skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It violates the spirit of what you probably want, but there are some amazing free upscaling options these days.

I recently found a pic from behind-the-scenes of an old favorite movie of mine. It was exactly the kind of photo I wanted, but woefully small. With minimal effort and Real-ESRGAN (and perhaps a touch of artificial film grain), I blew it up to a very crisp B&W poster I framed. I'm still looking for errors in it.
> think forest service jobs

This is great advice for job satisfaction, but given current events this sort of move is unlikely to result in an increase in job security or ease in finding a new job.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-forest-service-fires-340...
> kicked off from reading what is essentially, a schema.

I wouldn't call json a schema.

In the HN discussion tptacek replied that "$10,000 feels extraordinarily high for a server-side web bug": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025038

However his comment assumes monetisation is selling the bug; (tptacek deeply understands the market for bugs). However I would have thought monetisation could be by scanning as many YouTube users as possible for their email addresses: and then selling that limited database to a threat actor. You'd start the scan with estimated high value anonymous users. Only Google can guess how many emails would have been captured before some telemetry kicked off a successful security audit. The value of that list could possibly well exceed $10000. Kinda depends on who is doxxed and who wants to pay for the dox.

It's hard to know what the reputational cost to Google would be for doxxing popular anonymous accounts. I'm guessing video is not so often anonymous so influencers are generally not unknown?

I'm guessing trying to blackmail Google wouldn't work (once you show Google an account that is doxxed, they would look at telemetry logs or perhaps increase telemetry). I wonder if you could introduce enough noise and time delay to avoid Google reverse-engineering the vulnerability? Or how long before a security audit of code would find the vulnerability?

Certainly I can see some governments paying good money to dox anonymous videos that those governments dislike. The Saudis have money! You could likely get different government security departments to bid against each other... Thousands seems doable per dox? The value would likely decrease as you dox more.
One reason is there’s literally many times fewer roles for someone with 20+ years of experience.

And as time marches on, there’s more and more competition for those roles.
On the one hand, I was declined by Google multiple times but ended getting a $10k settlement in a age discrimination class-action suit.

On the other hand, I just got hired at 55 and it wasn't difficult.
What's the difference with jdupes?
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

> If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude your foreign earnings from income up to an amount that is adjusted annually for inflation ($107,600 for 2020, $108,700 for 2021, $112,000 for 2022, and $120,000 for 2023). In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts.
> I feel it is the honourable thing to reference where ideas come from.

Sure, I’m not disagreeing.

> Attribution exists so that we can understand the impact that we have on the world.

Again, sure.

> I refuse to be gaslit that LLM's poor facsimile is a positive net outcome for the individual creator or humanity.

I’m not sure who’s trying to convince you of that, but I hear you.

I only intended to address a specific statement, which was:

> If you now make blog entries on new ideas, it will be consumed and regurgitated as new ideas with no attribution or benefit to the original author.

My point was that this isn’t new. This has been happening long before LLMs. People have always taken others’ work, repackaged it, and passed it off as their own. The only thing that’s changed is the scale. That doesn’t mean it’s ideal or that it shouldn’t be addressed, just that it’s not some new phenomenon LLMs have introduced.

Once you put something on the internet, you’ve always run the risk of it being reused without credit or in ways you may not have forseen. If avoiding that is the goal, then the safest move would have been to never publish online in the first place.

As an example, just a few months ago, I found out a vendor lifted code from multiple open-source projects, stripped the BSD licenses, and passed it off as their own for a “custom” software job. No LLMs involved, just plain old fashioned plagiarism.

> I don't think that anyone should be discouraged for not wanting to help Jafar become an even more powerful and oppressive dictator.

Fair enough. I completely get not wanting to contribute to Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, etc. If you don’t want your content feeding into LLMs, that’s a valid stance, and I respect it.
It's literally impossible to replace a B-2 bomber: the production line was shut down years ago and much of the supply chain no longer exists. Existing B-2's (there are only 19 still in service) will be gradually replaced by new B-21 Raiders.

One of the long standing problems with US defense procurement is that they build a batch of something, then cut off all orders and dismantle the production line in order to free up funds to develop a successor model. This is tremendously risky because it leaves a gap of many years when it's impossible to replace attrition losses. If the US is going to maintain a credible deterrent against China then something has to change. Either defense spending has to go up or we have to drastically scale back activities in other areas. And no, cheap AI drone swarms won't replace the capabilities of something like a B-21.
Yes, no, I think he has different mental capabilities than most (most of the commenters here at least) and by that actually are living in a different reality. Human brains function vastly different. Two examples stood out to me.

1) UB said he reads the code in its full from left to right with the if(isTooHot) example. I only resort to reading code in that way as a last resort if I really can't figure out what the code is doing. I mean I look at a block or row and take it in more as a whole.

2) UB said comments are annoying because he has to read them and keep the whole of the comment text in his mind. This again says he reads everything left to right, and he can likely store everything that he has read up to a certain amount.

My mind works nothing like that. I can hold very few words in my working memory but can instead hold concepts/ideas. For that to work good I need to see as much of the involved code as possible and my mental image evaporates if I have to navigate too far where I started.
I cannot read these fucking comments, they create some kind of anxiety about the fact that I thought to be the only one having to listen to this crap at work and now I see that the world is simply doomed.
someone owns the forum and it's still a big archive of stuff. backlinks pointing there, old info, can run ads so it should cashflow somehow.
Nobody reasonably expects all laws to be written completely unambiguously. But since laws (and indeed all manner of legal documents) are filled with lists and modifiers, I don't think it's unreasonable to require that they be written to a certain standard which defines how these lists and modifiers should be interpreted, similar to RFC 2119 https://microformats.org/wiki/rfc-2119.
I’ve done some of my own electric work and the logic isn’t dissimilar to what we do. Just way less abstract, way slower, and way simpler. I found it kind of interesting.
We built Pulse to challenge the assumption that AI must be centralized and compute-heavy. By decentralizing inference and optimizing efficiency, we’ve seen LLMs run at 80% less power while keeping data private.

Big Tech dominates AI by making it seem like only hyperscalers can handle the workload. But what if we didn’t need them at all? What if AI could run peer-to-peer, or locally, at scale?

Curious to hear what this community thinks—are we missing something, or is the industry just locked into old assumptions? Are we heading toward an AI crisis where models hit a hard limit on size vs. speed/coherence? Some of the emerging research suggests that.
Strix Point AMD laptop CPUs are just better than non-Apple ARM CPUs across the board, and don't have the whole host of compatibility issues. There isn't really any point to them.
Because he was bored after he proved 1 + 1 = 2:

https://www.storyofmathematics.com/20th_russell.html/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
Can confirm. I see them almost every day in central Florida. I live near a so-called bird sanctuary and wildlife preserve so maybe that accounts for sone if it.
These company blog articles are usually for marketing. Humanloop develops software to assist with prompting during the development process, so the author’s conclusions reflect the company’s intentions more than an objective industry observation.

AI is transforming how we prototype and iterate, and products like v0 or Replit are scratching the surface. However, historically, low-code platforms lacked a good integration with complex development cycles. There were many attempts, but they either failed or shifted their focus: Microsoft Expression Blend had a brilliant concept of integrating early sketching and ideation with development, but the product ultimately died with Silverlight; Framer had an editor that allowed users to integrate React components with a design tool, but they repurposed their product into a CMS-oriented tool like Webflow; Builder.io is following a similar path. It seems that in today’s market, there is no clear fit for the RAD tools of the late 1990s. Maybe AI can change that and create the new equivalent to Visual Basic. The hardest part is the extra mile that goes from the prototype to something robust and complies with multiple quality attributes: scalability, performance, security, maintainability, and testability.
He expects the bad guy with an AI to be stopped by a good guy with an AI?
In the new language proposed in SB0226 (as linked, didnt search for authoritative sources, can't tell how durable that link will be for posterity, arrgh archiving the web is hard etc), doesn't that language leave open a hole for excessive complexity to be a reservoir for FOIA resistance?

Feels like there is an important theme here that SB0226 is dancing around --could government be legible in addition to being "plain-text" transparent?

"plain-text description" of "each field of each database of the public body" and "specific database queries" may not do what you mean.

Not sure how to fix it though.

I could see gratuitous ORMs and database-of-databases patterns winning tax dollars with taunt-them-with-the-schema listed as a feature.
I doubt the cert issue is on your end, it appears whenever OpenDNS (Cisco Umbrella) tries to intercept any site when it blocks it.
Ask HN: Do you forms that adapt to a .csv file?
I need a form with the same two questions: a small text for written feedback and a 5-star evaluation system. But I run a team of multiple sections and with changing needs for people. Sometimes I need 5 people for section A, 10 for B; sometimes 9 for A, 12 for B.

Do you know any forms that adapts by entering a .csv file with the names and section part?

I would upload a .csv file through an automation to the backend, and the form would adapt to the section and with the people's names of that section. Thank you!
Yep. Historically both of these places basically exist to concentrate the interests of the upper middle class and to reinforce segregation. They're both basically Chicago but with a better funded school system (because lawyers and doctors get to funnel all their property taxes into the school down the street from them), which makes them highly desirable.
Well I do value software, I'm paid $86/h to write some! I just find that for $20/year or $50 one time, you can get way more than 12G of hard drive space. I also don't think that this piece of software requires so much maintenance that it wouldn't be worth making at a lower price. I'm not saying that it's bad software, it's really great, just too expensive... Personally, my gut feeling is that the dev would have had more sales with a one time $5, and made more money overall.
works for gun control :)
Same, would love that. TinyGrad’s driver would be pretty awful to use if it would even work since I think it would prevent using the GPU simultaneously, though I may be wrong there.

Otherwise as it stands the 128 GB configuration seems pretty niche.

EDIT: looking deeper it seems like the "Ryzen AI" is it's own thing with a different implementation than ROCm, so it could be interesting but might not help with ROCm.
> before giving up and flying away.

Careful! That's not always a given!
What will happen when the original file will be deleted? Often this handled by block reference counters, which just would be decreased. How APFS handles this? Is there any master/copy concepts or just block references?
I was also looking at the XREAL Air 2 Ultra, seems more practical for travel, but the idea of an ultrawide screen sounds really nice. I might take your advice.
I absolutely love the removal of it. I Hated the viewfinder on every camera I had, and always wished there was none of it.
Knowing a spreadsheet header doesn't help an attacker gain access to that spreadsheet in any way. Knowing SQL column names may give an attacker an advantage in accessing a database.
I got a lot of flack from leadership at the lab where I worked in '97 and '98 when I bought Dual Pentium Pro 200MHz and later a Dual Pentium II 400MHz that ran Linux. They asked why I didn't buy HP, or SGI desktops. I pointed out that the grant i had- for $5K - wasn't really enough to buy a single machine (our lab had the cheapest SGI Indy, which IIRC was $10K) from HP or SGI, while for that amount of money, I could get dual processor experience, and more RAM/disk than the lowest-end HP or SGI. I ported many codes over from SGI/Tru64 to Linux on those machines.

Later I got a $15K budget to build a cluster, and again was asked why I didn't just buy a single SGI machine, and I pointed out I was able to get six PCs, each of which was 50% the speed of a single SGI machine, and I could cluster them to get experience running MPI jobs. 10 years later, all the labs had retired their non-Linux machines aand were running various white box PCs or HP servers running Linux, and I had 10+years of experience running HPC jobs on Linux clusters.

If you had a very large budget you could get high-end SGIs that had custom capabilities that no PC at the time could match but even then I specifically chose to not need those capabilities until they were commodity.
Is there still any apologet of Bob Martin nowadays?
Christoph Hellwig resigns as DMA maintainer
I wonder why commit signing is not part of these configs... it is pretty easy to do with a modern ssh key:

[user]
name = xyz
email = xyz@domain.com
signingkey = ~/.ssh/id_algorithm.pub

[commit]
gpgsign = true
[tag]
gpgsign = true

[gpg]
format = ssh

# restrict allowed signers
# echo "$(git config --get user.email) namespaces=\"git\" $(cat ~/.ssh/id_*.pub)" >> ~/.git_allowed_signers
[gpg "ssh"]
allowedSignersFile = ~/git_allowed_signers

On github you can add the ssh key for authentication but also for signing. Unfortunately you have to add the key twice but once you've done it, you get rid of the `unverified` label within a commit.
The year is 2030, all work now consists of only human middle managers and ai. their rule is tyrannical.
I had that issue on my batch 5 11th gen. There's an issue with the rechargeable CMOS battery they included (that isn't present on the later 12th and 13th gen) that when it stops taking a charge your laptop stops turning on unless you do some arcane process to reset it.

They provide a "repair" kit that's basically a dummy CMOS battery that hooks in to the normal power system that prevents the issue from occurring again.

Also just FYI, there was a BIOS update in June of last year (3.20).
Yes, however I do not see screeps as constrained environment – AFAIK you can allow yourself to write sloppy code and get your task done.

Here I focus instead on sheer performance of your code. You 64k of ram is all you get, every move you do blocks you and you get an equal chance to execute your program – e.g. everyone gets a slice of 10'000 T-states per game iteration. For context, on ZX spectum machine, you get 70'000 T-states between frames. So this, potentially, creates a competitive environment, where a bot that takes 500 T-states less to take decision to move and does so earlier, eats you, it wins.

I've been a witness of competitions when people would take "who can make this problem solved the cheapest" and it's fun. So I figured I should try and take it to extreme.
They are a fairly small company, and going for amd/intel means reaching the widest audience.

Linux on arm is very mature, but windows on arm not completely.

That being said, other companies could very well develop and sell boards for the frameworks laptop. So much so that iirc sifive did release a risc-v laptop board to use in the frameworks laptop case.
> (And critically, the capability of building one themselves.)

Kind of but not really. Any SFF build that’s anywhere close to similar in size and capabilities to the Framework is probably going to be making considerably more noise, even with an AIO liquid cooler.
I know very few people that do anything other than upgrade their GPU or SSD during the entire lifespan of their computer. Maybe when I was younger I'd upgrade the RAM after saving up, but am fortunate enough now to be able to buy what I want up front.

This product is for me.

A few years ago I tried to repurpose a desktop with a bad motherboard, but it was impossible to find a replacement for the 7-year-old CPU. eBay prices were more than the original MSRP, and at that point it was cheaper to buy new parts for the oldest still-selling generation.

I'm already replacing everything except the SSD and GPU with every upgrade anyway, now it will just be the SSD but I can keep the case.
Looks like their entire website is behind a waiting room at the moment.

You’d think they could make their most popular pages static for now and serve them out of the CloudFlare cache, though.
We have a bloat slip on Lake Sammamish and there is a family living in one of the giant trees near the slip. Marymoor park + the lake seem like a great space for them to hunt and live.
I think landing (and keeping) a job in tech is challenging, whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned professional with decades of experience. While the reasons for rejection may change with age, the key factors for getting hired remain the same: competency and collaboration. Demonstrating strong skills and being easy to work with will always be valuable—focus on these, and opportunities will follow. - a 40's something developer with 20+ years experience
On sibling thread I already mention the Surface Pro (convertible) at 12'' and it's 2880 x 1920. The next 2025 convertible that I found, Latitude 7350, is also 2880 x 1920 (at 13'', though). In fact, most of the 12'' convertibles with 1080p are either sub$800 (which I doubt this thing is) or come from Lenovo (whom you really do NOT want to compare with regarding screen quality -- https://www.notebookcheck.net/Enough-with-the-cheap-screens-... ).

And let's not get started on 12'' Android tablets...
I'm the developer of a boxing game called Leather, that I've had in the Play Store and App Store for about 6 or 7 years now.

As I'm working towards a Steam release I've been digesting a lot of this guy's advice - https://howtomarketagame.com/

Whilst much of his guidance is of course marketing rather than design related, he does write about genres and game mechanics that attract players - specifically on desktop rather than mobile. It's worth a few hours of your time to check his stuff out.
I know it's financial journalism, but it's always very funny to read those hyperboles. Crushed ?? Selling pressure ??

Nasdaq is within 5% of the all time high, up 20% 1Y, up 122% 5Y. Same goes for most major indexes.
As for speculative stocks, the numbers are off the charts. Palantir is still up 272% 1Y...
Bitcoin is up 71% 1Y, 941% 5Y.

Nobody knows when this folly ends, could be tomorrow, could be in 5 years. But if history is any indication, it's pretty clear how it will end.
ai replacing engineers is PM propaganda wet dream bs
> Smaller stars last longer, but they also emit less energy and so there is less likely to be higher life forms just because there isn't enough energy to support life.

This isn’t really true. The energy density at a planet’s surface is a function of both the star’s luminosity and the planet’s distance. Most star’s (at least in the Milky Way) are small, and most stars have planets in orbits closer than is Earth’s.
The so called “Goldilocks zone” is expected to have at least one planet in it for a very large number of stars (again, at least in our galaxy).
Could balloon-like water tanks help fight L.A.'s fires?
Google says updating Canadian parks listed as state parks in its search and maps
There was an open source audio fingerprinting system called echoprint, which actually implemented the shazam algorithm in a way that made it hard to claim it's the same approach as shazam, but in reality it was almost the same. The hardest part about these kind of services is designing the fingerprints so that you can search them effectively. The audio part is interesting and fun, but actually less critical.
It's useful for bespoke developer settings. I like to keep a scratch folder in virtually every repo I work on, so I have `/tomscratch` in my global excludes file. Adding this to .gitignore in every repo I work on would just be noise for everyone else.
Sometimes, but you have to be careful. IME Claude and (to my surprise) Grok 3 are really good at understanding your style and adapting their suggestions to match. ChatGPT, by contrast, tries to change everything into some kind of corporate drone.
I’ve seen someone take a glance at a codebase, declare it too complex, and suggest reading Clean Code.

The entirety of the complexity was essential and dictated by an external data model used nation-wide for interoperability.

Based on my experience and the OP dialogue, Uncle Bob is a vanity-driven narcissist and an infectious fraud.
Yeah, it sorta does, but it does give some peace of mind if I need to pull out the phone for a quick, unexpected photo.

I'm really looking for something fairly portable specifically for touristy street photography stuff. Perhaps it's time to pick up an X100VI...
> This would be so much better as a single method/function with a few interspersed comments that explain the algorithm.

I haven't read the whole article when I wrote that comment. Turns out that Ousterhout provides a rewritten version of "PrimeGenerator" that does exactly this. At least UB concedes that this version is indeed much better.
China's WZ-9 Divine Eagle Drone Now Operating from South China Sea Base
Ended up finding the majority of Michigan through scraping.

For example, https://www.cityofflint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Annua...
> Also that simplicity is king. Complexity is the enemy.

I don't know anything about B-52s, but I work on a project where we are essentially replacing a 40 year old weapon system with a new one. The new one should of course do the same things, preferably better, and do additional new things. The old system started out simple, but has since had most of its internals swapped both hardware and software wise a number of times. We have full access to all the documentation of the old system, but let's say there has been periods throughout these 40 years where this aspect hasn't exactly been top priority.

It doesn't come as a surprise to me that projects like JSF end up a complete clusterfuck. Everyone tends to underestimate the complexity of the system they operate/produce after a while because most of it is always there and just works.