skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try as I might, ChatGPT couldn’t give me working code for a simple admin dash layout in Vue with a sidebar than can minimise. I had to correct it, it would say my apologies and provide new code with a different error. About 10 times in a row it got in a loop of errors and I gave up.

Do any of these actually help coding?
Wasn’t he like 21 at the time?

We’ve all said some stupid shit and later apologized. The healthiest thing is for everyone to move on.
imo its a violation of the CCPA but they don’t agree
That's overstating the flatness of prices. In 2009, the best price recorded here was 10 dollars per gigabyte:

https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm

Recently DDR4 RAM is available at well under $2/GB, some closer to $1/GB.
>is very different from tracking people en masse for the purposes of advertising.

yes, they are public figures who choose to use a private jet. The mass tracking is stealing data from barely consenting users. Very different.

> if it does I hope whoever tracks them obsessively would feel guilty.

actual stalkers probably feel little remorse. Unreasonable people are unreasonable for a reason.
I made an art program I titled PixelSmoosh: https://gitlab.com/zanehenderson/pixelsmoosh

You give it a set of source images and a target image. For each pixel in the target image, it will look at the same pixel in each of the source images and choose the closest colour, using that pixel to then paint a new image.
No need for a different account ; it'll do it in the same thread later on.
Probably because there was no 3.1-3.4, and that the .5 is mostly just to represent that it's an upgrade on Claude 3 but not quite enough to be a Claude 4
Let me spell it out for you:

If Project P in Country A is identified by Country B as a potential target for planting cyber-attack-enabling backdoors, Country B has an incentive to find people to put a backdoor in P.

If Country B is a free country with rights and ethics, they will say "Help us put a backdoor in P. We'll pay you very well for services rendered," or try to get someone who already works for Country B intelligence into P's management structure.

If Country B is an "evil" country, they will do all of the above, but will also tell people of influence in P who live or have family in Country B or its allies, "Help us put a backdoor in P. If you refuse or if the backdoor doesn't work or if the legitimate workers of P find it and remove it before it helps us, you'll be arrested and/or tortured and/or killed and/or your family too."

Removing Russian based kernel maintainers from positions in which they could conceivably help insert a backdoor into the kernel hopefully removes the incentive for the Russian government to threaten (or carry out) horrific violence against these individuals and their families.
Say some naughty words?
Different organization with a different scope. Would be nice to have, but you must plan accordingly.
To be clear, I said nothing even close to what's in your parens.

Off the top of my head: decades long precedence on regulatory agencies' authority, abortion rights, and Presidential immunity have all undergone dramatic reshaping in the last few years in large part driven by only one ultrawealthy person (Leonard Leo, born to wealth).

Your question is silly.
Cluade scans page and decides which button to click before the screen layout is finished.
By the time user authorizes the click, layout has shifted and your click lands on malware advertisements.
> If carbon emissions were taxed I would have no issue with this.

Really?

> the rich have earned their greater share of the national wealth/output (including CO2 emission budget),

Do you think so?

The future of our organised society is threatened by this. Is that OK if you are rich and have "earned [sic] their greater share"

Think about it....
> That freedom means giving enemies unfettered access to our most sensitive systems?

Do you imply that Linux is a technology controlled by Western state actors?

> I would like to remind you of the recent XZ utils backdoor into SSH contributed by a less than friendly nation state.

Would you support a backdoor contributed by a friendly nation state?
Facebook has plenty of data on people who didn’t click “I agree”.

Some appear in photos uploaded by others. Some are profiled by Facebook’s like buttons scattered everywhere.

They can surveil you without a single visit to Facebook.com.
Oof yeah that's expensive. Only app I know that will use the API is Speak, which seems to be the most high quality of the AI language learning apps. Seems like they even have a deal with OpenAI. They don't have many languages currently but everyone I know who has used it to learn their target language have improved dramatically.
Best HTML5 Game Sites?
That's a very good idea! Thanks! I will use this approach next time I encounter something like this!
> ripping open huge swaths of earth

Do you have the same trepidation about aluminum, iron, dish soap, and table salt? I ask because the amount of "ripping open" involved in lithium production is like a speck in the eye of a whale compared to all the other mining. In terms of scale all existing and proposed lithium mines are teensy tiny by the standards of mines.
I'm saying that certain kinds of transformations over public information can add up to private information, as they do in this case. There's plenty of other cases not involving billionaires where this is so. For example, property records and restraining orders are generally public information, but it would be grossly irresponsible if not criminal for you to join the two datasets and publish a live feed of everyone protected by a restraining order who buys a house in your city.
So you think in 1992 when FRY was sanctioned research and Internet links should not have been affected when flights were suspended for example?
Notes on Typescript deep dive: while it's written to give you the impression that it's kept up to date, and each page has a link at the bottom saying updated 4 years ago (not too bad), in reality it was written in 2016 and contains a lot of information related to the state of JavaScript in that year - when promises, classes, all the ES6 stuff wasn't a normal part of the library and when compilation to ES3 (!) was still a thing.

This means there's a lot of no longer relevant fluff to wade through, and if you learned JavaScript some time in the last <6 years it might be actively confusing.

It's a pity because, aside from this, it's very well written.
When Did Google Search Become Useless?
all you have to look at is the number of russian oligarchs being defenstrated since the invasion began to know that if it served russian aims to inject malware into the kernel somehow via their maintainers it would probably be tried. the maintainers are probably not oligarch level rich so imagine the pressure on them if needed.
I mean, a successful business would produce items that other people want, rather than what the founder/employees want. Sure, if a founder would appreciate and use the item that they make, that's really a good indicator, but it's not your personal plaything, it's a profit-making business, so the primary objective should be making useful things that people will purchase, regardless of the tastes of the founders/employees, yes?

That being said, I've enjoyed Simone's wit and creativity for several years. I tuned in after one of my friends mentioned her, and she's been tenacious throughout her personal health journey and the vagaries of making ridiculous stuff on-camera. I feel like it's great that she's branching out to making stuff for other people to have.
I doubt anything would happen the next time US invades a country.
Another reason that they should never have been allowed to ingest all the books in the first place. Without paying for the rights to use the digital form of the book, a use which is explicitly prohibited by the publisher, they digitized the books anyway. If they used it to train an LLM, and the LLM regurgitates near facsimiles of all the copyrighted works without compensation to the original rights holders, that seems like something that should be illegal.
So they can fork it and roll their own version of Linux. Russia-ux.
> he's changed the world to within many orders of magnitude of that which the ... the average minimum-wage earner, does.

Golly.

He changed the world, so now he gets to burn it?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917357
That’s not already public information. No one on the internet can use a public dataset to watch my location
As noted the story got second chanced.

The comment I made was (as of now) made three dayas ago, I addressed a brand new account that made a run of "cookie cutter" comments on older threads at the least active HN time (my peak reading time zone in Australia).

There are runs of such things, often much more obvious, "insincere" pretend engagement to bed a new account in prior to using it in a gang to promote | vote up other material.

HN likes a good signal to noise ratio and not cheap hype accounts.

I engaged in order to see if was being run by a human paying attention - I (an ordinary user) seem to have been given extraordinary ban abilities - I've [flag]'d a lot of obvious bot comments in past months and now anything I flag turns [dead] _immediately_.

Clearly I've been blessed with an extraordinary mini-mod super power and I prefer to exercise it with caution and check whether an account is bot or not before killing it.

This I'm leaving, there are eyeballs and attention which gets others to look at new accounts with fresh eyes and wider community involvement.
Tracking a car is illegal. Tracking jets is legal for safety purposes. And this is pretty much a false equivalency unless these jets are now landing on Starbucks like a drop ship.

All we know is Person X landed in Port Y. that doesn't narrow down much on where they are like a car in a parking lot.
Effectiveness isn’t in the interest of the politicans.

If you finally eliminate abortion, what do you pander to these mega church folks and Catholics with? You need to always have a problem that you can “help” with.
I think there’s an appreciable gap between how applicable to the masses “if you have a niche but expensive problem, fix it, others may be excited to solve it with money” and “just sell $500 arduino advent calendars. when you’re famous you can raise half a million dollars on a 6 month waitlist for $200 wire coat hangers” is
> Dollars represent disproportional ability to influence who has power.

People with a lot of money already possess both, which is why I am perfectly content with people who have money to spend their own money.

> Attempts to nudge candidates ability to win are antithetical to our value of egalitarianism.

In that case, would you also support prohibiting people from spending their private time or using their public speech to influence election outcomes? No more volunteers, only paid workers funded by the State?

The influence of dollars alone on the outcome of an election is already overvalued. Michael Bloomberg already engaged in the grandest experiment to prove that money really can’t buy political office and depending on your point of view here, either succeeded fantastically in that goal or failed miserably in his own goal in what was fundamentally an own goal.

It’s also utterly naïve to think that by attempting to resource constrain elections by funneling money through the State to redistribute to campaigns that you will succeed in capping the real economy around election campaigns and prevent the State from giving the ultimate incumbent advantage and using its own official functions to influence the outcome of elections. More than likely you would just be hiding most of the activity around a campaign inside the State itself.

The game doesn’t change just because you’re spending public or private money: your goal is to get people to fill out their ballots and submit them in your favor. What changes is whether it is private individuals, from small dollar donors to billionaires deciding how to spend their money (as is their right in all areas of life!) or the State deciding how they are going to spend other peoples money for them, which you know, speaking of, that is a mockery of decency.

> Let's just close up shop and vote with dollars like we shop for shoes.

So let’s not and say we didn’t. The cost of converting dollars into real votes is high and plateaus. The actual spending is an entire economy supporting the salaries of campaign staff and paying contractors and advertising firms which I am okay with. I’m even okay with putting additional constraints on who can raise money and in the case of local elections, Senate and House seats, from where locking out foreigners and interstate donations entirely changing the shape of that entire economy (provided an appropriate Constitutional amendment is agreed upon and passed), but not one red cent should be coming from a local, State or the Federal Treasury. That’s money to support the functions of the State and the excess should go back to its rightful owners instead.
Why not merge them? Voter IDs can be driver’s licenses, passports, etc. So much bureaucracy. For the sake of efficiency, simply have sign ups for a voter ID card (similar to state IDs) at voting centers. Two birds, one stone. Easy.
Are US corporations going to be forced to fire their Russian coders?
According to Wikipedia, She currently lives in LA.
diesel_async works great, and it's made by the lead diesel maintainer
> are we going to be selectively angry at them only when some of them actually try to do something for the environment?

I would be the opposite of angry if Zuck grounded his private jets, and walked
If I’m a billionaire, I’d rather have the tax write off and own the jet, even though I probably ultimately would save money by chartering.

Also who wants to sit in a jet seat that someone else has sat in. Gross.
A specific address is very different from a port a plane lands on. And the public has a lot less responsibility than the press.
Giertz did live in her native Sweden until 2016, but she now lives in these United States.

Her citizenship is not mentioned in Wikipedia, so her health insurance coverage may be a matter of private, personal funds, because she probably has neither Medicaid nor FTE with benefits.
I wrote a Python script to simulate a simple co-op board game I play with my kids to empirically confirm my reasoning about the optimal strategy.

Ended up writing it up:

https://productgardener.substack.com/p/monte-carlo-methods-m...
https://hidden-inu.vercel.app/ All it does is open a little flap in the page where there's a 3D dog. There's some sound effects on desktop.

https://github.com/jpwhitaker/candidCamera , its a QR code that when you scan it, it takes a photo of you from across the street and displays the picture on your phone when the page loads.
Php is basically runtime Java these days. It's so much better than ye olden days
[dupe]

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918334
When most people talk about async code it is with single threaded (hence the need not to block the event executor) applications (web-browsers, nodejs ect.). How-ever on the other end of the delirium when people talk about mutex's (locks) they're talking about multiple threadeds working in parallel which you inherently need to consider if the code you're calling is going to either direct or indirect acquire the same lock or like you pointed out calls a api that blocks. In the single threaded environment the only cognitive load you need to worry about is one or two yield points, how-ever in a parallel system your main concern is mutex's, race-conditions, or dead-locks.
> Humans 'hallucinate' like LLMs. The term used however, is confabulation: we all do it, we all do it quite frequently, and the process is well studied(1).

Yea i agree, i'm not making a snipe at LLMs or anything of the sort.

I'm saying i expect there to be a human-fallback in the system for quite some time. But solving the fallback problems with be one of black boxes. Which is the worst kind of project in my view, i hate working on code i don't understand. Where the results are not predictable.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes (1936) [pdf]
They are somewhat collateral victims of the war and of the bad political choices (both sides) sadly.
That would depend largely on where you're comparing it to I guess.

One reason is that fuel is extremely cheap - I thinks it's only cheaper in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When fuel cost is almost not a factor then it basically becomes about which fancy car is affordable.

There's a huge wealth gap out there as well, and quite a tiny population. I would highly recommend checking it out some day. It's quite an interesting little island!
The author has a really interesting YouTube channel with more on their life there.
For more info, look up shadow profiles. Scary stuff.
Amplifying on dang's comment: from my own experience moderating, many people respond in a strongly negative fashion to moderation, up to and including prolonged attacks on the site itself and threats to moderators. Effective moderation on large sites is a careful balance between transparency and pragmatism, to the extent that even well-intentioned initiatives such as the Santa Clara Principles (<https://santaclaraprinciples.org/>) may not be practical.

Something I note having been caught up on both sides of this issue: as moderator and moderated.

HN itself is not one of the super-sites, but it is amongst the better discussion platforms on the internet here and now (boys), and has been for far longer than virtually any other instance I can think of (dating to 2007). Metafilter would be the principle other exemplar.

Usenet, Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Google+, Reddit, Ello, Diaspora*, Imzy, FB, Birdsite, and others, would be amongst the failures IMO. Not all are now defunct (though about half that list are), none remain usable.
Amazon is somehow become more deplorable than Walmart. Didn't think it was possible.
The charitable explanation is that a lot of it is needed; that there is an inherent complexity to this domain, and the relative simplicity they tout at launch is possible because they haven’t yet contended with real-world use.
There is (fortunately) no rule that replies have to be explicit responses to anything in the article. Tangents are welcome in my mind.
This could get messy in other projects, depending where this rule came from.
I know there are .ru maintainers in at least one other ; and what about distros?
The latest change would be EU sanctions that disallow export of technology from March 2024: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/17/microsoft-blocks-r...

But this change here feels like there was pressure from the DoD or White House. A lot of sanctions seems to be introduced and enforced informally.
Leaving them as comments doesn't report them to Youtube, and the video's creator (if they're perpetuating a scam) will delete them.

Use the Report feature. That goes to Youtube.
AFAIK he didn't move on. He's being tried in real time in multiple countries and still does it. That's part of the problem.

I moved on years ago, but he probably still has my data.
Over 20% of American adults have a literacy proficiency at or below Level 1. This is defined as "difficulty using or understanding print materials" and "may struggle to understand texts beyond filling out basic forms." So 1 out of every 5 Americans is functionally illiterate. I would say that counts as "many of them don't even know how to read."
Ask HN: AI Assistance in Project Management
Is anyone using AI to effectively save them time in project management?

My company has an internal LLM and Copilot, and has developed some client facing AI tools, but I can’t see valuable use cases for me. I also can’t find concrete examples for project managers from googling.

The most I’ve got out of an LLM is “explain this concept to me” when I know very little about it, or finding a document somewhere in my company’s OneDrive. My company is trying to push us to use them to summarise one or multiple documents (I don’t need to do this) or create first draft documents (Copilot can’t se to create a new doc, but does give content in the chat window which is next to useless).

All tips, links, suggestions welcome. At this stage LLM’s are feeling very much like a fad.
If America isn’t perfect, does that mean its enemies must be? Surely you don’t live in so simple a world?

Anyway, us encroaching on Russian interests (debatable) is hardly an excuse for them to go blowing up a country full of innovent civilians.
The tweet does not explain what the scam is.

It would be useful if you could explain specifically what the scam is and how it operates.
"publicly", sure. I do find it a bit worse they do it unconsentually to profit off of. For others who may actually want to do stuff to you.
I wrote a temp converter, but am also working on adding other data conversions into the program. All written in C as a fun useless side project.
When I was first learning computer vision, I wrote a program that could tell the time from an image of a clock [1]. I had no purpose for it besides the fact that it seemed like a cool problem to try and solve.

Years later, I get an email from a stranger in Korea, asking me how to run my program. Why would he want to use my silly program? Turns out you can adapt the code to read analog pressure gauges which is really useful for chemical plants. Goes to show that there's often a use for most things.

[1] https://github.com/jinayjain/timekeeper
There's a big difference between this and tracking private jets: Ohtani couldn't use his house due to harassment from the papparazi and the weirdos who kept trying to jump the fence.

Tracking billionaires' jets doesn't stop them from using their jets for their intended purposes.
Let's Encrypt is a well funded non-profit project. What ulterior motive do you imagine?

https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
I don’t know a lot about that sanctions regime. If it was targeted stuff related to directly preventing the ongoing genocides, sure keep them - but in general, I would be opposed.
Yes, I meant your app. It’s a little confusing to get at a glance. Was hoping you’d add some kind of link where I could see a demo or some screenshots of how it works. :)
Someone needs to scan the book and upload it to library genesis. The article said Google had developed this massively efficient apparatus for scanning (or taking photographs of) books, and most of the article was about out-of-print books.

I personally have actually tried to contribute to libgen a particular difficult-to-find-online book by buying it, scanning it, and uploading it. There need to be more people doing this.
I don't expect it to have the Excel app, I expect it to run the code it is capable of generating.

This is what I mean by their strategy being a jumble. Claude can do the hard part of figuring out what code to write and writing it, but then refuses to do the easier part of executing the code.
> The question of why the US has the right or power to tell TSMC, a Taiwanese company, who it is allowed to do business

The reason is because the US provides the brunt of security for Taiwan against China. The rule applies if you want continued access to our domestic market.
They're not fighting anything. Your straw from a bar in a first-world country reliably ends up in a landfill, among heaps of other plastics. Far away from any turtles.

The Pacific garbage patch is mostly from fishing nets, and the other sources of plastic pollution are mainly from riverside cities too poor to have good waste management.

The whole plastic straw scare is so obviously attacking a minor non-issue at significant personal inconvenience, that I wouldn't be surprised if it was planted by climate deniers to make people angry at or cynical about actual environmentalism.