skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not specific to Bluesky. I’ve seen it on Threads, X, Facebook, and Reddit. It’s a talking point for people who hate AI and they tell anybody who will listen.
You can't say "there is good evidence" and then not provide the evidence. If you're talking about the study about hash tag counts, that's not good evidence. https://www.cato.org/blog/lies-damned-lies-statistics-mislea...
NJT is indeed quite awful with OTP (83%[^1]), train cancellations[^2], reliability[^3], and transparency. However, through-running is also an opportunity for this to improve because, while bad in many ways as well, the MTA is well a class above NJT.

The MTA publishes live GTFS-RT feeds of all of its trains, NYCT, LIRR, and MNRR. There is also https://radar.mta.info/, which shows a map of the entire MTA's commuter railroads' network with every single train, including both MTA passenger trains, Amtrak trains, out of service trains, and work trains. It shows their location, their current speed, their train number, their car length, how late they are, their past and future predicted schedule adherence, and how many people are in each car on the train. The MTA's TrainTime app, which shows much of this information, too, is also leagues better than the NJT app.

So while through-running and integration is an opportunity for NJT to degrade the MTA, it is also a massive opportunity for NJT to improve, especially with regards to data and transparency, which is less of a physical issue. For example, Amtrak's transparency is a lot worse than the MTA's, too, and yet they show up on radar.mta.info all the same, albeit with a bit less info (like passenger counts per car, as their cars don't have automatic passenger counters).

[^1]: The MTA's OTP for LIRR and MNRR are a lot higher (98.5% for MNRR, 95.65% for LIRR). However, these are based on heavily padded timetables, padded by as much as 50% on the New Haven Line (a GCT-Stamford express, Stamford-New Haven local takes about 2:00 today, but could do it in about 1:20 with normal 7% padding and no artificial (non-geometric) speed limits: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/02/19/new-york-new-h...). So they essentially add in expected extreme delays so that they never appear late. However, NJT does this, too, and still has much worse OTP.

[^2]: https://www.curbed.com/article/nj-transit-commuter-train-ser... (https://archive.is/smk68)

[^3]: Besides the NEC catenary, which Amtrak owns and is in an awful century-old state, NJT trains themselves have terrible mean distance between failures (MDBF), averaging about 49k miles (https://www.njtransit.com/improve/on-time-performance/rail#:...) compared to about 800k miles for Metro-North's M8s, 16x worse.
I read what you quoted as a matter of fact statement, not an assertion of what is ethically righteous

But with that, I don't agree that it's a fact, maybe the FCC regulates what you broadcast on radio and TV, but if you don't take federal funding, the government doesn't really have a pull in what is created or prompted AFAIK. Journalists in the press pool may trade subservience for access but that's about it.
One of the most imminent problems with the environment isn't due to plastic pollution (which is of course terrible, might well have unforseen ramifications via micro plastics, and is impacting negatively biodiversity), but CO2 and other gases impacting climate.

While we should strive to fix both, it's more important in the short term to limit the amount of CO2 pollution before it's too late.
> Ultimately it comes down to market forces, even if the market looks very strange, with essentially one buyer and one seller.

That isn't really a market.

Suppose you have a government that requires everyone to pay for public health insurance, effectively eliminating the market for private insurance because hardly anybody buys private insurance when they both already have public insurance and have paid the money they'd have used to buy it in taxes. Then the government insurance declares the maximum price they'll pay. Is there any meaningful way to distinguish this from price controls? The vast majority of customers can't afford the drug without insurance and the government is the insurance company and is setting the price through regulation.

In particular, notice that this has all of the problems of price controls. There is no real market to enable price discovery, no effective way for customers to switch insurers and thereby punish insurers who pay too much and have high premiums or pay too little and have poor coverage, it's just regulators making up a number and saying take it or leave it.

And even at that, you shouldn't have a problem for generic drugs because then the insurance can just put it out for bids and still have price discovery (i.e. a lowest bidder). But here we're talking about brand new drugs that are still under patent, which have one supplier because they're supposed to be expensive because that's the incentive for the drug companies to fund the R&D and cause them to exist to begin with.
Recently I have posted about RSDS (really simple decentralized syndication) - a protocol that tries to solve RSS content global discovery problem. Here is the link if you are interested to read more about it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42654891
Machine learning isn't Kaggle competitions (2014)
> Like if this is a crowdsourcing project, why not do a first pass with an LLM and present users with both the image and the best-effort LLM pass?

Possibly for the reason that came up in your other post: you mentioned that you spot checked the result.

Back when I was in historical research, and occasionally involved in transcription projects, the standard was 2-3 independent transcriptions per document.

Maybe the National Archive will pass documents to an LLM and use the output as 1 of their 2-3 transcriptions. It could reduce how many duplicate transcriptions are done by humans. But I'll be surprised if they jump to accepting spot checked LLM output anytime soon.
It's a cool phenomena tbh if I was rich enough to go to college I would love to do a thesis on it

We know both China and the US are nation states with global ambitions so it would be logical for both to use digital platforms to surveil and perform social engineering.

We also have had whistleblowers on both sides that have come forward and said this is a common practice. We also know based on simple game theory it is in the interest of any nation state to do so not just the US or China

But even on a site like HN that presents itself as rational and factual the sentiment is the US does not do any surveillance or social engineering.

And for the life of me I just don't understand why maybe nationalism? Or the aforementioned social engineering being so effective? But it is so cool to see
RSS is indeed worth advocating for. One of its greatest strengths is its simplicity.
DJI's sub-$450 Flip drone folds, follows, and flies for over 30 minutes
X is rolling out labels for parody accounts
Text that is _intentionally constructed_ to fool computers but not humans is obviously out of scope. But they’re generally easily solved with OCR these days anyway.
Because maybe they dont understand the feature and are panicking over nothing? (or maybe they do, but there's only one way to find out)
Yes, a big multi government marketing campaign "Just don't eat meat 1 or 2 days a week" can definitely work. E.g. friday is "Fish day" in a lot of places (education/public) due to Catholic church influences.

Just need a catchy word and campaign for "Veggie Wednesday".
> videos appear genuine and wholesome

That doesn’t mean they aren’t hyper-optimized for monetization, though
> Apparently, American users want this? Approximately 700k users have joined RedNote, a Chinese platform. It's out of the frying pan and into the fire for Americans.

There are 335 million Americans, and a lot of them are stupid and/or foolish.
Damn the servile simp responses here are revealing. They are setting precedence and will use this on other things. Yes TikTok and many apps are used by many hostile foreign governments (Israel/Unit 8200 for example) (btw, RedNote got it's big boost when backed by Israeli investor Yuri Milner and his firm DST) for many psyop types...

That doesn't mean you get to control what Americans can do on their devices.

Boiling the frog...
Then please provide a single example that we can’t instantly solve. Happy to prove them wrong.
The article could indeed be written by the same kind of people, given it glances over training cost as if AI companies aren't pushing datacenter power/gpu capacities to the limit to produce incrementally better models by brute force. It all falls apart as soon as you stop individualizing the numbers and add back in all of the supposedly non-recurring (but actually recurring because we can't stop ourselves from redoing it) cost.
Recommended reading: "The Banquet Years" by Roger Shattuck (1955)
Ask HN: How can I get structured outputs from AWS Bedrock?
Just FYI — I'm not an ML person. I was trying out Bedrock and wanted a reliable way to get JSON responses from the Llama 3.3 model on AWS Bedrock. Is there a better way than just prompting?

I have previously tried running Llama on Ollama locally and it works great since it's supported out of the box.

I have looked into outlines + vllm, but that requires a powerful machine + GPU to produce structured outputs, and that's just wasteful, because I would be better off hosting my own Llama and using ollama.
Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?
Its been some time since this question was asked. Every RSS reader I've used so far sucks. Either the built-in web support is poor or it stops fetching the feeds or renders then poorly. Sorry for my frustration, but I would like to know what everyone else is using and if they are satisfied with their RSS reader.
> But it only happens when somebody borrows money, and somebody only borrows money if they think they can use that money to make even more money---i.e. improve their productivity.

You might remember years ago during ZIRP when most of us on HN figured out this "infinite money glitch". Basically as long as you're willing to start a company, and know who to talk to, you could issue shares, borrow money, buy assets, use them as collateral to borrow more and basically have all the money you need for the rest of your life.

It was a severe red pill and rather cool. Money really is free. Productivity is a story one learns how to tell but is not really related to how loans are taken or given.

I think most people understand this about loans at some level, if credit card debt is any indicator.
I think there are two slightly different issues here!

1. SVGs generated by Mermaid use the SVG 2 features, but other than browsers, most libraries only support SVG 1.1 features, i.e. <https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/issues/2102>, which is what the other comment mentioned.

2. Mermaid requires a browser layout engine to render the diagrams (your issue), i.e. <https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/issues/3650>. This is something I also really want to fix (I maintain the [`mermaid-js/mermaid-cli`][1] project and we need to use Puppeteer/Headless Chrome to render mermaid diagrams, which isn't ideal.) However, I don't think this would be easy, since we'd need a browserless tool that supports a browser-like layout engine (although I'm hoping that [Servo][2] might eventually be able to support it).

And if you do want to do headless renders of Mermaid diagrams, I'd recommend using (or adapting, since the code is all MIT licensed and I'm not aware of one that uses Selenium):

- <https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli>, which uses Puppeteer as the headless browser API.

- <https://github.com/remcohaszing/mermaid-isomorphic>, which uses Playwright as the headless browser API.

And make sure that whatever server is doing the headless renders of Mermaid diagrams has all the correct fonts installed!

[1]: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

[2]: https://servo.org/
The alternative is me saying that appealing to their “expertise” is an appeal to authority fallacy that flies in the face of general evidence that modern OCR is far better than humans at character recognition. Especially random non specialized humans.
I'm still waiting for https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/ to catch.
There are other real estate grabs through-running could support. Through-running plans often include a Sunnyside Yards station where Metro-North Penn Station Access (PSA) trains from Hell Gate meet LIRR trains to Penn and Grand Central Madison (GCM), which would also distribute some of the passenger loads out of Penn, which is more constrained. A station here would mean you could also deck over the 180-acre railyard and build skyscrapers (the MTA is exempt from zoning) for some 50k people (about the same population density of Yorkville in the UES) with direct commutes to Penn and Grand Central.
This is actually so cool it's the first study I have seen that tries to use numbers kind of hilarious they did not filter scrapped posts by date to account for TikTok being a newer platform. Some data engineer got a promotion off that study too probably :)

Another thing they did not take into account is the presence of social engineering botnets that can be used by both sides (if record labels have them I'm sure anyone rlse can too)
NewsBlur
> the fact that such a tool is in a foreign country's arsenal is itself a massive danger to America's national security

This implies people outside the US should relate the same way to Meta, X, etc. (Which seems fine to me, just pointing it out)
> You can't say "there is good evidence" and then not provide the evidence

Unfortunately very common these days; people who say this probably hope that they won't ever be asked to provide receipts.
This is a great initiative. Large tech companies, through hijacking our web experience and pursuing maximum scale, have normalized not being able to talk to a human being on the other side of a website/app/business.

In many situations you _can_ just send an email. Most often someone will read it and be very happy to help out if they can. Not always, but how much of a time and effort investment is an email really?

The best part is that a few kind words can absolutely make someone’s week.
Would be much more interesting if this ranked based on severity of misdiagnosis. An LLM that is 50% better at diagnosing a common cold but missed sepsis 10% more often would not be an overall improvement.
So this person, as a system administrator, wants to be able to sacrifice security for his personal convenience so he can login from anywhere. Does not sound like a system administrator that actually prioritises the right things. Security, especially if its not your own system, should always come first.
Hey Dani, do you have any videos of prototypes in operation?
Public transit is not miserable everywhere. In Central European countries it can be quite enjoyable.
Right now I am reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer for the first time and guess what, back in 1984 there are uses of “they” in a situation where gender of a hypothetical singular third person is irrelevant. It is not confusing in the slightest, compared to a completely new artificially created word.
I don’t think Zuckerberg is a major donor. He gave some pocket change to Trump’s inauguration but was there anything more?

He kind of sat out this election cycle (despite being a major Democrat donor previously) because I guess he saw where the wind is blowing…
I don't know... The baseball error videos TikTok keeps sending me are making me want to seize the means of production.
It's interesting that he linked an inexpensive "260W GaN USB-C Charging Station".

It's less than $30 with a coupon, which seems to good to be true.

A look at the Amazon 2-star reviews suggests it has good build quality but can only output 75W to 100W total, not 260W as advertised.
I blame the Zuck algorithmic feed ruined it all he was my favorite out of all the feudal barons too :(
Also, you seem to have taken issue with the phrase “random humans” because you’re confused at what’s being done here. It is random humans. Non experts.

Experts are asking for the help of non experts.

> Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives’ digital catalog more accessible
The british are always the ones to blame :')
That's clever, but i feel like it would be difficult to pull off in practise.

Also i wonder if the suggested mitigation can somehow be worked around by somehow preloading the page into the bfcache.
Since my birth the population of earth has almost doubled.
I assumed it was the 300 because that was the big overhaul with a new marketing name, and the 400 is often only described as a stretched 300.

I can't actually find a single source on which one it was.
As a millennial, I use TikTok as a “normie” version of Reddit. The algorithm has a similar vibe. It puts content in front of me that I’m likely to be interested in, exposing me to quite a diverse set of content. The instagram/youtube algorithms don’t come anywhere close in comparison.

It’s a guilty pleasure in the dopamine sense, but also surfaces a lot of informative content if you bias towards that! I suppose it depends how you use it.
yes, and they do. Even the US allies in Europe don't completely trust the US with their citizens data, hence the on-shore data requirements. This is despite the US is footing the bill for Ukraine and, by extension, defending Europe right now.
As a general PSA, youtube channels have an RSS feed to alert you when a favourite creator releases a new video.

The form is

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2wdo5v...

where channel_id is the channel hash code which is buried in the source for the "nicely named" channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@CuttingEdgeEngineering

and can be found without source diving via (say) FeedBro (RSS browser extension) "Find Feeds in Current Tab" function.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
What methods have you tried?
Google+ famously instituted real name policies before it was cool. You used to get banned on Facebook for using a nickname but I think drag queens pushed back, god bless.

(2014) https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/09/28/35...
Not to mention the app is already banned in China, along with many others.
I use digital ocean (a cloud provider) droplets. I know exactly what my bill will be at the end of the month.
To stop myself scrolling hacker news multiple times a day I created https://rssby.email and I’ve been using it successfully since 2020.
Love RSS, been using (and paying for) miniflux for a few years now.

Do someone knows a way to retrieve RSS feeds URLs for any podcast that would be hosted on major platforms? (Spotify, Apple Music)

I subscribed to podcast having some hosted website (where they are publishing the RSS feed from) but most of them don’t
The link the article uses to source the 60 GWh claim (1) appears to be broken, but all of the other sources I found give similar numbers, for example (2) which gives 50 GWh. This is specifically to train GPT-4, GPT-3 was estimated to have taken 1,287 MWh in (3), so the 50 GWh number seems reasonable.

I couldn't find any great sources for the 200 plane flights number (and as you point out the article doesn't source this either), but I asked o1 to crunch the numbers (4) and it came up with a similar figure (50-300 flights depending on the size of the plane). I was curious if the numbers would be different if you considered emissions instead of directly converting jet fuel energy to watt hours, but the end result was basically the same.

[1] https://www.numenta.com/blog/2023/08/10/ai-is-harming-our-pl...

[2] https://www.ri.se/en/news/blog/generative-ai-does-not-run-on...

[3] https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-hidden-cost-...

[4] https://chatgpt.com/share/678b6178-d0e4-800d-a12b-c319e324d2...
> and it’s completely clear to me that one side is getting it entirely wrong and spreading misleading ideas

What a great way to start an article. I get it as: "I am not open to listening to your arguments, and in fact if you disagree with me, I will assume that you are a moron".

It reminds me of people saying "planes are not the problem: actually if you compare it to driving a car, it uses less energy per person and per km". Except that as soon as you take a passenger in your car, the car is better (why did you assume that the plane was full and the car almost empty?). And that you don't remotely drive as far with your car as you fly with a plane. Obviously planes are worse than cars. If you need to imagine people commuting by car to the other side of the continent to prove your point, maybe it's not valid?

The fact is that the footprint of IT is increasing every year. And quite obviously, LLMs use more energy than "traditional" searches. Any new technology that makes us use more energy is bad for environment.

Unless you don't understand how bad the situation is: we have largely missed the goal of keeping global warming to 1.5C (thinking that we could reach it is absurd at this point). To keep 2C, we need to reduce global emissions by 5% every year. That's a Covid crisis every year. Let's be honest, it probably won't happen. So we'll go higher than 2C, fine. At the other end of the spectrum, 4C means that a big stripe (where billions of people live) around the equator will become unlivable for human beings (similar to being on Mars: you need equipment just to survive outside). I guess I don't need to argue how bad that would be, and we are currently going there. ChatGPT is part of that effort, as a new technology that makes us increase our emissions instead of doing the opposite.
Neither are a joke.

The exploit requires pages to load instantly. The first person was saying it usually takes a few hundred ms to load a page (at least). The second person points out that you can load the page in the background so it is in the local browser cache already, in which case loading is near instant.
> This is something that I probably care about more than most people, because as a system administrator I want to be able to log in to my desktop even in quite unusual situations.

If I understand correctly you can have your SSH key entirely on a Yubikey if you use PIV or OpenPGP.
Httpbun Mixer – build simple test/mock APIs for testing HTTP clients
Httpbun is an HTTP server similar to httpbin.org, but has a few more bells. One of them is the `/mix` endpoint, and the Mixer tool.

With httpbin, we can't have an endpoint that responds with, say, 400 status code, _and_ an HTML body with a script injection, for when I need to test any HTTP client. This is possible with `/mix`. Here's the Mixer URL for such an endpoint: https://httpbun.com/mixer/s=400/b64=PHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgiaW5q....
I detect an undercurrent of pride that drives you to ascribe undue agency to your work. "Brainwashing" isn't real. Bleak material circumstances sow division, not memes. Oversocialized urban professionals have only pushed this narrative because media is an abstract low-friction environment where they can pretend to still exert control and avoid ever addressing real problems.

A "national security risk" is only a problem for the national security apparatus itself—not actual Americans. Kids don't want to die for their government because its failures have already shaped so much of their personal lives. It's evident in their rents, their student/medical bills, and the character of their neighborhoods. It's rather insulting to say shifty Chinamen are tricking them in all this.
It's sad because the HN crowd is technically maximally (?) literate and should be one of the last communities to even remotely buy the debunked story.

It's scary because if even those in the know are not resistant to such BS, who else is going to shield the general public from populism-fueled pushes to anarchy or worse? Detoriation of trust in media is one of the building blocks of that, and if even the experts of subject areas are fooled and/or don't care enough, all hope may be lost.

The silver lining though is that the HN submission got pushback in terms of comments and an eventual flagging.