skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned Adsense for Search (AFS) and toolbars, but it seems Google now limits AFS to websites with search boxes. In pre-Chrome era, it let many toolbars for IE (7 or even 8, they both sucked) monetize this way. This toolbar support went away around 2012 as the Chrome Hegemon took over. AFS never allowed a browser (vs. a toolbar) to monetize from omnibox-style UX, no surprise. Monopoly behavior was on display even before Chrome took 2/3rds of the browser market.
Ah so why do the sale at all then? Why not just deposit $10MM in cash at the bank and say it was from an art sale? Something is missing in your explanation.
You look stressed, maybe you can do some talk therapy through the socialised health care system :)
This looks like my dream worlds already but more colorful and a bit more detailed. But the way it hallucinates and becomes inconsistent going back and forth the same place is same as dreams.
I'd agree with this, but it's missing something;

why is this the case? From what I know, it's a lot tougher to tease out the cause of this malfunction in our society. Do we have an undereducated populace because of poverty? Lack of school funding? (if so, why do we underfund schools? is it because we don't have the money? greed? is there a concerted effort to suppress an educated populace for political reasons?) Is there a cultural reticence built into us that resists scientific thought?

My kneejerk analysis boils down to "it's the economy, stupid" and that a substantial portion of our population lives below the poverty line (which itself isn't defined particularly well and probably misses a bunch of folks who ought to qualify for 'living under distressed economic conditions'). It's tough to care about education when you struggle to keep a roof overhead.
Thank you so much. Now let me break this questions down:

Key Security Benefits:

1. Cryptographic Verification:

- Prevents silent corruption of system state

- Makes tampering with system logs cryptographically difficult

- Provides verifiable audit trails of all system operations

- Enables detection of hardware memory faults

2. Runtime Integrity:

- Prevents invalid memory access patterns

- Ensures filesystem operations maintain consistency

- Verifies process state transitions

- Guards against buffer overflows in key subsystems

Main Tradeoffs:

1. Performance Impact:
- 3-5% overhead for memory operations

- 7-9% overhead for filesystem operations

- Additional storage needed for proof chains

- Increased memory usage for verification structures

2. Complexity:
- More complex memory management

- Additional failure modes to handle

- Higher system initialization overhead

- More complex recovery procedures

Attack Vectors Still Present:

- Physical hardware attacks (DMA, cold boot)

- Side-channel attacks

- Race conditions (though reduced by verification)

- Attacks that operate within valid operation boundaries

- Core CPU/firmware-level vulnerabilities

Attack Vectors Prevented/Mitigated:

- Memory corruption exploits

- Filesystem integrity attacks

- Unauthorized state transitions

- Historical state tampering

- Many types of privilege escalation

Im actively working on making the other attack vectors disappear as a whole. It's quite extensive as it is, so it's got a lot of things packed on it. ( * ´ ω ｀ * )
list prices are high to scare Americans into buying [more expensive] insurance plan.

they want Americans be scared of going bankrupt from medical bills.

on the backend, between insurance and hospital, these giant list prices are automatically lowered by factor of 10 to the actual cost of procedure

the business model is:
1. insurance scares people with huge prices
2. healthy americans buy a lot of expensive insurance
3. money is injected into healthcare system from healthy patients
4. money is split among insurance/pbm/providers/pharma
If you look at most of the “Europoor! Americans have so much more money!” articles, you’ll notice two things coming out of them — most understate the importance of quality of life and avoiding rapid Chinese growth of the past decade despite its own problems. It’s like a weird “no, no, ignore everything around you, we are literally the best despite everything!”.

I genuinely don’t know how I feel about this. I love parts of America. Half of my family lives there. But also, I have no inclination to move. Although I could make about 30% more, I have no idea how it would improve my life other than just more money in the bank. Unless I wanted to start a company, then yeah, probably bigger market and lax laws is advantageous… but other than that, it would be a huge downgrade from life perspective.
Maybe I just negotiated well in a good time to negotiate? But my teammates salaries were sometimes even better

90k top Amsterdam, 135k top at booking, and saw even higher than that for the same position
I don't need any TV channel nor statistics for my girlfriend to come home shocked because a friend of her got his apple watch and bag stolen that day, to witness a Japanese girl at an event having her bag stolen during the night, to be aggressed verbally in the station, to have a friend shot in a terror attack (Bataclan), to have an islamic attack at the Christmas market in my town, etc. all the common point here are immigrants or their descendants from non white and non Asian countries.

> I can't even come up with enough terror attacks in Europe to reach 100 deaths in 2024.

Go touch grass ffs! Your reply is infuriating to any victim of terrorism. A single death or wounded from islamic terrorism (the only that really exist) is too much already. If that's not enough for you, please line up with your family and friends and sign to be the next victims and we'll see if "not even 100 deaths" is a good thing or not.
The problem goes way beyond domain squatting. You have a limited resource, say nissan.com, and you have several valid claimants. Who gets to decide what's fair? First past the post? Heaviest pocket book? Biggest stick? Popular acclaim? ...

Is not unique to domains, this is why the world is uts.
Note that this requires native iCloud support on the host machine, so macOS or the iCloud app on Windows (no Linux support)
I know what you mean.

When I first learned how to program, "web frameworks" like Ruby on Rails and Django and whatnot seemed like magic, and that those required a special kind of intelligence to do. Then I learned how those frameworks worked, built three of my own, and realized that while they're still kind of cool, they're not magic. I've repeated the same process with finance, formal mathematics, cooking, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Most things aren't actually that hard if you sit down and force yourself to learn them.

At this point, I start with the assumption "no one is smarter than me". This is very obviously not true, I'm not a hyper-genius or anything, but I think it's a good mentality to have when learning new stuff. If no one is smarter than me, then I should be able to grok most things if I spend enough time with them.
Sure, that gap exists. But that doesn't mean it explains away the whole topic the way it had been invoked.

Furthermore I'm quite wary of hand waving arguments about the "will of the majority". "The majority" just complained about price inflation, while electing the former president that approved most of the monetary inflation they were complaining about, while he was actively promising even more inflation. And that is on a topic the average person should be able to understand! Never mind more subtle points about the downstream effects of more abstract policies. The way I see it, most everyone is extremely frustrated with the current system (hence spitefully voting for more destruction by President Inflation). But most of the energy gets used up arguing about which direction we should go, while the corporate machine stands ready to latch onto and nullify whatever attempts at reform that may arise.
It has a lot of signs of a professional hit the more details come out.

The ebike was used to get into central park to somewhere without cameras and change clothing etc.

The video is somewhat consistent with a how a professional might appear, calm with reload/jam, back to camera then flee down alley.
> "you've said that to me every day for a week, please stop"

Did you, or didn't you ??
Your AI is writing bad docs because it lacks context
I'll buy someone a coffee if they propose a state-space model that identifies a location on the author's plane as a function of time and incentives :^)
I really wish HN would have a ‘video’ tag link at the top next to ‘new’, ‘show’, and ‘ask’.

Over the years I’ve written various scripts and tools to only grab yt links or posts with [video] in the title from the HN api.

Be nice if I could just click the link at the top rather than rebuilding each time I lose the old ones. :)
Ironically, the most drug liberal places in the world, i.e. Silicon Valley, are the source of what this article talks about, productivity gains!

You just need the right drugs, in this case, Psychedelics.
Yes, I agree with both statements. Although I'm just starting and don't have any testimonials yet, I was thinking of sending an email to users requesting testimonials in exchange for the premium plan.

Just fixed the footer, nice catch! Shipping fast comes with some faulty copy pastes I guess...
The chart in the article is multi-dimensional, it has two dimensions: what you mean is time-varying.
I don't understand how that is relevant. I certainly would not want household androids unless I'm completely disabled.
CharaChorder 2
Show HN: A WebSocket API for real-time transcription and translation
I built a websocket API that does real-time speech-recognition, and also translates at the same time.

The result is a real-time transcript in one or many languages, while maintaining <500ms in latency.

Typically you'd have to setup a back-end instance to relay audio to-and-from the front-end and a transcription API. You'd also have to setup API calls with multiple providers, parse transcripts, optimize configurations, create backup instances, add instances in different geo-locations, etc...

The goal is to abstract all of this, so you can connect directly from the front-end by using a public key, and optionally OAuth tokens from supported identity providers.

The link on this post will take you to docs for connection via Websocket or Javascript SDK

You can also watch a video demonstrating the capabilities on our homepage at https://speakprecisely.com
I care about income as a proxy for quality of life, not as an end in itself. For me, the quality of life I get in Europe for X salary is better than what I would get in the USA for 1.5X salary. Ymmv
A story is not just words crammed together that sound plausible. Is the AI going to know about pacing? About character motivations? About interconnecting disparate plots? That paper sounds like it has a scientist’s conception that a story is just words, and not complex trade offs between the start of a story and its end and middle, complexity and planning that won’t come from any sort of next-token generation.

These are “stories” in the most vacuous definition possible, one that is just “and then this happened” like a child’s conception of plot
Good Q: this is my technically-unlaunched app site, full deets are here. https://telosnex.com/compare/ (excuse the marketing, scroll to technical details)

Context / tl;dr:

- I'm making a xplatform app, easiest way to think about it is "what if Perplexity had scripts and search was just a `script` that could be customized", and the AI provider is an abstraction that you can pick, either the bigs via API, or run locally via llama.cpp integration.

- I left my FAANG job where my last project was search x LLM x UI. I really, really want to avoid wasting a couple years building a shadow of what the bigs are. I don't want to be delusional, I want to make sure I'm building something that's at least good, even if it never succeeds in the market.

- I could test providers via API with standard benchmark Qs, but that leaves out my biggest competitors, Perplexity and SearchGPT. Also, Claude's hidden prompt has gotten long enough (6K+ tokens), that I think Claude.ai is a distinct provider.

- So, I hunt down the best two QA sets I can find for legal and medical stuff. Calculate the sample size that gives me a 95% confidence interval that scores are meaningfully different.

- Tediously copy and paste all ~180 questions into Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Perplexity Pro with GPT-4o and SearchGPT.

There's some things that aren't well understood, and are constants for 6 months now:

- Llama 3.1 8B x Search is indistinguishable from Gemini Advanced (Google's $20/month Gemini frontend)

- Perplexity baseline is absolutely horrid, Llama 3.1 8B x search kicks its ass. Perplexity Pro isn't very good. If you switch Perplexity Pro to use gpt-4o, it's slightly worse than SearchGPT.

- Regular RAG kicks everythings ass. That's the only explanation I can come up with for why Telosnex x GPT-4o beats SearchGPT and Perplexity Pro using 4o. All I'm doing is bog-standard RAG with a nice long prompt with instructions. Search results from API => render in webview => get HTML => embeddings => pick top N tokens => attach instructions and inference. I get the vibe Perplexity has especially crappy instructions and input formatting, and both are too optimized for latency over "reading" the web sites, SearchGPT more so.
Are we watching the same YouTube clips?
I'd argue that the same principle applies to pictures, there are many genres of AI image that are cool the first time you see them, but after you've seen the exactly the same idea rehashed dozens of times with no substantial variety it starts wearing really thin. AI imagery is often recognizable as AI not just because of charactistic flaws like garbled text but because it's so hyper-clichéd.
Yeah they're pro AI and pro business. Sounds about right.
> Extreme inequality brings social strife in multiple layers

This is the conventional wisdom, but I can't think of a revolt in a free market country.

> But I don't think you care about that in general.

My reading of history is that free markets bring the greatest prosperity to the greatest number of people. No other economic system comes close.

Cutting other people down to size because you're envious just makes things worse. It produces economic stagnation, and the demand for "equity" is endless and endlessly makes things worse.

It doesn't end well.

Be careful what you wish for.

Keep in mind that the most prosperous companies are in America and bring that prosperity to Americans and are the envy of the world.
I swear, I’ve been hearing that since 2010. That and big Chinese collapse. It’s like the US just wants everyone else to fail just because they don’t share the same attitude towards life. It’s been almost 15 years. That’s a lot of time!

I’m mostly annoyed by the recent “Canada should just become an American state” talks, otherwise I would ignore such takes. Apologies for that.
The same methods have also been used to identify archeological sites [0]!

[0] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36015-5
I'm "on the spectrum," so human relationships are a bit foreign to me. I'd make a great hermit.

Pretty much every relationship I have "doesn't come natural." I need to put conscious effort into every one.

I have also been involved in an organization, for most of my adult life, that has been instrumental, in helping to force me to have relationships with others, and it has taught me to be a good friend, and has given me good friends.

I'm not really into "transactional" relationships. In many cases, the extent of our relationship is only where we need to work with each other. I don't need to be their buddy, but, in the context of our work, I have found that it helps me to develop a true interest in the other person.

In my experience, I have realized that I'm actually a "people person." I really like people, and have found great utility, in ignoring my prejudices, and actually finding out a lot about the others in my life.
MilkyTracker v1.05 – Major Release
US is already captured by oligarchy and special interest groups.

What needs to happen is return of power to the common folk, away from filthy rich billionaires and their special interest groups and NGOs
If you are comfortable with purchasing used hardware, used 3090 are great value, they can be had for roughly a third of the price of a new 4090.

How many GPUs you need is completely dependent on the size of your team, their frequency of usage, and the size of the models you are comfortable with.

I generally recommend you rent instances on something like runpod to build out a good estimate of your actual usage before commiting a bunch of money to hardware.
cost of acquisition sets a floor on price. Value sets a ceiling on the price. Supply/demand sets the price you pay. (in economics we further talk about curves - there many oil wells and some costs more to run than others, there are also many buyers and some value oil more. Similar for water where it is often free from a nearby faucet but people will pay a lot of it in bottle form anyway.
I was thinking about how to describe the interactions between all possible pairings under a variety of circumstances, like on an axis of virtuous vs conflicting.
As India and China both produce solid middle classes demanding American products, this will matter less and less. We're already seeing this on the West Coast of America (what I know) where Asian and Indian cultures are gaining more and more influence.
The higher quality-of-life was likely true at one time but I think it is quite arguable now in much of Europe. There is a palpable sense of decline that weighs too heavily on everything. How "quality" is a life without meaningful optimism for the future? It is the quality-of-life of a pensioner waiting for the graveyard.

An underrated benefit of the markedly higher standard of living in the US is that people can choose to trade standard of living for quality of life if they wish. American culture seems to preference maxing standard of living but that is optional, and there are plenty of people that make other choices.
As AI takes hold it's obvious parents and copyrights will have to be revisited.
I think this is cool but this is mostly being used to find leaky old forgotten wells.

Not tap unused or forgotten wells. This is purely risk avoidance, which usually means it won't get much attention or funding.
Tylenol is absolutely a risky drug.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-use-on...

> But the FDA says acetaminophen carries a special risk. About a quarter of Americans routinely take more over-the-counter pain relief pills of all kinds than they are supposed to, surveys show. That behavior is "particularly troublesome" for acetaminophen, an FDA report said, because the drug's narrow safety margin places "a large fraction of users close to a toxic dose in the ordinary course of use.”

> Taken over several days, as little as 25 percent above the maximum daily dose – or just two additional extra strength pills a day – has been reported to cause liver damage, according to the agency. Taken all at once, a little less than four times the maximum daily dose can cause death. A comparable figure doesn't exist for ibuprofen, because so few people have died from overdosing on that drug.

> From 2001 to 2010, annual acetaminophen-related deaths amounted to about twice the number attributed to all other over-the-counter pain relievers combined, according to the poison control data.

> Acetaminophen overdose sends as many as 78,000 Americans to the emergency room annually and results in 33,000 hospitalizations a year, federal data shows. Acetaminophen is also the nation’s leading cause of acute liver failure, according to data from an ongoing study funded by the National Institutes for Health.

> In fact, the FDA has still not completed the review of the drug that began back in the 1970s, as part of the agency’s larger mandate to assess the safety and efficacy of older medicines.

> As the panel’s work was going on, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals weighed in on acetaminophen. The London-based Lancet declared in a 1975 editorial that if the drug “were discovered today it would not be approved” by British regulators. “It would certainly never be freely available without prescription.”
anti-oligarchy could be.

America has much worse inequality than during the French Revolution, just for reference
You're assuming his objective was to change healthcare policy, I doubt it was. I think the objective was good old fashioned revenge.

Like this is pure speculation right? But I have a strong feeling that, should the person be caught, we'll learn that they have or had a family member or even themselves insured with UHC who has suffered some harm, and that person felt UHC was responsible. Whether they were correct or not is immaterial: the CEO paid the price.

And you can feel whatever you feel about that, like I said, I don't want to live in a world where healthcare CEOs get gunned down in the street. But I also am acutely aware of how abusive insurance companies are, both from reading about those abuses in the news of others, and experiencing a handful of my own, and I also don't want to live in the status quo, where unelected, unaccountable private companies get to decide who lives, who dies, and who goes bankrupt via inscrutable bureaucratic practices.

In my ideal world, accountability would be these rich bastards getting hauled into congress and charged for the abuses their companies inflict on American citizens. But since our system seems unwilling to do that, if the alternative is they get to walk around just a bit scared that someone will [ censored for HN ]? Well, probably won't fix anything, but I'd be a liar if I said I'd lose a wink of sleep over it.
I've never in my life heard of an individual person being prosecuted for violating the ban keeping a few as a pet at home. It's not like there's an inter-provincial border inspection checkpoint at the AB border, or house to house searches.
Support MSSQL please
> which usually means it won't get much attention or funding

Leaky wells are a legal and insurance liability, which has a downstream impact on the financing of a drilling project.
You're free to help others as much as you like. Those who do have my respect. Those who want to tear down others do not.
There is a real need for this. I have to admit most of my testing right now is vibes based. Problem is, these LLM evaluation platforms get in-between me and my LLM.
Yes, that's definitely a major drawback for people who are not so active via email (or got their inboxes spammed by marketing haha).

Will explore some options with the messaging apps, thank you! Do you think at this point it's not easier to open a specific app for that or there's a reason you prefer it to be via a messaging app?
Land. Total value of it is about 25 trillion in the US alone I believe. If I'm not wrong, globally stock markets are around 100 trillion (and that will include a lot of assets in the form of land).
If stories (and AAA games in general) are bland in games is due in large part to how expensive are to produce. Risk tolerance is low.

If game assets are cheap to generate you’ll see small teams or even solo developers willing to take more creative risks
My wife and I have been pretty mindful about what we share on even quasi-public social networks when it relates to our kids. Luckily there's a decent number of platforms/apps out there which make it easy to share with family without making stuff public.

Sadly that doesn't stop family from reposting from those more private platforms to public social media...
Even within EU there is a clear correlation between economy and quality of life between countries. While yes more social policy improves quality of life, it can't compensate if the economy difference is too high.