skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wild about it (other than the typo)?
I agree, hopefully it helps not getting the article taken down because its a very good primer on getting any ESP based device locally working.
link to the full pdf?
I've been playing now the last few days (really enjoying it, so thanks a lot!) and have a couple small suggestions that I don't see mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

- it would be nice to have a list of the incorrect guesses that you've made. Sometimes I come back after a while and can't remember if I already guessed something or if I just thought about guessing it but wasn't sure... Of course this also dovetails a bit with what some of the other people mentioned about guesses being counted as incorrect even when they're guessed early because then if you have a list of all earlier incorrect guesses then an earlier incorrect guess might now be correct, so I would also change that, that a guess which is only incorrect because it's not available yet isn't counted as incorrect, and instead it says something like "not yet!". Another related problem for me though was I got stuck once and it turned out I had just made a typo in my earlier guess and hadn't noticed, which is why it would be nice to see your earlier guesses. Oh, and also related, I think it counts multiple incorrect guesses of the same word (again not 100% sure since I couldn't see my earlier guesses)

- it would be nice to improve the stats, maybe give you some kind of distribution to see how you're doing, maybe on the calendar you could colour code to show what days you've done well and what days you did worse or something
I think the do guess a priori what to query...

Later in the article, for a different (but similar) feature:

> To curate a representative set of synthetic emails, we start by creating a large set of synthetic messages on a variety of topics... We then derive a representation, called an embedding, of each synthetic message that captures some of the key dimensions of the message like language, topic, and length. These embeddings are then sent to a small number of user devices that have opted in to Device Analytics.

It's crazy to think Apple is constantly asking my iPhone if I ever write emails similar to emails about tennis lessons (their example). This feels like the least efficient way to understand users in this context. Especially considering they host an email server!
Fantastic article.

Makes me want to do the same on some devices I have.
Take a look at Home Assistant - I would argue their implementation is currently better than both Siri & Gemini assistants.

HA team is releasing actually useful updates every month - eg ability for assistant to proactively ask you something.

In my opinion both Google & Apple have huge issues with cooperation between product teams, while cooperation with external companies is next to impossible.
FPGAs are neither here nor there and will always be niche. If you need the same thing many times you make dedicated silicon. If you need many different things available all at once you use a normal CPU. Only if ASICs are too expensive and CPUs are too slow the FPGA can shine.
I think the crux of this post is spot-on: we’re nowhere near a “post-developer” era. LLMs are great accelerators, but they still need a competent human in the loop.

That said, I do think he understates how much the value of certain developer skills is shifting. For example, pixel-perfect CSS or esoteric algorithmic showmanship used to signal craftsmanship — now they’re rapidly becoming commoditized. With today’s tools, I’d rather paste a screenshot into an LLM and tweak the output than spend hours on handcrafted layouts for a single corporate device.
No idea about Shein, but I was shocked how easy/good Temu return policy was. My wife bought some rugs and some prints and they were not as described/pictured.

Took a minute in the app to generate a qr code, then I had it to the post shop the same day and they refunded within 3 days.

I wouldn't (personally) buy clothes to wear normally from them, but something like beach shoes or a poncho for a festival I'd maybe get there.
> LLMs are not going to benchmark your code

If I may focus on this particular line without invalidating the rest of the content -- why aren't they going to benchmark the code?
Pregnant Women Are Losing Access to Care, Formula and Shelter
My dream is have a in browser nixos vm on wasm. If I could have a bare vm, I can bootstrap it easily with a nixos config. From there I can start thinking about running web services in browser tabs instead of physical hardware.
It's the most satisfying creation myth I've ever come across. Makes more sense to me than any other "real" culture's idea of how the world / cosmos began. I'd like to live in a world where it is true. (Yes, I know: Tolkien, Catholicism; sure, fine. I specifically think Ainulindalë is better than the Bible, and I don't care if anyone, including Tolkien, would think me a heretic for saying so.)
https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/thread/338331051?hl...
4chan has been hacked, Database exposed
Seems to be a full database access hack as well.

As expected, Lots of bad words on the site currently, album link below is not safe for work :

https://imgur.(NSFW)com/a/qa-won-R7c6EBw
> That’s ambiguous. Whats the input?

The input is undefined char*, and that's the magic of it. It's kinda funny we're reaching the phase where some people throw Syntax Error on a missing colon, but AI be like "I want sfssfsfsffsfs" "ayyy got you covered". How the tables have turned.
It seems inefficient to retcon mergers as illegal a decade later. A merger is not necessarily black and white illegal or legal; just something vague on a grey spectrum that the FTC happens to be choosing to color an argument for one way or the other depending on current administrative priorities.
Personally, I'm never going to subscribe to any newsletter ever. If I like someones content enough, I might bookmark the page or subscribe via RSS. However, currently the page rudely interrupts before I've even finished reading. I've (probably) never visited your site before. I don't know if I like the content or not. If I reach the bottom of the page, there's fair chance I might. A notice at the bottom like "If you liked this, maybe you'll like my newsletter". It's far less disruptive and way more polite.

I hated popups in the 90's, same as I do now. It's an immediate bounce for me.

>browser / platform

Vivaldi / Linux (Debian)
That doesn't make sense, as ads are useless without consumption (i.e. imports). We did manage to monetize our consumption thru ads though.
stremio works fine and is quite popular.

It's similar to popcorn time that was killed by legal ways so I'd say they did take off.

Stremio smartly avoids being killed by making pirating an optional plugin you have to install from another site so they get deniability.

It works well and save my ass from needing 1000s' of subscriptions.
http://web.archive.org/web/20250414144348/https://www.boring...

To get around apparent vandalism…
Is this relevant to the antitrust case?
I maintain a daily log using Apple Shortcuts, ChatGPT and Notion
I've been following this the past few years and have tried to warn about it. The article does a good job explaining the problem. There are other factors and sources of liquidity they can use to cook the books a while longer. Never underestimate their ability to kick the can down the road or rob Peter to pay Paul.

How this isn't front page news every day is beyond me.

The U.S. has run on debt to keep up the appearance of competing with China for decades While behind the scenes, it has all just been a money game to simulate GDP. As they ran up trillions doing this, they began to favor quoting the resulting debt in terms of percentage of GDP. At the same time, GDP at increasingly large levels was the result of the debt being created. This is a path where eventually reality sets in and suddenly you're not at 130% of GDP. You're at 250% or 300% because most of your GDP for twenty years has been this QE money.

The debt was funded partially by the reserve currency system which leads to trade deficits. China did a study that said for every $100 in goods sent to the U.S., it costs $0.17 cents for the U.S. to print a $100 bill (really free with digital currency). So at some point that trade deficit and foreign owned debt is a large part of your reserve currency.

The triffin dilemma is turning into a slow motion financial nuke. Because once the reality hits the market that the upcoming $9 trillion this year and $27 trillion over the next few years simply cannot be rolled over without either a massive crash or a form of hyperinflation, because the Feds QE will be the only source of liquidity.

Then again, maybe it's time for another Bretton Woods style conference. The U.S. might not like the terms the rest of the world decides to set for it.

EDIT: As far as using debt fueled fiat currency to trade for goods, or to fund wars to destroy Russian tanks, or whatever, I mean, it makes sense that the U.S. did that for as long as possible. Who wouldn't? But great scams don't last forever
The person you are replying to isn't claiming that the seller pays the tariffs, they are saying that it's not in the seller's interest to notify buyers of the tariff charge because it's essentially free anti-tariff messaging once buyers are hit with the sudden fees.
Please, think about what you just said.

How can I feed to it context about a DSL that does not exist yet?
Your answer begs the question - why is the 1960’s the right target?

And if the Gini coefficient is calculated pre-tax and pre-benefit distribution, it’s not going to change with high taxes and high redistribution (and yes you mentioned it may not be the right measure).

And if the Gini coefficient is calculated based on income data from the US, do we know if the better Gini from 1960’s wasn’t just due to income not being reported to the IRS?
Very nice! but why not contributing updates to some widely used project like Karakeep?
Sometimes it poisons your family to death. That’s the dangerous bit.
Basis: words of the president on various different occasions, for example Trump wants to send U.S. citizens with criminal records to be imprisoned in EL Salvador.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-citizens-prison-el-salvador...

Relevance is subjective.
As with many startups (especially ones with high burn rates) OpenAI is risky. It could take down SoftBank and its data center vendors. 6% of nvidia’s revenue is not that concerning, as I’m sure they can find other buyers for those GPUs. But I really don’t buy the argument that OpenAI is the gen AI industry. If they ceased to exist tomorrow, the tech/genAI industry would just trundle along. At this point the tech is quite commodotize.
Show HN: We launched an AI tool to analyze Fed economic data
We just launched a new tool this week that makes it way easier to understand what’s going on in the economy.

This tool lets you quickly check key economic stats like GDP, inflation, and interest rates using official data from the Federal Reserve. Just type a question, and it pulls up the latest numbers with easy-to-read charts so you can get a clear picture of what’s happening in the economy.

But it doesn’t stop there — you can also ask the AI to analyze these data sets and help you understand what they mean. Whether you’re looking for trends, comparisons, or deeper insights, it can break down complex relationships and give you answers in plain language.

Watch the video below where we go down a rabbit hole analyzing consumer debt and spending.

https://x.com/rhuncapital/status/1910819028056379413?s=46&t=...
& then sell it back to Google, in this case https://www.axios.com/2024/08/05/google-characterai-venture-...
I admire your willingness to argue that, because they didn't do the corrupt thing, they are in fact corrupt.
‘OUTSOURCING’ isn’t software engineering.
It throws away decades of software engineering principles in favour of CHEAP output by clicking “I AGREE” on a contract.

You would certainly NOT use ‘OUTSOURCED’ slopware that powers key control systems in critical infrastructure such as energy, banking, hospitals and communications systems.

An incident involving using ‘OUTSOURCED’ slopware is just waiting to happen.

... oh, wait...
Great point, thanks for raising it. You're spot on – the client currently sends name: 'mcp-shield', enabling exactly the bait-and-switch scenario you described.

I'll push an update in ~30 mins adding an optional --identify-as <client-name> flag. This will let folks test for that kind of evasion by mimicking specific clients, while keeping the default behavior consistent. Probably will think more about other possible vectors. Really appreciate the feedback!
https://support.google.com/meet/thread/338331194?hl=en&notif...
Is it really lost on people that the POTUS owns a competing social network platform?
> you're kind of end up paying them 10x more than if you had taken the extra time to deploy it yourself

The length to which many devs will go to not learn server management (or SQL).
I worked for a company called Streamroot which sold exactly this, and I can tell your first paragraph is indeed correct but the second isn't: we had major streaming platforms as customers when I was there (not global giants like Netflix or YouTube, but big european players like Canal+ or Eurosport) and we also had plenty of warez websites (streaming sport, animes, porn, etc.).

I then left and the company later got acquired by Level 3 so I don't know exactly how it evolved but it's likely that they abandoned the illegal streaming market for reputational reasons and stuck with big players.
The "disparate impact" test applies mainly in civil rights act litigation, and it's extremely hard to make a case under that theory. It's a three-part test, and showing that a particular policy has a disparate impact on one race is just the first hurdle.

You also have to prove that the party acted with malice: either the policy exists for explicitly racist reasons, or the race-neutral justification is pretextual. If you can do that, you _also_ have to prove that there is a less-discriminatory alternative policy that achieves the same goal.

see, e.g., https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/T6Manual7#C'

It is definitely not de facto illegal to have a racially lopsided student body -- the school might be asked to justify the specific policy or practice that led to that outcome on race-neutral grounds, but saying "GPA and test scores" would be more than enough.
Funny how a foreign country got America to compromise on its core value of free speech that we used to lecture Europeans on.
You get something right, something awfully wrong. It's true that machines dont sleep, but less true that every software engineer costs 230000$ an year. Maybe (!) that's true in Silicon Valley. In Italy, it costs 35000E.
And we don't see many software companies in Italy. Why? Because I'm sad to have that explained, code is 10% of development. Whatsapp was sold for 17 billion dollars and it was 55 employees, and it's an IRC chat made mobile. At the time, it didn't have video.
I can keep going on, but this discussion sounds so out-in-space that only USA people could not see. Sorry if you're from somewhere else.
Who are very hostile towards newcomers. One can easily imagine a sort of lepards island quarantine community, outside of the actual community , where all the bots, problematic people and social sellouts die a social death, while the honest enthusiasts after a year and a day are allowed in. No feeds, no algos on the inside, just people .
I did and got back what appeared to be an automated reply given the near immediate response.

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It's really a bummer to lose an 18+ year account that I've accumulated so many friends and community relations, and one that is tied to a common public nickname I use on socials and is literally tattooed on my arm. So I figured I'd wait a year and request again.
Considering the extremes of prolific developers gives interesting contrast to dogmas such as "functions/files should never be above x lines", where `quickjs.c` is 50k lines and has functions that are hundreds of lines long:

https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/quickjs.c

(Obviously different approaches suits different circumstances.)
If you haven't already read it, you'd probably enjoy "How big things get done" by Brent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner - what you said is the central thesis of the book.
Why are they obsessed with genmoji ffs
Its actually amazing news, worse software quality means more oportunities for hackers and better tools
This is an advert disguised as a post about LLMs.
Literally the entire article is specifically about films that aren't remakes/reboots/franchise films, and how they aren't doing well at the box office. It would be impossible to read even a single sentence of the article and not realize that.
> HOTP/TOTP has a registration step, where you copy a server-generated secret to your phone through a QR-code-encoded otpauth:// URI

RFC4226 and RFC6238 do not specify anything but the actual algorithm(s), which is exactly what OP implemented.
I mean that's not a great counterexample because outsourcing is famously difficult to get right, and from my own experience often results in exactly the kind of terrible code quality GP is talking about.
JRuby 10.0.0.0 Released
Peertube does this AFAIk (or they plan to do this)
As you said, I think also the key differences between skilled and unskilled devs in the context of AI tooling are :

1°) Know how to diagnose and fix critical problems by themselves, because there will be bugs in production for which AI won't be any help

2°) Write maintainable code, AI doesn't care at all of maintainability of code while devs should (must imho) consider pasting AI code as a merge/pull request.

For 2°) IIRC, I read somewhere that more and more code published on i.e. github is AI-generated. While this means the quality of code is decreasing, i.e. Copilot is also trained on more and more % of AI-generated code. So the quality of AI-generated code is decreasing globally.

As time passes, I think skilled devs will become more skilled and unskilled will become more unskilled.
I have a fairly successful heuristic - the more words about "empowerment" or "democratization" are being spilled around, less power and democracy common people have. There is a reason corporate snakes love these words so much. But hey, enjoy your vibe-coded app and believe that this tech is hyped because of perspectives on betterment of human society and individual emancipation, not because it will allow our technocratic overlords tighten the leash.
I don't know whether they will be or they won't be, but 10 years from now all the employed ones will be using LLMs.
> Optimizing an image meant that Next.js downloaded the image from one of those hosts to Vercel first, optimized it, then served to the users.

So Metacast generate bot traffic on other websites, presumably to "borrow" their content and serve it to their own users, but they don't like it when others do the same to them.
Yes, congratulations, you've understood why it's extremely difficult. Well done.

I suppose next you'll tell me that either you don't understand it so it shouldn't be done or that because it's hard people should give up.
Over the past 30 years, computers and software have dramatically transformed our world. Yet many sectors remain heavily influenced by their analog history. My understanding is that the HN community has always recognized that the future is already here, just not evenly distributed across work environments, administration, and general processes. Didn't many of us believe that numerous jobs could be replaced by a few lines of code if inputs and outputs were properly standardized? The fact that this hasn't happened or has occurred very slowly due to institutional inertia is another story altogether.
Whether software development will become a "bullshit job" or how the world will look in a few years remains unknown. But those who constantly praise their work as software developers while simultaneously acknowledging that other non-physical jobs and processes could be fundamentally overhauled are living in a cognitive bubble—something I wouldn't have expected in this community.
As an almost radiologist, it’s exciting to see how MRI technology is making these strides.

Another area that seems to be coming into its own is using hyperpolarized isotope Carbon 13 as a contrast agent. It can be incorporated into metabolites like pyruvate and show tissue with rapid uptake. This is used in the detection of cancer, where the cells are extremely hungry for glucose/pyruvate, a phenomenon known as the Warburg effect.

https://hyperpolarizedmri.ucsf.edu/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect_(oncology)
I had bad reviews been supressed by amazon several as well, so at this point I'm assuming any review system is theater.
Pretty sure this is possible already... What's stopping you?
Tangential, but an entry level developer at 190k USD per year seems nuts, is that really a reasonable number? From a quick search, I find numbers below 100k USD for the bay area, which seems more reasonable.

In a well off European country, you'd pay around 45k USD for a strong entry level developer. I can imagine 2x salaries, considering costs of living, fire at will and all that, but >4x? Not sure how to back that up.
Also, calculators did millions of operations, but the were 99.999999% right all the time. That's what set the apart from human people: eternal reliability 24/7. AI is about right 1% of the time, a human is needed to recognise when the machine is wrong, and it keeps repeating the same mistakes when identified and corrected. People WISH it was like a calculator, but you know, magic thinking doesn't make things happen.
Google does this: 100% discount for upto 100K of usage the first year, and 25% discount upto 100K for the second year.

But I disagree: I think what AWS does is a LOT better: credits last two years, which is a lot more practical (if i migrate to AWS for the credits, I have two years during which I don't have to consider migrating again), plus with the upfront payment plans, I can even stretch the credits to a third year. I like that a LOT better.
The answer is simple: Bellard can recall all 50K lines of context, while most can't. I too happen to have a larger working memory and only later realized that my threshold for files and functions is way higher than most others. The dogma is only required when the file is to be read and written by multiple people.
That's just objectively not true.
You can't lump shein and temu in the same bucket. My wife is an avid shein user and from what I can tell the quality so far is really good for what you pay.

Shein is in reality just an aliexpress/baba wrapper, but they put huge amounts of effort into accurate sizing charts for their clothing, and their customer reviews system actively incentivises buyers to upload pictures of themselves wearing the purchased clothing. So as a potential buyer you can actually see the piece of clothing being worn by someone with a similar body shape than your own.

My impression of temu is they are trying to be as misleading as possible with their listings, and the value for money is absolutely terrible because of that: you think you are getting a 6' xmas tree for $20, but when it arrives it's 6".
I had a teacher in uni who was fairly convinced that some kind of intelligent multicast was the solution here.

But after working in ISP for a while I realised that the issue is getting ISP's to use cool protocols is just impossible and everything must be built at higher levels.