skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What if we change the tax code such that passive income (capital gains, dividends, coupon payments, etc.) is taxed at a higher rate than active (employment) income?

Doing so by lowering the active income rate wouldn't raise more money, and doing so by raising the passive income rate would kill investment and job creation and send us into a depression.
I remember reading someone's shower thoughts that if the internet was completely safe there would be no need for Cloudflare, so it's in Cloudflare's best interest to keep the internet unsafe. It's an interesting thought even if a bit tinfoil hat-esque.
"Another problem with email address as user ID is that much of the public (most I'd guess) does not have a permanent email address."

Exactly, which gave rise to the on-going multiple-Apple-IDs fiasco.
Many non-AI and AI research projects and companies do use Common Crawl. There's apparently only a small list of AI companies who don't.
Oppenheimer once wrote a letter of recommendation for Richard Feynman and called him: "a second Dirac, only this time human."
Americans Are Buying an Escape Plan
The Spaghetti Problem (why eating pasta is messy)
I think it relies heavily on unified memory.
That could help in some cases (maybe even the areas where their server-side replicas of browser APIs aren’t quite consistent), but how would it handle things like someone putting a validation or access control check in the client-side code? A lot of these things come down to the code correctly doing what a confused author intended.

In this case, it’d also be interesting to try to figure out how a fix would look like in that model. You could have some way for a type-checker to tell the requests apart such as a union type for Client|Edge|Server requests but you’d need a way to assert that the header couldn’t be present on all of them, which suggests the real problem is using in-band signaling. It seems like a solid argument for type-checking since making the relationship clear enough to validate also makes it harder for humans to screw up.
Well, there's AI for reading source now. In fact, a lot of the time I spend arguing with AI now is the implementation of things like replaceAll('{{$value}}').

If value is foo, then the intent here is {{foo}} would be replaced. But sometimes the $ is a regex character. But because it's a string, is it using the string form of replaceAll or regex form?

AI tends to be multilingual and sometimes it's thinking in the wrong language, so this is the vibe code version of 10 + 10 = 1010.

The docs can be ambiguous on this, so ideally read the source. Or heck, tell AI to read it for you, but someone has to read it, and it becomes another gotcha for engineers to understand, vibe code or not.
Egg prices started plunging on the Mar 5th, and bottomed out on the 19th. ~$8 -> $3.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us

Historically, there's occasionally a minor spike around Easter, yet its usually mild compared to the massive increase lately. Usually around Mar 20th-30 timeframe. Prices are, currently, back close to where the trend line has been heading for the last couple years. Most of 23-24 egg prices were floating around $2.

Notably, the last several years have shown signs of similar trend, just not quite as drastic. 22-23 both showed mild jumps around Christmas-post-Christmas timeframe.
Totally. Code vibing isn’t software engineering. That should be 100% clear.
Usually out of respect.
Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik: oncrete Mathematics

https://archive.org/details/concrete-mathematics/page/n11/mo...
Also the Texas Instruments CC-40. It was so unreliable that TI cancelled it, leaving no official way of saving files. Hope your batteries didn't run out ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugues_Oyarzabal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g0tQzTJVvQ

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5b-gimmzRF9Y44Lq2I9R...
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Saw this submission earlier in the day and chuckled. The whole "vibe coding" thing is hilarious, and I say this as someone who heavily leverages AI in my coding tasks.

Moments ago just saw this ad at the front of HN-

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jo...

I honestly am not sure if this ad is a joke. I assume not, which is hilarious. Put in you 12-16 hour days for hilariously bad pay, and your onboarding will be doing one of the most pathetic, deadbeat jobs possible which is making collection calls. And your "vibe coding" is to use voice agents to...make collection calls.

Must be pretty grim pickings if this trash is getting advertised on here.
A "machine spewing words based on probability" is an implementation detail. I'm not making a grandiose prediction about the future. All I'm saying is that these machines are improving super fast.

I'm also stricken by the superficiality of analysis like "oh it's just probabilities" from so many devs; might as well say "it's magnets".
Heh, that commit you linked added a bunch of headers to INTERNAL_HEADERS (to prevent external use) but they forgot to add the one in this particular vulnerability. This was done in December 2024. There were probably a myriad of vulnerabilities with these headers before that commit. Wild it wasn’t a CVE.
If you can't do something extremely impressive with the equivalent of hundreds worth of full time engineers then there is something wrong with you as a founder.

Note that real engineers helps you come up with new features and test your product and all that and not just add code, adding code was never a bottleneck on just about any problem ever.

So Amdahl's law applies in terms of the time to add code, not in terms of engineers, they don't do the work of 100 engineers, at best they take 100x less time to add lines of code when they know what they wanna make. But that isn't particularly game changing, as adding code is not the hard or even time consuming part.
Many different sources to get funding data, via APIs and searching and scraping the web. Not easy to gather via just a simple Google search.
The trivial nature of the initial exploit does not instil confidence, nor does it that no one noticed it during the refactor that lead to the second variation of the exploit.
sshd was compromised, and it doesn't access private keys. (well, probably the host key.)
What is debugging in vibe coding? If the vibe changes, that's gotta be a blocker. If the vibe changes, then I guess you are stuck and need to white board or go for a walk? I talk a lot of shit about Gen-Z, but they come up with the best terms.

Interviewer:

How do you handle vibe changes in vibe coding?

Candidate:

I can handle any type of vibe change.

Interviewer:

This is exactly what we are looking for.
> TikTok is going to be banned because it is destroying US social networks business

Didn't Europe ban Russia Today and other Russian state sponsored media?
> Connections to foreign computers are not subjected to regulation currently.

Italy has banned access to Deepseek a couple of weeks ago. Is that different?
I'm not so sure the line is that clear cut.
How much hardware is useful today without software? Is VHDL software?

I started with software and have been expanding down the stack more and more, spinning some of my own (very basic) PCBs recently, and it's been a lot of fun. I think the other direction would have been harder, because the ~~core game loop~~ development cycle takes so much longer, and that would have made it hard for me personally to maintain motivation at the beginning.

Software by comparison has almost no barrier to entry and much faster iteration. It's also a lot harder to explain to my mom what I do.

I do think C was a great place to start. Going up and down from there is much easier than trying to go downstack from, e.g. javascript.
Hi, thanks for replying! I was looking at your source code, and wondering how easy it would be to create a .osm file instead of uploading the data. The JOSM editor’s todo list plugin would make it easy to plough through all the polygons or centroids, and do any refinement necessary. For example, I’m curious to try this out to detect crosswalks, and those need to be glued to the highway being crossed.
Yes but I am just giving an example of something recent, I could also point to pure logic errors if I go back and search my discussions.

Maybe you are on to something for "classifying" issues; the type of problems LLMs have are hard to categorize and hence it is hard to benchmark around. Maybe it is just a long tail of many different categories of problems.
Apple iCloud Mail not pushing new emails to device on iOS 18.3.2
Also

https://old.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1i8qyul/push_emai...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1fnnmh0/email_no_longe...
If their page was written by the AI model, that doesn’t bode well. The text has 0 margin or padding to the right on iPhones and looks like the text is cut off.
Id love to see a bit more detail on fine tuning SAM/2 to do things like detect pools or solar arrays. Both these are fantastic things to have mapped for community resilience projects, but I've not been able to follow along with SAM2 fine tuning at all.

I've got a Yolov8 model which does quite a good job of finding and segmenting out solar, but the edges are absolutely horrible and require an insane amount t of work to clean up. I've seen results from SAM2 that has been trained, and the results look massively better.

Wouldn't put these in OSM due to stereo6 comment about accuracy, but I could sure use them elsewhere.
Yes, one can learn from online available sources. I had Calculus I in school and then I found Prof. Gilbert Strang, MIT OpenCourseWare. [0]

openstax.org has a lot of good books. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D
[1] https://openstax.org/subjects/math

edit: i am an autodidact who loves to learn.
it's recursive by default
I don't understand why this vietnamese-style writing isn't the most popular pinyin. It's clearly superior to putting numbers inside words.
The US is not the only country that suffers from avian flu- although the inability to get the outbreak under control is alarming.
Well, if you own copyright for a song, you can claim licensing fees for any public performance of those lyrics.

I wonder if an equivalent to Performance Rights Organizations will emerge as a channel for LLM publishers (so to speak) to pay fees.
Had no idea what led to fake spring so thanks for this tidbit!
This is brilliant. Content is infinite. Time and money are not. It’s like sending an unstoppable force down a bottomless black hole.
> everyone hates cops. I legitimately have never personally met someone who likes the police. ... maybe they have family in the police or something

I know a couple people in different police forces. From what I have been able to tell they are like myself and the other people I tend to be around. Mostly decent people trying their best to be good humans for themselves and society.

People don't hate cops, they hate the things that happen when corrupted people make it into the job and do corrupted things because of the power that job wields. Or when they are or have been caught breaking the law by cops who are doing their job to enforce the law.

I have never heard of anyone hating cops for showing up to help when their assistance was needed.
We've been able to pass the Turing Test on text, audio, and short form video (think AI's on video passing coding tests). I think there's an important distinction now with AI streamers where people notice they are AI's eventually. Now there might pop up AI streamers where you don't know they're an AI. However, there's a ceiling on how far digital interactions on the Turing Test can go. The next big hurdle towards AGI is physical interactions, like entering a room.
Nope. Commenters here love to just state "X is over complicated!!!" when React is about the least complicated UI system across any medium there is.
Yes, someone else could deploy a copy. Then misuse would be their concern, just as a bank cannot evade KYC laws by saying someone else also might do so.

That’s really the point here: there are laws, they knew that their software did not follow them and was being used for large scale money laundering, and not being part of an organized crime group they were soft targets. Providing infrastructure for criminals is inherently high risk activity.
I read a book years ago that I can't remember the name that your comment reminded me of, although achieved a little differently.

In the book a global pandemic broke out but didn't effect Muslims. How was this possible? A in-world marketing campaign promoted "Mecca Water", in which the antidote / preventative was delivered and the Muslim world was made to believe it was holy / blessed / a pilgrimage experience to consume it.

I feel it might have been a product of the post-911 world but I did find it interesting and also fear the future as it seems possible today, I'm sure some are trying.
> would you then say it had generics rather than templates?

I think pcwalton's "generics" vs. "templates" distinction mostly boils down to parametric typechecking, which Zig's design just can't do. (Can it?)

Although, I vaguely remember some example showing that even Rust in some cases allows a type definition X<T> even when there exists a T such that X<T> would fail to typecheck.
That sounds much better than DMCA takedowns for sure. But many of us are against the current copyright regime itself. The ridiculously long duration of copyright ensures that nothing culturally relevant goes to the public domain. For things that are relevant, the weaponization of copyright laws takes away our ability to own what we bought and paid for. There's even a common saying that "if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."
Those never were real media though and they didn't even pretend anymore.

Officially it was banned as a part of the economic sanctions but being a part of their war machine would have been enough of a reason by itself.
How?
It might expedite intel gathering and psychological warfare to an extent but let's not pretend China doesn't have agents inside of all of the "friendly" platforms already.
And all I got was this lousy embedded player
Trying to get in the habit of blogging not quite building in public but inspired by that a little idk tell me how much you think i'm stupid in the comments
> I keep hearing this but I disagree completely. Does no one remember Angular.js? Backbone? Ember.js? Even my favorite framework, Knockout, had lots of complexity.

You're using a different frame of reference. Those people you're referring to, including gp, probably mean that frameworks add complexity to the frontend. That would include all the ones you listed.
No discussion of the history of ballistic trajectory simulation in video games is complete without including GORILLA.BAS
I have a copy of the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 27th Edition, CRC Press which I purchased as a suppliment to the text in a university calculus class I was taking. I should have picked a different year, they had both newer and older, but this one had a discounted price and was shrink-wrapped. It was also missing pages 153 - 184, which I soon discovered when I tried to look up something in the book that was listed in the table of contents, but was among the missing pages.
Ronald Reagan must be rolling in his grave.
For CS-related books, I think the original 1979 Hopcroft and Ullman is better than its successor editions.
In the EU, I'd rank it a lower national security threat than Twitter or Facebook, by far.

And seeing what's going on in the US now, I'd maybe have the same analysis for the US.
Neither you, nor I, nor anyone else has any truly authoritative knowledge on when (or if) fissile waste will become a problem, and if it does, just how large (time, space, populations, ecosystems) of a problem it will be.
I absolutely agree with you that the current big LLMs enable an attack on all FOSS licenses and especially copyleft ones. That doesn't mean that one couldn't create LLM code generators in a respectful way. Do license analysis on the input code and then train separate models on the different license buckets, with the outputs from each model considered derivative works of the input corpus.

Also I don't think a restriction on the FSF's freedom 2 "The freedom to study how the program works" based on what tools you use and how you use them fits with FSF philosophy, nor do I think it is appropriate. You should be able to run whatever analysis tools you have available to study the program. Being able to ingest a program into a local LLM model and then ask questions about the codebase before you understand it yourself is valuable. Or aren't a programmer and or aren't familiar with the language used, then a local LLM could help you make the changes needed to add a new feature. In that situation LLMs can enable practical software freedom, for those who can't afford to pay/convince a programmer to make the changes they want.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

In addition, OpenAI clearly do not respect copyrights and licenses in general, so would ignore any anti-AI clauses, which would make them ineffective and thus pointless. So, I think we should tackle the LLM problem through the law, and not through licenses. That is already happening with various caselaw in software, writing, artwork etc.

It isn't possible or practical to change the existing body of Free Software to use new anti-AI clauses anyway.https://juliareda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...

BTW, LLMs could also in theory be used to licensewash proprietary software, see "Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?" by Matthew Garret:

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/57615.html
It's copyright infringement. That's the only correct word to use. (Stealing is a wrong word because it implies physical scarcity)
How ironic. I have literally made my career and fortune building the very systems that you’re yapping about.
Edit: see the other comment where you are called out for the lying fake that you are. How delightfully pathetic of you.
> Should every training run put money into a pool that gets paid out to every rights holder of every book that has ever been published?

That could actually work. Bearing in mind that all copyright laws are messy and terrible, this proposal is at least not impossible.

"Ever been published" means in the last 100 years.
I noticed the other day I almost never ask my teammates brainstorming or collaborative questions anymore while I can do the same thing with an LLM. Its maybe too early to tell but Im a heck of a lot less frustrated because one conversation doesnt take four hours.
and that is equally atrocious and should be eliminated from a society that wants to share ideas freely.

Idk if your in the US but you also massively oversimplify in your example, copyright law is waaaaaaaay more complex than that and it would take a set of special circumstances way beyond doing what you say it siphon money from an infringment claim
I'm somewhat involved in local government in Chicagoland and so know where to look to get this figure: federal grants make up 0.2% of the Oak Park Public Library budget. Rayiner is right about this.
Might as well paint the walls of the AI Labyrinth with prompt-injection attacks.
Good memories. My brother and I spent a lot of time trying to hit the sun so that it made a face! And oh, the satisfaction of throwing into the wind perfectly so the it boomerangs back around.

::dancing gorilla:: doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo doooo doooo
I'm originally from MN but have been using C almost exclusively for the last 10-15 years. Can confirm, -33 is "fuckin' cold" territory either way. Below like -25C it's all the same to me - bundle up as much as humanly possible and limit time outside, and if there's any wind at all, just nope.

That's like "you cry because it's so cold and then your tears freeze on your eyelashes and it physically hurts". I don't like it. Also, don't live in MN anymore
Because China can control what gets recommended to TikTok viewers and actively brainwash them. Even if it does not work on all people that's enough to be a security concern.
Look, we need to show some restraint here and some class. Vercel has only raised $538 million dollars, its not reasonable to be so critical of their security practices when weighed against the business value of their products.
What does it matter what nonsense we in the US do? The Italian law is well-made and justly-carried out, or it isn't. Personally, I am happy to condemn my own government for its many failures.
Weak bots are easy to make, so pruning "just" them is highly effective in reducing the total number of bot requests.

How do CAPTCHAs make other bots stronger?
> It's not a nazi Germany situation where the people supported this action,

Um, you do know that a good chunk of the logistics involved were about hiding what was going on so that the populace wouldn't object, yes?
Yes, of course. I struggle to have an opinion here since I don't like either side in this fight, but I eventually squeezed one out, and there it is.
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I can't reply further to this thread without this devolving into a flame war so I'll just observe that you've moved the goal posts claiming you were just joking, and refuse to engage further until you acknowledge you're either getting defensive for no reason or arguing in bad faith.
Ah, finally a blueprint we can use!
Passive Security
I guess I'm skeptical how much of an impact better software could have on the business success a truck outfitting company? But maybe I'm being overly skeptical. I bet if I really got in the weeds there I'd see tons of opportunities were better/more software could really accelerate things. Thanks for checking my pessimism!
https://archive.is/R0GHq
well it's not working. please try it
I agree with you. I think that copyright is bad, and patents is also bad.

It is a different issue if they steal your private data or your power (I mean the electrical power for the computers, in case that isn't already clear).

Making copies of published books, music, etc (and doing what you want with them) is not the bad things.
This assumes that privacy-preserving advertising would make Google $0. I doubt this is the case, especially if every other company is also using a similar business model. For purely placement advertising, Google still has more reach than any newspaper or magazine ever produced in the pre-internet era.
Does FOSS benefit from ML models being derived works of training data? (2021)
I have an iPhone with a lightning connector. I use a wireless charger at home and in my car, and AirPods pros. I used to charge with a cable, but I wash my phone regularly under the faucet and then the phone does not like to charge or corrodes the cheap cables if there is liquid remaining in there.

I exclusively wireless charge now, and happily continue keeping my phone clean.
I’m a month in, and it’s rough as hell. But I at least have a runway for the first time in my career, so I’m profoundly grateful for that.

Still optimistic that my generalist skillset and adaptability to new technologies (like AI) will make me an asset for IT teams who can’t afford multiple specialists in rough economic times like these.
I bet that's what a lot of people thought in 1933 as well.
There must be tens of thousands of websites that are vulnerable, right now
Yikes. Can/should this guy be banned from commenting? People like him substantially degrade the quality of the conversation.
Benjamín Labatut's fiction and the insanity of scientific rationality
essentially you decompose the transformation into (axial translation) + (screw rotation) + (oriented orthogonal stretch) and each of them are just straightforward interpolation: axial is linear, screw is angular, and stretch is exponential.