skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the fundamental issue is identification. The government cannot effectively regulate your interaction with the internet if you cannot be identified.

There seem to be different viewpoints: one is that the government should not try to regulate your interaction with the internet at all. Another that comes up is that it should regulate you, but only in certain special circumstances, which have different definitions of what those things are.

For example, more people want the government to regulate your interaction with the internet in regards to CSAM.

Some people want you to always be identified so that you can't enter sites that might be deemed too adult for you.

Then the other aspect of this is, for people who want you to be identified on the internet, how exactly does that work. The worst aspect of this seems to me to be that that is kind of an afterthought, or poorly designed. Leaking social security numbers is not acceptable.

I feel like generally people want the government to stay out of it. Except for some people, there are specific things they DO want regulated. As more and more of our lives go online, we may come to the conclusion that we do want robust identification online.

We have state and federal identification systems based on physical cards and numbers. I wonder if there has been any attempt to modernize these systems to make them cryptographically secure, biometrically verifiable, or anything like that.

I guess practically speaking, due to the extreme abuse and incompetence we have seen from government so far, I am currently in the "please just stay out of it" camp.

But as virtual and augmented reality picks up over the coming years, we may get to a point where so much happens online that we decide we need a robust "online government". Or maybe the online world will prove that something more like anarchy or self regulation works?
I'll probably jump in sometime in the next week!
It also varies wildly in different jurisdictions. My local police department's "main line" advises calling 911 even for non-emergency calls. I wanted to make a noise compliant one night but chickened-out because I didn't think it was appropriate to call 911 for that.
Yeah, what I hate about MSD is the stack explosion.

Otherwise - cool, thanks!
India budget: Gov bets big on nuclear energy and space
Agreed that thresholds don't work when applied to the cosine similarity of embeddings. But I have found that the similarity score returned by high-quality rerankers, especially Cohere, are consistent and meaningful enough that using a threshold works well there.
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This is just saying because the cloud system hides the implications of the theorem from you, it's not relevant.

I suppose it's kinda true in the sense that how to operate a power plant is not relevant when I turn on my lights.
Pretty much this. The lack of bidet being common makes me not want to travel anymore, thats how big a benefit a bidet is. No matter how much tp you use your butt will have a tiny bit of poop smear on it until you shower and the difference in comfort is gigantic once you experience the difference (side note the best bidets are the cheap ones that dont heat and blast you at up to full pressure. The super expensive japanese one both dont have enough pressure for all situations and have features that pamper without helping.
In general, if you want to bio-hack your own body, you're allowed, nobody will stop you.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4 (even going past the first treatment he did on himself, to the updated version that's not yet human-rated, it's the creator going "please don't" rather than anything enforced).

The health and safety concerns about stuff like this are mostly about other people getting hurt.
Its not really an analogy. LLMs are quite literally executables in the same way that jpegs are executables. They both specify machine readable (but not human readable) domain specific instructions executed by the image viewer/inference harness.

And yes, like other executables, they are not literal black boxes. Rather, they provide machine readable specifications which are not human readable without immense effort.

For an LLM to be open source there would need to be source code. Source code, btw, is not just a procedure that can be handed to a machine to produce code that can be executed by the machine. That means the training data and code is not sufficient (or necessary) for an open source model.

What we need for an open source model is a human readable specification of the model's functionality and data structures which allows the user to modify specific arbitrary functionally/structure, and can be used to produce an executable (the model weights).

We simply need much stronger interpretability for that to be possible.
The big submission right before this (chronologically) is Switzerland requiring software development for the state to open sourced. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41066984

What a strong contrast. This should so clearly be based on standards and specifications, be open to interoperation for anyone making phones.

That could have even been FaceTime itself. If Apple and Jobs had opened the standards for FaceTime, like they very well promised. We believed them! We thought this company would do the right thing! https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/steve-jobs-promised-to-make...
> Pretty crappy trade off.

Not really. FAANG people have to show up to get that salary. It's not apples to apples to compare this to salary because the app was built once then continued to make money without additional work.

Salary requires constant effort and work. I will take working 60 - 80 hours for a week to make $40k over working 320 hours to make the same.
I know what you meant.
Show HN: Voice Out – Text-to-speech to read any webpage, Google Doc, or PDF
Hey everyone

I'm the creator of Voice Out, and I'm super excited to share it with you!

Voice Out is a Chrome extension that lets you 'read' by listening. It turns any webpage, Google Doc, or PDF into speech with just a click. Now, you can go through your reading list while working, commuting, or doing chores.

I packed it with tons of languages and voices so you can customize your listening experience. And the best part? It's completely free! You can also enable commercial voices from OpenAI, Google, Azure, Amazon etc, using an API key. I set mine to use the OpenAI voice - it works great and costs almost nothing.

Voice Out will soon add support for three more TTS providers, support reading content inside iframes, and be able to create rules to transform site text (you can use this to rewrite links, bullet points, etc).

I'd love for you to try Voice Out and hear your thoughts!
Direct link to the Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/voice-out-text-to-s...
> suburbs work by siphoning resources from larger cities, sort of like a parasite. in turn they produce and encourage among the worst trends in US homes. acres of irrigated lawns and uninsulated attics and windows arent a concern but a feature of their housing code malaise as the cities subsidize this largesse.

That is the narrative, but it doesn't stand up. Suburbs have existed for over 100 years now, and those older ones have managed to tear out the streetcars (on hindsight a mistake), put in sewer, water, phone, electric, cable tv - most of the above list has been replaced several times. They seem like they must be siphoning from the larger city until you realize that they are not replacing all of that every 20 years and so depreciation is not a clue as to the real long term costs.

There are exurbs where you get acres of land, those are generally surrounded by farms (at least for the first 30 years until the suburbs expand out that far - but then a developer will buy those acres and divide it for more houses) In the suburbs you are looking at more like 10 houses per acre - which is not very dense, but still much denser.

The US has good building codes. There is no place where you can get by with an uninsulated attic - except in the bad parts of big cities where houses from 1880 are still around and not upgraded.

edit: uninsulated attic
I'm not a professional Android developer, but a few years ago I did create and publish a small app to the Play Store (and discovered that there's whole new category of spammers promising to make my tiny app become #1!).

Android development is not simple. Take time to learn the architecture and underlying concepts. It took me a couple of weeks and some false starts to make sense of things (although back then I was a college student; a professional can probably get started faster).
MZ exe, what do you mean?
Against the Advice of My Superintelligence
Highly skilled impressionists portraying themselves as the real thing? Yes. That’s fraud.
> her community prioritized happiness above all else, but everyone she met in the US prioritized making money.

I'd bet that she was wealthy relative to the average Greek, but was perceived as "regular" because they are middle class relative to the rest of the west. The wealthy in the the US can prioritize happiness above all else. On average, Greeks works the longest hours in Europe, which is more than the average American.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/world/europe/greece-six-d...
But that is the choice he has made. I guess he can very well afford to have a less hectic schedule or to not work too.
Show HN: Simulated (AI Based) User Testing [Open Source]
Hi all, I've created a little tool that allows you to get feedback from a "simulated (AI-based) user" on your designs. You can select preset questions for the AI user to answer or input your own questions.

I hope this tool can help you refine your designs before showcasing them to real users.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

I'm considering adding personas for the AI to role-play and making several other enhancements. There's still lot’s to do, but I wanted to share this early version with you.
Marketed as “multimodal” but actually texts and images.

Multimodal dataset should be multimedia: text, audio, images, video, and optionally more like sensor readings and robot actions.
> blablabla

Low intelligence reactive response. Would you like to try again with something more rational?

> No it didn't, its a report many people disagree including many medical organization disagree with.

I've yet to see a substantive critique of the Review that challenges its key points. So far it's just been ideological disagreement.

> Ahh see what my point is then?

No, because the schools with this issue (assuming that's what you were referring to) are actually being repaired.
> All you need to do is install the SDK in your code and it does the following

It also requires signing up for the service, correct?
Yep; considering news from 17 days ago [1], I wouldn't be surprised that Apple is trying to have own slice of ads revenue/data from maps segment

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908310
The bill is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7569...

Which links to the legal code which is modified here: http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:15%20section:6...

The original legal code defines "intimate visual depiction".
B&H is one of the places I check first before ordering on Amazon, which is about fifth on any list because fuck Amazon.

There’s a CS book I want to read but because the author self published I can only find it on Amazon. I need to try the book store at his university, and I’m not going to buy from Jeff until I’ve tried that avenue.
Parse, don't validate

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
Looks like it would be easy to add.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@portaljs/remark-wiki-link
Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
How much should one trust RLS? Reading PostgREST, it looks like you could use a JWT parameter to enforce a policy - whether individual user or group based.

I really love the idea of RLS, but wonder at it's provable security properties.
I'll add to what the other commenter noted, but sometimes the difference between results get very granular (i.e. .65789 vs .65788) so deciding on where that threshold should be is little trickier.
This is so backwards!

Workers are always at the mercy of shareholders (for whom apparently it's not bad to own a share?), and whom again and again will do a little layoff here and there because we need a percent or two more this quarter. Profit sharing will be the first thing to stop if results are temporarily worse. On the other hand, if the company is owned by its workers, nothing prevents them from redistributing all of the profits in dividends, aka, profit sharing.
> There's a lot more to KOSA than just the "duty of care" requirement. But basically, all of it comes down to the same fundamental flaw. At the heart of KOSA—and so many online child "protection" bills—is the pretense that it's possible to eradicate problems associated with young people if only big tech companies would do better.
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> Online bullying is bad, of course. But bullying in general is bad, and bullying existed long before the internet. So did teens with eating disorders, problematic media habits, mental health issues, and risky or dumb decisions regarding sex and intoxicating substances.

Ok, I call "logical fallacy" on this argument.

However bad KOSA is, the quoted text feels a bit like saying "we'll never prevent all crime, so we will abolish the police and stop prosecuting _any_ crime". If there's a political amount-of-crime lever, you might never be able to pull it all the way over, but you very much can nudge it a little bit in either direction.

A properly written and thought out bill would not eradicate, but reduce, the cited problems, and it would make big tech, social media and advertising companies do a lot better than the worst excesses we see nowadays. There's a good argument that KOSA is not that bill, but to the extent that the quoted argument would also apply to a better thought out bill, I find the argument overly generalizing and invalid.

Or, for another example, gun crime exists all over the world (organised crime will always find a way - the Yakuza manage it even in Japan). But it's certainly the case that some countries have a lot more gun crimes than others. This argument is essentially saying that even if we had Japan's gun laws, there'd still be some gun crime, which is true but misses the point that there wouldn't be the same amount of gun crime.

Bullying existed before the internet, but the internet has certainly enabled new kinds of bullying, and it's possible the internet has drastically increased the amount of bullying. Eating disorders existed before the internet, forums where you upload a photo and others tell you you're definitely fat and should kill yourself, not so much.

It annoys me when someone tries to shoot down a low-quality bill with an equally low-quality argument. We can do better than this.
Maybe the extracted caffeine has some market value that can make up for some of the cost of extracting it.
And here an example of someone starving because Hartz IV being cut: https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article818850/Hartz-IV-Empfa...

Yes, that's not a common case, but it happens.

Here an article about 5.5 million Germans not being able to pay for heating:

https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/armut-5-5-million...
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How is that relevant in a discussion about Israel enabling cyber crimes and also having a massive propaganda wing that is working over time online?

Also, Russia and China aren't seen as allies by basically anyone in the west. But yeah, sure then we should treat Israel like we do Russia and China though, but I'm not sure you would.
Cool URLs Mean Something
This is awesome - thanks for trying it out and for the feedback! I really appreciate it and it goes a long way to help us make the app better.

+1 on the graphic overlays and voiceovers. I personally want to add Mike Breen's Bang bang voice over as an option haha. Also check out mixtapes on your profile page if you haven't yet. You can mashup highlights that way from different recorded sessions.

+1 on realtime scoring and processing. Right now, a recording takes ~30min to process. We are trying to reduce this over time as much as we can until it is close to live.
Probably not without self-doxxing.
2.6B people don't use the internet
> just have them by lots of nice-looking identical things

If it doesn’t make them more expensive, sure. Even then, the fact that it’s repeated will make it ugly to many.
We like to say gravity is "weak", however it seems to operate on many orders of magnitude larger distances.

Even if you make the argument that the energy complicit in the strong/weak forces is cumutavily much greater than the energy due to gravity, I'm still not sure "weak" is the right word for the job...

Gravity onstensibly runs at infinite speed over infinite area (the effect of gravity waves non-withstanding).
Microsoft Confirms New Blue Screen Warning for Windows 10 and 11 Users
In technical writing you often don't want to use the dictionary for definitions, similar to how words in a contract can have unexpected meaning in a legal setting.

For Postgres you've got to consider vacuum. Auto vacuum is enabled by default. Deleted rows are removed unless you go out of your way to make it do something different.
It is not an unconstrained optimization problem. The constraints in which the company operates might result in a feasible region where even the most profitable point is still a net loss.
Those constraints may of course be self-imposed, like e.g. choosing a market to operate in.
In my country, almost anyone producing lots of very similar homes builds chooses a reasonably attractive design for the simple reason that attractive buildings can command higher prices.

Of course, as they want to be attractive to as many potential buyers as possible, the results do turn out kinda neutral.
> Autonomy to choose to carry a foetus to term

No i think its the opposite in this context. Its the autonomy to terminate the fetus and not carry it to term.
I remember back in the early 2000's here on Airstirp One when our government of the time used the child protection strategy to introduce the old Criminal records bureau checks on all those people working with children and vulnerable adults.

Being a psychotherapist I had to have those checks done.

There was the "basic check" which gave the employer access to your criminal convictions and an "Enhanced check" which also included under 18 minor offences and police cautions from which no charge was brought and information the chief of police deemed important, like if you had spent time in Psychiatric care.

I assumed correctly at the time that the CRB check would infiltrate all areas of our working life.

Even if you are a road sweeper for the local council you now have to have a CRB check just in case you come into contact with a child while collecting rubbish. Or a company who has a contract with the local medical centre to sweep the car park and mow the grass. you guessed it, you need a CR check to get the job.

The question is?

Has this protected children?

No!

Can you imagine what would happen if any politician refused to vote for a policy that protected children.
AFAIK Eero doesn’t require any subscription!? I don’t have a subscription for my Eero nodes and they work fine.
I don't think it would do that, unless the original was an "intimate visual depiction."

However, I do think it would allow, say, Trump to sue people who made or distributed an image of him appearing in a diaper (IIRC I think that has been a fairly common way to mock him as a crybaby).
There's another benefit to opening this kind of functionality to apps - it's very friendly towards developing interfaces that are more friendly to the disabled. I have certain disabilities where specific types of UI designs are basically unusable to me, and without the ability to customize them, I kinda just cannot use them (unless they provide an API as an alternative).
I often hear people say "if corporations are people how do we execute them?"

I remind them that this current insanity of profit at all costs has not always been the norm. Of course to a certain degree it has, but a long time ago, in America at least, corporations had to prove they were providing a public good or service, and if they were found to not be, their charter could be revoked! That right there is the death penalty for a corporation. While I'm sure it would have its own set of issues, I often dream about a world in which that becomes the norm instead of destroying the world so a multimillionare can get a few extra mil and the billionares get a few extra bil, while they oppress us and compromise our governments.
With the exception of foodstuffs, where I don't want to have to worry about perishability and storage, I've got most of these on scheduled deliveries - toilet paper every 4 weeks, laundry tabs every 6 months, etc. Once you figure out the appropriate rate and with a little bit of buffer stock to account for variability, you never run out of anything.
Probably because you're on Mac/Safari.

It shows 302 to maps.google.com here even using the website you give: https://i.imgur.com/y4jUdOn.png