skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When did this flip?

What do the Chinese make in high quality besides silk, EVs, and Orwellian tyranny?
I am guessing that his threat model includes people involved in these militias (or others) but who he didn't interact with directly. It probably also includes action by people merely sympathetic to them, for example maybe local law enforcement.

There can be a difference between revealing identity to some and revealing it to all. I'm not sure how much difference there is in this case specifically but it's not my life, not my call.
> He's announced very recently that he wants to change it that way, which is all the proof anyone needs that it's not that way at the moment.

Yes, we agree. Bezos wants to create false balance. Therefore it hasn't been there and people's complaints about it, at least in this context, are wrong.

> The people within journalism are the problem he's trying to fix, so credibility with them doesn't matter.

That sentence assumes Bezos claims are not only sincere - he's trying to improve journalism, not trying to censor journalism to serve Trump, Bezos' interests, and the right wing - and that his claims are accurate.

Nobody is saying the Post's reporting on Trump was innacurate or not credible. Bezos wants to stop them from doing it.
I say this a lot. Growing up, being interested in tech, I was so excited by the future. Now that we're here, a bunch of greedy tech bros have sufficiently killed all the dreams I had about the world with tech, and now it's just an utter disappointment.

All the people who ushered this terrible new world in by passively consuming, moving into walled gardens, turning off any semblance of critical thinking, justifying it with "but where, in this age of endless digital communication options, where I talk to my friends and family?" Or "I'm ok with targeted advertising because it removes the effort I need to exert to find things I want to buy."

This nation is the embodiment of greed, sloth, and pride. Foolish, ignorant people, refusing to use the tools we have to access the entirety of human knowledge, gleefully falling for any bullshit their favorite "influencer" is hawking today, are as much or more to blame than the people who set up the rat mazes for them to run through all day.

We welcomed and begged for this. It's hard to not be angry at the way things went, but as much as I hate the tech bros who ruined technology, I think more of the blame deserves to be placed on the people throwing themselves into the engagement machine, letting themselves be duped by easily disproven nonsense because it's easier and more comfortable to not critically think about what they're seeing and hearing.

I'm risking turning this into a screed, if I haven't already. I'm pissed off and disappointed, but the longer this goes on the less surprised I am by any new distopian shit I hear. Sci-fi writers of old would be fainting seeing the shit they couldn't dream up happening every day now. It just sucks.
This would have been my response to the this ^ reply. They have capital to spare and also, what they're gaining from these countries in return more than justifies there loss in capital. the gain exclusive rights to ports and military presence. recently they made a an effort to include African countries as their allies. Concluding that they will allow African countries to retain control over there capital wand profits while allowing china to export their natural resources. this is attractive for African nations.
Additionally to locking the exposrue time and aperture, one could also take multiple exposures, figure out the camera's light response function and fuse multiple exposures together into a single higher dynamic range (HDR) image (see OpenCV tutorial on that or Debevec et al. 1997) Assuming you can find the camera response for the very long exposure times at night _and_ the very short during the day, one could relate them to each other and display both for accurate visual comparison.
> No. Look at the age pyramid of Germany. We have to overcome the baby-boomer

Everyone has this problem. Birth _rates_ are declining everywhere. Different countries are just in different parts of the decline. Even if this is your reason for importing immigrants and you think it’s worth any negatives, you are simply helping the boomers and doing nothing to help later generations. In addition, you are making the situation dramatically worse for migrant origin countries as their young people leave to be workers somewhere else.

I do think it’s also worth asking, if you keep this policy up, what you mean by “Germany.” If it’s an economic zone defined by arbitrary borders, all well and good, but if you think anything more of it than that, then obviously importing immigrants to create a square or non-inverted population pyramid means that at some point in the next century, German culture, norms, morals, and ethnicity will be a tiny minority in Germany the economic zone. If you’re okay with that tradeoff then alls well, but it seems worth acknowledging. I did some rough calculations with Canadian demographics for example, and in 80 years Canada will be totally unrecognizable as it will have had near-total population turnover via migration. Unless birth rates suddenly skyrocket instead of declining, or immigration comes to a screeching halt.

The future is never really predictable, but it’s looking like the future of a lot of Western countries is that they’ll end up basically satellites of countries like India, China, or Turkey. (Of course they’re facing their own declines, particularly China, but there’s a lot of quantity involved.) It’s also unclear to me that voting blocs of young voters will continue to fund entitlements. It will be pretty interesting to live through. I think the closest historical parallel is the total collapse in the Roman population during the early empire.
Yeah, being contacted by someone who’s on a bespoke undercover mission in right-wing militias is huge. Being contacted by someone who’s says they are is another matter.
People buy phones for good stable experiences. I’m not sure how it was today, but it was a mess 10 years ago outside of iPhones, and some people would rather pay more for a phone than bother with something by that requires more involvement.
Widdershins: "in a direction contrary to the sun's course.." Interesting. The Eurasian plate is moving east, which is widdershins to the longitude, but not the latitude.

( Note: I am a Scot, and added widdershins to my dictionary. )
Great piece. One of the best places cultivating this type of polymathy today is Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program. https://symsys.stanford.edu/
You might if you were already in the habit of taking them. Or if you were more worried about the quality of your future food than having any. They don't take much space or weight, so it's not that hard to include them.
> Don't waste your time if someone tells you to send them an email

Surely this is personality dependent, right? I detest, loathe, despise phone calls or -- the bane of my existence -- a 10 minute Zoom. I have spent my entire career becoming an expert at digesting text into something actionable, so an email (or blog post) is the perfect way to inject your value prop into my head

The actual post <https://fellowry.com/post/cm5al4dds00vzps2yuzahk8g8/don-t-wa...> also seems to imply that it's a good GTM tactic to lie about sending the email in order to gauge whether they really care about your content. This strikes me as a horrible way to start a relationship: if I ask for an email and you don't send it, expecting that you'll fish my interest out later, you have established that you don't do what you said you would and I have no reason to think your product claims are accurate, either
Brazilian here. I honestly don’t get the idea of the pretense uniqueness of the term “saudade”. Sure there is not an equivalent noun in English, but, to me, the verb “to miss” someone or some place conveys precisely the same feeling.
Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion
so was openssl
How do you stir long pasta in minimal water before it has softened?

While small pasta shapes are relatively easy to stir such that they break contact with anything nearby right from the beginning, long pasta tends to move together when stirring until they’ve softened - at which point they’ve already started sticking together.

You can try to stir it so that the pasta isn’t all running parallel before it softens, but then you get ends start sticking out of the water until it softens more, leading to uneven cooking.

For long pastas, I’ve found using more water and just adding a little flour while cooking to be a lot easier.
Seriously ? People in the West have similar cultural values and customs for one which averts a whole set of social issues for a given nation, denying it and crying "racism" is just silly imo, it's an open secret that a homogeneous nation will be able to align its goals easier than others.

I'm from Middle East and am now a Canadian after many years, I know first hand it took my own family ample time to adapt to Western values. I'm not going arguing which sets of values is better (though some of them in the West _objectively_ are) but highlighting that it's reductive to deny the differences.
> Dump a bunch of cornstarch or flour in there

Don't add powdered starch to hot water. It will clump. Add it to a small amount of cold water and then add that to the hot pasta water. (And the starch you want is amylopectin. Waxy potato starch will work better than corn starch [1].)

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Amylose-and-amylopectin-...
I read the last commit date as a status indicator - it's subjective, but it works fairly well.

Of course it doesn't always mean a lot... I have 40-something public repos, and I haven't touched like 30 in the past year, but I use most of them, and for some of them I would even give support on request. But if someone would open a PR, with adding a random project dead note in the readme, I wouldn't be particularly happy about it. (But I would have no problem if someone opened an issue asking a question, like a "welfare check")

But for projects that are used by more than 5 people, I think commit date's a reasonable indicator, and personally wouldn't try getting anything more.

Of course, there is also an official indicator, used sometimes: the archival of the repo, which makes it read-only.
There's a credible organization.
Exactly. I have to use a VPN just for this kind of bu**it. :/
How much history is this pulling? Mine seems quite skewed towards my most recent comments.
Check the references on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_January_6_Un... for a good place to start your research.
You should step into the real world occasionally if you take any issue with this thread. You're fortunate if this feels outlandish to you.
Because the government backs the dollar. The government doesn’t back runescape gp for instance. It has value yes but its also not money. Otherwise anything one could trade could count as money. I traded my couch for beer now its money if we only defined money by having some value and ability to trade it.
A big factor in the OKC, J6, and militia movement and White nationalist violence more generally is that the law enforcement community in the US has very significant overlap with the militia and White nationalist movements, impacting how seriously they are treated by law enforcement, and how seriously they are treated by journalists who rely on experts from within the law enforcement community (both current officers and private experts that are the same people relied on as outside experts by law enforcement and are usually ex-law enforcement) for their understanding of the issues.
A “Bug Out Bag” is a pretty standard notion in the prepper and survival communities, also handy for fleeing disasters and power outages.
Confucius probably wouldn't champion women working.
I feel like there must be some sort of disassociation that kicks in when you spend long enough in the upper echelons of these gargantuan corporations. It's almost like spending long enough dealing with abstractions like MAUs, DAUs, and engagement metrics make you forget that actually, at the bottom of it all are real humans using your product.
Marker Interfaces in Go
That description could fit a group of friends having wholesome fun, or a private army being raised with the goal of taking territory. These groups are somewhere in between, but closer to the latter. The main mitigating factor is that they’re usually pretty incompetent.
It's common and fair, but it seemed it somehow didn't qualify as outright ownership.
The “clearly the author is ignorant” comment is only flame bait to people who aren’t up to date with how immigration has destroyed Canada. Actual Canadians are being displaced by people who don’t care about any kind of Canadian values. There’s people who hold the permanent opinion that immigration can do no wrong.
And not just a login but soon probably also the real verified identity tied to it. The internet is becoming a worse place than the real world.
This project was inspired by a course offered by my university about the theory of computation. This got me interested in automata and other such machines and I wanted to play around and prototype with them. Although the project is still in a very immature state, I'd like to get suggestions about possible improvements and other ideas.

Thank you.
So you're saying I should have paid the fine and had the charge recorded, creating a criminal record for myself?
Yet, there stock is up over 70-80% last year and I have no idea what they really have to show for it.
As discussed in that thread, apparently this mostly happens to “2-foot drivers,” people who use one foot for the gas and one for the brakes. When in a state of panic or surprise, they can accidentally mix up which foot they need to stomp down on and end up slamming down the accelerator instead of the brakes.
>Homemade Sesame Seed Buns

Let me guess, Homemade is the company name?
I've done head-to-head tests vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet on a variety of coding tasks and basic reasoning questions over the last week. It's not worth $200. Claude is better on most tasks.

For example, I pasted my HN profile and asked it to extract my email address in JSON format ({"email": ""}). I would expect any HN reader to be able to do this in seconds using an online ROT13 calculator. Certainly a "phd-level reasoning model" should be able to do this correctly. Claude outputs the correct answer in seconds. o1 Pro thought for two minutes and eventually output an email address that was invalid.

I'm a little surprised that there isn't more discussion about this on HN, as it seems highly relevant to the recent pivot from training-compute to inference-compute.
Technology is never a substitute for consent
This will balance its self out. One thing they have we don't is monopoly control they allow you to have monopoly if it serves well. we have that but we turn on monopolies when they get too big, they were already too big when they attached the name monopoly to the big players. i suspect if we look at data going back thirty years you will see the gap far bigger and now the gap is rather widening or growing with each end of the gap getting thicker. what i mean is, the poor were really really poor and now we can look at data and say that they are just poor with avenues of fixing that issues. They do have the economies within their country to fix poverty as its far more fruitful versus the U.S.. you either work in fast food or have a masters degree making $70,000. this isn't great considering the U.S. is a rich country
But concretely what is bad about it? Would Russia feel it implied a threat of invasion? Would they worry that their own citizens would realise how much their global power has declined?

I mean, I wouldn't feel 100% comfortable but I wouldn't launch an invasion over it. Especially since it predictably encourages other bordering countries like Finland to accelerate their membership, and Ukraine itself will definitely be pushing for membership as soon as possible once the war is over. It was neither a proportionate nor a productive course of action, if that was the reason.
If I want to talk to AI I know where chatgpt.com is. I don't need it shoved in my face when I'm trying interact with people on social media.
Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3
Got into a rabbit hole today.

POC works using 'npx efficient-recorder'.

Is this useful to anyone?
It’s also recommended by CALFIRE in California: https://readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/emergency-...
Wood is porous and unable to be fully sanitized, as well as absorbing and giving back off everything from soaps and sanitizers to food flavors. Example: chop a few onions on a wood cutting board. Clean and dry. Then the next day wet your cutting board and give it a sniff. The onion is still there.

It also has trouble with repeated washing cycles as a material.

There's some evidence that biologically, wood fibers will dessicate and shred bacterias, and there's the historical anecdotal evidence of wood cutting boards having been used throughout history, but those anecdotes aren't enough for commercial kitchen operation where food needs to be able to be given to all comers, including infirm, allergic or immunocompromised.
No, it means anyone with — or without — money can get the record right here:

https://www.judyrecords.com/
I do think its a bit of an over correction on their part, Apple notoriously neglected to make their camera good at taking pictures of darker skin people. I believe this was corrected in ~2022.

Google even ran an ad campaign because Pixel was able to do a much better job with skin tones for darker skin than Apple was.
Same issue with fb where over time all your friends stop posting after they got busy after highschool. Most I get is a birth announcement or wedding photo on instagram from actual people and that’s not exactly a daily post for anyone.

But at the same time people don’t mind its current state. I don’t mind its current state. When I open instagram I get nonstop reels of people doing backflips on skis. I’ve honed my feed as such by only engaging (well, watching and not scrolling away) with those posts really. It is a much better experience than trying to find ski videos on youtube as I don’t need to hunt for the key clip, editing is pretty tight on instagram, and also no ads or other bullshit you get watching things on youtube.
As someone who's built something like it in their free time as a hobby project ( https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw), could I ask what would make it a professional product vs something an intern came up with? Looking for insights I could possibly apply/learn from to implement in my own project.

One of my goals with my project I ended up taking on was to match/exceed NotebookLMs feature set, to ensure that an open source version would be available to people for free, with ownership of their data.
Ask HN: Rank programming languages in terms of memory safety
Deleted because my post was flagged. Why would I leave it here? I'll go on my own adventure.
This is really neat. I'm curious where the data for the tree shadows comes from though. I was surprised to see that the trees in my yard and my neighbor's yard were all mapped by your service, since I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I read the "how it works" FAQ section, which explained that building shadows come from the map services, but it didn't mention trees.
I'd rather get 10% off automatically instead of 15% off if I have to spend 30 minutes on every single purchase trying dozens of dead codes from various sites. It being automated is the entire point.
I have they are rare though. once ever 10 years for a good sized project seems right. Where they habpen I wouldn't expect anything other than the exact hardware to reproduce them so I'm still not wanting a workstation live the target.
and the joke about the heavily multilingual people is that they will speak 9 languages,none of them fluently
I'm getting flashbacks to trying to manage my ebook library in Calibre
> In my opinion, whether a game is enjoyable or not doesn't really rely on whether or not they were technically challenging to make.

I agree, but that's not what I'm saying. I was referring to cookie cutter games released by Ubisoft, the CoD franchise, and most sports games. They essentially use the same formula, sometimes even the same engine, year after year, and just upgrade the assets, and do some minor tweaks. Yet these releases are incredibly popular and people keep buying them every year. Similarly for lazy "remasters" for games released not even a decade ago. Now with AI upscaling it's even easier to just increase the texture resolution and charge half or even full price for it. It's practically a scam.

> I do know that a lot of the games that I really enjoy are not technologically "pushing the envelope" at all: caves of qud, cube chaos, kenshi, rift wizard, just to name a few.

Sure, and I enjoy many of those as well. A game doesn't have to be technically impressive to be enjoyable. But IMO these don't have the "magic"/"wow" factor that was so common back in the 90s. If you played Doom or Mario 64 when they were released, you were _mesmerized_ by what you were seeing. Yes, these were great games, but the technical wizardry was what made them stand out from everything else. The jump from 2D to 3D and hardware accelerated graphics certainly played a role in that, but it was also due to very clever algorithms than ran on the same hardware as other games that weren't as impressive.

Today VR can arguably deliver that "wow" factor, but that's mostly due to the technology rather than the games themselves. Even nearly a decade into the modern VR wave, there are only a handful of games that deliver an experience close to what many games in the 90s did.

I can basically think of only one example of a modern game that delivered that same feeling: Breath of the Wild. We were used to open world games, we were used to Zelda games, but we hadn't seen such design ingenuity and technical polish, especially on a handheld system. Tears of the Kingdom is arguably a better game, but it didn't deliver that same experience for me.
The Intelligence Curse
Conversely, any page that makes me hunt around for the price loses me. You really can't please everyone.
and now Russia
(Russia takes step towards recognizing Afghanistan's Taliban government) https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-takes-step-towards-reco...
Hi fox.
You're welcome!

By the way, something I've considered but not implemented yet are options to tweak the formatting (for instance, whether to indent or inline comments / variations). The Prettier approach is to be opinionated, but some language-specific options may be useful.
An LLM running amok is probably not a bad description of me after a couple of drinks, actually.
>A "done" application wouldn't reasonably get a new major version ever

Did that company not want to make money? Even if they want to pretend their software is done, there is incentive to just change the name, add a new feature or two, and maybe poke at the UI so it looks different enough to be a definitely new product that you should buy and not mostly the same as last time.
Show HN: Chrome Extension to Block AI Generated Content
I'm so tired of all that crappy AI content that is published every day. It's becoming way harder to find genuine creators on the internet because they are being overshadowed with massive amount of AI-driven material.

I think I'm not the only one who thinks like that and that is why I've published "Is Generated" it's a community based Chrome Extensions where users can report, vote and block the content they suspect is AI-generated.

Together, we can take back control and make the internet a better place for authentic creators!
Their revenue and net income are up 20% and 70% yoy. Apparently we can still sell more ads than what I thought is possible.