skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on finding this. Very impressive for a 15-year-old!

The section "How to Protect Yourself" is lacking.

Step 1. Don't receive this information in the push message. Only send the fact that there is something waiting for you in the app. Chances are there are other vulnerabilities that compromise the end-to-end encryption guarantees provided by the app (and only by the app).

In Signal on iOS: Click on your icon in the top left corner. Click on settings. Click notifications. Click on display below "message contents". Make your choice.

Another situation where convenience clashes with security, unfortunately.
Vanadium for GrapheneOS also supports ad-blocking (enabled by default IIRC).
Yeah this is a major issue. The first study that reports a link between some specific thing and health pollutes the data for all follow-up studies, because the folks that care the most about their health are going to change their behavior based on it. So after that you will always see a correlation with all the other things that have been reported to be healthy.
Slice is a delivery platform that focuses on mom-and-pop pizza places. At least when I was involved years ago, they only charged a flat $1/order fee. They helped stores get their menus into the system, and then stores did their own deliveries. This model worked well because a lot of pizza places already had their own delivery drivers—probably more so than any other restaurant type.

I used to use Slice to order because the extra cost was nominal, and the drivers were local and worked directly for the pizza place. Issue with your order? Tell the driver, or tell the store, and it'd be addressed immediately, by real humans. Need to make last-minute changes to your order? Call the place directly and talk to a human. Get to know your driver because it's the same person most nights. Lots of upside.

Except everyone used DoorDash and GrubHub, even though Slice was both a better user experience and a far better experience for the restaurant owner. Slice cost restaurants less, cost consumers far less, and was a better solution in every way. But because the vast majority of the restaurant's deliver business came through DoorDash and other large delivery companies, most small restaurants have gotten rid of their own delivery drivers.

Slice still exists, but I expect it won't experience much growth. The big guys are dominant.
"Signal instantly dismissed my report"

"Telegram, another privacy-focused application, is completely invulnerable to this attack"

"Discord […] citing this as a Cloudflare issue other consumers are also vulnerable to"

"Cloudflare ended up completing patching the bug"

I wish Signal would react differently. I still remember the bubble color controversy when they changed their mind after the backlash and not before. :-)
> A better world is subjective.

Yeah, obviously. So part of the OP's task will be selling their communities on why switching away from Facebook is a good thing. Given everything that's going on, now is a good opportunity to do that. But before they can do that, they need to know what to switch to, which is the topic of this thread.
I see, but it's still mostly a theory unless we count in all small nuances. Like for a place where winters are really frosty heat-pump usually can't help enough (my own experience), and it seems they come with resistive heating built-in nowadays. Which may change the picture. Also, I'm not a specialist, but my guess is that delivery (or how they call it in the industry) of electricity can be priced in potentially wide range.
I think you are in a minority, you WANT to learn.
That's not a new party line or anything that is the 10th amendment:

> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I think it should be noted that a lot of people do startups for reasons other than money. I was recently down in SF for an interview at a YC startup and later in the day, the two founders shared with me their salaries at their previous jobs. One was making 900k a year and the other was making 450k a year, but they ultimately decided to leave their big tech jobs to start their startup.
yeah, i think that the value proposition for a platform like this over just setting up some sort of discord/message board would be based having a central trusted entity that's able to provide user accounts that are verified AND anonymous.

you'd want to know that the people you're talking to are actually your coworkers and not corporate plants, but you also want to be sufficiently anonymous to avoid workplace retaliation OR weird stalkers.
Wouldn't other user that sees the other person's profile picture also drum up the cache? This wouldn't work for someone in a large server.
Once it's out of alpha you can self-host this project
I don't want to dox you, since it's easy to get from your museum to your personal webpage. Would you be kind enough to submit your site to HN, or post here for other people? It's a really amazing bit of old web!
> They aren't considering the long term downside to this.

This echoes sentiments from the 2010s centered around hiring. Companies generally don’t want to hire junior engineers and train them—this is an investment with risks of no return for the company doing the training. Basically, you take your senior engineers away from projects so they can train the juniors, and then the juniors now have the skills and credentials to get a job elsewhere. Your company ends up in the hole, with a negative ROI for hiring the junior.

Tragedy of the commons. Same thing to day, different mechanism. Are we going to end up with a shortage of skilled software engineers? Maybe. IMO, the industry is so incredibly wasteful in how engineers are allocated and what problems they are told to work on that it can probably deal with shortages for a long time, but that’s a separate discussion.
https://werz.at
> Its not all that surprising that the country with 20% of the population of earth has some smart people in it.

where’s india's reasoning models? what about entire continent of africa? i’d be curious if they even have a single h100 on the continent
These "thinking" LLMs are essentially productizing that trick. All the rambling and second guessing they go through at the beginning gives them source material to compute the "better" answer from at the end.
I feel terrible for the idea of jugding academics based on the amount of grant money they can get... It feels like encouraging a lot of smart people to find ways to waste money, even when they know that they don't really need that much for their project.
You attribute all of that exclusively to a small group of tech ceos?

That's completely absurd, but let's see the data on that.
Sure, I didn't say Garmin had no competitors, just that the Apple Watch is limited to 30% of the smartphone market, while Garmin can address (a part of) the remaining 70% plus some of Apple's 30% as well.
> So given the chance to go rote learning for years for an education which in most cases is simply a soon to be forgotten certification vs watching TikTok while letting ChatGPT do the lifting - this is all predictable, even without Behavioral Design, Hooked etc.

Would you argue that having books/written words also made people more lazy and be able to remember less? Because some people argued (at the time) that having written words would make humanity less intellectual as a whole, but I think consensus is that it led to the opposite.
And getting bigger, as it is moving toward us on a collision course.
Energy and Entropy (1986)
My understanding is the federal laws only "override" state laws in the context of the "enumerated powers" in the constitution, which are supposed to be few and narrow. This is why no State can pass a "law" that would allow you to enslave others or violate their other rights granted by those "enumerated powers" of the federal government.
Take a small notebook, Anki flashcards, or even small notes.

And work on learning some trivia purely to help you out with memory.
It's really hard to say how great their coding is based on educational material only. But I'm sure they're at least great guys! )
> No indication yet that use of AI is harming business outcome

What a sad sentence to read in a discussion about cognitive lazyness. I think people should think, not because it improves business outcomes, but because it's a beautiful activity.
Two self hosting tips:

If you're going to use SQLite, make sure you enable the WAL mode on the database. It makes such a huge difference to performance that I don't know why it isn't the default.

If you're going to have multiple concurrent users (or even just one user but a large number of background writing jobs, such as mirroring public repositories), then seriously consider using Postgres. Yes, theoretically it's possible to make SQLite backed applications work fine in this scenario, but Gogs/Gitea/Forgejo has not designed their application like that, so it falls over at surprisingly small sizes and migrating after the fact is painful.
It seemed as though you have been implying your opinions are shared by all information creators. I am offering my opinion so that other readers know there are different opinions and that it is ok to write for both man and machine. It's a personal choice

I'm also not sure what you mean by "laundering", though it seems like there is the prevailing belief among a subset of artists that the AIs are regurgitating their works (which would be a copyright violation) rather than just incorporating them into their world representation (learning, fair use). While there have been instances of the models outputting certain texts, we have not seen a new story about this in awhile. There are multiple remediations for this issue. I don't find banning copyrighted material from learning material a good one. It's like book banning in schools if you ask me
> No VC would want it and there’s not a wealthy user base to bootstrap it.

More to the point, VCs invented these apps specifically to disenfranchise workers and vaccuum up the lost cost as a bullshit "service fee".
While the article may have been published today, putting "self-reported food intake" into a search engine shows me that this is not at all a new finding. I would have considered it common knowledge, even. The entire reason people can conjure the mental image of a stereotypical obsessed dieter, weighing every morsel of food and looking it up in tables, is because everyone else has barely any idea what their intake looks like.
You have to be crazy to start a startup, and I mean this in a good way.

I'm currently working on a startup, completely bootstrapped and taking no VC funds. I know what my odds are and I know that the company will most likely fail, but I still do it. That's what makes startup founders "crazy", because you have to realize how low your odds are and at the same time say "fuck it" and keep going.

IMO there will always be startup founders because there will always be folks that want to scratch that itch.
depending on the circumstance, the rough area might already be useful to adversaries of the person trying to hide. I wouldn't expect things like criminals etc. to suffer from this, 300 miles is a big radius for example... but if you want to know if 'the guy is still in country' or something like that (for instance law enforcement) it's useful for them. such parties could then collaborate with local resources to do further investigations. knowing which local resources in what area to enable might save a lot of 'costs'.

as you said, impressive and insightful. :D kinda feel like the docs on it were a bit chatGPT aided, they are super clear and full of 'certain sentences'. (this is totally an excellent use-case for that, so not bashing on it at all!).

nice read.
>How many of us can still... <stuff>

Yes, this is what I meant by the calculator part of my comment. You've got some other good examples.

>learning when to ignore AI, learning how to take information and turn it into something practical.

This is what I meant by using LLMs as a tool rather than an end.
I wonder if we'll see assets being padded to some common byte sizes to combat this.
I highly recommend people get a food scale/measuring cups and weighing everything single thing they eat (even small things like nuts and cooking oil) for at least two weeks. After that I think you have a much better appreciation for how many calories your regular meals and snacks have.
> Strongly agree here that there is platform lock-in; all the large platforms are playing subtle games to make it harder to explore new services outside them.

> To some people this might look like consumers are more conservative, but really it's just hidden dark patterns keeping them in the big platforms.

I personally observe that people have quite different "sensitivities" to this phenomenon. It might be true that such people exist, but at least in my "echo chamber" it's rather exactly the other way: the more dark pattern such people observe, and the more they feel "jailed" by these large platforms, the more they are willing to leave the platform - just out of spite. Thus, at least many people of my "echo chamber" show exactly the opposite behaviour from what you claim and the platforms intend.

Thus, I believe the conservatism is a different phenomenon: people become less willing to try out new things because they observed far too often that a new interesting service turned more and more into a dark jail over the years.
I downloaded SnapCalorie to try it out on Android. I went all the way through the sign-up phase, only to discovery that I would need to activate subscription in order to have the 7-day trial. Ended up uninstalling the app :(
Or maybe try not to judge researchers based on the amount of grants that they can get...
You can't make a case for any of that. But go ahead and try.
One thing I would keep in mind is that you're most likely going to have to maintain both communities for a long time to get people to transition to the new one.

What sort of features are you looking for in a community platform?
Is there really any difference between dismissing the report or "citing this as a Cloudflare issue"?
"Important" people get trained into helplessness very quickly. They are the symbol that validates power, but any real action they take is a risk to the movers and shakers surrounding them.
> The point is that there shouldn't be any "the" machine for users to get locked into as a chokepoint

You’re, again, looking for a decentralized system.

> Federation solves that by hosting your stuff on an always-on server somewhere, which you get to choose and should be able to trivially switch at any time without affecting your social graph or account name or who is blocked by anybody in any way

Yes, the ability to change home servers is missing from mastodon.

But even if they had such a feature, the content you see and likely your ability to change servers would be controlled by your instance owner because they literally own the machine your data lives on and which serves you content.

This is the defining quality of a federated network vs a decentralized one.

> Federation works when there are thousands of federated instances that integrate seamlessly with one another

I don’t think this is a useful definition as it also fits decentralized systems.

Federated networks are networks where independent instances of compatible software are able to exchange information without being owned by a single entity (think email, mastodon, lemmy, etc)
The US government does business with men who say, “Competition is for losers”.
> Being the world expert is vitally important to meeting the new product criteria I’ll discuss in a moment. If you aren’t the world expert, you’re just kidding yourself about your chances for success.

This is interesting. Makes sense. But it's absolutely not part of the modern theory of startups, is it?
It shows that propaganda works.

Its a classic case of "don't confuse me with the facts my mind's made up."

The lame stream media are just a propaganda arm of western governments. And its remarkably effective.

Just to be clear, I concur with your arguments.
Not having to play the game isn’t as expensive as you suggest.

Lots of tech employees, if they don’t let lifestyle inflation take over, hit a point where they could retire early but may not want to. At that point t walking away from a job is much easier.
With maps? The only Appleista that I know that crossposts to Strava always ends up with stats, but no map trace.
Step 2: If you use Discord, don't allow invites from _anyone_.

Its quite bizarre why social media apps allow anonymous people to interact with you. 99% of the conversation I have is with people that I roughly know.
probably, or should I say, I don't want to rot.. It's true that I love the feeling of learning mostly on my own, but i can be lazy too, it's just that I see a parallel with abusing chatgpt and never doing any physical activity.
I like this! Thanks for the feedback!
For other reasons I'm reading Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and this seems like nothing that Smith would object to. He'd say there's a natural price that that the market price gravitates around - very much like that second graphic.
They have really become the gold standard in avionics, so much so that some airframes are preferred to others due to the fact that they've chosen to integrate a Garmin flight deck instead of Honeywell/Rockwell/etc. They have a very consistent and capable design methodology that extends from single engine piston avionics all the way up through relatively large GA jets.
For code; at least you would have to copy and paste it, and then modify, even if ever so slightly, to make it fit your code.

Now, "Claude, fix that for me".
> you need to use a food scale or something that measure the volume of food

Isn't that obvious? Basic high school science projects would have students using measuring devices. Are you saying that it's common for nutritional studies to tell people to eyeball their portions and that is then used as actual data?

I see from the article "Nutritional epidemiology studies typically ask people to keep a food diary or complete questionnaires about their intake over the past 24 hours, a week, or even several months." I find that hard to believe. How could any study like that be taken seriously? That's like having someone stand at a street corner for an hour and observe the population to then come up with an average BMI for the neighbourhood.
most of the folks getting ubereats delivery are not the target demo for being a PA client. but you don't have to be super wealthy for the economics of it to work out.

most tech employees make enough that they could pay 10-15 hrs of low wage work every week to do stuff like pick up your laundry/groceries, pick up a food order that you've called in, take stuff to the post office, etc.
> AI doesn’t provide directions, it navigates for you.

LLMs (try to) give you what you're asking for. If you ask for directions, you'll get something that resembles that, if you ask it to 100% navigate, that's what you get.

> and this paper demonstrates that people are likely to take answers for granted.

Could you point out where exactly this is demonstrated in this paper? As far as I can tell from the study, people who used ChatGPT for the studying did better than the ones that didn't, with no different in knowledge retention.
The Slaughterhouse Cases were decided just five years after the enactment of the 14th amendment, and the judgment is obviously correct and has never been overruled. And the dissent was obviously nuts in suggesting that the 14th amendment protected butchers from state economic regulation.
Using Linear Programming to find optimal builds in League of Legends
> The negative downsides begin at "dystopia worse than 1984 ever imagined" and get worse from there

Oh please, current and next gen LLMs will be absolutely fantastic for education:

https://x.com/emollick/status/1879633485004165375

Personalized tutors for everyone.
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Unless I'm missing something, this seems like an incredibly long winded way to check the users IP location?

For example, connecting to a VPN and checking https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace
gives me `colo:CPH` (Copenhagen) which is far from my nearest CF datacenter (geographically), closer to the IP location from my VPN provider (Oslo) but still not particularly close?

If I don't use a VPN, I don't even get the capital city of my country (which I'm in right now), I get a colo approx 250 miles north. So I also dispute that Cloudflare always returns the "nearest available datacenter".

Don't get me wrong, the write up is cool and certainly interesting - just not convinced on the real world applications here...
> the benefits rise with IQ level - nothing new here, that’s the very definition of IQ

This is not obvious to me, and certainly is not the "definition" of IQ. There are tools that become less useful the more intelligent you are, such as multiplication tables. IQ is defined by a set of standardized tests that attempt to quantify human intelligence, and has some correlations with social, educational and professional performance, but it's not clear why it would help with use of AI tools.
I run a discussion group that meets once a month - our tech stack is
1. A blog running WordPress that I use to announce meetings
2. A meetup.com account (free tier) that has the same information as the blog
3. A MailChimp account (free tier) where I send notices about the meetups
4. A very active Slack group (free tier) where I announce meetups and we have entended discussions. Discord would probably work just as well.

I've never used Facebook for anything, but the above four tools work very well for us.
> nowadays YC teaches their founders to keep the money and stock options for themselves and for the investors.

In founder-matching profiles, I've started saying that I wanted to spread the wealth around with early hires, more than the convention. If founders win, the early hires also win.

Lesson learned: no matter how busy a founder is, they are no less petty than anyone else, and some will make time for a call, just to see who this hippie a--h--- is. :)
> Most likely explanation is whatever algorithm change they pushed on 20/Jan to boost Trump-aligned posts and bury Trump unaligned ones was accidentally tuned too aggressively and became too obvious.

I wonder if this was an intentional act by a disgruntled employee to make the scheme public. "Oops - I accidentally set the 'punish political enemies' value to 100" etc.