skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
α) Lots of people on this topic act as if the entire world is heading to their specific country.

It's not Poe's law, but it's close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

β) 1.2 billion demonstrates there's enough room for 90% of the UK to be completely empty at the same time as the population doubles.
This exists already. But its still confusing to me why they would need to pay any euros per year?

Imagine if you're a full time worker (like a freelancer!) and you have to pay a transaction tax to get your wages.
Thanks for that article -- I have to agree with Jacob Zimmerman in the comments to the article:

> I don’t get it. I read one part of the article, think I get it, then I read a different part and what I read there doesn’t jive with what I thought I understood. And I can’t figure out how to reconcile them.

---

> As for tooling, you have to enforce the contract using pre/post/inv clauses following Meyer's DbC and also explicit documentation.

I think we call them asserts and type-level state machines :)

I don't really believe in documentation as enough of a barrier to doing worse things. It must, at a structural level, be easier to do better things.
I think all these things are absolutely ridiculous.

I use alpine (the email client, not the Linux distro). Before that, I used pine.

Every single thing that gets loaded from anywhere on the Internet has to be the result of an action that I take. Nothing ever gets loaded automatically. I get to choose if I load the thing using the server that I'm connected to, or if I load it directly on my local machine. I know the implications of each.

The fact that programs, particularly ones that are supposed to be for the security minded like Signal, load anything by default, automatically, is just, well, naive.

I can't be the only person who thinks that people who don't think these things through shouldn't be working on apps and email clients. Sure, people would have a cow if their email client didn't load every frigging thing and run remote Javascript and so on, but in Signal? Really?

(end rant)

I see that this can be turned off. I will now tell everyone I know that uses Signal that this should, in fact, be turned off.
For many it’s not easy to accept that "who you are" doesn't have to depend on the prestige of a title or a position, and that's often where people get stuck.
> The proper response is -- in the spirit of the new era of free speech -- to firmly state your opposition to their beliefs.

This doesn't really work because social networks are designed to amplify the most "engaging" things, which often means "controversial". Reasoned debate is often drowned out - this happens even here on HN for particularly controversial topics.

If social media was just people following their friends and interacting with them (I remember when FB was basically like that), we maybe wouldn't be in this horrible polarised mess.
Honestly, it's because SF didn't actually do anything

Having harm reduction sites doesn't mean you get to shoot whenever and whatever

SF's governance is delirious honestly
I created an app similar to Tinder that facilitates manual verification. Around 60 photos can be verified in one minute. The whole process took about a week and didn't cost much.
Plus its ecological, which for trump is not by intention but still a win.

There is this pesky detail about manufacturing 100k treadmills but lets not get bothered by details now, the current must flow
The correct legal term is "illegal aliens" not "undocumented immigrants".

My argument is that the phrase "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" may be interpreted to mean that individuals must be under the complete, allegiance-owing jurisdiction of the United States, and because they may not be for a host of reasons, the SCOTUS may reevaluate US v Wong Kim Ark and reinterpret the 14th amendment.

There's also this 1866 Congressional document discussing the 14th after it was passed detailing "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof". It reads "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of embassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but it will include every other class of persons." https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/1057514062899277824/photo/...

There's a very strong case here.
the pull tab on the right has a divot in it where it makes contact with the can, and it concentrates more pressure at the point of contact to pop the seal.

That’s an attempt to mitigate cans where you’d pull the tab and the tab would just break off without opening the can. So the person who answered it’s usually because of the seal is right.

other half’s dad [retired from] Campbell in Ohio and isn’t an internet let alone a Reddit person, you’d never guess how much trivia there is about their #2 can. I’d have commented but a brand new account will probably be buried as spam … and the second answer is correct anyway.
Interesting that it is written in Pascal:

https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine

The minimal demos are still surprisingly big though (same ballpark as Unity web builds for similar simple demos).

For a language without runtime I would expect a couple hundred kilobytes at most for those simple demos (but the download is 6.4 MB compressed and decompresses to 43 MByte, and takes significant time after the download is finished to start). Would be interesting to figure out why dead code doesn't seem to be removed by the compiler (e.g. is it because of the engine design, or because the Pascal-to-WASM compiler doesn't support dead code elimination). Also why is the compressed to uncompressed ratio so big, there seems to be a lot of duplicate code or data in those WASM files.
That's mainly because it cuts into the US government profit margins. They and their favored contractors have been selling arms for profit and love drug running when it suits their aims as they showed with eg support for the Contras.

It is important drugs stay illegal so powerful connected interests can maintain high profit and control. Without that, simple cocaine/meth/marijuana is just an agricultural or chemical commodity with essentially the margin of generic OTC drugs.
This is a nonsense argument.

The manhattan project was very intentionally an attempt to create a WMD, it wasn’t a side-effect of something else. You don’t have a point here.
(unassisted) GPS cold-start time is about 15 minutes to download the complete almanac and ephemeris data over the satellite link. That assumes everything is received correctly the first time. A watch's small antenna could increase that time significantly.

Garmin is undoubtedly already aware that you need cloud login for their devices to download almanac and ephemeris over the internet.
Was it the Story of Mel?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32395589

He also passed away relatively recently.

https://melsloop.com/docs/the-story-of-mel/pages/mel-kaye-cv
Sure but Microsof has the expertise and they own 49 percent of Open AI if I'm not mistaken. Open AI uses their expertise and access to hardware to create a GPT branded AI phone.

I can see your point re: run locally but no reason Open AI can't release version 0.1 and how many times are u left without an internet connection on ur current phone?

Overall I hate Apple now it's so stale compared to GPT's iPhone app. I nerd rage at dumbass Siri.
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This is a good line of thinking, and you're right that smaller entities get the benefit of software they couldn't otherwise afford.

Of course, a more directly equitable arrangement would be a software co-operative. If prices are tied to usage, then everyone should be able to afford to fund a FOSS project's development at whatever level they can bear.

Eventually-open-source commercial licenses are already a bit like this, in that those who can pay, do so, and those who want it for free, can still get it, albeit delayed by a couple years. Ditto for projects that are funded by bounties, where only funders get access up to some dollar amount, after which it's FOSS to all.
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> Honestly, the biggest missed opportunity was supporting the Blount Island nuclear reactor mass production facility

Yes, a very interesting project; similar power output to an AP1000. Would have really changed the energy landscape to have such a deployable power station.
https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/nuceng/id/98/rec...
>The argument for most people is that rights are universal

No, they are not. Clearly the US and Germany do not have the same rights. They also have changed over time and will change in the future, as the labor market changes.

>and it is fair, just, and essential for workers to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, etc.

But these are not the rights a worker in Germany has. Worker rights in Germany derive from the belief that the employer has a duty to care for his employees, which also does include limiting the freedom of their workers, if necessary. E.g. you are forced to pay health insurance as an employee.

Additionally social stability is good for everyone, especially the workers.
Isn’t it at least equally likely that one would be more prone to confusion if one was a visual thinker?

I don’t think we can infer anythin about how LLMs think based on this.
Did you mean "why are zero plural"?
The cost outweighs the benefits
> He makes no videos anymore sadly.

Has he stated that anywhere? Because looking at the upload date (8 months) of the latest video and the gaps between previous uploads (sometimes multiple years), it doesn't look uncharacteristic for him.
But you're not Elon. I'm just analyzing Elon's actions. I'm not an Elon apologist.

In this case, it's clear that he won't apologize because that would mean giving into mainstream media's portrayal of him. He has no fear of mainstream media right now. He's on an all out war against mainstream media. He likely feels like this is just another cancellation attempt on him.

I understand why some people think it's a Nazi salute. He started from his heart, moved his arm very fast outward, and ended with a flat hand. Some people on Twitter are defending Elon by posting static images of people like Obama or Taylor swift doing the same gesture but those were just hand waves that ended up looking like a Nazi salute at a particular frame. What Elon did was far more egregious and I'm not surprised by the response.

However, I do think he did not mean it. Maybe 70% sure he didn't. 30% sure he did it as a troll attempt, like you said.

I've worked in tech my whole life and I've met many awkward people doing many awkward, cringy things. This feels like another.
Thanks for the heads up, there are indeed incredibly bad things in that project as linked by the top comment (with the simple word "bruh...") : https://github.com/crazywolf132/evo/blob/15d2ec6e821ef221961...

It is scary that someone can say it is "encrypting" a private key by applying a simple XOR.

Also :

"File-Based Index: We track file hashes in a small JSON index instead of re-hashing everything on every commit or switch. This makes commits and merges faster because Evo only re-hashes files if it notices a changed modtime"

Using modtime is not a good idea at all, this is very telling about how much author knows about different workflow. For those who don't know : you can have remotely mounted files where your machine and the server time is different (happens to me and realized that makefile is modtime based and it creates problem), also obviously clock can change and you do not want your version control system to be blind on changed file, ever.
Photogrammetry generally assumes a fully static scene. If there are static parts of the scene which the camera can see and also rotating parts, the algorithm may struggle to properly match features between images.
I don’t think I understand this entirely. The point of the thought experiment is to assume the possibility of the room and consider the consequences. How it might be achievable in practice doesn’t alter this
Loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant's paradise to landlord's playground
The submission history of posts from nullprogram.com is… let's say… "odd"… several instances of double or triple posts, including doubles from the same submitter… @dang is this something you care about?
i think it's common to have dots on the rotating disk where the object is placed on.
Transactional costs exist. Paper costs money, phone calls cost money, bank accounts cost money too and exchange rates have markup in them. Then the actual taxes exist. This is how everything works. Than there is electronic signature thingy which may or may not cost money.

It’s also not a tax, as there is no entrenched monopoly that collects is. If anything, something like AWS or for my sensibilities azure is more outrageous.
I do the same thing! Downside is every time I read my tests I get that song stuck in my head. Upside is it's a joy for some people when they discover it in the test
I built an Excel Add-In that allows my girlfriend to quickly filter 7000 paper titles and abstracts for a review paper that she is writing [1]. It uses Gemma 2 2b which is a wonderful little model that can run on her laptop CPU. It works surprisingly well for this kind of binary classification task.

The nice thing is that she can copy/paste the titles and abstracts in to two columns and write e.g. "=PROMPT(A1:B1, "If the paper studies diabetic neuropathy and stroke, return 'Include', otherwise return 'Exclude'")" and then drag down the formula across 7000 rows to bulk process the data on her own because it's just Excel. There is a gif on the readme on the Github repo that shows it.

[1] https://github.com/getcellm/cellm
There is no free lunch though. Typescript and whatever frontend stack we might go with will come with their own drawback. It doesn't mean the trade-off is never worth it, but we better keep in mind that adding transpilers and a truckload of external libraries does have a maintenance cost.
Ask HN: Which error reporting tools you use for your JavaScript projects?
I've been using Sentry for a while, but looking for an alternative

Things I don't like in Sentry:
1. Custom error data is not indexed, and can't be queried
2. Too much noise: getting alerts by error occurrence, even though it happens to small number of users, other then getting an alert for errors that happens to many users
3. Error merging is a bit buggy, even though the error name and message is the same, and the stack is relatively the same, I need to merge a lot of errors manually

What do you use for your apps/projects?
Reminds me of some story where a woman petitioned for the killer of her relative to be released, and after release the killer killed that woman.
> So you are using a local small model to remove identifying information and make the question generic, which is then sent to a larger model? Is that understanding correct?

Yep that's it
Not sure if I agree

Let's say you have a poem program, that reads files from your drive and turns them into poems. A well isolated/abstracted variant of that program is as simple as a blackbox with two or three inputs and a single output.

One of the inputs are the files, the others might be a configuration file or user adjustable parameters like length. The program is well isolated if you can't give it any combination of inputs that doesn't produce a poem or an error message related to the usage of the program.

A badly isolated variant of the same program would be one where the user had to think a lot about the internal behavior of the program, e.g. how file names are handled or where so many parameters of the poem generation have to be supplied as parameters, that the user essentially has to rewrite the core of program with their parameters. Or the user could supply a file that allows them to gain RCE or crash the program.
I read it the other way, their code contains eg fetch(url, pw:hunter123), and they're asking Claude anonymized questions like
"implement handler for fetch(url, {pw:mycleartrxtpw})"

And then claude replies

fetch(url, {pw:mycleartrxtpw}).then(writething)

And then the local llm converts the placeholder mycleartrxtpw into hunter123 using its access to the real code
> could something of this magnitude be powered by renewables only?

Perhaps.

For context see https://masdar.ae/en/news/newsroom/uae-president-witnesses-l... which is a bit further south than the bulk of Texas and has not yet been built; 5.2GW of panels, 19GWh of storage. I have seen suggestions on Linkedin that it will be insufficient to cover a portion of days over the winter, meaning backup power is required.
Why? He did nothing to deserve punishment in Russia. If anything, if Snowden left, I think Putin would be relieved he doesn't have to treat a potential nuisance with utmost care anymore. At the moment he can't really disappear him and has to waste resources monitoring him.
> he enjoyed massive market benefit

Life imprisonment, no parole.

You have to be a complete and utter wanker to think his punishment was justified.
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%...

You have to use Google Translate or something, because the page is unavailable in other languages.

The key point is that Russian activists have been trying to influence the large scale politics locally since about 1880 to zero effect.
So the appropriate label if you had to pick one in the context of humans taking it would be “horse dewormer” how? Because you’re being disingenuous and deceptive, or you’re ignorant.
Is it better than translatelocally? https://translatelocally.com/downloads/ (the same as used in firefox)
I had no idea R was so much like Julia in that regard. Makes me wonder if the Julia devs were just like, "What if R, but more general?"
Yes, I agree. This attack won't work on competent / paranoid people. What I had in mind when writing the comment: a whistleblower who wants to inform the press about illegal practices in their company and installed Signal to communicate anonymously with journalists. Somehow, a detective working for the company got their Signal ID and contacted them, impersonating a journalist.
DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations
In commonwealth english "they" can and frequently does work to indicate a singular person.

Here it's clear the word is referring to a singular stranger.
This might be a minor thing, but does anyone know if a full pardon will allow him to use an electronic device or access the internet? Often times, people convicted of crimes related to an online activity are forbidden this right, and I wonder if that's the case for him, and if so, what his life would be in this day and age.
The right gets to power and the first thing it does is to pardon its friends and allies.

The left goes into power and does basically nothing.

And then we wonder why one side is winning.
This view has always been bullshit. It doesn't differentiate between the complexity of the types themselves and the complexity of representing them in a static type system.
It's back, but the nice thing is it's 10x more complicated now!
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Vivec
He might even run for President....
Cool idea! Any chance you’ll make it available in New Zealand? I’d love to try this out.
I hope to someday be too good for Reddit. For now I tend to use it or at least click on links to it like I do for Twitter.
US Constitution disappears from White House website on day two of Trump 2.0
I think you meant decreased crime, judging by the context of the rest of your comment.
Uh… no?

I replicate my community where I find it. Some of it is at a brunch spot I go to regularly. Some of it is a bar that I frequent. Some of it is in annual activities with my neighbors.

I don’t need to believe in a made up Sky Daddy to be a good person, I have plenty of examples in my communities.
I recently got a good laptop with great hardware, so I opted for Wayland (with hyprland). It is still finniky. One main issue is Xwayland dependency that feels a bit warped. Another one is gaming support (Wine still heavily depends on X11). Then you got nvidia. It's a lot of small things. Overall, big improvement since I gave it a try 2 years ago, it's evolving fast, and I would argue nearly "there". But not yet.
I did this with Claude over the holidays. Putting Claude in the role as a guesser and comparing the guess to another experience human player. It turns out they both matched each other.
Also underappreciated thing is the community. For any decent/widely used framework, the architecture or other aspect is good enough for your usecase. It's unlikely that you would get significant gain due to the framework for all usecase, but having a community where every question you could possibly have is in github issues is very useful.
I'm interested in finding tiny models to create workflows stringing together several function/tools and running them on device using mcp.run servlets on Android (disclaimer: I work on that)
Those don’t really work: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
This is a Military project. Have no doubts about it.
Are they spending $10B/year on training?
As you say, it depends on the person but I think for most people an acceptable definition is "deanonymization reveals PII". What qualifies as PII depends on the context/jurisdiction but typically an IP address would be considered PII whereas country (or a similar broad region) would not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data
Sadly they have no control over the cookie warnings
> Complexity has to live somewhere. If you are lucky, it lives in well-defined places.

This whole section makes me think of construction which has similar abstraction and hidden complexity problems. It strikes me that they solve it by having design be entirely separate from implementation. Which is usually the corner where all our luck as software developers inevitably runs out.

Our methods are still rather "cowboy." We have cool "modernized cowboy" languages that make it hard to shoot your foot off, but at the end of the day, we're still just riding old horses and hoping for the best.
My thoughts: just because you can ingest everything at super speed it doesn’t mean you should!

Some things are richer for slowly taking them in and syncing up with the vibe and the experience.

Learning to truly focus on something seems to be a vanishing life skill!
On iCloud public relay, go to settings and select “use country and time zone” instead of “use general location.”

Now you’re no longer “within 250 miles,” hell my phone geo IPs everywhere from Louisiana to New Jersey , which are not even “in my time zone,” but there you go.

This setting was pissing meta/Facebook off big time because they also couldn’t narrow me down to a precise geographical area, resulting in much nagging and whining about “was this you signing in from [shreveport]?” and frequent account lockouts , password resets, and endless requests to approve my logins from a device that’s already logged in before I finally said to hell with it and deleted FB a few days ago.

I figure if a privacy setting makes meta mad , then it’s .. probably … a good setting. Must really irk them trying to sell location relevant ads when my state changes every other time I unlock my screen.

It’s a combined behavior of using private browsing and refusing to install their app, thereby giving them a permanent supercookie no matter what my IP is, so if you don’t like the sound of this it [might not] affect you if you use their apps. “X” does it too, just look up “inferred identity+ twitter” on google.

I’m editing out a tall claim in the last paragraph of this for some other time when I’m less tired and have sources next time we’re on the subject.
There was plenty of evidence that he ordered the hits, and the defense had the opportunity to address the evidence in court. The chat logs go far beyond "insinuation"

It's ridiculous that people are pretending there is any doubt about his guilt because they like crypto and/or drugs.