skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't buy it. I'm an introvert but happily married now. But I can still see the appeal of a very personalized AI

That doesn't surprise me, some of the most loneliest people are married after all, hence why extra martial affairs have been monetized from everything from online porn/camsites to Ashley Madison--with married men being targeted demographic.

I guess my point is that for those who cannot find a way to engage with another Human in person, this seems like the only way to 'conform' to social norms while not being depressingly alone. This maybe modern darwnism playing out in the 21st century where all external stress factors have been mostly alleviated in affluent Western societies, because it is the undeveloped World who is keeping the species going fertility wise, but confining the genetic pool to such non-diversity has its issues, though.

But as I said, personally if left to my own devices I can go weeks without speaking to anyone and be entirely fine and jump right back into the fray when I need/feel to: oddly enough when most were locked down during the pandemic and 'going crazy' from isolation I was an 'essential worker' and continued everything but my gym/clubbing/dating life (I saw my friends, also essential workers, in person on a regular basis): only to get burned out by 2021 and hide for a Summer in the Adriatic Sea in a remote island almost entirely by myself--a few close friends would occasionally come to check up on me so we swam and bbq'd at the beach near my house.

It took me a day or two when I returned to normal civilization, I forgot how loud it was to be in a city, but was entirely fine and started dating again by Fall of '21.
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>Many of the devices affected do not fit any reasonable interpretation of the term “legacy”.

I'm really just going on a tangent rant, but I don't like that the word "legacy" has been associated with negative connotations in the tech world.

In the rest of the Anglosphere, a "legacy" is something to be admired and respected. Being old with stories to tell is a sign that someone or something weathered and survived the tests of time above all others.

Only in the tech world do I see legacies shunned in favour of the next new shiny at speeds that make progressives blush in embarrassment.
It sounded like satire about dumb tech bros to me.
I find that to be a shallow interpretation of implications with mental health and AI.
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Yes, ast-grep already has its own rule syntax [1]. But still parser performance and binary size are critical factors for a general tool.

https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/rule-config.html
> People formed a narrative and are forcefully trying to make the bricks fit

It's healthy to wonder, from time to time, if it might be you that's doing such things
That looks like a 2D image with an alpha channel based on the background color of the image. Watch the shadow of the bot as it crosses the edge if the desk.
In a way, the hell itself isn't as scary as the idea that the people trapped in it will start to believe that things can't be better.
He mentions arch. I thought that was a standard distribution (though I think I’m mixing it up with Manjaro, which we used one machine when our European intern installed it)

I have to dig a little deeper. Thanks
In this particular case, that's the result of misconfiguration on the devices

https://danielbowen.com/2024/11/09/myki-and-3g/

I have a certain amount of sympathy for Myki's operator in this case, this would have been a difficult edge case to test.
I have been super happy downloading the free adguard dns profile on my iphone and blocking ads across the entire spectrum. Makes reading on internet so much better. Here is the link if anyone is wondering.

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
Have you seen the market since 2022?

I’ve been in software development since 1996 and looked for a job in 1999, 2001 (took a counteroffer), 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2023 and a month ago. My job in BigTech in 2020 fell in my lap.

I have never seen a job market this bad. Even in 2000, as a regular old Windows developer I could easily find a standard enterprise job.

My only saving grace when I was looking both last month and last September was that I had 3.5 years of working at AWS in the Professional Services department (full time direct hire) and AWS partners love to get people from ProServe because they know we can be trusted to talk to decision makers and fly out to clients and lead and do the work.

But I usually would throw my resume up in the air pre-2020 and have multiple job offers fall in my lap.
Do people forget that the BLM riots at the White House at one point resulted in Trump being taken by the Secret Service to the security bunker? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cqg2ywRAZ94
The whole monetization and organization around ISO standards feels super shady.

One lesser known hack is to search the friendly Estonian site [1] for a cheaper version of the standard - they often create their own versions of the standards which much pretty contain the exact same content as the original. Unfortunately, in this case, it seems they only are offering the actual standard at a similar price [2]. Sad dog face.

It could be worthwhile to monitor the website to see if they release their own version for a better price in the future. Usually, their prices are ~10% of the original price (one more data point that Estonia does cool stuff).

We deal with the rather shady standardization organizations quite a lot as we work in medical device compliance [3]. I've heard all the usual arguments: "But standardization costs money!", "These organizations are doing good work!", etc., etc. No. I completely disagree. If something's a standard, that in my opinion makes it similar to a law - people should be able to follow it, and that requires people to freely access it. The EU Advocate General seems to agree [4]. And there are lots of standardizations which don't rely on shadily offering PDFs for money: ECMAScript and ANSI C come to mind, but the list goes on.

[1] https://evs.ee
[2] https://www.evs.ee/en/search?OnlySuggestedProducts=false&que...
[3] https://openregulatory.com/accessing-standards/
[4] https://openregulatory.com/maybe-eu-standards-are-becoming-f...
This is super cool, and I am so glad it has been made. I wanted this exact device (only RISC-V esp32 because why not).

For the room

The worlds smallest midi synthesizer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvVS8guBsY

https://hpi.zentral.zone/flash
I don't get this complaint, because IndexedDB supports transactions. Why are these insufficient?
>- There is a real danger that they will destroy the fabric of our cities

This is just not true, I far prefer to bike next or in front of waymos on shared roadways because they keep proper distance and are predictable. Far from destroy the fabric, they are like benevolent sea turtles, providing a cover of safety for more vulnerable road users.

>They will increase, not decrease, the number of cars on the road and the use of road space

Possibly true but let's see some evidence.

>As cars shift electric, gas taxes will be less effective

Didn't SF just pass a tax on AVs? Easy fix.

>- There is a risk that AVs will displace other forms of public transit which are better for the environment, for pedestrians, for land use, and for the surrounding areas

Waiting for a train sucks, people want to go point to point.

>- By reducing the perceived cost of spending time in traffic, AVs will encourage people to commute longer distances, resulting in more traffic, infrastructure costs, and emissions overall

Same argument can be made for public transit / trains. It's not a good argument.
Title made me remember this other example of desktop icons being hard: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invis...
It’s a signalling problem, a 31 day old pseudonymous account is pretty always going to enjoy vastly less credibility than say a 10 year old account with hundreds of thousand of karma.

If the latter wrote the above comment, nobody would question if the real intention was farming for this or that, since it would make practically no difference for the account holder or the passing reader.
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The other major problem with traffic cameras is that they often shorten the duration of the yellow light at the same time.
You seem to be expecting these locks to block a thread, but they do not. A "deadlock" with these locks is simply a chunk of heap space holding a bunch of promises that will never resolve, occupying a few slots in the global event loop's select statement.
Yeah I think an LLM was heavily involved in the "writing" of this article.
Right but that's the point, isn't it? If you have a single manufacturer with complete control of the devices and software on both ends and you own the devices and have a single trusted network or authentication service it can work (but still not exactly easy to implement). But that's not the hypothetical in question - for that to be a reality, you have to have it work pretty much anywhere, on any network (or a way to negotiate an adhoc private network) and on virtually any third party IO hardware.

And that's before you get to the possibility of the gym treadmill screen or coffee shop keyboard or whatever being a hostile device. Which they would easily be if people were going to use the system for something of high value as opposed to casting YouTube to the treadmill screen. Which may be a little bit of a data leak opportunity as it stands, but it's not quite a screencast of your banking account, complete with key log.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12664721
Speaking as a "maker," you can find on AliExpress a fairly generic relay board that's controlled by a logic signal. That, and a cheap microcontroller board, are a super useful problem solver.
They can't make money off of them? It will get split up and youtube spun off and they'll have to cut costs. Some maybe deemed inappropriate in the future. We had Geocities, Usenet and other sites and companies which held content then disappeared. Archiving them might be nice? But what's easier to archive and index videos or text form?

One the other hand, books published over a hundred years are still here even though the authors and publishers may long be gone.
Its very much a culture thing and not a language thing. C# is very versatile. Go look at Unity code and its a fairly different style. It has its own quirks and there's no such as "the right way" but it doesn't feel like Spring.

Also, extension methods are great. LINQ is amazing and that's partly from extension methods.
> really killed the "fun" of the internet.

The original eternal September[1] predates my entry to the internet by a couple of years, but the cycle repeats eternally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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> This is ad fraud

Or rather, a pattern of activity that may be easily mistaken for someone else committing ad-fraud.

The fraudulent part comes from the agreement between the site-owner and the advertising-entity, where the first agrees to provide "organic" clicks for money. As an independent visitor, I'm not a party to that, and I never agreed to "only click on things when I'm sincerely interested in them", or even "only click on things after firmly observing and registering their presence in my mind", etc.

If I were to use an army of bots to deliberately ruin someone's advertising budget out of pure spite, that's arguably a different kind of crime.
Kind of. It supports the C# Task interface nicely (and has for ages), but it you have a bunch of F# async code then you still have to marry the two somehow, and that's still monstrous.
Nice catch. IMHO, it's a little too obvious, so probably not a bugdoor. Maybe someone who knows better wasn't getting enough sleep.
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That is specifically something that has happened in certain US cities, not in Australia.
> Think about the hell that most people go through, who have no concept of an adblocker.

Mobile users mainly have no grasp of this, and that is what most people Globally have used to be on-bordered statistically speaking, and they don't know anything else--I was watching a friend show me a recipe online not too long ago on his 1200 iphone and when ad showed up I just looked perplexed to disgusted to him. I told him to get an adblock to avoid that, he simply locked at me and said he 'didn't want to pay for it' and I just let it go and watched the ad in silence.

This is a person who spends an ungodly amount of time on tiktok as well, we were watching trending desert recipes and there are tons of them there that people want try so he justified all the ads he watches as 'market research.'

I regret to say that this is the norm, the dude has a MSc in Structural/Civil Engineering from a reputable University so it's not a schooling thing, just more like of a 'not online before smartphone' kind of thing to me.
I change positions throughout the day (Apple Watch is good for reminding to move)

But also for me , if I’m at home, I take my dog for walks during the day and just make up the time later if needed. It breaks things up.

Or if I’m in the office I go for thinking walks to plan out what I’m doing
Just read all of the posts, great story and very useful to understand the time involved to become actually profitable for indie hackers, it's not an overnight or even one year success like many people might erroneously believe. Somewhat related, would you be able to share rough financials for your products? I had looked into making and selling an uptime monitoring app as well, initially made for my own sites, but I found that even making 10k USD MRR seems very difficult compared to other types of products, probably due to the vast amount of competition in the space.
I do that a lot: most of the commits in that tools repo (which doubles as my "playing around with LLM generated code" repo) include links to the relevant conversations: https://github.com/simonw/tools/commits/main/
Yes, this, I stand during meetings and sit while working. It helps a ton.
How did they ever get a $15 billion valuation? Net income was $18 million in 2023.
I usually go out for a cigarette break a few times during the day, keeps me moving.
Something I've noticed is I just don't produce or collect "I was here" type memorabillia, compared to people from older generations like my parents.

Photos and videos? Nope, I don't even have a camera aside from the one in my phone, and the stuff in there are so forgettable I don't even know what's in there.

Postcards, hats, shirts, and other "I was here." tourists' goods? Nope. I stopped buying them when I noticed they all just end up stuffed under nine layers of my closet's hell never to see daylight again. Waste of my money.

Tickets and other "I paid money to be here." artifacts? Thrown out in the trash asap. See above; waste of space.

In stark contrast, I do buy and collect things that enrich my present day. Books pertaining to my interests to line my shelves, hardware and software to satisfy my computing itch, and so on.

Whoever has the unfortunate privilege of cleaning up my affairs (I have no children nor a spouse and don't plan on it) will unfortunately have no idea where the fuck I've been, but honestly I don't think I could care. I just don't see value in memorializing my past. I don't know if that's good or sad, but I certainly couldn't care less.
$400m isn’t enough.
Languages bring along a culture. Sone teams buck the culture of the broader language ecosystem, most do not. IMO, the C# culture is closer to enterprise Java than it is to Typescript, for good or for ill.
Oh, but trained on individual social media info, imagine the automated pig butchering scams you could run. Very profitable, and scalable worldwide!

Big corps are good at fleecing the sheeple. Why let it go to the mom & pops?
Ask HN: How did you learn to get organized?
I just discovered, in the pursuit of my entrepreneurial journey and in my thirties that I am terrible. Worst that I thought It could be. This leads to procrastination and being exhausted all the time. Sometimes I don't even know what should I work on

Those who fixed this problem late in life. What did you do?
yes, exactly. Passthrough is the highest priority thread on the device, preempting anything else.
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No problem, I'll give you a serious answer.

First of all, I'm not a lawyer. I'm a mechanical engineer.

And to answer your question, yes, many attorneys are in fact worried about giving legal advice online [1], especially the fact that it may imply some sort of legal representation being extended. This is why I added the disclaimer at the top and why I emphasized that this is not the right forum for this and that the original poster should in fact get an attorney (which strongly implies that I am not their attorney).

This is also why I did not discuss the specifics of the claims being made in the different patents, because that could imply that I am giving specific legal advice. I am not giving any legal advice. Instead, I just discussed broadly how the patent system works in this particular context, especially in regards to what parts of a patent are legally enforceable and how examiners examine patents (and how you can look up what they did).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL

(Extended disclaimer for the sake of emphasis: I am not a lawyer. I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advice. My comments in this thread are merely educational in nature.)
https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut

I remember looking through the code awhile ago, it's nice and simple!

Uses socket.io w node.js + express, a crawler script searches YT periodically to keep the videos fresh. The server iterates randomly through the video list, telling all clients through socket.io which video is next, and when to switch.
The absolute freak show that is the TikTok top daily videos isn’t weird enough for you?
Most people would probably say "too much." But since my cost basis is effectively $0, and I've already scaled out my position over the years during past bull runs, I'm not itching to sell. At this point it's "FU money or bust."
Curious about the name, what does it "affect?"
I once got a bright idea to climb up the stairs to the 13th floor where our office was located. Once I got there, I found that doors can only be opened from the inside, so I climbed 13 floors down and took an elevator up again like a good little sheep.
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of course the famous AWK as well
Google Maps' satellite photography only extends a bit into seas, where it transitions to bathymetric data. It looks like the Caspian Sea doesn't have any bathymetric data though, which is strange. Even the great lakes have it.
That's a classic. It's incredible that it's taken Microsoft literal decades to fix that issue. The old recommendation was to hide desktop icons but even that doesn't fully solve it. Garbage collecting them into another directory on the desktop was the fix.
I do a lot. E.g. I was sure Harris would win by a landslide. Shows my news source bias (here, Reddit etc.).

This is a post about determining a specific narrative while conveniently ignoring facts that don't fit said narrative. Confirmation bias is a problem for everyone, both of us are subject to it.
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Of course, I understand the appreciation for an open standard, especially one less messy than SAML. :-) And I can see valid use cases for OIDC when it's all first-party, all in the same system. Maybe if it would use different language, I would have less or no issues with it. I need to think about it... Thanks for giving me some food for thought!

Self-hosting is not a solution, though, unless we're talking about system like yours where - if I understood you correctly - there's no third party. I used to love "classical" OpenID back in mid-'00s (I haven't really thought about it back then, and it was convenient) and self-hosted an OpenID provider. I stopped doing so when OpenID went out of fashion; and later I learned the fact that one cannot own a domain name, merely lease it from authority (despite whatever anyone says, it's just how it is in practice), so tying an identity to that is a bad idea. I-names/i-numbers are also dead. And that's how started to think about it and eventually came to understanding that identity provisioning is a fundamentally broken idea.

OIDC as a machine-to-machine protocol is fine, save for the associated language. But how it works in, what I suspect, the majority of real-world implementations is just conceptually wrong (and practically harmful).
If you were a lawyer then you'd be bound by bar standards and such. But you're not, so why the disclaimer? Is there some legal jeopardy a non-lawyer places themselves in by talking about the law? If so that sounds positively dystopian.

More generally I am entirely supportive of not giving unsolicited advice of any sort. Not for legal reasons, but because it's presumptuous, rude, and often even pompous.
I think a case could be made that it’s fair that a person of his influence on the world loses a bit of his privacy a couple of thousand years after his death.
https://archive.ph/ZKMcV
It's still in the iOS App Store!
I can only hope that some future generation regards modern advertising/gambling-traps with the same hostility we have today towards indentured servitude or predatory "company stores".
What model are you using? Whisper Turbo can do real time transcription and there are implementations that are pretty fast.
Invent a technology that changes the world, but unfortunately by helping students cheat in the school which you loved.

In a sense, the guys doing safe AI already failed out the gate.
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> this i agree with, except that effects are "residual". it's not improving for most people on the bottom 1/2. it's brutal out here.

that was a mistype. I meant to say the residual effects of COVID on the economy.

> now this is widely reported that as not true [1], CNN showing ~51.2%, which would be the best in 20 years [2].

I think you misunderstood; I meant that the Democrats won the popular vote in 2020 and 2016.
If it only weren’t for that crippled "using" syntax. On the other hand, though:

const denialOfService = res => void navigator.lock(res);

I mean, one might write this just as well with the callback interface, but this is much easier to do accidentally.
What's wrong with using an electric current to weld? Why use such an inefficient source of heat?

I feel lasers might have more safety problems too.
Is `(expession, lvalue) = rvalue` a valid assignment in C or C++?
> Pure HTML probably has the best chance of surviving.

If you took that thought seriously you'd do HTML3 with nested tables and font tags, that stuff is going to last forever. But HN fashion says Javascript bad CSS good.
I suppose the internet hasn't been very fast down there, and nobody has time to load dozens of scripts and tracking beacons when their science lab is on fire.