skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, none of my Go wasm projects worked with TinyGo (maybe reflection support is better now, but I’m not going to start a new project in it just to find out midway that it’s yet another disappointment). TinyGo is not the language I want, but rather, an unclear subset of the language I want.
This is a worthwhile read (especially the conclusion) for anyone worried about AI safety, the concentration of power, privacy abuses, censorship, and the likelihood for a few megacorps to take all the gains from this ongoing technology revolution. I am not sure if I agree with everything they say and conclude with, but think this is an important quote:

“Unless pursued alongside other strong measures to address the concentration of power in AI, including antitrust enforcement and data privacy protections, the pursuit of openness on its own will be unlikely to yield much benefit. This is because the terms of transparency, and the infrastructures required for reuse and extension, will continue to be set by these same powerful companies, who will be unlikely to consent to meaningful checks that conflict with their profit and growth incentives.”

We need a total rewrite of antitrust laws, privacy laws, copyright laws, and aggressive enforcement to avoid the coming concentration of power and information. Until then, it’s pretty disappointing to see everyone from Yann LeCun of Meta to Clem from Hugging Face misuse the term “open source” for mostly closed systems that only share the weights (the output of the “compilation” process that is training). Meta/LeCun are basically open washing for their own gain. In contrast, AI2’s OLMo is an example of what real open source looks like:

https://venturebeat.com/ai/truly-open-source-llm-from-ai2-to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

El Salvador has over twice as many per capita as Cuba. USA has the most in absolute numbers, but China is not far behind.
..in these geopolitical times....
> even trying to understand the argument, I don't get it.

It's not that hard to understand: The proponents of the proposal own bitcoin, if a big whale buys bitcoin the price of bitcoin will go up since the supply is fixed, and there's no bigger whale than Uncle Sam.
Have you never worked at a multinational company?
Complex (who I believe does most of Qualcomm's reference designs) has some newer models out, if you are willing to go down market some.

Only 2x2 and lower power output, but they are powered off mini-pcie (and I think there are some m.2 models as well). https://compex.com.sg/shop/wifi-module/wle7002e25d-wifi7-11b...

Not required, but you can solder a Multi Link Operation wire between multiple cards (within a single system), to enable them to work in concert together (basically as a 4x4 or whatnot). In case you still really miss soldering extra shit onto your cards!!

Sponsored write-up, and longer/jargon-y-er than it needs to be, but still enjoyed this post: https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/11/07/compex-systems-wi-fi...
Microsoft is all about bad looks
I’ll be the jerk here: I’ve stopped reading articles that include the word "lesson" unless they provide tangible impact metrics—like how much money you actually made as an indie dev. I have skimmed the article and to me it is generic. It might sound harsh, but that’s the reality. Hacker News has become nothing more than a launchpad for new apps and services. These posts are often just veiled advertisements, like yet another "Show HN: Timelines.app."
> (e.g., to monitor employees) then that would arguably not be malicious.

If only there was a way to monitor company equipment without issuing a cert for a public 3rd party.
God you're dense. Who said I visited El Salvador? Even if I did, judge much? Are you on the way to jump off a cliff because of the arms we're gifting Israel?
A well working CPU is probably beside the point. What's important now is for researchers to publish papers using or speaking about AI. Then executives and managers to deploy AI in their companies. Then selling AI PC (somehow, we are already at this step). Whatever the results are. Customers issues will be solved by using more AI (think chatbots) until morale improves.
IMO, issuing a fake CA for one of the top (and highest risk) domains even once should be the end of that CA (and any other CAs managed by that org)
How did advancements enable GPT-4-level models on laptops in just one year?
The problem is that increasingly those cases ARE ideological or political / partisan - even openly admitted as such.

Dismissing it with "There's instances of it banks refusing service to folks who did nothing wrong. It happens. Either things get fixed or people part ways" implies it's just some random wrong decisions by individuals.
Why would you not want to see how your solar system runs? You can’t easily verify that it’s actually generating energy as you expect it to if you don’t look at the data
Bluesky implements a 'more aggressive' impersonation policy
Appreciate your confirmation. If you have any blog about double entry accounting (or accounting in general), I'll be interested to read it. I have nothing to do with accounting in my professional life but I've always been curious about it.
Incompetence: operating a CA is difficult enough that sometimes people fuck up, but if the CA is corrupted, then that’s much worse.
Not yet. The server is currently fairly simple and doesn't do much other than relaying ciphertexts (and MLS group welcome messages). It should be okay serving one user and several cameras, but is certainly not scalable. I have plans to improve its scalability, but that is not at the top of the todo list. I'll check out Cloudflare workers for sure. Thanks.
I think it has to do with the same reason this guy was put on a terrorist blacklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mayer_(historian)
the name was used as an alias by a terrorist. it makes more sense that chatgpt would be doing it because of this than any Rothschilds conspiracy reasons
An interesting glimpse into just how curated and monetized one’s life can be, played out in a lawsuit. As the article points out, it’s hard to have sympathy for them (although I do personally find the idea of mimicking another person’s life to this degree to be quite sad). Ultimately, the work these women do also endorses copying the work of others, something Amazon is notorious for, taking the irony to a whole new level:

> If the argument is that Sheil is duplicating Gifford’s existence, there’s something to be said about the fact that the items both of them promote are also imitations of someone else’s work.
Issues of '50s Magazine Galaxy Science Fiction
Yeah I also kinda misjudged the tone at the beginning of the post. Commented prematurely. As for the rest of it, I actually sorta agree?

I know people who got jobs for DoD contractors out of college and are still writing the exact same matlab programs they were a decade ago.

But also most developers I know who’ve worked in a startup or small company are very committed to learning new stuff and mastering some tools. So idk I guess it depends where you’re working.

> Heck, you could probably eliminate almost all dud candidates during technical interviews by asking what their favourite tech book is, then only talking to candidates where you know enough to check if they've read that book.

You know, I bet this would actually work really well…
I still think most VCs will feel that super thorough verification isn't necessary, and in retrospect I agree:

1. Cases like the All Here example are kinda baffling to me. It's like the founder jumped out of a window without a parachute and was like "This is fine! I'll learn to fly before I hit the ground." I think in cases that are as egregious as this, the fraud is eventually discovered, if only because at some point it has to become blatantly obvious.

2. If by some miracle the fraudulent founder does manage to "make it" before their "fake it" is discovered, well then, honestly good for them I guess. VCs tend not to get too angry if you make them a ton of money.

Point being, in cases like this All Here one, the "Frank" company fraud by CEO Charlie Javice, Theranos, etc. were all examples that were pretty much guaranteed to be discovered at some point (and pretty soon at that), because none of their tech had any hope of working in the first place.

As an analogy, it's also pretty easy to write bad checks, but they're also likely to be discovered very quickly, with the check scammer going to jail, so banks just consider it the cost of doing business.
Tried it out, works well on my Chrome Extension analytics.

But do you think Google will do something like this with Gemini eventually?
> I recently bought the expired domain of a niche interest site because the previous owner was determined to let it die and did not want to put any effort in it anymore. Is there a way I can "revive" it from archive.org in a more or less automated fashion?

Buying a domain name does not award you ownership of the content it previously hosted. If you have not come to some agreement with the previous owner, you should not proceed.
What's Going on with Astrobotix Technologies?
> The problem is not capitalism, it’s corporatism.

I can't agree with this, even though I think the corporate form has done more harm than good. While the idea of limited liability in exchange for a public good has some possible merit - building transport infrastructure was one of the original reasons they were created - giving away limited liability for nothing was a mistake. The shareholder value myth and corporate personhood have done even more damage. Nonetheless, not all capitalist ills are corporate ones. Many of the companies with the most capital doing the most damage are "shadow banks" - hedge funds, PE firms, etc. - which are run as partnerships, not corporations. They don't even issue stock, let alone care about its price. Also, nobody qualified to be opining about this could be unaware of the damage hyper-rich individuals are doing and will continue to do regardless of whether corporations are involved. Infinite accumulation of capital (and political power to go with it) is a problem, the corporate form is a problem, there's some overlap and they're both anti-free-market, but neither should be dismissed to focus on the other.
I don’t think it can be just anything. I experienced some discomfort this morning but I cannot speak to any consequential personal growth. I can tell you however that the Samyang Buldak instant ramen live up to their fiery reputation.
Since the article jumps around a lot, let me add one more;

Software is an amazing passion, but a terrible job.

Imagine you love music, play the piano for hours every day, then once you grow up someone pays you a huge salary just to play. You're in heaven.

Now imagine someone who loves classical music, but can't play. You see the fortunes being made by piano players, so you decide to learn. Which takes years of doing tedious stuff like learning scales. Then you get a job playing hip-hop (a music style you abhore) for a band you don't like... Then you discover the business crap of "music business".

Programming is the same. If you love it, it's fantastic. But to those in it for the salary it's a mind-numbing hunt for tiny bugs, days spent searching for a missing comma, wading through the same old crud, doing the same task over and over, locked to a desk, dealing with sub-par teammates, inflexible management, projects that get canceled, crunch time, stupid users (and I can go on.)

The passionate thrive because the joy dwarfs the pain. (Also, because they tend to be -very- good so can largely ignore the bullshit. They're paid well doing something they'd do for free.

As a -job- though, every part of it is objectively terrible. From the interview to the firing. (Go on, write a job description of what you do all day. Now consider that description in light of someone who doesn't actually -like- programming...it's terrible right?)

Naturally there's good money in it. If it's not your passion, then by all means, do it for the money. Find your joy elsewhere, that's OK, but do find it. Because without that joy elsewhere, what good is all the money in the world?
I'm not merely comfortable acknowledging it, I specifically took the time to demonstrate how the outcome was property-type-independent by explicitly going over what happens when we remove the property from the example but leave everything else unchanged. If you contend that the breaking of the agreement is somehow equally superfluous, then I think it's on you to demonstrate that through a similar analysis. You seem pretty confident this is the case, but I am skeptical given that the story only really had two components: the property in question, and the agreement with regard to the property. They can't both be inconsequential details fleshing out an otherwise empty story, right?

But either way, I think the point that immediately follows that is even more important, right? The fact that the nature of the ownership, even in a "successful" transaction, is incredibly more complicated with the drawing. How the we don't even properly understand how much "ownership" you have of the drawing without a contract. How that transaction potentially puts you in direct competition with Alice in the future. Etc. etc. Again, the entirety of my position is the fairly narrow statements that: 1) intellectual property is fundamentally different from physical property, 2) you thus cannot simply model intellectual property transactions by merely pretending you're dealing with physical objects (since there's fundamentally more dimensionality and ambiguity without explicitly outlining and agreeing to way more terms and details), and 3) intellectual property thus naturally requires significant infrastructure in order to create an environment that gets anywhere close to simulating the same "physical-like" properties for intellectual property. I don't think that's controversial.
They are not transparent because it is based on enabling sales.
Go back to manually produced works - old movies, old books, indie stuff untouched by AI. The web wont be saved at this point.
lol, I'm still on 802.11n !
It’s too hard to sit longer than 1h, its shape is just 10 light years away from what your body feels like a natural or comfortable sitting position. Its lumbar support and back shape in general is terrible in every possible way.

It feels like people who make it never actually use it.
Super interesting. What did you have to modify and tune in goofyfs and catfs? Did you consider using Lustre at all?
Competence can put you in a lonely place. In the best case, you get talented junior developers to train, and then you lose them because they’re too good to be concentrated with you in one part of the organization, or because they realize how badly underpaid they are. Regardless, you may never reach a point where anybody can meaningfully critique your work.

Edit: this is not to disparage competence. It sure beats the alternatives. Go read a book. Please don’t let it be Design Patterns, that one has already done enough damage.
You know testing stuff like example.com ...
I love GitS, but is this post just blog spam?
It’s not becoming the users that are the decision makers. A few CTOs could make decisions based on this
> It should be straight from the source and thus the highest fidelity.

Sure, if nobody ever lied.
Am I the only one who doesn’t even want their router to have wifi?

I’d rather use wifi APs connected via PoE to a switch which is connected to the router.

I feel like router and wifi should be separate so that I can expand and upgrade the wifi independently of the router.
Seems like a great resource but I would have hoped a site focused on UI would have proper z-indices for the main menus.
For as big a country as Brazil? Totally. I've worked at companies that had minor code freezes for all sorts of holidays in countries we had a big client presence in, specifically to avoid releasing changes to client that wouldn't have engineers in-office to adapt to them.
> Iaonnidis's estimates of IFR in the 0.1% to 0.2% range were much closer to the mark.

The problem is, that was not his estimate for the IFR. It was his estimate for the CFR.

He was predicting 10k dead in the US, which was off by two orders of magnitude. I don't know that anyone was further from the mark than him.
I think the distinction here is how the data are made available to the owner.

E.g., it could have an embedded web server accessible only on the owner's local network, a local display panel, some USB thingy, etc.
This came from the less competent conservative government to be fair, although the current one is still very flawed.
For me HN is definitely less valuable than reading a book (obviously) but a lot more valuable than scrolling Reddit or social media.

I think you get a lot of knowledge kinda by osmosis that you would never get otherwise. Like I have a pretty good knowledge of the programming landscape despite only having worked with a tiny fraction of the tech. Gives you more knowledge of “what’s out there” and “what to google”.

But you could probably get 95% of that osmosis with like 10% of the scrolling time lol. In general HN is a good use of time, but usually I am specifically wasting time
Both have Mediatek IC's so I don't see your point.
Ask HN: Cooking classes (mainly Asian) in SF?
I was born/raised Bay Area. My parents are boomers and cuisine was watch leave it to beaver.

I’ve learned to cook, do some things well, some things not so well.

The joke with my wife is she can cook four things well.

Her kid and partner are into Asian fusion, dumplings would be the base. I can do Italian cooking well, but both want to learn and delegate.

Any recommendations for holiday gift card/class planning - plans into the new year?

I think deferring to a third party and supporting is the best way to help them level up, it’d be the kiddo, her partner, and her mom.
These roms are not rooted as they consider rooting a security hole (which it is if you don't know what you're doing)
Second this recommendation. They also publish a bunch of their software on GitHub: https://github.com/victronenergy - makes it much, much easier to figure out what the hardware is capable of even if you never venture beyond cabling various boxes together.

I helped a neighbor replace his Magnum system with Victron a couple years back; sadly, the former company has abandoned its roots and produces hardware that is neither well-designed nor robust. The documentation still smells like it was written based on some EE's napkin notes though.
Ask HN: Software with no Open-Source alternatives
After seeing the great Rust security camera software project on the front page today, I started thinking about other software with no open-source alternatives. That is, are there still many industries (or just individual tasks even) that are necessarily locked into proprietary products because of complexity/cost of development, lack of interest outside of a niche of industry, or whatever other reason.

Would love to hear any anecdotes about peculiar instances of this or any other examples that are not obvious to the average dev!
That’s laughably wrong. Exclusive distribution rights are probably enforced more strictly in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world. They are governed by contract law. In addition, many product categories need to be demonstrated as safe to the right licensing agencies before being sold, not after.
Sure! Sorry for saying something probably totally wrong -- I don't know much about packaging at all. I opened an issue here https://github.com/neomacs-project/neomacs/issues/80
Why do you think the Chinese domestic market is more competitive than the US domestic market? Do Americans not also like having the best solar panels?
> In the US we've enthusiastically taken up arms against governments which did this type of thing

If by “enthusiastically” you mean “reluctantly”, then yes.
Google Maps app showing Waze incident reports
Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety
Yeah, I found that the menu contents would overflow behind the content on some pages, which is frustrating and ironic.

A workaround is to open the menu heading you wish to explore as a link in another or same tab, then explore the contents on the resulting page.
Of course they are but it's mostly a factor of social status, not heritage. Immigrants are often poor.

In the days before we had many immigrants we also had bad neighbourhoods but they were occupied by less well off local people. That also ended up in prison disproportionately much.

What drives this is social inequality.

I do think we should limit immigration from really poor countries somewhat though as it's just not sustainable. Prioritize real refugees. But crime isn't really the reason.
That’s… reductive. Government isnt either an amorphous entity when referring to a single one, and isnt an amorphous concept when referring to many

For the people that sell bitcoin, sovereign institutions will be amongst the exit liquidity

the sovereign's problem is that nobody, or less people, will want to be exit liquidity for their fiat

its fine that your patriotic indoctrination makes that an absurd concept to imagine about a government you respect, but there are also governments you dont respect and where this has already occurred, and that's going to continue occurring as they all compete for exit liquidity of their fiat
There are fiber PON/ONU/UT/$JARGON in shape of an SFP module, though most customers don't appreciate such offering and therefore it'll be an upsell.

As for why not USB specifically, probably because such a device is inherently much faster and responsive in upload to the Internet than downloads, and therefore it makes less sense.
That's my preference as well. Keep the router simple, don't put a transmitter near the sensitive bits to cause interference with the CPU, ethernet, or USB bits. I want my AP to be dumb and do nothing besides connect ethernet to wifi clients. That way when you need more coverage you add APs, newer WIFI upgrade only the APs, etc.
> It's like the founder jumped out of a window without a parachute and was like "This is fine! I'll learn to fly before I hit the ground." I think in cases that are as egregious as this, the fraud is eventually discovered, if only because at some point it has to become blatantly obvious.

I think their goal was to use false figures to attract investment that would lead to real revenue that would eventually cover up the alleged fraud. If they managed to build a good product and find market fit and revenue with their Series A funds, maybe it would have worked. What’s weird though is that all these investors didn’t do basic diligence to confirm the money flows that were claimed. It’s a bit different from the Theranos fraud, where the fraud was around the effectiveness of a highly complicated and secretive product rather than revenues that are easy to confirm with bank statements.
>And their team is really overloaded with Americans that immigrated to Australia for non-career reasons.

Which is ironic given how bad everything has gotten since the end of covid. From my circle of friends _everyone_ has left and I'm half way tempted to move to Switzerland to work for a competitor in the field who offer American salaries with European social services.
Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons
One minor detail; in his writeup, Mr. White describes his legal representation of the Defendant as "pro bono":

>We agreed to represent her pro bono, meaning we’d only get paid if we won the anti-SLAPP.

However, this arrangement more accurately falls within the realm of a contingency fee arrangement. Traditional pro bono representation refers to services rendered without expectation of compensation, regardless of the outcome of the case.
He's a rather an extreme example and probably not applicable to most situations we are involved in. Most things in life only required consistency and adherence to long term effort to achieve 'success'.
In 2024. React is probably the worst choice you could make when creating a new web application.