skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of when I saw a junior developer calling SHA-1 on an incrementing integer ID, with no salt. We had a long talk about it, he thought it was too "scrambled" to allow anyone to recognize what was being done. He shouldn't have been so junior, he was 4 or 5 years into his career. I had to be the bad guy and override his decision without further discussing why it was a bad idea, and I really tried for a good 45 minutes to explain things. He got it a week later when I showed him rainbow tables, and I felt bad having to tell him to just do what I said for the solution, but sometimes you just have to make the decision to say "do what I said, I'm sorry you don't understand, I tried to explain."
Yep. I worked for Viaplay, the Swedish streaming "giant". Viaplay chose to "sell out" to Akamai, Level3 and Amazon in return for less CDN staff.

Viaplay went -95% a month after my intuition made me leave. The problem was that the more users used the platform the more the users cost, linearly. They limited many streams to 720, which is a joke in 2020s.

Netflix has openconnect, essentially a CDN in every big ISPs network, they can do 100g HTTPS per port!
IME Netflix is a close 2nd best after Apple, which I don't think I can distinguish from a 4K BluRay. I've found that the quality depends on the platform a little -- for Netflix the native LG app seems to look best on my LG TV, while Apple looks best on the Apple TV app (perhaps unsurprisingly).

Amazon Prime 4K HDR on the other hand looks like garbage on every platform I've used -- the compression is unbearable in any dark scene.
"SQL had (and maybe still has) its own C compiler"

Oh? Are you referring to something different from a database's precompiler?
I like the philosophy and employ it myself.

Regarding the gym, specifically lifting -- progressive overload ( thus muscle growth) can definitely be accomplished in a minimal amount of time. BUT, it requires a high to maximum amount of effort to be effective, so not sure if that counts.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

- Matthew 7:6
Maybe this is why OpenAI hides o1/o3 reasoning tokens - constraining output at inference time seems to be easy to implement for other models and others would immediately start their photocopiers.

It also gave them a few months to recoup costs!
The only way to win is to abstain.

Same for social media really, personally I have stopped using the social social media for a while now and at first it seems like you won’t survive without but eventually, life goes on.

Hardest thing is to find an alternative to keep you busy, depending on how much you used social media you can fit multiple hobbies or interests in there.

Now I am very well aware that HN is also a social media of sorts, but I do find it a very different social media than the likes of Instagram or TikTok.
family of 3, never ordered delivery in my life outside of pizza once in a blue moon and eating out no more than twice per month - food bill $1,900-ish / month
I am not sure I agree with it either but I've seen our current polices being terrible and easily viewed by the public. I am not surprised that a conservative candidate is suggesting this.

Average Canadians, even non average Canadians are not running around with large amounts of fentanyl. The bigger fentanyl court cases in my area ended up with a few people dead and the dealers getting very low sentences. These were not helpless poor people but drug dealers with nice cars wearing gold, hard for me to find pity on them.
as a crypto play apparently, so

> mostly on the back of [its] delusional investors creating a self-fulfilling prophecy

continues to hold true.
Is there anything wrong with the theory that everything came from light?
We know from E=mc^2 that matter and energy are two sides of the same coin. What is wrong with the theory that at the first moment of the big bang there were only photons and all matter was subsequently generated by photon and vacuum interactions according to stochastic quantum laws?
Elon shit posting on twitter and donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a candidate who was elected doesn’t make elons shit posts legal precedent
They just need to look at their stock price vs NFLX to realize that people do indeed realize the difference across the stack.
Sounds like crypto…
"It's the only answer for that question which provides points*" Is what I meant.

https://i.imgur.com/2hRa1eQ.png
so Trump is doing to USA what USA did to Iraq?

Poetic justice
Maybe a dumb question, have you tried fine tuning on the corpus, and then adding a reasoning process (like all those R1 distillations)?
you do know how they "ramp up" right? All the big ones hire thousands of temp holiday workers then let them go shortly after. do you think they are going to hire thousands of full time workers for these roles. most of them since the pandemic have enjoyed record profit from already increasing shipping rates. this would be a perfect excuse for them to do it more

Nothing more American than the government attempting to kill competition so multi billion dollar corporations can get richer
> they WROTE DOWN that the cognitive test "disadvantaged" black applicants

Which would mean entirely different things if (a) that were true (b) that were not true.

It sounds as if you are completely convinced that it is not true, but what is your conviction based on, and why do you think they believed the opposite (or perhaps you take the position that they did not, in fact, believe this) ?
>Could be a DRM thing. You might not have a trusted display/decoding device, so it gives you the low res.

True, but that is why this is a hard engineering challenge -- there are a lot of variations on client-side devices which need to be supported well. Upgrade cycles for TVs is 3x that of phones, is my guess.
Federal Reserve releases the hypothetical scenarios for its annual stress test
Awesome! Yeah I have been doing WebRTC for a while and it's still always a pain to get this stuff up and manage it, I would love to hear what you're building and have you give it a try, feel free to hit me up on discord, username @lherman_cs
Well said. Something that occurred to me after writing the parent comment is that this is also an act of protest. Really the only one at my disposal. By depriving these news outlets of my eyeballs I am no longer participating in the incentive structure that created them. Furthermore, our current president is a well-known attention seeker who doesn't care what you think as long as it's about him. The biggest middle finger I can give that asshole is my total lack of interest or attention in anything he's doing.
There are plenty of reasons to be upset with chrome.

This is not one of them.
I think you mean it might not be Fedora's "fault" but it very much is Fedora's problem. That attitude is exactly why Fedora isn't recommendable. If gnome or gnome's default sucks, and this is recognized by Fedora people, than Fedora people should change it.
This sounds extremely like my old tax accounting job. OCR existed and "worked" but it was faster to just enter the numbers manually than fix all the errors.

Also, the real solution to the problem should have been for the IRS to just pre-fill tax returns with all the accounting data that they obviously already have. But that would require the government to care.
I have about the same number of issues with Netflix as with Youtube (with Youtube being perhaps slightly better).

I agree that eg Disney+ is a bit rougher around the edges.
I'm just an observer, but from the outside, it seems like the emulation scene really, really likes to drive creators to drink or worse.

It takes a considerable amount of time, skill and engineering to create great emulators, and yet people still find reasons to complain or even harass developers of the projects they themselves are using.

It's just bizarre. I've seen some of it as a maintainer of some open source projects, but it's never escalated to harassment or what the OP describes. I really cannot relate to anyone that treats others like that.
accept reality and design your api so it's not a problem
I'll give the flaggers the benefit of the doubt and say that the article has a lot of assertions but little substance backing them up. I've seen comments (indeed on some of the flagged articles) with more substance than this article. Let's see some facts backing up these assertions (or articles with such) because I agree, this is super important.
Are you advocating for "speed limits"... for advancing people's careers based on race?
> manage cognitive dissonance better.

what on earth does this mean?
I expect a vast sea of lawsuits. There are multiple ways that things can be enforced or not. But for some things, sure, if say, both enforcement duty and presidential pardons are used or not used to fit, then for these cases, illegal doesn't matter anymore. "It's not illegal if the president does it", was it?

In the case of taking early retirement, or accepting a pile of money for doing X / nothing, then you better be somewhat certain that it will last long enough.
Thanks, that's right; it's two years after an interview that was fifteen years later. Fixed.
I think Elon Musk is funny as hell. Snake oil salesmen attract each other. I am apolitical btw. It's just funny to me how people buy into politics tribes as meaningful when the reality is just groups of primates jockeying for power the same as for the last several million years, except now some blow hards have twitter.
I did a quick search for references to mt32-pi on that forum and found nothing unpleasant. Maybe I'm missing something.

https://www.vogons.org/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&ke...
There can't be a "shadow left" anything in the USA because the US, by popular request dragged its systems of leftist organization out into the street and executed them decades ago.

When Reagan narc'd on his coworkers for having "communist sympathies" he became such a national brand he got elected in one of the best election outcomes for the right basically ever.

That's why the US "left" is reduced to whinging about how democrats don't do socialism (from a position of zero power in the government) and therefore you shouldn't vote for them. They don't seem to notice it has been 50 years of only making the problem worse.
What VM setup do you use? Does it play well with W11's TPM requirements? Does GPU acceleration work?
>I think violence is going to become more common, but I don't particularly think it will be effective.

depends on where the violence is directed. Riots on the street and attacking fellow citizens will not change anything. Some old president suddenly falling ill would change a lot (not necessarily "everything". But a lot).

>I would like to do something... But what?

how much do you want to scale it?

Short term

keep pressure on congress, and call your representatives. Your 2 senates (both their local and DC Office each), and your Rep's office. Everyday is ideal but unlikely. Don't flood them with every issue; pick one or 2 and talk about that. They barely take email/letters/online forms into account, and Republicans call much more often than Democrats (yes, that is an issue to look into as well).

If you want to protest and there's something local, that's your choice. But I understand wanting to protect yourself. Stay as low tech as possible if you want to mitigate identification. Smart phone and other tech at home, use a burner phone if you need it.

Midterm (no, literally. Miderms)

- form or donate to coalitions. It may feel like an eternity, but 2026 will come in a blink and you want to make sure to try and turn as much of congress as possible. Those efforts start now, not next year. Keep who's in and helping in, and shift those who's condoning it out. Keep awareness up

- attend your local meetings with mayors/govenors/reps. Change starts from the locals, and surprise: most of the people who attend these tend to be older folk with no traditional workweek. Because they are doing meetings during the rep's workweek. Again, voice your concerns to people who have a chance to change it.

- if you're the type to post: don't let this gish gallop be ignored. Post every medium-large update in communities. You won't change many minds per post, but some will start to realize what's going on and shift. I've seen a few already. A few a day adds up to thousands over 2 years. And these are still slim margin congress.

From there there's a laundry list of long-term actions, but those really depend on Midterms. The theme is that there are people to talk to and not enough people get their voices heard. Don't underestimate the power you hold over who is elected in office.
Time is a flat circle. All the crypto scamming is just the wildcat banking era come again.
> What are you protecting cloudflare?

A cheeky response is "their profit margins", but I don't think that quite right considering that their earnings per share is $-0.28.

I've not looked into Cloudflare much, I've never needed their services, so I'm not totally sure on what all their revenue streams are. I have heard that small websites are not paying much if anything at all [1]. With that preface out of the way–I think that we see challenges on sites that perhaps don't need them as a form of advertising, to ensure that their name is ever-present. Maybe they don't need this form of advertising, or maybe they do.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/
The one where it's offered by an administration with a history of lying, particularly around the fulfillment of past contracts. Payment is only guaranteed until mid-March.

In other words, this universe.
like the n word?
> So you start with 500 slots to fill, 1000 qualified white applicants and 10 qualified black applicants

What you're supposed to do is go to places with more black people and start advertising to people in general they can become air traffic controllers. Then take them through air traffic controller training school and at the end, you *don't* have only 10 qualified black applicants.
> just by asking Twitter to moderate content, but I guess this is all fine now.

It's never wrong when it's something you agree with, and that's as far as Musk's belief in free speech goes. Allowing posts he agrees with, it's free speech. If it's something that sheds bad light on something he is, owns, or believes, it's bad and must be stopped. It's a classic as old as time
This is a very bizarre story:

(1) Agencies like the CIA employ couriers to accompany and hand-deliver classified materials. Sometimes they'll tell you that they work for the State Department as a diplomatic courier.

(2) The White House is plugged into Top Secret level intranets. There's no way this supposed list couldn't have been transmitted more securely.

Someone either intentionally botched this (or have zero regard for protocols), or major pieces of this story is missing.
> it was dangerous because people assigned it reverence beyond its function

People assigned it capability beyond its ability. That's the entire problem with AI. It is not intelligence. It merely mimicks it. What atheists call human intelligence is actually an ability we have because we're God's images. Making something in our own image and calling it a god is deeply biblical and culminates in Revelation 13:15.
Don’t get pessimistic. That’s how norms truly disappear. They can and will be held accountable.
Nice. Though I couldn't understand those "opening lines" until I read in your Introduction:

> For Land, capitalism begins in Northern Italy around 1500 with "the emerging world of technologists and accountants", the spiral interexcitation of "oceanic navigation and place-value calculation", and zero-unlocked double-entry book-keeping

Fibonacci, amongst many others, played a critical role that highly accelerative technology.
How to Set Up DeepSeek with Ollama and Docker (Step-by-Step Guide)
Burn down and loot
Location: Oslo, Norway
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: go, python, EVM, solidity, reverse engineering, machine learning and more
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/2xic
Email: me@2xic.xyz

I like knowing how things work. Been enjoying machine learning for the last few years, implementing various papers and algorithms after work. My day job for the last ~two years has been related to providing more semantic understanding to the EVM / smart contracts using program and AST analysis.

Looking for a job that has a good mix of research and engineering problems. To put it into perspective, I much more prefer CTF like problems, where you need to figure out the path to solve a problem over a predefined plan for solving a problem.

Happy to share more info with the right company :)
Does the US constitution have an emergency decree mechanism whereby the president can effectively assume full power and suspend civil rights?

Are the republican party committing acts of violence against their opposition, so as to push them out of Congress and establish a supermajority?

Has the US come out of a major recession exacerbated by a harsh post-war reparations treaty, resulting in hyperinflation and an angry and desperate population?

So what you really mean by "blindingly-salient historical parallels" is "there's an person in power who I don't like", so a typical leftist case of "everyone I don't like is Hitler".

Bit emotionally incontinent isn't it, letting your understanding of history be distorted by your desire to call a president you don't like bad names
Should cloudflare ever be the target of an attempted takeover by Musk and co (like Twitter or the ongoing NIH/USAID saga) you can be sure you won't be able to access any 'inclusive' websites anymore...
We judge morality when there’s some meaningful downside and people at their worst, because a little unpleasantness can dramatically outweigh a lot of nice behavior.

“I love hanging out with Tim he’s a funny guy helped me move a couch last week, kind of which he hadn’t pushed me in front of that bus that one time but ehh I doubt he’d do that again…”
I have some very bad news for you.
> questioning others' beliefs while asserting that you have the true answers is childish at best.

Then it's childish for you to tell a flat earther they're mistaken. The objective, historical facts are on the side of Catholicism, whether you want to admit it to yourself or not.
> and you would not believe the extent that grocers go to to make price comparison difficult. This thing doesn't make thousands or even hundreds of requests - maybe a few dozen over the course of a day.

It's gonna get even worse. Walmart & Kroger are implementing digital price tags, so whatever you see on the website will probably (purposefully?) be out of date by the time you get to the store.

Stores don't want you to compare.
Google will end a core DEI program and evaluate others
Depends on the circles you run in, but I've heard people distinguish nuclear bombs from atomic bombs, kind of like how atomic clocks are distinguished from nuclear clocks.

I don't quite understand it because atomic clocks deal with the electrons, while nuclear clocks, nuclear bombs, and thermo-nukes are all dealing with the nucleus of the atom.

I've always preferred fission vs fusion bomb, or nuke vs. thermo nuke.
Why are NFL teams banned from having an official account on Bluesky?
DEI is simply a framework. Like Agile, it can be well implemented if the person implementing it understands the problems it is trying to address, along with its limitations.

And just like Agile, it can be poorly implemented when the person implementing it does not understand its purpose, or hates the framework and cynically implements it under protest.

In both cases, the poor implementations should not justify throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but so it goes.
Your HN profile "about" section is quite literally more political than anything said in this article or thread.
1986 qualifies as “old movies” now? Time to fill out that AARP paperwork…
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I think the archive.is/Cloudflare issue is a known problem separate from the rest.
You forgot the Huffington Post: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-pentagon-says-it-wil...
> I believe that in order to actually enact meaningful change, even deeper-rooted causes must be discovered and examined

How do you discover deeper-rooted causes if you can't be provided resources to study the distinction? How can you understand why black women are 3x more likely to die at child birth than white women if the funding agencies don't care about the answer?
You can be in and out of the gym in 30-40 minutes using a PPL.
I feel like the "authentication company should have known" thing is unuseful; most developers at "security" companies are just ordinary generalist developers. Ironically, I think they boned themselves by trying to be too clever here, not too casual.
For companies that are just built around a marketing funnel to provide enough info to get you to fill out their contact form to sell you something, my guess is that Cloudflare is well worth the cost over increased hosting fees. I know it's not the answer anyone wants to hear, but I don't deal with too many companies selling anything more than around 5 or 6 figures, with products that you don't necessarily need very often.

I would like to know if there are alternatives somewhere close to the same cost, where I don't need to use Cloudflare. I don't enjoy annoying customers, or even dealing with sales and marketing, but I have built lots of software where I get to control the technology, and can get a new website up and running in 3 hours, with a ton of built-in functionality. I've spent about 12 years reducing the amount of memory the Umbraco CMS uses, compared to normal installs, and I love that aspect of my career. If I could get my clients to pay more and not use Cloudflare, I would happily go that route, believe me!
This does not align with any published goal of a dei program, or the actions of people who are saying "I am doing DEI".
wrong, it doesn't avoid discrimnation, it enforces it. companies are doing stuff like 'must include candidates from <minority race> for open reqs at grade XX or above'
Oh neat, I have that on my new TV and I never tried it out. Thanks for letting me know about it!
Same. Let me know if you find a place or have any ideas on how to start one
Well, fwiw, i found Google's AI Studio - https://aistudio.google.com/apikey which has a similar user flow.

Another case of an enterprise shipping their org chart to outside I guess
Yeah, if WebRTC is the only communication channel, TURN will be needed, especially doing p2p. LMK your experience if you have any questions, hit me up on discord @lherman_cs
Depends on his funds. if they are in a tight spot, 3% is more than
0%. if they are wealthy, that 3% will go father than many people's 10%.
Since it’s a general purpose bot, wouldn’t I want to convey instructions in plain English?
How are you using it?
There's zero difference between this memo and what is frequently said by people who just don't like black people (because it's too bad optics to say "I just don't like black people").
There is still a lot of taboo subjects and comments you can make on HN, just look through your comment history on all the things downvoted to hell that you still believe are true. Like a good sheep I now refuse to defend anything that will leave me open to this.
I like to say:

- One hour of planning saves ten hours or programming...

- and one hour of research saves ten hours of planning.

You can also invert it:

- Ten hours of programming saves one hour of planning...

- and ten hours of planning saves one hour of research.