skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just like you have a formal paper with CEO signature printed out - you know that guy is not going to sign million of copies.

Then don't. It is pathetic and disingenuous to pretend to be personal when you are not. Especially those who spend extra on a single squiggle of blue printer ink.
Automation is inevitable. Growing AI is inevitable. Maybe it will become better, maybe not, but people will become accustomed to it. The better AI is, the more people will believe it. At some point it will replace critical thinking, just as newspaper were shaping popular opinions.

I have always been afraid that Google might be manipulating popular opinion, erasing, rewriting history by changing links it suggests. That is why I like archive.org; I can always go back to see state of web pages before. No rewriting history.

That is why I also keep my own repository of links https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database so that I always could return to links, that are important to me. I do not trust Google, or any big tech giant.
What's the point of art?
Apple App Store Review
Been on the App Store 10+ years and without going into details I believe my app has been unfairly targeted for things other apps are allowed to do. Lodged an appeal and feel like I'm getting the run-around. Has been going on for over a month. Would prefer to, and have been trying to use the official channels. Even the official Apple dev forum is "Your post is being reviewed and will be published if approved." Would really like a conclusive decision from the review board in writing so I can work out the next steps. Can anyone here help? Thanks in advance.
You're right, especially because I think being overweight is extremely easy to reach by just being sedentary.

But obese, especially 35+ (never reached that, I caught myself a hair before), imho you need a 'food addiction', which was at least in my case either an overproduction of ghrelin or an hypersensitivity to it. Which kills any sort of temporary calorie restriction diet. My solution was a 5 day fast, and it worked well enough: I can now easily go hungry ( I am right now) and leave most of my meals hungry, without feeling more than a very, very mild discomfort (from a heavily to painful discomfort before, on the level of an occular migraine).
> It says, under every chat, that it's fiction.

Microsoft also says that they care about your privacy while violating every part of it.

> This is no more pretending to be a doctor than a book character being a doctor, or someone on a role-play forum playing a doctor.

It is much more. (Open, Gemini etc)AI is pretending to be able to give good answers to questions, but in this case, it only gives deceptions to vulnerable people.

It is funny that all "child protectors" seem to have no issue letting children be mentally deceived by AI.
Lower frequency means longer wavelength and longer wavelength penetrates structures better. Or is that over simplified? I’d think the goal of reclaiming some of the lower frequency spectrum is not to try and solve bandwidth issues but to augment consumer wifi with more connectivity options for devices and applications where connection reliability is more important than max throughput.
There is actually an IOCCC entry in 2019 that does almost exactly this except it’s LSTM instead of transformers: https://www.ioccc.org/2019/mills/prog.c

https://www.ioccc.org/2019/mills/hint.html
Yeah, I knew someone who opted to have their dementia-suffering parent live with them until the end. That was tough, but... surely better than being left alone in a hospice/etc. as you mention. Unfortunately, yeah, you'll see the person just erode and ... it's really brutal as hell, ultra sad. Eventually the person is not even capable of consenting to euthanasia (nor any other medical procedure). Definitely something to discuss with family or closest friends especially upon getting diagnosed with an illness like that.
Did you control for off-center trackpads for laptops which have number pads and small trackpads?
> Dropbox is a company with thousands of engineers. They should be able to focus on both aspects.

This highlights a big issue in online discourse, the false dichotomy is everywhere. "why didn't they allocate resources in solving world hunger instead of uber for furbies" Because they chose not to, not because it was an either-or.
A creator of some of those was talking about their business in the recent 'Those making 500/m on side projects in 2024'[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376682
Actually they don't consume a very large portion of the overall spectrum at all. Nearly all the bands you mention are in the Mhz range or less rather than Ghz and as a result they're not really even suited for WiFi use. The lower frequencies are less optimal for high speed data transfer and also broadcast to a longer range, as well as penetrate buildings more easily than their higher frequency counterparts.

As well as that those bands are already heavily used already - it would make no sense to open these bands up to WiFi.
In so much as every client now has to write custom code for every provider, yes. That's a massive maintenance burden, and a massive pain for customers when their preferred OAuth provider isn't supported by random clients.

This is pretty much the whole point of having specifications in the first place.
My experience with advanced cancer is that it is not. I routinely see people from the UK and Canada raising funds for legitimate treatments my insurance will cover because their governments won’t. To be fair, those treatments are paid for by the government in Nordic countries and France, so it isn’t universal that governments fail their sickest when treatments get expensive.
My previous guess on what topics Zuckerberg discussed with Trump[0]:

* Push to ban Tiktok

* Drop antitrust lawsuits against Meta

* Meta will relax "conservative" posts on its platforms

* Zuckerberg will donate to Trump's cause

Nailed the last one. Let's see about the others in 2025.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262573#42262975
I generally report emails as spam, and if I'm in a bad mood, I'll report it as terrorism
A lot of normal people have used VPN’s for years now to get around geolocks on streaming content.

Fuck, even some technically illiterate people I know do this to watch various shows.
Only if you also tell me you did. Then I know I'm not worth your time.
Google puts AI agents at the center of Gemini update
> 2. Why should medical advice only be given by practicing professionals?

Because "writing code" != "programming" != "software engineering".
That doesn't answer my question. What's special about the Hague as a geofence? Do you think the international court of justice will spend resources to start going after random people in Russia/India/Uzbekistan because they make scam calls from their mom's basement?
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Apple adds ChatGPT to iPhone in latest iOS update
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Don't underestimate hackers. The internet is supercharging hobbyist hackers in many domains, including electronics, chemistry and bioengineering.

I doubt the precursors to nerve gases(the worst ones, anyway) are readily available, but they are probably a handful of undergrad-level reactions away from easily available chemicals.
Where are you seeing 900 GB/s?
Is Promo Abuse Draining Your Marketing Budget?
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s it possible to maintain attractive promotions while effectively managing abuse? Tools that analyze device intelligence and detect anomalies (like tampering or emulator use) can help identify and block suspicious activity in real-time. For example, solutions that use rule orchestration allow businesses to fine-tune fraud prevention without disrupting legitimate users.

But the real question is: Do you think promo campaigns are still worth the risk in today’s climate of rising fraud? Or are there smarter, safer alternatives?
These are defense contractor drones being tested. Not foreign, and not military (well, not YET, lol).
How far we have fallen that a few bytes sent to a server are a 'real interaction'.
> > The query language is moderately bad, quite verbose (Model.objects every time) for no good reason.

> The idea was to make the separation between Model and QuerySet objects obvious. When you access the objects property on the model object, you're actually accessing the QuerySet.

> It seems weird because in Rails, everything is encapsulated in the model's class. But Python devs tend to prefer explicit code. In Django we also have the Manager class as an additional layer used to build QuerySets. I'd say it's just a different architecture instead of a shortcoming.

Also, you're supposed to enhance the models with additional functionality independent of views. Not just in the form of just adding new class or instance methods, but you can also redefine or add alternate QuerySet Managers. For example "Model.objects" could be replaced with a pre-filtered one that includes "deleted=False" and you can add "Model.deleted" for "deleted=True" and "Model.all" for the original get-everything QuerySet.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/topics/db/managers/#cu...
> All of what chatbot produces are fictional depictions.

My employer told me that "chatbot" can help me with my work (engineering). /s
I was there in the era when hitting a website on the wrong day spawned so many pop-overs and pop-unders that it ground your browser to a halt. And that by trying to close any one of them, another 10 windows were launched with more ads. Eventually bogging down the computer so severely (single core FTW!) that your only option was to conduct a hard restart, your unsaved data be damned.

I feel for those businesses who try to build a revenue stream off of advertising, but that well has been permanently poisoned for me. If I cannot sanitize a website of its maliciously user-hostile behaviour, I will simply refuse to make use of it.

And I encourage everyone to join me. The sooner advertising of all kinds die, the better.
Well, device to device is technically doubled because you have a read and a write. But yes
I’ll lay it on the line. In the many years I ran mailservers for a living and for a hobby, I was elbows deep in fighting spam. One of the consistent patterns over the years was that spammers would go to elaborate lengths to explain why their spam wasn’t spam. If it’s unsolicited commercial email, it’s spam.

Again, there’s a wide spectrum from v14gr4 p1ll5 to a legitimate vendor in my job space reaching out to me. They’re not all alike. But if it’s commercial, and unsolicited… it’s still spam.
My impression: In these early days of the technology there's huge uncertainty over what gets you users and also over what gets you lawsuits. People are trying to do all kinds of things with these models, most of which don't quite work at the moment. On the lawsuit side, there's potential copyright claims, there's things like the present article, there's celebrities suing you because they think the model is imitating them, there's someone suing you because the model insults or defames them (even if the model speaks the truth!), there's Elon suing you for the LOLs... As you're hoping to go global, there's potential lawsuits each jurisdiction which you don't even have the resources to fully evaluate the potential of.

You say that both factors are clear "within the confines of the product", but I'm not convinced there even are such clearcut "confines" of the product. To enter this market and survive, I'd think those confines woud have to be pretty flexible.
Assuming your task is larger than kernel launch overhead, of course.
They could still maintain it by, say, backporting bug fixes. And also accept contributions from people who prefer to stay on the old rug. It is extra effort for them and it is risky (everyone might end up staying on and contributing to the old rug turning it into the new new rug), but that's the price they would be paying for the goodwill.
> using the webextension polyfill

What for? All browsers now have a promised API

> The Firefox folks could really improve the UX here

I wouldn't hold my breath.
> According to the study, it's not so much that more people got fat, it's that fewer people are smoking.

According to this study, sure, but countries, like France, with double the smoking rate of the USA still don't have double the health issues associated with smoking.

I'd like to see a simple bar chart with, for each country, a bar displaying smokers as a percentage of population and a bar displaying heart-disease/cancer/diabetes/whatever[1] as a percentage of the population.

My understanding right now is that countries with (for example) double the smokers still don't have double the health problems. Some may even have fewer health problems even though they have more smokers.

[1] Basically, all the diseases that lead for smokers.
Not really, no. Over the past several years, JAX was used in only 3% of top publications. PyTorch in 60%. There's no trend to suggest that JAX has "reduced the need" for anything, except for Google itself. https://paperswithcode.com/trends
Show HN: Web3 Wiki - A comprehensive wiki about the Web3 ecosystem.
I created an open-source Wiki to explore the Web3 ecosystem. It is a collection of resources, tools, and project explanations in the Web3 space. With numerous ideas and projects emerging, it can be challenging to stay updated. This Wiki aims to streamline learning by connecting resources in one place. I hope it helps you learn something new each time you visit. Contributions are welcome.
At least in Europe and the Nordic systems I have experience with, that typically applies to the very expensive novel treatments. There are gene therapies which can cost $2-3 million per patient and those aren't covered by any public healthcare system, AFAIK.

But it's not like there is some kind of upper limit on coverage. If you have cancer, you will get treatment regardless of how much your care has already cost.
Australia does have it.
The base circuitry for detecting metal probably hasn't changed much (at least not for amateur prices), but there are apparently modern metal detectors with app integration and gps and the like: https://apps.apple.com/be/app/go-terrain/id1419674707
I am sorry to hear you had such an experience with your mother. Of course I made a generalized statement and that can not be true for everyone. There are also multiple types of dementia and dementia like conditions. Some forms do leave the person confused and scared and calling out and in rough shape for the caregivers perspective. But in general the vast majority of the clients I have worked with did not appear to suffer or be aware of their situation. I worked in an advanced stage dementia facility for almost 8 years.

When a population can not express what is wrong yes sometimes health issues get missed like your moms UTI. But with a lot of experience those things get noticed much faster. Having worked with someone for years as many clients did stay with us for years you get to know their routine very well. Suddenly they are using the bathroom non stop you question UTI. They suddenly start acting very strange - check for UTI. The system is not perfect but there are people out there that care and are doing their best to help those. I advocate for my clients and use my experience and knowledge to help these people get into the best situation possible.

When working with dementia patients you are not just working with the client but his family as well. I currently work in a community setting so see people at home and when I see the wife crying or yelling at the client I sit and ask how they are doing. I let them know that they are a good wife or husband and that getting upset does not mean they are bad. I then tell them that it is however important to recognize when they are burning out and getting frustrated. Thankfully for most of my clients there are services that can let the family get a break. We will do respite visits and the family can leave the house and get some errands done or just have lunch or relax. In those upset moments I help them through the situation and then discuss it with my team to try decide how to best help. Sometimes that means increased service. Sometimes it means they go to a respite facility for a week. Sometimes it even means they get placed into long term care facility.

I am drifting off on this post so again I am sorry about your mom. Dementia is cruel. Care is not perfect. But I genuinely feel for the majority of those who have dementia they just lack much insight as to what is happening.
I'd argue that what Match Group did with OKC was bordering on criminal. Everything on it worked and it worked for small, often marginalized groups. It was turned into a worse version of tender.
Apple certainly appears to be going all in on Swift. Even Foundation is written in it now. The use of Objective-C could have any number of explanations, from compatibility with legacy frameworks/applications to flaws in methodology. The charts give a general sense of trends but should be taken with a grain of salt.
How clever!
This is incredible. Thank you so much for taking the time!
They don't mean literally LLaMA. They mean a model with the same architecture.
bozo sort would be oddly redundant
-Lot things can be redone via an oriented approach, particularly where large amounts of text/data involved, or where content generation is needed;

-lot other things do't need AI.

-however now is early & AI = where money & attention is, so ppl tend to try integrate AI into everything

-over time this will get figured out.
They are cheaper, yes. But GPUs are faster and easier to program.
Jolt Physics added as an alternative 3D physics engine to Godot
I don't see much information on web3 scams, rugpulls, unregistered securities, grifters, crypto-bros, etc. Those are the most prevailing themes of web3.

Do you plan to add those?
Funny, I just posted this story a couple of days ago. I think it was from 2014. There was a lot of noise about this sort of tech and then it just went quiet. I really doubt this tech is going unused. I suspect something like this was used to track down the CEO killer recently(with a parallel constructed cover story).
Walks have generally helped with my mental health but I still can't get important things done. I'll try to get the morning sun. Thank you so much!
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> The most current document is here, but it's text.

"but" ???
Krispy Kreme: a material cybersecurity incident [pdf]
I really would like to have a simple re-implementation of ye olde TNC-2s that had a small eprom and a kiss mode TNC with a fricking BBS on ax-25 that worked like a charm. They existed I believe around 1988-1990ish.

I mean, yes, this cable works with direwolf, but then I need to have a full linux system running, which I could do without for the purpose of an emergency comms system.

I just found https://github.com/cheponis/KISS-TNC2, but I think this is just the KISS mode, not the AX25 stuff.

I found https://www.ir3ip.net/iw3fqg/doc/wa8ded.htm which I think describes the TNC2S software I was running many years ago.

Any other pointers would be great.
Ok, so that's not "leave it be", that's improving both rugs
https://aistudio.google.com/live is by far the coolest thing here. You can just go there and share your screen or camera and have a running live voice conversation with Gemini about anything you're looking at. As much as you want, for free.

I just tried having it teach me how to use Blender. It seems like it could actually be super helpful for beginners, as it has decent knowledge of the toolbars and keyboard shortcuts and can give you advice based on what it sees you doing on your screen. It also watched me play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and it successfully identified some of the characters and told me some information about them.

You can enable "Grounding" in the sidebar to let it use Google Search even in voice mode. The video streaming and integrated search make it far more useful than ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode is currently.
> Millions have been killed over ideas in the bible, even though it’s just a book.

Yes, but those ideas were distributed by "human" chat bots (aka priests). Very few people actually read the bible, but when they do, only specific parts.
One reason is religion. That aside, people are afraid that this could be abused. People could choose this purelyto avoid additional cost to their relatives.

It could be used as an excuse why more costly options to avoid pain and suffering in old people might not be covered by insurance anymore.

People could be talked into it for various reasons.

Canada is a good example of a country where I think the base to make it work in a positive way is given. Their insurance covers a lot of treatments for basically everyone. The country cares about its citizens in a way that makes you believe they won't use euthanasia as a cop out to avoid paying for medical care.

If these circumstances are not given, euthanasia can easily be seen as an easy way to get rid of people who are too expensive for society or too cumbersome to take care of.
It feels like all the parties commercializing AI spend most of their time and resources on writing exceptions. It's like inverse software development, where with code you have to tell it what to do, but AI tell it what not to do.
I completely understand the need for a higher-level language above SQL, but straight JSON is a deal-breaker. It's not just comments, it's also that editors won't understand that JSON should have syntax-highlighting to help people catch trivial typos. A configuration language that allows for importing a file as a string would allow users to write the SQL in files with .sql extensions and get syntax-highlighting.

pgroll is written in Go, so if you were to accept configuration written in CUE, you would get the best of all worlds:

* Besides support for comments, there's first-class support in Go for writing configuration in CUE and then importing it: https://cuelang.org/docs/concept/how-cue-works-with-go/#load...

* SQL can written in files with .sql extensions and embedded in CUE with @embed: https://cuelang.org/docs/howto/embed-files-in-cue-evaluation...
You can look up a range of individual cars and compare here:

https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/details?cars=34797;36030;34...

The tool also lets you set various assumptions like miles driven per year to see how they affect things.
Twelve Years of Seriously Secure Messaging
To my mind the main obstacle is kind of orthogonal: how do you protect the people who don't want to go, being pressured or manipulated. I agree that if someone is really, independently and committedly deciding to go, you shouldn't stop them. But how do you express that test in a bureaucratic, legalistic framework?

In a friend's family, there was a big rift as one family member in direct line of inheritance was accused of (successfully!) pressuring his mother to refuse medical care. She died sooner and more unpleasantly than she likely would have otherwise, leaving more money sooner to her children. And that wasn't even with euthanasia being legal.

I have lots of sympathy for people so desperate they would rather kill themselves, but I don't know how you square that circle.