skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean sure, but people are paying for it because now the whole market collectively jacked up the prices by 400% so you have no other choice but to buy at 400% or GTFO.

Your only choice of striking a good deal now is a yard sale or something, because online, the market ahs colluded to price fixing as if every customer is a nostalgic with deep pockets.

Personally, I'm not paying, because I refuse to fork up insane markups just to satisfy the nostalgia itch, but obviously some people are.
> What is the point of a live net worth tracker if it is just an estimate?

Sensationalist propaganda.
> What's the source of this rot?

Powerful people in the company are trying to get "Integrated AI into an existing product with overwhelming resulting engagement" onto their resume.
Galaxy brain information right there. Maybe Google is finally showing the right answers all along, we're just not advanced enough to accept it
That’s my first thought. Never consume anything from paper products treated to be waterproof.
Paper straws
Magic water repelling paper at the BBQ joint
PFAS are the biggest self-poisoning experiment since leaded gasoline.
> People being able to donate anonymously to an effort to shape public opinion feels fundamentally wrong to me.

Why?

And what does it mean to "shape public policy"? I see that terminology used frequently in a way that factors out the autonomy and decision-making agency of the actual individuals who constitute the "public", but isn't it up to them to decide whether to accept or reject persuasive discourse in the public sphere on their own terms?
If it fools billions of people and does significant damage to the lives of people, then it's plenty advanced to me, even if it happens through a more simple or savant-like process than something that looks obviously deliberate.

I don't think the cookies thing is a good example. That's passive incompetence, to avoid the work of changing their business models. Altman actively does more work to erode people's rights.

> It's still bad, don't get be wrong, it's just something I can distinguish.

Can you? Plausible deniability is one of the first things in any malicious actor's playbook. "I meant well…" If there's no way to know, then you can only assess the pattern of behavior.

But realistically, nobody sapient accidentally spends multiple years building elaborate systems for laundering other people's IP, privacy, and likeness, and accidentally continues when they are made aware of the harms and explicitly asked multiple times to stop…
You should sign up for updates at www.trydrivr.com and if we come demo nearby, you can hate it in person :D
Just sounds like simpsons paradox.

Congressional approval rating - lowest its ever been

Individual congressman? - highest ratings

Tech orgs - bumbling if not incompetent

Individual contributors at these orgs - very talented. Maybe not analytical engines like Knuth but very functional in their respective domains.

Just another meta problem we are hitting at this scale of humanity and information processing.
To encourage them to testify.
See also https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases
NPM's got bigger problems than just having lots of small libraries, like for instance allowing circular dependency relations in packages
Come to think of it, it was a hole punch.
They are public for multiple years.
So I have not yet tried out this aspire, but my gut feeling (as a long time dotnet dev) is that this will turn into a tangled web of complexity down the road.
Let's assume you're in the country and at risk of deportation.

If I steal from you, you're incentivized NOT to report it, I get away with it.

You do report it, you get deported, the witness is gone, I get away with it.

It makes sense, but it's being abused.
I thought we learned everything we need to know about the importance of seatbelts on airplanes from the pilot episode of Lost!
States Push Back Against Guaranteed Income with New Bans
Google Photos is creating a deep fake of you and calling it Cinematic Memory
Last night, my partner found a new Cinematic Memory in Google Photos, called "Over the Years."

We watched it together, and in it, Google animated static photos of her over the last 5 years. It included the typical 3D field effect, but what was disturbing was that it also animated her body and her face. We watched video after video of Google making her likeness smile and turn her head towards the camera.

They have to be using facial data from her other photos to make her smile in photos where she was not originally smiling, tilt her head seductively in photos where she never did that, etc.

I assume this is a new feature that they're beta testing, because I can't find any information on it whatsoever.

They essentially created a deep fake of her, without her permission, and then made this deep fake do things that she never did.

I can't imagine what PM at Google ever thought this was a good idea for a feature. If you're productizing AI, you need to be extremely careful that you're not violating your user's personal boundaries.

Has anyone else seen this yet?
This is somehow fantastically entertaining. Well done.
Don't know the law, but in general asylum seekers get better results when they are fleeing from some type of hostile environment. That makes sense to me. It could be related to that. It does seem to create some perverse incentives though.
> “By that reasoning even humans are not thinking”

I’m a neophyte, so take this as such. If we can agree that people output is not always the product of thinking, then I’d be more willing to accept computational innovations as thought-like.
They would rarely be partitioned because of all the waste - workloads are typically placed cotenant into 1 machine (VMs, containers, normal multi-processing, etc). But I believe you’re right that cumulatively there would be a lot of long tail services that consume resources and the cumulative inefficiencies aren’t being optimized because it’s work that doesn’t scale (i.e. you’d have to fix too many performance issues on services no one cares to make a visible overall dent). Not sure why you’re downvoted though - it’s an astute observation.
The medium is really not important even if you think it is. What you do and where you are is the important bit. Half the photo is what's left inside your head that is activated when you look at it again.
I've also run a relatively large (Chicago-scale) ISP. Here, we worked from minimal budgets and headcounts based on municipal networks in other states with published budgets; the costs are not minor. What I think I did there was misuse the term "fixed cost"; I was referring to the expenses we incur no matter how many residents opt in to the municipal network.

Note that the economics here don't appear to work even given that we already have a municipal fiber network covering the whole municipality.
Seems to offer very little help with the game
In general, I agree, but there are some things that should be allowed to go wider when the space is present. In particular, horizontal scrolling is evil. Sometimes it is a necessary evil, but forcing it because the wide content doesn't fit in the width that you are using for reflowable text is bad.
An excellent game is, practically by definition, a game that people would recommend. And the Steam algorithm does a pretty good job of snowballing success. My favorite example here is Kenshi. [1] It started with modest interest and within a few months it was down to literally tens of players. This is normally where somebody driven by profit would just shrug, complain, and go try something new. But they guy clearly believed in his game, kept going, and now a decade later it's an extremely popular game that still has thousands of regular players - verging on overcoming Hogwart's Legacy.

I think a lot of smaller developers are misled by things like game jams. Get a highly enthusiastic group of people in a room and the games they're going to respond well to, and the feedback they're going to give is going to be utterly worthless. What's fun to play in a highly social setting with lots of other hyper enthusiastic people, for 5 minutes at a time, does not translate at all to what people are interested in buying and playing at home.

[1] - https://steamcharts.com/app/233860
AOC was screaming about this
The battery swelling happened after the other issues (like not sitting flat on the desk).

Also, my sample size is dozens of these laptops. My experience was typical.
People have been asking for this since computers were invented. Dont act like just asking the computer and getting the needle from the haystack hasnt been chased since Kernighan wrote the first line of grep. The anti-genAI luddite nonsense has zero place on such a prestigious pro-technology platform.
I was afraid somebody would ask that question. I don't have a simple answer to that question. As best as I can explain it, GEB provides an intentional stance that makes it much easier to exist in a chaotic world that we know little about.

The lynchpin around which that stance revolves is Goedel's proof that classical reasoning systems are necessarily incomplete. In short, that there are true things we can never prove to be true, and false things that we can never prove to be false, and an entire category of statements that are neither true nor false.

Coming to terms with the provable fact that knowledge is incomplete is enormously liberating. Once you do, the consequences spiral outward.

Examples, some of which GEB deals with explicitly, some of which falls out relatively easily:

- We can't know everything.

- Sometimes "I don't know" is a perfectly valid answer.

- Sometimes "the premise upon which your question is based is flawed" is a perfectly valid answer.

- All knowledge about objective reality requires (at a minimum) use of some form of Bayesian/probabilistic reasoning.

- Finite rules-based ethical and legal systems are (almost definitely) incomplete. Deeply distrust anyone who attempts to tell you otherwise.

At the broader end of the domino chain of consequences, there are things like this:

- There are no rules for what is beautiful.

- Falling in love is a dreadful way to select a mate. But do it anyway. You won't regret it.

- Hard materialism is not incompatible with experiencing awe and wonder.

- We live in a chaotic universe that doesn't care about us at all. There are ways to deal with that.

- Embrace chaos.

- That consciousness is an emergent property of a complex universe is a perfectly valid alternate explanation to "Gods did it".

- Having a materialistic worldview does not preclude having a rich inner life.
> Especially coming from electron happy msft

I don't understand what the problem is. Teams runs perfectly with 16 GB of RAM. Now, if you also want to run something else ... /s
Or "success" itself acts as a filter selecting for those who are ruthless enough to do amoral and immoral things.
As long as it is quoted with the part that says "For the love of money is..." as opposed to merely "Money is..." -- this part is frequently omitted.
This is nonsensical. First off, if someone illicitly uses your site for something Section 230 isn't what is protecting you from that: if I hack into your computers and inject a bunch of content onto it, you aren't somehow more liable than if I went to your building in the middle of the night and graffitied something illegal all over it just because it uses a computer: you were also a victim.

As for "small web forums", that's still centralized, and still bad (and frankly is often worse, as the smaller players tend to have poorer data control policies)! I don't want anyone, anywhere, at any scale controlling centralized forums :/.

If you want to build an online gathering place, maybe it is in fact a very very good thing if it has to be built using decentralized end-to-end encryption with customizable endpoint filtering, and the "web forum" becomes a relic of the past.

It should be hard to build a centralized web service. There should be any number of scary liabilities that come with doing such, and that is frankly the only way we are ever going to get to a decentralized future, as, otherwise, yes: as it stands, we are essentially subsidizing the existence of centralized services.

And maybe we needed to do this in the 90s and 00s, but we now live in a world with a lot better understanding of encryption and a lot better understanding of peer-to-peer services and if we just stopped tolerating centralized services enough to force everyone to deal with the always-will-be-a-bit-worse experience of decentralized ones, we can escape this ad-infused dystopia (and remember: even the small players use ads, and their ads are again often worse).
When searching for "Scarlett Johansson",

https://i.imgur.com/fgtjBTj.jpeg

Never seen these kinds of weird word combinations.
ChatGPT to lose voice over Johansson similarity
I'm not sure what your comment is digging at. Are you asking me to give you examples where the wrong data was leaked through FOIA? Because if so, --

https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-...

It's not even an uncommon issue. I'm currently dealing with a large local police department who released to me thousands of peoples' SSNs, finger print hash, tattoos, etc etc from ALPR data in a FOIA lawsuit where I was co-plaintiff. They saw no problem with it and asked us if we expected them to redact the info.

So yeah, I fully expect somebody to fuck up at some point.
> It's the same reason why newspapers are printed in columns and not across the page.

In fact, arguably the point of a wide display is to create your own columns i.e. putting more windows on the screen, or more panels within a single window in an application like a code editor. What's the point of the real estate if you just put one browser window on there? I only go fullscreen to watch movies or play games, which is somewhat analogous to full-page media spreads in newspapers.
"Just get some popular streamers/channels to do a review/let's play"

Just is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Ask HN: How much does the product name matter in the early days? (B2C)
I wanted this to be not a blocker, so I picked whatever the name that I could come up in the first day. However, now that I am doing user interviews, I get a few people telling me that they are confused by the name.

For context, the name of the service is Pillser. I am still working on the elevator pitch, but it is kinda like iHerb if iHerb was prioritizing scientific data in supplement discovery over marketing materials.

I also asked ChatGPT if it thinks my name is good for what I do, and how it stacks against the likes of Vitacost, iHerb, and a few others, and it gave similar feedback to what was said in customer interviews, i.e.

> While unique and memorable, this name might not immediately convey the idea of supplements or health products as clearly as the others. It could also be associated with medication, which might not be the desired impression for a supplement store.

Personally I have come to like the name (which is really just a concatenation of "pill" & [search]). However, given that Pillser is a long-term SEO play, picking the name feels quite important and I don't want to disregard customer feedback.

What should I do?
For some context on why this sort of side channel is routinely effective in banking but the front door is frequently not, see: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
I think you may have misunderstood the figures.

Based on my understanding, only 1:20 passed the automated acceptance criteria (build, run, pass, increase coverage). Of those that made it through to the human review, “over 50% of the diffs submitted were accepted by developers” according to the paper
Even today, most people don't go out of their way to encrypt their emails. They don't want to go through the additional effort. Similarly, people rarely pay for things in cash, despite the privacy risk of having a transaction record.

There will always exist people who will go out of their way to be privacy conscious, but the vast majority will simply trust in the basic security mechanisms.

The legitimate purposes exist. But unless they're effectively zero effort and zero cost, people won't use them. It'll always be just a few privacy advocates and a whole buncha criminals.
The seatbelt sign instructs passengers not to move around the cabin, not to fasten their seatbelt. Seatbelts should be fastened at all times when passengers are seated, as the flight staff reminds us before each and every flight.
That actually makes a lot of sense, because "filling slower at the beginning" provides a worst-case estimation of total completion time. So users are a lot less likely to be negatively surprised by a random, unexpected delay.
From the article:

> That’s an immigration status reserved for “victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in an investigation or prosecution,” federal officials explained Friday. Some relatives of U-visa recipients also qualify for special status. In time, U-visa recipients may qualify for permanent residency.

Seems not appropriate for the cases here tbh, even if they were legitimate.
Dwarkesh's Podcast with OpenAI's John Schulman
You can also do it on my Nikon Z6-ii !

And you can take not shit photos with it as well!
The retrospectives of this decade are going to be gloriously stupid.
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-of-criminal-activ...

> The legislation was intended to strengthen the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute cases of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking of noncitizens and other crimes, while also protecting victims of crimes who have suffered substantial mental or physical abuse due to the crime and are willing to help law enforcement authorities in the investigation or prosecution of the criminal activity.
People were already doing that with PowerShell and as you'd expect, from a very complicated language which lets you do many things in very complicated ways, absolutely nothing good came out of it.

Then people started to migrate to YAML, because although it's tedious, it's actually very dumb and the declarative nature of it keeps things very very simple. Sure the domain it is applied to is complex but infra will always be complex.

It looks like we are just going in circles. Now people think that using a complex language to build complex infrastructures is a good thing again, until they use it in anger then get burnt and then they will arrive at the next YAML variant in 10 years.
> I don't want to be asked 20 follow up questions to exactly specify the nature of the Orc

This is the tell that these folks don't know enough about game design to be opining so strongly on "the future of AI driven game development". Game development is almost exclusively about the 20 follow up questions. Any moron can say "I want minecraft but in space with guns", but making that and, more importantly, making it feel good, are where all the juice lies in games. The details are the most important part, which is why I think all these attempts to put AI into the game development flow are ill advised at best. Copilot is okay at helping out with game code, but less so than for normal e.g. REST API or UI code, because game code tends to follow rules that don't exist anywhere else and every game is architected completely differently. Games are just...different.
It's important to note though that the _actual_ touch targets for keys are influenced by what you've already written. You can miss the key from a visual perspective but still end up with the right letter as a result.
You can use whatever high minded references to philosophy and psychology you please, but from what I've read from you in this thread - you're missing the point. You aren't understanding the criticism, and you're addressing the weakest form of the argument. I'm suggesting you aspire to address the strongest form, whether the weakest is present or not.

If you choose to do nothing with that information, that's up to you.
Was just going to ask that. All of this ARM transition stuff makes me nervous.
People need to start make posts using ai. Maybe create browser extension that will autogenerate reply.
If only it were so easy. What is shown in the screen shot above is the result of exercising the option you describe.

Unfortunately that option only disables the display of the currently playing track title, not the entire section labelled "Music".
Unlike the floppy disk, there's no pictogram to preserve the phrase 'google it'.
It is an interesting name, but I would personally not pick it for my project, even if it was in the "dev" space. It feels like branding it would be quite tough.
This is a feature I specifically do not want.
Plus, describing this as "speed the rate of life saving ai technology in the hands of everyone" is… A Reach.
The problem is likely that people selling on eBay or used camera places handling old bodies are mostly not dealing in functional but “rough” gear. I’m probably typical in that I have one or two old camera bodies at home that aren’t worth selling but still work fine.
The argument I made is not that anonymity cannot serve a good purpose. It can.

However, anonymity has a cost proportional to its impact. That cost is that the impact of the anonymous act will have no retribution. A person is more likely to act in a negative-sum way with anonymity.

Still, anonymity is essential because it protects the underpowered in their expression. We as a society have said that, on balance, anonymity with speech is good. And I think that's reasonable.

With money as speech, this logic is broken. Money is the purest form of power within our society. Giving money is an expression of power. The more money, the more power to express.

We then get all the negatives of anonymity with none of the benefits. What's more, as those with money can express a lot more than those without, the negatives are amplified.

Another way to think of it is that freedom of expression as a sort of democratic value because it equalizes power. Speech as money removes the equality of it.

To be more concrete, I believe that I can post anonymously but it would be dubious for me anonymously fund a lot of people posting here.
On a related note, I actually really like Kagi's quick answer feature for simple questions. The fact that they cite sources that you can then double check is the biggest win to me.
> Freedom of information acts are for shedding light on government acts and activities. What your neighbour is doing is neither, so the request wouldn't be granted.

That's not exactly true. FOIA requirements often make the records of government entities subject to public release, and if a government entity is running an ISP, it's not clear that records that include sensitive information about their customers would necessarily be excluded. Lots of information about housing, land ownership, vehicle ownership, among many other things, is indeed public record, and includes a lot of PII.

I just don't understand the fascination with government-run ISPs. If it was economically feasible for a municipal government to run an ISP, why not just organize a community non-profit to do it instead, and avoid all of the pitfalls of mixing politics -- with both its peculiar incentives and unique constraints -- with service provision?
I'm not sure what kind of luck you're talking about. I'm not "post-money" and have to work for a living. I've never gotten a startup exit. I am well compensated the way someone with 25 years of work experience would be. I don't know about 30, but I've had this stance for the last 15 or so. I'm now pushing 45. I've had my fair share of family cancers and health crises. I've seen loved ones pass.

And it's those people that are in my head when I think about my world view and shape my views on engineering management. So yeah, my advice to young adults would be (and has been) "plan for waking up one day and finding that work isn't all that important anymore and have a diversification strategy. The real startups are the friends we made along the way."