skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironic that the NYT's article here focuses on the political angle instead of just the "facts" so to speak...

> It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.
Things like this were previous a pain, but now with AI being able to easily shift through these things to identify high value targets (adversary's military personnel, politicians/executives for blackmailers) maybe something will finally be done. Heck I bet if someone provided a weaponized AI platform to digest this information and float everything of interest in it to the top that might finally get something done.

I think at some point the system needs to switch to aggregating violence/damage inflicted when it's against thousands/millions of people. A business can't just ruin one persons life without consequence. Slightly damaging millions of lives should rise to a similar level at some point.
Is it not possible that ‘attacking trans people’ is both (sometimes) a euphemism for criticism of maximalist positions and (at other times) a perfectly normal term that designates approximately what ‘attacking x’ generally means? There is such a thing as an unsubstantive and utterly unpleasant insult explicitly motivated by the fact that its target is trans. Many trans people say that there are many such, and one does not need to believe everything that trans people say (surely with the result of inconsistency!) to think that the evidence they present is not wholly concocted.

Others may misidentify respectable, good, or correct arguments as ‘attacks’ in narrower senses, but that no more makes the underlying categories meaningless than the misapplication of such descriptions as ‘true’, ‘valid’, ‘scientifically established’, or ‘by definition’. I have no general pithy answer to what one should do about the sorts of attack I have described, but I venture that it is reasonable to talk or attempt to do something about them. What term would you prefer?
The biggest pain / fear related to layoffs for me isn't the immediate actual loss of income...

It was that I have to go job hunting and how demoralizing and toil heavy that process is. Heck I'd likely go job hunting just out of curiosity, the idea of exploring other options should be interesting at the least, but naw it's too much of a pain.

>Recruiters. Don’t discount or blow them off.

That's all they do for me ... I suspect there's a subset of people who are very attractive to recruiters and they actually do things for those people and I am not in that group. The advice surrounding recruiters is always so disconnected from my experience that it seems strange.
I love the idea of this, but sadly I can't get it to work in Firefox, Chrome or Edge on my work pc, probably because I can't find "--enable-features=Vulkan" equivalent in the about:flags and the argument doesn't appear to work on windows. I'm actually a bit more curious about a standalone application that skips the webgpu part and goes straight to Vulkan as I would love to be able to experiment with some Cuda only applications.
Really enjoyed your writing.

Loved this framing:
> The point is the fundamental ambiguity of the moment, and that I have to be the one who decides.
I rarely get back not working code but I've also internalized it's limitations so I no longer ask it for things it's not going to be able to do.

As other commenters have pointed it, there also a lot of variation between different models and some are quite dumb.

I've had no issues with 10-20 line coding problems. I've also had it built a lot of complete shell scripts and had no problem there either.
Crazy part is that he picked up the Enron trademark for $250!
Shame <marquee> is deprecated. That's the best use I've ever seen.

<marquee>The World's Leading Company</marquee>
The storyline as I remember it, was that startups can uniquely disrupt the big organizations (private or governmental) and unlock growth that was otherwise unavailable, and that's what attracted VC money in the first place. Innovator's Dilemma and all that. Seems like an eon ago.
I'm not a native English speaker, but IIUC is clearly 'If I Understand Correctly'. If you look at the context it's often fairly easy to figure out what an initialism means. I mean even I can usually deduce the meaning and I'm barely intelligent enough to qualify as 'sentient'.
It doesn’t matter if they were better or worse, it’s all relative. It depends on who you ask, everyone will give a different answer. You are looking at this from a technological and problem solving perspective, while the people who made the decision prioritized these much lower on their list. You need to think like a politician and consider the PR side of things. This is not about solving the problem, it’s about perception, only perception.

By implementing community notes, Facebook is shifting responsibility. Previously, the perception was that Facebook was doing fact checking (and no one really cared about the third parties). Now, the responsibility moves to the community. Not only does this shift responsibility, but it also makes Facebook appear politically neutral to Republicans, because they can say, "Hey, we did exactly what Musk did, and you liked it. We are politically neutral".
I think the target user is capable of going to chatgpt and saying "give me tattoo ideas"
The quality of the platform lives or dies on the quality of these decisions. If dang's choices are too bad, this site will die.

The situation is somewhat different between a niche community and a borderline monopoly. But it's also true that facebook's success depends on navigating it well. At the end of the day we can choose to use it or not.

To the extent that people feel forced to use a platform that's a reason to further bias away from suppressing free expression, even if the result is a somewhat less good platform.
At my last job, I had to patch a binary for one of our internal .NET applications. The application was hardcoded to connect to a specific database, but we needed it to work with a different one. Since the original developer was unavailable, I disassembled the application, updated the configuration, and then reassembled it.
> theory was that the courts would find it to be fair use. Which isn't a crazy theory at all

If they'd been advancing a test case, they would have done what they did and then--when confronted by rightsholders--stopped while the courts deliberated. That asks the question while managing the downside. Instead, IA dialled its rhetoric to eleven, thereby turning what could have been a measured legal contest into a bet-the-farm Hail Mary.
It's one thing to reduce dependency and another to have reduced consistency. If you have 10 web routes and 1 behaves differently, it doesn't matter if the code is cross coupled or not, it matters if it behaves similarly. Does it return the same status codes on error? Does it always return JSON with error messages inside? Do you auth the same way? The implementation can be wholly separate but end users will notice because logic on their side now has to special-case your 11th endpoint because you returned HTTP 20x instead of 40x on error. Or when you realize that you want to refactor the code to DRY it (Don't Repeat Yourself), now you can't reduce all the duplication because you have bespoke parts.
> Looks a bit like / \

You can just display the character, 八.
Some people will still click the button because they expect it will give them more information about why they received the link. You can add text along the lines of “authorize login on $other_device”, but it’s still risky.
A problem is that invasive species seem to far outnumber people that care. In my local neighborhood volunteers try to eradicate French broom and stinkwort but in spite of their efforts there always seems to be more growth the next season than the year before.
Everytime someone calls Biden "Left Wing", I roll my eyes. So it's quite possible that you have a different definition of Right Wing than I do.

But Trump, Fox News, and the Republicans are absolutely actively aiding the genocide and squashing dissent.
The thought of using unpronounceable text to deter phishing attempts reminds me of putting illegible Unicode as challenge question answers to prevent the CSR from giving an account away to convincing social engineers.
The phisher will be on the phone with their victim, pretending to be a support agent for the business. They will say, "Yes click the link, that's how you verify with us."
I have this bad codebase at work. Really bad. One of the things I’ve been working on for the past two years is making it consistent. I’m almost at the point where interfaces can be left alone and internals rewrites in a consistent style.

People often ask why I hardly ever have any prod issues (zero so far this year). This is part of the reason. Having consistent codebases that are written in a specific style and implement things in similar manner.

Some codebases make me feel like I’m reading a book in multiple languages …
Its not that it has no appeal, its that I expect it to be a tough sell to get people to actually take out their credit card for this when its free and good enough to go to chat.com or gemini. But I may be wrong.
Once you subscribe to one of the podcasts, you can choose the “Manage your account” link from the podcast notes and choose the “Delivery Tab”.

It will give you all of the links to all of your podcasts. I did this from the “Dithering” podcast notes

https://imgur.com/a/ThbTaly
I guess the implicit humor is just mocking enron as the image of a failed company who would do reckless things?

it doesn't seem very sophisticated but I'm not sure what else you'd call it.
I think this is all true, with an added nuance:

We typically make decisions with our emotional mind, and justify it with our rational mind after the fact. I believe Bloom is in the camp that we can override that initial emotional impulse, but there are people who disagree with him. In any event, if the end goal is emotional ("minimize regret") I'm not sure there's much to be gained by bringing the rational into it.

The biggest takeaway I had from his book is that being overly emotionally empathetic can make us biased and lose out on the bigger picture, like making one focused on the short-term wants at the cost of longer-term needs. (There are other biased aspects, like the fact that we tend to empathize more with people who are similar to us, that can lead to obvious less-than-great outcomes.)
This is called "panorama rights" and is actually how it works in some countries.

In e.g. Italy, one is not allowed to take photos of (new?) buildings without the architect's consent, as far as I'm aware.
Is Bing the worst brand name ever? They tried so hard to make it work but it just doesn't. I feel like any other name would be better.
Ask HN: How about Estimate Corrector web app?
Release coming soon. I'm not good marketer, i know.

The best case for me: create task wich gives corrected estimate date based on previous employee experience.
Yep when I have to work on old code I find something in the existing code that's close to what I want to do, and copy/paste it. I do not try to abstract it into a common function, unless that's already been done and can be used verbatim.

You don't know the 10 years of reasons behind why the code is the way it is, and the safest thing is to stay as close as possible to how the existing code is written, both to avoid landmines, and so that future you (or someone else) has one less peculiar style they have to figure out.

All that said, the more usual case is that the code is already a huge mess of different styles, because the 100 different developers who have touched it before you didn't follow this advice.
Only? That's disappointing. This is the problem with companies these days using purportedly "Open Source" licenses which are anything but. It's misrepresentative at best and switch-and-bait at worst. :-/
I've tried myself (in Firefox on macOS even), and Bing really scrolled down automatically to hide its logo from the top of the page.
Did you have a look at music programming languages, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptu_(programming_environ..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csound or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK?

> So, whats the best way to get started?

It depends on the level of professionalism you are aiming for and how many years you want to invest. If you intend to learn an instrument, then I recommend to become familiar with a piano keyboard. All the music you referenced can be created via a piano keyboard (see e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1221). If you want to take the "traditional" route you would take piano lessons for many years and take courses in harmony and composition; if you want to compose for orchestra like Rimsky-Korsakov, expect this to be a lifetime achievement. But it's possible to just learn the concepts behind notes, harmonies and rhythms and their relation to the piano keyboard without really mastering the instrument, even by trial and error. With todays means you can get quite far with it. If you prefer graphical entry instead of a programming language, have e.g. a look at https://nodalmusic.com/.
Are you saying that they couldn't say "100% fruit juice and no sugar added" on the label when the drink is a mixture of fruit juice and fruit juice from concentrate? What part of the regulation would prohibit this?
I mean, so, right away, debt service is 17% of their budget. That should immediately be a red flag. Is it the end of the world? Of course not, but that's a non-trivial part of the budget that is dedicated to interest alone which strongly inhibits the ability for the city to borrow in an emergency situation.

Again, the issues that Strong Towns addresses is that the costs are not generally visible in the budgets, because they are on a cash accounting basis, and not an accrual accounting basis. There is no balance sheet in the traditional sense, and the spending on infrastructure is non-linear. So here, there is no depreciation of infrastructure in this budget except for city automobiles. The worry that Strong Towns is exactly that the depreciation and amortization expenses will overwhelm a budget when they come due.

We know that the city has limited borrowing capacity from their most recent airport expansion, where they are giving up parking revenue to investors: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/devel...

Again, if I'm wrong, I want to know, but the entire point that Strong Towns illustrates is that these cash accounting based budgets, like this one, do not illustrate future liabilities in terms of ongoing revenues.
I have been getting more value out of LLMs recently, and the great irony is it is because of a few different packages in emacs and the wonderful CLI LLM chat programming tool 'aider'.

My workflow puts LLM chat at my fingertips, and I can control the context. Pretty much any text in emacs can be sent to a LLM of your choice via API.

Aider is even better, it does a bunch of tricks to improve performance, and is rapidly becoming a 'must have' benchmark for LLM coding. It integrates with git so each chat modification becomes a new git commit. Easy to undo changes, redo changes, etc. It also has a bunch of hacks because while o1 is good as reasoning, it (apparently) doesn't do code modification well. Aider will send different types of requests to different 'strengths' of LLMs etc. Although if you can use sonnet, you can just use that and be done with it.

It's pretty good, but ultimately it's still just a tool for transforming words into code. It won't help you think or understand.

I feel bad for new kids who won't develop muscle and sight strength to read/write code. Because you still need to read/write code, and can't rely on the chat interface for everything.
I've been experimenting with behavioral tracking on a bunch of platforms for a while now, but it's very difficult research - if you come across something interesting, replication is very difficult if not impossible, or sometimes the underlying paradigm will change entirely and force you to start from square 1.

My motivation is that I would love, and personally pay a ridiculous amount of money for, a service that obfuscates the upstream data that ends up in stuff like bidstreams and other behavioral tracking data sources in a way that makes the data essentially worthless (or even better, extremely expensive) to them. Have had almost no success, at least from means that wouldn't get you in hot water- it feels a lot like pissing into a forest fire expecting to put it out.
A superintelligence, at a bare minimum, equates to an exponential increase in software development capacity for everyone to the point at which we don’t need devs and we very quickly don’t need anything that devs can automate.

Even that is small minded frankly. The economy would not survive a super intelligence.
One of the parodies is a “hot takes” interview: https://digg.com/digg-vids/link/enron-ceo-connor-gaydos-subw...
I could easily lose weeks of my life analyzing a trove of data like this. I had a great time with the Twitch data a few years back.
Thank you so much for this! I was a bit concerned that the performance on my Mac was nearly identical to my new 3090 on PC and thought I might have messed up the setup there!
Nearly all the levers of control of the US government to almost no control over the US government: that's a massive advantage. I can't help believing this, not the popular vote, is the motivation.
Show HN: I built a 93 page eBook and landing page in 36 hours
In just 36 hours, I created a landing page, a 93 page ebook, & everything needed to collect user contact info and email out the ebook automatically on submission.

I used Lovable, Figma, GPT o1, brandmark.io, Unsplash, Netlify, Supabase, and Resend.

Most of the 36 hours was designing the pdf files in figma and some back and forth with o1 as it was creating the content. If there were an agent that could use figma it would speed that up a lot.

Lovable blew my mind. So fast to get things up and running. The Supabase integration is great, and I was shocked at how easy it was to add a key for Resend. Really slick work by the lovable team on all those fronts.

The hardest part I ran into was getting a supabase edge function to work correctly. It gets triggered whenever a new row is added to the db to send out the email with the pdf in it, and getting the db and the function connected took a couple tries but lovable eventually got it.

There's also a non-ebook landing page here, in case you're interested in learning more about InterviewAdmin the product. https://interviewadmin.com
Fancy_job
That's why added it in as an optional extension. It is a part of the larger engine project, but it is completely optional.

I like the C++ principle of paying only for what you use.
> I owned a restaurant that gave Pepsi products to customers who explicitly ask for a Coke.

Did you tell them they were drinking Pepsi or ask some variant of "Is Pepsi okay?"
This is bad (phishing). The better solution is have the login only work on the device where the link is opened, and for cross-device use to also provide an OTP code the user can read on the receiving device and easily type in on the initial device. (Or only provide the OTP code and no link.)
The link is a "safe" GET request.
The page loaded via the link should do an "unsafe" POST for the login, via javascript with a form button for fallback.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7231#section-4.2.1

>The purpose of distinguishing between safe and unsafe methods is to allow automated retrieval processes (spiders) and cache performance optimization (pre-fetching) to work without fear of causing harm. In addition, it allows a user agent to apply appropriate constraints on the automated use of unsafe methods when processing potentially untrusted content.

Exactly the same for email unsubscribe links, or a one click "buy now" link.
> Truly this sounds to really complicated that a phone which is indeed a computer cannot do computer things.

I agree with that point, but I don't think that's what's happening here.

Go back a couple of years and you'll find tons of posts of people trying to get Netflix working on linux. People did find various workarounds of course, including really stupid things like changing the user agent of your browser, but it really wasn't working out of the box like it should.

So the problem really isn't that your pocket computer can't do computer things, but that HDCP is doing what it's designed to do, restrict people from using video streams in a way not envisioned by the designers. The fact that this is a (legally) legitimate use-case doesn't matter, it's just collateral damage.
Because they have a job, dummy. Are you for real?

Subways are not safe and it is terrible to go by subway when you can travel with car everywhere.

If you make $120k in NYC supporting a family of 3 (husband, wife, 1 kid), you are left with almost $1k with extremely tight budget. Now, $9 a day will cost you (22 days * 9 * 11 month) = $2,198.

Not everyone values time. Poor people, lower middle class and middle class need money and food on the table and not additional expense out of pocket for comfort of upper middle class and rich people.

Upper middle class and rich people value time because that is the only thing they can optimize. Money is imaginary and can't do better beyond certain level (think $2 MM Net worth).

America NYC is now so arrogant that it is making roads exclusive for people who make lots of money (>$150k).
??? They aren't searching google on bing, they are issuing bing searches on a search bar designed to spoof google's and fool them.
US sues six of the biggest landlords over "algorithmic pricing schemes"
That would call for a Wii port ;)
Its not that theres no benefit at all, it's more like does it give me enough upside compared to something that is easy and free, doesnt require me trusting an app Ive never heard of, taking out my credit card, worrying about getting ripped off, etc.

But I could well be wrong, I wish you success.
> We tried the silly will power way, that did not work.

They still work for plenty of people, just not you. They can work for more if we enable healthy diets and lifestyles as a society.

And no, that's not a "gold star" to the people who were able to literally have their "machine" work as designed. It's rather a gold star for you to not acknowledge if you needed artificial assistance to exist.

> Is this why GLP-1s are so effective at scale... We tried GLP-1s, and they clearly work because industries are shifting because of it.

None of the articles you cited in your earlier comment address "scale" at all, nor provide evidence of "shifting industries." Two of them address changes in the spending patterns of high-income consumers who are already using the drug (unrelated to the proportion of the total population using the drug), and the third is a blog post by a doctor literally selling GLP-1s as a miracle drug ("It's getting to the point of wondering what GLP-1 agonists aren't good for"-- yikes).

Your most recent KFF link (which it looks like you removed) claims 12% of adults have taken GLP-1 drugs (going off of a single poll taken by a health-tracking organization-- probably biased towards people actively working on their health). If that number was true, it would be alarming that over 10% of humans needed an artificial fix for a problem created by the food industry and socially sanctioned sedentary lifestyles, not something to parade around like you've actually fixed the underlying problem.
I think it is reasonable to have a series of neutrally buoyant drone blimps that are stationed at various altitudes of the atmosphere to monitor the winds, temperatures, lightning, chemical composition, clouds, dust, precipitation, potential microbes floating on dust, etc.. The probably don't need to descend down further than when the temperature rises to 50°C or so.