skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m so confused by this comment.

Other than physical abuse, what entity do you think should be empowered to force a spouse to “play nice”?

Do other countries have government agencies that force wives to be nice to their husbands, or vice versa?
You need to get out in the world more and experience reality outside of the US and US centric 'world' maps.

The "worldpopulationreview" data has shortcomings. An obvious (for any with a background in data collection) reporting bias for one ..
tl;dr the author created new art [0] from flip-dot boards [1] that emphasized their sound, rather than pixel art. Some fan encouraged the author to gear the work to imitate Clapping Music [2], a 1972 clapping composition inspired by flamenco.

[0] https://ksawerykomputery.com/works/ctrl-dat

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/26233-flipclock

[2] https://soundcloud.com/uhurupeak/clapping-music
And you will still be left behind. I’ve been in this field for close to 30 years. I’ve only survived as an IC by jumping on whatever the tech du jour was.

I started my career programming on mainframes in C and Fortran in the 1990s and have been on every bandwagon since then. My latest is specializing in AWS + app dev consulting. Right now I’m leading a Kubernetes + AI project.

And last year I spent most of the year embedding an LLM into hosted AWS Connect call centers.
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This is exactly what I did. Everyone got an email no matter how uncomfortable, I would engage 1-2 emails past that then make it clear that I wasn't going to reply again.
I could go back into the history of the telecommunications monopoly in the US but that hardly seems relevant to the modern Internet.
After decades of providing treatment for ADHD adults I've come to the conclusion that ADHD is one of the most disabling mental health disorders. In some ways ADHD can be as devastating to a person's life as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. While ADHD is highly prevalent among adults its manifestations are typically subtle. As a result, symptoms are attributed to incidental factors and the nature of the person's condition remains hidden.

The article does a good job of addressing factors that contribute to ADHD-linked disability, and ways to deal with them. Clearly underdiagnosis sums up the primary issue. Solving a problem starts with recognizing the problem exists. However the article didn't discuss an important reason ADHD is overlooked, that is, widespread tremendous bias against recognizing the realities of adult ADHD.

Reducing the burden of ADHD via social approaches faces a major challenge: how to inform or educate the public about realities of ADHD throughout the life cycle. While there has been marginal improvement over the last 25 years, prejudice or misunderstanding remain predominant.

IMO the place to start is with the provider community. Healthcare practitioners need training to recognize ADHD among comorbidities and participate in its management. Once providers are actively advocating appropriate treatment for ADHD patients, family members, et. al., will likely follow clinicians' lead, become more amenable to helping ADHD individuals.

Economic costs of ADHD are substantial. Reports give estimates that of $143 to $246 billion/year in the US alone.[0] If nothing else these figures illustrate the potential benefits of providing proper care to adults with ADHD.

[0] https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(12)00538-2/abstrac...
No its not. I created the post - See my comments and replies
I couldn’t find it. He was trying to seed the site ?
Agreed. I do not follow any links, accept calls, etc. I go to the site of origin and do what I need. Also be careful if you search for the sites name on Google, still might click a fraud site!
These are sometimes called Galactic Algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm

The very first example on the page has a pretty good quote describing their usefulness:

>>> An example of a galactic algorithm is the fastest known way to multiply two numbers, which is based on a 1729-dimensional Fourier transform. It needs O(n log n) bit operations, but as the constants hidden by the big O notation are large, it is never used in practice. However, it also shows why galactic algorithms may still be useful. The authors state: "we are hopeful that with further refinements, the algorithm might become practical for numbers with merely billions or trillions of digits."
what about data privacy?
ELF(COFF) should now be only an assembler output format on modern large hardware architecture.

On modern large hardware architecture, for executable files/dynamic libraries, ELF(PE[+]) has overkill complexity.

I am personnally using a executable file format of my own I do wrap into an "ELF capsule" on linux kernel. With position independent code, you kind of only need memory mapped segments (which dynamic libraries are in this very format). I have two very simple partial linkers I wrote in plain and simple C, one for risc-v assembly, one for x86_64 assembly, which allow me to link into such executable file some simple ELF object files (from binutils GAS).

There is no more centralized "ELF loader".

Of course, there are tradeoffs, 1 billion times worth it in regards of the accute simplicity of the format.

(I even have a little vm which allows me to interpret simple risc-v binaries on x86_64).
General-Purpose vs. Domain-Specific Embedding Models: How to Choose?
> At least we do agree on one thing, there is one and only one subpar engineer among us.

Indeed, the one who thinks containers are nothing but Docker.

Or better yet, the one who cites a PDF from 2000 or an article from 2006, both before ec2 even launched, to say virtualization is synonymous with containers as if the meaning hasn’t shifted since then…

Or, at the very least, the one who thinks “ssh apt-get install” is equivalent to a container image.
> years before Little Snitch even existed

Little Snitch was first released in 2003. Unfortunately, your comment is a stereotypical example of the worst of Hacker News, both condescending and ignorant.

In any case, it's unclear exactly which version of Safari and/or macOS started the specific behavior noted in the blog post. Moreover, as the blog post also notes, it's problematic to deny ssl.gstatic.com across the board, because that causes website breakage.

> The author confesses he did not know about his web browser phoning home to ssl.gstatic.com but titles his blog post about Little Snitch with the phrase "that nobody knows about" insinuating that he now knows about something that others do not.

This is a gross mischaracterization of the blog post, the title of which literally starts with "Little Snitch feature". I'm certain that nobody knew about the feature (matching an associated process with "via"), because the Little Snitch developers themselves weren't aware of it until they reviewed the implementation.
From the article, it doesn't sound like FEMA will be eliminated, just incredibly politicized. So... yay?

> Trump has criticized former President Joe Biden for his administration’s response to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. As he left the White House on Friday morning, he told reporters that “it’s been a horrible thing the way that’s been allowed to fester” since the storm hit in September, and “we’re going to get it fixed up.”

> “I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” he told Hannity, adding that “FEMA is getting in the way of everything.”

So to be clear, when it happened during the previous administration, it was the administration's fault. When it's his administration, it is the agency's fault and also not his responsibility. And it sounds like the president changes his tune based on whether the disaster was in a red state or a blue state.

Everything that has been said so far is so in conflict with itself so it's hard to guess what a policy change would even be. So my guess would be nothing happens and we don't hear about it anymore as soon as wildfires are out of the news cycle.
The article looked at the PhysicsForums and found that 92% of the text is AI or machine generated...
The instruction is VP2INTERSECT. Note this instruction may not be supported by Intel processors after Tiger Lake.

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/vp2intersectd:vp2intersect...

http://www.numberworld.org/blogs/2024_8_7_zen5_avx512_teardo...
Other than advanced, graphing calculators that take full blown formulas as input, ordinary pocket calculators are not infix.

They are prefix operations that take an implicit accumulator as an argument, resulting in something that superficially mimics a purely left-associative form of infix, with all operators having the same precedence.

For instance when we punch in 2 + 3 x 4 / 10 x 3 = = =, it means:

2 # prepare operand 2 in display
+ # move 2 into accumulator, prepare for addition
3 # prepare operand 3 in display
x # complete addition of acc 2 and operand 3, move 5 into acc and display
4 # prepare operand 4 in display
/ # complete multiplication of acc 5 and operand 4, move 20 into acc and dispay
10 # prepare operand 10 in display
x # complete division, moving 2 into acc and display
3 # prepare operand 3 in display
= # complete multiplication of acc 2 and 3, moving 6 into acc and display
= # complete multiplication of acc 6 and 3, moving 18 into acc and display
= # complete multiplication of acc 18 and 3, moving 54 into acc and display

It's really

$ echo 2 | plus 3 | times 4 | divide 10 | ...

I remember doing math drills like this in elementary school. The teacher startws with a number and then calls out operations:

"Start with 3; add 4; mutiply by 2; divide by 7; ....; ... write down the result."

I'm deeply skeptical that someone who had been through these drills would have trouble with a dollar store calculator.
I find these old school forums fascinating. How does that even work, to have a thread of 192,211 posts about Qualcomm?

https://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=36035

Suppose the average post is about 1 paragraph long. One paragraph is about 150 words. So 192211 * 150 = about 29 million words. For comparison, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is only around half a million words.

It wouldn't surprise me if there are more words about Qualcomm in that thread than the total amount of internal and external documentation and financial guidance that Qualcomm itself has ever produced.

Surely users aren't expected to read the entire thread before adding a post? But I think I remember seeing old forums where that basically is the expectation. And honestly... that's pretty cool. It seems better than the new social media, where we keep having low-effort recurring debates. I like the idea of adding to an enormous pile of scholarship in cyberspace. A Ship of Theseus discussion which may outlive any individual participant, but has a semblance of continuity all the same, like an undergraduate college society with a 100+ year history.

Time for a cyberpunk revival. Retro-cyberpunk, we could call it.
I think a good comparison is when you go to a store and there are salesmen there. Nobody wants to talk to a salesman. They can almost never help a customer with any issue, since even an ignorant customer usually knows more about the products in the store than the salesmen. Most customers hate salesmen and a sustainable portion of customers choose to leave the store or not enter because of the salesmen, meaning the store loses income. Yet this has been going on forever. So just prepare for the worst when it comes to AI, because that's what you are going to get, and neither ethical sense, business sense or any rationality is going to stop companies from showing it down your throat. They don't give a damn if they will lose income or even bankrupt their companies, because annoying the customer is more important.
Draft: AI writing productivity tool trained with your data
Maybe, but in this particular case the attack has nothing to do with url shortening. The essential elements were google assistant (to spoof caller ID), and google workspace (to send the "case" email).
Oh, that is nice!
EPA withdraws plan to regulate PFAS in drinking water
Thats sad and hilarious at the same time. Agree, I feel HR KPIs are based on number of applicants Vs quality or finding the right one
ah, positive feedback loops

gotta love'em, 'cause sure as hell we won't be stopping 'em
Which is what accountants call "closing the books". Once all ledgers have been reconciled, old ledgers can be archived and you go forward from the last closing.

Forensic accounting, incidentally, is when something went badly wrong and outside accountants have to go back through the old ledgers, and maybe old invoices and payments and reconstruct the books. FTX had to do that after the bankruptcy to find out where the money went and where it was supposed to go.
Nuclear Proliferation and the "Nth Country Experiment"
https://xcancel.com/m_punnerud/status/1882911244740685942
I agree. Easy to Monday morning quarterback opsec but we're human and the best fall for stuff all the time.

A non tech person wouldn't know Google has bad support and is unlikely to call you, that a number and email can be spoofed, etc. And even if 99% didn't fall for it, just 100 calls gets the scammer a victim on average.
Not all engineering is done in big tech.

If you're a salary-chaser who signs up for that kind of company for the pay, you know what you're walking into. You might as well join the army and complain about the food as work for, say, Google in 2025 and complain about management cancer.

"Big" tech is almost tautologically companies that are long-term setting up battlements around their fiefdoms now they've made the land grab. But big tech isn't all tech.

Of course, nothing lasts forever. One company I worked at, where I would have thrown myself into traffic for the team, got acquired and the new owner's MBAs started their process. Cuts, layoffs, new policies, commissars sent in to keep tabs, sales targets airdropped from another continent, endless, endless IT "harmonisation". The usual. So I left them to it. Life is too short to play that game if it isn't your thing.
> You don't fully support affirmative action? You are racist. You don't fully support abortion? You hate women. You like action movies that feature a strong male figure? You are misogynistic.

It's everywhere, this thinking in sides with no ground in between. Someone says something which in their mind it is in support of cause A, so if you contradict them -- even ask them a honest question they can't answer -- you are undermining their effort to support A, therefore you must be anti-A. If you're not in camp A, you're in camp B.
The idea of a universal AI assistant across the desktop is cool. Like the emphasis on local processing and provider choice.

I have tried out V1 and while it's a bit barebones, the planned features like 'Autocontext' and 'Local-RAG' sound promising. Devil's in the implementation details though.
I also refuse to touch templates. Never needed them, never liked them. When I work on code that utilizes templates in c++, it reaffirms this feeling.
Honda Civic Hybrid: A refreshing alternative to a crossover
what do you think would be the use cases for this project? being lightweight is awesome but usually you need a real browser for most use cases. Testing sites and scraping for example. It may work for some scraping use cases but I think that if the site uses any kind of bot blocking this is not going to cut it.
Posting with IRL identity removes the option to back down after a mistake and leads to much worse escalations, because public reputations will be at stake by default.
> US citizen?

Yes. I understand that there is some enforcement on trains in Europe that you be a paying passenger. In metro trains in the US this is less common or non-existent. Because of the US inability to deal with drug, mental-health, and homelessness issues, public transit often ends up being shelter for a lot of people who have nothing to lose. The risk of being murdered is low, but the risk of an unnecessarily unpleasant experience is high: begging, harassment, groping, smoke-filled train cars, food scraps, having someone spit in your face, urine, vomit, and feces are stories every commuter has. Inter-city trains are generally fine.
A one in three risk of hitting the wrong button still seems insanely high to me. Why is this 2FA method deployed instead of things like "enter the code here"?

(I know it wouldn't necessarily have stopped this phishing attempt.)
The original idea of Smalltalk was very much that :) Sadly, hardware limitations of the time did not allow Smalltalk to be implemented this way. Erlang was likely the first generally available implementation if the idea. (Now you write in Elixir for the same VM.)
I am curious to understand what bearing "lots and lots of regular people solely use their cellphone to conduct consumer transactions" has on GitHub, whose audience is significantly different than median and cannot otherwise function without a laptop/desktop.
Intriguing... Any other info you can provide on this, sources, articles, etc?
That’s not the issue though, it should be marked as such or be found in a section people looking for it can easily find it instead of shoving it everywhere. To me placing that generated content in human spaces is a strong signal for low effort. On the other hand generated content can be extremely interesting and useful and indeed there’s an art to it
Not through the referrer?
This is interesting. I wonder why it's not visible by default.
> According to Pew Research https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ 15 percent of U.S. adults only access the internet through a mobile device.

That number seemed surprising to me - I actually expected the portion of mobile-only internet users would be significantly higher than that.

Turns out the 15% number means something slightly different. From that Pew Research page:

"Today, 15% of U.S. adults are “smartphone-only” internet users – meaning they own a smartphone but say they do not subscribe to a home broadband service."

So the 15% is people who use the internet exclusively via LTE/5G without paying for home broadband.

(I'm surprised that number isn't higher as well.)
> “The biggest impact of what the Trump administration is pulling back from is information, not regulation,” Larson clarified. “The studies that were coming out about the presence of PFAS in biosolids and sewage sludge that would have helped us know whether or not that was a good place for us to spend money regulating.”

You can't regulate something you can't measure!

See no evil.
I'm not a fan of the "chaos agent" style of politics, but sometimes it does bring up topics that would be taboo to talk about otherwise.
Good luck finding work - you are clearly talented if you can make a site like this.

Re the titling/clickbait comment - I was referring to the policy here that posts should follow the page title of the site you are linking to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But as you can see here in other comments, others note this too.
Yes, FEMA is federal. If eliminating FEMA lowers federal taxes states could increase their state taxes to compensate and each have their own emergency management agencies. But generally it seems like having 50+ emergency management agencies is less efficient than having 1.
The biggest scare I've gotten is somehow ending up on "colnbase.com" (instead of "coinbase.com").

It's defunct now, but at the time it was a 1:1 replica of Coinbase. And the only reason I noticed was because 1Password didn't offer to fill in my credentials.

While knowing someone's email/password combo might not be enough for an attacker to do anything malicious on Coinbase itself (due to email re-verification maybe), the point is that even the smartest of us Hacker News users can fall for it. And that should scare the rest of us.
Logged out, I can only see about 80% of tweets when I'm sent the link. I can see almost 0 profiles (only very large brands and verified?), can't search, can't see replies, etc.

I think bluesky only hides people who opt in to hiding their posts.
I frequently use GitHub on my phone, making edits to my projects using their web edit button. And I have a very decent laptop.

I wish Codespaces worked better on mobile! It would be great to see them invest more work in that.

Anecdotally I've heard that there are people out there who have successfully learned to program entirely on mobile devices.
Looks like menuetos, but 16 bit.
The section titled 'Hiding Considered Harmful' is a really good read, something I needed to hear. Its under the heading 'How to Work Well in Teams'.
In modern C++, you don't need macros for polymorphism at all
Many good answers for the why, but can and should you do anything about it?
> I need to come up with a good standard response to the latter.

How about, "I'm sorry, but if you're willing to use AI image slop, how should I know you wouldn't also use AI text slop? AI text content isn't reliable, and I don't have time to personally vet every assertion."
Nice idea, but there's already a lot of places on the Internet where I can do it for free. For example - check-host.net.
I'd assume states with tighter budgets and less of a tax base will be unable to replicate FEMA's resources, while more populous and wealthy states will be able to work around it.

My questions are if this would have any repurcussions on EMAC membership and if it would increase politicization of aid between states. We've seen this with a number of conservative-leaning states pulling out of ERIC over flimsy political reasons.
Red states will still get government assistance after disasters. Just watch.
https://archive.ph/gQDMH
Ask HN: How to automate collecting HAR file while user is browsing
Hello

We are facing an intermittent issue in our web application where for some users for some reasons http requests are ending in error ( 400s ) esp. during token refresh with authentication server.

Normally, we would ask user to generate the HAR ( HTTP archive file ) and we inspect to find the root cause. However, at this time it is challenging to collect the HAR file manually because the error is not consistent. Sometimes it seems to goes away but suddenly appears causing bad user experience.

It is also hard to add logs etc. because the token refresh happens on the client side from the browser so technically there is no traces of it on the server side.

I am looking into ways to automate generating the HAR file but it seems not straightforward to do it.

If anyone of you have faces similar issue in the past and find a way to add such error logging in a web service let me know. Any other thoughts and suggestions are highly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.
The poo NPM module gets its first update since 2015
Open source is a beautiful thing.
Yeah, but then look at C++ - does the syntax really look like it's "just right" to you? Modern JS features actually tend to have cleaner syntax, generally speaking.
Pretty sure content-securty-policy headers can prevent this type of attack these days for browsers that support them. Check out the frame-ancestors CSP directive: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...