skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have an entirely valid worry and I get a bit scared at my use of AI because of this. I fear that dev jobs might go away or become third world only jobs like electronics manufacturing but in the mean time its scary how much it atrophies your mind. At the same time, it has opened up a universe of answers to questions I wouldn't normally ask because the bar was too high. Everyone seems to have their own unique stories.

For example just today, I dumped a crash log from the Mac version of Microsoft Remote Desktop into it. This damn app locks up 10 times a day for me causing a "Force Quit" event and subsequent crash dump to be generated. Normally what can I do with that crash dump other than send it off to Apple/Microsoft? It identified where it thought the crash was coming from: excessive right clicking causing some sort of foundational error in their logic. Avoiding right clicking has solved the issue for me. Now that I write this out, I could have spent hours upon hours finding a needle in a haystack and that would probably made me a better developer but the bar is too high, there is too much other work I have to get done than to chase this. Instead I would have just lived with it. Now I have some closure at least.

Again it seems like everyone has got their own unique stories. Is AI taking everything over? Not yet. Can I go back to pre-AI? No, its like going back to Windows 95.
Think the parent is referring to other big Serie A clubs
> There's nothing wrong with the agency business, but it'd be a smart bet to use at least some of the proceeds into building something long-term. Some agencies, notably 37signals, have been quite successful doing that. Most, though, never do it.

I've been part of a few agencies that spent a lot of time and money trying to build products. It is a different focus and hard to pull off when you are used to the hustle of agency culture.

Two better options in my mind:

- selling a recurring service related to the agency's work (hosting for a webdev agency, for example)

- productized services related to your work that are more custom than a full product, but more scalable than typical agency work
> Things like software locks and restrictions in the name of ‘security’ will lock stuff down and make repair harder (see Apple’s part pairing)

Unfortunately, I don't see an alternative to that given how juicy targets even locked phones were for "chop shops" before Apple introduced parts pairing. People were mugged left and right for their phones.

(Obviously the solution would be to tackle poverty, drug abuse and mental health issues, but that is even more unrealistic)
They paused the last one they announced, so it's an infinite increase if it happens.

But i expect, once the media cycle dies down, it'll get paused too, and then ignored because can't admit that something didn't work out!
Dopamine addiction is very nasty.
He doesn't actually say that, the (very biased and polemical) article writer seems to have made that up. The actual quote is:

"Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me. So, the first thing that we all have to do is, when we say this is like the Industrial Revolution, let's have that Industrial Revolution type of growth. The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent. Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we'll be fine as an industry."

That's a completely different statement from "AI is generating no value"!
The government did exactly this. The telecom companies took the $400B and never delivered.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
Could definitely see us releasing some form of this for smaller companies as well, it's crazy how many vendors and how much infra even these 2 month old startups have
We moved away from it because frames are quite limited in what UI's they can express. I don't know that it's true that what we have now is much more complicated, because it's pretty simple to build a multi-pane layout with CSS grid or flexbox.

I think frames are an artifact of the time when people thought of HTML as a desktop publishing markup language. It has evolved into a generalized UI description language.
FWIW you can unshare PID and user at the same time: https://github.com/porkg/porkg/blob/rs/crates/porkg-linux/sr...

If you don't care about being able to use different uids and gids then simply become root in the new namespace: https://github.com/porkg/porkg/blob/rs/crates/porkg-linux/sr... . Root inside the namespace will then be equivalent to the original uid+gid outside.

I am using clone, which has the very important caveat: more than one thread running is UB. That's why I use a zygote (a process forked from the root very early on - i.e. before starting the tokio runtime). You can probably avoid all of that by using exec+unshare.

But, given you're running on old kernels and constrained environments this may be not possible at all. Maybe make it configurable?
Makes me think of a scene from The Empire Strikes Back where the rebels are cheering when the rebel fleet is escaping the blockade around Hoth.
It is what it is because it's that. You can tell, you just have to look at how it is. If it's like that, then it is what it is. If it isn't what it is it would be something that it isn't but still be what it is. Luckily for us it's what it is, not what it isn't.
Mostly, the problem is the compute makes the products expensive and they haven't yet unveiled much that a significant number of people will pay enough for.

Eventually their runway will run out -- and, given their costs, that might be soon.
Depends on how small. Most seed stage and early companies are more worried about product-market fit and not security. For now, we're probably best fit for companies building out their first security teams, so that's _usually_ series A and later. That said, there might be something there, I'm open to figuring something out for a smaller company.
Almonds also are notable for requiring a great deal of energy (mostly for transporting water for irrigation).
Based on what I know about one of the states in question, I'm thinking that "Active and Passed" means they have both a passed bill and an active bill that isn't passed. Though I'd think they'd call that "Passed and Current" to match their other nomenclature.
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You really think Canadian will roll over sovereignty so easily!? I think not.
> Would he have not disclosed it if they offered hush money? We won’t know, for his case I hope not. In any case - what was he expecting?

A bog-standard responsible disclosure that any tech CEO should either be familiar with or have someone at hand that is, as is clearly communicated in that e-mail.

Both e-mails are OP reaching out to help this company out, the first fixing the vulnerability, the second giving them a chance for compliance / potential regulatory aspects they might want to follow. It's not on random people reporting security vulnerabilities to tutor random companies on this and both behaviors (non-responsiveness, then hostility) of this CEO, despite being sadly common, are actively harmful if you want to get productive security reports in the future. (And the company unilaterally signing up for bug bounty programs is rather irrelevant for independent researchers as well if they have no interest in participating in those.)
I've been playing with emails just recently and what struck me most was the hellish inconsistency of the emails themselves. You will find "body" is a rabbit hole all of its own. Good luck!
Some of the paid models do have access to an interpreter, ever since the "Code Interpreter" feature was announced some time ago. Seems like it's already been a year or two.

It doesn't always use the tool, but it can: https://chatgpt.com/share/67bcb3cb-1024-800b-8b7e-31335c6347...
Doesn't this mean that at least one of the results is wrong?
A nice model, does not a billion dollar company make. The hard part of AI is not the model; Apple needs people to do the 80% rest-of-the-work; how do you make AI useful to the average person? How can we get inference on edge devices as cheap and efficient as possible? Models are boring. Everyone fully expects that we'll see an N% increase in intelligence every six months now. Yawn. The exciting thing now is: What are we using AI for?
He's throwing money at someone. Probably someone roughly as deserving (in the grand scheme of things) as farmers are.

So I'd say that it's good that he's throwing his money instead of hoarding it or doing some ruthless exploitation or something with oil pumping.

Expecting billionaires to spend their money in any way that benefits someone other than them is unrealistically high bar. We should apploud them if they at least manage to do less harm.
Scaling PayPay with Rust
It isn't, because there are numerous instances in the Bible of God directly commanding people to kill, and even punishing people for showing mercy.

"Thou shalt not kill" isn't a sin because human life is inherently valuable to God (reading the OT, it clearly isn't) but because humans are God's property, and so only God, who created humans, has the right to decide when and how they die. Under the particularly cruel and brutal Bronze Age ethics from which the Abrahamic God as a concept was derived, killing is perfectly justifiable when God wills it, and is only a sin otherwise because it defies God's will.

...which shouldn't even be possible if God is omnipotent but that's a whole other can of worms.
"Although the findings suggest that the design of such complex chips could be handed over to AI, Sengputa was keen to point out that pitfalls remain “that still require human designers to correct.” In particular, many of the designs produced by the algorithm did not work– equivalent to the "hallucinations" produced by current generative AI tools."

:-|
Not to be glib, but private equity loves to enshittify for profit. It's really bad in combination with necessary services.

See also: dental, medical, veterinary
I Built an LLM Framework in 179 Lines–Why Are the Others So Bloated?
no, the timezones can be very very long north to south
Working on GrocerBird[1] where you upload a grocery receipt, it will parse all of the items and their prices, so you can keep track of grocery spending and prices over time. Please feel free to share your feedback and suggestions!

[1]: https://www.grocerbird.com
>Can someone explain why this isn’t the big win we think it is?

I mean, there is the psychological phenomenon known as the Just World Hypothesis. When presented with something that's simply bad, or simply good, people are skeptical and tempted to search for the counterbalancing element, treating it like a trick question even if it's not.

And so it can be hard to accept it simply is good. But that doesn't have to be the end of the conversation because that impulse can be channeled productively just by changing the baseline. Right to repair, I would think, simply is good, but since we need a bad thing, we can talk about the long road ahead to full implementation, or the effort necessary to overcome cultural inertia, as well as status quo extremism in our institutions.

But I think the right to repair itself is a good thing.
Trump might be weaker but if Vance were to win the 2028 election he'd just continue the same policies.
Proposed would have been more accurate, for the average person.
it suggested other hypotheses as well, including one that they hadn't thought of and are investigating
"C is closer to the hardware" [citation needed]

This might have been true 50 years ago, I am unconvinced it was true 25 years ago, it would take a lot to convince me it's true today.
Do not make villains out of a group just because some of them dislike you. Not wanting to participate in society is not a left right question.
> The threat of a banned troll DDoSing your forum has been a risk for 30 years, yet the flourishing golden age of forums was before anyone had heard of cloudflare.

Private forums in my experience stopped being a thing around 2010-2015-ish. The first deathknell was metasploit which made 0wning a target so much more easy than it was before, the second and final blow were "ddos for hire" services, running on cryptocurrencies that promised (and delivered) true anonymity, and using mass hacked consumer devices as a botnet that was much harder to defeat against than an STRO in some datacenter where you (or your DC) could just block the IP address.
I'm making a violin. I've been a programmer for just over 25 years, and recently decided I wanted to leave the profession. So I'm planning on attending the Violin Making School of America in the fall, and my project before then is to build a violin myself. There are some good in-depth video tutorials, as well as some famous books on the subject, and I'm planning to pair up with an amateur luthier in my town. The tonewood I purchased just arrived!
>This is journo for "I don't like the CEO's politics"

Or, it's an accurate description of Elon's team using blackmail to get what they want.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-acces...
Yes- for political reasons, they chose to build a small segment in the middle of the central valley. It will connect Merced to Bakersfield. They started building it, but didn't finish (it's on hold due to budget constraints). I think they've built a few bridges, prepped the ground, but not really started laying track yet.
> To download the raw scraped data you need to become a paid member

If I have to pay to download the data how is it mine to download for free?
It really isn’t. For an undergraduate biologist, designing a mass casualty event is almost trivial. This has been the case for many decades. Hell, someone even moderately versed in something as stupid as homeopathic medicine could do it. Simplest example: homeopaths use DMSO because it absorbs through the skin so anything lethal (like arsenic compounds) that can be dissolved in a nonpolar solvent like DMSO can be used to kill people at tiny dosages using just skin contact. With low LD50s there are many compounds that could be sprayed by GA planes over urban areas that kill most people that come in contact with them.

There is an almost universal truth here: anyone capable of acquiring the resources for an attack is just as capable of acquiring the knowledge to do so with existing (pre-AI) sources.
No, I see it the other way. This is a great business model and potentially product too.

A fully integrated platform lets you sell libraries, infrastructure and support all in one package.

Rather than you configuring a Laravel storage provider to use Redis and your developer configuring infra and permissions, you could just click a checkbox in an admin panel. The service could even generate you code to act as your interface.

Rather than setting up a log provider to go to OpenTelemetry and having an exporter pipe to Datadog, you hit a button which replaces the logger in your DI stack with all the wiring handled already.

For an org that wants to move FAST it could be a really compelling product. It's also very tight vendor lock in. For some contexts, that's absolutely fine.

It's something I had an idea of doing in the NodeJS space, but I'm too wary to start my own startup. Basically designing a combined DI framework and bundling tool, then selling infrastructure adapters on top of that.
They don't have to go all the way though and fully compete with Dell EMC/HPE. I'm not sure what the original commenter was thinking but in my mind they could simply sell a Mac Studio variant with dual PSUs, better networking, a rackmount chassis, etc. Basically have their existing consumer machine placed in a more datacenter friendly factor.

I mean places like Github and AWS are painfully racking up Mac Minis for their deployments and this theoretical server model would simplify everything. It also becomes an option for on premises AI inference using MLX, especially if they manage to get ANE support working in conjunction with the GPU for faster prefill.

The support and software stack for the server model would be the exact same as the consumer variant and they certainly wouldn't have special Linux offerings, Infiniband, and all that. If there's networking beyond their existing 10G it's going to be built into the board and they aren't going to support random 3rd party cards. The unit also doesn't need to be upgradable either.
Cool. My long-term vision for software development would be to make a new programming environment that structures code in ASTs and stores it in a database rather than file based. However, that will have to come later. First this :)
TL;DR:

> Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

- The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, maxim 847.
Modular forms, the 'fifth fundamental operation' of math (2023)
Is it? Do you think the POTUS will do a better job directing funds to worthy causes, and not friends and allies?
There’s a ton of hosted Postgres providers that do all of that and more and are just as simple to use. Neon.tech is really easy to set up and if you need more of a baas (firebase alternative), Supabase. Plus, no vendor lock in. I’ve moved vendors several times, most recently AWS RDS to Neon and it was nearly seamless. Was originally on Heroku Postgres going way back. Try getting off Atlas…
AFAIK, when HN gets hit by a DDoS attack, they go and re-route the DNS to Cloudflare's IPs.
What we really have is a rogue party.
> I'm surprised that there are new language specific hosting services like this cropping up.

I think they look at Vercel and see they're making a good buck with similar offering.
The biggest mistake the trans movement made
Was really fun, quite enjoyed it, did think some of the references were a bit too nuanced for me
Because the large corporations have virtually unlimited power to water down bills with campaign contributions. It takes very little to money to sway a representative federally. How much less do you think it takes to sway a state level candidate?

Spending cash on candidates to prevent bills like this is likely a rounding error on their yearly budget.
Works for me without signing in https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/intro
Syntax highlighting of the background color is weird. It makes everything look like surrounded by a halo.
Maybe they should also buy a hyperloop :D
One drawback to consumer-rights laws is that we as consumers end up with less access to cool stuff. Some companies have chosen to stop selling into the B2C market altogether, to avoid incurring expenses and liabilities associated with conforming to right-to-repair and other pro-consumer legislation. Rohde & Schwarz and Keysight come to mind.

That is bullshit, of course -- just an excuse for companies to dodge basic business responsibilities, and a blatant failure on their part to acknowledge why consumers felt this legislation was needed in the first place. But it is certainly true that there are short-term drawbacks.
Exposing Kinesis Streams over HTTP Using Server-Sent Events (SSE)
> Larry's never struck me as an altruistic dude.

Don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison.
Humans don't simplify problems by reducing them to objective functions: we simplify them by reducing them to specific instances of abstract concepts. Human thought is fundamentally different to the alien processes of naïve optimising agents.

We do understand the "real objectives", and our inability to communicate this understanding to hill-climbing algorithms is a sign of the depth of our understanding. There's no reason to believe that anything we yet call "AI" is capable of translating our understanding into a form that, magically, makes the hill-climbing algorithm output the correct answer.
mapping the software items (and whatever related)... has been a conquest ever since. Although what you may infer without knowing deeper essential details (engines and what data drives them how), would be static. Still, "communication diagrams" are very useful meta-view.

some suggestions:

* have ways for multiple views and/or start-points and/or both up/down directions. e.g. hierachy vs reason/effect vs dependence vs whatever-else. Then think about animating those in time

* heat-map over the views, as e.g. churn(changes)-in-time, or usage(number of dependents), etc

* requirements engineering kind-of-view ~ may overlap with dependency (both directions!) but with explicit requirements/assumptions tied to respective stakeholders. Though this may need links to/from JIRA and similar issue-trackers etc

* check Wardley maps - yet another view, starting from customer/stakeholder/vendor-points. Also may move in time. It may need user decision on which things are big/separate-enough to surface on that view - sometimes a single script is on-par with whole subsystem

* future maybe - growing above into zoomable per-project thing (more proj.mngmnt than just code, incl. related e-mails etc) - described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060108

* probably more.. will add if something else dawns on me

have fun!

p.s. fractional CTO? i am looking that way too..
People like to paint the witch burners as ignorant, but they knew exactly what they were doing. Evil people using religion to give cover for their actions goes back forever.
Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?
Build startup and exit for +$20m before you can unlock your apps for the extra motivated
Good work! Keep it up :) Looks really good thus far, I will try it today!
This is pretty much all it takes in any western country. Some areas might require a little more effort but nothing substantial.

In fairness, the blame for this kind of enabling attitude is mostly attributable to me locking myself out of the building and having to buzz my long suffering neighbours at all kinds of ungodly hours. Proud moments.
They seriously hijacked a well-known longstanding government acronym?

Technically-ignorant legislators strike again.
Where is that published? I was using Github for references on DOS 4 as 3.3 isn't there yet.

(Thanks in advance!)
Do the HN crowd read "for free" on the title, click it, scan the page in a milisecond, see "Pricing" on the top, and come back to complain in the comments? Geez
Getting an LLM to write a small, nontrivial program with no human interaction
Agreement Risk Analysis and visualisation.

The visualisations generated by the AI from the agreement.

Click on legend text to drill down and on circles in the spiral. UI is 3D cube animation for now.

Former Deputy AG in charge of fighting corruption and fraud affecting US consumers: “I like how it balances the intent of the law for the consumer”

Both academic and practicing lawyers have looked at it and given us good feedback.

Not looking for a problem to solve. Found our niche. We applied for YC but we are all on the older side and the first question in the YC application was our age. LOL. Not gonna work. Doing another round of family and friends fund raising then VC post market traction.

Samples of ToS and financing agreements

Https://labs.sunami.ai/feed

Still needs some work for mobile/responsive version.

DM marc fawzi on LinkedIn.

Video: showing drills downs etc

https://youtu.be/r97cujq4Egk?si=Ks7ivB411sFyzLTg
It seems there's always some you-know-who or other.
Show HN: Toutui: A TUI Audiobookshelf Client for Linux (Written in Rust)
These last weeks, I really enjoyed building a TUI audiobookshelf client for Linux (written in Rust and I used Ratatui for TUI).
I'm happy to share with you the first version.

With this app, you can listen to your audiobooks and podcasts (from an audiobookshelf server) while keeping your progress and stats in sync. All of this from your terminal :)

Check out the GitHub page for a detailed presentation.

Enjoy!
This was very entertaining. I had a rough idea of the timeline before, but had never thought about it in this way (that is, a ladder).
Ooh, I could copy A to B and add a final two lines: "else swap B[i] and B[j]"

And now it's constant time!
What do you think HackerNews is for? And playing the franchise for over a decade isn’t “wholly unfamiliar.” Why are you using language you’re apparently quite wholly unfamiliar with?