skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The creators of the bot are responsible for the consequences of their actions. There are mentally unstable people (if that's true) and neglectful parents (again, if true - it's easy to duck responsibility by smearing the powerless victims), and if the bot is a threat to those people then the developers are doing wrong.
The response on the left references specific products, but where's the evidence that it's sponsored?
Proton Drive through Proton Unlimited. I have my e-mail setup through Proton already, so the plan was going to be to consolidate, and use Proton for cloud storage as well. I have since downgraded back to Mail Plus. The reason being a pretty bad experience with Drive.

I honestly don't remember the fine-grained details, sorry, but it had something to do with waking up one morning to my remaining storage being consumed by every file in Drive being duplicated, with a title "(overwritten 21h4m)" or something like that appended to each one.

I can't remember what caused it, but what I do remember is that there was no way to remediate it through the Drive app itself. Meaning, if I wanted to return my drive back to its original state, I would be burning my own time to write the script to do it, or I would be burning my own time to research some other solution. I couldn't believe the feature was shipped in that state.

In my opinion, if there exists a feature that leads to all of my files being duplicated, then it shouldn't be released unless there has been thorough testing against that feature's ability to remediate the fubarred status that it has enacted to "protect" my files. In this case, I think the feature was version history.

So the three conclusions I could come to were that there was little to no testing, inexperienced engineers, or a project manager that isn't managing the project particularly well. In any case, I don't want to feel like I'm beta testing features with my most important files, so I went back to Dropbox and its more mature app. Haven't looked back since.
Nice, another game I can uninstall..
Ask HN: How to find non-summer internships?
Hello HN!

I attend a Canadian school that requires students to complete 5-6 internships as a graduation requirement. When our work terms fall during the summer this is quite straightforward—the campus job board, LinkedIn, and company websites all have open postings.

But sometimes we're required to find Fall (Sep - Dec) or Winter (Jan - Apr) internships. Few Canadian/American companies hire interns for those times, especially with the current economy. Are there any other places I should be looking?
People who think AI summarizations are useful suck at reading.

So they probably wouldn't notice the warning signs anyways.
Has it been? I own one, did a bunch of research before I bought one, know others who own them, and the positive stories massively outnumber the negative ones from my perspective.
Most of the time I don’t search for products so there is nothing I want to buy.
It's just a game. So what if there's cheating? Ban them if they get caught
Because it is never enough. We see this time and time again. Once they are making billions, the people in charge will demand that they start making dozens of billions, and then hundreds. The growth must never cease, because the moment you stop growing, you can't sell the dream that supports ridiculous PE ratios anymore.

Google was a very profitable business 10 years ago and the search was still decent. In the last decade they absolutely butchered their core product (and the internet along with it) in an effort to squeeze more ad dollars out, because it's not the level of profitability that they need to maintain, but the growth of that profitability.

Microsoft was a ridiculously profitable company, but that is not enough, they must show growth. So they add increasingly user hostile features to their core product because the current crop of management needs to see geometric growth during their 5 year tenure. And then in 5 years, the next crop of goobers will need to show geometric growth as well to justify their bonuses.

Think about this for a moment: the entire ecosystem is built on the (entirely preposterous) premise that there must be constant geometric growth. Nobody needs to make a decision or even accept that this is long term sustainable, every participant just wants the system to keep doing this during their particular 5-10 year tenure.

It's an interesting showcase of essentially an evolutionary algorithm/swarm optimizer falling into a local optimum while a much better global optimum is out of reach because the real world is something like a Rastrigin function with copious amounts of noise with an unknowable but fat tailed distribution.

<rant/> by a hedge fund professional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBwAxmrE194
Why would they ever want to sell ads?

They did not get addicted to selling ads, have billions in revenue from paying subscribers, and don't have to wean themselves off of ads (as Google and Meta would love to do).
You can pay to get fewer ads
Clean install failed directly. Without a hiccup at the very first file. Only taking the upgrading route via W2000 it worked.
I'm building a fork of firefox for android that blocks sites that I find addictive e.g. youtube.com, but allows wildcards: youtube.com/watch?v=* so I can watch an individual video. Then I block all other browsers at that operating system level using mdm in Android.

I'm running a hacky version on my phone and it's been surprisingly effective at stopping me from doom scrolling.
I really liked the idea behind the Lightning - finally an EV that can be used as a whole-home battery backup. I've been looking for a semi-off-grid property (at least ability to disconnect from the grid and survive without noticing should there be an extended grid outage) and the Lightning announcement was exciting until you learned the specifics of it all.

Good idea, but the execution needed to be better. I hope more EVs come along that incorporate the whole "battery backup on wheels" idea that can integrate into a solar power setup easily and efficiently. Ideally have some static batteries installed at the property, and when the vehicle is plugged in it simply augments that battery storage to extend runtime.

Of course I assume the addressable market for folks like me is in the dozens, so I understand as an actual truck it more or less failed after talking to a few Truck Guys.
What makes you doubt this?

It's true, anti-cheat on Linux is ridiculously harder than it is on Windows. You have many more hard to detect methods for a cheat program to interact with the game and fool-proof way to verify the environment.
Google is the size it is due to monopoly power.
Just because you believe in the cause of these activists, doesn't mean this isn't a two-way street.

Watering down trademarks opens the can of worms for all forms of trademark abuse by all kinds of parties:

https://www.businessinsider.com/proud-boys-trump-march-dc-co...
That is pretty obviously a joke.
It's just black enamel. There is cast iron in the middle.
Model Distillation in the API
One can only wonder what can be faster - the monkeys would produce a work of Shakespeare or Google pays the fine of $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that the Russian court imposed on Google for blocking Russian state propaganda on Youtube. At least in case of monkey the monkeys can learn and improve from their previous output while Russia isn't even willing to.
A more expensive good, sold at a time when everything is more expensive and we continue to make equities the primary vessel for the surplus value generated by labor, instead of paying the labor, which would enable them to buy the more expensive good.
Because ads bring money and companies love money
Both of those statements are false. Everything has a result. And the p-value is very literally a quantified measure of how interesting a result was. That's the only thing it purports to measure.

"Woman gives birth to fish" is interesting because it has a p-value of zero: under the null hypothesis ("no supernatural effects"), a woman can never give birth to a fish.
Sometimes it's silly to think about EA being voted the most hated/worst company of the year, multiple years in a row.

And then I remember they literally spend their free time thinking of ways to piss off their own customers.
> What these people are optimizing are things that flamegraphs do not show. That's things like latency in kernel launches, or synchronization overhead with the...

What OP is showing is an example of what can be shown on flamegraphs. They are a generic visualisation tool so if you want to include latency or whatever (financial cost maybe?) you are free to do it.

As for the rest, Intel is here providing tools for developers who would like to optimize the sw stacks on their platform. Invaluable if you would like to efficiency support non-NVidia hardware.
Playing Pool is a great example of this because you can math out the angles of a shot relatively easily, but the best pool players do it all intuitively. Some of the greatest don't bother with "advanced" pool tactics. They have spent so much time watching the cue ball strike other balls that they have a tacit understanding of what needs to happen. Part of practicing well is just watching balls hit each other so your brain starts to intuit what those collisions result in.

What is really fascinating for me is that my subconscious will lose interest in pool before my conscious does, and once that happens I struggle to aim correctly. It feels like the part of my brain that is doing the math behind the scenes gets bored and no matter how hard I try to consciously focus I start missing.
To make more billions
You are wildly overestimating the “emergent capabilities” of current models, and underestimate alternative architectures's (namely SSM) performance at the same size.

Also, performance of the modern “small” models show that your last sentence isn't really true either.
> How often do Americans go on road trips from Minnesota to California, or from California to New York?

Very rarely, IMHO. I'm not sure who you know. I don't think I know anyone who buys cars with trips anything like that in mind.

Europe is effectively borderless for its residents - no passports, border guards, etc. - and people cross into different countries all the time.
I think clean installation failed, there is/was another installation route with upgrade.

I agree that the low-level explanation is lacking, but in fairness dosbox-x doesn't sound like it offers that (out of the box).

I'm guessing what happened, the boot sector etc. were installed by 98, win2k had some way of converting from FAT32 to NTFS, and the winxp installer just sets some flags and dumps install files on disk somewhere.

Getting all that from "it's the NT conversion" is a stretch, but.
The issue is that it's hard to catch it on Linux and it ruins the game for other players.
You can ask the same for ie Apple where you pay a proper premium for products, yet their ad business keeps growing slowly into respectable proportions, and not by accident.
Doesn’t work that way. Cheaters ruin regular player’s experience, bans are easily circumvented. This is a recipe for “No-one plays your game.”

I think kernel-level anti-cheat is a security nightmare, but denying there’s a genuine economic motive here seems naïve.
I think people happen not to care as long as they don't know, but if they were made aware then they would care. Games companies rely on the fact that people don't care if they don't know because it means they _only_ have to rely on KLA to get rid of most people with trashy spinbots.
I think if they improve the algorithm maybe they can actually present seo free results.
One thing that is quite unfortunate with the state of SEO and the web in general today is that when I asked "what are the latest versions of common programming languages and when were they released?" a large amount of the sources were "13 Tools You Should Learn Now" and the like. This might be a solvable problem within the search API they provide to the LLM, but for now I wouldn't trust current LLMs to be able to filter out these articles as less trustworthy than the official website of the programming language in question.
> Common Lisp is an amalgamation of every lisp they could find, they slammed it all in.

Not really. It's mostly a modernized version of Zetalisp. In many cases simpler as that, with some added new stuff (like type declarations).
Devs who pride themselves on their capacity for rational thought seem to forget that regression to the mean applies everywhere...even to the places that they aspire to.
Nothing. Author wanted to push the limits of unsupported stuff on a ongoing project. Myself I prefer vmware instead of virtualbox and/or qemu. When it comes to virtualization and fast spinning whatever flavor of the month a new OS pops vmware is undisputed king.
For people that want to have a child, and not trying to justify their lack of ability to have one, "ROI" doesn't factor into it. I think you are attributing way to much credibility to your imaginary conception of why people would want to have children.
Joke’s on you, the same chemical conglomerates manufacture Teflon _and_ the plastic used in plastic cookware!
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You're correct that as far as I understand it the analysis propsoed by the C++ Lifetime Safety Profile is similar in many ways, however I think there's a few important distinctions with these C# features that are not directly related to the analysis: The C++ safety profilers are trying to be backwards compatible with as much C++ code as possible. Whereas my understanding is most of what's talked about in this post is sort of a clean break from idiomatic C#, and is not changing the semantics or adding new warnings to any pre-existing code. Another difference is that C++ obviously does not have a built in runtime GC, so the situations mentioned in this post that get "fixed" by GC heap allocation would remain an issue.
That is part of the original etymology of the word. [1]

> late Old English wyrre, werre "large-scale military conflict," from Old North French werre "war" (Old French guerre "difficulty, dispute; hostility; fight, combat, war;" Modern French guerre),

Note the old French part including difficulty dispute, hostility and fight.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/war
Axel Springer! Now that's high-quality news sources...
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102177

Will that break the display like it did for tape over the webcam?
If you want to have proper vintage glass fun, https://www.reddit.com/r/uraniumglass/ is endlessly entertaining.
You are begging the question- insisting that obscurity isn't security by definition, instead of actually discussing it's strength and weaknesses. I didn't "say so"- I gave specific real world examples, and explained the underlying theory- that being unable to plan or quantify what is required to compromise a system makes it much harder.

Instead of, for example in your last example simply labeling something you seem to not like as "laughably weak"- do you have any specific reasoning? Again, I'd like to emphasize that I don't advocate obscurity in place of other methods, but on top of additional methods.

Let's try some silly extreme examples of obscurity. Say I put up a server running OpenBSD (because it is less popular)- obviously a recent version with all security updates-, and it has only one open port- SSH, reconfigured to run on port 64234, and attempting to scan all other ports immediately and permanently drop the route to your IP. The machine does not respond to pings, and does other weird things like only being physically connected for 10 minutes a day at seemingly random times only known by the users, with a new IP address each time that is never reused. On top of that, the code and all commands of the entire OS has been secretly translated into a dead ancient language so that even with root it would take a long time to figure out how to work anything. It is a custom secret hacked fork of SSH only used in this one spot that cannot be externally identified as SSH at all, and exhibits no timing or other similar behaviors to identify the OS or implementation. How exactly are you going to remotely figure out that this is OpenBSD and SSH, so you can then start to look for a flaw to exploit?

If you take the alternate model, and just install a mainstream open source OS and stay on top of all security updates the best you can, all a potential hacker needs to do is quickly exploit a new update before you actually get it installed, or review the code to find a new one.

Is it easier to rob a high security vault in a commercial bank on a major public street, or a high security vault buried in the sand on a remote island, where only one person alive knows its location?
Hah, I love HN :)

I've worked on this full-time for almost 4 years for zero pay. I love what I am building and hope you are doing ok, my friend :).
I still use Windows XP, even managed to install the last ever version of Netscape. It was working with most mainstream site up until a few years ago.
With modern teleconferencing tools, it doesn't matter.

If you feel that in-person time is important, then do what we did at my current company: They hired me. I know everyone at the local state university, from professors to students. We hired from that pool. Everyone is still remote, but our local group gets together once a week for lunch. For $100-$150 a week (yes, it really is that cheap in this area), the company maintains a culture and personal interaction for a team of talented programmers (from me, who has a PhD and two decades of experience, down to the best students who just graduated, and others in-between) without the cost of maintaining an office.

We all work on different projects in the company.

Velocity happens with communication. Communication doesn't need to be in-person, but it does need to be real time. So use Teams, Zoom, Hangouts, or whatever. We have the tools for this already.

Final note: The company didn't intend to have half a dozen people in the same city, they just intended to hire me. It just so happens that I'm really good at finding talent in the places that everyone else is ignoring.
they're not making billions from subscriptions
If there is a way to add it as search engine to Firefox?
Can you give me an example of one of these useful prompts? I'd love to try it out.
I might be old or something, but I really don’t give a fuck if someone’s cheating in a video game.

It was basically the norm when I was growing up, there was always someone using wall hacks or whatever, it was just kinda funny and never ruined the fun.
I tend to agree. If I ask ChatGPT what is the best way to make pasta, it will pull from every source it’s ever been trained on. If it decides to search the web, it will mostly cater to one or two sources.
How is it not? They're steering the ship. They're in charge, they're the decision makers. If the company is failing, how could it not be the executives problem?

We used to live in an age where leadership meant something, when people took responsibility for their failures. Now executives make excuses, they even have people like you making excuses for them, and instead of forgoing a bonus or handing over the reigns to more qualified team, they play with peoples livelihoods and you think that's perfectly acceptable, even called it cultural.

Anyway, given the age we live in, I'm not surprised at all to see people kissing their asses.
> While the population of Linux users is small, their impact infected a fair amount of players’ games.

So Linux users are malware?
I don't want ads when I search.
This discussion is being monitored and steered by nameless PR companies doing paid damage control for multinational companies that rhyme with the expressions ”YouDont” and ”Lemurs”.

Of course this is the perfect place to do it: if you can convince HN, HN will convince the rest of the world.
Pedants will rage but you're spot on. The DMCA is a terrible law that has ended up causing lots of knock on bad effects, because there isn't enough incentive to prevent bad actors abusing it, and not enough incentive for companies not to do what Netlify did in this case.

The DMCA law did not _compel_ netlify to act this way, but the effects of DMCA did _cause_ netlify to act that way.
This sucks, but makes sense, nothing kills games community faster than cheating. And I don't think publishers spent time enought on combating it. I used to play Counter Strike since 1.5 era, and quit CS:GO entirely because there was a blatant cheater every match, even with the phone verification and AI trust factor (which Valve brags about it, but it doesn't work at all).

PUBG also had an era with lot of cheaters and lot of people dropped the game.

Like the article says, when Linux gets critical mass, with the Steam Deck's broader adoption for example (their market is still very limited) it will make more sense to support this.
What you're quoting is satire of serious commentary. Few people unironically take it to such an extreme. But the undertone it's mocking is absolutely real and persistent.

Not everyone on 4chan is a flaming bigot but yet the community as a while gets (rightfully) judged for allowing it in their midst. Why are lesser forms of poor behavior not also reflective of the community?
I really wish we would see some legislative action on this. Selling and publishing cheats should be completely illegal and punished heavily.
"The search model is a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o, post-trained using novel synthetic data generation techniques, including distilling outputs from OpenAI o1-preview."

More info on model distillation: https://openai.com/index/api-model-distillation/
Cool, appreciate the tip! I'll check them out.
Launch HN: Patched (YC S24) – AI workflows for post-code tasks
Hi HN, we are Asankhaya and Rohan, founders of Patched (https://patched.codes). We help dev teams accelerate tasks like code reviews, docs, and patches through customizable, self-hostable workflows. Here’s a quick video walkthrough: https://youtu.be/5hvWGB5avVo

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Patched has two core components. First is the workflow builder that switches seamlessly between no-code and full-code. Second is the chat-based query interface for your code, logs, and issue tracker. When used together, they can help orchestrate and automate the most painful parts of the software development lifecycle.

Here is an example PR created by a patchflow that automates SDK generation with complex type information: https://github.com/stack-auth/stack/pull/300.

Under the hood, Patched is powered by our patchwork library (https://github.com/patched-codes/patchwork) and an LLM optimization proxy(https://github.com/codelion/optillm) - both of which we have open-sourced. You can run these workflows within your CI/CD pipeline, or from the command line, completely independent of our platform. This gives you full control without being locked in, while allowing us to build a monetizable product around it.

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