skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to see a small ISP challenge this.

The 6th circuit said ISPS aren't telecoms when knocking down net neutrality.

This order is dependent on ISPs on ISPs being telecoms. So is the CALEA spying mandate.

Fight this and force the feds to live with this decision.
I don't have an account, but how about this: I don't want the government to ban websites or apps in general, and certainly not for who owns them.

The internet was supposed to be a global thing, where it didn't matter who you were and everyone could connect to everyone. That is the internet I grew up with.
What’s hilarious is there’s nothing physically based about the Disney model. It’s empirical and It’s not even energy conserving.

As sibling pointed out, physically based rendering precedes “PBR” by a looong time and goes much, much deeper than “I put a metalness map in my shader”
Maybe they are unable to make that clarification, if it would be false.
https://www.vox.com/22553793/gila-monster-lizard-venom-inspired-obesity-drug-semaglutide
When it comes to Internet service we're living in the early 2000s in the some parts of the manufacturing world
It seems pretty simple. The Tiktok algorithm is designed to push content you want to see. In the US social media platforms are designed to push content they want you to see and everything you care about gets pushed out of the way. With US platforms you always have to scroll past garbage to get to anything you care about. Tiktok just relentlessly shoves what you want in your face over and over and over again, and when it does misstep it moves on to something else before you even have the chance to consider what you'd rather be doing with your time.
Po in the periodic system. At least for Americans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This isn't true, US companies are allowed to operate in China. They just eventually choose not to because complying with Chinese censorship laws is too much trouble, but in that sense they are not too different from Chinese companies. Facebook for example operated in China for many years until they decline to comply with a ruling on Xinjiang (which may have been the moral decision).
Could you elaborate this?
The answer to Headlines that ask a question is almost always No
Which factory?

Shenzhen, Changsha, Huizhou, Shanxi, Shanghai (in China), the one in Thailand, in Hungary or Uzbekistan? (etc.)

I ask as Reuters reported the Shenzhen and other plants as having standard eight hour shifts less than two years past: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/byd-re...

Do you have a source for claim?
> However if there is proof that China is manipulating the algorithm

it doesn't matter whether they have manipulated the algorithm so far; the issue is that they have the _ability_ to manipulate the algorithm if they choose to. It's not hard to imagine how big of a problem this would be if China and the US indirectly went to war over Taiwan, for example.
Isn't that basically https://stackoverflow.com/ and/or https://serverfault.com/ ?
> Solvable with the right tools.

The original assertion was:

I would challenge you to find a picture of text
that you think a human can read and OCR cannot.

Not if many CAPTCHA image challenges could be automated. Unless the tool referenced guarantees 100% correct solutions for all manipulated text images.
It's the first time the Chinese and rest-of-the-world users are interacting directly on the same platform at a massive scale.
Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
...for now.

They are pushing in this direction with the Composer Agent mode which can carry out a sequence of multi-file changes without you having to specify the files. It's pretty decent. If you're feeling brave there is also a beta "YOLO" mode that will auto approve these changes and run console commands.
> even among humans there is no agreement

This is just not true. There are objective facts eg. the earth is round. We can all agree on this, and any information to the contrary should be banned.

The majority of us agree that racism is bad for society. Racist content should be banned.

Yes there are always going to be humans who think the earth is flat or has a core of cheese, but these people can be relegated to the fringes of society.
Or a mini Poseidon Adventure
The tradeoff with these price controls is that they make current medications cheaper, but make future medications substantially less profitable, making them less likely to be developed.

It's rare to see this mentioned, so I'm trying to build awareness.
Seems like a witch hunt to me. OP's history is relatively diverse, and the comments are not lacking in content or argument. Having opinions is not a vile "ulterior motive".
"We'll fix our hardware bugs in software" :)
As a European I have to ask is this really the way you want to go?

Because we could make nearly the same argument for banning Facebook.
I don’t understand why the USA doesn’t just ban processed foods? I know USA only cares about profit but come on. Other countries don’t eat like we do.
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>> Of course, no real children are being abused,

> You could say the same thing about real CSAM.

Maybe this is trying to make a technical point.

But abuse is a brutally heavy topic, mere technicalities aren't ever going to be strong enough to support the weight put upon them.

That said: I do believe there are counter arguments to be made. I question the ethics and actions of people who leverage the pain of injured children to expand gov reach and power.

Having been a child who can check all the abuse boxes, it gets old watching the endless parade of interests try to mine that pain for their own ends.
The Tik Tok algorithm is great. It feeds me compelling stuff instead of trying to piss me off like Facebook.
Ah, I see what you're getting at. I was specifically referring to this line by OP:

> What American lawyers call "textualism" is how most continental european courts interpret written laws.

They were making a direct comparison between "textualism" and civil law, but didn't include the terms. I found the comparison interesting and thought I'd make it easier for anyone else who was confused by OP's comparison.

I realize on re-reading that this comparison is much less prominent than I thought it was in OP's comment, so it makes sense that my links would seem out of place. An explicit quote of that sentence would have helped.
Ok I did one letter, from a woman in 1814 writing to James Monroe (then Secretary of State) asking for a passport to go to Scotland to get her late brother's property. What a trip! So enjoyable to get into the flow once you've "synchronized" with the persons handwriting. Furthermore, due to the fact that you're reading and re-writing word for word of whatever you're transcribing, the stories you end up reading have tremendous memory-stick. This is not surprising, considering that you are dedicating an inordinate amount of time per page, but it's a welcome side effect when you try and recollect.
Existing laws do not adequately address the specific national security concerns

Supreme Court upheld PAFACA as a necessary and constitutionally required measure.
Okay fair enough thank you. The article points at just Volkswagen running 9 car carriers just for the north atlantic.

And BYD have been at it for a while, so time for a wholly owned one I guess.

> As to why a UK-based shipping company owned by a Israeli billionaire based in Monaco buys RoRo carriers from a Chinese shipyard, and then leases them back to a Chinese car maker, I don't know.

That's good. No idea if that's the reason, but that would be an easy way to invest in BYD while mostly not being subject to Chinese direct investing legal requirements and problems.
Cool engineering, thank you.
I know several people who are starting a new service to pick up those refugees - let’s see how it pans out!
My parents have saved letters from their parents which are written in cursive but in two perpendicular layers. Meaning the writing goes horizontally in rows and then when they got to the end of the page it was turned 90 degrees and continued right on top of what was already there for the whole page. This was apparently to save paper and postage. It looks like an unintelligible jumble but my mother can actually decipher it. Maybe that’s what the LLMs are having trouble with?

Edit: apparently it’s called cross writing [1]

1: https://highshrink.com/2018/01/02/criss-cross-letters/
True, but it could easily just shift to mining XMR in the background as users doomscroll and collect money without regulatory burden that way.
The number of RORO ships is directly proportional to the volume of automobile exports. As of 2022, China had only 100 such ships, accounting for just 14% of the global fleet. However, considering that Chinese shipbuilding enterprises currently have orders for an additional 200 RORO ships, it is possible that in the future, China's share of the global roll-on/roll-off fleet could reach one-third.
> Go ahead and find something hard, and relate back the steps you took to find it.

This is a strawman[0] argument. You proclaimed:

A lot of what they want transcribed is totally
straightforward to OCR

And I replied:

If it's that easy, then do it and be the hero
they want.

So do it or do not. Nowhere does my finding "something hard" have any relevance to your proclamation.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Are they having trouble? You can sign up right now and get tasks from the archive that seem trivial for 4o (by which I mean: feed a screenshot to 4o, get a transcription, and spot check it).
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to setup a scalable API developer platform?
Hey HN,
Let's say you just finished building the core functionality of a highly commercializable API and now you want to release it to the world. Congrats!

How would you go about setting up a portal where people can:
1. Register as users of your API and later login.
2. Modify their account information (email, password, name and so on).
3. Set up automatic billing, either via a prepaid wallet (similar to what OpenAI uses) or via postpaid charges.
4. Track their API usage.

I've looked into lots of options but I'm struggling to find one that is going to be easy to setup while also being scalable.

There are many API gateways that offer portals but suppose that you don't want to use an API gateway because they often charge consumption and/or transaction fees, not to mention the risk of lock-in if you're unable to easily port your users.

I've even been looking into Wordpress because it's definitely scalable and easily portable, but it can also be a bit clunky and this use case may require a lot of upfront work and quite expensive plugins that are not guaranteed to be easily adaptable. If there's plugins that people have managed to get work for this kind of thing though, I'd love to hear about them.

There's SaaS boilerplates but none have really impressed me apart from SaaS Pegasus, and it seems like some work would be required to adapt them to metered billing.

Short of rolling your own portal, how would you go about this?
The voting algorithm needs to change so that destructive (negative) campaigning is not so effective.

Duverger's law makes campaigns devolve into undermining and destroying the competition, with the two parties hosting primaries to see which of them can "turn the wheel" the hardest before the general election where they claim "don't worry I won't crash the car!" despite their prior incentives.

If we used plurality voting for the inputs to a decision problem that follows the classic tragedy of the commons, we'd see a similar result. If instead of just {+1, +0, +0, ...} without repeats, we instead voted with {+1, +0.5, -0.5, 0, 0, ...} cooperation (or at least constructive competitive frameworks) would at least be at parity with destructive and potentially mutually destructive competition.
Thanks I'll take a look. It will be funny if I end up with a Taiwanese accent around my Dongbei in laws but I've spent enough time in china to remember the mainland accent tbh
I did in fact do it, and what I got was much, much easier than the samples in the article, which 4o did fine with. I'm sorry, but I declare the burden of proof here to be switched. Can you find a hard one?

(I don't think you need to Wikipedia-cite "straw man" on HN).
Can't you just google a little bit more?

[0] https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3293923/...

[1] https://carnewschina.com/2024/05/20/strike-at-byd-factory-in...

[2] https://clb.org.hk/en/content/auto-workers-bear-brunt-compet...
The hardcore poe2 ladder is hardly mundane. It is literally one of the most difficult things in all of CRPG gaming. Ever! Aside from it being extremely competitive, you have to be a master at market exploitation, probabilities, gameplay mechanics, UI ergonomics, personal discipline, and more, to be top 10 material. Or at least any 80% of those. He picked the wrong hive to assimilate.

I’m holding out hope that he will come around. Maybe he will need to take a crash course in advanced POE gaming, Billy Madison style, and apologize for hopefully the right reasons.

But he’s in even bigger trouble now it seems. Elon has now retaliated against Asmongold, leaking private DMs and taking away his checkmark. Elon needs to get himself under control as this could get much worse. It’s an embarrassment to the country, frankly. Imagine if this had happened in October instead.
So we know the real reason why the government banned Tiktok [1]:

> [Manufacturing Consent] argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion", by means of the propaganda model of communication.

Tiktok doesn't push government propaganda to the same degree as Meta and Google.

But whoever pushed for this was smart enough to avoid making it about speech ("content-neutral" in legal parlance). It's strictly commerce-based and there's lots of precedent for denying access to the US market based on ownership. For a long time, possibly still to this day, foreign ownership of media outlets (particularly TV stations and newspapers) was heavily restricted. And that's a good analogy for what happened here.

What I hope happens is people wake up to the manipulation of what you see by US companies.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
This was a pleasant surprise for me as well. Actually it's an Android feature that just doesn't get exposed in actual Android phones, from my understanding. The ability to have profiles, where you can restrict app acquisition, but instead push apps from the root profile to sub profiles, is very powerful and useful. Very linux administration vibed. Also, it has app pinning, which lets you essentially make it so that user cannot exit the app that's pinned. If that isn't _exactly_ what parents have been searching for idk what is.
Can't get insurance -> can't get a mortgage -> can't buy a house
Neil Gorsuch is though and he signed on too. He even said that while he thought the government had to prove a higher standard than the opinion required, it didn’t matter to the decision because the government in his mind had met that even higher standard anyway.
It doesn't look like a cigar (very tricky documents) though. Hence the skepticism.
I have to say — I’m kind of amazed that anyone would expect privacy out of chat bot companies and products. You’re literally having a “conversation” with the servers of companies that built their entire product line using other people’s professional and personal output whether they approved, or even knew about it or not. Less a “it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission” sort of thing than a “we’d rather just not ask and be pretty cagey about it if they ask, and then if they prove it, tell them they tacitly agreed to it by not hiding it from us even though they had no way to know we were looking at it“ sort of thing. Frankly I’m astonished that open ai, specifically, promises as much as they do in their privacy policy. Based on their alleged bait-and-switch tactics quietly swapping out models or reducing compute for paying customers after the initial “gee wiz look at that” press cycle, I can’t imagine those privacy policies will have much longevity when the company gets a more stable footing… and whooops looks like they figured out how to extract the training data from the models! And it’s different data since we extracted it from the model so the old privacy policy doesn’t apply! Haha sorry, that’s business and we’re building a techno utopian society here, so you should feel honored to be included! You think Altman wouldn’t sell that in a heartbeat to try and fund some big moonshot product if they get clobbered in the marketplace? Never mind the sketchy girlfriend-in-an-app-class chatbots.

Don’t get me wrong — I absolutely think the privacy SHOULD be there, but I’m just shocked that anyone would assume it was. Maybe I’m being overly cynical? These days when I think I might be, in the end, it seems I wasn’t being cynical enough.
I guess so but it also has slower lines too especially for comedic delivery. The cultural references are good (now dated because Friends is 20-30 years old) because after learning a language, cultural references are next when it comes to fully being able to converse
Linking a paper with bizarre assumptions, regardless of what the title or abstract claims, simply can’t be productive or helpful.

It can only lower your credibility and the credibility of the associated arguments…
RSS can distribute a feed, but that's all it does. There's no discovery or search or ranking.
The solution for the other half of the problem is anti-trust divestment of client apps from hosted services. Let TikTok (and Faceboot, and so on) keep their own assortments of services. But the mobile and web apps should be spun out into different companies, only communicating with openly documented APIs that are available for every other developer/user.

This won't solve the issue with propaganda that still manages to be compelling in the court of public opinion, but it will at least level the playing field rather than having such topics inescapably amplified for "engagement" and whatnot. There's definitely a mechanic of people realizing specific social media apps make them feel bad, but as of right now it is extremely hard to switch to an alternative due to the anticompetitive bundling of client presentation software (including "the algorithm") with hosted services (intrinsic Metcalfe's law attractors).
https://x.com/tiktokpolicy/status/1880424906820608180

Tiktok themselves are saying they're going to "go dark."
I'm seeing many sites sending my behavior data to analytics.tiktok, will this be a part of the us blockade?
> most of the movies/shows China creates sucks. They're Marvel-esque CGI fests with awful storylines.

since we're here, what are some of the least bad modern Sci-fi/Horror movies/TV shows from China?
They only gave me access to the 'Gemini for Google Workspace' settings that allow me to turn it off when I complained to support.
Car shipping RORO vessels aren't LSTs... They can't beach and land tanks. Amphibian tanks can roll on and off amphibious assault ships, but this isn't it.
It's not encryption that's needed. It's authentication. How do you decide who's allowed to join your mesh if it runs on WiFi discovery?
> The 1948 terror campaign which created Israel

That's a very one sided view of a war that included many massacres and ethnic cleansing of the Jewish population as well
If you use chatgpt somehow saves you from making one trip to the doctor in your car it can offset the entire year worth of chatgpt usage in terms of co2 impact.
Lots of people suggesting that double click here means to click the mouse twice quickly but I believe it refers to clicking submit (once), then clicking the pop up button (once), to get two total clicks.
The title does not match the content.

A more appropriate title is "Emissions caused by chatgpt use are not significant in comparison to everything else."

But, given that title, it becomes somewhat obvious that the article itself doesn't need to exist.
To me the "ChatGPT is destroying the environment "card always felt somewhat like bad faith arguing from the anti-AI crowd trying to find any excuse for being against AI. Like, the same people who complained about "using AI is destroying environment" seemed to have no issue with boarding a plane which would emit a bunch of CO2 so that they can have a vacation in Europe or the like. Selective environmentalism.
I mean.... doing most things are bad for the environment. Do less of everything that you don't need to.
The best tool isn't always the most popular
Long-form armchair quarterbacking at its finest.
The section on training feels weak, and that's what the discussion is mainly about.

Many companies are now trying to train models as big as GPT-4. OpenAI is training models that may well be even much larger than GPT-4 (o1 and o3). Framing it as a one-time cost doesn't seem accurate - it doesn't look like the big companies will stop training new ones any time soon, they'll keep doing it. So one model might only be used half a year. And many models may not end up used at all. This might stop at some point, but that's hypothetical.
Sigma fp.
This is a great article for discussion. However articles like this must link to references. It is one thing to assert, another to prove. I do agree that heating/cooling, car and transport use, and diet play massive roles in climate change that should not be subsumed by other debates.

The flip side to the authors argument is that LLMs are not only used by home users doing 20 searches a day. Governments and Mega-Corporations are chewing through GPU hours on god-knows-what. New nuclear and other power facilities are being proposed to power their use, this is not insignificant. Schneider Electric predicts 93 GW of energy spent on AI by 2028. https://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/schneider-electric-pred...
The commerce clause has been used since the founding of the country for this sort of thing. I never saw a way for it to be called unconstitutional.
yeah that's not true. every study has shown over reporting activity and under reporting calories
> In the US social media platforms are designed to push content they want you to see

Who is they?

Anyway, you're wrong. TikTok pushes videos you want to see, while US app algos push content you are most likely to engage with. These are not the same thing. In fact, content one most engages with is content that generates outrage. Try not to get angry when you open Twitter. It's not easy.
Advise that will maybe last another 20 years at best.
That is so many bananas
> What I've learned is that since Switzerland has 3 official languages

Everyone always forgets Romansh...
I mean there have already been people reported to police or having all accounts cancelled for the kind of images most families have of their children growing up.

This entirely ignores what happens when you have states classifying telling a child “it’s ok to be gay/trans” as child abuse, or even just being gay/trans as a sex crime - which plenty of states in the US have said that they want to do.

Typically the same states and people that actively support child abuse by banning actual sex ed, and normalizing child molestation.
i think they could if they started with "show users content they like" instead of "keep users staring at the app for as long as possible". both result in more engagement and more ad dollars, but optimizing for the latter becomes a race to the bottom with increasingly extreme, polarizing, emotion-inducing content.

the blatant algorithm manipulation around elections and politics is just the icing on the cake. sure, china is probably doing this too, but they're either being more subtle or playing a longer game. meta et al may have come out ahead for a few quarters but what's that worth if user count is declining long term?
How much was the house worth?
Its either sweeter or creamier. I always get evaporated and condensed mixed up.