skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statement of “dryly concede that the only thing McKinsey is good at is making powerpoints.” closely corresponds to my statement of “trick the audience into thinking they had a point”
Not having a privacy policy while promoting the products as having a privacy focus seems borderline malicious, as does the LLM-smelling copywriting.

Running these kinds of conversions and whatnot is rather resource intensive, where's the funding coming from?
Stargate was a CIA project that explored parasciences: telepathy, twin telepathy, astral projection and remote viewing. It was scrapped in 93 after 25 years of not showing anything, despite some parasciences 'professionals' who participated claiming it did.

The CIA declassified all information, and while the 70s documents show clear interest and weird results, reading it in chronological order is very interesting as you can feel desillusions set in as experimental protocols hardens and results prove irreproducible.
Pandoc is awesome for converting text-based formats and markup files, but from my knowledge it doesn’t cover some of the more specialized PDF operations (like merging, splitting, rotating pages, etc.) or handling complex office formats with embedded elements. My tool aims to provide a quick, browser-based way to handle all those PDF tasks—no installation or command-line usage required.
Calm down, Alec Baldwin
Nice, and didn't realise Latin behaves like German by swapping the order of verbs at the end.
Let's take the best thing that's happened to humanity and ruin it with corporatism...truly unbelievable if this ruling doesn't get overturned.
This is a major issue when it comes to things like GitHub Copilot Workspace, which is a project that promises a development environment purely composed of instructing an AI to do your bidding like fix this issue, add this feature. Currently it often writes code using packages that don't exist, or it uses an old version of a package that it saw most during training. It'll write code that just doesn't even run (like putting comments in JSON files).

The best way I can describe working with GitHub Copilot Workspace is like working with an intern who's been stuck on an isolated island for years, has no access to technology, and communicates with you by mailing letters with code handwritten on them that he thinks will work. And also if you mail too many letters back and forth he gets mad and goes to sleep for the day saying you reached a "rate limit". It's just not how software development works
GPG security. Somehow it needs to be easy to make and distribute keys, and store them. That way you can easily encrypt your emails, and authenticate them on the other end. Key management needs to be easier, so that everything else that needs to happen can.
Thanks for this refresher! For the life of me i recalled that there was a sort of search engine for the smol web, but could not recall its name! Thanks to you for finding it again for me! :-)
I already posted a top-level comment about this but I tried to tackle this specific problem when I built Recess (https://github.com/yakkomajuri/recess) which might interest you. Never got any traction so I dropped it.

The idea was to be a content aggregator for what I called "siloed content" (personal websites, blogs, etc). The ideas are outlined here if anyone's keen:

https://github.com/yakkomajuri/recess/blob/main/manifesto-is...

I'm happy for someone to take this over too even if they're interested. It's MIT-licensed.
Technology adoption usually follows an s-curve.

/earnestness
I once automated the uploading of >26k Gource videos to YouTube. I sorted GitHub by star count, applied some filters (e.g., had to have X commits, Y files), ffmpeg, YT API. That all happened on my little 2015 MBP. Good memories. I'll clean up the repo and share my hacky code sometime. I miss Ruby, what a fun language with which to play.

IIRC, there's another YT channel that took up the torch. I'm grateful they did. I know, they might seem a little spammy, and it can be frustrating when you Google for a repo and only find a mostly useless YT video of a Gource visualization. And yet, random devs used to email me with grateful messages every week. I felt like, in some microscopic way, I was doing good.

Yeah, I need to ponder and write on that. Hm. Well, this bubbly isn't going to drink itself.

I'll edit this comment into shape later. I'm on my phone at Hedwig's.

Love you to the random internet stranger who read this comment.

Love you to the person who posted this Gource link.

Love you to Andrew Caudwell, the creator of Gource. He seems like a good fellow, that Andrew Caudwell. Yes, quite so.
Never mistake the map for the territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
The next hurdle is lack of time sensitivity regarding standards and versions. You prompt mentioning exact framework version but still it comes up with deprecated or obsolete methods. Initially it may be appealing to someone knowing nothing about the framework but LLM won't grow anyone to an expert level in rapidly changing tech.
Can you give some examples of mindful exercises that are short?
Social media is a flywheel for bad ideas
Why we invested in Silicon Box and the advanced chiplet packaging
The purpose of therapy is not "consoling words".
> What exactly do you think would happen if everyone in town switched off and on their AC-powered devices at the same time?

Large systems have their own rules.

If everybody watches the superbowl at the same time I'd expect the power grid not to fail.

If everybody gets home at around the same time from work and start powering on devices I'd expect power grid not to fail.

If it suddently gets cold and people turn on heating around same time, I'd expect it not to fail.

Those seem valid expectations and are met.

Therefor when I say if everyone starts streaming netflix it should work, then this is also valid expectation and should be fine.

> It is the level of service you paid for. The overbooking possibility? You paid for it, it was in your contract.

I get what I pay for when I want. I have 1gbps, I can run full speed as much as I want and sometimes it's nice to do that.

I am also in europe. I don't get throttled service and what you say is not in my contract.

What do you say to that?
And does your cheap and easy to set up 10gbps fiber LAN cross under the interstate 10 feet deep?
> Within 2 minutes of talking to the final interviewer for DOGE, he asked me if I wanted to join. I said “yes”. Then he said “cool” and I was in multiple Signal groups. [...] So I reached out to some people and got in. After 8 calls with people who all talked fast and sounded very autistic smart, I was added to a number of Signal groups and immediately put to work. [...] The next 4 weeks of my life consisted of 100s of calls recruiting the smartest people I’ve ever talked to, working on various projects I’m definitely not able to talk about, and learning how completely dysfunctional the government was. It was a blast.

While I can attest that current day governments in general - some more, some less and I assume past governments as well - can be quite inefficient. I sometimes fantasize about making parts of it more lean and efficient because how hard could it be, right? And with the "right" kind of result evaluation it will not be that hard to score better than it does right now. But having silicon valley techbros apply their move fast and break stuff attitude to things that aren't tech startups has repeatedly resulted in awful results [1]. So I must say reading this passage is quite revealing in ways I think the author did not intend it to be.

[1] https://youtu.be/0wtvQZijPzg
Is there a plugin I can use to remove affiliate links altogether for privacy purposes?
Tell HN: GitHub doesn't cleanup spam in their own repos
I was checking out the actions/checkout repository, which is something most GitHub actions are bound to use, and navigated to the issues:

https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues

On the first page alone I found cryptocurrency scams, zero-effort issues, and outright spam, from days to months old. It is an official GitHub repository for one of their most popular actions in a major feature, with hundreds of watchers and thousands of forks and stars. Yet it looks abandoned.
That's more because in the USA, net neutrality was very short lived ?

It's not like ISPs cannot block/throttle customers at all, but what they are allowed to do is heavily regulated under net neutrality.
Anyone can view and download content from it and transferring content to another site involves three commands “git pull …”, “git remote set-url origin…”, and “git push”.
Wildcard: Customize HN using a spreadsheet view (2020)
I don't exactly feel bad for Netflix, but can you provide a link?

Let me see if I understand.

ISPs are extorting Netflix. And Netflix is hosting middleboxes that improve quality, but they don't actually care about improving quality, they are greedy, by not wanting to be extorted by the ISPs?

And we don't build out fiber because ISPs would rather throttle you and they can't do two things at once. But doesn't throttling and extorting companies like Netflix give them more revenue to build fiber? Or somehow the new fiber and customers they could get somehow prevents their ability to throttle?

No offense but this is the typical unpersuasive argument for net neutrality I hear. It's just non-sensical and all over the place. It makes no logical sense. Maybe there's a better argument, but so much of what I hear is this and it leads me to believe that proponents are just rooting for a sports team. The equivalent of arguing with a ref after a call against your team.
> I'm skeptical of introducing federal intervention preemptively as it seems like a natural extension would be censorship.

Slippery slope fallacy.

The most natural side-effect from lack of net neutrality is throttling, ISPs can throttle high-bandwidth applications and ask them to pay up, if competitors pay up they have an advantage so it forces everyone to pay up for access to non-throttled customers. Smaller companies/startups will be in absolute disadvantage.

Now imagine throttling for almost any kind of application: game providers not paying for "premium access" get a 500ms delay, messaging apps not paying will have media delivery throttled (good luck sending a 20MiB video to your family when the ISP throttle it to 256kbps), it opens a new way for ISPs to monetise their networks, it opens a new way for bigger players to subjugate competition that doesn't have deep pockets.

ISPs experimenting with throttling has already happened, when data caps were a bigger thing they also sold "partnerships" with apps that wouldn't be counted towards the data cap.
“Blanket bans on modes of operation”

Okay so you don’t even understand what this is.

Thank you for getting offended and then speaking out your ass. Hackers news best trait of centrist shit.
https://xcancel.com/lovable_dev/status/1875103764350206035
Only things that have made a measurable impact for me - marketing is sales:
1. Mom Test - https://www.momtestbook.com/
2. Do more sales calls + customer interviews. Then rewatch the call and debug what you're doing, saying. What is landing and not landing. I miss the majority of the signal while I'm on the call - I don't actually get anything from it until I rewatch/see how people react to different things I say.
3. Rinse, iterate, and repeat. Your goal is to solve a customer problem. How you describe it, market it, etc. depends on how a customer describes the problem, where they spend their time, when and how they find solutions to their problem.
"walled" is too nice for what Big Tech is actually doing.

What they are doing is literaly digital jails "for you own security........"
Who currently is not a "Proponent of net neutrality"? ISPs? I don't think I've ever met a real human who was against net neutrality.

What good would even come from repelling it?

You have one side saying terrible things can happen, and your argument for the other side is nothing more than "But it didn't happen... yet!"

What's the upside?
Potluck: Dynamic Documents as Personal Software
> It seems like a lot to assume that suggests the author is not a fast technical learner and builder.

I'm a fast technical learner and builder. I will never be where this guy is, in part because most of my resources are going into keeping myself afloat. I live my life as though "luck" isn't a factor (what's the use in declaring defeat?), but it's certainly not merit that separates the rich from the poor.
Love to see people thinking about this!

You might be interested in some of the ideas here: https://github.com/yakkomajuri/recess/blob/main/manifesto-is...

Happy to have a chat if you think it makes sense. I dropped the project above a year ago.
That would mean there are active networks of people working against net neutrality? If true, I wonder who they are...
Wait even under net neutrality ISPs can absolutely throttle nodes based on what people are accessing; that's the basis of QoS, and it's entirely legal to provide QoS guarantees. What net neutrality forbids is preferentially running backbone traffic. But like Comcast has always been able to throttle tor or Gnutella.
Hey! Team up w a PM or find a (paid) sales/BD mentor. Listen, Copy and Adapt. Talk 24/7 with customers and work on positioning/messaging.
>I often run into LLMs writing "beginner code" that uses the most fundamental findings in really impractical ways. Trained on too many tutorials I assume.

In the absence of any other context, that's probably a sensible default behaviour. If someone is just asking "write me some code that does x", they're highly likely to be a beginner and they aren't going to be able to understand or reason about a more sophisticated approach. IME LLMs will very readily move away from that default if you provide even the smallest amount of context; in the case of this article, even by doing literally the dumbest thing that could plausibly work.

I don't mean to cast aspersions, but a lot of criticisms of LLMs are really criticising them for not being psychic. LLMs can only respond to the prompt they're given. If you want highly optimised code but didn't ask for it, how is the LLM supposed to know that's what you wanted?
This past decade I repeatedly found reality to be its own parody. Even the South Park authors admitted to it in 2017 (!).

> The Donald Trump administration is too difficult to satirise because it is funny enough on its own, say Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park.

> While the most recent series of their animated sitcom featured a character that clearly resembles Mr Trump, the pair made the decision to "back off" making fun of the latest US political events.

> "It's tricky now because satire has become reality," Parker told 7.30.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/donald-trump-too-hard...

Now this DOGE (hue hue) crap is yet again on a whole other level, but you get unnervingly used to madness. Only bona fide dadaism could still top it.

So yes, this is probably real.
Google Gemini 101 – Object Detection with Vision and Structured Outputs
Cymbals arent cheap per se, but relative to other instruments they are. A professional saxophone is on the order of $7000 to $20,000. A professional violin can easily be $50,000 and sought after violin's as high as $20 million. Zildjian cymbals for a few hundred dollars are one of the few places a random beginner can consider buying the same instrument used by world level talent.
Why Does USB Keep Changing? [video]
I was confused to which connections Elon Musk had with the car company Doge, but then it clicked.
Once we have nice RISC-V µ-architectures out there, I hope we get the same type of resources for them.
But I really feel like the discourse here is ignoring the provider side. What net neutrality has meant is that Facebook is not allowed to subsidize data for its users. Like I said here in Sri Lanka I buy a data package for my phone and the data limits don't include Meta properties at all because Meta subsidizes our data packages, which is (or was until today) illegal in the US
Look at the comments here that are all the middle fucking management and senior leadership bozos with centrism fueling their holier than thou speed run of boot licking.

“Well actually this is good for you”
> "the system is corrupted"

"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism."[1]

1. http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materi...
I was suprised parent had not heard of them as someone who used Revit for 5 years.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579969
> It is a meme that guy in loud ferrari has a small something but we poor people say it to each other to cope. it is a working mechanism to get noticed by girls and girls will look on that ferrari.

That's the thing, mate, this is attractive to a cohort of people but this adolescent view of the world is, well... Rather childish.

I know many women in my adult life who are absolutely put off by a guy flaunting how rich they are, it does attract some others but it isn't this zero-sum game where the rich guy has all the attention and is so much more attractive to everyone.

It's not a cope, I used to think like that when I was young but it's all quite bullshit being force-fed to insecure guys, it's childish to see the world like that since there are so many different types of people that might like/dislike very different stuff.

But good luck, get yourself a Ferrari and go get the girls you want to be attracted by it, I realised that those are really not the girls I'm attracted to in the end :) and that's fine, there's people for almost all tastes.

Just shed away this adolescent worldview, it makes you look pretty insecure and immature.
From the first google result (although this was 5 years ago): “Europe gave internet service providers the right to throttle online traffic to prevent congestion as network demand spikes amid coronavirus stay-at-home and quarantine orders. Netflix and YouTube have already agreed to switch to standard-definition streaming in Europe to reduce bandwidth demand.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/coronavir...
> if something is allowed and will result in a marginal, even if insignificant rise in income, firms will do it

In a closed system, maybe. But there are some options and the threat of new entrants that keep the system in check (e.g. SpaceLink). Regulation has a cost, and it might be able to prevent some bad behavior but it keeps competition out. That's why the most regulated industries are often the most stagnant, expensive and awful to deal with (think education, legal, health care, banking)

There's a million examples of companies not naively maximizing profits. Why doesn't McDonalds charge for napkins and ketchup? Surely some pointy haired manager suggested this to squeeze out some profit, but it would piss people off and isn't worth it. And this is a better constraint on bad behavior than some unelected regulatory body.
This just seems like a way to collect data by tricking non-technical people into thinking that uploading your file to a server could ever be private.
If you use GitHub the wrong way, that Microsoft is prescribing, then yes it's a walled garden. However, it's meant to simply be a git host.
I don't know if its only me...but years ago when google was in its early days, i considered google to have authority because of its "completeness", and its unobtrusive experience. For some time now, i have not thought of google in that same, good way. Hence, if i wish to find quality content and good results, i use other mechanisms which have earned my trust and respect...some of those include open directories, web rings, old school type blogrolls, RSS feeds, suggestions from the fediverse, recommendations from family, friends, and colleagues, etc. Do i still use a search engine? Sure! I use DDG (which behind the scenes isn't much better than google since they're dependent on Bing/MS)...but nowadays i diversify my expedition a bunch more when searching for something. Gone are the days where i depend as much on big tech (or at least, try my damn best to minimize my dependence on big tech in as many areas of my on/offline life).
Let's start by enforcing existing anti-trust laws while you work on these new ones.
> Is this actually a surprise, or even news, really, to anyone here?

Yes, it's literally news, all over the tech news sites, including Hacker News.

And yes, it's actually a surprise. Noted cryptograph Matthew Green said, "It’s very frustrating when you learn about a service two days before New Years and you find that it’s already been enabled on your phone." https://bsky.app/profile/matthewdgreen.bsky.social/post/3lef...

Please show me where you, anonymous HN commenter, predicted that Apple would add Enhanced Visual Search in iOS 18.1 and silently opt everyone in.

> when I suggest alternatives people say it's "impractical" for them

So are you just choosing to ignore the practical concerns of people? Life is a series of tradeoffs. There is no perfect tech. If your alternatives are so indisputably superior, then why aren't they winning the market? Every time there's bad news about a big tech company, some commenters come out of the woodwork to provide condescending lectures for us unwashed masses, but these commenters invariably fail to acknowledge the many ways in which their alternatives are actually worse for most people, less useful, less practical, lacking in features, indeed more annoying than whatever bad news happens to be currently under discussion. The reason that the products of big tech companies are so popular is that those products are good and useful in many ways, despite the downsides. How about a discussion about what people have to give up exactly in order to switch to the alternatives, a discussion of the very real downsides to the alternatives?

Oh well.

> act all surprised pikachu when it turns out they're totally beholden to what some billionaire thinks is best...

You're equivocating on the notion of surprise. On the one hand, nobody is surprised that tech CEOs have a lot of power over the users of their tech. That's an extremely vague, general notion. On the other hand, yes, people are surprised about some of the specific things that tech companies do, especially when those specific things are against the tech company's stated values. Are you claiming that nobody should talk about, complain about, or report in the news about the specific things that tech companies and billionaires do? Should we have complete silence about things happening with products used by billions of people?
You're not addressing the question.

> If everybody watches the superbowl at the same time I'd expect the power grid not to fail.

"I get what I want immediately" to "the system won't fail" is a nice way to shift goalposts. If everyone shows up to their flight then the flight won't crash, it'll depart just fine with the capacity it has and offer everyone else on the next available flight. You know, the same thing that happens when the power grid is turning back on. They do it one piece of the grid at a time. Which results in you getting less than what the person next door paid for. Because that's reality.

> I am also in europe. I don't get throttled service and what you say is not in my contract. What do you say to that?

When there are a ton of people crammed in the same location overloading the network, you get throttled, whether intentionality or not, whether you like it or not. There is no way on Earth that you being in Europe somehow makes you immune to reality.