skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s fair to be curious, but at some point it’s also reasonable to expect people are capable of using Google to look up unfamiliar terms. I'm not gatekeeping—just, like, put in a bit of effort?

Threads like this work better when they can go deeper without rehashing the basics every time.
Text to speech has improved a lot since then.
So, after long years of accepting cancel culture, kicking off people from universities since they happened to write a twitter comment that was not aligned with the current "right" way of thinking, universities suddenly are protectors of free speech. Well...

Who is going to buy this?
It is legitimately like the least interesting topic of convo. When someone says "maybe they could use Aai to...." I tune out immediately
Nice, no sooner then Linux forcing Remote Desktop on us to the exclusion of Network Transparency, Microsoft is obsoleting it.

So, will Linux follow Microsoft and move to something else ? That seems to be what the Linux Foundation is good for.
And at that point they can ask for anything because the alternative would be rewriting all your code.
This. There is a joke that Germany delivered Porsches in the 1990s and hot .com stocks in return, and then until 2008 they got CDOs in return. And t-bills -- the US has been a major exporter of TBills.

Fwiw, the US has a big surplus in services,so it'll be interesting to see if other countries retaliate against that.
Rationalist Jesus preaches the gospel of Effective Altruism and pure consequentialism. Rob and beat your neighbors in service of them, that's real love.
The problem with advertising is that it works. As long as that is true, no good outcomes. "It's the credulity, stupid."
What is pathetic about reporting facts?
Australian PM promises Port of Darwin to be returned to Australian hands
> Well, that wasn't in your comment. :P

Acting like a LLM now :P

> Did you tell the AI the profiler results and ask for ways to make it faster?

Looking for ways to turn a 10 minute job into a couple days?
Yikes :-(
This article doesn't seem especially pernicious. The subject matter is newsworthy. The article has a position which you may or may not agree with but it's not unusual in that regard. It's probably slightly better in that regard than most pieces of writing that have a bearing on politics.

> They're going full mask off, even.

What does this mean?
I don’t see why you believe 2 would be true. I expect a strong correlation between the visual appearance of food and its caloric content etc.
I can't work under more than three layers of management, largely because I've found that to be the practical maximum of managers who will care more about my results than whether I'm following the inefficient set of rules laid down when the target results were different.

I don't think this is a problem, exactly. It just means I'm the kind of person who works much better in startups than mega corps. I can't not notice all the ways poorly made rules get in the way of getting things done, but once we hit the fourth layer of management, at least one of them WILL be the kind of manager who has gotten ahead in their career by writing and enforcing rules.

All that means is that the company has grown to the point that it's time for me to move on to the next project.

(And before anybody asks, of course there are some rules that are incredibly important. Many of them are codified as laws. Most of the rest would bring down the company. If I'm not willing to work within those rules, the company is the wrong fit for me from the start, regardless of size.)
China's playbook in a nutshell
Maybe that is what it was, you need to flash the BIOS ?

For the tech people at work it was not a too difficult thing to do.

I am no longer there, so I have no one to ask now :(
Yeah, I am disgusted by what this guy and his fellow DOGErs are doing today, but I really hope I -- currently in my mid-40s -- wouldn't be judged by how I acted in high school.

Though the kind of hacking he did sounds like it was worse than anything I did online in the 90s with my 28.8 modem. I mean, he committed actual computer crimes, and not for any sort of noble purpose.
Do we speak about "black" ("red" in Chinese classification) tea?

To be honest, I've tried many red teas from China and all of them... Very Chinese.

It is not bad at all (some of them are very interesting!, but it is other style compared to Ceylon, Darjeeling and Assam teas (which are not the same too, but close to each other than to Chinese red tea).

Different styles of green ad white teas I like too, but as specialty, not on as day-to-day many-time-a-day go-to drink.
Fentanyl adulterators, market creators and resellers certainly do, for higher margin selling and/or increased volume.
Hacking Democracy: Russia's Digital War on German and European Elections
Rust :)

Seriously speaking, they don't need to name "it" because all they've written applies equally to whatever the latest mass hysteria is about.
Maybe they should start a new community and call it the AI-mish people ...
We should create a new and better economy.
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It would be a bad idea to read any of this code if you're working on a competitor based on the license terms.
I love using it. It helped me resuscitate a bricked PC two days ago. Yesterday it cleaned up and explained some robocopy code for me. And today it taught me how to download several less powerful versions of itself to my PC to run locally.
Admittedly webhook workers aren't exactly this since we send multiple tasks to the same endpoint, where I believe you can register one endpoint per task with Cloud Task. Although, this is not a large change.
I have the impression that the entire concept of "store" as seen in Windows is going downhill. No enterprise is able to use it, and that's the stronghold of Microsoft. Also generally less and less applications there, so giving up on this particular one is not even so surprising. After all you still have the "normal" Remote Desktop, and yes the 365 app which is the enterprisey one - expect it to grow all those missing limbs.
American system of admissions to me seems so weird. Is it only there that unis accept mostly on extra things and not grades/test scores itself?

I'm Polish, here the only thing that matters is your final test scores, and nothing else. And I think it's same in the most of Europe and Asia too, right?

My impression is that American unis care way more about social aspect and so on, which I don't understand (but I guess it's a fine way of looking at things, too.)
China to impose additional 34% tariffs on all US goods as countermeasure
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> You know what I’m talking about, even though I’ve not mentioned it.

Yes. That's a really long setup for a bad yo momma joke...
Our company was scammed (invoice scam) and talking to police it’s actually easy. They transfer it to another local bank account (normally stolen), then immediately transfer it overseas. At that point it’s more or less gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
Or doom-scroll algorithms?

Back when cryptocurrencies and especially ethereum was new I had similar feelings for it like I have for Gen AI now. I feel that it has this enormous potential if we use it in reasonable and down-to-earth ways. With cryptocurrencies the uses turned out to be all but reasonable.

I still have a feeling that ethereum could be quite useful but I wouldn't touch that industry with a ten foot pole.
>What does this mean?

"to go mask off" means to drop a façade, and show the true nature.

Here, it means they are not even trying to hide what they are doing anymore: Digging into every DOGE employee they can identify, and slandering them for political gain.

Why else would they care what a random administration employee did in this free time when he was 15 years old?

It is disgusting articles like this are what passes as "journalism" these days.
Researchers find exception to scientific law governing heat transfer
How much American media do you consume? Things like movies, tv shows, or music? Or is it mostly home grown? That's America's export, along with software.
lol i remember those days. most XML documents were missing DTDs and schemas (or that third type of schema whose name escapes me) and because the data structure of an XML document didnt map cleanly to lists and hashmaps you needed an ugly hacky xpath to grab whatever data you needed.

Dont even get me started on the mess that was serialisation and deserialization.

It was awful, overengineered design-by-committee mess.

This was only obvious to me in retrospect after I realized that these things didnt have to be complicated.
As I read from the article, Microsoft is basically retiring one of their three Windows clients. I don't see any implications for Linux in that.
> The government threatening legislation unless a company censors in line with the government's wishes is wrong and a violation of the 1st am.

What is the evidence of that? There was proposed legislation, but where was the evidence of "do this or else". Are you saying that the FBI was conspiring with the legislative branch? What evidence is there of that?

I've conceded the potential for a chilling effect three times now, there is a speech issue, but no evidence of a severity even nearly on par.

Look at the lengths you have to go to to get this point, you go and find sources that allege all the same things I've already described but very angrily and then tell me I'm the one too emotionally invested to see this clearly.
Probably you have blocked webgl. Or something else. It loads for me, and I am also on Firefox on windows 11
And if the current laws prevent you from getting a security clearance, then that is what it is. Sure the laws can be changed, but in this context it’s probably better to exclude some “reformed” people than letting “criminals” through.
I came to say this as well. Surely it is the proper way to do this. Could be combined with weblocks if you want some master/leader event bus tab or web worker
>The best minds of my generation thinking about how to make people use it.

The best minds or just the most visible?
https://archive.md/JGSz4
Ask HN: How important is API integration for SaaS
Hi, I recently launched https://rezon8ai.com but didn't include API access in this initial release.

I think it would be useful for more tech-savvy businesses to be able to connect it with tools like IFTTT, Zapier or PowerAutomate etc, but if folks aren't likely to do that then there's no point in me putting the coding effort in.

I was considering the option to add/import/export customer records or request feedback so subscribers could auto-add customers to the system when they add one to their existing tools like CRM, bookings, or similar. Then when they make a sale trigger a completely automated feedback request via whatever the customer's preferred communications channel is.

Would love to hear some thoughts on this.

Thanks, Grant.
I had to look it up, so maybe.
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sometimes I'd forget to set the tags required by X in order for the link preview
What was even the goal here? Does anyone in the US want to work in a sweatshop making Nikes?
I agree that we should be skeptical of the idea that we should judge people in their 30s based on things they did in their teens... but I'm a "high talent adult developer" who had a modem in the '90s and didn't do anything anywhere near as shitty when I was that age.

I dunno. People change a lot as they grow up. But it says something that he was committing computer crimes as a teenager. And now he's participating in the dismantling of a democracy. So I feel like his current actions do actually reflect the crap he pulled as a teen.
But alas, your critical thinking skills...
Do you think that should be an option? I totally get opting out of crawlers, search or training but this is different.

But should the author be able to opt out of a tool used for manually initiated queries? I can’t say “don’t use grep” on my repo.
> I expect a strong correlation between the visual appearance of food and its caloric content

This doesn't pass even simple scrutiny. There are so many caloric ingredients that aren't visible in food. You can't tell just by looking whether a rice dish contains half a stick of butter.
Born in 1989 and I feel like I was one of the last kids to grow up with and without l those things, I can remember almost all them disappearing.

I remember driving back to college both with printed directions and then with navigation on an iPhone.
Probably the most important document you won't read all day. This seems to be Trump's plan.
> The best minds of my generation

I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”.

I’d hope a “best mind” would be, above all, empathetic. Concerned about the well being of their fellow humans. Philosophical about the state of the world. Patient. Curious. Wise and not just smart.

That we keep putting greedy assholes on a “best minds” pedestal due to their ability to exploit others for personal profit is part of the problem.
The world is changing. Maybe for the better, maybe not. Personally, I'm pretty optimistic. Other people might mostly see risks and harm. I get that. But what I don't get is how people think this is boring. Today's kids will grow up in a strangely alien world that used to be science fiction. That's why people can't stop talking about.
" But man, it seems like there was an unusually huge burst of technological progress while we were growing up."

Lets see, if it remains unusual, or if we all have to adopt even more drastically while we are alive.

(My biggest adoption right now is rather, that the era of peace is over)
Sure, it's blunt. But surely we've all experienced the feeling of apathy expressed in this post. I certainly have.
It is THE problem for me: tea become "posh" in Europe. You have tea dust from Lipton in bags on one end of the spectrum, posh tea which costs about 100x to its origin (26€/$ per 50g! 520€ for a kilo! It is insane, it is lifestyle price, not food/grocery price!) on the other end of the spectrum and nothing in-between.

Ok, Germany or Netherlands never were known for tea tradition, but UK was THE Tea country. UK created Assam, Darjeeling, Ceylon teas in the first place! How did this happen?
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That is the case for western economies. China controls nearly all levels of its supply chain. In the past, they didn't have the skills for design, but over time has gained that skill set (china now creates nearly a third of the worlds new engineers per year) and is now capable of designing and manufacturing world class products all in-house.

I guess the only exception is semi-conductors, but we all know they are desperately trying to remedy that.
Wait, Linux what? Gotta link?
> condoning unauthorized computer access

Yeah I'm condoning it, if you're young, just doing it for fun and not causing any real damage. I think that's fairly normal among computer nerds even if it is a federal crime.
I'm finally learning how to do unit tests in my Python code, this was long overdue (hey I'm a bioinformatician, we make some of the worst code out there!!) but Claude's taking me by the hand and I make sure I understand every character that I type. So far so good!

Still a nice to read piece though, made me smile, can be applied to many things, from crypto (the coin kind) to politics to Rust to Nix to ads [best minds of our generation?] to ... .

(I assume it's about AI btw, because of the nuclear power station. Anyway, I'm not bored at all of any of the topics I mentioned :) .)
I've a few opinions on the content, but I'm most interested in which unicode analyzer tool generated that nifty text tree diagram.

I can deal with JS's warts because the tooling is so much better. The other language I make my living with is PHP, and while it's much improved from before, the global function namespace is still a garbage fire, and you need extra linters like phpstan-safe-rule to force you to use sane wrappers.
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I find these oddities far more realistic than the Wat video from a long time ago. Many of the things in that video had me asking, "sure but...what programmer would blindly try these things and then be shocked when they didn't work?" The examples in this article are actual "gotchas" that could silently bite someone.
They got trained in all the department activities and laws they now work in?

How many years of training were that?
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Luckily not having this problem, but Modern Standby is such a fucking shit show.

I always quietly snickered at the people posting about hot laptops in their bags given that ACPI S3 has been working well for me these past years (finally!).

Turns out my current machine has modern standby (S0 Low Power Idle Network Connected) and doesn't let me disable it! Apparently not even the network connection part. There's a group policy setting, but it says it only applies to WiFi and that "may change in the future" (probably not for the better).

So now I too have a laptop that spins up its fan whenever it likes to and doesn't reliably sleep (sometimes it manages to, sometimes not). Back to hibernate? What the fuck is going on?
Looks like he was a script-kiddie, at most he dismantled some game-cheating sites. Maybe he used back-orifice to open someone's cd drive for the lolz.

(This assumes he wasn't just making it up)

Sounds a very familiar background.

His support of a horrendous reigime today is unrelated to his actions in his youth.
>Factoring the entire global supply chain into your product, it makes much more sense to do the work in a country where work costs less. If the additional cost to import is less than the delta on labor, you've won capitalism or something.

Yes, you've won capitalism, but sometimes, profit is a lower priority. Resiliency and the ability to avoid critical supply chain dependencies are important too. We learned that during COVID, when we only had one facility to make baby formula in the U.S., and we had a dire shortage of masks, gloves, etc. because we imported it all from China.

Another aspect of resilience is avoiding long attenuated supply chains, even if it is cheaper...for now. Why? Because there is a finite amount of fossil fuels (necessary in greater amounts for non-domestic maritime and air transit). Also, lower fossil fuel usage due to in-country sourcing would be better for the climate. I realize that the Trump administration isn't concerned about that! But it is true regardless.
> Dedicated memory isn't the issue.

To run large MoE models it is.

> Increase DRAM on your card and your bandwidth goes down

Why would it?

> You'll note that Apple didn't just immediately resume shipping systems with 1.5TB of RAM when they revised their own system architecture. It's taken them half a decade to recoup a third of that capacity at the VRAM-level speeds they require to unify the GPU and CPU's memory

I fail to see how a unified architecture on a general purpose CPU is a good illustration when we're discussing PCIe accelerator cards. The problems they face have little in common.
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> Why do so many journos keep making these politically motivated articles.

Because a bunch of journalists were being paid by the government to be politically-motivated propagandists, and that gravy train went away because of DOGE.

There's a ton of threads on HN about Doge, but if you search with "site:news.ycombinator.com Internews Network".....only 1 result, in the comments.

from: https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1888072129327083979

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.
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Kids these days prefer dumb ol’ blocks to proper video game soldiering, smdh.
Somehow this has only gotten funnier since it was originally posted..
> The reformation is more closely related to "westenrism" than the Greeks or Romans who laid some of the philosophical groundwork.

I can see where you're getting this, but I would disagree. Western civilization is inseparable from the Greeks and Romans. What you are describing sounds more like a particular development that occurred in Northern Europe which resulted in a radical re-engineering of social structures, ultimately culminating in parliamentary democracy. I don't know enough of the history well enough to determine whether this happened because of the reformation, a scientific revolution, economic changes, or whatever other reason we could come up with, but I do understand the trend that you're talking about. Today we would broadly associate it with Anglo-American liberal democracy. The issue I took with your comment was that I don't think there's a compelling case to be made that "the West" is predicated on these values, since historically speaking they are comparatively new.

There is some scholarship that tries to make this argument (e.g. I can remember reading an article many years ago which tried to argue that western civilization originates in the Near East after the adoption of massed-infantry by the Hittites), but the more of it that I read, the more convinced I became that it was simply an attempt to view history through the lens of contemporary attitudes (e.g. of Anglo-American liberal democracy being the culmination of all historical development).

> I think it's fair not to say that it is not the core founding principle. I think it's probably more correct to say that it's the theory of power that must be true to support human rights or ideas of freedom.

I don't have a strong opinion on this one way or the other, but you may be interested to know that there is a considerable tradition which rejects this conclusion in the reactionaries. Some element of the tradition rejects the premise of human rights entirely, but others are rooted in a far more critical reading of power and how it (ostensibly) must operate. Most people who have read into these issues will be familiar with the reactionaries who reject human rights as a principle, but very few are even aware of the sort who reject the prescriptions of the sort of governance you are describing while (at least nominally) sharing its aims re: justice and freedom.
We may be forced to.
I would suggest a few hours of open source work on Amiga stuff as penance :^)
From the Wikipedia OKRs linked from the Wikipedia article that is the source of the Ars article:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...

> Key result FA2.1: Generate 5,000,000 views from short-form video content across all owned channels by the end of H1.

Wikipedia is actively saying it should pivot to short-form video to engage young people...