skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My superpower is being vague and mysterious. Unfortunately these people in particular are very paranoid and anti-social and have a strong distrust.

I appreciate the effort, but I think not clicking on untrusted links from random emails is common sense these days.

Too many scams out there unfortunately, and "let’s build the future together" sounds like a typical crypto/web3 email scam.

I like the idea with the flyers though.

> I am aware that it won’t happen. [...] No one cares and I should just fuck off. [...] I’m also sure that if anyone ran the code themselves they’d see immediate success and traction. [...] I’m sure no one is reading this either.

You're being unnecessarily hard on yourself, many people have faced the same problems before [0].

"You work on a project that does not deliver immediate or steady results; all the while, people around you work on projects that do. You are
in trouble. Such is the lot of scientists, artists, and researchers lost in society rather than living in an insulated community or an artist colony." [1]

You're trying to gain your first users in a space with a lot of competitors. Reading a business book would be more helpful than beating yourself up.

"The common wisdom was that it was more or less impossible to bring a new IM network to market without spending an extraordinary amount of money on marketing. The reason for that wisdom is simple. Because of the power of network effects, IM products have high switching costs. To switch from one network to another, customers would have to convince their friends and colleagues to switch with them." [2]

> "Our customers were not intimidated by the idea of having to take their friends with them to a new IM network; it turned out that they enjoyed that challenge."

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...

[1]: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (ISBN 978-0713999952)

[2]: The Lean Startup (ISBN 978-0307887894)
Try talking to them. Try asking them questions about what they think about things and then challenging them to defend it. Above all, try listening to them. Truly listening. Not call and response. Not 3-second wait time followed by “good job” or “well, not exactly.” Students today, like kids always, eagerly seek connections with people, not content. Establish that first and the rest will fall into place.

(That’s the good news. The bad news is that our education system, from federal level on down to the individual school board, will readily jump in and agree, but then require metrics and other “measurables” to show that students are cranking out “learning outcomes.” So with the best will in the world, and genuine interest in our kids and their lives as a predicate to meaningful learning in an otherwise highly artificial classroom setting, you as a teacher are stuck banging your head against an immovable concrete wall that gets refreshed annually with million dollar consultant contracts for outsiders who spend two hours every two weeks in your school to tell you what you need to do to reach your students. And at some point, you just say fuck you to all of it.)
There really is no substitute for testing your drug in a living organism.

Other models (in silico, in vitro, etc) are mostly used for screening. They are not anywhere close to replacing animal or human testing.
I'd be interested in knowing which independent agencies have backdoored the military's operational communication channels. Wasn't aware that was a well known thing.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-domi...

links to this comment.
Not much difference for uncopyrightable facts, but ask for a portrait, report, or whole program, and you get closer to a problem. There is precedent around derivatives called "fair use," that can maybe give some guidance.

Oracle lost the API copyright case, which might also be an important precedent.
Of course an industry trade group (US Chamber of Commerce isn't a USG organization [1]) is advocating for lower paid children to be employees.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Comme...
It's weird you think that link settles things. A planet could be Earth-like without having life. We don't know how likely life is to arise on an Earth-like planet. In particular, we cannot conclude that because we are here, the probability of it happening on Earth was high, due to observer selection bias.

https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/W6-Observer-sele...
Citation needed? :)
No clue personally, but the author is prolific enough here that I thought it merited posting.
It's actually not entirely correct with respect to VB6. It did indeed use absolute layouts, but unlike Delphi with its pixel units, in VB everything was measured in "twips" (1⁄1440 of inch, or 1⁄20 of point). This would then be converted to actual pixels based on the DPI setting of the system.
> ...Christians get absolutely confused when you tell them that it is amazing how a middle eastern religion took over the entire Europe and the west. Some people even deny that Christianity is middle eastern

Many atheists make this claim but I've never met one of these Christians in my life. At least in my experience Judaism and Middle Eastern history were taught as part of my religious tutoring.
I don't think there is just one problem, although that is a big part of it. Prosecutors and judges are often picked by how profitable they are to the local courts, neither cops nor prosecutors lose anything if they make up and push bullshit charges even when caught red handed, states and locales continuously tack on all sorts of random court charges to increase revenues, and there is no verification that any "programs" they tack on and receive kickbacks for actually improve anyone's situation. Not to mention all the inter-family connections and "ill scratch your back if you scratch mine" backroom dealings between cops, courts, prosecutors, and jails.

The only checks on any part of the justice system are from within the justice system itself, and its pretty hard to get those people to voluntarily cut their own pay, staff, benefits, and control in the name of justice, especially when it would most likely just get them fired and blacklisted. There are very little checks against what they do, and the people who have been involved with the courts and know how it works either benefit personally from it, or are considered a no-good criminal who's word is given zero heed. In most places if you get a felony you even lose your right to vote.
That would demand I become a biblical scholar. As I am not, I won't presume. But I will ask another question: Are you even confident the Aramaic uses a word which translates to "apocalypse" as we understand it or might it mean some other contextual meaning such as a revalation of the relationship with god, rather than the apocryphal end-of-times sense?

Because your reply presupposes the modern understanding is inherently sound because of an appeal to authority of the wisdom of times past. I would say instead by the time of the council of Nicea, things were already very political and the church was seeking to confirm words to suit the institution, not for their actual historical meaning. That was only 2-300 years after the record mind you.
> we see the photographer's reflection

Am I the only one immediately looking past the amazing text generation, the excellent direction following, the wonderful reflection, and screaming inside my head, "That's not how reflection works!"

I know it's super nitpicky when it's so obviously a leap forward on multiple other metrics, but still, that reflection just ain't right.
Show HN: Vibe HTTP – AI generated HTTP responses
Inspired by a video I saw about someone running GPT-4o in a try/catch handler, I built a server that serves up a completely AI-generated page.

In the interest of not blowing up my OpenAI bill too much, I've linked to the GitHub page but the site is hosted on https://vibehttp.com/ or any combination of https://subdomain.vibehttp.com/any/path/you/want.
1. I spent around 5-8 minutes on the site and got multiple (4 or 5) modal “subscribe to my newsletter” popups, some within seconds of each other. This is extraordinarily obnoxious and is enough for me to never want to visit your website again, regardless of its other merits.

2. I’m on mobile, and while the keyboard interface looks nice, it performs much worse than my phone’s native keyboard. There are multiple reasons for this: it’s laggy and routinely drops inputs; it doesn’t allow for alternative input schemes like swiping (I’m not an accessibility expert but I imagine it’s a disaster for anyone with serious accessibility needs), and it “feels” less accurate than the phone’s native keyboard input. Plus, its behavior and letter positioning is just very jarring compared to how I expect my phone keyboard to behave, which adds to how annoying it is to use.

3. Today’s prompt seemed fine, but the surveyed prompts for “next time” all seem rather low quality. I’m not sure how you’re generating these, but you should probably spend a bit more time doing QA, especially while you’re trying to build a user base; speaking personally, seeing that “Besides white christmas, name a song on big crosby’s white christmas album”[sic] is a potential future prompt really does not inspire confidence and makes me rather uninterested in ever coming back.
Wow. DC is a challenge to drive as a human, nevermind as a robot.
Except is it done all over the middle east.
> running fibre in the house isn't practical yet

I think it is.
A pair of switches and a single run isn’t that expensive and it’s truly beautiful.

But… I still wish I’d put in 2 cables and not one.
Your method works well as a tutor with a single student. Try doing that as a teacher with a classroom of 30+ students.
That's effectively what we are doing. The webhook receives any "custom properties" you have defined on your repo, the ssh url, and critically, the name of the Action that was run. The receiving server can use all of this to select the appropriate pipeline. Our build server is not containerized.
Bearblog has a lot of momentum and (anonymous) users, and a committed maintainer: https://herman.bearblog.dev/manifesto/

Ofc GitHub is will probably last longer, and so will running your own hosting/deployment
how come they didn't raise the platform and put "pillows" on it? :o
This is probably the dumbest design decision of GitHub Actions. You'd think that the biggest git platform would know better than asking you to force push every release. They should have just used branches, because that's exactly what they're for. Or they should have resolved the right tag themselves, like npm does.
<user corysama squawks indignantly and flies away...>
That's pretty disappointing, it has been out for a while, and we still get top comments like (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475043) where people clearly think native image generation capability is new. Where do you usually get your updates from for this kind of thing?
What have we done to the human experience. smh
Do you know a good archive site for x?
I heard from multiple people working at Stripe that selling yourself is a huge reason why they think it's a very bad place to work. You apparently have to make full-on folders to showcase what you have done.
Scaling a 300B Mixture-of-Experts LING LLM Without Premium GPUs
Agree, though I 100% see it on PC too, when web pages try to override standard scroll behavior to do some visual trick at the expense of well tested platform and browser scrolling support.
If that's so then there's no need to be hyperbolic about it. Why would they publish a model that is not their most advanced model?
Those are all folding/portable chairs, not fixed chairs. There are a few fixed benches built into the sidewalk in front of a few houses in my neighborhood, and 5 would apply to them. I'm also curious how this could be interpreted for someone who is merely a renter and not the private property owner.

edit: LOL they edited it out in response to my comment. There was a photo of a circle of folding chairs between the first selfie and the pancake party photo: https://i.imgur.com/Ygd8Of6.png
We do, but you can only trigger those on predefined events, and we want our release manager to be independent of any push or pull mechanisms on the repo. You can also run actions from the github web ui which makes them available even to non technical managers.

Our Action has a single step, it has an "if: false" declaration so it never runs, and no runners are engaged. This immediately completes and fires off a "workflow_job" webhook which triggers the build server to act.
Wow. if you ever thought it was possible to make a video about nothing, that shows you nothing, this is it.
“confirmed”
> We've had things we call "AI" since the 1950s. We only had text prompting as an interaction mode since ChatGPT came out in 2022.

This is not even close to true. SHRDLU would be one prominent example.

> Why is prompting your test for whether something is "AI" or not?

What does the initialism AI stand for?
Here's another guide to C, from a slightly different angle, that I've been working on for a while:

https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c
Redesigning Jenkins (Part One)
I try this on every new generation:

Generate a photo of a lake taken by a mobile phone camera. No hands or phones in the photo, just the lake.

The hand holding a phone is always there :D
Super authorities are a neat idea. It would be nice to have something like 2of2 permissions where two parties have to both ok a change for policy to accept it.
natural consequence when results are the sum of random processes.

if you add random rolls, you get a gaussian, thanks central limit theorem.

if you sum them, you get a lognormal distribution, which approximates a power law up to a cutoff
You might be interested in reading Walz vs New York [1] for some background on this subject. As with most things, it's nuanced, but you essentially have two choices here: tax the churches or don't. Most have agreed that the former has a much greater risk of violating separation of church vs state (excessive government entanglement) than the latter. You're free to disagree, of course.

[1]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/397/664/
That's weird that I'm excluded. Thanks for watching out for me :-)

Hypotheses: 1. it's an error. 2. I have powerful enemies. 3. Someone from the future is trying to stop me. 4. My blog triggered the FDIV bug and needed to be excluded.
We use Tailscale for our WireGuard, which further integrates with SSO. So it’s a double whammy.

But Tailscale ssh has the identity stuff built in too.
I suspected AWT had layout managers as well, so looked it up:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/awt/class-use...

Believe that was there from the beginning, mid 90s.
did people had that much usable silk in one place back then?
Is weird, but what the OP was asking for, actually exist before in the case of FoxPro and similar tools.

In Fox, you write more or less `physical query plans` as syntax:

USE customer && Opens Customer table
CLEAR
SCAN FOR UPPER(country) = 'SWEDEN'
? contact, company, city
ENDSCAN

And what it make this even better, is that you can also write `SQL` so you can have the best of both worlds.

BTW, I think this idea can be move even further and my take is at https://tablam.org
wow thank you for all the feedback, appreciate you!! I’m on it
> I'm much more inclined to go with the reporting in the New York Times

Quite the opposite for me. I don't have a problem with their opinion pages, because it's labelled as such and is at times interesting. I wouldn't trust their reporting though, least of all the numbers.
My company went into full panic mode after this. 5 minutes later dependabot opens and auto merges a random patch from npm, but that's fine.
I'm so envious! I love browsing the books at Community Thrift, but most days I don't have time to walk that far.
Random question, if you don't care about being a creator yourself, why do you even want to read long form writing written by an LLM? There are literally 10000s of actual human written books out there all of them better than anything an LLM can write, why not read them?
And unfortunately, every system had their own way. Native development has suffered for decades from stubborn OS vendors who are incentivized against portability and cross-platform interoperability. Everyone's "way" was different and required you to rewrite your application to support it. I always wonder, if the web never took off as the common platform, would we today have better cross-platform native tools and APIs? I guess we'll never know.
If you think the business is going to fail if you stay, then any exit is not at a discount.

versus staying and continuing to fight for a different outcome

If staying is a fight, a bad outcome is more likely. Fighting is a poor use of staff energy.

Anyway, the fact that this is not a conversation with your cofounder probably means it is time for a divorce. Good luck.
931 Laid off at Block (Formerly Square) based on performance
That’s one way, but.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/hackers-exploit-signals-li...

“… the threat actors, including one it's tracking as UNC5792, have resorted to malicious QR codes that, when scanned, will link a victim's account to an actor-controlled Signal instance.”

“ These QR codes are known to masquerade as group invites, security alerts, or legitimate device pairing instructions from the Signal website.”

Also

“ Last week, Microsoft and Volexity also revealed that multiple Russian threat actors are taking advantage of a technique called device code phishing to log into victims' accounts by targeting them via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Microsoft Teams.”
An ORM for Google Sheets
After years of working with gspread, I finally found out there's a SQLAlchemy dialect that works with Google Sheets. I can't believe what a huge workflow upgrade this affords. I wanted to spread the good news.
no problem :) just curious, what neighborhood of SF are you in?
Saint Louie
I have for the past four years averaging 180-200 students on my rosters.
Discussion of backwards-incompatible changes in Python build back ends
This is a discussion thread on the official Python forums. The original title (too long for submission) is "How can build backends avoid breaking users when they make backwards incompatible changes?".

For context, yesterday Setuptools 78.0.1 was released, which made a change incompatible with many packages which use `setup.cfg` to specify Setuptools configuration data. Specifically, they removed functionality to normalize a key in the config data, and made it an error to use a non-normalized version of the name; the normalization was deprecated in 2021.

Because of the "build isolation" features found in tools like pip, Poetry and uv, and because package metadata often doesn't specify upper version constraints for the package's build dependencies, this ended up impacting a huge number of people, such that the change was rolled back (in 78.0.2) within less than 6 hours (still too slow for many of the people commenting on GitHub).
Man I don’t know. Schools can be genuinely awful. Easily half of the educational value I received during my school hours was found while messing around on my laptop instead of paying attention. I’m sure I’m a rare case there, but these devices were my only escape from a dull, incompetent education system.
Somebody should just sell reused tire scraps as chewing gum replacements. The artificial substitutes are still much too expensive
kernel state maps vs event buffering is an interesting choice. We've been seeing more in-memory malware in our CI/CD pipelines lately that never touches disk or network - any thoughts on extending this to userspace memory introspection?
In my city there is an absolutely massive pick-your-own-parts yard. I believe they get most of their vehicles from the state-owned insurance company after the insurance company is done harvesting parts from write offs (which they do sell as a side-revenue stream). The pick-a-part facility is cleverly located next door to a steel mill. When a vehicle is done at the part facility it gets stripped and recycled. They don’t need to get shipped, they just pick them up with a forklift and move them over to the lot next door.
So they choose worse - to use untrusted channels?

This is a phenomenal level of stupidity - to use illegal channels of communication because of the bad vibes they are feeling from other people?

Did it help? How many adversary spy agencies has duplicate signal accounts for these officials and see all of the communication live?

I think some foreign leaders probably are reading summaries of these messages in complete disbelief and amusement.
Today's situation is not very similar. Previously we worried about specific threats. The Axis Powers, the Soviet world and its influence, even nuclear war. We had a pretty good characterization of what the threat was, even if it was devastating, even if we didn't have a great plan to prevent it. We knew how it would manifest.

Today we are facing a sort of nebulous destabilization of social institutions and norms that seems to be related to digital computing and communication technologies but we can't nail down what particular aspects cause the problem or how it manifests. We are not sure if any particular problem is related to The Problem or not. Some people don't believe that The Problem exists at all. We have no idea what the consequences could be if The Problem is not addressed, nor do we have a good way to tell if it's currently getting worse, barring some kind of unexpected catastrophe like a bunch of high-ranking government officials accidentally inviting a journalist to an illegal chat room where they are planning air strikes.

Perhaps none of this means that The Problem is worse than anything we have faced before, or even as bad. But humans have always gotten through our problems by turning our intellect onto them, and it frightens us when our best weapon doesn't seem to be working.

What is the Internet doing to society? That's the trillion-dollar question.
It’s not like there is a huge pool of teenagers who would be out taking these jobs if the law allowed them to take them.

It makes very little sense at all, unless the next step after this is to make government assistance conditioned on family work seeking.
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

This link isn't anything that could be considered news; it's an editorial from Twitter. The decision to use or not use a politically charged term such as "genocide" to describe a real-world phenomenon is not insightful.
That's Gondry at his most Gondryesque. There are connected themes in some of his other music videos:

The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0

Daft Punk - Around The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0HSD_i2DvA

The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE
Even the US government has to buy these sorts of rights.

Technically, they don’t need permission, but if they want access to the documentation, that costs extra. And sometimes it’s not available at any cost.
Also used to be very common in Hungarian villages, basically houses would have benches in front of the fences facing the street and people would hang out there in the afternoon. As a kid I remember watching the cows get herded back from the field while sitting there, people biking and saying hi, on the way to and from the store etc.

Nowadays this is mostly dead even in villages. Old grannies watch daytime TV Turkish soap operas, younger folks are on their phones, they anyway work in the nearby towns etc.