skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $100 tab paid in dimes causes severe inconvenience to the person trying to count them and to the person who has to take them to the bank to cash them in and wait for them to be counted again.

Their very reasonable question was: if you can't distinguish the reverse engineered traffic from the traffic through your own app in order to block it, then what harm is the traffic doing? Presumably it's flying under your rate limits, and the traffic has a valid session token from a real customer. If you're unable to single it out and return a 4xx, why does it matter where it's coming from?

I can think of a few reasons it might, but I'm not particularly sympathetic to them. They generally boil down to "I won't be able to use my app to manipulate the user into taking actions they'd otherwise not take."

I'd be interested to hear if there are better reasons.
> It's hard enough to find climate solutions that work when you're motivated by that, when you're motivated by "doing cool stuff" you might stumble onto a solution, but the odds do seem rather low.

Yes, it is critical to not let your focus split, and always stay true to the most important goal.

If you're a robot.

"Doing cool stuff" is one of the major, most basic drives behind progress of science and technology. Definitely more honest than "doing it for the money" or "doing it for social status", where you can always find ways to cheat if the going gets annoying. "Doing cool stuff" is up there with "doing it to save ourselves from an imminent, lethal threat" - the other highly reliable motivator that has little tolerance for bullshit, and was responsible for most of the rapid progress thorough history. Of the two, I'd prefer the one that doesn't involve violence and fear of death. It's probably more sustainable, too.

See also: something something Feynman on having fun in research.

Consider also: Most progress happens in small increments; the set of people motivated by wanting to solve climate is small, so it doesn't really hurt to also add the people motivated by doing cool shit in parallel. The chance of getting critical increment doubles; the chance of any one in any of the two groups having the full solution is ~zero.
I know the feeling, I was the go to VB6 guy in college for writing test automation on equipment over GPIB, UART, RS422, etc. I made bank as a grad student from the EE department, I quit my TA position and they replaced me as instrumentation guy :) . Paid for my masters for the most part.
In a perfect market, the market maker who sells you that option offsets it with correlated assets in the other direction, eg by buying or selling stock that is sensitive to the election.

Large trading firms exist on finding and exploiting small arbitrages between various correlated assets. If you assume a perfect market with infinitely many participants and infinite liquidity, then this “works” - there is no distortion at scale.
It's worse than that. LLMs have been tuned carefully to mostly produce output that will be inoffensive in a corporate environment. This isn't an unbiased sampling.
Fischer removes a lot of thought for the player around "oh I know what I want to play, but I better think more or the time is wasted" kind of thinking that some other systems have. It does add "oh I can play this forcing move for free extra time", but I never do those (it feels vaguely scummy) so effectively I don't need to think about it.

It's also easier to specify eg: you have 5 minutes, add 10 seconds/move. That's all of it. The specification for byoyomi or canadian are pretty detailed if you don't just assume someone knows how it works.
Ask HN: Kagi Worth It?
Are you paying, or have you paid, for Kagi? Curious what others experience has been to date. If you didn't keep at it, why? If you're loving it still, why? And which level?

Based on some comments here on HN, I've been playing with both Kagi and Orion. I've found the searches on Kagi (for tech stuff) as good as google at least. Better than DDG and Brave of late. The internet content just honestly feels like it's decaying. As for Orion, it's decent on MacOS, but really buggy on iOS, where I've reverted to Brave.
It's not off topic. The person I was responding to was using that as an indication that they should be responsible for 20% of the liability and that is totally incorrect. I outlined what it actually was and that is not an indication of liability for wrongdoing by the users of the distribution method.
Not a piano player but this is very inspiring, small details such as bookmark are fantastic, great job
Running a business is very expensive. Pay the employees (movers), a huge truck, fuel, a huge warehouse, HVAC to keep it decent inside, more employees (sales and business), advertising and marketing. If you consider all those costs, it's not such a bad markup.
Do you really think he planned that? This is just another case of dumb luck of him failing upwards. At least for now until Trump gets sick of him.
It makes total sense. A similar thing is happening with music. So much music (and movies) that is important to me is becoming unavailable that I've been resorting to buying used CDs and DVDs (which are getting increasingly expensive as others do the same) while I still can so they don't become unavailable to me entirely.
I think the point is no money is at risk. I.e. you can't lose money, you can only gain rewards/gifts/cash/etc. That's not strictly gambling.
I won't respond to stupid questions along the lines of "how is this relevant",

Which is a pretty strong indication that it most likely isn't.
> but fortunately the humidity isn't usually too bad

...and this is what makes the actual difference and matters much more than the temperature itself.
That's just another way of dismissing the problem as a "skill issue" and is not helpful. While the problem can be prevented by having strong coding standards, many teams do not have the luxury of wisdom and thus recreate this exception tar pit again and again.
I don't envy the prospect of talking to a future employer when you work in a public space. Every day, you frequently respond, "uhhh no thanks" or, "maybe... Hold on I'll call you back" while you step outside the room suspiciously.
I've never even thought about whether evaporative cooling CAN happen in like 100% humidity? Whether from sweat or from wet clothing. It seems like if there's so much air moisture evaporation can't happen, and the additional kinetic energy of hot water molecules just seems like energy that simply cannot be gotten rid of. Maybe one of my personal troll followers can look this up on ChatGPT and tell me I'm wrong? :)
> unlimited access to nearly every record ever created.

Not nearly enough. A large swath of music I enjoy is simply not available via streaming at all. And what is there can disappear or be altered at any time.
Sea Creature That Can Reverse Its Age
> I don’t know a single person who pirates music anymore

Really? That's surprising to me. A lot of people I know are basically dependent on Soulseek
Urges are interesting. I agree they add noise and in dramatic cases completely take over personality (seeing a rattlesnake, for instance).

There’s also an interesting intersection with stories. I know when I’m pretty hungry my chain of thought is basically “I’ve got enough extra pounds I’m not going to starve, I’ll eat eventually, it’s not that important”. A close friend often tells me she has to eat as soon as she’s hungry or else she gets irritable and distracted. I sometimes wonder if that’s prescriptive or descriptive.
The loss was one thing

Any conceivable replacement wasn’t ready to go either

Apple wanted to block the walled garden of Flash for their own under any pretense possible for control.

Flash was far from perfect. It’s still interesting to see new devs discovering what it could do 15-25 years ago and what is comparably mainstream when it exited.. up until now.
The idea that private funding means that what is studied matters is highly dubious at best. Most private research pertains to application and product development, and often relies on fundamental discoveries coming from academic labs. Only academia can afford to let scientists run loose. It certainly results in a good amount of inapplicable theories, but is nevertheless very much essential.
Occasional Paper: Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War
Random thought: if the Youtube app contacts a server that's selected depending on your logged in status, than it might affect it.

Have you checked your DNS? Just for a test, I would set 8.8.8.8, restart the whole device, and try to watch some cat videos.
Very true. At Google it was treated much like Memegen where top bettors -- like top memers -- were rewarded with clout & notoriety, but it basically stopped there. A lot of the wagers actually were on "inside baseball" topics (will x/y/z be deprecated by a//b/c date, will perf metrics align with targets, etc). There are a few handfuls of folks who are really into it, but the vast majority of use is casual.
What are the available timezones? I am getting a 999 response for every time zone I tried.
The only reason this Ancient Greek definition holds is because it is a dead language. Prescriptivism cannot stop natural language change. Any "X should only mean Y" statement is a dead-end conservative approach.
The whole point was to secure global chip supply chains in the event of a Chinese invasion. This will not fly.
The article is mildly infuriating.

Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube”

Proceeds to feature two videos from 2015.
I wonder for how long the satellites in the Earth's orbit would stay in orbit and be detectable as artificial entities.
20 year old meme that still comes up occasionally as a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
Also because when you add diminished chords you get lots of double flats (for example C-E♭-G♭-B♭♭ vs C-E♭-F♯-A)
I'm not even sure there was any way to turn credits won into anything fungible. Everyone was given a small amount of credit to start, and it was perfectly allowable to go negative... Afaict, it was almost more of a "long bets" type sentiment platform where employees could "vote" (with their bets) on one side of a wager or another -- where many of the wagers dealt with inside baseball topics.
The online sports gambling experiment
> There's nothing unique about this tool in that regard though.

Sure, it’s just part of an arms race where having a new thing with a hot selling pitch to cover that up and put a layer of buzzwords on top of it helps sell the results to audiences who have started to see through the existing ways of doing that.
Could be interesting if used with many different llms at once
Weeks... that's gotta have cost more than buying it?
You should write a letter to Tim Apple.
I haven't used YouTube Music before, but the video from the official Fort Minor channel has the "you might get shot" lyric intact (@1:46)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBKcOZjX6g
Surprised there wasn't more interest in this here.

Jeff's video on this:

https://youtu.be/4aaF2HgTVe8?si=TAVC2qT3vqiqzpBk
Svalbard Global Seed Vault evokes epic imagery and controversy
Since you're using the API, any particular reason why you didn't just use Librechat? It already has support for API keys for Claude, OpenAI, and you can also use it with locally hosted LLMs through Ollama, and has all of the same feature (saved conversations, file attachments, caching, etc.)

https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat
Not only can't you trust them not to alter the works, you can't even trust them to keep the work available in perpetuity. Video is especially bad with this, with shows and movies randomly getting pulled and/or switching streaming platforms.
Yes, binary embeddings are cool indeed. And because they can be so small they even double down as powerful cluster identifiers. Built this a while ago: https://huggingface.co/spaces/iscc/iscc-sct
This is both incredibly cool and also somehow such a HN moment. Of course there's someone here who's currently stationed in Antarctica.

Out of curiosity, since I've always had the idea of visiting one day, what do you reckon is the most feasible way to do so, short of stationing there for a living like you are?
An LLM is like an idiot savant --- i.e. kinda like in the movie Rain Man.

They excel at remembering data but they often fail in applying all that data to reach any logical conclusion.

In other words, they are sort of a big, expensive, power hungry, talking hard drive --- which is a technical solution looking for a problem in a lot of cases.
I wouldn't want to live in an environment that's basically too hot for human life to thrive. There are people all over the world right now living in areas that are genuinely deadly if the AC goes out. People say "Oh, we do just fine in Death Valley, etc" (the American West in general) and that's just a person who is alive only because of AC. lol.
hmm, ok I'll ask that at the briefing next time I go!
Others are taken. Let's give it a credit for popularizing the A/B test ;-)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Google%27s+41+shades+of+blue
This is such a cute take.
you'd be absolutely right that the global warming justification is a retro-active "find a problem" situation. the true motivator lies in the technology that Colossal is attempting to accomplish the mammoth cloning with.

as it stands right now, cloning of any organism requires at the very least living fibroblast cells. Of course, you cannot get these from deceased mammals. Colossal's strategy is to essentially blast the host genome with fragments of the subjects DNA (which you can get from deceased/fossilized tissue) and hope that the end result is an elephant cell that's been reprogrammed into a mammoth-like cell from which to do cloning.

imo if they really wanted a mammoth, they could just make a hairy elephant. that would be 10x easier. but the whole idea is being able to resurrect...mammals.
> I guess everyone is a web developer these days

People that are interested in browser support timelines are generally web developers, yes.
The ones in high orbits would probably remain a very long time.

I wonder if NORAD would have detected it if a satellite remained from the previous civilization.
What do you expect exactly from a 4k char count rant in an Ask HN thread?

FWIW, years ago I used to send a daily tweet to Tim Apple for months (before I got bored of it), asking him to add some cursor positioning method to the ipad and iphone that doesn't suck.

Though I'm pretty sure that they never reached him, nor that anyone has actually read them, I still like to think that they added the long-space-press cursor moving because of that.
> It's not unlimited access, it's access over the Internet. Which one doesn't have always and everywhere.

- flip on airplane mode

- tap on Spotify

- tap one of my playlists

- tap ▶

- music starts coming out of my headphones

I guess I must be imagining the soundwaves
I've been paying for months now. I, personally, think it's well worth it. I finally have access to a search engine that works reasonably well for me.
I am enjoying the stuff on Tubi too, lots of great anime, even if it is teaching me to hit the mute button and zone on my phone.
> year end rating based off of opinion

Is there some other kind of year end rating?
Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Making Grok AI Free for Some Users
I have had people pirate things I created, and even though it was hypocritical of me, I got frustrated because it cost me so much time and money to make. It felt like people just pirate everything without consideration for whether it is actually expensive to buy, or hard to obtain, or if it was made by a giant, faceless corporation, or me and my friend Charlie after work and on weekends. There is a pipeline that just puts everything out there, no introspection, no questions asked.

It's not conceivable to me that we'd ever run into a situation where a pirate group would say "it'd be wrong of us to rip this and distribute it." It just wouldn't ever happen.

I said it was hypocritical, because I pirate a lot of stuff myself. I think it's great, it lets me be exposed to so much more than I would otherwise. So, I'm not complaining. But, I'm also not rushing out to spend another year making something small and personal just to have it show up on torrent sites a couple days later. Not sure what to do about that. Ultimately, I guess it comes down to people's choices, but people don't think too hard about the ethics of this stuff—I know I don't, 99% of the time.
Thanks for the ideas and references!
I gotta say, though, that I will be pretty sad if having to write a custom protocol turns out to be the final solution. So much more convenient to use OTP (especially now that we finally have an infinitely extensible serialization library for it; Zerl). I'm shocked such an oversight would exist in a real commercial solution which is the BEAM.
I'm not sure it's Jira-fication. I think it's mapping effort back to something that has a direct result to the bottom line.

Example:
I used to work for a company that basically made slot machines. We needed to produce something called parsheets to give to submit to get our slots certified and to the casino. I was given the project but no manager wanted to give any developers to implement it. No one wanted to give the money to buy a computer with enough power to run simulations to produce the theoretical hold. But this was something we NEEDED to help get our games approved.
Section 6, "Controlled Evaluation," answers that question: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442
If your computer is expensive because it needs oomph for your job, then it's a workstation.

If it is not expensive, not needed for your job, or portable, it is not a workstation.
That isn't enough. A big motivator for these kinds of people is preservation, and a subscription service doesn't solve that problem. Licenses and agreements end, many culturally significant works are completely unavailable today except for pirating. This goes for music, film and video games.

Until we live in a world where the conglomerates taking their huge slice of the revenue from artists and creatives are also stewards of culture, acting in the best interest of culture itself, I couldn't care less about their bottom dollar.
> By the way artificial diamonds and synthetic diamonds are the exact same thing

I think that was their exact point. The terms are equivalent but carry different connotations
Just to clarify a bit more for those who are new to strings and because the audience for the post may learn towards people fresher to reverse engineering:

While most of the time, you're dealing with variables and such in programs, at some point you have to hardcode some information such as URLs to query so something like

BASE_URL = "https://example.com"
result = requests.get(BASE_URL + "/api/blah"

If we pretend this is in an Android app which is stored as an apk file (a zip file basically), running strings would spit out "https://example.com" and "/api/blah"

It'll also spit out anything that appears to be an ASCII character so plenty of junk but it's often quite handy as a starting point.

There are, of course, much more precise tools such as man in the middle proxying but that you'll only capture traffic for endpoints actually used by said app. The app may contain other endpoints let unused, rarely triggered and so on.
They don't think it will actually happen.
Out in the bush the risk is hitting animals, and the roads are narrow.

The speed limit is already 130km/h in Northern Territory anyway.
Gotcha-GPT: discriminates AI- and human-generated manuscripts
Seems the last mohican isn't available on any service in my region, neither for streaming, renting or buying.
Also Kanopy if your local library is a subscriber. Basically anything you might see at a film festival, that could be considered "art house", and a remarkably long tail that goes back to pre-Hayes Code Hollywood (for example).
The colors look like another political movement from the 20th century.

I think it was in Germany.
what about the implication that the people who work in institutions are "elite"?
Very cool release! Checking it out now
While streaming services and the record companies seem to have things mostly sorted out, there's still a very, very large collection of rare music that you won't find anywhere. There were sites like what.cd or waffles and probably a few more that were a treasure trove of archived music, ranging from demos to rare releases to obscure casette tape black metal to concert bootlegs. The biggest collection of hard or otherwise impossible to find material. And it was taken down, because the record companies or artists couldn't stand it.

I hope there's data hoarders out there that have the collection. I hope the work continues out of sight.
YouTube's UX is a huge reason why I use it for music as much as I do. And not even pirated music but indie releases, etc. The recommendation algorithm isn't all too terrible on some days. But I do prefer more navigable and preservable systems. At least yt-dl still works for the time being.
Seems that the other option is built for engineers and developers to add new functionality to an existing website. Will be super useful if you are looking to build! But if you are just sharing files or can't be bothered to learn the DevOps and 10+ technologies you need to make everything work, I don't think it'll be as useful.

Peony is built for founders, sales team, marketing folks, VCs, business owners, and regular folks like you and I. Even if you don't write a single line of code, you can still get a far more superior file sharing experience and better security without breaking your bank.

Hope this helps :)
>Back then the conference organizers gave away funny, tongue-in-cheek awards (this would be inconceivable by now – humor!), and one of these awards was for the “most interesting hypothesis most likely to be false”. I thought this was a great award, honoring science which was daring, and which had just missed the mark by a bit.

I find this so sad, there is less and less place for humor in society to not offend anyone
Training Baby GPTs in Browser
Hint: if you're on mobile, zoom out and go to the bottom left corner. The page appears broken at first, but it's just the layout, at least on iOS.
A small niggle: I think the author misses the point on carbon tax. Not having a carbon tax literally acts as subsidy. It is not a metaphor. In polluting, you are exploiting a resource you do not own, and not paying for that exploitation is quite literally a subsidy under a just and fair economic system. It is an intervention from the baseline of a properly functioning market (one that stops people selling things they do not own).

They also seem confused, each country should pay roughly for its own global emissions impact. The coordination problem is that if one country pays but the others don't, then the paying country's industry might be outcompeted by other counties industries (who don't pay this just tax).
> Video game pirating was mostly killed by viruses. At one point it was too just too risky.

It wasn’t, teenagers don’t give a shit, and torrent sites like Piratebay had trusted uploaders (green/pink skull) and comments.

Steam sucked initially but it kept increasing its value add (cloud saves / settings sync, easy voice chat before Discord, Steam Workshop for mods, etc) and simultaneously the sales got better and better.

Why pirate a game when you can wait a couple of months to buy it for 66% off, niceties included.