skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooof. The idea--or reality--that humans' accounts would be hijacked by site-owners to make impersonating slop (presumably to bring in ad-revenue) is somehow both infuriating and energy-sapping-depressing.

Issues of trust and attribution have always existed for the web, but for many reasons it feels so much worse now--how bad must it get before some kind of sea-change can occur?

I'm not sure what the solution would be here.

* Does one need to establish a friggin' trademark for their own name/handle [0], just so they can threaten to sue using money they probably don't have?

* Is it finally time for PKI and everybody signs their posts with private keys and wastes CPU cycles verifying signatures to check for impersonation?

* Is there some set of implied collective expectations which need to be captured and formalized into the global patchworks of law?

[0] Ex: By establishing a small but plausible "business" selling advice and opinions under that name, and going after the impersonator for harming that brand.
There are a whole lot of attempts of "Our own Nix, with blackjack and hookers" and so far none of them have any traction. (Not counting Guix here.)

I don't think any of them are trying to make huge changes to the language itself, considering that an inability to use Nix packages would be a deal breaker for basically everyone.
I had a similar thought chain. I came to the conclusion, though: You're always going to need people to learn how to build compilers and parsers and lexers. But for a language to be taken seriously, you kind of need a group of people. but from another language or languages. To be analogous, if John Carmack was an indie game developer tomorrow, we'd all buy his games probably. But if I publish a game tomorrow, how many of us are buying it?

Now, imagine five semi-core devs of Python get together and make a compiled language.

edited because i use a local llm on my phone for speech-to-text and i was testing with nearly white noise (fans and aerated water...) "FUTO"
This post reminds me of: https://old.reddit.com/r/mathmemes/comments/g3kolt/stop_doin...
Because Rust compiler generates IR bytecode, not machine code.
Companies Need to Offer Current Documentation in a Single Document for LLMs
Just an FYI to anyone working at some type of tech company, as LLms become increasingly integrated, the issue with outdated / fragmented documentation will continue to be a hindrance. We need companies to offer all documentation in a single download so we can include it within our LLM prompts.

No matter how "smart" an LLM is, if its training is based on outdated documentation, good chance the program simply doesn't work.

I'm a non-coder and learned this the hard way. Even with o1-pro-mode, I kept getting errors juggling a program that involved the Clerk and Shopify API. I decided to mass gather and paste huge amounts of both documentation into the LLM and it solved all my issues in a single shot. Shopify was especially difficult, as they release fairly large API updates every 3 months. For Shopify alone, I had to copy around 90 pages worth of documentation.

It's obviously possible to manually do all this, but it's about accessibility. Or maybe some third party service starts scraping and saving this info?

Anyways, I hope this becomes standard pretty soon. Hell, maybe have a page similar to robots.txt for LLMs to ping in the future for the most modern documentation for them to use.
The worldwide part is also made up. He wasn't talking about the entire world market, just the companies they tried to sell to on one specific marketing campaign.
There's not really any reason to use ext4 over xfs anymore, unless you need fscrypt or shrinking.

Reflink support is super useful.
What is he so anti about? He is against adding other official genders than the biological ones we have at birth. But he isn't against people wanting to be called whatever they want in informal situations. And he is against trans surgery at young ages when children aren't fully grown and adult enough to make such drastic interventions. But he is not against adult people wanting to be whatever they want.
Ah!

Oh, Stephen Shankland. He did a number of high quality reviews of this software product I was the tech lead on; about 10-15 years ago.

High quality software reviews were rare already back then.
It's probably easier for most people to not think of them as two remaining doors, but two remaining sets. Originally, with one hundred doors, if the goal object is only behind one of them, then there would be a 1/100 probability it would be behind the initially chosen door, which comprises one set, while there's a 99/100 probability that the goal object is behind one of the doors in the set of not originally chosen doors. If 98/99 of the doors in the not originally chosen doors set are excluded as having the goal object, then this does not change that there's a 99/100 probability that the goal object is behind a door in this set, it just means it wasn't one of the other doors in the set.
There is a FocalLength tag in the EXIF spec. https://exiftool.org/TagNames/EXIF.html
You can now fine-tune open-source video models
AMD Instinct GPUs Power DeepSeek-V3 AI with SGLang
also, you're less likely than the general population to get hired and more likely to be fired if you do get a job.
Could you please stop using HN primarily for ideological battle? We have to ban accounts that do this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I don't want to ban you because you've also posted some good things, but I had to scroll pretty far back to find more than one. If you'd please fix this, we'd appreciate it.
If it does show up you go play the lottery where the odds are far less long.
This happens all the time. Early MacOS put flags in the upper byte of heap pointers, because somebody thought “16MB is enough for anybody”. Physical address extensions had to be added to 32-bit Intel because 4GB turned out to not be “enough for anybody”. Now “64-bit” processors today have 48-bit physical address spaces (or less), but we’ll see…
Reading it properly, they'll still ferry parts between their sites (Tolouse, Hamburg, where else?) using a version of the plane, they're just stopping the commercial cargo service.

Although afaik they were built to fit A380 parts, but since they've stopped making them, I wonder if they still need Belugas.

One time one of these flights took a non-routine route and flew near where I lived, I noticed a plane with a different noise profile, I can't remember if I spotted it in the air or I just saw what model it was on ADSB-Exchange.
> lowering the upper bound to (log n) times (log log n)^3 — equivalent to (log n)^(1.000...1)

This is true! One of the things I find cool about big-O complexity using polynomial reference classes is that logarithms give you an infinitesimal value. Take that, "infinitesimals don't really exist" people!
> Most system components run in user-space on a microkernel system. Because of this, bugs in most system components won’t crash the system/kernel.

It's funny because I want this when I write applications. Each library should run in its own sandbox, and by default they shouldn't be able to touch each other's data.
I think this application of Berkson's paradox is misleading. A physician can be expected to have a high medical aptitude because of training, not filtering. Medical degrees are not withheld from people with low medical aptitude and given to people with high medical aptitude, people are trained then filtered.

> So if you find a doctor with bad bedside manner, they're likely to have better medical aptitude otherwise they would've been filtered out.

I propose the opposite, a doctor with bad bedside manner likely has lower medical aptitude. I believe there is training for doctors to improve their bedside manner. Then "trainability" may be a latent factor which correlates the quality of a doctor's bedside manner and medical aptitude.
probably as a result of all the systemic issues surrounding ADHD.
I am among the first people to gain access to OpenAI's "Operator" Agent
> it is trivial to spoof user-agent

It's also trivial to detect spoofed user agents via fingerprinting. The best defense against scrapers is done in layers, with user-agent name block as the bare minimum.
The ugly possibility, which this (good) study is too shallow to surface, is that a lifetime of pharmaceutical treatment might be at play.

While amphetemines and adjacent drugs may provide critical relief of symptoms and may be experienced differently by sufferers than non-sufferers, they're still deeply unkind drugs to the body, and years or decades of daily use might have inconvenient consequences that show up in data like this, once someone starts looking.

It's not directly implicated by the results, as no particular causitive factors are, but it's an unfortunately possible factor that the authors chose not to suggest in their discussion.
And it's going to accomplish exactly nothing.

If there is so much as one file still being kept secret, people will insist that it's the one that confirms their version of events. And if there isn't one such file, people will assume that THE file just isn't accounted for.

I suppose it's possible that they'll release something that does affirm somebody's theory, contradicting the official one. If so, yahtzee. That would be interesting.

I don't know of any reason not to release these files. After half a century it seems unlikely that any secrets they're protecting are actionable. But I also don't expect it to change anything.
>Secondly, if you think any compiler is meaningfully doing anything optimal >>("whole program analysis") on a TU scale greater than say ~50kloc (ie ~10 files) >relative to compiling individually you're dreaming.

That's wrong. gcc generates summaries of function properties and propagate those up and down the call tree, which for LTO is then build in a distributed way. It does much more than mere inlining, but even advanced analysis like points to analysis.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/IPA.html
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/IPA-passes.html

It scales to millions of lines of code because it's partioned.
IOC long shot Watanabe hopes 'crazy' Olympic idea sparks debate
the speed is ms per frame
The ShackNews forum: https://www.shacknews.com/chatty was similar - go back in time on on it and you can find posts about 9/11 unfolding.
All I see is a waste of gasoline. Back when I was living in a cold country and drove a car early in the morning I would just use gloves, keep my jacket and heat my seat with a fart. ;-)
It's just one of many ways to do this. Websockets, ZeroMQ, HTTP long-polling, or just a plain old TCP socket would have worked as well, just to name a few. I just went with MQTT because somebody had already implemented 95% of what I needed.
Wait a minute, it’s possible to relicense something from GPL to MIT?
The simpler thing will be for Tesla to stop blocking cars from charging.

Closed infrastructure makes EVs worse than ICE vehicles. I can fuel my ICE vehicle at any fuel station, I should be able to charge my EV at any charging station.

Tesla chargers have been open to all EVs in Europe for years now, including Kias:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yflZN0dLT8s

All Electrify America stations charge all EVs, including Teslas. Tesla can lift its game in North America.
To be even clearer, 16-bit real mode x86 assembly.
I don't quite understand the issue of "back-dating" or hijacking accounts. How is this being done exactly? I came away from this article wondering if I was missing something.
I called it anxiety based development when I was in dev roles. Worked okay up until the physical symptoms forced me to find alternatives. The alternative for me is I no longer write code for a living.
Same, maybe giving birth.
> there are hundreds of Web APIs, and for now we just support some of them (DOM, XHR, Fetch)

> it's still ~10x better than Chrome

Do you expect it to stay that way once you've reached parity?
Just another WeWork for softbank...
Cannot compare, because I own only the following ones:

https://www.amazon.com/Counterexamples-Analysis-Dover-Books-...

Weierstrass function is also there, but exactly this one contains an error... :)

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1507399/is-the-weie...

There is also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterexamples_in_Topology
I've often wanted something like this for music or video games. The "truth" of the reference doesn't much matter. The point for me is: I like this thing, now I want to try some things that are related to it. However, I would appreciate if some lines are marked as factual and have a citation that such-and-such creator listed it as a direct inspiration.
Life's too short, I guess.
You're being too general, in my opinion. Piracy is almost completed stopped just by presence, not by combat. American also engages in and their taxpayers fund foreign wars, which perhaps it should stop doing, but that is very separate to economically bouying up a global economy via and global R&D via global grant awards and open sharing of American research findings. Trump is right now pausing NIH funding and detaching from the WHO. All the funding that paid for benefited other countries is now gone, partly because people globally laughed at America for not spending enough on its citizens, and eventually enough of its citizens didn't think it was worth keeping on doing that any more.
the quote about Einstein, relativity and his driver is very cool.

this is one link for it, there are others:

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/yarns/836...
The Ouseburn Farm in Newcastle (your last link) is a great place :)
This is very compelling, nice work. I'm going to spend some quality time on this.
I imagine downscaling and reducing the number of colors in steps could gradually increase the false positives. You would have to noticably change the icon to avoid it.
Oh wow, it's Louie Mantia. I remember them from their superb Icon Factory releases. Still have zips of their icons from 2009 (!). What an amazing crew of talent from what I feel was a kind of golden age period of icon creation and OS customization.
I used Next.js, other technologies I used are turso for DB, nextauth, Vercel for hosting.
This transition is happening now because its cheaper, much cheaper. Solar gets down to about $50 for a MWh whereas Gas is at more like $200. Wind is a little cheaper initially at ~$40MWh but it has higher ongoing maintenance costs and tends to come out roughly equivalent to Solar although its widely expected Solar is going to drop further still.

Batteries are still relatively expensive, in the region of $80 for a storage MWh although pumped hydro is quite a bit better than that. Still what is going to happen is in the next few years on the sunniest days and the windiest days power is going to be free or even at the point where you get paid for using it. Whole businesses are going to be based on storing this power for the long term and using it.

Unlike with Gas/Coal etc where we choose the output with renewables we need to control the consumption more, that means more storage but it also means systems that align power consumption with when its cheap. Some people are already doing this in their homes and charging batteries when the grid provides cheap power but my hope is that businesses will pop up to use that power to capture and store CO2. There is absolutely money to be made in this market and software for building smart systems in homes and across countries that balance these systems.
I know this is all probably amplified by recent political developments but as I have mentioned in few threads during the year, this shift for non-US public orgs has already started. The thing is that Twitter is no longer properly/predictably accessible to people without account - that is most people on the internet. So there is no point for posting on such sites if you are public organization. There could be critical mass of users on the site but anyone can open link to public accessible stream on Mastodon and BlueSky (at least for now).
The last section mentions that the PhysicsForums admins are experimenting with LLM-generated responses, so I think the site owners are responsible.

> We reached out to Greg Bernhardt asking for comment on LLM usage in PhysicsForums, and he replied:

> "We have many AI tests in the works to add value to the community. I sent out a 2024 feedback form to members a few weeks ago and many members don’t want AI features. We’ll either work with members to dramatically improve them or end up removing them. We experimented with AI answers from test accounts last year but they were not meeting quality standards. If you find any test accounts we missed, please let me know. My documentation was not the best."

Why they would recycle old human accounts as AI "test accounts", I have no idea.
From what I've read online, that would not be enough.

According to https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/consent/

> Consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. In order to obtain freely given consent, it must be given on a voluntary basis. The element “free” implies a real choice by the data subject. Any element of inappropriate pressure or influence which could affect the outcome of that choice renders the consent invalid.

Declining terms of service will affect the outcome so it can't be considered "freely given consent".
So why not npx tailwindcss@^3.0.0 (or whatever version was there when you started)?
When a hyperspectral image is a cube
Team Fortress 2 Classic (TF2C) v2.2 "Double Down Update" Released
Greeted by "currently available to LWN subscribers only" message!
I wonder if chronic stress leads to a reduced life expectancy for ASD too?
That's an interesting concept, I think you are referring to Metcalfe's law.

I'll do my best to scale for sure

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
> How is this being done exactly?

Presumably it's being done by the site-owner, whether that means new-management or original management getting desperate/greedy.
What about journalctl?
I was shocked to discover how the British Library (millons of books, many many new ones every week) manages this. The first book to arrive earlier this year went on the shelf at 2025.0000001. The next went at 2025.0000002, right next to it. The electronic catalogue does the rest. No need to re-shuffle books around, but not a solution supportive of book-browsing.
Reminds me of Foucault's Pendulum. Great book, worth reading, and extremely relevant to our day.
Sorry to hear that. I don't know your exact situation, but if you have to resort to surgery it's clearly not just "calories in calories out and "buy yourself soke decent clothes".

I can only wish you luck.
Whoever runs the site/database is just inserting rows with fake datestamps under existing (presumably abandoned) account names.
Another browser in this space is https://ultralig.ht/, it's geared for in-game UI but I wonder how easy it would be to retool it for a similar use case.
Did it was it a random console error? It may be due to load issues since the site has many users at the moment.
> It grabs audio from the mic

Is it possible to grab from default audio output device instead of mic? Probably not as it's browser based. I suppose mic can be faked on OS level somehow.
Yes. Generally you need permissions from contributors (either asking them directly or requiring a contribution agreement that assigns copyright for contributions to either the author or the org hosting the project), but you can relicense from any license to any other license.

That doesn't extinguish the prior versions under the prior license, but it does allow a project to change its license.
At the time (if TFA is correct) the 701 had already existed for a year. So it was only a question of building more of them, not that they had sold 5 vs 18 of something that didn't exist yet. But, they were also most likely on the hook for installing and running them -- at that time a computer like that would have been leased with installation services and on-site operations staff included.
Fortunately, computer science and every single other discipline, topic, and community doesn't chronically suffer from the exact same issue.

If you know anybody or anything that knows/has solved this gatekeeping problem with any level of consistency, please share.
> The apparent reduction in life expectancy for adults with diagnosed ADHD relative to the general population was 6.78 years (95% CI: 4.50 to 9.11) for males, and 8.64 years (95% CI: 6.55 to 10.91) for females.

It's not clear to me that there is a difference. It looks like the confidence intervals overlap.
Do you have Protect Mail Activity or Hide IP Address enabled in Mail Privacy Protection Settings?
I exchange public keys with close friends in person. A large scale solution would be very Orwellian. You would need a national ID that is a smart card to connect to an ISP and possible biometric verification.
Never underestimate adolescents who are not distracted by ordinary teen drama.

They exist, and have truly enviable amounts of time for projects.

Also, don't overestimate compilers (or kernels). They can be much simpler than they might seem! The difficult/tedious parts are optimizations(!) and broad compatibility with bizarre real-world stuff.
But what about:

4 -= 1 +=

4 -= 1 -=

I’m guessing 3 and 3?
Meta's Threads to Show Ads in US, Japan
https://archive.is/1Sm25
Socrates and writing, calculators and LLMs, television and social media... thought terminating cliches that just crowd the discussion in the same way spam crowds an inbox

also we didn't have those discussion before, everyone forgets about abacuses and log rulers
Despite the ease of auditing services, there are notoriously a lot of devs using unaudited deps. Maybe they don't even think about it, unfortunately.
Strange, I am using an iPhone 12 pro max and it works for me. I am going to keep playing around with different pixel painting techniques and see if I can get a more reliable, 50/50 split on both links. Thanks for trying!
Provide users with a plain text Markdown editor
I've been back into this game in a big way lately. TF2C is a re-imagining of the 2008 era of TF2, now evolving in its own way that tries to stay true to the original spirit of the game versus Valve using TF2 to invent the modern incarnation of loot boxes in 2010, ruining TF2 and the rest of the industry forever.

For those who want to play on Mac, I have had perfect results with Whisky Wine: https://getwhisky.app/

Create a Wine Prefix, use Whisky's built in WineTricks to install `dsound` to fix sound-stuttering freezes w/r/t voice chat, then install Windows Steam in Wine and follow the rest of the Windows setup instructions on the TF2C site. I am updating to 2.2 now so I can play after work today — the hype is real! https://i.imgur.com/tqUk1xX.png

This is doubly interesting from a hacker point of view because the project that became TF2C started as a fan compilation of 2008-era leaked TF2 source code.
I was using a similar extension which whitelisted / blacklisted IP addresses in Chrome. I had it set to blacklist my home IP, which I paired with an in-browser VPN app. Since Chrome's latest extension update (about 3 weeks now?), I've had Chrome send requests to pages which were open before the extension loaded, leaking my IP. I assume similar issues could happen extension-to-extension, so this shouldn't be used for any privacy-related reasons - can't trust a Chrome extension to block 100% of anything.
How do I get me some ex-startup laptops? I'm in the market for a last-year-Macbook Pro.
Show HN: I made an open source smart home pod
I have been working on this open source project during the past two years and I am excited to put it in hands of fellow developers and tech enthusiasts. Ask me anything!
But do rust’s invariants work across dynamic links?

I thought a lot of its proofs were done at compile time not link time.