skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Speaks the Truth About AI. It's Not Good
Why would an HTML generator need to slim down on dependencies? It's designed to run in CI, not respond in real time to user requests. It very infrequently runs and generates production artifacts with humans out of the loop.

This is a bad argument against Rust in the frontend.

Web frontend development is very nascent in Rust, but there's already cool stuff taking shape:

- https://www.egui.rs/

- https://leptos.dev/
just discovered this today and thought it was clever.
I base64 encoded David Mayer and asked it to analyze the string- and it still crashed! Wild.
The certificate was registered in CT, so a reasonable assumption would be that this was accidental, because it was guaranteed to be noticed and to generate drama that would threaten the capability they arranged, presumably at some significant expense.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times...
This entire article is clickbait.

- Headline "My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch".

No, this is not a new car. This is a used car. Finding undocumented switches in a vehicle someone else owned is very common. People modify their cars all the time. Finding an undocumented switch in a new car would be wild.

- "And that’s how the search comes to an end. After a bit of perseverance I figured out what it is."

You literally took your car to a dealership, and the mechanic told you what it was. This ENTIRE ARTICLE boils down to this statement. You did the bare minimum to investigate what it was: took the panel off and confirmed that the wires went __somewhere__.

How does this get upvoted so heavily on Hacker News?
I've waited 10 years for Glasses like this – Even Realities G1 [video]
https://archive.is/h4KUi
The fact check page you provided seems clear that as early as March 5, 2020 (when the fact check was published) experts believed and were stating publicly that the IFR was not 3.4%:

> A Feb. 28 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, co-authored by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, took the position that the mortality rate may well fall dramatically. It said if one assumed that there were several times as many people who had the disease with minimal or no symptoms as the number of reported cases, the mortality rate may be considerably less than 1%. That would suggest “the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza,” the editorial said.

There are many similar lines.
If you are on Firefox, you can select "View->Page Style->No Style" for easier reading in this case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster
> Google continues to peddle unsubstantiated snake oil

I read your comment, but I'm not following -- or maybe I disagree with it -- I'm not sure yet.

"Snake oil" is an emotionally loaded term that raises the temperature of the conversation. That usually makes having a conversation harder.

From my point of view, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold were significant achievements. Agree? Are you claiming that AlphaChip is not? Are you claiming they are perpetrating some kind of deception or exaggeration? Your numbered points seem like valid criticisms (I haven't evaluated them closely), but even if true, I don't see how they support your "snake oil" claim.
Show HN: Built a an Expense Tracker with Google Document AI and Claude 3 Haiku
Hi!

More than 20-year backend dev here, trying to dive into mobile development and LLMs :-)

I’ve always wanted to explore practical use cases for LLMs and I came up with ReceiptiX. It's a simple expense tracking mobile app. I'm trying to design it to be different from other complex budgeting apps by focusing on simplicity. The main idea is to minimize manual input involved in expense tracking.

Main features:
- Receipt scanning (this is where I started from)
- Voice input
- Telegram integration (you can send your expenses to a bot)

The app is built with Flutter and Firebase. I use Google Document AI for OCR and then send the extracted text to Claude 3 Haiku for parsing and categorization. This is cheaper than giving an LLM an image as is.

Right now I’m struggling a lot with traction. ASO is a nightmare :-) I think the niche I chose is very saturated, which was probably my biggest mistake. Still I want to keep going :-)

Please try the app. It’s free for the first 5 receipts. You can even delete old receipts to stay under the 5-receipt limit and use the app for free indefinitely :-)
color space and bit depth aren't the same. you can have 8 bit P3 vs 8 bit SRGB (etc). A colorspace is a combination of a whitepoint, a gamma transform, your color primaries, and a bit depth.
I'm not against enhancing safety, but I have serious concerns about whether auto manufacturers can implement such a feature securely, reliably, and without leaving it vulnerable to misuse by third parties. That said, I would support mandatory breathalyzers in all new cars. While this idea is likely too controversial and complex to become reality, I believe it could significantly reduce fatalities.
The certificate is for a specific IP address, no?

And without DNS pointing google.com to that IP address, it's pretty useless.
Verisign inks .com contract extension with ICANN
You don't have to be to see bug reports, bug fix patches, or test it yourself, of course. "Filesystem guys" also tend to wear rose colored glasses when it comes to their filesystem, at times (ext2, xfs, btrfs, etc.)
Ask HN: What are your favorite gifts for kids?
As a CA, how does one accidentally issue a certificate for google.com? I mean, is there a scenario that isn't malicious?
> But you wouldn’t make a return

That is absurd. The premise here is there are different nominal scenarios with the same real return. It isn't possible to make the same real return and be worse off. The risk of default hasn't changed.

If you think 2% real return is too low you can just pretend I chose a higher number. It doesn't change the argument.

> The us became an economic colossus before the civil war and in the early 20th century. 1873-1893 was absolutely horrible for Americans.

So your position here reads a lot like the economic situation that led to a civil war was the good part, but the era where the US set themselves up and overtook the British and Chinese empires was a good example of an economy that is best described as "horrible" and "killed".

Are you sure that this is the best example you have of deflation being a bad thing? You might want to pick a different example - maybe one from an era that wasn't characterised by rapid improvements in economic power leading to a century of commercial dominance. I haven't even got to the point in the thread where I bring up that this horrible era was just after, you know, a civil war. It might be that that was the reason people felt badly off rather than goods and services getting cheaper in nominal terms.
My 2024 Toyota GR Corolla has a fuse that, when pulled, disables the Data Communications Module (DCM). It also disables the in-car microphone. At first I was mildly annoyed at not being able to make phone calls over a Bluetooth connection between my phone and the car's computer because of that, but the more I thought about it, I realized I was actually okay with the car's microphone also being disabled.

I often put my phone into Airplane Mode when I'm not actively using it, and I prefer to avoid the distraction of a phone call while I'm driving because I'm a terrible multitasker. If it's too easy for me to receive an incoming phone call when I'm driving then I'm too likely to do it when I really shouldn't.

In general I want as little data collection and reporting capability built into my car as is reasonably possible. I wish more auto manufacturers would make it as easy as Toyota did with the GRC -- and a few other of models, as I've heard -- to disable telemetry.
> > Familial Natural Short Sleep (FNSS), a benign mutation that allows them to sleep 1-2 hours less than the recommended 7-9 hours, without experiencing the negative effects of sleep deprivation

> Living on less sleep might not affect immediate action (and in some cases, it might even seem to enhance focus on doing), but it can impair deeper, more complex thinking.

You are making a mistake in thinking the aforementioned genetic variation “enables people to get by on less”. They just literally sleep less. I have a brother in law with this, and it’s a bit annoying for him as his wife needs the normal 8 hours a night. He cannot sleep 7-8 hours, only 6. He just reads in the bed for 2 hours a night. If he has too much to do, he skimps like we all do, but for him this is 4 hours a night during the week (needing to catch up on the weekend).

Other than sleeping less than others, he’s regular in every way. Very successful engineer, if it helps, certainly requires “deep thought” on the regular.

It is unfair, but so many genetic advantages are equally unfair.
Who are these investors. Need to find myself a few dumb investors. Were these Sequoia?
The situation here is different though.. If I'm making an existence claim by demonstrating a constructive argument and then being criticized for it, the most effective response to that critique would be a second, alternative construction, not attacking the critic's argument. After all, I'm the one claiming existence.. the burden of proof is on me, not my critics.
As an American…why not both?
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There's so much word-salad in abstracts, that I feel like I'm not sure what something is saying.

You're right in the "edit".

However, the results seem tautological and associative.

- Certain things cause discomfort.

- If you do more of certain things, you develop more motivation to do them.

- Scientific Conclusion: the discomfort caused the motivation.
> React Server Components strikes me as React solving a React-caused problem with yet more React.

This is not the case. RSC solves the hydration problem, in which hydration is profoundly expensive (larger bundle sizes, more client JS to parse and execute, and slower time to interactive), when most of the UI on any website can be non-hydrated. This also gives you the ability to write server only code (which as it would turn out, reduces sending third party deps to the client even more) for free with beautiful composability to client side hydration when you need it.

Everyone hydrates at some point. Maybe you write isomorphic javascript or maybe you render a rails or python app and sprinkle in some JS. RSC enables you to do this with complete composition and re-usability.

I'll put my money where my mouth is: RSC will continue to grow in adoption and its patterns will be adopted across many UI frameworks and libraries. This wasn't a solution in search of a problem, this was a large step forward in giving us more optionality as to how we architect websites.

> There are too many devs out there only expert in the way React does things and can’t step outside of it.

This is a weird ad hominem, attacking developers' skill instead of the actual technology. There are millions upon millions of React developers, and many of us have been building successful software for a long time and step outside of React every day.

> But if you’re making something like a blog with lots of drive by visits and only small islands of reactive content IMO it’s the wrong choice.

For some use-cases it is not the best choice, and for others it's the correct one. No one is hailing React as a one-size-fits-all solution, rather it remains a great balance that scales remarkably well to many needs.
How are they storing the key, I wonder?
From the captain’s Wikipedia article:

> Present with him on the bridge during the collision was 26-year-old Moldovan dancer Domnica Cemortan, who has admitted she had been having an extramarital affair with Schettino.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Schettino
Probably learned more science from Voyager than all the manned moon missions. The first thing that astronauts on Mars will do is deploy a drone.
> if it worked, they wouldn't be sharing it and would simply be printing money by taking advantage of it.

Sure, there are some techniques in financial markets that are only valuable when they are not widely known. But claiming this pattern applies universally is incorrect.

Publishing a technique doesn't prove it doesn't work. (Stating it this way makes it fairly obvious.)

DeepMind, like many AI research labs, publish important and useful research. One might ask "is a lab leaving money off the table by publishing?". Perhaps a better question is "What 'game' is the lab playing and over what time scale?".
Thanks for sharing! I have severe circadian issues: non-24, except that my body also still in some ways follows the sun and I do much worse when awake at night. I've noticed that other accounts I've read from people who do well with around 6 hours of sleep are similar to yours and feature highly regular sleep times. From the reading I've done it seems there are a number of hormones involved in both sleep and waking activity with strong circadian rhythms and I suspect that at any given time I have a mix of night and day hormones. Of course people can famously fool themselves easily that they are getting enough sleep when they aren't but based on my experience I could easily believe it to be a superpower to have everything unusually well synchronized and I fully agree with your doctor's advice.
Yes, if the interception system involved was meant only for resources within Brazil’s own agency networks.
As someone who absolutely loathes GA4, I remain hopeful that this can be useful.
Surely the easiest is to not get telemetry.
I love how he’s claiming bias due to his critic’s employer. As though working for Google has no conflicts? A company that is desperately hyping each and every “me too” AI development to juice the stock price?

Jeff drank so much kool aid he forget what water is.
This seems unnecessarily cynical. Are you saying Intel/AMD are intentionally crippling CPUs?
It's all over X, people are trying to trick it into saying it
In human sexuality, top, bottom, and versatile are roles during sexual activity, especially between two (or more) males. A top is usually a person who penetrates, a bottom is usually one who receives penetration, and someone who is versatile engages in either or both roles. These terms may be elements of self-identity that indicate an individual's usual preference and habits, but might also describe broader sexual identities and social roles.
From my perspective. Firstly, know yourself. Try to identify directions of knowledge you have a natural attraction towards. This phase takes time. Use the sense of curiosity as opposed to common entrepreneurial logic. What would you do even if unpaid? Do a few small projects, explore different directions before committing to something specific.

By the time you’ve identified and experimented with what makes you tick you will have already built an idea of what people discuss on forums, etc. There will be already existing solutions and incumbent providers. Don't be intimidated by them. Read what users say and how they express themselves within that domain. Very likely incumbent providers are “old style” burdened by legacy patterns. People use them because there’s no alternatives.

If at this stage you do have a genuine feeling that you can do better - supported by product vision (that's important!) - go for it. But it has to be real for you. You’ll need enough passion to last through the first year of development. If you will survive that year the chances are you will have created something genuine and there’s some real IP behind your effort. Users will recognise that.
A demagogue tells you so and then either you believe it or you become suspicious that their manipulation of you is the actual danger.
A lot of us felt like such pioneers in those days. Writing frontend web apps was an emerging and rapidly changing art. Those of us on the bleeding edge read Ajaxian.com and Douglas Crockford. I was writing internal SPA apps for Firefox+IE6 with Prototype.js and ExtJS.

My co-workers strongly disagreed with my approach -- to build for Firefox first, then hack it to work on IE. "Why bother when 95% of your users are on IE? That's a waste of time."

But those apps are still being used, almost 2 decades later, with no modifications required (besides a couple of weird edge case hacks for later versions of IE).

Always bet on the web.
>As the output of chatbots ends up online, these second-generation texts – complete with made-up information called “hallucinations,” as well as outright errors, such as suggestions to put glue on your pizza – will further pollute the web.

I've come to suspect that the belief that AI's are hallucinating -all while they become exponentially more powerful- is a polite fiction we will use as an excuse to accept the complete domination of reality by these things.

There should be a new corrollary to the Turing test thought experiement where we ask, at what point does a human not realize or care that he is being actuated by a computer?[1]

On Borges library of all possible sequences of letters yielding somewhere in them the secrets of the universe though- they would be so distant from each other over a space that large, you'd need something that could either traverse over it, or decode it in a reasonable order of time, unless you had a key to decipher it. one made of transformers apparently.

[1] 42.
“You can only validate my results if you have an entire Google data center worth of compute available. Since you don’t, you can’t question us.”
Nope, certificates are issued for CNs(Common Name), also known as FQDNs (Fully qualified domain names). Something such as *.google.com, not IP addresses.

If they were issued for IP addresses they would have to reissue the certificate every time they spun up a new server. Also it's why if you spin up another server and make DNS point google.com to that server, it would not pass verification since the certificate you will be using on that server is not issued to *.google.com, but rather some other domain you own. The IP address plays no role in certificates.
Same, used mint for something similar but too bad they dissolve it.
You are getting downvoted because we are witnessing the beginning of the rehabilitation of WWII Germany.

That's just divisive rhetoric. Nothing of the sort is happening.

The end goal is to paint the Holocaust as simply one of many historical genocides,

Except it isn't. You may think it's the goal that some people have. But that doesn't mean it is their goal.

And anyway there's no need to "paint" the situation that way because it has been a known and obvious historical point all along.

The simple fact is that there have been countless genocides throughout history. The genocide of European Jewry was definitely among the largest, and was quite distinctive in certain ways.

But unfortunately it was by no means unique, or even a true outlier.

This is just basic history.
Do you actually understand what's going here?
Trade wars have casualties. This is the first in a long line to come.
$2 / hr is the price point that works. It is a wage in line with the local population. They have to understand if it goes to $12/hr it makes a lot more sense to use labor in Mississippi or North Dakota. There are many states that the minimum wage is 7.25 here in the US and a computer job would help a lot in a cold winter in North Dakota for example.

China needs to push its people into lower wages too. Dollar tree needs to go back to 1.00 an item to have success. Shipping and tariffs will be carried on the backs of the Chinese worker. They might as well snap up the work now while they still can.
He's criticizing Markov for not disclosing the conflict, not for the conflict itself. Hiding your affiliation in a scientific publication is far outside the norms of science, and they should be criticized for that. The publication we are discussing — "That Chip Has Sailed" — dismisses Markov in a few paragraph and spends the bulk its arguments on Cheng.
Interfacing silicon photonics for high-density co-packaged optics
Fabrice Bellard. ffmpeg, qemu, tcc, and more.
His response to native code and plug and play native plug-ins is using webviews?
They have literally been caught faking AI demos, they brought distrust on themselves.
Well, that YouTube channel, 3Blue1Brown, is amazing. You'll see lots of great explanations with this kind of animations there.
I grew up with no choice in this matter. Then there was a period when "touch" dialing was available for an exhorbitant premium.

There's something so Brooklyn / Portland about wanting to relive this for the romance. It sucked.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942096
I'm not saying "Bullying is bad and bullies are bad people", that would be a value judgement. I'm saying bullying is the strictly worse strategy for strengthening his paper's claims in this scenario. The better strategy would be to foster an environment in which people can easily replicate your claims.
Recognition-by-Components Theory
I know the norms of science, I also know norms of present day Google. Nobody from Google should have the gall to accuse others of anything.
> Students probably fail because of external factors (depression, anxiety from poor home life) not because they’re a dumb-dumb.

Standards may seem harsh, but eventually it's way harsher to have no effective standards at all.

> When the course work requires you to understand subjects that have no real world use or your curriculum doesn’t teach you how to apply the education, you’re incentivized to fail as well.

True. If students are not interested in learning, they should have a pragmatic curriculum.
The problem is they already took the money and basically broke it after the fact. Typically there’s all sorts of legal protections protecting against something like that.
How to improve search without looking at queries or results
>It's not vague. Despite 28 years of effort optimizing JavaScript, WebAssembly outperforms it:

That's great that WebAssembly outperforms Javascript. But only in processing power - and not all programming tasks require the most bleeding-edge performance. User interfaces do not require the speed of WASM. They require being easy to develop, and Javascript is almost always the right solution for UI. None of the WASM frameworks you mentioned are used very much, there's simply not the ecosystem for them that there is for Javascript for user interfaces.

And this is what they mean when they say "use the right tool for the job". I'm not going to use ffmpeg ported to Javascript, because that would be slow - of course I'm going to use ffmpeg in WASM to transcode video in the browser. And I'm not going to replace React with something in WebAssembly no matter what language, because it's just far easier to write the UI in React. Or even jQuery, or even just plain old vanilla Javascript.

Javascript is a very easy language to work with, in spite of what the people that don't really understand Javascript think about it. The only reason to do UI in WASM is that you don't understand Javascript or you have an irrational hate for it, or "because reasons". But sure, do whatever you want to do, I'm in no way saying you can't. Just don't expect that WASM will be replacing Javascript in any real way, anytime soon.
As a brazillian, I find this very unlikely.

In 2013, when the same party was in power, SERPRO was tasked with replacing Microsoft in key aspects, such as government email (which was handled by Outlook Server at that time) and operating systems.

The main reason was fear of espionage. So, in reality, we are more afraid of the US spying on us than random internet dissidents.
Where is 'View'?
No one said to buy AMD because they don't make mistakes. AMD just currently makes a better product overall.
I've been very impressed by Slang as an open source project. The development team is quick to respond to issues and review pull requests. It's clear from their repository and their presentations that they take Slang seriously as a user-facing project, not a research demo.
Their material discovery paper turned out to have negligible significance.