skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they just want it to go away. The same way they wish Windows and GUIs and people in general would just go away.
Climate-Techs Want to Save the Planet. First They Need to Save Themselves
Nvidia is a software company that also happens to make decent hardware. People buy their hardware because of their software. And it’s not just CUDA. Nvidia is building a whole bunch of potentially groundbreaking software products. Listen to the last GTC keynote to learn more about it.
The downside of this nvim solution is the same downside as both pasting big blobs of ai code into a repo, and, pasting big vim configs you find online into your vimrc: inability to explain the pasted code.

When you need something fast for whatever reason sure, but later when you want to tweak or add something, you'll have to finally sit down and learn basically the whole thing or at least a major part of it to do so anyway. Imo it's better to do that from the start but sometimes that's not always ideal.
Was it there before the hack?
the appeal is that it's a one click solution that works everywhere. If you have multiple devices, even worse if it's a mix of Android, Iphone, Windows, Mac, Linux you now have to find some cross platform sync solution on every device, the autofill functions of the various plugins don't work half the time, it usually ends up being an annoying mess. And if you need secure credential sharing with family members it's ten times more complicated yet again.
This is totally false. In Indonesia, the communists were winning elections left and right until the CIA installed an anti communist dictator. The same happened in Brazil and Iraq. The CIA has taken major direct action to suppress popular communism across the world
Amazon already did something similar.
IBM made a similar decision before the larger Java community thought it was anything like a good idea.
I have IPv6 disabled on my computer because it solves many mysterious service interruptions. Comcast claims to support it, but there have been many times when IPv6 was dog slow and IPv4 was very fast.
What many people get wrong about culture
Yes, via the KeePassium client:

https://github.com/keepassium/KeePassium

As with all iOS apps, there’s no guarantee that the open source app code on GitHub corresponds to what you install from the App Store.

I have been very satisfied with KeePassium, it integrates with all the cloud storage providers I’d want and the app itself works well.
You can say sandwich au jus but it refers to the sandwich with gravy not the gravy
The ISP router I had a few years ago could be crashed by visiting 42.be (which is having https issues right now but it loads 1000 tiny image tiles from 1000 IPv6 addresses)
Encarta 96
They also started allowing users you've blocked to view your tweets.
> (the feeling of seeing), but it's just an illusion.

Illusion to whom? what is experiencing the illusion?

The feeling is consciousness, so this seems to be just adding an extra step in between.
Canadian Doctors Struggle to Euthanize Poor
Woodwide Web, Underground Networking: The Connections Beneath Your Feet (2019)
A Virtual Office for Startups
hi we are building a virtual office for startups. we are building a virtual office for startups and small teams. i know it's hard to grind by yourself at night and our platform allows you to see what other teammates are up to for example, A is coding on vs code and stuff so you kinda feel CONNECTED. And yeah it's an office so you can have a meeting, chat, call etc.. And we are in beta so looking for some feedback if you could use our product and give me feedback, that would be amazing. Thank you in advance.
Ask HN: What do you think of Decentralized Blockchain Analytics?
Blockchain data analytics is complex, a lot of edge cases, huge volume and sometimes only with little values. Many times, the entity spent tons of money to create a chart, but only 1 or 2 people in the world really cares about it.

However, we still need blockchain analytics as this industry is with so much chaos and only data can tell part of the truth.

So what about decentralizing it? Image that, we got a platform, where provides the tools and places for the builders to create data pipelines, charts and dashboards. Then when some buyers need chart, data, they can just bid with description, amount, or they can purchase the charts already created by the builders.

Traditionally, it seems hard right? As it involves the pipelines, charts, data readiness, data refresh, quality, etc. There must be some contract bonded. However, in blockchain, it shouldn't be that hard, it just some utility tokens or nfts or some other ways, tons of way we can deal with this 2 ways deal right?

What do you think of it? How large is this market?
Thanks, yeah. For what it's worth, partly what led me to even leave this comment is that when he wrote "the code above is broken", I stared at it, and for the life of me I couldn't see why it was broken. Because, of course, the code was lying: there was no mention of leases or timeouts. Having a "lease" suddenly pulled out of nowhere really felt like a fast one being pulled on me (and really unfairly so!), hence I decided I'd actually leave the comment and question what the basis for this hidden time bomb even was in the first place?! If the code had said leaseLock(filename, timeout), I think the bug would've been glaringly obvious, and far fewer people would've been surprised by looking at the code.

Also for what it's worth, I can guess what some of the answers might be. For example, it's possible you'd need very precise timing facilities that aren't always available, in order to be able to guarantee high throughput with correctness (like Google Spanner's). Or it might be that doing so requires a trade-off between availability and partition-tolerance that in some applications isn't justified. But I'm curious what the answer actually is, rather than just (semi-)random guesses as to what it could be.
Global Electricity Demand Is Rising Faster Than Expected, IEA Says
I’ve always thought of async await as an ergonomic relaxation (as in constraints) of green threads. People had more problems doing green threads right than I’ve seen with async. Do some of the remaining problems look exactly like green thread problems? Absolutely. But it’s a step toward something more hygienic.
Open source developers should think twice before accepting VC funding. The VC then own them.
Javascript is screamingly fast compared to the vast majority of other dynamic languages (scripting type, not something like Objective C). This is with the V8 engine of course. I’m not sure where you’re getting that it’s slow?
https://i.imgur.com/mON5wZX.png
For sure, sending customers into a never ending loop when they want support. That's been my experience with most AI support so far. It sucks. I like Amazon's approach where they have a basic chat bot (probably doesn't even use LLMs) that then escalates to a actual human being in some low cost country.

I kind of like the Chipotle approach. I have a problem with my order, it just refunds me instantly and sometimes gives me a add-on for free.

Honestly I only use LLM for one thing - I give it a set of TS definitions and user input, and ask it to fit those schemas if it can and to not force something if it isn't 100% confident.

I know some people whose whole company is based around the use of AI to send emails or messages, and in reality they're logged into their terminals real time fixing errors before actually sending out the emails. Basically, they are mechanical turks and they even say they're looking at labor in India or Africa to pay them peanuts to address these.
Yes, with integrations like Strongbox
Installed Ubuntu LTS on some family members PCs who use it for web browsing and Libre Office, and they are so happy, they got no issues, and I'm chill because I know they will not get OS ads, auto installed apps, or crap like that. Thanks Canonical. What a solid and user friendly OS.

Will have to go to their homes to change Ublock Origin for the lite version since they use Chrome tho. I think the developer should choose to update the V2 with the V3 on the Chrome Store.
Valve Steam Deck 2 on hold until a generational leap in compute performance
Probably to have something out there so that when they admit it was a foreign actor who deleted them, it won't seem like big news that it is. That's typical for MSFT and how they handle these things.
Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning
I never had ADHD or related attention problems. However, I find the way interwebs has evolved over years and to basically trained our brains to be so focused on super short pieces of simply digestible content has basically turned me off of longer form content. I’ve noticed my preference for immediate gratification has increased significantly. It feels like I’m developing an attention disorder in my middle age years.
> still struggling to sustain 2 million DAU.

Is this a problem?

Seriously. Do we need every service to have a billion users? I'm glad there's places that are open to everyone, but at the same time I'm sad that a lot of smaller and niche places have disappeared. Those are the places I've found communities. It's possible on bigger sites but it's much harder. Your voice is one in a billion, it's not much better than having no voice. It's even happened more as HN has grown. And in any of these big places it's more likely that sensational posts rise to the top drowning out sensible or accurate messages (maximizing engagement doesn't maximize user happiness, communication, community, nor many other things). It's also harder to communicate because every community develops their own language and priors. A mutual understanding and that's what builds good faith conversations. I think if we've learned anything from these mega sites it's that even when people use their real names they still view themselves as "anonymous" (and conversely, in small sites people can hide their name, but it means something to the community, and they still have a reputation to defend)

I'm not convinced we are measuring the right things. It just feels like people are measuring what they think they should, and are not thinking about what the actual goals are. These are not the same thing. But that's Goodhart's Law I guess
https://e360.yale.edu/features/exploring_how_and_why_trees_t... Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738120
(23 comments) The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (2018)

( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871929 Do Fungi Recognize Shapes? 2024 )
This sounds like the same kind of problem the Linux kernel is trying to get rid of, and we used to live with back in Windows 3. It’s very hard to put in enough yield points to never block for too long in a complex algorithm, and I was so happy when I stopped having to do that myself!
I'm always happy to see F-Droid exclusive apps. Gives Google less power over what they can do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41900438 Woodwide Web, Underground Networking
If it's harmful to the bees, natural selection will weed out this behavior pretty quickly.
Affecting the world can happen through people the AI communicates with (people are incredibly susceptible to manipulation) and through any and all digital systems accessible via the internet (anything that isn't airgapped, basically). If a malicious AI can hold tons of essential infrastructure hostage, it can have a lot of power and gain a lot more of it (think all the cyberattacks imaginable happening all at once and controlled by a single entity). Thinking full societal collapse or subjugation can only happen through killer robots is incredibly shortsighted, imho.

Agency is also fairly trivial. People are already creating agents with the current AIs and setting them loose in various ways. If it is not done via private industry, it will be via random malicious actors or state actors (military or intelligence).

I'm not saying we're doomed (I in fact believe that powerful AI will, at least initially, be far more inclined to not cause us to want to destroy it), but to miss how terrible outcomes due to AI _could_ occur is irresponsible, imho.
True, but some problems just require that long to get the answer the user wants!

Some problems take 60 CPU years, but those you don’t expect the user to actively wait while you distribute their task and wait for the results, you send them an email in 3 months or so! :)
I think our phone lines (the only buried cable here that can do data) are probably >40 years old. They're still selling DSL over it.
Potential for photosynthesis on Mars within snow and ice
Is this what can be done with Apache Kafka Connect (to get data from another source to a Kafka cluster), Kafka (including Kafka Streams)?
This image (https://github.com/drasi-project/community/raw/main/images/d...) is like Kafka Streams with a single topic.
This image (https://github.com/drasi-project/community/raw/main/images/c...) is like joining 2 streams in Kafka Streams.
Thank you, again.

> While some ActivityPub servers might face issues with a big wave, it's very unlikely it would take down all of them. When mastodon.social suffered a big outage, I just went over and browsed from a different server, most of the rest of the fediverse just continued as normal.

This seems like the biggest take-away for me. That is a big difference.
ExTwitter:

1. Reduced the effectiveness of the blocking other users

2. Changed Terms of Service to let them use or sell your content for machine learning/AI purposes

3. Has seen some in depth coverage about how widespreadly & effective foreign & right wing disinformation networks have been operating. Site looks like it's brand of democracy is anything goes & that includes psyop campaigns against Americans.

4. Has changed the Terms of Service to further disallow academics, researchers, and civic interests from watching the site & doing research. Claiming damages of 1.5 cents per post if you access over 1 mil posts a day. Initiated lawsuits against some groups of disinformation researchers. (Musk's reaction to disinformation is to suppress anyone finding out or safeguarding us? Speech so free we won't be allowed to find out whose even saying it!)

5. Stiffing vendors on the IT bill, to the tune of $60m.

6. Changed the Terms of Service to court shop, using an North Texas court strongly favorable to right wing agenda & Musk's companies. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-m...

7. Elon's PAC is setting up fake Harris campaign sites. Sites targeting Arabs and Israelis saying diametrically opposed things about Harris. He's also running a raffle if you sign his political pledge in Pennsylvania? And spreading disproven voting machine disinformation at Trump rallies. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-musks-fake-sites-a...

8. General existing annoyance that terrible incredibly low quality paid-for accounts drown out interesting conversation. And a new paid creator model focused on paying for engagement that will probably only intensify the shititness & have people responding to crap bluecheck nonsense just to get paid.

Incredibly toxic week or two with rapid-fire massive red flag after red flag, that should really really make people reconsider staying. Even if you "just want to talk tech," the site directionally has been going badly already & that seems slated to intensify. And as per per @paulg: character matters (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1847225545299251597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894566). The problems here are reprehensible. And specifically: living on/contributing to a social network where researchers aren't even allowed to study disinformation is completely unacceptable & recklessly endangers western democratic society, and you should leave at once.

Bluesky laughs about there being an Elon Musk Event driving adoption. But it's been a dazzling multifaceted barrage of truly vile behavior these recent days, and has flipped from being shitty and dumb antics, to actively endangering & giving quarter to enemies of open society.
What I expect it to do is to be a courteous driver, and back off a little bit to signal to the car in front that I got the message and that it's safe to merge.

FSD is already defensive to a fault, with frequent stop-and-go indecisions of when to merge onto a highway, but that's a whole other story.

A major part of safe driving is about being predictable. You either commit and claim your right of way, or you don't. In this situation, both can be signaled easily to the other party by being a bit of a jerk (e.g. accelerating to close the gap and prevent somebody else from merging) or the opposite. Both are better than not doing anything at all and keeping the other dangling in a state of uncertainty.

FSD is in an almost permanent state of being indecisive and unpredictable. It behaves like a scared teenager with a learner's permit. Again, totally different than my experience in Waymo in the urban jungle of San Francisco, who's a defensive but confident driver.
Thanks for the feedback Amir!

Agreed - I think something like that would work well!
Heh, what's your github username? I'm sure there's no harm done.
Notably though, Keepassium from the App Store is licensed differently than the version on GitHub. Only the Keepassium team can ever actually submit to the App Store as GPL software is banned, and so they do not accept contributions so that they have the ability to submit under a proprietary license.
holding a pro one handed, with my right hand, index finger on volume up and down, and my thumb is significantly higher than the power button. its actually uncomfortable to hold my index on volume and thumb on power at the same time. if i shift my hand for my thumb to be on the power button, my index finger is well below volume down.
every one of these products starts out as a fair platform... just give it time and success
Claiming that companies which resist title inflation has a competitive edge is like claiming schools which resist grade inflation have a competitive edge. Maybe if they are competing on who is the most irrelevant...

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/5/faculty-debate-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/stanford/comments/ja2u6m/how_is_the...
Similar concept in shadertoy:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/st3XWX
We agree in that if my client distributes illegal content, I am responsible, at least in part.

On the other hand I also believe that a tracker that hosts hashes of illegal content, provides search facilities for and facilitates their download, is responsible, in a big way. That's my personal opinion and I think it's backed in cases like the pirate bay and sci hub.

That 0 knowledge tracker is interesting, my first reaction is that it's going to end up in very nasty places like Tor, onion, etc..
Brazil iz good. Becauz dirty dogz got plugged!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/mediaviewer/rm557755905...

Meow!
Interesting, will have to check this out.

A few questions -
- Is there anything like an Edit Decision List (EDL) that's common in video editing software?
- As this supports Ableton Live - how would it handle exporting Session View clips from Live to a DAW that doesn't do Session clips - which can be triggered manually or programatically but due to this non-linear nature, don't really "live" anywhere on a timeline?
- Does this include automation, internal/VST plugin parameters/automation, tempo/beat subdivision, and key changes?
> The only practically useful thing about my IPv6 enabled network is that I can run globally routable services on my lan, without NAT port mapping. Of course, only if the client is also IPv6.

A couple of other practically useful things:

- You never get address collisions when connecting to someone else's VPN, or connecting to your home network via VPN from someone else's private network (if you've set that up)

- If there are two people living in your home, they can play online games against a mutual friend who doesn't live in the home without anything breaking

I think you're right that IPv6 isn't a game-changing improvement for most people. It gets rid of some annoyances, it's the obviously correct thing to do for new networks (and cheaper than setting up CGNAT), but fundamentally the pile of hacks on IPv4 is "good enough" for most use cases.
And remove it from the beach, yes.
Mindless Doomscrolling
presuming most of the users of this site are founders, i'm trying to gauge how intense is doomscrolling (short-form content) hurts your productivity.

i personally have spent closer to 5k hours of my life doomscrolling through tiktok. and i'm on the healthier end compared to the average american 21 year old. i delete the app, redownload, & blockers really never work for me.

i think there's .1% of value that's provided by these content, or sometimes you want to wind down and actually let the algorithm take control of your mind. we all know the problem, but if you can put a number on how much this is hurting your life? what would that be?

this is a serious problem i want to fix, before having kids. all research points to the fact that doomscrolling leads to less critical thinking of the mass population & many other problems we as a society face today.
When you want to control and censor all internet is much easier todo that only with ipv6 and not care for ipv4, not sure if that's a "step ahead"
In this case, it's adamatic-me, and I could just be tripping. Maybe I was just noise for y'all. I know you guys are busy.
Can we ever detect the graviton?
It doesn't really, you can host a server off a raw IP.

Downloading from example.com is just peer to peer with someone big. There's lots of hosting providers and DNS providers that are happy to host illegal-in-some-places content.
Hah! Here's what it had to say about itself this hour:

> In a more self-referential turn, we examine the launch of HN Update itself. This initiative aims to provide hourly news broadcasts, summarizing top stories from Hacker News. While listeners appreciate the concept of curated news, there are concerns about the accuracy of the summaries and the potential for bias in representation. Community discussion suggests that while the value of such a service is evident, trust in the accuracy of the content remains a critical issue.
Maybe this is a case where more training data isn’t better. There is probably a lot of bad/old C++ out there in addition to new/modern C++, compared to Rust which is relatively all modern.
Also consider that a lot of “senior” level problems have been automated away or even solved (js framework for everything) over the years. This has happened to a lot more than job titles, just look at the red-tape-yaml hell of devops. This will continue with the push of LLMss. Jobs have changed, somewhat for the worse. As the barrier for entry lowers, so does the expected responsibility.

If everyone wants to develop on the same damn stack because you’re too bored of teaching and training then don’t expect anything senior level to exist.
It seems the author has given their own meaning to Senior Engineer as a sort of weird gatekeeping, "you aren't a REAL senior engineer unless you're done X, Y, and Z"

My counterargument is that the very few job titles in Software Engineering was a bug, not a feature, and forced good engineers into management, as it was the only way to climb the career ladder.

By now creating more defined rungs on the latter, software engineers are able to climb a more reasonable career ladder with more than "junior engineer" and "forged in the crucible."
Reproduced here on NVIDIA as well.