skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two-Party Consent Laws Should Be Ruled Unconstitutional
To pass constitutional muster, any law must be supported (at a minimum) by a legitimate governmental interest. I call two-party consent laws "right-to-lie" laws, because, instead of protecting privacy, preserving someone's right to lie about a conversation is the ONLY interest these laws are designed to protect.

Here’s an example. My friend invites me over to his house, where he tells me a secret—that he has been cheating on his wife for the past two years. Now suppose two alternative scenarios involving this discussion: (1) After listening to my friend, I go and find his wife and tell her that her husband just told me he has been cheating on her for the past two years; or (2) I secretly recorded the conversation with my friend and later play back the recording for his wife. If the state was interested in protecting my friend’s privacy, both scenarios (1) and (2) would be illegal. However, under a two-party consent law, only scenario (2) is deemed illegal. If scenario (1) is not illegal, it is obvious the state is NOT worried about protecting my friend’s privacy. But what, then, is being protected if only scenario (2) is deemed illegal? Without a recording, my friend can deny the details of the conversation (for example, he could claim he was talking about cheating on someone else he dated long before he got married) or deny that the conversation took place at all. In short, making only scenario (2) illegal has NOTHING to do with privacy but protects only my friend’s RIGHT TO LIE—which is NOT a legitimate governmental interest.
Agreed. It's great that you are looking for a healthier life. Try to find a healthier job.
> Nothing new under the sun. Me and my friends were like that 30 something years ago.

(1) When I was growing up, nobody had any online presence. I remember life without the internet.

(2) The fact that it is not new does not mean it has not changed in magnitude and addictiveness.

(3) The fact that it is not new does not mean that it is not a problem. It is a growing problem. Especially because societies these days do nothing about their problems except through more technology at them, which rarely solves the underlying issue.
Maybe spend more compute time to let it think about optimizing the compute time.
Yeah, cause they're all on SSRIs, mood stabilizers, legal meth via ADHD drugs, and beta blockers.
Show HN: Turning GitHub Engagement into Leads for Dev Tool Companies
Hi HN,

As a Marketing Lead at a dev tool company for over 2 years, I often struggled to generate quality leads. Traditional tools like 6sense, Demandbase, ZoomInfo, and RB2B didn’t quite work for us. They relied heavily on static databases or generic intent signals that didn’t resonate with our audience—developers.

After trying pretty much everything, I stumbled upon a new approach: leveraging GitHub activity as a source of intent signals. By identifying developers who starred, forked, raised issues, or discussions on relevant open-source repositories, I could pinpoint high-intent leads with a level of precision traditional tools just couldn’t match.

That experiment turned out to be a game-changer. Now, I’ve built a platform to make this process seamless and accessible to others. The tool automates the sourcing of developer engagement signals from GitHub (open-source repos only) and delivers actionable insights, like LinkedIn profiles, directly to Slack, email, or a dashboard.

Key Highlights:
-- It’s live: There’s a free plan available for anyone to try.

-- Developer-first: Helps dev tool companies focus on developers actively engaging with their repos or competitors’ code, rather than chasing generic leads.

-- Ethical use: Data is sourced from public, open-source repositories via GitHub’s API. We’re continuously reviewing guidelines to ensure compliance.

I’m curious to hear from you:
-- Have you tried sourcing sales intelligence from GitHub or similar platforms?

-- How do you view the ethics of using public developer activity for lead generation?

-- What other platforms or signals would you like to see integrated?

We’re just getting started and would love your thoughts. Check it out here: https://revmax.pro. You can reach out to me directly at dhaval@revmax.pro
There are many other companies beyond NSO Group, if I were a journalist I would write a more comprehensive list of them and educate about this whole "industry".
> I don't think their proxy server would use Opera Mini as the user-agent.

It does, I just checked:

> Opera/9.80 (Android; Opera Mini/87.0.2254/191.361; U; en) Presto/2.12.423 Version/12.16

> What I seem to remember, was that they run this proxy which did the fetching for you, did some ridiculous compression or similar, and then sent you the compressed reply.

That's Opera Turbo, a feature of Opera Mobile (which is a full browser, HTML, JavaScript and all), which indeed compressed images and other media in a lossy way (and text losslessly, if it wasn't already at the HTTP level, I assume).

Opera Mini actually renders HTML (and executes JavaScript for a couple of seconds) server-side and then sends a binary version of that pre-render to the phone. I imagine it to be closer to SVG or PDF than to HTML and CSS.
I agree that they can be powerful but I guess, as always, it doesn't apply in the general case. For example, AFAIK hw prefetcher runs at 32B or 64B per cycle which basically means that you're only going to see a benefit from it if the code you're running is CPU bound, no?
Our moon is much closer to both us and, importantly for energy sources, the sun; and getting things off our moon can be done with things like SpinLaunch.

SpinLaunch on the moon wouldn't even need the vacuum chamber they use on Earth, but it would still need that on Mars.

The biggest down-side of the moon is the long night, but the solution to that is the same as one possible solution to the lack of magnetosphere on Mars: a very, *very* thick wire.

(I've not done precise calculations for this, but I have considered the scale needed for "thick wire" on an Earth-scale global power grid, and for that I was getting Earth's magnetic field at a distance of 11 km from a 1.36e6 A current, which in turn meant I had a 1m^2 cross section; naturally this is only going to happen if you have some serious automation for processing lunar/martian regolith into aluminium).
> I think it’s not technology as a thing people are hooked to - it’s taken over social life.

One cannot separate the tool from the use. Of course, you are right, though. Technology has done two things: it has eradicated communities by making communities less economically valuable, and it provides a superficial alternative.

But the end result is that people become effectively hooked on using the device. The device is nothing without what is happening on it, but it cannot be deconstructed and separated either into a social component and the technology itself because it is more than the sum of its parts.
Check out the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, too, about 60 miles south of Boston
"In this paper, I argue using a simple game theory model that a first strike with tactical nuclear weapons will, under certain conditions, lead a non-MAD Nash equilibrium with an one-and-off gain for the party enabling the first strike. This should be taken as a serious warning against any escalation between nuclear powers."

...or, this should be taken as a serious opportunity by narcissistic ding dongs, like Putin or Kim Jung Un, to more librally consider gambling with the future of humanity if it means there's even a slim chance that their evil asses can remain alive, fat and happy while the rest of the world suffers. Nice advertisement. Is the author vying for a seat at the right hand of the devil?
Walmart Body Cameras
I guess my point is more, if we can't decide about Portia Spiders or Chimps, then how can we be so certain about AI. So offering up Portia and Chimps as counter examples.
I disagree. It’s vastly inefficient, but it is managing to actually solve these problems with a vast search space. If we extrapolate this approach into the future and assume that the search becomes better as the underlying model improves, and assume that the architecture grows more efficient, and assume that the type of parallel computing used here grows cheaper, isn’t it possible that this is a lot more than brute-forcing in terms of what it will achieve? In other words, is it maybe just a really ugly way of doing something functionally equivalent to reasoning?
How bad this is depends on the time-horizon over which they are trying to maximize profit.

If the time-horizon is the next listen, it's terrible, as it doesn't care if it revolts the user so badly that they leave the platform immediately. This is bad for the platform, too, so they won't do it for long.

If it's very long term, then it's not as bad because it takes into account users listening more often and over a longer period of time. One way of getting additional longer term listens is including signals like tastes of similar users and other things many of us music-lovers would consider "good". And the profit part means including signals like cost-per-stream of each song. A very long time-horizon requires finding good tradeoffs between all these signals.

My guess is the time-horizon is monthly to quarterly. This is because of market pressures (public markets demand quarterly results) and the practicality of measuring the results. You can't measure/improve infinite time-horizon optimization.

This will still have the effect of selecting for users that aren't as sensitive to what they are hearing. They will not leave as quickly. These are the users the platform wants, as these users afford the platform more leeway in shifting the tradeoff from quality signals to cost-per-stream. Eventually, this will push out many of us music-lovers and the artists we love. Once this reaches a tipping point, there will be room in the market for another service to cater to music-lovers. But, given market pressures, they will almost certainly walk the same path as Spotify in the long term.

For me, the implication is to own my own music. I always have and always will. I only use streaming platforms for discovery. But as soon as I decide I like something enough, I buy it. I almost always buy albums, not individual songs. That lets me see if I want to follow that artist more deeply. This is expensive and time-consuming relative to streaming. It's dirt cheap relative to what I get out of music.
A bit of background on this project: it was started by the guy leading BuckleScript (now ReScript), the OCaml to JS compiler.
Show HN: Prompt Fast Everywhere – For All ChatGPT-Like
CPU frequency ramp curve is also something that can be adjusted. You want the CPU to ramp up really quickly to make everything feel responsive, but at the same time you want to not have to use so much power from your battery.

If you detect that a benchmark is running then you can just ramp up to max frequency immediately. It’ll show how fast your CPU is, but won’t be representative of the actual performance that users will get from their device.
This looks bad. It's the old failing ways of Mozilla. No focus, too much scope, and chasing shiny things.

> For years Mozilla has been incorrectly thought of by many as "the Firefox company." This perception left too much of our great work in the shadows. To bring some more light, we’ve started the process of reinvigorating and elevating the Mozilla brand itself.

We should just fork Firefox now, or even easier support an existing fork. Just looked around, folks will likely have different viewpoints. I don't know what we lose without legacy plugins, but LibreWolf seems alright at face-value:

LibreWolf

Purpose: Privacy-focused fork of Firefox.
Features:
No telemetry, ads, or sponsored content.
Enhanced tracking protection and hardened privacy settings.
Frequent updates to align with Firefox’s mainline security patches.
Use Case: Designed for users seeking the most secure and private browsing experience.

The project seems to take an extreme non-commercial view to that point that the download will appear broken[0] because it's not signed. They don't sign it because...

> This happens because we do not notarize the macOS version of the browser: we don't have a paid Apple Developer license and we don't want to support this signing mechanism that is put behind a paywall without providing significant gains.

> Here[1] you can find a proposed fix, and the relative discussion. Alternatively, you can remove the quarantine attribute directly from brew: [...]

Hrmm. What worked for me is `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreWolf.app`

[0] https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/bsys6/

[1] https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/710#issuecommen...
Can i add xiaomi "airtag" with it?
We used spreadsheets too, and found them useful, but not very threatening
But didn't we liberalized energy markets for that reason, if anyone could undercut the market like that wouldn't that happen automatically and the prices go down anyway? /s
try https://sharedrop.io/
Dude, you're buying into the hype way too hard. All of this LLM shit is being massively overhyped right now because investors are single-minded morons who only care about cashing out a ~year from now for triple what they put in. Look at the YCombinator batches, 90+% of them have some mention of AI in their pitch even if it's hilariously useless to have AI. You've got toothbrushes advertising AI features. It's a gold rush of people trying to get in on the hype while they still can, I guarantee you the strategy for 99% of the YCombinator AI batch is to get sold to M$ or Google for a billion bucks, not build anything sustainable or useful in any way.

It's a massive bubble, and things like these "benchmarks" are all part of the hype game. Is the tech cool and useful? For sure, but anyone trying to tell you this benchmark is in any way proof of AGI and will replace everyone is either an idiot or more likely has a vested interest in you believing them. OpenAI's whole marketing shtick is to scare people into thinking their next model is "too dangerous" to be released thus driving up hype, only to release it anyway and for it to fall flat on its face.

Also, if there's any jobs LLMs can replace right now, it's the useless managerial and C-suite, not the people doing the actual work. If these people weren't charlatans they'd be the first ones to go while pushing this on everyone else.
The closest thing is probably RustBelt [0], which proved the soundness of a subset of Rust that included borrowing/lifetimes. This was later extended to include relaxed memory accesses [1].

Neither of these papers include the trait system, unfortunately, and I'm not aware of another line of research that does (yet?).

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3158154

[1]: https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/rbrlx/paper.pdf
The real turker studies, resulting in the ~70% number, are scored correctly I believe. Higher numbers are just speculated human performance as far as I’m aware.
That wants me to install a binary. I don't want to run any external code on my hardware.
They're chilling it out together with Nethack in the Club for AI Benchmarks yet to be Beaten.

Interestingly, Bongard problems do not have a private test set, unlike ARC-AGI. Can that be because they don't need it? Is it possible that Bongard Problems are a true test of (visual) reasoning that requires intelligence to be solved?

Ooooh! Frisson of excitement!

But I guess it's just that nobody remembers them and so nobody has seriously tried to solve them with Big Data stuff.
Stove Company Wants to Change How the World Uses Energy [video]
I also subscribed to Deezer, and the fact that it is still not profitable makes me wonder why. Is it because they pay more artists? Or because the labels get a larger share of the revenues? Or because they have a smaller market share (so larger fixed costs in percentage of their revenues)? Or they are less efficient than Spotify?

According to this article musicians get $0.022 from Qobuz per stream when Deezer pays $0.0064 ($0.00437 for Spotify).

https://www.lalal.ai/blog/how-much-streaming-services-pay-ar...
One thing that makes me nervous: Home Assistant has an extremely weak security model. There is recent support for admin users, and that’s about it. I’m sort of okay with the users on an installation having effectively unrestricted access to all entities and actions. I’m much less okay with an LLM having this sort of access.

An actually good product in this space IMO needs to be able to define specific sets of actions and allow agents to perform only the permitted actions.
A lot more people are credulous idiots than anyone wants to believe - and the confusion/misunderstanding is being actively propagated.
Related threads are just that, related threads. Although this particular one is what HN calls a 'quasidupe'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26135382
WITCH companies. Nuff said.
MDMA can be addictive, though usually on people who are dealing various issues that, like alcohol, can mask or suppress "bad" feelings. It pumps up the serotonin levels and people can definitely get addicted to that (the same way shopaholics are addicted to the temporary dopamine hits they get when they buy something new).

MDMA (and other drugs that fall under the psychedelic umbrella like magic mushrooms or LSD) has has shown some clinical success in dealing with trauma and other mental health issues, but only supervised and combined with professional help. Most people I know that have used MDMA/Ecstasy usually only stopped because the crash sucks as they didn't want to deal with it after. That's the main reason it was used for social gatherings like raves; it really helps eliminate social anxiety.
Is it not a glaring privacy and security hole that turned-off devices can still be located?

Maybe it's just me, but if I own an internet-connected device and I turn it off, I expect it to be off. That an iPhone's definition of "off" means "you can't use it but other random people's iPhones in the vicinity can still connect to and ping it" rubs me the wrong way.
Putting question aside, RISC-V is the answer.
> If AirTags stopped notifying users they're being tracked, then AirTags would also be meant for tracking people.

What?? That's like by not including a sound device that screams "look out, you're being murdered!" on every hammer when it's swung, manufacturers are saying their hammers are also intended for murder.

Now that Apple has this feature, sure, removing it might raise some eyebrows, but the theft tracking use-case is so obvious and useful that no judge would ever believe that Apple did this specifically to enable stalking.
Is that a "Sign up and install our binaries on your devices" service?

I prefer to not install additional software from 3rd parties on my devices.
This is the referenced stove company: https://www.impulselabs.com/

They put a battery in an induction stove. Because of that, it can boil 1L of water about 10x faster than a gas stove, among other things.

It's also a stealth way to distribute batteries and improve the grid.
Thanks! I hadn't heard of The Longevity Diet. Here's a review: https://www.verywellhealth.com/the-longevity-diet-plan-overv...

A summary of the diet from the review:

The longevity diet resembles a modified vegan diet in which certain seafood and small amounts of meat and dairy are allowed. It is as much a lifestyle as an eating plan and can be followed for an indefinite amount of time. The guidelines include following a five-day fasting-mimicking diet periodically throughout the year.
It’s just a fact it really changed my perspective. American as a people have a learned helplessness mostly because of wealth, when asked to do something they gripe about the boss making excuses and acting juvenile. Asians just do the thing.
Ghostty Is Native – So What?
> ...fascist.

Ad hominem comments are out-of-guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.
Quorum-sensing ain't just for bacteria.
That explanation meanders too much.
Bruh it's just predicting next token.
On the flip side, imagine the tremendous spiritual development possible to be unlocked by a generation undistracted by carnal desire.
> Do Apple and Google stop you from opening a web browser and navigating to any web site?

Apple kind of does, yes. They do let me use exactly one web browser.

On my old Symbian phone, I had the choice of the built-in WebKit browser, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, all with different rendering engines and their various advantages and downsides.

Now it's all WebKit frontends.

> That was how they planned to get a cut on everything you view on a phone.

Apple does get a cut of every web search I do, and I can't even use the search engine of my choice.

Not that I think the mobile phone operators and manufacturers of the early 2000s would be better custodians of user freedom on their devices, but I don't think it's correct to paint this as an unequivocal change for the better.

There was more design by committee back then (and the committees were as bureaucratic as it gets, just open any 3GPP or OMA specification and you'll never complain about anything W3C again), but there was also more pluralism of device design and UX aesthetics, and more than two implementations of everything, both by US companies sometimes struggling to empathize with users living in other countries and speaking other languages.
Also "Exotic", "Bestiary".
On-Call Oasis: Creating a Peaceful Experience, Especially During the Holidays
What your electric panel does
You'll have to ask the apple overlords to make and install by default the app you want then.
The off-but-still-on functionality can be turned off, and the OS does disclose that by default the device is still findable on the power off screen.
Previous discussion of same company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38910734
Ah, but machines can’t fail! So don’t worry, humans will still get to experience the ‘pleasure’. But won’t be able to learn/change anything.
That looks like an interesting approach.

Does it really need to be a giant application made from "Go, JavaScript,
TypeScript and Python"?

What does all that code do? Wouldn't a single PHP file that acts as the connection between the two devices be enough?
lol, yeah. 4 years ago it would have been "It's a Block Chain Company Now".
The title implies this works for humans but the article says "There is no evidence yet that taking lithocholic acid would have the same effect in humans."
They should put some famous, unsolved problems in the next edition so ML researchers do some actually useful work while they're "gaming" the benchmarks :)
No, it’s a pain in the ass to do this. It’s not fun at all. It’s more a kind of boosting that makes it fun. Just aimlessly coding is dumb to justify.
It is not. If you don’t want your device to participate, you ca elect not to enable Find My during setup. The vast majority of people would rather a their couldn’t just turn off a stolen phone and render it unlocatable.
How does that work woth your friends? Always on access or just occasionally?
If the constraint is that you don't want to install any software, there are a bunch of these web based AirDrop clones, besides the ones mentioned here are two more:

https://pairdrop.net/

https://snapdrop.net/

I've tried PairDrop, it works well.
Sadly, we live in a society where those executives would use that impunity as carte blanche to spend no money improving (in the best-case scenario,) or even more likely, keep cutting safety expenditures until the body counts get high enough for it to start damaging sales. If we’ve already given them a free pass, they will exploit it to the greatest possible extent to increase profit.
I don’t understand the wasm is flash argument. Flash was a closed runtime full of security issues. wasm is basically JavaScript stripped down to the absolute minimum (see asm.js) and then stripped down again - the browser controls all aspects of execution in the same way it controls js.