skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure there is a modern form of government that can solve the problem we have. If a non-trivial quantity of your leaders (elected or appointed) are being coerced and blackmailed, there's not really a solution. Maybe in the past, a monarch could have their blackmailer and associates put to death, but there's not really a solution for a nation under blackmail. You certainly won't be able to have a form of government with a functional justice system with concepts like innocent until proven guilty and due process. I can't think of a way for a leader to remain beholden to the will of the people, if there is no mechanism to swiftly deal with blackmail, when the price is to go against the will of the people. Such a mechanism would be incompatible with the modern tenets of justice.

"Because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion, Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." — John Adams, October 11, 1798.

I don't remember the interview, but there was an interview in the second have of 2024 with Peter Thiel where he basically alludes to the fact that we're largely operating with institutions today that are basically a club where admittance is granted on the basis of being compromised. Basically, this reeks of the adage attributed to Lenin "Trust is good. Control is better".

As greed and avarice and numerous vices become more common, the pool of blackmailable people to sponsor to a position of power only grows. There was a reason, institutions like the FBI and CIA used to strongly prefer hiring Mormons, who did not drink and were very unlikely to partake in adultery or other frowned up sexual proclivities.

For the most part, I would not be surprised if getting the financial support to run for office in many parts of the country are largely predicated on the whether or not the financial backers underwriting your campaign feel confident they can control you. It's probably not enough to trust a politician for many financiers of politicians. They need to know they can control before they write a check.

This is why we have so few politicians of any integrity like Thomas Massie. Even he has a massive target on his back, with lots of money pouring in to support his opponents. I can imagine that someone like Thomas Massie could only ever win in a state that is still largely constituted of the types of people of which John Adams wrote. A politician with any integrity would be very unlikely to ever win in states like California, New York or Illinois.

The fact that the only people arrested in the Epstein scandal have been Epstein and Maxwell, pretty much speaks volumes about how out how our government is being run. There is little to no accountability (for government officials or executives in corporations) apart from a token person going to jail now and again. We have a system of government and institutions actively protecting criminals.
No, it sounds like the kind of pragmatism required to uphold higher-order principles.
I think it is fair to say that existing copyright law was not written to handle all of this. It was written for people who created works, and for other people who were using those works.

To substitute either party with a computer system and assume that the existing law still makes sense may be assuming too much.
Monitor your bank account.

1. Use a debit card or cash for purchases when practical.

2. Pay bills when they arrive, not when they are due. You are not earning money from the float anyway.

3. Supplement with other documentation ad hoc.

4. Improve the system over time based on what works for you.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I meant that elite military forces make peace with death as part of their training. So, “having a lot to lose” would be less of a deterrent compared to those without such training.
When parents and athletes decide to embark on this journey, it is well known that being an Olympian doesn't pay for many sports, similar to choosing your degree in college.

Maybe parents should rethink spending hundreds of thousands in coaching, training, travel, competitions, etc. from 12-18. I always chuckle when I read about an athlete getting a college scholarship, when it is clear that they already spent 4 times that on their development to get that scholarship.
That's a violation of privacy problem, quite different from free speech. With all the vacuuming of user data, our data is leaking around all the time for all sorts of reasons, including just being sold. No subpoena required.
as a human being, and one that does music stuff, i don’t download terabytes of other peoples works from the internet directly into my brain. i don’t have verbatim reproductions of people’s work sitting around on a hard disk in my stomach/lungs/head/feet.

LLMs are not humans. They’re essentially a probabilistic compression algorithm (encode data into model weights/decode with prompt to retrieve data).
$95 from Amazon or MIT Press, or $94.99 for the digital copy (you can save a penny!) though that's dated. Clicking through, it's $59.99 for the ebook from various sources. The ebooks are not PDFs, though, and so the formatting leaves something to be desired (based on samples). More complex math renderings are images that look ok. IIRC, there are some large code blocks in the book at some points but not in the samples so I can't evaluate them for clarity.
The mentioned company above (Exacompta) also make some without BPS (they say "sans phenol"). No idea what they use instead, for all I know it could be worse ^^ but I think the made in France is encouraging, we tend to have safer norms than EU which itself tends to have safer norms than the world.
sorry, yes to build it is fine, but managing them with Nix (e.g. dealing with which ports to expose and etc like in the article) requires NixOS.

edit: I actually never checked, but I guess nothing stops home-manager or nix-darwin from working too, but I don't think either supports running containers by default. EOD all NixOS does is make a systemd service which runs `docker run ..` for you.
Docker on macOS is still slow?
> The (oeconomical, an economical)

"oeconomical" is just an extremely archaic spelling of "economical", since the root word from Greek is "oikos", which Latinizes as "oecus".

Why did you mention it? Do you see it as a separate word?
i can't speak for why the author chose it, but if you're operating behind AWS cloudfront then http requests have a maximum timeout of 60s - if you don't close the request within 60s, cloudfront will close it for you.

i suspect other firewalls, cdns, or reverse proxy products will all do something similar. for me, this is one of the biggest benefits of websockets over long-polling: it's a standard way to communicate to proxies and firewalls "this connection is supposed to stay open, don't close it on me"
I wish Brave had succeeded with their YouTube Premium model of web browsing. Let me pay one single provider to remove all web ads and paywalls, and that provider pays creators. Still a great mobile browser.
I agree. It's insanely user-hostile that the "never auto-play" setting in Safari (for example) doesn't work and hasn't worked for years. To be honest, I have no recollection of it ever working reliably.

Although it is an arms race and obnoxious web pages can have javascript/webassembly video players that render into a canvas, etc., I still blame Apple for not sorting this out, and even backtracking on click/tap-to-play.

IIRC, at some point Apple did roll out default click/tap-to-play on iPhones, and there was a huge outcry from web developers (probably including Google/youtube) that it broke their sites. I expect the real complaint was that it interfered with pushing unwanted video advertisements.
They also allow binary packages if you want an easy way of hiding malware.
I understand the basics of flexbox. The part that gets me is when I start putting pieces together and nesting divs and flex box items.
No, it's the other way around. Humans will continue the trend of interacting with "the world" less and less, and thus become more like the LLMs themselves. They won't get smarter; we will get stupider and meet them in the middle. You can already see this happening.
Show HN: Does your food have gluten?
Hey folks!

About a couple of months or so ago, I finally figured out I’m gluten intolerant after months of chasing random symptoms and getting nowhere. After a wild goose chase (started this via Djokovic's Serve To Win book) finally found out I was highly gluten sensitive/intolerant.

I had to rethink everything I ate. Grocery shopping turned into ingredient detective work, and eating out became a gamble. I quickly realized I needed something to make this easier and built GlutenAI. It’s a super simple tool to check if something’s gluten-free. Type in a food or product or even a common recipe name, and it’ll let you know if you’re good to go or should steer clear.

Would love to get y'all's feedback on this and let me know what else you would like to see here : https://www.glutenchecker.link/
Can you elaborate on how it's not comparable? It seems obvious to me that it is -- they both learn and then create -- so what's the difference?

If I can hire an employee who draws on knowledge they learned from copyrighted textbooks, why can't I hire an AI which draws on knowledge it learned from copyrighted textbooks? What makes that argument "wacky" in your eyes?
Obscurity perhaps?
Ask HN: How do you read code like a Senior Developer?
Yes, but the problems of detecting that changeset and delivering it to the right connection remains to be solved in the app layer.
Why would you retry after 2ms? In most cases, the odds are extremely likely you’d have the exact same outcome; but it depends on your application.
This and Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin
Unsustainable for who? The websites use CDNs for dirt cheap bandwidth, mobile providers love that 20gb doesn’t go as far as it used to. It inevitably creates a synergy, between stuff like news websites and local telcos, and YouTube love it too. hell, it’s not like all bandwidth cost the same, especially when major orgs will cache + colocate or peer to your isps.

If you’re a consumer you might be right, but your opinions and feelings aren’t of importance to those in power.
Is there a non-Cloudflare company willing to spend big bucks on a basically free-tier customer that loses them money?
Yes. When discussing plastics we really should be discussing _single use_ plastics. Plastic food packaging needs to go by the wayside and something better needs to be made.
Show HN: Ashtar Is a Task Interface (TI) for AI
Chat interfaces help to display the ability of LLMs, but by and large the best uses have been refined cases such as code editors among others.

I believe that LLMs are a massively useful tool -- and the usefulness is unlocked by the power of the wielder/user.

In order to help people unlock the best outcomes from LLM, I felt it was necessary to build a Task Interface that the LLM would output thereon, thus moving from just chatting about things to doing things and marking progress.

Further, by segregating parts of projects into separate silos, it helps to increase context awareness giving better text completions (answers) in the many tests I have conducted.

I believe Ashtar unlocks the potential of human + AI in terms of helping the human achieve his/her dreams.

I hope you like it and it helps you unlock your potential!

Please let me know your thoughts, negative or positive!

Thank you for taking the time and happy new year HN!
It's a pretty bad movie with bad acting. I did like it for some of the height shots which can be dizzying (I had no issues with 20-30m indoor climbing walls).
Project Mariner – Google DeepMind
From one of the main devs of libxml, some early 2000s year, "c++ ABI is insane".

I started to play video games in 2012 when steam did happen on elf/linux... and games with c++ components forgetting to statically link libstdc++ have been getting bugs, version issues, etc (same for libgcc_s). Still happening today (with glibc ABI selection not being done by game or engine devs)... because the "uni" brain-washing about c++ is still around... those "teachers" should not be there anymore, c++ and similar should not be taught.

c++ and similar, bundled with their toxicity (insane syntax complexity, spilling to real-life compilers technical cost), are probably one of the worst things which could happen to software.

RISC-V assembly for everyone (without abuse of a macro-preprocessor, ofc...)
Show HN: I made a simple tool to track Google Rankings
I was frustrated with how complex and expensive most rank tracking tools are.

I wanted something that was both powerful and beautifully simple.

That's Rank! helps you:
• Track rankings for up to 15 domains and 300 keywords
• Get daily rank updates automatically
• View historical ranking data and trends
• Access advanced reporting features
• Monitor competitor rankings (coming soon)
• Get ranking change alerts (coming soon)

It's completely free while in beta! Please try it out :-)
Its blending of WWW history, philosophy, aesthetics, and UI design seemed uniquely suited to a HN audience. I look forward to reading the book once it arrives.
> the long-haired woman with a Southern lilt behind the counter who was the brainchild of it all, opening up the shop when she was just 24 years old

Surely if she opened it up, the shop was her brainchild.
The fact that we need a "stop the madness" app for Safari is proof of Safari's insanity.

If Stopthemadness actually works reliably, it is also an existence proof that blocking video autoplay is possible, and that Apple is simply not fixing the "never auto-play" setting in Safari.

Perhaps Apple and Mozilla should just remove the "never auto-play" settings in Safari and Firefox and say that they are doing so in order to empower web sites and adtech companies (including Google/youtube, who pays them a lot of money) to force you to view unwanted video advertisements.
But how long is manifest v2 going to survive on Firefox?
Seriously, yoga.

Martial arts.

Painting. Crafts. Working on cars, bicycles, motorcycles, skateboarding.

These all have something in common: each has a goal, but these are individual pursuits. They require and reward focus, and succumbing to distractions will be obvious because progress will suffer.
Saying people overwhelmingly choose ads is conceptualizing things wrong. Take this blog: it just copied a BI snippet about a study some other party did. No one even linked to the original study.

People correctly value this at $0. This post is noise, and things like it just make web crawling/search harder to scale.
Ah yeah for us they were always different, and by different publishers too.

The funny thing was that the yellow pages used to be printed on yellow paper but they switched to white with a lot of yellow printing ink because some advertisers wanted to use white in their ads :)

The yellow pages used to be called "the golden guide" here.
The moment you earn money from it, that's not fair use anymore. When I last checked, unlimited access to said models were not free, plus it's not "research" anymore.

- Addenda -

For the interested parties, the law states the following [0].

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:

1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors

So, if you say that these factors can be flexed depending on the defendant, and can be just waved away to protect the wealthy, then it becomes something else, but given these factors, and how damaging this "fair use" is, I can certainly say that training AI models with copyrighted corpus is not fair use in any way.

Of course at the end of the day, IANAL & IANAJ. However, my moral compass directly bars use of copyrighted corpus in publicly accessible, for profit models which undermine many people of their livelihoods.

From my perspective, people can whitewash AI training as they see fit to sleep sound at night, but this doesn't change anything from my PoV.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors
Health care startups are trying to open. An old law stands in their way
Is Your LLM a World Model of the Internet? Planning for Web Agents
You've never taken photos of a CRT, have you? Even at like 400 ISO equivalent, only about a third of the screen is illuminated.
you're asking why you have to treat people differently than you treat tools and machines.
If an educated populace isn't better than an uneducated populace why bother with education? It costs a lot and ties up a portion of your potential work force with what would be a useless waste of time. I think you are conflating the inherent value of a human life vs. the relative value of different things we can do as people to improve ourselves. Education "improves" people, it makes them better. Having proper garbage disposal improves countries (groups of people). This is why we value and promote these things.

And following you to circle back to the original point... Raising the price of plastics for everyone does place the majority of the burden on poor people/countries. If everything costs $0.05 more due to more expensive packaging, that is statistical noise for most people in a 1st world country but would make things unaffordable in poorer countries. But I agree that the only way to do it successfully would be to force a higher cost on the manufacturers no matter where they are located, otherwise they'd just shift manufacturing to the lower cost areas. Pretty much anything that raises the cost of goods will disproportionately impact the poor.
Maybe there's some fancy newspaper where they aren't knowingly misleading their readers, but the popular ones clearly are. It could even be fine if they were strongly biased in, say, which political families they dig up dirt on, but still not knowingly mislead their readers. That's more of a personal insult and shows they're trying to lead people to wrong beliefs, not just to reveal the problems with that political family.

Maybe the solution is critical thinking as part of the culture so we'll be immune to those journalist tricks.
The writing has been on the wall for over a decade, at this point. The only companies that "risk it" with China are the ones that rely on borderline (or in some cases, literal) slave labor to maintain their margins. If you don't have an outstanding manufacturing investment to honor, it's a net-negative reliance in many cases.
That's not something that's currently planned, and even if it did, it would take years. Besides, it wouldn't apply anyway; Akamai's China business was already routed through a mainland China company, as required by Chinese law.
Given how hard this is to reconcile with the investigation, I think it’s likely Musk is trolling and that’s his idea of humor.
Nice article. The comments are weird as fuck.
Worst example I've seen is an app called Foodora here in Norway (like Uber Eats, Door Dash, etc). On the order confirmation page where you're following your order status, following the driver on the map, etc, they would have video ads playing _uncached_. It was literally using like 1 MB/s of traffic continuously while you were checking the order page.
The biggest negative externality of advertising is the fact that it drives mass overconsumption.
you really have to try it. On a flight to Hawaii in October, I was getting speeds of 300+ mbps and latency that felt like my home wifi. It's just seamless and feels like an entirely different product than any other connectivity I've had in the air.
How do you set this up? I have no experience but would like to do something similar.
The Reasons the Weatherman Always Seems to Be Wrong (2024)
Finally, youporn on a plane.
I tried to switch from android to ios earlier this year. The browsing experience was so awful that I didn't make it a day due to the lack of ublock.
1 "good" process node does not a trusted partner make. Leading edge semiconductors have design lead times measured in years. This means that the design decision for what fab to use for a given product that is being manufactured today was made anywhere from 2 to 5 years ago. Sure, designs can be ported from one fab to another if the processes are similar enough and the design is not overly aggressive, but that is much more difficult for complex designs like high end CPUs where power management and frequency scaling are intricately woven together to optimize performance within a given process technology. Just look at the difficulties Intel had with stability in shipping 13th and 14th generation Core CPUs where the wrong voltage was being used causing damage to the CPU. When hardware teams are pushed too hard too fast, quality suffers.

Risk in hardware is many orders of magnitude worse than in software, so the people making the decisions about what fab to use for a product tend to make much more conservative choices to help minimize risk. Intel as a fab partner is risky. Who in their right mind would select Intel when even Intel's own internal design teams made the decision to outsource manufacturing of some CPUs to TSMC in recent years? Intel has a lot of trust to build amongst hardware designers before that will happen at any significant scale.
I reported on what I saw. It is not the sites finest hour and not what I set it up to do. There were also other people emailing in saying it happened to them. Unfortunately they had no evidence. The evidence was someone saying he did that on a public Facebook post that anyone could access.
Timescape
Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU
Yes - advertising is very profitable. Increasing the cost would lead to a short term reduction in spend by advertisers, which would squeeze the adtech industry. They’d respond with improvements to their specs which reduce bandwidth and return levels closer to normal. Totally fixable problem with the correct incentives.

Interesting note, the privacy sandbox apis that google (was) is pushing were extremely bad for bandwidth to the point that in early tests our servers often did not respond in time to successfully bid in an auction. This occurred in many steps different steps of the auction (ssps as well). Google of course kind of moved away from this set up before fixes were implemented. (If the time between a user loading a page and the result of a programmatic auction is too long, ads may not be served)
Grandma is fkd
>Annotating files with a feature tag system is both manual and not scabale.

Wouldn't you have the AI annotate it?
Surprising they don't mention what I imagine has to be the obvious culprit: video ads.

It's not even about advertising for me -- static ads don't bother me that much. But whenever there's autoplaying video in the corner of a page, I hate it so much. Whether it's an ad, or a news site that inexplicably thinks I want to multitask and watch their news channel at the same time I read their article. It's genuinely hard to read the article when there's constant motion an inch or two away at all times!
If we're losing net neutrality then ad traffic should be entirely financed by ISPs