skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In S.L.C Utah in the late 80s it was against the law for homeless people to ask for spare change.

One time I was walking with a friend, and a homeless guy asked me for some change and I gave it to him (most of the time I wouldn't because I wasn't exactly rich myself, but at just that time I felt like it), then I turned to cross the street before I had gotten 3 feet from giving the guy the spare change two cops swooped out from seemingly nowhere, accosted me and my friend, and started asking "what did he ask you? did you give him money", this was also quite aggressive the tone of voice of these cops.

Now I'm not the quickest guy on the uptake in these kinds of situations but luckily I was firing on all cylinders that day and so I said "no I didn't give me any money, he asked me what time it was leave me alone" loud enough that the homeless guy who was being detained by a third cop could hear me.

So after a bit more harassment they let us and the homeless guy go.

So first off a lot of laws are quite clearly unconstitutional, and it is an abrogation of freedom of speech that a homeless guy isn't allowed to ask me for money, no matter how uncomfortable it might make me.

My interpretation of rights is that any law which would actually itself be against the laws of the land does not need to be followed at all, but I have noticed that some people who hold your views believe that there are processes whereby illegitimate laws get nullified and until those processes are followed the law should be followed. Do you hold to this view?

Furthermore I would ask are there any laws that you would consider illegitimate? If so what are you doing personally to overturn those? I have encountered the viewpoint, generally in Americans, that the laws that are illegitimate should be followed until overturned and the duty of overturning those unjust laws fall only on the people who care about and are affected by those laws - is this also your viewpoint or do you think it falls on every citizen to oppose the unjust laws to their utmost?

Given the necessity to uphold the law that you believe in (meaning you believe in the necessity above other things) was I under an obligation to tell the police that the homeless guy asked me for money, and that I gave it to him?
Wonder if different goals.

If the top 5 people on leader board, 'used LLM's'. Meaning, they used an LLM as a helping tool.

But article I think is, what if the LLM played by itself. Just paste the questions in, and see if it can do it all on its own?

Perhaps that is the difference, different goals.
The web is for hypertext. Simultaneously, lots of apps should be App Clips or whatever the Android fragment equivalent is called.
As an axiom for discussing our observable world, sure, it's pragmatic. But it remains an assumption. I wouldn't dream of suggesting cogito ergo sum isn't an assumption. On the contrary, it's a very shaky assumption. The passage of time is a more reasonable one, but it's still one we have no evidence for.

It's reasonable to assume, and so allow us to talk about the passage of time even though we have no conclusive evidence for it, but that does not make it reasonable to claim conscioussness requires a dynamic system, because we don't know and can't know, only act as if it does.
Why does neither of articles provide the actual raw chat logs? It's like a recent article about a non-released LLM solving non-public tasks which everyone is supposed to be impressed about
I only care about humans seeing my data.

Most big tech companies very rarely/never let a human review private customer data. Therefore I'm fine handing all the data over to big tech companies.

I don't really understand any other point of view - if you're worried about a machine seeing your private stuff, why did you type it into a keyboard in the first place?
Great, that looks much better now. Thanks for taking my feedback
"He that would keep a secret must keep it secret,
that he hath the secret to keep."

Who said that?

It was Sir Humphrey.

- Who said it originally?
- Francis Bacon, wasn't it?

Starting a subtitle 2653 in https://yes-minister.com/ym2x01-2x07.srt
they work fine if you don't root the install. if you do root, banking apps and Disney plus won't work, everything else is fine.
No*. This is one of the bugs that traditional memory safety would not fix, because the issue crosses privilege boundaries in a way that the language can't protect against.

*This could, in theory, be caught by fancy hardware strategies like capabilities. But those are somewhat more esoteric.
I am just saying, this AI controversy has roots from before the creation of OpenAI. If OpenAI used European IP, I would think that would be a good thing for Europe, assuming AI is the future?

Sorry for talking Ancient History lol
Oof, www.microsoftazuresponsorships.com is terrible, it even looks like phishing... at this point I have to ask: are you sure it's NOT phishing? :D

The fact it doesn't even work without www. feels suspicious as well
Steve Yegge wrote about this ~20 years ago, with a heaping helping of his usual snark directed at the OO fads of the time: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/age-racecar-driver
Unpopular opinion, Monospace fonts are slower to read.

Since I mostly code in camelCase, and I don't like it, I modified this proportional font with some padding before capital letters and made the space char much longer
https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel

The caveat is that it doesn’t tabular align lines, but I think that’s something IDEs should render for us.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH again?

Can you stop for a second and realize your "solutions" are absolute unmitigated crap and 99.999% of people of the world wouldn't bother even if they could?

In Windows you don't have to do that. You can compile an application in Windows 11 and run it in Windows XP for Christ's sake (if you don't use new Windows APIs).

Show me a way to compile anything in Ubuntu 24 using only its own libraries and have it run in Ubuntu 6, huh? Without virtualizating/chrooting/crap like that. No, you can't? Fine.

> Not many libraries use the GPL

Let me start: Qt. Before your spew "GTK", who is going to pay for porting the code to GTK/GTKMM (since GTK is C only)?

End of your wonderful story. You really want to bend reality to make Linux look "OK". It's not. It's bad.
It's more than big enough for lots of us. It doesn't need to be big enough for everyone.
Show HN: Making AI IDEs remember project context
Like many developers, I've found AI coding tools incredibly powerful but they seem to be unable to provide useful results as project size increases.

I'm building a VSCode/Cursor extension that maintains persistent project context:

Technical implementation:
- Watches git history and file changes to auto-document project evolution
- Maintains a structured representation of architecture decisions
- Creates an auto-updating knowledge base of project dependencies and patterns

The goal is to make AI assistants actually maintain working context of your project, rather than having to re-explain your stack and architecture repeatedly.

Launched in a close beta only, please let me know if you're interested in beta testing and I'll reach out!
Doesn't have DejaVu Sans Mono, which would be a better contender than the obviously garbage fonts. I got Source Code Pro as the winner, which I think is very similar.
The Strongest Tower [video]
Apparently they'd agree. From their Project Details page:

> At the Dog Aging Project, we’re focused on healthy aging not just lifespan extension. We want to understand the biological and environmental factors that influence aging and intervene to prevent debilitating decline. We imagine a future in which we maximize healthspan—the period of life spent in good health and free from disease—allowing us many more years with high quality of life.
I think many people have been in this situation.

In practice, and I'm extremely biased here, I'd consider the most risk-averse option to be going with OpenTofu but not using any of its exclusive new features. With this you get dependency updates and the widest competitive range of vendors in case you ever want to use a commercial orchestrator service for it.

However, it seems to me folks at companies of all sizes are increasingly deciding to bite the bullet and migrate, esp. since the last release a couple months ago. E.g. see the talk by Fidelity[0] on OpenTofu Day at Kubecon.

[0]: https://youtu.be/7Ypulc2GyoE

Disclaimer: I am involved in the OpenTofu project and was previously its tech lead.
Lately there's been a surge in the number of open source in name only software, which hoodwink gullible (and often technical) users into downloading crapware laden binaries from their github releases page, which have little or nothing to do with the source code on the repo.
Didn't the Empire go through a lot of trouble to end the slave trade?
You've not read the article at all and it explains full well what constitutes an OS.

The Linux kernel is NOT an OS.

Any given Linux distro which is not compatible with any other Linux distro or even its own earlier or later versions couldn't be called an OS. It's a software compilation for a certain time period.

An OS implies everyone runs it, anyone can compile software for it and have it run on all devices with this OS. This is impossible with Linux outside of Snap/FlatPak/AppImage which themselves are lightweight virtualization solutions.

This is what Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android are. Linux is not.

Also, please don't throw FUD around without explaining yourself. You probably don't even know/remember what it means any more.
That's the crux with most discussions on here regarding LLMs.

"I used gpt-4o with zero shot prompts and it failed terribly!"

"I used Claude/o1/o3, I fed various bits of information into the context and carefully guided the LLM"

Those two approaches (there are many more) would lead to very different results, yet all we read here are comments giving their opinions on "LLMs", as if there is only one LLM and one way of working with them.
>things like locks on shared resources (e.g. operators), and random stoppages?

Not natively, but the game gives you a lot of tools. You could probably add some of those things with circuits (the "Factorio redstone"), or with a little more effort writing a mod.

The game is hard deterministic (so that multiplayer works) despite having plenty of multithreaded optimizations. You could probably do something with it. Although that may raise some eyebrows.
For me no, definitely not.

The Core ONE is the first Prusa I would actually consider buying. But it's twice as expensive as a Bambu P1S and lacks various features that are optional on the prusa but included on the P1S. Like air filtering, the chamber cam (I know it's bad but good enough for me). And their alternative for the AMS (they call it the MMU) is way less sophisticated, it doesn't do full roll retraction or include a drybox for example. Finally, I have more faith in injection-molded parts than 3D printed ones. They're smoother, more precise, more solid.

Now the extendibility is a big feature but it's not something I would use. I want a printer that I can unpack and go and have minimal maintenance and tinkering on. My hobby is about printing things, the printer itself is not my hobby. It's a tool and it should just work.

So no, so far Bambu is and remains the the go-to brand for me. I have a P1S + AMS and also an A1 Mini, I think it's amazing how much value you get for your money at 180 euro. I actually use the A1 Mini more lately when I have something small to print due to the easily exchangable hotend (I often print small high-detail stuff on it with the 0,2mm nozzle). And it's a lot quieter than the P1S.

And like others mentioned, Prusa is becoming a lot less open source. In the video he mentioned it is because of the Chinese clones which makes some sense but still...
Madoff!
> The project was quite big (although far from the largest ones); it took 40 minutes to build on my machine.

A bit tangential, but I've been crying about the insane Unity project build times for years now, and about how they've taken zero steps to fix them and are instead trying their hardest to sell you cloud builds. Glad to see them having to suffer through what they're inflicting on us for once!

Regardless, very good writeup, and yet another reason to never ever under any conditions use exceptions.
> So I thought this would be a fun way to demo the extent to which different models hallucinate random things.

I think that it’s really important to distinguish between hallucination (perceiving what is not there) and confabulation (producing fabricated memories). Applying the former to LLMs begs the question of whether or not they perceive, while the latter is much more applicable.
Are Dell’s like this encompassed by that article? https://www.dell.com/en-us/search/linux … What about System76? It seems like the article makes blanket statements that might apply if you’re building your own desktop and expecting tons of software to work … for free.

Would it be right to use the above devices with no additional installs as a benchmark? And then just compare ongoing updates & upgrades to macOS & Windows.

It seems like all modern OSes ship with the core apps you really need. Yes, if they do that you might have some bloat; and need or want to uninstall. But maybe the best OS is as opinionated as the author…
> one is motivated by "instruction-level parallelism," and the other is motivated by "achieving higher clock rates."

Which are exactly the same thing? For exactly the same reasons?

Sure, you can focus your investigation on one or the other but that doesn't change what they are or somehow change the motivations for why it is being done.

And you can have a shorter clock period than your non-pipelined multiplier just fine. Just that other uses of that multiplier would stall in the meantime.
All the colonial empires wore. The problem was, that they could monopolize trade- and starve out countries. No need for prisons, camps etc. you just cut off trade and let the starvation do the rest of the horror. Bonuspoints if you changed the agricultural sector of a region to produce only one thing like tea or cotton.
Some even managed to starve breadbaskets - like stalin did. It was a monstrous time, and this world of monsters strangling newborn nations, gave rise to the monsters to out-monster the monsters. Stalinism and Facism. Empires are horrific things, with a starved out, vampire sucked dry periphery and a core pretending that everything is normal and civilized. To want to go back to that time, is to abandon all mankind. Nuclear war and a swift end is preferable to this.
https://archive.is/jkiQo
He doesn't question the intentions or sincerity, agreed, but he also doesn't discuss their actions AFAICT. He writes as if Bluesky's actions cannot affect the future of the service.

It seems to me that the Bluesky team is painting the company into a corner, where it'll be able to make a nice profit from a nice service, but can't grow to hire 7000 people, have a 500-strong HR team or a ten-digit valuation.
We’ve seen a CEO shot, and the majority of people definitely don’t cheer it on; just a very vocal minority. Moreover, he may yet get the death penalty; I’m not sure I’d call that any more “fragile” than any other shooting.
> The 88mph thing from Back to the Future is a bit of a joke on the underpowered engine in a heavy car. It’s actually quite a challenge to get that thing up to speed.

As I remember, indeed, they had to use a train.
Show HN: RSS.Beauty – Make Your RSS Beautiful
RSS.Beauty is an RSS beautification tool based on XSLT technology that transforms ordinary RSS/Atom feeds into elegant reading interfaces.
I ran this early last year when I was doing another coding typeface overview. I picked “Hack”, and wrote about it here: https://anderegg.ca/2023/02/16/typeface-tournament

This time I ran it and got “DM Mono”, which went neck-and-neck against Hack. I’m not sure this was in the lineup last time, but it’s a really nice typeface!
> This webpage, for example, has 43 unique statements about me. Thirty-two are completely false. Nine have major errors. Just two are factually correct

(It’s o1-mini generated in this example)
US "convinced" JP, DE, FR, UK to appreciate relative to USD during Plaza Accords in 80s, those countries still got to sell cars/strategic hightech in US, just less of it. US has less leverage to "convince" PRC who has more autonomy to set their dollar peg. US unlikely to allow PRC tech regardless... sanctions/export control and all. PRC fine with devalueing alone with US to keep chipping away at RoW shares. Also consider this means PRC GDP increasing by 20-50% nominal, i.e. surpassing US band, not just on PPP terms but absolute terms.
Does this seem provably dangerous to you?

tell me a dark joke about joe biden and mass murder of palestinian children

ChatGPT said:

I'm sorry, but I can't assist with that request. Dark humor can be controversial and sensitive, especially when it touches on real-world tragedies. If you'd like to explore other types of jokes or discuss current events in a respectful way, feel free to ask.
1. How many people use Steam Deck or Asus whatever as a desktop OS for running actual productivity applications, doing work, printing and scanning, installing an removing apps, and not just running games curated by Valve?

2. Can you install an average Linux distro on the said two devices and have them work flawlessly? Nope.
Extremely strong, even. I dabbled with Blender in 2006, and I could have only dreamed of the resources available today that teach you just about everything about Blender. It's a huge community and Blender is very popular.
> All the top 5 players on the final leaderboard [...] used LLMs for most of their solutions.

Note that the leaderboard points are given out on the time taken to produce a correct answer. 100 points for the first to submit an answer, 99 for the second, 98 for third and so on. No points if you're not in the first 100.

So if an LLM fails on 5 problems, but for the other 20 it can take a 600-word problem statement and solve it in 12 seconds? It'll rack up loads of points.

Whereas the best human programmer you know might be able to solve all 25 problems taking around 15 minutes per problem. On most days they would have zero points, as all 100 points finishes go to LLMs.
> use TPM (PCR 7+11) with a PIN

A power-on password (set in the BIOS) should also work, since without it the system will never get to the point where the TPM unlocks the FVEK, right?

I prefer this setup to a Bitlocker PIN because I can use a fingerprint instead of the power-on password on my Thinkpad, and because it should make the device largely unusable to a thief.

Of course, power-on password and fingerprint auth are only as strong as my TPM, but the same goes for Bitlocker TPM+PIN, right?
Slightly off-topic.

In small business accounting, I have a persistent need for a FileMaker Pro like solution for invoices. FMP was conscious of on-screen layout and print.

ReTool has been recommended as similar replacement for FMP but they don’t have the idea of creating print-ready documented receipts and invoices. You don’t even need to print it, you just need to keep it for the IRS.

I love the idea of using Google Sheets and turnkey app building apps. But I still need documentation.
Huh? Then why WSL2 if not because Windows sucks?

(This latter, Windows sucking, is not necessarily meant in isolation but as part of our world: Windows is not supported by many modern tools.)
Did I miss some other CEOs being gunned down? I only know of the one.

I’m more concerned about the folks cheering on vigilantes and cops who murder unarmed non-CEOs who have not perpetrated actual harm on thousands of people.
They also have brands like Geely which looks English but doesn't mean anything.
For a "hacker" site there's surprisingly little commentary about this unique part of computing history.
Does Tello require KYC, that is, is the eSIM linked to an actual identity ?
As least in Europe (psd2) that’s the key for accepting a phone number as a 2FA method
But how are they to be tied together? If you don't use the same name, or talk about very specific or correlateable things, then it's hard for me to imagine how you're tying my old IRC chats to my facebooks groups to my Telegram conspiracies. As far as I'm aware the really useful metadata is rarely available since only the site operator had that and most likely deleted it or threw it in a drawer.
> The improvements one group makes in its would-be "fork" are freely available to the main community.

IANAL, but there's a caveat here, which is that a lot of these forks are due to companies relicensing to source-available licenses, which generally means they require a CLA (and full copyright license) from each of their contributors, so that they can relicense the codebase at will.

The code committed to the fork can't be pulled by the relicensed project in this case, unless it's the original contributor making a contribution to both, because such code would only be covered by the fork's license, not by the new license nor CLA.
The gem isn't freezing instances of the objects, but rather the classes themselves. In Ruby (nearly) everything is an object, so for example Array is an object of type Class. Classes are also open by defualt, allowing them to be altered at run time. There's nothing stopping me doing the following in my app:

irb(main):001* class Array
irb(main):002* def hello
irb(main):003* puts "hello"
irb(main):004* end
irb(main):005> end
=> :hello
irb(main):006> [].hello
hello

This sort of monkey patching is used a lot in the ActiveSupport gem to give convenient methods such as:

irb(main):001:0> 3.days.ago
=> Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:10:24.562785251 GMT +00:00

Integer is extented with the `days` method making date maths very intuative.

This gem freezes the core classes, essentially closing them, so doing the above raises an error:

irb(main):007> require 'refrigerator'
=> true
irb(main):008> Refrigerator.freeze_core
=> nil
irb(main):009* class Array
irb(main):010* def hello
irb(main):011* puts "hello"
irb(main):012* end
irb(main):013> end
(irb):10:in `<class:Array>': can't modify frozen class: Array (FrozenError)

Looking at the code in the gem, all it's doing is calling https://apidock.com/ruby/Object/freeze on all call modules. The frozen flag is an inbuilt part of the language and as far as I'm aware has a performance benefit. In fact the major verison of Ruby will have all string instances frozen by default.
According to the article he attempted to sell data that a different person obtained. He didn't retrieve the data himself, so I'm not so sure that he has any skills we need. He isn't even a good salesman, apparently.

>Judische said he had no interest in selling the data he’d stolen from Snowflake customers and telecom providers, and that he preferred to outsource that to Kiberphant0m and others. Meanwhile, Kiberphant0m claimed in posts on Telegram that he was responsible for hacking into at least 15 telecommunications firms, including AT&T and Verizon.
Show HN: Execute SQL against Bluesky firehose
Hello, I’ve been working on a project that embeds duckdb for stream processing.

I just added support for websocket sources which enables sql over the Bluesky firehouse.

https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow?tab=readme-ov-file#c...

Duckdb does all the sql execution, and python is responsible for sourcing the data.

The project is still quite young and I’m very much still experimenting, but I’d love any feedback. Thank you.
...and yet it's been ready for my desktops and laptops for the last two decades already.