skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In which case we should be reading an article about how important it is to correctly price externalities. And that is not this article.
Show HN: A free movies and series randomiser
Hi HN! Over 3 years ago I developed a movies and series randomiser in Cordova web to deploy on app stores.

The first versions had ads in it to monetize the development, also a "PRO" version was released for the price of 1 dollar (or something like that, the lowest price tier as far as I remember).

Anyway, in recent years I've reached a point where all applications does not need to be monetized, some are just fun to develop and release for free. Show me a Movie is one of them! The current state of the app is the same as of 3 years ago. Besides getting it to work in the browser, minor bug fixes has been fixed.

With that said, go ahead and try it out. It is totally free, I only track page count using GoatCounter (for the fun of it). If you want to can leave some valuable feedback and insight which either I or someone else on HN can use in future projects!

Warm regards,
Lukas
If you’re using Apple Photos, the feature is there. It will detect both exact copies as well as (nearly) identical visual duplicates. Look under utilities.
That does sound very interesting. Any insights on what would you do differently if you had to do it again? Any way to accelerate things now that you know the pain or do you think it's quite unavoidable and "legal Time"?
This is not a unicorn. It's a donkey with a dildo strapped on its head.
I don’t use ChatGPT - can someone check if it’s possible to generate images derived from Disney or Marvel character?

Is everyone’s copyright ignored or not.
Unfortunately many of the big data libraries are like that and there is no motivation to fix these things. One example is the ORC Java libraries that had 100s of unnecessary dependencies while at the same time importing the filesystem into the format itself.
Thanks you. We will maintain simplicity and less tech for non-tech users.
The contents are simple. How to interpret the contents, is not simple. That is why you see internet advice advocating for keeping old raw files around, because Lightroom and Photoshop sometimes gets updates which can cram out better results from old raw files.

(Edit: I mean, if you want to get a basic debayered RGB image from a raw, that's not too hard. But if you want to cram out the most, there are a lot of devils in a lot of details. Things like estimating how many green pixels are not actually green, but light-spill from what should have been red pixels is just the beginning.)
Being a software engineer is a piece of cake compared to other engineering disciplines. Sure wrangling complexity and a shitton of knowledge is a lot of work, but most other engineering disciplines have much higher stakes, require you to put yourself out there and can land you in jail if you don't do your craft as you should.

Have you ever heard of a modern software engineer who landed in jail because their error was part of an incident thst costed others their lives? Typically software errors are shrugged away as if they are extreme wheather events thst nobody can change.

Creating usable elegant, efficient, reliable, testable and maintainable software isn't trivial, but it is doable and the consequences to not getting it 100% right are usually comparably mild.

If I fuck up a part of code I usually produce a crash, patch it and I am good to go, if I select the wrong cables and put them into a building, I either cause a fire or I have to tear the whole building open to replace them, and let's not talk about civil engineering..

I remember sitting in a class of 30 people where people had over 30 different solutions to a complex load calculation of the kind that could kill people if it was realized.
Reason why people buy far more games by count on Steam is super simple. There are 80-90% discounts when on consoles there are no such discount.

Also games on Steam not tied to specific hardware generation, OS or account country. You can still play majority of games from 2010 and earlier even if they wasn't updated.
Locking up Mexicans, Indonesians for days? Not new at all. Harassing anyone and everyone, sure. A then-former prime minister of Norway was harassed at the US border, they kept him for hours.

But 19 days when you have a rich-country passport and pale white skin is off the former scale. It's weird.
> Pressure to move back to China where their tariff drops from 49% to 34%?

That assumes the tariffs will be imposed long term.

They are intended as a bargaining measure so some compromise will be reached. it is very likely that in the long run Vietnam will pay lower tariffs.
This.

We need to think about the data we need to store before we store it, only store the data that we need to store, and only store it for as long as needed.

It reminds me of CIs. It's now so easy to throw 40 jobs on GitHub actions that people don't think about them. I have been in a startup where people would debug in CI: they wouldn't have e.g. Windows on their machine (maybe they should have, given that their product was supposed to run there) and were fixing compilation issues by sending patches and patches to the CI. Every single time it would trigger the 40 jobs. Sometimes you could see a patch sent every 5 min for 3 days (where reproducing the issue locally would actually take 3s and not 5min). They did not even bother disabling the 39 uninteresting jobs.

For open source projects, it's just wasted energy, for private repos it was costing the company a lot. This was just malpractice. But nobody cared. The finance person would say "GitHub is expensive", the CEO that "well we need it" and the engineers that "I don't want that Windows crap on my computer", I suppose.
Sure, in general accusing your opponents of just being You But Evil is boring and betrays a lack of Theory of Mind but consider the people who believe that our modern society with all of its comforts could only occur under the free markets we have but simultaneously believe that these comforts are bad.

“What a caricature! You fool why would anyone believe that! Your opponents are not saying that!”

But what if they are? Famously bananas in winter would not exist and that would be good.
I don't really know what its job is to be honest.

Saying that the input data is wrong and the AI didn't hallucinate that data is also kind of a "trust me bro" statement.
The Mandiant feed is not public, so I cannot check what was fed to it.

I don't really care why its wrong. It is wrong. And using that as the example prompt in your announcement is an interesting choice.
As stated, on paper yes this is true, however the feds and the executive branch specifically have the ability to supra-legally harass and roadblock localities by doing things like revoking or delaying federal funding as leverage or blackmail.

Of course these things would be "illegal" but reaching court decisions can take years and in the meantime a locality might be starved out and give in to pressure.
For many people, no.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt
Business strategy is like a lizard
5. Then outsource that government work to private firms, preferably ones run by your friends and/or lobbyists, who are both more expensive and yet do a worse job too.
It seems the end screen is detected as an ad and so is getting hidden by adblockers.
I agree with Hegseth not being qualified and everything, so +1 for the snark, but.. how was this "serving the needs of the administration"?
I don’t get the melting pot trope. America is basically identical everywhere. From education to healthcare, sports to entertainment, adverts to politicians.
Over the last couple of years we added a reasonably extensive infrastructure for working with Python from within GT. You can define contextual inspector views both in GT and in Python for live Python objects, for example. There is also a debugger for Python.

Also, GT is now also a distributed Smalltalk system, too. We use it in productive settings to compute large jobs on large data sets :)
While I agree with your comment, this sentence:

"This was given to the AI by having it watch a video that explains it."

This was not as trivial as it may seem just a few months ago...
The sanitize tools are not intended to be hardening tools, just debugging/testing tools. For instance, they may introduce their own vulnerabilities.
Well that article clearly says "it's hurting the environment, and in my experience the vast majority of that data is useless".

Which I believe is not uninteresting, given the amount of answers here where people say "Is that data useless? I don't know, I could imagine that it's not, I think it's a hard problem". Well here we have one person saying "I have experience in that, and I can tell you that most of it is useless". Just a data point, but that's still interesting.
What I like is practical and real life, what I don't like is ideological.
Thank you but I really don't think it should be considered "good analysis". It's an extremely basic analysis made by a layman (me) with just a cursory knowledge of macroeconomics, and average reasoning skills.

The case that I could come up with it in 5 minutes while writing a comment on a forum just showcases how braindead this policy is, more than braindead, how one needs to be ideologically compromised to even float this idea as something that could work in reality.

Whatever "model" the dumbfucks in the USA administration came up with to justify to themselves any support for this will meet with reality very, very fast, and the major problem here is that they are stubbornly ideological, Trump won't change his fucking demented mind when reality hits, he will double down like he usually does, and all of us will feel the pain, a large majority of the world's population will feel the impacts of this, layoffs are coming if this policy continues even for just a few months, businesses closing (big and small), lots and lots of suffering will be inflicted because Americans decided to elect a stupid man, surrounded by stupid sycophants.

Just compare the current administration's background with any other serious nation on Earth, it's bonkers that the Americans are accepting being led by absolutely incompetent people: Education being led by an entertainment business person, Defence being led by a TV host, Health being led by an anti-science person whose claim to fame is being a relative of assassinated politicians, the list goes on and on.

It's so absurd that I lost any respect I had left for the USA as a society, it's deathly sick and already rotting... Maybe this is the time it will be put in the coffin, just fucking sucks to feel that my loved ones will all feel the pain of this rotting.

Edit:

Just as an example of the idiocy, this is a comment from Bessent, probably the person in this administration who is the closest to being more technical:

> Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted there didn’t need to be a recession and dismissed the long-term impact of stock market losses, using words like “choppiness” and “adjustment process” to explain the panic. And speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Bessent rejected the idea that people who want to retire soon had taken a serious blow. “Americans who have put away for years in their savings accounts, I think they don’t look at the day-to-day fluctuations of what’s happening,” Bessent said. He added: “The reason the stock market is considered a good investment is because it’s a long-term investment. If you look day-to-day, week-to-week, it’s very risky. Over the long term, it’s a good investment.”

The absolute denial of reality, coming from what most would consider the "competent grown up" in the whole administration. Absolute shambles...
I don't know what you want to say with those screenshots.

I think you get backlash here, because you tried to promote your own work with the argument that the work of other people is bad. Since you attacked potentially a few thousand developers, you should expect negative reactions.

Even if you hadn't attacked the most used PHP framework, it has a sour taste to shit on someone else's work.
Show HN: Teach Your Parents Smartphone
My parents got super confused when PhonePe (payment app in India) updated their app overnight. They immediately blamed me for "breaking their phone" lol. I had to spend an hour showing them how to use the new design.

Same thing happened with WhatsApp video calls. I realized this is a common problem - we teach our parents tech stuff once, but they forget because they don't practice enough.

So I made this tool that lets my parents practice using apps through step-by-step tutorials at their own pace. No one rushing them, no one judging.

The goal? Help my parents feel more confident with technology and give them a safe space to practice without feeling stupid for asking the same questions over and over.

Check it out here - https://www.teach-your-parents-smartphone.com/
Open sourced codebase - https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/teach-your-parents-smar...
For many people, sure. I can always find exceptions to the rule. I am talking statistically. Fact of the matter is, the bottom 20% QoL has improved significantly, correct?
He will enrich himself, but he isn't saving any money. All this incompetence is going to take a lot of money out of the pockets of taxpayers.
DSLRs have just dropped off the wagon a long time ago, when it comes to software and especially meaningful UX innovation.

As an anecdote, I have a Sony a7r and operating it via its mobile app is one of the worst user experiences I have had in a while.

Same goes to the surrounding ecosystem of software. E.g. Adobe's Lightroom is full of obsolete paradigms and weird usability choises.
And HP-UX before them, with HP-UX Vaults already in 1999.
For me the test for acceptable advertising is whether I can avoid it or not: newspapers, magazines, free-to-air TV, free websites — fine; billboards, and any service I pay for — no way.
> I have always assumed it to mean the intersection of the two contexts. As in, necessarily copyleft.

It's the union.

Actually it's harder than that: it's the union, but I challenge you to find a license that is open source and not free, or that is free and not open source :-).

I think there is a difference in philosophy between two parts of the movement, but in practice, what we call "open source software" is the same as "free software" (in terms of licences).
They are expanding in Europe rapidly, and in China of course.

In the Netherlands they are partnered with a local green electricity provider (Vattenfall) and Shel for their charger network. Shell owns the most petrol stations along the highways, so they will have their chargers there for sure.

I'm expecting the tariffs on Chinese EVs to be rolled back in EU after the US tariffs. They might want BYD to open local factories, like NIO is planning to do.
Thank you for the interest and for taking the time to explore the environment!

There are quite a number of videos and explanations now, but we are still struggling to package them in a way that seems more approachable.

We would need help with this. If you are interested, I would offer to have a session with you that we record and in which we go through your questions and I provide live explanations. Join us on Discord and we take it from there: https://discord.gg/FTJr9gP
I got up to level 8 before I decided to go to the store.

I had something like $500,000. I bought up the entire inventory (at least, until the Buy buttons stopped working - there were still items available).

It then became a 'click as fast as you can and don't care about strategy' game, so I stopped.
Assume for the sake of argument that it is not obvious: can you clarify that statement?
i mean it is called a dishwasher
Once again, we see that it's much easier to teach machines to perceive and decide well, in many cases well above human performance - while at the same time, making machines that can navigate the same physical environment humans do, and do a variety of manual tasks that mix power and precision, remains extremely challenging.

The message this sends is pretty clear: machines are better at thinking, humans are better at manual work. That is the natural division of labor that plays into strengths and weaknesses of both computers and human beings.

And so, I'm sorry to say this, but the near future is that in which computers play our games and do the thinking and creative work and management (and ultimately governance), because they're going to be better at this than us, leaving us to do all the physical labor, because that's one thing we will remain better at for a while.

That, or we move past the existing economic structures, so that we no longer need to worry about being competitive with AI labor.

/s, but only a little.
But what you're referring to here are the attributes that the file system stores about the file, not the file itself. By default I wouldn't expect a copy of a file to have identical file system attributes, just an identical content for the file. I would expect some of the file system attributes to be copied, but not all of them.

Take the file owner for example if I take a copy of a file then by default I should be the owner of that file as it's my copy of the file, and not the original file owner's copy.

An alternative way of looking at it is if I have created a file on my local machine that's owned by root and has the setuid bit set on it's file permissions then there's no way that I should be able to copy that file up to a server with my normal user account and have those atttibutes still set on the copy.
Yes, and all of that completely uninteresing for Apple's customer base.
Why not? :)

The goal was to explore the idea of contextualizing our tools for each development. It is built in Smalltalk (and Rust underneath) because Smalltalk already has the possibility of a live environment that can be changed from within. This allowed us to explore the space at much lower cost. Glamorous Toolkit is the result of that.
Samsung Note (9 and 24 at least) has an "NFC and contactless payments" toggle (and a UWB one) on the page with wifi and bluetooth (Settings → Connections) but I don't know if it's "doesn't emit" or just "doesn't interact"...
This hardly matters as any power user will keep their own toolset maintained from brew I guess.

And relying on open source CLI tools in Macintosh for helping end users is not a good idea.

What this signals to me most of all is "oh we can't steal from GNU anymore so we'll steal from openbsd".

Because even if it is a neglible part of the appeal of Macintosh computers, they still make an effort to ship these tools with their OS and they make a lot of money doing it.
I don't get it. How can you reduce this achievement down to this?

Have you gotten used to some ai watching a video and 'getting it' so fast that this is boring? Unimpressive?
Lotus tried to license VBA but Microsoft wouldn't let them.

VBA and Microsoft are pretty close though.
What would the average human score be?

I.e. if you randomly sampled N humans to take those tests.
you mean charger with multiple ports ?
That's the wrong question to ask under these circumstances, since nobody else is imposing their beliefs on you and preventing you from practicing those.

The real question is, must sex invariably lead to pregnancy when there are known ways to prevent it? Because that's precisely what you're trying to impose on others. Your answer is clear from your comment. But it's completely illogical.

Nothing in the laws of nature say that humans or any other creature can't use their creativity to disrupt the natural order of things to make life more comfortable. To my knowledge, no other creature uses fire to cook food. Yet, human digestive system is uniquely adapted to that. And other animals don't cultivate food on the scale that humans do. Many of the food crop species won't even survive without human effort. I also don't see many other animals using clothes or money. So are you ready to give up those unnatural things - cultivated and cooked food, clothes, money and all modern technology?

The same goes for vaccine - the natural way of diseases is for children/people to simply die on a massive scale. What's the point of going through that when we have a way of preventing it? Why must it be any different for contraception and treatment of STDs?

The real issue here is the imposition of certain beliefs and moral values that are stale by a few millennia on an unwilling population.
Thank you, I couldn't remember who made it, thought it was Knowing Better for some reason
It's called a consensus.
> The current documentation of openrsync does not make any guarantee that it can make complete file copies, so by default I assume that it cannot, so for now it is a program that I consider useless.

Is it possible this is just a documentation style-tone mismatch? My default assumption would be that openrsync is simply a less restrictively licensed rsync, and I wouldn’t assume it works any differently. Have you verified your strong hypothesis? Or are you just expressing skepticism. It’s hard to tell exactly.

Edit: I read the openrsync readme. It says it’s compatible with rsync and points the reader to rsync’s docs. Unless extended file attributes, ACLs, and high resolution timestamps are optional at the protocol level, it must support everything modern rsync supports to be considered compatible, right? Or are you suggesting it lies and accepts the full protocol but just e.g. drops ACLs on the floor?
Unfortunately a lot of data retention policies aren’t so mechanical, but are of the form “delete after 7 years unless there is a legal hold in force”, which is usually just rare enough of an edge case that orgs evaluate it manually and hence only do periodic manual purges. But probably the main reason auto-delete isn’t popular is because a process that can delete your old data is one bug/misconfig away from deleting your new data too.
Interesting that there seems to be a shift toward Linux, if a slow one.

Within my experiment (which has a few thousand collaborators) every paper is written in LaTeX and has to build in a linux environment to be submitted for publication. All the central software work is done in one of three ways:

- ssh to a cluster running linux, develop there

- work in a linux VM on your machine (usually docker, lima, or other container management products)

- with a linux laptop or desktop

Of course the engineers and hardware developers are often using a whole Windows-dependent stack of FPGA design software, LabView, etc.
Regarding the not-NAN float type, there was actually a proposal for it which was shot down: https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/238.

I don't remember every argument in there but it seemed that there are good reasons not to add it unlike a NonZero integer type which seems to have no real downsides.
Not to be that guy, but other jobs are equally crazy. I had to prepare for my electrical engineering certification and I had to learn all european norms, including the ones that were valid when the places one encounters were built. Thar means I need to know which kind of circuit breaker, cable, cabling, etc. was okay to be used in any specific year in the past 100 years. The whole collection of materials amounted to over 240 GB in compressed PDFs and it took me weeks to even skim the surface. Norms are highly interdependent, a bit like hypertext without clickable links. And the best thing is that some things they just don't specify. We had a nuclear physicist in the team and he was complaining about the complexity.

I love the simplicity and clarity of software engineering sometimes, because here many of the problems are by our own making.
Why would an accounting system need acoustic sensors?
I worked at Lotus, and then in banks doing Lotus Notes apps. It really was super simple to create a simple line of business app with minimal coding, proper security, workflow etc.
Teach your kids to not smartphone then.
You may wish to look up what "Fordism" is, the history behind it, and of course the many sociological critiques of t. That will likely give enough context to explain where that trope came from (and also why it's more of a thing in the US than anywhere else)