skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sincerely confused by how often this rationale is presented in so few words. Obviously AI has made it much easier - much, much easier - for many more people to make dramatic edits or fabricate whole images.

I understand the point that photo tampering has always been an issue, but by itself that point can't really mean anything without at all addressing the tremendous difference between traditional editing and AI editing.

We can say things like, "you should never trust X format of information anyway", but it's unrealistic for essentially any given X. A sentient human being can't function without trust heuristics. It's always been that way, for all of time - there is no such thing as 100% trust nor 0% trust in any human-to-human communication domain. That squishiness is why things like "how easy/hard is it to fabricate" matters pragmatically. And we can't rely entirely on sources either, since a ton of information is not readily sourceable, and often that's just kicking the can (is the source true?), and we often don't even notice the source. We see photos constantly, and we make assumptions about how likely they are to be real subconsciously and consciously based on a ton of variables. This is just basic human stuff. It's why new ways to more easily/broadly poison information have real consequences.
This seems more like an institutional failure more than anything.

I recall there was a discussion on HN a few years back about the Alzheimer plaque connection being established on fake data.
Obsidian may avoid the problem well enough, but it’s been my experience that connected pieces of information that aren’t coupled very tightly indeed have a way of eventually becoming separated and never re-united. Goes for information in computer systems and for physical records/photos/objects.
This is what's crazy to me. It feels like other PC game stores haven't caught up in feature parity to Steam from over 10 years ago.
Ask HN: Decent £1000 Laptop for IT Student?
Hi HN,

I’m going to be an IT student in September and I'm looking for some advice on getting a new laptop. I’ll be using it for coding, maybe running a couple of virtual machines, and the usual uni stuff like taking notes and doing research. I might also dabble in a bit of graphic design and light gaming when I have time.

Here’s what I’m thinking:

I've asked at the uni and they recommend Intel or AMD with Windows.

Needs to handle multitasking without slowing down.

Something easy to carry around campus.

Ideally lasts a full day without needing a charge.

Costs around £1,000, but I can stretch a bit if it’s worth it.

Any recommendations?
I’m begging you to try out cursor and sonnet as the model.

It is incredible, and it genuinely feels like magic when it comes to codebase context.
The authors dismissal of govt incompetence and data manipulation as the cause is naive. Human history and US history is absolutely littered with examples of this behavior at all levels and degrees of scale.
I made this point on Threads and Nilay's response was "yes making visual lies trivial to make is bad". It's never been photos that made "truth", it's been the source of the photos. You trust a photo from a photojournalist. You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed.
Thanks for this post. We want to add support for Postgres in our product https://redfly.ai

Does Postgres support anything like sql server change tracking? This does not require the creation of extra tables to know the history in detail which causes high disk I/o in resource constrained environments.

Another question - does Postgres support anything like the sql server timestamp column?

Thanks for this post. Any information in this area is helpful as it is hard to find.
God this whole thing is silly. Can you imagine the same level of fervor about making users who just turned on their phone choose their default notes / weather / mail app. Browser vendors have far too
much ego and money involved in this process saying shit about the future of the open web like it's not just like any another app. You render text, the free world doesn't depend on you.

Disallowing other browsers and making other browsers' experience worse than the default— bad, anticompetitive. Having a default is fine. Having a single engine is fine but more is certainly welcome. It's not like we don't already put up with a billion other iOS APIs.

Government mandated ad real estate for a specific kind of app is ridiculous. Especially with garbage like giving those vendors metrics so they can make their ad copy more effective.

My god this document is insufferable, it's no wonder Apple is being so petty, this is blatantly an outcome driven law and exists to dark pattern the other direction. Having to show the choice screen twice if users chose Safari the first time is egregious.
Frontend-AI goes beyond just utilizing a standard LLM like GPT or Claude. While these models are powerful for generating content, our tool is specifically designed to streamline front-end development by providing specialized support for frameworks like React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, and CSS.
I've used Calibre with the KFX Output plugin for years, never had an issue with converting pirated epubs.
Virgin Galactic's Business Challenges Need Reflection
> Ukraine. We spent a week being confused because the Ukrainiens expected the electricity bill to be calculated based on the size of your house and how many animals you have. The concept of a domestic electricity meter was completely foreign to them.

What are you talking about? Private apartments and houses in Ukraine had domestic electricity meters installed since soviet times.
I personally love using Piper to make audiobooks offline. I made a CLI wrapper over it and it works great for me [0] Honestly surprised more people aren't using similar offline tools. I have listened to dozens of audiobooks in the past year through this.

There is a pitfall in thinking that the most natural voice is the most important metric (i.e. many blind users still prefer espeak). Piper has a great balance of natural voice, offline convenience/privacy, and interpretability at high speeds. Still have not seen anything better as an overall audiobook solution.

https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook
No reason to hire people at Fortnite Salaries to complete a game that won't even make a million dollars. Arena shooters are pretty much dead.
react email creator here - happy to answer any questions
We need more bottom search bars
Phones have only grown larger, and the awkward action of trying to reach the top of your phone to click the search bar is suboptimal.

I really believe in ergonomic UX, which is why I use Kiwi as my browser on Android which has a bottom search bar

Why is this not the norm for modern UX?
Meta pulls plug on plans for high-end Vision Pro competitor
Loadable device drivers are somewhat modern invention. On many systems adding a device driver involved recompiling (or at least relinking) the kernel.
For sure, but there are all kinds of bad photoshops out there where it is super easy to tell, much like bad AI images that stick out like a sore thumb (or 2 thumbs).

But getting good at photoshop takes a lot of effort (as well as a license or a will to use it otherwise), that will remain the same. The same can't necessarily be said for AI images which have been improving year over year and becoming more and more accessible.
On the one hand, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

On the other, quantity has a quality all of its own: what once took effort… well, I've now got a pile of "photographs" of an anthropomorphic dragon-racoon hybrid sitting on a motorbike in a rainy Japanese city, for about €0.03 each.

I'm not sure exactly what I spent on film and development in the 90s, but I bet it was more than that per photograph.
I choose thoughts - I can conjour images, or scenes into my mind. I can choose not to think about things.

In fact, this is a proof of free will. If you were compelled to consider the consequences of your actions then evil would be impossible. The fact that we see evil means that people can choose not to think about what will happen when they do evil things.
Some quotes from the filing:

> Discussing a different RealPage product, another landlord said: “I always liked this product because your algorithm uses proprietary data from other subscribers to suggest rents and term. That’s classic price fixing . . . .”

> In fact, as RealPage’s Vice President of Revenue Management Advisory Services described, “there is greater good in everybody succeeding versus essentially trying to compete against one another in a way that actually keeps the entire industry down”

> Its executives are blunt: They want landlords to “avoid the race to the bottom in down markets.” Sometimes RealPage is even more direct, acknowledging that its software is aimed at “driving every possible opportunity to increase price”
Eh. Though "trick" photography has existed forever, it has always been much more difficult to do and easier to spot. Now it is super easy. That has to change the calculus of trust and the basic assumption that most images aren't doctored.
Did you try to buy it preinstalled? Works for me, including the internal camera.
I work in EBS. I had no storage background when I joined 3 years ago :)
Private torrenting is certainly not commercial distribution.
Food does this all the time as it moves between cultures.

Look at what in the US today is called a macaroon, a macaron, and some macaroni. Which one of those is closer to the ‘original’ Italian culinary meaning of maccherone?
Then you get into Iain Banks' The Culture where every citizen is basically an artificial creation. I have no problem with any specific solution to our societal problems, I take issue with their externalities.

Regarding your proposed gene therapy, would this gene therapy be available to anyone? Could it be refused? Is it reversible? Who would pay for it? The beauty of The Culture is that it is not monolithic, has no border, has godlike AI that takes care of all the problems, and can be abandoned or joined by anyone.
The Pax Putin has been for a long time, apparently, an unwritten deal with the society, whereby he provides prosperity and prestige ("everyone is scared of Russia") in return for the society accepting authoritarian, undemocratic rule. I suppose if you think that's a worthwhile deal, then you would be satisfied with what Putin delivered, up to about March 2022. Gas money was flowing in, minor wars were won, Olympic medals collected with only minor rumblings about state-sponsored doping programs.

Since the war started, it's been worse, but not enough to topple Putin. Conscripts were supposedly not sent to the frontline, for example. But sanctions are biting further, Russia is now under attack, and conscripts are totally used to repel that incursion (which is legal, but maybe unpopular).

Impossible to know how topplable Putin is, but he is now outside of the parameters of the deal he brokered with his people.
Issue #14833 - TypeScripts Type System is Turing Complete

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833
No liability.
"You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed."

If only that were true for so many people.
> moving manufacturing overseas

At least per the available data from 1990, France has lowered its consumption-based CO₂ emissions in absolute terms:

* https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions...

And given the population has also risen since 1990:

* https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population?time=1990..lat...

even if total emissions had stayed the same, per capita numbers would have gone down.

The same if often said of the US, and it is not true either:

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-the-us-didnt-outsource-our-...
> stolen out of her mailbox at the Los Alamos Post Office

All the P.O. mailboxes I've ever seen have locks. What's going on? Was the thief actually a USPS employee?
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. The idea that the act of observation impacts an experiment (or how particles behave) is one of the most counterintuitive and surprising “truths” I’ve ever heard. I would love to hear a logical explanation of why (not just a description of it).
Ah yes. Instance store root volumes are what we originally launched EC2 with--EBS came along 2 years later, but as data volumes only at first, with boot from EBS I think a year after that. There's a lot less fragility, and really it's just easier for our customers to create an EBS snapshot based AMI.

Before we launched the c4 instance family the vast majority of instance launches were from EBS backed AMIs, so we decided to remove a pile of complexity, and beginning with the c4 instance family, we stopped supporting instance storage root volumes on new instance families.
i wonder if this will circumvent that sort of blocking: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
Setting up Lima for developing for Linux using a Mac
Hi!

This is a little post with some tips for people in my university that needs a x86 Linux for their tasks but only have an Apple Silicon Mac.

I'm sharing it here for anyone who may find useful, and expecting some feedback to improve it
for sure, I guess I didn't see that UI button to export as html
I think it would be a cool project to have a website that allows comments on HN posts.
Brings a whole new meaning to the word 'neuroplasticity', amirite?

crickets
Titanfall 2 is really good.
Is this list behavior intentional - blue dots and indents on the right etc?

https://share.cleanshot.com/sB9VpVnp
The UX could be so much better and more secure. This type of use case is a perfect fit for OAuth2.

Current UX:

1. User hits your app

2. You tell them to go to Anthropic and generate an API key. You'll probably need to give them instructions on how to do so, which will become outdated over time as Anthropic makes changes to their website.

3. User goes to Anthropic and generates an API key

4. User manually navigates back to your app and pastes the key

OAuth2 UX:

1. You redirect the user to Anthropic

2. The user approves your app getting access

3. Anthropic redirects the user back to you and your app starts working.

For the life of me I don't understand why orgs don't implement OAuth2 for basically everything. Yes it is more complicated on the developer side, but that's for good security reasons. And it isn't that bad, and well worth the moderate time investment.
I like it. I hope we can soon use it on HN, too. ⁂

Edit: seems to work alread, nice
Controversial take, but it’s not that good anyway.

I remember someone at Valve, maybe Gabe Newell himself saying something along the lines of, “We are still capable of making a Half-Life game.” I’m butchering the quote.

Anyway, it’s just not true. If you compare the length and meaningfulness of Half-Life 2, and the following episodes, Half-Life: Alyx feels more like it belongs in the same category as Half-Life 2: Lost Coast.

It’s too short of a game, too few weapons, very little meaningful build up despite your trek in the game. It’s just a disappointment.
Tell that to our courts ;)
Redis Release
I'd argue scientists have better things to do than spending their time shielding themselves from liability lawsuits.
"Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing," regardless of fanciness or cleverness.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fix...

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/YardiSOI-filed%...
> Stablecoins are supposed to keep parity with an underlying asset, usually the U.S. dollar

This always stumps me: This cryptocurrency's value is tied to a fiat currency? Therefore, it's less a currency and more of a method of payment.

How does any cryptocurrency establish its own scope - universe if you will - if ultimately, it's pegged to a non-crypto currency (e.g., the dollar). How does a crypto currency avoid the financial "mood swings" of the currency it's pegged to?
Housing is pretty inelastic. I think people are just willing to suffer financially to avoid the fate of homelessness. Just because there aren't vacancies anywhere doesn't mean that the price is fully justified, because housing will take priority over groceries for a lot of people.
Copyright monopolists employ lobbyists. They basically buy laws which favor and protect their own monopolies and rent seeking. Voting does absolutely nothing to stop this trillion dollar industry.
There's simply no comparison between the Afghanistan occupation and what Israel is doing in its occupied territories.

Stupid and ultimately futile though the former mission was, the allied countries never thought they had a historical claim (or even any specific interest) in Afghanistan the way Israel covets (and certain factions within it openly proclaim their intent to fully displace the native population from) the West Bank and Gaza.

We save that rhetoric [accusations of genocide] only for Israel.

Plainly false, given the plethora of genocide rampages in recent decades.

And the extremely prominent media coverage of these situations, which cannot possibly have escaped your notice.
No, the human spirit does not lie in the identical LucidChart diagram I would have made in order to transcribe a whiteboard photo without a tool like this. It's a direct transcription, the exact class of AI work that is irrelevant to your broad point about the human spirit. No choice or decision is being delegated to statistical noise here. Failing to make that distinction weakens your message imo.
>I have not seen that referenced much so I am curious how many people that is the reason vs just some weird loyalty to Steam.

Yeah, probably a healthy mix. The achievement and stats consolidation is via word of mouth and conversation I have had over the years. I don’t have data to back that up. I’m sure the /r/pcmasterrace folk would have something to say about it though.

I totally agree with your rant. It’s ridiculous that folk want to complain about this.
Microsoft to Host Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit in September
Power usage is indeed a better representation of GPU utilization during ML training. It has the advantage of combining many important indirect signals that aren’t visible, and avoids many downfalls of compute usage, which can go to 100% even in all-reduce deadlocks, among other scenarios.
Two great examples from art are Michelangelo (look at the women) and Caravaggio (look carefully at anything).
I'm a little confused by your comment

For me are three distinct things

Japanese curry
Japanese style of the Indian dish often made from an instant roux package and usually served over Japanese style white rice

Katsu Curry the same dish with a deep fried pork or chicken cutlet put on the the rice before the curry is poured over

Curry rice - no cutlet, the curry is mixed in with the rice before it's served.
No that won't work because the sender doesn't know what the src ip of the packet will be by the time it arrives (NAT is everywhere!)
Depends on your motive. I enjoy the "art" of programming, but I enjoy even more using it to build cool stuff, make companies happy, start side projects or even businesses.

I've not seen any indication an AI legitimately replacing software engineering, rather enhancing it perhaps resulting in the need for fewer engineers for the same work. Even as an engineer that's a huge win.

The role is less coding, more engineering. I suppose if the "craft" is the coding part, you're right it may need defending, but to me that's not the craft
There isn't. It's a genre that's pretty much dead.
You are clearly trolling as this has been beaten to death. But for the sake of other readers, getting COVID has a far higher chance of clots than the vaccines. Also, the vaccines significantly reduced the chance of death, even if they ultimately couldn’t stop the spread.

So again, the big picture is extremely clear. Thankfully the right choices were made for society.
>Armed with competing landlords’ data, RealPage also encourages loyalty to the algorithm’s recommendations through, among other measures, “auto accept” functionality and pricing advisors who monitor landlords’ compliance.

I think the "private prices" + "autoaccept" + "compliance" is the key misbehavior that gets RealPage into legal trouble.

If competitors want to converge on prices in a legal manner, they have to do out in the open via "price signaling" via public posting of prices. That's how it's legally possible for competitors in other industries to do it:

- gas stations looking at each others signs of prices and quickly adjusting to match;

- e-auctions like Ebay/Reverb showing a seller what the previous range of sold prices were;

- Kelly "Blue Book" showing current used car market prices

- Zillow publicly showing rental rates, etc.

Neither the platform nor the sellers in those examples get in trouble for "price fixing".

In contrast, the privately shared pricing with compliance monitoring by the platform is too coordinated to avoid legal scrutiny.
It replaces hydroxide ions between phosphates in the calcium hydroxyapatite
crystal structure of the enamel. This reduces the loss of calcium due to the mild solubility of the mineral and neutralization reaction of the hydroxide with acids.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7339990/
So I worked for RealPage for a few years in the late 90s and again in the mid 2000s, and at the time they didn’t hold a majority of the market. But it would not surprise me now if they held a majority of the market in large complexes today. At the time they were growing mostly by acquisition of competitors.
I'd also argue that some of the Zen5 features have the potential to be a big boost for gaming but the adoption just isn't there yet.

AMD's AVX512 is a big deal because unlike Intel's implementation it doesn't trigger a 50 thousand cycle delay to start using it along with a massive downclock.

That means you can do SIMD way faster on these CPUs and there's virtually no induced latency (occasionally a 50 cycle delay for the 4x512 to presumably to finish charging caps if they are still depleted) and importantly no downclock which allows you to do burst AVX512 operations wherever you see a use instead of needing to carefully apply their use to compensate for a massive perf hit.

And while games generally push expensive SIMD to the GPU, having no-cost AVX512 lets you accelerate SIMD ops that aren't big enough to justify the latency of GPU offload or the hit to GPU occupancy.

It'll require engines and devs to adopt but there is a performance opportunity there if they are willing to take advantage of it.
> the most advertised brands are also the ones that are most toxic

I truly believe this is true of just about everything.

The harder they have to advertise it, the more likely it's actually really fucking bad for us.

What gets advertised the most - sugary snacks, pharmaceuticals, huckster lawyers, insurance, pesticide laden cereal and grain products, bitcoin, fossil fuel, fast food, mortgages, gambling sites, cigarettes (in countries where that's still legal)... Where's the ads for organic carrots, or watermelon?