skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never take pictures of naval/military installations in China, even when they are right next to popular tourist sites. It’s like if in San Diego, taking a picture of a carrier parked downtown could land you in prison. There are also so many laws on the books (mostly unenforced until convenient) that most foreigners touring or resident in China can be used as a hostage if necessary.
not really, very out of scope IMO
To be honest I don't think that's really concerning. It's not unusual for people even into their late 20s to experiment and figure themselves out. And sometimes that experimentation is influenced by the people we surround ourselves with.

People have done this all the way back time eternal, the only thing that's different today is that people are allowed to be more open about it and that there are many discrete labels that allow people to easily describe what they are specifically feeling.
Or David Hume, 300 years ago:

"Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions"
> screen brightness, memory amount, current volume and if I'm wearing headphones

None of those are likely to change when you navigate from one website to another, with tracking/ads disabled, which is what they want to be able to track. Otherwise they'd just use their cookies.

One device visits a site where you sell ads. A minute later, an unknown device with identical battery, volume, headphone, brightness, model number, browser version, and boot time to the second arrives on another site you run ads on. There's a pretty good chance they're related, because the odds of all those being the same plus those two sites and recent timings involved is rather low: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Plus it doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be good enough in bulk to sell.
A couple of years ago, as part of an effort to reduce my exposure to Google, I built a tool to extract photos and videos from a Google Takeout archive, match up the original and edited file versions (not a trivial task), embed missing exif metadata back into the images, and apply a consistent file naming conversion. I used it as an excuse to learn MAUI, and I still use the tool a couple of times a year.

https://github.com/andyjohnson0/TakeoutExtractor

On a similar theme, and as part of freeing myself from an Adobe lightroom subscription, I built another tool to extract metatdata from the Lightroom catalog and generate xmp sidecar files. Not technically hard, but it gave me some experience of using Sqlite with .net.

https://github.com/andyjohnson0/XmpLibeRator
I mean, how many SaaS startups are just UIs around Postgres databases?
That sort of blanket statement is hard to work with; it seems unlikely to me personally that this was top-of-mind for most voters.

That said: my own objection is primarily moral—I believe humans should help other humans without exception, _especially_ those most in need, and would strongly prefer that be embedded into the society in which we live. If you're going to argue that many folks that voted for the current administration would differ in their preferences around that, you're probably right.

The more cross-cutting argument is that Trump campaigned on getting the US out of expensive wars and preventing getting into forever wars, primarily talking about the monetary cost. Cutting off the US's soft power increases the chances of ending up in a hot war for very little actual savings—the total amount of foreign aid the US spends is below 1% of the budget.
My thought here is that there is likely a lot of leaked data on ads themselves, that is one of the reasons why you would need the VPN/proxy. Additionally you could (potentially) create fake browser fingerprint credentials on the fly to feed sites and have the VPN/proxy track the ads that show up for those credentials. (other credentials like email and the like could also be created by the app for you) You don't see the bid data, but you may be able to control the tracking that spurs it and you can see the results of it so a setup like this could likely make some inferences.

I don't know this industry well and the tech here has long sense eclipsed me so I really don't know what is possible but I imagine there are possibilities with this setup.
Cost of living in Canada has been untenable for the past decade. The choice is to bend the knee or suffer more with the hopes you’ll at least go down with pride. I have no idea how the hell the government across the border got their citizens to start hating on us within a couple of weeks.
Is it just me or the website doesn’t scroll at all in mobile safari ?
Direct link to the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to collect this information because you can just change the setting on a project and report back whether that's no significant difference, broken (indicating your Rust is wrong, you should fix that) a little slower or unacceptably slower.

Actually that information might help inform people choosing this setting for a new project. I think many assume that Wrapping is the conservative choice but actually the Strict / panic semantic is going to be better for at least some of those people if they could afford it and so if they knew that say 60% of projects find this works out they might try it and benefit.

As a side effect a handful of people get to find out that their project has a nasty bug where it actually relies on wrapping for routine functionality but does not correctly use a wrapping type.
I don’t know enough to evaluate that, but it sounds plausible. Apparently modifying or integrating zstd into custom solutions was a common path in submissions to, at the very least, the GDCC 2021 T2 contest. This is all well outside of my learned competence so I’m just here to learn and ask naive questions.
I really wish there was a way to view and edit pdf from the terminal vim style.
> was shocked by the amount and types of data sent with the bids to ad exchanges.

Can this data fall into the hands of "evil" state actors, and why is Congress OK with that and not with tiktok?
Dear EU readers,

You may be next:

* https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-says-will-absolutely-impo...

* https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-trade-war-eu-ta...

Sincerely,
A Canadian
idk why, but they do
GPT-2 was released November, 2019, so that's five years ago. GPT-3 isn't the advancement to look at, but ChatGPT, which didn't use GPT-3, but a newer RLHF'd model, based off GPT-3, has the 2022 launch date.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454273
I use signed integer because they give me nice errors on overflow, instead of hideously difficult to find wrap-around bugs.
Lots of bros here who support this for some reason. Wait till they come for your 500K salary.
I see absolutely zero wrong with that statement. What he said is indeed much more reasoned and intelligent than the average foolish AI hype i've often found here, written by people who try to absurdly redefine the obvious, complex mystery that is consciousness into some reductionist notion of it being anything that presents the appearance of reasoning through technical tricks.

Chiang has it exactly right with his doubts, and the notion that pattern recognition is little different from the deeply complex navigation of reality we living things do is the badly misguided notion.
iOS definitely requires Precise location permission allowed for the app to see your WiFi name / ssid and other WiFi around you
What makes this better than tcpdump/wireshark?
"[I]llegal payments", claims the US Minister of Propaganda without showing any proof.

Do you guys even have an opposition party? I'm not hearing or seeing any in your media, which is supposedly "liberal leaning", or so I have been told for decades.
So quadriplegics aren't sentient ?
Like many of the new onerous regulations, it puts a moat around those with substantial resources - a company with a legal team is probably okay and can handle risk and overhead here, but sole proprietorship is under a lot of duress to provide 5 years of support.

At least with the GDPR there is a carve out for small operations with less than XX income before liability skyrockets, but with this regulation, it seems to be saying, “individuals are irresponsible and should not participate in the software market”.
I do wonder after deepseek bombshell how can any one come up with an idea, start building, and not be constantly second guessing themselves on "has the industry changed this week making everything we are doing moot?"

Its almost like you need a full time AI researcher on team, not to help build, but to keep up on all new info and constantly tell the team PIVOT!
Seriously. We get so jaded by problems and over-hype of what we collectively call 'AI' but this is something that would have seemed like impossible futuretech 10 years ago.
Incredibly respectable. And get on it ASAP because imo its likely they'll be harder to get in the very short term. But the sad thing is I just don't see there being enough organization.

Nazi Germany didn't end because of internal militias.
Totally with ya.
US is losing big time to Chinese manufacturing and realpolitiks on the ground. They realize they can’t reverse it without taking very huge gambles, like tariffing everyone with the hopes of on-shoring.

I’m expecting for governments to cozy up with China again. Will be interesting, but unpredictable couple of years. I’m not sure what’s the best way to diversify one’s savings so you wouldn’t crash it out either.
It would be amazing if you could build and send fake profiles of this information to create fake browser fingerprints and help track the trackers. Similarly, creating a lot of random noise here may help hide the true signal, or at least make their job a lot harder.
Why can’t creativity be taking the works, a bunch of works, finding a pattern then randomly perturbing a data point/concept to see if there are new patterns.

Then cross referencing that new random point/idea to see if it remains internally consistent with the known true patterns in your dataset.

This is how humans create new ideas often?
opensnitch

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
Key Rollover
30 years ago, I knew barely any more about library science than I do know, and I know basically nothing now. The idea was that of a dewy eyed (pun intentional) idealist who wanted to build an online experience similar to wandering into the gardening section at <your favorite large bookstore> and then dialing down the water garden part and then the japanese water garden part.

> the LOC Classification is a system for organising a printed (and largely bound) corpus on physical shelves/stacks. That is, any given document can occupy at most one and only one location, and two or more documents cannot occupy the same location,

The last part of this is not really true. The LoC classification does not identify a unique slot on any shelf, bin or other storage system. It identifies a zone or region of such a storage system where items with this classification could be placed. There can be as many books on Japanese water gardening as authors care to produce - this has no impact on the classification of those books. The only result of the numbers increasing is that some instances of a storage system that utilized this classification (e.g. some bookstores) would need to physically grow.
Removing GitHub Notifications
> Chiang has it exactly right with his doubts, and the notion that pattern recognition is little different from the deeply complex navigation of reality we living things do is the badly misguided notion.

How do you know this?
Yeah, I re-read the headline a couple times after seeing the comments and can't spot the ambiguity. Also, there's a difference between 'attention grabbing' and 'clickbait'. This headline seems like the first. It's literally highlighting one of the most interesting parts of the story and precisely describing it.

(Yes, I know the doctor in the article already believed he knew the answer)
The comparison with search is faulty to begin with. Yes, you can search with an LLM, but that's a side effect of the tool.

While I certainly also have found things via LLMs that I couldn't easily with a search engine, the number of false positives is huge. My heuristic is:

If I ask an LLM something and it's easy to verify via Google because its answer narrows the search space - then I'll use it. Otherwise, Google is still king.

Example: Asking an LLM the health benefits of supplement X is a waste of time. Verifying everything it tells me would be the same amount of work as asking a search engine.

Example: Asking how to solve a given coding problem is great, because it drastically reduces the search space. I only have to look up the particular function/API calls it uses.

Ditto for asking how to achieve a task in the command line - I can quickly verify the arguments are accurate via the man page.

Most of the things I search for do not fall into this category, but in the category of "still need to do the same amount of work as just searching via Google."
> how long you have been here doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on the quality of your contribution.

Perhaps not. But a 22-day-old account saying, over and over, "this site should be something else" is... a bit tone-deaf? A bit presumptuous? You don't show up in our community and immediately tell us that the whole purpose of our community should be what you demand. ("You" meaning zfg, not jacquesm.)
> W11 Bluetooth is utterly broken.

Works on my machine. I highly doubt that the millions of people using Windows 11 all have broken Bluetooth. Maybe you need to fix your hardware that you designed?

> with forced updates to W11

Windows 11 hasn’t been forced upon you. You can use Windows 10 after the support runs out at your own risk.

But again this isn’t a change for Windows 11 specifically. Every OS connected to the Internet has an expiration date in which you must upgrade it. If you don’t like this on Windows 11 then you don’t like this on 10 and 8.1 and 7 and XP. It’s not a logical reason to dislike Windows 11 specifically compared to its previous versions.

> natively key logs my employees and sends screenshots of our entire proprietary codebase to Microsoft

This sounds like a wild overstatement. Are you referring to the optional preview Recall feature? The feature you can easily disable and isn’t even on by default for corporate machines? [1]

The one that only does processing locally?

> Privacy and security are built into Recall's design. With Copilot+ PCs, you get powerful AI that runs locally on the device. No internet or cloud connections are required or used to save and analyze snapshots. Snapshots aren't sent to Microsoft. Recall AI processing occurs locally, and snapshots are securely stored on the local device only.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/...
> This is the same for most of the rest of the "postmodern" canon.

I genuinely can’t think of anyone less postmodern than Hegel. He’s a pure rational traditionalist who believed completely in objective truth and morality and grand narratives lol
Sure. I just dont think the role of the government is to enforce that.
I'm about 3/4 done with The Demon in the Freezer (about: Level 4 labwork) and viruses seem very much willed-to-live...
Apple TV is silently killing it

Both my two favorite shows of the last few years are on it - Severance and Silo
In addition to the tragedy of the killings, I worry that this will give rationalism _as a concept_ a bad name. Deep thought is so important to progress, and already is somewhat stigmatized. My church underwent a nasty split when I was a kid, and the reason I heard was “pastor Bobby read too many books”. Obviously it wasn’t as simple as that, but the message was clear — don’t read too many books. I suspect this will interpreted similarly.

It feels that our world has a resurgence of anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-data, etc movements. I hate that.
> I have never been glad my scrollbar was hijacked

Well, maybe not you, but almost everybody praises scroll to zoom in map applications.
It's also useful for making ads more effective & manipulation overall. As long as you can connect the data you track & buy, you can use Thompson sampling. In fact, why would we think knowing the name of a person is anything but bad business?
if the company wants a specific device for a job they better pay for it themselves
The reason this is a really good idea is because is sometimes needed in the real world and with PNVI-ae-udi is just works. Also the alternative models have horrible semantics, e.g. either because you have provenance via integers (where algebraic properties of mathematics breaks) or because you get really subtle semantics that is hard to reason about (all the angelic / demonic indeterminism ideas).
It started off as one of the best tv shows ever. Each season after that made you think it couldn't sink any lower, Game-of-Thrones-season-8 style. I think season 4 might actually have been trying to make fun of the first season, though I have no evidence for it. I do not accept seasons 2 through 4. I reject them.
You don't get to decide whether it's about fairness or not. It is going to be about fairness for a bunch of your early adopters. This is actually the kind of product I suspect I'd go for, I'm pretty firmly in your target audience. I'm the kind of person who has hacked python support into logseq for example. I'm telling you that fairness is a concern, and that I find requiring verified add-ons to be open source while not open sourcing your own code to be unfair.

Some big companies can do unfair stuff like this. Somehow obsidian manages. I don't think you can with what you have right now. You make a compelling enough project, spend enough money on marketing, you probably can. If you want grassroots support it's not happening with that model. At least not from me.

You could consider sharing the source under the business source license. That might still give you whatever protections you're looking for but that you're not stating outright. You have sort of dodged the question as to why it's not open source, and you're not saying what your future plans are that mean it can't be open source. That concerns me.

Give the BSL (business source license) some serious consideration. I don't think you're going to get a bunch of developer early adopters if they don't have some ownership over the product.
This is honestly a masterpiece.
So you're saying that it understands you better than I do?

I get that feeling too (in both directions) but this vague and hard to quantify sensation is not what I'd suggest in response to your clearly stated question:

> And what has enormously improved since ChatGPTs launch?

Which is, I think, answered by the things I listed.
Nice! I quibble with the name "compile" for the 1 instruction. Perhaps "load" would be a better name?
I remember It was mess. I believe some PATCO members were allowed to reapply for jobs, but most were banned.
The usually cited mineral is iridium. It is exceptionally rare on earth (ninth rarest stable element!) but abundant in asteroids and very useful in alloys and many applications.
The goal is not to make yourself whole and even if it didn't work out, they could de-transition (and should be supported in doing so). Stopping HRT (as long as you at least temporarily take HRT in the opposite direction to kickstart things again) has little in the way of long term effects.

> not to mention lost opportunities such as not being able to be a father.

This isn't true. Even if you stay trans the entire rest of your life you can still often have kids. This goes for trans women, trans men, and nonbinary people. Generally at worst you'd just need to supplement with some hormones to support fertility but often even that isn't necessary.

But supposing someone de-transitioned, fertility generally returns completely or near completely within 6 months to a year.

The only case where you can't "undo" any degree of loss of fertility is with an orchiectomy (testicle removal) but even then the standard procedure is to preserve sufficient semen in cold storage for future use.
I don't care. I wasn't trying to say whether you were or weren't. Not every comment on HN is a direct rebuttal to its parent.
Rustdesk web client is currently in beta testing:

https://rustdesk.com/blog/2024/10/rustdesk-web-client-v2-pre...
My question was rather about MacOS guest(s) on a MacOS host. Contrarily to specialised linux distros (Home Assistant, OpenWRT...) MacOS doesn't strike me as particularly minimalistic won I wonder about the amount of overhead and plain storage requirements just running them idle...

I understand for specific MacOS or iOS development wanting template envs one would want to easily and repeatedly spawn up / destroy.
The target market is the same as normal mining, you probably mine platinum. The cost probably only closes with either starship or mining fuel in space.
Are tariffs bad for growth? Yes, say five decades of data from 150 countries (2020)
Really? OK, here goes with my litmus test of languages:

How do you say the plural you when referring to a group of males?

How do you say the plural you when referring to a group of females?

How do you say the plural you when referring to a group of both males and females?

If you don't have a different phrasing for each, then it is imperfect.
Show HN: Chipper RAG Toolbox 2.2 Is Out
ntroducing the Chipper Chain Train
Now, and finally, you can link multiple Chipper instances. The Chipper Chain gives you the power and responsibility to extend processing across servers until you reach the ultimate context boundary. Just set the OLLAMA_URL to your second Chipper server.

This is now possible as Chipper now fully mirrors the Ollama Chat API and has proxies in place for non RAG pipeline calls, allowing it to serve as a seamless drop-in service between your hidden Ollama service instance and your client. Additionally, Chipper now supports bearer tokens, enabling a more secure Ollama setup, perfect for desktop clients like Enchanted.
I've heard the name a bunch but have never read anything by Balzac. The way the article describes his writing reminds me of The Wire - a fully immersed exploration of a dynamic urban landscape with care given to each party and their motivations. Sounds fascinating.
Guess what the PocketCHIP guys did in a upgrade. Exactly the oppsite. Yes, ubifs died every time.
i believe there are somewhat fewer practicing freemasons in those places of layte.
I mean, you definitely shouldn’t be stock trading with that on the internet. But it sounds like a great “retro” machine for era appropriate games.
As someone currently job searching it hasn’t changed much, besides companies adding DO NOT USE AI warnings before every section. Even Anthropic forces you to write a little “why do you want to work here DO NOT USE AI” paragraph. The irony.
US Government Shuts Down Passport Applications Site
I have directly worked with one of these companies on asteroid discovery. Even they would say it does not cash out for decades. But the premise is that as costs improve it becomes fabulously lucrative.

These companies are very, very risky. If they weren’t, you would see more competition!
I've always wondered: is there a tool which could selectively block internet traffic on a per-domain basis via a GUI interface like the uMatrix browser extension does for websites?

https://i.imgur.com/Ae4npRh.png

Obviously you can block hostnames quite easily via a hosts file, but it would be great if there was an easy-to-use GUI which could block stuff at the router level. If possible it could even inspect URIs to selectively block requests for certain file extensions etc.
Google SREs are changing the game again: a breakdown of their new approach
Colima is a container focused macOS VM runner.
Well. Now it's flagged.
Sorry, never mind then. It just came across that way.