skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When one looks at history, it's like we're on a loop. And I think a big part of that is because we fail to ever "really" learn from the past. And I think one part of that is demonizing the past with labels, instead of actually trying to understand what really happened and why. Because when we overly demonize things it makes it impossible to imagine any reasonable person, let alone ourselves, ever engaging in anything even remotely awful - 'it could never happen again.' But of course it will, and it won't just be "evil" people doing it.

So to your post here - you're again factually mistaken. There were indeed numerous treatments for syphilis in the 19th century, as the paper specifically mentions treatment being withheld should have clued you into. These treatments had significant side effects, but such is often the nature of medicine. What would you think of a doctor that intentionally withheld chemo or other similarly dangerous treatments to thousands of cancer patients, to instead observe what happened to them absent treatment? That is what happened in Norway, and again I'm sure the doctor had the best of intentions, presumably he was working to develop a more effective treatment.

If you have any factual or logical arguments I'm more than happy to hear them, and indeed perhaps there is something I am not considering. But I find the appeals to emotion and bias mixed with a healthy helping of ad hominem and straw man quite silly, and I will not engage with that.
The best method of finding those is to watch HN and any time you find an interesting blogpost check the whole web-blog for some extra thoughts.
Seems like standard centre-left to me: no issues with current ideas of capital or governance structures at all!
Adint: Location Data from Smartphone Apps Jeopardizes German Security
It’s an early Tuesday morning somewhere in Bavaria. A person gets into a car to begin the commute to work. The person’s location data, which we have obtained, show the precise route taken for the commute. The drive ends at a secured facility to which most people have no access – a intelligence location in Upper Bavaria.
This location data is from a vast trove of data that we, BR and

netzpolitik.org, have evaluated – long tables with coordinates, timestamps accurate down to the second and identification numbers known as advertising IDs. Expressed as a series of letters and numbers, advertising IDs are used by the advertising industry to serve targeted advertising to select smartphones. But the location data can also be used for other purposes: If you have all the location data for a specific advertising ID, you can create a movement profile for an individual person.
If I walk outside I'm bombarded by ads. Almost all websites have been tailored to include ads and hide information. You're tracked on all devices you touch.

Vaguely referencing more laws or larger government doesn't mean anything. We're not talking about all problems but a specific one. There is an obvious imbalance between the power and information an individual consumer can use to shield themselves from activities by companies that are detrimental to them. We are also not expected to test our own food for toxins.

More platitudes and soundbites doesn't have to be the answer to all problems.
Why not just fork Firefox? IIRC there are already several actively-developed forks.
Would have agreed on that sentiment until a couple weeks ago...
And more importantly the relationship was much more symmetrical - you know about as much about your neighbors as they know about you and for the most part neither has more power over the other. This is not true today where someone who you have never even heard of could be offended by something you said or did and choose to weaponize public knowledge against you.
NativeWind uses Tailwind CSS to create a universal style system for React Native
> In contrast, the AI technology of the current golden age, which began in the mid-2010s, has consistently exceeded our expectations.

Well, until recently, that is. It looks like we hit the wall as for what LLMs can do - some might call it a plateau of productivity. Namely, as far as coding is concerned, LLMs can successfully create chunk of code of limited length and tiny programs, can also review small pieces of code and suggest improvements that are not related to the context of the whole program (unless it can fit in the context window). In spite of huge effort put in creating a system where LLM agents could work together to create software such as AutoGPT, no non-trivial program has been created in this way so far.
Something that has bothered me about Hacker News for years at this point is its complete disdain and disregard for an independent, reputable press.

Journalism isn’t a perfect industry by any means, but it hasn’t been responsible for the wholesale discount sale of America's manufacturing sector, nor has it pushed for the erosion of societal attention and trustworthiness like Social Media, nor has it been at the forefront of abusing gig work to the extremes of major players in the Sharing Economy — yet any center-left, traditional media outlet is met with ad-hominem attacks, logical fallacies, etc. If anything, that industry has been picked clean like vultures by the financial and thought leaders in this industry.

I don't fully understand the dynamic between the west-coast hate for the east-coast press but it seems inconsequential to me because while the truth has costs, weaponized lies can hurt much more.
I have, it works ok, but I still use a regular stud finder most of the time, unless something bizarre is going on.

It has been useful to find pipes and electrical with some confidence, when their location is called for.
How would that solve the problem? Years down the road, if they actually finish their browser, what guarantee do you have against it being enshittified in some way? The only option I see is a project that exists to deshittify an open source browser.
Not really. It's not massively likely, but if you do manage to drill into one fixing it is pretty costly. And that's not taking into account the risk of electrocution

Check out the Gosforth Handyman on how to avoid pipes and cables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTXAPYzqpY

(Note that the rules he describes on where cables should be are from UK regulations - other jurisdictions will have different rules).
So iDEX? There have been multiple attempts at that from motorola, the nokia n900, sailfish, ubuntu touch, linux on DEX, DEX, maruOS, windows whatever, citrix,...

Sounds nice in theory but people rarely actually use it.
It's just the angle they're using to solidify their market position and establish moats around their technology, if not an actual monopoly. All this fearmongering over "safety"? It's to get the governments the world over to "regulate" this stuff, thereby raising barriers to entry. Such a thing would essentially make them the only AI company that's allowed to do business.
A well treated slave is still a slave
Ladybird is the British term for ladybug
> Which will not stop the stalky behaviour of the ad industry. They'll still track me if I happen to click the wrong thing, or track me through my connections to other people. I suppose I could walk away from life and become a hermit, but that would be just a little extreme.

You could make some real progress without being a hermit though, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Don't use a smartphone, limit as much of your time online as you can, and pay in cash when you can. Those wouldn't make you a hermit but would seriously limit the data you make available to be gobbled up in the first place.

> This has often been said by companies and their shills. Oddly, they are all in favour of extra laws and government reach when it is, for example, to protect what they consider to be their intellectual property.

Well that's actually what I see as a better approach, remove protections for those companies and industries rather than trying to create new laws to limit them. Its a strange balancing act to attempt to both protect and limit an industry with different laws, we would be better off not doing either.
Only legal form of advertising should be in public marketplaces, that is it.
Mostly it does for me. I can put on some playlist that is generally satisfying enough. If I cared to put the effort into curating more playlists and spending the money on songs that I like that I'm missing I'd probably actually save money. I'm mostly not looking to discover hot new artists. Honestly, I wouldn't miss the lack of streaming much if it went away.
The dating app industry is booming in the USA.

As per Statista’s report, the revenue in the online dating market is projected to reach US$1.39bn in 2024 and is expected to reach a market volume of US$1.51bn by 2029.

Tinder, the popular dating app, has paved the way for countless others.

But what if you could create your dating app?

Think of a Tinder clone.

This blog will show you how you can make money with a Tinder clone, using simple steps.
SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS))

HyperLook was like HyperCard for NeWS, with PostScript graphics and scripting plus networking. Here are three unique and wacky examples that plug together to show what HyperNeWS was all about, and where we could go in the future!

https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-go...

The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines — October 1989

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo...

Open Window Manager: An X11 ICCCM Tabbed Window Manager written in Object Oriented PostScript, for X11/NeWS

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/owm.ps.txt
Related: the behavior of time in this proposal was implemented in Go playground more than a decade ago: https://go.dev/blog/playground#faking-time. Unfortunately it was never exposed.
The CUDA C APIs are supported as much in C as in C++ using SCALE!

Cuda-fortran is not currently supported by scale since we haven't seen much use of it "in the wild" to push it up our priority list.
I speculate that congress gets negative approval ratings as they are the proxy for the federal government agencies.

If you rep isn't "fixing" your issues with these oversight agencies, you hate the agency AND your rep.
It's 'expo', right?

https://expo.dev/

Haven't looked at this stack. Thanks for the suggestion.
Ya, no.

Sludge in a hole in your shop's backyard? Not worth it.

High level of chemicals in the air which may cause stillborns? Not worth it.

Scanning private files for an AI training? Not worth it.

Genocide? Not worth it.

There is absolutely nothing nowadays worth being banished from your livelihood.

Snowden and Assange are heroes. And insane. Threw away $$$ for their morals. Stanislav Petrov threw his career away instead of passing it up and let it be somebody's else problem.
Not sure, it was supposed to grow until I turned 67, at which point it was to be converted to a fixed annuity until my death. But I liquidated it early.
>There is no auto-update mechanism. Might not seem like a big deal, but IMO it is, especially on Windows where you're recommended to rely on 3rd party client to update the browser for you. You've now added a middle man, and since the binaries are not signed... well there's no guarantee you aren't downloading a malicious binary.

To me, this seems like a plus. If you want users to update, provide them with something worth updating to. This tracking suddenly being enabled for a ton of users is the very result of automatic updates.
The previous post said "indirectly" controls; maybe a misread?
You're not wrong with that percentage data.

But still we can separate desktop and mobile experiences and use cases.

Sure, majority of apps should have desktop version and a mobile version. Social media or messaging apps you name it. A lot.

But with this one I wanted to focus on desktop. A lot of things are still better (or different) on desktop. You have your keyboard, big screen, mouse and your focus time. Mobile is one big distraction and people use it while traveling to kill some time mostly. I want to build desktop and web software for the productivity time people spend on computer, laptops. It's just a small piece. I may be biased but looking at what I do and people around: desktop use time is way different that mobile use time and I want to simply target for desktop.
> All AI will and should be open-source and home-ran

I hope you're right. Technology this good should be free as in freedom.
I was with you until secureboot.

At least on my Debian I retain full control using the shim and my own enrolled keys. So seems less an issue with the technology but perhaps with how some vendors (that are already locking you in anyway) use secureboot?

from https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot

>> Shim then becomes the root of trust for all the other distro-provided UEFI programs. It embeds a further distro-specific CA key that is itself used for as a trust root for signing further programs (e.g. Linux, GRUB, fwupdate). This allows for a clean delegation of trust - the distros are then responsible for signing the rest of their packages. Shim itself should ideally not need to be updated very often, reducing the workload on the central auditing and CA teams.
> Maybe now they'll be able to factorize 3*5 with the general Shor's algorithm

Nope, that still needs a lot more work...
You’ll notice that Google search now shows excerpts from things you can’t actually see visiting the site (paywalled news, paywalled scientific articles). The age of “show us exactly what users see or get downranked into oblivion” is long gone, sadly.
Swarm compute should be the norm for all compute - so much unused cpu across all the devices we collectively own.
Or else make the bad habit a reward that has to be earned in some formula you specify, e.g. "walk 10,000 steps/500 calories to earn 1 beer/hamburger/donut".
I think I was not very specific, but I think there is a lot of video on YouTube that does not make any money for the producers and in the past YouTube also did not show ads for these videos, but now they show Ads even if the producers of the content don't receive any money. I watch mostly lectures and niche videos on YouTube, I am pretty sure for most of these videos, the only entity getting Money out of it is YouTube.
> (or in some cases that you have been abducted by aliens)

Really? There are therapists who will try to convince you that you were abducted by aliens?
Can AI Replace Language Teachers? My Journey with AITalkTutor
Hi HackerNews,

I recently made my first GPT wrapper with the idea of replacing language teachers and tutors with AI. The idea is to create speaking lessons with AI instead of a regular teacher. My project, AITalkTutor, leverages GPT, Gemini, Whisper, and TTS technologies to offer an interactive and flexible learning experience.

While it’s not a perfect substitute for human teachers, AI tutoring brings several unique benefits to the table:

- Affordability: At $2.20 for a 45-minute lesson, AITalkTutor is more cost-effective than traditional tutoring, with a goal to lower the cost to $1 per lesson.
- Flexibility: Students can start, pause, and resume lessons on their own schedule, making learning more adaptable to individual needs.
- Data-Driven Insights: By maintaining a complete conversation history, we can analyze interactions to provide personalized feedback and insights, helping students improve their speaking skills more effectively.
- The future of AI in education is a fascinating topic. The ability to deliver affordable, flexible, and highly personalized learning experiences could be a game-changer for language acquisition.

What do you think about the idea of replacing language teachers with AI? Can AI provide a comparable or even superior learning experience? I'd love to hear your thoughts and engage in a discussion about the potential and challenges of this approach.

Looking forward to your feedback and insights!
ADF uses radio direction finding techniques. It's not very accurate and is all but deprecated except for some corner cases where the legislation hasn't yet allowed for overlay approaches (replacing a real radio beacon with its true position via GPS / IRS).

There are some convincing reasons for being cautious on general on that front. Accidents have happened because some beacons have been substituted for the wrong location or even things like slant range being different from true range. In general ADF is so inaccurate that its protected areas are massive.
- Why couldn't soviet microelectronics take over the world? - They couldn't fit the factory gates.
You can beat gpt4/claude in terms of price/performance for most things by a mile using fine tuned models running in a colo. Those extra parameters give the chatbots the ability to understand malformed input and to provide off the cuff answers about almost anything, but small models can be just as smart about limited domains.
I'd guess most services where performance matters are in the background. And this particular C++ service is only accessible over internal LAN, to be used by other back-end servers.

I agree with you that if ha-proxy and nginx didn't exist yet, they would be prime candidates for being implemented in Rust. But now that they already exist and reliably work, I'm not sure there is enough pain for them to get replaced anytime soon. BTW the last ha-proxy CVE was them differing from the HTTP spec and accepting the # character in additional URL components, which is something that probably no compiler could have flagged.
Seeing ads outside likely doesn't harm you though, you can ignore them. If your city is plastered with ads to a point at where you can't stand it you can always move, that's just another part of a city that someone may decide they don't like and want something different.

> Almost all websites have been tailored to include ads and hide information. You're tracked on all devices you touch.

That's really the crux of it though. The problem isn't just that companies are gobbling up all this data, it's also that we make the data available in the first place.

Stop using a smartphone and taking it everywhere with you, limit what you do online in general, and pay cash when you can. A few simple changes would really reduce the data you make available, I'm sure there are other simple changes I'm missing here but the point is that we don't have to protect data that doesn't exist.
Acting stupid and being uninformed, clueless, incompetent CTO/CEO/CXX is less prone to lawsuits than admitting intent of harm.
Does the temperature actually change discontinuously in a physical system from -infty to +infty, or is it a theoretical artifact that does not show up experimentally?
> People can still run them, but why would you

Because there’s always some MBA thinking “Wait! We can charge them AND show them ads too!” They need to be legally barred from doing that.
Yup, a much more simple version of the Sears model. The business was worth 0, but the land was worth quite a bit.
Remaking the "Ice Climber" (NES) – Game Loop Architecture Devlog2 [video]
Hi community! For the past few weeks, I've been fully immersed in developing a remake of the "Ice Climber" (NES) game. The project is gaining momentum, and I'm seizing every opportunity to share the development progress through devlogs. First of all, I want to thank you for the warm reception of the first episode by the community; I'm very happy and excited! I'm trying to balance the game development with creating the videos. In these past few days, I've managed to produce the second devlog episode, briefly and visually explaining the architecture I've chosen to develop the Game Loop. Everything from scratch, without using any game engine, only using C++ and Raylib. I think the video is compact, short, and quite educational. I'm sure it's very easy to digest and, I believe, very interesting!

Last week was very productive. I integrated moving platforms like clouds and sliding ground, as well as the sliding effect when the player runs and stops abruptly on ice. I had a lot of fun implementing these important elements of the game. This week, I'll be adding the first enemy of the game, specifically the Topi. Topi is a snow monster that calmly walks across the mountain floors, and if it touches you, you lose a life. At first glance, it doesn't seem complicated to implement, but the Topi has the peculiar characteristic of filling holes in the ground with ice blocks, and this behavior involves giving the character four different states: walking on the floor and detecting holes, running to get an ice block, carrying the ice block to fill the hole, or remaining stunned when hit with the hammer. And, to make it even more complicated, the Topi is not exempt from falling and can, therefore, fall to lower floors. It's going to be a very entertaining week, for sure!

Sorry, I don't want to be annoying! I just want to end this message by emphasizing that the project's source code is 100% open, meaning the entire process is as transparent as possible. I encourage you to sit in the co-pilot's seat and observe the journey from a privileged point of view. I think it could be a lot of fun!

Devlog #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnqatUKSv_g

Source code: https://github.com/albertnadal/IceClimberClone
> I can't wait for Ladybird to get good

I don't see that happening in a decade. What makes you so optimistic?
We can, but, as OP noted, the change is only temporary, while political change is harder, but also tends to last longer. I still remember when pihole worked on most things. These days it is just a part of adblocking approach for me.

tldr: Some of us are tired of fiddling with things where were we shouldn't have to.

<< More laws and larger governments doesn't have to be the answer to all problems.

If market participants can't behave ( and they clearly can't help themselves ), it is the only real answer.

<< If consumers care enough they'll change their usage, if they don't change their usage they likely don't care enough.

Or.. options for consumers are limited, which affects what they do. In all seriousness, streaming execs seemed to admit the ads simply bring more money for them so they don't care if non-ad version is profitable. It is not enough.

My household dropped Netflix and Prime over their silliness. We currently still have Disney until they get too greedy. And that is just streaming. Regular net is soooo much worse without a way to scrub the ads away.
They don’t advertise this feature. It’s not a user visible feature. They sneakily do it to call home with app data.

LG is notorious for this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/lg-sm...
Where is the money for training big expensive open source models going to come from once the investor hype blows over and companies like Mistral actually have to try to make a profit? They currently have negligible revenue despite their $6 billion valuation, that status quo can't be maintained forever.
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So that I can block all ads with ease.
Interest rates haven't been near zero for a while. I am not sure the logic of being 100% in stocks still makes sense right now, especially since you can get 4-5% interest in cash accounts and bonds are also starting to pay higher rates. Stocks are high right now too, and it's hard to see that stocks will deliver high returns from this point. Looking ahead, there are plenty of risks of inflation returning, especially in the US, and so I suspect rates are unlikely to fall back as fast as a lot of people are assuming.
I use a surface pro 9 for development, diagramming, note taking, media, light fusion 360 (on the iGPU), and gaming (with an egpu). it's a great machine with a few minor flaws, primarily battery life and cooling performance. at a go anywhere device, it's hard to beat. the price is obscene though, especially considering it's not OLED.

I'm keen to try the arm version though, and the Minisforum V3 is interesting tho not much of an upgrade