skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Losers
Has anyone built a site that detects 2 classes of stories:

1. Submissions which rapidly fall off the front page

2. Submissions which get significant upvotes and never reach the front page

Personally, I would be interested to review this list periodically.

Sometimes I see something on the front page and would like to read and discuss more but subsequently discover the submission is gone or difficult to access.
I've still yet to hear anyone who insists that "these phenomena result from properties of the optical system" explain artifacts created by an optical system could also be observed visually by multiple trained pilots. When looking at all of the data, there are only two plausible conclusions one can reach. Either Cmdr. Fravor and all of the other Air Force officers are lying and in cahoots with the Navy to manufacture these events, or there is something tangible going on here that we don't understand.
Interesting! I sure hope that's not my problem because I uhhh really don't want to open up 20 machines to try to fix that.

I think it probably isn't the same problem, though, because I only have stability issues at initial startup. If it boots and doesn't BSOD in the first five minutes then it's fine... even through heavy network and disk use (like installing updates).
We let the generator code hardcore the weight into the generated source.

GPU performance significantly affects performance by as much as 20X.
This project is only intended for cases where GPU is not available / desired due to cost or other constraints,
I think they were meaning more along the lines of behavioral or mental issues, since they mentioned autism. In my schooling I never saw anyone get put down because of physical disorders or differences, but it was much more common for people to get bullied when they were trying to fit into cliques that their background or behavior didn't blend well with. The kind of bullying I witnessed was like a form of signaling telling the bullied that as much as they tried, they wouldn't fit in with an in-group.
Thanks for the paper link!
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I went and dug up the original code that caused an issue. Here it is:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v2.7.1/Lib/cgi.py#L60...

Python's std lib `cgi.FieldStorage` object was falsy if it did not define any headers, even if it contained file data.

Thus my conditional trying to check whether a file was being uploaded "if request.field_storage" was going through the False branch when files were being uploaded but only in certain header-free scenarios not covered by automated and manual testing. This resulted in us dropping user data on the floor and losing uploaded files for a very large number of users before we realized and shut it off

The other sibling post contains another example where people may be confused, and Google pulls up others. But this is the concrete case that caused us to send out a hundred thousand apology emails to affected customers after losing their files
I haven’t seen it in the comments yet, but you can watch Abelson and Sussman teaching the material from this book from recorded lectures in 1986.

I still find their description of how to create and group abstractions in various layers to be useful personally and as a mentor. (In the videos, lesson 3A, 1:07:55)

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090
I don’t use Bluesky. How is it childish? If Peterson has no presence then how is a block possible? If a block requires presence then blocking Jordan Peterson seems like a reasonable thing for a person to do.
surprising no one
Same - it was actually technically impressive how fast I got crypto spam upon joining nostr.
The Final Hours of Half-Life 2
A more generalized description might be "not part of a dominant social ingroup".

Sometimes, people are just predators, and when prey doesn't exist, they manufacture it.
I don't know about books, but I think the best approach is functional programming in a dynamic language. That could be because I'm currently an Elixir fanboy, but I think Lisps, especially Scheme or Clojure, or a functional-restricted approach in JavaScript could do it as well. I agree with parent comment that it's better to keep things as simple as possible and make the changes when necessary vs. building in all the flexibility in the beginning.
Kpopalypse determines the use of AI-generated imagery in k-pop music videos
The downvotes are misplaced. This is a good question.

The value of HN is when people-who-know help curious folks understand the validity of a story. Surely someone here is more capable of assessing this story and I agree that skepticism is in order at first.
Good question. If I needed an investor I would go to meetups and talk to them coyly e.g. "yeah doing a startup, got some customers.... so how do you advise I reduce churn for this parricular segment" "can I pay for some time for advice" and such like. Tease em.
Wow so he was the actual hacker. Not too surprising but it's interesting how he was not charged with that.
Fortunate: A Modern Motivational App for Linux
Koo, Threads, Mastodon, and now the new X killer is Bluesky. What's next?

Suggestions:

- x++

- y

- x#

- X rewritten in Rust
Embedded. Your UB is my opportunity.
Agreed. This is probably the reason why rewriting in Rust "works" -- because the architecture has been previously worked out.
The baseline model is reddit. You start at 0, and if you get negative you're timegated from replying. HN has a karma system as well. You need 500 karma to downvote (or something to that effect).

Honestly, I think something like a StackExchange lite reputation system could work well here. But as more for a credibility system than an authority one. Someone with a good reputation (by the users and the site itself) is probably making more credible reports than a newer person or a troll.
The reason people want change is not because they are “irrational” or “fearful”, it is because the people in power have demonstrated their inability to lead in every capacity. In Germany the government has literally collapsed due to the former coalition’s ineptitude. Prices in America have skyrocketed in the past 4 years, and pay hasn’t even started to catch up. In England innocents are being murdered and the government instead focuses on the people upset about the murders, calling them “terrorists”.

If I fail at my job I am fired, that is a logical outcome. Why do you feel that politicians should be treated differently?
Perilous trips across Canada-US border becoming more common
IPv6 networks do apparently get probed
> Neither can really afford to live without the other

I imagine that ARM without QCOM will be totally fine. Rockchip is happy to take the low end, MTK will take the middle, AAPL already owns the high end.
>Twitter is irreplaceable

For someone that writes a lot about existing social media formats, it's amazing how they could come to such a wrong conclusion that invalidates anything else they might say. Twitter will die, the same way that MySpace died or LiveJournal died or any other popular social media platform dies. It breaches the trust thermocline and a mass amount of users leave, never to return.
IMO "virtual rendering" in general is one of the biggest weaknesses of the web platform. I would love to see a general-purpose solution to this.
The Kabbalah joke gets me every time.
When is the next one coming? Or what is the probability distributuon like?
> It was the first time in a long time that I've realized just how removed from what actually happens so many people are

This is your fundamental mistake.
These are not people. They don't have personhood.

Nothing will ever change that.
This. I’m exactly in this YouTube tv camp and most the time just miss the simplicity of the old cable. Having to find things to watch is for me and awful experience. Then when I do want to watch something trying to figure out which app it’s actually on is awful. I think we subscribed to a dozen different things, it’s so damn fragmented. Even in early days if Netflix, I was a holdout that kept going to blockbuster because the UI of visually scanning a wall/shelf of DVDs was far superior to the Netflix version of the same IMO.

This is definitely turning into my version of an old man rant. “Back in my day…” the main benefit of it all is I actually just don’t watch as much as I once did. The friction is too high. Or, the commitment is too high-I dont usually want to jump into some 10 episode series.
Completely agreed. There are also former employees who have very educated opinions about what is likely going on, but between NDAs and whatnot there is only so much they are willing to say. It is frustrating for those in the know, but there are lines they can't or won't cross.

Whenever an HN thread covers subjects where I have direct professional experience I have to bite my tongue while people who have no clue can be as assertive and confidently incorrect as their ego allows them to be.
While I have learn web development when blink was still trending, I have had my period where I tried to force every frontend into becoming a react app. I have since then wisen up, and tend to agree that for frontend - best to start with as simple as possible and increase complexity and add dependancies as it is needed. "Write JavaScript like it’s 2005" is good advice.
Seeing some depth-sorting issues with the text on Safari (macOS). Some distant head-on text (not on the sides of the "tunnel") is being drawn over nearer head-on text. Also, sometimes top of text is being clipped a bit.

Very cool though.
I have bluesky and mastodon accounts and I’m always surprised at how people extreme people call them. I have them just as my music/photography accounts. So the people I add are doing the same stuff. My feed is just as extreme as Flickr aka zero extremeness. Just pictures of bridges and music and normal thoughts.
From my experience? The ability to punch in a channel number (or not even that) and get something playing, instantly, without the need to make a choice.

For many people, often those with backgrounds that make them unlikely to frequent HN, the experience they're looking for is "1. get home, 2. open beer, 3. turn TV on, 4. watch."

The default state of a streaming app is to ask you what you want to watch, and then show you exactly the thing you selected. The default state of traditional TV is to show you something, and let you switch to something else if you can't stand the thing you're watching right now or have something specific in mind. Surprisingly, many people prefer the latter over the former.

The same applies to radio versus streaming, many family members of mine don't use streaming, because all it takes to turn on the radio is turning the key in the ignition, which they have to do anyway.
Good observations!

Indeed: ZIP files are stream-writable, and some ZIP files are stream-readable, but not both: ZIP files that were stream-written are not steam-readable.

Also, steaming unzipping always requires that by the time you arrive at the central directory, you delete so-far-unzipped files that don't have entries in it, as those were "deleted".

> Then in 4.3.6 it describes the file format, which seems to be fundamentally incompatible to altering zip files by appending data, as the resulting file would not conform to this format.

My interpretation of the spec and specifically of 4.3.6 is that it is informational for how ZIP files usually look, and that you may store arbitrary data in between files; such data then doesn't count as "files". This reading then does allow appending and concatenation.

Unfortunately 4.3.6 does not have MUST/MAY wording so we don't really know if this reading was intended by the authors (maybe they clarify it in the future), but allowing this reading seems rather useful because it permits append-only modification of existing ZIP files. (The wording /'A ZIP file MUST have only one "end of central directory record"'/ suggests somehow that the authors didn't intend this, but again one could argue that this is not necessarily to state, that there is only one EOCDR by definition, and that any previous ones are just garbage data that is to be ignored.)
It is an echo chamber if you classify everything that's against your ideology as "hate speech" or "shitty X media".
Is anyone serious actually claiming extraterrestrial life is the main concern? My understanding is that the leading concern is some terrestrial military capability we don’t fully understand, but that could pose a military threat to US assets. The goal is to rule that out and then you can worry about aliens afterwards.
That's entirely untrue.

First off, the scientific method only finds things that are less wrong, there's never anything even close to certainty and finality. Your entire life's work could be entirely replaced by an Einstein.

Secondly, there's an enormous volume of trade, industry and commercial knowledge that has exactly zero published studies but sufficient less-wrong "scientific" testing to be knowledge.

And yet that's how things should be done, based on decades and centuries of craftsmanship, apprenticeships, and corporate knowledge.

Your opinion is exactly why I posted what I posted. The scientific method is powerful, but it's extremely slow to propagate.
There is no such thing as true "free speech". If only because you need some regulation to keep others from infringing on your free speech. Lest the concept simply becomes meaningless.

Even the US has limits. You cannot post a naked kid online, you cannot incite violence or panic (yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre). Many states won't let you post revenge porn.
I actually did a quick check and most of them didn't show up as Azure, just general MS IPv4 blocks. I would hope MS keeps its own infrastructure separate from the public Azure cloud...
This “article” is a dozen of photos with little to no content
You can disable that; I agree it’s annoying but it keeps from having to deal with accumulated updates at some random inconvenient future time.

export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP=1
> I don’t think anyone should be required to do one or the other

Yes, you do not think that because you are OK upsetting me.

I am OK with upsetting you by encouraging a full-company RTO policy.

The compromise is that one of us deals with it or gets a new job.
So basically this just adds random characters to input prompts to break jailbreaking attempts? IMHO If you can't make a single-inference solution, you may as well just run a couple of output filters, no? That appeared to have reasonable results, and if you make such filtering more domain-specific, you'll probably make it even better. Intuition says there's no "general solution" to jailbreaking, so maybe it's a lost cause and we need to build up layers of obscurity, of which smooth-llm is just one part.
> Yes, in a way I'm acting deliberately obtuse about the proverb

I would call it intentionally ignorant. Please try googling for "best book for learning polish" then flip to the image search. Which one is actually the best? Can you tell from here?

> It is not hard to find proverbs that assert falsehoods.

Yet it is easy to find organizations with terrible logos that still do good work.
>legal immigration which suppresses wages so I guess it’s no surprise that what he really wants is to not pay people at all.

Does undocumented immigration suppress wages or not.

If it does, can we say the same thing about the current President and the current VP.
There are some authors in common with a more recent paper "Defending Large Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks via Semantic Smoothing" https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16192
Just because people are joining Bluesky doesn't mean they're leaving X.
Except the article explains in fairly easy to understand terms how the study came to this theory, and the original paper is linked from that article. The question here gives the impression that the asker read only the headline.
I have this too; I always found it too messy; when an author has something on another platform, I go there instead. And now every post, including tech stuff, has someone posting something about trump/musk/woke. Which makes it even harder to focus.
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"fountain pen enthusiasts"

Well, I had to use one when I was at school (I'm 53). I do note that the headmaster of my prep school (British - aged 10-13) advocated those smart new fibre tipped things.

He (head) was formally a WWII Artillery officer - Major - lost an eye in action in Africa.

He (and the rest of the staff) also taught us lot how to use cutlery etc but still he insisted that a fibre tipped pen was the future. As it turns out, Biros (ball point pens), replaced most ink related writing and not fibre tips.

I doubt you use a "sharpie" in favour of an ink pen.

I do enjoy using an edged pen and calligraphy in general but mostly can't be arsed these days. It might become a lost art but I'm not too sure we will have lost too much. It is simply an art form and art is art or arse.
Singapore did exactly this under Lee Kuan Yew, and transformed itself from essentially a wasteland into one of the top countries in the world both in economic and quality-of-life terms. In the opinion of many (though of course not all) who went through that difficult transition, yes, it was more than worth it.
The House creates the budget, the Senate votes on it, and the president then signs it into law. Usually, the executive branch will come up with a dream budget that can be considered their starting position in budget negotiations.
4. Who is @lethal_coder1337 and why didn’t their FIXME: make its way to the backlog?
I would guess the majority of the streamed bandwidth was sourced from boxes like these in ISP's points of presences around the globe: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

So I agree the problems could have been localized to unique (region, ISP) combinations.
I meant to say BASIC instead of Pascal in that sentence.
That comes across as some intense Stockholm.

I personally see my accomplishments as in spite of the bullying, not because of. And I'd wager this is a fair bit more common of a view.

My bullies were not "keeping me focused on computers" when they dragged me, kicking and screaming, into a stall in a restroom against my will, with the stated intent to further assault me further, including dunking my head & face into a shit-clogged toilet.

I could do without having lived through the verbal abuse, the physical assault, the panic attacks decades later, and the mental disorders that I now am trying to conquer through therapy.
Yep same. "Teach yourself to eat chocolate."
> it's just a theory that tries to fit this data

What do you feel is missing? You might find that if you read the paper, it goes through the evidence, prior evidence, and their hypothesis.
Meh.. I kind of don't think so. The reason you and I keep ending up on haveibeenpwned has likely nothing to do with Rust or C++.
This is super cool. Surprised how many entries there are even in my small city in AU.
> Prices in America have skyrocketed in the past 4 years, and pay hasn’t even started to catch up.

No, it's about the same as 2019:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

Inflation is over and done with. We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010

In fact, every single economic indicator is currently better than 2019.

One thing you can say that may be true is that voters are upset because they remember inflation from 2021-22 and are still reacting to it. Or that they don't like high interest rates. And housing prices are bad in blue states and that is the local governments' fault.

But one thing we see from US voters is that R voters claim the economy is bad under a D president and immediately switch to claiming it's good under an R president. So I think you should consider those people are lying.
FOSS data-provider-agnostic (GTFS) public transportation app
One of the times I reloaded the page I got a raw envoy error message!
Oh, THAT swat sticker: https://github.com/SwastikAI
Streaming live can be a very different thing than on-demand.

Hopefully Netflix can share more about what they learned, I love learning about this stuff.

I had joked I would probably cancel Netflix after the fight.. since I realized other platforms seemed to have more content both old and new.

Then the video started stuttering.
Stay out of GNOME-land, those creeps go nuts for taking away features!
I meant seen as in seen it named. Just because the seven segment display is there doesn’t mean it’s named that on the box, while in the past there might be more stuff with those displays and it would be a callout on the box design possibly.

I got ratioed here, for some reason, so I guess I didn’t communicate properly. Most people here are nerds who might know what this is called but the average person doesn’t.
Audits are about the journey, not the destination.
I figure it doesn't. It never gets turned off. What's decided is who gets access to the record. It's encrypted and there's legal stuff.

If you have a reason why it's bad then just say the reason. Don't ask insinuative questions.
Bluesky would be way worse than that in terms of engagement once their VC money runs out. Since it would be in their interest to promote more rage baits and echo chamber posts.
>It actually is, insofar as the tolerant expect to get kudos for being tolerant.

You're arguing with a strawman. I just want to have a civil discussion without it degrading into racial slurs as the bare minimum. Personal attacks in general should be discoraged, but I've been around a while and my standards are low.

The psychological question of morals and tolerance doesn't seem to amount to much. I don't think anyone would ever claim the internet is full of moral actors. but sure. The ability to accept and consider multiple viewpoints is a good moral to strive to.

Hence, the paradox of tolerance: in that you must reject concepts that overall limit your ability to empathize and expand your viewpoints. dismissing information because of superficial physical features of the speaker is simply ignorant.
Especially amazing considering that he moved from Palo Alto to Austin. Did all his friends move too?
Crashes like a Windows ME screensaver. Jokes aside, it's very fun to see open firehose access like this. I seem to recall that Dorsey had said that twitter limiting their api access was a mistake, hope we can keep this going.
Planets that reflect light are easy to detect.
There is a good analysis (from a corporate perspective) in The Phoenix Project.
Tracy Kidder.The Soul of a New Machine.

About the development of the Data General new minicomputer. Published 1982.
Is this the only department with this record? It’s astonishing to me that the federal government will spend something like nine trillion this year. Where does it all go? I know we can get high level breakdowns but it just seems insanely inefficient and wasteful just looking at the overall figures.
Hi @trollbridge, thank you for the valid points.

I'm glad to take you up on your consulting offer.
A lot of people are mistaking Starlink satellites for UAPs
Technically all microwave oven use is warming up liquid if you want to get down to the basics.
YouTube now opening pop-ups when clicking on videos?
Today I clicked on a random video on youtube and another tab popped up with the attached url.

This instantly made me question my sanity. Is my macbook infected with malware or has anyone else encountered this kind of behaviour??

(Reason I'm asking here, is that it's impossible to google for something like this...)
A source with less partisan politics involved:

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/federal-spendi...