skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the article falls apart because it keeps referencing this central argument that the defense industry is an unmitigated evil, and it's just a given truth that the author doesn't need to defend. I don't like weapons spending and I'm a pacifist at heart, but realistically having no defense industry is impossible. There's some amount of money which needs to go into researching the weaponization of space, because other hostile nations are spending on it. Do I wish this weren't true? Of course. Do I pretend it's not true and there really are no gray areas in the world because I'm naive, or because my priors being accurate is irrelevant to the virtue signaling I'm trying to do? No I don't but it looks like this author does.

I'm sick of these proclamations on the Internet that are the total opposite of realism and really just amount to virtue signaling into the vacuum by their author. It's no surprise that this lady works for Mozilla which has been grazing on Google money for years to watch Firefox decay, I guess. Anyone at Mozilla seems to be light years away from the reality based world the rest of us are in these days.
alias: T.
interests: I love to talk about hacking/computer security/embedded security and related topics, literature, spending time in nature, hiking, botany, vegetarian cooking, weight loss, remote sensing technologies, archeology, history, philosophy, finance/investing/company valuation (no crypto), electronic music (production), hobby electronics, art, language learning, anything you are weirdly passionate about, ...
language(s): en
link to something you think is cool: there are so many things ! but a somewhat representative selection of current open tabs

- https://factumfoundation.org/our-projects/3d-sculpting/re-creating-the-colossus-of-constantine/
- https://codeanlabs.com/blog/research/cve-2024-29510-ghostscript-format-string-exploitation/
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07612-9
- https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/Inv3ed.htm
- etc.

contact info: 049abfc8018fa03@protonmail.com
Yes I received more info as well. Apparently they think that GDPR does not apply to them in this case. Good luck with that.

"To answer your questions:

1. Only France, Italy, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Gambia were impacted by this incident, only the traffic sent to these countries.

2. To provide you more context, Twilio’s carrier partners are not considered to be Twilio's processors (or Twilio's customers' subprocessors) under the GDPR because carriers transmitting communications content (i.e., Customer Content) are not considered to be processing the personal data contained in the communication. There are a number of reasons behind this positioning:
• “Disclosure by transmission” is called out in the GDPR definition for 'processing' rather than transmission without disclosure.
• A processor role does not fit the nature of telecoms services and the telecoms value chain; Confidentially (and security) of communications is safeguarded by the ePrivacy framework.
• Guidance from the EDPB specifically covers “telecom operators” and does not specify a role for the carrier with respect to the content of the communication.
• Communications content merely transits a communications network or service, without significant processing being involved as confidentiality of communications prohibits the carrier from gaining access.
• Any other position would be impossible to implement given the complexity of the telecommunications value chain, with many parties involved in the origination, transit, and termination of communications content."
> Old problems in software should be solvable easily

I keep telling people who interview me that this is what APIs, modules, and frameworks are for. They capture good solutions to problems and allow us to move faster and build better software. If they are rude to me I tell them that I thought they were an e-commerce business and should not be solving basic problems in Computer Science.
LLMs are difficult to run and very few people have the hardware to run a big enough model to be useful. This means you have to integrate LLMs over an API, which costs you money. LLMs are to expensive for a free browser to just give away free usage. Implementing APIs that you can login with an account and use a specific LLM is a lot of work and difficult to communicate the privacy nightmare that comes with sending that data to some LLM.

You don't have to cater to every user. Focusing on things you do better for a huge portion of potential users is a much better decision. If features turn out to be so useful that everyone needs to integrate them to not be left behind you have to do it. LLMs are not there yet. They are to unreliable, expensive and difficult to run locally. In a few years when most users might be able to run decent models locally you can reevaluate that decision
You need an external non-US keyboard for your dock :)
They haven't reached full automation here.

What I wonder is, who can read this consumption data besides the "connection provider"? How easy is it to drive around with a laptop and see who hasn't been home the past few days?
I don't really have that feeling. The author says that LLMs make stuff up and are often wrong about non-widely known facts. They present hallucinations in a confident way, which makes them come across as liars. This is true. That is exactly what the most popular LLMs do.

They don't say that you should feel bad. The author simply says that the characteristics and unreliability of LLMs make them unfit to be implemented in the Vivaldi browser at this moment. They even close off the article with a positive sentiment about the future of the ML field. They don't burn any bridges there.
can you at least switch that, because if that is the default behavior I would hate it so much
Sadly, seL4's design approach and formal verification process still hasn't caught on. Until then, we're just rebuilding castles with slightly different grades of sand in the ocean surf and expecting a different result.
That's because it NEEDS to be local.
What does your application do that needs all product data from Amazon…?

I don’t know, but I would guess that Amazon has put in a lot of effort to prevent crawling.
Thank you for the time you took to write this out. I'm sure it'll help people. It would probably work if I used Windows, but I don't.
Amusing southern California is getting more watts per m2 then A lot of North Africa.

This is a good source, population by latitude.

http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-lat...
Google takes first major step: E2EE interoperability across all messaging apps
Nah, I'd rather give more visibility to programmers who are actually doing a social good. Mercenary programmers - which describes most of us - are boring.
Most games still don't use DX12 Ultimate features. Some use some ray tracing, but as the article says, this is expensive and should be left off for laptop devices anyway. As for mesh shaders, there is currently one (1) game I know of that uses them. Alan Wake part 2. I think the other features like sampler feedback are also not really used in practice.
https://www.fingrid.fi/en/electricity-market/datahub/questio...

So basically it is uploaded to cloud and some people will obviously have access to data. Like customer support.

I think technically it is possible to listen to air interface, but either it is some mobile or some power line communication so cracking that is complex enough.
Hey, don't knock it, the West was won on 1hp.
I just skim the article if I need a summary.
I was part of an effort at my last job to archive some of the source code for our oldest projects(from the 90s), they were all on CDs stored in a vault with an external storage company, we retrieved the boxes and found that 1 in 5 discs didn't read at all. The blue verbatim discs had a 100% success rate, but any disc with that green hue underside was a toss up whether it would read or not. Interestingly though, over hundreds of discs I found that either the disc read and would rip correctly all the way, or it wouldn't work at all in the first place.
With summarization, you still read, but have to read less. These days a lot of articles have a lot of verbose content, just to keep a person on the page for a long time. Reminds me of students writing essays just to get to a word or page count.
Shapeways Files for Bankruptcy
I didn't say there aren't alternatives.

Search datasets still are not really semantic search, and I'd wager many require online search if they required a well structured dataset, or a dumbed down query.

You only have to look to the relative popularity of something like Arc browser to determine there is a market for such things.
> Russia has been planning for this war since before 2008 it is ridiculous to think that they thought it would only take 3 days, if they did they would have started the war much sooner. They knew there were in for the long haul and had already made steps to prepare their economy for long term sanctions. There were not completely prepared but prepared enough.

I know you're probably Russsian or identify strongly with Russia, so it doesn't matter what I say, but think about it...

Why would Russia get themselves involved into a protracted multi-year war meatgrinder? They know what happened in Afghanistan.

Also, if they were planning a long war, why would they throw paratroopers at Hostomel airport right outside of Kyiv? Why would they throw multiple brigades attacking Kyiv and getting stuck in a traffic jam? Look at a map, Kyiv is not far from the Belarus border, and the capital, but any such attack would be extremely isolated and risk being cut off. Also, the Ukrainian government could just run away to Lviv and coordinate the fight from there, so Kyiv would be little more than a symbolic victory if they managed to capture it.

It's obvious they were hoping to capture Kyiv quickly and have Ukraine fall apart. They weren't ready for a prolonged fight.

> They also said they would not invade and then they did

> That's the problem with trusting Western media

The same western media that called it that Russia will invade?
Yes. I think I read they got about 34% share of the vote yesterday, which is less than when Thatcher was elected in 1979 and only 5 percentage points more than when Cameron was elected in 2010 (29%) [not exactly impressive after "14 years of Tory nightmare"]. So there is almost no relation between share of vote and outcome in seats at this point...

The spin by Starmer and the Guardian is that they are claiming the people have given Labour an overwhelming mandate, but they really haven't. What they've done is to tell the Tories to eff off, which is very different.

On a related note, Reform UK has got a larger share of the vote than the Lib Dems and end up with 4 MPs vs 71 for the Lib Dems...
I took it as more of a recognition of the downsides to LLM tech that the hype train tends to ignore, as well as the legal / moral / ethical gray areas that exist in both training those models and determining who is liable for what they output.
But maybe not as much as say, the unelected House of Lords or Royal Assent.

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/campaigns/elected-house-...
Smart. There's already llm extensions so anyone who wants it can add it.
This is a reason I’m very keen on making sure tests are focused on requirements rather than code.

A few jobs ago I would often be in a team where the entire team had turned over several times, we would be asked to do large updates to a legacy application or bump lots of dependencies and just not break anything. When pushed the product owner wouldn’t be able to describe what the app was supposed to do, particularly for unusual types of users (the account / user modelling was chaotic so say, several billing accounts per user, each with different products and access levels). At that point “foo calls bar” doesn’t clarify much intent.
> no killing people with my code

Talked to some CNE boys about that many years ago. They were remarkably conscious about it. They took specific steps and deliberate care to avoid that some poor sysadmin in their target country would be thrown in jail or worse for their access. Sounded almost like the technical equivalent of WW2 resistance fighters in France, Norway etc., using British uniforms to avoid reprisals against the civpop.
I don't think that's how the article read at all. It barely mention defence after the first couple of paragraphs.
>This isn't how Supreme Court cases usually work. Most of the time, as in this case, they clarify some things and send it back to the lower courts.

I'm actually a member of the Supreme Court bar, and have been involved in a number of supreme court cases, so i'm fairly aware of how Supreme Court cases work :)

They did what I said:

"Whenever the President and Vice President discuss their official responsibilities, they engage in official conduct. Presiding over the January 6 certification proceeding at which Members of Congress count the electoral votes is a constitutional and statutory duty of the Vice
President. Art. II, §1, cl. 3; Amdt. 12; 3 U. S. C. §15. The indictment’s allegations that Trump attempted to pressure the Vice President to take particular acts in connection with his role at the certification proceeding thus involve official conduct, and Trump is at least presumptively immune from prosecution for such conduct"
This doesn't sound biased to you?:

> While they do this, they also use vast amounts of energy and are happy using all the GPUs you can throw at them which is a problem we’ve seen before in the field of cryptocurrencies.
For accessibility it is truly awesome. Yes it can be wrong and isn't perfect, but the alternative is having no knowledge of the image at all. Alt descriptions are often missing or not detailed enough to be useful for vision impaired.

Having much better text to voice could also be nice for the blind. While screen readers are fine I don't know how bothersome that robot voice is for longer texts.
Depending on your typical tasks, convergence can work fine today: https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/
I don't know, this sounds weird:

> While they do this, they also use vast amounts of energy and are happy using all the GPUs you can throw at them which is a problem we’ve seen before in the field of cryptocurrencies.
Reflowing PCB’s is one thing I can think of.
Perfectly put. I only disagree with the "hostile nations" part of it, which is more along the lines of "there are zero sum games in this world; and we don't want to be on the losing side of it."
one word: fascism. instead of doing the most boring job, you can just get into competition with most of these bacterial infections for companies and take them out, doing things the right way.

Proper competition & proper ways of doing things ensure a proper evolution of the species & inspire and stimulate to do other things the right way.
I've long been looking for such a thing. I don't want to fire panda, nor emacs org-table, just have a quick way to label, aggregate datatables.
> As for HD redos, for movies this isn't an issue

The movie studios still manage to mess it up, changing the colors/contrast and using terrible AI de-noising that wipes out actual details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkNFZkUHeKQ
A sound alert is fine.

Any actual interference with driving will not prevent, but cause, accidents.

An example of this would be resistance on the pedal causing added latency on acceleration attempt.
These make great KVMs for homelab solutions. You'll need a VGA to HDMI adapter, but I am very thankful I no longer have to lug a monitor/keyboard/mouse into my closet when a server without IPMI won't boot.
????

Yes it does - the part you cite was written because they found it an official act with a presumption of immunity that the government has some chance to rebut. If it had been an unofficial act, there would be no immunity at all.

Here:

"Whenever the President and Vice President discuss their official responsibilities, they engage in official conduct. Presiding over the January 6 certification proceeding at which Members of Congress count the electoral votes is a constitutional and statutory duty of the Vice
President. Art. II, §1, cl. 3; Amdt. 12; 3 U. S. C. §15. The indictment’s allegations that Trump attempted to pressure the Vice President to take particular acts in connection with his role at the certification proceeding thus involve official conduct, and Trump is at least presumptively immune from prosecution for such conduct"
> With summarization, you still read, but have to read less.

Sure, and 10% of the time you get something that's lies which you don't get from actual reading.
Show HN: I made a game for learning the country flags of the world
I have always loved geography, and due to my childhood interest in football, I learned a lot of country flags.

A lot, but not all of them!

So, I decided to make a free game for anyone who enjoys flags and wants to improve their knowledge. You can compete against others because each game is timed.

Have fun!
The risk will be a collision from behind, or a collision from the side at a junction.

In every case I'd rather be in the Fiat 500. The only benefit might be the Model T attracting more attention, but some flashing lights and a garish "Road Maintenance" paint scheme could solve that for the Fiat.
One guy from a city hall in Latin America, told me: "if you want to change things, go _into_ authorities" [e.g. get elected, or become a public official] He insisted there's almost no chance to change cities for better if you are just an architect in a bureau, or do some tech tool for city planning. Inside "the power", there's little you can change, but any change lasts.

I'd also say, the ending part about reinventing the bus, is a very common thing, not only among the tech crowd. Every educated person has recipies that they suggest to copy&paste from abroad, think of how they'd solve a problem, etc. Often times the solution already exists, it's the matter of execution (e.g. buses need dedicated lanes, and lanes need enforcement, with fines for parking or driving by them).

Often times, the educated folks propose fighting for things that are happening already by themselves. E.g. in post-Soviet countries, you can hear people argue for suburbia like in America, express grief & sorrow for living in apartment buildings, suggest subsidies BUT the fact is cities are already rapidly sprawling in suburbia themselves!

Another, opposite trend, is to suggest to evacuate people from depopulating villages. People get so emotional about it. "Villages are money black hole!" "Budget leeches!" Yet, the migration is happening at rapid pace itself already! (Fun fact: these guys call themselves "liberals", and are pro-western.)

Some people can be both proponents of American suburbia, and evacuation of villages.
These articles provide a better summary than the LLM ever could: they are not worth reading in the first place.
> Right. Having a plain SQLite database with everything you do on your computer accessible to any program you or Microsoft run on your machine isn’t a problem at all?

We're way beyond the days when every program you run has equal access to all your data. These days, different programs have different levels of data access.
Here's the most recent article I summarized: https://daringfireball.net/2024/06/wwdc24_apple_intelligence

Gruber has always been loquacious, but this one seemed excessive to me. Still, I was curious for his overall impressions on Apple Intelligence.

The summary sounded interesting to me, so I then dedicated time to read the source. To your credit, ChatGPT's summary was much more critical than the actual article.
> AI tools are (mostly) you asking for what you want - albeit you're at the mercy of whatever the AI gives you back, but usually it's what you ask for.

For now.
One solution to this problem is to just consume less articles. Just only pick what seems really interesting to you.

Will you miss some cool stuff? Yes

Will you still encounter time wasters? Yes

We are consuming too much and not doing enough productively ourselves.
> Seems strange that people were damning algorithmic social media walls but are now welcoming preprocessed reality.

Are they the same people? The vast majority of users are consumers, they don't even think about these stuff, they only complain when the product degrade.

I don't see the privacy crowd who were conscious about their data and algorithmic feeds, are treating commercial LLMs products differently.
nice! thanks for posting this, that's a really nice distraction from work
What makes something good or evil? Who decides that? Why then?

Who or what is good and evil is assumed and it’s not things that are universally agreed to. Even in the “west” which is less than 1/4 the global population.

This is where I find the article lacking. How do we know what is good to spot what to invest in?
> They can charge each customer exactly the maximum amount possible

The company captures the consumer surplus. Generally currently we often get way more value than we pay for. We hate having that surplus taken away from us and we hate being charged what something is worth to us.

Two questions: How do we fight back? Is it unfair that we pay the amount that something is worth to us individually?

Currently think of any service you use and the value you get from it. What happens when Apple or Google start to try and capture the consumer surplus we receive?
In Finland I see the opposite problem. Traditional calling is dead, so there is absolutely no competition on international calls.

National calls and calls to nordic and Baltic countries are typically included in the subscription. But once you have to call to let's say central Europe per minute rates are exorbitant compared to today's data volume pricing.
Not sure why you get downvoted. The article indeed has only very shallow critique of LLMs.
Accountants, admins etc. are often very technical. Similar to developers who program every day.

For one, they are proficient with what are essentially high level programming environments and platforms like Excel, Filemaker, some CRM and CMS software etc. They also automate tasks. They just typically don’t know how to turn a simple text file into a program, like we do, but they do program.

Secondly and perhaps more importantly, they can do technical work for extended amounts of time. They know how to stare at a screen for hours, use the mouse and keyboard very effectively and quickly, spot mistakes and irregularities at a glance, and solve mistakes/issues in a structured manner.

That mechanical aspect of being technical is often overlooked. But I think it’s important and fundamental. Someone who never developed these skills lacks the intuition and sensibilities that are required to make sensible technical decisions.
If you have Mac and Ollama, you can use AppleScript to add summarization to any application - https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/system-wide-text-summarizati...
Possibly, I think I have seen both terms used.

Mine is a 1080p model. I have seen 4K TVs at friends houses but I can't say I miss it. Somehow the when you watch some old non HD it still looks good when projected on a wall. Sure it is not highres but the image seems smoothen the image instead of having a pixelated or badly upscaled result. For example these last few months I have been watching a lot the ER TV show and I wasn't the least annoyed by the lower res.
> You only have to look to the relative popularity of something like Arc browser

< 0.01% is not demonstrating a market
The whole framing for miltech in the article is infantilizing. The billions of defense R&D spending over decades are right now defending people in the most morally unambiguous war of the recent times. Every dusty Cold War piece of gear developed under the much derided motto of "protecting the free world" is now out there doing exactly that.