skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the assumption that it was a real account originally.

It all seems so unthinkable but when running a forum or a blog with an active comment section.. what would you do/think if your users show up, browse around and not say anything for a week? You start out by making topics in your own name, write helpful replies.. until you look like an idiot talking to yourself.

Forums with good traffic and lots of spammy advertisement no doubt consider it when visitors leave because nothing new happened.

I once upon a time, on a rather stale forum, created two similarly named accounts from the same ip and argued with myself. At first I thought the owner or one of the other users would notice but I quickly learned that no behaviour is weird enough for it to be ever considered.
Sure, but that's an entirely different metric to judge him on than the comment I was replying to. Instead of trying to judge the heinousness of his crime by comparing the raw amount stolen ($20-35B) to the value of a human life ($10M), you're judging based on the number of times a crime is committed. That makes intuitive sense; more crimes committed gets a harsher punishment.

The hypothetical is there to try to tease out a principled stance from our intuition. If someone stole a wallet that contained $1B, should their punishment be a million times harsher than someone who stole a wallet with $1000? Should it be 5x harsher? The same punishment?

If your stance is that luck would not ideally affect one's punishment then the amount stolen isn't itself a factor in determining the punishment. It's downstream of the true factors, such as the number of thefts committed. The amount stolen is correlated but not causal.
> what is the cli tool I can use to test grpc

Use https://connectrpc.com/ and then you can use curl, postman, or any HTTP tool of your choosing that supports sending POST requests.
So many organisations spend considerably money in external defence and yet are very lazy about cancelling passes and logins for people on their last day. I don't know what the current split is in terms of attacks but a lot of attacks do come internally from staff existing or recent ex staff and it should absolutely be given the same level of thought.
llama.cpp supports FIM?
The post is specifically about “large tech companies”.

But even in smaller companies if your entire job is “to close tickets” and you don’t close your tickets, that’s what you will be judged on. The only way that you can close the amount of tickets you should and help others who are not in the position to help you is by working overtime.

The author is specifically referring to PMs from other teams using back channels instead of going through the proper channels. He isn’t saying don’t help either junior engineers who need hand holding or other team members after they put some effort in their question and have already tried some things.

It’s been almost a decade since my job was mostly “to close tickets” even as an IC and I need to build relationships with other teams to get my job done. But I would be leery of reaching into another team for help and would first ask a team lead or PM could they spare someone.

> 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

This is inevitable. The second law of dynamics is that “entropy always increases” or things always go to shit over time.

On another note, I’m 50 and spent 25 of my 28 years of working in non Big tech companies except between the ages of 46-49 and have no need to chase max compensation. But if the compensation of BigTech had been available to me when I was younger and unencumbered (instead of older and unencumbered), you best believe I would be “grinding leetcode and getting into a FAANG” (tm r/cscareerquestions) and that’s my recommendation to anyone who is early career.

Again at 50, I would rather get a daily anal probe with a cactus than deal with any large company - especially BigTech.
#!@! snipers, as usual. HN needs a cultural revolution.
Could a custom Linux kernel force xattr preservation flags on even for xattr-unaware apps?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/156j5st/shareclau...

https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9450526-how-can-i-...

> It’s verbatim, I promise.

Of course, I believe you. It is verbatim.
Mozilla (Eich) wrote JS, and specifically Microsoft wrote the XMLHttpRequest, which allowed Google to exist.
And supposedly WASM is to be that thing, so any language can compile down to it. Hasn't totally worked out I guess. A browser would have to take the leap to be WASM-only, and compile even JS to it.

I'm doing backend work mostly right now. If I start some other project, I'll probably try using htmx and tailwindcss as my two js script tags, and the rest will be controlled from the backend.
Digital Restrictions Management, then. Have it your way.
> Even dependencies that aren't "essential" are super helpful in saving time.

They might save time up front, but over the lifetime of a long-lived project, my experience is dependencies end up costing more time. Dependencies are a quintessential but often overlooked form of tech debt.

If you only work on short-lived projects or build-it-and-move-on type contract work where speed matters more than quality, sure, go nuts with dependencies. But if you care about the long term maintainability of a project, actively reducing dependencies as close to zero as possible is one of the best things you can do.
Soviet Wired Radio Clung to the Hearts of Millions [video]
it's literally smart home automation, just analog. you like the functionality of automation, you just have a fashionable allergy to it in its digital form
Wait. What?
Do you have a reference where I can learn about this?
The author agrees with you:

> Not all requests for help are predatory. It’s part of your job to help out engineers on your team, and cross-org impact really does involve helping others sometimes, even if you get nothing in return. Predatory behavior is a consistent pattern of drawing on your time for nothing in return.
> Which is all to say, that mobile is the new baseline. And we’re trying to match it using a technology stack originally built for displaying documents!

This is such a bullshit take. I don't think I ever used my phone to do anything on Github. Nor do I want to.
Surprising Embeddings
QR codes, like shortened URLs, are just begging to exploit.

It's an inherently unreadable URL, you really have no idea where you will be sent, or how many times you will be redirected.

I don't use them...
Good luck getting any help if you live in one of the only countries that has healthcare tied to employment. It's easy to slip into a hole with almost no way out.
I agree.
AI images communicate "low effort" at best and "untrustworthy" at worst, neither of which remotely describe Bits about Money.
Ran through the lower numbers that hit something interesting:

8 = jobs (but doesn't return any results)
15 = attractions (but doesn't return any results)
Thanks! I'll add this next time I post this list :)
I could see it, all the countries listed either will plateau in the 2050s or have healthy population graphs that will keep them going till 2100. However all of them are on the upswing right now so why would people from those countries immigrate to Korea? I'd imagine the US slurps up their best and brightest and the remainder get picked up by whatever western country gives them the best deal + many will want to stay in their country as they are all on a positive trajectory.
It's hostile, and GP did basically substantiate by pointing out the strawman.
I don't know but I really wish it was possible to have the web desktop in mobile, GitHub has a terrible app that can't do anything and even worse mobile view. In the past it was possible to tell it to run the desktop version of the website with the browser setting but this isn't possible anymore. I have a very big phone, it's screen has a ton of pixels, just give me a grown up UI exactly like the desktop instead of the dumbed down, way too zoomed in whatever thing you are offering on mobile.
Woman 'surprised' after being declared dead
Bally's built a temporary casino in Chicago while the official one is getting funded up and built. Because, you know, you can't let that gaming license just sit there and do nothing.

Sadly the temporary casino is only taking about 60% of projected revenue so far.

https://www.yogonet.com/international/news/2024/10/16/82112-...

Bally blames the location and lack of parking and yadda yadda yadda, but Illinoisans are just saturated with gambling options right now. The suburban casinos, the Indiana casinos, Wisconsin first-nations Bingo, Illinois Lotto, the multi-state lotteries, home-rule gaming in restaurants and bars, online sports betting...we still have horse racing here for crying out loud. And, oh yeah, weed is legal here.
Cosmopolitan Libc
> If convicted, the maximum penalties for Beckman, 41, could exceed 60 years and for Lau, 38, potentially 80 years.

And they could get it! The punishment for stealing from the wealthy is severe and justice happens very smoothly.
Experimenting with using AI bots to respond to questions that had been open for a long time with no response.
Albert Launcher experimental macOS version
I'm not taking a political stance here, because that's not the purpose of this forum. But from an efficiency perspective, I believe the question is whether a federal "agency" (and its associated bureaucracy) is necessary to deal with local emergencies, not whether federal "financial aid" may be necessary to help support state and local governments. Most if not all states have their own emergency management programs.
Sam Altman is the latest tech titan to bow to Donald Trump
If we're talking about diversity, X is mostly bots, so even less diverse than your characterization of Bluesky. You do make a valid point though, fortunately Bluesky is growing and X is not, especially where it counts with outlets like Nature Group, and companies like BMW.

Nor is Bluesky policed by privileged groups, and as a bonus you don't even have to pay for some silly checkmark. What could be more egalitarian than "Free"?
The written code is the code that is executed. What’s wrong with that? I’d take macros instead of that any time of the day.

Java has the same mechanism, the -javaagent flag. It has exactly the same drawbacks you mention.
Do I like being called a "self important ignoramus"?

No.

Does it make me belligerent?

Yes.

I care deeply about humanity, and I'm surprised to conclude that we will definitely have a civil war soon.

See you on the other side.
And how did it affect them getting their own deliverables done? Did it help when it came time to fill out thier promo doc?

On the other hand, the author said don’t let people waste your time by helping them when they go through back channels who can’t help you in return.
I'll also add something that I expect to be somewhat controversial, given earlier conversations on HN[0]: I see contexts in which it would be perfectly valid to use this and ignore robots.txt.

If I were directing some LLM agent to specifically access a site on my behalf, and get a usable digest of that information to answer questions, or whever, that use of the headless browser is not a spider, it's a user agent. Just an unusual one.

The amount of traffic generated is consistent with browsing, not scraping. So no, I don't think building in a mandatory robots.txt respecter is a reasonable ask. Someone who wants to deploy it at scale while ignoring robots.txt is just going to disable that, and it causes problems for legitimate use cases where the headless browser is not a robot in any reasonable or normal interpretation of the term.

[0]: I don't entirely understand why this is controversial, but it was.
...which takes these remaining 99% of a development time...
I think this is a problem solved by github pages. If a project's primary distribution method is github, they should build a Page and link people to that, instead of the repo.
>But, if it is listed on the company website, then..

I'm sorry I'm going to have to call you, instead of you calling me

Of course, the company phone number is right in the footer of the website.

-- goes to open website from last email sent from company, goes to colnbase.com.
I was so so excited to read this, then I saw the headline is deceptive. It's not Open Source; it uses a Creative Common "Non-Commercial" license.

CC licenses are not meant for software. They explicitly say so on their FAQ: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

And non-commercial licenses are not Open Source, period. This has been well established since the 1990s, both by the FSF and the OSI.

It's such a promising piece of software, but deceptive advertising is a bad way to start off a relationship of any sort.
I've had this exact same issue a lot as well! I tend to walk way faster than google assumes I should.

Maybe one suggestion I could think of, would be a risk score. Given a set of segments, which transfers are the most "risky"? (From those departures, arrivals and transfer estimates, how bad would the impact be going forward from missing a transfer?)

The main thing I get from Google Map's estimates is an indication that something has changed. If google gives me a route I wouldn't expect, it's normally because some trains/busses have been removed from the schedule today/running slow. Without forcing a route on you, it would be nice to have it hint at the fact that I'll be catching the last train that hour, thus making segments before it "riskier", scaled by how often they arrive + how long my transfer time is + how out of sync they are from the next segment's departures.
Subpixel Zoo: A Catalog of Subpixel Geometry
97.4% - https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/60619/
Dismal Trump did not get a majority of voters. He received 49.8% of the vote.
> Talking about DRM outside the context of media distribution doesn't really make any sense.

It’s a cultural thing, and it makes a lot of sense. This fits with DRM culture that has walled gardens in iOS and Android.
They were pretty lame before the purchase as well. Its just gotten worse. Replacement parts would be a godsend, going by youtube most of their failures seem to be isolated to 1-2 poorly engineered parts anyway.
What is wrong with making the funeral home type in the person's name and then their social security number? If they didn't match make them correct the error before proceeding.

This simple mistake happens 10,000 times a year! That isn't apparently enough for the social security to update their software?
> (I mean "nobody" in the sense of "nobody likes Nickelback". ie, not literally nobody.)

Reminds me of the old Yogi Berra quote: Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded.
Not sure what category of ecomm sites you were scraping but I scrape >10million ecomm URLs daily and, honestly, in my experience the compute is not a major issue (8 times out of 10 you can either use API endpoints and/or session stuffing to avoid needing a browser for every request; and in the 2 out of 10 sites where you really need a browser for all requests it's usually to circumvent aggressive anti-bot which means you're very likely going to need full chrome or FF anyway - and you can parallelise quite effectively across tabs).

One niche where I could definitely see a use for this though is scraping terribly coded sites that need some JS execution to safely get the data you want (e.g. they do some bonkers client side calculations that you don't want to reverse engineer). It would be nice to not pay the perf tax of chrome in these cases.

Having said all of that, I have to say from a geek perspective it's super neat what you guys are hacking on! Zig+V8+CDP bindings is very cool.
I want a plug-in hybrid Honda Fit. I know I'm not likely to ever get it, but I still want it.
They are referring to a wider range of situations than this very specific incident. There are many accidents that have been avoided by modifying procedures on the fly. Pilots discovering letting go of the yoke/stick solved some seemingly unrecoverable spins is one example. Though obviously techniques that work eventually get adopted to the procedures.

It generally requires operators to know how the systems work in great detail which would have avoided the specific Chernobyl incident.
Power Attention: Efficient CUDA Kernels for Symmetric Power Transformers
At Manifest AI we have just released our open-source CUDA kernels to implement Symmetric Power Transformers, as described in our paper from back in August:

https://manifestai.com/articles/symmetric-power-transformers...

Since this is a variant of a linear attention, you get linear cost when training (as opposed to quadratic in regular attention), and constant when doing inference. This is especially attractive for longer contexts!

Have a look and play with it -- and of course contributions are very welcome! It's an early alpha!
> It was about not letting anyone not like you in a bar.

No, it was about Nazis.

You’ve chosen one of the infinitely many different arguments that would imply the conclusion argued for but are not implied by it, and chosen to claim that is what is being argued for.

If done in good faith, this is just embarrassingly sloppy reasoning. If not...
Ironically, the blog doesn't work well on mobile. The width is fixed and the end of the sentences are out of view. I have to vertically scroll right/left to read
This is why EG-Walker is so important, diamond types adoption and a solid TS port can't come soon enough for distributed systems.
Well, the end of open, public UGC content anyway.

I have heard of Discord servers where admins won't assign you roles giving you access to all channels unless you've personally met them, someone in the group can vouch for you, or you have a video chat with them and "verify."

This is the future. We need something like Discord that also has a webpage-like mechanism built into it (a space for a whole collection of documents, not just posts) and is accessible via a browser.

Of course, depending on discovery mechanisms, this means this new "Internet" is no longer an easy escape from a given reality or place, and that was a major driver of its use in the 90's and 00's - curious people wanting to explore new things not available in their local communities. To be honest, the old, reliable Google was probably the major driver of that.

And it sucks for truly anti-social people who simply don't want to deal with other people for anything, but maybe those types will flourish with AI everywhere.

If the gated hubs of a possible new group-x-group human Internet maintain open lobbies, maybe the best of both worlds can be had.
Virtual methods are runtime polymporphism. Templates are compile time polymorphism, and therefore typically are faster (more inlining + avoiding virtual function call).
ElectroPaint and other Raster Master performances were featured in the Infrared Roses video:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_Roses

Infrared Roses is a live compilation album by the Grateful Dead. It is a conglomeration of their famous improvisational segments "Drums" and "Space". The ElectroPaint stuff begins around 11:00, but the Raster Masters did all kind of different stuff in parallel and mixed it all together in real time. I remember them describing some "recursive texture map" feedback too, which only ran on high end SGI workstations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkhr23asO-M

Wired: Raster Masters: Enough with virtual reality -- virtual hallucinations?

https://www.wired.com/1994/06/raster-masters/

Electropaint on SGI Indy: A capture of the great screensaver electropaint on an SGI Indy. There is no sound (originally I had Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Miles Beyond" but youtube flagged me for it), but feel free to blast your own music while watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StA81MNuqB8

6 minutes of ElectroPaint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObdtoLuSaWM

SGI IRIX ElectroPaint Screen Saver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbWpsrNYfaQ

Panel Library and ElectroPaint source code:

http://66.111.2.18/pub/The_Unix_Archive/Unix_Usenet/comp.sys...

Some of David's more recent stuff:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/106720642819222/posts/222074...

>In the spirit of J-Walt's intro message, I'm David Tristram, somewhat of a pioneer in the use of real-time graphics for live performance. Author of Electropaint and Electroslate live performance instruments, and founding member of Raster Masters. Toured with Grateful Dead, developed performance system for Graham Nash and Herbie Hancock.

>I'm just playing with things these days, most recently making music with a small modular system and experimenting with very simple looping visuals in an investigation into the perception of visual rhythms. Here is my most recent test.

https://www.facebook.com/dtristram/videos/10159683105214837
Looks like an efficient way to lose a lawsuit.
I guess the way I think of the visualizations and video as a whole as a type of rephrasing. He's not the first person to try to visualize math concepts
Make it faster and furiouser.

There are so many variables involved that it’s hard to predict what it will mean for the open web to have a faster alternative to headless Chrome. At least it isn’t controlled by Google directly or indirectly (Mozilla’s funding source) or Apple.
I respectfully disagree. Interests come from positive experiences. When people say they have no interest in - oh - Mongolian throat warbling, they generally mean they have absolutely no experience of it, and presume - based on that lack of experience - that they wouldn't find it interesting. Naturally, this is an uninformed opinion.

This is where being open minded to new interests can pay off handsomely. If your new interest comes with new friends that you greatly enjoy the company of, you will most likely develop a genuine interest over time as the natural result of those shared positive experiences.

Many of our existing interests are the echoes of positive experiences from our childhoods, and you can use the exact same mechanism to pick up new interests in adulthood.
> I don’t understand the problem with AI generated images.

Depends on what they are used for and what they are purporting to represent.

For example, I really hate AI images being put into kids books, especially when they are trying to be psuedo-educational. A big problem those images have is from one prompt to the next, it's basically impossible to get consistent designs which means any sort of narrative story will end up with pages of characters that don't look the same.

Then there's the problem that some people are trying to sell and pump this shit like crazy into amazon. Which creates a lot of trash books that squeeze out legitimate lesser known authors and illustrators in favor of this pure garbage.

Quite similar to how you can't really buy general products from amazon because drop shipping has flooded the market with 10 billion items with different brands that are ultimately the same wish garbage.

The images can look interesting sometimes, but often on second glance there's just something "off" about the image. Fingers are currently the best sign that things have gone off the rails.
GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
I was a bit unclear there—I was referring to templates, not C++ macros. I believe that concepts in C++20 have improved the situation (although I haven't personally worked with a C++20 codebase and don't know how widely adopted it is in the ecosystem).
You're describing Elixir/Erlang?
The problem is when the old guard becomes an exclusive clique. Sometimes it's by accident ("I'm happy with the friends I already have"), but usually there's a portion of the inner circle that validate themselves by gatekeeping newcomers.

There has to be an active commitment to include (annoying, tactless, socially-impoverished) newbies, or the snake eats its tail and collapses under its own weight.