MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2025-04-27 03:06:25+00:00
There is a small list of reasons why it needs to be "debunked:"

1. Your phone is gathering data that you don't realize that it gathers.

One of the biggest examples of this is real-time location data that is brokered by cellular carriers and sold as aggregated marketing data. You don't have to give your apps permission to do anything like that because your cellular carrier can get that data regardless of your phone's OS.

2. Your phone is gathering data that you gave it permission to gather, perhaps gathering it in a way you didn't think it would do.

For example, let's say you give an app permission to read your entire photo library so that you can upload a photo. But since you gave it that permission on the OS level, it might be uploading more images than you explicitly select. Another example used to be clipboard data before the OSes asked permission for use of the clipboard. One last example is text that you enter but do not submit.

Another big aspect of this is that people don't realize how these ad networks work in real time. It's not a slow thing for an advertising company to learn something about you and react accordingly, it can happen in a few short seconds.

2. The average person doesn't have any comprehension of how easy it is for data science practices to uncover information about you based on metadata that seems benign or that you don't know exists.

Most people don't understand how your behavior in an app can be used to tell the company things you like and dislike. The TikTok algorithm is a great example, it can tell what you like just by extremely subtle inputs, how you swipe, how long you watch the video. A lot of people don't realize how many things about them aren't particularly unique and how many preferences can be tied to a really specific persona that you fall into.

A real world example of all of this put together is that I was spending a lot of time browsing appliances because I just bought one, and I went to physically visit a friend. We were talking about my new appliance, and later they got ads for that specific appliance. So, the person's reaction would naturally be "it was listening to us!!" but in reality, it is more likely that our cellular carrier or carriers knew we were physically in the same place and reported that piece of information to some kind of data broker. Consider how there are a limited amount of cellular carriers, that location data may not have needed to even exit the cellular carrier to sell this data to someone. I.e., if we both have the same cellular carrier , our company already has that information and it isn't selling it to another company, it's perhaps just telling a data broker that Person A and Person B interact with each other.

Just note that I'm not claiming this is exactly how it all works as I'm not in that industry, but the general ideas here apply. The general takeaway is that literally recording audio with a microphone just isn't necessary to derive hyper-specific things about people.
by dangus | 2025-04-27 03:06:52+00:00
Literally not compelled in this case, the TSA signage says that the image capture is completely optional.

More generally, having your stuff screened for security to get on a commercial plane isn't a 4th amendment violation, the word "unreasonable" is right there in the amendment for a reason. You're in public in an enclosed flying object bringing your goods onto someone else's plane with 100+ strangers aboard, it is completely reasonable and necessary for the freedoms of everyone involved for the TSA to ensure that your stuff doesn't have dangerous objects aboard.

Don't forget that freedom also involves the freedom of other people to not be negatively impacted by you exercising your "freedom."
by Hashex129542 | 2025-04-27 03:07:42+00:00
We are just changing the encoders and decoder program only from text to binary. The front end software remains same for example we are using for CSV.

The binary form has lot of benefits than plain text form in editing. For example, when you are replacing UIn8 value from 0 to 100 then you just replacing a byte at a position instead of rewriting whole document.
by BohdanPetryshyn | 2025-04-27 03:08:38+00:00
I’m working on a product to tackle the same problem - keeping user-facing docs up-to-date as products evolve. I’m still early, currently building a proof of concept.

Would love to connect and exchange ideas. Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpetryshyn/
by blurbleblurble | 2025-04-27 03:09:13+00:00
Pixel phones have a built in background audio fingerprinting service called "Now Playing" which can operate constantly.

Shazam has an "auto shazam" feature you can enable for constant background listening, since 2016 at least!

But look into Alphonso. That's like Shazam but explicitly for covert "content recognition" listening in microphone enabled apps. And it's old.

People who say it's too expensive or impractical to do bulk listening for ad-tech just aren't paying attention.
by genewitch | 2025-04-27 03:10:28+00:00
> other techniques

including honking a horn and seeing if the camera picked it up.

We did this once when trying to find someone's house who was transmitting on a CB. it was my first transmitter hunt and i learned 2 lessons: people don't like it when you honk your horn to see if you can hear it through their microphone (but really it was to see if they said 'is that you honking, what a jerk'); and secondly, if the person switches to a handheld transmitter when they think you're getting close, it completely throws you off.
by digitaltrees | 2025-04-27 03:10:37+00:00
You’re approaching bad faith.

Was the stock market at historic highs. Yes

Was inflation falling and the lowest in the OECD. Yes

I am not going to go point by point. And they aren’t “true at the margins” when taken together as a whole. They are a manifestation of a broad policy that created improved conditions in the country that would have continued. And the CHIPS act was the exact policy to set us in the course for how the world will be over the next 30 years rather than what it was 60 years ago.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-04-27 03:11:21+00:00
I absolutely love thew web. I wish I could get onboard with this sentiment. But, the web bitrots away, piece by piece year by year. Archive.org mercifully backstops against much of the loss. But its not enough.

And demanding everyone buy and own a domain name & figure out hosting seems unviable as requirements for the world's mass communication system.

The Bluesky PDS architecture is a lovely lovely modest & small iteration on the web, adds only a bit more. To make your vault of content still addressable, still a URL, but one tied to a cryptographic identifier. And to make the content all signed and secure.
by chrisco255 | 2025-04-27 03:11:49+00:00
They have the same muscles, what do you mean? They are both humans. A construction worker is likely to have stronger hands, but by no means does that preclude them from performing a magic trick nor is the magician precluded from doing carpentry. It's likely they've done more than a few construction-based tasks in their life. It's even possible that one do both, it's merely choice and time that determine these things.
by afro88 | 2025-04-27 03:12:09+00:00
A lot of it is due to the tokenisation system though. It just doesn't represent individual letters in words. And at the moment reasoning models aren't trained to know how to spell all words, and to know when to spell them out to unlock other useful stochastic funnels.

I find the term "stochastic parrot" super reductive. Like yes, they technically are. But they are (I guess faking) reasoning and intelligence more and more usefully each iteration. Gemini Pro 2.5 compared to GPT 4o is a massive difference in utility.
by kcexn | 2025-04-27 03:13:22+00:00
I have always had the impression that the CNCF was founded as a kind of demilitarized zone for large companies to collaborate on big projects.

Having governance and contributions all recorded in the public domain, and the software licensed so that it is free means that the big firms limit the risk of IP infringement and they can control the size of their financial investment to be proportional to their financial benefit.

In Kubernetes related projects for instance, I've seen sensible bug reports asking for features that have been rejected not because of a lack of sponsors, or lack of resources, or lack of expertise, but because it doesn't fit into the projects goals or roadmap. Responses like that never made me feel that these projects were particularly ”open".
by ilyagr | 2025-04-27 03:14:22+00:00
I don't think popularizing these ASCII characters would solve the problem in its entirety.

If RS and US were in common use, there would be a need to have a visible representation for them in the terminal, and a way to enter RS on the keyboard. Pretty soon, strings that contain RS would become much more common in the wild.

Then, one day somebody would need to store one of those strings in a table, and there would be no way to do so without escaping.

I do think that having RS display in the terminal (like a newline followed by some graphic?) and using it would be an improvement over TSV's use of newline for this purpose, but considering that it's not a perfect solution, I can understand why people are not overly motivated to make this happen. The time for this may have been 40+ years ago when a standard for how to display or type it would be feasible to agree upon.
by finder83 | 2025-04-27 03:15:41+00:00
It's very possible they don't replace them, but many libraries also have legitimate sells to clear books from inventory to make room. Usually over like a week or three day weekend once or twice a year, the last day having bags of books for $5. All of them have stamps/card holders/stickers designating the library. So those don't necessarily mean they were borrowed and never returned.
by fugalfervor | 2025-04-27 03:16:09+00:00
> I've never read about a single case of somebody being unable to obtain a government photo ID who was legitimately eligible to vote

That doesn't mean your opinion is true. I don't know how much or how widely you read, nor do I know how varied your sources are. That you have never read an anecdote describing my assertion does not mean my assertion is false.

You can read more about the effects of voter ID laws (according to research) here:

https://electionlab.mit.edu/research/voter-identification
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-27 03:16:30+00:00
> I understand the basic idea of how you fight an oppressive regime everyone hates.

If everyone hates it, you only need to fight it if has external support. A regime needs considerable active support and even wider at least tacit support to operate; if everyone locally hates it, it cannot function as a regime (but, if it has sufficient external support, can perhaps function as an occupation, that you do have to fight.)

> I have no idea how you go about fighting one that half the country supports.

You fight it by actively seeking to make it one that has much less support, by means such as revealing to the people who would oppose various acts the things that it is doing that have been effectively concealed or misrepresented to them that they would oppose if they understood.
by spyrja | 2025-04-27 03:17:51+00:00
I would say the default behaviour just isn't very ergonomic. Suppressing warnings for example requires piping to /dev/null (whereas `path` supresses permission warnings by default), if you want to limit the number of results you have to pipe the output to another command, getting xargs-like behaviour (obviously), or putting quotes around lines with embedded spaces, there are simply more hoops to jump through. It's much easier to type "path -sf .jpg .jpeg .png" than whatever would be required to get the `find` utility to do the same. (Or, say, finding all node_modules folders with "path -z n_m", it's just so much more satisfying.) But yes, these are mostly just syntactic-sugar kinds of issues. Aside from that (and perhaps the lack of cross-platform compatibility), I would say there is nothing inherently deficient about the `find` command. It's a work-horse which probably has more features than `path` does. But the latter really is growing on me. It is actually quite fun to use, if I may say so myself!
by acomjean | 2025-04-27 03:18:13+00:00
Ill agree, for me the value add of a local bookstore is they curate the books to some extent. I’ve gotten a fair number of “recommended books” and they’ve generally been good (I tend not to trust Amazon reviews, and they own goodreads now too). This one does author talks which I tend not to go to but is a community building kind of thing.
by bustling-noose | 2025-04-27 03:18:29+00:00
In India Amazon makes little sense. Neither does kindle nor does local book store.

The reason for this is that both paper and printing here is cheap along with labor. The original author also licenses for cheap. The publishing houses however take a large cut increasing the cost of the book.

People get a hold of the epub and print them and sell them for 1/4th of the price sometimes 1/10th for new and even less for used.

The only way I see around this is digital libraries. Let people rent unlimited books (but like Netflix limited at a time) and take a monthly cut.
by dangus | 2025-04-27 03:19:48+00:00
That is not the other option at all. The other option is essentially just the traditional screening process.

> Standard ID credential verification is in place – Travelers who decide not to participate in the use of facial recognition technology will receive an alternative ID credential check by the TSO at the podium. The traveler will not experience any negative consequences for choosing not to participate. There is no issue and no delay with a traveler exercising their rights to not participate in the automated biometrics matching technology.

My goodness this thread is just the most annoying tinfoil hat thread I've seen all day. Y'all are spending too much time online.
by globnomulous | 2025-04-27 03:20:11+00:00
> You have a great opportunity to show your students that LLMs aren't designed to be used like that, as a proxy for yourself. After all, it's not realistic to think we can forbid students to use LLMs, better to try to incentivise the development of a healthy relationship with it.

LLM use is the absolute last thing I want to discuss with students. I can think of few worse ways I could spend my limited time with them.

Educators can, should, and must forbid students from using tools that do their work for them -- i.e. cheating.

LLMs are always bad for learning. Always. They offload and bypass mental work.
by kcexn | 2025-04-27 03:21:15+00:00
The thing is, Synadia has made 97% of the contributions. So they essentially own the copyright to the entire project and the CNCF hasn't helped them to build a community of developers and software support.

There's a balance to be struck here, but, given that there are not really any users of NATS that are contributing back to the community. It seems very reasonable to me that NATS should be able to relicense their software, and it won't affect any of their commercial users. Free users can be transitioned to a trial license, and the impact from the transition will be minimal.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-27 03:21:39+00:00
Currently social media is advertising "girlfriend bots" to me and being quite explicit about what they'll do -- anything -- and it's turning my stomach.

No, I do not want an imaginary friend at my beck and call. I do not want a slave under my command. You know, it's bad enough with computers themselves and the illusion of controlling them. How will boys grow up with normal human relationships if they can have AI-slaves who will just do anything to please them and submit to them?

It's sort of ironic. Porn used to be extremely impersonal and distant. There was no hope of relationship with the people on the screen. Now on the Internet, parasocial relationships with any celebrity are possible, and I think it messes us up. To be fake-connected to my favorite singer, or just her PR agent: they're just selling more records and concert tickets. I'm becoming emotionally invested in phantasms. It's hurtful and exploitive.

Men are just so, so vulnerable to these things. Feminists know very well that they have enormous power in sex, and they can wield it however they want. "Free love" begat only legions of incels and futile "men's rights activists" and disempowered men who are just trampled by this stuff.

"Sex work" is not empowering and it's the opposite of liberation. It creates slaves and encourages trafficking and feeds addictions. "Digital Companions" will only help pervert the mind. Common wisdom says that FPS games haven't led to violence and porn doesn't lead to rape? I'm not so sure.
by brandonmenc | 2025-04-27 03:22:59+00:00
I live in one of these cities and the local B&N is frozen in time - in a good way - and it is always packed with people.

It has just as much space devoted to books as it did when it first opened over 30 years ago. Lego took over a few aisles, but the original Software Etc. section is now all books - a net zero change.

Other than that, it hasn't changed one bit. Frozen in the early 1990s. Original wallpaper and everything. It even smells the same.

When our friends and family visit, they all demand to visit this holy site - and they always leave with bags full of books.
by Supermancho | 2025-04-27 03:24:18+00:00
> Multiple surgeries is not sustainable. Too much uncertainty

I'm not sure where this is coming from. Multiple cardiac bypasses have a ton of uncertainty, but they are effective because efficacy is measured by quality of life * increased lifespan.

Multiple surgeries (the time it takes to regrow major veins from capillaries that aren't blocked off) to relatively non-lethal parts of the body seems very sustainable for a human lifespan after 60 or 55 or whatever.
by hammock | 2025-04-27 03:24:47+00:00
> It looks at vegetation, terrain, architecture, road infrastructure, signage, and it just knows seemingly everything about all of them.

Someone explain to me how this is dystopian. Are Jeopardy champions dystopian too?

It’s not crazy to be able to ID trees and know their geographic range, likewise for architecture, likewise for highway signs. Finding someone who knows all of these together is more rare , but imo not exactly dystopian

Edit: why am I being downvoted for saying this? If anyone wants to go on a walk for me I can help them ID trees, it’s a fun skill to have and something anyone can learn
by thayne | 2025-04-27 03:25:19+00:00
> But you are allowed to be nice, and that choice doesn't hurt or cost anything.

Obviously this doesn't apply to everyone, but as someone who suffers from social anxiety, talking to someone I don't know very well absolutely does cost me.

That said, I do try to be nice despite the anxiety it causes me, and if someone came up to me and said something to me I probably would respond. But I certainly wouldn't go approach someone else.
by ilyagr | 2025-04-27 03:25:42+00:00
It's a clever format, especially if the focus is on machines generating it and humans or machines reading it. It might even work for humans occasionally making minor edits without having to load the file in the spreadsheet.

I think it can encode anything except for something matching the regex `(\t+\|)+` at the end of cells (*Update:* Maybe `\n?(\t+\|)+`, but that doesn't change my point much) including newlines and even newlines followed by `\` (with the newline extension, of course).

For a cell containing `cell<newline>\`, you'd have:

|cell<tab>| \\<tab >|

(where `<tab >` represents a single tab character regardless of the number of spaces)

Moreover, if you really needed it, you could add another extension to specify tabs or pipes at the end of cells. For a POC, two cells with contents `a<tab>|` and `b<tab>|` could be represented as:

|a<tab ><tab>|b ~tab pipe<tab>|tab pipe

(with literal words "tab" and "pipe"). Something nicer might also be possible.

*Update:* Though, if the focus is on humans reading it, it might also make sense to allow a single row of the table to wrap and span multiple lines in the file, perhaps as another extension.
by ultimafan | 2025-04-27 03:26:15+00:00
It seems like a high hurdle in today's world but I still think developers (or inventors of anything really) should think if the benefits of what they're making really outweigh how their invention will actually end up being used.

It's not a large leap of logic for anyone in touch with reality to realize that if a general purpose vision AI is going to be able to predict photo locations bad actors are going to use it for that and a lot of them will be people that would otherwise not have had the technological knowhow of accomplishing it themselves.

I know I probably come off more than a little bit insufferable about this but I'm tired of seeing novelty inventions pop up, everyone has fun for a little bit geeking out over them then they're mostly forgotten outside of niche applications until they show up back in the news when they've been used for the latest sextortion/blackmail/catfishing/whatever scam.
by sgc | 2025-04-27 03:26:58+00:00
You are reading too much into it. If I study runners, I should presume the study will apply to those who don't run should they become runners, unless I have evidence otherwise. All the more since many runners were once non-runners. It's not obviously a confounding factor, that would need to be demonstrated. And as I and others have already said, the actual studies indicate the results would have been the same in this election.
by grafmax | 2025-04-27 03:28:23+00:00
I think you’re overlooking the fact that our world - and the U.S. in particular - is sinking deeper and deeper into a deep crisis. No one knows exactly where this crisis will lead, but one thing is clear: everything around us is undergoing systematic change. And if you care about that, now is the time to get involved, because it’s during the moments of crisis that societies change.
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-27 03:30:23+00:00
Out of curiosity I looked up a similar-vintage uni host of similar vintage. Latest online evidence I can find dates to the early aughts.

Is there any reliable way of finding a last-effective date for a given hostname?

In related news, many of the services once offered through a locally-administered host are now provided by ... large commercial platforms. Time has moved on, it seems.
by derektank | 2025-04-27 03:30:40+00:00
Safety regulations were just one of the many hurdles in the pipeline from idea to therapy.

But to answer your question, that uterus transplantation was (a) an experimental therapy overseen by an IRB to treat a diagnosed medical condition, (b) almost certainly funded by grants acquired by Baylor and not insurance, and (c) the therapy is still in clinical testing and not available to indicated patients today in 2025, 8 years later, unless they are part of a clinical study, which demonstrates how lengthy the process is.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-27 03:32:33+00:00
That's essentially Kindle Unlimited. It's one of the key pillars to Amazon's dominance of the publishing sector. As an author, you have to give them 3 months exclusive publication rights to use it. You get paid per pages read, divided among all the other pages a customer reads that period. And if you opt out, your book's distribution on Amazon is affected.
by parrit | 2025-04-27 03:32:44+00:00
> The real fix is new opt-in modes and new tech (e.g. AI + btc)

This way of talking "new opt-in modes" reminds me of the typical LinkedIn thought leader shpiel.

But it is BS. New bubbles to fix old bubbles? Btc is zero sum. For you to buy a Lamborghini with the Bitcoin yoy got in 2012, someone else needs to pay for that with the dollars they have today.