skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's also quite insidious as you don't need to control anything on any server to get this information; as long as you can get your target to load a unique URL never before loaded by anyone else, you can simply later poll it with an unauthenticated HTTP GET from different locations, and find which one reports a Cloudflare HIT (or, even if they hid that information, finding the one that returns with lower latency).

If you're allowing user uploaded content, and you use Cloudflare as a CDN, you could mitigate and provide your users with plausible deniability by prefetching each uploaded URL from random data centers. But, of course, that's going to make your Cloudflare bill that much more expensive.

Cloudflare could allow security-sensitive clients to hide the cache-hit header and add randomized latency upon a cache hit, but the latter protection would also be expensive in how many connections must be kept alive longer than they otherwise would. Don't do anything on a personal device or account if you want your datacenter to be hidden!
It's cheaper and more accessible than ever to use DMA/hardware cheats from cheat vendors.
Are we talking 50k people per town? So over a quarter of a million people in total, each with more connections to other people outside said towns?

I applaud and encourage your chutzpah, but I’m not too optimistic about your prospects. Do you want to move your community out of Facebook, or does the community want to do it? Do they even agree with your reasons for wanting to move, or is it possible they actually agree with Zuckerberg and voted for Trump?

Remember you only have one shot. With that large of a group, you’ll find people with all levels of skill, patience, and ideology. If your solution isn’t immediately better (not equal; better) than Facebook, you already lost. It doesn’t need to be better at everything, but it does need to be better at the most important and most used features. And make sure you believe in the cause enough to be the goto person for every question.

Make a list of what the platform needs to support and do and come back with that. Then test, test, test. You won’t succeed if you rush, people move slowly.

Best of luck to you.
I've learned not to expect anything from being an early employee. It's right in the name, you're an employee. Expecting some sort of consideration for being early is naive. Every time you receive a paycheck you and your employer are even and you shouldn't expect anything more.
The only alternative I can think of that all of your community probably already have is email. Set up an email mailing list and lock it down so only members of your community and those invited by your community can use it. Despite the wishes of some here email will never go away and will be used by anyone communicating with businesses.

For your bonus criteria email can be self hosted but that's a more complicated topic as it pertains to mailing lists. At least a couple people in your community should be at list technical enough to follow internet examples. Mailing lists are federated per the spirit of the definition as they can each use their own existing email provider.
The use might (might!) be transformative, but the work is copyrighted. How Meta copied it is an issue. Is the way they acquired it illegal?

After all, Google Books did not acquire their books through torrents. They got physical books.
Psychotherapy is simply not effective at changing someone’s gender identity or ameliorating gender dysphoria. The established treatment for gender dysphoria is to align the person’s gender identity and gender expression.

Can you find a randomized controlled study where the "affirmative" approach of aligning gender expression with identity has been compared to a "reparative" approach of aligning identity with biology? I have read a lot of studies on this and what you are saying simply is not backed by the evidence. Whenever I read a study that has been referenced on NPR or such, I read the details and the details do not support what the people citing the study say it supports.

In all other cases, if someone's mental conception of themselves was not aligned with the biological reality of their self, we would say the default is that the person should try to adjust their mental conception. A treatment that involved all of society changing, or even more extreme -- actual removal of body parts -- would need to pass a very high burden of experimental evidence. From what I have read, that burden of proof has not ever been close to being met. There are no studies that say that aligning gender expression works better than helping the person cope with or get over their dysphoria. If I have missed such a study, I would like to read it.

Do you feel that your gender identity could be changed using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

I do not have a gender identity and I do not have a gender. I a sex and I have an identity as a sexed being. I have a brain that has developed under the influence of testosterone, I have the knowledge of having a penis, I have the knowledge that society sees me as a male and penis-haver and all that entails. I have the knowledge that if I used a woman's locker room and exposed my penis, women would freak out, and so I do not do that. Etc. etc. I wear the clothes that I do because that is what society expects of me. There are all sorts of clothes and outfits from other cultures that I prefer aesthetically but I don't wear because they do not align with the norms of my current culture.

It's actually really difficult for me to understand how a person's fundamental well-being is intrinsically and immalleably tied to names and clothing.

Of all the possible forms of clothing humans have worn in the last ten-thousand years, only a tiny sliver of those clothing are socially acceptable for me to wear. And yet we all deal with that.

If someone were to intentionally call me the wrong name, while everyone else gets called the name they have asked to be called, that would bother me, but only because that is a power move that singles me out. If I were to, say, join a fraternity, where everyone had to have a name assigned to them, that would not bother me, and I would be fine being called that name while hanging out in the fraternity.

If someone were to call me a "woman" I would be upset because it is the reality of my biology that I am a man. Furthermore, saying you are a "woman" is usually saying, "You lack the positive qualities we usually associate with being a man -- you are weak, you are cowardly, you are whiny, etc."
How did you manage to buy a house on your own while making just salary? Usually salary at YC startups doesn’t get past $250k and that’s not enough to afford anything in the bay.
IMO passable joke, not unlike modern content; if I saw it in the wild I’d laugh, feel called out and scroll down without thinking that AI may have written this.
> He gets a crew of talented people to report to him on day 1

The Digitial Service was pitched initially as a way for technologists to serve the country. The payscale was peanuts compared to most tech companies. I suspect some of the best will leave if the mission no longer aligns with their values, because they certainly weren’t doing it for the money.
I am not offering any specific or real life explanations. Just highlighting that there are many possible theoretical explanations that are reasonable but not apparent to the public. It may even just be that they started with a small whitelist that will expand over time.
Soulver: Notepad, Meet Calculator (macOS, iPad, iPhone)
Previously discussed (July 2019, 181 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403270
I did a double-take at the description since for a second I thought we were building the same tool. This is really cool, and seems like it'd greatly expand the set of podcasts I can listen to.

What I'm working on is different but similarly aimed at breaking through the intermediate plateau. I'm generating comprehensible input in podcast form, targeting the vocabulary used to fit a specific learning goal (e.g. "I want to be able to watch show X without subtitles") and systematically repeating the words at specific intervals to improve retention.

It works well as a prototype. I've listened to it for ~16 hours so far and it does seem to help me with vocabulary acquisition.

I'm still gauging whether I should polish and release it as a product, and would love some feedback and/or sign-ups:

https://letmeknow.jkoff.ca/infinite-ci?utm_source=hn
A lot of people are not aware of the fact that there were mobile apps before the iPhone. First time I used gmaps was on a j2me platform.
"Our political party does $NEGATIVE_THING but, as you can see, the opposing political party does $NEGATIVE_THING too." but no conclusion is stated.

PG's essay doesn't cover that because it's beside the point. If you want the party you support to win elections, let the party you oppose continue making a mistake while doing your best to stop that same mistake in the party you support.
You could use this technique to see what geographic areas view what sites based on the content cache age, you would have to have the list of sites, but it would allow you to bucket a geographic by top sites from the test corpus.
Sounds fine to me! I’d also be happy with a reasonable one-time payment for the self-hosted version.
We're not talking about that kind of risk. It's just a synonym for the amount somebody is going to lose if the company fails, regardless of what the amount means to them personally.

VC invests $1M in a startup, they are risking $1M. You just work at a company, get paid every month, and don't buy any stock, you are risking $0. That's all.

If the company does well and the VC makes $5M back, it probably won't mean much to them, either. But that's how the contract was written, because the company needed that $1M.
I tried to use some dietary research as data examples in machine learning training courses. After running into self reporting (which I naively thought would be the exception, not the rule) I changed the my use of such sources to class discussions around reporting such as the following: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/19/17879102/br...
Thanks for the link. This leads us to one proxy of the system's usability, namely the current base of installations: https://instances.joinmobilizon.org/instances
You are so right!!!! Everyone is like Elon is the richest man! Bezos is the richest! The richest government scares the NSA, not these poor rich people.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/09/elon-mus...

https://theconversation.com/tech-billionaire-elon-musks-soci...
It feels clear from an outside perspective that all the work on AzDO Pipelines has shifted to focus on GitHub Actions and Actions is now like 3 or 4 versions ahead. Especially because the public Issue trackers for some of AzDO Pipelines "Roadmap" are still up (on GitHub, naturally) and haven't been updated since ~2020.

I wish Microsoft would just announce AzDO's time of death and save companies increasingly crazy AzDO blinders and/or weird mixes of GitHub and AzDO as GitHub-only is clearly the present/future.
Hex tiles are a really smart improvement on the game. I do kind of miss the little trees instead of just the dark green color though. :D

I also wonder if the graphics wouldn't make playing easier for color blind folks. :)
Ask HN: Is HN Censoring Posts?
I saw a post about employees of Musk's companies and their reactions to his Nazi salute at the inauguration. The rise of fascism in America is definitely an interesting and pertinent question, but the post was insta-flagged into oblivion.

Is HN suppressing negative posts about Elon Musk?
What things do you want from a smartwatch? For the basics, notifications+, music controls, fitness tracking, Garmin handles well. It does not have an extensive ecosystem of apps but what apps do you need?

And for fitness Garmin is very very good. Today was below -10 C on my run and my watch was 100% usable with gloves. Garmin actually tells me when I get a GPS lock and it works ANT+ devices.

I use the GPS all the time on my Fenix, it's 6 years old and I'm still charging roughly once a week. I think a 6 year old Apple Watch would struggle to get a day, if that.

+On a non-Apple device.
The Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu Theorem states that the excess demand curve for a market economy of rational agents can take the shape of any function, subject only to three fairly general conditions: the function must be continuous, must be homogeneous of degree zero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_function), and must satisfy Walras's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walras%27s_law).

Inconveniently for all economic theories, the implication of this mathematical proof is that excess demand and supply curves can take any shape that meets those three conditions. The nicely sloped supply and demand curves we've all been shown in Economics textbooks are basically figments of economists' imaginations.

Moreover, the textbook supply-demand curves we've always been shown are for only one good. The curves for all goods in a market economy are high-dimensional.

High-dimensional supply and demand curves can have multiple equilibrium points, and there is no guarantee that those points will be optimal or even good.

In other words, for a long time we've had proof -- proof! -- that "free markets" are not guaranteed to converge toward good outcomes.

Markets can get stuck in crappy equilibria.
We tried to partner recently to co-create interactive books with a well-known classical education influencer on X.

His job was to select passages from books and provide some commentary. Ours was to turn that material into an interactive title.

We tried tirelessly to look up the passages he'd send to us in the original text. The only quotes that matched were the top 5% short and famous quotes. The rest was made up completely, presumably by AI.

His 1 million+ followers consider him a world-class subject matter expert. But he doesn't read any of the books he's teaching. Eye opening.
If you, or others, are interested I have found that those role-session-name variables make for a great traceability signal when trying to figure out what GHA run is responsible for AWS actions. So instead of

role-session-name: GitHubActionSession

one can consider

role-session-name: gha-${{ github.run_id }} # or your favorite

I don't this second recall what the upper limit is on that session name so you may be able to fit quite a bit of stuff in there
I'll be visiting France soon, so will be able to compare on that front. But I think it is an understatement to say that things are universally smaller.

And on the drinks, even places in Japan that had free refills still gave, at largest, an 8oz cup. Usually, I think they were even smaller. Even getting popcorn at Universal, the bags were large, but nothing compared to what I'd expect over here.

Some of this, I'm sure, is having gotten used to ordering the larges. For a time, it was not unheard of to get a 32oz soda at any given convenience store. May still be normal? I don't know.

(And, of course, this isn't getting in to the sizes of vehicles.)
IMO thinking about it as business domains first isn't good. From "first principles" you have technology (which is rapidly changing). After the technology has been made sellable, people come up with a label for it to put what it is in a box. So business domains are always lagging indicators . And inside there's this deeply buried implicit assumption that anything in the same business domains delivers the same value, plus some market CGAR. It doesn't how value generated by products can change radically. To do that you really need to understand the technology itself.

Not me personally because most of what you listed requires deep expertise and founder fit. But certainly a lot of people are. It was always unlikely a startup would succeed, but from a technological perspective, the opportunities have just blown up because of AI. For example compiler/programming language startups like Mojo are back in vogue (the last major one being Java) because of the increased demands of AI/heterogenous hardware. There's many hardware startups like Cerebras. There's people trying to find use cases for AI - education, healthcare, automation, etc. Several incredibly successful games were startups recently - Genshin Impact, Black Myth Wukong.

Yes you're unlikely to make an impact in a very specific field - like going head to head against OpenAI, DeepSeek, Anthrophic etc on SOTA models. But there's these hundred other innovation opportunities opening up precisely because these models do so well. Historically the greatest errors in thinking about innovation have been thinking about it like a linear progression of increasing the supply of a commodity to meet demand, like if you have enough computers that's going to be it. It's really like a tree, with an exponential explosion of the surface area of innovation opportunities. If you want a forward looking model, you need to think this technology X has gotten huge, what other technologies will this lead to?
Basing one’s knowledge of history on Bridgerton is much like basing one’s knowledge of New York City on Metropolis in Superman comics. Bridgerton is completely and totally ahistorical. It’s cosplay.
> be more realistic if you could hit any number of spaces

The docs say that's how it works, but clearly that's not how it was implemented.

"Move straight or diagonally up to the dice value"
I'm on an annual plan from another app (Calory, $30) otherwise I would have bit.

It gives some features with a totally free plan. That makes the IaP feel less like a bait and switch.

The proposition of SnapCalorie is compelling. Calory ui is decent and I use a scale so accuracy should be good but I think their database is shitty. Meatloaf will vary from 1.5 kcal/g to 3, steak will show as 1 kcal/g, stuff like that.
Unfortunately, by that logic you could conclude that competing with Microsoft at all would be out of question because in theory they could sue you into oblivion with a completely arbitrary lawsuit.

The real world isn't quite that bad, so OP is correct to observe that Microsoft does not in fact have a trademark on Copilot, they have a pending trademark on Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot. Given that their own trademarks (owned by different subsidiaries) include a second word to qualify them and would pose a substantial risk of confusion with each other if Copilot alone were treated as the mark, I think it's reasonable to argue that Microsoft couldn't claim a trademark on Copilot, unqualified, and is unlikely to even try to assert it.
It appears HN users are flagging to suppress posts, yes, not HN or its mods.

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals might be helpful for tracking some of this, feel free to bookmark.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231537 is helpful to understand some mechanics of the above.

Let "You shouldn't flag things just because you don't like them, but you should flag them if they go against the site
guidelines." be your guide.

(as pvg's links to dang's comments mention, this is not HN/mod action; this is user sourced moderation activity)
Anyone can do this are per the TFM, which is an excellent read.
I suppose HN generally doesn't want political posts here, with exceptions
They may be famously large, but I don't think they are abnormally large for most of the US nowadays? I certainly didn't think they were particularly big when I visited.
To add, VC is for when you have a market that is large enough to pay off their investment with something left over. There are a lot a business opportunities out there that only can return a million per year and they won't scale. This isn't worth VC time, but if you can find one, a million - overhead is still a nice income for you the private business owner. Just remember that as a business owner you need to watch the bottom line, many small businesses go under because they don't account for all the costs of running a business (both time doing bookwork instead of what the business is about and costs of supplies)
Oops, thanks for pointing that out! Pica actually stands for Platform for Intelligent, Collaborative Agents—but as with many words, it seems to have multiple meanings worldwide! We'll take this as a reminder to keep our humor handy while we chase big AI dreams. Appreciate the feedback!
A colleague of mine once taught a formal methods course for students working on their masters -- not beginners by any stretch.

The exercise was to implement binary search given the textbook specification without any errors. An algorithm they had probably implemented in their first-year algorithms course at the very least. The students could write any tests they liked and add any assertions they thought would be useful. My colleague verified each submission against a formal specification. The majority of submission contained errors.

For a simple algorithm that a student at that level could be reasonably expected to know well!

Now... ChatGPT and other LLM-based systems, as far as I understand, cannot do formal reasoning on their own. It cannot tell you, with certainty, that your code is correct with regards to a specification. And it can't tell you if your specification contains errors. So what are students learning using these tools?
That's certainly possible. I'm not convinced AGI is just around the corner either, but I can't say with a high degree of certainty that it definitely won't arrive in the next few years.
What are the hero use cases for AI agents? Reading the website, I don't see a good demonstration of what "AI agents" are and what they're good for.
If incentives to stay outweighed leaving, people would stay.
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Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42772827
> 2.3 SDE could do that, but i don't get 6. a 24/7 operation needs 2FTE and 1 PTE per shift, and there are three shifts.

having the team constantly on call is a recipe for having them quit. sure, you could run this with the bare minimum number of engineers, but your turnover would be so high and given how high hiring costs tend to be, this is a net negative

> so maybe all that "busywork" takes 6 full times?

ktlo in a constantly changing company is not easy. software / host patching to maintain compliance is necessary busywork that requires a bit of babysitting. not to mention keeping up with required migrations to new stuff due to internal deprecations.
AFAIK the attack described by OP only works if the attacker knows the (randomly generated) URL of the image, which probably means they have a Signal client that can decrypt the image already. So the secrecy of the content is not at issue. The question is whether some specific person has received the same image, and from where.
I wonder if part of the issue isn’t the startup world but the corporate world. There’s enough capital and anti competitive practices at big tech companies that startups are fighting for scraps. I would love to see a new movement to reshape antitrust laws and improve competition.
Can you explain what value this provides over just the Vercel AI SDK? I'm not super clear on what it is based on the homepage.