skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Aping," is a good one, but I'm sure someone will take offense to that as well eventually.
In that case we'd better invest in weapons and find a way how to kill "the others" before they "kill us", since this will affect "our" chance of surviving much more than if we are able to "fight the climate change".
> That is perfectly described as imitating the outward appearance of methods one doesn't truly understand.

A person could perfectly well understand how radios work, while still constructing bamboo ones to receive messages from spirits.
I think advanced climate models aren't the place of contention is this debate, but the interpretation of those models, and the conclusion as to who has to do what, and when.
The cult of personality is alive and kicking in Azerbaijan
Good. Boot the normies offline again. Bring back the glory days of the internet being an exclusive club of nerds.
Emerging FunkSec Ransomware Developed Using AI
I have lived in two countries. In one, the effects of global warming are devastating: droughts, wildfires, epidemics, starvation, and a sense of hopelessness brought about by intense heat and no air conditioner. In my second country, things don't look so dire...longer summers? yes, they will be able to put up with that here, though they may not be able to stand those pesky climate refugees :-( .

I think that best remedy we have now to global warming is to build resilient societies, to increase democratic participation, to educate people, to alleviate inequality, to not rely on gas from Russia, to fight waste, and to ... well, keep a discerning eye on the future and on things in general.
>49 states plus the District of Columbia have voter registration lists and in all of them there is a process for removing deceased voters from the list. (Note: North Dakota does not require people to register to vote.)

https://tracker.votingrightslab.org/issues/voter-list-mainte...
Makes me wonder how this passed testing and/or was forced into production.
Lancet study reveals Gaza death toll 'undercounted' by at least 40 percent
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250110181323/https://thecradle...

Full study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
While I'd also prefer for this thread to stay, I have to admit that OP saying

> I don't need you to convince me I'm wrong.

doesn't sound like they wanted to discuss anything, rather to encourage confirmation bias
I can see all of these happening but billions dead is a really high number so my question is more about the quantitive aspect. Are there estimates that land on this number, or is it just a high number more or less guessed
Is it OK to just work all the time?
TBH 20x and Moore's law really only means replacing whatever H100 they have today with Nvidia's 2030 cards. Replacing AI chips at least every five years surly has to be the default assumption.
The problem with literate programming is that most people aren’t good writers, and they aren’t interested in developing their writing skills - they only want to code.

Already it’s pulling teeth just to get literate commit messages…
Ask HN: Signal EOL on macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
Signal stops supporting macOS 10.15 (Catalina) soon. This is fine and correct, since the 10.15 support by Apple has been stopped for a while too. My problem is, that I depend on an old MacBook Pro from 2012, because I am handicaped and all newer MacBooks have a too large trackpad for me (typing for me is not possible with these trackpads). I could install a current Linux distro on that Mac and get Signal that way, but for some software reasons this is currently not an option. An external keyboard/trackpad seems to be problematic as well. Do you guys have an idea how to circumvent that problem? Signal is my main communication tool and extremely important to me. Thanks in advance for any help.
SQL, and therefore MySQL by extension, isn't relational.
China's Trade Surplus Reaches a Record of Nearly $1T (largest in past century)
I'm actually confused about why banks are so aggressive in denying users the ability to use their apps while rooted. Unlike Google and Apple I can't think of any financial incentives for this, and the security argument is quite obviously nonsense, as I don't think there has been a single person in history who managed to fall for a scam that made them follow the complicated procedure of rooting a smartphone. Nevertheless there is a clear continuous effort in developing new root detection methods to keep me from using their apps.
> If you don’t want a locked-down computer, don’t buy a Mac

I'd be bothered to respect your opinion if there were competitors whose build quality were better than dogshit.
In my experience, code bases are best structured for navigability, I.e., so that you can find what you’re looking for. Literate programming is about narrative, telling the story of the code in a clear way so that you can build your mental model. These two needs are frequently orthogonal.
One I learned on Friday: Check your solder connections under a microscope before hacking the firmware.
I previously tried getting military records for my deceased grandfather. From what I can recall, it was complicated by the fact that I wasn't "next of kin", which would limit the data I'd have access to. Even my parent, who was next of kin, would have needed additional paperwork as proof, e.g. a death/marriage certificate for my grandmother.

On one hand, if this works then I'll be happy to have the information I otherwise wouldn't have. But on the other hand, all these processes, no matter how convoluted, exist for a reason. It feels weird bypassing those.
FB Purity plugin helps. It removes all the suggested posts, advert and other junk. Unfortunately, it only works on desktop: https://www.fbpurity.com/

I can scroll through Facebook now on my laptop, and it means I stop doing so on my phone. I have the phone app just to post updates or to quickly check the location of an event or something.
Is there a board game equivalent? I'd like to play with my kid, without us staring at a screen.
Play Sokoban in PostScript
Sokoban implementation in pure PostScript. Playable in GhostView. Direct input using tty raw mode and unix pipes.
In my experience, the variety of people on Discord is just the same as that in real life - more so, in fact, since I'm unlikely to meet many people who live in various places around the world in real life ;)
TIL there are still Chumby's alive in the wild. My Insignia Chumby 8 didn't last.
A Microsoft-Contributed Change to Linux 6.13 Is Causing a Last Minute Ruckus
That’s definitely not my read of the article. Are you saying you are offended by someone researching this phrase and then suggesting it’s not a great metaphor for multiple reasons? Do you understand you are the one getting mad about what you think someone said, when they didn’t?

Also, “main” is far better name than “master” for the primary branch of a git repo for lots of reasons. Did it hurt anything to change the default? Why are you so attached to the old name? If anything it made our automation code better to stop having hard-coded assumptions of what the main branch was called.
Fusion isn't technologically viable.

Then it needs to be economically viable.

I'm not convinced that fusion will ever be lower cost than fission.

And fission will probably never be cheaper than solar and wind and storage, which are categorically cheaper currently on a raw energy basis, and solar wind heavy up to fully drop in price and stabilize.

Fission and fusion are peaker and industrial heat application specific. But that implies such a lower level of monetary investment over time that they also won't get the economies of scale to thrive.

Even smr size reactors are a big upfront investment, while wind and solar can be scaled and grown organically.

I'm hopeful for a lftr style small price competitive fission reactor approach exists, but it's ten years away. Fusion is thirty years from practical use at least.

What is apparent is that we will never get political cooperation to solve environmental issues of this scale, outside of mutual agreement to lob nuclear weapons at each other.
Rule 0: Don't panic

Really, that's important. You need to think clearly, deadlines and angry customers are a distraction. That's also when having a good manager who can trust you is important, his job is to shield you from all that so that you can devote all of your attention to solving the problem.
https://archive.is/sYzZK
I'm using an Intel i7-8850H with 6 cores so I think it's powerful enough. It's not that I couldn't watch HD videos but I was experiencing stutters and it left me with the feeling that the CPU is insufficiently utilised.
Dead people's SSNs are published on a regular basis by the Social Security Administration (the "Death Master File" or "Social Security Death Index"). Once you're dead it's not really private information.

I agree with you re: living people's SSNs, though.
Autorun still exists, but at least on windows 10, it doesn't run the exe right away. It shows a popup box that asks you whether to run the exe or open the drive in explorer.
Adding JS to PDF seriously undermines these benefits. If Turing-complete logic can draw arbitrary images on the document, you can no longer have any print fidelity at all, and what you signed cryptographically may have said things you didn't know it said. It may start interfering with #1 if email systems start blocking "malicious" PDF features, too. Only benefit #2 survives.

I have no idea what the folks at Adobe were thinking when they decided to add this feature that could eventually eliminate most of the benefits of their product.

None of this is to say that the Doom implementation is anything less than a very cool hack.
Starmer pledges to boost growth by making UK a 'great AI superpower'
> Care about politics and colonialism and injustice and what have you?

My rule of thumb is that anyone who talks about decolonization is a grifter. The specific harms of colonialism are real; decolonial thinking is for those without anything worthwhile to say.
So you think the guy shouldn’t post this on his personal blog?
Ticket to Ride. Has a kids version that I play with my kids from time to time. There's also a very popular adult version plus lots of add-ons I believe.
Consider a disease like rabies. Right now there's a near-zero chance of survival to those who contract it. Let's say we discover a new mosquito variant which can spread rabies, whose population is multiplying exponentially.

Typically we might expect a disease which becomes pandemic to be survivable for some significant percentage of the population. Whereas here we might say that, regardless of how many resources we throw at rabies treatments, there may continue to be a near-zero chance of survival (because rabies had been remarkably untreatable so far).

It's a suggestion that perhaps we should temper optimism.
I find AGI fascinating. Generating bad airbrush art and crappy prose to be summarized badly by another vastly inefficient machine wasting energy on a dying planet so more douchebags desperate to have their very own Smaug horde of gold have another bandwagon to leap on? Not so much.

The only thing I even remotely use AI for is Codeium in VS Code and that's almost entirely as autocomplete - every time I've tried to use it to generate anything more than a simple function I end up spending as much time going through it and rewriting it to suit my needs as I would have just writing it myself in the first place.

I like writing code, the same way I like writing prose and music and drawing. I will never want or need AI to do these things for me and, if I'm being honest, I'm always gonna be a snob to people who do.

If you don't care about the act of creation and the process of learning how to do it, what's the point? To "generate content"? To make money? Go be a prostitute then, if money is all you care about.

Maybe a life focused on efficiency of generating content works for some people but, fuck me, I'd rather gouge my own eyes out with a spoon.

So yeah, totally with you.
The Robocop remake was my first thought. Some of those scenes are hilarious.
Lesser-known science fiction movies
An "irony" of this, is that China is a major consumer of "clean coal"

A random first hit on a search quack for "global coal consumption" on DDG:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-count...

note China is dark red.

Now, there's a small problem. One reason that China is using so much coal is... to supply all of the exports to other countries!

It might be said that your Amazon/etc purchases are shifting the coal usage from your country to China.
Tesla recalls 239,382 vehicles over rearview camera problems
If we reach net zero emissions on this decade I think we have a chance.

It sounds implausible, but much more plausible than deus ex-machina solutions like aerosols.
> Good point. To what extent do employers even see this as experience, though? In my experience, they don’t care at all. Maybe I’m looking at this wrong.

I don’t know to what extent this is considered experience either. That said, the hiring process in tech is completely broken. There are companies that ask LeetCode hard questions for positions where you’ll just write HTML templates and React.

I work on side projects and write because I enjoy the process—not because I’m fishing for potential employers. In the past half-decade, I’ve written close to 200 articles. Researching for them was immensely helpful in building knowledge. At the start, I didn’t care if anyone read them. But eventually, the site got traction, and now it forces me to try new things and keep my skillset sharp. This works as a positive feedback loop.
Just wanted to respond to this point as well, to say that while this is a logically consistent stance, painting all hackers as pirates is unfair.

Even Aaron Swartz, the subject of this post, made a distinction (both in his writing/talks and his actions) between academic, scientific, and judicial articles, which he believed should be free for everyone, and other copyrighted content such as books and movies. He seemed to take a softer stance on the latter.

I am not a copyright zealot by any means, but I’m trying to keep an open mind regarding the seemingly knee-jerk “abolish all copyright” takes from certain people in the AI sphere.
I love the included legal timeline. Strong work!
This project might be entirely well-intentioned, but some possibilities to be careful of, with this kind of effort:

* Intent is to sell the data, or otherwise "monetize" it, in the techbro sense.

* "Shell" effort of a specific company that wants the data.

* Shell effort of an organized crime group.

* Shell effort of a foreign intelligence agency, or terrorist group.

Awhile ago, there was a different project, which had the effect of making different US records, which were already reasonably accessible to US citizens and journalists, easily available to foreign adversaries, such as for espionage profiling and blackmail. When that project was promoted on HN, I caught the promoter seeming to use a sockpuppet account in the comments (accidentally using the wrong account to respond to themself), which I found additionally suspicious.

Even when a project is fully honest and with good intentions, we also have to consider the risks of likely other consumers of the data, which include all the possibilities above.
So many words and not even mentioning RRT3. The successor was a departure in some ways, but so great and dynamic in other ways.
I had this happen with an nvme drive. Tried changing just about every setting that affected the slot.

Everything worked fine on my Linux install ootb
Active exploitation of vulnerability affecting Ivanti Connect Secure
To be fair they explicitly state don't use their branding in the API documentation. They made £200K in 2024 from licensing - I think about a millionth of a penny per journey

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-advertising-annual-report-202...
I am no expert, but I like the aesthetics, especially the colours, much more than the superhero comics of the time.
I'm not sure why this isn't considered anti-competitive behavior. Once a communication company has 1-billion users perhaps we need to classify them as a more of a utility and hold them to stricter standards of openness.
Correction: I think I experienced noticeable stutters with Full HD videos not with HD videos.
The biggest advance would be Microsoft adopt D.
Bizarre coincidence but on way back through town today on lunch break saw several volumes of Tintin in a charity shop window and took it as fate after reading this article.
You're alleging that there's "TV approved science", in which you're absolutely declaring a conspiracy that the "TV people" are colluding to distort the "facts".

I'd ask you to explain this[1], but you're arguing in bad faith to conform to your world view.

[1] https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/...

Again, if you're unwilling to accept the findings of the organization responsible for a great many of society's technical advancements, then you're merely trolling.
I'm sure this one had an absurdly short TTP (time to penis).
Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
I don't yet have children but having grown up during the rise of social media, it's clear to me that the way it is used now by young children and teens has transformed even from when I was their age (approx 10 years ago).
It worries me for when I myself have to manage their exposure to things like this. On one hand, I feel it would be in their best interests to be completely shielded from it as I personally feel it isn't beneficial for them on the whole at that age.
However, it's undeniable that at that age it's all about fitting in and it would likely make them feel like a bit of an outcast if I were to limit them from being a part of it, like I imagine every other kid would be.

I'm curious to know what kinds of methods you have implemented to manage this or whether you feel the same as me
Do we need 40 car companies working on the same problem ?

Do we need 40 PC companies releasing 20 new laptops each every year ?

Do we need 40 smartphone makers releasing 20 new phones each every year ?

Do we need humongous cars requiring humongous engines, humongous brake pads and tires (massive source of pollution)

How is using a three tonnes metal cage to displace your 80kg ass three miles efficient ?

Do we need earbuds with soldered batteries ? The earbuds should be good for decades but the soldered battery is toast after a few years, same for laptops

Do we need fast fashion and shitty gadgets from china ? 20%+ of france's post packages comes from shein/temu, that's an insane waste of resource and energy: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/vente-en-ligne-temu-et-...

&c.

Take a few steps back and look around you, what the fuck are we even doing ? 80% of all that shit isn't actually bringing anything in term of quality of life
Writing tests isn't free but writing non-regression tests for bugs that were actually fixed is one of the best test cases to consider writing right away, before the bug is fixed. You'll be reproducing the bug anyway (so already consider how to reproduce). You'll also have the most information about it to make sure the test is well written anyway, after building a mental model around the bug.

Writing tests isn't free, I agree, but in this case a good chunk of the cost of writing them will have already been paid in a way.
If it were just transforming text into an image, I agree it would be overblown.

But if you follow the thread to the end, this is the beginning of something that will change everything, probably more than the Industrial Revolution even.
Weird. Multiple people submitted HCL for X260, and not a single one mentions issues with sleep.

https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/

When I had similar issues in the past, I posted a question either to the mailing list or forum, and people were helpful.
Yes, but they never ended to only sell books.
It's healthier to assume your code is wrong than otherwise. But it's best to simply bisect the cause-effect chain a few more times and be sure.
You are 100% spot-on with the "local" thing here.

People living in "bad neighborhoods" have to spend more energy and money on locks, fences, security cameras, self-policing as to not go out alone after dark, etc.

Problem is, Internet (and international phone system, to a lesser degree) makes everything so much closer, that scammers from half-way around the globe are "local" for all intents as purposes. Thus, online, every neighborhood is a "bad neighborhood".
Most people are not aware of what it means to be sociopath/psychopath/Anti-social personality disorder... Or how common it is in the population (a few percentage points seems reasonably accepted) - Why is this information not made general knowledge?

I would argue it should be taught in schools.

It's a basic life skill, to be aware of what it means and how common it is. How do you function in society being oblivious of these facts? Basically by perennially becoming a victim to these, or by becoming bitter.

Just knowing about it is half the battle.

I would also add other dark personality types with potential to cause you real harm to the list - BPD and NPD.

School yourself, save yourself a whole lot of bad surprises. Over a lifetime being aware of the existence of these means you are on the lookout for warning signs, and you learn to get better at picking up on warning signs faster.
Not smart people but probably mostly software and computer people in general (but if you equate software and computer people with smart people then the statement is true).

Apparently, Fundamental of Data Engineering book does refer to cargo-cult metaphor inside its content [1].

[1] Fundamentals of Data Engineering:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/97...
Generating text embeddings in ETL pipeline
Hello, I've been working on langchain-beam library. Its a langchain and apache beam integration to use langchain's components like LLM interface in apache beam ETL pipeline and leverage LLM's capabilities for data processing, transformations and provide a way to create RAG based ETL pipelines.

recently I've added a feature to integrate embedding models into beam pipeline and generate vector embeddings for text in pipeline using the models so that embedding generation activity can be a part of the data pipeline instead of separate service.

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Repo - https://github.com/Ganeshsivakumar/langchain-beam

Example usage, to create embeddings in pipeline :
https://github.com/Ganeshsivakumar/langchain-beam/blob/main/example/langchain-beam-example/src/main/java/com/langchainbeam/example/EmbeddingPipeline.java
I don't know what country you live in, but new cars in the U.S. aren't necessarily any more ecological. The SUV has been king and now the CUV ("crossover" UV) which is also a huge beast of a car.

Even if we switch from gas to electric, this only shifts the pollution to electric generators, which are... coal/natural gas/nuclear

Although renewables are trending up (21% in this random hit, more than I expected)
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

So without solving the electricity generation problem, a shift to full electrics is only a part of the puzzle.
I didn't say anything about running locally. Siri and Google Assistant (Gemini) are what I had in mind: assistants bundled with the phone will remove the need to pay for ChatGPT.
That time is here. I'm not all that smart and have made several quadcopters from parts. These do not have the geo restrictions that the commercial ones like DJI come with. There are thousands of people across the country doing the same with FPV drones. I live very close to a base that it's not uncommon to see Air Force One lands. I've often wondered if they have some sort of jamming software.
It would be very easy to cause problems in a crowd and it's just a matter of time.