skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It irritates me to read that people have lost their pension. Surely this should read, the pension fund has lost their pension due to "it safely breach"?
If a bank gets robbed they don't steal my money but the banks right?
Doing a crime when underage doesn't stop it from being a crime even if tons of people have done it in the past. Bragging about committing a federal crime is not something we should normalise regardless of the neurodivergence (or lack thereof) of the individual.

It does seem to me that some people in this thread are condoning unauthorized computer access (which is a federal crime).
Nowadays gamers buy 100 euros games to have first day play, and yes they proudly have shelves with games for every console generation.

As someone that was part of game development community (Flipcode, Gamedev portals, IGDA), demoscene, before FOSS became mainstream, my point of view is that both communities don't really overlap on point of views towards software and consumer experience.
I believe whichever party attempts to do this will be voted out in 2 years. It's really really hard to get people to accept a lower standard of living. The only scenario I can think of is during wartime, but the US is pissing off all of their allies.
I'll see what I can cobble together somewhere in the course of the weekend/next week ;) Probably need to file off some rough edges and hardcoded stuff.
I see nothing wrong with prejudice against those working and arguing policies that, inadvertently or purposefully, keep minorities out of tech.

I have a question for you. Is there anything humanizing about the hiring process? Or is it one of the most dehumanizing things most engineers experience?

I look forward to you and your army of white men marching on me saying they're tired of racial discrimination in the workplace. I'll send you guys right over to HR, and tell them that you're tired of me hiring so many black people. I'm sure it'll go well.
Boring or the most simple solution? Okkam’s Razor e.g. and on top of that I feel like problems are nowadays not looked anymore at something to be solved and forgotten but a quest? But I get your point!
30% retention means that 70% of people who have paid for it didn't consider it valuable enough to pay for.

The $2m figure is unverified but, even if it was, turnover is meaningless without knowing their expenses. If they're burning through £2.1m in LLM compute and marketing then they're losing money.

Plus, the guy seems like a dick so I'm taking his story with an enormous pinch of salt.
Remember that there aren't as many drivers in VMS core as in Linux (were just amd DRM driver dwarfs some older kernel versions), and ACPI for all its complexity also handles as portability layer between a lot of differences that in VMS' past involved having to release an entire special release of the system just to get it to boot, now covered by ACPI support.

Also, we don't know how much of that is test code, samples (for testing, for example)
Dismantle many democracies in your time? Then not that similar.
Reordering of issues in a milestone is not working
The problem is, as always, insurance. Entering an unsafe building in an employment context without adequate PPE will kill off any claims for workplace injury. The pizza driver however will most likely be covered by some kind of government scheme, because him getting injured is not tied to his employment.

It's the same why store clerks are explicitly banned from intervening with thefts or fights among unruly customers. When they get injured because they willfully entered a fight, they have zero claims to make (other than trying to sue a piss poor drug addict, which is pointless) - only a security guard is insured against that.
It's incredible to see such an amount of Transputer work without seemingly mentioning either Occam or the microcode instructions regarding channels. The fact the Transputer was intended to be a high performance design is so often lost, and the development of the floating point units proved one of the more successful bits of the entire enterprise.

The impressive part here isn't so much the emulator, but all the rest. A pascal compiler for the Transputer as a teenager in early 90s Mexico? That's brilliantly unlikely.
And what qualifies a nerd and hacker to audit systems whose full impact they don’t know and whose programming language they aren’t experienced in?

Would you ask a rocket scientist to do a brain surgery?
I really don't get why we got here. The big 5 providers have enough money to hire/poach some scraping/indexing experts. They could avoid lots of grief and issues by just indexing in a non stupid way. Even if they still ignored robots.txt, they could fly under the radar with a few well placed exceptions. But now they're risking losing easy access to a lot of the internet by just doing a really bad job of a thing they really rely on.

I get that it could be incompetence in one or two places, but as far as I know all the big providers fail here... so am I missing something obvious? Is it really just greed and vc money burning scrapefest?
There was another concept trying to operate on a logical view of the world, called copyright. It tried to establish a few simple rules, with the goal to promote art and science. However copyright was long ago perverted by capitalism to instead promote corporate profits.

Generative AI exposes how broken copyright law is, and how much reform is needed for it to serve either it's original or perverted purpose.

I would not blame generative AI as much as I would blame the lack of imagination, forethought and indeed arrogance among lawmakers, copyright lobbyists and even artists to come up with better definitions of what should have been protected.
True, virtually all companies harvesting LLM training datasets don't bother honouring even the most permissive licenses, like MIT or BSD - Microsoft leading the pack with Github and Copilot.

You're right to point out that the tide is shifting again. Perhaps at the end of this bubble, society and/or the behemoth companies will recognise the value and help build a more sustainable future for artists and creators. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Hardly just politicians

Seamus was coming out of the pub with his son when he stopped and put an arm around the youngster. He nodded towards the village in front of them and said, “You know, I built half the homes in this village but nobody calls me Seamus the homebuilder.”

Then with a wave of his arm, he said, “And I worked on half the roads in this village but nobody calls me Seamus the roadbuilder.”

Seamus sighed, put his two hands on his son’s shoulders and, looking him hard in the eye, said, “But you f**k one sheep …”
Hire a burglar to give home security advice.
My main lesson is that in (esp. macro) economics nobody knows what's really going on. Too many, too diverse things happening at breakneck speed.
OK, I concede. :-)
I’m happy in spend my youth during the 90s so none of the stupid things I did is on the internet or on digital photography. All those happy silly things are tucked away on analog print somewhere only I can access it.

Being a Xennial is truely a blessing and I regret for kids not to have that anymore.
Show HN: My weekend project, WildBerry – BerryisWild
Over this past month I had the idea to build 100% opensource Mit opensource payment infrastructure.

Right now most sdk, have a vendor lock-in and they make it impossible to export your data..

So I built Wildberry, an open-source alternative to RevenueCat—a modern in-app purchase and subscription management system built with React and TypeScript. I coded/designed from 12PM -> 11PM on Saturday and 8AM -> 11PM on Sunday. There are still tons of features missing (I'm working on support for PlayStore billing next!) but I think it's reached that - buzzword alert! - MVP stage where I want to see if anyone's actually going to use the darn thing.

Here's an example Wildberry link: https://github.com/ProjWildBerry/wildberry . Here are some screenshots I took while making it: https://github.com/ProjWildBerry/wildberry/blob/main/front-e...

I think it has some potential. What do you guys think?
They'd get training presumably. I wasn't qualified for my current job. Luckily they have training! And people to help.
There is a huge middle ground between "static image with another sliding static image" and "1 year of drawing per 4 second Ghibli masterpiece". From your comment is almost looks like you're suggesting that you have to choose either one or the other, but that is of course not true.

I bet that a good animator could make a really impressive 4-second scene if they were given a month, instead of a year. Possibly even if they were given a day.

So if we assume that there is not a binary "cheap animation vs masterpiece" but rather a sort of spectrum between the two, then the question is: at what point do enough people stop seeing the difference, that it makes economic sense to stay at that level, if the goal is to create as much high-quality content as possible?
> Do their economies look healthy?

It's all relative. Relative to what? I think its healthier than it would have been had there been no manufacturing at all.

> Are those manufacturing jobs attractive?

Not all but some are for sure. I'm sure there are enough people working for Volkswagen, BMW or Bosch that earn well and prefer working for them than doing something else.

> Are the Germans and the Japanese richer?

Again, richer than what? I think they're richer than they would have been had they not been manufacturing anything. If you're asking whether they're richer than Americans, no they're not, but that's mostly due to historical reasons (U.S dollar is the world reserve currency).
-as a democratic american - why bother?

-roughly half of the us populace supports the current authoritarian regime and the other half's senators and representatives are largely useless and aren't even doing what they can except for say wearing an adult diaper while giving a 25 hour speech

-I fully plan on eventually moving to canada (or elsewhere) when the time comes - much easier to move than any other option
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My cupboard server at home is 2007 vintage ThinkPad I inherited from my father's discarded machines. The battery is gone and the CPU fan is shot so the processor sits at about 80 degrees C and gets thermally throttled very aggressively indeed should any work come its way (little does, and Debian doesn't ask much of it either). I didn't hold out much hope for its longevity but the damn thing just keeps running.

I wouldn't be surprised if its DVD drive is also okay and if you gave me a disc I could read the stuff off of it for you. Now there's something not everyone can do these days.
While technologically cool the app is bullshit. 90% accurate isn't accurate enough for the job and it's effectively making shit up.

Are you eating a 10% calorie deficit or a 10% calorie surplus? Cal AI can't tell you.

Not possible to know accurately enough from a picture. Potentially ever.
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The context is that administration bypassed the typically vetting processes for almost everyone and is flaunting various rules openly (see signal controversy). Those processes for vetting are important to ensure that folks won't betray the U.S.A. and can be trusted.

This individual might be highly talented and completely trustworthy, but because of how the administration is operating opens everything up for scrutiny including things that should have a bit of scrutiny.
He is probably more of a menace now than before tho
> If US companies can't train on copyrighted material China will.

Where are BSA, MPAA and RIAA when you need them ?
Gabe here, one of the hatchet founders. I'm not very familiar with these runner so someone please correct me if I missed something.

These look like great projects to get something running quickly, but likely will experience many of the challenges Alexander mentioned under load. They look quite similar to our initial implementation using FOR UPDATE and maintaining direct connections from workers to PostgreSQL instead of a central orchestrator (a separate issue that deserves its own post).

One of the reasons for this decision to performantly support more complex scheduling requirements and durable execution patterns -- things like dynamic concurrency [0] or rate limits [1] which can be quite tricky to implement on a worker-pull model where there will likely be contention on these orchestration tables.

They also appear to be pure queues to run individual tasks in python only. We've been working hard on our py, ts, and go sdks

I'm excited to see how these projects approach these problems over time!

[0] https://docs.hatchet.run/home/concurrency
[1] https://docs.hatchet.run/home/rate-limits
That's called the naturalistic fallacy, and there's a clue in the name that should indicate how reliable an argument it is.

And re "nutritionally inferior", every dietetics and nutrition peak body on the planet agrees that a fully vegan diet is suitable for all people throughout all stages of life. In fact, billions of people have already lived perfectly normal, perfectly healthy vegan and vegetarian lives throughout history. If your diet — any diet — is nutritionally incomplete it's because you made the wrong choices.
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To me its more about the intent and actions. If you figured out how to hack something, and possibly leave a note for the admin to fix their systems, thats one thing.

If you figure out how to hack something, and your first thought is to trash / destroy the system, thats the crime.

So personally:
> "where Stanley, at 15, bragged about fucking up servers" is more damning to me then the actual hacking part.
What if we made advertising illegal?
According to the previous party that ruled the country, my entire existence was "ideological" and I was a "rainbow disease".

And then those same politicals complain, why everything is so tribal :P
Half the voters. 36% didn’t even vote.
There wasn't anything intentional about my question. I just didn't understand what thebparebt commenter meant!

I don't think I understand how your reply relates to the question either, though, because I was asking what it means to see other galaxies "from above" or "from below," when it seemed like that had to do with which direction they appear to be spinning from here.

Your answer is about what we consider "above us" or "below us," but we can still see a galaxy "below us" "from below" relative to it, if it (or we) are "upside down," and I couldn't figure out how we determine the orientation of "upside down" or "backward" for every other galaxy.
There was an HN story some years ago about the guy who created homebrew -- a Mac app used by a plurality of Google employees -- being rejected from a job at Google. This seems to follow that pattern: it's not enough that you achieve great things and talk/write about your achievement, you have to stroke the egos of people who could have never accomplished what you did, but still have the power to judge you because the bureaucracy has given them that power.
I wouldn't really call it a traditional online shop, more like a file shop. They don't sell anything physical, only digital. If you've created a file on your computer that other people want, you can sell it on Gumroad. Depending on what you're trying to sell, there might be a better platform for the purpose (like Bandcamp for music), but Gumroad is the only one I'm aware of that's intentionally generic to fit many purposes (even if imperfectly).

They also don't do shit like putting DRM on ebooks and you can set the minimum price to zero to turn it into a tipping platform (free download, but with an optional payment).
and those indian made antibiotics sometimes are little different in effectiveness than candy

I dread it when any generic medication I get is made in india or china since the fda doesn't meaningfully regulate/test their stuff
Indeed! The traditional name for the proximity principle is called "cohesion"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion_(computer_science)
First 1-nanometre RISC-V chip made in China with 2D materials
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If you are shocked you might consider getting out of your bubble. A recent poll shows Americans support Trump’s deportation program 58-42: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opinion-poll-trump-economy-tari...

Meanwhile, 68% support the Supreme Court’s ban on Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policies: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4411246-majority-supp...

Universities, as institutions, were actively working against the public on both of these issues, from legal clinics trying to block deportations to extensive programs of racial preferences. It’s not surprising many people don’t want the taxpayer to subsidize that.
What we did was mock it to make the http request blocking.

Alternatively you can use ngrok(or similar) and a test task queue that is calling your service running on localhost tunneled via ngrok.
Show HN: Copy Folder to ChatGPT in 0.6s – OpenRepoPrompt
Over this past month I had the idea to build a 100% open-source MIT-licensed tool to simplify sharing code with LLMs, without the vendor lock-in you get from most SDKs. Right now, it’s way too hard to export your data or work freely with models like o1 PRO or Grok 3, especially since they don’t even have API access.

So I built OpenRepoPrompt, an open-source tool from wildberry-source that serializes files and folders into XML for LLMs. I coded/designed from 12PM -> 11PM on Saturday and 8AM -> 11PM on Sunday. There are still tons of features missing (I'm working on better file filtering next!) but I think it's reached that - buzzword alert! - MVP stage where I want to see if anyone's actually going to use the darn thing.

Here's the OpenPrompt repo: https://github.com/wildberry-source/open-repoprompt. Here are some screenshots I took while making it: https://github.com/wildberry-source/open-repoprompt/raw/main....

I think it has some potential. What do you guys think?
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> If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

I always found this quote fascinating, because it kind of assumes that people obviously wanted cars, but didn't know it.

I often wonder what would happen if we went back to those people, showed them how it is to live in a city now (concrete everywhere, roads everywhere, buildings everywhere) and asked them if they would ever want that.

Sure, not everything was perfect then (and not everything is perfect now). But did they really miss TikTok? Not convinced. We make social networks because it's profitable, not because it's benefiting society. Actually the very first reason why we make tech today is because it's profitable.

Because everybody is addicted to TikTok doesn't mean it's desirable.
We actually have support for that, we just haven't migrated the doc over to v1 yet: https://v0-docs.hatchet.run/home/features/webhooks. We'll send a POST request for each task.

> It is such a better system than dedicated long running worker listeners, because then you can just scale your HTTP workers as needed.

This depends on the use-case - with long running listeners, you get the benefit of reusing caches, database connections, and disk, and from a pricing perspective, if your task spends a lot of time waiting for i/o operations (or waiting for an event), you don't get billed separately for CPU time. A long-running worker can handle thousands of concurrently running functions on cheap hardware.

> I also find that DAGs tend to get ugly really fast because it generally involves logic. I'd prefer that logic to not be tied into the queue implementation because it becomes harder to unit test. Much easier reason about if you have the HTTP endpoint create a new task, if it needs to.

We usually recommend that DAGs which require too much logic (particularly fanout to a dynamic amount of workflows) should be implemented as a durable task instead.
He hacked into PayPal accounts as a kid and now still is messing with people’s lives and livelihoods, the little shit deserves everything he is getting. Bring neurodivergent isn’t a get-out-of-jail free card, bad decisions have consequences.
This is one of the cases I call reality mismatch:

Through evolution we have been programmed to associate music with security of the group being nearby. Now we can listen to music even though the group is very distant in time and space. Maybe it's not a complete reality mismatch because in a sense we are still close to the group through the Internet.

However the positive feelings are over exaggerated given the limited modern benefits.
> A lot of people would say that LLMs generalize pretty well

What do you mean here? The trained model, the inference engine, is the one that makes an LLM for "a lot of people".

> they certainly can understand natural language sequences that are not present in their training data

Keeping the trained model as LLM in mind, I think learning a language includes generalization and is typically achieved by a human, so I'll try to formulate:

Can a trained LLM model learn languages that hasn't been in its training set just by chatting/prompting? Given that any Korean texts were excluded from the training set, could Korean be learned? Does that even work with languages descending from the same language family (Spanish in the training set but Italian should be learned)?
It’s one of my favourite MCP use cases. I have cloned projects and used the file browser MCP for this, but this looks great.

It allows you to ask questions about how an entire system works. For example the other day “this GitHub action requires the binary X. Is it in the repo, downloading it, or building it on deploy, or something else.” Or “what tools does this repo used to implement full text search? Give me an overview”
We have some hints to be skeptical on the prospect, I would say.

Like the fact we can't even explain an everyday phenomena all humans experience like consciousness. If you don't understand a common phenomena that (supposedly) occurs in the brain, you have a fundamental lack of knowledge on how the brain itself works, and thus simulating it would not be a thing possible to do.

Another hint is the fact that we can't currently even simulate a single cell because of how much complex they are, and the most advanced neuron models (like hodgkin-huxley) are still gross simplifications of how we think a real neuron works. We don't have any proof that this is a possible thing, it is something people believe it is the case, but pretty much could be a dead-end.

Other is that we don't have a way to reliably know the state of the alive brains without modifying them, so reproducing one with fidelity appears to be very hard or maybe even impossible.

And so on.
People will defend or denounce hackers not on the actual activity but will base it on politics.

Ic someone aligns with the hacker hacktivist then that person is good. (All the Anonymous activity a decade back), if they don’t like their politics then they want to bring the weight of federal regulation down on them.

People are hypocrites.

For example, Manning, Schwartz. they are typically seen in good light.

Then there is the scourge of those who hack for money (ransomware) that just about everyone hates.
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