skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, you could use Firefox and you could have both APIs available to you and you could choose whether you wanted strong adblocking or fewer extension permissions.

Manifest V3 doesn't get rid of the permissions that allow an extension to spy on you.

Yes, you can choose not to install extensions that use those permissions (although the current webextension permissions system is chock-full of holes and Manifest V3 still has many of those holes). But you can already make that choice. You can go to Firefox and install Ublock Origin Lite right now today if you want to make that choice: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

It's available on both Chrome and Firefox and you can install it and only grant it the blocking permission and nothing else.

Removing the blocking web request API in Manifest V3 does nothing to improve security. It doesn't offer you new choices, it just removes your choice to use a more powerful adblocker if you need one.
Show HN: Fakenews.me – An app to create AI breaking news on the fly
Hey everyone,

I've been exploring what's possible with AI face / voice cloning lately. The result is Fakenews.news, a prototype that lets you create custom breaking news on the fly.

Just add a script, a news title, photo, ticker, and 3 min later you get a realistic looking newscaster delivering your own custom news. You can download/share the video, to prank a friend, do some funny promo, etc.

It's combining a bunch of AI models for voice-cloning, lip-synching, text-to-voice, and deepfake, etc. This is how far I've been able to push the tech to create realistic clones.

It is a fun project for entertaining purposes only. I also recognize how this kind of tech can be misused (and no doubt it will be, so I want to be careful with it. It's both thrilling and scary.

Not too sure what I'll do with this yet. But I know for sure, we'll see more and more of this in the coming months / years, whether it's to create real news or parody ones.

Curious to hear what you think, tech-wise, business-wise, ethic-wise.

You can test it free: just use "hackernews" code at checkout. I'll leave it free for the next 24hrs. (I just want to limit how much it'll cost me in CPU, those videos are not cheap to render!!
C2PA used to create authenticated fake pictures
My realtor was incredibly helpful with my purchase, even knowing some insider details like this HOA is in litigation or that warehouse is becoming a high rise. I would have gladly paid him the $200-300/hour I pay for other professional services. Given the size of the transaction though, his effective hourly rate was well over $1500.
Did I travel forward in time? The article is dated DECEMBER 1, 2023
This is nuts! You've carved out your own universe. Thanks for sharing.
Composability via pipes and whatnot in the CLI are a huge boost in power. Does Starcel have or is planning anything similar?
iPhone 14 users to get free year of Apple's Emergency SOS via satellite feature
Does it work for me? Then is a success.

Increasingly uninterested in releasing code, past that point; it now seems to imply obligations and goals I do not want.

One of my projects is maintained by others now (largely untouched i think). I had "begware" solicitations in it: in 5 years its drawn 8 donors to give $55 total. That counts as a fantastic success for that approach.

That one is a 3d printing / OpenSCAD library: the week after i released it, there were purchasable versions on all the "paid 3d library" sites with other peoples names and payment info on them. One of them did a takedown request on the original posting, even. That was certainly an indicator of positive reception, but dunno if one could call it a measure of success.
Look, this is the most obvious advice ever but everbody needs to hear it: don't use a web browser made by the world's biggest fucking internet advertising company.
It is, and can be done sustainably. But only in conjunction with (1) good harvesting / forestry practices (2) good wood "processing" [i.e. drying] practices (3) good insulation in the homes that use wood for heat (4) good wood-burning stoves and filters.

The Nordics, perhaps unsurprisingly, are the lead innovators in this space.
Yea, same as clocks in orbiting satellites, or even difference in rates between different locations on earth.

The difference is negligible compared to leap seconds.
At least there are seller and buyer agents. In Croatia it's one agent that is between buyer and the seller. What could go wrong, right? It's a scam.
I think we Should -
There's a ton of things like this where the benefits are huge but charging for it is impractical. And its kinda sad as a society that we can't figure out a way to fund such things
Of course you can be 30 and give advice. Is there a rule where you have to be a certain age to give advice?

Even if you're 10 years old, you are allowed to write on the Internet and no need to police yourself with arbitrarily "waiting".

Also an argument extrapolated on your own experience of 37 that nothing is figured out is not very good argument against when you can or cannot say something.
What you've described is how most people use their home devices. Alarm, weather, music, maybe lights, that's pretty much it. Given the billions companies have lost on what is functionally a clock radio suggests a short future for these devices. It's a great example of how tech doesn't always "get better/smarter/more useful" with time. Much of the hype of the AI space doesn't account for basic economics. In what is likely many years of a high interest rates, companies no longer have the resources to wait for the future. Whether it's self-driving cars or voice assistants, it has to follow the same rules as a humble pizza place. It doesn't matter if your tech works, or is impressive or even useful. Investment<Profit or your futuristic tech has no future.
Breaking into Tech Through Streaming: A Journey to Teach Jenn Tech [video]
What are you talking about? Only possible alternative is Chinese? Sure, Teslas are cheap and more similar to cheap Chinese brands like Polestar, but there is a ton of options.

Jaguars, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, VW and a bunch of others are popular and european.
I agree, and imo users of those libraries fails as well
I'm talking per capita and no it hasn't. GDP is not a license to pollute.
Yes. This is the difference between mobility and access. You can watch a movie by driving to Blockbuster in a SUV and physically picking up an optical disc. Or in an EV. You could bike there. Or get it mailed. If you watch on Netflix you access the commodity without any transportation at all.
"goes viral"
Vintage Facebook?
Interesting. I was reading that China actually has too many college grads and now has a huge issue with educated youth unemployment because they’re all refusing to do non white collar work. Maybe they need more high schools and less univserities?
So, they made 24M but had to pay 3M and serve 70 months.. Idk but that doesn't sound half bad.
'users' is an extremely broad category. I don't think there's a one size fits all solution. There's probably some hundred million users who can, on average, make good decisions about extensions. There's also hundreds of millions of users who are children or are otherwise unable to make good decisions about extensions. Google, corporations in general, will force a 1 size fits all solution even when it doesn't, because it is cheaper/more profitable.
So let’s get rid of apps and the play store! … … …

Unless we intend to regress to the mean, people must be educated on how to use powerful tools responsibly, and we must build powerful tools with effective safeguards.
You gotta read it!
Yup, lots of anti-battery stuff is propaganda pretending like we still drive around with NiCd batteries.

Even the weight argument is wrong! A model Y weighs up to 4,555 lbs. A Ford edge weighs up to 4520 lbs.

As it turns out, ICE are really super heavy. Strip that out and have a steadily increasing battery density as we've seen over the years and it really won't be long before EVs are in fact lighter than ICE counterparts (and certainly lighter than hybrids).

These articles are all written with anecdotes from 2000.
Hell, realtors have not provided anywhere near that much value to me on that buying side, either. Certainly things were easier than without them, but not $20k easier.

For my most recent home purchase, my realtor easily made $1k/hour, even after taking into account whatever percentage her firm takes.

I'm strongly considering a DIY approach the next time I buy a house. I may eventually give up and get a realtor, but I'm curious to see if I really need one.
Can someone explain why it goes from strictly multiplication/division for Somos 1,2 and 3 but then at Somos 4 the addition operation is added? It seems completely arbitrary.
>Last year, the feature became available on all iPhone 14 models in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and the U.K. It recently rolled out to Australia and New Zealand, bringing the total number of countries to 16.
It doesn't even have to be electric. Even motor scooters are much less demanding on fuel.
I mean, the number will really depend on how fast people are biking. Over 20mph, efficiency starts to really take a hit. Unless you use some sort of crazy shell.
it's not just good prompts vs bad prompts, there's luck involved, since the result is determined by dice rolls.

I used to be smug about getting good results from GPT while coworkers failed to get it to produce anything useful, but over time my luck changed, and GPT stopped nailing it. If you remember there was a bunch of conspiracy talk that GPT got lobotomized, was no longer writing full programs anymore etc, but what really happened is people who got used to rolling 7s started rolling 2s and 3s and shook their fists in anger at their change of luck.
Cheap and cheerful: Priority Current.

Longer-term: Specialized Globe Haul. I feel the same way about it as I do my pickup truck - it can go anywhere, do anything, and seems incredibly happy to either cruise around town or eat shit for hours. I absolutely adore it and cannot recommend it enough. It also has a big dealer network, something you don't get with the DTC boys
The example here is clearly picked to be as simple as possible an illustration of the underlying concept.

I recommend trying not to get distracted by the example and focus on the core idea.
The difference is that there are actually some modicum of protection and rights for leaseholder, not so much for "fleeceholders".
Show HN: Remote Talent – find the best remote jobs on the planet
Hi HN! My name is Gillian and I'm the GM of Remote Talent. We're building the ultimate connection hub for job seekers and employers worldwide, letting employers specify exactly what "remote" means for them.

The current issue with finding a remote job is figuring out whether what you're applying to is actually *truly* remote – not just sorta remote, like only in one country or time zone.

To solve this, we want Remote Talent to be the most candidate-forward platform out there: including crucial information on a jobs 'remote-ness', plus compensation, interview timelines, and much more.

This is our first week live! We've got a bunch of cool stuff coming, and are really looking for feedback from you so we can execute on our mission to be job seekers new favorite job board.

Head to remote.com/jobs and play around. Let me know what you love, hate, want to see next, etc!

Excited to hear your thoughts :)
I painted my walls white (from shitty brown) and now I'm not depressive anymore.

I also bought a split ergonomic keyboard (Dygma Raise), and now I hate typing on every other keyboard.
That's exactly how >1Gbit/s connections get sold. Hardware with multiple high-speed ports is very expensive, so typically you have 1 2.5G/10G port LAN port and all the other ports are 1G. So they say you can have multiple concurrent 1Gbit/s streams.
Everything you just said may be true, but it’s also true that the US does lack the political will.
Certainly in the Bay it's pretty easy to get by with no car at all - just rent or borrow one if you want to take a trip to Tahoe every once in a while. If you go deeper into the country though, there are many places where car ownership is nearly mandatory, especially for people who can't WFH.

EVs are pretty close to being able to replace ICE cars around here, but still can't match the range, cost, or longevity of an ICE vehicle. I could do 80%+ of my miles in an EV, but once or twice a year, we take a 1000 mile road trip that would be considerably more painful in an EV. If we're only going to own one car, it still needs to be ICE.

That said, I do own two cars. One of them is a 2001 Ford truck that is on its last legs. It's not very environmentally friendly to run, but given that I put so few miles on it per year, it's probably better than causing a new car to be produced, regardless of its technology.

Would I still be able to run a 2023 EV in 2044? Will the batteries last that long, with any sort of usable range?
Those aren’t all independent cities.

Suzhou is next to Shanghai and you devastate them both with a single nuke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou

My guess is an 10MT H-bomb could kill ~20 million people by aiming at Suzhou despite the city only having 6.7 million people. Honestly to cripple China with minimal nukes 2-3 Starfish Prime style Nuclear electromagnetic pulses could disable most of their east coast before you target individual cities.

Also, responding in kind to a limited nuclear exchange may be appropriate if you think an adversary still has a large stockpile. There is a lot of uncertainty involved.
This is seemingly changing in UK - younger generations increasingly don't own a private vehicle, due to a whole host of factors including the fact there simply isn't nearly as many affordable cars on the UK market as there was say 20 years ago, as well as the cost of fuel/insurance. It will be interesting to see if trends reverse once cheap EVs inevitably become a thing over the next decade - even entry level EVs are generally significantly more expensive than entry level gas cars used to be in the UK for the time being.

> https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81dd5340f0b...
It's worth noting that Cobalt is now the problem element for BEVs [1], though there is a lot of work that is being done and has been done to reduce the amount of cobalt in Lithium Ion batteries.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/congo-mining-human-rights-73b3edc...
How am I supposed to understand whether extensions are stealing my data?

I've made browser extensions and I find it difficult to make an informed decision!
Death and pain.

That's what e-bikes and mopeds bring to my city. The infrastructures is designed for pedestrians, cars, and mass transit. Bicycles are being retrofitted. It's completely NOT designed for dozens of oddball vehicles which are coming up. The people riding them aren't as competent as cyclists (which isn't a very high bar) and cause unsafe situations all the time.

That's my city. Yours might be different. I've been to cities where these worked great, and loved them. Here, they're pure evil and a menace.

TL;DR: This needs planning, infrastructure changes, and regulation. With that, this might be the solution. Without that, a lot of cities will be in trouble.
Yes, because service standards in government monopolies, like the DMV, are so infinitely superior.
My expirience wiht New Relic is that during the long winded sales they'll promise you help and support to get all the metrics set up and dashboards and stuff. Once they receive your money you'll be ghosted.
Meanwhile, the UK government seem to be cracking down on them (lots of people are using bikes above the legal power limit), and seem absolutely determined never to legalise e-scooters.
When we got our E-bike we had to get a trickle charger for our car because the battery would go flat from the battery's internal current.
Interesting - thanks for the clarification on the behavior!

I've found, in general, "saying anything good about incandescent lights" or "anything bad about LEDs" is exceedingly unpopular on the modern internet, no matter how much data you back your arguments up with.
Agree completely. Additionally, there is a massive Chromebook user base (with the default Chrome browser) that basically has a chokehold on the K12 education space. Conjecture: I think this gets students used to the model of Chrome + Google Docs that they carry forward to their computing use/experience for the future.
Lazard has a nice chart on this in their annual LCOE report.

This link is to one from a couple of years ago that I found on the web, but you can look up the latest one in their PDF:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/lazar...

Some things are affected more than others, especially nuclear, but it doesn't really swap relative positions to any great degree.
Let's assume I have huge server at home with tons of disks that sucks on average 200W 24/7 - most machines idle around 10-50W depending on the periphials

I'm in Germany, the country with the most expensive electricity prices - I'm paying 31cent/kWh at the moment. That's about the current market price for consumers - so that's 543,48€/year or 45€/month if that machine would suck 200W on average over the year.

If you are lucky have fiber at home - let's say another 50€/month and add 5€ for electricity for fiber and switches and stuff so you pay 100€/month for self-hosting at home.

Using the pricing of the big public clouds like Google, AWS, Azure you can stuff quite a bit of CPU and SSD's and HDD into that machine until you hit the 200W limit.

I just looked at Azure and took the cheapest instances for dev and compared the reserved price for one year (so already discounted)

Azure that gets me a whopping B4s v2 instance with 4 vcores and 16 GiB and no storage and no bandwidth.

Using Hetzner a cheap german dedicated server discounter you can rent a Intel Core i9-13900 with 64GB memory and 2 x 1.92TB SSD for 100€/month.

Realistically you would buy a Beelink SER6 Max Mini-PC, AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS that idles probably around 15W and only pay 40€/year for that. It's 640€ new here and much faster than that Intel machine. You can almost buy two of these and still only pay 105€ a month and in the second year it's only 80€/year.

Of course there is no redudancy, no support, no flexibility your home ISP is probably overbooked and so on and so on - if you just a big machine somehwere that can fail but works most of the time it can be a cheaper alternative.
Has anyone noticed Alexa / Hue being super buggy in the last week. Very delayed, complaining about hue devices offline, etc. Is it related?
I've found that if you tell it to do it in the style of a particular comedian, it does an OK job:

https://chat.openai.com/share/f0d4069a-f05a-49df-824d-ac66c9...

Don't get me wrong, that isn't comedy gold...especially if you don't know the kids show I asked it to base the set on. Still, I think it did alright.
Who wouldn't want to live close to the grocery store? Here in Dublin I live in a house with gardens front and back, 5km from the center of the city, with a grassy park in front of my house (football field size), yet I can walk to 4 different supermarkets. The furthest is about 15m walk, the nearest is 10m. And I've got a few small convenience shops even closer (like, under 5m walk). This is what I call "perfect", and I don't understand why someone wouldn't want this.

Unfortunately they stopped building communities like this in the 1950s, but they sprawl for miles around Dublin, and I consider myself lucky to be able to live here.

I've visited cities in the Midwest of the US and found them to be like hell. Can't walk anywhere.
Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 1: Dorakue
The data does not support the claim that fsbo homes sell for six figures less than homes sold by agents, and that's with buyer's agents illegally trash talking fsbo.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: building the future around cars of any kind is completely unsustainable. We cannot reproduce the rates of rich world car ownership in the developing world without mass catastrophe (raw materials/labor needed for construction and maintenance, raw materials/labor/space needed for roads and parking lots, literal tons of waste--batteries, tires, steel, plastic, foam--, energy needed--most cars are driven by a single driver, pollution generated by all of this--e.g. mining byproducts and tire burn off).

To be completely explicit:

- If we're serious about meeting the 2030 "halve our emissions" and 2050 "zero our emissions" goals, EVs will not get there. Banning gas/diesel cars gets there. The only way that's even remotely possible is to heavily subsidize EVs (probably honestly just providing free swaps) and start making it way way more easier to get by w/o a car.

- The only problem that self-driving cars will ever solve is where to put VC money in a zero interest rate world. We've had freight trains and mass transit for centuries.

I get that whole economies are built around producing/maintaining cars and related infra, but it was wildly disastrous. We're well into sunk cost fallacy territory here, like, on a species level.
In due time, I believe in-situ AI rendering will allow us to generate new zoom layers upon further inspection of an object. Do I think a generation of kids growing up with AI-enhanced VR to be dystopian in a way? Yeah.
In two moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol redefined the future (2016)
Yes people have to stretch their money as far as possible. Not everyone makes six figures and has zero kids. People working at factories with families have to make economically smart decisions. It’s a failure of government policy, that frankly hinges on treason, that we even allowed for our small towns and manufacturing base to be hollowed out.

No worker ever supported this, it was the intellectual and moneyed class that pushed for this and sold it as some obviously great thing that definitely wasn’t too good to be true.
> is there a headline you think might have been better

Maybe "Tesla autopilot saves child during driver's medical emergency".
I guess you have to start by defining neighborhood. I consider the half a square mile area of houses that I walk my dog in to be my neighborhood. By that definition I leave my neighborhood probably 10 times a day.
Laziness. I’d much rather spend $100 on gizmos than spend hours on a home improvement project. And these projects are never as simple as they at first promise to be.
Alexa was supposed to be a revenue stream for Amazon that never really materialized. As a developer of a now deprecated Alexa Skill, they constantly badgered me into monetizing it.

All of those folks were trying to figure out how to have Alexa make money, and my interpretation of the layoffs is they never figured out how.
They must have tried hooking Alexa up to LLMs with Whisper-like speech recognition. I can only imagine the cost projections of rolling that out were astronomical. Plus, everyone that uses Alexa daily counts on it acting in the same dumb ways it always does.

Wouldn't be surprised to see them roll out a new optional Alexa OS upgrade that you can opt into which has a subscription fee attached and provides AI coolness.
Not only. UK is not far behind.
Report on household debt and credit Q3 2023
A "selling" agent IS the buyer's agent, a "seller's" agent (listing agent) works for the seller.

That tells you how the agents view their job responsibilities, the buyers agent ultimately sells a house (to the buyer), the sellers agent advertises (lists) it.
You don't, for a C64. We weren't talking in this subthread specifically about the C64 but about the broader idea of FPGA vs CPU driven emulation.

When you get into higher spec machines, esp from the 90s, FPGA starts to not be the best choice $$ per clock.
He has a marvelous drawing approach. I've not yet found any other similar drawings that really quite capture the same style. I was honored that he agreed to make some drawings for a project of mine years ago; I still have the originals in a frame.

Happy retirement to him!