skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations, here is your gold medal in mental gymnastics. Enough now.

It literally refuses to generate images of white people when prompted directly while not only happily obliging but only producing that specific race in all 4 results for all others. It’s discriminatory and based on your inability to see that, you may be too.
I think to answer this it’d be very helpful to have some more detail. What sort of thing exactly have you been trying to learn?
>> No I do not agree with you. Majority of people never read their message history, want their messages to self-detruct

Citation needed.
Do you look up the software security measures implemented by the keyfob too? That information would be very difficult for a layperson to find and make sense of.

This may be the "age of information", but information is only useful as your ability to find, understand, and evaluate it.
> In the age of information ignorance is no longer an option

The age of information was great.

In the age of misinformation, knowledge outside your specialty is no longer cheap enough to reliably obtain.
What a disingenuous article. Uses as many techie sounding terms as possible and even points out the icloud backup problem, but fails to point out that your keys are not your own, and so no matter how secure the E2E is Apple can still read your messages. (particularly if ordered to by a government.)

Signal does not have this failing, plus it has all the Metadata encryption. Also it's cross-platform and actually auditable.
There is no way iMessage is on "equal footing".
One week ago, I would've missed what you did there. Glad YouTube recommended that song. It is a good song.
F in the chat for people with the name Cody
Quite a claim. No evidence.

As an example, I'm on the neurology faculty. One colleague is an academic activist in the sense that she educates, develops programming, and sits on several committees dedicated to ensuring that historically marginalized groups realize that neurology is a career possibility for them. It gets results, and it's not just self-validating. The claim that belief you can help someone assumes your own superiority is unfortunate.
this is "Show HN".
So showing my product is the goal of this label.
Regarding the rest of my products used in the process of growing Index Rusher, what's wrong with it?
Should I use Webflow instead of the unicorn platform for my website?
Should I hide in the step-by-step story the fact that I used Unicorn?
I'm not really getting why some readers focus on this.
If the key point of the story is to describe every step.
Anyone try this and fish shell? How do they compare? Thanks!
Phil Schiller previously had suggested [1] Apple should lower their cut once the App Store is bringing in $1b of profit a year. That feels pretty reasonable to me, but they're clearly addicted to the huge cashflows that come from taking 30%, and I feel like they'd raise it if the market would bear it. After all, their products and services keep getting better...

1: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22418828/apple-app-store-c...
Awesome product. We would love to use this for our app, but it wouldn't make sense economically. At $0.10 per minute it would cost significantly more than our existing TTS and SST solution. We've manually added a VAD and will have to add a way of handling interruption. All-in-all it roughly costs us $0.01 per minute and we just can't afford a 10X increase in costs.

Guessing you guys have found a use case with higher margins than ours which'll explain the price. Great work. Hope we can afford this one day.
But that's the issue: they aren't using petabytes as a unit, they are using petabits
Ante has a similar unresolved problem with Clone- AIUI you can only safely Clone things you can project a `&shared` reference through.
What guideline for community management would possibly not be a flagrant 1A violation?
https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/moving-to-berlin

This guide is an overview for moving to Berlin (and the rest of Germany). It links to a trove of guides for each of your questions. I run this website for a living.

The instructions are very similar in other countries: get a job, get a visa, find a flat, come with enough money.
Setting the expectation that people should be able to afford a house with cash to be comfortable is quite a leap. If you’re making 850k/yr (1M/yr minus apples cut) then you are making more than the vast majority of people in the Bay Area. You’d be doing just fine, much better than most people, and could easily, easily, afford a $3M house.
Gemini says the shells pull 20,000 to 80,000 g's, but drones can drop much more fragile things.

You could drop live cats if you wanted to attack ancient Egyptians, for example.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/43/the-battle-of-pelusi...
Why are people desensitized to such Apple tactics? You'd think there would be much more backlash but somehow people just think this is okay and move on.
I will attempt to sum up what’s actually bothering you here… This kind of behavior bothers me too. Censure-driven gatekeeper enforcement (prevalent in niche interest) of strict rules fosters an atmosphere of elitism and exclusion, where individuals are judged more on their ability to adhere to arbitrary criteria than on their genuine passion or potential contributions to it.

Communities that prioritize inclusivity and openness tend to be more dynamic and resilient. However, it is much easier to rally attention as a gatekeeper than an innovator.

Gatekeeping and promoting ideas like this on hacker news further expands the cult/clique and indoctrinates more patrons while expanding its leaders (or web masters) ring of influence.
> Is there a law of thermodynamics which prevents AI from writing code which would train a better AI?

You need to apply Wittgenstein here.

This appears to be true because you haven't defined "better". If you define it, it'll become obvious that this is either false or true, but if it is true it'll be obvious in a way that doesn't make it sound interesting anymore.

(For one thing our current "AI" don't come from "writing code", they just come from training bigger models on the same data. For another, making changes to code doesn't make it exponentially better, and instead breaks it if you're not careful.)

> I guess people working there believe in magic.

Yes, OpenAI was literally founded by a computer worshipping religious cult.

> People believe that self-improvement might happen when AI is around human-level.

Humans don't have a "recursive self-improvement" ability.

Also not obvious that an AI that was both "aligned" and "capable of recursive self-improvement" would choose to do it; if you're an AI and you're making a new improved AI, how do you know it's aligned? It sounds unsafe.
it's the Holding Org that unites all 20+ tools under one umbrella, both tehcnically (all these tools are built using marsx.dev) and legally (all these tools are owned my marsx (the company i own)
How Not to Govern the Commons. The Reasons of 50 Years of Failures
Worse, they were kind of censored - burned by do-gooders to protect
the "reputation" of a libertine whose life and ideas were beyond their
grasp - a poet who judged 'success' as "Men think highly of those who
rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust,
straw, and feathers." In a way, their vicarious vanity secured a
legend, forever casting wonder on what unspeakably shocking secrets
they held. Today these cowards live on, proscribing as "unacceptable"
or "problematic" whatever we may say, think or feel in the digital
world. One day all our memoirs will be burned by the moral descendents
Hobhouse and Moore.
Another way of framing your opening is "a bunch of other companies are on the verge of figuring this out, but the market isn't big enough". EUV hasn't even been the done thing for all that long, I gather it is only the tech of choice for about a decade.

There are a bunch of thin bottlenecks and oligopolies in global supply chains. It is a big and complex world. But that leads to a situation where three things are true at once:

* There are companies that are expensive to replace.

* No single company is truly irreplaceable.

* On the cutting edge, it is common enough for there to be only one company that knows how to do something.
This has never happened to me even after replacing every component of my computer over the years (other than the PSU). I imagine signing in (and setting up the computer) with a microsoft account is what makes it stronger.
You’re right about adopting USB C too early. They should have also stuck with SCSI and ADB with the original iMac.

But this is a first, someone complaining that Apple used an industry standard too early.
Signal originally marketed itself as an application to replace sms texting. People put more personal information into their sms chats than they do into a discord chat or email typically. Every other chat application I use on the desktop has the option to log out.

I'm not going to argue the justification for this functionality with you all any more, and it is a little strange and suspicious that there are so many of you all opposed to a simple option being added to an app. It's a little insulting that you and other commenters think that multiple accounts on a computer and locking a computer with a keyboard shortcut are novel concepts that need to be explained.

If anyone is reading this who would like to help me instead of arguing against the implementation, my email is in my profile.
I feel like this deserves to get more attention. Yes Google Search is bad, but how much new good content exists, and if Google (or anyone) just started deleting large chunks of the internet from search indices, I think there’d be complaints.

I’m not trying to defend Google, BUT I do this all the BHG style “fraud” should be punished. Posting junk content for click through ads and affiliate links is a sad way to make a living, and we should have no problem with booting them from the visible internet.

Sometimes I wish owners of popular brands let them die with dignity instead of selling their brand to be worn as skin for soulless PE fraud.
Fetchmail on my laptop fetches messages from the IMAP server and procmail + postfix delivers them (after some mangling) to the maildir in my home directory. So whatever mail client I use needs to be able to read that.
Ntpd-rs: A full-featured implementation of the Network Time Protocol
Even granting that there may be some nuance to whether and to what degree secrecy is valuable in some contexts, the policies used for automated content moderation on large platforms and the policies by which AI systems are aligned are not good candidates for this secrecy having even a beneficial effect, let alone being necessary
This is a wonderful comment, I’m sure he’s also not trying to raise $7T, or if he is it’s not US dollars…
(Google also gives Apple a deal on Apple Music)
Starrocks sounds too good to be true, what are the cons?
It's too costly to potentially make that mistake again. So the solution guarantees it will never happen again.
Nvidia Says Growth Will Continue as A.I. Hits 'Tipping Point'
It's not just the lack of disclosure. You're claiming (for example) you spent $499 on a listing tool - but you actually own that tool, so you presumably spent nothing. You've fabricated a good portion of your post.
Combine them. Mortar round that deploys a drone that hovers for two minutes relaying video so the mortar team can adjust fire.
At least in my personal case: GLR sounds great in theory, but I like to implement things 'from scratch' when possible. Both PEGs and the basic Earley algorithm are incredibly simple to write up and hack on in a few hundred lines of insert-favorite-language-here.

GLR would probably have (much) better performance but I'm usually not parsing huge files (or would hand-roll one if I were). I've not yet found an explanation of GLR (or even LR for that matter) that's quite as simple as PEGs or Earley (suggestions welcome tho!).
Show HN: LANCommander – A self-hosted digital distribution platform for PC games
After 14 months and probably over 1,000 hours, I'm finally at the point where I feel like I can show off my side project, LANCommander.

As the title states, LANCommander is a self-hosted, open source digital distribution platform for PC games. The project started to solve the woes of a regular in-person LAN party that I participate in with some friends. I got tired of spending more time solving technical issues than playing games, so I decided to create a tool to help automate the process.

The server application is built as a .NET 8 Blazor application. Database access is implemented with Entity Framework and a SQLite database. The client is a custom addon for the open-source launcher Playnite. By utilizing Playnite I was able to shift my focus from the end user experience to a fairly robust server application.

I recommend reading some of the (admittedly, probably a little outdated) documentation available at https://lancommander.app and overview over at the GitHub repository (https://github.com/LANCommander/LANCommander). If you're interested in chatting about the project or following development, I recommend joining our Discord server: https://discord.gg/vDEEWVt8EM
I use shellcheck a lot, and I've found so far that its complaints fall neatly into one of two buckets: "oh, whoops, nice catch" and "shut up, shellcheck".

"useless use of cat" goes into the latter bucket. Complaining at me about it does not actually improve the code; it's just a nag about a bad habit that, arguably, isn't even a bad habit.
It's a problem of insufficient scientific divulgation.
If you happen to be up to your eyeballs in over-valued, over-leveraged Commercial Real Estate, then RTO is win (you) - lose (company) - lose (employee).
Welcome to 2024 and the generation of developers raised in the cloud native world who think this is normal.

A billion rows is nothing and having $100 appear in conjunction with that is absurd unless you are doing some kind of really heavy compute or AI model training on that data.

By 2030 we’ll have those costs well up over a thousand dollars and it’ll take five or six separate SaaS systems wired together to do this. Progress!
The relative scale still stands - Microsoft's net income in October, November, and December 2023 was over $21 billion, according to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2024-Q2
It sounds like meditation with extra steps. At least that's how I describe those same tasks and their effect on my thoughts. Your hands are busy but your brain is left enough space to figure things out.

I would add coffee to the mix, and maybe a notebook once the idea starts making sense.
> Perl expert

Because Perl excels at text processing.
Well, this is terrifyingly/depressingly presently relevant :(. I literally, at this instant, switched over to HN to kill time waiting for stuff to slowly download after merely trying to open up a Windows 11 VM under Parallels I made a few months ago for a friend to let them run an old copy of QuickBooks for Windows on his Mac. I have a valid W11 Pro key, everything installed and activated fine back then. Zero changes since. Fire it up, and whoops, Activation Error! Absolutely everything about this entire process with all 3 companies involved is total shit. To start I had to figure out how to even quit Edge which had zero clear way to close it and none of the old alt-F4 or whatever I remembered worked. Then onwards to activation to save us from those evil pirates who have zero of these problems ever. On the Windows side it just gave a cryptic 0xC004F213, so click "Troubleshooting" and it does nothing except "invalid buy a new copy, or contact support". Then close reload and now it gives 0x803fa067, but same thing. So contact support. After wading through tree they say to click the button to contact support, or sign in. You can click the button all you want, does nothing. So sign in. Ok now it lets you give a phone #, and says they'll call you? Two hours later, nothing. No acknowledgement, maybe it'll call tomorrow or something. OK maybe just forget this and buy a new copy of Quickbooks Desktop for Mac. Oh, they've discontinued that. Cloud only. Wait maybe there's a subscription, somewhere. But no they REALLY want you in their cloud subscription and while there are hints it exists I gave up after 30 minutes, probably have to call support. Old standalone copies cannot be had. Try reinstalling with Parallels, bugs out with weird errors, also wants to install all this other random crap. And on and on. So going to try with VMware Fusion, though of course that was just bought by Broadcom and probably will be discontinued, left to rot, or turned into a subscription (and then left to rot). This is all on 8/2.5 ADSL because this is rural northern New England and there isn't even cable with 5 miles of here.

Sigh. Remember when you could just pay companies money for a product, and get something that they at least kinda tried to have be ok, and then buy an upgrade if you thought they'd delivered enough value, or not if not, and on your own schedule? And maybe just enter a serial number you'd got and that was it, no internet needed? Good times!
Apparently not, but it is excellent news for those of us that read that headline and thought “what fresh new hell did some UX designer trying to pad their resumé and really leave their mark on the world for the next couple of years cook up?”

So it’s at least a karmically neutral change. You didn’t win anything and I didn’t lose anything.
it is very clear to me that humans do in fact have a recursive self-improvement ability, and i'm confused why you think otherwise
> I've never understood why the presence of Wayland means X.Org needs to disappear

Same.
I'm on Wayland right now and I already know the next installation will run X11.
Nothing against Wayland but so far all functional differences I noticed were things that don't work anymore.

I don't expect everything to work exactly the way it was previously, but nonexistent alternatives for X11 tools are a dealbreaker for me.
Of course not, I'm the wrong color or whatever the hell.
sorry I was more referring to the peta- prefix, the bytes/bits thing is exactly why I'm upset about this. They shouldn't have inflated the figure to bits just so they could put peta in front of it. This is a 200TB storage medium. It shouldn't ever be called peta-anything.
There are things Google does itself, and then there are the things Google won't allow users to do.
Does OpenAI/SamA diss other companies’ work? I can think of examples.

When you’re the leader and secure in your position and you have the emotional maturity, you don’t feel the need to diss otgers explicitly. It is a sign of weakness.
Some sort of "generate descriptions of novel tasks including ways to evaluate performance at those tasks, evaluate quality of the generated tasks+evaluation-metrics, split tasks into subtasks, estimate difficulty of tasks in a way that is is judged on how it compares to a combined estimated difficulty of generated subtasks and to actual success rate and quality" sort of deal?
I'm sorry, that doesn't work:

$ echo "foo" > access.log # create the access.log with some content
$ < access.log | cat | head -n 5
# no output

This works:

$ cat access.log | head -n 5
foo
$ < access.log cat | head -n 5
foo
$ < access.log cat | cat | head -n 5
foo
$ < access.log head -n 5
foo
apple was forced to adopt rcs for green bubbles. so blue bubbles are getting the next exclusive drop. the cycle continues.

“We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS,” the company said in the statement. “This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users.”

up until recently, you couldn’t do anything on signal without blasting your cell number out there, sometimes not even on purpose, right? since cell number was the exclusive identifier. but now you can do the same as with imessage, if i understand correctly.
The KDE flavor of Manjaro Linux beckons, friend.

Unplug from the Matrix and board the Nebuchadnezzar.
Yeah that's a multi-core rating. Apple doesn't lead on that currently, but for some reason that list doesn't include the M2 Ultra which would have their highest multi-core rating.

Apple beats them on single-core ratings. You can see the single-core rating if you click on one of those results.
I locked myself out of my car so often I ended up wedging a coat hanger under the rear bumper. You're right: car doors used to be trivial to yank open when you knew the trick. These days I'd love to create a little side project that sets the alarm off on my car any time a relay attack is detected. I'm sure Mark Rober or someone will end up doing it.
If so, how will they meet China's demand that all mobile devices support RCS, presumably because it doesn't employ E2EE?
Signal already has the ability to register multiple devices with the same account, though. The only thing they haven't done with this is support sync of past messages. That seems like it should be much simpler than supporting multiple devices in the first place, and I'm wondering if there's some non-obvious attack that they're simply not talking about or if it just hasn't reached the top of their priority list yet.
FDA warns against using smartwatches and smart rings to measure blood sugar
Previous announcement by the author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839470
Tons of things use environment variables like EDITOR or PAGER, and tons of things can "inject" "rm -rf ~" or whatnot. But if they can inject that, they can probably also go all sorts of other nefarious things. There is nothing special about a global alias here.

And an accidental typo is not really a big deal, certainly not an "injection possibility".
Just going off what fanboy wrote. If you went into the business of running foreign workloads on commodity x86 hardware expecting anything more than pain and sadness, your expectations were too high.
...much like iMessage.
Do you know how well it works for travel stuff? Google has become particularly useless at surfacing local blogs and results over content marketing from travel services.
I've had a very long standing debate with friends about the nature of poker. I'm neither a statistician, game theorist, nor mathematician so I'm very open to being corrected.
My intuition having played recreationally is that the absolute optimal move in poker is relatively trivial to calculate compared to chess/go. That is to say, most experienced players would reach this threshold without too much training.
Obviously, what makes poker fun/interesting is that you are trying to guess the strategies of other players, based on your interpretation of their behaviour, and react accordingly.
If all that is true, then I would submit, that at any sufficiently high (i.e. non beginner) competitive level it probably comes down to luck, since I don't really believe that the second skill described is really learnable.
So when we say "John is the world poker champion for 10 years running and is obviously far better than any mid tier player" are we not saying, essentially, that John is a human polygraph machine. Why, then, is that absolutely astounding skill not being harnessed for something else?
Nobody would complain on HN if Google Gemini was generating pictures of Lincoln existing as a... gasp... white person. This absurd level of woke censorship is not doing them any good.
They lost that case.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-cha...
>so then you want to do `make && ./a.out` and then...

Shell scripts ...
I think the headline means "puts it on equal footing as a secure platform" rather than "turns it into exactly the same product meeting all of the same user needs."
Retirement shouldn’t be the grand prize. If you execute well on a good idea, it’s important that you have an opportunity to scale it into a real business.
Yes! It's surprisingly good at Rust in general, and does a better job with macros than intellisense does.