skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whitehouse lied about Burisma kick backs

You fell for Grassley's and Comer's lies. Not cool to spread misinformation on HN either: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-burisma-fd1023/
Ticketmaster has recently been sued by the DoJ for monopolizing: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-live-...

Too bad nothing will improve because of this.
Binance's ex-CEO begins prison sentence in California
AI lets executives sell vision of cheaper yet more productive futures which is what all stock price really depends upon short term.
I was avoiding living on the edge all my life, so it doesn’t hit that hard, but yeah, all housing markets are insane atm. I feel for those who only start living nowadays.
Google Ads vs. Results: yoga wikipedia
An alternative solution is to abolish universal suffrage. Re-introduce wealth requirement since people who are able to accumulate wealth tend to see the world as it is. Then we don't have to worry about the vagaries of the poor & gullible anymore.
It may be, but without a way to see that, why would I ever consider paying?
They recently got sued for being a monopoly. They have no incentive to do better. And unfortunately this probably won’t change anything.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-live-...
As a ballpark estimate, 100,000 launches of SpaceX's Starship would put about the same mass of water into the stratosphere.
'Cunt' seems to really upset America. In the Uk, Aus, NZ etc it's as much offensive as any other term of endearment.
I'm not talking about the sanctions at all. In my opinion, and even according to the article, the thing is about banning users who use VPNs to defeat geofencing, and region pricing. This was, at most, tolerated by Steam. I personally wouldn't mind if they banned more, but I'm not Steam, I don't know how to run such a large service. I'm sure there are many nuances.

The other thing is that there is no source cited at all, and no ban type specified at all. To me, banning means that a user can no longer log in. But Steam actually applies a wide range of restrictions to an account: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4F62-35F9-F395-5C...

The "20.000 ban" issue is further discussed on Reddit, where it's labeled as "misleading".

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1d43qql/helldiv...

Also, I'd like to emphasize my original argument. The risk itself comes from trusting a service, and furthermore, from consciously violating the terms of service. And using VPNs to make Steam behave different is against the terms of service. Information can be found here, when searching for "proxy":

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/
That part is not so much about security: it would be entirely possible to make a secure standard protocol for such things, it's just there's enough highly opinionated people involved that no-one can agree and they each do their own thing.
> My photo editor tool now has a button to automatically remove backgrounds, a cool trick. It's at least more useful than crypto.

Okay but this has nothing to do with the "AI revolution" the article talks about. This is not related to GenAI at all and is something that has existed for close to a decade.
That sounds kind of reasonable?

"community solar incentives" sounds like a really strange way to target funding
About a month back a manager on my team was hiring for a senior dev role - she was talking to HR about the job spec, and HR recommended only advertizing the role as a junior dev "since senior/principal devs will invariably apply". Bleak is the word!
Maybe AI is "losing steam" but this is an opinion column masquerading as news, with one or two quotes (from e.g. noted AI skeptic Gary Marcus) or anecdotes supporting each section.

It would be equally possible to collect a series of similar but opposite data points to assert that AI is in fact gaining steam.
Theres no way to get rid of "fake news".

And nor would you want to as many times what people mean by fake news is dissenting news.

The key is to educate people to think for themselves and question everything.
This is probably his last attempt at leaving a legacy given his age. I wonder if Wolfram would do something similar.
Show HN: I built a backend so simple that it fits in a YAML file
How much time does it take you to send or receive an international wire transfer?

Do you need to bring a passport or other documents to exchange currencies?
That's part of the overproduction process, isn't it? That is, those at the top have those in the middle and midddle-top believing they're on the inside. Nah. They're the suckers. They're the exploited. They're where the wealth is being extracted from. Given human biases and blind spots, no one in that positions wants to admit they've been played.

Geez, look at the article. Written by a leftie for The Left and "blaming" The Right when in fact The Right has it right. That is, "we're done being suckered."
Sure, when you have 18k followers, you’re in the point-{oh,…}-one percent.

Meanwhile with 7k followers I barely get ten.

But I’ll try it more and see. Thanks for pointing that out.

EDIT: it’s possible you might be preempting the downweight because you’re including a screenshot with all of your links. I.e. the downweight only happens if twitter shows the expando for an external link, which doesn’t happen when screenshots are included. Either way, I’ll be implementing your technique. :)
Blogs aren’t just content, and there’s no correlation between the resources available and the quality. They’re popular (both to read and to write!) because they’re a venue for authentic human voices. Like adding “reddit” to a google query they’re a way of cutting through all the bullshit. Corporate blogs that allow themselves to do the same are exceedingly rare. I suspect those that have decent tech content but convey an authentic sense of their engineering culture are probably more interesting than those with strictly deeper technical content.
K is pragmatically business-oriented, J is what you get after you've been thinking about computing for half a century?
I saw it working on LiveCodes.
Thank you very much.
"How do we stop people from sharing (what I deem to be) fake news?" is the wrong question. The right question is "How do we give people the tools to identify fake news?" If you give people the tools and they still spread what you deem to be fake news, then you've done what you can. Tough cookies for you.

Too many people get very angry that people share things they disagree with, and then start talking about clamping down on communication. No, sorry, but your ideas lost. People are allowed to think and share things that make you angry. If your views aren't mainstream, there's a reason for that. "Fake news" is only a tiny part of the equation. If you pick up that censorship weapon, that we all implicitly agree to not use, you will not be the last to wield it.
People suck at understanding their reasons for or consequences of their life decisions.

Keep it short. Leave out the misguided attempts at self analysis.
Ask HN: Does GPT-4o offer low latency/live cam for you?
I've been using GPT-4o for roughly two weeks now, receiving access right after its launch, and have been a ChatGPT Plus subscriber since they made that available.

I mostly relied on text input as before, so I did not notice this until now, but recently decided to give the Android app another shot, as the latency during voice input was the main barrier for me. Yet, it still doesn't feel smoother or low-latency than before, and additionally, I can't find the camera mode that processes input nearly instantly. It seems like I'm still using Whisper for voice input, and I just got a popup stating that these features would come to me "soon". I am also one of the Beta testers for the App via the Play Store.

Can anyone explain this behavior, or do you have similar experiences with the app? It is possible that GPT-4o is currently being run with Whisper as an input for some users, like they did with GPT-4v and other predecessors? If so, does anyone know why? I was under the impression that being able to handle the different inputs via one central model was in part a gain in efficiency, so rolling out the new model but keeping the old system with different models converting content into text before having that handled by the model makes little sense to me, from a cost perspective alone.

Mainly, I am interested in understanding how specifically GPT-4o works in connection with Whisper, considering not needing Whisper was the main reason for this launch and why they'd do it this way, even if only for a limited time, considering it should cost them more per user.
The website reads like an edgy script-kiddy blog. Is K actually a useful project, or is it just a passion project of someone who happens to be sort of famous?
Even discounting dial-up, this really depends on where you are in the world at the time. PPPoE and direct hookup (via the cable/ADSL modem) are still relatively common where I was at the time that Blaster was roaming around, while some countries have forced CGNAT even before CGNAT became a common word, usually for "protecting the children" like Cleanfeed (and even discounting that, event at the time you could still get IPv4 effortlessly there had been, and certainty there are still, crappy ISPs which don't really care about direct connections).
Isn't Aurora mainly about their unique handling of logging and replica which leads to high availability and fast recovery? If you switch to VM, how do you handle availability in multiple locations and backups? If database checkpoints are good enough for you, sounds like Aurora is overkill in the first place.
We've lived in mass societies for more than a century. Individuals do not exist anymore, since all people are mainly formed by mass media and mass indoctrination in schools. The few individuals that exist can weild oversized influence, for example as super sharers.
Right, and having your own kinda stopped being a thing right then and there. We had Ted Kaczynski I suppose but we didn't quite understand what he was on about.

Crass - Where Next Columbus? (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lZUxHX8e8
NY Startup Receives Funding for 'Handheld Iron Dome' Anti-Drone System
You can identify fake news to people, and unless someone from their "tribe" identifies it, they will just say that the party identifying it is fake.
https://archive.is/R5zkq

It is relevant to point out that NYT is engaged in a legal battle with OpenAI.

This article refers to "AIs like ChatGPT" which clearly shows who it is targeted at. For people thay don't read arxiv every day, the actual advancements are difficult to sift out of all the hype.

The dilution of the meaning of AI will contribute to the bubble's contraction when the general public realises that "AI" doesn't mean anything specific and definitely doesn't mean what they have in their imaginations.

Regardless of where we are today, it is undoubtedly worth the effort to continue the research. This hype cycle has kick started a lot of ideas that will benefit humanity. We still do have that pesky problem of corporations innovating while simultaneously ruining everything.
The trouble with political content is the style rather than the content, I think.

If you see ads for Ground News on YouTube they make it sound like you need add up what the right-wing ideologues say and what the left-wing ideologues say you get the truth. I get accused of being a “centrist” when I point out that people are using a toxic, hateful and othering style of communication (e.g. capitalizing Black doesn’t do anything about the difficult and long-standing problems of racism, maybe even mocks or trivializes the problem, but it sure polarizes the world into big B and little B people)
Doesn't work on my Mac -- website appears completely unresponsive.

How does it work, does it email you birthday reminders?
> Day to day what does "monetizing my data and removing my privacy" actually mean to you?

It means you can a permanent, and non erasable, record of being arrested, even if you just happen to be near the same location a crime was committed:

"Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police" - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-loc...

Disclaimer: I am all for an effective and just law enforcement...

> Are advertisers following you around town?

Yes the are: "Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker" - https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitors-...

Disclaimer: Never visited Epstein’s Island...
To me it seems that AI is not even priced into the market cap of the big tech companies yet.

Since GPT-3 came out in mid 2020:

Alphabet's market cap doubled. But their earnings more than doubled.

Same for Microsoft.

In other words: Their p/e ratio did not increase. The future potential of AI is not yet priced in.

The cost of all human labor is something like $70 trillion per year. Automating 1% of that per year would increase the revenue of tech companies by $700B per year. Let Microsoft capture 10% of that and have 20% margin, that's an increase in profit of $14B per year. Assign a p/e of 30 to that, and its's $420B of additional market cap per year. That would be about 15% growth in market cap per year for Microsoft.
Is Red Meat Healthy? Multiverse Analysis Has Lessons Beyond Meat
Yes, but C isn't APL. I don't buy it that this how it was written from day 1. Occam's razor and all, this is obfuscated C, not code written by an alien superintelligence.
Bubblewrap, Firejail, SELinux, etc
I've asked a few people in the past for a lobster.rs invite and haven't gotten one yet, so I'm interested. Check out my posting history here or my (somewhat neglected) blogging on https://www.mcherm.com . My email is mcherm@mcherm.com.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40542826 re: the IEF report "Copper Mining and Vehicle Electrification" (2024) https://www.ief.org/focus/ief-reports/copper-mining-and-vehi... :

> Graphene is an alternative to copper

In graphene, there is electronic topology: current, semiconductivity, room temperature superconductivity
Then maybe the easier solution is for the states to work with Apple and Google to make a “classroom mode” that disables everything except SMS, voice calls, and medical apps, and the presence of which can somehow easily be detected by the teacher in a privacy-preserving way (e.g. checking only the aggregate number of nearby classroom mode phones broadcasting that status over Bluetooth LE).

In the world where that is common, smartphones can still be banned in the classroom except for people with a medical accommodation, and those people would need to set their phones to classroom mode. The teacher would then have an app to alert them if the number of classroom mode broadcasts deviates from what is expected.

If that number of broadcasts is too low, that’s cause for investigation either because someone with an accommodation is using nonmedical apps in class or because someone’s medical monitoring is impaired due to a depleted phone battery. The former case would lead to discipline for using nonmedical apps in class outside the scope of their medical accommodation; the latter case would lead to whatever medical assistance is appropriate.

There would of course be plenty of other considerations to balance anti-abuse measures, convenience, and privacy. But the basic idea would work.
The non-us sounds like a type of mediation. Gdpr requests have teeth.
I don't disagree that people should learn to better recognize fake news, but when you're solution is to have the whole population change their behavior, your solution will not work.

Removal of a few super spreaders is infinitely more feasible than having everyone else change their behavior
Well now that there's no other XP LAN hosts it's mostly OK. Getting it on an unclean LAN with infected hosts will get you infected, and that was a common occurence back in the day.
The health risks associated with insomnia are stroke and dementia.
No downvote from me.

Cryptocurrencies were no solution and AI will always be at best a heuristic, so no solution either. The hypesters dont (want to) understand the foundation of the problem they claim to solve.
Consider, mutatis mutandis, https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-i-couldn39t-be-a-math-...

Lagniappe: click on the circular red button underneath the comic, to the right of the orange "RANDOM" :-)
White people colonized much of the world and brought dairy with them.
> that's ridiculous, it's a postgres cluster, you're not doing a PhD in math.

It's not as difficult as a PhD (I assume; I only got as far as an MS), but based on what I've witnessed, it's up there in complexity. There are dozens of knobs to turn – not as many as MySQL/InnoDB to be fair, but still a lot – things you have to know before they matter, etc.

> People do it because there's limited time and no business advantage to operate postgres clusters. Use the time on what your business actually does.

I've seen this argument countless times for SaaS anything. I don't think it's accurate for a database. Hear me out.

For most companies, the DB is the heart. Everything is recorded there, nearly every service's app needs it (whether it's a monolith or micro service-oriented DBs), and it's critically important to the company's survival. Worse, the same skills necessary for operating your own DB generally overlap heavily with optimally running a DB, by which I mean if you're good at things like DB backup automation, chances are you're also good at query optimization, schema design, etc.

It's that latter part that seems to be missing from many engineering orgs. "Just use Postgres," people say; "just add a JSONB column and figure out the schema later," but later never comes. If your business uses a DB, then you do not have the luxury of running one poorly. Spend a few days learning SQL, it's an easy language to pick up. Then spend a few days going through the docs for your DB, and try the concepts out in a test instance. Your investment will be rewarded.
yeah its terrible. part of my problem is i hate react and everyone using that garbage now.
So it was behind a firewall. Now do it without a firewall.
1GB RAM DigitalOcean VPS
Probably some of each.

To me I see a lot of similarities to cloud computing early on (broadly defined). There were a lot of twists and turns in the road and a lot of things didn't tuen out as many predicted--and it was, naturally, much messier than earlier visions. But companies that decided to sit back and see how things played out mostly paid for it while the winners--so far--have mostly been companies that made bets and course-corrected.
OP won’t be categorized as such, because they haven’t added some bullshit, which would make it immediately obvious that the argument is used only to back a prejudice. I quite rarely see an accusation where the prejudice is not obvious, and facts are used to just back feelings.
>The only facts are what I can perceive with my own senses and what comes directly from people I know enough to have a judgment I consider reliable on their trustworthiness.

"My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush!" - The Waterboy

If the Waterboy trusts Mama does this make it a fact?
The researchers behind this contributed it into mainline clang as clang-repl
Everyone here charges too little for software.

the free(MIT license) version is shakti.com/k/k.zip

the supported version(supported and 10 to 100 times faster)
is $100K per month(minimum)

https://groups.google.com/g/shaktidb/c/5SPufca3mo4
Can someone explain how it can be "faster" than anything else?
Yeah, or show a popup with the name of the window that just grabbed your paste buffer.
Already looking forward to when it might be addressed. :)
This reads like the incomprehensible ramblings of a mentally ill patient scribbling in the walls. There is zero context, zero explanation. Very vague or incomplete statements scattered all over the place. I don't understand what someone not already familiar with the project is supposed to take away from this.

Is the terseness of the site mean to reproduce the terseness of the language? Is that the gimmick?
> we want them to tell us the truth, to give us the facts.

That's just one use case out of many. We also want it to tell stories, make guesses, come up with ideas, speculate, rephrase, ... We sometimes want facts. And sometimes it's more efficient to say "give me facts" and verify the answer then to find the facts yourself.
Thanks, we thought so too! It would be cool if everyone shared their funny examples of LLMs failing so we can add them in.
Valve bans people using VPN because it has localized pricing. They had an issue with people switching to a Russian IP to buy a game and pay only a fraction of the correct price, so they started banning these people.
So no, they're not taking sonys side. They're just protecting their bottom line, and people trying to evade geo locks are just also affected

It's been a thing for years and non-US PC gamers have hated it just as long, as there is a lot of censoring in some countries. (Which you now have to either live with or pirate)
and yet, here we are.

you used the word for attention.

you got it.

buyer’s remorse?
There is a lot to learn from him; tiny binaries, super fast performance; programming style you like or don't, that's fine. To have a 200kb binary that's a programming language + database is very nice. It's great we can study a part of it and probably more in the future. We went overboard with bloating and complexity; it's good to be shown you can write current enterprise/commercial products that fits in the memory of an 80s homecomputer without changing your style of programming or tools you use for it. IMHO anyway.
It's more the fact that many of those startups are seeing traction because everyone is interested in seeing what AI can offer. If there is a reckoning and we see the rug pulled then it would be far worse than if your startup never had any traction to begin with.
Cars don't get a new model every year. They are even called "facelifts" to make it clear that it is essentially the same with minor modifications and upgrades.

Also there isn't much "groundbreaking" you can do in a car, except for the EV switch, the industry has existed on many small upgrades over time. (Like many other industries)
sure, the plastic molecules are non-toxic, they don't have any chemical reactions with organic molecules. they're inert. safe.

but when they clump together, or when large sheets of them fall apart, you get particles. microplastics. still inert, no chemical reactions. but they get stuck in places like tiny blood vessels or tiny pockets in your intestine. not inert. not safe. not toxic, but not good
The USAF's "Upside-Down Air Force"
Root is definitely the backbone of a ton of work done in experimental particle physics but it is also the nightmare of new graduate students. It's affectively engrained into particle physics and I don't expect that to change anytime soon
My money is on "it's not, and the benchmarks are cherry picked"

I mean faster at filtering data than a python script? Sure. Faster than a database or hand-rolled C code? Only if your benchmarks are misleading.
I don't believe it, even though I'd like to. I don't really care much for the technology because of its societal impact.

I am a bit surprised that it hasn't been more weaponized yet for elections and wars. But it will be, no doubt about it.
A lot of people complaining about GenAI claim that results that are correct 90% of the time are useless.

That, to me, is not true. There are plenty of examples where a 10% incorrect answer is perfectly useful. For example in software with good test harnesses you can trust functions that pass tests whether they are written by staff, an intern or a bot.

But I do think that we have an AI bubble and need a brush fire to refocus on today's solvable problems. A 5-10% of industry effort going to moonshots is fine, 90% is crazy.
as of right now it's a desktop calculator, functions, conditionals and loops are missing, you can see its scope here https://shakti.com/k/k.d