skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can try some college radio e.g. some smaller colleges in WA, or U. Mich radio station. But for freeform, I think in the US at least WFMU is considered the best. https://wfmu.org/

Davide of MIMIC Radio is good for classical music, as it's pretty much the only one I know that usually plays a whole classical music piece, and not a single movement, etc. and it's high bitrate as well.
This whole subject of blocking Tiktok raises the question as to why companies such as Bytedance aren't punished as malicious actors when the data being captured by them is clearly meant for malicious use.

We really should have a way of judging if any data being captured by an app is in good faith or if it is being done in a clearly fraudulent or malicious manner and then punish or shutdown the malicious operators. Tiktok has been proven to be manipulative and also as an arm of the CCP.

However, what about other apps which seem to capture data that makes no sense to them?

For example, if your note taking app is secretly uploading data from your contact list - that should be clearly seen as malicious in comparison to say your e-commerce app storing details about your purchase history made on that app to determine what may be going on with you.

Even the second part is a bit shady but at least you can make a case that it may be just a way to sell more things.

But many apps capture data that cannot make any business sense to the company behind that app other than being something quite malicious - like for example:

- Uber secretly recording your screen on iphone EVEN WHILE the app was NOT EVEN BEING USED using API which Apple conveniently did not disclose to anyone else other than Uber and perhaps other shady operators!

- Chrome caught secretly sending audio transcripts back to the Google servers. Why would a browser need to send audio transcripts by secretly tapping into the microphone?

- Nest using microphones which were only revealed much later. Why would a smoke alarm need audio?

- Why do apps like Whatsapp - even in the web version, secretly take the data from the clipboard (copy buffer)? Why would an app need the data in the clipboard before it is even pasted into it?

Any company capturing or using such data should be required to provide evidence that this data was captured for a legitimate reason - and be punished if they are not able to provide this data with the principals of the company being treated like organized crime operators. Anything else is just pointless.
> Experts in detecting audio and video fakes told The Banner in March that there was overwhelming evidence the voice is AI-generated. They noted its flat tone, unusually clean background sounds and lack of consistent breathing sounds or pauses as hallmarks of AI. They also ran the audio through several different AI-detection techniques, which consistently concluded it was a fake, though they could not be 100% sure.

All of these problems will be resolved. In which case most people either won’t raise the question of authenticity or won’t trust audio recordings to begin with.

Elections at all levels are at risk along with accountability more generally.
Imagine if he was cleverer - was in an office, feigning a conversation with them, with kids who would be “witnesses”. Monitor the principal to the alibi isn’t solid or somehow supports it.

Wild times.
> The issue is that people are jumping to the conclusion that the present conditions are analogous to the “false” panics of the past, while discounting “real” panics that turned out to be justified.

Again, I'm not really sure this is fair, at least in my experience. I think when most people reference these past events, it's to point out that - despite panic about those events - we managed to solve the issues involved with them, and move on.
I'm surprised we don't see this as an issue in politics. Semi-seriously, any presidential candidate that pledged to stamp out robocalls would win a good chunk of goodwill from voters.
Drones are so cheap you can send a full constellation of drones waaaay cheaper than the cost of one sentry tower and it will defeat it. These systems have limited handling capacity. With enough drones you can get through anything.

The main problem is, there are more than enough drones. All I’m saying above is you probably just need 8 of them to get through Andurils system.

Also, the method to defeat such systems is not classified. It’s quite obvious and china can even easily overwhelm carrier defenses using this method.
Free will is absolutely largely about making choices. That’s not all of it, but denying that is silly, it’s goal post shifting from the ones who don’t believe in it.
> but know that East Europeans see clearly who is the reason for this bloodbath

Eastern European here.

The putin regime is the reason for this bloodbath.
Equivalence of Morphisms Under Substitution
Robert Miles has an interesting video about this premise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw
Some may even be just CSS. I'm still waiting for a way to toggle the CSS ones off for all websites, without breaking them.

These often even look sluggish, but maybe it is a relative thing and some see the prompt movement of UI elements as unpleasant and call the animations "smooth". Or maybe it really takes a very powerful GPU on the right hardware to fully experience animations without feeling annoyed? Or both?
Hello. Yes please.
When I sold stuff on Usenet i included my phone number: treated it like a classified ad. Some years before the auction etiquette evolved i guess.
If it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck, why is it not a duck? If you are using a DSP to process graphics, then at least in the context of your system it has become your graphics processor.

Plenty of GPUs don't have (or aren't used for their) display output. It's a GPU because of what it does: graphics processing. Not because of what connectivity it has.
Good times :D
They smartly aren't answering b/c of how hostile HN is to crypto.

Look how receptive these comments have been so far, that's a clear sign of HN's bias.
Why the flying fuck should sanctions infringe on someone's ability to play a game they already purchased?
Cookie Clicker just has so many little surprises which keeps it engaging. I don't generally like idle games but I love Cookie Clicker.
Precisely. Customers who want to avoid the extra tax will have to find a different service provider, leading to better distribution of the market. Mission accomplished.
At some point you don't even see the cards... All you see is blonde, brunette, redhead
I feel like the _release_ of cookie clicker might only be because it was a webpage before?

Edit: Never mind, that release was only a few years ago. Apparently memory gets wonky as you get older.
U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument on Former President Trump's Immunity Claim [video]
That is not analogous, at all.

We can be reasonably confident that we can teach a simple curriculum at home, and know there will be no disruptions or bad compromises. These are not complicated, they're comprised of things every adult ought to know. By contrast, we cannot be reasonably confident that we make medical diagnoses without training.
This is one of the first games I ever played on a PC. The PC was a Robotron XT that smelled like electrical components, had a huge fan and the sound of the HD (a humongous 20Mb at the time) was akin to bending a plastic film back and forth. I was fascinated. Oh, and the obligatory green monochrome screen and XTree was part of the experience. I was only a child then but those memories are still well imprinted into my mind. I think that was the moment when I got hooked.

And XTree, does anyone remember that wonderful file manager? I think it's still superior to what is being offered in windows in 2024.
So it begins. If any joe blow ex-athletic director can do it, think about how wide spread this could become.
Thanks for the push to learn this as well!

Curious how you best learned how to communicate complex ideas with empathetic language?
Have you checked out Farcaster? https://docs.farcaster.xyz/

FC built a sufficiently decentralized platform, which seems to align with Tribler. They already have apps to compete with twitter/reddit (warpcast), tiktok (drakula), and others. A video service would be a great fit in the ecosystem.
No one who has driven a Tesla with "Autopilot" for 5 minutes is under the delusion that it is a level 5 autonomous driving system.

It is amazing and useful, and assuredly makes me a better driver than I am without it.

I am begoggled at the scolds who think the "deceptive" branding contained _in a single word_ is sufficient to override the lived experience of driving with this fantastic (if flawed?) tool.
There's a tremendous amount of talent in contemporary music. Comparing musician against musician is silly.

Some of these have been around longer than others.

Jacob Collier, Vulfpeck, Cool Sounds, Sylvie, Bobbing, Abigail Lapell, Big Theif, Tank and the Bangas, Richard Houghten, Kurt Vile, Thundercat, Little Simz, Nora Brown, Barrie, Dominique Dumont, Lusine, Cory Wong, Billy Strings, DoomCannon, Cory Henry, Mark Lettieri, Nate Smith, Yussef Dayes, Yumi Zouma, limperatrice, Slow Pulp, Vetiver, Bibio, Altin Gun, King Gizzard, Julian Lage.

I could go on.. give me an artist you like or a genre and I could likely find you new music.
You're fortunate that you live in Berlin, what if you lived in a cultural wasteland?
Yeah. I want to know how well these joints will last in different scenarios and how the tradeoffs are.

I’ve seen YouTube videos where people test different wood joints to see how much load they can withstand, but I assume the results will be different if you account for things like changes in humidity over time, which causes the wood to expand and contract (which doesn’t happen isotropically).
I'm not too familiar with this, but macOS does have a "Now Playing" icon in the top menu bar whenever audio is playing. It works for all audio sources (Chrome, Spotify, etc). However, to my knowledge, Apple doesn't expose this API and the tool itself is not configurable.
FxEmojis: A friendly emoji set from Mozilla
I think the bigger point is that software you pay for, which requires a bannable login to use even the offline component, should not be allowed to exist.
I love this approach in Deno!
I did write some nice scripts using this!
Interesting. It's also cognate with "confection". https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=confetti

> 1815, "small pellets made of lime or soft plaster, used in Italy during carnival by the revelers for pelting one another in the streets," [...] the custom was adopted in England by early 19c. for weddings and other occasions, with symbolic tossing of little bits of paper (which are called confetti by 1846).
Learn Python Online from Scratch
Show HN: Pongo – 80% Fewer LLM Hallucinations with one LoC
We’re building Pongo, a new retrieval layer that can cut LLM hallucinations by as much as 80% in RAG pipelines. You can see the full benchmarks on our website, where we saw RAG errors/hallucinations fall from ~19% to ~3% after adding Pongo.

This has huge implications for AI applications, getting the right answer can be the difference between a user churning and adopting a product. For a 3 step agent, each step having a success rate of 80% compared to 97%, is the difference between a 51% and 92% success rate for the workflow as a whole.

Pongo sits at the end of existing retrieval pipeline, whether it’s a vector database or a lexical search engine. You send in your top 100-300 results along with the query, then it uses a mix of models and retrieval methods to score and order the results in as little as 0.5s. The API is just 1 line of code.

The accuracy difference comes from a two main factors

1. Surfacing relevant results that the initial search ranked outside of the top 10 results.
2. Moving the right results from ranks 5-15 to ranks 1-3, which significantly decreases strain on the LLM’s attention window.

This jump in performance stems from out multi-model approach since each method has non-overlapping failure cases. We utilize multi-vector models, cross-encoder models, and sparse vector results in our ranking algorithm. This is a pretty compute intensive process and took quite a bit of work to get this to run with as little latency as it does.

Would love to get some feedback, and see how it holds up in your projects.
Progress Quest is great. Learned about it on a MUD many, many years ago, ran it on and off for a few years as a kind of screensaver.

https://trimps.github.io/ is my favourite contemporary idle:ish game, it requires very little activity and has a neat story.
I played it through. It was OK... though once I figured out the basics it felt too easy. Each character had their hook, and telegraphed that hook via their dialog, so I just had to make some story related to that. And I suppose choose an appropriate character to take over, though I appreciated that while it seemed like some background characters were specifically intended for some targets it also wasn't required to use that character.

Anyway, I suppose it's fine for level 1 that it's fairly easy. But I think it's going to be a challenge to figure out how to make it harder it later levels. Maybe more extended social engineering? Though I'm not sure I have the patience to be a pretend conman.
Minecraft is an online game, so in today's world, he didn't purchase the game, just a license to play it online. No server access, no game.
I have my suspicions that "Delete and report junk" is about as effective as marking email as "junk" in the Apple mail client. That is, the Apple mail client will happily drop junk mail into your inbox no matter how many times you mark mail from foo@bar.com as junk. And yet I have to go dig in the Junk folder to find the shipping confirmation from orders@company_you've_heard_of.com
I tried setting up nix-darwin with home-manager, but it just made the system more confusing to operate. Ended up using home-manager standalone without flakes. Works like a charm.
A sad thing about the Github situation is that, until some months ago, it was perfectly fine for browsing directory tres and clicking to view files on the web, all that worked without javascript. Now it doesn't, except perhaps for the top-level and its README.

That's a shame, I used that a lot for quick browsing, checking and/or comparison of code in repositories hosted by Github.
Timothy Dozat on the probability underpinnings of biaffine attention
> seems very obvious that this layout is better

"Better" is relative, the layout introduces more fabrication steps so it's only better if you actually get some benefit from it. Decades ago designs didn't require as much power or have as many transistors to wire so it wasn't an issue.
One would hope all hiccups are worked out by the time the systems go into production.
There's a Java script object behind each DOM node basically, that has extra stuff in it.
Yep! The current release actually still uses AppleScript. The next release will use Scripting Bridge to hook into the app's playback state change events. Much more efficient.
The same is also true of Python, and once used to be the majority option, which was around the time that the "Python packaging is terrible" impression was starting. Since like 2015, pypi has banned it in hosted packages, but you can do it for private packages all you want.
Sanctions sometimes ban providing services to people in countries.
Apparently Minecraft requires you to login (a service) to use the game. If the game was completely offline this wouldn't be a problem.
Wow, that’s cool! Can you share a bit more details about your day to day usage of Palm? Are you using any third-party apps? If yes, where did you get them? Do you sync your palm with your PC?
I knew someone that made a PowerPoint presentation for their partner for Valentine's Day. So you're doing great in comparison
I don't get it. Who gets to say which 10 % ain't crap?
Love the site design. Thanks for sharing.
> They don’t have the culture and values suitable for running an egalitarian western democracy.

I'd be curious to hear what you think is missing from the culture of Indians/Bangladeshis/Pakistanis that would preclude them from becoming part of an "egalitarian western democracy"?
STIR/SHAKEN doesn't prevent spoofing. It can verify in certain cases when a call is not spoofed but it's fairly limited and almost entirely mobile-to-mobile phone calls. It requires IP based network connectivity end-to-end, which just isn't possible in the US. If a call gets routed through a rural network and switches back to TDM, it will drop all STIR/SHAKEN data. It will still take years for US infrastructure to be entirely IP-based. Robocallers sign their calls with STIR/SHAKEN just fine, the originators do this for them, so it's not going to be a strong deterrent in my opinion.

Devices support attestation level A display (green or grey check marks in your call logs designate this). If you haven't seen that check mark, then you probably haven't seen many A-level attested calls to your device. As far as device manufacturers go, they only care about A-level attestation, which makes sense as it has full traceback capability.
The opening line strikes a nerve... gadgets really are no longer fun. Everything has been virtualized and abstracted away into a sleek, inoffensive, but boring rectangle we are forced to carry around everywhere.
Methods as in callbacks? So, code? Do you then store a closure or such? Or a pointer to one (i.e. the function/name)?
And how or what data would modify behaviour?

As said: I'm unfamiliar with these concepts as I actively try to avoid them :)
Just use IRC with ii (irc it), that would work from anywhere to anywhere.
> what is up with people who believe JS should not exist on the web

They said it: privacy
I've checked Weeb Union. I have been checking for years now.

He's a vatnik, of the same ilk as [thankfully deceased] Gonzalo Lira, convicted sex offender Scott Ritter, or the disgraced Douglas Macgregor.

Why are you promoting a kremlin propagandist on this website?
Challenge accepted. I clicked until the confetti froze up. I was impressed while I couldn't trigger new confetti of any kind, the page still scrolled, and the tab could be closed without killing my browser. It was fun.
so the wafer is a huge ground plane? still can't see how one side is separate from the other if its the same block.
I was hoping this would be an open-source video upscale until I saw it was from Adobe.
Yes! I got tired of interrupting my work "flow" to find out about a cool new song. Now I can focus just a bit more.
That's money you're spending anyways over a 20 year period. Approximately 0% of daily driven cars are > 20 years old.
Torrent tracker websites that provide us with magnet links may be taken down. If there is a search function which can run locally on the computer, there is no vulnerable node in the decentralized network which could be targeted.
Gotcha. That makes your above point somewhat confusing, since it makes it a moot point whether people want to live like the Amish or not.
Very cool. I'll take some time to check it out!
The game tree is both broader and deeper in Slay, so much harder to do tree search. Also very irregular; in chess you have very few situational decisions (eg en passant, castling) whereas many decisions in Slay are one-off (events) that are quite hard to weigh the EV. Finally you don’t have perfect information in Slay, which makes things WAY harder.

You’d probably want to look at Go AI instead of Chess, but better would be the Dota / StarCraft AIs. Very different architecture.
You’re not responding to my question. You’re listing reasons the elimination of the job valuable, which partially undermines your original comment (because some of these reasons do not apply to drone pilots) but does not answer why you think other people consider the eliminated job to be the key benefit.

Like is any of this mentioned in the article or this comment section? Or are you just complaining about bad arguments you heard elsewhere?
The nomenclature for microchip manufacturing left reality a couple generations ago. Intel’s 14A process is not a true 14A half-pitch. It’s kind of like how they started naming CPUs off “performance equivalents” instead of using raw clock speed. And this isn’t just Intel. TSMC, Samsung, everyone is doing half-pitch equivalent naming now a days.

This is the industry roadmap from 2022: https://irds.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/2022/2022IRDS_Litho.p...
If you look at page 6 there is a nice table that kind of explains it.

Certain feature sizes have hit a point of diminishing returns, so they are finding new ways to increase performance. Each generation is better than the last but we have moved beyond simple shrinkage.

Comparing Intel’s 14A label to TSMCs 16A is meaningless without performance benchmarks. They are both just marketing terms. Like the Intel/AMD CPU wars. You can’t say one is better because the label says it’s faster. There’s so much other stuff to consider.
Intel is not the inventor of backside power, they are the first planning to commercialize it. It's similar to finfets and GAA where Intel or Samsung may be first to commercialize an implementation of those technologies, but the actual conceptual origin and first demonstrations are at universities or research consortiums like IMEC. Example Imec demonstrating backside power in 2019 https://spectrum.ieee.org/buried-power-lines-make-memory-fas... far before powerVia was announced.
Anyone in the US with a CS degree, or anything technical where they took enough math, would easily be able to get a teaching license in most states. I have a CS degree and was able to get qualified to teach while getting paid as a full time teacher. That was in 2006, and they're even more desperate for teachers today.

That was Colorado. Anyone with a degree can get certified in New Hampshire and then you can easily transfer to other states.
Ha -- I think in that case capitalization makes sense -- especially when the words are paired -- as this at least does some work to make the group identifiably separate from those who do not at all identify with them.
The defense industry isn't just "defense" against bad people. Is it better to optimize the colors of buttons, or work on projects that could potentially kill innocent civilians?
Cheers for this, I'm the author - AMA! :) A big motivation in writing the book was to feature the voices of the people we often don't hear from in the Tor community (which is why there's a whole chapter on the people who run the relays).
Here's an example of someone citing a disagreement between CRT and shell32:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44650

This in addition to the Rust CVE mentioned elsewhere in the thread which was rooted in this issue:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html

Here are some quick programs to test contrasting approaches. I don't have examples of inputs where they parse differently on hand right now, but I know they exist. This was also a problem that was frequently discussed internally when I worked at MSFT.

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
for (int i=0; i<argc; ++i)
puts(argv[i]);
return 0;
}

#pragma comment(lib, "shell32.lib")
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
PCWSTR cmdLine = GetCommandLineW();
if (cmdLine)
{
int argc = 0;
PWSTR *argv = CommandLineToArgvW(cmdLine, &argc);
if (argv)
{
for (int i=0; i<argc; ++i)
printf("%ls\n", argv[i]);
LocalFree(argv);
return 0;
}
}
return 1;
}
Sorry but Reels is crap. Its just stolen TikTok videos mixed with some other nonsense.
There are lots of valid use cases for speech synthesis and text-to-speech technology, and there are like 1 or 2 valid/legal use cases for voice cloning that I can think of. Ignoring the moral and ethical questions, why would anybody devote time and resources building a company around a very niche solution... one in which your customer churn rate is partially dependent on users not ending up in prison.

edit: typo