skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often find that even investors can be reasonable.

Most of the problems in tech are of the employees own creation. Unreasonable requirements and unreasonable timelines, often coming out of thin air for no reason other than some middle manager's political interests.

It is super hard to fight against it, and it's even harder to demonstrate how forcing tech to work more than necessary is bad for business.

Small businesses deal with it by being small. Big companies are just chaotic complex systems where you don't have much of a choice.
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Second this. A great read in general and, to the extent that it’s accurate, very instructive about dysfunction at Intel.
Super cool, I love this!
They just say they become vicious after midnight but still refer to the mogwai as gremlins, even drawing a parallel with furby later in the article.
I had my first one recently and it wasn't really a big deal. I had heard from a few people how horrible the prep was and it really wasn't.

It is definitely worth it if you are past 45.
> typically

80 years ago was 1944 - not exactly a boom year. Most are 60-65-70 and would not consider themselves elderly. It's a very loaded word.
A corollary is the debate itself leads to a waste of effort that multiplies across all users. I use Rails only in anger, but to see literally nobody bike shed on the ORM is pretty amazing. Seems like you use Active Record or you write SQL and either way move on with life.
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I always say something like "Let's make it work so well that it's completely boring. Let's build tomorrow's 'boring'."
That’s a much better article overall.
Videochat therapy is OK as a stopgap, and it saves travel time, but it puts a barrier between the person and the therapist. If the patient doesn't need that barrier to go to therapy in the first place, then that distance may make the therapy less effective.
Real traders are 95% either losing money or pretending to make money to sell you courses on how to trade
It's different because bad actors can take advantage of the now-public information.

The point of a disclosure window is to allow a fix before _all_ bad actors get access to the vulnerability.
Mehhhhhh…. Idk . Cash is used much, much more for terrible things , and is literally centralized to a singular finite point of control.

Digital currencies still have a long way to go to live up to their promise and potential, but I don’t think your arguments are persuasive given their blatant disregard for even a cursory comparison to the alternative.

Programmable money has huge (unrealised) potential to create a more resilient, equitable economy with a built in, democratically controlled monetary policy., including frictionless taxation, lending, investment, and real world governance through budgetary control.

Of course, what we have so far is crypto bros and bored apes, so it is pretty reasonable to be critical of the current state of affairs.
Show HN: I made an AI tool to turn long videos into short viral clips
Hello NH!

Three months ago, after finishing university, I started a project called Cyclips. I started it both to help my brother with his content creation and to challenge myself in new ways. Initially, I thought I could finish it in one month, but it ended up taking three. Those three months were among the most intense of my life; I spent 16-hour days working solo as an indie hacker. Along the way, I faced discouragement from people around me who suggested I should quit and that my efforts were in vain. But I didn’t give up, and I’m grateful for pushing through and persevering.

Cyclips is a free tool (with video size limitation for free users, with HD output) built with Next.js and FastAPI, alongside frameworks like RabbitMQ and Redis. The backend turned out to be more complex than I’d anticipated. I had to learn and integrate new technologies, such as wav2vec for precise timestamp alignment, as well as OpenAI’s Whisper and other APIs to handle transcription and analysis.

Here’s how Cyclips works: Users can log into the dashboard and input a YouTube video link (with plans to support more platforms in the future). The software then analyzes the video, identifies engaging topics, and automatically generates potential viral clips. It also uses face detection for auto-cropping and adds auto-generated subtitles. To top it off, there’s a clean, interactive video editor to refine your clips to perfection.

I’d love to hear your feedback!

PS: This is an early release, therefore a homepage is currently missing. I will be providing updates on my discord community

My Discord server is https://discord.gg/6QdruVzUn9
I’m just being honest. Maybe the blue light is what makes me need to listen to a podcast to sleep but I have no scientific evidence to say it’s the reason for it.

From what I have read the blue light is supposed to stop deeper sleep occurring. I just don’t think this is the case based on the stats from my Apple Watch. I get plenty of REM.

Stress and the need to want to have some me time is the greater reason for me not wanting to sleep.
> So what it sounds like is copyright stifles societal growth to ensure the originator gets his rent?

Even this feeble pitch would hold a lot more weight if companies either couldn't own copyright or couldn't purchase the copyright. As it is it's more like a corrupt rent-extraction scheme with government backing.
Absolutely. This has only downsides for employees and only upsides for employers. Don’t fall for this!
Always at 5am whether I like it or not. I'd love to be able to hit the gym then, but my morning poop is a mandatory piece of my wellbeing routine, but that requires me to eat breakfast to get the works going. I can't lift with a full belly and my high protein diet means that proper digestion is a 2+ hour affair.

I have always been curious how people manage this to workout so early. Do you skip pooping? That would wreak havok on my workday.
having been on the employers side, i agree with that idea because i think it aligns incentives a bit better. with paying per head only, the recruiters are motivated to get me to accept the first candidate they can find with the least amount of work. with a monthly subscription the recruiter can take more time to find a good candidate because it won't hurt their bottom line.
LLMs have been hyped as AI. The hype train transformed NVidea from a relatively minor niche tech company into the largest company in the world in the past 24 months. The US government called emergency meetings to address the urgent threat posed by unrestrained new AI releases. Sam Altman was fired - and rehired - over concerns regarding threats to humanity.

The tech world has been consumed and transformed by "AI" over the psst 24 months. Microsft and other big tech companies have committed to invest billions upon billions in the effort to win the "AI race".

And its all bogus hype.

First, LLMs are darn good as language models. They are very helpful in language based fields, such as programming, but even then they need human oversight. Because they are NOT AI. They cannot comprehend. They can engage in what certainly appears to be a human like conversation. But the LLM has no "understanding" of the words it prints in the screen. And, based upon its design, it never will. It is a fascinating parlor trick, useful in its own way, but never deserving of the hype train of the last 24 months.

Secondly, the savings it will generate via automation are likely to be minuscule in comparison to the costs being expended by Microsoft and other tech companies. Clearly the top professionals know all this and have other reasons to spend the money. I submit Microsoft may not "win the AI race" - simply because there isn't any AI to win - but LLMs can still pose an existential threat to Google search. Meanwhile NVidea shareholders aren't going to open up about the hype train they are riding. Nor is new billionaire Sam Altman.

But the money being spent on LLMs can't be justified for long. When viewed by what it is - and isn't - the current costs of LLM technology simply dwarf the financial gains generated. I don't know when the hype train falls off its cliff, but fall it will. And with the whole world's economy having been impacted these past 24 months, the hype train cliff is likely to be a very, very steep one.
Here’s a list of projects

https://www.khronos.org/

If I were to categorize the successful ones:

glTF, KTX, SPIR-V, OpenGL and its variants, WebGL

People will say Vulkan but it has the same level of adoption as OpenCL, and has the same issue that it competes against vendor specific APIs (DX and Metal) that are just better to use. It’s still used though of course as a translation target but imho that doesn’t qualify it as a success.

OpenCL was and is a failure of grand magnitude. As was colada.
Show HN: I made a Rust library for simplified validation
I’ve created a Rust crate that makes it easier to write programs with efficient validation and strong runtime safety. With operators like And, Or, and Not, you can combine types, and by defining your own Rules, you can write flexible yet robust programs.

I would appreciate any feedback, including any points of improvement. Thank you in advance!

docs: https://docs.tomoikey.com/quickstart
Entanglement as a Probe of Hadronization
Tuition for in-state schools hasn't been $3,500/yr in decades. Most are $10k+, often more like ~$15k.
> „reserve the bedroom for sleep“

That’s unfortunately a luxury many people can’t afford.

I’m literally sitting in my in—laws apartment in Poland right now. About 40sqm total, and for forty years they’ve slept on a fold—out—sofa bed.
That’s definitely confusing. Is it a real product commercial? I can see parents not wanting the actual gremlins on the packaging lol.
That's exactly why they're saying it's "not responsive". It wasn't designed to be, and it's not.
Solve your own problems, scratch your own itches, etc. And then other people will pay you to solve those same problems for you.
It's not a gentle push though. It's setting up a group pressure situation that is definitely gonna make introverts feel uncomfortable (by a probably extroverted person that may genuinely not understand what they're even doing in that regard as it'd feel natural for them).

Now I understand that with remote work there may not be enough space for chit chat. But there are other ways than a forced group pressure situation to set that up.

For example, we decided as a team when Covid WFH started to basically use our daily 15 min stand-up for whatever. Sometimes we just did stand-up and we're out of there after 5 min coz nobody felt like talking. Sometimes it'd be a half an hour of just talking about whatever. We also have a dedicated time each week blocked off on the calendar for it as well and when we have ad hoc working session calls we get in some chit chat here or there as well. It's not all just business but it can be.

RE cat: see this is the internet and it's an anonymous forum. I used that example because our cat actually just died a few weeks ago. You thought it was over the top. Interesting indeed.
> some people always put in very long hours for some reason, complete with gulping down a sandwich in front of their computer for lunch. I'm not sure what gives them the impression they have to do it, since it's clearly not expected from our common higher-ups.

This is just how I like to work and approach problem solving. I can take breaks when I make the effort, but, when work starts, I rarely think about anything except climbing whatever mountain I find myself on, helping others at my company, or exceeding my own (or others') expectations. That intensity helps me think deeply and solve problems effectively.

There are people in my company who do good work but draw boundaries clearly and sharply. I respect that. I just love what I do and find it interesting and absorbing partly because I love the intensity of striving and struggling, constantly refining, improving, growing, and exploring.

My company generously rewards good work, too. That also helps; my effort never feels wasted, unacknowledged, or unrewarded.
Show HN: P2P file transfer using WebRTC
It's sometimes frustrating to send files among devices. Now you can send any file to any Chrome/FireFox/Safari client that wants to receive it:

https://taonexus.com/p2pfilesharing

Just share your ID, select a file and click send, and the receiving client will prompt to save it:

There is no signup of any kind. You just need a way to copy the peer ID such as by email or text message, so they know who they're trying to get the file from.

This makes it much easier to transfer files among devices. I tested it on Windows and iPhone, it worked perfectly. It does not use the server, it is peer to peer.
This is pretty wrong. I can't say for every state, but in many states schools get roughly the same amount for an in-state or out of state student it's just the state subsidizes a chunk for the in-state students.
> One person controlling a bricklaying robot can get paid a respectable wage while keeping costs down.

what happens to all other persons? For example, there are 3.5 million truck drivers in US, whose only skill, with all due respect, is to sit behind the wheel all day long. Once we have robocars, they will all start to sing and dance and will get some time to discover their true calling?
Americans, your calls and texts can be monitored by Chinese spies
Very well said and spot on. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for highlighting a key aspect.

It may be informative to see all the ways in which the LLM got it wrong along the way, before arriving at the cherrypicked example. For instance, was this the only pattern flagged as a potential bug in the process?

That said, I am surprised at how far pattern matching can get you. Certain exploitation requires arithmetic. If LLMs struggle with simple arithmetic, then it is unclear why we would expect them to do well with these. In the GPZ example, it does not appear that the assistant can do the arithmetic or realize the negative offset and its implication. Rather, it looks like pattern matching that mimics static dataflow analysis in order to arrive at the assertion failure.

"To cause the assertion failure, we need a constraint on a column with index greater than 3 or smaller than 1."
I thought the above was a joke but literally what else fits? The british empire never held most of what we know to be oil-rich now.
Answering the question = harm
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Meta CEO says AI will be the next big Category of social Media
Be sure to give them a good show!
Ticker-tape synaesthesia – when real life comes with subtitles
As road rage rises, aggressive drivers in Texas try to understand their anger
Sure, but how do you deal with expiration or revocation of that key? If someone is using an old version which doesn't know about the new key then you're back at square one right?
Using backdoors the US government forced the carriers to add.
But that's the opposite of innovation? Basically, instead of describing things in detail drafters opt to use shortcuts, but that's how people end up getting fucked in court by some "technicality".

Innovation would be to just put in the verbiage, precisely define terms, fuck tradition.
Applied! I'm interviewing for another security role in the store department, but this seems to be another team.
I haven’t dug too much into gaming since I have a Linux PC that supports all my steam games but what’s the experience of running Crossover on Apple Silicon like? Can you run x86 Windows games using Rosetta (or is it some other method)?
Ask HN: Can Cloudflare Improve Transparency on CAA Records with Universal SSL?
I recently noticed that when I enable Universal SSL in Cloudflare, it automatically adds CAA records without notifying me. These records don’t appear in the DNS dashboard, so I wasn’t aware they existed.

I primarily use Let's Encrypt, and I set my own CAA records to ensure only Let's Encrypt can issue certificates for my domain. However, Cloudflare’s hidden CAA records mean that other Certificate Authorities (CAs) could also issue certificates, which isn’t what I intended. This situation has made it harder for me to fully manage my domain’s security settings.

I believe Cloudflare could improve this by either informing users about these CAA records or, ideally, displaying them in the dashboard. It would also help to include guidance, such as mentioning that disabling Universal SSL may be required if users wish to modify or remove these records.

Here are my main concerns:
- *Control*: Hidden CAA records make it challenging for users to fully manage their DNS settings.
- *Security*: With these hidden records, I’m not sure if any other settings are changed without my knowledge.
- *Transparency*: Greater transparency would help users understand and manage Cloudflare’s SSL settings better.

Has anyone else experienced this? I think a bit more openness from Cloudflare would be very helpful for users.
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Yeah, I would just instinctively make something up. Maybe everyone else does that, too, how would any of us know?

I really don't like this trend of employers trying to act like we're all friends or one big happy family. It only serves to blur the very real boundaries of power in favor of the employer. Engaging with it in earnest feels like self-exploitation to me.
Here I thought Rust community was full of drama
Understanding the Spirit Animal Meaning of the Spider: Embrace Your Inner Weaver
For millennia, the human mind has been enthralled with the idea of spirit animals since they create complex tapestries of meaning that really speak to us. Among these strong symbols, the Spider Spirit Animal is one that most invites us to investigate our creative capacity and the delicate relationships we create in daily life. Rich and multifaceted, the spirit animal meaning of the spider stands for ideas of imagination, patience, and the interdependence of all things.
I'm genuinely less concerned about this, than I am about American Law Enforcement reading my texts.

As an American living in America, the Chinese government doesn't have the power to imprison me, to credibly accuse me of crimes, to confiscate my property. The American one does.

Maybe for American politicians, or other Americans in a position of power - or ones who hold Chinese citizenship, or travel to China often - this is a concern. For me and most of my neighbors, this is just flat-out not any more of a concern than a hundred other things.
(Ruby -> Rails) As one that switched into Rails after a decade of web dev, IME its the batteries included nature. You can't compare Rails to Go or Typescript. You compare Rails to language + all the standard libraries people use. The trick with Rails is _most_ of those choices are baked into the framework, so e.g. 25 rails dev's will know _mostly_ the same exact set of libraries walking in the door.

Personally I absolutely hate it, and regret taking a job in it. Its the first language ecosystem that made me realize yes, apparently I really do care a lot about the language(s) I work in (had prior exp in php, python, java, Go, and Typescript, and enjoyed most of them). But I wouldn't knock anyone for using it, especially if they can hire experienced teammates in it or generally find the approach (typeless, convention over configuration) appealing. It's definitely a great choice for a web product if the team(s) will stick with it over time. I'd happily manage a team using it at this point, I just don't want to write it anymore.
Smabbler: In-Memory API Graph RAG, Runs on CPU, Build your RAG with ease
Smabbler provides the first API Graph RAG - Galaxia, to enable any developer to build LLM products 100X faster at a 10X lower cost and unmatched simplicity.

Runs on a CPU and increases transparency.

https://github.com/Smabbler/Docs/wiki

We would love for you to check us out and try out Galaxia.
> Light can travel from any distance to reach your eye.

Yes, but it won't necessarily register so unless we're talking about insanely bright distant object that should be visible through fog from any distance and which also is not a part of the skybox, this particular problem practically never arises. The flat far plane, on the other hand, is glaringly obvious in e.g. Minecraft, or any Unity game with first-person view and fog.
It is very reassuring that one of the only things both sides can agree on now is that giant mega-corporations need more tax-payer money.
Not really what you said. In any case, people aren't doing that, they are just pointing out that AI writes poor code beyond very basic things. That's not Anthropomorphizing.
This is also useful to hedge funds.
> One very common struggle I see is when they take internet advice that tells them it’s okay to offload their own struggles on to other people. Unfortunately this blog gives similar advice:

Sorry, but this is necessary though. Russell Barkley (he has a great Youtube channel) suggests a strict regime for children with ADHD (even with medication) and even as adults will need to inform those closest to us because we work differently. I don't want a free pass, what I need is someone giving me tasks that I can break into smaller pieces and get a feedback loop going for those so I won't loose track or get distracted. Diagnosis is an important step, but it has to follow for most with medication and for all with psychosocial work which can have negative side-effects.
Does nvidia contribute anything to OSS? Its drivers are closed, that much I know. Whereas intel is the top corp contributor to the Linux kernel
The issue with the App Store model is that it's just another platform to market yourself on. In your case, you benefitted from a first-mover (or early-mover) advantage and did well. Over time the App Store becomes more and more saturated with apps and so the value to developers goes down. This is no different from the web! It's merely offset by a few decades.

If you had put up your website back in the early 90's and were judicious about advertising back then, you might've been a Fortune 500 company (depending on your business niche, of course)!