skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> air purification

«Air purification» interpreted as "destroying all life in the air you breathe"? That would be an extraordinary claim and you would have to prove that it is a good idea.

("Air purification" can be interpreted to be about chemical and mechanical qualities, before the consideration of the living entities in the air.)
Unsure why my comment was flagged. If you want to see how much of the newspapers are censored in Sweden you’re free to go live there for a while, and witness the crime that happens and lack of support from police or media attention when the crime is committed by anyone who isn’t white and Swedish.
Around here, there is a very popular sports team management platform called Spond. While many parents call it a huge chore, it definitely beats the crap out if Facebook groups et al. I've seen people starting to use it more and more for any type of group that wants to organize events, communicate to members etc.

The obvious downside is that (like with other apps) everything is inside a closed ecosystem. But there is zero spam, only a few non-intrusive ads, and generally good UX all around.
> We want to destroy microbes (and viruses) in specific contexts, not indiscriminately.

Apart from the known useful ones, like gut flora: no, we really do want to destroy them indiscriminantly. We bleach surfaces to do this, we can bleach air too.
Can you explain to me how you would double blind a trial of therapists?
But we should let corporations into our lives that aren't even following the laws? Frankly, the Telegram users I've seen here and on Reddit really don't make a case for themselves, with all the sweeping accusations they throw around without knowing anything about the case.

20 years ago it was still reasonable to assume that the person you saw posting something was actually real, that the content you saw was actually written by somebody like you, curated by people like you. It's not like this anymore. It's time to stop being naive. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and one of them is granting foreign entities unrestricted access to the minds of your fellow countrymen.
VLLM automatic prefix / prompt caching
vLLM, an open source library for LLM serving has Automatic Prefix or Prompt caching like what Claude provides. However, it's more on the fly prefix caching, which ChatGPT and other chat systems probably already enable by default in the backend, but just not exposing the cost reductions to the user.
not true https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637007/
Cherry on the cake is - People start looking for therapists when they're struggling the most.

Navigating the Kafka-esque mess is hard enough when you're well. But if you're clinically depressed and struggling to get out of bed, booking an appointment can feel like an unsurmountable wall.
Excellent. As somebody getting in to and learning Rust with some ideas, this is amazing to see and learn, especially with Linux application development.

Gives me a lot to play with!

Absolutely great work.
Lots of places are going to do the regulatory minimum for ventilation, and I sure haven't seen any much change to regulations.
Seeing these things come from teachers at TU Delft makes me excited to do my master's there. Sadly school already starts soon and I haven't done my pre yet.
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Also really enjoyed What Dreams May Come despite its lack of success at the box office.

People are probably already aware of the fact, but it is based on a novel of the same name by Richard Matheson — who also wrote I Am Legend (which has had its own fair share of film adaptations).
An LLM would have made zero spelling and punctuation mistakes
Also @dang answers emails and always replies fairly and thoughtfully, because he is mindful of creating a better community.
another Ressource about how to tackle this task in Javascript (shameless self promotion)

Read “How to create a maze with JavaScript“ by Nicky Reinert on Medium: https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-create-a-maze-with-javascript...
That’s a dumb reason. A reason for reasons sake.

These matter because they are beautiful and make people happy. They’re also appreciable technical achievements.
Telegram always elicits bizarre reactions from the public. On one side there’s actual security professionals saying don’t use Telegram because it’s not fully E2E encrypted, and on the other side there’s people who are convinced that it’s secure because Marketing and that there’s this big conspiracy to stop people from using Telegram.

The real conspiracy theory is: Telegram have never made any attempt to either implement full E2E or to dissuade their users for using it for politically sensitive messages. Why not?
> 1985

You mean 1940. (Its original publication in the US.)

> Because once someone admits that change was okay

You seem to be going with the assumption that everyone is on board—that they agree that that change was okay (had it actually happened, that is).
The issue is similar in Germany, where the vast majority has mandatory insurance: Too few therapists for too many people. Even in large cities you might wait months, if they even have waiting lists. It's much easier if you pay by yourself.
Hmm, seems I already visited it in the past. Cannot remember tbh. :-D
> For me LLMs are like programming power tools. Use them wrong and you can hurt yourself. Use them right and you can accomplish far more in the same amount of time.

Fun analogy because if you're especially negligent you can injure yourself so badly you'll make programming forever more difficult than it needs to be or end your career altogether - like with a tablesaw cutting off fingers.
Are we still pretending that we punish harm or can we admit that we just want to punish people for doing things we don't like?
No, but that is a different issue... Signatures are not reliably checked so the claim that it prevents voter fraud is incorrect.
Did the researcher notify any of the state attorneys general?
California also has a requirement that ID for any traffic violation, including non-vehicular ones must be shown. Which makes ID ownership and carrying one at all the time a de facto requirement in CA.

With the REAL ID Act of 2005, most of the State ID cards (not just driver's licenses) are REAL ID-compliant, meaning they can be used for any state and Federal identification.

Some fees:

New York: $9.00 - $13.00 (varies based on age and duration of the card). For individuals under 62, the standard fee is $13.00 for an 8-year ID. Those 62 or older with Supplemental Security Income (SSI) can get it for $6.50.

Texas: $16.00. The ID card is valid for six years. Reduced fees are available for individuals aged 60 or older and those who are disables.

Florida: $25.00. This is the standard fee for a Florida ID card. The card is valid for eight years. The state offers free ID cards to individuals who are homeless or are 100% disabled vets

California: $38.00. The fee for a regular ID card in California is $38.00. However, the state offers free ID cards to low-income individuals, seniors, and those who are homeless under specific programs
An apprentice is another person performing the same kind of work as the carpenter. That's fundamentally different from using an LLM, which is not a person and does not function like a person.

Whether you think LLMs are spectacularly worthwhile or odious and destructive, it's crucial not to classify them as being a person instead of a software tool.
Yes, I've been considering both options! WXT seems to fit my use case better at the moment, so I might give it a try.

As for stream names, I’ve looked into it as well, but from the limited research I’ve done, it seems like only paid services are available.

I doubt there's a way to get the radios' programming since these are mostly small radios with very basic websites and online presence. Best I can get is an MP3/AAC stream and that's about it.
Russian govt officials are protesting his arrest.

When an authoritarian govt is calling for the release of someone who runs a "private" messenger, it suggests they have a back door. Otherwise they tend to oppose all private messaging.
Probably true, but unrelated
> Seriously DACH mentality and influence has been devastating on serious tech development in Europe

German corporations (and politics) are full of bean counters, bureaucrats and underachievers. It's filled with people who love to talk, excessively plan, draw flowcharts and build frameworks - essentially everything except getting shit done.
It somehow generates flying pigs without them existing. Substitute pigs for an other animal if your next argument is that flying pigs might be in the database.
It's an interesting phenomena but to be honest you need a leader with a vision to change the course of history. Circa 2006-2012 everyone orbiting the DACH sphere of influence believed they need to speak german even in tech jobs and then due to USA's influence and huge market we realized we actually dont give a crap about DACH that much. Thus it spawned companies in EE,Baltics and everywhere else with a focus on mostly american market.

And then all of a sudden due to lack of workers and other factors even DACH began to change and basically accepted English as the defacto working language in tech.

Unfortunately it's a small change, too little too late as they say. Without proper transeuropean companies and unified market we will never be able to challenge competitors from Asia let alone the USA.
I agree with you, but I would rephrase it as "people should have the freedom to do certain harmful things without going to jail for it".

For example, insulting someone, or self harming. Even things that "don't harm anyone" actually do, it's just the scale is too small to be measurable at the individual level. For example, substance abuse. If one people does it, it's hard to measure the harm to society. But if 300M people do it, it's easy.
>fortunately they lost

...only after they caused a delay of 2-3 decades, directly leading to thousands of unnecessary patient deaths.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18788...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...
Likewise I am convinced the "not interested" option does nothing, now I just straight block those pages/people when it shows up - the algorithm will send me another of nearly the same content but I keep blocking them and now a lot of that content is gone from my timeline, but FB is really convinced I want to see non-stop steam/model train and WWII content.
Wow - that was over 20 years ago - and microsoft are blaming that (and by extension their own security model!) instead of crowdstrikes internal process? Thats insane. Its like microsoft are asking to be held accountable for it!
This is a very poor analogy. It's not a matter of abstractions, it's a matter of getting someone or something else to do the work, while you mostly watch and fix any errors you're able to catch.
> A distributed encrypted backup option were you get to use other's storage for your backup purposes just as long as you offer your own storage for that purpose.

Add an option to enable encrypted backups with Shamir's Secret Sharing [1] to some of your closest friends/relatives, so that a few of them together can decide to decrypt your stuff in the event of your untimely demise.

Gimme a shout if you're hiring ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing
Way to dismiss a solid argument based on an anecdote. I wouldn't be so quick to conclude that porn has nothing to do with seeking out real life sex, especially given how it has been widely studied that the amount of sex young adults are having has been steadily going down since the end of 90's.
and OTC (Open Telecom Cloud)

But I wouldn't say it's a niche if you look at the size of the EU even if it "hasn't being doing that well" it's still a lot of purchasing power

And especially in recent years there has been an increasing push away from US cloud providers and this somewhat evening out the playing field of "newcomers" compared to Amazone, MS, Google.

Also because HN is quite US/SV focused and differences in business culture especially compared to SV about e.g. businesses doing blog post and similar you don't really see much at all from this marked on HN. But that doesn't mean it's not a big marked.
They're referring to free school lunches. That is, a lunch, at school, which is free. In the sense that it does not have to be paid for on the spot or by the child or family on account. i.e. part of the educational provision itself.

(carefully phrased to avoid "no free lunch" nonsense)
Allowing AI generated realistic CSAM while prohibiting real CSAM creates a real enforcement problem. Do prosecutors now need to find and identify depicted victims to prove a CSAM charge? Does believing material was AI generated serve as a defense?

We already have severe limitations on fictional depictions of this type of content so prosecuting AI depictions isn't anything particularly new.
That was an amazing read as well. I really wish the internet had more game-programming-for-beginners or whatever you might call them style microblogs.

Shamus will be missed! RIP.
The English common law tradition has a crime called “misprision”. Misprision of treason is the felony of knowing someone has committed or is about to commit treason but failing to report it to the authorities.

It still exists in many jurisdictions, including the UK, the US (it is a federal crime under 18 U.S. Code § 2382, and also a state crime in most states), Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland.

Related was the crime “misprision of felony”, which was failure to report a felony (historically treason was not classed as a felony, rather a separate more serious category of crime). Most common law jurisdictions have abolished it, in large part due to the abolition of the felony-misdemeanour distinction. However, in the US (which retains that distinction), it is a federal crime (18 U.S. Code § 4). However, apparently case law has narrowed that offence to require active concealment rather than merely passive failure to report (which was its original historical meaning)

Many of the jurisdictions which have abolished misprision of felony still have laws making it a crime not to report certain categories of crime, such as terrorism or child sexual abuse
If you have a backlog of 4500 “developer years” worth of upgrades, lack of AI wasn’t the problem, and making some attention nodes go brr cannot solve the root problem.

Java is a super verbose language, yet keeps getting written because “everyone knows java.” Has the cost of maintaining Java finally reached such critical mass that only an LLM can affordably maintain it?
If LLMs were actually good for programming, I would consider it, but they just aren't. Especially when we are talking about "assistants" and stuff like that. I feel like I live in an alternate reality when it comes to the AI hype. I have to wonder if people are just that bad at programming or if they have a financial incentive here.

There are a handful of cases where LLMs are useful, mainly because Google is horrifically bad at bringing up useful search results, it can help in that regard... or when you can't find the right words to describe a problem.

What I would like to see out of an AI tool, is something that gobbles up the documentation to another programming tool or language, and spits it back out when it is relevant, or some context aware question and answers like "where in the code base does XYZ originate" or w/e. the difference is having a tool that assists me VS having a tool spit out a bunch of garbage code. Its the difference between using a tool, and being used by a tool
resocket your chipset so you can pop it out and take it with you.
YAS: Yet Another Shop, a sample microservices project in Java
to anyone wondering what this looks like in practice... google "hanging chad"
They don't need compatibility but functionality in the first place.

Most AI workloads use an abstraction layer anyway, e.g. pytorch.
The alternative option is that you’re wrong and not everyone says or thinks that about Facebook. In tech circles, sure. Outside of them, not so much.
> We probably can't significantly reduce the total

We can and we have. Through things such as the measles vaccine.

People forget that child mortality used to be a thing.
This looks like you pay a company to put their ads on your content, under the guise of "increasing engagement."

Correct me if wrong here, but this would be something I would expect to get paid to do with my social media content.
What a silly thing. A good manager is worth quite a lot, but most of them aren't and a mediocre engineer is worth way more than a mediocre manager.
HN commenter: Samuel, why don't you use an LLM to write this play you are working on?

Beckett: What?

HN commenter: Well it's just like when you decided to work in French instead of English. Your art was no less because of it. Now you can use an LLM instead of French. It will be so much quicker.
In fact, Facebook is so sure they already have everyone that new users are often flagged as suspicious and banned by their automated tools without even doing anything. No other site could afford to do that.
Whoa, I never noticed that, thanks! Given how bad yet time sucking the default wall became, I hope this will make me reduce my time in there.
The success of this seems highly dependent on the nature of your social circle. I would probably be less inclined to be friends with someone who was randomly calling me for awkward chats about what I'm up to.
Basically, yeah. Another “free speech absolutism” media company that doesn’t want to acknowledge that some speech (e.g. Holocaust denial) is actually illegal in many countries in mainland Europe, because it’s their bread and butter to host said speech.

Rumble isn’t a huge platform and I doubt this is much more than a publicity stunt.
On the other hand, a government that makes victimless actions into major crimes also destroys social cohesion as it means the law is clearly detached from what is just.

By all means, fast track the death penalty for child rapists. Even make a constitutional amendment allowing cruel and unusual punishments for that single crime. Treat paying for actual abuse images as a worse crime than commissioning a murder. Sky's the limit for actual abusers. But (legally) punishing the creation of fake imagery is absurd, and in practice punishing possession seems to be unhealthy for a free society.
Also because it's cheap.
voting is a right. driving is a privilege.
After being a fairly heavy FB user since 2005, in 2012 I decided to remove all of the 400+ Facebook pages I followed after it dawned on me that it was the source of a lot of my news feed garbage.

After deleting about 100 pages from my list of followed pages, I notice the last 10 would re-appear. Every 50 or so pages I'd delete from my list -- which to begin with is a purposefully slow and painful UX whether done manually or javascriptically -- 5 or more pages would reappear. It took a while to realize what was happening because it wasn't always 5 or 10, sometimes it was 2 or 4 and the time between occurrences was sometimes so long that I originally assumed I just missed some. Then I noticed some pages got re-listed after a day or so. This got me pretty upset but it was only the beginning.

I began making it a daily mission to delete at least 50 pages a day and keep deleting them as often as they came back. It was at this point when pages stopped reappearing and I'd get an alert from the app that went something like "Hey (stop sign emoji) stop! You shouldn't be doing that!" and a bunch of lines about how I'm using the app in a way that's not meant to be, and some vague noise about continuing in such a way may lead to repercussions to functionality and/or my account. What? I'm not supposed to use the delete button on the Pages Followed (or whatever) pop out list?

After ignoring these warnings and deleting as much as I could, one day I found the delete functionality would just stop working after deleting 20 or so pages, if at all. My frustration led to me pausing my account for a month or so, then reactivating when I felt motivated to delete more pages until again the functionality would either be limited or completely impossible. Finally I paused my account for 4 years until 2016 when I found I got delete all followed Pages. I was so happy about this I started using FB daily again but not nearly as much as I used to.

Funnily enough the same thing happened to me in 2021 on Instagram when I tried to unfollow accounts.

That said I've always thought FB had/has the potential to be a public utility as a local-first product. Like, families should have an FB. Your street or the floor of your building should have a FB. Neighborhoods should have a FB.It doesn't even necessarily need to be ad-free, just community oriented. I suppose that's Mastadon's intention but FB does it best IMHO
If you deposit more than 10k the IRS simply gets automatically notified. No one calls you to ask where you got the money.

The IRS actually expects you to report income earned from illegal activities, they _explicitly_ state this in Publication 17.
even if it has struggled it still is a lot of purchasing power

and cloud is an essential service for many companies

and how things played out in recent years has created increasing insensitive to not use Amazone/Google/MS Cloud

but it's marked which isn't really that visible on HN and similar US focused sites
What does "Simplify multiplexing on edge devices" even mean?
This is so accurate I'm offended.
Eight Signs of the Danger of Telegram
Putting aside the privacy issues of requiring identification... what does 'social media' mean exactly? Safe to assume Facebook and Instagram are included. Probably YouTube? What about Hacker News? Discord? Online games?

There's always a lot of discussion about how bad and scary "social media" is, but I've never really gotten a clear definition of what that actually is.
Yeah certainly, changing the terms retroactively was just something else.

However I still think that the $0.20 headlines did a lot of reputational damage (even if most medium-major customers did the math) and that could easily have been avoided.

The way they introduced the already the hardly fathomable changes was IMHO as amateurish and half backed as it gets. Literally a corporate suicide attempt, can't imagine what were they thinking...
Not sure what part of my comment amused you so much.

An IM platform server can be open sourced. Just like any kind of software.

It's just a matter of publishing your code and, preferably making it possible to verify that the service your users are connecting to is build using the same published code.