skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a warning label, it's a request for consent which means they are legally required to ask you for permission and allow you to refuse them. Most implementations are actually violating the law by making it more difficult to refuse than accept or at least not giving the refuse option equal visual weight when they're not outright hiding it behind a bunch of extra steps.

This is different from the old "cookie banners" that were just informing you and leaving you no option but to dismiss the "warning". The GDPR and ePrivacy directive require companies to justify their use of your data and the only justification mechanism applicable for most of the data they want to collect is consent which must by definition be voluntary - the limitations of which are defined fairly explicitly in those laws.

Some sites try to work around this because they need ads for monetization by offering a paid subscription or requiring you to accept (behavioral) ads - but they've also been dinged for trying to bundle all the stuff not related to showing you ads with the "accept ads" option (or not letting you buy a subscription without first having to agree to share all your data like before).

I'm always surprised how many people in technical spaces like HN seem to misunderstand the legal situation and why these "warnings" look the way they do and blame the laws rather than the companies desperately trying to trick users into giving up on their data in ways that barely pass at an attempt to comply with the laws they're spending so much energy on deliberately violating. But it shouldn't be surprising - these companies put a lot of energy into making the process unpleasant for users (often in ways that are blatantly violating the laws) while framing themselves as the victims.
> Finally that might enable some kind of monetisation if OpenAI or Anthropic give developers a cut, e.g. 10% mark-up that goes to the authorized app.

I was totally against you until this, but it’s an interesting idea. Its still early, but seems like OpenAI hasn’t succeeded any more to be broad consumer product past the core Chat experience. Building an AI OAuth platform would be an interesting way to be sticky and avoid being a commodity. But it’d give developers more leverage vs their custom-GPT product, and it’d shift charging per-use for an API to “unlimited” per month for a single subscription fee.

Generally, a product shouldn’t tie themselves to an API provider (eg OpenAI) when it could’ve been an implementation detail. If you hide the actual API from users, you can swap it for cheaper or better ones as the market evolves. If you give up the account access to a providers OAuth, and you give up control over that implementation, you risk being really stuck to a market loser and no direct relationship with users.

Getting paid for it though…. That would be an interesting twist. But I’m not sure it’d make sense as anything but a bulk discount. The problem is that it doesn’t make sense to pay a developer to use your paid product, unless you get a relationship with the end users like Google Search defaults in browsers. But again, it doesn’t make sense to give OpenAI that relationship if you don’t have to.
At least the Uk has the the defence that postcodes are 60 years old and that the legacy cruft that comes with that is part of life.

Meanwhile Ireland introduced Éircodes less than 10 years ago, chose an opaque format that uses a central database that you have to pay for access to for anything more than a handful of lookups, only covers homes (so you can’t give an eircode of a park, or a walk). It’s pretty much what you’d expect to be designed by a modern government.
There's a lot more to a HVDC line than just the conductor, but ballpark estimate for a 1GW line is $1mln/km - scales accordingly with power.

Still, you could wrap the world around at the equator with this for a paltry $40bln. Now scale that 10x and you have yourself a practical global grid solution for what, $400bln? That's less than half the US military budget - absolutely doable if you get enough economies on board.
Side point: television is a bastard word, but erogenous is not Greek eros + Latin genus; it's all greek (ἐρωτογενής — it would be erotogenous in English since the root of the word eros is erot- , but the extra syllable was dropped; another example of differentiated transliteration is φωτογενής which became photogenic instead of photogenous).
It won't be any different. My guess is they'll pull some stunt like Mozilla is with the Anonym with the PII removed to send data over to further turn Windows and Office 365 in to more of an ad platform.

I could be ignorant. I could be paranoid. I could be wrong. I want to be wrong.

But I don't think I am. And you aren't either. That's what's scary.
A cautionary example of how data meets reality…

My address in France is listed in the BAN… but only to the granularity of my street number (e.g., 123 Main St.).

Unfortunately, that number corresponds to at least 7 different structures, 5 of which are apartment buildings.

Of those 5 buildings, each has multiple stairwells with their own door and no line of communication between them—they might as well be separate buildings.

My particular building has 8 levels with 2 flats per level. No flat has a door number or letter, meaning I must say 'Nth floor, door on the right' to give directions to a visitor. And I could not receive mail until I affixed my name to my postbox on the ground level.

None of that is in the BAN as far as I can tell.

Finally, on OpenStreetMap, the coordinate for the the street number address in the BAN actually corresponds to an island in the street that happens to face a private road that enters the property. There is more than one entrance :)
The whole concept is so fundamentally flawed that no amount of tweaking or improvement can save it. Of course the implementation is terrible, but even if the implementation was perfect it would be awful. Even if it ran locally-only, even if the implementation were pure free software, even if the LLM used was guaranteed to operate in your best interest.

Even then, we're still talking about a perfect surveillance engine that allows any future person to observe your behaviour across your past. Imagine what it would mean for the police to retroactively search your entire life for the past 30 days when they arrest someone. Or how this might affect people living with abusive partners, or LGBTQ+ kids in non-supportive households.

This technology, no matter the implementation, puts vulnerable people at risk.
Really, a tool where 42% of incident responses the on call engineers are greeted by a pointer that likely lets them resolve the incident almost immediately and move on, rather than spending potentially hours figuring out which component it is they need to address and how, isn't impressive to you?
shipped extra fast!
I'm missing clarity about how do I escape Instant DB when I need to, and how to make it part of a larger system.

Say I have an InstantDB app, can I stream events from the instant backend to somewhere else?
Oh god, I hate nurses you make you prove your pain level.

When I was a university student, my tonsils suddenly swelled up so much that I was unable to speak and I was having difficulty just breathing.

I went to the university urgent care, and the nurse showed me a pain scale and asked me what my pain level was. I pointed at the '7', and she told me I needed to actually say the number to her. I kept trying (it was extremely painful to try, more like a 9!) but I physically could not make the sound — which just pissed her off even more. At long last, she got so frustrated that she stormed out and finally got the doctor.

When the doctor examined me, he told me that I had the biggest tonsils he had ever seen in his career.

He diagnosed me with mono and put me on steroid treatment, and my tonsils were back to normal by that evening.
"Don’t try to support your arguments by pasting paragraphs of text from ChatGPT."

Agreed. Please don't do this.
bonus points if you can triangulate the powersource == fuel == explosives equation
Essentially the same deal in Ireland, with Eircodes. They were originally created as private dataset with ownership, and now you have to license access to it to use it.

Eircodes are better than postcodes, in that there's 1 per building/address/apartment, however they're discontinuous, so adjacent buildings will have distinctly different eircodes.

The article highlighted the difficulty of shopping centers and apartment buildings, from my experience trying to validate a large number of Eircode <-> addresses for a project, this is definitely an issue. The worse issue is that there's no way to just send someone out to check, because the eircode isn't like a house number that's posted somewhere. (Leaving aside the problem that valid Irish addresses can have no numbers outside of the eircode, and eircodes are a recent, and therefore non-traditional addition)
Yes I had the same issue. But the wording "there is a < 5% probability that an outcome was the result of chance" is in fact problematic since many readers will go on to conclude "hence a >95% probability that the outcome was not the result of chance", so it is easier to misinterpret than the technical definition P( Observation | H_0 ).

In courses I will typically use wordings like "If there was truly no association, then the probability of getting an observation like this is <5%".
So basically you don't keep data an erase every single document you create/receive. You keep your imap email box totally empty as well as the mails locally fetched on your mta. You have an always empty instant messaging app except for the messages pending view. You burn the contracts you signed immediately, you don't keep any photo either on your computer, phone, fridge or an album in a bookshelf. You don't use a password manager because every account created is destroyed immediately after use. You create a new hackernews account for every single message you post.

Right?
I'm really curious to hear more about what kind of thing is covered in your playbooks. I've often heard and read about the value of playbooks, but I've yet to see it bear fruit in practice. My main work these past few years has been in platform engineering, and so I've also been involved in quite a few incidents over that time, and the only standardized action I can think of that has been relevant over that time is comparing SLIs between application versions and rolling back to a previous version if the newer version is failing. Beyond that, it's always been some new failure mode where the resolution wouldn't have been documented because it's never happened before.

On the investigation side of things I can definitely see how an AI driven troubleshooting process could be valuable. Lots of developers are lacking debugging skills, so an AI driven process that looks at the relevant metrics and logs and can reason around what the next line of inquiry should be could definitely speed things up.
But... that's freedom. :)
Amazing. For a e-commerce site I argued that we would save ourself a lot of trouble by simply making the address field one large text field, rather than attempt to making a form that would work for every country and city (looking at you Mannheim).

But apparently that would make data analysis to complicated.
By suggesting it's "mostly useful in the beginning" you are admitting that at some point they will copy+paste it to their project. So the convenience factor is a moot point.

I see the value, I just think that's an unrealistic price given the current features.
That's not at all improbable. And if you can't set things up so both minnows and whales are paying the price they are comfortable, its often a better business decision to dump the minnows and the overhead of supporting them and focus on the whales rather than having both, but paying minnow prices.
Well, how many buildings, and of what sort, varies enormously, but yes it won't be a whole town or region.

Most of my street is a single post code. Once upon a time it was a street of single family dwellings, so that's maybe a 3-4 dozen homes, but this is a city suburb so densification means some of those homes were modified and cut up to form flats, one large family home becomes six smaller homes - and some were purchased, knocked down and replaced by buildings which don't look out of place but aren't what they were before. I live in a purpose built four storey block, but it's designed to look superficially like a big house, the bottom floor is below street level (it faces out over the hill), the top has only loft-style windows at the front like somebody did a loft conversion.

It's all still one postcode though, so I share a code with maybe 100+ households. Recoding is disruptive and it's not really worth it, so they mostly don't do it.

Remember for actually delivering the post the postcode is just a convenient human readable part of an address, the machines (with occasional human help) turn any arbitrary address into a unique destination code, and then that's literally barcoded (albeit not in a code you're used to from like UPC etc.) onto the post. So for the Royal Mail the postcodes not being as descriptive as they were fifty years ago isn't a big problem.

Take some mail you've received, preferably over several days and study the outsides carefully. Two fluorescent orange bar codes have been jet printed onto the mail during sorting. The upper code is "just" a temporary unique ID, every piece of mail in the sorting system is issued a code, when they run out they start over, this helps with debugging and statistics. The lower case is in some sense the successor to the postcode, it'll be identical for every item delivered to the same address and distinct for other addresses. In fact it's encoding the "Delivery Point" which is what PAF handles, the location to which the Royal Mail employee delivers mail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM4SCC

The use of these "real" postcodes also enables the Royal Mail to more readily accede to impractical "vanity" postcode requests. If the rich people in this part of Dirt Town think they ought to have postcodes from the adjacent and posh sounding Upper Niceton, RM can allow that, because in reality their teams are working from the purely numeric code which will still treat all these new "Upper Niceton" homes as being where they actually are, in Dirt Town.
I do the same, I make chrome extensions and my most recent extension uses a byo api key model for calls to an LLM.

Means I can offer the service for free and not worry about hosting keys, serving ads, and storing users keys in a db. Everything can be done client side.

Good to hear I’m not alone in the endeavour, what software are you building?
That's a very cool idea. I checked out my city, but I wasn't really sure what to search for & even if I did I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at when I see it.

But here are 2 suggestions I thought of:

• Have the ability to check the visitors location, or give them a map, and let them search for results in that area. So, if I wanted to search for "shots fired" or "car break in" or whatever in my zip code, I could do that & get a general idea of where the cop is when they're on the radio. Or if not the exact location, what precinct they're in and where they go to for calls.

• Since police use a ton of lingo and codes the general public is not aware of, it might be helpful to actually translate that. Like, a 187 = a murder. That kind of thing.
I think Finland also has the highest IQ in Europe.
Indeed, if you're doing extreme free diving, it would make more sense to breathe a more depth-compatible (nitrogen-replaced) mix at the surface before diving, no?

Then your lungs (and blood) would be full of a safer gas mix at depth.

I'm not sure if any of the deeper gas mixes are safe to breathe at surface level though? I think so?
I think the cost of the pill is a pretty strong incentive to want to stop taking it. If the pill is cheap and harmless, then that's just great, there's no need to spend effort improving your environment at all, you've solved the problem already.
Sounds like you're projecting your own laziness and shortcomings on others. This is a tool that seems really helpful considering the alternative is 0%.
Ireland can have:

Foo House
Townland
Large town somewhat nearby where the mail comes through but only tangentially near the actual house
County Bar

Where Townland is optional.

There's a bank address in my town:
PTSB
Kennedy Road
Navan
Co Meath

Kennedy Road is about 2 blocks long with ~ 30 shop fronts, and there are numbers on all but one of them.
If they use the consent modal to gather data about you when you try to "opt out", they're already deliberately violating the law more than they would by simply not having that banner.

We're not talking about something that will take your foot off or something dangerous with safeties. But if you want gruesome analogies this is more like hiding razorblades underneath a safety seal warning about the package having sharp edges.
You might want to try my Qt C++ app[1], which is very performant, has a block-based editor, and simple to use. Currently, no Latext support, but it's in the bucket list.

[1] https://get-plume.com/
i get the impression you aren't much aware of the existing ways employers monitor activity of their workforce at scale for both windows and mac users without needing to browse through GBs of screenshots on a regular basis.
As he points out, this was a profoundly stupid mistake made when privatising Royal Mail. It would have been trivially easy to do at that point, but now it's a lot harder. If the government decided that it does want to do this, it can't just pass a law that says "the PAF is now free" without paying hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation to Royal Mail. That's quite apart from the ongoing costs of maintaining the data. At a time of cuts of budgets this would be a hard sell.
Bring your own keys to minimise costs, you can still charge a subscription or one off charge for the base service if it’s a SaaS extension or similar
Non Technical Project Managers. Don't need them just hook AI to the Jira Board and assign tasks to programmers.
Slowly? LOL. That has been the direction full throttle since the day Windows 10 was released.
The page appears to install global keydown/up handlers that swallow all key events. And it also disables the browser's context menu.
> hyper-specialized hardware for individual services
> AWS has Graviton

This is commodity hardware.

It pretty much works off ARM spec. Besides AWS owning it and offering it cheaper it's not in any way faster / better than Intel / AMD / something else.

We've had custom motherboards, server cases, etc long ago even before clouds.

If Apple silicon happens in the cloud then maybe...
It was approved for medical use in the US in 2017

In June 2008, a phase II clinical trial began studying semaglutide, a once-weekly diabetes therapy as a longer-acting alternative to liraglutide
Everyone has different threat models, vulnerable people don't need to use such a feature, assuming that it's all local and implemented perfectly.

It should also be opt out by default for Microsoft.

I personally see a lot of use for this if it was running entirely local. I always find myself in a position where there's things which I've browsed or come across but it's difficult retrieving it from my history.
I'm glad you switched (welcome!!), but I didn't mean to imply that zero Windows users are switching, just that the numbers are very low. So many of them complaing about all this crap, swear they're going to switch to Linux, but never do. They're all talk and no action. And we can see it in the numbers. As I pointed out before, the stats are showing a slow rise in Linux marketshare, so obviously there are some people switching, which is great of course. But at this rate it'll be a long time before MS really has to worry. And don't forget, a huge portion of MS's customer base and revenue source is businesses, not individuals, and businesses are probably even less likely to dump Windows. Lots of individuals these days don't even use a PC, they just use a phone or tablet.
How to make flowcharts in xmind mind mapping tool?
Never once have I wanted to do this.

Now that I know it's possible, I still cannot think of a valid use case for me.
It pattern-matched "scam" so you classified it as "scam" and absolved yourself of doing any further thinking.

If something pattern-matches "legit" are you equally blase about sticking with your snap judgment and absolving yourself of doing any further thinking?
I made two one-page react apps

https://www.livetranslate.net/

https://www.subsgpt.com/

Second one is more refined but both are functional.

I was pleasantly surprised somebody made a YouTube tutorial in Japanese about the latter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gAkvZYayEc - feels like retro internet where people share things on their personal webpages.

Curiously the first one also landed me a contracting opportunity for a company that wanted to add live captions to their product and we went live with my help.

I also made a decentralized twitter dapp ages ago but AI apps definitely have had more interest.
> They have limited access to solar and wind for their population size.

I would have assume an island nation on their latitudes would profit from solar and even more from offshore wind. Is there a reason why it doesn't seem so?
The paper goes out of its way not to compare the 42% figure with anything. Is "42% within the top 5 suggestions" good or bad?

How would an experienced engineer score on the same task?
https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
It hardly requires a huge amount of investigation to see that's not a scam link. It literally has the blog authors name attached to it, along with a post date and a "read the full story"link that has the same web address as the blog. It's just a few seconds work to see it's legit.
Indeed.

If it's an issue that someone would know your address, then it's an issue that they would know your postcode.

If it's an issue that someone would know your postcode, then it's an issue that they would know your address.

I'm struggling to think of a scenario where you'd be fine with someone knowing one of those pieces of information without knowing the other.

It's not therefore an issue that there's a lookup between the two. Indeed you can do it trivially with google maps, or the plenty of other services that expose this database through their operation.

Any safety concerns aren't at the layer of translation between postcode and address, they're how someone tied either of those pieces of information to a given person.
> realizing that much or even most of what is in "commodity hardware" is there to serve uses cases that cloud providers don't have.

Why wouldn't they have?

E.g.

> Why do servers have redundant power supplies?

So if you lose power you don't lose the whole server? It's even more important for cloud providers that have huge servers with high density. You connect the different power supplies each to an independent power feed so 1 can go down. Would you rather have 2x the capacity instead?
The judgement is out for Sall Grover's "Tickle vs Giggle" court case
Sure, but if you spend 10m to read an article every time someone gave you an article, when you’re not even sure if you’re interested, then you’re wasting your life.
Does this mean I must improve the usability of app.
you know how people judge you harshly if you're mean to service employees, I think that colleagues and professional acquaintances will expect the worse out of you if you say bad things out of other people, because they're also in a contextually forced (through work) relationship with you, and if you're a psycho they're going to suffer from it, and they have limited info to judge you from
I can appreciate the looks and the engineering, but it would drive me crazy to figure out the current date on that watch. I think readability is super important for watches, and at least for the date, this one isn't really that readable at all.

It's less of a problem, but the low contrast between the hands and the face is also not that great for readability.