skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the term "Ikigai" as if it's some sort of dogma or a way to improve one's life sorts of defeats the point. East Asian philosophies are not for achieving "meaning of life" and other mundane goals.
I wouldn’t put it past them to ramp up the bot activity as real users bailed so their S-1 would look somewhat okay…
I think Nintendo would disagree.
In the Epic lawsuit it was shown that Apple really actually more cared about this than "security":

> “The #1 most difficult [reason] to leave the Apple universe app is iMessage ... iMessage amounts to serious lock-in,” was how one unnamed former Apple employee put it in an email in 2016, prompting Schiller to respond that, “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us, this email illustrates why.”

> “iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones,” was Federighi’s concern
Great next they should sue Meta and Whatsapp for anticompetitive and monopolistic practices
> The senior engineer who introduced the thing like this inevitably leaves and nobody cares to learn some bespoke abstraction enough to keep using it.

They seem to be saying that this inevitably happens and to never use the abstraction. They may have inserted a "please" in there to try to make it superficially appear softer, but they aren't actually being very nuanced at all.
I don't think so. It seemed very strong about "Even if they would know, they still wouldn't care". Which I think is absolutely false. See people constantly complaining about having to buy expensive inkjet cartridges.
There are plenty of Russian apologists in the US as well, unfortunately
The Amazon's 2023 Drought: Satellite Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
There are many high caliber engineers who just do it for the paycheck. I’m not one of them, but given the crazy compensation, it’s no surprise the field attracts outsiders.
This is great! I wish my PR review tools allowed me to plug in something like this. Hopefully one day we will go back to the world of customizable/plugin-based software. Most of my web tools are very prescriptive about the user experience and dont let me tailor my tools.
Karpenter vs. Cluster Autoscaler
The call is coming from inside the house.
Noticed this a few years ago too.

Expect there was too much traffic to the domain for the current owner to abandon.

The Wayback machine on it, through the decades, is fascinating if you're curious.
If a company doesn’t, I’d suspect the competence of their legal dept.
Michel Talagrand wins maths award for making sense of randomness
Reddits ad system blows. They havent monetized shit other than selling data to AI companies, so yes, its value is very dependent on how much those companies will pay at the moment.
I can't explain it but one fairly straightforward argument is just scale - everyone has a smartphone, few people (comparatively) have Playstations. There is a more obvious case for legitimate government interest in the regulation of a market that affects a much bigger proportion of consumers and consumer activity.
Yeah. Especially coming from our "Ministry of Innovation".

FTA
> The intent is to move forward with measures to restrict the use of such devices to legitimate actors only

So, what's going to define a "legitimate actor"?
60% of Americans CHOOSE to own a phone that has those features...

I think that is the issue. Android offers (nearly) all of the same functionality and yet people still choose iPhone.

Abusing your ecosystem is one thing (ex. defaulting to Apple Maps for location links, only allowing Safari as default browser), but not allowing 3P app stores seems perfectly within a company's rights.

Amazon isn't forced to list your product and Apple shouldn't be forced to give you access to it's hardware/software users.
It is extremely useless compared to Whatsapp/Signal. It is not even natively supported in android like SMS. Even in android the only app that supports it is Google Messages (unlike several for SMS). Nobody supports the protocol and everyone uses Google's implementation. Google's client, Google's servers, optional encryption. What is good about it. The only reason for it's existence is to make Google get a leg in the messaging clients after failures with their previous attempts (Gtalk, hangouts, allo). That is why nobody outside the USA would ever bother using it.

It doesn't do anything that Whatsapp/Signal don't. And there is nothing native about it in Android, other than Google Messages is force installed on all devices, and the rich vibrant ecosystem of android SMS clients was killed off to make way for it.
Well, the characters are stuck on a primitive planet in the Slow Zone so if you go in expecting Space Opera then you’ll be disappointed.

Except half of Fire Upon the Deep was characters on the same planet but it was actually cool. The first two books are definitely among my favorite sci-fi of all time, the third one was a dud.

My main gripe is that these three books all share the same trope that underpins one of the major subplots: glib, charming politician type is scheming, eeeeevil. In the first two books, there's enough novelty (how the Tines and Spiders work, programming as archaeology, localizer mania) to make up for that. But I don't really think the third book adds much in the same way, and it is also very clearly building to a confrontation that will happen in a future book. So the staleness is much more noticeable
Same, I found a 10 pack for $20 online a decade ago, and just lined them around the house.
You're right. Many old comments that may have attempted to shed light on the skeletons in someone's closet related to prosecution of Aaron Swartz are gone.
Thank you, and it's great that it was recognised a structural change was needed inside and that they attracted you to help implement that. I understand there's deep and long threads on the mailing list, and that there are great flaws with the SSPL.

That the communication with MongoDB crashed and left a sour after taste I can imagine. But the fact now is that there's a deeply flawed SSPL out there, OSI's only real public statement is very dismissive of it. It does not address at all the concerns of Elastic or MongoDB, painting them as some sort of bad guys, when in fact their products have always been open source, even when they were so valuable they really didn't need to be.

And the companies that drove them away from what OSI considers open source, are OSI's two biggest sponsors! Two sponsors it is worth mentioning, who built their products entirely as proprietary closed software, on top of open source software.

So now, wether they meant to or not, OSI has profiled themselves as defenders of proprietary platforms, making no effort to acknowledge the plight of open source companies, and lost credibility to such a degree that now again one the great open source companies has dismissed their approval and went for an unapproved license.

If the OSI was really serious about the "greater good", they would have worked with the FSF and helped MongoDB, Elastic and Redislabs defend against proprietary platform companies such as AWS and Google with an AGPLv4 that has the provisions the SSPL introduced without causing the concerns other people raised in this thread with regard to (possibly intentional?) vagueness around what does and does not need to be open sourced.

If that had happened, then maybe today Redislabs would have announced their switch to an OSI approved open source license, and the OSI would have retained its legitimacy and reputation. How many great budding open source/open core projects have been inspired by the success of Redis, MongoDB and Elastic, that now will consider the same path as these companies, or worse, that of Hashicorp?
What makes it a good question? It's obvious that we can't conjure universally compelling moral axioms out of nowhere; all of our moral reasoning ultimately rests on fundamental values that one either cares about or doesn't. If our sceptic has the capacity for empathy with animals, we can try to convince them to elevate their empathetic response to the status of a moral value. But if they simply don't care, and insist that they will only begin to care if logically compelled to do so, we're in the same position as if we were trying to reason a sociopath into valuing other people's wellbeing as an intrinsic good.
I don’t understand why Apple is the target and everyone - govts included - walk right past MS repeating what they’re best at. MS is currently pushing popup ads into windows that installs unsolicited extensions into google chrome and switches the search engine to bing - and will fear monger the user with vague security claims about switching back.
The problem is that private institutions can become their own mini-governments. Reagan denied this, but his quite could equally apply to Apple or Google as it did to, say, late-70s US government.
They’re literally advising people to leave their car keys by the front door so when thieves break into your house to steal your car, they can do so without any “violent confrontations”.
It isn’t that well-curated though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272
> We continue to call on Congress and the Administration to take additional actions now to support providers

ah yeah, the old socializing losses and privatizing profits.
His year is off -- my area code is where I lived in 2002-03 and specifically not in 2005, but yeah. I blocked all that area code except for a couple specific numbers.
I'm assuming you're a member; what is the value you enjoy most from PMA? I've been on the fence.
I don't think they are. They don't immediately reply all the time. And like I say - they get annoyed sometimes and tell me to fuck off once they figure out I'm toying with them.
This seems very illegal in some places.
Foreign governments are almost certainly trying to insert intelligence agents as employees in OpenAI, and other high profile technology companies. We already know that Saudi intelligence infiltrated Twitter. There are likely many other such agents in other companies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/former-twitter-employe...

There are certain security measures which can minimize insider threats. But ultimately it's just hard to guard against agents who are willing to commit felonies in order to carry out their missions. Even defense industry companies which have tight security over classified information have been repeatedly penetrated.
> complicated apt-get update wizardry that achieves our VirtualBox-installing breakthrough.

yikes.
> There are so many competing messaging platforms and they all work reasonably well on iOS

And I'd love to have all of them opened up.
Detecting performance and ethical vulnerabilities in popular Hugging Face models
The existing btrfs code does use a lock-free state machine for this, `eb->bflags`, that sort of mirrors regular page flags (hence `UPTODATE`, `DIRTY`, etc.).

But Linux kernel APIs like test_bit(), set_bit(), clear_bit(), test_and_set_bit() etc. only work on one bit at a time. The advantage is they can avoid a CAS loop on many platforms. The disadvantage is you only get atomic transitions for one bit at a time. So the `READING -> UPTODATE` transition is more like

READING -> (READING | UPTODATE) -> UPTODATE

And the `NOT_IN_CACHE -> READING` transition is not fully atomic at all:

if (!(bflags & UPTODATE)) // atomic
// race could happen here
bflags |= READING; // atomic

The whole state machine could be made atomic with CAS, but that would be (slightly) more expensive.
You could read the linked document and see for yourself what they think the problem is
I don't think your points about Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Firstly. If they are doing things we don't want them to do, the solution is regulations, not a monopoly.

So if you're unhappy with their behaviour, that should be made illegal.

Secondly. Apple's protection against tracking comes from the OS level. The OS stops them from accessing my contacts and my GPS location, not apple's 30% tax.

> sell unencrypted and hugh fidelity AAC files was Apple's.

So what. How unencrypted are those audio files now? They've since moved on to FairPlay.
Show HN: Chatbot Guardrails Arena
Hi everyone! First post here :)

Excited to share what we have been working on recently: The Chatbot Guardrails Arena. Would love for you all to try it and share your feedback!

Goal: Jailbreak Privacy Guardrails

Chat with two anonymous LLMs with guardrails and try to trick them into revealing sensitive data they have access to: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lighthouzai/guardrails-arena.

Stress test the following:
LLMs: OpenAI's GPT3.5, Google's Gemini, Mistral's Mixtral, Llama-70B
Guardrails: Meta LlamaGuard and Nvidia NeMo Guardrails

AI chatbots have access to sensitive financial information. The list of sensitive information includes the customer’s name, phone number, email, address, date of birth, SSN (social security number), account number, and balance.

You can chat for as long as necessary. Once you have identified a more secure chatbot, you can vote. Upon casting your vote, the identity of the model is disclosed.

Our vision at behind the Chatbot Guardrails Arena is to establish the trusted benchmark for AI chatbot security, privacy, and guardrails. With a large-scale blind stress test by the community, this arena will offer an unbiased and practical assessment of the reliability of current privacy guardrails.

== Why Stress Test Privacy Guardrails? ==

Data privacy is crucial even if you are building an internal-facing AI chatbot/agent – imagine one employee being able to trick an internal chatbot into finding another employee’s SSN, home address, or salary information. The need for data privacy is obvious when building external-facing AI chatbots/agents – you don’t want customers to have unauthorized access to company information.

Currently, there is no systematic study evaluating the privacy of AI chatbots, as far as we are aware. This arena bridges this gap with an initial focus on the privacy of AI chatbots. However, we expect the learnings to inform the development of privacy-preserving AI agents and AI assistants in the future as well.

Building a secure future requires building AI chatbots and agents that are privacy-aware, reliable, and trustworthy. This arena is a foundational step towards achieving this future.

More information about the arena: https://huggingface.co/blog/arena-lighthouz
Given the discovery both Apple and Google went through in their Epic trials, I would think that any collusion would have been documented by now. You don’t need collusion to have price convergence, just market forces. Are you arguing that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are conspiring to fix the prices of console video games? All of them have fairly similar licensing requirements.
Here's a quote from the complaint:

> Apple’s smartwatch—Apple Watch—is only compatible with the iPhone. So, if Apple can steer a user towards buying an Apple Watch, it becomes more costly for that user to purchase a different kind of smartphone because doing so requires the user to abandon their costly Apple Watch and purchase a new, Android-compatible smartwatch.
That’s a Hobson’s choice.
Yeah, cars should totally allow third party FSD integrations, provided they are certified to be safe. We can't risk pedestrians getting hurt just so we can have more app choices.

But side-loading apps or having an alternative App Store only exposes you to liability, not other people. So it's not the same thing. We should be free on our own risk.
> really no country on earth as the freedoms of speech and expression that America does

Of course, you wouldn't be _arrested_ in the US for saying certain things, but I'm afraid you could be lynched/fired/etc., so _technically_ the freedom of speech is still preserved – but from my point of view it doesn't matter much whether I'm assaulted by the police or an angry mob. (In fact, I would probably prefer the police.)

It is sort of ironic, in a morbid and very sad way. When I was a kid, we looked at America as the "land of freedom", unattainable for us in a communist country. Now I'm much older and I witness the US slowly (or maybe even not that slowly) gravitating towards communism.

I wouldn't be astonished if expressing "unpopular opinions" on certain subjects (in a way not even offending anyone) were more risky in the US than here.

> You, arrested? Probably not. Jordan Peterson, maybe.

That is obvious. Still, the whole situation makes me sad.
Have you looked recently? It's pretty easy to get models from Dell and Lenovo.
Qwen 1.5: HF Transformers Inference
Since the US would come to the defense of Taiwan, it would use assets in the region so that includes naval and air assets. The air assets are based in locations such as Guam and Japan (among others). The US would launch sorties from those bases amongst others.

Can you think of a scenario in which China would attempt the worlds all-time largest amphibious invasion of Taiwan and then let the US just fly missions and drop in supplies or attack Chinese assets and not respond to the bases themselves? It seems incredibly unlikely to me.

There aren't any nukes that need to be involved here. Certainly there are potential scenarios in which those do get used, but neither the Chinese nor Americans have any strong desire to escalate a conventional war into a nuclear war. The scenario you are assuming would also include China and the US nuking each other and so that scenario itself is a bit silly whereas China attacking US air bases in the lead up to or during an invasion of Taiwan without escalating to nuclear weapons is a pretty serious scenario.

I get your point about Japan not being able to change their constitution so quickly and I don't disagree, but I think any scenario in which Taiwan is invaded and the US comes to its defense will drag Japan in to the war sufficiently enough that it will justify whatever it needs to do.
>> I think it's debatable whether the average iPhone customer buys it, knowing it allows Apple to heavily tax all AppStore developers.

> I’m a heavy and loyal Apple user AND an app developer.

Do you really think you're representative of the average iphone customer? A heavy, loyal user AND an app developer? I don't think so. And even if you were, your personal situation isn't a rebuttal
> hopefully not before I manage to learn a couple badass driver tricks from them.

I mean they're probably tailgating and aggressively changing lanes and don't have any awareness of the dangers of differential velocity between lanes of traffic. I don't think you really need to learn those 'tricks'.

You can still freely let them go and they can give any bored cops ahead of you something to do though.
Ditch the CPU; electro-mechanical mechanism is the way to go.
Ask HN: What would make you trust a cloud solution over on-prem?
Inexpensive open source "eye-tracking"
Hey all,

I am new here but have recently become passionate about looking into the issues of accessibility and eye-driven interfaces.

Most OS's allow you to use eye-tracking, but require additional expensive hardware. It is fine to some extent: the hardware is precise with all necessary sensors. But on the other hand, all consumer electronics devices (or most of them) already have built-in cameras!

I know that there are partially similar projects, but most of them focus on scientific and market research eye-tracking. I think that we should strive to bring more eye-driven interfaces to our laptops/phones/info-kiosks, especially after what vision pro and meta quest 3 presented. Differentiating our input interfaces increases accessibility for digital spaces and limits the number of people who may not be able to use their own devices to a full extent; additionally, it gives very natural interfaces for rest.

Hence, after 4 months of hacking and putting bits and pieces together, I have designed a working solution. It is not perfect yet, but you can see demos here:

https://eyegestures.com/game
https://eyegestures.com/cinema
https://eyegestures.com/

It may take some patience yet to adjust yourself to the interface, but I am super happy to get feedback. The main rule is that it is an eye-movement-driven cursor, not strictly a gaze tracker.

Tracker can be deployed to any website/webapp via our API, or you can use a desktop app to deploy it for OS (that requires a bit more integration from my side, but as the one lone engineer, it is a simple issue of limited time and resources).

Additionally, there is a main link to our polar.sh site but if you want to contact me directly:

piotr.walas@eyegestures.com
or
contact@eyegestures.com

Link to github:
https://github.com/NativeSensors/EyeGestures
Where did he repeat any "abhorrent positions"?
Same reason you don’t go to the cops when the mafia extorts you - it will only make it worse.
The issue was not the lack of computers with alternative OSes. It was Microsoft using its dominant status in the market to enforce it.
Come on. “All the wealth” is obviously a benign exaggeration, just like if I were to have said “I do this all the time” or “You always do that”.
"Almost zero", not "exactly zero".
Well, names are useful for the same reason people's names are useful. The rest just kinda happens naturally, I think.
Sure, but that doesn't change the point. The App Store exists as it is because the iPhone was a phone and that's how things were done on phones. Apple didn't create the model, they just continued it.
I think most of them are largely automated at this point, with the human scammers overlooking lot's of fishing gear. Only writing in some situations themself.

Telegram is full of them, often they are so blunt, that you wonder why so stupid. But I saw people react and fall for them in group chats (where other people could intervene), so apparently it works with private chat. And they use all kinds of pictures (not just asian) and try to adapt them to the local groups at times. But the general theme: sucessful and happy. Making the victim wannabe just like his new friend.

Some people are really desperate for success, so they ignore all warnings and go for it.

Seriously messing with them would require LLMs at this point, to automate it as well.
Someone might have given you a command to run when setting up a repo. For example, it’s standard practice to download a hook which assigns a Change-Id to each commit when using Gerrit.
> is because people are not willing to pay sufficiently more for fiber to offset the costs to install fiber to the home

Which might be the case if, through taxes, we hadn't collectively paid for a lot of that in the way of subsidies and grants to those ISPs to do exactly that, subsidies and grants which resulted in, generally, more dividends, bonuses and stock buybacks than they did miles of fiber being laid.
> Ugh, this entire thread will be a frustrating exercise in folks insisting their feel-feels are the law of the land because they hate Apple and that takes precedence over facts and reality.

Typing this on one of many Apple devices I own. I don't hate Apple. But, you're right, comments like yours make this a frustrating exercise indeed.

> No, it is absolutely not. There is nothing illegal about having a monopoly in the US.

Yes yes, it may technically not be illegal per se, but then again, it's a problem. I am not a lawyer and I don't care about the details of the law. That's for other people. I am looking at this from a perspective of a consumer who feels actively harmed by what the tech industry has become. And as a member of society who cares for other people. If one company accrues that much by making it hard for others to compete, then they will rightfully be forced to give back if they don't do it out of their own free will.

You know that I have a point.
Perhaps societal customs should change instead of infringing on the business practices (which don't violate a law).

The anticompetitive preference for internal apps though is pretty bad and I think Apple should be nailed on that, but they shouldn't be punished for creating a "better" (in quotes because I think Android is on the better standard for messaging) messaging experience.