "above average StackOverflow answer on demand", I'm being forced to re-evaluate my sometimes strident forecasts that LLM coding was mostly hype. I'm not quite ready to eat crow yet, but I've made sure there's clean silverware in case I need to (and I will admit it if I was conclusively full of shit).

It's still wildly over-stated and it's still a delicate game to come out ahead on the correct code after the hallucination rabbit holes have been deducted, but in certain verticals LLMs have become my first stop.

In the "strictly better than the sort of people who do this" regime is clickbait tech blog posts. I now almost always have them write me some fairly generic rant with a catchy title when I'm in the mood to read the sort of shit that gets frontpage because title. I don't post them because I'm not a spammer, but for my own private amusement? Beats the hell out of basically any low-detail technology essay. In a macabre way that's to me the more interesting commentary on theory of mind.
Like every other tech giant they're in the AI arms race, and in particular they are building video generation models. It's probably safe to assume they are trying to grab as much of YouTube as possible for use as training material.

https://decrypt.co/284353/tiktok-maker-powerful-ai-video-gen...
I do think these are commonly known amongst those in the gaming community however both Kula World and Tomba left a mark to this day. The former opened me up to a love of puzzles and I found the simplistic but clever design of the world and physics so enjoyable.

Tomba simply opened myself up to games which didn't have to fit just one genre, I could play a platformer and an RPG at the same time and it would be brilliant fun. Plus the colourful world was a feast for the eyes.
AI doing philosophy = AI generating hands? – LessWrong
Partitioning in the Chiplet Era
I found this wonderful page on the author's website:

https://interconnected.org/home/2020/09/24/unoffice_hours

>For the past month or so, as an experiment, I’ve been opening my calendar each week for video calls with whoever books a time. It’s been amazing. Wednesday is now my favourite day.

>I loved those open conversations over coffee in the Before Times. There’s an ostensible reason to connect, so you talk about work, or compare notes about an idea, or whatever.

>But then the unexpected emerges. There are things in your head that you only know are there when you say them.
Unoffice Hours (2020)
Technically an empty awk program is an implementation of cat(1) (before it came back from berkeley waving flags, anyway).

Of course no awk will run an empty program, so the article's '1' or '"a"' or other truthy value is required.
you'll notice i didn't use the word "create" or "make" in my reply
US/Biden won’t because of the election.

Do you think European NATO countries would push troops in or will it depend on the US to make the first move?
>the people who love it don’t understand the extreme flexibility makes it fragile at scale and are willing to put up with its annoyances in an almost stockholm syndrome way

The people who love it understand that its extreme flexibility makes it applicable everywhere, while academic purity mostly doesn't work in the real work. They also prioritize getting things done over petty squabbling, but they know how to leverage available tooling where reliability is crucial.

(See, I can generalize too)
You're right, that's a much better article.

I didn't realise that this happened:

>Not once did Kubrick say anything about King’s constant criticism of the film and, in the same quiet fashion, took his revenge: since he still held the rights to the novel, one of his stipulations for giving them up was that King would be prevented from further commenting on his film; the other was $1,5 million. In a stunning move, Kubrick bought King’s silence but had King pay for it.
As usual, don't try to use the network boundary to do what modules already offer in most languages.

Distributed systems spaghetti is much worse to deal with.
A quarter of iPhone users say green bubbles are dating dealbreaker, survey says
> built to go around cloudflare

Then they either didn't set up CF correctly or they just use the mode in most headless browsers that bypasses default CF protection when CF is not in attack mode.
Some time ago I noticed the ByteDance spider very aggressively scraping my modest side project and, more importantly, modest server.

I wrote to them to please stop (I think the address was in the user agent or something), they replied sorry and actually stopped.

Not sure why all these crawlers can't pace themselves.
I think Chinese isp can't store some data as they might get in trouble with Chinese censors so they dont cache it. And then if gets slightly viral you see huge traffic from 1 IP that might be a vpn. On reddit torrent channel you get similar question when ahem Linux iso is downloaded 1000s of times from same ip
I interpreted the entire comment as "I'm not sure giving everyone a voice is a good thing."
That's correct. We are progressing (regressing?) beyond scientific realism and the notion that we are all subjective minds apprehending a base shared reality towards an essentially magical worldview in which reality is mediated by group consensual hallucination. To the extent that "the world" (or at least our apprehension of it) is contained within our mind, it is malleable and subject to manipulation by it in a Hermetic top-down sense of "as above, so below;" the exercise of mental willpower over physical reality. All that is required is to alter one's paradigm or interpretation of reality, and then subscribe as many other minds as possible into the new narrative model; this is what Robert Anton Wilson spoke of in Prometheus Rising when discussing the concept of "reality tunnels:"

"Reality" is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival
gangs of programmers. When a paradigm shift occurs—when we go from seeing
things one way to seeing them another way—the whole world is remade. All
that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your
individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir
Humphrey Davy noted when self- experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819,
and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints
atrophied and dropped away.

This is ultimately the philosophy that postmodern ideologies that admit of transition between various identity categories is based on [0] and which is termed by modern mainstream social psychologists and academics as "intersubjectivity." A good overview is given by Cooper-White in the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: [1]

Rejecting the notion that knowledge is purely empirical and cumulative,
Gergen has argued that “truth” is always value laden and, therefore
(drawing from critical theory), “reality” is not immutable, but always is
understood via interpre- tation. More attention, then, should be given to
the outcomes implied by any given assertion of reality, rather than to its
“accuracy” as measured by its supposed correspondence to absolute truth.

A modern-day shaman, or magician, then, is one who is able to engineer large-scale cognitive and narrative shifts, thereby manipulating the very fabric of reality.

[0] https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12327

[1] https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2_9182
Seeing Faces in Things: A model and dataset for pareidolia
In general, it's better to move to the US if you want better terms fundraising.

That said, London is probably the closest in Europe due to strong dealflow, more capital, ease of access for American funds, and easier business operating conditions.

Before the war and sanctions, Russia+Ukraine were decent - they had a very active and American style VC ecosystem, plus diaspora VCs in the US investing in startups in the old country

Romania and Czechia have a decent startup scene as well, and former operators who are alumni of companies that exited (eg. Avast, BitDefender, UIPath) along with the diaspora investors in the US are fairly active.

Also, I need to add Munich Re Ventures to my list of notable exceptions, but then again, they're almost entirely in North America.
What was the fraud? Not listening to the ads? I guess he wasted bandwidth.

The fraudulent behaviour is on the part of the streamers. There should be no cross user account royalty dependecy.
Reloading that page causes content shifting. Or when on Mac the search bar also switches the displayed shortcut from the Mac version to the Windows version as it's presumedly done on the client side. Maybe not a good look for a demo site.

Here's a recording in case it's helpful (Safari, macOS): https://img.notmyhostna.me/Sn347jhnsgVlFwc4PZWs
I don't think I've ever heard anyone (outside of the first two years of college or so) deny that there are writings that are either outright dangerous, or at least need some context in order to be consumed safely.
> Burgers and hot dogs require a lot fewer steps to cook them than almost anything with vegetables

LOL maybe for ready-to cook meat / raw vegetable, but let’s compare:

frozzen broccolis, canned beans, dry nuts, seeds, ready-cut-carrot-sticks…

With: whole chicken, lamb full leg, fresh fish with organs and bones, beefs parts that need 90min cooking…
> it's from "A Signal Shattered" by Eric S. Nylund.

What a great book. I read it before I read the book that it's a sequel to. Maybe I'll re-read them this week.
Even in MBA M2 2003 laptop, still so many sites are slow.

80% of contents are texts, I can't understand why this whole internet become slower. I bet it would be slower even if we get personal quantum computer or whatever that has supercomputing power.

more animation, more effects, more popup, more crap ... that does not improve UX even 0.001%.
Just under this submission I have upvoted a handful of comments with which I disagreed, mainly because of its replies.
Try this out, has arpeggios as well: https://www.onemotion.com/chord-player/

You can export stuff as WAV or MIDI from the menu.
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If .pth files are the worst thing you can find to complain about, Python's doing pretty well. That horrific .pth file in question is better placed as the feet of its creators than the mechanism itself.
Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
I got asked recently, and I think it's an excellent question.

What's the "best" book you've ever read? By "best", in means whatever you mean.
John Oliver has enough bad takes and lies that I'm at the point that if he says something, I assume it's a lie at this point. Or at least his conclusions are lies
ByteDance ist also massively scraping official governemnetal sites with strange url patterns
HMNZS Manawanui sinking: NZ Navy ship ran aground
Should the original link then be changed from the Trinitonian to the Senses of Cinema site?
The article the quote is from was written in 2014.
Ask HN: Where would you publish content that should outlive you?
I would love for my great grandchildren to be able to read the things I write today, and see the photos I’ve taken.

Where should I publish them?

Dedicated hosting and domain are a missed payment away from being purged.

So is iCloud.

Facebook and Tumblr are a bankruptcy away to join Geocities and MySpace.

Own physical bedroom server requires maintenance which can’t be done when you’re dead.

The average dead person’s content isn’t easy to monetize.

Buy a lifetime sdf.org membership for $36 and publish everything there is the best I can come up with. But that’s predicated on trust.

How would you solve this?
Interesting. Is there any documentation which explains this?
I would add that just because you add these things it does not mean you can scale afterwards. All microservices implementations I've seen so far are bolted on top of some existing layer of mud and serve only to make function calls that were inside processes run over the network with added latency and other overheads. The end game is the aggregate latency and cost increases only with no functional scalability improvements.

Various engineering leads, happy with what went on their resume, leave and tell everyone how they increased scalability. And persuade another generation of failures.
> they haven't gotten to phones yet

Huh? I've been happily using several GNU/Linux phones as my daily drivers for the past 16 years.

FSF also supported Replicant, which isn't something I'm personally interested in but it's there.
Important to note that the author assumes that this is ByteDance, but the ASN belongs to their cloud solution BytePlus, which could be used by other companies.

https://x.com/sauceo_/status/1842866301066518875

https://www.byteplus.com/en
> I don’t actually care who is or isn’t Russian.

Have you stopped beating your wife? I don’t care if you’re a wifebeater, no judgement. I’m just randomly curious.

Saying that someone is both a Russian and pro-Invasion (by your faulty interpretation) has a well-deserved stigma.
Honestly, MIDI is dumb in beautiful way. Considering that generations of near-luddite stoner musicians with a strong craving for novelty figured it out, your lambda HN participant will be pushing out bleeps and bloops in 30 minutes of determination. The rest is just reading the manual and realizing possible combinations of features.

Can't speak for other sequencers, but Squarps have a very coherent UI and doc that make it easy to remember where the fingers go when setting things up and when actually playing notes.

Also note that I'm using your Linux excuse as an opportunity to justify my grown man toys but if we're being real you can probably achieve similar result using free software with a bit of research. Linux is a very capable music platform in theory, with kernel support for MIDI routing between apps and devices. The choice of music apps isn't too shabby either.
Ask HN: What scraping libraries are being used by the big AI players?
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At least the so called musician exposed the emptiness of AI generated content. It is so bad that only AIs "listen" to it.

I'd prefer if the "justice" department used its resources to go after those who launder intellectual property.
This has been running for a long time:

> SMITH spread his automated streams across thousands of songs to avoid anomalous streaming as to any single song. SMITH was aware that if, for example, a single song was streamed one billion times, it would raise suspicions at the Streaming Platforms and the music distribution companies that those streams were the result of streaming manipulation. A billion fake streams spread across tens of thousands of songs, however, would be more difficult to detect, because each song would only be streamed a much smaller number of times. As a result, SMITH repeatedly identified the need for more songs as crucial for facilitating the fraud scheme. For example, on or about December 26, 2018, SMITH emailed two coconspirators that, “We need to get a TON of songs fast to make this work around the anti-fraud policies these guys are all using now.”

What kind of AI generating music tech were they likely to have been using in 2018?
This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Makes me wonder what today's opinions will sound like, a century hence.
cffi replaces ctypes, which is a completely different thing. cpyext is a reimplementation of the Python C-API, so no attempt at improving the API.

HPy on CPython uses the existing C-API under the hood, so there is zero need to build up some keep someone out...
Well, I would have never considered to use getauxval() for the purposes mentioned and I have not seen it used either, so thank you for mentioning it.
That is true. A good way to remove the second part is to gain root.
It's better to use the single window mode though. Splitting to separate windows is hacky and is never going to be 100% reliable unless completely reimplemented at a different layer.

I'm using Waydroid on my phone sometimes, and frankly, single window mode is all you need anyway.
That wouldn't fit under the currently pushed formulation of the law, as I understood it from TFA at least? So while I don't doubt you it will be a matter of time, it's not clear how long that will take, how such and amendment would look, and what pushback that might face from business whi might now become affected by that new legislation patch.
Uber and Lyft drivers use Teslas as makeshift robotaxis, raising safety concerns
Yeah, I noticed this as well. I think the window of what some might remember as old youtube is closing forever sooner than anticipated. As I may have suggested on this forum before, if you have anything in particular you want to archive, you would be wise to have a plan to do it sooner rather than later. Space is cheap enough and I assume most people won't want to archive the entire net ( I know data hoarders exist and god bless them, but I assume they will be ok ).
I thought it was written by Ursula K. Le guin.

Not sure where I got that from.
I'm pretty comfortable with Docker/cgroups/namespaces, I have quite a deep understanding of it. But I read "Docker-based inference" like you literally took Docker code to... do inference? The wording in my opinion doesn't make much sense. It's like saying, I don't know, "Flatpak-based inference" or "SSD-based inference". Semantics.
I couldn't read this beyond, "... played upon the integrity of the music industry...".
I imagine almost everything is being done using Puppeteer.
Android kindly has notification channels. Apps can setup whatever categories they want & users can turn individual channels on and off as they like.

Alas it seems like few apps have it implemented. Hiss boo. Wish this was available of Web Push.
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