skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, it often depends on the “shade” or “persona”. The metaphor I choose to use is that these people were given a blank canvas and told to paint how they see themselves, and decided to go in an unorthodox direction. “Furries” might be the present day term, but there’s quite a lot of evidence that humanity has related itself to animals in some form or another for millennia.

I’d suggest trying to be more open minded to these subcultures and identify why their participants derive enjoyment from it, rather than judging based on knee-jerk popular perceptions. Fandoms are full of brilliant people doing excellent work and using their positions in those communities to improve the lives of everyone they can - just as there are narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths manipulating those fandoms to advance personal agendas. Escapism is just as likely a motivation as a sense of community to join a subculture, and one or the other doesn’t automatically make one bad.

And for evidence of that, look no further than comic books, superheroes, and the “geeky” media of yore suddenly becoming big blockbusters and mass media of today. Forty years ago, being a Trekkie or D&D fan was the source of derision, ridicule, and alienation, their players and members oft described as indulging in “escapism” and “abandoning obligations to society” by their opponents. Nowadays, they’re viewed in retrospect as champions of alternative perspectives, grassroots community building, and a revitalization of art.

Skepticism is healthy, don’t get me wrong, but we should still strive to be objective in our judgements where possible.
This tool requires a paid subscription, but it doesn't say how much. The hardware is affordable, but the monthly fees may not be. Also, the hardware is only useful as long as the company's servers are up and running -- better hope they don't go out of business, get sold, etc.
Nah, just the context required to point out the hypocrisy of any USAer trying to exercise morality over other countries.
I wish more people would talk about incomprehensible input. Just feeding input in your brain, like an LLM, so that with time you can detect pattern. Like playing the radio in the background, or watching Chinese movies without understanding much, or watching educational chinese youtube videos while you sleep, etc.
"a few thousand days away" feels like such a duplicitous way to phrase something when "a few years" would be more natural to everyone on the planet. It just seems intentionally manipulative and not even trying to hide it. I've never been an anti-ceo type person but something about Altman sketches me out
That, I am afraid, sounds like utter BS. Consider the mechanical action at play here. (If you will delve into gross sticky nose stuff.)

First, nasal mucus is thicker, more viscous than saline spray. It's produced in normal quantities by healthy people, but that production increases when infections or allergies happen, naturally.

By diluting mucus, and making it runny and watery, you're going to defeat its purpose, which is to trap various debris as you inhale, and stop it penetrating further into the nose and body.

So now your mucus defenses are down, yet you've got a little puffer in hand, constantly forcing saline upwards into the nose, more powerfully than simple inhalations. That very upwards and inwards motion is going to force stuff into your body that didn't want to go there, including germs!

It's absolutely counterproductive and sounds like quackery.

Now, if you already detected irritation or allergies based on foreign objects or germs, for example by discolored or thickened mucus, or more than usual, and then you proceed to carefully flush your passages with saline, Neti pot style, allowing it to drain away and out of the nose and sinuses, that would be somewhat effect, but you'd need to be careflu that you're not forcing it inwards. I mean, that is exactly what a runny nose is for during a cold. Don't thwart a runny nose, just clean it away regularly and work with those natural defenses! UGH! (For that matter, don't aggressively attack mild fevers, because fevers are part of an immune response, not the lethal brain-cooking threat we all fear.)

I wonder if this military researcher was consciously aware that he was spreading misinformation to ordinary civilians... hmm
This seems to be Swift-exclusive, but the idea is absolutely there. Imagine when this gets expanded to any codebase. Imagine all the spaghetti code you could visualize as real spaghetti!
None or username/pwd
Would you mind posting what would be the better headline instead of a shallow dismissal of it?

I actually struggled with a good one and felt this is the most fair take when seen in context of

A) Matt's post <8 hours before this disclosure saying

> "I suspect there are going to be millions of sites moving away from it in the coming weeks."[0].

B) WordPress has banned WP Engine from updating the plugin on the repo.

[0]: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1842500184825090060
I have never heard of "left spacebar" before. Sounds very interesting. So there can be two different spacebars on your keyboard?
Starlink satellites create light pollution and disrupt radio frequencies
I tried but all the content was sooo boring! The only show I could sort of watch was aiqing gongyu back then, because it was a pure rip off of Friends but at least it had some humor, but most of the content on Netflix is pure drama and is really boring to watch.
Arpeggiator Cube
I don't want to criticize a cool project but why do people feel the need to create new hardware for AI things? It was the same thing with the rabbit r1. Why do I need a device that contains a screen, a microphone and a camera? I have that, it's called a smartphone. Being a bit smaller doesn't really help because I have my phone with me almost all the time anyways. So it's actually more annoying to carry the phone and the new device instead of just having the phone. I would be happy with it just being an app.
"There's no upside to this."

Of course there is an upside to this.

We may not value that upside and we may not ever learn what it is but ALL traits have both benefits and costs.
If we figure out AGI, that still doesn't mean a singularity. I'm going to speak as though we're on the brink of AI outthinking every human on earth (we are not) but bear with me, I want to make it clear we're not going jobless any time soon.

For starters, we still need the AI (LLMs for now) to be more efficient, i.e. not require a datacenter to train and deploy. Yes, I know there are tiny models you can run on your home pc, but that's comparing a bycicle to a jet.

Second, for an AGI it meaningfully improve itself, it has to be smarter than not just any one person, but the sum total of all people it took to invent it. Until then no single AI can replace our human tech sphere of activity.

As long as there are limits to how smart an AI can get, there are places where humans can contribute economically. If there is ever to be a singularity, it's going to be a slow one, and large human AI vompanies will be part of the process for many decades still.
5+ cans of soda a day seems unhealthy even if it's not caloric, the gas and acid will mess up your stomach.

It is not just tastier water.
I do a povodone/saline nasal spray rinse when flying. Then use my navage to clear out my sinuses when I arrive at my destination. Can't tell you if it works, but I historically have gotten sick when I travel and I've noticed a reduction in getting sick since I started this protocol.
I'd love a hardware device that streamed the audio to an HTTP endpoint of my choosing, and played back whatever audio I sent. I can handle the rest myself, but the hardware side is tricky.
I was going to say a demented AI wrote the headline.
My understanding is Altman joined the Three Comma Club only this year not years ago.

Yes, he has made lots of investments over the years as head of YC but not every investment was successful. This was discussed on BBC's podcast 'Good Billionaire Bad Billionaire' recently.
this is akin to incomprehensible input and you need it, after listening to a lot of it your brain will start recognizing patterns and decompose things on its own, for now just brute force through as much of it as you can.
To rebel. Also because young people have less life experience and are therefore more gullible. 15-20 years into their adult lives they begin to see that the government is useless and wasteful and exists primarily to serve itself. They also begin to think about who’s going to pay $36T the Fed printed so far, or why we spend trillions abroad while our infrastructure is crumbling and healthcare and education costs are going up exponentially. And so on and so forth - those are the kinds of things a virtue signaling twenty something does not concern themselves with.
A lot of areas of physics are like this. There just is no accountability for making predictions which are falsified, or moving the goal posts.
I’m still waiting for the inevitable Lunar Basketball Stadium. I’m mostly convinced that alone will fund space exploration for the coming decades.
Didn't he die at age 25? Am I missing something here?
This article shows how his Tweet times match well with Satoshi's posts: https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...
It actually runs any text you throw at it, it just happens to be written in Swift :)
That's a good analogy. If you have the first mover advantage and can earn user loyalty through good UX or whatever, it might not really matter thwt much even if someone does steal your data. Worth a shot?
I remember watching haimian baobao (spongebob squarepants). Back then you could download this pptv app and watch a bunch of shows for free, I'm not sure what's the equivalent today.
He's already forced them to create an alternative store with their plugins so they can be used on WPEngine. Now he will force a split between the official version, hosted on WPEngine and the one hosted on WordPress.org. Misrepresenting a trademark and causing confusion, exactly what he accused WPEngine of in the first place.
My comment doesn't negate your point. I'm emphasizing the business side beyond the moral considerations. If anything, we've seen that brands which contributed to unhealthy habits, like the rise of fast food and sugary drinks, still hold immense value in the market. User loyalty may be fleeting, but businesses can still thrive by leveraging brand strength and market presence, regardless of the moral implications.
Discussion (190 points, 2 days ago, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728829
I was effectively forced to take a similar "offer" recently (iow laid off with six months severance), and while I did end up getting another job relatively soon it was an extremely stressful time. I do not think I would have taken it voluntarily in the current economy, even if it did happen to benefit me in the end.
The fact it's only a Chrome extention is a hard no because I don't use Chrome.
I gave up in the first paragraph
Thanks, I've made a new branch called display_fixes. Let me know if it works
X509 certs. They work nicely in an offline situation.
Yep. WoW was problematic because the mainstream had already decided that the participants were problematic, not because of any careful analysis of the game's merits. TikTok is okay because the mainstream participates, not because of a careful analysis of the platform's merits.
I think it quite fits perfectly the definition if you analyze the actions of Russia:

- Having a presidential statement saying Ukraine and Ukrainians don't exist (a major red flag, from a culture that is at least as old, if not older than Russia);

- Kidnapping and filtrating 30.000 children (one of the crimes of genocide);

- Terrorizing and bringing unlivable conditions to an ethnic group just because of their ethnicity and nationality - Russia has destroyed Ukraine power grids, destroyed medical facilities, much like they did in Chechnya;

- Stealing and erasing cultural artifacts, changing school curriculum of occupied territory to indoctrinate children against their culture;

Not to mention the mass executions of civilians, just because they were Ukrainians.

But the list goes on.
Can someone provide some context for what's going on here and why people are so worked up?

Why is it unseemly for Automattic to find this bug?
I’m not sure, but it’s possible Stephen Hawking would have been fine with becoming digital, assuming he could keep all the traits he valued. He had a pretty low data communication rate, interacted digitally and did more than most humans can. Give him access to anything digital at an high speed and he’d have had a field day. If he could stay off Twitter.
Much better than 4o, in my experience. I've stopped using 4o almost completely, except for cases where I need good tooling more than I need good performance (PoCs and the like).
Joseph Jastrow and his duck – or is it a rabbit? (2004–2020)
What I have learnt in 4 years of open-source development
The first thing that pops out on Google search of NixOS is "Declarative builds and deployments." What exactly is NixOS different from other distros, such as Ubuntu?
I don't think you're their target audience. I'd love something like this for my kid (who isn't ready for a smartphone).

Other problems are persistence. Have you looked at how hard it is to keep an app running in the background on an iPhone? on a Samsung phone? For an app that needs to be always-on, it's a non-starter unless you're Apple or Google respectively.
It is notable that human blood concrete was still found to be stronger than ordinary concrete.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/05/wordpress-ceo-matt-mullenweg...
GitHub Repo to Text Converter
I was thinking Kanidm [1] for authentication and SpciceDB [2] for authorization would be a good combo, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

[1]: https://kanidm.com/

[2]: https://authzed.com/docs/spicedb/getting-started/discovering...
Tik-Tok (and Social Media) exists around content. It's fundamentally social but has no inherent "meat" which is why it go bad so easily, just like high school gossip and cliques. It's hollow by itself, focused on reaction and judgment.

MMOs are that "meat". It's someplace you go for it's own sake, and (hopefully) you meet people around that shared space as a consequence rather than an intention. There will be debates, trolls and conflicts of course, but I feel that the focus on content is a shared axis that can keep things healthier on the long term.

Well MMOs are dying, and a growing number of zoomers would rather passively watch than actively play games, so I guess gamers aren't immune to social media either, but I think in the future we will return to this for answers that our present can't answer.
Future NeuroLink collab? Grab the experience of qualia right from the brains of those who do the experiencing.
Huh. I thought all my mid-to-late thirties friends and I were intelligent, experienced, and well-informed voters, but it turns out we were simply rebelling against some nebulous status quo. Now that we know better, guess we’ll have to vote in that repugnant fascist and his sycophants. Surely our lives will be improved by the party of “““small government””” and their world-renowned intelligentsia.
Weren't folks lobbying for new laws to make these defenses stop working again?
Django allauth, 10 years later still a no-brainer.

For selfhosting Authentik + Traefik forward auth is a unbeatable combo
Part One “Building a Data Platform on GCP” defined the functional requirements, and detailed how to install the required software. Part Two “GCP Infrastructure & Authentication” explained how to use Google application default credentials (ADC) to authenticate a user-managed service account. Part Three “Google Cloud Pub/Sub Messaging” showed how to use a Python script to generate and subscribe to the Google Pub/Sub Messaging service. Part Four “Containerization using Docker” covered how to build a local Docker image for a Python script, run it locally, and then push it to Google Artifact Registry (repository). Part Five “Google Cloud Run Jobs & Scheduler” demonstrated how to configure Google Cloud Run Jobs and Cloud Scheduler Jobs using Google CLI to execute a Python script stored in Google Artifact Registry on a specified interval from any Google region. Part Six “Google BigQuery Cloud Database” set up a Google BigQuery dataset and table using the Google CLI, and then a Python script was used to write and query data with SQL. Part Seven “Google Cloud Analytics” explored how to extract data from a Google BigQuery table, load it into a Pandas DataFrame, and effortlessly perform analysis and visualizations — all from a Python script.
I would recommend reading the article.

P vs NP is one of the foundational open problems in computer science.
The GDPR does not care about the specifics of tech.

The GDPR does not care if FB has a database column for “sexuality” or if FB never gathers that information directly. All it cares about is the fact that Facebook process personal data, and, using some of the data Facebook processes, sexuality can be inferred.

I think we in tech get hung up on technicalities, while the GDPR was specifically written to be as citizen-focussed and tech-agnostic as possible.

Regardless, this specific ruling seems a bit odd-it implies that FB took a fact he mentioned in a panel discussion (not on the platform), and used that information to serve him targeted ads based on his sexuality.

I have no idea of the mechanisms he supposes led to this.
Auth.js!

Supported providers: https://authjs.dev/getting-started/providers/github

It's been really great so far and I can recommend it if you have a JS/TS codebase.

----------------------------

You can test Auth.js (v5 beta.22) in my Next.js 15 boilerplate:

https://achromatic.dev

• Credentials auth

• Google and Microsoft login

• Connected accounts

• Multi-factor authentication (via authenticator app)

• Session management
What would be the use case of this? I have a remarkable 2 and there's the official Read on Remarkable extension that automatically sends a pdf of the page you're on or the book or whatever to your Remarkable. I'm not sure if it works on Remarkable 1 but there isn't any documentation on it being unsupported.

extension link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Read%20on%20reMarka...
Except the article makes none of these points. The article is saying:

a) "the technology is overhyped", based on some meaningless subjective criteria, if you think a technology is overhyped, don't invest your money or time in it. No one's forcing you.

b) "child abuse problems are more important", with a link to an article that clearly specifies that the child abuse problems have nothing to do with OpenAI.

c) "it uses too much energy and water". OpenAI is paying fair market price for that energy and what's more the infrastructure companies are using those profits to start making massive investments in alternative energy [1]. So if everything about this AI boom fails what we'll be left with is a massive amount of abundant renewable energy (the horror!)

Probably the laziest conjecture I have endured from The Atlantic.

[1]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/artificial-intelligen...
The other comment has a link with a good overview of the fight, but there's a tiny but of nuance to why this is especially "bad."

Essentially they are announcing a CVE on software while holding the fix for it hostage to normal users.
> Remember, these technologies already have a track record. The world can and should evaluate them, and the people building them, based on their results and their effects, not solely on their supposed potential.

But that's not how the market works.
Triage is hard. People may be mis-judging which is the appropriate service provider for their needs. If they don't know what's wrong they may worry that they stumble into a GP, and he just calls the ambulance/steers you to the ER anyway.
I think this is great, ignore the people comparing your project to the commercial Rabbit R1 project, those people are comparing apples and oranges.

A lot of the subscription based pull ins could be replaced by networking into a machine running whisper/ollama etc anyway.

Keep up the great work I say :)
Automattic and WP Engine are in litigation. The Story roughly goes like this:

Matt (CEO of Automattic) tries to get WP Engine to contribute more to WordPress development, including stuff close to blackmail

WP Engine sends a cease and desist

Automattic sends cease and desist to WP Engine claiming Trademark infringement

Automattic bans Access of WP Engine customers to WordPress servers, breaking plugin updates (which was temporarily reinstated and then banned after a deadline of a few days)

WP Engine sues Automattic

Automattic has a program where employees can leave until a deadline and get a severance payout if they are unhappy with the management.

Here's an article about it: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/04/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-dra...
Didn't he own like 10% of Reddit. Here what pg had to say about the guy.
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Sam Altman has it. You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king. If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.) Not everyone has Sam's deal-making ability. I myself don't. But if you don't, you can let the numbers speak for you.
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https://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
I can answer to this, having worked on an assistant that is always on, from your phone.

The platforms (ios, Android, etc.) are very limiting. It is hard to have something always on and listening. Especially apple is aggressive with apps running in the background.

You need constant permissioning and special privileges. The exposed APIs themselves are not enough to build deep and stable integrations to the level of Siri/Google Assistant.
We use Keycloak
The code wasn't written for other parameters, so it doesn't have a bug.
I think you are mischaracterizing both fandoms and furries (which I categorize to be distinct, because they're not "fans" of any particular popular media property, but I already digress). Much like people can form major hobbies in music, fantasy (books), theatre, sports et cetera, being a furry means being appreciative of art of anthropomorphic animals and connecting with other people over that. Now there are many in the furry community who are hurt, traumatized, "not normal", seeking escape as you are saying, and the community is exceptional for giving them space (that's a good thing, this community is then replacing traditional spaces providing community that may be failing them, like churches). But being a furry in itself is nothing indicative of not being able to, at the same time, live a "normal" life that you imagine.
It's insurance in the sense you have annual out-of-pocket maximums--which is really the key feature for a lot of people. I can cover $5K or $10K for a year but not, say, $100K or more.
Does this new donor-cell therapy potentially include the top-10 autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus (checked), and/or Hashimoto's thyroiditis?
The poorer you are the more likely you are to be obese.
Mark Watney approves.
In the future a pill with donor cells will be prescribed 1x a day for 3 days.
If you lack ideological purity these have been working in ChromeOS for 4 years and Ubuntu for 2 years.