skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why haven't western governments and companies brought this up as an issue when they moved our jobs to China 30 years ago forcing us to buy our stuff but made in China while their profits skyrocketed?

Our people loved it for the first few years because a lot of stuff became cheaper (or affordable at all), our governments loved it because now someone else would have to deal with toxic waste, and our companies and especially their owners made untold billions of profit that they were allowed to keep.

By the time China was strong enough to begin the "extinguish" phase of their 20 year economic plan, and the Western nations could no longer hide or deny the issues, it was far too late.
Fujifilm lossy compressed raw still isn't supported after many years [1].

[1] https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/issues/366

And in my experience there has been lots of bugs with Fujifilm raws in darktable:

[2] https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/issues/354

[3] https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/18073

However, Fujifilm lossless compressed raw actually does a decent job keeping the file sizes down (about 50% to 60% the file size of uncompressed) while maintaining decent write speed during burst shooting.
Kallocain by Karin Boye.
awesome! For the Cursor / React / Click to Add 2 example, can we also have it write a unit/e2e regression test?
You missed one: theft.

When you click a button in Unity or Roblox or whatever to generate a new texture, the thing that gets generated comes from a model that could not have been built without using IP. But because it all got chucked into a blender and turned into an anonymous slurry -- and because AI is a politically important growth industry -- the people whose work went into the slurry will not benefit, at all. They'll never see a dime, while the companies selling the slurry will get billions. A lot of those people are the exact ones whose job will be replaced, which is extra painful when you know it was your own work that was used to replace you.

Although in a sense it's pointless to bring up because that milk is already spilt, and it ain't gonna get back into the container.
This only applies to people who understand how computers and computer programs work, because someone who doesn't externalize their thinking process would never ascribe human elements of consciousness to inanimate materials.

Certainly many ancient people worshiped celestial objects or crafted idols by their own hands and ascribed to them powers greater than themselves. That doesn't really help in the long run compared to taking personal responsibility for one's own actions and motives, the best interests of their tribe or community, and taking initiative to understand the underlying cause of mysterious phenomena.
This is a repeated theme with every business right now. Nearly every product both tangible and intangible will go up in price. Our services are dependent on a global supply chain.

The believe that US manufacturing will rise to the occasion is specious at best, and I would say that the amount of uncertainty with this administration makes it even less likely. Why would any large firm invest in creating a local supply when tomorrow the tariffs could be lifted - or some other wild unknown introduced for no real reason?
"You got to pay the troll toll if you want to get into this boy's hole!"
Shot of the output in time and frequency domains going from samples 1 through 3 from left to right. Second one is funny.

https://imgur.com/a/PY942sy

(Chrome on mac)
I doubt it's around next year. Republicans say it's a waste of money, 18F and its priorities were "deleted" by DOGE, and private tax preparation companies can more easily buy influence in the federal government now.

Providing a free service to make Americans' lives easier is not part of the business plan for the current administration. Scott Bessent only committed to keeping it available for the current tax season during his Treasury Secretary confirmation hearings.
Accelerate decelaration. Break the rules to restore order.
I think that's a bit of a straw man, onshoring doesn't demand that it re-implements 1910-style production.

Maybe a new-tech pencil factory would only require 10 staff to run it 24/7. That's fine. Onshoring doesn't equate to full employment, but it does result in skills, knowledge and revenue remaining within a local OODA loop instead of being exported along with the actual production.
China Develops HDMI Alternative: 192 Gbps Speeds and 480 W Power Delivery
If it was happening they would be finding them. "I'm just saying this is potentially suspicious" always has to be followed up with some facts that were discovered. Trump and Musk have been claiming huge numbers of bogus 150+ year old social security payments, those appear to not be real - any real fraud would result in criminal citations and would be widely circulated. Soc sec probably has 70 million people on the rolls, there must be some fraud, any huge org has it. But they haven't circulated any info.

Similarly, they claim they found "kids are on social security!" but it turned out to be survivor benefits or similar. They were not even aware or able to check that.

It's like the "illegal immigrants are taking us over" claims, or the Trump claim to "end the Ukraine war in 24 hours". It's apparently very powerful to make these claims of fixing hard problems in a day. You have to have some proof, some results. I see none. The world is hard, I need a leader who doesn't do silly things like tariff random islands in the ocean that have no trade with the us.
Sure, but the proven alternative here are a lot of instances of personal injury and property destruction, it's a pretty straightforward case.
> This is confusing.

We’ll, yes. You’re thinking of the classic RAW format that was just a plain array of RGB pixels without a header.

When talking about digital cameras RAW refers to a collection of vendor specific file formats for capturing raw sensor data, together with a bunch of metadata.
After burning porridge in a titanium pot for the second time, I found this piece to be very helpful and informative and wish I’d read it before!
John Carmack has earned more attention for his opinions than most people, especially when it comes to game development.
Of all the many source control systems I've used git has the worst usability yet it's my favorite
FYI, you can delete anyone's CURL (including your own if you were unauthenticated) with the following curl:

https://uncurl.dev/curl/78ab4bf5-34e8-45a0-b3b1-32dd6aa7e360

or this command

curl -X DELETE "https://uncurl.dev/api/curls?id=051606b5-49c8-4f14-9689-4d424f71d331"

Looks like deletes are unauthenticated.
Yes. For example, if you want to track unique users (for the most rudimentary analytics), you'll need to put a uuid in a cookie on their browser, and you'll need to damage your UX with a stupid cookie consent popup, thanks to EU Directives.

This is not nefarious data collection, and it shouldn't need user consent - but it does, because EU lawmakers were overzealous and careless when designing their regulation.
I mean yeah, of course they could. That's probably exactly what's happening. I'm not aware of any laws against it unfortunately, previously we relied on Presidents to do what is best for the nation rather than their friends, but we live in unprecedented times.
> I thought that it might be a rare chance to invoke the NFL theorem appropriately, but I guess I was wrong

Haha, I wouldn’t feel bad. It’s one of the most misunderstood theorems, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it invoked correctly on a message board.
I think that's exactly what it is. It should be illegal. Congress is asleep at the wheel (or whatever the little knob they end up holding).
How to manage stress during an apocalypse
My memory had held back my career I am sure. I can't regurgitate the minute details of impact I did even 12 months ago, just broad strokes... so I prep as best I can but it probably sounds like I am lying. Now with AI and everyone is suspicious it is worse. Got downleveled to 4yoe level yoe from where I am 20yoe but I needed a job so.
I assumed that this product isn't that new, I can already buy it in normal stores around me. This has been in development for multiple years if it's already on shelves now, no?
Hesai, a Chinese company, sells lidar for cars and they plan to sell at $200 later this year, their current one is around $400. You would need four for a car. I assume the ones for Waymo would be a bit more expensive.
While I haven't tried it I think the environmental/conflict-free angle may be the only one they can target. The organic/vegan/vegetarian angle is already out since we do have chocolate meeting that criteria.
The fact that their products page has most/all of the products combined with something else leads me to believe the taste isn't there yet which is why IMO they can't go the luxury route if they have an inferior substitute.

Would love to hear from someone who has tried it.
Especially since the only camera facing the street is the author's own! The city would have to ask the author if his camera happened to pick up the "culprit" responsible for the rogue speed bump
There were 30% layoffs at a company I worked at and one of the 'survivors' was so traumatised by it that they took their own life. It's a known phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt
I wish people would focus more on increasing dog lifespans instead of stuff like this. How about a Bernese Mountain Dog that lives 15+ years instead of 7 years.
I'm glad you're taking time to learn about it. But all a state can do is either pass laws to protect natural rights, or they can pass laws to punish people with violence for exercising their natural rights.

All laws are backed by violence. That's called law enforcement.
Thanks for the links :).

I'd be interested to learn more about the kinds of things you'd expect to get from using Glamorous Toolkit for gcodepreview.

The way I see it, one path would be to make the rendering happen directly in GT (perhaps through an external texture). This would then allow you to see the rendering as views in various Python objects.
He's just very excited from all the hype, you know how CEOs are.
Indeed! Can you send me an email so I have yours again?
> it seems to reward anti-competitive practices.

That is the intended purpose of a patent. From WIPO [1]:

> The patent owner has the exclusive right to prevent or stop others from commercially exploiting the patented invention for a limited period within the country or region in which the patent was granted. In other words, patent protection means that the invention cannot be commercially made, used, distributed, imported or sold by others without the patent owner's consent.

[1] https://www.wipo.int/en/web/patents
My company, Distrust, exists to produce, support, and fund our open source security tools.

So far our core full time team of 3 gets to spend about half our time consulting/auditing and half our time contributing to our open projects that most of our clients use and depend on.

The key is for companies to have visibility into the current funding status of the software they depend on, and relationships with maintainers, so they can offer to fund features or fixes they need instead of being blocked.

https://distrust.co
Probably no one’s really getting fired but moved to a less fortunate, careers dead-end position.
This reminds me of dokku which is a great drop-in replacement of heroku for non-mission-critical web projects.

I don’t use it anymore since I use NixOS to have it all in infra-as-code paradigm but dokku triggers nostalgia of good old time when completely was at manageable levels.
This is uncharitable, to put it lightly. The parent is describing behavior commonly associated in the popular consciousness with fascism. And yes, your examples do fall into that category (assuming your framing is honest, called into question by your framing of Trump's actions). That may be inaccurate from an academic or historic perspective, but they are not simply "calling things we don’t like fascism", which is of course a real and common crime in political discourse, and which you are misapplying in turn, I believe.
Scaffold Level Editor
A whistle-stop tour of some game-engine collision/pathfinding background, how modern engines work, how old engines work, and how I'm applying a mixed-approach in my game.
> Human beings evolved to eat whole foods. If you're going to eat something else, you better be very, very sure about the long-term effects.

Of all the things humans in a modern world do, that's the thing you're critical of? Do you use computers, sit all day, drive a car, take medicine, ...?
There IS a lot of effort to address the really big things, all over the world!
> And sometimes, yelling at clouds stirs the winds of change.

> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw.

Man, I'm with you, but I'll put my efforts elsewhere :)
Git hasn't quite taken the step of making the hash the URL you use to download a file, any file, and be assured it is exactly what you thought it was, as the hash of the file must match its URL.

This is currently done in a haphazard way, not particularly organized.
(not your parent)

> How long did it take you to become proficient?

As with anything, it varies: I've heard some folks say "a few hours" and I've had friends who have bounced off two or three times before it clicks.

Personally, I did some reading about it, didn't really stick. One Saturday morning I woke up early and decided to give it a real try, and I was mostly good by the end of the day, swore of git entirely a week later.

> I assume the organization uses git and you use jujitsu locally, as a layer on top?

This is basically 100% of usage outside of Google, yeah. The git backend is the only open source one I'm aware of. Eventually that will change...
> Choosing the right voice can transform your content, lending an air of sophistication and authenticity

Much as I like GenAI, the better it is, the less "authentic" it gets.

Old-school TTS is authentic: it sounds like what it is. On the other hand, whenever GenAI presents as a realistic human voice, it's doing so falsely.

Lots of people very obviously hate this stuff whenever they notice it, and any specific voice will get noticed. If you want this, say for localization into everything, I'd suggest fine tuning a model on your own voice.
I think it's ok to add selective pressure whenever spammy, unethical, low-quality content starts flooding the system. Books has copyright laws and resistive book distribution channels, YouTube has Likes and moderation systems, etc.

With hindsight, one of silent assumptions very common of both pro- and anti-AI arguments up to this point was as follows: because AI is potentially superhuman in arts, the existing selective pressures could inversely punish desired creativity if AI outputs were not unfairly treated. Pro-AI arguments assumed that warping the system is wrong, anti-AI assumed allowing the system go down is worse. IMO, superhuman AI didn't happen anyway, and so now AI slop problem is just spam control problem.

No one was ever against punishing spams and unethical actors. It's fine and safe. We're at a postmortem phase during which we'd patch the bugs in laws and law enforcement that allowed AI companies do outlandish hacks like torrenting books and redistributing it as lossy compressed 500GB GGUF.
why not replace the sugar with stevia?
We actually have quite a number of real life use cases. For example, in one company it's being in used as the only development environment for 100+ developers. We also use it for making sense of and modernize legacy systems that people do not know what to do with anymore.
> You can't be sent to jail in the US just on them just suspecting something.

All the people sitting in an Salvadorian prison for having a shitty tatoo would strongly disagree.
> This is a horrible authoritarian justification. People shouldn't be made to starve so they can appreciate the gruel they are given versus having nothing. We should have a functional, efficient, and pleasant government that isn't adversarial to the general population.

We absolutely should. Do you think elon musk is on his way to accomplishing that? I sure don't.

Like, yes, there are things and situations that absolutely suck dealing with the government. They also suck dealing with corporations and neighbors and anything else involving humans.

The answer is to fix the problems.

Filing taxes is an easy and obvious pain point. It's annoying and tedious and wastes a ton of money that could be automated away by a more efficient and pleasant government.

Here's the actual history of how that's gone:

Democrats: the IRS has started to create electronic versions of the forms people can use to file their taxes without involving a tax prepaper.

Republicans: “We don’t want the tax system to be simple. We want it to be hard so that people realize how much they’re paying.”

> In December 2024, Representative Adrian Smith (R-NE), along with 27 House Republicans, urged President-elect Donald Trump to terminate the IRS's free tax filing service, known as Direct File, on his first day in office. They expressed concerns that the program could lead to government overreach into tax preparation services

> In June 2024, House Republicans introduced a policy rider in the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill aiming to eliminate funding for the IRS's Direct File program. This move was part of a broader effort to prevent the IRS from developing its own tax preparation software, reflecting concerns about government competition with private tax preparation companies.

Are the democrats amazing angels who will solve everything if given power? Obviously not. Are they at least making some small amounts of progress? YES. The republicans are out here actively trying to go BACKWARDS.

Again, and I cannot stress this enough, the answer to problems with government is to fix them. It's possible that the fix in some situations is for the agency/rule/etc to stop existing, but that decision should probably be made by someone with at least an average level IQ and possibly empathy.
Source? Everything I'm seeing shows the opposite. Only the current administration seems to be saying that, but they lie out both sides of their mouth every day.
There are no laws that will constrain a regime defined by its lawbreaking. Your argument applies to all laws.
Are any jobs really secure? You still need to show output if you’re in a profit center, and sometimes things happen outside your control.

More commentary below:

https://open.substack.com/pub/therosen/p/knowing-where-your-...
Elon will vet them himself. Obviously any Elon Musk parody account will be removed.
Cybersecurity Market Eras Timeline
20 years later :-)
Hey OP, your DELETE curl endpoint is unauthenticated! I can't DM you on HN and there's no contact on your website, so sorry for the public security disclosure. :(
basically. A heavy duty strip with an AC power plug, many spaced-out full-power USB ports for charging stuff. Same form factor as an AC power strip, with feet or even those cutouts on the back for attaching to screws on wall or desk.

I have so many devices now that take USB for power. Camera battery chargers. Flashlights. power banks. plenty more I can't think of.
As someone who has conducted interviews with candidates almost certainly using AI in both the phone screen and coding portion. The biggest giveaway is the inability to explain the why of things. Even some of the simple things like "why did you initialize that class member in this method rather than in the constructor?"

I think at this point we are in a world where the cat is out of the bag and it's not are you or are you not using AI but how are you using it. I personally don't care if a candidate wants to use AI but be up front about it and make sure you still understand what it is doing. If you can't explain what the code it generated is doing an why then you won't be able to catch the mistakes it will eventually make.
It's really not that long. Once you figure out that

1. jj operates on revisions. Changes to revisions are tracked automatically whenever you run jj CLI

2. revisions are mutable and created before starting working on a change (unlike immutable commits, created after you are done)

3. you are not working on a "working directory" that has to be "commited", you are just editing the latest revision

everything just clicks and feels very natural and gets out of the way. Want to create a new revision, whether it's merge, a new branch, or even insert a revision between some other revisions? That's jj new. Want to move/reorder revisions? That's jj rebase. Want to squash or split revisions? That's jj squash and jj split respectively. A much more user-friendly conflict resolution workflow is a really nice bonus (although, given that jj does rebasing automatically, it's more of a requirement)

One notably different workflow difference, is absence of branches in the git sense and getting used to mainly referring individual revisions, but after understanding things above, such workflow makes perfect sense.
I realize I may not be the average consumer, but I love Impossible Burgers. I generally try to limit my intake of mammalian meat for animal welfare reasons, but I've found no other alternative satiates that "red meat craving" like an Impossible burger can for me.

I love chocolate, and while I'm skeptical this will taste like my favorite dark chocolate, I'm open-minded that it could be a viable substitute on some occasions.
Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs
Aliasing seems like a potentially desirable feature for a chiptune / retro sound, though.
Leibniz wrote "I have often said: 'Aurum latere in stercore illo scholastico barbarico'; {there is gold hidden in all that barbaric scholastic crap} and I wish that some skillful man could be found, versed in this Irish and Spanish philosophy, who would have the inclination and ability to extract what is good from it. I am sure his work would be rewarded with many beautiful and important truths".

I'm not pasting the walltext full quote, but there's also in it mention of Perennis quaedam philosophia. The first one? Don't have the book in digital, for the full quote in Spanish, Google sent me here: http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/Vico.2020.i34.03.

[1] New Essays on Human Understanding, 1704
Billionaire Trump backer warns of 'economic nuclear winter' over tariffs
Germany may pull gold reserves from New York
Such a rich UI like google sheets seems like a bad use case for such a general "browser automation" MCP server. Would be cool to see an MCP server like this, but with specific tools that let the LLM read and write to google sheets cells. I'm sure it would knock these tasks out of the park if it had a more specific abstraction instead of generally interacting with a webpage
This is quite a neat story. Thanks for sharing!

I also heard that Bobby Kotick of Activision infamy was planning to buy Commodore back in the early 90s, only to be rebuffed by Irving and Co.

Although I'm not a personal fan of Bobby, I'm sure his leadership would have been a sorry sight better than the dumpster fire at Commodore back then.
And crazy OS debugging up tp i7 processors.
I don't want to see it on Reddit either. They should keep it somewhere else
Taiwan will not retaliate against Trump's tariffs: Lai
I think we’re entering a dystopian era…
I think long term I will be moving in that direction. For this initial exploration and experimentation I've been doing with the Web Audio API, the sawtooth oscillator + step function waveshaper node have been sufficient for my use case but I will need investigate whether I can produce a more authentic sound with an AudioWorkletProcessor approach
Yeah this is definitely a bad English bot
Because it tastes terrible.
I read that headline in Danny DeVito’s voice. Always Sunny does musicals better than Broadway.