skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The agreement contains provisions by which they can unilaterally change the agreement. They almost all do now, it's pretty standard boilerplate. Not long ago there was a TV, I wanna say it was LG but doublecheck that before you quote me, that shipped an OTA update with a change to the licensing agreement. Either you agreed, or they intentionally disabled all functionality. As we steadily move toward that sort of freedom that means less things you can actually do and more ways you can get screwed over this kind of stuff becomes increasingly common.
I've never really understood the sentiment that "articulation of a problem = solving that problem." Articulation seems to me to be Step 0 in solving a problem, there needs to be people on the ground advocating for why this new ideological framework is "better" than the status quo and actively convincing decision makers or acquiring decision making positions. Otherwise any amount of highly articulate complaints are just sophistry.
Easier to excuse as ignorant the people who bought a Tesla sedan before Elon Musk made it very clear his views. For fighting back, consider limiting extreme action to cybertrucks? These boxes of space junk off an 80s movie set came out after his views were more and more out in public. If he's going to not insulate himself (ego) from his companies, as many other CEOs do (takes extra effort to dig into campaign funding and other actions by individuals not so public), that makes it easier to act in ways he and any neo-fascist apologists don't like.
Fish teeth show how ease of innovation enables rapid evolution
Looks like there's a GPO setting to disable all Windows key shortcuts.

If I was still on Windows, I would probably be using Win+R often because search is so slow and regularly can't find what I'm looking for.
'It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, according to new work.'
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. We hear you on the naming - "computer" is a broad term, but it aligns with our vision for making AI agents feel more like a natural extension of computing. "Lume" is staying as the name for our CLI, but we've integrated it into our monorepo alongside our agent and computer-use interface.

Also, appreciate you linking the previous discussion! We'll make sure to address common questions more clearly in our docs and updates.
That's more or less what my team does. It works well. At least much better than saying you can't for for a swim at all.
Violent supernovae triggered at least two Earth extinctions
Yes, way too bright. The ray tracing is great but couldn't they have reduced the source brightness?
You are not at all addressing the point I made, that the military campaign against the Taliban was a swift and successful action. You stated that the Taliban beat the worlds most advanced military, which they didn't.

That the subsequent occupation ended with the Talibans return to power has nothing to do with the war itself but has political reasons.
In my opinion, the occupation could have ended completely different with a longer commitment. Unfortunately, the Iraq invasion happened and the American population had little long term interest in nation building, two nations at once.

FWIW Iraq and Afghanistan are very different places.

But this has nothing to do with the military campaign itself. When I was there and where I was(2010, northern Afghanistan), it was a fairly peaceful place. Things were progressing in the right direction.

Regarding your second question, I don't think that the Taliban would have great use of drones considering that we could use essentially the same counter measures we used against remotely operated IEDs(jamming).

Ukraine does not have access to the same equipment we did in Afghanistan.

EDIT:

This article pretty much reflects my views on what went wrong. The US government half assed the occupation and withdrew too early.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-runa...
Happy to post mine (which is also not behind throwaway handle).

Machine: 2021 Macbook Pro with M1 Max 32GB

LLMs I usually use: Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B for coding and the latest Mistral or Gemma in the 4B-7B range for most other stuff

For interactive work I still use mostly Cursor with Claude, but for scripted workflows with higher privacy requirements (and where I don't want to be hit with a huge bill due to a rogue script), I also regularly use those models.

If you are interested in running stuff locally take a look at /r/LocalLLaMA [0] which usually gives good insights into what's currently viable for what use cases for running locally. A good chunk of the power-users there are using dedicated machines for it, but a good portion are in the same boat as me and trying to run whatever can be fit on their existing local machine, where I would estimate the coding capbilities to lag ~6-9 months in comparison to the SOTA big models (which is still pretty great).

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA
They probably detect this. Thats why the problem is solved after one to ten minutes according to the article. There's probably nothing they can do which wouldn't stress the disks more.
If you rip everyone off anyway, why would you bother doing it “the nice way”?
> No pinning virtual threads is huge

Have ALL previous pinning scenarios been resolved, including native calls?
> marketing privacy - which IMO is mostly very low risk

> The real problem is "sensitive data" privacy managed by the government

I get multiple scam calls a day, 1000's of spam emails every day.

100% of that is from "marketing" privacy violations - my details either sold or leaked by private companies.
I'm pretty confident the idea of on-call would go away if the company had to pay for your time. But being salaried, they assume you work for them 24/7.
Gambling is much less regulated than the markets.
The writing in the series is unfortunately terrible. It sinks the otherwise beautiful show with sterile and laborious narration/dialogue, telltale signs of over workshopped writing room slop, from which no real living plot ever emerges. Such a disappointment.
Thanks! This is extremely useful and I'll be waiting for the next ones.
Google did in fact have a product that was technically similar and in fact superior to YouTube. Remember Google Video? It was better and people hated it.
This look like a correlation study between risk taking and dog ownership. I strongly doubt it will pass any form of replication, especially if done cross culture.

It should be added that many of the high-risk association with dog breeds is also an association with breeds of working dogs, hunting dogs, and with size. The more difficult the breed is, the more work is required for training and socialization, and thus the risk is higher if the owner is inexperienced or lack time and effort. The physically larger breeds also require better training since a human can't just use brutal force to get their will through.

Since the article brings up assessing risk for child endangerment, I wonder how horse ownership correlates with good parenting.
Already installed, GraalVM is also available for Java 24.

Lots of goodies.
I also think categorically dismissing LLMs is a mistake.

However, an LLM for automated code generation (the context of the thread as I understand it) is basically a dubious-code-copy-paster on steroids. That was already the wrong way to develop code to begin with, automating and accelerating it is not an improvement.

There has never been a single case where I took code from Stack Overflow, which is already a relatively high quality source of such snippets, and didn't have to adapt it in at least some way to work with the code I already had. Heck, I often find rewriting the snippet entirely is better than copying and pasting it. Of course, I also give attribution, both for credit and for referring back to the original in case I made a mistake, the best solution changes in the future, there's context I didn't cover, etc. And in between the problems I solve with other people's help is a whole lot of code I write entirely on my own.

There are many cases of code in the wild being bad, not just from a "readability" or "performance" standpoint, but from a security standpoint. LLMs regurgitate bad code despite also having good code, and even the blog posts explaining what's good and what's bad, in their training corpus! And an LLM never gives attribution, partly because it was designed not to care, and partly because the end result is a synthesis of multiple sources rather than a pure regurgitation. Moreover, LLMs don't have much continuity, so they mix metaphors and naming conventions, they tie things together in absurd ways, etc. The end result is an unmaintainable mess, even if it happens to work.

So no, an LLM is not like a compiler, even though compilers often have their own special brand of crazy magic that isn't necessarily good. Nor is it going to deliver a robust way to turn abstract human thoughts into concrete code. It is still a useful tool, but it's not going to be an automated part of developing quality code. And this is going to be true for any non-coding scenario that requires at least the same level of reliability.
For those not familiar this is basically crowdsourcing rendering. You contribute compute and get credits for it that you can redeem against the collective render farm later

CPU or GPU but obv favours gpu
Ask HN: Has anyone sold binaries of an open-source desktop app on app stores?
I am building a small GPU-accelerated image viewer and considering monetization. The source code will remain open forever under a permissive dual license (MIT/Apache 2.0), but I’m debating whether to:
1. Release pre-built binaries for free on GitHub to gain initial traction, or
2. Sell them on app stores from the start (likely for $1 or $2 as a fee for pre-built binaries and automatic updates).

My concern is that if I provide free binaries early on, users might expect them permanently, and they might complain if I switch to paid later. At the same time, charging upfront might limit adoption.

Has anyone here done something similar? What worked (or didn’t work) for you?
Would love to hear your thoughts!
I think what we've been seeing with generative AI is much more of an argument against blockchains being a revolutionary technology than for it. This is what it looks like for a technology to go mainstream, relentless adoption that touches nearly everyone, and an innovation flywheel that keeps pushing the state of art forward every month.

The past decade and a half of big promises and "is there actually anything to this?" debates on HN is just night and day in comparison.

Your point might be that there just hasn't been another breakthrough on top of blockchains the way chatgpt was a breakthrough on top of neural networks. I think that's a reasonable point, but I still see a notable difference in that blockchains have been hyped as a product technology that has already arrived for nearly this whole time, rather than as an enabling technology still looking for its mainstream niche.
I was worried it was that WiZ, luckily it's not
Their bulbs are one of the few WiFi bulbs that don't require an app to operate (only for the initial configuration)
Would you extend this logic to all government assets, or just cryptocurrency? The government owns nearly a third of all land in the country.
Great deep dive, I've been actively curious about some of the results you found that present themselves similarly in infra setups I run or have run previously.

This kind of miffs also:

> AWS doesn’t describe how failure is distributed for gp3 volumes

I wonder why? Because it affects their number of 9s? Rep?
I have 'wiz' lights in my place - home-networked lighting system.
Which works. Well.
For me....so glad g hasn't acquired them.
Love it.

Sorry if this doesn't add anything, I normally just vote when I feel that about a comment.
Can you use hashcash or some proof of work system somehow? I don't know anything about this space.
> The typical [HACKERnews] article [about hacking] that is applicable to [computer enthusiasts].

Fixed that for you.
top executives are responsible when the company makes a profit. maybe they should be responsible when the company commits a crime. if they can't be responsible when the company commits a crime, how do they justify being primarily responsible when the company does well?
I agree; but I _think_ chronologically Node & server-side-JS came first? The driver is the same though: "larger codebases, running on top of Javascript" - and indeed nowadays probably the browsers are the things that run the larger codebases.
Interspaces: Interconnected (Google) Spaces for Global Collaboration
Nobody in Lisp does conscious paren matching. We rely on indentation. If you randomly deleted a parenthesis from some )))))), I would not notice. I would rely on the machine to tell me something is wrong.

Most "Lisp is unreadable" forum posting activity is just trolling by nonpractitioners. You can usually tell because it doesn't hit on the real readability issues, only the imaginary ones.

To read a Lisp dialect, you have to know what numerous words mean.

A seasoned Lisp coder cannot read the following, besides understanding its source code structure as data. I would guess that defcrunk foo defines something named foo, which is a crunk whatever that means. After that I have to be looking at the documentation of defcrunk (or asking AI).

(defcrunk foo (splat zing)
(:crom jang)
(:flit (burch culd)))

I suspect that a good proportion of Lisp is like this for newcomers.

Sometimes people make new Lisp dialects because they don't like the words and they want to make up their own. It might not be their main reason but it figures in there. Someone else has to learn those, including people that already know an existing Lisp or two.

Also, my above defcrunk thing will parse in many a Lisp dialect; and I could make a macro to make it work in some way. Trolls about Lisp have really latched on to this one. Their leader, a front end web developer, wrote a little article about it about an imaginary curse ...
Smell like a god: Ancient sculptures were scented
In cybersecurity history or the history?
requiring logins for /everything/ would close up the web. Now... requiring a login for viewing git blame (which is resource intensive) might be a good idea...
Did you ever see Crystal? It's more or less a typed Ruby. I've heard that you can port some code directly.

https://crystal-lang.org/
There's a lot of rumours flying around that HL3 might be coming soonish, and when it arrives it'll almost certainly support RTX. It's also possible that it'll be built on an evolution of the HL2 engine. If so, it might have been seen as a useful development and marketing exercise to backport the RTX changes to the older HL2 engine version.
> juice earnings

As I said, stock buybacks are a method of distributing profits to shareholders without the high tax rate on dividends. That's why it's done, though another reason is to invest in one's own company, which is done in the belief that one's own company is a better investment than investing in others.

There's nothing nefarious about it.

> had the weird marginal/total tax rate confusion

I simplified it to emphasize that taxing money away from someone leaves them with less money to invest. The issue of tax rates being marginal is irrelevant to that point. Also, for a high income person which is what we are talking about, the marginal tax rate is his overall tax rate.
>Fiat money exists within a social contract - governments that issue currency must also maintain the infrastructure that makes society work.

Imagine saying this to someone who lost their home in the LA wildfires despite paying high taxes all their life to live there. Some social contract.
I felt like a good strategy was to react quickly to when other players revealed large parts of the board, and immediately mark the "obvious" mines in there even though I was looking at another part of the board. Though now that I think about it, marking those mines is just as much a "correct" move as revealing the numbers that come out of such marking activity, but I still have a sense that it is a quick way to gain a few points.
A fair point, but I think the "Old English" people (Hiberno-Normans) are not usually considered part of the protestant ascendancy.
Last Kubecon / Cloudnative Con they had a HUGE stand. Hard to miss them if you are in this space.
I hear you on feeling innocently targeted. Elon wasn’t always this crazy. He’s causing irreparable damage right now, however. You should be pissed at him as well. He’s supporting anti-EV measures directly or indirectly anyway. He’s pissing people off enough to take serious measures against him. He made a nazi salute at the inauguration for fucks sake. A lot of your ire should be toward him. His whole life is dedicated to making “everything political” right now whether you like it or not.
I find this whole concept remarkable, and somewhat puzzling.

Have seen the same (ARM + RISC-V cores) even at larger scales before (Milk-V Duo @1GHz-ish). But how is this economical? Is die space that cheap? Could you not market the same thing as quadcore with just minor design changes, or would that be too hard because of power budget/bus bandwidth reasons?
We've been using them for 2-3 years. Excellent.
https://github.com/elazarl/goproxy is pretty nice Go library for writing proxies, I used it once. Supports both HTTPS passthrough and MITM. Here's a trivial example MITMing connections to www.google.com and rejecting requests to https://www.google.com/maps while allowing everything else through:

package main

import (
"log"
"net/http"
"strings"

"github.com/elazarl/goproxy"
)

func main() {
proxy := goproxy.NewProxyHttpServer()
proxy.Verbose = true
proxy.OnRequest(goproxy.DstHostIs("www.google.com")).HandleConnect(goproxy.AlwaysMitm)
proxy.OnRequest(goproxy.DstHostIs("www.google.com")).DoFunc(func(r *http.Request, ctx *goproxy.ProxyCtx) (*http.Request, *http.Response) {
if strings.HasPrefix(r.URL.Path, "/maps") {
return r, goproxy.NewResponse(r, "text/plain", 403, "Forbidden")
}
return r, nil
})
log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", proxy))
}

Try:

curl -k -x localhost:8080 https://www.google.com/
curl -k -x localhost:8080 https://www.google.com/maps
curl -x localhost:8080 https://www.apple.com/

-k is to ignore cert error; note how we don't need it for apple.com due to passthrough.

Remember to use your own cert rather than the hardcoded one in "production" (a trusted network like your home of course, probably a bad idea to expose it on the open Internet).
> research, of which industry does nearly zero

wrong and painfully ignorant
They're cheaper because of price controls on medications and salaries.

That's just straight up not going to happen in the US. We could have easily tackled medication prices by tying them to an average of some select other countries, but we haven't.

People would throw an absolute fit if our government tried to lower the salaries of doctors, and especially nurses.

The US is also just a very large country, population-wise. German has around 84 million people, so barely more than twice the population of California. I'd be a lot more likely to support government run healthcare if it was done by the states. The larger a system gets, the more inefficiencies sneak in - and, as a bonus, people could move to other states if the healthcare in their own wasn't up to par.
> Even growth stocks have about 5x the price to revenue.

A PE of 5 is not a growth stock - that’s the kind of PE you’d see on a barely surviving mid-cap in decline…. The combined PE of the S&P500 is in the low to mid 30s these days!
I love the idea of a universal intermediate language (IL) with region-specific front-ends—that could be a great way to make programming more accessible without fragmenting the ecosystem.

But with AI handling more code generation, how important will it be for people to truly understand the underlying code? Do you think AI will make coding more of a black box, or will there always be value in knowing how things work under the hood?

Music is a great comparison—eastern music notation exists in native scripts, and western pieces can be translated into it. Could programming work the same way, where the structure remains universal, but the notation adapts to different languages?
This is barely disguised racism. And it makes me angry. But then that was the point wasn't it?

Dogs, like humans, are pack animals. They will follow the pack. Dogs like humans, exhibit higher intrabreed differences than intercommunity, just like humans. That is to say, dogs and humans will always follow their pack, and there are more differences in-between individuals, than there are between the color of your skin, or your coat.

How did this malicious study find this significance? Sample bias. They didn't control for breed ownership. If you're more likely to learn violence as a survival skill (The paper calls this deviance, fuck off with that obfuscation) you're also, more likely to adopt a dog with that same reputation in your community.

how did these breeds get this reputation? papers like this for one. but also you can breed a dog to do things mine likes to chase cows. which means he also likes to bite ankles... except mine doesn't. he doesn't give a shit about ankles. He loves balls though. The most classic example in my circles are pitbulls, breed to be fighters, they have a natural tendency to not let go after a bite. This is not viciousness.

all the paper does is perpetuate a myth that these breed are dangerous. It should be rejected as junk the same way we reject statistics about [race] on [race] crime.

If you need another reason to reject this trash, ask why this doesn't correlate well with dog trainers, and professional dog rescuers understanding about which breeds are more likely to bite unprovoked? (which is what viciousness actually is)
> I just don't see people doing more than paying lipservice to this idea.

Speak for yourself.
> The belief is that Musk's wealth is mostly tied up in Tesla.

DDG’s search AI answer thing told me that Musk owns 410M shares of Tesla, which is priced roughly at $224 per share, which is about $90B of his supposed $305B net worth.
It's a perpetual discussion. Java enthusiasts will generally say there is no or only a small difference, while at the same time being excited about Java getting features that Kotlin has had years before (e.g. smart casting).

In general Java is getting better but more weighed down by legacy and existing design decisions than Kotlin, so a lot of improvements from Kotlin are not possible to be made in Java.

Java is running ahead of Kotlin in a few things, mainly virtual threads which don't require black-red functions like coroutines.
It would not surprise me in the slightest if Republicans start buying swasticars as a statement. Wouldn't surprise me one bit.
That is suspiciously equal to the "Other revenue" line in Meta's 10-K.

Given that likely rolls up other products I doubt it's all coming from Whatsapp.

[0]: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/1f8bf8e...
Maybe it's a shakedown from the FARA violaters that have huge influence in the same government that just happens to be seriously threatening to break up Google. It would be a classic mob play.
This is all pretty amazing tech.
Can we easily remaster old games with AI tech now ?
I think A/B viewing is throwing you off. It looks great when you actually play it.
When I used to do this (and I feel safe talking about it because I haven't done this in many years), I also kept a document that listed any such exceptions. Generally the document would just say something like "mixed case, number, symbol" which was enough to remind me what I did.
If I'm reading this right, they calculated the rate of supernova eruptions, and looked at how close they would have to be to Earth to trigger an extinction, and they came up with "two extinctions at that rate".

And then they looked at the history of extinctions, and said "probably those two".

So the headline seems like a bit of an overstatement of the degree of certainty...