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(528 points, 16 days ago, 348 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864272

(12 points, 14 days ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42890718
> I still won't run my own ad-blocker for this reason.

I maintained an extension for a public website for a couple years. (It did things like, for example, adding information that was available in the API to the page, for power users.) I eventually gave up with the conclusion that the concept of a browser extension was fundamentally unsound. So I also don’t use an-blocker.
Except doing it over LAN vs Internet is a very different thing - editing over SSH with >100 ping is annoying as hell, especially if you have packet drops (like a mobile connection). Using a thin client editor with remote server is a much smoother experience.
My long professional history working on source control.
Move fast and break things is what built Silicon Valley and the modern world. It works, demonstrably.

The way the government has been run the past decades doesn't work, demonstrably. Every important metric has worsened.
> As we’ve seen, TeX’s model falls short on everything that requires knowledge of exact vertical positions:

Interestingly, classical CSS had a similar limitation, that height is determined by content size, leading practitioners to search for the Holy Grail [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_grail_(web_design)
Europe needs to roll future refinements to AI regulation into the existing GDPR statutes and not label them as AI. What really matters is HOW info is misused or what physical activities were injurious, not whether the miscreant is automated. Rather than prevent harm through proscription of possible causes, both physical and synthetic, future regs need to prohibit the outcome itself regardless of the cause. As I understand it, that's what GDPR does.
Yeah but the average person wouldn't know to set up a firewall (and can't count on their ISP to have their best interests at heart.) Therefore the general public benefits from the degree of protection that NAT provides.
Yes, when there's a MOT (major ongoing topic) [1], especially a MegaMOT like this one, we try to have the frontpage threads be about significant new information (SNI) [2], rather than opinion pieces. The latter tend to count as follow-ups [3], and those tend to be bad for HN because they're repetitive [4].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
That appears to be the null hypothesis at this point. It's up to you to provide evidence to the contrary, ideally in the form of an election that doesn't result in RFK as HHS secretary and Tulsi Gabbard as DNI.
New Tesla Model Y Adds 4D Radar, Calls 911 If Child Left Behind
System Design for Next-Gen Frontier Models – Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis
A statistics T-distribution table
congrats Delphi!

(page is back up, btw)
…Isn’t this the website that constantly encourages people to “choose boring technology” for their web tech startups?

Aren’t a reasonable portion of the readers here people who bemoan the constant learning curve hellscape of frontend development?

And now we’re going to be upset that tools that help us work faster, which are trained on data freely available on the internet and thus affected by the volume of training material, decide to (gasp) choose solutions with a greater body of examples?

Just can’t satisfy all the people all the time, I guess! SMH.
So instead of a department of Education for example, what should all that money go towards? Resegregation of schools under the title of school vouchers instead of Jim Crow?
Note that you will need a thread pool that’s large enough to handle 1 second (or whatever flush timeout you set) of events in your app concurrently. If you have thousands of events per second, plan accordingly.
I don't use MFA, it is less secure than no MFA, so yes, no, no and no. I use VLC though but that doesn't use any tracking or data, afaik.

My roomba is 10 years old and has no wifi
All while crime is plummeting and has been for a long time.
Yep my mom got caught on one of these - paying to "save a vulnerable puppy" only for the dog to "have a medical crises during transport", etc.

If you have a loved one who is vulnerable:

+ Make it clear there is no shame in falling victim or seeking help

+ Teach them to "hang up and call back" anytime someone calls them and asks for money or passwords, personal data, etc. (This just saved her from a bank card scam)

Currently my worry is AI voice impersonation because my mom genuinely doesn't believe that AI can clone a voice. My plan is to have JFK call her and give her an impassioned speech about being aware of scams.
Probably not, ticktock isn't male dominated. Twitter and Reddit however, I could see that.
> If you're behind NAT where there's many users behind a single IP address you'll be hit.

Doesn't this describe the vast majority of networks in the world?
Can I get an ELI5 of "listings play" and "crack the listings code"?
What would lead me to assume that at this point?
Would you say this woman's lawsuit should have been discouraged? And if so, why? And if not, where is the line where you are "okay" with having difficulty?
You may be happy to learn that I just asked ChatGPT (the free tier that you can access without signing in) "What does the CurrentKey Stats app do?" and got this back:

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CurrentKey Stats is a macOS application designed to enhance your productivity by offering detailed insights into your app usage and providing advanced management of your Mac's virtual desktops, known as "Spaces."

Key Features:

Time Tracking: Unlike macOS's Screen Time, which tracks total app usage, CurrentKey Stats monitors the time each app spends in the foreground, offering a more accurate representation of active usage.

Room Management: The app allows you to assign custom names and unique menu bar icons to each Space, facilitating easy identification and navigation. You can switch between these "Rooms" using the menu bar icon or customizable hotkeys.

Automation Support: For advanced users, CurrentKey Stats supports AppleScript, enabling you to automate actions when entering or leaving specific Rooms. This feature can trigger scripts to perform tasks like launching applications, adjusting system settings, or controlling smart home devices.

Privacy-Focused: The application prioritizes user privacy by keeping all data local on your device, ensuring that your usage statistics are not shared externally.

By combining detailed app usage statistics with enhanced Space management and automation capabilities, CurrentKey Stats aims to help you use your Mac more efficiently and deliberately.

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But more generally, I think people often look at LLMs and assume that the current flaws will be around forever and this will be horrible. But all technologies have big, obvious flaws when they're first introduced and these get fixed because there's a strong incentive to have a less bad product.
Mercado Libre introduces Verdi, an AI developer platform powered by GPT-4o
Do you compare Facebook that knows about your friends and holidays to Apple iPhone+iPad+mac+homepod+watch+health+card+wallet+mail+contacts+calendar+passwords+... ?
The British sitcom is far after the coinage and adoption of the phrase in the US. You’ve got the causality backwards.
I'm building a service which needs to extract rss feeds from pages (hntorss.com if you're interested). Nothing else. From any rational point of view, website owner would actively want this parser to work as easily as possible — the whole point is for users to see the content you publish!

Alas, I still get rate-limited, 400-ed and others because of user agent and other bot-detection mechanisms.
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
- Linus Torvalds
What Are Sync Engines?
I'm not sure this is partisan, looking back the (very light) post history of this substack and the nonexistent explanation of who the authors are, it looks like just a pure FUD machine.
Unbundling the BPO: How AI Will Disrupt Outsourced Work – BircleAI
It works? Are you sure?
We made it so easy to program that any idiot could do it. So they do.
If the airplane was on the correct approach at 300 ft. and the Blackhawk was restricted to 200 ft. the margin is 100 ft.
Having looked into similar stuff, good luck to him, it's quite tricky.
This is great.

If you add a PWA install thing and offline mode that would be interesting to me. Most of my podcast time is on walks. App is useful too for the same reason.

The memorize function<->bookmark relation was not obvious to me, making that clearer would be great. I really like the idea of having a sentence, though, that you can test your understanding of instead of just a word.

The Pimsleur mode is really great idea and I love that it's there but the TTS is atrocious. I'm pretty tolerant, but even I would have a hard time listening to that on an hour-long walk, for example.
yet 4.5T tax cuts which is also govt spending.
With CG-NAT this doesn't work. Multiple customers are sharing the same IP address, all of which are sitting behind a NAT. Further the internet gateway is a NAT sitting behind the CG-NAT. And if you prefer to use a nice Mesh WiFi router, well that's a third NAT layer.

Common suggestions I've heard:

"Use a VPN"

I tried to buy a computer from Apple directly. They detected the VPN and wouldn't let me purchase it. I turned off the VPN and the purchase worked. I then got a call from Apple asking me if I really did intend to buy the computer.

"Use Tailscale"

On my setup, tailscale can't really navigate the NAT setup correctly. I have a 200Mb downlink and I will often only get a 10th of that through tailscale. Also the routing table no longer works as routing is handled by a myriad of netfilter rules -- which may or may not conflict with docker on the same box.

"Use Ubiquiti (or other networking gear) to get rid of the last NAT"

Gah. I didn't need to perform a huge cash outlay 10 years ago and rewiring the house to do the same thing I'm trying to do today.
> Worse, their targets are conspicuously limited to agencies actively monitoring or investigating Elon Musk and his companies.

DOGE's biggest targets thus far have been FEMA and USAID. These two orgs are actively monitoring Musk and his companies?
It was a line item under "consumables".
Nice! I thought of using Rust. I'll check how you implemented it.
The language that could have been. I did a bunch of Delphi around the Delphi 5 and 6 era. It was a nice middle ground between VB6 and C++.

Unfortunately it made my startup more difficult to sell. Eventually Microsoft bought it, but there were a lot of rounds.
The announcements of paywalled subreddits and supporting intra-subreddit commerce seem like a recipe to compete with Patreon.

If Reddit offered community management, payment processing, and content hosting, and undercut Patreon's 8% fee, I think it's a real winner.

The benefit to Reddit is that they get a user in their ecosystem, looking at ads, subscribing to more subreddits, etc.
I can’t speak to the Zed team’s motivations for this, but unless it’s a big corp pulling a move like this it’s usually not that nefarious. Having been in these kinds of product conversations it’s more like, “that thing we prototyped? I we think it’s stable and usable enough for beta. We’re not sure how to price it yet, but let’s give it to our customers to play around with and give us some feedback while we figure out what to tweak and how much it’s worth”.
I agree. I actually use the AI features in Zed a lot, but there are things I really wish they would prioritize.

For example this issue that’s been open for about a year: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/10122

Editing large files is an incredibly common use case for an editor
More difficult. Also little people affected, so not much research going there, and most important, is just a nuisance, not a problem like not being able to see.
'Groundbreaking' potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use
The most daming evidence of the inability of autocomplete to levelup to sentience.
"which is to say that it's literally the only one that I've ever heard about in my lifetime"

^ That statement is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your general sentiment. And (not meaning this as a personal attack at all) it's a huge problem for our society as a whole if citizens are more in favour of large scale destruction of institutions based on a lack of understanding that has been pushed by the same economic class benefiting from the wholesale destruction of democratic institutions.

There are numerous entities that do good work in the government to combat waste. You just don't hear about them because it's not a sexy topic that the media gets clicks from. Unfortunately, those entities are being shut down by DOGE, so sadly, it's not a start of anything good.
AI will disrupt outsourced work?
Does the author have any clue who does the RLHF that enables LLMs to perform without constantly hallucinating?
Nice hypothesis, but how do we prove it?
They likely mean CGNAT specifically
Oh, I see what you mean now! This sounds like a very good analogy.
Randomly destroying things without actually understanding why they are important is a very short term view on reducing waste. Fixing things if/when they go wrong is going to be expensive.
The problem with this is that he had been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in 2006. It is rare for a person with stage IV cancer to survive for another 14 years. He received treatment but most likely eventually he would have died anyway. Covid may have fastened his demise but his odds of dying were quite high even without covid.
I like this writing style with unbound variables. Reminds me of Maya Binyam's novel "Hangman", or Kafka's novels.
Isn't that the free period Apple gives you for purchasing a new device? That's different than the actual free trial in app purchases normal apps get. I think they gave you four months of the service as a specific purchase. Third party apps could do that but then they'd have to manage all of those separate purchases.
How the scientists of the 1960s turned the Moon into a place
> One doesn't need experience of bricklaying to see that building a house takes a lot longer than bulldozing it.

The experience of bricklaying will help you think about the future times when you'll have to lay the bricks. Without that experience you may not ever consider those times, especially in a scenario which has you excited about what you are currently doing.
What's especially unfortunate is that experienced USDS employees had already achieved the one software engineering task that is basically impossible for a 19-year-old (or a newly hired USDS employee of any age): convincing a federal department manager that using a static website is a great solution — nevermind also publishing all of its source code and documents on a public github.
While clever, this is just flat out not true. Many (if not all) of the early SpaceX employees did indeed have backgrounds in aerospace and mechanical engineering.
Miri does catch a problem here:

>
error: Undefined Behavior: memory access failed: expected a pointer to 8 bytes of memory, but got 0x2f5f40[noalloc] which is a dangling pointer (it has no provenance)
--> src/main.rs:263:33
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263 | let next = unsafe { (*current.ptr).next };
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ memory access failed: expected a pointer to 8 bytes of memory, but got 0x2f5f40[noalloc] which is a dangling pointer (it has no provenance)
|
= help: this indicates a bug in the program: it performed an invalid operation, and caused Undefined Behavior
= help: see https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/reference/behavior-conside... for further information
= note: BACKTRACE on thread `unnamed-2`:
= note: inside `LockFreeStack::pop` at src/main.rs:263:33: 263:52
This will pair well with Mitnick's autobiography Ghost in the Wires, in which you get to read Mitnick's side of the story.
My first guess is that this is an unauthenticated server action.[0]

0 - https://blog.arcjet.com/next-js-server-action-security/
But do you want /width*width to be optimized? Or associative and commutative operations in general? Then you have to reject the opposite opinion.
It's back, but just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20250214191003/https://www.gladi...
Colonel Willis Corto incoming to the us.
Maybe a better goal is some representation for "COCONUT [with these 3 letters occluded]". Then the consumer might combine this with other evidence about the occluded parts, or review it if questions come up about how accurate the OCR was in this case.
We can always update our priors if we're proven wrong about these people. What's wrong with having expectations?

Somebody must have had an expectation, otherwise how were they selected? Why do we keep hearing over and over that they need forgiveness?
i'm totally not jealous of salaries in USA :P
bin Laden and al-Qaida talked a lot about their motivations. For one it was disgusting to them that the house of Saud bowed and scraped for the crusaders in Washington, and so was the rather arbitrary abuse of Afghanistan.

They also were under the delusion that the US was a democracy, and hence the general population could be held responsible for the actions of its leaders. Understandable if they had mainly been exposed to US/Occidental state propaganda.

Today I don't think anyone would be inclined to hold such a belief.
Not a US citizen but I know my fair share of bureaucratic processes from my home country Germany. That being said it’s one thing to start a process to limit overspending without simple budget cuts which can be more hurtful. That’s why you need an actual audit to figure out what is and what isn‘t waste or inefficient. Inefficient also doesn’t mean shutting things down. Maybe improving processes and leverage the people better etc.
Then comes the whole topic of who is in charge. It’s still baffling that an unelected person can conduct official government business. I understand how the system works in the US but one would think that in order to be granted this much power, that some checks have to fly by congress / senate (not that this would make a difference since there is only the party line no conscience voting) before this person can set out to dismantle US agencies.

For me that is not a start. Why not bring a person from big Pharma in to audit and reform the FDA. While at it let’s some Exxon guys evaluate the environment regulations etc etc. You can‘t let the wolf guard the sheep.
I think this is it, in eu i get blocked but if I access it via VPN I can open the page
I want to avoid using Wayland for as long as possible. Is there a good way to donate to Xorg and preserving Xorg integration in software? How much would it take to change the GNOME people's mind about Xorg in GTK 5?
I don't like the way React updates subtrees. Other frameworks get it wrong, too, by using the same incorrect model. Employing professional opinion, it's just wrong. The document should be considered the source of truth, not some internal private state.

e.g. Input values on the HTMLInputElement are the real input, not some clone to a private object in JavaScript.

As a result of React's blatantly wrong treatment of the document.body, you have ensure that when it reuses element siblings within an arbitrary tree, that it's values are squashed to whatever private fields you're using in your component.

It screams wrong, and side effects like the one in this article make it obvious why.

No one is going to go out of their way to touch your special internal state, we're all going to use the web API to touch nodes and events from standard interfaces. You can't take the ball into a private court and expect the rest of the game to function.
It works as long as you have investors shoving millions or billions into your behind so you can fix the fuckups
Though I would think that India would be the least likely to have any of this type of BSE due to their reverence for the cow. It works out for them as a cultural inoculation against an insidious affliction.
> HFT & payment for order flow is what has made stock trading the low fee environment it is today.

I get how payment for order flow would help enable this current low upfront fee trading system we have today, they're managing to get their money from places other than direct fees. I don't exactly get how HFT also makes it low cost. Could you further explain that? Is it that mostly the people paying for the order flow is pretty much exclusively HFTs, and if they didn't exist the order flow market wouldn't exist?

Making up numbers here, if the HFTs manage to squeeze a dollar of profit out of the order flow data after buying my trade data for a dollar (two dollars of spread they manage to find), is that really better than me paying a dollar or two in fees for that order? It would be interesting to see the real values in question here on such things to actually gauge what is better for an average trader now trading in the low to zero fee trade market.
Seems to be the same was as the FDA approved (535 points, 1 year ago, 220 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571956
Yeah I like innuendo studios.
Compare budgets in 2024 (
$6.752 trillion) vs 2015 ($3.688 trillion)
There are a ridiculous number of projects doing this.

I'm always baffled by the response they get since doing this is also the most impractical, poorly scaling, way to insert an LLM into your development process.

On one hand if you realize that, there may be times where you get lucky with the size of a codebase and the nature of your questions and it works acceptably.

But on the other, this feels like the kind of thing someone who's hearing others rave about the utility of AI will try with too large of a codebase, insert the result into ChatGPT, and then get an LLM underperforming because it's being flooded with irrelevant context for every basic operation it's being asked to do.

There are very few times when providing the entire codebase in the context window instead of the relevant code to a single operation makes sense.
Doesn't work in what sense though?
> I don't think it would be unpopular for me to say that most taxpayers believe there is huge waste in government, up to and including the government's spending.

No one wants wasteful spending. The difference is that DOGE proponents are totally okay with threatening the lives of over 20 million people.

https://www.devex.com/news/scoop-usaid-kenya-partner-has-no-...

> While DOGE is not a good long-term solution, it's so far better than literally any other major effort by a US government entity to combat waste at the federal level - which is to say that it's literally the only one that I've ever heard about in my lifetime.

Perhaps you're very young. Every few years there have been "Hoover-style" commissions that have resulted in bipartisan efficiency optimizations, without the mass disruptions (that will end up costing taxpayers even more money) and threats to safety of millions of people.

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