skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost is a big issue for Hollywood. Recently we have learned about "flopbusters": movies that made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office and yet were failures, because hundreds of millions still wasn't enough to cover the astronomical production and marketing costs.

To cover their costs, studios are chasing wider and wider audiences, having to please more and more people, which unfortunately makes lowest-common-denominator slop the safe choice.
Damn USian English.
Libraries like iText would be SO good with LLM/vision model integration and vice-versa. Huge opportunity to use these tools to generate more training data based from siloed PDFs.
Typically i would agree with the harsh tone, but this person is being clear about their position. Perhaps I sympathize since I may also have a habit of being too credulous.
The first random clinical trial for GLP-1 drugs and alcoholism is not promising
You just did that 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060655

Plus, there have been two other stories from the EFF in the last hour.
I will pay for it!
They're not talking about Fortune 500 companies, they're talking about the literal government and the rules for sharing information between agencies.
Slanted political article. Flagged.
> If MS Music was losing money with no hopes of ever turning a profit, why should they continue to operate a charity music service subsidized by all of the other MS businesses that are making money?

Microsoft could make a deal with, say, Apple. They check each Microsoft Music (Xbox Music? Zune Music?) account for total spend, and give people an iTunes gift card for nearest total amount. Negotiate a bulk pricing deal with Apple.

Microsoft gets to look good, Apple gets to look good. But it'd cost 0.001% of total Microsoft profit and the shareholders can't have that.

Compare that to some other businesses that will happily recommend you to a competitor if it is a better fit, or if they shut down go out of their way to write a tool or help you with off- and onboarding to an alternative.
It looks terrific!

How can you watch this? Online at a major streaming provider? And, are there subtitles?
Not sure about DVDs, but CDs weren't designed to last longer than 10 years. Most of my CD collection has physically rotted. Because I was using Windows Media Player and iTunes, I ripped most of collection in M4A format, which, at the time, was better than MP3. A couple of years ago, I decided that I wanted to re-rip my CD collection (some 200 odd CDs) in FLAC format instead of m4a format (don't ask). And some significant portion (50%?) of the new FLAC rips were missing tracks due to physical read errors on the original CD media.
https://mullvad.net/fr/blog/introducing-defense-against-ai-g...

and multi-hop addresses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43114966
> The whole premise of our system is that the people within the system operate in good faith.

It very much is not.

It is, however, that the people will not simultaneously elect sufficent majorities in both houses of Congress and a President who all fail to do so, such that the systems by which the political branches check eachother continue to function in a way which constrains those actors in either that do act in bad faith.

> I would posit that no amount of legislation will be able to stop bad-faith actors from screwing up the system,

Electoral reforms to the legislative branch that could be done through statute could go a long way to reducing the probability of a sufficient concentration of bad faith actors to overwhelm the system, and electoral and structural reforms to the executive branch to make it less unitary, which would take a Constitutional amendment, could increase the necessary concentration to achieve a total breakdown.
on zen , it works
To answer that question in the context of Vulkan I highly recommend reading the proposal document for VK_EXT_shader_object which contains a great explanation in the problem statement about how modern graphics APIs ended up in this situation:

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/blob/main/propos...

The gist of it is that graphics APIs like DX11 were designed around the pipelines being compiled in pieces, each piece representing a different stage of the pipeline. These pieces are then linked together at runtime just before the draw call. However the pieces are rarely a perfect fit requiring the driver to patch them or do further compilation, which can introduce stuttering.

In an attempt to further reduce stuttering and to reduce complexity for the driver Vulkan did away with these piece-meal pipelines and opted for monolithic pipeline objects. This allowed the application to pre-compile the full pipeline ahead of time alleviating the driver from having to piece the pipeline together at the last moment.

If implemented correctly you can make a game with virtually no stuttering. DOOM (2016) is a good example where the number of pipeline variants was kept low so it could all be pre-compiled and its gameplay greatly benefits from the stutter-free experience.

This works great for a highly specialized engine with a manageable number of pipeline variants, but for more versatile game engines and for most emulators pre-compiling all pipelines is untenable, the number of permutations between the different variations of each pipeline stage is simply too great. For these applications there was no other option than to compile the full pipeline on-demand and cache the result, making the stutter worse than before since there is no ability to do piece-meal compilation of the pipeline ahead of time.

This gets even worse for emulators that attempt to emulate systems where the pipeline is implemented in fixed-function hardware rather than programmable shaders. On those systems the games don't compile any piece of the pipeline, the game simply writes to a few registers to set the pipeline state right before the draw call. Even piece-meal compilation won't help much here, thus ubershaders were used instead to emulate a great number of hardware states in a single pipeline.
How I'm reading and interpreting this, is that you dont want workers collectively communicating and joining forces at a negotiating table.

By denouncing this right of peaceably assembling and negotiating at a table of law, means that you're wanting the old solution of mass widespread violence against workers and management. Because this is exactly what happened before. But dont believe me - go read how unions were formed.

Most civilized countries have good worker protections. The USA is speedrunning the elimination of worker protections. And it doesn't take too much history knowledge to figure out how that works out.

I think the zoomer term is "fuck around and find out". We're in the 'fuck around' stage. I dont want to be here during the 'find out' stage.
Seems to be working fine. Do you see any console errors?
This seems to be meant as pretty much 8051 replacement. 8051 cores are duct-tape of the modern computing and in almost anything, while 8051 is not exactly C-friendly architecture.
Try reading my comment again.
Deeming things as waste within days of gaining access to the info is 100% in bad faith. There is no possible way that musk and his minions took the time to find out why anything is the way it is. Nevermind the fact that you don't have to shut anything down to perform an audit. He is going through with a bulldozer and saying "oops" when he destroys institutional knowledge and capabilities. The damage is the point.
And even before that Amazon had The Man in the High Castle, which seemed like an edgy exercise in displaying Nazism more than anything else. You could tell there was some sci-fi plot there but the adaptation merely just touched on it. New Bond is likely to be joining Spectre.io and helping put down rebellions in colonized lands. Perhaps even helping the Russians/Chinese undermine the EU, working with a Leiter who avoided "rightsizing" and was promoted four levels by pledging loyalty to the Party.
> I am well aware it feels the exact opposite to conservatives.

Personally I have voted liberal all my life and dont have a conservative bone in my body, so maybe you are not quite so clever as you think.

Also your spelling mistakes and poor sentence structure make it really difficult to figure out what your point actually is.
While Hanes's actions were criminal, another big story is about systemic failures in their banking controls and how they contributed to this failure:

Board allowed a single individual to wire tens of millions without additional approvals

No automated systems flagged the unusual transaction patterns

Previous red flags from Hanes's 2011 firing for questionable loans didn't lead to enhanced oversight

Board continued considering his requests for more money ($18M) even after learning of the initial theft

Reliance on personal trust and reputation substituted for proper institutional controls

No separation of duties or multi-party approval requirements for large transfers

Community banks need strong governance regardless of size or personal trust relationships.
Another issue is that regenerative braking does not light up your braking indicator lights, so can be more dangerous
I don't know how B.S. and B.A. degrees work, but apparently that B.A. in physics was enough for him be accepted to a graduate program in materials science at Stanford University.

He also "held two internships in Silicon Valley: one at energy storage startup Pinnacle Research Institute, which investigated electrolytic supercapacitors for energy storage, and another at Palo Alto–based startup Rocket Science Games."[1] , has some software patents (software patents should be abolished) from his time at Zip2, and made and sold a simple game when he was twelve.

So he has a little experience working directly at the low level with his physics degree and coding knowledge, but of course it was not his talent in those that made him a billionaire, it might even have been the opposite. So there is indication for the "at all" but not on how talented. I guess one versed in BASIC can read the source of his game, but that was when he was twelve...

But yeah, nowadays he has thousands of engineers working under him, of course he is going to delegate. The the important thing is the system engineering, making sure the efforts are going in the right direction and well coordinated. He seems knowledgeable and talented enough at that. Evidence for SpaceX: https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191228213526/https://www.cnbc.... , https://fortune.com/longform/book-excerpt-paypal-founders-el...
>Sounds like a system which could easily be abused.

It is constantly abused, the issue is Germans have gaslit themselves into thinking that it's the right thing to do "because nazism was bad", so they have Nazi levels of speech censorship to fight imaginary Nazism, because once you label someone who disagrees with you as a Nazi you are free to censor them, which then in turn is causing the uprising of actual Nazism because people are tired of being censored for having opinions that oppose the mainstream narrative. Germans are really a difficult bunch to reason with logically.
Don't listen to ChatGPT.

As someone "junior programmer" , I think I should just keep this information . Many times I have tried to not use chatgpt. but its just so lucrative.

I really need better control of myself. Going to block chatgpt at a dns level.
I’m generally a vegetarian, but I eat chicken, beef, and pork from local farms that raise the animals ethically.
Just for the sake of sharing prices in the context of North America— in Mexico 12 eggs go for $2.21 [1], 18 for $2.46 [2] and 30 for $4.90 [3]. This is just a normal supermarket, and the brand is just a common local one, not the cheapest and not the most expensive.

[1] https://www.soriana.com/huevo-blanco-bachoco-12-piezas/65002...

[2] https://www.soriana.com/huevo-blanco-bachoco-18-piezas/39041...

[3] https://www.soriana.com/huevo-blanco-bachoco-30-piezas/65002...
It might honestly be too cheap to deal with the pain of the bureaucracy. Small purchases still have to go though all of the compliance, legal, whatever nonsense required to send money.

The difference between free and $0.01 is enormous.
Correct. The prior post was flagged under an incorrect assumption that was it was intentionally political. Hence the submission statement to add clarity.
> What about the corner-case person who actually is legitimate and now has incredibly private information out there to make stealing their identity trivial?

Elon usually has doesn't have any compunction about throwing innocent people under the bus if he thinks he gains something even if indirectly.

But that aside, you can show evidence of massive fraud, without revealing private information to general public. Can certainly reveal it to relevant authorities.
this is an interviewer problem, unless the candidate is totally silent. A candidate that can't ask questions isn't going to succeed, anyway.

If the candidate will communicate with me, I will offer them a LOT of guidance. It is still very, very easy to tell who knows what they are doing and who does not. You give them a basic but domain-specific task, you give them whatever extra context they need to do it, and you watch them hammer out the code.

It should be a task that is sufficiently familiar to the person applying to the role that they do not need to do -much- looking at docs, and as the interviewer you should be prepared to help them quickly find the docs you already know they will need -- you designed the task after all -- so that they don't waste time with that.

What's important is that they ask for docs when they need them, and that they can understand them, quickly, and use them. It will be obvious if they are using AI because of how long things will take. It will be obvious if they don't know when to reach for documentation, and it will be obvious if they cannot understand the documentation.

Then, they should write a test for their solution. This weeds out 95% of candidates. Talk to the other 5% and you'll find someone who can both actually write code and also discuss design.
Great software. I can pay you, if you're able to do professional services work implement forms.md within a startup codebase, in both Django and Svelte. Email joel@joelparkerhenderson.com.
It's not automatically work-for-hire; that has to be stipulated in the contract. Recently there was a lawsuit about this involving, of all things, Sonic the Hedgehog. An artist and writer named Ken Penders, working for Archie Comics on Sonic comic books, sued his former employer claiming ownership over certain characters created for the comic, most notably those connected to Knuckles the Echidna. Because Archie couldn't prove that Penders's comic work was work for hire (they lost the original contract), they settled out of court in favor of Penders. This ended up losing the Sonic license and had various effects on the Sonic universe. For example, he threatened to sue Paramount over the idea of Knuckles having a father, because Knuckles's Archie Comic universe father was a Penders creation. So rather than depict his father directly for the Knuckles series, they represented him with a puppet in an abstract sequence -- a puppet bearing a suspiciously Penders-like moustache.
Yes it's pretty amazing how so many people seem to overcomplicate simple household tasks by introducing unnecessary technology.
The conclusion is basically what tech ethicists have said all along: it's all ethically troubled. Every bit. We spend each tech revolution singling out the latest bit while ignoring the conversations we had about the last bit, which we're now accustomed to.

AI, if it's uniquely problematic, is only so because it has the power to amplify all the stuff we've failed to deal with for the last 300 or so years from power loom to the transformer to tensor math applied digitally to the other transformer.
Sounds to me like the middle ground is allowing abortion. You don't have to have an abortion. If you want one you can, in the n first weeks of pregnancy.

That's the middle ground.

Maybe the far-left should wake up and ask for mandatory abortions up to carrying term for every woman so that the far-right finally understand that "allowing abortion" is already a middle ground.

It's funny how when one side is reasonable and the other is not, the middle ground must lean towards the unreasonable one.
This may be true, but Bond hasn't been owned by a traditional studio, it has essentially been owned by a family who have inherited control down a few generations.
That's a problem, but it's not necessarily even the biggest problem. Other huge problems include the shear size of the machines per MW of output (and hence cost per MW), coupled with their dreadful complexity and the difficulty of keeping them operating when they become too radioactive for hands-on maintenance. Designs typically just assume the reactors will be reliable enough, when there's no empirical evidence to support that (and the one study that tried to estimate uptime based on analogies with other technologies found the reactor would have an uptime percentage of just 4%!)
As a small child, I used to spend a part of the summer vacations with my grandparents, who had some land cultivated with a variety of crops and trees and they also raised some animals, including chicken which roamed freely through a big garden.

I liked to play with the chicken, and by rewarding them with maize grains I have succeeded to train some of them to respond to a few simple commands, like coming to me when called and sitting down, waiting to be petted, and standing up upon commands. (Because those chicken were used to roam freely, they were shy of human contact. Normally it was difficult to catch any one of them.)

My grandparents and their neighbors were astonished, despite the fact that they have kept chicken for all their lives, because they believed that chicken are too dumb to act like this.
Now there's a series of novels I'd love to see on the screen. Assuming, of course that someone could do it justice. Not easy, given the scope.
But depending on your threat model, it can still be useful. If a state actor has a backdoor into something, would they burn that capability to get you? If you are a dissident in a totalitarian government, you would expect them to throw everything at you and not tell anyone how/why. If you are terrorizing and could be tried in a “classified” setting, you would expect them to throw everything at you. If you are Jane Average passing nudes and talking about doing a little Molly last weekend and would have a lawyer go through discovery, you are probably safe.
What do LLMs know about your email address?
Here's a fun test to see what LLMs know about your email address.

While most model providers put efforts into removing PII, there's still some information that can be inferred from your email, whether you realize it or not. It's sorta how fortune tellers can 'know things' about you by noticing details and making inferences from them
Trump/Musk are using "corruption/fraud" as a lie to remake the government in their image (or Project2025's image), in the same way that Bush used WMDs as a lie to invade Iraq.

Where's the evidence of widespread corruption? If there really was corruption and fraud, then we'd be hearing of people being investigated and/or charged with breaking the law, not randomly fired or fired for ideological/loyalty/retribution reasons.
I'd have more sympathy if you didn't want him to hurt (other) people.
Just replying for the sake of the odd search user that ended up here, this is a good video comparing OpenAI deep research with Gemini as of mid-february 2025: https://youtu.be/zE4eApsRYuo?si=X7841lTK_NiGAZ15cfv
Seems to me private equity is often, though not always, a terrific way to run a previously-stable business into the ground in short order. See for example https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423290 .
>Many Wumpuses were hunted that day

Oh man! I remember playing 'Hunt the Wumpus'[0] with my cousins on my grandfathers TI-99 in the mid 80's. Probably the first computer I ever touched!

In the spirit of HN pedantry, should the plural be Wumpi? I will concede that wumpuses is way more fun to say..

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus
No. The current GOP administration, starting from before this election:

- supported funding Project 2025's development by GOP members

- talked about Project 2025 favorably

- saw Project 2025 demonized by the media

- THEN denied they support Project 2025

- got elected using Project 2025 tactics

- hired Project 2025 author INTO this new administration

- are currently implementing Project 2025 policies.

SO "THEY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PROJECT 2025" seems closer to "true" and "fact" than unlikely.
Some people get used to it. We did some work to prepare our barn for chickens but never quite 'pulled the trigger' because between our tenants and other friends we are swimming in eggs. (It was funny as hell that some of our chicken-keeping friends had a fox family living in a stump in front of their house. Their chicken house was solid but they'd catch the mama fox on the game camera every night bringing home a chicken from somebody else's flock every night.)

Our favorite meat lately has been roadkill deer. Two days ago a friend was traveling to a job site up route 89 on the side of the lake when they hit a deer. He called us on his cell but we didn't want to drive that far that day. The next day my wife was planning to drive out in that direction to help a friend, the friend welched out but she went to see if the deer was still there, it was, so she loaded it into the back of our Honda Fit and I was told, when she picked me up at the bus stop, to stash all my stuff with me in the passenger seat.

Turned out the intestines didn't splatter, it was cold, and there wasn't serious tissue damage from the crash so we're going to get a huge amount of meat out of it. Between roadkill deer and deer my son hunts and deer other people hunt on our land we might need to get a bigger freezer.
> why would anyone pay for this?

Presumably, they won't as this is still a tech demo. One can take this simple demonstration and think about some future use cases that aren't too different. How far away is something that'll do the dishes, cook a meal, or fold the laundry, etc? That's a very different value prop, and one that might attract a few buyers.
Read the text, he transferred the money to Kraken, presumably to buy cryptocurrency that he then sent to the scammers.
I admittedly don’t know very much about that festival.

One interesting thing about Hajj is that not only is travel to a specific place mandated but also travel in a specific path and direction; you need to walk around the Kaaba seven times and walking between the hills of Safa and Marwah seven times.

Given the Kaaba is only 12m x 10.5m its a very small place to concentrate people in.
> It's really not that deep, I'm worried if you really cannot understand. I don't code outside of work, I'm not interested in doing it. I'm good at software engineering, not passionate about it. I have a bunch of other hobbies. There's no reason I'd have any code to show now or at any point in the future.

It's like asking a dentist interview candidate to show you examples of fillings and crowns they did at home as a hobby. I don't understand why there is this automatic assumption that people who program at work also do it outside of work.
> Well, it is a government agency tasked with audits. Why shouldn't it have root access?

Why should it? I've participated in a number of audits. None of them involved giving the auditors root access. They get read-only access to exactly what they need and nothing more, if they get access at all. Oftentimes it's the people with access pulling data based on what they request.
can we do standard forms too?
How do you know their peers, teachers, and bosses aren’t autistic too? Autistic people can’t be peers, teachers, and bosses? Autistic people can be assholes too. Maybe that’s what it really is: some people are just assholes.