skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lars sounds like an amazing father. My heart goes out to him and his family.
Does... Netflix do podcasts now?
Medicare in the US doesn't cover hearing "devices" unless you need cochlear implants.

Most people have mild hearing loss. They shouldn't need to spend thousands for a pair of hearing aids, which deliver little relative to their price. Miniature electronics have improved markedly over the past couple of decades, but for some reason FDA approved hearing aids have not participated in those gains in usability and cost reduction.
Understand that you're not going to finish what you start. Do things that are fun. Keep a notebook of ideas. Talk about plans and what you want do. Spend time with him. Even if almost none if it ever makes it into code, the imagination part will be going wild.

Look at what he's really doing. He doesn't want to CODE. He wants to make a game. Like every kid. Emphasize the creative part just like he wants. Do things on paper, just like he is doing.

Let me get this one point across: YOUR SON DOES NOT WANT TO LEARN TO CODE (right now). HE WANTS TO SPEND TIME WITH YOU and explore ideas at the speed of his imagination.

Enjoy it.

Talk about the game while you go for evening walks or drive to/from school.

He will enjoy every minute of it even if nothing is ever produced.
I would accept this as an answer. More like an ink container you dip a quill in. Yellow Ink.
It's now complete -

https://aus.social/@zanchey/111760402786767224
I think the search box was always there, but for some reason it seemed that you needed to select a category...

OK, I just looked up their old layout, and they buried the search bar amongst so much crap that it wasn't clear whether it pertained to the ad or the thing above it, or what... if you even noticed it: https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/longforms/04ILIeAX3JAF...
The Rapid Decline of Global Birth Rates
And CarPlay won't even necessarily work as a reliable aux. I've been in plenty of rental cars where somehow my music lags or stutters over it. It's trash.
Thanks.
What are the typical use cases for FDB? What can it do that, say, Cassandra can't?
I am sorry for your loss.

Thank you for writing courageously during this impossible time.
A simple APP_DEBUG=false in their production .env would’ve prevented leaking the Laravel stack trace and logs (Issue 3). I imagine they were debugging in production and forgot to switch it back
I think narrow appeal is the best part.

I listen to niche podcasts from all over the world in a variety of topics spaces that would never have mass appeal required for radio or television but a global asynchronous audience is enough.
Co-founder of Augmental here. I really appreciate your kind comments. It's been a four-year journey to get here, and we're thankful for the amazing people who've helped us along the way. Feel free to shoot any questions you have my way!
"In a new report, the organization calls on governments to extend social protections to break the cycle of low-paying work"

At least in my South American country, this is the primary cause of informal work. There are so many social protections for employees that businesses - especially small businesses - hire informally. It's too difficult or costly to abide by all the rules and social protections. Piling on more will only make the problem worse.
Great example of how the invisible hand of big tech enacts large scale behavioral change.
Looks like Gimlet and Joe Rogan got out at a good time. Just a few years later and we'd inevitably see the bust as we do now. Gimlet is apparently already gone and was merged into Spotify's other podcasting brand.
I agree with you, but it's not about spouses or elderly parents. I have been designing chips and custom hardware for multiple decades. Guiding and/or implementing custom firmware for a similar time span. I am highly technical and I still want a phone with a tightly controlled ecosystem that is robust and it isn't sending all my personal data back to the mother ship for them to monetize. The App Store is one of the best features of the iPhone. There are a lot of bad players doing all sorts of things. I like having Apple guarding the gates.

The thing is, I think I am similar to the vast majority of Apple's customers in my preference for the App Store. Finding and installing software was a hassle before the store. The simplicity of app management with the store has been a revelation. Some will say that my preference shouldn't keep others from getting side-loading and I get that, but I imagine creating that installation path will also create a new exploit path. I don't think most customers will be happy if Apple has to allow side-loading and that leads to weaker security. Hopefully I'm wrong and weakened security can be avoided, but I'm skeptical for now.

A large segment of the HN readership doesn't seem to understand that many of their desires with respect to a device put them in a small minority of Apple's customers. If Apple is satisfying the vast majority of customers, why is that a bad thing?
The writing is incredible, but what a truly unimaginable thing.

God Bless you Lars Doucet.
More than anything else I thought that the vibe of using traditional IR techniques over the new-fangled dense embedding vector ones is interesting. In many systems it's likely that the dense vectors actually don't offer any additional value.

BM25 being used over SPLADE was a bit odd though. I was also mildly confused by their hybrid-search approach. I would have expected that they would do the more modern technique of performing a sparse vector (full-text) search and dense vector search in parallel then re-ranking with a cross-encoder NN instead of re-ranking w/ the dense vectors themselves.
Show HN: CryptoFrame – Secure Video Steganography
CryptoFrame is a command-line utility created for the highly secure practice of video steganography. It allows users to conceal text messages within video files using a robust multi-layered encryption approach. The tool encapsulates messages with seven layers of AES-256 encryption in CBC mode and secures them further with RSA encryption, safeguarding the hidden data's confidentiality and integrity.

CryptoFrame supports various input video formats: AVI, MKV, MOV, MP4, OGG, WMV, WEBM.

I invite you all to offer insights, advice, or critiques.
> Not all protocols have to have a handshake to negotiate how they will communicate. Sometimes you just need to have both sides configured the same way.

True, but the industry has been moving away from "you have to configure both ends" towards autonegotiation.

e.g. RS-232 you had to configure data rates (e.g. 9600 baud) and encoding (e.g. 8N1 - 8 data bits, no parity bit, 1 stop bit), and if you didn't have the same config at both ends, communication wouldn't happen. USB, the primary successor, determines stuff like that by negotiation. Or similarly, with Ethernet autonegotiation, you no longer have to worry about manually configuring speed/duplex on each end–which I can remember being a big drama 20 years ago.
How might we validate the two competing hypotheses? That is, fundamental policy shift vs business-as-usual reacting to changing global events (primarily US election).

Both seek to explain the same phenomenon (increase in aggressive rhetoric and internal messaging), and as a lay person it is difficult to see whether the evidence leans one way or another.

The chain of implications in OP (that rejection of US normalisation as a goal would lead to increased aggression towards the South) does seem a bit unclear to me, but that isn’t reason to dismiss the argument entirely.

In either case (or another one entirely…), it is clear that there is a huge degree of uncertainty here. Decisions should be made with that in mind, rather than wagering on one best-guess hypothesis.
Yes, someone I know just got the hearing test and hearing aids (made by Philips) all at Costco (we're in Canada). Very good experience all-around and now this person can hear us like never before. The Philips-made hearing aid can be controlled via bluetooth, smartphone app that allows changing to different presets (for instance going to "comfort mode" when in a loud environment). No clue what that all means if you don't have a smartphone, but figured I'd mention. I've tried to convince others I know to undergo this process.

As for actually treating/helping the hearing loss, it all depends on "why", there are of course many different reasons for hearing loss so I can't comment on that aspect.

BTW in Canada, hearing aids are an eligible medical expense you can include as a tax writeoff: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individ...
> No need. Market is functioning reasonably well, as Android, PineOS, FirefoxOS, and similar alternatives exist.

I'm not sure I'd like a government (whom at least in theory, exists to protect & provide as much collective good for their constituents as possible) to approach the situation in such a cold strictly economic fashion. Hundreds of millions of people unfairly being taken advantage of to the benefit of a small privileged few is exactly what I think governments ought to be trying to prevent.

>Just because someone purchased a product doesn't mean they were coerced into the purchase.

So what if they weren't coerced? Should government really have to wait until an apple exec points a gun to someone's head while they make a purchase before they can try and help? Isn't it possible a lot (I'd argue most) of these people don't realize all the financial nuances they've unwittingly become party to when choosing a phone. Think about all the grandparents who opted to get iphone because that is the one their grandchildren uses, think of all teenagers who chose IOS because that's what their friend group uses, heck think of all the literal children using IOS because that's what their parents gifted them for Christmas. Should the government really just turn their heads while children, teenagers, elderly, and so on are unwittingly agreeing to participate in a financially abusive arrangement.

I think you and I are running into the classic "is" vs "ought" disagreement. While I agree with you that this is currently legal, I also believe that it ought not to be due to the negative impact it has on hundreds of millions of people.
Anyone know how they aggregated news?
No way she'd say yes to that
Well, Epic pays Nintendollars to Nintendo, which are cheaper than Apple's Timcoins, so it makes sense that Apple should charge lower platform fees.
"They only support static layouts - not fluid/dynamic layouts that change when you resize the page. Don't have support for features like video, animated images, interactive charts."

these things are features in a lot of contexts.
Reminds me of OpenDoc
I’ve had all kinds of problems in the snow but I’m a New Yorker so I cope. I dig other people out more often than get stuck myself.

The AWD vehicle has a more complex drivetrain, will be more expensive to maintain and probably get worse gas mileage. Friends of mine swear by Subaru but I think they are crazy. If I wanted AWD I think I’d look for a small SUV like a Ford Escape.
I thought yew was springy, which made good bows, but I would think might be too much for an axe: you don't want that sproi-oi-oing. I'm not an expert, but you want a little bit of spring so your wrists don't absorb all the shock, but you don't want a whiplash backlash.
Except when it doesn't https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/unkil... thanks to UEFI. There have been previous issues as well https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-fix...
Yeah I guess 175V AC might get a little spicy with direct skin contact but I don't see this actually being dangerous just from a broken "thread". Point breaks would only result in current flowing through a small bit of skin right between the broken bits of wire. You'd need multiple breaks in places that result in current flowing through vital organs to do any real harm with something like this.
I’d be happy to be wrong about this but my understanding is that changing the architecture of the last few layers is feasible with fine-tuning but changing middle layers isn’t likely going to work very well without having the full original input set.

> likely pointless

It doesn’t take too much creativity to come up with ideas about why someone might want to do that:

- researchers who want to investigate how much the dataset can be reduced (and thus training cost) and what the accuracy penalty is

- someone who wants to for either religious or ethical reasons minimize the probability that the model was trained on pornography

- someone who’s curious about whether there’s significant redundancy in the existing input datasets

- someone who’s curious about whether there are a much smaller subset of images in the input dataset that can quickly help the first few CNN input layers converge before training the middle and output layers on the larger dataset.

Edit: I suspect the real reason they don’t want to share the input dataset is purely because a high-quality annotated dataset is a valuable commodity. While I don’t do ML work myself day-to-day, I do work with a team that does in a very niche field and I can only imagine how much effort they had to go through to get the annotated dataset that they’ve put together. Even just collecting the images for it involved many hours of drone flights in different locales around North America in varying weather and lighting.
Big thanks for putting FlareSolverr on my radar. Just did a quick dive into it. As I can see, FlareSolverr leveraging a proxy server running Selenium with undetected_chromedriver. Meanwhile, my tool relies on Computer Vision to auto-click the Cloudflare checkbox. Hence, Users can use it in UI mode only. Overall, it comes with its fair share of limitations, but the upside is its reliability.
People may find it useful in some specific cases.
Doesn't matter to most people what Epic does. There's a duopoly in ecosystems for the most important general-purpose computing device for most people on the planet, and we should demand that people have more free control over devices they own. On iOS, I think that's ability to sideload apps and run other web engines.
I'm concerned that they have phone-home features that will go haywire if they haven't been able to connect for too long. If I could be convinced that wouldn't happen, then I'll use whatever violence is needed to disable such features physically.
I'm curious your objection to a touchscreen when it sounds like you are just using a phone with bluetooth? Wouldn't a phone with a touchscreen represent the same tracking + safety hazard?

I used to have a 15 Rav4. There was a shitty touchscreen but if you were just trying to interact with it minimally and just wanted to be able to pause music or skip a song, there was physical buttons on the steering wheel so you'd never have to touch/look at a screen. It fits all your other criteria too, except the mpg.
Is this finally what the Sophia-Antipolis team has been working on? IIRC, the last few years have all been Austin.
> There is a belief, entirely understandable, that more and more frequent symbols of our intent to retaliate will keep the North at bay

How's deterrence working on those other fronts, Uncle Sam? Have you tried diplomacy? Have you tried fixing your own country first?
(throwaway for obvious reasons)

The comparison to Oracle is pretty good. Working for Sundar's Google feels like working for a company whose only product is quarterly earnings reports. I have no idea what the company's mission is anymore besides Number Go Up. The old descriptions of Google's creative, disruptive, academic culture seem very foreign at this point. Our raw materials are the brains of new Comp Sci graduates, and our product is money.
I am curious how much running the App store costs. According to Statista [0], its gross revenue in 2021 was 85.1B. If this is the right number to use, then Apple gets between ca. 12.5 and 25.33B from it (for a 15% and 30% cut, respectively.)

I know costs and prices are somewhat independent of each other, but even the 12.5B seems like a lot. I wish I knew how much App store's technical infrastructure costs.

0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/296226/annual-apple-app-...
These platforms were created to be tolled. What should be surprising is that developers willingly submit themselves to be tolled. Of course, the web platform is "worse" since it cannot utilize native capabilities until the mobile OS's support it via the browser, but it's toll free. As a user, that would've been my preference, not native apps.
It’s impossible until it is done.
Secondary phone?
This I suspect is the closest chance to reaching some flavor of AGI
This is absolutely gut-wrenching.

Lars is an absolutely incredible thinker with a polymath-like range.

- He has done great professional work as a software developer

- He has pushed forward arguably one of the best economic policies for modern times(land value tax) through both a startup[1], and writing[2]. I particularly like his interview with Dwarkesh Patel[3]

- He contributes core thinking to rationalist communities. Just the other day I completely randomly encountered him as being submitter of the primary US Election 2024 market on the forecasting site manifold[1]

The two most impactful thinkers/writers in my life have now had to survive through incredible loss(Douglas Hofstadter - who lost his wife after writing GEB is the other). Wishing you all the best Lars.

Sources:

[1] https://www.valuebase.co/

[2] https://www.landisabigdeal.com/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL-qkv7Pzxo

[4] https://manifold.markets/LarsDoucet/will-joe-biden-win-the-2...
I think some of the concern is China's desire to create a moon base. And the best spot is near the south pole, so whoever 'claims' it first will have significant advantages over everyone else.

There's no real reason to send people to Mars other than to get experience with long distance space travel. Robots are much cheaper to send.
Did you mean "ban for-profit hospitals all together"?
but wasn't that the point of pdf? we consumers of PDFs are the downstream users, not the target demographic. PDF solved a problem for publishers and magazines, not for consumers needing to read properly typeset digital documents. we just got the bread crumbs and then they became standard

epub I believe are essentially what we as programmers would come up with, xml, html, and style sheets

disclaimer: this is only partially informed speculation
Part of the problem is nothing is free anymore. I was just looking at ski tickets, and its like $100 just for the lift tickets. How are teens or people from lower classes able to afford things now. Is inflation pricing out people out of real world experiences, and instead they're offered virtual substitutions. Just another form of junk food, except for the mind.
I'm a truck guy, I like pickups but this abomination reminds me the Pontiac Aztek. I don't expect this truck to be very popular with the people who use trucks for a living. Is there enough Tesla bros, Soccer Mom's who drive lifted jeeps, the odd 50 year old male who is going through some kind of midlife crisis, etc, to make this a success, I doubt it. I predict I will never see 5 guys with lunch boxes and hard hats get out of one, but perhaps that is not the market.
This seems so dystopic. Why augment your partner? What happens when kids enter the equation?
> it makes a huge difference in quality of life and healthspan: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/[...]

I agree with everything else, but:

That study you cited has been withdrawn for fraud:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...

Recent discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38894636
The truck seems to be more or less what was promised. I think it is the new batteries that are not necessarily living up to the hype.
Mainly two ways.

One is by tracking outgoing links via a specific framework that needs to be used, the ruling only provides for Apple having to allow linking out, no restrictions on Apple’s part for requiring a certain way of doing it.

The other is the courts explicitly affirming Apple’s right to audit as a part of them stating that the commission will still be owed regardless.

The latter is important because it allows Apple to claim a legitimate interest in defense if somehow a case is brought specifically about Apple’s requirements on how to link to a URL outside the app.

Think: “Judge you said the commission would still be owed and you stated we can audit, you even lamented on how cumbersome it would be for all parties involved to settle the commission owed to us if third party payment options would be used, us requiring a specific framework to be used to link outside the app alleviates some of that. We have a legitimate interest in imposing these requirements because it helps us measure links to external purchase flows, which in turn helps us automate measuring these external transactions.”

If you read the appellate court’s judgment, the annoyance towards the district court is palpable. Because the district court both stated the unlawfulness of the anti-steering provision under California statutes as well as stating how cumbersome after the fact collection is of the commission as well as stating that the commission is still owed.

All of this is marginally contradictory, but because the district court didn’t err in sufficient ways for the appellate court to step in and all of it ultimately is in line with the law and standing jurisprudence, the appellate court’s hands were tied, because the appellate court isn’t for do-overs, it’s merely there for significant errors that cause harm.

SCOTUS refused to take up the case, so until further notice the law of the land is that a) developers are allowed to steer users away from the the app while b) Apple remains entitled to their commission regardless because c) there's nothing inherently illegal about Apple's commission because d) it primarily is a payment mechanism for usage of Apple's IP by virtue of how it's structured in the developer agreement and e) as such it's legal because Apple can't be forced to give away their IP for free.
> Games are a small subset of what people use smart phones for.

True, but they are also 70% of Apple's app store revenue.

Hence Gruber's suggestion of separate commissions for games vs. other apps.
The character '鉞' is not commonly used in modern Chinese. I would seriously doubt that anyone teaching Chinese would use this word to illustrate the letter 'Y' in English or Pinyin, especially to toddlers. There are plenty of child-friendly words starting with 'Y' that could be used instead.
I asked someone & we settled on

Pornhub > AI > OF > real person

From best to worst
You're not wrong, but there's nothing to be done about it. Hacker News isn't going to change and the site guidelines make it impossible to criticize without eventually getting modded for "sneering at the community" or some such.

Just accept that some conversations can't be had here.
Maybe it’s just not covered by the article but I see no mention of certificate based digital signatures. Without that this is dead on arrival in a real world business context. That is the primary reason many organizations remain stuck on PDF and why DocuSign is a viable business.
Here is my strategy for boarding the bus: try to figure out how not to be toppled by a bus driver who's eager to hit the accelerator as soon as my fare is validated. As a result, I am usually collapsing into the first available seat that isn't completely soaked in urine or vomit. The Sun's position is usually the last thing on my mind at this point.
Unseen images of code breaking computer that helped win WW2
Doubt your run of the mill software engineer has a PhD and is jumping ship to AI