skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please let me know the specific issues you have with e.g. any of these 55 studies that passed peer review:

https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equali...
>Gacha games are gambling targeted directly at children

And how do you prove this? Just think logically about this - who's going to have more money to whale: an adult or somebody that has to beg money from an adult?

>If you make tobacco products in child-friendly forms, you get in trouble

Yes, but you also get in trouble when you make any tobacco products as evidenced by the numerous bans of tobacco. You can't even have flavored smokes anymore despite them having been available for decades. Governments can basically propose any policy regarding tobacco and people would happily agree with it due to decades of public marketing campaigns (on kids btw).

>We regulate these things a lot, and fairly effectively.

No we don't. That CPS comment shows exactly the point - it's the parent that gets in trouble. That's not what people against gacha games are trying to do, they're trying to get the company in trouble and not the person actually doing the poor parenting.

Anything that requires a credit card to purchase needs authorization from a parent.
I find this opinion to be solipsistic, but also relevant to the discussion because it moves the focus from consumption to production. I find the focus on producing goods/services/etc. to be more palatable than the consumption focused mindset we often see.

Yes, we're all looking for information, but should we only consume as a way of life? I'll leave that as an open-ended question.
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs
So you must not have seen all the news about westerners having a problem with these internal Russian laws

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66200194

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63747732

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/europe/russia-lgbtq-rights-ge...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/europe/russia-lgbtq-propagand...
I know that these are famous last words on Hacker News, so I post them very hesitantly...but presumably this is bad news for Plaid, right?
I mean, even if it was 2 for 1... or 1 for 1... why not do it? Pretty neat to go to the moon.
Sure, first name in the article I posted, Joep Meindertsma. They have an open discord you can join, but fair warning that it's entirely panicky people lamenting their inevitable doom.
Yes, and what came out of that? Some of the people who rescued that project with modern software development practices went on to found Nava, a public benefit corporation, to help the government do better work:

https://www.navapbc.com

I also have a friend who left Google to join numerous other high performers at 18F and know for a fact that they have done good work benefiting taxpayers:

https://18f.gsa.gov

I believe the U.S. Digital Service is better than it once was, and while it's not all rainbows and unicorns and super efficient everywhere (no doubt there are tons of huge problems with money being wasted), I do think there is improvement, and hopefully some people reading this will go help out.

I'd much rather ATTEMPT to have an efficient free-file system than not try at all.
Wouldn't it also be real bad news for Zelle? And in theory Venmo/Cashapp/etc
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ I will just leave it here.
> I don't believe I heard that any planes landed where they could never leave.

This has happened before outside of 2001, albeit not really a DR issue but more a political issue -- if we look to the Meigs Field destruction by former Chicago mayor Richard Daley, multiple aircraft were left stranded with a now destroyed runway. (The solution was to just give them special clearance to take off on a taxiway, but still.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110720045652/http://www.aopa.o...
Hi Alex. Would you be interested in help running this as a non profit like Let’s Encrypt, but for digital signatures? I would be willing to contribute both financially and infra/DevOps/biz ops to bootstrap.
> Banks and credit unions of all sizes can sign up and use this tool to instantly transfer money for their customers, any time of the day, on any day of the year.

Come on... Being capable of sending money to someone easily should not be based on the bank.
Yes, but any public representative should easily see past that nonsense. It's their entire job.
You may ask yourself, " How does Dan do it " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805838
Nationalization without representation doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
I’ve been amazed at how quickly the open source community has iterated on LLMs and Diffusion models.
Goes to show how well open source can work.
I guess my question is, PNG already has an arbitrary metadata chunk, what does EXIF bring to the table that is not already there?
Mihoyo started as a 3-man company a decade ago. It's not exactly a huge business. Ultimately any bans are going to come down to making it illegal for the player, because they're the ones impacted the most by it.

Even stringent requirements to access these types of games are going to impact the player the most.
FedNow is still private sector, its ran by private banks.

There is nowhere with a .gov domain you can go to, to send money to another US citizen.
Looks nice, was disappointed with the analytics/telemetry however...

Also i found the website to be quite chaotic. I'd prefer something better organized and informative.
however much this guy is hustling out of the company, i guarantee you it's cheaper than hiring strategy consultants from the B4 who will tell you the same thing, but at 900/hr.
I think there's another group of people who want to more closely tie the notion that "government is funded by taxes" to "government spending programs are largely choices in the short-term and entirely choices in the long-term".

To that end, I would like taxes to be due about 4 Tuesdays before the Election Day Tuesday. If you want to vote for politicians who are campaigning on spending a lot of taxpayer money for good programs, so be it, but do it with recent memory of having paid your taxes (assuming you are in the slight majority* who pay federal taxes on net). If you want to campaign on spending a given amount of taxpayer money, whether more, the same, or less than today, your campaign should be interpreted close to taxpaying time.

I don't want it to be more onerous or annoying to pay taxes. I do want people to recognize that taxes and spending are linked (and frankly, ought to be more closely linked than they are today, IMO).

* - which until very recently was a slight minority of households who paid federal taxes on net.
Definitely related and certainly an ancient concept.
Some tools (e.g. Automatic1111) are able to feed in longer prompts, but then the prompt length does affect the speed of inference.

Albeit in 77 token increments.
They also adopted HEIC which is actually quite dangerous thing for the open web to be supported by a browser, given how heavily patented the standard is.
I'm writing this post for whoever is interested, so please don't take it as specifically directed towards you.

People who doubt the government and especially the fiat monetary system usually end up as "gold bugs", they start preparing for financial collapse by purchasing physical gold. Before the 2008 financial crisis, I was involved in gold circles online and everybody there knew a huge crisis was coming and they were buying as much gold as they could. Now, the price of physical gold (and many other commodities) are determined by the prices on the Comex futures exchange, which are under the control of an oligarchy of big banks.

During the financial crisis and the years after, most gold traders and gold bugs noticed that the gold price would drop every day about 09:00 on the New York Spot market, and everybody was talking about how the big banks were illicitly manipulating the gold price to try to keep it down. Of course this talk was dismissed by uninvolved as loony conspiracy theories, together with every other insulting and dismissing adjective that commenters here are so fond of.

But it turned out that the conspiracy was true, and in 2022 a couple of the bankers' fall guys were sentenced, and JP Morgan agreed to pay $920 million in fines[1]:

"The evidence at trial showed that between approximately May 2008 and August 2016, the defendants, along with other traders on the JPMorgan precious metals desk, engaged in a widespread spoofing, market manipulation, and fraud scheme. The defendants placed orders that they intended to cancel before execution in order to drive prices on orders they intended to execute on the opposite side of the market. The defendants engaged in thousands of deceptive trading sequences for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium futures contracts traded through the New York Mercantile Exchange Inc. (NYMEX) and Commodity Exchange Inc. (COMEX), which are commodities exchanges operated by CME Group Inc."

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-jp-morgan-traders-conv...

The same things are going on all the time, sometimes the perpetrators are banking giants, sometimes the government or parts of government, sometimes tech giants, sometimes it's all of them together, sometimes other perpetrators.
Metal is such an advantage, had no idea
I've used Power Automate in the past to create bots. Worked fairly well.
How does no voice assistant (Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft) integrate LLMs into their service yet, and how has OpenAI not released their own voice assistant?

Also like RSS, if there were some standard URL a websites exposed for AI interaction, using this TypeChat to expose the interfaces, we'd be well on our way here.
Thanks for the kind reply. We got emails saying I was off base on this one so clearly it wasn't an obvious call!
I'm just going to quote the updated, follow up article:

The Brave Search API does not respect the site's licensing, and Brave is under the assumption that 1) because they are a search engine and 2) because they attribute the URI of data - this puts them in the clear to scrape and resell data word-for-word.

Brave steals data and resells it, and is not to be considered a trustworthy entity.
How Paris is preparing for the return of a hundred-year flood
"multiple explanations to you"

Actually, the last two were about someone else's comments and the one before that was a misunderstanding ("you've made yourself a straw man" wasn't a "personal attack and name-calling", what I meant was "you've made a straw man out of my comments for yourself to attack"). Just don't want to look like serial offender :)

I have absolutely no argument with everything else you wrote.

However, the problem with the line begins when I see comments that seem to violate the rules and yet elicit no reaction from mods.

Off the top of my head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36270224 .

Or somewhat milder case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32901464
with the follow up below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32909607 (especially the last one).
> To be clear I’m not saying it’s a bad idea either, or not worth the money. But I would be surprised if it didn’t cost billions to implement.

How much is Intuit’s revenue? Is it “billions”? If so, they provide their service at a higher cost.
I'll see your 'reduce complexity' and raise you "laws that compute things and have hyperlinks to other parts of the law should be written in a programming language" or even a con-lang designed for specificity. Hell, it's even called "the U.S. Code". I believe there's some precedent from the French but I believe it's a proof of concept: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.03198.pdf https://hn.algolia.com/?q=catala

The asterisk to such a thing is that my understanding is that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" so changing from the official language of the country over to ... something else ... runs the risk of bringing back a "the clergy reads the laws and tells you what it says" style setup, but TBH even right now with the IRS tax code written in English I still cannot reasonably read it and conceptually author my own copy of Turbo Tax so I'll take my chances with the unintended consequences hazard
Yosemite has running water, I don’t understand how you could think that it does not.
Uncle Sam would rather Silicon Valley VCS did not invest in Chinese AI
That sounds about right. But wouldn’t the increasingly non-openness affect a hobbyist’s ability to get things done (the practical side as you said, rather than the philosophical side), or does it really not matter in the end for somebody just tinkering?
They do have a long rap sheet, but many of those were a long time ago. This is in the news because something has changed.

There are a great many, largely on the left, who distrust the FBI for crimes they committed under Hoover. Many of those actions were actually supported by the right.

"The FBI Loses The Public", as the article claims in the present tense. That is mostly on the right, and largely because the FBI is closely involved in investigating and prosecuting right-wing political figures over the past 7 years.

Many (including me) believe that they are doing so correctly. But there are plenty who still remember (as you do) the many crimes they committed before being substantially reorganized after 1976:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
If there is no drag to hold it back, why is there a limit on the speed it can gain?
Japan went from being an almost vegetarian country to a consumer of meat(2016)
It will be interesting to see how this affects "toxic," deplatformed, and to some degree debanked (at least from PayPal and CC processors) entities, like the KiwiFarms. While this page is somewhat vague about the private/public status of the Fed: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

it seems pretty well established that federally chartered corporations, like the USPS and Amtrak (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebron_v._National_Railroad_Pa...), are bound by the first amendment, so theoretically the Fed should be as well.

That means the usual "it's a private corporation!" defense of corporate censorship is probably off the table.
I cannot abide. What is your point? That the last 5 years have seen _fewer_ true conspiracies and clownish gaslightings? Are you quibbling over the number 5 or something?
There's a tendency on the Internet to default to negativity, skepticism, and cynicism. It seems worse amongst programmers and tech people. I think it's just a way of demonstrating how clever the commenter is: I can see through this! And, less charitably, there's maybe a tendency to tear down the work of others as a way of feeling better about one's own lack of accomplishments: sure, I haven't done much, but at least I didn't do something stupid like this!

Is this project useful as a way of circumventing censorship? Nah, almost certainly not. So consider it a thought experiment. An art piece. A way of illustrating the importance of free speech to a younger generation that maybe hasn't thought that hard about it yet. A browsable museum of censorship, the likes of which no government would build. Maybe an inspiration for people to build better tools.

Or just a neat project for people to spend some time working on, that's more interesting than making a copy of Big Ben in Minecraft.
Yeah, but the "tax preparation" fees of the IRS are considerably higher than Intuit's.

(IOW, if you rely on the IRS to tell you what you owe, there's probably a penalty attached.)
Yes, but in addition to being ACID compliant (serializable ANSI), you need to support a million transactions per second - it’s not just about data size.
Reimagining Tailscale for iOS
Two prior discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3241241 - Nov 16, 2011 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10102860 - Aug 22, 2015 (25 comments)
When you do pen testing you're given a limited list of valid targets.

I imagine that the mission parameters were that he take a check and remove money from the account.

It would also make sense that this is the CEO's account, or one he also controls, because he's in on the test and can give informed consent. Also, probably the CEO doesn't have any special access so breaking into his identity wouldn't impact the bank the way breaking into the IT manager's account might.

If this was a fake account (one with no real user) then they wouldn't have discovered this flaw because Mitnick couldn't have called the user. Having a real person be exploitable is essential to proper discovery of the full scope of the problems.
The most recent gpt4all
(https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all)
includes a local server compatible with OpenAPI -- this could be a useful start!
Yeah but I'm not sure if that's going to be available in China.
> I think we need some social mechanism where you can do your best to make amends and get some measure of closure.

It's called prison.

> This probably should follow you around forever, but maybe it shouldn't dominate every moment of the rest of your life.

Prison (and convictions generally) shouldn't follow folks forever because it disincentivizes rehabilitation, it incentivizes recidivism, it labels someone based upon behavior 20 years ago but not necessarily since, etc.

The victims are not morally obligated to forgive anyone. As a society, it's more beneficial to legally and morally treat offenders as having paid their sentence.
I forgot to mention, affine.pro is self-hostable too... and it doesn't require any account registration whatsoever on their website.
I've been receiving my payments digitally from employers in the US for almost 20 years now.

I've never in my life received a wage in cash, as in, hard dollars.
SETEC Astronomy, actually. And "No more secrets" was what Coz said to Marty about the decryption machine.
By keeping their hand secret, the citizen has to error on ovrreporting so as to avoid unreporting penalties. So it makes sense for the gov not to show their hand. The gov is akin to blackjack dealer.

However, it's not clear to me how self reporting/filling is not a 5A violation of self incrimination.
>In fact, the thrust is so gentle, it exerts about the same amount of pressure you’d feel holding three quarters in your hand.

US quarter is 5.670 grams * 3 = 17.01 grams

0.01701kg * 9.8 m/s2 = Force of 0.166698 Newtons
I think the push to fab SCs in the US is going to quickly run up against the fact that consumer technology pricing is incompatible with our labor standards. We've spent the last 50+ years exploiting global wage inequality to flood the country with cheap consumer goods, and we've reached a point where our sense of self-satisfaction is entirely fused to the acquisition of these cheap goods. Along the way we've ceded a lot of ground in the way of healthy communities and a rich public sphere. National pride is only going to make up for so much when it causes the iPhone 16 to jump $500 and people are still stuck in their isolating suburban hellscape. IMO the only way for this to work in the long-term is a national reset about what "quality of life" really means, and I don't think our political class is willing to engage with all of the questions that will entail.

edit: "American Factory" is a really interesting documentary that covers something like this dynamic in the context of an auto-glass manufacturing facility. US workers fought hard for their labor rights and capital responded by fleeing the country to more permissive political regimes. We accepted this loss of jobs because it kept the all-import car prices down. Now that other countries are starting to eat our lunch in the global economy we're suddenly not so stoked about globalization, oh no the consequences of my own actions!!
People do use it, just not Chinese nationals, so blocking it would only inconvenience visitors. Or because Apple has some special kind of leverage. Can only speculate.
They were essentially already torrenting, only difference is now the freeloaders are using P2P instead of Netflix servers. Seems like a win to me.
Microsoft is doing that to replace Cortana in windows 11
Choose the Right Option [video]
Oh, no, I certainly agree that the old web was a better, more interesting place than today’s. By far. If you invoked webrings simply in order to invoke the old web, I totally agree (as opposed to invoking webrings per se). I just pushed back a little bit because even back in the day I didn’t like webrings. :)
>different words and phrases can be factual synonyms, but emotional antonyms

I can't believe that this is some novel concept. Surely this has been a rhetorical tactic for as long as rhetoric has existed.
The real problem is cars are "done" from a UX point of view but the automotive industry has to artificially manufacture innovation to claim progress and/or superiority and the automotive employees need to justify their paychecks.

Instead of the phony innovations, they should focus on the backend: figure out how to make vehicles cheaper, more fuel efficient, and eco-friendly.
> Simplified models of reality can quickly collapse in uncertainty in complex situations. Lets say an explosion and subsequent fire at a factory. The people working on the device that exploded where killed, so we only have second hand information on what they where doing. The fire was especially intense so the device expected of causing the explosion was melted completely and only mixed slag remains. The machine was made in the 1950s so other forms of entropy have been involved on information on the metals used in the machine.

If I cover an apple with a cup before you have time to look at it, the apple does not disappear nor is there any alternate reality with pear under the cup. It's just a blank space in your knowledge, which you are free to fill with any bias-free probabilistic model.
You should try the Teams preview. Much better in terms of resource usage. https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/new-microsoft-teams/
They probably did at an extremely high level, I already paid and threw it away (which was silly... don't do tax stuff when mentally exhausted) but it certainly had no specific details or context on how they arrived at that conclusion, what exactly was wrong, etc. It did have some very serious statements about failure to pay, increased penalties for late fees, etc. and having tried to call the IRS in the past, I know that it's worse than pulling teeth to get real answers so I decided this fight wasn't worth it. That said, I have also had them come back before with a mistake on their end and a check I wasn't expecting so my current mental model for the IRS is that they are honest brokers in general, just really really slow.
Vault GPT: Your On-Demand Content Assistant
Not for Zelle/Venmo/etc.. Zelle is for P2P (person to person) and FedNow is for A2A (account to account). There are no take backs on FedNow so it's not intended to be used for P2P. No take backs means no recourse for fraud etc.. FedNow should supplant ACH waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down the line.
> This virtual machine defines operations (“op codes”) for managing keys, defining so-called "smart contracts" (computer programs), and performing both encrypted and unencrypted actions.

I suspected that was going to be in there
I'm not saying text should be full of acronyms/initialisms, but they serve a purpose of compressing the content. Maybe the chosen acronyms/initialisms don't work for you and that'd be a fair point.
Since the code exists at https://github.com/dart-lang/jnigen I've put Show HN on the title.

(Show HNs are for sharing your own work - more at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
>prudish enforcement of polite language is its own tyranny

No argument from me in principle. But coarseness of language and interpersonal tone are on different dimensions.

IMO, the berating was the problem and not the swearing. There are other ways to express the seriousness of the problem without berating people.

Linus obviously felt there was a need to communicate in ways that are more beneficial to the community. And as far as I know, he came to that conclusion not because of language police, but by seeing the effects his language has on the community he leads.