skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 years in the prison she will end up at or the one SBF is at? For multiple millions, yeah 100% immediately.

2 years in a supermax or in one of the super violent federal prisons... probably not.
It's not satire. Ioannidis has a long history of pointing out flaws in scientific processes.

(Edit: spelling.)
The ur-money glitch fraud
Many years ago Google Cache once saved a site I used to maintain/own, classic funny story, I accidentally deleted the production database when I was trying migrate it, but luckily all the data to recreate the latest posts (the most important for this japanese music-downloads-links WordPress site) was stored all in HTML attributes and some tags, so I created a script to scrap it all from Google Cache and recreated the DB as best as I could.
I remember criticism back from when this paper first came out: it went something like 'all this shows that using maths it is possible to construct a world where most published research findings are false.'
> even large tech companies know that future tech leads must be built by nurturing CS grads

Aren’t tech companies also notoriously threatened by tech debt due to their short term orientation?
Going to a federal trial in general is almost always a mistake. The feds rarely lose cases; the plea bargain they offer is almost always going to be the best option for you.
Dislike being a pedant but the stack was missing math up front
The Cryptographic Doom Principle (if you have to perform any cryptographic operation before verifying the MAC on a message you’ve received, it will somehow inevitably lead to doom)[1] is a sort of anti-Postel's Law.

[1] https://moxie.org/2011/12/13/the-cryptographic-doom-principl...
> but the takeaway should be that even if just 10% of users want the option (an extremely conservative estimate),

Do you mean 10% of iPhone users want to keep a few dozen LLMs on their phone (obvious bullshit), or that in aggregate at least 10% of iPhone users would buy more storage if it was cheaper (to say nothing of the customers who always buy the most expensive config as conspicuous consumption)?
> This supports my theory that Elon has become a right wing warrior in order to gain credibility and political capital in right wing states

Tesla is facing securities and wire fraud charges by the DOJ and SEC over their FSD claims.

He would be looking at jail time given his previous run-ins with the SEC.

Trump can make all of that go away.
True or not he could have created a pretty strong argument the investors purposefully selected a guy set up with all the moral hazards to run off the rails and make them cash while frontrunning a casino. Frame it as a clever deck of plausible deniability by rich elites who created the perfect recipe of a crime without actually explicitly inviting it.

We all know the investors knew what they were doing when they sent this arrogant, inexperienced, greedy sociopath on his course. Unfortunately for him he didn't realize he was also a patsy, and he took pretty much all the heat.
Llama and its variants are popular for language tasks, https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B

However, as far as I can tell, it's never actually clear what the hardware requirements are to get these to run without fussing around. Am I wrong about this?
Not now, as I have a child, but pre-child, I would give it serious consideration.
Haha, math strikes me as a bit different from the others... but I'll add it just for you ;)
This by long distance the most chaotic open sourcing of a piece of software I have ever seen in my life...
Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server
I couldn't get a tour request to work on Safari (desktop or mobile) or on Chrome. Curious how offers work - you route the web form to a lawyer who then writes the offer and routes it back to the buyer? How are you handling "interrupts"? IE: all the things that need to potentially be part of an offer that only a savvy broker would know how to address with the buyer? How are you handling things like even the seller's disclosure, inspections, etc?

> then reviewed by an attorney at no additional cost.

So how do you make money?
Search HN for "Debian packaging", it's a very old issue that's been discussed at length.

Apparently the solution is to write yet another automation utility:

https://people.debian.org/~nthykier/blog/2023/a-new-debian-p...

Personally I have given up on Debian packaging. Work applications get shoved into /opt and configured via Ansible, and desktop systems run other distributions with simpler packaging formats (with internal or home stuff wrapped into proper packages).

I've thought about alternatives for the servers, but Alpine et al have their own issues. Nothing has been decided yet.
4 people splitting rent on a house will get you very nice accommodations for 600-700 in most of the US, even some coastal cities.
Visa made $17-$18 billion in profits in 2023 for handling transactions worth $12 trillion. Is that an absurd number for maintaining an instant payment system on a planetary scale?
> Most used browser to nothing.

Feel free to criticize Mozilla all you like, but this is a prime example of myopic tech-bubble thinking that is being decried elsewhere in this thread. Firefox market share declined first because Google used their market position to advertise Chrome for free on what was then the most valuable web real estate in the world (the Google home page), then because they paid software installers to use dark patterns to automatically install Chrome and set it as the default browser without the user's consent, and then because they optimized all of Google's popular properties to work best in Chrome and only begrudgingly in other browsers, and then because they shipped it as the default browser on the OS that Google controls. There's not a single thing that Mozilla could have done to stop Chrome, short of making their own phone OS where they could ship Firefox as the default, which they did in fact attempt.
A malicious image? Bruh invented Snow Crash for LLMs. Props.
This is fascinating—I've recently been experimenting with something spookily similar after coming across the same paper as OP, only I'm trying to make random DAGs of logic gates reconstruct images rather than audio signals. Great minds like a think, I guess :P
Two years is very short in the US for serious crimes. The US has more people in prison per capita than any other developed country by a wide, wide, wide margin, largely in part because of the judicial system's willingness to hand down sentences for relatively minor crimes that would be seen as insane in most other countries.

For what she was charged with, two years is probably the bare minimum that was available at sentencing given the constraint of "must serve jail time".

Meanwhile in Germany, the sentence range for human trafficking is 6 months to a max of 5 years. Stealing a child is also max 5 years (if you're not intending to sell it).

The contrast is pretty stark.
Not sure if people who prefer to use cash will consider that an adequate substitute.
Want to Build a Perfect 21st Century Town? Ban Cars
What you despair for exists in places like Mexico City, just saying...
Show HN: Simple API to Compress Large Audio/Video Files for AI Transcriptions
Hey HN,

I built a lightweight API that compresses large audio or video files into tiny OGG audio files using the Opus codec.

Why?

AI transcription services often have strict file size limits, making it tough to transcribe lengthy recordings. Splitting files into chunks can lead to context loss.

Solution:

This API compresses entire files into small, high-quality audio without splitting, so you can upload them to any AI transcription service and maintain full context.

Features:

- Easy to Use: Upload a file via a POST request, get back a compressed OGG audio file.
- High Compression: Significantly reduces file size while preserving clarity.
- Open Source: Built with Deno and FFmpeg, containerized with Docker.
- Deploy Anywhere: Includes instructions for deploying to fly.io.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/vfssantos/ffmpeg-deno-microservice/

I'd love your feedback!
From the article: "FarView would comprise a hundred thousand metal antennas made on-site by autonomous robots. It would cover a Baltimore-size swath of the moon." That's way beyond anything possible today. What JPL proposes is just packing up a big thing tightly and unpacking it at the destination. Space projects have been doing that for decades.

When someone assembles a solar farm in the desert with no humans on site, we can talk about doing something like that on Luna.
You suspect well, I do not.
Let me ask you another question for which you and I do not know the answer. Since she got 2 years in prison, she was not promised (i.e. she did not sign any binding agreement with the prosecutor, beyond "we will do our best to get you a lenient sentence") not to go to prison. Why then not a sentence of 5, 10, 15 years in prison?
Evidence of this:
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cyph...
> Certainly in my world, a credentialled epidemiologist questioning the accuracy of government statistics during a world health crisis, and suggestion that perhaps our strategy could be different, is not conspiracy theory.

I fully agree. (Well, with some caveats. I think credentials matters less than facts. And I think epidemiology is still in its infancy, so I personally don't put much faith in any single epidemiologist.)

Maybe conspiracy theorist is the wrong term. What he did was show a very political concern with public policy (especially IIUC his opposition to lockdowns) and very little concern about the quality of his research or the people it affected.

This article seems pretty decent at containing details: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ioannidis...

You mention Barrington, from the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration

> The World Health Organization (WHO) and numerous academic and public-health bodies stated that the strategy would be dangerous and lacked a sound scientific basis.

So I guess maybe less "conspiracy theory" and more "recklessly dangerous" or "abandonment of the Hippocratic oath".
Exactly this.

It was a fairly hidden piece of functionality that a tiny proportion of people ever used -- of course, a higher proportion of HN users, but still.

Their brand is unchanged.
Man, that is an awesome name for a CPU.
I have several Chromecasts in my TVs. Keeping them paired with mobile devices has become a nightmare. They frequently disconnect, often immediately after queuing videos. They never used to behave this way

The silver lining is that I have been finding some better alternatives to both Chromecast and YouTube. I have some Amazon Firesticks with Kodi installed that are pointed at my media-filled NAS, including videos I fetched previously with yt-dlp

I am also considering moving everything over to something like Intel PC sticks and possibly running Kodi off of those eventually. Then I can have all of the smart features I need without any ads or without any of the devices obsoleting themselves beyond my control
Hello everyone! This is a fun little project I started in my spare time and thought you'd appreciate :)
When people who care about open source talk about "open source", they often mean the Open Source Initiative definition. https://opensource.org/osd
In this thread you can really tell who gets blocked on twitter a lot and are upset about it.
Self-host Password Manager: Git-controlled, GPG-entrypted, easy to sync/backup
I think there are maybe two separate issues here.

Paper mills are bad but mostly from the perspective of academic institutions trying to verify people's credentials/resumes. Paper mills aren't really that much of a concern in the sense of published research results being false in the way the article is talking about because people aren't really reading the papers they publish. In that sense it doesn't really matter if there are places where non-scientists need to get one paper published to check some box to get a promotion, because nobody is really considering those papers part of established scientific knowledge.

On the other hand, scientists intentionally (by actually falsifying data) or unintentionally (as a result of statistical effects of what is researched and what is published) publishing bogus results in journals that are considered legitimate which aren't paper mills actually causes real harm as a result of people believing the bogus results, and unfortunately the pressures that cause that (publishing papers quickly, getting publishable results, etc.) exist everywhere, and definitely not just in China, nor did they originate in China.
The car prototype reminded me of Spy Hunter graphics, but I couldn't remember that NES game's name at first. Sent me on a nice nostalgia dive!
The answer could be to push users to their AI offerings, or possibly due to bots scraping up the cached data for their own AI models, where Google wasn't making a profit off providing the data. Most likely the feature wasn't used enough for them to care, and they couldn't find a way to monetize it to make it worth keeping around.
I used it until my parents realized how expensive it could get.

Back to BBSs.
Is he a conspiracy theorist? I googled it, and here's the interview where he explains his views on COVID: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/933977?form=fpf Nothing in there looks like a conspiracy theory.
Your friends are not working because of people are so used to the “rails” that a job guides them and spoon feed them what exactly to do and with what consequences, this is why UBI isn’t gonna be what that commenter fantasies about. Most people does not have the will power to force and give themselves consequences and stick to it, because they are their own boss.
I'd say Moneyball made statistics kind of cool for a bit. It would have inspired a lot of people to get in to sports analytics.
I don't understand how this is called an advantage.

Dealing with cycles in Python is a total pain full of cryptic error messages, while in Rust cycles are fine as all top level items "come to exist" at the same time so they can depend on each other without any issues, and it makes refactoring a breeze.

Sounds like a compiler limitation touted as a feature.
Networking in C64 OS
How much do you know about "the world"? That's a serious generalization. Lots of cities out there, lots of people.

Maybe it's the systems that prevent us from seeing their efforts.
There are not many jobs out there that pay you a few million dollars for two years of work, so yes!

Downside: among the usual US-specific stuff, as a felon it's much harder to receive most countries' permanent visas. It's a case by case and you will get unlucky. There's often a 'character requirement' which is very loosely defined.
Can you name some? I'm very curious because that was low even for a tiny little college town several hours from any coast ~10+ years ago.
> with the same or better protections for account holders, then it would would be a game changer.

This is really the one we need to fix on both ends.

Right now we have a system where fraud is really easy, e.g. an incompetent merchant gets breached and the attackers get thousands of credit cards to use at innocent unrelated merchants. Then the attackers steal goods from those merchants and the merchants get chargebacks from the cardholders. This is crazy.

What you want is a system where the merchant submits a payment request which is then either manually approved by the customer on their bank's website (e.g. for immediate delivery of goods) or has to be submitted and displayed on the customer's statement at least 30 days before the transfer, giving the customer that long to dispute it (e.g. recurring payments/subscriptions). That would eliminate the vast majority of fraud and also make it simple for customers to cancel subscriptions they don't want (just go to your bank's website and ban that merchant).

The reason we don't have this is that the banks like getting credit card fees and chargeback fees, so they have no incentive to build it, and use regulatory capture and anticompetitive practices to keep anyone else from building it.
It adds up over time. I used and liked Google domains for a bunch of websites, and was disappointed when that was axed and all my domains moved to squarespace (and have since transferred them all out). I used the Google podcast app on my phone, and that was killed and replaced by YouTube music which is a horrible replacement.

I used to buy in heavily to the Google ecosystem and trust it as a pretty solid go to option for anything they offered, now I'd be really hesitant to use it for anything critical. I have even been wondering if my longstanding gmail email address will someday be a liability.

Those two examples were probably smaller services but had their effects on different populations. When you add up all the things that have been ended by Google it can really contribute to their overall brand image. Some things can trickle down from more technical users to less technical. I think chrome was first adopted by a highly tech literate population before breaking into the mainstream, and if that population starts to mistrust Google it could hurt them in the long run.

I think there has been a pretty major shift in Google culture and product strategy and I'm not a fan of it.

https://killedbygoogle.com/
Google would cache older versions of pages that it had crawled, and you were able to access this cache.
Nvidia Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code for VGPU Support
PVC is considered as the most environmentally damaging plastic and one of the most toxic substances for inhabitants of our planet. From cradle to grave, the PVC lifecycle (production, use, and disposal) results in the release of toxic, chlorine-based chemicals, and it is one of the world's largest dioxin sources.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10779931/#:~:te....
How can you say that? Especially given that this is a big news item, clearly people find it useful.
Yeah llama3.1 is really impressive even in the small 8B size. Just don't rely on knowledge but make it interact with Google instead (really easy to do with OpenWebUI)

I personally use an uncensored version which is another huge benefit of a local model. Mainly because I have many kinky hobbies that piss off cloud models.
yep 4 people in san francisco. I mean I've lived in the city since the 90's. and eventually you get to know people who value decency over rent. Also, tiny room.
Damn people are getting pretty good at manifesting these days

Check out ResearchHub[1], it's a company founded by a tech billionaire that's trying to realign incentives in science

[1] - https://www.researchhub.com/
Training is rather resource intensive either in time, RAM or VRAM. So it takes rather top end hardware. For the moment, nVidia's stuff works best if cost is no object.

For running them, you want a GPU. The limitation is that the model fits in VRAM or the performance will be slow.

But if you don't care about speed, there's more options.
What part about the genuine statistical arguments made in the article would make you believe it is satire?

I've found the reaction to this article can be pretty intense. We read this in a journal club many years ago and one of the mathematicians who was kind of new to the idea that research papers (in other fields) didn't more or less represent 'truth' said this article was _dangerous_.
sigh OSI was established specifically because they just wanted to share code and didn't care about GNU's 4 freedoms, so don't be surprised when the proponents of open source give you projects you can't even fork.
Drinking 3 cups of coffee linked to preventing multiple diseases
This is Peter Turchin's "elite overproduction".
I don't know why this is your hill to die on, but there's not really any ambiguity that Google killed Youtube 3DS. They issued an update so that it stopped working[1]. New 3DS software updates were still being issued up until April 20, 2024, and new 3DS hardware was still being sold when Google killed Youtube for Nintendo 3DS in September 2019.

Obviously there are good reasons why they did it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't belong on this list

[1] https://support.nintendo.com/jp/information/2019/0730.html
Whatever it is that got SBF in this mess it's the same thing that prevented him getting out of it with a light sentence. I don't know if that means he deserves it exactly - it seems like a better system wouldn't put a person like him in the place where he could do so much damage, but that's kinda where we're at.
Love the concept not the UX. I'd love to find the internal converter code
It would be an absurd amount for a payment system, yes, because we already have a secure worldwide communications network that we pay to maintain and there's nothing special about Visa's encrypted bits.

The value that credits cards provide isn't the network, it's the insurance (chargebacks). And while I appreciate payment insurance when I'm paying for an expensive object from halfway around the world, it's unnecessary overhead when I'm buying a bagel in a cafe.
The moment Google gets infiltrated by rogue AI content it will cease to be as useful and you get to train it with more knowledge.

It's slowly getting there.
Maybe I missed it, but I don't get how he planted info for someone else, rather than just messing up his own account.
bro, do yourself a favor, and go meditate in the google graveyard.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

for how to do it, see:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%E1%B9%87asati

make sure to read it fully, including all the links, recursively.

and

https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?t=17516&start=20

https://damsara.org/interesting-new-findings/solitary-night-...

just kidding.

but really, do you seriously think that people in companies do things for any reason rather than their own benefit? do you? nope. nyet. nahi. nada. coz everyone is that way.
SBF didn't have anyone bigger to flip on.
Not OP but I do the same thing, except with NodeJS.

I spent a long time learning Salt stack (like Ansible) but it never really paid off. When you're writing o config to set up one specific project on known infrastructure you might as well just code it in the scripting language you like best.
And yet, it is still the best we got for also producing highly reliable and correct information.

Personally, I think the “highly” in your statement is quite over exaggerated. Humans can be convinced to produce bad science, for sure, and there are even journals set up by religious orgs that specifically exist to do just that.

But at the same time, science landed humans on the moon.
That's usually how you get bloody revolutions on your hands. French revolutionaries and Bolsheviks were not factory workers — they were disgruntled lawyers and journalists.
Never argue with a customer. The customer doesn’t give 2 cent about your motivation, it’s not their job. When I saw the pricing I had a good laugh and moved on.

If the only motivation for this product is money, then it will die in no time. Comparing the value I’m getting to the 7€ / month on Amazon prime, or the 10€ for Apple Music – that’s the value perception you’re competing against.

If you tell me you need 120€ a year from multiple customers to maintain and improve a json app good luck. One time purchase – get access – done. You can later upsell me with even more features in a v2 or whatever. I also doubt this tool has a lot of running costs to warrant this much.

Maybe if you work in SF and you make 300k a year so 10 bucks don’t mean much, but for the rest of the world 10$ is a lot of money / month.
Towards European Digital Independence – Building the Euro Tech Stack [video]
Gas is already more than 3% cheaper with cash, rent tends to not accept credit, and for me at least the only significant other expense is dining out. If your goal with a tip is to put $X money in their hand, cash will do that more than 3% more efficiently, saving you the delta.
Imagine being so anti-AI that you won’t even use spellcheck! Bravo?