skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, makes sense... Something like 20 years ago I experimented with encoder/decoder models for lossy images compression and it worked very well, but it's a completely different domain indeed, where there aren't single local concentration of entropy that messes with the whole result.
Keep in mind too, for a lot of people pushing this stuff, there's an essentially religious motivation that's more important to them than money. They truly think it's incumbent on them to build God in the form of an AI superintelligence, and they truly think that's where this path leads.

Yet another reminder that there are plenty of very smart people who are, simultaneously, very stupid.
Cool as hell!
thank you!:)
Imagine a country extraditing their app developer to the EU of all place lmao.
Wikis seem to be particularly vulnerable with all their public "what connects here" pages and revision history.

The internet is now a hostile environment, a rapacious land grab with no restraint whatsoever.
Great work! Can I chip in to support archiving unrolled threads to the Internet Archive and archive.today (it’s a trivial HTTP request to do so)? I asked threadreaderapp.com for this to radio silence.
Very cool! I’ve added the following as a redirect in Kagi:

^https://(www\.)?reuters\.com|https://neuters.de
They are able to do this via what's called a bypass network.
> Without high prices in the US, European governments can't negotiate for the same lower prices.

This sounds like total Copium. It is also remarkably anti-market, suggesting that negotiating well is actually bad.

I could invent similar argument for why it is people in the global south that deserve credit for democracy in the west. Or for anything really:

The problem with western democracy is that it is contingent on the Global south being totalitarian and penniless. Without cheap raw materials from the non-west, western governments can’t maintain the high standards of living required for a stable democracy.
I'm playing a human warlock with a Genie patron...so yes, I always have a lamp ha
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42511812
I've had just outstanding success with "view source" and grab the "on success" parameter out of the form. Some sites are bright enough to do real server-side work first, and some other sites will email the link, but I'd guess it's easily 75/25 for ones that include the link in the original page body, as does this one:

,after_submitting: 'https://spg.openkg.cn/en-US/download?token=0a735e9a-72ea-11ee-b962-0242ac120002'

https://mdn.alipayobjects.com/huamei_xgb3qj/afts/file/A*6gpq...
And there's the wild vs farmed issue. And then it matters which waters they're in, and feed their given etc.
The Eonic Prize for Transcendent Intelligence
I accept that I overlooked your distinction here. You are right that there's no recursive blocking with email.

But I also think that's an oversimplification, because the block list is a helpful proxy for content characteristic of an instance.

But this is a case where I think the analogy to email breaks down insofar as its instructive to social media generally, because some things about email don't cleanly map on to what federated instances are managing. It makes sense that you would want to block instances and their enablers, to connect to an ecosystem consistent with the intentions of a particular instance.

As parent commenter said you can use a general purpose provider (with email) or general purpose instance (with Mastodon), so you are accessing the fediverse. The only thing you are "missing out" on is the ability to make it compulsory for other users to listen to you against their consent.
I recall someone using one of the image generation models for pretty impressive (lossy) compression as well -- I wonder if AI data compression/inflation will be a viable concept in the future; the cost of inference right now is high, but it feels similar to the way cryptographic functions were more expensive before they got universal hardware acceleration.
If you optimise for people from a lower socio-economic background, you get a broad mix of other demographics.
This is the crux.

Rich people in Europe have "noblesse oblige". Yes you have to pay for your neighbour who is on welfare and a drug addict. Deal with it.
In the US (YMMV) there's a distinction in advertising between exaggeration for effect, like "this expensive cream will make you beautiful", and straight up falsification like "we can detect all guns everywhere" when you demonstrably can't.
intent is likely very important to something like a ddos charge
I suppose you are making a point about hypocrisy. Yes, I use GenAI products. No, I do not agree with how they have been trained. There is nothing individuals can do about the moral crimes of huge companies. It's not like refusing to use a free Meta LLama model constitutes as voting with your dollars.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42537526
Operations that are important, but take a single cycle.
That's right, getting DDOSed is a skill issue. Just have infinite capacity.
The problem is that not everyone hates the current system. Doctors in the US are paid exceptionally well because the system limits their supply. They can admit the system is horrible while also benefitting themselves. Healthcare is 17% of US GDP so there are huge incentives to not change anything from the people collecting that money.
It's not accurate to say that his views are not represented by mainstream Israeli citizens. Most Israelis think the attack on Gaza has either been justified or not gone far enough! Israeli leadership very much represents the views of the majority in Israel (and Zionists outside of Israel).

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-...
Show HN: I Created a UptimeRobot for AI Voice Agents
Hi HN, recently I spent quite some time building phone-based AI voice agents. Before every customer meeting, I found myself calling the AI agent to verify it was still "alive". I have some friends working in the call-center/voice-agent space and they told me they had the same issues. So I decided to build a tool to monitor my AI agents.
And since I have the problem and my friends have it, I thought why not build a tool everyone can use.

I would really appreciate any feedback! It works pretty well, but I still have to make it more robust. Also, I have no idea yet how to best monetize it.
If I get some traction/encouraging feedback, I'll add feature tests (e.g., can you still make a reservation, can the agent deal with noise, etc.).

The UX is heavily inspired by https://uptimerobot.com/ and https://supabase.com/

Here is some behind the scenes on I coded that in only one week: https://www.callgeist.com/about

(tech: OpenAI-Realtime-API, Supabase, Next.js 15, Twilio, React, TypeScript, shadcn)

PS: Part of this project is to showcase my work, as I'm currently looking for new opportunities (please see my HN profile.
Why would the law-abiding people of Alberta become violent criminals just because they gained American citizenship?

And why would the US's existing violent criminals move to Alberta?

Violent crime in the US is not evenly distributed.
>local inference hardware (NPU on Arm SoC).

Okay the battle is already lost from the beginning.
But what is an example of this in a game? How would this come up in a way that you'd feel uncomfortable with? I'm just struggling to see concretely what this would look like.

Examples elsewhere in this comment section like eg sexual assault I can easily see how that would both come up in a game and interact with player experience to make them uncomfortable in a way they may not want to have to explain in the middle of a session.
The same applies to books - even if you bought a public domain book like Alice in Wonderland, you could be sued if you make a scan. The typesetting and layout is copyrightable.
I think you're trying to force a narrative that doesn't really fit. This change isn't in response to "everything is woke now", it's in response to people playing with strangers more.
Claim denial isnt about (mostly) fraud prevention. It is about cost control.

Doctors and patients have no incentive to control cost and select cheaper and inferior treatments.
Ignoring Warnings, a Growing Band of Tourists Venture to Afghanistan
I mean you can guess that might have happened, but I can't imagine a weak president like Carter saying "Tear down that wall" or calling USSR the evil empire.
Quick everyone we need to call a board meeting about our plummeting profits.
Who is to blame for this? Oh the kids. They need to buy more frosted flakes and and watch more you tube shorts. These kids today only want to eat the rich.

If these people really gave a shit they would be going after the systems of these platforms. We have no issue bailing out bankers when they fuck up but ask them to be accountable for the systems that erode society well well well.
I am fairly certain that Dr. Hipp has discussed changes in SQLite that were desired by Microsoft for integration into Windows, which came to pass via a foundation membership.

I believe that this was mentioned in the video below (I am not able to verify for now):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk

It would be interesting to see what is required for an organization to negotiate non-trivial changes in SQLite.
https://archive.ph/lvwDV
I'm not quite sure about that — a lot of other countries have those sort of warning labels on foods or a comparison of the nutrition facts with healthier foods, and I'm not sure how much of an impact that label would end up having. I think it would be like the prop 65 stickers in California — it ends up becoming so ubiquitous it's effectively meaningless. I got a new espresso maker with a prop 65 label on it but am just ignoring it since I doubt it's actually leaching lead into my coffee despite the label saying it will.
VitePress
I hold no prejudice against the 'soft sciences', or for literature, or for music, or for athletics or for any other human pursuit which demands merit.

I am genuinely curious as to how best to present the evidence. What would you like to see to tame your skeptic?
I love (hate) the idea of a site where you need to send a personal email to the webmaster to be whitelisted.
> He told The Times that ATSC had been dealing with doubters for ten years and that the device was merely being criticised because of its "primitive" appearance. He said: "We are working on a new model that has flashing lights".

Damn, why am I not a scam artist? This worked so well for so long. If he put $20 of random electronics and tiny glass tubes of chemicals in there I think he could've gotten away with it.
It's you again! Hi. We talked about capabilities a while back.

> I am not sure yet how to handle this in a suitable way within a process

If this is about implementing capabilities, I think partitioned capabilities should be the default.

> Some of this is just the problem with POSIX in general. I did consider such problems (of file descriptors and of event handling)

Yes, I think the kernel is trying to do too much. The more micro/exokernel it is, the better, IMO. Doesn't reduce (essential) complexity, but gives programmers the flexibility to tackle it how they want.

I'm also curious how you're thinking of doing event handling in general, like D-Bus or something. I think IPC is best left as a point-to-point bare bones communication channel, but even then it's pretty complex as the central load-bearing construct. For events, I expect there would be a lot of shared memory usage. It would use centralized services and/or userspace-defined capabilities to restrict who can receive certain events. I'm not too concerned since it's more of a userspace concern, unlike IPC.
I am certainly not obliged to believe a statement presented without proof. The first few I looked up were Jewish, all of them. Certainly not what one would expect if the majority were Christian.
> now every time someone searches for your site they will be taken straight to competitors

There are non-LLM forms of distribution, including traditional web search and human word of mouth. For some niche websites, a reduction in LLM-search users could be considered a positive community filter. If LLM scraper bots agree to follow longstanding robots.txt protocols, they can join the community of civilized internet participants.
Obviously the ideal strategy is to perform a reverse timeout attack instead of blocking.

If the bots are accessing your website sequentially, then delaying a response will slow the bot down. If they are accessing your website in parallel, then delaying a response will increase memory usage on their end.

The key to this attack is to figure out the timeout the bot is using. Your server will need to slowly ramp up the delay until the connection is reset by the client, then you reduce the delay just enough to make sure you do not hit the timeout. Of course your honey pot server will have to be super lightweight and return simple redirect responses to a new resource, so that the bot is expending more resources per connection than you do, possibly all the way until the bot crashes.
> audio recordings

Recordings are copyrightable even if the underlying music is public domain. If you record a performance of Mozart's 40th symphony on your phone, you can be sued for copyright violations by the concert hall. (Don't be surprised that concert halls perform for more than just the attendees.)
I certainly don't think transcribing an old piece should mean that you now own the piece for the next 160 years.
Can someone point out the authors robots.txt where the offense is taking place?

I’m just seeing:
https://pod.geraspora.de/robots.txt

Which allows all user agents.

*The discourse server does not disallow the offending bots mentioned in their post:

https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/robots.txt

Nor does the wiki:

https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/robots.txt

No robots.txt at all on the homepage:

https://diasporafoundation.org/robots.txt
What happened to captcha? Surely it's easy to recognize their patterns. It shouldn't be difficult to send gzipped patterned "noise" as well.
The zeroth iPhone only played music btw
The prices charged for imaging have basically no relation to the equipment cost.

It's likely the other way around from what you are saying, with limits to market entry enabling the existing facilities to charge more than the efficient price for the service.
Being an expert doesn't mean you are "practicing medicine". Suppose the medical standard is "you must examine the patient in person when creating a treatment plan."

We're going to apply that to some insurance job function operating outside standard medical practice how exactly?
Nextra
You commented before reading...Unless the author updated the blog in the meanwhile.
Because point 6 says: "Instead, SQLite is in the public domain, which means it has even fewer restrictions than any open source license."
They don't own the piece. Anyone is allowed to transcribe the old piece for themselves, and then own the transcription they created.
The very first element in TFA is a link to zombo.com.
It would cost you more than it costs them. And there is enough low IQ stuff from humans that they already do tons of data cleaning.
I remember a long long time ago people used Filemaker Pro for all sorts of small data driven applications. I used to think stuff like that would be the future of computing, but instead Filemaker Pro faded into obscurity and most people just use Excel for those kinds of problems now. Or worse, the problem is solved in a clunky and fragile way with outrageously expensive Peoplesoft/Workday/Salesforce type solutions.
The people in these talks go quite a bit further than just BLE packet TX/RX (which you can do with the documentation on most chips). In theory this work allows implementing a totally different protocol.
On a side note. CGTalk ( One of the largest forum for 3D / VFX Content creation ) was shut down earlier this year citing resources reasons. And for whatever reason they didn't allow anyone to take a copy of the data, run the forum. They could have sold that Data to OpenAI.

I wonder how many Forums shut down due to traffics like this? Most of the reason why forums moved to Slack, Discord etc was that they no longer have to host or operate any server.
Why not S3 presigned URLs? It's already baked into the service anyways.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/ShareO...
Mr Smith: Framework for creating scaffolds for any existing programming language
Same difference. It makes 0 sense that they own anything played based on the transcription for 160 years.
I'm not sure what the relevant law is but a lot of packaged foods here (Germany) have nutrition scores A-E displayed prominently on the front corner. Apparently it's relative to a category, so they don't end up with E on all frozen pizzas and A on all frozen veggies, but can actually be used to see which frozen pizza is healthier.
DDOS is different from crashing.

And I doubt Facebook implemented something that actually saturates the network, usually a scraper implements a limit on concurrent connections and often also a delay between connections (e.g. max 10 concurrent, 100ms delay).

Chances are the website operator implemented a webserver with terrible RAM efficiency that runs out of RAM and crashes after 10 concurrent requests, or that saturates the CPU from simple requests, or something like that.
I see a lot of traffic I can tell are bots based on the URL patterns they access. They do not include the "bot" user agent, and often use residential IP pools.
I haven't found an easy way to block them. They nearly took out my site a few days ago too.
Legally, it doesn't - there's no way that whatever the last owner has agreed to is binding, but the functionality will continue to run regardless.
Git – Beyond the Basics
The piano thing is basically nonsense, but you're in the right general area.

The copyright may have elapsed on the original composition, but a specific arrangement of a public domain composition may be entitled to copyright protection as a derivative work. For example, the song "Scarborough Fair" pre-dates the modern concept of copyright, but Simon & Garfunkel's performance of the song contains novel elements that are subject to copyright.

(see article 802.6) https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap800/ch800-performing-art...
>Obelisks form their own phylogenetic group without detectable similarity to known biological agents.

ababaian, does this truly mean no similarity to any other sequences, even virus/viroid?

That seems very exciting, since my understanding is that we see a lot of conservation within the known branches of life, and don't discover new ones often!

Though perhaps it's more common to find totally novel virus/viroids? How often do we find truly novel biological agents at the sequence level?
At a startup where I worked many years ago, they trained a model to take the image and screen size as the input and it would output the JPG compression level to use so that the image appears the same to people. It worked exceedingly well that a major software company offered to acquire the startup just for that. Alas, the founders were too ambitious/greedy and said no. It all burned down.
A sitting president is more often than not going to lose in the mid-terms. Unless Trump has a positive approval rating going into mid-terms, he definitely loses the House (and I doubt he will positive after his first month).
The most limiting is our own imaginations.
For the nuts and bolts: a class of really engaged and brilliant students at UofT recently documented the tools and methodology to go about characterizing Obelisks [https://github.com/ababaian/VIRUSxDISCVRY].
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20592811
I feel like some verified identity mechanisms is going to be needed to keep internet usable. With the amount of tracking I doubt my internet activity is anonymous anyway and all the downsides of not having verified actors is destroying the network.
How Well Do LLMs Generate Code for Different Application Domains?
No normal person has a chance against the capacity of a company like Facebook
How can YT possibly arbitrate who transcribed/arranged a piece of classical music?
Every time I vote (in three countries) I help select the people who have the proposals to actually solve, or at least mitigate, the problems that affect my society. Every time I pay taxes I help finance those programs. That’s not my speciality though, and I won’t pretend I’m helping when I propose something that’ll have negligible impact in the overall picture.
It's rather simple actually: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Authent..., no crypto involved
Spite is a legitimate reason to choose a pronunciation.
Also, if you go into that data a total of 260 Students were fatally wounded by a firearm from 1970 to 2022 during the school day.

If this is accurate, the odds of being fatally shot as a student during school hours is extremely low, about 1 in 10,000,000 over the span of this data collection. Higher odds than winning a powerball jackpot, but, in context, an extremely rare event.

It wouldn't be a stretch to hypothesize that the administrators forcing students through metal detectors, doing active shooter drills, etc, are doing more net harm than the thing that they are attempting to defend against (as a purely utilitarian calculation).
What do you use to block them?
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can you clarify please.

Are you blaming the Greeks for Imperialism? Maybe referencing Alexander the Great era when they conquered Persia? Perhaps pushing the blame for Iran even further back?
It's already started. China sees Russia's annexation of Outer Manchuria as a great historical wrong:

https://lansinginstitute.org/2024/02/16/chinas-global-triump...

China has reverted to using Chinese place names for cities and regions in the Far East. e.g. "Vladivostok" is now officially "Haishenwai":

https://cepa.org/article/goodbye-vladivostok-hello-haishenwa...

https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/china-eyes-russias-far-east-re...

Russia is in demographic decline. China simply has more people to throw at the problem, even amid it's own demographic decline:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/russia-tomorr...

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-population-drop-2046-worst-c...

Killing off even more Russians in a pointless war of choice in Ukraine isn't helping matters.
Yeah, this is the sort of thing that a caching and rate limiting load balancer (e.g. nginx) could very trivially mitigate. Just add a request limit bucket based on the meta User Agent allowing at most 1 qps or whatever (tune to 20% of your backend capacity), returning 429 when exceeded.

Of course Cloudflare can do all of this for you, and they functionally have unlimited capacity.
I have thought about writing such a thing...

1. A proxy that looks at HTTP Headers and TLS cipher choices

2. An allowlist that records which browsers send which headers and selects which ciphers

3. A dynamic loading of the allowlist into the proxy at some given interval

New browser versions or updates to OSs would need the allowlist updating, but I'm not sure it's that inconvenient and could be done via GitHub so people could submit new combinations.

I'd rather just say "I trust real browsers" and dump the rest.

Also I noticed a far simpler block, just block almost every request whose UA claims to be "compatible".
Incentives matter. If theres no downside to using a service people will use the service more. Single payer removes much of the downside to using medical care so people will look for medical care where they wouldnt before. To solve this single payer systems need ways to stop people from receiving care they dont need, and heuristics are imperfect so that will stop some people who actually do need care too.
Parcel: Turnkey Off-the-Grid Homesteads
It's unfeasible to heavily armour undersea cables for the whole length. Heavy armour is already used on shallow sections where shipping lanes are known and accidents are anticipated.

This is a typical data cable: https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/img.jpg?id=25584721 left to right is unarmored to double armoured. Roughly one to three inches in diameter.