skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Al Jazeera.

But since the war began, the Western media have indulged in some seriously wishful thinking about the impact of sanctions on Russia. They've fallen into the trap of giving their readers and watchers "what they want to hear," rather than what's objectively true.

The same seems true of coverage of other politically charged topics. Hard to know what to believe. (That's why I browse non-Western media online.)
thanks brother, interesting how bloomberg thought about this 1 year before me, my idea was exactly to build something to sell to bloomberg :D
Meta is not just commoditizing their complement

AI can be a superior substitute for the low quality interactions on Facebook - one that never exploits your attention. And AI can be used to de-enshittify Facebook's contents.

AI as a direct substitute

AI can provide social support and feedback more constructively than people you meet in Facebook communities, and is not instrumented with anxiety inducing bloat.

I spend less time arguing in non productive debates on Facebook now, and more time talking with AI which helps me develop ideas and solve conflicts.

AI is more than just a stochastic parrot in this regard - it's increasingly a sound advocate. And it is hallucinating far less these days with the newest paid models.

When I want to talk to a random asshole who gives me grief, I talk to someone on Facebook.

If I want to talk about a topic and actually get somewhere beneficial to me, I'll talk to AI.

AI as De-Enshittware

There is another way that meta is not necessarily acting in their own best interests here. We can likely use llms to filter out the attention abusing bull crap from Facebook, adaptively overcoming countermeasures Facebook puts up.

The fact that LLMs can potentially de-enshittify Facebook's attention modification mechanisms makes it into an "indirect substitute" or "displacement good" for the enshittware version of Facebook.

Conclusion: Commoditizing AI might turn into a massive footgun for Meta

While open AI clearly hurts their immediate competition, it can also directly substitute the Facebook product. And it may indirectly make the Facebook less awful for users - and therefore less profitable for Meta.
Show HN: Pyzam, Shazam for DJs and Mixtapes in Python
I enjoy listening to mixtapes, so I use Shazam frequently. The problem with using existing CLI programmes is that I can't loop Shazam while it listens to my speaker or mixtape files.

While working on the project, I found two secrets about Shazam's API:
1. Shazam allows for a maximum audio length of 12 seconds per request.
2. You can send up to 20 requests per minute before hitting Error 429.
What you're describing is written Chinese though. It's entirely possible, that prepositions / postpositions were used in spoken language.
What about the third parties that Reddit has already sold the data to? Does GDPR require Reddit to chase them down and make them delete it as well?
It's easily detected and reversed. Or the new comment removed from the DB that's sold and the old one included
It's definitely not just you.

Reddit didn't reach this point because they're good, but because it's the least shitty option right now. (God I wish that wasn't the case.) I'm not saying there's no astroturfing going around there - - there absolutely is -- but it's still the only "mainstream" website where I'm confident I can find some dissenting opinions about a product that are written by actual human beings.
GitHub API Incident
This is the end of Web 2.0. There will be a blip on signal/noise ratio (which wasn't that great to begin with, 99.9% of UGC is trash anyway) as procedurally-generated content floods sites with even more nonsense – and then once they become unusable (reddit already is), the next crop will pop up.

I'm long on people with great taste, trendsetters and commentators, editors, and curators. They'll be the vanguard of this next iteration of the internet.
Sony did a rather short-lived modular camera phone.

It had a magnetic mount, where you could snap on external lenses.

I'm pretty sure they still have some variant of the concept, except that it's an external camera that uses your phone as a viewfinder.
The software looks good, with potential to be useful. It's a desktop app to manage local and remote WordPress sites.

For feedback, I think the wording in the Team page (linked from site footer) can be improved. Currently it links to an About Me page, with personal details about how the project took so long because it was neglected for some time, which erodes confidence; or about being made redundant, so he's now working on the product full time. Don't tell us negative things about the past, like neglecting the product or losing a job - it doesn't matter to the users. Tell us where it's at now, and the bright future where it's going. Re-word the page so that only positivity comes through, like: "Recently I've committed to working on the product full time, and it's growing fast every day!"
Been waiting for it being available in Sweden for what feels like ages now. Sigh.
I had a solar powered project setup with environment sensors in my shed. After a while the bugs moved into the elctronics, corrosion ensued and caused shorts which killed everything. The lesson I learned is to seal project boxes up really well. The whole boxing something up and getting power to it thing is the hardest and least enjoyable bit of hardware projects for me.
On PapersWithCode, different datasets have benchmarks: https://paperswithcode.com/datasets

You can also break down by task here: https://paperswithcode.com/sota

For churn, you might go to time series forecasting first:
https://paperswithcode.com/task/time-series-forecasting

They have this subtask which is a bit different because it's about novel products rather that continued sales, for example:

https://paperswithcode.com/task/new-product-sales-forecastin...

But you get the idea of how they organise by task.
I'm curious about other benchmarks and interfaces too and would like to see others.

I think HuggingFace and Kaggle have some overlap with different tasks that have benchmarks.
Floorp Browser Review
I don’t think I would use fedi for this because it would pop up in the timelines of everyone who follows me
Worth remembering. False positive are notably less dangerous than false negatives, but very relevant to the discussion.
There is existing hardware for this https://www.foxalien.com/en-de/products/foxalien-laser-rotar...
Science doesn't care about sharing. See nukes
You say some things that make sense to me, but then you use the phrase “waging war”…

> FDA, for example, which is currently waging war on ADHD patients via the artificial Adderall shortage

Why do you choose this loaded language? This does not build credibility in my eyes. War means something, and it not that.
Might be a good idea to consider generalizing, and recognizing that if you find them to be correct on a particular topic, that should update your opinion on the potential correctness of other related positions. What positions do you think it's most likely that in a few years you might consider correct?
They just went through IPO. Doesn’t get much more short term focused than that
Apple delivers ads (for e.g. Apple Music) in the Settings app of iPhone. Wouldn't be surprised if macOS ends up with similar things.
Thanks for the great video on international diversification.

I noticed he has another on the related topic of bias toward investing in one’s home
country.

https://youtu.be/qYedjI03Q0g?si=-wOqSA96cmScFInq
Might as well plug my adjacent tool: https://tools.arslexis.io/gisteditor/

It's a better interface for editing / creating GitHub gists.

Login with GitHub, get a list of gists, get a full blown CodeMirror-based editor. Preview for markdown files.

And it's open-source: https://github.com/kjk/tools.arslexis.io/tree/main/frontend/...

Built mostly with Svelte 4 and a tiny bit of Go backend.
Or they could just be like HN... Any post over X hours becomes uneditable.
Plex is the core component. It allows you to turn a personal collection of digital media into a Netflix-style streaming service available on any of your devices. The UI is very polished and many of the more modern features you'd expect are there as well (such as automatically queueing the next episode of a show). You can also invite friends and family to access your library. Plex provides all of the metadata about the media such as artwork and even subtitles so you don't have to manage that yourself.

The rest of the things mentioned in that post are for discovery/finding and downloading media automatically. Overseerr is for recommendations (? never used it), Radarr and Sonarr automatically get new movies and shows from public trackers and add them to your Plex server.

You can run Plex server on a variety of hardware depending on how many streams you need to support simultaneously.
0.3 fps...
"the United States is the world's largest consumer market for a reason: its rivers. Transporting goods by water is 12 times cheaper than by land (which is why civilizations have always flourished around rivers). And the United States, Zeihan calculates, has more navigable waterways — 17,600 miles' worth — than the rest of the world. By comparison, he notes, China and Germany each have about 2,000 miles. And all of the Arab world has 120 miles."

-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fareed-zakaria-ameri...
Network Chuck

Jeff Geerling

Ippsec

Linus Tech Tips

Louis Rossman kinda.

3d printing nerd

cnc kitchen

makers muse

zack freedman

tech ingredients

marques brownlee

adam savage tested

There's probably a bunch more, but honestly kind of watching more gun related stuff lately. Garand thumb, kentucky ballistics, etc.
Notes on Structured Programming (1970) [pdf]
They only need to delete personally identifying data. That means they could probably just remove the username from your post, but leave the post text there attributed to "anon".
I've had a framework for 3 years now and it just works.

Higher build quality than think pads and runs Linux perfectly.

This is coming from someone who had a franken 400/420t hybrid until 2019.
According to the internet, Jozin z Bazin is usually done at 112 bpm. It fits the range, that's the important part.
Slightly off topic, but since the HN site and API is open to all, it'd be silly to assume our comments aren't also part of several datasets used to train LLMs.
Note they have actually lifted the (illegal) ban on freight forwarding within the EU, if you’re willing to risk it. Only took, what, three years?..
Principle of reciprocity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(international_rel...
there is also real debrid -> don't even have to store any content locally just stream
It would potentially muddle the context, though.

If every conversation about any topic has responses copying unrelated New York Times articles, what are the chances LLMs trained on that data will hallucinate even worse than before?
yes, and if they cannot, they are violating the GDPR and have to pay fines.

This is why datasets are rarely sold as massive CSV's in the modern world - instead companies with data sell access to API's, with the expectation you'll query for what you need in real time.
This seems cool, but can a WP management tool really be powerful if it isn’t just embedding the actual WP admin page? Since it means you can’t configure plugins that add their own configuration and stuff…
> This is the third time Google has pushed back its original deadline set in January 2020.

What a joke!
IME the niche subs are still doing fine, it's the popular ones that are getting astroturfed and Eternal September'ed into oblivion. I do expect the LLM bots to eventually render the platform unusable, they would need to implement a very aggressive personhood verification policy to prevent that.
It's a shame the current robber barons are worse than the old ones.
We're explicitly given top-down OKRs, which we're required to align our own "bottom-up" OKRs to, and then we're not empowered to meet our own OKRs, because product management alone steers the ship.
a derivation of a bad derivation of a worse derivation.
When the API changes were introduced, I tried to overwrite and delete my comments with a similar browser addon.

I had to repeat the deletion for months afterwards every week, because Reddit restored some random comments of mine again and again, even though they supposedly can not be recovered after being deleted.

I'm fairly convinced that they keep the data even after you delete it. I tried to follow up with a GDPR request, which they answered dishonestly and incomplete, I escalated that to my local authorities and then it took a few months for that authority to get back to me, requesting more information. Sadly I'm not in the mood to throw more of my personal time on this, but hope that at some point Reddit faces some legal actions for their behaviour.
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If you're good at AI stuff, we're looking for AI freelancers too, so get in touch.
Sure, I made the repo public: https://github.com/gvbl/TextAPic

I don't believe the app works any more, something has changed and I haven't investigated. I hope it's still useful for you!
50/50 - I’ve been surprised about the number of Reddit threads that have been more useful than other results. Even if it’s been a discussion that doesn’t give me a solution but helps me shape what I’m trying the find.

Although it would be nice if unanswered posts didn’t rank so highly.
> Apps like Truecaller refuse to work without so many permissions.

Android apps have had bad habits for a very long time because Android didn’t have the granular runtime permissions system like iOS did (Android had only install time permissions that was either grant all or no install allowed). Even though Android brought granular runtime permissions from version 6 (?), apps have continued to badger users for every permission that allows them to collect more data. Android users have also been conditioned from the beginning to provide all permissions. So apps expect them to provide what they ask or refuse to work.

On iOS, Apple has stated in its policies for a long time that apps should continue to work even when permissions are denied (with obvious caveats, like for example camera not working if camera permission is not granted).

It’s a stark and disturbing contrast when comparing how Android apps refuse to work whereas the same app by the same developer on iOS would be a lot better behaved even when various permissions are denied.

BTW, Truecaller on iOS will work without getting permissions to access contacts. It will also work if it’s not given access to SMS.
I'm not sure that there's scientific research on the subject, as one of the problems with drugs being illegal, is that it also stymied research (which is why we have all the CBD snake oil, nowadays).

I know that weed seems to be a triggering catalyst for folks with latent schizophrenia. I know of folks that smoked one joint, and never came back, but these are rare incidents.
Why is this the case, anyway? Music streaming services and ebook stores generally do compete on price or convenience and mostly all have the same content, and they have similar licensing agreements to movies and tv, right?
What are the 'programming language research parts of the ecosystem'?

The only part of the Racket distribution I can see that is specifically 'programming language research' is Redex.

In the language itself there are the metaprogramming capabilities - but all modern languages have metaprogramming.

My experience of the community is it is generally people talking about real problems.

People do use Racket for PL and other research, so a number of PL research papers and conference talks do reference Racket, but it doesn't dominate any of the discussion.

e.g. https://racket.discourse.group/t/levin-tree-search-with-cont...
Check https://markprompt.com/ they are great!
a derivation of a bad derivation of a worse derivation. The Tommy Hilfinger effect.
Old hype meets new hype
I compared Framework and the ThinkPad. The ThinkPad came out ahead. But Framework also doesn't deliver to where I live.

Main issue with Framework is that 13'' is to small and 16'' is to big.
Ask HN: What would an ideal reservation algorithm look like?
What would it look like, algorithmically, for reservation systems to be more fair [1] for customers? There would be two goals:

1. Let normal users, who don't have bots, have a reasonable chance at a reservation.
2. Kill the secondary market for tickets, or at the very least, allow restaurants themselves to keep the revenue generated from people willing to pay more rather than a 3rd party.

One approach would be to add people to a queue and randomize who gets a reservation. They could be bucketed by when they reserved (say, to the 1 hour) and selected from there. That could help with bots.

But it's not clear to me how you'd work on the secondary market - would you require a photo id for each reservation? A specialized app that's tied to your identity (phone, google oauth?)

How would it work? And for restaurants who are already using other platforms (Resy, Tock, OpenTable, etc) what would it take for them to switch?

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/why-you-cant-get-a-restaurant-reservation
The reason why I pirate stuff even while paying for streaming services is because it's too often that I find something I want on Amazon Prime, only for it to then say "This video is unavailable".
No one will ever have resources to suveil everyone and everything, given the rate at which info is exploding. People dont talk about the info explosion problem, cause there is no solution.
Sort of unrelated but I love the GNOME extension Burn My Windows, it brings that burning windows feature to modern GNOME and it has so much customizability and so many different animations
I think in this analogy that's the people using LLMs, right?

I'm not proposing more regulation of AI but pointing out that a comparison to nuclear warheads is not so cut and dry.
I think the best way to sabotage LLMs trained on Reddit data would be to post something on topic, but straightup wrong, in some other way misleading or with subtle inaccuracies that would cause LLMs to produce bad results in ways that are hard to detect.

Use proven information warfare tactics.
I am not even talking about the software, because I think it is a matter of habit and expectations, but this horrible trend of refusing to have a proper dashboard and instead just slapping what looks like a bunch of tablets in front of you, and of course, the death of physical buttons. I absolutely abhor this.
I think it took longer for you to write that post than to just do the search.

https://www.zoho.com/crm/hipaa/

https://www.zoho.com/gdpr.html

https://www.zoho.com/know-your-datacenter.html

On the flip side I have known of Zoho for at least a decade, they are not a new player..I never realized they were an Indian company.
I regret having a mac all the time.

For me getting a new laptop is coupled with getting a new job, and I never want to spend the first month on the job debugging drivers. Self-inflicted FUD has been the only thing keeping me in the mac ecosystem.

I miss the crappy laptop with Xubuntu that I had in university. If framework keeps it up I'll eventually move back.
Brainbase (YC W24) Is Hiring for Founding Full-Stack Engineer
Ask HN: What tools are you using to evade the ever enshittified "big" web?
I've seen lots of posts on here recommending small web resources (marginalia etc). These are great, but I still have to use search engines. Am I stuck with Google and the meta-engines pretending to not be Bing? Is there any hope of genuine competition in this space or is the internet so incredibly large that only squillionares can occupy this space?

My real question is, is there hope or are we doomed?
I think people should be calling out Yann's role in this more. Mark might or might not have come up with this strategy on his own, but Yann was 100% pushing for Open Models and I'd like to think he has enough weight with Mark to make it happen.
Meta's A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can't Be Trusted
VASA-1: The Talking Face Generator by Microsoft
If your HVAC supports OpenTherm, check out https://github.com/Alexwijn/SAT

You can have your thermostat in home assistant and make your HVAC run as efficiently as possible at the same time.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40052824
Of course. Does anybody really believe any online company "deletes" their content? Even if some company does make a good faith effort to delete. They have backups, and probably shoddy backup practices where your data remains, gets brought back, is even just laying around in some 'backup_old' directory.
That's not a great metaphor since they become technically more effective since p2p performance improves as the network grows assuming a minimum seed/leech ratio
What's wrong with people? Reddit has great content. I often use Google to search it for info. Why ruin it? LLMs are also very useful and we all benefit from them.

Reddit is a company with expenses so they need to make money somehow. You didn't have to use it if you don't want your content in LLMs training data.
Ha! You could get a 300 km perpetual snake-train of motorized chassis following each other. And they could hit the 40 km/h traveling speeds of the current American freight trains, no problem (such a low bar..)

Could be done, I guess. The high-speed tracks in Europe are protected with fences, and have no level crossings, so the same could be done here to have a fully-automatic motorized wagon system. Without locomotive you would need a third-rail electricity pick-up system. Less safe, but the track is fenced off, so why not?
I think the whole "AGI safety" debate is a red herring that has taken attention away from the negative externalities of AI as it exists today. Namely, (even more) data collection from users and questions of IP rights around models and their outputs.
> It ran! [...] This is probably the first time in history that a graphic artist has painted a functionally workable computer program by accident.

I think this truly deserves a CS Ig Nobel Prize, if there were one, for making people laugh and then making people think.
This is coincidentally a ridiculously bad-faith argument, and I think that you know that.

The fact that one particular person is advocating for AI regulation does not mean that all calling for AI regulation are doing so due to having the same incentives.

This is exactly the point the parent poster is making. It feels like you only skimmed the comment before replying to it.
Vegetronix water level sensors sensors: https://www.vegetronix.com/Products/AquaPlumb/

They also have good soil moisture sensors that IIRC work via time domain reflectometry which is more accurate and lasts longer in the field.
Actually Germany's and Japan car industry are more innovative than American one's (and much more sucessfull on the international level)
yes, if they really wanted to be part of a socially responsible open/repairable hardware economy they might rather start building a buyers cooperative with fairphone and others...
In theory, Reddit won’t be keeping full edit histories of comments/posts. At some point, the edit history will stop recording and the original comment won’t be recoverable.

Or maybe Reddit is flush with cash and keeping all of the edits.

In any case, more edits means increased cloud bill.
Can see them here: https://youtu.be/52O3cYsyZMo?t=482
just like everyone else - sell it on the binance p2p market for USDT with very substantial mark-ups
The Olimux ESP32-POE / wESP32 boards have a proper ethernet connection and PoE support. Means you don't need to worry about wifi coverage or power as long as you can get an ethernet cable to it - and those are cheap & easy to find in ludicrous lengths for outdoor use.
I always add a filter to limit results within the last month or year, depending on the topic.
That sounds somewhat like Kagi, no?