skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like most modeling is going to shift to generative contexts where the application provides robust descriptions to the user's client and the client rebuilds a representation of the object that the client is capable of rendering. These descriptors could also be sent and rendered/streamed from remote devices too.
Better yet, a high school graduation gift.
I'm reminded of how Obama was vocally opposed to domestic surveillance and campaigned on ending all the new spying on the American people, but once he was in office he changed his tune very quickly and ended up expanding the NSA's ability to spy on the people instead.

I figure either he was shown some very strong and classified evidence that the data the NSA had been collecting was critical to protecting the people even while it violated their constitutional rights and freedoms or else he was shown how much dirt they have on him and his family and he was blackmailed into publicly declaring his love for NSA spying and handing them more tools to collect data while making only a few token changes.
On Firefox Android, I could read the landing page and browse afyer creating an account.

I was not able to create an account. (I had to go desktop)
Stretch to run? Orrr no? Ft: thebarefootsprinter [video]
Mathworks does it with Matlab. With that said Matlab does got annihilated by python in ML because its a closed sourced lang
I use Microsoft products for business (though I'm trying to phase them out). I don't care that much about their competitive practices (from a business perspective) and there's even the upside of a pretty uniform productivity software/ file format ecosystem that makes communication easier.

Committing corporate espionage, which is what their software does now, on the other hand, makes me not want to use them at all. I have agreements with customers about protecting their data, how can I use software that steals everything I put into it and sends it to MS? This is a much bigger deal. (Although I agree you could argue their earlier anticompetitive practices gave them the monopoly that allows them to run their current criminal spying empire unchecked)
Judge orders seizure of researcher’s art collection to pay for failed libel suit
Not disagreeing with you, I can smell the incentives for this sort of behaviour, but:

> you can use the accelerometer and other sensors to predict when somebody is going to click on something and you can trigger a layout shift and... oops!

Is there anything out in production that’s provably doing this? That’s pretty aggravating if so!

It’s happened to me a few times… I think? But hard to know if it’s just “ads load slowly and I decided what to tap on equally slowly”.
Even before Trump, the FBI was publishing warnings about white supremicists[0] in law enforcement being a great domestic threat. I wish I could find the full report, but they've been talking about it for decades.

The run up to Trump, his presidency, and now his decline are definitely adding enormous fuel to the fire. Doesn't help Republicans now see white supremacists as a voting bloc they can manipulate.

[0]: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/qxf5...
> The government couldn't do it this easily if it wasn't for sale.

Stronger: this being for sale means that it's already being purchased by someone.

Really the scoop to this piece is just "The CIA engages in open source intelligence", which sort of a "duh" kind of thing. If there's intelligence value in a product on the open market, of course they're going to consider buying it.

If it shouldn't be for sale it shouldn't be for sale. Let's fix that, not try to pretend that we're OK if Putin or Xi buys it but not the CIA.
specifically it seems to be the only one trying to replicate the concept of communities.

reddit is, at it's core, a place where people can host a community discussion board. the front page is just a very shallow window into that. all the reddit-alikes seem focused on reproducing the front page. something like tildes (or non.io at the top of HN right now) looks really cool, but it's just one community. you can filter and categorize all you want, but for any post there's just one discussion for the whole site to share. that's not a reddit replacement, it's a replacement for one subreddit, with some extra filtering tools bolted on.
I use an auth app for 2FA.
> Please help me understand what the difference is between, say, platforming racist harassment because of a "political commitment to free speech" and platforming racist harassment because you just kinda like racist harassment?

The difference is intent. Intent matters. Intent is the difference between murder and manslaughter, or between a conspiracy and mere speech.
I believe what they mean is. It is not the technology that is bad but the way large corporations are using it and how investors are promoting it that is bad.
>maybe not on /g/

weeeeeell, people did spam lolicon and gay furry porn in like 2011 for a couple months but the mods swooped in and it's been a well-enforced blue board since

the real problem with /g/ in the current age though is the thought-terminating memes. it's no longer really the bastion of oblique insight it once was. opinions on the board have ossified to the point you're not going to find out about anything cool from them first. this is common across most blue boards these days honestly; they are no longer really tastemakers
It feels like a lot of people on the pro-AI side of this debate think making art is some kind of magical activity that is totally inaccessible to them. The reality is the barrier to entry is a pen and paper and 10 minutes a day. There are a ton of resources online to learn about how to produce art without surrendering all your creativity to the AI slot machine, that don't involve stealing 400 million images.
Hence “largely.” And look at which planes and engines are flowing as well as how they’re owned and serviced. It’s deliberate, costly and not something you voluntarily subject yourself to for the benefit of salvaging a single jet.
Can foundation models label data like humans?
Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air
Yes, there was a dark period (early 2000's) where IE 6 was basically the only usable browser. Netscape was far behind, and also incredibly unstable (crashing hourly.) Firefox wasn't out yet. Chrome was years and years away.
Not terribly recent, but Darksiders from 2010 is pretty good. Haven't seen anything else really comparable.
not a secret perhaps, but actively suppressed and noised up https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/the-ufo-files-of-mus...

also not necessarily the first one either
They're not great for making software. That doesn't mean they're not a decent-to-great tool for a whole bunch of productive or creative activities, often in ways that a "real computer" cannot be reasonably used as a substitute—that is, if they vanished tomorrow, in many roles they wouldn't be replaced by a laptop, but by paper, a stack of single-purpose tools, and more human running-about or time-wasting.

I think the real/not-real computer thing's not especially illuminating, but I don't take issue with it the same way I do dismissing phones and tablets as "consumption-only", a perspective I find simply baffling, because I see them used for creation and productive purposes all the time in a ton of contexts by ordinary people.
How do Launch HNs work exactly? Is any group that was part of any YC batch allowed to do a Launch HN and continue to do so each time they pivot? I don't have an issue with this, I'm just trying to understand why a startup that was in the Winter 2014 batch is doing a Launch HN nearly nine years later. Presumably they pivoted several times, perhaps from something not even remotely related to feature flags?

I know some of the details of how to submit a Launch HN are described here https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html but doesn't quite answer my questions. Just curious!
pats good old Telnet client
The same issues exist, just mapped onto other concepts like ethnic group, tribe, nationality, religion, class, etc.
I'm curious what would happen if a privacy-focused nonprofit tried to purchase this bulk data and were refused. If it's only truly available to 3 letter agencies then they are acting more like contractors and the legal rationale might unravel.
Conclusion of article:

>Overall, the long-term trend in Antarctic sea ice is nearly flat. (in contrast, the glaciers and ice sheets over land in Antarctica are losing mass.) The satellite record spans more than four decades, and although the ice has shown increasing and decreasing trends over portions of that record, few of those trends have been statistically significant. Year-to-year variability has dominated, especially over the last decade. Since the year 2013, Antarctic sea ice has exhibited its highest and lowest extents in the entire record—the highest-ever winter maximum occurred in September 2014, and the lowest-ever summer minimum was in February 2022. But the overall trend, as of early 2022, is close to zero.
And why would social workers be more deserving than bakers?
Reddit has been a place for clever people to talk, but as it and its reputation grew, it started to attract not-so-clever people too. Cleverer people don't respond as well to advertising, so if you want to make more money from your users, you want more of the less intelligent ones, and fewer of the more intelligent ones.

The standardised comments you mention are a way for the less intelligent to participate, and the upvotes they attract reflect the numbers of these users. The ones you've mentioned sound like a case of aping one's betters; the ones I see most often are the vacuous 'Putin must be defenestrated' comments that litter the Ukraine war daily threads, and are the worst kind of performative virtue signalling.

Reddit as a loss-making assembly of communities is dying; Reddit as a profitable set of curated feeds, a sort of TikTok that's not just for short video, is rising.
The thing to keep in mind that alignment is often good initially but deviates over time. Funds have horizons that they want to respect lest they get in trouble with the LPs or end up with piles of money allocated but not turning a profit for them (because of the sunset clauses on management fees). Shareholders may see eye to eye - for a while - and then split up due to unforeseen development (that's when you'll find out how good that shareholder agreement really is). All in all this is a tricky thing and you will want to get yourself very well informed before pulling the trigger on any investment.
I like the idea of paid to comment / interact.

I mostly lurk reddit / read.

But understanding its balance between sustainability and popularity, is there a lower bound to free that can ensure the content is posted to seo the space popular?

1-3 free submissions per month would be enough for me.but if I started a sub (which I’ve considered a few times) I’d see enough value to pay.

Love the idea. Good luck. The timing is great. The audience is ready for a new model.
> What real live human being actually wants a twitter feed from Doritos?

The scary answer: people we share the world with. People on the roads with us. People who make decisions that can impact our lives.
> to the point where they get sued if they don't maximize shareholder value.

I'm pretty sure that 'maximizing shareholder value' is not a requirement for a company. Not even in the US.

> they get sued

I've seen this claim before but no one ever provides a link to any cases.
So, do they? Are there any easily accessible descriptions of such events?
Firefox has sync, but it's opt-in, not opt out. You have to login.
You’re right, and this was a tough design choice I made when I built the first prototype. Loading only first level of child comments should (correct me if I miscalculated this) be the most cost-efficient way as not every user is (hopefully) ever going to read all child comments in all levels in the hierarchy.
This raises an interesting use-case, though, which is the idea of a person who is working remotely or otherwise engaging virtually could rely on the 3D-model version of them, generated when they were professionally attired, to avoid having to go through that whole rigamarole every day.
Countdown to Instagram banning this: 9… 8… 7…
Microsoft doesn't even try to pretend anymore. Shamelessly piggy-backing Windows and Edge for a whole series of secondary goals with no care in the world about this being user-hostile or open market manipulation.

I guess you could say that they're back.

Funny thing is that in large corporations, Edge is often preferred as the default browser over Chrome, for Edge being a "cleaner" Chrome.
I would imagine it a security risk to allow attackers accessing the DOM through WASM. Adding complexity to the sandbox environment.
I guess not as much as Facebook, who announced PWAs on Meta headsets will be subject to the 30% tax and have to go through the store.
I can't claim to remember this personally, but I've heard that Usenet, in the pre-Web days, had a period every September when a big rush of new college students joined up, and had to be taught the rules.

That was before it turned into a cesspit, I guess.
meta comment: the article have zero substance besides hinting at the frivolity of tech today. and got instant 11 comments. people here are anxious to hear a why (article offers none)
Fwiw the stuttering fix you describe is likely moving from IRQ to MSI, it's common to edit the passed-through PCI device in regedit to use MSI (message signalled interrupts) instead.
I rarely visit Reddit or any other panopticon (this one however - HN - keeps tricking me into posting)

Anyway, I recently contacted the mods of deGoogle to see if they would like to add to their side bar the ad-free search engine I have been working on all the time for a couple months now

They basically said they didn't trust me (again, no karma) but asked me to post on the board to see feedback

The post quickly drew ire from a user who accused me of disrespecting the community (although he later calmed down once he learned that the mods had "given their blessing" for me to post)

Anyway, even though the post largely received positive feedback and was really upvoted (and user retention from that post has been amazing), the mods ended up dismissing me in a pretty cold way

That's why I fail to feel sympathy for anyone involved in these "villages". As a "stranger", I fail to comprehend their struggle for fairness and virtue. As a side note, HN is starting to feel a bit alienating too. Lately, I find myself not posting for fear of being downvoted - or worse - downvoted and search indexed

Here is the post I am talking about anyway (subreddit is currently on strike)

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/13qpzy4/a_new_sea...
I'm not even sure how I got to 2. I rarely bother to comment, yet here we are.
I agree 100% that we should do everything in our power to save as many people and as much technology as we can as we go through climate change.

My point was just that claims that the entire species is going to go extinct are unlikely and, worse, counter-productive. The last thing we need is fatalism and people giving up hope.
E.g. PITM attack on password reset endpoints.

And yes, if I had a bitwarden vault I wanted to crack I'd absolutely be using the web account login page. The latter is more likely to yield to have some vulnerability than the at-rest encryption, which when exploited would yield the password; or it could scare the target into falling into my PITM attack, or otherwise act irrationally.
"If you believe that anthropogenic climate change is going to be a global disaster, you should probably reasonably assume that some country in the world is going to allocate serious resources to mitigating it."

Not when mitigating it requires ending and reversing economic growth. You're assuming there's a single nation on Earth run by good-faith actors. Furthermore, if climate-drive austerity doesn't occur, the Earth will kill billions of people until it reaches a new equilibrium.
> The copyright OWNERS are to be denied their rights to do with their property what they wish?

Yes. The purpose of copyright is to protect and promote cultural works, that's why governments instituted it. If the institution is no longer serving its purpose, it should be reformed
They used a bunch of different tricks to ID some of the people there (and they've still not arrested most of them). The lesson here isn't that they aren't collecting data effectively, or that they aren't able to learn whatever they want, but rather that the data isn't really intended or used for protecting America from attacks or threats or terrorism. It's certainly being used, but not to protect us.
What if there was a large button for upvote, and beside a smaller button for 100x upvote?

Regular users can upvote 100 cat pictures for their dopamine hit, and when they find an ACTUALLY VALUABLE post they can look for the small button.
As illustrated by your comment, SF isn’t “normal and friendly” either.
or whatever reason, archive.* are failing today
It's more comfortable than other VR headsets I've tried, but still something strapped to your head that's significantly heavier than a pair of glasses. I think I could spend all day in it with no issues but I'm not sure how sick of it I'd get doing that 5x a week, every week.

I'm sure as soon as it's released people will be doing that and reporting back though!
>This assumes it’s possible to fully understand an author’s intent. Story and plot is part of it, sure, perhaps the most easily interpretable part. But there are myriad other concerns, the rhythm and musicality of the language, alliteration, presenting something as known or unknown to the POV characters, and cultural specificity.

Sure, and maybe the author had deeply held beliefs about typefaces and would be appalled that a user can now choose their own typeface on a Kindle. At a certain point, it is a little silly to try to fully understand and preserve every intent of the author. But a character going from good person to a racist due to nothing but the aging of their language is a pretty dramatic alteration of an author's intent that is easy to identify and rectify.

>And if they’re any good, the free market will surely do its work.

Do realize this is exactly what's happening here? These new versions are happening because of capitalistic reasons in that it is harder to sell a book that has a bunch of accidental bigotry in it.
tl;dr: the author wants antitrust action to focus on private equity rather than tech (and oh look, he runs a tech consultancy!). the evidence presented isn't entirely wrong (at least the parts i skimmed), but it's certainly highly selective, in service of reaching a desired conclusion. the digression into different schools of thought on antitrust is a waste of time, to put it mildly (and it is two posts mashed together, contrary to the author's explicit disclamation).

antitrust is really simple in my view: companies should principally be in one line of business[0] as that's the most efficient configuration for the economy as a whole. some of those businesses will be larger than others as a natural consequence of the given industry (e.g., capital-intensive businesses like aerospace), but no business should be larger than it needs to be (in the long-term; short-term dynamism is "inefficient" but promotes longer-term optimality).

that's because companies that are too big inevitably develop internal inefficiencies (e.g., bureaucratizing and politicizing) and suffer from diseconomies of scale, like the coordination problem (the topic of mythical man month). they also develop external inefficiencies, like looking for regulatory leverage via lobbying, arbitraging labor across jurisdictions, or settling into rent-seeking. right-sized companies, those that must focus first and foremost on market competition, don't have time for that sort of bullshit.

[0]: the hard part being the delineation, but it basically boils down to any business that can remain a going concern without positive externalities helping them along (which is not consolidated businesses in the US, including all the major telecoms, defense, education, biotech, oil & gas, etc.). private equity plays in all of these industries but it's silly to think that it's PE that is causing poor economic outcomes, so much so that we solely target PE for antitrust action.
A cap could be put in place to avoid many of these bad incentives. Example: you can’t make more money than your subscription cost per month. Maybe uncashed upvotes could roll over each month, too, so long as you keep your subscription.
no is-typing notifications is a killer feature. sold.
Patents exist specifically to avoid a fully free market. The trade-off is that in return for a time-limited legal monopoly on certain ideas and obvious derivatives, you have to publicly disclose what it is that you own. This also serves the practical purpose of allowing you to determine if you're potentially infringing anyone else because you can look at the patents. The free market approach would be no patents at all.
Why compete when we all own index funds? Just use proxies to communicate and sychronize about "industry and sector costs and margins" and take your share. Maybe work a little on cost reductions to look good, and don't rock the boat: So long as investors can be exposed to whole markets and industries without caring about individual winners, there's really only one owner of the publicly traded participents.

Or is that an exaggeration?
> Swift is not "Objective-C without the C".

Whether it is or not, that was Apple’s own language when they announced it.
Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale
This is pretty much the best approach, currently, and probably into the far future.

When I need to run a program from a dev I don't fully trust to behave well (e.g. the app is closed source for no particular reason, has known extensive telemetry, or has an unhealthy tendency to fuck with configuration files), I run it in a firejail, container, or reboot to windows.

For everything else I fancy the thought that everything I install being open source and looked at by multiple people including a package maintainer means that there's a significantly lower chance of easily exploitable vulnerabilities (e.g. in system config and general program behaviour), and an almost nonexistent chance of outright malicious code.
> Pixelfed has no contract with Meta

As a victim of Meta's Cease and Desists for open-wa, the contract terms is in the Terms of Service that anyone associated with Pixelfed, or anyone associated with the development of Pixelfed has ever accepted regardless if it's a personal or testing account.

In these ToS agreements, Meta believes they can prevent anyone making any tools that they deem break any of their ridiculous terms of service.

I literally had to stop working on my OSS project/tool due to this bullying. Unfortunately I, or other Devs, do not have enough resources to fight this immoral megacorp so therefore they win our compliance.
Could some form of copyright or ownership help with this? The reason they can sell it is because it's theirs. Not yours. If you retained ownership of that data somehow would they need a warrant for it?
so, people would have to pay in order to do the thankless "job" of sorting through content. "pay for the ability to rank and moderate!". great sales pitch. very enticing. seems like a failure to understand why 'upvotes/downvotes/points' exist and what do they accomplish.
Instead of trying to define "socially important job", how about...

If government is having trouble hiring people for roles they can either increase the wages paid, or enter into the housing market and include "free housing" as a taxable benefit for those roles. You know, like governments do for the military and other foreign service staff.

However, maybe I'm just salty because I've been waiting for 6+ months (with no eta) for permission from the San Jose City Council to do a renovation.