skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there anyone else out here who was so turned off by the Twitter developer API saga that they refuse to touch any twix-adjacent API? I’m in that camp.

I can’t see why I would want ever want to build on Grok especially when it’s not the best model nor is it fully uncensored, all with the special sauce of Elon rugging your access based on how he feels or troving through your conversation/api history in an act of petty vengeance.

Deploying it in production seems like nothing but a desire for pain.
Sorry but that's ridiculous. The terms are synonyms, and usage varies by platform. Neither one gives you more privacy.
In my experience a person is a better judge of knowing when to bail out and transfer.

I had to get on the phone with Walgreens the other day and got stuck in a phone tree loop of “sorry, I didn’t get that” with no option to bail out and talk to a real person.
> Boeing etc are all so knowing and powerful

It sounds like you have some unrealistic overestimate of your safety against a determined criminal. This just an older gentleman, far away from home, alone, with no security.

One method is to hire a junky, or a homeless person, or some other desperate person to commit a crime. Affordable to the middle class! And even if they are caught, they would not know your identity.

Kadyrov regularly assassinates his critics in EU for example, and that's not even his 'territory' so to speak, https://warsawinstitute.org/kadyrovs-hitmen/
HODL! What were they expecting, another "meme" stock? Or a price based on reality?
It's nice to see "reality" winning for a change.
That's what SAAS is for. Cheaper and easier than building NFTs on a blockchain and integrating them into your game.
I have no obligation of doing research for you.
The ‘fifth grade level’ they use is a much higher bar than you likely assume.

They include being able to write fairly well as part of the standard not just read and understand material. Quantitative literacy includes things like figuring out the correct tip split on a bill, something many successful people absolutely fail at.

Calling those illiteracy is IMO abusing a term well outside the ordinary definition.
Air Canada just got held liable to honor a refund policy its chatbot made up. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-...

So from a legal perspective it is at least interesting.
Obviously, selling 6 planes is not the end goal. But you have to sell 6 before you sell 600. Pre-selling an aircraft or two to a few shipping companies would pose a low risk investment to those companies, but provide a great lift for a struggling new hopeful. Look at how that worked for Rivian.

Your example of engines is an excellent point. Repeat that story 100 times to begin to understand the enormous difficulty. Which is to say, it won't be easy. I hope I didn't communicate that I thought it would be easy.

The story of Bombardier is maddening because it demonstrates that if you achieve unbelievably great things technically, you can still be assassinated by a million other attacks. The non-technical parts are what really seem to make this all a non-starter. But victory belongs to the bold.

And wouldn't it be a worthwhile ride to spend the next 20 years building incredibly cool stuff that eventually fails for whatever reason? Sign me up.
For a third party acting in this space who could provide a server for the non-tech savvy, what do you think the ideal setup is, infrastructure and architecture wise?
Hey mate, everyone decided to dunk on you instead of actually being helpful. HN is full of nerds that look down on people like you. Don't take it to heart.

AI isn't magic: it just does things people do, really fast, and at enormous scale. Any "AI SaaS" is really just a productized version of something you can do with your hands—just done 1M times faster by AI.

Find a thing that's being down slowly today. Learn the ins and outs of that workflow. And then plug AI in.

If you're open to it, I'd love to chat. Email me at james@nonerds.com

Best of luck!
Or 20 billion in stock buy-backs, juicing the price.
Because of the expected revenue and growth that comes with it.
Sure, that's what they tell you in MBA school... but the real world of starting up new businesses is not so simple. Let's take YC for example:

https://paulgraham.com/ycstart.html

YC is a success, PG/JL's relationship survived, and nobody got indicted. They're role models. If YC failed or PG got divorced, people might view it differently.

I guess what I'm saying is... I wouldn't read too much into SBF's sex life, and I wouldn't berate Lewis for not prying, especially with uncooperative subjects.
Nothing in particular. Just nice to have structured data that I can start mashing together to show in a presentable format. Spreadsheets don't handle images and you can't run a report.
English is my first language, but you obviously speak it much worse than most ESL people I know. I even used to live close to Baltimore, so I know the area. You said "no longer linked", not "no longer directly linked". There's a world of difference, and now you're trying to paint your comment as something it was not.
I wonder if there’s a timing connection here with FB Messenger “upgraded the security of this chat” messages I’ve had on a couple of long-running conversations recently
I'm not blaming the victims, I'm blaming everyone involved, at any level. You consider them victims, I consider them to have discovered the "find out" half after "fuck about".

If I run about in the road and someone runs me down, I may be the victim of driver, but also my own stupidity.

Suffering the consequences of one's own decisions doesn't automatically infer victim hood by someone else entirely.

They ran about in the road.
Having re-watched that movie recently, he's not wrong -- that's a deeply odd book for an apparent 8 year old girl to be holding. And with the amount of aliens that look like humans across the movies...
Anyone expecting capitalism to not capitalism is going to have a bad time.
Sort of like this, only aluminum?

https://evil.fandom.com/wiki/Spider_Tank_(Wild_Wild_West)
Seriously though. What makes reddit worth that much? Is it strictly advertising?
In the last year or so I have seen so many travel ads and promotions to visit Saudi Arabia. I don't think I'd ever go there but I'm pretty sure I know a lot of the stuff I would visit.
Just a normal program then? No edge cases needed
They probably don't know they need them. A lot of stuff is just copy-pasted from old reference designs that used micro usb and then they slapped a USB-C connector on for marketing purposes.
> streets of San Francisco smell a LOOOT better

What happened to all the public toilets in US/UK? I remember there being many more, am I hallucinating this?

Many 2nd world countries still have them, for good reason!
> Collision is part of antitrust

Would make for some fascinating lawsuits, but I suspect you meant collusion
There is a lot of confidential information in Facebook private messages, probably people cheating, plans to leave one's job, political organizing, brides, illegal activities, etc. If Netflix gets access to this information, it is likely that other companies and 3rd parties got access either directly or indirectly.

Very scary what can be done with that information.
Agreed. Any in particular come to mind that you'd like to see improved?

(my company provides first-party clients with a lot of polish; maybe we could help)
OMG, that's such an obvious word play that has such dire ramifications. FARK!!! I have to hand it to theZuck, this totally changes how I look at the name change
I posted a link to some fandom before I saw your posts.
Agreed. My suggestion is for Bun to do that since they are already transforming typescript to JS.

But you can do it —- there a babel plugin in the TC39 proposal:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-operator-overloading
An exec can interpret different meaning rather than a technical person. I assume that as full access to read the messages
Ah yes, an alarm to remind themselves later when they're in a position to take a action
> I don't have any insight into how they use the data, but why would they offer free things (restaurants offer appetizers, grocery stores offer discounts, etc) unless the value they received was more than the cost of the incentive?

Ignoring selling the data to brokers, it's not hard to think of some ways to use the data that's beneficial to both you and them:

- Inventory management: You buy something low demand, but you do it consistently. If they can match up all the purchases of that item to specific folks, and they know the general frequency at which people buy that item, they can ensure it's stocked when you need it, without the need to greatly overstock it. If you stop coming, they also know they may be able to reduce that stock safely.

- Price sensitivity: They do a price increase. Which customers have stopped purchasing the product? Do they need to do a sale on the item for you to purchase it again? Do they need to drop the price? This is more of a benefit on their side than yours, but knowing the most frequent purchasers stopped purchasing it due to an increase could lead to a decrease, where this is harder to determine without good data.

- How effective are their sales? Are they targeting them correctly?

The discount they offer isn't really a discount. It's a price hike for folks without the loyalty program.
> So, while I agree that a solar farm needs virtually no safeguarding compared to a nuclear power plant, I don't think it would have any discernible effect in the overall state surveillance apparatus.

This is the argument I suggested you make in my first reply. I don’t agree with it, but I think it’s the best argument for your position: that the effect might exist, but is negligible.

To me the consolidation of power isn’t in surveillance it’s in force of mandate. If the government says “we must do this or the lights go off” that’s one consolidation of power. If they say “we must do this or else something will kill you and render the area uninhabitable for generations to come” that’s a much stronger force. When I read this paper that’s the relative difference that I’m feeling when they talk about authoritarian leanings.

I assume all organizations want more power (both government and corporate). To me, something that has an authoritarian-izing effect is one that provides an excuse for a consolidation of power. Whether it results in an authoritarian state is unknowable but the question “which of these fears would give the government more power” is (at least in the abstract and general sense) clear enough to be accurately debated. The authoritarian/democratic angle would be to clarify whether the mandate comes from the people (democratic), or from some immutable source, or both.

> and the outcome could be more democracy rather than less.

I could see how you could want that to be true. But I’m just guessing on how it could actually be true. How could we test this hypothetical?
Missing 2021 tag
User data would be my guess.
Here's the collective knowledge as of 2023, which is probably still current: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484594
I agree with the sentiment here, but I'm not sure how that could ever really be implemented.

Our laws shouldn't punish people for honestly doing the best they know how to, especially with a caveat that it doesn't matter if it was industry standard. Not only is that confusing and at serious risk of punishing all the wrong people, it creates incentives to help hack your competition and throw them to the legal wolves.
> Facebook promised E2E at the end of 2023.

Wait, seriously? Like 4-6 months ago? Like, yesterday in terms of how long they haven't had it? Sheesh, a day doesn't go by that I'm not reminded of how happy I am to have dropped FB so long ago.
Don’t see this yet in the comments so: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
I don't agree. From my exp really big problem, when you can't easy see borders between parts of project, and this is case with React and many other fullstack envs.

From other view, yes, it is not good, when for example on front you use strict typed lang and on back dynamic, so need to constantly do conversions.

So need some reasonable combination. Traditional Java+JS is looking reasonable. JS (front) +Python (back) is also reasonable. C backend from my view is weird, so should be some intermediate lang, for example Lua.
A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming
If I give Apple Mail my credentials for my GMail account, I would expect Apple Mail to be able to access my email in my GMail account. Switching the word "email" to "DM" doesn't feel like a meaningful difference: if I'm using a third-party client to access and send messages, of course the third-party has access to my messages. Would I expect Tweetbot to be unable to access any tweets other than the ones sent from Tweetbot? That's... not a very useful third-party client. These were third-party Messenger clients; they had access to your Messenger DMs if you opted into using them.
The US doesn't have a Field Marshal grade, but before 1947, it could have been created by the president. I believe it requires an act of congress now. But there's little will to do it because of its association with aristocratic traditions in Europe. Which is why when FDR suggested it, it was interpreted as a joke.
> The worst that happens is nothing happens.

The worst thing that happens is the woman or the child suffers complications that result in short term or even life long sacrifices.

Not that it might be 51% or even 11% likely, but the odds certainly go up for a woman, and will likely influence her decision.
Unfortunately, just this week someone fine-tuned the Mistral-7B LLM to play DOOM :P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813174
following on with the off topic .. to further kick on .. we have this https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/us-army-un... ... seriously, one needs to travel 180% off the planet to save what?.. which the same stuff right at door step. Something seriously rotten here. Here is the take from this article, that it has all the tail-tell sign of "Climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023: WMO (wmo.int)" website. Can you smell it?
This sounds like the thing a strong SWE union would prevent. Shame we're all ninja rockstar 1000000000x devbros.
The web was rampant with these patterns in the early 2010s when OAuth didn't exist, and HTTPS the exception rather than the rule.

The most egregious example was probably LinkedIn's GMail "integration," ostensibly used to invite your GMail contacts to LinkedIn. Back then, that sort of thing felt innocuous. But the implementation was even worse. Due to lack of OAuth and MFA, you literally entered your GMail password into LinkedIn. Then LinkedIn logged into your GMail account where they could do anything. Even if they limited it to scraping your contacts, they still got every email address you'd ever sent or received an email to or from, over the lifetime of the account.

In any other context this would be called phishing. And by the way, this pattern still exists. For example, apps that force you to log into a third party site in their embedded WebView can read the entire DOM (including your password). ..
The CEO and COO cashing out 500,000 shares each sounds like some kind of prisoners dilemma. What do you do with your shares if you’re an employee at this point? I’d dump half I guess and cross my fingers.
The problem isn't whether Facebook used private messages for ad targeting (the claim they denied), its whether Facebook used private messages at all.

Who cares if it was for ads, giving third party companies access should be a huge problem with or without ads.
For today's lucky 10,000:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._S._G._Boggs
Many people seem to be unaware of tensorflow.js, an official JS implementation of TF

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs

I'd love to see PyTorch in JS, but I think unless you get it running on the GPU it won't be able to do much.
Although they won't, the best would be to remove all shitcoin apps. Let them install a 3rd party repo instead.
TextAdept is a cross platform, minimal, fast, and extensible text editor that might be a good candidate.
Can you point out where in their contracts or privacy policy they have legally binding terms that irrevocably dismiss their right to give your messages to advertisers?

If they have no intention to sell, then they have nothing to fear by putting it in writing with a appropriate liquidated damages clause. Otherwise it is quite suspicious why they reserve the right to do that in the contracts that they wrote.
similarly, more assets are seized by the police through asset forfeiture compared to total dollars stolen through theft.

Scammers deal many times the damage economically than shady car sales man
https://archive.is/seaoF
i’d question the “…couldn’t be bothered to build…” i’d be more likely to believe they knew exactly what they were sharing and wanted it that way.
Having an economic model doesn't make it not a memecoin. LINK has an economic model and most would agree that there's no reason for it to exist other than to dump on retail. The burn is there in large part to enshrine ETH so that investors can dump on retail, otherwise fees could be paid in other ways. It provides no liquidation or dividend rights. The closest thing to that is rights to MEV, which the base fee controller actively prevents. Value is speculative and if it went to zero then the network would completely die unless it forked to disable the burn.
The “No one needs to steal to eat” mindset is a “deep, deep sickness”? My brother in Christ what kind of backwards world do you live in? Where on this planet is it acceptable to steal, especially in a mugging situation that implies physical confrontation and the threat of violence? I can’t tell if you’re trolling, you’re actually asserting that you live in a fairytale defending something like Robin Hood.

Wages have never been tethered to productivity, arbitrage has existed since before there was even a currency. Healthcare and housing has always been and always will be a privilege, your human rights only extend so far as they do not infringe upon someone else’s human rights. Doctors and construction workers cannot be compelled against their will to do work, neither can the collective taxpayer.
First let's address the framing of your question. You asked about emotional intelligence. Theories of multiple intelligences are not universally accepted or well replicated findings in psychometrics.

You should expect that generally intelligent people will also be good at dealing with people. The idea that smart people are often lopsided or lack "people skills" is not supported by psychometric data.

The next thing to understand is that most people do not want to engage with reality any more than they absolutely have to. Most people, most of the time, are choosing what they say in order to positively manipulate someone's emotional state and cultivate a stronger relationship. People care more about being happy than the truth.

The HN community is a bubble of radical truth seeking. This is objectively useful in most professional contexts. Part of the "culture fit" test at a high performing company will be a check for blunt honesty and truth seeking. No "yes men".

But it's not the way to win the social game that you will play in most interactions throughout your life, and you just have to accept that. You are not optimizing for giving someone an uncomfortable truth, you are optimizing for making them happy. Making them like the way they feel when you are around.
Why is playing a video game worse than a "3 martini lunch" or flying Tom Epstein Island?
Finance is bad boys top to bottom, of all ages.
sheer coincidence, not to google-slide.
Delphi is not limited by crappy web limitations so reactivity is a moot point as one can develop whatever one likes with it. Play with FL Studio DAW, that one is written in Delphi, and see if it satisfies your definition of a "feed of live production system information updating a display with lists if controls with buttons and actions that depend on that state".

https://www.image-line.com/

See it in action e.g. here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJUmUd4FfeM
Is metadata useful for ad targeting?

If the claim is that they use the content of messages that's be one thing, but what kind of ad value is really pulled out of timestamps and phone numbers of who you messaged?

That said, collection of metadata can still be a problem, I just don't see the ad value.
uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS (2021)
It's a protected security at this point, not an unregulated and unprotected. If someone stole shares of IBM I would be just as upset.

It seems like the government is interested in all the benefits of treating it as a security and none of the protections that people deserve
Agreed. I would like to read more details about the "access to the Titan API" that Facebook gave to Netflix. Has anyone read the lawsuit PDFs? Maybe more details are in there somewhere.
You're the one making the extravagant claims, not me. like

>Government contracts were also a big income source for Xerox, AT&T, IBM, and others.

Don't get offended if you get challenged on that. I don't think you actually know anything specific here.
Isn’t this exactly what Redict is? Plus a license change to prevent what happened to Redis from happening again.
Did you try yelling profane things at it?
My advice is to marry someone with much higher emotional intelligence than you have. This is what I did and I’ve learned a lot.
> “If the prospects are so bright, why are insiders selling?” Silverman added.

Concentration risk is a pretty simple explanation. If you had $50 million in cash you surely wouldn’t drop every last dime into a company that hasn’t posted a profit (both nominally or by any reasonable accounting measure) in nearly 20 years?

The game all along was to dump as much as possible, as fast as possible. I’m impressed they finally pulled it off.
Your blithe dismissal of migration seems likely to me to put severely to the test.

According to the US Republican Party, the USA is already suffering from an invasion that is out of control, when climate change has barely gotten started.

What the US can and will do if and when it faces 100M people trying to get north is an open question. The US military will not be able to use ground force to keep out that sort of mass migration. Will it drop bombs on migrating populations? Is that what you call "backbone" ?

Finally, it seems as if you think that having lots of money somehow exempts you from the same cognitive biases as everybody else, as if the behavior of the rich is an indicator of "the smart move". It never has been, and it never will be.
Putin Says European Air Bases Hosting F-16s Would Be 'Legitimate Target'
At this point, it's being a massive repository of (ostensibly) human perspectives that can be used to train LLMs and perform search. Google [1] appears to think so. For all its faults as a platform that relies on volunteer (read: unpaid) moderators, the website is structured in a way that makes it very useful for continually curating human knowledge of the world. It's unclear whether Reddit can deliver long-term value like this, though, especially depending on one's perspective about to what degree generative AI is a bubble.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080165/google-reddit-ai...
You might already be familiar, but a GPU.js backend can provide some speedups via good old WebGL -- no need for WebGPU just yet!

[0]: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/
Sure. Just hold a small short position.

As they say, you’ve gotta be careful. The market can stay crazy longer than you can stay solvent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Starkweather
AI Framework Ray Doesn't Include a Single Security Feature
Here's the source media is probably using: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18714274/klein-v-meta-p...

To be honest I found I got much better grasp on the whole debacle by just reading the court papers themselves.