skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think about it
I have been depressed due to being in a challenging situation for a while. I don't have friends to talk to or ask for help. I tried suicide helpline and NGOs in India, but nothing worked. Psychologists and counselors don't seem to care about helping people with mental health issues who can't afford to pay them. To be honest, Reddit has helped me more compared to others. I know how it feels to be hopeless, not wanting to live further. The situation only gets worse after not receiving help.

*Problem:*

A certain kind of circumstance puts a person into bad mental health (i.e., life not going anywhere, financial stress, debt, loss of love). Most suicide conditions stem from hopelessness and the belief that nothing is going to improve. More than psychologists, we need hope. We need to talk to someone who can listen and understand. Who can understand better than those who have already been through the situation and successfully overcome it?

Example:

Let's say a person (A) is working as a telecaller for 20,000 Indian rupees/250$ per month. With a slight income, person A can get a credit card and personal loan, but he's not good at managing finances, so he spent all his credit lines and is now in debt of $15,000 or around 12 lakh rupees. After paying monthly EMIs, he can barely afford rent, and for a few months, he hasn't been able to pay rent, and the owner is forcing him to leave the house. He doesn't see any rise in income in the near future to pay off these debts. Now, he is depressed and sees no way out, wanting to die because there is no hope in living. If he could talk to someone who has been in the same situation before but is now doing well in life, paid off everything, that could give him hope. Maybe he would reconsider ending his life just for a temporary problem, find some peace, and try to fix problems one by one.

So, I want to build a platform where people struggling mentally with any aspect of life can talk to those who have thrived in similar situations in the past.

Note: I understand there are several mental health-related issues. Here, I am trying to address suicides related to hopelessness, as people often try to talk to someone before taking such drastic measures, someone who won't judge them for any mistakes and understands their problems
I like the concept of Signal usernames not being public either, and that they’re only a means to tell others how to find and contact them. I can’t wait for this to be rolled out.

It’s not clear to me if it’d be possible to prevent the “contact joined Signal” messages if someone else has the phone number in one’s contacts. That would be a huge thing.

For a little more historical context, with this change Signal has now solved the problems that became widespread during the protests in Hong Kong in 2019 — someone else (authorities) adding random phone numbers to their contacts list, opening a chat app (such as Signal or Telegram) and finding if that person uses that app. Telegram solved this swiftly by adding more privacy controls, [1] while Signal had other priorities.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1VK2NC/
We don't have to treat them the same, but that's the direction I'm leaning.

As for society, that's another topic. People really aren't all that nice to each other very often.
i can't wait to have access to it.

ChatGPT has become an unusable lazy 20$ a month hole in my pocket. Can't get it to do some actual work and write some code.

Latest disappointment was when i tried to convert some python code to java code.

90% of the result was :

// Further processing...

// Additional methods like load, compute, etc.

// Define parameters needed

// Other fields and methods...

// Other fields follow the same pattern

// Continue with other fields

// Other fields...

// Methods like isHigh(), addEvent() need to be implemented based on logic
Source code is open source doesn't mean squat for safety. Have you audited the code? Do you have the skills etc required to prove its not backdoored?

Because I know I don't have that skill set or time. I do have however some big fat red flags on using it because it was opted for by an entity whose entire existence is based around backdoors and spying.

Honestly i find it absurd that some folks say just because something is open source it's automatically safe. The vast majority of us whether the project is open source or not lack the skill or capacity to pick up on a well obfuscated hole. Hell even the best of us aren't that good.
WBS works great if you are building structures.

WBS fails hard if you’re trying to achieve an outcome.

For most engineering activities, I’ve found developing a knowledge point plan is a better mapping to the work being done.
blog.gov.uk just said LMGTFY in a hyperlink that appears to be pointing at the Royal Cypher of King George VI.
You seem to mix a lot.

The first part is pseudo-argument. You compare apples and oranges. You treat education and massive steal of IP the same.

The second part seems to be a religious rehash of "The world keeps getting better as technology advances" this is not something guaranteed to continue and the world is not getting better from everyone. You seem to "overfit".

The third part does not guarantee a sustainable income for human creativity. Again your argument is shallow at best.
If this was all done in the open as hoped, as promised and the worlds scientists were in pursuit of the same goal, I'd accept these arguments all day and keep my ignorant mouth shut. But to lie and say otherwise goes against the timeline of history we're all a part of. OpenAI lied about its openness. It then aligned militarily. It didn't offer to remove your data before this came into effect, did it? Source me if I'm wrong.

A private company securing the worlds resources physically, financially and informationally and selling it to anyone of its choosing or not -- is the true startling contempt for human life, especially those that follow along without an ounce of critical thinking.
How many embedded 32-bit Unix softwares are being constantly upgraded to new versions of Linux / FreeBSD?
The argument didn't go well not because the cop doesn't understand but because the cop doesn't care when the bike got stolen, how it got stolen, who stole it or that it was stolen at all.

I had an expensive motorbike stolen. It had a tracker so I could see exactly when it was stolen, where they took my poor bike to remove the tracker etc. I gave all this data to the cops and they did precisely nothing whatsoever about it.

They don't care at all about bike theft.
I don't play football unless the goalposts remain stationary.
Capital One's acquisition of Discover Financial is not just a regular merger; it's a strategic play that could redefine the payment processing landscape, challenging the Visa and Mastercard duopoly and potentially setting new standards for digital banking and fintech innovation. With significant market share at stake and a combined network synergy on the horizon, how do you see this affecting tech innovations in banking? Could this encourage more competitive practices or lead to regulatory challenges?
https://getimg.ai/tools/api#pricing, curious if there are better options though. Do you think an option 50% cheaper than that would be easy to get attention for? Still building and testing atm, but should easily be able to provide that cheap.
That list of core type system soundness issues is long enough that it'd probably be easier to prove Rust style checks are unsound due to incompleteness / halting problem issues rather than fixing all those issues.
How is that an example of native apps?

That is just an example of modern web, that is the depressing part.

Actually been giving an excel file would have been liberating.
This a real threat to democracy (maybe it is not there anymore)
Seems similar to Justpy or Nicegui.
in Germany at least every phone number is connected with a persons identity. To get a phone number you need to connect it to an identity using a identity card

Personally, I am totally baffled by this.

Due in large part to C3's positive influence, Germany is at the forefront of privacy issues and legislation on so many areas, except for this one, which ends up turning into a massive backdoor in the whole edifice. Okay, we can't ask for a copy of your identification card... we'll just use a telephone number or SIM code or something trivially tied back to your IMSI (like an app store account or IMEI) instead. Because of the absurd 2017 law, these are equivalent to your government ID card.

I really don't understand why Germans put up with this while simultaneously pushing so hard for positive changes in every other aspect of online privacy. Especially when so many other developed Western countries do not tie SIM cards to identities: Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, US, UK, Canada, and many many others.

It's like a giant `sudo gimme-your-identity` backdoor in all the other data collection protections. And nobody seems to care about closing the backdoor.
Do these spyware type TVs require an internet connection to start working? For example, can we just buy the spyware TV and connect a Linux computer to it, or will it refuse to function without exfiltrating data?
I think you are partially correct in your judgement of me, though probably not for the reasons you think.

If I didn't use the Internet I wouldn't know what the term 'anti-American" meant. Nobody I know uses that word and no books I read or movies I watch mention it too. It is a term that I've encountered only on the internet. As a result, my connotation of the word depends largely on how the internet uses it.

On the websites I visit, the term "anti-American" is usually used to justify hate against minorities or some other segment of society. I'm sure it is used in different contexts too (in other parts of the internet), but not on the parts of internet I usually browse.
I might make an argument that we decided to sidestep fights over class equity for things like sexual and racial equity. That suits the powers that be better. Because now the lower classes are arguing about status instead of their share of the pie.
> A child cannot goddamn consent.

And yet, somehow, children across the United States get the exact same gender-affirming treatments (including but not limited to hormone therapy, cosmetic surgery, and yes, even genital mutilation) without complaint only if the gender being affirmed happens to match some evaluation of their biological sex.

Anyway, setting that glaring contradiction aside, your argument fails in the context of social transition (e.g., being called a nickname), which is the much more common form of adolescent transition and still somehow elicits the same overreaction you have demonstrated.
the path train also sucks ass, it's incredibly slow, only goes as far north as 33rd st, has dogshit headways on weekends, and never runs on time on weekends
Growing Up with a Pansexual Brother
you ask for audit rights in your agreement
Singapore has had 10Gbps services available for many years already, for instance see this article from 2016:

https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/pcs/viewqwest-is-latest-to...

Very few people use it because 10gbps equipment carries a pretty hefty price premium over 1gbps and wireless standards could not get anywhere close to it until recently.

Even today with wifi7, you will be hogging a LOT of the available wireless spectrum. In a country like Singapore where most people live in dense apartment blocks the level of congestion is going to mean that you never see anywhere close to the theoretical maximum throughput on any wireless network.

The money would be much better spent helping them catch up to other countries with IPv6 deployment. Singapore has much less IPv6 deployment then its closest neighbor Malaysia, and even lags behind Myanmar:

Source: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/XD
Ask HN: How else can I monetize?
We monetize idle computers (Mainly gaming PCs) at scale. Currently we can automatically mine the best algos for the specs, and are working on generative AI tools to sell via an API. We also work with a bandwidth partner to sell bandwidth.

Any other ideas for monetization? We have considered chrome extensions (replacing existing ads or affiliate links), and containerized workloads, but would love to hear anyone's thoughts. Thanks!
> Just don't connect the SmartTV to the network

They will one day have cellular modems so they can phone without your permission
I kicked out all the walled-garden apps like Signal and went standard XMPP only. I have a lot of XMPP contacts now. You just need to commit to it.
New York Times plans to debut new generative AI ad tool later this year
How wonderful it might be to be able to have tickets to both a conventional game of football and an imagined one where goalposts move around.

Paying people to move goalposts is expensive, and it might turn out to be a flop, but you could do both with Sora cheaply, and even make it into an interactive movie which, something impossible with conventional read only films.
"Incorrect output" is still correct to describe the cited behavior. "Hallucination" isn't. If a human behaves the same way when asked a question, we do not say he's hallucinating.

One way to devalue incorrect terminology is to call it out when you see it, and use something accurate instead. That's how people learn.
It has been 10 years since I left Canonical (on good terms), but what popey describes (hi popey) about the intentional lack of human review in the Snap store sounds very Canonical to me.

I agree with all the recommendations - add human gates. Yes, it's expensive, but still far cheaper than the unbounded reputational damage that just occurred around the untrustworthiness of the store (hi Amazon).
They are talking about a (cubic football) field. Cubic football is played in three dimensional 'fields', not on flat patches of grass.
You're reaching pretty far back to find outstanding examples, and I'll agree they are way above average.

However, I'll assume you know that most of Shakespeare's works were based off of earlier works. And I doubt Bach taught himself from scratch either.
I assumed they were talking about genital reassignment surgery for infants born with ambiguous genitals.
The crypto industry has had a serious UI/UX problem, no doubt about that. I also presume this bitcoin holder wasn't a sophisticated one, because the main point of a cold wallet is NOT ever have your seed phrase (12-24 words) go online. That's the real exploit in here.

Crypto has a long way to go and some improvements are being made but it definitely is one of the main pain points.
Then they should say "we're researching how to create a memory safe language" or "we've built a memory-safer language" rather than saying what they're saying.
Oh wow, I make those too using a similar technique:

https://tim.fish/assets/images/omni/drip.png
https://tim.fish/assets/images/omni/splut.png

The code is here if you’re in the mood to be morbidly fascinated by my hacky python
https://github.com/TimEwing/omni

Worth noting mine are only 7-bit instead of 8-bit because my poor little lenovo kept running out of ram and crashing.
> someone wanted a garage put above their kitchen because they wanted to park their ferrari next to their bedroom on the second floor.

You mean this guy?

https://youtu.be/Us8mDKUaX2M?si=qnrckuGLyWzoFNAe&t=1515
nmrpflash – Netgear Unbrick Utility (apparently Netgear uses nmrp, not tftp)
No need to worry about the supply nor the acceleration at liftoff (nor even at lithobraking): none of these factors influence the carbon content of your elephants.
Nice to see GOAP being referenced again. It was the secret sauce that made F.E.A.R.'s enemies so fun. And Jeff Orkin's paper on how it works is very readable and entertaining.
It’s too expensive for the features it provides. The person who estimated the cost got it wrong and were paying 3x. But I can’t just rip it out due to it powering a very important piece of software.
it's a race to the bottom. if your ad riddled, privacy raping tv isn't free, you'll go out of business. we need legislation.
So you don't consider the FTC to be "the government?"
This is basically what I do, just replace Windows vs Mac.

Still, I feel it's much more inconvenient than it really needs to be; the correct UX is a button press.
Hold on... You think Facebook took over from Friendster because of scaling problems?!

MySpace was the one that took the lead over Friendster and it withered after it got acquired for $500 million by news corp because that was the liquidity event. That's when Facebook gained ground. Your timeline is wrong.

The MySpace switch was because of themes and other features the users found more appealing. Twitter had similar crashes with its fail whale for a long time and they survived it fine. The teen exodus of Friendster wasn't because of TTLB waterfall graphs.

Also MySpace did everything on cheap Microsoft IIS 6 servers in ASP 2.0 after switching from Coldfusion in Macromedia HomeSite, they weren't genuises. It was a knockoff created by amateurs with a couple new twists. (A modern clone has 2.5 mil users: see https://spacehey.com/browse still mostly teenagers)

Besides, when the final Friendster holdout of the Asian market had exponential decline in 2008, the scaling problems of 5 years ago had long been fixed. Faster load times did not make up for a product consumers no longer found compelling.

Also Facebook initially was running literally out of Mark's dorm room. In 2007, after they had won the war, their code got leaked because they were deploying the .svn directory in their deploy strategy. Their code was widely mocked. So there we are again.

I don't care if you can find someone who agrees with you on the Friendster scaling thing, almost every collapsed startup has someone that says "we were just too successful and couldn't keep up" because thinking you were just too awesome is the gentler on the ego than realizing a bunch of scrappy hackers just gave people more of what they wanted and either you didn't realize it or you thought your lack of adaption was a virtue.
What is this, a house for ants? How am I expected to live in this?

Scale it up! It's already built, so I expect it on the lot tomorrow.
Don’t give it network access and hopefully it can’t update
Great work! I'm very interested as I don't like UI programming and I like the simplicity of immediate mode.
And have friends who are all willing to commit to it, too
Thanks for the replies. Sounds like a nice addition.
The parent claims that though aws uses better hardware, they bill in vcpus whose benchmarks are from a few years ago, so that they can sell more vcpu units per performant physical cpu. This does not contradict your claim that aws buys better hardware.
AI wouldn't solve much here:

Whatever your AI could do, you could do remotely from earth (with some light lag). However, AI can't magically conjure resources like carbon.

You would also need some good robotics and production capacity, preferably able to self-replicate.

AI is great, but it's not solving the greatest current bottleneck here.
Goddamn. Vizio used to have a reputation as a good TV for people that don’t want unnecessary extras.
Ultimately our elected representatives can always overrule the monarchy though, since parliamentary sovereignty trumps all. It might involve dissolving the government, but ultimately parliament would win.

You could obviously make the case that the monarch has unfair influence, but at the end of the day they still don’t have absolute power in any real sense.
Ask HN: How can I effectively narrow down the search space?
Especially for complex and ambiguous problems. It's difficult not to end up in a rabbit hole. Do you use any heuristics that keep you on track?
Any resources that delve on this?
Your link says the earth water ball has a diameter of 860 miles. Titan has a diameter of 3200 miles. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)) So Titan is 51x the size of the earth water ball by volume. If the oceans are much deeper, then it could genuinely have 12x as much water.
I mean, 1 out of 4 isn't really a good thing, especially when it was so blatently wrong on 2 of the other 3.

To be fair, we don't know what was the previous prompt. Maybe the guy enforced a rule to include as many ethnicity as possible so the AI has to try to put in a bunch of Native Americans and blacks. But if so then where is the Asian? Most "culture war" also often miss out on this huge group of people for some reason...
On r/chaptgpt op, using Gemini asked for an 1820 German couple, and the 4 images were diverse, with one of the 4 generated images showing a black man and Japanese woman.

Some people used the same prompt and received the images you would expect, regular Germans.

Someone else asked for a 1942 German couple, and got the same diversity breakdown, including the Japanese/black combo.
Maybe they outsourced the search algorithm and now use Amazon’s product search algorithm for YouTube.
I'm getting that opportunity, however I expect it will be the last as most have migrated to the cloud and smaller companies are appealing to me; smallest company (of 5) I've worked for had 4.4k employees and large companies have the resources to roll their own.

Unless there is an onprem movement I expect cloud to be the future as maintaining the tech stack onprem is difficult and we need to nake decisions down to the hardware we order.
Why is there no market for quality? Privacy? Repairability? Have we any remaining pretense of capitalism?
Main article: https://archive.is/RyZI0
Right - we made a lot of use of spot instances for building and testing. It’s great for that kind of fractional use, for sure.
I think you got down voted because not many people know the context of your joke:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/09/openai-ceo-sam-altman-report...
That happened before America existed.

If somebody tried that today, they would (and should) be liable for the cost of the tea. There is no right to destroy other peoples' property.
The parent thinks that AWS' i3 NVMe local instance storage is using a PCIe switch, which is not the case. EBS (and the AWS Nitro card) use a PCIe switch, and as such all EBS storage is exposed as e.g. /dev/nvmeXnY . But that's not the same as the i3 instances are offering, so the parent is confused.
It better not be able to play Grand Theft Auto
I have no desire to be sneaky. Creatively pointed. Please report me if needed, I have no qualms exercising my ability to express humanity when someone attempts to dehumanise. Especially if I can do so in a way that opens up an avenue for reflection. Most just double down. Being silenced on this platform is an expected conclusion, not a concern.