skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always, we overlook the real risks. Even seen an elderly person get scammed by a cold caller?

Now imagine an army of AI cold calling scammers, with realistic voices, steadily training on the absolute best scam techniques.

How many people lose bank accounts before the scammer gets caught?

Of course, this happens today, without AI, but as with many things in computing, scale changes everything!
lol damn, you hiring?
> Clearly split Racket (and typed Racket) the language, evolution of scheme and Racket the PLT framework use to build and construct new languages.

It's very much possible to use Racket without interacting with macros and language-building features.

> Racket / typed Racket should focus on more production/libraries for regular programmer

Libraries are dependent on the community, which unfortunately is comprised of mostly academic folk at the moment.

> DrRacket always felt and looked alien to me. I can't really judge the feature set, but having vscode as the defacto IDE i think would be it more welcoming

I do agree -- if I remember correctly, DrRacket was primarily built as a pedagogic IDE, not one meant for more professional use. VSCode, however, does have the "Magic Racket" extension.

> This one is will definitively be controversial but introduce a "curly brace"/C style syntax for Racket.

Not necessarily C-style syntax, but you could take a look at Rhombus. It's meant to have a more approachable syntax compared to S-expressions.
> In fact I don't want to open accounts with anyone

Then it's not and issue for you, as you probably didn't want to open an account with pocket in first place, right?
Sites like mturk. Some of the work seems legit, but it’s all manipulation of organic web traffic. I made a lot of money in fake reviews in a past life.
> in the author’s world, this AI is... a self-improving independent agent

That's not necessarily true, it could also be a product maintained by a third party that receives upgrades over time.
> definitely has psychedelic effects

Does it though? In my (and friend's) experience it intensifies emotions and senses but doesn't produce anything new, nor is it so intense as to be a "deliriant". I can't help but think people are labeling this drug over broadly without controlled research, because of its illegal status.
Just read your comment, I made a similar comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543226
"Make an anonymous phone call if you would like the state to murder someone!"

Of course totalitarians want to solve it by making sure no one can make an anonymous phone call.
Same here. I haven’t really missed it at all (by contrast, I stopped using Reddit when the blackout started earlier this month, and that feels like more of a loss).

Weirdly, Twitter had started becoming so unreliable for me for several months prior (frequently not loading, video rarely working) that my click-through rate on Twitter links was already diminishing. But looks like it’s 0% from here on out.
“Hallucination free” or “Free hallucination”?

The latter would be very different interpretation and some here would probably agree with that accusation
This is interesting because it contradicts much of what I’ve heard about the gaming industry. Always heard about low wages and really long hours.
Agnostic SQL that works with Postgres, SQLite and MariaDB
Then they can do what every other nation that has lost democracy does, elect a dictator with enough party members to undo democracy and kill off the opposition. Heck, they can get Bolsonaro back in power with exactly this playbook.

It'll generally help if the party runs on a moralist/religious platform. "We've sinned and need to bring the nation back to god." That way, as the party breaks laws they can claim to do it in the name of god so that's ok. This even often gives them some wicked heathens to hate. Having a common enemy really brings people together. However, if they can't find that it's easy enough to blame outsiders for all the problems. Perhaps a conspiracy or two about how "those foreigners are taking all our jobs, resources, and are generally making everything here worse. If it wasn't for them, our country would be amazing. Let's make their lives a living hell because they've harmed everyone with their presence"

You know, standard fascist stuff.
> I guess hn tries out the submitted urls?

It does indeed. I know that they try to get the canonical page URL in the meta tags, for example. Then your submission URL is changed to that.
It sounds like they accept submissions, since they rarely put up photos that don't have links to the actual real estate listing the pictures comes from.
This might just be fiction, but what would let the server know that the can has been drank?
> B) Many of these companies have such large content hosting fees because of the very nature they chose to set up under.

If an economically more viable alternative exists then you are welcome to create a competitor. The fact that there is no such thing is strong evidence that they've already hit the economical sweet spot.

> Further, just like I don’t have a right to tell Facebook how their computers should run, they don’t have a right to tell me what my computer has to display.

Correct. Nor do you have a right to tell them not to try to prevent you from avoiding that ads are being displayed on your computer.
NFSv4 Server Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail
In my experience yes it does at higher doses
What do you mean « moved to another exchange » ?

Shares are not held at an exchange.
Create account is a 40 item form with unknown input validation.

Oauth to google is broken.

Facebook requires full posting permissions.

Welcome to hell.
If China and India ever make friends geopolitics will change pretty drastically.
Don't know. I'd think they pay the original sources. Agreed that the cost seems out of alignment, but they're also working with a much smaller user base than Spotify. A small profit margin on tens of millions of users gets you a lot more money than a small profit margin on tens of thousands (numbers made up). So maybe it's actually a very fair price and Spotify's is not, which we know it's not.
Absolutely agree there. Even completely casual sports are incredibly hard on the body, sometimes even more than a whole day of a manual labor job, and in some places there's still pressure to participate. Not all sports damage joints... but it seems like the ones people pressure each other to do are all unhealthy.

I think we should go the other way, and just start over completely with brand new sports that just don't include anything likely to injure a person, or to give any major advantage to people who work out 6 hours a day instead of a half an hour.

Perhaps even with no equipment limitations at all, to take some of the focus off genetic advantage and maybe inspire more people to do science stuff

Everyone always talks about people not getting enough excercise (I'm not sure how true that is since lots of people have physical jobs) but nobody really promotes any sports an average person without the "I want to push my limits and know my capabilities and I feel amazing when I set a new PR" wants to play.

Orienteering seems to be one of the closest, along with not-quite-what-most-think-of-as-sports like bowling and pool and various precision based games.
I agree, it feels to me like a good-news article so crypto people can pretend to do good or pretend crypto isn’t that bad.

As I believe crypto isn’t anything, this is the kind of marketing they need for people to join their game of musical chairs.
I think you are underestimating just how quickly these things are going to transition from just words, to the power behind robots. Automated kitchens aren't so far away.
US reviewers often get paid a premium on amazon/iTunes/Apple Store, but the bulk buys are still India.

It’s quite easy to spot fake reviews by anyone, since they’re formulaic. I.e the review must mention <person name> or <product name> exactly as written and be at least 50 characters long. So you get 2-3 sentences that look like this:

“Product is a huge game changer for me and my family. I’ve tried some other stuff, but honestly it didn’t work as well. I’d recommend Product for anyone who has Reason.”
To me the biggest revelation was how enmeshed the Twitter executives were with the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, local and state governments, etc. The reporting on the left was very dismissive, so if you don't also read any right leaning news sources, you definitely didn't get a balanced take on it. News media is so biased these days (on both sides) that you have to read both sides critically just to get some idea of where the truth might lie. Other revelations of note were how they suppressed information arbitrarily, seemingly on a whim. Sometimes at the behest of the government. That's very dangerous when the government can start dictating what speech is allowed and what is not.
I tend to spend way more time on Twitter than I should, so I blacklisted it on my router and only accessed it through Nitter. Since I will not remove it from the blacklist, that's it with Twitter. Overall this is probably a good thing for me.
I didn't see it in the review, or in the video so forgive me if this was covered.. but the real killer feature of these handhelds is the instant on/instant resume. I can grab my steam deck play for 5 minutes or 2 hours, or 2 hours with interruptions because I can just hit the power button and then resume it right where I left off for any game. It's amazing and it's the real reason I use the steam deck. I also have my dual 4090s 128 core 5ghz game station for Call of Legends 4 gaming, but playing games on the deck is just friction-less so not really sure if the AYANEO has that.
My statement is that you can't have it both ways. You can't lay claim to everything a web crawler can get its hands on but then expect privacy when it suits you.
The accusation is not that AI is lying it is that MDN is, especially given they are showing it at the same level as curated source with reputation for high degree of quality without full disclosure at error rates to expect
There is a viable path from (upper?)-middle class to early retirement that is built mostly out of hardcore discipline, willingness to delay gratification, and some luck. The idea is to live well below your means, be "frugal", and pound every spare dollar into tax advantaged retirement accounts (first) then your own aggressive growth equities. Get a bonus? The whole thing goes to your brokerage, have a stock plan at work? Max it. Since this mild form of FIRE may take 30+ years, you should invest aggressively in equities (risk decreases with longer time horizon) and possibly buy some rental properties along the way. IMO this gives the best probability (though no guarantee) of retiring financially independent before age 60.
I understand there's a rhetorical thing going on here where you're inverting the meaning while keeping the same structure, but what are you actually arguing? People should be taking shrooms instead of going to therapy?
> It is called bait and switch which is a blatant fraud.

Sorry, this is just not true. If you let yourself get baited, then it's your responsibility. Don't lift the responsibility from the general populace of mostly mature adults. If they like to see ads then it's their problem.
It's a DANGEROUS take.

The alternative is that police come into a scenario potentially unequipped to handle an actual violent situation.

I think the real solution is that SWAT teams need to be especially trained on the fact that swatting is a thing, and to try to recognize when they're in a swatting incident.
They don't have to murder people with no physical corroboration of the phone call at all. That's on them. What if it were a legitimate anonymous phone call with a transposition of the numbers of an address, or if the cops just accidentally went down the wrong street? Should people die then, or should we think that's a problem?
Great blog post. Well done and very straight to the point.

> I believe that the fediverse is a wonderful platform, but it needs to figure out how to market to non tech savvy people if it hopes to break out of its current clique of just being a nerdy platform.

Spot on.

The Fediverse unfortunately has a trade off with an increase of more centralization with companies such as Meta getting involved to come close to the 'adoption' of non tech people coming on board. Unfortunately, they will be more likely to be sitting on Instagram Threads instead.

If they want to do it without Meta getting involved, then they have to solve the 'Choose a server' problem. In the case of Mastodon, there needs be a large centralized default instance which users are signed up to by default which is better for users but which further centralizes Mastodon (and the Fediverse).
Lol, I would have made the drive up just to see if I knew.
It would be even better if Copilot was able to make use of the strict typing to prevent generating code that doesn't typecheck in the first place, to be honest. Copilot as-is actually feels more useful for dynamic languages, because static languages get really far without any LLMs and simple static autocomplete gets you really far. So there's more ground to make up.

In addition, Copilot benefits from a large training set, which I guess is best for Python and JavaScript as two very popular languages. Strictly typed languages seem like they are generally less well represented, at least among public GitHub projects.
I think its more like pretending that things are simple (or that a simple solution is enough), when in truth some things just aren't simple and pretending otherwise is unwise. Like how they ended up adding a package manager later on, which of course was never part of the initial design because they thought nobody needs to version their dependencies. Or how they ended up adding generics later on, because they thought nobody will ever need to do "abstract things".

The problem is if you don't consider these things in your initial design, the solution you end up with later tend to be worse.
Cops don't kill people, phone calls kill people.
The funny thing is even in that sort of hostage scenario, they’re much better off sending Jack Slater in instead of a SWAT team.
I have a Steam Deck and a Switch and barely use my Steam Deck. You basically have to be tethered to an outlet which defeats the point if you already have a gaming laptop or console.

It also takes up too much space if I travel. This also compounds with the fact that you can even get a Switch OLED for $90 used fairly easy.

It's a great device, but just too big and power hunger for me to use regularly. These will improve and I'm looking forward to smaller form factors that seamlessly integrate streaming from a local device as well.
Thanks! The horizontal FOV is around 5 arcminutes. The granules (the bright convection cells comprising most of the image around the sunspots) are about 1000 km across on average.
Given the clear nature of GPT to simply spew things that sound “right”, why is a technically proficient organization such as this one jumping headfirst into integrating this with their products where it is clear that is not yet up to this task?
Mattress review sites, too.
Virtually impossible in the current dynamics of the region, and I don’t think this has ever happened in history.
Show HN: Tabserve.dev. HTTPS proxy using Web Workers and a Cloudflare Worker
Tabserve gives you a https url for localhost using only the browser (tabserve.dev).

Take a look:
https://tabserve.dev
Ads can be useful for marketing moves, e.g. if you sell at discount or just a new product. Otherwise people would never know you have X too (or cheaper) because they remember that you didn’t last time.

But every time I turn adblock off accidentally or on purpose, it’s the same generic shit unrelated to my obvious interests. Nasal sprays, supplements, car dealerships, be-a-programmer courses. I have a non-zero, negative interest in these.
You want an economic system that provides you cat videos for free?

I'm quite ok with markets and capitalism. Should be regulated, but if you get your wish then there will be 300+ Americans who also want a wish. I rather have people pay for their wishes.
It's shameful that the judge's son works for Microsoft and she didn't recuse herself.
I am continually astonished at the lack of monetary discipline in the USA. For your average american, saving is a substantial amount of effort. Investing, diversifying, etc is 5D chess.

It's easy to forget that a lot of us exist in a highly educated, highly compensated, 99th percentile of the population, and most people struggle to pay off their minimum credit card payment each month. Not to say that tech workers and HN denizens are better than other people -- in general, we're lacking a lot of skills and most of us would starve within days if we had to exist in any time period of human existence before 2000. But there is a VERY wide spectrum of financial competency out there, and folks commenting on this forum are likely very near the top of that ranking.
Crazy opinion, but I don't think someone should be able to call in an emergency where a SWAT team might show up, without having that be tracked back to you.

This isn't the state proactively keeping tabs on its citizens, it's asking for traceability when somebody initiates an action that might put lives at risk.
He would most certainly be, since reality moves by itself and not by any rules written by men.
Ok, I’m not entirely unhappy to stop consuming Twitter for good. Musk sure showed me
And the sundry video editing tools, pdf editors, random file converters etc. So many just mask their promotion strategies in the form of review blogs.
It must have been a real blast back in the 8-bit days, when you'd have some peripheral's port mapped to a specific address in the memory map, and setting a byte to that address actually slammed the electrons into that peripheral's register. No wasteful 15 layers of OS abstractions waiting for buffers to fill and copying bytes from buffer to buffer all the way down.
This should already be prosecutable as wire fraud. Does an FTC rule make enforcement easier?
Yes, in higher doses (or lower depending on varying personal sensitivities) one can experience psychedelic visual effects. These are much more pronounced when combined with cannabis.
You connect to IB's TWS API... If you execute your trade there only, wouldn't it be an option to fetch the price in real-time from the IB API and not having to use polygon.io at all?

I have no idea: does IB send the price feed in real time? (they certainly send the data in real-time to TWS as it constantly updates right? But is the order book available through their API?)

Basically and even though I know this was published on polygon.io's blog, would that work by only using IB / TWS's API?
To provide some historical context for this meme, the Xbox One had recently been unveiled and at the time was going to have a mandatory Kinect. It was rumored that the camera would be un-disableable and on at all times.
These kinds of resources are amazing and I bookmark them but without any sort of guidance about the order of things to learn, it's easy to get overwhelmed.
Are you sure it was (reasonably) pure MDMA though? It tends to have a ceiling, besides the usual effects of having too much speed such as grinding teeth, rapid heartbeat and the like.
I think the article misses that point. Somewhere toward the middle, more mental health professionals to understand the swatter. No thanks, not on my dime. Send the mental health professionals to the swatted house where they can relaxedly see nothing is wrong.
It doesn't, though; this is a myth propagated by journalists, who are Twitter addicts and are the only reason it survived Musk's initial incompetence.
I wonder what percentage of legitimate traffic is blocked by this. I would imagine that the majority of users don't have an account, by a large margin, correct?
> Would you say that that's a good thing?

Yup, the alternative is a C/C++/or Haskell scenario where instead of one generally accepted "right" package manger you end up with 20. You might get lucky like Java did with maven but that's no real guarantee.

> but I'm not aware of any language ecosystems that are leaning into this.

Bazel does. However, bazel (AFAIK) generally does things by leaning on the existing build systems of various languages.

For software, unfortunately we are in a "jack of all trades master of none" scenario. I don't think there's a one size fits all solution.
This will create more harm than good in EU.
Companies will in the end find ways around it, by moving to places where more freedoms - including AI usage without restrictions- can still be enjoyed.
Yes, so long as when browsing products there's a checkbox to ignore all such reviews so I can sort by a rating that doesn't include such shenanigans.
"In Supreme Court oral arguments, it was revealed that MOHELA hasn’t made a contribution to that fund in 15 years...Furthermore, an analysis from the Roosevelt Institute and the Debt Collective shows that MOHELA stands to gain revenue if debt cancellation goes forward."

The Student Loan Case’s Unwilling Participant (https://prospect.org/justice/2023-06-19-student-loan-cancell...)
Regardless of the punishment of Bolsonaro, I think there's something more important to be discussed here.

Brazil's Congress has passed laws determining that e-voting machines would have to print an anonymous proof of your vote, that is displayed to you behind a sealed acrylic viewport, so you can visually confirm it's casting your vote correctly, and then after you press CONFIRM one last time the paper is deposited in a sealead container attached to the voting machine for future inspection by all the political parties.

Like this, we would have the best of both worlds: fast vote counting on election day due to e-voting, but an anonymous paper record that could be audited in the following months by all political parties.

I used LAWS in plural for a reason; our CONGRESS has passed not one, but TWO laws imposing this measure:

1) Law 12034/2009

2) Law 13165/2015

If you don't believe me, just Google them.

What is amazing is that these two laws were deemed inconstitucional by our Supreme Court (?!). See [2].

So, in a democratic country with a functioning congress, the people's representatives have spoken at least twice that they wanted the paper trail attached to our e-voting machines, for auditing purposes.

Brazil's Congress is formed by 513 congressman + 81 senate members.

Regardless of that, our Supreme Court (11 seats) has deemed that these laws should not be put into place. Twice.

I find it also amazing that in 2009, the German Supreme Court decided the exact opposite of this: any e-voting system that doesn't have a non eletronic auditing system was deemed unconstitucional[1].

The rationale was simple: elections should be able to be audited by the "average joe", not only state employees or tech experts.

Bolsonaro was a fierce defender of the paper trail audit, which I also think we should have (we're all hackers here and I don't have to explain why I think that's a nice-to-have).

If you are still in doubt (you are not right? this is hackernews), just compare the sophistication of exploits you can find in https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/ with the amateur mistakes that were made in the development of these e-voting machines (for instance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGmHrxvefNo).

So I think there's something very broken with a democracy in which the defense of a paper trail in e-voting machines is now considered an 'attack against democracy'.

It's one thing to say elections were stolen or that fraud happened; I'm not claiming that and, as a matter of fact, neither was Bolsonaro. But you can't claim I'm attacking democracy just because I stand for a paper trail for auditing the e-voting system.

[1] https://www.ndi.org/e-voting-guide/examples/constitutionalit...

[2] https://www.conjur.com.br/2020-set-16/supremo-confirma-limin...
Embed links still work and I don't see how Twitter could disable them without causing a bit more outrage. But maybe they don't even care anymore.