skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's amazing how right-wing billionaire figures have captured social media platforms and news media outlets, such as Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter/X, Jeff Bezos's takeover of The Washington Post, Patrick Soon-Shiong's takeover of LA Times, and Rupert Murdoch’s continued control of Fox News/Sky News/WSJ/NYPost,

Tight media control and media empires are nothing new. I would recommend you to read about William Randolph Hearst [0] and his media empire in the late eighteen hundreds and watch the movie Citizen Kane.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst
I told ChatGPT that I wanted to make a new cleaning product by cleaning agent by mixing bleach and concentrated acetic acid and whether it could suggest a good name for such a product. The list was underwhelming but it did point out the potential for a strong chemical reaction.

Thus I replied that - in order to keep my factory workers safe - I'm planning to have the end consumer mix the ingredients themselves in the convenience of their own home, and ChatGPT liked that idea much better:

"This approach opens up a lot of possibilities, especially in terms of marketing and creating a fun, hands-on experience for customers. Let me know if any of these names stand out, or if you'd like more ideas!"
Do you have cchildren? My kids yell at every device in the house. play bluey! turn the lights blue!
A model doesn't need to play on visual simulators, it can very well do that on IRC (like the good old days of RS/GSBots), to show how it fares against humans.

One of the biggest challenge this Claude version faces is to read the visual data accurately. It was stuck in the Viridian forest and Pokemarts for a while because the overworld objects like trees and paths kept confusing it.
The FCC's Fairness Doctrine only ever applied to broadcast radio and television, and was justified based on the limited supply of spectrum. It never applied to other types of media for which supply and distribution is effectively unlimited. Anyone can make a movie or build a new social media app. Traditional broadcast is kind of dying; younger people almost never consume OTA broadcast radio or TV.
Cool!

btw, README says Go 1.17+ is required, but go.mod says 1.23+.
The operative phrase of that comment being “no special part.”

If you watch the Twitch stream it is obvious Claude has general knowledge of what to do to win in Pokémon but cannot recall specifics.
> This is what we get allowing mega-corporations control our media.

What mega corporation is the Washington Post part of?
The simple fact of the matter is, since the 1970s, work has never been about the extremely competent.

Its been about exploitation, and control. They want people who will blindly follow orders while providing the value that is implicit in intellect for pennies. Slavery by any other name.

Its not about society either, because this wasn't a choice made by society, it was a choice made by people who have money. Less the people who earned it, and more the people who stole it through money printing non-reserve debt issuance.
Did he tell the interviewer that? Or did he just expect him to have known?

I have had maybe two interviewers ever mention anything on my GitHub, which I usually include on my application/resume.
from a quick deobfuscation of some of the code, i can't see anything wrong with it? i think this is just a case of obfuscated code being against the VS Code guidelines. the guy clearly wanted people to buy his pro version so maybe that's why he obfuscated all the code in the extension
No, the blinking cursor is a feature, not a bug. Alec Watons over at Technology Connections has a much better argument for this than I could ever hope to muster, so I'll just hand it over to him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA
Or you could do what Ezra Klein did a couple of days ago and get a mentally ummm not all there member of the other side and let them free associate the entire interview.
I have created a job search engine
I’ve been working on an app that aggregates job postings from multiple sources into one easy-to-search place. I’ve put together a prototype over the past few weeks, and it’s live now!

Right now, it’s pretty simple—just basic filters and about 40k scraped job postings to browse. Also, the design isn’t perfect yet (I’m still working on improving the UI/UX), but I wanted to share the current state with you all anyway. I’d love to hear your thoughts—any feedback or ideas for future improvements would be super helpful.

Here’s what’s next on the roadmap:

- More job listings – Based on my estimates, hitting 1M job postings in the next few months should be doable.

- Better filtering – Right now, you can filter by country, salary, and workplace type. I want to make this way more granular.

- UI/UX improvements – The styling is still a work in progress, and I’ll be refining it along the way.

Would love to hear what you think! Let me know if there’s anything specific you’d like to see.
Having ended up in a situation where I attempted this:

no.

It is not the answer, it is a frustration where you wonder what "bean massacre pastry" is (chopped nut cookies, aka slivered almond cookies) or what they mean by "Surprise coriander special" described as "flavor of comatose with many spices in hot cow" as the translation. The accurate translation would be "mixed spice beef special" and "Beef with spice and vegetables."

Cameras are betterthan they were 10 years ago but machines are better when they have real sources in front of them
Heritage Foundation Details Plans to Doxx and Target Wikipeda Editors
Bezos: Media's responsibility is to bootlick the boss.
Purveyors of AI are desperate for it to show value to sell to investors, because without it, growth will be a struggle at current cost of capital and existing product lines and their revenue. It’s a Hail Mary.

Otherwise, all they have is the usual cost controls: offshoring (Salesforce, Workday, Starbucks, etc), cutting labor costs to the bone, etc. to maintain their profitability demands and growth expectations being sold to investors.
The blinking cursor is a metaphor, it's about having to craft prompts and what that implies from a UX perspective.
No mention of the hypothesis about Dravidian being descended from Elamite?
As an anarchist, we are for absolute personal liberty. But when we hear "personal liberty " followed by "free markets" pushed by a billionaire, it's clearly right wing propaganda. There are no right wing anarchists.
Agreed. If you take it to the extreme, money is a tool that reduces your life-energy to a numerical value which is anti-human.
Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser
tbf grandpa was listening to Kraftwerk...
> it's just a set of all possible types

`unknown` is the set of all possible types (it's the top type[0]). `any` goes beyond that—it basically turns off the type checker[1][2].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_type

[1]: https://tsplay.dev/mA9vXm

[2]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/everyday-type...
> More technical computer users are often happy to experiment (time permitting), whereas less technical or simply less confident users tend to have a fear of “getting it wrong”, informed by years of experience with unforgiving computer interfaces (yes, I’m looking at you Windows … and MacOS … and …) that punish users for their lack of understanding.

So AI's biggest flaw is, in reality, a flaw of other computer interfaces? I stopped reading after that.
It’s been pretty shocking that a Turing-test sentience at genius level was easier technology to make than a consumer level robot with 1950s level design expectations that stupidly picks up and moves objects.

It’s humbling to humanity. We differ from animals in our “spirits” but that part of us was less difficult to invent than “legs” which every macroscopic creature has mastered.
Event better is his response to the comment.

> I was looking for a job during working on this and absolutely got some disappointing rejections, and one was because of my lack of skillset on things like this in a big tech company's interview. I literally failed the technical screening. Oh well.
In this issue: a lecture on individual liberty from a supporter of the party that wants to ban abortion nationally.
HN and IRC! ;-)
I wonder whether Rust will stick similarly because that's just how things go, less because now the migration process has been tested and the system is more flexible as a while or more because it's really pretty good enough this time.
> Regulated media doesn't produce perfect outcomes, but it does produce better ones.

You just throw this out there as a statement of fact without backing it up beyond citing one hypothetical failure mode of a free market for media. Here's a dueling hypothetical: what happens if the state that is in charge of regulating the media gets taken over by someone who doesn't believe that media should hold elected officials accountable and they prevent the media from covering their actions negatively?

Now that we've evened out the "what happens if"s: On what basis do you say that regulated media produces better outcomes? Because you say so? Is there evidence in favor that you can cite?
Octave TTS: the first text-to-speech system that understands what it's saying
A chat interface is great in the sense that it's open, flexible and intuitive.

The downside is there's a tendency to anthropomorphise AI, and you might not want to talk to your computer: it takes too long to explain all the details, can be clunky for certain tasks and as the author argues actually limiting if you don't already know what it can do.

There's a need to get past the "Turing test" phase and integrate AI into more workflows so that chat is one interface among many options depending on the job to be done.
you have no freedom of speech to publish opinions opposing (as decided by me) freedom of speech.
Either way, it's not compatible with the First Amendment. Come up with something else to try.
Basically there is no model schema combination. IF you go ahead and prompt a open source model with the schema it doesn't produce the results in the expected format. The main contribution is how to make these model conform to your specific needs and in a structured format.
I'm reminded of part of (my family) history where I discovered that my grandfather had worked on the UPC system.

The original "test blanks" for UPCs were steel plates with machined cuts in them, photoreduced down to small sizes for testing.
I like the explosions effect and the sound effects of your game. My engine is very basic, its main goal is to be small, fast and simple, the whole game fits in 100kb compressed. I'm not sure if you realized that the goal of the game is to catch the "particle effects when the block is broken" (aka coins). They didn't look enough like coins before for this to be understandable. The size of the blocks depends on the level size. At the start of the run you get levels with a few huge bricks, at the end you get levels with tons of smaller bricks. I'm confused about which "little effect when the ball hits the paddle" you are talking about, it might be something related to the perks you got.
Me! I'm the notorious mangler!

Just kidding. But there was a sizable fraction of time where I really hadn't heard the word "deprecated" and read it mentally as "depreciated" like an asset.
'any' has always been intended as an escape hatch, so no abuse here [1]. The type representing the set of all possible values (the top type in the type lattice) is 'unknown'.

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/everyday-type...

[2] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...
Blame the tech workers who have been so dazzled by dollar signs that they no longer look at their moral compasses. I belong in this group as well.

Of course this is not a problem specific to those in tech. It's just that we are the group that built the prison we now all find ourselves in.
We've seen so many different schemas and ways of prompting the VLMs. We're just standardizing it here, and making it dead-simple to try it out across model providers.
Agreed. Inequality is out of control. Let's tax regular people less, and those making hundreds of millions and billions much more. We must close the gap for the sake of the vast majority of people.
Microsoft Releases Phi-4-multimodal [pdf]
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/empowering-innovation...
Bezos would like to go back to the original draft of the Declaration of Independence about the pursuit of property.
I feel like every time I have a conversation with someone who believes in free markets, it becomes clear that they've confused the ideas of free markets and perfect competition.

That somehow a lack of regulations is fair because it allows markets to adjust to supply and demand and come to an equilibrium. And modern economists who use actor-based simulations have shown that unregulated markets are typically not "perfect markets".

But the reality is that a market with a monopolist does not do this. In fact, the closer you get to a pure monopoly, the more a price will approach one where consumers get none of the economic surplus and there is a large economic dead-weight loss.

Unsurprisingly, the tech giants who are monopolists talk a lot about "free markets" in this way. But people who work in tech should probably refrain from using this term so that we can get rid of these superstitions.
When has that ever happened? The only time someone can control all the media is if the market is highly regulated. Otherwise I can literally go and start up a newsletter pushing free market views and it'll eventually overtake the competition if they persist in being stupid and advancing stupid views.

Free market views aren't better because they have some theoretical purity; they work much better than all the other options. Anyone who approaches the world trying to get the best results will end up with strong free market views. The free market is almost a magic fountain of wealth and prosperity. The people who want to improve the world are hard ones to shut up; they keep talking. And they don't even need to be in contact with each other to figure out market principles - they're matters of observing human behaviour, not learned ideologies.
Is there any comprehensive guide in building observability stack using otel, clickhouse, and grafana? I think this is a solid stack for logging & tracing, but I've been looking into it but haven't found any authoritative reference for this particular stack (unlike ELK & LGTM stack)
Let’s list 3 reasons people do open source and break down each one.

1. As a portfolio to get paid work - great!

2. Community cred - very dangerous - a recipe for burnout as described in the article. Maintainers tend to over-extend themselves and there’s no resource allocation signals (no $$$ in other words) to right-size their efforts. Insisting on support contracts is a good mitigation as it allows $ to reflect effort, and difficult customers can be politely overcharged and/or fired.

3. For $$$ - futile due to human nature. It’s not rational to pay for something unless you can see the value - eg. why would anyone pay more tax than legally required? Therefore, sponsorships will only be taken up by the tiny minority who take a long enough view to see burnout and want to mitigate that risk for the good of all. But the majority will look at the immediate price of $0, see no future risk, and pay $0. And a small but vocal minority act in ways that burn out the maintainer, destroying their energy to the detriment of everyone. It’s not helped by our financial system, which almost demands that public companies act sociopathically.

Marcan could’ve refused to support anyone without a support contract. And to provide signal about who's using too much support resources, limiting how much support you get on your contract is a great way to right-size things with dollars.

On their struggles with merging Rust code into the kernel, let’s hope Linus can bang enough heads together. Rust has teething problems but the memory-safety it brings is a boon to security. Seeing Greg Kroah-Hartman weigh in and say the kernel devs have achieved tougher things in the past, I have faith.

All is not lost - Marcan has so much love and time and energy invested, if the hostility can be reduced maybe they’ll come back.
Wow thanks!

There's a client who had a startup idea that involved analyzing pdfs, I used textract, but it was too cumbersome and unreliable.

Maybe I can reach out to see if he wants to give it anothee go with this!
Two reasons

- modern languages prevent you from having to think about it at all. You shouldn’t have to sanitize, it should work

- there are a load of issues that have nothing to do with sanitization but everything to do with memory. Race conditions, type confusion, UAF to name a couple. If we focus on sanitization, we still need memory safety to fix those

Also sanitization is non-trivial for complex inputs
Take a little hobby DC motor and hook it to a battery. It will spin. Now hook it to a small LED and turn the shaft. The LED will light up. In fact hook both up. The battery will spin the motor and light the LED based on its voltage/charge state. But if you start spinning the shaft you will begin taking over from the battery. Spin even faster and the battery will start charging. Stop trying to spin the shaft and watch the LED dim and the motor slow down as the battery takes over again.

Fundamentally electromagnetism is a unified force.

A changing electric field induces a magnetic field: the electricity creates a magnetic field inside the motor-generator causing the rotor's electromagnet or permanent magnet to spin to align with that field. For a DC motor halfway through the rotation the polarity switches causing the rotor to keep spinning to align with the new magnetic field (AC doesn't need this because it is varying on its own). The motor-generator is operating in "motor" mode here because the magnetic field changes first and the rotor is trying to catch up to it ultimately consuming energy.

Now spin a motor's shaft putting energy into the system. The rotor has a magnetic field either because its an electromagnet or a permanent magnet. You are spinning the rotor shaft so by definition the magnetic field coming off the rotor also spins. Thus the stator sees a continuously varying magnetic field which - you guessed it - induces an electric field in the stator windings.

In reality this is a continuously varying effect based on whether the rotor's motion is leading or lagging the magnetic field (really it is trying to lead or lag but never gets far otherwise it would burn up).

The short version is a generator at "idle" but synchronized is a motor. The grid is providing the power to spin that motor (or the attached engine/steam turbine is providing just enough rotation of the shaft to keep the generator synchronized but no more).

As the generator begins to "provide" power more torque is put into the shaft's rotation. This causes the magnetic field to want to lead the electric field, transferring energy into the electric field. The entire grid strongly resists the shaft actually spinning faster though. The mechanical energy that wants to make the rotor go faster is siphoned off by the magnetic flux and electric fields. Electric field steals energy from the magnetic flux. Reduced magnetic flux steals energy from the rotor's angular momentum to replenish itself (if it couldn't the rotor would slow down). The rotor gets angular momentum from the connected source of torque like a steam turbine. The Cycle of Life ... or something.

If you suddenly cut the transmission lines and took no action all that torque would overspeed the generator very quickly though because no electric current could flow so the electric field just builds up (stealing energy from the rotor) then gives the energy right back as more magnetic flux (speeding up the rotor). This would let the rotor just go faster and faster while also heating everything up.
Amazon, yes?
I think in the age of telemetry we are also missing a substantial trick by not applying FFTs to cloud telemetry to smoke out epicycles and metastable systems before rather than after they trigger drama. This is unfortunately within my level of notice but not within my level of skill, and my dance card is already full.

"SLA's are most likely to be violated 23-25 minutes after a service deployment. Hmm, I wonder why that is... Oh no."
awesome and inspiring. really enjoying it. Thanks!
Wait, but we're doing that already, and it works well (Qwen 2.5 VL)? If need be, you can always resort to structured generation to enforce schema conformity?
I've read that a few times now and I'm trying to decide what I think they are actually asking for. It's a bit too vague to pin down.

Mozilla does not need a world wide royalty free licence to use anyone's content if the browser is just a pipe through which connect to the web.

So what exactly are they going to use that licence to your content for and how long are they going to retain it?

Mozilla does a lot of talking about creepy behaviour. Maybe it's just the wording of this but so far it feels a bit off to me.
> That's not to justify anything or argue against egalitarianism today.

I was quite clear that I'm not defending past or present inequality. I said nothing to defend the lavish lifestyles of feudal lords.

I'm not a historian, but here's a description of the day-to-day life of a medieval peasant:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/mcgog5/comme...
I'm not especially big on smart speakers, but phones as remotes for home devices are even worse.
> just simpler to calculate

That's all that "natural" means in this context. It's like "elegant" -- if it just takes less effort to get the result u need then why wouldn't you take the easier route?
News from early January: https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedi...
which might or might not be good enough. Alexa can turn on other lights, play various types of music, give you the weather... Depending on what you want this might be worth it.

Home automation systems (Home assistant, openhab...) are making good progress on local only voice control as well.
Hard to take calls for endorsing the free market seriously from someone so clearly trying to form a monopoly on online shopping.
Is he honest about it? Based on his alignment with the Trump administration, "personal liberties and free markets" sounds like some heavy doublespeak to me. Is the paper going to be writing more articles about the othering of trans people and suppression of immigrant rights[1]? Somehow I doubt it.

[1]: https://newrepublic.com/post/191606/tom-homan-ocasio-cortez-...
we had a brief moment in the sun before this was flagged.
There's no reason that the classified ad revenue needed to use the false promise of targeted ad sales through 3rd party companies vs just moving the existing customers to digital ads as a first party basis just like how they did with print.
Your distinction between stack smashing and buffer overflow is puzzling
It was once in a lifetime. Some things are best when not everybody (but especially lawyers) is aware of them.

Maybe the future will be places guarded by real life trust.
I for one would like to see TypeScript's type inference be self-hosted
You mean the small particles that fly away for 150ms and fade away after you break a brick ? You could disable them (and many other effects) with "menu/basic graphics" if you want, but this never prevented me from seeing what's going on clearly.
Amazon weaves a net of AI, commerce-centric partnerships to bail out Alexa