skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “The reality is, if you are using your smartphone, if you’re posting on social media, you are violating your own privacy far more than anything that’s going to happen at an airport,” Jacobson said.

But, but, but ... I don't have a smartphone precisely because they violate my privacy, and HN is the closest I get to social media - in part because they haven't been using my PI in those privacy-destroying ways. (Right?)

So to me Jacobson is saying that most people are already far down the slippery slope, so the remaining few should be forced onto it.

> Merkley says if you don’t want to, you don’t have to.

Yeah, I opt out for the porno scanners too. I get anxiety attacks confronting authority, because the weight of the state is very powerful and I am a nobody.

This is saying that I should plan to never fly again.

Merkley's page at https://www.merkley.senate.gov/in-midst-of-busy-travel-seaso... links to his video at https://x.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1706380232414941412 showing how hard it is for anyone to know that 1) they are using facial recognition, and 2) that they have the right to opt-out.

What good is it being able to opt-out when you don't know that's an option, and when the TSA staff aren't appropriately trained (or trained to encourage you to not opt out)?

Oh, right - it's a fig leaf to say that it's all voluntary.

Just like having a smartphone is voluntary.
For a guy at least, you want to be handsome enough but not too handsome (don’t want to be a model, but the handsomest guy in the room), and tall enough that everybody has to look up to you, but not looming height. Then people just sort of assume you get whatever is going on if you nod and say “ok. Right. Good idea.” Which gives you enough time to look it up after the meeting is over.

The physical stats will give you a masters degree, looking it up after gets you the PhD.
Luigi and Uncle Ted both thought technology was evil, and preached about it to anyone who would hear but they were both censored and ignored, forcing them to violence to reclaim there tongues. They both knew that, as Euripides said many years before: 'This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.'
I can probably 'rgrep' my Archives folder (I'm using the maildir format, each email a text file).
It's surprisingly easy to find things the language and intrinsics don't allow you to express when you look closely enough at what the compiler is generating. I recently wrote code that uses inline assembly not to generate instructions, but to confuse the optimizer just enough that it stops breaking the correct instructions it's already generating.
> zero value to nearly everyone else

Well, except future historians who may find value in "personal" information (although I guess we've got such a surfeit of recorded "personal" information these days compared to even just 50 years ago, it may not be quite as useful as when they find, e.g., some Babylonian tablet with a shopping list on. But you never know!)
Lol, when I was 12-14 that is exactly what I tried to pull off... A early 20 something so people wouldn't kick me from the server/team lol
Anything involving real agents likely does get your local spymaster interested. I assume all good AI work attracts the three letter types to make sure that the researcher isn’t trying to make AI that can make bioweapons…
Would this be like an alternative to Delta? Am I thinking about that right?
HN often covers major news events, and wars fall into that category. Their impact is wide-ranging and of large import. I don't see an issue with the occasional HN coverage of it.

I could see an argument that this conflict might be getting a disproportionate amount of posts, because it seems to have aroused a lot of passion among some of the HN audience. Would Doctors Without Borders condemning Russia in Ukraine warrant a HN post? Don't know, probably not.
What do you mean by reactionary conservatism being a factor? "Reactionary conservatism" holds next to zero sway in academia. Do you mean reactionary conservatives are to partially to blame for academic institutional failure because they don't trust those institutions (left wing) product, when they should? Trust and respect are earned so you can only be wrong, dumb, and silly for so long before you lose it. I'm struggling to think of a single sociopolitical idea that has come out of academia recently that has been clearly positive. I can think of many negatives.
I created a local-only web app to wrap up some of my favorite web haunts, with HN being one of them. It allows me to look at the headlines, and save any of them in a locale SQLite db that the app maintains.

https://i.postimg.cc/v8znk92x/ycomb-hn.png.
My issue is that 2<3 and for most people they will just assume its older/shittier S3 lol
For the same reason Twitter, Facebook and other anti-social media companies fired there Trust and Safety teams. The parasitic elite can't trust hoomans to not turn on them and promote sites and ideas that they consider dangerous to there rule. This is the reason A.I. has risen in prominence, and is clearly biased when talking about the class war.
When I was a student we had a Facebook group to share information, and one angry guy ranted that the correct shortening of "Mathematical Analysis" is not, in fact, "anal", as we were used to say
So is this a "serverless" named-pipe-as-a-service cloud offering? Or am I misreading?
Another article about it:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/u-s-senators-call-out-automoti...
I like your gallows humor on behalf of us mere humans!
Very cool, I am surprised how it loaded so fast!
They can but generally that includes any Javascript on the same page which sometimes does funny stuff when you open it up offline or after the remote server goes away.
Genes play a huge role in individual variability of outcomes, whether it's leanness or obesity, strength, cardio/fitness, academic ability etc.

An example I like to give is, my junior high school had an annual writing competition. The winners were so far ahead in terms of ability ,which was evident when they read their stories aloud , that such ability had to have been divined in some way. There is no way you can be competitive when some have such a huge head start due to genes.
Dude i remember that game it was so fun to wander around. One of the best memories of my childhood
Citation needed on claims of poor people opposing drug legalization. I can show you stats from Oregon showing that poor people overwhelmingly support, and still support, the bulk of our legalization efforts (I.e legal shrooms and legal weed)
Haha, you just reminded me about replacing motherboard CR battery. Recently I was fixing over five years old computer, noticed the battery and thought "What does it do, I wonder if it works, perhaps I should replace it?".
It would be nice if the public could see the data/images directly in real time, not this curated drivel they feed us.
Hookcn: Open-source react hooks inspired by shadcn/UI
>The problem with these AI generated 'realistic photojournalist' images is that they erode the belief in these images as being factual representations of real world events.

That isn't the problem. The problem is people will believe inherently that they are factual representations, because there will be no non-AI mediated sources of truth available, Or worse, people simply won't care, since the concept of "objective reality" simply doesn't exist in a post-truth culture.
You don't think there are already plenty of attempts out there?

When someone is "disinterested enough" to publish though, note the obvious way to launch a new fund or advisor with a good track record: crank out a pile of them, run them one or two years, discard the many losers and publish the one or two top winners. I.E. first you should be suspicious of why it's being published, then of how selected that result is.
I was addicted to, of all things, text MUDs, when I was younger. It's ditch weed compared to what you can get now.
Correct. About 18 milliseconds of time dilation per day assuming 690,000 km/h - 430,000 mph.
Funny you mention that because mini-moonbitlang seems to be using libriscv!

https://github.com/moonbitlang/minimoonbit-public

So, maybe not the official compiler but something else is already using it?
It looks neat but, no Java SDK? Every company I've personally worked at is deeply reliant on Spring or the vanilla clients to produce/consume to Kafka 90% of the time. This kind of precludes even a casual PoC.
Why sea level rise is skyrocketing across the U.S. South
overbearing ,inattentive, stubbornness .why are parents immune to the same negative personalities seen in everywhere else in life or at work. A good parent should be like a friend; many fail to meet even that level, let alone rise to the level of family.
This is a really good idea, beautiful API, and something that I would like to use for my projects. However I have zero confidence that this startup would last very long in its current form. If it's successful, AWS will build a better and cheaper in-house version. It's just as likely to fail to get traction.

If this had been released instead as a Papertrail-like end-user product with dashboards, etc. instead of a "cloud primitive" API so closely tied to AWS, it would make a lot more sense. Add the ability to bring my own S3-Compatible backend (such as Digital Ocean Spaces), and boom, you have a fantastic, durable, cloud-agnostic product.
Hypermode Knowledge Graph and AI Challenge
Not true, I just disagree with you. The events in Germany are just the most recent example of my position (and that of the winning candidate and voters in the most recent US election) on opposing immigration and supporting remigration and deportation being the correct and moral position, as opposed to the left wing position of mass immigration and open borders in western countries being immoral.
I don't think we've hit overdiagnosed, I think we've massively underestimated how many sufferers there are. But assuming you're right, so what?

There's an argument to be made that getting the diagnosis right for kids is imperative because the medication is essentially impressed upon them but for adults, who cares? They're not cheap, the side effects are kinda awful, it's annoying to get the dosing right so you don't build up a tolerance, you have to go to a doctor every time you need your rx renewed. If someone without adhd is going through all that because stimulants help then power to 'em I guess. There's not really a downside, stimulants at the doses prescribed for adhd aren't life ruining.
Seems to be a node-based LLM-powered "computer". IMO the paradigm seems quite powerful.

The video on their homepage gives a good idea of how it will work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1016UnJIgA

My only refrain would be that it uses Google's Gemini, a very poor choice of an AI model collection.
So is art itself. AI art is the ultimate fuck you to the IP/Copyright crowd, and the fact that the supposedly left wing artists are turning into Luddite copyright trolls at the moment that their field becomes opened to the masses tells me that most folks who purport to hold left wing sympathies actually don’t. I always knew that the performative leftism thing was bullshit. RMS, Aaron Swartz, huggingface and mistral are far more liberatory than 50 years of Marxist artists wasting our time with empty claims of liberation

Never ever claim to support the poor if you get butthurt at the idea that poor people can now access tools to create beautiful art. And if your first thought is to take shots at me for claiming that “Ai art can be beautiful”, you’re part of the problem!!!
I've _lost_ several AirTags, because I couldn't be bothered to manage their battery life and I no longer have any idea where they are…
This comes up occasionally and while it’s 100% true FOSS doesn’t mean you can’t get paid, any sufficiently big project is going to get folks repackaging it without the payment component.

A good example is for-sale Wordpress plugins. There are entire sites/communities for using the FOSS license to take those for-sale plugins and redistributing them for free. The RedHat debacle is another example although with some more nuance. Standard Notes had a similar situation.

It looks like the FUTO license is trying to prevent someone from stripping the payment features and redistributing. Personally I prefer when folks use a FOSS license but I think the “you can get paid for FOSS” argument is overly optimistic.
The Destructive Legacy of Failed Aquaculture
Thanks for your reply. You make a much stronger case than I would have expected. Sounds like we need to let the hunters take down more deer!
I'm using fastmail, but mostly for the reputation. I have a cron script that fetches mail every 5 minutes locally with mbsync (I view them with notmuch and emacs). Backup is done alongside my other files.
Perhaps the component parts are different?
Predator sounds dramatic, but there really isn't much non-microscopic life in the oceans that isn't predatorial. Large herbivores are land-evolved.
This is awesome—nice job! It was so cool to see when I started running and what year I started to get injured :/
> Nixon/Ford/Carter price and allocation controls on gasoline...long lines in some states and gluts in others.
> Reagan ended it on day one with an Executive Order to repeal the controls. The lines disappeared overnight and never returned.

We had lines in 73 following OPEC's response to western involvement in Yom Kippur war. We had lines again in 79 when Iran's oil dropped out of the market. I can't recall gas lines (or reports thereof) during the intervening time. Searching didn't turn anything up.

(Anecdotally, I hung out with the Jan-Feb 1979 tractorcade. They came in from all over. Fuel prices were a concern but not availability.)

The latter spurred conservation. 1979's sharp oil price increases peaked in July 1980. Oil prices then began a long and steady fall, until the precipitous fall in Dec 1985.

Gas prices increase sharply in 1979, again in 1980 and again in 1981. In 1982 they drop to the highs that were set in 1980 and stay there, untethered to continually dropping oil prices. Until 1986, anyway.
Agreed. Many things in this video smell like he’s not thinking clearly about his situation despite being presented as well reasoned.
Yep. Just tack "serverless" onto something that already exists and charge for it
Aloha! Indeed, the language is being cleaved by such oversights. You can be in charge of overlooking this issue, effective ahead of two weeks from now. We'll peruse your results and impassionately sanction anything you call out (at least when it's unravelable). This endeavor should prove invaluable. Aloha!
wall isnt necessary just need the police, security guards and legislation to chase out / make homeless miserable.
In my experience, ChatGPT4 has been able to do this very accurately for >1 year now. Gemini also seems to perform well.
Anyone can be a journalist, so the requirement should be that all of us have our human rights protected by criminalizing this heinous behavior.
And it's worth remembering that the company that changed it all was Apple.

They were the first[1] to ship a "real" web browser on a phone, and they were large enough to bully carriers into submissions and force them to provide them a raw data pipe, no "special" services.

When people at RIM (AKA Blackberry) saw this, they were outraged, as no carrier would ever let them get away with that. Their solution had to be far more integrated with carrier infrastructure, it was very far from Apple's "just let us do TCP/IP and we will handle the rest" approach.

[1] At least for "real" consumers, there was probably a way to get one on some phone somewhere before that, but it was obscure enough that nobody really did.

[2] source: Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry: 9781250096067: McNish, Jacquie, Silcoff, Sean
(Founder) we do intend to be multi-cloud, we are just starting with AWS. Our internal architecture is not tied to AWS, it's interfaces that we can implement for other cloud systems.
You can't self-publish on Spotify, you have to go through a distributor like DistroKid. Not sure how this works with YouTube Music though, I guess for actual music (sans video) you have to use a distributor as well.
Anyone has a right to be a journalist. This right shall not be abrogated by any state.
a risc-v could be more sensible. Rockchip 3588 is not open source anymore

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/21/rockchip-rk3588-main...
> Instead, all humans and AI aligned with the goal of improving the human condition

I admire your optimism about the goals of all humans, but evidence tends to point to this not being the goal of all (or even most) humans, much less the people who control the AIs.
History of a PKMS that is 48 years old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1TrbI0BaaU
For saving a webpage you have open, I use a browser extension called SingleFile, I've been using it for a while (IIRC I discovered it on HN's front page a few years ago), in my experience it "just works", works really well.

You click the "browser action" icon/button of the extension and it saves a single HTML file that looks exactly like the webpage you have open.

From its FAQ[1] on GitHub:

# What does SingleFile do?
SingleFile is a browser extension designed to help users save web pages as complete, self-contained files. The extension's primary function is to capture an entire web page, including its HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, and other resources, and package them into a single HTML file.

# I am a web archivist, is it ok to use SingleFile to archive content?
No, SingleFile is not a tool used by professionals to archive content on the Web, especially in the academic field. Professionals prefer to rely on tools based on the WARC specification instead.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/faq...
iOS only. Looks interesting
(Founder) Named pipe that operates at the level of records, is durable regionally, you can read from any sequence, and lets you do concurrency control for writes if you need to.
Dang doesn’t buy that anything ever actually happens here (just like the meme). I’m pretty sure dang is deeply associated with the IC.
Wake words are different from "listen to everyhing until name is called". A wake work is needed for both privacy and technical reasons -- you can't just have alexa beaming everything it hears to amazon. So instead it uses a local lightweight "dumb" system to listen to specific words only.

That's exactly why there's massive latencies between command recognition, processing, and execution.

Imagine if it had sub-ms response to "assistant, add uuh eggs and milk to the shopping list... actually no just eggs sorry"
Wow, that’s an insane challenge. I can’t believe that’s even possible.
Yes. Sometimes when I'm doing research into recent history of why certain technical decisions were made, and the arguments for or against, I find archive.org invaluable for piecing a line of thought back then. Recently, this was to look up what the debate between React's Functional components vs Signals was.

Also, it's helpful to get perspective on the attitudes for or against a new technology in recent history. I remembered there were people that said "If you aren't writing a kernel, you don't have their problems, so you don't need git." Turns out that's not true. Now that git is everywhere, it's harder to remember whether or even if there was pushback against it.

This was written about the insights from using git that he needed to highlight to people back then. https://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter/

I often reference it, and if it wasn't still up, I'd have only web archive to rely on.

So for me, lots of stuff I look at online (mainly blog posts) are worth saving. Sometimes, if the discussion is on a twitter thread, that too. Which makes me fear for the day Microsoft decides to do Github in, and we'd lose all the issues and comments.
The thing is, extrajudicial murder justified by labeling the victim “terrorist” is illegal and should not be accepted in a free and open society.

The ‘terrorist’ label was invented as a means of abrogating human rights by governments who felt they were encumbered by the obligation to protect human rights. “Terrorist” labeling is a totalitarian-authoritarian apparatus to avoid culpability for its actions when a government decides the easiest solution to its problem is outright murder.
ran on a depreciated 2013 chromebook. impressive
I hit the paywall. What does it say are the reasons? Illegal immigration? Job availability (if so public or private)? Return to office mandates? Something else?
Suppose it is a dll that has exported functions returning or accepting unsafe strings. No way to make it safe without changing the API.
Title is missing a “to” between “way” and “finance”.

It makes a bunch of assumptions in the first paragraph that just aren’t true.
My first thought: "introducing? The S2 has been out for a while!"

https://www.sunlu.com/products/new-version-sunlu-filadryer-s...
Maybe a JIT? Especially one that can poke back into the runtime (like dotnet).
As I said, I agree, it's just that it's become really inconvenient to stay private.
Just completed a LC-3 interpreter emulator and tried to wrap my head around dynamic recompilation into x64 code. Still couldn't figure out how to deal with indirect jump as it can potentially jump to every memory address so maybe I'll just map every target instruction to a block of translated code.
I think the answer to this question _should_ be blogrolls, as in, you discover new feeds from the feeds you already like. We lost that when social media absorbed the social graph, but blogs and feeds are in vogue again.

I built a site around programmatic blogrolls (sites that publish an OPML file of their recommendations using a specific format). I collected a bunch of initial subscription lists[1], which are curated lists, "planets", and web rings. The I spider out from there. The aggregate list is too diverse, and definitely has some low quality content, but connections between blogs are useful for discovery [2].

[1] https://github.com/robalexdev/rss-blogroll-network/blob/main...

[2] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-ff6cc...
It's the same in business, and in family matters too.
Very few companies’ work results in outright murder of the targeted victims.

If you know of any other cyber criminal organizations like the NSO, where governments use their tools to select and murder targets, please describe them.
>> And before that you kinda sorta had ASCII graphics, sometimes with color, sent over direct modem connections to your local BBS.

Brings back fond memories playing Trade Wars 2002 on a favorite BBS.
This isn't a new phenomenon though.

Gen-X felt the same way. The entire youth culture at the time was based around the vibe that the culture sucked and there wasn't a future worth having for younger people. Apathy was the youth cultural vibe of the day.

Then again with older millenials it happened with the great financial crisis. There was a widespread feeling of hopelessness about the future. Outsourcing and trade liberalization (the AI-like job crusher of that period) left the future job market uncertain.

I think what's new now is social media and persistent phones. If you're feeling anxiety about the future you don't escape into wild parties, you escape into your phone and videogames.
God those content screenshots contain so much reactionary BS.
What other nation besides the USA and its 5-eyes lackeys willfully murders children almost every day in their own ‘self defense’? Got a list of states that murder more people than the USA/5-eyes and Israel right now?