skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my strongest memories of my childhood is meeting Jimmy Carter on a commercial flight, coming back from a family trip to Disneyworld. He walked back through the coach section and greet everyone personally. I got to shake his hand. He was legitimately interested in what everyone had to say.

Even as a 8yr old, I understood how unique this was. He was a man of the people and fully dedicated his life to America. Probably the last president to do so; instead we committed to the path of unencumbered greed ala Reagan.
This is a really good read. It talks about all kinds of systems which become their own entity. Nobody likes them. They make things worse for everybody. But somehow we get trapped in these downward spirals and there’s seemingly no way out.
> So if it's after the middle of December, start wishing people a "Happy Solsthelion"

> ... it's a great way to form the ice.

The best part - although perhaps untrue in a room full of HN commenters :)
Even if the claimant's sheet music is used, how do they know that it is their sheet music specifically, and not someone else's transcription of the same music?

They could include "paper towns" in the music, but that's not what these automated systems are looking for.
SQALE: Software Quality Assessment based on Lifecycle Expectations
What part of Public Domain do these legal departments not understand?
I don't see a reason for all this reason redirection. Putin's historical article is very reasonable continuation of Moscow policies towards Kiev for literally centuries.
haha I had heard that langchain was overcomplicated, self contradictory slop and that llama index was better. I dont doubt its bad as well.

Both are cut from the same cloth of typical inexperienced devs who made something cool in a new space and posted on GitHub but then immediately morphed into a companies trying to trap users etc. without going through an organic lifecycle of growing, improving, refactoring with the community.
Throwing battery into trash can is a bad idea. And make the battery unremovable from trash is obviously even worse.
I think the meaning of the word technology is shifting. In common usage things such as simple tools are not described as technology.
Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024
Sad to hear, but most of the the stuff that gets said about GDPR online is BS.
(I have a law background)

actually you also don‘t always need a cookie banner (not mandated by GDPR) and being compliant is not as difficult as many consultants (who want to make money) say it is.

Still even though the idea of GDPR was great, but they didn‘t think about good and easy implementation. Which sucks and I understand the frustration.
I find this mystifying. I think of "choosing a dwarf makes you a lesser wizard" as being a pretty core part of D&D. Have they released specifics on this? If race/species is going to become purely cosmetic, have they explained what will replace it, mechanically?
Doubt it, a vanilla cease-and-desist letter would probably be the approach there. I doubt any large AI company would pay attention though, since, even if they're in the wrong, they can outspend almost anyone in court.
a driver?
I have a hypothetical question: lets say I want to slightly scramble the content of my site (no so much so as to be obvious, but enough that most knowledge within is lost) when I detect that a request is coming from one of these bots, could I face legal repercussions?
I suspect if the tables were turned and someone managed to crash FB consistently they might not take too kindly to that.
Besides playing an endless game of wackamole by blocking the bots. What can we do?

I don’t see court system being helpful in recovering lost time. But maybe we could waste their time by fingerprinting the bot traffic and returning back useless/irrelevant content.
It's not so much about agreeing as their paychecks being dependent on the current solution.
What a disgrace... I am appalled: Not only are they intent on ruin incomes and jobs. They are not even good net citizens.

This needs to stop. Assuming free services have pools of money; many are funded by good people that provide a safe place.

Many of these forums are really important and are intended for humans to get help and find people like them etc.

There has to be a point soon where action and regulation is needed. This is getting out of hand.
I only learned about it recently and it really showed me a cancerous side of tech that I did not know existed.

So I’d say it’s great for giving people an anonymous channel to be their true selves and shining a light on opinions / attitudes that I was blind to.
Multiple concert venues in my city use these, so I interact with them all the time. They have replaced standard metal detectors, bag searches, and manual patdowns w/ hands and/or metal-detecting wands. Security checkpoints are the primary point of delay for getting into venues, and places that have rolled these out process people through about 95% faster. It's a huge difference. If it does trigger, you just get the manual patdown you would have gotten anyway, so the false positive cases aren't any lost time.

The article and settlement seem to only mention the false positive rate, which is a bad thing to focus on. Every true positive is a much faster experience. Only subjecting 110 out of 3000 people to a longer search is a big improvement. Given the negative outcomes of a gun slipping through and the lack of a cost of a false positive, we probably want it to be tuned to be more false positive prone anyway. We don't need these to detect guns THAT well, we just need them to weed out people who definitely don't have them.

I do have concerns about what its false negative rate is relative to the standard practice it replaces. I do not really trust whatever psuedo-AI they're bolting to their metal detectors; it's probably easier to get a gun through. That said, the false negative rate probably isn't good already. TSA isn't great on their false positive rate, does more intense screening, and isn't being staffed by hungover 20-somethings. So maybe the false negative rate didn't actually increase by much?
AI companies go on forums to scrape content for training models, which are surreptitiously used to generate content posted on forums, from which AI companies scrape content to train models, which are surreptitiously used to generate content posted on forums... It's a lot of traffic, and a lot of new content, most of which seems to add no value. Sigh.
You just plain blocking anyone using node from programatically accessing your content with Axios?
The right move is transferring data to them as slow as possible.

Even if you 403 them, do it as slow as possible.

But really I would infinitely 302 them as slow as possible.
The fact of copyright is different from the term of copyright. If we changed the term to 1 year tomorrow, there would still be arrangement and transcription copyrights. I also dislike the term, but it's a separate discussion.
yes! good point, you may be able to skirt around rules with a VPN if you're imposed by any
I guess you meant the `addr_of!`/`addr_of_mu!` macros? Those have since been given proper syntax with `&raw` and `&raw mut` expressions.
> Surely you agree that not only thermostats are not conscious, but also simple neural networks are not

Sure - there is a difference between merely being cold and also being aware of being cold. A piece of ice (or a cold thermometer for that matter) can be cold, but to experience being cold - to be aware/conscious of it - requires some minimal level of cognitive apparatus ("a reasonably complex perceptual psychology") to process those sensory inputs and contrast them to the differing sensation of not being cold and be able to think about it!

There is some evidence, such as "blindsight" (ability to see without being aware of it - a loss of visual consciousness) that consciousness may not only require the mental apparatus to process a sensory input, but may also require specific neural pathways (which may be missing, or damaged) to gain access to specific internal neural state in the first place.

It's difficult to know exactly where the line is - which animals do have a sufficiently complex brain to able to introspect on and experience their own state, but clearly simple neural nets (e.g. anything without feedback paths) don't, and simple animals like insects don't either.
> Why don't you change it?

Bribery is legal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Chaos Packaging
Everyday I get to do this kind of research, I'm grateful to be the one doing it.
Applying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to LLMs
I wouldn't expect it to crash in any case, but I'd generally expect that even an n100 minipc should bottleneck on the network long before you manage to saturate CPU/RAM (maybe if you had 10Gbit you could do it). The linked post indicates they're getting ~2 requests/second from bots, which might as well be zero. Even low powered modern hardware can do thousands to tens of thousands.
How dare they sully the Zombo.com name. Stop trying to make the phrase 'Zombocom problem' happen.
Luigi went back to the drawing board, and seems to have found a way to get health "insurance" executives quite freaked out to the point where some of their proposed changes for 2025 were quietly walked back.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37152978
oof I do. good point.

but even relatively established apps show connections to weird places.

Syncthing of all apps has made connections to 107 places.
https://archive.ph/z2MNW
Healthcare is incredibly complex because currently all technologies we have just make living longer exponentially more expensive with every added year.

But one thing is clear: it's easy to improve the nutrients that people in the USA take.

Whenever I travel in to USA, in the airports I can't even find a simple salad or any real food, even though I can see lots of pictures of salads, which drives me crazy.

Last year I went through Atlanta airport, I bought a hamburger because they didn't have literally any other food at 10pm, and I thought I would just throw away the buns and eat the salad + maybe the meat (depending of the ingredients). Then I looked at the ingredients and it was like 50 things that I didn't even know what they mean. It didn't smell or taste like food at all, so at the end I found 1 year old nuts in my bag that my mom packed a year earlier, and I ate that.
Postgres supports toast (long record) compression. It seems to support enabling on columns. It looks like it supports LZ4 and Zstd now. Zstd has better compression at expense of more time.
Some nerds need and appreciate formalization of what you’re describing as a social norm being made explicit and spelled out for them. Besides, most DMs I’ve played with already do this kind of “ok what kinda stuff is everyone thinking about for this campaign?” conversation already, so these guidelines are just a reminder for players or DMs to include this stuff in that conversation too.
Think of it philosophically.

If you suddenly discovered Mexico had a 24 hour sun, wouldn't that mean that most of what we've been taught in school was a lie?

The heliocentric model, our shared astronomic model, it's all a lie. Someone has been intentionally printing these globes all around the world that do not match observable reality, and telling kids in school that it does.

So you cannot say "there is not another shape that fits" because you would know nothing about how the universe works.
ARexx is an implementation of the Rexx language for the Amiga
Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
If you knew him in life or remember his contribution to the world, please share your stories.
I largely agree, except for this:

> anecdotes of the craziest mixed device ecosystems people can build

All it takes is for somebody to use both an iPad and an Android phone. iPads are relatively cheap (cheaper than many Windows laptops!); iPhones are quite expensive. That's a lot of users right there, and I think it must be at least as common as Windows + iOS users.
So is negligence. Or at least I would hope so.
Then have the users solve ARC-AGI or whatever nonsense. If the bots want your content, they'll have to solve $3,000 of compute to get it.
WolfSSL on Amiga
Thank you for sharing your experience.

To add to your ZIRP point: I find it bizarre that tech companies are still valued at 10x their revenue in the stockmarket. The multiple is a high-tech premium... because computer technology is new and therefore every business that involves computers is high-growth?

We don't pay crazy multiples for businesses that use electricity or telephones. Why should we pay them for tech? Soon all these high-tech companies are going to have valuation multiples like manufacturers, logistics companies and fast-food chains.
Why would a normal person want to sideload?
All of our systems are made by and for the rich. Not the doctors and certainly not the patients. This isn't limited to healthcare. When I say all systems, this includes government who make laws for lobbyists (who represent big business, like the insurance companies) and this also includes the media who ridicule the idea of socialized healthcare & the politicians who back it for all Americans as childish, impossible to pay for & socialist (as if that's a bad thing), among others. Even the political parties will withhold support from the few candidates who are realistically trying to make this happen.

Against these odds, our current healthcare system is very unpopular [0], and if you put it to a vote, we would probably get a more sane healthcare system, but again, realistically, it's not up to us, unless, over the course of ~6 years we constantly show up to both primary and general elections and vote for representatives who support it, and leave the corporate backed candidates in the dust.

0 - https://news.gallup.com/poll/4708/healthcare-system.aspx
>The previous Twitter administration was quite open about the censorship they were doing and the reasons they did it

that is completely false.

you should work on developing respect for the opposing views of people of honest intent.
That would still be 86k req/day, which can be quite expensive in a serverless environment, especially if the app is not optimized.
Are there more of these undetected/undetectable entities out there?

E.g. are there more "life" like obelisks and similar out there in genome samples?
The US is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy.

> Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.

1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
What are the financial reasons for governments to want mass surveillance? I can understand some other reasons, which I think are illegitimate, but I cannot think of a financial reason.

At any rate, governments are all made of people who are also tracked at all times. Just because some parts of government would like mass surveillance, why would legislators who can do something about it be okay with having their car be constantly monitored by private parties or the police or anyone?

Why would legislators, donors, and lobbyists be okay with their own location data (and in some extreme cases like with Nissan their "sexual behaviors" etc) being sold to data brokers, for example?
Happy Solsthelion! There's a ritual for it: https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/bay-area-secular-solsti...
I was referring to his views on annexing Gaza, the West Bank or other views. You're asking a different question.

In addition, that survey is from half a year ago. Surveys today show a majority of Israelis wanting a ceasefire-for-hostages deal.
The latter is also an opinion, because the people who decide to create videos are also fallible human beings…

Unless you believe it’s impossible for someone to have contradictory or incoherent intentions?
Pglocklogger: Create a log of blocked processes in PostgreSQL
censoring evidence of covid gain of function research and subsequent lab leak is not moderation

shadowbanning which stops people from seeing content is also censorship, you're wrong (and don't confuse mix this site with twitter either)
I try, too. It is less and less possible every day.
Just remember if you ever give up your domain, whoever purchases it will now have your email as root-of-trust to EVERY site you ever created an account with.

Also, it can be pricey. If you have a .com/.org it is cheap, but I have a .io and the price keeps doubling every few years.

Also, it can be risky: and there is a very real risk that .io will be (rightly) reclaimed by the country that owns it and either seize the domains are really jack up the prices even more.
Interesting how a guy whose entire administration is being investigated and indicted by the FBI ran almost entirely on a ‘law and order’ platform, with this pilot being one of the staples.
What a delightful blog post. One need not fully understand all the prologue bits to understand the interface and implementation produced.

This technique could be very useful in developing other DSLs on Haskell. Basically the author found a simple monadic-looking mapping of Haskell functions onto a different Category where you can do interesting things with those functions. In TFA's case the idea is to write flow diagrams where "boxes" embed [user-provided] Haskell functions, then the machinery can do whatever might be expected for diagrams, like: render visual representations of them, evaluate them, analyze them, etc. Because the boxes embed Haskell functions the flow diagrams can do useful work, so they're more than just documentation, they can be code and documentation. Basically this is a flow diagram programming language as a DSL embedded in Haskell.

Imagine using this technique to build things like networking stacks, say. Or emulators of various sorts (CPUs/ISAs, say). Or maybe one could use this to make something like a PLC in Haskell. It's really quite a neat and powerful idea, especially if it really does compile to efficient code.

What else might one use this for?
For reference:

> If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really).

It's really absurd that they seem to think this is acceptable.
Wait what are you arguing exactly?
> And even with those benefits they're rapidly being replaced for a lot of people with PIN codes or mobile apps precisely because physical keys are suboptimal.

I would be careful with the use of "suboptimal" here. PIN codes or mobile apps are possibly more convenient to some people, not necessarily more secure (a PIN can leak, a smartphone can be hacked).

I would argue that hardware keys are optimal in the use-case they solve. It's just that not everybody wants to solve this use-case. And that's okay: passkeys should allow users to choose.
Article 7.4 and recital 43 of GDPR cover that.

Article 7
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

Recital 43
https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/

Those two in combination stop companies processing data for unrelated task to the services they provide. And it's indeed true and already been applied, see this: https://www.digitalguardian.com/blog/google-fined-57m-data-p...
You can negotiate all you want but ultimately the productivity improvements have to come from providers (hospitals, pharmaceutical companies) if you want to lower costs.

Why would they turn productivity improvements into lower costs, when they could instead turn them into higher profits? Big health insurers such as UHC practice "intercompany eliminations", as it's known; they own those providers you mention and use increasing charges there to get around the limits on how much of the insurance premiums they can keep for themselves. It's in their interests for the charges to go up, especially on anything that's actually cheap. Productivity improvements is just more profit to launder through the providers they own for the purpose of laundering those premiums.
> they all smack of bad faith

> That said, if people whose entire personality is being anti-trans

Are you talking about protecting women’s rights? That’s pro something, not anti something, right?

So speaking of bad faith… The only one I see acting in bad faith here is you?
> Being an expert doesn't mean you are "practicing medicine".

Sure, but being paid by someone to make the final call if the patient should or should not receive their treatment team’s desired procedures should.
Control Flow in AI Agents
I also have ADHD, one of the best thing i tried is doing a morning yoga (sun salutations) either 1 min, or 5 min (however i feel, same sequence repeating).

I think somewhat starting the day with mindful exercises helps greatly for rest of the day. I do this morning routine daily for a week, feel great. Then stop doing because i feel great, downward spiral starts. and start again.
Seems like an ideal compression method for LoRa/Meshtastic-style communication. An LLM wouldn't run on an ESP32, but there are several that could run on a raspberry pi.

It's not just natural language that could be compressed this way, either. Code (HTML, JS, etc) could be compressed with the same technique/models. I bet that the same general idea could work for image compression as well, using an image/diffusion model (or perhaps a multimodal model for everything.)

This could lead to an entire internet of content using just a few bits.
Don't most production-ready GraphQL servers have some sort of static query cost estimator that is intended to be hooked up to a rate limiter? At the bare minimum, it should be very easy to set up simple breadth+depth limits per request.

This doesn't seem meaningfully more complex than rate limiting a REST API, especially a REST API with configurable "includes."
Very easy to DDoS too if you have certain extensions installed…
A search for "Jackson" in that Journal gives 2 hits, in 2014 and 2017, curious.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?AllField=Jac...
> The linear functions/SMC work is really cool, but I am surprised to see the author calling it more mature than the compiling to CCCs work.

TFA doesn't call that more mature, just more workable and a thinner abstraction that presumably compiles to more efficient code than the proc-based alternative.
Yt-x: Browse YouTube from your terminal
Show HN: A Customizable Workspace Inpired by Notion and Obsidian Md
Hello Reader

I'm Ryu, i like making minimalistic projects which provide efficient functionalities, also a huge fan of Obsidian md which has inspired me to work on this project called Hollow.

It's a customizable workspace where tools are represented as cards, enabling users to design and organize their tools with limitless flexibility.

Tools as NoteBook, Kanban and WebView, you can make multiple instances of the same tool and place them in the workspace as a fully customizable card.

It also built to be supported heavily by community Plugins, which would bring more tools/functionalities to the app.

this is a video i made showcasing one of the ways it can be used https://youtu.be/1ShchM6MDIU?si=_-6n1dGKdE6rZOCT

currently on the beta version so I'm inviting anyone who's a fan of this kinda of app.

This a form on which you don't have to fill anything if you don't want to, and go straight to the download links for your corresponding os.
But hollow will need your help on reporting bugs so i would recommend reading the form.

https://tally.so/r/3x9klk

Thank you very much for reading.
China wants to restore the sea with high-tech marine ranches