skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.” Back then, info-determinism was exciting. Today, it feels like a challenge which we must surmount, or else. ♦

You can learn more about the deranged minds of CIA officers and "public intellectuals" from the backgrounds of their arguments than you can from taking them at face value.

These people are _completely afraid_ of living in a world which does not require their permission or ideology in order to function. This article is written entirely from the "state" point of view and completely lacks any "humanity" whatsoever.

> And yet, “the public opposes, but does not propose.” Demolishing ideas is easy in a subreddit; crafting new ones there is mostly beside the point.

Give me a break. Tons of new ideas and new systems and new projects have been created on the internet using precisely this mechanism and with zero government authority involved. This is a completely ridiculous assertion by the article.

> How can a society function when the rejection of knowledge becomes a political act?

Is it the rejection of knowledge or simply the rejection of authority? Perhaps people expect those in authority to actually explain themselves, to act in a transparent manner, and to not use their power to unfairly benefit one group over another.

> But democracy on a mass scale depends on mass institutions—mass media, mass education, mass culture—that seem likely to fracture or mutate with the arrival of A.I. The forms of government that flourished in one info-epoch may not thrive in the next.

I'm sorry, but what a total crock of shit, this idea that "mass anything" is somehow _required_ for "mass democracy" to function, or even that "mass democracy" is something experienced in any of our governments.

It really sounds like these people want to diminish humanity at all costs, in favor of AI, so they can regain control of our information space, and have the ability to manipulate the entire world en masse and without any oversight or responsibility for it.

I'm completely grossed out by this article and the people within it.
I had some issues with this very early when I got mine, but I think this went away completely. I feel like this was a software issue, and is now fixed (well, at least part of it).
Incas is a weird name. I can't see it other as the plural of Inca, as in that historic people of South America. If such a name is used for a product, it's always singular if the product is singular: e.g. Jeep Cherokee, not Cherokees. A box of chocolates shaped like aboriginal characters could plausibly be Cherokees (issues of offensiveness aside).
Efinix low-power Topaz RISC-V SoC+FPGA, high-volume mass-market use
Jason and Richard from Roe AI are amazing people! We were in the same YC batch and section. Excited for what Roe AI is building and their focus on building a new type of data warehouse.

At Trellis, we're focused on building the AI tool that supports document-heavy workflows (this includes building the dashboard for teams to review, update, and approved results that were flagged, reading and writing directly to your system of record like Salesforce, and allowing customers to create their own validations around the documents).
I had that same issue. (To be fair, this is a deep link to the page explaining how it works, not what it is.)

Anyway, the main page explains it: https://www.totemlabs.com/

Basically you and several friends get these devices, go to a festival or event together, and it helps you find physically find each other. The display indicates which direction they are relative to you.

This means you don't have to play the "let's meet back here in 90 minutes" game.

Obviously you can just use a cell phone, but that only works if there's good coverage.
what are your favorite $500 or less options
>DOOM

You have my heart, treat it wisely
More like "Three Laws of Robotics businesses / engineers" -- none of these laws is particularly relevant to the robots themselves...
It was Pixel 6 that made a big jump in quality. From 8 MP in Pixel 5 to 50 MP in Pixel 6. They also added ultrawide and telephoto on Pro. They have a big jump in sensor size to larger than most compacts. The Pixel 8 has even big sensor. The big sensor is the reason for the camera hump on the back.
Indeed, it's a good choice. My wife has been routinely annoyed that the phone with superior specs was/is always uncomfortably large for her hands.
One big concern I have is getting security updates quickly. If there’s a zero day issue, how would Sony act?
Kudos on that progress! I don't see myself moving to marathons anytime soon. I /think/ I could do a 5k in about 30 minutes. I would be zone 4 in heart rate for dang sure, though. :D
Normal conversations have people back up their claims, dude...

You're getting way more academic with this meta waste.
I have S21 Ultra and bought it refurbished for less than $500 few years ago.

I see no reason why should I buy new phone. Seems like all those new features are just gimmicks.

I would probably consider buying a new one if it had better video recording, but this Pixel only has 4k at 60Hz which wasn't impressive two years or so ago.
Australia represent! Although we're based in NYC we still are a mostly Aus/international team over here, it's great!

The biggest change is some of the less sexy stuff, like scale and security. E.g. we're now able to scale to 100M+ MAU companies with 100M+ items, and we have a completely tenant isolated architecture, with security as a top priority.

We've also made the platform more configurable and lower levels and we've found that people like choosing their own models and experimenting rather than just relying on our system.

Finally, we launched search only a couple of months ago and are currently heavily focused on building a best-in-class experience there.
My cheap Android phone is in a cheap black case, nobody can tell how poor I'm not.
Google Pixel 8a is a great phone IMHO. Refurbished ones are available.
Oh: and based on my front-page scraping, I coded up some command-line tools to return activity / results for domains and members so I could do quick checks on both.

Note that what makes the front-page is an interesting function of both what the member posts and what the membership as a whole responds to. Someone might submit a large number of unappealing topics, but get traction on a much smaller subset. FWIW that seems to be my own experience. My tools will show the posts that got traction, but not the much larger low-vote long tail. Or flagged/killed posts, FWIW.
Seems like a pretty common gesture when you are on the phone, someone is talking to you on the other end, and you want to get another person's attention in the room who is not looking at you. You are reading way too much into it.
I hated the Nexus 4... it was slippery and broke waaaay to easily.

I think the Moto X with the wood back was one of the coolest looking phones ever though.
For my part, I ‘kept the faith,’ and continued searching for Reason.

This is science. Theory says one thing, but what does the evidence show?
In a different HN thread, I was talking about "permatech". This was a term that some friends and I were exploring as a generalization of permacomputing. However, we had yet to come up with anything coherent.

Rodney Brook's articulation of these laws of robotics is the first thing I have come across that seems to point the way to formulating something for permatech. That is, if we generalize "robots" to any kind of automation that may have to interface with humans.

The first principle, that the form of automation makes a promise to humans, reminds me a lot of both Christopher Alexander's ideas on architecture, as well as Mark Burgess's Promise Theory. Alexander has a lot of ideas on design that goes beyond buildings, and is very influential to the Human-Computer Interface design and OOP. Burgess's ideas speaks a lot about how systems of agents (both human and machine) can voluntarily cooperate and coordinate together.

The second principle about agency connects to a lot of things. Among them, I can draw connection to the Living Systems world view, in contrast to the Machine World view. The former retains meaning and purpose for humans, and the latter can be summed up as "beat to fit and paint to match".

The third principle struck me as practical yet narrow in scope. On a second pass, I think there's something more general that can be teased out of it. I'm not exactly sure what it is. In some ways, it reminds me of how software can be improved iteratively, or what Alexander had wrote about "unfolding", where designs can change to suit inhabitants of a building.
Holy shit, they have moved the design in the right direction, but it still looks awful. Maybe not the ugliest phone on the market, but still bears the hallmark of designed by an engineer. Hire a friggin industrial designer or smack the current one in the head by a frying pan until something cool pops up.
Is it approved for forehead use now? My recollection is it was a gimmicky thing because they could not add human temperature functionality without some kind of regulatory thing (FDA?).
Yes? Why does everyone here seem to think that’s bizarre.
Most of them still have signs up that if you leave the towels in a particular place (like on the floor in the bathroom), they'll replace them.

Hell, a lot of hotels were doing that before the pandemic. I thought it was a really good thing. I certainly don't need my towels replaced every day; that's just pointless and wasteful.
The other issue is that the EFF is the minority opinion on many, many subjects. Many of the most effective NGOs have a "we agree with you, but this 10% needs to change," which is flexible enough that governments who otherwise wouldn't care pay attention.

The EFF isn't like that - for example, the idea of outlawing DRM, while popular among hackers and people here, is a total nonstarter internationally. It's about as effective as hiring the FSF to lecture Microsoft; or hiring PETA to lecture Tyson; or hiring the Amish to lecture you on electrical design. The opinions are so diametrically opposed that it's not even worth considering.
> Tesla has yet to demonstrate autonomous driving capability

I'm betting on Waymo, too, but Tesla has chutzpah in a way Google and GM do not. That might permit them to take more risks (and incur more costs on the public) earlier.

In the end, avoiding a monopoly is always good.
12€ per month here. 10€/month for the regular 2TB Google One plan, 22€/month for the same but with a chatbot. I wonder who falls for that.
I absolutely refuse to pay for a phone; call me old-school, but I am still stuck in the memory of the days when they came 'free' with service contracts.

Me? I will happily take a slightly outdated phone with a new provider/contract where I don't pay anything on top of the expected monthly fee. I have 8 months left on my iPhone13 mini (128GB) w/VZW and will happily change to one of the other Big Threes to make it happen again.
The parent is pointing out that the prior comment is literally meaningless, and self defeating too, since the same logic would apply to your own existence, or simulated existence. Including any possible words you could ever write.

(As far as any other HN reader could ever perceive)
How do you know if you are paying for it?

I signed up, but I have no idea if I am being charged for it. Hope not.
boring <3
Not GP, but I just got a Sony Xperia 10 VI, and I'm loving it so far.
There are two key details you are missing:

1) Its scalable to dishwasher size, ( enough to power a tiny house )

2) If you shot it with a bullet, it would just leak salt water. That is all.
Lithium Ion will explode:

Now here is the quiz: If you have a cell phone that is inflating, do you A) Dunk it in water? or B) Toss it in a full document safe? or c) Quickly empty your document safe, and toss it in?

If a flow battery leaks, you can toss in a chicken into the delightful brine.

Since you cannot scale this easily to Utility sized batteries easily, the D.O.E. is not interested. i.e. if you are looking to scale this to a couple of hundred megawatts, just stop reading and thinking about this now. This is NOT mobile. Its not useful for cars or cities. Its right sized for homes.
It's great that in your reply upthread you actually understood that it was a request for any kind of evidence, including evidence you just created on the spot, but now you pretend not to understand that.
It's a widely criticised hypothesis, because it doesn't fit the geological record. It's mostly propped up by interpretations like these.
Web dev land has a borderline pathological obsession with NEW NEW NEW, which contributes to much of it.
> How?

Presumably the same as everyone else, by putting them in the washer.
Interesting. I likely won't be in a position to take a 3+ month trip for a long time. But I just came back from spending 1 month in China and Google Fi worked flawlessly in China and Taiwan. I had better 5G coverage in Shanghai than in the US.

My main complaint is once you go over your data limit and opt into the $10/GB there's no way to restrict your speed. It may sound silly, but I was hesitant to click some links as they may start loading tons of pictures and videos below the fold and cost me a dollar or two per click. So I pretty much limited my browsing to HN!
> I'm not trying to say flow batteries are stupid or dumb, but their use cases are going to be very limited without some huge breakthroughs that will probably dramatically increase the complexity too.

The largest use case is going to be grid scale storage, and for that one a bunch of dumb tanks and a bank of cells are far easier to handle and less risky than a bunch of li-ion cells that can go into runaway for whatever reason.
No, absolutely not. The only part of this that would be Cloud revenue would be model usage exposed via Vertex.
> I tried to create an AI bot that crawls the conversations on X/Reddit and posts an insightful reply that addresses the conversations and plugs the product naturally without spammy or bot like behaviors

Gross. I suspect that's what your behavior on this site is as well.
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When I was in my greyhat days I gained admin access[0] to a very big IIS web hosting provider. After spending a day trawling through their file system I found the actual admin password for their servers in a file. I tested it via their open RDP port. It worked.

Their password? "internet"

I sent them an email showing them their vulns. I never followed up to see if they did anything about it.

[0] they had a forum that allowed profile pic uploads but it didn't check they were images, so I crafted an ASP page which emulated a file explorer and uploaded that, then browsed to it.
How reliable is the Pixel fold? I jumped ship from Nexus/Pixel in 2019, and the only thing that could bring me back to Pixel would be the larger screen of the fold. But my personal experience with Nexus/Pixel quality 2010-2019 is pretty bad, and adding in the folding screen makes me think getting one is a Bad Idea.

Sadly, due to my employer, only Apple and Google are options, so none of the other folding phones are options. I wish Apple would do a fold..
Yeah, in practice, for the tasks I set it. High hallucination rate. Low context window. Frequently refuses to act and suggests Googling. If the other guys didn't exist, it could be useful, but as it stands it's as useful as GPT-2 because neither of them hit the threshold of usefulness.

I'm sure some benchmarks are decent but when Google finally shutters the chatbot I'll be glad because then I won't constantly be wondering if I'm paying for it.

It's a shame because Google's AI features otherwise are incredible. Google Photos has fantastic facial recognition, and I can search it with descriptions of photos and it finds them. Their keyboard is pretty good. But Gemini Advanced is better off not existing. If it's the same team, I suppose they can't keep making hits. If it's a different team, then they're two orders of magnitude less capable.
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (1999) [pdf]
> Probably for the best, no way a truly "edgy" and zany hacker con would've been able to find venues to host at nowadays anyway.

Best for business, perhaps. I stopped going several years ago when the conference got too soft. Yes, the antics were sometimes too much and it's understandable why SOME THINGS would need to be reigned in. For example, concrete in the toilets, flares in the elevators, windows getting broken, ATMs being hacked etc. 100% understandable.

The defcon today is completely sterilized. It's an extension of corporate culture in it's truest sense. There's no interesting things going on anymore. The noted "inclusivity" breakouts and villages are growing, the goons are more serious, the "hackers" are mostly Joe's From Accounting, etc. Part of the allure of old defcon was everyone was just a hacker. It never, ever mattered who you identified as or what you were. Can you hack? Great, you're in. Everyone serious never gave names and cameras were very seriously frowned upon. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

If I'm being honest it's gone from the high point of my year to something I'm glad is just a memory for me. I went for ~15 years. It's sad to watch it turn into this sterilized "dont offend anyone or anything" after being counter-culture for decades. But, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I'm once again glad I didn't spend the money to go.
Gridspace spoken dialog system with internal emotion state and emotion detection [video]
This.

The amount of times certificates have run out breaking things is astounding.

So I work around all certificate test the first thing I do when integrating with an external HTTPS site.

Good job people that get paid by HTTPS.
Because it is bizarre. Most normal people hang their towel on a towel rack after using it, and it dries in time for the next time they take a shower.

Washing your towel after every use is incredibly wasteful, and unnecessary. If the towel is "dirty" after you've bathed and used it to dry yourself off, then you probably should do a better job cleaning yourself while bathing.
Many providers limit or block UDP because of the history with DDOS attacks.
I've heard that in the past too, but sounds like that's more about Macromedia Flash/Adobe Flash than it is about flash. The claim was:

> Flash allowed to create web experience that is extremely difficult to do with modern technologies

Which sounds like it's about the output, not the process for getting to the output.
> To be 1000% clear, the someone who is demanding this feature... is creators

I'm a creator, not on Patreon due to sanctions and I have a dayjob for now.

This would be an anti-feature for me because if it's implemented then there is pressure to pause payments when I don't create for whatever period of time I estimate is "too long" for some average patron. What a freaking can of worms. Turns creators into service providers.

> Patreon has not been a donation-specific platform since tiers were invented; and this kind of control over payments was always part of the platform for

Tiers is basically "choose how much change you can spare to support me". Most creators I support just have different text on them and no other difference.

> both creators using it as a sales platform and to creators using it as a donation platform

Using Patreon as sales platform is a cheaty workaround to save on fees. If you want to sell stuff you better look at Etsy or whatever fits your niche. You'll make more money too

> Are you seriously offended that some creators like having the ability to choose when they charge their patrons?

Nah. Only when you call it "patronage".

This is not providing a service in return for money. I create, my choice. You want to support me, your choice. Thanks but I don't have a responsibility to create. If you feel like I have then it's too much money for you, choose a smaller amount. Or don't pay at all. You don't have a responsibility to pay.
See also Github sponsorships.

> The idea behind Patreon is that creators should be able to make money doing things that they love in a way that is comfortable to them

By definition not. There is no generic "creator". People are different. "Comfortable" is different for different people. Patreon is focused on one specific model. They sorta try to do more ("pay per post") but that's feature creep and worse than using a dedicated platform. As patron I hate "pay per post" bc I have to do some math to even tell how much I'm paying you. Just obscurity for no good reason. As creator, see above.
AGPL doesn't restrict use:

"You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program."
You could just go to godbolt.org, as others have already said, and as any normal person would do. Evidence is neither here nor there, though. We're talking about citations, which nobody of sound mind does. Why on earth would you have a conversation using someone else's words? That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard of.
If you're a HN-er you should know the culture of HN is very old school and fringe mentality. E.g:

- Flip phones are celebrated in some threads because people don't want smart phones (extreme minority in real life)

- Disabling JS and pushing sites to go back to just raw HTML CSS (with some even not understanding why we need JS, extreme minority irl. IRL site owners care about attracting customers and the things they want to do can't be done with raw HTML CSS much of the time)

- Kagi taking off. IRL most people still do and will continue to Google

- People acting like if ads were disabled forever the population would totally pay for things they like (IRL people don't, there's a reason piracy is big. People want the things they want for the cheapest cost possible)

HN is a very specific type of tech-centric bubble
>I realized that I couldn’t restrict my search for evidence to the familiar authoritative sources without ignoring a near-infinite number of new sources

This was in the early 2000's when the CIA analyst said this, but with familiarity of a time when the majority of online sources had been trustworthy (if not completely authoritative), it was easier to navigate the pitfalls at the time.

It was still possible to judiciously exploit the new sources for deep research to a worthwhile degree for another reason because there was lots more info (but noisier by far) coming from all directions, but I wouldn't say they were exactly near-infinite.

Not compared to today.

Now I would say it's near-infinite.

Although AI may not have yet had the full effect that it could be capable of.

So I could be underestimating . . .
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One of the big problems with Pixel phones is their lack of thorough testing. You upgrade and suddenly you encounter strange Bluetooth issues, call problems, or other features that were working fine before but suddenly stop functioning. Tons of people will be complaining about this in forums, and you won't receive any updates to fix them for months. IMHO all Pixel phones are just developer devices and you can't seriously use them as daily drivers. Adding more AI features won't help unless they start taking their customer service seriously!
I find the LTT stupid ideas like watercooling his server room funny but without Sponsorblock it’s a pain.

Also their merch … this is so overpriced. A screwdriver for 70 dollar, when nearly the same product costs 20.

But there are enough people that buy that stuff.