skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parasites you should be worried about are memes (in the biological meaning - an idea that forces host to reproduce and spread it - not "a funny image" meaning).

We already have such ideas that change human behaviour on massive scale and cause millions of deaths.
All “wrongthink”? Like if someone expresses suicidal thoughts, the bot should say “whatever, do what you want”?

I disagree. Apps are products with an editorial component. Editorials should be opinionated. It is passive and immature to simply not care how one’s products are used. Oppenheimer and Alfred Nobel have wise words on this topic.
What I need in a desktop environment
> Slotted pages are composed of three components: a header (containing metadata about the page), cells (variable-sized “slots” for data to be stored in), and offset pointers (an array of pointers to those cells). The benefit of this layout is that you can store variable sized data, since the cells can be of variable size, and you don’t need to move that data to logically reorder it. Reordering the positions of the pointers in the pointer array is sufficient. This is inexpensive since the pointers are small, and in a well-known position at the beginning of the page. In other words, as long as the offset pointers are ordered in key-sorted order, it doesn’t matter where in the actual page the keys are stored.

Does that really make a difference if we have to re-write the entire tree node anyway, even if it's just for reordering the pointers (because node == page)?
It is interesting how people always come up with anecdotes like this but none of them try repeating the experiment multiple times.

You might think the pool fencing example might be an extreme coincidence, but far weirder things happen every day. And what made your friend consider pool fencing as an example if they don't like pools? Maybe something they saw recently gave them the idea? Hmm...
In the Netherlands and Flanders the week-long school break in late February/early March is called the Krokusvakantie (crocus vacation).
What? Do you know you can code for yourself and not for your employer?
> Each Unisys ICON came with its own monitor and a very robust keyboard with a trackball embedded in it.

The trackballs were robust indeed.

Due to the client/server nature; a classroom of kids logging in at the same time could take several minutes and most of that time would be filled with a classroom of 7 year olds spinning the heck out of the tennis ball sized trackball.

One more knowledgeable teacher once told us that the this probably made the computers slower because each time you do something it has to pause and decide what to do. I guess he understood interrupts somehow.

But that logic doesn’t work on 8 year olds with a trackball and nothing else to do.
Used to be a paid user of Cursor.

Now I use Windsurf, $10/month, as an early backer

But recently impressed by Cline + Deepseek/Gemini

VS Code's free Copilot is also good for smaller tasks, as it has Claude 3.5, but Copilot very slow, no image support.

So if I need something more comprehensive, especially global view and planning, I'll use Windsurf.

VS Code Copilot is good for the simplest tasks.

Cline is in the middle, flexible.
Honestly I know very little about photography but I can easily tell the difference between photos on an iPhone 10 vs 13
I'm quitting pieces on why people are quitting.
> There's something essentially wrong with Meta and Google where they can do tech but not products anymore.

Because AI is the hype thing and adding AI to your thing makes the stock price go up, because investors and stock evaluators don't know what AI is, nor do they care. They just know it's the hot thing and what you put in your product to make it look better to Wall St.

Meta AI, Google AI summaries, Apple Intelligence are all hilariously half-baked features designed to connect users with ChatGPT so the line goes brrrrrrr. Them being helpful, useful products that solve problems for users is a distant, distant next place to that.
Location: Toronto/Montreal Canada, Any US, Any EU, Any UK

Remote: Any

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Technologies: C++, Qt, GNU Linux, Python, Pandas, SKLearn, Swift, SwiftUI

Résumé/CV: https://jtagrgh.github.io/resume.pdf

Email: jakob.koblinsky@gmail.com

I’m soon to be a new graduate from Canada. I have roughly 1.5 years of internship experience as a software developer with C++ and Python. I’m personable and enjoy collaborating. I’m looking for a big change and so I’m happy to move to any of my listed countries. I currently have a UK Student Visa.
The next step will be to release bots that aren't labeled as bots. They'll be influencers (advertisers) without having to pay a person. They'll produce hyper targeted influencer slop, hocking products directly to individuals using Facebook's knowledge graphs of users to be incredibly manipulative. Companies will pay Facebook to make people siphon money directly to them.

It'll be like entirely automated catfishing.
Exactly. you get it. I would never trade that capability to go back to film. Going back to film is some hipster nonsense in my opinion, outside of someone trying to make art. You do you, but that's not the photography I do, or want to do. My photography is about connecting better to my past, and the trajectory of development over the past 20 years has been wonderful to me.

To go further: Given the failure of apple vision pro, I feel sad about the slowed adoption of Spatial Video. The experience of seeing the spatial video of a loved one who has passed on was incredibly profound for me -- in my specific case a beloved pet -- and I think it would be for many others too. Like live photos, spatial video brings an entirely new dimension and fidelity to my recorded memories, and they are priceless.
A few years ago everyone that had ever used a computer knew what a file and a folder was and could move a document to an USB drive.

Thanks to the efforts of Google to "simplify" smartphones the average young person now couldn't find and double-click a downloaded file if their life depended on it.

In the US, a manual car is considered an anti-theft device. In Europe, basically everyone that isn't obscenely rich has driven a manual car at some point.

People learn what they're expected to learn.
I suggest looking into the Obfusicated C contest before relying on your own reading of code to verify lack of malicious intent.
https://archive.ph/usfd5

To avoid HN hug of death on this 1832 users Mastodon instance.

Very cool arrangement of those pictures, i was wondering what he has done about the daytime pictures when i read the title.
Systems drive human behavior and determine human performance. Individual exceptionalism doesn't scale. The default of course is ineptitude, which is why it's so important to design systems that yield exceptionalism.

In the case of healthcare I don't think we are capable of building a system this large, prescribing every detail, while getting it right. It's like trying to plan an economy.
>I always find it slightly bizarre. I have tried to explain that culture and economy are interlinked. India's inequality and superstitious beliefs will keep the population poor.

These arguments are... unreliable to say the least. Back when east asia was poor, people made similar "culture and economy are interlinked" claims. Specifically, that confucianism was holding them back and keeping them poor. After the east asian miracle happened, people did a 180, and confucianism was a good thing led to their rapid growth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Asian_Tigers#Cultural_bas...
Many seem to believe AI will unlock a new era. The tech industry has a long history of making grandiose marketing claims. I've seen enough hype cycles to count myself among the cynics.

Do you believe that AI will offer the same productivity increases as general purpose computing, electricity or iron working?
Surely you're aware of all the proud red hats out there. Maybe Trump won because he's really good at this religion?
It was likely a hallucination, right? You didn’t check to confirm?

But this is a solved problem that Meta chose to implement poorly. It can be done right. I just asked o1 “create a diversity report for openai” and its very first paragraph is:

> Below is a *sample* diversity report for OpenAI. Please note that the numbers, programs, and initiatives are provided as *illustrative examples*. This report is not an official document, and the data contained here is *fictional* and for demonstration purposes only.
What city are ya in?
I find myself generally wondering the same thing about half the things coming out of SV over the past several years.

I have worked with competent product organizations. I know they exist. A few even exist in SV. But for some reason the largest players have just absolutely lost the plot beyond what can get them to favorable quarterly earnings, and that game eventually and fairly consistently doesn’t end well in the long term.

Meta in particular is clearly rudderless, lacking in vision and strategic leadership, and throwing whatever it can find at the wall hoping to find something that sticks. Facebook turned into a cesspool, Instagram isn’t as popular with the newest demographics Meta has traditionally wanted to court (young people), and Threads turned out to be a nothing burger. Their grand quest to unify messaging was a disaster, and mores the putty because they’ve basically delineated their ecosystem by demographic generation in what has to be an unintentional series of missteps. Their “metaverse” projects weren’t even compelling to the teams working on them, their foray into crypto was over almost as soon as it began, and their business products are a nearly unusable mess for those of us who have had the misfortune of using them.

You’d think eventually someone at Meta would hit upon an idea that goes somewhere. It’s like a more pathetic version of Google’s stagnation.
I just got in.
Vivaldi, started by the guy who originally was involved with Opera. I can't speak to the company or privacy features, since I haven't had enough time over the past few years to research it. But for my needs, it's flexible, easy to use, and not one of the big ones tied in with Google or MS, as far as I'm aware.
LLNL to lead research on advancing extreme ultraviolet lithography
Ffmpeg is in just about anything that deals with video, almost never with explicit mention anywhere you can find it.
Send them this https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html many people have started thinking differently after reading it.

Trend wise I think it is like organic food - 30 years ago, many of us laughed at paying extra for it ("what's wrong with regular food?") But over time we started caring what we feed our bodies. The same shift is happening with information. It will not happen over night but we're starting to care more about the quality (and incentives) of what we feed our minds.
Why would they make a special case for a Cybertruck? They don't say "fertilizer explosion" when a truck full of it blows up, or "[insert type of explosive] explosion" when a car bomb goes off.

That he rented a cybertruck and used fireworks instead of the traditional white van full of fertilizer is worth reporting.
Well, in web dev, people vacuuming up all of your code to feed a NN creates something that eliminates the tedious annoying parts and leaves the more interesting work. Conversely, even in the technical end of art, people vacuuming up all of your output to feed a NN eliminates the interesting, fulfilling parts and for professional tasks, leaves the existing tedious annoying parts, and even adds a few more, while devaluing the entire skillset. And then everyone in tech pretends they know more about your job than you do, and calls you a jerk for not being happy that SV companies killed your job market by offering C- results for F prices without the inconvenience of any of the people that created the initial “data” getting paychecks. So, considering the pros and cons, I think you made the right choice.
Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
This is fine as a beginner rule of thumb but it shouldn't be regarded as a universal truth about recursion. Its also possible for a simple evaluation without recursion to happen at infinity rather than at zero. In practice this usually means picking a large value of the input as a cut off point to apply an approximation or return a standard value instead.

For example, take an implementation of exp(x). The exponential function is defined as the sum to infinity of (x^n)/n!. This could be implemented recursively as exp(x,n) = 1+(x/n)exp(x,n+1). The challenge is to figure out the value (or criteria) for what value of n to cut this infinite evaluation short. Well, once n is larger than x all future terms will be multiplied by a factor less than 1. So pick some proportionality constant k such that if x is k times smaller than n (that is, x * k < n) then the remainder is presumed negligible and the function returns 1.

Another really nice example I know involves finding the resistance across a simple but infinitely repeating circuit. At very large n, there are so many resistors in the way that the contribution of the remaining circuit connected in parallel is basically nothing. So pick whatever value of net resistance R_N for an arbitrary cut off point N, then recursively find the net resistance in the circuit up to point N-1 connected in parallel with everything remaining in the circuit after point N.

There are other cases I can think of where the base case is actually the function converging (or becoming linear) for large rather than small inputs. And still other cases I know of where the function has more than one input argument, and thus it might make sense to increase the size in one input to reduce it in another etc.
I’ve always believed Microsoft Tay was a really idealistic, genuine, if bombastically naïve situation.
I mean all of the atoms in the universe are “just statistical magic” when viewed through a quantum lens. I’m not sure that phrase is as effective a dismissal as you seem to think.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: On a long enough timescale, everything converges to Erlang.
I was alive for the film -> digital camera transition. I was never anything close to a good photographer, but I tried. I read about composition, color theory, etc. and I tried to be inspired by great photographers. When I got a digital camera I just started taking image after image, selecting one of tens (rarely hundreds) of shots I really liked. And most everyone I know does the same... serendipity has replaced skill.

The producer of this video says he's encountered something similar between digital and analog audio / music production. When using high end analog equipment, it's somewhat hard to hear the difference between analog and digital, but the process leads to different artistic choices.

At work I am sometimes shunned because I like to talk about design and do thought experiments about how software works. On bits of infrastructure that seems critical, I do slow down the production to think more about what we're doing and do more tests up front. This might be the analogue in software production of what this video describes.

I remember in high school having to fill out COBOL coding pads (we wrote programs on paper before keying them in) and our pedantic instructor insisted that all working programmers wrote out a flow-chart before even thinking about touching a keyboard. (I'm probably on the old side of the HN demographic.) I think reverting to such practices would DEFINITELY alter your artistic choices in software. It would also make you very unpopular among anyone who wants to get anything done, so I can't recommend it.

Anyway... just something to think about. What other time-saving processes in software development can you identify that lead to different (not better, not worse, just different) outcomes?
Because insurance is one of the most nakedly capitalist business models around. The goal of of insurance companies is to make as much profit as possible by paying out as few claims as possible.
That's correct.

Turn off the ads (which is visual and aural pollution in 99.99999% of cases) and said company is literally not viable.

We accept ads because we're conditioned to, not because they represent a real business. The vast majority of advertising spend is inefficient and wasteful in terms of ROI. Most advertising in the space show substantially low statistical power, in effect being unable to identify an effect from random noise.[0] This means ROI measures are normally bunk.

Ad-supported businesses are subject wholly to the whims of unrelated companies and people outside their target client base.

We worry about AI slop, rightfully, yet do little to nothing to stop the memetic, exploitative mind virus advertising (and adtech especially) is.

Recommended reading: Existence, David Brin

[0] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/130/4/1941/191...
It if supporting each customer costs them, say, $2.50
Easy to say "you're extremely ignorant" without even mentioning what of the data I saw is wrong, let alone provide a correction. Also makes it hard to know where to even start to either update my understanding or find that you're wrong and I'm wasting my time, whichever case it may be
What? What is gross? Did you ever saw raw meat? It's probably gross. There are also insects walking over your vegetables. Gross.
Just went through the code signing odyssey. It is a racket, but it did not take me a month. It took me a week and a half, including integration in to automated builds.
Even the author doesn't really think Bluesky isn't ready for marketing. They use it for that!

One thing this article gets right is that it's a dev-first platform, something I don't see mentioned much but I talk about in detail in my article[0]. I think we're at the stage where devs are into Bluesky so that they can build apps on it, and that's where many consumers will play.

[0] https://medium.com/gitconnected/what-is-bluesky-and-why-do-y...
labor cost contributes to higher prices, but why we always ignore corporate America and middlemen contributions to price gauging?
For Texas, the entire state is one big traffic jam. It’s not just the DFW metro area.

To go from Frisco to Houston for example, the direct route is to go through downtown Dallas and then interstate 45 to Houston. Instead I take this crazy route of driving south to Dallas, west to Arlington, south to Midlothian where they are building Google data centers, south to Waco, east to College Station, and then to Houston. All this extra driving actually saves me time.
“I’ve have negative interactions with people online so I’d rather give up and talk to nice robots instead.”

We are doomed as a society.
I'll never understand how LastPass still has any users at all. They've done an excellent job over the years of showing us they are not a serious company, and their security standards are nowhere near adequate.
>If that is the case why is Canadas population expanding almost faster than ever recorded???

...because of immigration? Birth rates have been far below replacement for decades now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_Fertility_Rate_of_C...
> If you hire sysadmins for SRE work, they'll get lost the first time they need to write a kernel module or design a multi-continent data replication strategy.

Ah yes, the old (incorrect) mantra of "sysadmins couldn't code". Which is ironic, as the vast majority of the abstractions that you'll interface with are written by sysadmins.
What would be a worthwhile experiment is if they can build a model with enough personal info along with personality and behaviour which can guess a persons password and endgame average folk. Now that could be a headline.
This is a huge nitpick, but I’d argue that Trumpism is a cult. Religions typically have a sacrosanct (if slowly evolving) set of principals that are more-or-less related and internally consistent. “Murder is bad. The Golden Rule.”

Trump and the nut jobs that believe in him are engaged in cultism. The direction of the day is whichever way the wind is blowing in his favor, yesterday’s perspectives be damned.
If you do that, you gotta strain into another pot, and then reduce that. No need. Just use a lot less water, and barely cover the pasta.
The Death of Net Neutrality Is a Bad Omen
No, you don't. That's why USA suffers from high obesity rates. You need to eat a small portion that is just enough. You won't starve, trust me.
better question; can they do it without re-running if you ask them to "write better code the first time"?
for each Kagi search they hit APIs of other search providers etc., so they need to cover that cost.
I agree. Society is sick due to the exploitative nature of Google and other ad-tech companies in relation to ad-tech.

They could choose to be viable in other ways.
Laziness / skill issue.

How many apps have you seen only do client-side protection?
*Palantir enters the chat*
It took me a bit to understand that it's just the red line from the entire dome. It makes me a bit sad that so much information is discarded for these keograms. Isn't there a way to "peel" the image in such a way that the entire image ends up being the line? Like spiraling or something like that from the outer "rim" to the center point.

Nevertheless, it's the first time I've seen this and liked the project a lot. I've seen this from normal images, but not from such a fisheye lens.

Really cool project.

Edit:

Looking at https://victoriaweather.ca/keogram.php?photo=20120810.jpg how can this contain the entire landscape if only the center line is used, which is supposedly always the same line? I mean, the camera isn't rotating. Is this just another kind of view generated from the dataset?
Not sure where you’re getting your information.
There is a huge market for classic cars. Ever heard of Concours? Most of that crowd like to keep them stock, but there are tons of sub-genres like drift kids and Stance nation to name a few weird ones. Hotrodding is alive and well.

There are car shows in most major us cities featuring hundreds of tricked out, restored and modified cars.

The classic car market regularly appreciates. Just try to find an Alpha for a good price, or graph the price of a 1970 911 over the past 30 years.
Also you can insure a classic for cheap since they see less road time, are garaged and generally well cared for. (see Hagerty)

As for getting hotrods and restored classics on the road.
California has half a dozen classic car rallies where roadworthy classics get out on the road for a couple days.

I assure you the culture is alive and well.
Then why no such efforts are being pursued for PGP(GPG) nowadays?

signify[1] is approachable at least for the power users - I could print out that man page on a T-shirt. HTTPS is ubiquitous and easy, thanks to ACME & Let's Encrypt. E2EE with optional identity verification is offered in mainstream chat apps.

And of course there are usability improvements to GPG, being made by third parties: Debian introduced package verification a couple decades ago, Github does commit verification, etc. What's to stop e.g. Nautilus or Dolphin from introducing similar features?

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/signify
I wish I agreed. But I have seen many products launched where only true believers who internalized the limitations were involved in testing. Yes, a good org with self-critical people and an independent red team and execs who cared about quality would not have made this blunder. Getting that org stuff right sounds easy but is nigh impossible if it doesn’t align to the company culture.
By the time you reduce the liquid the pasta is going to be pretty cold. Just using less water takes less time.
Same for me. Also like and regularly use Quick Answer feature (similar to Perplexity).
I think it hijacks the local culture, there's probably a better word, but I'm no native.
I made a SQLite disk-page explorer a little while ago, helped me understand B-trees a lot better:

https://github.com/QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer