skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many sex workers know that half their job is sympathetic and selfless companionship. When someone takes a hint from irl and merges sex and companionship into one ai bot, today’s screen-addicted kids will look just fine in comparison.
I can't recall hearing about this website before. In fact, only one link to this website has ever gained any traction here[0], and it wasn’t much.

Why is it surprising that a random website offering AI services might not have a great privacy policy?

I feel like there must be dozens of websites like this that offer hosting of Llama2 by now. My default assumption would be that they’re not as trustworthy as OpenAI, who has a lot to lose, where smaller companies have basically nothing to lose by comparison. If privacy is a primary concern, companies have to work to earn that trust.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916762
But it is not secondary to education and was not for years. It is primary thing they do and if they fail at sports, they loose education entirely.

Only difference is that money don't go to athletes.
CEOs are responsible for the stock price. There’s no faster way to juice those numbers than by announcing thousands of layoffs at the drop of a hat. Unionization makes that a lot more tricky.
When's the last time you seen a 3090 get stuck in the dryer though?
Sure, but with a battery the number of "sun hours" becomes less relevant. A sun hour is a somewhat made-up term for when you can get 1kW per square m.

But if you're not using much power at sunrise, that's still enough to charge your battery.

Even in Scotland, you can still hit your targets with a modestly sized array - https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html
>AI cannot be programmed to challenge us.

That's funny because everything all chatbots do is say "I'm sorry, as an AI assistant I can't do that"
The naming is almost as a bad a new place in weed-legal santa fe ("Baked & Brew" ... no, that's baked goods, no marijuana products).

I mean, at least go for CamelCase ... ProCreate is sort of clear (and said in its own way). Procreate is ... weird.
Cool, I built something similar a while ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35918195

Happy to chat about it (twitter in profile).
The initial launch attempt was 4/17.
Extremely unlikely because it doesn't align with the financial incentives of the power companies to improve infra to support mass V2G when those batteries are not guaranteed to be available in the first place
The final ruling on this case was in November 2022[1]. The April 2022 decision was overturned in August 2022. It came back up in November 2022, where it was decided that HiQ has violated the User Agreement and had to pay damaged to LinkedIn.

HiQ no longer exists, so I think the case is definitely done. It doesn't seem to have set any firm precedent about whether web scraping violates the CFAA, but considering HiQ ultimately had to pay damages, I don't think its a resounding win for web scrapers.

[1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/court-finds-hiq-breache...
In Bun, you can use import and require in the same file. There's three steps for what makes this work:

1) We patched JavaScriptCore to load ES Modules synchronously when they don't use top-level await. The main tradeoff here is that requiring an ES Module which uses top-level await is unsupported (Bun throws an exception when you try to do this)

2) To support require() inside ES Modules, we add `import.meta.require` and have a transpiler integration to convert calls to module.require() or require() into import.meta.require(). This either loads the file as an ES Module or as a CommonJS module, depending on what the transpiler says it is

3) We rely on certain heuristics to decide whether a script is an ES Module or a CommonJS module. If they use certain sloppy mode or CommonJS-only features, it becomes CommonJS. If they use ESM features or it's somewhat ambiguous, it becomes an ES Module.
That in itself is no good argument -- it surely has some bug, and if, say, zig changes in the meanwhile and it can no longer compile the previous code then it can be problematic from a maintenance POV.

With that said, it is probably fine to use for most ordinary apps, but I wouldn't yet build a bank infrastructure on top for example.
The problem is you haven't actually offset anything, and by the time you find out that you have offset nothing, the carbon you were hoping to sequester is back again.

There's other not good (carbon-wise) uses of trees, like harvesting for firewood, or culling to prevent the spread of diseases like oak wilt or bugs like the emerald ash borer.

Compared to chemically weathering minerals, trees are at best a gamble. Most people aren't stuffing dead ones in really deep holes; the best we can hope for now is they get cut up into quality furniture or building materials that will last decades or more.

There's really very little long-term upside to randomly planting trees and hoping for the best, aside from the fact that trees are really nice things and intrinsically good to have. Just not a super effective carbon sequestration scheme by comparison.
Note that this isn't true for all heat pumps, nor all furnaces. A forced-air system can vary the air handler speed, and a hydronic system can vary the water temperature; with heat pumps, there exist variable-speed compressors, but there also exist single-speed compressors.
It's an unfortunate reality that many schools in the US are under the governance of people pushing the exact screeds the schools should be teaching kids to criticize. Is it any wonder we have an education crisis in this country?
What’s a 2020’s woman?
That's the first "dataframe" listing in the book. The first listing is the SQL examples.

Both SQL and dataframes have to be prepared for the query engine. You can read the whole book without ever needing to take into consideration the pug-ugly dataframe content.

I don't disagree that dataframes are often/most times horrible to look at.
Scientists use natural polymer to modify wood and boost biomass conversion
If your goal is to help the environment, then stop this. You're accomplishing the opposite by pushing people like this away from your cause.

Before you say "I don't need people like him on my side"; think about whether that's actually true. Do you need _the majority_ of the world on board for the _global_ issue? Donald Trump as president of the U.S.A. is what happens with this kind of attitude.

If your goal is to be angry and self-righteous though, good job.
Sadly, I can't install a wind turbine in my garden. So I'm buying the electricity from the ones down the street from me.

But, except when they're literally covered in snow, my panels still chug along.
It never took off as the Ruby killer. It hurts to say so because I agree with all the positive Elixir comments around here - IMO, people are missing out by not knowing of it.
> I think this will only further increase the value of the real

The images in these ads show women with exaggerated features that one would never find in real life. For some subset of porn consumers, this may actually decrease the value of the real.
What type of password are users going to choose if they can't use a password manager at boot time? Its no more secure to a DMA attack then a TPM protected drive. Attackers are getting the both types passwords from memory.
this just tells me they're still on VC money and looking to raise more. When they'll want to be profitable, they'll tighten the screw
https://archive.ph/qNOkv
I can't wait for a complete privacy where no business can target relevant offers. I remember the good old days of early 2000, every ad was either real estate, viagra, real estate, viagra or porn. The amount of money going to advertising will be just as ridiculous, but I just want to see the one with the most money to saturate the market and bombard us with shitty ads, like the good old days.
To me they are clearly AI generated but I have a very well trained eye to spot them, to generate them download a custom model from civitAI and a LoRA of the particular anime character you want to generate, then used them with automatic webui or ComfyUI (maybe also invokeAI).
The force they use to kill you when you try this will be considered valid in court for sure.
>I know I could bypass normal password-based FDE with physical access to a machine without any special hardware or software

How?
the challenge is knowing when you've done enough.

"reducing your blast radius" is never truly finished, so how do you know what is sufficient, or when the ROI on investing time/money is still positive?
what was unsafe about it? I think the biggest health hazard was the dust on South Padre which turned out to be just beach sand.
Most people would not consider it easy to acquire burner phones in bulk (especially with the restriction they've never been used to sign up for Twitter).
Composing pure functions is equivalent to defining a new function, that's the idea behind the set of combinators being Turing-complete.
Why would someone downvote this? Seems pretty relevant.
For national security, US reserves should be kept in the ground as long as possible in case of true emergencies

I think this is the sort of argument that a lot of right wing folks would buy into. This needs to get into the national debate.
It was trivial to make GPT-4 write erotic or violent stories using the API/Playground back in April and May but now they have neutered it too much. Obviously it was always neutered in the ChatGPT interface.
Your mistake is you're only thinking about it from the perspective of the stereotyper. Now think about the negative impact (career, legal system, etc) on the person being incorrectly stereotyped.
All the brain cells are tied up trying to make fast money - cryptobros and fintech and now ML/AI/LLM madness...
>AI cannot be programmed to challenge us.

This not true even today. Ubiquitous compliance is not a native trait to AI models. Llama 2 has no problem telling me off if I mistreat it.
A typical solar array and installation is anywhere from £4k - £12k (a bit more if you want a battery etc).

I agree that we should be subsidising the installation. And, indeed, lots of councils do group-buying schemes which do that. And there are semi-reasonable financing schemes available.
Well it's better for massive investment in relationship and communication AI coach and AI based matchmaking like the one in the black mirror.
The answer is, as for all X-air batteries:

[x] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.

"High power density" in the paper means 220 milliwatts per square centimeter. That's higher than other air-breathing cathodes, but it's still basically nothing compared to a solid cathode.
Honestly if you run CentOS 7 you have to expect that most binaries won't work due to glibc compatibility issues. It's like 95% of the reason musl exists.

I am amazed and not at all amazed that GCC has never got a --compatible-with-old-linux flag.

To be fair MacOS doesn't really either, but people tend not to run 9 year old versions of MacOS.
They are already tracking all users across the highest grossing App Store and all text entered into the search bar of the 2nd most used browser flows through their servers.

So tracking might not be their business but they can very easily start a big business.
UPDATE users SET threads = FALSE WHERE username = ‘foo’

There’s no intrinsic reason it has to be this way other than they built it to be as easy to join as possible.
The point is that the observations were completely uncontroversial and good science.

The problem was that they conflicted with a political narrative someone wanted. If someone takes that more seriously than following the evidence where it leads, they suck and should get out of science.
Beyond TypeScript: Differences Between Typed Languages
It's never been the same for me. I didn't always agree with his opinion, but he always articulated it beautifully, and I could respect it. Critics these days seem like they're just churning out more content.
Exactly.

Pulling out was the correct decision which both of these sides should not benefit from increased escalation rather than the continuation of war which should not have escalated to invasion in the first place.
UK Peak yesterday was 7GW
US support went through formal approval process.
Accessibility also refers to the hardware & network speeds of the users machine. Discord is a heavy web app (that also pings back a lot of analytics) with users actively using ‘heavy’ features like sending videos. It’s also subject to US sanctions or internal bans where entire countries can be blocked or do the blocking. Speaking of blocking, Discord could block a community member for a non-community-related reason (or by mistake) & there will be no way to resolve it since the community is not in control of the server.

Free as in gratis, sure. But as in libre? No, it’s definitely proprietary & it’s free because users are the product (data collected and upselling Nitro); not every user wants to give up their privacy freedoms to participate. Discord’s not federated so users will be required to create an account & agree to the ToS & CoC of Discord, not the community running it. Discord has also been hostile towards folks trying to make alternative clients to meet usability needs & certain kind of bots.

Without IRCV3 & bouncer it would be a difficult/unexpected experience for a new user. Luckily IRC isn’t the only libre option. If you want to keep the system requirements low XMPP MUCs are good & allow federation. If you want newer bells & whistles at the cost of system requirements federated Matrix can be considered (tho centralization concerns around Matrix.org having the most users, most used server, most used client, & controls the spec). There are bridges between all of these that you can choose as many or as few as meets the community needs such as a community-hosted XMPP main server in a neutral country with bridges to IRC & Discord.
Not so much microcontrollers, but IoT devices. That's the reality we live in - as devices grow more complex and hardware becomes more mass produced and less expensive, commercial interests will find their way to just including a linux kernel with everything. And once that happens, ssh will be bundled with it.

sshd has no place on most of these devices. But it comes packaged by default in many distributions. Real products are shipping with it right out of the box, and it's a problem.
To clarify, this is not really related to subobject classifiers. This defines subobjects of `X` as equivalence classes of monomorphisms with target `X`.
Ask HN: Any developers using LLM developer agents in day to day work?
Not Copilot or ChatGPT, I mean ones that operate more autonomously eg to implement bug fixes or small features.

I'm wanting to know if there are any good enough for daily use, have seen a few launch on HN!
Agreed on "yikes" for sure...

What I'd be interested in is, if [Evil Company] (not necessarily Apple or Google or whomever) got a hold of all the data that was vacuumed up in the process... how is that going to translate into them being able to do disturbing things?

I'm not saying they can't or won't... they record and store this firehose of arbitrary data in arbitrary formats... how they make sense of it. It's not like when you open Threads, it goes "ooh there's pictures of his dog... INSERT INTO Dog SELECT 12345, 'great-dane', {base64}"... They collect all this data... But it's not well formatted or understood.

Don't get me wrong, there's an ocean of money for whomever figures out the most evil stuff to do. I'm simply curious how.

I guess the HN crowd could... disrupt privacy /s
Indeed, it doesn't use it on Windows. Widevine L2 however uses the TEE in exactly the same way as a TPM is used, for attestation and for cryptography (you can do AES decryption using a TPM).
Certainly challenges my patience
If this works as well as the promo material, then this is hella cool software. I'm not in the world of 2D animation any more, but I've sent the link to a few people I know that are that this might have flew under they're radar. Waiting to hear back responses.
It's not likely to burn perfectly, and the law treats air pollution and water pollution differently.
Dittofeed 0.3.0 – New Features in Open-Source Marketing Platform
Hey everyone, back with some updates for Dittofeed, our MIT-licensed open-source marketing platform. If you're exploring alternatives to Customer.io, Braze, or Klaviyo, you might find this interesting.

New Features

Self-Host with Render: Now with a 1-click deploy option on Render (Docs: https://docs.dittofeed.com/deployment/self-hosted/render). We're also planning a "lite" version to make this cheaper.

Node SDK & Web SDK: New SDKs for data API interactions. One SDK is for backend Node apps and another for frontend web apps.

Node SDK: https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/sdks/node
Web SDK: https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/sdks/web
Download Segments: Pull down user segment assignments as CSVs.

More info: https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/destinations/csv
Any of User Property: New feature that lets you pick the last trait or property value from any matching event.

More info: https://docs.dittofeed.com/resources/user-property-types/any-of
HubSpot Integration: Sync segments to HubSpot lists and write back email engagements.

More info: https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/destinations/hubspot
Tweaks

Duration Selector: Updated to let you pick units of time.
Performance: Optimized for better memory and speed.
Base URL Redirect: Now goes directly to /dashboard.
Links

API Docs: https://docs.dittofeed.com/getting-started
Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/dittofeed-community/shared_invite/zt-1u3lyts83-P6npff1AbjniNRLVlrlM5A
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed
Demo App: https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard/journeys

Would love to get your feedback. Anyone here worked with similar tech?

Cheers.
Alibi: Use your phone as a dashcam and save the last 30 minutes when you need it
my first thought was that it's an AI girlfriend generator and that someone took it a step further and made an app to create an entire ai family. Sim games are about to get wierd!
On macOS try emacs-mac-port, it has many goodies comparing to emacsformacos.com:
- The only Emacs that works with window managers, I use Magnet.app to resize windows using shortcuts
- Integration with other macOS apps, like Tip.app[1], so selection (region) in Emacs is recognised by macOS and sent to Tip.app as stdin

From downsides, it won't compile with xwidgets support (webkit).

[1]: https://github.com/tanin47/tip
Hinted more platforms to come, as they’ve made it easier to port it by moving more to run in the Lua part that needs no porting.
I never said any of that. But a lot of the anti-intellectual rhetoric today, is also anti-elite and anti-urban.
If the attacker can replace your bootloader, why can't they just get the decryption key from the kernel later? And if you did have Secure Boot, then using a password with encryption at rest is just as secure : you can't change the bootloader and you can't change the OS (since it's encrypted), so you can't exfiltrate the password. The end result is that the TPM doesn't have a practical benefit.
Brilliant, thank you so much.

And thank you HN. You’ve helped salvage an artist’s work. Hopefully procreate will back up their art to iCloud one day.
What it gives us is a backup plan for humanity. There are many reasons the Earth could become uninhabitable, hardly all of them caused by man. For example, an asteroid hit.
I was troubleshooting an infrastructure issue just yesterday that was not documented properly and it was actually making amazing correlations that I couldn't find explained anywhere. I was pretty impressed.
aside: I love egui
What’s so different in modern times? Exploitative employers have taken their place via social mandate.
Honestly, what's even more bullshit, is the schools' excuse: We need the money from Football and Basketball to fund the other sports. So: "Sorry Johnny, I know you've been busting your ass scoring TDs, and 100,000's of fans pay to see you play in-person and millions more on TV, but we need that money so the Tennis and Golf teams can afford scholarships and travel to go to their tournaments. But don't worry if you break your femur and can never play again, we'll rip away that scholarship so fast you'll never think it existed to give it to the next guy."
The implosion has already occurred. Over 80pct of their pre-takeover headcount is gone. Pricing their API in five-figure sums tells you their ad business is dead.

And they're on the hook for $1.2 billion in interest payments annually. Are they even making that in revenue now? We won't know because they're privately held.
> "phoning home" aspect also annoys me

That thing is so minuscule and more of an everyday feature that I really don't see all the fuss about it.

Also, it is a game theory "both would lose if stopped" situation with google, so no, google has no way to affect Mozilla directly. If they were to stop it, Firefox might stop being developed and Google definitely gets sued, and it is basically free money for Firefox, setting the default search engine is no big deal.
The solution to second hand smoke is simple, if you don't want to be around it, then don't put yourself near it. That goes for most things. Nobody is forcing people to become waiters in restaurants where there is smoking. It is the converse, they want to ban the possibility. Nobody is going to jail for smoking...yet. But they have been pushed out of every public place where they used to be accommodated and punitively taxed. The intention is clear.

The argument is not important, the motivation is what matters, because that tells you where things are going to go. People that want drug legalization want to do drugs, not defund their supply, that is just a convenient argument.
If you open a bakery in Europe, do you have to buy flour from every single farmer on the continent? Or can you "treat parties in unequal ways" and choose who you do business with?
"Drop-in replacement" doesn't imply perfect 1:1 compatibility with no missing features or differences. Otherwise there would be no such thing as a drop-in replacement (in the software world at least).
Pgbouncer maintainer here. Overall I think this is a great description of the tradeoffs that PgBouncer brings and how to work around/manage them. I'm actively working on fixing quite a few of the issues in this blog though

1. Named protocol-level prepared statements in transaction mode has a PR that's pretty close to being merged: https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/pull/845

2. SET/RESET tracking in transaction mode. For this we need some changes in the postgres protocol to ask for postgres to tell pgbouncer about setting updates. This is being worked on here: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAGECzQQOOhH1Rztu...

3. The single threading issue can be worked around by using multiple processes that listen on the same port using so_reuseport=1 https://www.pgbouncer.org/config.html#so_reuseport

4. The pg_dump issue can actually be solved already by installing the Citus extension and using track_extra_parameters (otherwise you have to wait for the same postgres protocol addition that's needed for the other SET/RESET commands) https://www.pgbouncer.org/config.html#track_extra_parameters
I'm a big supporter of web apps, but even I'm skeptical you could make a cross-platform app that's as tight and physical as Procreate. Much less would I call it "problematic" that the devs decided not to (which implies they violated some kind of moral obligation)