skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not putting words in OP’s mouth from the comment you’re replying to. But from my understanding, the default state of information is to spread itself, it’s an inherent characteristic. You have to put effort to suppress it (example making info classified or enforcing secrecy). If you don’t actively put effort into suppressing information, it will spread.
So is being delinquent on debts apparently.
I really think we could have a boom
There's a lot of economics where "if you do X, then Y" and I 100% do not doubt that's how it usually works.

The thing is that it feels like that since the housing crisis in the US Y following X doesn't seem as often to happen? Massive deficit spending was supposed to fire up hyper inflation then, and even during several efforts later ... didn't see it. The cycle of recessions seems to be turned off...

Just makes me wonder.
Big Zoos, yes. And they do some great research, as well as preservation and rehabilitation. But I've also been to a few small zoos in rural America that are essentially someone's private animal collection that they charge you a fee to see. I think those are less common than they used to be, but they do exist.
Moreover, if a government is funneling taxpayer money into the projects of a few citizens, that is a clear red flag of corruption. Whereas if private entities are deciding to invest their own capital into infrastructure, it's unclear what the complaint even is
> Fresh eggs, hell yes--they smell and look weird

You cannot reliably detect salmonella on a fresh egg with any human sense.

At least not prior to consumption.
Its likely true that more procedures are performed and more prescriptions written, but why are those procedures and prescriptions many times more expensive?

Economies of scale should make them cheaper. An MRI machine and technician that sits there unused half the day has to charge more per visit than one used all day long. Have too many customers? Get more machines and techs, now the MRI manufacturer is making more units, offering volume discounts...

Rationing of care doesn't explain why the individual units of care are themselves much more expensive. Compare inhaler prices in Canada vs the US, $10 in Canada $100 here[0], that isn't because too many of them are given out. It's theft.

Addendum: Further, the young and healthy ration their care quite a bit under the current system, they are taxed too heavily (to pay for the care of the elderly) to afford it for themselves so they go without.

[0]https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...
True. Centralization under the right leadership will always be more efficient than a decentralized system.

But if it's the wrong leadership, the results are far more catastrophic.

Centralization is high risk/high reward.
That's a pretty deceptive and ragebaity article.

If you look at the original video [1], starting at 1:09:00, he's talking specifically about police body/dashcams recording interactions with citizens during callouts and stops, not everyone all the time as that article strongly implies. The USA already decided to record what police see all the time during these events, so there's no new privacy issue posed by anything he's suggesting. The question is only how those videos are used. In particular, he points out that police are allowed to turn off bodycams for privacy reasons (e.g. bathroom breaks), which is a legitimate need but it can also be abused, and AI can fix this loophole.

In the same segment he also proposes using AI to watch CCTV at schools in real time to trigger instant response if someone pulls out a gun, and using AI to spot wildfires using drones. For some reason the media didn't condemn those ideas, just the part about supervising cop stops. How curious.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/events/financial-analyst-meeting-2024...
And how do I upload an image of my cat to my all new Hugo site?

WP lets me drag/drop or upload media very very easily. Has done for years.

Hugo? or indeed most SSG's?
What technological edge do they have exactly? Cheap, unregulated labor practices? A lack of environmental regulations?
You mean: bribery and economic pressure? It surely isn't cultural power.
OpenAI Reportedly Launching 'Operator' That Can Control Your Computer This Week
The next country that recognizes Taiwan as a state will find out.
I mean, yes. Shouting on a corner isn't in the same universe as broadcasting to the entire country/world or using billboards etc. People in the 1700s could not conceive of the way communication works these days.
So, DTrace with Wireshark UI?
(too late to edit)... Turns out it can indeed be flipped! The "left-right arrows" button beside the coordinates.
Samsung andMeta arelooking intoearbuds withcameras,followingApple'sAirPods' lead
I'm so confused by this reply. Could you please elaborate your interpretation of Chesteron's fence?
people who smoke on the daily have already tuned out cigarette smoke mentally, the burning hair however is rancid to anyone.
Speaking of nature parks instead of zoos, the San Diego Wild Safari Park is just that. Very large enclosed pastures with multiple species living alongside each other.
No, it's not. It heavily favors the elite to the point it ended up like it is today all over the world - halfway to plutocracy with a touch of oligarchy.
Agreed. There's value in being attuned to what's there. It's breadth-first learning.
Wireshark is to tcpdump as stratoshark is to strace.

Did I get the analogy right?
Beyond just IPs, there is a giant class of "DNS record pointing to X shared cloud resource that organization no longer controls" issues. The bigger the company, the more widespread the problem. These resource names get released back into a common pool that anyone can register.

Think:

* CNAME pointing to an S3 bucket, and the S3 bucket gets released

* CNAME pointing to Azure Website/WebApp Instance

* A record to an non-elastic IP, and the box gets rebooted

* DNS name using a Route53 name server that no longer part of the org's AWS account

* CNAME pointing to a Heroku/Shopify/GitHub pages account and the account gets deleted/deactivated freely up those names for registration

* MX record pointing to old transaction email provider start up that dies, and someone else registers that domain name...

Why does that happen?

* Decentralization of IT means people spinning up infrastructure not knowing what they are doing

* Great a spinning up infra, but when decomissioning they forget about DNS

* Lots of subsidiaries, lots of brands, different groups, operating in different geographies. All this makes it difficult to discover and enforce proper policies

* Geo-specific websites/apps (Think of all the country-specific websites Coke runs)

* Using some 3rd party vendor and never telling security about it (Marketing spinning up some landing pages on some fly-by-night martech provider or wordpress host, and never turning them off)

I am the Field CTO at a venture backed Israeli cyber security company in this space. I was literally talking to a major computer part company yesterday about the dozen or so Indonesian gambling websites that are "running" on their domain names using their pagerank and links. This is a weekly conversation
Recursive Self-Modeling for Real-Time Introspection in LLMs
PixiJS
GDD: Generative Driven Design
> “I think this will be the most important project of this era,” Altman said on Tuesday. “We wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. President.”

Since when does "private capital" speak in such honeyed tones to state powers?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/tech/openai-oracle-softbank-t...
Show HN: Ridiculously simple way to generate a well-researched blog article
Most of us are busy building. I am too. But your website deserves a blog article. In fact, it needs one. So please generate one for free from just your website's url at https://writer.nuggt.io/

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According to article linked to below there are 48 million uninsured Americans. Fifteen percent of the UK population isn’t without coverage. The subsidies don’t work well.
> Can we just be real and just say we aren't advancing humanity with AI, it is just focused on automating out jobs.

I believe the goal is to advance humanity by automating out jobs.

I don't know if that is wishful thinking or if it will actually work (Nash equilibriums and politics make me suspect the former) but the idea that it was possible to do both at the same time was already a widespread meme in the spaces that culturally drive AI research of the sort we now see.

The idea that we can have both is also why optimistic people sometimes bring up (amongst other things) UBI in this context.

I'm really not sure what an individual can do to "prepare" for AGI; it's like trying to guess in 1884 if you should bet on Laissez-faire USA, the British Empire, or that manifesto you've heard of from Marx a few decades ago. And then deciding that, no matter what, the world will always need more buggy-whips and humans will never fly in heavier-than-air vehicles.
At a men's shelter I have seen the guys trash and refuse the carrots because they were purple. I think on some level a dignity thing kicks in. Like I will take the charity but I'm not going to let you treat me like a lesser person because of it. I tried explaining that the purple carrots were actually fancier but they weren't having it.
Ah heck, I should have added a section on PTSs, maybe I still will or maybe that will be standalone later. It really is gorgeous stuff!!
I love that the example video shows someone adding HN to the jump-scare list. I should probably do that…
They specifically select against folks like me (on multiple dimensions) so 0 * any-percentage still equals nada. I might be able to swing the second one when the market improves.
He’s white and that can’t be left out of it. Let’s not pretend race doesn’t matter in any of these things. It is a fact that he’s white and I’m guessing ALL of the Jan 6th people are too.
https://theconversation.com/the-reasons-for-shutting-down-ti...
There is 0.9 (repeating) apple.

edit:

Math is very precise, and has very obvious correct and incorrect answers. Language much less so. So when we have a question like this, it FEELS like there should be an obvious and precise answer because we are talking about math, BUT we are using language to talk about math, so we are going back to an imprecise realm; which may feel confusing and wrong.

This is also the effect behind the engagement bait word problems and order of operations problems you see on social media.
LEAN manufacturing has a high-level belief that machines should be made to work around humans rather than making humans work around the machine. Humans shouldn't have to make complex movements when working with the machine, rather the machines should be designed in a way that accounts for how humans work. Doing so improved outcomes

How might this similarly apply to AI & robots?
I sympathize completely.
Google wins UK injunction over YouTube block on Russian broadcasters
When Western brands came to China, they were forced to make joint ventures with local manufacturers. The entire exercise ended up being a lark disguising a massive technology transfer. (In BYD's case, it was with Daimler). The partners exclusively got cheaper components, startup subsidies, and government assistance.

Setting aside the lack of worker's rights and unions that makes Chinese manufacturing cheaper, the government is assisting these companies by eating up losses on the battery production and lithium mining. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-is-oversup...

If you try to read about BYD's lithium mining interests in places like Africa and Tibet, you will realize they are very cagey about the numbers on these deals.

Effectively these cars are being "dumped" on the market at an overall loss. The EU report (take it with a grain of salt) found that BYDs were artificially cheaper by 17%. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_... And this is after the markup they get in foreign markets.
This is a good point and I haven’t read the manifest as I’m in a bit of a rush. Chrome did do a lot of work improving the manifest for conditions like this in v3. I know with webRequest you have to specify urls but not sure if there is a separation of duties here in terms of

1. Permission to operate on any url page loaded locally and being able to modify the html/insert html like the clown image

2. Being able to webRequest http outbound to <any_url> where you could exfiltrate data.

I thought there was a way to insert html into any loaded page without having access to send outbound network requests.

If that is the case that it’s separate if the chrome extension were to be sold and the manifest were changed to allow nefarious behavior you would know.
This is quite the problem with the chrome extension ecosystem. It is rife with malware. How does someone build an extension that can promise better behaviour. There doesn’t seem to be a way to restrict oneself.

Even manifest changes aren’t “scary enough”.
Part of me thinks we need a new protocol, and a new lightweight web built around markdown with absolutely no (client side) active content allowed.

What I'm not sure about is how to combat bad actors / spammers / low-effort pages and AI slop. I'm leaning towards some kind of git-like storage with history as a mandatory part of the protocol, and some kind of cryptographic web-of-trust endorsement system.
iPhone has this nice accessibility feature where you can greyscale the screen, this along with putting the phone away in a distance that I would have to get up and walk to it made a huge difference in frequency of usage.
Modeling dataframes in Haskell using higher-kinded types
Nope, totally fine with me. I'll just assume you see the error of your ways.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42762755#42789029
Bun 1.2 Released with 90% Node.js Compatibility and Built-In S3 Object Support
Makes sense, you're right. I'm glad this single-use static file converter is $150. Thank you.
It won't work. Restricting hard to find and process radioactive elements vs math... Yeah good luck.
no book -> not a book
> In Germany it is currently illegal to criticise Israel.

Got any sources for this claim? Like an actual law?
Ask HN: How can AI replace coders if specifying behavior can be difficult?
Sometimes, it is easier to just code something yourself than to try to specify its behavior precisely for an AI.

Given a specification, an AI may write a program that resolves ambiguities in ways you may not like.

It would probably also be difficult to identify these undesirable behaviors by reviewing the generated code or testing it.

Therefore, it’s not clear to me that using an AI to generate code for novel apps or games would save time.
> > Private capital

Groupthink capital, directed by mostly 2 "thought leaders".

Economies don't like Groupthink Capital, regardless of it being private, public or a combination of the 2

Of course the US economy as a whole is huge so even billions can be absorbed, once you start talking about half a trillion though...
138,000 papers are "X is all you need", now 138,001

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=ro&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22i...
Can you offer some examples of issues that have arisen from using the rails-style template with access approach?
Replacing that monitor with an e-ink device could be interesting
You're right, my nephew bought a shack to fix up in Montana a few years back. But, I don't think that's what most people think of when they say the dream is alive.
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> A few hours later, MasterCard acknowledged the mistake, but said there was never any real threat to the security of its operations.

> “We have looked into the matter and there was not a risk to our systems,” a MasterCard spokesperson wrote. “This typo has now been corrected.”

Always the same. These statements make my blood boil.
Related: I didn’t see Sam Altman at the inauguration. Was he there?
That's not possible because jaywalking has a maximum penalty, and the judge can't exceed that maximum penalty.

A proper analogy would be something like two crimes, A and B, both with the same statutorily defined maximum penalty--life imprisonment--but where the typical sentence for A is much less for B. The defendant is found guilty of A, but the judge uses aggravating evidence to sentence them as-if it were B. But that highlights the fundamental problem: why would we have both A and B with the same maximum penalty, both covering the same or similar behavior? Often the point of A is to make convictions easier because proving B proved too onerous in practice.

What we want to get back to, and which almost every other jurisdiction implements around the world, including both systems thought to be far more fair than ours as well as less fair (for different reasons), is to have better tailored crimes, including penalties. One of the reasons we have so many felonies these days is because sentencing someone to jail for a single day on a misdemeanor offense for stealing a pack of gum for the 20th time can require a jury trial just as onerous as a felony offense with a 20 year sentence. Thus, if you want a more fair system, we probably may need to make it easier to sentence for smaller crimes with lighter sentences. IOW, lower the stakes so there isn't an arms race between punishment severity and procedural protections.

Most countries don't even require juries or panels for serious crimes, let alone light (i.e. misdemeanor) offenses. The shift to granting jury trials for any offense carrying possible jail time started in the early 1900s via Progressive Era reforms. Today only NYC (just NYC, not New York state) and, I think, South Carolina are the only jurisdictions[1] that don't grant a right to jury trials for misdemeanor offenses with jail time as a permitted punishment. Some other states nominally only provide for juries for 3+ or 6+ months of jail, but procedural precedent has resulted in courts effectively extending the right to any offense carrying jail time.

Note that the city of San Francisco has had for decades a public defender's office with equivalent or better resources (time, money, expertise) as the prosecutor's office, but the city sees the same interminable cycle as everywhere else.

[1] Also I think Federal jurisdiction, but purely misdemeanor cases without the threat of felony charges at the Federal level are pretty rare.
Thanks for confirming and thanks again for the amazing work.
To be more accurate, 们 isn't a plural marker more because of the fact that it's not productive[1], rather than the fact that Chinese doesn't have declension. If 们 were able to be suffixed to any noun to make it plural, then you could consider it to be a plural marker, even though the noun isn't technically declined. That's not the case anyway though, since 们 can only be used with a closed set of pronouns or in a limited way to refer to groups represented by the noun its attached to (in this sense it's more of a metonymic[2] marker rather than a plural marker). For example, 白宮们 can be used to translate "the White House" when it refers to the President and his administration, and cannot be used to mean "white houses".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_(linguistics)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
I think that might be a myth? If I tried buying a $0.50 candy bar with a hundred-dollar bill, I think that the cashier might refuse it and I don't think they'd get in trouble for doing so.

I thought the "legal tender" argument only worked in regards to debts to the government, though IANAL.
Ask HN: Great reflective podcasts (like Metamuse) on engineering and design?
I used to love the Metamuse podcast by Mark McGranaghan and Adam Wiggins. Reflective, a bit slow. I hit just the right mix of product, engineering and design. I’ve since added the localfirst.fm podcast to my collection, but have not yet found a podcast with a similar feel as Metamuse. Any recommendations to check out?
Then why not offer them a good (not great) nondisclosure deal?

"Discreetly let us know, at the earliest sign of vulnerability, sign a contract with NDA, and we'll investigate, fix, and compensate you promptly. We'll also publicly acknowledge, in vague terms, for your career development, that you successfully discovered a vulnerability that has been addressed. (But if you intrude beyond the boundaries we've clearly specified, then we don't have a business relationship, and we have appropriate government offices on speed-dial.)"

That's if the company wants NDA. I'm not saying that's how it should be done; just suggesting what seems like a more vendor relationship, business transaction way of being alerted to their own security mess-ups, if that's what they want.
Yes, and there are different points along that money axis where a reasonable society might choose to place regulations and restrictions (in the absence of a decree from the courts that it’s illegal to do so).
I just have to say. Such a beautiful and accessible website. No fluff, no ads, no distractions. I love it!
I worked in an organization with a low written structure. Creating unwritten structure is necessary consequence - each it happened as a reaction on serious dysfunction. And each time it improved things. And what you learned each time is that if you dont keep power, things will get very bad again.

Imo, that is argument for written structure. Written structure is easier to talk about openly talk about, reason about and fix. Unwritten structure is inferior consequence of its lack.
That's true, but I think they were referring to the saturated fat in cheese/dairy which does affect cholesterol
Nah, training efficiency, inference efficiency, and compute availability all have enough headroom that the third-party and grassroots models will become increasingly available.

The current leaders basically need to either (1) break through the capability ceiling before everybody else catches up, or (2) construct law/regulation that keeps everybody else out of the game. #1 is uncertain, but #2 is well-understood business.

Since they all share that same interest (they'll be duking it with each other either way), the result is an "industry wide" effort to artificially close the door behind them.
It's kinda like how Linux's RNG code has no special case to keep from outputting 123456789.

Seriously?!?

Everybody knows that's not a random number.
I think folks in desperate situations .... could use the gift of allowing them some dignity / choices. If you're in a bad spot your choices are so limited.

Don't want to go too far down the religious hole considering where some folks have taken religion, but the whole story of Jesus washing people's feet wasn't just about his own humility / setting an example. I think it was also about treating others with some respect.
The VR investment was a calculated risk that may or may not pay off in a longer time horizon. Meta is the leading VR company and well-positioned to benefit the most from whatever comes from the industry in the future.

The demand for more AI compute is already here and is less risky of an investment.

"Centralized planning" was effective under Bell Labs
The interesting thing is predator and prey both die when they get too slow. Not sure which side has a worse ending there! Then there's disease or even a simple scratch getting infected.

The world's a brutal place, probably all worlds. Because the very nature of evolution means species that exploit the most thrive the most. The obvious exception of things like a solar feeding plant isn't even an exception. The great oxidation event caused one of the greatest mass extinctions on the planet - we evolved to thrive on oxygen but for most of the other life alive at the time it'd be like if plants today produced cyanide gas.
Towards Functional Decomposition of Storage Formats [pdf]
PQConnect: "TLS is a very large programming project." [pdf]
I'm starting to use Claude.ai more and more instead of googling. For the moment this seems to cut through the noise of the modern web.
Thank you. I've dabbled in audio for 25 years and had no idea these existed.