skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3layun7re5s2x
way to big.
I believe there's a strong case for all articles containing a hash (MD5, etc) in the URL a la Bluesky, or verifiable meta data (easily verifiable, like the browser bar padlock for HTTPS), even blockchain, to show something's been edited.
I think the left underestimates what a shot of adrenaline the assassination attempt injected into the right. It may have swung the election all by itself. It got people off of the couch.
The quiet part out loud here is that [REDACTED].
What’s this fixation on house ownership? It doesn’t make sense rationally. Stock markets always perform better, easily beating ownership and the hassle and associated risks of managing property.
Nice idea, but the syntax seems hacky.
Live streaming is hard. Most companies that do live streaming at 2024 scale did it by learning from their mistakes. This is true for Hotstar, Amazon and even Youtube. Netflix stack is made to stream optimised, compressed , cached videos with a manageable concurrent viewers for the same video. Here we had ~65m concurrent viewers in their first live event. The compression they use, distribution etc have not scaled up well. I'll judge them based on how they handle their next live event
Yeah, but the government is in charge. After the cold war, there was an event known as the "last supper" which involves the government telling military contractors that the government thanks them for their service but they are no longer needed.

I would be more worried about Disney and Apple and their unwarranted influence.
IPC: To Share Memory or to Send Messages [video]
I wish someone told me this back when I was trying to get a programming job as a self taught programmer. I would do things like try to build a simple React clone thinking it would help me overcome imposter syndrome to fully understand things from the base up, but it was pretty futile because no one really has time to wrap their head around something that big unless they are paid full time to do it.
I hear what you're saying, but The Guardian does have an opinion section this could have been printed in, but they chose to print it in Tech. The UX in Firefox for me, I could barely tell it was even in the Tech section, because the font is small and only bolded, where the rest of the menu options are in normal style. The News heading, however, is quite large, and has a strong red underline.

I think I was fair to call this out, and the article has been flagged by others.
Dig it dude. The original Patchwork was great until it didn't scale. Paul's got an amazing eye for design though, always has.

My point is centralization casts the burdon of moderation upon the centralizers.
Netflix served the Tyson vs. Paul fight to 60M households
This seems to answer the question from yesterday on how many concurrent streams Netflix was serving
I suspect it would be a very challenging problem for the earpiece part to recreate the directional info as well as our own ears, since the brain's ability to detect the direction of sounds depends on the shape of the ear itself.

Maybe a simple mechanical clicker device like those used for dog training could be a useful tool.
FWIW, it sounds like they are at least considering bypassing the standard FBI vetting process.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/politics/security-clearances-...
Seems like the magic number was 60 million concurrent streams

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/16/24298338/netflix-mike-tt...
this is true in my experience. There is the stupid psychotic kind of bully, but there is also the misguided kind that thinks this is how boys are supposed to bond. In my case I cried when I was bullied after several times cause i thought it was so uncool and he stopped and we became friends. Not super close or anything. I guess i figured he wasn't stupid or evil.
It's absolutely necessary. And we do need to scrutinize it. It's unhealthy to have such deep consolidation and little competition.

Plus our shipbuilding hadn't been the best, and our shipbuilders basically depend on defense contracts to survive instead of building warships as side gigs. Definitely areas where we need to do improvement.

We also need production of shells to support Ukraine and our Europeans allies had been underspending for decades at this point.
Social security was last cut in 1983. Education is funded by the states. The rest of the things you mention are rounding errors in spending.
1. Because Netflix is at capacity? Or because the peer is closer and faster than the original?
> It comes to mind how the Pentagon running out of ammunition in recent years so to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and US donations.

That’s because the munitions we spend most of our money in isn’t going to Ukraine. The stuff we would use against Russia would be wiping cities off the map from thousands of miles away. The things we gave Ukraine are intentionally limited in range and power to prevent it from escalating beyond a regional conflict (aka stuff that can’t strike important targets inside Russia).
Sign me up for non-profit AI.

I'm a strong advocate for a united effort to create a training set of the collected works of mankind free to any AI company to use if, for instance, it uses its profits to fund UBI, or some other program to pay us for what they use.

Anything but AGI profits being used to keep score in the Oligarchy Olympics. I agree that is a bridge too far.
I was expecting OP to trash Klaviyo, since I had a really bad experience with how expensive they get if you click the wrong button and choose to be charged based on your email list size, only to find out that the market is filled with bad examples like that.
I created a website like 10 years ago called birdmine that indexed every link you or one of your followers shared on Twitter, in a Solr search engine so you could search stuff that had been curated to an extent. It was pretty cool, I think I’m the only person that ever used it though.
>The principal's goal was to save face at the expense of harming the son.

Call the local media, father & son duo to be arrested from sidewalk in front of school official's home for camping in protest of his son's expulsion after protesting a wrongful suspension. (Repeat for the bully's home, then back to the principal's, then run for the school board and when you win make that principal's life hell in that district. Bury a kilo of cocaine in her back yard and phone a tip in. Etc.)
Instead of `find -name '*.py' | grep -i "$PATTERN"` you can use `find -iname "*${PATTERN}*.py"` for case-insensitive glob-matched filenames, or mess around with regexes on the whole path with `find -iregex "$REGEX"`.

And yeah, why would you ASCII NUL terminate each filename output by `find` by using `-print0`? I mean, who adds quotes, backslashes or whitespace to their Python source file names?
N-Spheres Oscilloscope Music [video]
Works fine on Kiwi Browser on Android, although I'm using a fairly powerful ASUS phone.
And you'll pay less if you become a part
https://www.cabletv.com/blog/why-people-still-pay-for-cable says it’s inertia, live sports and ease of use.

Don’t act so surprised—-streaming is a pain in the ass to figure out. People have been trained to tolerate a 3-second UI lag for every button press (seemingly all cable boxes are godawfully shitty like this—-it must be the server-side UI rendering design?)

BUT! You can record your game and the cable TV DVR is dead reliable and with high quality. There is no fear of competing for Wi-Fi bandwidth with your apartment or driveway neighbors, and the DVR still works even if cable is out. And as long as you haven’t deleted the recording it won’t go away for some stupid f’ing reason.

Finally, the cable TV DVR will let you fast forward through commercials—-or you can pause live TV to break for bathroom and make a snack, so you can build up a little buffer, now you are fast forwarding commercials on nearly-live TV. You can’t fast forward commercials with most mainstream streaming anymore. Who broadcasts your big games? Big players like Paramount+ won’t let you skip commercials anymore. The experience is now arguably worse. Once you settle in, forward 30sec back 30sec buttons work rather smoothly (that’s one part of cable TV boxes that has sub-half-second latency).

Your concern about extra remotes and extra boxes and hiding wires is a vanity most don’t care about. They are grateful for how compact big-screen TVs are these days compared to the CRTs or projection TVs of the past. They probably have their kids’ game console and a DVD/BluRay player on the same TV stand anyway.

Apparently movies purchased on Roku are now on Vudu. I hope that people who bought movies on Roku were able to figure it out. This is how technology sucks. Movies purchased with my cable provider’s Video On Demand are still with me, slow as shit as navigating to them is.
How hard is it to just expel them? They seem to expel victims with ease...
Nuclear blackmail wasn't entirely effective but it is enough to self deter the Europeans and the US from giving permission to Ukraine unrestricted permission to strike legitimate military targets.

Let's make it clear. Ukraine is forced to use their own long range drones to strike targets deep inside Russia, as opposed to also using more effective and more powerful weapons to do so.
These are the very arguments I get all the time.

1) I want to invalidate caches, I want to know that these systems work. I want to know that my software properly handles this situation.

2) if I have lazy clients. I want to know. And I want to motivate them on updating sooner or figure out how to force update them. I don’t want to not update because some people are slow. I want the norm to be it is updating, so when there is a reason to update, like a zero day, I can have some notion that the updates will work and the lazy clients will not be an issue.

I am not talking about fake or dry runs that go through some portion of motions, I want every aspect of the process to be real.

Performance means nothing if your stuff is down. And any perceived performance gained by not doing proper hygiene is just tweaking the numbers to look better than they really are.
Why Animal Well's home-brewed engine was key to its success
nods knowingly
Not exactly, but it's worth the experiment in trying things anyway. Say you currently have a release once every few months, an ambitious goal would be to get to weekly releases. Continuous enough by comparison. But 'lower risk' is probably not the leading argument for the change, especially if the quarterly cycle has worked well enough, and the transition itself increases risk for a while. In order for a committed attempt to not devolve into a total dumpster fire, various other practices will need to be added, removed, or changed. (For example, devs might learn the concept of feature flags.) The individuals, which include management, might not be able to pull it off.
This.

I can’t tell you the I bet of times things worked because the cache was hot. And a restart or cache invalidation would actually cause an outage.

Caches must be invalidated at a regular interval. Any system that does not do this is heading for some bad days.
And so now those kids as adults do kind-of deserved to be victimized by him and his gang. What goes around comes around.
What's really funny is the same people whining about Musk's views would be cheering him on if he shared their own.
No natural phenomena ever exactly fits any probability distribution.
* A comment like this is kind of bewildering on a tech news site full of software entrepreneurs. Instead of handling more paperwork with more people, why don't we find ways to automate the paperwork processing using computers? Every other competitive industry streamlined their processes decades ago (and continues to do so) - why is the government exempt from this kind of solution as well? Do we have to accept that millions of people must do useless tasks for the US government?*

Why not both?

Some paperwork aren't boilerplate unnecessary cruft and required human judgement.

There is some paperwork needed but it isn't certainly no paperwork needed.

It's funny you use this as an analogy, because home inspections are notoriously pointless. They tell you stupid things, such as that the step to the house is 11" from ground, while code is 8" - meanwhile totally missing issues in the crawl space because "it is unsafe for us to go in there". I paid $500 to be lulled into complacency, and no amount of money for more inspectors to do the job "faster" would have convinced someone to find the important issues with the house I was about to buy. I'm not interested in paying even more money for more useless information. That's the point - scrub out these useless checks and parades of stupidity, which there is plenty of in both the home-buying process as well as in government.

I am only addressing one part of possibles issues that the government might have. If you want speedy and quality code inspection, you must be willing to staff and pay for it.

Regulation isn't simply a matter of too much or too little but also quality.
Right now it looks like the current administration (with enough congressional votes) will pass a bill increasing social security benefits before inauguration of the new president, even though the social security fund is in a bad shape already.

I tried searching and it looks like social security is the biggest expense of the budget. Medicare is larger than defense, excluding other health stuff like Medicaid and public health spending, which separately also add up to more than defense. That said I agree defense spending is out of control and inefficient, probably due to big contractors who have been robbing taxpayers for decades.
Modular Elliptic Curves and Fermat's Last Theorem (1995)
Actually no, to quote a modern poet under no circumstances do you "gotta hand it to them"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Go back to debate class

My tolerance is not performative and fuck you for strawmanning it
The article claims that 363 billion tons of phosphorous were dropped on earth 3.26 billion years ago during a decade of darkness.

I’m completely incapable of making sense of that claim because it’s so far outside of my expertise.

But my fundamental problem is that I don’t trust the source’s incentives to deliver reliable information and I want someone independent to help me understand if this is a how strong or weak this science is.

And my starting point for that is “it’s very hard to know anything specific about the deep past. And I’m tired of scientific retractions.”
To me, I think this is where HTML standards went off the rails.

Rather than working on, say, the vibration API, give us built in web components that are stylable but also accessible by default.

In 2024, half of the things in Bootstrap or Tailwind UI should be obsolete. Where's our OOTB carousel, date picker, rich drop-down with icon/subtext, form elements supporting AJAX state, modal windows? etc etc.

All of these things should be as foolproof as an unordered list for devs to implement & the quality of websites in terms of performance & accessibility would be lifted massively
Yep. The fact that in most places in the US it's illegal to build apartments above shops is insane. That's the norm in the UK.
They started making it again a few years back. Then discontinued... But you still might be able to find one :)
Why is that “very likely”?

I’m genuinely curious about the reasoning behind that statement. It’s very possible that you are using a different set of assumptions or definitions than I am.
Total agree. It’s the growing problem of actively exploited code of conduct schemes. See the topic of “reactive abuse“. The original abusers win, since they are the experts in violence and know how to leave no evidence. The victims who use violence usually as last resort in defense lose. Then society loses again because some of the prior victims will turn their frustration against this injustice into further violence.

School mismanagement of bullying (and of course first and foremost bad parenting) breeds narcissists and psychopaths. Who then work their way into positions of control and power to continue to implement the same literally insane principles of punishment and force them onto others to make others suffer the same hell they suffer, out of a deep seated and misdirected desire for revenge.

Restorative justice would be key to break this cycle, but of course narcissists know to prevent this from happening.
Right but I'm saying do we have data showing it's even close? (Genuinely asking, I have no idea.)
To be fair OP's website explains that most of the money isn't earned income. I'm happy for them though
I don't have much sense of the reasonably expected or maximium performance of this ability. They give a few sensational demonstrations, but how accurate is it (as in complete, correct, and consistent)? How fast? In what environments? How granular? Is it practical for everyday use?

For some interesting context, here is a description of dolphin echolocation:

https://www.britannica.com/animal/cetacean/

"The amount of information obtained by an echolocating dolphin is similar to that obtained with the eyes of a sighted human. ...

Toothed whales use extremely high frequencies, on the order of 150 kilohertz, for refining spatial resolution from their echoes. They are capable of “seeing” into and through most soft objects such as other dolphins, though the effectiveness of toothed whale echolocation drops off at distances greater than about 100 metres."

Maybe with enough practice ...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160501, which is currently on the front page.
I have one of these - purpose built for blind people to use. Pretty sure I picked it up at a NFB convention in Atlanta around the turn of the century. (NFB = National Federation of the blind)
Any chance you have a gopher server running there then?
I find it very interesting that “aligning with human desires” somehow includes prevention of a human trying to bypass the safeguards to generate “objectionable” content (whatever that is). I think the “safeguards” are a bigger problem with aligning with my desires.
Yes. Because it lowers the chance compound risk. The longer you go without stressing the system the more likely you will have a double failure, thus increasing your outage duration.

Simply put. You don’t want to delay funding out something is broke, you want to know the second it is broken.

The the case I am suggesting, a failed release will be often deploying the same functionality, thus many failure modes will result in zero outage. It all failure modes will result in an outage.

When the software is expected to behave differently after the deployment, more systems can result in being part of the outage. Such as the new systems can’t do something or the old systems can’t do something.
Seems like a fun use case for spatial audio on the airpods.
Google rushing their LLMs out the door is hurting the brand.
We understand you. <3
> because it doesn't agree with quantum mechanics

I don't think it doesn't agree. It's just that we never managed to neither formulate quantum mechanics on 4 dimensional space time nor quantize gravitational force. So we simply have no idea what happens in small scale in significant gravitational fieldd.
No one should be watching fifth graders go to the bathroom. “Legal stuff” is not adequate.
Nicely said. The way I think about it: if we can’t write legible and adaptable functions, then we have no chance at making viable systems. All the same engineering skills are at play, just on a different scale.
The real problem of bullying is the Prussian schooling model is a dressed up prison the victim cannot escape and cannot affect.
Not to nitpick but the dinosaurs were on already on the way out, the asteroid merely finished them off early.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosau...
This is definitely true here and probably true in lots of other areas.

I have a friend who didn’t know who won the US presidential election until I told him. He just had other things going on. Part of me envies that kind of focus.
Nobody is actually hurt by this. It's just the media getting upset on purpose. But some Googlers will probably freak out and neuter the product's actual usefulness to please the whiners.
Apple TV MLB games look incredible compared to live cable tv.
This article by Steve Yegge covers the same ideas: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-death-of-the-junior-develop...

HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40783682
Technically, you forgot capitalization, so it's more keystrokes
FY2023 total spending ~6.2 trillion (it's a bit higher in FY2024, but not sure where you're getting 9 trillion from).

The largest buckets non defense buckets are social security (1.4 trillion), medicare+medicaid (~1.6 trillion), interest payments (~800 billion). Total DOD spending is like ~750 billion, and DHS is like ~100 billion. FY2023 deficit was roughly 1.7 trillion dollars

Social security and medicare together at like ~2.4 trillion dollars a year, and are supporting a population of roughly 55 million Americans (just grossly taking the 65+ age population). This works out to roughly 43k per year per 65+ adult. You can decide for yourself is this seems like the right way for the government to work.

Anyhow, I am certain there is a lot of waste, and a lot of different types of waste there.

But fundamentally, the US government is trying to do a lot of frankly difficult and gigantic tasks. The DoD is tasked with amongst other things, perpetuating American hegemony, which right now is kinda critical for the entire US government funding situation. The USG's ability to leverage USD status as the world's reserve currency to help fund expenditures is contingent on it being if not THE global hegemon, then at least amongst the world's top powers, and the hegemon (or uh... senior security partner) for a substantial fraction of the world's economy.
I don't think this is their first live event. They have hosted a pro golf promotional match and they had a live pro tennis match between Nadal and Alcaraz off the top of my head.
Very funny. I put in 3 screen captures of a (long) document, and it did relatively well. But when I proof-read it, I realized the AI has made up passages that were not there!

The reason is probably due to the nature of screen capturing, some sentences or paragraphs were cut short. That probably kicked off the “fill in the blank” nature of the LLM and it could not resist to leave these paragraphs stand unfinished :LOL. It even put in a short conclusion paragraph that was not in the original document at all!
Makes sense, thanks! I first heard about crush syndrome from an episode of House, and IIRC it ended up being a cause of death so didn't exactly learn how to manage it. Though I want to say the woman there was pinned from the waist down, which I'd imagine complicates things.
Ironic that this person claims GitHub UI was something to be proud of when it’s far from good UX when it comes to browsing code.

I do think it was very impressive in terms of functionality especially without relying on JS, possibly the most powerful and well crafted UI on the web, but still it was deeply flawed from a UX standpoint.

They lacked many critical features for viewing source code, like linking function definitions, or expanding directories without relying on a load.

I’m sure that the GitHub front end team was of the opinion that users should just clone every repo they interact with and use their own editors instead of the GitHub website. However this has always been a bit of a hassle compared to using the website, so I very rarely find myself doing this.
I dont understand what's going on but it looks like a hack to avoid code duplication. We should be OK with duplication sometimes because it's more explicit and straightforward to mingle and debug.
May I please have a link to the intercept report you refer to?
I've certainly listened to some fascinating documentaries on BBC Radio 4 on subjects which it would never have occurred to me to seek out. There's definitely some advantages to linear broadcast.