skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. There's a provocative word you don't mention: hypocrisy.

This has become my reflexive internal response when I hear complaining about small-beer animal cruelty. Why are we so quick to empathize with this sunfish, and so slow to do it for creatures whose products most of us eat every single day? The horror show of factory farming creates many orders of magnitude more suffering than all these little anecdotes put together.

Zoos are cruel? Hypocrisy. Circuses are cruel? Hypocrisy. Bullfighting is cruel? Hypocrisy. Euthanizing stray dogs is cruel? Hypocrisy. Using animals in a film shoot is cruel? Hypocrisy. Keeping a single guinea pig is cruel? Hypocrisy (but against the law in Germany). And so on.

People in developed countries have become very good at dealing with cognitive dissonance.
I remember some folks saying things like "Trump's already a billionaire, he can't be bought". But him or another one, we were always headed towards oligarchy. And I really don't know how we're supposed to go back.
Its almost like if they want a piece of the expanding pie hell be damned, they should recieve actual liabillity criminal and civil for the trouble and take away any profit incentive that drove them in the first place
The head node has to do all the processing of what changes to make, for each server it runs against. Pull based systems have the destination server do that, making them scale horizontally natively.

Presuming there's no need for orchestration between nodes (which pull-based configs make very hard/impossible), pull-based systems parallelize perfectly where push-based systems cannot parallelize.

SSH is also very slow as far as these things go. At some point the head node just gets saturated on doing SSH encryption or the NIC.
Brother's Home: Korea's Auschwitz
And speculated as inspiration for the track suits of Squid Games
Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1B
$500B may be a lot, but at the national level it's not that much if you spread over a few years. Even now, it's "only" 1 week worth of US GDP. It depends how much they expect to get back.
I'm that guy who works in node a lot, but really doesn't understand all the under the hood stuff.

When I hear about performance gains I always wonder in what scenario(s) would I maybe SEE these gains? Some of these performance stats seem a little distant to me.
Sounds kinda like Gemini on top of IPFS/Dat/Hypercore. Imo some cool things but I'm not sure the problem is a technical one.

Content addressing has some real benefits in allowing something like the internet archive to be transparent (ie: it doesn't matter who hosts it). But that's mostly solving linkrot.

Searching through everything is still as hard as ever, and if the incentives are the same will be just as gamed. And people would have to make good content in the first place which is hard to justify without a good audience at the same time
But then... if no network latency I would expect much better than 100ms.
I found myself muttering as I scrolled along, "I am almost certain there is extensive documentation of the source of each of these in obvious locations, probably wikipedia." This was more valuable as a list of utilities (etc.) than as documentation of their origins.
I love it. It's a shame the voices aren't just a little bit more realistic. There's some good models and tts around now I wonder if you could upgrade it?
An alternative last resort could have been to let small groups of real people in to see the sunfish during renovations. It could even be a PR thing with a lottery or something for the lucky sunfish companions.
Why are we spending a half-trillion dollars on “AI infrastructure” when our actual infrastructure has been crumbling and underfunded for decades?
Surely you mean the Suez Canal
Humanoid robots are a thing.

I assume we're currently seeing a lot of smoke and mirrors on the AI controlling those robots, but the mere physical form factor isn't enough any more.

Nurses may have longer than plumbers because many of us will want the human connection, and servos behind rubber masks are currently deeply in uncanny valley — at least, they are for me, but I've noticed from the breadth of responses to GenAI that uncanny valley is in a different place for different people.
It's how you do it in Germany in the left lane
>heavy astroturf campaigns by the middlemen guarantee that this situation will remain

Paying attention to California Prop 22 in 2020 shook me to my core in a way that I haven't been able to properly express. The money put into swaying public opinion for that was staggering. It makes me fearful for the future ahead of us.
If you're on desktop, download the Chrome Extension called "Unhook". It lets you hide stuff like Youtube Shorts and makes Youtube less impulsive. Very helpful for focus.
Just before Christmas my Canadian bank (RBC) texted me to say that they'd blocked a suspicious transaction. In the text message they included a phone number that I could call to get more information about the incident. It felt fishy but out of curiosity I called it and they wanted to ask me my "security questions" to confirm my identity.

I hung up and instead called the actual number on the back of the card. The whole thing was real, the bank had actually contacted me by text and sent me a follow up phone number.

Truly I don't understand what they're thinking sometimes.
I believe that it does, I'm worried long term that it will discourage people from making and curating webpages themselves though.
This is a common problem with stylesheets based on tufte-css (an excellent project) which attempts to make things nice for mobile users but often makes the wrong assumption about screen geometry.

My blog had the same problem until I removed the css styles that triggered the font size.
> Trump is not an idealist- he will promise anything to anyone if it gets power and attention. Previously, he had attempted a political career as a leftist, and switched to the right because it was getting more traction.

This is a critical point. His explicitly goal is to be an autocrat, there is no other ideology other than what works.

That's why I think the only real bit of him is the one that admires Putin. That is who he wants to be.

It's why his moves seem so random.
Tangential, but this has gotten me thinking...

I used to wonder how the hundreds of thousands of employees that work in Big Oil or Big Pharma could tolerate all the terrible things their company does... e.g. the opioid epidemic. The naive optimist in me never thought that the tech industry would ever be that bad.

Now, as someone thats been in the industry for 10+ years and working adjacent to LLMs, this is all so depressing. The hype has gotten out of control. We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on things that simply are not making life better for the majority of people.
People in this country, across class lines, are addicted to their likes/dislikes being catered to, particularly in challenging times.

The issue is deeply cultural & until it's being worked on, solidarity is key: serving people in the ways they choose to receive care.
It's worse. Even if you DO know and trust the developer, in a year or two, they're probably going to get an email from a nice man who will want to buy their extension for $10,000, and they've long gotten bored of it, so why not?
Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
I've been working on a side project to generate responses to spam with various funny LLM personas, such as a millenial gym bro and a 19th century British gentleman. By request, I've made a write-up on my website which has some humorous screenshots and made the code available on Github for others to try out [0].

A brief outline of the system:

- Android app listens for incoming SMS events and forwards them over MQTT to a server running Ollama which generates responses
- Conversations are whitelisted and manually assigned a persona. The LLM has access to the last N messages of the conversation for additional context.

[0]: https://github.com/evidlo/sms_llm

I'm aware that replying can encourage/allow the sender to send more spam. Hopefully reporting the numbers after the conversation is a reasonable compromise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790443
you can't have an oligarchy without oligarchs (plural - even if some of them hate each other)
Not in person, but his $1 million personal donation attended. https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/openai-ceo-sam-altman-dona...
Can someone hack this together as pure matrix multiplication?

Like either as table in the background or as regular script?

On most computers you can't compile or add add-ons without administrative rights and LLM Chat sites are blocked to prevent usage of company data.

It should run on native Excel or GSheets.

I mean, pure without compilation, just like the do the matrix calculations here straight in Excel without admin rights:

Lesson 1: Demystifying how LLMs work, from architecture to Excel

https://youtu.be/FyeN5tXMnJ8

As far as i know in GSheet the scripts also run on the Google Servers and are not limited by the local computer power. So there larger models could be deployed.

Someone can hack this into Excel/GSheet?
FWIW - I used to do research in this area - PINNs are a terribly overhyped idea.

See for example https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00897-5

Classical solvers are very very good at solving PDEs. In contrast PINNs solve PDEs by... training a neural network. Not once, that can be used again later. But every single time you solve a new PDE!

You can vary this idea to try to fix it, but it's still really hard to make it better than any classical method.

As such the main use cases for PINNs -- they do have them! -- is to solve awkward stuff like high-dimensional PDEs or nonlocal operators or something. Here it's not that the PINNs got any better, it's just that all the classical solvers fall off a cliff.

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Importantly -- none of the above applies to stuff like neural differential equations or neural closure models. These are genuinely really cool and have wide-ranging applications.! The difference is that PINNs are numerical solvers, whilst NDEs/NCMs are techniques for modelling data.

/rant ;)
PWA is the most universal installer available. You can install a PWA with Firefox, but the instructions might look different from the screenshot in the repo. Alternatively you can use it at the hosted URL in the github readme without installing at all.
It makes sense when you see Twitter less like a traditional business like Apple (whose goal is to turn a profit) and more like a means to other political ends. Twitter punched way above its weight in cultural influence given its relatively small user base. Being profitable is a perk, but not the goal.
Pretty much. It's part of the same ecosystem as Sysdig OSS[1], which works much like strace. It uses the same underlying libraries as sysdig and Falco, and you can move capture files between them.

It'd be interesting to see if we can integrate more fully with strace as well, but that might require updating strace itself.

[1]https://github.com/draios/sysdig
The nice thing about VAT is that everyone has to pay it, whether they pay income tax or not. Lots of people get their money income tax free (undeclared jobs, income from abroad, inheritance, etc). With VAT everyone has to pay.
Liberux NEXX is a Linux smartphone with a RK3588S chip, 32GB RAM, and a 5G modem
Liberux NEXX is a phone built on LiberuxOS, a completely free, ethical and open source operating system that is not based on Android or iOS.
CBP Removes Scheduling Functionality in CBP One App
The issue is about whether the animal is forced to endure pain, not weather we eat it or not. The same is true for how we keep the animals we eat, and why people are rightfully upset about how some cows and chickens and the like are kept during their short lives before slaughter.

Essentially, having the animal be free before we catch and immediately and hopefully quickly kill it for food is fine. Keeping it in a zoo where it's not suffering is fine.

Keeping it in poor conditions before we kill and eat it is not fine. Keeping it in poor conditions in a zoo is not fine.

This story is interesting in that it gives insight into the mental state of these zoo animals, something that is often hard for the public to see and understand. It should make you pause to consider if we're really keeping these animals in humane conditions, given that apparently even fish have possibly more complex internal mental states than we assume.
"TaxTheSuperRich" is a protester motto at Davos. Would that end inequality?
Similar to this unofficial C runtime called POSIX, that most C applications rely on.
This is solved by them having you do a 2fa via the bank app whenever you and the bank talk regardless who called who.

Disclaimer: my bank does this
English has the same issue with ordinals. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th ... then back to 101st, 102nd.
Pretty sure you don't get an email if you revoke the certificate
Thank you for correcting me, and great example
> It really makes me want a 1980s-style cellphone with no screen and big physical buttons.

If you're using an iPhone, you can use Assistive Access to disable a lot of stuff, making it functionally simiilar to a flip phone:

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-...

There's probably an Android equivalent, but I can't speak to that.
Yep. If you look at the repo browser for @bnewbold.net, you can see his blogposts: https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/at/did:plc:44ybard66vv44z...
> The counter point is that anyone who cares about being anonymous is using methods to disguise their identity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42784398
My understanding is that your content gets stored in your database, regardless of PDS host. Bluesky hosts most PDS

I believe each user gets a dedicated sqlite database, or at least a dedicated repo. I recall reading somewhere about the implementation moving to use sqlite
You can't put money into an IRA unless the primary holder of said IRA has income, and you cannot put more into said IRA than was earned by the primary holder of the IRA.

My young children earn $0 annually. I wish I could do this. 3 IRAs is cheaper than daycare by about half.
The skin is very resistive, the body itself is not. There is a soldier who "won the darwin award" by taking the probes of a multi-meter and after measuring their skin resistance decided to measure their internal resistance.

After piercing the skin, the test current from the multimeter (9v) was sufficient to electrocute this person. Sadly it (apparently) was a fatal injury. I couldn't find a reference, but the logic makes sense (50V sufficient to kill normally, skin is most of the protection).

When dealing with electricity, having items which reduce the protection your skin offers (metal rings, moisturizer, etc) is a substantial risk.
If they don’t know, at least the fraudsters won’t, either!
What alarm clock did you get? Curious

And great insight about the calendar. That's the #1 reason why I keep my phone near me (thereby facilitating all the unwanted behaviors)
We treated a pigeon back to health from a failed cat attack - healthy enough to eat and walk, but not fly. It took a while but she eventually fully regained her ability to fly.

She had some rather distinct markings and would hang around the house pretty regularly after that. Then one day outside she was getting seriously groomed by a larger pigeon and wow is that where that term comes from?

Anyhow yeah she returned the grooming (which I'd later look up was her way of saying 'yeah I'm down - let's go') and I never saw her, or him, again.

So yeah - there could've been a happier ending there, especially because when a cat does eat a pigeon there tends to be evidence left.
> The New York court convicted him, and then considered the murder-for-hire allegations when determining his sentence. They found them true by a preponderance of the evidence and and that was a factor in his sentence to life without parole.

How is that not a massive violation of due process? Imagine you are at trial for something and get convicted. Then during the sentencing, some other unrelated case's evidence gets used by the Judge which was never introduced during trial and defendant never had any opportunity to defend or cross-examine. Judge uses that to sentence you to 2+ life sentences. After that, the other unrelated case gets dismissed WITH prejudice. Huh??? So the evidence which got used to sentence you was never ever cross-examined or tested in court. "preponderance of the evidence" is not what's used in criminal trials but just because it was introduced in sentencing, it's somehow okay?
And, even when it is an X-Y problem, it may still be better to answer the question as asked, if only to then explain that maybe there is another problem that really needs to be solved.

Looking at it from a pedagogical lens, it seems some learners (question askers) will fixate on X and be unreceptive to Y, stemming perhaps from some fundamental differences in conceptual understanding between the asker and the answerer. Trying to answer for Y will confound and frustrate; closing the gaps in understanding (and there may be gaps on both sides) is usually a lot more involved than just shifting the conversation from X to Y.
It’s pretty obvious that both boots are in play at this point and have been for a while.
Oh warning please! I got a demo jumpscare and almost had a household of very upset kids from the scream and my almost-heart attack reaction. Well done!

For those with stronger stomachs this is a fantastic idea.
The problem with the Musk story isn't simply that it's a news story; it's that it's only a news story. It's important to understand that this isn't a question of the significance of either story. Important things happen around the world every day that aren't good subjects for HN threads.
Just to be clear I wasn't singling you out. I don't know anything about you.

And furthermore I also often post questions that lack sufficient context.

My point was that it's always okay to ask for clarification or to assume that there was maybe some broader contact context or to offer a suggestion that doesn't follow the most literal interpretation of the question as asked.
> Provide RSS support, even if it's bad. Start by making one feed for one page. Then add markup to your site so feed readers can auto-detect it.

This is the most important point - your feed doesn't have to be a full-text, embedded content document. It's nice is if is, but just a simple feed that links to your posts is a good first start and allows people to subscribe.
We need more of this on HN. Bravo.

Make shenanigans great again!
The Lightphone is all about making the phone a tool, minus infinite feeds. I've preordered a v3 and am very much looking forward to its arrival. My Android can live on my desk for 2fa apps, etc. If I want to consume the internet, I'll do it using nice screens and a real keyboard. Doing anything via a mobile is less good generally, just more convenient perhaps.
I think if we swap “human” with “worker” that is spot on with this line of thinking. In the case of LEAN manufacturing, the system is optimized for the thing doing the work (the worker). If our goal is for the “worker” to be an agentic process and not a human, then we should be optimizing the system for that worker’s needs and not forcing the process to do complex movements around a code base optimized for humans.
Index Funds Buy High and Sell Low
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42796496
Wouldn't statutes of limitation have run out by now? Plus what crime would even be state level?
I had my card paused SEVERAL times over the years for sketchy stuff like getting gas at the same gas station I always get gas at or buying a delivery of pizza on a Big Name Company's website. Then, two times in the past year, someone bought thousands of dollars in iPhones, rental apartments, and gasoline on my card on a different body of land than the one I live on thousands of miles away in rapid succession and each of the two times it was ME who caught it because of notifications I have setup! Fraud departments at banks and card companies are fucking useless.
Enoch Powell explained all this nearly 60 years ago, and was sacked the next day by Edward Heath. The term "racist" is at best useless and at worst dangerous. It doesn't differentiate between judging people based on their physiology and judging them on their culture and values. By going out of their way to avoid appearing to judge by physiology, people allowed into their society millions of people with cultures and values fundamentally opposed to their own (e.g. Christians using the British common law vs Muslims using Sharia law). The result is a slow destruction of society that Enoch Powell predicted so long ago in his 1968 speech.
Why charge $138 when your customers will pay $1,145 and keep coming back?

you need someone willing shop and pick the cheaper options for competition to bring down prices. You also need someone willing to say "that's too expensive, I wont buy it" and walk away. Same is true for the inhalers. If someone will pay $100 before switching to the generic, that is what they get charged. In Canada, the state is only willing to pay $10, so that is the price. This is the demand side of the problem.

There is also a supply problem, where the state provides medical company monopolies through "certification of need". It is basically illegal to open an MRI clinic that would compete with an existing one in many jurisdictions.

https://radiologybusiness.com/topics/medical-imaging/magneti...
Have you seen a AI People? https://www.aipeoplegame.com/
Any business will optimize for profit > 0, otherwise it’s a loss making business and will shut down sooner or later. Not all businesses optimize for maximum possible profit.
That reminds me of my rant over some recent IRS free-filing stuff. They were basically telling users to go ahead and trust a third-party service named id.me with all their sensitive personal identifying information.

FFS guys, at the bare minimum you should have white-labeled that behind a domain like id.irs.gov! Not just to avoid mis-educating users into terrible security habits, but also to avoid giving some Montenegro DNS folks the ability to intercept or man-in-the-middle all the information.
“Teams selecting leaders” or “randomly choosing the spokesperson” still gives rise to an explicit hierarchy, but in this case it’s not permanent and there’s a mechanism that prevents it from becoming permanent.

The idea that you can avoid hierarchy is, I think, confusing “social hierarchies with permanent places” - yes, bad, avoid that - with the _concept_ of hierarchy at all.
A few years ago in Ukraine all (most?) online transactions had to be verified via their service called "masterpass". I guess it's their approach to 3DS or something.

Anyway, their SSL certificate expired, as it naturally does with enterprise webs.

All (most?) online transactions with certain class of MasterCard cards were completely SOL at that moment.

They did not renew the cert for more than a year. No amount of communication attempts with MasterCard could help, neither from customers (me) nor from banks' IT departments. Then they just quietly dropped the service altogether.

While I was poking I have found that the service is written in microsoft-something (IIS), certificate chain was unusually long with intermediates which I never heard of and all of that is hosted in a third-world country quite far away from Ukraine. But that's another story.
You really cannot stop illicit drug use. A hard approach to prohibition not only makes people less safe, it’s a massive waste of spending. On just a pragmatic level- Fentanyl and analogues are by weight hundreds of times more potent than morphine. How do you even effectively stop that from getting across borders? Silk Road provided a brief counterpoint, and ideally wouldn’t have had to exist. The ideals it represented were more broad- for drug regulations/spending that focus on safety, and respect individual rights / bodily autonomy (ofc limited to not harming or endangering others).