skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would a comprehensive object construction platform with schema support and the ability to hookup to a compiler (ie turn object data to code for instance) be a useful tool in this domain?

ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPnD6I9w84c

I am the developer, happy to answer questions.
It sounds like the author was burned by a private company that uses keywords and patterns to identify misinformation, instead of some nefarious government plot to spread its agenda.

Occam's razor applied here, sounds like he's blowing a simple spat with an automated corporate robot out of proportion. Advice: present the facts without the conclusions. People are capable of drawing their own conclusions, and you don't attract the bots looking for conspiracy theories if you don't use their language.
> proxied under a sub folder

"Works for me!" without any /'s, eg.

--path-prefix dufs
The impression I got from the article is that some bands are experimenting with different distribution media because they’re not happy with the discoverability or pay from the big names like Spotify.

The bit about it being the “future” is mad hyperbole but, I dunno, I think it’s kinda interesting that people are experimenting with distribution methods that they control. One of the things that frustrates me about the modern web is that it’s become such a monoculture dominated by these giant vendors like Spotify and Meta. It’s pretty rad to see people say “no” to that.

I don’t know if it’s an experiment that will work beyond Cindy Lee (it reminds me of Radiohead’s “pay what you want” distribution of In Rainbows which didn’t really work for anyone else) but I’m glad they tried.

Also re Geocities: It triggers some rose-tinted nostalgia for some of us in a certain age range. E.g. for me I learned HTML as a teenager in the late 90s so I could put up my own sites on Geocities. It was a formative part of my career in tech. It was definitely a mess, though.
I've actually heard this from lawyers before - essentially that if you use a JS library that is GPL and that code gets sent to the user via the browser, that its now considered "distribution".
A believer? In what?

An economic system that, for all its flaws, has proven to be the most successful for the most people in all of human history? I guess so. But happy to hear about proven alternatives.

> I hope it sustains you over the long-term

Well, I'm about 50, started from very little, worked hard my whole life, and have managed to find a degree of success. Seems to have worked out so far. I hope it continues.

Certainly better than the alternative - blaming everyone else, the successful, and "the system" and not doing as much as I could to take responsibility and better myself.
This a great idea.

You could also add a collapse toggle ">" to the classname line that will open the focus view (instead of the keyboard toggle). I think the VSCode API supports it.
> The answer is less about age and more about lifestyle.
> Referring to people as “felons” is such a terrible and dehumanising practice.

I don't think there's anyone who could reasonably argue that reform isn't needed to American justice. However I think it's absolutely necessary, and not dehumanizing, to be able to identify someone as having incomplete incarceration status and the level of criminal conduct.

A felon is commonly used to refer to a person who has been convicted of a crime and particularly (but not only) whose sentence is not yet completed. Is that dehumanizing? Perhaps, but I don't currently think it is.

There are legal actions necessary when engaging with someone convicted of certain types of crimes. Certain crimes in the USA prohibit you from owning a gun even after your sentence is served. Sure, I think that is dehumanizing (sentence is served, so why are there additional restrictions?) but the legal requirement to be able to identify such persons doesn't make it dehumanizing on its own, it just makes it necessary.

What words would you use to describe such a person?
My point is a city of world class diversity doesn't have an obvious simple majority from a single category. My point is not "white people are there" or "London is extremely uniform".

Bringing this back around to the original topic, none in the photos from the article are from the simple majority category. N is small, so that's not necessarily astounding, but the n=50 photo set also follows a similar pattern.

I don't disagree with it, I think it's more than fine to highlight that the modern split is very different than the typical historical split , but it is there and London is perhaps more bland than the photos suggest.
> humans are notoriously bad at generating random numbers

Shannon was able to model humans (choosing "heads" or "tails") effectively with only a 3-bit history, which he encoded in relays, having done so around the middle of last century.

Note that recombination is a population's way of balancing exploitation and exploration.
Yeah, I think you're right. I replied to my other comment describing the effect on my perception of using squares. The blobs did retain an association with the original image, either because I'd just looked at it, or that the shapes were still ever-so-remotely still strawberryish. Since all I did was severely blur the image, the effects of the original lighting would still be very present.
Nice, highly recommended. When you use up the $5 of OPENAI_API_KEY credits, there's always Ollama which is free :)

Run open-source models locally on your computer like `ollama run mistral` and it will be serving over localhost. Your app can then use any LLM locally by HTTP request or you can use an npm wrapper (npm i ollama) and it's as simple as `ollama.chat()`.

Libraries like LangChain (LlamaIndex, etc.) also come with the Ollama wrapper in the library. You can just `import { Ollama } from "@langchain/community/llms/ollama"`

(not affiliated with any of these, just used them as a dev)

Make sure to share on Show HN what you build :D
Idk if you need that immutability actually. You could probably reconstruct enough to do this kind of viz from the autograd graph, or capture the graph and intermediates in the forward pass using hooks. My hunch is it should be doable.
Serverbased (Fediverse etc.) vs. Offline P2P
A thought on server based albeit decentralized (matrix, fediverse etc) versus offline first p2p based coms:
This friday i had a discussion with some local hackers on an unimportant subject.
However i wrote that i had started a telegram thread about the subject and got a lot of critic for using that instead of the matrix server they had setup. My argument was that since both were server based i didnt see the difference other than i didnt have established trust to neither their matrix server nor telegram so why should i choose one over the other.

It turned into a greasy mess where they were giving political arguments for choosing matrix with me insisting on working on true p2p offline first serverless (or server-optional) coms is the only route worth taking.
I have searched the web for similar discussions but cant find any.
My point is just that i dont see the reason for onboarding people to another server based (albeit federated) coms platform when the possibility of true p2p exists.
I see a lot of people (in denmark) highlighting ownership of internet based infrastructure as a mega plus (email servers, self hosting etc done by colaboratives) but they seem to be only semi technically savy to an extent or ignorant of p2p.
Its sad as i severely need aome local peers to bounce ideas on my esp32 based dialphone p2pmesh.

Anyway, just as i said, a thought and maybe you have one too
I really enjoyed the video "Composition Intuition" by Conor Hoekstra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj8jxYS-hi4
They wouldn't leave the poor guy in peace either after he died, with his coffin opened by glorified peeping Tom's.

https://flashbak.com/they-dug-up-lord-byrons-body-in-1938-an...
One user said it's a Netflix promo for a coming show [0] (46 points, 3 days ago, 11 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081126
You're using a circular definition there - "only a conscious animal can do consciousness stuff".

My "rebuke" wasn't intended as such - it was meant as a break-down of the mechanisms involved, and basically defining what this relevant aspect of "consciousness" (self-observation, in the way I described it) means.

Note that consciousness wouldn't actually be needed for an animal to override instincts - you could still imagine an animal that had a cortex but no self-awareness. I tend to doubt they exist, but not inconceivable. There's a medical condition called "blind sight" were patients report being blind, but can still navigate a cluttered corridor of obstacles, or gaze track moving objects, without being aware of it (i.e. they can see, but are not consciously aware of being able to see).
Did you try renaming it to “notnetcathonest.exe”?
Show HN: Python visualisation of the stepping stone algorithm
It's a cool little program in python/pygame that illustrates the stepping-stone-algorithm for cost minimisation to solve the Transport and Allocation Problem. I did it for a class to save time and so that I don't have to calculate everything by hand
The regional flavors of labor-on-demand
Wine can run apps that access hardware without issues.

The main problem is the catch-22: there's not much point in developing competitors to Microsoft's stack if businesses aren't going to ever consider them, and government departments won't consider alternatives if they can't get everything from a single vendor in a 100% risk free manner thanks to the "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft" and "one throat to choke" mentality you get there.

Governments do this to themselves. The USG doesn't even have to pick Microsoft. They could potentially sign contracts with Apple for workstation hardware and services, that would encourage and feed the alternative ecosystem based around Apple, or they could fund Linux, etc. They don't though. It's just soooo much easier to sign one giant contract, because that minimizes work for them and it's not really important to get value for money if you're in the public sector. Signing a great deal won't get you a big bonus or anything like that, but taking risks can get you blocked from promotions. So, why risk anything?
CLI to autogenerate Firestore model types for all platforms
> This is a great example of that political dogma: notice that you’ve accepted as an article of faith the trope that government employees can’t be fired or disciplined or that this is not true of contractors, despite neither of those being true

Nice strawman. It is harder to fire govt employees than to fire private employees. Disagree?

Just look up at-will employment law that doesn't apply to government entities. Looks like you're the one following political dogma and accepting articles of faith and tropes.

Otherwise why would ignore that a very consequential law is different for private vs govt employees?

> The managers you think can’t direct civil servants directly aren’t magically more capable of selecting and overseeing contracts, either.

Where did I say they cannot? Please stop with the strawmen. They just don't have enough incentive because it's very hard to fire them, unlike managers in the private sector.
> Anyway, the question was about expectations - and those came with a timeline.

The mention was of a "collapse" in the space, too-- which can't be true if we're still getting there.

I expect the timeframe of 2030 is when we get most of the way there. Even exponential growth takes time to reach a big world. Most of what Waymo has left to do is rollout.
>The NSA's job is to spy on [US] citizens

They're not supposed to (according to for example the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978).

If a US citizen needs to be spied on by the US government, the FBI is supposed to do that.
Right I’m saying you implement the specific round robin logic that you want in the app layer.

Obviously if they don’t want to work 10 Alice jobs in a row you wouldn’t write it that way.

If you want true round robin it's as simple as an ordered list, where you look at the last completed job type, and find the next job type in the list, grab it and go. It's also more explicit this way vs that fairly complex query that is just doing implicit round robin.
Microsoft don't have internal testing. They get the devs, who already know the code, to see if it makes sense. And woe betide you if you disagree with the PM!
iCloud has gotten much better for me over the years. It’s now my primary storage for documents. One of my major gripes was how long it would take to save in iOS from the browser for example and now it’s instant or at least as fast as Google Drive on iOS. No complaints for me right now.

I do have optimize storage turned off on my laptop so that all the cloud files are locally stored and can be backed up that way.
Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
That's something that always smelled funny about dumping thousands of people into downtown San Francisco. Sure, the services are bountiful and the people running the city are willing to go further (maybe only performatively, one could argue) than just about any city on Earth to accommodate the homeless over the needs of the locals.

But then, say you recover from addiction or a mental health crisis, what are you going to do in SF of all places? There are no jobs for you. Sane, hard-working, non-addicted locals can barely afford to live there. Teachers, firefighters, and nurses already have to drive an hour from out of town to get to their jobs. Is there a senior ML engineer role waiting for you once you stop screaming your heart out in the middle of Market St?

What is the plan, short of relapsing right away? There are no jobs for you, there is not enough affordable housing, you're surrounded by thousands of addicts in the Mecca of unpoliced 24/7 drug markets. That's one hell of a recipe.
State democracy and capitalism. Local electorates are primarily wealthier people with time on their hands, so they overwhelmingly prioritize fighting crime and promoting local commerce, which are efforts that homeless populations are seen as undermining. The result is that punishing homelessness gets politicians re-elected.
Do you really believe that the "government cloud" isn't just a duplicate of the public cloud?

What incentive do cloud providers have to add extra security to the government stuff, while not also adding that extra security to the public stuff?

"Oh, yeah, we have more security over in the thing you can't use, but you can trust us with your data anyway."
This may sound dismissive but at some level the homeless people need to figure out where they should go. A overarching truth off all attempts to give people aid is that you can't make people change when they don't want to. Therapy doesn't help people who aren't invested in it. Rehab doesn't help people who like using drugs. Anger management courses don't help people who find threats of violence give them what they want.

Our society gets to make laws and I think laws that prevent people from turning a public space into their permanent camp site aren't unreasonable. My problem is I want to use my library and I'm going to try to solve that problem. I don't know how to solve their problem - but I'm not going to accept that I need to solve it before I get my library back.

So far as I can tell a lot of the homeless are not dumb.
It's now eighty megabytes ;)
Littering is illegal, but nobody is going to conduct a DNA test to confirm whether the feces or needles next to this homeless guy's camp is really theirs. The presumption of innocence is overall a good thing, but this also means that the only legal means to enforce things like not disposing needles on the streets is by selectively enforcing homelessness on bad actors.
Even without extensions its always gonna be slower than a proper native app.
Isn't JAX the most widely used framework in the GenAI space? Most companies there use it -- Cohere, Anthropic, CharacterAI, xAI, Midjourney etc.
It's funny how a couple of days, the Teslarati weren't worried about this, and assumed the largest shareholder blocks were planning to rubber stamp this, "and after that, it only needs 10% support".

Not so much, now.
Drake releases diss track with AI Tupac, Snoop Dogg voices
Key question on children’s books: Who’s the illustrator?
You can say "poorly architected" all you want, but it's true. Military capability is frequently determined by software-implemented behaviours, not data you can plug into a generic public framework.

>19 year old developer with access would be a big security hole

It's true, they are. That's why militaries and defence companies go to great lengths to vet their staff and why even within vetted staff, sensitive material is compartmentalised to minimise the risk from any given individual. Even despite that, military secrets are still leaked on an all too regular basis.
Pretty much. You think they’re smart or with it. They’re just lucky fogies
I have a 7 year old daugther and instead of es-ar she speaks in es-yt (Spanish-YouTube) . It's a mix of es-es, es-mx, es-ar, es-whatever. But it's probably a common problem. The other day I heard in the street a small girl saying "medicina" insted of "remedio".

It's similar to the Peppa Pig effect, where children in USA speak in es-br insteas of es-us.
I'd rather not make conclusions of a technology impact based on a 44 minutes episode that was optimizing for maximum entertainment.

So there's nothing fundamentally wrong in taking inspiration from sci-fi.

Sure the presented perspective is negative but that is because the producer explored local maximums to the benefit of the audience. They are obliged to paint technology in a certain way to captivate viewers.

Does that mean that the presented reality is the only possible one? Certainly not, that would be reductive.

Many popular technologies today are used to scam a defraud people. Does that mean said technologies are fundamentally bad? Not at all.

I use technology as a force multiplier.
Amazing how technology has improved and matured in 50 years…
SAFe 6.0: Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises
I don't see anything good coming from depriving teens of their freedom of speech as a scapegoat for mental health problems that are caused by other factors in the first place.

The problem is with a society where we deprive minors of their freedom and independence because we refuse to pay for basic public safety and basic public transportation. Instead, we make helicopter parenting into the norm and then blame the one domain (the internet) where they are capable of experiencing some freedom for the problems caused by a lack of freedom. If we actually want to fix the youth mental health problem, we need to ensure that kids can safely go outside and play or go places without parents having to follow them 24/7 like they could in past generations.
We've banned this account for posting tons of unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments and ignoring our requests to stop. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40056291 (4 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39021400 (Jan 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512571 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My thesis is that part of the issue is the ruinous empathy that is given to people who ultimately have no plans of getting better, or those who can't take care of themselves and need society to step in with a loving but firm hand. It's the constant giving without expecting anything in return, only exacerbating the free-rider problem that many will take advantage of, in the name of empathy.
And what if the "unavailable options" are unavailable, because of the unavailability of ahem medication options. In other words, if a shelter is availabe, but they get kicked out for drug use?

Same with agression, animals, unacceptable collections (either hoarding, or something like a collection of knives), ...?

Are we going to "outlaw" homeless people with a dog?
Pitchfork was already past its prime in recent years, but seeing it gutted by Conde Naste is a bummer.

Have you found a good alternative?
Was gonna ask "What's that MindSpore thing that seems to be taking the research world by storm?" but I Googled and it's apparently Huawei's open-source AI framework. 1% to 7% market share in 2 years is nothing to sneeze at - that's growth rates similar to Chrome or Facebook in their heyday.

It's telling that Huawei-backed MindSpore can go from 1% to 7% in 2 years, while Google-backed Jax is stuck at 2-3%. Contrary to popular narrative in the Western world, Chinese dominance is alive and well.
The point you're missing entirely is that risk is an independent variable which is not related to any factor under control of the participants.
I have long thought that there should be a network protocol that would achieve that in practice, but which would let emergency calls through.
Transponders that could be deployed in settings such as schools, hospitals and movie theatres to tell devices to enter a limited mode. Support for the protocol would be compulsory.

But I would think that the telecom industry does not want that.
It really is too bad vs code is the only available option. If only there were more editors for people to choose!
Responsible disclosure generally means you tell the maintainers first before doing your splashy talk. Which appears to be what happened here since there is a cve, and we know mostly what was fixed. The talk would probably just go into nitty gritty details about how it was found and how its exploitable, stuff a skilled researcher would already be able to figure out based on what has already been publicly released.
When any given infrastructure is a federation of multiple state, federal, and private parties; it’s not trivial.

Perhaps private industry and state governments should be more open to secure standards and rights to repair (looking at my ISP enforced routers).
Make a deal: no sheep unless your wife learns how to count them properly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera
Then we're in accord, thanks for clarifying.
> imagine we create some sort of virtual device that one plugs in and it just basically gives you endless pleasure.

There is a term for this concept: wireheading[0][1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)
[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/wireheading
Haidt is a brilliant thinker who I believe has accurately diagnosed the cause of the symptoms.

The problem with Haidt isn't with his diagnosis, but his recommended course of treatment. Haidt is a member of the camp that believes age-gating is the solution - the kind that involves users being compelled to perform facial scans or upload government-issued photo ID, which are both HUGE invasions of privacy.
I really don’t understand how your point relates to my original comment.

Also I’m old, so have far more experience with early Microsoft than most people. Some of the software I’ve written is probably older than a lot of people who chat on here.

Edit: you’ve added a whole bunch more to your post. It’s now sounding like you took issue that I said Gates was a a great businessman without acknowledging that there are other great business people. Weird thing correct someone on given the mere existence of other companies proves that there have been other great business people. But yeah, Gates isn’t the only one. However we were talking about Microsoft’s success not Facebook/Meta nor any other company.
I’ll give you AD, but overall far fewer companies would bother with any of it if 90% of corporate thinking didn’t happen in Excel
Two Indonesians under investigation for theft of Korean fighter aircraft tech
I’ve worked on this exact problem when extracting feeds from news websites. Yes calling LLM each time is costly so I use LLM for the first time to extract robust css selectors and the following times just relying on those instead of incurring further LLM cost.