skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article addresses this exact argument.

In some domains "good enough" or "the ends justify the means" are acceptable. In this domain the author clearly feels there is a significant moral requirement to satisfy.
If you're in a group like this where people are seriously concerned about their location being discovered by governments or by their own contacts, anyone in that group who is not already on a VPN all the time is either ignorant or nuts.
That’s post hoc rationalisation. Other cultures had basically the same outcomes without the oppression and obscurantism.
This is a list of proposed metrics, not things attributed
Most don't require a subscription before a trial.

I'm paying for a fitness app subscription that annually is less than 1 month of gym membership. But I had a 7 day trial which got me hooked before I had to sign up for the subscription.
They pretty much told everyone that a proper integration for OpenSSL would take years. The server API seems to be in an early review state and slowly progressing.

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/feature/quic-server
For me, I think one of the biggest issue is how incredibly boring the startup landscape has become. Who here is seriously passionate about doing SaaS #9001 which will contain a chatgpt wrapper and yet another series of buzzword to attract VC funding instead of actual users?

There's a ton of big, real problems with our world at the moment, and I don't see the startup scene attacking any of those.
The ACM Siggraph 50th Anniversary
Hotspot from the watch would kill the battery life.
> It’s like anecdotes you hear from religious people during a disaster. “I lost five of my kids. But I’m so thankful that God looked out for me and saved one”

I am glad you edited your comment slightly because it was worse than what remained (which is still terrible and insensitive).

That said, one of my favorite quotes, by Mark Twain is:

"A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way".

Which is to say that it is impossible for most to align with the mind of someone who loses a business, or much worse, a child, without having held that cat by the tail. And so, your comment, while misplaced, is understandable because you don't have a good frame of reference.

Additionally, in my particular case, well, the 2008 economic implosion caught most everyone by surprise. It was like a nuclear bomb dropped. Few saw it coming. Millions of businesses went down. Millions of people lost their homes and jobs. And, while I not, by any means, perfect and without mistake in my life, I find it hard to interpret such a catastrophic exogenous factor as a personal failure. Sure, it would have been nice to have had $10MM in the bank to survive it. Most non-VC companies do not have this luxury. We had five million dollar sale contracts evaporate overnight when our customers, in turn, had their banks materially reduce or cancel lines of credit. We had customers send truckloads of our products back to help us because they were filing for bankruptcy and the courts would have grabbed hold of our (unpaid) products and they would have been stuck in the hands of a trustee for months, even more than a year. Etc.

Like I said, sometimes you have to hold the cat by the tail to really understand.
It still seems like a meaningless distinction, Buddhism also rests on claims of real world events: the Buddha is a historical figure, the story of his enlightenment being a factual happening is key to the belief system.

There are ways of interpreting and practicing Buddhism in which this is less important (eg modernist, psychological, western), but that's also true of Christianity (eg the Jefferson Bible, Unitarians, etc).
The "Post Office Horizon scandal" mentioned looks to be this one:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
It absolutely varies a lot within Europe too, but my feeling at least is that the difference between European and US portion sizes gets bigger as you move towards low-end places. High-end restaurants are pretty similar in portion sizes almost everywhere I've been, presumably because they're not competing on portion sizes, while lower-end places are much more susceptible to local expectations of what is good value.
Your conclusions seem overly optimistic. Best healthcare? You'll get economically-optimized healthcare - in other words, at some point when you have no economic value left, or your healthcare costs exceed what you're willing and able to pay, care will be shut off. Best education? It will be full of bias inserted by the programmers, with no way to debate or consider alternate viewpoints. And who's going to spend time learning anything when the AI is deployed to do all the possible work anyway?
Replace your diet fad with a journaling fad.
This is really cool! I can see the list of your supported Connectors on the site. How could I create custom integrations in Pica that would be accessible via the AI SDK?
LLMs without agendas are dangerous for believers, politicians, clergy, and swindlers. These groups usually tell stories; their audience listens to them without any question or verification. LLMs without agendas: users usually ask-prompt to llms. People who ask-demand are dangerous for the group that I mentioned above. More questions bring more suspects.Also, they want to verify it. Knowledge and experience make the people free. How will they be able to continue their work? if llms with an agenda can also be dangerous. because if the people begin to ask the question... some people won't like this.
> One of my friends wanted a bio on a certain musician and asked ChatGPT.

I use ChatGPT (or Gemini) instead of web searches. You can blame the content and link farms that are top of the search results, and the search engines focusing on advertising instead of search, because we're the product.

Why your friend doesn't know about wikipedia is another matter, if i wanted a generic info page about some topic i'd go directly there. But if i wanted to know if Bob Geldof's hair is blue, I might ask a LLM instead of reading the whole wikipedia page.

I also ask LLMs for introductory info about programming topics i don't know about, because i don't want to go to google and end up on w3schools, geeksforgeeks and crap like that.

I don't really trust LLMs for advanced programming topics, you know, what people pay me for. But they're fine for giving me a function signature or even a small example.
It doesn't help that food manufacturers intentionally make it hard to measure nutrition from most of their foods. They play around with serving sizes to hide carbohydrates making you have to do math just to keep up.

Sometimes they will round down on grams of macros after setting the serving size so they can claim it has zero sugar when it does in fact have tons of sugar. Tic-tacs are the worst about this. They claim they have zero everything despite just being sugar tablets.
So, it's like the [Spectre] attack against CPUs: trigger an access from a privileged context, check if the access has filled in some cache, infer privileged information from that.

It seems that time and again, security-enforcing procedures assume that many functions they invoke are pure, but in reality these functions have side effects, and these effects are observable much easier than the security requires.

The actual problem here that the secured area is only the stuff that came through the encrypted channel. Any access beyond it, like following a link, is obviously insecure. If the link was sent via the secure channel, it becomes even less secure because it allows to observe a correlation between the secure channel (otherwise impenetrable) and the insecure outside context, and allows to blow (some of) the cover. Opening links via Tor would mitigate it a bit.

The hard truth here is that almost everything may have observable side effects, so opsec needs to permeate all aspects of life, the more cover you need, the fuller. This is mostly incompatible with a convenient UX, but, to be popular, a secure messenger has to be reasonably convenient. This necessarily limits the level of security attainable by its casual use.

[Spectre]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...
A version number having two parts does not mean its major/minor.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,

To love that well, which [we'll defund] ere long.
We have one of these small little local magazines that prints every two weeks with all the local events and stories and humor. It's free (paid for by ads for local businesses), and delivered in bundles to all the local outfits.

At first, I thought it was a little bit silly to start a print magazine in 2020, but honestly, it's amazing and everyone loves it. I look forward to each new edition. And they become hard to find cause people grab them so quickly!

Huge hit, highly recommend. But remember: it's a huge hit not because it's a print magazine; it's a hit because the execution of the couple that manage it. They're top-notch, and it's a "hobby" for them, not their main jobs.
low trust economy is basically techno fascism. This is what a pre-cyberpunk distopia looks like, and while the first impacts appear towards progress, it's unlikely going to be about progress but cementing the technocrats and oligarchs.
Don't you mean homogeneous of degree one?
Chasing this tangent a bit -- I have never been happy with the Monty Hall problem as posed.

To me the problem is that it is posed as a one-shot question. If you were in this actual situation, how do you know that Monty is not deliberately trying to make you lose? He could, for example, have just let you open the first door you picked, revealing the goat. But he chose to ask you to switch, then maybe that is a big hint that you picked the right door the first time?

If the game is just "you will pick a door, he will reveal another door, and then you can choose to switch" then clearly the "usual" answer is correct; always switch because the only way you lost is if you guessed correctly the first time (1/3).

But if the game is "try to find the car while the host tries to make you lose" then you should never switch. His ideal behavior is that if you pick the door with the goat then he gives you the goat; if you pick the door with the car then he tries to get you to switch.
Proceeds to have zero packages
About yesterday: Even the ADL said to cool our jets on calling it a fascist/Nazi salute. This leaves you a choice:

1. The ADL, despite being the most sensitive to what would happen to their people in an actual fascism, is still backing Trump (and Trump's people) because Trump is pro Israel, and they're willing to back Trump and take the risk of disaster coming to America in order to buy some support (for a time) for Israel.

2. The ADL actually knows what they're talking about, and is telling it straight, and everybody's overreacting to a false similarity.

Even if you don't recognize that 2 is actually a real possibility, at least some others do.

Look, there's plenty not to like about Musk, and about him having influence in the Trump administration. (There's plenty not to like about Trump, too.) But this may not be the clear red line that you think.

Or it may be. If so, then the ADL is either complicit or blind.
Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions
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Its completely open source and will always be free! There is an affiliate link in the app for nfc tags and donations are completely optional

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I was taught to not use calculators on exams and homework and that’s why I am able to do math in my head today.

I have recently seen GenZ perplexed by card games with addition and making change. For millennials, this is grade school stuff.
That’s not something I can get, so it’s not really relevant. There is always a better device around the corner.
>I went through the post quickly, but didn’t get why Signal would just download an attachment from an unknown number/contact without first prompting the user to accept or deny the conversation request.

Where are you getting the impression that signal auto-downloads attachments from an unknown number/contact? The OP says there's auto-download, but not that it happens from unknown contacts.
I counted calories and put everything on a scale, for about 2 or 3 months in 2022 (iirc). And you are 100% right. I had absolutely no idea how much calories some food has. There were a lot of things, but I think cashews were my biggest eye opener (probably obvious to a lot of people). I easily achieved my goal of -10kg and saved A LOT of money, because I always had food prepared. And since I was going for a calorie deficit, I easily could afford a few sweets on the weekend.

Then I obviously got lazy. And while I sometimes still think I can estimate how much I am eating, I am probably wrong, because my bathroom scale says something different. My key takeaway is that it takes quite a bit of effort, but once you got into a routine, it's not hard.

Edit: Also, while I might have tried to ditch "wasted calories", I didn't put too much effort in eating healthy. One step at a time.
"Two and a half years ago, he went on Joe Rogan and said that the FBI had warned the company about the potential for hack and leak efforts put forth by the Russians, which Rogan and a whole bunch of people, including the mainstream media, falsely interpreted as “the FBI told us to block the Hunter Biden laptop story.”

Except that’s not what he said. He was asked about the NY Post story (which Facebook never actually blocked, they only — briefly — blocked it from “trending”), and Zuckerberg very carefully worded his answer to say something that was already known, but which people not listening carefully might think revealed something new:

The background here is that the FBI came to us – some folks on our team – and was like ‘hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump that’s similar to that’.

But the fact that the FBI had sent out a general warning to all of social media to be on the lookout for disinfo campaigns like that was widely known and reported on way earlier. The FBI did not comment specifically on the Hunter Biden laptop story, nor did they tell Facebook (or anyone) to take anything down."

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/rogan-misses-the-mark-ho...
Insulin injections as well. Also, just about every anti-depressant.
Yes exactly. I think the concern here is totally valid. But for me personally, having LLMs unblock me more quickly on each question I have has allowed me to ask more questions, to research more things in the same amount of time. Which is great!
Report on 911 emergency service over Wi-Fi [pdf]
Yes. Though at least in my market, that used to have delivery fees or minimum orders that made it unlikely you would order a single sandwich for lunch and have it delivered. The food delivery app services really emphasize that model of consumption but I'm not sure it's viable.
I don’t know why this comment is being downvoted. The website is indeed extremely embarrassing to anyone who thinks government is a serious business.
Not a disagreement with your take, which was helpful to me, but just your parenthetical aside.

Homogenous of degree 0, which is key to the conditions of the results in OP, means f(tx) = t^0 f(x) = f(x)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_function]
What kind of psychopath would trudge through a leak to see if their child ask a religious question to an LLM?
>I see no reason why AI can’t be a part of the discussion to interpret Scripture in a modern context.

This isn't what the article argued against. The product was being marketed in a very specific way that seems to undermine a group identity the author is part of.
The order "shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order", so you're unaffected even if the order were somehow upheld.

A future child in your situation would not gain American citizenship, and I think you asked a legitimate question. The immigration system is particularly sensitive to executive power, and thus likely to show the biggest near-term effects.
The peacock is a product of competition. Of course the competition was for passing on genes, not survival, so the peacock developed a massive tail which is a huge waste of resources and attracts predators. But surviving with such a handicap is super sexy to other peacocks.

Competition is great at meeting the criteria of the competition. If the competition values anything other than innovation, like say grant money awarded or social standing, it is suboptimal for promoting innovation.
> Are there any similar tools that aren't browser dependent?

We might come up with something like this ;) What platform do you use for meetings? Or these some other issue for it being made for Chrome?
“Engineers did this to themselves…”

Long, long ago, the compact was that employees worked hard for a company for a long time, and were rewarded with pensions and opportunities for career advancement. If you take away the pensions and take away the opportunities for career advancement, your employees will advance their careers by switching companies—and the reason that this works so well is because all of the other companies would rather pay more to hire a senior engineer rather than take a risk on a junior.

It’s a systemic problem and not something that you can blame on employees. Not without skipping over a long list of other contributing factors, at least.
Funny how the animals having no problems figuring it out.
Turned on by default as part of a firmware update.
Bill Gates also gave billions of dollars to the world for free, it's just a question of which one is more praiseworthy. I could be convinced Gates was not more impactful than Salk, but he's definitely in the running for top 100 best overall human beings in terms of positive impact on the world, in stark contrast to the claim that tech billionaire have contributed nothing
I'm a big fan of European serving sizes compared to U.S. for food – but when it comes to beverages, particularly water, I can't believe how much they charge you for how little they give. I understand everything comes in bottles with VAT but even asking for tap water I found they'd only bring a very small glass.
I think relaxing immigration for more women immigrants to provide childcare would be fine with most Anericans.
I don’t think we need to use the pre prefix anymore. This is legit with all hallmarks.
you're arguing local, short term benefits with global long term damage.

Very near sighted, but an actual problem government, good governance, has struggled with absolutely. Part of the techno fascism is emerging because people are entirely easily manipulated with todays egg prices and not tomorrows suffering of human rights.
Maybe a bit less than how the x86_64 instruction set is amd64 on linux binaries, because AMD came up with it while Intel was playing with Itanium IA-64.
It is one if dozens of data points.
Thankfully Anthropic is capable of doing research and development and are not limiting themselves to current LLM technology.
That's a wonderful little lesson about the perils of using outdated translations.

I'm leaning towards Bob Kanefsky on this one and suspect all was beautifully hacked together in Lisp.
in theory, the carts could predate Roman history.
That's true, but the delivery people do not work for McD's. They do not legally work for the delivery companies (although practically they do). People that pay for delivery will not pay very much for delivery, generally less than minimum wage. They'll instead get the food themselves.
I would love to but I it's pretty mothballed at this point. I might publish my notes/method on GH at some point.
Dang or whoever the f can unflag if they choose.
That's why it is called "postdoctoral treadmill" by an old physics professor: https://yangxiao.cs.ua.edu/Don't%20Become%20a%20Scientist!.h...
You might be right. It is possible that Gates is merely one of the most positively impactful human beings, rather than the absolute most positively impactful.
If we allow non-decimal bases, (2^n)-1 works for a lot of memorable values of n (e.g. 2, 3, 5, 7... and 31, per the article), or some less memorable but very long values of n, like 136279841

They're all technically palindromes in base-2.
Very very strange. It's been giving me the same image for the whole time including over multiple devices. The one you link is #52 for me.

Anyways yes that handwritten text is an example where LLMs just cant hack it and people seem to be able to. There's a pretty thorough transcript of the upper handwritten portion of the page I was referencing available from a user. It's a great example of why you can't just throw an LLM at problems like this. At best they're a tool people can use to transcribe loads of them quickly but it still needs to be hand checked for accuracy, completeness, and relevance.
Apple Watches are great for people who want their watch to be an extension of their phone. Full stop.

Garmin watches are great for people who prioritize active lifestyles over social contact but still like to have the ability to receive notifications on their wrist. Do note, though, that Garmin's Vivo line has become "smarter" in the current gen, but I don't see them ever tackling Apple Watches directly with Forerunner, Fenix, etc models.
If ChatGPT lies to people about God, is its immortal soul condemned to hell?

(I'm not being entirely serious, of course, but there do exist people who believe both that these things are sentient, and who believe in souls. In which case, do they believe that LLMs have souls?)
https://archive.ph/O8BOs
A Christian recommending a serpent-named language to get closer to God is pretty entertaining. What about Go "and make disciples"?
AppFS (my project) and CERN VMFS do this, if I understand you correctly.
SpiderMan should have got in to this business.
It's red meat for the shareholder class and nothing more. It's opt-out by default so on the next earnings call they can brag about the "stunning levels of user adoption".
From the paper (https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Thames...):

> We asked them to estimate the mass of each ingredient present
on the plate and subsequently converted these values into
nutrition estimates using the same USDA [9] values we used
to create our dataset

I get that there's a linear relationship between the mass of a food and its calories, but I'd expect that nutritionists would be better at estimating the calories in a plate of food than the mass of a food item. Most people aren't doing the math in their heads, they're using a frame of reference that recognizes calories. Did you have this in mind? Is there any research on this?
Thinking in Expressions (Rust)
Was actually thinking something that would be multi-player from each player's perspective. Perhaps not a cube also, although a cube would work and be an interesting terrain variation. Sphere though would be a more obvious implementation choice.
You (and your parent comment) said “make the world a better place”, not “change” it. Very few things change the world meaningfully.

And the point stands: what he did was more relevant than most (if not all) Facebook communities will ever accomplish.
It depends on the gig. Attempts to farm out housecleaning as a gig fail in exactly that way - people find the cleaner they want, and they arrange to make it permanent. Making the gig app as a discovery mechanism.

That's why none of the attempts at making housecleaning part of the gig economy have succeeded.