skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing

Last week, we discovered multiple Trump “transition officials” were “incidentally” captured during government surveillance of a foreign official.

to

Donald Trump, a now convicted felon and the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, has said he plans to prosecute his political opponents should he return to the White House. He’s said he would allow states to monitor pregnant women and prosecute those who seek abortions.

seems more than a little apples to mangoes.

It's not about the evils that " they " allege. it's more about the actual words spoken by Trump.

Unambiguously. In full context. On multiple video sources. Not deep faked.
I don't think an authoritarian regime with one adult and 30 other children of the exact same age cohort provides as much socialization benefit as people think it does. Kids rarely get much time to even talk to each other in grade school.

All the research I've seen in this area indicates it would be far better for kids to be in mixed age classrooms that are democratic with several adults, but that costs more and no one wants taxes to go up.

I know many homeschoolers, they had a smidge of difficulty adjusting in college, and then they learned to socialize in that environment which is much more effective for learning how to socialize.
There’s a good response to this article here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536581
Yes see the GB6 benchmarks for compilation

M2 Ultra 233.9 Klines/sec
7950x 230.3 Klines/sec
14900K 215.3 Klines/sec
M3 Max 196.5 Klines/sec

are nearly the same.
Screwdrivers: Is there anything they can't do badly? Maybe not
I don't know if anyone else noticed but the article cites an Asianometry video on the topic, but names them as Asianomics, maybe autocorrect issue?
Yes, and is great if you are a gamer / have software that doesn't multi-core.
No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides
LEO internet won't be practically usable for another decade for loads of us who are not living in a country the US DOD favors.
so disable dev mode for all phones? This solution is far from simple.
Uh uh thats very interesting. I am gonna play with it a lot.

> the size more than quadruples to 77kb, so no QR code with this approach.

OR we can use 25 QR codes haha. Joking, but what about huge QR codes?
The principle of freedom.

The principle that poor people are the majority and prefer to pay less for things.

The principle that it's better for consumers and producers to engage in trade than to force a business to be unviable.
Show HN: Bypassing firewalls using a file tunnel
Firewalls typically block network protocols, yet permit access to file servers.

A file tunnel can be used to enable a client to reach a server.
Horseshoe crab-counting...the hyphen makes a [UK English only?] difference.

I found it hard to read - I thought they may have crowd-sourced some telescope buffs.
Shit is real. I'm also hoping we get a movie sequel, the first one was pretty good. If we also figure out how to break some of the existing stock cartels even better.
Yes - with more and more users moving to laptops and wanting a longer battery life, raw peak performance hasn't moved much in a decade.

A decade ago, Steam's hardware survey said 8GB was the most popular amount of RAM [1] and today, the latest $1600 Macbook Pro comes with.... 8GB of RAM.

In some ways that's been a good thing - it used to be that software got more and more featureful/bloated and you needed a new computer every 3-5 years just to keep up.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140228170316/http://store.stea...
I had 128GB DDR4 3200 running stable on X570 with Ryzen 3000. You should be able to run 192GB these days or even 256GB (but expensive).
And in a way same applies to M3 vs M4 Geekbench scores. A few new instructions were added. Aside from those it's nowhere near the 25% improvement there either.
Ask HN: Doing customer research without the resources?
Hey HN,

Super curious to understand how startups without PMs or UXR conduct research or know what to build next.

As an engineer and now a founder, I’m fascinated by Linear’s approach of “product teams over product managers” where the broader team collectively thinks about the product and how features are delivered, not just the PMs.

I’ve never worked in such a setup, so I wanted to hear from those who have.

How do you collect/synthesize user feedback and decide what to act on? What are some of the challenges you faced because of not having PMs?
> The other epiphany I had was when I started to realise HTTP was just a request string getting parsed.

I've never thought of it like this, but I didn't understand for a long time that a webserver was just a function that run with the request as an argument.
This is very exciting for a single feature: explicit type extensions.

It allows domain-specific types. So instead of a function like getCustomer(int customerId), you could write getCustomer(CustomerId customerId) which is an integer (no extra memory allocated - it's a struct wrapper).

This is similar to the feature I use in typescript with zod z.brand('customerId') which adds a compile-time only hidden explicit type.

The really cool thing about this is that we can then enforce a rule that says CustomerId can only be, for example, a positive integer. Or that a string matches a given regex. We're validating a type and passing it around without wrapping it. You can still treat it as a primitive but you cannot treat the primitive as it without validation.

In other words, it can be thought of as ada's more strict types. e.g. type customerId range 1 .. 1000

Orientating validation around the type and not the function means that you only validate once yet are completely confident about it everywhere. We can essentially replace a lot of unit tests with a better type system.

Validated types are almost as a big of leap as types at all. They are descriptive, prevent a large class of bugs, while staying intuitive - not magical.
>Cis-lunar space

I thought this article would be about the lack of lbgtqia+ astronauts. I should read less mastodon and reddit.
In terms of CPUs where you would use an inverse square root (mainly games or scientific), x86 still reigns supreme.
TicketTailor.com is "Sell your Tickets online". That's a fundamentally different thing than most of Meetup.com.

One of the major values of Meetup.com was always "I'm new here and have no friends, what's there to do?", "I'm bored, what's there to do?" and things like that. Random Discord channels or some Tweets don't solve that.

Meetup was never super-brilliant, but this is really not a tech problem.
Everyone I know who was homeschooled in grade school went to college and learned how to socialize like an adult there. That's an environment that's ideal for learning how to socialize. Not a few brief minutes a day on the bus or in between classes.
As a Firefox user, this exactly.

The amount of things that now need to be toggled off on a new install are approaching Windows “telemetry” levels:
disable sponsored shortcuts on homepage, disable experimental “Studies”, sponsored suggestions in search bar, “suggested extensions”, Pocket, and the list goes on.

I really need to look into a privacy friendly fork of FF..
InterruptedException is better but still handled incorrectly/badly in user code all the time. Sort of like interrupting processes: one process dying won’t corrupt the state of another, but the other process can continue on with bad assumptions.
Yeah. When we build a new road, eventually some gangsters will drive on it.
Weirdly, tech is the only place where people then look at the platform.

No one would shut down the post (DHL) for allowing a drug enterprise to send illegal substances using DHL.

So yeah, these links will be abused. What isn't abused?
We'll be shutting down our local rack, powered by VMWare vSphere, and move our data and internal services to the cloud.

Though to be fair it's also due to increasing security demands from customers, the VMWare thing just rushed the plan.
It makes sense if he wants to make a useful web browser and leverage third party technologies for it, Serenity is totally from scratch. This should mean more time being spent on better problems in the web browser through reinventing fewer wheels and probably speed up the development of a new browser engine, which seems pretty interesting to me.
It is one of the image viewers I use on Linux. It supports most formats I stumble upon nowadays and it is pretty fast and does mostly what I want. I had some minor issues with it, but it is mostly not worth bickering about them as it may come down to my personal preferences.

I have been using Linux for around 20 years, but I still miss IrfanView the most. It was very fast even on those machines with RAM in MBs and CPU frequencies in MHz. The array of formats it supports is staggering, but I loved the most all those easy to use and fast basic image manipulation - rotate, crop, resize, color channel reorder (i.e. BGR to RGB) and much more.

I know that I can run it through Wine, but it feels wrong for me (not the most rational, I know).
We're the Ryzen Force in CPUs for AI PCs: AMD
I could even go further and say you're more useful than someone with 500 'score' because you're authentic and spark discussion, not censoring yourself just to say what people want to hear to get upvotes

Counterpoint: You post carefully and thoughtfully trying to ensure you post valuable information and not just the first thing that comes to mind. And the community responds accordingly.

Interested in reading from you as to what was the trigger for this post.
> No AI that I've heard about is able to manage any human relationship.

LLMs nails corporate political speech style though, that is the main way you realize something was written by an LLM. And that seems to be one of the primary ways to manage business relationship, swallow your pride and just continue spouting corporate political speech.

The main problem currently would be that the LLMs are too accommodating, but I'm sure you could train them to be a bit more ruthless just like real CEOs.

Be ruthless and political correct, and nobody could tell you apart from real leadership.
Here in Germany she is considered an antisemite now. All the Green party allies have publicly distanced themselves from her.
My company started making absolutely perplexing decisions. We were bifurcating everything, in a way that seemed like was set to double our workload for a lot of things.

It was under the guise of "being more efficient by having fully independently operating departments." I was pretty vocally opposed to the whole thing, complaining to anyone who would listen, right up until it came out that our department had been sold to another company.

They'd been basically duplicating us so they could sell us without interruption.

It's now many years later and I am frankly still embarrassed by what a fuss I made over something when I didn't actually understand what was happening. I really wish one of the higher ups I'd complained to would have just taken me aside and said "there's something going on, it'll make sense when it's done" or something but I understand that they probably couldn't.

I learned that when what your company is doing makes zero sense, there's probably something going on below the surface other than multiple levels of questionable decisions. This has since proven true more than a few times, and I am far less reactionary and far more suspicious.
One would think so, but some browsers do not handle well repaints or do it prematurely. I've been testing a fediverse platform against a plethora of browsers, and I'm always surprised at the differences. It's not terrible, but some do take their time.
I still have one of those Gorilla/Banana printers. Not that I actually use it.
But you don't even need to use a link! You could just convert and send the image as base64 or you could compress and encrypt it with 7z. I am sure there are many other methods. How accessible that would be on a phone though is another story, but I dont think it would be that hard.
The problem with testing is that you need a very large number of tests to cover a moderately complex piece of software: you need to test most branches obviously, but often you need to test combinations of behaviours such that 100% line testing is still not even close to enough testing.

The advantage of compile time verification is that you can prove that certain paths and behaviours are impossible and don't need to be tested. This reduces the space of required tests combinatorially. We all already do that: no one bothers testing (for example) that standard library functions work correctly in their own code base. In Rust (and strongly typed languages in general) there are entire classes of test and assertions that aren't needed anymore.
Such a bizarre position. None of this is relevant for the legality in this moment or the legality of the chat monitoring.

Also I think it is extremely unlikely that the court will agree. There are many, many more egregious laws in existence in the EU, this effects very few people and is a big sovereignity issue.
Show HN: Boost Your Startup with Our AI Marketing Assistant for Founders
Meeting people who remember my name and not remembering theirs.
And a face scan to evaluate how good-looking you are.
Yeah, I hate it. I now can say "no" in such a way, that people immediately stop trying to make me dance, but when I was younger, it was really annoying.
When we were demoing bench scale SLA, we went all-in on Formlabs and were pretty disappointed by the workflow, quality, prices, and resin choices. Not much came of our relationship, and their reps were more interested in upselling than listening or helping us meet our needs. We tried for a few years but decided that they weren't worth paying a premium for.

I feel like they suffer from the same problem as Ultimaker: recalcitrance. They know they have a reliably engineered core product, but they're too intent on capturing sales without acknowledging the value prop of an incredibly competitive advancing market and are slow to innovate.
Man I really hope other people get this one, because it is awesome.
AMD reveals the MI325X, a 288GB AI accelerator built to battle Nvidia's H200
Given that there are only 2 CUs in the GPU (and fairly low clock speeds), does the architecture matter much? Benchmarks were kinda terrible, and it looks to me that the intent of the built-in GPU is for hardware video encoding or to run it in a home server system, or emergency BIOS and the like. Compared to the desktop CPUs, even the lowest end mobile 8440U has 4 CUs, going up to 12 CUs on the higher end. Or go with Strix Point, which does have an RDNA 3.5 GPU (with 12 or 16 CUs) in it.

I guess you _can_ game on those 2 CU GPUs, but it really doesn't seem to be intended for that.
Oh no, a range of options.
When I started programming, I looked for a job, and the interviewer asked me which design patterns I knew. I immediately replied that I did programming, not design. I then quickly realized how much I had to learn, and my potential knowledge expanded like the Big Bang.

The more you learn, the less you know.
Yep interesting that massively useful and impactful work like this doesn't seem to get as much interest on HN compared to gimicky new architectures that have only been shown work well only on tiny datasets like MNIST and CIFAR, rather than at scale.
Everything I knew about stretching was wrong
Well back in the P6 to Conroe timespan we had that detour for more Ghz with P4 that turned out badly where probably assumed wider issue wouldn't be an issue when you increased the clockrate.

Also back in those days 32bit x86 with it's anemic 8 GP registers (and stack-based-fpu) it was hard to avoid any dependencies w/o trying to calculate memory positions, nowadays we have 64bit x86 with 16 GP registers and separated FPU XMM registers (compilers can leave much more in memory and registers are probably far easier to do dependency resolution on).

Oh and a theory could be that JS,Java,C#,Rust,etc code with lots of non-taken safety barriers(out of bounds, type-tests,etc) has probably been analyzed and been found to be a prime candidate for parallell issue.
I don’t know where are you located, but I’d avoid voting based on “this party won’t get a seat”.

Voting for a party is a signal for other people and for the party itself. It may not be today but next time that they get that seat.
> Lagrange points are more limited in volume. Consequently, they are highly desirable pieces of celestial real estate, so to speak.

They're plenty big enough, especially as you orbit around the points, not at them. Invoking scarcity as a reason to worry about "securing" them is wrongheaded.
This piece lacks a good definition of "junk info". The closest is this:

>"Common types of junk info include gossip, trivia, clickbait, hackery, marketing, churnalism, and babble. But in fact, any information that you can't use is junk info. A typical example on social media would be a photo of a freshly cooked burger, captioned with “Look what I just made!” but posted without a recipe so you can't even recreate it"

There's huge gap between "info that you can use" and the examples given of "junk info". I enjoy reading Wikipedia entries on scientific topics, but I can rarely "use" that info in any practical sense
Did Roaring Kitting make that $150M by selling GME after his previous promotional efforts regarding the stock?
Seems like a pump and dump to buy low, promote, sell high, and then do it again with proceeds from the selfsame stock.
Woman repeatedly told she was drunk diagnosed with rare condition
This is true. But keep in mind that they wouldn't tell you anyways, pretty much no matter what you did, you were simply not in the "club".
It would attempt to identify child porn by scanning images (using both hashes and ML if I remember right, but it doesn't matter). This takes place on the local device, but under control of Apple, not the user.

Upon detecting a suspect image, it takes action. The action isn't really part of the "algorithm". Depending on the score, Apple's whim of the day, and/or outside compulsion which would probably be applied to Apple, it refuses to allow the image to be sent in messages or to "the cloud", deletes the image, and/or reports the image to Apple (which would presumably report it further). They can change what it does at any time.

In other words, it examines data on your device, on behalf of others, in a way that you don't control, and uses the resulting information to your potential detriment, again on behalf of others and again in a way that you don't control.

Apple examining your data in a way you don't control, to implement policy that you don't control and may oppose, is spying. It doesn't matter whether they do the spying using you CPU or their CPU.
Google Follows Samsung, Asserts the Right to Steal Your Phone [video]
> YOU ACKNOWLEDGE, WARRANT, AND AGREE THAT:

> 4. Unauthorized Parts: You will not send in a Device containing non-Google-authorized parts – if You do, Your Device will not be returned to you.

https://store.google.com/intl/ALL_us/about/device-repair/
I’d venture to say: You don’t.

I, for one, would never ever cite output from and product like OpenAI as fact without checking everything it stated. At which point, why bother?

A “blog” like this has very little to no value in my humble opinion.
> They also have facial recognition...

It's not just to lookup customer loyalty membership/ ban shoplifters/ prevent some shoppers habitually scanning expensive items like avocados as cheaper ones: Australia has weak protections on that data being shared with data brokers.

Forbes [0] says "Facial recognition is everywhere – but Australia’s privacy laws are ‘falling way behind’"... “It [Identity Verification Services Bill] does not put any brakes on those uses of 1:many facial recognition, outside of the Facial Identification Service (FIS) used by the government,” says Prof Santow. “Clearview AI and many other 1:many facial recognition services will continue to operate in Australia and will not be regulated under the IVS Bill... Santow says it is vitally important to regulate companies scraping data from the internet and developing databases of people’s faces.”

Bunnings and Kmart's 2022 trials [1] of facial recognition technology in stores initially got in trouble with the privacy watchdog (OAIC) and were suspended since Australian law didn't allow doing that without an opt-out and consent of the user (i.e. stores had to have signs and tell customers they were using facial recognition, and how to opt-out). Bunnings insisted it was only being done to recognize and exclude banned customers (shoplifters/violent), and that images weren't retained.

Since then, as you mentioned, [2] Woolworths introduced overhead cameras + AI to detect when items are not scanned correctly, with footage of the scan recorded and played back to the customer instructing them to re-scan. "Woolworths said the purpose is to prevent accidental wrong scans, but it also works as a loss-prevention tool for the supermarket when, for example, a customer scans fresh produce as a cheaper item instead. ... The footage cannot be viewed live but Woolworths said it is retained for training staff. The company said customers’ faces are blurred and pin pads are blacked out."

[0]: Forbes 9/2023 "Facial recognition is everywhere – but Australia’s privacy laws are ‘falling way behind’" https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/facial-recognition...

[1]: 7/2022 "Bunnings and Kmart halt use of facial recognition technology in stores as privacy watchdog investigates" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/25/bunnings-...

[2]: "Woolworths [Australia] expands self-checkout AI that critics say treats ‘every customer as a suspect’" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/19/woolworths-...
Bussin Web X
> I’m curious, what are the arguments against making price discrimination illegal?

Markets work better the more customer knows about a product and the company that provides it.

Markets work worse when the company knows more about the customer and the product than the customer that buys it.

It's basically extension of market for lemons.
Video from the author,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiOtinFFfk8
Sort of. The generation is RDNA2, but it's unlike all other RDNA2 chips because the focus is so much on energy efficiency (and the APU has its own codename, van gogh)
AMD has been making SoCs forever. Why does it take a kick in the teeth from Apple for both Intel and AMD suddenly to wake up and give us performance SoCs, 5 years later? They've been coasting on the stone-age motherboard+cards arch because essentially Nvidia gave you a big, fat, modern coprocessor in the form of an [g/r]tx card that hid the underlying problems.

They could have done what AAPL did ages ago but they have no ability to innovate properly. They've been leaning on their x86 duopoly and if it's now on its last legs, it's their fault.
That just doesn't seem demonstrably true but I'd love to see some citations. My recollection is that Twitch's biggest issues have been regarding gambling and high-profile bans for misconduct e.g. DrDisrespect or nudity from streamers who don't even have OnlyFans accounts.
I'm sure someone will come and help with the port! It's just a matter of time (:
No, I don't think so. It probably hurts the overall economy to squeeze every last bit of juice out of the consumer base like this, leaving them with no money to spend in other ways.
Non-Pro Threadripper 7960X/7970X/7980X are Quad Channel. (The Threadripper Pro's are Octa-Channel)

But yeah, Desktop Ryzen's are all Dual Channel.
probably. one of the most informative channels out there.

https://youtube.com/@asianometry
Inotify-info: easily track down the number of inotify watches
Facebook/Instagram/Tinder already do that.