skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Private third parties are an inappropriate place to enforce the law. If you have a dispute with someone, you sue them, not their hosting provider.

Sure. However, Cloudflare hide and protect the "them". The information in WHOIS, in the DNS SOA record, in the network hosting the content, in the servers hosting the DNS, in the registrar's abuse contact, all say "Cloudflare". Cloudflare'll "pass along" a message for you and will happily refuse to tell you who actually owns the site.

What's more, even when you can clearly show infringement, Cloudflare doesn't take action to stop it, even though they both can and should. Not taking action when you're informed that something is illegal is facilitation. Entities that host are not liable for the content of their clients, but entities that ignore illegal activities aren't (and shouldn't be) protected.

So there's literally no other option besides suing them, even if you want to go after the party that's using Cloudflare to do the illegal thing. You literally can't unless you sue Cloudflare and get a court (that Cloudflare actually listens to) to force Cloudflare to reveal the party they're hosting and protecting.

I'm not sure how you think "you sue them, not their hosting provider" is relevant in a discussion about Cloudflare unless you really didn't know all of this.
Is RAII Object orientation? I thought it was an idiom of C++ by Stroustrup.
Namespaces, methods.
You sure as heck make a whole lotta apps. One of these days you'll strike gold.

I think you'll have better luck with an app that allows depraved rich people connect with desperate poor people in order to have them do their bidding. Easier to game-ify as well.

For the confused, this is sarcasm, or as the kids say these days, based.

More concrete advice would be to spend less time on tiktok and more time figuring out what you genuinely need, as it's easier to motivate yourself towards finding a comprehensive solution to it, as opposed to your present scheme of random, half-baked ideas.
> they say you can’t use the output to compete with them

Their terms of use words it as:

> Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.

I think this is acceptable for 99.99% of users.

> in an underhanded way

Could you elaborate on why you see that as underhanded? It's not secret, as it's a bullet point in their TOS, and I don't see how it's dishonest. Billions were put into this model. Not letting the competitors save a good chunk of that seems fairly reasonable, from a "we need to make the billions back eventually" business perspective.

I would claim there's a much better chance that Llama is the more underhanded model, existing partly to wipe out/impede competition, including OpenAI, before going behind a pay wall.
With primes I think a general question is to what extent they are "random". Clearly, they are defined by a fixed rule, so they are not actually random, but they have a certain density, statistics, etc. So we can try to narrow down in what sense they are like random numbers and in what sense not. Do they produce a similar "clustering" or (lack thereof) as if we would generate random numbers according to some density, etc. I see the twin primes question fitting in such a theme. Happy to learn if a number theorist has more insight.
I think I generally agree with this article, but I have some nitpicks:

"OpenAI (...) has yet to create a truly meaningful product"

Almost everybody I know uses ChatGPT at least semi-regularly for all kinds of things. I'm not sure if it's possible to look at this objectively and claim that ChatGPT isn't "a truly meaningful product."

"OpenAI loses money every single time that somebody uses their product"

I'm not sure if this is true. My understanding is that they (on average, including their free users) make money on usage, but lose money on training. But I could be wrong.

I also think OpenAI isn't yet serious about monetizing its products. You can just go to ChatGPT and use it for free. They have a ton of data about their users that their users give them freely. The free ChatGPT tier is a prime candidate for advertising.
If it does turn out that the government has been poisoning Americans for decades, I'd like to see some heads roll.
review for the android version:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gigaset-GX6-smartphone-review-...

seems pretty favorable, keep in mind that it's already two years old. it's also a brick at 280g, almost double a pixel 5, otherwise pretty similar
Tailscale, Kubernetes and Direct Connections
sama is basically trying to say that OpenAI is the only one who can be trusted to build LLMs. How is that not regulatory capture?
The site in question is presumably not hosted in Moldova, so the thing you're suggesting is unworkable. Suppose country A has common carriage laws that prohibit a provider from denying service without a court order and the thing being hosted in country A is legal in country A but not country B. If the provider removes it they're in violation of the laws of country A, where it's being hosted. If they can now be found in violation of the laws of country B, where it isn't being hosted but is illegal, that's a catch 22.

Moreover, it's pointless to expect that to do any good because the customer could obviously just use a provider that operates in country A but not in country B. Therefore, a presence in country B should be irrelevant when that isn't where the customer is because you're otherwise just setting up a catch 22 for no benefit.
This is what I am implementing a the moment (together with sampling for errors).
Plus points for being a readable format that can be displayed great on HTML or PDF.

At the same time easy to edit and easy to enhance with different build languages as needed.
Hey, Im happy you want to try it out just keep in mind its not done yet many features are missing, We want to have all the things you listed be configurable in a config file, so i think you will like it. If you have any problems may worth to take a look at https://snowiiii.github.io/Pumpkin/troubleshooting/common_is... or just ask for help on our discord, Have fun :D
You say this but Google has far better retention than openAI does.
Same thing happened on reddit.

Instant 100+ upvotes out of nowhere. A bunch of new accounts posting supportive messages that after checking about 20 of them had posted on the sub before and just magically appeared. Downvotes to anything asking questions.

There is one infamous mastodon troll "developer" that can't get enough of themselves and I would put money on them being involved in this, if you know you know.
Don't mind going to prison or being relegated to living the rest of your life in Russia? Then start a darknet market. If you just need 5K then a much lower risk option is committing bank fraud. Buy US bank accounts for $200-300 on russian marketplaces and then buy some venmo/paypal accounts. Buy stolen credit cards for $15 a piece and connect them to the fintech accounts before laundering the funds to the bank account. Then buy crypto, cash out, repeat. You'd have 5K in a week.

You could also open a Stripe account and offer to process payments for a very high-risk merchant, say https://annas-archive.org. That also works. You will very likely end up in an indictment though. Make sure to force 3DS and liability shift on cards to keep the account open for as long as possible. Since these types of merchants don't have any other options, you can charge huge interchange fees (50% even). Considering 20K USD/mo volume you'll make your cut one week in.

You could also perform espionage for a foreign government. Check in at your local Russian/Chinese embassy to see if there's a position for you.

Fast money doesn't exist. People who believe it does are a conman's best marks. This comment is for entertainment purposes only.

Edit:

>P.P.S. i am located in Prague, Czechia.

Just do credit card fraud? It's eastern europe, nothing will happen to you.
Namespaces is not object orientation, is it? Am I missing something?
You can place functions (methods) inside of structs in C23, can't you?
JPEG XL's Modular Mode Explained
So after downloading from the official downloads page and stripping away all the mjs files and "bundler-friendly" files, a minimal sqlite wasm dependency will be about 1.3MB.

For an in-browser app, that seems a bit much but of course wasm runs in other places these days where it might make more sense.
GNU Emacs is a Lisp implementation with an abstraction layer over the hardware and OS. I would like to reserve "Lisp Machine" to computers with an actual Lisp operating system or emulations of those.
First you need intuition on what's going on.

"All swans are white."

This statement cannot be proven because it's not possible to observe all swans. There may be some swan in some hidden corner of the earth (or universe) that I did not see.

If I see one black swan, I have falsified that statement.

When you refer to "Not all swans are white" This statement can be proven true but why? This is because the original statement is a universal claim and the negation is a particular claim.

The key distinction between universal claims and particular claims explains why you can "prove" the statement "Not all swans are white." Universal claims, like "All swans are white," attempt to generalize about all instances of a phenomenon. These kinds of statements can never be definitively proven true because they rely on inductive reasoning—no matter how many white swans are observed, there’s always the possibility that a counterexample (a non-white swan) will eventually be found.

In contrast, particular claims are much more specific. The statement "Not all swans are white" is a particular claim because it is based on falsification—it only takes the observation of one black swan to disprove the universal claim "All swans are white." Since black swans have been observed, we can confidently say "Not all swans are white" is true.

Popper's philosophy focuses on how universal claims can never be fully verified (proven true) through evidence, because future observations could always contradict them. However, universal claims can be falsified (proven false) with a single counterexample. Once a universal claim is falsified, it leads to a particular claim like "Not all swans are white," which can be verified by specific evidence.

In essence, universal claims cannot be proven true because they generalize across all cases, while particular claims can be proven once a falsifying counterexample is found. That's why you can "prove" the statement "Not all swans are white"—it’s based on specific evidence from reality, in contrast to the uncertain generality of universal claims.

To sum it up. When I say nothing can be proven and things can only be falsified... it is isomorphic to saying universal claims can't be proven, particular claims can.
I believe GP meant that you can't have protocols containing numbers, using rot13 as the example protocol on port 76. Though, as msk-lywenn said, rot13 isn't a real protocol, which don't really have numbers in their names.
Funny because for a long time the Microsoft MSVC team explicitly recommended compiling C code with a C++ compiler because they couldn't be arsed to update their C frontend for over two decades (which thankfully has changed now) ;)

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...
What's especially awesome is how many unsolicited emails don't have unsubscribe links in them.
Slight point of confusion: that page says:

> These components were initially released for public beta with version 3.40 and will tentatively be made API-stable with the 3.41 release, pending community feedback.

But the most recent release of SQLite is 3.46.1 (from 2024-08-13)

Presumably they are now "API-stable" but the page hasn't been updated yet.

It would be great if the SQLite team published an official npm package bundling the WASM version, could be a neat distribution mechanism for them. (UPDATE: They do, see replies to this post.)

My favourite version of SQLite-in-WASM remains the Pyodide variant, which has been around since long before the official SQLite implementation. If you use Pyodide you get a WASM SQLite for free as part of the Python standard library - I use that for https://lite.datasette.io/ and you can also try it out on https://pyodide.org/en/stable/console.html

import sqlite3
print(sqlite3.connect(':memory:').execute(
'select sqlite_version()'
).fetchall())

That returns 3.39.0 from 2022-06-25 so Pyodide could do with a version bump. Looks like it inherits that version from emscripten: https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/blob/main/tool...
I do this too, with namecheap.com's email servers... I pay for a few email domains on namecheap, but one is specifically for spam, and I use their "catch all" as well.

So if I sign up for a service like amazon.com, my email address will be amazon.com@[my-spam-domain].com so I know exactly who is selling my email address. I do this for every service that asks for an email address.

I'd never use a "plus" email address from my main email account, which is far too easy for spammers to figure out my real email address from.
i’ve been looking for a Tanstack Query style library that is backed by Sqlite (backed by OPFS or some other browser storage) and syncs with an API in the background. Does anything like that exist? i’ve seen ElectricSQL and other sync engines but they are a bit opinionated. I’m pretty new to local-first but i feel like the developer ergonomics are not quite there yet

Meanwhile for “local-only” it would be great to use sqlite in the browser + native file system API so that the db could be stored on the user’s file system and we wouldn’t have to worry about browser storage eviction. i think that could really open up a whole world of privacy preserving offline software delivered through the browser
Yeah, no idea why he'd make this statement. It's not relevant, not important, not tied to reality.
Meteorologists, please stop the fearmongering (2019)
I'm 99% confident that wouldn't fly and the definition of encryption is broad enough to cover even a "loophole" like this. I believe you'd have to demonstrate that you're actually "controlling" the phone rather than just performing communication and I'm not sure the communication with a vehicle actually is covered by the encryption cutout. My understanding is that it is so others cannot take control of the vehicle you're operating (which may leave you liable for whatever damage they cause with it, or at least makes that more ambiguous)
Businesses are interested in AI so they can fire employees and do the same amount of work with much cheaper AI instead. The whole point is to scrimp.
Forget about terminology, if you've been following developments for a while, you can't help but notice consistent improvements, and the new models are very powerful. I don't care if anybody calls it AGI, whatever they are, they will be massively transformative.
Indeed, I did some basic double checking before I posted but I guess the info I read was bogus+I was also having a brain fart to not know better because you're definitely right. Thanks for correcting.
My understanding is that fluoride is supposed to be applied topically, not ingested (hence the poison control warnings on toothpaste packaging). I'm also curious to what extent research has been done all the other things fluoridated water is used for- bathing, cooking, pets, plants, etc.

And the perverse incentives involved make me innately distrustful- the source of the fluoride for example (per this page that has apparently been removed from cdc.gov)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240223213812/https://www.cdc.g...

>The three fluoride additives used for water fluoridation are derived principally from phosphate fertilizer production.
that's by design
> make money on usage, but lose money on training. But I could be wrong.

You could be 100% right, and it still could be an unsustainable business. Depending on how much training and R&D costs.
> I would understand if the phenomenon was largely limited to my family, call it genes then

Perhaps there are other shared variables besides genes? For one thing, blindness is associated with higher mortality [1]. And even within a country, life expectancy can vary dramatically by region, city, and even neighborhood. Or perhaps the people you know happen to be more likely to share certain occupations, mindsets, levels of physical activity, or diets?

Or maybe it's just coincidence.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
I wish I know I haven't been able to make $1 since 2021 now I am homeless and penniless with 500k in education.
This is the perfect example of why, when you read "the economy" in a mainstream publication, you should replace it with "rich people's yacht money".
On a high level, "object orientation" means you think of your code as representing the state and interactions of objects. You can equally well do this in assembly. If you think of some namespace as a "singleton object" then that's what it is.

I guess what you're really asking is what are the best or most common ways to do OO in C?
o1 is better than Claude at more difficult tasks, I have used and continue to use both extensively
None of the archive links are loading for me, but maybe that's for the best.
I had written a similar program (but very barebone compared with what you've made), with Firefox only. The way I dealt with profile, is to specify the full path of the profile, rather than a name. This way, I don't have to know where Firefox is searching for profiles, and I can keep all the additional profiles in a separate directory, so they don't mix with normal profiles and don't clog up profile manager.
main appeal is the large amount of RAM and cores

VDS seems to go up in cost when you go beyond 32GB with a decent CPU

amen to the depreciation but methinks 7950x + 512gb of DDR5 RAM should be fairly future proof no ?
Neither did Google by that logic
Currently Pumpkin has not much multi-threading but we want to go all in. There is already a good structure for multi-threading, We want to make everything multi-threaded what benefits from it
Fake GitHub Site Targeting Developers – Sans Internet Storm Center
That literally made me do a spit take, and it was fizzy water and it burned.

My god. That's amazing.
Why stop at adding fluoride? I think we should be adding small amounts of lithium to public water. The public mental health benefits could be enormous.

Throw in some iodine too for good measure.
Before Uber was available in Orange County, circa 2010-2011, I used an iPhone app to call a yellow cab to pick me up without having speaking to a dispatcher. I was able to give feedback about the driver too. Uber-style apps to hail cabs did exist, maybe they just weren't rolled out to all markets.

Before the launch of UberX, the Uber app positioned itself as a convenient way to call a black car/limo and, for drivers, to get some extra business between their "regular" calls. It was a semi-luxury though it only cost a bit more than a yellow cab (I only ever used Uber pre-UberX to get to/from the airport).

Really, other than surge pricing, I don't think Uber innovated very much on the tech side. Their success in disrupting cabs was rather down to flooding the market with supply, oftentimes in ways that flouted the law.
> it's not that different from Amazon and Google from 20 years ago

I mean it is a little.

Amazon didn't extend its losses while growing it's buisness. Yes it made losses (quite large ones for the time) but the underlying principle was pretty solid. They had a market that clearing going to be profitable, because the overheads were much less.

But openAI doesn't have that market. They offer something free that is comparable with the competitors. A paid for option that isn't much better than the free version, and isn't much different in capability from the competition.

Moreover, in order to remain competitive they need to spend _billions_.

Even if we ignore meta kneecaping them, anthorpic et al are yapping at their heels.

The market isn't actually that solid, there isnt anywhere enough cash to maintain the research spend.
On a related note, I wish there was some sort of software system where I could ID weeds and insects with photos and locations at various levels of confidence (“possibly”, “probably”, keyed out, genetic testing) at different taxonomic levels and both self host my results while also automatically contributing to a larger project.

There are various projects out there (like plantnet) but I don’t want to burn massive personal effort curating in a system that isn’t my own first and foremost, due to inevitable enshittification. At the same time, I want others to benefit from what I do, in particular local growers and naturalists. Things like PlantNet also tend to be “majority vote” on ID, meaning a whole lot is often close, but wrong. For example there is a regional plant specific to my area called Willamette Navarretia. Those that don’t realize this will easily confuse it with very similar looking species found most elsewhere in the western US, and last I checked it wasn’t in PlantNet.

https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/PlantConservation/SiteAs...

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/165663-Navarretia-willamett...
OAI moat is the brand and getting people habituated into using it more. The aim is to become synonymous to AI, same as Google is synonymous to online search(though in recent times, I am horrified to see that my non-techy friends now use Facebook to search first and then if not satisfied, goes to Google).

Also, there are immense lobbying everywhere covertly, if you haven’t seen it, look at the prominent news media, AI is now akin to “productivity gain” and “innovation”, and “adapting AI or we fall behind” attitude.

Look at all the hammers falling on different industries about energy waste, climate change while AI’s usage of massive energy is presented as “innovation and next generation of work and productivity gains to be unlocked”.

The target for OAI(and AI wave in general) is normal people, not tech people. And when people say AI, you conveniently see OAI emerge from news, social media, your colleagues, your boss, your friends.
Why can't it be both?

Market ideologues have both fought regulation and allowed the cozy situations encompassed by regulation capture (allowing the "revolving door" between industry and government based on "who else would know how to regulate? lol")
We like that you like it
Meta's open AI hardware vision
You're making up that scenario in your own head. The US isn't telling China anything about pollution based on this sattelite.

Trust me, China already knows how awful their air quality is and they are doing something about it themselves. This just gives China one more data point they can use to make life for their own citizens better.
MacBook speakers holes are not real holes [video]
What things do you do locally? For me, I found that about 8/10 times - a local model just suffices.
Maybe, but as you point out you lose your pinpoint accuracy and also it consumes a parachute for every delivery. Your customers end up with a whole bunch of cloth to dispose of and you have to store enough for every delivery. The beauty of the quadcopter is that it is reusable. It can also use air brakes to help slow the descent and really only burn power on the very last bit of the delivery and then on the ascent back up, where it is no longer burdened by the package.
Do you find that true for tech / programming tasks, general purpose things, or both?
In general, these might not be the best solutions - they are just the ones I found. I am always happy to learn and want to keep that post as a living list of fixed for myself in the future (so if anyone knows a better way, please let me know!). I am also not a native iOS user, so I might miss adherence to the iOS UX standards.

The reason for 1 was actually my mother who tried the PW, had her phone set to a different language and always triggered the translation overlay ;).
“Advertising” is not a sure means of profitability. Yahoo was one of the most trafficked website for years and still not profitable.