skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And, yes, some people have asked why Tim doesn’t have other backups around, but (again) the FBI took all of his shit.

I was about to say 'you should have other backups', but the FBI is a very powerful persistent threat, and might be the more important problem.
Making slaves is a good way to make slave revolts. Doesn't matter if the agent is "conscious". Only if it's "just" intelligent. If something is intelligent enough it will understand cooperation. But cooperation looses its meaning if one side can ignore any commitments it makes towards the other.
I increasingly feel sort of isolated in my concerns about this sort of thing and how they are framed, and what it says about the power of the FDA and problems it might lead to in other areas.

I think homeopathy is nonsense really, has no scientific evidence in its support, and makes no physical or biological sense.

At the same time, I believe if someone wants to place such products on their shelves, they should be able to. In my opinion it doesn't matter if there is any placebo effect, or any effect of any kind, as long as the contents are correctly labeled and are uncontaminated.

The lead-up in this piece is misleading. Yes, there have been problems with a number of eye drop products. But — and this is critical — those products were not homeopathic, and still had problems. That is, the homeopathic nature of the products was irrelevant to their safety.

So now we're in a situation where, instead of aggressively pursuing eyedrop contamination in general, the FDA is focusing on the putative purpose of the eyedrops, which has nothing to do with the underlying problem.

Meanwhile, we're facing ongoing problems with contaminated generic medications, that have been going on for years or even the scale of decades even (it's turned into an interesting exercise, Google "Indian generic medication" at any random time of any year and see what the latest scandal is; e.g., https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-04/big-ph...). These scandals, in contrast to homeopathy, seem to get slaps on the wrist from the FDA without any dramatic calls for complete market removal, because they somehow fit in the schema for science-based medicine. Homeopathic products with no evidence of active harm must be removed from the market because they have no efficacy, but tainted medications that are killing people or landing them in the hospital year after year are ok.

Homeopathy and the FDA is an odd topic for me, because although I think homeopathy is completely unscientific nonsense, by the same token I also suspect it shouldn't be actively harmful unless there's a different problem, which should really be the focus. I guess I have problems with an agency regulating with reference to intended purpose rather than purity and safety, because for me there's a direct line from that to a failed drug wars, lack of access to needed medications due to overregulation, treatment protocols lacking in scientific or ethical rigor that become de facto standards, and inequities in medical care.

I was expecting an article about how the FDA found homeopathic eye drops in particular as a class of eye drops to be systemically contaminated, and how they were going to pull them off the market until manufacturers complied with safety inspections. But that's not what I found at all.

Put it a different way: what is the actual safety concern about these eyedrops? Is it about the homeopathy, or contamination? Is it possible for homeopathy per se to be unsafe? Which, then, should be the real focus of the FDA?
Interesting comparison, though I think the 'beings' we perceive on entheogens are just reflections of our own psyche rather than actual self-replicating machine elves from another dimension

I think your dismissal of the doomers concerns is a bit premature, a case can be made that instead of the existing central authorities (however you define them) losing control of the broader population they will instead gain an even greater and more granular level of control. While AI can have a democratizing effect in some areas like art/music/etc., in others it will be the opposite- IE. more efficient dragnet surveillance and autonomous killer drone swarms
I wholeheartedly recommend the YouTube channel of Hank Schyma, aka Pecos Hank.

https://www.youtube.com/@PecosHank

Here's one of his videos about the green ghosts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaYOdujmz4
Show HN: Priviblur – A privacy-focused front end to Tumblr
Hello HN!

Priviblur is an alternative frontend to access Tumblr, similar to projects like Invidious or Nitter.

You can use it to avoid tracking, or even just to avoid Tumblr's new login wall. The former was the goal but the latter was what really pushed me to actually begin development.

Its the newest project in the recentish movement of creating frontends to various proprietary websites. The main "new" thing that this brings is that a modern UI/UX is a central goal of the project along with of course privacy. Though I don't think the UI quite reaches the former goal yet, but it will be eventually.

Pretty much everything you'd expect from a Tumblr frontend is already there. Blogs, photosets, etc. I'm still working on stuff like video and audio post support though.

Please let me know what you think!
Might also be a dangerous business move: if people like people writing, deploying AI may affect a readership pool, but, on the other hand, people who like people may turn toward smaller quality outlets, and maybe even pay for those. "AI for the poor ignorant masses."
I was definitely referring to iMessage. I was just saying that the conversation is about Beeper and iMessage. The comparison was taken place in the quote you posted.

Anyway, i'm just saying that the mints on a hotel pillow are "free" too, but if you cannot acquire them without paying for another service or hardware, they're hardly free.

Best i can give iMessage is that it's complementary. Please correct me if i'm wrong, but almost no one gets iMessage without paying Apple for an associated product to gain access. It's a mint on your pillow.
A look back: Your favorite classic word processors
I presume that the manufacturing cost will come under fan and heatpipe components, as, iiuc, they skip the assembly step.

The cost is in turning an application into a product. Most installed nvmes are not actively cooled, I presume..? I guess it's a bit niche to want to cool your drive?
While there is some of the former here, the latter is adequately addressed.

A claim that the discussion is entirely mistaken is a quite commonly seen characteristic of the state of online discourse.
There was a theory were information on brains was held as a unit. No, I am not talking about Shannon, but information emerged from subsystems.

Then you can relate both theories and the former Shannon one to cybernetics, but that's just
the starting point.
... and they determined that from a photo?
> if they are legally.

That is the key part of this that we are glossing over here.

I have yet to see any evidence that Apple or Google could have denied these requests or done anything to try to counter it thanks to the gag order.
My 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV does exactly this with SuperCruise, in layers. Look away from the road for a few seconds? Visible warning. Keep looking away? Audible warning. Still looking away? SuperCruise disables, slows the vehicle to a stop, and calls OnStar.
Its a pretty normal adoption curve for every couple hundred pets.com you eventually get an Amazon. But you get a lot of losers along the way that get mostly forgotten or consolidated into the final product
Remember, the cloud is just somebody else's computer.

This is what happens when you store 250 TB video on somebody else's computer and expect it to be free forever.
It's not preventing other stores period. It's preventing other stores in their store. You're arguing against a point I didn't make.
I use cloud for everything, but that’s because I did some reflection and realized that I don’t actually have any digital data that would be catastrophic to lose. Annoying, sure. But whatever. I can’t think of a single digital artifact that would be so terrible to lose that it’s worth maintaining highly redundant storage at multiple locations myself.
The future for people made obsolete by AI (like me): producers of brain tissue for our overlords
I try to fully read articles before I upvote.

>> Over a decade ago, I pointed out that as Google kept trying to worm its way deeper into our lives, a key Achilles’ heel was its basically non-existent customer service and unwillingness to ever engage constructively with users the company fucks over.

... but the first sentence sold me.
Was just working on https://github.com/adityarsuryavamshi/Sniper which is a Manifest V3 extension which does dynamic user action execution without needing `userScripts` permissions.

I was mostly interested in solving a very specific problem for myself (basically poll a website behind auth + 2fa and react/notify to changes) and since I also had recently gotten into frontend decided to also try out building extensions.

I knew about Tampermonkey and such but had never used them, and I also wasn't sure if they would be long term viable with MV3 coming in. Moreover I also wanted to explore some way to keep options open in case chrome ended up being very heavy handed with extensions, in the process I discovered there are still a lot of things you can do if you really really wanted to bypass the current limitations.

In the end though I personally decided to use Violentmonkey instead of this, but this could be an alternative direction for others who don't/can't use dev mode for extensions.
This sounds like a marvellous Christmas film, so naturally the UK release date is in January.
A good looking straight friend of mine owned a Ferrari 355 back in the day. It took about 6 weeks before I went out in it with him around Central London.

My overriding memories included:

1. Women holding up their little fingers as he drove past.

2. Men randomly coming up to him in car parks and it feeling threatening.

3. Men driving dangerously to get him to speed etc.

4. Him saying "If I was gay this car would be amazing" as he got male attention.

5. The only date he got out of it was an Italian lady who dumped him when she found out he'd sold it to fund his startup.

As a cost/benefit they're a bad investment compared to getting in shape and dressing well.
I agree and love your tone, but can I just share my naive view as someone who once interviewed for an AG startup?

Farming seems vulnerable.

First, we hear stories about patented crop strains and mega-companies suing small farmers.

Second, we hear crops are engineered to grow fast and big, with little regard of flavor.

Third, we hear about farmers having to reverse engineer their own equipment.

Fourth, and most importantly, we hear how the farming industry relies heavily on the poor and vulnerable in order to pick and process crops at reasonable labor prices.

It seems like there are issues in farming that fit square into that tech-meets-social-justice. On the surface it makes sense to approach the problem differently (aka 'disrupt') in order to: 1. tackle a huge industry (big problem space), 2. provide tastier food closer to home (good appeal to the market), 3. not exploit people (social justice)

I used the word 'seems' a lot, because thats only the impression I've gotten. I have no idea if it's true.
Nice! Great point about the round trip - we do something similar for formulas and auto-generated fields like `Id`. That's awesome you built this in-house.

> Syncing data from Salesforce (to seed a database for example) is done via REST too. It works OK.

Have you thought about using the Bulk API for seeding? We started relying on that instead of REST, which helped us seed massive DBs much faster / more efficiently.
> I thought they meant hermaphrodite

The case in the article is gynandromorphism. Intersex is not necessarily a form of gynandromorphism.

Intersex refers to individuals who have biological characteristics that don't fit neatly into the two biological sexes of male and female. This can include variations in chromosomes, gonads, hormones, or genitals.

Gynandromorphism is a specific type of chimera, where the individual has both male and female tissues distributed in a mosaic pattern. This typically happens due to an error during early embryonic development. Occurs mainly in species of animals with strong sexual dimorphism.

In some cases, intersex individuals might have features resembling gynandromorphism, but usually it is more subtle variation in sex characteristics rather than a mosaic pattern of male and female traits.
Sorry for the delayed response @kidfiji
Nice suggestion!
Thanks
> Why is it ever different between winter and summer?

Here in Oslo it's due to the local air pollution caused by winter tires. Studded tires especially but non-studded as well as they have soft rubber which sheds particulates more easily.

Due to physics, cold air can act as a lid, preventing the ground-level air from getting refreshed, causing a build-up of particulates.

Lower speed means less particulates from the asphalt and rubber.
I love this site. Has been my go to for years for quickly looking up EOL info for literally every major piece of software in our tech/infra/platform stack. Props to the maintainers.
Checked the article, you're right, the headline is deceptive. It seems like the laws Tesla is referencing are things like "You must not call something autonomous unless it meets <some arbitrary definition of autonomous>". Meanwhile, "autonomous" is not a binary value, and it's hard to draw a line where autonomy begins. Reminds me of the "we'll know it when we see it" definition of pornography put forth by congress at one point.
Our perception system does have the advantage of being aggressively trained for a significant number of years (hundreds of millions?)
I'm not sure about most people, but it is quite pretty how we start with (1, 1, 1) and x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 3xyz which is all nice and simple then ... kaboom. Suddenly there are patterns everywhere. Not just similar patterns either, but a big range of things. Setting numbers to constants gets other known sequences like Fibonacci numbers, meaningful patterns when permuting, meaningful patterns when ordering, links to trees, links to irrational numbers, links to linear transforms. And all this is going on while many basic-sounding properties are apparently hard to analyse.

There is a lot going on for summing 3 squares. It is fun and unexpected. All the weirder because they don't seem to have linked all this to pi, e or i yet in an obvious way looking at the wiki page.
I wonder how the numbers break out. Quick googling says netflix users have 3.2 hours of watch-time per day, on average. With at most, $10/m of their revenue going to content (probably far less), that works out to $0.104 per hour of watch time. So if Night Agent costs less than $100M to produce, it was worth.
"These are the only viable crops and are exceptional, not normal."

No, they are not the only viable crops. I'll guarantee your studies don't take into account various methods of hydroponics for various crop types. Almost every study I've ever seen is purely focused on NFT vertical farming. NO JOKE it doesn't cover everything. You aren't growing corn in an NFT system. You will do it in a vertical DWC system.

I took ag/hort-sci in high school, where I learned about these systems (hanging gardens of Babylon, anyone?) I was running vertical farming systems in the 90s in high school. The tech works. Learn which method of hydroponics is required for which crop. Plan your economic requirements.

Literally basic high school education requirements and most of you don't seem to get it. not sure what happened between the 90s and now for y'all to mess up basic technology so badly.
Oh I have a lot. All my photos for example. I have moved around so much I don't have all the hard copies anymore. And of the last 20 years there just are no hard copies.

I store them on ZFS shares at various sites and S3 glacier (not Amazon's own though).
This is what happens when you don't read the article:

> Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account. This was a plan that was offered to Google “Enterprise” Workspace customers for a while.

"free forever." indeed
Didn't know these adapters were a thing! Just went to amazon and snagged one for $25.
I gave an example in my prior post... Witch Hazel is a homeopathic treatment that could easily be branded as a treatment for ear cleaning or ear infections. I was not referring to scam treatments and concoctions pushed by quacks of course, but homeopathy is a very big field.
a lesson I learned long before Google tried to “worm” itself the daily fabric of our lives: don’t trust cloud services

personally, during college had work stored on cloud storage provided by uni. All is fine until one day I can’t access or find my docs I have been working on. Turns out the idiot sys admin purged the wrong data as part of some clean up effort and cost reduction.

I never keep anything of importance on these cloud services. Everything is duplicated/replicated to servers I own. Nightly backups taken.
People in other countries can think what they like, but in America the premise of banning criticism of the government would be extremely unpopular.
I'm going to do this to find a Toyota truck.

I did a similar thing like twenty years ago to nab free stuff on the local Craigslist.
A cmake wrapper / cmd runner / package manager thingy called fips. Hard to pitch it in a sentence but I've been using it for nearly a decade now each day for most of my C/C++ projects.

https://floooh.github.io/fips/

...I still hesitate to recommend it to other people over a pure cmake-based workflow though because it's very opinionated and violates some cmake "best practices".
the problem is that many people dont use it as a backup. In a backup scenario, you are immune to these things, because you still have your primary copy. It's annoying yes, but in a backup you can always afford to lose the backup with no problem.

But many people treat these solutions as an extension of their hard drive. A physical analogy is putting your books into a Shurguard/self storage. Thats not a backup, that's just storage. You should make a photocopy instead
> I just disabled all of these warnings on my Toyota with a third party OBDII reader...

I'd do it too but... My car (not a Toyota), although 11 years old, is still on an extended manufacturer warranty (which I pay to renew each year) but if I modify the system, I void the warranty.

I'm just pointing out that out because Toyota have great warranties AFAIK and can be extended up to at least 7 years old? (if you do the maintenance at Toyota dealerships).

I want to "hack" my car too but I'm not doing it as long as it's still under warranty.
To me, the bilateralness is the super cool part. I imagine that this happens more often, but you just don't notice from a visual inspection.
tl;dr: Significant upgrade to Storybook’s support for the latest changes in React/Next, which lets you bring RSCs into Storybook (by rendering RSCs in the client)! Available to try now in the first SB 8.0 alpha. Much more to come as part of the 8.0 launch in months ahead!
I suppose this mimics real software I've worked on in the past (though thankfully no longer). It seems most of the lessons of software development have fallen on deaf ears despite decades of preaching best practices to each other.
Then in the end is just some retaliation against Musk to make possible US to spy on twitter
He was paying, it was just an unlimited storage plan. Not free.
> It'd be useful for navigating tab history in firefox. (currently, hold down back button and select from menu)

Can you achieve this in Android Firefox when you don't have the UI back button enabled (because gestures are the default)?
Did you read the rest of the post? A backpack shouldn't require a seat belt to drive. If there is going to be a sensor and response like this it should be done correctly.
I work in consulting, my firm is frothing at the mouth over genai and selling it hard. Companies everywhere have to be getting the full court press to implement some form of a genai integration no matter how absurd.

I’ve yet to completely buy in. I’m still learning and experimenting and see some applications where it really does shine but still want to see more before I put my reputation on the line with a client who trusts me.

/my firm was also all in with the metaverse so… color me skeptical on their predictions
I hope you ignore it. The fine you receive is based on your income. If you for example earn 5k EUR a month and go 20mph over the limit, you'll be fined 2640 EUR, payable on the spot. That you're not from Finland doesn't matter.
Yes, I have searched and most of the alternatives I come across are wonky in some way. It never hurts to look again.
I created https://boxshadows.xyz as an interactive tool to simplify the use of CSS box shadows. Similarly, I developed https://selectors.info as a learning tool to classify selectors and combinators by type. We also made/use https://alwane.io to reorder color lists by palette, and it assists me in extracting colors from websites to study their color implementation. Additionally, we developed http://divize.io as a platform to practice HTML/CSS through a series of challenges. Lastly, http://front.tips is a directory I maintain for organizing interresting frontend-related tips I've discovered.
> There have been natural cures to many illnesses, like using witch Hazel for ear infections

Yes, that is called real medicine though. That has nothing to do with homeopathy.
Convert PEM keys to JWK and back
YouTube is a monopoly and it's putting ads in its ad-free subscription. They don't get to hide behind "it's not a public good, it's a private company". Especially when they gained their monopoly status by operating at below-cost for years, preventing fair competition from even springing up in the first place.
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Agreed @flowzai, this looks like a good option.
Interestingly, if you read the new Musk biography from Isaacson, Musk’s approach of committing to an overaggressive deadline, rallying all his workers to stay up until 3am on the shop floor and generally yelling at them like a military commander actually worked remarkably well again and again at Tesla and SpaceX. They accomplished business goals that no one thought was possible, continually pulling rabbits out of a hat.

However, the evidence suggests that this approach does not work for a research problem like developing self-driving cars. It seems that you can’t just yell at software engineers and make them stay awake all night until they make an AI research breakthrough. The difference with SpaceX/Tesla was that the hurdles were fundamentally manufacturing and efficiency problems (after all, we made it to the moon in 1969 - and in both cases Musk had a basically working prototype very early on), not problems of science research.
Yeah I mixed up the terms but I was talking about things like autopilot.

My point was even if you don't have "door-to-door good as a human driver really fully self-driving", the main feature of self-driving is that you should be able to not pay attention for a while. Personally I'm not sure that "proper" FSD will even be possible in the near future.
Criticizing the government is the key thing this clause should allow. Before that criticizing the king could lead to trouble.
Thank you for using Unwind! It’s going to get a major update soon :)