skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that in USA "You're brown, I don't like you" is terrorism.
Case in point: how many of the best minds left OpenAI when it restructured?
This is HN. Nobody here understands how "plastic crap from China" is what keeps poor people alive.

There are folks who earn $1000 per month who also occasionally want to buy a birthday gift for their nephew.
I advise everyone to just occasionally go to a budget store and walk around looking at the customers.
The license is actually pretty restrictive: you can only use this if you own a small company or work for government / non-profit.

Most average human's (including myself) can't use the source code in any way:

> You may use the software under this license only if (1) your company has less than 1 million USD (2024) total revenue in the prior tax year, and less than 10 million USD (2024) GMV (Gross Merchandise Value), or (2) you are a non-profit organization or government entity.
He suggested infestation with bird flu which would kill 80% of the infected birds and creates the risk pf s new pandemic.

He employed the guy who faked the vaccines cause autism study to research vaccine safety.

He favors Vitamin A over vaccines for measles treatment.

Worked out great

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574847
Talking about grindsets, ARR, DAU and getting up at 4:30am may be seen as good content for a twitter thread, but most grown adults cringe when they read copy and pasted fortune cookie wisdom memes.

I would agree, talking about actual human stuff related to an actually interesting topic was a wasted oportunity. Nobody actually cares what the numbers on the app are, least of all admissions officers.
May you never need a surgery I disapprove of.
Complaining about the for loop behaviour seems odd. Variables declared in the expression section of the loop are scoped to the loop body - this is generally reasonable and the least likely to produce errors.

Notably, Go initially decided to stick with the C-style approach and have the scope be outside the loop, and has since decided that the tiny performance improvement this provides isn't worth the many many times it's tripped people up, and has changed the semantics in recent versions: https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview
Swartz was acting to make locked-up information (information derived from research largely paid for with tax dollars) free, because he believed it was an injustice to charge people for it.

Stanley was hacking Paypal and defacing other people's forums and websites, for the lulz.

While I think it's safe to say both committed crimes, I'm a lot more sympathetic to Swartz than to Stanley. Anonymous is a bit more grey: they perhaps exposed things that needed to be exposed, but they were often indiscriminate and hurt people in the process.

This isn't politics or hypocrisy; it's thinking critically about different circumstances and applying common-sense ethics and morality.
A low quality complaints article that a LLM could write.

Why do we allow people like that to cause global warming and chop down the rainforest for soy latte when a complaints-oriented LLM could output the same zzz-tier slop posting as a million of his kind, all at the cost of much lower footprint?
This is completely wrong. For example, you can increase the amount of oil or butter in a recipe, doubling or tripling its calorie count, and you would never be able to tell from a picture.
"That there’s a ‘there’ there to it."

WTF does this mean? This sentence is grammatically incorrect.
How is Microsoft so consistently terrible at naming things? Is there an internal group who's sole job is to ensure names have conflicting meaning?
Well, Yes. But users today are used to everything being saved remotely, especially on a website. I think customers would be very angry if suddenly their data were gone because a sync didn't go through and data were lost because they cleaned their cache on perhaps another site that then affected all sites.

People do have higher expectations on software than they used to have. There are also other issues with syncable states than the OP wrote about. Just imagine that you upgrade your api, you will have to be very backwards compatible for a long time or force users to update their web apps when they come online again.

It's easy to mess up service workers and it's possible to put stuff in a state which is almost unable to recover from unless the users affected clear their cache and then risk losing all of their data. Stuff like that can't happen with a normal web app.

While all of these things are certainly possible, I also do think that the development time is longer. You will have a hard time to compete with businesses that don't care about local first stuff since they can pump out features in a higher rate than you can because you have to care about states in a much deeper sense.

It makes sense for some apps to be local first, but not really for that many imho.
I recall employee pricing being a marketing point in the past. I’m not sure there’s anything unusual about this.
According to Matt Damon (in one of many interviews) a lot of movies were produced with the second revenue stream (vhs/dvd) being part of the calculations, that is why we now get a lot less variety and alternative movies made, that second revenue stream doesn’t exist any more (I assume streaming pays very little in comparison).
Show HN: VNDB MCP Server – Connect Claude AI to the Visual Novel Database
Show HN: VNDB MCP Server - Connect Claude AI to the Visual Novel Database

I built a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows Claude AI to interact with the Visual Novel Database (VNDB) API. With this integration, users can search for visual novels and get detailed information directly through Claude.

Key features:
- Search visual novels by title, tags, or other criteria
- Retrieve comprehensive details about specific VNs
- Query optimization through built-in caching functionality

I'm actively looking for feedback on this project!

GitHub: https://github.com/TANABEDAIGAKU/vndb-mcp
I disagree. I definitely have the curiosity to break into things all the time. There's a difference between unlocking a car, leaving a note saying "I unlocked your car" and locking it again, and unlocking it to crash it.
Related

> The US president, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, said the rollout of his tariffs is "going very well", adding that he is open to "phenomenal" offers from countries to negotiate down the new rates.

"phenomenal" offers continue
I don't think the article is saying that the prosecutor is 25 years old. It's saying that he has 25 years of experience as a prosecutor.
Funnily enough, it keeps inventing different excuses to come up with a particular number that is more or less consistent :)

On other tries of the same prompt it happily adds oil, but miscounts other parts
> And that's assuming the revenue generated would be the same every year forever, when in practice it declines over time.

For the crown jewel IP that the studios are most interested in protecting, the opposite of this assumption is true. Star Wars, for example, is making more money than ever. Streaming revenues will probably invalidate that assumption for an even wider pool of back catalog properties.
Since I started using Prettier, I've moved permanently into the no-semicolons camp. Prettier catches ASI hazards and inserts semicolons where needed, and I've never seen it fail. Whichever camp you're in though, put it in your linter, don't leave it to chance. React code is full of array destructuring, that particular hazard is prone to bite you if you ignore it (tho it's still a little contrived if your usual style is avoiding mutable variables).
I legitimately drove full month with near zero interventions in FSD. The second statement is achievable in my opinion. Most people have not experienced hw4 with latest releases.
Aaron Swartz believed it was unjust to lock up research papers behind paywalls when most of that research was paid for with tax dollars.

I don't see how you can seriously compare him to someone hacking Paypal and defacing people's websites for fun. Well, unless you're just trying to argue in bad faith, that is.
Unit tests which test random inputs across different sizes (e.g. with different number of heads, head sizes, embedding dimensions, etc.) and compare two different implementations' output to each other (e.g. attention implemented manually in an eager fashion vs a bunch of accelerated attention libraries).

Also more integration-like tests where I take an already pretrained model, load it using an established library (e.g. Huggingface Transformers) and I also load the very same checkpoint into my reimplementation (where I vary the implementation, e.g. swap the attention implementation) and compare the outputs. Funnily enough, I recently even found a bug in HF's Transformers this way when I updated to a newer version and my previously matching output was not matching anymore.
Grep is a tool. This is a service.
Why are soap operas popular on tv, or reality tv... Or why do people listen music on radio. I think people inherently like stimulation that requires minimum effort put into it...
Yeah, it's typical Microsoft brand confusion, though El Reg is certainly happy to use it for clickbait.
Just like we'll love the Windows 11 taskbar.

Just like we'll love not being able to uninstall Copilot.

Just like we'll love being forced to create a Microsoft Account on install.
I postulate they may handle written language quite well, within reasonable bounds. Re convergence, turns out it's much more convenient to let conflict resolution be deferred.
Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market
Patently not true. Pokémon Go, for example, wouldn’t fit several of the points.

> The inevitable, dehumanising consequence of it.

> Rubbish in and rubbish out of it.

> Nobody asked for it, and nobody wants it.

> A thousand no’s, but ‘yes’ when shareholders start clamouring for it.

> A decommissioned nuclear power station required to power it.

> Not to mention millions of gallons of water required to cool it.
We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
I gave up with all modern Remote desktop and switched back to vnc and its been working flawlessly. I use tailscale to make the vnc ports accessible to my private network and I'm able to just connect via tightvnc. Remote desktop was only ever complicated because you had to open ports and make your machines accesible online, and with tailscale solving that whole mess for me its as simple as connect to this ip and its done. Thats all the paid options ever took care for you, the core functionality hasnt been changed in forever, unless i guess you care about extreme low latency which products like parsec offer.
https://archive.is/NdRzJ
It's a bait: Shenmue, Kingdom Come and Baldur’s Gate are there just so people are commenting how it can't be true
It is 2025. I go to a random store and buy a laptop. It comes with Windows. I put on a pendrive of a Linux distribution that claims to be secure boot compatible. I reboot. It doesn't work -- it goes straight into Windows.

I see the BIOS offers a boot menu -- "press F12 during boot to select boot device", it clearly says during POST. I press F12. I choose the USB Sandisk whatever pendrive where my Linux distribution is. It doesn't work -- it still boots straight into Windows. There's no error message whatsoever, it just goes into Windows.

I continue to peruse the BIOS. I find an option to wipe the internal storage. I do it. There is no Windows anymore. I plug in the pendrive and reboot the system. It doesn't work -- it goes straight into a BIOS setup page called "Recovery". It offers me to do hardware diagnostics, as if I had a broken laptop screen or something. Not once it mentions anything about there having been a secure boot failure.

What is this if not blocking people from installing Linux ? All of this used to frigging work. I would put the pendrive and it would boot Linux no questions asked. Or at worst I would need to hold some key while booting. Or in worst case situation I could use _frigging Windows itself_ to boot from a difference device on next boot (they STILL offer this). It. Used. To. Work.

At the end and by pure luck I find out that, like many other computers sold today, and as per the "recommendation" of Microsoft, this computer does not have the "Microsoft UEFI CA key" enabled by default. It is completely logical that I have to enable something about Microsoft UEFI on my BIOS to allow Linux to boot. Completely logical.

Ah, and I get a million warnings while doing that, clearly saying that "This will reduce the security of my computer". I got less warnings when I wiped the disks than when I enabled the MS UEFI CA. Seriously. Don't even think of trying to disable Secure Boot . Your will lose your data faster than if you literally sanitize your disks. Apparently.

And worst of it, the poor distributions that are "Secure Boot" compatible needed to _castrate_ themselves in order for MS to sign them. For example, Suse doesn't support friggin' _hibernation_ anymore. No more NVIDIA drivers. No more loading kernel modules. "Root" is no longer "root" if you boot with Secure Boot. Lockdown is mandatory despite the fact that Linus himself said it was a stupid dumb move to tie Lockdown to Secure Boot status. It happened anyway. That is the power of MS.

And despite the mandatory castrating, MS still goes and ALTERS THE DEAL, since now Secure Boot devices ANYWAY STILL NO LONGER BOOT LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS BY DEFAULT.

Call this whatever you want. I call it Secure Boot working as intended. And that is the problem.
There were several people who indeed quit.
You’re talking about individual piracy. I’m talking about huge scale corporate piracy, which is already happening (laundered through AI algorithms and other ways) and would happen a lot more if copyright vanished.

Part of what muddies the water here too is that copyright lasts too long. Companies like Disney lobbied for this successfully. It should have a time horizon of maybe 25 years, 50 at most.
Yes. Internally you’d be amazed how many names are clobbered and how hard it is to find anything.

The number of different uses of “subscription” or “container” is something that stood out to me.
You basically just described rebellious youth, which we have all been at some point in our lives. And this statement is complete and utter bs. The problem is that comrade muskov is not a technical person, he is just a "marketing strategist" (quotation marks since I don't want to offend people who actually know what they are doing). Here's the painful truth: most governments have appalling security practices and it's a miracle that the world still exists. Finding vulnerabilities or leaks is not a hard task and it only requires patience - there are dozens of such examples in my own country alone and the only reason no one has sounded the alarm is because two things are going to happen: media scandal for 2 days, then everyone will forget about it and the second thing that will happen is that whoever rings the alarm will be dragged in by security agencies for years to get questioned about what they were looking for and they will not accept "I know you are morons and I don't trust you with handling my data in a service that is completely open to the general public". "Run-ins with the law" has nothing to do with talent and if anything, it's the absence of a talent if that resulted in "run-ins with the law". That is a clear indication that the people involved have no idea what they are doing and just managed to connect two simple dots after a "complete 2 hour hacking crash course - FREE, pls subscribe for more". The simple fact is that musk has no goddamn clue about what he is doing or talking about: "the government does not run relational databases". Right comrade, cause precisely the usa spending service which you are referring to is not a django app using psql: https://github.com/fedspendingtransparency/usaspending-api/b...
I like your formulation but I find point 1 unconvincing. Does it still hold if you paint from a reference image beside the easel? Or projected into the canvas? Or if it’s not a “real” painter but a low-wage laborer? Two of them side by side? A hundred of them?

Where I’m going is I don’t think it makes sense for the moral / legal acceptability of a in image to depend on the mechanical means which created it. I think we have to judge based on the image itself. If the human-generated version and AI-generated version both show the same level of interpretation when viewed, I don’t think point 1 supports treating them differently.

And, as you say, point 2 is mostly congruent, but I have to point out that LLMs are not merely compressed versions of the training material, but instead generalized learnings based on the training data.

ML “neurons” may function differently than our own, and transformer architecture is likely different from the way we think, but the learning of generalized patterns plus details sufficient to reconstitute specific instances seems pretty similar.

Think about painting Indiana Jones; I’ll bet you could paint the handle of the whip in great detail. But it’s likely that’s because you remember a specific image of his whip handle; it’s because you know what whip handles look like in general. ML models work similarly (at some level of abstraction).

I’m left unconvinced that there is anything substantially different about human and AI generated art, and also that we can only judge IP position of either based on the work itself.
> Rubbish in and rubbish out of it.

Except it’s not rubbish out. The output is astoundingly good - something I would have considered science fiction a few years ago.

It’s not perfect. But as a tool in certain contexts, it is already proving its worth. And it’s only going to get better.

Sorry that you’re sick of it, but I think this tech is here to stay.
For backend work, I'd recommend giving C# a look. Syntactically similar to TypeScript[0] but for any serious work, having runtime types and some of the facilities of .NET (e.g. Roslyn, expression trees, Entity Framework Core, threads, etc.) is really nice.

I recently moved from a C# backend startup to a TS backend startup and the lack of runtime types is a real friction point I feel every day with how the code has to be written (e.g. end up writing a lot of Zod; other projects have different and varying types of drudgery with regards to meta-typing for runtime)

[0] https://typescript-is-like-csharp.chrlschn.dev/
So which Remote Desktop are they talking about?

I use a "Remote Desktop" to connect to my headless windows box. It has even a Mac OS app.

Is that the remote desktop they're talking about? Or some other that I didn't know about.
Slander (or more properly in this case "libel") involves saying things that aren't true. Is that actually happening here?
How might tariffs affect the production of pencils?
I think this about wayland vs X11, where the wayland protocol is local only and remote access generally involves sending pixels as opposed to draw commands around (which, unless you have a very good network connection, is usually the better option anyway, pretty much every time I tried to use X11 over the network it was unusably slow. Wayland also doesn't exclude being able to have remote windows as opposed to a whole remote desktop using pixel-slinging, but I don't know if any actual implementations support that).
Harvard's rolling over was particularly annoying, they have a 52 billion dollar endowment! If any university could afford to make a stand and lose funding over it it's Harvard. What's the point of this massive pile of money if you never dip into it in exceptional circumstances?
For those who were too young in 2012, here is some background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29082014
It's because a good majority of these schools have thousands of applicants who might as well be perfect across the board grade and test scores wise, so its either they flip a coin, or choose some other standard.

The tests need to be harder, but people would complain.

I didn't study for the ACT at all (literally went in without knowing anything about it) and got a 35. It's a trivial exam.
Of course. Has anyone ever found a case of a license that not one or the other?

The Free Software Definition and the Open Source Definition are structured differently, but pretty obviously map from one to another.
For ever 100 applicants 3 seats are available. If you are "average" amongst the pool of applicants there are 46 better people than you that won't get in either.
Copyrights and Trademarks were already a mess and now we have AI built on top of that mess.

The whole thing should be public domained and we just start fresh. /s
> You can just ask for whatever changes you want.

Yes, as long as what you're asking for is Indiana Jones.
Sure they did. They voted that they were fine with either option.
Technically we're subjects but the King has zero executive powers. His soft powers are perhaps another topic. Point being we're in effect, citizens and subject to the (very variable) laws of the country like any other country. Currently freedom of expression in the UK is highly problematic but that's a temporary issue with the current administration. No subjects or citizens in any country are ever free as in free beer. So I suppose you're correct.
Won’t argue with it being overdone, but it’s in reference to Ginsberg. Not necessarily complimentary. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
but the process to serve 5 terabytes hasn't.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there_is_no_there_there
I think both of those things do give people that rush of power and control over others. Certainly one is harmless and the other... not so much.
This is clickbait. They will remove the Remote Desktop app from the Microsoft Store. They are not removing Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc.exe), which is what most people think of when they hear "Remote Desktop".
> The t-shirt metaphor is completely unjust - there is no value there for national security nor strategic autonomy.

And yet tariffs were put on countries where clothes are generally manufactured and imported into the US from, which is why companies like Nike got walloped on the stock market.

> The reality is that the US is not the ultimate global hegemon anymore and therefore offshoring industries cannot simply be viewed through an economic lens.

Trump et al put a 37% import tariff on Botswana. What national security interest is served by that?

Israel got a 17% tariff place on it, but Iran is part of the general 10% tariff list. If these are about national security, why does Israel have a higher number than Iran?

There are valid reasons for tariffs:

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/when-are-tariffs-good

The universal tariffs that have been acted don't seem to have been done for those reasons.
Remember, being terminally online is a choice. There's nothing to be bored of you don't choose to be constantly confronted by it. The current thing is only the current thing if you choose to surround yourself by people who deeply care about the current thing.
US NSA Director Timothy Haugh Fired
It's a literary conceit:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/there_is_no_there_there
Another common problem with Numbers is the low performance as row count grow and calculations complexity rise.

It can make some very pretty sheets but don't count on it if you have needs for something like pivot tables (which it doesn't have natively).

I think Apple is fucking everyone with those apps. They are not good enough for serious work but decent enough that people will use them; all to get a built-in lock in because of course it only runs on Macs...