skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't it a running joke that the Jannies don't get paid?

You're think about reddit and why it is the way it is from an editorial perspective and what kind of people have the time to mods 100+ subs for free...

But that ceased to be true long ago. While some of the supermods aren't paid by reddit directly, they might be paid by other orgs to mod and influence reddit, corporate or 'grass root'...

Some others simply hijack subs to sell their own products.
/g/ has a daily programming thread. I remember the SerenityOS developer used to post webm demos there. I remember seeing plenty of cool stuff.

Someone on /vr/ once started a thread about SNES homebrew and actually made a /vr/ themed one. I wonder what happened to that guy.
Realistic alternative? How about starting by reading tfa? I’d say you don’t need to physically threaten people who ask for basic security practices to be followed, for one.
Geocities was going strong in the late 90's too! My first homepage was hosted there on Tokyo Towers.
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Many of the popular internet terms start on 4chan, and then move to reddit and the rest of the internet, and then eventually mainstream news, and 65 year olds mouths. This process takes about 3-5 years.
Do you think they voted for Kamala? One more contradiction won't make a difference to nazis...

Also Hitler was a Zionist too [1]. Israel's goal of housing every Jews on Earth somehow aligns with antisemites of the world wanting to get rid of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement?wprov=sfla1
The same item on Amazon will cost x2/3 times than Temu, if you will be able to find the same item at all, meaning it cuts a big chunk of the potential buyers of the cheap crap.

The world would have been a better place if we hadn't been allowed to flood the market with cheap crap. Not only it creates enormous waste, it also means that reputable brands now start to cut corners in order to compete with cheap no name crap.
You do understand, that the upcoming tax cuts for rich people will throw the USA Debt above defence savings?

And it will increase the debt significantly?

All of that while DOGE, some random dudes without any understanding how things work, stop things which are globally agreed on (global aid) or just not even worth mentioning in the grand schem?

But hey if you prefer to defend DOGE ssaving 160 Billion while the tax cut for the rich adds Trillions to debt, yeah do a happy dance. Be proud. Or whatever your comment is trying to do.

Funny that IRS also gets defunded. But hey taxes right? :D
DOGE results according to DOGE. We all know what kind of track record Elon Musk has as a bullshitter.
If google never published it (and we pretend like it would not have leaked) then we would never have the LLM:s we have today (including Googles). Everyone would loose.
Hacker named 4chan hacks 4chan
> Helping them requires creating vast numbers of better paying jobs with better working condition in their country, which require redirecting vast amounts of money to those countries

This was the logic under Deng, and the reason China is now a peer state. Unfortunately when doing business with communists, enriching them doesn't help the individuals move out of poverty because that would require wages to rise and that happens for political reasons not merit in a single party system

If we enrich the CCP we just end up with an adversary capable of taking us on. That's why tariffs.
Yeah my first thought was, "again?!". First one was rough enough, second one might actually tilt the scales to migrating.
I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website. I enjoyed browsing through sfw boards like /tg/ (tabletop media), /ck/ (cooking) and /fit/ (fitness). I had long discussions about the SW sequels on /tv/ back in 2015-19. The readership was surprisingly diverse and the anonymity lead users to provide more focused replies. With bodybuilding.com gone, the blue boards felt like the last bastion of the old internet.
> Buying from Amazon or locally would have cost me 10x as much.

Most things I have bought on Ali express have no US source. I also have mostly bought small electronics and components and generally pay the Amazon premium for speed and only go to Ali express when I can’t find what I need, so third is quite a bummer to hear as I’d simply have no source for that item. Although, it did seem too good to be true, the minimal shipping costs that is.
First they came for the Venezuelans, and I did not speak out, because I wasn't Venezuelan...

I guess you know how it ends.

That photo of the poor guy who gets dragged out of the airplane by police in riot gear in a foreign country makes me sick, knowing that he was deported without prior due process by a fascist administration.
>And doing the last mile yourself is a lot more inefficient than a post service doing it.

How do you figure?
Ordering pizzas cash-on-delivery to someone’s house is already a fairly common form of online harassment (sometimes also a precursor to swatting).
> Instead, Close had sourced the original photo from the BBC Hulton Photo Library in London, now part of Getty Images.

That's a bit disappointing if I am reading it correctly. A photo library initially funded by the taxpayers, is now locked down by Getty Images?
Do you also have this negative attitude towards all other non-vegitarian animals, or is it just for humans since they have more capability to cause more ecological harm?
It should be clear at this point that DOGE is trying to create a unified database of all persons in the US for targeting. Every single bit of data that they can get about you from the government or social media will be tagged to you Minority Report style. They were clear about wanting to deport citizens to El Salvador as well. Once you are identified as the other side they will come for you. If you are waiting for it to get worse before taking action and getting involved, we are already at that point.

> And Berulis noticed that an unknown user had exported a "user roster," a file with contact information for outside lawyers who have worked with the NLRB.

Possibly looking for lawyers for Trump to target with EOs or blackmail.
I haven’t used it for many years now, but phpMyAdmin was long a source of compromises. Lots of security holes.
A password is just plain text, which apart from being bruteforced, can easily be phished. There are so many things wrong with using a password even if it's fairly complex. Instead, stick to passkeys and SSH keys
That reminds me of this classic animation: 4chan city [0]. Which is based on a 2ch animation Nightmare City [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WzQ7KHak

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjdi7a6L_78
Time for the EU to invest in protecting Greenland from the U.S.
It’s the complete lack of profitability all the way down, from the deep Azure discounts, to OpenAI’s training and inference costing more than it brings in, to all the OpenAI API wrapper apps losing money on OpenAI subscriptions to get some AI into their product.

There’s nowhere in the chain that gets anywhere close to zero marginal costs.

In any other industry, a business claiming success for selling $100 bills for $50 would be laughed out of the room.
No historian but wouldn't it be fair to call Hitler a zionist?
I remember testing popcorn time and other bittorrent streaming tools back in the days. They worked "OK". Yes, you don't get the netflix experience. But on popular titles you get "good enough" streaming experience. You have to wait like 30 secs to get started.
Define "forward".
I mean, people already have MCP wrappers around the Gmail API.
No, I’m saying the Internet was already in mass adoption for the preceding decade. Talk to old timers and they’ll reminisce that the early days of the internet were great until Eternal September in 93. Others will reminisce about the days of BBS. I’m saying “early internet” is a relative term that has more to do with the person interpreting than any objective definition.
Nothing about DOGE or the Trump administration is about efficiency. It's just a label they use to con gullible voters.

Their real goal is more likely a combination of grift and settling grudges.

Edit - typos
the serious crime of... deleting egregious posts from a website
While a precise estimate is difficult to gauge it is supposed by professional analysts that a majority of hacks are state sponsored.

If the hacker is a state actor then I don't think anyone has learned anything about Free Speech.
There are tonnes of open source clones on github, source code to run the site is nothing special. You still need users.
I see a lot of hate for 4chan here. Why? I’ve never used it, know it by reputation, but not sure why there’s so much hate for it.
And people in those places will thank you for avoiding hiring them, some folks prefer to not be treated miserably for your own greedy exploitation :)
It did since at least 2004[1].

[1] - https://yenimedya.aydin.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/3....
Their question was a gotcha attempt, and a misguided one at that, hence the answer specifically not playing along.
I serve a cPanel hosting, some people just want something up and running now which cPanel provides.

With Softaculous for automatic installation of scripts it's still widely popular for Wordpress installations. Web hosting is however a very dead market to startup in.
Some context as I understand it is DOGE employees are all temporary gov't employees whose employment expires (in June?). Assuming they follow the law there (big If), then they scramble around these agencies with tremendous urgency trying to please Elon (or the powers that be?).

And they absolutely should be resisted with this deadline in mind...
When COBOL came out it was hyped as ending the need for software developers because it looked sorta like normal English, however it still required someone to be able to think like a programmer. The need to be able to think like a developer is somewhat reduced, but I don't see it totally going away.
What’s inherently wrong with virtue signaling though? I’m signaling virtues of thoughtfulness and careful, reasoned, intellectual debate. What virtues do you think you’re signaling about yourself?
I have leftist friends who grew up looking at memes on 4chan. As adults they remember it fondly.
Temu's whole grift was subsidized products and subsided shipping and both of those things are no longer available why would they continue to worry about the US?
"The people voted for major reform."

What they got was a pocket-lining idiot, and genuinely one of the most morally bankrupt people I've ever known of as his tech right-hand man. Musk is a moral imbecile, a 13-year old incel trapped in the body of an overweight mid-50s mess. Yes, he's been involved in some great things (SpaceX and Tesla), but he thinks that translates into a god-like ability to do anything and that he's right about everything.

These numbers don't even stand up to casual scrutiny. And I'm from the UK so it doesn't really directly affect me (although the orange idiot's shenanigans have done so to a small degree). But if you really believe this site, you're divorced from reality, and maybe drinking the same kool-aid that the tech muppets who are on DOGE are.
Maybe normalizing avatars to prep users for their planned future perfect black-emoji-sun-verse?
> someone with enough time will eventually get in

That's only correct if the password is weak. With enough entropy, it's practically impossible to brute force.
"Race realists" tend to be anti-jew but not anti-Israel. Israel provides a few key benefits for their belief system even if they hate jewish people. It means that there is a place for jewish people "over there" and not here. And it provides a starting point for their ethno-nationalist project in other countries ("if Israel can be a country for Jews then why can't Germany be a country for Whites").

Further, the Trump administration is committing violence against people simply advocating for no more bombing in Palestine. Despite the administration's claims that these people are "Hamas supporters" and "anti-semites", the bulk of these people are not actually advocating for violence to be done to jewish people that might put them in concert with far-right anti-semites.
What is UV?
You'd be hilariously incorrect about that.
> I was thinking most people nowaday have at least 30mbps upload

Even “modern” cities like NYC are limited to a MAXIMUM of 30Mbps upstream due to ISP monopolies and red tape.

It’s getting better, but Spectrum is still literally the only ISP available for many city residents, and their offerings are so lopsided that their highest-end package is a whopping 980/30.

That’s right. If you use the majority of that 980Mbps your IP overhead will gladly take that 30Mbps, leaving you with just about Zero headroom for anything else.
You're making a classical error programmers make when encountering legal systems: Treating law with the same rules of logic as code.

I can cite case law carving out lines around things like copy in RAM/SDD/etc. accessing a web site (very clearly legal) or internal copies for search engines (very close to the border, but still legal), but courts -- at least in systems based on common law -- don't work like a computer program or a mathematical argument.

So the general argument "X is like Y" doesn't work if you're looking purely at the technical action. The exact same action at the level of bits and bytes can be legal in one context and illegal in another.

What matters to courts are things which are less easy to formalize: intent, impact, etc.

Just as with computer science, there is a rigorous and formal analysis, but very different from the one you're making, and operating under very different rules.
This has been invented many times, but every time someone invents an actually effective method of person-to-person file transfer, it gets used for piracy and blocked and shunned.
What’s gross is the idea that plants are “lower” and thus less deserving of value to life. Either embrace radically life denying Jainism, anti-natalism, voluntary extinction movement, and benevolent world exploder theory - or admit that you are just as cruel as those you implicitly claim to be better than (as a presumably non gross person)

But white vegans aren’t prepared to actually reckon with the logical conclusion of their ideas. Go read David Benatar (he’s a vegan whose actually consistent btw)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been
I feel same with you. But sometimes I found that chatgpt is obviously wrong.
So since then I'm trying to be aware of this.
Tesla drop is not only related to Cybertruck. That didn't help, but they have other issues. But so do many other car companies.

> Elon himself said that Starlink would fail without Starship. Or is believing what he says situational?

Elon is well known to make dramatic statements to motivate people. He said that many years ago and the company is totally fine, Starlink is doing well. SpaceX still has the cheapest launch by an order of magnitude.
Only if it's only accessible via proper TLS (otherwise it's easy to read the user/pass with MITM as basic auth doesn't encrypt the user/pass).

If there is no throttling/rate-limiting/banning then this setup allows for a lot of attempts, wether brute-force or dictionary.
Sound right up the alley for a 4chan user
Yeah I agree that the current generation of LLMs dont appear to have been trained on solid "epistemological behavior". I believe the underlying architecture is capable of it, but I see signs of the training data not containing that sort of thing. In fact in either the training or the prompting or both it seems like the LLMs I use have been tuned to do the opposite.
You know, I always found Twitter (even pre-X) to be worse than 4chan ever was. Not in obvious terms, but in how it fucked with your head.
Depends. German Burschenschaften, though not massive, strike me as very far right. IIRC one of them had a big row over whether they can accept a member who was ethnically Chinese. (That guy was a full German citizen born in Dortmund, but of Asian ancestry.)
Yeah, sure. OTOH if this forum never had any criticism of free stuff we could probably host it on a raspberry pi.
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Meanwhile I probably would've just returned the lamp and bought a $20 lamp off Amazon that has a proper USB-C charger:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087CDBKCH/

I guess I'm not a very good 'hacker'.
It's in the quote.

"Once that's done, you can move on to people with more social power – immigrants, blue collar workers, school children."
So did 4chan, god help you if you abused a cat
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> and there’s infinity number of universes

There is no evidence that there are a infinite number of universes. All we know of is the one we exist in. The many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that there are a very large number of non-interacting "worlds" which may or may not be the same as "universes".

And if you meant "infinity number of galaxies" then that would require an infinite-size universe, and we don't know if that is the case for our universe. It could be, or it could be finite but unbounded.
You can - but will you? And you are in the tiny minority of people who understand what that even means. The vast majority of humans have better things to do with their life than figure out how to secure their personal network. (I'm not saying they are too stupid to figure out how - just that they have better things to do with their time)
First, every objective audit has found many problems with that data, ranging from taking credit for things which were terminated under the Biden administration to listing the maximum ceiling on a flexible contract (IDIQ) as the total savings even though the amounts actually spent were far lower (like canceling your credit card and saying you saved the limit), and even counting the same contract multiple times.

Second, you have to look at the cost of their actions. They’ve disrupted the functioning of the entire federal government and doing in a very haphazard manner. That means that a lot of current spending is wasted by DOGE _and_ that the business of the government isn’t getting done. For example, whether or not you think the U.S. should engage in foreign aid, under DOGE they paid money to send people to help in Myanmar only to lay them off after they arrived on site, squandering all possible value. That story is being repeated all over the country right now and in many cases the loses are permanent: if they choose to waste payroll having people come back to an office where they can’t work, the job isn’t getting done and there’s no way to recover the wasted payroll. As they keep losing lawsuits, it’s also likely that the amounts cut will be exceeded by the cost of settlements when they breach contracts or fail to provide a service required by statute.

One really big area is tax collection: the IRS is already estimating revenue reductions on the order of half a billion dollars, and since they’ve been sacking a lot of the law enforcement for businesses and high-net wealth individuals, that will get worse as people feel confident cheating more aggressively.

Lastly, you have to look at the economy. Estimated have each federal job supporting 2-3 other jobs, and federal spending drives the economy in many parts of the country. They’ve already cut growth of the entire economy into the negative (from +2.5% in January to -2-3% now - see https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow) and a lot of that is driven by federal cuts.
So, he’s being brought back then?
You can also fork all the dodgy actions you consume.
Yup, ytmnd predates it a couple year.
> "At the moment that technology is limited because you need a dermoscopic lens which the public wouldn't necessarily have access to, but I'm sure with time the technology will advance and we will have effective apps that patients can access from the comfort of their own home."
Show HN: Dynamically generate JavaScript class methods at runtime
built a weird little library last friday night. it uses LLMs to auto-generate JavaScript class methods at runtime; no need to define the method ahead of time—just decorate your class, call whatever you want, and the model figures it out on the fly.

it uses `Proxy`s, and pipes the class definition and the call example to the LLM for it to generate a valid method.

here's a very lean example:

```
class User {
constructor(email) {
this.email = email;
}
}

const EnhancedUser = asVibeClass(User);

const user = new EnhancedUser('john@example.com');

const domain = await user.getEmailDomain();

console.log(domain); // example.com

```

of course it was not built for production use, but it was a fun exploration. would love to hear your thoughts!
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First off, dont look at the outer wilds discussion on here, just play the game. Second - they didnt say how many letters we need to encode all of the observable supernova in a given year! So 100 billion galaxies, 1 per year per galaxy, we have around 1 billion to encode. Sorry two edits this moring, first one was right. due to math without coffee. 1e9/26^6 is about 3, 1e9/26^7 is less than one. So we might see 'SN2050aaaaaah'!
22 years is old. Nobody knows what geocities is, it has no relevance. It’s like talking about brands of telegraph wire.
For users who aren't familiar with 4chan - this post describes only one board - /pol/, where you can find hateful posts about every race and religion. 4chan have 30+ boards in total
I think people also don't acknowledge how much terminology, slang and other culture originate and spread there. When it breaches into Twitter (usually through funposters) people kind of ignore the unsavoury origin and rewrite the history. The anonymous nature kind of provides that petri dish of "if it's strong culture, it'll survive or be modified."
If you're looking for malign influence on 4chan - look outside the US. Anyone on /pol/ and /k/ after Oct 7th understands clearly who has been influencing if not controlling the site.
It's a little different. These are systems which are explicitly able to achieve better or worse outcomes by tuning the cost, in ways that aren't especially configurable otherwise. For an HTTP API, you can read the docs and use the small image vs large image endpoint or whatever and have a clear idea of what you're getting and for what cost. For LLMs, it would be very nice to be able to communicate about the desired and actual cost breakdowns for each sub-action.
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A billionaire Russian 'sugar daddy' took over an iconic Olympic sport
Embrace antinatalism and life denial or embrace amor fati. Sitting on the sidelines like so many others do on this topic is intellectually bankrupt.
Blaming the victims is not cool.

Particularly, when these are good people who put a lot of effort into keeping 4chan a pleasant community, by e.g. removing hate speech and CSAM, as well as banning offenders.
It's clearly when AOL started offering a monthly subscription for unlimited Internet usage.
If they receive federal funding, they should represent Americans. If 100% of Americans will be Democrats, then it can be this monoculture. If more people shift to Green politics, or Libertarian, it should represent those more too.

If there is a Christian university, it should either be sponsored by Christians only, or similar funding should go to other universities representing other major American groups (for example Jews).

Discrimination based on political views should be treated the same as discrimination based on sexual orientation or race.