skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I don’t sit there for hours watching videos on YouTube (I have a busy career and a family so that’s not an option these days).

I do consume a lot of YouTube content as audio-only when driving or exercising.

I find video particularly satisfying for this topic and these figures, because much of the most valuable insight emerges through discussion and debate.

I’ve read Kastrup’s book “Why Materialism is Baloney” and found it very satisfying - but I was already amenable to his position; I don’t imagine it would be persuasive to an entrenched skeptic.
President of Iran is head of government.

Supreme Leader of Iran is head of state.
...why would a VPN client care? Like, okay fine the thing is a VPN that for some absurd reason needs a GUI window - does it not work under xwayland!?
unless I am very mistaken, that is the default behavior. youtube won't show any ads on the videos you post unless you put them there. so you need to be eligible for monetization (have videos that people watch, proven by some metric), and you need to enable it, and you need to explicitly post ads on your videos to generate revenue for yourself (and youtube)
Right, calling it technically lossless is wrong but 422 HQ gives impressive results so I we can probably safely say that it is "practically" lossless.

In DaVinci Resolve, many tools go awry with image sequences: for example temporal noise reduction simply doesn't work with a compound clip with image sequences, I also remember having problems with caching performance. I have a few very strange/buggy problems with Resolve though I love color grading with it regardless, so I want to avoid the buggy sides of Resolve (as it's one of the buggiest software I've ever used) but use the upsides of it (grading and some OpenFX filters).

It would help me on this process.
Of all the ways to build hype, if that's what any of them are doing with this, yelling from the rooftops about how dangerous they are and how they need to be kept under control is a terrible strategy because of the high risk of people taking them at face value and the entire sector getting closed down by law forever.
This seems to have only American models? My last car is not listed but versions with huge engine sizes which were never sold here in Europe are.
> WhatsApp, OTOH, is huge, and that’s an app that’s not installed by default and automatically consists of your entire address book as contacts but instead you have to go ahead and download it and explicitly add contacts to it […]

… which has become a privacy issue now. If WhatsApp has been granted full access to the contact list, the contacts are passed onto Meta that uses numbers to track users, build out shadow profiles and whatever else they are not telling us about. It can be easily seen, e.g. if you add a new phone number that trickles through into WhatsApp, and if that new person happens to have an Instagram account, their Instagram profile will appear in the Instagram suggestions feed pretty much the next moment.

Meta has been agressively pushy in recent years with its attempt to monetise WhatsApp where they can't glean into the actual messages due to them being encrypted (unlike in Facebook Messenger). So they use the metadata and contacts (phone numbers, email, physical addresses etc) that Meta sells to third-parties, data brokers and businesses including. Messages on WhatsApp from South African, or Malaysian, or similarly remote locations offering jobs (!) or business opportunities are now a fairly regular occurence.

Considering the scale, the reach and popularity, the best option for WhatsApp would be to divest it from Meta (not that they would agree to it), however, the cost of running the platform, plus overall maintenance and feature development would be a substantial expenditure that has to be somehow funded since WhatsApp users will never agree to pay for WhatsApp, and many (who comprise a substantial to very large cohort) will not be able to afford paying for it.
Kia is getting close, but they still refuse to break the $30k barrier. The floodgates to EV adoption will open for the first manufacturer to sell 60kwH+ for a true sticker price under $25k. That's enough range with a payment right at the edge of affordability for most Anericans.
Maybe the avocado bothers you? That's a common one.
Wellp, if this is accurate I’m truly a dead woman, but at least my skin will look great!
I feel like the more useful thing here is helicopter risk. Helicopters are very unsafe in general as I understand things.
Most Manufacturers have a website that you can access and pay for a day or more access. Usually it's the exact same one they use at the dealerships. I was able to print the manuals to pdfs.

VW: https://erwin.vw.com/
Toyota: https://techinfo.toyota.com
Don't Use include-what-you-use
> I think the real crux of the matter would be the difference between rights versus stuff that costs people money.

A human child costs a lot more than a dog or cat does, and yet society grants the child vastly greater rights than the dog or cat. The difference is due to cognitive capacity - a smart five year old can give a lecture about how you are allegedly violating their rights (e.g. “making me go to bed on time violates my right to have fun”)-no dog or cat in the world can do that
But it's not Either / Result because there no error information on null
> because there are so many guilty parties including the potential users themselves.

What did the users do wrong? All the pushback I'm aware of from that corner has been either "Wayland doesn't support $FEATURE and I need that" or "Wayland is buggy for me", neither of which is a fault on their part.
Yeah that's a bummer :(

And yes drugs have made incredible advances -- my aunt (and hence my brother's aunt) had MS and her life was ruined by it.

Pretty amazing to see something advance that quickly with such a stark difference in outcomes between 2 of my own family members.

When my brother told me it was relatively benign given they caught it early and he had access to treatment I was like "I read 10 books for the MS Readathon in Year 1... You're welcome!"
I don't think this is the solution. I don't use much Apple nor do most people here in Europe so the majority of the market is left out, unless Apple opens up.

And I don't want to read news in an app. Just inside a browser.
Because it costs nothing to pay the toll and charge me the toll in their automated system.
> assert(";" not in ffmpeg_command)

Well that just made it considerably less useful given that ; is the delimiter in ffmpeg filtergraphs.

Also it doesn't defend against && || \n etc.

Invoking an untrusted string with sh (through os.system()) is kind of a facepalm when you can easily shlex and posix_spawn it.
Hertz told me I would be charged if the car wasn't returned charged, I asked how much and they couldn't say. I was also confused because it wasn't clear how to charge at the airport and that was very inconvenient, I'd rather charge the night before near my hotel. No answer but they said its fine to return it 85% charged. I went out to get the car and the guy said I needed to return it 80% charged. I got in and it was less than 80% charged... wonderful experience.
Old helicopter, foggy and mountain terrain. Not a good combination...
Google Cloud Vertex AI let's you run any of the open source models on Google infra, they even have Claude models available. MSFT likely has similar in their cloud.

Where are people going to run their models? I for one will choose the cloud I already use. It has APIs for the big models and simple deployment of both open source and other proprietary models.

This is completely separate from providing end users a service. How many people self host or run their own alternatives when there are managed services available? It is unlikely people are going to switch en mass to open source models, especially while there is a price war on SoTA models. It's becoming far cheaper to call a SoTA API than have an always on open source model.

From my experience, running a small model locally was both slower (tokens/sec plus overall system slowdown) and had worse results. I switched to cloud based APIs and will likely not consider reversing this decision. Multiple orders of magnitude improvements would need to happen in both performance and quality
It’s not clear that the material world of the simulation is of the same kind of the material world we seem to observe. Further it seems definitely not clear that we can interact/modify the simulation’s material at all.

The arrow of causality flows from simulation to consciousness and there might be no mechanism to artificially create consciousness from within consciousness.
Serious question: did your product use Adobe software in any way to produce output for your users?
Or do a second query to ask whether the command is safe to execute.
Hi! Why does it work best with Python? Should I even bother if it’s for a non python project? (In this case, a WordPress plugin).

Thank you!
Strongly agree. Of course, it’ll also help if dealers actually stock base models (very common for them to only stock mid-trims and up) and don’t sandbag them with massive markups.
> When people suggest owning an EV for daily use and renting a gas car for occasional long trips, this is exactly why that's not a attractive idea for most people.

Sounds like a plug-in hybrid might be a great car for you. I have one and it works pretty well.
Are they recruiting? Asking for a friend.
I’m only talking about window management getting messed up, not power management. My windows always go back to the correct position on the correct monitor with Sway. This was not the case with Gnome on X.

Although my experience also matches sibling’s when it comes to power management.
Bullshit. A full share of an equity stock is much more than what a regular worker can afford. Here where I live a supermarket worker earns around 1500$, a full share of wallmart stock is around 2000$ (in local currency). Sure, there are incentives to buy fractional shares: a regular person who does so will not earn much, is not a real owner, will need to keep working for all her life, but the important is that she bought not the stock, but the ideology that she is as capitalistic as the supermarket owner that leeches her work and do not need to work.

Cooperatives are a socialist proposal. A country run solely by cooperatives is not a capitalist country.
I've always wondered if news publications got too greedy. If I'm the revenue director at these news publications, why would I want FB/Google to pay me directly or don't show me at all? I'd want them to show my news snippets as much as possible and when the user decides to click, it sends them to a paywall on my website.

Now that FB and Google are instead deprioritizing news, I get way fewer visit to my paywalls. It's just a conversion rate formula.

It felt like news publications wanted to double dip. Pay me to show me on your feed AND send traffic to my paywalls. That felt a bit too greedy.
I actually like that it does this. In your example where you’d want it to infer relative URLs, what happens when that code is executed in Node?

> If you're browsing a folder, the whole document.location is the baseURL, but if you are browsing a file (ie ends in .php or .html) it isn't

I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying here. The second argument in the URL constructor works as a “relative to” argument. If your URL starts with / it doesn’t matter if there’s a file or not, it’ll start from the domain root.
Ask HN: What to use to build an iOS and Android app?
Hey guys,

I've got this project I'd like to turn into a mobile app that runs on ios and android.

What are my alternatives? I'm well versed on react and planning to use react-native. My question is probably more about React Native CLI v Expo.

Any info is welcome!
Thanks!
I've seen enough negative Hertz-related discussions on HN over the past few months to entirely avoid them going forward.
Yes. I wanted to like the piece, and wanted to share it with my dad who is getting super into natural local landscaping, but I couldn't because he'd be completely turned off by her implication that conservatives are the source of America's fixation on green lawns.
It would be nice if articles would cite a source other than twitter commentary. The official verdict makes it clear this was about operating a laundering service not publishing a laundering tool.

> The relayer acts as an intermediary and arranges the full withdrawal, including the payment of the fee. … the transaction track of the cryptocurrency in question stops at Tornado Cash. …

> When these acts are carried out in respect of crime-derived Ether, it is in fact Tornado Cash that carries out the concealing or concealing money laundering act. Therefore, in the opinion of the court, Tornado Cash cannot be seen merely as a tool for the user.

https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBOBR:2...
Its mind boggling to me that people risk their lives and pay for "helicopter rides" here in Orlando, a city that is FLAT and there's nothing to be seen as you can't fly over Disney.
The thing is, such prophecies are all very wrong until they're very right. The idea of an LLM (with capabilities of e.g. <1 yr away) being given access to a VM and spinning up others without oversight, IMHO, is real enough. Biases like "omg it's gonna prefer western names in CVs" is a bit meh. The real stuff is not evident yet.
It's fun. Not everything has to be dry.
Using curl is surprisingly secure if you have a secure entrusted target. An LLM could be safe the first 99 times and then randomly wipe your hard drive. It's basically the same thing as curl but just randomly picking what you download, like that one thing that picked random code from stack overflow
Also better than missing a flight if you end up running late for whatever reason.
Where I live, you can't claim a lawyer's fee in small claims court -- that's kinda the point of small claims.
Something like...

if (typeof URL.parse != 'function') {URL.parse = function (_s){let _ret; try { _ret = new URL(_s)} catch {}; return _ret} } ;
While it might be nice to speculate about a change in posture from the government of Iran, thats very unlikely to flow from this accident: the depth of staff inside the support groups behind the current government is too deep for a rapprochement to emerge, simply because the name on the door changes. There will be plenty of "obvious candidates" without reaching outside the tent for somebody e.g. who is less harsh about scarf culture, or the green movement.

They have the option. It's always possible they will seek to take it. I think given the extent to which trade with Russia and China is working for them, and the current conflict in the Gaza strip, it's the least likely choice.

Newspapers say the vice has 50 days before an elective process. Could be election amongst the elect or national election, I am unsure.
I love highlighting words that makes me think or resonates with me, but I guess briefly writing down my thought could be better, thanks for sharing.
Reading the article it sounded like this was a job for those ceramic coatings they sell to fix this same problem on car headlights. It will be a lot of hours of buffing and applying coats of sealant to fix this, but compared to the cost of replacing the windows it seems like a bargain.
Not much probably. I think it would be at best, be research station.

It will be a bit like Antartica.

The moon isn't going to be mined anytime soon. There's nothing there we can't get on Earth, 10x cheaper.

If there was a permanent presence there anyway, and in addition, you had something like a mass driver (probably built for other purposes, such as further exploration), then the economics might make sense IF you can find valuable ores, which we don't know where they are. But I think even then its dodgy - you would have to manufacture re-entry grade heat shields on the Moon as well to ship your ores / refined products back.

If they could do local manufacturing, especially for the less complex/bulky items. To support that you probably need a population there of at least 20 or so, with all the supporting equipment and life support. And they couldn't stay there indefinitely, would probably want a rotation of 6 months-1 year (length of navy deployments / ISS stays). We're talking several thousand kg that you would have to move between Earth / Moon a regular basis. Annual program costs would quickly run into the hundreds of billions.

Yeah thats comparable to the US defense budget but one of those things people view as necessary, the other not so much. And no private investor is going to touch it.
All about OpenNotas – What is it?
Yes, this is known to be true. Studies of oral immunotherapy often show failure rates in the 20-30% range, and nobody knows a way to accurately predict who will succeed and who will fail without actually going through the whole treatment. IgE levels can correlate with success but they are far from a perfect predictor. The other big factor is age. If you can start immunotherapy super early, like in the 0-2 year old range, it is significantly more likely to work.
Exactly. There's no labor shortage, there's a pay shortage. Just offer more money and people will want to work.
I'm guessing this was meant to be a joke about how everyone is still using the DIN connector for midi? Kind of confusing.
People have bad memories. I keep going back to the actual announcement because what they actually say is:

"""This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas. Other disciplines such as biotechnology and cybersecurity have long had active debates about responsible publication in cases with clear misuse potential, and we hope that our experiment will serve as a case study for more nuanced discussions of model and code release decisions in the AI community.

We are aware that some researchers have the technical capacity to reproduce and open source our results. We believe our release strategy limits the initial set of organizations who may choose to do this, and gives the AI community more time to have a discussion about the implications of such systems."""

- https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

> The only remotely possible "safety" part I would acknowledge is that it should be balanced against biases if used in systems like loans, grants, etc.

That's a very mid-1990s view of algorithmic risk, given models like this are already being used for scams and propaganda.
Maybe there are more comments about the inflammatory content than the substance because most of us had trouble getting to the substance. I'm here because the topic is fascinating to me and I'm very interested in more natural approaches to landscaping, but I gave up midway through because the tone was way too outrageously aggrieved.

If a highly motivated audience that's sympathetic to your argument has trouble getting past your tone, that's a problem with the piece, not the comment section.
hm what IS it worth ? There's some kind of valuable minerals there?

Google: "Helium 3". well we do need that
I took some side photos of my pregnant wife, hoping to make a time-lapse, but I never got around to it. The photos aren’t perfectly aligned since her position changes a bit in each one. Can ffmpeg fix that?
Absolutely so insane it's kinda funny. I think that's the point.
Manga-style comic generator, Shortbread!

https://shortbread.ai/
No, because Musk can say that battery restoration technology is being worked on and will arrive any day now.
> I personally don't work on frontier AI because it's not safe.

In what way?

Skynet style robot revolt?
I respectfully disagree. let's think from a first principle point of view, what is the definition of art in the first place? But whatever the answer is, art is just a way of structuring/representing a mix of multiple arts into one single art, and it's not limited to painting arts. historically people have been taking inspiration from nature, other people, the environment, and more. That's what an AI does as well, but with much more creativity than a human.
The biggest art heist in history
The 200k number doesn't follow from the tables in [0]. It gives a net population difference of about that amount, but it doesn't explain what accounts for the difference (how much of it is people moving in and out of the region, versus how many changed their affiliation between 2014 and 2021).

Also, it depends on official Russian statistics -- which means ultimately it's a question of whether one is inclined to believe what Russian government says about such things.

Whatever the real number is -- at least Tasheva is saying that the criteria for expulsion is "having entered Crimea illegally". Her numbers may be off -- but at least that's the stated policy. And it's definitely quite different from "we're also going to expel anyone who changed their identification in the 2021 census".
On the trail of my identity thief
Wouldn't that incentivize people to try to get companies to "ruin their lives"? If someone had a way to get a well paying income, then get a big company to do the bare minimum that counts as "ruining their lives", they live the rest of their lives comfortably without having to get a job.

I think that, in theory, compensating people for life-ruining is obviously the right thing to do. The issue is that it relies on people to be perfect and never try to abuse the system, and if we can assume that, then we can just get rid of law enforcement and become a communist utopia.

What is practical is making these companies far more liable than they currently are, though. It is unacceptable that they have no penalties for destroying someone's future.
UUIDv7
Southern Sweden!
If sun poses a risk there...
> I don't think there is any plan for a roundtrip Starship lunar mission.

There are currently no official NASA plans to do so. In part because if there were that would be NASA tacitly giving up on SLS and Orion, which Congress would never support.

We'll see what happens if SpaceX ever advertises such a capability.

> I think it is too heavy to get back.

There are a number of architectures that have been proposed that should work. From what I recall, all of the involve using multiple Starship vehicles going to Lunar orbit.
I never said it did. You still have to build whatever you want. A terabit of edge network is a terabit of edge network that has to be physically built.

Not all networks are the same. Some have terabit backbones and gigabit edges, some have the reverse. We'd still call both of them, roughly, terabits of network, and you still have to build them. The one with the terabit core might actually be easier because you have less of the expensive really fast equipment.
You don't have to wait for WWDS/iOS18 to find out if Apple wants to compete on software flexibility - the answer is NO, not now, not ever. If anything software flexibility for all other systems is being decreased to match Apple so why would Apple do anything about it except maybe make their software even more inflexible.