skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) We should get to continue doing what we did. It makes a lot of money and we want to keep doing it

2) If we listened to the court in full, well, that would be communism and the terrorists winning all-in-one, due to the court, in effect, "[designing] your online experience," which Google and only Google should get to do. Search is Google's exclusive domain (but not in a crazy monopolistic way!)

3) This landscape is highly dynamic. In only the last year, Google has completely ruined Google through the innovative use of AI. Would a hyper intelligent monopoly do that?! I think not

4) The REAL harm in this market? The pain the Court inflicts on Mozilla by attacking us, poor and/or expert Google. Mozilla is like a little baby. Think of the children (Mozilla)
The encryption isn't alleged to have been compromised. The app itself deals with a lot of untrusted input (eg, thumbnailing video files you've been sent) so there's a meaningful attack surface outside the protocol itself.
I am not joking. I am also uncomfortable accepting that humans will eventually not be the best creators of art enjoyed by humans.
I don't understand what YT Music is, but I listen to all my music for free on regular YT. Just download it, use an adblocker, or an alternative viewer. Any album I've ever sought is available usually in multiple versions.
If you used a naïve translation to Rust, wouldn’t you get parts that are safe and parts that are unsafe? So your manual job would need to be only verifying safety in the unsafe regions (same as when writing rust to begin with)?

Seems it would be a win even if the unsafe portion is quite large. Obviously not of it’s 90% of the end result.
nyt: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/technology/google-antitru...
I see.

I just used an online auto translator and on the register page, the first field asks for a code. Now, it also has a link* that says "Apply for a forum account for free, click here to get it." but when I click on it, I'm totally lost in translation.

* https://www.52pojie.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=103681&p...

Sorry for going totally off-topic on your thread here in HN.

Happy Winter Solstice!
Whatsapp is not still vulnerable to the hack (as far as we know) and SMS applications have had similar vulnerabilities in the past.
Just because they're rich doesn't mean that they can or will fund features like this if they can't justify the business case for it.

Amazon is a business and frugality is/was a core tenet. Just because they can put Alexa in front of LLMs and use GPU hours to power it doesn't mean that is the best reinvestment of their profits.

The idea of using LLMs for Alexa is so painfully obvious that people all the way from L3 to S Team will have considered it, and Amazon are already doing interesting R&D with genAI so we should assume that it isn't corporate inertia or malaise for why they haven't. The most feasible explanation from the outside is that it is not commercially viable especially "free" versus a subscription model. At least with Apple (and Siri is still painfully lacking) you are paying for it being locked into the Apple ecosystem and paying thousands for their hardware and paying eyewatering premiums for things like storage on the iPhone
Exactly this. Musicians do not have a choice but to engage with Spotify, but any hope that the discovery systems it offers will occasionally playlist their work in return is being cynically -- and secretly -- diluted with slop.
What is YT premium and why would you pay money to use YT? It's the best free service that still exists if you have an adblocker. A lot of content has baked in ads now, but you can skip or just view something else.

I've learned what Youtube Premium is: "YouTube and YouTube Music ad-free, offline, and in the background"

For me, that's nothing as I can already view with no ads, and download whatever I want.
Also perhaps a factor (with diminishing returns) for response speed?

All else equal, a student who gets 100% on a problem set in 10 minutes is more intelligent than one with the same score after 120 minutes. Likewise an LLM that can respond in 2 seconds is more impressive than one which responds in 30 seconds.
Why should we Mind The Gap ?

Saves on doing this all the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIQxrArMI7M
I can only imagine how many soul-searching meetings it took to decide to change the heart to the plus sign for liking songs.
The group exploited a bug in WhatsApp to deliver the spyware. It wasn't an E2E issue.

> A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platforms' (META.O), opens new tab WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing unauthorized surveillance.
To me the really gross bit is the dishonesty around the slop. Same track with multiple different names appearing under multiple different artist names is egregious. Classic corporate disregard for customers.
Doctors[1] or say pilots are skilled professions and difficult to master and deserve respect yes , but they do not need high levels of intelligence to be good at. They require many other skills like taking decisions under pressure or good motor skills that are hard, but not necessarily intelligence.

Also not knowing something is hardly a criteria , skilled humans focus on their areas of interest above most other knowledge and can be unaware of other subjects.

Fields medal winners for example may not be aware of most pop culture things doesn’t make them not able to do so, just not interested

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[1] most doctors including surgeons and many respected specialists, some doctors however do need that skills but those are specialized few and generally do know how to use email
Yes. And what the previous generation said about rock music.

Celebrities and “socialites” have been idolised for years - Paris Hilton certainly isn’t the doing of this generation, neither is Jackie Kennedy.

If you think that what we’re doing with mobile apps and social media is new, take a look at the 20th century a little harder.
Something something cruelty free music..?
The subtitle is revealing:

[We don't know how much birds kill the windmills so] "This makes it a weak argument against windmills"

"We don't know how much, so it may not happen, or is not so relevant as we think, but is repeated by ideology", is a nasty trick. Nice smoke curtain. Specially when is joined later with:

"it is true that all humanmade structures are technically bird killers, but..."

Either it happens, or it does not happen.

We aren't talking here about a sparrow crashing against a window. What we do know is that carcasses of big raptors, vultures, storks, other birds, and even bats can be found near the windmills basis often, in a distribution that is not aleatory.

Even if we never achieve to calculate an exact value (before the corpses are quietly removed by foxes or companies) we can identify that there is a problem here. As predators are scarce (by definition) and some are endangered, the impact on populations is not negligible.

Killing endangered species is illegal. It does not matter If is "just one" or "just a few" eagles.
Then don’t accept it. Because it is fundamentally untrue.
read the article, close the feedback loop with something verifiable (e.g. tests)
It says what but fail to explain the why. Some hypothesis in the comments about technology being the new 'drug' for teenager so they don't seek drugs, some other about how now everything is recorded so they can't go nuts, ... I don't buy it at all

For me it's just a cultural shift, it's no more cool to be that guy that smoke weed or is drunk. That's all.
Three years is a laughably short time to bind Google. It's about 1.2 generations of phone replacements for most people.
The dominant platform might eventually cut out the labels and afterwards earn their margins.

That's why (I assume, I'm not in the music biz) labels stay relevant for now, because they act or sell themselves to artists as some kind of union to protect them from draconian streaming services. But I might be totally wrong on this.
I don't know but a very close friend's x-wife died that way, coke laced with fent.
You are right about supermarkets charging for shelf space in various ways, and to add to that I think it's even worse. I've heard the supermarkets and other retailer dub certain brands for certain products as "category leaders" and basically give them control of the entire shelf space of their category, including that brand's competitors. Which products and varities get stocked, how much, and placement. That brand is then in charge of maximizing profitability of "its" section. I'm not sure how that isnt an antitrust problem, but...
Typically law enforcement was DIY, done by a mob, or done at the behest/in the interest of a local strongman (king or lord).

That led to extremely selective enforcement at the best of times.

The idea of a professional, independent force that served the public and preferred formal laws was the innovation.

Previously you’d need to either deal with it yourself, or track down a local patron and hope they cared enough to assign some muscle to deal with it on your behalf - and didn’t favor the perp more. Think ‘Godfather’. In those cases, written law was rarely a priority either.
Its not like this is that different than traditional "weapons" (i hate the "cyberweapons" analogy, but if the shoe fits).

Sell guns to governments, even unsavoury ones, it is very rare anything will happen to you except in pretty extreme cases. Sell guns to street gangs, well that is a different story. Like i don't think this situation is different because it is "hacking".
Lego Rolling Ball Clock
All labels are not the same.

Some really do function like unions: groups of artists sharing the functional/procedural/admin burden that comes with keeping their publishing as Saint Francis of Zappa advocated, or paying someone who cares (perhaps a small indie record shop owner) to do that for them as a side gig.

Some are little more than asset classes for private equity at this point.
A strong recommendation for the crafman, he's the Bob Ross of crafting.
Why do you think it is anything other than inevitable? You think that models cannot learn how to make music that humans will enjoy?
That's something like a statement of religious faith, or about "true communism" if only someone implemented it correctly.
I guess - yes from business&liability sense? ”This service you are now paying for 100$? We can sell it to you for 5$ but with the caveat _we give no guarantees if it works or is it fit for purpose_ - click here to accept”.
Spotify already directly publishes plenty of independent artists as far as I know.
i agree that we need a cooperative streaming platform. well, it already exists: https://resonate.coop/. please give it some love.

in addition, its original stream2own model allows you to automatically spend more on the artists you listen to more and even own (= stop paying for) and download the tracks you listened to at least 9 times. i think that it is a much fairer revenue-distribution model than “the big money pot” model used by spotify (and almost all other music streaming platforms out there) where people listening to the highest amount of tracks decide where other people’s money goes.
> a student who gets 100% on a problem set in 10 minutes is more intelligent than one with the same score after 120 minutes

According to my mathematical model, the faster student would have higher effectiveness, not necessarily higher intelligence. Resource consumption and speed are practical technological concerns, but they're irrelevant in a theorical conceptualization of intelligence.
Ahem we don't do that here. We get to market faster before our runway ends so we don't risk our exit.
> Option 3: A data mining exception which allows right holders to reserve their rights, underpinned by supporting measures on transparency

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-ar...

This seems to be the preferred model of the government. I hate the way "opt-out" has become the default. It feels like the result of the permissive "ask for forgiveness, not permission" model that's become the standard for digital stuff and I think it's fundamentally wrong, particularly here. It allows people to extract value from something someone else has made without their knowledge and without appropriate recompense.
what's not mentioned is the consequence of having expensive power.

the average UK consumer consumes 1/3 of the power consumed by a US consumer.

which makes the average UK energy consumption is equivalent to one of a low-middle income country.

energy consumption is heavily tied to prosperity.
"i hate that you do x" is perfectly normal, you're being weird.
The only thing worse is people who are judgemental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqX2aqXbwB0
I've had this... The Longhorn Steakhouse "kids menu" steak (not cheap) given to my kids was actually inedible.
Maybe but this shit is hard for institutions too. There are so many sharp edges.

Even in a well-respected fintech with responsible, talented people I’ve seen: safe deposit boxes get lost (literally no idea where in the world they actually are), go missing (the bank relocates or closes and disposes of them without notification) or become destroyed (fire, flood). I have seen industrial-grade hardware security modules spontaneously corrupt all the internal keys, happily continuing to produce “encrypted” output which can never be decrypted.

Building crypto offerings at scale that can survive the myriad unknown unknowns of real world and hardware failures that can affect both paper and hardware wallets is a really difficult problem. Not impossible, but the stakes are extreme and getting one thing wrong that leads to the loss of a cold wallet can easily lead to total ruin.

Even if “only” a hot wallet gets popped, the instantaneous and irrevocable loss of those funds needs to be offset by a comparatively large amount of operating profit.

At least with the traditional banking system there are a lot of safeguards in place.
Minute everything, improve your communication skills to be as terse and unambiguous as possible, when you are frustrated don't lash out but be factual, don't be alone talk to your peers asking them to tell you honestly if you are mis-perceiving something...
You are watering down “the best” here, IMO. This definition leads towards “the most efficient production”, not “the highest art”.

But sure, if you don’t care that a human isn’t involved in doing it. Personally it’s not negotiable to me and I think more people believe this than you might expect.
One person using a swimming pool means that another person cannot use that particular fraction of the same swimming pool at the same time.

Again, this does not apply to intellectual property, which is infinitely reproducible.
It made a big impression on me as a kid when visiting the telescope with my family. The exhibition outside taught me about Pluto's weird orbit and made me a Pluto fan.

I went there again with my own kids a couple of years ago and it was a bit disappointing. Not much to see. The solar system walk at the WSRT at Westerbork nearby is still cool.
Show HN: Director – A Framework for Building Video Agents
Hello HN!

I am super excited to share Director, an open-source agentic framework we’ve been working on that comes with pre-built video agents for tasks like spoken and vision search, editing, summarization, dubbing, video generation, and many more. For video tasks, it utilizes VideoDB’s “video-as-data” infrastructure, so you get instant streams.

A hosted version is available at https://chat.videodb.io. Feedback is appreciated, and PRs are always welcome

I’m really looking forward to seeing what agents you build and the use cases this unlocks!

- Ashish
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And when that hardware fails?

The problem with crypto is that every problem requires additional layers of complication which each have their own failure modes which then need to be further addressed. And the complication itself adds yet more ways to breed failure.

This is the fundamental challenge with a system where any mistake or error results in the instantaneous and irrevocable loss of unbounded funds.
MDMA has little addiction potential- for one it isn’t really just an unhealthy escape from negative feelings, but helps people process traumatic experiences and negative emotions by temporarily lowering anxiety and fear, and may be close to being FDA approved for that therapeutic purpose.

I have only tried it once, and it permanently eliminated my crippling social anxiety, by temporarily eliminating it, and allowing me to experience and remember what that was like. I felt no desire to use it again, because the (life changing positive) effect was permanent.

Second, it seems to have rapidly diminishing effects that make it self limiting- if sometime takes MDMA too much or too frequently, it stops having the desired effect.
How stupid it is... All you need is your personal code exec space - in home, on premise or in datacenter you choose to pay ! Working as "personal home pages" was imagined to work.

But nooooooo... Telcos do not give peoples good internet for decades. Then "your own ip" in home is beyaund luxury... But free storage space from Apple and Microsoft is free! LOL Then people thing FB is a "web page" ! :>> And then computers are outdates and everyone need to dedicate one hand to carry replacement. But then you learn that "smart" technology is outdated becouse it predates IBM PC and you realy realy shouldent send SMS ! :>>

So there wasn't build a infrastructure that even kids can use ! :>>

Telcos actions could be understood, obviously :)

But peoples in service, mainly spying, should have more care for not destroying
plain citizens life infra.

And elected people ? No constructive words.
If you are really sweating the problem, you are sweating only one problem.

But an organization usually has more than one problem that needs to be addressed concurrently, unless it wants to constantly be "fire fighting" problems that could have received partial attention earlier but instead have become emergencies.

So this guy is going to want to sweat more than one problem, which really just means doing a normal job of prioritizing things, but with more sweat. Just remove the L & B from WLB, permanently. Sort of like this boss imagines he does by writing emails at his family's events, but without the extreme upside potential afforded to executives.
you can also put (bird) stickers on them, so they see the window and they avoid it
> It's a quote from the 80s from the original author (who is a man...)...

Yes, that was pretty clear in the original comment (?)
Because it takes a lot of effort. Google Frama-C. On the flip side, it can express not just memory safety constraints, but also correctness proofs.

In this case it's not about Frama-C or similar tools though, see your sibling comments about the caveats.
Show HN: Shortcards – Mac keyboard shortcut cheatsheets for friends and family
Many people (including my close family) are not aware of the various useful screenshots macOS and its apps provide.
Often they are very surprised when I show them handy shortcuts like the one for deleting an entire line, or the one that starts a screen recording.

You can, of course, look up keyboard shortcuts in the menus and there are lots of shortcut cheat sheets on the internet. But I found none of them really appealing to nontechnical people.

So, last year, I designed my own shortcut cheat sheet. But instead of putting it all on a full-size letter sheet, I had the idea to print mini cheat sheets for various apps and topics in the size of business cards. That way, you can easily have one or two cards on your desk for the shortcuts you really need. I had these printed on cardboard paper and started giving them away to friends and family.

I think knowing your shortcuts really makes your life easier. Everybody should have their set of cheat sheet cards on their desk! But, of course, I can’t send a deck of cards to everybody.

As an app developer, I thought: What better way is there for us than creating an app with the shortcut cards?

The result is “Shortcards”, which is both a website and an app. You can simply look up and learn shortcuts on https://shortcards.app

And with the free native app, you get a handy reference directly on your Mac or iPhone. In the app, you can quickly search for shortcuts, conveniently filter by topic, and mark your most-used or high-priority cards as favorites for instant access.
It includes shortcuts for basic macOS system commands, Finder navigation, and text editing.
I do see it as inevitable that models will create the best of everything. I completely understand that some humans will choose to reject anything not created by a human.
> If I believe insurance is well-priced, the cost ought to be pretty close to the value it’s providing me

The value of insurance to the buyer depends on the buyer's wealth. The insurance the electronics store offers on the tablet I buy is well-priced for their target audience but not for someone with my emergency expense buffer.
We simply put up post it stickers where birds usually crashed in our windows. There's way less crashes and dead birds after that.

Think how many birds crash during a year, and how many houses and buildings with windows there are.

You can also buy bird stickers to put up.
Only if the features you accrue through the debt are worth anything.

Sometimes your product people aren't good. Sometimes the features aren't worth a damn.
The vast majority of people who will lose jobs to AI aren’t following AGI benchmarks, or even know what AGI is short for.
Same here. But for the time being, I can just click away the modal (don't click any of the buttons) and the video starts anyway. I assume that will change soon.
How is it harmful to customers?

You can listen to whatever you want on Spotify. It containing shit music that you will never listen to harms you in which way?

If people are genuinely listening to those tracks and are alright with it, how exactly are they harmed?

I already consider most contemporary pop music to be slop anyway, and people seem to be fine listening to it.
What's surprising about it?
Teens are attracted by things that are forbidden to them.
When you legalize drugs that falls off.
Also enough information is available nowadays that doesn't come from some finger waving "you you you" morality zealot, but actual real life examples.

For me at least the pull of cannabis and other drugs, never did real hard and addictive drugs like heroin, was that they were illegal and the effects weren't as bad as the lectures said they were.
So I thought what's true about cannabis is also true about cocaine, lsd, psilocybin, xtc etc, but I've seen enough movies about heroin addicts going to waste.
I was wrong about lsd and psilocybin and coke had no positive effect on me, except once I became Mr super cool monopoly player ans the other time I was full of energy, but I believe it was mixed with something other than coke.
LSD was very uncontrollable, the 1st time was great, simple laugh and dance, the next time was awful and I suffered from it for many years.
Psilocybin then, with friends cleared my mind and I was able to articulate myself and think clearly like never before.
Amphetamine, I'll never forget the sour smell, but essentially a useless drug, except to stay awake.
MDMA varying degrees of happiness and community.
But the worst drug was nicotine.
Useless, super addictive and really bad for your health. So hard to quit and it's everywhere and it's even worse now with all the e-cigarettes / vapes.
Nicotine is an epidemic that needs to be eradicated. It's pure evil.
what is an artist name, alias, etc. if not a fake name? should people be forced to put their government id name on display to be deemed real artists?

there are some genres in which making up artist names, even just for a one-off release, is almost the point and part of the fun of making music. should artists be forced to release music under one name exclusively as well?