skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with the voting system? As one of the first and arguably greatest democracies (until perhaps recently?), the voting system is one thing that stands out as equal and fair when considering populations of different densities.
This. What makes this extra "funny" is that it implies that at least every business that builds something that can move information around must be knowledgeable about tianenman square and other chinese atrocities. Or else they would not be able to censor relevant questions.
I have been to China a bunch of times and generally, they know what horrible things the Chinese gov did. They either say something like:
"Yeah well, we live in a dictatorship, but it's not that bad"
Or:
"Yeah, the government is fucked up, but look at the government of the USA! We don't start wars in other countries and put in puppet governments."
And there are so many good counters to both these arguments.
"a bit"???
India pledges fresh billion for startups
> they should treat this power with the responsibility it deserves

They would be forced to, to some degree, if people decided to unionize. They'll never do it voluntarily.
this is definitly not true anymore, when the java libs used jaxb/xml/javaee stuff. most often because of java 9. its possible to make them running but its definitly not without issues.
I did run so many 10 years old java binaries it was NEVER without issues.
If it is a new site, you can automatically choose.

If it is a site that already existed, do not make it automatically switch. Consider adding the option to switch instead.

If you insist nevertheless, then the ability to select the color scheme explicitly is absolutely mandatory.
In Australia's energy market, power generators participate in a bidding system managed by the market operator. Generators submit bids specifying how much electricity they can provide (in megawatts), at what price, for specific time periods.

The market operator (AEMO) then selects the lowest bids to meet current electricity demand.

Fossil fuel generators in the past have artificially limited their available capacity and also submitted intentionally higher priced bids. This maintained higher electricity prices and increased their profits.

When grid scale batteries started entering the market, they were able to provide electricity at lower cost, submitting price competitive bids. This forced fossil fuel generators to either lower their prices or risk losing market share.

Over the last year or so, fossil fuel companies began investing in their own battery storage systems. But instead of bidding competitively with their batteries, these companies submit higher bids than independent battery operators. This is an attempt to help them maintain artificially elevated market prices and protects their traditional fossil fuel business model.
> I don't see many "cryptography experts" putting effort into improving developer documentation resources for libraries.

This isn't a "documentation resources for libraries" problem. It's a what libraries get bundled into the "crypto" module for your programming language problem, and that's largely a political decision rather than a technical one.

For example: Node's crypto module will always be a thin wrapper around OpenSSL, due to backwards compatibility. I cannot change that reality. There will always be a way to shoot yourself in the foot with Node.js's crypto module, and that is what most developers will reach for.

Even if I introduce new APIs for Node crypto and update the official docs to recommend the newer, safer ways of doing things, I won't be able to update the long tail of Stack Overflow answers with 10+ years of incumbency and hundreds of upvotes. This was tried years ago in the PHP community, and you still find bad PHP code everywhere.

Updating the developer documentation only serves to blame the poor user when they fuck up, so you can dismiss their pain with "RTFM".

> But plenty of them ranting and acting butthurt that developers aren't educated enough to use the primitives. The same crypto experts will also release these libraries and then cry that people use them.

I have never contributed a line of code to OpenSSL. You do not hear Eric A Young "ranting and acting butthurt". What empirical evidence do you have for this assertion?
> However the idea itself was sound and if they had spent another year in development (which would have been too late for many reasons, see above and other discussion)

I don't think any games were in development for a year at that point in time. Probably another month, maybe two, would be within the realm of possibility, but not a whole year. Unless maybe it got shelved and then reactivated later.
That wouldn't make for a successful fork, but it's likely to destroy the entire system outright.
Is using AI the equivalent of using a calculator to look up trigonometric function values, or outsourcing understanding what the functions are?
I'm not saying real problems can't present with these test results! Clearly they can. I'm saying maybe these test results can happen even if an underlying problem is not there.

Maybe 5 % of days in a normal person's life would show slow food movement with no further adverse effect. That does not invalidate the pain and suffering in those who do suffer from it!
https://archive.is/20250131232352/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
> I'm personally pretty skeptical that the first round of PQC algorithms have no classically-exploitable holes

I was of the impression that this was the majority opinion. Is there any serious party that doesn't advocate hybrid schemes where you need to break both well-worn ECC and PQC to get anywhere?

> The standard line is around store-now-decrypt-later, though, and I think it's a legitimate one if you have information that will need to be secret in 10-20 years. People rarely have that kind of information, though.

The stronger argument, in my opinion, is that some industries move glacially slow. If we don't start pushing now, they won't be any kind ready when (/if) quantum computing attacks become feasible. Take industrial automation: Implementing strong authentication / integrity protection, versatile authorization and reasonable encryption into what would elsewhere be called IoT is just now becoming an trend. State-of-the-art is still "put everything inside a VPN and we're good". These devices usually have an expected operational time of at least a decade, often more than one.

To also give the most prominent counter argument: Quantum computing threats are far from my greatest concerns in these areas. The most important contribution to "quantum readiness"[1] is just making it feasible to update these devices at all, once they are installed at the customer.

[1] Marketing is its own kind of hell. Some circles have begun to use "cyber" interchangeable with "IT Security" – not "cyber security" mind you, just "cyber".
Obesity is self inflicted, which means very low self control. Being obese and taking the easy way out signals zero willpower. It's laughable.
I still refer to the * operator as “splat” after a presentation I saw him give in London in 2007.

_why is most definitely gone but not forgotten.
Polish Lidl works like that. You self-checkout alcohol and some store employee gets notified. They look at you and approve remotely. If you scan alcohol first, they will likely do that before you finish checkout and there is no waiting involved.
Note that this article is from 2021
Nice paper, I've shared it with my people. "Gradual disempowerment" works well as a title because I feel it moment by moment. When I ask an AI to compose a letter to my landlord, I can sense the gradual disempowerment. It's something we can relate to and grasp.
Another view is that the Internet exactly matched this model, and that it's much closer to the norm than not: the Internet became available to normal people in the mid-to-late 90s, depending on where you were, but all that was on the web was dumb personal websites (1). In the late 90s bubble, startups seemed pretty crazy, slapping "...but on the Internet" onto basically any idea and raising money off of it (2), basically what's happening with "...but with AI" today. Most failed to find a market because too few people were using the Internet for everything and the frantic search for users failed (3).

But just as the conservative old-school business people were laughing and patting themselves on the back post-bubble over how stupid all the dotcoms were for thinking they could monetize eyeballs, Google emerges, and 20 years later tech companies drive the stock market rather than following it. Don't dismiss a technology just because the birthing spasms look ugly, it takes some time for markets to develop and for products to settle into niches. At the start a lot of that is due to people not being comfortable, tech sucking, and the market shifting too quickly to precisely target, but that can all change pretty fast.
Looks cool, I will try it. How are collections stored? My use case involves programatically generating collections.

If the tool suits, I would also need to write a converter from Bruno files to it.
I'm not talking about net loss, I'm talking about operating costs.

The maps they make for self-driving cars are made constantly - it's not something they make every year. They're updated weekly, if not daily - and they use a separate much more expensive car to do it. There's a whole separate team just for dealing with this. The amount of data the taxis collect is insane. Terabytes of data per car per hour, which needs to be stored and processed and transported (the data is so much it often makes more sense to physically ship hard drives than to send it over the internet). The "phone home" team is paid employees, and in order to have cellular service to the cars the companies pay a much more expensive plan with cellular providers than you're used to with your cellphone. The engineers who are maintaining the software and making fixes cost money. The people that clean and maintain the cars cost money. Not to mention the wear and tear on the vehicle (which includes the extremely expensive sensor suite) and the electricity to move the vehicle.

I am saying the unit economics, which has nothing to do with the previously spent billions of dollars or efforts of expansion, is currently dogshit for self-driving cars. Theoretically it will improve with scale, but Waymo isn't at scale yet. I think people that haven't worked in robotics have this notion that robots are wildly profitable but this is a common fallacy. Robots almost always lose money, and usually a shitload.
How is the `system` prompt "injected"? Afaik o1 onwards no longer have a SYSTEM role. Is it just a normal part of the prompt?
Bruno is nice because unlike postman all the calls are defined in files that you can add to the git of your project.

Only thing I don't like about Bruno is that you cannot generate a documentation from your api call tests.
Maybe at some point giant companies like google realize that the only logical solution to the expansion problem is that they have to help space research to actually be able to expand more.

Jokes aside, investors behind google seem to not realize that google at this point is infrastructure and not an expandable product market anymore. What's left to expand to since the Google India Ad 2013? What? North Korea, China, Russia, maybe? And then everyone gets their payout?

Financial ecosystems and their bets rely on infinite expansion capabilities, which is not possible without space travel.
I think it was this one https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0705911/
I haven't set it up myself yet, but Immich has been making the rounds lately. It seems to have facial recognition too.

https://immich.app/docs/features/facial-recognition/
What constitutes infiltration?
The syntax is barely the problem, the weird console rendering of objects behavior, the mixed object/text representation (since not everything buys into the objects), the breaking changes in the cross platform posh, the poor library support and requiring to load the world on importing modules... there's a lot of stuff powershell got wrong enough to avoid anything with it, and I have done plenty of serious things with it :)
ChatGPT is made from 100M of these [The Perceptron]
> Says the democrat who did nothing when Gavin Newsom made it illegal to check for ID at California polls. All these other countries check ID for voting, you democrats don't want it, why is that? https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/california-gover... Here you go, I know

I'm a little confused as to your point here.

The article you link says that to register to vote, you have to prove your identity and validity to vote via a driver’s license number, a California identification number, or the last four digits of their social security number.

To vote, you need to verify your voter registration information.

What exactly does requiring you to verify your registration in addition to the information previously validated to register? Is the belief that illegal voters are able to fraudulently register but wouldn't use the same fraudulent information the day of the vote?
It’s hard for a number of reasons. Many people are struggling, and people’s tendency to bike shed means they look for and grasp onto the explanation(s) they think they understand. Propaganda takes advantage of this fact. Whatever the problem, it’s Biden/immigrants/DEIs fault.
Sorry! fixed now.
That means we’re virtually redirecting funding from many agencies to medicare/medicaid (and military, sadly). Not a bad thing, if it requires every other govt agency to be shutdown, that we prioritize health.
> In 2015 YouTube was separated from Google with both owned by Alphabet.

That is incorrect. When Alphabet was introduced YouTube remined part of Google, and still is.
Isn’t this position predicated on the assumption that individuals without substantial capital “own” an AI?

When someone uses an AI they do not own, they are (maybe) receiving a benefit in exchange for improving that AI and associated intellectual property / competitive advantage of the person or entity that owns the AI—-and subsequently improving the final position of the AI’s owner.

The better an AI becomes, the more valuable it becomes, and the more likely that the owner of the AI would want to either restrict access to the AI and extract additional value from users (e.g. via paid subscription model) or leverage the AI to develop new or improve existing revenue streams—-even if doing so is to the detriment of AI users. After all… a sufficiently-trained “AGI” AI could (in theory) be capable of outsmarting anyone that uses it, know more about its users than its users consciously know about themselves, and could act faster than any human.

While I share in your hope, I think it is unfortunately far more likely that AIs will widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots and will evolve into some of the most financially and intellectually oppressive technology ever used by humans (willingly or not).
There’s no excuse for C not to have some syntactic sugar around function pointers at this point. They’re miserable to use.
"This site contains the original 1980s source code for the classic space game Elite, with every single line documented and (for the most part) explained. It is literally the original 6502 assembly source code, just heavily commented."

For those wondering what Elite was.
Ads aren’t speech
He sold it some time ago. Either it expired, he negotiated out of it, or there was never much of one to begin with. My guess it was a little of all three. I think a lot of what Kong wanted with it already happened - it seems to have helped them grow. They still have it and it's still helping but I don't think Yaak is that big of a threat to it. Kong still has a major API client in a space that has room for more than one.
I think the pivot makes sense. EV credit subsidies are drying up, let's pivot to subsidies for AI developments which the new administration may enable in order to maintain an image of superiority over foreign adversaries.
Lessons from Peter Thiel – Posts – 8VC
Well... that will give me nightmares. And I am not even an American.
>famously developed Alzheimer's...

This isn't what his doctors have said.

>...In 1989, just a few months after he completed his second term as president, Reagan underwent surgery to drain a subdural hematoma caused by a fall from a horse in Mexico. Such brain injury can increase the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease or perhaps even cause it.

https://hekint.org/2023/11/30/the-medical-history-of-ronald-...

After this Reagan had annual exams for signs of Alzheimers and was diagnosed in 1994.
God, if it's a purge, I hope someone has a "corrupt government contractor" index fund out there I can throw whatever severance I'll get in so I can at least hope to have a retirement.
> I was born into a clan writing desktop apps in Swing, and while I know why the browser won, Swing (and all the other non-browser desktop app frameworks/toolkits) are just such a fundamentally better paradigm for handling data.

No, by a large margin no. Java is a hostile language to prototype programs at which JS excels. Awful styling, walls of code just to get sane defaults (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/dnd/together..., seriously?).
There are a number of services that let you upload a few random photos of yourself and will then generate headshots based on them. They're not real photos though: they're just AI-generated. The quality is variable at best though, and many are either obviously AI-generated or don't look much like the person. They might be enough for some people, and they're certainly cheaper than the real thing.
Wouldn't just asking the model to respond with "@" in place of "a" work?
I used to frequent rentacoder back in the 2000s. Got very good reviews, landed $20-50 a day doing C++/pascal/opengl homework for the first-world dunces. Then came the horny indian programmers. (we called them that on yahoo! chat because all they wanted in life was to marry up to a US/Canada lady and migrate). They would put in half the effort for 1/10th of the price and my gig was quickly over.
Sunny Ripert paid a wonderful tribute to _why as a talk at ParisRB 2020.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=njr39cVU7d0

It was not so much aimed at the "old guard" (those that knew about _why) as the "next generation" (those that never heard of him).

At some point Sunny asked to raise hands if one knew about _why, maybe half did, tops.

By the end of the talk the emotion in the room was palpable.
Proof that you don't need to be super-human to build something useful, also demonstrated by your freshman CS student anecdote.
This is such a right wing talking point, come up with an original talking point or something substantive.
It just takes a generation of people growing up with it until it really takes hold.
People didn't use to ask Google questions, either, but now you're the outlier if you try using search terms instead.
I work with the same mcu. You can set up the MPU to catch null pointer dererences so they don't pass silently.
Oh, wow. So you’re one of those. Disregard what I said in previous comment.
What do you think will happen in 4 years?
Do you have a direct link to that? My "force .old on everything" plugin is having problems resolving your url (sorry!).
Or catch them using a sanitizer: https://godbolt.org/z/z9WKs5aYv
> Research suggests concussions could awaken latent infections in the brain and lead to dementia

That'd be the suggested missing link, physical impact disturbing dormant virions in the brain or allowing a temporary passage to a part of the brain they're normally unable to reach.
Vanilla vim still exists and still works just fine. It's my daily driver, and I haven't touched my .vimrc in probably 2 years.

I still spend a lot of my time learning, I just am not learning how to use my editor any more. Which isn't to say that I know everything about Vim, just that I know enough that further learning in that area has a pretty low ROI.
> Without sounding like every other developer who hates on electron

Electron is hated for very good reasons. Postman in particular is just so insanely bloated and sluggish, it's painful to use on anything that doesn't have a higher end CPU.
Show HN: I built an AI visionboards site
Hello everyone, I doubt this would be relevant to the kind of person who uses HN, but I thought I could share for some feedback. I built this site because there is a whole world of people who believe in new age spirituality and I am very much one of them. It is a site where you get the users gender their goals and their images and use AI and psychology to generate images of them in the process of achieving their goals.

I am so deeply struggling with how to get this highly on Google. I don't even know if that is important anymore. What are your suggestions with distribution and getting in into the hands of users? What about the landing page do you feel like it is compelling? I really need to get it into the hands of users. distribution is difficult.
I don’t know how to edit my submission, but after reading the comments, I realize the example code didn’t do a good job of demonstrating what my code does. Here’s a more verbose example showing a stock ticker:

import asyncio
from reaktiv import Signal, ComputeSignal, Effect

async def main():
# Real-time stock prices
apple_price = Signal(195.00)
google_price = Signal(2750.00)

# User's portfolio
shares = Signal({
'AAPL': 100,
'GOOGL': 50
})

# Computed total portfolio value
portfolio_value = ComputeSignal(lambda: (
shares.get()['AAPL'] * apple_price.get() +
shares.get()['GOOGL'] * google_price.get()
))

# Price alert system
async def check_alerts():
if apple_price.get() > 200:
print("AAPL alert: Above $200!")
if google_price.get() < 2700:
print("GOOGL alert: Below $2700!")

# Automatic updates
async def live_updates():
while True:
await asyncio.sleep(1)
apple_price.set(apple_price.get() * 1.01) # +1%
google_price.set(google_price.get() * 0.995) # -0.5%
print(f"AAPL: ${apple_price.get():,.2f} GOOGL: ${google_price.get():,.2f}")

# Track portfolio value
async def monitor_portfolio():
print(f"Current value: ${portfolio_value.get():,.2f}")

# Set up effects
alerts_effect = Effect(check_alerts)
updates_effect = Effect(live_updates)
portfolio_effect = Effect(monitor_portfolio)

alerts_effect.schedule()
updates_effect.schedule()
portfolio_effect.schedule()

# Run for 5 seconds
await asyncio.sleep(5)

asyncio.run(main())

Example output:

Current value: $157,000.00
AAPL: $196.95 GOOGL: $2,736.25
Current value: $156,507.50
AAPL: $198.92 GOOGL: $2,722.57
Current value: $156,020.39
AAPL: $200.91 GOOGL: $2,708.96
AAPL alert: Above $200!
Current value: $155,538.66
AAPL: $202.92 GOOGL: $2,695.41
AAPL alert: Above $200!
GOOGL alert: Below $2700!
It's called 'developer message' now

https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1885407759887155301
Compiler writers did both: https://godbolt.org/z/z9WKs5aYv
> Everyone doesn’t agree that health care is too expensive.

Like a lot of the US, the gap between the haves and the have nots has grown. Many people on HN probably have great healthcare. Many seniors, often reliable voters, also have good healthcare through government programs that look a lot like single payer. This leaves poor people and those in the lower middle falling further behind.
NYT Opinion: California's Plan: Make the Poor Sweat in the Dark
eh, as someone who rolls my own login systems and depends on checking salted password hashes against those in a database: Assuming I block brutes after 3 or 4 attempts, is there anything I need to worry about here besides someone getting access to the database or the salt? I think your point was that people building logins off one way hashes aren't really doing anything outrageously wrong?
Someone did in fact approve my invite overnight
Ah, I didn't knew about that. I assumed HN also used Markdown.
Which you have to go to the model page to find.
I ordered the wrong xbox on amazon once. Wanted the series X, got the one X instead
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