skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we did this at a few places and it's boring and low tech and... works extremely well. Loose coupling, very small interface, and bad behavior on either side doesn't impact the performance of the actual DB, etc.
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Show HN: Daily tab tracker Chrome extension
As someone who always keeps the number of tabs open to a minimum, I've wondered how many I open in a day.

I made a minimalist Chrome extension that shows how many tabs you've opened each day, and nothing else. The count resets daily.

It doesn’t try to do anything more—it's just a fun flex.
It's not so much the weight of running the build I'd be concerned about, but the weight of needing to audit the whole VM to trust the build.

E.G. There could be malicious code hidden in the free RAM.
It's commercially useful only if your team can maintain it after you're gone though :)
Like I said, I'm not sure the simple password scenario is a very good example, because the app doesn't really care about the details of the secret itself, ie your password. Only that it's the same as you presented when you signed up.

I found the Sudoku example more illustrative, where you want to share your knowledge of the solution without sharing the solution itself. In that case, others do indeed care about the details of your knowledge.

You can't just provide a hash of the solved board and say "lol solved it", as only those who had also already solved it could verify your statement. Maybe I don't trust those others who claim they also solved it, how can I verify that indeed you solved it? You could tell me the solution but then you'd ruin the puzzle for me, which is no good.

So as I understand it, the point of ZKP is that they allow you to share proof of your Sudoku solution to me, in a way where I can be certain you do indeed have the right solution, without me learning what exactly the solution is.
Roon perhaps
They always try to be vague when the truth is difficult to defend.
I've only used it a day or two and its been around the 150 range. I wonder what mid-week will look like.
These people who could have been talking to machines, now talk to AI companies who do the work for them. It's almost free today, but what will it cost once they need it to make money and they have no alternative ?
From a Cox VP of Digital Strategy's blog post:

"Our technology is on the cutting edge of voice data processing. We can identify buyers based on casual conversations in real time. It may seem like black magic, but it's not-it's AI. The growing ability to access microphone data on devices like smartphones and tablets enables our technology partner to aggregate and analyze voice data during pre-purchase conversations."

IMO, the smoking gun here is their partner ingesting and analyzing the voice data.
People have. And it's always shown that no apps are opening your mics when you're not using the app, and that if you're using the app they generally will only open your mic when it makes sense to do so.

These companies are most likely lying or exaggerating their capabilities. Since so many people believe in audio eavesdropping anyway, it's in their interest to make the buyers of their software believe they're much more powerful than they really are.

It's the same as how it's good for AI companies to talk about how AIs are just on the verge of ending the world and must be regulated at any cost - more people believing that what they're selling is absurdly powerful is good for sales.
Imagine living in a big house and having the music follow you from room to room, from one floor to another, playing from high def wireless speakers that you can place anywhere you want. I think that is a pretty neat idea.

I don't have a house or Sonos speakers, but I can see how some people would want that experience.
It's not clear, but I suspect it means a quarter of people who are eligible to smoke, in other words, excluding children.
Thanks, currently I am using Debian (Wayland) and it will be great to test this enigo feature.
No, you are completely misunderstanding. Let's explain this again.

Original post talks about US "Active Denial System". This system works at 95 Gigaherz, which does not penetrate the skin.

Microwave beams are a different part of the spectrum, and definitely penetrate the skin, and the whole body. These are what were theorized to have been used against embassy staff.
Hardware hedging against scaling regime shifts
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I think I’m fully on board the Cursor hype train.

Mind you, I am coming on board from a very particular station: I am a UX designer and developer, and bouncing between Figma and our HTML/CSS/Templ template stack back and forth all day. So I am writing markup more so than code.

And after a few days of using Cursor, I’m very into it. Partly because the default color scheme and layout just feels better than any theme I’ve used in VSCode. But more so, I really like their approach to the actual UI design of the autocompletes and access to AI features. They’re making a lot of smart choices that make it easier to understand what the autocomplete is actually completing, and exposing contextual keyboard shortcuts to access more features.

It also seems to be better at picking up my UI patterns than VSCode. Maybe. I need to get some more time with it, but it really seems to pick up the typographic and spacing rhythms and patterns I’m building.
That's actually an interesting point. As of before this dispute, Starlink obviously operated in Brazil because it operates ground stations in and has paying Brazilian clients. Assuming it continues operating without that, I wonder what would happen. I mean, it's like insulting a random dictator on the Internet while living in another country, right? As long as they aren't willing to send in their hit squad with some Polonium not much they can do. So unless the Brazilian government is going to start shooting at the satellites or those legal channels you mention which I also am not convinced would work.

Oh by the way, there seems there's going to be a very large fine for Brazilians circumventing the block to access ex-Twitter. So it may just be on the client side, if anything actually happens.
This is very likely fake.

But why would a company say they do this?
It's because so many people believe that this happens anyway that there's next to no cost to them in saying it - and the buyers for this kind of technology think of this as a good thing.

It might be fake, but people being scared of your powerful technology is good for sales.

AI labs do the same thing by actively courting fearmongering.
UX is what sets Cursor apart, all the pieces it's built on already existed, they pulled them together in a coherent way that makes coding with LLMs easier.
TBH, I don't really know what you're driving at with brain waves. They're not magic. I think you're trying to use "consciousness" to mean "high level brain activity", as opposed to something like the lizard brain? To which I say that you're making a distinction that isn't there. Your lizard brain is perfectly conscious of many things. It's just conscious of fewer things than your prefrontal cortex.

I mention "unconscious" only to help disambiguate an overloaded word. It's used for both "this model includes something in its representation" as well as "this model is currently executing".
Very cool, but requires a fancy computer (pentium territory) and is still very slow.

I'll stick to 8086 assembly.
Finishing things (esp. personal projects) feels really good. Leaving them unfinished starts to feel really bothersome. I think the author describes a lot of this really eloquently (while I would also note the irony of writing a meta blog post about this topic during the time when you could have been finishing something).
You seem like a knowledgeable dude with these things @mrinfinity.80 signal https://signal.me/#eu/26YwMqjhQzFxwt0pO6fsrchO9Ys4ckpQQFGoBU...
I agree. But to answer your question

> Why do we need platforms?

I'm currently of the opinion that hierarchies are partially an informational thing. Nodes that summarize or aggregate information from other nodes are higher in some abstract hierarchy (e.g. perhaps they have higher in-degree). Those abstractions tend to become more concrete and those nodes become points of centralization or what you might call platforms.

The platforms don't have to look like they do now (in fact I hope they don't), but I am currently skeptical of any perfectly flat communication system just on informational grounds.
>Are you sure about that? Both have lots of representation to them. Rocks have their atomic structures and you can easily view this as code. You can also view lightning as a representative of the intersection of cloud and ground states.

Sure then following OP's model outlined here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41427796, rocks are simply conscious of the passage of time. Perhaps it can be said that is the one thing every matter in the universe is conscious of.

>The point I'm making is that representation is not enough. Storage (or memory) is not enough even recall is not enough.

You don't know what is or isn't enough.

And by the way, what 99% of people think of a concept they can scarcely define, test for or prove doesn't mean shit. We are regularly wrong about concepts with much stronger standings.

Humans don't have any special insight to consciousness. We can't even make decisions without unknowingly altering our preferences and fabricating reasons in the process. What makes the conscious mind tick was clearly lost along the way.

>We need to stop with all the bullshit because I actually want to build AGI

No, you want to build the idea of AGI that exists in your mind. Clearly not Artificial General Intelligence seeing as what exists today checks all those boxes.
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>In our history, the credible threat of social violence has been absolutely necessary for justice & progress

Even in very similar Anglosphere cultures like Britain, a liberal constitutional monarchy, all of that had been achieved, even earlier in many cases, without the overt glorification of violence as a normal part of the political process.

In fact liberal monarchies, even before they were democratic had done a pretty good job of delivering steady progress without being dogmatic on speech or even justifying violent revolution. Just assuming for a second we agree on a broad notion of progress if you draw the US on a graph next to her a little bit less rebellious peers I don't think it's that clear that the violence was necessary.
Yeah but they say "pre-purchase conversations", could be some BS about how they call consumers sometimes, from call centers... it doesn't say that they eavesdrop.
Does anyone know if office is coming to Linux. That's our main lockin currently.
The important part of this lesson is "and you don't need it".
> ZK proof can prove anything

Apparently not, isn't it designed specifically such that it's scoped to a particular "proof"?

You guys always say "without it linking you to your identity" as if identity is built into JavaScript or something. How does using a password hash inherently leak my PII? What problem does ZKP solve?

Using conventional development you can also do the trivial stuff you mentioned like running password through regexp.
Relatedly, this seems to be the best advice for installing and using Python on t he Mac. Probably applies to Windows as well.

https://blog.glyph.im/2023/08/get-your-mac-python-from-pytho...
Voice of America is a US government propaganda outlet that was barred from broadcasting directly to US citizens until the Smith-Mundt Act was amended in 2013. VoA is the primary source for this article.
The only thing sensationalist about that headline is "severe consequences"- it is absolutely a Zionist regime though, not even a debatable point.
Some day in the future we will create some very powerful mutant mice that will take up the torch after the Age of Man has passed.
I'm always surprised why I constantly see messages downvoted (not only here), just because they feel unconvenient for the bubble?!

Imho you should all stop that. It's too simple. It doesn't really increase credibility.

Why not start dealing with actual discussions there, and maybe have a little less "everything was already said; just not yet by everyone" discussions in other places?!
> What was not possible to achieve when implementing these features as an extension?

You cannot extend everything. At least at the time when Cursor started a lot of what Copilot relied on was behind beta and gated APIs / functions. It's opened up a little more now but possibly VS Code still doesn't expose everything required.
Cursor wow'ed me a year ago when I first used it. Been using it ever since. People are only starting to notice it now because of the virality machine. AI has been reasonably "good" at code for awhile. I think Karpathy finally talking positively about it a few weeks ago is what started off the current hype cycle.
When people say radiation free they are generally referring to ionizing radiation. This has been a well known convention for a century.
thats neat but how much does that suck on older cpus?

when accuracy is less important ya might wanna benchmark using ints and shifts for approximated quantities in sub-byte segments. bit fields rule again.
I have trouble keeping a structured schedule on my own, so I highly value having a reason for doing stuff on time and on the regular.

Otherwise I eat when hungry, tinker until distracted, sleep when drowsy, and that tends to isolate me from the real world.

I'll say one thing for old-fashioned prime time TV, it anchors the days for people like my parents, and Dad always knows when to find a newscast, yet still get everything done. Me, I try to have some social engagements in public, or get involved in some community groups that meet.
You could probably build a mirror with `wget -r` without writing a crawler.
How many "Stripe problems" are really financial systems problems just being passed through to the user?

I like the Indian system: no protections, just direct bank-to-bank transfers.
Sure, waves exist, whatever. Not to be rude, but so what? This kind of comes across as "quantum waves therefore the Universe Is Love" or something. What about the waves matters here?

I'm not arguing that consciousness doesn't exist, I'm saying that it's not a binary thing, and trying to provide a useful, falsifiable definition of it that provides a way to actually communicate about it instead of talking past each other.
Thanks! That totally makes sense when you think about it.
Mark hasn't been well lately, Jay Eigh might be taking his place.
Just not enough time in the day. Some open projects of mine that keep me up at night are below. There's probably more but these come to mind. Somewhere between working the day job, spending time with my family, and making sure I take care of my health and stress levels through excercise: I will make incremental progress.

1. rebuild IBM Model-M Keyboard after kids spilled water on it (open for 2 years now)

2. complete floating shelves in office (open since March - 95% done - slowwww)

3. build temperature sensor network for my house using ESPHome firmware and Home Assistant. Hardware purchased.

4. repurpose old 3d printer servo motors to automate etch-a-sketch (popular project out there). Software part started.

5. split-flap display: make my own. research on CAD models for 3d-printing completed.
I never thought I would miss old Elon. Can't we get back to pointing out why Mars colony isn't going to happen while secretly wishing it happens?
Yeah that's a blackops under the radar get it done quick solution that should be flagged like crazy for future spend on getting an API in place.

Of course, no one will dedicate time or money to that API until something breaks. Then you pull out all the emails, risk/assumption statements etc to highlight your due-diligence on informing the client. Then fix the problem, pushing the whole issue down the road again until the next time.

But seriously, expect to see this anywhere there are budget and time constraints. As soon as the fintech is big enough to get more worried about risk than growth, they should start taking this kind of thing seriously.
While this does seem rather zen, what would it look like?
They can be trivially shown to reason. It's quite normal for many things to have reasoning capacity, including amoeba, sunflowers, cats, LLMs, and humans.

The real issue is establishing the limitations of their reasoning capabilities, and how to improve them.
> A measure being objective doesn't make it good

That completely misses the point. It’s not about what’s good. It’s not even about what’s better. It’s only about how much better, the distance between theirs and ours. Better is objective only when like aspects of competing items are compared within accepted bounds of precision using evidence.

The interesting thing about measuring stuff isn’t that people are otherwise entirely wrong in their assumptions more than 80% of the time, but that they are typically wrong by one or more orders of magnitude.
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"Humanitarian" charity is not exactly a fitting description of the organization she donated to (though I agree that the sentence is out of proportion). To flip this around: imagine that someone was going through US customs and border clearance, and it became known that they donated money towards Russian FPV drones that hit Ukraine. Would you support giving this person a jail term or not? Now imagine that this person is a US citizen. Does that change your answer?
I mean none of the major LLM/DL developers would scrape the entire web (even against robots.txt and paywalls) just to increase the amount of data they could unprofitably train with, because that would expose them to copyright litigation... Oh, wait yeah they did.

Frankly, the idea that no app or company is doing this or selling the data would require an enormous conspiracy of secret suppression. The argument that one can't easily hash compressed sound fragments in a way that matches for copyrighted music or generic advertising terms and send that data back linked to a location/ID is sort of laughable.
When you say most people, who do you mean? Most people in tech communities? Most people regardless of their use of and relationship with technology?

And what's the context of the question?
> If the SaaS target customers are smaller companies / startups, then this may be viable

I’m your target audience.

The #1 issue I have with this concept is, as a customer, I would have to trust that you understand the performance limits of my production database and that you won’t run (even accidentally) a burst of inefficient queries that takes down or impairs production.

One way around this would be to query against a replica / secondary, but even then you risk overloading a secondary/replica, which could have negative effects in a failover scenario.
It's a good read and an interesting community to explore.
I uninstalled Reddit. The noise:signal ratio was getting too small to make the effort worth it. This one I don't actually blame on the social media company, though Reddit are busy enshittifying it. Though I don't really understand why or how HN promotes good conversations and Reddit promotes trolling and ignorance. It can't just be Dang ;)
I am sure Persia is not a great place to live. But I just cant trust sources like this to not twist and contort things.

And I mean at the end of the day they murder a lot less children than other regimes in the area, so it's quantifiably less evil than some middle eastern countries.
You rather explained the value prop of this product then. The benefits of isolation without the 1 business day wait.
Well we are working it.

In these riots we have charged a 12 year old orphan, sentenced 13 year old girl, jailed a guy for being “a curious observer”, and some woman for throwing water.

Previously, we have sentenced a teenager for reposting a rap song, some guy for filming his pug doing nazi salute, and charged two guys for possession of a book ‘Anarchist cookbook’

Also we have charged a woman for silent prayer.

So now I understand why a book about ‘thoughtcrime’ was written in Britain, it’s a local idea that was in the air for some time
You both are actively lying. I'm not talking about Tyler Kay, I'm talking about Wayne O’Rourke, whose tweets did not advocate for murder at all, let alone “set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards”. Not once did I mention Tyler. That's something you fabricated to deceive and mislead.

It's people like you that enable authoritarianism around the world by gaslighting others and justifying suppression of speech.
>Introduced by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Section 1706 added a subsection (d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978, which removed "safe harbor" exception for independent contractor classification (which at the time avoided payroll taxes) for workers such as engineers, designers, drafters, computer professionals, and "similarly skilled" workers.

From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986

This was backed by IBM and lots of programmers had to change their classification. Many people lost income due to it.

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