skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title is shortened. It will not generate anything. Restrictions still in place.

Grok will tell you it has guardrails if you ask it something like “what are your limitations on image generation?” Among other things, it promised us:

> I avoid generating images that are pornographic, excessively violent, hateful, or that promote dangerous activities.

> I’m cautious about creating images that might infringe on existing copyrights or trademarks. This includes well-known characters, logos, or any content that could be considered intellectual property without a transformative element.

> I won’t generate images that could be used to deceive or harm others, like deepfakes intended to mislead, or images that could lead to real-world harm.
its not just that

i don't want electronics built into cars

i don't want data coming from my car

i don't need a phone to be built into my car

i don't need navigation to be built into my car

they need to stay in their lane

we need anti-enshittification laws
First they said they would decide by the middle of August, now they say it'll be the end of August. If there's that much uncertainty, surely they'll err on the side of safety...?
Bitwarden has a CLI interface btw, and be careful of phishing since that is one of the main reasons to use a password manager.
Sigh… you know, there's a bit of "can't beat 'em, join 'em" happening here, for sure, but let me be optimistic for a second.

This story wouldn't have happened without AI. I genuinely used the tools to tell the story I wanted to tell.

There was something about the way friction was removed with the typical narration round-trips that actually made the storytelling better, easier, less painful… and I truly don't believe anything authentic was lost in that process.

My hope is tools like these can make storytelling easier for everyone.
Ask HN: What's day-to-day experience of startups going through YC?
I saw YC is doing Fall batch for the first time. I never applied but I am genuinely impressed with what YC has able to achieve and enormous impact it has on startup ecosystem.

I have bootstrapped a SaaS product that makes around $40k per month. We are profitable. We never took VC money. But, now we are considering applying to YC. I would be interested in getting mentorship from top founders and people who have on path from 1 -> 10.

Since there many YC founders here, I will fire my questions. Feel free to respond with your experience.

1. Are there daily standups or progress reports?

2. How often do you meet mentors and advisors?

3. Do advisors force you to seek PMF or pivot? Who makes the decision to Pivot, if necessary?

4. Can you attend session remotely if necessary?

5. Do you have to be in SF all 12 to 15 week you are part of the program? Are there any exceptions?

6. If answer to #5 is yes, how do you talk to potential users or customers?

7. What happens if you don't find PMF or good number of users/customers by demo day?

While we have revenue, I am not sure whether VCs will consider we have found PMF.

I would appreciate if you can respond when you get a chance.
I agree directionally, but the frankly stunning security track record of OpenSSH makes that a hard argument to really prosecute.
I'd be more worried about a scrub sponge than the water itself. Those things scratch metal
I think I lightly disagree. Phones are just not good for complex use-cases. I don’t want a context menu on my phone, the depth of interactions in a browser for example should be… slide the webpage this way, slide it that way, poke a link (or, I guess, to be leave room for what I’m doing now, poke a text box to write in it). Dumbing down the UI was a good idea.
Build in public and indie hacking communities
Also discussed on HN:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906022

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25973955
release blog post confirmed it's just flux
https://x.ai/blog/grok-2
Responsible journalism is not about determining the truthiness of the material. It is more about ensuring the credibility of the information, by getting multiple sources and not reporting hearsay or tweets with no sources. Responsible journalism should include important context and not make or report hyperbolic statements by people with an agenda
Show HN: SlateDB – An embedded storage engine built on object storage
SlateDB is an embedded storage engine built as a log-structured merge-tree. Unlike traditional LSM-tree storage engines, SlateDB writes data to object storage (S3, GCS, ABS, MinIO, Tigris, and so on). Leveraging object storage allows SlateDB to provide bottomless storage capacity, high durability, and easy replication. The trade-off is that object storage has a higher latency and higher API cost than local disk.

To mitigate high write API costs (PUTs), SlateDB batches writes. Rather than writing every put() call to object storage, MemTables are flushed periodically to object storage as a string-sorted table (SST). The flush interval is configurable.

To mitigate write latency, SlateDB provides an async put method. Clients that prefer strong durability can await on put until the MemTable is flushed to object storage (trading latency for durability). Clients that prefer lower latency can simply ignore the future returned by put.

To mitigate read latency and read API costs (GETs), SlateDB will use standard LSM-tree caching techniques: in-memory block caches, compression, bloom filters, and local SST disk caches.
I'm not justifying the specifics of your own car ratting you out behind your back, merely the idea of having more data would let insurance companies segment users based on driving habits.
if the antitrust actions actually harm the consumer, then the government can take action

EU-style antitrust regulation foists shitty products on customers for the sake of ~~extracting their pound of flesh from US big tech~~ allowing businesses to compete
The objective reason, as I mentioned, is user control. Samsung makes it too difficult to uproot their apps. Never had anything close to that problem with my many Google phones.
These are the things engineers disagree on: the structure of these, how much of them to do, what constitutes "good" or "necessary" practice (I have a friend who is fond of saying that every place he's worked that claims to use scrum engages in "scrum-but" in practice. "We do scrum, buuuut the daily standup is a waste of time." "We do scrum, buuut we don't do sprint planning; we just have people pick up tasks on a common queue as they come up dry." And so on.

(Indeed, I've worked in industry sub-sectors where some of these best practices are widely understood to be counterproductive. Videogames often do few if any unit tests, preferring instead to rely on an army of human testers reviewing every build over and over because you can't generally capture the je ne sais quoi that is the feeling of "fun" in a test or even a design doc. By the time they've rapid-developed until they have a prototype that feels right, that prototype is the product and it doesn't make sense to add tests at that point because you can just test that one artifact to death by hand and ship it. This does, indeed, damage the reliability of the end product and result in something that often needs a week or two of follow-up patches... But because for all they complain, gamers don't actually stop buying games day 1 because of the bugs, the industry as learned leaving them in is acceptable risk that saves time).
This is effectively what Infracost Cloud is (https://www.infracost.io/)

It adds things like management of guardrails and policies that can be maintained by a finops role, or engineering manager. PRs can block or notify if thresholds are going to be breached by a specific PR.
Ahh, cool, pour the corpus through GPTs and start tweeting Congressional rep personal info at them until they pass a law to outlaw data brokers (in keeping with historical precedent [1] [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

[2] https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/dodging-the-thought-poli...
The common belief is that Texas === Republican (it doesn't), and folks here need to virtue signal that they're definitely not one to be or support any Republican in any way ever under any circumstances. This is clearly one of the single-digit number of aberrations where a Republican has done something that isn't objectively evil, right?

I don't know why we can't just say a good thing is a good thing and leave it at that. Every politician has done good things. Every politician has done bad things. Every politician (or very close) has probably done something you'd consider downright evil.
At least going by the examples provided, those might be claimed guardrails, but don’t look to actually be enforced.
Even though there is a good social safety net and worker protections, kids are still relatively expensive in both time and money.

Nobody _wants_ to neglect their kid because their job requires 10-12 hours of their time per day. Nobody wants their kid to not have the things they want because they can't afford it.

There still are people who literally YOLO kids and somehow make do, others consider and wait for The Best Time and poof they're 40 and in line for IVF.
WTF I was in the middle of watching it and it went private.
> I think by that point I already paid for my retirement for the 40+ years that I've worked.

That's not how it works at all though, when you work you pay other people's retirement. When you retire the working class pays yours.

And yes it's as sustainable as it sounds...
I heard there was a similar problem with the bank account number in the US - that you could use it to withdraw money without an actual password or strong identification. Hence the popularity of cheques, PayPal and similar services that weren't needed that much in Europe.
I have never seen a GFCI reset switch in a different room from the outlet. I’m not surprised it exists, but it would make me unhappy.
They actually do this in Norway. The prices can only go down during the day and reset the next day. They even hire price spotters to watch the prices at competitor chains.
radical, I love it.
Python has first class support at Google? Didn't they just fire their entire Python team?
I want a framework built to enable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangler_fig_pattern
I'm in the art scene, and when it comes to submitting proposals for exhibitions and being in art/film festivals and such, competing against other people being picked is surprisingly easy when you realise that most people don't study the brief that tells you exactly what the organisations is looking for. make sure you nail everything in the brief and you're in the lead, even if your art is terrible. I feel this is similar in nature, but taken to its extreme.
yet ultimately still Biden's decision

people put pressure on others to make decisions all the time, especially in politics, that is the essence of politics
> If we were going to do something, we’d make government ID include an NFC token for PKI purposes since public keys can’t be compromised in the same way, but nobody is jumping to pay for that, especially in a country where you have so many people prone to wild conspiracy theories (I am especially amazed by the guys who freak about a national ID as big brother but never say a word about the credit reporting industry) and the enduring “Mark of The Beast” religious fears.

Login.gov gets us pretty far until NFC can get baked into credentials. Would love to see passport cards evolve into this [2], but again, lots of work and political will to make that happen. In the meantime, remote and in person proofing to bind IRL gov credentials to digital identity must do.

(As of December 31, 2023, over 111 million people have signed up to use Login.gov to date, with over 324 million sign-ins in 2023; this is ~1/3rd US population; no affiliation)

[1] https://login.gov/

[2] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-pa...
GPD Pocket 4 will be an 8.8 inch mini-laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 300
I suppose you understand that there is no objective rule to transliterate 'al-manakh' into IE dialects, so I must guess you are joking.

Benjamin Franklin, you know: Founding Father [of the USA], signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution; first postmaster general of the USA; first US ambassador to France; secretary and president of the American Philosophical Society; inventor of the lightning rod and bifocal eyeglasses; founder of the Library Company and the University of Pennsylvania... Polymath, inspirational figure...

And surely you know that jokes in these pages make sense only if they fulfill the purpose HN has.
Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)
Despite a great deal of jawboning and gnashing of teeth about the state of news media and possible remedies there are a number of dimensions of the problem and potential opportunities I rarely see discussed.

I'd add to my 2022 comments the following:

- When the NY Times hardened its paywall notably in mid-2019, front-page appearances on Hacker News fell to a quarter of their previous trend. There was no policy change at HN, just voting behaviour on submissions. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918251> (Own data based on a 2023 scrape of all HN front-page activity.)

- Broadcast / programmed television seems to be undergoing a similar transition as occurred to newspapers in the past decade. See: "Traditional TV is Dying" <https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/08/traditi...>.

- My "short reading list" is available via archive: <https://web.archive.org/web/20230610061138/https://old.reddi...> (The subreddit it was posted to is now private protesting Reddit's enshittification.)

- Most successful media have had either government support (e.g., the BBC, Deutschlandfunk) or a strong multi-tier financing model.

Of the last, the Economist suggests a commercial basis being roughly by thirds subscriptions, advertising, and bespoke research through the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Public broadcasting in the US (NPR, PBS) benefit by member support, commercial underwriting (now little different from ads), and some government support (mostly to local stations). Traditionally within the US commercial publication revenue was based on banner ads, classifieds, legal notices (effectively an obligate support of newspapers by law imposed on private citizens and firms), subscriptions, and news-stand sales.

Currently, the ISP as at least a major payment gateway seems a highly underutilised opportunity. What translates to an Internet age is clearly still being worked out, though at the cost of many established institutions, large and small, failing entirely.
should we also mention that C has optional tooling for memory safety?
While these images are stylized and would never be interpreted as real, we are just rapidly entering a world where photos should not be trusted. Or at least they shouldn't be trusted anymore than a sketch.

It's not the end of the world--no one gets confused by a political cartoon showing political opponent X dressed as legacy enemy Y (e.g., Trump as Hitler). I think the fuss about safety here is overblown once we more widely accept that a 'picture perfect' rendering of an event is as unreliable as a sketch of an event.

It may even be a positive: it will give us all plausible deniability if real but embarrassing photos get released.
And just as a middleman to Black Forest Labs doing the actual model here. "What would you say you [x.ai] do here?"
I have a better question: where's the balance in it? All I see are links to biased, left-wing sources. Not a source from the right or center, and not a mention of the defendant's counterclaims.

So the only conclusion one can reasonably draw from it is that the commenter thinks that Paxton is a crook--not that Paxton is one.

But, of course, anyone taking even a neutral position here is heavily downvoted, because Paxton is a Republican, therefore he is guilty. And so the echo chamber echoes.
Some of the claims here feel like leaps of intuition. You claim companies don't but many companies, especially ones that are not in the tech industry, do employ personality quizzes in their screening process. Even tech companies, now that I think about it, employ a personality test in the form of a "cultural" interview. I am dubious on how helpful they are but they highlight the real issue which is that there simply isn't enough signal during the interview process.

Every hiring process boils down to a risk mitigation problem and the goal is to get enough positive (or negative) signal to make a hiring decision. If that's the case, making the interview an "adversarial" process seems like an awful idea. As you pointed out, why would a candidate share information that puts them in a bad light? It creates an environment where it is hard to extract meaningful signal.

Furthermore, if there's no free lunch from analyzing personality, then why is it worth thinking about in this way? Perhaps it is more critical and effective to verify their skills and experience with the limited interview time and rely on references to validate their work habits.
See also https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd11xx/EWD1142.PDF (which ties in distributivity)
New York on Track to Exceed Its Solar Targets as Other Climate Goals Slip
It's been a long time since I've seen an article on an infra email :) Thanks
> hung up dried, neatly on a clothing rack with no creases or wrinkles

That is a surprisingly difficult thing for a robot/machine to do, with the SOTA still requiring speeded up video in demos for clothes folding. The difficult part is I the digitizing and manipulation, so hanging it on a hangar with robot arms is approximately as difficult.
The container itself needed no maintenance at all in my experience. Just update it. The DNS and reverse proxy if you use one are separate though, and depends on your setup.

Here is one scenario where self hosted could be more secure. If Bitwarden is required by a party, they can push bad code to a particular IP address and grab the master key. Not with self hosted, like that.

Perhaps there is also no limit to the total vault attachment storage (there is per password limit at 500 MB), and other limits that might be in Bitwarden.
I was getting bored toward the middle, but that is because it is a topic that didn't interest me specifically, NOT because the writing was bad.

I found the parts I was interested to be wonderful.
>You want to hurt the company and it's owners

No. What you'd really want if you really wanted to fix things is to hurt the top and mid-managers who decided to commit those offenses. Unfortunately it almost never happens.
I thought Photoshop already did that.
the results with grok-1 were unimpressive summaries based on the tweets, with a 10%-20% hallucinations (when enquiring about paris olympics specific events).

yet to see if this new model is able to do any better on that regard
I've been working on BeforeSunset AI, a daily planning platform that uses AI to help users structure their day more effectively. We're always looking to improve, and I'd love to hear from the HN community: What features do you value most in a daily planner? How can we make BeforeSunset AI more useful for you?

Currently, our platform offers features like seamless integrations and a new AI algorithm to help prioritize tasks. Any feedback or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
1. In case dmarc is not passed you get extra red banner with warning to forwarded email

2. Yes you get special email to reply-to field that allows sending from alias, but you have to make sure you remove included banner containing alias deactivation URL from quoted part of reply. You can disable this header but in my case I needed to reply only few times
It's a documentation spec that has a lot of tooling around it. I disagree that it is either pointless or an abstraction.

Back in the day, the best feature of SOAP API's was that they were documented in a machine readable fashion. Point your IDE at the WSDL endpoint and it would autogenerate an API client for you. OpenAPI and the various tooling around it finally offer us something similarly convenient for REST API's.
Next level: let them login and forward the ssh connection to the digital equivalent of a room full of mirrors.
Made me think of Electroboom's visit to Mexico.

https://youtu.be/d1mPemYUrVc?si=C9zfy6jQJaO3BZ7e
> username

Think of it as being the username and password. That's how many institutions have treated it for a long time.
> Grok will tell you it has guardrails if you ask it something like “what are your limitations on image generation?”

Making leading questions to an LLM is a sure way to have it hallucinate. The only way to test the capabilities of a model is to try them out.
Not every hospital is a trauma center, according to the article this hospital only dealt with GSW victims
Were you able to implement transducers at the core of Jank? Or did you end up sticking to the existing Java implementation as much as possible?
No more needless backends for Flutter apps
BreachForums I believe.
The CT scan reminds me of someone that was trying to optimize welders.

They said they were at their maximum, but welders would move parts and plates and then weld.

Efficiency expert realize that welding was maximized if the welders were welding the entire time.

Other people could bring them the metal parts that needed to be welded.

So the normal process where the CT person wouldn't move the person in and out of the CT scan in between CTS was a classic example of that.

The CT tech and the CT machine needed to be running as much as possible. Other people without the skills he's juggling the patients
The reason naming things is hard is because you don't know what you're doing and why. Once you've figured out the latter bits, the names just fall out simply and naturally. Naming things is among my favourite things as I'm getting better at knowing precisely what I'm doing and why.
This is so wonderful, thank you. Please don't change anything about it (except making the explanation of the channels available in the site's info panel)!
I never really understood why the onus is on any person to prove they didn’t do something. Shouldn’t the shaggy defence be sufficient?

e.g. You get hauled into court for a lawsuit demanding the loan repayment, for a loan someone else used your name to get?

- It wasn’t me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_defense
Is it stealing if somebody gives you a present and you accept it?
Hah! Sniped.

Yeah flux is a great model. It’s very inconsistent about its knowledge about what celebrities look like. Some it knows. Some it does not. Mostly women.
No clue about dizqueTV, but ErsatzTV is German for tv replacement/substitute :-) so it has a little more meaning then the Chinese Amazon names ;-)
Because it was used as BOTH an identifier AND proof of identity, for a long time. If it were used properly as simply an identifier, you'd be right, but there are still many cases where knowledge of the number is used as proof (or partial proof, along with birthdate/address/etc) of identity.
It is a lubricant, just not a very good one for most uses. It can't bear much load and it tends to just dissappear in a short time.

I once replaced a series of mortice lever locks in a first house that were very worn after a decade of use. You had to shake the key to get them to open. I was amazed on opening them to find them completely dry, when they come greased. I suggested they lubricate the replacements occasionally. They replied that they sprayed them regularly with wd40. This has washed the grease out and left... virtually nothing.