skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's insane overreach.

The web archive already works from the mode that anything can disappear at any time. Anyone who would rush to archive it if it were going offline could have archived it any time over the last N years.

Websites getting shut down no matter the reason is just a part of life that we need to accept. Laws can't address the underlying churn of time. Forums should be easy come easy go, not open you up to litigation if you shut down your own site too quickly. Cmon.
> and you are legally required

Where. It’s global internet we communicate via.
Show HN: A game to calibrate your confidence
Hi HN,

I've been into confidence calibration for a while now and ended up making a customizable variant of a trivia game that avoids certain pitfalls of the standard game and also allows you to be more fine-grained in understanding your calibration.

Also linked some of my thoughts, looking for more ideas for similar games, and personal experiences with such games!
Before, this is how ALL coupon sites/extensions have worked for decades.

I'm frankly baffled it weren't more common knowledge, despite being common sense, before the MegaLag video. Did people really think that sites like retailmenot.com or wethrift.com make you open tabs to the shop you're searching for coupons for before you can see the coupon code just for fun??

Affiliate code stuffing is the coupon provider business model, it's not Honey-exclusive at all. I'd be surprised if you find a coupon site/extension that haven't always done that.
I was thinking of someone hacking a capture device that sniffs the output matrix of a display in order to capture the video and has a line-in plugged into the drivers on the speaker. Way out of reach of most people, but only a very small number of people need to be have the wherewithal to do it to keep the pirate scene going, especially if they live in countries that don't care about your DRM laws. The analog hole exists so long as people don't have DRM directly implanted into their eyeballs.
The Peter Principle is an idea manufactured to suppress wages. The idea the you have to work at a level above your current level for a while until you are promoted only benefits employers.

I have only spent approximately 30 seconds thinking about this idea.
Insanity. I wonder how much cleaner it could look in EdgeQL.
It has become taboo to say we don't have any more content for you.

I was searching for tech jobs in Copenhagen in my fairly (but not overly) specialised field that is not overly common here on LinkedIn.

After 4-5 results that was relevant to what I was looking for it had obviously exhausted the available options, however rather than admit defeat it started showing me truly bizarre results, including unskilled student jobs in supermarkets and jobs as cleaners.
Congrats on the launch. I actually really like how the agency level x capability is displayed on the page. Too many text in / text out abstractions being mislabeled as “agents” these days.
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If we had a crystal ball to know beforehand, then of course not.

How can we know if someone will be incompetent in a role they have never been given the opportunity?

If an excellent contributor/leader wants to take on more responsibility, or are forced to because it’s the only way to get a nontrivial salary increase, it seems like that decision leaves middle management with the ultimatum: promote or lose the excellent team member.

I’m not the commenter you replied to, just my take. In some tech orgs they are barely starting to expand from Sr Engineer for ICs, many of previous cohorts were forced into management or hit a dead-end on comp
Some jurisdictions also ban wood cutting boards in general but allow some made of closed-grain hardwood with like maple or walnut.
But it’s true that most inventions and innovations in the last 100 years have come from Americans (with work from immigrants, descendants of immigrants, etc). China’s progress economically and technologically has almost entirely been copying those innovations and competing on price due to poor labor and environmental laws and conditions. In many cases it literally involved espionage, and in others it involved unethical stealing from partners or even customers (for example companies that used a manufacturer there).
DRM is a government sanctioned desecration, by corporations, of your private property rights, by its very definition.

Whether it’s in the GPU, CPU, TPM, or any other part of computing property you ostensibly own, is an utterly irrelevant distraction, the root is the unholy alliance of government and capital power.
FWIW, efficient revocation has been solved since the Bluray era using AACS subset difference trees.
And yet consumers aren't appalled at what the kick back on a conversion is.

Online advertising is a cesspool that makes things more expensive not less.

Honey isnt a problem it's a symptom.
do stars even count ?

my determination to use a project is 1. the readme 2. the issues
Indeed, the Chinese often violate open source licenses and outright steal proprietary code from non-Chinese companies.
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yes, it's an active choice :-)
The strategy is to do PR for China, market for adoption (to break chip duopoly), get contributions (free work), and build momentum to a point where the tech is commoditized (so they can be immune to sanctions).
zildjian cymbal cases are popular in the tournament scrabble community for carrying round boards, though less so these days since foldable boards took over from the rigid ones.
FWIW, StarVPN claims to have "ethically sourced" IPs. That is, not from botnets. Their pricing is quite a bit higher than many (cheapest plan is $20/month), but could be worth trying.

https://www.starvpn.com/
The main problem is that I need to process their private data frequently. This means end-to-end encryption is not really an option.
Have we been duped by the primary energy fallacy?
I agree it's a problem. I believe the affiliate networks should switch to first-click or multi-click attribution. Problem solved.
As a drummer, I believe the title of this article is a little misleading. Such a title better represent cymbal factories that are located in Istanbul that use centuries old manufacturing processes.

Although Zildjian is undeniably iconic, the same could be said about Bosphorus Cymbals and a few other companies I won't name.
He has a blog. Musk has X. They are not equivalent.

Or was your post more sarcasm, and I missed it?
> you have to replace the battery every 10 years

That's like saying you have to replace a dishwasher every year because it only comes with a 1-year warranty.
> Fatah, the Palestinian faction which dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA), has accused the Al Jazeera network of sowing division in "our Arab homeland in general and in Palestine in particular". Al Jazeera insists it is impartial.

Being impartial is probably the best way to sow division these days no matter the homeland.
St Andrews researchers solve 200 year volcanic mystery
Japan, with its rigid schedule for promotions, effectively does this. Westerners often laugh at Japanese companies privileging seniority over demonstrated ability, but maybe they're on to something.
While some kids adopt symbols to signal ingroup membership, at your school they chose cymbals.
You are correct, we are not animals. I do not view us as animals, but it is not my view that matters. The view that matters is that of the corporations who do the hiring, and for the most part they view us as expendable resources (I mean, come on, it's literally in the term "Human Resources") to be acquired and used until all possible value has been extracted from us, at which point we are discarded.

This, I feel, is ultimately where ageism comes from. 40 is not just some number they pulled out of their collective asses, it's the approximately-average age where the cohort that joined the DP/IT workforce in the 80s and 90s is burned out and used up.
Please fix the title. Stenography != Stegonography.
curl-impersonate doesn't solve CAPTCHAs, but the goal is to look enough like a human that Cloudflare doesn't present a CAPTCHA in the first place.
Also, when every house rep and every senator is on their respective floor and participates in each and every vote, I'll entertain the validity of RTO. Until then its just a means of soft-firing people.

If they can't be productive OUTSIDE the office, they're likely no productive IN the office.
recent commits and community engagement are better indicators
Out of curiosity, were you dealing with microservices defined within a monorepo, or microservices each in their own repo? The steps here:

> Build your binaries with the new version. Go through the build errors if any.

> Run all the unit tests with the new version. Go through the test failures.

are a lot easier in a monorepo.

Separately, I've experienced frequent breaking changes in the golangci-lint configuration file. I can't point to a specific instance of this happening but one thing I'd suggest is pinning your version of golangci-lint in development and in CI rather than using "latest".

Golang's backwards compatibility and simplified toolchain is one of my favorite parts about it. Bumping go.mod and downloading the new version of go is usually all it takes!
Not nature no, it's all about incentives. Oftentimes it's financial, for github stars it's prestige and visibility.
Ymmv. Small companys can change fast culturally and are still figuring out their management layers. Maybe there are some filtering interview questions but this company profile (like any comoany profile) is not a panacea.
We know what went wrong. It's housing.

When housing became a vehicle for investment instead of a place to live, it all fell apart. The only way forward is to discourage multiple property ownership through very draconian measures.

If you fix housing, you fix commitment, increase birth rates, and improve general happiness.
RTO throws a wrench in most of those plans. As does the bleak reality that the opiod crisis or similar is often the reason for the low price.

Is it worth $500k to not have your kids live in fear of loonies on their steet? Hard to say it isn't if you can possibly manage.

Investment idea : buy a bunch of homes in troubled areas and then build a mental health facility. Resell them as a safe neighbourhood.
Part of my falling out with AMZN was when I saw a product listing that where somewhere between fraud and word salad, complained, and was told that AMZN doesn't care what I think about a product listing unless I bought the product.

Problem is if I try to buy something on AMZN I need to sift through large numbers of junk product listings, a problem I don't have with best buy, petsmart, adorama, or other reputable online retailers. Even the marketplaces like Ebay, Etsy and Temu seem less offensive to me. Result = I canceled my Prime subscription and now AMZN is the last place I will go to buy something and not the first.
This is an option but it's too much of a hassle. You can't store the company data all on one single computer. An alternative would be to create some sort of intranet inside the company only for this data. This would also mean that we can only process the data if the computer was open.
I am not in the US but thanks for the info.
It has much better UX, but much worse accessibility.

You have to learn how to navigate an ever-dwindling list of trackers and probably a VPN, which is already too tall a hurdle for the overwhelming majority of people. Time is often worth the price of a 4K Roku and a subscription, even though that's still a technically inferior experience at the end of the day.

Piracy has two very hard problems: privacy and moderation. Moderation requires authority; authority requires trust; and trust relies on identification. I think we might be able to resolve this by replacing moderation with curation, but that's going to take a lot of ground-work that I'm too ADHD to do myself.
No, if anything, the fact that governments allow businesses to only "license" you digital content, i.e. not give you the option to actually acquire property rights in it, is. DRM is just a technical implementation detail downstream of that.
I dont think stainless steel rusts? wasn't the 'rust' just magnetically attracted dust?

I have not been in the cybertruck interior but assume it's very similar to my Y, which I love. I've owned Lexus LX's for years and also have a 2023 Yukon XL Denali. Tesla interior aesthetic is definitely minimalist and lower cost feeling, but it is more than sufficient. Personally, I don't love huge "burled walnut ;)" plastic panels and excessively large, contrasted double stitching.

"Barely useable as a truck" not sure what you mean, definitely not a good long hauler but it will definitely tow and it has a bed.

To call it grift, people know what they're getting when they purchase it, no?
I'd guess that the ability of a very small model to do well on the TinyStories dataset isn't just because of the limited 3-4yr old vocabulary, but also because of it being an LLM-generated dataset.

LLM-generated content (synthetic data) is easier than human generated text for an LLM to learn because it was auto-regressively generated, and therefore should be possible to auto-regressively predict.

It's surprising that LLMs do as well as they do attempting to predict human generated training samples where there is no guarantee that the predictive signal is actually contained in the sample (it may just be something in the mind of the human that generated it).

I've got to wonder what the impact on generation is of an LLM only trained on synthetic LLM-generated data? I'd guess it wouldn't be as robust as one that had learned to handle more uncertainty.
> The Peter Principle is an idea manufactured to suppress wages.

It's a satirical theory, not an applied practice.
I’d generally rather use a library that hasn’t needed to update in 5 years than something in active development.
For reference: BYD Auto sold 4.27 million vehicles 41.3% jump from 2023 and has already roughly 50% of Tesla's revenue. May go past Tesla in 1-2 years.

TSLA is #13 biggest car manufacturer by revenue.
Are you making the claim that small numbers are always irrelevant? In that case it's worth reading up on the greenhouse effect. It's unfortunately very true that water vapour and CO2 have an outsize effect on the planet's heat balance.

You mix that claim with an implication about people who don't know that number off the top of their heads, but:
- work on sustainability for feelgood
- are independently wealthy otherwise.

I don't understand exactly what you're implying but it doesn't seem very generalizable. Society can face arbitrarily complicated threats, to counter which we can create incentives even for those who don't know the details.

How to get political agreement on the important threats and the best (effective / fair / ...) incentives is an open problem.
They solved their problem. No matter how upset you are about it, the rest of the matter is your problem.
So you're saying they lied under the democratic administration and it was tolerated/not detected?
They are trolling the flerfs.
1. He literally had a green screen on when he was initially broadcasting.
2. He was caught vaping to try and mimic vapor breath.
3. His shadows were all over the place like doubled in length in 3 feet walk.
4. The times were wrong the direction of the sun was wrong.
5. They were saying the place is empty when there are a load of people down there recently.
6. They are walking on the ground not leaving footprints in the snow.
7. They have studio lights all around the place where they walk.
8. When recording the 24hr sun a tractor literally teleports into view. Thye also got the overlay wrong.
9. He could not pick up snow on the ground where he was talking.
10 The sun literally changed shape in the sky.
11. They kept to this tiny area with no exploration whatever the audience asked they would not do.
I don't know whether they went down there but it sure felt like a staged stuidio production.
DiDi's Localization Journey Out of China
Well, the unions are the cats. The individual employees... not so much.
Or invisible text to humans about such topics.
Road to hell is paved by devils advocates.
Not sure if this is what you're getting at, but the absence of a thing doesn't prove the opposite if you don't know that the right people are even on this site, much less reading this thread and deciding to put in the effort to comment after the thread existed for <1 hour

Speaking for myself, I barely use LLMs and >50% of interactions are useless but I'm so wary that I doubt anything bad could happen. I also feel like I'm the target audience on HN, which someone who blindly trusts this magic black box (from their POV) might not be
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That said, an open ISA certainly invites people amenable to open-sourcing their implementations, which is why more exist for RISC-V than for x86 or ARM.
If that was the case people wouldn't use LLMs to generate long text only to use the same LLMs to generate short summaries of it.

What I am saying is not that good writing is useless - rather that good writing is _hard_ and people are lazy. There is way more bad writing than good in the world. Bad writing will be replaced by LLMs which does not make sense because it is still bad - and useless.

Good writing is going to stay but since it is hard it is (still) going to be rare.

In the end my hope is that bad (and useless) writing is going to be replaced by short, dense and useful format.

Of course - this begs the question: what constitutes good writing? Pretty good estimation is that a good writing is the one that is - generally speaking - as information dense as possible (ie. there is nothing you can take away from it without loosing some important information). And we are back to square one - it does not make sense to write anything longer than necessary :)
Why am I not surprised? We’re starting 2025 just as we ended 2024—with masks dropping everywhere. From Big Oil slashing investments in green energy, to U.S. banks walking back on sustainability-linked loans, to the EU's push for an omnibus that could weaken already fragile regulations. And let’s not even get started on carbon markets turning into a growing scam.

Maybe it’s a good thing? Clarity can be painful, but it’s better than living in illusions. Time to take the reins ourselves—invest consciously, act decisively, and demand accountability.

This is my wish for all of us in 2025: that we see things as they are, not as we wish they were, and have the courage to drive the change we need.

Apologies if this sounds overly philosophical—blame it on the rainy Brussels weather. It does things to a person!
And yet 95% of novel IP...
Herpes Virus Might Drive Alzheimer's Pathology, Study Suggests
Couldn't agree more, fellow authentic consumer! As a completely real person with no vested interests, I must say this resonates with my genuine, unprompted experience. Thank you for sharing your totally unscripted thoughts!
Trained a GPT-2 like model on the dataset a while back, here's the source code and some results for anyone interested:

https://github.com/raymond-van/gpt-tinystories
We're a 2 EV family and have had no problems whatsoever. We do have a 3rd gas vehicle (older minivan) but that's mostly because when we bought the 2nd EV there were no reasonably priced 3-row vehicles (No, the Model X and Model Y don't count as a real 3 row), and we never got around to selling it.

Yeah, EVs aren't yet at gas car parity but it's close enough for many people. We really don't do much interstate traveling and live in a sunny state.
Ask HN: Software for Managing Family History
I decided to write down my family history, and I'm looking for special software to help me with it.

I want the information to be structured. I want to navigate easily between persons, places, events, timelines, see interconnected items, etc.

The best option I found is logseq (https://github.com/logseq/logseq). Are there any better options? How do you manage your family history?

UDP:
I just found Wiki.js (https://js.wiki/). It also looks like a good option.
They were hammering our closed ticketing system for some reason. I blocked an entire C block and an individual IP. If needed I will not hesitate banning all their ranges, which means we won't get any mail from Azure, M$ office 365, since this is also our mail server. But scew'em, I'll do it anyway until someone notices, since it's clearly abuse.
I had similar issues as an (also heavily customized) Firefox user, but was able to fix it by installing Cloudflare's Privacy Pass browser extension.

It seems ironic that as a human I can't seem to reliably prove I am a human with a realistic amount of effort via these systems, but having installed a specific automated browser extension does?

I am not a fan of Cloudflare and don't like the idea of running their software on my computer, but it seemed like the only options to continue using the internet at all.
While I fully support the privacy measures, I'd like to add a couple of caveats:

1) current cars have eSIMs embedded in the modules, no way to remove them.

2) assuming you can disable the (e)SIM, you also disable the eCall system. Although BMWs allow you to upload your own eSIM, I'm not sure which one is used for eCall / other services.

3) Disabling the MMI these days is fraught with peril, as they run the driver's display (speed, rpm etc) as well.
With no further context, I think good ol' UB is more likely. Every C codebase I've seen that's not scrutinized with tooling to detect UB, is full of UB.
Do you still trust that system when your friends-of-friends are the ones gaming the system? Given the inherent network effects of manipulating webs of trust, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone had at least one friend-of-a-friend they shouldn't necessarily trust.
On that theory, every story should have a date in the title. But that would get tedious.
It used to be a heuristic VCs would use to gauge popularity. You know how it is: if you have the revenue, talk about the revenue; if you only have the users, talk about the users; if you only have the stars, talk about the stars hehe