skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amusing and a bit bemusing to read these statements quite often.

If it was truly the case, there wouldn't be any PL research anymore. :o)
Apart from the LLM bs, it looks like spammers exploit the fact that they can submit bug reports at no to little cost, while the maintainers have to spend a significant amount to triage the reports.

If this spamming goes out of control, then I think it will be inevitable that maintainers will need to charge money to triage bug bounty reports to balance this out somewhat. This would obviously suck for all legitimate parties involved.
> Those parents need to find solutions that don't involve forcing their morality on others

I believe forbidding these ads is morally good, but it's not just morality. It's knowledge backed by studies:

- children are easily influenced

- burgers cause public health issues that harm the individuals, and cost greatly to the society in healthcare

It's not a stance like "I believe women should not abort because God" (to take your example). It's a law aiming to reduce costs and and improve public health.

This laws doesn't prevent parents from speaking about burgers to their children, and doesn't prevent TV from speaking about them neither. It's not a freedom of speech issue.

There's an imbalance between the power of the big corporations and the power of the individuals and this law pushes the needle a bit towards the individuals. You the individual freedom defender should be happy with this :-)
enjoyed chatting about wcw vs wwf, sega vs nintendo rivalry

i miss those times. a/s/l

i feel like AI can be useful for nostalgia purposes.

my only real memory of Y2K is that all the PC stores like tiny and time in the UK all had a Y2K compliant sticker on their machines as a marketing tactic
Advertisers want more scale; consumers want no ads. You are in the middle to please no one.
"My government name is Charles Entertainment Cheese, but people on the street call me Chuck E. Cheese."
I would want to see what the enemy is thinking, what is his question he got right
Also some other minor things:
- Maybe health should not go to negative
- How long to charge my move?
- Maybe there could be a timer for a special attack?
Needs a bit of an edit to: Engineering is hard and getting customers to like it even harder
I went from climbing into my car to climbing mountains so definitely better :)
> With social media you're democratizing the megaphone, with, of course, all of the negative side-effects of giving the average Joe that sort of power.

That's an illusion.

Users see only what the underlying algorithm has decided will increase their engagement.

This behind-the-scenes curation of content all but eliminates this democratization you speak of.
> Dont tell people to change. Its a red flag of intellectual bankruptcy.

Are you telling people to change?
I recently read blackhat python. I feel it has not aged well as large parts are dedicated to issues that are no longer relevant.

I don't see this book doing the same mistake. On the other hand, I dont know if I want to fight the borrow checker for weeks instead if throwing together a quick script in python...
How do you know that story is true? Would the police say if they made a mistake? Would anyone be able to find out the truth or accuse them?
Whether it's a good solution or not is dependent on your effort/utility curves. And it's a social network with low switching cost: I don't need a long-term solution. One day I will stop using it and it will cost me nothing to do so. So it only matters that it works now.
Isolated from each other, but not from your data.
Changing face doesn't matter. You will simply not be allowed to enter some area without a successful scan.
> With social media you’re democratizing the megaphone

No, you aren’t. The megaphone is controlled by the owner of the social media network, not the user.
It means a good security research company might make $500k for a good researcher, if they could bring in enough work to keep them 100% utilised. Less actually, given paid time off.
For sure, but most YAML you actually encounter does not use much in the way of JSON syntax, it looks a lot more like this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/wp-content/uploads/sit...

Where arrays and objects just look too similar (IMO), white space is significant, most strings are unquoted, etc. And personally I find it quite difficult to really understand what’s going on there, at a glance, compared to JSON (or JSON5).
The real issue is beyond the board.

If what you described above is true, well, good luck for competing with China's semiconductor sector given the US government is on its all out war with China on semiconductors.

Surely the Chinese can repeat what they achieved in EVs.
By that logic, how do you know any crime story from anywhere in the world is true and not just a cover up by cops?
Exactly. I still have to call foreign phones, but not regularly enough to really wanting a subscription. It can be 500 minutes one month and then close to zero for several. Pay as I go seems the right choice. But there seems to be no competition in that market. My cell operator charges something like 20-30 cents per minute and Internet-based services close down one after the other.
Fan Translation and ROM Hack Site CDRomance Is No Longer Being Updated
I live in perpetual fear for the day Google sends voice to the graveyard with 30 days notice
I was probably fixated on this:

> Definitely made me suss of all the ergonomic keyboards and mouse
Starbucks Japan is calling it quits with paper straws
the website link appeared in the quoted results when googling napol-webug, at least for me.
I read it as useless exaggeration used to incite the outrage.

It feels correct for young, starry eyed devs.

But then I have to deal with bunch of assholes in workplace who read that kind of shit and think they have to be edgy and always right and only “right things” have to be done.

That is the whole context you should read here and why people don’t like Bob’s stuff.

Other thing was Linus and his code reviews - I had at least couple of guys thinking they were Linus when what they worked on was yet another off the mill CRUD app. Good for Linus he finally understood what toxicity is and toned down.
ugh this kind of stuff just makes me wish DNS was less centralized, even though it's already incredibly uncentralized.. of course it's just all registrars just being a weak point.. as always
Google voice is a US-only thing.

Not sure whether that's bad or good. At least I am not tempted to sell myself to Google.
> For sure, but most YAML you actually encounter does not use JSON syntax

So what? YAML can be trivially mechanically translated between flow and block syntax.
Religious laws and convictions have been born from similar situations.
Breaking Bad if Hank teamed up with Walt.
https://archive.is/GfA6U
Y2K was not an imaginary problem, there were real bugs, which for the most part got fixed in time.
> The standard implementation is pretty simple: the different variants of a sum have a tag that tells the runtime which variant they are, and hence where to find pointers.

That won’t work in Go, because it would not be safe. You would need to coordinate the change with the concurrent garbage collector. It’s not designed to do this. Redesigning it to do this would be non-trivial.

Go already has a lesser-known safety problem similar to this involving interface types, but that safety problem is at least avoidable if you write code without data races in it. With the union safety problem, the data race is harder to avoid.
One can get lost in details about characters, corporate cultures and malfunction.

The very big picture seems to be that the company that for decades defined what computing looks like could not cope with the end of the exponential era that it embodied.

After the fact even outsiders know that in the post-exponential era there are two games in town: fiddling at the high end with complex to build and code parallel/vector units and similarly fiddling at the low end with very low-power units for ubiquitous mobile, iot etc.

These bifurcations were no secrets or sudden events, but had long and observable incubation.

Missing both those megatrends when you are the superpower at the very center of the industry seems (on the surface) like remarkable incompetence but that is maybe too easy.

The high-end is particularly intriguing because Nvidia'approach feels more like a monster created by Intel's failure to deliver what the world needs than the optimal design for high-end computing.

Understanding the deep causes of this falling from grace would invaluable for those wondering what the dizzying technology ride has in store for us.
excuse me? what makes you say this?

subsonic low calibur suppressed rounds don't cycle well. going for the slide without hesitation means the shooter has had weapons training imo.
And we might see more organizations prioritizing substance over spreadsheets
Good question: When you encounter information, how do you determine the likelihood of its accuracy?
How is it lightweight to scan entire disk every week?
Noise Filtering Using €1 Filter (2020)
Given that hundreds of millions of people living in it had to go outside to shit in an outhouse four decades ago, but are now living first-world and nearly first-world lifestyles, you tell me if any of that wealth made it to them.

People tolerate the CCP because of the clear material gains they have seen in their lives. If some strongman authoritarian stood with a megaphone on Main Street and credibly promised Americans one tenth of that gain in prosperity, they'd elect him dictator for life.
>If you’re a passive investor, you vote in line with the two proxy powerhouses.

As a passive investor in SWPPX, an S&P 500 index mutual fund from Charles Schwab, "my" Intel stock votes are whatever Charles Schwab deems appropriate.
Right. Google has the same problem. Any time they create a new product, it’s a coin flip on whether or not it’ll still be around in a year or two. I’ve steered multiple companies away from Google’s offerings because I just don’t think you should trust that any of their newer products will still be around in 5-10 years.

Good on them for sticking with their promises for firebase. But it’s a pity about stadia. Don’t bet your business on a flip of the Google coin.
I confess to still using skype w two old friends, mainly because i resisted getting a phone until a few months ago and couldn't text by SMS. But I'll be unsurprised when microsoft finally pulls the plug
Workerqueue.ts (54 lines, lightweight TypeScript worker queue)
What's this about hashcat performance being orders of magnitude different depending on arg order? Is it scanning the argument line for target pattern with every execution?
My credit was credit from using bing. I use to use it on the rare case of needing to call my bank. (I live overseas)
2^(12*4) is 281,474,976,710,656 possible 12 character strings so seriously impressive that it can look through that many in an hour.
I think the quote [1] is technically on point:

> A GPU is really built for a very specific class of workloads. Generally those have been called thoughput workloads. So it does lots of floating point processing and matrix operations. So it's very dedicated for things like graphics, matrix, and now has worked out to be uniquely good at things like AI.

This is all very true. He does seem to underplay the usefulness of GPU in HPC style workloads, but that is inferable from the throughput and floating point and matrix.

[1]: https://youtu.be/d07wy5AK72E?si=XfjMotKH5xf0ti9m&t=35
Great. So now the only useful feature and why I keep Skype around is removed? I need this every 1-2 months where I need to make an international phone call. I am on different country every 2-3 months and my call can go to Europe, US or Japan. Skype credit was just amazing because I'd charge a 100 bucks and consume as I needed. Sometimes I need 30 seconds and sometimes it can be a lengthy 20 minutes.

I don't understand this. Their new "plans" require that I subscribe to a full plan, for example, to call India? Does anybody have any good alternative?
I wonder how this compares to H3. Why does H3 has pentagons as well, and this doesn't?
when you upgrade from sha1 to sha256 but you don't want to change your data format for storing the integrity checks / keys.
I'm only responding to the content of the posted article, which doesn't speak of the website owner putting their thumb on the scales to advance a particular narrative. I'm happy to advocate against that.

But if the algorithm responds equally well to highly engaging posts from team A and team B, then ultimately the algorithm is fair, there's a level playing field. Would I prefer it if it boosted boring academic papers about nothingburgers that nobody will ever read? I suppose so, but clickbait is the content humanity wants to engage with, regardless of medium. It's up to each team to make sure that their comms are written in a way that cuts through the noise, like with any other form of marketing.
It's what my mum's learned to use, so it still has a place in my life.

The credit is useful when she's not on skype and I can use a few cents (if that) to dial her landline from the other side of the world and say "Hey, turn your computer on!". It's true this is no longer that special - I get a few hours international calls for free with my mobile plan these days so I don't need-need skype for it.

I imagine the reason they want to move to a subscription model is that there are too many people like me - $10 credit lasts a few years and probably represents a liability on their books as well as a customer they aren't getting any more money from for some time.
Discussion (8 points, 1 day ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42354908
I remember Skype being used by everyone for everything up until 2016-2017. Even when meeting people online it wasn't uncommon to exchange Skype handles so that we could voice chat. Then it really just... disappeared.
WhatsApp. Completely free, and every person or business in large chunks of the world (minus a few notable exceptions like the USA) is on it.
>Then TSMC quietly reached parity with 7nm

The true embarrassment was when SMIC (read: China) reached 7nm and thereby surpassed Intel last year (or was that 2022?).

Intel then proceeded to waste CHIPS monies and other aid on five digit layoffs and now ousted the one CEO who ostensibly at least had the right idea.

At this point I want to see Intel fail (and Boeing too), American Exceptionalism(tm) absolutely needs to have its longass Pinocchio nose broken in half before we have any hope of rebooting ourselves.
Yep shared in other comment, keep an eye on repo - will have updates in new year post hackathon judging
I don't think this article, or the underlying claims, are (yet) credible. I'm disappointed that the Washington Post wrote about this at all, and that people I respect a lot have amplified it on Twitter.

The claims come from an MBA student graduating from Stanford this year, who plans on starting a developer tooling company. [1] The faculty member (a professor of psychology) who supported this work doesn't comment at all on the claims made by the student; their single quote in the article instead emphasizes how difficult it is to measure productivity.

The claims are based on, from their own description, unpublished ongoing research. There's no description of what data they gathered, what their methods were, or how they assessed accuracy anywhere. (For starters: how did they identify who a software engineer was in each of the companies in their dataset? How did they exclude data scientists, or technical writers, or other engineering-adjacent folks who in some companies need to commit infrequently? How did they identify remote workers, and handle workers transitioning between roles or working arrangements?)

Without this extremely basic information, I think it makes sense to just ignore it. It's possible that it'll eventually pan out as real! But definitely not yet. Wild that people are taking it seriously.

[1] https://poetsandquants.com/2023/02/21/from-middle-school-dro...
This is a fantastic blast from the past! This site an absolute nostalgia trip!
Show HN: Looking for Volunteers for DemoDay
Hey YC fam ,

I'm Ved, I'm the founder and CEO of DoShare - Privacy Focused Offline First Cloud Storage. We applied to YC last two batches and got rejected, and it's not just you roughly only 2% of the total applicants get selected for YC's in person events. But there are a lot of awesome startups that get left out each year, or worse get closed due to financial reasons or not enough momentum from users, we've particularly faced this problem.
And ever since the launch of AI, there is more than average bias while selecting startups by VCs and Angel Investors, initially I was very much interested in YC because they offered fixed valuation for early stage startups which is what all "a founder can really dream of", but recently comparing their mission of "Make Things People Want" to stats of new batches it seems they want more top b-schools students, but this is YC, they keep experimenting with startups and that is also one of the things what makes YC great.
But due to this many great ideas fail to take off, and very dumb ideas(idk) can gain very much attraction before failing, so, in the spirit of Christmas and New Year, I'm hoping to provide startups all of us a second chance at exploring.

So, we're launching demoday.live a 4 week long demo event focused on indie-founders, solo-builders and bootstrapped startups. Here's what you should not expect from this event:

- 100% ensured funding

- Unbiased Decisions (we'll try to be fair)

instead:
- A platform to (re-)launch your product/company
- Introduction to community (probable beta testers and reviewers)

- An experience of YC Demo Day
- Think of it as Show HN but live

Based on volunteers and various resources we will help you improve your pitches and help them bring across investors, startup enthusiasts, and other people interested in your field.

If you're interested in volunteering this event (i.e. totally remote), we require people to for building tech stuff and media promotion, designing plus operations, you will be part of team that is managing infrastructure and ensuring people are able to join and interact with founders and startups.

Join us on Discord - https://discord.com/invite/gu2uqMPpPt

If you're a startup and are interested in sponsoring the event you can send a mail at support@doshare.me with the title containing "[DemoDay Sponsor]"

If you want to apply for DemoDay Live send your application to support@doshare.me with title containing "[DemoDay Apply]" with detail about your startup including product links, pitch, how you started, revenue, industry and your contact information(we will get back to you in 2 days).

Note: DemoDay Live will be held every weekend for next 4 weeks, depending on the week you apply in you will be provided a slot to present your pitches.

If you're a tech junkie like me save the dates 14 December and 15 December for first DemoDay it will be held at demoday.live from 12:00 GMT

*Highly Inspired by OpenAI / Supabase Launch Week and YC Demo Day
Climate crisis deepens with 2024 "certain" to be hottest year on record
"I want to be rich" culture. Which worked very well for years.
> In some parts of the internet
> leaky gut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_gut_syndrome
I guess it depends on how you view it.

For me, it stopped doing what it always did for me, when MS bought it.

It used to be dead simple, make calls on shitty airport wifi. Chat messaging that worked reliably.

I used it for dead simple group messaging at work and personal use - desktop, laptop, phone. Send a message and it'd arrive.

Then in something like 2015 that all started to break. I'd send a message from one computer, and it'd only deliver to one of the recipient's devices. Then the replies from that device would only go to one of mine.

Neither had complete message history. Sometimes they would sync up, but then other times not.

It resulted in an argument with someone who thought I was slacking off and ignoring them. It took comparing message history in person to find out that half the messages I sent them were not on their device and vice versa. Even signing out/in again didn't show the missing messages.

Calls started doing similar things where I'd call someone, it'd time out. I'd message them asking to call me back when they were ready, only to find out that they hadn't seen the call come through at all and were waiting for me to be ready.

Eventually we gave up on it for work - moved over to Slack for messaging and something else for voice when we needed it (This was before Slack had voice functions).

The few friends I still spoke to on Skype went over to something else, too.

So, if someone suggested connecting using Skype I wouldn't laugh at them, but I also would suggest just about anything else.
The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.
My elderly grandmother who lives in the Bay Area uses Skype daily to talk to her sister in Hungary. I bought her an iPad a few years ago and loaded $50 of credits on it. I check her balance when I visit and occasionally top it off. Now I need to set up a monthly subscription??

As an aside, Skype has a terrible iPad app for accessibility. My grandmother can’t see very well anymore and needs the font to be increased a lot. The iPad Skype app doesn’t do well at large font levels. The interface spills out all over itself and it’s unusable. Microsoft badly needs usability testing.
Thanks to the author for not burying the lede. This is how an informative article should look like and it was a joy to read.
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Truncated hash functions are not vulnerable to length-extension attacks. But you usually take SHA512 and truncate to 256 bits. Anything shorter than this isn't really considered safe these days.
Elon Musk's X launches image generator Aurora
1. Brave doesn't inject ads into websites and never did.

2. https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=BrendanEich

Please look into it yourself, don't make others do the thinking for you.
The moskovia... the moskovia
I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar.

- Namecheap

- Cloudflare

- Route 53 (if on AWS)

Any others?
Parallelizable workloads are going to be the vast majority of computational workloads in the future. Therefore, calling them a "very specific class of workloads" misses the mark in my opinion.
The company I work for (full time contract) uses Skype as their communications platform. Besides notifications sometimes being wonky and getting false missed call notifications (this only happens like once a month), it works well. I also have like $4 in credit left, I sometimes use it to call foreign numbers. It's a shame, really, since it works well and I in no way need a subscription because I use maybe $1/year in credit.
I was just thinking a few days ago that it is surprising flappy bird didn't get invented much earlier. In terms of complexity it seems to be somewhere between pong and Asteroids. Games like Pac-Man and steet fighter are much more complex. Yet flappy bird came out in 2013. Wikipedia puts "Helicopter Game"[0] from 2003 as the first game with flappy bird's game mechanic.[1] That still seems a bit late to me. Am I missing something?

[0] https://helicoptergame.net

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird
You switched to C?
Because the US would withdraw weapons access immediately and - there was a tit- for tat situation implicitly, you attack my refinery, i attack your dam. But moscow has run out of tat. They have destroyed all they can destroy, after the 20th its payback time.