skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is that still a thing for any computing device today?

Yes, many graphing calculators still work that way.

But in regards to the ZX computer nowadays, people usually go to the Gosh Wonderful ROMs that allows typing in full letters.
Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the XNU kernel
Yes why not. Hell, there are places in the world where you can buy whole villages for $50k!
I started using online communication platforms around 1985 or so when I got a 300 baud modem and started using computer bulletin boards.

The clear pattern from 1985 to 2005 or so was that every new platform that came along experienced growth for a while and then decline and people involved in such platforms just moved on to whatever new thing replaced the old.

By 2015 Facebook had broken this pattern, and I thought a lot about why, not least was the explanation that Facebook was buying competitors (WhatsApp) and intimidating VCs to discourage competitors (otherwise having to pay $15 billion every few years to buy the next thing would seem like extortion)

Zuckerberg's fanaticism for VR is attributed to the belief that Facebook has a shelf life and they'd better be leading in the next platform.

Now I see it as "normcore people don't want to move away from old platforms and move to the next thing" and that what keeps Facebook alive is that if you want to keep in touch with: (1) your normcore friends and family and (2) community organizations you're stuck with Facebook.
All versions of the PS5 support digital download. They’ll just release them digitally. Discs now are mostly collectors items anyway, day 1 patches (in the 10s of GB) have made them mostly useless.
> I'm holding Microsoft's original source code in this picture.

I wonder if this is the BASIC interpreter source code they found in DEC's dumpster [1].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2000/06/29/bill_gates_roots/
The non-Hispanic White homicide rate [0] is 10.7, and the Black homicide rate is 79.6 [1]. The rate of police killings is 24 for Whites, and 70 for Blacks [2]. This means that, for every homicide committed by a White person, the police kill 2.24 White people, while for every homicide committed by a Black person, the police kill 0.88 Black people.

Given these numbers, one would expect there would be about 2.5x more civil rights cases alleging the police are excessively violent towards Whites, as there are such cases alleging they are excessively violent towards Blacks.

This is not remotely the case, yet they NYTimes uncritically believes all those civil rights prosecutions, and reserves their doubts about the justice system only for criminal prosecutions and police work. There is not a hint in their article of the remotest possibility that any "civil rights work" could have been in error.

[0] All rates given per one million population per year.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-... - subtract Hispanic perpetrators from the White ones (for some reason the FBI combined White and Hispanic/Latino) and use US demographics to get per-capita numbers.

[2] https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ - For the 2013 - 2023 period. Unlike the FBI, they count Hispanic and White separately.
Thank you for being the voice of reason.
Reserving dinner and booking flights is like .01% of my time. Really just negligible, and they are easy enough. Groceries are more time, but I don't really want groceries delivered, I enjoy going to the store and seeing what is available and what looks good.

Maybe it could read HN for me and tell me if there is anything I'd find interesting. But then how would I slack off?
Show HN: Tinder Meets Shark Tank: AI Matching for Entrepreneurs and Investors
Bezos is chairman, but not CEO. Does he still have that much influence within the company?
> and even creating memes.

Browserbase just launched one of those as a demo

https://www.brainrot.run
I have. At one point I wanted to set a bash script to setuid/setgid.

By the time I read up on why that didn't work and how to "fix" it, I decided it was a bad idea and tried something else.
Interesting ... why can't I Vouch for this post?
I’d like to add another entry to the Other cool stuff you might like in the summary: https://ibis-project.org/

It's a portable dataframe library that defaults to a DuckDB backend, but you can also use polars and pandas (among the 20 backends that it supports).
A lot of my biggest political successes as an engineer are just building something that I know is important and finding someone higher up who has always wanted it done but everyone tells them it's going to take multiple quarters and it never gets planned.
> Having a whole other device constantly running just to wake up my main device feels like a waste.

Indeed, my first thought is the best place to run this is on an OpenWRT router. Perhaps as a package, or a builtin feature?
Where I come from, you do not become a millionaire by working an average job. If you don't happen to be at a C level position, you will never become millionaire level rich by working for other people. If you have a middle class income, it means you have no more than middle class maneuverability. It isn't enough to become a multi millionaire under your own power. You have to start your own company or repeatedly make very good investments to really move up.

Owning something that suddenly has an inflated value does not necessarily make you rich.

Let's say you own a car. You need that car (maybe to take care of a relative). You can afford your car with your middle class income. Over night it gets replaced by a golden car worth 1 million dollars. If it's the only golden car, you are rich. You can sell the golden car and replace it with a reasonably priced one and still have about a million dollars.

But it's different if in the same night all cars become golden cars, including every car leaving the factory. Even 20 year old cars in dire need of repair have become golden one million dollar affairs. Now you're not rich. You can only exchange your golden car for another golden car.

If you sell your car and use the money for anything else, you will never in your entire life own a car again, because your income just can't provide for it.

That's how people stay middle class with a middle class income even though the house they live in suddenly is worth a million. It's about maneuverability.

> Unaffordable housing comes from inadequate supply, which comes from older generations not permitting enough housing to be built in the high-demand areas.

Unaffordable housing has to do with demand and supply, yes. What many people overlook is that not all demand stems from people wanting to live somewhere.

Land ownership has become an attractive way to park money the last 15 years. And there is a lot of money that needs parking. The last burst of a housing bubble caused one of the biggest ways to park money - lending to other people - to shrink dramatically (mixing subprime loans as a marketable bundle turned out to be a bad idea). Interest rates went down, making it even less attractive. The money now gets put into an equally inflated stock market, some of it into Silicon Valley style venture capital bets, and another huge chunk into real estate. So there are a lot of very rich and influential people who would lose a lot of money if those house prices would start to fall.

And even if you would meet the demand of those people who just want a place to live, you will not satisfy the demand for investments.
Breezy Weather: how have I missed this gem for all these years??

Thank you
You can get JSON output with a JSON schema via tool use [1]. Is this not reliable like (e.g.) OpenAI's structured outputs?

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/blob/main/t...
I think you're confusing setting the environment before running a process, with setting the environment _within_ the process. If you're running a shell session, or even a compiled process which is just a "runner" for some other process - then certainly, we all do "export SOME_SETTING=value" and run things. But if you're writing a C library, which could well be used in a multi-threaded environment - you don't need to "adjust" anything, and should not invoke setenv. If your library is not pleased with the settings of another library, then it should start returning errors, or even exit() if you're a violent kind of a guy - but not setenv().
Yeah totally fair on both points. I'd bought the Note 2 before I'd heard about the GPL violations... Android is funnily enough exactly why I went back to the Kindle with the Scribe instead, though Amazon has it's faults as well. My ideal device for this space would be the reMarkable Paper Pro but with the Kindle app for reading books installed :)
I think it'd be illuminating to see some overview stats on the submission dates and authors of all questions, accepted and not. Is something like this available somewhere?
> IQ is compute speed, not storage.

Says who? Honestly. I've never seen that claim before. Sure, tests are timed but that's a proxy for efficiency in extrapolation.

If we define IQ in this way then LLMs far outperform any human. I'm pretty confident this would be true of even more traditional LMs.

Speed really is just the measurement of recall. A doubt we'd call someone intelligent if they memorized the multiplication table up to 100x100. Maybe at first but when we ask them for 126*8358?
I mean.. the guy posted on a public forum "I just made $142M!"
NSA can do that too. I mean, they will be grumpy whilst doing it but they can do it.
I am reminded of the study that showed an AI trained on tumor identification was heavily biased toward indicating a tumor was cancerous if it was circled in purple ink or a visual scale was included in the image - as the cancerous tumors in its training set shared those traits while images of benign tumors did not.

These systems so not posses some sort of "woo" that gives them magical powers when running LLM code that they lose if they ran a spreadsheet. Whatever attributions of intelligence are given have far more to do with our human willingness to anthropomorphize than a hidden ghost in the machine.
Is it correct to assume this plugin won't work with ollama?

If so, what's ollama missing?
I had an IR remote that was set up to wake my Kodi box on button press. Seems very doable.
Pedantic, but the word you're looking for is proxy, not VPN.

A Virtual Private Network is a private network such as a Local Area Network created virtually on a Wide Area Network such as the internet. Tailscale, SoftEther, or Hamachi for the old boys are examples of VPN implementations.

A proxy is a server that accepts and forwards traffic from clients through it, lending its IP address to clients as the traffic origin if desired.

A proxy can exist in a private network, but it is not a requirement.
Damn, I had no idea. That's really unfortunate.
How was shareholder value affected positively or negatively by LGBTQ support internally? I don't understand the connection. Prior to the president change, I don't feel there was much influence for or against, other than attracting worker talent.
Hits close to home. Apart from what was a family PC (terribly cheap), my main rig for a time was assembled via old junk the computer lab at school was done with but wasn't valuable enough (or fully functional) to say no when I asked if I could have it.
Did you get a bounty payout for this? I got the impression that Apple wasn't particularly on the ball with those.
Christ...

I wish I had something more curious to say.

Other than "Operator/Agent, please surface all sites using prompt injecting and just go ahead and cancel my account, and send a complaint to the appropriate authorities BBB/Reddit/CANSPAM"
VWO vs Optimizely was the biggest internal debate back in 2017. Enemies were made, heads rolled...

Congrats!
Trump orders crypto working group to draft new regs, explore crypto stockpile
Heh and if dictionaries can be shared between sites, another potential security leak.
I have a question if you don't mind. I don't know clojure at all, and I may be misreading things, but from this comment on your site:

> Game development is fundamentally an art of state management. States are everywhere, and managing numerous unrelated systems in harmony is a challenging task. While Clojure’s immutability by default offers many advantages, it also introduces complexity. To handle the intricate state management required for game development, I had to create my own abstractions. Writing a custom DSL (domain-specific language) became a necessity, but it wasn’t easy.

And then this comment:

> In Wizard Masters, all game data resides in a global game database—a single large hashmap. The fields referenced in the :what block (e.g., :pointer-locked?, :player/ground?) are keys in this global hashmap.

Please don't take this the wrong way but you've essentially just worked around clojures functional immutable style and invented global state in a hashmap, right?
In another video it says expected price 15000 - 20000 rupees which I guess is like £150 or $200. Quite cheap as these things go. (vid, not in English https://youtu.be/HoTucoz1Uro?t=111)
They were applied in the beginning because we really weren't that good at solving the tasks. So like any good researchers, we break it down.

But this is like trying to test an elephant but you can't get access to an elephant so you instead train a dog. But putting a dog in an elephant costume doesn't make it an elephant. Sure, dog training will likely mean you can learn to train an elephant faster had you not first trained a dog. Some things transfer, but others don't

I also want to stress that there is a rough consensus. But the ML field (which I'm a part of) often ignores this. I'm not sure why. We should be leveraging the work of others, not trying to start from scratch (unless there's good reason, in which case we must be explicit. But I'm just seeing simple claims of "intelligence is ill-defined" and treating that as if that means no definition instead of fuzzy definition. Which gets extra weird when people talk about moving goal posts. That's how progress works? Especially when exploring into the unknown?)
great so now a hallucination can have me traveling with my family to tropical Detroit
Specifically the Super needs to have individualized colors per letter. Where S is red M cannot be and therefore is blue instead.
Did you just make that up? I have never heard that claim before and searching for Ross Ulbricht ketchup just leads back to your comment, so you seem to be the first person to ever claim this.
Either HN suddenly became far more constructive and considerate, and on an inflammatory topic, or dang is doing an incredible job moderating this discussion. I'll just hazard a guess and say - thank you dang!

But dang - please don't let this off-topic comment sit at the top of the page and distract from t4t's post.
Flagging can be done by any user (above some karma threshold). This is well known and documented in the faq. A log of this would just make for more tiresome meta discussion. Which is also something the guidelines point out.
see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808256
I'm sure that in time money will prevent this from being a feature
This here speaks so much more to the success. Actual customers praising the product.
Top European court backs woman against divorce on grounds of "marital duties"
(Co-founder of Optimizely here) Congrats! It was fun competing with you
Just another example from a few seconds ago, I tried to look up "ghcr egress cost". Google changed it to "gcp egress cost".
Adults from 2000 years ago would absolutely be smarter than toddlers. Adults back then watched and out thought their toddlers. Do you think toddlers now are much smarter? Especially when toddlers are from before they get educated.

Remember that 2000 years ago is 24AD, the middle of the Roman empire and Han dynasty which covered half of the world population. Nobles would be literate and well educated, artisans and soldiers would be skilled, and I bet there were lots of smart peasants that got ignored.

They wouldn't do well on intelligence tests because not used to it, but that is more about tests than their intelligence. I'm sure that the average intelligence is lower than now from lack of education and malnutrition. Smart ones would still be smart. Also, I bet people from now would do poorly in their environment.
I don't like it either but in practice it doesn't really matter. Tree-shaking means those unused features won't affect your project
I checked out the explainer video from 15 years ago in the linked blog post. It's crazy but this would still get me interested even today! Wow.
We'll see about that, won't we? Trump has just declassified JFK, RFK and MLK files. Was MLK an "extremely violent criminal"?
QR code leads to two websites
15 days for the the plan for the JFK files, 45 for RFK and MLK. No mention of when they'll be released to the public.
and if you do this for six ex wives or six people that annoy you and not a single one dies?

At what point does this strike you as odd?
Some founders are very open about these things. It doesn't hurt to ask. They might even have a public blog about they can link to.
https://archive.is/ztU6A
I really like how these are categorized, and succinct descriptions. Thanks for sharing!
Like North America?

I really don't know what to tell you, it's not 2020 anymore but people are still hiring people in the same places they've always been.
You don't get to order such things "before inauguration".
I'd much rather them release early than not release at all. By your logic ChatGPT will still be in internal testing and the whole industry would be way behind where it is today
Yikes - I didn't think my comment was especially critical at all, just a kind of funny way to explore the issue. It's a sincere question. But I apparently am not imagining what it looks like. Sorry!
Korean democracy was nearly toppled by its president. It was saved by its people
The deception works well though. Some German POWs got a map of Arizona and tried to escape by rafting down the Gila River. Naturally all escapees were found in less than a week.
now I see why tech billionaires say what they do. How much of this will be accurate work tho?
Had pre digital Sinclair op amp/transistor products. The reliability was awful, the instructions to build incomplete, massive mains hum on the stereo amp. Used it for years! (My dad built it, 3 transistor failures in construction from inadequate insulation. He was an EE and knew how to make stuff)

The calculators used firmware wired software loops and tables with fixed precision to do trig which introduced errors so inverting functions didn't return original input.

He was knighted under Thatcher. A lot of people felt he did not deserve it.

On the whole a mixed legacy. The path from Sinclair to Alan Suger suggests shonky UK entrepreneur boosting each other. Real innovation was in Ferranti, Marconi and GEC and of course what became ARM holdings and the wolfson institute. And Linn.
Maybe the commercial side but all the little porn communities I predict will just move to Tor .onion sites. Slow, but better than "no".
I think this is a misread of the economics. Human level AI will be expensive at first, but eventually nearly free. OpenAI will have no say in whether this happens. Competition between AI firms means OpenAI has no pricing power. And cost decreases from hardware and software (for a fixed level of intelligence) will allow competition to deliver those lower costs.

This won't mean humans can't earn wages by selling their labor. But it will mean that human intellectual labor will be not valuable in the labor market. Humans will only earn an income by differentiated activity. Initially that will be manual labor. Once robotics catches up, probably only labor tied to people's personality and humanness.
I am an admin of yeo FB groups for that reason. Drawn into helping people who are only on FB.

That said, a lot of them hate FB and are there for just the same reason.
Thanks - now I understand the root of the problem! :)
I was similarly conned by Scale AI -- promised a significant bonus for some tasks, then rejected and not paid at all. Bet they kept my task text anyways.

It's a classic scam: make a job post for freelancers, ask for a "work sample" or "take-home project," then have a few dozen applicants do the actual task you need them to do as their sample, then reject everybody.
> and Microsoft clicked on the accept & delete account button

If that happened, could one plausibly make a legal case that Microsoft is "hacking" the sites/users by stealing sensitive security info and making unauthorized actions?
I removed “South” from the original title because the title was too long for HN and “South” seemed the least informative word here (it’s quite common for “Korea” to refer to “South Korea” in Western sources).
That’s true up to a point.
Huh? This has nothing to do with the unsubscribe-header thingy. This is about when you for example provide a URL that contains a token in an email, which you exchange for an authentication token once the user visits the URL. Some people implement that page to automatically do the exchange on page load, instead of waiting for the user to click on a button.
> This doesn't mean that intent has to be stated explicitly—it just has to be clear—especially, clear enough to be distinct from ordinary kinds of internet attack, when those are not what is intended.

So... you're recommending a polite request for possible typos to be fixed because of the confusion being caused by them?
Why do you still have YTP?
Your own link contradicts you. See sibling comment and link for common use of the term.
Right. So it sounds like rolling the dice with unknown numbers (both negatives and gigantic ones) on the faces as many times as the vallet bears in the hope of a lucky jackpot kind of unsophisticated cluelessnes to me then. National lottery for the wealthy. Likely this is not their money, and not hard earn money then but some easy come easy go furtune perhaps? Otherwise I'd expect a bit more cautious sophistication arond wealth generated by an intelligent body of people rather than the '2-3 out of 50' kind of strategy those VC specialists represent. Success is a conscious journey for only those eventually succeed and always retrospectively - to serv as a sellable recipe then for the hungry aspirings seeking foolproof methods - so a lot of luck is involved in the birth of great things, any great things, but come on! This level of fortuitous attitude is a crime, huge distortion, misuse, and disrespect of the funds representing the value created by someone else elsewhere. Is this all there is about VC professionals? This apparently open secret of lavish games, seemingly by overgrown greedy children whose talent is in puffery?
I am curious to see what will be possible with consumer grade hardware and more improvements to quantization over the next decade. Right now, even a 24GB gpu with the best models isn’t able to match the barely acceptable performance of hosted services I’m not willing to even pay $20 a month for.
This isn’t all that uncommon in any vehicle.
Run OpenAI's CLIP and Apple's MobileCLIP model on iOS to search photos
China's Ambitions and Implications for the U.S. Manufacturing Base (2024)
> This seems a little baffling to me because these evangelical groups are uniquely American.

I'm referring to one of several groups that is behind a specific campaign in the US. That doesn't mean that there aren't other efforts to curtail this in other countries or globally.

As mentioned elsewhere, there's a law that's about to go into effect in the UK which is actually way broader and draconian than any that has been passed anywhere in the US. There are more in other countries too.

> There would still exist a huge pornography industry globally, particularly within the EU, that would serve the US even if these groups achieved every goal.

And yet, when Tumblr and Imgur and Reddit[0] banned pornography, no EU-based competitor emerged to take their place.

[0] Reddit's ban wasn't a total ban, but it was enough to effectively shut down many groups (which was the goal).
America, it's your turn.