skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> orders for people to bring in kitchen knives to have the tips blunted

Can you link me to one of these? I googled and couldn't find anything, but am genuinely curious.
It's disappointing that the EFF is getting into partisan politics instead of staying out of it. Trump sucks and I'm not defending him, but it's really tiresome when people quote him and infer meaning that he super obviously did not mean. His quote:

> And I’m going to use that bill for myself too if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.

to which the EFF writes:

> Trump when he says he would use the Take It Down Act simply because he's "treated badly,"

It is such a massive stretch to interpret his words this way. Trump is clearly talking about fake/doctored/AI footage of himself. Trump is not going to try to use this bill to make people stop saying mean things about him on twitter.

Can we please hold people accountable for the real, problematic, hateful things they do, instead of inventing stuff that isn't real? It really damages the credibility of a group when they do this.

This is the "fine people on both sides" all over again - a quote where Trump literally said in the NEXT SENTENCE: "And I don't mean nazis and white supremacists", and everyone clipped out that part and hyperbolized to "trump literally said nazis are fine people" when it's the opposite of what he said
Sounds like your Vic 20 and/or power supply isn't shielded very well and its making your speakers do weird things.
Having debugged this sort of thing before, it's actually really hard to figure that out.

The entire stack is kind of bad at both logging and having understandable error messages.

You get things like this:

╷
│ Error: googleapi: Error 400: The request has errors, badRequest
│
│ with google_cloudfunctions_function.function,
│ on main.tf line 46, in resource "google_cloudfunctions_function" "function":
│ 46: resource "google_cloudfunctions_function" "function" ¨

Is this a problem with the actual terraform or passing a variable in or something? Is it a problem with the googleapi provider? Is it a problem with the API? Or did I, as the writer of this, simply forget a field?

In complex setups, this will be deep inside a module inside a module, and as the developer who did not use any google_cloudfunctions_function directly, you're left wondering what the heck is going on.
“In order to participate in this program, patient must have a valid prescription for the brand being filled.

…

Patient is not eligible if enrolled in any federal or state health care program with prescription drug coverage, such as Medicaid, Medicare, Medigap, VA, DOD, TRICARE, or any similar federal or state health care program (each a Government Program), or where prohibited by law.

…

Patients may participate in this program if they are uninsured or have commercial insurance. If the patient has commercial insurance and fulfills their prescription through this program, the transaction will process outside of any insurance. Patient payments will not count toward any deductibles and cannot be applied to a patient’s maximum out-of-pocket costs.

…

This offer is valid only in the United States and its territories, unless prohibited by law.“

https://www.novocare.com/eligibility/obesity-pharmacy.html
Are you arguing that countries should be wary of relying on US manufacturing?
OP and developer here, Flotilla's not quite primetime-ready, but I saw the Revolt post and decided to proffer my own alternative. Happy to answer any questions.
In Europe you can have a look at Tuxedo computers. They have some sweet configurations with the previous AMD CPU generation for reasonable prices. Full disclosure however, I had one of their Pulse 13 laptops (2 generation ago I think), on which I had to change the battery once every 2 years, and recently the screen started to behave like it's on its last legs. (After about 4 years)
Since Chanology, it has been known by anybody paying attention and keeping score that taking 4chan into the real world is extremely cringe and must always be criticized. Whether it's organizing political protests on 4chan or anything else even remotely like that, its cringe and anybody suggesting it deserves to be flamed.
Gotcha! The issue isn't what happens to the individual robot, but the impact of the action on the actor and witnesses.

To take it to the extreme: We have a perfect simulacrum of a dog that we know does not suffer, but will appear to suffer. Kicking that fake dog won't cause any danger to the fake dog, but will feel the same as kicking a real, suffering dog to the kicker and witnesses. Done enough, the kicker and witnesses will grow insensitive to the suffering of the fake dog, which is identical to the suffering of the real dog. To avoid this, we must avoid causing even the appearance of suffering.

I believe this imperative scales with the similarity of the appearance of simulated and real suffering. (Punching a rock painted with a crude smiley face is less immoral than beating up a human-like training dummy, which is less immoral than beating up a random NPC in Grand Theft Auto.)
Sorry yes I shouldve said I not C but the point stands.

And yes you're correct.
Nice summary, this seems like another adaptation that was super useful 10,000 years ago and is less so today.

It would be nice if our bodies could adapt to modernity quicker, like don't prioritize blood clotting over immune defenses, I can just get some more band-aids on the off chance I cut myself in our very safe world.
Don't preserve calories in case we are starving in the future, just build muscles and heal injuries recklessly I can hit up the grocery store if we need more nutrients.
These sorts of posts are fascinating "nerd snipes" to cryptids like me. On the surface, they look incredibly interesting and I want to learn more! Terraform isn't code? Please explain to me why not, you have my attention.

Then I get to the real meat of the issue, which is often along the lines of, "I'm a software developer who has to handle my own infrastructure and I hate it, because infrastructure doesn't behave like software." Which, fair! That is a fair critique! Infrastructure does not behave like software, and that's intentional!

It's almost certainly because I come from the Enterprise Tech world rather than Software Dev world, where the default state of infrastructure is permanent and mutable, forever. Modern devs, who (rightly!) like immutable containers and block storage and build tools to support these deployments by default, just don't get why the Enterprise tech stack is so much more different, and weird, and...crufty compared to their nifty and efficient CI/CD pipeline, just like I cannot fully appreciate the point of such a pipeline when I'm basically deploying bespoke machines for internal teams on the regular because politics dictates customer service over enterprise efficiency. It's the difference between building an assembly line for Corollas and Camrys (DevOps), and building a Rolls-Royce Phantom to spec for a VIP client (BizTech). That's not to say there hasn't been immense pressure to transform the latter into more like the former, and I've been part of some of those buildouts and transitions in my career (with some admittedly excellent benefits - Showback! Tenancy! Lifecycles!), but these gripes about Terraform are admittedly lost on me, because I'll never really encounter them.

And if I did, I don't need to pickup programming to fix it necessarily. I just need to improve my existing system integrations so Ansible runbooks can handle the necessary automation for me.
When I did look for it not so long ago I was able to find several publications with pre-2023 statistics, which ranged from 100 to 500 per years.

For instance, from https://www.iscpc.org/publications/ you can find https://www.iscpc.org/documents/?id=138 which has statistics over the years by source of damage (spoiler: no russian spy nor UFOs)
> her target had increased by 75% after Nidle [monitoring] was installed in 2022. ... Although her workload had increased, her earnings remained static until November 2023, when the government raised the minimum wage ... She has stopped using the bathroom to keep up

Companies will increase workloads at will but only raise wages when forced to by the government (which is why regulation is so important).

> Each machine could replace between one and six workers, and the largest factories surveyed anticipated cutting 22% of their workforce

What are all these workers going to do?

This relentless pursuit of profit is destroying our societies.
Possibly sold by an insider through unofficial channels?
This is basically my current heuristic around AI progress:

"If LLMs were actually as powerful as they're hyped up to be, there wouldn't be the need for all of these attempts at handholding."

There was a recent thing where Pieter Levels said he Vibe Coded his own multiplayer Flight Sim, and it seems amazing, and I believe him, and yet of course, Pieter Levels is one of the most successful indie developers of all time, like he is literally the guy you would expect to be best at something like this.
https://archive.ph/XBbKN
all of these enabled by a clear application of distance-abstraction

how can the "ultra wealthy" be so evil? they don't even know it, they purposefully do not want to know. they have a thing for being ignorant about whence their wealth comes and how it's handled. all they care is they get the best of everything

by my account's handle I should make this funny some how but not today.
This is how you burn out employees really fast.

Go in to work every day assuming that today is your last day there, because one day it will be. The sooner you believe this, the sooner you will be at peace. Additionally, always be thinking about, and potentially even working on, the next chapter in your life.
Are you suggesting that most cases of accessing a 401k early are prudent and unavoidable?
Lately there's been a lot of fanboyism around manual transmission in online car communities. It's either just a pretend purism, or that "car" enthusiasts being mostly enthused with the power plant than the whole system.
Yeah, more or less. A risk assessment for the study is done and submitted and there's many more layers of beurocracy (both the good human-protective kind and the less-good regulatory capture kind). Providing things like information on effects and generalized consent forms and whatnot are included so the patient is given prior understandings of what the effects might be, from animal studies or previous human studies in some cases if you're testing for a novel effect in an existing treatment, for example, have determined might occur. You then, ideally, do a double blind study on the group of participants.
In the podcast the example he gave as a kind of project which could lead to "super-intelligence" (the kind of project nation states would be interested in sabotaging, according to his theory) is one in which the AI is trained to be an LLM researcher. The idea then is to run thousands of these LLM researchers to train the next generation of LLMs. Their paper probably has more specifics.

I don't remember exactly what was suggested would be the forms of sabotage. He also suggested export controls on the high value chips used for training and running models.
> It's well known that human

That's your problem there. Most of these soundbites come from studies that would have listed an enormous amount of limitations and had further limitations that weren't explicitly listed. It is common for people with certain conditions to be excluded from studies.

I don't personally identify with the GP, but I certainly remember more if I have a mental picture to hang the facts on - sometimes this might involve looking up a circuit diagram, a map, or an equation. It doesn't mean I'm not paying attention, but it means I'm scrambling to find a peg to hang that information on before it slips out of my mind. I might also be jotting down some notes for asking later - presumably you wouldn't express the same incredulity towards somebody using pen and paper instead?
> We don't have to figure out the best government. We already have all kinds of ideas about this collected from millennia of thought on this subject.

Except for 99.9% of those millennia, humanity had very different challenges than it does today. One of the biggest being effective communication between people. There's a reason the U.S. constitution talks about sending delegates to Washington D.C. Another being an abundance of basic necessities that simply did not exist when Voltaire was writing. Increased globalization, vast changes in technology, bitcoin, AI, automation, social media, etc. Why would you assume political theory from even 100 years ago holds up in the face of all those differences?

And political theory, like history, tends to be written by the victors. What percent of all laws ever written were about maintaining the status quo for the people currently in power? It's a lot; I wouldn't be surprised if it's over 90%.

There's no reason to believe that humanity has "figured government out" by now. There's still plenty of room for experimentation in what works best in today's world. For example, why can individuals not collectively draft legislation, in the same way they can draft Wikipedia articles or open-source software? What would it take to make that happen?
Garbage collection theory – Basic Algorithms
No one is saying they built a new chip.

But the decision to come to market with a 512GB sku may have changed from not making sense to “people will buy this”.
What does it mean to be a highly sensitive person? Essays
I need a VSCode extension for this. But alas, it's just sitting in their roadmap...
Typical. Guess I'll have to roll up my sleeves and build one myself. Not like I have enough on my plate already. At least their trace files are in an open format, so it shouldn't be impossible to hook into the VS Code debugging API.
Yes WSPR ... The acknowledgement of contact was online. I had an MFJ antenna tuner but it was just a long strand of wire lying over the roof maybe 14 gauge? Slim. Something like 100mw output power? 200mw Maybe? It ran for a couple years unattended and was regularly heard east of the Mississippi and sometimes with some regularity in Europe.
There's certainly a cultural element that a certain sector of society has been enabling to prey on. That's why Bernie Sanders was so important; for the first time, someone was telling all of these struggling workers that they weren't the problem and didn't have to be ashamed.
Flotilla.social and Chachi.chat are both amazing, yet early, Nostr alternatives.
I used to be a subscriber for years a long time ago. I’m not sure where you got this opinion unless you are basing things on recent years. There was always something interesting in them.
Indeed. It’s some god awful combination of welfare, savings, and insurance. It needs clarification.
Really? And how exactly?

"Just man up", maybe?

Sorry for the snark but I don't think they can just magically make you feel better. An example or two could change my mind.
We built an email client using AI
Well, it took me almost 40 years to post my first YouTube video, but here I am, I did it!

We've just vibe coded our way to a fully working Gmail email client using Lovable.dev.

I'm not here to sell anything, just thought it would be cool to share with anyone else interested in using Lovable and other AI coding tools.
Yes maybe a couple of hundred milliwatts at most.
GC -> garbage collection
Balancing the Costs of Count(*) and UX
I think you misunderstand the purpose. Who cares if it adds technical debt later if your goal is just to have something to show off to get investments? The goal of every startup is to get funding and an exit. The concern is not long term maintainability.
Well, I don't see your name on it.
Not poster you replied to but it sounds like we might have a similar internal model.

I store numbers as pictures of numbers, or a geometric representation depending on how big or precise the number is.

Are you saying when you think of the concept of 'twelve plus twelve' you have the equivalent of someone in your head saying 'hmm, well twelve is 2 more than ten, so if I add up ten and ten and two and two I get twenty four?'

That's wild if so.

For your reference, I would follow the procedure above approximately, but visually with numbers that just do the thing that feels right. I think under the hood we're probably doing the same thing, just with a different interface layer
> The fact that it's much harder to raid...

Unless you're the government and can 'borrow' the money, from yourself, as part of some creative accounting scheme. Thanks Reagan.

https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-gr...
Related WSJ Op-Ed:

AI Could Usher In a New Renaissance

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/agi-could-usher-in-a-new-renaiss... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270881)
Because pooling risk is also pooling reward and about 30-40% of the US population doesn’t work.
Bincode 2.0.0
Hi There, what's the best way to apply or who can I reach out to?
The reference signal generated by Si5351A is used to clock two flip flops which I believe are used to generate a 90° quadrature local oscillator (LO) which enters a dual 1-4 multiplexer acting as a Tayloe quadrature mixer. And as you know, the nonlinear switching action introduces frequency products and allows frequency conversion.

This is a pretty clever system. The RF is low enough frequency that faster logic chips can be used effectively. I recommend getting yourself a cheap receive-only SDR for around 15 bucks and play with GNURadio, if you want to get more familiar with DSP for telecommunications/radio detection
I’m relating what I hear from Trump voters.

> School funding isn't even tangentially related to social protections

It’s a benefit paid for collectively. It’s not a social protection, but it’s definitely a social programme. You’re seeing the DoE attacked in the same swipe as Medicaid because they’re political similar to the right.
> The moment they created a plastic oil pan, it's game over. Nobody cares about engineering anymore at Nissan.

BMW has put plastic oil pans on a variety of their models for over a decade. N20 motors. The G90 M5. Others, maybe.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, just a counterpoint that a plastic oil pan design doesn't invalidate other good engineering.
> Why it would be something extra ordinary? You give screenshot, date... Journalists do it all the time: "evil X are attacking Y while doing Z".

It's just funny. I usually associate 4chan as primarily shitposting. Memes and offensive-stuff-for-the-sake-of-being-offensive and porn. You don't generally see mathematical work being done on there.
I hope & wonder that if some spaceship find this space object a thousand or a million years from now (a-la Star Trek), the captain will tell with a stern voice (ofc like Patrick Stewart's) to the Science Officer "calculate the trajectory of the object, and give the coordinates to the Helm. then engage with Warp 9. I will be in my quarters getting some tea".

EDIT: I hope it's Jean-Luc and not The Borg!!
> Actually, you are not allowed to have pet European hedgehogs in the UK. Why not???

They're protected species in much of Europe, so the law is to prevent people from grabbing them out of their backyard.

You can have African Pygmy Hedgehogs! My girlfriend and I owned 3, and they're adorable little menaces.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-toed_hedgehog
Tesla now offers discounted financing on Cybertruck as the truck a flop
In looking through sources, I'm no longer even convinced that disease was relevant anymore. An encyclopedia article shows a decline from about 15 million in 1865 to 7 million in 1873 - roughly 1 million per year.[1] This sounds like a gradual decline to me. And with some math Buffalo Bill famously killed 4000 over two years. Assuming the average hunter only did a tenth of that, it would only take 5000 hunters over 20 years to get the job done (roughly).

Furthermore, the National Park Service, part of the Department of the Interior, quotes the Secretary of the Interior of 1873 stating that "[t]he civilization of the Indian is impossible while buffalo remain on the plains”.[2] In fact the DOI secretary in 2023 said verbatim that "bison were nearly driven to extinction through uncontrolled hunting and a U.S. policy of eradication tied to intentional harm against and control of Tribes". [3]

This is not hard to believe at al. There were centuries of war between the natives and the settlers. Presidential campaigns slogans focused on defeats over the Indians[4]. The U.S. absolutely hated the Natives from the start. One of the cited grievances in the Declaration of Independence is the fact that Britain would deal with the Natives.

It is both plausible and proven that extermination was the goal. If you still don't believe this here is the most detailed timeline I've ever seen on the subject from the US Fish and Wildlife service. [5]

[1] https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-...
[2] https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/what-happened-to-the-bison....
[3] https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announ...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe
[5] https://web.archive.org/web/20200210033215/https://www.fws.g...
> Matrix is mostly the text chat part, it doesn't implement voice chats or anything.

It's in progress. Keywords: MatrixRTC, Element Call

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/#3-nat...
There's a book with lots more of this sort of thing called The Information by James Gleick
ChatGPT for macOS can now edit code directly in IDEs
$99/mo from compounders.
Sure as long as you realize you are really betting big, if you’re lucky and after dilution you own 0.1% of the company, posthog needs to sell to someone for a billion dollars for you to make one million.

And that’s one million before tax, before the preferred stock gets paid out to the big investors, after the lock out period where you can sell your stock a few months after the deal goes through. That’s not 1B valuation either, that’s someone buying the company for 1B in cash. Not impossible, but definitely unlikely.

If you work at google for 5 years you will almost definitely make more than you would working at posthog and getting acquired in the same amount of time, but yes if lighting strikes twice in the same place and posthog did an IPO and the stock 20xed you would miss out on that money
Social security is simply paying out current obligations with current receipts. There is no savings or investment.
You're not alone! Nobody knows everything, and what's important or necessary to our thriving changes constantly throughout our lives. Learning to cook wasn't high on that list when tech salaries were great, delivery was cheap, and housing wasn't (completely) unaffordable; now that I'm nearing my 40s and have to stretch even a six-figure salary further than before, suddenly learning to cook is a necessity.

Good people are always changing in some way. Making public education free encourages lifelong learning and builds a more adaptable human for times of crises. It's good survival strategy, that also just happens to create a more fulfilled human being.
This says a lot more about YC than it does about AI based programming.
Even the most seasoned HN user often forgets that it's just the discussion forum of an enshittification company.
Yeah, this was sort of the crux of the paradox that make it hard to explain, you want to challenge your assumptions, but you want to detach yourself from your ego's' need to be right, so not challenge them too much. This is sort of like the "Don't be so open minded your brain falls out" thing, or maybe the opposite of that.
These days you can 'just' create an S3 tables bucket. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/s3-tab...
Um, Most Xbox Series X consoles still have a disc drive. Most Xbox Ones had a disc drive. There are disc driveless models like the Series S and white Series X but there are millions of Xboxs that are still current and have a drive.