skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not super complicated.

I have carla running at all times and put all of my system audio through various loopback devices (browser, voice conferencing, and music/system) and then apply varying degrees of compression to them (no surprise sounds, hard limiting to hear quiet people, and bypass -- respectively).

Of course everything goes through an extra limiter at the end to avoid clipping.

I also send the voice conferencing input and output through RNNoise, so I can avoid emitting terrible sounds and avoid hearing them as well.

People also seem to like me better when I cut my mids a little bit, but additional research is required.

The reason for this is that I can change browsers (or games or voice apps) and they all think I'm just using a normal mic and headset, but it's actually like 10 LSP plugins and various routing.

Still doesn't feel that complicated when you do a little bit at a time.
HIBP has been audited by independent 3rd parties.
Right about the heat, definitely something to be careful with for the mechanical parts. (The electronics, not really so much... anything that can survive the lead-free reflow profile has some pretty solid heat tolerance.)

And also right about not washing speakers and microphones, I'd never put those through a water or solvent wash once their protective taping was removed. Surprisingly XOs are not really known for wash issues, at least these days (I think they're all hermetically sealed now), but they are notoriously sensitive to ultrasonic cleaners. So be careful there.
There's really no way to allow companies to have your data when they need it, and also not lose it. Even if they don't sell our data, they can just get hacked, our info gets leaked, and now everybody has it anyway. Data security should come first, then data privacy, then data autonomy.

HIPAA was basically created to do this (require your consent to receive your information, then require your consent to transmit or share it, within reason) but lack of data security means our private medical data still gets leaked. So I agree we absolutely need all personal data to be treated like HIPAA (at minimum) but it's kind of pointless without improved security requirements.
Because websites don’t have to worry about it or do anything “special”.

It’s built-in to how to passkeys work.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-passkeys-to-sign-...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authenticat...

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13168025

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/create-a-passkey-mc...
> They're changing apt to refuse to download from repositories signed using NIST curves, for instance.
>
> This doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless you think the NSA have an unknown backdoor...

It's "only" a CSPRNG (Cryptographically INsecure PRNG in this case) but the NIST recommending a backdoored curve in the past is an undisputable fact.

So I don't think it's that non-sensical to go for something simple like 2 exp 255 - 19.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Are there any polling experts you recommend over him?
This is a great, extremely detailed write up!
Next time please submit a video of this...haha
How is this syntax highlighting? If you put "<div>" in quotes as string, it's still green instead of white. Proper syntax highlighting must account for both languages and content in context, which can't be done with just a bunch of simple static rules.
What's gross about promoting a book? Isn't he just doing what everyone does?
Yeah, RoHS and REACH and friends have really made things better on this front. But older electronics, both pre-RoHS and simply aged (aging definitely changes many things' composition), are different.

So, do you reeeeeeally want to run this risk with your food? The one thing you should not do with most of the actual nasty chemicals is eat them. Bottom line: please do rinse your dishwasher if you try this.
I will buy oneplus12 and flash PixelOS into it.
Apple is finally going to open up iPhone tap-to-pay
Modern art may not require visible utter technical mastery, even though sometimes it's demonstrated, too. What I mean by mastery is the ability to produce such an oevre that checks all the right boxes, and does not check any wrong boxes. In this regard, being edgy and provocative is the right trait to demonstrate, while overstepping it and, say, showing something that can be seen as bigotry is not comme il faut. Navigating these boundaries efficiently is what I also mean by mastery.
The main problem is the hypocrisy: the FSF promulgating a non-free license as a free license.

On their website, they have a list of nonfree licenses, for which they give reasons.

Several are identified as nonfree because redistributors may not sell the code. Guess what: GNU Affero says you must make the modified code available free of charge. Thus, it should be listed in the nonfree license section for that reasons.

Several are identified as nonfree because they restrict use, such as that the software may not be used for human rights abuses. Oops, GNU Affero has use restrictions.

> For the purpose of running it on my server without giving out my changes" is not about running it, that's about something incurred as a result of running it.

"My changes" could mean making minor changes to integrate it with 500,000 lines of my company's existing proprietary code, as well as third party proprietary code. Oops, that all has to be AGPLed if the combined program has network users. Which is a nonstarter, so such an integration shall not be made.

A GPLed program can be so combined and run for network users; nothing needs to be put under the GPL unless it is redistributed. How on earth can that be wrong, if the GPL allows it?

This is in accordance with Freedom 0.

I have no problem with the GNU Affero license existing, and people deciding that it's the best choice for their project. The problem is it being promoted and encouraged as a free license. People believe it. How could it not be free? Everyone says so, and it's from GNU/FSF.
You can disable those. There's a few options for the new tab screen--I just use a solid color.
* https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

* https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

* https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink

* https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/

* https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

Did I miss any, chat?
> those of us who think the trend of requiring ID to transact is a dangerous one.

agree and second -- history shows that this sort of thing goes badly due to "humans"
Indeed. However this is also the result of "checkbox security". Someone at the DOE has a security compliance form with a list of checkboxes they must check, one of which reads something like: "dependencies are developed in accordance with M-26-34 procedures". They have some custom project created by some contractor (who may or may not be around anymore) that links to libcurl. Therefore, in order to "check the box" on their compliance form about their custom project, they have to find out if libcurl is developed in accordance with M-26-34, and an email such as this one is created and sent.
I've known enough people at Google that I've gotten a decent view into the broken-ass culture there, from the outside looking in, and I'd say that's a pretty decent summary of some of their worst problems.
Yeah I didn't say "I can't believe this happened!?" I just said it makes me feel bad about things.
Have you seen vim syntax rules?
The spoken language corresponding to Linear A is probably unrelated to the spoken language (Greek) represented by Linear B. If Linear A represents a spoken language--and this is by no means certain--then it is the native language of the Minoans, which has long since been lost. So unfortunately we don't have much to go on.
Yes, it was always like this until only a few years ago. The medium of communication was print and then radio and television. The largest private entities in these mediums did not have an allocated hour or page for hate preachers to proselytize to their large audience. The largest private distribution channels of print media did not allow any such material, either. For the most part, they moderated their private platforms by banning those content creators. Well, large private Rwandan radio channels didn't self-moderate, but that's an exception that proves how important what I'm talking about is.

You're conflating the medium (the internet, print media) for the private actors within the medium (Tik Tok, NYT, bookstores). Hate preachers will still be free to create their own little hate websites, newspapers and radio channels as they always have.

None of this is a violation of free speech, and to say otherwise is a modern politicized bastardization of the American sociolegal concept of free speech. The concept was never about an implied right to unlimited discoverability and for private shop owners to carry a hateful newspaper or TikTok to carry a hateful channel. Private storefronts have, for the most part, rightfully rejected to assist in the distribution of harmful material. This worked as a nice balance that attenuated the worst aspects of speech (e.g. the hateful content that incited the Rwandan genocide) via self-regulation, which allowed the government to stay far away.
So basically Nate Silver is coming out as a Libertarian? Why the coded language?
I'm not really understanding the logic here, but you do you bud.
Which polling expert has a better record?
AI Personal Agents as the Future of Digital Experiences
Discussions:

(180 points, 12 days ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140185

(99 points, 3 days ago, 102 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220764
How do you think Google got all their money?
And people complain that typescript is crazy. I think we just need to acknowledge that typing is hard, especially with what mainstream languages give us.
"OW!"
That would be self-defeating given that it's a Rails app.
> If you think an elected official working against the interests of the constituency is just going to naturally get voted out of office, I don't have the energy for the depth this conversation requires.

Regardless of what you think that's exactly how democracy works. If enough of his constituency thinks he is working against their interests they will vote him out. Conversely, if enough of his constituency thinks he is working for their interests he will get (re)elected.

Democracy means sometimes people you don't like are elected to positions you'd rather they not be in, but that's the rub.
Discussions

(40 points, 1 month ago, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950071

(27 points, 8 hours ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249340
I dislike comments that merely summarize or quote the article but I don't think they should be flagged.
Well, you just described the definition of adware--your defense of it is that it's easy-to-ignore adware?
Last I checked, it serves up ads when installed. Literally the definition of adware.
Whenever I think I've cracked the code on something and know better than everyone else, it's often the case I haven't accounted for everything.

From his PPS:

> until I planted my bare foot on that bare concrete floor a few inches from the submerged power strip, at which point I felt a mild but discernable tingle in that one foot.

I'll give up a clean toaster in exchange for not getting myself into those kind of situations.
This was really well put together.

What’s funny is that I’ve been doing some form of gamedev since late 90s and most of this is abstracted by engines at this point, but this is essential to understanding how complex system simulations work.

Thanks to the author for making a very accessible article
This is cool! I don’t see many people doing write ups on their tech stack as much any more. It’s nice to see the inside of a production-grade app like this.

I’m curious, why command+r for the model? What benefits does it have over other SOTA models?
We've changed the link above to that URL from https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/08/03/patrol-the-pool-with-this.... Thanks!
A better article:

Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” Spoke to My Working-Class Dublin

https://lithub.com/bruce-springsteens-the-river-spoke-to-my-...
https://web.archive.org/web/20240813062823/https://inews.co....
Netscape Bookmark File Format
Indeed. But a federated database is fine, too; this is how Visa and MasterCard work.

Imagine having a bunch of ID cards in you wallet, like you already have (driver's license, library card, office access card, store loyalty card) that all have interoperable smartcard interface, and a QR code of their built-in public key.

They would be much like contactless bank cards you also keep in your wallet.

Banks and phone network operators are uniquely positioned to sell a validation service for such cards, being highly connected and already having data about their existing customers, which would be an easy initial audience pool.
I have been using a different site@mydomain email address for every service I've used for the past 15 years. I can point to exactly which site breach furnished my email address to the aggregators.
Having a bit of a bad PR year? Come up with a New Kind Of Guy that you are and do some good old fashioned identity politics. Throw some archetypes at the wall and see what sticks. Make people think you're letting them in on some secret club that unites some of the people they've read about in the news. Keep it just vague enough that it's hard to definitively test whether someone fits or not. Barnum was right
Most toasters these days actually use a PT8A2514A (https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/PT8A2514A.pdf) microcontroller. But it is still safe to wash, for the same reason as it is usually safe to wash a keyboard.
They ignored my application.
The right way to approach customer-facing analytics
Love that I have to keep hearing from a guy who got lucky once.
Seriously.

If he's second-rate, then I really want to know who's first-rate.
I was curious so I did some searching -- this is the cheapest toaster that I'm aware of in the US, and it surprisingly does have a custom IC that handles the timing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLFG068HtgM
When I obtained utilities for my house, none of them required my SSN. The water company asked, but I declined, so they asked for a fax of my DL (which I could have probably photoshopped, but didn't).

Just because people ask for something, doesn't mean you have to give it to them. I leave fields blank all the time on different (paper) forms (including when they ask for SSN), virtually no one hassles me.
Looks great! thanks for sharing your architecture choices here.
Wow, this was actually anticipated in the movie Johnny Dangerously.
Yes, and it is perfectly safe to wash a simple circuit board, as long as the rinse water is clean, and it gets dried reasonable quickly. Both conditions are met in a dishwasher.
The short answer is he works at Cohere. But longer answer is that the model probably doesn’t matter that much.
How convenient, your political enemies should be subject to twice all legal penalties.
What a strange experience. I'm not sure exactly what this article was trying to convey, because the parent didn't seem to actually leave their kids to do their own thing for more than 20 minutes at a time before reverting back to television and devices. And rather than actually giving the kids the freedom we had when we were young, the author laments that this freedom can't exist (not sure why?). So this article really isn't about anything.
Gotta love him defining "River" people as loving competition and risk-taking when by and large their empires are built from capturing a market and then preventing competitors from entering it, preventing customers from leaving it, and then extracting as much money as possible from it.

The part I see as accurate is the idea that "River" people just want to win. And for that to happen, they have to perpetuate a world with winners and losers, a system that just makes it easier for those on top to keep taking whatever they want.
Don't like to touch mouse? Cursor-like experience in Neovim
@Yetone is working on bringing a cursor-like experience to the Neovim community.
GM is far from unique!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-yo...
Posting on social media that you are out-of-town. Nothing more than a "my house is empty and you should steal all my stuff" advertisement.
Nate Silver is so utterly intolerable. The guy got lucky once, and is now framed as an expert, and has the commensurate smugness that makes it completely impossible for me to listen to him for more than a couple of minutes at a time.
Kinda old and was in French, but my dad owned “L’encyclopédie tout-connaitre” (know-all encyclopedia) and it was wonderful. It was also 24 volumes and each was quite large but not thick. It had amazing illustrations and introduced anyone famous born before the 70s, great pieces of arts and various countries. Each subject was 2 to 8 page of texts with one or 2 illustration per page. It’s the closest to what you’re looking for. An example of what it looked like:

https://imgur.com/uzYpb32

I don’t know if there’s anything similar in English and modern, but I have DK’s guide to classical music and their History Book. And they are concise enough.
Nope. OP stipulated that at some point mortal combat happens and also suggests that it happens within arms length for example dropping a large rock on an even larger Rock.
You mean he's faced multiple trumped up and politically motivated persecutions that have all failed.
Can you inform us ignorant people as to why about half the people in this thread seem to hate Nate Silver now?
Actually yes, most of those things are required for SOC 2 which is verified by an independent auditor and visible in their report.
No, it's a form of lazy censorship.

Having moderators that do proper jobs is an attempt to not have the site be dominated by flamewars.
A pedantic review of the Las Vegas loop
Unreasonably effective AI with Demis Hassabis [video]
I've lost several Google accounts through excessive authentication requirements with no viable alternatives.

Fortunately I'd anticipated such issues and largely abandoned the platform.

I have one account which I care about somewhat. I have to remember to log into that at least once per year to retain it or it will also be lost.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140185

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220764
A cursory glance suggests that a reliable AI is one that generates max revenue for shareholders whilst data mining the user reliably.
That was an argument that was more credible before than it is now, right? We have complete addition formulas for the Weierstrass P-curves now.
I can't speak to Nate's record as an analyst or whether the categories that he's setting up would stand up to academic review. However, the overall dynamics he's discussing line up well with my experiences. In particular his description of negative reactions to the type of reasoning he calls "decoupling" has been a major source of frustration for me when interacting with fellow progressives.

I'm seeing a lot of commenters disliking this article overall and/or the author. Are there any alternative articles/books/resources you would recommend that discuss the reasoning styles aspect of author's argument?
I don't think you should be using words like "undisputable fact" in this thread, because Dual EC isn't a curve; it's a construction that uses curves.
"The River" is just a weird rebranding of the same gray tribe/rationalist (Slate Star Codex) high-rung vs. low-rung/golem (Tim Urban of "Wait But Why") stuff. The late David Graeber put it better than I can:

> Normally, they will—like the robber barons of the turn of the last century—insist that they are acting in the name of efficiency, or “rationality.” But in fact this language always turns out to be intentionally vague, even nonsensical. The term “rationality” is an excellent case in point here. A “rational” person is someone who is able to make basic logical connections and assess reality in a non-delusional fashion. In other words, someone who isn’t crazy. Anyone who claims to base their politics on rationality—and this is true on the left as well as on the right—is claiming that anyone who disagrees with them might as well be insane, which is about as arrogant a position as one could possibly take.

When you zoom into almost any controversial political opinion, you will find that peoples' arguments are valid but not sound. That is to say that their arguments logically follow from their assumptions, but that you don't share their assumptions.

If someone has different assumptions from you, sometimes you're not stupid and they're not stupid. You just have different assumptions. But it certainly feels better to assume that they just messed up their argumentation and are being irrational.
They're alluding to the U.S. presidential election.
Kind of unrelated, but every time I see Swansea mentioned I think about that documentary about their massive drugs issue[1], and that guy who was so scabbed over from needle-usage that he had to start injecting it into his butt and then he had uncontrollable farts for the whole interview.

- [1]: https://youtu.be/ij8D6cCxbr8
Show HN: Created a notebook to compare the top LMSYS vision models easily
Again: NSA did not in fact add a backdoor to a curve; they published a backdoored RNG that used curves.
Unresponsive Brain-Damaged Patients May Have Some Awareness
can i selfhosted it?
The Premier League will ditch its hated VAR offside tech for a fleet of iPhones
This reminds me of Spritely Goblins from the Spritely Institute, which has "vats" where you can run code in a distributed manner using object capabilities.
He mentions "River people aren't actually taking risks" as one of the valid criticisms of the River viewpoint later in the article.
I agree, I also dislike the term SQL injection. But the problem isn't that there is a query, there problem is that the source code of one program is constructed by string manipulation in the source code of another program. XSS issues (where javascript can be embedded into a string that is supposed to be a value in a HTML document) are the same. Also occurs with shell scripts. The goal has to be to avoid such manual processes. Between lower level languages, it's customary to export a function call in a standard ABI. It should also be the same here: regard queries as function calls in a foreign language. Javascript is basically there, but query languages only have fits and starts (e.g. you often have some syntax like `SELECT * FROM "tbl" where "field" = ?` which can then accept the parameter in a form that is intended for transferring user values) and generally rely on good hygiene and ORMs to protect the end user.
> the more time spent scrolling, the less data has to be streamed over the wire, so it's cheaper.

Google doesn't make money by avoiding sending streaming data; they make money by showing ads, which (mostly) aren't shown while you're scrolling.
How do you feel about the recent case where a caretaker for a disabled person who was given permission and access to use the person's cards, banking app, etc ended up stealing from the person. The banks response - they had given the caretaker access so it was their fault.

Even if you have all the passwords and bioinformatics, passkeys, 2FA, etc - how can you prevent theft like this?
We probably haven't done a great job communicating this to smaller merchants yet.

Re personalization - We'd plan to make it an optional field for merchants to use, so if they are worried they don't necessarily need to enable personalization. But I personally think a fair bit can be explained with on-site copy like "flash sale".

The 1% was meant to already bake in some flexibility for smaller merchants haha. But if we get that feedback we might consider more of a tiered model.
This is potentially a tool for Luddites to carry out the operation of a digital printing-press.