skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It always seemed to me that instead of fighting over definition of a marriage, governments should just generalize to some kind of civil union to allow broader scope of living arrangements to benefit from recognition and protection. Two (or more) people sharing livelihood doesn't need to be based on sex or kinship. Adoption is just a crude workaround for the lack of the right civil law abstraction.
I'm just kicking back waiting for y'all to resolve this.

I regret (and did even at the time) using the words "dancing around" --- I was just waking up (let's not discuss the unhealthiness of "commenting on HN" being one of the first things I did after regaining consciousness) and even as I wrote it was thinking "this conveys more intentionality than I mean to".

So for that bit, I apologize! People still should aggressively avoid the term. I only saw this thread because I've been on a sort of comment bigotry scavenger hunt with "rootless cosmopolitan" as one of the items.
This is why most of the world prefers WhatsApp or Telegram. It can do all of what iMessage does, and a lot more, without forcing you to give one shit about what hardware another person decides to use.
yes and so is the "Settings" app. not sure i understand your point
You can easily avoid malls. Try to avoid default app stores.

You don't expect to be locked in a mall when buying a computer device.
> If you want to convince me this person is a menace to society, then talk about his behavior before being arrested. What did he do then?

He's part of a hacker group who steals data and extorts companies for money. And he talks about how he can't wait to do more crime when he gets out of lockup. It's all there in the article.

I know, crime against big companies isn't "real crime" as far as many are concerned, but these companies employ real people, and when they take a big financial hit due to cyber crime like this, it can affect peoples' jobs and livelihood. Because the companies will choose to keep paying the CEO a ridiculous sum while laying off lower-level employees to even out the cost of the ransom (if it's paid) or the financial loss caused from the data leakage (difficult to estimate, but a material loss nonetheless that the bean counters will have to account for).

The article also mentioned how they stole from individuals' crypto wallets.
Statistical data is a poor substitute for thinking and reasoning ability.

Most 5 years have better cognitive and reasoning skills than AI currently has.

Maybe we should look at regulating 5 year olds. You never know when one of them might decide to destroy humanity.
Was Android the best acquisition ever?

YouTube makes ~30B a year in revenue [1]. Meta the whole company "only" makes ~112B a year in revenue [2].

How they got to exactly 92B isn't super clear. The article attributes ~40B to the Google Play Store, ~20B to license fees & the rest (I guess) to pre-installed apps and default search.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms
Robin Hawkes GB Renewables Map is great for looking at wind farms and how much energy they’re producing

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/#5/55/-3.2
It's all relative. People earned a lot less in the 70s. Minimum wage was $2.00/hr or so.
You can use Qubes Whonix to avoid relying on the browser security alone.
Show HN: TWC – A library to create reusable Tailwind components for React
If women are over-represented in some fields, such as health care, education, and child care, they will be under-represented in others. We should remove needless barriers to either sex working in any occupation but not assume that unequal representation is necessarily a problem to be solved.
The Plasticene: Time and Rocks
For anyone interested in staying informed about important new AI/ML papers on arXiv, check out https://www.emergentmind.com, a site I'm building that should help.

Emergent Mind works by checking social media for arXiv paper mentions (HackerNews, Reddit, X, YouTube, and GitHub), then ranks the papers based on how much social media activity there has been and how long since the paper was published (similar to how HN and Reddit work, except using social media activity, not upvotes, for the ranking). Then, for each paper, it summarizes it using GPT-4, links to the social media discussions, paper references, and related papers.

It's a fairly new site and I haven't shared it much yet. Would love any feedback or requests you all have for improving it.
This is full of misinformation, the kind Musk and Tesla fans have spread for years about their self driving competitors.

All of this is easily proven wrong. Waymo works in rain and fog in hilly San Francisco flawlessly. There are YouTube videos anyone can look up. One look at https://waymo.com/research/ tells you they're using more AI than everyone else combined. They've used an ML-based planner for years now. Saying they have "hardcoded" to drive at the scale of entire cities is just dumb. Somehow only Tesla fans think it's possible.

Tesla has no overhead introducing in a new city because, obviously, it's a driver assistance system. It "works" only because there's a driver ready to prevent crashes. That's not a fully autonomous system by any stretch of imagination.
The whole point of self-driving, and why it's hard, is to handle that 1%. Nobody is saying you shouldn't be thrilled at the product or that it's not worth $200/mo to you. But it's not autonomous driving. It's not a robotaxi. You're paying for something else. The vaporware comment is in reference to Elon Musk's robotaxi claims -- he sold the product as something it isn't.
The problem is with "rent seeking" where the amount taken is not related to service provided but rather ownership of the platform. If Google only collected for the Play Service usage that would be one thing, but they can also take a cut of ongoing subscriptions. You could also argue that updates are also provided as a service, but the amounts collected aren't in line with the service that's provided.

One way to ensure equity of service/fee is to have competition. There is no reasonable Play Store competitor for Android.
Even Rockstar devs use it, saw it on some of the leak videos of gta6
> I don't know how this argument can hold? Malls charge their tenant stores a fee to lease space. Why shouldn't app stores?

Most of us don't object to Google charging a fee for each app sale (although I still think 30% is exorbitant). But they charge a fee for every transaction the app charges and I think that's absolutely obscene. The mall doesn't charge the shoe shop 30% of every pair of shoes they sell.
This comment thread has way too much privacy dot com spam.
Curious context: about half a year ago Wikimedia RU previous director had left his post to fork Russian wikipedia and develop an independent "Free Encyclopedia".

https://www.rbc.ru/society/24/05/2023/646e58029a794724e1b894...
>it should be individual choice depending on your own personal situation.

Your average individual is completely unequipped to make an informed decision on this topic. They have no idea their crappy gas stove is spewing high volumes of carcinogens and other nasty things into their kitchen.

We do the same thing for toys, my wife should be able to buy my child a toy at the store without having to bring an XRF gun to look for lead paint. Everything in the store should be safe by default. If you want to make a difference _at scale_ that's how you do it.
You can. iOS apps have to request individual permissions - I'm not sure about the specific level of granularity here, but you can deny location access while still letting the rest of the app run, and the app has to be able to deal with it.
> define "electronic devices."

Smartphones and computers, anything with a keyboard and internet connection, and sufficient freedom to go anywhere eon the internet from the device.

> (the things Europeans have to use in stores to pay by card

I mean those are in every country. PINs are not always needed for credit card purchases but they are for debit card purchases.

> but he did demonstrate that he can use a TV for hacking.

A smart TV in conjunction with a phone and a firestick.

No reason he couldn't have a dumb TV.
Well you can stand in line at LA Fitness and still not get a resolution or you can stand in line at the Post Office and successfully cancel.
AOSP is short for Android™ Open Source Project. It's open source.

https://source.android.com/

>Android is an open source operating system for mobile devices and a corresponding open source project led by Google.
New Echo Hub 8" smart home control panel with Alexa, compatible with 10k devices
When folks suggest a new "changes everything" way to go fast, always remember that we used to run NY to Chicago at 120 MPH on steam power and bolted rails.
I'd rather just dismiss him as a knob.
> which is a threat to his business of selling cars

With 40,000kms of high speed rail [1] (by far the most in the world), China must then have very few electric vehicles.

In reality they are the world leader. [2]

[1] https://www.statista.com/topics/7534/high-speed-rail-in-chin...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-17/how-china...
Intel can and does produce phenomenal technical products. Their compilers and HPC toolsets have done enormous good. Their chips are second to none (or perhaps tied for first, depending on who you ask). They are not a shameful company. They are just yesterday's giant, and as such, are due for a Microsoft-like reinvention.

Intel is my daily driver for gaming, due to it's incredible (but sadly cancelled) Extreme Compute Element form factor with its incredible customization.

What they're struggling with is adapting to a changing world and to find new business centers. But this is a hardware/software world built on Intel, even if it changes daily.
The entire country can be characterized by this quote.

What's the biggest threat to the USA?
Yeah. The comparison should be to drivers who were properly licensed and not DUI, not to all incidents.
> The interesting question is: do you think that the majority of people don't see this side of the internet because of how effective the centralized control and policing is, or just because the majority of people are not interested in seeing this content in the first place?

Both! Most people don't want to see beheading videos and would be very upset if one came across their Youtube recommendations. Fortunately, YouTube's "CENSORSHIP" is pretty good at not showing such videos (even though they're completely legal content!)

However, there is a significant long tail pool of people who are totally into watching such abhorrent content (e.g., 8channers), and could easily cause a deeply offensive content to find itself in the unmoderated "Democratically trending" video feed, as it's demonstrated in the Flare example walkthrough.

Maybe that's your point? Platforms like these will necessarily be used pretty much exclusively by people who like or will tolerate seeing extremely offensive content because everyone else will be put off by the occasional display of horribleness.

Libertarian "DON'T CENSOR ME, BRO" havens like 8chan, kiwifarms, daily stormer, etc. already exist. They're not particularly popular, when compared to the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. But they're certainly popular enough to draw millions of users. And every one of them would be delighted if they could post their inflammatory nonsense on Facebook or YouTube to reach a wider audience. And Facebook and YouTube have wider audiences because they moderate content.

In a previous life I worked building popular social media apps that included user-generated content. And I saw first-hand how horrific content moderation is. The shit people post to social media sites is as vile as it is vast. I'm certain most "anti-censorship" people's opinions would be changed if they'd watched an actual content moderator do their job for 30 minutes.
This is possible and relatively easy for Apple to do: for most (if not all) permissions, a declaration that you intend to ask for permission is required in the app's Info.plist manifest file.

When permission is requested and you've forgotten to declare that your app asks for it, the permission will be immediately denied without prompting the user.
I think if you're in China the centralized superapp is the least of your worries, privacy-wise. I agree that this is probably part of why these things will never really take off in the US though (no matter what Elon wants to wish for).
Are You Smarter Than An LLM? (Quiz based on the most popular LLM benchmark)
Node of course can work on multiple cores, using worker threads [1]. You can even share large data efficiently using a SharedArrayBuffer.

[1]: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
> Turnstile is actually easily bypassed

Yes so is (insert any captcha service)

> I’d like to offer a “try it for free without an account or credit card”

I'd ditch this and require a credit card.

> 3. The hyper-centralized nature of Cloudflare is something that never sits right with me. On one hand, I have tremendous respect for the great work they do and the awesome folks who work at the company (I personally know founders whose startups would probably no longer exist had it not been for Cloudflare’s DDoS protection services). On the other hand, they frankly control too much of the internet’s traffic for my liking.

Then go with another provider, Cloudflare is not the only one... assuming you have money to pay with and aren't a choosing beggar
This isn’t how the law works. If it’s a valid defence, it’s a valid injunction.
CA HSR is going to spend $8b to connect 4th and King to the Transbay Terminal. That's 2 miles. At $4b/mi, the problem would be too much attention not too little

https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/27/san-francisco-downtown-rai...
>> "Google gets money from their app store!" So does every app maker. Next

>Not the same thing. By owning the Play Store Google gets a cut of every app, not just the ones they make.

It's not the same as Apple, which is famous for gouging developers taking huge cuts of their revenue from apps, and even taking huge cuts of in-app purchases.
I don't think (really, "I hope") that these scans aren't hitting the government database, allowing the government to easily build a dataset of every time you buy alcohol/tobacco/pornography/whatever -- that is uncomfortable even to me and I'm not really a libertarian.

The 2d barcodes and magstripes on these cards do have all the info that's printed, though, so I would bet that a "gifted" ID that hasn't expired but which you've replaced or claimed as lost would still work at a retailer who scans IDs.
It was supposed to be an air-bearing; there would be some sort of fan that would take air from the front of the car, and move it to the back of the car, diverting some fraction to the bottom of the car for it to slide over (think like an air-hockey table).
> This wasn’t some hacker poking around because he could. He was stealing assets and then trying to ransom them back.

If he managed to do that using nothing more than a TV and an Android device, I have absolutely zero sympathy with his victims. In the end, I'd even classify that as a public service, getting these companies to up their security game at least to some standard.

> He also just straight up stole crypto.

And here I have even less sympathy. I have grown to hate anything crypto-currency with a passion, simply because it's even more enticing to criminals than a locked safe room full of diamonds.

Don't get me wrong: It's still not correct what he did. Lock him up in prison like every other random criminal. But it's not "lock him up for life"-worthy, not by any means.
This article seems inaccurate. Google doesn't charge for Google apps except in the EU, where it does because of EU regulators - that's where the "up to 40$" claim comes from [1]

Per that article, it looks like in general google bundles chrome and search with the rest of the Google apps, and so is happy to offer it for free since search basically pays for the whole app suite. The EU doesn't like this bundling so google charges for apps there, but manufacturers can enter into a deal to use chrome and search and essentially get that money back through search engine revenue sharing.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/17999366/google-eu-andro...
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PG&E's generation rates are listed as though PG&E is paying that amount on average. So I don't think this is a spot-vs-guaranteed price issue -- I think it's more like wholesale vs retail.
The GOP Is Mad Because the FCC Wants to Ban Shitty Cable Early Termination Fees
To the extent you could ever replace WeChat and Alipay with OSS, that's already a possibility today even with closed OSes and App Stores.

To the extent that you can't (network effects or legal obligations or whatever) you still won't be able to if the code of those apps is made available under any license of your choice.
> Your messages are all screwed up when delivered to anyone not using an iPhone. Pictures and movies are basically destroyed and worthless.

Sure and it is absolutely obvious on my side because these contacts don’t show blue messages. Take that away and the situation turns worse because now I‘d have to guess.

Edit: don’t get me wrong - I don‘t send broken messages, I just contact them on other messengers instead.
>We have electric at home, It just takes forever to cook anything and it's hard to control the heat.

You like have an under-powered resistance range. A proper 240v 60A circuit powered induction range will out-heat any residential gas range and do it with laser-like precision.
Debt-laden Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount consider merger
I'm from Europe originally, and visit often. And now in California.

You could make Highspeed rail FREE and I'm not sure I would take it. I might. Maybe.

As soon as it costs what gas costs to get to LA from SF ($100 round trip max, so usually $50-33 a person), there is NOOOO way I am ever taking it. Heck, I still need a way to get around once I get there.. so how would the train ever really work for anyone? Now I'm renting a car or taking Uber? Why wouldn't I just take my own car I like. And take more items without lugging them on a train. Without traveling to the train. Without paying parking at the station. Who is this train for?
alternatively, make grandparenting a thing again.
While I agree with you, I think the issue is that the tooling is starting to become accessible to anyone, which is going to create a flood of deepfake content. In the past, you usually needed to have a specific set of skills to fake information, and even then experts were able to analyze things like images for distortions or slight alterations that couldn't happen in the natural world. As the technology gets better, and into the hands of people that wouldn't have had access to it previously, only then will we really see if this is going to have any kind of effect.
On BGP Route Selection and High Availability via Anycast
Not for a branch that's 2 inches long and a fraction of an inch in diameter.
Stuck with Low Pay, How Taiwan's Young Graduates Cope with High Costs [video]
The bear made $92B per year.
Big up the on call heroes! Hope you're getting paid well, hope you get no red lights on the bug hotlines.
Once we grow boobs, sure. Pretending this is at all equal is ridiculous.
> this is such a wild topic derail

How is this a topic derail? What's the topic then exactly?
Take that up with Tesla. Tesla actively redacts their crash information and chooses to not publish even the most basic of data such as distance or crash counts, only unsubstantiated, unaudited conclusions. It is not the duty of the public to grant the benefit of the doubt to a deadly, incomplete product. It is the duty of the manufacturer to provide robust data and analysis corroborated by unbiased third parties positively establishing a sufficient degree of safety.

Tesla killed people, it is up to them to demonstrate the rate is sufficiently low to be considered safe. However, if Tesla chooses, as they do, to not produce robust evidence of its death rate that competent third parties are allowed to audit, then it should be presumed to be unsafe. Anything less does not meet even the basic standards expected of safety-critical product development.
California passed a law that took effect in 2022.
Busting Dictators' Internet Blocks with VPNs, Satellites, and Real News
>Gas heat distributes heat nicely across the bottom and sides of any size pot you put on it.

And leaded gasoline made poorly-dimensioned combustion chambers run better/not knock. We still banned it for good reasons.
The Apple Stockholm Syndrome is endemic on HN. The lengths people will go to support open source and open access while also vehemently defending the exact opposite behavior from Apple is astounding.
Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
Ask HN: Best PDF Text Extractor?
There's so many out there, and none are clearly superior to others. I am curious to know what are people using?
The Cheap Web Scorecard
Sometimes they don't even bother to sell it. In the case of Barefoot Networks, they bought it, spent three years developing the next-generation product, got it to within 80-90% of being ready for tapeout, and then just pulled the plug.
I'm not sure what your point is? Every country on Earth historically has treated their indigenous peoples badly. Most still do. I'm not trying to boil the ocean or solve racism (assuming it's even solvable) here, I'm simply saying we have existing mechanisms to hold police accountable and we've simply decided as a society to not do so, and we should instead to decide to hold them accountable and to raise our standards for being a police officer.

I'm sorry I didn't enumerate every bad thing the police have ever done in every single country on Earth. I don't really know what you're expecting from the reply you made to me?
>> when they're the only semi company left still running their own fabs

Yes and even within that they are risk averse, no need to look beyond 10nm and their reluctance to EUV.

So they are really risk averse and they just want their success to continue infinitely. In fact, contrary to Pat G claiming that Nvidia is lucky; it's really Intel which was lucky.

>> commend them for not giving up on advancing their fab nodes despite the massive issues and setbacks(they could have spun it off like AMD did), and for building the ARC GPUs

even if the turn around time in semi market is longer, the way they faltered on their Arc timelines and no encouraging signs of their new fab nodes is not commendable!
> If it were a minor silly thing, you probably wouldn't expect it to be talked about at the highest levels at Apple, would you?

Why not? I’ve been in C-level discussions where dark purple versus a slightly darker shade of purple turned into a weeklong shit show.
I can't think of anything that is a 4090 exclusive. What usually matters is VRAM, so if something needs 24Gb, then 3090 is also an option, or dual 12Gb cards.

Anyway, the technique that they describe is a general one that should broadly improve the ability to run larger models on smaller GPUs by drastically improving perf for CPU offloading. They demonstrate it using both 4090 running the largest models at fp16, but also 2080Ti running the same 4-bit quantized, and they still get ~3x speedup for LLaMA. So this very much sounds like it'll make 33B models the new default on the desktops, while people with even a single 3090 or 4090 will now be able to run 70B at realtime chat speeds.
I wonder if this could be used to train an LLM to convert PDFs with rich charts into HTML?
I will endeavor to give you a hint without spoiling the epiphany:

You have two possible allocations of “utilons”. One strictly dominates the other but exhibits an imbalance. The other does not.

Now choose.
I've gotten almost everyone I know to use WhatsApp. Not switch necessarily, but use. There's only a few stragglers left. It's not a hard sell, at least in a big city where you're bound to know a lot of foreigners or people with foreign friends/family, so adoption starts well above zero.